WHEN MEN SLEPT...

While Men Slept
While men slept – that’s the explanation Jesus gave for the presence of weeds in the wheat in Matthew 13:25. “While men slept, the enemy came and sowed weeds in the wheat.” Abortion became an acceptable means of population control, homosexuality became an acceptable lifestyle, sex outside of marriage became common behavior, teenage pregnancy reached epidemic proportions, our society grew addicted to pornography and gambling, and alcoholism became our Number One health problem

--- while men slept.

Individualism, pluralism, secularism and apathy rendered American religion impotent, totally incapable of doing anything about our moral and spiritual crises. No one seemed to know what was right and what was wrong. Most people didn’t think there was any right or wrong, and those who did, didn’t seem to care one way or the other. So everyone did what felt good to him at the moment, or made him feel good about himself later on. While men slept the weeds grew.

Don’t you think it’s time we awakened out of our sleep? New Testament Christians “turned the world upside down” by preaching Jesus Christ. They went everywhere doing it – in the Jewish synagogues, then the market places. They made a great impact on the world around them and thousands of thousands of people became followers of Christ. But that was their Number One priority!

Will our church historians write about the church in our times that, “while men slept,” American became a godless nation, forbidding the mention of God in public education and at public affairs? Will they say that on our watch our national motto, “In God We Trust,” became unconstitutional? Will they write that while New Testament Christians slept false religions so dominated the airways that like Israel of old, we abandoned God and worshiped our Baals?

The Lord says, “Awake, you who sleep, arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light” (Ephesians 5:14
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