Watchman Radio Hour

Is the church doomed to failure in this age? Some seem to teach that. However, is that what the Bible teaches?

The repentance of a people is the Biblical response to disasters. It is true that we should not see every natural disaster as a punishment for some sin that individuals have committed. Yet, on the other hand we cannot completely rule out the possibility that repeated disasters on a nation might be God's judgement on a people. The Bible is full of such and we harm ourselves to ignore clear Biblical implications of repeated disasters upon a people.

The church is now the true spiritual Israel. All who are true believers make up the true Israel of God both Jew and Gentile. The nation of Israel and all the Jewish people need Christ just as much as anyone. Our prayer should be that Israel will become a Christian nation that follows the Lord Jesus Christ and that all Jews will come to Christ.              

Hudson Taylor believed in the Second Coming of Christ but he did not become preoccupied with it. He marched forward into inland China with the goal of reaching all of China with the gospel. He saw this as what the Lord had called him to do and he did not relent untill all the provinces of China were penetrated with the gospel. Today, we have far too many prophecy conferences. We don't need them. We know Jesus is going to return. What we need is to be spurred on to carry the gospel to the nations and not to relent until the whole world is won to Christ.

Today, we are defiling the land by our sins. God's judgement is already upon us and will increase if we do not soon repent as a people. We cannot continue to rebel against God and His moral law and survive as a nation.

Repentance will not happen unless God changes our hearts as a people. This is what we need to pray for. The nation will not turn back to God until the hearts of the people are changed. This will not take place until a Spiritual Revival comes.

We need the powerful preaching of the Word of God to come back and fill this land. Only then will there be hope. We need to go back and learn from previous generations. Our land became great because of God's blessings on us not because we are a great people. We were considered a great people because God blessed us. He blessed us because our forefathers were faithful and honored Him. This generation is turning away from God and we will all pay the consequences unless God intervenes as He has in the past and sends a true spiritual awakening into our midst. We need the preaching of the cross to saturate this land. May God send such preaching in our day.

God is not finished with His church. There is more yet to come. Though Satan attacks with all his might, he will not be able to stop the expansion of the church. We can count on it. The Lord will build His church and Satan will not stop it. He may try to prevent the building and expansion of the church but He will not succeed.

True revival is accompanied by the powerful preaching of the Word of God. What we need today is powerful preaching in this nation? This nation will be great again when powerful preaching returns. We are not going to solve our great problems until powerful preaching comes back. The nation is in a moral and spiritual decline. Many of our problems are an indication of God's judgment upon us and are the result of our moral and spiritual decline. Only when the powerful preaching of the Word of God returns to this land will we see our nation turn around and be a better place.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    

Now is the time to lift up the cross. Our cause is not lost in Europe or America or anywhere. We have the power of the gospel which cannot be stopped. Though Satan storm at us with all his might, he will not win. The victory is ours. Satan and all his forces cannot defeat the church and our gospel. We must never give up!