We've been so focused on compassion and understanding and tolerance that we hardly have any imagination any longer that there's right and wrong good or evil. We don't want to be labeled as narrow-minded, as judgmental, as harsh, is critical.

So we will turn a blind eye and a deaf ear to almost any expression of ungodliness or

immorality, we excuse it, we justify it.

If we continue that the judgment of God will fall upon us in its full weight and it will not be

because of the hardness of the hearts of the ungodly and the immoral and the wicked

it will be because of the compromise of the people of God.

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We've been working through a series

under the title of the power to be different. Folks, we need a power beyond ourselves to help us,

not simply to survive, but to flourish in this particular time.

There are pressures we haven't seen before, of a magnitude we haven't

experienced before, and change is coming at a pace that we have not had the

experience to be familiar with. And it's important to remember that the only

thing ultimately that evil will yield to is a power greater than itself. So a

church apart from the power of God is the church that will be easily set aside, diminished,

...