Hi, this is Hank Hanegraph, present at the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible

instrument broadcast with another Hank unplugged short.

I have on this platform spoken about the devolution of Western civilization.

The fact that we are like the Roman Empire, either poised for ruin or we're ready for revival.

And more to the point, it is you, if you are indeed a follower of Jesus Christ, not the pagan

that is the deciding factor. I've often said that pagans exercise their job description.

What else would they do? The question is whether you as a Christian

exercise your job description. And what is that? Well, we are called to be ambassadors for Jesus Christ,

not just by what we say, but the example that we set through living in the light of Christ.

The Apostle Paul said that we are Christ's ambassadors as though God were making his appeal through us.

And that leaves us on the cusp of a civilization that is either going to continue to devolve or like those Christians that

established Christianity throughout the world who are willing to do for the truth what

what pagans are willing to do for a lie, build a lighthouse in the midst of gathering darkness,

become change agents in a culture rather than microcosms of the culture.

Be transformed by the renewing of our minds.

Don't be conformed to the culture.

We're either going to drift into a spiritual, a spiritual malaise of biblical bankruptcy,

or we're going to experience revival.

Revival much like the persecuted church in China has experienced. And I suppose the

import of what I'm saying this morning is that you are the difference maker. Not in an individualistic sense, but as a member of the body of Christ, the church, his bride,

the very place in which you were infused through the sacraments with the power to be a change agent.

The sacraments which change you and ultimately your family, your community, your city,

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