It’s amazing how those who begin to make conscious decisions against believing the truth, their eyes, their minds are darkened.  Verses that they used to quote as easily as possible, you speak it and they look at you like an alien, and that Word is no longer life; that Word is no longer truth to them.  As we look around in this hour and you begin to look at men of God who have been on the way for years and years and in these last days being caught up into this world’s wisdom—I’m not even talking about the gross sins, the lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God in this last hour that’s just destroying the church of Jesus Christ—the carnal approach to the Word of God, the lack of application.

Let me remind ourselves that there are sins of commission and sins of omission, for he that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin.  Sin has been so minimized in churches today; some don’t even talk about it.  Some think sin only applies to those who are pagans, and we’ve got to get them this gospel; they’re sinners.  How about our sins of pride and gossip?  How about our sins of lust and covetousness?  How about our sin of desiring to be preeminent?  O God, help us in this hour to hear what the Holy Spirit is saying about our sin.  John 16 says that He came to convict the world of sin.  If He came to convict the world of sin, how much more, as He dwells in us, His temple, should we be more sensitive to sin than ever in our lives?

Many of us are becoming more comfortable in carnality.  We’re becoming more comfortable in the presence and methods of the world; the way we tend to raise our children, some of us, and we want to hear some of this secular wisdom, whether it be wisdom of childrearing, whether it be the wisdom of women today and the role that women are to have.  The Bible makes it very clear what a woman’s role is, and it’s not to be preeminent in the home, and it’s not to be working outside of the home, and it’s not to finally “fulfill” her life.  It’s to lay down her life, to love her children, to co‑labor with her husband, to become a helpmeet, that the Lord would be glorified, praise God!  And yet we see society doing the exact opposite, and that creeps into the churches today.  Then you look at the Bible declaration of what the role is and hold it up and people think you’re insane.  People think you’re barbaric.

My question to us would be, what are we hearing from the Holy Spirit?  Do we recognize one verse of this Word has the power and authority to change the whole course of our life?  Do I need to say that again?  The Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, dwells in us, as our bodies are the temple of the Holy Ghost, 1 Corinthians 3 says, convicting us of sin.  The church has chosen today to turn our back—talking about the church universal, and I’m talking to the church local, this community—just Lot, vexed day by day by the things that he saw and heard.  We need to stop hearing some things.  We need to stop seeing some things that we allow into this temple of the Holy Ghost.  Otherwise, the same consequence: we’re going to be vexed.  Beloved, a little leaven leavens the whole lump.

These are all principles that we know, we’ve heard preached, those of you that have been here 30 years.  If we happen to have somebody in our fellowship go into a coma for 20 years and have woken up, they could come right in and pick up where we are—same message, same course, same truth.  We’re not tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine.  We’re not chasing every new fad that comes up.  Thy Word is truth, praise God.  You don’t need 30 Old Testament verses and 20 New Testament verses.  This whole Word is truth!  One verse is truth, if it’s applied in its context.  We know how to interpret Scripture.