Deeper Conference

I just wanted to pass along two snippets of great messages by some of our greatest preachers on American Soil. The first you can listen to it here. This is Ray Comfort talking on why we need to evangelize and how to vote your conscience. GREAT STUFF and very convicting if you are unsure of what moral decisions you should MAINLY consider when voting. We know politics wont change this nation and one man will not come in and change it all although the old political marketing schemes still work on unsuspecting Americans....We need change.... government bad..... neither candidate who promises this (which they both do) in of themselves can change this nation and make it brand new. We have a much bigger problem. People need Salvation and the hearts of men to go from God haters to God lovers. Our hope is not in the presidential race (although we need to vote how God would want us to) but our hope is in Jesus Christ and the preaching of the Cross.

In the words of John Macarthur...

We can't protect or expand the cause of Christ by human political and social activism, no matter how great or sincere the efforts. Ours is a spiritual battle waged against worldly ideologies and dogmas arrayed against God, and we achieve victory over them only with the weapon of Scripture. The apostle Paul writes: "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ" (2 Cor. 10:3-5).

God is not calling us to wage a culture war that would seek to transform our countries into "Christian nations."
God has above all else called the church to bring sinful people to salvation through Jesus Christ. Even as the apostle Paul described his mission to unbelievers, so it is the primary task of all Christians to reach out to the lost "to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me [Christ]" (Acts 26:18; cf. Ex. 19:6; 1 Pet. 2:5, 9). If we do not evangelize the lost and make disciples of new converts, nothing else we do for people--no matter how beneficial it seems--is of any eternal consequence. Whether a person is an atheist or a theist, a criminal or a model citizen, sexually promiscuous and perverse or strictly moral and virtuous, a greedy materialist or a gracious philanthropist--if he does not have a saving relationship to Christ, he is going to hell. It makes no difference if an unsaved person is for or against abortion, a political liberal or a conservative, a prostitute or a police officer, he will spend eternity apart from God unless he repents and believes the gospel.

The second message is by Paul Washer and it just slaps people around with major conviction. Me first. Listen by clicking here.

In Christ,