A few weeks ago we had what the men of old refer to as “meetings” at my Church. We’ve been very blessed to have Dr. Clayton Shumpert, he told a story that really cut me to the bone in regards to a mans responsibility to be the spiritual leader in his home, and I understood this after being born again, but it took on a whole new meaning after listening to him illustrate one example of what happens when man disregards this God given responsibility. There is no hope for mankind at all with out the regenerating power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Dr. Shumpert told us the story of a young man that contracted a venereal disease. The young man asked his father to send him away. The father was a man of some influence and arranged for his son to be sent away to a good hospital and after treatment and observation he received a clean bill of health and came home again.
After a while the young man met a young lady, they fell in love and were married. And not long after they found out they were going to have a baby. When the time came for the newly-weds to have their baby she died due to complications associated with the disease and to make matters worse, their new son was born half blind and mentally challenged, again, as a direct result from the man’s ungodly choices he made earlier in life.
Grief stricken and overcome with guilt the young man took his own life leaving the child an orphan. And That’s not the end of the story. The consequences of being raised without God were still going take a toll on many other lives as well. That young man, Leon Czolgosz, grew up and one day decided that one man shouldn’t have all the power so he took it upon himself to shoot the President of the United States of America - President McKinley.
I mulled over that story for a week or so I thought that was an extreme example of sin coming around full circle, but I realized that was only a physical manifestation of a much bigger spiritual reality. Mankind, since the the fall continues to put God out sight and out of mind (Gen 3:8) or we redefine Him so that He doesn’t mess with our own programs (Gen 4:3) and we are in such a fallen state that we contribute, by sending own children to hell because we won’t obey the Gospel. We don’t have the time to study our Creators own words that tell us all we need to know about who He is and what He expects. What is even more tragic is that we won't pass it on to our own children and give them a chance to choose! I pray my children will not only choose be saved by the gospel, but they will be equipped to serve God if and when their time comes - and that is my prayer for everyone else as well.
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