#1946 Satan Never Sleeps

#1946

Satan Never Sleeps

"Ah broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!  Let the bell toll!--a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river" - Edgar Allen Poe - Lenore

Some Americans are still tuning the radio as they drive across the cliff: when will the average American discover that they are just existing to exist. 

Each day presents us with more information than we can begin to understand.  One third of a trillion dollars is spent each year by Americans...going into the pockets of psychiatrists and drug stores for mind-altering drugs.  Satan never sleeps, when he and thirty percent of the angelic host were kicked out of Heaven by God.  God allowed he and his followers to gather into their fold just as many human beings as God would allow him to have.  Satan has nothing to give to his followers except the eternal quagmire-futile

destiny of Hell.  His quest, and the quest of his conquered is to get just as many into Hell as possible..."Broad is the way" (Matthew 7:13).  AND, living the satanic hell bound life is so easy-so filled with popularity-so attractive.  To those in Satan's army, to the atheist, to the indifferent; God has given the believer one promise-one assurance HE IS NOT AFRAID OF THE IMPOSSIBLE; HE IS STILL IN CHARGE; HE WILL ONLY ALLOW SATAN TO GO SO FAR AND NO FURTHER.  The holy spirit of God will convince enough real believers, those without a vacuum in their head.  Satanic forces will never take over; this is the blessed assurance of which we sing. 

One of my longtime friends, a mortician, we will call him Jack, told me he showed just as much privacy, love, and consideration to a dead body as he did to anyone who is alive.  This will answer your questions as to why God shows so much kindness to those who despise him.  Family emotional tears have "stretch hormones".  It is essential to feel and heal your emotions but there is nothing wrong in showing them.  Even Jesus wept at the death of a friend (John 11:35).  My same mortician friend told me that most family members now just want to get the death in a family finalized.  He said most families no longer even look at the dead family member...that they will just tell them to put the body in "next to the cheapest casket" and put a flag or church pall over it.  

At the age of 86, I could never have imagined even in my wildest hallucination, what has happened to my country in my lifetime...same sax marriage, don't ask don't tell, unisex bathrooms and showers...boys thinking they are girls and girls wanting to be boys.  Worst of all, parents allowing such thinking among their small children: our courts, all the way to the Supreme Court burdened with horror stories about sexual foolishness. 

Diversity has become more important in education, politics, and even religion than divinity.  There are more opportunities in most universities (state and private), for young people from abroad than for those who ancestors bought-fought and paid for this country. 

During the governorship of Terry Sanford this writer was appointed to go with a group of citizens to New York seeking to start in the state of North Carolina a local vocational training system (now has become the community college).  We stayed at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, visited certain large corporations in and around Manhattan encouraging them to open factories in North Carolina, where there was plenty of land and highway access, the trip was successful.  Small schools opened to train workers for sewing and other factories.  Of course, Satan got involved and turned these schools opened to train workers to wanna be universities teaching sociology-psychology-hair dressing.  So, we are right back where we started, students with pieces of paper given by a school which mean nothing.  They cannot get a job.  How many sociologists-psychologists does this state need?  In the meantime, the plants have all closed and moved to other countries.

Now, last few days, even the Waldorf-Astoria is closing, turning itself into apartments.  Once, the world's greatest hotel (Waldorf Salad-The Bronx-etc), now just a memory like so many earth matters, when Satan gets involved. 

Satan was not content to destroy family life-courthouse-church house-political life but think what has happened to education.  When will foundations, university professors, those whose lives have been spent in education realize that children are being indoctrinated-entertained rather than receiving the fundamentals of learning.  Almost all college students must undergo remedial classes in order to compete in accepted collegiate matriculation.  Satan wanted police officers patrolling the halls instead of dedicated teachers reading the Bible as well as the classics.  Young people who work for me do not have a clue about real education...memorizing, handwriting, the spectacular literature of the past.  They know all about sexuality, try-sexual, most believe in trying anything. At Lagos, Nigeria, I was asked to speak at a nearby college.  Of course, it was evident that Satan had taken over; there was no such thing as education going on.  This so-called college was just a place for "interneting", visiting, and entertaining one another. 

The enemy is not always at the end of a gun or a bomb.  I have just as little confidence in an educator who does not educate as I do in a minister who is afraid to tell the truth about sin's ruin and Christ's redemption because he is afraid he might offend someone.  How can a Christian church not employ and enjoy the messages in classical hymns?  We have abandoned reason for unreason, morality for immorality. 

Life is a struggle, requiring optimism.  How can one survive these times thinking that Satan has taken over, that he has the upper hand?  Lifestyles are not more important than intellectual pursuits.  There has always been a veneer of class, an overlay of social acceptance.  A bed of petunias requires water and sunshine, the holiness of God.  It is time for mere mortals to realize that Satan never sleeps, that we must throw ourselves upon the sovereignty of God.