I want the world to know something — two things. This is for believers and nonbelievers alike. One, is we are in a state of emergency. And what I find very disheartening and worrisome is that the world is starting to unravel. The funny thing about it is it’s starting to unravel because of an attempt to remove all MORAL obligation and the reason is because there is no standard created. When you remove a moral obligation or standard, it means everyone can do ANYTHING they desire – right or wrong. Now, adding to that, if you take away any guidelines or obligations within the workplace, how does that company run? In any type of organization or organizational system, work, sports teams, machines— any process has a guideline or standard.
So why wouldn’t MORALITY of all things have a guideline or standard?

Second, God has established a moral guideline and a moral standard. Yes, we have a bunch of people that believe in God and believe in deity in such a way that they have caused chaos by doing it the wrong way. God set a standard in the Bible. Yeah, we have some people that dispute the validity of the Bible— was it written by God or written by man? We believe that it was written by God through inspired men, but that’s not the main topic of discussion here. What I’m trying to discuss is a moral guideline and a moral obligation that leads you to do the RIGHT thing and establishes right and wrong. You remove that in government and you have anarchy, right? CHAOS— which some people LIKE!

Here’s the thing. People are working tirelessly to REMOVE moral standards, moral guidelines, moral obligation—- and that’s a concern. Because when one seeks to remove God from the picture or seeks to remove a moral standard or moral obligation, you gotta ask that person WHAT IS YOUR MOTIVATION? Because, yes, man is a very amazing, wise, powerful and intellectual being. Whether you believe he came by chance or by God, he is a magnificent being! But guess what! MAN NEEDS OTHER THINGS TO THRIVE. It is evident! Man needs to inhale and exhale. Man needs food. Where does he get that from? Before the grocery stores, he had to grow it or hunt it. Man needs things! Man needs people! When man is born, if man does not get nurtured or hugged, man DIES. Right?

So man came into the world NEEDING something to survive, to thrive. So then the question becomes why do you want to REMOVE man’s dependency on ANYTHING??

If man needs physical things to survive, how much more would man need MORAL, INTERNAL, SPIRITUAL, INTELLECTUAL THINGS TO THRIVE? If man wants to be ANYTHING, they have to either go to school or learn from someone who knows how to do what they desire to do. It doesn’t just instinctually come about. And I think we’ve just gotten to a point of rebelliousness where there is no desire to admit or acknowledge a dependency on something. And guess what? Christians and believers acknowledge a dependency on God. And whether or not you think that’s foolish, whether or not you think that’s stupid, whether or not you think that’s weak, whether or not you think that’s failure, whatever you think it is— that’s what we believe causes man to thrive.

Scripture says God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise things of the world. God’s foolishness is greater than man’s wisdom. And this is a concept that people don’t understand. It’s almost like you really have to dumb it down in order to understand God. Because you are too smart to accept God. You are TOO WISE to accept God. You desire control too much to accept God. And there is a HUGE CONCERN with that.

If you could take the time to LOOK at this world right now, don’t equate GODLINESS with CHAOS. Because conflict comes, NOT FROM RELIGION OR BELIEF IN GOD, but from disagreements in ANY facet of life. And if either or both of those people do not choose to put others above self (a Godly concept), they are going to conflict and there will be confrontation, fighting, anger, insults, war.

GODLINESS DOES NOT CAUSE CHAOS. It cannot happen!

Godliness. Not religion. Cause people believe in everything. Religion just happens to be belief in something, in a system that determines life actions. So belief in the wrong thing CAN CAUSE CHAOS. But GODLINESS DOES NOT CAUSE CHAOS.

LACK OF GODLINESS, LACK OF A MORAL CODE, LACK OF A MORAL OBLIGATION TO A MORAL STANDARD— THAT LEADS TO CHAOS.
That goes for ANY moral standard. If there is a moral standard that tells me don’t kill and I don’t have that, I will kill! If there is a moral standard that tells me don’t sleep with another woman while I’m married and I don’t have that, I will SLEEP WITH ANOTHER WOMAN WHILE MARRIED!

So YOU WANT TO REMOVE ALL OF THAT!

OKAY…what do you think will happen?