"There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt."
This section of this chapter is complete in verses 9 -17. I stop on this verse because of its merit about our current position in the United States. the old saying goes, 'Where much is given, much is required.' And that is true for us and the state of the American church. There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun - word study, see/seen; The personal observation of Solomon is declared by 'I have seen'; I would ask you personally, what do you see? How observing are you? Do you walk with blinders on? Is there scales? ARe do you see rightly, perfectly? You do not need to look far before you see this truth is real then, for Solomon and for us here and now. Solomon is going to get specific in the last phrase of this verse. But let us see the general plight of the first half.
Let us define this sore evil that I have seen. It may be that someone reading this will take it to heart and prayer for confession. Did not Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah pray great prayers for the sore evil that was upon the people? Are we not to pray as intercessors for those that will not pray for themselves? A nation that has forgotten God, removed God and thinks that there will be no answer from God needs much prayer. A sore evil - SIN, that affects us from the moment we begin til our dying day; the practice of thoughts and intents fo the heart for self, for SAtan, for sin; the actions done in the body that serves men and not their Maker; words spoken that are filled with vanity and not purpose of bringing glory unto the Lord; daily time wasted on earthly things instead of heavenly things; souls that are bound and captive unto Satan instead of living for the SAvior; imaginations and desires of men, women and chidlren to practice evil perpetually; A sore evil in all these things that it can almost be said of us as it was in the days of Noah, 'And God saw that the ways of man were continually evil'. Oh, wretched is the earth without a knowledge of God that brings men and women unto Him.
A sore evil that has broken the homes, dissolved the marriages and ruined the children for the next generation. a sore evil that fills a naiton with the blood of the unborn so deep that it has become an ocean. A sore evil that men adn women give themselves to every device of sin to satisfy the lusts of the flesh, all the while corrupted the very nature that God gave us. A sore evil taht the church is practicing religion and loses the Christian message of 'you must be born again'. A sore evil that the greatest power in the universe of prayer and faith is exercised so very little by only a few. A sore evil that parents are content to watch their children go to hell and never having concern or compassion on them. A sore evil that runs deep and destroyes everything in its wake. "Is ther no balm in Gilead?" Namely - the very exact naming of the sore evil that Solomon sees;
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