God’s Heart Was Grieved
Basilea Schlink warns that God's heart is grieved by humanity's moral decay and calls for repentance beginning within the church to avert impending destruction.
In this prophetic sermon, Basilea Schlink highlights the deep grief in God's heart over the moral decay engulfing the world today. She draws a parallel between current times and the days of Noah, emphasizing the urgency of heeding God's warnings. Schlink calls believers to genuine repentance starting within the church to prevent looming destruction. Through her powerful message, listeners are invited to reflect on their own hearts and embrace humility and grace.
Full Transcript
God lives and works today. He is not just a force, a vague creative spirit floating around in the universe. He is a dynamic power and a person.
That is why He is truly grieved to see what mankind is doing to itself and to creation. Today's darkness has come over the earth, but do we notice it? Until recently, the actions of men have been measured by moral standards of God. There's always been murder, brutality, and sexual perversion.
Yet previously, these things were always condemned in our Western civilization. Those who practiced them were excluded from society. Today, however, criminals are heroes and immorality has become popular.
Newspapers and magazines boast the age of true freedom has finally arrived. Humanity can live out its instincts. Light, truth, honesty, and genuine love have almost disappeared.
Our young people are threatened with obliteration in this slime. Doesn't anyone care about them? They're helpless, surrounded by all of these powers. Darkness presses in upon them from all sides, polluting the very air that they breathe.
Who's crying to the Lord about this? Who's taking the first step to stand up against this trend? Matthew 24 prophesies that it will be as it was in the days of Noah. People were eating and drinking and getting married, and no one knew or paid attention to the warnings of God until the flood came and swept them all away. They knew not.
They did not heed. This is prophesied as the condition of humanity for the last days, and it's true today. We're living in a time similar to that just before the flood, of which it is said that the entire earth had become perverse, and God's heart was grieved.
Today, immorality is spread over the whole face of the earth. Again, destruction threatens the world, this time through atomic war. Only repentance can still save us, and this repentance must begin in the church with each individual believer.
This alone will hold back the flood of destruction. Please give to me the penitent humility, the greatest of your graces. For all my sins you will impart, abundant sorrow to my heart, to make me truly humble.
You are the one who shall impart a truly contrite, lowly heart, as promised by my Savior. Show me my sins and humble me, that I, by grace, may pardoned be, restored to loving favor. You have been listening to a program written by Basilea Schlink of the Little Land of Canaan.
To learn more about how God lives and works today, visit us at our website www.canaan.org. That's K-A-N-A-A-N dot org. If you contact us, we would be happy to send you a free inspirational booklet. If you do not have access to the web, please contact this radio station for our postal address.
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Sermon Outline
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I. The Reality of God Today
- God is a living, dynamic person, not a vague force
- He actively works in the world
- His heart is grieved by human sin
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II. The Present Moral Crisis
- Moral standards have eroded in society
- Immorality is now popular and criminals are glorified
- Young people are especially vulnerable to darkness
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III. Biblical Prophecy and Its Fulfillment
- Matthew 24 warns of last days like Noah's time
- People ignore God's warnings until destruction comes
- The earth is perverse and God's heart is grieved
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IV. The Call to Repentance
- Only repentance can avert destruction
- Repentance must begin with the church and individuals
- God grants grace to humble and contrite hearts
Key Quotes
“God lives and works today. He is not just a force, a vague creative spirit floating around in the universe. He is a dynamic power and a person.” — Basilea Schlink
“Matthew 24 prophesies that it will be as it was in the days of Noah. People were eating and drinking and getting married, and no one knew or paid attention to the warnings of God until the flood came and swept them all away.” — Basilea Schlink
“Only repentance can still save us, and this repentance must begin in the church with each individual believer.” — Basilea Schlink
Application Points
- Examine your own life for areas needing repentance and humility before God.
- Engage actively in the church community to foster collective repentance and spiritual renewal.
- Be vigilant and pray for young people vulnerable to the moral challenges of the age.