Going to the Devil

In 1 Samuel, chapter 28, we read, Then said Saul unto his servants, Seek me a woman that hath a familiar spirit, That I may go to her, and inquire of her. And his servants said to him, Behold, there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at Endor. And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, And he went, and two men with him.

And they came to the woman by night, and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me, buy the familiar spirit, And bring him up, whom I shall name unto thee. I will stop there, friends. Here is the sad story of a God-appointed king going to the devil, to the point where God had to depart from him and actually become his enemy.

But old King Saul wasn't the only one going to the devil. I've seen multitudes do the same. I grew up in the 1950s, when there was still some decency in society, and a fear of God in the land.

And since that time, I have witnessed the moral decay of society, as the entire nation of America has steadily gone to the devil, to the point where we live in a country that's more like Sodom and Gomorrah than anything else. I witnessed the religious denominations that once had a voice of authority, but now who have no voice, at least not one worth listening to, because they have slowly gone to the devil through compromise with the world. I've watched the sad spiritual declension in the churches of our land, as they have gone to the devil through conformity with the world, going from solid biblical preaching, and warning against sin, and preaching man's duty of repentance, to teaching heresy, and becoming nothing more than centers of entertainment.

I've known individuals who started out well for God, but who ended up personally going to the devil. When I toured Great Britain years ago, and I saw the decay in the life of the churches, where only a handful were gathering, I felt sorry for them. But now, I believe there are more faithful ministers over there than all our churches lumped together over here.

We, in the Church of America, have literally gone to the devil. Heretic pastors are held up and admired. Our congregations are largely unconverted.

Because of a false gospel, the Church in America needs revival, because at one end of the spectrum are churches which are nothing more than houses of entertainment, full of laughter. And at the other end of the spectrum are churches given discourses to be considered, but not distinguishable from local funeral parlors, full of dead men's bones. God, in the meantime, has the nation under severe remedial judgments of one natural disaster right after another.

There have been so many fire and floods in the land, it looks like a page read out of the Old Testament. But few notice the hand of God against us. They just look the other way.

If the churches in the land will not admit their duty of repentance and their need for revival, then how in the world can they lead a nation back to God? When will this nation ever turn back to the God of the Bible? What horrible, catastrophic event will have to take place for the people of the land to return to God Almighty? Will a nuclear blast have to occur? I'm not sure even that would bring us to our knees in repentance back to God. First one has to admit that there's a problem. But does anybody even care anymore?