Partying Saturday Praying Sunday

I used to teach a Sunday school class and a member of my Sunday school class could always be found sitting in church on Sunday with a big grin on his face and he could also be found every Saturday night partying at a strip club. He would pray very piously in church on Sunday and he would party on Saturday night with local strippers and he was married to a beautiful wife and he had two darling children but on Sunday morning at church they looked like the perfect Christian family but there was hell in his home during the week because of his unfaithfulness to his wife and his young wife would get to the breaking point and she'd make her husband go to counseling at church for she could hardly take his infidelity anymore and because I was this man's Sunday school teacher the two staff ministers who would counsel him would let me know how he had now recommitted his life to Christ once again and things would be different going forward and the man would hold out for a couple of weeks maybe even three but by the end of the month he was back partying in the strip clubs on Saturday night. Well you say how do you know that preacher? I knew it because some other male members of my class would tell me they ran into this man at the strip club because they didn't see anything wrong with going there themselves so long as they kept confessing their sins and going to church on a regular basis.

Now I say all that to you friends because that man who liked the girls in strip clubs was a product of our modern evangelism that we have today that we hand out a man-centered gospel to folks who don't mind accepting our little Jesus so long as they can hang on to their favorite sins and still make it to heaven one day. The title of my message today friends is partying on Saturday night and praying on Sunday. I believe that married man in my Sunday school class who enjoyed the company of naked women on Saturday night is the picture of the typical congregation today from pulpit to pew because I believe our modern gospel has produced a multitude of baptized church members who see nothing wrong with sin.

Oh when the churches in this country stop preaching against sin that's when our congregations started to go to the devil. I believe many of us can sit in front of our television sets and watch things so perverted and vile but we won't give up our favorite tv show any more than that man was willing to give up his strip clubs. Well it was 30 years ago when I taught that Sunday school class in that big baptist church and today Hollywood programming is so evil that the strip club comes to you in your living rooms but I believe that married man in my Sunday school class who had an addiction to strip clubs was a choir boy compared to many in our churches today who can look at the worst evil on their cell phones and see nothing wrong with it.

Stephen Olford shared with me over 20 years ago that he was aware of many pastors who struggled with cyber sex on the internet and it was becoming epidemic among them. That was 20 years ago. I wonder how shocked he'd be today concerning our carnal congregations of unsaved church members who named the name of Jesus and who were strangers to repentance and who never forsook their darling sins.

In my bible is a picture of the American church today as it is found in Proverbs 30 12. Let me read it to you friends. There is a generation that is pure in its own eyes and yet is not washed from their filthiness.

That's our self-righteous hell-raising bunch of church folks we have today. I don't know what it'll take to turn this nation back to God. It may be we're too far gone to be even turned back and I don't know what will have to take place in our churches across the land for them to get cleaned up and get right with the God of the Bible.

But I believe one or two things will have to come to the church in America friends. Either a holy ghost revival which will save multitudes of religiously lost church members and implant in them a disposition for holiness. If God doesn't send us revival to turn us back to him then I believe he will bring hot persecution to the American church like it's never seen before.

That to be a Christian will mean something. It will cost something and to be a Christian will be to live different from the world. It will either be revival or prison.

Oh one way or the other the chaff will be separated from the wheat.