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Vol. 46 No. 2 “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17) February 2022
Examine Yourselves
By Dr. Peter S. Ruckman
“For though he was crucified good job. Those are luxuries—those
through weakness, yet he liveth are blessings! Amen? Alright, do you
by the power of God. For we also thank God for them? How about your
are weak in him, but we shall live income? You say, well, right now I
with him by the power of God don’t have any. Well be thankful for
toward you. Examine yourselves, what you had.
whether ye be in the faith; prove Have you thanked God for shel-
your own selves. Know ye not ter? Some of us have been in the
your own selves, how that Jesus army and know what a blessing a
Christ is in you, except ye be good shelter is. I’ve slept out on
reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:4-5) the ground in North Carolina in the
I want to call your attention to winter, where my coveralls stuck all
these words in verse 5, “Examine night with the frost. That’s nothing
yourselves” and “prove your own real hard—I haven’t been through
selves”. You might call this a check- it real hard. But I’ve been through
list for spiritual growth. Whatever it four-inch rains where everything in
is, it is a self-examination—espe- your pack was wet—including your
cially for young Christians. Some cigars. Do you ever thank God for a
of you old-timers are pretty familiar roof over your head? Do you know
with what I am going to say, but how many people there are right
some of you need a check-up too! now that are homeless? Do you
I have some questions you should have a roof over your head? Aren’t
ask yourself. This is check-up time. you glad you’re not sleeping out in
You should ask yourself these the gutter tonight?
questions in the first person sin- Aren’t you glad you’ve got clothes
gular. Do I thank God daily for and blankets and stuff? Do you
blessings? That’s the first question. thank God for them? I never fail
You do, or you don’t. Now I have to to think of that because of all the
ask myself the same question. Do infantry training. When a real bad
I thank God daily for blessings? night comes up, I get thinking, “Boy,
Do you remember to thank God for am I glad I am not in the platoon
your health? Maybe you don’t have in attack tonight.” I mean, twenty
much health. Do you thank God for below zero and fifty-mile-an-hour
the health you do have? How about winds. You’re lying on the ground
your family? Do you ever thank God getting shot at.
for your family? A lot of families Some of those German boys’
are torn all to pieces. Do you have colons froze. They couldn’t even
a job? Do you thank God daily for go to the bathroom. They were all
these things? plugged up and freezing to death.
These things I’m talking about are I’ve got a nice warm house to stay
not your “rights”. You don’t have a in. Do you thank God for it?
right to have a family, health, or a Continued on 3
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Examine Yourselves
Continued from 2 hindered” (1 Peter 3:7).
Do you ever thank God for your If you’ve got it in for somebody,
food? Do you ever thank God you you need to get rid of it. Are you
have a place to go to hear the Bible always willing to forgive?
preached? There are plenty of One of the fellows I heard preach
people who can’t go where the Bible right after I got saved was a Scots-
is preached. Overseas, millions of man named James McGinley. He
people don’t have any place to go. had a real appeal to me. He was
Do you thank God for your safety? a short man like I am, he was in
I mean, you don’t have trouble wor- the infantry like I was, and he was
rying about whether you’re going to a Scotchman. (I’ve got a Hamilton
get mugged or raped when you walk in my line.) He was saved when he
out the door. The time may come, was twenty-seven years old, and I
but it hasn’t come yet. Thank God was saved at twenty-seven. I was a
your kid can run out in the front veteran from World War II, and he
yard without you worrying about was from the first World War. Out of
him getting kidnapped in the front two hundred men in his company,
yard or getting shot. he was the only one to survive.
Alright, ask yourself this; am I One time, he gave an illustration
always willing to forgive? Have I in his scotch brogue about forgiv-
forgiven everybody and anybody ing people. He said, “Me and my
that I have to forgive? Are you willing spouse, a little fight had got going
to forgive? You say what? Anything. there, and it must’ve lasted about
“But if ye forgive not men their a week or so. We wasn’t talking to
trespasses, neither will your one another.” He said, “Finally, I
Father forgive your trespasses” got fed up with things, and I came
(Matt. 6:15). to her at breakfast one morning
Now we know our sins are taken and said, ‘Listen, I want to tell you
care of at Calvary. But if you want something. I am going downtown
your prayers answered, that’s today and coming back, I am go-
something else. ing to get in a car wreck, and I am
“Grudge not one against an- going to get killed. You’re going to
other, brethren, lest ye be con- have a funeral for me. I am going
demned: behold, the judge stand- to be lying there in my coffin, and
eth before the door” (James 5:9). you’re going to come by with your
“Husbands, love your wives, crocodile tears. I’m going to ask
and be not bitter against them” God to let me come back for just a
(Col. 3:19). minute and point my finger at you
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell and say, “Looky here, I couldn’t
with them according to knowl- get your forgiveness when I was
edge, giving honour unto the wife, alive, so I don’t want it when I’m
as unto the weaker vessel, and as dead.”’ She said, ‘I’ll forgive you,
being heirs together of the grace I’ll forgive you.’”
of life; that your prayers be not Continued on 4
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Continued from 3 realize time is passing by;
The Bible says, “Be ye angry, And rise and go and tell the lost,
and sin not: let not the sun go despite my plans despite the cost.
down upon your wrath” (Eph. Too long I’ve laid me down to
4:26). You say, “Why?”. Well, twelve sleep, while multitudes about me
hours is a long time to be mad at weep;
anybody. If you have to go to bed And other cries of dark despair,
with it, it’ll keep you up all night. for no one ever seems to care.
Are you always willing to forgive? My life is short, and soon I’ll
Do I search the scriptures when stand, with sinner’s blood upon
confronted with a problem? When a my hand;
problem comes up, do you go to the Unless I wake before I die, and
scriptures immediately and search realize time is passing me by.
for an answer? Do you appreciate the Lord
“If any of you lack wisdom, let enough to go through something to
him ask of God, that giveth to witness to somebody? “Oh, people
all men liberally, and upbraideth mock me and turn me down.” Well,
not; and it shall be given him” can you do it for His sake?
(James 1:5). An old preacher friend of mine
“All scripture is given by in- (he’s dead now) was a remarkable
spiration of God, and is profit- personal worker. One time he dealt
able for doctrine, for reproof, with a businessman—a big shot.
for correction, for instruction in He came to the businessman’s
righteousness” (2 Tim. 3:16). office and said, “I just want to tell
There are four things: doctrine, you how to get saved.” The fellow
reproof, correction, and instruction said, “I don’t want to know how to
in that book. Now, if you were up get saved.” My preacher friend said,
against a problem, wouldn’t that “Well maybe you don’t but here’s a
be worth something? The doctrine verse of scripture. ‘For whosoever
is to show you what’s right, the shall call upon the name of the
reproof is to show you what’s not Lord shall be saved.’” The fellow
right, the correction is to show you said, “I don’t want to hear noth-
how to get right, and the instruction ing about that.” He said, “I know
is how to keep right. So, the whole you don’t, but ‘…God so loved
thing is there! the world, that he gave his only
Am I grateful enough to witness begotten Son, that whosoever
to others? Are you thankful enough believeth in him should not per-
for your salvation so that you are not ish, but have everlasting life.’”
ashamed to witness and to speak He put scripture on him!
up for Christ? The guy began to get furious
Too long I’ve laid me down to said, “I don’t want to get saved.
sleep, and prayed the Lord my soul I’m not interested in hearing about
to keep. it.” He said, “I know that, but ‘But
I should awake before I die, and Continued on 5
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Examine Yourselves
Continued from 4 they got in, they found him charred
he was wounded for our trans- all to pieces.
gressions, he was bruised for About twenty years later, a wom-
our iniquities: the chastisement an came to the graveyard there in
of our peace was upon him; and Brooklyn with a big bunch of flow-
with his stripes we are healed.’” ers. She went over to his grave and
The guy stopped him about the fifth knelt down. The caretaker was going
time and said, “I want to get saved!”. through there and said, “A loved one
He led him to Christ! there?”. She said, “Yes.” He said,
Now that’s going against heavy “Was it your father? She said, “No.”
oppositions, but he loved the Lord And he said, “Was it your brother
enough to go ahead and do it. or son?”. She said, “No.” He said,
Back in Brooklyn around 1910, Well, who was it?” She said, “This
there was a fire. In the old days, is the fireman who saved my life!”.
they had horse-drawn fire engines You shouldn’t be ashamed to tell
with alarms and bells ringing for a anybody! Are you grateful enough
fire. A woman came out of a grocery to witness to others?
store, heard the alarms, and saw Have I learned to live one day at
the horses going by. About a block a time? Ask yourself that question.
from there, they pulled in front of Am I messed up with the future
the apartment she lived in. It was or messed up with the past? One
on fire, and she had a baby girl day at a time! That’s a great thing.
in there about two years old. She A fellow said, “Live every day like
screamed and ran there. About the it’s your last day because one day
time the fireman had gotten there it will be.” That’s true.
and gotten out, she tried to go in the I recall another great personal
building. They wouldn’t let her go worker who went to see a busi-
in—the whole building was on fire. nessman. This one was a doctor, a
She’s was screaming, “My baby is fellow out in Kansas City; his name
in there, my baby is in there.” was Wilson. He came to talk to a
One of the firemen said, “I will go businessman, and the business-
in.” His fellow fireman tried to keep man was rough with him and rude.
him from going in. He said, “I’m go- He said, “What do you want?”. The
ing to try to save that baby—let go!”. doctor said, “I came here to talk to
Finally, they let go of him, and he you about your soul.” He said, “I’m
went in. Suddenly, the whole inside a businessman, and I’m very busy;
started caving in, and the staircases I don’t have time to talk about my
came down. Up in about the second soul. You’ll have to get out.” As he
or third floor, the fireman yelled out, got up to leave, he shook his hand
“I’m throwing the baby out; get the and said, “Suppose I had been
net ready. I’m not going to make death? You’d give him some time,
it—get the baby!”. They pulled up wouldn’t you?”.
the net, and here comes this two- Live every day like the last one
year-old girl out the window. Once Continued on 6
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Examine Yourselves
Continued from 5 that for?”. You’re supposed to do
you live because it may be the last something with it!
one you live. A lot of folks are not very good
Here is another question. Do I stewards. A fellow said, “Living on
cast all my burdens on the Lord a budget is the same thing as liv-
instead of worrying? Do you do ing beyond your means except you
that? You say, “Ruckman, I have a now have a record of it!”. How far
need.” What do you need? Do you are you in the hole? The best way
need a job? Have you talked to Him to double your money is to fold it
about it—Have you put it on Him? in half and stuff it in your wallet!
He said, “Casting all your care That’s living one day at a time when
upon him; for he careth for you” it comes to being a good steward
(1 Pet. 5:7). of money and time.
Do you need a mate? Are you Now let me ask you this. If you
praying about it? Maybe you need have to sell a home, or give up a
a whipping. Have you prayed about job, or convert your assets into
that? How about a humbling? “But money for missions, and God calls
my God shall supply all your upon you to do something like that,
need…”! How about money? Is do you do it willingly? Ask yourself,
there anybody who doesn’t need do I do it joyfully? The Lord loves a
some money? I don’t need any, cheerful giver. When you’re asked
but if I had it, I’d give it away re- to give something up, do you do it
ally quick! Do you talk to the Lord cheerfully?
about it? Do you put it on him? Do Disappointment comes. I went
you cast your burden on Him? Do through one in my life—a pretty
you need wisdom? Have you prayed rough thing with my family all torn
and asked Him for it? up. A real happy time, man! After
Do you need sleep? Cast your going on through that about a year,
burden on the Lord, put it on Him— I was up with a friend of mine in
just keep talking to Him until you Michigan, an old Tennessee boy.
go to sleep. I was complaining about the situa-
Am I a steward of time and mon- tion, and he said, “Well, have you
ey? Ask yourself that. Am I a good thanked God for it yet?”. I stopped
steward of the time God gives me? to think about it, and it had been
Do I use it right? When God gives nearly a year, and I hadn’t thanked
me money, do I use it right? He tells God for it at all. I had done every-
one fellow to “give an account of thing but that.
thy stewardship; for thou mayest I’ve been over in that gym getting
be no longer steward” (Luke 16:2). ready to play hockey with nobody
He asked some others, “Where showing up that night. I was just
is that money I gave you?”. One standing there, and we were going
guy said, “I buried it.” Another guy through some very tough times with
said, “I wrapped it up in a napkin.” the church. I could feel the inside
The Lord said, “What did you do Continued on 7
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Continued from 6 this—I tried to make myself look
of my stomach just empty, boy. good there.
You get a sickened feeling in your When you get up in the morning,
stomach—it’s a vacuum. There isn’t do like Paul did. When Paul got
anything there. That’s the time to saved on the road to Damascus, do
start turning to the Lord right then you know the first thing he said? He
and there and submit and start asked, “Lord, what wilt thou have
thanking God. me to do?”. Get up in the morning
Tom Malone got within a year of and ask the Lord, “what can I do
graduating from a Methodist school for you today?” If God wants you
after he got saved, and they dropped to do something for Him today, are
him. They wouldn’t ordain him as a you going to do it? Are you going
Methodist minister, and he had all to find out what it is? Start the day
the requirements for the last year with that. “Here am I; send me.”
and a half. He was in deep depres- That’s what Isaiah says in Isaiah 6:8.
sion and thinking of quitting the The Lord had a job for me, but I
ministry. And later on, he thanked had too much to do.
God that they didn’t ordain him. Be- I had said, you get somebody
cause of a bunch of liberal, unsaved else or wait till I get through.
Methodists, that bird ended up as I don’t know how the Lord came
an independent Baptist preacher out, no doubt He got along.
with a congregation of about eight But I felt kind of sneaky like I
hundred people. What seemed like knew I had done Him wrong.
the bottom dropping out was the One day I needed the Lord,
thing getting done right. needed Him right away,
Bob Jones Sr. was a Methodist But He never answered me at all,
preacher, and they took away his but I could hear Him say
ordination papers when he put up Down in my accusing heart, child,
that school. Don’t you know that was I’ve got too much to do.
a letdown for him? He graduated You can get somebody else or
from a Christian school in Greens- wait until I get through.
boro, AL, and served faithfully as Now, when the Lord has a job for
an evangelist for fifteen years. They me, I never try to shirk.
dropped him and took his papers I drop what I have in my hand
away from him. Did he thank God and do the Lord’s good work.
for it? I don’t know, but I know it’s So your affairs can run along or
one of the tests—be willing. wait till you get through,
Ask yourself this, do I begin and For nobody else can do the work
end each day with prayer? Did you that God has marked out for you.
start today with prayer? When you I can’t do your work, and you
go to bed at night, do you close can’t do mine. God has something
in prayer? Do you go back and for you, so you’re to find out what
review the day? I’ve said this and it is and do it.
didn’t mean it—I should’ve said Continued on 8
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Continued from 7 nobody in that building, and I got
Alright, finally, ask yourself this. down on my knees to pray.
How real is heaven to me? I didn’t even know how to pray,
“While we look not at the things but I remember what I prayed. I
which are seen, but at the things said, “I want to go home. I don’t
which are not seen: for the things know where home is. I don’t know
which are seen are temporal; but where I came from, and I need to
the things which are not seen are get back wherever I came from.” I
eternal” (2 Cor 4:18). said, “I’ve had enough of it—I can’t
It is awfully hard to imagine it take another minute of it. I’ve been
because you can’t see it. How real shot at and cussed and dumped
is it to me? Is it as real to me as and torn up and down this place.
it was to Billy Bray? I’ve told you If there is any such thing as home,
about Billy Bray. His wife died, and I want to get home.” Later on, at
they came to the house, and he was the radio station, I had to accept
running around the house, jumping the Lord as my Savior. But I was
on the sofa and everything. He was thinking about that. Right at that
saying, “Praise the Lord! Glory to time, maybe Heaven wasn’t real
God! Joy has gone home to be with to me, but boy, I’ll tell you one
the angels. Glory to God! Is it like thing, the world wasn’t real to me.
that to you? I had enough here, boy—I had had
Are you sure of it? Is it real to enough! I’ve never changed my
you? Is it as real to you as it was to mind about that.
Paul? Of course, I’ve got to argue The dentist and doctor always
with him. It will never be as real to say you need to get a check-up
me as it was Paul—he saw it! That every so often. Well, a Christian
was a sneaky thing to do. To go in should check himself on these
there and see Heaven and then things.
come back and tell me, I’ve got to Do you thank God daily for bless-
live by faith! I never did like that ings? Are you always willing to for-
part of the Bible! give? Do you search the scriptures
But it ought to be real to you; when confronted with a problem?
you’re seated together with Him Are you grateful enough to witness
in heavenly places. You’re going to others? Have you learned to live
through all kinds of things right one day at a time? Do you cast all
now. And some of it is pretty rough, your burdens on the Lord instead
but you’re going home. You’ve got of worrying? Are you a steward of
a home. time and money? If God calls upon
I got on my knees in a Method- you to give something up, do you do
ist church down there on Palafox. it willingly? Do you begin and end
I was half over a hangover, shoes each day with prayer? How real is
untied, and no shave for three days. heaven to you?
I busted in that place in a rainstorm “Examine yourselves, …prove
and got on my knees. There with your own selves.”
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A Necessary
Revelation
By Robert Militello This world is a spiritual desert
“Vanity of vanities, saith the without Jesus Christ. Those who
Preacher, vanity of vanities; ALL IS travel through it lost and far from God
VANITY” (Eccl. 1:2). are forever looking for water holes to
What a treasure this world received refresh their souls. That emptiness
when the book of Ecclesiastes was that God has put into all of us can only
put into the canon of sacred scripture. be filled by the Holy Spirit. Our world
This one book solves the great puzzle can never quench spiritual thirst.
as to what constitutes a meaningful “Jesus answered and said unto
life. The philosophy and wisdom of her, Whosoever drinketh of this
men fail because they do not take into water shall thirst again” (John 4:13).
account what God says about human The Samaritan woman at the well
nature and the effects of sin. was ready to try something different.
Solomon’s desire to taste all that “Sir, give me this water” (vs. 15).
life had to offer brought him to a With all the allurements this world puts
place where very few arrive today before the eyes of the lost, especially
because they associate happiness in our society, few will ever come to
with pursuing that which this world Solomon’s conclusion about how to
has to offer. Never in human history live life with real meaning.
has a consumer society such as ours “Let us hear the conclusion of the
been given the opportunity to indulge whole matter: Fear God, and keep
in its covetous cravings with such few his commandments: FOR THIS IS
restrictions. A bad harvest is now the THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN” (Eccl.
obvious result. 12:14).
“For Demas hath forsaken me, Actually, the book of Ecclesiastes
having loved this present world” (2 is an essay on the topic “Is life
Tim. 4:10). worthwhile?”. Solomon answered
There it is, the scourge of American that question honestly. He considers
Christianity—“having loved this the various ends or goals for which
present world.” Did Demas ever read people live and finds that each of
Ecclesiastes? If he did, was he able to these reasons brings only vanity and
see this world the way Solomon did frustration. Solomon’s essay brings
before he died? When a man travels the reader to a lonely place in his
through a desert parched and thirsty or her mind. It is meant to do that.
looking for water, his mind may slip Man’s wisdom is a dead-end street.
away so that he sees a mirage. Up It has an entrance but no exit apart
ahead, there appears to be an oasis. from death. The meaning of life is not
Endless miles of sand almost drive found by observing and recording our
him insane, but now water is in view. experiences. Nor is it discovered by
His unbearable thirst will be quenched, following through with our thoughts.
and he’ll revive. So he hopes. Continued on 26
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Continued from 25 By the early 1950s, television
“And further, by these, my son, was bringing the world into the living
be admonished: of making many rooms of millions of American homes.
books there is no end: and much The desire to possess and enjoy
study is a weariness of the flesh” what this world can offer was put on
(Eccl. 12:12). steroids. Eventually, this would lead
Here is where time spent reading to a congregation saying, “I am rich,
Ecclesiastes should take you. “Love and increased with goods and have
not the world, neither the things need of nothing” (Rev. 3:17).
that are in the world. If any man love As the American church fattened
the world, the love of the Father is its bank accounts and built bigger
not in him” (1 John 2:15). buildings with more parking spaces,
Look around; there’s much to see. preaching on sin, judgment, and Hell
You would be wise to hide this word went on life support. The very thing
in your heart, or you will be another that would help a saint stay unspotted
Demas. by the world, the thought of giving an
“And the world passeth away, account at the Judgment Seat of Christ
and the lust thereof: be he that was rarely mentioned. Preaching in
doeth the will of God abideth for most churches degenerated into a
ever” (vs. 17). form of motivational speaking with
Do you think the apostle John spent a few Bible verses mixed into the
time reading Solomon? God gave us message to make the “sermon” seem
His word so we can read it with our spiritual. What saints really needed to
eyes. If this world distracts you, that hear was no longer preached.
Book will stay on the shelf, and you’ll “It is better to hear the rebuke of
bring a ton of regrets with you to the the wise, than for a man to hear the
Judgment Seat of Christ, where you song of fools” (Eccl. 7:5).
must appear. Solomon went as far as any man
While promoting the pursuit of could go with the wisdom of the natural
pleasure, there is a real downside to mind exercising itself with reading and
living a life of self-gratification which knowledge. Still, it seems that what
Solomon does not hide. his father wrote in Psalm 119:98-100
“Rejoice, O young man, in thy was not personally experienced in
youth; and let thy heart cheer thee his life. I say this because Solomon,
in the days of thy youth, and walk with all his wisdom, slipped into
in the ways of thine heart, and in gross idolatry. College degrees do
the sight of thine eyes” And then not remove the effects of sin from
this ominous caveat is inserted, “but the natural mind. Death is not put on
know thou, that for all these things hold because one has acquired a vast
GOD WILL BRING THEE INTO store of knowledge. Ecclesiastes 2:16
JUDGMENT” (Eccl. 11:9). Continued on 27
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Continued from 26 Often, the Lord has to put a soul
asks this question and then stabs the into a sickbed or prison to get time
reader with this truth, “And how dieth enough for that soul to engage in real
the wise man? AS THE FOOL.” soul searching. Dark clouds can have
Men need revelation from God. silver linings if God’s word can get past
Science does not have the answers the curtain around a mind that rarely
to questions that really matter. Peter, thought about anything other than how
an ignorant fisherman, needed direct to please oneself. We are certifiably
revelation from heaven to know that blind apart from what God has chosen
Jesus was the promised Messiah (see to show us in His word. The Holy Spirit
Matt. 16:13–17). God has put a wall says as much in Revelation 3:17; “and
around man’s capacity to find truth knowest not that thou art wretched,
apart from grace and the operation of and miserable, and poor, AND
the Holy Spirit. BLIND.” Do you think we see what
“Then I beheld all the work of we need to see apart from the grace of
God, that a man cannot find out God? Don’t flatter yourself. The wisest
the work that is done under the among us are spiritually feeble when
sun: because though a man labour the scripture remains on a shelf.
to seek it out, yet he shall not find “For the LORD giveth wisdom:
it; yea further: though a wise man out of his mouth cometh knowledge
think to know it, YET SHALL HE and understanding” (Prov. 2:6).
NOT BE ABLE TO FIND IT” (Eccl. How will you answer the Lord at His
8:17). Judgment Seat when He asks why
There is a plan of action put into you so seldomly availed yourself of the
effect every time a soul reaches wisdom He provided you in His word?
the age of awareness and ventures “If any of you lack wisdom, let him
forth on life’s journey of discovery. ask of God, THAT GIVETH TO ALL
That satanic strategy which has filled MEN LIBERALLY, and upbraideth
up Hell with multiple billions for six not; and it shall be given him”
thousand years, involves planting (James 1:5).
distraction after distraction to keep an There is a general assumption that
inquisitive mind from finally reaching as you age, you get wiser. On the
Solomon’s conclusion in Ecclesiastes other hand, you surely have heard the
12:13–14. All the means at the devil’s expression, “There’s no fool like an old
disposal are employed to keep you fool.” Well, I have dealt with a great
from spending time thinking about number of lost older folks concerning
where you are eventually going when their spiritual condition and readiness
life ends. In these last days, the devil to leave this world. For the most part,
has an abundance of tools, thanks to the passing years did not make them
technology, to keep you perpetually wiser in spiritual matters. Most world
distracted. Continued on 28
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Continued from 27 are beasts” (Eccl. 3:18).
views harden over time. Also, the God’s word is a mirror that shows
philosophy of fatalism gains ground in all. There is no way to airbrush out of
the thought life of many seniors. “What the picture the sores of your soul—the
will be will be,” and “You can’t teach an damage done by sin. Our Bible is a
old dog new tricks.” These come from referral agent pointing us to the One
the lips of those who really don’t want who treats all maladies of mind, heart,
to examine what the scripture teaches and soul. Job said, “I have esteemed
concerning death and the destination the words of his mouth more than
of their souls. Few get saved when my necessary food” (Job 23:12).
their years pass seventy, seventy-five, Does the last days’ church in America
eighty, and beyond. Solomon died at share Job’s conviction?
sixty. He was crowned at twenty. Did Where is man today? Has his
his lifestyle lead to a shortening of his nature changed since Adam? “Seeing
years? You judge. there be many things that increase
When all is said and done, what vanity, what is man the better” (Eccl.
lessons do we learn in life? When the 6:11).
years pass and you become more There’s food for thought. Private
reflective concerning how you handled citizens can now go into space for a
various challenges and relationships, joy ride (if they can afford it), and we
the law of sowing and reaping becomes are becoming more like the gods.
undeniable. You understand that you We can look down upon our planet.
do reap what you sow and that your These things our grandparents never
reaping can be most unpleasant. On dreamed of; God’s word says all of
the other hand, a life lived fearing God this is vanity; folks don’t like their
and being generous towards those accomplishments to be spoken about
less fortunate brings a contentment of in such a manner. The Bible is not
soul that few even know exists in this positive toward mankind. Scripture
world of woe. has few real friends in these last days.
Our materialistic society has I feel out of place in this world, and I
produced an abundance of narcissistic blame one book for that. All the other
malcontents who cannot hide their books I’ve read (lots and lots of them)
joylessness no matter how much never made me feel that way. You
pleasure they give themselves to. can’t thank God enough for the food
Without Jesus Christ, a man wants to He offers the hungry soul every time
go through life hiding from what God you open His word.
wants to reveal in him. Why is man so slow to seek for
“I said in mine heart concerning truth? Solomon had an inquisitive
the estate of the sons of men, that streak in him that bordered on
God might manifest them and that psychotic. How else do you explain
they might see that they themselves Continued on 30
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Continued from 28 and the peculiar treasure of kings
this statement? “And I gave my heart and of provinces” (vs. 8).
to know wisdom and TO KNOW When we hear how much men like
MADNESS AND FOLLY: I perceived Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Zuckerberg
that this also is vexation of spirit” of Facebook are worth, we ask, “How
(Eccl. 1:17). much does any man need?” Solomon
The Germans have a word for hoped excess would satisfy his soul.
what Solomon had—wanderlust. An Such thinking has led to a fivefold
adventurous spirit gets you in trouble. increase in the number of practicing
Today, because of the power of media psychiatrists in America over the last
and advertising, we are invited to taste thirty years. No surprise here. Paul did
all that this world has to offer. You say that in the last days of the church,
might as well buy a ticket to Hell with men would be lovers of their own
a “half off” coupon. Solomon was not selves, covetousness, etc. (see 2 Tim.
afraid of overindulging when it came 3:1–7). American cities are breeding
to building a harem. Oriental kings do grounds for unhappiness and despair.
not believe one man and one woman I saw it in New York City, but being
is the only way to go. They embrace spiritually blind, I didn’t understand
at an early age the expressions men why this was so.
use to justify their philandering—“the Ecclesiastes brings a seeking soul
more, the merrier,” or “variety is the to the door of understanding of what
spice of life.” I believe King Solomon really matters in life, but it does not
wasted little time joining the Playboy explain the cause of men’s misery.
Club of his time. He made Hugh Folks choose to drive without Jesus
Hefner (1926–2017), the publisher of Christ sitting next to them, telling them
Playboy magazine, look like an altar how to drive and what streets and
boy. If having seven hundred wives roads to take. Life without the Lord
and three hundred concubines doesn’t directing your steps is driving blind.
qualify as an astounding achievement, Many crash and fall into Hell because
I don’t know what would. a book they could have read stayed
You have to admire Solomon’s way closed.
of telling it like it is when it comes to “And this is the condemnation,
characterizing himself. He boasted that light is come into the world, and
about his lack of restraint. MEN LOVED DARKNESS RATHER
“And whatsoever mine eyes THAN LIGHT, BECAUSE THEIR
desired I kept not from them, I DEEDS WERE EVIL” (John 3:19).
withheld not my heart from any joy” Open the pure words of God as often
(Eccl. 2:10). as you are able and then pray, “Open
All of chapter 2, from verse 1 to 10, thou mine eyes, that I may behold
is an ode to the joy of covetousness. wondrous things out of thy law”
“I gathered me also silver and gold, (Psa. 119:18).
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