"Death has climbed in through the windows"

“Teach your daughters how to wail; and have everyone teach one another a song of mourning. 

For Death has climbed in through the windows, 

and has entered our fortresses; 

it has removed the children from the streets 

and the young men from the public squares."

  These sobering scriptures should wake us up! 

Our streets are lined with young men in the depths of addiction, our children are captured in the jaws of the enemy, who crushes them with pornography, fills their minds with anarchy, and steals them for child sex trafficking. 

Surely death has climbed in through the window! 

And what comes from our pulpits? What urgency is proclaimed? 

Sadly, 

 

"They dress the wounds of my people as though they were not serious." 

"Your prophets and priests alike, all practice deceit. 

"Peace, Peace,” they say, when there is no peace.”

Are you lulled to sleep, has your conscience been hardened? 

Does the Gospel you hear allow you to sit inactive in the midst of evil? 

Are you in peace while countless thousands are oppressed and in bondage? Is the message you hear, 

"Learn your Bible more, and make sure you strive for sinlessness. You can remain isolated from the cries of the needy and oppressed, you are saved by Grace you are not called to action."   

Jeremiah 8:11, Jeremiah 9:20-21