{"id":1174,"date":"2015-12-01T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebcsv.com\/pa\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2015-12-01T11:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T17:48:23","slug":"the-time-will-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebcsv.com\/pa\/the-time-will-come\/","title":{"rendered":"The Time Will Come"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe Barbarians are Coming<\/h4>\n

“For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers, and they will turn their ears away from the truth..”.\u00a0 II Timothy 4:3, 4<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Over thirty years ago, the well known theologian Carl F. Henry gave a convocation address at Eastern Baptist Theological seminary where he diagnosed the state of our times well. It was entitled, “The Barbarians are coming”. In part of it he states:<\/p>\n

“We sit glued to our television sets, unmindful that ancient pagan rulers staged Coliseum circuses to switch the minds of the restless ones from the reality of a spiritually-vagrant empire to the illusion that all is basically well…we are so steeped in the antichrist philosophy -namely, that success consists in embracing not the values of the Sermon on the Mount but an infinity of material things, of sex and status- that we little sense how much of what passes for practical Christianity is really an apostate compromise with the spirit of the age…Our culture is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of Divine revelation, to the content of God’s will, to the power of His redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse to paganism. The savages are stirring again; you can hear them rumbling and rustling in the tempo of our times…the line between the worldling and the Christian can scarce be found. Even in the church barbarians are breeding…”<\/em><\/p>\n

Because of grace,
\nTim<\/p>\n

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