The Need for Another Reformation — Shane Idleman

Is the need for another Reformation, the need for another Reformation. And I'm really not talking about particularly what happened 500 years ago. I'm talking about a personal Reformation of the heart.

Me and Morgan were transformed with our recent trip to New York and just going to the Brooklyn Tabernacle and seeing their Tuesday night prayer service and 3 ,000 people worshiping and just came back with a renewed passion for what God can really do in a church that's on fire for Him.

And looking at and talking with the people there, the need for a personal Reformation is actually a greater need than another Reformation. I'm going to explain what I mean by that in just a minute. Because when I put up the title, The Need for a Reformation, most of us are like saying, amen, brother, preach it.

The churches need to be changed. The political system needs to be changed. I can get a huge amen on that one for sure. So many things, yes, yes, Reformation, but we forget that it actually starts here.

Personal Reformation Begins in the Heart

Reforming our own heart that reforms the home, that reforms our marriages. And what I mean by Reformation is this. It's a reforming, a renewing, a restoring, a reviving of guess what? The truth. The word reform, I instantly thought of concrete.

Not everybody will know what I mean by that, but you construction guys, especially in concrete, you will know what I'm talking about. Reforming. I remember many times I would come out and I would dig footings so they could put their forms.

And then once they looked at the plans a little closer, they, oh, we're off a foot. So Shane, can you backfill the dirt and compact it very, very good, because we're actually in the house foundation now, compact that and do what?

Remove those forms and reform it. Reshape it according to the truth outlined in the plans that the, you know, I knew that wasn't going to get me. Architect, thank you. My goodness. The architect, the plans, because who goes off of those plans?

I mean, the plumber can't say, well, I'm going to put the restroom over here. And the electrician, well, I'm going to wire here. And the roofer, I think the roof should go over here. I mean, who does that?

Never. Everybody goes off of the, actually the stamped set of plans, the most recent set of plans. And that's what we have to do often in our own lives is to reform, to renew, to reshape, to get back on track.

Martin Luther and the Historical Reformation

What we're celebrating after the second service and what the message is really centered around is what happened 500 years ago. On October 31st, not everybody celebrates Halloween. Sometimes we celebrate the Reformation, right?

That's a whole other topic. But what happened 500 years ago? Well, a person by the name of Martin Luther, a monk who was actually in the Roman Catholic Church, started to read the Word of God and was actually saved by the verse that the just shall live by faith.

And he was saved. And as a result, when you're saved and when you're looking at the Bible, you'll see some inconsistencies within the established church. So he actually went protesting and went against the church.

He had the audacity to what? Hammer the 95 thesis on the church doors of Wittenberg, Germany in 1517. These are all the grievances with the church that they need to go back to. Let me pull this out. Good reminder, right?

Hey, what does this say? Not what does everybody, because actually when it gets away from this, anything goes. Anything goes. Many of you saw the interview on Fox News that I did with a pastor who embraces the LGBT agenda and actually allows, you know, anything to, well, I'm going to.

But what happens is the whole battle was over this. You know, this is changing. It really doesn't mean that anymore. We can kind of, we have a new truth now, a new revelation of what God is doing. Where does that end?

Because what you think, well, what he's telling me, well, what he's telling Pat and Chris and Mike, it's all different. No, see, it has to go back to the foundation, back to the truth. So that's what we celebrate.

And believe it or not, it actually didn't start with Martin Luther. It started, well, let me just briefly talk about three different eras that we, in church history, what they look at is the apostolic era.

It's when the church was born. Then there's a church fathers era when people like Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Ignatius, different church fathers in the early first, second, third centuries, their writings, we look to them.

And it's interesting, we were all part of the Catholic church initially. That just means universal church. We were all part of that. And then around, oh, gosh, 391 or so A .D., Rome opinion, because that's one argument they say, well, the Roman Catholic church would say that our history is right from the apostolic, right when Jesus built his church.

But you guys started 500 years ago. And I usually say, no, we're actually, we go back 2 ,000 years ago to what Christ said, what the church was built. So in that time, though, I think there was reformation.

People were going back to the Word of God. There were true, you know, what God said. We just don't have a lot of recorded history. And then we get to around the 1380s, 1384, John Wycliffe died. He had a stroke.

He actually started to translate the Bible into the common tongue. That was not a good idea. It was in Latin, and they didn't want the people knowing the Bible. That in and of itself should tell you a lot.

And I made a promise today I wasn't going to rail. So people like John Wycliffe, who was called the morning star of the Reformation for this very reason. And then people like, have you heard William Tyndale?

Tyndale House. John Huss. Actually, Huss means goose. And when we get that phrase, your goose is cooked from that. William Tyndale and John Huss were actually burned at the stake for translating the Bible.

Heretical. A lot to think about. To be chained to a stake with wood underneath you and set on fire. See, so this disagreement runs pretty deep between Protestants and Roman Catholics. It's a pretty deep little hurt there, you know.

And I'm invited sometimes to ecumenical things. Can't we all just get along? And we can all get along when the foundation is Scripture. If you go back to Scripture, then groups can get along. And Protestant comes from the word protest.

So they protested what was being taught in. Hopefully that gives you a little bit of background. So it's not some new movement that sprung out of the spirit of rebellion. It actually was wanting to always go back to the initial teachings of the church and the initial teachings of Christ.

Scripture as the Foundation of Truth

So, a couple Scriptures we're going to put up on the screen. When we talk about reviving, renewing, restoring, going back to the truth. Psalm 119. The sum of your word is truth. And every one of your righteous rules endures forever.

Forever. Did you catch that? It doesn't change. It's not relative based on our situation. And then John 17. Jesus said, sanctify them in the... What? Relativism? Sanctify them in the truth. Your word is truth.

That's why a slogan we've always had here at West Side Christian Fellowship is times change, but truth does not. See, it's the only sure foundation. Jesus built the church on the truth. We are to be sanctified, which is to be cleansed, to be renewed, to be restored by the truth.

And then we look at John 1. And the word, which is Jesus, became flesh and dwelt among us. And we have seen His glory. The glory as the only Son from the Father, full of grace. Wait a minute, that's a big teaching right now.

Just grace. Just grace. Just mercy. That's it. No, there's an end in there. Grace and truth. See, you have to have that. I would be miserable if I didn't have that. If I believed in ongoing revelation and that things change, you would probably have to lock me up.

Because what do you bank your life on? What do you raise your kids in? What do you go back to when you're drifting? Thank God for truth. People died because of this, and we take it so nonchalantly today.

I have eight of them. There's people in China, when they receive these, they start crying. And I've been reading, my friend who does missions work there sometimes, they get through the Bible once every three months.

And again. And again. And again. Like four, five, six times a year. I'm like, wow, find so much time. See, it's not finding the time, it's the priority. How many of you just spent three hours watching something last night that is over?

You watch a guy lick his bat. It's an inside joke, I just don't understand that. But I'm being serious. See, we have the time. It's not the time. It's the priority. You have to have that truth in your life.

Because without it, you start to drift. So God, I've got to go back. Oh, that's right. That's right. And it brings you back to what His Word is. John 8. If you abide in My Word, and you are truly My disciples, you will know the truth.

And the truth will... Do you want to be set free of many things this morning? Now, it's interesting here. To know the truth. Here's where we make the mistake. You can study this word in the Greek. But many times we think, you know what, I know it.

But Shane, I'm not set free. Actually, knowing in this context is to apply it. If you apply the truth, you will be set free. If you apply it. Even the demonic realm knows what the truth is. But they don't apply it.

So the power comes in the application. That's why I always say that. So the true church. The true church. Because everybody claims it, right? There's a church down the street. That's the true church. Jehovah Witness.

That's the true church. Seventh-day Adventist. That's the true church. Roman Catholicism. That's the true church. I actually had a quote on here. I took it out this morning. I probably should have left it.

From catholicism .org. That says there's no salvation, actually, outside of. And so, see, I'm not. And people say, why are you putting. And I get mean. But I'm just this. Now, if I'm telling a lie, call me on it.

If I'm saying something that's incorrect, tell me. But if this is all true. And it's just facts. Why do people get upset? The true church was built 2 ,000 years ago. And it holds to Christ's teachings.

Not perfectly. But we tighten our grip when necessary. It's interesting. I'm glad I don't do this ever again. I'll never forget it. There was something at our fair in town known as the rural Olympia. There was east side against west side tug-of-war.

You guys remember that? And guess who they asked to be on the tug-of-war team? I didn't know you could hold a rope and pull so long. I mean, for so long. I mean, you think a tug-of-war is over, right?

A couple seconds. I think this was like five, six minutes. Of pulling as hard as you can. And they had the bodybuilders against the farmers. And the farmers won. It's interesting. I think Troy Green. I just talked to him yesterday in Idaho.

He was on the team. He was the big anchor. I think 6 '5", 350 pounds or something. And we thought we could win. But you kept losing your grip. You know, and you couldn't. Your hands were falling. And I was just, you know, falling.

And finally, I had a heat stroke afterwards. But just tightening. But it reminded me of truth. You have to go back and you tighten your grip around the truth. Okay, I'm falling off course. I'm losing.

I have to come back and tighten my grip. So that's the true church. The true church is throughout all of the world. I can take you to India or South America. Or Uganda. And the true church. The brothers and sisters in Christ are there.

So be very careful. Any church that tells you, you have to belong to our church. You have to be baptized by our person. You have to say the right things. So from this reformation, 500 years ago, came five things that are important.

The Five Solas of the Reformation

And you should probably know about. Many of you already do know about it. Number one. Sola Scriptura. Sola. All these come from the Latin, of course. Sola meaning singular. One person. Sola Scriptura.

And what they meant by that is Scripture alone. The reason is because papal authority, the pope, actually could decree things that superseded the Bible. It's not really what this says. It's what they decree.

So that became the standard of authority. Not the Bible. So you have to go back to Sola Scriptura. The inerrancy of Scripture. 2 Timothy 3 .6. I think there's a handout that you all have with these verses.

2 Timothy 3 .16, actually. From the King James. I learned a lot of these in the King James, so I use that Bible from time to time. You know what? I should maybe throw this out there. For those listening, for you that are curious people, probably one of the top questions I get is, what translation is best?

So that is actually on our website. I went through an hour teaching on what translation is best or what translation should you use. What's the difference? How do we get our Bible? It's on our website if you search for that.

King James, 2 Timothy 3 .16. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, instruction, and righteousness that the man of God may be perfect. Not a perfect person, but complete.

So that's the point of Scripture. See, it's interesting. It's profitable for doctrine. Do you want to know the heart of God and how to live? You want to reproof somebody. Hopefully you don't want to. Hopefully it just comes from time to time.

And that's why preaching sometimes gets a bad mark. Oh, it's correcting me. It's convicting me. Can't you guys just tell me what I want to hear? It doesn't do that. It reproofs. It rebukes. Isn't it interesting?

Rebuking, doctrine, correction, instruction, and righteousness with how to live. Those four things tell me it's going to be challenging more often than it's encouraging. Because we're often off track, and to get back on track...

See, it's not like we're always walking on track. And sometimes we do need encouragement. We need to be built up. And to me, when I'm convicted, I change. I am built up. Isn't that interesting? You know, it's not always just beating up, but it's profitable for correction and instruction and righteousness that you may be thoroughly furnished.

So I could spend a whole sermon on this, but I pulled something from gotquestions .org because the question always comes up. Shane, you just believe in a book that was put together by men. Some men met at a council, and they said, hmm, I think this one's good.

I think this one's good. A couple things you need to know for sure. The letters of Paul, the letters from John, the Jude, and these different books of the Bible, they were already being used by the early church in the 2nd century.

In the 3rd century, these letters were viewed as canonical, being authoritative in the New Testament. They already had the Old Testament. That was a given. The books of the Old Testament were a given.

They've been passed down for hundreds of years. The New Testament, these are just letters that the church was already using. So when the council met, I don't want to give you the exact date, 300-something A .D., they just said, here's the books that the church has already been recognizing.

So see, they didn't bring in all these... because that's what people will say to get you off track. And actually, when people say things, they don't really know what they're talking about. If you challenge them on things, name one verse of the Bible that's wrong.

Well, that's what I've been told. Well, council met, and they did this. Well, what council was that? How'd they go about doing it? So see, they just throw things out there. So you need to know that. You also need to know, for GodQuestions .org, for a book of the Bible to qualify, the author had to be an apostle or had a close connection with the apostle.

The book was accepted by the body of Christ at large, by the early church. The book contains consistency of doctrine and orthodox teaching. The book bears evidence of high moral spiritual values that would reflect the work of the Holy Spirit.

That's why they say it's not really 66 books. It's one book. So you have all these authoritative. And then the Catholic Bible has something called the Apocrypha. And they throw in Maccabees. They throw in different books of the Bible.

Interesting reads sometimes, but they're not authoritative. We don't like God to be the canon of Scripture. In many books, it says this, but is it consistent with Scripture? And how many years ago was it written?

A lot of this is fake news. They had fake news back then too. So that's where the Scriptures come from. Sola Scriptura. Then the second point, Sola Fide. Sola Fide. Faith alone. Faith alone. So see, you have Scripture, and then you have faith alone.

Romans 5. Therefore, all of you that are believers, being justified by faith. See, that's how we're justified. But the church was teaching that you're justified by what? Works. I did so many works for God today.

I'm going to go to heaven. It's not biblical. So faith alone. Faith alone is this, God, I believe You are who You said You are. I'm in need of a Savior. I repent of my sin. I confess Christ as Savior and Lord.

I believe in my heart. But see, the works flow from it. Because I don't know anybody that's truly saved that doesn't do works. You can't. It's like you have the Holy Spirit now in you. It's like, Shane, we've got to do works.

We've got to do works. When you're full of the Spirit, everywhere you go you want to talk about Christ. The person on the corner. The person here. It's just this work of God. There's fruit everywhere because of the correct branch that is within you.

The correct fruit. And that's the argument. They say, oh, all you guys do is Protestants. You preach faith and faith and faith. You minimize works. You just sit at home and have faith. No. Your faith has feet.

You show me your faith. See, they say, show me your faith by my works. We say, no, we'll show you faith because of faith alone. And we work. So that was one of the sticking points. It's faith alone. Justified by faith.

We have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Something is very interesting. If you just have works, works, works, works, and don't know Christ, you have no peace. I asked somebody who got upset at me at the gym a couple of years ago, do you know where you're going?

Just stop and think for a minute. When does it, I've got to do this, I've got to do this. And God's going to not sit and look at us in heaven and go, gosh, you did do a lot of works. You did a lot of bad things too.

And let me just weigh these on a scale. I'd be miserable, wouldn't you? Because each day, oh, did I do it? My mind's thinking bad things. Now I've got to do another good work. I do a few good works, but now I'm doing the good works because of pride and ego.

Now I'm actually in sin, so they're not good works. They don't even count. Because let's be honest, how many of our good works are really good works straight from the heart? So faith alone, Ephesians 2 .8, for by grace you have been saved through faith.

And it's not of yourself, it's the gift of God. So we go back to faith and faith alone. Sola gratia, sola gratia, grace alone. Romans 3 .24, being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.

So it's by grace alone, again, not by work. So Martin Luther was going back to this, actually John Calvin. Jurek Zwingli in Switzerland, John Knox in Scotland, they were going all back to this truth. Solo Christo, solo Christo.

And it's solo instead of sola because it's a masculine form there. Solo Christo, Christ alone. Now this might seem odd to some of us, but back then, it was Christ plus certain things. Christ plus I have to do these things.

So they said, no, it's Christ alone. Matthew 7 .21, not everyone that says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he that doth the will of my Father which is in heaven. John 14 .6, Jesus said unto them, I am the way, the truth, the life.

No man comes unto the Father but by me. That's pretty narrow. So see, they were going back to that because they're teaching the people, just go to Christ. Christ alone, not these things. And they have things where you could actually put money into a coffer, put money into a box or something, and you could spring your relatives and friends out of purgatory.

More money, quicker they'll be out. I mean, can you see why this just infuriated true believers? I mean, purgatory is not even a biblical concept. I mentioned before when I met with a priest down in Santa Clarita of a large church, 4 ,000 people church, and I asked him, what about purgatory?

He goes, well, Shane, our shame and guilt has to be done with somehow. Did you catch that? We have to go to purgatory because our shame and guilt has to be dealt with somehow. That dealt with it. That dealt with everything.

So you don't have to go somewhere and get punished for your sins for a certain time. It's already been paid. See, none of that's biblical. So that's why people get passionate. They get upset because it's not correct.

You're leading people down a false road. And then the fifth one, where I want to just camp out a minute, soli deo. Reformation leads to larger change. Individual reformation. And I will tell you this, as a living witness, no reformation will occur without accepting the Holy Spirit's correction and guidance.

The Holy Spirit, Spiritual Drift, and Losing Our Savor

No reformation will start in your heart, in the church, without accepting the Holy Spirit's correction and His guidance. Many of you have heard the verse, and we've talked about it many times, about salt losing its savor.

Right? Losing its flavor. Jesus said that. How will you be any good if that salt loses its savor? You know, when you taste salt, that saltiness that it has. A light isn't meant to be put underneath a bushel.

It's meant shown. But I started to think about this week. How does salt lose its savor? How does it lose its preserving effect? How do churches, how do pastors, Christians fall away? Depending on your theology.

Have you ever had salt that's no good? I think it's sodium dioxide. But the salt, there's two ways. Interesting. I looked this up. Two ways that salt can lose its savor, can lose its effect. The first is an outside influence.

Try dipping your salt in water and then take it and then put it on. Same thing with the believer. Same thing with you in this room. An outside influence can come in and begin to quench that work of God, begin to quench and grieve what God is doing.

It takes all the savor away. It's an outside influence. And then the second thing, an internal change in our taste buds. Something can happen on the inside. So see, salt loses its effectiveness by what's coming on the outside.

And guess what else? What's coming from the inside. Something within us can change it. So if the taste buds, when a person's sick, have you ever noticed, or if they told you, I just don't taste the things anymore.

I can't taste that. One of the interesting things that happened to me over the years of fasting and different things is now I crave broccoli. I crave bell peppers cut up and put into hummus. My taste buds used to hate that.

What happened? Something changed within. Changing within. And that happens here with salt. If there's something changing in your body, changing in your taste buds, you will not taste that. So is there something within us that is drifting?

Is there something within us that is starting to wade away from God? Think of that song, Give Me Jesus. If you're singing that song with a cold, callous heart, if it doesn't mean anything to you, may I suggest that there may be a drift going on?

May I suggest that there's a possibility of losing that first love? May I suggest that what God is wanting to do in your heart is being stripped away by outside and internal influences? That's why I often say if worship is boring, if worship is hard, if it's distracting, if you can't sing, Oh Jesus, I love you, oh how I love you, but you can't wait to watch the Dodgers, something is wrong.

In the heart there might be a drift that is happening. And with your permission, I'm going to add another sola, if I can. 500 years later, are you ready for this one? I'm going to take a drink first on this one, because this is going to hit home.

Putting Feet to Faith Through Action

Sola is the Latin, but the word after it is not, it's English. Ready? Sola, action. Put feet to our faith. Put feet to our faith. This is a big issue in the American church. I recently read a quote. We're professing believers, but practical atheists.

That had to sink in for a minute, because it's very easy to believe. It's very easy to be here. But when have we went out and actually put feet to our faith? When was the last time many of you here visited the hospital homes?

When was the last time you reached out to the homeless in our community? When was the last time that we did something? See, it's not meant, and this is hard, trust me. I struggle too. It's not just about absorbing and absorbing and absorbing.

It's about absorbing God and then giving it out. I mean, it's interesting. There's something they're doing in Lancaster. I might talk about this more in a little bit as the weeks come. But they're wanting to get the homeless people out of the cold this winter.

And they're asking some churches to house them on certain nights and minister to them. And the first thought I had was wonderful. That sounds great. The second thought I had is would anybody? Because I don't know about you, but I'm getting tired of being fed up on this fed.

Fed up is probably not the right word. But being fed, right, on the Word of God, but then not giving it out. That's why many people are stifled in their growth. That's why they're angry and unproductive.

Because you aren't designed to just take in and take out. That's actually selfishness as a fellow struggler, right? Right here admitting it. It's the hard part. I mean, I can read the Bible all morning.

I can listen to Erewhon on the radio. I can put on apps. I can listen to Jim Cimbala's book on tape. Put on my Bluetooth. I can do all these things. Feed me, feed me, feed me. But when it comes to putting, we like atheists.

And that is meant to cut a little deep. It is meant to challenge. We also have something we're going to talk about at the end of the service about water wells and children. Is anyone convicted or is it just me?

I remember growing up, you had to park your car outside. And then something built called a garage. It comes from a French word. To house a vehicle. Guess what came out? In my short time in real estate, everybody wanted to get a house with a...

Just this week I thought about those things. See, we don't notice. I'm very good at staying to the truth in my mind. But we don't realize how far we're drifting when it comes to putting our feet into...

God didn't save us just to save us. He saved us to make a difference. And how blessed we are. I'm not joking about three car garage. Now there's... And then all these storage units to do what? See, we really have to put this stuff in perspective.

Sola action. Sola action. This is where the rubber meets the road. This is where it's going to hurt a little bit. We've got to do something with our faith. So I am going to lovingly challenge this congregation on some of these things in the weeks to come.

And it's hard. I get frustrated. Maybe just at my own self. But I'll get emails that... You know, Shane, we need more helpers. We need more servers in the hospital homes ministry. We don't have enough people that can go visit them on Sundays.

People that are looking forward... The whole week they're looking forward to Sunday afternoon. And I see the email. Sometimes I get mad. Maybe mad at myself. Maybe I could do more. We don't have enough...

He should touch our heart. This is the point. I mean... And maybe it's me. Maybe it's a season of life. But okay, preaching the Word of God. Preaching the Word of God. It's wonderful. We're getting imparted by truth.

But if it doesn't produce... If it doesn't produce us going out and making a difference... What is the point? Really? Because we're supposed to be going out and doing... So that's the first part of sola action.

Is put feet to our faith. The next part is we do need to go back to the old paths. Go back to the old path. When this meant everything. Some of you are there, I know. But some of you, you've drifted off that old path.

Returning to the Old Paths and Examining Our Ways

The Bible says, go back. Return to the old path. Return... And I thought about this a week. Where are they today? Where are these guys? Where are these guys? Where are the White Cliffs who stood so unyielding for the truth that he was called the morning star of the Reformation?

Where is the Tyndales and the Husses who were burned at the stake for simply declaring the truth of God's Word? Where are the Martin Luthers who, when he was faced by his executioner, he said, here I stand, I can do no other.

Where are the Urich Zwinglis who preached in Switzerland so boldly that he was often being chased? People wanted to kill him. Where are the John Knoxes? I love John Knox. You should read this guy's biography.

He said, give me Scotland for the cause of Christ or I shall die. Where is that today? Who is saying, give me Lancaster? God, give me Lancaster. Give me Palmdale. Give me this Leona Valley. Give me it for the cause of Christ or I shall die.

The reason they're feeling that is they feel the work of the Holy Spirit in their hearts and they have to do it. George Whitefield who brought the U .K. and America to her knees. D .L. Moody who stood so unyielding for the truth.

Richard Baxter, the Puritan, who said, I preach as a dying man to dying men. Where are they today? Yes, I know they're here, but we need to put action back into our faith. So I'll leave you with a closing prayer.

I'll leave you with our closing action. Our prayer is this. Psalm 25 .5. And I prayed this many times this week. God, lead me. God, lead my salvation. For you I wait all day. Are you praying that? Lord, lead me to your truth.

Because you better be praying that because if you're not praying it, guess what direction you might be going. Remember, the human heart by default is already set on sin. Let me just turn this dial on sin.

So if I don't do anything, that's the direction I'm going. Oh, there's another prayer. Lead me not into temptation. Jesus said pray like this. Lead me not into temptation. So our prayer this morning should be, God, lead me into your truth.

Teach me. For you are the God of my salvation. For you I wait all the day long. For you I wait. Did you know that hurry is the arch enemy of devotion? Hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry, hurry. You cannot be devoted to God in that sense of seeking Him.

You know, many of you know right now, that when you can spend that time away with God, you are a new person. Because the Spirit's being built up and the flesh is being crucified. We have a retreat that men go to, women go to.

It's twice a year. Talk to Mike Livingston after the service. We just had a group of guys come back from it and a group of women there right now. They are being transformed by the power of God. Anytime you take that little thing in your pocket that beeps all the time, you shut it off and you say, Lord, I am going to seek You.

Guess what? Within an hour, you have withdrawals. We don't realize how hurried we are. And that's the enemy of devotion. That's what's happening. It says, just wait. We don't know how to wait anymore.

Do we? Try going to New York. Oh my goodness! Nobody knows how to wait. Fast-paced, fast-paced, fast-paced. Everything is so fast-paced. Go and wait. It says, just wait on Me. And then our action this week needs to be Lamentations 3, 40 -41.

Let us search out and examine our ways and turn back to the Lord. Let us lift our hearts and hands to God. Isn't that powerful? And Lamentations. Who would have ever thought? Lamentations is Jeremiah lamenting over the destruction of Jerusalem.