where are we????????

People think sex ed solves the problem of educating their children, but it does not. Half of all American women are single parents. In parts of Baltimore, MD where I live, 90% of all children are born without two parents in the home. City wide it is 70%. And in many places sex ed begins in grade school.

It is not just sex ed, but sexual permissiveness in many forms that causes us to be lesser persons. I think a key event driving this today is the acceptance of Playboy magazine received in 1953. The Supreme court allowed it as "free speech", and whoredom has been on the increase ever since. Now perhaps it is that sex crimes are just being outed more and more, but I don't think so. In the Catholic church this is probably true, but protestant, pentecostal, and evangelical denominations are all seeing increasing incidences of sexual sin. Why do you think it is happening?

Matthew 24
37 But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be. 38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, 39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.

It is happening because we are not paying attention To Jesus and His words.

Genesis 6
5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.

I think there are many factors, and some are beyond man's ability to do much about. But one thing any man can do is pray.

James 5
16 Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The earnest prayer of a righteous person has great power and produces wonderful results. (NLT)
16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much. (KJV)

Can we confess our sins? Can we admit we live in an idolatrous culture, which exalts self fulfillment above love of neighbor, above sacrifice for wife and for child, and for the Lord? Can we admit that we are distracted by the smoke and mirrors and the sexual images all around us? Can we admit that our TV's and computers, out cameras and even still our easel and canvass are the pedestals for our false idols, our gods which we worship and praise instead of Jesus?

James 4
1 What is causing the quarrels and fights among you? Don’t they come from the evil desires at war within you? 2 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. 3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.4 You adulterers! Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God? I say it again: If you want to be a friend of the world, you make yourself an enemy of God. 5 What do you think the Scriptures mean when they say that the spirit God has placed within us is filled with envy? 6 But he gives us even more grace to stand against such evil desires. As the Scriptures say, “God opposes the proud but favors the humble.”

7 So humble yourselves before God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Come close to God, and God will come close to you.
Wash your hands, you sinners; purify your hearts,
for your loyalty is divided between God and the world.
9 Let there be tears for what you have done.
Let there be sorrow and deep grief.
Let there be sadness instead of laughter,
and gloom instead of joy.

10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up in honor.