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Charles Curtman<\/strong><\/a> – Bible Study Notes | C.R. Curtman | CHARLES CURTMAN | Substack<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

WHAT IS TO BE DONE?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his book, Civil War America, author Paul Johnson says of Abraham Lincoln, \u201cThe state of America caused him anguish.\u201d He quotes Lincoln as saying \u201cOur progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.\u201d What would Lincoln have to say about the state of America and \u201cour progress in degeneracy\u201d now? Lincoln later wrote to a friend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow hard it is to die, and leave one\u2019s country no better than if one had never lived for it! The world is dead to hope, <\/a>deaf to its own death-struggle. One made known by a universal cry, what is to be done? Is anything to be done? Who can do anything And how is it to be done? Do you never think of these things?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is to be done \u2014 anything to be done \u2014 about our “progress in degeneracy? What this “dead-to-hope,” “deaf-to-its-own-death-struggle” world needs is what it has always needed: the soul-saving, life-changing, world up-righting Gospel of Jesus Christ, the \u201cblessed hope\u201d (Tit. 2:13). The who and how, the people and plan, for this has never changed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGo ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world\u2019 (Matt 28:19, 20). See 2 Chron. 7:14, Matt. 5:16, Luke 9:23, and 2 Cor. 5:7.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his book, Civil War America, author Paul Johnson says of Abraham Lincoln, \u201cThe state of America caused him anguish.\u201d He quotes Lincoln as saying \u201cOur progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.\u201d What would Lincoln have to say about the state of America and \u201cour progress in degeneracy\u201d now? Lincoln later wrote to a friend:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHow hard it is to die, and leave one\u2019s country no better than if one had never lived for it! The world is dead to hope, deaf to its own death-struggle. One made known by a universal cry, what is to be done? Is anything to be done? Who can do anything And how is it to be done? Do you never think of these things?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is to be done \u2014 anything to be done \u2014 about our “progress in degeneracy? What this “dead-to-hope,” “deaf-to-its-own-death-struggle” world needs is what it has always needed: the soul-saving, life-changing, world up-righting Gospel of Jesus Christ, the \u201cblessed hope\u201d (Tit. 2:13). The who and how, the people and plan, for this has never changed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGo ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world\u2019 (Matt 28:19, 20). See 2 Chron. 7:14, Matt. 5:16, Luke 9:23, and 2 Cor. 5:7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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