But basically today what I'm saying is that if you are a Bible-believing Christian, people
are going to think you're crazy.
They're going to look at your lifestyle, and even if it's the most normal, sober lifestyle.
I mean even if you just live a lifestyle where you just go to work and you work 40, 50, 60
hours a week and your wife stays home and raises the kids and bakes bread and bakes
cookies and you have beautiful children and you teach them and raise them and you spend
time with your family and you keep you only unto her till death do you part and you don't
drink and you don't chew and you don't go with girls who do you know and you go to church
three times a week and you read the Bible and pray and you live a wholesome, godly,
righteous, clean life and people look at you and they say you guys are nuts, you're crazy,
you're fanatic, you're weirdos, you're lunatics even though it's the most normal thing in
the world.
It's so normal, I mean it's just life, it's just a normal life.
Different relatives think you're crazy, they think the truth is crazy, they think soberness
is crazy.
Why?
Because they are in a drunken stupor today.
And they may not be drunk with wine, but they are drunken and they're in a deep sleep and
a fog where they cannot see reality for what it is.
The veil is over their eyes, the darkness has enveloped them and they just can't see
and understand.
I mean honestly today people are crazy, I mean they're nuts, they've lost their mind.
And today we as God's people need to be in our Bibles every single day and we need to
be in church every single week just to stay sane, just to keep a firm footing on reality,
just to wake up.
I mean people often drink coffee in the morning to wake up, right?
You know I'm not one of them but people drink coffee in the morning to wake up and that
kind of gets them going in the morning.
Well here's the thing, this is like your spiritual coffee, you know to wake you up and to slap
you and tell you, "Hey, you know this is what's real."
Because I've talked to people who get, they get frustrated over time because they hear
so many lies from this world that they literally start to ask themselves, and maybe you've
been there, maybe you've asked yourself, "Am I crazy?
Maybe we're just crazy.
I mean, maybe we are nuts."
You know, maybe we are crazy.
But you know what, when you get to, when you go to church and there's a hundred other people
that are just as crazy as you are, there's something therapeutic about that.
You know what I mean?
You know, you get to church and there's a hundred other people there and they're all
saying and believing the same thing, you start saying, "Wait a minute, I'm not crazy.
That's what the Bible says.
That is what the Bible teaches.
That's right."
But you know what?
When you get away from the assembly and you get away from the Bible and you're just out
there in crazy land, you're out there in the twilight zone world that we live in, you'll
start questioning yourself and thinking, "Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe I'm crazy.
Maybe these people are right."
And that's why church is so important because when you're all isolated by yourself, it's
easy for the devil to get to you and make you think you're crazy because nobody agrees
with you at work, nothing on TV is backing you up, nothing on radio is backing you up,
but you know what?
The word of God is like a rock, it never changes.
And you know what?
The same things that are true today will be 20 years from now just as true and no matter
how crazy this world gets, this is always going to bring us back to reality.
Just always wake us up.