Why Have You Written the Book The Jesus Cult?

The Jesus Cult was written in response to what we have occurring around us right now. We can see man turning away from God at unparalleled levels. Never have you seen the world in this state - open, worldwide, rebellion! Jesus said that it would be this way in the last days Matthew 24:36-44. Just like in the days of Noah, everything appears normal, calm, and average. Everyday activities continue unabated. But slowly, systematically, the mystery of iniquity works its way into the very fiber of man's character. It is eroding away all morality, normalcy, humanity, and sensitivity. The Bible says we have become ingrained with, and stamped by, inordinate, perverse affections. What is normally accepted as being "within the realm of human behavior" is now rejected.

Look at the landscape in front of us. Men and women are tattooed from head to toe covering every public and private area of the body. Everything is pierced from the navel, nose, and tongue to the lips, eyebrows, and sexual organs. People are adorned with rings on every toe and finger. What we see now are weird, mutated, decadent presentations of the devil's image of man.

The sad thing is that the root cause of all of this can be traced directly back to the pulpit. Since the church is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, when the Gospel is perverted there is no hope for man. There is nothing more to keep the world. There is nothing else God gives to stop the decay besides the Church. When the Church fails in its assignment to be salt and light to the world - to stay the hand of decay - then the world begins its descent into decadence, rebellion, anarchy, filth, and hatred. We see all these things before our very eyes right now.

Paul provides a snapshot of these end times as he describes the progressive profile of man's fallen degradation in Romans 1:18-32. The world will be full of hatred and anarchy with wrath and murder consuming mankind. Crime will rise to unprecedented levels. Look at your surroundings! Look at our society! Kids are walking into schools and blowing each other's brains out. Fifty million babies have been burned alive in their mother's womb, pulled limb from limb by vacuum extraction used to suction a baby from its mother's body. Basically, people are walking around demon possessed, driven mad by their own desires and senses because of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. They are being driven to insatiability. Pornography is a multi-billion dollar global industry as men sit and watch every kind of sexually perverse activity known to man: depravity, avarice, mutilation, and degradation now occur at alarming rates.

Who would ever think man could degenerate to this? Who would have thought that an educated, cultured society could plummet to these depths? Yet, the Bible tells us the truth in spite of all of our technology, all that we see around us, and all the things that we glory in and think are so dynamic and illustrious. Everything defined as "great" according to man's wisdom and abilities, now seems to be the sign of his decadence. The mind of man, although attaining to more knowledge, is simultaneously eroding away because of his own carnal desires. This is why Solomon wrote in the Book of Wisdom--Ecclesiastes 3:18, "I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts."

Man in his fallen nature is nothing more than a beast, because he is sensual and ingrained in his five carnal senses--what he sees; hears; tastes; touches; and smells. This carnal nature traps him in a world of sensual pleasure, hedonism, and insatiability. When the carnal senses take over, he is driven by the passions and desires of the animal kingdom. Man begins living on basic animalistic instincts instead of being led in his spirit by the Spirit of God. He turns to the flesh to satisfy himself instead of turning to God to willfully obey his Heavenly Father. The very nature of rebellion says, "I will do as I will." Satan said it five times in Isaiah 14; I will not obey. I will do as I please. Man has now been totally consumed by this desire to do as he wills outside of the realm of what God wills. In this realm you will only get total depravity. God judged King Nebuchadnezzar for this same spirit of pride in Daniel 4:16, "Let his heart be changed from man's, and let a beast's heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him."

This should let you know that man can be given the heart of a beast, and can live like an animal. Just look at the young teenagers who have 30, 40, or 50 sexual partners before they reach the age of 20. Lesbianism and homosexuality are at pandemic levels. Sodom and Gomorrah is presently located in San Francisco, New York City, New Orleans, and Miami. Now, it is making inroads into the city where I live, Atlanta, Georgia. Even as I write this book, Atlanta has been marked as the next Sodomite capital of the world. Homosexuality is finding a new home in the Deep South; even the Bible Belt.

Left to himself, man is just like a peach, apple, orange or banana. When cut off from Jesus, the vine (our life source), it is only a matter of time before decay manifests. Separate fruit from the vine, where it is nourished and kept alive, and at that very moment decay begins to set in. Similarly, mankind cut off from the Life of God, over the centuries, is decaying inside. Scripture says, corruption comes into the world through the lust of man. When his desires dictate to him, man degenerates into the state of an animal.

The problem is that religion has functioned like a refrigerator. Put rotting fruit into a refrigerator and you slow the process of decay, but the refrigerator can never stop the inevitable. Man has set up religion to soothe his conscience and make him feel good about himself, while the decay still works itself into the fiber of his being. Soon we will have what the devil has wished for over the centuries; man as a reflection of the devil himself - a beast.

What should the Christian response be? We should return to fasting, praying, and proclaiming the Word of God with boldness. We don't come to tell the answers to life's problems; we are here to be the answer! Christ in us is the answer to every problem on earth. No man, despite his best intentions, can solve the Middle East crisis, drug abuse, pornography, child abuse, hatred, racism, perversions, and homosexuality. Beloved, it takes an All Powerful God to solve these problems; a God that you and I claim to represent and know personally. Where, then, is the power of God in times like this? God is waiting on you and I to divest ourselves of all worldly lust and be filled with His power.

We are about to experience a rude awakening in this country and around the world. The signs of the end of time are all around us, and they become more and more apparent everyday. We have finally reached an undeniable crossroad that will require a radical response from the true Church of Jesus Christ. Will we turn to politicians, world banking organizations, educational institutions, and economic systems for deliverance? Or will we turn to Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God? I believe we will see the rise of the Antichrist come to a seat of power and global control in our day. I believe worldwide democracy expressing the "will of the people" will bring the man of sin to power. For this to occur, the structure of the United States has to be shaken so the devil's plan can be carried out. Prepare yourself for a shaking of every organized system we've built in this country. God says He will shake everything and every system until the only thing that remains is that which will not be shaken. Only Jesus Christ cannot and will not be shaken. It is not going to get any better for the world citizen, but for the saints of God, it is time to turn your hearts towards heaven and prepare to meet the Son of God at His second appearance. The shaking has started. Will the shaking shake you or are you rooted and grounded in Christ alone?