Mar | 08 | The Scattered Seeds of The Big, Pig Pen

Key Word:- RESCUE

Title:- The Scattered Seeds of The Big, Pig Pen

Luke 11:21-23 When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own palace, his goods are in peace. But when a stronger than he comes upon him and overcomes him, he takes from him all his armor in which he trusted, and divides his spoils. He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters.

There are few families that have not been touched somewhere with the problem of drugs. Short deaths by overdoses or long slow deaths by addiction, have been the portion of far too many in our generation and the Devil’s dreadful smile still ‘Eeeezes’ its way onto manufactured heavenly lies, leading many to the terrible trough of the big, pig pen. Many of us have woken up in the pig pen friends. Many of us eh? Oh yes.

My own hometown is a desert of drugs and drunkenness. In addition to this, male suicide rates amongst the under twenties in that area, are the highest in the country. Of course there are a multitude of social factors feeding this festering situation, but the root of such felt darkness, and believe me, you can feel it, is nothing short of demonic. Drugs, made by man for explotation and profit are, I believe, rooted in demonic destruction.
Country artist, Tim McGraw sings of an American country town, epitomizing the slow death of Americana in the Deep South, which has been increasingly gobbled up by the black top and intruded upon by the internet. He succinctly summed up the stark situation for many of us other original, ‘small town folk’:

“In my home town
For anyone who sticks around
You're either lost or you're found
There's not much in between
In my home town
Everything's still black and white
It's a long, long way from wrong to right
From Sunday morning to Saturday night
Everybody just wants to get high
Sit and watch a perfect world go by
We're all looking for love and meaning in our lives
We follow the roads that lead us
To drugs or Jesus”

“You’re either ‘Lost or Found.’” Which one are you?

Today’s pressing pluralism always wants to merge these two extremities of being lost or found, into the middle road of seeking or journey, indeed, maybe for the purpose of our own personal spiritual comfort or spiritual dialogue, we too shall have the tempted tendency to blur the edges of these two extremities of ‘Lost or Found.’ We must not do this friends, for in our home town of Zion, things are still black and white when it comes to salvation; yes indeed, people are still either ‘Lost or Found.’ Yes, seeking and journeying both still mean lost!

Whilst the church has played the grand actor in its experiential walk with Jesus, whilst it has denied and frowned upon the present power of Jesus, the Devil’s gone fishing with drugs. Baiting his nastly little hook with prospects of quick happiness, escape from loneliness, poverty, the misery of the mundane, hopelessness, lack of love, loss of respect; my goodness friends, you name it and you shall find that the Devil has a multitude of baited lures to hook you on drugs! However, once caught, you shall not find diamond skies and strawberry fields, but rather dangerous dogs and empty cupboards shame, shackles and shit, for drugs are of the Devil, yes, drugs are from the pit.

Thank God that Jesus is still walking the long road from Saturday Night to Sunday Morning! Looking for the lured, the now hooked, looking for the hopelessly lost and calling them home to the Father! Who in turn looks with longing, waiting to fall with joy upon wasted necks and wasted lives, to clothe the needled nakedness with scarlet cloth and place gold rings of love, on nicotine’d fingers, whilst pulling all the prodigals up from the putrid poop, to a prepared party, made ready just for them. Yes sir, and amen Lord Jesus, there is hope! For those who are indeed dead, can live again!

If drugs demonize any of you or any of yours dear friends, then Jesus is the only answer. Do not stop laying the extremities of lost or found before such folk, either in the flesh or in the spirit, for it’s still true in the eyes of Jesus, that in your home town, you are either ‘Lost or Found’ and it's often just the choice, of either drugs or Jesus.

Listen: - But if I cast out demons with the finger of God, surely the kingdom of God has come upon you. Luke 11:20-21

Pray: Lord, deliver us from the laughing and lying demons that delight over the slow death of this addicted generation. Deliver us and those we love and long for, from this crippling captivity. Jesus we beg You! Go disguise Yourself and draw alongside them and speak of Your eternal love for them, until the heaviness on their lids is lifted and they raise their eyes to see You, their strong and seeking Saviour. Hallelujah and praise God! May all we love and know, find Jesus as their Saviour. May all we love and know seeing their need of Jesus, reach out and find Him there. May all our Lost, be FOUND today! Amen.