This brief statement was penned by Martyn Iles from Australia. He posted it 16-hours ago on his Facebook page. We thought it was insightful and encouraging. It is re-posted here with permission and a link to the original.
“People think that they can go on doing as they please, and God does not judge them.
But we do not realise that doing as we please is God’s judgement.
He allows us to have what we want.
That is our judgement.
We do not realise, but it is destroying us now, and it will destroy us eternally.
This is the “giving over” often cited from Romans 1 (v18, 24). It is God giving people up to exactly what they desire in their rebellion.
The West is a people who are casting themselves headlong into sin, decadence, rebellion, and every lustful desire… and we marvel that nothing is stopping it…
Indeed, we note that movements, leaders, and ideologies are being raised up which make it easier... which build permission structures to keep going… And the pace is rapidly accelerating.
Why? This is the “giving over.”
The West is under judgement.
Nothing could be clearer.
But then, it is a society that chemically castrates its children, tears the limbs off innumerable unborn in their mothers’ wombs, openly preaches the idolatry of the self, is entertained overwhelmingly by crudeness and sleaze, is thoroughly addicted to the demented perversion of modern pornography, and indulges every lustful appetite in the name of wellbeing and rights… just to start the list…
…Quite seriously, what should we expect? What ought God to do with such a den of injustice and iniquity?
We know what He should do. He should wipe it out.
Indeed, we are in the process of wiping ourselves out, by getting what we want.
That’s what judgement looks like.
I am convinced that only miraculous moves of God’s mercy, and revival, will save our society at this late stage.
Pray for this every day, separate yourself from evil, and don't waste your time.
Because the judgement train is on the move.
Unpopular, but true.”
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Martyn Iles is the son of a Brisbane doctor who grew up in a family of committed Christians and studied law at the University of Queensland. He had his sights set on becoming a lawyer but at age 24, he was offered a role as a chief-of-staff with the Australian Christian Lobby.