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What About Those "Poor Little Dears"?

"To God the people limp, to the devil they run." - Encyclopedia Of Sermon Illustrations

What have we done on the whole as a society?

Psychology along with Humanism working together have made the sinner feel as though he is not responsible for his wrongdoing. And the Church has gone along with the Devil's game plan.

The result?

We have situations where a man, protecting and defending his home, shoots down a robber, rapist, and murderer and then is hauled off to prison because the family of the perpetrator fights in court for their "poor little dear" who was killed in the event.

Young people shoplift - steal and pillage the merchandise from a store - and the guard is hauled off to prison because, in the event of protecting the store, he shoots one of the "poor little dears."

Have we as a society gone mad?

No one is more to blame than the Preachers.

When you go to a funeral, Uncle Billy, who was the biggest drunkard and whoremonger in town, is preached into heaven. He is called a "Good Ole Boy." Just imagine the reaction of all of the young people at that funeral who knew of his sinful ways. Their thoughts? Well, if Uncle Billy was such a "Good Ole Boy" and the Preacher said that he made it to heaven, then we sure can "sow some wild oats" and make it there, too. Right?

We have people - some "Christians" included - who go around saying of others - "Oh! But they love the Lord." Isn't it amazing how everyone loves the Lord in our world today?

There's Sister So - And - So. She cusses like a sailor, works as a Bar Maid in the Honky Tonk down the street, and brings home a new man each weekend, but she loves the Lord!

Or we have Ole Deacon Jones who chews tobacco and sips on his whiskey every night but gives in the offering plate every Sunday - Oh! He loves Jesus!

What about Aunt Mable who is the town Gossip, but she happens to faithfully play the organ every Sunday - Oh! My! You couldn't find a person who loves Jesus more than her!

What kind of junk is this? Yet, this kind of nonsense goes on all the time.

When we preached on the streets of Dallas, without fail, we would always see Herb. Herb was a street person who was a drunkard. He would come around us as "drunk as a skunk." He'd listen to us preach for a while and then start crying like a baby saying, "I'm sick! I'm sick! Please pray for me! I'm so sick!"

We would always come back and say, "No, Herb! You're a sinner. You're not sick. You need to repent."

He'd walk away from us so mad because we didn't pity the "poor little dear."

Someone fed Herb the fat lie that he was sick, and as far as we know, this day, he is in a devil's Hell because everyone knows that "sick people" don't need to repent. They just need sympathy.

So what is happening today is that multitudes are dropping off into Hell each moment thinking that they don't have to accept responsibility for their wrongdoing and repent before a Holy God. After all, all their life they have been told the Big Fat Lie from the Devil that they were "Poor Little Dears" and couldn't help being the wretched sinners that they were.

All his life, Momma and Aunt Susie and Uncle Dan told Johnny that he was a "Poor Little Dear." Now, Johnny is so hardened in his ways and feels that everyone including God owes him something - at least sympathy - because he cannot help being a "poor little dear." It's not his fault that he turned out the way he did. It's everyone else's fault.

Do we see what this lie, conjured up in Hell, has done to our society as a whole? Do we see what our psychology and humanism have brought us to?

And to think that God would cast these "poor little dears" into Hell? Why, that would surely make Him the criminal! How could a Loving God ever do such a thing!

Can you smell that Ole Serpent here? He moved out of the Garden of Eden and slipped into our world, still up to his diabolical tricks of making God look bad and the sinner looking good.

There is a young man to whom our son has been witnessing. This man loves to fornicate and get drunk. He checks out all the women who come into the store - never mind the fact that he is married. He has said that he knows that he should give his life to Jesus, but he doesn't understand why he doesn't.

Why doesn't he? The simple answer is that he loves his sin more than Jesus.

Sinners don't love Jesus as many have attested. They do what they love to do. They sin because that is what they love to do. The truth of the matter is that they hate Jesus and love themselves. That is the Truth.

And that Truth can be backed up with the Word of God.

Are sinners such "poor little dears" as society tries to argue?

This is what the Scriptures have to say -

Job 15:16 - "How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?"

You cannot get more descriptive than this. Man is defiled and corrupted. Sin is his constant drink. He loves it. He craves for it as a thirsty man craves for water. He hungers after it and has no desire for God whatsoever.

What else do the Scriptures have to say about these "poor little dears"?

• Job 20:12 tells us that "wickedness" is "sweet" in their mouths.
• Psalm 14:1 describes them as being "corrupt" and doing "abominable works."
• Psalm 14:3 says - "They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one."
• Ecclesiastes 7:20 says - "For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not."
• Romans 3:14-18 says their "mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways," and "There is no fear of God before their eyes."
• Galatians 3:22 adds - "But the Scripture hath concluded all under sin..."
• Ephesians 2:2 describes them as walking "according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience."
• Titus 3:3 calls them "...foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another."

Romans 1:29-31 describes these "poor little dears " as

"Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful."

Are they "poor little dears" who deserve our pity?

Romans 1:32 - The Scripture goes on to say of them -

"Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."

These "poor little dears" are so hardened insomuch that, even though they know that it is wrong to sin and will consequently bring the swift wrath and judgment of God down on their heads, they do it any way.

How "poor" are these "little dears" after all?

Perhaps you are reading this message and have been told this Fat Lie all your life.
Perhaps you have had people pity you and refer to you as a "poor thing" because of the adverse circumstances that you encountered since childhood. Now you find that you are having a hard time living for God because you can never accept full responsibility for your actions. You are always looking for someone to blame because, after all, you were told that you were a "poor thing."

Let this day be your Day of Reckoning before Almighty God. Ask Him to forgive you of all of your sins. Realize that Satan was behind this twisted thinking. You are not a "poor thing." You are a responsible being who will some day give an account for what you have done with the Lord Jesus and your life. God's grace is available for you right now to bring you to repentance and give you a change of heart and life. Turn to Jesus and flee from your sinful ways! God's Power will enable you to do so!

Parents, take warning! Stop telling your children that they are "poor little dears." By doing so, you are creating "monsters of iniquity." Repent of going contrary to Scripture in the rearing of your children. Throw away your Psychology books and get out the Bible. Use that for your one and only reference in raising those children for God.

Preachers, be alarmed!

Matthew 12:36 - You will give an account some day for every "idle word" that you speak from your pulpit. Stop telling your people, in the name of False Love, that they are "poor little dears." Stop coddling the sinner and call him to repentance like God commissioned you to do so in His Holy Word.

Matthew Henry said in his Commentary on Romans 1:32 - "It is great aggravation of sin when it is committed against knowledge, especially against the knowledge of the judgment of God. It is daring presumption to run upon the sword's point. It argues the heart much hardened, and very resolutely set upon sin."

He goes on in his Commentary to say of these "poor little dears" - "They do not only commit sin, but they defend and justify it, and encourage others to do the like."

We close with this account. There was a Missionary who was called to Africa to reach the people of a certain area. At first, he approached the people as "poor little dears" who were desperately in need of the Lord. But no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't reach them. They were so hardened in their sin.

He went to the Lord in serious prayer about this. God revealed to him that his entire approach was faulty and unscriptural. He showed him that these people were not "poor little dears" but "monsters of iniquity."

With that in mind, he changed his preaching by calling them sinners and calling them to repentance, and, within a short amount of time, multitudes began to come to Jesus for salvation, and a revival broke out among the people.

Have we allowed psychology and humanism to slip into our churches to the point where we have held back the Revival that is so desperately needed in our nations?

May God help us all to think the way He thinks and to do things His way.
If not, we will destroy the very thing that we are trying to build.

May God Bless His Word.
Connie

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