This Generation - What's Going On

This Generation

By

Bishop Melvin L. Maughmer, Jr.

OPENING: - Marvin Gaye in what is probably his most famous song asked the question “What’s Going On”? Some of the lyrics are Mother, mother There's too many of you crying - Brother, brother, brother There's far too many of you dying - You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today yeah. Father, father We don't need to escalate You see, war is not the answer For only love can conquer hate You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today, oh (oh).

When we look at society today, we see just how corrupt it is and like Marvin Gaye must ask the question What’s Going On? The world seems to be in fear of in my opinion the mini-me version of Satan himself in Putin, Gas prices at 5 dollars or more a gallon, baby formula almost non-existent. Then just within this past month an 18-year-old walks into an elementary school and kills 19 kids and 2 adults after he shoots his grandmother and wrecks his car in front of the school, while he is covered in body armor, this shooter a Hispanic male is killed by the police at the scene. Just 10 days before that another 18-year-old traveled some 200 to 300 miles and walks into a grocery store, covered in body armor and mercilessly kills 10 black people while yelling racial epithets. This particular 18-year-old who carried out this deadly massacre dressed in military tactical gear and armed with a high-powered Bushmaster XM-15 rifle was gently taken into custody without any injury caused from arresting officers. Now that is another lesson all together, but question remains What’s going on? In the words of Malcolm X and his use of the idiom “The Chickens have come home to roost”. The things we are seeing happen in society today are the result of the climate of hate which is the byproduct of sin.

The Bible says in 2 Timothy 3:1-4 “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God”. This is perilous times; however today I want to dive deeper into perilous times, but I want to deal with generation of perilous times – This Generation!

PRAYER: - Spirit of the Living God. Jesus first before I ask for clarity of thought and precision of speech, before asking that you open the windows of heaven and send down your anointing on this Word I humbly come before you right now praying especially for the victims of these latest vicious attacks and the carnage and evil that has gripped society. I ask that your comfort and console all those that have been affected by it. Lord, please comfort all of those who have lost loved ones and children in these massacres. Fill the empty hearts with your peace and love. What the devil meant for evil we are depending on you to bring forth good. Jesus only you can touch the hurt and pain that has come in each of these horrific events. In the precious name of Jesus, we ask for healing of the survivors, families, and friends of those exposed to this evil. I declare deliverance from fear, fear of the future, fear of evil happening again, and deliverance from hate. I ask in the name of Jesus that people will turn from their wicked ways, humble themselves and pray, seek your face in these perilous times. Now as I bring forth this word to give to your people, I humbly ask that you open the windows of heaven and send down your anointing, touch my tongue that I speak your words and not mine, open the ears that they may hear from you Lord, their hearts that they may receive and their minds that they may understand. Please Lord give me clarity of thought and precision of speech in Jesus’ name, Amen

SCRIPTURE: - Proverbs 30:11-14 says, “There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness. There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up. There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men”.

Isaiah 1:4 says, “Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward”.