Saturday Song: Burton Cummings, "Sad State of Affairs"

This fifties-styled song by one of Canada's foremost talents was a hit in 1980. After ten years with The Guess Who, he embarked on a successful solo career.

Check out the song here.

This song reminds me of the sad state of affairs at a house church I attended. To sum it up, the minister's wife was in love with another man and an elder of the church was in love with the minister.

Of course they had the hypocritical nerve to worry about my sexual purity. That elderly woman in love with the minister even quoted 2 Timothy 2:22 (KJV) to me as a warning. "Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart."

What seems to have escaped those carnal people is that they'll have to give an account to God someday. Look at what 1 Peter 4:17 (BBE) says about those who claim to follow Christ. "For the time has come for the judging, starting with the church of God; but if it makes a start with us, what will be the end of those who are not under the rule of God?"

Fortunately, that tiny congregation never grew and spread its leader's blasphemous doctrines beyond a few people. Even so, they did cause me to stumble, turning my back on God for nine years. This is Christ's warning to such misleaders in Mark 9:42 (BBE). "And whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea".

Sadly, Satan has infiltrated churches with double agents who ruin the faith of naive believers. Matthew 24:24 (BBE)is a prophecy Jesus gave about these fakers. "For there will come up false Christs, and false prophets, who will do great signs and wonders; so that if possible even the saints might be tricked."

On Monday, I plan on posting about who's really the boss of hell.