In what condition is the believer living

He or she is living in sin. "Whatever is not of faith is sin."

How many Christian people are living in defeat, in loss of fellowship with God, having a defiled conscience? How many are huddled in their trenches, like so many Israelites, while "Goliath" comes forth each day and mocks them and their Lord Jesus?

Is the Christian Church a group of spiritually helpless adherents to a religious faith—a faith whose standards are hopelessly beyond any possibility of attainment in the world?

Or is the Christian Church the expression in the earth of the atoning death and triumphant resurrection of the Lord of Glory?

What is your opinion?

Is there enough power in the Holy Spirit to create the Church a blazing revelation of Divine power and Divine righteousness?

Can it be true that the churches are not burning brightly in power and righteousness because the members are not mixing faith with the written Word of God; and that the present impoverishment of the testimony has nothing to do with the circumstances of the world?

If it is true that we are failing to reveal Christ to our own generation because of our carelessness with the written Word, and because of our love of the world and our disobedience to God, then it is time for the God of Heaven to send the hornets of tribulation among us until we turn to God and do His will.

Our generation well may be the most spiritually needy of history. But there is no doubt that if we Christians will repent of our unbelief and disobedience, turning to God in Spirit-empowered worship and supplication, He will pour on us the latter rain of His Holy Spirit. Then we will be able in our day to hold up the Lord Jesus Christ to the ends of the earth. If and when we do, the nations will behold His righteousness and His Divine Glory.

Then the nations will turn to Him and be saved.