DEVILITIS
By Johnny Campbell
A Baptist Preacher — Non-Charismatic
| “Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.” – Isaiah 1:5 |
In our churches, there is a terrible disease going around. It is worse than the Legionnaires’ disease, worse than the swine flu, worse than the Japanese flu. It is not tonsillitis, tendonitis, appendicitis, bursitis, meningitis, or Saint Vidas. It is none of these. It has been diagnosed as DEVILITIS. It is an epidemic in our Baptist Churches.
Isaiah said, the whole body is sick.
Here are the symptoms:
1. DEVILITIS AFFECTS THE APPETITE
Here is what they say: “I am not hungry for preaching”
You used to holler out, “Feed me, Preacher, but now you have DEVILITIS”
You used to like to sing Amazing Grace, but now you got DEVILITIS
2. DEVILITIS AFFECTS THE THROAT
They can not testify any more.
3. DEVILITIS AFFECTS THE EYES
They can not see the lost, or the needs of the Church
4. DEVILITIS AFFECTS THE FEET
They can not walk with God, or their fellow man anymore
5. DEVILITIS AFFECTS THE BRAIN
It makes you buy an NIV Bible
It makes you think that the “Brownsville Revival” is of GOD
6. DEVILITIS AFFECTS YOUR SENSE OF DIRECTION
You cannot find an Independent, Fundamental, Baptist Church for the same reason a burglar cannot find a cop