Buddy Hackett told a story on the Johnny Carson Show which was about "bad news and very bad news." A medical doctor called his patient and said, "I have bad news and very bad news. The bad news is that you are terminally ill and will die in 24 hours." The patient couldn’t imagine anything worse than that and so asked to be told the very bad news. The doctor replied, "The very bad news is that I should have called you yesterday!"

The news in the recent past has been bad and very bad and full of life and death stories. Edwin Meese, our Attorney General, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse their ruling on abortion, the famous Roe vs. Wade decision. It has also been revealed that Rock Hudson died from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome or AIDS.

With this sermon, we complete our series on…