Moral madness leads to self-deception, observed in the inability to recognize one's own rebellion against God's moral order. We either intellectually deny God's existence, or we deny God practically by the way we live.
Paranoia is to believe that the people closest to you are against you. Though God has showed the greatest mercy to mankind, yet people act as though He is opposed to them.
The essence of the problem is sin; man rejects the law of God and the gospel of pardon in Christ.
What we're seeing in our financial markets and our culture is the fruit of rebellion against God.
Christ alone is the answer to these problems of humanity.
The humanistic delusion is collapsing all around us.
A popular deception is that true Christians are either mad or deluded, and yet we are the sane ones.
Conversion involves turning from sin and madness, and returning to Christ in repentance to our right minds.
We need to be praying, doing, preaching, acting sanely. We need to pray that God would revive and restore our nation.
Without Christ we can stand only on the moral low ground.
Don't destroy your life; turn to Christ, and receive the spirit of love, power and a sound mind.
In Christ receive joy and hope that cannot be measured.
Application Questions
What defines the fool in Psalm 14? In Proverbs 17:12?
If true human fulfillment is found only in knowing and serving God, why do so many rebel and reap destruction?
Why do the social elite make excuses for the criminal behaviour of rioters?
What are the biblical solutions to the moral madness and social chaos that modern humanism has fostered?
What is our obligation as the people of God in the face of society's moral madness?
What is the relative importance of physical health versus spiritual health in my liife?
Do my life priorities and use of time display moral insanity?