In his sermon, Alexander Strauch addresses the often negative and fear-inducing nature of the news. He emphasizes that, despite the presence of wars and global tensions, Christians should not be fearful because God is actively in control of world events. Strauch references biblical examples, such as God's use of the Babylonians and Assyrians, to illustrate that what may appear as bad news can be part of God's judgment. He encourages Christians to trust in God, remain active in doing good, and continue with life's responsibilities, drawing parallels to the Israelites' time in Babylon. Christians are urged to build, marry, and grow, rather than succumb to fear or passivity, reaffirming their faith in God's plan.

If you watch the news, if you read any kind of news magazine or anything, it's not really good news. Even the non-Christians say things are pretty bad out there. Wars in every part. We could even enter atomic war. We've been threatened by Russia with atomic war, we have China on the increase, like little ants flooding the whole earth and the battle right now in Israel.

And just the general malay in our country and fears, many, many fears when you watch the news in this. Well, this verse is very important. We're not to fear. In the midst of all this tragedy and drama, We are not to be a fearful people because the Lord's in control. And He's not passive.

It may look to many people the Lord's passive. Where is He? Of course, Habakkuk and the other minor prophets asked this, where's the Lord? Well, in each case the Lord says, why, I'm the one who sent the Babylonians in there. I'm the ones who send the Assyrians in there.

I've been totally active. So we may think God is not active today. He is totally active in what's happening in the United States and other countries of the world. He is very active. Some of it, what we call bad news, is actually God's judgment on the country.

It's his active judgment. And we should acknowledge that. So the Christian rejoices in the Lord at all times. He trusts in the Lord and notice he does good. And just like when the people were in Babylon, God said, Bill houses, marry, have grandchildren, go forward.

Don't be passive, don't go backwards. Don't sit around whine all the time. We have a small God if we have to wine all the time.