America could be described as a modern day land flowing with milk and honey. Our great nation has been blessed by God for over 200 years. But we are no longer great and we are no longer blessed like we once were. So is America under God’s judgment?
I ask this question because it appears like we are speeding faster and faster and farther and farther into depravity and there is no depth to our descent and hardly anyone is putting on the brakes. Most Americans just have their hands in the air yelling wee like they’re barreling down a roller coaster at 100 miles per hour. Most Americans are enjoying the drop straight down and they can’t even see that there are no rails in front of them. Our nation is flying head first off the rails and very few of us seem to care. Most people don’t seem concerned about what’s going on. I doubt if the majority of Americans even care if God is judging our nation.
Everywhere you turn evil is called good and good is called evil. The Bible warns about this. The Bible also tells us that God never changes. What he abhorred in the Old Testament times, He still abhors today. What was an abomination to God in the past is still an abomination to God today. Sin long ago is still sin today. God does not change and He sure doesn’t change with the culture!
You can read in the Old Testament how God blessed the nation of Israel and how He delivered them from bondage in Egypt and also how He gave them the land of the Canaanites as an inheritance. God severely judged the land of Canaan. Why did the Lord do this? What were their wicked deeds that caused the Lord to command the Israelites to utterly destroy the inhabitants of the land?
Leviticus 18:1-3 states: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, I am the Lord your God. After the doings of the land of Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, shall ye not do: and after the doings of the land of Canaan, whither I bring you, shall ye not do: neither shall ye walk in their ordinances. God warned the Israelites that they shouldn’t worship false gods like the Egyptians and Canaanites did.
Do we worship false gods in America today? You bet we do. One of the fastest growing false gods is the false god of Atheism. Atheists claim that there is no God. I’ve heard it said that if there really wasn’t a God then there wouldn’t be Atheists. You can’t be anti something if there isn’t an original something to oppose. Nearly 30% of all freshmen going to college now claim no religious affiliation. In addition to the God haters and mockers who foolishly say that there is no God, we also have many “professing” Christians who have made a false god for themselves.
You can usually recognize when someone has created a false god, because their false god always overlooks their sins, especially their pet sin. So many “professing” Christians claim that they can have sexual relations outside of biblical marriage because their all loving god loves them so much that this creation of the mind ignores their sin. Others say their god is alright with their alcoholism or drug addiction or pornography or stealing or…on and on it goes. But these little g gods of the inventions of the mind are not the God of the Bible.
In Leviticus 18:20 God warns the Israelites that they shouldn’t commit adultery like the Canaanites were doing. Moreover thou shalt not lie carnally with thy neighbour’s wife, to defile thyself with her. Do you think we have a problem with adultery in America? Of course we do! It’s estimated that around 40% to 50% of marriages in America end in divorce. Around 110 million Americans age 15 years old and up, have a sexually transmitted disease.
In Leviticus 18:21 the Israelites are warned against following the practice of child sacrifice that was so prevalent in Canaan. And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord. When someone is murdered, the very image of God is killed. God takes murder very seriously. He says that the blood of the innocent cries out to Him from the ground. No murderer has eternal life abiding in him (1 John 3:15).
Folks, it’s now estimated that over 57 million babies have been viciously murdered in the womb since abortion was legalized in 1973. Do you really think God sees the ripping apart of babies in the womb as being less of a sin than the Canaanites burning their children to death while sacrificing them to the false god Molech? Do you really think God will continue to bless a nation that has murdered 57 million babies? Do you really think that we don’t deserve God’s wrath and indignation over all these innocent babies being horrifically killed?
There are too many sins being committed in our country to name them all, but this is the worst sin of all. Abortion is the most evil act being committed in our nation today. The shedding of innocent blood is an abomination to the Lord. If you are out here tonight and you are pregnant and thinking about getting an abortion, we plead with you not to do it. Don’t kill your baby. There are people who want to adopt. We will do everything that we can to find someone to adopt your baby. Don’t kill the little image of God that is growing inside of you.
God continues to warn the Israelites about the sins of the Canaanites and the next one is found in Leviticus 18:22: Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination. Homosexuality is a sin. It is an abomination to God. You can say that they can’t help it, they were born that way. I agree, they were born that way. They were born with a desire to sin just like adulterers are natural born sinners, right along with drunkards, thieves, idolaters and liars. We are born with a sinful nature. Maybe you can’t break whatever your sin of choice is, but Jesus can break every strong hold. Jesus can destroy the sin that you bound to; when you come to Him in repentance and faith. Homosexuality is a serious sin. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of this sin.
Romans 1:18; 24-27 says: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error.
Please don’t miss this, the apostle Paul says that God has given homosexuals up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts. He says that they dishonor their own bodies. Paul points out that homosexuality goes against nature. God considers it vile affections. These are very strong words and they are not my words, they are God’s words. I used to think that all sins were the same – in other words sin is sin. In one respect this is true because God cannot tolerate sin (Habakkuk 1:13). One little white lie is enough to damn unrepentant sinners to Hell forever. But I’m now convinced from these words in Romans chapter 1 that homosexuality is a great sin. God considers it an abomination.
The Lord turns people over to a reprobate mind. In other words you want to run from God, He will let you run. Go ahead. But make no mistake; the Bible is clear that all unrepentant sinners who die in their sins – go to Hell. If you die in your sins as a practicing homosexual, you cannot enter into the kingdom of God (1 Corinthians 6:9-10). You cannot be a sexually active homosexual and truly be a Christian. You are still in your state of rebellion against Almighty God. 1 Corinthians 6:11 states – such were some of you. SUCH WERE some of YOU.
Unrepentant sinners are not saved. You can’t give God lip service telling Him how much you love Him and then turn your back on Him and live your life in open defiance toward Him. You can’t hold on to Jesus with one hand and the world with the other. It doesn’t work that way. James said that if you are friend of the world, then you are an enemy of God’s (James 4:4).
Leviticus 18:23 names a sin that’s so depraved that I don’t even want to mention it. Leviticus 18:24-25 tells us: Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
Is America under God’s judgment? Look at the list of sins mentioned in Leviticus 18 and if you didn’t know that God was talking about the land of Canaan you could easily mistake it as describing America. We may very well be under God’s judgment. It appears that God has turned us over to our own reprobate minds as a nation as a whole. We took prayer out of school in the 1960’s; legalized child sacrifice in the 1970’s; adultery and divorce are rampant in our country and just look at the speed of the immoral revolution that has overtaken America in the last few years. Good is now called evil and evil is now called good. Speaking biblical truth is considered the worst hate speech that a person can utter. Just look at the fierceness of the wrath and hate being spewed against the state of Indiana right now.
Many of you will probably accuse my friends and I of being bigots or hatemongers just because we are out here tonight speaking biblical truth. But nothing could be further from the truth. If we really hated you, we would have stayed home. We wouldn’t have cared that you are racing down the broad road to destruction. We wouldn’t be out here warning you to flee from the wrath to come. But we love you because God first loved us. We are here out of love because we don’t want to see anyone die in their sins and go to Hell.
For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God (Ephesians 5:5) It doesn’t matter what your preferred sin is; whether it’s alcohol, immoral sexual relations such as adultery, fornication, homosexuality or idolatry, stealing, lying or advocating the murder of the preborn – all unrepentant sinners will burn in Hell for eternity unless they repent and put their faith in Jesus.
Thinking that Jesus will save you from Hell and still allow you to continue rebelling against Him in open sin is foolishness. There is no salvation without genuine repentance. When you really repent, you turn away from your sins. I’m not saying that you are perfect, we are not – none of us. But when you are saved, you are a new creature in Christ. God has taken away your heart of stone and given you a heart of flesh. Jesus is the only Savior and He is a mighty Savior. When Jesus saves you, He frees you from the bondage of sin. You are no longer a slave to sin. When the Lord sets free, you are free indeed.
Maybe you are counting on a one time little prayer to keep you out of Hell. You can repeat the sinner’s prayer a thousand times and still go to Hell after you die, if you never repent. Saying that you are sorry and continuing in your same blatant, overt sin, time after time is not repentance. If you are a drug addict, you give up drugs. If you are an alcoholic, you give up the drink. If you are an adulterer, you stop cheating on your spouse. If you are homosexual, you stop your immoral sexual acts. You don’t stop these sins under your own power, but through the power of Jesus. Yes, Jesus is so powerful that He can free you from your addiction, from any addiction or sin.
Please turn from your sin and turn to Jesus. No sin, no matter how pleasurable it seems to you now is worth suffering eternal damnation over it. Jesus can set you free tonight. Repent and put your faith in the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Do not harden your heart. Be saved tonight. It starts one person at a time.
If you are out here tonight and you are a follower of Jesus, but you are not living for Him like you did before, you also need to repent. Confess and forsake your sins. If God is judging America and I believe He is because He has turned our nation over to a reprobate mind; then the only thing that will turn our country around is revival and they only happen when God moves. In the past God moved when His people confessed their sins and prayed. When they prayed like they never had before. Confess your sins and pray. Pray desperate, fervent prayers. Pray for God to cleanse you, pray for your family, our city, our state and our nation. May God hear our prayers and heal our nation.