America is now under the judgment of God. The signs of that are not even debatable anymore. As a Nation, we have brought God’s judgment and challenged the honor of God and His word. But, the good news is that it doesn’t end in gloom and doom for those who are followers of Jesus Christ. The scriptures have prepared us for these days. So, it shouldn’t take any of us by surprise. We were told to stand and be salt and light on the earth. We are going to be a testimony of the goodness of God. As the people of God, we have nothing to fear.
tonight i have a message that i would
personally rather never have to deliver
from a pulpit
but i feel that i’m under a mandate of
the holy spirit
when i stand to preach the word of god
it’s not my choice or my thoughts as to
what i should say
but it’s i do as i’ve always done my
whole life i just go to god and say lord
do you have
a word for this moment do you have a
word for for this season we’re now
living in and
and this word began to burn in my heart
really a few weeks back several weeks
ago and i’ve just been mulling on it
and thinking about it
but i’ve come to the point and i think
as you have that i have to recognize
that america is now under the judgment
of god
we’re not uh close to the judgment of
god we’re now under the judgment of god
the signs of that are
not even debatable anymore and i want to
talk about tonight
the the one sign that tells us that
we’ve come to the end there’s there’s a
testing and a time
and a trial of the patience of god but
the patience of god has limits with any
society historically or whether it’s our
present day or whether it’s throughout
history
when perversion
arrives at the schoolhouse door then we
have come to the end we’ve come to the
point
where we’ve brought the judgment of god
we’ve actually as a nation tested the
honor of god and the character of god
remember in the book of proverbs he
warned us he said don’t enter into the
fields of the fatherless and don’t
remove the ancient landmarks
because the redeemer is mighty and he
says himself i will rise up and i will
contend for them and so we as a nation
now have challenged the honor of god i
have no doubt about that we’ve
challenged his word and we said lord if
you are who you are
then you prove that you prove that you
are the one this nation doesn’t believe
that god will rise up and defend the
children i happen to believe that he
will
that his word and his honor are at stake
and as a nation now the physical
nation the boundaries of the united
states of america will probably stay the
same but the nation as we’ve known it is
about to radically
change
perhaps even disappear from its 400 year
history and become something
completely other
it’s sad to have to say this but i feel
in my heart that we’ve we’ve arrived at
the place and unless you think this ends
in gloom and doom it doesn’t there’s
there’s a remedy for the righteous for
those who can still hear the voice of
god for those who
have a desire in a sense to maybe not
the strength but at least a desire to
get up and get out of this
incredibly immoral confused time that
we’re now living in i want to show you
the way out
so father i thank you god tonight for
the ability to stand again in this
pulpit as in any other throughout the
nation and i recognize lord i have no
more authority than what you have chosen
to give me i don’t have any other
thoughts than the thoughts that you have
planted in my heart and in my mind
i have no delight tonight in delivering
this word
i recognize that there are people online
from all over the world who are
bruised
and beaten and confused
and god this i’d ask you lord because
you tell us in your word that you will
you will not damage a bruised greed you
won’t lord heard a
a light that has almost gone out so lord
i pray god for a tenderness in my speech
in what you’ve given me to speak and
that ultimately hope will come into the
hearts of of those branches as we heard
tonight that are broken but have the
capability of bearing much fruit for
your kingdom show us how to do that oh
god show us how to get up and get out of
this perishing
immoral and confused society that’s all
around us now
and god almighty we give you the praise
and the glory for it
in jesus name
i want to start with the book of isaiah
in isaiah chapter 1
where
the people of god
of isaiah’s day now keep in mind this
was a nation the nation of israel was
established to be a praise to god in the
earth as i believe america was when you
know the history the true history of
america you know that it was a nation
founded on the cornerstone of religious
freedom
a nation that was dedicated by its its
early founders to the propagation of the
gospel of jesus christ to to righteous
and biblical living that was the purpose
of the nation a nation that that made a
promise or a covenant with god as they
saw it back in those days 400 years ago
that if god would do this for us we
would be a people who live for him and
we would strive to bring honor to his
name
in the earth
just as the people of israel were set
apart in their day to bring a praise to
the name of god in the earth
but there’s something in the heart of
man called sin it’s this it’s this
innate desire in all of humanity to
to go our own way to do our own thing to
establish our own borders to create our
own rules to to
determine in our own hearts what is good
and what is evil what is right and what
is wrong in spite of what god says to to
literally as adam and eve once did to
get out from under the
the ways of god in the words of god and
to create our own words create our own
righteousness craft our own futures and
ultimately
contrive our own utopian end as as as
foolish as it might be that’s what we do
and the prophet isaiah in speaking to
the people of god of his time the lord
says through him in isaiah chapter one
and verse 4
alas
sinful nation
a people laden with iniquity a brood of
evildoers
children who are corrupters
they’ve forsaken the lord they’re
provoked to anger the holy one of israel
they’ve turned away backwards
why should you be stricken again you
will revolt more and more so the nation
has gotten to the point
in isaiah’s time of such rebellion
against the ways and the words and the
will of god
the god says though i though i i try to
get your attention whether it’s through
enemies rising up that seemingly have
more power than they should have
whether it’s through famine whatever the
situation is
when i strike you it’s it’s a discipline
from god to get your attention to bring
you back to righteousness
and in a sense he’s saying through
isaiah i’ve done it over and over and
over again but all you do is revolt more
and more and more and more you’ve gotten
to the point where you become deeply
resistant to the things of god as a
nation
now i’m not suggesting everyone in the
nation is unrighteous so don’t
misunderstand me i’m not saying there
are not righteous churches in the
country
i’m talking about the society as a whole
god is speaking about his people as a
whole as an entire society
the society of isaiah’s day has lost its
purpose as we have lost ours in our
generation although there are still
righteous people in it
overall the overall trajectory of the
society is away from god
it wasn’t debatable in isaiah’s time and
it’s not debatable as well
in our time
he says the whole head is sick and the
whole heart faints
from the soul of the foot even to the
head there’s no soundness in it but
wounds and bruises and putrefying sores
they’ve not been closed or bound up or
sued with ointment in other words god’s
saying i was there with healing but you
would not come
i i pleaded with you
you know as we heard with the the fruit
and the baskets of fruit earlier this
evening i i wanted to mend up your
broken branches i wanted to heal you on
those places where there are breeches
but you wouldn’t come
you you chose your own way
your country listen to this condition of
the nation in chapter one verse seven
and and just put it as a superimpose it
as in the sense over this nation today
your country is desolate your cities are
burned with fire
strangers devour your land in your
presence
and it is desolate overthrown by
strangers
so the daughter of zion is left as a
booth and a vineyard and is a hot in a
garden of cucumbers as a besieged city
so the people of god the righteous of
god
are huddling together that’s the the
picture i guess that’s presented here
the righteous of god are not permeating
the nation any longer but huddling
together in groups and
most likely trying to retain a sense of
godliness in the midst of all of what’s
going on
and a besieged city
hammered on every side
spoken evil against
unless the lord of hosts had left us a
very small remnant we would have become
like sodom
and we would have been made like gamora
and and so isaiah is saying where god’s
strength through isaiah it was it was
only the the righteous that remained in
the nation that kept it from going
headlong into utter depravity
there’s there’s a whole lot more
happening
when you and i happening for good when
you and i choose to walk in right
relationship with god you have no idea
that the restraining force of god’s
presence is within our lives
if we choose to walk with god if we
choose to read the word of god if we
choose to pray if we if we turn away
from that which defiles the name of
christ
there is an incredible
push back power against the powers of
darkness
in simply living a righteous life
in this or any other generation
we look at our
society today and it’s not even
debatable that order has given away to
confusion
our government is confused who can
debate that our society has gone into
confusion our morality
is being swallowed by confusion our
economy is in a confused state our
military are losing their military might
and are more concerned with titles and
pronouns and such like
and even now we’re starting to
experience distribution and production
of basic goods is now in jeopardy
they’re talking about food shortages in
america and people are starting to
notice that it’s it’s hard to buy cars
it’s hard to get basic goods now and
it’s going to get worse people who are
in the economic know in this country are
warning us they’re telling us that it’s
going to get worse before and they’re
not even talking about it getting better
they’re just talking about
maybe holding the standard and trying to
stop the slide
into the the deprivation in the sense of
basic goods and services that we come to
take for granted over so many years if
you have the time read deuteronomy
chapter 28 and listen to the warnings of
god to his own people of what will
happen if you choose to turn away from a
living relationship with the living god
and everything we are experiencing today
as a nation is in deuteronomy chapter 28
as a matter of fact it’s unfolding in
the sequence in which it is spoken it’s
amazing just read it just study it look
at it look at the warnings of god
if you turn from me this is what is
going to happen and you can see it the
the order we are actually following the
same order of warning that is in
deuteronomy chapter 28 when god was
warning his own people when he brought
them out of captivity he was taking them
into the land of promise the place that
they wanted to dwell in he was taking
them there and he was warning them of
what was going to happen to them if they
turned
from him
now the signs are everywhere
and they’re now undeniable i don’t think
there’s anybody with a rational mind
who’s a believer in christ that can deny
the reality of the fact that we are now
under the judgment of god has been
released on this nation there’s no doubt
about that in my mind whatsoever
but the only one the one that leads me
to believe that we’ve tested the limit
of god’s patience is when perversion
arrived at the schoolhouse door
attempting to make the innocence of this
society partakers
of grievous moral sin
in this nation when that happened when
they arrived at the door that was the
flash point of god’s patience with
former nations and it is the flashpoint
in my opinion of god’s patience with
this nation
what i’m saying tonight i want to say it
very very clearly i don’t want anybody
to misunderstand i think the days of
this nation are now numbered i think
we’re test we have tested the patience
of god i don’t know what the future is
going to bring but i do know that as the
people of god the scripture says we’re
not in darkness that we should be
overtaken by a thief
we’re not a people of fear we’ve been
given of god power we’ve been given of
god the ability to love even in
unlovable times we’ve been given a sound
mind to know that the the world is is
not meant to be a picnic for the
christian we were left here we were told
there would be tribulation we were told
that the world would at one day hate all
of us because of the name of christ we
we were foretold of these things they
should not be taking anybody by surprise
but we were also told that we were going
to be given the strength to stand where
we’re going to be light set upon a hill
that cannot be hidden
we were told that we were going to be
made into the salt of the earth where
we’re going to be a testimony of the
goodness and the greatness of our god no
matter what happens in our day and in
our society now i want to take a quick
look in genesis chapter 18 and 19 of the
pattern of god’s dealing with moments
like this
which we have already seen in scripture
now billy graham once said it
i think as best as good as anybody could
ever say it he said if god doesn’t soon
judge america he will have to apologize
to sodom and gomorrah
i believe that
i believe that the standards of god are
the same when we push god to the limits
that other societies have pushed god
we can expect to see the judgments of
god increase and then of course as with
the days of sodom and gomorrah it comes
to a point where god says it’s gone on
enough
i for the sake of this earth as it is
i’ve got to
eradicate this society away from the
face of the earth in genesis chapter 18
and verse 20
the lord said because the outcry against
sodom and gomorrah is great and because
their sin is very grave
i will go down now and see whether
they’ve done altogether according to the
outcry that has come to me and if not
i will know and in genesis chapter 19
beginning at verse
four we have two angels that came into
sodom
they come in to see the city they come
in to see if
if the cry that has come up to heaven
is as bad as it has been reported
now it says before they laid down as
they came into the city and the man
called lot invited them to come and stay
in this house that night he said it’s
too dangerous to stay in the street
have you noticed how dangerous it’s
getting in our cities now
now before they lay down the men of the
city the men of sodom both old and young
all the people from every quarter
surrounded the house
and they called to lot and said to him
where are the men who came to you
tonight bring them out to us that we may
know them carnally so this is here’s the
scene
there’s two strangers have committed
into town
they’re messengers from god they’re not
partakers of the sin of sodom but the
sodomites these are men who are
attracted to men and boys and boys and
they’re all together and they surround
the house
and they said bring the men out that
came into you tonight because we want to
have sexual relations with them that’s
really what this is all about
this is this is the the level of
depravity that society can come to
when we turn away from god and hum human
nature does not change human nature is
the same
and this is where american society is
heading today we are heading
wholesale at full speed into perversion
deeper and darker perversion almost by
the hour
and they called to lot and said where
are the men that came to you tonight
bring them out to us that we may know
them carnally
so lot went out to them to the doorway
and shut the door behind him and he said
please my brethren do not do so wickedly
see now i have two daughters who have
not known a man please let me bring them
out to you and you may do to them as you
wish only do nothing to these men since
this is the reason that they’ve come
under the shadow of my roof now i’ve
read a lot of commentaries on this a lot
of people say how could lot even do this
i think it mean
one commentary i read said it this way
lot knew that these men were not
interested in women
and they basically that’s the reality
they wanted to have sex with other men
and so he knew he was just
really biting for time to figure out
something to do and i think he perhaps
hopefully knew that no harm would
actually come to his daughters and and
matter of fact no harm did come to them
and they said that’s the men standing
outside and boy stand back
they said this one came in to stay here
and he keeps acting as a judge now we’ll
deal worse with you than with them so
they pressed hard against the man lot
and came near to break down the door
but the men reached out their hands and
pulled out into the house with them and
shut the door
and they struck the men who were at the
doorway of the house with blindness both
small and great so that they became
weary
trying to find
the door
in attempting to make the innocent
partakers of their sin they had now
openly challenged the honor and the
integrity
of god
and this is exactly what we have now
done
you’ll notice that perversion is at the
door of the schoolhouse in america today
drag queens
reading stories to children in
kindergarten
unthinkable 10 15 years ago even 20
years ago unthinkable that we would have
to do this
children being i in my opinion
deliberately genderly gender confused
by an agenda an evil agenda
of perversion because ultimately a lot
of these people want access to the
children that’s the bottom line of the
whole thing they’re now calling sexual
perversion with children there’s a book
out that somebody wrote
and it’s called minor attract people
minor attracted people now now it’s no
longer sexual perverse
wanting after children but it’s called
minor attracted persons they’re now
changing the language we’re living in an
evil time folks let’s make no mistake
about this this is an evil day we’re now
living in
god help us god be merciful to us
there’s nothing we can do as the people
of god but live righteous lives now and
call up to the lord and say god for the
sake of the children we remember
when when
pharaoh went after the children that’s
when god sent moses that’s when he sent
a word that’s when his power was made
known that’s when a way was made out of
an impossible captivity that’s when the
people of god were brought out of this
evil place and they were brought in to
even if it looked like a wilderness it
was still the plan and the pathway of
god to bring them home to himself
it was at this point
and you’ll see that all throughout
history when the enemy goes after the
children that’s the end of that society
that was the end of egypt as a world
power
it would be the end of any society that
sets their hands against the fields of
the fatherless because god has decreed
himself to be a defender of the
fatherless he said you move those
landmarks and you enter into their
fields and i will rise up and contend
with you so anybody who’s listening to
this message today make no mistake about
it as a nation we have challenged the
very honor of god we have challenged the
integrity of god
in the time that we’re now living in
you dare not rise up against the holy
god and those who sneer at this message
you will soon stand before a holy god
and you will soon find out you don’t
play games with a holy god when he says
he will defend the children he will rise
and he will defend the children
and so what are we to do as the people
of god especially tonight those that are
online that are struggling marriages
that are falling apart people that are
suffering with addiction and depression
and you you’re or even just mixture
there’s so many of god’s people that are
that are living in mixture at this time
as lot was lot was a man who was in this
society the bible describes him as
righteous in the new testament
but he had no effect he had no influence
because he was too mixed in the ways of
that society he was he was given to the
thinking of the people of that time and
the probably the pursuits of many of the
people and they they just considered him
he wasn’t really the light on a hill
that he was supposed to be wasn’t the
voice that could challenge this
encroaching darkness but suddenly the
messengers of god came to him and came
to his house like i’m coming to your
house tonight whether you like it or not
if you’re online listening i am in your
house right now i’m in your living room
wherever you are i am there right now
the lord has commissioned me to come to
you the lord has commissioned me to warn
the nation that we are on the edge of
the judgment of almighty god but there’s
another thing he has also sent me to
everyone who’s mixed who’s
struggling who doesn’t know how to go
forward he says i am going to send a
message to you and all i want you to do
is reach out and take my hand the lord
says and let me lead you out
when morning dawn the angels urge lot to
hurry saying arise take your wife your
daughters who are here with you lest you
be consumed in the punishment of this
city and while he lingered the men took
hold of his hand his wife’s hand in the
hands of his two daughters and the lord
being merciful to him and brought him
out and set him outside of the city
god is a god of mercy
you may not be able to but god can bring
your wife your husband your daughters
your sons out of the judgment of this
present day we’re now living in and into
the mercy of almighty god through jesus
christ and you would say to me tonight
pastor what is it that i’m to do it’s
simple even as you you do this gesture
as an act of faith reach out your hand
into the hand of god and say jesus i i
can’t get out i can’t save myself i
can’t change myself i can’t change my
family but god you can i believe you can
you sent a message to me and i believe
the message that you’ve sent to me
so i’m asking you now lord jesus christ
to have mercy on me have mercy on my
family have mercy on my children that is
what the lord is asking you to do
tonight no more no less than that reach
out your hand and say jesus i need you
jesus i can’t save myself jesus i
believe that you died on the cross 2000
years ago and you took the punishment
for my sin upon yourself so that i could
go free
jesus christ i confess you as the son of
god i confess you as my savior i confess
you as the one who’s reaching out to
bring me to a place that i can’t go to
by myself and i have decided that as
your hand touches mine i’m going to get
up and i’m going to let you lead me
where i need to go i’m going to let you
make me into the man or woman or young
person that i need to be i’m not going
to try to do it on my own anymore
because i can’t but oh god with your
hand in mind i can i can do all things
through christ who strengthens me i can
become the person that you have destined
me to be i can be brought out of
captivity and into freedom in jesus
christ i can become a person that can
make a difference in my generation
that is the cry of my heart and let it
be the cry of your heart tonight my
brother my sister you don’t have to go
down with this perishing world jesus
christ came to get you 2 000 years ago
he died on a cross he made an open
display of every power of hell that
believes it has the right to take you
and your children into captivity
he made an open show of it and when he
raised when he was raised from the dead
he took your captivity captive and gave
you the gift of eternal life if you will
reach out and take it to yourself
if you will put your hand in the hand
of the son of god
hallelujah to the lamb of god
you don’t have to go down with the ship
you understand you don’t have to perish
with this society
you could have new life
you can have eternal life you can have a
meaningful life
not just you but your family
i believe that with all my heart in the
book of acts there’s an old dirty
philippian jailer who believed the
gospel when paul shared it with him and
took paul and silas home
and not only was he saved that day but
his children his wife everybody was
baptized they all came to christ because
he opened his heart and opened his hand
to the offer of god’s forgiveness and
the offer of change that god promises to
those
who set their affections on him
so that’s the my cry to you tonight
everyone who’s listening online
you can turn to christ and you can be
forgiven and you can be free
you don’t have to die in your sin
you don’t have to sit on the side of the
road and watch the society perish all
around you
you can make a difference
with christ in your life and with your
hand in the hand of god
your life can make a profound difference
in this generation starting in your own
home
so father i pray tonight god
would you give every man woman child
young person
everyone listening online tonight would
you give them the strength and the
courage
jesus christ
not to push this message away for we are
living on the edge of your judgment on
this nation
god would you give us the grace
each one of us lord to put our hands in
your hand
and let us lead you where we need to go
god almighty let lead us lord lead us to
the place god where we need to go
and lord we just want to say thank you
for this god with all of our heart
for those that are online tonight and
you want to pray this simple prayer with
me i encourage you to do it and everyone
in the sanctuary tonight is going to
join with me
and we’re going to pray and we’re going
to believe god together for victory in
your life
pray these simple words
lord jesus christ
thank you for coming to get me
because i can’t get out on my own
i don’t have the strength
i can’t get my family out
i don’t know how
and i’ve lost my
influence but you can lord
so i’m stretching out my hand to your
hand
and i’m asking you to take me out
of this perishing society
give me a reason to live
all of eternity
i opened my heart to you jesus
and i believe you were sent to get me
that i should not perish with the rest
who choose to disregard you
so i put my hand in yours tonight
i put my heart in your hand
jesus my life belongs to you
take me where i need to go
make me into the person that only you
can
give me a future
that can only come from the hand of god
i believe
that my hand is in yours now
i am your child
my sins are forgiven
and heaven will be my home
i believe that you will be my helper
all the days of my life
and i thank you for it
in jesus name
amen
if you prayed that prayer i’m going to
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text the word decided to 51 000 we’ll
get in touch with you
and let us help you get started in your
new walk with god
there’s a journey ahead for you
and not only are you going but you’re
not going to go alone
your life is going to be used by god to
make a difference in this generation
as it sells elsewhere in the bible who
knows
but that god could grant us a moment of
mercy
that many could hear
the saving grace of jesus christ and
turn to him