In Proverbs 1434 we read, Righteousness exalted the
nation, but sin is a reproach to any
people.
When the pilgrims sailed for the continent of
America, they had in their hearts the Mayflower
Compact to be their guide and rule of
life, and the theme of that agreement between
the settlers at New Plymouth in 1630 reads
from this portion of the text, In the
name of God, Amen.
We, whose names are underwritten, having undertaken for
the glory of God an advancement of the
Christian faith.
That's what it said, friends.
Two big statements was their purpose, and it
was twofold.
The glory of God and the advancement of
the Christian faith.
What that tells us about the history of
this country is the founding fathers of this
country weren't a boatload of Muslims or a
boatload of Buddhists or a boatload of liberals
or a boatload of atheists or a boatload
of homosexuals, but a boatload of God-fearing,
God-centered, God-glorifying Christians who desired to
expand God's kingdom on earth through the gospel
of the Son of God.
God honored the growth of our young nation
with spiritual awakenings and a God-consciousness in
the land.
God prospered our nation that feared Him and
honored Him.
And God will punish a nation that turns
her back on Him and forsakes Him.
Today, in America, there's no sense of shame
in the land.
There's no sense of shame because there's no
sense of sin.
No sense of sin in society and no
sense of sin in our churches.
Therefore, there is no fear of God in
the land and little knowledge of God in
the church.
Prior to the rebellious and turbulent 1960s, there
was a time in this country when it
looked to God for guidance and to the
church for direction.
But the country has lost her moral compass
because the church has lost her spiritual compass.
Our churches have become houses of entertainment filled
with laughter rather than houses of prayer filled
with intercession to a holy God.
A largely unconverted ministry today mocks God and
leads men to perdition in a devil's hell.
But in former days, the carpets in our
sanctuaries were wet from the tears of broken
-hearted saints crying out to God over the
sins of the land.
There was a time in this country 80
years ago when God-called men occupied our
pulpits and they preached the full counsel of
God in the power of God and proclaimed
the great doctrines of the gospel of the
Son of God which were ruin, redemption, repentance,
and regeneration.
They were prophets not trying to build their
churches numerically like corporate CEOs but men full
of the Holy Ghost who desired to bring
spiritual transformation to the lives of their members
for the glory of God.
Those kind of preachers feared God rather than
men and they weren't afraid to call sin
black and hail hot and warn of a
future judgment that awaited all mankind.
They stood with authority in the pulpit and
proclaimed, Thus saith the Lord.
They preached man's duty of repentance and man's
utter necessity of regeneration.
They were men who knew their God and
lived lives of holiness unto Him.
But today, for the most part, we have
entertainers and jokesters in our pulpits who are
strangers to a work of grace upon the
heart and these false guides know not God
nor fear Him.
Therefore, we have churches full of the unconverted
who rest upon an empty religious profession.
God will let a nation who has turned
its back on Him to continue to fill
its cup of iniquity to the brim until
it's time for their utter ruin and destruction.
America totters on the brink of destruction with
few intercessors left in the land as the
elderly godly men and women are being called
up to glory.
When God removes His prophets from the land
without replacing them, it's a clear sign of
dread that God, it breaks my heart to
say it, but God's doing that because He's
clearing the land for judgment.
Only a heaven-sent revival can save this
once great nation from destruction.
A nation that was once beautiful but now
is sullied by her aggravated sins.
May God have mercy upon America.
May God make America to be beautiful spiritually
once again by having this country return to
Him.