We are living in the last days, where
there is already a spirit of Antichrist in
the land.
This generation thumbs their nose at God and
lives in defiance of him and dares him
to do anything about it.
We have become a godless nation that has
done everything in its power to outlaw God
from this country.
Meanwhile, the church is silent and soundly asleep
on pillows of conformity and compromise.
It grieves my heart.
It saddens me to see how bad our
situation has become in a society that has
no moral boundaries and is fast spinning out
of control.
I guess it was about 25 years ago
when I was sitting in the congregation of
a big Baptist church listening to the pastor,
who at the time was the figurehead of
his denomination, and he made the following comment,
which was broadcast all over the world through
his big television ministry.
He said, listen friends, when you see the
words fear God in the Bible, that does
not mean to literally have a fear of
him.
That was just for the Old Testament.
What that means for us is we are
to have reverence for him.
That's what the old boy said, but he
was dead wrong.
The trouble is everyone agreed with him as
our churches in this country exchanged the God
of the Bible for a God we felt
more comfortable with.
But the day we lost our fear of
God was the day our denominations became both
irreverent and irreverent.
And that's where we are today, friends.
We don't have anything revelant to say to
this lost generation that is fast on its
way to hell.
But in America in the 1950s there was
still a fear of God in the land.
We were still thankful to God for giving
us such a victory in World War II.
But that was then and this is now.
Today we have a generation of self-satisfied
church members that the only thing they fear
is that Starbucks will run out of their
favorite beverage.
When the church stopped fearing God, the nation
went to hell.
And that's the title of my message today,
friends, because we lost our fear of God
in America because the American church lost her
fear of God.
This nation no longer has a fear of
God in the land because there's no fear
of God in the church.
Listen to me, friend.
This stuff we call salvation today won't keep
you out of hell because you live like
hell.
The proof is in the pudding.
Go stand in front of the mirror.
If you feared God, you wouldn't live the
way you do.
But Jesus said to fear God in Luke
12 and in verses 4 and 5 we
read, And I say unto you, my friends,
be not afraid of them that kill the
body and after that have no more that
they can do.
But I will forewarn you whom ye shall
fear, fear him which after he hath killed
hath power to cast into hell.
Yea, I say unto you, fear him until
we as a people of God recapture our
holy fear of God.
We will not live lives of holiness unto
God, but we'll continue to live unto ourselves.
And you can see where that's getting us.
Listen to me, friends.
Jesus never taught a sinning religion and he
was nailed up on a bloody cross for
sin to save us from sin until the
church repents and falls on her face and
brokenness and humiliation before thrice holy God and
recaptures something of the holy fear of God.
We will continue to play church on Sunday
while the nation just goes on to hell.
In the book of Ecclesiastes, we see how
King Solomon tried and tasted everything in the
world only to discover it did not satisfy.
Maybe it's high time we paid attention to
the word of God, which has some advice
for us today.
King Solomon summed it up in these words.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole
matter.
Fear God and keep his commandments, for this
is the whole duty of man.
For God shall bring every work into judgment
with every secret thing, whether it be good
or whether it be evil.