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I have never seen a time in my

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life, friends, where this country has suffered so

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many natural disasters, from fires to floods to

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hurricanes to tornadoes, where unsuspecting victims either lose

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their homes or their lives.

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I scratch my head and wonder at the

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silence of pastors who refuse to speak publicly

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about what's taken place in our nation.

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God is judging America for her multiplied sins,

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and this nation is reaping what she has

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sowed, which is violence and murder and perversion

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and debauchery, my Bible says in Galatians.

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Be not deceived, God is not mocked, for

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whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also

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reap.

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Since Roe vs.

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Wade and this country, we've murdered over 50

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million human babies.

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3,000 babies are butchered every day in

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this country whose logo is One Nation Under

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God.

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But this nation mocks God and rejects the

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God of the Bible.

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Oh, this nation worships some kind of God,

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a God of their own creation, one that

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is politically correct and one who won't get

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in the way of your daily living.

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We kicked God out of the public schools

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in 1962 and our school grounds have become

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killing fields.

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Mass shootings take the lives of our young

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people today before they can even grow up

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to enjoy it.

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The legalization of marijuana, homosexuality, or the signs

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of a nation in decay, ready for the

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junk heap of history.

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Ancient Rome was destroyed because it had become

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one huge brothel.

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So too with ancient Greece.

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America today is one huge brothel, from the

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west coast to the east coast, from perverted

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Hollywood movies to human trafficking of massage parlors

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in Florida.

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Another tragedy hits our nation through a tornado

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where 23 people perish in twisted rubble and

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the church is silent as to the reason

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why.

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But pastors in former days were wiser.

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They recognized the remedial judgments of God upon

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society through natural calamities and they used those

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disasters as opportunities to preach revival sermons, calling

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their community and nation and congregations back to

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the living God of the Bible through repentance

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and humility and nights of desperation and prayer.

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Listen to a sermon, friends, preached by a

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leading pastor in Boston in 1755 when an

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earthquake shook that city.

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Listen to the title of his sermon, Earthquakes,

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the Works of God and Tokens of His

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Just Displeasure, being a discourse on that subject

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wherein is given a particular description of this

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awful event of providence made public at this

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time on occasion of the late dreadful earthquake

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which happened on the 18th of November, 1755.

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The text of the sermon was Psalm 187.

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Then the earth shook and trembled.

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The foundations also of the hills moved and

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were shaken because he was wroth.

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We don't believe in a wroth God today

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who would punish sin by any remedial judgment

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upon a sin-loving city or even outpour

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his wrath upon a sin-loving society like

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he did to Sodom and Gomorrah or God

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wouldn't act that way today, we believe.

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The church is silent because the God she

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serves no longer resembles the one found in

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my Bible, but this nation nonetheless is reaping

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what she has sowed for the word of

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God is sure.

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God is not mocked for whatsoever a man

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soweth that shall he also reap.