What Does God Want From America
Proverbs 14:34
Intro: Many of us remember Ruth Graham's comment of a few years ago that says, ''If God doesn't bring judgment on America soon, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.''
The truth contained in that sarcasm is all the more pointed to us today. Soaring divorce and crime rates, the mounting death toll of slaughtered unborn. Sexual morals, so permissive as to be perverted are just a few of the most visible manifestations of our unrighteousness.
The fact is, as one man said, (Chuck Colson)
''We're a nation overrun by hordes of little tin gods all made in our own image. Their charge is being led by the crown prince of self riding his shining golden calf. Our various sin springs from one common cause, We do precisely what we want to do, answering only to ourselves and the whims of our desires.''
Mrs. Graham is absolutely right. What in the world is God waiting for?
Many Christians keep one eye cocked anxiously on the skies watching for signs of God's wrath--droughts, earth quakes, plagues. Or perhaps Mt. St. Helene, a preliminary rumbling of things to come. We tense as each crisis cross our TV screen, and then when the med flies are sprayed into momentary extinction or the volcano is quiet, we all heave a sigh of relief and breath easily again.
But deep inside I suspect we all know that we deserve God's judgement.
A perfect God cannot tolerate flagrant disobedience. We must be living on borrowed time.
So our churches fill up with more and more people professing to be born again while the sins that so grieve and offend Almighty God continue to grow and expand.
And no matter how much incense we may burn in the Shade of stained glass windows and hallowed organ music, the stench of that sin overwhelms the smell of the incense.
Religion is supposed to cheer our ills; yet the more religious, the more these sinful conditions worsen.
I. GOD'S JUDGEMENT IS UPON US
Could it be that ...
Proverbs 14:34
Intro: Many of us remember Ruth Graham's comment of a few years ago that says, ''If God doesn't bring judgment on America soon, He will have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.''
The truth contained in that sarcasm is all the more pointed to us today. Soaring divorce and crime rates, the mounting death toll of slaughtered unborn. Sexual morals, so permissive as to be perverted are just a few of the most visible manifestations of our unrighteousness.
The fact is, as one man said, (Chuck Colson)
''We're a nation overrun by hordes of little tin gods all made in our own image. Their charge is being led by the crown prince of self riding his shining golden calf. Our various sin springs from one common cause, We do precisely what we want to do, answering only to ourselves and the whims of our desires.''
Mrs. Graham is absolutely right. What in the world is God waiting for?
Many Christians keep one eye cocked anxiously on the skies watching for signs of God's wrath--droughts, earth quakes, plagues. Or perhaps Mt. St. Helene, a preliminary rumbling of things to come. We tense as each crisis cross our TV screen, and then when the med flies are sprayed into momentary extinction or the volcano is quiet, we all heave a sigh of relief and breath easily again.
But deep inside I suspect we all know that we deserve God's judgement.
A perfect God cannot tolerate flagrant disobedience. We must be living on borrowed time.
So our churches fill up with more and more people professing to be born again while the sins that so grieve and offend Almighty God continue to grow and expand.
And no matter how much incense we may burn in the Shade of stained glass windows and hallowed organ music, the stench of that sin overwhelms the smell of the incense.
Religion is supposed to cheer our ills; yet the more religious, the more these sinful conditions worsen.
I. GOD'S JUDGEMENT IS UPON US
Could it be that ...
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