Tonight I have a message that I would
personally rather never have to deliver from a
pulpit, but I feel that I am 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 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 this season
we're now living in?
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 close to the judgment of God,
we are now under the judgment of God.
The signs of that are not even debatable
anymore.
And I want to talk about tonight the
one sign that tells us we've come to
the end.
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, 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've said, Lord,
if you are who you are, then 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 arrived
at the place.
And unless you think this ends in gloom
and doom, it doesn't.
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 the 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 ask you Lord, because
you tell us in your word that you
will not damage a bruised greed.
You won't Lord, hurt 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 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, O 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 one, 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 early
founders to the propagation of the gospel of
Jesus Christ, to righteous and biblical living.
That was the purpose of the nation.
A nation 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 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 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
literally, as Adam and Eve once did, to
get up from under the the ways of
God and 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 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 1 and
verse 4, alas, sinful nation, a people laden
with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who
are corruptors.
They've forsaken the Lord.
They've 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.
But God says, though 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 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've 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've 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 sole 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
soothed with ointment.
In other words, God's saying, I was there
with healing, but you would not come.
I pleaded with you, you know, as we
heard with the fruit and the baskets of
fruit earlier this evening.
I wanted to mend up your broken branches.
I wanted to heal you in those places
where there are breaches, but you wouldn't come.
You chose your own way.
Your country, listen to this condition of the
nation in chapter one, verse seven, and just
put it as a superimpose it as in
a 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 in a vineyard and as a
hut in a garden of cucumbers, as a
besieged city.
So the people of God, the righteous of
God are huddling together.
That's 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 Gomorrah.
And so Isaiah's saying, or God's saying through
Isaiah, it was only the righteous that remained
in the nation, that kept it from going
headlong into utter depravity.
There's a whole lot more 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 turn
away from that which defiles the name of
Christ, there is an incredible pushback 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 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
deprivation in a 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 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, 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 innocents
of this society partakers of grievous moral sin
in this nation.
When that happened, when they arrived at the
door, that was the flashpoint 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 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 world 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 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.
We were 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.
We were 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 at 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 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.
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.
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 the cry
that has come up to heaven is as
bad as it has been reported.
Now it says, before they lay down, as
they came into the city and the man
called Lot invited them to come and stay
in his 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 here's the scene.
There's two strangers have come 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 the level of depravity that society
can come to when we turn away from
God.
And 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, I 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
biding 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 as a 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 man 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 Lot 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, in my opinion, deliberately 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 Attracted People Now.
Now it's no longer sexual perverts 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 out to the Lord and say, God,
for the sake of the children.
We remember 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.
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 a 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, or even
just mixture.
There's so many of God's people 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 given to the thinking of the
people of that time, and probably the pursuits
of many of the people, and they just
considered him.
He wasn't really the light on a hill
that he was supposed to be.
He 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, 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 dawned, the angels urged 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, and 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 do this gesture as an
act of faith, reach out your hand into
the hand of God, and say, Jesus, 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 a
cross 2,000 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 mine,
I can.
I can do all things through Christ who
strengthens me.
I can become the person that you've 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 was raised from the dead, he
took your captivity, tapped up, 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 can 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.
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 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, 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 for all
of eternity.
I open 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.
And 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
ask you to text the word decided to
51,000 on your phone tonight.
Just text the word decided to 51,000.
We'll get in touch.
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 says 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.