In Isaiah chapter 1 we read, beginning in
verse 4, Ah, a sinful nation, a people
laden with iniquity, A seed of evildoers, children
that are corrupters, They have forsaken the Lord,
they have provoked The Holy One of Israel
unto anger, They are gone away backward.
Why should ye be stricken Any more?
Ye will revolt, more and more.
The whole head is sick, and the whole
heart faint, From the sole of the foot,
even unto the head, There is no soundness
in it, but wounds and bruises and Putrefying
sores, they have not been closed, Neither bound
up, neither mollified with ointment.
I will stop there, friends.
Here in our text today, God calls Israel
a sinful nation that has forsaken The Lord
and provoked Him to anger.
Through their continual rebellion and backsliding, He compares
them to a sick patient, physically and morally
Sick individual wrapped into bandages of her own
decay And corruption that wreak and leak the
pus of foulness And unsoundness.
I can't help in making the comparison Of
this text to our own country of America
today.
No political leader can fix our problems.
They're the way beyond the reach and control
of man.
America is sick.
She is sick physically with COVID-19 As
that plague has gripped this nation worse than
any other.
America is sick morally.
America was once a God-fearing nation.
It has become a sinful nation.
There used to be a fear of God
in the land, And a sense of shame
in society.
America has lost her moral compass, And a
morally sick society is fast spinning out of
control.
The youth of our nation have no morals
And know no boundaries of decency.
But besides all these, America is sick spiritually.
Her churches have become dead institutions That belong
to apostate denominations Where God has been shoved
to the background And man is elevated.
The typical pastor today is chosen more on
his personality And performance in growing churches.
Little emphasis is placed on his call from
God Or his walk with God.
Because the churches operate on money and manpower,
God is no longer needed.
And things like holiness are a taboo subject
to be avoided.
Sin must not be mentioned.
Hell must be a topic that is seldom
ever brought to the fore.
America sits today on seats of power and
stacks of cash.
But she is sick from her head down
to her toes.
The Statue of Liberty should be wrapped in
band-aids and bandages.
Where once a nation used to look to
God for guidance And to the church for
direction, She now looks inwardly as she sits
on an island Of self-indulgence and self
-preservation.
As you read the rest of Isaiah chapter
1, You see God, as he tried to
reason with his wayward people By saying Israel
will either become righteous through repentance Or God
will achieve their purification through judgment.
In verse 18, he pleads, Come now, and
let us reason together.
Sayeth the Lord, Though your sins be as
scarlet, They should be as white as snow.
Though they be red like crimson, They should
be as wool.
Through his remedial judgments, God is pleading with
America to return back to him.
It's either revival or ruin.