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We live in a day where evil thrives

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and grows by leaps and bounds.

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A spirit of Antichrist runs through the land

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and the very atmosphere of America is ranked

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with sin, rebellion, and moral chaos.

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And it seems every level of society stands

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out against God and all things holy, like

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the rebellious Jews spoken of in Isaiah.

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The whole nation is sick from the head

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to the foot.

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We read in Isaiah chapter 1 beginning in

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verse 4.

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Ah sinful nation, people laden with iniquity, a

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seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters.

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They have forsaken the Lord.

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They have provoked the Holy One of Israel

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unto anger.

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They are gone away backward.

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Why should ye be stricken any more?

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Ye will revolt more and more.

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The whole head is sick and the whole

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heart faint from the sole of the foot

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even unto the head.

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There is no soundness in it but wounds

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and bruises and putrefying sores.

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They've not been closed, neither bound up, neither

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mollified with ointment.

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Let me pause here friends to call your

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attention to the remedial judgments of God against

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his wayward and rebellious people as seen in

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verse 7.

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Your country is desolate.

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Your cities are burned with fire.

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Your land, strangers devour it in your presence

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and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers.

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America, once a land of great spiritual awakening

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and revival, a land mightily favored by God,

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is now a desolate spiritual wasteland.

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The title of my message this evening, friends,

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is Pygmies in the Pulpit and Giants in

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the Land.

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In the book of Numbers, we read of

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the people of Israel who were on the

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very verge of entering the promised land, but

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unbelief stood in their way when they saw

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giants in the land.

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In verse 33 we read, And there we

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saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which

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come of the giants, and we were in

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our own sight as grasshoppers.

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The church in the west today is afraid

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of the giants in the land, the giants

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of the homosexual movement, the giants of the

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politically correct movement, and all the anti-God

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giants that threaten the very fabric of our

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society.

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A sin abounds in the land, and the

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church is silent because she has pygmies in

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the pulpit, men afraid of confrontation with society,

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pastors who are more concerned with their self

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-preservation than storming the gates of hell no

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matter the cost, men that fear men, and

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the giants of the land are too much

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for them.

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But today we need a Caleb and a

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Joshua who will be jealous for God's glory

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and stand fearlessly in the pulpit and cry,

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Thus saith the Lord.

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Like Jonah, the nation needs one man, fresh

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from the purging of deep waters of affliction,

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to stand boldly no matter the cost, and

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proclaim God's word of repentance to a sinful

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nation and bring that nation to its knees

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in humility before Almighty God.

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But where is the John Knox of this

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hour who made a bloody queen fear his

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prayers?

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Where is the Luther who stood against the

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powers of potpourri for reformation?

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O God, grant us a man who will

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stand tall in the pulpit and fearlessly defend

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your honor in a sin-laden society for

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your namesake and your great glory.

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Amen.