We live in a day where evil thrives
and grows by leaps and bounds.
A spirit of Antichrist runs through the land
and the very atmosphere of America is ranked
with sin, rebellion, and moral chaos.
And it seems every level of society stands
out against God and all things holy, like
the rebellious Jews spoken of in Isaiah.
The whole nation is sick from the head
to the foot.
We read in Isaiah chapter 1 beginning in
verse 4.
Ah sinful nation, 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've not been closed, neither bound up, neither
mollified with ointment.
Let me pause here friends to call your
attention to the remedial judgments of God against
his wayward and rebellious people as seen in
verse 7.
Your country is desolate.
Your cities are burned with fire.
Your land, strangers devour it in your presence
and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers.
America, once a land of great spiritual awakening
and revival, a land mightily favored by God,
is now a desolate spiritual wasteland.
The title of my message this evening, friends,
is Pygmies in the Pulpit and Giants in
the Land.
In the book of Numbers, we read of
the people of Israel who were on the
very verge of entering the promised land, but
unbelief stood in their way when they saw
giants in the land.
In verse 33 we read, And there we
saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which
come of the giants, and we were in
our own sight as grasshoppers.
The church in the west today is afraid
of the giants in the land, the giants
of the homosexual movement, the giants of the
politically correct movement, and all the anti-God
giants that threaten the very fabric of our
society.
A sin abounds in the land, and the
church is silent because she has pygmies in
the pulpit, men afraid of confrontation with society,
pastors who are more concerned with their self
-preservation than storming the gates of hell no
matter the cost, men that fear men, and
the giants of the land are too much
for them.
But today we need a Caleb and a
Joshua who will be jealous for God's glory
and stand fearlessly in the pulpit and cry,
Thus saith the Lord.
Like Jonah, the nation needs one man, fresh
from the purging of deep waters of affliction,
to stand boldly no matter the cost, and
proclaim God's word of repentance to a sinful
nation and bring that nation to its knees
in humility before Almighty God.
But where is the John Knox of this
hour who made a bloody queen fear his
prayers?
Where is the Luther who stood against the
powers of potpourri for reformation?
O God, grant us a man who will
stand tall in the pulpit and fearlessly defend
your honor in a sin-laden society for
your namesake and your great glory.
Amen.