When the church is indistinguishable from the world,
and they both travel in the same direction,
it is time for deep concern.
Times of spiritual declension in the church create
a stupor that is fog-like in nature,
where leaders of denominations live like blind dogs
who chase the latest Santa pleasure.
Like that mythological tale of the king with
no clothes, the church lies naked in her
corruption and cannot see herself for what she
has become.
The sign of Laodicea hangs over the doorway
of the modern church, because thou sayest, I
am rich, and increased with goods, and have
need of nothing, and knowest not that thou
art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind,
and naked.
The title of my message today, friends, is
Sinning Church in a Sin-Loving Society, and
I fear we are living in the last
days, where the church has fallen into apostasy,
and the spirit of Antichrist runs rampant in
the land.
The true gospel no longer sounds forth in
this country of reprobate church members who live
a life alienated from God as they gorge
themselves like Romans at a vomitorium.
Apart from the dark ages, there has never
been a time in church history where the
situation is so bleak.
When there is moral chaos in society and
religious institutions that have lost their voice of
authority, the sad result is a dearth of
true conversions.
People slide into hell's torments by the minute,
while sin-loving society spins out of control.
God is holy, and he demands holiness from
his followers.
But like the people of God in the
days of the prophet Hosea, Israel continued to
turn their backs on the living God to
worship idols, and their sinful actions provoked the
righteous indignation of a holy God, who declared
in Hosea 8-7, For they have sown
the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
And that is where the church in America
is today, reaping the seeds they have sown
for the last sixty years.
God has withdrawn himself from among us, and
left us to our own devices.
The church exists on an island of self
-preservation, as it fortifies her embankments with money
and manpower.
A similar situation existed in Israel, as seen
in Hosea 8-14.
For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and built
the temples, and Judah hath multiplied fenced cities.
But I will send a fire upon his
cities, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.
The backslidden Jews were chastised for their horlitry.
God tells them, Rejoice not, O Israel, for
joy is other people, for thou hast gone
whoring from thy God.
And that is our sad situation today, friends,
with a sinning church in a sin-loving
society.
Amen.