1 00:00:01,610 --> 00:00:05,670 We live in a capitalistic society today that 2 00:00:05,670 --> 00:00:10,530 functions on commerce and advertising executives learned a 3 00:00:10,530 --> 00:00:13,590 long time ago that if you pitched your 4 00:00:13,590 --> 00:00:17,290 product to cater to one's self-indulgence you 5 00:00:17,290 --> 00:00:19,870 would have a winner on your hands. 6 00:00:20,070 --> 00:00:23,770 The fast food burger chains tell us you 7 00:00:23,770 --> 00:00:27,190 deserve a break today they say have it 8 00:00:27,190 --> 00:00:31,049 your way and we as consumers are accustomed 9 00:00:31,049 --> 00:00:33,050 to having it our way. 10 00:00:33,590 --> 00:00:38,170 Unfortunately this mentality edged its way into our 11 00:00:38,170 --> 00:00:42,610 churches through a diluted gospel message that ministers 12 00:00:42,610 --> 00:00:47,610 preached centering around the happiness of man that 13 00:00:47,610 --> 00:00:50,850 Jesus came to earth solely so you could 14 00:00:50,850 --> 00:00:52,750 be happy with him in heaven. 15 00:00:53,450 --> 00:00:56,850 The gospel message is all about man and 16 00:00:56,850 --> 00:00:58,070 his happiness. 17 00:00:58,810 --> 00:01:02,090 Churches are built to make you comfortable and 18 00:01:02,090 --> 00:01:02,710 happy. 19 00:01:03,250 --> 00:01:06,610 You will find big easy lounge chairs in 20 00:01:06,610 --> 00:01:10,010 the foyer to sit while you have your 21 00:01:10,010 --> 00:01:13,790 latte before the church service begins. 22 00:01:13,790 --> 00:01:18,310 Once inside the sanctuary everything is designed to 23 00:01:18,310 --> 00:01:22,330 make you feel comfortable with creature comforts. 24 00:01:22,690 --> 00:01:25,070 We as a people are used to having 25 00:01:25,070 --> 00:01:28,470 our own way to one degree or another 26 00:01:28,470 --> 00:01:32,650 and we have created a God to serve 27 00:01:32,650 --> 00:01:33,210 us. 28 00:01:33,810 --> 00:01:37,330 We created him in our minds to fit 29 00:01:37,330 --> 00:01:40,630 the mold we feel most comfortable with for 30 00:01:40,630 --> 00:01:41,550 our religion. 31 00:01:42,890 --> 00:01:47,490 Our God is a loving forgiving entity that 32 00:01:47,490 --> 00:01:51,250 is more tolerant today toward sin than the 33 00:01:51,250 --> 00:01:54,750 older version of the outdated God of the 34 00:01:54,750 --> 00:01:55,990 old testament. 35 00:01:56,890 --> 00:01:59,910 We are church and we as a nation 36 00:02:00,550 --> 00:02:04,190 view God the same way that he is 37 00:02:04,190 --> 00:02:08,110 a merciful God who will not deal harshly 38 00:02:08,110 --> 00:02:11,470 with us because of our faults and sins 39 00:02:11,470 --> 00:02:14,970 and that he understands we sin so frequently 40 00:02:14,970 --> 00:02:17,870 because he's the one that made us that 41 00:02:17,870 --> 00:02:18,330 way. 42 00:02:18,670 --> 00:02:21,070 That's how folks think today. 43 00:02:21,290 --> 00:02:24,870 You will hear someone say I am a 44 00:02:24,870 --> 00:02:29,090 homosexual because God made me that way therefore 45 00:02:29,090 --> 00:02:31,910 he won't punish me in a hell of 46 00:02:31,910 --> 00:02:35,050 torment because he loves me the way I 47 00:02:35,050 --> 00:02:38,510 am because he made me this way and 48 00:02:38,510 --> 00:02:40,170 God is a God of love. 49 00:02:40,430 --> 00:02:44,250 It amazes me friends how many church members 50 00:02:44,250 --> 00:02:47,590 who are dating one another and who call 51 00:02:47,590 --> 00:02:52,110 themselves Christians have premarital sex and see nothing 52 00:02:52,110 --> 00:02:53,210 wrong with it. 53 00:02:53,290 --> 00:02:55,790 How many young people today in our churches 54 00:02:55,790 --> 00:02:59,190 who are engaged to be married see nothing 55 00:02:59,190 --> 00:03:03,610 wrong with their fornication on Saturday night so 56 00:03:03,610 --> 00:03:06,090 long as they are in church on Sunday. 57 00:03:07,130 --> 00:03:10,890 Their view of God allows them to sin 58 00:03:10,890 --> 00:03:12,510 as much as they want to. 59 00:03:12,990 --> 00:03:15,430 Their view of God tells them that God 60 00:03:15,430 --> 00:03:19,430 is okay with their promiscuous sex life because 61 00:03:19,430 --> 00:03:22,410 in their minds they are committed to each 62 00:03:22,410 --> 00:03:26,150 other and God is not so harsh in 63 00:03:26,150 --> 00:03:28,790 regard to them and he understands. 64 00:03:29,370 --> 00:03:32,090 That's how the majority of people think about 65 00:03:32,090 --> 00:03:34,950 God today in this country of ours. 66 00:03:35,430 --> 00:03:39,670 They see an increase of natural disasters like 67 00:03:39,670 --> 00:03:45,810 fires, floods, tornadoes, earthquakes and they see terrible 68 00:03:45,810 --> 00:03:50,730 events happen in society like the frequency of 69 00:03:50,730 --> 00:03:55,490 mass killings one after another throughout this land 70 00:03:55,490 --> 00:03:58,850 and they make no connection between these events 71 00:03:58,850 --> 00:04:01,150 and the God of their imagination. 72 00:04:01,850 --> 00:04:05,130 They would tell you that their God would 73 00:04:05,130 --> 00:04:09,390 never punish anyone, would never send anybody to 74 00:04:09,390 --> 00:04:12,850 hell unless it was a sociopath or a 75 00:04:12,850 --> 00:04:16,570 serial killer, somebody who really deserved it. 76 00:04:16,910 --> 00:04:20,110 God is too kind to send a normal 77 00:04:20,110 --> 00:04:23,210 person to hell just for a few sins. 78 00:04:23,830 --> 00:04:28,270 This concept of God in America today is 79 00:04:28,270 --> 00:04:31,730 the main reason why we have a sin 80 00:04:31,730 --> 00:04:35,670 loving society that does not fear God and 81 00:04:35,670 --> 00:04:39,510 a sinning church that has lost her concept 82 00:04:39,510 --> 00:04:41,230 of the God of the Bible. 83 00:04:42,070 --> 00:04:46,850 This country has one foot hanging over the 84 00:04:46,850 --> 00:04:50,910 ledge of a preface of destruction and the 85 00:04:50,910 --> 00:04:53,630 other foot is on slippery ground. 86 00:04:55,050 --> 00:04:59,670 In Psalm 73 18 the word of God 87 00:04:59,670 --> 00:05:04,590 declares, surely thou did set them in slippery 88 00:05:04,590 --> 00:05:09,050 places thou cast them down into destruction. 89 00:05:10,050 --> 00:05:14,270 God will not tolerate a society that has 90 00:05:14,270 --> 00:05:18,730 rejected him and God will not tolerate sin 91 00:05:18,730 --> 00:05:19,690 in his people. 92 00:05:20,490 --> 00:05:23,830 I believe Americans are getting ready to see 93 00:05:23,830 --> 00:05:27,890 another side of God they are quite unprepared 94 00:05:27,890 --> 00:05:28,470 for. 95 00:05:28,990 --> 00:05:33,090 It is my prayer, great God, in thy 96 00:05:33,090 --> 00:05:39,290 wrath remember mercy, Lord, in thy wrath remember 97 00:05:39,290 --> 00:05:41,730 mercy, I pray.