America and an Avenging God
E.A. Johnston warns that America faces divine judgment due to widespread rebellion and calls the church and nation to repent and return to God.
In this prophetic sermon, E.A. Johnston addresses the spiritual crisis facing America, warning of impending divine judgment due to widespread rebellion and false leadership. Drawing from Jeremiah 6, he highlights the nation's moral decay and the church's failure to respond after 9-11. Johnston calls for urgent repentance and a return to genuine reverence for God to avoid the consequences of judgment.
Full Transcript
This recent news article by Representative Peter King of New York regarding his comments that ISIS won't be afraid to put a bomb in lower Manhattan should alarm every American. 9-11 was the wake-up call to the American church and a call to America to repent and turn back to God. But the church went back to sleep, and the nation in the last decade has grown more wicked and evil than any time in its history.
So what will God do with such a nation as this? He often uses the enemies of a nation to chastise that nation and bring divine judgment upon it. A chilling description of our situation today is found in Jeremiah chapter 6 verses 23-31 which reads, But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart, they are revolted and gone, neither say they in their heart, let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth reign both the former and the latter in his season. He reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.
Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins hath withholden good things from you. For among my people are found wicked men, they lie awake as he that set a snare, they set a trap, they catch them as a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit, therefore they are become great and waxen rich, they are waxen fat, they shine, yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked, they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper, and the right of the needy do they not judge. Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land, the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means, and my people love to have it so, and what will ye do in the end thereof? Listen friends, that's America in a nutshell, today false prophets abound in our churches, and the priests rule by their means, pastors run their churches like corporations for profit and power, and the people love to have it so, but God says no.
Sermon Outline
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- America's current spiritual and moral crisis
- The church's failure to respond after 9-11
- Growing wickedness and rebellion in the nation
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- God's use of enemies to bring chastisement
- Jeremiah 6:23-31 as a prophetic warning
- The presence of false prophets and corrupt leaders
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- The consequences of ignoring God's call
- The nation's love for falsehood and corruption
- The certainty of God's avenging justice
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- Call to repentance for the church and nation
- Rejecting false teachings and leaders
- Returning to genuine fear and reverence of God
Key Quotes
“9-11 was the wake-up call to the American church and a call to America to repent and turn back to God.” — E.A. Johnston
“Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? Shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?” — E.A. Johnston
“False prophets abound in our churches, and the priests rule by their means, pastors run their churches like corporations for profit and power, and the people love to have it so, but God says no.” — E.A. Johnston
Application Points
- Examine your own heart for rebellion and turn back to God in repentance.
- Discern and reject false teachings and corrupt leadership within the church.
- Pray earnestly for national revival and a return to godly fear.