Corrupted People Exposed to Judgments of God

My message today, friends, is a solemn warning. It's a warning to our nation. It's a warning to our apostate denominations.

The title of my message today is A Corrupted People Exposed to the Judgments of a Violated God. And my text can be found in the book of Isaiah. You can turn in your Bibles there now, friends.

We will be in chapter one. There are several aspects I want to draw out of our text today. Number one, the Jews had become a very corrupt people.

Number two, because of their God-provoking sins, they were exposed to God's judgment upon them. And number three, America has become a corrupt nation exposed to the judgments of God. I want to explore these aspects one by one today.

Here now is the word of God, and may the spirit of the Lord attend the reading of his holy word. Let's begin in verse four. Ah, a sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corruptors.

They have forsaken the Lord. They have provoked the Holy One of Israel onto anger. They are gone away backward.

I will pause there. We see that the Jews had become a very corrupt people. God says to them, they're gone away backward.

The backslidden people of God had turned their backs on God and had forsaken him. They were doing evil in his sight as they had become a morally corrupt people. Number two, because of their God-provoking sins, they were exposed to God's judgment upon them.

Verse seven declares, your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Your land, strangers devour it in your presence, and it is desolate.

It's overthrown by strangers. Public calamities grow among a people where sin is abounding because of a morally corrupt society. The natural disasters visit with growing frequencies and fall on the heels one upon another.

And this leads me to my third point, friends. America has become a corrupt nation exposed to the judgments of God. I've lived a long time, and I can't recall a time in my life where I've seen so many natural disasters befall our nation.

Floods and fires, hurricanes and tornadoes, earthquakes and pestilence seem to follow one after another. It's like a scene out of the Old Testament. Before we can fully recover from one, we're hit with another like a knockout punch.

Our corrupted society is bringing God's judgment down upon us. As buildings are subject to decay, so too are people subject to being corrupted. Isaiah 121 declares, how is the faithful city becoming harlot? It was full of judgment, righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers, fallen men in their natural condition are great enemies to an exalted holy God.

Without proper medical care, a man in declining health will grow worse and decline more and more until he is at death's door. So too, a people sick with sin will wax worse and worse without a remedy for sin. Evil practices will gain ground among them, corrupting them more and more.

The lusts of men's hearts hurry them to a state of greater corruption because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily. Therefore, the heart of the sons of man is fully set in them to do evil. Sin, continued, makes the hearts of men grow callous, as if a giant scab covers their sensibilities.

A man-lined danger of damnation and their ignorance of it will turn into indifference. Eventually, even when they are warned to flee from the wrath to come, it is as if they are asleep in a house fire and nothing will arouse them to their great peril. They'd rather suffocate in the smoke and ashes and perish in the flames than be disturbed.

Hell is full of tormented souls who in life were indifferent to its darkness and heat. They never dreamed in a million years that a loving God would send them to suffer the miseries of hell. Yet if a man remains in his natural estate and is not awakened to his lost condition and shown his danger of dying in his sins and shown a refuge and remedy for sin in the person of Christ Jesus, then he lives ignorantly and foolishly and teeters back and forth on the verge of eternity until he finally tumbles over into outer darkness in a bottomless pit.

Men must get under the sound of the gospel and be brought to repentance and the grace of God's mercy. But if a nation has grown corrupt and the gospel is like a famine in the land through want of good preaching, then it is a corrupt time where multitudes will perish into a Christless eternity. Very few will be saved.

God will pour out his just displeasure upon a provoking people bent on sin. He will withdraw himself from among them to where they will grow more and more corrupt. This is where America sits at this precise moment, friends.

Like Jeremiah's basket of summer fruit rotting in the sun, becoming more and more decayed, awaiting final judgment, heaven help us all. Our only hope for survival is to turn back to the God of the Bible as seen in Isaiah 1.18. Come now and let us reason together. Say it the Lord.

Though your sins be as scarlet, they should be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. Repent before it's too late.