One More Nail in America's Coffin
E.A. Johnston warns that America's moral decline, exemplified by cultural acceptance of sin and rejection of God, is leading the nation toward inevitable judgment and destruction.
In this prophetic sermon, E.A. Johnston addresses the alarming moral decline in America, drawing parallels with ancient societies that faced destruction due to sin. He highlights recent cultural shifts as evidence of a nation turning away from God and warns of the inevitable divine judgment that follows. Using Scripture, particularly from Jeremiah, Johnston calls believers to repentance and vigilance. This message serves as a solemn reminder of the consequences of rejecting God’s standards.
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This recent news item of yet another leading university like Northwestern to bow to the gay activists by changing the school restrooms into gender open restrooms is a sick sign of one more nail in America's coffin. America is a nation who has turned her back on God and who has quickly filled her cup of iniquity through gross evil and perversion. Our nation's first universities were training grounds for ministry and the spread of the gospel.
This was true of Princeton, Harvard and Yale. They were God-centered in their curriculum and God-honoring in their purpose, but now they each mock God and dishonor Him. And this latest news about Northwestern University going to a gender open restroom policy is clear evidence, friends, that a morally sick culture will eventually implode from within.
This was the case with ancient Rome and with ancient Greece. Years ago when I visited the city of Ephesus and toured the ancient ruins, my tour guide showed me the public brothel set opposite the city's library. And when men of the learning left the library, they crossed the street to visit the prostitutes in the brothel, and the revenue from the brothel helped support the city in their growing wickedness, which eventually ended with their ultimate destruction.
You go walk through Ephesus today, friend. Ephesus was a hotbed of perversion, and it is a rubble of ruins today. America is a hotbed of perversion, and she soon will be a rubble of ruins as well, as no nation can openly mock God and get away with it indefinitely, for the God of the Bible will not tolerate sin.
Sin cost Him His precious Son, and the Son of God, in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, shed His very blood on a cruel cross because of sin. The nation that promotes sin and hates God will surely be destroyed, as ancient Sodom and Gomorrah stand as examples to us today. To ignore history, to shun the clear warning to Scripture, is to court disaster by an offended deity and sovereign king who will and must punish sin, for the Word of God declares that a people without vision will perish.
The following passage from the book of Jeremiah gives clear warning to our condition in America as it describes a nation thoroughly corrupt. Here now is the Word of God as read from Jeremiah chapter 5 verses 3 through 9. They have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than a rock.
They have refused to return. Therefore I said, surely these are poor, they are foolish, for they know not the way of the Lord, nor the judgment of their God. I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them, for they have known the way of the Lord, and the judgment of their God.
But these have altogether broken the yoke and burst the bonds. Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them. A leopard shall watch over their cities.
Every one that go without fence shall be torn in pieces, because their transgressions are many and their backslidings are increased. How shall I pardon thee for this, that children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods, when I had fed them to the full? They then committed adultery, and assembled themselves by troops in the harlot's houses. They were as fed horses in the morning, every one made after his neighbor's wife.
Shall I not visit? For these things saith the Lord, and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this? Listen, friends, a sick culture is a self-breeding ground. Its self-breeding and its growing evils and soon its perverting influence will permeate a nation to such an alarming degree that all that remains for that nation is destruction. God will not be mocked.
Sermon Outline
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I. The Decline of American Morality
- Universities abandoning God-centered values
- Cultural acceptance of sin as evidence of moral decay
- Comparison to ancient societies that fell due to wickedness
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II. Historical Examples of Judgment
- Ancient Rome and Greece's downfall through perversion
- Ephesus as a symbol of moral collapse
- Sodom and Gomorrah as biblical examples of destruction
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III. Biblical Warning from Jeremiah
- Refusal to receive correction and hardening of hearts
- Consequences of breaking God's covenant
- God's promise to punish a corrupt nation
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IV. The Inevitable Divine Judgment
- God will not tolerate sin indefinitely
- The nation’s destruction is certain without repentance
- Call to heed Scripture’s warnings
Key Quotes
“America is a nation who has turned her back on God and who has quickly filled her cup of iniquity through gross evil and perversion.” — E.A. Johnston
“No nation can openly mock God and get away with it indefinitely, for the God of the Bible will not tolerate sin.” — E.A. Johnston
“A sick culture is a self-breeding ground; its growing evils will permeate a nation until all that remains is destruction.” — E.A. Johnston
Application Points
- Examine personal and national values in light of biblical standards and repent where necessary.
- Recognize the seriousness of cultural shifts that oppose God’s Word and stand firm in faith.
- Heed biblical warnings and share the gospel to call others to repentance before judgment comes.