E.A. Johnston passionately calls a guilty and sin-stained world to repentance, emphasizing the urgent need to turn from sin and trust in the cleansing power of Jesus' blood.
In this urgent and heartfelt sermon, E.A. Johnston warns of God's judgment on a sin-filled America and calls listeners to repentance. He explains the seriousness of sin, the stain it leaves on the soul, and the necessity of turning to Jesus Christ for forgiveness. Through vivid illustrations and biblical truths, Johnston emphasizes the cleansing power of Christ's blood and the hope available to all who repent and believe. This message challenges believers and unbelievers alike to respond to God's call before it's too late.
Full Transcript
Well, I have an important message for you this evening friends, and it's a matter of life and death We live in a day in America friends where God is no longer Blessing America, but rather he is judging it every day in this country are Sudden deaths you see them in the news every day I was worried about one last week where a car crashed into a home and killed the people asleep inside freak accidents send unsuspecting souls into an eternity They are quite unprepared for the young die as much as the old You wake up in the morning and before the day has ended a terrible tragedy Can remove your life quite suddenly? Hear me now you can be gunned down on your way home from this meeting tonight You can die in a car crash or be electrocuted America has become the land of sudden death because America has turned her back on God Do you believe that friend? Do you believe that this country has turned her back on God? We have outlawed God from our public schools by making it illegal to pray In our schools have become killing fields. We have Legislated God out of our government and God has turned away and left us to our own Devices our society today is a cesspool of immorality Like a filthy sewer that floods over every city every town That perverts our children and steals our very souls the multiplied sins in the land From a perverse society who has rejected the God of the Bible Listen friends. I stand here before you this evening to say That God is a God who must punish sin Listen to me now.
You may not hear a message like this, but I'm gonna preach it to you God deals with sin my Bible says in second Peter for if God spared not the angels that sinned But cast them down to hell and delivered them into chains of darkness To be reserved at the judgment and spared not the old world But saved Noah the eighth person a preacher of righteousness bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes Condemned them with an overthrow Making them an example unto those that after should live on godly That's a warning from our Bible's friends Listen friends the ungodly lifestyles of Americans today is enough to bring a great calamity of destruction upon this land from a provoked Holy Sovereign God There's enough booze being drunk in this town tonight to drown it. There's enough fornicating and adultery taking place as I speak to destroy this whole nation of God as creator Made the world and he can pull the rug out from under it any time and send us all tumbling into the darkness of outer space My Bible says in Psalm 9 17 The wicked shall be turned into hell and all the nations that forget God the nation stand guilty Today before a holy God because they have forgotten God and not only have they forgotten him They have Rejected him Yet God is speaking to this guilty world today friends through his remedial judgments trying to get folks to turn back to him and repent His remedial judgments upon the land by making it a land of sudden death I've been alive a long time and I've never seen a time in this nation apart from times of war Where people died so suddenly by being cut down murdered or killed in accidents college girls at a rest stop on the way to spring break a truck tire come spinning loose off a semi and mows them down like a freight train a College girl gets into a car thinking it's her uber ride and she's murdered by the driver People go to work and are gunned down at their place of business kids go to school and never see their family again as they're shot and killed and Placed into an early grave by a madman This is the land of sudden death friends. You can't argue with me about that You got admit it God is judging America yet God Has something to say to every one of us here tonight as God speaks to this nation tonight the voice of God to a guilty world is repent Repent and that's the title of my message this evening friends the voice of God to a guilty world Is repent? We have been fed a false gospel Message in this country in our churches for the last 60 years I'm ashamed to say our churches of this land have dropped the ball by Representing the Holy God they've dished out a watered-down Gospel that so delight so diluted of its saving truths It can't save a flea much less a person Hardened in their sins.
We tell folks today that if they want to go to heaven All they have to do is believe in Jesus and they will be saved But that's a lie friend that they will give you a false assurance and send you right on to hell Man has a problem and his problem is a poison in his blood which is in his natural condition It's passed down from his father to his father's father all the way back to Adam in the Garden of Eden Who disobeyed God and sinned a man comes into this world in a ruined condition? With a depraved nature and a bent toward sin if you don't believe me friend All you have to do is watch little children play with their friends and soon They will steal each other's toys and exhibit their selfish nature and their disobedience to their parents Because it's who they are Man in his natural state is best described by God in the book of Job which declares How much more? Abominable and filthiest man which drinks iniquity like water Admitted friends you can't get enough of sin You're wallowing your sins like a hog in his wallah getting filthier and filthier But sin leaves a stain on a person that can't wash out. I visited the house in California where the Manson murders took place in the 1960s where those crazed hippies Butchered Hollywood celebrities in their home by stabbing them to death I'm sure you've heard about the Charles Manson murders. Well when I lived in Los Angeles in the 1970s a friend of mine who knew his way around town He ran a tour company one day He picked me up and drove me one afternoon out to the house Where those murders took place? All we could do was to drive up to the white wooden fence that enclosed that property But my friend knew something he took me out of his car and walked me over to where the gate was And he pointed down to the white wooden fence at a certain section Which he was familiar with and there I saw Beneath that peel and white paint the red stain of blood that was still on that fence From where those crazy murderers rubbed their bloody hands on it right in the helter-skelter Those horrific murders a sin leaves a stain that can't be whitewashed out It's always there on your friend and the more you sin the deeper that stain goes Until one day you die in your sins and you were thrust into Eternity and your sins follow you there like thirsty bloodhounds chasing it down Barking that you are the guilty one They are after guilty guilty with the stain of sin The voice of God to a guilty world is repent my Bible says in Acts 17 30 and the times of this ignorance God winked at But now commanded all men everywhere to repent the voice of God to a guilty world is Repent and the voice of God to you here tonight friend.
It is the same. It's repent Jesus warned his hearers Except you repent You all likewise perish and that means you friend You must repent of your sins and take your place before God as a guilty sinner Seeking forgiveness of sin your guilt-ridden conscience can find no relief No pardon for sin except in the person of Christ Jesus The stain of sin on you is crimson red and it leaves a mark on you that God can see and Find you out in the Bible in the book of Numbers chapter 32 and verse 23 We see the picture of the heavenly bloodhound that follows you around He is behind every corner watching you take a note of you Listen to what God's Word says about you and your sins Behold you have sinned against the Lord and be sure your sin will find you out There's no escaping sin friend. This bloodhound from heaven will hunt you down Sniff you out Be sure God says your sin will find you out and your sins will send you to hell friend Because my Bible says the soul that sinneth it shall surely die.
Well, you say preacher What can I do? I don't want to go to hell listen friend My Bible says that a guilty sinner has one thing to do and that is to repent the way of salvation comes by exercising Repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ If you will come with me now friends in your mind's eye come with me Walk with me friend to a hill outside the city of Jerusalem called Calvary There stands a cross with a blood-stained Savior from sin The man Jesus who is the Son of God? Jesus came into this world doing good Healing the sick and giving sight to the blind yet. What happened? Do you know what happened to Jesus? Do you know friend? He was arrested while men cried away with him and then nailed him to a cross They drove nails into his innocent hands. They pounded them Hammered them into his tender quivering feet They nailed up the Son of God and crucified him as a common criminal First he was stripped naked and beaten They made a crown of thorns and stuck it on his head then they whipped him and spit on him They nailed him up on that bloody cross Look at that man on that cross friend.
Do you see that man on that cross? Hanging there. He rides and wiggles and pain and suffering why? To be my sin bearer to be my sin substitute He takes on him the curse and the wrath of the father So I won't have to he died for me. That's the only way I can get the stain of sin Cleansed away in Revelation 1 5 it says Unto him that loved us and washed us from our sins in his own blood In Hebrews, we read Jesus as our sacrifice and substitute for sin but this man After he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever Sat down on the right hand of God, that's what Jesus did friend He is the friend of sinners He suffered and bled and died on that cross for sin So you won't have to pay the penalty for sin in a devil's hell He was buried in another man's tomb.
He was resurrected by the power of God and he rose again He appeared to his disciples and he ascended back Into the very heaven he stepped out of to come down here So we can go up there and now he sits at the right hand of the father on a heavenly throne Ruling in authority and he earned that right by way of a bloody cross Did you hear me friend a bloody cross the old hymn says? What can wash away my sins nothing but the blood of Jesus And like the title of my message tonight friends the voice of God to a guilty world is repent Repent repent I'm gonna wrap up our meeting tonight friends with a time for you to get serious with God and to seek him for the grace of repentance if you want to be free from the stain of sin You must repent and believe on Christ Jesus Listen to me as I say two important things to you now friends first the voice of God to a guilty world is repent Secondly God's love flows out to a world of guilty sinners For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have Everlasting life. That's a promise from the Word of God friends. Listen friend The cross is the place where wicked men sought to get rid of Jesus But by his death it becomes the place where his saving power flows out to all Who come in repentance? Hear me now who come in repentance Confess and they are sinners and own him as their Savior and Lord I'm gonna close our time tonight friends by singing a hymn I want you to come to Christ and believe on him He is the only remedy and refuge for sin.
He can wash your sins away friend There's enough power in the gospel to save you. There's enough cleansing power In the blood of the Lamb to clean you the slain Christ who loved me and gave himself for me I find salvation when Christ's life is laid down and applied to me So that when God looks at me, he says when I see the blood when I see the blood Here in his love Not that we love God But that he loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins If the Spirit of God friend has been dealing with you tonight Don't delay in this land of sudden death You could die tonight and make your bed in hell tonight if you die outside of Christ's saving blood There's enough power there friend. God can save even you Come now as I sing and get serious with God friend and come to Christ Jesus The Savior from sin.
Oh, would you be free from your burning of sin? There's power in the blood power in the blood Would you or evil a victory win? There's wonderful power in the blood There is power power Wonder-working power in the blood of the Lamb There is power power Wonder-working power in the precious blood of the Lamb Would you be wider much wider than snow? There's power in the blood power in the blood Sin stains are lost in its life-giving flow. There's wonderful power in the blood There is power power Wonder-working power in the blood of the Lamb There is power power Wonder-working power in the precious blood of the Lamb
Sermon Outline
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- America is under God's judgment due to widespread sin
- Sudden deaths are a sign of God's remedial judgments
- The nation has rejected God and faces consequences
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- Sin stains the soul and cannot be washed away by human effort
- The natural condition of man is depraved and sinful
- Examples of sin's stain include historical atrocities
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- The voice of God to a guilty world is to repent
- Repentance is necessary to avoid perishing
- Sin will find you out and lead to death without repentance
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- Jesus Christ is the only remedy for sin through His sacrifice
- His blood cleanses from all sin and offers salvation
- Call to respond in repentance and faith before sudden death
Key Quotes
“The voice of God to a guilty world is repent.” — E.A. Johnston
“Sin leaves a stain on a person that can't wash out.” — E.A. Johnston
“There's power power Wonder-working power in the blood of the Lamb.” — E.A. Johnston
Application Points
- Recognize the seriousness of sin and its consequences in your life.
- Respond immediately to God's call to repentance and seek forgiveness through Jesus.
- Trust in the cleansing power of Christ's blood to remove the stain of sin.
