America Needs a Slap in the Face
America needs a slap in the face to wake up and confront the problems of unrepentant sin, moral decay, and the loss of our moral compass.
Shane Idleman passionately addresses the urgent need for America and the church to awaken from their slumber of unrepentant sin and moral decay. He emphasizes that many justify their sinful actions, leading to a divisive and angry society. Idleman calls for boldness in confronting evil, particularly regarding issues like abortion, and urges a return to biblical principles in governance. He likens the need for awakening to the jarring sound of an alarm clock, stressing that it is time to speak out against injustices and stand firm in faith. The sermon serves as a wake-up call to both individuals and the nation to recognize and repent from their wrongdoings.
Full Transcript
Those stuck in unrepentant sin will continue to justify it. I did. When you're stuck in unrepentant, bold, arrogant sin, you will justify that sin.
That's why you have a lot of angry people. Angry people. The divide in our nation, I've never seen so divisive.
Have you? I mean, I don't know if you caught what they got that guy on Bernie Sanders campaign on tape saying, if Trump wins again, cities will burn. People will die. And his boss is running for the presidency.
We've lost our mind. Our conscious has been seared with a hot iron. We are calling evil good and good evil.
America and the church must wake up. How do you wake up? Well, one way is messages like this. You slap her arrogant face with a sermon, not physically, of course.
And you wake people up. You wake them up. And shocking things that are true.
What Planned Parenthood is doing is they're money laundering the blood of innocent children. That is the truth. Supreme Court, you better not play God.
You better go back to the foundation on which your institution was created, was to govern according to the constitution based on biblical precepts. That's all biblical. Sacramento, Newsom, and all those places allowing abortions in college and allowing our young girls and removing parental rights where a kid doesn't even, they need parental consent for an aspirin, but not an abortion.
We have lost our mind. We have drifted so off course that sometimes we need to be jarred up and from our woke and from our sleep. How pleasant is your alarm clock? Beep, beep, beep, beep.
Or the alarm out in your car. What is that? Is that mine? It sounds like gentle, a gentle breeze. Is that birds chirping? It wakes you up.
There's a scream. There's a call. There's a yell.
There's a boldness. There's a brazenness that they can cheer to murder children, but I can't raise the volume to call them to the carpet and say that is wrong. Not on our watch.
We will call out sin. We will love you all the way to the courthouse and the ballot box. But when it comes time to voice our concern, we will voice that concern.
We will stand up boldly and proudly and loudly and say not on our watch.
Sermon Outline
- The Problem of Unrepentant Sin
- The State of Our Nation
- The Call to Wake Up
- The Need for a Slap in the Face
- Confronting Evil and Good
- Standing Up for What is Right
Key Quotes
“We are calling evil good and good evil.” — Shane Idleman
“What Planned Parenthood is doing is they're money laundering the blood of innocent children.” — Shane Idleman
“We will call out sin. We will love you all the way to the courthouse and the ballot box.” — Shane Idleman
Application Points
- We must stand up boldly and proudly to call out sin and voice our concern.
- We must be willing to confront evil and good, and not just tolerate it.
- We must love people enough to tell them the truth, even if it's hard to hear.