America’s Last Call
(Romans 1:28-2:6)
I’m going to preach a message to you that America doesn’t want to hear. This country has been blessed by the Lord and it has taken advantage of His blessing of prosperity and has turned toward the pursuit materialism. America at this moment is enjoying wealth in all areas of life. I have talked to people from both sides of the camp. In 2008 when we were going through the financial crises and people were losing their homes, crude oil was $147 a barrel, food became inflated, the stock market was in woes and the government decided to print more money and people were saying it was going to get better. It did but friends God was trying to get our attention again but this nation continued on the same path. There was no positive fluctuation toward the Lord as 911 brought and today we are enjoying another prosperous time in the history of the US. People are living comfortably and are saying they are going into the future with high expectations. According to the IRS there are over 87,000 millionaires in the US and Americans are spending over 200 billion dollars a year in exports luxuries. Yet there is still poverty and unemployment but as a whole the US is still going strong in its prosperity. According to US.DEBTCLOCK.ORG which is a real-time debt clock the national debt is over 19 trillion dollars and the numbers are growing by the tens of thousands per second. Go and look for yourself at US.DEBTCLOCK.ORG. Folks we are racing toward economic ruin. Because of our pursuit for wealth and materialism how is it that God can continue to bless a nation like America? This nation is on a course to push God out completely. I hope you will hear this morning by being in tune with the Holy Spirit as I speak to you about what I believe is Americas Last Call. Turn with me to
(Romans 1:28-2:6)
Folks this is where we are as a nation and every person and every nation that refuse God there is a reckoning day coming. The practice of these things spoken of are so wide spread and accepted that we as a nation are ripe for God’s judgment upon us. There is a perpetual movement to remove God from our society. Our government has discussed the topic of removing “In God we Trust” from our currency. We have an ocean of blood from killing millions of unborn babies; we are a nation who kills God’s babies and save the animal. As a nation we have ask God to leave our homes through TV programs that push sex and the using of profanity and the cursing of the name of Christ. The Whitehouse has made it their pursuit to remove all uses of the Bible, the hanging of plaques or anything that has to do with Christianity. Why is it that buda is never cursed, Allah is never cursed but all over the TV and in society the Lord Jesus Christ is profaned and dragged down in the gutter as a common thing? The government has control over the school system and has made laws to allow different genders to use the same restrooms. Teachers are told to refrain from sharing their faith unless the door opens by another student; it’s all an attempt to silence and snuff out Christianity from our society. How many nations do you hear cursing their God, how many nations do you hear of that want to get rid of the religion they were founded on? Folks we are blatantly cursing God to be cursed by Him.
Verse 4 says “Or do you despise the riches of His goodness, forbearance, and longsuffering, not knowing the goodness of God leads you to repentance?” The riches of His goodness mean blessings. God has shown His blessing on us through His riches and yet as a nation we have despised Him. All of our accomplishments are self obtained. Man no longer gives God the credit for what He has or what has been accomplished in his life. Gods’ blessing and goodness toward a nation to give it prosperity is so it might recognize Him as the source of it that it might repent. That’s what it says in verse 4. “not knowing the goodness of God leads you to repentance.”
The question I ask myself and God as Jeremiah did in 12:1 and as King David did in Ps. 73; God why are you allowing this wicked nation to prosper, why are you allowing us to go on the way things are. We have pushed you completely out of our society. We murder, rape, molest little children, violence is heard so frequently that it has become a normal part of society. And we should be asking ourselves, God why are we still living in the prosperity we have today. Folks I want you to know that America is standing on the brink of social economic collapse and this is probably Gods’ last mercy call before His judgment comes upon us and weather you believe it or not its coming.
Now I want to show you how God blesses a people just before He judges.
First God sends a prophet. Let’s take the days of Noah. God decided to destroy the inhabitants of the earth because of it wickedness and it’s pursuit of pleasure but first God sends a prophet named Noah, a preacher to preach repentance. God gave that society 120 years of great prosperity and time to repent. In (Luke 17:27) Jesus said they ate, drank, married, were given in marriage. They were happy, things were going good; society was booming the markets were good; livestock was multiplying like never before, construction was going up everywhere. They were just concerned with letting the good times roll. And God sent a preacher but no one had time to listen and little did they know that destruction was being gathered overhead. God put Noah and his family in the ark and the people began to cry out when the flood waters came but it was too late. You see God was trying to warn them but they were too busy to listen and in a moment judgment had come.
Consider the days of Lot in (Luke 17:28) Sodom and Gomorrah and the surrounding towns were enjoying the best prosperity they ever had; they were eating, and drinking, and selling, and building everyone was enjoying the economy, people were making good money, they were enjoying their lives. But sin was abounding; Men were sleeping with one another, women were sleeping with one another and had not a care in the world, but in (Ezekiel 16:49-50) the sin of Sodom was at its fullness. While they strutted around in the latest fashions, they only cared about themselves and their own while they enslaved the poor. Verse 50 says they were haughty. They were proud. They were living with no regards for God. Their only concern was to soak up their wealth and live a lifestyle of social standard. When heaven reigned down destruction on Sodom and its contemporary cities employment was good, bread was plenty and unexpectedly they were cut off from the earth. They received one last mercy call and I’m afraid that just as God judged them it is coming to us.
Let me give you one of the most convincing scripture of all how God uses wealth to judge a nation. It’s found in the Jeremiah 44. In the 43rd and 44th chapter the remnant of the Jews had gone down to Egypt and this is after God had judged Israel and a remnant had escaped to Egypt. God had told them to remain in Judah, but they fled to Egypt. Jeremiah is addressing that remnant in Egypt. And he reminds them in chapter 43:8of how God judged them during their time of prosperity. And they thought they could flee from Gods’ judgment but God says I know where you are and I’m sending an army from Babylon to kill and take captive to each as I have appointed. Now listen to what the people say in (Jer. 44:15-18) Did you see it? They acknowledged their wickedness and Idolatry, yet they prospered. While we were sacrificing to the queen of heaven we had it good and when we stopped we lost everything. Jeremiah says folks are you blind, are you crazy. It was God who prospered you during the time you were living in idolatry. He gave you one last call, He was showing you love, mercy and grace but you were so consumed by His riches you missed His call, you didn’t give Him the credit, you gave it to someone else and sacrificed to her.
Now real quickly I want to talk about America. The Land of Opportunity has turned into the land of greed. If you listen to our politicians the only thing that matters to them is how much money can be put into their pockets. Our president and other congressmen have said and are still saying. “We are the most prosperous nation in the world.” And the people will vote for them as long as they will promise prosperity and promote a better life. It doesn’t matter how evil they are, just keep the good times rolling. Someone said “If Satan himself ran for president we would vote for him.” Friends wickedness is abounding the longer we are prosperous. Let me give you one more verse that Daniel had, Isaiah had it, and Ezekiel had it and it’s in (Ezekiel 14:13). “Son of man, when a land sins against me by persistent unfaithfulness, I will stretch out my hand against it; I will cut of its supply of bread,..." That’s no trading, no ships going out, no cargo plains. I will send famine on it, weather it’s drought or to much rain or pestilent, and cut of man and beast from it. God will send some kind of attack on it.
Folks I believe were in Gods final call and God is getting ready to judge us and when He does and if He were to send an invasion and you are killed what type of life will you have died in. Will you die with the righteous and go to be with the Lord or will you die with the wicked and spend eternity in hell? God may be calling you to repentance this morning, would you respond to Him?
