As we prepare to celebrate another Thanksgiving holiday, I once again reflect upon those things which I am so grateful for. I am truly humbled and blessed to have so very many things that I am thankful for this year. One of the greatest blessings my family has received is the move back into town. God totally orchestrated the whole process of bringing us to our nice home in a nice neighborhood, with a nice school for our son.
I am also very happy that we are only two miles from our church home. With so very many pastors today preaching tolerance to sin and more and more Christians becoming so complacent, it is extremely difficult to find a church with a real Bible preaching, teaching pastor. I am proud to say that our preacher is a fundamental Baptist preacher who is not afraid to teach straight from the King James Version Bible. He refuses to give up God’s Holy Word and the fact that Jesus, and only Jesus, saves. He continues to teach that the saved soul is a changed soul, AND, he refuses to drift with the mainstream away from God. He recently took us to Romans 1:18-32. Though it is probably the saddest scripture in Romans, it is a good comparison to what is happening in our country now-a-days. We are witnessing what happens to a land when its citizens become thankless to God and forget Him and go their own way.
Romans 1:18-32 “18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19. because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God has shewed it unto them. 20. For the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21. because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23. and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.”
Why is God angry? Could it be because most church leaders have replaced the truth about Him with lies? People today would rather believe anything that supports their own selfish lifestyles than listen to the truth. They cannot stand the conviction that truth brings. They have brought God down to their own “corruptible” level, instead of looking upward and giving Him the true reverence that He deserves as our Creator.
Therefore, we have those preachers who pacify their congregations with what they think makes them comfortable and keeps them coming back. One of the worst sins in the church today is homosexual preachers preaching a distorted Word to their followers. I dare say, they will one day stand before God and be held accountable for leading so many astray. I do not believe that any homosexual has a right to preach in any pulpit. They are living a life of sin and they have no business in a place of leadership in the church.
“24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25. who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.”
“26. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27. and likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.”
“28. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29. being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30. backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31. without understanding, covenant-breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32. who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.”
America is seeing the consequences of drifting away of our God. The Godly values and precepts our country was founded on are now disdained by many. There is no longer shame in sin, but it is openly tolerated everywhere. God’s Word is distorted, discarded, mocked and ridiculed. There are those who are fighting with all of their might to take the name of God and everything that symbolizes Him out of our culture. Those people are doing Satan’s work.
The following video is a great reminder of our how our forefathers believed and what this great nation was founded on. It is my prayer this holiday season that all those who call themselves Christians, but have fallen away, get down on their knees in repentance, do away with complacency and stand up for Godly values once again. Our nation will fall unless we see a great revival in the hearts of God’s children, their homes, churches, and across this United States. Let us really bow down and be thankful to our God in heaven and bring ourselves back to Him.
