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What does the world look like without the presence of God? What does the world look like without the fear of God and the knowledge of his laws and commandments? And what becomes of human beings who reject God?
The apostle Paul gave us that answer nearly 2,000 years ago in his epistle to the early church in Rome. The Roman Empire of Paul's time had many gods, but rejected any notion that there was only one true God who revealed His laws and commandments through Moses and His prophets. Absent that reality, human beings were left to determine what was right in their own eyes.
That created chaos and anarchy. When human beings become willfully ignorant of God, they descend into the deepest depths of depravity. Here's what Paul wrote: "Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them." (Romans 1:28-32)
History teaches us a clear lesson concerning those who turn away from God. From the ancient Ninevites to recent entities such as Nazi Germany, Communist China, Cambodia and the Soviet Union, atheism has always led to depravity, hopelessness, persecution, and mass murder. When people refuse to believe that they're held morally accountable by God for their behavior, they inevitably sink into depravity, violence and bloodshed.
We learned that lesson yet again recently when the Center for Medical Progress released a series of videos showing officials from Planned Parenthood discussing the sale of body parts from unborn babies with CMP employees who posed as buyers. The CMP videos are both shocking and disgusting. It's disgusting to hear adults dehumanize the unborn into commodities to be chopped up and sold, and it's shocking to hear them describe the procedures that Planned Parenthood uses to extract body parts from the unborn.
Those Planned Parenthood officials are no different than the Nazis who dehumanized the Jews and other groups they persecuted during Adolf Hitler's reign of hell in Germany during the 1930s and 40s. And America's embarrassing indifference to the videos and the barbaric procedures discussed in those videos leads us to the painful conclusion that America has turned her back on God and is about to be judged by Him.
No nation that has murdered 55 million unborn babies since abortion was legalized in 1973 is going to continue to survive and prosper. No nation that's legalized the abomination of same-sex marriage can escape God's judgment. And no nation throughout history that's persecuted Jews and Christians has survived for very long.
What does America need to do? She needs to repent by repealing Rove v. Wade and same-sex marriage. She needs to stop betraying Israel and persecuting Christians. And she needs to repent soon because time is running out.
What will happen to America if she refuses to repent? She's going to experience violent hurricanes, blizzards and tornadoes; damaging earthquakes, extensive forest fires, floods, intense heat waves and devastating droughts. Her economy will collapse; her cities will become crime-ridden sewers and she will be threatened with nuclear destruction by nations such as Russia and China.
Don't think that will happen? Then you'd better think again. It's coming.
What's the solution? It's repentance from sin and the acknowledgment of the true sovereign God of the universe who revealed Himself 2,000 years ago through His Son Jesus Christ. That acknowledgment must include the honor and respect for God's laws and commandments rather than a revival of religiosity. America needs more genuine faith in God rather than more religion.
Nearly 3,000 years ago, the Lord spoke these words to King Solomon who sought His blessing upon the ancient land of Israel: "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:13-14)
That's how America can prevent God's wrath from coming upon the land. And that's the only way.
We learned that lesson yet again recently when the Center for Medical Progress released a series of videos showing officials from Planned Parenthood discussing the sale of body parts from unborn babies with CMP employees who posed as buyers. The CMP videos are both shocking and disgusting. It's disgusting to hear adults dehumanize the unborn into commodities to be chopped up and sold, and it's shocking to hear them describe the procedures that Planned Parenthood uses to extract body parts from the unborn.
Those Planned Parenthood officials are no different than the Nazis who dehumanized the Jews and other groups they persecuted during Adolf Hitler's reign of hell in Germany during the 1930s and 40s. And America's embarrassing indifference to the videos and the barbaric procedures discussed in those videos leads us to the painful conclusion that America has turned her back on God and is about to be judged by Him.
No nation that has murdered 55 million unborn babies since abortion was legalized in 1973 is going to continue to survive and prosper. No nation that's legalized the abomination of same-sex marriage can escape God's judgment. And no nation throughout history that's persecuted Jews and Christians has survived for very long.
What does America need to do? She needs to repent by repealing Rove v. Wade and same-sex marriage. She needs to stop betraying Israel and persecuting Christians. And she needs to repent soon because time is running out.
What will happen to America if she refuses to repent? She's going to experience violent hurricanes, blizzards and tornadoes; damaging earthquakes, extensive forest fires, floods, intense heat waves and devastating droughts. Her economy will collapse; her cities will become crime-ridden sewers and she will be threatened with nuclear destruction by nations such as Russia and China.
Don't think that will happen? Then you'd better think again. It's coming.
What's the solution? It's repentance from sin and the acknowledgment of the true sovereign God of the universe who revealed Himself 2,000 years ago through His Son Jesus Christ. That acknowledgment must include the honor and respect for God's laws and commandments rather than a revival of religiosity. America needs more genuine faith in God rather than more religion.
Nearly 3,000 years ago, the Lord spoke these words to King Solomon who sought His blessing upon the ancient land of Israel: "When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land." (2 Chronicles 7:13-14)
That's how America can prevent God's wrath from coming upon the land. And that's the only way.
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