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Finished reading Joshua yesterday when he leaves his parting words to Israel and the people swear they will follow God and not idols. Yet, when we reach Judges only one or two generations later, they are steeped in idolatry. From there forward, we see a continuous record of 1/
Israel jumping into sinful idolatry, God bringing judgment, Israel repenting, then the next generation repeating the whole process. I can't help but see how we in America have followed the same sinful path, claiming to be a people who follow God alone, bit repeatedly go off 2/
into false worship and not learning from our lessons. For the last century, we've been fed a steady diet of user-friendly”gospel” messages (meant to easily coax us into a decision for Jesus), carnal Christianity (where you can still live in sin and have Jesus too), and 3/
”Christian” pluralism (where you can take a little of this and a little of that from different religions and still somehow love Jesus), all with the false teaching of the 11th commandment ”Thou shalt not judge.” We’ve got professing ”believers” who doubt the word of of God, 4/
who believe sexual immorality can be holy, that abortion isn't a sin, and that Jesus just loves them as they are (steeped in sin with no repentance). Is it any wonder our nation is in the midst of God’s righteous judgment? Evangelicals have turned America into some sort of new 5/
Holy Land and the Constitution some kind of magical document that will protect us from harm. But we ignore God’s wrath against the land and people that He actually declared His own when they went off into idolatry and sin. God’s wrath was abated in Israel when the people 6/
repented and turned back to God. Yet, in America, evangelicalism somehow believes that cultural and/or political influence will stem the tide of judgment. I'm not saying having a voice in elections is wrong, it's important. But deliverance from God’s wrath comes only a people 7/
who bow the knee in humility, pray and call out for God’s mercy, and turn their people to following Christ alone. What we need now more than ever are those who will proclaim the gospel unapologetically, who will call sin sin and call people to repent, who are willing to 8/
endanger worldly relationships in order to lead people to eternal life, and who will forsake the easy-believism of a pseudo-Christianity that has lead far too many into idolatry. America needs a Christian people willing to forsake all that repentance may be granted by God. End/
