Adrian Rogers: A Nation in Crisis [#2093]

welcome to love worth fighting with Pastor teacher and author Adrian Rogers reaching out with God's love bringing people to Christ touching lives around the world and helping you find the answers you need today join us as we prepare to open God's Word and discover how your life can be changed forever by his great love worth finding be finding in your Bibles The Book of Isaiah chapter 59 and when you found it would you look up here and may I tell you as you're finding it that our beloved United States of America is in a crisis and the title the message today a nation in crisis one by one the lights of decency and the lights of hope are being blown out in America but one day calamity will come one day we will face perhaps international terrorism perhaps unparalleled economic reversal perhaps natural disasters over which we have no control whatsoever and then we will fill our churches and we will turn our eyes upward and we will dial nine-one-one 11:11 the line will be dead first samuel chapter 8 verse 18 says and ye shall cry out in that day because of your King which you have chosen you and the Lord will not hear you in that day you cry out you say O God have mercy you pray in your prayers won't be answered why is that we'll look in Isaiah chapter 59 verse 1 behold the Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save neither is his ear heavy that it cannot hear God is not palsy and God is not death but verse 2 your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear for your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity your lips have spoken lies your tongue hath muttered perverseness nun call it for justice nor any pleaded for truth they trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity now what is Isaiah saying to a sinful nation and that day God is well able to hear your prayers it's not that he cannot hear your prayers it is that he will not hear your prayers because your sin has created a barrier between you and a holy God and Isaiah tells us what the sin of that day was and how it tracks and parallels the sin of our day first of all look in verse 2 they had bloody hands bloody hands America is swimming in an ocean of blood that horrendous roe v-- wade ruling when nine men dressed in black robes said that a little preborn baby can be treated as a piece of protoplasm and we in America are now killing babies at the rate of 4,000 a day notice what Isaiah said your iniquities have separated between you and your God your sins have hid his face from you verse 3 your hands are defiled with blood when you ask a politician about abortion he'll dodge the issue you'll tell you that's a moral decision it is a religious decision that's not a proper forum for politics and that needs to be studied in the church between the priest the rabbi the pastor it is a personal decision not a political decision but if the priest the rabbi the pastor speaks about it they'll rise up and say why doesn't he stay out of politics and meanwhile the babies die and we are swimming in an ocean of blood the violence of our day has surpassed the days of Noah the days of lot King Herod is in the background today one man has wisely said today we're living in a day where 12 year olds are having babies 15 year olds are killing each other 17-year olds are dying of AIDS and 18 year olds are graduating from high school with a diploma they can't read that's where we are in America today ah bloody hands but then he goes on to say not only bloody hands but lying lips I gained look if you will in verse 3 your lips have spoken lies your tongue hath muttered perverseness I've been watching the news programs lately and we've been talking about lies in high places and low places and the the going merchandise among those news programs is well everybody lies everybody lies what's so rare about lies everybody lies US News and World Report said this quote governmental officials dissemble scientists falsify research workers alter career credentials to get jobs and then the magazine asked what's going on here the answer a growing number of social critics fear is an alarming decline in basic honesty bloody hands lying lips number three wicked hearts look if you will in verse four none call it for justice nor any pleaded for truth they trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity it's terrible to raise teenagers today because we have a day of moral ambivalence we have a day of ethical fogginess what are we being told today we're being told that adultery is really no big deal everybody does that friend I want to say if a man will not keep a sacred vow before Almighty God to his wife I wouldn't trust him to keep any promise anywhere anytime we're being told today that private morality can be disconnected from public service that's not what God's Word says please a STIs chapter 10 verse 1 says this the dead flies caused the ointment of the Apothecary to send forth a stinking savour so death a little folly in him that is in reputation for wisdom and honor dead flies in the ointment for in something stinks in America Theodore Roosevelt a man of yesteryear won his first major election back in 1898 he was elected governor of New York about that time Theodore Roosevelt wrote something that's so pertinent to our day in our age I want you to listen to it sounds like it was written for today but listen to it he says no community is healthy where there is ever where it is ever necessary to distinguish one politician among his fellows because he's honest honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public unless a man is honest we have no right to keep him in public life it matters not how brilliant his capacity it hardly matters how great his power of doing good service on certain lines may be now what Teddy Roosevelt said was if he's not honest that he just simply disqualified again Teddy Roosevelt said this and I quote if a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath if he perjures himself our suborned perjury he is guilty under the under the statute law under the higher law under the great law of morality and righteousness he is precisely as guilty if instead of lying in a court he lies in a newspaper or on the stump and in all probability the evil effects of his conduct are infinitely more widespread and more pernicious the difference between perjury and mendacity is not in the least one of morals or ethics it is simply one of legal forms and what he is saying is the same thing that Jesus said when he said when you speak let your yea be yea and your nay nay doesn't matter whether you under your oath or whether you not under oath we're being told today that somehow public approval validates wrong behavior this same Isaiah whose book we're reading said in Isaiah chapter 5 verse 20 woe unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for better we're being told that if a man is approved by society that that is good it is not good no matter how many times we take a poll now what has brought about this condition why is it that Isaiah's people came to a place where they would look up to God and say God have mercy on us and God said no I'm not going to hear your prayer why what brought about bloody hands lying lips and wicked hearts three things I want you to see them right here in this text number one the people had been feeding on a diet of deception look in verse 5 they hatch Vipers eggs they hatch Viper's eggs and weave the spider's web he that eateth of their eggs diet and that which is crushed breaketh out into a Viper now if you look at verse five and linked verse five to verse 4 you're going to find out that those Vipers eggs those snake eggs that he's talking about that are hatched in hell's incubators they are devilish lies and philosophies that that are being hatched were hatched in Isaiah's day and also being hatched in our day lying poisonous philosophies that are being swallowed down by adults and youth alight our world our nation is on a snake egg diet a diet of deception the incubators that hatch those eggs are materialism humanism new ageism liberalism they've hatched these out the old granddaddy serpent who has spawned and fertilized these eggs is Satan himself because he's a liar and the father of all lies there are certain philosophical underpinnings that are so incipient in American life today that they are poisoning our educational our philosophical our religious or economic and political outlook and our young people are going to public schools and each morning they're served a snake egg omelet they swallow these things down you see dramatic changes have taken place in America and in 20 years 20 years that most of us have lived through there has been a complete reversal from 1962 to 1982 let me tell you what happened in 20 years in 1962 the Supreme Court ruled that voluntary prayer in public schools is unconstitutional now they tell us that our children must be in the public schools but they say you cannot have voluntary err we'll put you there but you cannot pray that's 1962 then in 1963 the same court dismantled classroom Bible reading no room for the Bible in our halls of Education then in 1980 the posting of the Ten Commandments was declared unconstitutional now when kids are bringing guns to school we cannot post on the walls of our school rooms thou shalt not kill in 1982 the court prohibited the teaching of biblical creation in 20 years God has been expelled from our public schools and been told not to return now abortion infanticide euthanasia all become possible in a world where you believe that man is the creation of some blind evolutionary force that he's not created an image of God but evolved from some primordial ooze so what do we have today what is it like well today children if they go to school must receive parental permission before a school-based clinic can prescribe an aspirin an aspirin but still in America a little teenage girl can be given an abortion abortion guidance counsel and the abortion itself without the parents even knowing that this has taken place that is in America school-based clinics dispensed birth control devices and counseling without parental notification our approval what has happened in America is that our kids are being served snake eggs every day prayer is out policemen are in Bibles are out Values Clarification is in the ten commandments yes they're out but a rape and armed robbery gang warfare murder and cheating are in creation instruction is out evolution and blind chances in corporal punishment is out disrespect and rebellion is in traditional values are out unwed motherhood is in abstinence is out condoms and abortion is in learning is out and social engineering is in history is out revisionism is in is it any wonder that the suicide rate of our teenagers is soaring runaway statistics are soaring promiscuity problems violent crime our kids are not being raised in a society in a school that says that they have rights that are given to them unalienable rights given by Almighty God but they are told that the universe is self-existing not created and the wisdom that built this great nation is being laughed at but here's the sad thing look if you will in verse 5 they hatched vipers eggs they weave the spider's web he that eateth their eggs diet now watch that and that which is crushed break it out into a Viper when you come against these things and try to stamp them out all you do is create more snakes to stamp out these snake eggs is not the answer now not only is there a diet of deception but that is compounded by second thing in America that makes on nation a nation in crisis not only a diet of deception but a web of wickedness a web of wickedness look again in verse 5 if you will he says here in verse 5 they weave the spider's web I got down my encyclopedia and read some about spiders I don't know whether you have a love affair with spiders I don't but spiders weave a web almost invisible very sticky and the purpose of that web is to catch an unsuspecting insect who will fly into that web become entangled by that web where the spider can come out and wrap him up in more strands of that web then the spider injects poison into the body of that insect and then the spider sucks that insect dry now Satan has woven some webs and is poisoning and sucking dry a generation of young people today Satan has a network are you listening to me a web of evil that is absolutely terrifying and our young people can hardly see the web they don't understand it there's pornography for example the web of pornography Pastor Rogers does pornography lead to degeneracy pornography is degeneracy that's what it is our kids today can get on the internet and watch unspeakable unmentionable things even at school as they can access these things at home they can pick up the phone dial a porn and listen to lesbian sexual activity sodomy rape incest bestiality are sex with other children there are more adult bookstores in America today than there are McDonald's restaurants pornography is a multi-billion dollar industry that is a web and so many kids and adults alike are being caught in it Satan has his web of drugs and alcohol a deadly trap America is filled today with Walking Dead whose lives have been sucked dry by the spiders of alcohol and drug abuse I read recently where students spend 5.5 billion-dollars students spend five point bit five billion dollars on alcohol more than they spend on non-alcoholic drinks like Pepsi or coke or 7up and books put together on alcoholic beverages and these Madison Avenue people come into the living room through their beer ads and and through their sports ads and they'll have these boys as I've said before out there on the bass boat somewhere hoisting a six-pack and one of them smiles and says to the other one it doesn't get any better than this boy they're right it always gets worse doesn't get any better than this and we have a generation of Walking Dead who've been sucked dry embalmed by alcohol there's the sticky web of immorality young people are being told today there are no fixed standards of right or wrong and the media and entertainment has created the myth that of premarital sex extramarital sex homosexuality are on the same level as chastity monogamy and heterosexuality and in our so-called sex education classes in many of our schools they have a three-fold goal and that is to teach children how to fornicate without guilt without catching a disease and without conceiving a baby that's called sex education today how would you like your child to go to school and hear what some are being taught here's what they're being taught here's the textbook quote premarital sexual intercourse is acceptable for both men and women if they are involved in a stable loving relationship it has been suggested by some marriage counseling authorities that all couples should live together before they married how do you like that for education or listen to this often promiscuity is labeled as bad by persons who do not accept this type of behavior as with other patterns of sexual behavior one should not pen a good or bad on a practice here's another morality is individual it is what you think it is your conception of what is right or wrong morally is an individual decision may God have mercy upon us when when these tell us we cannot pray we can I read God's Word we cannot post the Ten Commandments but we can denigrate God's Word in God's log kids today talk about going all the wave that's the one thing they don't do then going all the way they go a little further when they catch a disease along the way a little further when a baby is conceived they have to tell a father or mother a little further if they decide to murder that baby but they really haven't going all the way until they stand before a holy God who says thou shalt not commit adultery a holy God that says flee fornication friend we honest terrible situation what has brought about this crisis in America number one a diet of deception number two a web of wickedness number three the trashing of proof the trashing the trashing of truth fast-forward to verse 14 well let's begin in verse 13 hmm let's begin in verse 12 for our transgressions are multiplied before thee our sins testify against us for our transgressions are with us and as for iniquities we know them in transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing away from our God speaking oppression and revolt conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood now watch this and judgment is turned away backward and justice standeth afar off why is why has judgment been turned away backward why does justice wait in the wings here is for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter yay truth payment and he that depart from evil maketh himself a prey that is when you stand up and speak against it you become the bad guy really today I listen I have been preaching this many years as not to know that I am the heavy today I am the bad guy today I'm making myself a prey when I say this is wrong when I when I speak against these things when you call for justice when you call for truth you become the guy in the black hat that's where we that's the state to which we have come today but notice what he says he says there's a traffic jam there's justice equity truth trying to get through the streets but they cannot rather justice equity cannot come through the streets because truth is falling and all of the traffic is backed up because truth is fallen in the streets well what caused truth to fall notice truth is not dead there is a traffic jam judgment justice and equity cannot enter is not the truth is non-existent you can't ever murder truth it is not that truth is dead truth will not die but truth has stumbled truth is lying prostrate on the ground why well she's been knocked down in America by doctors of philosophy she's been tripped up in America by dishonest politicians and she has been chloroformed by liberal preachers and she's lying there in the street may I say with all of the unction function and emotion of my soul God helped me to say it the job in America today is to put truth back on her feet that is the job in America to put truth back on her feet and I really believe that is not a lot wrong in America that could not be put right quickly dramatically if across America in the pulpits of America from sea to shining sea this Sunday and every Sunday a generation of preachers would open the book of proof and preach thus saith the Lord God Almighty without fear our favor we're in a situation today that is a crisis why did God write a Bible he calls that Bible the word of truth why did God send the Holy Spirit he calls the Holy Spirit the Spirit of Truth how does God describe himself he describes himself as the truth who is jesus jesus said i am the way the truth and the life what is the church the church is called the pillar and the ground of truth Apostle John said I have no greater joy than to know that my children walk in the truth we can get facts from the internet there's a difference between facts and truth knowledge may double truth will never double there is eternal truth proof is what food is to your body light is to your eyes and melody is to your ears now you know what most of us want to do most of us want to be stamping out snake eggs most of us want to be sweeping down spiders webs but friend you stamp out a snake egg just more snakes you sweep down a spider's web you've done it before it's back the next morning is it not we need something that will slay the snake and destroy the spider and that is truth that is truth only truth only truth only truth can keep this daddy serpent from spawning those eggs only truth can keep that spider from weaving those sticky webs we need to lift up truth in America today to put proof on her feet and I want to call upon you and every believer in this building to rededicate himself to the truth Peretz teaches children to live the truth to love the truth to tell the truth to know the truth to believe the truth jesus said sanctify them through thy word thy word is true let me give you proverbs here I'm almost finished proverb 23 verse 23 buy the truth and sell it not buy the truth and sell it not there is a prize to possess it is truth there is a price to pay you must buy the truth you must study it pour over it learn it live it know it and you must preserve the truth don't let anybody take the truth from you that truth is in God's Word there the Christians did not argue over the Bible they loved it they believed that they expounded it they poured it forth as white hot lava now one by one person by person family by family city by city church by church we've got to take America back we've got to take America back my heart is broken over snake eggs spiderwebs and traffic jams what about you I'm not talking about the person sitting next to you what about you are you right with God do you think it's somebody else's problem what about your home what about your business relationships have you been feeding on snake eggs some right now wrapped up in spiders wimps there's only one thing that will set you free jesus said you shall know the truth and the truth will make you free I want to tell you the truth is today that God loves you the truth is today that Jesus Christ died for you he carried your sins to the cross and with his blood he paid your sin debt the truth is that he walked out of that grave and he has ascended the high hills of glory the truth is that one day soon and very soon I hope he's coming again and the truth is if you will believe on him and trust him he will save you I promise you on the authority of the word of God and not only will he save you but praise His Holy Name he will satisfy you what you're longing for you will never find until you find in the Lord Jesus and not only will he save you and satisfy you he'll sanctify you he'll begin to make you more and more and more and more and more like him now when you come to Jesus you're not going to sprout wings and get a halo right away you'll have to grow but this saving Jesus is the satisfying sanctifying Jesus it's not there's something else he'll secure you you'll keep you you'll keep it's not a matter of you're holding on to him he'll hold you if you're truly really given your heart Daniel your life you know if I could give my heart to Jesus for you today I would but I cannot I preached his best I know how but the Lord sent me here to tell you today that he loves you and he invites you to give your heart your home to him once and for all now and forever just say Lord Jesus come into my heart forgive my sin cleanse me save me or 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Length: 34min 56sec (2096 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 26 2016