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ADRIAN ROGERS' LOVE WORTH FINDING PODCAST – TODAY'S EPISODE: WILL GOD IMPEACH AMERICA?
The Lord’s wrath can’t be held back that much more what with everything that is going on with our country with the backlash against the supreme courts decision on Hobby Lobby and all….. It sickens me. I’m not even in the mood to celebrate today with the state our country is in and with their desire to rebel against God and deny our country was founded on Him…. This isn’t Independence Day any more…..
Subject: LWF: Will God Impeach America? - Psalm 80
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In Psalm 80, God speaks about the nation Israel and He asks a question in
verse 12, where He says, "Why hast thou broken down her hedges?"
So God had put hedges around the nation Israel and now it seems that God has taken down the hedge.
And then it says, "Why has thou taken down her hedges, so that all they
which pass by the way do pluck her? The boar out of the wood (wild hog) doth waste it (the nation Israel). And the wild beast of the field doth devour it." (verses 12 & 13)
So God took down the hedge.
The question for today is: Will God impeach America?
With a broken heart I say our God-blessed America, is sick unto death.
We are in a moral free fall and soon we are going to hit bottom and there
will be no repair.
And America will become a molded crust in history's garbage can if something is not done radically, dramatically and quickly.
Psalm 80 is a prayer of revival; the prayer of a patriot whose praying for a
national revival and spiritual restoration.
See Psalm 80:1-3
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a flock;
thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Then look at verse 7, "Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause they face to shine; and we shall be saved."
So this was a prayer for revival made in desperate days.
And there's four points in this Psalm we'll look at today.
1. There was great national despair
And verse 4 describes this despair as
a. spiritual sterility.
The Psalmist says, "O Lord God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?"
So there's spiritual sterility; the people are praying, but God is not
answering the prayer in fact, the prayer of the people was making God angry.
Religion without righteousness is repugnant to God.
And that spiritual sterility in verse 4 is compounded by
b. personal sorrow
See verse five: "Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; thou givest them tears to drink in great measure."
So this was a nation baptized with salty tears because sorrow follows sin as night follows day.
The Bible says in Proverbs 29:2, "that when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn."
And we are seeing that in America today.
It looks like oceans of tears, rivers of blood, and seas of sweat will be
the price that America must pay.
But not only was there spiritual sterility, not only was there personal
sorrow, there was also
c. national shame.
See verse 6, "Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves."
America is no longer respected for her leadership and her moral strength.
This nation advances an imperialistic agenda to preserve the petro-dollar
and the status quo and lawless runs wild from the White House, to Congress and all the way to Wall Street!
So in this passage there is described a great national despair and there had been
2. a glorious national design.
See Psalm 80:8-11
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
Now here He's calling His people a vine, like a grape vine.
He is talking about the Hebrew nation coming out of bondage in Egypt where He had broken the gnawing and tormenting chains of slavery.
And they had come to a new land where God planted them in the land of
Canaan.
Notice how he describes it. "Thou preparest room before it."
That is, before the vine. "And didst cause it to take deep root, and it
filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the
boughs thereof where like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river."
So the psalmist is saying there has been a glorious national design.
This was a nation
a. divinely planted (verse 8).
So God planted the nation Israel and there's a striking parallel between
Israel of old and America today.
Now the two are not the same and they are not synonymous.
But I believe with all of my heart that America was a God planted and God blessed in spite of the Luciferian designs here from day one.
God ordained this nation.
No nation in all of history has ever had such a Christian beginning as
America.
Now, Israel was a vine planted by God and yet Israel forgot God and judgment came.
The American dream was placed into the bosom of some of our founding fathers by God Himself and they stood against the plans of the Illuminists.
The original colonies that came to these shores were founded because of the
Christian faith in spite of these Luciferian NWO schemers.
In 1620, when the Pilgrims came to America, they came seeking religious liberty and freedom.
They huddled beneath the decks of that little Mayflower ship and they wrote the Mayflower Compact which began with these words, "In the name of God,
amen."
And they wrote in their Compact that their voyage to these shores was for, and I quote, "for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith."
Now Israel was divinely planted (verse 8) and Israel
b. divinely prospered.
See Psalm 80:10-11
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
The prophets of ancient Israel taught the right of the personal ownership of property.
They taught the dignity of work.
They taught honor and Israel prospered.
Likewise America has prospered.
No nation has ever had the prosperity of America.
We talk about poverty in America and we ought to do all we can do to
eradicate any of it, but the poor in America are rich compared to many of
the peoples of this world.
Now the fruit of that prosperity that God gave to Israel was for God's
glory.
See verse 15, "And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch thereof that thou madest strong for thyself."
God did not bless America so that theology could be replaced with me-ology so people could say, God doesn't matter; all that matters is the Dow Jones.
Israel was divinely planted, America divinely planted. Israel divinely
prospered, America divinely prospered.
And Israel was
c. divinely protected.
See verse 12, "Why hast thou broken down her hedges?"
In Bible times, when a man would plant a vineyard, he would put a think
thorn hedge around that vineyard to keep out the predators and to keep out the thieves.
God said, I planted this vine and I put a hedge around this vine.
Now God also planted America and God has protected America.
This nation has been protected in a war-torn world.
Compare America and our God blessed shores to what has happened in England, in France, in Germany, in Italy, in Japan and Korea, and Russia, in Vietnam, and even Yugoslavia just to name a few nations.
So God has protected America.
And like Israel our first line of defense was God Himself.
Not alliances.
Not weapons of war, but God Almighty.
So in time past God Almighty has protected America.
We've all had a sense that God's hand has been upon America, but sadly that's changing.
So I want us to look at
3. a grave national danger.
At this moment are at a point of grave national danger.
And it's found in verse 12. "Why hast thou then broken down her hedges?"
So God put a hedge around Israel, but then God broke down the hedge.
Likewise God put a hedge around America, but the hedge, I'm afraid, has been taken away.
Have you ever thought about the doctrine of hedges?
Isaiah 5:1-5
1 Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his
vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
2 And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress therein: and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.
3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
4 What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?
5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take
away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
So God said, Look, I founded this nation. I protected this nation. I put a
hedge around this nation, and I was expecting that it would bring forth good grapes. But it brought forth wild grapes. Now I am going to take down the hedge.
So what is this grave, national danger?
Well, there was
a. external danger from her enemies.
Look in verse 12: "Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her."
America's natural resources are being stripped away.
And at the same time we are losing our friends. So others are plucking this vineyard.
Red China, has plucked the vineyard; they now have our nuclear secrets.
They now can put a missile on any major city in the United States because the vine has been blessed, has been plucked plus they are buying up huge plots of land in America and they are gaining control of this nations finances.
So this is external danger from our enemies.
Plus there's...
b. Internal danger from corruption.
See verse 13, "The poor, the wild hog of the wood, wasteth."
Now a hog is not only content to eat the fruit, the hog deals with the root.
Something is happening in America that is very un- American.
America has become so amoral and immoral, so corrupt and vile.
A tidal wave of filth is sweeping across America: crookedness, lying,
cheating, stealing, adultery, divorce, murder, lust, dope, vice.
We say America is number one.
She's number one in homosexuality, number one in radical feminism, number one in divorce, number one in the destruction of family values, number one in abortion, number one in political correctness, number one in occult humanistic new age religion.
That's America and we're in a moral freefall.
Think of what is happening in the schools of America.
Prayer is out; policemen are in.
Bibles are out; values clarification is in.
The Ten Commandments are out, rape and armed robbery and murder and bombs are in.
Creation is out; evolution is in.
Corporal punishment is out; disrespect and rebellion is in.
Traditional values are out; unwed motherhood is in.
Abstinence is out; condoms and abortion are in.
Learning is out; social engineering is in.
Happy days are out; Gothic fashion, Marilyn Manson, gangster rap, heavy rock, heavy metal is in.
Blasphemy is in; praise is out.
In a public school you can tell someone to go to hell, but I think it's time
we told them to go to heaven. I think it's time that we spoke up.
So there is external danger, verse 12 and there is internal danger, verse 13.
And there is
c. eternal danger,
See Psalm 80:14-16
14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
16 It (the vine) is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the
rebuke of thy countenance.
So it is God Himself who is bringing judgment.
These verses are saying that God's judgment is like an ax laid to the root
of the tree.
God's judgment is like a consuming fire and that's what's happening in
America.
So get this truth... not only is God America's only hope, God is America's biggest threat!
Look at it again in verse 16, "It is burned with fire, it is cut down, they
perish at the rebuke of thy countenance."
So what we have done is we have expelled God from our schools and from our government and God is about ready to impeach America.
And here is what happened.
The United States Supreme Court banned prayer in public schools in 1962.
Then in 1963 they banned the Bible.
So in their NEW way of thinking apparently we'd been doing something wrong for a long time since in 1963 they banned the Bible after 176 years of living as a nation with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
And then the Ten Commandments were banned in, in 1980.
So what we've become is legally an atheistic state.
Now this was compounded in 1973 when abortion on demand was legalized and little babies in the mother's womb were given the status of non-beings.
January 22, 1973 will go down as the blackest day in American history, when nine Supreme Court justices, self-anointed priests of humanism, said that these little babies are not real human beings
There's something awfully wrong in America and God's hedge is down.
It began in 1962 when we kicked God out and the judgment is ripening.
In the mid 1980s the Midwest and California suffered the worst drought in
history.
Then that drought was followed by record rains and severe flooding.
In 1989 Hurricane Hugo struck Charleston, South Carolina, doing immense damage then after Hugo, a powerful earthquake rocked San Francisco.
In 1992 ten of the most powerful quakes in the world in were centered in
California, including the most powerful earthquake in the world that year, a
7.6 magnitude in California.
On the heels of that in 1992 Hurricane Andrew, one of the most powerful and destructive ever hit southern Florida and then in that same year the worst rioting since the Civil War took place in Los Angeles.
And then a number of tornadoes swept across America.
And then a record forest fire swept through the west, especially in
California.
And in 1993 record storms slammed the east coast of this nation,
And then in 2001, the worst terrorist attack in American history struck New York City.
And then California was again hit with record wildfires.
And then we began to mass killings and serial killings in America.
And then the economic collapse of 2008, and weather events that make those that started in the 1990's look like nothing!
Now you may wonder, Is God doing all of that? No!
The hedge is down.
This is what the enemy has been wanting to do for a long time.
He's just been walking around, saying, "How can I get in, how can I get in, how can I get in?"
So this once was a God blessed America, but now America says, "God, we don't want you! Out, out, out! Out of our schools, out of our government. We don't want you, God."
Do you know what the prayer was when the Supreme Court ruled that our
children could not pray in school?
It wasn't some great terrible prayer that our children prayed.
Here's what they prayed.
Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers, our country. Amen.
And the courts said, "You can't do that in America. We don't want the Bible; we don't want prayer; we don't want the Ten Commandments. We'll handle it ourselves."
So God says, I'll just take away the hedge.
See Leviticus 18:25 "And the land is defiled, therefore do I visit the
iniquity thereof upon it."
Now for the last point:
4. a gracious national deliverance.
It's not too late.
Notice the prayer of this patriot psalmist beginning in verse 14:
"Return, we beseech thee, oh God of hosts. Look down from heaven and behold and visit this vine and the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself." (verses 14-15)
So what should we do???
First we must look up,
a. look up.
See verse 14, "Return, we beseech thee, oh Lord of hosts."
God is the only one big enough, strong enough, wise enough to deliver and save us and we must seek God's face and not God's hand.
Then notice verse 19, "Turn us again, oh Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved."
We need to return unto God with fasting, praying, weeping. We need an
old-fashioned revival.
And don't worry about who the elected officers are in the White House or the state house.
God doesn't have to route revival through Washington.
We must look up. And then we must
b. confess up.
See verse 16, "This vine is burned with fire, it is cut down, they perish at
the rebuke of thy countenance."
It is sin that caused God to take down the hedge so we must confess and turn from our wicked way."
But not only must we look up and confess up, we must
c. speak up.
See verse 17, "Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the Son of Man whom thou madest strong for Thyself,"
And by the way in this verse he's talking about Jesus Christ.
So this is a prophetic Psalm!
He's saying that our hope is in the Son of God, "Let thy hand be upon the
man of thy right hand," that's Jesus, "the Son of man, whom thou madest strong for thyself,"
So in the name of Jesus we need to speak up.
They tell us to go back under the rock, but we need to come out from under the rock and stand on The Rock, the Lord Jesus Christ.
People say, that's politics and religion and they have no place being
together.
well here's a truth about the church: the church is not the master of the
state nor is the church the servant of the state, the church is the
conscience of the state.
So we need to speak up and say what God's Word says.
Satan's strategy is to keep good people, good men, good women silent in evil times.
So your boys and girls when they step on school property they still have
full amendment rights and freedom of speech to pray, to carry their Bibles and to witness for Jesus Christ.
Now you may call me insensitive and say when children pray somebody might be offended?
Well the truth is our Christian children are offended every day at school!
They are offended by militant atheism, by humanism, by pornography, by heavy
rock music, by profanity, amoral sex education.
By the way, there is nothing in the First Amendment that says that somebody is protected from being offended.
The Bible teaches that we're to speak and our constitution says that nobody shall abridge our rights to speak.
So we must look up, we must confess up, we must speak up, and we must
D. stand up.
Again see verses 18 and 19, "So will we not go back from thee. Quicken us
and we will call upon thy name."
We don't have to have great numbers.
Lenin began his communist revolution in 1917, with just several thousand.
Castro took Cuba, with a little band of cutthroats.
And on the positive side, Jesus started with twelve disciples.
See Joshua 23:10, "One man of you shall chase a thousand and the Lord, for the Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you as he has promised."
It's just time we stood up.
You know what's wrong with so many of us now?
We are so shell-shocked, bad news has been coming at us like we're drinking from a fire hose.
And it's hard to build a dam when you're floating down the stream.
We need to look up,
we need to confess up,
we need to speak up,
we need to stand up,
And we need for God to bless America one more time.
Admiral Yamamoto led the Japanese who dropped bombs on Pearl Harbor.
Afterward, the United States rallied and won the war.
And later Yamamoto said, "I had intended to deal a fatal blow to the
American fleet by attacking Pearl Harbor. I fear that all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
So he thought this attack would destroy America, but all it did was just to fill us with a terrible resolve and we won the war.
And today it's time that God's people were filled with a terrible resolve.
Many look at Hollywood and everything in the media and the government and all of these things going wrong and say, It's not a fair fight.
And I say, That's right, it's not a fair fight; for their sake it's not a
fair fight.
We're the ones who have the advantage, not them.
We've got the Word, the Holy Ghost; and God the Father!
Jesus is our commander and The Holy Spirit is our ally.
And victory is ours through the man of God's right hand, the man of his
choosing, Jesus Christ.
Let's pray. O God, I pray that you'll take the message today and burn it
into every heart, beginning with my own.
Now the most patriotic thing that you can do, the wisest thing for your own welfare that you can do is for you to give your heart to Jesus Christ.
The Bible teaches that we're sinners by nature, sinners by birth, sinners by choice and sinners by practice.
And the Bible teaches that our sin deserves judgment and our sin will be
judged.
But the Bible also teaches that God made a way out,
He allowed Jesus to take our punishment upon Himself upon that cross.
And the Bible teaches if we will believe that and receive that, our sins
will be forgiven.
If you would like to be saved today, I would like for you to pray a prayer
like this.
Lord Jesus, I need you, I want you, I open my heart, I receive you now as my Lord and Savior. Come into my heart, forgive my sin, save me.
Don't just rattle off the words, pray it from the depth of your heart.
Pray: Come into my heart LORD JESUS, forgive my sin, save me, Jesus.
Did you pray that, did you pray it?
Then thank Him just say, Thank You LORD Jesus Christ for saving me and now,
Lord Jesus, I don't look for a sign, I don't ask for a feeling, I just stand
on your perfect and unchanging Word.
Now Lord Jesus I'll make it public, I won't be ashamed of you, I'll make it
public.
In your name I pray, Amen.
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The LordGod of Israel is Americas worst enemy now.
Psalms 80
1 Give ear, O Shepherd of Israel(America), thou that leadest Joseph like a flock; thou that dwellest between the cherubims, shine forth.
2 Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.
3 Turn us again, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
4 O LORD God of hosts, how long wilt thou be angry against the prayer of thy people?
5 Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
6 Thou makest us a strife unto our neighbours: and our enemies laugh among themselves.
7 Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
8 Thou hast brought a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it.
9 Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
10 The hills were covered with the shadow of it, and the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars.
11 She sent out her boughs unto the sea, and her branches unto the river.
12 Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that(WallStreet) all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
13 The boar(pigs of the House and Senate) out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast(Anti Christ) of the field doth devour it.
14 Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
15 And the vineyard which thy right hand hath planted, and the branch that thou madest strong for thyself.
16 It is burned with fire, it is cut down: they perish at the rebuke of thy countenance.
17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man(Christ) whom thou madest strong for thyself.
18 So will not we go back from thee: quicken us, and we will call upon thy name.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
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http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-arthur/hurricane-arthur-makes-east-coast-landfall-44-000-without-power-n148146
This is a sign, being that its on the 4th and by one named Arthur(Camelot king of rightousness), of things to come for the Constitutional freedoms that once were maintained under the LordGod of Israel.
His Grace shall still maintain and shine on His elect. For they are SEALED by the Spirit of the most High.
Repent those unsealed while the day is yet called day.
In Jesus Name,
Amen.
Jeremiah 4
1 If thou wilt return, O (AMERICA)Israel, saith the LORD, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.
2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
20 Destruction upon destruction is cried; for the whole land is spoiled: suddenly are my tents spoiled, and my curtains in a moment.
21 How long shall I see the standard, and hear the sound of the trumpet?
22 For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was without form, and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.
24 I beheld the mountains, and, lo, they trembled, and all the hills moved lightly.
25 I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.
26 I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
27 For thus hath the LORD said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.
28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because I have spoken it, I have purposed it, and will not repent, neither will I turn back from it.
29 The whole city shall flee for the noise of the horsemen and bowmen; they shall go into thickets, and climb up upon the rocks: every city shall be forsaken, and not a man dwell therein.
30 And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
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