Come Out of Her My People

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Morse Corner is a non -denominational church that is committed to the preaching and teaching of the gospel of

Jesus Christ.

Our church was founded in 1896 by two students of the famous evangelist D .L.

Moody.

We seek to encourage and edify the body of Christ through the proclamation of God's word through the ministries of

the local church.

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The Bible says judgment starts in the house of God.

We want the country turned around.

Hey, let's turn ourselves around.

Let's turn this church around.

Let's turn our community around.

That would help.

That will help.

And you know what?

That is possible.

Is that possible?

You tell me.

Amen.

It is possible.

You know, the golden days of Israel occurred.

One of the greatest things, perhaps the greatest thing King David ever did, is when he brought the ark

to Jerusalem.

The country was out doing their thing and the ark was off.

Nobody even thought about the ark.

Nobody cared about the ark.

David brought it to the center of the nation.

He put God in the center and it was the greatest time Israel had

ever seen.

Even Jews today look back and think, oh, if we could only go back to the times of King

David.

Well, you can.

Why don't you?

And then his son Solomon took over and that was the, those were the glory days.

Israel was at the center of the world and people came from far and wide to hear the

king's wisdom.

What happened?

The king, after a while, his heart started to drift.

That's what happens with all of us.

Our heart starts to drift a little bit and a little more.

Before you know it, you're right back in the same situation.

God has to be at the center.

He has to be at the center of my life.

He has to be at the center of your life.

He has to be at the center of this church.

And I pray to God that one day he will once again be at the center of this

country.

If not, if we try to do it by other methods, Psalm 127 verse 1 says, unless the

Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.

There's no other way.

Nothing else is going to work.

All right.

You're in Revelation 18, correct?

Okay.

Read that in a second.

But this Revelation 18 speaks of Babylon.

I said, the United States has become Babylon or we've become like Babylon.

Just to be clear, I'm not saying that we are literally Babylon or we are the end times Babylon that John is speaking of.

I'm speaking spiritually.

But that same spirit of Babylon moved, if you will.

If you know the book of Daniel, there's this talk about the successive world empires.

There's the corrupt world system.

So this spirit of Babylon exalting man and ignoring God, it moved

from Babylon to Medo -Persia to Greece and then it finally stopped with Rome.

And now I fear we have adopted this spirit of Babylon where instead of

giving God the glory, we boast about our own accomplishments.

This started all in Genesis chapter 11 with the Tower of Babel.

When man chose to ignore God's word, God said, spread out over the face of the earth.

And they said, no, thanks.

We're going to stay right here.

And we are going to make a name for ourselves.

Matter of fact, we're going to build a tower that reaches to heaven.

We don't need God.

We can build our own kingdom.

What did God do?

They didn't finish the project, did they?

God confused their language.

That's what God has done to us.

We can't understand each other anymore.

You have family members that are so divided and a lot of it's political and we don't need to get into

that.

But we don't even understand each other anymore.

We look at our fellow Americans, some of our friends, coworkers, family, and it's like you're from another

planet.

He has completely confused our nation.

God later, speaking of Babylon, he confused the mind of the king, Nebuchadnezzar.

He turned him into basically he had the mind of an animal.

God has given our leaders, many of our leaders, over to a debased mind, a mind

that no longer functions.

Our leaders are working against our own interests.

If I didn't know any better, maybe I don't, but I would think that what they're doing is intentional.

We're not being conquered from without.

We're crumbling from within.

We're being conquered from within.

That's what happened to ancient societies like Rome.

That's how the Roman Empire fell.

They collapsed from within because of moral decay.

Look at Revelation 18, verse 4.

John says, and I heard another voice from heaven saying, He said, oh, this is that bad.

What's the Christian's response?

Here it is.

Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins

and lest you receive of her plagues.

For her sins have reached to heaven and God has remembered her

iniquities.

What's the responsibility of God's elect?

If this nation is like Babylon, what's the solution?

Come out.

Get out.

That doesn't mean get out of the cities, although that'd be a good idea too, I think.

Come out of that world system.

I was at the gym on the treadmill.

They have the TVs right in front of me.

Sometimes I wish they would shut them off.

It was Good Morning America.

I remember my mom watching Good Morning America when I was a kid.

It was pretty standard.

Pretty standard stuff.

I can't even describe to you the things that were on the screen.

It would be completely inappropriate for me to even describe.

That's how bad, and that's Good Morning America.

Never mind some of the other garbage that's on television.

If I sat down and viewed that as entertainment, God help my soul.

What's the message of the Spirit?

Come out.

Get out.

Don't be conformed to this world.

Any nation, any system that opposes the Lord eventually is going to come under the

Lord's judgment.

Usually I have a message prepared by Wednesday.

I prepare this message, work on it a little bit.

I didn't want to preach this message.

I didn't want to do it.

Yesterday I said I'll come up with something new.

I don't want to preach this message.

I don't want to talk about this.

God's judgment, though, is coming.

It's my job, I believe, to tell the truth.

God, the Holy Spirit, has laid this on my heart.

He's not only going to judge the United States.

He is judging the United States.

We need to come out.

Come out of her, my people.

Hebrews chapter 12 talks about how God is going to shake the earth.

It says He's not only going to shake the earth.

God is going to shake both heaven and earth.

The reason He's going to do it, He's going to shake everything so that that which cannot be

shaken will remain.

You understand what that is?

Then the author of Hebrews goes on to say, Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be

shaken, let us have grace by which we may serve God acceptably

with reverence and godly fear, for our God is a consuming

fire.

God is either going to burn it all up or some things, us, hopefully,

are going to be refined.

It's either all going to get torched.

God's people will be refined.

That's what's coming.

It's already started.

So people, based on all that, people who profess the name of Christ need to

make a choice.

Either your heart is with the Lord or it's with Babylon.

This would be a good sermon too.

Lot and his wife.

Remember?

Lot departed from the city and the angel told him, leave.

And Lot took his daughters and he left.

But his wife, her heart was still back in Sodom.

And she turned around and we know what happened.

She turned into a pillar of salt.

She didn't come out.

She didn't come out.

There's no neutrality anymore.

There's no middle ground.

Matthew 12, verse 30, Jesus said, he who is not with me is against me.

And he who does not gather with me scatters abroad.

So have you personally called upon the name of the Lord for

salvation?

Number two, have you been baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost?

Number three, have you got plugged in to a local church?

You know, I'm sitting here, aren't I?

Well, there's people listening on the radio later on.

But here's the thing, number four, are you serving?

Are you serving God?

Are you making a difference?

Are you contributing to the war effort?

Or you can go back to Babylon, as we've seen many church members over the years do.

Go back to Babylon and it breaks our heart.

Breaks our heart.

That doesn't have to happen.

So can this nation be turned around?

You know, the pessimist in me says, that's impossible.

That's never going to happen.

There's no way.

But I know that with God, all things are possible.

Here's what I know for sure.

There will be no national revival until there are first revivals in

the churches.

And even then, it has to start with a personal revival of the heart.

He who has an ear, let him hear.

If there's someone listening right now, and you know that you need to commit your life to Christ, I don't know what

you're waiting for, but Scripture says today is the day of salvation.

Maybe there's someone that you've trusted in Christ, and you do love Christ, but for whatever reason,

you know you need to recommit.

Now is the time.

Be a peacemaker.

That's what the message is about.

Be a peacemaker by clinging to the gospel of peace, by

obeying the gospel of peace.

So in light of the gospel being the solution, final point, we're almost done.

How can I, how can you be a peacemaker?

You can simply be a peacemaker by doing what God has called you to do.

There's different spiritual gifts.

There's different callings.

Be a peacemaker.

Doing what God has called you to do.

The more people we have working, the bigger difference we'll make.

If you teach, if that's your calling, then be a peacemaker by teaching.

If you can give, then be a peacemaker by giving.

Thousands of people, you know, have seen that gospel billboard in Greenfield?

Hey, that's the gospel, it's there.

Thousands, according to the stats, tens of thousands have seen it.

You paid for it.

That's how you can be a peacemaker.

God works through our prayers.

How can you be a peacemaker?

Well, I can't, am I physically, I can't really do a lot of things.

Can you pray?

You can be a peacemaker by praying.

Whatever God lays on your heart.

Because if the Holy Spirit's in you, you know there's certain things God wants you to do.

That's a given.

That is a given.

So you can be a peacemaker by doing what God has called you to do.

All the people who volunteer to teach the children about Jesus and his love.

What is that?

They're acting as a peacemaker.

Right now, they're downstairs, they're in there, they're acting as a peacemaker.

They're contributing.

When those children grow up, that stuff never leaves.

Some of you older folks, you remember when you were in Sunday school?

You remember some of the things that you heard in Sunday school?

That never leaves you.

But there's a whole new generation that isn't getting that.

Be a peacemaker.

Invite someone to church.

Be a peacemaker.

Ecclesiastes 9, verse 10.

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might.

So no matter who you are, God can use you.

If you're willing to humble yourself before God, God can use you.

I know the church can use you, but God can use you.

So in conclusion, going back to what I said at the beginning, Matthew 5, verse 9.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of

God.

You know the devil, he wants death.

The devil wants death and destruction, and he's doing a really great job right now.

Why?

Because he has the majority of people on his side.

That's why he's being successful.

So it's up to us.

It is up to you.

Serve God with reverence and godly fear.

Be a peacemaker.

In Jesus' name, amen.

Let's close.

Heavenly Father, I just pray that if someone listening this morning has never repented of their sin and

trusted in Jesus as Lord and Savior, they would do that today or recommit their life.

Lord, these are some perilous times we're living in, but we know the promise that Jesus

made, that the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church.

I pray that you would raise up many people who would want to be part of that, that they'd be peacemakers, declaring,

and helping support the ministry of the gospel of peace.

Lord, put it in our hearts to maybe share this peace with someone later on today.

We ask it all in Jesus' name.

Thanks for listening.

I'm Pastor Michael Grant from Morris Coronet Church.

If you'd like to listen to the complete message or if you'd like more information about the ministry, visit our website,

morriscoronetchurch .com.

And we'd love to have you join us some Sunday morning here in Leverett.

Until next time, may the grace of God be with you.