Corrupted People Exposed to Judgments of God — E.A. Johnston

A Solemn Warning from Isaiah

My message today friends is a solemn warning. It's a warning to our nation. It's a warning to our apostate denominations. The title of my message today is a corrupted people Exposed to the judgments of a violated God and my text can be found in the book of Isaiah.

Israel’s Corruption and Exposure to Judgment

You can turn in your Bibles there now friends we will be in chapter 1. There are several aspects. I want to draw out of our text today. Number one the Jews had become a very corrupt people. Number two Because of their God provoking sins they were exposed to God's judgment upon them and number three America has become a corrupt nation Exposed to the judgments of God.

I want to explore these aspects one by one today. Here now is the Word of God and made the Spirit of the Lord attend the reading of his Holy Word. Let's begin in verse 4. Ah Sinful nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evildoers children that are Corruptors that they have forsaken the Lord that they have Provoke the Holy One of Israel Unto anger that they are gone away backward.

I Will pause there. We see that the Jews had become a very corrupt people. God says them they're gone away backward. The backslidden people of God had turned their backs on God and had forsaken him. They were doing evil in his sight as they had become a morally corrupt people.

Sin’s Consequences in National Calamity

Number two. Because of their God provoking sins that they were exposed to God's judgment upon them. Verse 7 declares. Your country is desolate your cities are burned with fire your land. Strangers devour it in your presence and it is desolate as overthrown by strangers.

Public calamities grow among the people. Where sin is abounding? Because of a morally corrupt society the natural disasters visit with growing Frequencies and fall on the heels one upon another and this leads me to my third point friends.

America’s Moral Corruption and Divine Judgment

America has become a corrupt nation Exposed to the judgments of God. I've lived a long time and I can't recall a time in my life where I've seen so many natural disasters befall our nation. Floods and fires hurricanes and tornadoes Earthquakes and pestilence seem to follow one after another.

It's like a scene out of the Old Testament. Before we can fully recover from one we're hit with another like a knockout punch. Our corrupted society is bringing God's judgment down upon us. As Buildings are subject to decay.

The Corruption of the Human Heart

So too are people subject to being corrupted. Isaiah 1 21 declares. How is the faithful city? Becoming harlot it was full of judgment righteousness lodged in it, but now murderers. Fallen men in their natural condition are great enemies to an exalted.

Holy God without proper Medical care a man in declining health will grow worse and decline more and more Until he is at death's door. So too People sick with sin will wax worse and worse without a remedy for sin.

Evil practices will gain ground among them. Corrupting them more and more the loss of men's hearts hurry them to a state of greater corruption. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily.

Therefore the heart of the sons of man is foley said Indemned to do evil. Sin continued makes the hearts of men grow callous as if a giant scab covers their sensibilities manline danger of Damnation and their ignorance of it will turn into indifference.

Spiritual Apathy and the Danger of Hell

Eventually even when they are warned to flee from the wrath to come it is if they Sleep in a house fire and nothing will arouse them to their great peril. They'd rather suffocate in the smoke and ashes and perish in the flames.

Then be disturbed. Hell is full of Tormented souls who in life were indifferent to its darkness and heat. They never dreamed in a million years that a loving God would send them to suffer the miseries of hell.

Yet if a man Remains in his natural estate and it's not awakened to his lost condition And shown his danger of dying in his sins and shown a refuge and remedy for sin in the person of Christ Jesus then he lives ignorantly and Foolishly and teeters back and forth on the verge of eternity Until he finally tumbles over into outer darkness in a bottomless pit men must get under the sound of the gospel and be brought to repentance and the grace of God's mercy.

America Awaiting Final Judgment

But If a nation has grown corrupt and the gospel is like a famine in the land Through want a good preaching. Then it is a corrupt time where multitudes will perish into a crisis eternity. Very few will be saved.

God will pour out his justice pleasure upon a provoking people bent on sin He will withdraw himself from among them to where they will grow more and more corrupt. This is where America sits at this precise moment friends like Jeremiah's basket of summer fruit rotten in the Sun Becoming more and more decayed Awaiting final judgment.

Repentance and Mercy in Christ

Heaven help us all. Our only hope for survival is to turn back to the God of the Bible as seen in Isaiah 1 18 Come now and let us reason together. Say it the Lord Though your sins be a scarlet. They should be as white as snow.

Though they'd be red like crimson. They shall be as wool Repent before it's too late.