Go Call a Nation Back to God — E.A. Johnston

The Church's Moral Crisis and the Need for Revival

Today, society spins out of control, in moral chaos, and the churches lie in a void of a big evangelist. We have no Billy Sunday or Sam Jones to fight the liquor crowd. We have no Whitfield or Finney to spearhead a great awakening.

Fearless Prophets Against Political Correctness

We lack prophets in the land to call a nation back to God. We lack preachers who do not fear man, but only fear God. Our pulpits are held in check by a politically correct society that is tolerant toward sin, but intolerant toward a crucified Christ.

We're afraid to call sin black and hell hot and name sexual perversion for what it is in light of a thrice holy God. But I believe the decline of the American church is no different than the decline of the British church, the Australian church, or any of the churches that operate in a free society.

The Vitality of the Persecuted Church

It's the church of persecution that thrives with New Testament vitality, like the underground church in China who have to meet in barns late at night, come by foot, or on a bicycle to avoid observation by the Communist Party.

The church in China doesn't operate on money and manpower, but they operate on holy ghost power. The Chinese believers don't go by Dr. So-and-so or Reverend So-and-so. They're just brothers and sisters who call themselves followers of the Lord.

But the underground church in China operates on holy ghost power. They have the Spirit's anointing, but when can we say we felt the power of God in one of our meetings? When can we say we've seen heaven come down and the slain lamb standing in our midst?

Men of Faith Who Fear God and Hate Sin

What we need today are men of faith who believe their Bibles and who don't fear man. We need a John Wesley who cried over England, Give me 100 men who fear nothing but God and hate nothing but sin, and I will shake the gates of hell, and Wesley did just that.

Spirit-Empowered Preaching and the Call to Godliness

In Zechariah we read, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of hosts. We need to be filled with the Holy Spirit, empowered by the Spirit, emboldened by the Spirit, the greatest need in the land today.

It's for a prophet to rise up, to call a nation back to God. We need men like these. We need the Apostle Paul, Luther, Wesley, Whitefield, Knox, Edwards, Finney, Spurgeon, Moody, each shared a common denominator, a fire in their belly.

Revival Leaders Consumed by the Gospel

They each were so eaten up with the gospel and thirsty for Christ and filled with the Holy Ghost, they could not stand idly by while others perished. They saw nothing but eternity, worshipped a holy God and served a risen Christ, living not for earth, nor its gains, but living only for heaven and its rewards.

Preaching Hell, Salvation, and the Crucified Christ

When they preached, they linked the devil with sin and the cross with salvation. They preached hell and its fire, and Christ in him crucified. Not one of them feared king, queen, or pope, and not one of them sought the compliments of men.

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