Why Would We Be Exempt!

As a nation we shout, "make America great again", even though we have not repented from any of the evil that we do. We don't even make any promises that we will stop our sin. We just keep going on as though we deserve blessing and honor, while 4000 babies a day are being brutally murdered, illegal drugs are being legalized, every form of filth imaginable is allowed to continue unabated, but we think we deserve safety and blessing.

Keep in mind that God destroyed societies just like ours for doing the things we do, what makes us think He is going to be more lenient on us!!!

It is astonishing how many people in jails today, when asked if they think they are basically a good person, will actually say they are a good person.

The people of our country are very much like those criminals in jail today. The people haven't reduced or stopped any of their sin, but still think they deserve something from God because they said His name a couple of times or celebrate what they believe to be His holidays or church events from time to time.

I don't hear any of our leaders or our future leaders proclaiming that we should confess our sin and trust Christ. Notice they never use the name of Christ, only "God." The name of Christ is embarrassing to them, but "god" can be generic, no one is too upset at that.

Nearly everyone wants to believe America is special, almost as though they think of this nation as the entity they worship. As though they are special and deserving of everything good, but their idea of good is far from the righteousness Christ demands and we are not able to accomplish.

Only Christ is good and righteous, only He can save our nation and only if we confess our sin and trust in Him.

A lot of big "only's"! We have been brainwashed to believe that all people are basically good, the opposite of what Christ teaches, and that everyone deserves to have good things, also the opposite of what God says.

Romans 6:22-23 "…22 But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life. 23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

Romans 1:31-32 "…31 They are senseless, faithless, heartless, merciless. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things are worthy of death, they not only continue to do these things, but also approve of those who practice them."

Psychology is the culprit that has deceived many into thinking that no one is bad and everyone deserves to be happy. How many times we have heard such non-sense. This thinking leads us away from repentance and produces pride, a pride so intense that it is difficult to penetrate it.

Christ must bring hardship into a nation that has grown such vast stores of arrogance within the hearts of most.

Acts 7:51-52 "51 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did. 52 Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—…"

2 Kings 17:13-14
"Yet the LORD warned Israel and Judah through all His prophets and every seer, saying, "Turn from your evil ways and keep My commandments, My statutes according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you through My servants the prophets." However, they did not listen, but stiffened their neck like their fathers, who did not believe in the LORD their God."

2 Chronicles 30:8
"Now do not stiffen your neck like your fathers, but yield to the LORD and enter His sanctuary which He has consecrated forever, and serve the LORD your God, that His burning anger may turn away from you."

Proverbs 1:24-31
"Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention; And you neglected all my counsel And did not want my reproof; I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes,When your dread comes like a storm And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. "Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me, Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD. "They would not accept my counsel, They spurned all my reproof. "So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way And be satiated with their own devices."

God was willing to discipline and punish His own people to get them to turn to Him, why on earth do you not see that He will do the same to us?