A nation abandoned by God

Over the next five days I am going to give you five reasons why our nation has been abandoned by God. Every day I hear people talking about the economy or how our country has just fallen apart but they just can’t understand why things are the way they are. As a country we have turned our back on God, taken Him out of everything and in turn He has abandoned us.  In the book of Romans, Paul gives us five reasons why God is so angry at men. The first reason is revelation and can be found in Romans 1:18-20 ^“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse" Here is the break down, verse 18 at the end it says that men hold the truth, how do men hold the truth you might ask verse 19 says God has manifested it to them, how was it manifested to them take a look at verse 20 through the creation of the world. Every man knows God but revelation is where it all begins where men start there pull away from God. Tomorrow I will give the second reason of why we are a nation abandoned by God.

So yesterday we learned that all men hold the truth of God and know that He exists through the creation of the world, but what men do with the truth God has given them is the key. To see what most men do with the truth that they have been given all we need to do is read Romans 1:21 “Because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened."  WOW!!! The first step was all men have the truth of God and now the second step says men reject the truth of God. That is strong stuff there. So what will you do with the truth that you have been given? Will you shout it from the mountain tops or will you be shy and hardly utter a word. I don’t know about you but I give all the glory to God for everything because without God I am nothing and for that I am so thankful for God and all that he has created. Don’t miss out on tomorrow’s step!

Today is the third step which puts us deeper into abandonment as a country. The third step is rationalization. In Romans 1:22 “Professing to be wise, they became fools”. So first man has a revelation of truth through the creation of the world, then man not wanting to glorify God or be thankful to God for being the creator of everything rejects the truth of God only to move on to rationalization which means they turn to their own reasoning in their dark and foolish hearts and truly believes he is wise but becomes the biggest fool of all.

After taking the last three steps the fourth step leads to religion in Romans 1:23 “and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man-birds and four footed animals and creeping things.” Man out of his own emptiness makes a false religion substituting it for the truth of God. When you hear of a religious man that means he is a man that has abandoned God and in turn was abandoned by God. Religion is as far away from God as you can get. Man had the truth of the one true God but rejected Him only to become a foolish religious person. Why does man do all this, the answer is very simple because he loves sin too much.

The fifth and final step is reprobation. Reprobation is being given up by God or abandoned by God due to man’s rejection towards God. Romans 1:24-28  24“Therefore God gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever.Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient.” Did you notice how man was moved on to this final step of reprobation? In verses 24, 26 and 28 it clearly states that God gave them up, gave them up to their vile twisted passions. It comes to a point that when you continually reject God and His truth, He will give you a push in the direction you want to go. Let’s take a look at 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 and see what happens after God gives you that push you wanted 10“and with all the unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness.”  So after the push from God He then sends you strong delusions to make you believe a lie! That to me is just mind blowing stuff, why anyone would want to reject the truth of God and not live for Him is beyond me. Now as a country I strongly believe that we have been abandoned by God because we have taken God out of everything, rejecting the truth of God. So in doing so I believe that God has given our country a push in the direction we wanted to go. You can tell that just by taking a look at the overwhelming support for homosexuality in our world today.  God is strongly against it as so am I but our country embraces it like it’s not a big deal. Let God have your whole heart and submit yourself to His will. Thank you for joining me these past five days. I hope that this study will help guide your feet along the path less traveled. If you have any questions feel free ask me, either on the question & comments page of this site or send me an email. God Bless!