Watchman Radio Hour

When true revival comes, we may see much of what we see in worship today come to an end. God wants us to get back to the basics and get rid of all this stuff we have accumulated in our churches. He wants our hearts.

Until we fear God again as a people, we will not prosper as a people. Our nation has been blessed because former generations feared God and unless we recover that fear of God, our nation will not survive. Nations in the past have been judged because they forsook God. Our nation is not exempt from such an end. Yet, we must not give up. We must pray for the restoration of the fear of God among our people.

Today, our Sundays have become an insult and offence to God and we seem not to care. We continue to go our own way and do our own things and seek our own pleasures and could care less what God thinks. Such an attitude spells disaster for the nation which will surely come if we do not repent.

We make up our own morals and think God should let His face shine upon what we have created. We conveniently forget from where we have come and have turned our backs on the God of our forefathers. We have created a false morality. We have rejected God's laws and created our own laws in their place. That's why movies today are filled with curse words and immorality, things an earlier generation thought were wrong. We have rejected the morality of our forefathers and established our own. Today, we can have our super bowls on Sunday and do anything else we like because we have rejected a morality that once ruled the land and we have established our own.

Our sins have not gone unnoticed by God. He knows our national sins. He has seen our wickedness. He has been withholding his judgement though he has warned us and disciplined us already. Yet, He will not always hold back his wrath. We as a nation are in grave danger and don't even know it. We go along in our sins and continue to pile them up in the face of God. We have little fear of God in the land. Because of this we face sure and certain judgement unless we turn around before its too late. Is there no hope for the nation at this point? Have we gone too far and is their no turning back? Are we doomed to judgement? The answer is "No!" Our only hope is a national spiritual revival and repentance as a nation resulting therefrom.

Jesus is on the throne. He is reigning from heaven. He has sent forth His church into the world to make disciples of all the nations. He is spreading His kingdom and destroying the devil's domain. He will continue to reign and the world will be swallowed up by His Kingdom. Pioneer missionaries such as William Carey saw this clearly and though only one convert had been won after five and one-half years, Carey and his colleagures said, "He was only one, but a continent was coming behind him. The divine grace which changed one Indian's heart, could obviously change a hundred thousand." There are those today who are gazing into heaven looking for the Lord to return soon. Yet, the Lord did not call us to stand gazing into heaven. He called us to go and make disciples of all the nations. Our task is not done. The Messiah's reign in this world is not complete. His Kingdom still needs to spread throughout the world to all peoples and nations.

We must beware of removing the ancient boundary stones or landmarks. Today, so much is being done to remove the ancient landmarks of our nation. There are those who want to secularize the nation and take God completely out of the public sector. No nation that once acknowledged God as this nation has in the past and turns away from him will escape his displeasure.

Many modern historians do our founding fathers a great disservice in what they write. School children know little of what happened in the founding of our nation. In an ever increasing sense the glory is leaving our land. The fear of God has vacated the land and the glory is departing. It is the fear of God that brings glory to a land. Today, we need a nation of people who fear God. When that happens, the glory will return to our land.

Will the gospel be victorious in this age or will it go down in defeat? Will Satan win the battle or will the church be the winner in this age? Some say the church is already defeated and all we do now is to wait to be taken out the way and for Satan to take over. We can only hope to win a remnant to Christ in this age. Is this really what the Bible teaches or does it teach something much more optimistic?

What is our vision for the church today? Are we praying for revival to set the church on fire and spread into all the world? We should be. This is God's desire. We should pray to that end. Instead of prophecy conferences to discuss the latest rapture theories, we should be holding great prayer meetings for revival. Are we prophets of doom or escapist theologians looking only for a rapture to take us away to bliss or are we storming the windows of heaven to send a great revival upon us. Which shall it be? Do we no longer believe in the glorious days of the church as our forefathers in the faith so clearly saw so long ago? Have we thrown in the towel and surrendered the church to Satan as far as this age is concerned? I pray that we haven't and that we will get a new vision for the church in this age.