HIVA FAKALOTU TAKE OUR NATION GOD AGAIN - Havili Sefesi

THEME SONG - TAKE OUR NATION GOD AGAIN
It's a frightening thing to think about that. Frightening thing to think that you might be abandoned by God, that the opportunity for salvation is past, that the day of grace is over. The passages that I read to you relate to an individual in the case of Samson. But for the most part, they relate to a group such as the Pharisees or to a nation, such as Israel. And I think it's very relevant to talk about this because I'm going to try to show you from this passage tonight that it's pretty convincing that God has abandoned our nation. God has abandoned America to the effects of its sinful choices. Oh, this isn't the first nation that it's happened to, this is the story of history. Acts 14:16, the Apostle Paul said, "In the generations gone by, He...God...permitted all the nations to go their own way." This is the story of history. All the nations of history go their own way. So like the nations of old, like the nations past, we follow the same cycle of having the truth, rejecting the truth and being abandoned by God.
C.S. Lewis was writing in his book, The Problem of Pain and he wrote this, "The lost enjoy forever the horrible freedom they have demanded and are therefore self-enslaved." God will abandon sinners to their own choices and the consequences of those choices. And just what is this abandoning act on God's part, it is the removal of restraining grace. It is when God lets go and turns a society over to its own sinful freedoms and the results of those freedoms. No Scripture more directly confronts this abandonment and its consequences than Romans 1 does. Here is the most graphic and the most comprehensive discussion of what it means to be abandoned by God and it is the best passage that I know of to explain the moral chaos and the confusion that we experience in our own nation at this very time. God's wrath is already at work in our culture. We're not waiting for it, we are currently experiencing it.
Proverbs 16:3 says, "Commit your works to the Lord, and your thoughts will be established."