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"Is There Hope for America?” 
October 4, 2020 
 “Is There Hope for America?” 
If we do not turn from our wicked ways, the country of America is on a collision course with destruction. Is there hope for America? I guess that depends upon us, right? 
Allow me to give you snapshot of my opinion in what America has become since its inception… In my opinion… 
America is…  I. America is… A Nation Divided 
Never have we been more divided than we are right now. 
· We are divided racially and socially with the injustices that have taken place and continue to take place. 
· We are divided economically in greater degrees than ever; the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. 
· We are divided politically with the Democrats and Republicans, especially with the upcoming presidential election on the horizon. Some trust the government and some don’t. Some like the direction we’re headed while others don’t. 
· We are divided spiritually with the denominational Churches in the world. The Church is attacking one another in ways we’ve never seen before. Church houses are divided in unprecedented ways. 
· We are divided in the health world with the pandemic of Covid 19, masks vs. no masks; vaccines vs. no vaccine, etc. Who will fix it? Do we believe the scientists? Do we believe the doctors? Do we believe the media? 
· We are divided in our homes/families. Families are being torn apart.  Luke 11:17 
Every kingdom divided against itself is laid waste, and a divided household falls. 
 America is… A Nation in Deception 
Deception is the act or state of deceiving or the state of being deceived. The dictionary says to deceive is to mislead by a false appearance or statement. Sounds like the kind of environment we live in doesn’t it. 
Never before has the deception of the devil been as prevalent as it is right now. The devil comes to rob, kill and destroy. He comes has a deceiver. Deception is running rampant. 
· We have been deceived by church leaders 
· We have been deceived by elected government officials 
· We have been deceived by the media (in all aspects to varying degrees) 
· We have been deceived by the medical experts everyone has a different interpretation of science 
· We have been deceived by the Devil! And he’s getting away with it!   
2 Thessalonians 2:3 Let no one deceive you in any way. 
 III. America is… A Nation in Defiance 
America has always been a pluralistic nation, offering the freedom of religion to its people, but from our very founding it has also been a nation in which Christianity has always been the dominate Faith of our people. That is no longer true in reality. We have become like Judah of old, our nation now tolerates all gods except the Christians God, Jesus Christ, the God of our ancestors and of our history. 
We too are abandoning Him and opening our doors to any and all of the false gods of the world. In every city in America there stands houses of worship for every faith known unto man, and on top of that, America like Judah has made the works of our own hands our gods as well. – The god of sports, finances, business, music, entertainment. 
The decades of carnality and apostasy in the Christian Church has weakened our faith and allowed our society to believe that all faiths are equal, that Salvation is not exclusively in Jesus, and to say so, is to be intolerant. Now America is tolerant of all faiths and gods except the Christian Faith and the Christians God. 
That was the state of religion in Judah when she fell under the judgment of God. 
Are we still One Nation Under God? If so, who’s God is it? God or god? 
 “So help You (your) God.” In many courtrooms today. 
 John 14:6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. 
No one comes to the Father except through Me.” 
 IV. America is… A Nation in Depravity 
On June 25, 1962, the U.S. Supreme Court declared school-sponsored prayers unconstitutional in the landmark case Engel vs. Vitale. Prayer was taken out of the public school system. 
Public outrage was immediate and widespread. For millions of Americans, the Court had “kicked God out of the schools,” to use a phrase that has entered the culture-war lexicon. 
The Results of That Decision… 
Teen Pregnancy: For 15 years before 1963 pregnancies in girls ages 15 through 19 years had been no more than 15 per thousand. After 1963 pregnancies increased 187% in the next 15 years. 
For younger girls, ages 10 to 14 years, pregnancies since 1963 are up 553%. 
Divorce Rates: Before 1963 divorce rates had been declining for 15 years. After 1963 divorces increased 300% each year for the next 15 years. 
Educational Standards: The educational standard of measure has been the SAT scores. SAT scores had been steady for many years before 1963. From 1963 they rapidly declined for 18 consecutive years, even though the same test has been used since 1941. 
Crime: Since 1963 violent crime has increased 544%. 
Illegal drugs: Have become an enormous & uncontrollable problem. 
Legalized Abortion: In 1973, the Supreme Court legalized abortion nationally with the Roe v. Wade decision, since then over 61 million babies have been aborted legally in the US. 
Same Sex Marriage: In 2015 Supreme Court Declares Same-Sex Marriage Legal In All 50 States 
Pornography: Porn sites on the internet is a multibillion dollar industry, destroying untold lives of people of all ages and destroying the heart beat of morality in the our country. 
We are a pornographic society, so much so that there are reports that tell us that Americans spend more of their money each year on pornography than groceries.  
Psalms 9:17 “The wicked shall be turned into H-E-L-L, (sheol-the grave) and ALL the NATIONS that forget God.”  
V. America is… A Nation in Derision 
Derision means to be ridiculed, disrespected, mocked, to be literally laughed at, to be disrespected by others. 
The years of defying the Lord had taken a toll upon the nation of America. People around the world are looking at America with derision. 
Society itself is looking at the Church with derision, and saying how is the Church any different than the world?  Pornography in the Church.  Christian leaders “falling from grace.”  Divorce rate higher in the Church; 3 out of 4. 
The Church is looked at with great hypocrisy from the world’s eyes. They see no difference. In fact, a great deal of people would rather do business with a non-Christian as opposed to a Christian. They feel Christians are fake and hypocritical. 
Matthew 15:7-9 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” 
VI. America is… A Nation in Denial 
Jeremiah spent 40 plus years warning his nation, but no one took him seriously, the nation as a whole remained in the state of Denial. The same was true of Noah’s society, God had determined judgment for their wickedness and like he did Jeremiah, He called out Noah to warn his society of pending judgment, but they too remained in a state of Denial, and we are told in… 
 Matthew 24:38, 39 “For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark. And KNEW NOT until the flood came, and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son on Man be!” 
Did you notice what the people were doing while Noah was preaching and preparing the Ark for a refuge from the judgment to come? They were paying him no attention, they were in a state of Denial, and went on with life as usual. That was a disastrous mistake and it turned out to be a drastic mistake for Judah as well, and it will be a deadly mistake for America as well if we do not change. 
What if your doctor told you that you had a deadly virus and you needed to return to him and let him treat you and cure you or face a sure death? What would happen if you refused to accept his diagnosis, and just choose to go into a state of denial, thinking that if you didn’t face it, that it would sooner or later go away? The answer is simple, you would eventually die and nobody would be more surprised than you!! That is what happened to Judah; they refused to accept the Lord’s diagnosis and return to Him for their healing, and eventually died as a nation. 
That is where America is headed as sure as did Judah, as sure as did Noah’s generation, as sure as did Sodom and Lot’s wife. The Fear of God is our salvation. The Fear of God is to simply begin to take Him and his Word seriously enough to believe it and act upon it. 
“By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, Moved With Fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.” 
America, the dark cloud of judgment looms over our land, and it is certain that it is soon to be raining the judgment of the Lord down upon us. Take the Lord seriously, run for the ark of refuge that is in Jesus and Jesus alone. 
Do not believe the lie that just because you attend church you are immune from judgment, or that America is special and beyond the reach of God’s judgment. That is playing the fool and the hypocrite. 
Romans 2:11 “For there is no respect of persons with God” Nor does He play favorites with nations, allowing some nations to live wickedly and some not to do so. 
Judah was [Zechariah 2:7] “…the apple of His eye”, yet that did not spare them from the judgment of God, as a matter of fact “…judgment Must Begin at the House of God…” 
1 Peter 4:17 For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 18 Now “If the righteous one is scarcely saved, Where will the ungodly and the sinner appear?” 19 Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator. 
The Heart of a Nation will Follow the Heart of the Church 
Therefore; the Church is on a collision course of disaster that must change! I propose to you that…  
America needs a Damascus Road Experience, that starts with the Church! 
2 Chronicles 7:13 “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command locusts to devour the land or send a plague among my people, 14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. Slide 19 15 Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayers offered in this place. 16 I have chosen and consecrated this temple so that my Name may be there forever. My eyes and my heart will always be there. 17 “As for you, if you walk before me faithfully as David your father did, and do all I command, and observe my decrees and laws, 18 I will establish your royal throne, as I covenanted with David your father when I said, ‘You shall never fail to have a successor to rule over Israel.’  19 “But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. 19 “But if you turn away and forsake the decrees and commands I have given you and go off to serve other gods and worship them, 20 then I will uproot Israel from my land, which I have given them, and will reject this temple I have consecrated for my Name. I will make it a byword and an object of ridicule among all peoples. 
Let’s look at ACTS 9 & “ACCEPT’” The Damascus Road Experience : A Damascus Road Experience Unfolds in Five Phases 
I believe that the Church, setting the stage for the rest of the country, must walk in these unfolding phases in order to see America saved. 
PIC ILLUS: De-Mask-Us 

Here we are a Church in the Yakama Valley that was started by Johnny Manchester from Wapato Assembly of God under Brother Waters who saw revival in Wapato for several weeks that shut down the taverns as people were going to Church and getting saved. This resulted in several from the Brownstown and White Swan area getting saved and wanting to start a Church in Brownstown this happen in 1936 the year I was born. We saw the Church grow until we have to have a bigger building so the Board agreed to build in Harrah in 1955, I was a High School Senior at the time and then in 1957 I married Virginia Meshke, We raised 4 boys in this Church and know the influence the Church has had on our family and many other families, the Poisels, Crowell’s, Ruthharts, Hedlund’s, Norton’s, Kearby’s, Jensens, Walters, Shades,  Hertzog’s, Reesman’s, Olsen’s, Olswalts, Mees, Dekker’s, Eltons, Smelters, Campfield’s , Mckinzies, Knights, Roberts and many more as we had a high of 200 people attending at times. So this Church has been a witness of the Love of the Lord for which we are grateful for. Yes we have had many experience that gave us the ability to keep true to the Doctrines of the Assembly of God as members. It is very important we keep our membership up to date so our light does not go out as a witness of Gods, glory and grace. 
My mother was a miller and here mothers sister Flow’s married Earl Randell who’s boy was Gary Randell a few years younger than I who went to Wapato High School who is now writing from Freedom for America who I follow on a daily bases and work for when he had a talk show in Portland Oregon on Fox new make sure all the pastor in our Eastern Wa know about and may be ab le to be a guest of Gary’s on his show.