AGAPE USA DAY
When A Nation Turns Its Back on God
Memory
Verse:
Isaiah 1:3 (NIV)
3 The ox knows its master,
the donkey its
owner’s manger,
but Israel does not
know,
my people do not
understand.”
Text: 2 Chronicles 33:1–25;
Romans 1:18-32.
Introduction:
“The last experience
of the sinner is the horrible enslavement of the freedom he desired.” --C.S. Lewis
1. The Pointers
2
Chronicles 33:1-11 Romans 1:18-32; cf. Isaiah 1:3-4 cf. Jude 7; Genesis
19:1-12.
“The creation bears
clear witness to its Maker, and the evidence is “plain to them.”’ -- Everett F. Harrison
Psalm 106:20 (NLT)
20 They
traded their glorious God
for a statue of a grass-eating bull.
2. The Panacea
1
Timothy 2:1-2; 2 Chronicles 33:12-19; 2 Chronicles 7:14; Romans 13:1-4.
Psalm 33:12 (NKJV) Blessed
is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.
“It’s good to get acquainted with God now so
that at the end of time, you won’t be embarassed in his presence.” A.W. Tozer