<TITLE>04. Par 15-19</TITLE>L-15 Someone said to me sometime ago, said, "Preacher, our foundation of America was founded upon the--the reverence and the respects of our forefathers. They were religious men, therefore, God will protect this nation forever."
He will have no more respects for us than He did for Israel. Israel was His called and chosen people. And when they sowed, they reaped what they sowed. And that goes for individuals. No matter how holy, or church we claim to belong to, or how good we try to live, God is obligated to His Word, to judge us according to what He has said.

L-16 And I've made this statement. If this nation escapes judgment, God will be obligated to raise up Sodom and Gomorrah and apologize for sinking them and burning them up, for we are just as wicked as Sodom and Gomorrah ever was. And if He sunk Sodom and Gomorrah and burnt them up because of their sin, and He doesn't deal the same way with us, then He would be unjust and owe them an apology.
God doesn't have to apologize to nobody or nothing. Sin will be judged, and it'll be punished, just as sure as there's a God Who can make judgment. And God's judgment is Holy, God is holy. And therefore, His judgments and His works must be just and holy, because it becomes a holy God for His works and His judgment.

L-17 And oh, how this city, wading in sin, how our nation today, wading in sin... We just think because that we are Presbyterians, or Baptists, or Pentecostals, or something, that's all God requires. He requires justice, and that's the only thing that His law will recon--be recognized, is justice. He's no respect of denomination.
In the book of Acts, the 10th chapter and the 35th verse, the prophet said, "I perceive that God is no respect of nation or person, but will accept such as will serve Him in righteousness." No matter what church you belong to, God expects you to respect Him. And He wants you to serve Him in righteousness. If we fail to take them the Gospel, then God will judge them according to the knowledge that they had and how respectable they was to it. Oh, blessed be His Name.

L-18 As you can just simply feeled in this day that we're living, something's just about to happen. Oh, I'm looking with great anticipations for some glorious morning for the troubles to all be over, and the blessed Lord shall come, and we will be caught up to meet Him in the air. Oh, it should be the very motive of every heart and the very objective of every heart to be looking for that time, to see that our troubles and trials will be over.

L-19 And when we turn our thoughts now, to Babylon again for--to continue our message, we find in this great city, that when they got all secured, no nation could get to them. Why, they had two hundred foot walls to dig through, hundreds of feet high in the air, and great brass gates that it would take a company of soldiers to swing loose. They were well fortified. They had no need to be worried of any other nation. Now, that part was all right. But when they put sin in there, then remember, God can look anywhere and see you, no matter how fortified you are.
And I want to say this: there's only one way for the Christian to be fortified; that's under the Blood of the Son of the living God. That's one thing He cannot look through and judge. If you're covered by the Blood then God will not see you. He said in the Scriptures, "When I see the Blood I will pass, I will pass over you."


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