This is the Truth Network. Welcome to the broadcast ministry of Finding Purpose with Russ Andrews, where we seek to glorify God by making Him known and guiding others towards their true purpose in life. No one is here by chance. God put us here for a reason, and the most important thing we can do is discover His plan for us and commit ourselves to it. Keep listening as we learn from the Bible how to live wisely in God's world, which is the first step towards finding your purpose.
Well, I've entitled tonight's message "Sound the Trumpet." We're going to be looking at Hosea chapter eight. The Old North Church played a pivotal role in the American Revolution, as it was located at Boston's North End, being one of the tallest structures. Made it a useful tower from which to send signals to warn the colonists of the approaching British military. Robert Newman, the church's caretaker, was given the discreet task of hanging either one or two lanterns in the church's steeple. One lantern meant the British were approaching by land.
Two lanterns meant that they were approaching by sea.
So on the night of April the eighteenth, seventeen seventy-five, Newman hurried up the stairs to the steeple where he hung two lanterns.
Meanwhile, across the Charles River, Paul Revere was anxiously waiting in Charlestown. He was staring intently across the river into the darkness, and he was staring at the in the direction of the steeple, which I don't think he could see in the dark, but he knew where it was. When he saw the two lights appear, he knew the British were approaching by sea, and so he quickly mounted his horse and began to ride toward Lexington as fast as that horse would carry him. And he was headed there to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that the British were coming to arrest them. After warning them, he continued on towards Concord, warning colonists along the way with that famous cry: "The British are coming." The British are coming.
On the following day, April the nineteenth, seventeen seventy-five, the shot that was heard around the world was fired at Lexington's Old North Bridge, marking the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. In essence, Paul Revere was a watchman for the American colonists, and in the same way, throughout the Old Testament, God had His appointed watchman. Isaiah chapter sixty-two verse six says, "I have posted watchmen on your walls of Jerusalem; they will never be silent day or night." In the Bible, a watchman refers to a man who's been appointed by God to watch over a city or a nation. In this case, the nation of Israel. The watchman was responsible for being alert and vigilant, and he was listening for the voice of God, and he was tasked.
With with sounding an alarm to alert the Israelites of coming danger, in this case, the judgment of God. The prophet Ezekiel lived during the same time of Jeremiah. They they both lived during the latter parts of the Southern Kingdom of Judah before Judah was attacked by the Babylonians. And for the first seven years of Ezekiel's ministry. He faithfully warned his fellow Jews of the unavoidable divine judgment of God that was coming.
In Ezekiel thirty-three verses seven through nine, it reads, "And this is God speaking to him, Son of Man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel.
So hear the word I speak and give them warning from me. When I say to the wicked, 'O wicked man, you will surely die.'" And you do not speak out to dissuade him from his ways. That wicked man will die for his sin, and I will hold you accountable for his blood. But if you warn the wicked man to turn from his ways and he does not do so, he will die for his sins. But you will have saved yourself.
And as you can see, the calling to be one of God's watchmen it comes with great responsibility. And I would argue that it's not a very enviable position. And here's the deal: every pastor in America today should be a watchman. Would y'all agree with that? That's what we need in America.
We need watchmen. And this brings us to Hosea chapter eight, and so from chapter eight, I can't cover all the verses. We'd be here an hour and a half, but I want to answer two very—I want to answer three questions, but I didn't have time for the third question, which is probably good because I was going to talk about what God's wrath looks like. Aren't you glad I'm not going to answer that one?
So anyway, we're going to talk about two questions, and this is the first one: When mankind rebels against God, what does God do? How does He respond? You know what he does, and it's because of his mercy. He sends a warning. Look at verse one.
So God is speaking to Hosea, his watchman. He says, "Put the trumpet to your lips." An eagle is over the house of the Lord, because the people have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law. Hosea was one of God's watchmen, and he was tasked with the duty of warning the Israelites of God's coming judgment. God's wrath was coming in the form of a vast army. Depicted as an eagle, which was symbolic of power.
You think about an eagle; it was—they're powerful, and they are quick. They can swoop down and and capture whatever they want in just an instant. In the in the ESV translation, which I know a lot of you use, verse one reads: "Set the trumpets to your lips. One like a vulture is over the house of the Lord." Now, when you're driving down the road and you see vultures flying overhead, you know that what's on the ground, something that's what, dead.
So when Hosea looked above the sky spiritually over the land of Israel, he saw vultures circling. At that time, Israel was wasting away in its sin, and judgment, in the form of the Assyrian army, was coming from the north.
Now the Assyrian army, you need to know this, was known for its brutality and violence. To imagine the Assyrian army, all you have to do is go back and watch some video, which I wouldn't encourage, of Hamas when they attacked the Jews on October the seventh. The Assyrians were infamous for their mass killings and executions. They would often slaughter entire populations of cities that resisted them, and they would leave very few survivors. They used torture and mutilation, just like Hamas, such as flaying.
Do you know what that is? A skinning a man alive, impaling, and beheading.
Now keep this in mind. The Assyrian army was a tool of punishment in the hands of who? Who? God. God is behind this.
This is why we should have a very healthy fear of God. It was God who sent them to punish His people. Hebrews ten thirty and thirty one says, "The Lord will judge His people." It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Why would God do this? What were the specific sins of the Israelites that aroused God's anger to such an extent?
Well, let me give you tonight six of the most egregious sins that Israel committed, and here's the first one, in verse one, the Israelites broke God's covenant, and they also broke His laws. Look at verse one again. Put the trumpet to your lips, Hosea. An eagle is over the house of the Lord, because the people have broken my covenant and they've rebelled against my law.
Now, a trumpet was made from a ram's horn. I actually have one in my office. I can't blow it, but I've got one. If you can blow it, you need to be up here playing a musical instrument. But I can't blow the thing.
And so it made a loud signal that warned of approaching danger. And so when the trumpet was heard, it left the people trembling in fear. Because they knew danger was coming, the prophet Joel, by the way, men, was a contemporary of Hosea, and he too was a watchman of Israel. Listen to what it says in Joel chapter two, verses one and two: Blow the trumpet in Zion, Joel; sound the alarm on my holy hill. Let all who live in the land tremble, for the day of the Lord is coming; it is close at hand.
It will be a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and blackness, like dawn spreading across the mountains. Here you go. A large and mighty army comes, such as never was of old, nor ever will be again in ages to come. When you go read these prophets, and they were specifically naming the Assyrians coming from the north, decades before it happened. What does that tell you about the Bible?
It's the word of God.
Now take your Bible and turn with me to Exodus chapter twenty-four. Genesis, Exodus. You got that? Chapter twenty-four. In chapter twenty-four, Moses comes before the Lord on Mount Sinai.
So he was up there for how many days? Forty days and forty nights, and he was up there receiving the law of God, including the Ten Commandments, which you can read about it, Exodus chapter twenty. If you look at chapter twenty-four, verses three and four, it says that when Moses went and told the people all the Lord's words and laws, they responded with one voice: "Everything the Lord has said, we will do." And so Moses then wrote down everything the Lord had said. Verse seven. Then Moses took the book of the covenant, and he read it to the people, and they responded in unison: "We will do everything the Lord has said.
We will obey." Verse eight. Moses then took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the Lord has made with you in accordance with all these words." In essence, they signed a blood covenant with God. They were saying, "We are going to obey everything in your law." Now, let me ask you a question: How long do you think it took for them to break the very laws they just? Signed a blood covenant with God about how long? How many?
Not that many. Just a few days. It could have been twenty, but it's just a few days. They didn't give Moses time enough to get off the mountain. In verse thirty in Exodus thirty-two, verse one, it says, "When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, 'Come, make us gods who will go before us.
As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what happened to him.' This fellow, they ditched him pretty quickly, didn't they? You see, the Israelites could not even keep the first two commandments more than about ten or fifteen days." Can we point any finger at the Israelites? No, we do the same thing. See, this is the essence of sin: when we rebel against God's laws and violate His commandments, we stand guilty before God, and what do we deserve? Death.
Romans three twenty three says, "For all have sinned and fall short of what the glory of God." See, most people when they think of themselves. I'm not such a bad person because I'm comparing myself to Tommy Drake. I look good compared to Tommy. When Tommy, listen, when my wife drives around town with me, I'm so impatient. I'm going through, I'm cut through traffic.
He makes me look like I'm a slowpoke. And you talk about impatient. I'm sorry, Tommy. I'm picking on you. I just, I do though.
When I'm driving bad and Chrissy's getting mad at me, I just say, "Well, y'all drive with Tommy Drake. He's worse than I am." But anyway, we've all sinned and fall short of the glory of God. And Romans six twenty three says, "For the wages of sin is what death." And this explains why the gospel of Jesus Christ is such what good news. Isn't that what Jacqueoine talked about? The gospel is good news, and it's and it's man's only hope.
The only hope for our country in this world is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Now, that's the first sin. They um. They broke God's covenant. They broke His commandments. And here's the second one: the Israelites acknowledged God, but they did not know God.
Look at verse two. Israel cries out to me, "Our God, we acknowledge You." This is God speaking. You think He meant this as a compliment? No. You see, even the demons acknowledge God.
The Israelites knew a lot about God. They were very religious.
However, they did not know God personally. You understand me? You have to know God personally, right? You understand that? Isaiah twenty nine thirteen, the Lord says, "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men." This is one of the chief sins of the modern church. Church members acknowledge God every Sunday when they recite the Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed. Do I love the Lord's Prayer? Yes. Is Apostles' Creed biblical?
Yes. Is it good to recite it? Yes. But if you don't have the Holy Spirit in you, you might as well be reciting the Pledge of Allegiance. This explains why Jesus says in Matthew seven twenty three.
Many will stand before me one day, and they will say, "Lord, Lord." By the way, where do they come to know His name? In what? A church. They're going to start listing all the good things they did. We went to church.
I taught Sunday school. Lord, didn't you see what I did? And He's going to say to them, "I never knew you. Depart from me." Can you imagine that day if that was you? Because when he says depart from me, there's no turning back.
You know how long that's going to last when you have to, if you have to depart from Jesus at the day of judgment, forever. Have you ever thought about how long forever is? It's it's it's endless. It never comes to an end. Nothing you can do about it.
So, what does it mean to know God personally? This may be the most important thing I say tonight. To know God personally, you have to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit, and to be indwelt by the Holy Spirit, you must, according to John one twelve, you must receive Him into your heart by believing in His name, and then you then you are then you become a child of God by faith.
Okay. And the moment that you place your trust in Jesus, according to Ephesians one thirteen or fourteen, the moment that you hear the the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, having believed, you are marked in Him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit. It's in that moment that you, when you're born again, men, that the Holy Spirit comes and takes up residence within you. And then, when you have the Holy Spirit in you, Gary Johnson was mentioned this night. Where's Gary?
Right there, I said your name. Could you hear me?
Okay, you can't really understand the Bible unless you have the Holy Spirit in you. But when you have the Holy Spirit in you, and you begin to read it, it just makes sense. And so, the more you read the Bible and you pray, as you grow in your faith, that's how you come to know God personally. It doesn't happen overnight. Just like when you marry your wife.
You may have known her for a year and you've been dating her, but when you get married, you don't really know yet, do you? Give it ten years, then you'll know her. That's the same way it is with God. You just begin. You you marry.
It's like you marry the Lord when you're born again, and then you begin to live your life with Him, and you read the Bible and you pray. And the more you do that, the more you can sing that hymn, and He walks with me, and He talks with me, and He tells me what. I am His own.
So let me ask you a question: Do you really do you know Jesus personally, or do you just know a lot about Him? You can know a lot about Jesus and not really know Him. Here's the third sin: the Israelites rejected God's word. Look at verse three. But Israel has rejected what is good.
So, what is good? This book is good. They rejected God's word, and they also rejected God. Let me ask you a question: Why do so many people have such a difficult time believing that this is actually the word of God? I mean, from Genesis one to Revelation twenty-two.
This is God's word. I know He wrote it through about forty men over fifteen hundred years, but He guided them along using their personalities and their individual writing styles, so they wrote exactly what He intended for them to write. It's God breathed. I've got a friend of mine that I have been witnessing to. I kid you not, for over thirty years, and I'm not sure if he's saved or not.
I've invited him to a Bible study that I was leading back in the 1990s. I gave him his first NIV study Bible, 1985 copyright. I have shared countless scriptures and verses and devotionals and and Christian books with him, and he's an avid reader. Yet, in spite of all of this, even the other day we were talking about the inerrancy of Scripture, and he doesn't quite. He's not quite there yet.
Why is that? Second Timothy three sixteen says, "All Scripture is what God breathed. He breathed His Word into existence, and He breathed life into this book, just like He breathed life into Adam. This book is the living Word. In Psalm nineteen, verses seven and eight." David writes, "The law of the Lord is perfect, reviving the soul.
The statutes of the Lord are trustworthy, making wise the simple. The precepts of the Lord are right, giving joy to the heart. The commands of the Lord are radiant, giving light to the eyes." Man, this is the way we should see God's word: that it's perfect, trustworthy, right, and radiant. The word of God is not just good; it's what perfect. It gives life to your soul.
Just read it, and you'll experience it. It makes you wise like God. First Corinthians two sixteen says, "We actually take on the mind of Christ." When you begin to read the Bible, I think of a funnel sitting right here. It's like you're taking his, it's like you're taking the mind of God. This book is just a little piece of God's mind, but it's all of His mind that He said we need to know right now.
And when you read it, it's like you're funneling His mind. It's just dripping into your mind, and to the point where you pretty much know. This book backwards and forwards, and you have taken on the mind of Christ. And then, guess what you can do as a Christian? It says, in First Corinthians two fifteen, you can make judgments about how many things, all things.
Why? Because you become a wise man.
So, why do the vast majority of people never pick up this book and read it? You know why? There are two occupied with other things. If they only knew. Number four, the Israelites committed idolatry.
Look at verses five and six. Throw at your calf idol, O Samaria! My anger burns against them. How long will they be incapable of purity? They are from Israel.
This calf. See how God keeps talking about this calf? You think it was a thorn in His side? Yes. A craftsman has made it.
It is not from. It is not God. In other words, this idol. If they were worse than this bitch right here, it's not God. It's made out of wood, silver, and gold.
Man-made. It will be broken in pieces. That calf of Samaria. That's what the Syrians did. They just broke it in pieces when they arrived.
But you see, the Israelites are just like us. Idolatrous, rebellious. In unholy. We've all been there. See, this is the condition of the human heart.
It's been said. I don't know who said it. Maybe somebody. I think somebody said. Augustine may have said it.
That the heart is an idol factory. What do you mean by that? He meant that our hearts are constantly creating new idols that we bow down to. Money, pleasure, success, popularity. When a nation is spending two—I don't know how much money now—two billion dollars on a football stadium, you think we've gotten things a little bit out of proper order?
Now, I love football. Jeremiah seventy-nine says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? You see, the closer you get to the light, Jesus said, "I'm the light of the world." The closer you get to the light, the more you see what in yourself—sin. This is why Isaiah in chapter six, when he saw basically the holy of holies in heaven, he said, "Woe unto me!
I'm a man of unclean lips." And he was about as holy as you could get as a man. When Aaron made back to Exodus, when Aaron made an idol in the shape of a calf from all the gold the Israelites had given him, it aroused God's anger. Do you remember what he said when he told Moses when he finally came? He said, "Look, these people gave me all this gold. I threw it in there, and out came a calf." Right.
Isaiah thirty. Listen to this. I want to show you how angry God got. Isaiah thirty-two verses nine and ten says, "This is God speaking. I have seen these people." The Lord said to Moses, "And they are a stiff-necked people.
Now leave me alone, so that my anger may burn against them, that I may destroy them." Then Moses, I'll make you into a great nation. He was going to destroy all the Israelites and just start over, like he did with Noah. Start over with Moses. What did Moses do? He pleaded with God not to destroy the people, and God relented and did not destroy them completely.
However, Moses, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, told all the Levites, who were the Levites, they were the priests, to put their swords on their sides and to walk through the camp, killing their brothers, their friends. And their neighbors, who directed Moses to do that? God. Do you want many more killed? How many?
Very good, Bill. He beat you, Jeff.
Sorry. Look, Jeff. Sad, Jeff. You beat him most of the time. All right, back to the back to what I was talking about.
Since the Bible makes perfect clear. God sees everything that you and I do.
So, what does God see when He looks down at America tonight? He sees people who reject His word, who break His laws, who reject the good and savor the evil, who acknowledge Him but do not know Him, and who worship man made idols.
So, let me ask you a question: What do you think our nation deserves—God's blessings or His judgment? Number six, the Israelites were very. Excuse me. Number five, the Israelites were very religious and very lost, and because of this, they lacked wisdom. Look at verse eleven and twelve.
Are y'all hanging with me?
Okay. Verse eleven, though Ephraim, that was the largest tribe. But that's just another word for the nation of Israel. Though Ephraim built many altars for sin offerings, look, they built many altars for sin offerings. These have become altars for sinning, according to God.
Verse twelve: I wrote for them the many things of my law. In other words, I gave them my words. What God is saying, but they regarded my word as something foreign. How many churches do you think we have in America? I've read three hundred fifty thousand, but I think it's got to be more than that.
But anyway, we have tens of thousands of churches in America. Just like they were building many altars, we've built many churches, and yet only a few people study and know the Bible. Why is this?
Well, the main reason is due to the leadership within our churches. I'm sorry I have to pick on the church so much, but it's the truth. Most ministers today come from very liberal seminaries. Where they have been taught that the Bible is full of errors. My sister-in-law went to—I'm going to name the seminary—Duke Divinity School, and she had an atheist for a professor.
She lasted one semester. I've got a friend of mine, Brian Sexting, who was the son of my minister who led me to the Lord, Kenneth Sexting, and you know, Methodist go to Duke Divinity School. Most of them.
So Brian, who was a year younger than me, good friend of mine, played on the little football team with me. He went to do divinity school. He said it was the worst three years of his life. He walked out of class one day because the professor was using so much profanity.
So these seminaries are cranking out these ministers who don't even believe that the Bible is the word of God. Seriously, and they end up where? Hello, they end up at church as your pastor. God did not call them; they just chose to go to divinity school. And so, because they don't really believe that this is the word of God, they don't have the passion to preach it verse by verse and to explain the text clearly to the people who show up on Sundays.
Thus, the vast majority of church members never bring their Bibles to church. Why should they? If he doesn't really believe it, and you can tell it because he's not passionate about it, why bring the Bible? And because these ministers do not believe that the Bible is God's word, they fail to see the need for Scripture in the life of church members.
So they never really encourage you to read it. There's no encouragement from the pulpit to read the Bible. Y'all agree with what I'm saying? I've been seeing it for 40 years. This is not something I just learned about last week.
Let me ask you a question. Why is it so important to read your Bible every single day? I could give you a thousand reasons, but let me just give you two. First, just as eating food, who likes to eat besides me? I went to the Taza Grill of Denny's Winston.
Y'all have been to that place? I just chowed down today for lunch. I had, never mind. See, I like to eat because it nurses my body. But but just as food nurses our body, reading the Bible nurses your soul.
It's like your soul, it's waiting there to be fed. Are you feeding it? It just gives life to your body. Thomas Martin said, "By reading of Scripture, I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me." It just renews your spirit. Reading God's Word, as I've already said, gives you wisdom concerning all of life.
This side of heaven, it tells you everything you need to know about life. A.W. Tozer put it like this: The Holy Scriptures tell us what we could never learn any other way. They tell us what we are, who we are, how we got here, why we are here, and what we are required to do while we remain here. That covers it all, doesn't it?
It also tells you. A pretty. It answers a pretty important question: What's going to happen when you die? Huh? Number six, last one, because the Israelites regarded the word of God as something foreign or alien.
They forgot all about God. Look at verse fourteen. God says, "Israel has forgotten his Maker." When a man or a nation Never reach God's word. When the word of God is not heard, that man and/or that nation soon forgets all about God.
So, what has happened to our country?
Well, as a nation, we have acted just like Israel, treating the Bible as something alien, and in essence, we've forgotten God. What precipitated this? Would y'all agree with us? I mean, a lot of people get up on Sunday morning. Not only do they not go to church, they're not even thinking about God.
Doesn't even enter their mind. All week they don't think about God. Why is that? What happened in our nation?
Well, I point the blame at two institutions. You want to guess which one? I miss. United States Supreme Court.
Well, that's not where I was going with it, but well, it sort of is. Two institutions. God created how many institutions? Three. Family in Genesis, government in Genesis, and then the church in the New Testament.
Family, government, and church. Those are the only three institutions that God created, and I point to really I can point to three of them, but I'm going to focus on two of them: the church and the government. When the church no longer holds up Scripture as the Word of God, then what follows next is to be expected. We begin to lose sight of God until the point we think of Him no longer. How many people get up on Sunday mornings and don't even give God any consideration?
From the foundation of our nation. The church played a vital role in steering its members in the direction of the Lord, and many of these church members went on to serve in our government as presidents, congressmen, and judges. And as long as the church stayed true to God's word, which it did for years, then the people who attended that church had a biblical worldview, and the church members who served in government carried that biblical worldview with them. Into government, and they enacted laws that aligned with the Bible. But over the course of time, as the church drifted from God's word, so too did those who serve in our government.
Thus, our government leaders lost sight of God. Why do you think there's the Ten Commandments in the Supreme Court with a picture of with a you know symbol of Moses there? Why do you think the Ten Commandments are in all the courtrooms around the country? Why do you think there are verses on the on the monuments in Washington D.C.? Who put it there?
You see, our government leaders lost sight of God, and today God, in essence, is absent in our government institutions.
So, what precipitated this?
Well, in the early nineteen sixty, two legal decisions altered the course of our nation. In 1962, in the landmark case of Engel versus Vitale, and I'm not talking about Dick Vitale, the Supreme Court ruled that state-sponsored prayer in public schools was unconstitutional. Then, in 1963, in Abington School District versus Schimpf, if I'm pronouncing that right, once again the Supreme Court ruled that mandatory Bible reading in public schools was unconstitutional. This was 1962 and 1963. Do you know where I was in 1962 and 63?
I was in Bethel in the second and third grade, and I remember when this happened, and I couldn't figure out why. I thought this was a good thing, and so we have long ago. Forgotten God, verse seven is a key verse in this chapter. Says they sow to the wind and reap the whirlwind. The Israelites sow to the wind.
In other words, they turn to false gods and worship them, which was useless, like trying to plant seeds during a windy storm. Thus, they were about to reap the whirlwind, the judgment of God, like a destructive tornado. For the past sixty years, my people have committed. Excuse me. Going back to the nineteen sixties, our nation has been sewn to the wind, and because of time, I'm going to close here.
We've committed two chief sins in America. We've forsaken the Lord, who is the spring of living water, and we have built our own gods that are like broken cisterns. Our families are broken. Our government is broken. Our churches are broken.
Our educational system is broken. Our nation is broken.
So, what is the only solution to the problem of our nation? Is it the government? Is it our school system? It's God. It's God.
We, we as a nation, and guys, it begins with Christians. It begins in the house of God. We have to get on our knees. I'm talking about as Christians, and confess our sins and repent, and ask the Lord to forgive us. Second Chronicles seven fourteen is the recipe.
If my people who call by my name will humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin. And will heal their land. This is the only solution of our nation. We need to pray for revival. We need to pray that more men will come here and hear the truth and become biblical men who can restore family, families to the Word of God and build strong families that know and love the Lord.
Because as the as the father goes, the family goes, and as the family goes, the nation goes. That's where we need. We need biblical men. Speaking of that, on April the twenty ninth, right here, as our last night here, we're bringing in Josh Miller from Charlottesville, who's my son's pastor, who I happened to hear three weekends ago. He's 37 years old.
He's one of the greatest communicators I've heard in my life, and he's going to give a message here on biblical manhood. And we want to fill this room right here with a thousand plus men—grandfathers, fathers, sons, and grandsons. And I would say the grandsons, you're around in high school. That age is probably the youngest. Let's pray, Heavenly Father.
Thank you for this night. Thank you for Your Word. Thank you for these men. And Lord, I do believe, Lord, that You are showing our nation mercy. We still have a lot of believers in this country, and I pray, Lord, that You would bring revival to our land, and that You would bring Your church, Your people, to a place of repentance.
In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen. You've been listening to Finding Purpose with Russ Andrews. This broadcast is made possible because of the prayers and financial gifts of listeners like you. If you want to learn more about our ministry or support us as we reach others with God-centered Bible teaching, please visit us at FindingPurpose.net.
