HORROR HAS TAKEN HOLD OF ME
PSALM 119:53
PSALM 119:53
Introduction:
God’s faithful people look on the world today in horror of what they are seeing. Jeremiah said it in his day in Israel; saying in Jeremiah 5:30-31, “A wonderful (astonishment and filthiness) and horrible thing is committed in the land; 31-The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?”
Americans love to have it so also. They love their sin and are angry when someone points it out to them. So they listen to their false prophets and sinful priest as they pervert the Word of God.
I. THE SHUDDERING AMONG GOD’S PEOPLE BECAUSE OF SIN
Psalms 55:5, “Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.”
A. DAVID shed rivers of tears in sorrow because the unholiness of his day, Psalms 119:136, “Rivers of waters run down mine eyes, because they keep not thy law.”
B. EZRA mourned the transgression of the people, Ezra 10:6, “Then Ezra rose up from before the house of God, and went into the chamber of Johanan the son of Eliashib: and when he came thither, he did eat no bread, nor drink water: for he mourned because of the transgression of them that had been carried away.”
C. JEREMIAH desired eyes like fountains in order to lament the iniquities of Israel, Jeremiah 9:1, “Oh that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!”
D. LOT was vexed with the conversation of the men of Sodom, 2 Peter 2:7-8, And delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked: 8- (For that righteous man dwelling among them, in seeing and hearing, vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds;)”
E. EZEKIEL had a vision of those whom sighed and cried for the abominations of Jerusalem, Ezekiel 8:6, “He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.”
II. SIN MAKES THE RIGHTEOUS LOOK FOR JUDGMENT
A. Because sin is the violation of God’s law, Ezekiel 22:26, “Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
B. Because sin pulls down the pillars of our nation, Psalm 9:17, “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”
III. SIN IN OTHERS HORRIFIES BELIEVERS
A. Because he remembers the baseness of man’s heart, Jeremiah 17:9, The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
1. The heart is so deceitful that Jeremiah wondered who could understand it, Job 15:14-16, “What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15- Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. 16- How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?”
2. The hearts of the sons of men are full of evil, Ecclesiastes 9:3, “This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.”
B. Because sin crucified the Savior, 2 Corinthians 5:21, “For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.”
C. Because sin insults a loving God who sent His Son to die for our sins, Galatians 1:4, “Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:”
D. Because he knows that men will pay the penalty for their sins in Hell if they refuse God’s Son as Savior, Revelation 20:13-15, “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works. 14- And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15- And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.”
CONCLUSION