Sermon: “FOUR REASONS WHY GOD IS SHAKING AMERICA AND THE WORLD”

Di Wake Up Call Event

Tank yuh. A one honor fi deh yah tonight — especially at dis critical moment inna American history, an inna di history a di worl.

Thousands a years ago, chruu di Hebrew Profit Hagai, God did tell wi weh Him did a go do — dat Him did a go shake wi. “Kaaz a so di Laad we av aal a di powa se, ‘Likl bit fram nou, mi a-go shiek op di evn an di ort, di sii an di jrai lan agen. Mi ago shake all di nations.... Mi a-go shiek di evn an di ort. Mi a-go mash dong aal a di kindom dem chuon an mash op di powa a di kindom dem iina di nieshan dem.’” (Aggai 2:6-7, 21-22)

Dat a weh Bible prophecy is – an intercept fram di mind a di all-knowing, all-seeing God a di universe....a weather report fram di future....a storm warning fram di future — not so dat wi ago be afraid, but so dat wi wi wiek op an redi an fietful an waak kluos tu Jiizas wen di staam dem kom.

Yuh memba weh yuh did deh pan September 11th, 2001?
Yuh memba how yuh did feel wen yuh si di Pentagon a bon, di smoldering wreckage inna Pennsylvania, di two towers dem a implode?
Not since Pearl Harbor did have so many Americans get kill inna one attack – more dan 3,000 dat deh day.
 None a wi naa go eva figet da die de — an wi no fi figet it tu.

 God neva cause 9/11 fi happen....fanatics devoted to di false teachings of Radical Islam cause 9/11 fi happen....but di True an Living God — di God a di Bible — mek it happen fi shake America.... fi get wi attention....fi wake wi up.

Mi waan ask yuh some kweschan tonight as we reflect pan 9/11, as we reflect pan di state a wi union, an di state a di Church, both yah an roun di worl: Pan dis anniversary a 9/11, yuh deh morally an spiritually beta off ten years ago? Yuh family? A yuh church?

Now a di appropriate time fi tek a spiritual audit — fi assess how yuh a do morally an spiritually, how yuh family a do, how yuh congregation a do. Ten years ago, God did a shake wi – di kweschan a: Wi did a lisn?

Inna di Book a Hebrews wi read: “Mek shuor seh yuh no refuse Him weh a talk yuh. Kaaz ef dem neva get we wen dem did ton we fram im we did waan dem pan ort, wi no get we wen dem ton we fram im we waan dem fram evn. An im vais did a shiek di ort den, bot nou im pramis se, ‘Mi a-go shiek no onggl di ort wan muo taim, bot di evn tu.” Hebrews 12:25-26)

Wi Laad Jiizas Krais — sidong wid im falara dem pan di Mount a Aliv ina Jeruusilem — im did waan ina Matyu 24 tu se wi wuda get shiek op ina di laas die dem, dem de die de we liid op tu Jiizas kom bak. “Di son a-go daak op, di muun a-go tap shain, di staar dem a-go jrap fram di skai, an di powa a di skai a-go shiek op,” Jiizas se. An den, wen piipl neva ekspek it, Jiizas se, “Di sain a di Son a Man a-go kom op iina di skai, an den aal a di chraib dem pan di ort a-go baal, an dem a-go si di Son a Man a kom pan di kloud dem di skai wid powa an big gluori. (Matthew 24:29-30)


America did shake pan 9/11. Tide, Gad a shiek wi agen.

Nine a di ten costliest – most expensive – hurricanes inna American history did happen since 9/11. Di wos wena Orikien Kachrina we nieli waip out wah Amoerkan siti ah enop kaas $108 bilian.[i]
Orikien Airin maita rangk ina di tap faib ah mek 2011 di wos ier ina Amoerkan ischri fi nachral dizaasta, wid ten separet katastrof we kaas $1 bilian ar muo.[ii]
Dis year, wi si di worst outbreak a tornadoes inna nearly half a century.[iii]
Di wos faya ina di ischri a Texas – mongx di wos jraaf ina di ischri a di stiet.[iv]
Di bigis oertkwiek pah di Iis Kuos sens 1875.[v]
Di biggest earthquake inna Colorado since 1882.
At di same time, wi economy a get shake to it core.

42,000 Amoerkan fakchri eh-shet dong sens 9/11.[vi]
Fourteen million Americans lost dem job jus inna di past few years.
Millions a families lost dem yaad.
Washington a run up di national credit card fi jump staat wi economy, but it naa work.
Wi federal debt is now more dan $14 trillion – dat a trillion wid a “t.” It haad fi imagine so much money. But put it dis way: if wi did fi pay one dollar per second every hour a every day a every month fi pay dung wi national debt, it woulda tek wi more dan 32,000 years jus fi pay off $1 trillion – but we have more dan $14 trillion a debt.