Dr. Cullian W. Hill, the senior pastor of The Greater Concord Missionary Baptist Church and founder of the Commonwealth Academy School has been thriving for over 41 years. Dr. Hill and the Greater Concord Church has accomplished many goals as a congregation like feeding the community, continuing education for kids in the community and providing solid Bible based teachings.
“I’m grateful and thankful to thank God that he placed on my heart to organize Greater Concord Missionary Baptist Church and is truly blessed to see how God has sustained us down through the years. said Dr. Hill”. Greater Concord Church has been a beacon of light in the community and has been a place where the community has found refuge, hope and help for many years. For over 41 years, the Lord has blessed Dr. Hill to be a voice in educating the community with job readiness, voting, academics and education.
Listed below is a special sermon the Lord has laid on Dr. Hill’s heart for a time such as this with the election being just a week away. My desire is that this sermon will heal and help our nation become a better place.
When The Heat Is Turned Up
Isaiah 1:18
As I come to us today to share with us why God brought divine retribution on the nation of Judah; in Isaiah 1:2, God said, “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.” In spite of the fact God had blessed Judah tremendously, they rejected their privileges and rebelled against God. They became a sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity (Isaiah 1:4). Sin abounded on every hand.
God said unto them, “The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not know or consider (Isaiah 1:3). “They had forsaken the Lord.” They had departed from God and that brought on the judgement from God. They provoked the anger of the Holy One. They went backward. They departed from God’s ways.
People think they are so smart that their path is better than God’s ways. So they drink, gamble, live immorally, and are perverse. Going backward, departing from God’s path is more than deviating a few degrees off the right course, it is reversing, and going in the opposite direction. God said why should ye be stricken anymore? (Isaiah 1:5) “You will revolt more and more.” They went so far backward that it was no need to rebuke them anymore in judgements. So God turned the heat up on
Judah. It was going to be devastating and destructive. “From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrefying sores” (Isaias 1:6). Your country is desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your land, strangers devour it in your presence…. overthrown by strangers…. Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard (Isaiah 1:7-8).
God burned and destroyed the land until there was hardly anything left. Yet God had compassion in His judgement. He left a remnant. They should have been as Sodom … Gomorrah (Isaiah 1:10). They were completely destroyed. God was gracious in His judgement. He is a gracious God! He said to Judah, what purpose is your piety. To what purpose is the multitude of sacrifices… who hath required this at your hand… bring no more vain oblations… unto me… your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth (Isaiah 1:14).
When a nation becomes so wicked that their worship and their prayers are rejected; when you become so wicked that God says, “When ye spread forth your hands… I will not hear” (Isaiah 1:15); their sins would stop the ears of God to their prayers. God said unto the nation of Judah, if you don’t return back to me, you will suffer unhappy consequences. He said to them, put away your evil doings… learn to do well; seek justice (Isaiah 1:16-17). Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord; though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.” The communication was universal. “Come” now. He could have said “Go.” The communication was undeserving, but it was urgent! Come “now” Paul said; now is the accepted time… now is the day of salvation (II Corinthians 6:2). The people of Judah had two choices. How we choose determines the consequences. God turned the heat up on Judah and He has turned the heat up on America.
Divine retribution fell on Jerusalem and Judah. God removed His blessings from them. He took away “the whole stay of bread… and whole stay of water” (Isaiah 3:1). Food and water are very precious. Often they have to be taken away from us to realize their value. When judgement comes to the land, grocery stores will be empty and water will be scarce, which creates a hardship for all. “Mississippi”, New Orleans and other ports of the United States; floods everywhere!
When divine retribution comes, God removes shepherds of the people. The mighty men… men of war… judges… prophet… prudent… ancient… captain of fifty… honorable men… counsellor… artificer… orator” (Isaiah 3:2-3). In every area of life, be it politics, military, religion, business, education, etc.; the skilled leaders would be removed. The replacement is a form of judgement upon a wicked land.
God said: “I give children to be their princes… babes shall rule over them” (Isaiah 3:4). Immature in thoughts, in rationale.
Our nation sees much of this in Washington, D. C. They are childish thinking. They can do many things without consequences. “Women rule over them” (Isaiah 3:12). This is a problem in America. Women are not made to rule over man. When they do, they are often impudent in attitude. Look at the attitude of the women that former President, Donald J. Trump supports. Isaiah 3:12 says they are imprudent. “They which lead thee cause thee to err.” Unholy politicians, educators, and ministers cause many people to go astray. Deficient leadership destroys instead of building up. Lousy politicians destroy the foundations of a nation. This nation’s former president, Donald J. Trump is beneath being lousy. He is corrupt, immoral, psychopathic, irrational, criminal minded and a pathological liar. He corrupted many individuals in this nation.; and destroyed many lives. Many are in jail because of his criminal attitude; but the heat has been turned up on the former president. He has exhausted his legal tricks and is on his way to sit down in the witness chair. The grand jury is going to ask him all about his corrupt leadership. We believe he will take the fifth. He has already incriminated himself. He forgot about that program that was on the radio years ago. “Crime Doesn’t Pay”. Then the actor, Baretta said, “Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time”. Former president, Donald J. Trump has done more crime than he has time to pay for it.
God has blessed this nation. People have come from many places, trying to get to the shores of this country because it was a blessed nation. But America has done the same thing that Jerusalem and Judah did. America has gone backward. It has apostate. The principles of God do not mean very much anymore. What used to be faithful is now unfaithful; what used to be righteous is now unrighteous. This nation is rebellious… loaded with thieves and murderers. It’s a nation that has rejected God’s ways, injustice, insulting of righteousness, greed, bribes is the corruption in this land.
Atlanta, GA, allow me to encourage you all this morning. Herschel Walker is very immature. He knows very little about how corrupt Donald J. Trump is and the Republican Party is. Most of the Republicans have allowed Trump to destroy their integrity. They are wimps now! Tell Herschel Walker you love him, but you can’t allow him to embarrass the Black race, because he is allowing the Republicans to make a fool of him, and behind his back they are talking about how ill prepared he is to be a senator. They just want to use him to take away votes from Warnock. Just because he was a great football stat back in the eighties does not qualify him to be Georgia’s senator. Georgia must send Senator Warnock back to Washington, D. C. to represent us. Mr. Walker does not realize what the Republican Party is trying to do to Black people; if he did, he would quit today.
As a matter of fact, all blacks would leave the Republican Party. The redistricting and trying to take over the Secretary of State is what they are trying to do. They will destroy the election in November 2022. Come on black people and wake up! We only have a few days to come together. We have the people; now we need your votes. Enough said!
Now I must close. God has turned up the heat on America as He did on Jerusalem and Judah. As a matter of fact, on the world. He’s not pleased that His world, His people have gone backward. He has sent out a world-wide invitation, saying, “Come now.” He is saying to America; “I will ease me of mine adversaries” (Isaiah 1:24). This means that God has shifted His attitude toward someone. God would have changed His position toward Judah because they changed their position toward Him.
Divine judgement had the purpose of restoring Israel to the land in a holy state. It was to change Israel from a godless, idolatrous nation to a nation whose loyalties were for Jehovah – God. Israel would not change and come back to God. He had told them that it would be devastating and destructive if they did not return to His path and His way. So, the heat was turned up.
God sent Nebuchadnezzar in. He burned Jerusalem when he attacked Judah. Nebuchadnezzar spoiled the temple, meaning they stole many of the artifacts and carried them to Babylon. Some believed he built the statue with the gold they took back to Babylon. America, God will stay His hand if we will return to Him. Put away these evils and put away all of this unrighteousness and put Jesus back into our lives. “Come now.” It is urgent! Sin has weakened this nation!
Pastor, Rev. Dr. Cullian W. Hill
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