Albert N. Martin
Following are a few excerpts from the series of messages on “God’s Word to Our Nation” preached in the 1980s by Albert N. Martin.
Bloodguiltiness
Contrary to all the sentimental mouthings of current lawyers, judges, sociologists, and even evangelical theologians, it is a slap at the dignity and uniqueness of man to let murdered people’s blood be unrequited. It says man is cheap. He can be snuffed out, and all you’ll pay for it is a few years of easy existence at the expense of hardworking taxpayers…
This land is polluted with blood. Not just a few clots from the blood of one innocent Abel slain at the hand of Cain…It is nothing less than a pool of blood from the children and adults who are wantonly murdered and whose murderers are not put to death—the murders that go on in this country by the dozens every single day—self-confessed, duly convicted murderers who yet live.
Abortion
If there is a pool of blood from the children and adults wantonly murdered…there is an ocean of blood from the murder of unborn children in their mothers’ wombs…With cold and calculating statistical analysis we are told that last year 1.5 million registered state-condoned murders in mothers’ wombs [were committed] in our nation. Oh, the blood that cries from the trash bins of our sterile operating rooms! Oh, the blood that cries from the soap-sterile labs and the Dipsy Dumpsters at the back of our hospitals!…
I say to this nation, Almighty God calls it murder and the shedding of innocent blood. And, dear Christian, if it hasn’t gripped you, it better, because if anything will move God to move some man in a silo somewhere in Russia to push the button and blow this nation into a cloud, I say it is the blood of millions of unprotected helpless lives in the life-support system of mothers’ wombs.
Sexual Perversion
When any city, any nation, any large segment of humanity abandons itself with shamelessness to sensuality and sexual perversion, that city, those cities, that nation, those groups of people call down upon themselves the frightening judgment of Almighty God…
God is very explicit in prohibiting all forms of sexual perversion, all forms of sensuality, all forms of adopting a policy [that says] “My sexual appetites and preferences are my business. I shall fulfill them according to the dictates of my own passions and my own inclinations.” God says you shall not do so…
Don’t let the word “gay” ever be used upon the lips of a Christian. It is a euphemism to take the edge of the horrendous nature of the perversion of homosexuality. Call it sodomy, perversion! Don’t ever refer to “gays”. They are not gay. They have the misery of a tortured conscience within, and the fires of hell await them…
Next to heroin and to alcohol, there are no chains that I have ever had to deal with in a pastoral setting like the chains of sensuality…Either those chains are broken, or you’ll go to hell. And you better take that seriously. Don’t you listen to what the world says, that your chains are the symbols of your liberty. They are chains that will chain you down now and into hell forever! …You will not go to heaven with those chains of uncleanness and perversion. You’ll sink into hell!
…It’s much easier to spend an hour agitating in some organized movement against pornography than it is to spend an hour on your knees crying to God for the Holy Ghost to come down upon the preachers of the land and make the Word effective to purge the sea of pornography.