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.

We have never been a Christian nation in the sense that the majority were in vital union with Christ. But we were a nation marked by national righteousness, and in that was our exaltation. “Righteousness exalts a nation.” And so powerful was the direct influence of the gospel through revivals, so widespread…the direct influence of the gospel upon our national life, that it was true of us as a nation. Righteousness exalted this nation.

But now our sin is a reproach to us—not only our sin of putrid moral degeneracy, but our sin of horrible religious apostasy. How has that apostasy manifested itself? Jeremiah 2:11-12: “Hath a nation changed its gods, which yet are no gods? But my people have changed their glory for that which doth not profit…My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.”

…Let me point out some of these broken cisterns that constitute the undeniable evidence of our national sin of apostasy in the realm of religious truth.

Read the rest of the article at Herald of Grace: http://heraldofgrace.org/broken-cisterns/