“BLESSED IS OUR NATION WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD…” PSALM 33:12 “RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION, BUT SIN IS A DISGRACE TO ANY PEOPLE.” PROVERBS 14:34

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II. AMERICA: A STATE OF CHANGE

“NO AMOUNT OF PIOUS RANTING CAN CHANGE THE FACT THAT NOT ALL OF OUR FOUNDING FATHERS BELIEVED IN THE SAME GOD OR ANY GOD AT ALL” TIME MAGAZINE

The Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion

THOMAS JEFFERSON “I HAVE ALWAYS SAID AND WILL ALWAYS SAY THAT THE STUDIOUS PERUSAL OF THE SACRED VOLUME, THE BIBLE, WILL MAKE US ALL BETTER CITIZENS”

PATRICK HENERY “IT CANNOT BE STATED TO OFTEN OR TOO STRONGLY THAT THIS GREAT COUNTRY WAS NOT FOUNDED TO BE RELIGIONISTS, BUT CHRISTIANS, AND NOT FOUNDED ON RELIGION BUT ON THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST.”

GEORGE WASHINGTON “LET MY HEART, GRACIOUS GOD, BE SO AFFECTED WITH YOUR GLORY AND MAJESTY THAT I MAYFULFILL THESE WEIGHTY DUTIES THAT YOU HAVE REQUIRED OF ME. I HAVE CALLED UPON YOU TO PARDON ME AND FORGIVE ME OF MY SINS THROUGH THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS CHRIST ON THE CROSS WHICH WAS OFFERED FOR ME. YOU GAVE YOUR SON FOR ME AND HAVE GIVEN ME THE ASSURANCE OF MY SALVATION.”

CHANGE #2 CHANGE THE FACT OUR FORE-FATHERS DID NOT PUT UP A WALL OF SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE - TO - THE BELIEF THAT THEY DID PUT UP A WALL OF SEPARATION BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE

“THE WALL OF SEPARATION THAT THE FOUNDING FATHER’S BUILT BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE WAS ONE OF THE BEST DEFENCES FREEDOM HAS EVER HAD, OR HAVE WE FORGOTTEN WHY THE FOUNDING FATHERS PUT IT UP?” TIME MAGAZINE

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS “THE HIGHEST GLORY OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUION IS CONNECTED IN OUR INDISSOVABLE BOND IN THE PRINCIPLES OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT AND THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY.”

THE SUPREME COURT (1796) THE CHURCH OF HOLY TRINITY VS. U.S. “OUR LAWS AND OUR INSTITUTIONS MUST NECESSARILY BE BASED UPON AND EMBODY THE TEACHINGS OF THE REDEEMER OF MANKIND. IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR IT TO BE OTHERWISE AND IN THIS SENSE AND TO THIS EXTENT, OUR CIVILIZATION AND OUR INSTITUTIONS ARE EMPHATICALLY CHRISTIAN.”

Governor Curt Fordess of Mississippi stated in a public speech: “…America is a Christian nation…” The Washington Post responded by calling the Governor “…a bigot whose politics of exclusion are attempting to cut large categories of people our of the process.”

N.Y. SUPREME COURT (1811) THE PEOPLE VS. ROOGLE

CHANGE #4 CHANGE FROM THE FACT THAT CHARACTER MATTERS IN OUR ELECTED LEADERS - TO - THE BELIEF THAT CHARACTER DOES NOT MATTER

WILLIAM PENN (FOUNDER OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA) “Government, like clocks, go from the motion that men give them. Therefore, government rather depends upon men than men upon government. So, let the men be good and the government cannot be bad, but if the men be bad, the government cannot be good.”

NOAH WEBSTER ( ) “When you become entitled with the exercise of the right for voting for public office, let it be impressed upon your minds that God commands you to choose for yourselves rulers who are just men, who rule in the fear of God. If this duty is neglected and unprincipled men are placed in the office of the government, It will soon be corrupted. Laws will be made, not for public good, as much as for selfish purposes.”

CHANGE #5 CHANGE FROM THE FACT THAT GOD IS GOD AND HAS BLESSED OUR NATION - TO - - TO - WE NO LONGER WANT OR NEED GOD IN OUR LIVES NOR IN OUR NATION

III. AMERICA IN A STATE OF CRISIS

A CRISIS OF CHARACTER

CRISIS OF CONFUSION

CRISIS OF CONSEQUENCE

TRUTH TO LIVE BY 1. AS CHRISTIANS, WE MUST BE SALT AND LIGHT IN A DARK CULTURE

TRUTH TO LIVE BY 2. AS CHRISTIANS, WE MUST TAKE COURAGEOUS STANDS AGAINST THAT WHICH IS BIBLICALLY WRONG AND STAND FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS!

TRUTH TO LIVE BY 3.AS CHRISTIANS WE MUST NOT FORGET TO PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY! I Tim. 2:1,2 “Therefore, I exhort first of all that pleading, prayers, intercessions and giving of thanks, be made for all men; for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceful life in all godliness and reverence.”

TRUTH TO LIVE BY 4.AS CHRISTIANS, WE MUST LET GOD RULE IN OUR LIVES, AND WHEN THERE IS ENOUGH OF US WITH GOD RULING IN OUR LIVES, HE WILL THEN RULE IN OUR NATION! “BLESSED IS THE NATION WHOSE GOD IS THE LORD!”