1. Mike Mazzalongo Solomon’s Advice to America

2. Moses’ Commands 1.Let God Choose Your King

3. “When you enter the land which the Lord your God gives you, and you possess it and live in it, and you say, 'I will set a king over me like all the nations who are around me,' - Deuteronomy 17:14

4. you shall surely set a king over you whom the Lord your God chooses, one from among your countrymen you shall set as king over yourselves; you may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman. - Deuteronomy 17:15

5. Moses’ Commands 1.Let God Choose Your King 2.Never Return to Egypt

6. Moreover, he shall not multiply horses for himself, nor shall he cause the people to return to Egypt to multiply horses, since the Lord has said to you, 'You shall never again return that way.' - Deuteronomy 17:16

7. Solomon’s Fall 1.He had an abundance of foreign wives (1,000 in his harem)

8. He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; - Deuteronomy 17:17a

9. Solomon’s Fall 1.He had an abundance of foreign wives (1,000 in his harem) 2.Taxed too heavily

10. nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself. - Deuteronomy 17:17b

11. Solomon’s Fall 1.He had an abundance of foreign wives (1,000 in his harem) 2.Taxed too heavily 3.Neglect of God's Word

12. “Now it shall come about when he sits on the throne of his kingdom, he shall write for himself a copy of this law on a scroll in the presence of the Levitical priests. - Deuteronomy 17:18

13. It shall be with him and he shall read it all the days of his life, that he may learn to fear the Lord his God, by carefully observing all the words of this law and these statutes, - Deuteronomy 17:19

14. that his heart may not be lifted up above his countrymen and that he may not turn aside from the commandment, to the right or the left, so that he and his sons may continue long in his kingdom in the midst of Israel. - Deuteronomy 17:20

15. Solomon’s Advice to America 1.Restore Moral Excellence as a Requirement for our Nation's Leaders

16. Solomon’s Advice to America 1.Restore Moral Excellence 2.Restore Fiscal Moderation

17. Solomon’s Advice to America 1.Restore Moral Excellence 2.Restore Fiscal Moderation 3.Restore God as Lord of this Nation

18. Separation of God and state is a human idea, not a Godly one.

19. It wasn't Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism or Judaism that laid the spiritual foundation of America - it was Christianity!

20. We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God.

21. We have forgotten the gracious Lord that has preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom of our own.

22. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us! It behooves us, then to humble ourselves before the offended power, to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness. - Abraham Lincoln (1863)