Happy birthday America. Is America an idiom for King Solomon? Let's discuss.
Every 4th of July Americans of all races, political affiliations, and status take part to celebrate the birth of our nation. Most people celebrate with hot dogs, hamburgers, fireworks, cookouts or a combination of each. We had a great service today where the church honored each of the distinct groups of the US military- Army, Navy, Coast Guard, Air Force and Marines. While it’s great that America is united on the one front of loving our country, the truth is that America’s greatest days are behind her. It’s important to remember our national heritage and our spiritual history.
Before America’s first Constitution or before the colonies there was the Mayflower Compact. The Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony. It was signed on November 11, 1620 as a Biblical covenant. The purpose of it was a pact so that they could practice Christianity without the interference of a government church. There is a conflict of interest when a nation has a government sponsored church. For example, how well would the government receive a message from a pastor that preached a message about its pagan government that implementing anti-Biblical laws? Christian Americans who take their faith seriously understand how pagan our own American government has become. The purpose of the Mayflower Compact was to allow Christians to worship without government interference is critical to honest preaching about what the word of God says without concern about our own government.
In 1776 our founding fathers gave us the Declaration of Independence which said, “We hold these truths to be self evident that all men are created equal, that they are in endowed by their CREATOR. “ The government’s job according to the founders of our nation is that our rights are not given to us by our government, but by our CREATOR. Are you paying attention liberals? The purpose of our government is to protect our God given rights. Somehow I believe Barack Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the liberals have a problem with that concept of truth.
What did some of America’s ex-presidents say about the Bible, and Christianity?
"It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible." – President George Washington. Washington later said at his Thanksgiving address "Duty of all nations to acknowledge the almighty God and obey His will to be grateful for His benefits and humbly to implore.”
"I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book." – President Abraham Lincoln
Only book that deserves international attention is the Bible-President John Quincy Adams
My boy and the hero of the Battle of New Orleans in the War of 1812, Old Hickory said: The Bible is the rock on which this Republic rests. - President Andrew Jackson
The colonists were also very vocal about the Bible:
“The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed." - Patrick Henry. Patrick Henry also said, “This nation was not founded by religionists, but by Christians, not on religion’s, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ”
The judiciary of early American history also chimes in on the Bible:
Our laws … must embody the teaching of the redeemer of mankind. It is impossible it should be otherwise and in this sense .. that are our civilization and institutions are emphatically Christian… to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation. - Supreme Ct 1892
Duty of every Christian to select Christians as our rulers. - John Jay first Chief Justice
Can you imagine if our current President, congress and judges believed what our nation’s first leaders in their areas believed? Unfortunately, God gives nations leaders that mirror its citizens. While we can blame Washington for our numerous problems and rightfully so, we the people are the ones who elected these bozos.
America has become a morally bankrupt nation. The most dangerous place for a child today in America is not on the streets of Compton, Brooklyn or Watts, but in the womb of the mother. The number of abortions in America since 1973 is 47,000,000. That’s about the same population as America’s ten largest cities. Kids are taught today in the public schools we come from monkeys and is it any wonder why many are lost about our past and more importantly their future? Our leaders have no concept of debt and the Bible states clearly that the borrower is a servant to the lender- Proverbs 22:7.
While I believe America is the greatest nation in the world, I will also say that unless our nation gets right with God, all of those great things we celebrate will not be around in future generations. Somebody will be an instrument of judgment against our nation and it is my guess that somebody is a nation from the Muslim world. Another nugget to understand is that America exports more things that God abhors than all other nations combined.
Without Jesus Christ we have complete despair. With that being said, happy birthday America. While you still have many things that I love- oysters, crawfish, gator, pizza, SEC and Saints football, you have a lot of work to do. You are at a critical time in your history and it’s time for our sake and for our children’s sake to get right with God now! I pray that you will come back to the Lord before it’s too late. Our prayer for our country comes from 2 Chronicles:
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. – 2 Chronicles 7:14
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