Celebrating God in America

Psalm 33:12—Blessed is the nation whose God is Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Church, I tell you this morning, any nation who chooses God is truly blessed. Any nation who chooses God cannot fail, for God is with it. After all, the Bible tells us very plainly that if God be for us, who can be against us?

But what if we’re not for God? What if God isn’t our Lord? What if we aren’t respecting the Holy Lord God, the creator of each one of us, the creator of our ancestors, the creator of this nation, the very one who gave America this land that we might live freely and worship him? Do you want to know why God gave America this land? Because those who founded this land worshipped, loved and respected Holy God, and they asked for his guidance, and he lead them to what we now call the United States of America, One Nation Under God, to live in a land where we can worship God without fear of retaliation! And in return, we’ve taken God completely out of our nation’s daily affairs and made it almost a crime to even speak his name!

We’ve taken the prayer out of schools! We’ve told our children they must not say the name of Jesus in school for fear of offending someone who doesn’t believe in his precious name! What kind of an example are we setting for our little children? Jesus said suffer the little children to come unto me! He meant to lead them to him, to teach them of his name and his sacrifice, and to teach them to love him, as he loves them! And our federal government turned around and decided that Jesus wasn’t good enough to be in our public schools, but don’t you dare say anything bad about Buddha or Allah! That’s a cardinal sin in our nation today! They played god when they made that decision and they’re still playing god here today!

I tell you, church, our soldiers through the years didn’t die for this nation to become a Godless, socialist, anti-Christian nation! They didn’t die for our freedoms that we’ve known since the Founding Fathers wrote them down to become a thing of the past! They died so that this nation, ordained of God himself, might stand until the day Jesus comes back!

Church, there’s a misconception in our nation today that America was not founded on the Holy Word and principles of God. Let me assure you, that wasn’t true, and if George Washington were here today, he’d stand up and say this country was absolutely founded on God’s word.

Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Samuel Adams, John Quincy Adams, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the rest of America’s first leaders knew and respected the authority of God.

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As I’ve said before, you can look at the Old Testament of the Bible, study the life and times of Israel, and you will find that America of today is nearly the same in the lifestyle that is being accepted and lived. The Jews, if you will remember, turned to homosexuality, as told in Romans 1:26-27. Women turned to women, men turned to men, and this was considered acceptable! This was the “in” thing to do.

In America today, homosexuality has become so widely accepted, you’re looked down upon when you say you’re against it. Homosexuals are celebrities, made famous by the media to the point that they’re looked up to for their lifestyle. People across the nation think it’s cool to be gay! People think they’re some sort of cool novelty item, and they embrace them, they want to be seen with them, they want to be their friends, etc. Jesus said in Matthew 7:15 to beware of false prophets, that come to you as sheep, but inwardly they’re ravening wolves.

Church, this world is filled with ravening wolves posing as sheep! They’re in the workplace, they’re in the government, they’re in our schools, and I dare say, folks, they’re in some of our churches!

If you study Galatians, as we’ve been doing on Wednesday nights, the Galatians had fallen prey to false witnesses, who had invaded the church and were trying diligently to undo all of the Christ centered work that Paul had done. That’s what’s been happening here. All the Christ centered work that our Founding Fathers began, and that the disciples of Jesus here in America have done, is being torn apart before our very eyes!
2 Peter 2:1 says 1But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.
2 Thessalonians 2:3 said there will be a great falling away before the Lord comes back.

Church, look at the world around you, and doubt not, that the world is falling away from the Lord Jesus here today! A country that once worshipped his name above all others now worships the latest celebrity, the president, the almighty dollar, the mansion on the hill, the devil himself! When you worship those things that are contrary to God, you worship Satan, whether you mean to or realize you do!

Listen to me, this morning. As we celebrate the Fourth of July this weekend, by all means, celebrate this nation’s freedom, and the soldiers who died for the freedom we have. We didn’t get this freedom for free. Israel didn’t get her land for free either, church. A lot of blood was shed, and lot of Israelites gave their lives to be free. But in the end, Israel turned from God, and despite his fierce allegiance to them, they still aren’t where they should be with God today.

And neither is America. God is for now still remaining loyal to us, despite our lacking of loyalty to him. We must find our way back to where we once were, in a relationship with God built on his word, on his love. We must find what made this nation great: a belief in God, a faith that is strong enough to sustain us through the storm that is coming.

Luke 18:8 says--I tell you, he will see that they get justice, and quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?

The end is nearing, church, and now more than ever, America needs the One True Living God watching over and protecting her. It’s now or never to make a final decision.