TODAY'S LESSON: ONE NATION UNDER GOD
GALATIANS 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,
and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage
AMERICA-LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE.
WELL, IT WAS!
WHAT HAPPENED? WHERE IS THAT NATION TODAY?
WELL, IT CERTAINLY ISN'T A VERY PRETTY STORY,
BUT HERE IT GOES...
MANY YEARS AGO OUR ANCESTORS
WERE BASICALLY ENSLAVED TO ENGLAND.
SOME OF THEM GOT FED UP WITH THE WAY THINGS WERE GOING
AND SO AFTER MANY SECRET MEETINGS, MUCH FAITH,
AND LOTS OF BLOOD, SWEAT, AND TEARS
AMERICA WAS BORN.
UNFORTUNATELY, A LOT HAS CHANGED SINCE THEN
AND NOT FOR THE BETTER.
PRAYER HAS BEEN TAKEN OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS
THE BIBLE HAS BEEN BAN FROM OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM
MORALITY IN ALL FORMS HAS GONE OUT THE WINDOW
BROTHERLY LOVE IS A THING OF THE PAST...
THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
IN THE BOOK OF MATTHEW 24:12 JESUS SAID,
"AND BECAUSE INIQUITY SHALL ABOUND, THE LOVE OF MANY SHALL WAX COLD."
IN REVELATION 2 JOHN THE REVELATOR BEGINS TO DESCRIBE SEVEN KINDS OF CHURCHES.
THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS
THE CHURCH IN SMYRNA
THE CHURCH IN PERGAMOS
THE CHURCH IN THYATIRA
THE CHURCH IN SARDIS
THE CHURCH IN PHILADELPHIA
THE CHURCH OF THE LAODICEANS
WHICH ONE DO YOU THINK DESCRIBES AMERICA TODAY?
YES! NUMBER 7
People are funny, they want the front of the bus, the middle of the road, and the back of the church.
AMERICA AS A WHOLE HAS GROWN INDIFFERENT TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD.
YOU MIGHT SAY WE'VE PULLED AN ESAU
(TRADED HIS BIRTHRIGHT FOR A POT OF LENTILS)
AMERICA HAS TRADED HER HERITAGE FOR A BUNCH OF CHEAP THRILLS.
SO, WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE US?
WELL, IT'S LIKE THIS:
1 2 3 THE DEVIL DON'T LIKE ME
4 5 6 HE'S ALWAYS THROWING BRICKS
7 8 9 HE MISSES EVERY TIME
HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, AMEN.
9 8 7 I'M ON MY WAY TO HEAVEN,
6 5 4 MY CUP IS RUNNING O'ER,
3 2 1 THE BATTLE'S JUST BEGUN,
HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, AMEN
IN CONCLUSION,
ARE WE ONE NATION UNDER GOD?
NO DOUBT ABOUT IT, GOD MADE AMERICA GREAT AND WITHOUT HIM IT WOULD NOT BE HERE TODAY;BUT SHE HAS BECOME LUKE WARM AND JUST AS GOD TURNED HIS FACE FROM JESUS ON THE CROSS BECAUSE OF ALL THE SIN HE BORE I BELIEVE HE HAS TURNED HIS FACE ON AMERICA.
I KNOW THY WORKS, THAT THOU ART NEITHER COLD NOR HOT: I WOULD THOU WERT COLD OR HOT.
SO THEN BECAUSE THOU ART LUKEWARM, AND NEITHER COLD NOR HOT, I WILL SPUE THEE OUT OF MY MOUTH..
REVELATION 3:15-16
FORTUNATELY, THERE IS A CURE.
II CHRONICLES 7:14
IF MY PEOPLE, WHICH ARE CALLED BY MY NAME,
SHALL HUMBLE THEMSELVES, AND PRAY,
AND SICK MY FACE,
AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS;
THEN WILL I HEAR FROM HEAVEN,
AND WILL FORGIVE THEIR SIN,
AND WILL HEAL THEIR LAND.
