How blessed
are the people whose God is the LORD! Psalms 144:15
As American
Christians we find ourselves on this Independence Day facing the reality that
for the first time in American History we may be becoming a minority when it
comes to influence on our government.
The most basic contours of American culture have been radically
altered.
• Two thirds of the public (68 percent)
now say religion is "losing influence" in American society, while
just 19 percent say religion's influence is on the rise.
• The percentage of self-identified
Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades. That statistic
explains who we are now—and what, as a nation, we are about to become if
changes are not made.
The moral
teachings of Christianity have exerted an incalculable influence on Western
civilization. Once Christianity is abandoned
by a significant portion of the population, the moral landscape necessarily
changes. Christians have allowed the
world to define us as bigoted, racist, intolerant, narrow-minded,
mean-spirited, uncompassionate, backward thinking, and the list goes on. Why
are we so surprised? Why do we think a non-believer would think like a
believer? Paul said, So this I say,
and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles
also walk, in the futility of their mind, being darkened in their
understanding, excluded from the life of God because of the ignorance that is
in them, because of the hardness of their heart; and they, having become
callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every
kind of impurity with greediness. Ephesians 4:17-19
We are on a
path towards a “Post-Christian” America.
Here the gods of political correctness and humanism (man is god) assume
the thrones of power and threaten anyone who disagrees with attacks of “racist,
bigot, homophobe, or worse. Christians have spent too long trying to
change the world by controlling the lives of people instead of influencing them
and changing their hearts. We were
not taught to fight this way but with the sword of the Spirit and the Helmet of
Truth.
Our
constitution was undeniably tied to the Bible and Judeo Christian values were
core to the content. The men who
constructed the documents that frame our nation were greatly influenced by the
spiritual awakening. To remove the core
of anything is to change its nature.
Values come from the center and today we are seeing the result of the
abdication of our Judeo-Christian core with rulings contrary to God’s Word.
Most citizens
believe that the U.S. Constitution governs America, but it does not. The Constitution gives citizens the power to
elect leaders, but if the wrong types of leaders are elected, the Constitution
will be absolutely worthless in their hands.
When the Founding Fathers were creating it at the Constitutional
Convention, delegate John Francis Mercer affirmed: It is a great mistake to suppose that the paper we are to propose will
govern the United States. It is the men whom it will bring into the government
and interest [they have] in maintaining it that are to govern them. The paper
will only mark out the mode and the form. Men are the substance and must do the
business. Constitutional Convention,
delegate John Francis Mercer
Consider
Israel as an example: was there any nation in the history of the world with
better civil laws? Certainly not, for God Himself had written their laws. Despite the fact that their laws came
directly from God, they were completely disregarded by corrupt and deficient
leaders and led the nation into apostasy and bondage. It is crucial to realize that it is elected
individuals who set judges on the Supreme Court who interpret all law for the
country.
It was not the
legislature that allowed abortion in America.
It was not the Senate that removed the Ten Commandments. It was not the President who denied states laws
against gay marriage. The problem with
America is the same thing that happened to Israel…over-reaching judges have
torn apart the core of our society by disregarding the Law of God.
God spoke to
Isaiah and stated how He would restore Israel.
As God explained: I will restore
your judges as at the first, and your counselors [attorneys] as at the
beginning; after that you will be called the city of righteousness, a faithful
city. Isaiah 1:26 Justices
are not independent of the will of the people but must stand accountable to the
people according to the constitution.
Supreme Court Justices violate their constitutional position when they
set policy or make laws. They are NOT legislators! Today, however, the current Judiciary
disdains this original plan and regularly exerts both force and will; it has
wrongly become the dominant policy-making branch in government.
It is a sad
day when Supreme Court Justices overreach their appointed and legal thresholds
to try to change the behavior of citizens.
Government was not designed to
watch and control what everyone does or how they think. It should be remembered by all Christian
citizens that you cannot legislate righteousness. Only a revival can change
America.
and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 NASB
