The Tex Ritter lyrics include the following words:
"God, I sure do wish you'd bless America again, You know, the way you did back when it all began"
Why was America blessed back when it all began?
Luke 11:28 "But he [Jesus] said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."
Man-centered religion since our founding has invented new measures and so-called sins not found stated in the word of God, therefore is man more just than his Creator? Man thinks himself wiser than God so creates the government school system, which under our Constitution must be secular! Yet God in a true education cannot be left out: Prov 1:7 "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
We can't cry about God, Bible and prayer being removed from government schools now, when the church was clearly warned about it in the 19th century. From Presbyterian theologian A. A. Hodge -
"I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social, and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen."
A.A. Hodge – Public Schools are the "Engine" of Atheism — TEACH DILIGENTLY
We often hear 2 Chron. 7:14 quoted, but is the following more accurate in the state of the USA today:
Ezek 14:12-14 12 "The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD."
Reading Isaiah 3 about judgment upon Israel, a similar thought is expressed: Isa 3:10-11 10 "Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him."
Has America crossed the line of no return? Has God's gift of repentance now been removed from a possibility? Have we Christians sinned away any idea of a true revival of the Holy Spirit in our churches? I'm far from innocent in this matter so I'm not finger pointing.
"God, I sure do wish you'd bless America again, You know, the way you did back when it all began"
Why was America blessed back when it all began?
Luke 11:28 "But he [Jesus] said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it."
Man-centered religion since our founding has invented new measures and so-called sins not found stated in the word of God, therefore is man more just than his Creator? Man thinks himself wiser than God so creates the government school system, which under our Constitution must be secular! Yet God in a true education cannot be left out: Prov 1:7 "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction."
We can't cry about God, Bible and prayer being removed from government schools now, when the church was clearly warned about it in the 19th century. From Presbyterian theologian A. A. Hodge -
"I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ’s reign that a comprehensive and centralized system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief, and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, individual, social, and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen."
A.A. Hodge – Public Schools are the "Engine" of Atheism — TEACH DILIGENTLY
We often hear 2 Chron. 7:14 quoted, but is the following more accurate in the state of the USA today:
Ezek 14:12-14 12 "The word of the LORD came again to me, saying, 13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it: 14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord GOD."
Reading Isaiah 3 about judgment upon Israel, a similar thought is expressed: Isa 3:10-11 10 "Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings. 11 Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him."
Has America crossed the line of no return? Has God's gift of repentance now been removed from a possibility? Have we Christians sinned away any idea of a true revival of the Holy Spirit in our churches? I'm far from innocent in this matter so I'm not finger pointing.