Has God Given Up On America

Has God Given Up On America?
In memorizing Romans Chapter 1 it dawned on me that what it sounded like Paul was describing could be occurring in the very land we live in today. The immortality and perversity that runs rampant and seems to be infiltrating every facet of society has and is reaching epic proportions. The veneration of personalities in film, sports, science, music and the like, a kind of modern day idolatry. We worship the ground they walk on. We stand in super market lines and are assaulted by articles lambasting famous personalities infidelity or sexual proclivities , or violent tendencies. And we eagerly dive deeply into the cess pool of nonsense that now has become the staple of many a once respected news outlet. It's the hard copy that entertains us tonite as we dare access hollywood for the latest dirt on our lords of notoriety. In the last verse of Romans Paul says people not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them. I believe human nature is such that people love to associate themselves with like minded people so that their thoughts and actions can then likewise be acceptable in their own minds. Strength in numbers so to speak. Paul the Apostle of the gentiles (anyone not born Jewish) explained that God's wrath, that is His anger occured when He allowed a people to do exactly what they wanted to do when their disobedience reached a certain point. A point where people said, "I don't need God" and they no longer listened to what God said. God finally gives them over to themselves. To their own evil hearts. Simply put God says, Hey you don't want to listen, well then, have it your own way. Just like Frank Sinatra singing, "I did it my way." Let's hope he didn't practice what he preached in that song. But what does man's way lead to. Paul says "because although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man--and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things." Knew God? How did they know God? "Since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse." All that is made, the heavens, the galaxies, the stars, the sun, the moon, the earth, the sea, the fish, the birds, the trees, the insects, the wind, the rain, the thunder and lightening, everything reveals there is a God. But mankind is not thankful. Our thoughts become futile. Meaning our thoughts have no useful purpose. Their foolish hearts were darkened...That is they failed to acknowledge God. "The fool has said in his heart, there is no God. They are corrupt, They have done abominable works, There is none who does good."(Palsm 14:1) What is a fool? A person lacking in judgement or prudence. Which means these are people who can not discern good from evil. There's no standard by which to evaluate it. They go by what they feel in their heart they know is right. The utterence of a fool for " the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. . Who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9) No one! To follow your own heart. To do it your way is the path to death and destruction. It's a place where prudence, the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason, disappears like a mist, a vapor. For they are no longer thinking in a rational orderly way. But have descended into a world of self indulgence and fleshly pleasures. "being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful;" A sign that God has given a people or nation over to vile passions is recognizable by the fact that " even their women exchange the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burn in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due." It's a slippery slope into the abyss of self indugence where a persons own conscience becomes seared with a hot iron. There are signs that indicate when it has begun. Have we worshipped and served the creature rather than the creator? Many in the environmental movement see earth as the living mother of us all. Not that taking care of what God has made us stewards of is in and of itself wrong. But the modern Gaia movement, is based on what ecologist and environmentalist James Lovelock posited, that the earth is a superorganism. Much like that portrayed of the planet Pandora in the film Avatar. The modern day environmental movement has become a religion to many. They worship at the altar of mother earth. What about morality? Or violence, wickedness, gossip, inventing new ways of doing evil or a hatred of Christianity? The recent ruling by a judge that the National Day of Prayer was unconstitutional. Or Franklin Graham being banned from praying at the Pentagon for their upcoming May 6th National Day of Prayer event because he called Islam “evil.” Who wouldn't call intentionally hi jacking planes, flying them into buildings and killing thousands of people evil. They did it because in reality this is the only way they are guaranteed a place in the Islamic paradise. He said it because he loves them and believes that Jesus is the only path to God. And Isalm as a false alternative that only leads to destruction. Isalm or any other religion is not what this country was founded on. Listen to the voice of our founding fathers. Those who risked their lives so that we might live as free men and woman.

PATRICK HENRY “It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.” [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses]

JOHN QUINCY ADAMS • “Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day [the Fourth of July]?" “Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation? Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth? That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity"?

John Jay:“ Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.” Source: October 12, 1816. The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay, Henry P. Johnston, ed., (New York: Burt Franklin, 1970), Vol. IV, p. 393.

JOHN ADAMS "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." --October 11, 1798
Jedediah Morse:
"To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now enjoys. . . . Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown, our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which flow from them, must fall with them."

SAMUEL JOHNSON: It is apprehended that Jews, Mahometans (Muslims), pagans, etc., may be elected to high offices under the government of the United States. Those who are Mahometans(Muslims) , or any others who are not professors of the Christian religion, can never be elected to the office of President or other high office, [unless] first the people of America lay aside the Christian religion altogether, it may happen. Should this unfortunately take place, the people will choose such men as think as they do themselves.

1ST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES GEORGE WASHINGTON “ It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and Bible.”
“What students would learn in American schools above all is the religion of Jesus Christ.” [speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs May 12, 1779]
"To the distinguished character of patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian" [May 2, 1778, at Valley Forge]
• At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, James Madison proposed the plan to divide the central government into three branches. He discovered this model of government from the Perfect Governor, as he read Isaiah 33:22;
“For the LORD is our judge,
the LORD is our lawgiver,
the LORD is our king;
He will save us.”