20150712M29 One Nation Under God - P2 - Psalm 33 1-22 PDF

Sermon Title .
One Nation Under God Part II

Sermon Text.. Psalm 33:1-22
Invocation Scripture. . 1 Tim 2:1-6
Main Idea :
The nation that chooses to be under

God is the nation that is blessed and
prospered, the nation that doesnt is
judged.
Objective : To challenge members to teach their

children and grand children that our
nation was founded by Christian men,
who believed the Christian religion and
who enshrined its essence and heart into
the structures of our nation.
One Nation Under God
Psalm 33:1-22
Point I :
The Power of Being One Nation Under

God .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Psalm 33:1-9
Point II :
The Prudence of Being One Nation

Under God . . . . . . . . . . . . Psalm 33:10-15
Point III:
The Protection of Being One Nation

Under God . . . . . . . . . . . Psalm 33:16-20
Point IV: The Peace of Being One Nation Under

God .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Psalm 33:21-22
2015075/ M28 One Nation Under God - Psalm 33;8-22

Power - Prudence - Protection - Peace
One Nation Under God

Psalm 33:1-22
From the Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, one
of the key promoters of the Declaration of
Independence, our first Vice President of these United
States and our 2nd President we read in Vol 3 page 9...
"Suppose a nation in some distant Region should
take the Bible for their only law Book, and every
member should regulate his conduct by the
precepts there exhibited! Every member would be
obliged in conscience, to temperance, frugality, and
industry; to justice, kindness, and charity towards
his fellow men; and to piety, love, and reverence
toward Almighty God ... What a Eutopia, what a
Paradise would this region be."
--Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, Vol. III, p. 9.
We began a series last week, entitled One Nation

Under God as we celebrated the 239th year of this
nations founding. We considered the truth last week
that a Nation that Chooses to be One nation Under God,
is a nation that CHOOSES wisedly! For that Nation, as
we saw last week, is a nation that brings itself under the
Mighty Power of God and thus under His providential
Provision and Protection.
And for a TRUTH! As Benjamin Franklin himself
said, it was but for the Providence of God that the
nation came to be! As we faced the most powerful
nation in the world of that day!

We pick back up today with our study of being One

Nation Under God... having considered last week the
Power of Being One Nation Under God... We shall
look today at the Prudence of being One nation
Under God. So Turn back then with me to Psalm 33:
and let us Read vss 10-15 as we continue to think about
our Independence and the Liberty, the Grace and Mercy
that God has showered on this nation!
And as you do let me take a moment and provide a
working definition for us of Prudence, so that we are all
on the same page.
According to the Oxford University Dictionary,
Prudent is an Adjective, and is defined as acting with
or showing care and thought for the future. originally
from the latin prudens meaning foreseeing.
Websters Dictionary defines Prudence as
1. the quality or fact of being prudent.
2. caution with regard to practical matters; discretion
3. regard for one's own interests.
4. provident care in the management of resources;
economy; frugality.
PRUDENCE is care, caution, and good judgment, as
well as wisdom in looking ahead: sober prudence in
handling one's affairs.
With those thoughts then.. Text
< < < Read: Psalm 33:10-15 > > >
Consider then this morning the 2nd point of our message
The Prudence of Being One Nation Under God
and as you do, consider three things with me...

Point II :
The Prudence of Being One Nation

Under God . . . . . . . . . . . . Psalm 33:10-15
a) It is Prudent to be One Nation Under God,

because God directs the affairs of the Nations!
b) It is Prudent to be One Nation Under God,
because the counsels of God are Eternal
c) It is Also Prudent to be One Nation Under God
because God knows and sees all things!
Look back at our text to vs 10..
The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations, He
frustrates the plans of the peoples.
For those who love the Lord, those who trust Him
and understand His Mercy Grace and Love, this is a
comforting verse, for we know that God is Holy
Righteous and Just and that He will fulfill the truth of
this verse according to His Righteousness, His Mercy
and His unfailing Love!
We know that God is very near and present to those
who love Him, that He is a defender and protector of
those who serve Him!
2Sa 22:3 (3) My God, my rock, in whom I take
refuge, My shield and the horn of my salvation, my
stronghold and my refuge; My savior, You save me
from violence. (4) "I call upon the LORD, who is
worthy to be praised, And I am saved from my
enemies.

Psa 138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble,

You will revive me; You will stretch forth Your
hand against the wrath of my enemies, And Your
right hand will save me.
In light of these verses and so many others within
the Holy Bible, KNOW that it is prudent to be One
nation Under God? It is God who sets up nations and
pulls down nations! It is God who defends the
righteous and deposes the wicked!
God acts and no one can tell him no, nor stop Him!
And though He is a God of patience and mercy, love
and Grace, we MUST not forget that He too, is a God of
Justice, of Righteousness and Holiness and He has set a
day to Judge all things! When any person or nation
pushes too far, he will act and there is no one who stop
Him! Let me give you several examples of this truth
from Gods Holy Word.... Turn to...
Deu 32:39 'See now that I, I am He, And there is
no god besides Me; It is I who put to death and give
life. I have wounded and it is I who heal, And there
is no one who can deliver from My hand.
Isa 43:13 "Even from eternity I am He, And there
is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and
who can reverse it?"
Dan 2:20-22 Daniel said, "Let the name of God be
blessed forever and ever, For wisdom and power
belong to Him. (21) "It is He who changes the
times and the epochs; He removes kings and
establishes kings; He gives wisdom to wise men

And knowledge to men of understanding. (22) "It

is He who reveals the profound and hidden things;
He knows what is in the darkness, And the light
dwells with Him.
Listen my friends... As these verses testify, and as the
Psalmist writes, The earth is the Lords and the
fullness thereof...
And therefore... It is Prudent to be One Nation Under
God, because God directs the affairs of the Nations!
But consider a 2nd truth this morning
b) It is Prudent to be One Nation Under God,
because the counsels of God are Eternal
Look back at our text at verse 11 (Psa 33:11)
The counsel of the LORD stands forever, The plans
of His heart from generation to generation.
God is eternal, and we have been made in his likeness
and thus, we too are eternal. We belong to God and He
has created this world for us and placed us in it and
given it laws and structures that reveal who He is
through creation itself, and the nature of His eternal
presence... He reveals this too through the very Laws
of Nature.... He has set the Laws of Nature into play
and these laws are irrevocable, you can not break
them without paying the consequence. ||: The beauty
and the terror of the Laws of Nature is that they are
immediate! :|| (Let me say that again...)
Consider the beauty of the Law of Gravity. It is

what keeps my feet firmly fixed to the ground. It is this

amazing unseen that provides the perfect balance for a
gymnist to perform amazing feets on the floor mat, or
for a skater to sale across the ice, jump into the air and
spin as the force of Gravity pulls her back to the ice
where she lands perfectly and continues her routine!
Gravity is what allows me to move and function,
to run and jump, to exert force and pressure... try
turning a wrench under water or in outer space.
You cant, you will turn yourself!!
There is great beauty in Gravity, and yet... at the
same time there is terror in Gravity, for if I walk up to a
cliff and look over to see the jagged rocks at the bottom
and I step off the cliff, Gravity has an immediate,
uncompromising, and unrelenting force that is terifying
as it pulls me relently to the jagged rocks! There is no
one that can stop its consequence, nor intervene nor
over rule its authority. Gravity does what Gravity
does, it does not discriminate against anything, animal,
person, inanimate object. The end result for each is
sudden and immediate plunge to the bottom, and a
crushing impact that will obliterate an inanimate object
and crush and splatter the animal or person that defys
it! You do not defy the Laws of Nature without
Immediate, unrelenting, and terminal consequences.
The other observation concerning these natural
laws that God put into place, is that they demand
and command respect, fear and deference and hear
me now... listen... OBEDIENCE!! For to disobey
them can mean sudden and immediate death!

There are natural laws in play, but understand that

there are also spiritual laws in play, and their
consequences are just as serious and severe, actually, I
would say, MORE severe, because they have
ETERNAL consequences... The problem with the
Spiritual laws, is that in most cases, their consequence
is not immediate and that my dear friends, is an enemy
to the mind of man and a very dangerous adversary!
You see, like a seed placed in the ground, they take
a long time to manifest, but, O Beloved, when they do,
they produce sometimes a 1000 fold. Consider a single
kernal of corn, the size of the stalk it grows and the
number of ears it grows and the number of kernals of
corn that each ear grows...
As the Lord Christ Himself reminds us the
Gospel of Matthew and Luke, you reap what you
sow....
Now take a moment my friends and consider this
truth.... Pull these two sets of laws under the ONE
umbrella of the One True and living God and
understand today that the Laws of Nature, which God
Himself instituted, are the school teachers to mankind
that show to us, in immediate and very
consequential terms the importance of obedience to
their lessons, so that we might GLEAN from their
REALITY, that the spiritual Laws also have Serious
and let me add... ETERNAL consequence, even though
the evidences of their consequence is delayed, the delay
reflecting the very mercy, patience and forbearance of
our loving God who reminds us that God is patient for a

SPECIFIC reason... and that REASON is for the sake of

the salvation of the souls of men!! Peter makes this
clear us in 2 Pe 3:3-4
(3) Know this first of all, that in the last days
mockers will come with their mocking, following
after their own lusts, (4) and saying, "Where is the
promise of His coming? For ever since the fathers
fell asleep, all continues just as it was from the
beginning of creation."...
2Pe 3:9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as
some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not
wishing for any to perish but for all to come to
repentance.
O Beloved, it is Prudent to be One Nation Under God,
for though He is a God of patience... his long-suffering
will not last for ever and the consequence of
disobedience to His Spiritual Laws, are profound and
far reaching!! Remember what the Prophet Isaiah says..
Isaiah 60:12 - For the nation and kingdom that will
not serve thee shall perish; yea, [those] nations
shall be utterly wasted.
King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived reminds
us in Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin [is] a
reproach to any people.
O my friends... It is INDEED Prudent to be One
Nation Under God, because the counsels of God are
Eternal! I cant help but think about our nation and its
founding... God nullified the counsel of Great Britain

and frustrated the plans of her people, in its efforts to

retain a stranglehold on the American Colonies... And
why?
Because America was founded by men who had a
firm reliance upon God and who believed in Jesus
Christ, and who took seriously Gods laws, in fact,
imbedded those laws and principles into the very
framework of our nation!
America was founded as a nation with distinctly
Christian roots! As we began to see last week, the key
movers and shakers whom God used to pull America
together, where mostly Christian men.
You have heard from George Washington, John
Adams, Patrick Henry last week... Hear from the man
the world today would say was a secularist or at best a
Diest... Thomas Jefferson... from His very own pen..
"God who gave us life,// gave us liberty. And can the
liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have
removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds
of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?
That they are not to be violated but with His wrath?
Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God
is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever; That a
revolution of the wheel of fortune, a change of
situation, is among possible events; that it may become
probable by Supernatural influence! The Almighty has
no attribute which can take side with us in that event."
--Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.
And for those who would say that this man was not a

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Christian, those who spauned the lie that he took a slave

and had children with her, which was proven to have
been his brother, but was never corrected by the media..
Hear also from Jeffersons own words Page 385 of The
Writings of Jefferson
"I am a real Christian that is to say, a disciple of
the doctrines of Jesus Christ."
--The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 385.
Not only did he empahtically state that he was a

Christian, he went so far as to clarify the fact that he
was a disciple of Jesus Christ!!
Tell that to the city of Atlanta who recently FIRED
their Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran... We read from the
Daily Signal
Atlanta Fire Chief Kelvin Cochran was fired on
Tuesday by Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed. Why?
Because, on his own private time, Cochran wrote a
book expressing his biblical understanding of
sexual morality.
At the center of this controversy is whether
governments should push those who hold
traditional beliefs out of government jobs. The
decision by the mayor is out of step with American
values of freedom of speech and free exercise of
religion and with the ordinary citizens desire for
peaceful co-existence. The mayors action also may
violate the First Amendment.
http://dailysignal.com/2015/01/08/atlanta-fire-chief-fired-expressing-christian-beliefs/
What in the world is happening friends...

Ill tell you... we have forgotten this 2nd thought of this

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2nd point of our sermon...

It is INDEED Prudent to be One Nation Under
God, because the counsels of God are Eternal!
So my friends, whether a nation or a business or a
family... It is PRUDENT to CHOOSE to be found
under God!!
But one final thing to consider about this 2nd point...
c) It is Also Prudent to be One Nation Under God
because God knows and sees all things!
Look back at your text to vss 12-15
< < < Read: Psalms 33:12-15 > > >
Psa 33:14-15 From His dwelling place He looks
out On all the inhabitants of the earth, (15) He
who fashions the hearts of them all, He who
understands all their works.
America Chose God! Our Founders Chose to Place
their Faith and Reliance upon God! They knew and
believed that God knew and engaged in the affairs of
men and that they MUST turn to and rely upon Him!
Listen friends... God knows our hearts, our
thoughts, our minds!!! Given that truth... consider also
that a nation... any nation is composed of the people
that make it up... The nation is nothing more nor less
than the sum of the values, motivations, ethics,
morals, standards to which it adheres....
And so we must acknowledge as this passage says
that God knows our hearts and minds and so we must
ever be vigilent to keep Him in mind and to turn to Him

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for guidance, direction, protection and

THANKSGIVING for His protection and intervention!
Our founding fathers understood this and so too
should we, if we want to honor and uphold this great
ideal which they handed down to us!
Hear the words of George Washington, our First
Commander and Chief, who by the Grace of God
defeated the most powerful nation on the face of the
earth in his day and our First President...
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the
providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be
grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His
protection and favor.
George Washington - See more at:
http://www.usachristianministries.com/us-history-quotes-about-god-andthe-bible/#sthash.MIbyfRKj.dpuf
We also see this quote from Washington

It is impossible to rightly govern the world without
God and the Bible. George Washington
http://www.usachristianministries.com/us-history-quotes-about-god-and-the-bi
ble/#sthash.MIbyfRKj.dpuf
Our 2nd U.S. President, John Adams wrote...

The Declaration of Independence laid the
cornerstone of human government upon the first
precepts of Christianity. John Adams
http://www.usachristianministries.com/us-history-quotes-about-god-and-the-bi
ble/#sthash.MIbyfRKj.dpuf
He also wrote....
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the
government of any other.
http://www.usachristianministries.com/us-history-quotes-about-god-and-the-bible/

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This ideology was not relegated to a mere few key

founders, it was in the hearts and the minds of the
nation as a whole, for the congress of the United States
of America in one of its earliest decisions set forth in
1782 the Congress commissioned the printing of a
Bible for distribution to our schools and for an
evangelism tool to reach the Indians. We read from
congress own records...
The United States in Congress assembled
recommend this edition of the Bible to the
inhabitants of the United States a neat edition of
the Holy Scriptures for the use of schools.
http://www.usachristianministries.com/us-history-quotes-about-god-and-the-bibl
e/#sthash.MIbyfRKj.dpuf
Make no mistake about it my friends... Unlike

people, nations are temporal. As long as a nation
honors and pursues God, it will prosper! If it does not,
then its days are numbered!!
The passage is clear, the Lord is the one who is
in Charge!! And as much as our Supreme Court thinks
that they are accountable to no one, especially God, I
have news for them... THEY ARE ACCOUNTABLE
TO GOD!! He knows what they have done...
They have set forth a terrible quandry for many
states whose laws are clear and whose courts have
already made definitive decisions that were based on
the foundations and fabric of this nation!
Consider the truth, as we have seen in our
scriptures today, that God is a patient and loving, not
willing that any should perish, but that all should come

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to eternal life... and so He has done in my life, so too, I

believe He will do in these 5 Justices lives... Perhaps,
hopefully, as they see the havoc that they have created,
as the wickedness, the cruelty, the hate and hostility that
they have released in the gay community, they will have
opportunity to repent and revisit this matter and make
the RIGHT decision, the LEGAL decision... God help
them to do so!!
But if they dont.. There is a sure punishment that
will come, and though it will be directly related to this
decision, the delay of Gods patient love, may hide
from the eyes of those looking in that their judgement
was due to this defiant decision!
Remember 2 Peter 3:9 God is not willing for any
to perish, but for all to come to life 2 Pe 3:9.
I must PRAY for them and pray that God will grant
them this grace and as I said... the same GRACE which
he granted to me.
Listen my friends... It is Prudent!! IT IS VERY
PRUDENT to be one nation under God!!
a) Prudent to be One Nation Under God, because
God directs the affairs of the Nations!
b) Prudent to be One Nation Under God, because
the counsels of God are Eternal
c) Prudent to be One Nation Under God because
God knows and sees all things!
And HE WILL JUDGE... but He will do so, in the
context of His mercy that is patient and His Grace that

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is long-suffering! But hear me... HEAR ME... HE

WILL JUDGE due to His righteousness and His
Holiness!!
We are locked in a great battle that we didnt know
we were fighting!!! It is a battle for the hearts and
minds of our children!
And dont think this isnt intentional! From an
article entitled, Removing Americas Godly Heritage
we have the following quote...
The importance of this historical story of
George Washington, being erased from government
school (they call it public school) textbooks, is
immediately understood. God intervened, on behalf
of George Washington, because He knew that
George Washington would be pivotal to us winning
the war against King George!
Men like Clarence Darrow; Jack London; Roger
Nash Baldwin (Avowed communist, and founder of
the ACLU); John Dewey;(the Dewey Decimal
system) C. F. Potter, and other anti-Christ men,
they knew that to continue to teach such stories of
the divine intervention of God, on behalf of
America, in public schools would prevent them
from rewriting the History of America, and
program the children what to think, not how to
think!
These men gained control of our education
system, and began teaching our children the
Humanism, taught by Karl Marx! For a detailed
timeline, see A Chronological History.

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This anti-Christ, anti-American agenda is

evident in the words of C.F. Potter:
"Education is thus a most powerful ally of
humanism, and every American public school is a
school of humanism. What can the theistic Sunday
schools, meeting for an hour once a week, teaching
only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of
a five-day program of humanistic teaching?"
Well.. There you have it... The Will of man at odds with
the Will of God!!
Psalm 33:11-12 The counsel of the LORD stands
forever, The plans of His heart from generation to
generation. (12) Blessed is the nation whose God is
the LORD, The people whom He has chosen for His
own inheritance.
Which side will you choose?
Let us pray...
And what has this produced, perhaps beginning
with the generation before me, mine the three
generations behind me, many have been deceived and
brainwashed, Darrow, London, Dewey, Potter... they
have been successful in teaching our children WHAT to
think instead of HOW to think... just like the aritcle
said.
And what has it produced?

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Well... consider another important statement from one

of our Founding Fathers. The first Chief Justice of the
United States Supreme Court, appointed by non-other
than George Washington Himself... Hear his words...
"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 [sic]
to select and prefer Christians for their rulers."
John Jay, "The Correspondence and Public Papers of John Jay", Henry P.
Johnston, ed. (NY: Burt Franklin, 1970), Vol. IV, p. 393, October 12, 1816
Now this quote stands on a young mans website who

calls himself a skeptic... Listen to his observations
about what Jay said, and you will see just how deluded
and contorted our schools are making our children.
He says... What does this say about John Jay?
Some possibilities:
1. He was an arrogant, insensitive, irresponsible clod who didn't
understand the impact that such rash speech might have when it came
from the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
2. He had not yet read the Bill of Rights, which every
20th-century American *knows* contains specific language directing
the Separation of Church and State.
3. He had not yet been taught that what he and his contemporaries
really meant in the Bill of Rights was that there was a Separation of
Church and State which forbade (or at least strongly discouraged)
such talk.
Can you believe this?... In his first statement we see

that he is so drenched in 20th century thinking that he
doesnt realize he is translating our ungodly, twisted
21st century thinking back to a time in history that was
in on the VERY Opposite side of the lies he has been
told! He even uses verbiage the it uniquely 21st

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century, and was coined to defend the homosexual

movement. Rash speach he says...
EXCUSE ME... this man Chief Justic John Jay, as
well as his contemporaries put their life on the line to
give us the freedoms that they understood came to us
from God himself! Who better to know what we as a
nation needed than those who put it into place!!
In his second statement he shows just how
uneducated and brainwashed he is...
I have to wonder if he has even read the bill of
rights!!! Let me enlighten you this morning
concerning that to which he refers.
Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion,
or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances
WHERE DOES HE get Separation of Church and state

in that??? Sounds like to me, that the Founders were
attempting to protect my right to Religious Freedom,
my right to live according to my understanding of
Gods commands without ANY government
interference or intervention....
In simplest terms, the 1st ammendment was
designed to protect Religion from Government, NOT
government from Religion! The above notation of
Congress voting to not only fund the printing of one of
the first American Bibles, but then the endorsement of
those Bibles to the Schools of America!!! HELLO,
HELLO... How does that fly in this political correct,

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God hating, liberal media led nation today?

This young mans last statement is sheer arrogance,
and reveals his hostility toward the truths upon which
our nation was founded.
He had not yet been taught that what he and his
contemporaries really meant in the Bill of Rights
was that there was a Separation of Church and
State which forbade (or at least strongly
discouraged) such talk.
Excuse me Sir... our founders ARE THE
TEACHERS of WHAT THEY MEANT!!! NOT you
and NOT some deceived school teacher who has been
dupped by PHD written text books that have expunged
the truth of Americas Godly Heritage!! What
happened to this young man, has now moved this nation
to be in DIRECT opposition to God, the Bible and faith
in Jesus Christ rather than in DIRECT support of God,
the Bible and Jesus Christ!!
This whole thing about Separation of Church and
State, is a total misrepresentation and an intentional
deception as being part of our constitution...
The comment to which this young man refers when
he says, separation of church and state is a direct
quote from a personal letter that had nothing to do with
the drafting of the Constitution. It was a response to the
Danbury Baptist Association expressing concern that
the government not be allowed to interfere with
religious practice.

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To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S.

Nelson, a committee of the Danbury Baptist association in the state of
Connecticut.
Gentlemen
The affectionate sentiments of esteem and approbation which you are
so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist
association, give me the highest satisfaction. my duties dictate a
faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, & in
proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the
discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between
Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his
worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only,
& not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the
whole American people which declared that their legislature should
"make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between
Church & State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of
the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere
satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to
man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in
opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection & blessing of the
common father and creator of man, and tender you for yourselves &
your religious association, assurances of my high respect & esteem.
Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802.1
Listen beloved, I SAY AGAIN... it is not we who

would teach these great men, but rather they who
1
http://www.loc.gov/loc/lcib/9806/danpre.html

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TEACH us!
For over 175 years, we followed their precedent,
their teaching and their understanding of how things
should be.
John Jay was right and is right!! It is Wise to prefer
Christians for our government!!
The Illinois Supreme Court made a profound
statement back in the case of Richmond vs Moore in
1883 we read.
Our laws and our institutions must necessarily be based upon
and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is
impossible that it should be otherwise. In this sense and to this
extent, our civilizations and our institutions are emphatically
Christian. -- Richmond v. Moore, Illinois Supreme Court, 18832
Our forefathers sought God and Referred to God, even

in their Political writings... For goodness sake beloved,
look at the Declaration of Independence that started
everything!!!
Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States
of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing
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10319 (Ill.), 47 Am.Rep. 445 (Ill. 1883).

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to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of

our intentions,
Three times in the Declaration of Independence we
have DIRECT references to God! One we know for
sure, virtually a direct quote from the Rev. John Wise,
from the book of his sermons published 2 years prior to
the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
Listen beloved, the vast majority of these men lived
their lives devoted to God, to Country and to their
families. They were devout Christians, many were
pastors. The understood His power and Providence!
They were afraid to live outside of the scope of His will
and purpose, and therefor, in all that they did, public
and private they revered God and His Holy Word.
A final note on this first point. Every single one
of the issues in the Declaration of independence
when you look at what is given in the declaration
of independence, those 27 reasons that America
separated from Great Britain, it stands out that
every single one of those issues in the Declaration
had been preached from the American pulpit prior
to 1763. All the Declaration of Independence was,
was a listing of sermons we had been hearing for
the last 2 to 3 decades out of the Pulpits of
America.
So fervent did these feelings run in our nation, that
colonies who rarely worked together, who actually
considered themselves as separate, sovereign entities,
were able to come together and defeat the greatest

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nation on the earth in that day.

Listen to the last part of the Declaration of
Independence.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a
firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence,
we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our
Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Listen to me and hear me well beloved... Every
single one of the items articulated in the Declaration of
Independence had been being preached about in the
pulpits of American churches years before things came
to a head there in Philidelphia. In fact, the truth is, it is
most likely that had it not been for the great preachers
of the day, there would not have been an American
Revolution! Listen.. Listen...The American Revolution
began in the Pulpits of America!!, and those passions
moved men and women to do just what that statement
said.
They were willing to sacrifice it all to establish
something that they believed GOD had opened the door
for and ordained them too!! Because they believed in
God, believe in the liberty that He has granted to all
men! They realized His power was sufficient to aid
them in their cause and recognized that the only truly
WISE thing to do was to seek Him in all their ways!!
We forget beloved, that the colonies had heretofore
functioned independently of one another. They saw
themselves almost as Sovereign nations. Most
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great trepidation.
The statement John Jay made is important because
it echoed the sentiment of the individual states and
gives us an understanding of why the delegates didnt
feel they needed to specify certain issues, ie like that
expressed by Justice Jay, in the federal constitution.
Had they known what would happen in less than 176
years to their beloved nation, there is no doubt from
their writings that they would indeed have included the
same provision that most states had in their
constitutions.
They didnt worry about Christianity being in any
way eradicated from the nation or from the federal
government, because they all strongly believe in states
rights and the majority of the states had already secured
this issue in their constitutions.
Let me cite a few of the early state Constitutions...
and by the way, remember that the men attending the
Constitutional Convention, in many cases had been
instrumental in the drafting of their own state
constituions.
Deleware
"I, A B, do profess faith in God the Father, and in Jesus
Christ His only Son, and in the Holy Ghost, one God,
blessed for evermore; and I do acknowledge the holy
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divine inspiration."3
Pennsylvania
And each member, before he takes his seat, shall
make and subscribe the following declaration, viz:
I do believe in one God, the creator and governor
of the universe, the rewarder of the good and the
punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the
Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be given by
Divine inspiration.
And no further or other religious test shall ever
hereafter be required of any civil officer or magistrate
in this State.4
Massachusetts
"I, A. B. do declare, that I believe the christian religion,
and have a firm persuasion of its truth; and that I am
seized and possessed, in my own right, of the property
required by the Constitution as one qualification for the
office or place to which I am elected."5
By the way... You might also be interested to know that
the state constitution of one of the most repugnant
liberals in our nation today also held...
And every denomination of christians, demeaning
3
4
5
Deleware Constitution. http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/a6_3s2.html
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/pa08.htm
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/print_documents/v1ch1s6.html

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themselves peaceably, and as good subjects of the

Commonwealth, shall be equally under the protection
of the law: And no subordination of any one sect or
denomination to another shall ever be established by
law.6
II.--The Governor shall be chosen annually: And no
person shall be eligible to this office, unless at the time
of his election, he shall have been an inhabitant of this
Commonwealth for seven years next preceding; and
unless he shall, at the same time, be seized in his own
right, of a freehold within the Commonwealth, of the
value of one thousand pounds; and unless he shall
declare himself to be of the Christian religion.7
New Hampshire
Part One, Article I, Section v
Every Individual has a natural and unalienable right to
worship God according to the dictates of his own
conscience and reason...
Article I, Sectoin VI
And every denomination of Christians demeanig
themselves quietly and as good citizens of the state,
shall be equally under the protection of the laws. And
no subordination of any one sect or denomination to
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7

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another shall ever be established by law.

South Carolina
Article 38
That all persons and religious societies who
acknowledge that there is one God, and a future state of
rewards and punishments, and that God is publicly to
be worshipped, shall be freely tolerated... That all
denominations of Christians in this state, demeaning
themselves peaceably and faithfully, shall enjoy equal
religious and civil privileges.
Check out
http://www.usconstitution.net/states_god.html
Alabama
Louisiana
Alaska
Maine
Arkansas
Maryland
California
Massachusetts
Colorado
Michigan
Connecticut
Minnesota
Deleware
Mississippi
Florida
Missouri
Georgia
Montana
Hawaii
Nebraska
Idaho
Nevada
Illinois
New Hampshire
Indiana
New Jersey
Iowa
New Mexico
Kansas
New York
Kentucky
North Carolina

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North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Washington
Wisconson
Wyoming
Only West Virginia does not.

SO what is going on??? Ill tell you... Christians
have for too long been too silent and it is time to take
but what we have given away. Our rights are
acknowledge in every state constitution, in our federal
constitution through the 1st amendment. The reality of
our Christian heritage in this nation is rich.
We MUST take back what we have given away!
For in truth beloved, Blessed is the Nation whose God
is the Lord!

Point III:
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The Protection of Being One Nation

Under God . . . . . . . . . . . Psalm 33:16-20
George Washington's friend, Dr. James Craik, who was

a witness of the battle said: "I expected every movement
to see him fall. His duty and situation exposed him to
every danger. "Nothing but the superintending care of
Providence could have saved him from the fate of all
around him." (Recollections and Private Memoirs of
Washington, by George Washington Parke Custis,
Edited by Benson J. Lossing, Vol. 1, page 248)
===Two days after the battle, Washington displayed
his usual gratitude to Deity. In general orders he said:
The men are to wash themselves this afternoon and
appear as clean and decent as possible . . . that we may
publicly unite in thanks-giving to the Supreme Disposer
of human events for the victory which was obtained . . .
over the flower of the British troops.
===Fifteen years after this battle Washington and Dr.
Craik, his intimate friend from his boyhood to his
death, were traveling on an expedition to the western
country, for the purpose of exploring wild lands. While
near the junction of the Great Kanawha and Ohio
Rivers a company of Indians came to them with an
interpreter, at the head of whom was an aged and
venerable chief.
The chief addressed Washington through an interpreter
saying...
"I am a chief, and ruler over my tribes. My influence
extends to the waters of the great lakes, and to the far

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blue mountains. I have traveled a long and weary path,

that I might see the young warrior (George
Washington, from the day he had horses shot out from
underneath him) of the Great Battle.
It was on the day when the white man's blood mixed
with the streams of our forest, that I first beheld this
chief. I called to my young men and said, mark yon tall
and daring warrior? He is not of the red-coat tribe
he hath an Indian's wisdom, and his warriors fight as
we do himself is alone exposed.
Quick, let your aim be certain, and he dies.
Our rifles were leveled, rifles which, but for him, knew
not how to miss - 'twas all in vain, a power mightier far
than we, shielded him from harm. He cannot die in
battle. I am old, and soon shall be gathered to the great
council fire of my fathers in the land of shades, but ere I
go, there is something bids me speak in the voice of
prophecy.
Listen! The Great Spirit protects that man, and
guides his destinies he will become the chief of
nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the
founder of a mighty empire."'"
[SOURCE: Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, by George
Washington Parke Custis, Edited by Benson J. Lossing, Vol. 1, page 248].
[FURTHER SOURCE: "The Diary of George Washington, from 1789 to 1791,"
Edited by Benson J. Lossing, 1860, p. 303. This narrative was told to Mr. Custis by
Dr. Craik - George Washington's Life-long Friend who was with him - and
witnessed this remarkable scene. It was first published in 1828].
This is the man who led the first American Army to

victory over the Most powerful army and navy in the
world!

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Point IV: The Peace of Being One Nation Under

God .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Psalm 33:21-22

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One Nation Under God Part II

The nation that chooses to be under

Objective : To challenge members to teach their

The Power of Being One Nation Under

The Prudence of Being One Nation

The Protection of Being One Nation

Point IV: The Peace of Being One Nation Under

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One Nation Under God

We began a series last week, entitled One Nation

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We pick back up today with our study of being One

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The Prudence of Being One Nation

a) It is Prudent to be One Nation Under God,

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Psa 138:7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble,

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And knowledge to men of understanding. (22) "It

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what keeps my feet firmly fixed to the ground. It is this

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There are natural laws in play, but understand that

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SPECIFIC reason... and that REASON is for the sake of

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and frustrated the plans of her people, in its efforts to

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Christian, those who spauned the lie that he took a slave

Not only did he empahtically state that he was a

What in the world is happening friends...

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2nd point of our sermon...

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for guidance, direction, protection and

We also see this quote from Washington

Our 2nd U.S. President, John Adams wrote...

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This ideology was not relegated to a mere few key

Make no mistake about it my friends... Unlike

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to eternal life... and so He has done in my life, so too, I

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is long-suffering! But hear me... HEAR ME... HE

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This anti-Christ, anti-American agenda is

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Well... consider another important statement from one

Now this quote stands on a young mans website who

Can you believe this?... In his first statement we see

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century, and was coined to defend the homosexual

WHERE DOES HE get Separation of Church and state

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God hating, liberal media led nation today?

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To messers. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, & Stephen S.

Listen beloved, I SAY AGAIN... it is not we who

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Our forefathers sought God and Referred to God, even

Richmond v. Moore, 107 Ill. 429, 1883 WL

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