SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE…A JULY 4TH LOOK AT AMERICA

‘This will be the best security for maintaining our liberties. A Nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the religion of ignorance that tyranny begins.’
- Ben Franklin

‘Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord…’ Psalm 33:12

‘Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.’ Proverbs 14:34

‘The General Principles on which the Fathers achieved independence were the general principals of Christianity.’ * - John Adams

‘A Nation which does not remember what Itwas yesterday, does not know what it is today, or what it is trying to do…’ - Woodrow Wilson

‘We have heard with our ears Oh God, Our fathers have told us what you did in their day long ago…’ Psalm 44:1

‘Almighty God, We Acknowledge our Dependence Upon Thee, And We Beg Thy Blessings Upon Us, Our Parents, Our Teachers And Our Country.’

Hosea 8:7; ‘They sow the wind, and reap the whirlwind.’

‘Congress Shall Make No Law Respecting An Establishment Of Religion, Or Prohibiting The Free Exercise Thereof.’

‘ALMIGHTY GOD, WE ACKNOWLEDGE OUR DEPENDENCE UPON THEE, AND WE BEG THY BLESSINGS UPON US, OUR PARENTS, OUR TEACHERS AND OUR COUNTRY…’

#1) OUR YOUTH…

‘Oh that their hearts would be inclined to fear me and keep all my commands so that it might go well with them and their children forever.’ Deuteronomy 5:29

#2) OUR FAMILIES

#3) OUR SCHOOLS…

#4) OUR NATION..

Jesus – ‘For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies..’ Matthew 15:19

‘If my people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.’ 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NKJV)