The Restoration and Preservation of America’s Godly Heritage

Old Testament Reading – Deuteronomy 9:1-6
New Testament Reading – Acts 17:24-28

“The Restoration and Preservation
of America’s Godly Heritage”
Psalm 33:6-12

Wayne J. Edwards, Pastor

“Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord,
The people He has chosen as His own inheritance.”
Psalm 33:12

   Today, we join with hundreds of thousands of Americans from all across the nation, who have gathered at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to “rededicate America as one nation under God” ahead of the nation’s 250th birthday.

• In 1954, President Dwight David Eisenhower added the words, “One Nation, Under God,” to our Pledge of Allegiance. His purpose was:
  • To reaffirm America’s heritage as the only predominately Judeo-Christian nation in the world.
  • To unify the people of America in a solid defense against the global threats from all the atheistic nations.
• Therefore, when we say, “One nation, under God,” we are affirming that we trust the God of the Bible, to protect our nation from those evil forces that are Anti-God, and therefore, Anti-America, including those who now live among us.

   Just as God established Israel as the channel through which the Savior would come, God allowed America to be discovered and established to get the gospel of Jesus Christ to the ends of the world.

• In “The Book of Prophecies”, written in Spanish by Christopher Columbus, we read these foundational words:
  • “It was the Lord who put into my mind the fact that it would be possible to sail from here (England) to the Indies. I could feel His hand upon me. All who heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit, because He comforted me with rays of inspiration from the Holy Scriptures.”
• The Mayflower Compact said the American colonies were established:
  • “For the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian Faith.”
• The Virgina Charter instructed colonists to help:
  • “In the propagation of the Christian religion to such people as yet live ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God.”
• The Delaware Charter said one of the purposes for its settlements was:
  • “The further propagation of the Holy Gospel.”
• The Rhode Island Charter made the same commitment to:
  • “The true Christian Faith and worship of God.”
• The Maryland Charter declared
  • “A pious zeal for extending the Christian Religion.”
• In the Declaration of Independence, our Founding Fathers dutifully acknowledged the God of the Bible as our nation’s Divine Protector, and every concept of life expressed in our Constitution and the Bill of Rights has its roots deeply planted in the Bible – the Word of God.
• James Madison, the man most responsible for the wording of the United States Constitution, said:
  • “We have staked the whole future of America, not on the power of government, but upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments.”
• In his first Inaugural Address, on April 30, 1789, President George Washington said:
  • “The propitious smiles of heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which heaven itself has ordained.”
• John Adams, the second President, said:
  • “We have no government armed with power which is capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Our constitution was made only for moral and religious people; it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Source: “The Light and Glory” – Peter Marshall, former Chaplin of the Senate

   Brock Chisholm, the Director of the World Health Organization from 1948-1971, wrote:

• “To achieve a world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism, loyalty to their families, national patriotism, and religious dogmas! Instead of bringing our children up according to our own preconceived rules of good and bad, we must teach them to question everything. Children must be free to think in all directions, irrespective of the ideas of their parents, who often seal their children’s minds with false concepts of past generations.”
• It was those very values of faith in God, individual freedom, and the sanctity of the family, that became the foundation for America. It was their desire for freedom that inspired our forefathers to cross the seas without a map, blaze the trails where there were none, suffer hunger, thirst, sickness, and disease, to create a new way of life out of the untamed wilderness, with the hope of building a better future for their families. It was their faith in God and their love of freedom that kept them going, despite the hardships and setbacks.
• That resolve was the concept of life in the United States for the first 175 years. However, over the last 750 years, infiltrators have continually increased their attacks upon the foundational truths of our nation.
• They have torn down the very things that once made America the envy of the world. Their goal is to bring America down to the level of all the other nations, because they do not believe that God established America as that “City on a Hill,” to spread the ideals of liberty and democracy to other nations.
  • By removing the concept of God from every facet of society.
    • 64% of Americans believe that all religions are different paths to the same God.
    • 83% of American teenagers believe moral truth is relative to the personal circumstances of those facing the issue.
  • By destroying the family as the basic unit of our society, where the values are established by the parents and handed down to each generation.
    • “We’ve always had this private notion that your kid is your total responsibility, and as long as this retrograde conception prevails, we will never be able to educate our children. We have to break through this idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families.”

• • By establishing a system of government that is compatible with the lifestyle choices of each person.
    • This battle will not end until parents and pastors are silenced from telling the truth about God, about life, about sex, and about the sanctity of marriage.

“According to the pattern of world history, when a society reaches the level of ungodliness, where homosexuality is accepted as normal lifestyle, that society is already under the judgment of God, and the next step is destruction, bondage or both.”

The three final stages in the decline of a society are:

• Complacency – taking things for granted or assuming we have rights rather than privileges, which leads to:
• Boredom – an attitude of ungratefulness for the way God has provided for us, which leads to:
• Decadence – a lifestyle of self-indulgence, self-assertiveness, and a search for self-satisfaction.

   Many people in the church are calling for the nation to repent, and their primary focus is on those in charge of government, the media, and the cultural venues.

• However, unless churches repent of their worldliness and their worthless worship, and pursue holiness, without which no one will see God, there is no hope for the nation.
• If revival is to come, it will begin with the genuine repentance of God’s people, and a return to our unconditional trust in Him, and in Him alone!
• But if revival doesn’t come:
  • We need to prepare our children to live for God in the most ungodly culture the world has ever known, including the days before the flood!
  • We need to train our children to live pure and innocent lives in the most sexually corrupt society since Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • We need to equip our children to live in the spirit of freedom, while they must live under the authority of a world dictator whom we know as the Antichrist.