Can God Truly Bless America?

Last Sunday, before the 4th of July, our church prepared a booklet of quotes by our founding fathers called “Our Godly Heritage” that I thought I’d share with you. These quotes show that, although these men may not all have been Christians, most of them believed in God and knew the importance of keeping God in our schools and government.

Unlike the atheists of the ACLU and other socialist organizations who are constantly trying to remove any vestige of God from the public eye claiming they are offended by anything Godly. Why is it, when liberals make an offensive movie or TV show we are just told to look the other way and ignore it. But when Christians try to display something that is of good character, like the 10 Commandments, we’re told that’s offensive and are taken to court to have it removed? We are constantly having the proverbial “separation of church and state” rammed down our throats, but that statement has been completely misused and taken out of context. Would Thomas Jefferson be in favor of how his quote is being implemented in our society today? This is what he really said – his whole quote in context – you be the judge:

“The First Amendment has erected a wall of separation between church and state, but that wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church, but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.”

That’s a far cry from what its being portrayed as today. It is a sad testament to how we continue to try to jettison God from all aspects of our lives. Today we’ve kicked the Bible and prayer out of our schools and instead of teaching morality, we teach the false religion of evolution where: (no one + nothing = everything). Then when tragedy strikes, we all cry and scream for God to bless America. C. S. Lewis, writing in his book, "The Problem of Pain," wrote, "The lost 'enjoy' forever the horrible freedom they have demanded and are therefore self-enslaved." What a testament to the condition of our society today.

Below are some other quotes from other great American’s:

1) “The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected in one indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.”
John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States

2) “If we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story…and a byword through the world.”
John Winthrop, 1630

3) “We stake the whole future of American civilization and all our political institutions, not on the power of government, but upon the capacity of each one of us to govern ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.”
James Madison

4) “The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evils which men suffer…proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”
Noah Webster

5) “He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity shall change the face of the world.”
Benjamin Franklin, 1774

6) “We have this day restored the Sovereign to whom alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in Heaven and from the rising to the setting sun, may His Kingdom come.”
Samuel Adams made this statement immediately
after signing the Declaration of Independence.

7) “It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists, but by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
Patrick Henry

8) “The great and vital element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and Divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”
A resolution passed by the US House of
Representitives, 1854


9) “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; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian…This is a Christian nation.
A U.S. Supreme Court Declaration, 1892

Imagine how nice things would be if our courts were this Godly today?

10) “It is impossible to rightly govern…without God and the Bible.”
George Washington

11) “If we in our prosperity shall be true to the Christian religion, if we and they shall live always in the fear of God and shall respect His Commandments…we may have the highest hopes of the future fortunes of our country…but if we in our prosperity neglect religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
Daniel Webster

Can anyone say 9/11 or Katrina?? Yes I believe God is removing His hand from our nation today as was predicted in Scripture. See Romans 1:18-32. It’s a clear picture of the US today.

12) “It is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions, in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord.”

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our heart, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.”
Abraham Lincoln, 1863

It almost sounds like Abe Lincoln is talking about our day. The Apostle Paul predicted this very thing in the last days, almost 2000 years ago. See if this doesn’t sound like where we are today. He wrote to Timothy:

“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power…” 2Tim 3:1-5

So if we really want God to bless America, we need to repent of our sinfulness toward Him and become a Christian nation again. If we want God to bless America again, like He did during our first 170 years we should do what He says in 2Chronicles 7:14:

“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 I will forgive their sins and will heal their land.”

May God have mercy on us all.

God bless.

Rob