August 2000

HOUR OF DECISION

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ing Solomon wrote in Proverbs 14:34 that , “Righteousness exalts a nation”. Beginning with the Mayflower compact of 1620 our founding fathers wrote their faith in God into the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. “In God We Trust” was stamped on our coinage and schools of learning were founded on the Word of God. God has exalted our nation to the position of a global super power.

Alexis de Tocqueville, French statesman and historian visited this country in the 1830’s. He said, “America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, America will cease to be great”. Sadly, today America is found in the last part of that quote. Solomon also had more to say in Proverbs 14:34. The last part of that verse states, “But sin is a reproach to any people”. Sin is a shame and a disgrace to any nation, Solomon states. America is shamefully wallowing in a cesspool of sin today.

Soon the citizens of this country will once again exercise their rights to elect judges; they will elect senators and congressmen at state and national levels who will write legislation and approve or disapprove the appointment of judges; and they will elect governors and a president of the United States who will veto or sign legislation and will also appoint justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.

Will the electorate of this country support lawmakers and judges who maintain that unborn human babies are less than human; that they are not entitled to protection under the laws of the land; and that they are fair game in the abortionist’s abattoir? More than 30 million unborn babies have been murdered since 1972—that sin is a reproach to our nation. God hates hands that shed innocent blood (Prov. 6:17).

Will the electorate of this country support lawmakers and judges who will redefine marriage to include couples of the same sex and who will place those who speak out against the sin of homosexuality under penalty of law? God calls this sin vile and shameful in Romans 1:26, 27.

Will the electorate of this country support lawmakers and judges who will allow Hollywood and the purveyors of smut in this country to continue to produce and market anything they desire under the guise of freedom of expression, while at the same time prohibiting the naming of God or Jesus Christ in a prayerful or worshipful manner in a public school? District judge Samuel Kent of Texas has declared concerning any child who dares to pray in his district, “Anybody who violates these orders, no kidding, is going to wish that he or she had died as a child when this court gets through with it”.

Our national sin is a reproach to the United States. God has little reason to exalt us or to “shed His grace upon us” any longer. An hour of decision will soon be upon us. How will we respond?