President Ronald Reagan said, "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself. … To those who cite the First Amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions every day, I say: The First Amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny.” If you read Romans chapter one, it is clear that when people refuse to retain God in their knowledge God gives them over to all kinds of wickedness. Just look at the path America has been on for many decades. It is not the path to greatness; it is the path of moral corruption. Abortion on demand is the law of the land, the sacred institution of marriage has been desecrated by homosexual unions, political correctness rules the day at the expense of truth, people call good evil and evil good (Isaiah 5:20). What Isaiah the prophet declared concerning ancient Israel is true of America, ".... judgment is turned away backward, and justice stands afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter" (Isaiah 59:14). The street in context was the broad open place, what we call the public square. America’s public square is Washington D.C., the home of the three branches of our government.
This is where truth has fallen. “Righteousness exalts a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34). No political party can bring spiritual revival to a nation that refuses to acknowledge the authority that belongs to the Supreme Lawgiver, the God who created the heavens and the earth. The judgments of the Almighty will continue to fall upon this land until the inhabitants of the land turn from their sin and seek forgiveness from the Lord. The only hope for American greatness is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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