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*A Miracle for America*
*Psalm 85:1-6*
The Psalm you have is the prayer of a patriot.
Here's a man praying for his nation.
And he's praying for revival.
I want to tell you I make no apology whatsoever for being a red-blooded, flag-waving American patriot.
I believe it is logical, I believe it is reasonable, I believe it is Biblical to be patriotic.
A roving reporter came up to a man on the street and said, "Do you know what the two biggest problems in America are?"
The pedestrian said, "I don't know and I don't care."
The reporter said, "You have them both."
Amen.
The two biggest problems in America: number one is ignorance and number two is apathy.
People don't know and they don't care.
And we have people today who think, "Well you're not supposed to be patriotic.
Somehow everything's just supposed to be one big globe, one world.
Somehow if we're patriotic that's almost un-Christian.
We're told today that you can't be a Christian and love your country.
Well that's ridiculous.
Now when I love my country that doesn't mean I don't love other countries.
When I want God to bless America that doesn't mean that I don't want other countries to be blessed.
It just means that America is my father land.
This is the land of my birth and this is the land of my loyalty and the land of my responsibility.
I love all people, but one day I'm going to have to stand before God and give account for myself.
So I've got to look out and make certain that I'm right with God because I can't answer for you and you can't answer for me.
I love your family, but the Bible says if I provide not for my own, especially of those of my own house I have denied the faith.
I am worse than an infidel.
And when I have a responsibility and a loyalty to my family that doesn't mean I love your family any less.
That just means that I have an assignment from God.
That is, my family.
I love all churches, but dear friend; I have a responsibility to Orion church, because this is my church.
I'm a member of this local body.
If I don't love it, pray for it, support it, and under gird it, then I have failed; I have sinned against God.
I love all the countries of the world.
But this is home, the land of our birth, and our God given assignment.
We can pray it, mean it, say it, sing it, shout God bless America.
Listen, folks, I want to tell you, I still want to stand at attention when old glory goes by.
And I still get a lump in my throat when we pledge allegiance to that flag, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
I still don't mind getting a little wet in the corner of my eye when they sing the Star Spangled Banner.
And I hope I never do get cold or indifferent about these things.
I say it and I really believe it, folks.
We live in the greatest nation on earth.
That doesn't put down anybody else's nation.
Why is America great?
Because we have greater natural resources?
Other nations have great natural resources.
Because Americans are smarter?
Yankee ingenuity.
No folks.
Why has God blessed America?
God has blessed America because America has been built on certain basic God-given principles and presuppositions.
No country ever had such a Christian beginning as America.
The American dream was placed in the bosom of our founding fathers by Almighty God.
America is different because of its beginning.
In 1620 when those Pilgrim Fathers came to these shores, they came for a specific purpose.
They came on that little ship the Mayflower and they went down into the cabin of the Mayflower and they wrote out a document called the Mayflower Compact.
This document that they wrote begins in these words, "In the name of God, Amen."
That's the way they began.
And in the Mayflower Compact they said this, that their coming to the colonies was for, and I quote "For the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith."
That is why they came to these shores.
A South American president was talking with Roger Batson, a leader of yesteryear, and they were discussing the difference between South America and North America.
You know our land has been so blessed.
South America, while composed of many great nations and mighty natural resources, has lagged far behind North America.
And so they were discussing the difference.
And Roger Batson said to this South American president, "What do you think the difference is?"
That South American president wisely said, "I'll tell you the difference."
He said, "Those who settled South America came to South America because they were seeking for gold.
Those who came to North America came to North America because they were seeking God."
That is the difference.
Dear friend, no nation ever had such a beginning as our nation.
Today we're celebrating Independence Day.
We call it Independence Day because it was the day of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Do you know how that Declaration of Independence goes? "We hold these truths to be self evident."
That means we don't argue about it.
It is obvious.
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights."
Now notice, they believed in a Creator, they believed in God. "By their Creator."
They didn't believe in evolution.
"All men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights."
We have rights.
But the government does not give these rights, God gives the rights.
We are endowed by God with certain unalienable rights.
These rights that the government cannot give and therefore the government has no right to take away, because they come from God.
I want to tell you that the Declaration of Independence was a declaration of independence from England, but at the same time it was a declaration of dependence upon Almighty God.
You read it and you will see that this is truth.
Now we have some revisionists.
You say, "What is a revisionist?
Well these are people who want to rewrite history.
They want to change history as it were by rewriting history and leaving out some of the aspects of our national heritage.
But I want to remind you dear friend that our nation was born in the heat of a spiritual revival.
Of the 55 men who were framers of the constitution, 50 of them were professing Christians.
Thirty of them were bold Christians.
20 of them were believing Christians.
But 50 out of the 55 men who framed the Constitution were Christian men.
Madison, James Madison, the architect of the federal constitution and the fourth president of the United States said this, I quote, “We've staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government.
Far from it.
We have staked the future upon the capacity of each and every one of us to govern ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the 10 commandments of God."
That's a significant statement He's saying, we have put it all down.
We're laying everything on the line.
We're not dependant upon government to save us.
We're depending upon individuals to govern themselves upon the premises of the 10 commandments of Almighty God.
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