At the risk of sounding political, perhaps certain things need to be voiced by every freedom loving American.  Let me begin by ascribing to a list of priorities in which God is first.  America has been a great nation, an exceptional nation, because it was founded upon exceptional principles that are rooted in the Bible, the Word of God.  We once fancied the motto, “In God We Trust.”  We pledged our allegiance as “One Nation Under God.”  We were a God minded people.  America has been great because it has embraced a Great God.  America is falling away, because it has relaxed its grip on goodness and godliness in order to satisfy the egocentric, godless appetites of baseless fools who constitute a very vocal minority.

  Is there yet hope for America?  God has purposed to bless a nation that will humbly acknowledge and walk before Him, a nation that will turn from the wicked ways of fallen flesh and realize its dependence upon Him. “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14).”  We, who love America, must take it upon ourselves to honestly review our past, in order to learn from our mistakes. We must return to God’s moral absolutes and embrace that which God has chosen to bless.  We must once again acknowledge our dependence upon Him as a nation. We owe it to our forefathers whose blood nourished the seed of our nation just a few generations ago.  We owe it to our progeny who seem destined to experience life under the thumb of godless socialists and communists who, even now, vie for power in the midst of a swelling tide of turmoil.  We owe it to our faithful God who has abundantly blessed the feeble masses that attempted to walk in His light for the greater part of two centuries.

  God is not the God of a nation until He is the God of its people.  “For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. (John 3:17)”   Will you be part of the solution?

  Those who fight for “women’s rights,” with no regard for the rights of unborn children, are forever at odds with those who agree with God, and call themselves pro-life.  Seldom do they realize how little their opinion matters in decisions that God has reserved for Himself.  Be still little man! …and know that He is God.

  In the laws given by God to the Jews in a prior dispensation, men were held accountable for causing a woman to miscarry:  If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit (unborn child) depart from her, and yet no mischief (harm) follow: he shall be surely punished,… and he shall pay as the judges determine. And if any mischief (harm to the child) follow, then thou shalt give life for life, 24 Eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, (Exodus 21:22–24)

  Almost everyone agrees, there is life at conception, and if life, it would have to be innocent human life.  God says,  “These six things doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,… (Proverbs 6:16–19)”

 “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them…(Psalm 127:3–5)”

  The Psalmist writes, “I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. (Psalm 139:14–15)”

  The Lord said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. (Jeremiah 1:5)”

  God is the giver and sustainer of life.  He alone has the right to determine when a little life is given, and when it is taken away.  He alone is God!

  This seems to be the sentiment of many across our country and around the world today.  Others feign an appreciation for the things of God, supposing to add clout to their scripture laced humanistic philosophies and satanically inspired dogmas.  What went wrong in our “One Nation Under God?”  Perhaps those who have been ordained to resound “Thus saith the Lord…” have shrunk in fear or fawned over the flattery of man.  God help us to return to the Judeo-Christian principles that have proven themselves worthy of acceptance through countless generations, even among the ungodly.

  Perhaps an example is in order.  Though it may not sound politically correct, God has given instruction pertaining to the family, which, He says, consists of one biological male and one biological female, who are united in holy matrimony for life, and their biologically male and female offspring.  He would know; He created humanity with its two genders, and instituted marriage, as recorded  in Genesis, the book of beginnings.

  God puts it like this, “But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.  For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife;  And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh.  What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.  And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.  And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her.  And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery. (Mark 10:6–12)”  Obviously there are those who feel differently, and in America, for the moment, they have a right to be wrong, to disagree with Almighty God.

  If you and I disagree, we could both be wrong, but we cannot both be right.  There can be only one truth, only one right in moral issues.  He is a fool who would argue that truth is relative, …only a fool would argue with God.

  In a nationally published magazine, I read, “Thanksgiving is a good time to stop and remember the importance of saying, “Thank you.”  Not just once a year, but every day, to all those who help make our lives and businesses possible.”  As I read the article, I found myself looking for some mention of God—I was disappointed.  Would we, as a nation, leave God out of another holiday that was instituted for His glory and praise?

  Some say that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621, by forty Colonists and their Indian friends at the Plymouth Colony, to give thanks for the harvest.  Two years later, Thanksgiving was again celebrated with an official proclamation by Governor Bradford that began, “Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest…, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, …has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience…”

  On November 26, 1789 President George Washington issued yet another Thanksgiving Day proclamation.  He said, “Whereas, It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor; …a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God…”

  Though Thomas Jefferson, the third president of the United States, and a Deist, refused to issue a proclamation of Thanksgiving, in 1828, Mrs. Sarah Josepha Hale began campaigning for the restoration of Thanksgiving as a national holiday.  Finally in 1863, President Lincoln listened seriously to her plea, and proclaimed the fourth Thursday of November to be the National Thanksgiving Day which was ratified by the Congress in 1941.

  Would you join me this year in the reinstitution of Thanksgiving for the purpose of Praise to God for His merciful bounty to us as a nation?

 We have been considering what the Bible has to say about our enemy, the devil.  He is more than a myth; he is a created angel.  In Ezekiel 28:14 he is called “the anointed cherub that covereth.”  He was the highest ranking angel in heaven.  God called him Lucifer, which means, “Light Bearer.”

  Isaiah 14:12-15 tells how that soon after creation, Lucifer led in a rebellion against God.  He and one third of the other angels were cast out of heaven.  In Matthew 12:24, the Pharisees refer to him as the “prince of the devils.”

  Satan, a powerful, though fallen, celestial being, also exercises a degree of power in the earth.  Before Jesus ascended back to Heaven, He warned, “the prince of this world cometh. (John 14:30).”  Later, Paul referred to him as the “Prince of the power of the air” (Ephesians 2:2).  He and his minions became the open and declared enemies of God and man.  John tells us, “…he was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. (John 8:44).”  We are told that sometimes, he even appears as “an angel of light” (2Corinthians 11:14).”

  Being without Christ, the natural (unsaved) man is no match for the devil.  Many who are impressed with his strength have chosen to worship him—unaware that he blinds them to the truth (2Corinthians 4:4), oppresses them with all manner of evil (Acts 10:38), and inflicts them with sickness, injury or disease (Matthew 9:32-33; 12:22; Luke 9:42).  Others he possesses, and leads to destruction of both body and soul. (Luke 8:30; John 13:26-27).

  But God never intended for us to be prey for the devil.  Everyone who has accepted Christ’s forgiveness, has victory over sin, death, hell, and fear.  To them, Satan is a defeated foe, and has no authority where they are concerned (Colossians 1:13).  Though they still live where sin abounds, they are by faith, citizens of another realm, and know experientially that “greater is He that is in them, than he that is in the world. (1John 4:4).”