Sermon:
INTRODUCTION:
We will continue our sermon series on “The Walk of Faith” this morning with the fourth part. We
have discovered that a true walk of faith is a new walk, an honest walk, and a loving walk. Today, we will
examine the idea that the walk of Faith is a Unified walk.
America is talking about her enjoyment of a greater sense of unity now than any before in my
lifetime, and according to many twice my age, in their lifetime. We have rallied around our flag in
defense of “freedom.” However, as I have said once, I’ll say again, we are “missing the boat” in our
definition of unity. We have rallied around our flag, and unified under a single purpose - defeating
terrorism. We, as a nation, take pride in our diversity, while our enemy seeks to destroy us for it. But
our history books have been re-written today. My history books don’t tell of a nation that was formed to
celebrate diversity. That came later. Diversity was NOT the basis of founding our nation. Don’t get me
wrong - I’m not saying we stand opposed to diversity of background, but I AM saying that the common
ground on which our nation was founded was NOT the celebration of diversity. Rather, our nation was
formed so people of Christian faith (whatever their background) could practice their faith without
persecution and external controls. Their purpose was to spread the Gospel, not contain it to further
“diversity.” The founding fathers of our nation, extending back to our land’s discovery, had a different
country in mind than exists today. They recognized the sovereignty of God, His providence, and the
Savior’s desires for their life was good enough for them, come what may. Today, however, we are no
longer free to stand for solid, traditional Judeo-Christian values. We are no longer free to proclaim that
Jesus Christ is the ONLY way to heaven, and through Him, the ONLY way to genuine peace with
mankind.. We are unified under our flag, but our flag today stands for freedom FROM religion, not
freedom OF religion. Our flag now stands for freedom to pursue unrestrained pleasure, not sacrifice and
goodwill toward our neighbors. We have neglected our roots. Our roots are changing as a result.
As a nation, we have misunderstood this freedom for which our founders fought and died. We
have forsaken our faith in Christ as a nation in exchange for “freedom to do as we please,” not realizing
that we are truly free in only in Christ. As a nation, we claim to be “Christian” when it suits us, but when
it restrains us from doing as we please, we turn our backs on Him. We, if we were truly Christian, would
not be this way. As a nation, we are destroying ourselves at a faster rate than any terrorist organization
could hope to do, and we aren’t even aware of it. We are destroying ourselves with philosophy and vain
deceit, killing ourselves from the inside out. We do it by selling drugs, by encouraging the use of alcohol
and nicotine use, buy shooting one another and by killing our unborn and elderly. We destroy our
neighbors by allowing them to ruin their own lives as they please through homosexuality, financial
bankruptcy, adultery, and divorce while we silently turn our backs, saying to ourselves, “to each his own.”
We allow one another to destroy himself by practicing all sorts of deceptive things like lying to people
and calling