National Refelctions

We need statesmen, not politicians, who are men and women of prayer and who passionately seek God’s wisdom through the written Word of God. Most of our Founding Fathers had great knowledge of God’s Word and they knew what was to be done. One of them was Noah Webster. He wrote: "When you become entitled to exercise the right to vote for public offices let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose as rulers men who rule in the fear of God... The preservation of a republican government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect this duty and place unprincipled men in office the government will soon be corrupted..." It is a necessity that we have leaders who have the Godly character of Hezekiah who “…trusted in the Lord…. He held fast to the Lord and did not cease to follow Him; he kept the commands the Lord had given Moses.” (2 Kings 18:5) God has always raised up possible rulers: 1.) Those who serve themselves, taking from the people of God (1 Samuel 8) or 2.) Rulers who rule in the true fear of the Lord. Which one will you vote for?

Separation of Church and State: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech…” (excerpt from Amendment I, U. S. Constitution) The phrase, "Separation of Church and State" is not in the Constitution nor, according to the Congressional Record, was it ever even mentioned during the framing of that document in 1789. The phrase is not Constitutional at all! It has been wrenched out of context from a private letter written in 1802, 11 years after the First Amendment was ratified. There was a widespread rumor going around at the time that one particular denomination was to become the official national religion. This concerned the other denominations a great deal since some had fled religious persecution by the official church of England. President Thomas Jefferson wrote to the concerned Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut assuring them that under the Constitution the federal government would not, and indeed could not, establish a national Christian denomination. In other words, the United States Congress could not legislate that all Americans had to be Lutherans, or Episcopalians, or Baptists, or whatever. The courts, media and special interest groups have convinced the American people that we must have freedom from religion in the public square. Nothing is further from the truth. As a nation, we have been increasing the judicial and public approval and practice of shedding innocent blood of the littlest human beings, flaunting all sorts of abominations and sexual sins, forsaking our marriage covenants, calling good evil and evil good, and now pushing even the mention of God’s Holy Name out of public life under the false guise of “Separation of Church and State.” To such a people God's Word says, “These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” (Isaiah 29:13) At this time of history God's Word says, “Seek the Lord while He may be found; call on Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man his thoughts. Let him turn to the Lord…” (Isaiah 55: 6, 7a) The Hebrew word "wicked" (raša) is used 264 times, often referring to those who are in the wrong. It is wrong to keep Americans from the historical facts, as a whole, our nation's Founding Fathers never intended to keep God's truths from having an influence on the governing of a nation with a motto, "In God we trust."