HAPPY 4TH EVERYONE! Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 10:09 AM Subject: God Bless America? -- The Wake-up Herald The Wake-up Herald And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof. Romans 13:11-14 _____________________________________________________________ Robert McCurry, Editor & Publisher July 3, 2014 ____________________________________________________________ Is America Blessed or Cursed? While I still believe with the utmost fervor that those distinctives in our founding that define American exceptionalism — liberty, equality before the law, opportunity — are profound virtues where found, that because they are no longer found here we are no longer a city shining on a hill. We are not the hope of the world, an example to be followed, a nation blessed of God. We are instead of blot of shame on the planet, an example to be eschewed, a nation under the curse of the living God. There are a host of shameful episodes in the history of these United States — people were bought and sold like cattle. Others were locked into government camps simply because of their racial background. Eugenics was embraced and practiced. And today perverts parade in the streets. All of these, as dark as they are, however, pale in comparison to our great national ignominy — the wholesale slaughter of the unborn. For forty-one years now we have been a nation whose highest government protects over a million murders each year, and worse, whose citizens will commit over a three thousand murders of the unborn just today. Whether we consider our government, or our people, we are wicked. How then can we wave our flag, sing odes to our national patrimony, pledge our allegiance? A City Slouching Downward Every human, and every human institution will for now be a mixed bag. Every gift from God, when touched by human hands, remains a gift, but a blotted one. Sometimes, however, we turn gifts from God, occasions for giving thanks, into golden calves, occasions for repenting in dust and ashes. We are not in this country a city shining on a hill, but a city enshrouded in darkness, slouching downward toward Gehenna. Pretending otherwise is dancing around Aaron’s calf. A Time for Repentance Independence Day should be for the Christian a day of mourning and repentance, a day of confessing our dependence on the finished work of Christ. It should be a day to remember that we, like our true founding fathers, seek a city whose builder and maker is God. It should be that day when we fly the white flag of surrender, and pray that the King of Glory would come in. A day when the blood of the babies on our hands drives us into the bloodstained hands of the Innocent One. R.C. Sproul Jr. | July 3, 2014 at 8:19 am | Categories: Ask R.C., Blog | URL: wp.me/p2DvKs-XS Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22 “Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” Proverbs 14:34 “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.” Psalm 9:17 Wake-up, Pastors! Wake-up, Christians!
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