A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE OF JULY 4TH!

 A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE OF JULY 4TH

In pursuit of the truth - http://www.cinopsbegoneblogspot.com - July 4, 2016

1. On this day, John Hancock, the Chairman of the Continental Congress. and the Secretary of the Congress both signed The Declaration of Independence  of the United States, thereby making it legal. The only government document in the world history that is a creedal statement of Bible-based ideals, it contains these phrases.

"We hold these truth to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness ..."

"Appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions..."

"With a firm reliance on the protections of Divine Providence."

2. A Call to Fall in Humble Prayer - Sunday, July 3, 2016

"If my people, who are called by my name, will 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)

3. The Call to Fall on Our Knees: -Sunday, July 3, 2016

Let's Focus on the Supreme Court and the years before the Constitution was written in 1789.

On July 2nd, 1776, the thirteen colonies voted to separate from England.

Referring to that vote a month later, Samuel Adams declared, "We have on this day restored the Sovereign, to whom alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in Heaven and ... From the rising to the setting sun, May his kingdom come!"

    

4. Another basic belief: On July 1st, a Catholic Christian leader (Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI) had this to say in his prayer book.# "If we lose God, we can no longer be what we are supposed to be because we have lost our fundamental standard, everything else is immoderation and perversion ... But we are right interiorly only if we are made conformable to the truth of our being. and this truth is that God make us and he is our ways."

5. I remember when I was a substitute teacher in Waltham, Massachusetts. I was just discharged from the U.S. Army -( 3 years and five month  due to the Berlin Crisis.) In the Spring of 1962, with grades of 4th, fifth and sixth grades. In the beginning of each class, read quotations from the Bible. I thought that was a good beginning. However, the U.S. Supreme Court disagreed. They voted that prayer in the U.S. Public Schools was unconstitutional . They made legally and historically a tragic mistake.

6. In his Letter to the Romans (Rom 1:19-20), Apostle Paul answer to the metaphysical and moral cynicism of a decadent society ruled only by the law of power is astounding. (Today's Culture of Death America) He (Apostle Paul) asserts that in reality they do know about God... "The truth was available to them but they did not want the obligation it would entail ...People would oppose the truth that would place demands upon them - the demands of such as the worship of God and giving of thanks."

    When we place our own will, our own pride, our own comfort above the demands of truth, it is inevitable that will everything will fall ultimately into decay.

    God, to whom worship is due, will no longer be worshiped; instead images, appearance, the prevailing point of view will hold humanity in thrall. This universal distortion will hold humanity in thrall. This universal distortion will spread to all walks of life.

    What is contrary to nature will become the norm; the individual who lives contrary to truth, lives contrary to nature. His ingenuity will no longer be at the service of what is good but will be used instead to devise original and artful forms of wickedness"....#

    We pray to return to our roots as a nation and a Supreme Court that mirrors our original beliefs.

George Kubeck

# July 3rd - "Co-Workers of the Truth" by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.