One Life: Under God

Sunday, August 29, 2021

This nation was founded on the precepts of the Bible. Public education was instituted to teach children to read the Bible. Yet, in 1980 the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to post the Ten Commandments in public schools. When the highest court in the land strikes down the Ten Commandments in public places, it is declaring that there's no absolute standard the government must answer to, and no higher authority to which one must stand accountable. Nations that recognize nothing higher than themselves end up descending the path of dehumanization. The Soviet Union declared, 'there was no God and nothing higher than the state.' And so with no accountability, the Soviet Union murdered millions of its citizens. China and North Korea continue to murder their citizens. The United States has murdered millions of babies through abortion. When there's no accountability to God, the state or its leaders become gods. Therefore, believers must be examples of those who recognize the reality of God, who revere His Word and honor His truth. Everyone will answer to Him one day, but His people answer to Him now.

From Messages #720 & 721 - The Crisis: Part I & II