Summary: <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/westside-christian-fellowship/id386117063">If you want to stay up on the latest audio messages from Westside Christian Fellowship, don’t forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes.</a><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/4_15_2018_America_You_Never_Knew.mp3</a"><br><br> </a><a class="twitter-share-button" href="http://twitter.com/share">Tweet</a><br> <a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="%22http://westsidechristianfellowship.org/WP/wp-content/uploads/Audio/4_15_2018_America_You_Never_Knew.mp3</a"></a><br><br> Complete Sermon Notes<br> The America You Never Knew<br> <br><br> <br> Most don’t care because it doesn’t affect them – YET.<br> <br> DANIEL WEBSTER (1782-1852): “There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence.”<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> What’s this have to do with the Gospel?<br> <br> <br> <br> Men/Women who are filled with God’s spirit have to say something.<br> <br> <br> Weep before you wip.<br> <br> <br> <br> Freedom is a GIFT from God!<br> <br> <br> <br> “I don’t want to get INVOLVED!”<br> <br> <br> <br> ———————————————————————————————<br> <br> THE BIG QUESTION: Does God desire that marriages . . . Governments?<br> <br> The church is to be the conscience AND the government the sword.<br> <br> EXAMPLE: THE PRESIDENT IS “MINISTER OF JUSTICE” – Churchill / Patton <br> <br> Romans 13 The wrath of the US military –<br> <br> <br> <br> “The origination and descent of all human power [is] from God first, to terrify evil doers; secondly, to cherish those who do well. Government seems to me to be a part of religion itself.” WILLIAM PENN (1644-1718); FOUNDER OF PENNSYLVANIA<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> BUT You can’t legislate morality…<br> <br> <br> <br> “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord” (Psalm 33:12).<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Stop comparing Rome’s government in the N.T. to ours.<br> <br> <br> <br> JESUS Wouldn’t Run for Office<br> <br> <br> <br> He is Sovereign / King of kings / Government rests upon His…<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> He doesn’t need 3 branches of government he is the Branch. He doesn’t need separations of powers He is the Power. He doesn’t need the Supreme Court; He is the Supreme Court.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> THE AMERICA YOU NEVER KNEW – Be careful where you get your info.<br> <br> <br> PROVIDENCE – Pilgrims AND Puritans.<br> <br> <br> <br> “We shall be a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are upon us; so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.” JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649); ONE OF THE RECOGNIZED LEADERS OF THE PURITANS. “In this age there can be no substitute for Christianity. That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.” HOUSE & SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE; REPORTS TAKEN BETWEEN 1853-1854<br> <br> <br> <br> If a proposed article for the Constitution was not supported by, or rooted in the Bible, it was not considered. In their early writings, many of the Founding Fathers quoted or referenced the Bible nearly ...
