“Wednesday Service” 6:30PM SLBC (LKLD, FL)
God Bless(ed) America
Psalm 33:12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord
Philippians 3:20 Our citizenship is in heaven, and we eagerly wait for a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Since 1956 “In GOD We Trust” (Florida since 2006)
• In Congress, July 4, 1776…
Romans 13:1-7 Let everyone submit to the governing authorities, since there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are instituted by God… Pay your obligations to everyone: taxes to those you owe taxes, tolls to those you owe tolls, respect to those you owe respect, and honor to those you owe honor.
• HONOR: “I pledge allegiance to the flag…”
The Principles Upon Which The United States Was Founded:
3. Private PROPERTY (Exod 20; Lev 19; Deut 5)
John Locke “life, liberty, and estate” (Two Treatises of Government)
Thomas Jefferson substituted “pursuit of happiness” in the Declaration of Independance
Samuel Adams “Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property… The supreme power cannot justly take from any man any part of his property, without his consent… These are some of the first principles of natural law & justice.”
John Dickinson “The rights essential to happiness… we do not receive them from our rulers; they are inherent, and we claim them as free men, under the protection of the laws.”
Exodus 22:1 “When a man steals an ox…”
John Adams “If ‘Thou shalt not covet,’ and ‘Thou shalt not steal,’ were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.”
Luke 22:36 whoever has a money-bag should take it, and also a traveling bag. And whoever doesn’t have a sword should sell his robe and buy one
2. Personal FREEDOM
Galatians 5:1 For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Philemon 8-19 I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right…
• PEOPLE are not property
• LOVE is better than law (freedom)
1. Individual LIFE (Acts 17:26)
Proverbs 24:11-12 Rescue those being taken off to death…
Micah 6:8 he has told each of you what is good and what it is the Lord requires of you:
to act justly, to love faithfulness, and to walk humbly with your God.
