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Key Priorities for a Nation!

• 2 Chronicles 711-18

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What a magnificent building Solomons Temple must
have been This is but an artists depiction of
it
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Our text calls for repentance. America needs to
repent. America needs to seek the ancient paths
and get to those key priorities that made her not
just a good nation, but a GREAT nation!
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Purpose

• to reexamine key principles that need to once
  again become our priorities as a nation

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I The Principle of GOD- CENTERED EDUCATION
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Deuteronomy 64-9
Hear, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord is
one! And you shall love the Lord your God with
all your heart and with all your soul and with
all your might. And these words, which I am
commanding you today, shall be on hour heart and
you shall teach them diligently to your sons and
shall talk of them when you sit in your house and
when you walk by the way and when you lie down
and when you rise up. And you shall bind them as
a sign on your hand and they shall be as frontals
on your forehead
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I The Principle of GOD- CENTERED EDUCATION
- Beginning stages of our education system
- In recent years
- Schools under the influence...
What made America great
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II The Principle of MODESTY AND COMMON DECENCY
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Ephesians 53-5
But do not let immorality or any impurity or
greed even be named among you, as is proper among
saints and there must be no filthiness and silly
talk, or coarse jesting, which are not fitting,
but rather giving thanks. For this you know with
certainty, that no immoral or impure person or
covetous man who is an idolater, has an
inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
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II The Principle of MODESTY AND COMMON DECENCY
- What is true for an individual is certainly
true for a nation...
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Where has modesty and common decency gone?
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II The Principle of MODESTY AND COMMON DECENCY
- What is true for an individual is certainly
true for a nation...
- This nation was founded upon modesty/common
decency
What made America great
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III The Principle of THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN LIFE
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Proverbs 2411-12
Deliver those who are being taken away to death,
and those who are staggering to slaughter. O,
hold them back if you say, See, we did not know
this, does He not consider it who weighs the
hearts? And does He not know it who keeps your
soul? And will He not render to man according to
his work?
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III The Principle of THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN LIFE
- These verses speak to the sanctity of human
life
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Its wrong because God says its wrong!!
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III The Principle of THE DIGNITY OF HUMAN LIFE
- These verses speak to the sanctity of human
life
- America is certainly showing contempt for
human life
What made America great
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IV The Principle of FREEDOM
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John 832
And you shall know the truth and the truth shall
made you free.
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IV The Principle of FREEDOM
- Freedom was in the fore- front of our founders
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God grants liberty only to those who live it,
and are always ready to guard it!
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IV The Principle of FREEDOM
- Freedom was in the fore- front of our founders
- Ready to promote, defend and live truth
What made America great
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V The Principle of THE HOME
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Ephesians 528-33
So husbands ought also to love their own wives
as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife
loves himself for no one ever hated his own
flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as
Christ also does the church, because we are
members of His body. For this cause a man shall
leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to
his wife and the two shall become one flesh.
This mystery is great
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V The Principle of THE HOME
- Home is one of two divine institutions
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The above illustrate how the US is making a
mockery of marriage and the home as a divine
institution
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V The Principle of THE HOME
- Home is one of two divine institutions
- Things we can do to exalt the home and
marriage
What made America great
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VI The Principle of CHRISTS CHURCH
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Ephesians 525
Husbands, love your wives just as Christ also
loved the church and gave Himself up for her.
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VI The Principle of CHRISTS CHURCH
- Lords Church has a divine purpose and pattern
- As the home goes, so goes the church
What made America great
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The choice before us is plain. Christ or chaos,
conviction or compromise, discipline or
disintegration. I am rather tired of hearing
about our rights and privileges as American
citizens. The time has come, it now is when we
ought to hear about the duties and
responsibilities of our citizenship
Peter Marshall (author and preacher)
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Conclusion and Summary
God, however said it best 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 heal their land.