Congress should
America should
- Repent of electing unrepentant congressmen
Q.
87. What is repentance unto life?
A.
Repentance unto life is a saving grace, whereby a
sinner out of the true sense of his sin and
apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ, doth
with grief and hatred of his sin turn from it unto
God, with full purpose of and endeavours after new
obedience.
The
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“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 I
will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin
and heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
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A Proclamation by
President
John Adams
MARCH
6, 1799
- As no truth is more clearly taught in the
Volume of Inspiration, nor any more
fully demonstrated by the experience
of all ages, than that a deep sense and a due
acknowledgment of the
governing providence of a Supreme Being and of
the accountableness of men to Him as the searcher
of hearts and righteous distributer of rewards
and punishments are conducive equally to the
happiness and rectitude of individuals and to the
well-being of communities;
- as it is also most reasonable in itself that men
who are made capable of social acts and relations,
who owe their improvements to the social state,
and who derive their enjoyments from it, should, as
a society, make their acknowledgments
of dependence and obligation to Him who
hath endowed them with these capacities and
elevated them in the scale of existence by these
distinctions;
- as it is likewise a
plain dictate of duty and a strong
sentiment of nature that in circumstances of great
urgency and seasons of imminent danger earnest and
particular supplications should be made to Him who
is able to defend or to destroy;
- as, moreover, the most precious interests of the
people of the United States are still held in
jeopardy by the hostile designs and insidious acts
of a foreign nation, as well as by the
dissemination among them of those principles, subversive
of the foundations of all religious, moral, and
social obligations, that have produced
incalculable mischief and misery in other
countries;
- and as, in fine, the observance of special
seasons for public religious solemnities is
happily calculated to avert the evils which we
ought to deprecate and to excite to the
performance of the duties which we ought to
discharge by calling and fixing the attention of the
people at large to the momentous truths
already recited, by affording opportunity to teach
and inculcate them by animating devotion and giving
to it the character of a national act:
For these reasons I have
thought proper to recommend, and I do hereby recommend
accordingly, that Thursday, the 25th day of April
next, be observed throughout the United States of
America as a day of solemn humiliation, fasting, and
prayer; that the citizens on that day abstain as far
as may be from their secular occupations, devote the
time to the sacred duties of religion in public and in
private; that they
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who doubted the divinity
of Christ. Yet his
official acts as
President were
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call to mind our numerous offenses against the
Most High God, confess them before Him
with the sincerest penitence,
- implore His pardoning mercy, through the
Great Mediator and Redeemer, for our past
transgressions,
- and that through the grace of His Holy
Spirit we may be disposed and enabled to
yield a more suitable obedience to His righteous
requisitions in time to come;
Piety,
in principle, is
a compound of veneration
or reverence of the
Supreme Being and love of
his character, or
veneration accompanied
with love; and piety in practice
is the exercise of these
affections in obedience to
his will and devotion to
his service.
Noah
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- • that He would
interpose to arrest the progress of that
impiety and licentiousness in principle
and practice so offensive to Himself and so
ruinous to mankind;
- • that He would make us
deeply sensible that "righteousness exalteth
a nation, but sin is a reproach to any
people;" [Proverbs
14:34]
- • that He would turn us
from our transgressions and turn His displeasure
from us;
- • that He would withhold
us from unreasonable discontent, from disunion,
faction, sedition, and insurrection;
- • that He would preserve
our country from the desolating sword;
- • that He would save our
cities and towns from a repetition of those awful
pestilential visitations under which they have
lately suffered so severely, and that the health
of our inhabitants generally may be precious in
His sight;
- • that He would favor us
with fruitful seasons and so bless the labors of
the husbandman as that there may be food in
abundance for man and beast;
- • that He would prosper
our commerce, manufactures, and fisheries, and
give success to the people in all their lawful
industry and enterprise;
- • that He would smile on
our colleges, academies, schools, and seminaries
of learning, and make them nurseries of sound
science, morals, and
religion;
- • that He would bless
all magistrates, from the highest to the lowest,
give them the true spirit of their station, make
them a terror to evil doers
and a praise to them that do well;
- • that He would preside
over the councils of the nation at this critical
period, enlighten them to a just discernment of
the public interest, and save them from mistake,
division, and discord;
- • that He would make
succeed our preparations for defense and bless our
armaments by land and by sea;
- • that He would put an
end to the effusion of human blood and the
accumulation of human misery among the contending
nations of the earth by disposing them to justice,
to equity, to benevolence, and to peace;
- • and that he would
extend the blessings of knowledge, of true
liberty, and of pure
and undefiled religion throughout the
world.
And I do also recommend that with these acts of
humiliation, penitence, and prayer
fervent thanksgiving to the Author of All Good be
united for the countless favors which He is still
continuing to the people of the United States, and
which render their condition as a nation eminently happy
when compared with the lot of others.
Given etc.
JOHN ADAMS.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
[From C. F. Adams's Works of John Adams,
Vol. IX, p. 172.]
Messages and Papers of the
Presidents, John Adams, vol. 1, p.274-76
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The Bible says that if we obey God's Commandments, He will
bless us. Learn about God's blessings
here.
That same Bible says that if we disobey God's Law, He will
send curses upon us.
Deuteronomy 28 and Leviticus 26 set forth some of the
blessings we can expect if we obey, and the curses which will
hunt us down if we disobey. Among the curses listed in
Deuteronomy 28 include crop failure, livestock shortages,
infertility, slumping production, spoilation, vandalism, fungus,
disease, pests, sickness, drought, hemorrhoids, eczema, mental
illness, broken marriages, eminent domain, confiscation,
military drafts, centralized government, debt, (and at verse 45
I quit and say) etc.
In 1892 the Supreme Court of the United States agreed that we
are a Christian nation. America was the most prosperous and
admired nation in history.
In the 20th century, the federal government declared itself
to be God, and denied any obligation to follow America's
Founding Fathers and seek the blessing of God.
America has gone from the most prosperous and admired
nation on earth, to a pornographic warmonger nation that is bankrupt
and despised.
Bankruptcy and debt are explicitly spelled out in the Bible
as curses upon a disobedient nation. God has thus far withheld
most of the curses we deserve.
The debt-curse now rearing its head over the United States is
a result of our shift in religion and our shift in behavior.
Religious Shift
Both before and after the ratification of the Constitution,
America as a nation acknowledged its duty to be a nation
"under
God." The modern Supreme Court has repudiated that
duty, making America an officially atheistic nation. Never mind
that every single person who signed the Constitution believed
that America was and must always be a nation under God, and must
always acknowledge its duty to God, the Court frankly
admitted in ALLEGHENY COUNTY v. GREATER
PITTSBURGH ACLU, 492 U.S. 573 (1989):
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Court, however, squarely has rejected the proposition
that the Establishment Clause is to be interpreted in
light of any favoritism for Christianity that may have
existed among the Founders of the Republic.
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The Court violates the central assumption of American
Constitutional interpretation: that the document is to be interpreted
in light of the original intent of its Framers. The Court
now believes it can make the Constitution "mean" anything
it wants. And what the Court wants is to "be
as god." And that means getting the real God out of the
way by declaring, as the Allegheny Court went on to say,
that
This is a lie. The
Framers of the Constitution intended no such mandate, and never
observed any such mandate. Just as all individuals have a
duty to worship God, so do nations. America's
Founding Fathers honored that duty. The Constitution did not
repeal that duty. (The duty to "remain secular," in
this particular case, means the duty of the government not to
acknowledge Christmas.)
Behavior Shift
The United States used to be committed to obeying the
Ten Commandments, also known as "the
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God."
The United States now seems committed to flagrantly
disobeying as many of God's Commandments as is humanly possible.
America is doomed.
But God will be merciful if we repent, and we can once
again enjoy His blessings if we
pursue "Liberty Under God"
rather than security under man.
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