Look what’s happening in America today, crisis after crisis, and it’s on the News all day long. First, the housing and mortgage crisis, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac being bailed out, Lehman Brothers Bank, and now AIG, a trillion-dollar bail out. We thought it was bad when the price of gas went up, but it’s nothing compared to where we are going now and where we are headed. The stock market is up and down like a yo-yo, and no one really knows what to do. They are talking about making it possible that people don’t lose their homes. Can you imagine? We are on the verge of a complete, worldwide, economic crash, and no one knows how we got here or what to do to fix it. Is there any way out? Who will save us?

Maybe you’ve heard the old story about the frog? They say if you drop a frog into a pot of hot water it will immediately jump out, but if you place the frog in a pot at room temperature and gradually raise the temperature, the frog will actually sit there until it boils to death. We are boiling to death here in America, and we don’t even know it. Right now, it’s a spiritual death, but the physical death is usually only a short distance behind. You may laugh and think that what I’m saying is a bit extreme, but I’ll tell you how I got there.

America was a country pioneered and colonized primarily by Christians seeking a place where they could freely worship God. Because they were seeking God, He brought them here, blessed and prospered them in all that they put their hand to, until America became the greatest, most powerful, most admired and respected country on the face of the earth. God made America great! It was faith in Him and His blessing upon this country that made us what we were. I say “were” because we are no longer what we once were, and we are now going down faster than we rose; here’s why.

According to polls, 80 per cent of Americans claim to believe in God. That may include many faiths, but it would be safe to say that the majority claim to be Christians. As Christians, we are supposed to believe what’s written in our book, the Bible. We are supposed to believe that it is the inspired Word of the Creator of the Universe, the Alpha and The Omega, The Beginning and The End.

Over the last 60 years, we have thrown God out of our public schools. We don’t allow our children to pray or even observe moments of silence in our public schools because, of course, they could be praying to God. We no longer teach our children that the very first verse in the first chapter of the Bible says, “In the Beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” Instead, we teach them in all of their textbooks and in class that there was a “Big Bang” billions of years ago. Then, a protein crept in on the back of a crystal that somehow managed to escape from a primordial slime pit; and after millions and millions of more years everything on our planet just slowly evolved into what it now is and the longer scientists make the process--the more millions and millions of years they add to it--the better it sounds, and the less likely anyone will challenge it. Of course, this reduces mankind to nothing more than a slightly more-evolved animal with no spirit, no soul; thus, we are no better than an animal. Scientists conclude that we are just animals! There is no God! There is no afterlife and no accounting for how one lived here in this life. The water is hotter! Can you feel it?


Those Christian pioneers who founded our country would not recognize what we have become today. To date, in America, we have killed 43-million babies through abortion. Those of generations past would not have even thought of doing such a thing. Why? Because, those who believe the Bible, are taught in Psalm 127:3, “Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward.” There are many other verses in the Bible that tell of God’s blessing in having children.

There is a striking contrast between the women in this country who choose life, as opposed to those who favor death to babies in the political name of “choice,” or the latest description in the politically correct arena is “reproductive freedom.” What a travesty! God says it all in Deuteronomy 30:19 (NIV): “This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that YOU AND YOUR CHILDREN (even the little one in your womb!) may live.”

America, this is an open-book test from God, and He’s actually telling you the answer. He is telling you, “CHOOSE LIFE!”

Look at what Hollywood has been producing, and over the years it gets steadily worse and worse. Look at what’s on TV! You can tell a lot about people by what they consider entertainment. Folks of the older generation remember a time when everything was wholesome, and had good lessons, and left you with a warm feeling. Families would gather around the television set together and watch the old black-and-white TV shows that actually taught moral lessons and would leave you inspired. Our spirits long for those days, but they are gone.

Maybe you have noticed, as I have over the years, that so many of Hollywood’s people are becoming less and less godly. There used to be some pretty good role models back in the day. What are the children of this generation looking up to and emulating.  Some of these Hollywood people are just plain downright wicked. Because of this, they are leading many astray into choosing values that are based on nothing of any substance, fame and fortune, and there are little or no standards of moral decency.

Isaiah 5:20 says, “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Today, good things are spoken of as evil. If young teens wear promise rings vowing to remain chaste until marriage, they are criticized and jeered.

Thank God for those in celebrity who are willing to stand up against these attacks, like Jordan Sparks at the recent MTV awards where she stood up and said, “As for those who made fun of the Jonas Brothers for wearing promise rings, all I have to say is, not everyone wants to be a slut….” God bless her for speaking up in the face of such liberal and wicked people! It's just not cool to have any standards. It's cool to be a slut! Look at our celebreties.

Look at the way the Press and those on the Left are treating Sarah Palin, just because she is a Christian--a God-fearing woman who kept a down-syndrome baby when, today, 9 out of 10 are aborted. Of course, she is pro-life, and that’s another reason for those on the Left to hate her. She has five children! They attack her saying, “How would she ever be able to be a Vice-president with so many children? And, God forbid that anything should happen to thrust her into being President.” Maybe that’s just what America needs--a very Christian President.

Have you noticed over the past 30 years that it has become increasingly popular to demean, ridicule, and malign Christians in the press and in the movies. I wonder if it started this way back in Rome. Maybe at first it was just talking badly about them, and then it gradually turned into feeding them to the lions or using them as human torches. Is it possible that they will again someday be hunted and persecuted just at they were in the days of Rome. Jesus himself said it, when his disciples asked him what it would be like at the end of the world. In Matthew 24:9 (NIV), Jesus said of Christians, “Then you will be handed over to be persecuted and put to death, and you will be hated by all nations because of me.”
As far as Left versus Right, isn’t it ironic that Jesus had the whole thing pegged to a T when in Mathew 25:33, he made it clear when he said, “And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.” If you want a treat, read the whole chapter and gain the insight that only God can give.

The real problem, America, is that we have “forgotten God.” We are not going to get the healing we need until we turn around or are destroyed, just as Psalm 9:17 says.

Tthe Bible says in Psalm 9:17 “The Wicked Shall Be Turned Into Hell And All The Nations That Forget God”  We in America have a heritage. Our nation was founded on the principles in the Bible. We were a Christian nation, a nation that sought God for guidance and direction. Our Founding fathers called upon God in desperate prayer, and He came through for them in marvelous ways. But, we have forgotten God and have steadily, gradually, become a nation that is filled with wickedness, a nation that no longer looks to God; and, because of that, He cannot bless us and if we don't have a real turn around He will allow us to be “turned into hell!”


2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV) “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 will heal their land.”

Do you think it’s possible? I don’t know that it’s going to happen without the pressure being put on us. God has been trying for years to get us to turn around. He’s been speaking through people like Billy Graham and many others. Has it done us any good? Obviously not as much good as those who preached this message would have hoped. However, it is not the job of a messenger or a prophet to bring the change. He does not speak for audience response. He only gives the message, and it’s up to the people what they do with it. What will we do with it?

It’s not going to be a new President that is going to bring the change. Neither Barak Obama nor John McCain are going to save this nation. We the people just need to get back to God. It’s as simple as that.

I’m going to end here and say, “God help us! Please dear Lord. Help us to turn around, to see the error of our ways. Help us as a nation to make the changes you want us to make, whatever it takes.”