America 250: A Spiritual Perspective

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America 250

• The greatest spiritual warfare we have ever seen.
• We must know the Word.
• Reacquaint ourselves with the founding principles.

“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”¹ – John Adams, Founding Father and second President.

1 Cor. 2:12-3:23

Abigail Adams said of George Washington, “He was possessed of power, possessed of an extensive influence, but he never used it but for the benefit of his country.”

Eph. 4:17-32

The Hebrew year 5786: the words we speak, and connection and unification.

200 and 50

200 is the letter Resh, represented as a container.

• What will America contain next year?
• We need to empty our national container of division and hatred and fill it with love for one another and obedience toward God.

50 is the letter Nun

• Positive: Spread, sprout, and propagate.
• Negative: decline and cause to degenerate.

Political Spirit vs Patriotic Spirit

• A political spirit wants to rule over with power and control, while a patriotic spirit serves out of love and duty. (Mt. 20:25-28).
• A political spirit operates to humiliate the other side, whereas a patriotic spirit walks in humility and desires all others to humble themselves as well.
• A patriotic pastor preaches the gospel and serves, while one driven by the political spirit wants a position to advance themselves.

Abraham Lincoln on the will of God in September 1862:

“The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war, it is quite possible that God’s purpose is something different from the purpose of either party, and yet the human instrumentalities working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect his purpose. I am almost ready to say this is probably true, that God wills this contest, and wills that it shall not end yet. By his mere great power on the minds of the contestants, he could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And having begun, he could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.”²

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1. Adams quotes are taken from The American Patriots Bible, Copyright 2009 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
2. The Language of Liberty: The Political Speeches and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Edited by Joseph R. Fornieri, 2009, by Regnery Publishing, Inc.