Psm 9:16 – 17 Judgment upon the Nations.

A. The greatest Nation on earth is no doubt the United States of America.

1. This Nation has truly been blessed of God.

a. We have religious freedom.

b. We have a democracy.

c. We have been chosen by God to protect His chosen Nation (Israel).

2. We have been blessed to have had National leaders who trusted God.

a. George Washington - "It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and to humbly implore His protection and favor." October 3, 1789 Proclaiming a National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving.

b. George Washington - "And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles." Farewell Address as published in the American Daily Advertiser on September 17, 1796.

c. Samuel Adams - "First of all, I ... rely upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins." The Rights of the Colonists was widely circulated in 1772. In it he wrote, "The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty. The rights of the colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated (prom – ul – gated, to declare something official) in the New Testament."

d. John Adams 2^nd President - "That they call to mind our numerous offense 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 enable to yield a more suitable obedience to His righteous requisitions in time to come." Proclamation of a National Day of Fasting and Prayer, March 6, 1799

e. John Quincy Adams - "The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. From the day of the Declaration...they were bound by the laws of God, which they all, and by the laws of the Gospel, which they nearly all, acknowledge as the rules of their conduct."

f. Andrew Jackson - "Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles."

g. Thomas Jefferson - "Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic. But will they keep it, or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction."

h. James Madison - "We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God."

i. John Jay, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court - "The Bible is the best of all books, for it is the word of God and teaches us the way to be happy in this world and in the next. Continue therefore to read it and to regulate your life by its precepts." -- John Jay, letter to Peter Augustus Jay, April 9, 1784.

l. Abraham Lincoln - "We know that by His divine law, nations, like individuals, are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world...We have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown; but we have forgotten God."

m. Theodore Roosevelt - "In this actual world, a churchless community, a community where men have abandoned and scoffed at or ignored their religious needs, is a community on a rapid down-grade."

n. Grover Cleveland- Above all, I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid. March 4, 1893

o. Woodrow Wilson - The Bible...is the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life, the nature of God and spiritual nature and needs of men. It is the only guide of life which really leads the spirit in the way of peace and salvation. America was born a Christian nation. America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture."

p. Chief Justice Earl Warren - "I believe no one can read the history of our country without realizing that the Good Book and the spirit of the Savior have from the beginning been our guiding geniuses...I believe the entire Bill of Rights came into being because of the knowledge our forefathers had of the Bible and their belief in it."

B. That was America, today she has fell on her face in shame.

1. God said, Psalms 9:17 “The wicked shall be turned into hell, and all the nations that forget God.”

a. We have a Nation that no longer loves God. Instead we have a Nation that hates God.

b. We have a Nation of Families that allow the children to run the families.

c. We have a Nation that despises the Bible and the Ten Commandments.

d. This Nation which God has blessed so mightily has forgotten God and will be turned into hell and God promised.

2. Hell is not a very pleasant place to be for a Nation of for a sinner.

a. Deuteronomy 32:22 “For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.”

b. Psalms 55:15 “Let death seize upon them, and let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their dwellings, and among them.”

c. Psalms 116:3 “The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.”

d. Proverbs 27:20 “Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.”