Obedience brings Blessings

Psalm 78:40-72

As you explore these verses, once more we see a loving Father and some very ungrateful children.  You will witness God's wrath on both the enemies of God and also His chosen people for rejecting His Commandments, His blessings, and returning to the little gods of this world like greed and lust.

What a snap-shot of today's culture, God’s mercy has been extended to all people, and I cannot speak for any other Nation, but the United States of America.   From our foundation, we have been blessed.   Powerful Kings and people who had one way of doing things spiritually oppressed our founders.  The King and those he appointed to control the people by controlling the Church of England.  Many a man was put into prison and even burned alive at the stake for trying to oppose the ungodliness of the government Church.

Our founder’s wise men made sure that our nation would not go down that same path but listen to the warnings from these wise men.  Shall we begin with this warning of Benjamin Franklin, "I agree to this Constitution ... and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."  Franklin’s philosophy of government was that freedom is impossible when people become wicked and immoral.

Wise words from John Adams, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

Because of time, I will not address the warning of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Abraham Lincoln, now as you read Psalm 78:40-72, you will come I hope to see that obedience brings blessings, and it is impossible for a non-believer to desire the authority of God in their lives.  They want to have no moral authority over them, and so that brings about rebelling against God and His people the Church.  What we are observing as I write this paper is non-moral people running the Congress of the United States, they are wholly inadequate to govern! 

From the Back Porch,

Bob Rice