Today has been set aside to celebrate our freedom and the birth of the United States of America. However, many of us look at our nation today...and just cry. There are many Americans left who have remained faithful to the Lord, but an honest look at the direction of our culture can yield no other conclusion than that America has turned her back on the God who founded her. Watch TV for about 15 minutes. Listen the unthinkably vile filth, hatred and violence that flow without a thought from the mouths of children. Our very president honors and congratulates evil, setting it up as an example while excoriating, condemning and persecuting those who do what's right. We have forgotten that the men who were there at the foundation of this nation did so on their faces before the Lord. Don't give another thought to the revisionist history that you and I both have been taught by men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. You get up and read for yourself the things that those men wrote and you tell me whether or not they understood that they would die unless they acknowledged the God of the nations. The signers of the Declaration of Independence knew very well that they were signing their own death warrants, and they made certain that they counted the cost first. Patriotism and national pride are only sweet in the hearts of men who acknowledge the one God as their founder and sustainer. I usually try to keep these brief, but hear me out today.

James Madison recorded in his The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 that Benjamin Franklin said: "We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel...and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages." He added a little later: "I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations be held in this Assembly every morning before we proceed to business".

In 1807 Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, wrote in a letter to John Adams: "By renouncing the Bible, philosophers swing from their moorings upon all moral subjects."

Our third president and signer of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, once wrote: "the moral precepts of Jesus are more pure, correct, and sublime than those of ancient philosophers."

George Washington, our nation's first president and General in the Revolutionary War prayed at his inauguration: "that Thou wilt most graciously be pleased to dispose us to do all justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, and without a humble imitation of whose example in these things we can never hope to be a happy nation. Grant our supplication, we beseech Thee, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."