Hope for America

Good Morning,

Our current leadership in America has done much to slander and attack our nation, our wealth, our power, and our influence in the world.  The poor folks running our nation, had they only been in a decent Sunday school, would have learned the Bible instead of liberalism and socialism. 

Any faithful, Bible reader understands the promises God gave to His people about obedience and faithful worship of the true God. 

Reading today in Jeremiah, I see a promise revived that was given to the people in Moses’ day.  Follow God, and He will bless you and your nation.

Jeremiah 33:9 “And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.”

If a nation would turn to God, He would bless them so much that others would tremble.  That fear would not be present because of a country’s wealth but because of the obvious power and potential danger the blessed nation possessed. God would bless a nation so much that any nation that thought of threatening it would tremble and fear.  God offers security, financial influence, and power — great blessings for people who love others and love peace. 

Many a nation that thought about starting a war with its neighbor has thought twice when considering what America might do:  that is the blessing of God on a nation.

Notice the original promises to those who follow the Lord:

Deuteronomy 28:1 “And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:”

The blessing of God results in a nation held high above all other nations.  When we forget God, He places evil nations over us — our curse.  Good people can be in leadership and be a blessing to the world; evil nations will be a curse to the world when they are powerful.


God further promises His people financial prosperity.

Deuteronomy 28:4 “Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.”

vs. 5 “Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.”

vs. 8 “The LORD shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.”

vs. 11 “And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.”

vs. 12 “The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.”

Notice, these are national promises!  God deals with nations as well as individuals. 

God promised military blessings.  (Yes, all of you peace lovers, God will bless the military of those nations who love Him.  No, God is not anti-military or anti-war.)

vs. 7 “The LORD shall cause thine enemies that rise up against thee to be smitten before thy face: they shall come out against thee one way, and flee before thee seven ways.”

Political influence will be given to God’s people if they will follow Him:

vs. 13 “And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:”

Political power and influence over other nations is not bad or evil; power is a gift to those who honor God and respect Divine values.  We are not evil because we have had more money than other nations; we are blessed by God.

We are not bad for being strong; we have been blessed with security and safety and the ability to guard weaker nations with our strength.  Our financial, military, and social prosperity has been the gift of God, not the robbery of nations.  I wonder, who ever had so much power or wealth that Americans could have robbed them to gain what we have?  We did have slavery for awhile (as did every other nation); America just had enough wisdom from God to get that worked out of our nation, and we did so long before the rest of the world.  

Stupid leaders want to turn America into a third-world nation ruled by tyrants.  If we continue to forget God, that is very likely to happen. 

I have spent time in the much-praised and adored countries of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and oppression is present there such as America has never known since we broke free of England:  outrageous taxation, oppressive and invasive government, miserable health care, and very little prosperity.  (They cannot even come up with a normal-sized can of soda.)  Those nations have few churches, tiny cars, and people share houses everywhere because they cannot afford their own homes.  We have all these blessings because our forefathers have lifted up God and righteousness!  Yes, we live in beautiful homes, drive big cars, enjoy plush vacations:  Have you noticed that we have big churches filled with people too!  It all goes together.  Financially-bankrupted Europe has ancient, empty church buildings, impoverished private businesses, and normal folks who struggle to get a car or a home.  Hmmm, seems as if those things go together too.  Makes sense when you think about it:  prosperous Christianity and prosperous people. 

Sugar-filled, Super Big Gulp sodas, sold at Seven Eleven convenience stores everywhere (run by immigrants — thanks to the blessings of God on America, not to their homeland), McDonald’s double-sized fries, and gyms everywhere (because we also have super-sized Americans!) are all rewards from God.  These things are not bad, they are blessings.

A side note as we consider these thoughts:  Individuals can be blessed and prosper spiritually under any heathen, cursed national rule.  Paul did; Jesus did; Joseph did; Daniel did. The subject of this lesson is that we should all desire national mercy and favor from God.

May we remember that God offers the blessing to fallen nations.  The original promise was to the fledgling nation of Israel in Deuteronomy 28, but the promise to Jeremiah was to a fallen nation.

Jeremiah 33:9 “And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them: and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodness and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it.”

God promised that if a nation turned from Him, He was still willing to reinstate those blessings, IF the people of that nation would turn to Him.  The time has come for American believers to wake up, get back in church and Sunday school, pull their children out of Sunday sports and out of the government, atheistic, public schools, and try to live Matthew 6:33:  “Seek ye first the kingdom of God…” 

The future lies in the hands of believers.

2 Chronicles 7:14 “If my people, which are called by my name, shall 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.”

Pastor