1787 Constitutional Convention:

Purpose was to define the differences between individual accountability and national accountability.

An individual answers to God in the future when he dies.

When a nation dies, it will not be resurrected, so it must be dealt with in the present for its actions.

George Mason (Father of the Bill of Rights): "As nations cannot be rewarded or punished in the next world, so they must be in this. By an inevitable chain of causes & effects, Providence punishes national sins by national calamities."

The Founders believed that God would deal immediately with a nation for the stands that its leaders took.

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Example: When this nation first told God that he was no longer welcome in the public affairs of this nation, all our national statistics mentioned in "Effects Of The 1962 Court Decision" increased. (Sexual diseases, academics, divorce, violent crime, etc....)

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Example: Elijah confronting the prophets of Baal - 1 Kings 18: Elijah complained to God saying that he was the only one left who still believed in God. God responded by saying that there were 7,000 faithful men still left who had refused to kneel to Baal. The nation's leader, Ahab, was a wicked ruler - 1 Kings 16-22: Because of wicked rule, the entire nation, including the 7,000 righteous men, went for 3 1/2 years without rain. Elijah was fed by ravens.

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Example: 1 Chronicles 21:1-30 - King David wanted to count his troops in a census to see his own power. He was warned by his general, Joab, that it was God who was winning his battles for him. As a result of David's pride, 70,000 troops died in a plague.

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1962: The Supreme Court told God that He was no longer welcome in the public affairs of the nation. A nation will be held accountable for the stand of its leaders.

Security of a nation is not independent of God's protection.

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1787 - Benjamin Franklin - Thursday, June 28, 1787 - Constitutional Convention: Franklin reminded the delegates: "We needed God to be our friend and our ally. We needed to keep Gods concurring aid.

June 28,1787: Benjamin Franklin: If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We've been assured in the sacred writing that, Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it." Franklin called for daily prayer so that we would keep God in the midst of our nation.

Thomas Jefferson: "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis - a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: That his justice cannot sleep forever."

Abraham Lincoln: "Sir, I am not at all concerned about that, for I know the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should always be on the Lord's side."

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The Founding Fathers realized that this nation had to align itself with God's principles in order for His blessings and concurring aid to remain upon the nation.

Elias Budinot (President of the Continental Congress): "Let us enter on this important business under the idea that we are Christians on whom the eyes of the world are now turned ... Let us in the first place ... humbly and penitently implore the aid of the Almighty God whom we profess to serve - let us earnestly call and beseech him for Christ's sake to preside in our councils." He was saying, "Do you want to be a world leader? Then put Christian principles in your public affairs."

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Charles Finney: "The Church must take right ground in regard to politics ... Politics are a part of a religion in such a country as this, and Christians must do their duty to the country as part of their duty to God ... (God) will bless or curse this nation, according to the course (Christians) take (in politics).

A nation cannot be blessed apart from Christian principles. Those principles reside in the hearts of Christians, and those principles cannot exist in government unless Christians become involved in politics.

Proverbs 18:1:1: "A man who isolates himself seeks his own desires; he rages against all wise judgment."

Young people used to be told, "If you want to do something good for God, then become a Senator, a lawyer, or a doctor. In the 1950's, it changed to, "If you want to do something good for God, become a missionary or a pastor, but don't get involved in politics.

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