Deuteronomy 4:6 KJV
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
The wisdom of Israel was the statutes and judgments God gave them.
Of all the nations in that time none had a system of statutes and judgments similar to what God gave Israel. These laws and judgments and statutes separated them and set them apart from every other. Others would eventually follow their example and copy the system they had been given by the Lord until, in our day, many people question whether it came from Israel at all. When our country was founded those men charged with forging out our constitution referred time and again to the Old Testament law as a source of instruction and direction. America is not the second Israel, but we do have a heritage built on the Bible.
But Moses told the people to take heed that the wisdom they saw God give them became removed from their hearts. And that is what is happening in America today. The wisdom that has so impressed the world has now become despised around the world. And no wonder. Our own countrymen don't love the wisdom of the statutes and judgments of God.
We have got to turn our children back to the Bible. We have got to give them a love for God and the things of God if we are to ever see our country once again be the beacon of the world. Power built on borrowed money and technology based on foreign engineering will not sustain a nation as a super power. Only God can do that.
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.
The wisdom of Israel was the statutes and judgments God gave them.
Of all the nations in that time none had a system of statutes and judgments similar to what God gave Israel. These laws and judgments and statutes separated them and set them apart from every other. Others would eventually follow their example and copy the system they had been given by the Lord until, in our day, many people question whether it came from Israel at all. When our country was founded those men charged with forging out our constitution referred time and again to the Old Testament law as a source of instruction and direction. America is not the second Israel, but we do have a heritage built on the Bible.
But Moses told the people to take heed that the wisdom they saw God give them became removed from their hearts. And that is what is happening in America today. The wisdom that has so impressed the world has now become despised around the world. And no wonder. Our own countrymen don't love the wisdom of the statutes and judgments of God.
We have got to turn our children back to the Bible. We have got to give them a love for God and the things of God if we are to ever see our country once again be the beacon of the world. Power built on borrowed money and technology based on foreign engineering will not sustain a nation as a super power. Only God can do that.
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