Lesson 1

For God, Family and America
Patriotic Revival Seminar

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Lesson 1
God Bless America, Again!

#1. How has America changed since childhood?


	From... illegal numbers racket

You Can’t Pick the Number Disc 4


	...to state approved lotteries


	...to Christmas village casino ornaments?!

According to the February 1994 issue of Focus on the Family; America became known as #1 in violent crime, divorce, teenage pregnancies in the Western world, voluntary abortions, illegal drug use and illiteracy among industrial nations. Consider the following:

1. Did you used to lock your doors and windows before leaving home?
2. How many of your friend’s parents were divorced?
3. Did children know who fathered them and also have their mom and dad at home?
4. Did you recite the Pledge of Allegiance in public school plus have prayer, Bible reading and a respect for your teachers?
5. Did your public school have uniformed police presence, metal detectors, a discipline problem and a drug problem?
6. When you came home from school was your mother there preparing family dinner?
7. Was your father the main “bread winner?”
8. How sexually explicit was TV and why did “married” couples on TV still have two beds?
9. Were stores open 24 hours and on Sundays?
10. How many people did you know that lived together before marriage?
11. Was gay marriage even part of our culture?
12. Were child sex offender lists the norm?
13. Where there casinos in your state and did you have a state lottery?
14. Did you basically have a trust in government officials?
15. If of immigrant parents, were you raised you to speak English and be an American first?
16. Did you know what the word terrorist meant?

#2. Dear God, Please bless America (again).

#3. Reasons we have problems in America:

   Lukewarm Christians (Revelation 3:14-22).
   Anti-Christian groups with an organized agenda.
   Citizens lack of knowledge regarding our Christian heritage.
   Unqualified elected officials
   Judges “legislating” from the bench.
   “Separation of Church and State” false political doctrine.
   Theory of evolution vs. Creator endowed Rights.
   Changes in cultural morality.
   Decline in # of traditional families.
   “Political correctness.”
   Historical revisionism.
   Lack of Godly influence in public schools.
   Media bias.

#4. End times? “Wax Worse?” (2Timothy 3:1-17) No!



	Rick Mathena - Professor of Greek

THERE IS HOPE FOR AMERICA!

“I remember seeing some years ago an ad for Twilight’s Last Gleaming by Robert Jeffress. The ad stated that although America’s eventual demise cannot be stopped it can be delayed. I find that this statement creates a serious problem (caused by accepting a secret rapture followed by 7 years of tribulation) because it is a surrendering of hope for America’s future; when in fact our best days can still be ahead if we as Christians just do our job.” Bruce Barilla

#5. Not putting God first? Yes!

Psalm 127:1, 33:12; Proverbs 14:34; Mt. 7:24-27, 13:24-30; Luke 6:46-49; Deut. 28:1-14

Charts below used by permission from WallBuilders

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#6. Students can pray in their public schools!




		THE END OF THE LEMON TEST!


	Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer and Religious Expression in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools U.S. Department of Education

#7. We’ve got to get America back to God!

#8. THERE IS HOPE!
“We can restore America!”*
excerpted from Betrayal of our Heritage
Dr. D. James Kennedy with permission from Coral Ridge Ministries

*If we as Christians just do our job.


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