Though this newsletter will be read by people from over two dozen countries, I must take the opportunity to address my America readers on the anniversary of our country's founding.

Christians from around the world - many of whom are oppressed - should take heart when presented with a clear understanding about America's history. We were a people, discriminated against in our faith; suppressed as to freedom; overtaxed (as we sadly are now again) by an overbearing government – but blessed by the God of the universe because of their foundations!

Just think - a people like us could break free from a tyrannical government and within just a few decades could become a prosperous nation based upon liberty and freedom. The United States is truly a success story among nations. Though our success has made us the target of hatred and slander around the world it has been a small price to pay. The founding Americans fought, bled and died for a noble cause and a dream that people everywhere long for - liberty, freedom and peace. And because our nation is built on freedom and truth our brave men and women have regularly visited foreign battlefields in the defense of others and have laid their lives down for the sake of liberty.

Anti-Americanism has become the sport of many who would have ceased to exist were it not for our warriors who rescued them from the likes of Adolph Hitler. Though bothersome and certainly troublesome, the jealousy that has caused nations or religions to rise up in indignation against us is of little consequence considering the eternal good America has brought to people worldwide. By far, the most important outcome of our emergence in the world has been the fact that America has been the most powerful and effective tool for the cause of Christ ever known since Jesus rose alive from the tomb.

No nation has ever sent or funded so many missionary endeavors to the word as has America. Even with the encroachment of perversion, greed and self-centeredness across our land, God is still choosing to use America as a lighthouse of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Why is this?

Is it our human goodness or good intentions that keeps the favor of Almighty God upon us? Is it our nice Church houses? Our good singing and fellowship dinners? NO! It is simply His plan to honor the roots on which we are founded and the biblical structure and freedoms (shrinking though they may be) that He sovereignly gave our Founders centuries ago. Yes, someday the net will be fully drawn and God will indeed say “enough.” But that time is not yet come. Besides standing in defense of God’s chosen Jewish people the single reason that He is honoring us and allowing us freedom here in America is because we are still the funding arm of world evangelism like no other nation ever has been – which is exactly what the Founding Fathers intended us to be! (NOTE: I had written several paragraphs that originally appeared here in the text about the pending judgment that is sure to visit America unless we repent but after a couple of hours I realized that I needed to stay on message about the Founding Fathers, at least for today anyway.)

There is overwhelming evidence that the great majority of the Founders of America were evangelical, Bible-believing Christians. This should be public knowledge but it is not. Their quotes and writings reflect a deep abiding faith that has been perverted or all but eliminated from the books which our children are forced to learn from in government school civics and history classes today.

The Founders faith may be somewhat veiled from public view by the atheists today but it surely wasn’t unnoticed during their lifetimes. Nearly every one of them embraced a rich, living faith and a hope that was firmly rooted in the Cross of the Savior.

In fact, taking the Founders faith into consideration, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the United States to be a “Christian Nation” when it ruled in the 9-0 decision in favor of the Holy Trinity Church on February 29, 1892!

Even our three branches of federal government have their roots in a passage from Isaiah 33 which the Founders openly revered! Yet this historical truth is widely ignored due to the unconstitutional “separation of Church and State” – an idea never espoused by the framers in any legal document.

Today being the Fourth of July and our 229^th anniversary as a nation, it is a good time to remind you of our responsibility to never let the truth about the Faith of our Fathers die. It is their faith and the resultant nation that arose that has allowed the church in America to reach the world for Jesus in exponential fashion as no other nation ever has or probably ever will.

For more on the Founders I encourage you to follow the link below to the newsletter that I sent out on September 6, 2001. Read it. Print it out. Forward it via email. Share it with others. Mark the Internet address leading to it in your Favorite Places. Refer to it. Quote it. Then pray that God will open up the spiritual eyes of your friends and loved ones about the historical identity that we share as Americans – and the awesome responsibility we have to reach the world for Jesus.

I pray that His peace cover you today and that God will fully bless America once again!

(CLICK HERE for Sept. 6, 2001 newsletter.)

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