Why America Needs the Bible
Amos was not a prophet; he was not the son of a prophet. He was a gatherer of sycamore fruit, a shepherd. He was from a little village in Judea called Tekoa, six miles south of Bethlehem and twelve miles south of Jerusalem. He was not trained in the school of the prophets but he had a message for his sinful nation, “Thus says the Lord!”
The thrust of Amos’ prophecy was against Israel for drunkenness, sexual licentiousness, religious perversion, idolatry, scorning, chastising, and mocking the faithful of God. God warned them to repent. He withheld rain, blasted them with mildew and blight, sent plagues similar to those on Egypt. But the state of the union was lamentable: “Yet, you have not returned to me,” God said. So, “Prepare to meet your God.”
Nations, as well as individuals, are obligated to live up to the light and knowledge granted them. “You only have I known of all the families of the earth,” God told Israel through Amos, “therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities” (3:2).
God would send a famine on the land – not a famine of bread or thirst for water but a famine of hearing the word of the Lord. Men would wander from sea to sea, and from north to east. They would run to and fro, staggering like drunk men. Their youth – their fair virgins and strong young men – would faint from thirst. “They shall fall and never rise again” (8:11-14).
America, as you know, needs the Bible. We, too, have been blessed beyond any nation ever created by the will of man. Resources in abundance that have allowed human ingenuity to create things that continue to fascinate the human mind and push the boundaries of creativity. God has blessed America such that we are not only the wealthiest nation in the world now, but we are the wealthiest nation that has ever existed. Yet, our society is cutting itself off from the Source of those blessings.
America needs the Bible because it alone tells us where man originated. Evolution, obviously, is deeply flawed. The Word of God, alone, can tell us what man’s worst problem is. Maslow, Rogers, Freud, Dewey – they can’t tell us what man’s worst problem is. Sin is America’s problem. Not Barak Obama. Not John Boehner. Not Harry Reid. Not the Tea Party. America’s problem is sin. The solution, then, is not political. It is spiritual.
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Sin breaks up homes. Sin leaves little boys and little girls orphans, fatherless and motherless. Sin lifts up the politician in pride. Sin makes the business man greedy. Sin joins man to man and woman to woman in the homosexual relationship. Sin destroys the baby while she is still in her mother’s womb. Sin divides believers in Christ into denominationalism. Sin causes young people to drop out of school because of teen pregnancy. Sin takes the lives of the innocent on every street corner. Sin loads the welfare rolls with people too lazy to work. Sin kills the couple hit by the drunk driver. America’s problem is sin!
But only the word of God has the solution. It is the Word of God and it alone that has the remedy for man’s rebellion against God. To the Israelites, God said, “Seek me and live” (Amos 5:4). Repentance was the prescription given to the nation of Israel and it is the prescription for America today. “In truth, I perceive that God shows no partiality. But in every nation, whoever fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him” (Acts 10:34-35).
America needs to return to God. That’s why America needs the Bible.
Your fellow-servant in Christ,
Paul
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