First Baptist Church of Battlefield MO.

There were four groups of people in Judah that God addressed through Zephaniah in Zephaniah Chapter 1:5-6.

1. There were people who worshipped the stars, the moon and even nature.

2. There were people who claimed to be followers of God but they mixed their beliefs about God with other pagan and cultural beliefs.

3. There were people who had at one time served God but they had turned back to the world.

4. And, there were people who did not believe in God and did not seek to know Him.

We have all four groups of people in our country today and I would contend that those four groups represent the majority of the adult population.

Why should this matter - after all - people have the right to make up their own minds about God don’t they? Well yes and no - really people don’t just have the right to choose to follow God or not, they are obligated to do so. The results of those choices, however, will affect their eternal destinies and collectively the entire nation.

America is in open rebellion to God. Our nation has departed from the Biblical values and standards which were the foundation of our country. We have systematically excluded God from our public institutions; we have diminished the importance of the family even going so far as the redefine marriage to include two people of the same sex living in a rebellious, sinful state as a married couple; we have forsaken the principles of the Bible concerning morality, truthfulness, justice and debt.

Don’t be mislead, our national debt will bring us down as a nation. The question isn’t will it happen, the question is when it happens will God’s people be prepared to stand for truth even to the point of dying for Christ? Are we ready to give our all for Him?

See you Sunday!

In Christ, Ray