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Psalm # 21 vs. 1 & 13

Preached: 27 Jun 2010 Des Arc First UMC Nursing Home

Like echoes from a hidden harp, this hymn reaches out to the heart of the King or in our case our elected official. Swifter than the swallow heading south, this song reaches the soul and quiets the spirit, or it may even cause the heart to beat faster if you think of yourself as the most important person because of your position in life. It tells us that tempests may rage and storms may sweep around us, but truth and right shall triumph in the final battle, if we let Jesus control our lives.

This song concerns who is greater the highest of the high in our society or Christ the King and Lord of us all.

This psalm to was to sung to the reigning King of Israel each year to remind them that there is something greater than themselves, and if they understood this then God would do wonderful things for them.

It is there to remind us that there is someone greater than our glorious leaders and this is clear in view seems clear from the following stanzas:

1) How the king rejoices in your strength, O Lord!  He shouts with joy because of your victory.

How quickly have we forgotten in this country who our Lord and King truly is.  I remember when President Obama first took office he made a big show of finding a church in Washington DC.  Have you heard much about it since then?  I have not, and wonder how the leader of this nation can find God out on a Golf course on Sunday mornings, and what is he telling this world about who is  the most important figure in this world.

I know many people do not like President Obama for many reasons. Some justified and some not, but can anyone say that he has shown us where our true spirit and trust lay?

Next week we will be patriotic because it will be the Fourth of July.

There has been a lot of talk about taking the “Under God” out of the Pledge of Allegiance to our flag.

There has been a lot of talk about taking “in God we trust” off of our currency.

There has been a lot of talk about removing God from pledges by the Girl scouts and Boy Scouts.

There has been stunned reactions when people find out that there are more than one verse to the Star Spangled banner our National Anthem, especially when they learn the fourth verse contains the words. “and this be our motto: “In God is our trust!”

This nation—our nation that hundreds of thousands of men and women have given their life to, must always remember.

1. This nation was founded on a trust in God Almighty, not in the elected leadership.

2. This nation was founded on the principles of God’s Ten Commandments and British common law., not the desires of emperors, kings and dictators telling us what is right and wrong.

3. This nation was founded on Historic Judo / Christian beliefs, not do what feels good and it will be all right, and as long as the majority of people fell all right.

We as a people need to close down the businesses and busyness of things we do on our Sabbaths, and find a way to put God back in our lives.

We need to start telling our elected leaders enough is enough with Legislators trying to take God out of our lives through laws and regulations, and to put God back in to our lives in Schools and in our workplaces.

It is all right to have prayer before meetings

It is all right to have prayer at and in schools

It is all right to have religious education taught in schools, so we can know that our God is mighty and present in each of our lives.

Far too many leaders, judges, and administrators have forgotten that they do not have the end word.  No matter how many times our current President Denies that we are suppose to be a Christian Nation. No matter how many times the Congress takes up laws to remove God from the Language of our lang.

They cannot remove God from it because our Nation was formed and created by people who want their religious freedom to worship their Lord and Savior.

The first few sentences of our Declarations of Independence reads:  “When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. “

Did you catch that “Are endowed by their Creator.” Not Are endowed by their leaders. Not Are endowed by their congressmen. Not Are endowed by their judges.

They  “Are endowed by their Creator.”

Likewise the third article in the Bill of rights says:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; “

Congress and our leaders and our Judges cannot dictate what our religion is to be nor can they prohibit the free exercise of it.

We need to get that religion back into our lives and the lives of our children and their children also.

Then we will truly know Jesus Christ is our Lord and King and we will sing our praises to our Lord and not to some elected officials as are being done today.