Righteousness Exalts a Nation

Righteousness Exalts a Nation
Proverbs 14:34
Proverbs 14:34 Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people.

First Inaugural Address of George Washington – April 30, 1789
“…it would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplication to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect …”
George Washington – March 11, 1792
“I am sure there never was a people who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that Agency … or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them.”
Inaugural Address of William Henry Harrison – March 4, 1841
“I deem the present occasion sufficiently important and solemn to justify me in expressing to my fellow-citizens a profound reverence for the Christian religion and a thorough conviction that sound morals, religious liberty and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness; …”
Daniel Webster – February 23, 1852
“If we and our posterity reject religious instruction and authority, violate the rules of eternal justice, trifle with the injunctions of morality, and recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together, no man can tell how sudden a catastrophe may overwhelm us that shall bury all our glory in profound obscurity.”
Learn from the Psalms
Psalms 9:17 The wicked shall be turned into hell, And all the nations that forget God.
Psalms 33:8-19 Let all the earth fear the Lord; Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him. 9 For He spoke, and it was done; He commanded, and it stood fast. 10 The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. 11 The counsel of the Lord stands forever, The plans of His heart to all generations.


Learn from the Psalms
Psalms 33:12-19 Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, The people He has chosen as His own inheritance. 13 The Lord looks from heaven; He sees all the sons of men. 14 From the place of His dwelling He looks On all the inhabitants of the earth; 15 He fashions their hearts individually; He considers all their works. 16 No king is saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. 17 A horse is a vain hope for safety; Neither shall it deliver any by its great strength.



Learn from the Psalms
Psalms 47:7-9 For God is the King of all the earth; Sing praises with understanding. 8 God reigns over the nations; God sits on His holy throne. 9 The princes of the people have gathered together, The people of the God of Abraham. For the shields of the earth belong to God; He is greatly exalted.


Learn from the Prophets
Daniel 4:25-26 They shall drive you from men, your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and they shall make you eat grass like oxen. They shall wet you with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass over you, till you know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever He chooses. 26 "And inasmuch as they gave the command to leave the stump and roots of the tree, your kingdom shall be assured to you, after you come to know that Heaven rules.

Learn from the Prophets
Daniel 4:34-35 And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom is from generation to generation. 35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; He does according to His will in the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth.No one can restrain His hand Or say to Him,"What have You done?"


Learn from the Prophets
Jeremiah 18:5-10 (See also Jonah 3) Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying: 6 "O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter?" says the Lord. "Look, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are you in My hand, O house of Israel! 7 The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it, 8 if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it. 9 And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it, 10 if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.


Learn from our history
“…recklessly destroy the political constitution which holds us together…” (Daniel Webster)
Abuses of the First Amendment
Judicial activism
“…trifle with the injunction of morality…” (Daniel Webster)
Homosexual agenda


Learn from our history
Declaration of Independence – 1776
“Nature’s God”
“… all men are created equal …”
“… endowed by their Creator …”
“… appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world …”
“… with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence …”

Learn from our history
State Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
“… the legislature shall … require the several towns … to make suitable provision, at their own expense, for the institution of the public worship of God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality …”
Learn from our history
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania (Updegraph v. The Commonwealth -1824)
“…This is the Christianity of the common law, incorporated into the great law of Pennsylvania, and thus, it is irrefragably proved, that the laws and institutions of this state are built on the foundation of reverence for Christianity …”
Learn from our history
National currency and architecture
Learn from our history
Public Education
New England Primer (1700’s through 1800’s)
Blue Back Speller (Late 1700’s through Civil War)
McGuffey’s Reader (120 million copies between 1836 and 1890)
Righteousness Exalts a Nation
Proverbs 14:34
Learn from our history
Harvard University – 1636
“Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of his life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ which is eternal life (John 17:3) and therefore to lay Christ in the bottom as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning…”

Learn from our history
Harvard University – 1636
“And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of Him (Prov. 2:3). Every one shall so exercise himself in reading the Scriptures twice a day that he shall be ready to give such an account of his proficiency therein…”

Learn from our history
Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and politician – 1831-32
“… There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than in America … they hold it to be indispensable to the maintenance of republican institutions …”
Righteousness Exalts a Nation
2 Chronicles 7:14-15 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.
Righteousness Exalts a Nation
2 Chronicles 7:14-15 if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 15 Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to prayer made in this place.
Righteousness Exalts a Nation
2 Chronicles 7:19-22 "But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods, and worship them, 20 then I will uproot them from My land which I have given them; and this house which I have sanctified for My name I will cast out of My sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
Righteousness Exalts a Nation
Proverbs 14:34