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DAILY DEVOTIONAL    SATURDAY OCTOBER 30, 2004
(Genesis 6:12)

***CORRECTION:  The Titanic sunk in 1912, not 1918.  I apologize for that
incorrect
statement in the Friday Devotional.

***A CALL TO PRAYER!  In 2000, Liveprayer mobilized over 1.5 million people
to pray for the elections and that God would allow to rise to power men and
women who would follow His heart.  Over 3 million prayed and fasted 40 days
for our nation and its leaders earlier this year.  I am calling on everyone
who is part of the Liveprayer family to pray and fast as led during these
next few days that God will bring men and women into office who will uphold
Biblical standards as they lead our nation.  May we repent of our gross
wickedness, turn from our sins, and once again turn back to God before He
completely removes His hand of blessing from our land and we suffer His
wrath.

***SPECIAL ELECTION DEVOTIONALS!   Do not miss the Daily Devotional on
Monday, "Leadership, political versus spiritual," and Tuesday which will be
a special "word" for our nation.


THE UNITED STATES IS NO LONGER A CHRISTIAN NATION (Part One of Two)

***THIS DEVOTIONAL NEEDS TO BE SENT TO EVERY ELECTED OFFICIAL AS A REMINDER
OF THE STATE OF OUR NATION.  IT SHOULD ALSO GO TO EVERY PASTOR AND CHRISTIAN
LEADER TO HELP THEM FOCUS ON WHAT WE ARE FACING IN THE YEAR 2004.  IT SHOULD
BE APPARENT THAT THE UNITED STATES IS NO LONGER A CHRISTIAN NATION, BUT WE
STILL ENJOY GREAT FREEDOMS TO SHARE THE HOPE AND LOVE OF JESUS CHRIST WITH
THE HURTING AND LOST.

The United States is no longer a Christian nation.  If the recent events in
Montgomery over the rock with the Ten Commandments, and the current legal
challenge to "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance tell us anything, it is
that the United States is no longer a Christian nation.  One of the biggest
misconceptions Christians have today, is that this is still a Christian
nation.

Only the foolish try to argue the fact that this nation was not founded by
men and women that believed in the God of the Bible and had a personal
relationship with Jesus Christ.  There is no way to deny that the largest
percentage of the first several generations of people in this country were
Christians.  It was clearly a nation that honored God, followed His Son
Jesus, and accepted the Bible as the inspired, inerrant Word of God,
representing absolute truth, and our final authority in all matters.
However, that is no longer the case, and has not been for many years now.

How can I make such a definitive statement?  How can you call this a
Christian nation when the Federal Government legally protects the murder of
app. 2 million babies every year?  How can you call this a Christian nation
when people that have chosen lifestyles that God calls an abomination are
now accepted and promoted as normal?  How can you call this a Christian
nation when God's gift of sex has been perverted and is now marketed and
accessible to anyone, of any age, at any time?

How can you call this a Christian nation when God's Holy Institution of
Marriage has been mocked and turned into little more than a legal date?  How
can you call this a Christian nation when God's definition of a family is
being
rewritten daily by those who reject God in their life?  The answer is, you
can
no longer call this a Christian nation for these and numerous other reasons.

The logical question has to be, how did we go from being what was without
argument a Christian nation, to the spiritual state that we find ourselves
in today.  There are two key elements involved.  The first is the incredible
numbers of people that immigrated to the United States since 1900.  People
from all over the world that brought to this nation their own religious
beliefs
and false gods.  People that did not believe in the God of the Bible and
rejected His Son Jesus.

The second is a topic I have discussed often, and that is a weak and
ineffective church since the 1960's and a void of real spiritual leadership.
Churches that lost their evangelistic zeal and became institutionalized.
Men and women God called who found it much more comfortable to ignore the
lost world they were living in, and hide behind the four walls of the church
and in the Christian media where they can preach to the choir where it is
safe and profitable.

So what is the answer.  I will continue to support in prayer issues like the
Ten Commandments, the taking out of "under God" in the Pledge, and similar
efforts to take God out of our nation.  But let me be frank with you.
Having a rock with the Ten Commandments on it in a courthouse in Montgomery,
Alabama, having children recite the Pledge and saying "under God," is NOT
going to make this a Christian nation again.  WHAT WILL MAKE THIS A
CHRISTIAN NATION AGAIN IS GETTING PEOPLE SAVED!!!

The reality of the year 2004 is that there is 2 full generations of people,
the largest percentage of which have never been to church.  These
people are NOT coming to church on Sunday morning, they are NOT watching the
Christian media, and if you want to reach these people you need to take the
message of Christ to them.  Why are cults like Mormonism, Scientology, false
religions like Islam and various New Age movements the fastest growing in
our nation today?  BECAUSE THEY ARE TAKING THEIR MESSAGE,
THAT IS STRAIGHT FROM THE PITS OF HELL, DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE!!!

How does the world get its message to the masses?  Commercial television and
radio, newspapers and magazines, music, film, the Internet, and advertising
are all ways the world forces its messages into people lives literally 24/7.
This is how the cults and false religions of the world are doing it.  THIS
IS HOW THE PEOPLE WHO KNOW CHRIST AS THEIR SAVIOR
BETTER START DOING IT!!!  WE NEED TO BE USING THE SAME
VEHICLES THE WORLD, THE CULTS AND FALSE RELIGIONS ARE
USING TO TAKE THEIR MESSAGE TO THE MASSES!!!

I love you and care about you so much.  I get no joy out of sharing a
message like this, but it is my responsibility to tell you the truth.  While
the United States is no longer a Christian nation, it is still a nation of
great freedoms.  We must take advantage of those freedoms, while we still
have them I might add, to take the message of the hope and love of Jesus
Christ to this lost, hurting, and dying nation and world.  We know that
Jesus is the only true answer for this world, for the United States, and for
each person.

The encouraging fact is that we already know how this story ends.  We should
take great comfort in knowing that even though this nation has turned its
back on God, in the end He still wins.  We also need to realize that there
are tremendous opportunities to bring many people into the Kingdom in these
last days.  We need to quit worrying about what used to be, and start
focusing on what is.  While we were fighting over a rock, the cults and
false religions were busy leading good people into everlasting damnation.
While we will expend lots of time and energy trying to keep "under God" in
the Pledge, the cults and false religions of the world will be busy leading
people straight to Hell.

Please, don't misunderstand me.  We need to pray for these efforts to keep
God in our culture.  But the fact these are even issues simply point out
that there is a majority in this nation that do not care about God, do not
know His Son, and reaching these people with the hope and love of Christ is
what God has called us to do.  The time is short.  His return is imminent.
The United States is no longer a Christian nation, but He still has a people
and a church that He will use to take His message to this lost and dying
world.


In his love and service,
Your friend and brother in Christ,
Bill Keller

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