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The Second Lifespring! Family Berean

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We read of the Bereans in Acts 17:10-15. The key verse for our purposes here is verse 11b, which says, ”The Bereans were eager to hear what Paul and Silas said and studied the Scriptures every day to find out if these things were true.”

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Podcast Introduction

Today is poetry Thursday so we’ll read Proverbs 28.  I’ll have an introduction for each chapter, and then some comments after the reading. And of course I’ll have an “On This Date In Church History” segment for you, too. I’m calling today’s episode “The Symptom and the Cause.”

Comments on Proverbs 28

When a nation sins, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and much learning, it will last a long time.

Proverbs 28:2 NLV

To paraphrase the first part of that verse, big government is a symptom of a sinful nation!

John Adams, America’s second president famously said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

Alexis de Toqueville is credited with saying, “In a democracy, people get the government they deserve.”

A big government is necessary when the people do not have their eyes on God. Why? Because without a standard, without a belief in an absolute morality, chaos eventually results. 

And there is an Arabic curse which says, “May God make your sheiks many.”

Adams also said, “Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”

Remember, every time the children of Israel turned away from God, He brought them great hardship until they repented. 

And now I will say it again, we need to pray for our nation. We need to pray for revival. We need to seek God’s forgiveness and invite Him back into the public square. Until that happens, I don’t think we can expect Him to bless our nation.

Daniel 2:21 says, “He controls the course of world events; he removes kings and sets up other kings.”<