Our Nation Needs A Rebirth

You can’t beat the devil on your own. It’s not a fleshly battle. The battle for our nation and the nations of the world are not battles that can won by military might or the arm of the flesh. That real battle is a battle in the realm of the spirit and it must be fought with spiritual weapons if we want to win.

2 Corinthians 10:3-5, "For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ…"

My friend, if you are going to win in this war, there is one great prerequisite to being on the winning side. YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN! You have to accept the blood of Jesus and allow it to wash your sins away.

Baptism in water won’t wash away sin. Your sin has to be gone before baptism can mean anything at all. Receiving the Holy Ghost won’t wash your sin away. Your sin has to be washed away and you have to born again before you can even receive the infilling power of the Holy Ghost.

Only the Blood of Jesus has the power to cleanse and make you whole again. Only the Blood of Jesus, applied to your heart, can give you victory over the attacks of the enemy. It’s only after you have been washed in his blood that the Word of God can come alive to you and become a mighty weapon against the devil. It’s only after the Blood of Christ has been applied to the doorposts of your heart that your prayers can be a lethal force against the powers of darkness. YOU MUST BE BORN AGAIN!

Since that’s the only way to turn around a sin-sick, lost and dying soul and give them a new life and a new hope, I submit to you that this is the only thing that will bring our nation back to God as well.

America needs a rebirth today! We don’t need a new birth of wealth because wealth only becomes an idol. We don’t need a rebirth of military might because our military can become an idol too. We don’t necessarily need a rebirth of patriotism because patriotism is fleeting and can often be misdirected.

We need a rebirth in the things of God. But how can a nation be born again? Can we go back and start all over again with 1776 and the ideals of our founding fathers? Can we reverse time and remove all of the effects of Madeline Murray O’Hare who took prayer out of our schools? Can we go back to a time before Roe VS Wade came into law and abortions were legalized? Can we go back to a time when it wasn’t hard for our judges and politicians to know what pornography meant?

My friend we can’t turn that around with the power of a vote anymore than we can wash our own sins away. The battle is spiritual, not carnal. Even if we could change all of those things back to the way they were, the heart of man wouldn’t be changed and it would only be matter of time until we were right back where we are now.

The only way to change this nation and bring it back to God is to bring people back to God one at a time. One-by-one, each man, each woman and each youth who fall on their face in repentance before God will have a part in turning our nation around.