Pastor Ed Moreno

By Pastor Ed Moreno

As I’ve watched the news the last several months, it just seems like there are an increasing number of violent crimes, and that the moral decay in American society is steadily escalating.

Add to that the fact that most people seem to have lost their feel for the truth and have no problem lying, deceiving, cheating, stealing, etc.  And all of this, along with corruption at the highest levels of government and business, seem to be resulting in the unraveling of America at its very foundation.

And it dawned on me that this is what our Founding Fathers said would happen if we as a nation did not have morality and religion at the center of our government and educational system.  And by morality and religion they meant Christianity and the morality espoused by the Bible.

Well, as we all know, the God of the Bible and the Bible itself have been systematically removed from the halls of government and from our public schools, and the troubles predicated are increasingly coming about.

As John Adams said, in speaking to our military concerning the importance of Biblical principles in American society, “We have no government armed with power which is capable of contending with human passions (that are) unbridled by morality and religion.  Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It (our Constitution) is wholly inadequate to the government of any other kind of people.”

And as Founding Father Noah Webster wrote, “The moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws.  All the miseries and evils which men suffer from – vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war – proceed from despising and neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.”

The internal restraints of the American citizenry are missing because, by and large, they don’t know what the Bible or what the God of the Bible says, and they do not have the Holy Spirit within to help them restrain their impulses and passions.

The only hope for America is for the American church to make the “Great Commission” (Matthew 28:19, 20) their top priority.  For only those who accept Jesus will receive the Holy Spirit, and only the Holy Spirit can change the condition of people’s hearts.

New Day Christian Church meets Sundays at 9:30 and 11 a.m.  They are located at 7155 Hamner Avenue, at Schleisman Road, next to the Fire Station.  For more information, call (951) 278-8367, or visit http://www.newdaycc.net.