By Bob Yandian

Bob Yandian discusses the Bible's solution to how crime and immorality may be stopped and what might be performed to avoid wasting our state. incorporated within the issues he considers are: - Authority in the house - Crime and immorality - Capital punishment - Separation of church and country - Freedom and struggle God has supplied solutions as to what motives a country to be blessed and what brings prosperity.

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HOSEA 4:1-6 Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. Therefore shall the land mourn, and everyone that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.

We need to put actions to our prayers. "Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone" (James 2:17). God desires leadership in a nation who knows His Word and His voice. As we have seen so far, there are reasons why nations prosper and decline. God's Word is specific on this issue, not cloudy or unclear. A nation is not blessed or cursed because of legislation. Godly leadership and godly people ensure a nation's success. In the next chapters we will begin to look with clarity at God's instructions for a successful nation.

26:27-33; Deut. 28:47-52,63,64) and taken into captivity. God would see to it that the nation would recover, but that is how serious it was for the nation to stop hearing the Word of the Lord. Deuteronomy, chapter 28, verses 1 through 14 describe the blessings which are promised to those people who follow after the ways of the Lord. But verses 15 through 68 describe the curses which befall a nation that does not follow after the ways of the Lord. It is very important to note that in verses 15 through 68 the Hebrew actually implies that God will have to allow the curses, because He cannot stop them.

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