We will give God and the Bible a place. Most people do not go to church. They themselves do not worship. But still they like to be married in a church, have their children christened, have a religious service at a funeral. In moments of national peril and war, we need a national day of prayer.
Ministers ought to give counsel to the president.
They do not bow down in humble dependence before the mighty God of Scripture. They do not bow in a total, undoneness of heart as sinners. But still, you know, they say that the Bible and Christianity come in handy at times, and we do pay a lip-service to them, even a type of respect without believing and humbling ourselves before the only God. We know from Scripture that the nature of man is at enmity with God and always tries to put God on a leash. But here we are taught that the problem originated in Israel.