And so what I'd like to do this morning, as I've done on many similar Sundays which are close to major national holidays, is to bring us a Scripture which will remind us of the God who stands above all nations. I'm sure that, all around the country, there are probably lots of other people who are reading this same scripture today. But from that point, people are going off in all sorts of different directions. There are people who are going to be saying that we need to reinstitute prayer in the schools. There are people who are talking a lot about corruption, and you can take your choice as to whether it's liberal corruption or conservative corruption that they're talking about.
Today is a regular field day for people who want to sound off about the ills of America.
But, you know, one of the principles for interpreting the Bible which I find pretty important, is not to make the Bible say anything which it wasn't intended to say. And the Bible simply doesn't talk about the United States of America, or about our flag, or about any of that other stuff. Another important principle is, never to take a single verse in isolation. Don't take one verse or one saying out of context. But let's not forget that God blesses all nations, and that God created all lands and all peoples together.