Power Of The Book

So shall My word be that goes forth from My mouth; it shall not return to Me void.

Isaiah 55:11

The first state constitution written in America was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639). It was based on the Bible, and it became a model for other state constitutions as well as for the Constitution of the United States. Since the American Revolution (1776), America’s biblically based constitution has remained in place. France, by comparison, has had seven constitutions since the French Revolution (1789) that were based on Voltaire’s antibiblical, humanist philosophy.

The influence of the Bible is seen throughout America’s government. The founding fathers devised a three-branch system of checks and balances because they acknowledged the depravity of man—the inability to govern himself. It is hard not to connect America’s declining moral state with the removal of the Bible from its original central place in our nation’s government and schools. Christians understand that the Bible is alive and powerful. If the Bible is removed, its life-changing power is negated (Hebrews 4:12).

Moral and spiritual decline happens to individuals before it happens to nations. Commit to keeping God’s Word at the core of your life.

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself.

JOHN A. BENGEL