Healing the USA | Restoring the Foundation

Healing the USA
“Restoring the Foundations”
Psalm 11:3, Isaiah 58:6-12
Pastor Daniel Bracken
June 19, 2022

I. Introduction.

A. The uniqueness of our constitution.

B. God has set up three institutions: the __________, the __________, and __________.

Introduction Notes:

II. A look at the text.

A. Psalm 11:3

1. Psalm 11:3 shares that the __________ can be destroyed.

2. The Psalmist asks a question: “What can the __________ do?”

B. Isaiah 58:12

• Alan Redpath said, “We live in a broken world. In every direction there are breaches which are wide and deep. There are broken hearts and broken homes, and that which once was sacred is but a waste place. Whereas once there was a carefully guarded fence around the sanctity of family life, sex life, and the right to personal privacy, now there is just a waste place. The wall of protection is in ruins, and life has lost all its meaning.”

1. A message of __________: the foundations can be rebuilt, restored.

2. Isaiah shares what we must __________ in order for this to happen.

Section II Notes:

III. God is speaking to us.

A. The very foundations of our nation are under attack.

• John Adams said, “We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice (GREED), ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”

1. The __________ has been systematically undermined.

2. __________ has been seen marginalized.

B. God has an answer: it is his people, his church.

1. We must move from dead religion to genuine __________ with God.

2. We must have God’s __________.

• Isaiah 58: 6, “Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke?

a. For the __________ of people.

• Isaiah 58: 7, “Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?”

b. Desire to be __________.

• Isaiah 58: 9, “Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I. “If you do away with the yoke of oppression, with the pointing finger and malicious talk…”

3. God will intervene.

a. Answered __________.

• Isaiah 58:9, “Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I.“

b. __________ and provision.

• Isaiah 58:11, “The LORD will guide you always; he will satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.”

4. We honor God by making the institutions he set up strong: __________, the church, and government.

C. We can see a great __________ sweep our nation.

• The Healing of the United States of America.

Section III Notes:

IV. Conclusion.

Conclusion Notes:

General Sermon Notes:

*All verses quoted from the NIV.