{"id":46911,"date":"2022-10-01T02:37:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-we-can-do-for-our-country-bible-study\/"},"modified":"2022-10-01T02:37:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T07:37:10","slug":"what-we-can-do-for-our-country-bible-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/what-we-can-do-for-our-country-bible-study\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Can Do For Our Country – Bible study"},"content":{"rendered":"

During President John F. Kennedys inaugural address on January 20,1961, President Kennedy said the following inspiring words supporting the many freedoms we have in our great nation:<\/p>\n

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And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

He continued by saying:<\/p>\n

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My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man<\/strong> (see source).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

What can we do for our country to maintain its many freedoms?<\/p>\n

The wise man Solomon provides us the answer:<\/p>\n

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Righteousness exalts a nation, But sin is a reproach to any people<\/strong> (Proverbs 14:34; cf. Psalm 9:17).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Thus, the greatest good we can do for our country, is to be an example of righteousness (1 Timothy 4:12-16; Titus 2:1-8), simply by living a righteous life before God and our fellow man (Deuteronomy 6:25; Matthew 5:20 ; Acts 10:35; Romans 6:17-18; 1 Corinthians 15:34; 2 Corinthians 6:14; Ephesians 4:17-24; 1 Timothy 6:9-11; 2 Timothy 2:22; James 3:18; 1 John 3:10).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During President John F. Kennedys inaugural address on January 20,1961, President Kennedy said the following inspiring words supporting the many freedoms we have in our great nation: And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. He continued by saying: My … Continue reading “What We Can Do For Our Country – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}