Solomon’s
Advice to America
Mike Mazzalongo
Moses’ Commands
1. Let God Choose Your King
“When you enter the land which the
Lord your God gives you, and you
possess it and live in it, and you say,
'I will set a king over me like all the
nations who are around me,'
- Deuteronomy 17:14
you shall surely set a king over you
whom the Lord your God chooses, one
from among your countrymen you shall
set as king over yourselves; you may
not put a foreigner over yourselves
who is not your countryman.
- Deuteronomy 17:15
Moses’ Commands
1. Let God Choose Your King
2. Never Return to Egypt
Moreover, he shall not multiply horses
for himself, nor shall he cause the
people to return to Egypt to multiply
horses, since the Lord has said to
you, 'You shall never again return that
way.'
- Deuteronomy 17:16
Solomon’s Fall
1. He had an abundance of
foreign wives (1,000 in his
harem)
He shall not multiply wives for himself,
or else his heart will turn away;
- Deuteronomy 17:17a
Solomon’s Fall
1. He had an abundance of foreign wives
(1,000 in his harem)
2. Taxed too heavily
nor shall he greatly increase silver and
gold for himself.
- Deuteronomy 17:17b
Solomon’s Fall
1. He had an abundance of foreign wives
(1,000 in his harem)
2. Taxed too heavily
3. Neglect of God's Word
“Now it shall come about when he sits
on the throne of his kingdom, he shall
write for himself a copy of this law on
a scroll in the presence of the Levitical
priests.
- Deuteronomy 17:18
It shall be with him and he shall read it
all the days of his life, that he may
learn to fear the Lord his God, by
carefully observing all the words of
this law and these statutes,
- Deuteronomy 17:19
that his heart may not be lifted up
above his countrymen and that he
may not turn aside from the
commandment, to the right or the left,
so that he and his sons may continue
long in his kingdom in the midst of
Israel.
- Deuteronomy 17:20
Solomon’s Advice to America
1. Restore Moral Excellence
as a Requirement for our
Nation's Leaders
Solomon’s Advice to America
1. Restore Moral Excellence
2. Restore Fiscal Moderation
Solomon’s Advice to America
1. Restore Moral Excellence
2. Restore Fiscal Moderation
3. Restore God as Lord of this
Nation
Separation of God and state is a
human idea, not a Godly one.
It wasn't Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism or
Judaism that laid the spiritual foundation
of America - it was Christianity!
We have been the recipients of the
choicest bounties of heaven. We have
been preserved these many years in
peace and prosperity. We have grown
in numbers, wealth and power, as no
other nation has ever grown. But we
have forgotten God.
We have forgotten the gracious Lord that
has preserved us in peace and multiplied
and enriched and strengthened us, and
we have vainly imagined in the
deceitfulness of our hearts that all these
blessings were produced by some
superior wisdom of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we
have become too self-sufficient to feel the
necessity of redeeming and preserving
grace, too proud to pray to the God that
made us! It behooves us, then to humble
ourselves before the offended power, to
confess our national sins and to pray for
clemency and forgiveness.
- Abraham Lincoln (1863)