TRAPPED IN SIN -PT-20 OF FORGETTING THAT THE HORIZONTAL BEING GREAT IS DEPENDENT ON VERTICAL RIGHT.

HOW DOES THE VERTICAL BECOME RIGHT, BUT WHEN THE VERTICAL BECOMES SPIRITUAL?WHEN THE VERTICAL IS SPIRITUAL, THE HORIZONTAL WILL BECOME GOOD. BUT HOW DOES THE VERTICAL BECOME SPIRITUAL? CAN THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF JESUS BE KNOWN BY UNDERSTANDING, OR ONLY BY REVELATION? HOW DOES THAT AFFECT THE HORIZONTAL NATIONAL?IN THIS MESSAGE WE WILL TAKE A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE VERTICAL AND TIE IT BACK TO THE SUCCESS OF THE HORIZONTAL, AND HOPEFULLY GIVE US SOME INSIGHT IN HOW TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN. IN THE 1831, THE FRENCH PHILOSOPHER ALEX DE TOCQUEVILLE MADE A VISIT TO AMERICA TO SEE IF HE COULD DISCOVER WHAT MADE AMERICA GREAT. HIS CONCLUSION WAS THE FOLLOWING:I sought for the greatness and genius of America in her commodious harbors and her ample rivers—and it was not there. . . . . in her fertile fields and boundless forests—and it was not there. . . . .in her rich mines and her vast world commerce—and it was not there. . . . in her democratic Congress and her matchless Constitution—and it was not there. Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits flame with RIGHTEOUSNESS did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is GREAT because she is GOOD, and if America ever ceases to be GOOD, she will cease to be GREAT.LIKEWISE THE QUEEN OF SHEBA(PRESENT DAY YEMEN) MADE A VISIT TO ISRAEL TO SEE IF THE RUMORS OF KING SOLOMON’S ISRAEL WERE TRUE IN ABOUT 950 B. C. 2Chr.9[1] And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.[2] And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.[3] And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,[4] And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house of the LORD; THERE was NO MORE SPIRIT in HER. [5] And she said to the king, It was a true report which I heard in mine own land of thine acts, and of thy wisdom:[6] Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.[7] Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee, and hear thy wisdom.[8] Blessed be the LORD thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the LORD thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.[9] And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.