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Happy July 4th. We need to pause and thank God today for the blessed nation that we live in. We need to remember all those who paid the ultimate price for the freedoms we enjoy. I love my country. Yet, my heart breaks for our country. For you see, we are a nation adrift. And we are drifting faster and farther from God each day. One passage from our reading today offers us some hope. After Peter and John healed the lame man and preached the Gospel in Acts 3, it was off to jail in Acts 4. Standing before the Sanhedrin and filled with the Holy Spirit, Peter responds, "Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved." (4:12) Then the Sanhedrin were fascinated when they realized that these men had been with Jesus. "Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated and untrained men they marveled. And they realized that they had been with Jesus." (4:13) They knew these men didn't have degrees from the 'Jerusalem Seminary'. But you see, these men had another degree. It was a HS degree. They had the Holy Spirit. The Sanhedrin could see Jesus in them. You know what our nation needs? Each day it needs to see Christians, like you and me, filled with the Holy Spirit, that have spent time with Jesus. Spend time with Jesus daily. I promise you, it'll show. And that's what our nation needs to see. It sees enough ungodly as it is. Let's let them see God in us today and each and every day. God bless you and God bless America!