How to Help Our Nation Survive, Part 1

Insight for Living Daily Broadcast

Chuck Swindoll - Insight for Living

Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Religious And Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 3 July 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

2 Chronicles 7:12–22 What can we do for our country? We can pay taxes, vote, and obey the laws. These are worthwhile contributions, but there must be something deeper. Cancerous sin is spreading through our nation's vital organs. Every day, another family collapses from compromised morality, another business dies from a lack of ethics, another young person falls because of weakened values. The soul of a nation is only as healthy as the soul of each citizen. How can keep our nation from collapsing from within? In this special message for the United States, Pastor Chuck Swindoll draws from 2 Chronicles to prescribe four remedies—humble ourselves, pray, seek God’s face, and turn from sin. These are the essentials to help our nation survive . . . and thrive.

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0:00.0	America turns 250 years old this weekend. And while the fireworks light up the sky and the flags wave proudly in the summer breeze, millions of Americans are quietly asking the same haunting question.
0:21.6	Will our country survive?
0:23.6	The threats are real.
0:25.6	The problems run deep.
0:27.6	And no election, no legislation, no political leader holds the ultimate answer.
0:32.6	But there is an answer, and it's older than America itself.
0:36.6	Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall opens the Bible to review there is an answer, and it's older than America itself.
0:43.3	Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall opens the Bible to reveal God's survival guide for a nation in crisis.
0:45.6	Chuck titled his message, How to Help Our Nations Survive.
1:14.4	Survival. This is a sermon about survival. How to help your nation survive. How to help yourself as the people of this nation survive? This will not be lengthy nor complicated, but rather a relevant call from God to all of us
1:25.5	to play our part in the survival program that he has arranged for a nation.
1:31.9	The basis of these words is found in Second Chronicles chapter 7 over in the Old Testament.
1:40.0	I realize that the nation in question is not America, but an ancient nation, the nation of Israel.
1:47.0	And that the man involved in this monologue with God is not a president, but a young, perhaps fearful king named Solomon.
1:58.0	And the event is not a holiday, but rather in every sense of the word, it is a holy
2:06.0	day. Actually, it is a day of dedication, and technically not just a day, but a season of dedication,
2:15.6	because something very important has just been accomplished.
2:21.0	God's house has been built. He never had a permanent residence before. He had always lived in a
2:29.1	tent. That is, if we could say the Shikina of God is where he lives,
2:36.5	he had always lived in a tent that was folded up and carried on men's shoulders
2:40.5	from one region to another.
2:44.2	His white shining light had always blazed into this altar room
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