You cannot exclude God and then complain the taxes are going up.

Dr. Tony Evans talks about the dangers of letting our political agenda replace God's kingdom agenda.

And the tragedy is, many of God's people vote for government to play God.

This is the alternative broadcast featuring the timeless biblical teachings from the archives of Dr. Tony Evans.

Government plays a vital role in keeping society from coming apart at the seams.

But in today's message, Dr Evans explains we're expecting too much from Washington and too little

from God.

Let's listen in.

If you watch the news, if you keep up with the newspaper, if you listen closely to what is happening around us it is no secret that the

United States of America is in serious trouble you and I are witnessing what we might call the devolution of a nation,

not the evolution of a nation. Most people today assume that the issues facing our nation are fundamentally political.

So we've got to change the parties or the House of Representatives or the Senate or the White House.

What America is facing today that may show up politically

is really spiritual decay in the culture.

You know that this is happening

when evil becomes legalized,

when government endorses evil,

legalizes evil, legislatively permits okay and encourages evil, that means that that government

has drifted from God. The further a government drifts from God, it removes

itself from divine cover.

In 1st Samuel, chapter 8,

Samuel is old in verse number one,

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