“Choose Whom You Will Serve!”

Posted on October 21, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

Joshua called together the leaders of Israel and challenged them to finish the work of establishing the Jews in the Promised Land. He admonished them,

“…choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served…or the gods of the Amorites…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

(Joshua 24:15)

The nations around them worshiped (through their idols, Psalm 106:37) a god—satan—which produced a dictator for their civil government. God, our true Creator, had given to the Jews, through Moses, a government where the people chose their rulers through elections. The first form of government enslaved the people to their king, the dictator; God’s form of government enslaved the government servants to the people, the citizens, giving to the people in government only specifically written powers which they could exercise over them (we call that a “Constitution”). The nations around them had a dictatorship for their form of government; the Jews had a republic for their form of government. And the Jews experienced, through their republic, more liberty and justice for their citizens than any nation had ever experienced up unto that time.

This is one of the things that makes voting such an important act. We will always be choosing more enslavement or more liberty when we cast our vote because we will always be choosing a form of government. A candidate’s idea of why government exists, what is the structure of government, and what is the spirit in which government should operate, is going to cause them, once in office, to pass laws which agree with their ideas. So when you vote you are really voting for the way a candidate thinks. The Bible says, as a man “…thinketh in his heart, so is he.” (Proverbs 23:7) Thus, your candidate’s thinking is going to produce a certain kind of government. In short, it will produce more liberty or it will produce more slavery for the citizens.

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“Pastor, America Is In Your Hands!”

Posted on October 14, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

While in Washington, D.C., I heard alarming statistics about our nation. But the most alarming stats were not about government: They were about churches, and particularly Pastors. According to a Barna survey conducted in connection with Wallbuilders ministry, only twenty-eight percent of the churches now believe that the Bible is absolutely true. Ninety percent of the Pastors in those Bible-believing churches say they believe the Bible speaks to current issues. But get this: Ninety percent of those Pastors have never preached from the pulpit what the Bible says about the issues of our land!

Pastors’ AWOL attitude concerning civil government is the reason God’s people don’t know that they must be the ones to watch over civil government, in order to protect the right of the truth to flow to the next generation. Thus, we’re having trouble deciding if marriage is between a man and a woman only; and if it should be protected by government. We’re having trouble deciding if homosexuality is a choice or a trait, when we used to be convinced that it was a crime. We’re even wondering if boys in school should get to use the girls’ bathroom!!

Pastors, if civil government is God’s institution—and Romans 13:1 makes it plain that it is—then should not those of us called to teach the Bible be the ones to reveal the Biblical Structure and Spirit by which government must operate? Is that not logical? Is that not right?

America became the greatest nation on earth because pastors led the battle to keep the truth in our culture. And that started with them speaking to the issues from their pulpits. Pastors not only spoke to the issues of their day; it was Pastors who taught how government was to be structured and the Morality in which it must operate. The Provincial Congress of Massachusetts spoke in 1774 of the Pastoral leadership in the American Colonies as they approached a war with their Mother Country of England:

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“Government Reveals Our Degree Of Selfishness”

Posted on October 7, 2026 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

When Davy Crockett was a Congressman he learned a lesson we desperately need to relearn in our nation. He once voted for some $20,000 to be set aside from the national treasury to be given to families in north Washington, whose houses had burned. It seemed to be the compassionate thing to do. But later, back on the campaign trail, a well-respected farmer told him he could not again vote for him. When Crockett asked him why, the man, Horatio Bunce, replied that he had violated the Constitution by voting that money for the destitute families. Bunce then began to explain that the Constitution allows Congress only the right to vote appropriations for the duties which the Constitution enumerates that the government has the power to do. It gives no power to give money to those citizens who need help. Bunce said to Crockett, quote:

“The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man…

“If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity.”

(Harper’s Magazine, 1867, as written by James J. Bethune, pen name of Edward S. Ellis)

Davy Crockett learned a vital lesson that day: If the people didn’t agree to something in the original Constitution—or haven’t amended it since concerning that power—then the Congress, the President, or the Supreme Court has no right to do it—PERIOD!!! This view of the Constitution is called Original Intent, and it is the only view that will preserve our liberty!

In the Bible, we learn that we must trust God to enable us to earn what we need in this world. Jesus told us the way to gain what we need. He stated:

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