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May God be praised for one government servant in Maryland! Robin Frazier, a Commissioner in Carroll County, Maryland, has disobeyed a national judge’s anti-Biblical ruling! The judge had ordered that the County Court could no longer open their meetings with prayer in the name of any “specific deity.” That included, of course, the Name of Jesus. Mrs. Frazier made a fervent speech refuting the judge’s ruling and then prayed a prayer attributed to George Washington in which the Name of Jesus is mentioned several times. Good for Mrs. Robin Frazier, one courageous government servant!
Mrs. Frazier stated, “I’m willing to go to jail over it. I believe this is a fundamental of America and if we cease to believe that our rights come from God, we cease to be America. We’ve been told to be careful. But we’re going to be careful all the way to communism if we don’t start standing up and saying ‘no.’”
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is one of the best examples of the Biblical principle of interposition that I’ve seen in my lifetime. Here is a duly elected government servant at the local level resisting a disordered national government in the very way the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that all civil government originates with God. In Romans 13:1 it says,
“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”
Since after the Flood of Noah, God entrusted the administration of civil government to man (Genesis 9:6), no individual has the right to resist disordered law except through another ordered government. But government servants who are walking in the order of God do have that right and responsibility. Of course, if a government servant, such as a policeman, has come onto an individual’s private property in an unlawful manner, God gives that individual the right to resist that disordered policeman. But Commissioner Frazier is simply doing what the Bible teaches – in that ordered government should step in between the people and disordered government!
This is exactly what Jehoida, the Priest, in co-operation with the army, did in 2 Kings 11 to remove the wicked queen Athalia (who usurped the crown of Judah); Jehoida and the army restored the throne to Jehoash, the rightful king. (See 2 Kings 11:1-21)
This is the same principle on which our Founding Fathers based the Declaration of Independence. When King George III persistently disobeyed the British Constitution, in order to resist him in the Biblical way, our Founders created a new national government. They didn’t resist him as individual “vigilante” groups. The Declaration of Independence stated the king had violated 27 times the Biblical order for government. So our Founders gave as their reason for establishing new government to protect God-given rights of life, liberty, and property, this rationale:
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government…”
Thus states The Declaration of Independence!
Shouldn’t government servants across America be resisting our national government like Commissioner Frazier has done?
Think about it; because if you don’t, someone else will do your thinking for you—
and for your children! And you won’t like what that brings to you. I’m Don Pinson, this has been Think About It.