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As some of you know, I spend quite a bit of time in Frankfort during the General Assembly talking with legislators in an effort to get them to stand where the Bible stands on legislation.  While I’m grateful for the call from the Lord to do it, it can often be one of the most frustrating experiences I’ve ever had.  Here’s why.

Aside from dealing with the few arch liberals who are there, we face two other basic problems with legislators.  One is that most of those who are there for the right reason, simply do not know that the Bible has a method of government.  Thus, though they are very sincere, they often get manipulated into doing what the liberals want.  The Bible analysis in Hosea 4:6 is applicable to them:  “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.”  This is why people in their district get so frustrated with their representation in Frankfort not being able to work lasting change for the better.  Ignorance of the Biblical form and method of government steal from their children’s future.

The second problem is worse.  It stems from the sin principle at work in those who don’t know Christ as Lord.  Selfishness is the power that rules this group of government servants, and its affects are devastating.  They want to climb the ladder of success to the top of the political world, and thus they will do anything to gain their selfish ends.  This great wrong is concentrated in the concept of party politics.  The idea is to get into the good graces of the Party leadership by doing what they tell you.  As a result, the will of the people is exchanged for the will of a few Party leaders, and the frustration of the people continues.  This is why many people simply refuse to be involved in the political process.  They don’t believe their voice will be heard.  While this is not true—if they add their voice to a group of others—it seems to them to be true, and thus, the selfish in government continue to frustrate the will of the majority.  And believe me, when I speak of a ‘party spirit’, I’m speaking of both major political parties.  Neither party wants their leadership bowing to the will of the people.

However, the solution to all this is quite simple.  Let’s educate ourselves as to what the Bible says about government so we elect, as government servants, only those who think Biblically.  This is the only long-range hope for our Republic.  Knowing Jesus as Lord and thinking Biblically is the only solution to present problems of ignorance and selfishness in government.

For example, the Bible makes plain the evil of the ‘party spirit’.  It states in 1st Timothy 5:21,

“I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ…that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.”

George Washington’s last speech to the nation is known as his “Farewell Address”.  Up until the early 1900s, school children studied and memorized parts of this great address, in which the Father of our country warned legislators—and the nation—of this dangerous ‘party spirit’.  He stated:

“You cannot shield yourselves too much against the…fatal tendency…to put, in the place of the delegated will of the Nation, the will of a party; – often a small but artful and enterprising minority…they are likely, in the course of time…, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People, and to usurp for the themselves the reins of Government…” (emphasis added)

(Washington, George. September 19, 1796, in his Farewell Address, published in the American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, September, 1796 | James D. Richardson (U.S. Representative from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899) | Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, Inc., 1987), p. 91.)

Thus, have all dictators eventually risen to power.

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.