“Needed: Interposition by Our State Governments!”

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What should be done to protect our liberty, recently so viciously attacked by the “marriage” decision of the U.S. Supreme Court?  Six judges on that court should be impeached.  But due to the lack of courage in the average Congressman, that’s not likely.  What can be done is that our states can rise up and refuse to enforce this decision which so violates the Scripture and our U.S. Constitution.

Needed-Interposition by Our State Governments1The states stepping in between the people and a disordered national government is the Biblical principle of ‘interposition’.  You may be asking, “What on earth does interposition mean?”  I’m glad you asked.  Noah Webster, in his first American Dictionary, defined interposition as being the act of “…placing or coming between; intervention.”  Then he added this comment to illustrate what he meant:  “The interposition of the moon between the earth and the sun occasions a solar eclipse.”

In government, all authority flows out of God, as Romans 13:1 says, “…there is no authority except from God”.  Government rulers have authority only because God has allowed them that authority.  God first deposits this governmental authority in the people Continue reading

“Our God is Able!”

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Our God is Able1In light of the growing threat to the free expression Biblical truth, let us remember those whom God has used in the past, and draw the strength of faith from their stands.  The faith of one, Abraham, was used to save many lives when he attacked the kings who had carried off his nephew Lot and his family.  Though Abraham had only 318 men in his “household army”, God defeated the combined armies of four kings and rescued the captives they had taken, including Lot.  And because of Abraham’s obedience in the face of fear, God greatly blessed him during and after the battle (Genesis 14)!

Gideon, with just 300 men, overcame an army that was “without number” (Judges 6:5):  Demonstrating how powerfully God shows up on behalf of those who trust Him!

Elijah, alone, faced 450 prophets of Baal and challenged the nation of Israel to decide who was God in Israel (1 Kings 18).  Yet God showed up on Elijah’s behalf while there was no move from Baal at all.  The fire of God fell on Elijah’s prepared sacrifice and consumed not only the sacrifice Continue reading

“What Can the Righteous Do?”

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The Psalmist cried out,

“If the foundations be destroyed, what can the righteous do?”

(Psalm 11:3)

In the wake of the Supreme Court saying that it is now “law” that marriage is not between a man and a woman only, what can we do?

What Can the Righteous Do1One thing we can do is realize that the Supreme Court cannot make law!!  The Constitution, the law that we agreed to live by in 1789, reserves the right to make national law to the Congress, and the right to make state law to the state Legislatures.  Nowhere does it allow the Supreme Court to make law.  Thus, just because the Court tells us whether something is Constitutional does not mean we have to live by their decision.  Their ruling is not law!  It is only an opinion!   We must respectfully disobey their ruling on marriage!

Secondly, the Congress should rise up and impeach those five judges who have so blatantly violated the Constitution which they took an oath to defend.  Congress is given this power by the Constitution Continue reading

“What Can We Do Now?”

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On November 13, 2008, the week after Mr. Obama was elected the first time, the Think About It message was entitled “What We Can Expect”.  We offered the following analysis of what government would become.  We stated,

What Can We Do Now1“In the governmental realm we can expect more and more animosity toward the churches which teach the Bible to be true.  This will probably also include Jewish synagogues.  It follows that moral issues like trying to stop abortion and homosexuality will be impossible, unless God Himself intervenes.”

Now that we are seeing this, what do we do?

We must now be willing to suffer for speaking the truth to people.  This is a first for our nation.  What rejection we received in the past Continue reading

“The Effect of the Marriage Ruling”

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Chaos is defined in Webster’s original dictionary as, “confusion; disorder; a state in which the parts are undistinguished”.  This describes exactly the state of affairs which the U.S. Supreme Court forced onto us when they ruled that marriage was not between The Effect of the Marriage Ruling1a man and a woman only.  This will produce “confusion” and “disorder” the likes of which we have never dreamed of.  Consider its effect on society’s structural institutions of the home, the church, and civil government.  This decision strikes at the heart of the most basic unit of society, the Home.  How can you now define “home”?  Is it one husband and three wives; can a man marry his daughter?  Could a child marry their pet?  Once you change the definition of marriage from being what the Bible teaches (that is, one man and one woman) you remove any exclusiveness in the definition of the relationship.  This can only work chaos in families— especially the next generation.

Consider its effect on the Church.  Continue reading

“Our Freedom Document”

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The Bible says, “Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)

Ladies and Gentlemen: The following document is the reason you and I, in America, are free:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

Our Freedom Document - Heritage Ministries of Kentucky“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. 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, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Continue reading

“The Story of the Birthing of The United States of America”

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It had been a long struggle.  For over twenty years the American Colonies had appealed to their king, asking him to recognize his departure from English law.  The Americans, because of their Biblical foundation, understood that government servants (including the king) had to do what they did according to the law of God.  King George III showed no respect for what the Bible had to say about government, and thus ignored every request to come back into the order of God.

The Story of the Birthing of The United States of America1Finally on June 7th, 1776, Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution on the floor of the Continental Congress stating:

“RESOLVED, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”

(The Declaration of Independence, Rod Gragg, Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, 2005; p.35)

A committee was appointed, which included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin, to write a Declaration of Independence which would, upon the approval of the Congress be sent to the King of England.  The Congress then recessed for three weeks to give the committee time to write the Declaration. Continue reading

“Government Must Limit Man’s Selfishness”

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As America’s Founding Fathers were growing up as children one of the greatest revivals in all of history was occurring.  It would come to be called “The Great Awakening” as the Holy Spirit of God awakened Americans to the faith their Pilgrim Government Must Limit Man's Selfishness1ancestors had known so well.  The Bible became the standard once again for morals as well as manners.  They would grow up with the view of God and the view of man which the Bible revealed.  The Ten Commandments would set the boundaries for what was right and wrong in their generation.  The Biblical structure for education, business, and government would become their quest in building their society.  Their view of God was not the “teddy bear” god we’ve tried to shaped Him into in our day; rather, it was the Biblical revelation of Him as the awesome Creator and Ruler of all that is.  Because He was our Maker and Redeemer (in Christ) He was the One Who would be our Judge.

Thus, our current view of ourselves as being the focus of life was not their view.  They believed what the Bible teaches about man: Continue reading

“Do Gospel and Government Mix?”

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Do Gospel and Government Mix1Recently a young friend of mine sent me an article he was disturbed about.  A man, who no doubt is a sincere believer, was saying Christians should not be involved in government because, as he said, “God’s kingdom isn’t here on earth”.  He went on to put forth the idea that our work as Christians is to share the Gospel with the lost, not to lobby in government.  This is a common mistake I hear believers make.  They divide life into the “spiritual” and the “secular” parts.  In their thinking, neither is supposed to affect the other.

Is God’s kingdom only in heaven?  If that were true, why did God say in Genesis 1:26 that the reason He made us was so we would be “in His image, after His likeness, and have dominion over…all the earth”?  If we were made to look like God, live like God, and rule like God, as this verse teaches, whose kingdom did He desire to be on this earth?

Perhaps you’re thinking, but that was before man sinned in the Garden.  Is it still the will of God for us to rule with His authority in this present world?  Then also answer this:  Why did Jesus teach us to pray, after the fall of man into sin,

“Father…Your kingdom come, Your will be done in earth as it is [being done] in heaven”?

(Matthew 6:10)

Did Jesus not say, “The kingdom of God is within you?” (Luke 17:21) Continue reading

“America’s Foundational Religion”

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America's Foundational Religion - Heritage Ministries of Kentucky“Education without the Bible is useless.”  Those words were not spoken by a right-wing fundamentalist, or what the media might call “an ignorant backwoodsman.”  They were spoken by the man who was the Father of America’s original education system.  That educational system brought the greatest amount of liberty to the greatest number of people of any in world history, in that it produced the great Continue reading