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John MacArthur and other California Pastors have been threatened with a $1,000 fine or jail sentence because they have refused to submit to the Governor’s edict demanding churches not meet, citing the increase in China Virus cases in the state this summer.  This may be the most confrontational case with religious liberty yet, considering how well known are MacArthur’s teachings.  Those who believe this physical life is most important will stand with the California state government, which says this threatens physical health, therefore it is more important than the right to proclaim the Gospel of Christ in public.  Those who believe man is a three part being, spirit, soul, and body, must ultimately come down on the side of MacArthur and the other threatened Pastors.  It is a war “in the heavenlies” now come out openly on the earth.  It’s nothing new.  It is only new to America:  Since our Founders understood the importance of always coming down on God’s side with civil law, they secured with civil law the right of the church to carry out its mission of teaching the Gospel of Christ in public.

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In Portland, Oregon, the riots, disguised as “free speech”, have reach the lowest degradation possible.  The left-wing looters have now burned our American Flag; and even WORSE, they have burned Bibles along with it!!  To any citizen who believes in any semblance of decency, it has to be obvious that these rioters are simply Communist pawns who are out to destroy this Republic and replace it with dictatorial government.  A government that is a true republic has to be based on the moral law of the Bible, which is summed up in the Ten Commandments.  A Communist-type government hates that law, because God’s law insists that we treat our neighbor as one who is created in the image of God.  Hence our Declaration of Independence states,

“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…” (emphasis added)

All dictatorial forms of government believe that man is the highest authority; that there is no God Who practically works “…in the affairs of men”, as Ben Franklin put it.  And the way Communist-type governments operate is that only a few men have the intelligence to be rulers:  Therefore, “the few should rule the many.”  This idea is the idea under which all worldly governments operate.  It was expressed by the Greek philosopher, Aristotle, when he wrote Continue reading →

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With more disrespect being shown to our flag, even within our own borders, it would do us well to revisit our heritage! Fort McHenry (where in 1812 a battle raged which inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner) was named after a man who served as a medical soldier in George Washington’s army, and later signed the U.S. Constitution. His name was James McHenry. While unknown to us today, James McHenry was one of those men who laid such a firm foundation for America that during the 1800s it would grow to become the greatest nation on earth. James McHenry got his foundation from the Bible. In addition to his achievements just mentioned, he also served as a member of the Continental Congress, his state legislature, and the U.S. Secretary of War—and President of the Baltimore Bible Society! He had this to say about the Bible:

“…public [usefulness] pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. The doctrine they preach, the obligations they impose, the punishment they threaten, the rewards they promise…can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability and usefulness.

“In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. Bibles are strong entrenchments.”

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On April 19th, 1775, seventy-five American farmers faced an overwhelming force of some 600 British professional soldiers. The Americans were out-manned, out-gunned, and out-trained. And when the first shots were fired, nine of the Americans fell dead. Why were they willing to face such overwhelming odds? Were they dreamers? Were they crazy? Were they men of such noble ideas that they were willing to die for them? While they were all these things (except crazy), they had an even greater reason for resisting the King of England. They believed they were obeying the God of the Bible with their resistance. Their Congress had stated:

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian…duty of each individual…Continue steadfast, and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly…defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”

(Massachusetts Provincial Congress. 1774, in a resolution. George Bancroft, Bancroft’s History of the United States, Vol. X (Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 3rd Edition, 1838), Vol. VII, p. 229 | Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 8.31.)

When our ancestors defended themselves on Lexington Green, and later much more successfully at Concord Bridge, they believed they were walking in a principle of liberty taught in the Bible.

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