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The immigration issue in America looms as a very real dividing line for the population of this nation. Many scream at each other across that line as if their view is the final authority on the issue. We ought not be surprised at this, since we are allowing our children to be taught through the media, the curriculum, and the education method we use, to think they establish their own “morality” since there are no absolutes. So where do we look for the truth concerning immigration into a nation? We must look to the source of all truth: The Bible. God is not silent concerning nation building; of which immigration is a part. Let’s look at what He says.

First, that God gives to nations boundaries is plain from the boundaries HE gives to nations. Acts 17:26 states:

“And [God] hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined…the [boundaries] of their habitation;”

Thus, the people of a nation, through their Representatives in their government have the right to establish a Biblically based method for immigrants to come to their country and become citizens. This necessarily means that they have the right to keep out of their country those who are not willing to meet the qualifications to enter and live there. The fact that we’ve not required each citizen born here to meet the agreement that immigrants have to meet is the root of why we can’t find solutions to our current immigration problem. The real issue is the Biblical concept of covenant, which means “the meeting of minds”.

Secondly, God wants nations to be willing to receive others who ARE willing to meet the requirements of that nation’s covenant. This is Continue reading →

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A very important election is close at hand.  Next Tuesday, choices will be made by voters that will affect the future of our nation for generations to come.  Are you prepared to vote?

The truth is, only 32 million—of the over 100 million people who say they’re born-again—voted in the last election.  Most of these are sincere people who are trying to live as God wants them to live.  Why then do they not go to the polls and vote?  I’m glad you asked.

Up until 1900 the Christian population of America controlled the outcome of elections.  No candidate could be elected who did not acknowledge God’s place in the history of our nation.  Actually they had to go further than that.  In their speeches and writings, they had to acknowledge that Jesus Christ was God’s Son, and that the Bible was the best book to live by in this world.  Had a political candidate in the 1800s stated that homosexuality was just a different way of family life, he would have Continue reading →

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In America’s early education system, one of the things that was constantly taught was the Biblical understanding of government.  Children were taught to govern themselves by internal choices.  They were taught to reason every choice back to its root; that is, what God says in the Bible about what I’m facing.  This was education God’s way.

That education system created a moral people.  Noah Webster, in his original American dictionary defined moral as:

“The conformity of an act to the divine law.”

Thus a people developed in this nation who had stable emotions.  That created persistence in what they set out to accomplish.

This way of thinking would be the foundation for the greatest civil government the world has ever known.  Their children were taught to let that internal self-government grow to the external civil government.  It was the natural outflow of a life committed to living out the Bible in this present world.  And while America’s Founding generations were certainly not perfect, they did succeed in living according to the Bible so much better than we do today, that it’s hard for us to believe that way of life is even possible.

But let’s look at their standard for civil government servants.  Noah Webster was Continue reading →

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Noah Webster, the Father of America’s original education system, wrote to young people in his U.S. history book:

“When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, ‘just men who will rule in the fear of God.’ The preservation of [the government of a republic] depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office…the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If [the government of a republic] fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws.”

(History of the United States (New Haven, Durrie & Beck, 1832), pp. 336-337)

The school teacher who made America great, taught us to look at a person’s character before we give him our vote.

And how are we to know what a person’s character is really like? Noah Webster revealed that when he warned us not to neglect “the divine commands”. In other words compare their actions to those the Bible commands us to have. It’s the same thing Jesus said when He taught us, “You will know them by their fruits.” Do a person’s actions show that they view things the way God views them?

Can this be done in the present election? Can we know how candidates think? We certainly can. In fact, this is Continue reading →