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“Thankful for Biblical Civil Systems”

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In 1623 the Pilgrims celebrated a time of Thanksgiving with their Indian friends, Chief Massasoit and his Wampanoag tribe. The Pilgrims were grateful to God for their Indian friends. The peace treaty into which they had entered helped both peoples to go on with their daily lives in an ordered manner. This is, of course, the purpose of civil law; to protect the God-given rights of life, liberty, and property. When this is done, the resulting order allows society’s institutions to function without the interruption of chaos. The Pilgrims’ Pastor, John Robinson, had taught them that this order flowed from Biblically based civil government, and thus, the first thing they did when they arrived was to write the Mayflower Compact; which instituted this type of government. I believe their new civil government was one of the things they were most thankful for on those first Thanksgiving Days.

And the Pilgrims’ new civil government was working. Their original economic system failed because it was Continue reading →

“Halloween or Reformation Day?”

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October 31st marked the great change in history which began to restore the “liberty of conscience” to the human race. Five hundred years ago a young priest Halloween or Reformation Day 1tacked on the door of the church in Wittenberg, Germany a document that changed the course of history. Martin Luther was that young priest, and his bold act threw off the religious yoke of “the tyranny of the mind”. And while most in America now think of October 31st as Halloween, that’s a “Johnny-come-lately” idea. Up until the mid-1800s, on October 31st, we celebrated “Reformation Day”, for that was the day the mind of man began to be set free from hundreds of years of living in the fear of what other men thought. Once again, man began to learn that only God has the right to shape our minds for He created us, and thus by rights, owns us and our minds. What Martin Luther did would start to restore the precious freedom Jesus talked about when He stated,

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.” (John 8:32)

We call that truth, the “liberty of conscience”, and it is a most sacred part of “religious liberty”. God used a lowly young boy, grown into a courageous young man, to Continue reading →

“Where Is Our King?”

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Do you sense the growing desperation right now?  With the cowardice that grips most of our government servants, rendering them powerless to deal with the rising oil prices and the out-of-control spending of government itself, there is great cause for alarm.  I’ve never known a time when there seemed to be such little resolve among those who were supposed to be leaders to correct such obvious problems.  Our leaders seemed paralyzed by ignorance, or worse—no moral courage!

While there is plenty around us to discourage us, let us not forget that the God of heaven still rules.  It has always been at the darkest moments in history that He has shown up with His mighty power.  The Psalmist recognized just such a time and cried out, “It is time for You to act, O Lord, for they have made void Your law.” (Psalms 119:126).  Indeed, the current crisis should not be allowed to bring us to despair, but rather to bring us to our knees so we would cry to our God to deliver us!  Our children are worth fighting for.  Our God-given liberty is worth personal sacrifice!

In December of 1776, as George Washington’s ‘rag tag’ army moved into Valley Forge Pennsylvania to spend the winter there, they were Continue reading →

“Knowing Our History Is a Must!”

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Knowing Our History Is a Must- 1Woodrow Wilson said:

“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do.  We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about…”

(1913. Robert Flood, The Rebirth of America (Philadelphia: The Arthur S. DeMoss Foundation, 1986), p. 12)

Where did earlier generations get the idea we are to know our history?  Why did our ancestors place so much emphasis on knowing our history?  Could our present decline be rooted in the “national amnesia” so prevalent across our land?

While it may be a shock to some; America’s Founders got the idea they must communicate to their children the story of where they came from—right out of the Bible.  It was the Pastors who taught the importance of remembering our history.  They pointed out such commands by God as the one in Deuteronomy 32:7, which states:

“Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.”

Those early American Pastors realized that if we knew history well, we would Continue reading →

“Interposition: The Basis of American Independence”

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“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.”

Note America’s Founders spoke without a stutter as to why they had the right to establish a new government among themselves:  The Declaration of Independence stated:

“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…” (emphasis added)

Why did they believe they had the right to “institute new government”?  Because they believed what the Bible taught about civil government.  The Bible identifies the Source of government when it says Continue reading →

“What Is Interposition?”

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Interposition; what on earth does that mean?  Noah Webster, in his original American dictionary defined it as, “being, placing or coming between; intervention.”  In geography, it is illustrated by the way Kentucky lies between (or you might say, is interposed between) Tennessee and Ohio.  In government it is one governmental power, such as Kentucky’s state government, intervening between the national government and the people, to keep the national government from forcing its will on Kentucky people.  You might ask, “Is this the right thing to do?”

Actually the idea of interposition comes from the Bible.  Jesus stepped in between God and sinful man, to pay our debt to God of one perfect life we had stolen in the Garden of Eden and used for ourselves.  Jesus, by offering up His perfect life to pay the debt we owed, interposed His life between us and God.  He stepped in between God and man to turn away the judgment of God on man.  As the Bible says,

“For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God…” (1st Peter 3:18)

Jesus did this because it’s a law with God that every debt must be Continue reading →

“The Hope of Biblical Government”

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Hope came to the world 700 years before the birth of Christ, as Isaiah, the Hebrew prophet foretold of a Child who would come into the world and change the world for the better.  Isaiah prophesied:

“For a Child will be born to us, a Son will be given to us; and the government will rest on His shoulders…There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over His kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore.  The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.” (Isaiah 9:6-7)

The Child Isaiah talked about would be named Jesus.  And the kingdom Jesus would build would be built on “justice and righteousness”.  Jesus would start by stepping into the lives of those who would believe in Him as their Master and Deliverer.  He would rule them from the inside out, so that their actions would express His own attitudes and actions.  He would literally be living His life though those who believed in Him (Galatians 2:20).  And if Christ could live His life through an individual in a family, why couldn’t He live His life through that whole family?  And if He could live through a family of believers, why couldn’t He live His life through a church of believers?  And if He could live His life through an individual church of believers, why couldn’t he live His life through a community made up of several churches filled with believers?  And if that could be done, why couldn’t an entire state, or even a nation be an expression of His life?

In fact, America’s Founders believed they were Continue reading →

“Jesus Is the Fix for Racism”

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We’re hearing a lot about racism these days; and it’s supposed fix of Critical Race Theory.  Racism, by popular definition, is the oppression of one race of people over another.  So called, Critical Race Theory, is supposed to be a way to analyze “racism”.  But in reality it is actually the Communist dogma that melanin determines if you are racist.  If you have a lot of color in your skin, you are the “oppressed”.  If you don’t have much color in your skin, you are the “oppressor”.  Of course, the Communist aim with this idea is to “divide and conquer”.  If they can create chaos by getting us to hate each other, they have created the atmosphere by which they can slip in a communist government as the solution to the chaos.  To any honest student of communism this is as plain as the nose on your face.  To those who’ve been prepared by the Communists to let the Communists think for them, they just can’t figure this out.

But for all the accusation and rhetoric being thrown around, the real solution is Continue reading →

“The Danger of the ‘Party’ Spirit”

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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 Continue reading →

“The Most Important Government”

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Recently there’s been a lot of talk about government and the money it takes to operate it.  And all this has produced is just more debt, more tax, and more destruction of our nation—While the government gets larger and larger.  And if we don’t quickly return to the Founding principle of America we will shortly live under a dictator.

Our Founders taught a principle to their children which summed up all the Biblical teaching about government.  It was this:

“The more internal self-government you have, the less external civil government you need.  But the less internal self-government you have, the more external civil government you need.”

America was built on this principle.  The Pilgrims learned to walk in the internal self-government which the Holy Spirit produces when a life is surrendered to Christ.  This started when they received Christ as their Lord and Deliverer and thus, were born again.  But the earliest among them had Continue reading →