“A Good Beginning”

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Matt Bevin, the new Governor of Kentucky, kicked off his Administration in a very refreshing way. A church service, initially planned for the Buck Run Baptist Church, had to be moved to the Frankfort Convention center because of the size of the crowd. In that meeting several Bible-believing Pastors spoke and led in prayers for the new Governor, his family, and his Administration. Herschel York, Pastor at Buck Run, stated that Bevin is:

“…the governor of people of all faiths, or no faith, but he is unquestionably, openly, [by confession] a man of deep faith, specifically a faith in Jesus Christ.”

To have Jesus’ Name openly acknowledged and owned by a Governor in these United States is wonderfully refreshing! Bevin’s Pastor Emeritus, Bob Russell, stated,

“I want us to pray that God would grant [him] wisdom every day, to make daily choices from the vantage point of God.”

Russell said the wisdom Bevin needs to lead Kentucky comes from meditating on God’s Word, drawing from experience, choosing wise Continue reading →

“The Pilgrim Thanksgiving”

Posted on November 25, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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A hush fell over everyone on this beautiful October day in 1621. The waves could be heard gently lapping against the shore in Plymouth Bay. The first group of Englishmen to inhabit New England bow their heads as their elected Governor leads them in a prayer to God through Jesus Christ. He expresses their thanks to God for all the protection and provision He has granted them over the last year. Indeed, they were thankful! They were thankful for the liberty to bow their heads in public and pray to God without the fear of being fined or imprisoned. They had experienced both. For years in England — their homeland — they had been forced to hide in order to worship as they believed they should. These “Separatists”, as they were called, believed only God had the right to tell a person how He should be worshiped. The King and established Church leaders thought differently. The Separatists believed only the Bible could reveal how a person could know God and they wanted the liberty to practice it as it was written. In time, they chose to give up their homeland and flee to Holland in order to have Continue reading →

“But Why Did The Pilgrims Come?”

Posted on November 17, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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The Pilgrims landed in America nearly 400 years ago. But do you know why they came to America? Was it to start a new life? Well, yes. But what kind of life? Was it so they could be free? Well, yes—but what kind of freedom were they looking for? Because most of us don’t know the answer to these questions is why we continue to accept—or even vote for— more and more of the slavery from which they were fleeing.

Perhaps you would say, “They came here for religious freedom.” And you would be right. But—what kind of religious freedom? Did they come merely so they could sing songs to God and study the Bible in their own gatherings? No, they came with a much broader desire than that. You see, the Pilgrims understood they must be able to create a community with institutions based in the Bible. They understood something we’ve forgotten in the last 100 years, that is, that all law is just the codification of some religious belief! In other words, civil law will either protect the right to “propagate the Gospel of the Kingdom of Christ” or it will block the “propagation of the Gospel of the Kingdom of Christ”. And there would be no middle ground. They knew there is Continue reading →

“The Power of the Common Man”

Posted on November 11, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Kentucky experienced an uprising of the common man in the recent elections of state offices. When you look at the map of how Kentucky’s counties voted, you find a general trend of the more populous counties voting for the Democrat, Jack Conway, for Governor and the less populous counties voting for the Republican, Matt Bevin. Bevin won by a 9% margin. This amazing report shows that when the common man gets out to the polls they can control the elections even though the more populated areas go for the liberal candidates. I’ve heard different people over the years make statements like, “Well, it doesn’t matter how you vote, Lexington and Louisville are going to control the elections.” Wrong! Not if the common man gets to the polls and votes! This is very encouraging because it shows us that the centers of liberal education (the cities) will not control us if we show up at the polls and vote! With the elitist educators and media tightening the noose around the neck of liberty in recent years, this ought to be a huge encouragement to freedom lovers everywhere to see that it can be thrown off! In this election, common men both in and outside of Kentucky’s cities showed their strength when voting for conservative values. This should stir us to work even harder for Continue reading →

“The Reason, Structure, and Spirit of Government”

Posted on November 4, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Should churches teach concerning government? The real question is: What does the Bible say about civil government? Because if something is in the Bible, we who are the teachers in the Body of Christ are under God’s call to teach it. We must declare “the whole counsel of God”. (Acts 20:27) So let’s look at what the Bible teaches concerning the reason for, and the structure and spirit of, civil government.

God’s reason for creating civil government is stated very plainly in 1 Peter 2:13-14,

“Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme; Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.”

God created civil government for “the punishment of evildoers”. God knew that once we rebelled against Him in the Garden of Eden, the selfishness that entered mankind would move one man to take away the rights of another man. Thus, civil government is God’s minister to punish the one who would take away another’s “life, liberty, or [property]”. This is the only way to slow down the selfishness in man and Continue reading →

“Will You Rule Through Voting?”

Posted on October 28, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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We are coming up on the most important election Kentucky has ever had. Our state governments are our last line of defense against this socialist Washington government. We must elect statesmen instead of politicians in our state governments! Let’s consider why our one vote is so very important: Because of sin, the root of selfishness came into mankind in the Garden of Eden. Thus, God established civil government to control that selfishness in man. But because that root is in all men we need for civil government to control not only the ruled but the rulers as well! James Madison, who wrote most of our U.S. Constitution, stated,

“In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed, and in the next place oblige it to control itself.”

(Madison, James. James Madison, The Federalist No. 51, The Federalist Papers, Clinton Rossiter, ed., (N.Y: Mentor Books, 1961), p. 322. John Eidsmoe, Christianity and the Constitution – The Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House, A Mott Media Book, 1987, 6th printing 1993), p 102.)

In other words, law must be equally binding on those who rule as well as those who are ruled—because all of us are inherently selfish!! Thus, there are only two types of civil government: There is government from God through men or Continue reading →

“Teach Voting”

Posted on October 21, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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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 am 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 Continue reading →

“Reasons Which Impelled Them to the Separation-Part 3”

Posted on October 7, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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I’m sometimes asked the question: “At what point do we do what America’s Founders did in creating a new national government? When do we create a new government? For now, let me avoid this question by pointing out that, as long as we have the right to vote—and the votes are counted fairly honestly—we have the means to create new government at every election! But 75 million of us, who say we believe we ought to live by the Bible, are not even voting, when 18 million would turn any election we have! So the revolution we need to fight is to get Christians to the polls to vote!

America’s Founders had good reasons for creating a new national government. They listed 27 of those reasons in The Declaration of Independence. Let’s look at some more of them in this message. Reason number 5 stated:

“He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.”

The King had repeatedly, in the 10 years before The Declaration of Independence was written, shut down their Colonial Legislatures. And once the King dissolved their Legislatures, he would wait long periods before restoring them. This was why they stated in reason number 6: Continue reading →

“Reasons Which Impelled Them to the Separation-Part 2”

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Is there any good reason that we should study history? Do documents like The Declaration of Independence and The Constitution hold any significance for us today? They most certainly do! Number one, God tells us in the Bible to “Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations…” (Deuteronomy 32:7) He wants us to understand that history is “His-Story”. What He taught a previous generation He wants us to bring into our generation. That with which satan enslaved a previous generation, God wants us to get free of. But if we don’t know history, how can we keep the good and remove the bad? Since all of us start life in this world with a sin-root in our thinking (Romans 5:12), we will tend to move toward satan’s enslavement in our society unless we know what God taught previous generations. This is why God taught the Jews that their education system must be the channel through which the parents teach their children His ways. This is what President Woodrow Wilson reminded us when he stated:

“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do….”

History is for our instruction; let us not be so arrogant as to dismiss it Continue reading →

“Reasons Which Impelled Them to the Separation-Part 1”

Posted on September 23, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Should Christians always obey civil law? The Apostles’ reply to the civil authorities of their day established the answer to that question. They stated,

“We ought to obey God rather than men.”

(Acts 5:29)

We must obey civil law only if it agrees with the Scripture. Building from this principle, when America’s Founders wrote The Declaration of Independence they actually listed 27 reasons why they should declare their independence from England, because the King had broken “the laws of nature and of nature’s God”, and had violated the citizen’s rights of “life, liberty, and [property]”. Let us consider these violations in the next several messages.

The first violation Jefferson listed stated:

“He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.”

In the 1760’s, the colonies had passed laws to accommodate their rapidly growing population and economy. The King disallowed these, causing the colonists Continue reading →

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Category Archives: “Think About It”

“A Good Beginning”

“The Pilgrim Thanksgiving”

“But Why Did The Pilgrims Come?”

“The Power of the Common Man”

“The Reason, Structure, and Spirit of Government”

“Will You Rule Through Voting?”

“Teach Voting”

“Reasons Which Impelled Them to the Separation-Part 3”

“Reasons Which Impelled Them to the Separation-Part 2”

“Reasons Which Impelled Them to the Separation-Part 1”

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