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“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 →

“Prayer – The Graceometer of the Church”

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Charles Spurgeon, the great English preacher, gave us a measuring stick by which we could determine if our churches were healthy.  He called it a “Graceometer.”  Here’s what he said:

“The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings.  So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we judge the amount of divine working among a people.  If God be near a church, it must pray.  And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be a slothfulness in prayer.”

(The Metropolitan Tabernacle, 1873 edition)

Prayer - The Graceometer of the Church - Heritage Ministries of KentuckyAccording to Spurgeon’s “Graceometer”, I’m afraid 98% of our churches would have to admit the Lord is mostly absent!  Any discerning believer will admit that the church in America is far from what Jesus died to make her.  And likewise, the truth is:  As the church goes, so goes the nation.  A culture is always the mirror of the state of the church in a nation.  And while there are some healthy churches—most of which are unknown to the national eye—we cannot deny the obvious.  Our culture reflects the confusion we now see in the church.  More and more churches are trying to redefine marriage so as to “broaden” the “narrow way” into the church.  This confusion is the fruit of a deeper Continue reading →

“Rediscovering Our Constitution”

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“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this…” ­­­__?__ (question).  Do you know what document contains these words that I just read?  It could just be that your life—and the life of your children– depends on it!

Rediscovering Our Constitution - Heritage Ministries of KentuckyJohn Jay was one of America’s Founders who would become the first Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.  His great wisdom guided us in those early years as our Constitution was being tested.  His understanding of liberty and how it passed to the next generation is so powerful—and pertinent to our present day.  He wisely stated:

“…But let it be remembered that whatever marks of wisdom…may be in your constitution, yet like the…forms of our first parents before their Maker breathed into them the breath of life, it is yet to be animated…From the people it must receive Continue reading →

“Pastor, America is in Your Hands!”

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While in Washington recently, I heard alarming statistics about our nation.  But the most alarming stats were not about government:  They were about churches, and particularly Pastors.  According to a Barna survey conducted in connection with Wallbuilders ministry, only 28% of the churches now believe that the Bible is absolutely true.  90% of the Pastors in those Bible-believing churches say they believe the Bible speaks to current issues.  But get this:  90% of those Pastors have never preached from the pulpit what the Bible says about the issues of our land!

Pastor, America is in Your Hands! - Heritage Ministries of KentuckyPastors’ AWOL attitude concerning civil government is the reason God’s people don’t know that they must be the ones to watch over civil government, in order to protect the right of the truth to flow to the next generation.  Thus, we’re having trouble deciding if marriage is between a man and a woman only; and if it should be protected by government.  We’re having trouble deciding if homosexuality is a choice or a trait, when we used to be convinced that it was a crime.  We’re even wondering if boys in school should get to use the girls’ bathroom!!

Pastors, if civil government is God’s institution—and Romans 13:1 makes it plain that it is—then should not those of us called to teach the Bible be the ones to reveal the Biblical Structure and Spirit by which government must operate?  Is that not logical?  Is that not right? Continue reading →

“Religious Acts of Our Government”

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Today we hear much about what is called the “separation of church and state”.  By that phrase is meant that the Bible, nor Christian ideas, have any right to influence government.  Groups such as the ACLU, who promote this idea, say that the First Amendment to the Constitution forbids Biblical ideas from influencing government.  But an honest study of the men who wrote the First Amendment will reveal just the opposite.

Religious Acts of Our Government1America’s Founders came from a long line of people who looked to God as the Source and Strength of their lives.  Prayer to them was as natural as breathing and an absolute necessity in times of national crisis.  When the first major step toward war occurred, which was the blockading of Boston harbor, the first Continental Congress was then in session.  This gathering marked the first time the thirteen colonies had come together to discuss how to deal with the King of England’s tyranny over the American colonies.  Their very first act was to invite a minister to start their sessions with prayer and the reading of the Bible.  On September 7, 1774, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail, describing the effects of the prayer.  He wrote: Continue reading →

“The Underlying Ideas of American Independence”

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The time had finally come.  After twenty years of growing government interference into the affairs of the American Colonies, the patience of Americans was exhausted.  The Representatives of America had appealed to their British King and the Parliament over and over during those twenty years, and had only been insulted for their efforts.  Over The Underlying Ideas of American Independence1and over the King had treated their appeals with disdain.  Finally, Thomas Jefferson would sum up the attitude of the majority of Americans when he wrote in The Declaration of Independence,

“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

The final break with England began on March 16, 1776.  The Continental Congress, representing each of the thirteen colonies, called upon the American people to observe a day “of fasting, humiliation, and prayer”.  The Congress stated Continue reading →

“Why Did Americans Fight for Independence?”

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On April 19, 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 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,

Why Did Americans Fight for Independence1“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. 1-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. Continue reading →