“True Prayer is the Hope for America”

Posted on July 29, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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It had been extremely hot and dry. There had hardly been any rain for 12 weeks. The corn and other crops had wilted and looked to be beyond reviving. This would mean starvation come winter. There was no hope in their own ability to fix this situation. But this group had learned to trust God, their Creator, as God, their Sustainer. Thus, they called for a day of fasting and prayer to seek God’s face as to why He had withheld the rain. After genuine repentance and worship that day in 1623, the rain began to fall that very night and, to their astonishment, their corn revived and produced wonderfully that summer. The Pilgrims proved, once again, that prayer to God Almighty, the Father of Jesus Christ, is the way to move things in this world!

In the midst of our current crisis, we must remember that it is not up to us but the Lord Himself to change our hearts and forms of government. While our part is to work with Him in what He’s doing, our praying will be what ultimately wins this battle. God stirs us to prayer, reminding us,

“…you have not because you ask not; you ask and receive not because you ask amiss, that you may consume it on your own lusts.”

(James 4:2-3)

Others, beside the Pilgrims, have proven this throughout history.

George Washington prayed earnestly at Valley Forge. He prayed for help in training his army, which was made up of volunteers who were not soldiers. That winter of 1778 God answered his prayer and gave him a volunteer from Prussia, Baron Von Steuben: an officer from the Prussian army who had a passion for drill. Continue reading →

“Raised to Rule”

Posted on July 23, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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So many people who say they are believers in Jesus Christ as their Master and Savior seem to be so hesitant about participating in government. Nearly half of them are not even registered to vote! I believe this reveals a much deeper problem than just avoiding government involvement. It shows a lack of understanding (or you might say ignorance!) of what the Bible says of the position believers have in Christ.

While in my twenties, I was struggling with my walk with Christ. Some days I’d be mostly obedient. Some days I’d be mostly disobedient! I was told by many that this was the normal Christian life; that there would always be a struggle with the flesh and only when we arrived in heaven would we ever have victory in this warfare. But I kept coming across passages in the Bible like,

“But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

(1 Corinthians 15:57)

And in John 10:10 Jesus said,

“I am come that you might have life…and have it more abundantly.”

And the Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 2:14,

“Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ,”

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“The Most Important Government”

Posted on July 15, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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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 learned something about this internal self-government that would profoundly affect the birthing and the growth of America. In the mid-1500’s they had gone to Geneva, Switzerland to learn from a scholar by the name of John Calvin. Calvin taught a simple principle which would change the course of the Western world. He called it “renovation”. Continue reading →

“Our Freedom Document”

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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The Bible says, “Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)

Ladies and Gentlemen: The following document is the reason you and I, in America, are free:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

“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. Continue reading →

“What is Interposition?”

Posted on June 25, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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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, 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 has also once suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.”

(1 Peter 3:18)

Jesus did this because it’s a law with God that every debt must be paid. Jesus legally paid our debt so God could legally accept us just as if we had never sinned against Him. This is the principle of interposition. Continue reading →

“Christians Must Resist Un-Biblical Government”

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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From my earliest days of knowing Jesus Christ through the new birth, I remember being taught that Christians should, quote, “obey the law of the land.” Romans 13:1 was used to support this teaching. It states,

“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”

The reasoning ran like this: Since God allowed the current civil government to exist, we, as Christians, should submit to it. Later I would learn that there’s just enough truth in that idea to be dangerous!!

Don’t misunderstand me: God did create civil government, as we just read about in Romans 13. He did it to control the “sin-root” in man so that one man could not take away another man’s rights of “life, liberty, or property”. And all citizens, including Christians, are to obey law that is designed to protect those rights. That part of the teaching was right. But the implication that all laws do protect God-given rights was the part that was bad wrong! Wicked government servants, like Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar, can make bad laws. In that case Christians are not obligated to obey those laws! If we submit to bad law, all liberty will quickly be destroyed! Continue reading →

“Interposition: The Reason for Our Liberty”

Posted on June 11, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Was the American Revolution a rebellion, as it’s often called nowadays? Were George Washington, Samuel Adams, and Thomas Jefferson just rebels wanting to overthrow the authority of the English Crown in the American colonies? Or were they re-establishing Godly authority by declaring “these colonies are, and of right, ought to be free and independent states?” Why is the Declaration of Independence almost never referred to in our courts today?

Actually the understanding of one simple principle, which our Founders understood, would answer all these questions. It is the principle of interposition. You may be asking, “What on earth does interposition mean?” I’m glad you asked. Noah Webster, in his first American Dictionary, defined interposition as being the act of “…placing or coming between; intervention.” Then he added this comment to illustrate what he meant: “The interposition of the moon between the earth and the sun occasions a solar eclipse.” Continue reading →

“Religion – The Foundation of All Law”

Posted on June 4, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Recently a judge declared a Pennsylvania law which protected marriage as being between a man and a woman only to be in violation of the U.S. Constitution. In degrading language he insists this law should be discarded “into the ash heap of history.”

Why do we keep getting this kind of judge in our court system? It’s because we, the citizens of America, have believed the lie that law should be “secular”. “Secular” law means civil law without the influence of God and His moral law. But there is actually no such thing as secular law, not in the strictest sense of the word law. Consider…

The word “law” is defined in Noah Webster’s dictionary as “that which is set.” In other words, it can’t be changed. What law cannot be changed? Well, only the law of God never changes. Therefore, all civil law—for it to be truly law—must be based on God’s moral and civil law revealed in the Bible. This concept, while foreign to most attorneys today, was very well known by America’s Founders who wrote our original government documents. Our Founders had studied extensively William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Law. These commentaries on law sold more copies in the America colonies than they did in England, where their author was a distinguished jurist. Blackstone’s statement concerning the foundation of all civil law reveals how our Founding Fathers thought about law. He stated, Continue reading →

“Raising the Standard for Children”

Posted on May 28, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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The conversation of a Ugandan boy of 11 with an 11-year-old from the U.S. puts childhood into proper perspective. The Ugandan boy, an orphan, has been touched by the powerful revival which has been happening in his country for several years now. After meeting the young boy from the U.S., the Ugandan child asked him, “What are you going to do in life?” This was not a question of childhood play. He was completely serious. The other child was amazed and asked how was he supposed to know what he would do in life—he was only a child! The boy from Uganda replied, “You’re eleven years old and you don’t yet know what you’re supposed to be in life?!” He really was amazed. You see the Ugandan child has been under the influence of a move of God’s Spirit in his nation that has had a profound impact on his country. Unlike the boy from the West, he has been taught that life is not about him and his pleasure; but rather it’s about the plan of God for him. He’s planning and is now taking steps to become what God has created him to be.

Before you dismiss this as just a child’s aspirations, or perhaps as the result of over-zealous parents and teachers who have “crammed” the Bible down his throat, you better consider history. It is a fact of history recorded in the Bible that God wants children to know His plan for their life; and to prepare early for that plan. Continue reading →