“God’s Civil Law- or satan’s”

Posted on September 3, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Did you know that if you started reading the day you were born all the laws passed by the national government you could not read them all in a lifetime? No one knows how many laws there are! Law has become so complicated that even the lawyers and judges don’t know what’s there. Why has this happened? Or perhaps you’re asking, “So what? How does that affect me?” Well, I assure you, it affects you a great deal!

Once you have so many laws on the books that the average man doesn’t know what the law requires of him he can no longer be sure of his natural, God-given rights. He lives in confusion as to what his rights and responsibilities are. Furthermore, a judge (who interprets the law to him) could tell him things that are not true and the individual would have no way to argue his rights with that judge. Thus, a people can move into tyranny being ruled by a handful of judges who conspire to make the law say what they want it to. Continue reading →

“The Greatest Need in America”

Posted on August 27, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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With more disrespect being shown to our flag, even within our own borders, it would do us well to revisit our heritage! Fort McHenry (where in 1812 a battle raged which inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner) was named after a man who served as a medical soldier in George Washington’s army, and later signed the U.S. Constitution. His name was James McHenry. While unknown to us today, James McHenry was one of those men who laid such a firm foundation for America that during the 1800’s it would grow to become the greatest nation on earth. James McHenry got his foundation from the Bible. In addition to his achievements just mentioned, he also served as a member of the Continental Congress, his state legislature, and the U.S. Secretary of War—and President of the Baltimore Bible Society! He had this to say about the Bible:

“…public [usefulness] pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. The doctrine they preach, the obligations they impose, the punishment they threaten, the rewards they promise…can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability and usefulness. Continue reading →

“The Greatest Threat to Liberty”

Posted on August 20, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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When George Washington was about to leave office, after giving near 50 years of service to his country, he addressed the nation through what has come to be known as his Farewell Address. In that Address he warned us what to do and what not to do in order to preserve this new government which aimed at giving the “greatest amount of liberty to the greatest number of people.” In warning us how this new Republic could be overthrown by those working inside it, he stated,

“But let there be no change by usurpation [one branch of government stealing power from another branch] …for…this…is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”

(Washington, George. September 19, 1796, in his Farewell Address, published in the American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, September, 1796. James D. Richardson (U.S. Rep. from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Gov. Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789-1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 1, p. 213-224, Sept. 17, 1796. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Fd. Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 987), p. 91.)

And yet, for over 80 years, the branches of the Presidency and the Supreme Court have been stealing the power which our Founders gave to the Congress, or reserved to the people and the states. Continue reading →

“Our Price: Vigilance”

Posted on August 13, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Thomas Jefferson taught us the principle that “Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty”. Watchfulness over their government by the citizens of a Republic is the only way to make sure liberty is preserved. And only if liberty is preserved will the Gospel go to the next generation by public means.

And yet, in my upbringing, I was not taught that we should be present to watch over local government meetings- and local government is where most seeds are planted that grow into state and national laws. Consequently, though I was a committed Christian and minister of the Gospel of Christ, I set no time aside to be at local government meetings until I was in my fifties. I simply didn’t see the need for civil government being given any of my time, except to pray for government servants and to try to vote for moral candidates. What’s wrong with this picture? Continue reading →

“Numbering Our Days”

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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One of the fundamental truths on which our forefathers based their lives was that God numbers our days. This means that we cannot die before our days are completed- if we are earnest in our attempt to obey God in His plan for us. This created tremendous security for them even in turbulent times.

Knowing this truth gave George Washington the courage to ride to the front in the Battle of the Monongahela and face almost point blank gunfire from the enemy lines. Though he sustained four bullet holes in his coat and another one in his belt buckle, he escaped unharmed: as he said, “By the miraculous dispensations of Providence.”

Our Forefathers got this understanding from the Bible. God, who gives us life, numbers our days from before the time we’re born. The Bible teaches in Psalm 139 that God planned all our days for us before our birth. This is why David refused to take vengeance on King Saul though Saul was trying to kill David. David stated to one of his soldiers (who had an opportunity to easily kill Saul), 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 →