“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 →

“Light in the Darkness”

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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According to lots of sources, economic collapse is a real possibility soon—perhaps even in the next two months. The national debt, under the Obama administration, has risen a whopping 70%!! It was 10 trillion when he took office; it is now 18 trillion! That means every taxpayer’s share of the national debt is over $150,000!!

Add to the deadly debt, the attack on religious liberty. Homosexual socialists are now working hard to destroy the church, which is the last bastion of defense against their movement toward a one world order.

Couple all this with the move toward martial law by the Obama administration. It seems his desire is to remove elections and bring us under the control of this “new order”—which is actually gross disorder in government.

In the midst of this horrible outlook for our nation, is there any hope for our homes, our churches, our governments? To that I say a resounding yes! God still rules over all these current events and the deceived people who are working their own destruction. The Scripture says Continue reading →

“Biblical Living is Our Only Stability”

Posted on August 19, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Across America there is a growing desperation. Older citizens fear for what their grandchildren are going to face. Parents fear that their children will experience the violence of a street gang, or rapist, or satanist— or they fear their teenage daughter may turn up pregnant. With more and more young people using drugs, parents fear their child may get hooked too. Young people fear that their parents may be the next to divorce. People are asking, “Is there anything in this world that is stable?”

There is an answer to that question! A resounding answer: “YES!!” And you might be surprised to know that, in the past, there have been those who have known this stability. The Founding generation in America walked in it. And though they were beset with war, economic woes, and having to build a new government in the midst of all this, they still knew where the ‘Rock’ was. They constantly turned to Jesus Christ and His Word as “the stability of their times”. They believed His Word was “truth”, as the Bible taught (John 17:17). They lived out the reality of the Scriptures as they sought to obey it in their personal lives and built it into their institutions. Daniel Webster spoke of them and their faith when he stated Continue reading →

“Removing Planned Parenthood!”

Posted on August 12, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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The recent exposure of Planned Parenthood’s gristly practices of dismembering babies removed from the womb, and selling their body parts, has awakened many a person across this land. This is a good thing, and I might add, long overdue. This organization has masqueraded behind the front of being an organization that helps families. But the reality is, and has been, that this group has done as much as anyone in this nation to destroy the American family. Margaret Sanger, the Founder of Planned Parenthood, was a part of the socialist movement from the early 1900’s. She believed in forced sterilization of those she considered unfit to bear and rear children. This group included the black population along with any others who didn’t fit her socialist agenda. That would include, of course, those who thought according to what the Bible teaches about government. And, while I’m glad many people are being awakened to what Planned Parenthood really is, I am amazed that the average person hasn’t known this before. Our inability to reason from the Bible has stolen from us the true perspective on what is happening around us, and allowed those who want to stop the flow of the Gospel in public to operate freely in this nation.

A good example of this is how many people voted the current state administrations Continue reading →

“Our God is Able!”

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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In light of the growing threat to the free expression Biblical truth, let us remember those whom God has used in the past, and draw the strength of faith from their stands. The faith of one, Abraham, was used to save many lives when he attacked the kings who had carried off his nephew Lot and his family. Though Abraham had only 318 men in his “household army”, God defeated the combined armies of four kings and rescued the captives they had taken, including Lot. And because of Abraham’s obedience in the face of fear, God greatly blessed him during and after the battle (Genesis 14)!

Gideon, with just 300 men, overcame an army that was “without number” (Judges 6:5): Demonstrating how powerfully God shows up on behalf of those who trust Him!

Elijah, alone, faced 450 prophets of Baal and challenged the nation of Israel to decide who was God in Israel (1 Kings 18). Yet God showed up on Elijah’s behalf while there was no move from Baal at all. The fire of God fell on Elijah’s prepared sacrifice and consumed not only the sacrifice Continue reading →

“What Can We Do Now?”

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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On November 13, 2008, the week after Mr. Obama was elected the first time, the Think About It message was entitled “What We Can Expect”. We offered the following analysis of what government would become. We stated,

“In the governmental realm we can expect more and more animosity toward the churches which teach the Bible to be true. This will probably also include Jewish synagogues. It follows that moral issues like trying to stop abortion and homosexuality will be impossible, unless God Himself intervenes.”

Now that we are seeing this, what do we do?

We must now be willing to suffer for speaking the truth to people. This is a first for our nation. What rejection we received in the past Continue reading →

“Our Freedom Document”

Posted on July 1, 2015 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 →

“Prayer – The Graceometer of the Church”

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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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)

According 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 →