Had a great time Saturday, September 26, with the kids of Bethel Baptist in Berea, Kentucky! They were so excited and eager to learn about God’s story (“His-Story”) that we went over our original 5-hour goal for almost an extra hour and a half— and they probably would have stayed longer if we could have! Continue reading
“Reasons Which Impelled Them to the Separation-Part 1”
Listen to or download this week’s radio program:
© 2015 Don Pinson / To Download, right-click here: [Download]
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
“Cautiously Resist Disordered Government”
Listen to or download this week’s radio program:
© 2015 Don Pinson / To Download, right-click here: [Download]
In the late 1700’s, there were those in France who dreamed of establishing a much better government in their nation. Their battle cry was, “Liberty, equality, and fraternity”, meaning “brotherhood”. Their dream was good; for God puts these desires in the heart 
of all men. However, they attempted to work what they called a “revolution”, without depending on the God of heaven. This was much different from America’s Founding Fathers, who worked a true revolution by publicly acknowledging in our Declaration of Independence, “a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence…” In America the greatest amount of liberty was established for the greatest number of citizens of any nation in history. The high ideals in France ended in a bloodbath by a dictatorial government. In our present trend of a growing dictatorial national government, we can learn much from these two different attempts at establishing liberty.
In a previous message, we listed several Biblical examples where people disobeyed bad civil law with the blessing of God. There is a time for this. But how do we know when that time is? Continue reading
You must be logged in to post a comment.