“Jesus’ Redemption: The Foundation of Civil Government”

Posted on April 1, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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With the celebration of the Resurrection of Jesus we naturally think of Christ’s redemption for us personally: How His shed blood washes away our sin and guilt, and how His resurrected life makes possible that we can actually be what He created us to be. The wonder of this cannot be fully described, but it can be fully experienced!

However, as we mature in Christ once we’ve received Him as our Lord, His life within us desires to flow in an outwardly direction. And if we allow Him to do that to its farthest extent, His resurrected life will shape the institutions of the culture so that those institutions will become vessels through which His truth can flow to the next generation. The institution of civil government will then protect, by law, the right of the truth of Christ’s kingdom to flow to the next generation. America’s Founders understood that this was civil government’s responsibility. They never envisioned the government being hostile to the church. Any honest individual who researches their writings will reach that conclusion.

Founding Father and Sixth President, John Quincy Adams, made plain the connection between Christianity and our nation’s liberties when he stated:

“Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That it forms a leading event in the Progress of the Gospel…? Continue reading →

“Patrick of Ireland”

Posted on March 25, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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It’s such an amazing story! Patrick, a young, former slave in Ireland, was called by God in the 400’s to go share the Gospel of Christ with those same Irish people who had enslaved him just a few years before! Yet, without fear, he boldly entered again into that realm and became the agent of liberty to those who had once been his agents of slavery.

He developed this boldness because Christ had revealed Himself to him in such a living way. Patrick’s faith in Jesus was no cold orthodoxy; his was a living relationship with the living, resurrected Son of God! In Patrick’s life, Jesus was Lord! We get a glimpse of the intimacy between him and his Lord when he writes of hearing His voice. With great humility he simply states that God said to him:

“He who gave His life for you, He it is who speaks within you.”

(Great Christian Classics, Kevin Swanson ed.; Generations With Vision, pub. 2010; p. 140)

His knowledge of Christ was deeper than most of us today. He understood that Jesus dwelt inside him. He knew Christ, not only as the Lord of heaven—which He certainly is—but as the present, resident, Lord inside Patrick. One time he actually saw the Holy Spirit praying within him. He wrote, Continue reading →

“The Gender Agenda vs The Church”

Posted on March 11, 2015 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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What would your church do if the parents of a lesbian daughter asked you to perform her funeral—AND—insisted a picture be showed of her kissing her lesbian partner? According to writer, Bryan Fischer, this has already happened to a church in Colorado. What if they threatened to sue the church if it didn’t perform the funeral? What would your church leadership do?

These are the exact kinds of choices we’re heading for in this land. David Gibbs, President of the Christian Law Association in America, warns us that the homosexuals have an agenda to take control of the media, of business, of civil government, and of the church, in order to force acceptance of their lifestyle on us. They’ve gained so much control of the media, business, and civil government, that they are now invading the church’s territory, insisting it bow to an all-powerful, socialist form of government.

Since the Obama Administration pushed through Congress the so-called “Hate Crimes” law in November of 2009, government power is being used more and more to threaten the worship and mission of the church in America. The “Gender Agenda” is flexing its government muscle and attacking the Biblical definition of marriage. Now they are advancing into the church in order to silence its moral voice in our nation. Satan’s real aim in all this is to stop the teaching of the Gospel of Christ to the next generation. He is simply using the homosexual movement to achieve his goal. Continue reading →