“Will Governors Preserve Marriage?”

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against marriage in the summer of 2013, we’ve seen many of the State Marriage Amendments, which defined marriage as being between a man and a woman only, declared unconstitutional by national courts. These rulings not only ignore the right of the people within their states to define marriage, they fly in the face of Biblical moral law which defines marriage as being between a man and a woman only. These judges “fear not God, nor regard man” (Luke 18:4).

So what do we do when we have a disordered national court system? We must do what the Bible teaches by the principle of interposition: We must appeal to our state governments to come “in between” our national government and the people. This is what Jehoida, the Priest, Daniel, and Queen Esther did to fix disordered government. We must fervently urge our state Governors, who have full authority to stop this attack on marriage, to do so. Not only do they have full Constitutional authority to stop this overthrow of state law, they have a responsibility to do so! They have taken an oath to uphold both their state Constitutions and the national Constitution. It is their duty to stop these renegade judges!

Maybe you’re asking where we get this idea. When Peter and James were told by the government authorities of their day to speak no more in Jesus’ Name, they spoke this principle when they stated, Continue reading →

“The Pilgrims: Overcoming the Hard Times”

Posted on November 26, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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Forefather’s Monument in Plymouth, Massachusetts is dedicated to the memory of the Pilgrims: Specifically to the memory of, “…their labors, sufferings, and sacrifices in the cause of civil and religious liberty.” One of the five statues which make up Forefather’s Monument is Morality. This statue reveals the Pilgrims’ desire to live conforming their actions to the Bible. They demonstrated how Christ could live His life through us if we were surrendered to Him as a living Master. And that was true in hard times as well as good times. Their story shows us this reality— even in the most difficult circumstances.

When they came together in a church covenant in 1605, to “walk together in all His ways…whatsoever it should cost them…”, it would cost them dearly. Several times over the next three years, English deputies would burst into their worship meetings, hauling the men off to jail; fining them and keeping them locked up for thirty days. Continue reading →

“The Economy of the Pilgrims”

Posted on November 19, 2014 by Heritage Ministries of Kentucky

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It wasn’t working. The spring of 1623 saw the Pilgrims into their third year in America. But there was a serious problem. They were hungry: And because of it they had no energy with which to plow their fields and plant their crops. They knew winter would come again and with it death by starvation if they didn’t go to the fields. Yet many of them just seemed unable to get themselves moving.

Recognizing the seriousness of their situation, their Governor, William Bradford, called for a meeting of the leaders of the colony. They didn’t have to discuss their problem very long until they pinpointed what was wrong: It was the socialistic economy they were trying to labor under. They had long known this. The businessmen who had financed their trip had insisted they live by a common storehouse. In other words, they were to put all their produce into one storehouse, no matter which family had raised that produce. Then, they were to take out as little as they could get by with for their own needs, and send the rest of it back to England to their financiers as payment for their debt. The Pilgrims knew this would not work, but the businessmen insisted this is how they must do it. The Pilgrims knew the Scripture taught that, “If any would not work, neither should he eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10). And they knew that even Christian people, like themselves, had to know they could “reap what they sowed” if they were to produce well. However, they felt they had no choice. They had to pay for their voyage, and they certainly did not have that kind of money themselves. Thus, they submitted to an anti-Biblical economic system. Continue reading →