“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 →

“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 →