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Interposition – what on earth does that mean?  Noah Webster, in his original American dictionary defined it as, “being, placing or coming between; intervention.”  In geography, it is illustrated by the way Kentucky lies between (or, you might say, interposed between) Tennessee and Ohio.  In government it is one governmental power, such as Kentucky’s state government, intervening between the national government and the people to keep the national government from forcing its will on Kentucky people.  You might ask, “Is this the right thing to do?”

Actually the idea of interposition comes from the Bible.  Jesus stepped in between God and sinful man to pay our debt to God of one perfect life we had stolen in the Garden of Eden and used for ourselves.  Jesus, by offering up His perfect life to pay the debt we owed, interposed His life between us and God.  He stepped in between God and man to turn away the judgment of God on man.  As the Bible says,

“For Christ has also once suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God.”

(1 Peter 3:18)

Jesus did this because it’s a law with God that every debt must be paid.  Jesus legally paid our debt so God could legally accept us just as if we had never sinned against Him.  This is the principle of interposition. Continue reading →

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From my earliest days of knowing Jesus Christ through the new birth, I remember being taught that Christians should, quote, “obey the law of the land.”  Romans 13:1 was used to support this teaching.  It states,

“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.”

The reasoning ran like this: Since God allowed the current civil government to exist, we, as Christians, should submit to it.  Later I would learn that there’s just enough truth in that idea to be dangerous!!

Don’t misunderstand me: God did create civil government, as we just read about in Romans 13.  He did it to control the “sin-root” in man so that one man could not take away another man’s rights of “life, liberty, or property”.  And all citizens, including Christians, are to obey law that is designed to protect those rights.  That part of the teaching was right.  But the implication that all laws do protect God-given rights was the part that was bad wrong!  Wicked government servants, like Pharaoh or Nebuchadnezzar, can make bad laws.  In that case Christians are not obligated to obey those laws!  If we submit to bad law, all liberty will quickly be destroyed! Continue reading →

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Was the American Revolution a rebellion, as it’s often called nowadays?  Were George Washington, Samuel Adams, and Thomas Jefferson just rebels wanting to overthrow the authority of the English Crown in the American colonies?  Or were they re-establishing Godly authority by declaring “these colonies are, and of right, ought to be free and independent states?”  Why is the Declaration of Independence almost never referred to in our courts today?

Actually the understanding of one simple principle, which our Founders understood, would answer all these questions.  It is the principle of interposition.  You may be asking, “What on earth does interposition mean?”  I’m glad you asked.  Noah Webster, in his first American Dictionary, defined interposition as being the act of “…placing or coming between; intervention.”  Then he added this comment to illustrate what he meant: “The interposition of the moon between the earth and the sun occasions a solar eclipse.”  Continue reading →