No Freedom Without Virtue

 By Al Baker - Posted at Forget None of His Benefits:

“For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” -Galatians 5:13

When our federal and state governments mandated limits on public assemblies during the pandemic, including forbidding churches to gather with more than ten or so people, why did most of us go along with mandates? When our president is now mandating the COVID-19 vaccine, why are most companies submitting to it, and firing people who refuse to take the jab? I have shown you over the last two postings that our forefathers fought against tyranny and the root of their fight was the Bible and the theology of men like John Calvin, John Knox, Samuel Rutherford, and Algernon Sydney. Our forefathers were very different from us. They resisted tyranny and we are acquiescing to it. Why, what’s the problem?

John Adams in 1776 wrote, “The only foundation of a free Constitution is pure virtue.” He said that unless this new nation pursued virtue then, “They may change their rulers and the forms of government, but they will not obtain a lasting liberty. They will only exchange tyrants and tyrannies.” In his tour of the United States in 1831 French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville observed that the greatness of the American experiment was built on faith and virtue. Here is a summation of Tocqueville’s findings:

“Not until I went into the churches of America and heard her pulpits aflame with righteousness did I understand the secret of her genius and power. America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.”[1]

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