Do You Want to Make America Great Again?
By Pastor Benjamin Glaser - Posted at Thoughts From Parson Farms:
Returning to the True Founding For Hope in 2024Good Morning,
“They do not know, nor do they understand; they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are unstable”
So says Asaph in Psalm 82:5.
In this portion of God’s word we hear the psalmist make plain something central to the problem of all nations which stake a claim in Christ’s world and attempt to disabuse themselves of His rule as King. They are blind, dumb, and ignorant and guaranteed to fail. The history of the earth is filled with the ruins of empires aplenty. We live in a time when our own country seems daily to be tottering on the precipice of its own destruction (or has already begun its slide into the abyss) and when we start to try and diagnose what the problem is it all comes to back to a simple question that Pilate asked two-thousand years ago, whose truth and what truth? In our prayer and worship help today we are going to work through a bit of thinking about why the true ailment of America is not a political one, but a theological and spiritual disease of mind and body. Let’s get back into the word to open it up.
Simply put the foundation of any civil order must be the protection of the physical rights of men to be allowed to do that which is good. (Rom. 13:3). We use the word physical here because the State has no right over the spiritual. That is not its role in the Creator’s creation. To be certain that does not mean the State has nothing to say to the religious for false teaching is in its essence rebellion against the King of Kings, and ruler of all. It’s no different from what we would otherwise call treason. We say all this to explain that when we consider afresh the reason why the United States is in the shape it is in we need first to ask upon what pillars were our nation founded? For sure our revolution was not in type or kind the same as the French Revolution which followed. Our Founding Fathers did not seek to outwardly and openly denounce the Divine in favor of the god of Reason. But we must be honest in recognizing that they didn’t exactly promote the Christian God as the head of the nation either.
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Passengers of the Mayflower signing the "Mayflower Compact" including Carver, Winston, Alden, Myles Standish, Howland, Bradford, Allerton, and Fuller. 1 photomechanical print : halftone, color (postcard made from painting). Postcard published by The Foundation Press, Inc., 1932. Reproduction of oil painting from series: The Pageant of a Nation.
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