WORLD CITIZEN vs AMERICAN FREEDOM

British Statesman George Canning said it: "A steady patriot of the world alone, a friend of every country but his own".

America's soverignty could be lost to the United Nations or, with the full implementation of The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) between Mexico, the United States and Canada. In effect, it dissolves our northern and southern borders.

Consequence: "Christian America" and her citizens' God-given personal freedoms will be history. That is, "change" will have taken its toll. When political candidates call for "change", the voting citizens need to ask, "in what direction...toward what form of government?"

Fidel Castro advocated CHANGE. Joseph Stalin brought about CHANGE. Mao Tse-tung was a proponent of CHANGE; Adolf Hitler enforced CHANGE.

CHANGE spilled more blood and produced more genocide in the 20th century than in world history.

What change does Obama advocate for America's borders and sovereignty? What ultimate form of government does he envision? Did the "change" voters ask?

What CHANGES do the American citizens want who voted for Obama to be their President?





Note: Most quotes are taken from the book America - A Call To Greatness.

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SECULAR HUMANISM AND AMERICA'S EDUCATION DISASTER

This is a continuation of my recent blog essay, WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR KIDS?

The anti-God cancer of relative moral standards has had a devastating impact on all of life in America as it planted its roots deeply into our schools and education system. In the early 1920s, Dr. John Dewey, professor at Columbia University and a founder of the American Humanist Association, introduced a concept termed "Progressive Education" which spread throughout our nation's public school system. He held that:

"There is no God and there is no soul. Hence, there are no needs for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is also dead and buried. There is no room for fixed, natural law or moral absolutes."

So far-reaching was Dewey-ite secular humanism that the noted contemporary theologian Dr. D. James Kennedy summarized the consequences:

"Little wonder that the Dewey-ite secular humanists who have led education in this country for the past 50 years have helped to produce a veritable slime pit of immorality, drug addiction, sexual perversion, permissiveness, and diseases of every sort...effects that, according to the eminent educator, Professor Jacques Barzun, have resulted in turning the once proud and efficient public school system of the United States 'into a wasteland where violence and vice share the times with ignorance and idleness."

Karl Marx, author of the Communist Manifesto, wrote: "My objective in life is to dethrone God...".

The youth of America are a sacred trust to us from God. They are America's future. What have the churches been doing during this protracted assault upon the minds and spirits of America's young people?






Note: most quotes are from the book America - A Call To Greatness.

THEY THAT HATE YOU SHALL REIGN OVER YOU (Lev.26:14)

The liberal, the evolutionist tells us and teaches in the classroom, that "the only constant is change". But the Lord makes it clear that there are absolutes which must be obeyed by men and nations who wish to be free. In Leviticus 26:14,17 He warns, as He does throughout the scriptures: If ye will not harken unto me, and will not do all these commandments; I will set my face against you...: they that hate you shall reign over you;...

Christians and those who believe the biblical account of creation and the origin of life in all kingdoms, believe the Old and New Testaments: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the word of the Lord [his truth] endureth to all generations. (Matthew 24:25; Psalm 100:5)

Events change. Circumstances change. But our Creator's laws of liberty do not change. Thus after thousands of years of brutal tyranny and bloody history and struggle between nations of the world, America's Christian founding fathers searched the holy scriptures for the divine laws of liberty as revealed by our Creator and by Christ Himself, and against seemingly impossible odds gave birth to a nation whose Constitution became the envy of the world.

Thomas Jefferson, who penned the Declaration of Independence, opened it with: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, ....".

Note his term "truths". According to the Bible, Christ is truth (John 14:6). Next he acknowledged that there are divine, fixed, eternal, unchanging absolutes: "They are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights..." (Inalienable means unchanging, unchangable).

That is to say, our right to freedom is not granted by the state, which can change from tyranny to tyranny. Rather, it is an eternal God-given right which must be jealously fought for, and defended against the ever present evil in our world described in Romans 3:15-18: Their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Jefferson, reflecting the collective faith of the founding fathers as well as his own, proclaimed these words which can be found inscribed in the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.: "God who gave us life gave us liberty ".

The bonding agent in the American Revolution and the U.S. Constituition was the belief of the people that the God of the Bible, manifested through Jesus Christ, was(is) the Author of liberty, and that political freedom and spiritual freedom are inseparable.

John Quincy Adams, 6th President of the United States, summed it up on July 4th, 1821:
"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity".

By contrast the French Revolution had a high sounding purpose of freedom, but ended in a bloodbath and in a succession of unstable freedom-destroying governments. French historian Alexis de Tocqueville wrote, "In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions."

America's founding fathers in no way advocated the establishment of a theocracy. They wrote a Constitution guaranteeing freedom of religion. They stressed the imperative for the influence of the God of the Bible, the Author of liberty, in every dimension of civil and personal life. Thus, lest future generations forget, they engraved Bible verses on all of the federal buildings including the Capitol, the Library of Congress, the Supreme Court, and upon completion the Washington Monument - all the way up the stairs and on the its cap. Lest we forget, they even imprinted "In God We Trust" on our coinage. In 1892 the U.S. Supreme Court declared: "This is a Christian nation".

Yes, ours is a nation structured on the absolute unchanging laws of liberty set forth in the Bible.
The "liberal" in proclaiming "the only constant is change", represents the antithesis of the greatness of America. The Christian proclaims "the only constant is the truth of Jesus Christ".

Today many Americans learned in world history are increasingly alarmed about the apparent calculated attacks by President Obama and his liberal democrat administration upon our fundamental institutions of freedom. They are slapping their heads in despair over the apparent weakness and confusion of the voting public. For decades the Christian foundations of our God-given country have been allowed to erode under the relentless attacks of Godless secular humanists. There is a parallel in recent history:

At the end of WWII British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reflected upon how that horrible war, which claimed 50 million lives, could have happened at all. He wrote in "The Gathering Storm",

"The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous".

The key word is "reinforced", which means emboldened, encouraged. No wonder Obama is
increasingly in the attack mode, even declaring his destructive (to freedom) political objectives.











Note: most quotes taken from the book America - A Call To Greatness

IS SURRENDER EVER AUTHORIZED BY GOD?

Nowhere in the Scriptures are we authorized to surrender, to give up, to retire from the battles against the death-dealing workers of iniquity which God describes: Their feet are swift to shed blood: destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes (Rom. 3:15-18). God further describes Satan: ...your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:... (1 Pet. 5:8).

Are you frustrated, confused, feeling beaten down by the horrible events worldwide and nationally which are reported daily in the news? Many interpret them as signs of the "end times". IS THERE HOPE? Would God have us throw in the towel in despair?

(1) When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shalt be obedient unto His voice; (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God;..) he will not forsake you, neither destroy thee,... (Deut. 4:30-31).

(2) At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, and to pull down, and destroy it; If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them (Jer. 18:7,8).

(3) If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land ((II Chron. 7:14).

The above three promises of God our Creator are as good and valid today as when they were written. Why? Because: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the Word of the Lord endureth to all generations (Mat. 24:35; Ps 100:5).

Today, much of the Christian church is in shambles, leaderless and confused even over issues of church and state, and what influence God the Author of our political and personal freedoms should have in the affairs of government. (Do you realize that no article proposed for the U.S. Constitution would be considered by the founders unless it first passed the biblical test for origin? For example, the triune (executive, legislative, judicial) checks and balances structure of our new Constitutional republic was based upon Isaiah 33:22).

America was born in the pulpits, and there America will perish as a result of abandonment by a neutralized, disobedient clergy, of their mandate to teach Christ's commandments to duty and action in every dimension of life; unless we the church demand that our clergy substitute ear-tickling pabulum from the pulpit with Christ's energizing mandates to action.

At the end of WWII British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, recalling how the war, which claimed 50 million lives, could have happened, said:

"The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous".

Note the key term is "reinforced", which means emboldened, encouraged. Thus President Obama is relentlessly in the attack mode as he outspokenly assaults America's foundational pillars of freedom in the face of an impotent church.







Note: Quotes are taken primarily from the book America - A Call To Greatness.

"WORKS" MANDATED BY CHRIST FOR OUR TIMES

Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free (Gal.5:1)
ROLL CALL: Who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity? (Ps 94:16)
Occupy till I come (Luke 19:13).
The righteous are bold as a lion (Prov. 28:1).
STRENGTH: Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might (Eph. 6:10) .
DUTY: Fear God, and keep His Commandments; for this is the whole duty of man (Eccl.12:13).
SPEAK UP: Preach the word; be instant in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine (II Tim 4:1,2).
WE MUST GUARD OUR SACRED TRUST, AMERICA'S FREEDOMS: O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust (1 Tim.6:20).

IT'S OUR CHOICE (volition): I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: that thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey His voice...for He is thy life... (Deut. 30:19,20).

NOTE: Times change, circumstances change, but the Word of the Lord does not change. His mandates are founded in truth which is absolute. God says the same thing to different people in both Bible testaments.


These quotes are taken primarily from the book America A Call To Greatness.

PERILOUS TIMES-WHAT DOES GOD WANT FROM CHRISTIANS?

This could also be titled "The Prophesy Trap". Christians are feeling lost and confused and impotent as they witness the calamities into which a seemingly godless President Obama is plunging America and our children.

Should Christians sit back and resolve that prophesy is being fulfilled and that there is nothing we can do about it? Should they resolve, Oh well, God is in control...He knows what He is doing", and restrict their work and efforts primarily to social programs? Should they pray for the great escape through the coming "rapture" of the church, and pray that they are not "left behind" with the unbelievers?

Just how much power do Christians actually have, and what does God command (not just want) us to do with it?

How much power?: I give you power... over all the power of the enemy (Luke 10:19).
From Genesis through Revelation God, the Author of libery repeats Himself so that believers can have no doubt as to their power over Satan and the workers of iniquity.

WHAT GOD REQUIRES of believers is action, action, action. He makes it clear that prayers and songs of love and praise are shallow and meaningless unless we are obedient to His mandates to the faithful: This is love, that we walk after His commandments (2 John6). ("Walk" is a term designating unflinching commitment.) Then He (Christ) warns, He that saith I know Him, and keepeth not His commandments, is a liar, and the truth [Christ] is not in him (1 John 2:4). In other words, we are cautioned not to patronize Christ through our declarations of love, then be lukewarm or outright disobedient. I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth (Rev. 3:15,16).

Many offer up prayers of praise and seeming faith, which are void of a petition for empowerment that we may be obedient: . But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead (James 2:20)? Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone (James 2:17).





NOTE: All quotes are taken from the book America - A Call To Greatness.