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"And you, O people, to whom God gave him the freedom to choose their own magistrates, see to it, that you do not lose The choice for the position of highest honor, rascals and enemies of God. "
-John Calvin
"Political slavery occurs when the public dream. "
"John Dickinson, 1732-1808
At this critical moment in U.S. history United as the nation has elected a new president is not passivity, indifference and disaffection among the shepherds and the Christian Church. As a prominent leader of the church, John MacArthur, recently said, "I do not spend five seconds thinking about the fall 2008 elections." This mentality is the antithesis of Scripture and theology history. Reveals a perverted vision of the church and the state which relegates to the secular world to a realm beyond the influence of the Christian community. For investment, this myopia spiritual views as the only area where God's will is done. The modern church has become a strength with virtually no voice microbe to call the nation to repentance. There is a somnambulence of spirit and mind that has overtaken the world church. We are isolated in a micro-world and society have entered we live to irrelevance. The vacuum of non-involvement with the secular world of Christians is immense. A diagnosis twentieth century theologian of the passivity the modern church, "In the early church had people called" hermits ", that went into the wilderness, separated from all social contacts and living only to God. From that first movement, monasticism was born. In our time, we see a similar response among some evangelical Protestants. They believe that the community Christian should be as separate from the secular sphere that Christians should not enter politics or voting in elections, to be withdrawn from the culture, living in different communities have the exclusive Christian friends, the work of Christian businesses, or in general, have nothing to do with this world. It is a way of saying that the state's authority is illegitimate. "(James Montgomery Boice, Foundations of Christian Faith, p. 691). The institution of civil government is illegitimate, is ordained by God to stop evil and show His glory. In the words of John Murray, "… when the civil magistrate transgressions of the limits of its authority, it is for the church to expose and condemn as a violation of their authority. "(The relationship between Church and State, p. 253).
The Anchorites of the Middle Ages lived in stone cells approximately 12 x 12 with an opening small cut through the wall to see the outside world. They spent their whole life to academic and school study, while repudiating a world in which she felt irretrievably lost. His influence in society was as effective as an ant in a bread crumb. Today anchorites confidence to assume that his weekly sermon or weakly the fight against the darkness that surrounds invade their religious sphere as a hurricane involves a small island. Behind the bluster of verbiage that vainly believe their words are stopping at night. The lagoon of the voices in favor of the ant test matrix of the Christian church has allowed the virulent hatred of theism to capture the agora of ideas. The only exposure is anemic without facing a culture degenerates. Apologetics confined to a cell church is not cowardice, courage, biblical. The words of a nineteenth-century scholar of the Reformation and theologian, Abraham Kuyper, are of concern to our isolation comfortable: "No wonder then that Christianity is in danger by great dangers and serious two systems of life are fighting each other in mortal. combat. Modernism is forced to build a world of their own data from the natural man and build the man himself from the data of nature, while on the other hand, all who reverently bend the knee to Christ and worship Him as the Son of the living God and God himself, are determined to save the 'Christian heritage. "This is the fighting in Europe, this is the struggle in America, and this is also the struggle for principles which is dedicated to my own country, and I myself have been spending all my energy for nearly 40 years. In this struggle, apologetics have advanced, we do not one step. Apologetics always initiated by the abandonment of the raided parapet, in order to strengthen these cowards in Raveline [3 faces strong] behind him. If the battle fought with honor and with the hope of victory, then principle that view against the principle, then you should feel that in modernity the high energy of a system of life that encompasses everything lashes against us, then we must also understand that we must take our position in a life of power system and also integrated far-reaching "(Abraham Kuyper, Stone Foundation Conference:. Conferences in Calvinism, 1895, p. 3). A one-dimensional perspective of the church is an ecclesiastical suicide. Leaving aside the civil government of the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical authority and the sovereign will of God. "… It was always understood that both the church and state were responsible before God in whose wisdom each had been established. Two agents were independent of a teacher. Although he was not allowed to rule the other, each was to remind others of their duties appointed by God and remember that upright, pious behavior if they did not comply. Today, however, the doctrine of separation of church and state taken, mainly by people of the church in the sense that the church is irrelevant to the state – the state increasingly secular philosophy brings to bear on the church. Therefore, Christians withdraw from politics, abandonment, even for information on national and international affairs. And, therefore, the articulation of the principles spirital or moral debates is removed from the national and international politics. The state becomes his own god, his pragmatism to be operating principle. "(James Montgomery Boice, Foundations of Christian Faith, p. 665). When the church is anemic government, civil society by default becomes the guardian of the people. Government becomes the focus of confidence and of hope.
"Therefore, no one can doubt that civil authority is, in the eyes of God, not only sacred and legal but the most sacred and by far the most honest of all stations in life-threatening. "(John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4, Ch. 20, sect. 4).
The philosopher and theologian, John Calvin, who designed the church's secular constitution and Geneva in 1540, believes that there are no walls must separate the influence of the believers in the secular sphere. His doctrine of the relations between Church / State is opening his eyes. "Everything you want is currently understood, which is the perfect barbarism exterminate think civil [government], its use among men being not less than that of bread and water, light and air, while its dignity is much most excellent. Its purpose is simply that, as things for men to breathe, eat, drink, and warm (although it certainly includes all these, if allowed living together), what I say, not your sole purpose, but is that not idolatry, no blasphemy against the name of God, or slander against his truth, and other crimes to the religion, come out and be spread among people that the public quiet, do not bother you, that every man is secure, that men can make trade fair others, honesty and modesty is grown, in short, a public form of religion may exist among Christians and humanity among men. That anyone be surprised that I know they give the task of religion to be properly human politics, but I think over having to put beyond the will of man, they know more than formally allow men at will to enact laws relating to religion and worship of God, when I approve the order that civil towards this end. "(John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4, Ch. 20, Sec. 3). Calvino values the civil government that are more value as food for the body and breath. Even asking the State "religious politics" which is a divinely ordained human government, established to glorify God and to restrict the rebellious nature of man. For him, the state is to think of the matrix of the church, the recognition of God as Sovereign Creator and recognition and worship that is due. Calvin invested the state with the power to stop the idolatry and blasphemy against God. He was by no means apolitical. This is very away from the pastors and Christians who say the government is not worthy of our time and effort to change, modify or restrict. The religious life is not active at all of our being, but at a fraction restricted to the feelings or will. A partial influence of the character now obscures the impact of a life redeemed. Religion and its authority is being excluded, "… in the domain of public life, from now on the inner chamber, the cell for prayer, and the secret of the heart must be your sole residence. "" And the result is that in many ways, religion, once the central force of human life, is now beside it, and away from the prosperity of the world, means to hide in a shelter far away and almost private. "(Abraham Kuyper, 1895, The Conference House Foundation p. 40). The church shadowboxes ghosts of his own machinations. conferences are held for attacking straw men of old, and rededicate your life to devote usually while the judicial and legislative bodies of the nation is increasingly hostile to the name of God. The time consumed in such minutiae is irrational. Little sermons, proudly literally delivered as sequential, are far-reaching as the tip of the nose. fluff rhetoric has replaced the Word of God that faces an existential life.
"America is the only country ever founded on a belief." (GK Chesterton)
The philosophical and theological inflence of reform, not only established churches, but to create the nations of the central teaching of the sovereign will of God and call. No person who maintains loyalty to any foreign despot contained the worship of God, only God was the ruler of heaven and earth. The array of constitutional principles come from an understanding of the sovereign nature of God. "The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal and fair, because if they do not are created equal, which proceeded without doubt without equal. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. "(GK Chesterton, What I saw in the United States, 1922). The individual has dignity and value that are not derived from civil law, but only in the hands of God, as made in His image and likeness. "… Calvinism has captured and guarantee of our constitutional civil rights, and while it did not come from Western Europe to the powerful movement that promoted the revival of science and art, opening new avenues for trade and commerce, beautify domestic and social life, exalted to the middle class to positions of honor, because of philanthropy abound, and most of all this, elevated, purified and moral life enobled Puritan seriousness ;…". Reform, "Creating an order in church, which became the State preforming confederation, which proved to be the guardian angel of science, but art emancipated, but transmit a regime politician, who gave birth to a constitutional government, both in Europe and America. "(Abraham Kuyper, p. 29, 155). There are some evangelicals, MacArthur and his followers, they see in the American Revolution as illegitimate. His view of the values of the colonial authority of the United Kingdom as the traditional rule of God on earth. Reject the founding of the Reform of the Constitution of the United States and decrease the value of our democratic state, as decreed by God for man's enobling and Propagation of the Gospel. This ahistorical view rejects our religious heritage and fosters a myopic attitude that sees no relationship between Church and State. This point of view of our history is simply Cave. "The United States had been founded primarily for religious purposes …" "The Pilgrim Fathers had come to America precisely because Britain had become immoral and irreligious. They had built the 'City on the hill. "Once again, their descendants have opted for independence and freedom, because they felt that their own subjugation was immoral and irreligious and opposed to the providential plan. There is no doubt that the Declaration Independence was, to which signed it, a religious and a secular act, and the War of Independence had the approval of divine providence. He had won with the blessing of God, and then established its governance framework with the blessing of God ,…" (Paul Johnson, A History of the American people p. 204). The Framers understood that his work was divinely ordained and empowered by the God of heaven.
What does Calvin have thought or said, living in 21st century America, where a candidate and now president of the United States, was awarded the titles of divinity? For all we know it, certainly have spoken in anger with authority. Recently, U.S. House Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. said that an additional book should be added to the Bible, which describes the rise redeeming the maximum figure of Western history. He would say that is the book of Obama. "The most extraordinary event in American history, including a redemptive act of divine revelation. The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance. "(From Politico, June 5, 2008, article by Josephine Hearn, "Black Lawmakers Emotional About Obama's success.") Barack Obama has given the title " Messiah "by the Nation of Islam. Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, said that he (Obama) has delighted our youth and that the day of Messiah has come. In the words of Obama, on receiving the nomination for President of the Democratic Party, "Tonight the tides will slow down and heal the earth." The New Testament presents Jesus' death and resurrection as the only hope of redemption of mankind, but Obama says of himself and his followers, "We hope for the future, the answer to the cynics who tell us our house must remain divided, we can not get together, we can not remake this world as it should be. Because we know what we have seen and what we believe – that what began as a whisper has grown to a chorus that can not be ignored, it will not be deterred, sounding for all this land as a hymn that heals this nation, repair this world, and this time unlike anything else. "(Barack Obama, speaks at 05/02/2008). With the arrogance without limits, which states: "I'm sure we can create a kingdom here on earth." (Barack Obama, October 8, 2007 speech.) We have no need of political leaders, but men and women of the truth to bear the rejection and resentment to support the unborn, to maintain the historical definition of marriage, support Israel as a sovereign state without any territorial concessions and maintain the economic value of the person, the incentive to achieve. Barack Obama's rhetoric and its multitude Worship comes from an array of unbridled pride and arrogance without precedent in American political history. We heard the voices of worship use this language in past, but were relegated to the madness of mindless extremism. But Obama appeals to a generation of political / religious language more reminiscent of a god delusion the complex. In ancient Rome, when a conquering general returned to the city with his army and the spoils of war, all the people greeting him with praise and acclaimation. But behind the truck running general would be a man whispered in his ear: "You're not a god, are mortal." The church needs to remind Obama he is not the messiah, he's just a mortal sinner. Perceived view of John Calvin of state authority is to understand that he would oppose and expose such blasphemy against God.
"On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen, all day and all night they will never be silent You who remind the Lord. Not to take rest for your souls, and give no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth "(Isaiah 62:6-7).
"And I started watchmen over you, saying, "Listen to the sound of the trumpet but said:" We will not listen. "(Jeremiah 6:17)
"At each stage of its existence, the Church needs to keep the cattle guards of all those who destroy it. "(EJ Young, Book of Isaiah, vol. 3, p. 470)
Ancient sentinels were stationed on the walls of a city to alert residents of approaching danger, especially at night, so the prophets of Israel were tocsin rang a voice to the nation of Israel of impending calamity. The prophets of Israel were the heart of God in human flesh. They met with all aspects of life in reference God. The prophets diagnosed the spiritual, cultural, social, economic, political and military of the nation from the perspective of eternity. Their voices are not met limits the influence and impact. Nothing was allowed outside the domain of the prophetic voice. From kings to beggars, they all come to know the mind of God through inflamed heart of the prophet. Your message embraced the whole life of Israel and history. His voice caught this transcendence of eternity. The mentality of the prophets that spans the globe, not just a sliver of religious activity. "The prophet is not only a prophet. He is also a poet, preacher, patriot, social critic moralist. "" The prophet was an individual who said, 'No' to their society, condemning its habits and assumptions, its complacency, rebellion and syncretism. "" The prophet is facing a coalition of insensitivity and established authority and agrees to stop a powerful current with mere words. Had been the purpose to express ideas, the prophecy would have had to be hailed as a triumph. However, the purpose of prophecy is to conquer the numbness, to change the inner man well as to revolutionize history. "(Abraham Heschel, The Prophets, p. VIII, XIII, p. 16-17). Prophets Avenue left the company affected by the disclosure of God. His voice hit the solar plexus of the company with the warning and redemption. No aspect of life was sacred fire of confrontation. "By its very assertion, his was the voice of supreme authority. Not only rivaled the king's decisions and advice of the priest, challenged and even condemned his words and deeds. "(Abraham Heschel, p. 260). The lack of authoritative voices to speak to power, the truth lies, obfuscation clarity, it suffers in a country drunk on rhetoric of self-exaltation.
Jesus gave a warning in Matthew 10:16 the disciples, to be aware of imminent danger on the horizon, in the midst of a hostile world. "Behold, I send you as sheep among wolves, so be wise as serpents and harmless as doves." The phrase "wise as serpents" and " innocent as doves "is in the Midrash on singing. 2:14. Israel is described as" innocent as doves ", to God, and" wise as serpents " to the Gentile nations. The snake has a sensory system that can detect prey or predators to approach the ground vibrations. It can detect motion over 100 feet. The believer must be aware of what is on the horizon. We are not to be overtaken by events. When Israel not clairvoyant wisdom, who paid a high price as a nation. The epithelium of the church has been a believer in a state of vulnerability to the dangers of invasion from the culture.
"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be salted? It's good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled by men. "(Matthew 5:13). There was a common expression among the rabbis in Jesus' time that the Torah is the "salt of the earth." "Because the world can not do without the salt, not could do without the Torah. "(Soferim 15.8). The Torah is believed to have a preservative effect on the world. The world would rot at an accelerated rate without the effect of slowing the Word of God. But Jesus does something remarkable in this passage, which conveys the meaning of the Torah to the disciples of Galileo, a band of weak, incompetent men, uneducated, despised by the educated in Jerusalem. Jesus says that the Word in and through them it would stop the plunder of the world. No teacher in the Israel's history has made such a declaration. Our presence in word and deed, is a preservative in the middle of an age to die. Our lives are penetrated in every realm, which delays corruption. Our influence is to glorify God and affect this world. We can see the glory of God once again shine from sea to sea, and in the birth of our nation. Our presence in the middle of this age slows the accelerated dispossession of a dying world.
The need to pray for our nation today is for all of God's people. A confluence united to seek God's will is the only obstacle to the darkness invades the earth. There are thousands of believers across the United States who are afflicted and being awakened by God for the future of this nation. Only the dependence on the sovereign God can redirect the present course, which covers progressively autocratic vision of life. At times of the signal in our past, God has called His people in prayer concert. "Therefore, if it is true that while we are indifferent or insensitive to our misery, waiting and watching for us, and sometimes even helps us unsolicited, much to our interests constantly pleads, first, that our inflamed heart is always with serious and ardent desire to seek, love and serve Him as we are accustomed to use it as a sacred anchor. In every need, Secondly, I do not want, I do not want to be, of which we are ashamed of what the witness may enter our minds, as we learn to place all our wishes before him, and therefore shed our hearts before him. "" It is absurd, therefore, to dissuade men from prayer, to claim that Divine Providence, who is always looking over the government of the universe is in vain importune prayers, when, on the contrary, the Lord himself says: "It almost to all who call upon Him, to all who call on him in truth. "(Psalm 145:18)." (Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, chap. 20, Sec. 3). God is the sovereign Lord of all nations and He has commanded that His will be done in a unique way through the weakness of our intercession.
The church is losing its moral and spiritual base of the kingdoms of this world. However, in the vain hope evangelical anchorites justify the degradation of society, as a sign that the end of the world is imminent. This is the ultimate escape from responsibility to our children and their children's generation. "Religious life is not only a private matter. Our life is a movement of the symphony of ages. We are taught to pray and to live in first person plural. "" All generations as it were, at all times. "(Abraham Heschel, a philosophy of Judaism, p. 422-423). The Christian can not lock herself in her church and leave the world to its fate. A concatenation of generations have mistakenly assumed that the consummation of the age was during his lifetime. "Occupy … [Gk." Pragmateuomai " everyday affairs of life, trade, judicial functions] to come "(Luke 19:13)." Watch therefore. for ye know not what hour the Lord doeth come "(Matthew 24:42) Jesus commands a constant watch on the interaction between the believer and society …
"… Humanity glorifies God subdue the earth by the words and the work Tragically, the devout to abandon the culture of non-devotees They argue foolishly: .. "Why polish brass in a sinking ship? A polished brass to glorify the spacecraft manufacturer, who will not allow his ship to sink. In other words, the objectives of the "life purpose ', among other things to produce a culture of God. "(Bruce Waltke, Old Testament Theology, p. 221).
For many in the church The hoax has been adopted, "Why polish brass on a sinking ship?" The answer to that question is immature, God is the captain of the ship and he has left him. Yes, the ship of state is listing, but we are called to be a restraint system and training towards a government that honors God. We are in a crisis in U.S. history and only sovereign God can suppress a movement that is dishonoring to God in his essence. If we are silent and passive, they suffer the consequences to the rest of the nation under the chastening hand of God. Although millions of people have called for a leader after his own heart, like ancient Israel, the consequences of God giving Israel an alter-ego, Saul, for a leader was great. "And he gave them what they asked for, but sent leanness of his soul." (Psalm 106:15). We must pray and seek God to get us out of the system are in. There are small to be seen as the sovereign Lord of heaven and earth nations. Only God bringing his holy arm can restrain the arrogance and arrogant move that is capturing the imagination and appeal to millions of Americans.
The dependency systems are rapidly diminishing in stature and dependence. The promise of steady economic expansion is now seen to have been unrealistic and shortsighted. The stratum of economic and material basis of life is being shaken by seismic changes that call our capitalist system, particularly in question. It is as if we as a nation are being kidnapped in an impasse of despair. At this time of the death of the golden calves of the United States may be granted the grace of God to be quickened by His Spirit to re-breathe the breath of eternity in the throes of a dying age. "A sense of touch with the latest dawns on most people when their self-confidence is driven by the violent misery. "(Abraham Heschel, a philosophy of Judaism, p. 422).
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