It is not the government's form that is to be revered or feared… it is its administration. Scripture teaches us that when the Righteous Rule the people prosper and are freest. However, when evil sits in the citadels of power the people suffer violence and poverty… Every evil work abounds.
It is God’s Natural law that drives the engine of liberty and secures our freedom … It is not the arbitrary and pernicious laws of mankind that keep us free. God endowed mankind with the innate ability to define good and evil; too, to choose his path in life, whether it be good or evil. The whole of Creation knows that Love does no harm and is the cornerstone of God’s Natural Law. If government is not administered and regulated by LOVE it soon becomes a terror to those governed... Who among us does not know that a people who refuse to govern based on God’s natural law are in serious trouble?
Jesus teaches us that we are to render unto God that which is God’s and unto man/Caesar that which is man’s… kind for kind. God expects the government to temper its administration with the Natural Law of God. However, the wicked seek to yoke their neighbor with the chains of man’s arbitrary and often pernicious Laws. Capitalism and Communism… Monarchy or Democracy… they all become despotic forms of government over time… This is especially true where God’s Natural Law is not applied in the community of those governed. The people, the individual, ultimately establish governments that reflect the character of their society.
It is the outlaw… those who refuse to voluntarily restrain their conduct; too, deny their untoward desires in life. The individual who expects the government to restrain their wanton and feckless personal conduct will soon find his life bound by the dictates of depots. We are warned to train up a child in the way they should go… in righteousness… in the laws of Nature’s God... God’s natural state of goodness. Failure to harness one’s flesh with the Judeo/Christian ethic… codified for the administration of a righteous government … leads to serious moral decay and oppressive government. Governments are established to control the unrestrained exercise of the wicked individual. People who have not inculcated limits of conduct for life, end up creating governments that regulate ALL their wants, needs, and life’s expectations… despotic government.
So it is today… we live in a once proud and righteous nation that has lost its way …a nation, whose government and social order are controlled by the wicked and morally corrupt. The People have forgotten who they are and what they are. They have left the guideposts of the righteous, the ‘natural law’, for the arbitrary and decadent administration of mankind's dark side. They refuse personal accountability to God and others… saying, we will not be denied our desires and wicked conduct.
Governments… all governments ultimately reflect the character of the individuals governed… Where the despot governs evil prospers, and where the righesous govern peace and prosperity flourish. It is not the form of government that we should fear, it is the ADMINISTRATION of government that dictates if those governed will eat of the fruit of righteousness or endure the pain of the despot. Government is the sum of a nation’s will to keep God’s commandments or to suffer from rebellion. History records mankind’s penchant for self-destruction. Volumes annotate the journey of man, with the blood of their children and the tears of lost generations...
What blood shall we shed and with whose tears shall we water our gardens this day… shall it be with the blood of patriots and the tears of tyrants or will we simply sigh and bare even greater suffering?
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