The Laws Of God & Man

[dave c]

HEALING SHELTER MINISTRIES #129f Re-Written 27OCT08 http://groups.msn.com/AHealingShelter/welcome.msnw

Gatekeepers—Part Six: The Laws Of God & Man

by rev dave c

First Timothy 1:8 We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. 9 We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious [better translated as heathen, wicked, or profane]; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10 for adulterers [better translated as fornicators, the promiscuous] and perverts [sodomites/homosexuals], for slave traders [those who ensnare others—physically, emotionally, spiritually, and/or financially] and liars and perjurers--and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine 11 that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me (NIV). Over the past 50 years, or so, the righteous have been faced with those who would misuse our government and legal system to simultaneously stifle or destroy all that is Godly and to legitimize that which is un-Godly. Increasingly we are seeing bills brought before the Congress of the United States and rulings made by Federal judges that restrict anything and everything associated with the practice of Christianity; we are seeing continuous efforts on the part of special interest groups to make “criminals” out of all those who publicly declare the Word of God as the Full Gospel of Jesus Christ; and we are seeing celebrated, endorsed, and empowered that which is obviously against the very laws of nature to any and all who are still able to perceive reality as it is—not as it is imagined to be by those who are blinded by their own egocentric obsessions and spiritual ignorance.

Laws (good laws) are designed to protect the weak, the innocent, and the poor—not to empower the cruel, the corrupt, and the greedy. Laws (good laws) are designed to preserve and promote the healthy aspects of culture and to control and punish social evils—not to destroy the very foundations of culture and to propagate chaos. Laws (good laws) are designed to institute real freedom for those who seek life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in an ethical, moral, and forthright manner—not to create criminals out of the general population by drafting legislation that violates the principles of common sense. In spite of national polls, and in spite of state after state passing resolutions that demonstrate a consensus in support of traditional family values and the Judeo-Christian foundation of this country, determinedly arrogant factions within our Federal government and judicial system march onward in their jihad against those who would follow Jesus Christ. Major aspects of our governments, our educational systems, and our mass media have been hijacked by cultural terrorists whose goal is a personal anarchy that will eventually, and inevitably, lead to global control by a self-appointed and self-serving international elite. As society is categorically stripped of Christian moral and ethical controls from inside its individuals, more and more restrictive laws will be necessary to control behavior from outside the individual. The most powerful anti-Christian forces within our nation feel a much greater affinity with their counterparts around the world than with the “religious rabble” they in theory represent here at home.

When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the righteous do?" (Ps 11:3; NIV). To those who would say, “You cannot legislate morality,” I would say, “What legislation does not involve morality?” If we are not legislating mor-ality, then sure as sugar we are legislating im-morality. Murder is wrong. We have laws against it. Stealing is wrong. We have laws against it. Lying is wrong. We have laws against it. Sexual abuse is wrong. We have laws against it. Are these moral issues—or political issues? They are, of course, both by necessity. And yet today it is not only legal to kill our babies, we should believe that it is desirable to do so; it is not only legal to gamble throughout most of our nation, our governments sponsor lotteries that rob the poor to give to the rich; we are not only encouraged to believe that homosexuality is “a natural alternative lifestyle,” we are expected to give preferential treatment to those who practice it; and it is not only “ok” to wallow in pornography, we are to sacrifice our pre-pubescent sons and daughters to sexually awakening fashions and social expectations.

Within the premise of protecting the rights of women and the general welfare for children, we have done more damage to the collective female psyche and murdered more children than Sigmund Freud and Adolph Hitler could have ever dreamed. Under the guise of increasing funds for education and public works, we are experiencing a dramatic increase in government funds needed to meet the mushrooming poverty, drug use, divorce, violent crimes, and suicide within those areas that embrace public gambling. We are told that to guard free speech we must voluntarily be drowned in a deluge of every imaginable sexual perversion that floods our homes, our stores, and our libraries as it is depicted in video, magazines, and on the internet.

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God (1Co 6:9-11; NIV). Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings (He 13:8&9; NIV). The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron (1Ti 4:1&2; NIV). If physical abuse is cruel...how much more so child beating? If pornography is wrong...how much more so “kiddie-porn”? If sexual assault is sinful...how much more so child molestation? If we recognize that murder is evil and we have laws against it...how much more so should the slaughter of our own innocent babies be regarded as a crime against man and God?