Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:13:35 PM
‘Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life’ [Galatians 6:7-8].
The Founders of the American Republic have much to say to us because the things of liberty as well as the nature of men are timeless. This culture has lost sight of both.
When the law and the gospel are lost then the first things of liberty are forgotten. Lawlessness will reign rather than righteousness; pride rather than humility.
We want nothing to do with our Puritan forefathers. But they laid the foundations of limited government in their local church governments. Many of them were Separatists from the Church of England and Reformed Baptists who wanted nothing to do with a National Church. These are the men who gave us the first amendment. They gave us the rule of law and the separation of powers. They gave us all the principles intended to limit the power of government in favor of we the people.
We think that we have outgrown our dependence on the Christian religion. The Bible is the great text book of liberty, and grace is the great principle of reformation. Without the gospel of grace rooted in the history of redemption men are lost and without hope and doomed to suffer under the tyranny of other men.
Will we as a nation repent of our autonomous reason and return to the old paths? In the days of Jeremiah the people said they would not return. In our day we hope for a better result because we live under better promises. We the people must learn again the things of liberty.