Posted by
ValiantForTruth on Monday, August 02, 2010 9:21:55 PM
The great divide in today’s America is all about liberty. With liberty comes individual responsibility, and without responsibility there can be no liberty. Those among us who foster dependency appeal to the fallen nature of men to be independent of the sovereign God; they have created a welfare system that promotes generational slavery with no hope of redemption.
Our American forefathers brought with them the seeds of liberty when they settled New England. It was their world view that caused liberty to come to fruition in the New World. But what was their world view and how does it compare with the world view of men today? To answer that question is to begin to understand our cultural war and the decline into tyranny.
The men on the Mayflower and the Pilgrims that followed were not Renaissance Men or Enlightenment Men, but Reformation Men. They carried with them the English Bible; the revelation of God had set them free from the tyranny of the apostate church and lawless state.
First they understood that the imputed righteousness of Christ had freed them from the curse of the Law, and in becoming slaves to the righteous law of Jesus Christ, they were freed from the arbitrary laws of other men. This is the beginning of liberty. This is our heritage in Protestantism.
The definition of unity is given in Galatians 3:26-29. It comes through trusting in the finished work of Christ and resting in Him alone for salvation. It is the role of His churches to proclaim the gospel of grace and to set men on the path of freedom.
A corrupt state forsakes its role of civil magistrate and God’s minister for good and the punisher of evil and begins to usurp the role of the church. The state’s idea of social justice is a perversion of the gospel proclaimed by the preachers of unrighteousness who seek first the things of this world. Redemption is available to men who sorrow over their sin and repent, not those who continue to live in it and make peace with it and are content to live off the labor of other men.