Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Qualified King

"Qualified To Be King

Dear Friend in Christ:

As we move into yet another election cycle, the subject of politics is in the air, and our nation is polarized. Is there a way forward that will yield peace and progress? Yes, there is, if we will seek God; He has already provided a solution. We are steadily proving that there is no other path to peace and progress.

Our nation’s founders understood something long-forgotten by contemporary society: laws alone will not produce a desired result. And today, one “simple” law will contain more provisions and work than our entire Declaration of Independence and Constitution combined. Our government seems desperate to find laws and more laws that will somehow fix our problems, and the tyranny of laws
only grows. How long before we awaken to the fact that more human government is not the answer to human problems?

THE POWER OF IDEAS
Our founders came to North America to escape tyranny and establish liberty for the individual. Many, if not most, were believers in the Sovereign God and understood the limitations of human government. They borrowed ideas from men like Adam Smith, John Locke, Algernon Sidney, Montesquieu, and William Blackstone; men who lived under tyranny. These men were Bible scholars and students of the Christian faith. It was their ideas, drawn from Holy Scripture, that found fertile ground in the hearts of Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, and a host of others who thirsted for liberty and the kind of government that would preserve and propagate it. "


Thus begins the July 2010 pastoral letter from Charles Simpson....

May I recommend the article to you? It's chalked with wisdom, hope and truth. Enjoy! And enjoy your journey, in Him! :) -=db=-
"Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen." I Tim 1:17