Ever heard of Dr. D. James Kennedy? I am not of his denomination but I know of very few others that stand in the pulpit that have taken the stand that he did on retaining the principles of the
Founders not just in the church, but in business and government. Don't send me comments about the separation of church and state because our Founders never practiced it, they never believed in it
and they never expected us to either. It is NOT in the First Amendment nor anywhere in our Constitution. It can only be found in the uneducated liberal minds of those that do not wish to see
America prosper and those that refuse to accept the real history of America.
The role that the pastors played in the decades leading up to, during and after the Revolutionary War in establishing the foundation our Founders stood on in demanding liberty. The pastors from
the first settlement in America were usually the most educated person in the town or village. He usually wrote the charter for the settlement, he educated the people, he was the man everyone
looked up to for guidance and wisdom. It was in the house of Pastor Jonas Clarke the day before the Concord-Lexington Battle, where the shot heard around the world was fired, that John Hancock
asked Pastor Clarke if war broke out with Britain would the people fight? Pastor Clarke's answer was straight forward and to the point, 'This is what I have trained them for!' The pastors of the
Founding Era and those that were before were pastors that stood for what is right and for what is moral. Oh man! to have pastors that do that today.
We have pastors from virtually every denomination that support the homosexual lifestyle declaring that God loves everybody.... they are half right. God does love everybody but just like an
earthly parent He loves the child but does not condone everything that that child does. God set up His principles, morals and liberties that man was to live by. We love the liberties but many
don't really care for the boundaries He set for us. The pastors during the Founding Era were men of integrity that were not afraid to stand up to tyranny.
There use to be pastors that were not afraid to preach directly to elected officials and remind them of their responsibilities to the people they claim to represent. Pastors today will no more do
anything like that because they are afraid they might offend someone.
As a representative of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and a political activist I am often asked my opinion concerning political candidates and social issues. This last election I had a person of
color ask me about some issues and I mentioned that we, as Christians, had to look at these issues from Biblical principles. We are not called to "elect" men to rule over us. This was a good
friend that I had known for several years. Well, my friend became offended that I had spoken against his political party. I tried to point out to him how that party had fought against the Civil
Rights Bill and only supported it when they realized how it would keep blacks under the control of the Democrat Party.
I also pointed out that obama's policies were 100% anti-Christian. Since I did not like nor support a black man for office of President, he only could see that I was was a racist and didn't like
Obama because he was black. I never said anything of that nature, I stated I didn't like him because of his policies. I didn't like Reagan or Clinton or Bush either because of their policies.
Does that make me, a white guy, a racist?
We have pastors that do the same thing. Many world renowned black pastors totally ignored obama's ungodly policies and openly supported him even though he was against all the Biblical principles
that pastors of the Gospel of Jesus Christ are supposed to support. In the video by Dr. D. James Kennedy he brought out many points that the church has either forgotten or they willfully
ignore.
I don't know the year that he made this video so I am sure that the figures have changed and not for the better, I know the abortion figures are much higher. 4,000 abortions occur daily yet
300,000 pulpits are silent. (I believe that today abortions on blacks alone are around 5000 a day.) What! you say...consider the growing population here already of 300 million plus in this
country. TV programs have embraced the homosexual lifestyle and portray it as normal and acceptable, and 300,000 pulpits are silent.
News casts call those that stand for morality and righteousness as 'extremists', and 300,000 pulpits are silent. Christian morality is outlawed in our public schools but atheistic immorality is
taught and 300,000 pulpits are silent. Rape is up 700% in the last 50 years, yet 300,000 pulpits are silent. Rock music that embraces immorality and satanic behaviors of all kinds, and 300,000
pulpits are silent. I'll go one step further and state that in 1954 when the Johnson Gag Order was passed taking the church out of the political arena for the first time in over 350 years, the
pulpits were silent.
For some reason the pulpits today have become cowards and have fallen away from sound doctrines. They won't confront the issues of the day nor will they oppose the sin that has overtaken much of
the church. The pulpits of the Founding Era were much different. They did not back away from things that came against the principles of God. One pastor during that era, John Peter Muhlenberg,
warned that because of the overreach of the royal crown(Britain), there was a threat of America losing their liberty to worship the way they believed they had the right to.
He stated: "Brethren, we came to this county to practice our religious liberties, and if we don't get involved, we're going to lose them." He also became deeply involved in the Revolutionary War.
"John Peter Muhlenberg: He had followed his father into ministry and as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses he preached on the Christians responsibility to be involved in the securing
America’s freedom from Britain. In a message on January 21, 1776 to his Virginia congregation he spoke about the political climate that was facing America at that time. He reminded them that
America had been founded because the people were seeking civil and religious freedoms and because of mounting suppression from Britain they were in grave danger of losing the freedoms they had
come to America to practice.
His message was preached out of Ecclesiastes 3:1 “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven; vs. 8 . . . . a time of war and a time of peace.” As he closed the
message he stated:
In the language of the Holy Writ, there is a time for all things. There is a time to preach and a time to fight. And now is the time to fight.
At that point he took off his clerical robes to reveal a uniform of an officer of the Revolutionary Army and called for the men in his parish to join him. He left that afternoon with 300 men and
joined Washington’s. He became a Colonel of the 8th Virginia Regiment."
There are too many preachers, and I use that term loosely, that are more afraid of the IRS than God. They are afraid of losing congregants if they preach against a political party. We have
churches that have men on their board that that support ungodliness and the politicians that push it setting on their boards simply because they have money. God says in Isaiah several times that
it is not good to support evil:
Isaiah 3:11 "Woe unto the wicked! it shall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands shall be given him." Isaiah 5:20 "Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for
light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!" To those in power that make laws and decide laws God says: Isaiah 10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous
decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed.
God even has a stronger message to the pastors as they are the shepherds of God's people. They have a bigger responsibility to ensure that the people understand the true will of God and not the
theology of some denomination. Many preachers have stated that nobody really knows the will of God and my response to that is only those that don't study God's Word are ignorant of His
will.
Jesus Himself stated in Mark 3:35 "For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother." If no one can know the true will of God, Jesus would not have made
that statement! So to tell the people that same-sex marriage is okay with God is an outright lie. To say that abortion is okay is a lie and God will hold them accountable for those lies. In
Jeremiah 23:1 God says: "Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD."
These pastors no longer teach the true Word of God. They no longer confront the social issues of the day that are destroying our society and by doing so they allow sin to increase. Can you see
that even next to you? They don't see that we are in the last days and that time is short. In Amos 6:1 God says: "Woe to them that are at ease in Zion, and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which
are named chief of the nations, to whom the house of Israel came!" The church is not even a fragment of what it used to be. There are a only handful of churches that will still stand for
righteousness.
We need to reestablish our liberties, our freedoms and moral principles. If we don't take this opportunity we may be looking at what Reagan warned us about: "Somewhere a perversion has taken
place. Our natural, unalienable rights are now considered a dispensation of government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment."
We either stand today or lose it all tomorrow.
