We live in a very strange and divisive time. No matter the time, as believers in Christ we must respond to the culture of our day with both truth and love (Ephesians 4:15). As we attempt to live up to that Biblical mandate, we must recognize that there are two very powerful voices arising in America in response to the various unlawful acts that have been committed against the American people by their government in the midst of the pandemic (sic). In the first case, one group desires to appease the current culture. This group believes that by going-along-to-get-along, peace can be found. However, by not standing for individual liberty, this group essentially allows themselves (and their posterity) to become enslaved to a system of power mongers who rule by fiat. On the other hand, another group of people wants to take justice into their own hands by picking up firearms and waging a revolution that they believe will restore our Constitutional Republic to what our founding fathers intended it to be.
Many Americans are increasingly expressing their desire to bring to justice those in power who are responsible for the great overreach of their authority. These two aforementioned positions (indifference and violence) are both morally and theologically unacceptable for Christians; especially when there is still another lawful and Biblical course of action we can take.
Our lives have been planned out for us by wealthy globalists who don’t care what you desire to do. Your dreams and plans are irrelevant – this is the life they have planned for you instead.
The link below is for the New Normal video shown in this episode of Dr, Mike Live.
We are living in a time of revealing. Christians, Conservatives, Libertarians, Patriots, and other freedom and liberty-minded people, should take the time to rejoice. There are many reasons to rejoice today but here is one that some may be missing – we should rejoice because the God-haters, the America-haters, the freedom-haters, the liberty-haters, in short, the satanic, demonic, Leftists among us are finally being exposed on a scale and at a depth never before seen in American history.
Leftists, Marxists, Communists, Democrats, America-haters, and God-haters, all have one thing in common – they serve a demonic master who has completely destroyed their innate ability to reason for the common good. I and many others have said for many years that Leftist politics, whether Marxist or Globalist, is a mental disorder. We are seeing that truth verified like never before.
“…we
must understand that the only road to peace and social justice is
socialism…With the exploiting classes there will never be peace.”[1]
“…it
is necessary to understand that every modern theory of social justice is
ideological. No matter how reasonable or rational it may be, every modern
theory of social justice is the rationalization of the interests of a
particular group or class.”[2]
He
has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to
do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah
6:8[3]
Justice for all! This statement is a great sound bite but
little more than that. Indeed, as it is used today, it is superfluous on the
surface and vacuous once a brief examination is undertaken. However, given that
Americans have been conditioned to respond to sound bite journalism and
half-truths and worse masquerading as fact-based news, this mantra has become a
dangerous, misleading, although effective ploy utilized by those bent on
destroying America.
For justice to be realized by all, at least two things are necessary foundationally: there must be a standard or system of justice available to all that is objective, that is, it is beyond the frailties and double-mindedness of man, and all parties interested in justice for all must recognize this objective standard as guiding principles for determining when justice has been exhibited. In other words, there must be law and the rule of law must prevail over all well-intentioned and/or misguided arguments based on emotions, feelings, or the ideology-du-jour.
In order for true justice to prevail and guide any people
in their shared lives, justice must be impartial, proportionally related to
behavior so that each individual receives his or her due, whether that due is
reward or punishment. This must be in accord with the objective standard agreed
upon as the guiding principles mentioned above.
America was founded upon Christian principles. Therefore, God’s moral law has undergirded the guiding principles of this republic even before the American Revolution. The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of English settlers to America makes this clear. The Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the US Constitution and Bill of Rights follow suit in recognizing the God of the Christian Bible as Creator, Sustainer, Lord, and Law Giver. His immutable and timeless law is recognized as the foundation for America’s laws.
John Locke said, “The end of law is not to abolish or
restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom.” President John F. Kennedy
recognized that truth when he stated during his inaugural address that: “The rights of man come not
from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.” Sir William Blackstone, the
acclaimed English jurist and scholar of jurisprudence, wrote that:
“Man … must
necessarily be subject to the laws of his Creator…This will of his Maker is
called the law of nature…This law of nature…is of course superior to any
other…No human laws are of any validity, if contrary to this: and such of
them as are valid derive all their force…from this original.”[4]
Additionally, justice has many different applications and
therefore must be understood within several different contexts, among them: commercial,
vindictive, retributive, punitive, and remedial justice.[5]
Commercial justice defines voluntary relationships, while vindictive,
retributive, punitive, and remedial justice defines involuntary relationships.
Theologian and Philosopher E. Calvin Beisner, offers this explanation:
Commercial justice requires
that if we desire what another has, we must offer something he prefers in
exchange for it, not acquire it by force or fraud – whether directly (picking
his pocket) or indirectly (using a law to take from him and give to ourselves
or others). Violations of commercial justice by fraud, theft, or violence bring
punitive and vindictive justice into play as correctives.
When one person violates
another’s rights (which are defined by justice), the injury is to be redressed
by vindictive, retributive, and punitive justice. Vindictive justice judges the victim right in his cause (1 Kings
8:32; Deuteronomy 25:1). Retributive justice
(from the Latin re, or “back,” and tribuere, “to pay”) requires the
offender to restore the victim to his status before the offense (Exodus
22:1-15). Punitive justice applies a
penalty to the offender as punishment for violating the law (Romans 13:4). In
crimes against property (theft or destruction), punitive and retributive
justice combine in the offender’s restoring what was taken or destroyed
(retribution, also called restitution) plus some additional amount
(punishment).
Sometimes someone harms
another accidently. Then, remedial
justice requires the one who caused the harm to share the cost equally with
the victim (Exodus 21:35) but adds no penalty. But if he is negligent, he must
be punished by bearing the whole loss (Exodus 21:33-34, 36), restoring the
victim fully to his former state at his own expense.[6]
In the current climate of identity politics, gender
dysphoria, and Marxian and Critical Theories run amok, these requirements for
justice appear to be out of reach. That leaves us with a bare naked power grab
by certain people, or cast in Darwinian terms, a fight for the survival of the
strongest, where might makes right. In America today that means political power
financed by globalists who espouse anti-American ideologies. The ability to
force people to comply against their wishes and of the common good has defined
tyranny throughout the ages. Sadly, much of the American Protestant church has
been deceived and is supporting the multi-pronged Luciferian lunacy of the
leftists and other assorted God haters.
Aiding
and Abetting the Perversion of Justice
Recently the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) abdicated
their responsibility to proclaim God’s truth by adopting Critical Theory and
Intersectionality as guiding principles. Critical Theory and especially Critical
Race Theory assume what they set out to prove. It is at best, circular
reasoning on steroids. What it is at worse is a system for justifying racism
against whites. If that statement makes you nervous, you are probably
influenced by the now non-stop drumbeat of the white supremacy, white privilege
nonsense perpetrated by Critical Theory race baiters embedded in the Southern
Baptist Convention as well as many other denominations.
Critical Theory has already conquered numerous universities
as evidenced by the growing number of white privilege courses being offered to
students. The reason there is no uproar over this insanity is because college
freshman have already been indoctrinated with the socialist, leftist, Marxist
global citizenship lies such that by the time they enter college they have
become victims of mass mind control that makes the CIA blush over its
effectiveness.
Alex Newman, writing in the February 4, 2019 edition of the
New American says:
More than 20 years ago,
Hillary Clinton published a book called It
Takes a Village. The key takeaway from the book is that the raising of
children needs to be viewed as a collective responsibility, and that the
government must take a much more active role. More recently, MSNBC host Melissa
Harris-Perry did a segment going even further. “We have to break through our
private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their
families, and recognize that kids belong to the whole community…Of course that
idea is not new. In 1932, American Communist Party leader William Z. Foster, in
his book Toward Soviet America, outlined
similar goals. “Among the elementary measures the American Soviet government
will adopt to further the cultural revolution are the following: the schools,
colleges and universities will be coordinated and grouped under the National
Department of Education and its state and local branches,” he wrote. “The
studies will be revolutionized, being cleansed of religious, patriotic and
other features of bourgeois ideology. The students will be taught on the basis
of Marxian dialectic materialism, internationalism and the general ethics of
the new Socialist society…Indeed dictators have long understood that shaping
the minds of children is the surest method of keeping power. As Nationalist
Socialist (Nazi) tyrant Adolph Hitler put it, “He alone, who owns the youth,
gains the future”…Education, it turns out, is the secret weapon of those
seeking to build what they frequently refer to in public as a New World Order.
And they not only admit it, they boast of it in public. The very future of the
United States as a free and self-governing republic hinges on the outcome of
this battle.[7]
According to the Socialists-Communists in the U.S. Senate
and House, as well as Socialists-Communists in every level of government and
even in the U.S. Judiciary, American’s who believe in the rule of law, in the
God-given rights of Americans, in liberty and freedom, in limited government,
and State’s rights to tell the U.S. Government to “take a hike,” are prime
candidates for re-education. That means many Americans must be indoctrinated
with an ideology that sees religion, by which is meant true Christianity, and
patriotism, by which is meant nationalism, as “bourgeois.”
The questions I have for all those Protestant and SBC
leaders and the growing number of confessing Socialist-Communist Evangelicals
such as Tim Keller and David Platt, is this: How do you legitimately espouse
such demonic nonsense and think you are being true to the gospel of Jesus
Christ? How can you adopt Critical Theory, Critical Race Theory,
Intersectionality, Social Justice, homosexual and even transgender propaganda
and believe you are remaining faithful to the Scriptures? What people who hide
behind and fly the flag of “inclusion” are really doing is waving the white
flag of surrender to culture and the demonic hordes that have carefully crafted
American culture for the last one hundred plus years. People who believe they
are Christians and who see no conflict with their support of Critical Theory,
Critical Race Theory, Intersectionality, Big Gay, and every other interest that
sets itself against the truth of God, have become useful idiots for the enemies
of Christ and of the freedom and liberties we enjoy as Americans.
Founding
Father John Adams was right when he wrote in a letter to the Massachusetts
Third Division in 1798, that: “Our constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people, it is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” This
explains why the Socialist-Communists in our governments, their allies in the
media, and Big Gay hate the rule of law and hate any reference to the Founding
Fathers and our governing documents: they are not a moral people and they will
not abide by any moral code that calls their behavior immoral, wicked, and
evil.
I encourage
every freedom loving American to begin to tell the people described above that
we will not tolerate their continued attack upon this nation’s principles and
follow that up with action. What is happening in your local community will
determine the necessary action items for you. I also suggest you utilize your
network of people to grow an organization of resistance to the creeping
Socialism-Communism in our governments and in our churches. If you will not
stand up and fight back now it may be too late in the very near future.
[1] Celia Hart, The Flag of Coyoacan, edited by Walter Lippmann in August 2004.
Repreinted in Marxist.org Cited in Carl Teichrib, Forcing Change, Volume 4, Issue 8, p. 1.
[2] William E. Murnion, “The Ideology of
Social Justice in Economic Justice For All,”
Journal of Business Ethics, p. 848, 1989. Cited in Teichrib, p. 1.
[3] All Bible references are taken from The
New American Standard translation (Lockman Foundation, 1995).
[7] Alex Newman, The New American, Rescuing Our Children, February 4, 2019, p.7.
Mike Spaulding was ordained to the ministry in 1998. Since then he has planted two Calvary Chapel churches – Calvary Christian Fellowship, St. Marys, Ohio, in 1998, and Calvary Chapel of Lima, Ohio, in 2005, where he currently serves as pastor.
Mike holds a B.A. in Organizational Management, a M.T.S., and a Ph.D. in apologetics. He is the author of #MTPGA (Make the Pulpit Great Again): 12 Things Christians Can Do Right Now; Random Thoughts From a Disciple of Jesus Christ: Commentary on America’s “Hot Button” Issues; Matthew: A Commentary for the Remnant Body of Jesus Christ, Volume 1; and Mark: A Commentary for the Remnant Body of Jesus Christ, Volume 1. He is a contributing author to Social Injustice; The Evangelical Dictionary of World Religions; and Daily Devotions with Calvary Chapel Pastors. Mike is a frequent conference speaker and has appeared on broadcasts including Worldview Weekend Radio with Brannon Howse, The Hagmann Report, Caravan to Midnight and Ark Midnight with John B. Wells, and Five In Ten on Skywatch TV.
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