I’m not surprised
by the tirade against President Trump from those who are labeled liberals, democrats
and the media. However, I’m taken aback when I hear those bearing the name of
Christ joining in with the name-calling, threats and outright disrespect for
the President. These confessed believers may feel their subversion is against
the government and those who voted for Trump, but they are mistaken. Paul said,
“Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no
authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist
have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels
against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those
who do so will bring judgment on themselves” (Ro 13:1-2 NIV).
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Gail;
-----The Constitution gives the governmental power to the people, so the ultimate authority of the government rests in you and me. In as much as any king, dictator, Prime Minister, or body of powers whether elected, or appointed are the government they are what God established. Then also, God vested America’s government in the sovereign individuals and the Constitution limiting the government embodied by their choices. The right to redress is not one of those choices that are limited by the Constitution. Nor does the Constitution limit that right to the voting booth alone. It gives the sovereign people the freedom of speech for redress by criticism. It gives the sovereign people the right to redress through assembly. That includes demonstration, but is not limited to it.
-----This is American Exceptionalism. People throw out all sorts of bizarre ideas on what its exceptionalism is. But if one abides by the meaning of words and the principles of grammar, then one realizes that American Exceptionalism is what no other nation has. That’s what “Exceptional” means. A few other nations have patterned constitutions after America’s. I don’t know how they fare today. I don’t know how much address their constitutions gave God. But the Kingpin of America’s exceptionalism turns upon the government’s acknowledgement of the sovereign individual’s rights as extending to them from The Creator, and nothing else. It is the ultimate limitation the government placed upon itself, and the resignation to God that was intended to be the closing point of every matter.
-----But that is only the source of America’s exceptionalism. Exceptionalism does not thrive or even carry on without existing in the people. This was what Ben Franklin meant when he responded to the question of what form of government the states had instituted, “We have given you a democratic-republic, if you are able to keep it.” Others acknowledge that the Constitution was incapable of serving any other than an upright and moral people. The people had to be of a responsible mind to be sovereign. And the sovereigns had to be of an engaging mind to enact government. And the engaged had to be of upright and moral minds to be exceptional.
-----In those days as in ours, uprightness has a beginning and an end. The beginning is the individual sovereign’s study, thought, and action to the doing of good. The end is the expectation that the Creator fills in the blanks the individual sovereign is incapable of doing himself.
-----Study avails the Word of God. And the Word of God shows that not even did the greatly powerful archangel, Michael, revile Satan. Knowing the originator of individual sovereignty to be God, maybe we would have expected Michael to curse and insult Satan, as much as Satan seems to deserve that. But as the least are the greatest, the greatest are the humblest, like the King of Kings and Lord of Lords hung on the cruel cross at His own humbled volition. Michael called on the Lord to rebuke Satan. And that puts the Lord right back into that formula of exceptionalism of sovereigns in service.
-----Yes, we sovereigns have been given the right to redress. But redress must be as upright as government is expected to be. Rancorous, bitter redress comes form hearts cast headlong, not from upright hearts. Seizing the government to enact the ends of the sovereigns is as immoral as seizing a gun to get from others. If we do not live by morality we are cast headlong. It is the Lord who sets the sovereigns upright or casts them headlong. He only participates in what aims for righteousness in both subject and manner. So, if we do not redress through the finality of the Lord’s involvement, we will fail to redress towards righteousness, America will loose its exceptionalism, and everything of America will appear to be as it is today, and then get worse.
Love you all,
Steve Corey
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