When man attempts to establish his own version of righteousness, his endeavors – as well meaning and pious at it may seem – is destined to fail, because the righteousness of G-d is not predicated on human effort or human trial and error. The righteousness of G-d stands by itself and is imputed to those who place their trusts in G-d’s complete work of redemption through His Messiah. Anything that deviates from this is itself in denial of the most basic tenets which form part of the faith in those who place their trusts in the provision G-d has made on their behalf in the Messiah.
When the Protestant Reformation discovered this truth, it revolutionized Europe, and launched key reforms in Christianity, but not only Christianity, these reforms also affected Judaism, and help launch the great spiritual migrations to the new world and the colonies of North America. The very laws of this nation were founded upon the most cherished tenets of Judaism and Christianity, and from these the rule of law emerged to become the very cornerstone of our republic.
We have fallen from these lofty heights, because when everything has been said and done, we have allowed through apathy and ignorance the dissolution of our religious heritage by committed secularists within our ranks who have ingeniously have parsed words and used carefully selected arguments to remove G-d and His commandments; indeed, all religious symbols and celebrations from our national culture, and have successfully struck the mention of G-d from our textbooks, replacing Him with Darwinian Evolution, and secular humanism.
In our apathy we have become complacent and compromising. We have sat back in our security and remained quiescent as our children were raised for US by our increasingly Anti-Judeo-Christian public school system, as secular humanists and atheist instructors have taught our children a world view alien to our most fundamental and cherished beliefs. Is it any wonder then, when this generation has produced the most narcissistic, amoral, and self-centered people? If those whom we elect to public office are a reflection of ourselves, then we are a very sick people.
The remedy is a national repentance which goes beyond a public show of contriteness, but one which penetrates the individual; one which is of the heart, one which transforms the person and challenges the nation to be better, to do better, to realign its priorities, and see its mission in a whole new light. It is what Abraham Lincoln termed a “New Birth of Freedom.” In order for the nation to change, its people must change. Only a tyrant believes that change comes from the barrel of a gun. Whether the tyranny is Fascism or Communism; it is not government which is the Guarantor of freedom, but the rule of law, especially when those laws are predicated upon the Judeo-Christian precepts; precepts which have uniquely defined the United States of America as a nation under G-d, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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