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The Spirit of Christ VS. Humanism
I have
been noticing a bumper sticker lately that seems to be a common cry of our society - DON'T FOLLOW ME -I'M LOST!
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It seems to be the
attitude of our nation, of the church and of so many men who are in positions
of authority - no one wants to lead! No one
is willing to stand up and say, "I know the way, follow me!"
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They all give opinions
about what you should do, then quote an expert: "The Kinsey
report. . .", "The President's Council on . . .", "The
current public opinion. . .", and so on. No one seems willing to become
vulnerable enough to take a stand on anything and lead.
Our society and the church is in a leadership crisis. U.S. News and
World Report recently said, "leadership will be hard to find in the
next quarter century. . . "
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Men who are losing the understanding
and ability to lead are wanting out.
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If a Presbyterian pastor
leaves his church, it now takes 9 months to a year to find a replacement. In
one Catholic diocese 155 new priests were ordained 5 years ago - last
year they ordained 39. We are in a leadership crisis.
Responsibility -
Personally, I know the struggle of having the responsibility of leading other's
lives. After years of battling my way into some semblance of walking in the
Kingdom of God, I was content to hide behind a pulpit and tell others how to
get there.
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Then the Lord went to
work on me, "Moses didn't tell
the Israelites how to get across the desert - he led them."
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"But Lord," I
argued, "that would mean I would have to go with them and go through the hassles all
over again!" "Now," the lord answered, "you are getting the
picture!"
With a few men that God had given me to lead we set out for the Promised land and the
first thing I learned was I didn't know
how to lead! It hasn't been easy, but we are making it.
An Example from the Scripture
Why the crisis? I believe our answer is in God's Word. In Isaiah
3:1-5, the prophet says:[2]
The lord God of hosts, is
going to remove from Jerusalem and Judah both supply and support, the whole
supply of bred and the whole supply of water; the mighty man and the warrior,
the judge and the prophet, the diviner and the elder, the captain of fifty and
the honorable man, the skillful enchanter. And I will make
mere lads their princes and capricious
children will rule over them. [It
sounds like the crisis in our nation’s leadership].
The youth will storm
against the elder and the inferior against the honorable.
In verse 1 2 he continues,
O My people! Their oppressors are children, and women
rule over them,
O My people! Those who guide you lead you astray, and
confuse the direction of your paths.
As a result of the lack of rea1 leadership, this is what happened.
. . . a
man lays hold of his brother in his father's house, saying, "You have a
cloak, you shall be our ruler, and these ruins will be under your charge,"
On that day will he protest saying, "I will not
be your healer, for in my house there is neither bread nor cloak; you should
not appoint me ruler of the
people'." (Isaiah 3:6-7) [i.e., "I don't have my own act together either,
I can't lead you. . ."]
And
again, in 4: 1 :
For
seven women will take hold of one [real] man in that day, saying, "We will eat our own bread
and wear our own clothes, only let us
be called by your name; take away our reproach!
The
Lord removed the
leaders from Israel and the people became so desperate for leadership
that they begged someone to lead but no one was willing to take on the
responsibility. Women were willing to support themselves - they just wanted a
man to cover them and give them his name.
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Why did the Lord
remove all Israel’s leaders?
For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their actions are against the Lord,
to rebel against His glorious
presence. (Isaiah 3:8)
Rebellion - God removed the leadership from Israel
because they refused to live under God’s law - they stiffened their necks, hardened their
hearts, worshipped the gods of the land and stoned the prophets
of the Lord. Then the Lord said, You want to go your own way - then I will
show you what it means to be without leadership!"
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When a society
refuses to live under God's government
they uncover themselves and leave themselves open to anarchy.
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This is what is
happening to our society and
in some degree to the Church today. God is removing our leadership
because we have not walked in the ways of
His law.
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At the root of our society’s
departure of the Truth is a
philosophy and world view called Humanism.
Before we discuss Humanism
itself, we need to see that
this philosophy is part of an even greater issue.
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central issue in all the Universe
and in all the ages is that of authority.
When
Satan rebelled against the throne of God, he opened the creation to two wills, two
authorities and two seats of government for the first time in all of eternity.
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The issue of
Scripture, the advent of Christ,
the redemption of man and
the coming of the kingdom of God is the re-establishing of the unchallenged
government of God in the earth and the universe.
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His kingdom was never
moved by the rebellion, "Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever."
(Heb. 1 :8). But the Lord Jesus is now in the process of reigning in His
kingdom to re-establish under its government all that was lost in the fall.
"For He must reign until He has put all His
enemies under His feet. And when all things are subjected to Him, then the Son
Himself also will be subjected to the one who subjected all things to Him,
that God may be all in all" (1 Cor. 15:25 & 28).
The
issue for each individual is which government does he wish to be ruled by?
There are three
manifestations these governments that
we need to see and understand.
1.
The first is a theocracy.
Literally translated it is the "government of God." The
government of Israel in the Old Testament times was a theocracy – God was the ruling
figure of the nation. He ruled through Moses, Joshua, the judges, the kings,
and the prophets, but He was still the ruler. The first commandment God
gave to Israel was, "You shall
have no other gods before Me."
His rule was first and His government was to have primacy among all others.
2.
Democracy is our second form of government. This means "government
of the people." The people rule. The Romans called it the "Vox
Populi," the "voice of the people." How many of you know God
does not rule by the voice of the people? If His government worked that way
the vote to go into the promised land would have been 2 million to one in favor of
going back to Egypt. The people would have said, "Nea" and Moses
would have said, "Yea," and that would have been the end of it.
Democracy takes its basis of authority from the will of the people, a theocracy
takes its basis of authority from the will of God.
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Christocracy is the third government we need to consider. This is the rule of Christ, or
what we refer to in the Church as the Kingdom of God.
It is to this government
which the world will have to answer in our age. I Corinthians 15:25 states,
"For He [Christ] must reign until He has put all His
enemies under His feet." The Church should not teach theocracy,
but rather the rule of Christ - Christocracy. After Christ has put all His
enemies under His feet, He will hand the Kingdom back to His Father, "that
God may be all in all."
The issue of government in our day is Christocracy
versus democracy. The rule of
Christ and His Kingdom versus the will of man.
This is the way the conflict is expressed:
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The Lord says: -''Thou shall not commit adultery." The Kinsey report
says, "Five out of seven married- people have sex outside of
marriage." The inference being, that you are not normal if you don’t have
sex outside of marriage.
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The will, or voice,
of the people is beginning to set the
standard of how we should live our lives.
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Up until recently in
our society the standards of
right and wrong were set by the Word of God and the life-style born
in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Our legal codes were based on the Bible
and our philosophy of life based on an absolute understanding of life
priorities and right and wrong.
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Now the standard is
being set by consensus of
what the majority of the people
feel is right. Abortion, drug use,
minority rights, and sexual ethics are all major issues that are being greatly
influenced today by what the majority of the population want.
Democracy - I need to clarify that “democracy” as I am using
the term in this discussion does not refer to a system of government,
but to a modern philosophy of life.
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Democracy as our
nation's founders understood it, could function very close to a Christocracy because each man in that society was answerable to
and understood the Law of God. As Francis Schaffer expressed this:
è ". . . 51 percent of the vote never becomes the
final source of right and wrong in government because the absolutes of
the Bible are available to judge a society. The "little man"
the private citizen, can at any time stand up and, on the basis of biblical
teaching, say that the majority [vox populi] is wrong. [3]
A
democracy in this sense is a
righteous form of government because each man, citizen and ruler alike, are all
answerable to God for their actions, hence, the Lord rules in that society by
His law.
è Democracy as I am using the term is the philosophy that says whatever the people want is right. This eliminates any absolutes from God and makes the people final in authority.
Some years ago I read about a Senator screaming in desperation, "Why doesn't somebody forget about consensus and give us some leadership!" The "fifty-one percent" is becoming the deciding voice in our national issues.
Humanism
Webster's defines Humanism about as well as anything I have read,
A doctrine, attitude or way of life centered on human interests or values, esp.: a philosophy that asserts the
dignity and worth of man and his capacity for self-realization through
reason,[4]
(emphasis mine)
The
central issue between The Kingdom of God and Humanism is always one of "centricity"
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what is the center of the
philosophy? God or man?
Anything that has God as its center is Kingdom - anything that places man at the center is
humanistic at its core.
Basic Doctrines of Humanism
- I would like to briefly examine some of the basic doctrines of humanism.
As we do so, I want to show how the spread of these beliefs has affected our
society and how radically we have departed from the Word of God in the process.
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My quotes of humanist
doctrine are taken from the Humanist Manifesto II, which is a general
declaration of humanist beliefs signed in 1973 by some of the leading humanist
thinkers of our day.
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The original Humanist
Manifesto was signed in 1933, but has been since disregarded as "too
optimistic" by modern humanists.
Though
the Manifesto is not an "official" statement of the beliefs of humanism, it is widely
accepted as a general statement of their world-view and philosophy.
The manifesto plainly states,
"We find insufficient evidence for belief in the existence of a supernatural.
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"As non-theists, we begin with humans, not God, nature not deity."
Humanism is not necessarily atheistic - "there is
no God" – but it
is non-theistic - which-says God is irrelevant to human life.
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Excluding God and
exalting man to the center
of history and society is
the most obvious result of this belief. This is evident in a society that is
consumed by a lust for personal fulfillment and satisfaction to the almost complete disregard for
the dictates of God and His Law.
Christianity
centers the universe in God and
His will and everything and everyone
derives purpose and existence from Him.
Man:
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The humanist says, "The preciousness and dignity of the individual person is a central humanistic value. Ø "We believe in maximum individual autonomy. . . ." The “rights” Movements - The greatest single effect of this thinking has been the extreme "rights" movements. It leads to an extreme egalitarian view that says, "You can’t tell me what to do.I have rights!"
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We
have:
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gay rights, women's rights,
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voter rights, criminal
rights,
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and a national news
program recently aired a story on the growing support for "animal
rights".
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Women have the right to
murder their unborn children, children
have rights freeing them from
parental control,
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and people have a right
to be supported by the rest of society if they can't find a job that pays
enough.
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Rights are being so
blown out of proportion in
our day, that society is stagnating, unable to move because someone's
rights might be violated. .
The Scriptures teach that we derive our rights from the Lord as we live in obedience to His Law.
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To
violate His law means to forfeit our rights. Our only
"inherent" right is the right to obey God and do His bidding as His
servants.
Humanistic view of man also removes
the influence of sin and the fall, the
result being that man is basically good.
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He contains a
"divine" spark and all we have to do is let it develop naturally.
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The evil present in
man today is a result of
religious myths and superstitions, cultural perversions and
social injustice. To free man from these hindrances,
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children must not be
warped by restrictions on
their emotional outbursts or discipline that will inhibit free expression. They
must be allowed to reach their full potential uninhibited.
This
has led to a crisis in public education and in most American homes children have
become unmanageable for most families, and parents are losing control.
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The lack of control
passed on to the schools, which today resemble undisciplined day-care centers more
than the disciplined academic institutions of 25 years ago.
God's
word teaches very plainly,
"All have sinned and come short of the glory of God.” We are also warned,
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"A child who gets his own way brings shame to his mother. . . . Correct
your son, and he will give you comfort." (Proverbs 29: 15 & 17).
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To leave man unrestricted
to "natural" development will produce only evil since the human
heart is "evil above all things and desperately wicked."
Man's
only hope is in the redeeming
death and atonement of Jesus Christ for his sin and the power of the
Holy Spirit that will conform us to the image of Christ.
"We affirm," states the manifesto, "that moral values derive their source from human experience. Ethics is autonomous and situational, needing no theological or
ideological sanction." (Emphasis theirs). This can be restated,
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"If it feels good, do it!" The whole basis of morals, ethics and
ultimately law, has become what is good
for man.
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If you do something and
someone asks, "Did that offend God?" that is not even an issue any
longer.
Ø The issue in ethics today is, "Did you hurt anyone," or, "Did you offend society?"
Morals
and ethics no longer has anything to do with the knowledge or will of God.
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Without the absolutes
of "theological or ideological sanction" every situation is different.
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Stealing can be good
or bad - depending on the situation. Adultery
can be bad - if it hurts someone; or good - if it helps your marriage.
The Christian has only one understanding of right and wrong the command of God. God
rules by His fiat - His unexplained command.
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He never bothers to back
up his commands with statistics or explanations, He just says, "You
shall," and "You shall not."
Law is following the same path as ethics. Since the law of the land is based on the moral code
of the society, it is only a natural progression.
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Law is always derived
from the religious teachings of a society.
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In The Institutes of
Biblical Law, Rousas Rushdoony draws the logical conclusion from this
point,
"It must be recognized that in any culture the source of law is the god of that society.
If law has its source in man's reason, then reason is the god of that society."[5]
(Emphasis his).
If man's experience is the source of morality and
law is based on that moral code, then
man has become the god of his own society and begun "to worship the
creature rather than the creator."
Declares the humanist,
"Traditional dogmatic or authoritarian religions
that place revelation, God, ritual, or creed above human needs and experience do a
disservice to the human species.
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"Promises of immortal salvation or fear
of eternal damnation are both illusory
and harmful.
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They distract humans
from present concerns, from self -actualization, and from rectifying social injustices."
This
is how much of our society
comes to view religion and / or personal relationship
with the Lord as a "crutch." For the Manifesto also says,
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“Traditional religions
often. . . inhibit humans from helping themselves or experiencing their full
potentialities."
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Hence society begins
to view serious Bible-believers as social and emotional cripples.
Anyone who looks past himself or toward a future life is out of step with the
rest of the world.
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If you seek to share
your faith with a world drunk with
such a philosophy you become an enemy of society accused of leading
them into your superstitions.
This
is the ground and the cause of martyrdom in this century.
"Decision-making must be decentralized to include widespread involvement of people at all
levels" - This sounds very American and responsible, but we must remember
that the framers of the American Constitution
had
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great reservations
about how much the people should
be allowed to voice their opinions
in the halls of government. They understood that
Ø a solid government would be one where elected officials led the people, NOT one where the people led their elected officials - i.e. the vox populi.
The
result of this "decentralization" is not viewed so much in the structures
of our government but in an attitude toward leadership that
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claims the inherent right
to question or have an opinion and voice in every decision that is made. It
undermines genuine “followship" as well as leadership.
The
humanist also declares about
government,
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"We look to the development of a system of world law and a world order based upon trans-national federal government.
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This has led to an
attitude on the part of many world
leaders that affects their dealings with each other and would tend to move us
toward a world government economically, socially, and ultimately politically.
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It is an attitude
that is detrimental
toward our own national interests and defense. It is a subject, which, in itself could be discussed
in a full article.
Scriptural understanding of government is clear. "For there is no authority
except from God, and those which exist are established by God." (Romans
13: 1)
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Governments are
answerable to God, not to the vox populi. Authority
draws its base from above, not from beneath. Leadership should be prayed for,
not criticized.
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World government is a subject that has been discussed widely by Christians
in recent years.
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One-World government is spoken
of in Bible prophecy as an anti-Christian system
which will arise at the end of the age and be the vehicle of a godless world
system.
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The Scripture is very
clear that there will only be one world government, the reign of Christ in His Kingdom at the end of the age.
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All other attempts at
world government, I believe, are
Satanic in their motivation and they are an effort to undo God's work at Babel
when He divided and frustrated man because of his humanistic intentions.
One thing should be very
clear by now,
humanism
is the dominant philosophy
and life-style of our culture! We
should note that humanism is recognized and defined as a religion
by the U.S. Supreme Court:
Among religions in this country which do
not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture,
Secular Humanism, and others.
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That quote was from a Supreme Court ruling delivered by Justice
Black in the case of Torcaso vs. Watkins in 1961.
Humanism today is
the religion of the majority of our schools, of most of our elected officials and is
becoming our national policy. In short,
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we are being ruled by
a religion as hostile to our Christian faith as Buddhism or Islam.
We get fooled because we think that to be a religion you have to believe in God - such is not the case as the Supreme Court ruling clearly points out.
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It is a masterful
trick of the enemy that
has placed our children under the influence of an anti-Christian religion and
lifestyle that commands them for more quality
teaching time than the home and
church combined.
It would be no different than sending our children to a Buddhist school and then wondering why they end up loosing their faith or struggling with a double standard.
Religious Humanism
Humanism
in our Churches - Do you think a person
could be a Christian and still hold a humanist philosophy and life-style? You had
better believe he can!
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Since the Lord has begun
to open my eyes to the whole humanist philosophy I have been literally appalled
at the tinges of humanism in
what I have done and believed over the years. I see now that
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God's move in the
area of authority,
submission, discipleship, manhood and government is a direct counter
thrust to the inroads made in the church by religious humanism.
Religious
humanism leads to all kinds of
attitudes and heresies.
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There is a man-centered thread
in certain streams of theology that starts with “sloppy agape" (That’s
right, dear, the Lord understands
and forgives you for that."
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and ends with
ultimate reconciliation (“God wouldn't really judge anyone, we will all end
up in Heaven with the devil and his angels.")
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These are very real
attitudes that center in man and his interests rather than in the absolute
Law-Word of God.
The "bless-me" mentality is rooted in
humanism. "God is here to
meet your needs! Just come to Jesus and He will make you happy!"
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God becomes your
servant rather than a Lord and
King.
Ø Religious humanism is any religious theology or philosophy which centers on the needs of man rather than the needs and will of God.
Its camouflage - Humanistic teaching and practices can be dressed up in religious words and
made respectable for Christians.
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It is widely taught
that prayer is a "mental
laxative" but has nothing to do with a relationship with the
living God. The Bible becomes a
comforting and guiding book, but
it is no longer the infallible Word of God. Worship is an emotional
reassurance rather than adoration of our Father. Faith becomes
positive thinking and our testimony of truth becomes an affirmation
of belief.
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Everything is watered
down and turned away from
Godcentered obedience to man-centered
activity. This kind of teaching is rampant in most churches of our day.
Seeking
the Living God - I believe we need to
see clearly where we are, In our hunger and attempt to find a vital relationship with the Lord, we began searching
around inside our particular tradition.
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Some found Him inside
their tradition. Some found Him outside of it. But some place along the line we
found that our hunger for God might not
always be compatible with every
tradition in which we found ourselves.
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When that happened we began breaking out to find something more in God. It
is not the breaking out of 15 or 20 years of tradition that is frightening - it is the choice
with which we are confronted when we do break out!
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We must choose at
that point the Kingdom of God, or some form of humanism. We
will either look at the demands of the Kingdom of God and embrace them or we
will say, "That's more bondage and law -
it's what I just got out of!" and we will embrace some sort of
religious humanism that makes little or no demands and centers on me
and my personal needs!
Beginning with the
Charismatic movement there
has been a tremendous shaking going on in the traditional church.
People have been leaving churches, starting new prayer groups, revitalizing their
existing churches or forming new ones. Everything is being shaken.
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This shaking has
acted as a watershed for
the Church. Those who have had a deep and unfulfilled hunger for God are going
on into what He is doing in the Kingdom of God either inside or outside of
their traditional structure.
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Those who have sought God
for their own ends are embracing all kinds of liberal or Charismatic humanism.
It could be likened to the division of sheep
from goats.
Do
you believe society is breaking out of tradition? Our society is being faced with the same choice as
the Church.
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As the Church has been confronted with the decision of the Kingdom of God or humanism,
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the world in which
we live is shaking off the
"fetters" of Judeo-Christian
culture and searching for new direction.
If
we cannot offer them the Kingdom of God, they will turn to humanistic government and
the consequences will not be pleasant.
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E. Stanley Jones tells
this story in his book, "The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging
Person”
I was speaking in a cathedral in West Germany on the
Kingdom of God. On the front seats were prominent German leaders. As I spoke
they kept pounding their benches with their fists. I was puzzled. I did not
know what it meant - was it for me or against me? But at the close they
revealed what the beating of the benches meant: "You seem to sense why
we turned to nazism. Life for us was at loose ends - compartmentalized. We
needed something to bring life back into wholeness, into total meaning and
goal. We thought nazism could bring that wholeness. But it let us
down, let us down in blood and ruin. We chose the wrong totalitarianism. We now see that what we were seeking was the Kingdom
of God, but we didn't know it.[6]
May
the Lord help us if we are given the opportunity
of presenting the Kingdom of God to our generation and we fail
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if we fail I fear the
result will be more terrible than the
judgement which fell on Germany in the Second World War.
Our Warfare
The
battle we are in is not only difficult to
fight - it is difficult to see! It is a guerrilla war.
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When the new soldier got
to Viet Nam, he said, "How do you identify the Viet Cong?"
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"You know one when
he shoots at you!" was his answer. It might be a little girl, an old lady
or a man driving an ox cart. There were no clear lines, no uniforms, no white
and black hats.
I
would love it if the issues of our war were clear cut, black and white! The issues
seem to be mixed and confused and by the time you finish looking at them you
are not sure what you really believe.
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One example would be
capital punishment. The
Scripture says the murderer or rapist should be executed.
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The popular philosophy
today says the criminal is
a product of his society and we are really the ones responsible for his
crimes. We now owe him a debt - we must rehabilitate him, see to
his emotional needs, give him psychiatric care, teach him a new trade and give
him a job in society. To execute him for something that really was not his
fault is inhuman.
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We are reminded that
the Bible teaches forgiveness
and compassion as well as judgement. Didn't Jesus forgive the thief on the
cross and the woman taken in adultery?
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Pretty soon we begin to
feel like our beliefs are stupid and indefensible. Everything becomes confused
and by the time we are finished we are not sure what we. believe!
I am finding that I have to
continually believe God
for spiritual discernment in issues and situations in which I find myself. Most
of the time the issues are too confused, too couched in ambiguous language, too
close to each other to be clearly understood.
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One
of the principle tactics of modern leadership is to talk without saying anything. How
many of you have listened to a candidate for public office speak and when he
was finished you still were not sure what he believed?
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A politician was once
asked where he stood on a particularly thorny issue. After thinking for a
moment he answered, "Some of my friends are for it, some of my friends are
against it - Me? I'm for my friends!"
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Much of our warfare will
originate from the pressure of the Vox Populi. Our conflict reduces to
the authoritative command of
the Lord vs. the demand
of the voice of the people.
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The enemy wants to
use popular opinion to
intimidate and pressure us away from our stand on the Word of God. We take a
stand and say, "I report my tips on my income tax!"
People will look at you like some kind of creature from the middle
ages and say, "What's the matter with you, everyone hides their tips. The
government expects it - anyway, you deserve it. Look at all the government gets
from you! You must be crazy!"
Do
you feel the pressure to conform
in that? If you had enough of that you would be tempted to rationalize away the
clear Word of God and give in.
I
can remember sitting in my philosophy class at the University of Delaware as they laughed at me
as if I was an escapee from the insane asylum.
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I dared to say I believed
in the literal God, who created the Universe, and in His Christ who ordered the
Universe. They laughed until they fell on the floor! It was all I could do to
pray in tongues and build myself up to keep from being completely intimidated
by the situation.
We
are living in the days of Hosea 9:7 "The prophet is a fool, the inspired man is
demented, because of the grossness of your iniquity and because your hostility
is so great."
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We are heading for the
place in our society that anyone who believes in God, in His Son Jesus Christ,
and talks to Him through the Holy Spirit will be considered mentally
incompetent. Can you picture this?
"Do you
mean to tell me you talk to God?" "Yes."
"And I
suppose you really believe He talks back to you?"
Can you feel the intimidation in that?
The pressure that is growing is going to become so strong that without
an anointing of strength of the Spirit of God no one will be able to stand
against it.
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This is the nature of
our warfare. It is not battling demons all the time, the actual
front line warfare is much more subtle and insidious than that, but it is just
as deadly.
Our Defense
In
the light of the struggle we are in, I believe there are basically two things we must
begin to do.
1.
First, we must become Kingdom-centered in
all that we do.
The only way I know to do this is
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to earnestly ask the
Lord to deal with everything
in us that is not centered on His will, His Kingdom and His Word. I have seen a poster that
says,
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"Dear Lord. please remove
with gentle force all that I refuse to surrender. " That to me is the
heart attitude of a Kingdom-centered man or woman.
2.
Secondly, we need to
genuinely come to understand the nature
of humanism and what it is doing.
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We must clearly define
the issues by the Word of God and intelligently understand what it
says about them.
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The Church has been
notoriously ignorant of the true nature of what is going on in the world, very
often to the detriment of the Kingdom of God.
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I have included a brief
bibliography at the end of this pamphlet that I would recommend to anyone who
is serious about understanding the real issues that confront us today as they
are defined in light of the Word of God and his Kingdom.
It
is my prayer that the reality of the issues facing us will be truly seen and confronted by every
Christian in himself, in his family, his church and in his community.
Rushdoony, Rousas
,J. -
The Institutes of Biblical Law, The Craig Press, 1973.
Rushdoony, Rousas J. - Intellectual Schizophrenia, Presbyterian and Reformed
Publishing Co. 1978.
Grover, Alan N. - Ohio's Trojan House: A Warning to
Christian Schools Everywhere, Bob Jones University Press, Inc. 1977
Schaeffer, Francis. How Should We Then Live?
Fleming H. Revell, Co. 1976
Jones, E. Stanley, The Unshakable Kingdom and the
Unchanging Person, Abington Press, 1972.