I found this article today and cut and pasted the highlights. Six Principles which come from the Bible and how our Framers applied them. In a future paper, I will show you Six Biblical Principles Thomas Jefferson listed in the Declaration of Independence, and how those Principles are also incorporated into our Constitution. 1. The Civil Authorities are under the Law. • Deut. 17:18-20: The king is to write out a copy of God’s Law. He is to have it by him and read from it all his life so that he may keep, observe, and apply it. • 1 Kings 2:1-4: King David on his deathbed tells Solomon he must conform to God’s ways, and observe his statutes, commandments and judgments, as written in the Law of Moses. The parallel in our Constitution is that the Constitution is the Supreme Law which the civil authorities are to obey. 2. Civil Government has only limited and defined Powers: A. Military matters B. Enforcement of only a few of Gods Laws – the laws to which a penalty for violation is attached (laws against murder, theft, bearing false witness, negligence, etc.). C. Judges are available to decide disputes between the people. 3. Civil Government is divided into Three Parts: The Bible: Isaiah 33:22 says The Lord is our judge, lawgiver, and king! No human can be trusted with all three functions, so our Constitution separates them into three branches, with each branch having checks on the powers of the other branches. Tyrants seek to exercise all three functions. Obama is making Congress irrelevant: When they refuse to pass a law he wants, he implements it by “executive order” or “agency regulation”. He’s making the judicial branch irrelevant by ignoring their decisions which go against his will. 4. The Civil Authorities promise to obey the Higher Law. • King Josiah’s covenant at 2 Kings 23:1-3: King Josiah called all the people together and in their presence, read aloud to them the Book of the Law which had been found in the temple. Then King Josiah entered into a covenant with God that he would obey him and keep his commandments and statutes as written in the Book of the Law. And all the People pledged themselves to this covenant. • Joash’s (via the priest Jehoiada) covenant at 2 Kings 11:17 and 2 Chron 23:16. • David’s covenant at 2 Sam 5:1-4 and 1 Chron 11:1-3. Our Constitutional Oaths of Office: • Art. II, Sec. 1, last clause: The President promises to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.” • Art. VI, last clause: All other federal and State officers and judges promise to “support” the Constitution. 5. When the Civil Authorities violate the Higher Law, We must Rebuke them! The Black Robed Regiment of Our Revolution: Some 237 years ago, our pastors were leaders in bringing about our Revolution. They understood that the English king and Parliament were imposing tyranny on us in violation of God’s Law. In the Declaration of Independence, we rebuked the British Crown when we itemized our grievances and recited how we had petitioned for redress and had warned that if they didn’t stop the usurpations, we would separate from them. But today, we don’t have enough clergy with the knowledge and the spine to rebuke the federal government. Many don’t know what the Bible says about civil government,[3] and they don’t know our Founding Principles and documents. Too many of our clergy just want to escape or withdraw from the World, avoid controversy, and preserve their 501 (c) (3) tax exemption. 6. The Peoples’ Obligation to obey the Civil Authorities is conditional upon the Civil Authorities obeying the Higher Law. When Congress makes a law which is outside the scope of its enumerated powers, it is no “law” at all, but is void; and we have no obligation to comply. Alexander Hamilton says this over and over in The Federalist Papers. Here are a few examples: “…If the federal government should overpass the just bounds of its authority and make a tyrannical use of its powers, the people, whose creature it is, must appeal to the standard they have formed, and take such measures to redress the injury done to the Constitution as the exigency may suggest and prudence justify…” (Federalist No. 33, 5th para). “…every act of a delegated authority, contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised, is void. No legislative act …contrary to the Constitution can be valid. To deny this, would be to affirm … that men … may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.” (Federalist No. 78, 10th para). So! Hamilton applies the Biblical model of what WE are supposed to do when the federal government acts outside of the Constitution. We are to recognize that their acts are “void,” and We are to take whatever prudent measures are necessary to enforce the Constitution. Full article newswithviews/Publius/huldah108.htm
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 18:39:14 +0000
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