For those of you reading this that claim Christ....you have nowhere
to go on this. Perhaps you think that a rather assuming perhaps even arrogant position.
Permit me to explain. If you claim to be under Biblical authority….as do those
of us that claim Christ…you are duty bound to follow the Rule of Law as long as
you have recourse under the Rule of Law. Romans 13 tells those that claim
Christ that they are to obey the governing authorities. There is no ambiguity
there, it is a crystal clear command. Unfortunately, there is mass ignorance as to who that governing authority is in our country. For decades now, the Church
has suffered from erroneous or no teaching on Romans 13. Let’s go through this
piece by piece. Unlike most other countries around the world, certainly outside
the west…the governing authority in the United States of America is not a
human....the governing authority in the United States is the Rule of Law. The
great reformer Samuel Rutherford wrote about this in his work titled “Lex Rex”,
Latin for law is king. Rutherford wrote about the Biblical principle that Law should
be King, not the other way around as was the prevailing political philosophy of
his day where the King was Law (Rex Lex). A radical concept in the mid 1600s….radical
enough to cause you to lose your head under your King.
Indeed it is clear that God infused the minds of many of the
founders / framers with the understanding that because of the Biblical doctrine
of the Depravity of Man, civil government under a Biblical Worldview would
involve setting law above men. That is precisely what our founders did with the
United States Constitution. Every federal elected official and every member of
the Armed Forces takes an oath to that document. Now before anyone
misunderstands....I will remind you that for the one who claims Christ, our
ultimate governing authority is the Word of God. That said, we do not live in a
theocracy, we live under a Constitutional Republic where the Rule of Law (Lex
Rex) is set above the Rule of Men (Rex Lex) in order to protect the people from
despots and tyrants. Unfortunately, the people that ought to have the most
interest in protecting this (The Church) since we were blessed to inherit this
radical, Biblical form of civil government, unfortunately we have been left in
the dark on these principles and Truths due to a vacuum in training from the
Church….for various reasons that I will not go into here. We have been asleep
at the wheel for so long, we know see a growing “soft tyranny” to use the words
of radio talk show host Mark Levin.
Therefore, under Romans 13, the Christian is duty bound to
follow the Rule of Law and our Constitution. That means before following ANY
idea that is outside the Rule of Law, the Christian is duty bound to use all
recourse UNDER the Rule of Law. Many people will bring up the founders and the
American Revolution to refute this, but they show a lack of historical
perspective. The founders had no option under the Rule of Law; there was no
rule of law. They were under tyranny with no recourse under a “Rule of Law”….which
is instructive in and of itself to understand what they did when they set up a
governing manual based upon a law higher than men.
Which brings us full circle back to Article V of the United
States Constitution. Under the Rule of Law in the United States of America
today, there is a lawful, peaceful, Constitutional (think Rule of Law) available
to us that has never been exercised. Now this does not mean that the Christian
that does not think that the use of a Convention of States is a good idea is
somehow being sinful, that is NOT what I am saying at all. Honest people can
disagree. However I take great issue if the opposition is based on fear rather
than reason….which defines about 99% of the oppositions today…but I digress. What
I am saying is that if you claim Christ and you advocate for ANY solution outside
the Rule of Law BEFORE utilizing the solution INSIDE the Rule of Law….then yes….you
are clearly way out of bounds. SHAME on any believer that would advocate for
going outside the boundaries of the Rule of Law and advocating for any solution
that clearly today would lead to violence….shame on them for doing so before
exhausting all lawful, peaceful, Constitutional options that God has blessed us
with.
The Article V Convention of States is not an easy solution.
I heard one so called conservative leader the other day state that using it was
wrong because we (those of us involved) think it is a “quick fix”. That
statement alone told me volumes about this individual and that he has never
taken the time to even look at the process to amend the Constitution in either
mode of Article V nor has he taken the time to perform due diligence on the
Convention of States Project itself. This is no “quick fix”….I tell everyone that
gets involved with the Convention of States Project that the framers
intentionally made the amendment process very difficult…and for good reason…they
did not want our governing document amended on the whims of just a few people.
Therefore it takes VERY broad consensus across the nation to get an amendment
proposed through either mode much less run the gauntlet of 38 states ratifying
any proposed amendment. This effort is probably the most difficult political
effort in our nation’s history since the founding era. Indeed, if God grants us
favor…and we are successful….it will be the greatest single historical event in
our nation’s history since the founding era.
If you desire to learn more about the Biblical Worldview of
civil government in order to be able to better connect the dots between your
faith and our Constitution, just click on the image below and send the website link to your pastor. I would be more than happy to bring the course series I
specifically developed to teach these principles into your church if your
pastor is willing.
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