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by | August 1, 2015 · 1:50 am

8-1-15 Christian Resistance and Disobedience Today

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Is there historical precedent for Christian political resistance?  The answer is absolutely – ‘Yes!’

Ever since the Reformation this has proven true.  The City of Magdeburg stood in resistance to the Holy Roman Empire and saved the Reformation from annihilation.  The Founding Fathers of America contended against the King of England when he was attempting to implement bishops and a hierarchy over the freely established churches in the Colonies.  Sam Adams wrote many articles from 1764 through 1772 regarding the tyranny of government in impeding true Christian religion and that is to be resisted.

Today’s program brings us to the modern discussion from our historical past.

 

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by | July 28, 2015 · 2:03 am

7-25-15: Sam Adams the Puritan Activist

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This program is the continuation of the reality that you can be, no, you must be a Christian to be the correct type of activist against tyranny.  Sam Adams again proves this reality in every aspect of his life.  What summarizes how this was true for Sam is this comment by Rev. Thomas Thacher:

” If he preferred the mode of Divine worship in which he was born and ed ucated to other religious institutions of antiquity, or to other forms in which Christianity has appeared, it was not from the prejudices of education, or mere mechanical habit ; but because he conceived our churches, when confined to their original design, were excellent schools of morality ; that they were adapted to promote the future happiness of mankind ; and because by experience he had known them a powerful auxiliary in defending the civil as well as the religious privileges of America.’In this mode of thinking he was instituted. The purity of his life witnessed the sincerity of his profession, and with the same faith he expired.”

The following was written of Adams in The Congregational Quarterly Vol XI:

As the State and the country emerged from the war, there was a strong tendency to depart from that piety, simplicity, and. frugality which had hitherto been dominant, and which such pure-minded patriots as Adams regarded as the basis of the whole structure of liberty. “At a time,”says Edward Everett, ” when the new order of things was inducing laxity of manners, and a departure from the ancient strictness, Samuel Adams clung with greater tenacity to the wholesome discipline of the fathers.” Even before the close of the war he raised his voice and used his pen against the insidious encroachments of extravagance and a lower tone of morals. Immediately after the inauguration of the State government, when Han cock was elected governor, Boston was gay with balls and glittering entertainments. Hancock had wealth, and loved display, and recklessly led the people in a dangerous path, and an era of moral and spiritual social degeneracy was initiated. Adams’s views on these points give a clear insight into the ruling principles of his life, and they are not inappropriate to our own times. He says:—

” Does it become us to lead the people to such public diversions as promote superfluity of dress and ornament, when it is as much as they can bear to support the expense of clothing a naked army ? Will vanity and levity ever be the stability of government either in states or in cities, or what let me hint to you is of the last importance, in families ? . . . . How fruitless is it to recommend the adapting the laws in the most perfect manner possible to the suppression of idleness, dissipation, and extravagancy, if such recommendations are counteracted by the example of men of religious influence and public station?”

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The Source to “The Congregational Quarterly vol XI“

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by | July 19, 2015 · 11:42 pm

7-18-2015: The Truth on Christian Resistance

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As it is noted well in the references that I’m attaching Links to, the conflicting proposition on Christian Resistance or Disobedience has been a long term discussion.  My personal studies have concluded that if the early Church did not resist/disobey the Roman empire: we would not have Christianity today.  If the Magistrates and Ministers in the city of Magdeburg did not disobey and resist against the Catholic Habsburg emperor, Ferdinand II, we would not have the results of a Reformation.

Needless to comment is that Samuel Adams studied his Bible every day.  He was known as the “Last Puritan” not because of the way he dressed but because of his Biblical Reformation knowledge and non-bending principles.  He understood Biblical Covenant and that God is absolute Sovereign over all things and that Jesus received the fullness again with the Father and Spirit in that Sovereignty upon his Ascension.

This is Sam Adams understanding of God’s Sovereignty is the only place that any proper resistance can begin especially the Theology of Christian Resistance/Disobedience.  This week I bring you that introduction, well, I bring back the Doctrine of the Lesser Magistrate back to you in a different format.  I’m going to also give you the links to Doug Wilson’s Sermon Series/Blog Post on Christian Disobedience and the link to a composite work on “The Theology of Christian Resistance.”

As always, 45 minutes of radio cannot make up for hours of content.  My hope is that this will get the brain cells and spirit moving.  As I always say, there is not true Idea of Liberty with out Liberty given by Jesus.  With that, there is no rational way to resist tyranny and despotism unless you understand what Sam Adams understood in the Biblical context of Resistance and Disobedience to tyrants.

 

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Doug Wilson Sermon Series on Christian Resistance:

Sermon: On Christian Disobedience #1

On Christian Disobedience #2 Blog Post

Sermon: On Christian Disobedience #3

On Christian Disobedience #4 (Daniel 6:6-11)

To the Supreme Court:

On Christian Disobedience #5 | A Sermon for Five

The Theology of Christian Resistance: A compilation of writers

 

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by | July 15, 2015 · 1:37 am

7-11-2015: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement is Toilet Paper Tyranny

In my presentation of “The Tale of Two Constitutions: The Anti-federalists Got it Right,” I discuss how Executive Agreements are virtually equal to treaties in their effects on law, bureaucratic implementation as well as Constitutional reform without the Amendment Process or Treaty ratification process.

Well, I’m not going to get into all of that in this program but I do show how our Founders would view this TPPA as an act of tyranny against the people/citizenry in the US.  To get to the meat of the matter, I bring you insight from Australia and New Zealand so that you can understand that words have meanings and that the parties we negotiated with do not agree with our fundamental principles thus voiding their intentions laid out in this agreement.

Buckle in to catch all the info I’ve dug up on this one.

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by | · 1:26 am

7-4-2015: Samuel Adams Speech About the Declaration

Yes, it is another July 4th holiday.  Although I believe that we should go back to declaring it the remembrance of “Independence Day!”  Samuel Adams goes back over a year to that April 19th at Lexington Bridge and can distinctly recall the first shot fired for Liberty’s sake.

I must always go back to the speech that Sam Adams gave on August 1st 1776.  His words should be the ones that stand for the establishment of truth and fact in setting the stage for the American Revolution!  Who better than Adams, The Father of The American Revolution, to dissect, encourage, rebuke and remonstrate the purposes of the Independence for the new American States.

Please listen to what Adams had to say and you can also download the speech in pdf format as well.

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by | June 23, 2015 · 1:22 am

6-20-15 Program: The Shadows Of Tyranny Prt. 2

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This is a must continuation of Last Weeks program!  We take on the discussion again with the Anti-federalist perspective on how the Constitution of 1787 could lead to the usurpation, despotism and tyranny that we are living under in our present time.

We hear from Mercy Otis Warren in particular and learn that it is a lack of morality in governance that opens the flood gates for tyrants.

We are living in a tyranny that only a movement of God, as in the First Great Awakening, can change the tide towards slavery of the citizenry.

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by | · 1:12 am

6-13-15 Program: The Shadows Of Tyranny

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Moderns do not understand Tyranny!

In this program I not only give the definition but show how we are, without question, living under tyranny.

Tyranny: The use of arbitrary Power.

Governor Bradford in his history of Massachusetts, says : ” In these patriotic measures to resist the encroachment of arbitrary power, the citizens of Boston seem to have been the first. They instructed their Representatives in May, 1764.” the signal which first called for combined action against an act of tyranny,

John Lock – Sec. 199. AS usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to; so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no body can have a right to. And this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private separate advantage. When the governor, however intitled, makes not the law, but his will, the rule; and his commands and actions are not directed to the preservation of the properties of his people, but the satisfaction of his own ambition, revenge, covetousness, or any other irregular passion.

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by | · 12:56 am

6-6-15 Program: The EPA, Liberty Confused in Idolatry and Tyranny

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The EPA has become one of the top despotic and tyrannical bureaucracy in all that is in DC.  Those that are a part of this organization live in idolatry and hence are agents of tyranny!

Listen as I explain what this all means.

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by | May 23, 2015 · 12:49 am

5-23-15 Program: Memorial Day 2015

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All I would ask is that you listen to what I have to comment on to honor this day from its historical perspective.

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by | May 9, 2015 · 12:43 am

5-9-15 Program: Property To Liberty and the Magistrates Responsibility

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The resounding theme of Liberty has always had at its base the roots called property.  Property is extensible.  It is not just the house or land that you may own with the bank but more so is the exchange of money or barter for your labor and most importantly is your intellectual property.

Well the historical writers from ancient times, through the Reformation, Locke and then the Founders of this nation absolutely viewed the protection of Property the responsibility of Magistrates.

This program takes us through that accountability message.  I discuss how there is No Liberty with out the protection of Property and that even the city and county council members are responsible and accountable to God for the protection of an individuals property.

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