By David Alan Black
- If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If the public press lacks moral discernment, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If the world loses its interest in Christianity, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it.
If our politics become so corrupt
- that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away,
- the pulpit is responsible for it. ~ Rev. Charles Finney
Why does it seem that Americans are the only people on earth who are blind to the truth and ignorant of their history? Wherever you look, we can see the vision of freedom that once deluged our shores being swept away. We have to wonder how much longer our American Republic can survive.
Our government has become a great candy machine spewing out an endless stream of treats to lucky people, and we have to pay the bill for it! I’m talking about trillions of our hard-earned wages every single year, and the government’s appetite just keeps growing and growing, getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
What we need in this nation of ours is a political revolution, just like the one we had in 1776. Above all, I believe we need pastors and other Christian leaders who are willing to stand up to our current batch of spoiled secular bureaucrats, pastors who read and understand such great patriots as Noah Webster, who in his History of the United States wrote:
- Almost all the civil liberty now enjoyed in the world owes its origin to the principles of the Christian religion….
The religion which has introduced civil liberty is the religion of Christ and His apostles,
which enjoins humility, piety, and benevolence;
which acknowledges in every person a brother or sister and a citizen with equal rights.
This is genuine Christianity,
and to this we owe our free constitution of government.
We need pastors who reject the lie
- that our national ideals stem from the influence of the French Enlightenment
rather than from the Bible and Christianity,
- “To the Pulpit, the Puritan Pulpit, we owe the moral force which won our independence.”
- from the biblical concept
- that all men are created in the image of God,
and because of this all men are entitled to equal treatment and unalienable rights.
In short, we need pastors who are willing to join today’s “Black Regiment.”
The Black Regiment was a group of clergy who were fierce opponents of British tyranny
and a driving force in the decision of the colonies to seek independence.
King George had provoked many of these men to leave England by demanding that they submit to licensing by the crown. He called them the Black Regiment because of the black robes they wore when preaching.
These men of God staunchly opposed the divine right of kings.
Their cry was,
- “Restore the crown rights of King Jesus!”
When George Washington asked Lutheran pastor John Muhlenberg to raise a regiment of volunteers, Muhlenberg gladly agreed.
Before marching off to join Washington’s army, he delivered a powerful sermon from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 that concluded with these words:
- The Bible tells us there is a time for all things
and there is a time to preach and a time to pray
- but the time for me to preach has passed away,
- and there is a time to fight,
- and that time has come now.
- Now is the time to fight!
- Call for recruits! Sound the drums!
Then Muhlenberg took off his clerical robe to reveal the uniform of a Virginia Colonel.
Grabbing his musket from behind the pulpit, he donned his Colonel’s hat and marched off to war.
Pastor friend, will you join this patriotic host?
Are you willing to say,
- “I will fight for the truth.
I will be beholden to no one (whether a Democrat, Republican, or Other) except Jesus.
I will stand up to the despots
- who are seeking to enslave us all
by sending our children to their deaths as they build their New World Order
and as they tax us into poverty.
And I will do this for the glory of God and the advancement of Christian liberty.”
but your treasure in heaven will more than amply repay.
May God give you the courage to join today!
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee,
- the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee,
- whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee,
and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day,
- thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;
and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee.
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven,
- from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee,
and from thence will he fetch thee:
- and thou shalt possess it;
and He will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
- to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul,
- that thou mayest live.
- and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.
- and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
- in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body,
and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land,
- for good:
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God,
- to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law,
and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
- it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off.
It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say,
- Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
- Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?
- in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
- life and good,
and death and evil;
- to love the LORD thy God,
- to walk in his ways,
- and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments,
- that thou mayest live and multiply:
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear,
- but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
- and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land,
- whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
- that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing:
- therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
- That thou mayest love the LORD thy God,
and that thou mayest obey his voice,
and that thou mayest cleave unto him:
- for he is thy life, and the length of thy days:
- that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
- to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.
