Consequences of decay of Law and Order:
-Rule of Law: all people need some order police part of maintaining civility and order in our culture
lawlessness:
-rejection of truth
-weakens our way of life and society part of Marxist design to create chaos
-out of chaos comes a new order
-new reality = removes God
-role of government = public safety
-sickness in the soul of America
-sin is a universal plague by removing restraints
-Satan: murderer from the beginning takes God’s light obscures it and brings death
-thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy
Progressives:
-prisons just full with no way to reform people, so no point in having prisons, don’t change path of person
-foundations are chipped away for ungodly heritage
-manipulation and deception at its core
-man's basic nature: belief that man is perfect
-incentives crime/people are less safe
-turn from God
-nor mor religion
-religious liberties all removed
-no more religion = intolerance
-religion looked upon as evil not to be tolerated but removed
-worship of idol of self = trans agenda
-remove prophet works of the church
-punish Christians dare to speak God’s word
-teaches children they are merely chemical reactions wrapped in skin = logical conclusion = If we are random evolutionary accidents then our actions carry no moral right
-human lives have no inherent value
Conservatives:
-man is broken, God’s law keep us in check,
Romans 13: Government should protect us from evil, law & order best understood with right understanding of mankind
-man’s basic nature: belief that man is flawed
Deeper meaning of the 10 commandments
-obey commandment like do not steal keeps public safe
-Jesus came to set son free-free indeed
-Christ delivered from the bondage of sin
-Cross broke the chains from sin-shackles are broken
-Cross removed guilt & shame and power over sin
-source of freedom: God looks at the heart enslaved in sin and frees it from bondage
source of liberty:
-only from God = Jesus
-Frees the soul
-urges civil and political freedom
-gospel of Christ = grace
George Washington quote: religion and morality twin pillars on which government rest let not that man claimed title of patriot who labors undermine those pillars
-if our religious freedoms disappear all other freedoms disappear all other freedoms follow
-Bible made us all and loves all
-inherent worth and value
-Jesus came to have life abundantly
-cannot cure America’s illness of the soul through legislation or virtue signaling or pushing memes online
-Jesus Christ = infinite value of our lives as he died on the cross who gives us meaning, purpose, his outpouring of spirit can heal us
