The Baldwin-ites Are coming!

Or Are They Going?

It has always amazed us that it is alright to bash, fault, and criticize our President and the war, but Chuck Baldwin, politician / prea- cher remains sacrosanct, and you are not supposed to criticize him, because he is a religious politician like Jesse Jackson.

In his article, "The Religious Right Has Fled the Battlefield!" (June 9, 2006), Chuck Baldwin laments his view that the religious right has fled the battlefield. This is a defeatist attitude that does not realize that SIN is a reproach to ANY people. SIN and its resulting problems must be dealt with per the scriptures in a scriptural way apart from politics.

The Warfare

. . . the war was of God. And they dwelt in their steads until the captivity. -- 1 Chr. 5:22

Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand? -- Luke 14:31

Yes, there are those who fancy themselves to be defenders of the constitution, the constitution which demands the protection of our people from its internal and EXTERNAL ENEMIES.  The next time they read the constitution, they should play and sing the Star Spangled Banner to put them in the right mood. 

Where is the Baldwin's so called "battle field?" In the political realm or the spiritual realm? In regard to the spiritual warfare, in which we are supposed to be engaged, the Baldwin-ites want to substitute political warfare for spiritual warfare. Spiritual warfare is not fleshly politics.

If you are busying yourself in seeking out the biblical remedies and solutions, you have not fled the battlefield; you are up to your neck in spiritual warfare, wielding the sword of the Spirit. Christianity survived and prevailed against the corrupt Roman Empire without the Christians ever getting involved with politics. Politics and its carnal weapons are a negative energy drains for the Christian.

All our efforts should be concentrated in our own local churches in our own communities. Perhaps, the Religious/Political Right has fled, but real biblically conservative Christians, who are on the winning team, have not fled. If the battle is to be won today, it will be won spiritually not politically.

In searching the scriptures, we find no political solutions to the problems facing the early Christians or us.  We find prayer, preaching against sin, leading separated lives, witnessing and preaching the Gospel, and seeking Christian revival to be the only remedies and solutions for such problems.   Christian! Preacher! If you are seeking out political remedies, you will be sadly disappointed.

Why were there no politics in the early Christian system, and why no biblical injunctions in this area in the way the Baldwin-ites want? Why do we not find Jesus, Paul, and the early Christians preoccupied with politics? Where is the biblical injunction for a preacher to be a Baldwin-ite and hopping on his band wagon?

Politics will always be what it is – politics. Christianity will always be what it is – Christianity and never the twain should meet, whether as a state church or a religio/politico party. The American problem is a spiritual problem and must be dealt with spiritually.  Even John the Baptist did not go out and get himself a political party. He stood by himself and pointed his boney finger at Herod and preached against his sin by himself without a good campaign or political money.

Baldwin And The

Constitutional Party

Aside from sealing the Mexican border, the one thing missing in Preacher, turned politician, Chuck Baldwin, and his  objections, points, and rhetoric is to provide us with a solution to the problem of protecting the American people, the FIRST job of government.

Our churches have enough NAY-SAYERS that have nothing constructive to say or suggest. We can only surmise that if Baldwin succeeded in his political aspirations, that he would not protect us any better than we have been protected and probably a whole lot worse.

I think he needs to put up or shut up and present us his protection plan, which seems to be no different from the DNC's plan. It seems like there is not a dime's worth of difference between them. Must we choose the lesser of two evils?  

The only real unifying factor in the Constitutional Party  that we have seen is Bush and Republican Bashing and pointing out the stupid RINO factions (Republicans In Name Only), some, of course, which is to be deserved.  However, the Dems seem to get a pass from Hollywood, from the News Media, from the Liberals, and from the Constitutional party, proportionately.

Did Hollywood and Chuck Baldwin ever think of bashing the news media and its influence over the government of the people by the people and for the people? Of course not! The news media and the anti-war weenies are all on Hollywood, the Dems, and Baldwin's side against Bush, making it even tougher for Bush to do anything right or get anything done. 

Just ask the military about Bush and the war to see where your position should lie. If the American people hold the present Administration's feet to the fire as they did on the ports issue and as they are doing on the immigration issue, they may be able to force some things out of it. You know, like trying representative government because of outcries from the people. If not, enter the Democrats and Hillary. 

Liberal Ecumenical

Activist Fellowship (LEAF)

Many Baptist, activist, and anti-government groups have had more than their share of  historical associations with Mormons, Identity, extremist Calvinists, anti-Semites, Covenant churches, Recons, Seditionists, Militia groups, Postmillennialists, Reformed Prea- chers, Lose Your Salvationists, Charismatics, Fred Phelps —Railer Wackos, Catholic (now) Randal Terry, and now Faust Heretics/heresies.

Much of this ecumenical activism began with  Falwell's  moral majority. The excuse that we have been given for all this inclusive hodgepodge is that not enough straight laced, Independent Baptists are interested in the activists’  one issue crusades, probably since many Independent Baptists are doing what they were commissioned to do. Common cause with the devil is the Baptist death knell.

The former moral majority's political efforts were a failure in the long run, and that movement had political numbers that far exceeded the Baldwin-ites and Peroutka-kites and their Mormon and Reformed Conservative coalition.  Still, the activity made us feel real good and pacified us. I reject the LEAF movement; con- sidering its lack of fruit due to its inherent darkness.

A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject . . -- Titus 3:10 

To be sure the unsaved, unequal yoke is a no-no. But what about saved heretics, cultists, apostates, and the doctrinally challenged?  You will note that the passage not only excludes fellowship between the righteous and the unrighteous but also between "RIGHTEOUSNESS" and "UNRIGHTEOUSNESS!" It also ex- cludes light communing with darkness.

Lately, the brethren have been sporting some mighty large hoops, when it comes to interactive, ecumenical cooperation, although the biblical boundaries have not changed from the faith that was once delivered to the saints.  In regard to any kind of ecumenism, we are to both mark and reprove them and to reject them, however good their cause may be. Can two walk together except they be agreed? Do you serve Christ and His Book or a one issue cause?

What we have here are religious politicians that have traded their biblical convictions for a sort of political agenda pottage. They also have traded their local church sphere of operation and sovereignty for extra scriptural, all inclusive activism with no definitive boundaries in sight.

This is why Christians would do well not to be even Republicans, Democrats, a Libertarians, or Constitutional or Green Party-ites. They ought to be Independent voters, who are not yoked with anything besides their own churches, including affiliations with the Masons and all the animal clubs. Be activists from and through your local churches! Fellowship with likeminded Christians and churches! 

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. -- Romans 13:1

As Independent voters and Baptists, until Jesus comes, Peroutka, we will continue doing the best we can against liberalism by voting for the most conservative people that we can find among the major parties. Still, in local elections, if there are credible third party candidates, who stand a ghost of a chance of putting up some decent numbers, we will vote for them.