THE BIG INSANE ASSYLUM

I heard the late evangelist, Lester Roloff, make a statement that "Our Government is like an insane asylum run by the inmates." He is absolutely right.

This nation was founded as a Christian Nation. On at least two occasions the United States Supreme Court said that very thing —"This is a Christian Nation." Yet , our government has rejected Biblical principles on which real Christianity is based.

This Country was settled by people who left Europe and came to America to escape religious persecution. William Penn, a Quaker Christian, was arrested in England and brought to trial for preaching without the approval of the State Anglican Church. The jury practiced "Jury Nullification" and found him not guilty for the reason of an unjust law. The judge threw the jury in jail, and another judge released them.

One of those to whom the Founder Fathers looked was William Blackstone, whose volumes on British Common Law are found on the shelves of most reputable attorneys. Here are some quotes from Volume Two

We can read what Blackstone thought of "the crime against nature" on page 2422, paragraph 250, of Volume Two in the section by that name:

"Crime against nature -- What has been observed, especially with regard to the manner of proof, which ought to be the more clear in proportion as the crime is the more detestable, may be applied to another offense, of a still deeper malignity: the infamous crime against nature, committed either with man or beast. A crime which ought to be strictly and impartially proved, and then as strictly and impartially punished. But it is an offense of so dark a nature, so easily charged, and the negative so difficult to be proved, that the accusation should be clearly made out; for, if false, it deserves a punishment inferior only to that of the crime itself."

He goes on, "I will not act so disagreeable a part to my readers as well as myself as to dwell any longer upon a subject the mention of which is a disgrace to human nature. It will be more eligible to imitate in this respect the delicacy of our English law, which treats it, in its very indictments, as a crime not fit to be named among Christians. Where the crime is found, which it is unfit even to know, we command the law to arise armed with an avenging sword, that the infamous men who are or shall in the future be guilty of it, may undergo the most severe punishments."

"This the voice of nature and of reason, and the express law of God, determine to be capital. Of which we have a signal instance, long before the Jewish dispensation, by the destruction of two cities by fire from Heaven; so that this is an universal, not merely a provincial, precept." (Blackstone)

Our Constitution was based on the principles established by Blackstone and Samuel Rutherford’s Lex Rex. Rutherford preceded Blackstone and the two were mentioned several times in The Federalist Papers, which were lectures by the Founding Fathers in preparing the Constitution.

The title, Lex Rex, has a meaning that is important. The Latin word "Lex" means Law, and the Latin word "Rex" means King Under the British monarchy the King was the law. Rutherford pointed out in the title of his book that the Law is the King. He was sentenced to death for his rebellion against the British monarchy. The Law that Rutherford referred to was the Bible.

Romans 1: 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was meet.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

Yet there are efforts by gay activists to make it a crime for preachers to oppose sodomy from the pulpit. AUTHOR UNKNOWN

 

TORCH EDITOR: Anytime you preach on a persons sin they get upset or repent. You preach on gluttony the fat people get upset. You preach against booze and the boozers get upset. You preach on sodomy and the sodomites get upset. They know it is wrong or they would not get upset. – Evang. Don Edwards