Darold Edwards

GOD’S CONSTITUTION

KJV

What is a “constitution”? Given the consideration of the construction, management, operation, and development of a nation, or any element of man’s involvement and endeavors within that nation; you would no doubt get many and varied opinions on this question. To help clarify this we will enlist the assistance of a Webster’s Dictionary in our search for a viable definition. Roget’s University Thesaurus will also contribute much in this search for knowledge and understanding, if you are so inclined; the multitudes are not. [Hosea 4: 6-7], “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law “Word” of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame”.

Taken from “Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary” one attempted explanation of a definition is: “the fundamental principles of a nation, state, or body politic that determine the powers and duties of the government and guarantee certain rights to the people and that together constitute the organic law of the land: a written instrument embodying such rules”. A basic knowledge and understanding about what constitutes the “organic law of the land” may help with this. Here again many opinions will undoubtedly be forthcoming. All of this is, however, immaterial if the ruling entities do not operate under and according to the intention of the fundamental principles given and the source that provided these principles. That “source” being understood and accepted as the God of the Holy Bible, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of Israel; not some fictitious entity drummed up in the feeble, wayward, mind of man.

Our “founding fathers”, regardless of their frailties and failings as human beings, went to great lengths and through much hardship to establish a viable and workable constitution based on these fundamental, God given, Biblical principles for the well being, development, strength, and prosperity of America. Knowing that the infallibility of these unchanging principles, being of Godly origin and construction, could be depended on to provide the direction, counsel, and stability essential for a successful enterprise such as the establishment of a nation and every smaller enterprise within it, contributing to its whole, they set themselves to establish a “constitution”. The particulars and problems they faced and experienced along with the contributing factors of their success in the “building of this house”, America [Psalms 127:1], can be found and studied in David Barton’s books published through the Wallbuilders Press of Aledo, Texas. I must commend David Barton in his research in the formation of these most interesting books, research that we can now benefit from and enjoy. Unfortunately, our constitution has been, by man’s deviousness, twisted out of shape, misused, abused, and misinterpreted in the last 80-90 years, and we have not had the leadership with the wherewithal capable of preventing it, or correcting it.   

Two of those books than I presently have read, studied, and keep handy for additional reference and study are: The Myth of Separation and a later edition; Original Intent. There are no doubt others, but these two will give much enlightenment to the students of the structure, troubles, tribulations, and trials experienced in the forming and establishing of our nation, its guiding constitution and, in later years the devious attempts, with some success, of the wretches that have twisted this constitution out of its original form for their own purposes. This has resulted in forces exterior and contrary to America and her foundational beliefs to enter in and become entrenched in our nation with concepts and ideologies that are damaging to our American structure. They have misused and abused our constitution in its original purpose and intent for national guidance, prosperity, protection, and overall wellbeing. An accounting of this political deceitfulness and treachery is also found within David Barton’s books. They have, once again with some success by considerable insidiousness, nearly destroyed our nation’s foundation, and attempted to thwart the Biblical spiritual guidance and deliverance from man’s sin and abomination that God provided us through Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord.

Thus they have caused much confusion in our nation and brought about its demise, and have caused the replacing of her glory with shame and disgrace; this all being contributed to heavily through the “separation of church and state” idiocy which has led to the separation of God and people through “political correctness” by governmental decree. We did not need their help in the degrading of America as we seem to be quite successful in this area on our own. Once again for emphasis sake; [Hosea 4: 6-7], “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law “Word” of thy God, I will also forget thy children. As they were increased, so they sinned against me: therefore will I change their glory into shame”.

So here we are today in 2010, now today, 03/31/11, faced with three constitutions; one our founding fathers have provided with considerable providential guidance and assistance, and another, somewhat mangled and twisted out of shape, misused, and abused by others of another generation who arose after our founding fathers passing: generations of those who knew not the Lord, nor yet the works that he had done for America; those who are spoken of in [Judges 2:10]. They rejected God’s Constitution, the first and greatest of the three, his word, his own set of rules and regulations for the construction and nurturing of his creation, including the man creature he placed within it to carry out his instructions for such care and maintenance. History indeed, repeats itself. Subversive elements have been at work every since Adam abdicated his God given authority to Satan in the Garden of Eden, Genesis 2:1-20, and many of these elements of “our own countrymen” [2 Corinthians 11:26; 1Thessaloinians 2:14] are still at work.

Adam got the ball of rebellion and disobedience going, and his descendents have kept it rolling every since, and with increasing intensity I might add. [Genesis 6: 5], “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually”. William Shakespeare’s historical comment of “What fools ye mortal be” seems to be more realistic and accurate as time goes by with a continuation of [Hosea 4:6-7], becoming more apparent each day throughout the world; America included. We see graphic results of this continuing abomination spelled out for us in several verses in [Isaiah 5]. There are many others throughout God’s word that also give us accountings of mans dilemmas and chaos resulting from his stupidity of rebellion and disobedience against our God. [Deuteronomy 10: 12-13], ”And now, Israel, America, your name, what doth the Lord thy God require of thee, but to fear [reverence] the Lord thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul, To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which he has commanded us this day for our good”. Isn’t it amazing, man isn’t even able to come up with enough intelligence and common sense to realize that adopting, embracing, and living according to God’s provision of goodness, righteousness, holiness, etc, would enrich and reward his life beyond his greatest imagination, [Colossians 3: 2], “Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth”.

Certain provisions within our constitution have been perverted and cleverly used by devious minds to enslave America within her own borders, and we do not seem to have the leadership with sufficient intelligence and courage to put an end to such infringements on our national sovereignty and security. The basic religion of Christianity with its God given principles, on which our nation was formed and based, is now under threat of anti-God elements within from contrary religions that have “constitutionally” been given precedence through “political correctness” over Christianity by the insidious governmental impositions of tolerance and diversity based on the fallacy of  “the separation of church and state”. This was only intended to keep the government from allowing or appointing any one denomination within the framework of the Christian religion preference over another.

It is amazing how many Christians have been conned into accepting this abomination. God’s constitution has been, cast away, [Isaiah 5:24; and our blossom, our children are paying a hellacious price for our stupidity.  And America’s constitution has been twisted and mangled by our inept national leadership to force sinful abominations and transgressions on our nation that God’s constitution, his word, absolutely forbids. A pretty thorough list of these things is found in [Romans 1:8-32]. The majority of these things are now considered constitutionally “legal” under additionally imposed “freedom of expression, or rights” by whoever wishes to express them. God, however, gives us his attitude about these things and their wages in verse 32 concerning his judgment on “such things”.

God’s constitution is set in place for now and all eternity: live by it or die by it, the choice is yours; live by obedience to it or die by disobedience to it; the choice is still yours. God’s constitution, his word is immutable and unchangeable; [Matthew 24: 35; Mark 13: 31; Luke 21: 33], “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words, [my constitution, my established principles of righteousness, decency and order], shall not pass away”. Man may curse it, reject it, attempt to cast it away, rebel and disobey it, or whatever his evil mind conjures up against it: it remains the inviolable constitution of the ages throughout eternity. Man’s devised and formed constitutions of the nations, even America’s, pale in comparison to it, and man, with his claimed intelligence, still refuses to recognize its eternal value. [Deuteronomy 30: 19-20], “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, [by my constitutional directives, counsel, and word] 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”. He is; your eternity.

 Any way you consider it, whether in obedience, or in rebellion and disobedience, you are going to be affected by God’s agenda for his creation; this world’s people are going to be judged by their attitude toward it, whether it be an attitude of love and acceptance, or an attitude of hatred, contempt, and rejection. [Isaiah 5: 13-16], “Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are dried up with thirst. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it. And the mean man shall be brought down, and the mighty man shall be humbled, and the eyes of the lofty shall be humbled: BUT the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness”.

[Isaiah 5: 20-21], “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter! Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight”!

[Isaiah 5: 24], “Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel”.

God’s constitution directs and makes provision for the most important of all mans endeavors. These are explicit in the N. T. gospel through Jesus Christ as Saviour and Lord, all having to do with the reconciliation of man back into a pre-sin relationship with God, being therefore justified by faith in Jesus Christ as redeemer and Lord; he who sacrificed his own life so we could live eternally.

Man’s constitution only vaguely alludes to this and has been twisted around to outright reject such provision and makes the teaching of it unconstitutional, politically incorrect, and in some cases downright illegal by law, rules, regulations etc, passed and imposed with that very intent by devious men in leadership positions wielding a “pseudo authority”. It is supported by other anti-God, anti-Bible elements within our American society, “men of mine own countrymen”, who by their actions and [false] ways have become anti-American, set for the subversive destruction of our home-land. It is amazing how this has happened under the watchful eye of our “leaders”, who many of themselves are a part of this skullduggery. Somehow, this has a direct connection to “to the blind leading the blind” both with blind eyes. These are spoken of in [Ephesians 4:14] who lead and voice false winds of doctrine, causing massive confusion and chaos among the people by their cunning craftiness and deceiving the  nation with such things as “imposed political correctness”, corrupted constitutionality, and wrongfully imposed and protected rights to carry out such abominations. Thus has America been led astray from that which God intended for her, a nation of honor, integrity, and righteousness. And the message of repentance of sin; salvation of the lost, and redemption through the shed blood of Jesus; has been lost in the dust of neglect and worldly distractions.

God is constantly telling us that: His counsel, his word, his constitution of life liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is the only one available to us that will condition the heart, mind, and soul unto attainment, and is always within our reach, just a choice and prayer away; [Matthew 24: 35; Mark 13: 31; Luke 21: 33], “Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away”.

 [John 3: 16], “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life”.

[2 Corinthians 3:17], “Now the Lord is that Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty”, and it all starts with [Mark 1:15; John 3:5-7].