Pastor-teacher Don Hargrove
Faith Bible Church
Wed., Nov 11, 2009
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Salvation (1 Cor 7:23; Rom 8:30); SL (Jn
8:31;14:23; 1 Jn 1:5-6), spiritual growth (Col
1:9-13; Pro 1; Rv 3:21-22)
GOD’S COVENANTS – Part 21: The Mosaic Covenant, Part 13:
Divine Establishment, Freedom,
and Government Health Care
(Messiah & A.C. #267)
A. Laws of Divine Establishment
(DE).
1. God has ordained certain laws for the
survival of the human race.
2. The laws of DE are designed for believer and
unbeliever.
3. These laws directly affect freedom,
civilization, authority, evangelism, spiritual growth, and perpetuation of the
human race.
4. The laws of divine establishment define
freedom in terms of privacy, property and authority.
5. Therefore, the five divine institutions,
volition, marriage, family, limited government, and nationalism are the basis for the laws of divine establishment.
6. God provided the laws of DE to
protect and bless both individuals and nations, Dt
28:1-13; Prov 14:34.
7. The issue for the people of a nation who are
suffering on the cycles of divine discipline is always to return to the Lord by
returning to His those universal truths of DE, Rom 2:14-15; Lev 26:14, 18, 21,
23, 27.
B. The Five Cycles of Divine
Discipline, Lev 26.
C. Each believer has a ministry of
salt (preservation) in his nation, Mt 5:13.
D. Divine Institution #1 –
Volition, Freedom!
1. There is no freedom apart from Truth, Lev 18;
Jn 8:32; Rev 12:9; Jn 8:44.
2. Assault on Truth and modern man’s
presuppositional framework.
3. Assault of Truth & psychological determinism
(Freud).
4. Assault on Truth & sociological
determinism (B.F. Skinner).
5. Assault on Truth & genetic determinism
(Francis Crick).
6. Assault on Truth & economic determinism
(Karl Marx).
7. Assault on Truth & the media.
8. As a society rejects Truth, freedom is
lost.
9. Rejection of Truth results in the rejection
of the rule of law.
10. Fascism, Socialism, and communism illustrate
how societies reject truth and substitute rex
lex for lex rex, and become lawless.
11.
America is somewhere between capitalism
and socialism.
12. Freedom, not security, is the greatest human
gift.
E. Freedom, Government, and the
health care.
1. The function of government is to punish the
criminals, Rom
13:1-7; 1 Pet 2:14-15; Gen 9:6.
2. Health care is not a government function, cf.
Lk 10:25-37.
3. What has made America great and attract tens
of millions is freedom.
4. Individual liberty depends upon a foundation
of other values.
5. Every modern dictator has been an advocate of
national health care.
6. Government planning is incompatible with
individual liberty.
7. In a country where the sole physician is the
State, opposition means death.
8. In government health care, physicians end up
becoming employees of state.
9. Government health care system is
immoral.
10. Government health care systems end up
collapsing individual conscience.
11. Intended and unintended consequences of
government health care.
12. Government health care has always deteriorated
health care.
F. Divine institution #2 Marriage.
1. Marriage is a divine institution, Gen
1:26-27; Mat 19:5; 1 Cor 7:2-4; Heb 13:4.
2. The husband and wife relationship was
designed by God to be a unit.
3. Marriage is to be held in the highest honor,
1 Cor 7:1-4; Heb 13:4.
4. Marriage is the basis for stability in
society.
5. The greatest issue for the husband is
spiritual love, Eph 5.
6. The greatest issue for the wife is
submission, 1 Pet 3:1ff; Eph 5:22.
G. Divine Establishment #3: Family.
1. Family is the place for personal
provisions, Mt 7:9-11; 1 Tim 5:8.
2. Family provides leadership, 1 Cor 11:3; Eph 5:23; Ex 20:12; Col 3:20.
3. The divine institution of family provides
guidance and instruction (Eph 6:4; Prov 4:1-2, 10-11;
Dt 6:5-7; 11:18-21).
4. The divine institution of family provides
for personal security.
H. Divine Institution #4: Limited Government, (Gen 9:6; Rom 13:1-5; 1
Pet 2:14-15; 1 Tim 2:2)
I. Divine Institution #5: Nationalism, Gen 10:5; Dt 32:8; Acts 17:26-28.
J. Consequences of rejection God’s
Truth on any level (DE or spiritual): Reversionism.
1. The single greatest issue in man’s life is truth, 1 Tim 2:4-7; Eph
4:12-16; 2 Thess 2:10; Jn
3:18-21; 14:6; 17:17; 18:37; Heb 11:6.
2. Only in truth can man find meaning, success
and happiness, 3 Jn 1:2-4.
3. Reversionism at its core is always about
rejection of Truth.
4. National reversionism is about society
rejecting of truths of DE.
5. Unbeliever reversionism is about the
rejection of truths of natural law.
6. Believer’s reversionism is all about relativizing God’s truth
7. Anytime truth is rejected it is exchanged with
some lie, Rom 1:25.
8. Characteristics of Christian
“reversionism.”
K. Lawlessness and rejection of
Truth in the last days of the Church Age, 2 Thess
2:3, 7.
1. Lawlessness, 2 Thess
2:3, 7.
2. Religious ascetic reversionism, 1 Tim 4:1-3.
3. Rejection of the Person and Work of Jesus
Christ, 2 Pet 2:1-3