Pastor-teacher
Don Hargrove
Faith Bible
Church
Wednesday, Dec
16, 2009
http://fbcweb.org/Audio.html
Salvation
(Rm 5:1-10); SL (2 Jn
1:2-3), SM ( 2 Cor 10:4-5)
GOD’S COVENANTS – Part 28: The Mosaic Covenant, Part 20:
Suppression of Truth: National Reversionism & Big
Government
(Messiah & A.C. #274)
A. The sufficiency of
God’s Word & uniqueness of Bible doctrine, 2 Tim 3:16-18.
1. Only the Bible is the Word of God and only
through Bible doctrine do we have the whole counsel of God concerning all
things necessary for His own glory, man’s salvation, faith, and life.
2. Bible doctrine is the result of the
exegetical, logical and systematic connecting, arranging, and developing of the
axioms, propositions, and theorems of God’s infallible Word into a whole
system.
3. The doctrinal system proceeds by rigorous
deduction from one axiom to thousands of theorems; each of the theorems fits
into the whole system; each of the theorems, even though minor, is important.
4. The revelation of God is perfect, and it is
all profitable. Take one idea out and
the remainder is less than perfect and we suffer loss of truth.
5. Christianity/BD is a system of truth, a
person who accepts one of the theorems, must, on pain of contradiction, accept
the whole.
6. Christianity/BD is a whole view of things
thought out together. It engages
non-Christian philosophies on every field of intellectual endeavor.
7. Christianity/BD furnishes a coherent and
irrefragable theory of knowledge, an infallible salvation, a refutation of
preposterous views of autonomous man/kosmos, a
worldview, a coherent and practical system of ethics, and the principles
required for spiritual, temporal, political, and economic liberty.
8. Christianity/BD is far superior to all forms
autonomous human “knowledge” which is rife with the errors of empiricism,
rationalism, and intuition.
9. Only Bible doctrine relies exclusively on
deductive reasoning – all other systems depend upon the fallibility of the senses,
the fallacy of induction, and the fallaciousness of creating axioms (a priori)
arbitrarily out of thin air.
10. Bible doctrine provides us with absolute
truth as it connects the
the axioms of the Word of God along
with their good and necessary logical connections so as to provide a total worldview regarding
every issue of life before God, man, and the world, 2 Tim 3:16-18.
11. Crisis of our time: the Postmodern Christian
man’s lack of confidence in the sufficiency of the Bible coupled with his
realization of failures of all other forms of knowledge leads to despair
concerning ever discovering absolute Truth.
12. Rejection of Truth always results in ADOKIMOS
mind (Rom 1:28) and living under the deception of Satan himself, Eph 2:1-2.
13. When Christians reject God’s truth, they
actually become promoters of Satanic policies in the
world, cf. Jer 6:14; 8:11; Eze
13:10, 16; Galatians, RCC.
B. Reversionism.
1. Reversionism is a technical theological term used for the degeneracy that takes
place in a person’s soul by the suppression and rejection of God’s absolute
truth.
2. In reversionism the person becomes detached
from God’s Truth (i.e. meaning and purpose of life) and this sets up a chain
reaction: dissatisfaction, frantic search
for happiness/meaning, covetousness, idolatry, mammonism,
and illicit religious and sexual activity, Revelation
2:20.
3. The dominate characteristic of all
reversionism is the rejection of God’s Truth, especially Bible doctrine (Jn 8:44; Rom 1:18-25; 16:17; Galatians; 2 Tim 4:4; 2 Pt
2:22), and the exchange of that truth for the lie of kosmos
diabolicus.
4. Historically the corruption of reversionism
with its domination through the OSN and rejection of BD has manifested itself
in illicit religion and illicit sex thereby destroying the
blessedness of spirituality as well as God’s plan for sex as an expression of
love, unity, and intimacy (body, soul, and spirit) between a husband and his
wife.
5. The evil in reversionism is not which lie the
truth is exchanged for but the very exchange of truth for the lie itself, i.e.
it does not matter if the lie is immoral degeneracy or moral degeneracy, sin or
human good (cf. Galatians; Jn 8:44).
C.
National Reversionism and Big Government (BG).
1. Only the Bible is the WOG; and only Bible
doctrine gives us absolute truth regarding the purpose and place of government.
2. BG is both the result of, and punishment
for, reversionism, 1 Sam 8:8.
3. When people reject invisible God as their
king and BD as their authority, they will move into statolatry
as they exchange the protection and guidance of invisible God and BD for
visible human kings and powerful governments – which become their ersatz gods; 1 Sam 8:8; 10:19; 12:17-19;
Lk 22:24-26.
4. God warns us that BG always ends up taking,
taking…, 1Sam 8:1-18.
5. In reversionism the citizens clamor for a
“change” of government rather than eliminating the real problem: corrupt officials – they blame the system of
government itself (like capitalism) instead of the problem corrupt
cronyism.
6. God’s warns us that BG will lead to excessive
militarism and compulsory military and government service- instead of focusing
in on the protection of freedom and property of its citizens at home, cf Dt 20:5-8.
7. God warns us that BG will take your
children, 1 Sam 8:13.
8. God warns us that BG will take your
property, your capital, 8:14.
9. God warns us that BG will take your money to
give to its supporters, 8:15.
10. God warns us that BG will take your employees
& means of production, 16.
11. God warns us that BG will take you as its
servant, 17b.
12. When a nation moves into reversionism it
exchanges the truth of God’s plan for government where the rulers are to be
servants of the people to the pagan plan where the rulers exercise dominion
over the people, 1 Sam 8:19-22; Lk 22:24-26.
D.
Principles on the military and warfare.
1. Although government is not to make military
service compulsory (Dt
20:5-8), serving in the military is one of the greatest honors for any
person.
2. There is a time for war and a time for
peace, Ecc 3:8.
3. In
spite of man's efforts for peace, warfare will continue until the millennial
reign of Christ, Matt 24:6; Mk 13:7; Lk 21:9.
4. Strong defense deters aggression & helps
to preserve peace, Luk 11:21-22.
5. Refusing to fight for one’s country can be a
sin against God – a sin that has serious long lasting ramifications, Num 32:23.
6. The 6th commandment does not prohibit
killing in warfare.
7. War and military service are not
incompatible with the words and character of JC, Josh 5:13-6:2; Jn 2 Rev 19:11-16;
8. Many great believers were in military
service,
9. The best way to end a war is to win it
decisively,
10. Jesus Christ holds the record for killing the
most in warfare.
E.
Government: Biblical vss
anti-Christian economic policies.
1. Aristotle’s politics.
2. Mercantilism and Big Government.
3. Karl Marx’s “scientific” prediction of the
fall of capitalism.
4. Adam Smith, the father of economics.
5. Joseph Schumpeter and the self-destuction of capitalism.
6. Epistemological failure of empirical
economics.
7. Epistemological failure of rationalistic
economics (Austrian school).
8. Our modern (short term, homo) economic
policies of John Keyne’s.
9. The superiority of Biblical economics.
10. Laissez-faire capitalism is the economic
system that is most compatible with axioms of divine revelation set down in
God’s Word (Rom 13; 1 Pet 2:14-15).
11. It was the rise of Laissez-faire capitalism
through BD of the protestant work/life ethic that brought the world the most
fantastic temporal freedom.
12. The Bible clearly teaches the divine right
of private property and therefore supports capitalism, Ex 20:15, 17; Mt 20:15;
Acts 5.
13. In spite of the fantastic success of true
capitalism, attacks on capitalism (private property, the marketplace,
individual responsibility, individualism, private enterprise) continue at a fever
pitch.
14. Socialism is not only a reversionistic
economic policy, it is a logical impossibility.
15.
Only in true capitalism is there the recognition of the sacredness of
privacy, property, freedom, and life under the rule of law.
16.
Only in true capitalism is there a separation of business and the
state.
17. Capitalism and free enterprise is consistent
with the biblical view of man.
18. Capitalism and free enterprise works best in
a society which is influenced by the biblical ethic.