The first thing to make note of is that we have not been talking about the problem but the symptoms. You could fill several books with the reasons why and how and who is responsible for every step toward this crisis over the last century or more. The problem we face is not sudden nor singular in nature but it is the result of a chain of abuses and a history of neglect. Pointing fingers at perceived culprits is not only useless but fruitless unless we are pointing those fingers at ourselves.

Yes, the problem is us. That is good news because we can do something about us a lot easier than doing something about all the other foolish people we have been keeping company with or depending on over the last century. It is not like being ugly or something. If you were ugly you would probably wake up tomorrow and still be ugly. Being foolish, on the other hand, you can do something about. With a little work you could wake up wise, if you are willing to wake up at all.

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The first thing to do is stop blaming God for the governments you establish. The people create governments and give them power through their own actions and negligence, covenants and applications. We must stop turning our responsibilities over to others. If we want our rights back and control over our own lives then we must take back our responsibilities on all levels as individuals, as families and in our communities.

“As long as we look to government to solve our problems we will always suffer tyranny.”[3]

Man needs government. But the kind of man you are will determine the kind of government you get. The slothful shall be under tribute.[4] The covetous shall be made merchandise.[5] The proud shall lose their liberty to men who promises them freedom from their responsibilities to one another.[6]

William Penn said “Those who will not be governed by God will be ruled by Tyrants.”

Sloth brings negligence and burdensome tribute, apathy brings injustice and mercy fails, complacency brings indifference and corruption prevails, dependence brings addiction and bondage reigns, and repose brings decay and a prophesied destruction.

The second thing to do is stand up and start gathering together in networks of freedom minded doers. Start coming together with those who care about their neighbor as much as themselves. Stop waiting for someone else to do what you need to do for yourself. Start becoming a part of the solution. We will be touring thirty States from March through May giving seminars and lectures on what the early Church did when they faced the same problems we see today.[7]

There are some don'ts. Don't imagine that suddenly the majority of people are going to start doing the right thing or that democracy works.[8] Don't ever think they will build it so you can come. Building it is just the beginning of taking that responsibility back. You build it with anyone else who will work building it too.

You are looking for humble, hardworking, brave, selfless people full of virtue. People who are patient, not brawlers, not covetous, wise as serpents, and harmless as doves, the forgiving and the giving. You need to actually seek out those people. Yes! I know they may be a little hard to find these days, but that is what makes them such a treasure. Instead of coveting their neighbor's goods through the power of those men who call themselves benefactors, which most people of the world like to elect, they choose to be wittingly, willingly, and wisely charitable with one another.

What does that charity look like? In Christ's “woe” to the Pharisees speech he faulted those hypocrites because as a society they failed to diligently attend to “the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith.”[9] They had established a system of social welfare[10] for the needy of their society, but that was not charity. They had an extensive system of courts to guarantee that everyone paid their share, but that was not charity. They elected a congress in the form of a Sanhedrin to pass laws and regulate what was contributed and how it was distributed but those were the men who called themselves benefactors but exercised authority which we were told not to depend upon which is certainly not charity either. Their government was a contradiction to what Moses and Christ taught.[11] They had become covetous and coercive.[12]

Those people had rejected God though they professed him with their mouth. They had accepted the new deal offered by Herod.[13] They had a new father upon the earth to apply to for benefits.[14] By their own desire to force their neighbor to contribute to their welfare they were snared[15] by the promises of men who were not true benefactors.[16]

God allows the wicked[17] to elect the means of their own punishment, warning them exactly what that punishment would look like[18] and what to expect from Him.[19] Systems of guarantees and entitlements weaken the people and any society[20] snared in a covetous relationship which shall be fatal.

If we realize that the words solution and salvation, application and prayer, contracts, covenants, allegiance and faith are synonyms and that the Bible is mostly about good and bad governments, including Jesus' preaching a kingdom at hand and taking it from one group and appointing it to another and then giving instruction on what not to do in its operation and service, a new understanding of the Gospel of the Kingdom becomes a possibility. Considering the political, financial, social, and the moral crises accompanying the decline and fall of Rome everyone who has eyes to see and ears to hear might be figuring out what the problem is. If we would consider the activities and virtue that governed that early Church we could see the wisdom of that solution offered by Christ.

Americans and much of the world have fundamentally taken a wrong turn a long time ago and have been compounding that error over the last century. They have progressed into a giant world economy with the contracting of nations and the centralization of power at the expense of individual liberty. Making the identical mistakes of Imperial Rome will undoubtedly produce the same results on a much larger scale. The American proverb, “The bigger they are the harder they fall” simply describes a crises equation of staggering proportions.

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It is passed time to repent and change our ways individually and together. First we must see our folly and then turn around and do what it takes to go in the other direction. As we already stated we must take our responsibilities back individually and in local communities, if we can handle the light.

“For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.” John 3:20,21

Footnotes:

1. Gloom, Doom and Democracy
2. Jon Birger, senior writer Fortune. Greater New York City
3. Laws and Loves
4. Proverbs 12:24 “The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.”
5. 2 Peter 2:3 “And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you: whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their damnation slumbereth not.”
6. 2 Peter 2:18 “For when they speak great swelling [words] of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, [through much] wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.”
7. Join the Living Network in your area and meet up with Locals already preparing. HHC 2001 Whirlwind main tour schedule. There will be many more local meetings between major stops, Join Living Network. Rough Google map.
8. The Higher Liberty
9. Matthew 23:23 “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye... have omitted the weightier [matters] of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.”
10. The Sin of Corban
11. John 5:46 “For had ye believed Moses, ye would have believed me: for he wrote of me.”
12. The Coercive Church
13. The Kingdom and Baptism
14. Call no man Father
15. Ex 20:17, 23:32, 34:12..;De 5:6-7; 26:6; Jud 10:14; 1 Sa 8:18; Pr 1:10, 23:1..; Ps 69:22; Job 18:10; 24:17; Ez 11:1-11 Jer 5:26; 11:12; Micah 3:1-5; Ro 11:9; 13:9, Mr 7:22, Mt 5:34, Ja 5:12; Gal 2:4; 4:1-9; 5:1; 5:15, 2 Peter 2:19-20
16. The Polity Explained
17. Job 31:1... 12...Isaiah 13:11, Romans 13:3
18. 1 Samuel 8:10, 17 “... This will be the manner of the ruler that shall reign over you: He will take your sons... make his instruments of war... take your daughters ... take your fields, ... will take ... And he will take ... He will take ... and ye shall be his servants.”
19. 1 Samuel 8:18 “And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day.”
Judges 10:14 “Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.”
Jeremiah 11:12 “... cry unto the gods ... but they shall not save them at all in the time of their trouble.”
20. Ezekiel 16:49 “Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.”
21. Rome vs. U.S.

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