RESTORATION
However, politics or legal administrators can not cure a social disease such as sin. The church must lift up God's standards as a spokesman and witness for the Lord. Society must be reached by God's word and redeeming power. God is calling people everywhere to revere him and to walk in love, caring for one another. There is no substitute for God's word or his prophetic ministers (the church). Religion, politics, education and economic prosperity will only end in futility without the restoring power of God.
The United States claims to be a nation under God; therefore, it should seek instruction by God's commandments, for it is written: "Ye shall therefore keep my statutes, and my judgements, which if a man do, he shall live in them: I am the Lord" (Lv. 18:5). Of course, man can not be justified by works of the law, but rather only by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. However, the O.T. laws were not man-made cultural refinements; they are a genuine guideline. Thus, concerning the marriage law according to the Bible, it should be a national goal to preserve unity in marriage: "So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man" (Rom. 7:3). The only way a woman may marry more than one time is that she become a widow before the second marriage. I will discuss to some degree later what Biblically constitutes marriage; but for a more clear understanding, see my paper "Illusion."
Sadly though, the marital principle has not been adhered to by the public nor the government. I can remember years ago when Hollywood stars and people of power, such as military personnel (of course these were not the only ones), were permitted to divorce and remarry even though adultery was illegal and looked down upon generally by society. The Anglo Saxon people had a strong voice in the US at that time and had formerly made a great stand for life-long monogamy, especially in relative respect to false religion such as Islam; however, to mention one reason, due to the increase of sexual corruption of their own people and nation their honor decreased. A nation can't be ruled for any great length of time by a people who don't possess and promote self-rule. Jesus would have us to conduct harmless, undefiled lives and provide honestly for our families.
Even though our primary objectives should not be political, our manifest, spiritual weaknesses show up in politics and other governmental business. (In ancient days, Jesus himself was not excluded from those that received tribute (Mt. 17:24-27). Ironically, now minorities and immigrants avoid, if not evade, paying taxes and spend our tax money in this country. They even have better economic opportunities than the native heirs in some instances.) In retrospect from a political view, if the government would have sanctioned years ago government employment benefits such as job training for better skills, or an opportunity for a higher position to only those that complied with Biblical chastity laws, then there would have been an economic incentive for people to live clean lives. This would have diminished the opportunity of the wicked to have wealth and power and it also would have put pressure on politicians to remember to honor sexual morality. Since the government, having been influenced formerly to a great extent by Christianity but not completely overcoming the error of Herod the king, became lax and did not encourage and promote sexual morality nor did it clamp down on the breaking of moral law, the opportunity for Godliness to spread throughout the country was less restrained. (Now our future lies in how well we govern our own lives in an immoral, apostate and violent, internationally bonded economic nation.)
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