The Wedding Feast (~19.49) - Moriel Ministries
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<strong>The</strong> Town Halls: This is a Spiritual Problem<br />
by Pastor Bill Randles<br />
<strong>The</strong> recent shockwaves of public frustration, coming out of town hall meetings<br />
across the nation, have stunned both the media and elected representatives<br />
from both parties. It has become increasingly obvious that they don’t know<br />
what’s going on. <strong>The</strong> real problem is more than mere politics, and goes much<br />
deeper than the healthcare issue. <strong>The</strong> real problem is spiritual.<br />
This is a conflict between the traditional American vision of personal responsibility,<br />
private property, productivity, individualism, and self-government, as<br />
opposed to the new vision -”change”- i.e.: collectivism, cradle to grave government<br />
“compassion”, equality of outcomes, leadership by an elite anointed class,<br />
and yes the “S” word - (Socialism).<br />
One could almost liken it to a clash of two revolutions, the American Revolution<br />
and its Judeo Christian ideals, and the failed promise of the Atheistic French<br />
Revolution, of ”liberty, equality, and brotherhood”.<br />
<strong>The</strong> frustration and rage of the once “silent majority”, (one eloquent protestor<br />
told Arlen Specter that he had “awakened a sleeping giant”), comes out of<br />
the realization by many that after more than forty years, due to the constant undermining<br />
of our institutions and the incremental implementation of Socialistic<br />
agenda, we are losing our merit based, productive, and responsibility oriented<br />
society. <strong>The</strong> vicious and disconnected reactions by our political and media elites,<br />
ranging from ignoring them outright, to impugning their motives and accusing<br />
them of being a phony grassroots movement - ”astroturfers” - underscores the<br />
suspicion of many, that not only do they “not get it”, but that they refuse to “get<br />
it “ in any way.<br />
<strong>The</strong> impasse is almost unbreachable, because this is the clash of two different<br />
worlds. How could the play by the rules, pay your own way, responsible and productive<br />
America, even begin to understand the world of the Alinsky community<br />
organizers, Acorn and other agitators, union bosses and pay to play politicians?<br />
This problem cannot be reduced to simplistics such as Republicans versus<br />
Democrats. In fact the Republican Party itself is largely silent, and perhaps as<br />
many of those expressing outrage are Democrats as well as Republicans or Independents.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Republican Party sold its soul to the leftist consensus long ago,<br />
and most conservatives know this.<br />
By saying it is a spiritual problem I am not saying that this is about Christians<br />
versus the lions. Of course not all who object to the collectivist coup of our nation<br />
are Christians. People of many faiths and even some of no faith are feeling the<br />
“sinking feeling” that we have been losing this country at an accelerating pace.<br />
But it is the Judeo Christian vision of our nation that is being usurped.<br />
It is spiritual on the level that those who drink deeply of the original vision<br />
of the Founders, of a self-governing nation, based upon personal responsibility,<br />
merit, respect for private property, and individualism are partaking of a Christian<br />
vision of life. Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things<br />
that are God’s. God is God, not government.<br />
Those who have mainlined on the vision of the left, of an all-sufficient government,<br />
cradle to grave care, collectivism, larger than life, personality cult leadership,<br />
equality of all outcomes, etc., whatever faith they may profess, are imbibing<br />
an Atheistic vision of “the good”. <strong>The</strong>re is no God, but Government. How can<br />
there be any reconciliation between the two?<br />
Ours is a torn nation, a house divided cannot stand. I conclude with this<br />
simple promise from the God of the Bible,<br />
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and bow<br />
down to Me, then will I hear from heaven and heal the land.” (2 Chronicles<br />
7:14)<br />
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