Health Care Reform and
America’s Foundation
February 2010
Greetings and welcome to this February edition of The Truth for America. In
the last edition when I dealt with this topic the House and Senate had both
passed their version of Health Care or Health Insurance Reform. It appeared
to the natural eye at that time that passage into law was a real
possibility. I discussed the role of government in the delivery of health
care and the right of citizens to health care from a Biblical prospective.
The conclusion was that the government from a Biblical prospective has no
role in the administration or delivery of health care. From the Biblical
prospective I evaluated the right to health care guaranteed by the
government and the Bible issues no mandate. In this edition of The Truth for
America we are going to look at this issue in further detail with an eye to
the connection between our Bible and our founding documents.
Let
me ask you a question. Where are the Pastors of America in this debate? So
far as I can tell they are absent. Is that consistent with our heritage?
No, not even close. I would encourage all people to review a work by David
Barton from Wallbuilders entitled “The Role of Pastors & Christians in Civil
Government”. I think you will find it very enlightening and you will wonder
why we are not hearing this in the pulpits and history classes across
America. The answer is wickedness in high places. I am talking about
wickedness in the Church. In all generations God raises up Apostles,
Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers to teach the Truth but they have
failed miserably over the last 60 years. The very highest places in all the
earth are in the Kingdom of God. That is why we are told that God’s people
must turn from wickedness!
2
Chronicles 7:14 (KJV)
14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble
themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways;
then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal
their land.
David Barton states: “Of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration, more than
half were educated in schools established for the purpose of training
ministers for the Gospel, and they received what today would be considered
degrees from seminaries or Bible schools.” Have you heard your Pastor
mention that? Or have you heard that politics is dirty and the Church is to
leave it alone? Well the Church left politics alone and look at the mess,
we are not even close today to what the founders envisioned. Pastors of all
people should understand that our lives are to be founded on bedrock truths
not a “living, evolving” truth. The bedrock Truth for Christians is the
Holy Bible. This is a Christian Nation. This government can not function
properly devoid of a moral Christian people.
The
Declaration of Independence is the soul (the intent and purpose) of the
Constitution of America. Our Declaration of Independence and our
Constitution are based heavily on two writing by John Locke. These are his
“Two Treatises of Government” and the “Treatise of Government”. In the
later book Locke refers to the Bible over 1500 times in less than 400
pages. So, would it be fair to say that our Declaration of Independence and
the Constitution of America are based upon the Bible? The fundamental
Truth for Christians is the Holy Bible. The basis, the source document for
John Locke’s writings on government was the Holy Bible. The Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution of America as well as the Bill of Rights are
founded very heavily on Locke’s writings and Scripture. Thus our founding
documents are derived from the Scripture.
I
thank God for the election of Scott Brown to the U.S. Senate from the State
of Massachusetts. This has caused many in the government to pause and
re-evaluate where they are heading. Unfortunately it seems these thoughts
revolve more around their elect ability than what is good for “we the
people”. I see this as well as the newly elected Governors of New Jersey
and Virginia as the early stages of the last and greatest awakening.
Awakening to what? God, the Truth. It seems to me at times that it is not
the Church that is awakening first but those outside of the Church. People
across America are rising up and saying, whoa! What about our
Constitution? What about the Declaration of Independence? The same thing
is going to have to happen in the Church. We are going to have to say, what
about the Bible? Meditate on the following Scriptures.
Proverbs 29:18 (KJV)
18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he
that keepeth the law, happy is he.
We
need a vision, a vision of what? We need a vision of the wonderful way of
God and the future that way will produce. His way will produce the Garden
of Eden in the earth.
Proverbs 14:12 (KJV)
12 There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end
thereof are the ways of death.
The
Scripture admonishes us not to be wise in our own sight or to think that we
understand all things.
Isaiah 5:21 (KJV)
21 Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and
prudent in their own sight!
Psalms 127:1 (KJV)
1 Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build
it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
I
say, Amen, Selah.
Three myths or lies have been spoken and many have accepted as truth. They
are:
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Health care is a
right not a commodity.
-
There is a health
care crisis.
-
The government can
deliver better health care than the private sector.
Let
us look at a very precious document that is an essential part of the
foundation of this Republic. This document is the Declaration of
Independence which has two main parts. One part of the Declaration of
Independence declares why the colonies were becoming independent from Great
Britain. The second part declares the intent and purpose of the new
government of the United States of America. The very first thing in the
Declaration of Independence is the recognition of God as our “Creator”. If
the founders thought it so important to acknowledge God why are our current
leaders trying to separate them and us from the importance of God in the
public square? Next we find that God has given us unalienable rights “among
these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Who gave us those
rights? Yes, they are God given not given by the government. Next we are
told that the people give the government power not the other way around.
Think now, do the current health care proposals enhance your life, liberty
and pursuit of happiness. Do their proposals strengthen you or the
government?
The
Declaration of Independence goes on to say that this new federal government
was to: “have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances,
establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent
states may of right do.” Let us take a moment and review the role of the
Federal Government. As you may already know it was to be very simple. The
Federal Government was to do what was necessary to provide an environment
that promoted life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all persons or
citizens. This is the life of the unborn (from conception) to the last
breaths of life in the elderly and everyone in between. This government was
to promote an atmosphere, a framework within which the liberty of every
citizen would be assured. This is not only liberty have homes and lands and
to travel freely in America but the liberty and obligation to exercise
stewardship over government at all levels. A failure to vote according to
Holy Scripture is wickedness, sin, and gives way for the curse in your
life. The Federal Government is to assure that we can pursue happiness.
The government is not responsible for our happiness. We alone are
responsible for our happiness.
The
framers of this American government, this democratic republic end the
Declaration of Independence by again recognizing Almighty God saying; “And
for the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of
Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes
and our sacred honor.” Can you and I say the same thing?
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