Seditious Christians
The early Christian mission was political, in fact, revolutionary. The German jurist Ehrhardt, an authority on Roman and Greek jurisprudence and politics, has demonstrated the subversive nature of the early Christian faith and documents, identifying many of the Christian attitudes and sayings as outright seditious. In the religious-political environment of the times, Christians rejected all gods and confessed Jesus as Lord of all lords. Private "religion" was unthinkable, divorcing the spiritual from the physical in light of the all-embracing reign of God ushered in by Jesus.
As it was then, so it must be now. Christians can no longer live in the philosophical dichotomy of the Enlightenment that makes "religion" a private matter, prohibited from the arena of everyday public life. Never before have we faced a secular culture that is now systematically removing God and his ways from the mindset of the populace.
"America, the land of the free", is fast becoming obsolete as a valid description of this nation, especially for devoted Christians. As followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, our first love is not America. Our devotion is not to the President or the laws of the land, which are increasingly opposed to the kingdom of God.
The law that we follow is the kingdom law of love: to love God with all that is in us and to love our neighbors and one another as Jesus loves us. We reject the convoluted laws of man legislated to support political agendas and enforced by the courts to do the same when these laws violate the royal law of love that God has ordained long before any congress, legislature or court ever sat.
In this pluralistic society, we reject, as did those first century Christians, all gods except the one true God who incarnated himself fully in the Lord Jesus Christ. We adhere to his teachings as recorded in holy writ, rejecting any mandate running counter to his authority. It is to the government of God that we bow the knee, not to the anti-Christ administrations of power-seeking politicians.
If this is sedition, so be it!
As it was then, so it must be now. Christians can no longer live in the philosophical dichotomy of the Enlightenment that makes "religion" a private matter, prohibited from the arena of everyday public life. Never before have we faced a secular culture that is now systematically removing God and his ways from the mindset of the populace.
"America, the land of the free", is fast becoming obsolete as a valid description of this nation, especially for devoted Christians. As followers of the Lord Jesus Christ, our first love is not America. Our devotion is not to the President or the laws of the land, which are increasingly opposed to the kingdom of God.
The law that we follow is the kingdom law of love: to love God with all that is in us and to love our neighbors and one another as Jesus loves us. We reject the convoluted laws of man legislated to support political agendas and enforced by the courts to do the same when these laws violate the royal law of love that God has ordained long before any congress, legislature or court ever sat.
In this pluralistic society, we reject, as did those first century Christians, all gods except the one true God who incarnated himself fully in the Lord Jesus Christ. We adhere to his teachings as recorded in holy writ, rejecting any mandate running counter to his authority. It is to the government of God that we bow the knee, not to the anti-Christ administrations of power-seeking politicians.
If this is sedition, so be it!
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