Faith Baptist Church
4258 Botetourt Road
Fincastle, Virginia 24090
(540) 473-2325
Psalm 106
Not only will client nations be blessed by not harassing honorable believers in their nation, but other nations will be blessed as well. Client nations, i.e.,[those nations who are beneficiaries of the direct blessings of God] will lead the way with regard to benevolent acts of kindness and charity and even defense of weaker nations, Ps.140:1-2; Rom.13:1-7.
Ours nation has been in the past, a nation that respects and protects the individual freedoms necessary for a society to prosper and grow. We have a nation that flows with God’s milk and honey, but sin has taken a firm grasp on this nation.
This is a nation in which God’s people can learn Bible doctrine and in turn, as the salt of the earth, be His witnesses. As His ambassadors we witness the Gospel of Jesus Christ everywhere we go, not just in word, but in our Christ like lives.
A client nation respects and upholds the four laws of divine establishment given in the Bible; free will, marriage, family and nationalism, and they are all under attack.
A client nation first of all:
..upholds free will, which is self-determination, as individuals seek to better their lives while at the same time respecting the rights, will, and property of others. This is something socialist and communist and even organized religion fear.
Now, freedom never means we can do whatever we want. God never intended, nor did he create free will for mankind to do whatever he wanted to do. Free will unchecked that allows irresponsible behavior becomes anarchy or lawlessness. Since God is a God of order, not chaos, he expects people to be honorable. Crime is the opposite of honorable. It is the act of a person or persons violating another’s free will, whether that crime is committed by individuals, corporations or governments.
The Ten Commandments, which were given by God as the basis for personal and national freedom, it no where teaches we can live any way we want to live, and as a matter of fact the Ten Commandments instruct us that we must live as God wants us to live if we want his blessings. When mankind desires to live the way God wants him to live then God will bless that people. When a majority of people in a client nation work hard to achieve good and lofty goals God will bless them, and when there are those who practically demand that the people take care of them and they do, then God will curse them. The curse of laziness is poverty, Prov.6:6-16.
Much of poverty is not a condition of the helpless, but a condition of the human will. And those who perpetuate the mindset that citizens living in poverty are victims of discrimination only make matters worse. No one discriminates against another human being getting up and going off to work. A client nation is no place to say “I cannot help my circumstances”, because a client nation is a nation tremendously blessed by almighty God. To say I am in poverty and cannot do for myself is to say that God has discriminated against me. Paul said “I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me”, Phil.4:13.
We have both of these kinds of people in our nation; those who will work honorably to acquire what they have, and those who will not work honorably to get what they need. Of course this does not include those who are genuinely unable to work due to physical or mental disability. We must always be charitable and help these folks.
Here is where it gets unsettling. Many men and women serve in political and governmental positions in places where they can bring about destructive changes upon our national freedom. A client nation will not survive long if its people are crippled by social parasites who could work, but would rather siphon the life out of its economy.
When people adopt a victim mentality they become slaves to their own misery and defeatism, Prov.13:12; 26:13-14; 10:5, 15.
When poverty [which is defined as a condition whereby a person is in need of the basic needs of life, such as food and shelter and clothing] when these needs are seen as an entitlement instead of a self acquired staple earned through hard work then that nation will spiral downward within itself until it is no longer productive economically nor socially.
From Prov.6:11-15 we note the disastrous fallout from living a slothful life; a lazy untidy, undisciplined, excuse making, blame finding existence. Perpetual misery follows undisciplined lazy people. Only self-determination to exploit the opportunities afforded by God in a client nation can bring a person out of poverty and the crime associated with that dreaded condition. God indeed does help those who are willing to honorably help themselves.
The Marxist Axiom
Karl Marx was raised a German Lutheran, but while a student at the University of Berlin he met and became a friend to Friedich Engels in 1844. Together Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto. It is a document that became the doctrine of the communist-socialist movement; a movement which is intent on subjugating a people to the state, and bringing the states defined standard of equality of life to all. That quality and capacity of life is not defined by the individual, but by its government. Karl Marx saw poverty as the unwanted child of capitalism. He saw the down and out as the cast off of the wealthy. His plan was to redistribute the wealth of a nation through law and reform by heavily taxing the rich to give to the poor. The state becomes the will and the conscience of a nation instead of individuals having their own will and conscience.
An axiom, is defined as a self-evident proposition accepted as true without proof.
The basic axiom of Marxism is that the poor are poor because the rich are rich. Those who have much are considered the oppressors and those who have little are their victims. With the redistribution of wealth the poor are lifted up and the rich are put in there place in society. When the state controls the wealth, the state controls the level of poverty. When poverty is low, Marxist believe mankind is more equal. Liberation politics and liberation theology believes that a society is better off when all classes are eliminated.
Biblical theology demonstrates to us that God created us equal in his sight. We are equal in value for Christ came and died for the sins of all mankind, and all mankind can choose to believe or not believe and be saved. God gave all of us free will; the ability to think for ourselves; we have a conscience; we have self-awareness, and we all have emotions. Unfortunately Adam gave to us the sin nature that distorts our entire God given attributes as human beings, Rom.5:12. It is also the sin nature that perverts men into thinking he can make all men materialistically equal by force. We all have different abilities and skills and interests and human I.Q., that we inherit, and no one has the right to say we cannot use these legitimate human assets for God’s glory and our good.
It is only sin and evil that perverts men into thinking otherwise.