Destroyed by Sacred Documents
Constitution of United States of America
the word of man
The Bible—the Word of God
Both of these Sacred Documents were designed to give freedom & liberty.
But both are being interpreted to destroy freedom & liberty.
How many of you know the Constitution?
Who wrote it?
Where did they get the ideas in it?
How many articles are there in it?
What are these articles?
Why the Declaration of Independence?
Why Bill of Rights?
Who is under rule of the constitution?
What are your rights & privileges?
What are your responsibilities?
Few Americans know these things!
And Satan is using this sacred & wonderful document to destroy the freedoms of this land.
Traditional America is changing!
Moral structure of this society.
Definition & understanding of what is a family.
Rights and privileges are changing.
And Satan is not using an army invading this country, but it will fall from with in!
He will not use an invading army but he will use the Law. He will use the Constitution itself.
What have you been trusting in?
Have you been trusting in America?
Many Christians have been trusting in America.
They have equated Christianity with America!
In the Church Age God is not working through nations:
God is working through the Body of Christ
If the object of your faith, is in a nation, as wonderful as America is, your faith is in the wrong object.
So we are watching America change in our life time by or through law, by changing the interpretation of Constitution.
"It cannot be emphasized too clearly and too often that this nation was
founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religion, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
For this very reason, peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here." [May 1765 Speech to the House of Burgesses] --Patrick Henry
The Bible, the Word of God
Written to set man free!
Most Americans do not know about the Constitution, & Bill of Rights
But Question for Christians is:
How many of you know the New Covenant
What is a covenant?
Where is the New Covenant found in the Bible?
Every time you take the cup of the Communion, you are taking of the cup of the New Covenant, do you know where the New Covenant is found in the bible?
Do you know what a covenant is?
Who wrote the New Covenant?
Why was a New Covenant given?
Who is under the New Covenant?
What are the conditions of the New Covenant?
What are your responsibilities under the New Covenant?
It should not surprise us that the constitution is used to destroy this county.
Such truths as place of God,
Rights of it’s citizens
Place of government.
There was a time when every student was taught the constitution and Bill of Rights, but we have turned that valuable responsibility over to lawyers.
And therefore few average Americans even know the constitution.
Therefore it is not surprising that it is being changed, distorted and used against traditional America.
But we should not be surprised what is happening to our Constitution, when we consider what has happened with the Bible.
The Bible declares:
Eph. 2:8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;
9 not as a result of works, that no one should boast.
This is so clear, yet right from the beginning the gospel has been distorted, polluted.
The gospel has been turned into a sacred document of works instead of freedom.
Just as from the very beginning forces from England sought to keep Americans under their control, and opposed with warfare freedom.
So from the beginning of the Church, the enemy, the forces of darkness, led by Satan, stood in front of the church to stop the Freedom given by the cross.
And Satan used Law to keep the church from embracing this freedom in Christ. He sought to get the Church under Law. For the Kills.
First book written by Paul, the gospel had already been distorted.
Gal. 1:6-7; 2:4-5; 2:14; 3:1-5; 5:1; 5:7
Christ came to set us free, but pastors, teachers etc. have distorted it into a gospel of works and slavery.
It is amazing the number of Americans who complain about the selection of judges to sit on the Supreme Court. Men who are giving an interpretation the opposite of it’s original meaning…
But Christians will sit under Pastor Teachers who declare that you are not saved by faith alone in Christ alone, nor are you restored from sin, by faith alone in the Spirit alone.
But add works to either eternal life salvation, or spiritual recovery salvation.
And majority of Americans flock to works, to do & do for Salvation or Spirituality.
And just as most Americans have completely turned over their own personal understanding of Constitution and Bill of Rights to lawyers,
So multitude of Americans who seek the truth of the gospel and Christians the truth of Spirituality have turned over their own personal understanding of the Bible over to false teachers.
Early America had enemies—both from England and within the new land.
The Church has enemies from without and from within.
And just as America is under siege from within, so this will be fall of Church in America.
Most religious people and Christians know about the Mosaic Law:
10 Commandments.
They know what they are
They know where they are
They know what happens if you fail to keep them.
And they make them the foundation of living the Christian life.
But when it comes to Fruit of the Holy Spirit.
Most Christians do not even know what they are.
Do not know where they are found.
Yet it is the fruit of the Holy Spirit that gives life to Christian.
Fruit of the Holy Spirit is God’s solution to SAD. (Stress, Anxiety, Depression)
Gal. 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is
love,
joy,
peace,
patience,
kindness,
goodness,
faithfulness,
gentleness,
self-control;
against such things there is no law.
Because of the foreign enemies, who sought to not allow Freedom, our forefathers were forced to come together and forge out a document called our Constitution, & Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights.
Encourage you to read these documents written by man on our political economic freedom.
And this is what Jesus Christ did for the church at the beginning of the church.
When He provided Spiritual Freedom at the cross, He left us a New Freedom, and a new Constitution, called:
New Covenant
Man did not write this New Covenant,
It was written by God!
New Covenant provides new freedom
Unfortunately, just as in America, not every Christian desires to live under fredom where God does everything but prefer to live under Law, under doing something for Salvation or Spirituality
Therefore the New Covenant is always under siege.
To add to it, to change it, to distort it.
Most Christians do not even know about the New Covenant,
They do not know the conditions of New Covenant.
yet they are legalistic about Communion, and legalistic about bread and Cup of the New Covenant.
But they know the Law, the big 10, do & do & are eger to force law on everyone
Living by Freedom is just too much for multitude of American.
Living by Faith is just too demanding for multitude of Christians.
Living by Freedom under the Constitution means you have to Do.
Living by Freedom under the New Covenant means you have to live by Faith
Living by Freedom under Constitution means you have to depend on self.
Living by Faith under New Covenant means that you have to completely depend on God the Holy Spirit.
Bread:
This is my body which is for you.
Cup:
This cup is the New Covenant in my blood
We are to live by this New Covenant
It provides our freedom
It provides the power to live Christian life
It provides the power to live the Spirit Filled life
It provides the life of grace through faith