Berea Mens Breakfast

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Berea Mens Breakfast

• 11/01/2008

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Religion
Politics
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Outline

• Government, Leaders
• (Questions)
• Economic issues
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• Immigration, Sanctity of Life issues
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Prayer
First of all, then, I urge that entreaties and
prayers, petitions and thanksgivings, be made on
behalf of all men, for kings and all who are in
authority, in order that we may lead a tranquil
and quiet life in all godliness and
dignity. - 1 Timothy 21-2
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Culture War
EDUCATION
MARRIAGE
SEXUALITY
ECONOMICS
LAW
ART or OBSCENITY
ENVIRONMENT
SPIRITUALITY
POLITICS
ONE WORLDVIEW IS STRENGTHENED
ONE WORLDVIEW IS WEAKENED
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Government is Gods Idea
God blessed them and God said to them, Be
fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and
subdue it and rule over the fish of the sea and
over the birds of the sky and over every living
thing that moves on the earth. - Genesis
128 (Dominion Mandate)
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Government Under God
Jesus said, You have no authority over Me,
unless it had been given you from above. -
Matthew 1911 For there is no authority
except from God, and those which exist are
established by God. - Romans 131
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Self Government(Willing Compliance)
Submit yourselves for the Lords sake to every
human institution, whether to a king as the one
in authority, or to governors as sent by him for
the punishment of evildoers and the praise of
those who do right. - 1 Peter 213
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God-ordained Government

• Self-control
• Family husbands, parents
• Church - accountability
• State

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Martin Luthers View
God
Church
State
Believers
Unbelievers
The state is to keep the peace and order
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Secular Humanist View
We need now more than ever a world body that
represents the people of the world rather than
the nation-states. If we are to solve our global
problems, nation-states must transfer some of
their sovereignty to a system of transnational
authority. - Humanist Manifesto
2000
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President Jimmy Carter
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Age?
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King Saul as Leader
Saul was taller than any of the people from his
shoulders upward. (1 Samuel 1023)
Do not look at his (Sauls) appearance or at the
height of his stature, because I have rejected
him for God sees not as man sees, for man looks
at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at
the heart. - 1 Samuel 167
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Qualifications of a King

• Honesty (credibility)
• No excessive wealth
• Wisdom discerning good/evil - Solomon
• Servant heart
• Listens to counsel Rehoboam (not!)
• Not proud (humility)
• Courage Daniel, David

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Questions?
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Money cant buy you happiness

• But it sure can take the sting out of unhappiness

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Key question

• Does this proposed policy strengthen the free
  market system of economics?

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Socialism

• Rooted in Marxist worldview
• Atheistic, Evolution
• Mans problem is economic
• Utopian heaven on earth
• Class warfare
• Strong central government

No intellectually honest person today can deny
that the History of socialism is a sorry tale of
economic failure and Crimes against humanity.
Robert Scheaffer
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What about Acts 244-45?

• And all those who had believed were together and
  had all things in common and they began selling
  their property and possessions and were sharing
  them all, as anyone might have need.

if some few passages of the Bible may be
favorable to Communism, the general spirit of its
doctrines, is, Nevertheless, totally opposed to
it. Frederick Engels
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Free Market Economics

• Man is a sinner (Rom 323)
• Man is gifted differently
• Poverty is due to many reasons
• Work is expected (2 Thes 310)
• Private property (8th Commandment)
• Keeping reward for labor is just

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Wealth Redistribution

• You shall do no injustice in judgement you
  shall not be partial to the poor nor defer to the
  great, but you are to judge your neighbor
  fairly. Lev 1915
• Making the pie bigger!

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Questions?
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Aliens in the Land

• Lev 2523-49 care for the sojourner
• Matt 2535 care for the needy is like
  caring for Christ
• Lev 1933-34 do the stranger no wrong
• Rom 131-2 illegal aliens have broken our
  laws, disrespected our borders

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Sanctity of Life

• Abortion kills a living human being
• Baby is separate being from mother

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Is this a human being?
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Is this a human being?
6 months
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Is this a human being?
6 weeks
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Is this a human being?
5 days
(Embryonic stem cells come from this)
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Sanctity of Life

• Abortion kills a living human being
• Baby is separate being from mother
• Life begins at conception (day 1)
• Stem cells master cells
• Embryonic stem cells kills life
• Adult stem cells does not kill life
• God made man in his image
• Gen 127, 96 (death penalty)
• Infanticide, Euthanasia

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Is this a human being?
Downs Syndrome
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Is this a human being?
Ronald Reagan after Alzheimers had left him
shadow of his former self
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Is this a human being?
The Elephant Man (John Merrick) who didnt look
normal
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What is normal anyway?
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I find television very educating

• Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into
  the other room and read a book.

- Groucho Marx
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Media Bias
MSNBC Drops Olbermann, Matthews as News Anchors
MSNBC is removing Keith Olbermann and Chris
Matthews as the anchors of live political events,
bowing to growing criticism that they are too
opinionated to be seen as neutral in the heat of
the presidential campaign.
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Where then is our hope? It is in the fact that
the Kingdom of God has come to earththe Kingdom
announced by Jesus Christ It is a Kingdom that
comes not in a temporary takeover of political
structures, but in the lasting takeover of the
human heart by the rule of a holy God. -
Chuck Colson
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