Government: A Christian’S Civic Responsibility

By Rev. Duane L. Wildie

Proverbs 29:2: When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked beareth rule, the people mourn. KJV From the beginning of mankind, there has never been a country like the United States; a beacon light to the world, giving hope, prosperity, and most of all, freedom to all those who landed on the shores of this great country. America was built upon Biblical principles, it was due to Christians civic responsibility in making a government good for all people.

The prophet Hosea said, 4:6: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: KJV

And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book. (Revelation 22:19 KJV)

The New Age movement has infiltrated the evangelical church and gradually changed the Bible to conform to its One World Religion, which is evident in eliminating the God head, Jesus Christ, and the virgin birth in many of the Revised bible versions today. Their words and doctrines prepare the apostate church of these last days to accept the Antichrist, his mark, image, and religionLucifer worship. The emerging new Christianitywith its substitution of riches for righteousness, a crown for a cross, and an imitation for a new creationis shown to be a direct result of the wording in new revised versions, a blueprint for the Antichrists One World Religion and government. Christians must get involved in government. It is our civic responsibility.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Dec 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490854212

Rev. Duane L. Wildie

Served in the Military, attended college, received my ordained ministers license from Global University. Taught early American History, our Christians Civic Responsibility would help build enormous understanding as to what is happening with the churches and government in the world today.

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Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Is America Still A Christian Nation?

Chapter 2 Civil Government Is Established By God

Chapter 3 Stewardship—Christian’s Civic Responsibilities

Chapter 4 Submitting To The Master’s Will

Chapter 5 Faithfulness In Stewardship

Chapter 6 Beware Of Wolves In Sheep’s Clothing

Chapter 7 Neutralist Theology In The Nineteenth Century

Chapter 8 Protecting Free Speech For Clergy

Chapter 9 Democracy Vs. Republic

Chapter 10 A Republic Form Of Government

Chapter 11 Wake Up America: We Are Close To Becoming Communist Controlled Nation

Chapter 12 The Early Church: Communist Propaganda Vs. Scripture

Chapter 13 Absolutes—God’s Natural Laws

Chapter 14 Influencing By Participation

Chapter 15 Treason Of The Churches

Chapter 16 The New World Order: A History

Chapter 17 Conspiracy

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dedicate this book, first to my Lord Jesus Christ for changing my life, to my wife Betti for the long hours I spent in preparing this manuscript for publication, to a good friend Gene Owens, for inspiring me to write this book, and to Ray Young for his help with the cover, and computer assistance.

My prayer is, the material within these pages will have a change in your life, and a better understanding of what is happening to our country, and to have a better relationship with Jesus Christ.

All Scripture references are from the Authorized King James Version of the Bible, unless otherwise noted.

Introduction

There is a powerful force working to destroy the very foundation of this Republic form of government.

What could possibly be the most deadly enemy America could face? The United States can never be taken by a foreign army. U.S. military might is too strong for any nation to ever hope to defeat the U.S. militarily. The U.S. must be infiltrated and taken from within.

Here is a quote by Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States:

At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it? Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never! All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Bonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years. At what point, then, is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. — Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum, of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838.

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. Daniel Webster.

If you don’t know where you’ve come from, it’s pretty hard to determine where you’re going. Our children are no longer being taught true early American history in our public schools, now called (government schools) because much of it has been changed to eliminate Biblical principles that built the very foundation of this great nation.

Reverend Jonas Clark was a very influential man and the parson of Christ Church, which was thee church in a small town named Lexington in 1775. In his church parking lot, only a few feet from the church parsonage, the first shot of the Revolutionary War was fired and the first blood spilled. The people that were killed were members of his congregation. Clark looked down with great anguish at the bodies of those who had died and made this statement: From this day will be dated the liberty of the world. It began in a church. It began with a pastor that was part of the Black Regiment because of the black robes they wore. These pastors preached resounding sermons that resonated throughout New England about the evils of tyranny and the importance of liberty.

Google; Black Robe Regiment, Pastor Chuck Baldwin.

CHAPTER 1

Is America Still A Christian Nation?

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people He has chosen as His own inheritance. –Psalm 33:12

By the providence of God, no other nation in the world had ever been blessed like America. In just two hundred years, America prospered more than all other nations around the world in five thousand years. Had it not been for early American Christians being involved in government, our nation would not have become one of the greatest nations ever created from the beginning of mankind. Noah Webster, author of the first American dictionary said that God commands you to choose for rulers, just men who will rule in fear of God. If citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted. He knew over twenty languages.

Some Christians are optimistic even if the actions of the ungodly are increasing. They feel that if Christians remain faithful in influencing their world with the gospel and applying a Christian worldview to every area of life, the world can and will change. However, this is not being done. If pastors would preach on home missions as much as they do on foreign missions, America would be quite different from what it is today. According to Global University, there are approximately one hundred ninety-five million Americans who do not know Jesus Christ as their personal Savior. If pastors would preach more on a Christian’s civic responsibilities, Americans would not have turned our government over to ungodly, unprincipled politicians. However, I am more concerned about those who voted for these politicians in the first place, due to their lack of understanding of our republic form of government.

One would have to be blind not to see that America is fast losing the fundamental principles upon which our God-given liberties were once built. Without a doubt, the single biggest reason for this decline is the lack of concern and effort on the part of today’s Christians, pastors, and church leaders to resist losing those principles. Many pastors will simply tell you, Let’s pray about it. This reminds me of a story about a pastor. Whenever something would come up he would always tell people, Let’s pray about it. One day when he came to church, he happened to walk by the sanctuary, and saw it flooded with water. He quickly ran to his office, picked up the phone and called a member of his congregation. When Joe the plumber answered, the pastor said, Joe, the church sanctuary is flooded I need you over here a.s.a.p. Joe answered him and said, Pastor, let’s just pray about it.

Today, many people are misled, thinking God is in charge of everything, if this is true, we don’t need the fire, police, or sheriff departments; God will protect us from all evil-doers. We don’t need farmers to plant the fields to raise food to eat; God will provide everything for us. This type of thinking is leading us down the road to destruction as a nation, and truthfully, it is Satanic in nature.

When someone approaches pastors and church leaders—with the obvious decay and ruination of constitutional government and declaration principles taking place in our land today—the flippant response is something like: God hasn’t called me to do that; I’m supposed to win souls and that’s it. Or, I don’t get involved in politics. As if the call to gospel-preaching, evangelism, and missionary endeavors negates our responsibility as citizens of a free land. When you hear a pastor or a church leader making statements to that effect, ask, When was the last time you taught a class or preached a sermon on a Christian’s civic responsibilities? You see, people learn what they are taught in schools and in seminaries. There are two areas that control every aspect of our lives: politics and religion.

The major problem lies within the institutions or seminaries where our ministers are taught. Many of these institutions have been taken over by secular humanist theory. Ministers don’t become communists, communist become ministers.

Harry F. Ward is a good example. According to the Biographical Dictionary Of The Left. Ward aimed at a totalitarian system - political, economic, and social - to be imposed upon the American people through the agency of the clergy.

In hearings of the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1953, several former Communist Party officials testified under oath as to what they knew about Ward. Manning Johnson, in the course of his remarks, said: "Dr. Harry F. Ward, for many years, has been the chief architect for Communist envision and subversion in the religious field… He was a member of the Communist Party while I was a member… I would say that he is the Red Dean of the Communist Party in the religious field".

In 1899, Ward was ordained as a Methodist minister. He was also a guiding genius in the Federal Council of Churches, which later became the World Council of Churches, and Ward was the first member on the board of the ACLU. American Civil Liberty Union.

Google, Harry F. Ward and the World Council of Churches. You will learn a lot.

How the New World Order is Using the Christian Churches and