Council Grove Christian Church

11/5/25          
Servants of God,
 
"It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance;
which condition if he break,
servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt."
-John Philpot Curran (from a 1790 speech)
 
I believe the most important thing I can do to preserve American freedom is to preach, teach, write and converse explaining the gospel of Jesus Christ. Unless humans believe that they are fallen creatures who need reconciliation to a holy God through the gracious, saving actions of Jesus the Messiah, they will never understand God, themselves or the human condition as a whole.  When Jesus proclaimed that he alone was the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6), he by necessity, ruled out every other possible solution to humanity’s problem. Because the founders of America largely understood the dangers of being ruled by wicked men, they gave us a system of government that took into account human depravity. They knew the value of virtue.
Another election is in the books—or at least mostly in the books. Who knows how long it will take to get to a final count in some cases. Stretching out close elections until one side finds enough ballots to win has become a national trend. Like all trends there is a lesson in it if we can learn it. The United States is trending. We are trending toward moral disorder and it is no accident. Americans often crow about “democracy” seemingly oblivious to the fact that the founding generation was manifestly fearful that pure democracy would be the ruin of the nation. The founders gave us representative government, a republic with democratic elements. They built in checks and balances because they knew humans were fallen creatures. They also knew that pure democracy always trends toward mob rule.
Public education has failed the nation in numerous ways, but none is greater than the failure to explain that our founders believed government apart from Christian virtue trends toward tyranny. Government by its very nature is a system of control. Any form of government that denies the dangers of fallen human nature leads to disaster. Stalin killed 30 million Russians and Mao killed 60 million Chinese. They both rode to power in the context of a revolution. They maintained that they were bringing the blessings of communism to their respective populations.
Tyranny is on its way to America. You only have to look to the streets of Portland or the Muslim enclaves in Minnesota where Sharia law is the de facto government. Now we have a Communist elected to be mayor of New York City. Like all the Communist leaders of the past, he has promised lots of things that history has repeatedly proven cannot possibly lead to blessings. Free buses, daycare and government grocery stores along with government-controlled rent prices sound good to those who do not understand the real world. The graves of millions of Russians, Chinese, Cubans and Venezuelans stand as witness to the lies. If you think it cannot happen here, you have been badly miseducated. Unless the lies of communism are opposed and rejected, it is just a matter of time.
Voters take their worldview with them to the voting booth. Americans were once largely of the opinion that government was to be limited and personal responsibility was to be maximized. Honesty, hard work, discipline, frugality and family stability were once universally recognized as the key elements to what the founders coined “the pursuit of happiness.” When Americans largely believed that every individual was responsible to God for the stewardship of his or her life, they lived lives shaped by that belief.
Unless you and I as Christians realize that the best thing we can do is to love God and neighbor as God has commanded, we too can fall prey to looking to government to be our little tin god. Unless Christians take seriously the Lordship of Jesus Christ, we are more a part of the problem than we are part of a true solution. As the Irish judge John Philpot Curran taught, the active person will overcome the indolent. When American Christians lost the zeal to impact every area of life with the truth of the gospel, we invited the Communist to rule over us. It may be too late, but I am calling every Christian who reads this to repent if you are listless and zealously proclaim the gospel of Jesus every where you can and to everyone you can.
Blessings,
Pastor John
Coram Deo