The biblical mandate for moral life is faith in action. Thus the Bible's model is one of practicality, not false piety and retreat from society, and the biblical call for a moral life extends to the affairs of men.

As Benjamin Franklin observed:

"If I know but one truth it is this, that God governs in the affairs of men."

But even as God governs in man's affairs, likewise, the Bible model for life injects the individual into life's affairs with wisdom and zeal for the Lord. Where the biblical model does not exist or is perverted, there we find hypocrisy and tyranny, most often in the name of popular ideology.

As an example of such popular ideology we have democracy. As another example, ever since the purported passage of the 14th Amendment in 1868, the U.S. Constitution is one such engine of tyranny.

As an aside, I should tell you that the 14th Amendment was never actually ratified, either by the States or in convention, but was simply proclaimed as "passed" by the U.S. Secretary of State.

Now we must address the issue of Liberty. Liberty begins spiritually, and fundamentally, with God, and liberty begins practically with the individual under self-government, or under self-control, in Christ.

In my time, self-control was a nebulous, misunderstood concept for many of us. It was for me, anyway. I thought self-control simply meant the ability to stay calm when you got mad at the boy sitting behind you for throwing spit-wads at you. But self- government or self-control means much more than "anger prevention." In fact, venting anger in an appropriate fashion is sometimes necessary and even healthful.

It can be just as wrong to force a youngster to clam-up, shut-up, and absorb every harm or offense as it is to permit him to fight or to always return revenge at every perceived wrong.

But self-government teaches obedience to God and His Law; it teaches balance and reason in our daily affairs, and thus it teaches individuality and responsibility.

Life brings on a family, clan, tribe, the Church, community, county, and State, which involve us in an ever-growing enlargement of personal responsibility and spheres of governments. These many spheres of governments are the building blocks, in America, of a confederation of States known in the Declaration of Independence as the "United States," which was founded by our Anglo-Saxon Israelite forefathers.

Our forefathers provided a government for their Anglo-Saxon posterity and for no other alien human beings, and thus when the 14th Amendment was passed, our Anglo-Saxon peoples lost our constitution and our nation, if not in the ratification of the Constitution itself, setting up a central government to usurp God's prerogative to make Israel's law.

I can say that because some 2300 years ago, the famous philosopher Aristotle defined the nature of constitutions, saying that constitutions arise out of, quote:

"...the desire to leave something like oneself behind," and to provide for the security and piety, or keeping of the faith, of "one's children."(1)

Aristotle's comments are unique in the literature of his time, with a match found nowhere in that age but in the Bible.

Aristotle's reiteration of the principles of responsibility and liberty from the Bible, and those also underlying Isaac's sons in the Greek city-state, is a preview of the farmer-citizen basis of the Roman Republic, the Anglo-Saxon law of the Germanic tribes, and, eventually, of the British and American constitutions.

In Israel, Athens, Rome, Europe, England, and America, biblical and constitutional law are, as Aristotle observed of Athens, driven by the Citizens' "common task to make their association last." We see the ultimate development in all of history of such dedication to self-preservation in the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution.

And according to British jurist Edmund Burke, it is the most brilliant work ever struck by the hand of man. However we must remember we have the perfect law already given us by God.

But there, in our Constitution's Preamble, our Founding Fathers dedicate and establish in perpetuity, that is, forever, the blessings of liberty for their Posterity.

Who, exactly, is that Posterity? Well, the Founders' Posterity is us, but more specifically, the Posterity is of the Anglo-Saxon peoples, and even further the literal descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It was these peoples who arrived from Western and Northern Europe and homesteaded on America's shores.

Thus constitutional citizenship, from ancient times to relatively very recently, is a legacy of a people sharing a common heritage, a common descent, common interests held in "common- wealth," and in common faith, all directed toward a single, unified common action.

A constitution "gone wrong," in the words of Aristotle, is the one that alters the basis of a country's citizenship. For, as he says, "there must be a different citizen corresponding to each different constitution." In this regard, our American Constitution has gone wrong, and Congress is to blame for altering it in 1868 with the passage of the 14th Amendment, which granted citizenship to peoples other than the white Anglo-Saxon peoples.

But as Christ told us in Matthew 12:25, every divided kingdom is brought to desolation. Menacing clouds, shaped like the black- fisted Power Salute, hover over our schools, cities, and culture, where conflict is constantly stirred up and then resolved in favor of multi-culturalism and more and more big central government.

We have witnessed all of this before, like in the 60s when our cities burned under the matches lit with black rage, and more recently in the 80s and 90s in South Africa, where a strong, proud tribe of Israel fell to unregulated, massive, dark waves of immigration and communist infiltration.

In America, school curricula changes, and we now have minority-only scholarship awards, and penalization of excellence and free speech have prompted confrontation between Whites and Blacks.

A new UCLA study predicts stronger protest than ever for forced busing, integration and so-called "racial understanding," even as racial incidents increase and school systems run out of money to fund such wasteful, unfair programs.(2)

Ideology which is anti-Christian and thus illogical, insists on that which is impractical, and on make-believe humanistic concepts of "good."

But a working constitution, a truly good constitution, according to Aristotle, demands that: "there must be a different citizen corresponding to each different constitution." In other words if there are multiple races in a society there must be separate lands and constitutions for each race. If we pretend that any other kind of constitution can exist, then we endorse immoral, unscriptural government, and we get what we deserve -- the judgment of God and His punishment and plagues.

Do we want the false peace, which is really war, with alien peoples that Congress demands of its subjects? If so, then we must accept God's punishment and plagues.

Or do we want God's genuine peace, self-government, and liberty? The reward for obedience to God and not men is a permanent, free Republic -- that which we once had, but which, as Benjamin Franklin once warned, we could not keep.

I began by saying that the biblical mandate for a moral life is to put our faith into action. If we want a moral life for ourselves and our communities, that is, if we have true faith and so exercise it, we must necessarily return to responsibility, or self-government, on the individual and local level.

Big government will hate us for it, because we will once again be making decisions for our own affairs. Among those affairs, we will be deciding who we want to associate with, who we want to do business with, and so on, which are the very kinds of decisions for which central government makes war on its own people.

With self-government, then, comes some amount of turmoil and resistance. But we really have no other choice, if our faith is real and true, and if we seek a moral life.

If we so seek and obey the Bible in regard to recapturing our constitution, the rewards and blessings promised by God far exceed the noise-making of disappointed central government bureaucrats.

Even more importantly, the judgments of God against our nation will be lifted.

Notes:

1. Aristotle, "Politics," Book 1, Chapter 1.

2. "The Washington Times," January 28, 1991.