As we look around us and see all the problems in the world, and especially the problems in our own government, we have to ask ourselves what went wrong? How could the most prosperous country in history become so unproductive? By that I mean we now import more than we export.

Going back to the early days of our history we find that in New Haven, Connecticut, on April 3, 1664:

"It was ordered that the judicial laws of God, as they were delivered by Moses . . be a rule of the courts in this jurisdiction in their proceedings against offenders."

Yes, no other country in the history of mankind began its existence by declaring the laws of God to be the law of the land. That is with one exception. Remember, it was Moses that led the Children of Israel out of Egypt to Mount Sinai where they received directly from God, the laws of God. These laws were not simply ecclesiastical laws -- they included political laws, economic laws, family laws, and all social laws. The laws of God were all inclusive for Israel and no other laws were needed, then or now. It was the mission of Israel to extend these laws to all of mankind.

God actually established His kingdom on earth with the creation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. He re-established it with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and finally with Israel at Mount Sinai.

God's mandate to Adam was the same as given to Israel. The mission was to "subdue" the earth, and have "dominion" over it. This mission was to be accomplished under God's direction and according to His word, which was, and still is His law.

This law has not been annulled by Christ. While man's justification is by the grace of Christ, our sanctification is by the means of the law. However, today Christians have become so spiritually minded that they are no earthly good. What they fail to understand is that in being spiritually minded the mandate is still to apply the laws of Scripture to this world.

The breakdown of God's law and order that we have been experiencing from 1664 to the present, must be blamed squarely on the clergy of this country and their antinomian, or anti-law doctrine. And if the clergy fail to understand the need to observe God's laws, then we cannot expect the people to follow God's laws.

Folks, we need to understand that the source of all law is religious in nature, and that the source of that law is the God of that people. This is easy to see and understand when we look at Israel, for the living God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, later called Israel, was the God of the nation of Israel and the source of their law given to them at mount Sinai. Therefore, Israel's law was a religious law.

But, what about the law of other nations? Of course, we know about Baal and like gods, but the laws of those gods were issued by the rulers of those countries through their high priests.

But who do you suppose made the laws of the Roman Empire if not Caesar? Were not all the Caesars considered as gods? So the god of most nations were their kings, who were the source of their laws. Thus we can conclude that if the source of law is found in an oligarchy, a court, a senate, or even reason, then that source is the god of that system.

Greek law was a religious concept based upon the mind. The mind was seen as being capable of discovering law out of its own resources, and this is the mother of modern Humanism. However, modern humanism locates law in the state or the people and thus the state or the people collectively are the god of the system.

While the original source of our law in the United States was from God, the source of our law has steadily moved from God to the state. This means that since the source of our law is in change from the Biblical laws of God to the state, our god is changing from God Almighty to the state and it is only a matter of time before the transition is complete.

Keep in mind now that it is an axiom that when you change the source of law, you change your religion. Probably the best example of this lies in the conquest of the Southern Hemisphere by the Spanish. All who did not covert to Spanish Christianity were killed by the sword, and in this manner, conquest changed both the law and the religion of those conquered.

This brings us face to face with the fact that every system of law must maintain its existence by whatever means necessary, because no system of law can tolerate a foreign religion. The reason this is true is because if a foreign system of law becomes dominant within a society, then the old law will perish and the law of the new religion will prevail. Again, the most drastic example of this took place by the Spanish in their conquests.

But the change in law and religion does not always happen as quickly as transpired with the Spanish conquests. What would happen if a different law was introduced in small doses over time? Then the change of law and religion might not even be noticeable to the majority of people.

This is exactly what is happening in the United states. The religion we call Christianity has been driven out of the schools and replaced with Humanism, and our children are being fed large doses of Humanism and they are the ones who will be the lawmakers of tomorrow. And as good Humanist lawmakers, they will pass more Humanistic laws which will eventually eliminate Christianity as the religion of this country, and it will be replaced with Humanism.

The law of God was and is the revelation of God to His people. It was given at Mount Sinai and was accepted by all the people of Israel; thus God's law was established by a perpetual Covenant that will not be broken by God. Israel may break the covenant by not keeping the law, but God will have His covenant with His Israel people and this is the reason we have the New Covenant found in Hebrews 8:8-10, which states:

8 "... Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah: 9 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people:

It is plain from Hebrews that the New Covenant was not made with the church but was a covenant re-made with the descendants of Israel, here identified to us as the house of Israel.

What had happened was that Judaism had become the law of the land, and in Judaism the law is a mediator between God and man, but Christ rejected this and Himself became the mediator between God and man, and He sealed this new covenant relationship with His blood.

Now this did not destroy the laws of God but rather fulfilled them. Henceforth, we are saved by the grace of God, and the purpose of Grace was not to set aside the laws of God but to enable man to keep the laws of God.

Whether you like it or not, as believers we have accepted the laws of God and reacknowledge them every time we participate in the Lord's supper, or what is called the Eucharist. At the last supper Christ stated in Matthew 26:28:

"For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins."

And what comes with the new covenant but the same laws of God that were given back at mount Sinai. Remember now in Hebrews 8:10, we are told of the reestablishment of God's laws when we are told:

"I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts:"

Thus the laws of God are paramount to the new covenant relationship, as we have seen in Hebrews 8. Therefore there can be no such thing as lawless Christianity, for that is a contradiction of terms. If you are a Christian and have partaken of the blood of Christ, you have accepted the conditions of the New Covenant just as surely as the Israelites did at mount Sinai.

The blood of Christ was shed for the "remission of sin," or more appropriately it saved us from the penalty of sin, that penalty being death. And through the death and resurrection of Christ, we know that we too will be resurrected from the dead or transformed at His coming.

But we also know that there is a coming judgement and now I must ask, if God's laws are nailed to the cross, where are universal standards by which all shall be judged? Is not sin defined by the apostle John as "transgression of the law?" And is not what I do as sin also sin if you commit the same act? I certainly hope so, for if not, then there can be no consistency in judgement and therefore no justice.

In conclusion, the law of God is a covenant law and the restoration of that law was the work of Christ. This restoration was His grace to His covenant Israel people, who we today identify as the Anglo-Saxon, Celtic, and kindred peoples. And the fulfillment of the New Covenant is the great commission to subdue the earth and have dominion over it, through Christ Jesus.

I might add that those who do not abide by, or break this covenant relationship with Christ, do so at their own peril.