THE FOUNDERS OF THIS NATION HAD A VERY DIFFERENT VIEW
THAN WHAT IS BEING TOLD TODAY.
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES PRESENTS
TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
DID YOU KNOW THAT UNELECTED JUDGES ARE USING
THE IDEA OF A SO-CALLED "LIVING CONSTITUTION"
TO MAKE THEIR OWN LAWS?
THE GREATEST VIRTUE OF A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION IS
THAT IT IS WRITTEN.
WITH THE CONSTITUTION UNDER ATTACK AND THE
NATION DIVIDED, WHAT IS THE ROLE OF CHRISTIANS?
WHEN A GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO SUPPLANT GOD THE CHRISTIAN
RESPONSE SHOULD BE TO SEEK CULTURAL RENEWAL AND LEGAL
REFORM.
WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT THE BATTLE FOR OUR NATION'S
SOUL, ON TODAY'S TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
THIS IS TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
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WELCOME TO TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM, A PRODUCTION OF
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES, WHERE WE ARE
STANDING FOR TRUTH AND DEFENDING YOUR FREEDOM.
ARE YOU AWARE THAT THERE IS A CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION TAKING PLACE?
IT IS REDRAWING OUR CONSTITUTION ACCORDING TO
PROGRESSIVE PRINCIPLES, WITHOUT THE INPUT OF
"WE THE PEOPLE."
THAT CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION IS OCCURRING
ALMOST DAILY WITHIN THE AMERICAN JUDICIARY.
AND WITH DOZENS OF FEDERAL JUDGESHIPS STILL AT STAKE,
THE FINAL DIRECTION OF THIS "CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION" WILL BE DETERMINED IN NOVEMBER,
WHEN OUR NATION GOES TO THE POLLS.
THE NEED FOR CHRISTIANS TO BE ENGAGED HAS NEVER BEEN
GREATER, AND ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, YOU WILL LEARN
MORE ABOUT THE ILLEGITIMATE REWRITING
OF THE CONSTITUTION.
YOU WILL DISCOVER WHAT GOD'S MANDATE IS FOR YOUR
OWN PARTICIPATION IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS.
AND WE WILL UPDATE YOU ON A REVOLUTIONARY NEW
TRAINING PROGRAM THAT'S SENDING CHRISTIANS INTO
THE HALLS OF POWER.
AS WE BEGIN, I HAD THE CHANCE TO SIT DOWN AND
TALK WITH DR. BRUCE ASHFORD, WHO IS PROVOST
AND PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY & CULTURE AT SOUTHEASTERN
BAPTIST THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY.
HE'S WRITTEN A BOOK CALLED, LETTERS TO AN
AMERICAN CHRISTIAN, AND WE DISCUSSED THE RELATIONSHIP
BETWEEN CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICS.
DR. KENNEDY USED AN EXPRESSION ONCE THAT THE
CHURCH WAS ESTABLISHED BY JESUS TO RUN LIKE A TRAIN
ON TWO RAILS.
ONE RAIL WAS THE CULTURAL MANDATE FOUND IN GENESIS
1:28 THAT WE'RE TO SUBDUE THE EARTH AND HAVE
DOMINION OVER IT AND RULE IN GOD'S PLACE AND THE
OTHER RAIL OF COURSE IS THE GREAT COMMISSION,
WE'RE TO GO AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE
TO MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS AND BEAR WITNESS
TO CHRIST.
ONE OF THOSE RAILS THOUGH HAS ETERNAL IMPLICATIONS
DOESN'T IT?
AND ONE OF THEM TEMPORAL IMPLICATIONS BUT WHY
SHOULD WE NOT NEGLECT THE TEMPORAL JUST BECAUSE THE
OTHER IS ETERNAL?
YEAH SO YOU KNOW DR. KENNEDY WAS
INCORRIGIBLY WISE AND PERCEPTIVE AND I LOVE THE
TWO TRACK ANALOGY.
I VIEW THE CULTURAL MANDATE AS A PRE-SIN OR A
PRE-FALL GREAT COMMISSION THAT WHAT THE LORD WANTED
FROM US IF SIN HAD NEVER HAPPENED HE WANTED US TO
BE FRUITFUL AND MULTIPLY AND TO BRING UNDER
SUBMISSION ALL THINGS IN THIS WORLD AND SPREAD HIS
GLORY ACROSS THE FACE OF THE EARTH BY DOING THAT.
NOW BECAUSE SIN WAS INTRODUCED AND THEN
BECAUSE SALVATION WAS INTRODUCED IN LIGHT OF SIN
WE HAVE ADDED TO THE CULTURAL MANDATE ALSO THE
GREAT COMMISSION.
I THINK BOTH OF THEM HAVE TEMPORAL, ETERNAL AND
TEMPORAL IMPLICATIONS AND SO WE YOU KNOW REDEMPTION
PLAYS OUT ON A CREATIONAL STAGE RIGHT AND SO
REDEMPTION I THINK MOST MANY CHRISTIANS TEND TO
VIEW REDEMPTION AS SOMETHING THAT'S SORT OF
HOVERS ON ITS OWN, CUT OFF FROM CREATIONAL REALITIES
AND THE POINT OF IT IS THAT IT DOESN'T,
EVERYTHING REDEMPTIVE PLAYS OUT ON A CREATIONAL
STAGE AND SO FOR THAT REASON THE CULTURAL
MANDATE STILL MATTERS BECAUSE IT'S THE SUBTEXT
FOR EVERYTHING THAT WE DO REDEMPTIVELY.
I THINK OUR GOAL AS CHRISTIANS, EVANGELICAL
CHRISTIANS IN THE UNITED STATES IS TRY TO HELP
BRING THE UNITED STATES INTO A MISSIONARY
ENCOUNTER WITH THE GOSPEL AND I THINK THE MOST
REWARDING ARENA FOR DOING THAT IS POLITICS AND
PUBLIC LIFE.
AND WHY IN THE WORLD WOULD WE NOT WANT SUPREME LORD
OF THE UNIVERSE, OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST FOR HIS
SAVING WORKS AND WORD TO BE BROUGHT INTO POLITICS
AND PUBLIC LIFE.
EVEN THE GREAT COMMISSION ITSELF IN MATTHEW CHAPTER
28, JESUS SAID ALL AUTHORITY IN HEAVEN AND
EARTH HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME GO THEREFORE AND MAKE
DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS BAPTIZING IN THE NAME OF
THE FATHER, SON AND HOLY SPIRIT AND TEACHING THEM
TO OBEY EVERYTHING I HAVE COMMANDED YOU SO THE GREAT
COMMISSION EVEN SUBSUMES THE CULTURAL MANDATE.
IT DOES AND EVEN THAT FIRST PHRASE ALL AUTHORITY
HAS BEEN GIVEN TO ME IN HEAVEN AND ON EARTH, THE
HEAVEN AND EARTH PHRASE THROWS US BACK TO THE
GENESIS ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY, JESUS WAS
SAYING MY LORDSHIP IS AS WIDE AS CREATION YOU KNOW
IF HIS LORDSHIP IS AS WIDE AS CREATION, IT IS AS WIDE
AS CULTURE, AND IT IS WIDE AS EVERY ASPECT AND EVERY
MOMENT OF OUR LIVES.
ABRAHAM KUYPER WROTE EXTENSIVELY ABOUT THE IDEA
OF SPHERE SOVEREIGNTY, THE IDEA OF SPHERES IMPLIES
A LIMITATION, GOVERNMENT IS ONE OF THOSE SPHERES,
GOVERNMENT HAS EXCEEDED THE BOUNDARIES OF ITS
LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY.
WHAT ARE THE IMPLICATIONS FOR A GOVERNMENT THAT
KNOWS NO BOUNDS?
YOU KNOW SO GOD WHEN GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND
THE EARTH WE LEARN THAT HE CREATED DIFFERENT KINDS OF
ANIMALS, DIFFERENT KINDS OF VEGETATION FOR EXAMPLE,
BUT HE ALSO CREATED DIFFERENT KINDS OF CULTURE
ART, SCIENCE, POLITICS, EDUCATION AND EACH OF
THESE SPHERES OF CULTURE HAS ITS OWN CENTER, ITS
OWN REASON FOR EXISTENCE BUT ALSO ITS OWN
BOUNDARIES AND WHEN ONE OF THESE SPHERES TRIES TO
TAKE OVER THE OTHER SPHERES ITS DEIFYING
ITSELF WHEN THE STATE DOES THAT IT'S ESPECIALLY
DANGEROUS.
SO WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE WHEN A GOVERNMENT EXCEEDS
THE BOUNDARIES OF ITS LEGITIMATE AUTHORITY?
THAT AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO IT BY GOD, WHAT
DOES IT LOOK LIKE WHEN THE GOVERNMENT EXCEEDS GOD'S
BOUNDARIES?
YEAH SOMETIMES THE GOVERNMENT BECOMES LIKE A
GIANT OCTOPUS AS ABRAHAM KUYPER PUT IT, THAT IT
GETS ITS TENTACLES IN EVERYTHING.
THE GOVERNMENT EXISTS FOR ONE PURPOSE AND THAT IS TO
BRING JUSTICE TO THE INDIVIDUALS AND
COMMUNITIES UNDER ITS PURVIEW AND SO IT BRINGS
MINIMAL PROVIDES THE MINIMAL CONDITIONS OF
ORDER AND PROTECTS PEOPLE FROM VIOLENCE AND SERVES
AN UMPIRE SOMETIMES WHEN THERE'S FIGHTS BETWEEN THE
SPHERES BUT WHEN IT GOES BEYOND THAT IT HAS MADE
ITSELF INTO A GOD AND IT'S GOTTEN OUTSIDE OF ITS AREA
OF EXPERTISE AND THAT'S NEVER GONNA GO WELL.
AS DR. ASHFORD EXPLAINED GOD CREATED DIFFERENT
SPHERES OF INFLUENCE- EACH WITH THEIR OWN STRUCTURE
OF AUTHORITY ALL UNDER GOD.
BUT IN OUR DAY, THE STATE HAS FORCEFULLY THRUST
ITSELF INTO ALL THE OTHER SPHERES- GROWING
INCREASINGLY POWERFUL AND CONTROLLING AS IT DOES.
DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY SAW THIS HAPPENING AND SPOKE
POWERFULLY ABOUT IT.
HIS DAUGHTER AND MY VERY GOOD FRIEND, JENNIFER
KENNEDY CASSIDY JOINS ME NOW.
JENNIFER, MANY PEOPLE SAY CHRISTIANS SHOULD JUST
STAY OUT OF POLITICS.
BUT YOUR DAD SAW THAT AS A PLOY DIDN'T HE?
YES HE DID, HE SAW IT AS AN EFFORT TO SILENCE
CHRISTIANS.
MY FATHER UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE WAS A RIGGED GAME
BEING SET UP TO SILENCE AND MARGINALIZE
CHRISTIANS.
CHRISTIANS HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT POLITICS AND RELIGION
ARE SUPPOSED TO BE SEPARATE FROM EACH OTHER-
AND EVEN MANY CHRISTIANS HAVE FOOLISHLY GONE ALONG
WITH THAT NOTION.
AND AT THE SAME TIME, THE FAR LEFT HAS FRAMED
LITERALLY EVERYTHING, FROM THE DESIGN OF THE FAMILY
TO THE LOCKER ROOMS OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN
USE AT SCHOOL, TO BE POLITICAL.
BY INTRUDING THE STATE INTO EVERYTHING, AND
MAKING EVERYTHING POLITICAL, THE SECULARISTS
HAVE SOUGHT TO CONFINE CHRISTIANITY TO WITHIN THE
FOUR WALLS OF THE HOME AND THE CHURCH BUILDING.
MY DAD SAW THROUGH IT, AND BOLDLY ENCOURAGED
CHRISTIANS TO BE INVOLVED IN THE POLITICAL PROCESS
BECAUSE CHRIST IS LORD OF ALL.
HERE IS MY DAD, DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY, WITH
AN IMPORTANT EXCERPT FROM HIS CLASSIC MESSAGE, "THE
BIBLE AND POLITICS."
THE BIBLE AND POLITICS.
PROBABLY NEVER IN MY LIFETIME AND NOT IN YOURS
HAS THERE BEEN SUCH A CONTROVERSY AND FUROR
OF CONCERN ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP OF RELIGION
AND POLITICS.
HARDLY A WEEK HAS GONE BY FOR THE PAST YEAR WHEN WE
HAVEN'T HEARD SOMETHING ABOUT IT IN THE MEDIA.
AND I BELIEVE THAT THE CAUSE OF ALL OF THIS
CONTROVERSY HAS BEEN THAT IN THE LAST DECADE OR TWO,
IN PARTICULAR, THE GOVERNMENT IN THIS COUNTRY
HAS BEEN EXPANDING THE PARAMETERS OF ITS INTEREST
AND CONCERN UNTIL NOW IT HAS INCLUDED WITHIN THE
BORDERS OF ITS OWN LEGISLATIVE AND JUDICIAL
ENACTMENTS MATTERS THAT, AT ONE TIME, FOR HUNDREDS
OF YEARS IN FACT, WERE CONSIDERED TO BE MERELY IN
THE REALM OF MORALITY OR SPIRITUALITY.
AND AN ATTEMPT IS BEING MADE CONCURRENTLY WITH
THAT EXPANSION OF GOVERNMENT CONTROL TO
SILENCE THE RELIGIOUS PROTEST.
I SPEAK, OF COURSE, OF THE RELIGION OF SECULAR
HUMANISM, WHICH, OF COURSE, HAS INDEED
DECLARED A FULL-SCALE WAR ON CHRISTIANITY IN
AMERICA.
WELL, WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT OUR
RESPONSIBILITY AS CITIZENS IN THIS COUNTRY?
AND ABOUT GOVERNMENT?
OF COURSE, JESUS CHRIST DECLARED THAT WE WERE TO
RENDER UNTO CAESAR THE THINGS THAT ARE CAESAR'S
AND UNTO GOD THE THINGS THAT ARE GOD'S.
THEREFORE, IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DO
WHATEVER GOOD CITIZENSHIP REQUIRES.
NOW, WHAT IS HAPPENING TODAY IS THAT THE
SECULARIST AND THE HUMANISTS ARE TRYING TO
PUSH CHRISTIANITY OFF OF THE FIELD AND REPLACE IT
WITH A RELIGION OF SECULAR HUMANISM WHICH GIVES WAY
TO ITS AGENDA OF DEATH AND IMMORALITY AND THEN THEY
WANT TO HAVE THAT SO-CALLED NEW MORALITY
ENACTED INTO LEGISLATION AND THEY HAVE SUCCEEDED
IN DOING IT ABOUT 50% OF THE TIME.
BUT LET US NOT BE DECEIVED INTO SUPPOSING THAT THAT
IS NOT AN ENACTMENT OR AN IMPOSITION OF MORALITY.
BUT THAT IS A FAR CRY FROM THE VIEWS OF THE FOUNDING
FATHERS OF THIS COUNTRY.
NO, THE FOUNDERS OF THIS NATION HAD A VERY
DIFFERENT VIEW THAN WHAT IS BEING TOLD TODAY.
UNFORTUNATELY, CHRISTIANS BY DEFAULT, HAVE INHERITED
A GLORIOUS PATRIMONY AND THEY HAVE ALLOWED IT TO
SIFT THROUGH THEIR FINGERS LIKE SAND, UNTIL NOW WE
FIND OURSELVES IN A GREAT STRUGGLE, EVEN TO MAINTAIN
AND TO HOLD ON TO THE GLORIOUS INHERITANCE THAT
WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND I HOPE THAT THE DAY WILL COME WHEN CHRISTIANS
WILL LOOK UPON APATHY AND INDIFFERENCE CONCERNING
THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES AS CHRISTIAN CITIZENS OF THIS
GREAT NATION AS A BASE AND INIQUITOUS THING AND THEY
WOULD BE ASHAMED TO ADMIT THAT THEY HAD FAILED TO
LIVE UP TO THEIR DUTY.
OF COURSE, WE MUST CONTINUE TO FULFILL THE
GREAT COMMISSION OF JESUS CHRIST TO TAKE THE GOSPEL
TO EVERY CREATURE; THAT WE MUST BE, NOT ONLY THE SALT
OF THE EARTH, EXERCISING ITS PRIVILEGES IN THE
KINGDOM OF CAESAR TO PREVENT THE NATION FROM
CORRUPTING ALTOGETHER, BUT WE MUST BE THE LIGHT OF
THE WORLD TO BRING THE LIGHT OF THE GOSPEL AND
ETERNAL LIFE TO MEN WHO ARE PERISHING IN DARKNESS
AND IGNORANCE.
WE MUST DO THAT!
THERE ARE SOME WHO WOULD ACCUSE US OF TRYING TO
CHRISTIANIZE AMERICA.
AM I TRYING TO CHRISTIANIZE AMERICA?
YOU BET YOUR BOOTS I AM.
(APPLAUSE)
WHAT WAS THE LAST COMMANDMENT THAT JESUS
CHRIST GAVE TO THE CHURCH: GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND
MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS."
THAT, MY FRIENDS, IS OUR HIGH AND GLORIOUS CALLING.
BY THE GRACE OF GOD, MAY WE DO IT.
DR. KENNEDY SPOKE ABOUT THE RELIGION OF SECULAR
HUMANISM, A RELIGION THAT HAS SOUGHT TO CROWD OUT
ALL OTHER RELIGIONS IN THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS.
ITS PROPONENTS HAVE BEEN WILDLY SUCCESSFUL IN THE
COURTS, AS THEY HAVE SYSTEMATICALLY DRIVEN
PRAYER, THE BIBLE, AND CHRISTIAN SPEECH FROM
SCHOOLS, GOVERNMENT INSTITUTIONS, AND MANY
PUBLIC PLACES.
UNELECTED JUDGES ARE ESSENTIALLY REWRITING
OUR FOUNDING DOCUMENTS, AND COMPLETELY UPENDING
THE FIRST AMENDMENT.
HOW IS IT THAT WE HAVE A VIRTUAL CONSTITUTIONAL
CONVENTION TAKING PLACE IN OUR JUDICIARY?
AND WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT?
OUR OWN DR. JERRY NEWCOMBE TAKES A LOOK.
IT WAS A DRAMA-PACKED NEWS DAY TODAY COURTESY OF
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ANTHONY KENNEDY.
KENNEDY ANNOUNCED HIS RETIREMENT FROM THE
SUPREME COURT THIS AFTERNOON.
IS THIS POTENTIALLY THE END OF ROE V. WADE?
WE'RE LOOKING AT A DESTRUCTION OF THE
CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, FAR AS I CAN TELL
BASED ON ALL OF THE FOLKS THAT HE'S BEEN APPOINTING
THUS FAR FOR LIFETIME APPOINTMENTS.
WHY IS A CHANGE ON THE SUPREME COURT SUDDENLY
GROUND ZERO IN THE CULTURE WARS?
SOME CRITICS ARGUE BECAUSE OUR LIVES IN AMERICA ARE
VIRTUALLY GOVERNED BY THE SUPREME COURT- BUT IS THAT
WHAT THE FOUNDERS INTENDED?
WE, CERTAINLY, HAVE A RUNAWAY JUDICIARY.
THEY ARE NOW MAKING DECISIONS THAT HAVE NO
CONCEIVABLE RELATIONSHIP TO THE CONSTITUTION.
WHAT THEY DIDN'T INTEND WAS FOR, AGAIN, A GROUP OF
UNELECTED JUDGES, TO BE ABLE TO MAKE UP WHAT THEY
THOUGHT THE CONSTITUTION SHOULD HAVE BEEN.
IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
EVERY TIME THE SUPREME COURT SITS.
IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE INTERPRETING THE DOCUMENT
THAT WE HAVE.
WE HAVE TO RETURN TO THE CONSTITUTION.
WHAT DOES THE CONSTITUTION SAY?
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM IS THE PROBLEM WHERE JUDGES MAKE
LAWS FROM THE BENCH, RATHER THAN SIMPLY
ADJUDICATING.
JUDICIAL ACTIVISM HAS BECOME SO COMMON IN
AMERICA IN THE LAST FEW DECADES THAT WE HAVE
BECOME VIRTUALLY OBLIVIOUS TO IT.
BUT IT WAS THROUGH THIS MEANS, FOR EXAMPLE, THAT
SCHOOL PRAYER IN PLACE BEFORE WE EVEN BECAME A
COUNTRY WAS SUDDENLY DECLARED UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
WE HAVE JUDICIAL ACTIVIST IN SO MANY AREAS AROUND
THE COUNTRY, AND THEY DON'T, THEY'RE MAKING LAW
FROM THE BENCH RATHER THAN JUST CALLING IT LIKE AN
UMPIRE, AS CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS SAID THERE IN HIS
CONFIRMATION.
THAT'S EXACTLY THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE, BUT
IT'S NOT IN SO MANY CASES.
I REMEMBER, I WAS ARGUING A CASE DEFENDING THE
TRADITION OF PUBLIC INVOCATIONS, AND THE ACLU
ATTORNEY ON THE OTHER SIDE WAS TRYING TO STAMP OUT
THIS PRACTICE AT CITY COUNCILS IN THAT CASE.
AND THEY STOOD BEFORE THE JUDGE AND THEY SAID, "YOUR
HONOR, THE MENTION OF JESUS IN A PUBLIC PRAYER
IS PRECISELY THE KIND OF EVIL THAT THE
ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE WAS CREATED TO PREVENT."
EXPERTS OFTEN SAY THAT ONE OF THE TOOLS BEING USED TO
REMAKE AMERICA BY JUDICIAL FIAT IS THE CONCEPT OF THE
SO-CALLED "LIVING CONSTITUTION."
THE IDEA THAT THE CONSTITUTION IS A LIVING
DOCUMENT IS REALLY PREPOSTEROUS.
WHAT THEY MEAN BY THAT IS THAT A JUDGE CAN CHANGE IT.
THE CRISIS IS THAT WE HAVE A JUDICIARY THAT ISN'T AS
COMMITTED AS IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE TO DEFENDING THE
CONSTITUTION AND TO JUST INTERPRETING THE
CONSTITUTION AND THE LAWS FOR WHAT THEY ARE.
THE IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTAND IS THAT THE
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT AND ITS MEMBER
JUSTICES ARE REQUIRED TO UPHOLD THE UNITED STATES
CONSTITUTION.
THE CONSTITUTION IS WHAT IT IS IF YOU WANT TO
CHANGE IT THAT'S WHAT THE AMENDMENT PROCESS IS FOR.
A SEMINAL EXAMPLE OF JUDICIAL TYRANNY IS THAT
OF ROE V. WADE, JANUARY 22, 1973, THE SUPREME COURT
THEN EFFECTIVELY DECLARED ABORTION LEGAL THROUGH ALL
9 MONTHS.
ROE V. WADE IS OFTEN AT THE HEART OF THE CONFIRMATION
BATTLES IN THE SENATE OVER JUDGES.
WE KEEP HEARING ABOUT THE "CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO
ABORTION"- BUT WAS ROE BASED ON THE CONSTITUTION?
IF YOU READ ROE AGAINST WADE, IT'S A VERY
INTERESTING OPINION.
IT'S ABOUT 51 PAGES OR SOMETHING OF THAT SORT,
51/52 PAGES.
THERE'S NOT AN OUNCE OF LEGAL REASONING IN IT.
HE GOES THROUGH WHAT THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS THOUGHT
ABOUT ABORTION, HE GOES THROUGH THE ENGLISH COMMON
LAW OF ABORTION, HE GOES THROUGH WHAT THE AMERICAN
HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION THINKS ABOUT ABORTION,
WHAT THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION THINKS ABOUT
IT, AND THEN, SUDDENLY, AFTER ALL THIS HISTORY
WHICH IS UTTERLY IRRELEVANT TO THE ISSUE
BEFORE HIM, HE SUDDENLY SAYS, "WELL, THERE IS A
RIGHT OF PRIVACY AND IT'S BROAD ENOUGH TO COVER THE
RIGHT TO ABORTION."
BANG, IT'S A TERRIBLE OPINION.
ANOTHER EGREGIOUS EXAMPLE OF JUDICIAL TYRANNY WAS
THE 2015 SUPREME COURT DECISION LEGALIZING
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, OBERGEFELL V. HODGES-
A DECISION WRITTEN BY THE OUTGOING JUSTICE ANTHONY
KENNEDY.
THE SUPREME COURT IN THE 5-4 DECISION ISSUED A
DECISION THAT THE CHIEF JUSTICE CALLED, BASICALLY,
A LAWLESS DECISION BY 5 LAWYERS THAT WAS NOT BASED
ON THE CONSTITUTION, NOT BASED ON THE COURTS
PRECEDENT BUT WAS ONLY BASED UPON THEIR WILL.
AND HE SAID, "SOME PEOPLE MAY REJOICE OVER THIS
DECISION, BUT DON'T REJOICE OVER THE CONSTITUTION.
IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT."
THAT'S FROM CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS.
WHENEVER THE JUDICIAL BRANCH SEEKS TO OVERRULE
GOD, IT'S GOING TO BE A CONCERN FOR ME AND SHOULD
BE A CONCERN FOR ANY CHRISTIAN SINCE MARRIAGE
IS A DIVINE INSTITUTION.
IT'S SUCCUMBING TO THE PRESSURE OF THE CULTURE,
AND THAT WHICH IS BECOME MORE AND MORE ACCEPTABLE.
BUT, I DID FEEL LIKE IT OVERSTEPPED ITS BOUND
BECAUSE IT TOOK IT OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE PEOPLE
BROADLY AND SO THAT WAS UNFORTUNATE.
THE GREATEST VIRTUE OF A WRITTEN CONSTITUTION IS
THAT IT IS WRITTEN.
THE SAME MEN WHO WROTE THE LANGUAGE OF THE FIRST
AMENDMENT BEGAN THOSE SESSIONS WITH A PRAYER.
AND HERE A COUPLE YEARS AGO THEY DECLARE THAT IT'S
NOW UNCONSTITUTIONAL, BECAUSE IT'S A LIVING
BREATHING DOCUMENT AND WE HAVE TO CHANGE WITH THE TIMES.
I'M AN ORIGINALIST; I THINK WE NEED TO BE.
I THINK THE FOUNDERS WERE DIVINELY INSPIRED TO PUT
THESE PROTECTIONS IN THE WAY THEY DID, AND WE
DEVIATE FROM THAT AT OUR PERIL.
WE NEED TO GET THE COURTS BACK INTO THEIR PROPER
ROLE AND THEY HAVE, SO FAR, GONE ACROSS THEIR
PROPER ROLE THAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LOT TO
RETURN THEM TO WHERE THEY NEED TO BE.
AS YOU'VE JUST SEEN, JUDGES HAVE TAKEN TO
REWRITING OUR NATION'S LAWS.
THEY'VE DONE IT THROUGH THE FICTION OF THE
SO-CALLED LIVING CONSTITUTION, WHICH ALLOWS
THEM TO DEPART FROM THE DOCUMENT'S TEXT AND
ESSENTIALLY MAKE IT UP AS THEY GO ALONG.
IMPEACHING JUDGES IS VERY DIFFICULT.
BUT NOMINATING AND CONFIRMING GOOD ONES HAS A
POWERFUL POSITIVE EFFECT.
CURRENTLY THERE ARE MANY EXCELLENT JUDGES AWAITING
CONFIRMATION.
AND THE NEXT ELECTION COULD DETERMINE WHETHER
THEY GET CONFIRMED OR NOT.
WE HAVE AN URGENT NEW RESOURCE FOR YOU ON THIS
SUBJECT, AND JOHN RABE IS HERE TO TELL US MORE.
JOHN, THE SENATE IS THE KEY TO THE CONFIRMATION
PROCESS.
THE FOUNDERS WANTED THE SENATE TO PROVIDE ADVICE
AND CONSENT ON MAJOR PRESIDENTIAL APPOINTMENTS.
WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE JUDICIARY AND THE PROBLEMS
WITH THE JUDICIARY REALLY THE SENATE HOLDS ALL THE
POWER ON THAT.
THERE HAVE BEEN SO MANY GOOD JUDGES THAT HAVE BEEN
NOMINATED AND SEVERAL OF THEM HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED,
NEIL GORSUCH TO THE SUPREME COURT BEING ONE
STERLING EXAMPLE, BUT THERE ARE MANY THAT ARE
STILL AWAITING CONFIRMATION.
THE UPCOMING ELECTION IS GOING TO BE A HUGE ISSUE
WHEN IT COMES TO THE COMPOSITION OF THE SENATE
AND WHAT THEY GET DONE.
AND PEOPLE, I DON'T THINK REALIZE THAT THE VICE
PRESIDENT HOLDS PARTICULAR POWER OVER THE SENATE.
IT HASN'T BEEN USED, IT'S A LITTLE KNOWN POWER, BUT
THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS THE POWER AND THE AUTHORITY TO
REALLY DETERMINE THE AGENDA FOR THE SENATE AND
SO WE, FRANK, HAVE A NEW BOOKLET THAT LAYS THIS OUT
IN A WAY THAT I THINK WILL BE EYE OPENING FOR MANY
PEOPLE.
IT'S THIS NEW BOOKLET CALLED CHANGE THE SENATE
CHANGE AMERICA, BY THE HONORABLE JOHN HOSTETTLER.
JOHN IS A FORMER CONGRESSMAN FROM THE
STATE OF INDIANA, A CONSTITUTIONAL EXPERT,
A CONSTITUTIONAL SCHOLAR, IF YOU WILL.
HE IS ALSO WITH OUR D. JAMES KENNEDY CENTER FOR
CHRISTIAN STATESMANSHIP IN WASHINGTON DC AND JOHN
HOSTETTLER GOES THROUGH, USING THE CONSTITUTIONAL
TEXT, AND EXPLAINS HOW THE VICE PRESIDENT HAS THE
POWER TO SHAPE AND GUIDE THE AGENDA OF THE SENATE,
A POWER THAT HAS BEEN LITTLE USED, AND NEEDS
TO BE USED TO GET THESE JUDICIAL CONFIRMATIONS
THROUGH.
VERY GOOD, AND WE'D BE HAPPY TO SEND YOU THIS
FASCINATING NEW BOOKLET BY FORMER CONGRESSMAN JOHN
HOSTETTLER, CHANGE THE SENATE AND CHANGE AMERICA,
AS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION TO THE
ONGOING WORK OF THIS MINISTRY.
SIMPLY WRITE TO US AT:
OR CALL TOLL FREE:
OR GO ONLINE TO:
AND JOHN, THOSE THAT WANT TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THIS
ISSUE, FOR THOSE PEOPLE, WE HAVE ANOTHER COMPANION
RESOURCE TO GO ALONG WITH THIS BOOKLET, CORRECT?
WE DO FRANK, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAS HAPPENED
IS BECAUSE OF A FALSE UNDERSTANDING IN THE
JUDICIARY OF WHAT THE FIRST AMENDMENT MEANS,
YOU'VE HAD THE SECULARIZATION OF AMERICA.
YOU'VE REALLY HAD ANY MENTION OF GOD PEELED FROM
PUBLIC LIFE, PARTICULARLY AS IT PERTAINS TO THE
GOVERNMENT.
WELL, DR. KENNEDY DELIVERED ONE OF HIS MOST
IMPORTANT MESSAGES; IT'S CALLED "AMERICA'S GREATEST
HERO".
AND IN THAT MESSAGE HE SHOWS HOW INTEGRAL
CHRISTIANITY AND HOW INTEGRAL GOD'S PROVIDENCE
WAS TO THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA AND HE TAKES IT
ALL THE WAY BACK THROUGH HISTORY TO SHOW HOW STEP
BY STEP GOD WAS OPENING THE WAY FOR THIS AMERICAN
EXPERIMENT IN WHICH CHRISTIANITY WOULD
FLOURISH AND BE SENT AROUND THE WORLD FROM THE
AMERICAN CONTINENT.
AND THAT'S A HERITAGE THAT WE DARE NOT LOSE.
WELL WE WILL SEND YOU THIS CLASSIC MESSAGE FROM
D. JAMES KENNEDY, AMERICA'S GREATEST HERO IS THE
TITLE, AS WELL AS THE NEW BOOKLET BY FORMER
CONGRESSMAN JOHN HOSTETTLER, CHANGE THE
SENATE AND CHANGE AMERICA, AS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR
GENEROUS DONATION OF $50 OR MORE TO THE ONGOING
WORK OF THIS MINISTRY.
SIMPLY WRITE TO US AT:
OR CALL TOLL FREE:
OR GO ONLINE TO:
TRUST IN GOVERNMENT IS AT AN HISTORIC LOW, ACCORDING
TO A RECENT PEW RESEARCH POLL.
AND IT'S NO WONDER.
WE SEE SCANDAL AFTER SCANDAL IN PUBLIC LIFE.
MISSOURI'S GOVERNOR AND ONE OF MINNESOTA'S
SENATORS FORCED TO RESIGN IN RECENT MONTHS BECAUSE
OF SEXUAL IMPROPRIETY.
ELSEWHERE CORRUPTION SEEMS TO RUN RAMPANT, WITH THOSE
IN POWER SEDUCED BY THE ABILITY TO SKIM MONEY FROM
THE PUBLIC TROUGH.
ON ONE HAND, IT POINTS OUT AN IMPORTANT TRUTH: FAR
TOO MANY PEOPLE HAVE PUT TOO MUCH TRUST IN
GOVERNMENT FOR TOO LONG.
BUT WE ALSO NEED TO NOTE THAT FALLEN HUMAN BEINGS
DO NOT DESERVE THE SORT OF POWER WE'VE GIVEN THEM AS
GOVERNMENT GROWS AND GROWS.
AND ON THE OTHER HAND, IT POINTS OUT THE CRYING NEED
FOR REFORMATION.
WE NEED LEADERS WHO ARE PEOPLE OF INTEGRITY, MEN
AND WOMEN WHO ADHERE TO GOD'S COMMANDMENTS AND
UNDERSTAND AND APPLY OUR NATION'S CONSTITUTION.
THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF LEADERS WE AIM TO EQUIP
THROUGH OUR D. JAMES KENNEDY CENTER FOR
CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE IN WASHINGTON DC.
WE ARE CURRENTLY IN THE MIDST OF OUR TRAINING OUR
FIRST COHORT OF QUALIFIED STUDENTS IN BIBLICAL
WORLDVIEW, THE CONSTITUTION, AND THE
PRACTICAL SKILLS OF STATESMANSHIP LIKE MEDIA
RELATIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS.
AND OUR GOAL IS TO TRAIN HUNDREDS MORE, SENDING
THEM INTO THE CORRIDORS OF POWER TO DO THE LORD'S
WORK.
AS OUR SECOND PRESIDENT, AND SIGNER OF THE
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, JOHN ADAMS
ONCE SAID, "THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THE
FATHERS ACHIEVED INDEPENDENCE WERE THE
GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIANITY."
REGAINING THOSE PRINCIPLES IN GOVERNMENT TODAY ARE
THE KEY TO OUR CHILDREN'S AND GRANDCHILDREN'S
FUTURE.
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES IS STANDING FOR TRUTH AND
DEFENDING YOUR FREEDOM.
I'M FRANK WRIGHT.
THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR THIS EDITION OF TRUTHS
THAT TRANSFORM, WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME!
NEXT WEEK ON TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
WE NEED TO HAVE A CONSTITUTION WHERE THE
WORDS MEAN SOMETHING
AND THAT MEANS OF COURSE THAT THEY DON'T MEAN
EVERYTHING.
AS CITIZENS, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO LEARN TO IMITATE
THOSE VIRTUES OF JESUS CHRIST IF WE'RE GOING TO
PROSPER AND FLOURISH AS A NATION.
THAT'S NEXT WEEK.
TODAY'S PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE ON DVD FOR YOUR
GIFT TO THIS MINISTRY OF ANY AMOUNT.
PLEASE CALL, WRITE, OR LOG ON TO OUR WEBSITE TODAY.
THIS HAS BEEN A PRODUCTION OF
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES
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