According to Steve Watson, October 13, 2015 on “Infor Wars,” Obama believes that it is Christians who are paralyzing his Big Government initiatives.
The “President . . . suggests Christians holding back America from doing “big things””
Let’s see: Obama wants State-funded, abortion on demand; baby body parts put up for sale; an Islamic government; maximum taxation of all Americans, elimination of gun rights, Muslim prayers said five times a day in American cities; a Sodomite, Transvestite, and gender-neutral education program in public schools; and the White House sprayed with rainbow colors every night.
Yea, I can see how Christians might not believe in “big government” headed by psychopathic Fabian Islamic Socialist at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The president believes government is the savior of the world, and Christians believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world.
This conflict is not unlike what happened in the apostolic age.
Due to the historical wonder of the risen Christ sitting in session at the right hand of God, Peter challenged man’s idolatrous view of the State saying there is no State government upon which salvation and blessing comes to mankind other than upon the glorious reign of the Lord Jesus Christ:
Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
According to the German historian, Ethelbert Stauffer, the religious principle of the Roman Empire, from the days of Augustus on, was salvation by Caesar:
“Salvation is to be found in none other save Augustus, and there is no other name given to men in which they can be saved.”
This helps us to understand the boldness of St. Peter, and the total power he declared rested in Christ. When Peter preached that Jesus was Lord, he declared war on Rome!
War between Christ and Caesar, the Christians and Rome, was thus inevitable. The state and its emperors claimed to offer salvation. Peter and the church declared that salvation was only in Christ.
St. Peter faced a hostile nation whose hope of salvation was in freedom from Rome. Thus the Zealots of Israel had a large popular following. Salvation for them meant a revived Jewish political order. For the Roman overlords and their followers, salvation meant Caesar’s plan for the world.
St. Peter ruled out, not only all other religions, but all the political schemes by government rulers for salvation with his blunt words: “Neither is there salvation in any other.” Christ is unique, and His salvation is exclusive. He is THE way, the ONLY way! Peter made emphatically clear, “ . . . there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” There is no other contingency upon which a man can rest for salvation.
This means that arrogant political saviors cannot provide redemption for the family, only ruin. Politicians only offer the illusion of hope and change. “Yes, we can” is nothing but political blabber. Truth is exclusive. It is founded on Christ the Solid Rock, not upon the quick sand of political humbug. Government is not God. Families sucking on government pablum will be anorexic and famished.
Thus, as the State offers Americans political and religious saviors, we must stand with St. Peter and declare: None other name! (CA Farmer 241:5 (Oct. 5, 1974), p. 28).
We are again in the age of Caesars, of political saviors offering hope and change.
All over the world, politicians proclaim their plans of salvation. The cornerstone of their building is man. “Look unto me,” declare the politicians, “Vote for me and be saved.” It takes a “village” to raise a family says Hillary Clinton. And, by this she meant that man needs big government to be saved–a heresy for sure and declaration of war against God’s law-order.
Modern Christians, by their devotion to the State, have fallen into the pagan error that the State is a god . . . and only the State can save us politically, economically, and socially. They don’t do this verbally, but pragmatically. They will pay their taxes to the State and obey its statutes before they tithe to the LORD God and obey His Word. This is statism, and statism is idolatry plain and simple.” [Stockton: A Family Under God, p. 19-20, unpublished manuscript]
Dr. Brook Stockton
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