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A Nation of Truth Rejecters

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A bedrock principle of Natural Law the Law upon which Western Civilization rests is the primacy of truth. Without a desire for, and appreciation of, truth, society cannot sustain itself. Lies, deceit, duplicity, etc., are more than moral evils they are the bane of freedom and liberty. Take away truth, and one is left without honor, justice, or decency. Truth is the cement that holds the bricks and stones of a sane and civilized society together. Remove the former and the latter will crumble.Truth also demands courage and honesty, because sometimes it can be very painful to look at! It takes an honest man to desire truth, as truth will often reveal the character flaws in his own soul. It also takes courage to appreciate truth, as truth will often demand that one change his own opinion or conduct. Unfortunately, it does appear that the desire for truth has been replaced with a desire for deceit.Years ago, a great, old preacherwarrior told my former church congregation, People today love being lied to. How right he was! For the most part, even professing Christian people today love being lied to. It would seem that many people find deceit easier to digest than truth. Maybe its because these people lack the aforementioned virtues of honesty and courage.Truth demands the virtue of honesty, because honesty requires that information be objectively analyzed and studied it requires that personal prejudices and proclivities be set aside it requires that humility replace pride, which allows ones opinions and conduct to change in the face of truth.Truth also demands courage, as courage is the active response to honesty. To know what is right to do is great many people do not even know this much, but to act upon what one knows to be right is even greaterand also harder! Courage gives men the fortitude and conviction to suffer personal loss in order to be faithful to their own honesty. Courage places more value on honesty and truth than on personal prosperity or aggrandizement. Courage propelled Daniel into the lions den it drove Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego into the burning fiery furnace it placed a youthful David onto the battlefield alone against a fierce and ferocious adversary it gathered Pastor Jonas Clarks congregants mostly farmers and merchants onto Lexington Green to face Britains highly trained, professional soldiers.So, where are the virtues of honesty and courage in the desire for truth today Threaten the average pastor and church leader with some obscure IRS tax code and they will quickly turn their backs upon virtually every principle of truth and honor that they once professed to believe. The mere threat of potential financial loss sends men excuse me, males scurrying for cover.In this regard, when thenSenator Lyndon Johnson created the heinous 501c3 IRS taxexempt status for churches, he very cleverly with assistance from Hades, I might add planted the seeds that would grow up to intimidate the vast majority of Americas pastors and church leaders into becoming silent slaves of the state. In fact, if one has an opportunity to ever bore deeply into the matter, he or she will discover that most pastors and church leaders today do not even regard the Church as the institution of the living God, bound only to the laws and principles of Gods Holy Word they perceive it as a creature of the state, bound to the subjective machinations of IRS bureaucrats and their toadies in the law profession. And should a choice ever have to be made between the two, God, His Word, and His Church will be thrown under the bus in preference to the stateowned corporation. So much for truthor honesty, or courage, for that matter.The rejection of truth seems ubiquitous in America today. When did it start Maybe when Abraham Lincoln turned the Constitution on its head andat bayonet pointturned republicanism into nationalism maybe when Woodrow Wilson rejected thousands of years of human history and turned Americas sound money system over to the corrupt and illegitimate Federal Reserve maybe when Wilson created the monstrous Internal Revenue Service maybe when the 17th Amendment was adopted maybe when the American media convinced people that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy maybe when the American people including the vast majority of pastors and Christians turned their backs and their hearts to the Branch Davidians, who were murdered by federal agents outside Waco, Texas maybe when socalled conservative Senate Republicans deliberately chose to cover up President Bill Clintons criminal conduct maybe when the powers that be began demonizing anyone who dared to question the official story regarding the events on 91101 maybe when a vast majority of Christians and conservatives blindly followed and actively supported the unconstitutional, unAmerican policies of President George W. Bush. They supported Bush when he threw off Western Civilizations timetested Just War doctrine and replaced it with an unconscionable Preemptive War policy, and, again, when he officially began turning America into a police state by creating the Department of Homeland Security, implementing the Military Commissions Act, introducing the Patriot Act, and dismantling Habeus Corpus and Posse Comitatus. Whenever it started, the sad reality is, America has largely become a nation of truthrejecters.There is a passage of Scripture that I simply must interject here Because they received not the love of the truth . . . God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie. II Thess. 210,11 KJVThis is one of Gods universal principles when people deliberately reject truth, God will allow them to believe lies, which always leads to ultimate destruction. I submit that is exactly where America is today. As a nation, we have rejected truth, and God is giving us over to deceit and falsehood. And what is interesting to me is the way in which many unbelievers seem to have a thirst for truth that far surpasses that of many professing Christians. This leads to an amazing paradox.Think of it when God is moving within a nation with His plan of truth and justice which He is always doing, then it stands to reason that the evil one is, likewise, resisting and countering Gods plan through deceit and falsehood. This means that those unbelievers who seek truth are allying themselves with God maybe even unwittingly, while those professing Christians who have rejected truth are allying themselves against God again, maybe even unwittingly. Remember, God called the heathen king, Cyrus, my shepherd. Isa. 4428 But one thing is constant truth is like a magnet one is always being pulled toward it or away from it, depending upon the polarity of ones heart and mind. People who embrace truth tend to embrace it further, while people who reject truth tend to be continually hardened against it.Think of the conflicts of world and American history where brothers fought against brothers. Many of these brethren died at the hands of brethren fighting for truth, while other brethren died fighting against truth. And though men may be unable to discern the difference, God suffers from no such malady. He knows those who enable truth and those who disable it. And many of those today that are resisting and disabling truth call themselves Christians. There is another appropriate Scripture By their fruits ye shall know them. Matt. 720 KJVAgain, the desire for truth is a bedrock principle of a free and independent society. We must desire truth, first, in our own hearts. We must be willing to objectively analyze our motives and actions based upon this fundamental principle. How can so many people including professing Christians behave so dishonestly How can they act so cowardly How is it that truth is only precious when it doesnt cost us anything How can people be so unconcerned about truth and so spiteful toward those who seek it How can those who claim as their Savior the One is the way, the truth, and the life be so calloused against truth How can those who claim to read the word of truth the Bible be so ignorant of truthLook around you our society is breaking apart due to a lack of appreciation for truth. Small businesses are being put out of business due to a lack of truth. Families are being torn apart due to a lack of truth. Churches are filled with bitterness, carnality, envy, deceit, duplicity, false accusation, greed, and cowardice due to a lack of truth. Our political institutions mock the principles of decency and honor due to a lack of truth. The national media loves to distort truth the federal judiciary loves to twist truth and there is no such thing as truth to Big Businessonly bottom line profits.As we enter a new year in search of Heavens blessing and protection, let us remind ourselves that God always judges people who reject truth. Always! If we truly want Heavens blessing and protection upon our land, we will starteach of usby being willing to seek and embrace truth, even if doing so costs us something because, in reality, people who reject truth lose a whole lot more than whatever they had hoped to gain. Eventually, they lose, not only their own lives, but also the life of their country.