List Of Barack Obama Accomplishments

The Gathering Storm

"And you, O people, whom God has given freedom to choose their own judges, to ensure that you do not enjoy the favor of choice as the highest honor, rascals and enemies of God. "
John Calvin

"Go where the political slavery dream of the public. "
Dickinson, John, 1732-1808

At this critical moment in U.S. history as a nation have chosen a new president is not passivity, indifference and neglect of the church pastors and Christian. As a prominent religious leader, John MacArthur, said recently: "I I would not spend five seconds thinking about the fall 2008 election. "That mentality is the antithesis of Scripture and historical theology. It shows a vision evil of church and state which relegates the secular world to a field outside the influence of the Christian community. By reversing this spiritual myopia that the only area where God's will is done. The modern church has become a fortress microbe virtually no voice to call the nation to repentance. A somnambulence of the mind and spirit that has overcome the world church. We are isolated in a micro-world and relegated to the society we live to insignificance. The vacuum of non-participation with the secular world of Christians is enormous. A diagnosis twentieth century theologian passivity of the modern church, "In the early church, there were people called" hermits who went to the desert, from all social contacts and live only for God. From this first movement, monasticism was born. In our time we see a similar response among some evangelical Protestants. They believe that the Christian community should be separated from the field lay Christians should not enter politics or vote in elections, be removed from the culture, live in separate communities, have the exclusive Christian friends, the work of Christian businesses, or in general, have no nothing to do with this world. It is a way of saying that the State authority is illegitimate. "(James Montgomery Boice, Foundations of Christian Faith, p. 691). The institution of a civilian government is not illegitimate, is ordained by God to avoid evil and to manifest his glory. In the words of John Murray, "… when the civil magistrate offenses limits his authority for the Church to denounce and condemn this violation of their authority. "(The relationship between Church and State, p. 253).

The hermit medieval living in stone cells approximately 12 x 12 with a small opening in the wall to see the outside world. They have dedicated their lives to academic studies and academic while rejecting a world thought lost forever. His influence in society is as effective as an ant on a piece of bread. Confidence days assume that your sermon anchorites Weekly or low, against the invading darkness around her like a hurricane religious sphere surrounding a small island. Behind a bluff verbiage is in vain that they think their words slow night. The weakness of the voice for ant test matrix of the Christian Church has allowed the virulent hatred of theism to capture the Agora of ideas. exposure is simple anemic without facing a degenerate culture. Apologetics limited to a cell church is not cowardice value of the Bible. The words of a scholar theologian of the Reformation of the nineteenth century, Abraham Kuyper, are disturbing our comfortable isolation: "No doubt then that Christianity is threatened by many dangers and serious. Two life support systems confront each other in mortal combat. Modernism is forced to build a world of their own data from natural man, and build man himself from the data of nature, whereas, on the contrary, all who reverently bend the knee before Christ and worship him as the Son of the living God, and God Similarly, we are determined to save the heritage "Christian." It is the struggle in Europe, is the struggle in America, and is also fighting for the principles that I own country is involved and where I spent all my energy for nearly 40 years. In this struggle, we have not advanced apologetics one step. Apologetics always starts by abandoning the parapet assaulted, to hide in a cowardly Raveline [3 parts] Fortaleza back. If the battle must be fought with honor and with the hope of victory, then principle should be that they are against the principle, then it must be estimated that in the modern energy of a comprehensive all-encompassing life hits us, then also we must understand that we take our stand in a living system of power as comprehensive and far-reaching. "(Abraham Kuyper, cornerstone events: lectures on Calvinism, 1895, p. 3). A one-dimensional view of the church is an ecclesiastical suicide. He left the civil government of the jurisdiction of the ecclesiastical authority and sovereign of God. "… It was always understood that the Church and State were responsible to God, whose wisdom had each set. There were two independent agents of a master. Although it has been authorized in another section, was to remind each other of their functions and appointed by God to remind the right, godly conduct and should therefore depart. Today, however, the doctrine of separation of church and state is taken, mainly by people from the church to say that the church is revealed to the state – if the state provides the more and more secular philosophy to influence the church. Therefore, Christians withdraw from politics, abandonment, even to learn about national and international issues. And, therefore, the articulation of moral principles or eliminated spiritalis in discussions on national and international policy. The state becomes his own god, with its principle operation is the head of pragmatism. "(James Montgomery Boice, Foundations of Christian Faith, p. 665). When the church is anemic, the default government civil becomes the guardian of the people. Government becomes the home of confidence and hope.

"Therefore, no one can doubt that civil authority is, in the light of God, not only sacred and legitimate, but the most sacred and by far the most honorable of all stations in life-threatening. "(John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 4, chap. 20, sect. 4).

The philosopher and theologian, John Calvin, who designed the secular constitution of the church and in Geneva in 1540, it held that the walls must be separated from the influence of the lay faithful. His doctrine of the Church of the relations between the state / is revealing. "All we want to be understood now is that barbarism is great to think of exterminating [that] the civilian government use among men, no less than bread and water, light and air, while their dignity is far more excellent. Its purpose is not, how are you things, for people to breathe, eat, drink and be heated (if provided all these, then they can live together), which, I say, not your sole purpose, but is no idolatry, no blasphemy against the name of God, or slander against his truth, or other offenses to religion, licenses and circulated among people that the public is quiet imperturbable, as property of all men to be kept safely, that men can relate to some innocent trade with others, honesty and modesty that grown in a word, as in a public form of religion may exist among Christians, and humanity among men. No wonder they give me the task of religion properly human as a system of politics, but I think above have placed beyond the control of man, since I know more formally allow men pleasure to make laws on religion and worship of God, when I agree that civil order is directed to this end. "(John Calvin, Institutes of Religion Christian Book 4, chap. 20, sect. 3). Calvin civil government as the value that is worth more food for the body and air to breathe. I finally called the political system the state "religion" is a system of government of man by divine order established by God for the glory and keep the rebellious nature of man. For him, the state was to examine the womb of the church, recognizing God as Creator and the recognition of sovereignty and worship which is his due. Calvin has invested the power to limit state idolatry and blasphemy against God. It was by no means apolitical. This is far from pastors and Christians who say the government is not worthy of our time and effort to change, modify or restrict. Religious life is not active in all of our being, but a limited part of the feelings or will. A partial influence today's hidden character the impact of a life redeemed. Religion and its authority is excluded "in … the field of public life, now the inner chamber, the cell of prayer and the secret of the heart would be his only place of residence. "" And the result is that in many ways, religion, once the central force of life human, is now placed next to her, and, far from the prosperity of the world means to hide in a remote and almost private retreat. "(Abraham Kuyper, 1895, La Pierre Views P. 40). The church of their own ghosts Designing Shadowboxer. The conferences are organized to attack straw men of antiquity, and rededicate itself to devote his business; while the judicial and legislative bodies of the nation are increasingly hostile to the name of God. The time spent on minutiae is irrational. Shortly sermons verbatim with proudly presented sequentially, are as far as the tip of the nose. lint rhetoric has replaced the word of God existentially face life.

"States U.S. is the only country founded on the belief. "(GK Chesterton)

The philosophical and theological inflence Reform not only established churches, but established nations of the central teaching of God's sovereign determination and appeal. No individual must maintain allegiance to any foreign despot who has restricted the worship of God, because God alone is the ruler of heaven and earth. The array of constitutional principles derived from an understanding of the sovereign nature of God. "The Declaration of Independence dogmatically bases all rights on the fact that God created all men equal, and rightly so, because if they are created equal, that they have changed incomparable. There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. "(GK Chesterton, I see in America, 1922). The individual has dignity and value which is not derived from civil law, but only the hands of God, in His image and likeness. "Calvinism has captured … and we guarantee our constitutional rights, civil, and at the same time as this, Western Europe was a powerful movement which promoted the revival of science and art opening new avenues for trade and commerce, to beautify the home and social life, exalted the middle classes to positions of honor, and which abound in philanthropy, and above all, the Exalted, purified and ennobled by the puritanical moral life ;…". serious reform, "Building a church order, which became the preformation of the state federation, was the guardian angel of science is the art emancipated, spread a political system that gave birth to government Constitution, both in Europe and America. "(Abraham Kuyper, p. 29, 155). There are evangelicals, MacArthur and his followers, who consider the American Revolution as illegitimate. His view of the values of colonial domination of England as God's government honored the land. They reject the Foundation Constitution Review U.S. and reduce the value of our democratic state, as decreed by God to human enobling and spreading the Gospel. This ahistorical perspective rejects our religious heritage and promotes a state of mind that perceives not myopic interrelationship between church and state. This point of view of our history is simply cave. "States America was founded primarily for religious purposes … "" The Pilgrim Fathers came to America precisely because Britain had become immoral and irreligious. They built "the city on the hill. Once again, their descendants have opted for independence and freedom, because they felt that their coverage was itself immoral and wicked and opposed the providential plan. There is no doubt that the Declaration of Independence, which signed a religious and a secular act, and that the war of independence was approval of divine providence. They had won the blessing of God, and then established their form of government with the blessing of God ,…" (Paul Johnson, A History of the American people, P. 204). The constitutional framers understood that his work has been willed by God and empowered by the God of heaven.

It Calvin thought or said, life in the 21st century in America, where a candidate and now president of the United States, has been awarded the titles of divinity? By what we know about him, he would certainly have spoken of the wrath of the authorities. Recently, a U.S. House of Representatives, Jesse Jackson Jr. said that an additional book should be added to the Bible, which describes the rise of the greatest figure of redemptive history the West. It seems that is the book of Barack Obama. "The most extraordinary event in American history, even a redemptive act of divine revelation. The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible, to illustrate important. "(From Political June 5, 2008, article by Josephine Hearn," Black lawmakers emotional about Obama's success. ") Barack Obama was given the title of" The Messiah "by the Nation of Islam. Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Nation of Islam, said he (Obama) has captured our youth and the days of the Messiah has come. In the words of Barack Obama, upon receipt of the nomination for the Presidency of the Party Democrats, "Tonight, the tide slowly and heal the earth." The New Testament describes the death and resurrection of Jesus as the only hope of redemption of humanity, but Obama said of himself and his disciples, "We hope for the future, the answer to the cynics who tell us our house must be kept divided we can not deliver, we can not remake the world as it should. Because we know what we have seen and what we believe – that what began as a whisper has grown to a chorus that can not be ignore, not be deterred, and reverberates throughout the country as a hymn that heals this nation, repair this world and make this time different than anything else. "(Barack Obama, Speech to 02/05/2008). Proudly rampant, he said, "I am convinced we can create a kingdom on earth." (Speech by Barack Obama, October 8, 2007). We do not need political leaders, but men and women of truth, which will last for rejection and shading support the unborn child, to maintain the historical definition of marriage, support of Israel as a sovereign state without any territorial concessions and to maintain the economic value of individuals, the incentive to achieve. Barack Obama's speech and his people to worship from an array of pride and arrogance, unbridled unprecedented in American political history. We hear voices cult use this language in the past but have been relegated the madness of blind extremism. But Obama seduced a whole generation of political language worship / recalling more complex an illusory God. In ancient Rome, where there is a winner, returned to the city with his army and the spoils of war, all the people received him with praise and Acclaim. However, chasing the car of a man who usually whispered in his ear: "You're not a god, you are mortal." The Church must remember that Obama is not the messiah, he is a mortal sin. Jean Calvin gripping power of the state is understood he would have opposed and exposed the blasphemy against God, for example.

"On your walls, O Jerusalem, I appointed watchmen, all day and all night that will never be silent. You remember the Lord, no rest for you and does not let him rest until he establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth. "(Isaiah 62:6-7)

"And I set watchmen over you, saying: "Hear the sound of the trumpet! But they said:" We want to hear. "(Jeremiah 6:17)

"At every stage of its existence Church requires guards who guard the flock from all that would destroy it. "(EJ Young, Book of Isaiah, vol. 3, p. 470)

As sentinels of age were stationed on the walls of a city to warn of impending danger, especially at night, when the prophets of Israel good voice alarm to the nation of Israel from death imminent. The prophets of Israel were the heart of God in human flesh. They have met all aspects of life in reference to God. The prophets diagnose the spiritual, cultural, social, economic, political and military condition of the nation from the perspective of eternity. Their voices no limits on the influence and impact. Nothing was out the scope of the authority of the prophetic voice. Reyes, misery, all that would come to know the mind of God from the heart burning of the prophet. His message included the entire Israel's life and history. Their voices captured this transcendence of eternity. The spirit of the prophets spans the globe, not just a tape of the religious activity. "The prophet is not only a prophet. There is also a poet, preacher, patriot, social critic, a moralist. "" The prophet is a person who said "no" his society, condemning its habits and assumptions, its complacency, rebellion and syncretism. "The prophet coalition faces a hard and established authority and agrees to stop a mighty river, in plain language. Were for the purpose of expressing ideas was great, the prophecy should have been recognized as a triumph. However, the purpose of prophecy is to conquer the insensitivity to change the inner man and revolutionize history. "(Abraham Heschel, The Prophets, p. VIII, XIII, p. 16-17). The prophets left avenue of society affected by the revelation of God. His voice has affected the solar plexus of the warning by the company and redemption. No aspect of life is inviolable in his confrontation of fire. "At his request, his voice was not the supreme authority. He only compete with the decisions the king and council the father, challenged and even condemned his words and deeds. "(Abraham Heschel, p. 260). The absence of voice of authority speaking as a power, is the truth, Obfuscation is very clear sense in a nation intoxicated by the rhetoric of self-exaltation.

Jesus gave a warning in Matthew 10:16 His disciples to be aware of the impending danger on the horizon, through a hostile world. "Behold, I send you as sheep among wolves, so be wise as serpents and harmless as doves. "The term wise as serpents" and "innocent as doves" is in the Midrash on You can not. 2:14. Israel is described as "harmless as doves "to God, and" wise as serpents "to the Gentile nations. The snake has a sensory system that detects the approach of predators and prey by vibrations on the floor. It can detect the movement of more than 100 feet away. The believer must be aware of what is ahead. Not be overtaken by events. When Israel failed to be clairvoyant wisdom, they have paid a high price as a nation. Epithelium the church has a believer in a state of vulnerability to the dangers of invasion of culture.

"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be salted? It is no more but to be thrown out and trampled by men. "(Matthew 5:13). There was a common expression among the rabbis of Jesus' day that the Torah is the" salt of the earth. "" For the world can not do without the salt could do without the Torah. "(Soferim 15.8). The Torah is believed to have a preservative effect in the world. The world would be rotting in a fast pace without slowing down the impact of the Word of God. But Jesus did something remarkable in this passage, he transfers the meaning of the Torah its disciples in Galilee, a band of weak, incompetent, men are not in school, despised by the educated people of Jerusalem. Jesus said the Word in and through of them would stop the looting of the world. No teacher in the history of Israel has never made such a declaration. Our presence in word and deed, to be a preservative in the middle age to die. Our lives are placed in each field, corruption delay. Our influence is to glorify God and affect this world. We can see God's glory again sea to shining sea, the birth of our nation. Our presence among this age slows the accelerated stripping a dying world.

The need to pray for our nation is now all the people of God. A confluence U.S. to seek the will of God is the only obstacle to the darkness over the Earth. There are thousands of believers across America who suffer and are awakened by God for the future of this nation. Only the Sovereign God dependence may conduct the current course that includes progressively autocratic vision of life. At times of the signal in our past that God has prepared his people in prayer concert. "Therefore, it is true that while we are apathetic or indifferent to our misery, waiting and watching for us, and sometimes even helps us to not ask too much for our interests to be constantly asking, first, that our heart is still burning a serious look longing, love and serve, as he had used as a sacred anchor. In all conditions, other hand, no desire, no desire whatsoever that we are ashamed of the witness, may enter into our minds when we learn to put all our desire in his eyes, and so spread our hearts to him. "It is absurd, therefore, to dissuade men from prayer, argued that God's providence, which is always lurking in the government of the universe is in vain importuned by our prayers, when, on the contrary, the Lord himself said: "Close to all who call on him at all those who call upon Him in truth. "(Psalm 145:18)." (Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 3, chap. 20, sect. 3). God is the sovereign Lord of all nations and he ordered that his will be done only as the weakness of our intercession.

The church lost its moral authority and spiritual realms this world. However, in the vain hope Anacoretas evangelicals justify such degradation of society as a sign that the end of the world is imminent. This is the flight of responsibility last of our children and their children's generation. "Religious life is not just a private matter. Our life is a movement of the symphony ever. It teaches us to pray and live in first person plural. "" All generations are present, as it were, every moment. "(Abraham Heschel, a philosophy Judaism, p. 422-423). The Christian can not lock herself in her church and the world abandoned to their fate. A chain of generations have mistakenly assumed that the consumption of age was in your life. "Occupy … [Gk. Pragmateuomai," the daily affairs of life, trade, judicial] until I come. "(Luke 19:13)." Therefore keep watch, you do not know what time the Lord comes. "(Matthew 24:42). Jesus commands a constant watch on the interaction between the believer and the society.

"… Glorify God by mankind to subdue the earth by word and by work. Tragically, the abandonment of the culture devotional piety. They state foolishly," Why Why polish brass on a sinking ship? A brass nail to glorify the Creator ship, which will not allow his ship to sink. In other words, the "Purpose Driven Life "is aimed, inter alia, to produce a culture of piety." (Bruce Waltke, Old Testament Theology, p. 221).

For many in the church, the duck was adopted: "Why polish brass on a sinking ship? The answer to this question is explosive, God is the master of the vessel and not gave up. Yes, the ship of state is the list, but are called to be a restraint system and to empower a government that honors God. We are in a crisis in U.S. history and that the sovereign God can not accept a movement that is a shame for him his heart. If we are silent and passive, we suffer the consequences with the rest of the nation sanctions under the hand of God. Although millions of people have cried for a leader after his own heart, like ancient Israel, the consequences God gives Israel an alter-ego, Saul, a leader has been painful. "And he gave them what they asked, but sent leanness into their souls." (Psalm 106:15). We to pray and ask God to lead us out of contention smaller than we are in. We have to see him as the ruler of heaven and the nations of the earth. Only God in his holy arm can contain the arrogance and dismissive motion that captures the imagination and entice millions of Americans.

The systems are rapidly decreasing depending on the size and addiction. The promise of continued economic expansion is now seen as he was unrealistic and shortsighted. The base layer of the economic and material life is shaken by seismic changes that have come to our entire capitalist system in question. It is as if we as a nation trapped in a dead out of despair. At this time of the death of the golden calves of America may be the grace of God to be quickened by his Spirit to breathe the breath of eternity in the midst of the agony of a dying age. "A feeling of contact with the end stands in most people do when their autonomy is what brings violent misery. "(Abraham Heschel, a philosophy of Judaism, p. 422).

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For over 35 years Lawrence Hilliard has taught theology, philosophy, religion and creation. In an anthropocentric world Mr. Hilliard teaches from a theocentric perspective.View articles of Mr. Hilliard at Clarion Voice

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