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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with the

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Moment of Truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And

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today, I want to challenge you to think about what would a Christian world government look like?

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Oh, hmm. I know how utterly strange and foreign a Christian world government sounds to many of you.

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In fact, it may even seem like a true oxymoron. That is, two ideas that are mutually exclusive,

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incompatible with one another, two ideas impossible of existing together simultaneously like

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matter and antimatter in the same room. Now, most American Christians can barely bring themselves to

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think about a nominally Christian government in America, much less a world government that's

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Christian in principle and its institutions. So, I may be asking you to stretch your imagination

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for a moment today, but please bear with me. Let me first begin by asserting something that every

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Christian would agree on, and that is Christ will rule in all of creation in due time. Christ will

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rule in all of creation in due time. Almost every Christian that I know of can agree with that

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because texts like Revelation chapter 20 say this in verse 4,

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then I saw thrones and seated on them were those to whom authority to judge was committed. That's us.

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Also, I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God

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and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads

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or on their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. Oh, that's in the

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Bible as well as many, many other texts. And all of us who take the Bible seriously thus agree that there

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will be a world. There will be a world in which Christ reigns and there will be a world government

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eventually in redemptive history. And precisely when that will come to complete fruition is where we

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differ. And there are basically three broad views being taught with some differences within each one

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of them. But before I sketch what a Christian world government would look like, what the character

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of a Congress of Christian constitutional republics would look like, let me briefly, ever so briefly,

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summarize how other Christians view what a world government ruled by Christ would look like, okay?

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Number one, the first two of a world government, Christian world government ruled by Christ. Number one,

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Christ will establish a world government as king when he comes again. This is the most popular view

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currently. It's called dispensational premillennialism, meaning simply that Christ will return in great

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power and glory before the onset of a millennium. That is a thousand years. Thus you have premillennialism.

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Christ will return before, pre that thousand year period, literal thousand year period of a millennium.

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And that will be a thousand years of peace and perfect rule in a final dispensation. That's

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a God's sovereign rule over his creation in a set period of time. Thus you get dispensationalism. That's a

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big two words, isn't it? Dispensational premillennialism. Say that 10 times fast, but that's

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indeed just simply the core idea. And then in this scheme, Christ will rule as sovereign king from

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Jerusalem for a literal 1,000 year period. Literal, because that's what the Bible says, right? So it must

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be a literal thousand years. So goes the understanding. And then until then, there will not, yea, cannot be

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a godly government of peace and perfection. According to dispensational premillennialism,

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there cannot be a godly government of peace and perfection. In fact, things will just get worse

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and worse until all things devolve into a great tribulation just before Christ returns, according

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to dispensational premillennialism. And most premillennialists say that the church will be

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raptured before that happens. But there are then also a variety of fine-tuned differences

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among premillennialists too, which we are not going to get into right now. The important thing

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for our discussion is that it is very difficult, yea, nigh impossible, for a contemporary Christian

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with these beliefs to even entertain the notion of a godly Christian constitutional republic in one

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place like the United States of America, much less a world government based upon the promise

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of a congress of Christian constitutional republic. So it's really a stretch for those who hold these

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beliefs. Then secondly, the second view that's out there is number two, Christ will establish a world

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government as king when he establishes the eternal state. Christ will establish a world government

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according to these folks, which we call amillennialists, that is, Christ will establish a world government

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as king when he establishes the eternal state, and not until then. This is a view of longstanding

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in the church. I used to hold this too, and it dates from the early centuries of the church, and it's called

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amillennialism. And in this view, the millennium spoken of in Revelation, that's that thousand years,

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the idea of a millennium. It's Latin for one thousand. This is a symbolic number indicating that Christ is

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reigning now through an indefinite period, a symbolic period, an indefinite period of time until he comes

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again. And when he does, he will usher in the eternal perfected state of peace and prosperity. And all of the

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promises of the Bible towards that end will be fulfilled then. And until then, we cannot expect

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such a period on this side of Christ's return, only after he comes again, this idea of peace, prosperity,

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and perfection. And so, while we may see some good things happen in the world of humanity and creation

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because of the positive influence of the church, we cannot expect peace, prosperity, and perfection

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here and now, especially a godly world government composed of Christian constitutional republics.

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That's view number two. Then finally, view number three, which is the one I hold. That is, Christ will

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establish a world government as king here and now prior to his return. Christ will establish a world

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government as king, and he'll do it here and now prior to his return. All Christians believe, indeed,

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that Christ will come again to establish peace, prosperity, and perfection that will endure

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for eternity. We all hold this. The question is, how much of that goodness will be expressed here and

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now on this side of his return? Post-millennialists, post-millennialists believe that many of the

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promises towards that end will be fulfilled before Christ returns again. And that, that will happen

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after the millennium. Christ's return will happen after the millennium. That is, after a period of peace,

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prosperity, and perfection, which Christ will achieve through the church. This includes a godly world

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rule by Christ through his church as more and more people come to know King Jesus. And we see that

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happening around the world. The church has never been larger, full of more adherents than it is now.

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More and more people will come to know King Jesus. And then as we progressively grow as well in our walk

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of sanctification such that we cannot govern ourselves, but rather be governed as we ought to be

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by our Lord. And then be such people as can establish a human government through which Christ can rule

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us. That's what we look at in post-millennialism. And that's when promises like this will come true.

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From Isaiah, the wolf shall lie down with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat

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and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together. And a little child shall lead them.

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They shall not hurt or destroy and all my holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of

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the Lord as the waters cover the sea. Unquote from Isaiah chapter 11. Isn't that a beautiful verse?

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Indeed, post-millennialists embrace the idea that one day in the future, right here in redemptive

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history, this side of redemptive history, the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord

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as the waters cover the sea. We look forward to that day. Peace, prosperity, and relative perfection

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will obtain over the whole earth precisely because all nations will know the Lord. And they will be

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ruled by him as well. Revelation 12 talks about the birth in a great beautiful figure of the woman

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in Revelation chapter 12. That woman, Revelation 12 says, she gave birth to a male child, one who is to

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rule all the nations with a rod of iron. And of course, that male child was indeed Jesus the Christ.

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And this is one of the most oft-quoted scriptures in the Bible. That is the idea of the Messiah ruling

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all nations with a rod of iron. And it's a quotation from Psalm number two, one of the most oft-quoted

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scriptures in the Bible that speaks of Messiah's rule over the nations, nations, not just the numberless

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host in heaven in the eternal state, but the nations. That is, nations are groups with language,

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borders, culture, and government. It is those from whom the church has been established too.

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Revelation chapter 5, verses 9 and 10 say this, worthy are you to take the scroll and to open

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its seals. And that, of course, was the lamb who had been slain. And the scroll that he took,

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the seven-sealed scroll, is indeed an inheritance. It is indeed a deed of possession by a son.

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The worthy are you to take that seven-sealed scroll and to open its seals. That is, to inherit what's

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within. For you were slain, and by your blood, Revelation goes on to say, by your blood, you ransomed

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people for God from every tribe and language and people and nation. And you have made them a kingdom

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and priest to our God, and they shall reign on the earth, unquote. But it is not just us,

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dear listener. Christ's sovereign rule extends over all the nations. From Psalm chapter two,

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verses eight and nine, the father says to the son, ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage

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in the ends of the earth, your possession. You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them

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in pieces like a potter's vessel. And more to the point for us, as Revelation declares to us,

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it will be the church through whom Christ will rule those nations of the earth. And they, that is the

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church, shall reign on the earth, right? Indeed, it is us, the saints of the church. It is us who,

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as Revelation 20 says, come to life to reign. We come to life, and that life is the spiritual life of

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the new birth in Christ. And in it, we reign for a thousand years. Consequently, it will be the saints

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of the church through whom Christ will rule in government over the nations of the earth. Christ

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indeed will rule. But just as he manifests himself now in the world by living in us, Christ does by the

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presence of the Holy Spirit, doesn't he? Christ manifests himself now in the world by living in us,

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his saints, that is the church. So will he manifest himself in governing the world through us,

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the saints, that is his church. Indeed, he will govern the world in human government,

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then through us, but it will be Christ reigning in us, his saints, the church. But if you are like me,

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many objections bubble up like lava in an earthquake, right? Objections bubble up to the

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notion that any measure of peace, prosperity, and perfection can be reached in this life,

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this side of Christ's return, especially when it comes to human government, right? Do not soil the

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garments of the gospel with human government and politics and culture, right? Well, let me deal

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with these several popular objections first. There's three of them I hear quite often. Number one,

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in fact, I used to give these myself. Number one, objection. Absolute perfection is not attainable

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on this side of eternity, right? Well, we're not saying that we will achieve absolute perfection

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this side of eternity. No, no, no, no. No one who advocates the biblical doctrine of post-millennialism

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thinks that we will become absolutely perfect in this life. No, by no means. That will not come

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until, as the apostle Paul puts it in 1 Corinthians 15, he says,

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when all things are subjected to him, that is to Christ, then the Son himself will also be subjected

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to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all. Oh, that will be the

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eternal state, a beautiful and blessed time. But what we are saying is that just as we, as individual

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saints, become progressively more and more sanctified as we grow in our Savior, well,

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so the world has become, is becoming, and will become more and more sanctified as Christ works

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in and through the nations, as we've seen will happen. And we can, as well, produce empirical

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evidence of this throughout history. History bears us out in this, and more on this later. I'll expand

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on this in days to come to a greater and greater degree. But the second objection that comes up quite

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often is, the Bible tells us that Christ's kingdom is not of this world, and that we should stay out of

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politics, right? The old separation of church and state, canard. The Bible teaches us that Christ's

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kingdom is not of this world, and so we should stay out of politics. That's how the argument generally

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goes. Because, well, famously, many Christians understand Christ's response to Pontius Pilate as

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categorically rejecting manifesting Christ's kingdom in a political way. Remember what Christ said to

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Pilate when asked if he was a king. He said, my kingdom is not of this world, Jesus said. My kingdom

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is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting that I

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might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world, Jesus says in John

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chapter 18. But, dear listener, in its context, we see that Jesus here is distinguishing the

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respective sources and origins of their kingdoms, not their impacts. Pilate's kingdom with its source

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and origin in the world, Rome. Jesus' source and origin is from heaven. In reality, Christ's kingdom

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was bound to overcome human government in due time precisely because it is sourced and originates from

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heaven. And history, once again, can only confirm this for us. Because although Christ's kingdom began

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very early to change human governments, all you have to do is read the book of Acts to see this,

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the first major advance was the conversion of the emperor Constantine in the early fourth century.

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Read a history book and you'll see the transformative power of the gospel all through history. The gospel

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has been changing politics, society, and government ever since. Witness the Constitutional Republic.

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Beautiful form of government. That form of government I think we will see in a Congress of Christian

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Constitutional Republics. Well, the third objection is, number three, the world is only getting worse

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and not better. Oh, I hear this all the time. How can you say things will perfect and become prosperous

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and peaceful when the world is only getting worse and not better? And this is an argument from

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historical myopia. Ah, a very limited, small, pinched view of history. Read a history book once again.

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If we are only judging the growth and progress of the gospel by what is transpiring in our generation

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and what is happening in my life, then we are terribly short-sighted. Because over the long course

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of redemptive history, we can demonstrate, and we can do this and we'll do this in days to come,

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we can demonstrate that humanity is far better off for having the gospel of Jesus Christ change us

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than we were in ages past. We can do this. Especially in the West, dear listener, those nations

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transformed by the gospel have made us better as a world, whether it's in science or technology,

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the arts, yea, even politics and government. A couple of good books that will help inform you

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in these areas are, number one, The 500-Year Leap by Dr. Cleon Skousen. Oh, what a beautiful book this is.

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As I've, a number of years ago, I spent many, many weeks unpacking the book, The 500-Year Leap by Cleon Skousen.

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He does precisely this, documents how the world has been improved and better, culminating in the

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Constitutional Republic of the United States during this 500-Year Leap, as he calls it. Well, then,

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another book, too, one of my favorites, a nice brief treatment, but thorough nonetheless,

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is by a man named Jonathan Hill. And the book is, What Has Christianity Ever Done For Us?

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And the subtitle is, How It Shaped the Modern World. Christianity Has Shaped the Modern World.

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The title of that book by Jonathan Hill, What Has Christianity Ever Done For Us?

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These two books will help get you started on being historically informed. And because we know then

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that the gospel has indeed improved our world, improved our lives, made the world a better place

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in which to live, not heaven by any means, not meant to be either. Nevertheless, because Christianity has

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indeed improved our lot. Consequently, we can affirm with every confidence that in God's own due time

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in redemptive history, that, as Isaiah says, the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord

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as the waters cover the sea. What a day that will be. And it will be that knowledge of the Lord that

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will enable the perfection of human government such that he shall judge between the nations,

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as Isaiah says in chapter 2. He, Christ, will judge between the nations and shall decide disputes for

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many peoples, and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.

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Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore, unquote,

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from Isaiah chapter 2. Now, that doesn't mean that there will be no more war or conflict and suffering

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between now and then. Well, that's a day to come, but there's still plenty of war, conflict, and suffering

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coming. As we have been learning in Revelation, and I've been preaching through Revelation for some

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months now, and we've been seeing the nature and course of that book, and we see as part of the warp and

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woof of the book of Revelation, the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and the destruction and fall

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of the Roman Empire are indeed pictures and models and examples of how Christ is going about his conquering

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of his enemies, even today. We see in Revelation chapter 19, for example, from his mouth, that is Christ's

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mouth, from his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them

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with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty. So Christ

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is indeed conquering, and he is indeed doing so via some of the instruments of the world, of the earth,

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war being one of them, and this is one of those little-known facts of Revelation. That is, that

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Revelation originally referred to those two cities, Jerusalem and Rome, but did so to model how

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Christ was going to take possession of his inheritance that's been given him in the seven-sealed

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scroll. That's the nature of the seven-sealed scroll, is that it is a will and testament bequeathed to the

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Son, which Jesus did indeed inherit. And each of those seven seals, as they're broken, reveal to us again how

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Christ is conquering all of creation as his inheritance, as his possession. And thus will he, that is Christ,

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utterly vanquish the corrupt, wicked rule of demonic men that we see so prevalent in the world today.

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Oh, we see it becoming more and more clear, don't we, in the United States of America, why we must have a

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revolution? Because, indeed, Psalm 2 says, once again, why do the nations rage and the peoples plot

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in vain? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord

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and against his anointed, saying, let us burst their bonds apart and cast away their cords from us,

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unquote, from Psalm chapter 2, right? That's exactly what those in the deep state are attempting to do

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in the United States of America today. But the Psalm goes on to say, he who sits in the heavens

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laughs, the Lord holds them in derision, then he will speak to them in his wrath and terrify them

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in his fury, unquote. God will triumph over the deep state one way or another. Will we be a part of it?

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Will you be a part of it? All of this will happen in the course of redemptive history, dear listener.

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It may take a long time. It has taken us over 2,000 years to get where we are today, and it may

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take another 200 or 2,000 years to get to where, as Isaiah says, the earth shall be full of the

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knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea, and to where he will rule them with a rod of iron.

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But we'll get there, dear listener. We will get there. It's as certain as the scriptures.

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And what will characterize this world government will be chiefly justice. Chiefly justice. And we're

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going to unpack this more carefully and more closely than in days to come. The further character and

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nature and structure of a Congress of Christian constitutional republics the world over. What a

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day that will be. Indeed, there will be a world government, dear listener. It might as well be

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Christian, which would you rather have? The demonic, devilish world government that's coming our way

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courtesy of the United Nations and the deep state in America, or a truly Christian constitutional

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republic? A Congress of Christian constitutional republics that indeed represent the rule of Christ

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in the hearts and minds of men and women in the lives of the church. The church has been spreading

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like a mustard seed, growing fantastically for the last 2,000 years. Every nation, every continent,

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every island has a church. Now the church has been growing and flourishing, and will indeed one day

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take its place to rule in the world and bring a larger, peaceful, prosperous, and perfected world

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to the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. That is for that for which I am laboring, dear listener. I hope

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you are too. And I labor with all my might and main for indeed that day when the world will glorify

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her maker and her creator through a peaceful, prosperous, and more perfected world government that is

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a Congress of Christian constitutional republics around the globe. I work for this day, I labor for this

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day, and I hope you do with me as well. And you can help us do this in our worship services on Sunday,

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New Geneva, is meeting and has been meeting right on through since Easter. Meet with us. We ask you,

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come across our threshold, check us out, find out who we are. We indeed are New Geneva Orthodox

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Presbyterian Church. We meet on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard.

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And you can call us for more information and also check out our new place on KID's website.

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That is KIDnewsradio.org. KIDnewsradio.org. And we've got a catalog of our sermons. We are also

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at 1130 on Sunday now, in addition, instead of those two former times, but we meet for holy

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worship as a church on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And you

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can call us for more information at area code 208-523-0196. Feedback and information, area code 208-523-0196.

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