THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT // Sunday, June 30, 2024 // Pastor Jeff Hines

Sunday, June 30, 2024

The American Experiment

1.               You Will Own Nothing…

2.               Kingdom / Monarchy

3.               Village

4.               Hierarchy

MSNBC -  Heidi Pryzbila:

"The thing that unites them as Christian nationalists, not Christians because Christian nationalists are very different, is that they believe that our rights as Americans and as all human beings do not come from any Earthly authority. They don't come from Congress, from the Supreme Court, they come from God,"

Declaration of Independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--  That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness. 

Separation of Powers:

The heart is more deceitful than all else and is desperately sick; Who can understand it?

                                       Jeremiah 17: 9 (NASB)

Three Branches of Government: 

For the Lord is our judge, Judicial
The Lord is our lawgiver,  Legislative
The Lord is our king;        Executive
He will save us—

                                           Isaiah 33: 22 (NASB)

Exodus 18: 21 (ESV)

    Moreover, look for able men from all the people, men who fear God, who are trustworthy and hate a bribe, and place such men over the people as chiefs of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.

Constitutional

Democracy       Republic      Oligarchy

    People              Law                    Elite