Season 3 Podcast 255 "A Call for Restoration"
I can see why James calls the Ten Commandments the Law of Liberty. All of the ills of society are related one way or another with the violation of the Ten Commandments. There is a pattern. We have turned everything upside down. On the one hand, we reduce the number of crimes, not by arresting the criminals but by renaming the behavior, calling good evil and evil good. We reduce arrests by reducing the police force. We empty our prisons by releasing the criminals before they have served their sentence, thus negating the court system. We have rejected the idea of absolute law, making all behavior relative and hiding it under the camouflage of political correctness.
We applaud sin and parade it before our children, calling evil good and good evil. There is a kind of insanity in our approach to everything. We sugar coat behavior that was once recognized as evil. By tearing down the Ten Commandments we have torn down the only thing that has protected our freedom for over two hundred years.
Do you realize that if we kept the Ten Commandments voluntarily, there would be no need for crime laws. Social ills would disappear. That is the power of absolute law. As stated above, all the ills of society are related to violation of the Ten Commandments. The Ten Commandments can be divided into three parts: (1) Love the Lord with all your heart, might, mind, and strength.
1. thou shalt have no other gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
3. 7Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
4. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.
(2) Honor your Father and Mother and strengthen the family
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.
(3) Love your neighbor as yourself
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thou shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
That is why the Ten Commandments are called the Law of Liberty. True liberty can be achieved in no other way. The further a nation moves away from the Ten Commandments the closer to tyranny it comes. Manmade laws are a puny attempt at correcting the ills that are caused by voluntary violation of the Ten Commandments. A nation that does not voluntarily obey the Ten Commandments must have a police force to enforce law and order. It must have prisons. It must have infinite lawyers and judges and courts to interpret countless laws.
The greater the enforcement necessary, the stronger the police state must become. When we tear down the bastions of democracy, the only thing that can replace it is totalitarianism. When fear replaces freedom, then we will follow the first monster that claims he will protect us.
