Chuck Baldwin is the Constitution Party's Candidate for President. He is a Baptist preacher and long time pastor of Cross Roads Baptist Church in Pensacola, Fl. I am on his mailing list and his most recent (find it here) one had this to say.....
For the record, the real battlefield today is not abortion. It is not homosexual marriage. It is not Social Security. It is not al Qaeda. It is not taxes. It is not inflation. It is not electing conservatives. It is not posting the Ten Commandments. It is not even the high cost of gasoline. That is not to say that those issues are not important and not deserving of our best efforts and attention, because they are. But those issues do not represent the major battlefield today.
The battlefield where the devil has amassed his greatest forces and is thrusting his deadliest armies is the surrender of our national sovereignty and independence, and the creation of global government. And it is our own political and corporate leaders that are facilitating this chicanery.
Furthermore, by refusing to oppose this surrender, our Christian leaders are complicit as well.
Now what's interesting about this statement is that it is directed toward Christians - not the broad political spectrum of voting Americans. Baldwin makes no bones about it. Christians should view their current call to battle, gathering together as the Lord's Host, as to oppose and defeat the joint Republican / Democrat conspiracy to subsume our United States national statehood into a North American Union comprising Canada, the US and Mexico. This conspiracy, he says, is already underway, steps have been taken and the intent of both parties is to pursue this end. This is the major battle facing Christians.
Baldwin places the moral imperative to oppose this move above that of abortion, the secularization of marriage, the campaign to grant institutional credibility to alternative sexual preferences, and all the rest. What Christians must do is rally behind him... He is our hope... He will save our country because that is the manifest will of God... America is the promised land and Americans are God's elect. To lose our national heritage is to attack God!
Hogwash.
Perhaps there is a conspiracy such as he proclaims... others are saying the same thing. If so, I will oppose it with every fiber of my political being... because as a Christian I have a Christian vocation to be a good citizen, to pray for the peace of my Jerusalem, to labor for a good government that will be conducive to the spread of the Kingdom. But never once will I admit a congruence between the national Government of the United States of America and the Kingdom of Christ. The Lord Christ can prosper His Kingdom without the US or with it... He may judge this country and take His blessings from it at His will and pleasure... He may show mercy and bring revival and raise up the Christians into the country as a true radical and subversive witness to the pagan idolatry which prevails in our culture. But never will He admit that the structures of our political system reflect or even approximate the boundaries of His City on earth.
Baldwin ought to know better. Raise up the flag of political concern about the proposed union. Argue against its economic, political, social consequences. Demonstrate how the US has everything to lose and nothing to gain from giving Mexico, of all nations, any kind of veto power over our foreign policy. Talk about Canadian beer and .... well, you know where that was headed. It would be great political fun. But guard against blasphemy.
Our Lord has told us what is the greatest battle facing us... it is the idolatrous hearts of pleasure loving, self-centered, hedonistic people. People like you and me. It is the hardened condition of men's souls which refuse to acknowledge the Lord Jesus Christ as their King and Savior. That battle rages whether it is fought within the confines of the United States of America or in some proposed North American Union. We could gain the whole world for the US of A only to lose our own soul if the Church ever once forgets that we are strangers in this land, our true citizenship is in another city not built with hands.
Chuck... you say some good stuff... but get off this kick...



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