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Deja Vu 2008 The Core Paradigm shift to overthrow Group-Ownership Communism
You can see where I came by my appeal, honestly, to the Contemporary Church in this timely reprint that came out by McDurmon below, right as the Excommunication was blowing up in 2008. No doubt I read this at the time (not that I hadn't been alert to this this line of reasoning since before finding wife or a Reformed pastor).
1978 I read for the first time: Bastiat - The Law (1850)
"The law perverted! And the police powers of the state perverted along with it! The law, I say, not only turned from its proper purpose but made to follow an entirely contrary purpose! The law become the weapon of every kind of greed! Instead of checking crime, the law itself guilty of the evils it is supposed to punish!
If this is true, it is a serious fact, and moral duty requires me to call the attention of my fellow-citizens to it.
Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime."
1990 I hear this from Pastor Tuuri: (from his “Seven Deadly Sins Series”):
Bush’s Budget that he just released is $1.2-3 trillion That’s $5,000 for every man, woman, and child in America….. That means $30,000 of your production is involved in the Federal Budget this year, or 1991 or 1992, whatever it is…
But the other side of it is that those things, most of them come back to the people in some form of benefit. And those benefits … are used by people… And that’s what keeps the whole system of covetousness going, That’s what keeps it spinning is when the State violates the 10th commandment, gets things illegally from people in violation of the 10th commandment and then turns around and gives you those benefits, you say, “Great, that’s really neat, that’s neat stuff you have given me here, Social security payments, or ah, some of these other programs, food stamps, whatever it is, that’s great stuff”.
John Forster has really hit the nail on the head for several years in this church when he has stressed to all of us, that it is receipt of government benefits that must be stopped by the people of God. That’s really receiving stolen goods from the State. Now I know it is almost impossible today to completely get away from all that. But recognize that the society we live in is covetousness-driven on the part of the Civil State ‘cause it reflects the people, and the people believe the property rights are not God’s but theirs, and they give ‘em to the Civil State.
And recognize that’s going to be a great temptation on you to tug you into voting for things based upon benefits.
(an exerpt) "Until we stand opposed to fiat money and wealth-redistribution consistently, we legitimize the liberals’ method and we keep empowering them to win in the long run under the guise of a political contest of principles."
Biblical Economics: A Commonsense Guide to Our Daily BreadHardcover– December 31, 2008
"If no one accepted government money, the federal budget would shrink to a reasonable size. We must avoid the attitude that if we don't take it, someone else will. We can effectively boycott government spending programs thus lowering taxation and inflation as well as improving the economy. Accepting wealth-transfer payments is a sin against taxpayers and God, a sin we can no longer afford to commit."
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