A Christmas Eve Manifesto

By a son of Liberty

Today, most of the world from New York to Nairobi and Jerusalem to Christchurch will pause in preparation for the commemoration of one of the world’s most significant events: the birth of Jesus Christ, God’s only begotten Son, the Savior of the world.

There will be celebrations and feasting, parades and pageants. Families will come together. Gifts will be given. Prayers uttered. Hymns sung.

And for good reason.

The birth of Christ was the heralding in of the end of unmitigated tyranny—of a world where the single most powerful force known to most sons of Adam was the State. The only law most of the world knew was that of the jungle or of the strongest bully in the neighborhood.

But it was Jesus Christ, a poor carpenter, who stood before the compromised spiritual and civil leaders of His day and before the imperial tyranny of the Roman Empire and uttered the most revolutionary statements in the history of politics. He said first, “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s and to God the things that are God’s.” And then before the face of the Roman Governor representing Caesar, He said, “You would have no authority if it had not been given to you from above.”

These two statements shook the foundations of Statism—and the earthquake sent aftershocks far and wide. The very idea of Caesar not having certain things under his authority was treason. The confession of faith for the Roman Empire was “Caesar is Lord.” But this Jesus said that there were certain things not under Caesar’s authority and that Caesar’s own authority came from “above.”

Jesus Christ came and proclaimed Himself King. But He did things no other kings had done. He washed the feet of His subjects; He supped with prostitutes and politicians. He called all to repentance and service to His Father in Heaven—their Liberator. And He said that those who desire to be the greatest must be the servant of all.

He performed great acts of healing, showing that he was the Great Physician. His disciples followed His example and established hospitals wherever they went. He exhorted His people to grow in wisdom and understanding, so learning flourished wherever a Christian church was planted.

And Jesus’ teachings taught mankind that self-government under the Laws of God were a much lighter yoke than the oppressive tyranny of man. That is why throughout the corrupt Roman Empire ecclesiastical courts from the Christian minority became the only place anyone—including pagans—could go to find justice and a fair hearing.

The revolution King Jesus started spread throughout the whole world and showed particular strength in America, where a government was established to “secure the blessings of liberty,” which were “endowed by our Creator.” This established government scarcely existed, because most men and women governed themselves without the need of a gun pointed at their heads. The laws of man were few, because most people governed themselves by the Laws of King Jesus.

But the extreme irony today is that, while most of the world prepares to celebrate Christmas, the federal government in America is digging up the rotting bones of Caesar to install a new king.

The passage of an act to essentially socialize medicine in this country is another direct affront to the majesty and sovereignty of King Jesus. Consequently, it is also a direct attack on liberty. It represents another area of life that Caesar is claiming for himself, when the ministry of healing has always been seen in free societies as the domain of private charity and the Church.

In America today there is scarcely any area of life void of Caesar’s fingerprints. When we have domestic squabbles, Caesar determines who gets the kids. When we grow crops, Caesar tells us what crops to grow and how much they’ll cost. When we hire employees, Caesar tells us whom we may hire and how much we are to pay them. When we decide to build a house, Caesar tells us where we can and cannot build and what materials we may use. When we buy a car, Caesar tells us how much CO2 we’re allowed to produce. When we buy a toilet, Caesar tells us how much water we may use to flush.

Now, when we get sick, Caesar will dictate how we are treated by doctors and insurance companies. He will determine how much medical procedures should cost and what level of care is appropriate.

More than 2,000 additional pages of Caesar-made law will be added to the millions already filling our libraries.

America is well into her slide of apostasy. And I don’t speak merely of religious apostasy—that has been going on for a long time. I speak of the political apostasy that follows the shadow of spiritual infidelity.

America rejected the liberating Gospel message of Christ long ago when it declared war on the Word of God. It attacked the credibility of the Scriptures through the social gospel theology of early progressives like Woodrow Wilson while he was president of Princeton, and through the insidious spread of social Darwinism through WASP pulpits and halls of academia.

A “Big Bang” of random chance replaced Jesus the Creator.

Academics belittled and discredited the miraculous virgin birth of Christ.

Scientists questioned the miracles of Jesus and deemed them impossible.

Psychologists restyled the sinfulness of man as “ignorance,” thereby rendering Christ’s death unnecessary. Education and enlightenment became all mankind needed to achieve salvation and “social justice.”

An “unnecessary” death of Christ meant that His rising from the dead was not only improbable, but pointless.

In short, belittling Christ’s person and work for man’s spiritual condition also belittled His work towards man’s political liberation.

As I noted earlier, the key component of political liberty is a population that can largely govern itself without the heavy hand of the State.

But by denying Christ’s work and His law, more and more Americans became unable to govern themselves— except according to their own desires. This created the necessity for an outside power to come in and restore the eroding social order.

That power was and is the State.

The Health Care Bill that was passed by the U.S. Senate on Christmas Eve is another oblation and sacrifice to our new national god. The timing is ironic but appropriate. We have a new messiah in America, and, no, he’s not Barack Obama. He’s not the Democratic Party. This new messiah is pure, unmasked and open Statism. Today in America, we have no King but Caesar.

But in all societies throughout the world and throughout time, King Jesus has preserved for Himself a Remnant—a Remnant that has refused to “bow the knee to Baal” or Caesar, or to any pretended messiah of man’s vain imagination.

This Remnant is alive and well in the United States.

But this Remnant needs to pray. Pray that God will grant us repentance, because the course our country is on today has a certain end—and it is ruinous. Every institution of man that has sought to rob King Jesus of His authority and majesty—every Tower of Babel—has been relegated to the dung heap of history.

Mankind—mere molecules in this vast universe—has broadened the definition of insanity when we raise our fists towards heaven to the Creator of the stars and tell Him He is dead.

But Jesus Christ is not dead. He is risen. On Christmas Day, we’ll celebrate the reality of His birth—and the birth of our liberty. And I believe that on the Eve of this momentous day, when the heirs of Baal, Moloch, Caesar, Fuhrer, Chairman, and President erect another shrine to their god, the Remnant should stand together and with one voice declare that we would rather be sons of God than slaves of Caesar.

America, there is another king, one Jesus. It is the reality of His reign that brings us tidings of comfort and joy. Let the heathen rage and build their pathetic monuments of stone. Let them fill their libraries with drivel they call laws. All will rot and burn in the end. But the Word of God remains forever.

Merry Christmas and LONG LIVE THE KING!

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