Introduction:
Today,
politics
deeply
divides
Americans;
and with the
media having
become the
propaganda
arm of the
government,
helping
shape the
political
landscape,
the debate
over liberal
vs.
conservative
views is at
fever pitch.
While
modern day
liberals
always try
to paint
conservatives
in a
negative,
fanatic,
dangerous
light, and
while many
“so-called”
conservatives
bring
disgrace to
the title,
the
difference
between
true
liberals and
true
conservatives
is found in
their
differing
views of
God.
The word
liberal
is a good
word…a
Biblical
word.
Proverbs
11:25a
says, “The
liberal soul
shall be
made fat…”
James
1:5
says, “If
any of you
lack wisdom,
let him ask
of God, that
giveth to
all men
liberally,
and
upbraideth
not; and it
shall be
given him.”
Sadly
though, the
word
liberal
like so many
other words
such as
gay,
choice,
freedom,
etc., has
been
hi-jacked by
God-rejecters
and used to
put a
pleasant,
acceptable
face on the
evil they
promote.
In
Romans,
Chapter 1
I believe we
find a vivid
picture of
modern day
liberals and
liberalism.
Let’s
examine
these
Scriptures
today to see
how God
takes the
mask off
these
ungodly
people to
reveal the
true origin,
nature, and
purpose of
these modern
day
liberals.
Let’s
look at this
picture of
“Liberals
Unmasked”.
1.
Verses 19
– 21 –
Today’s
version of
Liberalism
begins with
the
rejection of
clear,
evident,
known truth
about God.
A.
It is not
that
liberals are
unsure, or
are unable
to believe
in God.
B.
Verses 19
& 20
make it
clear God
has clearly
revealed
Himself to
them by
irrefutable
evidence; so
much so that
they are
without
excuse to
acknowledge
Him to be
God.
C.
The problem,
according to
Verse 21,
is that
“…when they
knew God,
they
glorified
him not as
God…”
D.
The result,
then,
according to
Verse 18,
is that they
“…hold the
truth in
unrighteousness;”
E.
In other
words, they
hold back,
or suppress
the truth by
standing in
unrighteousness.
F.
The problem
then, is
liberals’
rejection of
the Godship,
or headship,
or authority
of God.
G.
Liberalism,
then, is not
just an
alternative
political,
social, or
cultural
view.
H.
It is plain
and simple
rebellion
against the
Almighty
God!
I.
Liberalism
begins with
the
rejection of
clear,
evident,
known truth
about God.
2.
Verse 21b
– A
liberal’s
rejection of
God results
in him
viewing life
through a
darkened
heart
resulting
from vain
imaginations.
A.
When you
reject God’s
truth about
your world
and life,
you have to
invent an
imaginary,
made-up,
concept of
the world
and of life.
B.
A liberal
views the
world from
an imaginary
perspective.
C.
He lives in
a fantasy
world of
made-up
realities.
D.
This
imaginary,
fantasy
world he
lives in
distorts his
view on
everything.
E.
Verse 31
says he
is “Without
understanding…”
F.
Verse 22
explains
to us that
while they
profess
themselves
to be wise,
they are in
fact fools.
G.
Psalms 14:1a
says, “The
fool hath
said in his
heart, There
is no God…”
H.
Psalms 53:1a
says, “The
fool hath
said in his
heart, There
is no God…”
I.
That’s why
you see
liberals
taking
outrageously
ridiculous
positions on
very serious
issues.
J.
Why would a
liberal
think that
the most
effective
way to deal
with fanatic
evil called
terrorism is
dialog and
negotiation;
that passive
dialog is
more
effective
than
aggressive
offense when
it comes to
fighting
terrorism?
K.
Why would a
liberal
apologize
for America
to try to
placate
those who
wish to
destroy her?
L.
Conservative
radio talk
show host
Rush
Limbaugh
asks the
question,
“How can you
negotiate
with someone
whose
starting
point is
your death?”
M.
Why would a
liberal
think it is
more
important
that other
nations in
the world
like us than
respect us;
that it is
more
desirable to
have other
nations’
approval,
than to take
personal
national
steps to
protect our
citizens
from evil
attacks by
fanatic,
religious
zealots?
N.
Why would a
liberal
elevate the
right of
someone who
wishes to
end the life
of an
unwanted
unborn child
or an
unwanted
infirmed
individual
over the
right of the
one marked
for death to
live?
O.
Why would
the liberal
elevate the
perversion
of
self-evident
gender roles
that have
been so
since the
beginning of
time to
legitimacy
and forced
acceptance
by those who
oppose this
perversion?
P.
It is
because that
in their
foolish dark
hearts they
have
developed an
imaginary
world in
which they
live,
causing them
to lose
touch with
reality so
that they
are left
with no
common
understanding
to discern
between
truth and
error, right
and wrong,
good and
evil.
Q.
Their
rejection of
God’s truth
has left
them with no
spiritual or
moral
compass to
guide them
through the
issues of
life that
affect us
all, and
that we all
have to deal
with on a
daily basis.
R.
According to
Verse 22,
in their
rejection of
the truth
they have
become
fools.
S.
So then, a
liberal’s
rejection of
God results
in him
viewing life
through a
darkened
heart
resulting
from vain
imaginations.
3.
Verse 22
– In the
darkness of
the
liberal’s
imagination
he believes
and
professes
himself to
have
superior
wisdom.
A.
Verse 30
says
they are
“…proud…”
and
“…boasters…”
B.
This
arrogant
assertion of
liberals’
surmised
superiority
in wisdom
naturally
impels them
to seek
positions of
power.
C.
This
supposed
superiority
leads them
to think
they have
the right
and
responsibility
to exercise
authority
over the
masses that,
of course,
“do not have
the wisdom
to make
decisions or
provide for
themselves.”
D.
Thus, these
self-proclaimed
elitists
just cannot
understand
why when
their plans
and ideas
are
rejected.
E.
They usually
think it is
either
because the
normal
people are
just too
mentally
deficient to
get it,
or that they
have just
not
explained it
sufficiently
to them.
F.
The
arrogance
and
condescension
of these
liberals
would be
laughable if
it was not
for the fact
that other
God-rejecters
have been
duped into
believing
their
fantasies of
superiority,
thus making
them
legitimate
contenders
for
positions of
leadership.
G.
This
insatiable
thirst for
power drives
them to
respect
nothing but
power.
H.
This is why
they always
seem to
either take
the side of,
or go soft
on, ruthless
dictators
and abusive
tyrants
while they
castigate
our own duly
elected
officials
who seek to
discharge
their duties
with justice
and equity.
I.
The
liberals’
rejection of
the
authority of
God also
causes them,
in the
foolishness
of their
darkened
hearts, to
think
themselves
to be an apt
replacement
for that
authority.
J.
Thus, this
assumed
authority
will always
compel
liberals to
get involved
in issues
that are
none of
their
business,
and to
relentlessly
pursue power
to
micro-govern
the lives of
other people
they think
to be
endowed with
far less
wisdom than
them.
K.
In the
darkness of
the
liberal’s
imagination
he believes
and
professes
himself to
have
superior
wisdom.
4.
Verse 23
– The
liberal is
given to
changing the
entire
culture to
fit his
distorted
model of
reality.
A.
Since they
have
rejected
God, they
must become
“…inventors
of evil
things…”
according to
Verse 30.
B.
They cannot
accept or
operate
according to
truth
because then
they would
have to
acknowledge
God and His
unchanging,
unalterable
truth.
C.
Thus, they
have to
invent ways
of
explaining
and dealing
with our
universe
that exclude
God.
D.
Changing the
glory of the
uncorruptible
God into an
image made
like to
corruptible
man and
other
creatures
causes them
to generate
theories
with
irreconcilable
inconsistencies
as they
attempt to
explain the
universe we
live in
apart from
God.
E.
The great
example of
this made up
reality when
it comes to
creation and
our
subsequent
existence is
the theory
of
evolution.
F.
This
changing of
the glory of
God also
causes
liberals to
take extreme
positions
when it
comes to
animal
rights and
the
relationship
of animals
to man.
G.
Why do
liberals
elevate
animal life,
and
sometimes
plant life,
to the
status of
human life?
H.
Why is it
taught in
schools that
man is just
a more
highly
evolved
animal?
I.
Why do
liberals
think it is
their job to
oversee the
maintenance
of the food
supply for
creatures?
J.
Why do
liberals
think we are
the sole
proprietors
of planet
earth; but
that it is
man who is
the greatest
threat to
the earth’s
existence?
K.
Why do they
think
population
control is
solely man’s
responsibility?
L.
Beware of
the term
“sustainability”
or
“sustainable
development”.
M.
These are
code words
for
population
reduction
and control
(eugenics).
N.
In Elbert
County GA
stands a
stone
monument
shrouded in
mystery
known as The
Georgia
Guidestones,
or The
American
Stonehenge.
O.
Engraved in
eight
different
languages on
the four
giant stones
that support
the common
capstone are
10 Guides,
or
commandments.
P.
The number
one Guide,
or
commandment,
is:
Maintain
humanity
under
500,000,000
in perpetual
balance with
nature.
Q.
This would
require the
extermination
of
nine-tenths
of the
world's
people.
R.
When one
rejects God
there is no
one left to
depend upon
for the
welfare and
maintenance
of his
universe but
man himself.
S.
What
arrogant
irony that
liberals
work
themselves
silly trying
to attend to
responsibilities
that God has
reserved
unto
Himself.
T.
Verse 25
sums up
their folly.
Instead of
expressing
appreciation
to God for
their
environment
and the
creatures
that inhabit
it with
them, they
worship and
serve the
very things
God has put
here for our
benefit and
enjoyment.
U.
Yes, the
liberal is
given to
changing the
entire
culture to
fit his
distorted
model of
reality.
5.
Verses 24
– 28 – The
liberal, in
attempting
to liberate
himself from
the
guidelines
set forth by
God,
thinking
them to be
restraints
to his
self-expression,
enters into
a perverted
lifestyle.
A.
Liberals are
so intent on
extricating
themselves
from the
authority of
God over
their lives,
we are told
3 times here
that God
gives them
their way.
B.
In Verse
24 we
are told,
“…God …gave
them up to
uncleanness…”
C.
In Verse
26 we
are told,
“…God gave
them up unto
vile
affections…”
D.
In Verse
28 we
are told,
“…God gave
them over to
a reprobate
mind…”
E.
God gives
them up to
uncleanness,
and up to
vile
affections,
and
ultimately
gives them
over to a
reprobate
mind, a mind
completely
devoid of
reason and
decency.
F.
While
perversions
of all kinds
mark the
lives of
liberals,
none is more
prominent
than the
perversion
of the
male/female
roles.
G.
In America
this
perversion
began as a
movement for
women’s
rights.
H.
Then, the
marital
roles were
discarded
for what was
termed in
the 1960s
“free love”.
I.
This
perversion
has now
progressed
into
same-gender
physical
intimacy.
J.
And now,
according to
Wikipedia, “Politicians
and
political
parties
have
expressed
support (for
same-sex
marriage)
and of the
two main
parties, the
Democratic
Party
has the
greatest
number of
supporters,
but the
cause has
also been
championed
by some
Libertarians,
Greens,
Republicans,
Socialists,
and
Communists.”
K.
Sin is
progressive;
it cannot be
satisfied at
a given
level.
It
must move to
greater and
greater
levels of
perversion
just to
generate a
sense of
pleasure.
L.
The mass
movement
into
perversion
of physical
intimacy is
usually one
of the last
stages a
people
enters
before the
fall of that
culture.
M.
Jude, Verse
7 says,
“Even as
Sodom and
Gomorrha,
and the
cities about
them in like
manner,
giving
themselves
over to
fornication,
and going
after
strange
flesh, are
set forth
for an
example,
suffering
the
vengeance of
eternal
fire.”
N.
If the
perversion
itself does
not bring
about the
disintegration
of a
culture, God
will
sovereignly
exercise His
authority in
judging that
nation.
O.
Remember in
Leviticus
18:25 – 28
that God
destroyed
the nations
that
committed
these
abominations
and gave
their lands
to the
children of
Israel.
P.
He then
reminded
them (the
children of
Israel) not
to commit
the same
abominations
lest He spue
them out of
the land,
too.
Q.
According to
these
verses,
sexual
perversion
is the stage
at which God
gives a
people over
to a
reprobate
mind and
allows them
to pursue
the
wickedness
they have so
striven with
Him to gain
the freedom
to pursue.
R.
And my
friends, we
are at that
stage in
America.
S.
The liberal,
in
attempting
to liberate
himself from
the
guidelines
set forth by
God in His
Word, enters
into a
perverted
lifestyle.
6.
Verses 29
– 31 – The
liberal,
having
gained the
freedom to
pursue his
own
perverted
view of
reality, is
filled with
all manner
of
wickedness.
A.
Let’s look
at a few of
these
descriptions
and at how
they play
out in the
lives of
liberals in
the
political
arena.
B.
Covetousness
–
Liberals are
extremely
self-focused
individuals.
They
are always
internally
focused
rather than
externally
focused.
Their
rejection of
God has made
them the
center of
their own
universe.
Those
who belong
to God, on
the other
hand, are,
or should
be,
externally
focused.
Churches
must make it
a priority
to
transition
from an
internal
focus to an
external
focus – not
just being
about
meeting and
greeting and
eating; but
about
outreach.
C.
Maliciousness
–
(hateful,
Harboring
ill will or
enmity
without
provocation;
malevolent
in the
extreme;
malignant in
heart.)
Liberals use
every means
and
institution
at their
disposal to
try to
completely
destroy
anyone who
opposes
their
viewpoints.
D.
Debate –
(strife) –
Liberals are
in constant
disagreement
with
someone,
always
seeking to
argue about
some point
in an
attempt to
establish
their own
superiority.
E.
Deceit &
covenantbreakers
– To
liberals
deception is
simply a
means to an
end.
Truth
is of little
value unless
it produces
the desired
outcome.
Covenants
are just
tools in
their
arsenal of
deceit.
Covenants
are not to
be taken
seriously
unless they
produce the
desired end.
F.
Implacable –
(Not to
be appeased;
that can not
be pacified
and rendered
peaceable;
inexorable;
stubborn or
constant in
enmity;)
Liberals
cannot be
appeased.
They
can never
accept a
reasonable
position or
action, if
it is in
disagreement
with their
position.
G.
Unmerciful –
Liberals
take no
prisoners.
They
cannot be
satisfied
until their
opponents
are utterly
destroyed
and
eliminated.
Anything
short of
elimination
for an
opponent is
unacceptable.
H.
Liberals,
having been
given over
to a
reprobate
mind, are so
full of
themselves
that every
area of
their lives
is
perverted.
They
are
incapable of
assuming a
correct
perspective
on almost
any issue.
I.
The liberal
is filled
with all
manner of
wickedness.
7.
Verse 32
– The
liberal is
not
satisfied to
be a
personal
participant
in
wickedness;
he must also
champion the
cause of
others who
are
participants
in evil,
also.
A.
The first
part of the
verse
reminds us
liberals do
not enter
the
lifestyle of
perversion
or champion
the
perversion
of others
blindly.
B.
They know
“…the
judgment of
God, that
they which
commit such
things are
worthy of
death…” yet
they rebel,
knowing
their
actions will
bring the
judgment of
God.
C.
Defiant to
the end
is an apt
description
of liberals.
D.
Instead of
becoming
involved in
causes that
will benefit
humanity,
they give
themselves
to promoting
perversion
and
suppressing
righteousness
– see
Verse 18b
again…they “…hold
the truth in
unrighteousness;”
E.
Therefore,
liberals
will almost
always come
down on the
side of
those who
oppose
Biblical
principles,
regardless
of the issue
involved.
F.
Ever wonder
why a
radical
feminist
would try to
protect and
placate
Islam, one
of the most
abusive
ideologies
toward women
ever
contrived?
G.
It makes no
sense that
someone
supposedly
committed to
promoting
women’s
rights would
champion the
greatest
abusers of
women on the
planet.
H.
Liberals
always
champion the
causes and
participants
of all
manner of
evil, even
if those
causes are
not ones
they
themselves
are
personally
interested
in.
In
Conclusion:
Modern-day
Liberals are
those who
have
rejected God
and His
authority
over His
creation.
Thus,
they are
compelled to
invent a
made-up
reality that
of necessity
opposes all
that is true
or Godly.
That
is why they
are in
constant
opposition
to
righteousness
and those
who belong
to God.
The
entrenched
political
establishment
in America,
both
Democrat and
Republican,
are almost
completely
comprised of
those who
oppose God
and everyone
who will
side with
Him –
liberals, or
progressives
as they like
to call
themselves.
The
goal of both
political
parties is
usually not
truth; it is
to be in
power.
If
there are
compromises
along the
way, these
are simply
written off
as
adjustments
that were
necessary in
order to
achieve
their
objective.
Many,
and perhaps
most,
politicians
who have
made
politics
their lives,
often
utilize
deception
and
compromise
as tools to
achieve
their goals
of obtaining
and/or
maintaining
power.
Those
who belong
to God,
however,
must be
issue
oriented;
not party or
personality
oriented.
If a
candidate
for office
aligns
himself with
Biblical
principles,
he must be
your choice
for office.
If a
candidate
opposes
Biblical
principles,
he must be
rejected,
regardless
of party
affiliation
or personal
likableness.
Instead of
being a
Democrat,
the
Christian
must be a
Biblicrat.
Instead of
being a
Republican,
the
Christian
must be a
Biblican.
The
child of God
must learn
to vote by
faith, not
by
fear…choosing
to vote only
for those
who espouse
Biblical
positions,
and refusing
to vote for
those who do
not.
So,
on what
basis will
you choose
who you will
vote for?
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