Executive Unbound

In his Breakpoint column today, Chuck Colson warns of the gradual institution of an Administrative State in America. The Administrative State is one in which the Executive branch of government is all powerful and is not constrained by other branches. The liberal elite in America are embracing this shift in power, arguing that the checks and balances in the U.S. Constitution are obsolete, and an all-powerful executive is necessary in these times of complexity and rapidly changing circumstances.

One of the greatest lies that Satan has ever sold to humanity is that there can be a "benevolent dictator." Even King David, a man after God's own heart, and King Solomon, the wisest man the world has ever known, went astray and abused their power. Why? Because man is a fallen creature (Genesis 3) and totally depraved (Jeremiah 17:9).

It never ceases to amaze me how arrogant man is. Every generation has seen itself as the wisest, considering its ancestors to be somehow intellectually inferior, morally naive, and infinitely less stressed than itself. Satan loves this arrogance. He uses it to tempt man away from reliance on God and toward self-reliance. (Proverbs 3:5)

Are we truly intellectually superior to our ancestors? I offer you Plato, Socrates, Jesus of Nazareth, the Apostle Paul, Galileo, Michelangelo, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Pasteur and a host of others.

Are we truly morally superior? I offer you abortion; rampant divorce; rampant child abuse; a federal government bent on bankrupting our nation; a federal judiciary bent on obliterating Christianity and establishing secular humanism as the state religion in violation of the First Amendment; sexual perversion; Wall Street shenanigans; rampant adultery and fornication; rampant drug abuse; and on and on.

Are these times really more complex and stressful? I offer you the Hebrew captivity in Egypt; the Roman domination of Europe and the Middle East; the Visigoths and Ostragoths; the black plague in Europe; European colonialism in Africa and the new world; the American Revolution; the War Between the States; the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia; the Nazi holocaust; Stalin's purges of 20 million Russians; and on and on.

We are a legend in our own minds. Satan has got us believing that we are pretty hot stuff, when in fact, we are just as depraved, just as inept, just as fallen as every other generation before us.

Christian soldier, it is time to wake up and smell the sulfur. Satan is gaining ground, as he deceives and deludes us. Put on the full armor of God (Ephesians 6:10-20). Be salt and light in your sphere of influence. Our brothers and sisters are dying for want of truth. The liberal elite in this country offer their lies; we need to counter it with the Truth of God.

Battle stations.