Posted August 7, 2008
A time is coming when God's government—the Kingdom of God—will repair what is broken in today's valueless, immoral society.
On July 24 a by-election took place in Glasgow East, Scotland to replace a member of the British parliament whose seat became vacant between parliamentary national elections—usually held every five years. Previously on July 7, Conservative party leader DavidKing of Israel, killed the giant Goliath with a sling and stones, a man after God's own heart, only turned from God in the matter of Uriah the Hittite (1 Kings 15:5), had an affair with Bathsheba, Messiah would come from line of David, main author of Psalms and highly musical. Cameron spoke in Glasgow on behalf of his party's candidate there.
What he said about morality makes a lot of sense. He stated: "We have seen a decades-long erosion of responsibility, of social virtue, of self-discipline, respect for others...Instead we prefer moral neutrality, a refusal to make judgments about what is good and bad behaviour, right and wrong behaviour.
" Bad. Good. Right. Wrong. These are words that our political system and our public sector scarcely use anymore ...Refusing to use these words—right and wrong—means a denial of personal responsibility and the concept of moral choice... There is a danger of becoming quite literally a de-moralized society, where nobody will tell the truth anymore about what is good and bad, right and wrong.
"That is why children are growing up without boundaries, thinking they can do as they please, and why no adult will intervene to stop them—including, often, their parents. The values we need to repair our broken society and to build a strong society are values that should be taught in the home, in the family. I want a mandate for restoring responsibility to our society. A mandate to call time on the twisted values that have eaten away at our social fabric" (excerpts from text of East Glasgow speech, emphasis added throughout).
During his speech Mr. Cameron said nothing directly about God, Jesus Christ, the BibleThe books (Greek, "biblia" ) that are acknowledged as canonical (authoritative) by the early Christian Church. It includes both the books of the ancient Hebrew prophets and those of the apostolic witnesses to Jesus Christ., the Christian religion or any other religion for that matter. But his actual words about morality were generally based on the Judeo-Christian ethic. They ring true, not applying just to the United Kingdom but to the entire Western world and especially the English-speaking peoples around the globe.
Afterwards DavidKing of Israel, killed the giant Goliath with a sling and stones, a man after God's own heart, only turned from God in the matter of Uriah the Hittite (1 Kings 15:5), had an affair with Bathsheba, Messiah would come from line of David, main author of Psalms and highly musical. Cameron suffered some caustic verbal punishment from members of the liberal press and the intelligentsia behind it. His words did not fit in with their pragmatic, amoral stance on basic issues governing morality. But regardless of whether his political party can or would successfully carry out a program designed to repair British society if and when it ever becomes the ruling government again, what he said in Glasgow remains fundamentally true.
Mr. Cameron also stated in that same speech: "Imagine if there was a government that understood, really understood, that encouraging personal and social responsibility must be the cornerstone of everything it did and that every move it took reinforced that view."
Just such a divine government is coming to this earth. The BibleThe books (Greek, "biblia" ) that are acknowledged as canonical (authoritative) by the early Christian Church. It includes both the books of the ancient Hebrew prophets and those of the apostolic witnesses to Jesus Christ. promises that "the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed; no one will ever conquer it. It will shatter all these kingdoms [that are tolerant of ungodly values] into nothingness, but it [the Kingdom of God] shall stand forever, indestructible" (Daniel 2:44, The Living BibleThe books (Greek, "biblia" ) that are acknowledged as canonical (authoritative) by the early Christian Church. It includes both the books of the ancient Hebrew prophets and those of the apostolic witnesses to Jesus Christ.).
Its Head of State will be Jesus Christ. Its policies will be based on the Ten Commandments and the true gospel as Christ preached it. In "the time of universal restoration that God announced long ago through his holy prophets" (Acts 3:21, NRSV) it will repair what is broken in today's valueless society.
Why not learn more about that coming Kingdom and the godly values and laws it will teach and enforce?
