Seven Mountains of Influence (Government)
Seven Mountains of Influence
Government
Background:
Is America an Christian nation?
We were founded on biblical principles.
Some will argue that the Declaration of Independence only mentions God 4 times and the Constitution doesn’t mention God at all.
Before we had America as we know it we were colonies.
9 of the 13 original colonies or states required you to be a Bible-believing Christian in order to serve in government.
13 of the 13 required you to make a declaration of faith to serve in government.
9 of the 13 required you to be a Protestant in order to serve.
Almost all of the original state Constitutions had wording to this effect, “I profess Lord and Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”
55 of the 56 original signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing Christians.
Many people say this country was founded on common law.
What is common law?
Common law was inherited from Blackstone, who was Christian.
Who was Blackstone?
Common law comes from scripture.
Three Principles of Common Law:
All three are Biblical principles.
All three boil down to one main principle.
Not to show favor the rich over the poor or the poor over the rich.
Paul said, “not slave or free or Greek or Jew. We are one in Christ Jesus.
Let’s take a look at the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Deuteronomy was the most quoted book in the times of our founding fathers.
John Adams said that the Constitution was only written for a moral religious people. He said it was inadequate for any other group of people.
America’s foundation is so Biblical that its documents were written for Bible believing people.
Many of the problems in America are that we have a non-Christian nation attempting to live by Christian principles.
You will never legislate morality.
No other mountain directly affects our lives more than the mountain of government.
When we talk about government, we are not talking of politics.
Politics may be the realm in which we elect those who function in government, but politics is not government.
God is government Himself.
Government is the exercising of authority for the purpose of order within the earth that produces a protection and empowering of society.
Therefore, the government mountain is the empowering mountain.
Romans 13:1-2 - no one is operating in government unless God put them there.
Isaiah 9:6 -7
1 Kings 10:9
Psalm 89:14
The founding fathers of America understood how important this was to a government like democracy.
John Adams, declared that only a people committed to moral absolutes and righteousness of heart could have a government such as democracy operate: “We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”
The government that operates must have moral absolutes from which judgments are rendered and righteousness is required.
Otherwise there will be a falling into a partiality brought on by the bribes of lobbyists and other people of agenda.
President Theodore Roosevelt said, “When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ‘present’ or ‘not guilty.’”
1 Timothy 2:1-2
Protection of society and its citizens is an important function of proper government.
One of the reasons for some of the chaos experienced in society is the lack of judgment toward wicked and evil acts.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 tells us that evil works not being judged with enough severity actually encourages evil to be present within a society:
“Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
It would be good for those in governmental leadership to learn that you always get more of what you applaud. When we applaud the right stuff, we get people who behave within society.
We are not pushing a religious state, but we are promoting an influence of the prophetic into the lives of governmental leaders.
This originated through a letter written by Thomas Jefferson. His purpose for advocating the separation of church and state was not to protect the state from the church but rather to protect the church from the state.
2 Kings 6:8-10
When the powers of darkness known as principalities can bring governmental officials into alignment with themselves, they can then orchestrate their diabolical intentions in the earth realm.
We must operate as the ecclesia or governmental people of God and pray.
Through the church or the ecclesia of God, we have the power to bring down the principalities and free government from their rule.
Ecclesia is the Greek term that Jesus chose to use to describe His people of government in the earth.
Matthew 16:18 says this church or ecclesia is what Jesus would build:
“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”
The ecclesias of Jesus’ day were the governmental people of cities or societies who made decisions that determined what their cities or societies looked like.
The term ecclesia is a secular term and not a religious one.
If we understand this, we realize that the government of God through His church can exercise influence over the natural governments of the earth through the spiritual realm and prayer.
Is America an Christian nation?
We were founded on biblical principles.
Some will argue that the Declaration of Independence only mentions God 4 times and the Constitution doesn’t mention God at all.
Before we had America as we know it we were colonies.
9 of the 13 original colonies or states required you to be a Bible-believing Christian in order to serve in government.
13 of the 13 required you to make a declaration of faith to serve in government.
9 of the 13 required you to be a Protestant in order to serve.
Almost all of the original state Constitutions had wording to this effect, “I profess Lord and Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.”
55 of the 56 original signers of the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing Christians.
Many people say this country was founded on common law.
What is common law?
Common law was inherited from Blackstone, who was Christian.
Who was Blackstone?
Common law comes from scripture.
Three Principles of Common Law:
- presumption of innocence.
- Due process.
- Jury of peers.
All three are Biblical principles.
All three boil down to one main principle.
Not to show favor the rich over the poor or the poor over the rich.
Paul said, “not slave or free or Greek or Jew. We are one in Christ Jesus.
Let’s take a look at the Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
Deuteronomy was the most quoted book in the times of our founding fathers.
John Adams said that the Constitution was only written for a moral religious people. He said it was inadequate for any other group of people.
America’s foundation is so Biblical that its documents were written for Bible believing people.
Many of the problems in America are that we have a non-Christian nation attempting to live by Christian principles.
You will never legislate morality.
No other mountain directly affects our lives more than the mountain of government.
When we talk about government, we are not talking of politics.
Politics may be the realm in which we elect those who function in government, but politics is not government.
God is government Himself.
Government is the exercising of authority for the purpose of order within the earth that produces a protection and empowering of society.
Therefore, the government mountain is the empowering mountain.
Romans 13:1-2 - no one is operating in government unless God put them there.
Isaiah 9:6 -7
1 Kings 10:9
Psalm 89:14
The founding fathers of America understood how important this was to a government like democracy.
John Adams, declared that only a people committed to moral absolutes and righteousness of heart could have a government such as democracy operate: “We have no government armed in power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion…
“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for the government of any other.”
The government that operates must have moral absolutes from which judgments are rendered and righteousness is required.
Otherwise there will be a falling into a partiality brought on by the bribes of lobbyists and other people of agenda.
President Theodore Roosevelt said, “When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ‘present’ or ‘not guilty.’”
1 Timothy 2:1-2
Protection of society and its citizens is an important function of proper government.
One of the reasons for some of the chaos experienced in society is the lack of judgment toward wicked and evil acts.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 tells us that evil works not being judged with enough severity actually encourages evil to be present within a society:
“Because the sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.”
It would be good for those in governmental leadership to learn that you always get more of what you applaud. When we applaud the right stuff, we get people who behave within society.
We are not pushing a religious state, but we are promoting an influence of the prophetic into the lives of governmental leaders.
This originated through a letter written by Thomas Jefferson. His purpose for advocating the separation of church and state was not to protect the state from the church but rather to protect the church from the state.
2 Kings 6:8-10
When the powers of darkness known as principalities can bring governmental officials into alignment with themselves, they can then orchestrate their diabolical intentions in the earth realm.
We must operate as the ecclesia or governmental people of God and pray.
Through the church or the ecclesia of God, we have the power to bring down the principalities and free government from their rule.
Ecclesia is the Greek term that Jesus chose to use to describe His people of government in the earth.
Matthew 16:18 says this church or ecclesia is what Jesus would build:
“And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.”
The ecclesias of Jesus’ day were the governmental people of cities or societies who made decisions that determined what their cities or societies looked like.
The term ecclesia is a secular term and not a religious one.
If we understand this, we realize that the government of God through His church can exercise influence over the natural governments of the earth through the spiritual realm and prayer.
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