Alien Law Systems

Alien Law Systems - Part 2

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Professor: John Weaver

Subject: Biblical Law

Genre: Sermon

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Date: 2025-12-14

Synopsis: In this sermon, John Weaver continues his series on alien law systems, arguing that every law system is inherently religious and that abandoning God's law for man's law constitutes idolatry. He reviews the series' origin in Solomon's apostasy and the dangers of old age, then reiterates five principles from the previous week: law is religious, the source of law is a culture's god, changing law changes religion, disestablishment of religion is impossible, and tolerance of alien law systems leads to national suicide. Weaver demonstrates the superiority of biblical law over Sharia and American jurisprudence through the example of theft, showing that only God's law makes crime unprofitable through restitution and capital punishment for repeat offenders. He concludes that a Christian nation is defined by its laws, not its population, and that God judges nations that adopt man's statutes.

[John Weaver] All right, if you will open your Bibles into Isaiah chapter 33, verse 22, and we're in the middle of a series, but I'm going to bring you up to snuff real quickly. So if you'll look in Isaiah chapter 33 and verse 22, one simple verse, notice he would the word of God says for the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us. So let me just tell you how this little short series actually began. Several weeks back, I preached from 1 Kings chapter 11 on Solomon, where I titled the message, Losing Your Wisdom and Losing Your Mind. And Solomon, one of the wisest men on earth, lost his wisdom, lost his mind, because he'd only married 700 women, but had 300 concubines.

[John Weaver] And at the same time, he built an altar for all these strange gods who His wife served whom God had forbidden him to marry those women anyhow, but he went ahead and did so. And of course, he built these altars, particularly for Asheret, for Moloch, and for Chemosh. And of course, God was angry with him because his heart was not perfect with the Lord. And he actually served those gods with those wives. So he not only lost his wisdom, he basically lost his mind because God judged him and God raised up adversaries against him. and also the fact that he lost his kingdom as well.

[John Weaver] Now, after I dealt with that, I dealt with two messages on the dangers of old age, because the Bible says in 1 Kings 11, it came to pass when Solomon was old that his wife turned away his heart. In fact, I did a little research and I pointed out the fact that Solomon was probably dead before 60 or 65, and we would certainly not count that old in our time, but I can assure you he was probably worn out in a number of ways, that is for sure. And so I asked these questions. Number one was this, why in the world were these particular gods chosen? There are many false gods, but yet he built altars into Ashtoreth for Chemosh and also for Moloch. So why in the world were these gods chosen when there were so many other false gods? I answered that in two messages. First of all, when he was worshipping Ashtoreth, and by the way, she is known by many different names, Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Venus, you just name it, she went on unknown.

[John Weaver] But she was a sex goddess, a goddess of fertility. And of course, I pointed out what Solomon was doing as a man. Instead of asking God for strength and help and virility, he went down to the worship of false gods. I pointed out how God renewed Abraham and Sarah. She had a child when she was 90. He was 100. And he did the same thing for Manoah and his wife.

[John Weaver] She gave birth to Samson when she was past age. And then he did the same thing for Zacharias and Elizabeth as well. So this was why he chose Ashtoreth. And I pointed out that orgies were known for their worship of Ashtoreth. Also, he built all worship to Moloch and Chemosh. Moloch was a political power god. And in Ecclesiastes 8 in verse 4, Solomon said, where the word of the king is, there is power who can resist it. And so here's a man who'd known power all of his life, and all of a sudden now, he's losing power, he's losing control. And so once again, instead of asking God, he goes down to Moloch worship. And I pointed out how Moloch worship was indeed not only pagan, but to the extent that the king manifested absolute and total control, to that extent he was viewed as God. He was supposed to be the mediator between heaven and earth, he was the controller of chaos, he was the one that brought peace and happiness out of confusion, and that's why he was worshipping Moloch.

[John Weaver] And of course, Chemosh, the name means subduer, or to dominate or dominion. And so once again there's that desire to dominate even when you do not have the power to dominate. And I've kind of brought it out with a bucket list of older people and I pointed out how this one woman at 100, it was 100 to 104, went to skydiving. She wanted to set the record and she did skydive but a week later she was dead. So I'm just pointing out the fact there's still that in people that want to conquer and subdue, even when they're old. That is a fact.

[John Weaver] So Solomon then began to worship these gods. So that was dealing with the dangers of old age. And then I pointed out this last week I got started on alien law systems, because anytime and every time that you have a false religion, you also have an alien law system. And so I asked this question, why did God for bad idolatry. And it was not just for the fact that he's not going to share his honor and glory with a false god. It's from the fact that they're bringing in law systems that are absolutely contrary to God's law system.

[John Weaver] So when we read in Isaiah 33 and verse 22, the Lord is our judge, that is, our Lord is the judicial branch. When he says the Lord is our lawgiver, he's the legislative branch. The Lord is our king. He's the executive branch. So historians say this is basically where we derive the three branches of our government right here as well. But God is absolutely sovereign. So last week I dealt with this fact that God has given us his law. And anyone who denies and denigrates the law of God has some very difficult theological questions to answer. And I pointed out the fact how our Lord said in Matthew 5 and verse 17, think not that I'm come to destroy the law or the prophets. I'm not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

[John Weaver] And so the word destroy means to abrogate, to set aside, to dismantle, to take apart piece by piece. He said, don't even think that. I did not come to destroy the law or the prophets. By the way, if you do away with the law, you also, by reason, ought to do away with the prophets, if you're going to say that the law was abrogated, because he said he didn't come to do that. But he came to fulfill, and the Greek word is pleiro, which means to put into full force as continuous. So, I ask these questions, if you do away with the law of God, how do you know what sin is? Because the Bible says in Romans 3 in verse 20, by the law is knowledge of sin. 1 John 3 and verse 4 said, whosoever transgresseth the law is sinned, or transgression of the law is sinned. If you do away with the law, you don't know what sin is. If you do away with the law, you do away with conviction as well.

[John Weaver] What in the world is the Holy Spirit going to convict people with or about? How do you know you're guilty of anything? And then, of course, if you do away with the law, you don't know how to be sanctified. You don't know how to please God. You don't know how to walk acceptably because He's given that in His Word. So here's another thing. If you do away with the law of God, how are you going to explain Galatians 3 and verse 24? Listen to this one. Wherefore the law is our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith. So the law then is our schoolmaster. And when you think of the schoolmaster, you ought to be thinking then of that old one-room schoolhouse with the teacher and the blackboard, and there's a big rod over the blackboard, and on the blackboard was this cursing, one stripe, fighting, two stripes, arguing, stealing, cheating, four or five stripes. And so, when that child violated the law, he was brought up in front of the entire class and given the appropriate number.

[John Weaver] It was a school teacher. So, what does the law teach us? It teaches us, number one, that we're sinners. It teaches us, number two, the penalty of sin, the power of sin. It teaches us that we cannot save ourselves because the law demands that we give it personal, perfect and perpetual obedience, which we do not do. And then, of course, the law, the Bible tells us, shows us that Jesus Christ is the only way to be saved since we cannot keep the law and give it what it demands. So clearly, then, the law is our So, I gave you five points last week. I'm just going to give you these very quickly, and then we're going to get started today. So, we were talking about law last week. First of all, in every culture, law is religious. Behind every law system, you have a religion. It may be a Christian religion, it may be a pagan religion, but it is a religion. You have Islam, you have Buddhist, you have Hindu, you have Christian, you have humanism, you have secularism.

[John Weaver] Every law system is a religious system because behind every determination of good and evil, right and wrong, is someone's religion. So every law system is religious.

[John Weaver] Secondly, it must be recognized that the source of one's law in any culture is the God of that culture. So if you hold that the Supreme Court of the United States is the Supreme Court of the United States, then the Supreme Court would be our God. If you believe that you know better than God, then your mind, your rationalism, is your God. So actually, the source of law is the God of that society. Thirdly, I pointed out, in any society, any change of law is an explicit or implicit change of religion.

[John Weaver] So, why in the world does Islam want to take over America? And the answer is so they can initiate Sharia law. It's just that simple. Why would Buddhism, why would Hinduism, why would Secularism, Humanism want to take over America? The answer is so that they could instill their own religion. The fourth one is this. I said it is not possible to have any disestablishment of religion. Because if you disestablish Christianity, It's so that you can establish Islam or Buddhism or secularism or whatever. You're going to always have religion. I pointed out last week you cannot separate government and religion. You can separate government and churches, but not government and religion. And then the fifth thing I pointed out was there can be no tolerance in one law system for another law system.

[John Weaver] So where we're failing as Christians is in God's law, because now what has happened We in this country initially had God's law, and I've got all the documentation, but we left the law of God and now we have the law of man. We have basically humanism. And so what happens when you fail to protect your law system, you become tolerant of other law systems, and that leads them to an intolerance.

[John Weaver] Once they are established, they're not going to tolerate you. When you tolerate an alien law system, you're committing national suicide. It's just that simple.

[John Weaver] Now, there's always been a battle over law systems. And it began way back in Genesis, chapter 3, verses 4 and 5. So, let me kind of give that to you. And the serpent said unto the woman, You shall not surely die, for God doth know that unless you eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened and you shall be as God's, knowing good and evil. So here's the temptation in the garden. The temptation was to become your own God. You shall be as God's, knowing good and evil. You don't need God to tell you what is right and wrong. You don't need God to tell you what is good and evil. You eat this fruit and you can determine that for yourself. the word knowing has the impact and the implication of the word determining. So an alien law system can be one of your own mind and certainly one of your own making as well.

[John Weaver] So since the fall of man, there have been multiple law systems that have emerged from individuals, from organized corporate and religious systems, all in competition, in contradiction, and in conflict. So make sure you understand this statement. Every law system except the biblical law system is idolatry because it seeks to dethrone God and enthrone someone else to deny God's law to establish its own law.

[John Weaver] Now, I want to give you a good quote from R.J. Rushtoni, out of his Institutes of Biblical Law. I want you to listen. I'm going to break it down for you. But the quote is very important. Listen to what he said. In analyzing the nature of law, it is important to note first that for the law is divine revelation. Just mark that down. God's law is divine revelation.

[John Weaver] We would not understand this had God not revealed it. OK, then he continues. The Hebrew word for law is Torah, which means instruction, authoritative direction. So God has spoken, God has given us his law, and it is for our direction. It is authoritative instruction. Then he goes on. He says the biblical concept of law is broader than the legal codes of Mosaic Foundation.

[John Weaver] Now, you know that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, which are known as the Pentateuch. So normally we refer to that as the Mosaic law. So what he's saying is this. The law, the law of God is much broader than just what you and I would call the Mosaic instruction. He goes on to say this. It applies to the divine word and its instruction in totality. The earlier prophets also used Torah for the divine word proclaimed by them.

[John Weaver] And he gives the scripture. Besides this, certain passages in the earlier Prophets used the word Torah also for the commandment of Yahweh as it was written down. Moreover, there are clearly examples not only of ritual matters but also of ethics. Hence, it follows at any rate the period Torah had the meaning of divine instruction whether it was written down long ago as a law and was preserved and pronounced by a priest or whether the priest was delivering it at the time when he gives the scripture.

[John Weaver] Or the prophet who was commissioned by God to pronounce it. And so he said, thus, objectively, essentially, the Torah is not form but divine authority. So everything in the Bible is divine authority.

[John Weaver] Now, here's what he's trying to say. Here's what he is saying, and I'm going to make it plain. All of God's word is law. God gave it, God spoke it, God commanded. We have been commanded to love one another. That's law. If God commands you to do something, that's law.

[John Weaver] Now, when you read Romans chapter 3, 13 in verse 8, listen to this. He said, Oh, no man anything but to love one another. For he that loveth another fulfill the law. Do you realize? that owe no man anything is just as much a commandment of God as love one another. Everything in the Bible is command. If you look in your Bibles very quickly, the first Thessalonians chapter four, first Thessalonians chapter four, look, if you would, beginning there with verse one, look at first Thessalonians chapter four and verse one.

[John Weaver] Notice, if you would, the Apostle Paul says this. Furthermore, then, we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received of us, how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more. For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus."

[John Weaver] Now, look at verse three and four. "'For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication, that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor.

[John Weaver] Now, I want you to note something. Knowing how to possess your vessel, your body in sanctification and honor is just as much a command of God as is abstained from fornication. You cannot escape it, it's there all the time.

[John Weaver] Now, our text declares in Isaiah 33 verse 22, For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King, he will save us. So here then is a question that I must ask. How do you define a Christian nation? Now in the beginning this country was indeed a Christian nation and I can produce the documents and I can tell you where you can go to find them yourselves. But you cannot define a Christian nation by saying a Christian nation is full of Christian people. Is everyone in this nation a Christian? No. If a majority was a Christian, that would not necessarily make us a Christian nation. It would just be a nation with lots of Christians in it.

[John Weaver] In every nation you're going to have saved and unsaved, I suppose. How do you define a Christian nation? A Christian nation is defined by its laws and by its government. In other words, when the principles, precepts, Statutes and laws are governed by the Word of God. And God's law is applied there you have a Christian nation. And I might also add there you have a just and righteous nation. Let me show you.

[John Weaver] If you will turn back in your Bible to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 4. Look at what God says. Moses has been teaching the people God's law. And here's Deuteronomy chapter 4 beginning now with verse 5. Deuteronomy 4 verse 5. Moses says, Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do so in the land whether you go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them, for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them? How is God nigh unto them? His law, that hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things which we call upon him for. And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous, as all this law which I set before you today.

[John Weaver] Now, the Bible says in Isaiah 33 verse 22, I'll cover more scriptures next week, James 4, there's only one lawgiver. If there is only one lawgiver, whose law then must be obeyed? That would be the one who gave the one law. In other words, his law is absolutely supreme.

[John Weaver] Now, Israel was a covenant nation. Israel covenanted with God that they would be obedient, that they would obey his law. I'm going to show you from the scripture just momentarily. But you see, in Israel, a stranger or foreigner could come there and sojourn. However, he could not bring his law or his idol into the land. He was not forced to convert. He could be there. But he had to abide by the law of God while he was there. So while he was in the land, he was free to stay. He was not forced to convert. But while he was there, he had to obey and do according to God's law. If he did not wish to obey, he was free to leave. It's just like it is in our country today.

[John Weaver] We have all these people coming in demanding that we submit to their law, their culture, their way of life. No, no, no. You either come and submit to our way or you're free to leave. It's just that simple. And that's the way it was in Israel now. I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would please, first of all, to the book of Exodus, chapter 12, and I want you to follow me very quickly because I want to show you several verses. Look in Exodus, chapter 12, and notice me, would please, verse 49. Exodus, chapter 12, and verse 49. Look at this. Exodus 12, verse 49. God says, One law shall be to him that is home-born, and to the stranger that sojourneth among you." One law. If you're born an Israelite, one law. If you're sojourning in the land, one law. It's just that simple. Now, look in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Leviticus, chapter 24 and verse 22. Turn right over to the book of Leviticus and look, if you would please, at chapter 24 and verse 22.

[John Weaver] Here it is again. God says you shall have one manner of law as well for the stranger. As for one of your own country, I am the Lord your God. So again, one law.

[John Weaver] Now if you would turn right on over to the book of Numbers. Numbers chapter 15 and look if you would please at verse 16. Number 15 and verse 16. God says very plainly one law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you. Now if you'll skip down to verse 29 of the same chapter, number 15, God says you shall have one law for him that senteth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among you. So God is saying you must have one law.

[John Weaver] Now, stop and think about this. God created only three institutions. He created the family, which is a ministry of education. He created the church, which is a ministry of grace. And he created civil government, which is a ministry of justice. When you get to Romans chapter 13, verses one and two, the word of God says, let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God. Now listen carefully. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God, and receiveth to himself damnation or condemnation. So listen again. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. No matter how high you are in power and authority, there's always someone higher. And the highest is God himself. So God requires individuals to be in subjection to him. He requires families to be in subjection to him. He requires churches to be in subjection to him. And he also requires governments to be in subjection to him. God is the one that created the family and the church and the government.

[John Weaver] He's the one that issues the law. It's really very, very simple. So judges were to rule for God. So, let me put it to you like this. Men have authority by derivation. God has authority inherently, in and of himself. So, as a husband, I have power over my wife. Why? Because God said, the husband is the head of the house. I don't have it inherently in myself.

[John Weaver] Anything I have is derived. I have authority from the Word of God to rebuke and exhort. If I see you doing something wrong, I have the authority from God to rebuke you and say, you need to stop that. That's wicked. That's wrong. That's not in me inherently. It's derived from God. God gave it. God said that. So all authority that man has is derived from God. is authority in and of himself. He has all authority in heaven and earth.

[John Weaver] Now, I want you to look in your Bibles, if you would please, to 2 Chronicles chapter 19. 2 Chronicles chapter 19. You see, God created those institutions. And I want you to notice, if you would please, in 2 Chronicles 19, beginning with verse 4, what King Jehoshaphat said to the judges. Look at it. 2 Chronicles 19 verse 4, And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem. And he went out again through the people from Beersheba to Mount Ephraim and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers. And he said, Judges in the land throughout all the thin cities of Judah, city by city. And he said to the judges, Take heed what you do. for you judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgment wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts but note if you would in verse six take heed what you do for you judge not for man but for the Lord who is with you in judgment so clearly then These judges were to judge for God.

[John Weaver] Now, so likewise, in a Christian nation, God's laws are upheld, they are expounded, they are applied. There can be no greater justice than God's justice. There can be no greater mercy than God's mercies. What has happened in this country and what has happened all over the world, man in replacing God's law not only introduces an alien law system, but also an idolatrous law system. Man's law always legalizes sin and makes sin legal.

[John Weaver] So, if you will turn in your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 94, Psalm 94, And I want you to look at verses 20 and 21 in light of this. Psalm 94. Verses 20 and 21. Watch this. Look at this. Psalm 94, verse 20. Here's the question. Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which frameth mischief by law? Now, first of all, it's a throne.

[John Weaver] Which speaks authority, civil authority. Secondly, it's a throne of iniquity, which means it's an evil, wicked civil government. So here's the question. Shall the throne of iniquity, shall a wicked, evil civil government have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by law? The word mischief in the Bible is another word for sin. So let me just kind of paraphrase this for you. Shall a wicked civil government have fellowship with thee, which makes sin legal? So let me ask you, is sodomy condemned in the Bible? And the answer is yes, but it's legal here. Is abortion condemned in the Bible? Yes, but it's legal here. Is theft and fraud condemned in the Bible? Yes, but it's legal here. As long as you're a politician and you do it under the color of law. In other words, here's a wicked civil government that makes sin legal.

[John Weaver] I just read this week, and I hope I can pronounce her name so she won't get mad at me, Ilhan Omar. She's just been in Congress one term. She started out, according to the article I read, with a minus $45,000, $45,000 in debt. She's now worth $30 million. In one term, $30 million.

[John Weaver] You know, how do you do that? I'm just pointing out the fact.

[John Weaver] Now, here's an interesting thought, and I'm going to show it to you. Did you know that one of the main reasons that God sent Israel into captivity was because they rejected His law and accepted man's law. Let me show it to you. Turn in your Bibles, if you would, to 2 Kings, chapter 17. 2 Kings, chapter 17. Watch this. 2 Kings, chapter 17. And let's begin reading there with verse 7. 2 Kings 17, verse 7. The Bible says, for so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God. Now, what's that? They had sinned against the Lord, their God.

[John Weaver] Which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and it feared other gods. Now, wait a minute. They've sinned against the Lord and their sin was they feared other gods. So their sin, then, is the sin of idolatry. Well, how did they fear other gods? What was their sin of idolatry? Let's read it again. For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, and walked in the statutes of the heathen whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel and of the kings of Israel which they had made. So how did they commit idolatry? By walking in the statutes, the laws of the heathen and of Israel which they had made.

[John Weaver] Now you have to remember that Jeroboam in 2 Kings chapter 12 had set up the two golden calves. So they've gone into idolatry. So what have they done? They have traded God's law for man's law. They are now walking according to the law of man. They're not walking according to God's law. And so God charges them with idolatry. You read the rest of the chapter and you'll find that he sent the Assyrians and they took them into captivity, took all these other people from the other nations and put them there in the land. This was God's judgment because they had committed idolatry by bowing down to the laws and the statutes of the heathen.

[John Weaver] and of Israel as well. Now, if you would turn in your Bibles to the book of Micah, the little book of Micah, and you'll find Micah over toward the end of the Old Testament. And so, Joel, Hosea, let's see, Hosea, Joel, Amos, and then you have Obadiah, and then Jonah, and then Micah. So, look in Micah chapter 6, right before the book of Nahum. So, look in Micah chapter 6, and let's begin reading there verse 13. Okay? Micah chapter 6, verse 13.

[John Weaver] Therefore, also I will make thee sick in smiting thee, and making thee desolate because of thy sins. So, God says, now I'm going to judge you. I'm going to make you sick. Because of your sins, I'll make you desolate.

[John Weaver] Now, what does that mean? Well, look in verse 14. Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied. Thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee. And thou shalt take hold, but thou shalt not deliver. And that which thou deliverest, I will give up to the sword. So they're going to fail. They're going to fall through war and everything else. Now look in verse 15. Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap. thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil, and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine."

[John Weaver] Why is all of this judgment? Well, look in verse sixteen, For the statutes, or the laws, of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and you walk in their councils, that I should make thee a desolation, and the Ahabba's thereof a hissing, therefore you shall bear the reproach of my people." God said, I'm going to judge you. You're walking in the statues of Omri. Omri happened to be the father of Ahab. And Ahab was one of the most wicked, vile kings in the northern kingdom. Wow. And God says, I'm going to judge you. Why? They were committing idolatry.

[John Weaver] They were rejecting God's law for man's law. Now, I hope you remember In Acts chapter 5, Peter and the other apostles were brought before the rulers and they were commanded not to preach anymore in the name of Jesus Christ. In fact, they said, you intend to bring this man's blood upon us and fill our city with your doctrine. And you know what Peter and the other apostles said?

[John Weaver] we ought to obey God rather than man." And they just kept preaching. In other words, the religious and or civil authorities have no authority to violate the law of God, nor do they have any authority to dictate to anyone else to force them to violate the law of God.

[John Weaver] Now, the issue today is the same as it has always been. It is an issue, I can say, of theonomy or autonomy. That is God's law or man's law. I want to give you a couple of illustrations. First of all, let's take theft.

[John Weaver] Now, on your tables, I only had several papers, but if you will look at the paper that's on the table there, You have the penalties for Sharia law. This is what the Muslims want to enforce in our country. They already have Sharia courts in Michigan, in Minnesota. They're trying to get them in Texas. Governor Abbott just said, no, you're not going to do this in Texas. Well, they're already there.

[John Weaver] The Muslim police also have Arabic patches on their uniforms. They patrolled, and they're the ones who ran the Christian pastor out, told him he had no right to be there, although he was a native, and they were foreigners. But, you know, I'm just simply pointing out, this is Sharia law. So, let's take theft for an illustration, and let's use Sharia law. If you look at that paper, you're going to find that for the first offense, if you were caught stealing, then your right hand is to be amputated. If you steal again the second time and you're caught, then your left foot is to be amputated. If you steal again the third time for the third offense, your left hand is to be amputated. If you get caught the fourth time, the fourth offense requires your right foot to be amputated.

[John Weaver] Now, if you call it a fifth time, they will behead you, but now I've got a question. If you do not have hands or feet, how are you going to steal, unless you can do something with your mouth? Okay? You see, this is Sharia law. This is Muslim law. This is man's law. This is religious law. Okay?

[John Weaver] Now, let's go a step farther. Everybody can say, that knows anything about the Bible, that's totally nonsensical. We're not going to cut somebody's hands and feet off because of stealing. Okay? Fine. Okay? So, I want you to consider theft now under American jurisprudence, as it is in this day. We just considered it under Sharia law. So, I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Exodus and just get ready and hold it there just momentarily because I'm going to tell you what is going to happen under biblical law shortly. Okay? So we're talking about that. I'm asking you to go ahead and just find Exodus 22.

[John Weaver] So here's what happens in America. So let's suppose that someone comes along and steals your automobile. And there's a difference between theft and grand theft in one sense of the word. You know, over a certain amount is grand theft. But really theft is theft. Okay, so here we go. Your truck gets stolen. You're ripped off the first time because now you've lost your property. Number two, let's suppose you did have insurance and your insurance was going to replace the truck or pay you for it after a long period of time even if the insurance paid you then your premiums are going to go up because you had this excessive loss okay let's suppose later on the thief

[John Weaver] is caught well now he is arrested and put in jail waiting trial So now your tax dollars get to feed and clothe him and medicate him while he's in jail. Then you're ripped off a fourth time because the court is going to appoint an attorney for him. And now your tax dollars have to pay for that court-appointed attorney and all the legal fees. And let's suppose he's found guilty and he's sentenced to five years in prison. Well, guess what? You get ripped off again because now your tax dollars has to feed and clothe and medicate him for five years. Probably you get ripped off a sixth time because you'll also have to support his family since he's in prison and he can't support them. And then you get ripped off a sixth time because when he gets out, He might have to go through a rehabilitation program and be trained for something else, and your tax dollars pays for that.

[John Weaver] So the point I'm trying to make is this. Under our American jurisprudence, if you are stolen from, you're the one that suffers. The criminal doesn't suffer. Everything's taken care of for him. You're the one that suffers. Under Sharia law, it's horrible. Under American law, it's horrible. Well, what about God's law? Well, look in Exodus chapter 22 and let's read the first four verses. If a man shall steal an ox or a sheep and kill it or sell it, he shall restore five oxen for an ox and four sheep for a sheep.

[John Weaver] If a thief be found breaking up and he be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him, for he should make full restitution. If he hath nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox or ass or sheep, he shall restore double.

[John Weaver] Now, note if you would please, there's a difference here between a sheep and an ox. When you talk about restitution, right here in this one verse or one passage, you have a two-fold restitution, a four-fold restitution, and a five-fold restitution. If you were to take the time to read Proverbs chapter 6 and think verses 30 and 31, you would also find that there is a seven-fold restitution. Now, notice if you would, You are to restore four sheep for a sheep and five oxen for an ox. Hmm. Why? Well, there's a difference in value. Let's see, for a sheep, I guess you could have him as a pet.

[John Weaver] But he would provide wool. And if you had to eat him, he would provide meat. I don't know if you can milk a sheep or not. Maybe they do. I don't know. I know they milk goats. But you know that. But now look at the ox. Yes, you can use his hide for leather. You could use his meat for food. Yes, he could be a pet too. But you use that ox to work. The ox is more valuable than the sheep.

[John Weaver] So let me try to explain it like this. Let's suppose, and I know Steve has a car, I know he has a work truck as well, and let's suppose that Steve is actively employed as a maintenance man, he's got all of his tools in his truck, and he drives that truck to work every day, and he needs all those tools in it, okay, and he's got a nice car, maybe it's even a newer car. If Steve had a choice, Of which vehicle was going to be stolen, which do you think you'd want stolen, the car or the work truck? The car. He might drive the car to church on Sunday, but that's about it, but he uses that work truck every day. So let me put it to you like this. Let's suppose, just for simplicity, the work truck is worth $20,000. Okay? And someone steals it. But he's caught not more than five miles away.

[John Weaver] And the truck's not damaged. The tools are still there. God says the thief now owes Steve $40,000.

[John Weaver] Now, if a deputy gets behind him and says, I've got him in front of me, there's an APB bulletin put out on him, And he said, I'm going to pull him over. He turns his light on, and the man floorboards the truck and just tries to outrun the deputy. And the next thing you know, he goes around the curb, loses control, wraps that thing around a tree, totals it. He comes out unscathed.

[John Weaver] Now he owes Steve $100,000. You'd like that, wouldn't you, Steve? Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You say, but he's a thief. He didn't have any money to begin with. Steve's just stuck. He owes him $100,000 and he's stuck. No, no, no, no. Look what the Bible says. Look what the Bible says. He says, If he have nothing, he shall be sold for his theft. Verse 3.

[John Weaver] If the sun be risen upon him, there should be blood shed for him, for he should make full restitution. If he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. So that means this. He could be sold to Joshua if Joshua had 100,000 bucks. If Joshua doesn't want him then as a slave, then he becomes a bond slave to Steve until he works out 100,000 bucks.

[John Weaver] Now, what you're going to tell me is this. Somebody that's a thief goes, sorry, anyhow, he might be a bondsman to Steve for a little while, but what's going to stop him from running away and leaving Steve holding the bag? Well, turn in your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 17, Deuteronomy 17, and look if you would please, beginning there with verse 8. Deuteronomy 17 and verse 8. Look at this. Deuteronomy 17 verse 8.

[John Weaver] If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates, Then thou shalt arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose. And thou shalt come unto the priests, the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and inquire, and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment. Now look, and thou shalt do according to the sentence which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall show thee, and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee. According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do. Thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall show thee, to the right hand nor to the left. And the man that will do presumptuously watch, and will not hearken unto the priest that tended the minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die.

[John Weaver] and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel. So let's see if he will not make the restitution. He becomes a bond slave until he works it out. If he doesn't work it out, he tries to run away. He's to be caught and executed.

[John Weaver] Now, I want to tell you something. If Ron had $100 bills sticking out everywhere of his body, and all of his shirt pockets and pants pockets and he's talking to Jim and I say oh I can slip me one or two of these and he'll never know it why would I be willing to steal 200 bucks from him if I knew if he turned around and caught me now I owe him 400 bucks and if he didn't catch me right then Two days later he figured out, now I owe him 800 bucks.

[John Weaver] And if I won't pay it, I have to come to his place and work it out. And if I try to run away, I'm going to be executed.

[John Weaver] Now let me ask you a question. Do you think if I knew those penalties, and if those penalties were going to be applied, I believe it'd make me think twice before I'd steal from Robin or anybody. Now listen to me. I want you to notice something. You've heard that old adage, crime doesn't pay. The only way crime does not pay is when you follow God's law. When you follow man's law, it does pay.

[John Weaver] That's why we have so many criminals. I just shared with Alice. I watched, did not get to watch the whole thing. But he was a doctor and the director of a hospital in Seattle. They just raided the doctor. Oh. Yeah. He was not helping the cartel. He was the cartel. He had branches. He had deputies bought and paid for. He had port authorities bought and paid for. It took 250 agents to break up this cartel operation. They found, I think, oh, by the way, it was not just drugs. They were doing organ harvesting and sex trafficking because they showed in his building, his home, a basement had total operation, I mean every operating table, everything that's needed to harvest organs. They had nine individuals that had been locked in a container who was being shipped for trafficking. So, when they finally got everything, of course there were firefights, a lot of them got killed, but the nine were rescued from the container.

[John Weaver] They found, I think it was a ton and a half of heroin another ton of phenol or methamphetamines one of those and then they found a whole stash of weapons and 52 million bucks don't tell me crime doesn't pay when you follow man's law that's why they're doing it Look at the congressmen. Look at the politicians. Wow. So, that's why you have so many notorious scoundrels and thieves in high places. Let me give you another illustration. Since you are in Deuteronomy, look in Deuteronomy chapter 21, and look if you would please beginning there in verse 18, and we'll read through verse 21. Deuteronomy chapter 18, verse 21. I'm sorry, Deuteronomy 21, verse 18.

[John Weaver] The Bible says, If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that when they have chastened him, he will not hearken unto them, then shall the father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out into the elders of the city, and into the gate of the place. And they shall say unto the elders of the city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, He will not obey our voice.

[John Weaver] He is a glutton and a drunkard. And all the men of the city shall stone him with stones that he die. So shalt thou put evil away from among you and all Israel shall hear and fear. So let me just point something out to begin with. We're not talking about a child. We're not even talking about a teenager. The son is an adult. He will not work. Moreover, he's rebellious. He's a drunkard. and in all probability he's a thief as well.

[John Weaver] Anytime you have an addict, I don't care if it's drugs, alcohol, I don't care what it is, usually you end up with thievery because it's an easy way to support your habit. It's just that simple. And so here he is and he's to be brought out and executed. Why? He is what you and I would call a repeat offender. He is a constant and continual criminal.

[John Weaver] Now you're going to say, well that's hard. That's difficult. Well, will you stop and think about it's his life versus the lives of others. Can you stop and think about all the people that you have read about that were murdered by drunken drivers. Not just husbands, not just wives, not just children, but entire families have been wiped out. See, drunkenness is not just a sin, it is a criminality.

[John Weaver] It is a criminal offense. Just this week, I read about a young man, if I'm not mistaken, he's 22. So let's have prayer then, shall we? Father, we are so thankful today for the Lord Jesus Christ and his so great salvation. We pray, Lord, for Heath today. Thankfully, he's doing better. We do pray, Father, for Trip and Brooke and ask that you would help them and bless them and, Lord, comfort them in the loss of this child and just pray that you would undertake for them. We do pray for Dennis Stanfield. We do pray for Michael Wharton today. We do pray, Father, for Dinah as she travels. And we're so thankful that Joshua and Felicia and the kids are here and ask, Lord, Would you bless them? We're thankful for Jim and Brendan, Lord, also for Rod and Sharon, and thankful, Lord, that they're down here safely. Just give us your grace and mercy, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.

[John Weaver] Several weeks back, I preached from First Kings chapter 11 on Solomon, where I titled the message Losing Your Wisdom and Losing Your Mind. And Solomon, one of the wisest men on earth, lost his wisdom, lost his mind, because he'd only married 700 women, but had 300 concubines. And at the same time, he built an altar for all these strange gods whom his wife served, whom God had forbidden him to marry those women anyhow, but he went ahead and did so. And of course, he built these altars, particularly for Asheret, for Moloch, and for Chemosh. And of course, God was angry with him because his heart was not perfect with the Lord. He actually served those gods with those wives, so he not only lost his wisdom, he basically lost his mind, because God judged him and God raised up adversaries against him, and also the fact that he lost his kingdom as well. Now, after I dealt with that, I dealt with two messages on the dangers of old age, because the Bible says in 1 Kings 11, it came to pass when Solomon was old that his wife turned away his heart.

[John Weaver] In fact, I did a little research and I pointed out the fact that Solomon was probably dead before 60 or 65, and we would certainly not count that old in our time, but I can assure you he was probably worn out in a number of ways, that is for sure. And so I asked these questions. Number one was this, why in the world were these particular gods chosen? There are many false gods, but yet he built altars, altars then to Ashtoreth, for Chemosh and also for Moloch. So why in the world were these gods chosen when there were so many other false gods?

[John Weaver] Well, I answered that in two messages. First of all, when he was worshipping Ashtoreth, and by the way, she is known by many different names, Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Venus, you just name it, she went on unknown. But she was a sex goddess, a goddess of fertility. And, of course, I pointed out what Solomon was doing as a man. Instead of asking God for strength and help and virility, he went down to the worship of false gods. I pointed out how God renewed Abraham and Sarah.

[John Weaver] She had a child when she was 90. He was 100. He did the same thing for Manoah and his wife. She gave birth to Samson when she was past age. And then he did the same thing for Zacharias and Elizabeth as well. This was why he chose Ashtoreth. And I pointed out that Origes were known for their worship of Ashtoreth. Also, he built all worship of Moloch and Chemosh. Moloch was a political power god. And in Ecclesiastes 8 in verse 4, Solomon said, where the word of the king is, there is power who can resist it. And so here's a man who'd known power all of his life and all of a sudden now, He's losing power. He's losing control. And so once again, instead of asking God, he goes down to Moloch worship. And I pointed out how Moloch worship was indeed not only pagan, but to the extent that the king manifested absolute and total control to that extent, he was viewed as God.

[John Weaver] He was supposed to be the mediator between heaven and earth. He was the controller of chaos. He was the one that brought peace and happiness out of confusion, and that's why he was worshipping Moloch. And, of course, Chemosh, the name means subduer or to dominate or dominion. And so, once again, there's that desire to dominate even when you do not have the power to dominate. And I kind of brought it out with a bucket list of older people and I pointed out how this one woman at 100, it was 100 to 104, went to skydiving.

[John Weaver] She wanted to set the record. And she did skydive, but a week later she was dead. So I'm just pointing out the fact there's still that in people that want to conference and do even when they're old. That is a fact. So Solomon then began to worship these gods. So that was dealing with the dangers of old age. And then I pointed out this last week I got started.

[John Weaver] on alien law systems because anytime and every time that you have a false religion, you also have an alien law system. And so I ask this question, why did God forbid idolatry? And it was not just for the fact that he's not going to share his honor and glory with a false god. It's from the fact that they're bringing in law systems that are absolutely contrary to God's law system.

[John Weaver] So when we read in Isaiah 33 and verse 22, the Lord is our judge, that is, our Lord is the judicial branch. When he says the Lord is our lawgiver, he's the legislative branch. The Lord is our king, he's the executive branch. So historians say this is basically where we derive the three branches of our government right here as well. But God is absolutely sovereign. So last week I dealt with this fact. that God has given us his law and anyone who denies and denigrates the law of God has some very difficult theological questions to answer. And I pointed out the fact how our Lord said in Matthew 5 in verse 17, think not that I'm come to destroy the law of the prophets, I'm not come to destroy but to fulfill.

[John Weaver] And so the word Destroy means to abrogate, to set aside, to dismantle, to take apart piece by piece. He said don't even think that. I did not come to destroy the law or the prophets. By the way if you do away with the law you also by reason ought to do away with the prophets if you're going to say that the law was abrogated because he said he didn't come to do that.

[John Weaver] but he came to fulfill. And the Greek word is pleiro, which means to put into full force as continuous. So I ask these questions. If you do away with the law of God, how do you know what sin is? Because the Bible says in Romans 3 and verse 20, by the law is knowledge of sin. 1 John 3 and verse 4 said, whosoever transgressed the law is sinned, or transgression of the law is sin. If you do away with the law, you don't know what sin is. If you do away with the law, you do away with conviction as well.

[John Weaver] What in the world is the Holy Spirit going to convict people with or about? How do you know you're guilty of anything? And then, of course, if you do away with the law, you don't know how to be sanctified. You don't know how to please God. You don't know how to walk acceptably because He's given that in His Word. So here's another thing. If you do away with the law of God, how are you going to explain Galatians 3 and verse 24? Listen to this one. Wherefore the law is our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith. So the law then is our schoolmaster. And when you think of the schoolmaster, you ought to be thinking then of that old one-room schoolhouse with the teacher and the blackboard, and there's a big rod over the blackboard. And on the blackboard was this cursing, one stripe, fighting, two stripes, arguing, stealing, cheating four or five stripes. And so when that child violated the law, he was brought up in front of the entire class and given the appropriate number.

[John Weaver] It was a school teacher. So what does the law teach us? It teaches us, number one, that we're sinners. It teaches us, number two, the penalty of sin, the power of sin. It teaches us that we cannot save ourselves because the law demands that we give it personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience, which we do not do. And then, of course, the law, the Bible tells us, shows us that Jesus Christ is the only way to be saved, since we cannot keep the law and give it what it demands. So, clearly then, the law is our school teacher.

[John Weaver] So, I gave you five points last week. I'm just going to give you these very quickly, and then we're going to get started today. So, we were talking about law last week. First of all, in every culture, law is religious. Behind every law system you have a religion. It may be a Christian religion, it may be a pagan religion, but it is a religion. You have Islam, you have Buddhist, you have Hindu, you have Christian, you have humanism, you have secularism. Every law system is a religious system because behind every determination of good and evil, right and wrong, is someone's religion. So, every law system is religious. Secondly, it must be recognized that the source of one's law in any culture is the God of that culture. So, if you hold that the Supreme Court of the United States is the Supreme Court of the United States, then the Supreme Court would be our God. If you believe that you know better than God, then your mind, your rationalism, is your God. So actually, the source of law is the god of that society.

[John Weaver] Thirdly, I pointed out, in any society, any change of law is an explicit or implicit change of religion. So, why in the world does Islam want to take over America? And the answer is, so they can initiate Sharia law. It's just that simple. Why would Buddhism? Why would Hinduism? Why would humanism want to take over America? The answer is so that they could instill their own religion.

[John Weaver] The fourth one is this. I said it is not possible to have any disestablishment of religion.

Alien Law Systems - Part 2

John Weaver | SermonAudio

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Speaker	John Weaver
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Media ID	1222252148406155
Subject	Biblical Law
Course	Alien Law Systems
Genre	Sermon
Date	2025-12-14
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Book	Book 007: Alien Law Systems: A Three-Part Study — Chapter 2
Source Timed Segments	99

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Introduction and Series Recap

Weaver recaps the series, beginning with Solomon's idolatry and the dangers of old age, leading to the topic of alien law systems.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 33:22

"For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us."

So let me just tell you how this little short series actually began. Several weeks back, I preached from 1 Kings chapter 11 on Solomon, where I titled the message, "Losing Your Wisdom and Losing Your Mind." And Solomon, one of the wisest men on earth, lost his wisdom, lost his mind, because he'd only married 700 women, but had 300 concubines. And at the same time, he built an altar for all these strange gods whom his wives served, whom God had forbidden him to marry those women anyhow, but he went ahead and did so. And of course, he built these altars, particularly for Ashtoreth, for Molech, and for Chemosh. And of course, God was angry with him because his heart was not perfect with the Lord. And he actually served those gods with those wives. So he not only lost his wisdom, he basically lost his mind because God judged him and God raised up adversaries against him, and also the fact that he lost his kingdom as well.

Now, after I dealt with that, I dealt with two messages on the dangers of old age, because the Bible says in 1 Kings 11, it came to pass when Solomon was old that his wives turned away his heart. In fact, I did a little research and I pointed out the fact that Solomon was probably dead before 60 or 65, and we would certainly not count that old in our time, but I can assure you he was probably worn out in a number of ways, that is for sure. And so I asked these questions. Number one was this, why in the world were these particular gods chosen? There are many false gods, but yet he built altars to Ashtoreth, for Chemosh, and also for Molech. So why in the world were these gods chosen when there were so many other false gods? I answered that in two messages. First of all, when he was worshipping Ashtoreth, and by the way, she is known by many different names, Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Venus, you just name it, she went on unknown.

But she was a sex goddess, a goddess of fertility. And of course, I pointed out what Solomon was doing as a man. Instead of asking God for strength and help and virility, he went down to the worship of false gods. I pointed out how God renewed Abraham and Sarah. She had a child when she was 90. He was 100. And he did the same thing for Manoah and his wife.

She gave birth to Samson when she was past age. And then he did the same thing for Zacharias and Elizabeth as well. So this was why he chose Ashtoreth. And I pointed out that orgies were known for their worship of Ashtoreth. Also, he built all worship to Molech and Chemosh. Molech was a political power god. And in Ecclesiastes 8 and verse 4, Solomon said, "Where the word of the king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?" And so here's a man who'd known power all of his life, and all of a sudden now, he's losing power, he's losing control. And so once again, instead of asking God, he goes down to Molech worship. And I pointed out how Molech worship was indeed not only pagan, but to the extent that the king manifested absolute and total control, to that extent he was viewed as God. He was supposed to be the mediator between heaven and earth, he was the controller of chaos, he was the one that brought peace and happiness out of confusion, and that's why he was worshipping Molech.

And of course, Chemosh, the name means subduer, or to dominate or dominion. And so once again there's that desire to dominate even when you do not have the power to dominate. And I've kind of brought it out with a bucket list of older people and I pointed out how this one woman at 100, it was 100 to 104, went skydiving. She wanted to set the record and she did skydive but a week later she was dead. So I'm just pointing out the fact there's still that in people that want to conquer and subdue, even when they're old. That is a fact.

So Solomon then began to worship these gods. So that was dealing with the dangers of old age. And then I pointed out this last week I got started on alien law systems, because anytime and every time that you have a false religion, you also have an alien law system. And so I asked this question, why did God forbid idolatry? And it was not just for the fact that he's not going to share his honor and glory with a false god. It's from the fact that they're bringing in law systems that are absolutely contrary to God's law system.

Five Principles of Law from Last Week

Weaver reviews five points: law is religious, the source of law is a culture's god, changing law changes religion, disestablishment of religion is impossible, and tolerance of alien law systems leads to national suicide.

So when we read in Isaiah 33 and verse 22, the Lord is our judge, that is, our Lord is the judicial branch. When he says the Lord is our lawgiver, he's the legislative branch. The Lord is our king. He's the executive branch. So historians say this is basically where we derive the three branches of our government right here as well. But God is absolutely sovereign. So last week I dealt with this fact that God has given us his law. And anyone who denies and denigrates the law of God has some very difficult theological questions to answer. And I pointed out the fact how our Lord said in Matthew 5 and verse 17, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill."

And so the word destroy means to abrogate, to set aside, to dismantle, to take apart piece by piece. He said, don't even think that. I did not come to destroy the law or the prophets. By the way, if you do away with the law, you also, by reason, ought to do away with the prophets, if you're going to say that the law was abrogated, because he said he didn't come to do that. But he came to fulfill, and the Greek word is pleroo, which means to put into full force as continuous. So, I ask these questions, if you do away with the law of God, how do you know what sin is? Because the Bible says in Romans 3 and verse 20, by the law is the knowledge of sin. 1 John 3 and verse 4 said, "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." If you do away with the law, you don't know what sin is. If you do away with the law, you do away with conviction as well.

What in the world is the Holy Spirit going to convict people with or about? How do you know you're guilty of anything? And then, of course, if you do away with the law, you don't know how to be sanctified. You don't know how to please God. You don't know how to walk acceptably because He's given that in His Word. So here's another thing. If you do away with the law of God, how are you going to explain Galatians 3 and verse 24? Listen to this one. "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." So the law then is our schoolmaster. And when you think of the schoolmaster, you ought to be thinking then of that old one-room schoolhouse with the teacher and the blackboard, and there's a big rod over the blackboard, and on the blackboard was this: cursing, one stripe; fighting, two stripes; arguing, stealing, cheating, four or five stripes. And so, when that child violated the law, he was brought up in front of the entire class and given the appropriate number.

It was a school teacher. So, what does the law teach us? It teaches us, number one, that we're sinners. It teaches us, number two, the penalty of sin, the power of sin. It teaches us that we cannot save ourselves because the law demands that we give it personal, perfect and perpetual obedience, which we do not do. And then, of course, the law, the Bible tells us, shows us that Jesus Christ is the only way to be saved since we cannot keep the law and give it what it demands. So clearly, then, the law is our schoolmaster. So, I gave you five points last week. I'm just going to give you these very quickly, and then we're going to get started today. So, we were talking about law last week. First of all, in every culture, law is religious. Behind every law system, you have a religion. It may be a Christian religion, it may be a pagan religion, but it is a religion. You have Islam, you have Buddhist, you have Hindu, you have Christian, you have humanism, you have secularism.

Every law system is a religious system because behind every determination of good and evil, right and wrong, is someone's religion. So every law system is religious. Secondly, it must be recognized that the source of one's law in any culture is the God of that culture. So if you hold that the Supreme Court of the United States is the Supreme Court of the United States, then the Supreme Court would be our God. If you believe that you know better than God, then your mind, your rationalism, is your God. So actually, the source of law is the God of that society. Thirdly, I pointed out, in any society, any change of law is an explicit or implicit change of religion.

So, why in the world does Islam want to take over America? And the answer is so they can initiate Sharia law. It's just that simple. Why would Buddhism, why would Hinduism, why would Secularism, Humanism want to take over America? The answer is so that they could instill their own religion. The fourth one is this. I said it is not possible to have any disestablishment of religion. Because if you disestablish Christianity, it's so that you can establish Islam or Buddhism or secularism or whatever. You're going to always have religion. I pointed out last week you cannot separate government and religion. You can separate government and churches, but not government and religion. And then the fifth thing I pointed out was there can be no tolerance in one law system for another law system.

So where we're failing as Christians is in God's law, because now what has happened: We in this country initially had God's law, and I've got all the documentation, but we left the law of God and now we have the law of man. We have basically humanism. And so what happens when you fail to protect your law system, you become tolerant of other law systems, and that leads them to an intolerance. Once they are established, they're not going to tolerate you. When you tolerate an alien law system, you're committing national suicide. It's just that simple.

Now, there's always been a battle over law systems. And it began way back in Genesis, chapter 3, verses 4 and 5. So, let me kind of give that to you. "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." So here's the temptation in the garden. The temptation was to become your own God. You shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. You don't need God to tell you what is right and wrong. You don't need God to tell you what is good and evil. You eat this fruit and you can determine that for yourself. The word knowing has the impact and the implication of the word determining. So an alien law system can be one of your own mind and certainly one of your own making as well.

The Origin of Alien Law Systems in the Garden

The battle over law systems began in Genesis 3 with the temptation to become one's own god, determining good and evil independently.

Once they are established, they're not going to tolerate you. When you tolerate an alien law system, you're committing national suicide. It's just that simple. Now, there's always been a battle over law systems. And it began way back in Genesis, chapter 3, verses 4 and 5. So, let me kind of give that to you. "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." So here's the temptation in the garden. The temptation was to become your own God. You shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. You don't need God to tell you what is right and wrong. You don't need God to tell you what is good and evil. You eat this fruit and you can determine that for yourself. The word knowing has the impact and the implication of the word determining. So an alien law system can be one of your own mind and certainly one of your own making as well.

So since the fall of man, there have been multiple law systems that have emerged from individuals, from organized corporate and religious systems, all in competition, in contradiction, and in conflict. So make sure you understand this statement. Every law system except the biblical law system is idolatry because it seeks to dethrone God and enthrone someone else, to deny God's law to establish its own law.

The Nature of God's Law as Divine Revelation

God's law is divine revelation, broader than the Mosaic code, and all of Scripture carries divine authority as law.

Now, I want to give you a good quote from R.J. Rushdoony, out of his Institutes of Biblical Law. I want you to listen. I'm going to break it down for you. But the quote is very important. Listen to what he said. In analyzing the nature of law, it is important to note first that for the law is divine revelation. Just mark that down. God's law is divine revelation.

We would not understand this had God not revealed it. OK, then he continues. The Hebrew word for law is Torah, which means instruction, authoritative direction. So God has spoken, God has given us his law, and it is for our direction. It is authoritative instruction. Then he goes on. He says the biblical concept of law is broader than the legal codes of Mosaic Foundation.

Now, you know that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, which are known as the Pentateuch. So normally we refer to that as the Mosaic law. So what he's saying is this. The law, the law of God is much broader than just what you and I would call the Mosaic instruction. He goes on to say this. It applies to the divine word and its instruction in totality. The earlier prophets also used Torah for the divine word proclaimed by them.

And he gives the scripture. Besides this, certain passages in the earlier Prophets used the word Torah also for the commandment of Yahweh as it was written down. Moreover, there are clearly examples not only of ritual matters but also of ethics. Hence, it follows at any rate the period Torah had the meaning of divine instruction whether it was written down long ago as a law and was preserved and pronounced by a priest or whether the priest was delivering it at the time when he gives the scripture. Or the prophet who was commissioned by God to pronounce it. And so he said, thus, objectively, essentially, the Torah is not form but divine authority. So everything in the Bible is divine authority.

Now, here's what he's trying to say. Here's what he is saying, and I'm going to make it plain. All of God's word is law. God gave it, God spoke it, God commanded. We have been commanded to love one another. That's law. If God commands you to do something, that's law.

Now, when you read Romans chapter 13 and verse 8, listen to this. He said,

Scripture Reading — Romans 13:8

"Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."

Do you realize that "owe no man anything" is just as much a commandment of God as "love one another"? Everything in the Bible is command. If you look in your Bibles very quickly, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, look, if you would, beginning there with verse 1, look at 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 1. Notice, if you would, the Apostle Paul says this. "Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus."

Now, look at verse 3 and 4. "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour." Now, I want you to note something. Knowing how to possess your vessel, your body in sanctification and honor is just as much a command of God as is abstain from fornication. You cannot escape it, it's there all the time.

Now, our text declares in Isaiah 33 verse 22, "For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us." So here then is a question that I must ask. How do you define a Christian nation? Now in the beginning this country was indeed a Christian nation and I can produce the documents and I can tell you where you can go to find them yourselves. But you cannot define a Christian nation by saying a Christian nation is full of Christian people. Is everyone in this nation a Christian? No. If a majority was a Christian, that would not necessarily make us a Christian nation. It would just be a nation with lots of Christians in it.

Defining a Christian Nation

A Christian nation is defined by its laws and government being governed by God's Word, not by the number of Christians in it.

In every nation you're going to have saved and unsaved, I suppose. How do you define a Christian nation? A Christian nation is defined by its laws and by its government. In other words, when the principles, precepts, statutes and laws are governed by the Word of God, and God's law is applied, there you have a Christian nation. And I might also add there you have a just and righteous nation. Let me show you. If you will turn back in your Bible to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 4. Look at what God says. Moses has been teaching the people God's law. And here's Deuteronomy chapter 4 beginning now with verse 5. Deuteronomy 4 verse 5. Moses says,

Scripture Reading — Deuteronomy 4:5-8

"Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them?"

How is God nigh unto them? His law.

Scripture Reading — Deuteronomy 4:5-8

"That hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?"

Now, the Bible says in Isaiah 33 verse 22, I'll cover more scriptures next week, James 4, there's only one lawgiver. If there is only one lawgiver, whose law then must be obeyed? That would be the one who gave the one law. In other words, his law is absolutely supreme.

One Law for All in Israel

In Israel, there was one law for both native and foreigner; strangers had to obey God's law but were not forced to convert.

Now, Israel was a covenant nation. Israel covenanted with God that they would be obedient, that they would obey his law. I'm going to show you from the scripture just momentarily. But you see, in Israel, a stranger or foreigner could come there and sojourn. However, he could not bring his law or his idol into the land. He was not forced to convert. He could be there. But he had to abide by the law of God while he was there. So while he was in the land, he was free to stay. He was not forced to convert. But while he was there, he had to obey and do according to God's law. If he did not wish to obey, he was free to leave. It's just like it is in our country today.

We have all these people coming in demanding that we submit to their law, their culture, their way of life. No, no, no. You either come and submit to our way or you're free to leave. It's just that simple. And that's the way it was in Israel. Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would please, first of all, to the book of Exodus, chapter 12, and I want you to follow me very quickly because I want to show you several verses. Look in Exodus, chapter 12, and notice, if you would please, verse 49. Exodus, chapter 12, and verse 49. Look at this. Exodus 12, verse 49. God says,

Scripture Reading — Exodus 12:49

"One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you."

One law. If you're born an Israelite, one law. If you're sojourning in the land, one law. It's just that simple. Now, look in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Leviticus, chapter 24 and verse 22. Turn right over to the book of Leviticus and look, if you would please, at chapter 24 and verse 22.

Here it is again. God says, "Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God." So again, one law. Now if you would turn right on over to the book of Numbers. Numbers chapter 15 and look if you would please at verse 16. Numbers 15 and verse 16. God says very plainly,

Scripture Reading — Numbers 15:16, 29

"One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you."

Now if you'll skip down to verse 29 of the same chapter, Numbers 15, God says,

Scripture Reading — Numbers 15:16, 29

"Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among you."

So God is saying you must have one law.

God's Institutions and Derived Authority

God created family, church, and civil government; all human authority is derived from God, and judges are to rule for God.

Now, stop and think about this. God created only three institutions. He created the family, which is a ministry of education. He created the church, which is a ministry of grace. And he created civil government, which is a ministry of justice. When you get to Romans chapter 13, verses 1 and 2, the word of God says,

Scripture Reading — Romans 13:1-2

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God."

Now listen carefully.

Scripture Reading — Romans 13:1-2

"Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."

or condemnation. So listen again. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. No matter how high you are in power and authority, there's always someone higher. And the highest is God himself. So God requires individuals to be in subjection to him. He requires families to be in subjection to him. He requires churches to be in subjection to him. And he also requires governments to be in subjection to him. God is the one that created the family and the church and the government.

He's the one that issues the law. It's really very, very simple. So judges were to rule for God. So, let me put it to you like this. Men have authority by derivation. God has authority inherently, in and of himself. So, as a husband, I have power over my wife. Why? Because God said, the husband is the head of the house. I don't have it inherently in myself.

Anything I have is derived. I have authority from the Word of God to rebuke and exhort. If I see you doing something wrong, I have the authority from God to rebuke you and say, you need to stop that. That's wicked. That's wrong. That's not in me inherently. It's derived from God. God gave it. God said that. So all authority that man has is derived from God. God is authority in and of himself. He has all authority in heaven and earth.

Now, I want you to look in your Bibles, if you would please, to 2 Chronicles chapter 19. 2 Chronicles chapter 19. You see, God created those institutions. And I want you to notice, if you would please, in 2 Chronicles 19, beginning with verse 4, what King Jehoshaphat said to the judges. Look at it. 2 Chronicles 19 verse 4,

Scripture Reading — 2 Chronicles 19:4-6

"And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers. And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city. And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment. Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts."

But note if you would in verse 6,

Scripture Reading — 2 Chronicles 19:4-6

"Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment."

So clearly then, these judges were to judge for God.

Man's Law Legalizes Sin

Man's law makes sin legal, as seen in Psalm 94:20-21; God judged Israel for adopting heathen statutes, which is idolatry.

Now, so likewise, in a Christian nation, God's laws are upheld, they are expounded, they are applied. There can be no greater justice than God's justice. There can be no greater mercy than God's mercies. What has happened in this country and what has happened all over the world, man in replacing God's law not only introduces an alien law system, but also an idolatrous law system. Man's law always legalizes sin and makes sin legal.

So, if you will turn in your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 94, Psalm 94, and I want you to look at verses 20 and 21 in light of this. Psalm 94, verses 20 and 21. Watch this. Look at this. Psalm 94, verse 20. Here's the question.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 94:20-21

"Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?"

Now, first of all, it's a throne.

Which speaks authority, civil authority. Secondly, it's a throne of iniquity, which means it's an evil, wicked civil government. So here's the question. Shall the throne of iniquity, shall a wicked, evil civil government have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? The word mischief in the Bible is another word for sin. So let me just kind of paraphrase this for you. Shall a wicked civil government have fellowship with thee, which makes sin legal? So let me ask you, is sodomy condemned in the Bible? And the answer is yes, but it's legal here. Is abortion condemned in the Bible? Yes, but it's legal here. Is theft and fraud condemned in the Bible? Yes, but it's legal here. As long as you're a politician and you do it under the color of law. In other words, here's a wicked civil government that makes sin legal.

I just read this week, and I hope I can pronounce her name so she won't get mad at me, Ilhan Omar. She's just been in Congress one term. She started out, according to the article I read, with a minus $45,000, $45,000 in debt. She's now worth $30 million. In one term, $30 million.

You know, how do you do that? I'm just pointing out the fact. Now, here's an interesting thought, and I'm going to show it to you. Did you know that one of the main reasons that God sent Israel into captivity was because they rejected His law and accepted man's law. Let me show it to you. Turn in your Bibles, if you would, to 2 Kings, chapter 17. 2 Kings, chapter 17. Watch this. 2 Kings, chapter 17. And let's begin reading there with verse 7. 2 Kings 17, verse 7. The Bible says, "For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God." Now, what's that? They had sinned against the Lord, their God.

"Which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods." Now, wait a minute. They've sinned against the Lord and their sin was they feared other gods. So their sin, then, is the sin of idolatry. Well, how did they fear other gods? What was their sin of idolatry? Let's read it again. "For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, and walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made." So how did they commit idolatry? By walking in the statutes, the laws of the heathen and of Israel which they had made.

Now you have to remember that Jeroboam in 1 Kings chapter 12 had set up the two golden calves. So they've gone into idolatry. So what have they done? They have traded God's law for man's law. They are now walking according to the law of man. They're not walking according to God's law. And so God charges them with idolatry. You read the rest of the chapter and you'll find that he sent the Assyrians and they took them into captivity, took all these other people from the other nations and put them there in the land. This was God's judgment because they had committed idolatry by bowing down to the laws and the statutes of the heathen.

and of Israel as well. Now, if you would turn in your Bibles to the book of Micah, the little book of Micah, and you'll find Micah over toward the end of the Old Testament. And so, Joel, Hosea, let's see, Hosea, Joel, Amos, and then you have Obadiah, and then Jonah, and then Micah. So, look in Micah chapter 6, right before the book of Nahum. So, look in Micah chapter 6, and let's begin reading there verse 13. Okay? Micah chapter 6, verse 13.

"Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins." So, God says, now I'm going to judge you. I'm going to make you sick. Because of your sins, I'll make you desolate. Now, what does that mean? Well, look in verse 14. "Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword." So they're going to fail. They're going to fall through war and everything else. Now look in verse 15. "Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine."

Why is all of this judgment? Well, look in verse 16, "For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people." God said, I'm going to judge you. You're walking in the statutes of Omri. Omri happened to be the father of Ahab. And Ahab was one of the most wicked, vile kings in the northern kingdom. Wow. And God says, I'm going to judge you. Why? They were committing idolatry.

They were rejecting God's law for man's law. Now, I hope you remember in Acts chapter 5, Peter and the other apostles were brought before the rulers and they were commanded not to preach anymore in the name of Jesus Christ. In fact, they said, you intend to bring this man's blood upon us and fill our city with your doctrine. And you know what Peter and the other apostles said?

The Issue of Theonomy vs. Autonomy

The core issue is God's law versus man's law; civil authorities have no right to violate or enforce violation of God's law.

"We ought to obey God rather than men." And they just kept preaching. In other words, the religious and or civil authorities have no authority to violate the law of God, nor do they have any authority to dictate to anyone else to force them to violate the law of God. Now, the issue today is the same as it has always been. It is an issue, I can say, of theonomy or autonomy. That is God's law or man's law. I want to give you a couple of illustrations. First of all, let's take theft.

Illustration: Theft Under Sharia, American, and Biblical Law

Weaver contrasts Sharia law's amputation, American law's victim punishment, and biblical law's restitution and capital punishment for repeat offenders, showing only God's law makes crime unprofitable.

Now, on your tables, I only had several papers, but if you will look at the paper that's on the table there, you have the penalties for Sharia law. This is what the Muslims want to enforce in our country. They already have Sharia courts in Michigan, in Minnesota. They're trying to get them in Texas. Governor Abbott just said, no, you're not going to do this in Texas. Well, they're already there. The Muslim police also have Arabic patches on their uniforms. They patrolled, and they're the ones who ran the Christian pastor out, told him he had no right to be there, although he was a native, and they were foreigners. But, you know, I'm just simply pointing out, this is Sharia law. So, let's take theft for an illustration, and let's use Sharia law. If you look at that paper, you're going to find that for the first offense, if you were caught stealing, then your right hand is to be amputated. If you steal again the second time and you're caught, then your left foot is to be amputated. If you steal again the third time for the third offense, your left hand is to be amputated. If you get caught the fourth time, the fourth offense requires your right foot to be amputated.

Now, if you get caught a fifth time, they will behead you, but now I've got a question. If you do not have hands or feet, how are you going to steal, unless you can do something with your mouth? Okay? You see, this is Sharia law. This is Muslim law. This is man's law. This is religious law. Okay?

Now, let's go a step farther. Everybody can say, that knows anything about the Bible, that's totally nonsensical. We're not going to cut somebody's hands and feet off because of stealing. Okay? Fine. Okay? So, I want you to consider theft now under American jurisprudence, as it is in this day. We just considered it under Sharia law. So, I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Exodus and just get ready and hold it there just momentarily because I'm going to tell you what is going to happen under biblical law shortly. Okay? So we're talking about that. I'm asking you to go ahead and just find Exodus 22.

So here's what happens in America. So let's suppose that someone comes along and steals your automobile. And there's a difference between theft and grand theft in one sense of the word. You know, over a certain amount is grand theft. But really theft is theft. Okay, so here we go. Your truck gets stolen. You're ripped off the first time because now you've lost your property. Number two, let's suppose you did have insurance and your insurance was going to replace the truck or pay you for it after a long period of time. Even if the insurance paid you, then your premiums are going to go up because you had this excessive loss. Okay, let's suppose later on the thief

is caught. Well, now he is arrested and put in jail waiting trial. So now your tax dollars get to feed and clothe him and medicate him while he's in jail. Then you're ripped off a fourth time because the court is going to appoint an attorney for him. And now your tax dollars have to pay for that court-appointed attorney and all the legal fees. And let's suppose he's found guilty and he's sentenced to five years in prison. Well, guess what? You get ripped off again because now your tax dollars have to feed and clothe and medicate him for five years. Probably you get ripped off a sixth time because you'll also have to support his family since he's in prison and he can't support them. And then you get ripped off a seventh time because when he gets out, he might have to go through a rehabilitation program and be trained for something else, and your tax dollars pay for that.

So the point I'm trying to make is this. Under our American jurisprudence, if you are stolen from, you're the one that suffers. The criminal doesn't suffer. Everything's taken care of for him. You're the one that suffers. Under Sharia law, it's horrible. Under American law, it's horrible. Well, what about God's law? Well, look in Exodus chapter 22 and let's read the first four verses. "If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep."

"If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double." Now, note if you would please, there's a difference here between a sheep and an ox. When you talk about restitution, right here in this one verse or one passage, you have a two-fold restitution, a four-fold restitution, and a five-fold restitution. If you were to take the time to read Proverbs chapter 6 and think verses 30 and 31, you would also find that there is a seven-fold restitution. Now, notice if you would, you are to restore four sheep for a sheep and five oxen for an ox. Hmm. Why? Well, there's a difference in value. Let's see, for a sheep, I guess you could have him as a pet.

But he would provide wool. And if you had to eat him, he would provide meat. I don't know if you can milk a sheep or not. Maybe they do. I don't know. I know they milk goats. But you know that. But now look at the ox. Yes, you can use his hide for leather. You could use his meat for food. Yes, he could be a pet too. But you use that ox to work. The ox is more valuable than the sheep.

So let me try to explain it like this. Let's suppose, and I know Steve has a car, I know he has a work truck as well, and let's suppose that Steve is actively employed as a maintenance man, he's got all of his tools in his truck, and he drives that truck to work every day, and he needs all those tools in it, okay, and he's got a nice car, maybe it's even a newer car. If Steve had a choice of which vehicle was going to be stolen, which do you think you'd want stolen, the car or the work truck? The car. He might drive the car to church on Sunday, but that's about it, but he uses that work truck every day. So let me put it to you like this. Let's suppose, just for simplicity, the work truck is worth $20,000. Okay? And someone steals it. But he's caught not more than five miles away.

And the truck's not damaged. The tools are still there. God says the thief now owes Steve $40,000. Now, if a deputy gets behind him and says, I've got him in front of me, there's an APB bulletin put out on him, and he said, I'm going to pull him over. He turns his light on, and the man floorboards the truck and just tries to outrun the deputy. And the next thing you know, he goes around the curb, loses control, wraps that thing around a tree, totals it. He comes out unscathed.

Now he owes Steve $100,000. You'd like that, wouldn't you, Steve? Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You say, but he's a thief. He didn't have any money to begin with. Steve's just stuck. He owes him $100,000 and he's stuck. No, no, no, no. Look what the Bible says. Look what the Bible says. He says, "If he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft." Verse 3.

"If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft." So that means this. He could be sold to Joshua if Joshua had 100,000 bucks. If Joshua doesn't want him then as a slave, then he becomes a bond slave to Steve until he works out 100,000 bucks. Now, what you're going to tell me is this. Somebody that's a thief goes, sorry, anyhow, he might be a bondsman to Steve for a little while, but what's going to stop him from running away and leaving Steve holding the bag? Well, turn in your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 17, Deuteronomy 17, and look if you would please, beginning there with verse 8. Deuteronomy 17 and verse 8. Look at this. Deuteronomy 17 verse 8.

"If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose; and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: and thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: according to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel."

So let's see if he will not make the restitution. He becomes a bond slave until he works it out. If he doesn't work it out, he tries to run away. He's to be caught and executed.

Now, I want to tell you something. If Ron had $100 bills sticking out everywhere of his body, and all of his shirt pockets and pants pockets and he's talking to Jim and I say, oh, I can slip me one or two of these and he'll never know it, why would I be willing to steal 200 bucks from him if I knew if he turned around and caught me now I owe him 400 bucks and if he didn't catch me right then, two days later he figured out, now I owe him 800 bucks. And if I won't pay it, I have to come to his place and work it out. And if I try to run away, I'm going to be executed.

Now let me ask you a question. Do you think if I knew those penalties, and if those penalties were going to be applied, I believe it'd make me think twice before I'd steal from Ron or anybody. Now listen to me. I want you to notice something. You've heard that old adage, crime doesn't pay. The only way crime does not pay is when you follow God's law. When you follow man's law, it does pay.

That's why we have so many criminals. I just shared with Alice. I watched, did not get to watch the whole thing. But he was a doctor and the director of a hospital in Seattle. They just raided the doctor. Oh. Yeah. He was not helping the cartel. He was the cartel. He had branches. He had deputies bought and paid for. He had port authorities bought and paid for. It took 250 agents to break up this cartel operation. They found, I think, oh, by the way, it was not just drugs. They were doing organ harvesting and sex trafficking because they showed in his building, his home, a basement had total operation, I mean every operating table, everything that's needed to harvest organs. They had nine individuals that had been locked in a container who was being shipped for trafficking. So, when they finally got everything, of course there were firefights, a lot of them got killed, but the nine were rescued from the container.

Illustration: The Stubborn and Rebellious Son

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 prescribes execution for a persistently rebellious adult son, a repeat offender, to protect society.

They found, I think it was a ton and a half of heroin, another ton of fentanyl or methamphetamines, one of those, and then they found a whole stash of weapons and 52 million bucks. Don't tell me crime doesn't pay when you follow man's law. That's why they're doing it. Look at the congressmen. Look at the politicians. Wow. So, that's why you have so many notorious scoundrels and thieves in high places. Let me give you another illustration. Since you are in Deuteronomy, look in Deuteronomy chapter 21, and look if you would please beginning there in verse 18, and we'll read through verse 21. Deuteronomy chapter 21, verse 18.

The Bible says, "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard." "And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear." So let me just point something out to begin with. We're not talking about a child. We're not even talking about a teenager. The son is an adult. He will not work. Moreover, he's rebellious. He's a drunkard, and in all probability he's a thief as well.

Anytime you have an addict, I don't care if it's drugs, alcohol, I don't care what it is, usually you end up with thievery because it's an easy way to support your habit. It's just that simple. And so here he is and he's to be brought out and executed. Why? He is what you and I would call a repeat offender. He is a constant and continual criminal.

Now you're going to say, well that's hard. That's difficult. Well, will you stop and think about it's his life versus the lives of others. Can you stop and think about all the people that you have read about that were murdered by drunken drivers. Not just husbands, not just wives, not just children, but entire families have been wiped out. See, drunkenness is not just a sin, it is a criminality.

Conclusion and Prayer

Weaver notes the criminality of drunkenness and closes with prayer for various individuals.

It is a criminal offense. Just this week, I read about a young man, if I'm not mistaken, he's 22. So let's have prayer then, shall we? Father, we are so thankful today for the Lord Jesus Christ and his so great salvation. We pray, Lord, for Heath today. Thankfully, he's doing better. We do pray, Father, for Trip and Brooke and ask that you would help them and bless them and, Lord, comfort them in the loss of this child and just pray that you would undertake for them. We do pray for Dennis Stanfield. We do pray for Michael Wharton today. We do pray, Father, for Dinah as she travels. And we're so thankful that Joshua and Felicia and the kids are here and ask, Lord, would you bless them? We're thankful for Jim and Brendan, Lord, also for Rod and Sharon, and thankful, Lord, that they're down here safely. Just give us your grace and mercy, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.

All right, if you will open your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 33, verse 22, and we're in the middle of a series, but I'm going to bring you up to snuff real quickly. So if you'll look in Isaiah chapter 33 and verse 22, one simple verse, notice what the word of God says, "For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us." So let me just tell you how this little short series actually began.

Study Guide

Major Themes

The Religious Nature of Law

Summary: Every law system is rooted in a religion, and behind every determination of right and wrong is someone's religious belief.

Evidence: First of all, in every culture, law is religious. Behind every law system you have a religion... Every law system is a religious system because behind every determination of good and evil, right and wrong, is someone's religion.

Idolatry of Man's Law

Summary: Rejecting God's law for man's law is idolatry, as it dethrones God and enthrones another authority.

Evidence: Every law system except the biblical law system is idolatry because it seeks to dethrone God and enthrone someone else, to deny God's law to establish its own law.

The Supremacy and Scope of God's Law

Summary: God's law is divine revelation, broader than the Mosaic code, and all of Scripture carries divine authority as law.

Evidence: All of God's word is law. God gave it, God spoke it, God commanded. We have been commanded to love one another. That's law. If God commands you to do something, that's law.

Defining a Christian Nation by Law

Summary: A Christian nation is defined by its laws and government being governed by God's Word, not by the number of Christians in it.

Evidence: A Christian nation is defined by its laws and by its government. In other words, when the principles, precepts, statutes and laws are governed by the Word of God, and God's law is applied, there you have a Christian nation.

One Law for All

Summary: God requires one law for both native and foreigner within a nation, without forcing conversion but requiring obedience.

Evidence: One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

Man's Law Legalizes Sin

Summary: Man's law makes sin legal, and God judges nations that adopt heathen statutes, as seen in Israel's captivity.

Evidence: Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? ... Shall a wicked civil government have fellowship with thee, which makes sin legal?

Theonomy vs. Autonomy

Summary: The fundamental conflict is between God's law (theonomy) and man's law (autonomy), with civil authorities having no right to violate God's law.

Evidence: The issue today is the same as it has always been. It is an issue, I can say, of theonomy or autonomy. That is God's law or man's law.

Biblical Justice vs. Human Justice

Summary: Only God's law, with its restitution and capital punishment for repeat offenders, makes crime unprofitable and protects society.

Evidence: The only way crime does not pay is when you follow God's law. When you follow man's law, it does pay.

Key Arguments

Law is inherently religious

Summary: Every law system is based on a religion, and the source of law is the god of that culture.

Evidence: In every culture, law is religious. Behind every law system you have a religion... the source of one's law in any culture is the God of that culture.

Changing law changes religion

Summary: Any change in law is an explicit or implicit change of religion, as seen in Islam's desire to impose Sharia.

Evidence: In any society, any change of law is an explicit or implicit change of religion. So, why in the world does Islam want to take over America? And the answer is so they can initiate Sharia law.

Tolerance of alien law leads to national suicide

Summary: Tolerating an alien law system leads to intolerance once it is established, resulting in national suicide.

Evidence: When you tolerate an alien law system, you're committing national suicide. It's just that simple.

All Scripture is law

Summary: Everything in the Bible is divine authority and law, not just the Mosaic code.

Evidence: All of God's word is law. God gave it, God spoke it, God commanded.

A Christian nation is defined by its laws

Summary: A nation is Christian when its laws and government are based on God's Word, not when it has a Christian majority.

God judges nations for adopting man's law

Summary: Israel was sent into captivity because they rejected God's law and walked in the statutes of the heathen, which is idolatry.

Evidence: For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God... and walked in the statutes of the heathen... So how did they commit idolatry? By walking in the statutes, the laws of the heathen.

Biblical restitution makes crime unprofitable

Summary: God's law requires multiple-fold restitution for theft, making crime unprofitable, unlike American law which punishes the victim.

Evidence: The only way crime does not pay is when you follow God's law. When you follow man's law, it does pay.

Capital punishment for repeat offenders protects society

Summary: The stubborn and rebellious son (adult repeat offender) is to be executed to remove evil and deter others.

Evidence: And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Scripture References

Isaiah 33:22

Context: The Lord is our judge, lawgiver, and king; the basis for the three branches of government and God's sovereignty.

1 Kings 11

Context: Solomon's idolatry and loss of wisdom due to his many wives and their gods.

Ecclesiastes 8:4

Context: Solomon's statement on the power of a king, related to his worship of Molech.

Matthew 5:17

Context: Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it, putting it into full force.

Romans 3:20

Context: By the law is the knowledge of sin.

1 John 3:4

Context: Sin is the transgression of the law.

Galatians 3:24

Context: The law is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.

Genesis 3:4-5

Context: The serpent's temptation to be as gods, knowing good and evil, the origin of alien law systems.

Romans 13:8

Context: Owe no man anything but to love one another; both are commandments.

1 Thessalonians 4:1-4

Context: Paul's commandments include abstaining from fornication and possessing one's vessel in sanctification.

Deuteronomy 4:5-8

Context: God's law is Israel's wisdom and righteousness before the nations.

Exodus 12:49

Context: One law for the homeborn and the stranger.

Leviticus 24:22

Context: One manner of law for the stranger and the native.

Numbers 15:16, 29

Context: One law and one manner for the stranger and the native.

Romans 13:1-2

Context: All authority is from God; resisting authority brings condemnation.

2 Chronicles 19:4-6

Context: Jehoshaphat instructs judges that they judge for the Lord, not for man.

Psalm 94:20-21

Context: A wicked throne frames mischief by law, making sin legal.

2 Kings 17:7-8

Context: Israel sinned by fearing other gods and walking in the statutes of the heathen.

Micah 6:13-16

Context: God judges Israel for keeping the statutes of Omri and the works of Ahab.

Exodus 22:1-4

Context: Biblical restitution for theft: two-fold, four-fold, five-fold, and sale into bondage if unable to pay.

Historical References

Solomon's idolatry and loss of kingdom

Context: Solomon built altars to Ashtoreth, Molech, and Chemosh, leading to God's judgment and adversaries.

R.J. Rushdoony's Institutes of Biblical Law

Context: Quoted on the nature of law as divine revelation and the meaning of Torah.

Sharia law penalties for theft

Context: Amputation of hand and foot for successive theft offenses under Islamic law.

American jurisprudence on theft

Context: Victim suffers multiple financial losses while the criminal is supported by tax dollars.

Ilhan Omar's wealth accumulation

Context: Mentioned as an example of politicians profiting under man's law.

Seattle doctor cartel case

Context: A doctor ran a cartel involving drugs, organ harvesting, and sex trafficking, illustrating crime pays under man's law.

Important Quotes

Every law system except the biblical law system is idolatry because it seeks to dethrone God and enthrone someone else, to deny God's law to establish its own law.

Significance: Summarizes the core thesis that all non-biblical law systems are inherently idolatrous.

All of God's word is law. God gave it, God spoke it, God commanded.

Significance: Expands the concept of law to include all of Scripture, not just the Mosaic code.

A Christian nation is defined by its laws and by its government. In other words, when the principles, precepts, statutes and laws are governed by the Word of God, and God's law is applied, there you have a Christian nation.

Significance: Defines a Christian nation by its legal foundation rather than its population.

When you tolerate an alien law system, you're committing national suicide. It's just that simple.

Significance: Warns of the existential danger of allowing competing law systems within a nation.

The only way crime does not pay is when you follow God's law. When you follow man's law, it does pay.

Significance: Contrasts the effectiveness of biblical justice with human legal systems in deterring crime.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Significance: Uses Psalm 94:20 to argue that wicked governments make sin legal through legislation.

We ought to obey God rather than men.

Significance: Cites the apostles' response to civil authorities to establish the priority of God's law.

The issue today is the same as it has always been. It is an issue, I can say, of theonomy or autonomy. That is God's law or man's law.

Significance: Frames the central conflict as a choice between God's law and human self-rule.

Discussion Questions

How does the claim that 'every law system is religious' challenge the modern idea of secular law?

Context: Weaver argues that behind every determination of right and wrong is someone's religion.

In what ways might Christians today be tolerating alien law systems, and what are the potential consequences?

Context: Weaver warns that tolerating alien law systems leads to national suicide.

How does the definition of a Christian nation by its laws rather than its population affect our understanding of America's founding?

Context: Weaver defines a Christian nation by its laws and government being governed by God's Word.

What are the practical implications of 'all of God's word is law' for Christian ethics and civil government?

Context: Weaver expands the concept of law to include all of Scripture.

How does the biblical principle of restitution for theft differ from both Sharia and American law, and what would its implementation require?

Context: Weaver contrasts the three legal systems using the example of theft.

Why does Weaver consider the adoption of man's law to be idolatry, and how does this relate to the first commandment?

Context: Weaver states that every law system except the biblical one is idolatry.

How should Christians respond when civil laws directly contradict God's commands, based on Acts 5:29?

Context: Weaver cites the apostles' declaration to obey God rather than men.

What does the example of the stubborn and rebellious son teach about the role of civil government in punishing persistent criminals?

Context: Weaver discusses Deuteronomy 21:18-21 as a case of capital punishment for repeat offenders.

Applications

Recognize the religious nature of all law

Summary: Christians should understand that every law system is rooted in a religion and not be deceived by claims of secular neutrality.

Evidence: Every law system is a religious system because behind every determination of good and evil, right and wrong, is someone's religion.

Advocate for God's law in society

Summary: Believers should work to apply biblical principles in civil law, as a nation's laws define its character.

Evidence: A Christian nation is defined by its laws and by its government... when the principles, precepts, statutes and laws are governed by the Word of God.

Reject tolerance of alien law systems

Summary: Christians must not tolerate legal systems that contradict God's law, as this leads to national destruction.

Evidence: When you tolerate an alien law system, you're committing national suicide.

Obey God rather than men when laws conflict

Summary: When civil authorities command what God forbids or forbid what God commands, believers must obey God.

Evidence: We ought to obey God rather than men.

Understand the law's role in evangelism

Summary: The law serves as a schoolmaster to bring people to Christ by revealing sin and the need for a savior.

Evidence: Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Support biblical justice over human justice

Summary: Christians should advocate for a justice system based on restitution and proportional punishment, not merely incarceration.

Evidence: The only way crime does not pay is when you follow God's law. When you follow man's law, it does pay.

View all Scripture as authoritative instruction

Summary: Believers should treat all of God's Word as law, not just the explicitly legal portions.

Evidence: All of God's word is law. God gave it, God spoke it, God commanded.

Warn against the idolatry of man's law

Summary: Christians must recognize that adopting man's law in place of God's law is idolatry and leads to judgment.

Evidence: Every law system except the biblical law system is idolatry because it seeks to dethrone God and enthrone someone else.

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Alien Law Systems - Part 2

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All right, if you will open your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 33, verse 22, and we're in the middle of a series, but I'm going to bring you up to snuff real quickly. So if you'll look in Isaiah chapter 33 and verse 22, one simple verse, notice what the word of God says: "For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us." So let me just tell you how this little short series actually began. Several weeks back, I preached from 1 Kings chapter 11 on Solomon, where I titled the message, "Losing Your Wisdom and Losing Your Mind." And Solomon, one of the wisest men on earth, lost his wisdom, lost his mind, because he'd only married 700 women, but had 300 concubines.
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And at the same time, he built an altar for all these strange gods whom his wives served, whom God had forbidden him to marry those women anyhow, but he went ahead and did so. And of course, he built these altars, particularly for Ashtoreth, for Molech, and for Chemosh. And of course, God was angry with him because his heart was not perfect with the Lord. And he actually served those gods with those wives. So he not only lost his wisdom, he basically lost his mind because God judged him and God raised up adversaries against him, and also the fact that he lost his kingdom as well.
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Now, after I dealt with that, I dealt with two messages on the dangers of old age, because the Bible says in 1 Kings 11, it came to pass when Solomon was old that his wives turned away his heart. In fact, I did a little research and I pointed out the fact that Solomon was probably dead before 60 or 65, and we would certainly not count that old in our time, but I can assure you he was probably worn out in a number of ways, that is for sure. And so I asked these questions. Number one was this, why in the world were these particular gods chosen? There are many false gods, but yet he built altars to Ashtoreth, for Chemosh, and also for Molech. So why in the world were these gods chosen when there were so many other false gods? I answered that in two messages. First of all, when he was worshipping Ashtoreth, and by the way, she is known by many different names, Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Venus, you just name it, she went on unknown.
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But she was a sex goddess, a goddess of fertility. And of course, I pointed out what Solomon was doing as a man. Instead of asking God for strength and help and virility, he went down to the worship of false gods. I pointed out how God renewed Abraham and Sarah. She had a child when she was 90. He was 100. And he did the same thing for Manoah and his wife.
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She gave birth to Samson when she was past age. And then he did the same thing for Zacharias and Elizabeth as well. So this was why he chose Ashtoreth. And I pointed out that orgies were known for their worship of Ashtoreth. Also, he built all worship to Molech and Chemosh. Molech was a political power god. And in Ecclesiastes 8 and verse 4, Solomon said, "Where the word of the king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?" And so here's a man who'd known power all of his life, and all of a sudden now, he's losing power, he's losing control. And so once again, instead of asking God, he goes down to Molech worship. And I pointed out how Molech worship was indeed not only pagan, but to the extent that the king manifested absolute and total control, to that extent he was viewed as God. He was supposed to be the mediator between heaven and earth, he was the controller of chaos, he was the one that brought peace and happiness out of confusion, and that's why he was worshipping Molech.
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And of course, Chemosh, the name means subduer, or to dominate or dominion. And so once again there's that desire to dominate even when you do not have the power to dominate. And I've kind of brought it out with a bucket list of older people and I pointed out how this one woman at 100, it was 100 to 104, went skydiving. She wanted to set the record and she did skydive but a week later she was dead. So I'm just pointing out the fact there's still that in people that want to conquer and subdue, even when they're old. That is a fact.
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So Solomon then began to worship these gods. So that was dealing with the dangers of old age. And then I pointed out this last week I got started on alien law systems, because anytime and every time that you have a false religion, you also have an alien law system. And so I asked this question, why did God forbid idolatry? And it was not just for the fact that he's not going to share his honor and glory with a false god. It's from the fact that they're bringing in law systems that are absolutely contrary to God's law system.
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So when we read in Isaiah 33 and verse 22, the Lord is our judge, that is, our Lord is the judicial branch. When he says the Lord is our lawgiver, he's the legislative branch. The Lord is our king. He's the executive branch. So historians say this is basically where we derive the three branches of our government right here as well. But God is absolutely sovereign. So last week I dealt with this fact that God has given us his law. And anyone who denies and denigrates the law of God has some very difficult theological questions to answer. And I pointed out the fact how our Lord said in Matthew 5 and verse 17, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill."
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And so the word destroy means to abrogate, to set aside, to dismantle, to take apart piece by piece. He said, don't even think that. I did not come to destroy the law or the prophets. By the way, if you do away with the law, you also, by reason, ought to do away with the prophets, if you're going to say that the law was abrogated, because he said he didn't come to do that. But he came to fulfill, and the Greek word is pleroo, which means to put into full force as continuous. So, I ask these questions, if you do away with the law of God, how do you know what sin is? Because the Bible says in Romans 3 and verse 20, by the law is the knowledge of sin. 1 John 3 and verse 4 said, "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." If you do away with the law, you don't know what sin is. If you do away with the law, you do away with conviction as well.
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What in the world is the Holy Spirit going to convict people with or about? How do you know you're guilty of anything? And then, of course, if you do away with the law, you don't know how to be sanctified. You don't know how to please God. You don't know how to walk acceptably because He's given that in His Word. So here's another thing. If you do away with the law of God, how are you going to explain Galatians 3 and verse 24? Listen to this one. "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." So the law then is our schoolmaster. And when you think of the schoolmaster, you ought to be thinking then of that old one-room schoolhouse with the teacher and the blackboard, and there's a big rod over the blackboard, and on the blackboard was this: cursing, one stripe; fighting, two stripes; arguing, stealing, cheating, four or five stripes. And so, when that child violated the law, he was brought up in front of the entire class and given the appropriate number.
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It was a school teacher. So, what does the law teach us? It teaches us, number one, that we're sinners. It teaches us, number two, the penalty of sin, the power of sin. It teaches us that we cannot save ourselves because the law demands that we give it personal, perfect and perpetual obedience, which we do not do. And then, of course, the law, the Bible tells us, shows us that Jesus Christ is the only way to be saved since we cannot keep the law and give it what it demands. So clearly, then, the law is our schoolmaster. So, I gave you five points last week. I'm just going to give you these very quickly, and then we're going to get started today. So, we were talking about law last week. First of all, in every culture, law is religious. Behind every law system, you have a religion. It may be a Christian religion, it may be a pagan religion, but it is a religion. You have Islam, you have Buddhist, you have Hindu, you have Christian, you have humanism, you have secularism.
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Every law system is a religious system because behind every determination of good and evil, right and wrong, is someone's religion. So every law system is religious.
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Secondly, it must be recognized that the source of one's law in any culture is the God of that culture. So if you hold that the Supreme Court of the United States is the Supreme Court of the United States, then the Supreme Court would be our God. If you believe that you know better than God, then your mind, your rationalism, is your God. So actually, the source of law is the God of that society. Thirdly, I pointed out, in any society, any change of law is an explicit or implicit change of religion.
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So, why in the world does Islam want to take over America? And the answer is so they can initiate Sharia law. It's just that simple. Why would Buddhism, why would Hinduism, why would Secularism, Humanism want to take over America? The answer is so that they could instill their own religion. The fourth one is this. I said it is not possible to have any disestablishment of religion. Because if you disestablish Christianity, it's so that you can establish Islam or Buddhism or secularism or whatever. You're going to always have religion. I pointed out last week you cannot separate government and religion. You can separate government and churches, but not government and religion. And then the fifth thing I pointed out was there can be no tolerance in one law system for another law system.
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So where we're failing as Christians is in God's law, because now what has happened: We in this country initially had God's law, and I've got all the documentation, but we left the law of God and now we have the law of man. We have basically humanism. And so what happens when you fail to protect your law system, you become tolerant of other law systems, and that leads them to an intolerance.
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Once they are established, they're not going to tolerate you. When you tolerate an alien law system, you're committing national suicide. It's just that simple.
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Now, there's always been a battle over law systems. And it began way back in Genesis, chapter 3, verses 4 and 5. So, let me kind of give that to you. "And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil." So here's the temptation in the garden. The temptation was to become your own God. You shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. You don't need God to tell you what is right and wrong. You don't need God to tell you what is good and evil. You eat this fruit and you can determine that for yourself. The word knowing has the impact and the implication of the word determining. So an alien law system can be one of your own mind and certainly one of your own making as well.
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So since the fall of man, there have been multiple law systems that have emerged from individuals, from organized corporate and religious systems, all in competition, in contradiction, and in conflict. So make sure you understand this statement. Every law system except the biblical law system is idolatry because it seeks to dethrone God and enthrone someone else, to deny God's law to establish its own law.
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Now, I want to give you a good quote from R.J. Rushdoony, out of his Institutes of Biblical Law. I want you to listen. I'm going to break it down for you. But the quote is very important. Listen to what he said. In analyzing the nature of law, it is important to note first that for the law is divine revelation. Just mark that down. God's law is divine revelation.
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We would not understand this had God not revealed it. OK, then he continues. The Hebrew word for law is Torah, which means instruction, authoritative direction. So God has spoken, God has given us his law, and it is for our direction. It is authoritative instruction. Then he goes on. He says the biblical concept of law is broader than the legal codes of Mosaic Foundation.
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Now, you know that Moses wrote the first five books of the Bible, which are known as the Pentateuch. So normally we refer to that as the Mosaic law. So what he's saying is this. The law, the law of God is much broader than just what you and I would call the Mosaic instruction. He goes on to say this. It applies to the divine word and its instruction in totality. The earlier prophets also used Torah for the divine word proclaimed by them.
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And he gives the scripture. Besides this, certain passages in the earlier Prophets used the word Torah also for the commandment of Yahweh as it was written down. Moreover, there are clearly examples not only of ritual matters but also of ethics. Hence, it follows at any rate the period Torah had the meaning of divine instruction whether it was written down long ago as a law and was preserved and pronounced by a priest or whether the priest was delivering it at the time when he gives the scripture.
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Or the prophet who was commissioned by God to pronounce it. And so he said, thus, objectively, essentially, the Torah is not form but divine authority. So everything in the Bible is divine authority.
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Now, here's what he's trying to say. Here's what he is saying, and I'm going to make it plain. All of God's word is law. God gave it, God spoke it, God commanded. We have been commanded to love one another. That's law. If God commands you to do something, that's law.
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Now, when you read Romans chapter 13 and verse 8, listen to this. He said, "Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law." Do you realize that "owe no man anything" is just as much a commandment of God as "love one another"? Everything in the Bible is command. If you look in your Bibles very quickly, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, look, if you would, beginning there with verse 1, look at 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 1.
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Notice, if you would, the Apostle Paul says this. "Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus."
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Now, look at verse 3 and 4. "For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour."
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Now, I want you to note something. Knowing how to possess your vessel, your body in sanctification and honor is just as much a command of God as is abstain from fornication. You cannot escape it, it's there all the time.
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Now, our text declares in Isaiah 33 verse 22, "For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us." So here then is a question that I must ask. How do you define a Christian nation? Now in the beginning this country was indeed a Christian nation and I can produce the documents and I can tell you where you can go to find them yourselves. But you cannot define a Christian nation by saying a Christian nation is full of Christian people. Is everyone in this nation a Christian? No. If a majority was a Christian, that would not necessarily make us a Christian nation. It would just be a nation with lots of Christians in it.
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In every nation you're going to have saved and unsaved, I suppose. How do you define a Christian nation? A Christian nation is defined by its laws and by its government. In other words, when the principles, precepts, statutes and laws are governed by the Word of God, and God's law is applied, there you have a Christian nation. And I might also add there you have a just and righteous nation. Let me show you.
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If you will turn back in your Bible to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 4. Look at what God says. Moses has been teaching the people God's law. And here's Deuteronomy chapter 4 beginning now with verse 5. Deuteronomy 4 verse 5. Moses says, "Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them?" How is God nigh unto them? His law. "That hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?"
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Now, the Bible says in Isaiah 33 verse 22, I'll cover more scriptures next week, James 4, there's only one lawgiver. If there is only one lawgiver, whose law then must be obeyed? That would be the one who gave the one law. In other words, his law is absolutely supreme.
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Now, Israel was a covenant nation. Israel covenanted with God that they would be obedient, that they would obey his law. I'm going to show you from the scripture just momentarily. But you see, in Israel, a stranger or foreigner could come there and sojourn. However, he could not bring his law or his idol into the land. He was not forced to convert. He could be there. But he had to abide by the law of God while he was there. So while he was in the land, he was free to stay. He was not forced to convert. But while he was there, he had to obey and do according to God's law. If he did not wish to obey, he was free to leave. It's just like it is in our country today.
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We have all these people coming in demanding that we submit to their law, their culture, their way of life. No, no, no. You either come and submit to our way or you're free to leave. It's just that simple. And that's the way it was in Israel. Now, I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would please, first of all, to the book of Exodus, chapter 12, and I want you to follow me very quickly because I want to show you several verses. Look in Exodus, chapter 12, and notice, if you would please, verse 49. Exodus, chapter 12, and verse 49. Look at this. Exodus 12, verse 49. God says, "One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you." One law. If you're born an Israelite, one law. If you're sojourning in the land, one law. It's just that simple. Now, look in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Leviticus, chapter 24 and verse 22. Turn right over to the book of Leviticus and look, if you would please, at chapter 24 and verse 22.
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Here it is again. God says, "Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God." So again, one law.
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Now if you would turn right on over to the book of Numbers. Numbers chapter 15 and look if you would please at verse 16. Numbers 15 and verse 16. God says very plainly, "One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you." Now if you'll skip down to verse 29 of the same chapter, Numbers 15, God says, "Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among you." So God is saying you must have one law.
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Now, stop and think about this. God created only three institutions. He created the family, which is a ministry of education. He created the church, which is a ministry of grace. And he created civil government, which is a ministry of justice. When you get to Romans chapter 13, verses 1 and 2, the word of God says, "Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God." Now listen carefully. "Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation." or condemnation. So listen again. Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. No matter how high you are in power and authority, there's always someone higher. And the highest is God himself. So God requires individuals to be in subjection to him. He requires families to be in subjection to him. He requires churches to be in subjection to him. And he also requires governments to be in subjection to him. God is the one that created the family and the church and the government.
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He's the one that issues the law. It's really very, very simple. So judges were to rule for God. So, let me put it to you like this. Men have authority by derivation. God has authority inherently, in and of himself. So, as a husband, I have power over my wife. Why? Because God said, the husband is the head of the house. I don't have it inherently in myself.
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Anything I have is derived. I have authority from the Word of God to rebuke and exhort. If I see you doing something wrong, I have the authority from God to rebuke you and say, you need to stop that. That's wicked. That's wrong. That's not in me inherently. It's derived from God. God gave it. God said that. So all authority that man has is derived from God. God is authority in and of himself. He has all authority in heaven and earth.
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Now, I want you to look in your Bibles, if you would please, to 2 Chronicles chapter 19. 2 Chronicles chapter 19. You see, God created those institutions. And I want you to notice, if you would please, in 2 Chronicles 19, beginning with verse 4, what King Jehoshaphat said to the judges. Look at it. 2 Chronicles 19 verse 4, "And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers. And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city. And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment. Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts." But note if you would in verse 6, "Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment." So clearly then, these judges were to judge for God.
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Now, so likewise, in a Christian nation, God's laws are upheld, they are expounded, they are applied. There can be no greater justice than God's justice. There can be no greater mercy than God's mercies. What has happened in this country and what has happened all over the world, man in replacing God's law not only introduces an alien law system, but also an idolatrous law system. Man's law always legalizes sin and makes sin legal.
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So, if you will turn in your Bibles, if you would, to Psalm 94, Psalm 94, and I want you to look at verses 20 and 21 in light of this. Psalm 94, verses 20 and 21. Watch this. Look at this. Psalm 94, verse 20. Here's the question. "Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?" Now, first of all, it's a throne.
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Which speaks authority, civil authority. Secondly, it's a throne of iniquity, which means it's an evil, wicked civil government. So here's the question. Shall the throne of iniquity, shall a wicked, evil civil government have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? The word mischief in the Bible is another word for sin. So let me just kind of paraphrase this for you. Shall a wicked civil government have fellowship with thee, which makes sin legal? So let me ask you, is sodomy condemned in the Bible? And the answer is yes, but it's legal here. Is abortion condemned in the Bible? Yes, but it's legal here. Is theft and fraud condemned in the Bible? Yes, but it's legal here. As long as you're a politician and you do it under the color of law. In other words, here's a wicked civil government that makes sin legal.
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I just read this week, and I hope I can pronounce her name so she won't get mad at me, Ilhan Omar. She's just been in Congress one term. She started out, according to the article I read, with a minus $45,000, $45,000 in debt. She's now worth $30 million. In one term, $30 million.
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You know, how do you do that? I'm just pointing out the fact.
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Now, here's an interesting thought, and I'm going to show it to you. Did you know that one of the main reasons that God sent Israel into captivity was because they rejected His law and accepted man's law. Let me show it to you. Turn in your Bibles, if you would, to 2 Kings, chapter 17. 2 Kings, chapter 17. Watch this. 2 Kings, chapter 17. And let's begin reading there with verse 7. 2 Kings 17, verse 7. The Bible says, "For so it was, that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God." Now, what's that? They had sinned against the Lord, their God.
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"Which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods." Now, wait a minute. They've sinned against the Lord and their sin was they feared other gods. So their sin, then, is the sin of idolatry. Well, how did they fear other gods? What was their sin of idolatry? Let's read it again. "For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods, and walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made." So how did they commit idolatry? By walking in the statutes, the laws of the heathen and of Israel which they had made.
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Now you have to remember that Jeroboam in 1 Kings chapter 12 had set up the two golden calves. So they've gone into idolatry. So what have they done? They have traded God's law for man's law. They are now walking according to the law of man. They're not walking according to God's law. And so God charges them with idolatry. You read the rest of the chapter and you'll find that he sent the Assyrians and they took them into captivity, took all these other people from the other nations and put them there in the land. This was God's judgment because they had committed idolatry by bowing down to the laws and the statutes of the heathen.
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and of Israel as well. Now, if you would turn in your Bibles to the book of Micah, the little book of Micah, and you'll find Micah over toward the end of the Old Testament. And so, Joel, Hosea, let's see, Hosea, Joel, Amos, and then you have Obadiah, and then Jonah, and then Micah. So, look in Micah chapter 6, right before the book of Nahum. So, look in Micah chapter 6, and let's begin reading there verse 13. Okay? Micah chapter 6, verse 13.
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"Therefore also will I make thee sick in smiting thee, in making thee desolate because of thy sins." So, God says, now I'm going to judge you. I'm going to make you sick. Because of your sins, I'll make you desolate.
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Now, what does that mean? Well, look in verse 14. "Thou shalt eat, but not be satisfied; and thy casting down shall be in the midst of thee; and thou shalt take hold, but shalt not deliver; and that which thou deliverest will I give up to the sword." So they're going to fail. They're going to fall through war and everything else. Now look in verse 15. "Thou shalt sow, but thou shalt not reap; thou shalt tread the olives, but thou shalt not anoint thee with oil; and sweet wine, but shalt not drink wine."
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Why is all of this judgment? Well, look in verse 16, "For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of the house of Ahab, and ye walk in their counsels; that I should make thee a desolation, and the inhabitants thereof a hissing: therefore ye shall bear the reproach of my people." God said, I'm going to judge you. You're walking in the statutes of Omri. Omri happened to be the father of Ahab. And Ahab was one of the most wicked, vile kings in the northern kingdom. Wow. And God says, I'm going to judge you. Why? They were committing idolatry.
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They were rejecting God's law for man's law. Now, I hope you remember in Acts chapter 5, Peter and the other apostles were brought before the rulers and they were commanded not to preach anymore in the name of Jesus Christ. In fact, they said, you intend to bring this man's blood upon us and fill our city with your doctrine. And you know what Peter and the other apostles said?
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"We ought to obey God rather than men." And they just kept preaching. In other words, the religious and or civil authorities have no authority to violate the law of God, nor do they have any authority to dictate to anyone else to force them to violate the law of God.
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Now, the issue today is the same as it has always been. It is an issue, I can say, of theonomy or autonomy. That is God's law or man's law. I want to give you a couple of illustrations. First of all, let's take theft.
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Now, on your tables, I only had several papers, but if you will look at the paper that's on the table there, you have the penalties for Sharia law. This is what the Muslims want to enforce in our country. They already have Sharia courts in Michigan, in Minnesota. They're trying to get them in Texas. Governor Abbott just said, no, you're not going to do this in Texas. Well, they're already there.
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The Muslim police also have Arabic patches on their uniforms. They patrolled, and they're the ones who ran the Christian pastor out, told him he had no right to be there, although he was a native, and they were foreigners. But, you know, I'm just simply pointing out, this is Sharia law. So, let's take theft for an illustration, and let's use Sharia law. If you look at that paper, you're going to find that for the first offense, if you were caught stealing, then your right hand is to be amputated. If you steal again the second time and you're caught, then your left foot is to be amputated. If you steal again the third time for the third offense, your left hand is to be amputated. If you get caught the fourth time, the fourth offense requires your right foot to be amputated.
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Now, if you get caught a fifth time, they will behead you, but now I've got a question. If you do not have hands or feet, how are you going to steal, unless you can do something with your mouth? Okay? You see, this is Sharia law. This is Muslim law. This is man's law. This is religious law. Okay?
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Now, let's go a step farther. Everybody can say, that knows anything about the Bible, that's totally nonsensical. We're not going to cut somebody's hands and feet off because of stealing. Okay? Fine. Okay? So, I want you to consider theft now under American jurisprudence, as it is in this day. We just considered it under Sharia law. So, I want you to turn in your Bibles, if you would, to the book of Exodus and just get ready and hold it there just momentarily because I'm going to tell you what is going to happen under biblical law shortly. Okay? So we're talking about that. I'm asking you to go ahead and just find Exodus 22.
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So here's what happens in America. So let's suppose that someone comes along and steals your automobile. And there's a difference between theft and grand theft in one sense of the word. You know, over a certain amount is grand theft. But really theft is theft. Okay, so here we go. Your truck gets stolen. You're ripped off the first time because now you've lost your property. Number two, let's suppose you did have insurance and your insurance was going to replace the truck or pay you for it after a long period of time. Even if the insurance paid you, then your premiums are going to go up because you had this excessive loss. Okay, let's suppose later on the thief
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is caught. Well, now he is arrested and put in jail waiting trial. So now your tax dollars get to feed and clothe him and medicate him while he's in jail. Then you're ripped off a fourth time because the court is going to appoint an attorney for him. And now your tax dollars have to pay for that court-appointed attorney and all the legal fees. And let's suppose he's found guilty and he's sentenced to five years in prison. Well, guess what? You get ripped off again because now your tax dollars have to feed and clothe and medicate him for five years. Probably you get ripped off a sixth time because you'll also have to support his family since he's in prison and he can't support them. And then you get ripped off a seventh time because when he gets out, he might have to go through a rehabilitation program and be trained for something else, and your tax dollars pay for that.
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So the point I'm trying to make is this. Under our American jurisprudence, if you are stolen from, you're the one that suffers. The criminal doesn't suffer. Everything's taken care of for him. You're the one that suffers. Under Sharia law, it's horrible. Under American law, it's horrible. Well, what about God's law? Well, look in Exodus chapter 22 and let's read the first four verses. "If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep."
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"If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him. If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass, or sheep; he shall restore double."
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Now, note if you would please, there's a difference here between a sheep and an ox. When you talk about restitution, right here in this one verse or one passage, you have a two-fold restitution, a four-fold restitution, and a five-fold restitution. If you were to take the time to read Proverbs chapter 6 and think verses 30 and 31, you would also find that there is a seven-fold restitution. Now, notice if you would, you are to restore four sheep for a sheep and five oxen for an ox. Hmm. Why? Well, there's a difference in value. Let's see, for a sheep, I guess you could have him as a pet.
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But he would provide wool. And if you had to eat him, he would provide meat. I don't know if you can milk a sheep or not. Maybe they do. I don't know. I know they milk goats. But you know that. But now look at the ox. Yes, you can use his hide for leather. You could use his meat for food. Yes, he could be a pet too. But you use that ox to work. The ox is more valuable than the sheep.
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So let me try to explain it like this. Let's suppose, and I know Steve has a car, I know he has a work truck as well, and let's suppose that Steve is actively employed as a maintenance man, he's got all of his tools in his truck, and he drives that truck to work every day, and he needs all those tools in it, okay, and he's got a nice car, maybe it's even a newer car. If Steve had a choice of which vehicle was going to be stolen, which do you think you'd want stolen, the car or the work truck? The car. He might drive the car to church on Sunday, but that's about it, but he uses that work truck every day. So let me put it to you like this. Let's suppose, just for simplicity, the work truck is worth $20,000. Okay? And someone steals it. But he's caught not more than five miles away.
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And the truck's not damaged. The tools are still there. God says the thief now owes Steve $40,000.
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Now, if a deputy gets behind him and says, I've got him in front of me, there's an APB bulletin put out on him, and he said, I'm going to pull him over. He turns his light on, and the man floorboards the truck and just tries to outrun the deputy. And the next thing you know, he goes around the curb, loses control, wraps that thing around a tree, totals it. He comes out unscathed.
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Now he owes Steve $100,000. You'd like that, wouldn't you, Steve? Now, wait a minute. Wait a minute. You say, but he's a thief. He didn't have any money to begin with. Steve's just stuck. He owes him $100,000 and he's stuck. No, no, no, no. Look what the Bible says. Look what the Bible says. He says, "If he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft." Verse 3.
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"If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft." So that means this. He could be sold to Joshua if Joshua had 100,000 bucks. If Joshua doesn't want him then as a slave, then he becomes a bond slave to Steve until he works out 100,000 bucks.
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Now, what you're going to tell me is this. Somebody that's a thief goes, sorry, anyhow, he might be a bondsman to Steve for a little while, but what's going to stop him from running away and leaving Steve holding the bag? Well, turn in your Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy chapter 17, Deuteronomy 17, and look if you would please, beginning there with verse 8. Deuteronomy 17 and verse 8. Look at this. Deuteronomy 17 verse 8.
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"If there arise a matter too hard for thee in judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke, being matters of controversy within thy gates: then shalt thou arise, and get thee up into the place which the Lord thy God shall choose; and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment: and thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee: according to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left. And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel."
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So let's see if he will not make the restitution. He becomes a bond slave until he works it out. If he doesn't work it out, he tries to run away. He's to be caught and executed.
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Now, I want to tell you something. If Ron had $100 bills sticking out everywhere of his body, and all of his shirt pockets and pants pockets and he's talking to Jim and I say, oh, I can slip me one or two of these and he'll never know it, why would I be willing to steal 200 bucks from him if I knew if he turned around and caught me now I owe him 400 bucks and if he didn't catch me right then, two days later he figured out, now I owe him 800 bucks.
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And if I won't pay it, I have to come to his place and work it out. And if I try to run away, I'm going to be executed.
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Now let me ask you a question. Do you think if I knew those penalties, and if those penalties were going to be applied, I believe it'd make me think twice before I'd steal from Ron or anybody. Now listen to me. I want you to notice something. You've heard that old adage, crime doesn't pay. The only way crime does not pay is when you follow God's law. When you follow man's law, it does pay.
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That's why we have so many criminals. I just shared with Alice. I watched, did not get to watch the whole thing. But he was a doctor and the director of a hospital in Seattle. They just raided the doctor. Oh. Yeah. He was not helping the cartel. He was the cartel. He had branches. He had deputies bought and paid for. He had port authorities bought and paid for. It took 250 agents to break up this cartel operation. They found, I think, oh, by the way, it was not just drugs. They were doing organ harvesting and sex trafficking because they showed in his building, his home, a basement had total operation, I mean every operating table, everything that's needed to harvest organs. They had nine individuals that had been locked in a container who was being shipped for trafficking. So, when they finally got everything, of course there were firefights, a lot of them got killed, but the nine were rescued from the container.
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They found, I think it was a ton and a half of heroin, another ton of fentanyl or methamphetamines, one of those, and then they found a whole stash of weapons and 52 million bucks. Don't tell me crime doesn't pay when you follow man's law. That's why they're doing it. Look at the congressmen. Look at the politicians. Wow. So, that's why you have so many notorious scoundrels and thieves in high places. Let me give you another illustration. Since you are in Deuteronomy, look in Deuteronomy chapter 21, and look if you would please beginning there in verse 18, and we'll read through verse 21. Deuteronomy chapter 21, verse 18.
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The Bible says, "If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard."
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"And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear." So let me just point something out to begin with. We're not talking about a child. We're not even talking about a teenager. The son is an adult. He will not work. Moreover, he's rebellious. He's a drunkard, and in all probability he's a thief as well.
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Anytime you have an addict, I don't care if it's drugs, alcohol, I don't care what it is, usually you end up with thievery because it's an easy way to support your habit. It's just that simple. And so here he is and he's to be brought out and executed. Why? He is what you and I would call a repeat offender. He is a constant and continual criminal.
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Now you're going to say, well that's hard. That's difficult. Well, will you stop and think about it's his life versus the lives of others. Can you stop and think about all the people that you have read about that were murdered by drunken drivers. Not just husbands, not just wives, not just children, but entire families have been wiped out. See, drunkenness is not just a sin, it is a criminality.
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It is a criminal offense. Just this week, I read about a young man, if I'm not mistaken, he's 22. So let's have prayer then, shall we? Father, we are so thankful today for the Lord Jesus Christ and his so great salvation. We pray, Lord, for Heath today. Thankfully, he's doing better. We do pray, Father, for Trip and Brooke and ask that you would help them and bless them and, Lord, comfort them in the loss of this child and just pray that you would undertake for them. We do pray for Dennis Stanfield. We do pray for Michael Wharton today. We do pray, Father, for Dinah as she travels. And we're so thankful that Joshua and Felicia and the kids are here and ask, Lord, would you bless them? We're thankful for Jim and Brendan, Lord, also for Rod and Sharon, and thankful, Lord, that they're down here safely. Just give us your grace and mercy, we pray in Christ's name. Amen.
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All right, if you will open your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 33, verse 22, and we're in the middle of a series, but I'm going to bring you up to snuff real quickly. So if you'll look in Isaiah chapter 33 and verse 22, one simple verse, notice what the word of God says, "For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us." So let me just tell you how this little short series actually began.
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Several weeks back, I preached from 1 Kings chapter 11 on Solomon, where I titled the message "Losing Your Wisdom and Losing Your Mind." And Solomon, one of the wisest men on earth, lost his wisdom, lost his mind, because he'd only married 700 women, but had 300 concubines. And at the same time, he built an altar for all these strange gods whom his wives served, whom God had forbidden him to marry those women anyhow, but he went ahead and did so. And of course, he built these altars, particularly for Ashtoreth, for Molech, and for Chemosh. And of course, God was angry with him because his heart was not perfect with the Lord. He actually served those gods with those wives, so he not only lost his wisdom, he basically lost his mind, because God judged him and God raised up adversaries against him, and also the fact that he lost his kingdom as well. Now, after I dealt with that, I dealt with two messages on the dangers of old age, because the Bible says in 1 Kings 11, it came to pass when Solomon was old that his wives turned away his heart.
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In fact, I did a little research and I pointed out the fact that Solomon was probably dead before 60 or 65, and we would certainly not count that old in our time, but I can assure you he was probably worn out in a number of ways, that is for sure. And so I asked these questions. Number one was this, why in the world were these particular gods chosen? There are many false gods, but yet he built altars, altars then to Ashtoreth, for Chemosh and also for Molech. So why in the world were these gods chosen when there were so many other false gods?
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Well, I answered that in two messages. First of all, when he was worshipping Ashtoreth, and by the way, she is known by many different names, Ashtoreth, Ashtaroth, Ishtar, Venus, you just name it, she went on unknown. But she was a sex goddess, a goddess of fertility. And, of course, I pointed out what Solomon was doing as a man. Instead of asking God for strength and help and virility, he went down to the worship of false gods. I pointed out how God renewed Abraham and Sarah.
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She had a child when she was 90. He was 100. He did the same thing for Manoah and his wife. She gave birth to Samson when she was past age. And then he did the same thing for Zacharias and Elizabeth as well. This was why he chose Ashtoreth. And I pointed out that orgies were known for their worship of Ashtoreth. Also, he built all worship of Molech and Chemosh. Molech was a political power god. And in Ecclesiastes 8 and verse 4, Solomon said, "Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?" And so here's a man who'd known power all of his life and all of a sudden now, he's losing power. He's losing control. And so once again, instead of asking God, he goes down to Molech worship. And I pointed out how Molech worship was indeed not only pagan, but to the extent that the king manifested absolute and total control to that extent, he was viewed as God.
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He was supposed to be the mediator between heaven and earth. He was the controller of chaos. He was the one that brought peace and happiness out of confusion, and that's why he was worshipping Molech. And, of course, Chemosh, the name means subduer or to dominate or dominion. And so, once again, there's that desire to dominate even when you do not have the power to dominate. And I kind of brought it out with a bucket list of older people and I pointed out how this one woman at 100, it was 100 to 104, went skydiving.
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She wanted to set the record. And she did skydive, but a week later she was dead. So I'm just pointing out the fact there's still that in people that want to conquer and subdue even when they're old. That is a fact. So Solomon then began to worship these gods. So that was dealing with the dangers of old age. And then I pointed out this last week I got started
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on alien law systems because anytime and every time that you have a false religion, you also have an alien law system. And so I ask this question, why did God forbid idolatry? And it was not just for the fact that he's not going to share his honor and glory with a false god. It's from the fact that they're bringing in law systems that are absolutely contrary to God's law system.
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So when we read in Isaiah 33 and verse 22, the Lord is our judge, that is, our Lord is the judicial branch. When he says the Lord is our lawgiver, he's the legislative branch. The Lord is our king, he's the executive branch. So historians say this is basically where we derive the three branches of our government right here as well. But God is absolutely sovereign. So last week I dealt with this fact that God has given us his law and anyone who denies and denigrates the law of God has some very difficult theological questions to answer. And I pointed out the fact how our Lord said in Matthew 5 and verse 17, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill."
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And so the word destroy means to abrogate, to set aside, to dismantle, to take apart piece by piece. He said don't even think that. I did not come to destroy the law or the prophets. By the way if you do away with the law you also by reason ought to do away with the prophets if you're going to say that the law was abrogated because he said he didn't come to do that.
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but he came to fulfill. And the Greek word is pleroo, which means to put into full force as continuous. So I ask these questions. If you do away with the law of God, how do you know what sin is? Because the Bible says in Romans 3 and verse 20, by the law is the knowledge of sin. 1 John 3 and verse 4 said, "Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law: for sin is the transgression of the law." If you do away with the law, you don't know what sin is. If you do away with the law, you do away with conviction as well.
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What in the world is the Holy Spirit going to convict people with or about? How do you know you're guilty of anything? And then, of course, if you do away with the law, you don't know how to be sanctified. You don't know how to please God. You don't know how to walk acceptably because He's given that in His Word. So here's another thing. If you do away with the law of God, how are you going to explain Galatians 3 and verse 24? Listen to this one. "Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith." So the law then is our schoolmaster. And when you think of the schoolmaster, you ought to be thinking then of that old one-room schoolhouse with the teacher and the blackboard, and there's a big rod over the blackboard. And on the blackboard was this: cursing, one stripe; fighting, two stripes; arguing, stealing, cheating, four or five stripes. And so when that child violated the law, he was brought up in front of the entire class and given the appropriate number.
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It was a school teacher. So what does the law teach us? It teaches us, number one, that we're sinners. It teaches us, number two, the penalty of sin, the power of sin. It teaches us that we cannot save ourselves because the law demands that we give it personal, perfect, and perpetual obedience, which we do not do. And then, of course, the law, the Bible tells us, shows us that Jesus Christ is the only way to be saved, since we cannot keep the law and give it what it demands. So, clearly then, the law is our school teacher.
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So, I gave you five points last week. I'm just going to give you these very quickly, and then we're going to get started today. So, we were talking about law last week. First of all, in every culture, law is religious. Behind every law system you have a religion. It may be a Christian religion, it may be a pagan religion, but it is a religion. You have Islam, you have Buddhist, you have Hindu, you have Christian, you have humanism, you have secularism. Every law system is a religious system because behind every determination of good and evil, right and wrong, is someone's religion. So, every law system is religious. Secondly, it must be recognized that the source of one's law in any culture is the God of that culture. So, if you hold that the Supreme Court of the United States is the Supreme Court of the United States, then the Supreme Court would be our God. If you believe that you know better than God, then your mind, your rationalism, is your God. So actually, the source of law is the god of that society.
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Thirdly, I pointed out, in any society, any change of law is an explicit or implicit change of religion. So, why in the world does Islam want to take over America? And the answer is, so they can initiate Sharia law. It's just that simple. Why would Buddhism? Why would Hinduism? Why would humanism want to take over America? The answer is so that they could instill their own religion.
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The fourth one is this. I said it is not possible to have any disestablishment of religion.
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Alien Law Systems - Part 2

John Weaver | Freedom Ministries

In this sermon, John Weaver continues his series on alien law systems, arguing that every law system is inherently religious and that abandoning God's law for man's law constitutes idolatry. He reviews the series' origin in Solomon's apostasy and the dangers of old age, then reiterates five principles from the previous week: law is religious, the source of law is a culture's god, changing law changes religion, disestablishment of religion is impossible, and tolerance of alien law systems leads to national suicide. Weaver demonstrates the superiority of biblical law over Sharia and American jurisprudence through the example of theft, showing that only God's law makes crime unprofitable through restitution and capital punishment for repeat offenders. He concludes that a Christian nation is defined by its laws, not its population, and that God judges nations that adopt man's statutes.

Introduction and Series Recap

Weaver recaps the series, beginning with Solomon's idolatry and the dangers of old age, leading to the topic of alien law systems.

Scripture Reading — Isaiah 33:22

"For the Lord is our judge. The Lord is our lawgiver. The Lord is our king. He will save us."

Five Principles of Law from Last Week

The Origin of Alien Law Systems in the Garden

The battle over law systems began in Genesis 3 with the temptation to become one's own god, determining good and evil independently.

The Nature of God's Law as Divine Revelation

God's law is divine revelation, broader than the Mosaic code, and all of Scripture carries divine authority as law.

Now, when you read Romans chapter 13 and verse 8, listen to this. He said,

Scripture Reading — Romans 13:8

"Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law."

Defining a Christian Nation

A Christian nation is defined by its laws and government being governed by God's Word, not by the number of Christians in it.

Scripture Reading — Deuteronomy 4:5-8

"Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it. Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people. For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them?"

How is God nigh unto them? His law.

Scripture Reading — Deuteronomy 4:5-8

"That hath God so nigh unto them, as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for? And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law, which I set before you this day?"

One Law for All in Israel

In Israel, there was one law for both native and foreigner; strangers had to obey God's law but were not forced to convert.

Scripture Reading — Exodus 12:49

"One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you."

Scripture Reading — Numbers 15:16, 29

"One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you."

Now if you'll skip down to verse 29 of the same chapter, Numbers 15, God says,

Scripture Reading — Numbers 15:16, 29

"Ye shall have one law for him that sinneth through ignorance, both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among you."

So God is saying you must have one law.

God's Institutions and Derived Authority

God created family, church, and civil government; all human authority is derived from God, and judges are to rule for God.

Scripture Reading — Romans 13:1-2

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God."

Now listen carefully.

Scripture Reading — Romans 13:1-2

"Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation."

Scripture Reading — 2 Chronicles 19:4-6

"And Jehoshaphat dwelt at Jerusalem: and he went out again through the people from Beersheba to mount Ephraim, and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers. And he set judges in the land throughout all the fenced cities of Judah, city by city. And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment. Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts."

But note if you would in verse 6,

Scripture Reading — 2 Chronicles 19:4-6

"Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment."

So clearly then, these judges were to judge for God.

Man's Law Legalizes Sin

Man's law makes sin legal, as seen in Psalm 94:20-21; God judged Israel for adopting heathen statutes, which is idolatry.

Scripture Reading — Psalm 94:20-21

"Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?"

Now, first of all, it's a throne.

The Issue of Theonomy vs. Autonomy

The core issue is God's law versus man's law; civil authorities have no right to violate or enforce violation of God's law.

Illustration: Theft Under Sharia, American, and Biblical Law

So let's see if he will not make the restitution. He becomes a bond slave until he works it out. If he doesn't work it out, he tries to run away. He's to be caught and executed.

Illustration: The Stubborn and Rebellious Son

Deuteronomy 21:18-21 prescribes execution for a persistently rebellious adult son, a repeat offender, to protect society.

Conclusion and Prayer

Weaver notes the criminality of drunkenness and closes with prayer for various individuals.

Alien Law Systems - Part 2

John Weaver | SermonAudio

Lecture Metadata	Details
Speaker	John Weaver
Source	SermonAudio
Media ID	1222252148406155
Subject	Biblical Law
Course	Alien Law Systems
Genre	Sermon
Date	2025-12-14
Dictation Name
Book	Book 007: Alien Law Systems: A Three-Part Study — Chapter 2
Source Timed Segments	99

Lecture Guide

Outline

Introduction and Series Recap: Weaver recaps the series, beginning with Solomon's idolatry and the dangers of old age, leading to the topic of alien law systems.
Five Principles of Law from Last Week: Weaver reviews five points: law is religious, the source of law is a culture's god, changing law changes religion, disestablishment of religion is impossible, and tolerance of alien law systems leads to national suicide.
The Origin of Alien Law Systems in the Garden: The battle over law systems began in Genesis 3 with the temptation to become one's own god, determining good and evil independently.
The Nature of God's Law as Divine Revelation: God's law is divine revelation, broader than the Mosaic code, and all of Scripture carries divine authority as law.
Defining a Christian Nation: A Christian nation is defined by its laws and government being governed by God's Word, not by the number of Christians in it.
One Law for All in Israel: In Israel, there was one law for both native and foreigner; strangers had to obey God's law but were not forced to convert.
God's Institutions and Derived Authority: God created family, church, and civil government; all human authority is derived from God, and judges are to rule for God.
Man's Law Legalizes Sin: Man's law makes sin legal, as seen in Psalm 94:20-21; God judged Israel for adopting heathen statutes, which is idolatry.
The Issue of Theonomy vs. Autonomy: The core issue is God's law versus man's law; civil authorities have no right to violate or enforce violation of God's law.
Illustration: Theft Under Sharia, American, and Biblical Law: Weaver contrasts Sharia law's amputation, American law's victim punishment, and biblical law's restitution and capital punishment for repeat offenders, showing only God's law makes crime unprofitable.
Illustration: The Stubborn and Rebellious Son: Deuteronomy 21:18-21 prescribes execution for a persistently rebellious adult son, a repeat offender, to protect society.
Conclusion and Prayer: Weaver notes the criminality of drunkenness and closes with prayer for various individuals.

Major Themes

Key Arguments

Law is inherently religious

Every law system is based on a religion, and the source of law is the god of that culture.

In every culture, law is religious. Behind every law system you have a religion... the source of one's law in any culture is the God of that culture.

Changing law changes religion

Any change in law is an explicit or implicit change of religion, as seen in Islam's desire to impose Sharia.

In any society, any change of law is an explicit or implicit change of religion. So, why in the world does Islam want to take over America? And the answer is so they can initiate Sharia law.

Tolerance of alien law leads to national suicide

Tolerating an alien law system leads to intolerance once it is established, resulting in national suicide.

When you tolerate an alien law system, you're committing national suicide. It's just that simple.

All Scripture is law

Everything in the Bible is divine authority and law, not just the Mosaic code.

All of God's word is law. God gave it, God spoke it, God commanded.

A Christian nation is defined by its laws

A nation is Christian when its laws and government are based on God's Word, not when it has a Christian majority.

A Christian nation is defined by its laws and by its government. In other words, when the principles, precepts, statutes and laws are governed by the Word of God, and God's law is applied, there you have a Christian nation.

God judges nations for adopting man's law

Israel was sent into captivity because they rejected God's law and walked in the statutes of the heathen, which is idolatry.

For so it was that the children of Israel had sinned against the Lord their God... and walked in the statutes of the heathen... So how did they commit idolatry? By walking in the statutes, the laws of the heathen.

Biblical restitution makes crime unprofitable

God's law requires multiple-fold restitution for theft, making crime unprofitable, unlike American law which punishes the victim.

The only way crime does not pay is when you follow God's law. When you follow man's law, it does pay.

Capital punishment for repeat offenders protects society

The stubborn and rebellious son (adult repeat offender) is to be executed to remove evil and deter others.

And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.

Scripture References

Isaiah 33:22: The Lord is our judge, lawgiver, and king; the basis for the three branches of government and God's sovereignty.
1 Kings 11: Solomon's idolatry and loss of wisdom due to his many wives and their gods.
Ecclesiastes 8:4: Solomon's statement on the power of a king, related to his worship of Molech.
Matthew 5:17: Jesus came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it, putting it into full force.
Romans 3:20: By the law is the knowledge of sin.
1 John 3:4: Sin is the transgression of the law.
Galatians 3:24: The law is our schoolmaster to bring us to Christ.
Genesis 3:4-5: The serpent's temptation to be as gods, knowing good and evil, the origin of alien law systems.
Romans 13:8: Owe no man anything but to love one another; both are commandments.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-4: Paul's commandments include abstaining from fornication and possessing one's vessel in sanctification.
Deuteronomy 4:5-8: God's law is Israel's wisdom and righteousness before the nations.
Exodus 12:49: One law for the homeborn and the stranger.
Leviticus 24:22: One manner of law for the stranger and the native.
Numbers 15:16, 29: One law and one manner for the stranger and the native.
Romans 13:1-2: All authority is from God; resisting authority brings condemnation.
2 Chronicles 19:4-6: Jehoshaphat instructs judges that they judge for the Lord, not for man.
Psalm 94:20-21: A wicked throne frames mischief by law, making sin legal.
2 Kings 17:7-8: Israel sinned by fearing other gods and walking in the statutes of the heathen.
Micah 6:13-16: God judges Israel for keeping the statutes of Omri and the works of Ahab.
Exodus 22:1-4: Biblical restitution for theft: two-fold, four-fold, five-fold, and sale into bondage if unable to pay.

Historical References

Solomon's idolatry and loss of kingdom: Solomon built altars to Ashtoreth, Molech, and Chemosh, leading to God's judgment and adversaries.
R.J. Rushdoony's Institutes of Biblical Law: Quoted on the nature of law as divine revelation and the meaning of Torah.
Sharia law penalties for theft: Amputation of hand and foot for successive theft offenses under Islamic law.
American jurisprudence on theft: Victim suffers multiple financial losses while the criminal is supported by tax dollars.
Ilhan Omar's wealth accumulation: Mentioned as an example of politicians profiting under man's law.
Seattle doctor cartel case: A doctor ran a cartel involving drugs, organ harvesting, and sex trafficking, illustrating crime pays under man's law.

Important Quotes

Every law system except the biblical law system is idolatry because it seeks to dethrone God and enthrone someone else, to deny God's law to establish its own law.

Summarizes the core thesis that all non-biblical law systems are inherently idolatrous.

All of God's word is law. God gave it, God spoke it, God commanded.

Expands the concept of law to include all of Scripture, not just the Mosaic code.

A Christian nation is defined by its laws and by its government. In other words, when the principles, precepts, statutes and laws are governed by the Word of God, and God's law is applied, there you have a Christian nation.

Defines a Christian nation by its legal foundation rather than its population.

When you tolerate an alien law system, you're committing national suicide. It's just that simple.

Warns of the existential danger of allowing competing law systems within a nation.

The only way crime does not pay is when you follow God's law. When you follow man's law, it does pay.

Contrasts the effectiveness of biblical justice with human legal systems in deterring crime.

Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

Uses Psalm 94:20 to argue that wicked governments make sin legal through legislation.

We ought to obey God rather than men.

Cites the apostles' response to civil authorities to establish the priority of God's law.

The issue today is the same as it has always been. It is an issue, I can say, of theonomy or autonomy. That is God's law or man's law.

Frames the central conflict as a choice between God's law and human self-rule.

Discussion Questions

[Question]

How does the claim that 'every law system is religious' challenge the modern idea of secular law?

[Context]

Weaver argues that behind every determination of right and wrong is someone's religion.

[Question]

In what ways might Christians today be tolerating alien law systems, and what are the potential consequences?

[Context]

Weaver warns that tolerating alien law systems leads to national suicide.

[Question]

How does the definition of a Christian nation by its laws rather than its population affect our understanding of America's founding?

[Context]

Weaver defines a Christian nation by its laws and government being governed by God's Word.

[Question]

What are the practical implications of 'all of God's word is law' for Christian ethics and civil government?

[Context]

Weaver expands the concept of law to include all of Scripture.

[Question]

How does the biblical principle of restitution for theft differ from both Sharia and American law, and what would its implementation require?

[Context]

Weaver contrasts the three legal systems using the example of theft.

[Question]

Why does Weaver consider the adoption of man's law to be idolatry, and how does this relate to the first commandment?

[Context]

Weaver states that every law system except the biblical one is idolatry.

[Question]

How should Christians respond when civil laws directly contradict God's commands, based on Acts 5:29?

[Context]

Weaver cites the apostles' declaration to obey God rather than men.

[Question]

What does the example of the stubborn and rebellious son teach about the role of civil government in punishing persistent criminals?

[Context]

Weaver discusses Deuteronomy 21:18-21 as a case of capital punishment for repeat offenders.

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