There is a better society on earth today. They are a small and powerless people, and for them, “In God We Trust” is not just a motto. It is a way of life. They are a people whose desire is to truly be one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all. Such a people could rightly be called, “God’s people.” They are his holy nation among the nations, beyond the borders of natural Israel.1 They are not identified with any existing state or power, except to honor the duly-appointed authority and just laws of the lands they reside in. 

Long ago, the God of Heaven sacrificed his own Son –– Yahshua, the Messiah,2 to see this nation formed. Yahshua gained their freedom from the slavery of sin by shedding his own blood for their forgiveness –– reconciling them to his Father. Yahshua declared their independence from the tyranny of death and selfish existence when he willingly died on the cross. He carried the guilt of their sins into death and experienced the full wrath of God which their sins deserved. Through him an entire people has received a new government in their hearts –– God’s Holy Spirit. The laws needed for life are being written there, deep inside them. 

This society desires peace and good will for all men.  This kingdom was prophesied in the Book of Daniel.3 It will one day fill the Earth, and will never pass away. Such a people appreciate the high and pure truths expressed in the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the Declaration of Independence. However, these are  only a shadow of a better constitution — the New Covenant recorded in the Bible.

Imagine a people who live by the highest law in the universe –– the perfect law of God, the law of love. 

The Bible calls them a kingdom of priests. This perfect law is not written on paper, but in the heart and on the mind. It is an absolute standard of justice that governs the moral, social, and spiritual life of each individual. It is the constitution of the people of God, his holy nation. 

Within its protection of peace, its people have the power to live by that inward law written upon their hearts. If this holy nation lives by its constitution, then this people will always be a light and guide to every nation on Earth. This people will always understand the essence of authority. Thus they will be able to discern the spirit of every law written by man. 

In the same manner, the United States has a written Constitution. This Constitution was intended to be an absolute standard of justice by which all its citizens would be measured. It was intended to bind (prevent) the government from doing mischief.4 So the United States must also obey its Constitution and thereby follow the light and example of the New Covenant community.

If the lawyers, judges, prosecutors, and people of each state do not uphold and live by their Constitution, then the moral, social, and spiritual fabric of this country will be destroyed.

The Constitution ensures various liberties and establishes the groundwork for a people to deal with tyranny, but only if the people uphold it.

Now, 200 years after the Constitutional Convention, injustice, infringement, and the blatant disregard of individual rights is commonplace. The moral fabric of this country is collapsing. Why? We have failed to live by our Constitution. It is the people of this country who must desire to govern and be governed by the original intention of the law. They must do this with all their heart. Otherwise, no amount of healing ointments in the form of patriotic movements will bring about restoration. 

The United States Constitution was not made defective by those who conceived it or ratified it. A constitution is made defective by those who are unwilling or unable to live by it.  If it is not in your heart to keep a good conscience, then certainly it won’t be important to you to that your neighbor is free to do so – especially if it involves some discomfort or suffering for you. And, what if he is a member of a minority or on the fringes of society? Is the Constitution in your heart enough to defend his rights? 

Do you not know from the lessons of history, that what a government can do to hated minorities, it will eventually do to silent majorities? Being in the majority will give you no protection, after all.

 Government’s power to reach into the lives of its citizens tends to only grow. It does not diminish.

The Hope of the World

The God who gave the promise of the New Covenant is gathering a nation for himself, so that he will have a people who live by his wonderful commands. They love his laws and live by them as their “Constitution” with all their hearts. This life is the true light of the world. These people must be given the right to exist, and the respect of all governments of free societies. They must, for their life and example is this world’s only hope. They will call each nation, state, city, and town to live by its own Constitution. If each civil government will be true to its Constitution, then they will allow this restoration of God’s holy nation to come about.

Somehow, the framers of the United States Constitution saw that such men of conscience, who are determined to obey their Creator, are supremely trustworthy. They saw that governments could not assume the role of defining the values of all the citizens. They understood that to do so would make it impossible for genuine men of conscience to exist. Trying to determine what others should believe always leads to persecution, even bloodshed.5 Tyrannical governments have always crushed men of conscience who would not bend under the weight of oppression. So the framers of the Constitution wanted to give such men and communities the right to exist and the dignity they deserve.

If governments becomes threatened by such men or such groups, they will ignore the precious and binding truths of their own Constitution. They will became party to the greatest injustice: to treat their own constitution as mere empty words. May it be that in the future such governments will look to the light and not try to snuff it out.

The law of God is an absolute standard. It does not change. It is perfect and will go on forever.6 The law of God written upon the heart of man is the constitution of the New Covenant. This is what all men of conscience everywhere have always longed to possess. The ultimate and highest expression of God’s government is man ruling by the inward law of God written in his heart. In the age to come, this is the government that will fill the Earth.

But in this age, it is the government that has the authority and the quality of life within itself to be a light to convict and to lead all the nations of the earth. The life expressed by this new nation of priests is the absolute hope of all the nations. §

Footnotes ?

• 1     Your eyes shall see, And you shall say, ‘The LORD is magnified beyond the border of Israel.’ (Malachi 1:5)
• 2     Yahshua is the original given Hebrew name of the Jesus of the Scriptures.
• 3     See the article: The Unshakeable Kingdom page 24
• 4     mischief: Harm; hurt; injury; damage; evil, whether intended or not. Intentional injury; harm or damage done by design.
• 5     That’s why Roger Williams, the founder of Rhode Island, called his most important book The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for Cause of Conscience. It’s why he devoted his life to breaking the unholy bonds between church and state… bonds which hopelessly corrupt both church and state. 
• 6     Psalm 19