Where tyranny comes from

Many historians now believe that in gauging the historical accuracy of a given concept, people should first ask themselves a far deeper question: “How historically accurate is history itself?”

For the past 50 years now, our government-run education system has been co-opted away from the didactic fact-based system of thought, based in logic and absolute truth, to a dialectic, feeling-based system based in change and uncertainty.

The result is the only absolute truth anyone is supposed to hold is that there is no absolute truth and citizens are to determine everybody’s ideas and systems are as good as anybody else’s and re-write history.

The U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are no longer great liberating documents even though only the British Magna Carta stands as a peer in the last 2,000 years as an embodiment of freedom and liberty and the thinking that produces that.

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As Jordan points out, the government-controlled education system began to be subverted back at the turn of the 20^th Century when John Dewey “had the genius of wanting to do away with the Christian foundation of our culture, and substitute it with a dialectal materialism, known as Marxism.

“And he understood that the way to do it was not to go out and have an assault and egg the president. He understood that what you had to do was take a long-range view.

“Sociologically, it takes four generations to change a culture into something or away from something, and he understood that in order to do that you needed to educate the teachers who teach the teachers who teach the teachers.

"Don’t teach the teachers or the students, teach the teachers that teach…Go capture the universities who teach and now you’ve got a download system.

"The result is kids in high school today are taught  that the very institutions our country is founded on were put in place by “just a bunch of rich white men who wrote those institutions just to perpetuate their monopoly." Just a bunch of old, selfish, rich white guys that did that. And the kids aren’t given the concepts and the ideas our culture was founded on.

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Here’s a great sermon out-take on all this from Jordan:

You can’t even go to the culture today and say marriage is “one man, one woman for a lifetime.” Families can’t be identified as “mom and dad.” You say, “Where did that come from?” It came from taking away the foundation upon which those kinds of understandings are based, and replacing it with a dialectic sort of reasoning that’s based on feeling and no absolute truth:

“Who are you to absolutely say that’s what a family and marriage is because I feel loved and if the person I feel loved by happens to be the same sex, who are you to say that’s not right?”

So it sounds more and more like the Edge of Night and As the World Turns and the Young and the Restless. That philosophy that used to have to be relegated to a TV soap opera is now the governing philosophy of the educational institution of our country and that makes a difference. There’s no absolute truth. It’s just whatever’s right for you.

Now when you do that, you do what Israel did: “Every man does that which is right in his own eyes.” (Judges 17:6)

So when you get that kind of widespread skepticism about everything, where, “We don’t know what to believe because there's no absolute truth,” you naturally get chaos.

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In a Christian culture, people are going to be self-governed and self-restrained, for the most part, because they know God’s looking. They know there’s a right and a wrong and that “it’s appointed unto a man once to die but after that the judgment.” (Heb. 9:27)

You know there’s an accounting. There’s some absolute truth. There’s a god and there’s accountability. There’s justice.

But when every man does that which is right in his own eyes, what kind of eyes do people have? Your heart is desperately wicked. You’re going to wind up in sin and you know what sin does? “Righteousness exalts a nation and sin is a reproach to any people.” (Proverbs 14:34)

Sin produces corruption. Things fall apart. That’s called chaos and when you get chaos in a culture, that can only go so far.

When you don’t have character in people to restrain the chaos, somebody’s going to restrain it. I’ve said for years the problems are in the cities and the solutions to the problems are going to be in the cities. According to the last census,  54 percent of the population of our country resides in 50 major metropolitan centers in America.

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The problems aren’t going to be resolved without truth being spoken to people, and what little presence there is for the church the Body of Christ, it’s such a weak, ineffectual ‘Praise Jesus, Hallelujah!’ kind of thing that isn’t based on the Scripture and doesn’t have any answers for these kinds of things and can’t contend with them intellectually.

They think they can stand out there on the street corner and pray and ask God to throw demons out and He’s going to fix the neighborhood. I’ve read Mark 5, and I know what Mark 5 says, but Mark 5 isn’t what God’s doing today.

That’s why the church today is totally irrelevant in solving those things. So where do people go for answers? They go to themselves. Human viewpoint. Where does that get them? More chaos, and when you’ve got to get rid of chaos, there’s always somebody going to come in with a gun and a government, and people will say, “I’ll take it because I can’t live with the chaos.”

And that’s where tyranny comes from.  Now that’s the way the cycle of history’s always been. But in the midst of that widespread skepticism, and that enormous spiritual confusion, there’s always a real deep spiritual hunger and that’s really what will drive the interest in a book, say, like “The Da Vinci Code.” It’s because people are looking for answers.