Pastors, this is not a political moment - it is a Biblical one.

Pastors, this is not a political moment - it is a Biblical one.

Solomon observed that when moral rot takes hold within a nation, its government becomes unstable and collapses easily. Still, wise and knowledgeable leadership brings endurance and stability [Proverbs 28:2]. That verse is not aimed at kings alone. It is aimed at the moral condition of a people.

Jewish Hebrew scholar Michael V. Fox, one of the leading academic commentators on Proverbs, was clear on this point: Proverbs 28:2 is not about politics. It is about moral causation.

Fox explains that when “a land transgresses,” when lawlessness becomes widespread, systemic, and normalized, the result is not reform but anarchy. Authority falls apart. Factions multiply. Rulers come and go. The chaos is not accidental; it is both the natural consequence and the fitting judgment of moral rebellion.

We are tempted to read this proverb backward. We assume bad systems produce bad outcomes. Solomon says otherwise. Bad character produces bad systems.

That is what Scripture means by moral causation. Moral choices are never private. They shape families, churches, communities, and nations. When people align themselves with God’s moral order, stability follows. When they reject it, disorder follows; slowly at first, then suddenly.

America’s Founders understood this. They did not place ultimate confidence in autonomous human reason. They anchored liberty in the Bible as the fixed moral standard by which law, culture, and political power were to be judged and restrained. That Biblical assumption produced an extraordinary experiment in ordered liberty. Its abandonment explains much of our present confusion.

Godless secularism did not begin with the French Revolution, but that revolution marked the first attempt to construct a society explicitly without God. Under the banner of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité, moral authority was transferred from Heaven to the State. Historian William J. Federer rightly notes that “equality,” one of the revolution’s sacred words, became the seedbed of modern socialism.

Those ideas did not remain overseas. They entered American universities, then culture, and eventually law.

When Biblical restraint was removed, results replaced integrity. Over time, accountability weakened, trust eroded, and institutions hollowed out. What once would have been called sin became explainable, then acceptable, then celebrated.

That moral shift did not stop at the classroom door. It entered the courts.

Beginning with the Warren Court, the Supreme Court increasingly treated the Bible not as a moral inheritance but as a constitutional threat. Prayer was removed from public schools. Scripture was expelled from classrooms. Moral instruction rooted in Biblical truth was recast as coercion.

What followed was not neutrality, but moral displacement. Courts began creating “rights” untethered from Scripture, nature, or history. Abortion was constitutionalized. The Ten Commandments were banished. Marriage was redefined. Biological reality was subordinated to ideology.

This is not a coincidence. It is Proverbs 28:2 in real time. When a land transgresses, authority disintegrates and rulers multiply.

But Scripture does not assign the work of moral formation to courts or politicians. That responsibility belongs to the ekklesia - the governing assembly Christ said the gates of hell would not prevail against [Matthew 16:18].

When pastors retreat, the state expands. When pulpits fall silent, courtrooms grow loud. When shepherds abandon the public square, corrupt bureaucrats fill the vacuum.

America’s Constitution assumes a morally formed righteous people. It cannot manufacture one. As John Adams warned, it was made only for moral and religious people.

Pastors, Solomon was not offering political commentary. He was issuing a warning. When a nation abandons moral truth, no constitution can save it, no court can stabilize it, and no election can redeem it. Legitimacy dies before authority collapses.

History has spoken. When God is dismissed, chaos is enthroned. Solomon saw it. Fox explained it. And we are now living it.

Our crisis is not first political - it is moral. Disorder is not the disease; it is the symptom. And the cure will not come from new slogans or new saviors, but from repentance and understanding - an honest return to the Biblical truth that once anchored this Republic.

This is why the moment belongs to the church. This is why pastors matter now more than ever. This is why silence is not an option.

Only when a people submit again to God’s moral law will honesty endure, authority regain legitimacy, and a nation recover stability and blessing.

Praise be to God that Gideons and Rahabs have begun to stand.

David Lane


American Renewal Project