Jesus Christ is King of America, Her Constitution, and the Billboard ChartsNovember 25, 2019As our culture cultivates more hostility to the Bible and the virtues that Christ promotes in the Gospel, I thought I would take a minute to speak about the frenzy surrounding rapper Kanye West's first faith-based album, "Jesus is King." The album has made history on Billboard's Hot Christian Songs and Hot Gospel Songs charts. It concurrently crowns the all-genre Billboard 200, Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Albums charts and currently reigns as the first set ever to rule all five rankings. In light of the album’s success, searches for "Jesus" and "What do Christians believe?" have spiked on Google. God has drastically transformed West from a vulgar, misogynist, Grammy-winning rapper to a Christian artist who now intends to remove all expletives from his previous songs. The 42-year-old's gospel-rap album is filled with biblical references, and now the American Bible Society has promised to hand out free copies of the Bible to interested fans. For those of you who didn’t know, the American Bible Society was founded in 1816 by people who were committed to the Bible and to the end of slavery. The first president was Founding Father Elias Boudinot, who had been president of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783. John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, was named president of the Society in 1821. It sure is refreshing to see the influence of America’s Founding Fathers still permeating our culture today. West’s work is catching fire all over America, promoting the Bible that John Adams claimed “...contains the most profound Philosophy, the most perfect Morality, and the most refined Policy, that ever was conceived upon Earth. It is the most Republican Book in the World, and therefore I will still revere it...” Perhaps one of the most prevalent influences of men like John Adams and the Founders was Baron Charles Montesquieu. In his work “The Spirit of the Laws,” Montesquieu emphasized: Founding Father Dr. Benjamin Rush explained: Dr. Rush concludes: From our Creator to our Constitutional Republic, to the influence of the Bible in popular culture, the Old and New Testaments of Jesus Christ remain a beacon of liberty to the world. Video Column: https://youtu.be/_k_8JoYCHEQ
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