They Say That “They Are Just Doing Their Jobs” – If They Were, The Innocent Would Not Suffer Unjustly

“If they were doing their job, the innocent would not suffer!”

“I am just doing my job.” I hear and see this all the time; I’m speaking of those who are in a position where they have sworn to uphold the enumerated laws found in the U.S. Constitution. Read Article VI, Section 2, and Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution.

Years ago, while walking in Washington, DC, right in front of the people’s White House, I noticed the Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies assigned to protect the president. These, no doubt, would say to you and me that they were there just doing their jobs, or so they would have you think.

Of course, this only passes the minds of those who do not take the time to know the difference when it comes to making distinctions found within our founding documents. Why do I say this? Because the one they were protecting was the one who was transgressing our constitutional laws over 1,168 times during his criminal tenure. Crimes such as treason, theft, murder, etc.  I’m speaking about Barack Obama.

These were not only impeachable offenses, but they were also crimes for which he should have been lawfully prosecuted. Read Article I, Section 3, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution.

So, what it comes to is this: These law enforcement agencies should have been lawfully holding him accountable for all the crimes that he was committing against the people instead of protecting him from the people.

Is this what we see them doing today? Not at all! Just the opposite.

One should ask themselves: For whom are they working? They swore an oath with their hand on the Bible to uphold the law, just like the said president did, not to tear it down to create one that looks just like themselves (Numbers 30:2; Deuteronomy 23:23; Ecclesiastes 5:4).

In Article II, Section 1, Clause 8 of the Constitution, before entering the Execution of their Office, they take the following Oath or Affirmation:

“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”

Anyone and everyone who takes office swears a similar oath, and this is unto the Lord and unto the people (1 John 5:2).

Therefore, in this case, we may find that those who call themselves law enforcers are just as guilty as the ones they say that they are protecting, just like a fox protecting the hen house.

Can we even calculate how many innocent people have fallen to the crimes of those who fail to uphold their constitutional oaths? Again, these are those who we hear say, “We are just doing our jobs.” If they were upholding their oaths and doing their jobs, we would have few, if any, crimes whatsoever being committed in our governmental institutions against innocent people – the people whom they swore to serve.

Look at history. How many subordinates have submitted to tyrants who have been guilty of heinous crimes against innocent people, and when they were called to account, they resorted to their unjustifiable excuses, such as, “We were just doing our job”?

If they were doing their jobs, they would have resisted unconstitutional orders and would have condemned the crimes of the tyrants in protecting the innocent. Yet, this they did not do.

This reminds me much of what the people allowed to happen to Christ during His crucifixion.

How many of the executioners said that they were “just doing their jobs”? This they did while crucifying an innocent man, namely, the Son of God!

Or how about, “I’m just following orders.”

“My boss told me to”, “If I don’t help them crucify Christ, I may have gotten fired.”

“I have a family to feed.”

Or how about this one: “I have a future to think about.”

Yes, we have heard them all.  Just think of the people who were accomplices to the crucifixion by allowing it to happen; even the bystanders who attempted to justify their inaction and put a stop to it themselves merely said, “He should have done what they told Him to do.”

These cowards merely strain at the gnat and swallow the big camel (Matthew 23:24).

How so? Jesus was delivered up by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.

“Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain.” -Acts 2:23

“For of a truth against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, both Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Israel, were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.”-Acts 4:27-28

It should be of interest to take note of what Jesus said to those who were weeping over Him while He was carrying the cross up to Calvary to die as the Lamb of God who took away the sins of the world (John 1:29).

Listen carefully to understand the full impact of what many are guilty of tolerating today.  Remember, everyone is just doing their jobs, they say, but no one really is.

“And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him. But Jesus turning unto them said, Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children. For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck. Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us. For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?” -Luke 23:27-31

The “green tree” is widely interpreted as representing Jesus or Israel in a time of relative stability. The“dry tree” is viewed as representing a rebellious nation, unrepentant humanity, or Jerusalem left spiritually and politically dry, ripe for fiery destruction.

In other words, if the people have the power to right the wrongs, both subordinates and bystanders in obedience to the Lord and do nothing, just imagine what will be done when they have no power at all to stand up for themselves.

In conclusion: Do not let evil men put out the light of men, which is in you, when it is in your power to stand up against and to condemn the workers of darkness (John 1:4). This way it can be said that we are all doing our job, heartily as unto the Lord!