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“The Greatest Need in America”

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The Greatest Need in America 1With more disrespect being shown to our flag, even within our own borders, it would do us well to revisit our heritage! Fort McHenry (where in 1812 a battle raged which inspired Francis Scott Key to write The Star Spangled Banner) was named after a man who served as a medical soldier in George Washington’s army, and later signed the U.S. Constitution. His name was James McHenry. While unknown to us today, James McHenry was one of those men who laid such a firm foundation for America that during the 1800s it would grow to become the greatest nation on earth. James McHenry got his foundation from the Bible. In addition to his achievements just mentioned, he also served as a member of the Continental Congress, his state legislature, and the U.S. Secretary of War—and President of the Baltimore Bible Society! He had this to say about the Bible:

“…public [usefulness] pleads most forcibly for the general distribution of the Holy Scriptures. The doctrine they preach, the obligations they impose, the punishment they threaten, the rewards they promise…can alone secure to society, order and peace, and to our courts of justice and constitutions of government, purity, stability and usefulness.

“In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions. Bibles are strong entrenchments.”

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“Why Did Americans Fight for Independence?”

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On April 19th, 1775, seventy-five American farmers faced an overwhelming force of some 600 British professional soldiers. The Americans were out-manned, out-gunned, and out-trained. And when the first shots were fired, nine of the Americans fell dead. Why were they willing to face such overwhelming odds? Were they dreamers? Were they crazy? Were they men of such noble ideas that they were willing to die for them? While they were all these things (except crazy), they had an even greater reason for resisting the King of England. They believed they were obeying the God of the Bible with their resistance. Their Congress had stated:

“Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian…duty of each individual…Continue steadfast, and with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly…defend those rights which heaven gave, and no man ought to take from us.”

(Massachusetts Provincial Congress. 1774, in a resolution. George Bancroft, Bancroft’s History of the United States, Vol. X (Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 3rd Edition, 1838), Vol. VII, p. 229 | Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Glory of America (Bloomington, MN: Garborg’s Heart’N Home, Inc., 1991), 8.31.)

When our ancestors defended themselves on Lexington Green, and later much more successfully at Concord Bridge, they believed they were walking in a principle of liberty taught in the Bible.

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“Why This in America?”

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Not since the 1960s have we seen anything like the rioting in the streets we’ve seen lately.  The wave of the so-called “New Left” thinkers in that era brought that about with their socialist mantra that “America is bad; we can make a perfect world if you’ll let us have control of your lives.”  But two things stopped that socialist revolution in America.  One, we elected a President who gave back to the policemen the right to use force to stop the rioting.  Secondly, God sent a revival that impacted the nation.  That revival brought the focus of many in my generation back to God and His plan for them.  That caused many to see that the anti-God agenda of the socialists, like Saul Alinsky, was wrong—as well as impossible.  As that revival grew in understanding and numbers throughout the 1970s, Christians would go to the polls and elect Ronald Reagan as President in 1980.  President Reagan would do much to stem the tide of socialism that had been sweeping the country in the sixties.

But most Christians, being ignorant of God’s plan for civil government, placed our governmental hope in the President, and we went Continue reading →

“Our Freedom Document”

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The Bible says, “Stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.” (Galatians 5:1)

Ladies and Gentlemen: The following document is the reason you and I, in America, are free:

“When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitles them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Continue reading →

“Needed: A Courageous Congress!”

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Many of us have had our hopes dashed once again on the rocks of “Judicial Thievery”!  We had hoped that the Supreme Court was moving back toward being a majority of judges who would let the Constitution rule as the highest law of the land.  That Constitution allows for only the Congress to make law.  Neither the Supreme Court, or the President was given that right.  But far and away the Branch of Government that has most stolen the power of Congress in the last eighty years has been the Supreme Court; and the Congress has refused to stand up and rebuke the Court and deny them that theft.  We’ve now seen again that Court operate in an illegitimate manner by ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County that the sex discrimination referred to in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 includes “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” (Not that, in reality, there is any such thing!).  Nothing could have been further from the truth of what the Congress meant by the word “sex” in 1964.  The law was primarily aimed at making certain the rights of Black Americans were protected, which were quite often ignored in those days—especially in pockets of the South.  The word “sex” meant a male or female as determined by their sex organs at birth.  But now the Supreme Court has said that the law meant one’s chosen sexual identity.

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“Pastors: Speak Up or Be Silenced Forever!”

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Pastors Speak Up or Be Silenced Forever 1I cannot tell you how very disappointed I’ve been with church leaders in recent days.  The so-called “pandemic” has revealed some very interesting things about our lack of understanding of the Biblical principles of civil government.  This is not to say that, in the beginning of it back in March, there was not the need for caution.  There certainly was; since we didn’t know what we were dealing with.  But the way church leadership just bowed down to the so-called “medical experts” and were willing to stop most ministry just because some governor said they had to, reveals a tremendous lack of understanding as to how Communists, and the many groups which work with them, work to take over free nations.  This lack of understanding is far more scary than the virus.  It shows that we’ve let our minds be shaped by socialist ideas:  That we haven’t known that Karl Marx, the father of Communism, stated that his whole aim in establishing worldwide communism was for the purpose of destroying Christianity.  What kind of ignorance does this reveal in us who lead the church?  Remember the Bible says,

“My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge…” (Hosea 4:6)

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“Lawful Protest: Or Socialist Anarchy?”

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Violent protests have broken out across America; supposedly because a black man, George Floyd, was killed by a white, Minneapolis policeman.  There have been killings by the demonstrators as well as the destruction of much property, owned by people of all colors of skin.  If this was about fixing so-called “racial strife”, why has the property and lives of black persons also been destroyed?

Even if we do seek to avenge unlawful acts, but do it in an unlawful way, what is to keep someone else from later doing the same to us?  This is what produces turbulence in a country:  And this kind of anarchical activity can only ultimately result in enslavement to a dictator.  The Bible says,

“There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.” (Proverbs 14:12)

No!  We can only fix injustice by restoring Biblical order.  Only this will produce peace in a society!

I even heard one person try to justify all this rioting by saying our Forefathers did the same thing at the Boston Tea Party.  Talk about being ignorant of our history!

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“The Key to Preserving Liberty”

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It really amazes me how so many people continue to sleep in the midst of this crisis, which, without revival, will end in the loss of our liberty.  Yet most Americans  continue on and on with no serious thought that our nation could be forever changed.  It is the fault of our education process that we continue to sleep, as we did on the morning when we were attacked at Pearl Harbor in 1941.  This is not to place all the blame on school systems either; education is much more than just the classroom.  The television programming, the internet viewing, the music we listen to, are all major contributors to the way we now think.  Without careful study of the Bible, believing that its teachings are true and thereby should be lived by, we simply follow the inclinations of our own thinking—and that’s the root problem.

The Bible says, “There is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not.” (Ecclesiastes 7:20)  It reveals that our “…heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked; [but] who can know it?” (Jeremiah 17:9)  This is because there is a root of sin in us which releases in us the attitude of “I want what I want when I want it.”  To get what you want, you have to be able to control your circumstances.  That means you have to fight someone else for control.  This desire for control is what has caused every hurt and every war in history.  Thus, those who haven’t surrendered their will to Jesus Christ, and had His life replace theirs in this world, cannot Continue reading →

“Do We Like Our New Socialism?”

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In 1976 a Russian pilot in the Communists’ Air Force flew a Russian MiG-25 Foxbat—believed to be the best jet fighter they had then—to Japan, asking for asylum in the United States.  He had been schooled in the best Russian schools of socialism and was considered to be one of the best models they had of a completely socialistic man.  But as he got a little older he began to see the inconsistencies in what the Communist Party leaders had told him.  His material gains and his lifestyle were not anything like what they had promised him.  And, while they had taught him that America was the “land of darkness”, he felt that, if he could keep this new MiG fighter intact, our government would want to dissect it and know its capabilities; thus, he would have something with which to bargain and hope to gain a better position in life in America than he had known in Russia.  President Gerald Ford immediately granted him asylum; and our government assigned to him a man who began to show him our American way of life.  The pilot later talked about how he just couldn’t believe how the meat markets here were full of all different cuts of meat and fresh vegetables; because in Russia, under their socialistic system, they could only get fresh meat once in a while—and had to stand in line for hours to get into the food stores to get some of it.  Over time, he came to realize that life here was much, much better than it was in Russia; simply because people were free to make their own decisions about what they would work at, where they would work, and who they would work with.  That gave people the incentive to work, and thus, our lifestyle of free enterprise was so very much better than those under socialism.  He figured out that the socialists had lied to him about which system was best.

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“Liberty or Security?”

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Liberty or Security- 1Liberty or Security?  Which is most important in the long run?  It is impossible to have 100% of both liberty and security in this natural world.  Liberty, of necessity, must involve some risks.  The major one is that you have to trust your neighbor to respect your God-given rights of life, liberty, and ownership of property.  Likewise, your neighbor must be able to trust you in the same way.  This is why our Founders warned us that we couldn’t maintain this Republic, with its great amount of liberty for the individual, without most of our people knowing the religion of Jesus Christ in the pure way that Jesus gave it.  If I know that I will “reap what I sow”, both in this world, and in the world to come (Galatians 6:7), I have a strong reason to respect your rights; knowing that God Himself is judging me in my actions.  If I’ve had those truths hidden from me both in the home and the school, then I don’t know that I will surely “reap what I’m now sowing”; thus, I have no deterrent to my own selfish desires, leaving your rights at risk.

Thus, God gave us civil government based on His Ten Commandments in order to aid us in keeping the last six of those commands toward our neighbor.  Government “bears not the sword in vain” (Romans 13:1-4); thus, the threat of punishment becomes Continue reading →