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It had been a long struggle.  For over twenty years the American Colonies had appealed to their king, asking him to recognize his departure from English law.  The Americans, because of their Biblical foundation, understood that government servants (including the king) had to do what they did according to the law of God.  King George III showed no respect for what the Bible had to say about government, and thus ignored every request to come back into the order of God.

Finally on June 7th, 1776, Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee introduced a resolution on the floor of the Continental Congress stating:

“RESOLVED, That these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown; and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved.”

(The Declaration of Independence, Rod Gragg, Rutledge Hill Press, Nashville, 2005; p.35)

A committee was appointed, which included Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Ben Franklin, to write a Declaration of Independence which would, upon the approval of the Congress be sent to the King of England.  The Congress then recessed for three weeks to give the committee time to write the Declaration. Continue reading →

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In 2007, a lady from Argentina cried out to us in America and said, “We pray you people of the United States stand up and hold on, for we are counting on you to defend our freedom.”  Does that not make you feel a great responsibility?  It certainly should!

While we go about enjoying our prosperous lifestyles the rest of the world longs for the opportunity to be able to compete in the market place without the interference of an oppressive government.  While we use our abundant free time for every conceivable pleasure known to man, the rest of the world only dreams of having a work day that didn’t last from daylight to dark every day.  While we use our freedom to frequent golf courses, ballgames, and shopping malls, most people on earth long for enough freedom just to teach their children how to keep body and soul together.

Am I saying prosperity is wrong?  No!  Is liberty wrong? No!  They are gifts from Almighty God.  But how we use them can easily be wrong.  Liberty and prosperity are not about our pleasure and comfort!  They are about getting the truth—the Gospel—to the next generation and to whomever else we can in our short stay here on earth.  The Bible says Continue reading →

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The time had finally come.  After twenty years of growing government interference into the affairs of the American Colonies, the patience of Americans was exhausted.  The Representatives of America had appealed to their British King and the Parliament over and over during those twenty years, and had only been insulted for their efforts.  Over and over the King had treated their appeals with disdain.  Finally, Thomas Jefferson would sum up the attitude of the majority of Americans when he wrote in The Declaration of Independence,

“A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.”

The final break with England began on March 16, 1776.  The Continental Congress, representing each of the thirteen colonies, called upon the American people to observe a day “of fasting, humiliation, and prayer”.  The Congress stated Continue reading →

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In April of 1917 the United States entered into World War I.  While all wars are caused by the selfishness of man, the desire of our people as a whole was not our own gain.  Rather, it was our desire to protect the liberty which God had entrusted to us.  And our people responded in great numbers to the request of President Woodrow Wilson to observe a Day of Public Humiliation, Prayer and Fasting on May 11, 1918.  He requested our people to:

“…humbly and devoutly…acknowledge our dependence on Almighty God and to implore His aid and protection…with religious solemnity and the offering of fervent supplications to Almighty God for the safety and welfare of our cause, His blessings on our arms, and a speedy restoration of an honorable and lasting peace to the nations of the earth…”

(American Minute by William Federer, 4/6/2015)

Our prayers “were heard and graciously answered”.  Few would argue that it was American arms which won the day for liberty in the nations of the earth and brought this mighty scourge of war to an end.  And while answered prayer cannot be scientifically proven, an honest analysis of the outcome of battles and their timing can only admit that God’s Hand was evident.

One soldier readily gave credit to the Lord for an almost unbelievable feat he accomplished in October of 1918.  In a battle in France, Corporal Alvin York’s battalion was pinned down by over 30 German machine guns. Continue reading →

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It’s such an amazing story!  Patrick, a young, former slave in Ireland, was called by God in the 400’s to go share the Gospel of Christ with those same Irish people who had enslaved him just a few years before!  Yet, without fear, he boldly entered again into that realm and became the agent of liberty to those who had once been his agents of slavery.

He developed this boldness because Christ had revealed Himself to him in such a living way.  Patrick’s faith in Jesus was no cold orthodoxy; his was a living relationship with the living, resurrected Son of God!  In Patrick’s life, Jesus was Lord!  We get a glimpse of the intimacy between him and his Lord when he writes of hearing His voice.  With great humility he simply states that God said to him:

“He who gave His life for you, He it is who speaks within you.”

(Great Christian Classics, Kevin Swanson ed.; Generations With Vision, pub. 2010; p. 140)

His knowledge of Christ was deeper than most of us today.  He understood that Jesus dwelt inside him.  He knew Christ, not only as the Lord of heaven—which He certainly is—but as the present, resident, Lord inside Patrick.  One time he actually saw the Holy Spirit praying within him.  He wrote, Continue reading →

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Except for one thing, the state of our land could be very discouraging.  If we look only at the Moslem threat, the homosexual agenda, or the work of socialists inside our governments, we could well be in despair.  However, if any person or people set their will to walk in the order of God, they have proven to be invincible under any circumstances.  It is my hope, that if we can experience revival, we would need not fear any enemy, internal or external.

The Bible teaches that one with God is always a majority.  Moses stood at the Red Sea without a single earthly hope of being delivered from Pharaoh’s fast approaching army.  But because he was obeying God in bringing out His people from bondage, God said through Moses, 

“Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD…”

(Exodus 14:13)

Moses obeyed, and, to his amazement, he watched God’s people get delivered from the greatest army on earth.  God still does this today.

Patrick Henry encouraged our Founding Fathers to not be afraid to stand in God’s order against the world’s greatest army of their day in his “Give me liberty or give me death!” speech.  He finished it by saying, Continue reading →

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On September 11th, 2001, President Bush told us that the Moslems are a peace-loving people.  He was probably trying to prevent a backlash against the Moslems in this country, some of whom, no doubt, were not for the destruction of 3000 lives by our terrorist attackers.  However, in stating that Moslems were a peace-loving people, he started a misunderstanding that could well be the undoing of this nation.

To state that Muslims are peace-loving is to leave the impression that Islam is “sort of” like Christianity.  Christianity teaches us that we are not to try to force the will of others and insist that they believe as we do.  Islam is completely opposite to this.  The Koran, the Muslim “holy book”, states plainly that if unbelievers in Allah, their god, refuse to convert to Islam, they are to be killed.  This means Christians, Jews, Hindus, or anyone else of a different faith, have no right to live on this earth unless they are willing to convert to Islam.  Thus, we must expose what Islam really is- for you cannot defeat an enemy you’ve not identified. Continue reading →

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Recently we’ve been horrified and sickened with the reports of gruesome beheadings in Iraq and Syria.  The so-called ISIS army is proudly claiming responsibility for these deaths, proudly proclaiming that they are doing this in the name of allah, their god of Islam.  So is this what Islam is?  Are we being rudely awakened to see in actuality what Islam is?  Or is Islam “peace”, as George W. Bush claimed?

In the 600’s in Arabia, a man was visited by an angel—Gabriel, he thought—and believed he was shown the true way of salvation.  That man:  Mohammed.  The religion he started:  Islam.

But the religion he started was not the true way of salvation.  Islam greatly disagrees with the Bible in the fact that Jesus is not accepted as the Son of God.  This lets us know that Mohammed’s angel was not Gabriel, but rather satan “transformed into an angel of light” (2 Corinthians 11: 14-15).  And since satan comes “to steal, to kill, and to destroy” (John 10:10), it comes as no surprise that Islam forces captives to convert to Islam. The Koran actually says to kill those who do not accept Islam as the true religion. Continue reading →