"For Rulers Hold No Terror for those Who Do RIght" - Really?

Are you a church-going, Bible-believing Christian?

Does your pastor preach "submission to the governing authorities"?

Does he preach that "rulers hold no terror for those who do right"? Do you believe that this is true in the case of those who currently rule the United States of America? Do you really?

You might want to read the piece below, from Pastor Bill Wilson who is, in my mind, a pastor after God's own heart, for he rightly points out that this "president" of ours is not only funding and arming Islamic terrorists in places like Libya and Syria abroad, but also right here in the United States, as now even mainstream news outlets like ABC News report!

The president's deadly partner

The occupant of the Oval Office has opened the doors for a groundbreaking foreign policy partner to establish itself in the United States. This partner has been instrumental in the Administration's plans across the Middle East, especially in Libya, Tunisia, Egypt and, now, Syria. The US has funneled millions of hard earned tax dollars to support this foreign policy partner in advancing the Administration's goals. Now, it's offices in Kentucky were revealed by ABC News. They contain explosives, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and ammunition to be sent to the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq--to kill American soldiers. The offices are a self storage stall in Bowling Green and the partner is al Qaeda.

ABC News reports the FBI has revealed: "Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees." The Department of Homeland Security told ABC News that the US government is continuously improving its vetting procedures on immigrants and refugees. But in testimony before the House, a DHS senior official said that the Kentucky al Qaeda members names and fingerprints were checked by the FBI, the DHS and the Defense Department and they "came in clean." At first, DHS defended it's procedure. Then it said it was improving its procedure. Then it said it was a mistake.

But is it really a mistake? Or did the FBI just happen into something that this Administration was systematically allowing? It is widely documented that the White House was in league with al Qaeda in Libya, for example, when the Arab Spring was in full swing. Through the Muslim Brotherhood, also documented as having agents appointed to high places in the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon and State Department (remember Huma Abedin under Hillary Clinton?), al Qaeda is positioned as a foreign policy partner of the president. Al Qaeda is in the strange role of being a killer of American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq, and a killer of American enemies in Libya, Tunisia, and Syria. 

In January 2012, WorldNetDaily reported that there were 35 terrorist training camps across the US on hundreds of purchased or leased acres where organizations like Jamaat ul-Fuqra (Muslims in America) conduct "the most advanced training courses in Islamic military warfare," according to it's leader Sheikh Mubarak Gilani. Yet the State Department refuses to designate the organization as a terrorist group. What next, al Jazeera--the foremost terrorist propaganda arm--will become a credentialed news network in America? Oh, excuse me. That has already happened. Jesus warned us in Matthew 24:4, "Take heed that no man deceive you." Something is terribly amiss, and it all points to the White House. 

Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!

Bill Wilson

PASTORS OF AMERICA:

Are you a pastor of a church?

Do you believe you are doing God's work in your calling?

Should you be warning your congregation about things like this?

Ex-US Agent Claims Military Thwarted Obama False Flag Nuke/EMP Attack this Fall

 Or do you believe it is not your business to interfere with what your government has in store for your congregation and the country?

Do you believe that Romans 13 prevents you from preaching against "your" government (i.e., it's so-called leader) attempting to EMP-blast the entire country back into the 1800's?

Since you are probably not going to click on that link, please let me summarize:

1.  Obama ordered that 3 nukes be transported in a major breach of protocol and safety regulations of long standing. He wanted it NOW, and these officers were made aware of what the intention was. 

2. One Admiral had one Navy nuke taken 200 miles off South Carolina and detonated deep in the ocean. The other 2 nukes disappeared thanks to the handiwork of two Generals, the numbers 1 and 2 men in charge of the Army ordinance. 

3.  Look up the events of two U.S. Generals and one U.S. Admiral being dismissed in the past two weeks and you will find their names.

4.   Mr. Obama’s intention was to set off the three nukes to devastate all computer related systems on the continent thus taking America back 200 years and guaranteeing a total breakdown in society and with in one year the death of 300 million Americans.

Okay, to be fair, it is possible that this report is not true. Granted - but isn't it also possible that it indeed is true?

Do you think that it might be appropriate to move heaven and earth in order to try and find out whether or not this report is true? Do you think the risk of it being untrue is by far outweighed by the risk that it might be accurate?

Do you think that you might owe your congregation the favor of at least pointing out to them that an act of this nature is even conceivable coming from a person who holds the official title "President of the United States"?

What makes it conceivable?

We only have to look to well-publicized facts: (1) Obama has used US taxpayer funded military assets to remove a secular dictator in Libya and funded Al-Queda-linked rebels to destroy that country's existing government. (2) He is currently in the process of funding more Al-Queda linked "rebels" in order to repeat the same process in Syria. (3) he has stood silent while four Americans were raped and murdered in Benghazi after he helped "liberate" that country from its legitimate government. (4) He claims - and has repeatedly used - the power to unilaterally execute US citizens suspected of terrorism without giving them a trial or even the right to be heard - all the while he funds and arms actual terrorists in Syria.

Do you still think, at all, or are you just trying to go along to get along so your tax-deductible donations pipeline won't run dry?

We have a "president" in the white house who has committed so many atrocities and treasonous acts during his illicit reign that the fact that Congress has not removed him from his position and evicted him from the white house justifies Americans scrapping their entire government and starting over again - but you stand behind your pulpit and preach obedience to THIS state??

If that is what you do - what does that make you? I do not expect an answer from you - but you owe one to yourself. And to God.

Chuck Baldwin's "ROMANS 13: SETTING IT STRAIGHT"

By Chuck Baldwin
July 28, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that the biggest reason America is in the mess that it's in today is directly due to the apathy and indifference of the American pulpit. I am reminded of what Charles Finney, the famed 19th Century revivalist, said: "If there is a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discernment, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is degenerate and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the world loses its interest in Christianity, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the pulpit is responsible for it. If our politics become so corrupt that they very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it."

Our second President, John Adams, put it this way: "It is the duty of the clergy to accommodate their discourses to the times, to preach against such sins as are most prevalent, and recommend such virtues as are most wanted. For example, if exorbitant ambition and venality are predominate, ought they not to warn their hearers against those vices? If public spirit is much wanted, should they not inculcate this great virtue? If the rights and duties of Christian magistrates and subjects are disputed, should they not explain them, show their nature, ends, limitations, and restrictions, howmuchsoever it may move the gall of Massachusetts?"

Martin Luther, the great Protestant reformer, was even more direct. He said, "If I profess with the loudest voice and clearest exposition every portion of the truth of God except precisely that little point which the world and the devil are at the moment attacking, I am not confessing Christ, however boldly I may be professing Christ. Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved. And to be steady on all the battle fields besides is merely flight and disgrace if he flinches at that point."

For at least the past half-century Christian pastors and churches have been all but neutered. On the whole, they have ignored Christ's admonition to be the "salt of the earth," and as a result, have failed to do much of anything to preserve freedom's Biblical Natural Law principles in this great land. In fact, the average church is so sugary sweet that it is downright sickening!

And the two main reasons for this dereliction of duty by America's pastors and churches are the IRS 501c3 non-profit tax status, which turns the Lord's church into a government corporation; and the erroneous, fallacious interpretation of Romans chapter 13 that teaches Christians are obligated to submit to government regardless of whether government acts within the confines and jurisdiction of God's law or not. In reality, the American church today, on the whole, is not even a church. It is a government corporation whose loyalty is offered first to Caesar, not to Christ, and whose message is first politically correct before it is Biblically correct.

It is more than interesting that some 95% of the 14,000 evangelical churches that graced the German landscape during Hitler's rise to power bought into the identical misinterpretation of Romans 13 that the vast majority (probably at least 95%) of the 300,000 evangelical churches that grace America's landscape have bought into today.

For example, one German pastor in 1933 gushed, "Christ has come to us through Hitler." In like manner, many pastors today foolishly preach that God directs us through our President (whoever he is), or our Supreme Court, or virtually any other government agency. And speaking of the ignominious infatuation with government by Nazi-era German clergymen, Erwin Lutzer, in his brilliant book, "Hitler's Cross", wrote, "The swastika meant more to some pastors than did the Cross." And there is absolutely no question that many pastors in America today place far more value on the US flag (symbolizing to them the power and authority of the state) than they do the Cross of Christ or the teachings and authority of the Holy Scriptures.

Without a doubt, tyrants of all stripes love to exploit this asinine attitude of these sheepish, slavish preachers who idolize the state! Lutzer quotes Hitler as saying, "The parsons will dig their own graves. They will betray their God to us. They will betray anything for the sake of their miserable jobs and incomes." And that is exactly what many pastors, deacons, elders, and churchmen are doing today: for the sake of their paychecks, insurance premiums, and retirement benefits, they are betraying the lawful authority of Christ to the tyrannical authority of the state. And the bastardized teaching of Romans 13 is one of the major tools by which this is being done.

Therefore, before we can see any significant return to legitimate constitutional government in this country, the thinking and philosophy of Christians and churches regarding Romans 13 must change. This is absolutely obligatory!

The reality of the importance of a proper understanding of Romans 13 was the impetus behind my constitutional attorney son, Tim Baldwin, and me co-authoring an in-depth analysis of Romans 13, which is entitled "Romans 13: The True Meaning of Submission." This book is absolutely a must read, if I do say so myself! We quote hundreds of scriptures from both Testaments, along with hundreds of quotations from Christian apologists, theologians, and philosophers throughout history. Quite frankly, I do not know of another book such as this on the market today.

To order "Romans 13: The True Meaning of Submission," click here.

In the same vein as the book, I delivered a four-part message series entitled "The True Meaning of Romans 13." This four-part message series is now available on one DVD. In fact, the four-part message series is simply a condensed version of the book. To order my four-part message series, "The True Meaning of Romans 13," click here.

If I may be so bold, I suggest that readers order both the book and the DVD. The DVD can be used for those folks who prefer to watch a video presentation, and the book can be used for those folks who desire a more in-depth understanding of the subject. And may I further suggest that you obtain as many copies as you can to give away to your friends, relatives, co-workers, and fellow church members? It is absolutely critical to the reclamation and maintenance of liberty that a proper understanding of Romans 13 be obtained. Without it, we are going to continue down the same road toward socialism and oppression, as surely as did Hitler's Germany.

I cannot think of a more important book or DVD that you could purchase this year! If every reader of this column would purchase one or more of these books and DVDs, and put as many as possible into the hands of others, think of the potential impact this could have upon our country!

Again, to order the book "Romans 13: The True Meaning of Submission," click here.

And, to order my four-part message series, "The True Meaning of Romans 13" on one DVD, click here.

Plus, let me again remind readers that Liberty Fellowship here in Kalispell, Montana, is a non-501c3 Christian fellowship that preaches the unadulterated truth of Scripture with an emphasis on Biblical Natural Law freedom principles that does not bow the knee to Baal or Caesar! To see the difference between this and your typical 501c3 state church, tune in each Sunday afternoon at 2:30pm (MST) and watch our service livestreamed. Click here to watch my message live online.

Or, to watch or download my archived video messages, click here.

I began this column with quotes from Charles Finney, John Adams, and Martin Luther. Let me end with a quote from Winston Churchill: "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."

It is also opportune that my latest video message is entitled, "Arise, And Fight!" taken from the book of Nehemiah. This is also a message you won't want to miss. Watch it here.

Please get in the fight! Help us get the message out about the true meaning of Romans 13. Never was a book more necessary!

*If you appreciate this column and want to help me distribute these editorial opinions to an ever-growing audience, donations may now be made by credit card, check, or Money Order. Use this link.

© 2011 Chuck Baldwin - All Rights Reserved

Can the "Christian Message" set you free? Really??

What is the Christian message, at heart?

The Christian message (the "gospel" if you will) is that you are FREE! Free even to decide against God and his human form, Jesus Christ.

Why?

Because you have the power to make up your own mind. To DECIDE which way to go in life, and thereafter.

That power was given to you at birth. It did not come from your parent, who themselves received it a their birth. It is the result of the way you are made. All humans share this in common.

So IF you accept that there is a creator, whatever you prefer to call him (or "it", if you insist) you can't help but admit that your power to decide comes from him.

If he did that, this act of his makes him worthy of our respect, even of our love, for why else would he do that if not out of love?

That power to decide is true freedom. No one can take that away from us. Not by threat of force, not by imprisoning us, and not by any form of coercion. Even if we feel our will is overcome by superior force, we still have the power to resist, to simply say "NO!" It will have consequences - but so does slavish compliance.

So what does "Jesus" have to do with any of this?

He is the one who dealt with our foundational problem of human existence.

Christians believe (and when I look around in the world of men, I cannot help but agree) that man is infected with something called the "sin nature" from birth. This is not personal sin, mind you. A newborn baby has had no chance to commit any personal sins. Yet. But he or she has the capacity to commit sin(s).

Christians go even further.

They maintain that not only does every human have the capacity to commit sins, but they believe a human cannot help but to commit them!

That one is a really big thing that irks most believers in the innate goodness of man. They believe that "if only" this or that negative influence on people is removed from society, then humans can live in peace, freedom, and prosperity ever after. So far, history has proven them to be Utopians, no less than some of the more easily recognized ones (such as socialists, communists, voluntarists, etc.)

So, let's assume for a moment that this is true, that this condition is a "genetic marker" so to speak that follows us humans around wherever we go, whatever we do, as long as we are alive. There is no human way out of this. Therefore, there is a need for divine intervention.

Jesus Christ is believed by Christians to be the solution to that enigma. He is God himself, in human form (the "son" aspect of the holy trinity) who became human so he could take our collective sins (of all humans, past, present, and future) upon himself in order to have them "judged" in him so that we would have an OPTION.

The option we were given that way is to "accept" this offer, this supreme sacrifice by God himself on our behalf, and thus to escape the inevitable "judgment" that God will have to pronounce upon all those who continue to choose their sin nature while ignoring God's incredibly gracious offer.

We were given the option to "accept" this offer by faith. Nothing else could allow us to accept it. None of our own flesh-driven actions ever could, because everything we do or touch is by definition infected with the same sin nature that is in us.

This can never be proven in any scientific or logically supportable way because it was set up to be done only by faith. Faith simply means to express positive volition to: (a) the notion of the existence of a God who even cares about humanity, much less every single individual ever born in time, including you, and (b) the notion that this creator-God did what Christians claim he did in becoming man and literally purchasing our freedom from sin by his own sacrifice and suffering.

What was his "suffering"?

Not the Romans flogging him and smashing every facial bone of his human form. Not really. Not the hanging on the cross from nails driven through his wrists and ankles. Not the psychological torture his own people, the Jews heaped upon him by calling him names and ridiculing him and giving him up to the hated Roman overlord authorities. No. Not that.

His suffering came in a different form, but to understand it, you have to "accept" (or momentarily assume the truth of, for the sake of our argument here) of a few precepts:

a. You have to accept that Jesus Christ was both fully man and fully God (not a "demigod").

b. You have to accept that his birth to a virgin without a human father enabled him to be born in human form, but without the genetic sin nature that is passed down from generation to generation by the act of human conception (i.e., that it is passed down by man, not by woman (so much for the notion that Christianity is "sexist" and values man "over" women).

c. You have to accept that the human Christ was able to live a life that was totally free from both personal sin and the inherited sin nature, and that he (as "the Son") was therefore at all times "with" or one with God, the Father every moment of his life.

Once you accept these premises (only for argument's sake, of course), you can now understand the nature of his true suffering, at least within this context.

According to the biblical gospels, there was a three-hour time span when Jesus hung upon that cross, when the sun was blotted out and there was total darkness. That darkness was pierced by an inhuman shrieking of an agony that no man or woman has ever felt before that moment, and will ever fell thereafter as long as human beings exist. It was the shrieking in utter desperation of a man who had never known a moment in time when he was not also identical "with God" who had suddenly not only lost that status, but who was suddenly immersed in every single sin ever committed in human existence - past, present, and future - as our collective sins were poured into and through his body while he was utterly separated from God.

It was then when he screamed, at the top of his considerable lung and voice-box capacity: "Eli, Eli! Lams shabbachtani??!!" ("My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?")

His shrieking signifies (to Christians) that Jesus died two deaths on that cross: first the spiritual death of utter separation from God for the first time in his life. The second death was his physical death, when he finally expelled every last ounce of breath from his lungs and intentionally literally "expired" while hanging there (long before the Roman soldier's spear lanced his side, because when that happened, both "blood and water" came out of his wound - a physiological sign that death had already occurred hours earlier.

So: in Christian thought, God made us (and everything else), set us up with the greatest gift ever (free will), gave "us" (collectively in Adam and Eve) an opportunity to abandon him by providing an alternative belief system (Satan's) and then stepped into human affairs himself to provide us with a viable way out of that mess, if we so choose, by doing nothing more than believing him.

But that's not the end of the story. In a way, it is only the beginning.

Because, although expressing faith in God and what he did for us "saves" us from what is known as the "slave market of sin" in eternity (God does not go back on his word), it still leaves us wrestling with the problem of personal sin while we are still alive on earth (or possibly elsewhere) as human beings. But, there is even a way out of this.

We are told that by simply naming ("confessing")our (known) sins to him in the privacy of our own mind, he will forgive us those known since and cleanse us from all forgotten or not consciously recognized sins as well.

In doing so, he restores our capacity to have direct communication with him and to "live the spiritual life" he really designed for us. In that life, under the power of the third "person" (aspect) of the holy trinity, he allo3ws us to understand, put into context, and internalize (make our own by faith) the lessons we can learn (if we so desire) from the "stories" in the Bible.

I can tell you from my own personal experience that this kind of lifestyle beats anything I have ever known, read, heard of, or imagined. "Problems" that beset us and tormented us our for entire life can and do suddenly disappear into nothing, as if they never existed. Their ramifications are still there, but the "stinger" that tormented us before is suddenly gone. (I won't get into details here.)

So the point of all that is this:

1. True freedom comes from God (you cannot credit anyone or anything else with your ability to DECIDE what is best for you and your loved ones).

2. He WANTS us to be free - even from the consequences of our own personal and collective sin and sin-nature!

3. All you have to do to be free is to exercise your original gift of free will in favor of faith in him.

4. Even if you decide against him, your very ability to do so is a gift from him. That decision just has consequences (but those consequences are rather self-imposed because they are the result of our own free choice)

5. By not believing any of this, you are (theoretically) free from even those divine "consequences". Therefore the choice is truly yours. It cannot be coerced, because when it is coerced, your decision loses its validity to him.

All of this is the reason why there is such a battle going on for your mind, today.

All of the "political" and "cultural" influences you are exposed to by the so-called "world" (what we call the "establishment" is designed in one way or another to make you BELIEVE that you do not have this "free will" (or that, by exercising it, you are somehow "selfish" and not feeding into the greater good for the greater number).

If you "believe" in the "scientific" notion that you are just the sum of your brain functions and simply a product of your environment, and that free will is an illusion, you have no escape. (Interesting is that this still focuses on your BELIEF, i.e., faith. It is all about faith - one way or the other.

"Liberalism" or even "conservatism" (both forms of coercive statism) are belief systems that tell you you do not have this ability (or the right) to decide for yourself, or if you do, provide you with reasons why you should not exercise it to its fullest. (Even "conservatives" tell you there are certain thoughts or notions you should never entertain: for example that the US government had anything at all to do with 9-11. You are not allowed to question this in any shape, form, or fashion, or you risk being cast into the outer edges of conservative group-think darkness!).

Pure "voluntarism" is a great idea, but it is no more than that. it is utopian in its root because it fails to take into account the inherent fallibility of man. Controlled social experiments have shown the truth of the old adage that "power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Give a man or woman any kind of power, and he or she will figure out ways to abuse it . It's our human default programming to believe in these types of human solutions. Again: it's faith itself that is the issue.

On the Problem of Fear:

Fear is the opposite of faith in God. Fear of anything is the BELIEF that something untoward or painful could happen to you - something beyond any immediate and recognized danger.  That's why fear is such a great tool in the tool chest of our (Satan-inspired) human controllers. Everything they do to control us is based on the deliberately fear-based action-reaction-solution paradigm where any particular action is calculated to cause the desired reaction in order to garner support for a preplanned "solution." In essence, fear is also a belief. It's the conviction that something evil will befall you unless you do "X".

Unfortunately, that human tendency has been widely abused by many religions, including "Christianity" in order to gain adherents, and that is what gives "Christianity" a well-deserved bad name. It has enabled to user human controllers to use religion (and especially religious "leaders" to drive people like cattle into their clutches. Chalk that up to the human default nature. Even believers are lead astray by their own fear-demons.

It should also be clear to everyone that the desire to control others itself is nothing more than a fear reaction. People with that desire pursue their nefarious schemes because they fear a loss of (perceived) control over their lives more than death itself.

Because they have no faith in God (whom they correctly suspect of being the creator of all freedom, which they fear like nothing else for the same reason) they have to protect themselves. Freedom for the masses is their biggest threat because it directly contravenes their sick desire for control. They are, therefore, the gate keepers to their own prisons, and they keep themselves locked in tight - all the while Satan watches in perfect glee, rubbing his hands together. He likes what they do.

The problem in what the controllers do is that they are also locking us into the very same prison, all the while deceiving themselves that by doing so, they reserve certain perceived "privileges" for themselves.

So what is the root of fear?

Spiritually speaking, the root of fear is our tendency to pursue something other than our relationship with God first, and to value that pursuit (whatever it is) as more worthy than God himself.

When we do that, me are condemning ourselves to the possibility of "loss" of whatever it is we assign such a high value to. This "something" could be the most benign and beneficial-sounding thing, human, or ideal  in the world, and it would still be off the mark, because we are not made that way. We are all made to fill that emptiness we feel inside ourselves with the creator himself, not with one of his creatures.

So, the answer to fear is God. When you put him in his rightful place in your life, your fear goes away because you know you can never lose him. The only thing that can make you lose him is your own decision to value (believe) something or someone else more than God - and fortunately, you have the power to decide not to do that, just as you have the power to decide to do exactly the opposite!

The power is yours. Unconditionally.The one who gave it to you is God - unless you have a better explanation. You can call that which gave you that power something else, like ?nature" or "the universe", or whatever, but in doing so you only affirm that you have that power.

The Purpose of this Post:

The purpose of this post is not to convince you that God is real and that you had better follow him, or else! The purpose is to give you information. Ideas. Food for your decision-making machine. Maybe some ideas you haven't considered yet.

It should be clear by now, though, that what is a threat to human Liberty is not God (how could he be, if you don't believe in him and he therefore doesn't exist?) but, at the most basic and common-sense level, our tendency to believe in something that has the potential to cause us a loss of some sort.

Conversely, it should be clear that IF you believe in the Christian model of reality and human history, a firm sense of gratitude to and therefore faith in God can be the antidote to this otherwise seemingly insurmountable fear-problem. The point is that either way, the issue is faith. Your faith! Where do you put yours? In human reason? In the original goodness of mankind? In science? In the powers of your own intellect? In the greater good of the greater number?

As long as you are still subject to fear, can you be free?

(The following question is for believers in Christ, only):

If God wants us to be free, would he want you, and all of us, to live under a tyrannical government that wants to convince us of the opposite (i.e., that freedom must be sacrificed for state-provided "security")? Do preachers, pastors, ministers, priests, whatever you call them, who preach subjection to the state as "God's will" based on a lazy and incorrect interpretation of Romans 13 really preach God's word? Should you really listen to them? Should you even tolerate them to talk to you and your fellow church members at every sermon.

If you are a Christian pastor, minister, or whatever, do you still believe that preaching Romans 13 as God's commandment for you and your congregation? Should you not break out of this prison of the soul and encourage your followers to do likewise? Should you not preach LIBERTY instead, as God's will here on earth as well as in Heaven, and exhort your followers to hold their government officials accountable?

Should you not preach to them as the old fighting preachers of the American Revolution preached?

"Christianity Today" Shows What's Wrong with Crhistianity, these Days

One look at the website of "Christianity Today" shows without a doubt that Christians have lost their way. Compare this pap to reading what and how the fighting pastors of the American Revolution preached, and you can immediately see what I mean.

Just take this article written by a "coach and  a parent" who exhorts football coaches not to call their team mates "pussies" "a bunch of girls" when trying to encourage them to play better. He says everyone should reflect whether that's in line with Jesus heart for women.

If that is what makes the front page of Christianity today, you already know that fighting evil and tyranny and pushing individual Liberty is no longer on the front burner of the editors of that website, if it ever was. Getting on boys' asses for throwing like girls does not demean women the least. What a crock! It's a fact that women in general, unless specifically trained to do, suck at throwing projectiles over long distances. So what? How does that demean them? Does the accusation that men suck at giving birth demean them? Give me a break!

What should concern the editors of this PC rag is that we have a "president" in the white house who openly supports Islamist terrorists with US military weaponry paid for by US taxpayers, a "president" whose white house visitors list is topped by extremist-leaning Muslim clerics and "scholars" pushing for (and getting) Muslim Brotherhood influence.

What should concern "Christianity Today" is that this "president" is forbidding US chaplains from preaching the gospel to our servicemen while encouraging all kinds of homosexual and Muslim aberrations and while pruging our military of 200 of our top brass generals and colonewls who refuse tho shoot at Americans in case of martial law.

The way to defeat the enemy is not to water down your message so your enemies "like you better" by becoming more "acceptable" to them. What does it make you when you are "acceptable"  to your enemy? It makes you one of them. Period!

"Christianity Today" might as well call itself "Enemies of Christ, Today."

Pulpits of the American Revolution

Every red-blooded American would do well to read this:

http://www.christianheritagemins.org/articles/Preachers%20and%20Pulpits%20of%20the%20American%20Revolution.pdf

What a pale and emaciated shadow of this our current-day preachers are!

VETERANS DAY - After all of the blood our soldiers shed, why are we less and less free?

I wish there was a way to ensure that we can honor the sacrifice for Liberty our fallen soldiers made at the altar of global corporate governance - but there isn't.

All that is left to us now is to honor their sacrifice, for sacrifice they surely did, and most likely with the most sincere intention to offer themselves so that Americans could be and forever remain free. It galls me to have to say, though, that their sacrifice is marred by one big thing that is almost wholly outside of their control: the actual reason for their fighting and dying.

At no time since WWII (maybe with the lone exception of America's invasion of Grenada under Reagan) has an American soldier died in battle or sustained wounds in battle that can be said to have helped defend American freedom. Virtually all of our military engagements since then were fought under the aegis of the United Nations, and they were all against tiny nations that had no hope of defending themselves against the US onslaught - much less posing any viable threat to the United States. I will spare you the history lesson. You can research this yourself or tell me where I am wrong.

In Vietnam, US soldiers were sent in as cannon-fodder for the Vietcong Army. Insane directives forbade our soldiers from attacking any Vietcong formations unless they were shot at (and likely killed) first. Similar rules of engagement were issued in Gulf War II. Who can fight a war under these circumstances?

Our recent "wars"  entirely fell under the heading "U.N. Police Actions" and were in the vast majority of instances dictated by mega-corporate interests. It is a crying shame and a scandal of historic proportions that this (a) has occurred for this long, and (b) that Americans have consistently supported these types of actions and whitewashed them with the band-aid of "Oh, I'm just supporting our troops."

If you truly support our troops, you don't waste their lives on wars that have nothing to do with preserving American freedom. It's a nice bromide to tell yourself - but it doesn't change the fact.

If you really want to thank a Veteran, please heed this advice.

Daily Jot: "An Economic Storm of Prophetic Proportions

(Occasionally, I will reprint posts from Pastor Bill Wilson's "Daily Jot" website here. This is one of them.)

Looming: An economic storm of prophetic proportions

On October 18, 2011, the occupant of the Oval Office expressed his support for the Occupy Wall Street movement. He said, "...we understand their struggles and we are on their side." Monday, Bloomberg reported that gains on Wall Street experienced the third biggest increase "since the 1930s" after reelection of the president, and the Standard and Poor's 500 Index had increased 108% since his first election. At the same time a record 91.5 million Americans have dropped out of the workforce, leaving predictions that by the end of this president's second term, the unemployed could exceed the employed. When history records the demise of America, it will question how it could have happened in a representative government. 

But happen it may. I know you don't want to hear it. But this nation is so far from following the laws of God and His natural laws, that an economic collapse looms on the horizon and you had best prepare. The house of cards built by godless politicians since the last two years of the Bush Administration to the present will collapse. It may not be today or tomorrow or next week or next month, but it will collapse unless there is strong-armed and responsible intervention. Galatians 6:7-8 says, "Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. For he that sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

While telling his communist/anarchist inspired base that he is on their side, this president has used your hard earned tax dollars to line the pockets of Wall Street financiers to the tune of over $3 trillion through quantitative easing. This wealth transfer has falsely propped up the markets and the economy by 108% since he took office. Meanwhile, roughly 37% of the total American workforce has given up hope of having a job--about a third of the entire US population. And over half the number who have dropped out of the workplace are on welfare (47 million). Another 21 million people who do have jobs, work for the government (16% of the workforce). Soon there will be no independent workforce, no middle class.

There is only one people group that potentially has the answers to these horrors--Christians in America. I say "potentially" because in theory Christians should know the way to responsible living and governing because the Bible shows us. Yet the Bible is not preached from the pulpit in the vast majority of the Churches across America. Pastors and other hirelings have so convinced their congregations not to question them, that even people who know the truth of the gospel will not remove them. 

Folks, if ever we are to turn this nation "of the people for the people and by the people" around, it has to start in the Church. Preachers and teachers advocating apathy and self indulgence must be removed and replaced with Bible believing firebrands for such a time as this. As Christ said in Matthew 5:13, "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt have lost his savour wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men." Jesus was not self indulgent nor prosperous, but he changed the world. He didn't shrink from politics, he engaged it. He was BOTH the Lion of Judah AND the Lamb of God. And us? Are we called to be like Christ?

 

Have a Blessed and Powerful Day!

Bill Wilson
www.dailyjot.com

Don't Blame the Liberals

Q: Why do "the liberals" get away with so much these days?

A: Because "conservatives" who should know better have given up on Liberty - and therefore on God, who provides it.

Conservatives therefore have no more claim to being "on God's side" than their avowed enemies.

In fact, it is conservatives who are more to blame for Liberty's decline In America than "liberals" because nobody expects liberals to defend individual Liberty (i.e., freedom tempered with individual responsibility). Liberals are collectivists and moral relativists. We all know that.

So that leaves "conservatives" as the only hope for America - but they went AWOL a long, long time ago, busily, even frantically, sacrificing Liberty at the altar of "national security". So how are they different from liberals, beyond continuing to use references to the Constitution and to our "God-given rights" whenever liberals overstep their boundaries but never when "conservative" candidates and office holders do?

They are not.

The effect of both is the same. Freedom gets curtailed and rationed by government edict. The only differences lie in the rationalizations each flip side of the same coin uses to make its case to the public, but the EFFECT is always the same.

What is the Christian Life? (It's not the tyranny of the pulpit!)

You are powered by Jesus Christ himself, who resides inside you, but you still have your sin nature and you are subject to temptations everywhere, all of the time.

You read and study the Word of God so you can think Christ's thoughts every day in your life whenever you remember and choose to do so. You can literally switch from your sin-based human default thinking to Christ's thinking at any moment in your life, again and again if you know you have that power - and if you DECIDE to do so!

In other words, being saved by faith alone in Christ alone gives you an option. It gives you the option to "opt out" of your sin-nature determined thinking and doing and to live your life with discernment, clarity, purpose, love, and power. Not the power over others that the world so adores, but the power of the Holy Spirit who indwells you.

You now have the power to apply Biblical divine principles (problem-solving tools) in every moment of your life - but you must learn about them first. Before you can properly assimilate them by studying them, you must confess any known sins you have committed to God the Father in the privacy of your own mind so he can forgive you those as well as all of your past unknown, unrealized, and forgotten sins, as well.

That divine forgiveness cleans your slate with God. You are then filled with the Holy Spirit and you can assimilate the lessons learned from reading the Bible and allow the principles they teach to guide your Life.

All of this is only a DECISION away from you.

It does not matter what you have done, or how bad or evil or morally twisted you think you are. There is no need for walking down any church aisles and laying yourself bare before any congregation. There are no mental, emotional, or physical hoops to jump through to access this power. It is yours for the taking. God is literally aching for you to have it! After all, he came here in flesh and blood in the form of Jesus Christ (the "Son") in order to suffer on the Cross so he could take all of your past, present and future sins along with the past, present, and future sins of all of humanity (past, present, and future) away from you and have them judged in his own human body by God the "Father".

All of this is miraculous, spiritual, and divine in nature. It is not subject to empirical "proof". It does not make purely logical sense (unless you accept certain premises beforehand). It can only be accessed by Faith. Faith alone in Christ alone - and faith is ultmiately nothing more than a DECISION you make (or don't make) at some point in your life.

Once you have made that decision, you are saved. You have the mark of spiritual truth on you and you are destined for eternity in God's presence. If you decide not to appropriate and later express this faith, you have destined yourself, by your decision not to believe, for eternity in utter disconnect from God. Eternity with God is called "Heaven." Eternity without God is called "Hell." Yes, it sounds harsh - but, hey! What does it matter to you? If you don't believe, none of this makes any difference. You couldn't care less because neither heaven nor hell are real, right?

This decision is a private one. It is only between you and God, in the privacy of your own mind. Nobody needs to know you are making it. You need no one's approval, and you don't have to worry about anyone's condemnation. It is just between you and your Maker.

Here comes the big point:

It is this decision and your capacity to make it why the entire thrust of "the world" of man (the world of genetically sin-infected man) is so hell-bent (literally) to deprive you of the power of your ability to make this decision. This is the reason why anti-Liberty ideologies and religions want you to believe that (a) you don't really have that power, and (b) if they can't make you believe that, that you shouldn't be allowed to exercise it - for the "greater good of humanity."

The US Constitution, and especially the First Article of Amendment to the Bill of Rights guarantee you this right and protects it from all federal government interference. It is the foundation of all other rights you have!

The spiritual battle in which all Americans find themselves today is waged on the battlefield of the First Amendment - and the first sentence of the First Amendment deals with freedom of onscience, also known as the "freedom of religion."

You must be able to decide, for yourself, without interference from anyone or anything, whether or not to believe that God became man to take your sins upon himself so that you could be forever free!

Note that this doesn't mean you "have to" make that decision. It says you must have the POWER to make that decision. That power is yours, and it was given to you by God, who wants you to be free. Free to love him or to turn away from him. You obviously have that power even if you don't believe in him. It is unconditional. He truly is the God of Freedom.

America's 'apostors' have failed to deliver that message and to emphasize it, over and over again so that it becomes common knowledge among Americans. They have failed to point out to you that it is your absolute right and even divine duty to preserve that right and power, for yourself and for all those around you, whether they believe in Christ or don't. They have failed to exhort you to hold your political representatives accountable to you and everyone else for making sure that no laws get passed that infringe with those essential freedoms the Bill of Rights guarantees to you. 

As a result, we have a population that couldn't give a damn about those absolutely essential rights anymore. They just want what they think is theirs, they want it for free (i.e., they want somebody else to pay for it, and they want to use government's power to take it away from those who can pay for it "for the greater good of (blah, blah, blah)."

Meanwhile, these same lazy and demon-influenced apostors have taught you that you should work hard, pay "your" taxes (hint: they aren't really yours) and obey father state in all things because the Bible says your rulers are appointed by God and work for the good of you and everyone else. (Romans 13) Because of this, your government is able to confiscate your wealth and use it to finance the wholesale deprivation of the most fundamental rights God has given to you, your power to decide how to live your life in Liberty, so you can no longer make the decision for or against Him, effectively.

Let me tell you: that is decidedly not the Christian Life! Instead, the Christian Life empowers to you stand against this soft-pedaled tyranny of the pulpit. The Christian Life empowers you to see through its machinations and find (or form) your own congregation so that the gospel of Liberty can reach its intended recipients without falsification and confusion. It isn't hard to explain this to someone. You only need to know about it, first.

Now you do.

Your Tax Dollars - Paying Islamist Terrorists to Slaughter Syrian Christians

Pastors (apostors) of America, please listen:

The US government, whose actions you constantly preach to fund by quoting Romans 13 all the time, is funding Islamist terrorist cells in Syria who - apart from trying to overthrow Syria's established government - are slaughtering Syrian Christians with the help of your and your congregations tax dollars.

How do you justify that in front of yourself and in front of God Almighty?

Is the Syrian government not under the same supposedly divine protection as the US government, according to your superficial interpretation of Romans 13, at least? How does it make sense for you to preach Romans 13 as a reason for your churchgoers to obey this morbid and outrageous government while that same government abuses their financial support to pay for the slaughter of innocent Christian civilians abroad?

I would like to know the answer to that question.

Meanwhile, it might be helpful for you to review a less lazy and slavish interpretation of Romans 13 from Pastor Chuck Baldwin. 

Be Fruitful and Abort

Of course, that's not what the Bible says, but it seems to be what modern day culture is supporting.

This may seem heartless to you, but if liberals want to extinguish their own posterity, let them do it. Trying to stop them from doing so via federal legislation is unconstitutional, anyway. Only states have that power under the Constitution and Tenth Amendment.

If patriotic Christians want to save America, they had better get busy making children - and quick!

Current demographics are making a continued existence of our constitutional republic nearly impossible. The largest growing population segments are illegal immigrants from South of the Border and Muslims. What do you think this will lead to?

God First - or Else!

If I don't do it, how can I expect anyone else to do it?

So, how can I put God first in my life so that others can (hopefully) do the same, so that all the insane stupidity and downright evil that occurs daily in this country and its institutions and government can be reversed?

Does that sound naive to you?

I don't see any other effective way.

"Value" voting is out. You can't vote for values because politicians have none.

Voting, period, seems to be out (remember voting machines?)

Grass roots activism is seductive and claims an incredible amount of your time and yields very little visible result.

Bitching about things is out because it doesn't change anyone's mind.

"Changing the system from the inside" is out because the system only changes YOU, instead.

Just praying that things will get better is out, because God can't hear you if you're not doing what he wants for you.

Christians are of little help. Most of them are just following their spiritually impotent and prostrated pastors into government compliance.

Armed resistance/revolution? In the 1770's, both the people and the government of England had essentially the same weapons. Today, this is near impossible. Besides, the Founders only won with the help of God.

So - we're back to "God first!"

Pastors Betrayed America

America's pastors were once the backbone of the rebellion against tyrant King George. Now they are politically correct sickophants (no typo) who lick the boots of father state so that father state won't take their precious 501c3 tax exempt status away from them. Ergo, their "father" is no longer the Lord. They forgot the old biblical adage that you cannot serve two masters at once.

This is the reason America has progressively turned away from God, and now even those who call so loudly for a "return to Christian values" are praying at the altar of Baal while collecting tax-exempt tithes from their church members. Naturally, their church members are equally infected with this sin. Even the most "conservative" congregations routinely vote for and openly support statist tyrants who have no regard for Liberty, or for right and wrong, and who ultimately therefore, have no regard for God hiimself. "Lip service" is all they are capable off. They are quite literally sucking big government's you-know-what, and their pastors show them how to do it by example.

But we cannot blame Liberty's near-death in America on our pastors alone, for whom shall those pastors preach to if not us? WE are the ones to blame for attending their co-opted churches and supporting them financially. It is better nto to attend any church at all than to attend a church that bows to Baal. It is We who must put God first in our lives. Not convenience. Not financial success. Not "recognition" or social acceptance. Not political correctness, and most of all, not "father state", for father state is the father of lies.

What's Love Got to Do With It?

So God loves me? Big deal. That's a story for little children. What good is that to me?

Well, there is this one thing he gave me and everybody else called "Freedom." It's founded on the freedom to decide what's right or not right for me and those who are close to me. And that gift is unconditional, even if I decide not to follow him, but to follow my human default programming that I was born with, instead. Nobody can take that away from me, except for him - and he won't.

THAT, to me, shows who God really is. It shows his character, and his character is Liberty, and I appreciate that more than I could tell you. THAT's how I know he loves me. So I love him back. Simple.

Then we get into the story of Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ was God himself who became man (roughly the equivalent of you and I choosing to be born as a common slug to save all slugs!) to take my sins upon himself so they could be judged in him, not in me, and so I could be with God for eternity - if only I accept his offer. That offer, once accepted, is also unconditional. What an awesome God! Why should I not believe in him?

Was Jesus real? Is God real? No way to prove either with mathematical or scientific (or even historical) accuracy. There's enough evidence around to believe it, but no way to prove it. These are just stories - as is the story of the "big bang" and the stories ("theories") of what came before, or how life on earth sprang from an electric spark hitting the "primordial soup" and how we developed from that into first monkeys and then humans. Both stories sound pretty fantastic to me. Can't prove or disprove either one. But I am free to DECIDE to believe either one. I know what I choose - and why. I just told you why.

So here I am, loving God and looking around me, seeing the whole country going to hell. I know why it does. Too many of the people no longer believe God's story. They decided to believe the other story/stories and they started to behave accordingly. They elect leaders who reflect their convictions (or lack of any). Liberty is their ultimate target. They hate Liberty. It's troublesome! It comes from him. If we deny him, we deny Liberty - and vice versa.

I look around some more and see tons of Christians who say they love God and say they put him first, but vote the opposite way and allow people to rule them and me who hate Liberty. Those people want control. They work for the other guy, and Christians keep putting them in office. What a pisser! What happened to them?

They listen to their pastors who teach the devil's gospel: "Obey the state in all things, because God wants you to. "Give unto Cesar what is Cesar's" and things like "vote for those with a certain letter behind their name because those with the other letter behind their name are even worse." Then those with that first letter behind their name turn around and pass laws that overturn everything the Founders had built for us with God's help and blessings. Surely, we are in a mess.

How do we turn this around? How do we reconvert the Christians in this country so they can come back to God in deed (voting and acting in the public sphere), not just in word?

THAT is the challenge - for they will never admit to you, or themselves, that they have fallen far, far away from the God of Liberty, Love, and Justice..

Then there are the anti-God libertarians.

They love Liberty - but they hate God, mostly because they have observed Christians live and vote and decided they want none of that. They are judging the book of God by its cover (Christians). Can they succeed in promoting Liberty when they deny its source? Can they come to love God in spite of the Christians, just because Liberty quite obviously comes from God and they appreciate it? Is there a non"christian" way of believing in Christ and following his Word so we can all have that true Liberty again in this country?

I would really like to know.