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The sovereignty of the people

If you read or listen to any of the many  websites, podcasts and radio broadcasts from the patriot community, you will hear the expression, “sovereigns” used frequently.  The expression tends to be confusing both because governments and kings claim the term in reference to their authority over their subjects and because organized religion uses the expression as meaning the total control of God over His creation as the Sovereign Lord.   The term needs clarification for the Church (i.e., the people that are born again) and the people towards their governments.

First, the patriot community rightly understands that governments are not sovereign but the people who create their governments.  The American government was created “by the people,  for the people” (from Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address).  It is a logical conclusion that the creator is greater than the created.  Thus the people who create the government are greater than the government that was created, and the people have the sovereign rights while the government has privileges granted by the people.

The Creator, Yahweh who became Y’shua, is also the Sovereign Lord who grants us our rights.  Unlike humans, God can not take back that which He gives because all that He says and does is eternal.  Eternal means from his unchanging nature which has no beginning nor end. Therefore His Word is immutable.  So our human rights are not privileges given us from God because what He gives He can not take back (Romans 11:29). Continue reading “Sovereign Maturity” »

The Constitution replaced the Articles of Confederation

The Revolutionary War was not fought to create a federal government. The states were already sovereign. They did not want to lose their sovereignty. But they did want to increase their revenue. Independence was declared to form a confederation of the states that would have greater international clout. Just as the later federal constitution only declared the rights already possessed by Americans, the Declaration of Independence only declared the independence Americans already possessed. As soon as the Declaration of Independence was published, the 1st congress convened to ratify the Articles of Confederation. All during the Revolutionary War, Americans operated as a confederated nation, called the United States of America. The government the states agreed to join was the Confederation, not a federal government.   The fighters of the Revolutionary War did not fight to impose a central government upon the states. They fought to establish the Confederation.

Today we misunderstand the difference between a confederation and a federal government. Consider these definitions:

Confederation vs Federation

A union of states in which each member state retains some independent control over internal and external affairs. Thus, for international purposes, there are separate states, not just one state. A federation, in contrast, is a union of states in which external affairs are controlled by a unified, central government.

The Free Dictionary/Legal Dictionary

In a confederation the sovereignty of the individual states is retained, but in a federation the states are subservient to the central government.  Americans back then did not want another variation of a monarchy and realized that a federal government would be just that.  Consider what one writer of the Anti-Federalist Papers had to say about this. Continue reading “We Have the Government the Framers Intended” »

This speaks for itself. Corruption in our government is systemic.

Resistance is NOT futile!

All Christians who take the Bible seriously know that a global government  is being forced upon us all.  Regrettably, most of these same believers scoff at the idea of a conspiracy.  Yet one has to be in complete denial to think that this move towards a global government is either an accident or a natural development of mankind.  The powers that lie behind governments have successfully conditioned many into thinking that those who declare that a conspiracy is underway are either insane or such simpletons to believe that a small group of people can control the whole world.

What makes their case acceptable to so many is that they imagine a conspiracy to be run by a small band of evil villains of comic book quality.  But the people working towards a global government, and especially those who are positions of power, are not comic book villains.   They are outwardly nice people.  Indeed, they consider themselves to be good people working for the betterment of all the world, as only they are able to conceive it. Continue reading “Understanding the New World Order” »

Jurisdictionary author Dr. Frederick Graves JD and wife

It has been said by another patriot, “How can we obey the law when we do not know the law?”   When it comes to going to court most Americans are totally ignorant of both the law or the rules of court, and are routinely fleeced by the the lawyers and courts  who take advantage of that ignorance.

There are, however, lawyers of character who genuinely care about America and the people of God.  Dr. Frederick Graves is one those men.  He is a believer in Christ with a deep faith in the Lord and a lawyer with over  20 years of a case winning record.  He has a course that every American needs to take on law and the courts.   His course is called, “Jurisdictionary” and comprises of flash videos, mp3 files and pdf documents.  He gives both the very practical steps of winning a lawsuit and the basis for laws to understand why the courts exist and how to use them.  What he can not do,  and what is imperative for anyone who takes his course to learn, is give the documentation of actual laws in state and federal legislation, nor the rules of court procedure since they vary from every jurisdiction.  But he does give many reference resources to find case law and court rules.

His course provides the groundwork that is necessary to launch a study of those other matters from, and a perspective that establishes the right priority in understanding the system.  To help the reader understand his course, I am going to liberally quote his work.  He begins his program with a simple outline of the process involved in a lawsuit with a free flowchart. Continue reading “Jurisdictionary” »

What law is supreme?

Ask any Christian, or any American for that matter, what is the supreme law of our country, and the answer will invariably be the US Constitution. Wrong. It is not the supreme law. The Constitution tells us what is the supreme law:

Article VI, clause 2
This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding.

International treaties equals the the US Constitution and trumps  all state constitutions and laws.  The nation is being destroyed by this clause.  World War I had no reason for battle except that so many nations were bound by international treaties to join in the fray.  The laws in the United States are all conforming to the treaties signed by our nation by both the administrative branch and the legislative branch.  Until an amendment to the US Constitution is passed declaring all international treaties subordinate to the US Constitution, the sovereignty of America will continue to be strangled like Gulliver with the Lilliputians.

Freedom and liberty come from Christ.

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There is a radio network called “The Rule of Law” that I have been listening to recently.  One of the broadcasts on the network is a program called, “Jurisdictionary“,  which is dedicated to helping believers understand the court process and the law and God.   On a recent broadcast the host, Dr. Frederick Graves, asked the question, “What is the difference between freedom and liberty?”  Since the point of his show is to teach the difference between the law of God and the law of men, he only focused on liberty.   Liberty is the allowance of movement between boundaries.   In this case, the laws of God and our Constitution.

But freedom was not addressed.   In thinking about the two words, I realized that one word is a negative and the other is a positive.  Free means, “without”.   So a product that is free is without cost.  Or a product that is free from fat is without fat.   Liberty means, “within.”  He used the example of a prisoner who remains in prison, but has been given liberty to leave his cell to spend  time in the prison courtyard.  And of course, when he is set free he is both without the confines of the prison and is at liberty to participate in general society. Continue reading “Freedom and Liberty” »

The Boston Tea Party was an action, not a discussion

The Tea Party movement almost drew me back into political involvements again. I stopped voting after I realized that the federal agenda of dominating every aspect of American life and 16 years of Clinton and Bush had shown that it made no difference which party was in power. What got my attention to the Tea Party was the genuine grass roots source of the movement.  This was not another party run by professional politicians, but moms and dads of all faiths and backgrounds expressing their fears over the federal government’s complete disregard for the will of the people.   All America, except for about 25%, now see that the federal government has no regard for the Constitution upon which it was formed. Continue reading “Direction for the Tea Party” »

The Church needs to talk about this

The Elephant

No one seems to notice.  Or few seem to care.  It has been there for so long, it seems like it should be here, shouldn’t it?  After all, everyone uses it, so it must be the normal thing to use.  Why bring it up?  We have room.  We’ll just walk around it.

The purpose of this blog and website is to bring information to the body of Christ that will help believers truly walk in the freedom that Christ has given us all.  But sadly, we all walk in different kinds of bondage even though we have been given total freedom by the Lord.  Some forms of bondage are self imposed due to either ignorance or due to a root cause that is too deep in the heart to be understood by anyone but the Lord Himself.   Other types of bondage are forced upon us by other people and we do not have the ability to break those bonds in our own strength.   Then there are bonds that are forced upon us and have been on us so long that we forget that we are in bondage and are ignorant of the bondage.   This is the bondage I am addressing here.  This is the elephant in every American living room that is accepted and ignored as simply part of the furniture.  The elephant is the Federal Reserve banking system that is both unethical and unconstitutional that forces us to use their willfully inflationary monetary system through government decree. Continue reading “The Elephant in the Room” »

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

Ecclesiastes and the Dark Side of the Moon

Previous posts in the series:

Chapter 1/Speak to Me-Breathe

Chapter 2/On the Run

Chapter 3/Time

Chapter 5-7/The Great Gig in the Sky

Chapter 5-6/Money

Chapter 4-9/Us and Them

Chapter 1-10/Any Color You Like

Chapter 10/Brain Damage

The end of the book, “Ecclesiastes,” and the end of the album, “The Dark Side of the Moon,” brings us to the decision.  To choose life or death?  Solomon, throughout this book and Proverbs,  makes the contrast between wisdom and folly.  To choose life is wisdom.  To choose death is folly.  For my illustration I have used actor Ian McKellen who portrayed Gandalf in the movie, “The Lord of the Rings,” because wizards in the world were considered a picture of the wise men.   Wizards are portrayed as old men who have lived long lives, thus having obtained wisdom.   And the answer of  Solomon echos this view.  Choose wisdom and live a long life.

Every choice brings a consequence.  Hinduism calls it “karma kickback”.  Science calls it Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion: “for every action, there is an opposite and equal reaction.”  The Bible calls it “sowing and reaping.”  At the end of Ecclesiastes, Solomon advises his readers to take this seriously and to make good choices in one’s youth.  To “cast your bread on many waters” means to be generous and try your hand at many good endeavors.   In chapter 11 he gives a variety of word pictures illustrating that each action has a consequence.  If clouds are full, they rain;  trees remain where they fall; and procrastination because of weather brings no harvest.  The Creator is Lord over His creation and makes the final choice of what will prosper or not.  Therefore, apply your self to many good endeavors, for we do not know His choices.

Chapter 12 sums up Solomon’s point.  Good choices have to be made while we are young, for old age and the consequences of bad choices come upon us quickly.  Good choices may bring long life, but even with a good life, the infirmity of old age affects us all. He describes these infirmities with another set of word pictures.  “Sun light darkening” and “clouds cease rain” becomes a picture of death;  “keepers of the house” and “strong men bow down” picture the waning of our physical strength;  “grinders cease and are few” and “windows dim” picture teeth falling out and eyesight diminishing;  “rising at the sound of the bird” and “daughters of music brought low” picture the light sleep with the tendency of early rising along with deafness affecting the ears;  “fear of height” and “terrors in the way” picture the ease of injury in old age;  and finally, “grasshopper burden” and “desire fails” picture the diminished sex drive and inability to maintain erections in men.

Old age brings everyone face to face with death, from which there is no escape.  So Solomon reminds us that we all face God in judgment, therefore we should obtain a fear of the Lord early in life to make our way in life as successful as possible.

But not so with the main character in the “Dark Side of the Moon.”  He had no understanding of God, became overwhelmed with the world, went insane and sought a living death as relief from his suffering through a lobotomy.  The lyrics of Pink Floyd recount all that he knew would be lost to memory.  What Pink Floyd’s character does not understand is that the consequences of his choices remain, even though he loses consciousness of them.  To yield to the world system, choosing to live life in that way, is the path of death.  To believe that death will end the suffering is to deny the judgment of God that we all face and the punishment  of God upon all who have rejected Him and His Way of Life.   As Solomon said, dear reader, remember now the Creator in the days of your youth, and choose life, not death.

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Ecclesiastes Chapter 11

1    Cast your bread upon the waters,  For you will find it after many days.

2    Give a serving to seven, and also to eight,  For you do not know what evil will be on the earth.

3    If the clouds are full of rain,  They empty themselves upon the earth;  And if a tree falls to the south or the north, In the place where the tree falls, there it shall lie.

4    He who observes the wind will not sow,  And he who regards the clouds will not reap.

5    As you do not know what is the way of the wind, Or how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child, So you do not know the works of God who makes everything.

6    In the morning sow your seed,  And in the evening do not withhold your hand; For you do not know which will prosper, Either this or that, Or whether both alike will be good.

Chapter 12

1    Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth,  Before the difficult days come,  And the years draw near when you say,  “I have no pleasure in them”:

2    While the sun and the light,  The moon and the stars,  Are not darkened,  And the clouds do not return after the rain;

3    In the day when the keepers of the house tremble,  And the strong men bow down; When the grinders cease because they are few,  And those that look through the windows grow dim;

4    When the doors are shut in the streets,  And the sound of grinding is low; When one rises up at the sound of a bird, And all the daughters of music are brought low;

5    Also they are afraid of height,   And of terrors in the way;   When the almond tree blossoms,  The grasshopper is a burden,  And desire fails.  For man goes to his eternal home,  And the mourners go about the streets.

6    Remember your Creator before the silver cord is loosed,  Or the golden bowl is broken, Or the pitcher shattered at the fountain,  Or the wheel broken at the well.

7    Then the dust will return to the earth as it was,  And the spirit will return to God who gave it.

13  Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:  Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all.

14    For God will bring every work into judgment,  Including every secret thing,  Whether good or evil.

11. Eclipse
(Waters) 2:04

All that you touch
All that you see
All that you taste
All you feel.
All that you love
All that you hate
All you distrust
All you save.
All that you give
All that you deal
All that you buy,
beg, borrow or steal.
All you create
All you destroy
All that you do
All that you say.
All that you eat
And everyone you meet
All that you slight
And everyone you fight.
All that is now
All that is gone
All that’s to come
and everything under the sun is in tune
but the sun is eclipsed by the moon.

“There is no dark side of the moon really. Matter of fact it’s all dark.”

The Dark Side of the Moon is eclipse of light, which is a metaphor for knowledge.  To have a lobotomy may remove all ability to feel the pain of this world, but it does not cut out the human spirit.   Until he dies his spirit is trapped in a bodily prison that no longer participates in the creation.

The creation is not evil. The joy of life and the experiences of the senses is a gift from God to all creatures, mankind and animals.   But sin and selfishness are the driving forces of the world system that causes the pain and suffering in this world.  Life is not hard, sin and death is hard.  The more pleasurable life is, the greater the impact of tragedy when it occurs.  The natural defense of the body is to develop calluses.  The skin thickens to deaden the pain.  This happens in our spirits and conscience, too, as our hearts harden through time.

The answer is not a lobotomy. The answer is the circumcision of the heart by the cross of Jesus Christ.  God wants to help all people, and does in whatever way He can that does not violate our free wills.  But to gain His full aid in life, we must come into the covenant relationship that He offers the world through Jesus Christ.   The word covenant has its root meaning in “cutting away.”  To cut away the frontal lobe of the brain, does nothing to cut away the root cause of sin in our hearts.  The victom in the Pink Floyd drama lives senselessly in his sins and selfishness even after his lobotomy.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ is good news in deed.  Jesus promised the abundant life.  That does not mean that He changes His creation, rather, it means that He will enhance our senses to appreciate all the good in life that is always here already.  Goodness in life is by far greater than the evil of the world.  For God means Good, and He is greater than all His creation.   He has filled His creation with goodness and beauty in every facet.  The new birth enables us to see that beauty and goodness everywhere.  However, anything scrutinized under a microscope will make the miniscule seem extraordinarily large.

And this is one of the failings of the Church of Jesus Christ.  Emphasis has been placed on the evils of the world instead of the good. Jesus told Nicodemus that the world was already condemned – a condemnation that began in the garden of Eden – but He did not come to condemn the world, but to save it.  We are not called to condemn the world, and that is how the lost in the world perceive the Church.   Rather we are called to point the world to true salvation that comes through Jesus Christ.    Not prosperity.  Not deliverance from struggle.   Not to self righteousness.   But to the eye opening wonder of knowing the eternal being who created everything, and the knowledge of His wonderful ways.

The Dark Side of the Moon is only a shadow.  The sunlight always remains.  Simply move out of the shadow into the sunlight and see again.

As a final word on this series, I want to commend those incredible musicians who crafted this classic work.  The Church has an “Us and Them” mentality that makes God appear to be separated from all people outside Jesus Christ.  This diminishes the glorious goodness of our Father.  He is involved in the lives of every person in creation.  He is not in covenant with every person,  which is why the Great Commission was given, but He is in love with every person, and helps them within the limitations that sin creates.   I believe that God inspired this work of Pink Floyd.   I believe that He wants the message of disaster that life without Christ creates.    This band saw the world system clearly and understood the destructiveness of the world system.  Their album clearly documents that destructiveness.

I encourage all believers to listen to this album in its entirety again with the lens of Ecclesisastes that I have tried to focus for you here.  You can buy the CD from Amazon.com and elsewhere.   Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Syd Barrett, Nick Mason and Richard Wright I thank you for your creative genius.  This album had touched my heart decades before I ever knew the Lord.  And because of my knowledge of the Bible, I now appreciate your work even more.