Those of dark whispered voices are shrieking loudly today, directing their soulless vessels to shout opposition to the Christian rededication of our nation. They listen to the voices of betrayal telling them to shriek about “freedom of religion” as noted in the constitution, yet their arguments are twisted around the false premise that does not exist, “freedom from religion.”
Our constitution does not block the expression of religion; it blocks the favoring of one expression over another.
Freedom of religion is entirely different than freedom from religion, though both represent a moral choice.
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The largest lies ever told were that the founders of our country were not Christians. They were, their own correspondence speaks for itself.
They apply to people WITH morals, which our current lawmakers LACK!
… yes, they are lacking in such morals, but FIXING this is collectively up to We The People.
Our real problem/challenge is that far too few of We The People encourage, seek out, or even elect those candidates who understand and EMBRACE our Fundamental American Principles, that is, those as stated in our Declaration of Independence.
There is NO ONE ELSE who can fix this and that is We The People … which is way by which our FOUNDERS, those 250 years ago, intended and designed our NATION.
Now, it is up to ALL OF US … that is, IF we want to do the job.
Indeed, ivan. I have always said that we get the government we deserve and are wiling to fight for.
I would respectfully disagree as to the nature of “our real problem/challenge.”
Our real problem is that, as a people, we have turned away from God.
On October 11, 1798, John Adams wrote to the Massachusetts Militia that
“Because We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, Ambition, Revenge or Gallantry, would break the strongest Cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
When Adams used the phrase “moral and religious people,” he was referring to a people who worshipped the One True God of the Holy Bible, and who followed God’s commands (laws).
America’s founding charter, The Declaration of Independence, calls those commands The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.
That phrase came from Sir William Blackstone, the preeminent legal scholar of the 18th Century. It means God’s Law as revealed through nature (which God created) and as Divinely Revealed through God’s Holy Bible.
Here in America, too many don’t worship and obey God as He commanded us to. Too many “Christian” churches have traded God’s Biblical Law and the Gospel of Jesus Christ for the fake “woke” religions of “diversity, equity and inclusion.”
Too many have traded God’s Truth for “my truth and your truth.” Put simply, too many have traded God’s Truth for Satan’s lies.
The result has been that an unfaithful people have chosen unfaithful leaders to represent them. And that’s the problem.
The solution? It’s very simple. 2 Chronicles 7:14 says
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
There are signs that this is beginning to happen now. The challenge is, will we as a nation completely rededicate ourselves to worshipping The One True God through faith in His Son Jesus Christ.
Amen
“Our real problem is that, as a people, we have turned away from God…”
BLESSINGS on you, Bruce Gordon.
Your words guided by The HOLY SPIRIT speak Truth.
Yes, many of our lawmakers lack morals but they also lack the courage to do what is right and best for the country; they lack principles and the integrity to stand against the dark forces that are constantly advancing their own leftist, Godless agendas; they lack wisdom and the understanding of what our founding fathers had to endure to establish the great American nation that we call home today; they lack the will and resolve to preserve and protect our national sovereignty, no matter the cost or outcome.
I don’t think it’s a lack of courage. I believe their greed and arrogant worship of power move them to ignore what’s right.
I believe many are simply ideological and far left power hungry liars. Some pigs are more equal than others. Takes a moment for many indoctrinated to peel away the layers, and see.
100% WD
That’s why we are called to mentor them, tell the politician CO2 is the gas of life, explain the depth of Fraud in your States Capital, befriend them gain their confidence and train. That’s what I do.
>Freedom of religion is entirely different than freedom from religion, though both represent a moral choice.
I would say freedom of religion is the capability to make a moral choice without government coercion; freedom from religion is an amoral choice.
hi mouse 🙂 agree
I disagree. There are plenty of moral people who don’t love, obey, or serve God. AKA Karens. They’ll moralize you to death. In my vision of God’s Character religion is never coerced.
Retired Magistrate here: Our founders understood that the only way a representative republic could work would be that if those elected were of good moral character. Somewhere along the way individuals of good moral character were replaced by those who were more motivated by how much they could benefit financially rather than serving the public interest.
Unfortunately, that is where we are today. The exception of course would be President Trump who has given up so much in order to serve the country that he loves. Is President Trump a “Christian” I don’t know, but what I do know is that President Trump is the kind of person the founders had in mind to serve. Is he perfect no, none of us are, but President Trump does have the country’s best interest at heart.
Exactly Marcia. Well said.
Well said, Marcia! GOD BLESS AMERICA, LAND THAT WE LOVE!!
Spot on Marcia. Thanks for your insight.
Observing the rabid forces against him– there is no way that President Trump could be president if it were not preordained.
God’s hands are on his shoulders. 🙏
❤️🤍💙
I feel certain Trump i s a Christian. I pray for his deeper conversion though.
Sanctification can be a “messy” process, a process unique to each believer. But God!, through the Holy Spirit, cleans each of us up as we yield to him. I also pray for President Trump to have greater awareness of his words.
I thank God that his sovereign control of this world has given us President Trump at this time.
President Trump is a perfectly good Christian. He was converted under a Billy Graham Crusade in New York City years ago.
And I don’t want to hear about infidelity. King David was “a man after God’s own heart” and even he sinned with Bathsheba.
Trump is a Christian. He attended Marble Collegiate Church as a child with his patents. He was immediately drawn to Norman Vincent Peale and his teachings. He also went to the First Presbyterian Church in NY. Also, after he was shot in the ear, Trump talked about his faith deepening.
Amen a million times over!
The 60’s was a time of rot and decay in this nation that brought forth Stinking Thinking. (Max Lacudo)
Over time it fostered a liberal base that will continue until God helps us clean it up.
Adam and Eve sinned and that will “not to follow a moral standard and Christian beliefs” is now considered normal.
God sent us the right man at the right times, Trump45 and Trump47. I shudder to think how things might have gone if either Hillary and/or Kamalala had been “selected” as our president. AutoPen Biden was a disaster which we are still cleaning up after.
You wrote: “Somewhere along the way individuals of good moral character were replaced by those who were more motivated by how much they could benefit financially rather than serving the public interest.”
Emphasis added
What drives many (most) elected officials is Power and money, and/or Money and Power
we fix their salaries to ‘mean personal income’ in USA.
Just remember, throughout history God raises up Kings and deposes them as per his plans, needs, designs, and will. None has been perfect. Imho, God needed someone who could uniquely qualify on all fronts, and that seems to be the one and only Donald J. Trump. Twice, lest you forget. God is always in control, and we humans don’t have to know God’s thoughts or reasons, but those I mentioned above ought to make you go hmmm!https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f914.svg God bless President Trump and all praise and glory belongs to our one true God in Heaven! https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/271d.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/2764.svghttps://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f64f.svg Godspeed and carry on, Lord. Amen https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/17.0.2/svg/1f64f.svg
And his merry band of good men and women
God bless you Marcia for speaking truth!
1A: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof …”
Thomas Jefferson Letter To The Danbury Baptists (1802): “the First Amendment built a wall of separation between Church & State”.
There is no “wall” in the matter of religious liberty, except against government abridging our natural rights. There is only freedom, God-given freedom, which cannot be abridged.
Freedom from religion is identical to prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
The early Christians had to go underground to survive. The Christians in China must stay underground to survive. Christian Churches today in the US as elsewhere have modified their teachings to survive.
“Those of dark whispered voices are shrieking loudly today, directing their soulless vessels to shout opposition to the Christian rededication of our nation.”
I would venture to say that he vast majority of them lack basic reasoning and critical thinking skills. All they seem to do is to be able to react to some perceived injustice emotionally, without being able to express a coherent response intellectually.
Brought tears (of joy) to my eyes…..we have such truly great leaders at the helm of this nation. Thank you, God, for their courage and wisdom. And please keep them safe – they have a big job in front of them.
Indeed! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
There may be some who were shocked and disappointed in equal measures when President Trump selected Marco Rubio to serve as Secretary of State. But none more so than I.
What on earth was he doing??
Today I stand in humility to say, as I have previously, I was wrong…so wrong.
Secretary of State Rubio, I truly believe, is fulfilling God’s divine purpose for him for this moment. I saw and heard this man of deep faith in this address at peace with himself, as I have heard him before in addresses which (of course) receive no coverage.
Further, I have great faith that Almighty God was present today at this remarkable Rededication of our America from which He was removed as its Cornerstone. When two or three are gathered together in His Name…
Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn wrote long ago….
“I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat:
Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.”
We as a nation have gone through terrible, dark times, His grace absent from us it seems…we must admit that as a Republic we, too, had forgotten Him.
But today the Holy Cornerstone has been returned by proclamation of President Trump, Builder.
And Secretary Rubio, true Statesman, delivered the right, faith filled tone for the moment.
We pray a loving, forgiving, merciful Father will restore His grace for which we cry out. Amen.
Thank you most sincerely, Betsy!
Romans 1 explains in some detail what happens when people forget God. When God takes away reason and morality, people not only do evil, they approve of those who live like that.
Amen, in God we Trust!
Perhaps one of the reasons Marco is so suppotive of JD as the next prez is maybe he knows his next role may be the director general (or whatever title) of cuba and maybe even of south america. In a spiritual sense, he would directly be saving millions of lives.
Wouldn’t that be something?
Luke 15
17 “When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death! 18 I will set out and go back to my father and say to him: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. 19 I am no longer worthy to be called your son; make me like one of your hired servants.’ 20 So he got up and went to his father.
“But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.
We give You all the glory, Father!
Perhaps the most apposite parable you could have chosen, dear Gipper.
For nations as well as individuals.
His is a patience with us which is unfathomable.
Check out this site to see all they are doing to bring politicians and the government together to follow God’s lead.
https://ifapray.org/
What a wonderful site. Bookmarked.
Thank you!
Amen. Thank you Betsy. ☺️
In this life, the contemplation of supernatural reality, the action of grace in our souls, our love for our neighbour as a result of our love for God — all these are already a foretaste of heaven, a beginning that is destined to grow from day to day. We Christians cannot resign ourselves to leading a double life. Our life must be a strong and simple unity into which all our actions converge.
Christ awaits us. We are “citizens of heaven,” (Phil. 3:20) and at the same time fully fledged citizens of this earth, in the midst of difficulties, injustices and lack of understanding, but also in the midst of the joy and serenity that come from knowing that we are children of God. Let us persevere in the service of our God, and we will see the growth in numbers and in sanctity of this christian army of peace, of this co-redeeming people. Let us be contemplative souls, carrying on an unceasing dialogue with our Lord at all hours — from the first thought of the day to the last, turning our heart constantly toward our Lord Jesus Christ, going to him through our Mother, Holy Mary, and through him to the Father and the Holy Spirit.
If, in spite of everything, Jesus’ ascension into heaven leaves a certain taste of sadness in our souls, let us go to his Mother, as the Apostles did. “They returned to Jerusalem… and they prayed with one mind… together with Mary, the Mother of Jesus.” (Acts 1:12-14)
Christ is Passing By, 126 Opus Dei
Comparing the people in the Trump administration with those in the Biden administration is like comparing light to dark. In a way, that is exactly what we are doing. It was obvious by their actions the people in the Biden administration hated God, the Bible, and Christians.
…and their country, and Americans. Just a little addition to your profound statements above. Thank you.
Yes. Rededicate our nation to God. But in doing so, it is necessary to remember what Jesus said at John 14:6:
“I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”
Glory to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit; both now and ever and unto the ages of ages. Amen.
Jefferson and Madison must have been heretics.
If we did a good act merely from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? It is idle to say, as some do, that no such thing exists. We have the same evidence of the fact as of most of those we act on, to wit: their own affirmations, and their reasonings in support of them. I have observed, indeed, generally, that while in Protestant countries the defections from the Platonic Christianity of the priests is to Deism, in Catholic countries they are to Atheism. Diderot, D’Alembert, D’Holbach, Condorcet, are known to have been among the most virtuous of men. Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than love of God.”
(Thomas Jefferson)
“What influence in fact have Christian ecclesiastical establishments had on civil society? In many instances they have been upholding the thrones of political tyranny. In no instance have they been seen as the guardians of the liberties of the people Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty have found in the clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate liberty, does not need the clergy.”
(James Madison)
Deism was a prevalent practice back then.
I think “Deism” was a philosophical exercise with little impact on the people. Certainly I don’t think there is such a thing as a “practice” of Deism. Even today with “Unitarian Universalist” is that some you actually “practice” beyond expressing a belief?
When I was an atheist (or perhaps more accurately, agnostic), I used to ask myself the same question as Jefferson. I could not come up with a satisfying answer — I could just as easily been an ax murderer as a moral community leader. The meaninglessness of life without God nearly led me to end it all. If the purpose of human life were equal to the life of a housefly, just longer, what justifies it?
So whether or not Jefferson or Madison were non-believers, why are you kicking against the goads, Tim?
Exactly. Thank you for such a concise comment.
Madison and Jefferson were arguing for freedom of religion not from it. The colonists were ordered by the British crown and Virginia’s colonial government to be Anglican. Church attendance was mandatory as was taxes to the church. They were arguing against the Church of England propping up the British crown….the two were intertwined.
Hope this helps you see their position and what inspired Jefferson’s Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom enacted in 1786 in Virginia deestablishing the Church of England in Virginia.
It’s interesting to contrast Virginia with Maryland, granted to the Catholic Calverts which led to it having a significant Catholic population also leading to the passage of the “Maryland Toleration Act of 1649” and the source of Maryland’s motto as the “Free State”. Of course after the English civil wars the Calverts had to “go underground” and Catholics were to a degree suppressed in Maryland. Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the only Catholic signatory to the DoI.
Today you can see that in Annapolis, which was a major city in the colonial era, and where the Episcopal Church of St Anne’s overlooks the statehouse. Though the Carroll estate was gifted to the Redemptorist order of Catholic Priests and today I would argue St Mary’s on those grounds dominates downtown.
To answer your implied question Mr. Jefferson: One who acts “merely” from the love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to him acts from just that foundation — the love of God. The morality of an atheist is from his own self-love and self-interest — such love is not virtuous and has no moral foundation.
Almighty God bestows common grace upon His creation; so that even a God-denier can perform in His plan.
ps: to admit an agnostic position claims the Almighty has not given you adequate evidence!!
You should read the wonderful book “Dominion,” by Tom Holland.
It is a history of the beginnings of Christianity, all the way back even before the birth of Jesus. Holland’s thesis, paraphrased, is that Christianity has so influenced the world that literally everything is different because of it.
And it can’t be escaped. The Founders, whatever they believed, were living in the moral framework established by the rise of Christianity. We all are. Everyone on the planet is. The WHOLE WORLD is completely different because Jesus came and established His church on Earth. Every action, belief, and system is influenced by it.
You can run, but you can’t hide from the way Christianity changed the world.
This point cannot be made often enough.
The time of the founders was one in which Europe (the world most known to them) had come through a period since the reformation where religion was used both by rulers and clergy as a means to power, which manifested itself in near-continuous civil wars, some national in scope.
In dealing with this, Europe gradually came to an agreement that religion and the state should be unified. In England, this was realized by requiring the sovereign to be protestant, resulting in the importing of German George I, and passage of religious “test” acts requiring all government officials to profess adherence to the “Established Church”. While “dissenters” were permitted, official acts through government required at least nominal adherence.
America was an exception, in the idea that we could break from that European tradition and establish government that wasn’t tied to a specific practice of religion.
Of course the enlightenment was also a seminal period in philosophical thought which filtered into the culture. In my opinion, political philosophers of that time were overly impressed by the novelty of enlightenment thought and failed to give credit to the great pool of faith which made it possible for the enlightenment to flourish. That pool of faith, having been nurtured by the Catholic Church and fortified by the reformation was built upon the “Great Awakening” which spread across Europe and from there to the American colonies and made it possible for the American experiment.
I am so glad we have done this. I hope it is the beginning of more revival in this country, starting with the rededication of God as the cornerstone of this nation. It is clearly there in the Original Intent of the Declaration , the Constitution, and the records and writings of the founders — as well as the records of the early judiciary of this Nation
I wish Charlie Kirk were here. We need great orators, apologists, and logical people who can understand and speak the solution and direction that God gives us both individually and as a nation.
YES!
WINSTON CHURCHILL: “The influence of Islam paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world.”
“Freedom of religion is entirely different than freedom from religion, though both represent a moral choice,” very profound and very true; admittedly, took me a long time to understand it.
This is a great speech by Tulsi Gabbard. Considering the fact that she is Hindu makes this even more special.
From me in the uk wonderful and uplifting from Rubio.
🎯 100% !
His Light Shall Shine Upon us.
Amen
There is an open door to horror constructed by the First Amendment and I am uncertain of how to lock it. Although several odd-ball sprouts of worship appear here and there none of those compare to the invasive and tyrannical evil that is islam.
What manner of obstruction can be put in place to prevent the contagion of moslems and their fervent insistence on the destruction of the West? There is no compromise, there is no peaceful existence, and there is no evidence of their abatement. Proclaiming the practice of islam as a subversion will run into a wall of lawyerly opposition and a lefty-led “march for peace”. Banning moslems from office will do the same, although both methods are agreeable to anyone making even a thin study of their goals and methods of domination.
It is a puzzle. And before some soft-palmed ersatz diplomats John McCain the subject, braying about “reaching across to our friends” or “diversity is our strength” (God please no) how about having a peek at what was Great Britain and tell me allll about it, m’kay? The ideologs promoting islam are an invading army wherever they go; there is no interest in integration and no goal but having YOUR asses in the air five times a day.
Read their book and study their tactics, just like Patton did with the Wehrmacht. Someone tell me how the invasion can be stopped.
History’s lessons are lost except to her victims.
“Someone tell me how the invasion can be stopped.”
We fight with the devil each day.
Only God can defeat him.
Sharia is incompatible with the US Constitution. Full stop.
That’s how the door is closed.
Therefore, we must not invite them to live and breed, here.
That is the only possible conclusion I can see pursuing.
We have laws in place in this country. Sharia violates every one of them. Islam is not a religion, it’s a violent, evil, heathen cult straight from hell. Treat it as such!
Sorry, but I don’t think Christianity is so weak that it is threatened by Islam.
Great Britain, France, Spain, Lebanon, The Whole of Indonesia would love to discuss that topic.
That’s their problem, they sat around and talked about it and didn’t do anything to stop it.
God tells us often what the consequences are in rejecting Him. Romans 1:28-32 aptly describe the current actions of so many people defying God. The consequences for them, now and forever, are unfathomable.
Rom 1:28 -32
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
Somewhere we failed to teach our children God’s Word. It was taken out of the schools and our homes. A person can choose God without any teaching of His word in early life, but it’s not the normal path.
These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you rise up.” Deut 6:6-7
There’s a lot of posters, readers on this board that are in my age bracket.
I was born in 1956. I will be 70 in June. Anyone that was born in 1955, or prior to
that had the strong possibility of having prayer uttered in their school. Those of
us that entered 1st grade in 1962 didn’t, as has every kindergarden or first grade
student in public school since then.
We have been without prayer ( or basic allowance of anything remotely Christian)
in public schools for SIXTY FOUR YEARS NOW!. Most people that can recall when
it was routine are now knocking up against, or into their eighties.
Some of us can’t remember having anything related to prayer in our schools.
I can remember Kennedy being shot, but I can’t remember any teacher in my
school asking anyone to pray for his widow or children. Or for the astronauts
we saw orbit in space, or for RFKs family, or the safety of the kids that they
saw die in Vietnam after graduation. A close 6th grade friend’s family literally
disintegrated after they lost their son in Nam after graduation. He was never
entirely right after that, either. As it happened on his 12th birthday. And no
one said anything about praying for the Jordan family, and his little brother.
Because the Supreme Court had ruled that prayer in school was evil. And
many started turning their back on religion afterwards. If the Top Court
of the Land says something is wrong, by ( can’t say his name) God, they
must know something we don’t.
Final thought. Remember Phil Donahue? The talk show host who used
to be a big thing prior to Oprah? He got his start on a local station in my
home town, Dayton. And, then he got syndicated, and moved finally to
Chicago and went national. Anyone else remember what put Phil
Donahue on the map? I sure do.
His first guest, back in Dayton. Madelyn Murray O’Hair.
I’m closer to President Trump’s age so I remember all you say – except the reference to Madelyn Murray O’Hair. Wondering what ever happened to her, I scrolled her Wiki page (my bad) looking for how her life ended.This stood out:
One son became a Christin, a minister and she disowned him. Then this,
“Federal agents for the FBI and the IRS, along with local police, concluded that Waters and his accomplices (Gary Paul Karr and Danny Fry) had kidnapped all three Murray/O’Hair family members, forced them to withdraw the missing funds, gone on several shopping sprees with their money and credit cards, and killed and dismembered all three.”
God will not be mocked. And, assuming O’Hair never repented, she now resides separated from God for all eternity. Hell is vividly descriped in Revelation. What I always rest on in the horrendous damage she did to USA is that God is sovereign. God doesn’t cause evil, but He allows it for His good purposes. All these people who reject God do it by choice. You, me and those who remember the post-WWII-USA days have a breaking heart. I think President Trump’s heart is broken, too, which is the basic reason for his sacrifice and endless hard work to make America great again. Time is short. It’s a spiritual battle. God’s justice was served with O’Hair and all the others like her. I do not question God’s justice.
Tulsi Gabbard gave a message of faith in one God, which sounded like a powerful message until one asks some questions. There was no mention that she was speaking of the triune God, “the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Further a Constitution is worthless if the leaders of a country do not uphold it.
The Preamble to the Irish Constitution declares:
In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity,
from Whom is all authority
and to Whom, as our final end,
all actions both of men and States must be referred . . .
Despite this many if not most Irish politicians and leaders do not believe these words and their actions confirm this.
Paul declared to the philosophers and listening crowd in Athens:
“The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man (Jesus Christ) whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.” (Acts 17:30-31)
I pray that this message be loudly sounded out across the US during the 250th celebrations.
This was a powerful message. A number of Scripture verses were quoted or referred to as were the words Gospel and Christian but there was one word missing, “Jesus.” This is a truly disturbing omission.
Paul declared in Romans 10:9 “if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.”
And again in Philippians 2:9-11 “God has highly exalted him (Jesus) and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
The early Christians spoke of the Lord Jesus Christ and declared that Jesus is Lord. By these words they were making an astonishing claim: Jesus is God. This claim contributed to their severe persecution. There are many who have and still believe that Jesus was the greatest teacher ever. That included people like Mahatma Gandhi but like Gandhi they refuse to believe Jesus is God. The wonderful compassion of Jesus and teaching in the Sermon on the Mount is worthless if the teaching of Jesus about his identity in all four Gospels is rejected. Without the centrality of Jesus and his resurrection all the fine sounding words of Marco Rubio are worthless.
There is a popular view that Christians, Jews, and Muslims worship the same God. Some years ago a book considered Abraham to be the father of all three of these religions. The author, when asked if Abraham really existed, said he didn’t know if the biblical Abraham was real, but he was sure that his Abraham was. I think the term, Abraham Accords, is based on this deceptive idea.
Jesus claims that those who do not honor him as God do not honor the Father. Trump’s reading of the Lord’s blessing and warning when Solomons temple was built is instructive. Why were both that temple and the second one destroyed? Why would God allow a mosque to stand where his temple was in the city that rejected the Messiah?
There is only one Abrahamic faith as Paul wrote, “it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham,” and he is writing about faith in Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
The Philippian’s verse mentioned is my favorite. Magnificent.
Freedom of religion ties directly to those inalienable right outlined in our founding docs, rights giving from God, and not a King or gov’t. God Bless the USA.
Tulsi Gabbards message is the best.
Blessed are those who know his voice. Blessed are those who can’t see but know when they hear his sermon. May the Lord bless this country and all people of faith. May the Lord soften hearts hard as marble for a greater purpose.
We are blessed by God whose messengers created our Earthly Trinity: Christianity, Capitalism and Constitutional Democratic Republic. Created for moral people by moral people. Not one of our foundational institutions can succeed without leadership of Public Morality, guided by a Personal Morality, born only of individual religious faith.
In God We Trust!
Marco Rubio knows what’s what. He is one of the most clearest speakers.
I got chills of course.
This is very important.
Semantics is a ruination. the difference between of and from. The difference between Health Care & Health Coverage.
There are countless MIS-understandings like this and it changes everything.
“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first… because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”
GOD Bless
Ecclesiastes 5
“God Is Running Toward America” | Powerful Prophetic Service & National Rededication–Pastor Hank Kunneman:
Trump’s Call to Rededicate America Back to God Changes Everything – Donna Rigney Sagan – YouTube:
Acts 2
14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven, raised his voice and addressed the crowd: “Fellow Jews and all of you who live in Jerusalem, let me explain this to you; listen carefully to what I say. 15 These people are not drunk, as you suppose. It’s only nine in the morning! 16 No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
Hallelujah!
Rest in the Vine: Rededicate 250
“”Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.””
This has been so misinterpreted, no one seems to know what it means anymore.
First off, it states that Congress shall make no law respecting “establishment” of a religion. That’s because historically, many American colonists had fled countries that HAD made laws making one religion the ONLY religion allowed in their country.
Second, it states that there will be no law prohibiting the “free exercise” of a person’s religion. That’s because many people had fled countries where they were PERSECUTED, sometimes literally to death, for exercising a religion that wasn’t the “approved by government” one.
That’s it. That’s ALL there is. Congress making a state religion is prohibited. Congress making laws against the practice of any religion is prohibited.
If EVERY government official wants to go on television and declare Jesus Christ is King, that is their RIGHT as an American citizen, as it is the RIGHT of every American. Also, if they want to be Buddhist, they can. We can practice any religion we choose in our great country.
What the Founding Fathers were not dealing with was the foreign invasion of radical Islam. Since they had no reason to, they didn’t address the problem, which is that Islam is a system of government, law, and oppression hidden inside a religious wrapper. That’s what we have to find a way to deal with today.
I think you need to separate Political Islam such as Muslim Brotherhood from Islam in general. I don’t think your assertion about the nature of Islam is correct.
Excellent article! Thank you, Sundance!
Amen!
“Those of dark whispered voices are shrieking loudly today, directing their soulless vessels to shout opposition to the Christian rededication of our nation.”
The “shriekers” Sundance speaks of are liars who worship at the feet of the father of lies-Satan.
It is historical fact that the United States of America was founded by Christians as a Christian nation. The Declaration of Independence clearly states those self evident Christian truths.
At the end of the Declaration the Founders openly appealed to “the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude” of their intentions.
The Supreme Judge is Jesus Christ, Son of God, Son of Man, God in human flesh, and Savior to all who accept His Lordship through faith in His death and resurrection.
I pray that the Rededication worship service of the past weekend causes many millions of people across the country and around the world to give their lives to Jesus.
Love it. TRUTH.
Oil Rebounds After Iranian Denial: Will ‘Under No Circumstances’ Give Up Nuclear Program To End War
White House: Iran has “days not weeks” to show progress.
https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/oil-slides-iran-says-us-agreed-lift-oil-sanctions-during-negotiation-period
I love Marco Rubio!
But specifically at the Federal level, to avoid impinging on the rights of the individual States, which already had their own, official state religions, correct?
It is absolutely excellent that the real Leaders of America are helping to guide the nation back to God. This is a major, benevolent effort that has been missing for several decades. God bless and protect those dedicated Leaders of America!!
Penitence, if only the young knew that word, were taught that word.