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Brother Paul
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Wild B, thanks for hitting the nail on the head. Thanks for faithfully watching. The present representatives (both parties) no longer represent the people but have subtly disguised party agendas. We sincerely need to vote them all out. Vote for anyone else. The Declaration of Independence tells us it is our right and abligation to throw the bums out!
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DawnZLight
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We must always bring into our remembrance what God hath said, not what man says:
Isaiah 9:6-For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 9:7-Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this.
All men in positions of power have been placed there by Yahweh and technically, so has every other man as well (Jeremiah 10:23-O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps.) We must always remember that Jesus of Nazareth is the Lord of Lords and King of Kings to the Glory of God the Father, Amen. All the things we are witnessing in our world today are directly in line with end-time prophecy fulfillment, we are watching and doing the Lord's work while there is still work to be done. There will come a "Day" where no man will work, for the Judgment has come (Psalms 119:126-It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law).
We don't need to vex our own souls because of the evil that resides in the highest places of our governments, may the Lord correct us in this (Praise Jesus) and convict us that it is ONLY in "HIS WORD" that we place our hope, in "HIS CHRIST" that our ransom is paid in full by "HIS BLOOD" and it is by "HIS SPIRIT" that we shall live unto HIM forever. Amen.
Men are inventing sins and blasphemies against Holy God in these last days but the time will come where they shall be weighed in the scales and found wanting or not. When the Lord our God places each man before Himself for His Righteous Judgment, either that man will have Jesus of Nazareth as His Advocate, or he will not, either way, it shall be done according to the will of God. Amen.
Ecclesiastes 7:29-Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
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Sin Put Away by Christ's Sacrifice
Hebrews 9:23-27-23It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be purified with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. 24For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us: 25nor yet that he should offer himself often, as the high priest entereth into the holy place every year with blood of others; 26for then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world: but now once in the end of the world hath he appeared to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: 28so Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many; and unto them that look for him shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
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MentorsRiddle
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So unless free men and women are fully and truly represented and engaged in the process of government, we are going to lose our freedoms and the system of government handed down to us.
I believe this to be the single most important statement of this entire post.
The government is no longer afraid of its people – I believe they think us stupid and pushovers.
Slowly we are being stripped of our rights.
The federal government should never have been allowed to grow this big in the first place.
Because once people have power, they are most afraid to loose it.
And when you hand them seemingly ultimate power… imagine how afraid they would be then…. And what they would do to keep it.
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With you I rise,
In you I sleep,
kneeling down I kiss your feet,
Grace abounds upon me now,
I once was lost
but now I'm found.
The gift of God dwells within,
To this love I now give in.
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WildB
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Dangerous Disconnect
The People and Their Government
May 24, 2010
Events in the past several weeks have shown me that we are entering a critical phase in American political life. And I don't say this lightly. I've lived through many crises. I trained as a Marine lieutenant during Korea. I served at the right hand of the President during Vietnam and the Cold War. And as you know, I was a central figure during the defining political crisis of the 20th century—Watergate.
But never have I seen such a disconcerting disconnect between the American people and their leaders.
Examples of this growing distance are not hard to find. Take the new immigration law in Arizona. A recent Fox poll shows that the American public "overwhelmingly" supports the law, which makes it a misdemeanor to violate federal immigration law. Fox reports that "by a 2 to 1 margin, people say individual states should be able to implement their own immigration laws." And by a margin of 52 to 31 percent, most people want their state to pass a law similar to Arizona's.
Yet the U. S. attorney general said that he may sue Arizona—even though he admitted to not having read the law. Outraged officials in other states are trying to sever contracts with the state. And President Obama himself bashed the Arizona law with the president of Mexico standing by his side.
Now, whatever you think of the Arizona law, there is still a disconnect.
Or take health care reform. More than 60 percent of Americans opposed it, yet Congress and the administration literally rammed it down people's throats, and it is still unpopular in today's polls.
At every turn, people see a vast and growing government intruding into every area of life, passing complex, thousand-page pieces of legislation that nobody understands. Take the finance reform bill, just passed in the Senate. How is it that the largest financial reform overhaul in U.S. history simply ignores two of the proximate causes of the financial collapse: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? Why are these corporations, which are still losing money hand over fist, simply left to their own devices?
A cynic might say it's because those agencies gave big campaign contributions to all the major figures behind the reform legislation. That might be unfair. But the very appearance of this cozy relationship leads to cynicism.
No wonder voters are already throwing incumbents out of office left and right!
At root, what is happening in American life today is that we are severing the connection between what has become a ruling elite and the people. This is dangerous, because the genius of the American system of government, given to us by the founding fathers, is that the government rules only with consent of the governed.
So as Christians, we have an enormous responsibility here. Centuries of Christian thought have shaped what we know as Western liberal democracy—the rule of law, the balance of powers, inalienable rights, sphere sovereignty. The very idea of freedom itself rests on the dignity of man, which comes from the Judeo-Christian belief that he is made in the image of God.
So unless free men and women are fully and truly represented and engaged in the process of government, we are going to lose our freedoms and the system of government handed down to us.
That's why I believe the highest priority in American life today should be to re-build a public consensus for, as Abraham Lincoln famously put it, a government that is truly "of the people, by the people, and for the people."
Remember that as you vote this year.
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