CSN Independence Day Edition - LightWing Messages - 7/3/2022
Jesus and a House Divided
Then they brought him a demon-possessed man who was blind and mute, and Jesus healed him, so that he could both talk and see. All the people were astonished and said, “Could this be the Son of David?”
But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this fellow drives out demons.”
Jesus knew their thoughts and said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself will be ruined, and every city or household divided against itself will not stand. If Satan drives
out Satan, he is divided against himself. How then can his kingdom stand? And if I drive out demons by Beelzebul, by whom do your people drive them out? So then, they will be your judges. But, if it is by the Spirit of God that I drive out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you.
“Or again, how can anyone enter a strong man’s house and carry off his possessions unless he first ties up the strong man? Then he can plunder his house.
“Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.” Matthew 12:22-32 (New International Version)
“Now fear the Lord and serve him with all faithfulness. Throw away the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord. Then the people answered, “Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods!” Joshua 24:14-16 (NIV)
FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:
We stand on the doorstep of Independence Day on this Sunday, and the LightWing Messages for today focus on our nation in 2022. This Sunday follows in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decisions to limit expansionist and pervasive government. In recent decades, and maybe longer ago in the distant shadows of our nation’s history, the “leaders” of our nation have led us step by step farther away from the principles of the Founding.
Although a majority of Americans will celebrate Independence Day, there are many who likely give little thought to “Independence” or Freedom itself and how it fundamentally relates to them daily. To many, the freedoms enjoyed are taken for granted, and some people live from day to day with little focus upon the future with exceptions including upcoming vacations, or the saving of money for a significant impending expense (that might be a family vacation considering the cost of fuel). Yet, more and more today begin to ponder the future and consider risking more for a better world, and that is what the Declaration of Independence was all about.
LightWing Messages today offers a “double-barreled” blast of two brief articles. One message is from a local Associate pastor in California entitled “Under God,” which is the foundation for a sermon he was going to deliver in his church today. The other message is a brief article from me on those basic principles at the foundation of our Land of the Free.
Patriotic Americans, who love their freedoms, should take some of their precious time on this 2022 Independence Day to consider the deeper connection between the conditions existing at the time of the Founding and the conditions in our present time. Americans need to consider all of the precious freedoms now being attacked in such a time. The repeated abuses of the fundamental principles at the core of the basic foundational documents for the “Land of the Free” are critical. Those freedoms were given to American descendants from God – they were proclaimed in the Declaration written by Thomas Jefferson and approved by the founding generation. They not only need to be re-examined, but re-embraced if we are to stand as One Nation Under God.
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“UNDER GOD”
By Pastor George Kistler
Sunday July 3, 2022
“...one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
These words from our pledge of allegiance are deeply ingrained in our nation’s culture and to a great extent our value system even today. However, the words “under God” weren’t a part of the pledge until 1954. “In God We Trust”, our national motto, wasn’t established until 1957. What brought about these fairly recent developments, and what was the role of God and religion in our Nation’s identity prior to that time?
Within the Church, there is a widening disagreement regarding the Biblical role of Christians and Christianity in the fabric of our culture, and the amount of influence these should have upon public policy. One side decries the evils of “Christian Nationalism,” as patriotic Christians participate in what is viewed to be secular and worldly “politics.” Another side disdains the “wokeness” among churches who promote “equality” and “social justice” ideologies and movements, accusing them of unwittingly... or intentionally... inviting socialism and deconstructionism into our pews.
Within the church, where believers all profess to have a Biblical worldview, there is a great divide regarding the role of the Church in our Nation. We may all be “under God”...but we are hardly “indivisible.”
Were we ever truly a Christian Nation?
Can we still claim to be so?
How does God feel about our Nation? What were his original plans for it? Have they been accomplished? Does He have a future for us?
Is it right for Christians to be patriotic?
What is Christian Nationalism? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?
What role is God calling His people, the Christian Church, to play in our Nation and its future?
What is God calling you to do?
Pastor George Kistler delivered this special message to prepare the hearts and minds of those in the congregation to celebrate our Nation’s birthday. Pastor Kistler is Associate Pastor and Business Manager at the Home Church in Campbell, Ca.
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May we, who are called by His name, approach our Father in Heaven humbly and repent for our complacency and complicity with evil and wrongdoing. May we seek His heart of forgiveness and His mercy upon our nation. May we seek His mind and may we truly turn away from our wicked ways. May we seek to build His Kingdom and His righteousness.
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On Independence Day, ‘We the People’ Need to Declare Dependence on God
By Dennis Jamison
7/3/22
As Americans celebrate Independence Day this year, true Americans need to consider much more deeply the fruits of Freedom and how the loss of such freedoms would adversely affect them and their loved ones. The freedoms citizens have enjoyed for over two centuries have in the past 70 years (a lifetime) been taken for granted. American citizens have lived from day to day, expecting that the system of government endowed to us as a free people would not expire.
Nevertheless, citizens stand upon the precipice of losing those freedoms that more serious or sincere men and women were willing to fight to preserve.
For all the people in the United States who see the signs, the proverbial “handwriting on the wall,” it may be hard to digest, but for those without eyes to see, ignorance is bliss. While it may be understandable that most Americans would not think a Marxist revolution could not occur in the United States, we have just experienced a transformation of our nation in which criminals now run the government, and the ‘leader’ and his family have economic ties to enemy nations. Americans now witness a “sanitized,” made-for-television type of Marxist revolution on American soil from the coup against our government made to look like a political rejection of an unpopular president to the political witch hunts of patriots who were standing to speak out against a silent coup that was made to look like a legitimate election.
On this Independence Day, Americans have to seriously wonder whether the days of enjoying our freedoms won at great cost are numbered. The nation has come full circle in the past 100 years as we face today a tyrannical regime intent upon limiting our individual freedoms. Can one honestly admit that the inverted logic of the Left and the globalists contains a shred of common sense? The rewards for anarchy, chaos, and lawlessness stands in glaring opposition to those “crimes” alleged against peaceful protesting patriots who are now in prison. Observing the ‘brain -washing’ of millions within our population is literally mind-blowing. So, if mental manipulation is now the new normal, what is the cure?
From the earliest beginning of human history, when the ancient serpent manipulated the mind of Eve, as well as Adam, what would have been God’s children’s solution to reverse their straying from His guidance? From the time of Hebrew history, when the Israelites deviated from following the Ten Commandments, what was outlined by God for His children to solve their circumstances of tribulation due to their straying from His Words? From the time of Christian history, when the Christains leaders and the ‘faithful’ deviated from following Jesus’ Commandments, what had been proclaimed by Jesus for God’s children to reverse their straying from his admonishments to “go and sin no more” in his day? In this time, as our Christian nation, leaders and the ‘faithful,’ have broken their covenant with God, what had been proclaimed by Jesus for God’s children to reverse their straying from his admonishments to “go and sin no more” in his day?
In this time what has been prescribed by the words within the Old and New Testaments for God’s children to reverse their infatuation with that ancient serpent’s propaganda? A truly consistent prescription can be traced all the way back to Solomon when he erected the temple. 2 Chronicles 7:14 provided a simple process of coming back into God’s Grace. Yet, despite the prescription from thousands of years before, people do not prefer to partake of the medicine of repentance and sinning no more. And now America has become a haven of those who make Sodom and Gomorrah look like only a model for what has developed in America. It would be wise for serious Christians or people of faith to re-read Luke 17 or Matthew 11.
While in the mood for reading, serious American citizens, who want to keep our Constitutional Republic, need to re-read the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Nevertheless, secular humanists, God-denying atheists, and many lost souls truly cannot believe in the basic or fundamental premises of the Declaration of Independence, if they do not believe in God. The Declaration is essentially the nation’s covenant with God, as the nation was conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all people were created equal under God. So, we are now a divided States of America. Some believe in God and will strive to protect our God-given rights. Others do not believe in God and have accepted that their ‘rights’ come from government and have become dependent upon government.
The United States of America is at a crossroads - facing an existential crisis. No one in the God- denying realms of government, no matter how much they outwardly profess faith, will truly fight to keep the Republic because the fundamental foundation of our Constitutional Republic is the acceptance of citizens’ God-given rights. It is safe to ascertain that there was no expiration date for those God-given, inalienable rights. Inalienable means inseparable from such rights, unless God’s children willingly give them up. Our hold on to the self-evident truths has diminished, but the God-given rights have not expired. Citizens who love Independence, love the freedoms we have neglected to protect, need to form a new covenant with our Father in Heaven. On the day of reflecting upon our Independence, we certainly need to repent, but to also reassert our hold on self-evident truths, and to reaffirm our dependence upon God, and to declare we will not surrender the rights God gave to His children.
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Onward and Upward!
From Steeljaw Scribe - YouTube: “Once to Every Man and Nation” - 5/24/2008
Podcast - From Dutch Sheets Ministries: “I Must Have America” | Give Him 15: Daily Prayer with Dutch | July 1, 2022
From Ray Charles: ★ America the Beautiful ★ 2001 World Series ★
From Mike Huckabee: What July 4th is REALLY About | Monologue - 7/2/22
From The United States Air Force Academy Band with the Colorado Springs Chorale: ”My Country 'Tis of Thee” - 12/21/20
ICYMI > From My Faith Votes: Independence Day from the Old State House - for Independence
Day
From Lee Greenwood: “God Bless the U.S.A.” (featuring Lee Greenwood) - 5/25/20
From Dr. Preston Moon: Human Right of Religious Freedom #shorts - YouTube - 6/21/22
From FOX News: Ben Carson explains liberal disdain for Clarence Thomas - 6/29/22
Independence Day Tribute: "This Is My Song” Independence Day Tribute: "This Is My Song" - 7/4/201
ICYMI > From "Kim Clement official videos: KIM CLEMENT PROPHECY | SUPREME COURT, DRAIN THE SWAMP - 2/22/2014 (posted again 2019)
ICYMI >Liberty Christian Fellowship: God's Will for Rights and Liberties, with Pastor Earl Wallace - 9-17-17
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Audio Podcast - From D'Souza Media: SPIRIT OF 1776 - The D'Souza Podcast- 7/6/21
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Podcast - From Tipping Point with Jimmy Evans: The Secret of America's Future | Tipping Point | End Times Teaching - Jimmy Evans interviews Jonathan Cahn - 6/29/22
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Podcast - From Mario Murillo Ministries: Mario Murillo: Whether by Many or Few, God Makes a Way to Deliver You (1 Samuel 14:6) - 6/23/22
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Recommended Reading…
From For Kids and Country: The Sandstorm: Supreme Court Decision Advances Educational Freedom - For Kids And Country - 6/28/22
From Bannon's War Room: EXCLUSIVE: Steve Bannon Interviews the Heroic Archbishop Viganò - 6/30/22 (note: This is Steve Bannon’s interview w/ Archbishop Vigano that was mistakenly left out of the Recommended Reading section of our Thursday edition.)
Review > From Christian Headlines: 'We Only Kneel to Almighty God': Trump Pledges to Defend America's History and Ideals - Michael Foust 7/6/2020
From Washington Times w/ broadcaster Martin Di Caro: History As It Happens: Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July - 6/30/22
From Christian Headlines: Harriet Beecher Stowe and a Book That Changed the World - 7/1/22
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What affects one, can affect all!
* News From The Growing Free Union -
From The Christian Post: Faith, family and foundation: Proud to be an American this Fourth of July - 7/3/22
From The Christian Post: Just over half of US pastors plan to honor America in Fourth of July weekend services - 7/2/22
From Students for Life for America: Pro-Life Generation Gathers at 30 Capitals Across the Nation to Declare 'Life is Louder' in a Post-Roe America - 6/28/22
ICYMI > From Free States of America: About | Free States of America - June 2022
* News From Our Canadian Neighbors -
From the Toronto Sun: LIGHTING UP THE SKY: Canada Day fireworks at Ashbridges Bay
From Blaze Media: 'The absolute dumbest time to be alive': Toronto Police Service announces 'Missing Woman' described as having a 'full goatee' - 6/30/22
News From California -
From FOX News: LA police rep warns of crime increase after budget cuts: This is a 'recipe for disaster' - 7/2/22
News From Florida -
From Blaze Media: Two homeowners in same Florida city engage in shootouts with intruders on consecutive days; one suspect charged with attempted murder, another is shot dead - 7/1/22
News From Illinois - Chicago black belt takes down man who allegedly punched 7-Eleven clerk - 6/22/22
News From South Dakota -
From Christianity Daily: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem Says Mothers Will Not Be 'Prosecuted' For Abortions In State's Trigger Law, Only Doctors - 6/30/22
News From Texas -
From FOX News: Gov. Abbott: This will end with a new president - 7/2/22
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Recommended Resources - follow the links…
Excellent Election Education Resource: US 2020 Election Fraud at a Glance
Excellent Non-Partisan Election Resource: Election Integrity Project California
Excellent Constitution Education Resource: LIBERTY TREE ONLINE UNIVERSITY
Excellent Citizen-Patriot News Resource: Steve Bannon's War Room
Excellent Citizen-Patriot News Resource: From Frank Speech - the Home of Free Speech
Excellent Citizen Comprehensive Resource: David Horowitz Freedom Center
Excellent Citizen Activist Resource: Precinct Strategy: Home
Excellent Christian Homeschool Resource:
https://ed-exit.com/
Excellent Expose’ of Political Prisoners within the US: American Gulag
Excellent Guide to Protecting Families: A Guide to Protecting Your Family From the Coming Insurrection and Violence 1 ARE YOU SAFE?
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