CPR Lifeline Advisory - Independence Day Edition
7/4/2025
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
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Last Sunday, the LightWing Messages featured a message about the planet being for God and His creations. For most of human history, the planet has been dominated by tyrants, which may help people understand the intent and extent of how Satan extends his dominion. Maria Tonello,
who authored that message, seems to me to be making the point that this planet was created by God, and for His children and all of His creation. Our Founders were able to at least take back this portion of the Earth from Satan’s dominion to some extent. They created a Land of the Free where people could be free to worship God without fear of government reprisal from tyrannical regimes. The tide has shifted in America to one trending towards soft tyranny, and many people with perceptive insight can see or sense this trend. However, all things will pass, and that trend or downward spiral is now receding and Americans are beginning to love our country again. It seems like such a remote concept after emerging from the realms of the political swamps.
Honoring our founding as the Land of the Free is no longer being scoffed at in as many realms across the nation. The remembrance of America’s Birthday, is being received – not just as an event focusing on family, friends, food, and fireworks. The celebration, rightfully so, is becoming more focused on the ‘why’ of the nation being born . As the collective conscience becomes more why oriented, more people may begin to see the day of celebration as a way of looking at the notion of a brand new type of nation being conceived – conceived in Liberty as Lincoln reminded us in his Gettysburg Address.
Today is the day the citizens of the United States, or the ‘true’ Americans, will celebrate this birthday, but not ignore America as a nation dedicated to Freedom as opposed to a nation dedicated to the occupation of another nation’s resources or territory, or as opposed to being dedicated to the domination of the people in a particular place in the world. America may not be a perfect nation, but that is because we the people are not perfect. Our government expresses the will of the people, and if people are apathetic, indifferent, or manipulative, or trending toward tyrannical exploits, we are the ones who need to re-examine what part we have played in that.
On this Independence Day, it is important to do a gut check and look more closely inside our mental backpack of beliefs, but more importantly, to look into the mirror of our souls to see if we truly care about Freedom itself, or if we truly love our country, or at least the ideals of what our nation is supposed to adhere to in the community of nations. I sincerely believe that it would be prudent for citizens, in the midst of the festivities this year, to pause and re-consider their view of the value of Freedom, and how much they would want to preserve it for their kids and grandkids, if not for each other.
Our Heavenly Father inspired the founding generation to create a new nation, conceived in Liberty. So, toward this end, on such an auspicious day, we offer two messages to honor the United States on her birthday. One of them I wrote for Independence Day in 2017, during Donald Trump’s first year as POTUS, but that seems like such a long time ago now. The other
Is a very simple, but potent message that should be revived in such a time as this; it is “The American’s Creed” written by Tyler Page. The impetus for Page’s ‘Creed’ came from Henry S. Chapin, the New York Commissioner of Education at the time, who initiated a national contest for the public to write a brief paragraph that could represent what the U.S. citizen’s believed in to make them true American citizens. Chapin’s contest was supported by then Baltimore mayor John Preston who offered a $1000 grand prize, and awarded it to Page when he won. For sure, that was a long, long time ago.
Ideals of the Declaration of Independence Still Challenge the World
By Dennis Jamison July 4, 2017
The Declaration of Independence was for the World!
Although a majority of Americans celebrate Independence Day, there are many who give little thought to Independence and how it fundamentally relates to them on a daily basis. 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 could be a wonderful family vacation). Yet, few today would ponder the future and consider risking their lives for a better world, but that is what the Declaration of Independence was all about.
Brave and brilliant men were willing to pledge “... their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor… ” to fight for the cause of Independence to create a nation of freedom. It was the appeal to the concept of self-government and freedom from tyrants. And certainly, the consequences of the Declaration’s call to action altered the course of human history; the world had never witnessed a revolution like common colonists fighting against tyranny to create a Land of the Free.
The words of the Declaration of Independence represented what these men would agree upon regarding declaring Independence from the Crown and creating a new nation based upon the principles of freedom. And they were under no illusions that it would not involve great cost.
The words of the Declaration were also a powerful explanation to the rest of the world of why freedom itself was so important, and without Thomas Jefferson’s deep philosophical framework of ideals embedded within the Declaration of Independence, there may never have been a nation that valued the pursuit of freedom. Yet, Leftists and Progressives are questioning the value of the beginning of the Declaration, and are attempting to eradicate the “self-evident truths” that the Founders could clearly see.
These self-evident truths of the Founders are the underpinnings of the Land of the Free, but Jefferson’s words formed a premise for all people to declare their alliance with the belief that all men were created equal and that all were endowed by the Creator with the unalienable rights of Life, Liberty and freedom in the Pursuit of Happiness. Such ideals had been around for some time, but they were woven into the very fabric of the Declaration of Independence, and it was more than a philosophical treatise.
Indeed, specific ideals embedded within the Declaration of Independence served as a powerful statement to the rest of the world why freedom itself was essential:
“... to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them…”
Yet, Americans are the ones who have been most challenged over the centuries to live up to these ideals; they have sparked civil disruption and outright warfare within the United States. Such ideals are a challenge to the entire world, and to all people to abide by in their nations. Certainly, the American War for Independence changed the world with respect to the expectations of self-government as opposed to tyranny. Thomas Paine’s Common Sense may have expressed this sentiment best: "We have it in our power to begin the world all over again. A situation similar to the present, hath not happened since the days of Noah until now. The birth-day of a new world is at hand, and a race of men perhaps as numerous as all Europe contains, are to receive their portion of freedom…"
Such noble sentiments from Paine stirred the minds and hearts of the American public, and gave the leaders in the Continental Congress a playbook for the course of action that needed to be pursued to plot a course towards independence; especially it was Paine’s call for a document to express to the world America’s ideals for freedom. And the Declaration was written, and not just for Americans, or a bunch of old white guys; it was for all mankind.
The words of the Declaration of Independence summoned all people of conscience to fight for the noble ideals linked to freedom. Yet, many today confuse conception with accomplishment, mistake ideals to equal fulfillment. While the fundamental ideals inscribed in the Declaration had existed since ancient times, they had remained only ideals. By creating a nation dedicated to such ideals, the ideals needed to be implemented by future generations who would value those same ideals. Thomas Jefferson had skillfully woven into the core of the Declaration a manifesto for the freedom of all people, aligning with what Thomas Paine had claimed in Common Sense: that the cause of America was the cause of the world!
Beyond mere belief in previously postulated ideas, the Declaration of Independence created an intellectual or philosophical framework of ideals that sparked and sustained the American colonists’ fight for freedom and the ideological framework for a nation based upon principles of freedom. Initially, it took many years of sacrifice and suffering before genuine independence was accomplished through the Paris Peace Treaty on September 3, 1783. Nevertheless, the high ideals of the Declaration of Independence were such noble ideals that they were beyond the reach of most people, not only in the last quarter of the 18th century but throughout America’s history.
In fact, properly viewed, the history of the United States is a history of a people fighting to implement such incredibly high ideals. The first great confrontation over these ideals in the United States took place in the middle of the 19th century through the horrendous warfare in the American Civil War. This struggle was centered upon the single concept of whether “all” men were created equal. Those in the Deep South, who eventually attempted to destroy the U.S. Constitution, had been informed by their ancestors that Jefferson had not meant “all” men when they had signed the Declaration of Independence—he only meant “all free men.”
The second great confrontation over these ideals in the United States occurred in the middle of the 20th century through the political and social unrest of the Civil Rights Movement. This struggle was centered upon the single concept of what “equal” truly represented within the specific ideal that all were “created equal.” After slavery had been abolished in the United States through the Thirteenth Amendment, there remained the residue from resentment and hatred in the Southern governmental establishments that legalized the restriction and outright prevention of citizens’ freedoms and civil liberties. This became the reason for the Civil Rights Movement, and the rise of the central personage of the struggle: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Dr. King was fighting against a White power structure whose leaders had inherited attitudes of racial prejudice from their slave-owning ancestors who had established a system of political thought and instilled an attitude of superiority that Dr. King fought against in the laws of the “reconstructed” South. He fought against the inability to speak up or speak out; he fought for the freedom to voice one’s concerns and to vote in a South that had been under the mental and physical control of the aristocratic, power-hungry Democrat politicians of the old South since the days of Andrew Jackson.
Today, the existence of True Freedom still depends upon the people with common sense who cherish it.
The third great confrontation over the ideals in the one sentence of the Declaration of independence is taking place right now in the United States. At the beginning of the 21st century, there is a struggle centered upon the integral concept of all people being endowed by God with unalienable rights: Life, Liberty, and the freedom to Pursue Happiness. This struggle has been initiated through political and social unrest brought about by the thought originating with the “Progressive” Left. Under the guise of eliminating racism, prejudice, and discrimination, the Democrats, the spearhead of the “Progressives,” are once again attempting to manipulate people’s lives through control and dominion under a legal construction of their own making.
Almost a half-century after Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated, a question that needs to be asked is whether genuine leadership exists within the contemporary American political spectrum to help in retaining the ideals that have kept this nation strong and vibrant for over 240 years. While the Declaration of Independence formulated a framework and a premise for all people to declare their reliance upon freedom and rejection of tyranny, it remains a demand for what all human beings should expect in their lives on this planet. The Declaration of Independence is still a call to people of conscience to fight for such noble ideals. Today, the existence of True Freedom still depends upon the people with common sense who cherish it.
The American's Creed
by William Tyler Page
I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed, a democracy in a Republic, a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice, and humanity for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my duty to my country to love it, to support its Constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag, and to defend it against all enemies.
Additional History
From American Minute with Bill Federer: Independence Day - "GREATEST REVOLUTION that has ever taken place IN THE WORLD'S HISTORY"-Ronald Reagan– 7/1/24
From History.com: What Happened on July 4
From The Library of Congress: Drafting the Documents - Jefferson's "original Rough draught" of the Declaration of Independence
From History.com: Continental Congress votes for independence from Britain
From The Washington Standard: God & The Declaration Of Independence – 7/2/25
From The Washington Times: This Independence Day, remember the Founding Fathers also signed a Declaration of Dependence – 6/20/24
From Christian American Heritage: The Christian Origin of the Declaration of Independence – 6/29/24
From The Heritage Foundation: The Declaration of Independence and the American Creed
From US National Archives: July 4th - Declaration of Independence Reading Ceremony 2023
From American Minute with Bill Federer: Lincoln's Gettysburg Address: "Government OF the PEOPLE, BY the PEOPLE, FOR the PEOPLE" ... Will it "perish from the earth"? –
Coalition Connections…
Editor’s note:
The CPR group activities segment continues to shine a spotlight on member organizations, affiliates. or allies. We know new patriots are awakening each day across the nation, and as ‘necessity breeds invention,’ the CPR seeks to work with additional Christian, conservative, groups as they work to organize, mobilize, and actively respond to the current clear and present danger to our Constitutional Republic.
From Strike Force of Prayer: Pray for Peace – 2025
From Family Peace Association: Make it a summer of family growth! – 6/30/25
From Last Call Radio Show: What is a Father? Plus Our Guest Mike Kerr – 6/28/25
From Camp Constitution: Christian Camp Freed From Colorado’s Dangerous Gender Policy | campconstitution.net – 6/26/25
From Election Integrity Project®California: Land of the FREE? - Not so Fast – 6/11/25
From Every Black Life Matters: NAACP’s Lawlessness Awards and the Infantilization of Black America – 6/11/25
From Kingdom League International: Lesson 5 in the School of Tyrants – Evil Prospers When Good Men do Nothing – 5/16/25
ICYMI > From United Sovereign Americans (USA) via Blaze Media: James Madison knew anarchy looms without safeguards – 6/30/24
ICYMI > From Liberty Christian Fellowship and Pastor Earl Wallace: The Christian Responsibility To Secure Freedom – 3/24/2024
ICYMI > From Strike Force of Prayer: God Bless America – 2024
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