CSN - LightWing - Christians as Good Samaritans? - Sunday - 12/3/2023
Good Samaritans? Or Hypocrites?
“Which of these three do you think was a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?”
The expert in the law replied, “The one who had mercy on him.”
Jesus told him, “Go and do likewise.” Luke 10:36-37 (New International Version)
A Warning against Hypocrisy
Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, and what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs.
“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after your body has been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him. Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten by God. Indeed, the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Don’t be afraid; you are worth more than many sparrows.
“I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others, the Son of Man will also acknowledge before the angels of God. But whoever disowns me before others will be disowned before the angels of God. And everyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.
“When you are brought before synagogues, rulers and authorities, do not worry about how you will defend yourselves or what you will say, for the Holy Spirit will teach you at that time what you should say.” Luke 12:1-12 (New International Version)
FOUNDER’S MESSAGE:
As the Thanksgiving holiday is in our rear view mirrors, and we are moving rapidly into the last month of 2023, there may be a sense of anxiety as we find ourselves on the threshold of 2024 and prepare to move onward and upward. Even though it is clear that we are in a time of grave darkness and despair, if we counted our many blessings over the holiday, there is a foundation to move forward with hope and confidence that the tide is turning in favor of God’s children.
These are indeed dark times and many Americans may feel great discomfort in such times – some more than others. Some remain clueless as to why America, with many blessings at one point in time, is now being plunged into darkness with so much corruption, crime, and common immorality eating away our nation like a painful cancer eats away a human being.
The Founder’s message last week was again focused upon the “Good Samaritan” because it was intended to promote the internal goodness and gratitude to flow more freely during all the Thanksgiving celebrations. However, it is important to point out that the primary message last Sunday was from a Black preacher speaking from within the confines of prison-like, systemic suppression orchestrated via established government structures of absolutist oppression of a specific race of people. Everyday that Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood up and spoke out in
defiance of such a system, he risked his life. The Solid South was antithetical to the concept of the Constitutional Republic of the United States. Yet it existed. God found a man to help end it.
In the same manner, there was a sustained effort on the part of the United States government, from the mid 1800s to the end of that century, to dominate or eliminate American Indians who just happened to inhabit the land as they had inhabited for thousands of years before the many European excursions into the “New World.” This trend represented a major reversal from the general way most European descendants interacted with the native populations in many of the early British colonies and a deviation from the official United States policy of treating the Indian Nations as separate nations. So, from Thanksgiving to the early 1800s was well over 100 years and a period of relative peace between the natives and the European descendants. That history primarily demonstrates the tendency of good neighborliness and friendship diminished and then ultimately devolved into overt persecution and outright conflict. What happened?
To understand how friendly, but cautious, relations between the European descendants and the American Indians reached the levels of blatant hatred and deadly warfare, it would require much more inquiry and explanation than could be detailed in this newsletter. It is possible, but also not likely too many people would care to spend the time to wrap their heads around it. However, the LightWing Messages can provide a framework of understanding from a more fair perspective.
Readers have learned about the lasting peace treaty between the Pilgrims (not the Puritans) and the Wampanoag Indians under Massasoit. This treaty was not readily observed by new residents to the region, who were not as religious or as sincere as the Pilgrims, and that also includes the Puritans as well. The Puritan leaders could be just as oppressive as other tyrants of old. That is not something one would read in some history books – especially Christian sources. However, a simple historical example indicating this is some reasoning for the expulsion of Roger Williams from the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the Puritans. Another would be the Salem Witch Trials. The history is there – it takes some diligent digging to find it.
The “Parable of the Good Samaritan” is important because it expresses a standard of Heaven’s measurement people can use to look at historical events from Jesus’s perspective or God’s point of view of goodness and the true way of treating fellow human beings. Today’s edition examines the perspective of another of the more famous American Indians as they expressed their sentiments or perspectives in their time. Readers need to view such testimonies from the standpoint of the beginning of relations between the Europeans and the Indians as revealed in the First Thanksgiving and what God’s intent may have been in such a beginning. As America grew it became the United States, and again God had a hand in creating the Land of the Free and He had a definite intent behind the effort.
This week’s message is from Chief Seattle, one of the main leaders of the Suquamish and Duwamish American Indian tribes in Washington state. He was a native leader who was trying to be a good neighbor to the white settlers coming into the area. His speech is an honest appraisal and the dark reality that faced his people in his time. Chief Seattle tried his best to welcome the white settlers into his area, and the city of Seattle is named after him as he was instrumental in maintaining relative peace in the area for quite some time.
In early December of last year, the LightWing Messages featured excerpts from the speech Chief Joseph delivered at Lincoln Hall in Washington, D.C. on January 14th, 1879.
CSN - LightWing Messages - Sunday - 12/4/2022
In more closely examining the plight of the Indians in the UNited States, the key takeaway question one needs to ask is whether the government of the United States always managed to follow the ideals and values enshrined in the founding documents in creating the nation where all were “created equal” and endowed by their creator with inalienable rights. Unfortunately, men who the people accepted and elected as leaders had grown less and less moral over time. The beautiful vision of the Land of the Free eroded over a period of time due to the acceptance of deception, destruction, and a deliberate promotion of death. No matter how primitive the American Indians were viewed by the European descendants, these people on the whole understood God in the natural world and had a more genuine respect for the integrity of a person’s word and a healthier view of the value of life itself.
It is truly hard to teach such history because just as with truth: “There seems to have always been those who have no use for truth or prefer variations of the truth to the cold hard truth…”
One can truly wonder whether Americans really realize the lack of morals our leaders had as the nation developed and are ashamed to examine it, or whether the general public prefers to ignore the painful past and many skeletons in our nation’s collective closet. History provides testimony to the truth. And, from the written record, it is clear: any so-called Christians who condoned or permitted the harm to their American Indian brothers, or who allowed the harm to Black brothers and sisters via segregation and discrimination, were hypocrites and not good Samaritans. These are two black eyes in the face of American ideals; yet God continued His Providence to help Americans learn the divine value of being Good Samaritans.
On another topic, I was happy with our Zoom call this past Wednesday as we delved more deeply into the topic of being one’s brothers (and sisters) keepers by being good neighbors to one another. As shared before, It is not altogether popular for many to delve into the historical records to find truth. It is much easier to dance on the surface of the truth, or embrace simplistic and popular mythology, or to pretend it is not important. Yet, historical truth can set one free!
We are grateful when our readers offer comments or check in with us on our Zoom sessions on Wednesdays. They usually discover like-minded readers on the Zoom calls. Our Zoom call this Wednesday will feature a discussion on Chief Seattle’s words in light of being good neighbors as Christians. If more readers would like to join us this coming Wednesday, they can be part of the conversation or can just listen. Readers who are not on our list already to receive the Zoom link to the call, just reach out and please send an email request to this address: d.jamzon@gmail.com We’ll honor the request and add you to our regular mailing list.
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These words are being freely offered to you – intended to shine light unto our paths, as written: “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18 - KJV
As always, we hope our readers would consider all the messages in this edition relevant or meaningful, and if readers know others who might value them as well, please consider being one of our official LightWing messengers and pass this newsletter on to those whom you feel would be able to welcome it. Or simply, please receive it yourselves. Happy Thanksgiving!
May God bless our readers and all of their loved ones. May God bless All His Children!
May we come humbly before our Heavenly Father. May we repent for our transgressions against Him and against one another. May we honestly turn away from our wickedness - even if it is just apathy or indifference to injustice, or even if it is a lack of proactivity in being good stewards of our Republic. May we renew our covenant with Heavenly Father as His children. Let us return to His plans for a Land of the Free and rebuild our Republic.
Chief Seattle's Speech”
Likely given around March 11, 1854
NOTE: Seattle's given name at birth was Sealth. Just before the Puget Sound area [Indian] tribes lost their lands through treaties, Sealth had the opportunity to speak before a gathering in the presence of Governor Isaac Ingalls Stevens… at a large outdoor gathering in Seattle. The meeting had been called by Governor Stevens to discuss the surrender or sale of native land to white settlers. David Swinson “Doc” Maynard introduced Stevens, who then briefly explained his mission… It is recorded that Sealth then rose to speak, resting his hand upon the head of the much smaller Stevens, and declaimed with great dignity for an extended period… No one alive today knows what he said; he spoke in the Lushootseed language, his words were translated into the Chinook Native trade language, and a third person translated them into English.
A young doctor present, Henry A. Smith, jotted down notes as the speech was being translated. More than 30 years later Smith's version appeared in print. It was a flowery text in which Sealth purportedly thanked the white people for their generosity, demanded that any treaty guarantee access to Native burial grounds, and made a contrast between the God of the white people and that of his own. Smith noted that he had recorded "…but a fragment of his [Sealth's] speech". – From New World Encyclopedia
"Yonder sky that has wept tears of compassion on our fathers for centuries untold, and which, to us, looks eternal, may change. Today it is fair, tomorrow it may be overcast with clouds. My words are like the stars that never set. What Seattle says, the great chief, Washington … can rely upon, with as much certainty as our pale-face brothers can rely upon the return of the seasons.
"The son [a reference to Terr. Gov. Stevens] of the White Chief says his father sends us greetings of friendship and good will. This is kind, for we know he has little need of our friendship in return, because his people are many. They are like the grass that covers the vast prairies, while my people are few, and resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
"The great, and I presume also good, white chief sends us word that he wants to buy our lands but is willing to allow us to reserve enough to live on comfortably. This indeed appears generous, for the red man no longer has rights that he need respect, and the offer may be wise, also, for we are no longer in need of a great country.
There Was A Time
"When our people covered the whole land, as the waves of a wind-ruffled sea cover its shell-paved floor. But that time has long since passed away with the greatness of tribes now almost forgotten. I will not mourn over our untimely decay, nor reproach my pale-face brothers for hastening it, for we, too, may have been somewhat to blame.
"When our young men grow angry at some real or imaginary wrong, and disfigure their faces with black paint, their hearts, also, are disfigured and turn black, and then their cruelty is relentless and knows no bounds, and our old men are not able to restrain them.
"But let us hope that hostilities between the red-man and his pale-face brothers may never return. We would have everything to lose and nothing to gain.
"True it is, that revenge, with our young braves, is considered gain, even at the cost of their own lives, but old men who stay at home in times of war, and old women, who have sons to lose, know better.
"Our great father Washington, for I presume he is now our father, as well as yours, since George [a reference to King George III, i.e., Great Britain] has moved his boundaries to the north; our great and good father, I say, sends us word by his son, who, no doubt, is a great chief among his people, that if we do as he desires, he will protect us. His brave armies will be to us a bristling wall of strength, and his great ships of war will fill our harbors so that our ancient enemies far to the northward, the Simsiams [Tsimshian] and Hydas [Haidas], will no longer frighten our women and old men. Then he will be our father and we will be his children.
But Can This Ever Be?
"Your God loves your people and hates mine; he folds his strong arms lovingly around the white man and leads him as a father leads his infant son, but he has forsaken his red children; he makes your people wax strong every day, and soon they will fill the land; while my people are ebbing away like a fast-receding tide, that will never flow again. The white man's God cannot love his red children or he would protect them. They seem to be orphans who can look nowhere for help. How then can we become brothers? How can your father become our father and bring us prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness?
"Your God seems to us to be partial. He came to the white man. We never saw Him; never even heard His voice; He gave the white man laws but He had no word for His red children whose teeming millions filled this vast continent as the stars fill the firmament. No, we are two distinct races and must remain ever so. There is little in common between us. The ashes of our ancestors are sacred and their final resting place is hallowed ground, while you wander away from the tombs of your fathers seemingly without regret.
"Your religion was written on tables of stone by the iron finger of an angry God, lest you might forget it. The red man could never remember nor comprehend it.
"Our religion is the traditions of our ancestors, the dreams of our old men, given them by the great Spirit, and the visions of our sachems, and is written in the hearts of our people.
"Your dead cease to love you and the homes of their nativity as soon as they pass the portals of the tomb. They wander far off beyond the stars, are soon forgotten, and never return. Our dead never forget the beautiful world that gave them being. They still love its winding rivers, its great mountains and its sequestered vales, and they ever yearn in tenderest affection over the lonely hearted living and often return to visit and comfort them.
"Day and night cannot dwell together. The red man has ever fled the approach of the white man, as the changing mists on the mountain side flee before the blazing morning sun.
"However, your proposition seems a just one, and I think my folks will accept it and will retire to the reservation you offer them, and we will dwell apart and in peace, for the words of the great white chief seem to be the voice of nature speaking to my people out of the thick darkness that is fast gathering around them like a dense fog floating inward from a midnight sea. "It matters but little where we pass the remainder of our days.
They Are Not Many
"The Indian's night promises to be dark. No bright star hovers above the horizon. Sad-voiced winds moan in the distance. Some grim Nemesis of our race is on the red man's trail, and wherever he goes he will still hear the sure approaching footsteps of the fell destroyer and prepare to meet his doom, as does the wounded doe that hears the approaching footsteps of the hunter. A few more moons, a few more winters, and not one of all the mighty hosts that once filled this broad land or that now roam in fragmentary bands through these vast solitudes will remain to weep over the tombs of a people once as powerful and as hopeful as your own.
"But why should we repine? Why should I murmur at the fate of my people? Tribes are made up of individuals and are no better than they. Men come and go like the waves of a sea. A tear, a tamanawus, a dirge, and they are gone from our longing eyes forever. Even the white man, whose God walked and talked with him, as friend to friend, is not exempt from the common destiny. We may be brothers after all. We shall see.
"We will ponder your proposition, and when we have decided we will tell you. But should we accept it, I here and now make this the first condition: That we will not be denied the privilege, without molestation, of visiting at will the graves of our ancestors and friends. Every part of this country is sacred to my people. Every hill-side, every valley, every plain and grove has been hallowed by some fond memory or some sad experience of my tribe.
Even The Rocks
"That seem to lie dumb as they swelter in the sun along the silent seashore in solemn grandeur thrill with memories of past events connected with the fate of my people, and the very dust under your feet responds more lovingly to our footsteps than to yours, because it is the ashes of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch, for the soil is rich with the life of our kindred.
"The sable braves, and fond mothers, and glad-hearted maidens, and the little children who lived and rejoiced here, and whose very names are now forgotten, still love these solitudes, and their deep fastnesses at eventide grow shadowy with the presence of dusky spirits. And when the last red man shall have perished from the earth and his memory among white men shall have become a myth, these shores shall swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children shall think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway or in the silence of the woods they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night, when the streets of your cities and villages shall be silent, and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled and still love this beautiful land. The white man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not altogether powerless."
Beyond leadership skills and the gift of oratory, Chief Seattle had the desire for the two vastly different cultures to coexist in peace. He both observed and played a part in the birth of a small village named after him, that has since grown into a large metropolis known for its innovation, openness, diversity and love for creation. It is a remarkable legacy for a remarkable man. Seattle was unique in its settlement in that a strong Native chief befriended the early settlers and sought to form a blended community of red and white peoples. While many influential whites attempted to keep their people separate from the native population, Sealth's friendship remained steadfast.
Onward and Upward!
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