CSN - LightWing Messages - Constitution Day - 9/17/2023
Jesus and Beelzebul
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.
“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit. You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in him, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in him. But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.”
The Sign of Jonah
Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.”
He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah. For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of a huge fish, so the Son of Man will be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. The men of Nineveh will stand up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for they repented at the preaching of Jonah, and now something greater than Jonah is here. The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, and now something greater than Solomon is here.
“When an impure spirit comes out of a person, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to the house I left.’ When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that person is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked generation.” Matthew 12:22-45 (New International Version)
Today is Constitution Day, and if one considers what has happened in the United States since the beginning of the new millennium, it is amazing that the U.S.Constitution is still standing. Over that time, America has been attacked by foreign as well as domestic enemies again and again. Last week, Americans remembered the anniversary of the 9/11 tragedies and commemorated Patriot Day to honor those brave men and women who risked their lives for the sake of others on 9/11/2001 and simply to remember the America that was. Since Americans annually celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Constitution on September 17th, these two days are essentially linked forever on the calendar. But there is a deeper significance that binds these two days of remembrance.
I offered two messages last week, as I was willing to humbly share a specific sense of where our nation has come in that period of time. My personal plight through the “valley of the shadow of death” stimulated a broader perspective of how all America may be traveling such a road at such a time as this. Today’s LightWing Messages edition features another article I am offering that regards Constitution Day. I wrote it in 2022, so there are references to that year, but the essential content is relevant.
The second message is from Dr. Richard Moss. It is an article focused on a local reality from his home state of Indiana about baseball. Though it was written some time ago, it seemed appropriate to offer it in this edition as the baseball season will be coming to a climax soon and before long the World Series will be played. But Dr. Moss is not extolling the virtues of big league, professional baseball. His is an article about more than just baseball: “...we may succeed on a local level, and, perhaps, at a state level, in certain red states. It is locally, though, where we can attend school board meetings, petition our county commissioners, and lobby our city councils.” He may be onto a cure for the common corruption plaguing our nation. It is worth the read.
Our Zoom discussion last Wednesday was lively and more fully focused on the topic and discussion was not swept off topic as it can be depending upon those participating in the call. The Zoom calls continue to be offered each Wednesday at 5pm PDT (6pm MDT; 7pm CDT; and 8pm EDT). This coming Wednesday, we hope to offer an interview with Mr. Michael Yakawich, a state elected official in Montana. He joined our call last week and agreed to join us again this week in relation to dealing with our circumstances locally. We will meet and have a discussion with this focus on Wednesday. Readers can partake in this upcoming Zoom call on Wednesday and participate (or just listen) in our discussion, by please reaching out. Readers who are interested in receiving the Zoom link to the call, are asked to please send a brief email request to this address: d.jamzon@gmail.com
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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
May God bless all of our readers and all of their loved ones. May God bless America!
May we, who are called by His name, humble ourselves and earnestly repent for our unbridled Egos and transgressions against (even those of the least among us) and receive with genuine gratitude the Mercy and loving Grace our Father in Heaven is offering us. In return, as we receive His love and guidance, may we pro-actively transform our lives, so as to truly seek His Kingdom and His righteousness.
Freedom calls the contemporary patriots, like our founding generation, to stand against and resist tyranny. Freedom calls contemporary patriots to strive with all they have to re-create a more perfect Union.
Constitution Day: Re-creating a More Perfect Union
By Dennis Jamison ——Bio and Archives--September 17, 2022
Today is the birthday of one of the most important founding documents not just in the history of the United States, but in the long history of the world. Today is the day many Americans, who still love the Republic, celebrate Constitution Day. And, each passing year in such a time as this, Americans who love the Republic must consider it amazing that the U.S.Constitution still stands despite all that has happened in the nation since the beginning of the new millennium. In just a couple of years, the fundamental "change" that Barack Obama promised to bring to America seems to be close to being fulfilled in his third term. When his star puppet condemns and punishes regular Americans as common criminals and as one Democrat official after another has stated that those Americans associated with Donald Trump or the MAGA movement were worse than the al Qaeda terrorists that attacked the nation on 9/11. If Americans do not have enough common sense to understand how twisted such posturing is, the nation had better bury Constitution Day because the idea and the ideals of a Constitutional Republic are dead.
Ben Franklin offered his prophetic message
The courageous men who signed the Constitution that became the Law of the Land may be turning over in their graves upon witnessing the eradication of the rule of law in the nation, not just at the street level with common criminals, but also at the very highest levels of our federal government through a political criminal cabal. However, such a dire turn of events in America may not have been that surprising to some. Wise Ben Franklin offered an accurate prophecy regarding his perspective on the fate of the Constitution. On Monday, September 17, 1787, on the last day of the gathering of delegates in the historical assembly at the Constitutional Convention, Ben Franklin offered his prophetic message. The delegates had bantered and deliberated on signing this document even up to that very day. Franklin was 81 years of age, and in one of his last official duties, and one of the most important, was to give the concluding remarks at the Constitutional Convention to urge the delegates to sign the document giving birth to the new nation. He was actually too weak to stand and offer his speech, so he asked James Wilson to deliver it. It is advisable to read the entire speech, but among other words, he shared these with his fellow patriots:
I confess that there are several parts of this constitution which I do not at
present approve, but I am not sure I shall never approve them: For having
lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better
information, or fuller consideration, to change opinions even on important
subjects, which I once thought right, but found to be otherwise… In these
sentiments, Sir, I agree to this constitution with all its faults, if they are such;
because I think a general Government necessary for us, and there is no form
of Government but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered,
and believe farther that this is likely to be well administered for a course of
years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it,
when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government,
being incapable of any other. I doubt too whether any other Convention we
can obtain, may be able to make a better constitution. Much of the strength
& efficiency of any government in procuring and securing happiness to the
people, depends on opinion; on the general opinion of the goodness of the
Government, as well as of the wisdom and integrity of its governors. I hope
therefore that for our own sakes as a part of the people, and for the sake
of posterity, we shall act heartily and unanimously in recommending this constitution…
and turn our future thoughts & endeavors to the means of having it well administered.
Americans cannot look at the Constitution without looking first at the Declaration of Independence
n this Constitution Day in 2022, if American citizens are honest, we could admit that old Dr. Franklin was correct in his basic assessment of how Americans would "keep" the Republic.Today, the nation is divided with regard to the value of law and order in our communities, and in the seats of power. Corruption is rampant and out of control. Today, many Americans are seriously confused about the bedrock values embedded in the founding documents of the nation. Abraham Lincoln faced a similar problem in his day, and he took the problem on – full force. He explained that Americans cannot look at the Constitution without looking first at the Declaration of Independence. Lincoln viewed the Declaration of Independence as the moral foundation for the Law of the Land.
Lincoln viewed the Declaration of Independence as more than just the announcement to the world of the Founder's intentions of separation. For Lincoln, it was the central core of the foundation upon which the U.S. Constitution could be built. Lincoln saw it as a proclamation of human rights. And, the basic rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness (virtue on a much deeper level) were expanded upon in the Bill of Rights. Yet, these rights were derived from our Creator, not given to citizens by government. These rights, according to the Founders, were not to be altered or removed from the people by government dictates.
The real quandary in 2022 is that many of those who are elected or appointed officials of our government have little regard for God, and many have no belief in God. Thus, if they do not believe in God, any concept of God-given rights evaporates in the minds of such officials. Thus, the essence of the Declaration of Independence has no meaning to those of the Administrative State. Without the Declaration, the Constitution has limited moral authority, and one must realize without any moral authority, the government only has the authority the people willingly surrender to godless administrators. And if such godless, atheistic, or agnostic administrators do not share such values, how can they protect and defend God-given rights?
How can they protect and defend the Constitution? Today is Constitution Day, and the question that needs to be asked at this point in America's history is whether those who have assumed the position of elected or appointed positions of trust, are actually still aligned with the foundational ideals. If the Constitution seems to be so easily violated at the highest levels of government, has it just become a piece of paper no longer adhered to nor obeyed by our "leaders" within the nation? If this is the case, and it certainly looks to be true, Americans who still love the Republic, need to rise up and take it upon themselves to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Freedom calls the contemporary patriots, like our founding generation, to stand against and resist tyranny. Freedom calls contemporary patriots to strive with all they have to re-create a more perfect Union.
Jasper High School Baseball – Saving the Nation Locally?
By Richard Moss MD
I joined Jasper nation on the long voyage up to Victory Field in Indianapolis, the epicenter of Indiana and of Indiana baseball, to support and applaud our young stalwarts, the Jasper Wildcats, at State, a great team from a great town with a great tradition and legacy. My family and I were among the more than one thousand fans that made the three-hour journey so that our team, the best of their year, the pride of their families, the glory of their school and community would know they were not alone. Twenty years ago, when I first settled in our little hamlet, the notion of making such an excursion to watch a high school baseball game would have been unthinkable. But no longer, for I have seen the light. Wildcat baseball is simply the best-damn baseball around.
I have had a lifelong allegiance to baseball, a function of the neighborhood, or should I say, the borough in which I grew up, for this was no ordinary place. Indeed, there, in the Bronx, giants and titans walked among us, and immortals battled, for in that place was Asgard, the center of the universe, the home of the greatest sports franchise of all time, the New York Yankees.
I had emerged over many years in the thrall of Yankee fandom, watched in awe the legends of the game, the great heroes of my youth, adorned in regal pinstripes, wielding bats as imperial scepters, punishing and dispatching would-be challengers to their throne, collecting their triumphs and trophies as predictably as the passing of the seasons and the rising of the sun. Indeed, to be a Yankee fan, it seemed, was to live in eternal light. I tracked the box scores and standings religiously, papered my walls and ceiling with images of Yankee greats, most especially, my boyhood idol, Mickey Mantle, and made regular pilgrimages on the No. 4 train to their hallowed temple, the Vatican of baseball, Yankee Stadium...
But over time, my attraction to the sport, especially the Major League version, waned, the devotion of yesterday, that majestic river of affection and reverence reduced to a trickle, barely noticeable in the stream of life’s drives and obsessions. I no longer cared much about the game, paying heed only, perhaps, in the odd chance the Yankees found themselves at play in October. No, the old pieties had withered and gone.
The reasons were, perhaps, obvious. What with the scandals, the free agentry, the galactic salaries, the steroids and strikes, the body piercings, tattoos, grills, braids, pony tails, and facial hair, the massive egos, the arrogance, fist pumping, and showboating, the questionable conduct on and off the field –why patronize a throng of tattooed, body pierced, pampered and whiney multimillionaires playing half-heartedly?
But I had found something far better: crisp, accomplished, and exhilarating baseball played by clean cut, fresh-faced, well-behaved athletes with egos in check, competing for the love of it, representing their families and communities, their school and town, and in a magnificent ball field – right here at Ruxer Field in Jasper.
It was here where the fundamentals of the game were taught and practiced, with often flawless execution: fielding, pitching, hitting, and base running, pressuring opponents, wearing down pitchers, forcing errors, taking advantage of mistakes, eking out victories or winning lopsided contests - and in all the ways available to them: on the mound, in the field, at the plate and on the base paths, bunting, stealing, moving runners over, hit and runs, walks, squeeze plays, sacrifices, base hits, and, yes, the towering drive or extra base hit. Year in, year out, our team was there: competitive, determined, bristling with talent and well-honed skill, and intent on winning. Drilled by their coach of 36 years, a throwback from a tougher (and better) era; he demanded excellence and got it, teaching his young wards, as they referred to it, the “Jasper Way.”
Our players carried themselves with dignity and grace on the field and off like they used to in the majors. They wore their pinstriped uniforms proudly, exuding confidence but not cockiness, which they kept under wraps. They were a disciplined, well-trained lot, their inspired play, their positive values and devotion to team and town, plainly evident – and all in a beautiful and grand ball field.
Now this was baseball...
It is, perhaps, in our small towns, tossed and scattered across the heartland, where we have our greatest opportunity to salvage the American republic. Here, we hold fast to the formerly mainstream verities of hearth and home, faith and family, God and country. Here, we cling to the customs and mores of a commercial republic, based on the principles of liberty, limited government, and private property rights. We uphold such quaint notions as sacrifice, dedication, and the pursuit of one’s dreams, all nurtured in an ambience steeped in the Judeo-Christian ethos, family, church, civic associations, and community.
We recoil from the sixty-year assault on our culture and civilization by the Left, and its noxious ideologies such as critical race theory, radical feminism, and transgenderism. We shudder at the horrendous damage and moral anarchy that has culminated in widespread illegitimacy, dysfunctional families, welfare dependency, drug addiction, and criminality. We are aghast at the relentless indoctrination of our youth in our entertainment, films, social media, and, especially, our schools and woke churches. Yet, there remains an appetite to stand athwart the cult-Marxist wave and preserve our way of life.
At the national level, it appears we are broken, hopelessly divided between two competing visions, but we may succeed on a local level, and, perhaps, at a state level, in certain red states. It is locally, though, where we can attend school board meetings, petition our county commissioners, and lobby our city councils.
Locally, we are best positioned to defend our beliefs, and preserve the sanctities and traditions that bind a community and a society, and allow a people to thrive and flourish. Here, we can best defend American values and Western civilization, and begin the long march through our institutions – to retake them – or create new ones. The spiritual rot is deep, the chaos profound, and surely it begins at the head, but there remain shoots of life, sprigs and seedlings of truth, beauty, and goodness across the vast expanses of the continent, and, yes, they flourish in small towns like Jasper, Indiana.
So, this New York transplant became a devoted Wildcat baseball fan. And their loss at State was as painful to me as anyone. But I know our boys will be back. They are, after all, the Jasper Wildcats, the New York Yankees of Indiana high school baseball.
Richard Moss, M.D., a board-certified surgeon, was a candidate for Congress in 2016 and 2018. He has written “A Surgeon’s Odyssey” and “Matilda’s Triumph,” available on amazon.com. Contact him at richardmossmd.com or Richard Moss, M.D. on Facebook, YouTube, Rumble, Twitter, Parler, Gab, Gettr, and Instagram.
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