CSN Sunday edition - LightWing Messages for 7/11/2021
The Ten Commandments
“And God spoke all these words, saying:
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
You shall have no other gods before Me.
You shall not make for yourself a carved image—any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; you shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.
You shall not murder.
You shall not commit adultery.
You shall not steal.
You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
You shall not covet your neighbor’s house; you shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.” Exodus 20:1-17 (NKJV)
The Fulfillment of the Law
“Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Therefore anyone who sets aside one of the least of these commands and teaches others accordingly will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:10-20 ____________________________________________________________
One week after Independence Day, in the wake of our nation’s birthday, the summer months are heating up, literally and figuratively. Heat waves of varying degrees have literally set records in the western states. And, also in the western states of Arizona and California, issues around politics are heating up. The Arizona audit is moving at a steady pace despite so many different entities wanting to suppress the effort. Ask this simple question: In the realm of politics, how is it likely that individuals have spent so much money to bury the 2020 election and all attempts to expose irregularities, that there was no corruption, no illegal activities? Additionally in California, a recall of the Governor is underway with an election to be held on September 14. Even in the One-Party state California, there is an effort to return to our freedoms under the Bill of Rights and the Constitution.
Citizens are fed up with corruption and manipulation, both the mental manipulation from MSM propaganda, as well as insidious political manipulation via tampering with the system of electing supposed “public servants” to positions in government. The second question is more personal: Should concerned citizens just look the other way, pretend all is okay while the freedoms won by the blood of our ancestors are mocked, restricted, and stolen? Americans just celebrated the founding - America was created as a cooperative effort between God and our Founders. Has all that been forgotten in our pseudo-sophisticated society?
My message of light last week took a hard look at the topic of independence. My message could be summed up in the single line: “If American citizens do not hold fast to their identity, they will be swept up or die in the “Great Reset.” My intent was to light a spark within people to not simply know what is happening before our very eyes, but to take action. I explained in my message that “citizens who truly love America need to reaffirm their hold on self-evident truths. Absolute determination to hold on to our God-given rights, no matter what, is the first bold step in re-asserting our Independence and keeping our Free Republic.” The first step!
Today’s message is from MyFaithVotes. We have already provided two of a total of four articles that they have put forth on their website regarding the “Equality” Act. Last week, in the Tuesday Citizen Voice - Bulletin and in the Thursday newsletter, we featured the first two installments. Today we are offering the fourth installment because it has to deal with what the title expresses: “A Christian Response to the Equality Act.” A possible second step! We will feature the third installment in this series in next Tuesday's Bulletin. If readers have not read the other entries prior to this installment, it is possible to do so by going back to last week’s Citizen Voice, or just go to the MyFaithVotes website: https://www.myfaithvotes.org/articles/equality-act-article-1
We also are featuring several messages in our “Recommended Reading” section regarding the Equality Act from recent articles written from different sources. Additionally, we offer a video from Ben Shapiro on the essence of the Equality Act in the Video Views section. And regarding the Video Views section, please know that we have ten great videos, especially a brief video of former President Ronald Reagan entitled “One Nation Under God.” The quote from Ephesians at the very end says a great deal about what America should be, and Reagan called for a new era of renewal for all Americans. His call was a more contemporary vision of how we could transform this nation, but it is needed now in this time more than ever.
One of the video presentations is from Right Side News and it is of most of today’s CPAC in Dallas, Texas from over this weekend.
I would also like to call attention to our recent “Citizen Voice” video interviews. Last Friday, I was able to interview Pastor Artur Pawlowski. Today, we posted the link in the Video Views section.
As a reminder, “Citizen Voice” video program recordings are posted in several places on the internet. They are posted on the WCN-TV site where they are live-streamed. They are also on the Youmaker: https://www.youmaker.com/channel/30dd354d-4de8-4a79-802f-659021debbc4
and the Strike Force of Prayer site: https://strikeforceofprayer.tv/video/333/citizen-voice-with-dennis-jamison-%7C-episode-16-%7C-guest-kevin-mccarthy?channelName=CitizenVoice
In addition to all of this, we hope that you would also please check out the relevant presentations in “Around the Republic.” Remember “What affects one, affects all.”
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I want to offer a reminder that the “Message of Light” endeavor used to be a basic effort of the “David Project” that originated as a genuine inspiration from our Heavenly Father, initiated to bring Light into the dark in this time. The project developed from 2018, and as we approach our third anniversary of existence, we have formally elevated the “David Project” to the more formal “LightWing Mission,” my personal ministry, which I had announced in previous messages.
These messages are freely offered and sent to you as part of the “LightWing Mission.” Please receive today’s messages as a gift from those who care. They are only words being offered, freely, some contain a deep message of faith, or a much deeper expression of heart that readers can hopefully receive into their lives. As it has been written: “Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.” Proverbs 29:18 - KJV
May we humble ourselves, seek God’s face, but especially seek His Heart, His Mind, and truly seek His Will for us in this time. May we determine to become better stewards of His Garden, and may we truly take greater responsibility to re-establish His dominion - seeking to reclaim “One Nation Under God.”
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A Christian Response to the Equality Act
(This is the fourth in a series of four articles on the Equality Act)
My Faith Votes
JULY 6, 2021
The Equality Act has been called “the most invasive threat to religious liberty ever proposed in
America.” It would amend the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 by forbidding discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity.
In addition, this is crucial: the Act forbids appeal to the 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) on the part of individuals or organizations. Here’s what this means in practice:
Faith-based hospitals and insurers could be forced to provide gender-transition therapies that violate their religious beliefs.
Children could seek to change their gender without parental knowledge or consent.
Faith-based adoption and foster care agencies could be forced to place children with same-sex couples or lose their licenses.
The Act would dismantle sex-specific facilities, sports, and other spaces. As a result, biological females would be forced to compete in sports with biological males and for athletic scholarships. Sexual assaults on girls in bathrooms and showers could escalate.
Faith-based schools and businesses could be forced to violate their beliefs regarding homosexual activity and LGBTQ behavior or face fines, censure, or worse.
Churches that rent their facilities to the public could be forced to rent them for same-sex marriages and other LGBTQ events.
Explaining the Opposition to Biblical Morality
President Biden is a practicing Catholic. Many who support the Equality Act are also practicing Christians. Given the large evangelical population in our country, coupled with the number of Catholics who support biblical sexual morality, why would Congress and the Biden Administration support legislation that assaults the religious freedoms of millions of Americans?
In the minds of LGBTQ advocates, our opposition is considered homophobic prejudice. They view us in the same way we view racial bigots. In their minds, our appeal to religious freedom is as repugnant as if we were members of the KKK citing religious freedom as warrant for our horrific beliefs.
Extending this analogy, I’m sure you agree that racial discrimination is evil. Like you, I am convinced that racism should be repudiated and counteracted in every dimension of our society.
As a result, I would be deeply opposed if someone promoted racism by claiming biblical and religious warrant for their prejudice, demanded religious liberty protection for their beliefs, or built a massive media presence to promote their dangerous ideology. If they attempted “conversion therapy” aimed at changing the racial character of minorities, kept them from marrying people like themselves, or excluded them from adopting children, I would be similarly opposed.
Because I am convinced that racist ideologies and practices are dangerous to our nation and our future, I would support every legal response. For example, I would endorse school curriculum that taught racial inclusion and equality. I would limit racist exposure to the culture through social media and other platforms, ban racism in all governmental agencies and the military, and create pathways for racial minorities to marry and build families.
In short, I would characterize racists as social pariahs whose beliefs should no longer be tolerated by society.
Now, substitute LGBTQ equality for racial equality in the preceding four paragraphs. How we view racial bigotry is how many in our culture view our convictions regarding biblical sexual morality.
To this point, we are only seeing the first storm clouds of what I predict will become a hurricane of cultural rejection. For example, Facebook and Twitter have begun blocking posts critical of President Biden’s transgender policy. National Religious Broadcasters, an evangelical association of Christian communicators, has begun tracking examples of social media and other online platforms restricting Christian viewpoints.
If the Equality Act passes the Senate in its current form and is signed by the president, we can expect such opposition to our beliefs and liberties to escalate legally as well as culturally.
Five Ways Evangelicals Will Respond
I predict that evangelicals will respond to escalating cultural opposition such as the Equality Act in five ways, adapted from Richard Niebuhr’s classic Christ and Culture:
Christ of culture: Some will modify their beliefs in alignment with the shifting cultural tide. We are already watching pastors and theologians “change their minds” on biblical sexual morality. (See, for example, David P. Gushee in Changing Our Mind). This approach jettisons foundational biblical truth in a never-ending quest for cultural relevance.
Christ against culture: Some will demonize those who disagree with them and characterize the “other side” as the enemy. Others will withdraw from social engagement into communities where they can practice their faith without opposition. They will keep the “light” of the gospel under their “basket” while repelling those who might be attracted to it (Matthew 5:14–16).
Christ above culture: Some will adhere to biblical morality when in community with fellow Christians but make culturally required concessions in their secular lives and work. They may be able to avoid the consequences of their private beliefs, but their public compromises will hinder their witness and grieve their Lord.
Christ and culture in paradox: Some will engage secular society in order to defend religious liberty, working to secure a minority position for evangelicals in culture. This is a valuable and urgent mission, but we must do more than seek the “right to be wrong.”
Christ transforming culture: Some will speak biblical truth with courageous compassion. They will declare and defend biblical morality because they know that its truth is best for all people. They will view those who reject God’s word as those who most need God’s word. “Speaking the truth in love” will be their mantra and their mission (Ephesians 4:15). This is clearly the most biblical and effective way to respond to rising cultural opposition.
Three Practical Responses to This Perilous Threat
As I have stated often over the years, the Bible clearly forbids homosexual behavior. Now Christians who refuse to yield their biblical convictions regarding sexuality may face discrimination on an unprecedented level. Churches, schools, hospitals, ministries, and faith-based businesses could all be affected directly.
My purpose today is not to be an alarmist. It is possible that the Equality Act as it currently stands will never become law. It is possible that appeal to the RFRA could be restored. And it is very likely that if the Act as it stands becomes law, legal appeals will be numerous with adjudication eventually reaching the Supreme Court.
One: Be aware
Join the men of Issachar “who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do” (1 Chronicles 12:32). When Mordecai “tore his clothes and put on sackcloth and ashes” in response to a perilous threat against the Jewish people (Esther 4:1), Queen Esther sent a messenger to him “to learn what this was and why it was” (v. 5). Know what is happening and why, on this issue and others affecting our faith and culture.
Two: Take steps to engage
Write your senators or call their offices, urging them to vote against the Equality Act. (Consider adapting and using this form letter.)
Encourage those you influence to do the same. Pray for President Biden and others who support the Act to change their position on this historic threat to religious liberty in America. Oppose this Act by “speaking the truth in love” (Ephesians 4:15).
Three: Be hopeful
The Bible says of our Lord: “He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding; he reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness, and the light dwells with him” (Daniel 2:21–22).
Nothing I have written today changes the character of our King. Our ultimate hope is always and only found in him (Psalm 20:7). And we know that our omnipotent Lord uses his people in ways we cannot measure to advance his eternal kingdom.
The hymn database Hymnary.org saw its page views double last year as the pandemic closed many church buildings. The most popular hymn on the database is “Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty,” an 1826 song that proclaims:
Holy, holy, holy! Though the darkness hide thee,
though the eye of sinfulness thy glory may not see,
only thou art holy; there is none beside thee
perfect in pow’r, in love, and purity.
Let’s sing these triumphant words with our voices and witness, to the glory of God.
Taking Action
Express your views on the Equality Act with the Senators in your state. Use our simple tool to send a message letting them know you oppose this legislation. Thanks to Dr. Jim Dennison for contributing to this article.
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Onward and Upward!
From Michigan Region BHS Honor Choir: Once To Every Man and Nation - 2/10/2013
Right Side Broadcasting Network: Speeches at CPAC in Dallas, TX 7/11/21 - 7/10/21
(includes President Trump, Dr. Ben Carson, South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem)
From Trump's Pre-Inauguration: The Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Jan 19th 2017
From Newsmax (w/video): Alan Dershowitz to Newsmax: Big Tech Lawsuit to 'Frame the Law' for 21st Century - 7/11/21
From Enni Francis: No Longer Slaves | Jonathan David and Melissa Helsa | Cover by Enni Francis and Kanaan Francis- 10/5/20
From Dutch Sheets Ministries: Dutch Sheets URGENT MESSAGE: "DEFEAT THE GIANTS" - 7/7/21
From FOX News: Patriotic crowd joins Tampa Bay Lightening anthem singer - 7/11/21
From FOX News - Hannity: Mark Levin gives stark warning to Americans about the Constitution - 7/10/21
Review > From Ben Shapiro: The Authoritarian Threat Posed by the Equality Act - 2/26/21
Review > A brief video of former President Ronald Reagan entitled “One Nation Under God.”
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Podcast - From Dinesh D'Souza: SEE YOU IN COURT - The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast - 7/9/21 (In this episode, Dinesh reviews Trump's case against Facebook and Twitter, affirming Alan Dershowitz's claim that this could be "the First Amendment case of the twenty-first century."
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Citizen Voice videos From Citizen Voice - Dennis Jamison interviews Artur Pawlowski - (7/9/21)
ICYMI > From Citizen Voice - “True US History” with Dennis Jamison | Pilot Episode https://wcntv.net/video/163/citizen-voice-with-dennis-jamison---pilot-episode?page=2
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American Minute by William J. Federer - American Minute for July 10 - Millard Fillmore became the president on this day in 1850.
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Recommended Reading - follow the links… From Charisma News: Andrew Brunson Urges Prayer for Religious Freedom Summit, July 13-15
From Canada Free Press: Traditional Family or the American Socialist Vision of an Extended Family - 7/11/21
Review > From The Heritage Foundation: The Equality Act
Review > From Epoch Times: How the Equality Act Ends Religious Freedom in America - 4/7/21
Review > From E Congress vs. God: Equality Act sets up religious war - 3/6/21
Review > From PJ Media: 6 Reasons to Oppose the Orwellian 'Equality Act' - 2/25/21
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What affects one, can affect all!
News From California -
From LETUSWORSHIP - Sean Feucht: #LETUSWORSHIP - Sean Feucht - Fairfield, CA - 7/11/21
KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco:Rally held in Oakland to stand up against violence - 7/11/21
ICYMI > From Calvary Church: VAC Family Night with Artur Pawlowski - 6/27/21
News From Massachusetts -
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News From New York
From New York Post: Clyburn: Adams win in NYC proves ‘defund the police’ Democrat is ‘non-starter’ - 7/10/21
News From Pennsylvania -
From The Epoch Times: Pennsylvania Department of State Tells Counties Not to Allow Outside Access to Voting Systems - 7/11/21
News From Texas -
From New York Post: Texas man hailed as national hero arrested for illegal voting Texas man hailed as national hero - 7/10/21