Friday, January 29, 2021
Faithful America?
Faithful America?
Faithful America—a group originally founded by the radical National Council of Churches and funded by George Soros—is petitioning for Franklin Graham’s removal over an online post in which he said he tends to believe Donald Trump’s claim there was fraud in the 2020 election.
This is just one more stunning display of the Left’s bitter intolerance of opposing views and its self-righteous determination to banish Biblically faithful voices from America’s public square; to silence any voice other than its own.
NOW
When what you see makes it difficult to believe that "all things work together for good to those who love GOD, to those who are called according to HIS purpose," remind yourself that you "walk by faith, not by sight."
In spite of the evil machinations of godless men, the LORD JESUS will ultimately have HIS way.
Even those who disdain HIM now will one day be among the all- inclusive throng of humanity where "every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess that JESUS CHRIST is LORD."
Trust HIM now.
Bow before HIM now.
Proclaim HIM as LORD now.
Have faith in HIM now.
Love HIM now.
You won't be sorry.
Thoughts on Romans 10:1-3
Thoughts on Romans 10:1-3 by John W. Ritenbaugh
"Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved. (2) For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. (3) For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted to the righteousness of God."
Paul accurately records that the Israelites had a zeal, "but not according to knowledge." They were confused. The apostle Paul before his conversion is probably the prime example of such misdirected zeal. What did his zeal do to him?
It so preoccupied his mind that it forced him to perceive Christ and Christians as enemies of the faith of his fathers. He was responsible for throwing many of them into prison, and some were even put to death as a result of his zeal. His mind could not tolerate anybody who thought differently from the way he did. God had to strike him down on the road to Damascus.
Even today, the Israelitish nations are dotted with church buildings, and the vast majority of the people are truly sincere, even zealous. However, true knowledge is still lacking. However, there is a difference between the Israelitish zeal of today and the zeal of Paul's time.
The zeal in Paul's time reflects the Jewish belief that a person is capable of justifying himself before God on the basis of merit. In other words, as long as a person did what was considered "good works," he was earning "points," and God was obligated to mark this to his account and, therefore, owed him something.
Today's Israelites have gone all the way to the other end of the pendulum's swing, largely having thrown out responsibility to law and substituted a specious faith. Justification is by grace through faith (Ephesians 2:8), but that faith includes obedience to law, as Paul clearly shows (Romans 2:13; 7:7-12).
If the law has been done away, then there is no such thing as sin—but sin certainly exists! James explains that the faith that is "living" obeys the royal law (James 2:8-12, 18-26). Thus, the faith that justifies—or is the basis by which God will justify—is an obedient faith.
Most of Protestantism does not believe that way, holding to a "just-as-I-am" faith.
Thoughts on Today's Verse
They cried to you and were saved; in you they trusted and were not disappointed. — Psalm 22:5
Thoughts on Today's Verse....by Phil Ware
This Psalm of despair, referred to by Jesus from the Cross, is also a Psalm of hope and faith. The history of God's faithfulness with his people Israel is an ongoing reminder that we can trust him to deliver us. While in our human reckoning of time God's answer may be slow in coming, his track record in history reminds us that he will answer, deliver, and bless his people in his time. In our worst of nightmares, we can be reminded that God is faithful and is attentive to our cries of despair, lament, grief, agony, and fear.
My Prayer...
I ask, dear Father, that you bless your people everywhere who find themselves in difficult situations. Empower them with your Spirit and bless them with a change for the better in their dire situation. Please hear the cries of your people and act swiftly for their protection, preservation, and vindication. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.
Unconstitutional Trial
Unconstitutional Trial by Rick Green
President Joe Biden, widely praised for his inaugural call to unity, was asked about the forthcoming, highly divisive Senate trial of former President Donald Trump.
“I think it has to happen,” he responded.
But this process shouldn’t be confused with impeachment under Article 1, Section 3, and Article 2, Section 4 of the U.S. Constitution. The appropriate term for what we’re watching play out in our nation’s capital is a show trial, the mock judicial proceedings carried out by tyrants such as Joseph Stalin after they took power.
If you think that sounds “over the top,” consider what recently happened in the House of Representatives. The president of the United States was “impeached” with no investigation, no evidence, and none of the normal due process such a momentous and rare decision requires.
Not to be outdone, the Senate will now hold a completely unconstitutional “trial,” much more worthy of a banana republic than the greatest constitutional republic in history.
According to Wikipedia, “A show trial is a public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt, and/or innocence, of the defendant. The actual trial has as its only goal the presentation of both the accusation and the verdict to the public so they will serve as both an impressive example and a warning to other would-be dissidents or transgressors.”
Sound familiar?
Ironically, just as 150 communist sympathizers from the U.S. entertainment industry signed a statement supporting Stalin’s show trials, the modern-day equivalent of 150 “legal scholars” has done the same in support of the Pelosi/Schumer show trials.
And just like the disgraced New York Times reporter Walter Duranty giving legitimacy to Stalin’s fake justice, we have the press falling into lockstep behind the leftists. A CNN columnist recently wrote that “truth and reconciliation processes” were always an important part of recovery for a nation that had gone to war with itself. But what she fails to point out is that these truth trials were often a ploy of communist dictators to consolidate power.
Lest you doubt the real intent, you need only see her conclusion, that trials are an important part of helping people finally realize their guilt against their country by supporting Trump.
This modern-day great purge by leftists lacks all legitimacy.
Despite all their fervent claims, there’s no precedent for impeaching a president after he or she leaves office. The Founding Fathers were extremely meticulous in the shaping of the language in the Constitution, and made sure impeachment only applied to “The President,” and not a former president.
The mockery of this impeachment is demonstrated by Chief Justice John Roberts washing his hands of the issue, saying he has no constitutional requirement to preside over an impeachment not involving a sitting president.
Not to be deterred, it was decided that Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) will preside over the proceedings. You read that right, the accusers are now the judge and jury in this “impeachment” trial.
Contrast this rush to judgment and elimination of due process against actual historical precedent.
During the Clinton presidency, it involved a four-year investigation with a final report citing 11 grounds for impeachment, including perjury and witness tampering. Even then the House still held extensive debate, lasting more than two months. The Senate trial then took more than a month before finally acquitting President Clinton. During the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson, it took nearly two weeks of House deliberation before impeachment, followed by almost three full months of due process in a Senate trial. And, of course, there’s the precedent of Richard Nixon, whose resignation brought all House impeachment proceedings to a halt because they knew full well that you can’t impeach someone who isn’t the president.
Yet Biden and his cohorts are now showing they’d rather emulate the fake judicial machinations of dictators than follow the well-established process laid out by the Constitution and former examples of judicial process.
In all of this travesty, where is the opposition party?
Until Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) forced a vote on the unconstitutionality of this impeachment, the party that sells itself on being the champions of the Constitution had been standing quietly aside, hoping this latest white-hot purge would burn itself out before it reached them.
But it already has reached them.
For simply asking for a discussion and debate on the merits of election results, members of Congress and the former president are being threatened with disqualification from ever running for office again, prosecution, and jail. Objection to electors was called “democracy at work” by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) when she used this important procedure in past presidential elections, but now, any dissent is labeled as insurrection.
So if elected leaders actually believe that the same folks who are committed to pursuing a former president to the ends of the earth will suddenly stop their pursuit, they’re foolish and feckless.
After this, they’ll come for every elected representative who refuses to acquiesce to their plans for America, and then they’ll come for the everyday Americans. They’re already “canceling” any citizen who gets too noisy or objects too loudly to the party narrative; the rest of us they’ll handle through policies and regulations.
Anyone who loves freedom should be in full-throated opposition against this shameless move by the agents of the purge. Paul’s repudiation of this sham, joined by 44 other senators, was a start.
Leaders are slowly emerging from the chaos, and more Americans than ever are asking the right questions and looking for ways to be a part of the solution. The unmitigated and extreme efforts to silence half of America won’t go unanswered and may just be the jolt necessary for patriots to regroup and reengage in our Constitutional process.
As Benjamin Franklin’s words remind us, “We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
Former Texas state representative Rick Green is a constitutional expert, attorney, and the founder of the Patriot Academy.
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