And Again the Burden of Losing Rests Upon My Shoulders

AMERICA'S PASTORS: PREACHERS OF TRUTH OR PROMOTERS OF TYRANNY?

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Baronial 21, 2007

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One time again, the burden of responsibleness to help maintain America's liberty rests upon the shoulders of the men in the pulpits. That should not surprise us, because it has always been this fashion. Office of what made America cracking was old fashioned, tell-it-like-it-is, no-nonsense preaching. Most of what nosotros hear today is a bunch of mealy-mouthed, pussyfooting, ear-tickling, don't-offend-anyone preaching, which has largely contributed to America's electric current glace slope into the sewer. Merely if you idea information technology could not get whatever worse, guess once more.

A startling television receiver news report from Shreveport, Louisiana has revealed a sinister plot hatched deep inside the diabolical brain cells of the Bush assistants to utilize America'southward pulpits as promoters of tyranny. That is a strong statement, I know. Only it is true.

According to KSLA goggle box in Shreveport, the Section of Homeland Security (DHS) intends to employ America'south preachers to help pave the way for martial law in the consequence of another terrorist assail upon the United States.

The KSLA report (which you can read for yourself here) begins, "Could martial police always become a reality in America? Some fearfulness whatsoever nuclear, biological or chemical attack on U.Due south. soil might trigger but that. KSLA 12 has discovered that the clergy would assistance the government with potentially their biggest problem: Us."

The report continued by saying, "[G]united nations confiscation is exactly what happened during the state of emergency following Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, along with forced relocation. U.S. Troops too arrived, something far easier to do now, thank you to last year'southward elimination of the 1878 Posse Comitatus act, which had preclude regular U.Due south. Army troops from policing on American soil.

"If martial law were enacted here at home, similar depicted in the movie, 'The Siege', easing public fears and quelling dissent would be critical. And that's exactly what the 'Clergy Response Team' helped accomplish in the wake of Katrina."

The written report went on to say: "[C]lergy response teams would walk a tight-rope during martial police between the demands of the government on the ane side, versus the wishes of the public on the other. 'In a lot of cases, these clergy would already be known in the neighborhoods in which they're helping to diffuse that situation,' assured Sandy Davis. He serves every bit the director of the Caddo-Bossier Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness.

"For the clergy squad, one of the biggest tools that they will have in helping calm the public down or to obey the police force is the bible itself, specifically Romans thirteen."

Dear Reader, are you lot getting this?

In lodge to convince American citizens to surrender their firearms to the authorities during a time of martial law, DHS is enlisting the aid of America's pastors. According to the DHS, my chore every bit a church building pastor, is to tell my congregation that, co-ordinate to Romans thirteen, they must surrender their firearms when the government asks them to practice so.

Of course, faithful readers of this column know that I have already addressed the Romans 13 question. Come across [Read]

For those who are ignorant of Romans xiii, let me accost the issue frankly: According to Romans xiii, every citizen is simply jump to obey his or her governing official to the degree that the governing official does not violate the duty of the denizen to obey the "higher powers" which, for Americans, are God and the U.Due south. Constitution. In other words, no Christian can be ordered to disobey God, and no American denizen can be ordered to disobey the U.S. Constitution. Properly understood, Romans thirteen teaches that each and every governing official (including the President of the United states of america and all those under him) must submit to the U.South. Constitution.

Commodity. 6. Paragraph. 3. of the U.South. Constitution states, "The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the The states and of the several States, shall be leap by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution."

So, what does the Constitution say regarding the disarmament of American citizens? The 2nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution could not be clearer: "A well regulated Militia, existence necessary to the security of a complimentary State, the correct of the people to go on and carry Arms, shall not be infringed."

Did you become that? "[T]he right of the people to keep and bear Arms, SHALL Non BE INFRINGED." [Emphasis added]

Therefore, whatever attempt to disarm the American people must be viewed every bit an human activity of tyranny and must be resisted.

The right to continue and bear arms is rooted deep in American history. I remind readers that it was the attempted gun confiscation of the colonists' artillery, which had been cached at Concur, Massachusetts, that directly precipitated the beginning of America's fight for independence.

America'south founders were clear on this bailiwick. Our first President, George Washington, chosen our firearms "the people'south liberty teeth." Our third President and author of the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, said, "No free human shall always be de-barred the employ of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to go on and bear artillery is as a final resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government."

America's founders spoke unanimously on the field of study. Patrick Henry said, "The great object is that every man be armed. Anybody who is able may have a gun." Samuel Adams said, "The said Constitution shall never be construed to qualify Congress to prevent the people of the U.s. who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own artillery."

And what did the Lord Jesus Christ tell His followers on this subject? Jesus said in Luke eleven:21, "When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace." Did you run across that? Jesus said that in order for a man's goods to exist "in peace" it was necessary that he exist ARMED. Now, I don't know almost you, just I volition take the word of Jesus over the give-and-take of a DHS official anytime.

Furthermore, Jesus told his disciples in Luke 22:36, "[H]e that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy ane."

Upon hearing the words of Jesus, Simon Peter responded past saying, "Lord, behold, hither are two swords." (vs. 38) That ways at to the lowest degree two of Jesus' disciples were armed with swords (the 1st Century equivalent of a modern handgun, something used for personal protection), and Jesus did not rebuke them or ask them to give up their swords. He merely said, "Information technology is enough."

I realize that after Simon Peter used his sword to cutting off the ear of the man as soldiers came to abort Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus told him to "put up thy sword." Simply notice, He did not tell him to "give upwardly" his sword; he just told him it was not time to utilise it, because it was in the program and providence of God that Jesus be taken to Pilate, that He might exist crucified for our sins.

Don't tell me that the Bible teaches pacifism, because information technology doesn't. I am a Christian, and I am a pastor. And I agree with Charlton Heston who said that they could have his guns "over my cold, dead hands." If DHS believes that I will ask my congregation to give up their firearms, they are grossly mistaken.

It also needs to be pointed out that, apparently, DHS must already exist planning to declare martial law in the United States or else this kind of advanced strategy would non even be necessary. Why would they already be asking pastors to be prepared to request their church building members give upwardly their guns it they did not intend to declare martial law?

At present, what every unmarried church-going Christian in America should immediately find out for themselves is, What does my pastor intend to do? Will he enquire me to surrender my guns, or not? I highly encourage every reader who currently attends church building to ask your pastor this question Correct Now.

Of course, the next question Christians demand to ask themselves is, What will I exercise if my pastor says he would inquire me to surrender my guns to the government? I propose that every church member in America settle this affair right now. And if yous discover that your pastor would indeed inquire y'all to surrender your guns (or equivocate past saying he would accept to "pray well-nigh it") if asked to do so, you should immediately exit that church and find a pastor who believes the Bible and supports the U.S. Constitution. Furthermore, if y'all do not currently own a firearm, you might want to heed the words of Jesus and get buy 1.

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Chuck Baldwin is Founder-Pastor of Crossroads Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. In 1985 the church was recognized past President Ronald Reagan for its unusual growth and influence.�

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Co-ordinate to KSLA television in Shreveport, the Section of Homeland Security (DHS) intends to employ America's preachers to help pave the way for martial law in the issue of another terrorist set on upon the Us.