Jerusalem Arise - Paul Wilbur in Jerusalem

This is a wonderful time of worship.   A lot of these songs are dear to my heart, others are new but wonderful.   Praise Adonai!  Let God Arise!  Amen and Amen. Jerusalem Arise - Paul Wilbur

Responding to Blind Faith

We watched a movie, Blind Faith, that bandied the lies of the Nicolaitans and the lies of Jezebel back and forth between the plots and sub-plots.  That big bad mean 'ol Creator who gives us all of the big bad mean 'ol laws that are not love!  That big bad mean 'ol God who gives us unjust judges and unjust policemen and unjust white people.  That big bad mean 'ol God who says it is an abomination for a man to lie with another man as with a woman (men are so beautiful surely it is okay if a man lies with another man if that man is black and beautiful because after all if white is bad then black must be good right?) That big bad mean 'ol imaginary god that only loves white people.  The Nicolaitan god is this big bad mean 'ol god.

How about the other god?  The love, love, love god -- the god of Jezebel. Jezebel is the god of socialists.  She will wrest judgment from the poor in judgment by presenting love as a love without boundaries.  Love is not defined by the commandments of God for this Jezebel god.  Love is defined by false sweetness, false mercy, false kindness, false patience, false peace.  Instead of death by violence Jezebel produces death by deadly poison, death by putrefaction, death by deadly disease, death by the rotting of the flesh.

The movie is the typical bait and switch sales job.  It sells itself as a civil rights movie arguing against the injustices committed by sinners wearing white skin in black robes and business suits.  It gives what I understand to be a fairly accurate portrayal of the offenses committed by the unjust judicial systems against black people in America.  This is the bait. 

Bear in mind the laws of nature and of nature's God:  If you reject God's good commandments which are designed to keep you free from the law of sin and death that operate in the world, you will not commit the sins of the world and you will be protected by God because you will not participate in the death and destruction that operates to rule the world.

How does the law of sin and death operate to rule the world?  The laws of nature and of nature's God are written on the hearts of every man created in the image of God.  If you commit sin, you will die.  You will die the death that occurs when your flesh no longer houses your spirit and you breath your last breath on earth.  But, the spirit that your flesh houses will continue to live, that spirit will live eternally.  That spirit will spend eternity in the presence of God or in the presence of the fire that burns forever where the worm never dies and the fire is never quenched (there are no pain pills in hell).  No, man has ever lived without sin, except the Lord Jesus Christ.   Noah, Abraham, David, all obtained the grace of God by faith in God's promise of Shiloh, the Messiah, the Coming One.  They lived their lives in the fear of God and by faith in the goodness of God.  They refused to flee from God but in every way they ran toward God, trusting him as their redeemer "I know that my redeemer lives" was the testimony of their faith.

The law of sin and death operates through the natural man.  That is why God tells us if we die to our flesh and live unto the spirit of life in Christ Jesus we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

So, how does this relate to the movie?  The movie presented three different versions of how the natural man deals with sin.  But, they are all the ways of the natural man.  The first is the head nod to Christianity with the family meal and a prayer as the focal point of their faith, the second was the social justice god that tries to get the unjust justice system to change to provide justice and the third was the love, love, love Jezebel mantra that pretends love means letting every man do what is right in his own eyes as long as Jezebel gets to decide who to kill and when it is okay to kill them.  The abominable conclusion was just the same mess they will continue to pretend provides answers as long as they continue to pretend that sin is not the problem.  Sin is the problem and sin will not solve the problem.

The sin of blaspheming God by pretending a family meal and a prayer is the measure of a life surrendered to God is just as deadly as the sin of pretending the vile affections of a man using another man as a woman is not deadly.  The sin of denying justice to the poor and the weak is just as deadly as allowing the poor and the weak to wrest judgment from the Judge of all.  Whether we wrest judgment from the righteous judge through the operation of unjust men in black robes or through the operation of unjust men in white sheets, or the unjust women in bed with demons, doesn't change the fact that the Judge of all still maintains the final judgment.  If you put unjust judges with black skin in the same black robes as have protected the unjust judgments of the judges with white skin you have accomplished nothing except the change of corrupt powers.  The only solution is for all men everywhere to submit themselves to God and to his righteous judgments.

The movie depicted the torment of the father who had crumbled under the pressure of the corruption around him as the example of a "Christian".   The imaginary god he represented cowered behind the shield of his uniform begging crumbs from the hands of his master who kept feeding empty promises of promotion and prestige. The other imaginary righteous god was represented by a lawyer brother to the father of the son who killed in self-defense.  He represented the social justice god who loves-loves-loves in defiance of God's commandments while pretending to represent God's commandments.  The Jezebel god of lying filth was represented by the youngest brother of Haight Ashbury who successfully proselytized all but the crumbling father.  He preached a gospel of "Let's all just let every man do what is right in his own eyes!  Let's all just sleep with anyone and believe anything" because life is all about love-love-love.  If the Jezebel love is the only love that is allowed to be portrayed, then the laws of nature will continue to allow corruption to bring death to the life of sin.  This imitation love leads to the natural man killing each other because of the unnatural abominations that they all commit against each other because they have all rejected God's good commandments.  It is not a multiple choice proposition.  The laws of nature have been in operation since the day of Creation.  The God of Creation revealed how those laws operate when he committed them to Moses and had him give them to Israel.  Those commandments that are now written in the King James Bible existed prior to Moses because they existed in creation.  God chose to reveal the laws in human language through Moses, then committed them to us through the fulfillment of the King James Bible.  He has given them to us for our instruction so that we may learn how to live and not die.  The law was not given for God's benefit.  The law was given for man's benefit.  God doesn't gain or lose anything by the law.  God has given us the benefit of his wisdom, knowledge and understanding so that we may learn from his principles and precepts and gain life for ourselves and for the whole world. 

Repentance toward God and his altogether righteous commandments trusting in the blood of Jesus to cleanse us from all of our sins which are past is the only solution to the problem of corruption.  Marching in parades exalting sin doesn't solve the problems of sin and corruption.  It increases the violence and death in the world until there reaches a heart felt cry of the righteous unto God (who always hears the cry of the righteous) and when the cry reaches the point where God himself must come down and do something about the outcry.  There is hell to pay.

This is the law of sin and death.  It operates in the world.  It will bring death and destruction to the world.  There is no solution for the law of sin and death other than repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.  It doesn't matter how many movies are created, giving ever so many fairy tale endings of happiness, peace and joy if we will all just follow some other more "inclusive" gospel.  The only true gospel we have is the gospel of "God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life."  Jesus said, "If you love me you will keep my commandments."  He said he did not come to do away with the law but to fulfill the law.  He said in addition to the laws that he did not do away with he added a new commandment, that we love one another.  Love keeps the commandments of God.

So, the movie corrupted the only possible solution by pretending the father who was broken, alone, and had lost his whole family through the pressures of unrighteousness all around him, in him and through him was the representation of God and his commandments.  Then the movie corrupted the image of the black fight for equal justice under the law by tagging on the unjust issue of the abomination of the unnatural and vile affections of a man lying with another man as with a woman as an issue on equal footing with having been born black and wanting to be treated with equal justice before the law.  The one is an action that is punishable by death if one is under the law of sin and death.  The other is an issue of the color of skin one is born with.  One issue is about the fight for respect because one has been created in the image of God and happens to have flesh that is a darker pigmentation than another person also created in the image of God.  The law of sin and death operates in the world.  The only place to find freedom from the law of sin and death is at the cross of Jesus Christ.  The only way to come to the cross of Jesus Christ is by coming to repentance toward God and toward his righteous commandments and to walk in love toward God, toward ourselves and toward others.  God's love does not sin and does not permit sin because sin leads to death.  The blood of Jesus cleanses us from all of our sins which are past.  If we walk in the light of his commandments as he is in the light of his commandments, we will not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

There is no other way by which a man might be saved.  None.  There is only one God and he makes the rules.  He rules in righteousness.  He loves the world so much that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.  He calls all men everywhere to come to repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ so that all who come to him believing and receiving the gift of his holy spirit will be born again of the incorruptible seed of the word of God which liveth and abideth forever.  He calls all men everywhere to this same repentance for the remission of sins and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ for the salvation of our souls.  He calls all men everywhere to come and be filled with the holy spirit who will lead us into all truth.  Jesus, loves his creation.  God the father, loves his creation.  God has paid the price of redemption for his people.  The price of redemption was the blood of his son.  Satan no longer has the power to hold anyone in bondage against their will.  All men everywhere, are given this same opportunity to choose between life or death.  It is the opportunity to be born again.  It is the opportunity of a lifetime.  It is the opportunity that has an expiration date.  The expiration date is the day one breathes their last breath or the day Jesus returns in the clouds to receive his bride.  No man knows the day or the hour that he will breath his last on this earth.  No man knows the day or the hour that Jesus will come again.  But, while it is still called today, the door of opportunity remains open.

True faith is not blind.  True faith sees the spotless lamb of God that takes away the sins of the world.  Blind faith is the faith that closes its eyes and looks at the world and says, lets just love, love, love -- no matter what --- just jump in bed with whatever lie comes along -- love, love, love.  This is the kind of love that ends up married to a wife beater.  This is the kind of love that ends up married to a whore.  This is the kind of love that ends up unmarried and with kids who have no father.  This is the kind of love that buys drugs for mommy and daddy and walks the streets for the protection of a john.  This is not love.  It is the law of sin and death in operation.  It is the laws of nature and of nature's God.  It is the foundation of the Constitution.  God guarantees all men everywhere that his word is true though every man be a liar.  We choose whom to serve every day of our lives.  Our Constitution was written to empower us to teach every generation the commandments of God without allowing the tyranny of a state imposed church and without allowing the state the power to interfere with the free practice of our religion.  The founders of the Constitution were 100% in agreement that without the commandments of God being taught in the homes and schools from infancy, the people would not have the knowledge, character or understanding necessary to hold their judges and representatives accountable for making righteous judgments.  The jury system was designed to give the people who knew God's commandments the ability to override the laws and the judges when those laws or those judges broke the boundaries of God's good and righteous altogether commandments.

When the people failed to hold their sheriffs, judges, neighbors and themselves accountable for behaving righteously before God, they opened the door for evil to triumph through corruption, death, and destruction.  When the people failed, to stop the corruption through actively defeating the corruption, the laws of sin and death began to operate in lieu of the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus.  There is no escaping the laws of God.  The laws of God operate through nature and nature operates through corruption.  The laws of God also operate through God's sovereign supremacy over his creation and in this he has provided his Son as the lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.  We face death in this life.  We face death by corruption or death by baptism there are no other choices.  God sent his only begotten son to save the whole world.  Not just those who have already come to repentance to the acknowledging of the truth and to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, but also those who have yet to come.   The invitation is always the same.  There is no variation:  Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand.  Beloved, I wish that all would come to repentance toward God and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ so all might be saved.  But, how will they come if they continue to believe the imitation gods are the gods of love and the true God is impotent?  Paul said, he fully preached the gospel with mighty signs and wonders so that the believer's faith would not rest upon the wisdom of man but on the power of God.  I think it is time we start fully preaching the gospel.  I would like to see a little fear of the LORD fall upon the people of this nation.

Perhaps if the fear of the LORD falls upon this nation, the fear of the wicked will be curtailed.  I think it is time to see a little of the power over all the power of the enemy.  Power to cast out devils.  Power to lay hands on the sick and see them recover.  Power to say to this mountain be thou removed and the mountain shall be removed.  I say, "let every knee bow and every tongue confess, Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit."  Amen and amen.  Let everything that hath breath praise the LORD.  Let everything that hath breath come to the place of being in one accord with the God of all Creation.  Let everything that hath breath say, "The LORD he is God".

Trial by Jury

In response to a loved one who challenged me by saying, "these are the laws we have now ..." - meaning we are not allowed to break an unlawful law.  I am here to make a case to the contrary.

Amendment VI In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state ... and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. 

The 6th Amendment gives us the openly stated right to a trial by jury and the assistance of counsel for our defense.  I say, "openly stated right" to point out that we have many other rights and duties given by our Creator that are not openly stated and those rights may not be infringed by the state any more than the stated rights.  However, the stated rights give us a firm standing point on which to push back the encroaching government machinery.


So now for the story.  In Florida in 1994 there was an abortionist, his bodyguard and his nurse who performed 20-35 late term abortions every Friday at a local clinic.  He had been convicted and fined $1000.00 on several occasions for breaking the law by killing unborn babies past the state sanctioned definition of when they could be called babies.  He always came back and killed more babies, going so far as to bear a sign on his truck proclaiming "I DO ABORTIONS"-I can't recall the exact wording it was something like that.


Local activists in trying to save the lives of the babies would go to the dumpster where their bodies were thrown and take pictures of their intact little bodies with their arms, legs, fingers, toes and torsoes lying next to the head that had been wrenched from their bodies.  They would take the pictures to court when they tried to get the court to stop the atrocities from happening.  The court refused to honor their grievances but to clear their unconscious consciences would make the evil doctor pay a fine.


Mr. Paul Hill, a virtuous and moral human being, was deeply grieved about this continuing to happen.  He was a moral human being and accountable to his Creator for the fact that he was standing by and allowing these babies to be murdered every Friday.  20 to 30 little babies being decapitated, dismembered, burned with chemicals, their hearts injected with poison, ripped from their mother's bodies and tossed into a dumpster!  Finally, he came to a decision.  He had to do something.  But, he loved his wife and his children!  Was this really what God would want him to do?  He would be executed or thrown in jail for life.  But, maybe if the jury could hear his defense maybe there might be the possibility that he could be acquitted.  Maybe, they would see that he was defending the life of the innocent.  But, either way, he had to stop the massacre of the unborn babies that was occurring every Friday at that clinic.  I will spare you the details, suffice it to say, he took a rifle executed the abortionist, his bodyguard and his nurse, then put his gun down put his hands in the air and waited for the police to arrive.


Now I am not prepared to argue on behalf of Paul Hill's decision, because it is not something that I would promote or condone.  That was just a background story for making my case:
 
In a world where the serial killer, Ted Bundy, was given the right to defend himself, Paul Hill was denied the right to present his defense at court. The reason why:  his counsel advised him to defend his actions as necessary in the defense of the life of others.  The judge refused to allow the defense.  The judge didn't want the jury to see the pictures of the babies with their heads ripped off next to their beautifully formed little bodies.  The judge was afraid the jury would declare the man innocent and in so doing would convict the court rather than the accused.  While Roe V Wade isn't a law it is still at the crux of the issue.   This ruling was not just an abomination before God, it was unconstitutional in that it denies the right to life to babies as long as they are in their mother's womb. Judges have prostituted themselves by taking an oath to the bar association and an oath to the Constitution.  No man can serve two masters.  When the choice comes between upholding the Constitution or upholding their lucrative bar association connections, their bar association connections win the day.  The background knowledge of this issue is too tedious for the average socialist to sustain.

Socialists need to know that juries have the authority to nullify laws based on the fact that the people of the states are the ones who grant the authority for laws to be passed in the first place.  The courts are usurping the authority of the people of the states without letting it reach the court transcripts.  If it reaches the court transcripts it becomes officially documented.  Courts want people to remain ignorant of their responsibility to judge not just the person accused by the evidence presented but also the law used to accuse the accused.
 
Judges routinely avoid letting jurors know the power they have in the jury box.  This is an American freedom issue.  This is the problem with a federal government that is run amok with unlawful power.  Socialists keep unlawful authorities in authority because it is easier to pretend there is nothing we can do about the evil than it is to actually stop the evil.  It comforts us to pretend the evil isn't happening.  If we can just block it from our minds, we don't have to do anything about it.  The reality is, if we do something about evil, it could cost us our lives.  If we don't do anything about evil, it will cost us our lives.  It is a lot more convenient in the short run not to know what is going on. 

The accused in this case was in fact executed in Florida in 2004(?).  It seems it was a bright sunny day in Florida and all the news trucks headed to the prison to get their pictures.  There was a dark, dark cloud over the prison, when Mr. Hill was executed there was lightening and thunder and heavy darkness over the prison and sunshine outside the prison.  They could look over past the prison gates and see the beautiful Florida blue skies and sunshine.  I guess it is possible God may not enjoy watching the criminal execuition of a man who saved the lives of between 10,400 and 18,000 innocent babies who would have gotten decapitated, dismembered, burned, given heart attacks and ripped from their mother's bodies by a doctor and his assistants during the ten years he tried to obtain a pardon.  Ten years while his children grew up without him, his wife was left to fend for them, and he wrote his story from the time that he performed his unlawful execution until the time the state performed their equally unlawful execution.  The state executed him after having denied him a legitimate trial by jury.  He may have been found guilty anyway, he did kill three people. The point is the judge denied him his Constitutionally stated right to a trial by a jury of his peers and the right to council in his defense.

You think I sound strange?  Think about it.  Where do righteous standards originate?  From God.  He says in his word, "I the Lord declare what is right."  The judge refused to allow Paul Hill to present his defense.  The judge said he could present any other defense except his actual defense.  The judge wiped his completely darkened conscious clean of any wrong doing by pretending his bar oath was a greater responsibility than his responsibility to uphold the Constitution.  The reason we have a jury system is to prevent the judge from having more power than the people.  That is part of the separation of powers designed into the framework of the Constitution.  As long as people remain ignorant of how that framework operates and what is required to keep it operational.  Presidents, judges and politicians will continue to ride roughshod over our Constitution and the freedom every person on earth has been born with:  the freedom to worship God and practice our religion.  In America when the state tries to take that freedom away from us, they are exalting themselves against the authority we have granted to them by the republic through the Constitution and under the final authority of God.  When we demand more government intervention and in essence call out for a king to rule over us, we are forsaking our God given responsibilities to govern ourselves according to his commandments.

When we allow government to sanction the massacre of unborn babies, we are allowing them to do it under our authority and we in effect sanction those murders.  We must rule over the government or the government will rule over us.  The only way we can rule over the government is to submit ourselves to God's sovereign authority and obey his commandments.  The freedom to govern ourselves according to the laws of nature and of nature's God is derived from our individual willingness to submit to those laws.  When we obey his commandments government is not given the power to grow into our caretaker because we do not need to demand a civil government to provide us with safety from one another.  When society rejects the commandments of God they are demanding government intervention into their lives by the very fact that without God's controlling power and authority anarchy would reign upon the face of the earth.