Freedom Ministries - November 11, 2008 Newsletter  www.faithfreedoms.org

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David Alan Carmichael 11 Nov 2008
   
    I am hearing many harsh words from the evangelical right, in a prophetic tone, venting woe they feel upon seeing Mr. Obama elected as president of the United States.  Bless his heart, President-Elect Obama is not the problem, nor is he going to be the creator of problems.  The President-Elect is merely going to manifest the problems that have been prepared for his day.  He is merely a product of my generation, and the work (or rather complacency) of our predecessors.  While the preceding generation slept, the generation of the President-Elect and myself were inculcated with atheistic Darwinistic Marxism barraged by mass media and academia.  Mr. Obama, nice charismatic guy that he is, has been brainwashed. 

     I am thrilled for our dark-skinned fellow Americans who have seen a day when a person of color is elected to the presidency.  I was honored having a very dignified Tuskegee Airman as a student in one of our computer classes.  I served a humble Christian man who suffered unrighteous indignities because of his skin tone despite his status as a national hero.  Justice demands the blight of bigotry be eradicated.  We as a nation have suffered, and continue to suffer, the natural consequences of our sins of slavery and oppression against those of African descent.

     However, for a desire to vindicate that egregious history, many people checked their personal political philosophy at the door of the polling place, voting on the basis of Mr. Obama’s color and charisma.  That has already created tension for me in some of the communities where I minister.  Because my principal hook to attract listeners is to shine light on the vain philosophies and principles of this world that raise themselves up against Christ, my words will no doubt have to touch upon the President-Elect’s perspectives and policies.  I have already seen people of color show a recent aversion to me.  I suspect they have listened to my most recent radio shows.  The offense those people have taken up in their hearts against me is a result of the political idolatry that I speak against on my radio show.  Obamaism, McCainism, Americanism, Republicanism, Democratism, and the like are things that raise themselves up against the knowledge of Christ.  Satan is very effectively dividing the church over political party vanity.  Satan is using that division to steal, kill and destroy.  Satan is using that division to perpetuate an American blight of evil that has Biblical proportions.

Two-hundred years ago, slavery was the blight that threatened America’s foundations of law, liberty, prosperity and morality.  Today, murder of infants is at the root of the collapse of law, liberty, prosperity and morality in our nation.

     Over one-hundred-fifty years ago, an enslaved negro Mr. Dred Scott, had been living for over a decade in free Wisconsin Territory and Illinois.¹  He was taken there by his owner who was an U.S. Army officer.  After the officer died in Missouri, Mr. Scott asked a Missouri Court to apply Missouri law that allowed Mr. Scott to sue for his freedom like a real live person who had rights of due process.  After many years of legal-process flip-flops, Dred Scott’s case came before the U.S. Supreme Court.  In his majority opinion, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney determined that a negro born in slavery could not become a United States citizen.  The Federal Court had no personam jurisdiction over Mr. Scott, essentially because the Court determined the he was not a ‘person.’ It is interesting that Justice (misnomer) Taney turned the hierarchy of liberty rights topsy-turvy saying, “The rights of property have to be guarded with care… thus the rights of property are united with the rights of the person (meaning the family that declared title to Mr. Scott and his family), and placed on the same ground by the fifth amendment to the constitution, which provides that no person shall be denied, life, liberty and property, without due process of law.²”  Notice that the slave owner’s property which is the third rung, was placed above Mr. Scott’s liberty which is the second rung, compared to the most important rung – life.

     Fortunately, Dred Scott and his family were freed the same year of the Taney Court’s decision.  The eleven-year-long, highly publicized legal battle did much to motivate ‘change’ in America.  It gave inspiration to those who formed the Republican Party, whose first man in the Presidency was Abraham Lincoln.          

The Taney Court refused to admit that mankind is created in the image of God.  They demoted Negroes to a non-person status, and declared them outside the protection of the law and due process.  Though the case may have been dismissed quite simply in a less provocative way, the Taney Court exercised judicial activism to put a proverbial ‘nail in the coffin’ of Negro hopes of freedom. 

January 22, 1973, the Blackmun Court in the Roe v. Wade decision demoted in utero infants to a non-person status.³  Like the Taney Court, the Blackmun Court exercised judicial activism, declaring from the bench what the national morality shall be.  They too turned the law of the land topsy-turvy, elevating the ‘pursuit of happiness’ property right above even the right to life.

 “Evil men do not understand justice.”⁴  The Blackmun Court, not understanding justice, looked to the vanity of men’s opinions and those vain philosophies that raise themselves against the knowledge of Christ.  They did not investigate the authority of law themselves by reading the Holy Scripture, known in American history as “revealed law” upon which all human laws depend, and upon which no human laws should be suffered to contradict.⁵  The Blackmun Court referenced men’s opinions on Jewish, Christian, Roman, Greek, and other teachings.  They read commentaries on commentaries by Blackstone and Coke.  The Court gave their opinions on the basis of men’s opinions of opinions.  Had they themselves read the Commentaries of Blackstone and Coke, the Blackmun court would have found that the English common law lesser crime in some instances of the death of an unborn infant was not based upon the infant’s person-hood status.  It was based upon the standard of proof necessary to convict someone for murder rather than manslaughter.  In their justification of an in utero infant having lesser value than one who is born, the Court cited Exodus Chapter 21, verse 22, which says, “If men who are fighting hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman's husband demands and the court allows.”  Had the Court read the very next verse, they may have come a step closer to understanding justice.  Verses 23 through 25 say, “But if there is serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burn for burn, wound for wound, bruise for bruise.”

The later part of the 2008 election, attention was turned to the economic crisis of the day.  The American people in a stupor focused on the figurative flames wondering what ignited them.  The hot-bed of coals that sparks our nation’s ills is the atrocity of in utero and in Petri dish infanticide.  Our economic issues of immigration, housing industry, insurance industry, and many other things are consequences of the murdering of the Roe v. Wade generation.  America is in need of a change. 

Mark Warner said in his speech at the Democratic National Convention, "We need leaders who see our common ground as sacred ground."[6]  At the Republican National Convention, thousands of signs held aloft said, "Country First."  The mantra of that convention was "drill more wells."  Rather than be inspired, I was disheartened.  I say, ‘We need leaders who see sacred ground as common ground.'  If Almighty God is not sacred in America, nothing that He holds dear will be sacred.  All sorts of evil can be devised in the hearts and minds of men under the auspices of sacrosanct democracy and country.  When we raise the standard of "God first," the country will benefit.  If we want freedom to ring across America, we had better begin to shout, "Choose Life."  America is need of a change.

This recent election is a reminder to the Church that it must not rally under party banners.  We must not let the enemy trick the Church into being merely a voter pool for twin-party exploitation.  It is time for the church to hold party politicos accountable to the law of the land rather than the whims of the elite and frenzied electorate. 

Standing up to save this country will give you plenty of opportunities to share the gospel of Jesus Christ.  You will have to give people the reference for truth or they will have no way of understanding why their political policy ways and means are dysfunctional.  You will have to explain that the magistrate is supposed to be a minister of God for our good (not a minister of mammon), punishing the evil and upholding the righteous.  You will have to explain that God knew us before we were conceived.  You will have to explain that God hates the shedding of innocent blood.  You will have to explain – God is!

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