“We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For 4 long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June, 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.

The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers—the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After 2 days of fighting, only 90 could still bear arms.

Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender’s poem. You are men who in your “lives fought for life… and left the vivid air signed with your honor.”

I think I know what you may be thinking right now—thinking “we were just part of a bigger effort; everyone was brave that day.” Well, everyone was. Do you remember the story of Bill Millin of the 51st Highlanders? Forty years ago today, British troops were pinned down near a bridge, waiting desperately for help. Suddenly, they heard the sound of bagpipes, and some thought they were dreaming. Well, they weren’t. They looked up and saw Bill Millin with his bagpipes, leading the reinforcements and ignoring the smack of the bullets into the ground around him.

Lord Lovat was with him—Lord Lovat of Scotland, who calmly announced when he got to the bridge, “Sorry I’m a few minutes late,” as if he’d been delayed by a traffic jam, when in truth he’d just come from the bloody fighting on Sword Beach, which he and his men had just taken.

There was the impossible valor of the Poles who threw themselves between the enemy and the rest of Europe as the invasion took hold, and the unsurpassed courage of the Canadians who had already seen the horrors of war on this coast. They knew what awaited them there, but they would not be deterred. And once they hit Juno Beach, they never looked back.

All of these men were part of a rollcall of honor with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore: the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Poland’s 24th Lancers, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Screaming Eagles, the Yeomen of England’s armored divisions, the forces of Free France, the Coast Guard’s “Matchbox Fleet” and you, the American Rangers.

Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet, you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith and belief; it was loyalty and love.

The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge—and pray God we have not lost it—that there is a profound, moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you.

The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They fought—or felt in their hearts, though they couldn’t know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4 a.m., in Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying, and in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell.

Something else helped the men of D-Day: their rockhard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God was an ally in this great cause. And so, the night before the invasion, when Colonel Wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer he told them: Do not bow your heads, but look up so you can see God and ask His blessing in what we’re about to do. Also that night, General Matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise God made to Joshua: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”

These are the things that impelled them; these are the things that shaped the unity of the Allies.

When the war was over, there were lives to be rebuilt and governments to be returned to the people. There were nations to be reborn. Above all, there was a new peace to be assured. These were huge and daunting tasks. But the Allies summoned strength from the faith, belief, loyalty, and love of those who fell here. They rebuilt a new Europe together.

There was first a great reconciliation among those who had been enemies, all of whom had suffered so greatly. The United States did its part, creating the Marshall plan to help rebuild our allies and our former enemies. The Marshall plan led to the Atlantic alliance—a great alliance that serves to this day as our shield for freedom, for prosperity, and for peace.

In spite of our great efforts and successes, not all that followed the end of the war was happy or planned. Some liberated countries were lost. The great sadness of this loss echoes down to our own time in the streets of Warsaw, Prague, and East Berlin. Soviet troops that came to the center of this continent did not leave when peace came. They’re still there, uninvited, unwanted, unyielding, almost 40 years after the war. Because of this, allied forces still stand on this continent. Today, as 40 years ago, our armies are here for only one purpose—to protect and defend democracy. The only territories we hold are memorials like this one and graveyards where our heroes rest.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two World Wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We’ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

But we try always to be prepared for peace; prepared to deter aggression; prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms; and, yes, prepared to reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation. In truth, there is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union, so, together, we can lessen the risks of war, now and forever.

It’s fitting to remember here the great losses also suffered by the Russian people during World War II: 20 million perished, a terrible price that testifies to all the world the necessity of ending war. I tell you from my heart that we in the United States do not want war. We want to wipe from the face of the Earth the terrible weapons that man now has in his hands. And I tell you, we are ready to seize that beachhead. We look for some sign from the Soviet Union that they are willing to move forward, that they share our desire and love for peace, and that they will give up the ways of conquest. There must be a changing there that will allow us to turn our hope into action.

We will pray forever that some day that changing will come. But for now, particularly today, it is good and fitting to renew our commitment to each other, to our freedom, and to the alliance that protects it.

We are bound today by what bound us 40 years ago, the same loyalties, traditions, and beliefs. We’re bound by reality. The strength of America’s allies is vital to the United States, and the American security guarantee is essential to the continued freedom of Europe’s democracies. We were with you then; we are with you now. Your hopes are our hopes, and your destiny is our destiny.

Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. Let our actions say to them the words for which Matthew Ridgway listened: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”

Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their value [valor], and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.

Thank you very much, and God bless you all.”

“On the evening of October 2, 1918, Major Charles White Whittlesey led nearly 700 men under his command into the Charlevaux Ravine, deep with the Argonne Forest of France. That night, the Germans quietly surrounded them, completely cutting them off from all contact with their main line.

Five Days later 194 survivors walked out.” (1)

“Their division had forged one of the greatest and most storied legends or the war as well – that of the Lost Battalion, which had held out against incredible odds while surrounded behind enemy lines and had never surrendered, even when demanded to do so by the enemy. (2)  

“We do not “get over” a death. We learn to carry the grief and integrate the loss in our lives. In our hearts we carry those who have died. We grieve and we love. We Remember.” (3)

(1). From the Book, The Lost Battalion: Return to the Charlevaux by Robert J. Laplander, lulu press; (2). Ibid, page 30; (3). Natalie Himmelrich, taken from the X 22 Report, May 19, 2020; Photo above – Major Charles White Whittlesey, Commanding Officer, 77th Division.

Al Kaline died last month. He played right field for the Detroit Tigers for 22 years, batted .297 lifetime, had over 3,000 hits and slugged 399 homers. 

A Hall of Famer who was a class act. When the Tig’s offered him a contract for a hundred grand he refused it. He said it was too much money and he didn’t deserve it.

Such humility is rare.

No one patrolled right field at Tiger Stadium like Kaline did. Some called it “Kaline’s Korner.”

Tiger Stadium, like Wrigley, Fenway, and Yankee Stadium, was one of the “Green Cathedrals” of Major League Baseball. 

I enjoyed watching games from the right field corner. Back in the day we paid two bucks for those seats. Some days you slipped the usher a five spot and by the 4th inning and he’d move you over to the box seats. That is, if one was empty.

The “Tig’s” in their pearly white uniforms with the “Old English D” on that green carpet will be forever etched in my memory.

We always thought they’d be there: Kaline, “Stormin Norman” Cash; Gates Brown; Willie (The Wonderful) Horton; Mickey Lolich and Dick MacAuliffe.

Now, many have faded away and they’re just a distant memory.

I can still smell the aroma of steamed hotdogs, beer, roasted peanuts and cigar smoke blended together on a hot, summer night in the Motor City.

It was a wonderful time and I’am fortunate to live in such a city with a rich sports tradition.

A radio was on wherever you went with Ernie Harwell and Ray Lane calling the play-by-play. As kids, we’d fall asleep listening to Ernie’s voice while the Tig’s were on one of their west coast road swings.

I can still see “Grampa Tellarico” sitting on his front porch next door smoking his huge stogie, his transistor and an iced-cold Stroh’s on the porch next to him.

At times, I’d see him lean over while in his chair, puffing on his cigar, to listen to whatever it was Ernie had to say.

Erine’s voice was always blaring throughout the old neighborhood.

The Tigers brought a lot of healing to Detroit in ’68 because the city was almost destroyed during the ’67 riots. They beat the St. Louis Cardinals in seven games to win the World Series.

The Pennant Race of 1967 was one of the best in MLB History, going down to the last day of the season. Unfortuantely, the Tigers dropped the second game of a double header to the Angels and finished one game behind the Red Sox.

The riots started in late July after Detroit Po-Leece raided what was called a “Blind Pig” back then.

A “Blind Pig” was an illegal, after hours gambling and drinking joint. The festivities ended in the morning capped with the usual fistfight, stabbing or shooting.

However, on that day the riots began and the city went through a horrific week of violence.

“Grampa Tellarico” was on his front porch in those days listening to Ernie and Ray while the old neighborhood could see the West Side burning from 8 Mile Road (The Tigers had to play most of their games on the road that season).

The violence cost 43 people their lives, injured thousands, and left the city looking like a smoldering war zone after the Wart Hogs had been through on one of their sorties.

Beloved Detroit Free Press columnist Joe Falls, another Detroit icon, summarized the impact of the ’68 Tigers:

“My town, as you know, had the worst riot in our nation’s history in the summer of 1967, and it left scars which may never fully heal. . . . And so, as 1968 dawned and we all started thinking ahead to the hot summer nights in Detroit, the mood of our city was taut. It was apprehensive. But then something started happening in the middle of 1968. You could pull up to a light at the corner of Clairmount and 12th, which was the hub of last year’s riot, and the guy in the next car would have his radio turned up—‘McLain looks in for the sign, he’s set …here’s the pitch…’ It was a year when an entire community, an entire city, was caught up in a wild, wonderful frenzy.” (1)

Curtis made his name while playing for the Colts in Baltimore. 

The best way to describe it was that it looked like a block (See photo below).Anyway in 1970, he made his famous kick and who do you think it was against?

“An enemy who is the very embodiment of rash boldness, of military prowess, of crafty wiles, of untiring zeal and haste, of every conceivable weapon and of skill in the science of warfare.” John Calvin (1)

Continuing on the theme of “staying in the fight,” I want to bring it home with incident that happened almost thirty years ago to a young Los Angeles police officer by the name of Stacy Lim.

On June 9, 1990, Stacy was on her way home after playing in a department softball game. She was tired and didn’t notice she was being followed by 5 gang-bangers who were planning to kill her and steal her car.

Although off duty, Lim routinely placed her pistol under her left arm when she arrived home each night before exiting her car. She didn’t realize one of the thugs snuck up on her and pointed a .357 Magnum at her until the last second.

Stacy drew her weapon, identified herself and ordered the man to drop his gun. Both fired at the same time. A round “struck her square in the center of the chest. Stacy’s round hit the suspect in the shoulder. The bullet entered Stacy’s chest, knicked the base of her heart, her diaphragm, liver, intestine, and shattered her spleen, before exiting through a tennis ball sized hole in her back. (2)

Seriously wounded, Lim gave chase where the gunfight continued until Lim ended it by pumping three rounds into the bad boy. The other “perps” fled the scene, but were arrested hours later.

When responding officers arrived they found the suspect dead and Lim lying on the ground.On our spiritual journey there will be difficult times, times in the valley, where we’ll take incoming rounds. And they will be painful.

Lim described being shot this way: “If you take a javelin, heat up about a 1,000 degrees, shove the thing through your chest, that’s what it feels like – a real burning sensation.” (3)

Lim’s training kicked in that night. She took a good shooting stance and engaged the assailant.

People have talked themselves into dying after being seriously injured, but Stacy refused to cave. She isn’t a survivor, her mindset to overcome allowed her to prevail over her attacker.

Although her heart stopped once that night, Stacy never quit fighting and returned to active street duty 8 months later.

This incident is a powerful example of what it means to do all you can “to stand” even when fiery darts hit their intended target.

Train, Train, Train!

 1). John Calvin quote was used in a sermon on November 24, 2019, delivered by Nathan Smith (Senior Pastor, Heritage Baptist Church, Lynchburg, Virginia) entitled; “All Things New – A Divine Outpouring of Justice and Mercy.”; 2, 3). “I Knew I Wasn’t Going to Die” Sgt. Stacy Lim’s Story of Survival by Lt. Dan Marcou, PoliceOne.com, March 4, 2015

My family is in the midst of an intense spiritual battle going into its third year. During this time we have seen God wonderfully provide and work on our behalf. But, we’ve also been on the receiving end of some well placed rounds by the “Evil One.” Some of them have been so devastating they’ve knocked us off our feet so to speak.

If he could, Satan would wipe out our families. (1)

But thank God for “the hedges” He puts around His own.

Over the Christmas weekend we were struck, blindsided is a better word, by another one of his darts. It caught me by surprise and knocked the “dog snot” out of me. However, the Lord impressed upon me to get up and continue the fight even after being wounded.

I reverted to my training, realizing being knocked to the ground doesn’t mean I’m done in. I’ve been there before and understood what that means. It also means that I’m to continue fighting like a cornered “sewer rat.”That “still small voice” impressed upon me to continue swinging “The Sword of the Spirit,” get back on my feet and move to cover using “The Shield of Faith.”

I’m determined to pump more of His Word into me, so when the next attack comes I’ll fight – even if I get knocked off balance.

The Word endurance kept coming to mind, and I realize we may be in this fight for the long haul. As sure as I’m sitting here, Satan will be waiting to crank more rounds our way.

Remember this; the gun still fires when you’re on the ground. Next time when you’re on the receiving end of one of Satan’s attacks stay in the fight and keep fighting. Use the gear God has provided.

“Skills are perishable.”  So stay in the Word and memorize it.

“Here endeth the lesson.”

(1) Tom Harmon

The bad boy in Texas got the gun illegally because he had a criminal record and failed the background check. However, mainstream media says nothing about the shooting stats over the same weekend in Chicago; 7 dead, 36 wounded. According to Heather McDonald, author of The War on Cops, this doesn’t fit the media or Marxist narrative. She stated; “The mainstream media and Democrat establishment don’t give a damn about black lives unless a white police officer is involved.”

MacDonald also went on to say; “My heart goes out to the victims in Texas. But believe me Martha, this is a trival problem these mass shootings, compared to the daily carnage going on in inner cities. If the Democratic contenders really wanted to make a dent in gun violence in this country they would stop demonizing the cops. They would support proactive policing, because the majority of gun violence is going on in inner cities and can be solved by cops. 20 blacks a day are killed. That’s more that all white and hispanic homicide victims combined. This year we had 142 victims of mass shootings, we’re likely to have about 15,000 gun homicide victims, over half will be black…The media doesn’t care because it doesn’t fit their narritaive about a racist society. They do not care about black on black violence because it doesn’t advance their agenda of talking down what they see as an illegitimate power structure.” (1)

In my day on the streets we loved getting “self-initiated” felony arrests. We weren’t hammering good people, just the thugs wreaking havoc on citizens.  Pro-active policing, the self-initiated felony arrests by pro-active streets will be crime down in America’s urban ghettos.

Rush Limbaugh talked about Thursday night’s “back and forth” between Tucker Carlson and NYC Mayor, Bill De Blasio on his Friday show; I made a statement yesterday on this program and that idiot mayor in New York, Bill de Blasio, came along and made me look like a genius, which isn’t hard to do.… last night, this idiot de Blasio, for some reason, showed up on… Tucker Carlson’s Show (Fox News Channel, 09-05-19). 

So Tucker Carlson says, “You would have law-abiding people like me who have hunting rifles that fall under assault weapon category, and the cops would show up and say, ‘Give us your gun,’ and they would say, ‘No,’ and you would have — unfortunately, tragically, you would have — cases of violence. Are you okay with that?”

DE BLASIO: I’m being honest with you. We cannot have assault weapons in our society. We’ve seen the devastating impact. They need to be banned. Those just don’t belong in the hands of everyday people.

CARLSON: Would you subject your bodyguards to the same limitations as other American citizens?

DE BLASIO: Tucker, I respect you, but that’s a question that makes no sense whatsoever.

CARLSON: Of course it does.

DE BLASIO: If you have sworn law enforcement officers —

CARLSON: Of course it does. I’ve got a family just as you do. I have a lot of threats against me —

DE BLASIO: Sworn law enforcement officers —

CARLSON: — just as you do. Hold on. Slow down.

DE BLASIO: — who are here to protect all of us.

CARLSON: You get free bodyguards.

DE BLASIO: No, no, no, no.

CARLSON: I don’t. No, no, no.

DE BLASIO: No, no, no.

CARLSON: No, no, no.

DE BLASIO: I’m only going to —

CARLSON: You have bodyguards living at your house, and they’ve got magazines that I can’t protect my family with.

DE BLASIO: (sputtering)

CARLSON: Does that bother you as a champion of the little guy?

DE BLASIO: This society that we are living in — and I hate to say it — but public servants are vulnerable to violence in a different way. Our law enforcement officers are there to protect all of us!

RUSH: So you see, he needs his guns, but you don’t need yours! You’re too dangerous and risky to have guns. You don’t need ’em. But with licensed law enforcement, which he’s also disrespecting every chance he gets. (impression) “Well, I need my protection! I am an elected official. (sputtering) As mayor, I need to stay alive. Uh, you don’t need to be alive as much as I do and — and therefore… And my constituents will understand this.”

“These people are pure hypocrites. He doesn’t, I don’t think, know what he’s saying. He’s a programmed automaton here. “We can’t have assault weapons in our society! We’ve seen the devastating impact. They need to be banned! They just don’t belong in the hands of everyday people.” He hears two words, “assault weapons,” and comes back with that. It’s a programmed response. It’s not even the result of any applied thought.” (2)

(1). The Story with Martha MacCullum, Fox News Channel, 09-02-19; (2). Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show on the EIB Network; De Blasio Makes My Point on Liberal Hypocrisy, Sep 6, 2019, www.rushlimbaugh.com.

Like Him or not, President Trump is taking out his foes one by one.

Recently, he took four of the most radical members on the Left and successfully portrayed them as the new face of the Democrat party – something that may not sit well with the old Blue Dog Dems in 2020.

He showed you how a true leader defends his troops by punching back against one of the most corrupt members in Congress after he launched an attack on one of his cabinet appointees.

Now, he’s taken the media out of the ballgame.

“For two or three weeks running now, every time Trump has done one of these press conferences on the way to the helicopter, I have pointed out how masterful they are. I pointed out earlier this week that Trump appears to be a maestro because he’s the only person you see.

You don’t see the reporters, which is brilliant, gets ’em away from face time, prevent them from showboating. Nobody even knows who they are. They sound like a bunch of 6-year-old first graders shouting at the teacher. And Trump is pointing when their time to speak is and holding a hand up when they’re to stop and waving them away when they’re making no sense and pointing to somebody else.

It’s a brilliant, brilliant virtuoso performance. And it goes on for 30 minutes and it replaced the daily White House press briefing. But the main point of it is that it has deemphasized the face time and show-off, showboat potential for the Drive-By Media.” (2)

By holding conferences before taking off, Mr. Trump has shown the America people that members of mainstream media are “unruly and disorganzied…and there’s no question it works to his advantage.” (3)

It’s fun to watch this, folks.

(1).Trump’s ‘chopper talk’ news conferences blow away White House press corps: by Danielle Wallace, 08-23-19, Fox News; (2). My Observation on White House Pressers Now News by Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show 08-23-19, on the EIB Network; (3). Trump’s ‘chopper talk’ puts media on the defensive by Michael Calderone and Daniel Lippman, 08-22-19

When you have rats in the house, you call in an exterminator. In 2016, that’s what Americans did when they elected Donald Trump President. He was hired to clean out the rat’s nest. We are in very crucial times, the war continues to escalate.

Last weekend, a member of Antifa was killed by police officers when he attacked a government building. We can expect more attacks of this nature.

Many Christans need to wake up and quit reading Scripture through rose-colored glasses. We’ve become a society that knows very little about sacrifice and our obligation to defend our God-given rights.

There are four radicals in Congress that must be defeated in the next election. If their Marxist ideology prevails, the next generation, our kids and grandkids, will lives as slaves under an iron-fisted regime.

Media and Leftists “want us to view them as victims, but they need to be called out for who they are – reprobates!” (1) 

And that’s exactly what President Donald Trump has done.

Here’s my most recent letter to my Rep in Congress:

I’m fed up with the anti-American diatribe coming from some members in Congress. When the Left loses they become unhinged and resort to all kind of Alinsky-style tactics, including violence.

In 2000 it was “hanging chads,” after the 2016 election it’s “Russian collusion.”

Over 40 million dollars has been spent scamming the American people with bogus investigations in order to overturn the election of a duly elected president. All of which was designed from the on-set to lay cover fire in an effort to protect Madame Clinton.

Americans are fully aware of what’s going on on the Democrat side regarding their anti-Americanism. I love it when the President “tweets.”

When he told the four Congresswoman to love America or leave it, he put the Democrat party in the “trick bag”. Democrat leadership was forced to come out and defend the most radical individuals in the party. Those who make anti-Jewish, Anti-American statements. Those who have no intention to assimilating to the American way of life.

President Trump wanted Nancy Pelosi and the Democrat leadership to adopt the socialism and communism that Cortez, Talib and Omar are pushing. They took the bait and the President has shown the modern Democrat Party is openly Communist, led by young, aspiring anti-Americans.

The Left goes nuts because they can’t defend their position and provide a sufficient answer and they resort to their favorite weapon – calling someone who tells the truth a racist. Big deal!

I wont be surprised if voters are drawn away from the Dems in the next election. Judging by the fact that 3.5 million people were discovered to be on voter roles illegally, its no wonder we’re forced to put up with the antics of people who have an intense dislike for America and are working feverishly to destroy the nation.

Make your voices heard!

(1). Mark Levin

Adams “looked prophetically into the future of the nation, saying the the day on which the Declaration was passed, The Second Day of July 1776″:

“…will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this Time forward forever more.

You will think me transported with Enthusiasm but I am not. — I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. — Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not.” (2)

(1 & 2). The Light and The Glory: Did God Have a Plan For America?, by Peter Marshall and David Manuel, p. 309-11.

I won’t bore you with all the violations taking place by those in Congress who call themselves “representatives of the people.” What has been done to this nation over the last two-and one half years as a result of a bogus investigation against the President and his family is criminal.

However, permit me to share a few lines from one pastor’s sermon during America’s Founding. Mayhew was setting his sights on George III, but apply what he’s preaching to those in Congress today.

“In America…resistance to oppression had been a favorite topic in Yankee pulpits for more than a century. Indeed, a quarter of a century before Paul Revere’s night ride, one of its most articulate (albeit increasingly liberal) proponents, Jonathan Mayhew of Boston, preached:

“It is blasphemy to call tyrants and oppressors God’s ministers…When magistrates rob and ruin the public, instead of being guardians of its peace and welfare, they immediately cease to be the ordinance and ministers of God, and no more deserve that glorious character than common pirates and highwaymen.”

“Fifteen years later, the hated Stamp Act brought forth this response from Mayhew:

“The king is a much bound by his oath not to infringe the legal rights of the people, as the people are bound to yield subjection to him. From whence it follows that as soon as the prince sets himself up above the law, he loses the king in the tyrant. He does, to all intents and purposes, un-king himself by acting out of and beyond that sphere which the constitution allows him to move in, and in such cases he has no more right to be obeyed than any inferior officer who acts beyond his commission. The subject’s obligation to allegiance then ceases, of course, and to resist him is no more rebellion than to resist  any foreign invader…it is making use of the means, and the only means, which God has put into their power for mutual and self-defense.” (1)

Spend some time reading the Declaration this week along with Romans 13.  You might also consider reading the book mentioned below.

(1). The Light and The Glory: Did God Have a Plan For America? by Peter Marshall and David Manuel, Chapter 14; “No King but King Jesus!”, pages 264-265.