The Truth about our political situation.

Warfare does not necessarily mean that you have to shoot someone. Warfare is the act of using force to try to take someone's, life, liberty or livelihood or to impose your prospective against their will. Wars happen because one group seeks to take or to impose and the other group resist the taking or the imposition. Force is not necessarily just a direct threat against some one's life, it can also be a lie that seeks to deceive, or to seek to intimidate and silence, the use of laws and regulations in an unjust manner, it is whatever means you use to take and make someone comply with your agenda against their will. Warfare always has the same result it is someone is killed, or captured and enslaved, or their goods and livelihood taken.

The radical left is making war against the American people! It is high time we wake up and call it what it really is. When they seek to silence and intimidate those who believe in the principles which this nation was founded on by calling us extremist, when they seek to take more and more of our property and liberty in order to advance their agenda, when they seek to pit one group against another, when they seek to indoctrinate our children with their godless perspectives, when they seek to force us to acknowledge that sinful lifestyles are normal, and impose a view of marriage on us that goes against God, are they not making war against us.

When they seek to undermine the American constitution, when they seek to advance a global socialist agenda, when they try to tell us what we can eat, what we must drive, what kind of health care we must buy, when they tell us one thing during an election campaign and do the opposite, when they use the evil actions of a nutcase in Arizona to advance their agendas by blaming it on their political enemies with no evidence to prove their point, when they seek to take the means of self defense away from law abiding citizens, when they attack our nation and defend our enemies, when they seek to silence us through political correctness and defining opposing speech as hate speech they are making war against us and the united states.

They may not be shooting a gun at us but they are using every deceitful means possible to undermine our way of life and our nation and create a global socialist government. We need to recognise that this is not the work of those who have our best interest at heart, this is the work of people who wish to impose a new system and way of life that they will dictate to us. Sun Zu in the art of war said, know your enemy”. We can not know our enemy if we will not even acknowledge that we have an enemy, as long as we bury our heads in the sand and deny what is happening, we are being conquered. Our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness are in grave danger.

Now when I use the term war I am not advocating that we take up arms against anyone. We have to realize that politics is warfare by peaceful means. Until we come to the place that we understand that the left is making war against us, politically, we will continue to be like sheep led to the slaughter. We must use the vehicles that the framers of the Constitution gave us and engage in this war or we will be plunged into the darkness of tyranny.

If we love the comfort of our lives so much that we fail to resist the evil that is growing amongst us what are we saying to the founders of this nation who were willing to lay down their lives and sacred honor in order to give us the freedoms that we enjoy. If Patrick Henry was willing to say, “give me liberty or give me death”, the question is what will we be willing to say when it has not even come to that.

Just like our founding fathers we must all pledge our lives and sacred honors so that the freedoms that we enjoy can be passed on to the next generation of Americans. In the heat of battle we must keep our heads and not resort to violence unless open violence is committed against us. We must not stoop to the level of our enemies an use their unethical means, but we must employ every righteous weapon in our arsenal, especially the truth.

Knowing our enemies means that we must not be gullible but must have a healthy distrust of politicians and the media. Only if they prove themselves true to the freedoms of America should they be supported. We must work to un-elect any politician that seeks to undermine the Constitution and must work to elect politicians that share our values. If we do not support media outlets that prove themselves as anti-American, and supporting the leftist agenda, they will fail, because advertisers will cease to support them. Other media outlets will emerge to take their place that serve the interests of the American people.

We must teach our children how to recognize propaganda when it is being disseminated so that they are equipped to also engage in this battle and are not casualties. We must begin in our communities to help our neighbors and friends to see that the principles upon which this country was founded are the only way that their freedoms can be preserved. In these days we must be willing to speak and understand that we may be call or thought of as extremists, but that should not concern us, because if liberty is extreme, what is tyranny?

The Constitution and Authority

The Constitution and Authority

The Constitution makes our Nation Exist

If you want to know what defines the United States of America, it is the Constitution. It is the very definition for our existence. In other words our founding father sat down and defined for all generations what this new country would be. Our very existence as a nation is based upon the words of this document. It is the authority by which we are governed as free People. It is the authority by which our leaders rule and pass laws that we as a society submit. As imperfect a system as this is, it has worked very well. We have for the most part had 250 years of peaceful transitions of power.

Governments must have a basis for power. No government can exist apart from some thing that gives the ruler the right to rule. Now that basis has differed throughout history and nations. In some societies some families gained the right to rule and this would be passed on to father to son, or daughter. In other societies a mans wisdom and ability would give him the right to lead and he would be called chief because of the demonstration of his ability. But in most cases through out human history the sword has been the basis of power. Men took power, from others they deemed there inferiors and then used the power of the sword to enforce there will on the people. The people were forced to submit to their will at the threat of death. History is littered with the tyrannical exercise of the power of the sword.
Shortly before the founding of our nation men began to dream of a new basis for power one in which freedom of the individual would be protected, the power of the state would be limited, and the will of the people would be supreme. What they came up with was a social contract. These two definitions from Wikipedia are a good starting point for our discussion, “The notion of the social contract implies that the people give up sovereignty to a government or other authority in order to receive or maintain social order through the rule of law. It can also be thought of as an agreement by the governed on a set of rules by which they are governed.”
A social contract was unique because it recognized that authority for the government came not from the governor, but from the “consent of the people”. Before that there was some basis forced onto the people and in most cases it was the power of the sword or as Mao said “the barrel of a gun”.

Our system is a social contract! We the sovereign people of the United States have consented to be governed based upon this document and this document alone. It defines our rights as the citizens of this great nation. It defines how governors will govern, the limits of the authority that they can impose upon us.

Our society does not exist apart from this document nor is there any authority to govern apart from it. That is why when I joined the Marine Corps, I was asked to pledge to defend the Constitution against all enemies both foreign and domestic. All leaders in the federal government take the same oath. Notice they do not pledge to defend the government of the United States, why because the only reason that the authority of the government exists is because of this social contract that defines their authority. Apart from their adherence to its dictates their authority does not exist, and no one is bound to obey any law that is not in accordance with it.

Why the left is playing with fire when they try to get rid of the constitution.

When officials seek to view the constitution as an obstacle to whatever agenda they want to impose upon us they are undermining the very basis of their authority. If some governor succeeded in setting aside this document there would be no basis for their authority and our nation would cease to exist. Any law that they passed would not have to be obeyed by anyone, any regulations that they imposed would be irrelevant. The former citizens of the united States would not be bound to their rule at all. Why because in our nation the constitution defines that authority.

Those who dream of a better world apart from the words of this document have evil motives because they are actually trying to impose some other basis for governance upon the
American people and as we see from human history in most cases it has been the power of the sword. The existence of power apart from the tyranny of the sword has been rare. The only way that rulers held onto power before the innovation of the social contract was to tyrannize their citizens; to tread on their individual liberties and to impose authority on the people.

Most societies degenerated into generations of civil war and strife because the only basis for power was the sword an often there are two if not three leaders who all wield that power at once. This is what happened in the Roman Republic after the republic could not maintain control they gave control to the dictator Cesar Augustus who gladly wielded the power of the sword to maintain control. In successive generations the Roman Empire would degenerate into civil war after civil war.

What we are asking for if we think the constitution is irrelevant, is for a different basis for authority. Now today there are groups of leaders who deem themselves the ruling class. They think because they have gone to the best educational institutions, and come from the best socialist educations that they will be wise enough to create the Utopian dream of the Marxists. They see the Constitution as an obstacle to their “right to rule” and they are seeking to undermine it at every turn. They belittle the American people and the Christian basis for our society. In their madness they have deem themselves as the authorities of our nation, and imagine that they will be wise enough to create what others have failed to create. They see their vision as compelling because they foolishly think that they can create to perfect world by their own wisdom. But what will they create? They will only succeed in creating another terrible tyranny that will abuse the rights of the individuals and be another terrible black spot on human history.

Why we must not surrender to tyranny!

If they succeed in their mad schemes of destroying the authority of the Constitution they are really succeeding in destroying our nation, because our nation is the Constitution. It is not the courts, or congress, or the president, it is the Constitution that causes our Nation to exist. All authority within our nation must subscribe to it or it is not applicable to the American people. All laws that are past must be in accordance with it or they are not relevant to the American people.

Anyone who tries to govern apart from it are illegitimate and the American people are not bound to their authority. In essence if we under mine it we are asking for a terrible power struggle in which millions will die, because the only basis left will be “the barrel of a gun” and force. When they seek to undermine it they are really stealing authority from the people and seeking to take if for themselves.

Politics in reality is warfare by peaceful means and the only way it can remain peaceful is when the basis for our society is respected by all. It is when our Constitution is respected and upheld that our political system will continue to function as the founders of this country envisioned. Political discussion and disagreement are not bad but good, and when we can disagree without resorting to violence we are fulfilling the social contract that has served us so well for 250 years.

If we the people surrender our “right to rule” and the Constitution we are really submitting to tyranny. We must look to the wisdom not of men but of God to guide us or we will plunge into darkness in which the human race will not emerge from on its own. If there is one lesson that we must draw from it is that our freedoms that we enjoy are fragile and non-existent in human history. For our system we should be grateful.

Steven Wenner

A poem of the second coming

A day is drawing near
that will fill men's heart with fear,
The sun and moon will fail
and darkness will prevail
The people of the earth will fear,
because the know their doom is near.
They'll cry to the rock to fall on them
and save them from the coming lamb.

Though the darkness causes fear,
we will know his comings near.
We will lift our head to the sky,
causes his glory is drawing neigh
He has told us ahead of time,
So that you would not fall asleep,
but watch and wait for his comings sure
and keep your lantern on.

Though trouble draws near
and will False Christ's will appear,
Wars and famine rage
and the world begins to sake,
though the oceans rise with foam,
remember this earth is not our home.
His glory will soon appear the time is drawing near.

Persecutions and trials will arise,
because the Devil know his time,
he will cause the nations to rage,
their hatred will not be known
know that these things must happen
But the end is yet to come
so do not let them silence you, and
and trust Christ as your own.

But for us who know the Lord,
we will look for our reward,
The glory of our coming king,
oh what joy that will bring.
The moments drawing near,
so free your heart from fear.
Watch and wait and persevere,
His glory will soon appear.

Why sign stealing is not a small matter.

Why sign stealing is not a small matter.

Dear Beverly Review;

I would like to address the issue of stealing political signs. Sign stealing may seem like a small matter, almost a kids game, but in reality it is a evil act, an act of warfare against the freedoms of your fellow citizens. Oppression comes in many forms, it can come from the barrel of a gun, or passing of laws that takes away freedom, or from neighbors who want to silence the free speech of those who disagree with them. They may seem to all be of different categories, but in reality they all accomplish the same evil end which is to attempt to enslave, oppress, and silence another.

America is built on the principle of freedom. We have all been “endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, life liberty and the pursuit of happiness”. What makes a system of democracy work and not degenerate into a civil war is when the society respects and upholds the rights of others. That does not mean that we all have to agree, but freedom demands that I respect your right to disagree with me. A civil and just society can only exist when the rights of everyone in the society are respected and we peacefully accept the out come of our exercise in democracy.

What surprises me is that a majority of people in this neighborhood would call themselves Christians, and yet this sort of thing goes on perpetuated by Christian people. The main problem from a Christian perspective it is a failure to love your neighbor as yourself. Loving my neighbor as myself means I treat there opinion the same way I want them to treat mine. If I steal his sign, I am stealing his free speech, I steal his liberty, and that is not loving my neighbor.
We have the privilege of all participating in our great democratic system this spring. The question isn’t who will win or lose but what type of people will we be when the election is over. If I win by cheating I have really lost, because I have lost something far worst than losing an election, I have lost my soul. When we allow this type of thing to go one we also lose the spirit and power of our great democratic system and the sense of community that can only be present when we respect and love our neighbors.

Steven Wenner

What is the limitations of the Power of the state?

What is the limitations of the Power of the state?

Romans 13 is a passage that has been used and abuse to say that Christians are obligated to obey the state no matter what. Is this true? Was Paul saying that a Christian had to obey Nero no matter what? I have had that addressed to me at different times in my ministry and have personally struggled with that issue.

It is interesting if you look at the Declaration of Independence, this question was in view when the founding fathers of our nation succeeded from England. The King of England was a big fan of Romans 13 meaning that a Christian was obligated to give unlimited submission to the state. The Colonist were writing a document from the belief that the King of England in the Abuse of his power had abdicated his right to rule.

I believe that this question is relevant today because there is the idea present that “The Church and the State should be separated” and that the Church really has nothing to say to the state. Religious ideas in some circles are not welcome in the state and there is a concerted effort to say that only secular ideas are welcomed.

This of course is not what the Constitution means, The meaning of the first amendment was to keep the government from establishing religion, not from keeping religious ideas out of the state. It seems to me that this current interpretation actually is the violation of the Constitution because it establishes secularism as the official religion of the state and secularism is a religion that is in direct opposition to Christianity.

What is the obligation of the state according to Romans 13? It is good that we start there because if we do not have a firm understanding of this we can not accurately understand the obligation of the Christian in relationship to the state. The purpose of the state is to encourage right and punish evil (Romans 13:3-5). In other words the state has the obligation to protect individuals from Evil and to encourage them to do good.

What is good and what is evil according to God? You would have to go back to the 10 commandments for this definition if you really want to know what is good and what is evil. The first 4 of the commandments relate to God and the second 6 are related to man. So good is, faith in God, and evil would be to hinder religion or promote secularism. Then as far as it goes in relationship to man, you have the other six commandments what is good according to the commandments: obedience to parents, respect for life, respect for morality in Marriage, respect of private property, promoting the truth, contentment with what you have. We can see that a good government promotes family, protects life, this includes the unborn, promotes morality in marriage, protects private property, and promotes truth rather than lies and propaganda.

So if government becomes opposed to these things: faith in God, the family and marriage, does not protect life, takes away and no longer protects private property, and promotes lies rather than the truth. Isn’t it ceasing to serve its God given function? If the government passes laws that are in opposition to what is right, are we as Christians obligated to obey those laws? The answer is no! In fact a Christian is obligated to disobey those laws.

In Acts 5 we have the incident recorded of Peter and the Apostles being told that they can not preach in Jesus’ name and their response is to disobey the government, why because the government had overstepped its God given authority and had become opposed to God. During the Nazi occupation of Holland Christians hid Jews from the Nazis because God’s law was higher than mans and saving life is the most important thing that we can do.

If the government orders Pastors to perform Homosexual marriages we must decline because that would be a violation of God’s law and we must obey God rather than man. If Doctors are forced to commit Abortion they should refuse even if they lose their medical license because they must obey God rather than man. If parents are told that they must not teach there kids about God we must disobey these laws because God’s law is higher.

The point that I am making is that, God’s law is highest and all human laws must be subject to God’s laws or Christian should not obey them. Human government is limited by God, God has not given the state unlimited power to abuse it citizens or to hinder their relationship with Him. So were our founding fathers of America wrong in Rebelling against the King of England? No they listed his abuses and then established a new government that would encourage the right and punish evil doers

Blessings Pastor Wenner

Constitution and the Reality of Evil.

I hear today more and more people questioning the wisdom of the Constitution as the basis for our society. They say that it is an old irrelevant document of a bunch of misguided men. Men who really did not understand the true pathway to freedom and a better and more just society. “Today we know better, we know because of men like Marx and Engel told us how to create a better society”. “We know if we just follow their path we will end up with a Utopian society in which justice will prevail”, is the modern mantra. They say that the individual rights in the Constitution should be replaced with a more compassionate corporate rights that would benefit the society as a whole.

The question is are individual rights irrelevant should we abandon them for the good of the society as a whole? Is it good for society to deny individual rights in order to create a more just and equable society? Is that even possible apart from individual rights? These are the questions that we are face with in every generation.

To me the answer to all of these questions are answered in human history. Every evil act that we learn about from history is because societies did not respect individual rights. Whether it was the slavery and conquests of the Roman Empire, the plunder and murder of the vikings, the Inquisition of the Papacy, the various holocausts of the Jews, the oppression of the Czars in Russia, the murderous rampage of the Nazis and the Japanese, the gulags of the Communists, all these were failures to respect and uphold individual rights. The leaders in all these case deemed what they thought was right for the good of the society, (and that is always what is best for the leader in reality) and atrocities were committed on individuals. Every evil act is an act against an individual. It is ultimately individuals for whatever reason that bear the brunt of the “good of the society”.
What we have to realize is that the body count from governments is far greater than what anything individuals can do. As bad as the evil actions of individuals, whether it is Columbine, or Murrah Federal building, or the recent shooting in Arizona of the Congresswomen, all these pale in comparison to what Governments have done in the name of “good”. Just a cursory glance at human history and you will see that the greatest atrocities are committed by governments. You may say that we can name the culprits but in reality all the evil kings of the world have been governors. My point exactly.

When governments gain absolute power over their citizens there is the potential for absolute evil. Lord Acton said it best “"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." The men who founded this country as imperfect as they were lived with the consciousness of the atrocities of the Kings and Queens of England. The tea incident was just the last straw in a string of Abuses that had been inflicted on people by the rulers of England.

The genius of the founders of this country was they limited the power of government. They created a system that gave individuals rights and limited the power of governors under the law. By binding all men to the law they limited the evil that man could do in the name of the state. You might say “but the United States is still a nation guilty of evil”, and I would say that is true, but our system is always been self correcting because it is based on Laws and individual rights. If you look at our country, slavery was abolished, Jim Crow laws repealed, Governors have gone to jail, why because ultimately the individual rights that our system guarantees have prevailed. People have prevailed when they demand the rights that our bill of rights and Constitution articulated. In fact I would argue that the evil that the US is guilty of was a failure to give individuals the rights that were guaranteed by our system.

If we think that some how our system is flawed, and maybe we can make a better one, I would ask you to examine where the real flaw lies. Does the flaw lie with the system, or does the flaw lie with the people? This is the great philosophical question I believe that we are debating today. Is it individuals who do evil or systems that do evil: or does the system merely give evil individuals a greater or lessor capacity for evil? The socialists, Marxists, and the Statest Liberals are quick to blame the system, “it is evil capitalism that creates the evil that we see in the world”. If this is true as they claim why did socialism, Marxism, and stateism of the 20th century do so much more evil than Capitalism? If you think global socialism is the solution that you think will solve the worlds problems then why is the body count from communism (socialism) so high.

Why should we trust a system that has proven itself to be more evil then the one that we have? It seems to me that you have to aggagerate the evil of America to even come close to the evil committed by the Soviet Union, and Communist China. Even if you say that our wars to defend our economic interest around the world, slavery, racism, ect. are terrible, and they are. You don’t even come close to the body count of the communism which is around 160,000,000. The problem is the system, when it gives evil individuals such a great potential for evil; the results are always the same, great evil! I would rather live with a limited potential for evil than give into a system that has the terrible potential for evil apart for a system laws that defend individual rights.

Only a system of law and of protection of individual right can serve this purpose because it limits the power and authority of government. In other words as imperfect as our system is we should want to live under the system where men are free and evil is limited. The whole idea that we can create the perfect world if we just had the right person is a pipe dream. History is littered with evil men who claimed to be “the right person” and who did evil in the name of good.

Remember we are stuck with any “Messiah” that we empower. If we think that some leader has the answers to our problems, that belief may not be played out in time the way, we hope in the moment. Once you go down the path way to following men rather than laws there is no turning back and the potential for evil is great. This has played out in human history over and over again, when the Russian people gave in to the Marxist, in reality they submitted to a greater evil than the Czars. When the German people followed Hitler and gave their rights to this “savior” little did they know they were submitting to the destruction of their nation and death of millions. Every leader has proven to be a false hope, why because they in reality are just as screwed up as you are. The potential for evil that is in your heart is in theirs as well.

The reality that we all must face is that we all need help, but in reality help from another human being will prove to be a false hope. Only God has the solution to our problems that is why over and over again we are warned in the scriptures of trusting men. Psalm 118:8 “it is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man. 9 it is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.” Psalm 146:3 “do not put your trust in princes, in mortal men, who cannot save.” Only when we look to God can we in reality find the solutions to our problems.

I don’t know about you but I am sticking with the Constitution and looking to God.

Steven Wenner

Psalm 146

Our politics becomes idolatry when we look to leaders to solve our problems. Psalm 146 reminds us that only God can ultimately be our source of hope. When we look to Government and not God we only end up with confusion and greater destruction. We in the united states of America are seeing the destruction of our country because we have made our leaders god and trusted in them. Everything that they say they can do will ultimately fail. I found it amazing this week that at the G8 summit the leaders we talking about lowering global temperatures 2 degrees. What stupidity to thing that they have the power to lower the Earths temperature. That is only something that the God who created the universe can do. Read Psalm 146 and change your perspective.

“1 ¶ Praise the LORD! Praise the LORD, O my soul! 2 I will praise the LORD while I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. 3 Do not trust in princes, In mortal man, in whom there is no salvation. 4 His spirit departs, he returns to the earth; In that very day his thoughts perish. 5 ¶ How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, 6 Who made heaven and earth, The sea and all that is in them; Who keeps faith forever; 7 Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free. 8 The LORD opens [the eyes of] the blind; The LORD raises up those who are bowed down; The LORD loves the righteous; 9 The LORD protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked. 10 The LORD will reign forever, Your God, O Zion, to all generations. Praise the LORD!” (Psalms 146:1-10 NAS95)

If you are looking to government to solve your problems you will be sadly disappointed but if you are looking to the God of Israel who sent his Son Jesus into the world to save the world than you will have success. Only God can solve man's problems and meet man's needs.