The continuing battle for freedom
NOTICE;
THIS IS NOT JUST A BATTLE FOR AMERICAN FREEDOM ONLY, BUT FOR THE FREEDOM OF EVERY MAN WOMAN AND CHILD IN THIS WORLD.
Pray for Your nation and the people of other nations around the world, that we as a people, all God’s Creation, will be able to preserve and maintain The Rights of Man, Ordained by God!
The struggle for men and women to be free is now within reach, but those who would deny them are using everything within their power to take them away.
It is time to stand together, people of every nation around the world, and claim Our God given rights as His Creation.
Please note; The following videos are directed to the people of the USA, however everyone should take note of what could happen, if we take our freedoms for granted.
Please view the following YOUTUBE videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKFKGrmsBDk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeYscnFpEyA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3kTkeUOSEk
WHO IS JOHN HORNE TOOKE?
John Horne Tooke
Robert Morris, a Welsh barrister, was elected secretary, John Horne Tooke became treasurer. Other members of the group included John Sawbridge, ...www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRtooke.htm - Cached - Similar
HISTORICAL NOTE; THE RIGHTS OF MAN WAS ORIGINALLY OUTLINED BY AN ORGANIZATION IN ENGLAND IN THE EARLY 1700’S CALLED” THE BILL OF RIGHTS SOCIETY”, HEADED UP BY A MAN NAMED ----JOHN HORNE TOOKE
NOTE
Thomas Paine visited this group, and later brought his version of them to America, where they were adopted as what is now the United States ‘Bill of Rights’.
Quakers in the Military and Conscription Laws Affecting QuakersThe initial stages of Quakersim in England during 1650s saw the coexistence of Quaker soldiers and at least a few Quaker pacifists. George Fox, founder of Quakerism, was responsible for introducing pacifist theory into the sect, however initially he never tried to persuade his coreligionists to lay down their arms. However, the spread of the Quaker religion among soldiers brought about a wholesale expulsion of the "undisciplined" converts from the armed forces, particularly from the Cromwellian army in Ireland and Scotland. The Society's emerging peace testimony preached just war rather than total rejection of it and the purging of Quaker soldiers from the forces was taken offensively by many early Friends. Isaac Pennington professed the righteousness of the Quaker cause while maintaining the right of governments to bear arms when necessary and in a just manner: "I speak not this against any magistrate's or people's defending themselves against foreign invasions, or making use of the sword to suppress the violent and evil-doers within their borders... but yet there is a better state which the Lord hath already brought some into, and which nations are to expect to travel towards." [KW1]1
A MESSAGE FROM: STAN PENNINGTON, PATRIOTS FOR CHRIST
( With a little help from Isaac Pennington)
The following text was taken from the writings of Isaac Pennington. a Quaker, (Society of Friends) minister in the early 1700’s in England.
He spent most of his life locked in the tower of London for his independent stand on the true church--- The following is his testimony—I believe it is relative to today, and has stood the test of time. We as a people are beginning to see more each day that the Body of Christ is truly, those who are bought with His Blood, and follow His voice.
(It is not about religion.)
Concerning the true Church and Ministry
(By -Isaac Pennington)
THERE is a great noise in the world about church and ministry. Many are affirming which is it, and many are doubtful and inquiring about it; and many are truly and groundedly satisfied, having received the knowledge of the thing from God, who is not deceived about it, nor deceiveth any, but giveth the true understanding of these and other things, to them that wait upon him aright; to wit, in his fear, and in the silence of the fleshly wise part before him. Now, I have a testimony to give concerning these things, which that ear which is of God can hear, and to that I desire to speak.
That is the church, which is the spiritual body of Christ. The church is Christ's spouse, he the husband. The head is living, and so are all the members of the body. The head is anointed, and the oil wherewith the head is anointed runs down from the head upon all the body; and that upon which the oil runs not <7> is none of the body. Now, no outward thing can make one a member of this body; much less can any outward thing, way, profession, or practice make a church. The church under the law was made so by outward things, by an outward gathering, an outward circumcision, an outward law, an outward worship, &c.; but the gospel is a state of substance, a state of the invisible things, of persons invisibly gathered by the Spirit into the life and power of God, inwardly circumcised, inwardly baptized with the Holy Ghost and with fire, inwardly worshipping in Spirit and truth, bowing at every sound and name of the Lord Jesus: and what is of an outward state here is brought forth and preserved by the power of the inward appearing, and dwelling in it. So that this is the church now, -- a people gathered by the life and Spirit of the Lord; a people gathered by the power from on high, abiding in the power, acting in the power, worshipping in the power, keeping in the holy order and government of life (both inwardly in their own hearts, and outwardly in their assemblings and walkings) by the power. Christ was made a king, priest, and prophet, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life; and in this power he gathers, governs, and preserves his church, and ministereth from and by his Spirit and power in it. Now, find this power of the endless life, find a people anywhere gathered by this power, and in this power; there is the church, there is the living body, there is Christ the head, whose dominion and strength is over all, against whom the gates of hell cannot prevail.
And so for the ministers of this church. The same thing that gives to know the church gives to know the ministers thereof; for they also are of God, called by him, receiving power from him, and abiding and ministering in that power. So that there are three things requisite to a true ministry, without which they cannot be right, or execute their office rightly.
1. They must be called by God. The ministry under the law, this was their warrant, -- they were called and appointed of God thereunto. Christ himself took not the honor to himself, but he was called of God to this priesthood, as Aaron to his. So the apostles and ministers, in the first publication of the gospel, were called and appointed by Christ. And when the everlasting <8> gospel is again to be preached, God sends his angel with it, as Rev. 14:6.
2. They must receive ability and power from God. The elders that were to help Moses were to receive of his spirit. Under the law, the priests were to be anointed with the outward, literal oil, and the ministers of the gospel are to be anointed with the inward, spiritual oil. Their work is spiritual; and how can they perform it, but by the anointing, by that presence, guidance, life, virtue, and power of the Spirit, putting itself forth in them? The apostles themselves, who had been taught by Christ, who knew his conversation and doctrine, who were eye-witnesses of what they were to publish, and had received an authority and commission from him, yet were not to go forth merely upon this call and commission, but to wait for power from on high; and when they had received the Spirit and power, then they were made able ministers of the New Testament, not of the letter, but of the Spirit and power.
3. They must abide in the power, keep in the power, feel the motion, virtue, and assistance of the power, in all their work and service. They must neither pull down, nor build up, nor watch over, or oversee the flock in their own wisdom, in their own spirit, in their own wills; but in the anointing, in the light and guidance of the Lord. This gathering, this building, this work of the Lord, begins out of flesh, out of man; and flesh must be kept out of the whole carrying on of it.
And indeed, unless the ministers of the gospel be in the Spirit, in the life, in the power, how can they minister to the nature, to the spirit, to the life, in the body? yea, so much as to the least member in the body? They may minister outward knowledge to the man's wisdom, to the man's understanding; but that is not the food that is to be ministered to the church, nor is that part in man to be fed by the true minister. But they are to minister life (living food) from the living fountain, from the head, from the Spirit of Christ in them, to the particular members under their charge; and so are to be good stewards and shepherds to the flock, giving every one their proper portion in due season.
It was no small matter to be a minister under the law. It was easy to err, and minister amiss then. It was easy erring <9> from the letter, unless great care and circumspection was used to keep strictly to it.
But it is a much more weighty thing to minister under the gospel, to receive the power, to minister in the power, to that which is begotten and born of the power. And this is precious, and (without controversy) of God, wherever it is found. But they only that are of God can hear and receive this ministry (as 1 John 4:6). The uncircumcised ear cannot hear here, nor the wise and knowing according to the flesh. The wisdom of God is foolishness to him, and the mysteries of his kingdom (the mystery of his life, and the true godliness) are riddles, and direct madness to the eye of his wisdom: so far is man degenerated from God, and bound down with chains of darkness and corruption. And he that would know the true church, or be of it, and hear the voice of God in his true ministry, must first take up the cross to that part in him which is not of God, and receive from God the eye which sees, and the ear which hears.
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