From the age of nineteen until my mid-thirties, I was a firefighter working on engine companies, truck companies, fire boats, aid cars, and medic units in Seattle. During that period of time, my life was one filled with the intense stresses of dealing with people caught in tragic conditions and circumstances. I fought fires, rescued people from some of the craziest situations, and gave emergency medical care to the sick and injured. I loved the work of being the last hope in those lives and thus, bringing hope into lives of so many people. Risking my own life for the life and property of others was my job and there was an intrinsic value to my soul that enabled me to do so.

This, of course, is not my story alone. No, this is how almost all firefighters live and work and exist in our society. I consider them all as champions of courage and professionals even above those who may have much higher educations. Life at the level that firefighters see is raw and unpolitical and is unjudged life is simply – to be saved at all costs. In my old age I still love to think of life in that base manner of “life over death.”

Through the many hundreds of life saving rescues there is something I’d like to reveal to you as a truth that you would not know about unless you are a rescuer of some kind.

It is typical that when the alarm comes, “hurry” is in order. Jump in a vehicle, red lights, sirens, surrounding all traffic patterns – getting to the scene of the emergency is what you do, as soon as is possible, as safely as is possible. Most of the time, the dispatcher on the radio informs you of what you are getting into somewhere along that rushing process.

It is in the midst of this alarm response that I want to describe to you an interesting phenomenon that is more than just common, but more like a human response to the adventures of life saving. For, it is when the dispatcher describes that a child’s life is in danger that the accelerator pedal immediately goes as far to the floor as possible and the limits for safety are more closely tested and the atmosphere amongst the rescuers becomes much more serious. Nerves go on edge, intense concentration is inevitable and there is suddenly no room for any meaningless talk or observations. Life is suddenly met with the extremes of the environment and life saving – child life saving – is now what life is about.

I experienced these kinds of alarms many times in my career in emergency work. I worked in the emergency rooms of a number of hospitals in the Seattle area and I can tell you with firsthand knowledge that technicians, nurses, and doctors go into the same kind of “child life” saving mode, though their profession seems to always have life saving as the end result.

The saving of  the life of a child is that phenomenon that befuddles the strongest of humans. The life of a child matters at the very heart of life itself. In the midst of trouble, the child must be saved above the adult population – always. None dare to explain this phenomenon. It just is.

The first commandment of the Creator, God the Father of us all, the One Who formed man out of the dust of the earth and then woman out of the breast of the man, must be among the most important to every God-loving human being.

“And God created the man in His own image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female. And God blessed them; and God said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the seas, and over birds of the heavens, and over all beasts creeping on the earth.”

This command is all too often overshadowed by the intellect of mankind, as if man is somehow more intelligent than God. As knowledge increases a kind of stupor comes over mankind and he thinks with his feelings instead of being directed by his covenant of life with the Lord. The sensual (senses) have a more settling force in man’s being than a relationship with the Creator. Man’s view of the world becomes one of the need to satisfy the sensual needs of food, feelings, sex and power. These are the cornerstones of the world. This is worldliness.

“Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him, because all that which is in the world: the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and its lust. But the one doing the will of God abides forever.”

In the days that the children of Israel were enslaved to the lustful power of Pharaoh and the Egyptians, Pharaoh feared the loss of Israel. Israel was the source of much satisfaction of Pharaoh’s lust but they were getting too strong and there were soothsayers who spoke of a deliverer that would be coming to set Israel’s children free. So, the powerful spirit of Pharaoh overruled God and began to murder innocent children so that they would not fulfill their destinies. For their destinies might overpower Egypt and take the source of Pharaoh’s lust fulfillment away.

Any child born might have taken away his riches, his lifestyle, and destroyed or at least hampered the pride of his position. So, the best thing for him to do was kill the children.

That spirit of the world did not leave with the Pharaohs of Egypt. Herod did the same. Bethlehem was the village that birthed great destiny for mankind. Yet the threat of such an imposition as a child who might curb his lust for food, feelings, sex, and power drove him to murder the young destinies.  In doing so he cursed God and  tried to foil God’s plans for the salvation of man which would rescue then from the lustful evil of men like Herod.

The same spirit is exampled in the self-centered western world today. Murder the unborn destinies so that lustful lifestyles will not be threatened.

Destiny is most important to God the Father and how we handle that destiny ought to be most important to us.

Let’s look at some history that should tell us what the Creator thinks about us breaking His first command to mankind.

As soon as man and woman are formed/created, “…God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth…’”  Yet, we find some critical information about how evil man can get and what the Lord thinks about those who consider Him out of touch so that they fulfill their lustful desires instead of God’s loving desires for man’s destiny.

The Book of Jasher, mentioned twice in the Bible, tells of how soon after the creation of mankind, during the lifespan of Adam and Eve, man rebels against God’s command to “be fruitful and multiply” and manipulate nature so that they can express their lustful desires.

“For in those days the sons of men began to trespass against God, and to transgress the commandments which he had commanded to Adam, to be fruitful and multiply in the earth. And some of the sons of men caused their wives to drink a draught that would render them barren, in order that they might retain their figures and whereby their beautiful appearance might not fade. And when the sons of men caused some of their wives to drink, Zillah drank with them. And the child-bearing women appeared abominable in the sight of their husbands as widows, whilst their husbands lived, for to the barren ones only they were attached.”

Surely, this must sound familiar to our day. I remember how the ’60’s brought in the technology of “the pill” and all the controversy as well as continual discussion about controlling our procreation so that we do not curb our sensual fulfillments. People want sex and lots of it, and the insatiable hunger of desires without considering the holiness of our relationship with God. Jews and Christians were just as involved with the discussions and somehow it became most important that women remain sexy instead of motherly even in the religious discussions of church and synagogue. The mind is made up for appearance is everything and children are only a further ornament to our expressions of life. This thinking in the church took the edge off the real target of evil that was besetting us as a people. We were making our way in the 60’s to the ultimate goal of aborting the unborn destinies and destroying lives for generations to come. You see, things developed quickly with this new age of technology so that we were no longer talking about a pill but “a procedure.” Although, “…God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth…’” but what about overpopulation, as if there even is such a thing.

Children became anything but the “blessings” that the scriptures speak of.

Irene and I said “no” to that way of thinking. We had as many children as the Lord would give to us. We literally found that every child brought us to better financial positions of planning and giving and receiving. We also found that with every child there came new ministries in nations that we were able to establish. Children were not in our way, they were our way to the glorious will of the Lord for our lives. Even though sometimes raising children was hard for us, that was the very place where we would grow. We don’t grow in the easy times. While pastoring so many families, we also have come to know that the children we are given are God’s direction in that they will set the path He intends for us in lieu of our own fruitless dreams that are self yielding and not His plan.

There was a new prosperity coming forth within the Church as well as the United States as a nation. From this place of prosperity and “dream catching” the Church failed its mission of declaring the first command of the Lord to “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth…” 

While the Church was trying to find its way into the new prosperity, the real wickedness slipped in and the right standing with God for a nation and a generation of people was stolen. Abortion became legal. In a way, the Church supported the ban on children and abortion caught more strength as time went on.

I suggest that it was probably not much different in the days of the kings of Israel when they turned the hearts of so many of the people to sacrifice their children to Molech the demon god who required the lives and destinies of children to be murdered by fire and other extreme measures.

A few in the western Church stood up to this evil and demonstrated and had powerful prayer meetings, but it was almost as if the real force that these few were facing was coming from within the organized Church across the United States and the western world.

Rowe vs. Wade was a precedent setting Supreme Court decision. This precedent became relied upon as a greater foundation than the scriptures themselves. The Church was building it’s ministries instead of raising up a generation of leaders that would go into the government to work against the wickedness of such political decisions. Rowe vs. Wade was a ruling in favor of the lustful, but was not justice on behalf of the child still in the womb. Thus, it is not justice at all. It was, in fact a farce. Wisdom was laid aside to protect the promiscuous lifestyle of the lustful.

The god of Molech of old is still being worshipped by the highest courts in the land. Those who worshipped Molech in biblical times surrounded Israel and projected their lustful desire for this wickedness upon the children of God. They have done so today as well. So, while much of the Church has neglected God’s command to be fruitful and multiply, and to value the life of each child that God has destined for their family, the Muslim world, who are multiplying with every month, have not. We, the body of Christ upon the earth, have strayed from the will of the Lord and have nothing to do but repent.

So, we must repent. The axe is laid at the root and it is time to show forth the fruit of repentance. We must turn this ungodly tide around and move it out to sea where it belongs. That which has become politically correct in the Western Church today, must come to a halt. I have friends who pastor really big churches and tell me that if they ever got up and preached against abortion, that a sizable percentage of their congregations would leave the church immediately. That is one sad testimony for the Christian Church. Yes, it is time to repent and show the fruit of repentance in our lives.

A little more than 60 years ago, my mother, Marie Anderson, was quite ill. Her doctors told her and my father that the baby she was carrying would be the death of her and the baby, before full term. They strongly suggested to my mother and dad that they have a “procedure” to save my mom’s life, (but not the baby’s). Both my mother and my father defied the death wish upon my mother and me. I was born. She also lived. I think there are a lot of people that are glad that my mother and father had the courage to stand. Not like so many people in the United States today who don’t have the courage to stand up for life. A child in the womb has a destiny. If you kill that child it effects everything – everything. One life proves that it is true for all lives. So, I stand up for the life of the unborn child.

It is unnatural for people to kill their young. It is unnatural for people to allow their lusts to command their lifestyles to such a degree that they will commit the abominable and then argue that it is not so bad as what life would be like if the child came to full term and lived upon this earth.

We must not only have our children, but we must also teach our children. We must teach them to become lawyers and judges of righteousness and go against the grain. We must train them as statesmen so that they will go into government and steward the land from government positions. We must teach our children to steward the marketplace in a righteous manner so that the marketplace leads the way of righteousness in every community. We must teach them to have children and love them enough to teach them the same godly principles.

Abortion has now destroyed an entire generation of people with the destinies that we needed. Abortion of the unborn due to that consuming lust has brought about the most severe genocide in history. Because children are not longer a blessing, there is a hatred that has arisen – hatred toward God and hatred toward children. Abortion has indeed become the ultimate hate crime upon the earth today.

Today, October 1, 2012, the 16th of Tishrei, 5773, of the Hebrew calendar, the apostolic fathers of International Apostolic Ministries, namely, Wayne C Anderson, Richard Carey, Kevin Ford, Patrick Holloran and Rick Wilson, convened by way of a telephone conference call, to call upon the Lord of heaven and earth, by the Blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, Who is the King of all kings and the Lord of all Lords, in order to earnestly, sincerely, humbly and honestly repent for our sins, the sins of our fathers, and the sins of this nation of people, that was established on covenants to serve God’s commands.

We read the prayer of repentance from Nehemiah 1: 5-11, and in the same spirit of that declarative word, we so repent, confessing our sins as individuals and as a people, unto the Lord.

In the construction of the temple, Solomon dedicated that place as holy. In the word of the Lord the scripture tells us:

2 Chronicles 7: 11-22

“Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the king’s palace, and successfully completed all that he had planned on doing in the house of the Lord and in his palace.

Then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.

If I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among My people, and My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

Now My eyes will be open and My ears attentive to the prayer offered in this place. For now I have chosen and consecrated this house that My name may be there forever, and My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually.

As for you, if you walk before Me as your father David walked, even to do according to all that I have commanded you, and will keep My statutes and My ordinances, then I will establish your royal throne as I covenanted with your father David, saying, ‘ You shall not lack a man to be ruler in Israel. ’

“But if you turn away and forsake My statutes and My commandments which I have set before you, and go and serve other gods and worship them, then I will uproot you from My land which I have given you, and this house which I have consecrated for My name I will cast out of My sight and I will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples. As for this house, which was exalted, everyone who passes by it will be astonished and say, ‘ Why has the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?’ And they will say, ‘Because they forsook the Lord, the God of their fathers who brought them from the land of Egypt, and they adopted other gods and worshiped them and served them; therefore He has brought all this adversity on them. ’”

We have confessed the sins of idolatry, broken covenants, broken treaties, greed, enslavement, the murders of the innocent lives and destinies, the genocide of the unborn as offerings unto the god of lust and promiscuity (Molech). The sins of both commission and omission of the things we should have proclaimed as church leaders, we do repent.

We repented for selfish ambitions that would not line up with the perfect will of God, as well as calling back into existence the righteous root of the nation as spoken of by the forefathers of America in its conception. In this, there was a decree to stand on the shed blood of Jesus Christ as our authority and to make a demand that this blood would be in the re-establishing of God given plans for America.

And too, we were clothed in humility as we repented for any of the sins of the church that have occurred where we have not been influential in changing the culture of society and trying to remain hidden; For we are a light on the hill.

We have bowed to the fear of man and the lack of stewardship of our nation and the land promised unto us.

We have declared a rebuilding of the walls with the help of God alone and not on our own strength or might. We are His and His alone. All that we have is the Lord’s and all that we are belongs to Him.

individually and as a group of fathers we have repented and turned our hearts to the Father of Lights in Heaven that He may heal our Land.

In this time, we were in one accord and unity was the mantle that we were draped in . As Fathers, we took that stand to come on behalf of not only ourselves, but the nation and its people; even to the heads of state and of country. It’s not against flesh and blood that we fight….there is a blanket of confusion from the dark side that hangs over this country. We the church have let it in. It is time to arise into who we are and blow away the mist of darkness. it’s time to release the light of Jesus Christ that’s already in us.

We, as fathers of the faith in Yeshua, want you to know that we have begun this repentance but the fruit must surely follow. The “axe is laid at the root” in order that we might now “produce fruit of righteousness.”

Our hope, our desire, as apostolic fathers is that you will follow in a most sincere, honest and truthful manner. Individuals, groups, churches and conferences, of “My People” must now proclaim our victory over evil.

Whereas, we have declared these things in a moment that was holy unto the Lord, we have asked that the Lord, the God of heaven and earth, heal our land and deliver us from the evil that has fallen upon us in this hour.

Now let this unified sound emanate from our hearts as one and let it have an ever increasing rippling effect on the body of Christ Let it become the clarion call of freedom as this nation turns its heart back towards our Lord…The God of Abraham, Issac & Jacob !

In Jesus Christ’s Name!

The Kingdom of Heaven must invade the earth and “There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.” (Isaiah 9:7)

Government is vitally important to all of society, make no mistake about it. Once there are two or more together, living in connection with one another, there is a need for government of some kind. Yes, government is very important to every living soul upon the earth.

When the United States of America was first formed, the foundations were laid as a “republic.” Over the course of the last 4 – 5 decades the media and government representatives have been dropping off the “republic” part, using only the term “democracy.”

Yet the pledge of allegiance states, “… and to the Republic, for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Notice it does not say, “to the Democracy for which it stands.”

Does this make a difference? Is this important or is it just semantics? For a people to be free of tyranny and safe from both mass hysteria and tyrannical government, both a republic and a democracy are vital to us in the United States of America.

So, is the United States a republic or a democracy? The truth is that the United States of America was founded as a republic, with democracy given to the individual states so that it would be more of a Republic Democracy, or more commonly referred to as a Democratic Republic.

A simple definition of both of these words and their description of government structure is this:

• A republic is a governmental system structured so that the people choose representatives who, in turn, make policy decisions on their behalf, according to the needs and desires of their constituent voters.
• A pure democracy, however, is a form of government that is structured so that the people decide policy matters directly. This is done on both small and large scales, through town hall meetings or by voting on ballot initiatives and referendums.

Neither one of these government structures work well on their own. Our Founding Fathers did their homework and decided that the safest thing for the people of the United States in future generations would be a republic with democratic tendency. This is possible when the state governments have more of a democracy and the Federal Government has more of a republic form. I believe we need both of these government structures for the United States government. Thus, the federal framers constructed what can be described as a republic where there is representation but the people are still free to decide on issues for themselves. Thus, a Democratic Republic.

In the Federalist No. 10 paper, written by James Madison, Friday, November 23, 1787, it is stated that democracies “have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths” (Federalist No. 10). This paper and other observations by the US federal founding fathers cause them to fear the outcome of a total democracy. They favored the republic form of government structure.

A pure republic government is fine until the representatives begin to legislate corruptive ways to empower, protect and prosper themselves over the people. They stop serving the people and serve themselves. After more than 200 years of existence and many legislative bodies, the United States of America has too many laws that protect the wicked at the price of the people. The people are dumbed down by prosperity and propaganda while the politician, the banker, the CEO, and judges are protecting their positions by bureaucratic rule. The people need to wake up and use their democratic input to remove them from the bench, vote them out of office;  and put some of them into prison.

The Church has always given guidelines for living to the US Government until lately. I do not believe that it is too late for us to rescue the United States of America, but we better rise up fast and get radical or we’ll lose what we once had and what the framers of the US meant for us to have. We are their posterity and they are, no doubt, turning over in their graves when looking at what we have let go.

Another form of government structure that is proclaimed is the “theocracy.” That is a God ruled and legislated society. (Theo is Greek for god, while the “cracy” part has to do with rule.) But to have such a government structure there must be spokesmen of God – a priesthood – because the people cannot hear the will of God for themselves.

But, let me suggest that as the Kingdom of Heaven invades the earth it is not seen as a “theocracy” but a righteous service to the people of every free nation. A righteous theocracy does not rule the people it serves the people. That statement bares repeating a few times until we get that through the thick skulls of the politicians, lawyers, judges and the like.

Now, Sharia Law is a “theocracy” placed upon the people that is controlled by demonized religious leaders. Many people mistakenly believe that a mosque is no more than an Islamic church. This is not the case at all. A mosque is the theocratic headquarters that legislates Sharia law upon the people of a geographically organized society. A mosque is not a church at all. Sure there is prayer in a mosque, but prayer in a building doesn’t make it a church or a temple or a basilica or anything else. A mosque is a government center. Therefore, under the laws of the United States of America, every mosque is built for treasonous purposes and are therefore illegally constructed. In many regions where this is known, “Islamic Centers” are constructed in lieu of a mosque in order to build the mosque once there is Muslim prevalence.

The Church is theocratic and not democratic so that the government of God is exampled upon the earth. The government for the people is democratic in nature and not theocratic. By this, I mean, that God is not going to come down and rule over the people like a tyrant. So, the people have their best opportunities for freedom with theocracy coming forth upon the earth through the Church and a Democratic Republic structure of government that legislates the society of the people’s lives.

What we do not want to see is a theocracy structured government in the United States. What we need is servant leaders that are anointed to continue the framework of the founders of this Republic who are greatly influenced by the needs of the people and their voice through instituted democracy woven into and curbing the unruly politician who is serving himself/herself instead of the people.

This calls for servant leadership. Instead of the politician that runs for an “office” so they might win a better and much higher “office” so that they might be seen as great in their own eyes by the conference of like minded politicians and powerful money people.

“Government of God” means that God inspires the idea of the form of servant strong government. “Government by God” means that His anointing comes upon those who serve to legislate law and judge on behalf of the people so that there might be liberty and justice for all of the people. “For the people” means that this government must be of service to the people so that the government exists to serve the people and not the other way around.

So, let us start with the “servant strong government.” This is a paradigm shift from where we find ourselves today. Even though the occasional politician will use a phrase or two to try to convince the public of their heroic nature as a servant of the people, yet the money, power, lust and political agendas tell us that they are in this job for themselves. “Servant Strong Government” is needed to be fashionable and the self mindedness needs to become the shame of those who show any signs of anything less than servanthood.

Almost all people want to gain knowledge. Fewer want to gain understanding but fewer still strive to attain wisdom. Knowledge can be enlightening. Understanding certainly leads to enlightening, but wisdom is the enlightenment of the soul that shines out to illuminate the paths of others. Wisdom is God given. To think that wisdom comes by education is futile. There are signs of wisdom and those signs are not letters behind a name on a door or a business card. Experience has little to do with wisdom. Again, wisdom comes from above and is heard from the tongues of men and their very lifestyles.

King David was anointed with a pure oil of beaten olives, with spices that spoke of wise things in the heart of God Himself. Samuel poured this anointing oil over David and the life of the “great king” began to flourish. Through a kind of “school of brokenness” and courageous battles that anointing took hold of the man, David, and formed his heart for service to the people whom God loved. David was a shepherd when he began. He was no less a shepherd when he was king. He herded his father’s flock in both instances. His job description changed very little.

Wisdom was given to David to serve the people and he was anointed to do so. He served well and was rewarded with a great reward of honor and glory.

We need to find wisdom from the Lord in people we want to serve us in government. The anointing means everything to us, not the cleverness of speech or persuasive words. The anointing shows signs of servant hearted breakthrough for the people.

Government is not the beginning or the end of anything. Government serves the people’s needs. Government does not create jobs. The marketplace creates jobs. Government does not create anything. It should lead the people into their prosperity and protect the people from harm. The people will do the rest. It is philosophically ignorant to think that government makes life for the people of any state. The people grow with initiative, ambition, and creativity. The government can only help them prosper and be protected.

So, let us go back to some foundational principles of good government. Theocratic government must remain in the Church as a touchpoint from heaven. Government must be established, formed or reformed into “Servant Strong Government” that is “government of God,  government by God, government for the people.”

Organizationally, the best structure for a government system is that of a “Republic” with “Democracy” influences. In the case of the United States of America, it is a Democratic Republic that shows the massive strength of now 50 states in unity. Those states unify to make a Federal Government that is to serve them with direction and protection. The direction that the Federal Government gives is for the prosperity of the states and not control over the states. The states are protected not only by a unified armed defense service but also by a constitution that outlines freedom and liberty for every soul in every state.

For now, “we the people of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union, …

Let us envision a Servant Strong Government, together.

The liberal politicians and media have so distorted the Constitution of the United States of America that there are few who still know what was meant by that Constitution which our founding fathers authored. One of the greatest examples has to do with the separation of Church and State. They have so deliberately misconstrued this principle that it has become just the opposite of what the authors originally intended.

First of all, we should understand the term “separation of church and state.” The term is actually an offshoot of the phrase, “wall of separation between church and state.” Thomas Jefferson included this phrase in a letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in 1802, (quoting Roger Williams, a founder of the Baptist Church), but the phrase does not appear in the Constitution of the United States of America; however, its meaning is reflected in the First Amendment which states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

The text of this original letter reads: “Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between Man & his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legitimate powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should ‘make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ thus building a wall of separation between Church and State.”

Before the forming of this nation, the king of England and his government legislated most anything to do with the Church. This was also true with most of the countries in Europe at that time. The Church was subject to the government just as the people were subjects of the government.

Those who founded the United States of America did so after revolting against the taxation of England upon the citizens and the legislation placed upon the Church. Thus, those founders made it clear in the Constitution that the Church would never be ruled by the government – the government could not legislate against the Church. This is what is meant by the “separation of Church and State” when Jefferson referred to this subject.

Today, the government has growing legislation against the Church and disallows the Church its rights and freedoms continually. Yet, the very foundations of the nation of the United States of America are based not upon the government’s influence upon and within the Church, but the Church’s influence upon and within the government.

The Church, in these terms, is the people of the nation. The government is to serve the people of the nation. The government can never be the moral gauge for the Church, with its political correctness. However, it is the Church’s responsibility to be the moral gauge for the government so that the government does not become corrupt. The Church legislates by the Word of God – the Scriptures. The nation of the United States of America is founded upon this principle and none other.

We have even come to the place where there are ministries who put fear of the Internal Revenue Service’s unrestrained political powers upon churches. These ministries tell stories of “half truths” where pastors and church leaders are imprisoned for breaking IRS rules. Not filing 1099 forms correctly, etc….

Far too many churches fall prey to these fear tactics believing that if we don’t jump through all of the IRS’s hoops correctly, we’ll lose our 501-c-3, non-profit status.

I don’t remember Jesus ever having one of those IRS letters. I don’t remember Him even caring much about those kinds of things. I do remember Him saying that we ought to give to “Caesar what is Caesar’s and give unto God what is God’s.” No mention of “non-profit” there.

Now don’t get me wrong, I think any sensible person ought to be able to see that if the government has no legislative power over the Church, then that government has no ability to tax the Church either.

No longer can we bow to the threats of the Mafia style tactics of the US Internal Revenue Service. The IRS is neither the God we serve, nor anything close to a service to the people of the United States of America, as their name would suggest.

The IRS thrives on intimidating the public, including the Church.  In 1954, Lyndon Baines Johnson underhandedly authored and pushed legislation through our Federal Government to try to silence the voice of the Church in the pulpits across the United States. This legislation is known as “The Johnson Amendment” and is actually a tax code that the IRS now uses against the pulpits of the Church to silence our voice. This amendment is not only treasonous, but is unprecedented by any other in the history of this nation. This legislation will, no doubt, undergo Superior Court investigation, if not Supreme Court litigation into its constitutionality. Even the IRS fears that it will not stand up against the First Amendment rights that are given to us as citizens.

At any rate, the United States Tax Code is not the Bible.  This Johnson Amendment is evil and challenges democracy and the freedom of the common people, giving more voice to the greed of the liberal media. The Church is one of the greatest challenges to the modern media of our day.  If the media can silence us through fear, they will do so in order to have free reign in publishing their propaganda without restraint.  ( You will get more insights on this Johnson Amendment and the stand that the Church needs to take in this hour. If we do not stand up to this amendment, we will lose more freedoms than any other generation. I have dedicated a full article to this subject matter. )

There are fear tactics that are working against the Church with the continual threat that we will lose our IRS non-profit status if we do not behave in the ways that they approve of. This is a deception that has come upon the Church from outside and from the inside.

The Internal Revenue Service, (I once heard someone call them the “infernal revenue disservice”) needs to be dismissed for a fair, across the board, general tax from all people. No exceptions –everyone doing their own job, pulling their own weight.

We must stop being threatened by the IRS or the government in any way. We must do what is right according to the scriptures. If they persecute us, let it be because we have been accomplishing the will of God.

Let us consider the rules about the Church’s political endeavors. The only reason that the government and the liberal media does not want the Church to use the pulpit to say which candidates are righteous and which ones are not is that they fear the grassroots power of the Church when it comes election time. Because the Church has feared the IRS and the government, no one in the Church knows who or what to support and too small a percentage of the people in the Church even turn out to vote. This works well for a corrupted government system. They can get away with literal and figurative murder.

Please understand that I’m not against government. I’m for a righteous government that actually serves the people of the nation – something that our present government has not done for a very long time. When a Christian is elected to the United States House of Representatives or the Senate, they are usually told to “check your faith at the door” and do the business of government. This is so very wrong that I wonder what kind of deception is in the halls of our nation’s capitol. This also shows how we must keep a watchful eye upon those whom we vote into office. Many will tell us anything that we want to hear while campaigning, but once in office they flow with the status quo of their colleagues instead of serving the constituency that elected them.

The church must arise like the sleeping giant that she is feared to be and both challenge and train the people to take public office. We must be people of courage and expect our legislators to be people of courage as well. Remember that there are demographics that show the church is the majority of voters and not the minority.

I never tell people how to vote or who to vote for, but I openly tell folks for whom and how I am voting and “why.” The “why” is what is important. We preachers should teach the people that murder is wrong and that we are commanded by God to “be fruitful and multiply.”  Since abortion is murder and the ultimate “hate crime,” then the Church should do its homework and tell where politicians take their stand.  It is then the people will know exactly who and what to vote for. If we preachers teach about lying and stealing and how it applies to society instead of singling out the lifestyles of the people in the congregation, then it is easy to present the habits of those running for government offices. The people will see clearly and use their democratic voice appropriately. I wonder if any of our congregations are well fed on the topic of what righteousness will do if it is taught and released upon our communities. Tell a lawyer that it is wrong to lie. Tell a mayor that it is wrong to deceive the people. Tell a senator that if he commits adultery it destroys the faith that the people have in him and his office, and he will be removed.

How can the Church communicate these things to a wretched government system when that Church doesn’t really know these things themselves? We preachers have a big responsibility to teach of the community effects of unrighteousness and its unwavering effects on all.

The Church can report on the issues and the people will know who and what to vote for. The “VISION” of the Church is to go into mission mode and see their local to national communities as a mission field. When you read the whole Bible, you find that salvation isn’t only a “sinner’s prayer;” it goes from there and far beyond. We city folk should be living in “cities of refuge” instead of the cities of “refuse” – which seems to be a closer description.

The Church also needs to have “Voters Pamphlets” because the government purposefully misleads the people, never giving the information about candidates and issues that the people of the Church need to make good voting decisions. It is the Church’s God given right to speak forth the righteousness of God toward government. The government has no right to tell the Church that they cannot speak politically without threatening their non-profit status.

We are in a great battle for our nation, our freedom, our liberty, and our very prosperity. We must stand up for what is right and stop bowing to the golden idols that the government – the IRS has set up for us all to worship.

Why doesn’t the Church have a person on every ballot to choose? Because the Church has been hiding from its responsibilities to get involved in politics and government for so long that there are no choices but the better of two evils.

What must we do now? Preachers need to proclaim justice and righteousness from their pulpit without fear of being politically correct, and without fear of IRS/government intervention. Preachers must declare the kingdom of God for the reforming of national to local government just as the bold and courageous preachers of the 1700’s did. The people need leadership from those that proclaim the kingdom of God. Government plays too much of a role in the people’s lives for the preachers to be silent in the fear of man.

Jesus called King Herod, “…that fox…” as a bold confrontation. Not passive aggression, but courageous boldness in the view of what Herod could do with his governmental power.

We need to set up teams of people in every church to research who is running for positions in our communities and report exactly who and what is going on to the people. The goal of our churches should be to supply accurate information and education so that voters can make well informed decisions in their particular regions.  We should be so well informed that other churches in the region will seek out information from us in helping them to discern the times and seasons.

There should be pulpit announcements that tell who the candidates really are and strong encouragement for the people to get to the polls no matter what they have planned on those days.

The Kingdom of Heaven must invade the earth!

“There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace, on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness from then on and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.” (Isaiah 9:7)

Preachers, those that proclaim this Kingdom of Heaven, arise and support your righteous-local sheriff!

Read about The Johnson Amendment and The Courage To Change – Serving Our Way To Freedom

(A personal letter written to Wayne C. Anderson from Carl Diener)

I can’t be with you for the conference at Vero Beach, Florida, this coming August, but my heart will be with you all there. It is already there in a sense. I couldn’t sleep tonight; the words kept coming to me, “For our posterity”.

Ok, so hang with it; I know where this is going. I am not going to get any sleep tonight until I look, listen, and write. I get up and I walk to this Bible one of my friends, a fellow clock restorer from Boston, secured for me. He is a non-believer (so far), but he loves antiques and he knew what this Bible would mean to me.

This Bible is 200 years old, and it belonged to the Harvey family of New Hampshire. In 1830, Matthew Harvey was elected Governor of New Hampshire. Some of the notes taken during some long ago sermons are carefully preserved in the pages of this Bible. A poem written long ago about a loving, tender hearted mother reading the Bible to her children by the hearth fire is also concealed between the pages of this Bible. These were the forefathers of our nation that owned, loved, and read these precious pages. The purchase of this Bible, printed in Philadelphia in 1806, represented a considerable investment to a family at that time.

As I turned the pages, I could hear the whisper in my spirit, “For our posterity” over and over. I looked up the word “posterity” and found that it indeed means “future generations.

I came to the middle of the Bible and began to read… and the tears came to my eyes. One page written in fine hand with a quill pen recorded the births, the next page, the deaths. I felt it – so many precious births received with joy. On the next page – it went on line after line,

“Nancy – died on March 19, Age – 13 days, Emma – died. Age – 3 years 40 days,” and on it goes…

So many, many children died in those days of things we have a cure for now. Think of it, Wayne, what is a parent’s very worst nightmare? And then think of it happening again and again and again. Think with me for a moment of how precious children were in those days. The ones that died were missed and loved; the pain of loss after loss – how great that pain! The ones that lived through childhood, the ones that survived, they called them “our posterity” – the precious treasure of a family and a nation. Everything was to be for them. Family’s thought that way. A young nation thought that way. The first law passed by the State of New Hampshire was The Deluder Satan Act, which stated, “…that there might be schools… that our young might learn to read the Bible and escape the wiles of the Devil.”

The mothers of many of these children died in childbirth, and yet I believe with their last dying gaze, the mothers looked at that little baby and said, “My little child, you are beautiful; and you were worth it” as they closed their eyes and died. In their death, they knew they had given the most precious gift of all, a new life. It was their precious posterity.

Yes, I believe there is a great cloud of witnesses that looks down from heaven and I hear again the whisper, “For our posterity.” The Ecclesia of this hour must indeed hear the cry. The tears of our forefathers who understood family and fatherhood – what must it be like for them to witness our nation and world now? What must it be like for these mothers, who gave up their very lives to bring a new baby into the world, as they watch from above while women, who have every medical advantage for safe birth, choose to murder their baby? What must a father, who gave everything so his son or daughter would have the best chance at life, think as he watches the so called fathers of this world look on their kids as an inconvenience?

I asked an active, faith-filled, born again Christian man last year if he and his wife were planing to have kids. He said, “No, they are just little asset burners.” Little asset burners? And yet I hear the words whispered through the ages echoing in the heart of God to the Ecclesia of today, “It was all for our posterity.”

Here, today, you see deadbeat dads who won’t pay child support let alone be there for their son or daughter. John G. Lake says a man is worse than a beast that won’t take care of his own. We have congressmen and senators that care only for themselves and care nothing for our children. They leave a huge burden of debt. Who can blame them when a generation of young people have no respect anymore for their elders? Even steeped as they are in the deception of the modern education system, they can smell the rot. They are a generation abandoned; and in their hearts, they know it.

In the midst of it all, my IAM family is having a Malachi 4:6 conference. Too little, too late, some might think as we look on a lost generation of disillusioned young people. But to our God, nothing is impossible.

We seek his face and pray, and turn our hearts to the heart of the Father for his lost sons and daughters. We pray for mercy, and above all, we pray for revival. For His love is a great, great love shed abroad in our hearts. We are His chosen ministers of reconciliation. His love is a love that never fails.

Rejoice and be glad and remember a small fish and a few loaves of bread once fed a multitude. So also shall the love that we show to a lost generation, even if it is a few at a time, be multiplied.

And so, “for our posterity” the land will not be cursed.

Carl

There is a place that the Father of us all has prepared for you to dwell. It is there that His blessings are the atmosphere which you breathe. It is there that you abide right now. It is of great value to you that you acknowledge His presence every moment and consider the dwelling place that He has prepared for you. Look for Him. You will see Him. Then feast your eyes upon the beauty of HIS majestic presence and announce to all that the regal presence of the Holy Spirit is here, now!

Faith never looks back and does not ponder the present. Faith has a target on the future. “Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen.” That’s what’s coming up. Why then do we do most of our talking about what was and what is? Our Words should be selectively chosen to describe what is about to happen. John 16:13 says, when the Holy Ghost comes “He will show you what is to come.” If He really is here then he wants to show us what is to come. In everything. No secrets. So, if we haven’t heard what is to come then our mouths should be shut up tighter than Jericho, until the “rhema” of God comes. Then, we should only speak the will and passion of the Father.

We can therefore say to the one who is sick, “Be healed! For that sickness is not the will of my Father!” When Zacharias was praying God shocked him and listened.  Then He sent Gabriel to give him the Father’s view of what is to come. Zac said, “How shall I know this is true?” The angel shut his mouth until it was impossible for Zac to argue anymore. We could really learn something from Zac, here.  We should keep our mouths shut until God talks and then declare His salvation from day to day.

There is a river that flows so very deep that precious few will rush into it’s depths. It’s the river that flows from the throne of God and in the midst of it and on either side of it is the tree of life, and that tree’s leaves are the healing for the nations! To go to the depths of that river it will take reckless abandon on the part of every one who will surrender to it’s current. “Trust in the Lord with ALL your heart. Lean not on your own understanding. In ALL your ways, acknowledge HIM and HE will make your paths straight.” Jesus has been very good to you. He will never leave you nor forsake you!

Count on that! “Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.” Faith does not look at the past and holds no regard for it. Faith does not explain the now nor cherish the pleasures of it. Faith comes by hearing; and hearing by the spoken word of God! Faith looks to the future and sees the passion of the Father. Faith speaks what the Father sees and declares the glory of God! Faith looks for what the Father has planned for others and does not release anyone when they do not perform to our expectations, but rejoices in that which will soon be obtained.

Advance toward Him. Dive deeper than ever before! Surrender! Come out with your hands up!