† SUNDAY SERMON: MAY 4, 2014

Romans 13 Preachers Then And Now

“Liberty” Churches Versus “Establishment” Churches

“Over the last several days I have heard pastors and Christians all over the country condemn those men and women who stood in defiance of BLM tyranny in Bunkerville, Nevada —using, guess what?— Romans 13 as their justification. Now, for the record, we had several of our Liberty Fellowship family in Bunkerville. Some of them just got back today. And there are a few others still there. So, these pastors and Christians are condemning our brothers and our sisters, who of their own will, volition and conviction, chose to go stand in the gap for a fundamental principle of freedom, that until just a few years ago was commonly understood by most freedom-loving Americans.” -Pastor Baldwin, Opening Sermon Words

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Founded in January, 2011 LIBERTY FELLOWSHIP, is an unorganized, unincorporated, nondenominational fellowship.

As such Liberty Fellowship is a free agent of God, and works tirelessly instructing the body of Christian believers in the Principles of Liberty and freedom as laid out and expressed in the life of Jesus Christ. Our sole mission is to be a light to all people, guiding them back to the foundational, fundamental natural law truths that begat our great nation.

Charles Obadiah "Chuck" Baldwin is an American politician and founder-pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He was the presidential nominee of the Constitution Party for the 2008 U.S. presidential election and had previously been its nominee for U.S. vice president in 2004. He hosts a daily one-hour radio program, Chuck Baldwin Live, and writes a daily editorial column carried on its website, on News with Views, and on VDare. » Full Bio

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Romans 13:1-7: The True Meaning Of Submission

Co-Authored By Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. ~ Romans 13:1-7

Whom Will You Obey, God Or Man?

Read Carefully...

We in the United States of America do not live under a monarchy. We have no king. There is no single governing official in the country. America’s supreme law does not rest with any man or any group of men. America’s supreme law does not rest with the president, the congress, or the supreme court. In America the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. So therefore, under our laws, every governing official publicly promises to submit to the Constitution of the United States with his, or her, hand on the Bible. Do leaders understand the significance of this distinction? I surely hope so. This means that in America, the higher powers are not the men who occupy the elected office, they are the tenets and the principles set forth in the United States Constitution, under our laws and form of government. It is the duty of every citizen, including our elected officials, to obey the United States Constitution...

Therefore, This Is How Romans 13:1-7
Reads To Americans...

“Let every soul be subject unto the [U.S. Constitution.] For there is no [Constitution] but of God: the [Constitution] that be [is] ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the [Constitution], resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For [the Constitution is] not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the [Constitution]? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For [the Constitution] is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for [the Constitution] beareth not the sword in vain: for [the Constitution] is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For this cause pay ye tribute also: for [the Constitution is] God’s minister, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.”

JUDGE JEANINE LINKS NEVADA LAND GRAB TO SOLAR ENERGY PLANT

JUSTICE WITH JUDGE JEANINE

‘Opening Statement’

“Dirty Harry (Harry Reid) & BLM Land Grab”

“Harry, Dirty Harry”

Transcript Intro From ‘Fox News Insider’

This week, United States Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid continued trashing ordinary Americans over land grabs. And you need to be concerned because the land grabs haven’t ended. And who knows? Will your land be next?

Reid labeled opponents of his federal land grab “domestic terrorists,” this after calling terminally ill cancer patients who say they’ve lost their doctors “liars” and calling a prominent family that builds hospital wings, schools, and gives away hundreds of millions of dollars to charity “un-American.”

Senator Reid, the name calling goes both ways. Senator, I’ve decided to change your name to Harry, Dirty Harry.

The story that I’m about to tell you starts with Dirty Harry’s long time senior aide - his puppet on a string - with virtually no experience at the Bureau of Land Management - who now runs it.

That bureau today eyeing 116 miles on the border between Texas and Oklahoma, an estimated 90,000 acres that BLM says belongs to the public.

So what’s behind these land grabs? Are they really about protected animals like tortoises and owls, or might Dirty Harry be up to something more sinister?

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Formerly Westchester District Attorney, Judge Pirro was also the host of a syndicated weekday court show distributed by Warner Brothers -- for which she won an Emmy. Her notable legal career spans over 30 years. In 1975, she became an assistant district attorney for Westchester County, New York and was the first female to prosecute murder cases there. In 1990, Pirro was elected as the first woman to serve as a Westchester County Court judge. » Full Bio

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RULING CLASS GOP TONE-DEAF ON BUNDY RANCH ISSUE

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“Congress Makes The Laws In America,
Not The BLM”

By Richard Viguerie, WND, THIS LAND WAS YOUR LAND — The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has, at least temporarily, deescalated its armed standoff with Cliven Bundy and his family at their Nevada ranch – though Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has ominously pledged: “It’s not over. We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over.”

So you can be sure the feds will be back.

In fact, a Bundy Ranch standoff repeat is now brewing on the Oklahoma-Texas border. The Bureau of Land Management (the rogue federal agency that precipitated the Bundy Ranch standoff in Nevada) is considering seizing 90,000 acres of private land along the Red River that forms part of the border between Texas and Oklahoma.

The BLM is now contemplating the same strategy it used some 30 years ago to deprive Texas rancher Tommy Henderson of 140 acres of his property without paying him 1 cent to gain control of more land in the Red River area.

You would think Harry Reid, who represents Nevada in the U.S. Senate, would come to the defense of his Nevada constituents. But he doesn’t – because Harry Reid represents the Ruling Establishment in Washington. He wants nothing to do with the regular folks in Nevada, unless he’s running for re-election.

Harry Reid says, “We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it.”

But President Obama has violated (unilaterally changed) his own Obamacare law at least 37 times.

So it’s OK for President Obama and the Washington Ruling Class to violate the law, just not average folks.

It’s easy to dismiss Cliven Bundy, because Harry Reid and his crony Neil Kornz, who runs the BLM, would like you to believe that Mr. Bundy is just a guy who won’t pay his bills.

They won’t tell you that there used to be dozens of ranches in the area where the Bundys run their cattle. Now there’s just one – the Bundy Ranch. BLM succeeded in pushing all the other ranchers out of the region.

The BLM claims the Bundys owe the feds more than $1 million in fees and penalties.

Bundy notes that these fees were never authorized by Congress or passed into law. The BLM just started charging them on its own, without congressional statute. According to the U.S. Constitution, Congress makes the laws in America, not the BLM.

Cliven Bundy asks: Why should I be paying the federal government to put me out of business?

The Bundys are the first example in recent decades of average Americans pushing back federal bureaucrats and winning – at least temporarily.

But there’s a lot more at work in the Bundy Ranch standoff than Harry Reid siding with the federal bureaucracy against his own constituents.

Reid’s son, Rory Reid, parlayed his tenure as a Clark County commissioner into a sweetheart deal with a giant Chinese energy company that wanted to build $5 billion solar farm and panel-building plant in the southern Nevada desert – right where Cliven Bundy and his family have been grazing their cattle since the 1870s.

But where are the Republican leaders on this?

We haven’t heard a peep from John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Mitch McConnell, or any of the Republican leadership. Their silence is deafening.

There’s a populist revolt going on out there against the Ruling Establishment in Washington. But the Republican leadership is nowhere to be seen or heard.

Real leaders would be making the trip to the Bundy Ranch to find out what’s really happening, what the issues are.

At a minimum, John Boehner and other prominent Republicans should be calling hearings on the unconstitutional fees the BLM has imposed on the Bundys and other ranchers in the West.

Standing with the ranchers against the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C., would make great optics for the Republicans.

But today’s Republican leadership has no imagination, which is why most people don’t like them.

It’s why Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is in trouble in Kentucky – among the reddest of red conservative states. Even his Republican constituents don’t like him because he’s so obviously part of the Ruling Establishment in Washington.

This is why the GOP so desperately needs new leadership. Standing with the Bundy family against an overreaching federal government would have been the right thing to do.

It would have signaled to voters across America that the GOP is on the side of the people and against out-of-control Big Government.

And it would be political gold for the GOP going into the 2014 mid-term elections. » Full Article

About the Author

Richard A. Viguerie is the author of the new book “Takeover: The 100-Year War for the Soul of the GOP and How Conservatives Can Finally Win It.”

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† BUNDY RANCH SERMON: APRIL 14, 2014

WATCH The Inspiring Sermon
That Fueled The Bundy Protesters’ Courage

“There’s nothing that tyrants love more than an unarmed citizenry.”

Turn Volume Up! “When you hear a sermon like this, you won't be surprised the Bundy Protesters did what they did. During the Revolutionary War, the Black Robe Regiment was the most feared by the British authorities. Pastor Chuck Baldwin, the chaplain of the Bundy Ranch, delivered this sermon to the protesters in that fine tradition.” (H/T: Western Journalism)

Teaching Scriptures

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About Liberty Fellowship and Dr. Chuck Baldwin

Founded in January, 2011 LIBERTY FELLOWSHIP, is an unorganized, unincorporated, nondenominational fellowship.

As such Liberty Fellowship is a free agent of God, and works tirelessly instructing the body of Christian believers in the Principles of Liberty and freedom as laid out and expressed in the life of Jesus Christ. Our sole mission is to be a light to all people, guiding them back to the foundational, fundamental natural law truths that begat our great nation.

Charles Obadiah "Chuck" Baldwin is an American politician and founder-pastor of Crossroad Baptist Church in Pensacola, Florida. He was the presidential nominee of the Constitution Party for the 2008 U.S. presidential election and had previously been its nominee for U.S. vice president in 2004. He hosts a daily one-hour radio program, Chuck Baldwin Live, and writes a daily editorial column carried on its website, on News with Views, and on VDare. » Full Bio

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Romans 13:1-7: The True Meaning Of Submission

Co-Authored By Pastor Chuck Baldwin

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For he is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For for this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are God's ministers, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour. ~ Romans 13:1-7

Whom Will You Obey, God Or Man?

Read Carefully...

We in the United States of America do not live under a monarchy. We have no king. There is no single governing official in the country. America’s supreme law does not rest with any man or any group of men. America’s supreme law does not rest with the president, the congress, or the supreme court. In America the U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of the land. So therefore, under our laws, every governing official publicly promises to submit to the Constitution of the United States with his, or her, hand on the Bible. Do leaders understand the significance of this distinction? I surely hope so. This means that in America, the higher powers are not the men who occupy the elected office, they are the tenets and the principles set forth in the United States Constitution, under our laws and form of government. It is the duty of every citizen, including our elected officials, to obey the United States Constitution...

Therefore, This Is How Romans 13:1-7
Reads To Americans...

“Let every soul be subject unto the [U.S. Constitution.] For there is no [Constitution] but of God: the [Constitution] that be [is] ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the [Constitution], resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For [the Constitution is] not a terror to good works, but to the evil. Wilt thou then not be afraid of the [Constitution]? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same: For [the Constitution] is the minister of God to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, be afraid; for [the Constitution] beareth not the sword in vain: for [the Constitution] is the minister of God, a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil. Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake. For this cause pay ye tribute also: for [the Constitution is] God’s minister, attending continually upon this very thing. Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.”

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Could Bring The Whole Operation Down

B. Christopher Agee, Western Journalism — As Western Journalism reported yesterday, a series of photos from the scene of a federal government standoff in Clark County, Nev. indicate Bureau of Land Management agents slaughtered multiple cows on the Bundy Ranch. After alleging the ranch’s owner, Cliven Bundy, had failed to pay federal grazing fees for a number of years, armed BLM agents swarmed the area, resorting to physical violence against members of the family and threats toward those who arrived to support them.

Allegations this week, in the aftermath of BLM’s decision to back down in the face of growing opposition, are perhaps even more outrageous. According to one report, federal officials systematically gunned down numerous head of cattle, allowing others to be trampled in unorthodox herding practices.

The agency was apparently so preoccupied with removing the cattle from the ranch in an effort to punish the Bundys that its agents disregarded safe protocol. Michele Fiore, a Nevada assemblywoman who has been on the front lines in defending the ranch against the government’s excessive force, detailed the atrocities she said occurred on the property.

After posting a number of photos of dead cows, she appeared on the Pete Santilli radio show to offer some context. She said officers shot cattle from the air as they flew overhead in helicopters, explaining numerous calves were left defenseless after their mothers were taken down or displaced.

“I personally helped save a calf who still had an umbilical cord attached to her as she was separated from her mom,” Fiore said.

She called the ordeal “disgusting,” explaining BLM agents “don’t herd cattle, they slaughter cattle.”

Attempts to move the livestock by force led to countless preventable deaths, she said.

“This is the BLM’s practice,” Fiore explained, noting officers “herd animals with helicopters, ATVs, and shotguns”; and if any “get out of line, they get a bullet in the back of the head.”

Crude attempts to bury the animals failed, she explained, as shallow graves left body parts exposed.

While more and more critics are demanding legal action against the agency in an effort to expose the cruel behavior, some have accused left-leaning activist groups including People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals of remaining silent on the issue. Western Journalism contacted PETA for comment and received a statement from Senior Vice President of Communications Lisa Lange that seemed to equate the actions of federal agents and the ranchers.

“These animals shouldn’t be killed either by the government, or by the rancher who plans to send the cows off to slaughter,” she stated. “The best thing anyone can do to stop the suffering of animals is to go vegan.”

Fiore had a direct message to special agent Daniel Love, who alleged the BLM did not kill cattle on the ranch.

“He’s a flat out liar,” she said, “period.”

If you stand with the Bundys, like this page.

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SENATOR HARRY REID: BUNDY DISPUTE ‘NOT OVER’

‘Because There Is A War On For Your Mind’

“We Can’t Have An American People That Violate
The Law And Then Just Walk Away From It.”

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Mikael Thalen, Infowars.com — After remaining silent for days, Nevada Sen. Harry Reid made comments regarding the ongoing dispute between the Bureau of Land Management and rancher Cliven Bundy today, accusing the Bundy family of violating the law.

“Well, it’s not over. We can’t have an American people that violate the law and then just walk away from it. So it’s not over,” Reid told News 4.

Despite telling the Bundy family that a deal had been reached Saturday after federal agents were forced to retreat, the BLM reversed its promise Monday and told reporters that they planned to go after Bundy “administratively and judicially.”

“The door isn’t closed. We’ll figure out how to move forward with this,” BLM spokesman Craig Leff said. “The BLM and National Park Service did not cut any deal and negotiate anything, there was no deal we made.”

Unsurprisingly, reporters made no attempt to question Reid regarding his involvement after an Infowars report linked Reid to the attempted Bundy land grab.

The most read news story in the world Friday, Infowars reporter Kit Daniels revealed documents linking Reid and the BLM’s director, Reid’s former senior adviser, to a Chinese energy firm that has been working to remove Bundy from his home in order to install solar panel power stations.

“Non-Governmental Organizations have expressed concern that the regional mitigation strategy for the Dry Lake Solar Energy Zone utilizes Gold Butte as the location for offsite mitigation for impacts from solar development, and that those restoration activities are not durable with the presence of trespass cattle,” one document states about Bundy’s cattle.

Harry Reid’s son, Rory Reid, has been the chief representative to the Chinese firm, which announced its plan to build a $5 billion solar plant on public Nevada land in 2012.

Despite multiple attempts by the BLM to regulate Bundy off the land his family has worked on for more than 140 years, in one instance claiming Bundy was harming an endangered tortoise that the agency itself was killing in mass, Bundy has continued to remain the last rancher in his area.

Although corporate media outlets are attempting to sway public opinion, Bundy supporters continue to arrive at the ranch to provide support. Regardless of the federal government’s next move, the BLM’s heavy handed response to the situation, which included snipers, assaults, a no-fly zone, a First Amendment Area and threats of death, has shattered their public image.

Fresh off the historic victory, which saw federal agents back down to Americans and return nearly 100 cattle, Bundy supporters remain on scene, awaiting the federal government’s next move. » Full Article

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Alana Cook, WND — (WASHINGTON) In a move lawmakers and farmers are calling “the biggest land grab in the history of the world,” the Environmental Protection Agency is requesting jurisdiction over all public and private streams in the United States that are “intermittent, seasonal and rain-dependent.”

The EPA and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in late March jointly released a proposed rule, Waters of the United States, in an effort to clarify which streams and wetlands are protected under the Clean Water Act.

A statement issued by the EPA says “the proposed rule will benefit businesses by increasing efficiency in determining coverage of the Clean Water Act.”

But some lawmakers strongly disagree.

According to congressional budget testimony last week, Waters of the United States would give the EPA authority over streams on private property even when the water beds have been dry, in some cases for hundreds of years.

Calling it “the biggest land grab in the history of the world,” House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. Harold Rogers, R-Ky., said the “economic impact of that would be profound.”

“A community needing to build on private land that had on it one of these so-called streams that you considered a waterway under the new rule would have to travel thousands, hundreds of miles to D.C., to get approval,” Rogers said.

The congressman argued it “would absolutely freeze economic activity in this country.”

Rogers said the proposal is “proof in and of itself of the mal-intent of this administration toward the private sector.”

Civil Liberties

When Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, probed EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy further about how the new Waters of the United States rule would affect Americans’ civil liberties and ability to conduct business, McCarthy was unable to cite specifics.

She said the rule is currently posted on the EPA website for a 90-day commenting period and the scientific basis to support it has not been completed.

The proposed rule tinkers with the definition of “navigable” waters, which was the central point of litigation in a battle between the Supreme Court and the EPA regarding the Clean Water Act.

“We are clarifying protection for the upstream waters that are absolutely vital to downstream communities,” McCarthy said.

“Clean water is essential to every single American, from families who rely on safe places to swim and healthy fish to eat, to farmers who need abundant and reliable sources of water to grow their crops, to hunters and fishermen who depend on healthy waters for recreation and their work, and to businesses that need a steady supply of water for operations.”

Jo-Ellen Darcy, assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, argued the nation’s waters and wetlands “are valuable resources that must be protected today and for future generations.”

“Today’s rulemaking will better protect our aquatic resources, by strengthening the consistency, predictability, and transparency of our jurisdictional determinations,” she said. “The rule’s clarifications will result in a better public service nationwide.”

McCarthy went on to explain that the EPA is working closely with the USDA to further regulate 56 farm practices that are considered exempt under the Clean Water Act.

“We not only took the exemptions, but we developed this interpretive rule that identified 56 farm practices, working with USDA, so that if these farm practices are what you’re doing, you didn’t need to ask a single question about whether they’re exempt,” McCarthy said.

‘Not So Friendly’

But lawmakers and farmers express concern that this kind of regulation would allow the EPA in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management, the Department of Energy and the Army to dictate on a never-before-seen scale everything from grazing rights, food production, animal health and the use of energy on private lands.

“We’re hearing from farm groups throughout the United States about uncertainties regarding agricultural exemptions,” Murkowski said. “They say it’s not so farm-friendly as the statements that have been made by your administration.”

When lawmakers questioned McCarthy on the extent of the regulation’s reach, including who would be fined if the rules are violated and where the money would go, McCarthy could not give a clear answer.

She said only that the scientific study on which the proposed rule is based is still under way.

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Alana Cook has worked as a proposal and business development manager, editor and writer over the last eight years in the government-contracting arena in Washington, D.C. She worked as a business editor, features writer and beat reporter for news outlets in southeast Texas where she covered emerging issues in energy, local politics, as well as breaking news. A former congressional intern for Rep. John Boozman, R-Ark., she blogs on women's issues, faith, politics and policy.

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» Tea-Party Powerhouse Sues Obama Admin
‘IRS has to follow letter of the law, just like we do’

“We want to know what they are doing and who is doing it,” said Washington attorney Cleta Mitchell in announcing a lawsuit intended to force the Obama administration to reveal the IRS’ new plans for tea party groups. The Tea Party Patriots, or TPP, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. against the IRS and...”

» NSA Slayer Wants Feds Nailed For Contempt
‘Defendants, by and through the Obama Justice Department, have lied to this court’

Plaintiffs in a series of lawsuits against the federal government over the spy-on-Americans programs run by the National Security Agency and others are arguing that a contempt ruling, perhaps, is in order because of the White House obfuscations in the case. A motion filed in federal court in Washington requests the court hold an evidentiary hearing...”

» Putin Finds Allies In European Ultranationalists
Both mistrust U.S. and oppose NATO expansion

Russia is cultivating new European allies in its in its mistrust with the United States, and in its quest to set up a barrier against what it perceives as NATO encroachment on its borders, in the form of ultra-nationalist groups who stand to gain seats in the upcoming European Parliament elections in May. That is despite the fact those...