FRUITS OF A NATION

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Something from Lawman on the Article V project to preserve Liberty site;

FRUITS OF A NATION

"But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another." (Gal 5:15)
Two hundred and forty years ago this coming July 4th 2016 this nation turns 240 years of age. Not much time in the history of the world or even other country's longevity. Our nation from the very conception was unique because we are founded on Godly principles and Gods Law with the fundamentally God given right of free choice without government involvement nor the ability of government or man to take those rights away. But, I'm getting ahead of myself.
As individual men and women we are gifted with ideals, beliefs and unique characteristics depending on our understanding of God. Some believe that God does not exist, some only half believe and some believe totally in God, each with their own foundation for that belief. Our walk in this life is strictly our own, however it may be influenced by time, environment, loved ones or many other influences there may be from early age to time of death. It all impacts our lives. How we deal with that impact ultimately will direct our relationship positively or negatively with God. How we deal with it is eternal.
Each man and women that helped found this country were firm believers in God, that is a fact. There is much criticism today that men like Thomas Jefferson did not believe in God as an example. Thomas Jefferson did not believe in the political preaching of the Church of England, rightfully so but there is no evidence that he renounced or rejected God. All had not only God as a common base but the fruits of their faith would carry us into a new era. A nation unlike no other, before or since.
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long suffering,gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance against such there is no law." (Gal 5. 22-23)
For those of us that believe in God must search our heart in the fruit we bear, and how that is perceived by others. This nation's growth or regression is based by each citizens bearing of spiritual fruit. It does not start in Washington D.C., it starts and ends within our hearts and our relationship and bearing of God's fruit. These are what our founders had in the birth of this country. They were bearing the fruit of God, giving them wisdom, understanding and courage to defy all earthly powers, each of them separately and collectively united in faith did the impossible.
When Israel maintained their great belief in God and manifested Gods spiritual fruit, they prospered and were renowned for their belief. As the people founded in that fruits of the Spirit deteriorated, so did the Nation, eventually ending in bondage. No leader was responsible for that fall, the people were. Only after the rising of a broad base of Spiritual fruition was the Nation put whole again. God says that He will puke us up as dog vomit if we turn away from Him, and only by the manifestation of spiritual fruits will be allowed back into His arms, individually or nationally.
Today as I write this, I look at the State of our Nation. The division, the strife, the hate, the lies, the accumulation of power and money and the anger. Can we honestly blame the politicians, I think not. I blame myself for the lack of spiritual fruition and the courage to stand up and be counted when it was time to do so. It is not the government's responsibility to produce fruit, it is ours. When we fail so does our Nation, basic Constitutional concept.
Now that we are in the middle of an election year, trying to determine which candidate will best serve this country we must first look at ourselves. If we have a firm foundation in the Fruits of the Spirit it gives us an advantage in seeing the fruits in the candidate. Is that candidate ashamed to mention God in their life? Do they lie? What is the family like? Do they stand on Constitutional principles? The list can go on and on but the important thing to remember here is the bearing of spiritual fruit. Is their love of God unashamed? Are they at peace with themselves and God? If the candidate exhibits the fruits of the spirit then in all likelihood they will carry that into the elected position. Also look to any Minister of God that may be supporting the candidates and for what reason. A truly Fruit filled Minister will not support a non fruit bearing candidate.
One last important matter I wish to discuss here.
The anger of the citizens of this nation are at an all time high. Some candidates are using that anger to obtain votes. Often times the candidate is just as angry as the voters, it's like a feeding frenzy of spiritual magnitude never experienced before. Anger can be a good thing when the spirit so moves you, however when it is fed and grows outside of God's fruits of the spirit it blinds the heart of common sense and reality. It literally binds our spirit from making good Godly decisions. I'm asking each and everyone of you to join together in prayer to ask God to lift the veil of anger from those in bondage to it. To open their heart and reveal the candidates that only feed that anger with no fruitful resolution,and to reveal the ones that do. Lastly, that we support each other in pray to have God make us a spiritually fruit bearing nation once again, united in the Godly principles our Founding Fathers held so dearly.
If we stand firm in our prayers, fight the good fight and bear spiritual fruits, God will honor those prayers.
May the Fruits of the Spirit continue to grow in our hearts and our nation. That the veil of anger be lifted and the truth be revealed and a God fearing, spiritual fruit bearing person be elected.

Lawman

[charles royer]

Yet a self proclaimed democratic socialist plays pied piper!

feeling the Bern in Venezuela!

Led by Hugo Chávez, the country’s firebrand former president, the country embarked on a wave of expropriation and redistribution with the charismatic leader offering cut-price fridges, appliances and even new homes to poor Venezuelans.

Chávez wanted to create a socialist paradise, an ideology that has been reinforced by his successor Maduro following his death in 2013.

But the oil price collapse a year later served as a wake-up call for a country that chose profligacy over prudence in the hope that a rainy day would never come.

Oil accounts for 98pc of total exports and 59pc of fiscal revenues, but Moya-Ocampos says the price slide isn’t the country’s only problem.
“Even under Chavez and $100 a barrel oil, debt was rapidly rising and there were already food shortages,” he says, “This is ultimately to do with an interventionist model that is not sustainable and has reached a tipping point.”
Venezuela: how the socialist paradise turned into debt and hyperinflation hell
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/05/21/venezuela-how-the-so...

[charles royer]

Army probes allegations of fraud by recruiters and others in enlistment referral program
Army criminal investigators are probing allegations that hundreds of National Guard recruiters and others with ties to the military abused an enlistment referral program established at the height of the Iraq war, officials disclosed Monday, describing a massive racket that appears to have gone undetected for years.

While cases of wartime contracting fraud from Iraq and Afghanistan are legion, the recruitment bonus scandal appears to mark the first instance of systemic fraud by military personnel committed at home.

Army criminal investigators are probing the actions of more than 1,200 individuals who collected suspect payouts totaling more than $29 million, according to officials who were briefed on the preliminary findings of the investigation and would discuss them only on the condition of anonymity. More than 200 officers are suspected of involvement, including two generals and dozens of colonels.

The alleged fraud drew in recruiters, soldiers and civilians with ties to the military who submitted, or profited from, false referrals registered on a Web site run by a marketing firm the Army hired to run the program. Suspects often obtained the names of people who had enlisted from recruiters, claimed them as their referrals, and then kicked back some of the bonus money to the recruiters.

Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/news/local/military/article13836773.html#st...

[charles royer]

The United States Has Become an Empire
Historically, most empires are born in conquest. There are few cases of voluntary association creating empires. Ancient times gives us only the brief Athenian Empire. Modern times has given us the EU – which may be equally brief, and for much the same reasons.

Empires endure when their positives outweigh their negatives. Empires provide two major positives: security and prosperity. These are the centripetal forces. Empires collapse for many reasons; insecurity and impoverishment are the two most visible causes. But these are often merely the consequence of the more fundamental causes: corruption and tyranny.

Tyranny is the primary centrifugal force. People love liberty.

So why is Britain breaking away from the EU? After all, the EU promises prosperity. In reality, the imbalances in the various economies of the EU's constituent countries is stripping Britain of its prosperity. Money is draining away from Britain without significant compensation.

How about security? The influx of refugees and migrants caused by the Union's policy is rapidly erasing the very character of Britain. And as long as Britain remains in the EU, it can do nothing but accept the imposed flood of invaders – and thereby lose its national character.

But there is a deeper issue. The EU is progressively imposing true tyranny. The European Union has a parliament, but this body is powerless. It cannot propose laws. It cannot even effectively modify, or veto, laws proposed by an unelected committee without the committee's permission. The EU Parliament is merely a debating society.

Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/07/the_united_states_h...
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[charles royer]

August 10, 2016
White-on-Black Violence Is Everywhere, Says AP
By Colin Flaherty

There are a million stories in the big city. With a million ways to tell each one.

So when the University of Chicago told reporters that a new poll shows that 62 percent of young black people are more afraid of violence from “white extremists” than from ISIS, the world’s largest news organization had a choice:

1) It could produce a story scorning such a transparently false idea. Maybe even remind their readers that white people are 25-50 times more likely to be the victim of black violence than vice versa. Though many already know that from personal experience. Or,

2) It could perpetuate the greatest hoax of our generation: The myth of black victimization -- that black people are relentless victims of relentless white racism all the time, everywhere, that explains everything. Especially why cops are always picking on black people for no reason what so ever.

Don’t laugh: it’s called "Critical Race Theory". Only today, it is an industry, taught to hundreds of thousands of students in hundreds of school districts across the country. Including virtually every university.

The Associated Press chose door number Two. “Poll: Young Blacks Fear White Extremist Violence More than Violence from Foreign Extremists,” said the headlines in papers around the country, including afro.com:
Please read on!
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/08/white_on_black_viol...
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It's the NWO Socialist Elitist way.