RE: State-Owned Churches Are Killing America By Chuck Baldwin, February 3, 2011

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> >> Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:12:01 -0600
> >> Subject: Fwd: State-Owned Churches Are Killing America By Chuck Baldwin
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> >> CHUCK BALDWIN IS A PASTOR His bio is at the bottom.
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> >> State-Owned Churches Are Killing America
> >> By Chuck Baldwin
> >> February 3, 2011
> >>
> >> Archived column:
> >>
> >> http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3022
> >>
> >> America was birthed in the spirit of liberty and baptized in the
> >> blood of patriots and tyrants. Leading the charge in America's fight
> >> for independence was a courageous group of patriot-preachers that came
> >> to be known as the "Black Regiment." I have written several columns on
> >> this subject. Suffice it to say here that I invite readers to take a
> >> look at my Black Regiment web page to learn more about this early
> >> American phenomenon. There is little doubt that without these stalwart
> >> Christian pastors, this country would not have come into existence. (I
> >> extended this call for a modern-day Black Regiment 5 years before
> >> Glenn Beck ever mentioned it.)
> >>
> >> See my Black Regiment page at:
> >>
> >> http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?page_id=23
> >>
> >> Plus, to read my column regarding the Black Regiment that was
> >> published in The New American magazine in 2009, go to:
> >>
> >> http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/history/american/1789
> >>
> >> So, what did these colonial preachers have that today's preachers
> >> don't? The better question might be: what did these colonial preachers
> >> NOT have that today's preachers do? The answer? Two things: 1) an IRS
> >> 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporation status, and 2) a 50-year
> >> misinterpretation of Romans chapter 13.
> >>
> >> The now infamous 501(c)(3) section of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC)
> >> goes back to 1936 (the seeds of this Venus Fly Trap date back to
> >> 1872). But then-Senator Lyndon Johnson was the Dr. Frankenstein who,
> >> in 1954, unleashed this monster upon America. His motivation was: he
> >> did not like the way pastors and churches were opposing his liberal
> >> agenda, and he wanted to use the power of law to silence them. He,
> >> therefore, introduced verbiage to the IRC that churches were
> >> prohibited from influencing political legislation and supporting
> >> political campaigns, or risk losing their tax-exempt status.
> >>
> >> Of course, colonial pastors didn't have to worry about their churches
> >> being "incorporated" as State-created (and controlled) entities, or
> >> about IRS agents intimidating them regarding what they could or could
> >> not say. In early America, preachers were free men; they could say
> >> whatever they darned well pleased. Gasp! Beyond that, virtually
> >> everyone regarded preachers as being "God's men," not the "servants of
> >> men."
> >>
> >> Today, however, the average pastor has become the servant of the
> >> State and the church he pastors, more often than not, has become a
> >> creature of the State. It is an absolute fact that State-owned
> >> churches are killing America!
> >>
> >> Dick Greb of the Save-A-Patriot Fellowship in Westminster, Maryland,
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> "Many Americans find it disturbing that some of our churches today
> >> are little more than milquetoast corporations that fear our federal
> >> government more than the great I AM. Moreover, it can even be said
> >> that some preachers have the appearance of cringing, 'politically
> >> correct' cowards, rather than committed Godly men of fortitude with
> >> backbone, such as those we read of in the Bible." (Source: Greb, Dick.
> >> "The 501(c)(3) Hallucination: A Bane to Liberty." Reasonable Action
> >> Issue #244 Winter 2003.)
> >>
> >> Dear reader, you can take this to the bank: the vast majority of
> >> pastors and board members of these 501(c)(3) corporations, when push
> >> comes to shove (and it always does), will demonstrate unconditional
> >> loyalty to the State. Plus, they will compromise or sacrifice any and
> >> every Bible doctrine or principle in order to preserve their
> >> tax-exempt status and stay on the smiley side of the IRC. They will
> >> also throw anyone under the old proverbial bus who might risk them
> >> falling out of favor with the IRS. (I can give painful and personal
> >> testimony to that fact!) Greb is right! Many, or most, of today's
> >> pastors and church officers fear the federal government far more than
> >> they fear God.
> >>
> >> Not only did colonial preachers not have to contend with putting
> >> their churches under some State-controlled corporation, they would
> >> never have allowed it to happen! Can one imagine John Leland, Jonas
> >> Clark, or John Witherspoon being told by any State official what he
> >> could or could not say, or what his church could or could not do? What
> >> a joke! These men were willing to go to prison or even the grave in
> >> order to remain faithful to their spiritual calling and to their
> >> political and moral convictions!
> >>
> >> The other thing that colonial preachers did not suffer from was a
> >> 50-year indoctrination of a misinterpretation of Romans 13.
> >>
> >> This "Submit-to-the-government-no-matter-what" doctrine (using Romans
> >> 13 as the pretext) is a satanically inspired lie designed to turn free
> >> men and women into slaves of the state! Students of history know that
> >> Adolf Hitler encouraged German pastors and churches to promote this
> >> same fallacious philosophy among the German people. Gee! I wonder why?
> >> And according to Erwin Lutzer's book, "Hitler's Cross" (must reading,
> >> I might add), out of the more than 14,000 evangelical churches and
> >> pastors in Germany at the time, only about 800 remained faithful to
> >> Scripture and opposed Hitler's brand of state worship. If my math is
> >> correct, that's about 5%. And it would not surprise me if 5% is about
> >> the percentage of pastors and churches in America today that are
> >> opposing this modern-day worship of the state.
> >>
> >> At this point, instead of embellishing upon Romans 13, I am going to
> >> insert a commercial. I began a series of messages on Romans 13 last
> >> Sunday at Liberty Fellowship in Kalispell, Montana. In fact, by the
> >> time you read this, Part 1 of my message on Romans 13 will be
> >> available online.
> >>
> >> To view my message, "The Truth About Romans 13, Part 1," go to:
> >>
> >> http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?p=3014
> >>
> >> I will continue my series on Romans 13 this Sunday, February 6, 2011.
> >> I invite readers to watch this address live on the Internet. To view
> >> this livestreaming broadcast, go to:
> >>
> >> http://chuckbaldwinlive.com/home/?page_id=17
> >>
> >> "The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do
> >> nothing." So said Edmund Burke. And, unfortunately, the good men that
> >> are mostly doing nothing and allowing evil to triumph in our land are
> >> the good men (and women) of America's churches who have either been
> >> intimidated by the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt corporation status, or who
> >> have been put into a sheepish, servile, Satan-induced coma from an
> >> overdose of misapplied Romans
> >>
> >> 13 poison.
> >>
> >> To quote the famous Bible commentator, Matthew Henry, "It is the
> >> devil that stirs up his instruments, wicked men [in government or
> >> without], to persecute the people of God; tyrants and persecutors are
> >> the devil's tools, though they gratify their own sinful malignity, and
> >> know not that they are actuated by a diabolical malice." (Source:
> >> Matthew Henry's Commentaries on the Bible, notes on Revelation 2:10)
> >>
> >> Yes, the Black Regiment preachers of colonial America helped lead
> >> America's fight for freedom and independence. But, they did not have
> >> their hands out to the IRS, or their minds and hearts numbed into
> >> apathy and indifference by decades of misuse and abuse of Romans
> >> chapter 13.
> >>
> >> P.S. My son, Timothy Baldwin, who is a historian, author, and
> >> constitutional attorney, is in the process of publishing a new book
> >> entitled, "Romans 13, The True Meaning of Submission." I have read it.
> >> In the similitude of Tim's first book, "Freedom For A Change," this
> >> book is an absolutely brilliant and scholarly presentation of the true
> >> meaning of Romans 13. Watch my web site, or Tim's web site, for
> >> information regarding this new book's release.
> >>
> >> My web site:
> >>
> >> http://chuckbaldwinlive.com
> >>
> >> Tim's web site:
> >>
> >> http://libertydefenseleague.com/
> >>
> >> And, if you have not yet ordered Tim's book, "Freedom For A Change,"
> >> I enthusiastically recommend it to you. Order it here:
> >>
> >> http://libertydefenseleague.com/freedom-for-a-change/buy-from-the-author/
> >>
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> >> (c) Chuck Baldwin
> >>
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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