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"Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [i.e., securing inherent and inalienable rights, with powers derived from the consent of the governed], it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776.

"In a country whose constitution is derived from the will of the people directly expressed by their free suffrages, where the principal executive functionaries and those of the legislature are renewed by them at short periods, where under the character of jurors they exercise in person the greatest portion of the judiciary powers, where the laws are consequently so formed and administered as to bear with equal weight and favor on all, restraining no man in the pursuits of honest industry and securing to every one the property which that acquires, it would not be supposed that any safeguards could be needed against insurrection or enterprise on the public peace or authority. The laws, however, aware that these should not be trusted to moral restraints only, have wisely provided punishments for these crimes when committed." --Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806.

"As revolutionary instruments (when nothing but revolution will cure the evils of the State) [secret societies] are necessary and indispensable, and the right to use them is inalienable by the people; but to admit them as ordinary and habitual instruments as a part of the machinery of the Constitution, would be to change that machinery by introducing moving powers foreign to it, and to an extent depending solely on local views, and, therefore, incalculable." --Thomas Jefferson to William Duane, 1803.

"The paradox with me is how any friend to the union of our country can, in conscience, contribute a cent to the maintenance of anyone who perverts the sanctity of his desk to the open inculcation of rebellion, civil war, dissolution of government, and the miseries of anarchy." --Thomas Jefferson to William Plumer, 1815.  Obama is trying to dissolve our country and has perverted the sanctity of the Oval office, therefore maybe we should go on a tax strike (not pay any taxes), and show him, as well as those multi-billionaire terrorists, who really has the power.  There was no such thing as income tax before President Roosevelt put it in place in the 1930s, so let them know we will not fund their mandatory abortion tax law, nor support an evil reich such as Obama's.  It's time to stand up and resist!!

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"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them." --Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1787.

"Governments, wherein the will of every one has a just influence... has its evils,... the principal of which is the turbulence to which it is subject. But weigh this against the oppressions of monarchy, and it becomes nothing. Malo periculosam libertatem quam quietam servitutem. [I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude.] Even this evil is productive of good. It prevents the degeneracy of government, and nourishes a general attention to the public affairs." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1787.

"The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere." --Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, 1787.

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?" --Thomas Jefferson to William S. Smith, 1787.

"Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the government, and acts against the oppressions of the government. The latter are virtues, yet have furnished more victims to the executioner than the former, because real treasons are rare; oppressions frequent. The unsuccessful strugglers against tyranny have been the chief martyrs of treason laws in all countries." --Thomas Jefferson: Report on Spanish Convention, 1792.  (This applies to the supposed "enemy combatants" that George W. Bush claims are enemies of the government when some are patriotic American citizens exercising their right to free speech and their own opinions, but that hypocrite let our true enemies escape right after 911.  Now Obama is BOWING to those enemies because he is one of them.)

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"The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1823.  (This is why Obama is trying to stamp out Free Speech)

"A court has no affections; but those of the people whom they govern influence their decisions, even in the most arbitrary governments." --Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 1785.

"Public opinion... [is] a censor before which the most exalted tremble for their future as well as present fame." --Thomas Jefferson to John Adams, 1816.  (Not anymore, we are supposed to tremble at Obama, but he is what the Bible calls a foolish and unrighteous king.)

"The opinions and dispositions of our people in general, which, in governments like ours, must be the foundation of measures, will always be interesting to me." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Henry Lee, 1786.

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"Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law." --Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1819.

"I have such reliance on the good sense of the body of the people and the honesty of their leaders that I am not afraid of their letting things go wrong to any length in any cause." --Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas, 1788.  (Thomas Jefferson never met George W. Bush or Barrack Obama, nor did he understand Biblical prophesy...:p)

"Whenever our affairs go obviously wrong, the good sense of the people will interpose and set them to rights." --Thomas Jefferson to David Humphreys, 1789. (Thomas Jefferson never counted on the "dumbing down" of Americans by the government rewriting history, which includes censoring his own comments and writings out of the history books.)

"Our fellow citizens have been led hoodwinked from their principles by a most extraordinary combination of circumstances. But the band is removed, and they now see for themselves." --Thomas Jefferson to John Dickinson, 1801.  (The band has been placed back over the eyes of the country, especially those ignorant people who voted for Obama and thus are sending us into financial and moral ruin.)

"Manfully maintain our good old principle of cherishing and fortifying the rights and authorities of the people in opposition to those who fear them, who wish to take all power from them and to transfer all to Washington" (or Obama). --Thomas Jefferson to Nathaniel Macon, 1826.

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"Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776.

"I consider the source of authority with us to be the Nation. Their will, declared through its proper organ, is valid till revoked by their will declared through its proper organ again also." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1792.

"Independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Ritchie, 1820.

"What government [a nation] can bear depends not on the state of science, however exalted, in a select band of enlightened men, but on the condition of the general mind." --Thomas Jefferson to Lafayette, 1817.

"The government of a nation may be usurped by the forcible intrusion of an individual into the throne. But to conquer its will so as to rest the right on that, the only legitimate basis, requires long acquiescence and cessation of all opposition." --Thomas Jefferson to ----, 1825.

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"From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation." --Thomas Jefferson: Rights of British America, 1774.

"[If the] representative houses [are dissolved,]... the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, [return] to the people at large for their exercise." --Thomas Jefferson: Declaration of Independence, 1776.

"Necessities which dissolve a government do not convey its authority to an oligarchy or a monarchy. They throw back into the hands of the people the powers they had delegated, and leave them as individuals to shift for themselves." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIII, 1782.

"There is an error into which most of the speculators on government have fallen, and which the well-known state of society of our Indians ought, before now, to have corrected. In their hypothesis of the origin of government, they suppose it to have commenced in the patriarchal or monarchical form. Our Indians are evidently in that state of nature which has passed the association of a single family... The Cherokees, the only tribe I know to be contemplating the establishment of regular laws, magistrates, and government, propose a government of representatives, elected from every town. But of all things, they least think of subjecting themselves to the will of one man." --Thomas Jefferson to Francis W. Gilmer, 1816.

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"I consider the people who constitute a society or nation as the source of all authority in that nation; as free to transact their common concerns by any agents they think proper; to change these agents individually, or the organization of them in form or function whenever they please; that all the acts done by these agents under the authority of the nation are the acts of the nation, are obligatory on them and enure to their use, and can in no wise be annulled of affected by any change in the form of the government or of the persons administering it." --Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on French Treaties, 1793.

 "When, by the Declaration of Independence, [the nation of Virginia] chose to abolish their former organs of declaring their will, the acts of will already formally and constitutionally declared, remained untouched. For the nation was not dissolved, was not annihilated; its will, therefore, remained in full vigor; and on the establishing the new organs, first of a convention, and afterwards a more complicated legislature, the old acts of national will continued in force, until the nation should, by its new organs, declare its will changed." --Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 1799.

"Louis XIV, having established the Coutumes de Paris as the law of Louisiana, this was not changed by the mere act of transfer; on the contrary, the laws of France continued and continues to be the law of the land, except where specially altered by some subsequent edict of Spain or act of Congress." --Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, 1808.

"Indeed in no case are the laws of a nation changed, of natural right, by their passage from one to another denomination. The soil, the inhabitants, their property, and the laws by which they are protected go together. Their laws are subject to be changed only in the case, and extent which their new legislature shall will." --Thomas Jefferson: Batture at New Orleans, 1812.

"When a question arises, whether any particular law or appointment is still in force, we are to examine, not whether it was pronounced by the ancient or present organ, but whether it has been at any time revoked by the authority of the nation, expressed by the organ competent at the time." --Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 1792.

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 Heed these words not the Communist manifesto of Obama.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors. As Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In free governments the rulers are the servants and the people their superiors and sovereigns." The ultimate powers in a society, therefore, rest in the people themselves, and they should exercise those powers, either directly or through representatives, in every way they are competent and that is practicable.

"The whole body of the nation is the sovereign legislative, judiciary, and executive power for itself. The inconvenience of meeting to exercise these powers in person, and their inaptitude to exercise them, induce them to appoint special organs to declare their legislative will, to judge and to execute it. It is the will of the nation which makes the law obligatory; it is their will which creates or annihilates the organ which is to declare and announce it. They may do it by a single person, as an emperor of Russia (constituting his declarations evidence of their will), or by a few persons, as the aristocracy of Venice, or by a complication of councils, as in our former regal government or our present republican one. The law being law because it is the will of the nation, is not changed by their changing the organ through which they choose to announce their future will; no more than the acts I have done by one attorney lose their obligation by my changing or discontinuing that attorney." --Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Randolph, 1799. 

"Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will; and externally to transact business with other nations through whatever organ it chooses, whether that be a King, Convention, Assembly, Committee, President, or whatever it be. The only thing essential is, the will of the nation." --Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Pinckney, 1792.

"[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1813.

"[It is] the people, to whom all authority belongs." --Thomas Jefferson to Spencer Roane, 1821.

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves in all cases to which they think themselves competent (as in electing their functionaries executive and legislative, and deciding by a jury of themselves in all judiciary cases in which any fact is involved), or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press." --Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.

"We think experience has proved it safer for the mass of individuals composing the society to reserve to themselves personally the exercise of all rightful powers to which they are competent and to delegate those to which they are not competent to deputies named and removable for unfaithful conduct by themselves immediately." --Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816.

"The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union." --Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823.

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Mood:  bright

In the 18th century a movement formed that emphasized using reason to examine the previously accepted doctrines and traditions.  Humanitarian reforms came out of that period of time.  Many saw the social injustices, and inequality of treatment for the poor, as well as the mistreatment of children, and did something about them to change such inhumane actions.  God is not opposed to "reasoning" because He stated, "Come let us reason together" and Paul "reasoned" with those he spoke to in the marketplace.  But most of the reasoning involved at that time was human reasoning.

Despite the fact there were social awakenings, there was a dark side to the "Age of Enlightenment."  There was a rise of mysticism, and new age thought. There was also an increase in false prophets and teachers bringing in their false theology, like Joseph Smith of the Mormons.  People were ripe for something new and exciting in the spiritual realm.  The "traditions" and "doctrines" of the churches became lifeless and cold (and even boring), so people sought out other forms of thought to entertain.  The doctrines and traditions didn't become lifeless on their own.  The people stopped believing them and being "doers of the word" as the Bible commanded.  They became a generation of miracle seekers.  People began spiritualizing emotional thrills & chills, and calling those feelings experiences with God.  They thought it had to be God because "every good and perfect gift is from above."  However, what we deem as good may not be good for us, because God's "ways are higher than our ways, and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts".

Human nature is basically the same and our habits are predictable.  We have come full circle and currently people are shedding the traditions and doctrines of Biblical churches, and grasping onto new age theology through Holy Laughter, Purpose Driven Life, The Emerging Church, and Spiritual Formation.  The newest fad of prayers such as Lecto Divina, Labyrinth Prayers, and Contemplative prayer are all part of the new age (which is not anything new), mystical, humanistic thought.  All these movements do not bring true "enlightenment" but real deception.  No one will find any "spiritual or intellectual insight" to God by following these false doctrines.  The book of 1 John dealt with that kind of high-minded gnosticism.  The Biblical Christian doctrines established by Jesus Christ, Paul and the other Apostles are where you will find true "enlightenment".

Just because something makes you feel better, or gives you a sense of "euphoria" (which more than likely, is a false and a temporary sense of peace), it doesn't make it right.  We cannot rely on what we feel, because our feelings lie to us.  There are a lot of people who won't understand that statement, because they live by their feelings everyday.  They are "tossed to and fro by every wind of doctrine" because they follow their feelings rather than the ultimate and final wisdom of the Word of God. Even human intellect and logical reasoning cannot surpass the wisdom of the Bible.

I know of a woman who claims that beating up people makes her feel better.  She justifies it by saying that it helps her "release" her anger.  I don't doubt one bit that it brings a sense of release, temporarily, until the next time she gets mad and beats up someone else.  Her feelings of euphoria come from her endorphines and adreneline pumping through her body, as well as the sinful pleasure of controlling someone else, not from releasing her rage on another human being.  She's deceived by those feelings of euphoria and sense of release and power, and associates those "good" feelings with violence.  She thinks that the more she commits the physical act the more good feelings she'll have.  We have the same improper association with sexual sins.  I believe that sexual sins are one of the strongest delusions of all because they involve such personal, intimate feelings.  Sex was designed to be very pleasurable, but for the marriage bed only.  God ordained marriage between one man and one woman only.  But our feelings (including what we call love) tell us to go ahead and sleep with anyone or any gender we choose, and engage in that sinful pleasure despite what God says is right.  Our feelings then become our god rather than God's word being the plumbline for our feelings.  Our feelings MUST line up with God's truth, in order for them to be truthful-- otherwise they are a lie.  Mormons always talk about a "burning in their bosom" to convince people their cult is right, but I think they should take some Pepto-Bismol for that condition, then repent of believing the lies of a pathalogical liar.

The way to control sin is to crucify our selfish nature.  The way to overcome sin is to deny the flesh.  But psychology lies to us by saying that we 'are bottling it up, and we'll eventually explode on someone' if we don't 'follow our heart (i.e. feelings)'.  Only those who believe the lie that their feelings tell them, like the woman I mentioned, will explode.  Only those who do not exercise self-restraint, forgiveness, and mercy will continue the hate and anger.  Now, this cannot be accomplished without being saved and having the Holy Spirit of God in our lives teaching us God's truth.  But Paul said love "bears all things" and that includes wrongs done to us.  

There is a temptation, especially in this generation of psycho-babble, to turn to human beings for our help.  Even that is a delusion of sorts.  Therapists claim that therapy helps release the negative feelings, but it encourages gossipping and talebearing.  The book of Proverbs is full of dealings with the mouth and talebearing.  When we get angry or hurt we are to turn to the Holy Spirit for comfort, not a psychologist.  God is the only One who truly knows our hearts and minds, and only He can help us.  But we are impatient, and we want the pain or negative feelings gone, now.  We want to feel good all the time, but if we don't have the painful, negative feelings, we won't appreciate the good times, nor will we have any compassion on those who are suffering around us.  The Bible states that Jesus learned obedience by the things he SUFFERED.  Even though Jesus was sinless and perfect, He willingly suffered along with us.  I know that when I have waited on the Lord to take me through something difficult, and then I see someone else going through the same thing, my heart goes out to them, and I have a greater compassion on them than if I hadn't gone through the same struggle.  It compels me to pray for them and try to minister Christ to them.

If our Master had to learn obedience by the things He suffered, who are we to think we are greater than He is?  That's pride.  Jesus never had a psychologist and even His disciples desserted Him in His greatest time of need.  He didn't send a messenger to Dr. Moshe Levi, Ph.D. frantically saying, "They're going to put me to death!  Please come console Me or send someone to fight for Me in the courts!  I'm innocent!"  But His confidence was in His Father not His friends, nor any "professional" therapist.  He didn't even have a lawyer.  But He suffered death, so we could have life.  Our "greater good" came out of His suffering.  Sometimes our suffering brings about a "greater good" or is for the good of others. It also can bring out the true nature of others, but even if they continue hurting us, or rejecting us, we are not to begrudge them or retaliate in any way.  Everything we suffer is for the glory of God in some way.  We may have to suffer because God is rebuking us for our own stupid decisions, or our suffering may bring out God's glory in us in another way.  "His strength is made perfect in our weakness". 

There are those who claim that Jesus doesn't want us to suffer pain for very long, or a need for any length of time.  They negatively condemn the suffering person with the statement, "You don't have faith."  That is so cruel, and they obviously have not suffered in the same way, or they are in denial (i.e. lying).  I honestly believe those people don't know the true and living God of the Bible, but serve the god of their own making.  That's another delusion of people's feelings that blinds them to the truth.  They do not want to believe God would make them suffer, so they serve the God of non-suffering -- an idol they've created in their own heart.  They have made unto themselves a god of their own liking and in THEIR own image.  But again that is not the God of the Bible. 

Those who claim that "God is not the God of lack" obviously didn't understand when Paul said he suffered, NEED, nakedness, shipwreck, homelessness, sickness, and etc., all for the glory of Christ.  They also apparently don't understand where Paul said that he is content in whatever state he is in, whether it be in abundance or LACK.  God blesses people in all walks of life, with different gifts and abilities, and places them where He pleases, for His glory only.  I believe that is why Paul said that we shouldn't judge another man's servant.  Not everyone is called to be prosperous.  Jesus said that "the poor will be with you ALWAYS".  And, not everyone is called to be completely healthy, either.  I know a pastor who has to go through dialysis, but he determined a long time ago to witness to every person who hooks him up to those machines.  There was an opportunity for him to get a kidney, but God asked him, "Haven't I taken care of you this long?" So, he turned it down. That man still is on dialysis, but God has sustained him and kept him alive to be a light to those working in the hospital and those SUFFERING the same condition.  Everything we do here, is for eternal reward, not temporal rewards.  The "eternal weight of glory" is what matters the most, not the "light affliction" we have here.

Despite what the false teachers are saying, the Bible is not always a "feel good" book nor is it a "self-help" book.  The Bible is all about glorifying God, doing God's will, and obeying His truth, as it was in the beginning before the fall.  Will we be perfect at it?  NO, because we still have to contend with our flesh everyday.  But when our feelings are lined up with God's word, we will have true and lasting peace.  (Jesus is our peace, not having an uneventful, easy life.)   But it all begins with salvation, and the repentance of our sinful lusts, impulses, and feelings.  We must renounce those false doctrines I mentioned before, renounce mystical experiences that are not Biblical, agree that God is right, and embrace the simple truth of the Bible.  We must align our feelings with what God says is right, since He cannot lie, and we are children of the father of lies (the devil).  Choose you this day whom you will serve (believe), your feelings and this world's philosophies, or God and His word.  Who's right?

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Pastor Bill Randles of Believers in Grace Fellowship.

www.believersingrace.com

Posted by finaldaysproject at 9:07 PM EDT

Updated: Thursday, 22 October 2009 9:12 PM EDT

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