Baptist News Global article on SBC Church Resolution to Abolish Abortion

Bill Ascol, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church in Owasso, Okla., advocates for a resolution on the abolition of abortion during the SBC annual meeting June 16 in Nashville, Tenn. (Baptist Press)
SBC calls for ‘immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise’
 
NEWSMARK WINGFIELD | JUNE 16, 2021
 
One resolution against abortion wasn’t enough for this year’s Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting.
 
After messengers (voting members) to the SBC gathering in Nashville on June 15 adopted a strongly worded resolution opposing abortion and calling for continuation of the Hyde Amendment that has prohibited federal funding for abortions, they eagerly adopted a second — and stronger — resolution the next day calling for the “immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise.”
 
That second resolution is the most strident language ever used in an SBC resolution against abortion and is so strongly worded that the SBC’s own Committee on Resolutions had declined to bring it forward.
 
That second resolution is the most strident language ever used in an SBC resolution against abortion.
 
The fight to consider the resolution
 
According to SBC practice, messengers are allowed to submit proposed resolutions in advance of the annual meeting. Those resolutions are then reviewed by the Committee on Resolutions, which often combines similar ideas into single resolutions or declines to advance all the suggestions. Within the SBC, resolutions are non-binding but generate lots of news as the sentiment of the gathered body that year.
 
This year, a small group of pastors organized a campaign for a resolution on “abolishing” abortion in America. Hundreds of members from a small number of churches reportedly bombarded the Resolutions Committee with suggestions for the same language.
 
Nevertheless, the strongly pro-life Resolutions Committee declined to advance that language for reasons that were not publicly explained.
 
However, one messenger, William Ascoh of Oklahoma, made a motion to require the Resolutions Committee to report out the resolution on abolition of abortion. That motion passed, and the committee was forced to present the resolution as submitted.
 
Nine co-authors
 
The resolution in question listed nine co-authors: William Ascol, Bethel Baptist Church, Owasso, Okla.; Brett Baggett, Ekklesia, Muskogee, Okla; David Van Bebber, First Baptist Church, Buffalo, Mo.; Blake Gideon, First Baptist Church, Edmond, Okla.; Darrick Holloman, High Point Baptist Church, Mayfield, Ky.; Dave Hughey, Geyer Springs Baptist Church, Little Rock, Ark.; Jon Speed, First Baptist Church, Briar, Texas; Derin Stidd, Harmony Baptist Church, Frankfort, Ind.; and Russell Threet, First Baptist Church, Mena, Ark.
 
Ascol was the front man for the resolution, speaking most frequently and answering messenger questions about it. His brother, Tom Ascol, who is leader of a group of SBC Calvinists called Founders Ministries, had written about the proposed resolution earlier. In a post on the Founders Ministries website, he explained that the resolution was to have been submitted at the 2020 annual meeting, but that event got cancelled due to COVID.
 
“It is time for Southern Baptists to repent of their complicity in searing the conscience of a nation that has yet to cease the slaughter of unborn innocents,” Tom Ascol said in the post.
 
History of resolutions on abortion
 
The SBC in annual session has passed more than 27 resolutions about abortion since 1971, the most recent being at the 2019 annual meeting commending state legislatures for “pro-life legislation.”
 
The SBC in annual session has passed more than 27 resolutions about abortion since 1971,
 
The nature of those resolutions has shifted dramatically through the years. The first one, in 1971 — two years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade ruling — called Southern Baptists to “work for legislation that will allow the possibility of abortion under such conditions as rape, incest, clear evidence of severe fetal deformity, and carefully ascertained evidence of the likelihood of damage to the emotional, mental, and physical health of the mother.”
 
More recently, and especially since the so-called “conservative resurgence” of the 1980s, all SBC resolutions on abortion have opposed the procedure but typically with nuanced language.
 
Strong language
 
There is nothing nuanced about this year’s second resolution. And nor should there be, Bill Ascol told messengers.
 
“Scripture tells us to rescue those who are being taken away to death,” he said in asking messengers to vote for the resolution. “The Lord is weighing our hearts today.”
 
He introduced a woman standing beside him at the microphone as a “post-abortive mother” who “lives with the trauma and the scar that she murdered her own children” but has since sought God’s forgiveness.
 
He introduced a woman standing beside him at the microphone as a “post-abortive mother” who “lives with the trauma and the scar that she murdered her own children” but has since sought God’s forgiveness.
 
“Can we not rise and stop the holocaust?” he pleaded.
 
The text of the resolution acknowledges the many previous SBC resolutions on abortion but adds: “we have yet to call for the immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise.”
 
The resolution also states: “We affirm that the murder of preborn children is a crime against humanity that must be punished equally under the law” and that “we humbly confess and lament any complicity in recognizing exceptions that legitimize or regulate abortion.”
 
An attempt to amend the resolution and slightly soften its language was adopted, but an attempt to kill the resolution by tabling it indefinitely failed.
 
The argument against the resolution
 
Messengers spoke both for and against the resolution.
 
Brett Baggett, one of the resolution’s authors, joined Ascol in defending the strong language. “Child sacrifice, which in our day is called abortion, must not be regulated,” he said. “Abortion must be eliminated immediately without compromise.”
 
“Abortion must be eliminated immediately without compromise.”
 
Sarah Hester, who described herself as a victim advocate for sexual abuse survivors in Marion, N.C., asserted it is “our job to protect victims of sexual abuse and (ensure) that they would not be victimized again by the atrocity of abortion.”
 
Women who face crisis pregnancies should not have to make decisions about whether abortion is appropriate in their circumstances, she added.
 
Those who opposed the resolution did so with repeated caveats that they, too, vehemently oppose abortion but found the language of the resolution objectionable.
 
Alan Branch of Liberty, Mo., said he opposed the resolution “because it advocates a particular political strategy” that would be discouraging to “godly politicians” who are trying to gain even a little ground against abortion.
 
“This is a poorly worded resolution,” he added. “I thought about trying to amend it, but as a seminary professor it would take me too many hours to straighten it out here on the floor.”
 
David Norman of San Antonio, Texas, opposed the resolution because he said it “requires that we walk back from every pro-life resolution we’ve passed.”
 
Ascol refuted that claim. “This resolution doesn’t walk anything back. It walks us forward toward the immediate abolition of abortion without exception and without compromise.”
 
The most impassioned argument against the resolution was given by a staff member of the SBC’s own Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, which has been a staunch anti-abortion advocate.
 
“This resolution, while it is aimed in absolutely the right direction, is the wrong resolution.”
 
“This resolution, while it is aimed in absolutely the right direction, is the wrong resolution,” said Josh Wester, director of research for the ERLC. He noted the SBC is on record as being “resolutely against abortion” as a “heinous evil, a grievous sin.”
 
He objected to the absolutist language of the resolution that could discourage politicians and policymakers from doing what they can to reduce or eliminate abortions even if they are powerless to outlaw it entirely.
 
The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission was scheduled to give its annual report to the convention soon after the body had dealt with the abortion resolution. Interim Executive Director Daniel Patterson used his entire report to talk about abortion and how the ERLC is working against it, specifically by donating 50 units of imaging equipment to be used in clinics across the county in the fight to reduce abortions.
 
Text of Resolution on Abolishing Abortion
As adopted by the SBC annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn., June 16, 2021
 
WHEREAS, from the moment of fertilization, all humans are created in God’s image by, through, and for Jesus to the glory of God, and all souls belong to Him (Genesis 1:27; 4:1; 21:2; Isaiah 7:14; Colossians 1:16; Romans 11:36; Ezekiel 18:4), and
 
WHEREAS, as God’s image-bearers, all humans both display His divine worth, power, and attributes, and possess equal, objective worth before God, not varying based on incidental characteristics; such as ethnicity, age, size, means of conception, mental development, physical development, gender, potential, or contribution to society (Rom 1:19-20; Gen 1:27; 9:6; Matthew 18:6), and
 
WHEREAS, to murder any preborn image-bearer is a sin, violating both the natural law of retributive justice as set forth in the Noahic covenant, as well as the sixth commandment forbidding murder, and as such, is ultimately an assault on God’s image, seeking to usurp God’s sovereignty as Creator (Gen 9:5-6; Exodus 20:13; Proverbs 6:17), and
 
WHEREAS, God’s Word declares that all human life is a sacred gift and that His Law is supreme over man’s life and man’s law (Psalm 127:3-5; 139:13-16; Rom 2:15-16; Acts 10:42; 17:31; 1 Corinthians 4:5), and
 
WHEREAS, God commands His people to “rescue those who are being taken away to death” and holds them responsible and without excuse when they fail to do so (Prov 24:11-12), and
 
WHEREAS, God establishes all governing authorities as His avenging servants to carry out His wrath on the evildoer, and commands these authorities to judge justly, neither showing partiality to the wicked, nor using unequal standards, which are abominations (Psa 82; Prov 20:10; Rom 13:4), and
 
WHEREAS, in 1973, the Supreme Court of the United States rendered an iniquitous decision on Roe v. Wade, and in doing so deprived the innocent of their rights, and usurped God, who sovereignly ordained their authority (Isa 5:23; 10:1-2; Psa 2; Matt 22:21; John 19:11; Acts 4:19; 5:29, Rom 13:1), and
 
WHEREAS, in the Roe v. Wade decision, the Supreme Court of the United States subverted the U.S. Constitution namely, the Preamble, as well as the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments without any legal authority (Article 6, Clause 2 “Supremacy Clause”), and
 
WHEREAS, governing authorities at every level have a duty before God to uphold justice asserting their God-ordained and constitutional authority to establish equal protection under the law for all, born and preborn, by intervening, ignoring, or nullifying iniquitous decisions when other authorities, such as the Supreme Court, condone such injustices as the legal taking of innocent life (Daniel 3; 1 Kings 12; 2 Kings 11; Jeremiah 26:10-16; 36:9-31; 37:11- 21; 39:7-10), and
 
WHEREAS, over the past 48 years with 60+ million abortions, traditional Pro-life laws, though well intended, have not established equal protection and justice for the preborn, but on the contrary, appallingly have established incremental, regulatory guidelines for when, where, why, and how to obtain legal abortion of innocent preborn children, thereby legally sanctioning abortion, and
 
WHEREAS, since 1980, the SBC has passed many resolutions reaffirming the importance of human life at all stages of development, but we have yet to call for the immediate abolition of abortion without exception or compromise, and
 
WHEREAS, our confessional statement, The Baptist Faith and Message, according to Article XV, affirms that children “from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord”; and further affirms that Southern Baptists are mandated by Scripture to “speak on behalf of the unborn and contend for the sanctity of all human life from conception to natural death,” now, be it therefore
 
RESOLVED, that the messengers of the SBC meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, June 15-16, 2021, do state unequivocally that abortion is murder, and we reject any position that allows for any exceptions to the legal protection of our preborn neighbors, compromises God’s holy standard of justice, or promotes any God-hating partiality (Psa 94:6; Isa 10:1-2; Prov 24:11; Psa 82:1-4), and be it further
 
RESOLVED, that we will not embrace an incremental approach alone to ending abortion because it challenges God’s Lordship over the heart and the conscience, and rejects His call to repent of sin completely and immediately (Gen 3:1; John 8:44; Rom 2:14-15; 2 Corinthians 11:3), and be it further
 
RESOLVED, that we affirm that the murder of preborn children is a crime against humanity that must be punished equally under the law, and be it further
 
RESOLVED, that we humbly confess and lament any complicity in recognizing exceptions that legitimize or regulate abortion, and of any apathy, in not laboring with the power and influence we have to abolish abortion, and be it further
 
RESOLVED, that as Southern Baptists we will engage, with God’s help, in establishing equal justice and protection for the preborn according to the authority of God’s Word as well as local and federal law, and call upon pastors and leaders to use their God-given gifts of preaching, teaching, and leading with one unified, principled, prophetic voice to abolish abortion, and be it finally
 
RESOLVED, that, because abolishing abortion is a Great Commission issue, we must call upon governing authorities at all levels to repent and “obey everything that [Christ] has commanded,” exhorting them to bear fruit in keeping with repentance by faithfully executing their responsibilities as God’s servants of justice, and working with all urgency to enact legislation using the full weight of their office to interpose on behalf of the preborn, abolishing abortion immediately, without exception or compromise (Mark 6:18; Matt 28:18-20; Rom 13:4, 6).
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Summary of the SBC Convention and Church Resolution to Abolish Abortion

This just in from Pastor Derin A Stidd, assistant director, Operation Rescue/Operation Save America:
Update on the Resolution to Abolish Abortion at the SBC annual meeting:
First the good news. The resolution itself passed with a fairly substantial majority.
Then the bad news. The resolution was amended to add a single word that undermined the spirit of the entire resolution.
Here’s my overall assessment. Even in its amended form, the resolution is still tremendously valuable because it lays out the entire case for abolitionism, and that case is now an official part of the record of the SBC annual meeting.
Also, Southern Baptist were highly favorable toward the resolution even before it was amended. How do I know that? Because on Tuesday night when pastor Bill asked the messenger to move the resolution the floor, despite the committees disapproval, they voted overwhelmingly in favor of bringing the resolution the floor.
This is literally unprecedented! I asked several people older Southern Baptist if they had ever seen this accomplished before, and they all said no.
Additionally, while the resolution was being debated today a messenger made a motion to permanently table the resolution, which would in effect kill the resolution, and the messengers overwhelmingly voted down that motion.
Friends, God permitted us to have a tremendous influence on the Southern Baptist Convention this year!
-Through the grass roots mobilization efforts of Southern Baptists for Abolishing Abortion we were able to get our resolution in the hands of thousands of southern Baptist.
-Bill Ascol was able to speak to the entire convention about abolitionism not once but twice, along with Brett Baggett, and another women who we didn’t even know.
We made *HUGE* strides this week!
May Christ be praised!
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Brief Defy Tyrants Video on Pastor Tony Spell

Defy Tyrants put together this short video to alert the masses on the tyranny of the state and the stand of Pastor Tony Spell in the sacred cause of liberty.
Please spread far and wide. Your liberty is at stake.
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Strike a Blow for Freedom Rally Message

This post is sent to give you an idea of the condition of the church and state. The state is doubling down on tyranny, while the church continues to slumber. We just returned from New Orleans to stand in support of Pastor Tony Spell. This dear brother has stood by his Biblical convictions that the state should not run the church. Rather, it is mandated to protect his first amendment right to practice his faith.
He is now facing up to 18 years in prison. What is his crime? He refused to obey an unlawful order by the tyrannical governor of LA, John Bel Edwards. Tragically, most of the churches stood with his oppressors, instead of following his brave example.
I sent out a press release to all Christian media outlets to cover this travesty of justice and what was the response? CRICKETS!!! Shame on them and the church! What ever is coming down upon us, we so richly deserve. Our cowardice, silence, and treachery will be rightly rewarded by the judgment of God.
Here is the following message delivered at Lafayette Park in New Orleans yesterday. I would also encourage you to watch the video to hear Pastor Matt Trewhella‘s scathing rebuke to the tyrants and churchmen in America.
MESSAGE:
I’d like to welcome everyone to our Strike a Blow for Freedom Rally in the mighty name of Jesus. His name is above every name and at his name every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess that He is Lord to the glory of the Father. This includes all those involved in this historic case and every judge sitting on the bench.
First, let us make it abundantly clear that we are not hard-hearted people. We are a Christian people. That means we have compassion for the sick and the dying. We understand the Covid 19 threatened some people’s health and some perished by it. Our hearts and prayers are with those who suffered loss.
This, in and of itself, however, does not grant the government the authority to quarantine the healthy, shut down our livelihoods, confine us in our homes, close our churches, ruin our economy, restrict human contact, especially, when loved ones are sick and dying, and run roughshod over our freedoms.
Our government has no Biblical nor Constitutional authority to determine who or what is essential or non-essential. It does not get to exercise raw power to determine the winners and losers in a pandemic, a pandemic planned, accidental, or otherwise.
America has endured many trials, hardships, and tribulations in our history. Deadly flues, plagues, and the AIDS epidemic, just to name a few. During those dangerous, trying times, our government never dared to infringe upon our liberties as we have witnessed in these dark times.
This current cabal told us for years that they would not waste a crisis, especially, if it furthered their state totalitarian goals at the expense of our liberties.
So, our message is clear here today, “Civil Government, you are not our god, our nanny, our healthcare provider, nor our master. You are drunk with power and forgotten that you are to be a servant of the people. Get out our homes, get out of our churches, get out of our businesses, and get back in your Constitutional lane. Your duty is to protect our God-given rights, not destroy them.”
We also have a message to the churches today. Some of the churches in LA threw pastor Tony Spell under the bus. They stood with his oppressors, instead of following his brave example in the Lord. Shame on them. They should know better. Is this the time to cower in fear, or be strong in the Lord and the power of His might?
Pastor Tony, at great personal risk, is leading the way out of this dark, tyranny and those who name the name of Christ should support him. His righteous and just stand is not just for the honor and glory of God, it is a defense of God’s church and a defense to protect the freedoms of all Americans.
God’s word commands in the book of Hebrews, “And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.”
We must keep in mind the context of this command from the Lord. The early church was experiencing intense religious and civil persecution. Some could not buy or sell, some faced imprisonment and others martyrdom. Did not the Lord know or understand His people’s plight? Of course, He did and still demanded they meet together.
Brothers and sisters, Pastor Tony Spell has done what is needed and necessary in these tumultuous days. He has upheld what has laid the foundation for Western civilization and specifically for what birthed our nation. The standard that Christian men have followed down through the ages is: When the State commands us to do what God forbids or forbids us to do what God commands – we are to obey God rather than man.
May our Lord vindicate his servant, reprove the tyrants in our government, and preserve the liberty that better men than these despots died to secure for our posterity in Jesus’ name!
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Strike a Blow for Freedom Press Release

This is the national press release going out this Friday. Several men of God will be coming in to address this tyranny and stand with Pastor Tony Spell in the sacred cause of freedom.
Local pastors, Dale Sochia, Bill Shanks, plus, Pastor Matt Trewhella, Coach Dave Daubenmire, Flip Benham, Dan Fisher, possibly Paul Blair, and John Diamond will be on hand to help lead the charge. If you cannot make it in person, please be in prayer. This case has huge implications for future liberties in America.
Press Release
Strike a Blow for Freedom Rally
In the days of lawlessness those who keep the law become the outlaw
On Monday, June 7th, in the year of our Lord 2021, Operation Save America will be conducting a “Strike a Blow for Freedom” rally and press conference. It will take place at the United States Fifth circuit Appeals court in New Orleans Fifth District Court. The time is from 8-9 am.
Judge Roy Moore will be representing Pastor Tony Spell and Life Tabernacle Church of Baton Rouge against Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards; David Barrow, Mayor of Central City, La.; Roger Corcoran, Chief of Police of Central City Mayor; Sharon Weston Broome, Mayor of Baton Rouge, LA; Sheriff Sid Gautreaux of Baton Rouge Parish; and Judge Fred Crifasi of the 19th Judicial District of Louisiana.
Pastor Spell has been arrested numerous times, placed in jail, and accused of several violations of Governor Edward’s orders. He was told not to assemble for worship services, much like the authorities of old demanded the early church not to “teach nor preach in Jesus’ name” (Acts 4:18).
Pastor Spell has been under house arrest. He was forced to wear an ankle bracelet because he will not abandon his convictions. He has been penalized for adhering to a sacred obligation based upon God’s command to not forsake the assembling of the church together (Hebrews 10:25).
Pastor Tony Spell stated, “On March 15, 2021, I was arrested for “failure to comply with Governor John Bel Edwards emergency orders.” Charge? “Holding Church services during a pandemic.” As absurd as this may sound, I was arrested, booked into the East Baton Rouge Parish prison, and am charged with nine crimes. As recently as May 24, 2021 three judges with the Louisiana first circuit court of appeals said “Pastor Spell’s free exercise of religion does not lie outside of the governments jurisdiction.” On June 7, 2021 at the United States Fifth circuit Appeals court in New Orleans, we will prove Governor John Bell Edwards wrong. We will stand on our biblical convictions and on the constitution of the United States of America, and WE WILL WIN!”
Judge Moore added, “Nothing in the United States Constitution or the constitution of any state gives federal and state officials the right to use “emergency powers” to take away our most valuable rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”
Rev. Rusty Thomas, National Director of Operation Save America declared, “Civil government is not our god, our nanny, our healthcare provider, nor our master. It has become drunk with power and forgotten that it is to be a servant of the people. It is time to get out our homes, out of our churches, and get back in your Constitutional lane. Your duty is to protect our God-given rights, not squelch them.”
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Message Preached at the Abolish Abortion North Carolina Conference

This is the message preached at the Abolish Abortion North Carolina Conference just recently. If you find any merit, please pass it on in your sphere of influence. Thanks!

 

 

 

 

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God’s Warning at the South Carolina State Capital

This is the message delivered at the South Carolina State Capital. So good to partner with the brothers and sisters from Apologia church and End Abortion Now. Make sure you plan on joining us in AZ for our national event hosted by these precious saints for our OSA’s “Further up and further in” conference from June 23rd-26th.
May the church and nation take heed and may God watch over His word to perform it in Jesus’ name!
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Strike a Blow for Freedom Tract

This is the tract we will be handing out in New Orleans at the Fifth District Court. On June 7th, we will stand in support of Pastor Tony Spell, who is being defended by Judge Roy Moore. Our future freedoms are hanging in the balance. Let all good men take their place to support them.
Operation Save America presents “Strike a Blow for Freedom Rally!”
“In the days of lawlessness those who keep the law become the outlaw.”
R. J. Rushdoony stated: “Western liberty began when the claim of the state to be man’s savior was denied. The state then, according to Scripture, was made the ministry of justice. But, wherever Christ ceases to be man’s savior, there liberty perishes as the state again asserts its messianic claims. Man is in trouble, and history is the record of his attempt to find salvation. Man needs a savior, and the question is simply one of choice: Christ or the state? No man can choose the one without denying the other, and all attempts at compromise are a delusion.”
America is in deep trouble and distress as our American government seeks to deify itself at the expense of our freedoms. Most government solutions claiming to solve our dilemmas only add to our woes. No crisis is wasted when it comes to our government increasing its tyranny upon the American people.
We live in a time when evil has become good and good, evil. Evil has been codified into law. The state is therefore growing in its oppressions as moral anarchy corrupts the American culture. Our historical freedoms are being systematically destroyed as the inmates run the asylum in Washington DC.
America stands on the brink of collapse. Once again, we must consider a statement articulated by President Abraham Lincoln at his famous Gettysburg address. He declared, “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.” Can our nation endure as founded is certainly one of the premier questions of our day?
The reality we are facing as a people is we have become a Prodigal Nation that has gone far from the Father’s House. Some still seem to love the fruits of Christianity. Most still prize the freedom, prosperity, and protection it affords. The major problem, however, is we do not desire Christ, His Kingdom, and His great salvation amongst men and nations anymore.
We ignore His truth, spurn His laws, and reject His supreme authority. We mock what is good and celebrate with demonic glee what is evil in God’s sight. We do this to our own hurt and demise. We are severing our historical roots along with the precious fruits of liberty these roots secured.
Case in point is what brings us to the Fifth District Court in New Orleans for our “Strike a Blow for Freedom Rally.” Today, the Foundation for Moral Law in Montgomery, Alabama, will represent Pastor Tony Spell and Life Tabernacle Church of Baton Rouge against Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards; David Barrow, Mayor of Central City, La.; Roger Corcoran, Chief of Police of Central City Mayor; Sharon Weston Broome, Mayor of Baton Rouge, LA; Sheriff Sid Gautreaux of Baton Rouge Parish; and Judge Fred Crifasi of the 19th Judicial District of Louisiana.
Pastor Spell was arrested, placed in jail, and accused of several violations of Governor Edward’s orders not to assemble for worship services. Pastor Spell has been under house arrest and forced to wear an ankle bracelet because he will not abandon his conviction based upon God’s command to not forsake the assembling of the church together (Hebrews 10:25).
The Foundation’s complaint states that the Governor of Louisiana and other state officials, which include mayors, law enforcement officials, a sheriff, and a District Court Judge have violated the United States Constitution and the Constitution of Louisiana in their effort to enforce emergency powers.
Judge Moore stated, “Nothing in the United States Constitution or the constitution of any state gives federal and state officials the right to use “emergency powers” to take away our most valuable rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
In the words of James Madison, Chief Architect of our Constitution, no power of government should be allowed to “Overleap the great barrier which defends the right of the people. The rulers who are guilty of such an encroachment exceed the commission from which they derive their authority and are ‘TYRANTS.’ The people who submit to it are governed by laws made neither by themselves, nor by an authority derived from them, and are slaves.”
America has endured many trials, hardships, and tribulations in our history, but our government never dared to infringe upon our liberties as we have witnessed in these dark, tumultuous times. No doubt, the Covid 19 virus posed a threat to our health and our hearts and prayers go out to those who have suffered loss.
This, in and of itself, does not grant the government the authority to quarantine the healthy, shut down our livelihoods, restrict human contact, especially, when loved ones are sick and dying, and run roughshod over our freedoms. Our government has no Biblical nor Constitutional authority to determine who or what is essential or non-essential. It does not get to exercise raw power to determine the winners and losers in a pandemic, planned or otherwise.
Our message here is clear, “Civil Government, you are not our God, our nanny, our healthcare provider, nor our master. Get out our homes, churches, and get back in your Constitutional lane. Your duty is to protect our God-given rights, not violate them.”
Pastor Tony Spell is upholding what has laid the foundation for Western civilization and specifically for what birthed our nation. The standard that Christian men have followed down through the ages is: When the State commands us to do what God forbids or forbids us to do what God commands – we are to obey God rather than man.
Tragically, a lot of the churches have thrown Pastor Spell under the bus. They have not stood with him nor emulated his brave example. Shame on them. They should know better. They should not be cowering in fear, but be strong in faith. Pastor Tony is leading the way out and they should support him. His righteous and just stand is not just for the honor and glory of God, it is a defense of God’s church and a defense to protect the freedoms of all Americans.
May our Lord vindicate his servant, reprove the tyrants in our government, and preserve the liberty that better men than these tyrants died to secure for our posterity in Jesus’ name!
IN KING JESUS’ SERVICE,
Rev. Rusty Lee Thomas, National Director, Operation Rescue/Operation Save America

Here is the pdf copy Standard to copy and distribute as the Lord leads

 

 

 

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Operation Plexit

This convicting video came out of the work just completed in North Carolina. This is an amen or “oh me” message. If you find any merit, please pass it on in your sphere of influence. Thanks!

 

 

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Effectual Open Door

Never know what a day will bring in serving the Lord. God opened the door to be interviewed by brother Nick Vujicic, the limbless Evangelist in Dallas yesterday. In God’s Providence, today was his first launched recorded show and somehow he invited me to be his first guest. Who would have thunk it?
God is convicting him about abortion and we have been corresponding about the differences between pro-lifeism and abolition.
This brother has an incredible platform that reaches throughout the world. Please pray for him and this first show that features the most Biblical, just response to end the American holocaust in Jesus’ name.
He wants to stay in touch to further the relationship and to learn more about the cause to no longer regulate baby murder, but to end it in Jesus’ name.
I also sent him a copy of the rough draft of our newest book “Biblical Strategies to Abolish Abortion.” The purpose was to help him get rooted and grounded Biblically in the just cause to abolish abortion and avoid the pitfalls and failures of the pro-life movement.
Prayerfully, God will use this in his life as well.
Now, unto Raleigh, NC or bust. Hope to see our NC peeps at this important and strategic event to abolish abortion in Jesus’ name!
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