As we are fighting for the life of our son, Jeremiah, we must not abandon the fight for the preborn. As way of reminder, here are a couple of charges from the local pastors hosting our OSA National Event in Indianapolis from July 14-21st. Please mark your calendars, rally others, and let’s storm the gates of hell together. They will not prevail against the Church of the living God!

This year, in the state of Indiana, more than 7,000 innocent babies will be slaughtered before they escape their mother’s womb. The worst part is they could have been saved if only the overwhelming Republican majority at the Indiana State House had made a priority of rescuing them. Instead, these “pro-life” legislatures, along with most of the “pro-life” organizations in Indiana lobbied against the bill that could have put an end to the bloodshed. Sadly this is no surprise when one takes time to consider Indiana’s bloodstained history as one of only a few states where abortion was legal even before Roe passed. There is much injustice to be exposed and confronted in our state. I would like to personally invite you to join us for this OSA National event, as we seek to expose darkness, confront injustice, call for repentance, and seek to institute mercy on behalf of the preborn. -Pastor Derin Stidd, Aletheia Church

Every age has its evil, and though there are many evils in our age, the evil of abortion is, perhaps, the deadliest. In our nation, during our lifetime more than 60 million children have lost their lives through the abortion holocaust. We have sacrificed these precious lives on the altar of convenience. The Pro-Life movement cannot stop it. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the only hope for all who are affected by this holocaust, and the Church of Jesus Christ is the messenger that God has ordained to bring the Gospel to this world. Come and join for a time of prayer, worship, fellowship, ministry, and training on how the Church can get involved in this battle. Let us lock arms in this effort, for the very gates of Hell do not stand a chance against Christ and His Church. -Pastor James “Kip” Farrar, Aletheia Church

For more info go here:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1357038467775570/

We made it safely to Tijuana. Through the Lord we overcame every obstacle and there were a few. Yikes.

Jeremiah is registered in the hospital. They have removed the stitches on his biopsy, removed the staples from his surgery, took pliminary tests, established his diet plan, took an ex-ray and put in an IV.

His spirits are high and attitude good. He is looking forward to the treaments and what this hospital offers to help him overcome.

Our family is blessed beyond measure to find such support during this difficult time. We thank each and everyone.

Please pray for healing, but also that God would continue to use Jeremiah’s trial to reveal God’s salvation, healing, and deliverance to others. We are blown away at the testimonies of how God is touching so many lives. This truly is a painful gift.

Keep pressing on saints to the high call and prize. Love ya!

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Today Jeremiah walked today with a walker and took a shower. He is a new man.

Tomorrow, we should get the results of the biopsy. And though we are completely relying on the Great Physicians for the miracle we need, there are practical steps that need to be taken.

At first, we were looking to go to St. Jude in Memphis. Since then, so many wonderful people have offered advice ranging from traditional to non-traditional means to treat his ailment. It could be a little overwhelming, but we appreciate the concern, prayers, and support.

Today, I think we made an initial decision of direction. There is a place in Tijuana that specializes in thermos therapy. They first cleanse the system of all the junk, feed his system with serious nutritional foods to boost the immune system. Afterwards, they do a treatment called thermos therapy. Apparently, cancer cannot survive above the temperature of 106 degrees. The treatment goes a little beyond that degree to beat back the cancer and then the renewed immune system wipes it out.

There have been good results from this treatment. So, God willing, we plan on setting up a base of operation in Scottsdale, AR. from there we will transport Jeremiah back and forth from Tijuana for this treatment.

Please keep Jeremiah and our plans in prayer. we make our plans, but God directs our steps. May we see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

 

A beautiful message of encouragement from my mentor, dear friend, and fellow son, soldier, and servant our our King Flip Benham.

Dear Rusty,

We are praying and fasting for Jeremiah and all the Thomas nation.

Thank you for the powerful, encouraging, and theologically true, snippets you are sending to all of us. They are anointed and are providing rivers of “living water” to all who thirst.

I am so thankful to our Lord that He gives us only one day to live at a time. Yesterday does not belong to us any longer, It is in God’s hands. There is nothing we can do about what we did or what happened, yesterday. Tomorrow doesn’t belong to us either. Neither you nor I know if we will even be here tomorrow. Tomorrow belongs to God also. The only day he has given to us is, Today!

We are rejoicing with you for the victories won in Jeremiah’s life, today. He can walk. Thank you Jesus! We have no fear of tomorrow, nor do we live in the remorse and regret of, yesterday. We live for Him, today. Give us this day our daily bread. He gives us more than enough grace for each new day. This is the true liberty found only in Christ.

God’s mercies are new every morning. They are new, not recurring, but brand new. You have found this to be true in this deep trial, and you have written about it splendidly and spoken it magnificently. You have helped us all to move further up and further into the kingdom of God during these days of Jeremiah’s affliction.

Each new day brings God’s new mercies. Great is His faithfulness, Lamentations 3:19-27. Put this in its Biblical context and you will find the true heart of your son.

He is living up to his real namesake (Jeremiah) by revealing and extending God’s kingdom, mysteries, and grace into the hearts of us all. You, Miss Kendra, and the entire Thomas nation have become “living parables” for all the world to see that God’s Word is true. His mercies are new – brand new – every morning! His grace is, indeed, more than sufficient.

Our Jeremiah, your son, is busy completing the work God has given him to do. And, in so doing, he is bringing great glory to the God Who created Him for “…a time such as this.” John 17:4.

You, Kendra, and the family, are also busy completing the work He has given you to do by helping us all to navigate through these turbulent waters with our eyes fixed on Jesus. Our eyes are fixed on Him because your eyes are fixed on Him. We are witnessing this in every letter you write and every video you send.

Indeed, His mercies are new every morning.

Thank you for this.

We are praying for God’s perfect and complete healing of Jeremiah – a mighty young man of God!

In Christian love,

flip

Update on Jeremiah:

“But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble” (Matthew 6:33, 34).

We have today. Our family won a victory. The surgery was a success. Our son sat up and stood on his feet after this major surgery on his spine.

The doctors are telling us the current status, but no one was telling us what the future possibilities might be. Kendra and I were hoping to talk with our Oncologist doctor. We just happened to run into him at the coffee shop. He said the staff has grown quite fond of Jeremiah and they have all been super BTW.

Kendra and I had done some research on what Jeremiah is facing and our findings on a human level were discouraging. So we asked the doctor point blank, “What are his chances?” His response, “About a 10 percent chance to survive.”

After we got our composure from our hearts bursting asunder, we went to Jeremiah’s room. What did we run into, but Jeremiah saying, “Look Dad” as he lifted his legs high in the air with incredible force. Optimistic, and filled with grace and faith my son just smiled. I took his face in my hands and just rejoiced and just let him know we have won a major victory today.

Someone asked if he has experienced anything from the Lord through this ordeal. He answered in the affirmative. He said when they rolled him into surgery this word kept going over and over in his mind, “Now you will see the Son of God has the power to save.” The saying continued while he was knocked out for the surgery. He believes this is God’s Word to him.

Again, I grabbed his face and said that is where we will stand son. The odds are clearly against our son’s survival. We, however, have lived by two words always, BUT GOD!

In my limited understanding of the fullness of the mind of Christ, it seems it has come down to this. Either God loves our son so much, he is taking him to be with him soon. Or God is desiring to be so glorified that he is creating the worst possible scenario to heal my son and use him powerfully on this earth.

Obviously, our prayers, faith, and hope is in the latter option. Thanks to all of you for going on this incredible journey. Mere words cannot express our deep appreciation. We have God’s victory today and we will look for it tomorrow in Jesus’ name! To God be the glory!

https://www.facebook.com/rusty.thomas.7/videos/10204851684970078/

 

 

Here is an update on our son. With God all things are possible! Thanks for all your prayers, love, and support. Here is Jeremiah’s prayer and response. Gotta love this kid!

Just gonna let you guys know that I’m going through the spinal surgery around 7-8 o’clock! I’m ready to take this thing on and take this thing out in the mighty name of Jesus! I’m so thankful for everyone’s prayers and support! It means the world to me and my family! God bless you all! Let’s do this the thing!

“Definitely the underdog here,” was how Jeremiah’s oncologist described his cancer. “Got to fight harder.” Preliminary pathology suggests that it is Osteoblastic Osteosarcoma, a cancer resistant to radiation.

Yesterday’s MRI revealed two tumors on Jeremiah’s spine, between zones T6 and T7. Picture a pair of hands pressing together, crushing his nerve endings. These tumors are in addition to the one in his chest.

Without surgery, the tumors will cause Jeremiah to be permanently paralyzed from the waist down. With surgery, there is a still risk of paralysis because of the location of the tumors. Finally, following a successful surgery there is no guarantee that Jeremiah will regain the mobility he’s lost.

This is not the news we wanted.

The neurosurgeon explained that this type of surgery has a range of outcomes. Some patients regain the former use of their legs. Others do not. The goal of the surgery is to stop further paralysis.

Following the surgery, Jeremiah will then face the monster of cancer. He still has the tumor in his chest and two spots on his lungs. We are still waiting on the full biopsy results.

We are crushed. But God is good. And it is to Him, the Lord of Lords, that Jeremiah is turning.

As Rusty explained to the oncologist, “With God all things are possible.”

“Jesus looked at them and said, ‘With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible’ (Matthew 19:26).

“I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them… As for My people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O My people! Those who lead you cause you to err, and destroy the way of your paths” (Isaiah 3:4; 12).

Recently, our ministry released a video called “Defending the Indefensible.” This brief video used the Mother’s Day Rescue in Louisville, KY to demonstrate a visual stark contrast of what happens when a nation abandons God. What happens when a culture calls good, evil and evil, good? What happens when the Supreme Court under the color of law unleashes lawlessness upon our polluted and defiled land? To view this video go here:

https://www.facebook.com/operationsaveamerica.org/videos/10156361619886600/

As we explore the Millennial’s march for gun control, this article will ask another question. What happens when a nation goes a whoring after other gods? The opening passage gives us a hint. The Scriptures warn that nations can be reduced to a place where the wisdom of the aged is replaced by the folly of the young. A misguided youth revolt could lead to massive oppression.

How is this possible? Biblically, it happens when a nation’s sayings and doings are against the Lord (Isaiah 3:8). As a result of nations rebelling against Almighty God sound leadership is set aside as nations are turned over to young, weak, inept, wicked rulers. Is anything like that possibly happening in the land of the free and the home of the brave?

We have youth raising their fists in defiance. They talk about our government as “old ass parents failing at gun control.” While another declares, “Enough is enough” while she grabs our founding documents and tears them up. Apparently, our socialistic public education that leeches on unjust taxation has finally come to fruition. Who will be left to pay the bill?

A prime example of this kind of youth revolt took place in Israel. It happened when Solomon, who started well and ended badly, died. The reins of power were transferred to his son, Rehoboam (1 Kings 11). Initially, Rehoboam was seeking wisdom on how to rule in his father’s stead. The elders gave him sound counsel. They stated, “If you will be a servant to these people today, and serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be your servants forever” (1 Kings 12:7).

Rehoboam inherited a mess from his father. As Solomon aged, he became more and more seduced by foreign women. They led him to apostasy, which turned his heart and ruined his faith. He set up false gods in Israel and worshipped them. This is after the true and living God appeared to him twice. Truly, the fickleness and depravity of men knows no bounds.

The Lord had a charge against Israel that led to the division of the Kingdom. Ten tribes remained under the banner of Israel, while Judah and the tribe of Benjamin remained under the governance of the capital city Jerusalem. This split, however, led to much civil strife that at times led to civil war in Israel.

It was Rehoboam’s youthful foolishness in seeking counsel from his peers that triggered this calamity upon Israel. His peers recommended, “Thus you should speak to this people who have spoken to you, saying, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you make it lighter on us’—thus you shall say to them: ‘My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s waist! And now, whereas my father put a heavy yoke on you, I will add to your yoke; my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scourges’” (1 Kings 12:10, 11).

Notice the nation was suffering under the rein of Solomon towards the end of his administration. Instead of the next generation, represented by Rehoboam, reversing course to restore the nation, the youth doubled down on stupid. The rest they say is history. It did not turn out well for Israel and neither will it turn out good for America as our young follow this same disastrous pattern in our day.

The Beatles

It was during the 1960s that America was transformed by three revolutions. They were the drug, sexual, and spiritual revolutions. Each one of them served to undermine and overthrow the three legged stool that supported the soundness of our national body, which were faith, family, and freedom. We have never recovered. Our idolatry as a nation has reached the heavens as we commit child sacrifice, the shedding of innocent blood and parade our sin like Sodom.

It was the British invasion led by the Beatles that introduced for the first time in America a tragic concept. The younger generation knew better than their parents how to live. The cultural mores were dramatically radicalized by the conquest of the Beatles.

No longer would the young respect, look for guidance, and be mentored by the aged. No, only peers fueled by sex, drugs, and rock and roll will suffice. That rebellious sub-culture is now the corrupt establishment ruling in America today.

Couple that invasion with the teaching of evolution with its prized term adolescence and the American teenager was born. Cutting ties with parents was now expected and encouraged from our government schools to our licentiousness culture. We have staggered under this curse for decades as our youth intoxicated with cultural Marxism marches for gun control.

Lessons from Scripture

As we explore some lessons from Scripture, it will become clear the Bible supports an armed populace. It also demonstrates the danger of tyranny when a people cannot defend themselves. Without question, the Bible supports the 2nd Amendment in our Bill of Rights. Without it, our first Amendment with all its cherished liberties cannot be sufficiently safeguarded. President Thomas Jefferson stated it well, “When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.”

The 2nd Amendment, therefore, was not primarily established for duck hunting, but to be an added check and balance. Our Founding Fathers knew Scripture and the long bloody history of despotism. They were well aware of the sinful tendency of men to dominate other men. In fact, slavery was their national sin that eventually brought national calamity upon America in the form of the Civil War.

Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is true, unless, of course, we are addressing the power and authority of Almighty God. This is the hard lesson of history. Tragically, this generation that has been purposely dumbed down is clueless to these realities. Thus, they demand security at the expense of liberty. History will prove, they will be worthy of neither.

In Genesis, we find one of the first instances of the need for an armed populace. Abraham’s nephew Lot was taken captive, along with his family, plus the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah by neighboring warring nations. Abraham armed his household of 300 men, routed these hostile nations and delivered the captives. Amazingly, God used Abraham to deliver the wicked cities of Sodom and Gomorrah even though they were committing the filthy practice and abomination of homosexuality. He is truly a patient and merciful God (Genesis 14).

In the ongoing struggle between Israel and the Philistines, there came a time when Israel was placed at a major disadvantage. The nation was completely unarmed, except for Saul the king and his son Jonathan. They were the only ones with swords. The results were tyrannical oppression afflicted on them by the Philistines (1 Samuel 13).

Recent History Lessons of Nations Adopting Gun Control

This scenario can be played out throughout history. Common sense tells us an unarmed populace is at the mercy of potential tyrants that are typically void of mercy. The following are just a sample of what happens to citizens who foolishly comply with their government’s gun control policies.

The Soviet Union disarmed their citizens under the brutal Stalin regime. Tens of millions of Russian citizens were murdered, starved, or were rounded up and placed in labor camp/prisons. They were forced to work, most of the time to their deaths. Our youth today are marching to the same Marxist “lite” philosophical drum beat. Ideas have consequences.

The Ottoman Empire, the origins of which were in Turkey, implemented full blown gun control in 1911. A few years later, beginning in 1915 and lasting until 1917, some 1.5 million Armenians (out of a total of 2.5 million) living within the empire were rounded up and murdered by the “Young Turks” of the ruling class. In what has since been called the Armenian Holocaust.

Adolph Hitler’s Nazi Germany established gun control in 1938, just prior to the implementation of his horrendous, murderous campaign to exterminate the Jews. In the end, 13 million Jews and other perceived lesser races were killed by Hitler and his Nazi Party.

The Nationalist Chinese government established gun control in 1935, just two years before Japan invaded in 1937. In the period from 1935 to 1952, some 20 million citizens and political dissidents were murdered. The Chinese Cultural Revolution, which was launched by the country’s supreme ruler, Mao Zedong, took place from 1966-1976. It claimed the lives of several million people and inflicted cruel and inhuman treatments on hundreds of million people.

Cambodia issued its total gun control edict in 1956, but the real carnage did not begin until several years later, during the regime of the demonic Pol Pot. Between 1975 and 1977, his regime murdered as many as 1 million “educated” people whom he believed represented a threat to his power.

In all, more than 56 million people around the world have been murdered as a result of gun control laws imposed by rulers and despots who knew that the only way they could continue to brutalize their own people and stay in power was by disarming them. Source for these stats are:

https://www.naturalnews.com/039264_gun_control_timeline_tru…

Gun Control or Self-Control

“So Jesus said, Are you also still without understanding? Do you not yet understand that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and is eliminated? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and they defile a man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man” (Matthew 15:16-20).

The gun control movement is built on a humanistic worldview. They perceive the problem with man is outside of man. It is his environment. Thus, it is certain objects that must be censored or controlled. If humanism, as we know it today, was around when Cain murdered Abel, the cry would have been to ban certain size rocks.

Just take a look at London, England to verify this naive approach to violence. England banned guns. Obviously, everybody is now safe from violence, right? Wrong! Knife violence has spiked exponentially. In fact, in America more people are murdered by hammers and knives than the dreaded assault rifle. Why no cry or march for knife and hammer control?

Today, the humanistic environmentalist movement is essentially responsible for transforming criminals into victims, which in turn, blames society for their crimes. Carelessly, it removes personal responsibility and accountability from the individual. The blame must therefore be ascribed elsewhere.

For those who hold to this ideology, the guilt lies with the environment, which determines men’s actions. It is this argument being articulated in the current debate over gun control. Unfortunately, it is not about guns, but control. It is the evil guns that murder people, not deranged criminals. In the humanist world, guns murder people, spoons make people fat and cars causes accidents.

The Marxist, Lincoln Steffens, seeking to justify this premise theologically declared, “It was, it is, the apple.” Thus, according to communism, socialism and every other statist, totalitarian system of men, the blame lies not with the disobedience of man that violates God’s revealed law. It was not the treacherous act committed by our first parents against their Creator. No, man’s wretched condition stems from the environment, “the apple.”

Notice, our Creator who came in the flesh, Jesus Christ, pinpoints the source of human woe, violence, and mayhem. It comes from within the human heart. The problem is in us, not our environment. You can dress up a pig and put perform on it, but it will still resort to the mire of life in our poor fallen world.

There is not a police department big enough to force men to do what is right. No laws, bans, or public policies can work from the outside in to transform a violent, depraved human soul. But there is another King, one called Jesus. Once He enters the human heart, He shuts down the crime factory. He can take hardened criminals that once took human life by violence and transform them. The love and truth contained in the Gospel of the Kingdom has the power to change mankind from predators to protectors.

If America wants to curb future violence, we must remove our God-free zones first. Otherwise, our gun-free zones will merely invite more violence and perversion to savage our children. Christ or Chaos? Choose wisely America. Your future hangs in the balance.

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By now, most of you are aware of what our family is facing. We deeply appreciate the outpouring of love and prayers for Jeremiah. They are deeply appreciated.

Just so you know our stand as a family. We have dedicated all of our children to the Lord. We have set them apart to love, serve, and obey God. All of them belong to God and obviously He is within His divine right to take them as He so decrees. We are just stewards of their lives for a time.

In laying that foundation, be it known to the Devil, he will not steal the life of my son. This is war and we are going to fight it with all the faith, love, and hope God has blessed us with.

We know God’s calling and anointing is upon our son. The Lord has deposited much in our young righteous warrior of the King. And though I may not possess the full mind of Christ in this situation, it is highly unlikely that God would pour into my son so much and now allow him to die.

If I am wrong in my assessment, so be it. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD!!!