States of Refuge Regional Event: St Louis, Missouri

Wednesday, July 17, 2015

Saints from as far away as Nevada, Washington, Connecticut, Colorado, and Texas arrived to protect the preborn at St Louis, Missouri’s last remaining abortion clinic. The States of Refuge regional event was well attended. Many brought homeschooling children and grandchildren with them. Pastor and author Matt Trewhella delivered a sermon against pietism during the opening rally. He warned of using prayer and other spiritual virtues as a cop out to disobey God’s clear commands.

Coach Dave preceded him with a rousing speech on the need for Christians to follow prayers with action. He challenged the audience by asking if prayer alone is all that God required, why didn’t Jesus end His ministry at the Garden of Gethsemane. Why did Jesus feed the 5,000, rather than pray for their provision. Why did Jesus heal the sick, rather than pray for healing? New Life Drama Company performed a skit entitled, “The Gift,” which revealed the rejection of children (God’s gifts to us) and the sin of abortion.

Thursday, July 17, 2015

The slogan for the city is “St. Lou is all within reach,” with a picture of the Gateway Arch bridging the “St. Lou” with “is.” In keeping with the slogan, brought the Gospel “within reach” of the people of St. Louis Missouri.

If you know anything of OSA, you know OSA’s about preaching the Gospel and saving preborn babies. OSA is simply the church in action, loving the lost and rescuing those unjustly sentenced to death.

Reaching the Lost at Planned Parenthood

Day two of the “States of Refuge campaign” brought the love of Christ to Planned Parenthood at Forest Park Ave. Led by Coach Dave D. and Pastor Dale S., fifty OSA members interceded for the lives of their preborn neighbors. While some members began Word in Warfare, others surrounded the clinic in prayer. The preacher boys ministered on the sound system and held signs exposing the sin of abortion.

Frank C. met a young woman with blue hair and piercings coming out of the clinic. “Venom was coming out of her mouth” but as he spoke the truth, her demeanor softened.

The presence of the Lord touched a person walking by the clinic. Cassia W. noticed a troubled man pacing the sidewalk. After a moment, he stopped in the middle of the driveway. It was as if he was in a daze. Cassia called over her brother Elijah T. to minister to him. As Elijah moved him from the driveway, he asked, “What can we pray for?” The man replied, “I want it all.” As Elijah prayed, Frank approached. Moved by the Spirit, Frank placed his hands in the middle of the man’s chest and prayed. There was an impartation!

Reaching the Government

Pastor Ante P. led a team (which included three faithful members of Ante’s church, affectionately named “the Mighty Men”) to City Hall. Pastor Dale brought Tom Radell’s freestanding display of abortion victims. After a few minutes of ministry, the police arrived and threatened to impound the display if it wasn’t promptly removed.

The team improvised. They dismantled the display and turned the posters scenes into giant hand held signs! City Hall heard the Gospel of the Kingdom through the open air preaching and the one-on-one conversations that took place as tracts were shared. During this event thousands and thousands of tracts, brochures, and flyers were distributed throughout St. Louis.

Ante engaged one young man walking by. Alex listened as Ante shared the Gospel. After a few moments, he knelt down on the grass, repented of his sins, and confessed Jesus Christ as his Lord. He came to our rally that night, a soul transformed by the regenerating power of the Holy Ghost.

Reaching the College Students

Jason S. and Bishop Kenner led a team to St Louis University and Harris-Stowe State University. They set up signs, leafleted The campus and engaged the student body. The team spoke with a young lady. She revealed she was an agnostic. According to Bishop, much of her thinking was steeped in paganism. Because Christians were willing to witness in the public square, she heard the truth of the Gospel and she changed her mind.

HSSU is an African American campus.  A security guard stationed outside prevented the team from entering the campus.This did not stop the team from exposing Planned Parenthood’s racist origins and Margaret Sanger’s eugenics. One African American woman was so impacted by the truth she asked for material to bring on campus and share with others. A male student spoke with Bishop. He was from a Christian background but had begun to lean towards Islam. After Bishop reminded him of the Gospel and the truths found in Scripture and encouraged him in the faith, the young man responded, “You don’t know how much I needed that.”

Reaching the Neighborhood

Cal Z. and Patrick J. led a team of fifteen to the abortionist’s neighborhood. They held a banner that read “Doctor David Isenberg Kills Babies.” The awareness campaign was able to quickly disseminate literature that exposed the sin of abortion and called the abortionists to repentance. Ten minutes into the outreach, six police cars showed up. Praise God, the leafleting was finished.

The Evening Service

New Life Drama Team performed again. After their moving skit, “Say Something” there was not a dry eye in the church. Scott Heldreth of Heart for the Next Generation http://www.heartfornextgeneration.com/ shared and Jason Storms preached a convicting message on the importance of family discipleship.

This is our national press release going out tomorrow. It is based upon our observations at what took place at the Rowan County clerk’s office here in Kentucky.

The Lord opened the door to privately meet with our Sister, Kim Davis. We encouraged her, prayed for her, and challenged her to principal stand upon God’s Word and the rule of law. God does not just want her protected from participating in this evil, he desires all citizens in America to be protected from this evil. We called her to the place of interposition.

We will see how things continue to unfold in Kentucky. OSA is released from here and on to our next battlefront in St. Louis, MO. We covet your prayers. If this press release has merit, please pass it on in your sphere of influence.

Yesterday Everyone, but Almighty God, Got What They Wanted!

Yesterday, at the Rowan County Clerk’s office:

Kim Davis got what she wanted (no marriage licenses issued  in her name)
Homosexuals got what they wanted (marriage licenses)
Lawyers got what they wanted (accommodations for Kim Davis)
Judge Bunning got what he wanted (compliance of the county clerks)
The Supreme Court got what it wanted (lawlessness enforced as a Constitutional right).

But did God get what He wanted? The answer is a resounding NO! Once again, America failed to give God what He demands– righteousness and the upholding of His law in the public square of our nation. He has given us clear direction from His Word on what He expects from us as a country, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people” (Proverbs 14:34).

He has also sent many warnings about the unavoidable consequences for ignoring and violating His holy laws. Our nation has become increasingly defiant, even in the face of current natural disasters, terroristic threats, failing economy, increased violence, rioting, federal tyranny, lawlessness, corruption in the highest offices of our land, and the parading of sin like Sodom. Tragically, the Lord’s longsuffering and patience with our idolatrous nation will not last forever.

A day of reckoning is swiftly approaching. America has sown to the wind and we are reaping the whirlwind. If America does not repent of her abominations (abortion, homosexuality), God has more disaster planned than our federal government has relief.

Jeremiah 18:7-10 warns:

The instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up, to pull down, and to destroy it,  if that nation against whom I have spoken turns from its evil, I will relent of the disaster that I thought to bring upon it.  And the instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it,  if it does evil in My sight so that it does not obey My voice, then I will relent concerning the good with which I said I would benefit it.

July 4, 2015

Declaration of Obedience to Law and Defense of Natural Marriage

Whereas, the County Clerks of Texas are tasked with upholding the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas and the written United States Constitution; and

Whereas, on June 26, 2015, in Obergefell v. Hodges, five justices of the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion with no basis in the Constitution, the Fourteenth Amendment, American law, or Western history, purporting to overturn Natural Marriage and inventing a false “right” to same-sex “marriage;” and

Whereas, two justices essential to the majority, Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg, failed to recuse themselves from Obergefell after publicly showing personal bias, in violation of federal law mandating that “Any justice…shall disqualify h[er]self….[where her] impartiality might reasonably be questioned.” (28 U.S.C.A. § 455); and

Whereas, in contrast, the Declaration of Independence explicitly recognizes that the Creator has endowed mankind with inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, under the Rule of Law, consistent with the created order; and

Whereas, Natural Marriage consistent with the created order, higher law, and the Law of Nature and Nature’s God has always consisted of one man and one woman; and

Whereas, Natural Marriage has been recognized in the Constitution and Laws of Texas, consistent with the written United States Constitution, and higher Natural Law; and

Whereas, the United States Constitution defines the powers of the federal government, and
no branch of the federal government has power to redefine marriage;and

Whereas, the Fourteenth Amendment never withdrew from the various states the authority to maintain Natural Marriage as an exclusively monogamous heterosexual institution; and

Whereas, the Obergefell opinion is “an opinion lacking even a thin veneer of law,” and “is a naked judicial claim” to…super-legislative power; “a claim fundamentally at odds with our system of government;” Id. at *43 (Scalia, J., dissenting); and

Whereas, the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, authored by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, held that when the federal government “assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force; “and that the States” have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil;” and

Whereas, in the spirit of Jefferson and Madison, lawless decisions of the U.S. Supreme court have been successfully resisted by the States, in Dred Scott v. Sandford, and in the
series of cases In Re: Booth, 3 Wis. 1 (1854); and

Whereas, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected the U.S. Supreme Court opinion in Booth which claimed the federal Fugitive Slave Act was “constitutional;” as did the legislature of Wisconsin, which called the opinion “an arbitrary act of power … without authority, void and of no force,” and urged “positive defiance” by the states as the “rightful remedy,” and likewise, Wisconsin state officials refused to obey the U.S. Supreme Court; and

Whereas, after the U.S. Supreme Court issued its opinion, the Wisconsin Supreme Court refused to file the U.S. Supreme Court’s mandate upholding the fugitive slave law; and after more than 155 years, that mandate has never been filed, and no Wisconsin officials ever obeyed the mandate; and

Whereas, in addition to Wisconsin, the legislatures of Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Michigan actively nullified the Fugitive Slave Act and the repugnant Dred Scott decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, by passing “personal liberty” laws, making it nearly impossible to enforce the Fugitive Slave Act in those states; and

Whereas, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated that “a just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law;” and

Whereas, the Governor, Attorney General, Legislators and County Clerks of Texas have sworn an oath consistent with the moral Law of God (“So Help Me God”) to uphold the Constitution of Texas and the Constitution of the United States; and

Whereas, the fulfillment of this oath, in the American tradition, may not be read to contradict the written Constitution, Justice, Reason and higher Natural Law; and

Whereas, not all orders claiming authority under color of law are lawful; and

Whereas, unlawful orders, no matter their source, whether from a military commander, a federal judge, or the United States Supreme Court are and remain unlawful, and should be resisted; and

Whereas, the American system of federalism envisions a political stance of resistance by States and their office holders against lawless federal court orders; and

Whereas, modernly, federal judges have once again usurped powers undelegated to them, and have violated Reason, the Rule of Law and Natural Law by purporting to strike down State laws and acts of the People recognizing and protecting Natural Marriage; and

Whereas, the United States Supreme Court is not the sole and final arbiter of the powers of the States under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, when it acts in an area outside of its jurisdiction; and

Whereas, the federal Judiciary was created by the Founders to have “neither Force nor Will, but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm” and the States, for the carrying out of its judgments, and it is high time that the Court be so reminded; and

Whereas, the United States Supreme Court is certainly not infallible, and has issued lawless
decisions which are repulsive to the Constitution and Natural Law; including Scott v. Sandford; Buck v. Bell; Korematsu v. United States; Roe v. Wade; and most recently, Obergefell v. Hodges.

Therefore, as County Clerk, I declare as follows:

1. I will continue to defend Natural Marriage as recognized by the People of Texas, in the Constitution and Laws of the State of Texas, consistent with the Declaration of Independence; the written United States Constitution; the Ninth, Tenth, and Fourteenth Amendments; and higher Natural Law.

2. Natural Marriage between one man and one woman remains the law in Texas, regardless of any court decision to the contrary. Any court decision purporting to strike down Natural Marriage, including Obergefell v. Hodges, is “unauthoritative, void, and of no force.”

3. I, as County Clerk, in faithful execution of the laws of Texas, shall resist unlawful federal or state court encroachments upon the prerogative of the People of Texas to protect Natural Marriage, and shall only issue marriage licenses consistent with Texas law, so help me God.

4. With a firm reliance upon the providence of Almighty God and the support of my fellow citizens, I call upon all of the Officers of the State of Texas, the Governor, the Attorney General, and the members of the Texas Legislature, to join with me, and utilize all authority within their power to protect Natural Marriage from lawless court opinions, wherever the source.