As we enter the weekend when we celebrate our independence and freedom, there are those who wish to abolish the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution and remake our country into a communist utopia. There are reports, for example, that Antifa, an anarchist anti-fascist group, will march on Gettysburg and desecrate Confederate graves.

Sounds like fascism to me. This is the same group that has been violently attacking conservatives across the nation. It is essentially the military arm of the left. This is just one example. As we celebrate this weekend with family and friends over a burger or a hot dog, let us remember the price of our freedom and the role of Christianity in preserving it.

With the immoral and amoral trying to place a death grip on our free society, Christians must stand otherwise freedom will cease to exist.

“Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its own duration.”

These are the words of Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat who came to America in the 1830s to observe what made the country so great. His book, Democracy in America is considered a historic treasure about the unique success of the United States. Tocqueville wrote that America is free because of its collective Christian religion.

He pointed out that the laws that governed the Plymouth colony were derived from the Hebrew texts. In the later 1600s, even the law of Connecticut stated that mankind shall

not “have or worship any other God, but the Lord God.” He said that Americans “have succeeded in incorporating somehow into one another and combining marvelously…the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom.”

Tocqueville believed America was unique in this very way. As we look around the world and see the devastation of modern human trafficking—slavery, it is non-Christian states, such as Islamic nations and others that have no defined connection to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who are perpetrating humans in bondage.

Cotton Mather wrote in 1820:

There is a liberty of corrupt nature, which is affected both by men and beasts, to do what they list; and this liberty is inconsistent with authority, impatient of all restraint; by this liberty we are all inferior;  ’tis the grand enemy of truth and peace, and all the ordinances of God are bent against it. But there is a civil, a moral, a federal liberty, which is the proper end and object of authority; it is a liberty for that only which is just and good; for this liberty you are to stand with the hazard of your very lives.

Galatians 5:1 says, “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

As Christians we must demand and accept no other form of liberty.

 Have a blessed and powerful day!

Bill Wilson

www.dailyjot.com

Remember the vitriol over President Donald Trump “banning” Muslims from entry into the U.S.? The Supreme Court has ruled that the president is well within the law to scrutinize

and ban entry of persons with no legitimate connection (by family, academic, or job related) because “the balance tips in favor of the government’s compelling need to provide for the Nation’s security.”

The Court appeared to be street smart as well spelling out that “a nonprofit group devoted to immigration issues may not contact foreign nationals from the designated countries, add them to client lists, and then secure their entry by claiming injury from the exclusion.” The Court will reconsider the ban in October.

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the opinion for the unanimous decision. He said:

Today’s compromise will burden executive officials with the task of deciding-on peril of contempt, whether individuals from the six affected nations who wish to enter the United States have a sufficient connection to a person or entity in this country… The compromise also will invite a flood of litigation until this case is finally resolved on the merits, as parties and courts struggle to determine what exactly constitutes a “bona fide relationship,” who precisely has a “credible claim”

 to that relationship, and whether the claimed relationship was formed “simply to avoid §2(c)” of Executive Order No. 13780, ante, at 11, 12.

Thomas also cautioned that the lawsuits emanating from the SCOTUS decision will go back to the courts whose decisions were overturned:

 And litigation of the factual and legal issues that are likely to arise will presumably be directed to the two district courts whose initial orders in these cases this Court has now- unanimously-found sufficiently questionable to be stayed as to the vast majority of the people potentially affected.

In other words, the leftists judges on the fourth and Ninth circuit courts will further muddy the legal waters by entertaining the litigation that attempts to define a “bona fide relationship” that would allow entry to the country from Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Syria, and Yemen.

The rising tide of immigration and refugees coming from terrorist sponsoring nations has been cut in half since President Trump took office. The interest of national security overrides the lunacy of the left whose insistence that people who are not citizens of the U.S. have the right to come here even if they threaten our personal safety, and the reasonable vetting of immigrants and refugees is a violation of their rights.

As the Lord said in Leviticus 24:22, “You shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country.”

If the stranger comes illegally or intends to not abide by our laws, that stranger should not be allowed to come to or remain in our nation. The  Supreme Court has for a brief time turned the tide from those who wish to overthrow the U.S. using violence and crisis.

Have a blessed and powerful day!

Bill Wilson

www.dailyjot.com