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The Right of Conscience Over Elders

It is not unbelievers primarily but the devout who have always experienced this power of the hierarchy as a galling bond to their consciences. Throughout the centuries there has not only been scientific, societal, and political resistance but also deeply religious and moral opposition to the hierarchical power of the church. It simply will not do to explain this opposition in terms of unbelief and disobedience and intentionally to misconstrue the religious motives underlying the opposition of various sects and movements. No one has been bold enough to damn all these sects because they were moved to resist the church and its tradition. Even Rome shrinks from this conclusion.

The extra ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the church) is a confession that is too harsh for even the most robust believer. Accordingly, the “law” we see at work in every area of life is operative also in religion and morality. On the one hand, there is a revolutionary spirit that seeks to level all that has taken shape historically in order to start rebuilding things from the ground up. There is, however, also a false conservatism that takes pleasure in leaving the existing situation untouched simply because it exists and—in accordance with Calvin’s familiar saying—not to attempt to change a well-positioned evil (malum bene positum non movere).

At the proper time, everywhere and in every sphere of life, a certain radicalism is needed to restore balance, to make further development possible, and not let the stream of ongoing life bog down. In art and science, state and society, similarly in religion and morality, there gradually develops a mindless routine that oppresses and does violence to the rights of personality, genius, invention, inspiration, freedom, and conscience. But in due time there always arises a man or woman who cannot bear that pressure, casts off the yoke of bondage and again takes up the cause of human freedom and that of Christian Liberty. These are turning points in history. Thus Christ himself rose up against the tradition of the elders and returned to the law and the prophets. Thus one day the Reformation had the courage, not in the interest of some scientific, social or political goal, but in the name of Christian humanity, to protest against Rome’s hierarchy. Frequently, even in the case of the sects and movements that later arose in the Protestant churches, that religious and ethical motive is undeniably present.  So-called biblical theology also defends an important part of religious truth. When a church and theology prefer peace and quiet over struggle, they themselves trigger the opposition that reminds them of their Christian calling and task.”

Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, Vol. I, pp. 81-82.

So in the present case, I say to you, stay away from these men and let them alone, for if this plan or action is of men, it will be overthrown; but if it is of God, you will not be able to overthrow them; or else you may even be found fighting against God.  Acts 5:38-39

Trask Ranch Picnic Speech, July 13, 2024
Paul Dorr’s Speech Given On The Shores of Cheyenne River at the Trask Ranch Annual Picnic In Western South Dakota

Reference links to the speech below:

Governor Kristi Noem:
Open Letter to South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem on the Talmudic threat to the free speech of South Dakota Christians.

See Noem’s tie to pro-Israel dispensationalism below.
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U.S. Senator John Thune:
Lyman Stewart, founder of Biola College was a dispensationalist.
Thune is one of the most notable alumni of dispensational Biola. John Thune also attends dispensational Central Baptist church.
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South Dakota Trusts:
FDIC Banking Deposits by state. Replace “National” in the geographic area filters with South Dakota, New York and Texas…after that you can enter any state(s) you want.

South Dakota Trust Company.
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Billy Graham:
Birth Control:
“The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham believes there is nothing morally wrong in the practice of Birth Control…Graham emphasized that birth control was an import answer to the “terrifying and tragic” problem of overpopulation, that there was nothing wrong in Scripture that barred its responsible use, and that the majority of Americans used contraception in any case, “whether they be Protectant or Roman Catholic.” New York Times, 12/13/1959, as cited in Godly Seed: American Evangelicals Confront Birth Control, 1873-1973, by Allan Carlson, p 125-126

Graham’s Talmudic Lawyer on Abortion:
“Harold O. J. Brown entertained hopes that Billy Graham, by far the most influential figure in American evangelicalism at the time, would lend his name to the [sic. Christian Action Council] organization as Koop and Schaeffer had done. After all, Brown’s books carried Graham’s endorsements, and Graham stepped up to provide meeting space in Montreat, NC, for the brainstorming session that gave rise to the CAC.

To that extent, Stephen P. Miller is correct when he claims that “Graham… helped to found a pioneering Protestant antiabortion organization, the Christian Action Council.” However, when it came time to be “in” or “out”, Graham backed away, much to Brown’s lingering dismay. Brown suspected that Graham’s attorney, who also worked with the ACLU, scared Graham and his board away from endorsing the CAC (advising that such stated opposition to a Supreme Court decision could threaten the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s tax-exempt status).

Grant Wacker, professor at Duke Divinity School and Graham’s recent biographer, believes that Graham’s reticence was in keeping with his general character. According to Wacker, Graham had a history of providing initial support to causes like the CAC but stopping with that…..In Wacker’s words, “Graham dipped his toes in a lot of ponds, but when it came time to take a bath, he wouldn’t do it.” However, Wacker also recalls, “Graham did have a Jewish attorney with the ACLU. He was very proud of that—it showed he could reach across lines.”

In Brown’s mind, Graham’s relegating abortion to a non-essential in his ministry meant that Graham’s Gospel, though accurate in what it did proclaim, was truncated by virtue of what it did not proclaim.” p. 119-121

“No Diga Mentiras”: The Pivotal Role Of Harold O.J. Brown In The Emergence Of The Evangelical Pro-Life Movement, A Thesis Submitted To The Faculty In Partial Fulfillment Of The Requirements For The Degree Master Of Theology, Matthew S. Miller, Erskine Theological Seminary, Due West, SC, April 4, 2015
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McHugh and Dr. Calderone:
Bishop James T. McHugh, initial organizer of the National Right to Life Committee and Dr. Mary Calderone, former Medical Director of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, working jointly to organize SIECUS, with their agenda to promote classroom sex talk across America. Read The SIECUS Circle.

I.e. “Like its parent organization, SIECUS, the AASEC (American Association of Sex Educators and Counselors) has a close relationship with a bawdy magazine, Sexology….Also cooperating in the 1969 conference as a panel discussion participant was another AASEC Advisory Committee member, (then) Monsignor James T. McHugh, director of the Family Life Division of the U.S. Catholic Conference. The association of a Catholic priest with AASEC is a paradox in itself, considering the fact that AASEC membership is generously laced with Planned Parenthood activists.” p 155,

“Dr. Mary S. Calderone, executive director, had the vision to see the need for an organization such as SIECUS, gave it its structure , standards and goals, saw it through its infancy and early childhood, and in the face of almost insurmountable odds brought it to maturity in the remarkably short period of four years.” citing Lester Doniger, President of SIECUS, p 11 The SIECUS Circle by Claire Chambers

Also read one of my heroes and former colleague Mrs. Randy Engel’s report here.
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Dispensationalism:
Minnesota’s Baptist Pastor Riley and C.I. Scofield at Moody Bible Institute conference in 1914.

Billy Graham launches dispensational radio network in Minneapolis. Now broadcasts on 104 outlets in 10 states including KNWC now known as Life96.5 in Sioux Falls, SD.

Central Church, Sioux Falls, SD, doctrine of Christ to return to establish his Kingdom. See No. 12 under The Last Things.

Governor Kristi Noem is a member of the Family Worship Center in Watertown, which is a member of the Four Square Church denomination. I note from their website that three of their four senior, executive and worship pastors in Watertown are women. Please consider the great error that the President of the Four Square, Randy Remington, makes about Israel, when he writes, “The promise of God to Abraham not only included a land with actual borders but an actual people/nation as his offspring that would be too numerous to number. God sovereignly fulfilled these promises of a people and place, as evidenced in the pages of scripture and our bearing witness to these facts over the past century. Israel’s land and people are miraculously unique and prophetically vital to God’s earthly plans.”

A great theological study on how dispensationalism necessarily leads to antinomianism, that is, the rejection of God’s Law, the Pentateuch.

Who is True Israel? See here.

Want to begin your study on the errors of John Thune’s and Kristi Noem’s dispensational theology? Consider this list of books.
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Talmudism:
New Chabad Lubavitch Rabbi in South Dakota.

Download .PDF copy of The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today by Elizabeth Kilpatrick Dilling.

Karaite Rabbi Condemns Talmud Go to Chapter 1 – About the Oral Law, Canto 1

Oldest synagogue in Old City Jerusalem Jewish Quarter – Karaite synagogue.

A Jewish Defector Warns America:
Benjamin Freedman Speaks on Talmudic Zionism _______________________________________
Leslee Unruh:
Salaries saving babies: $176,300 FY2019
CPCs fueling mass murder by abortion for decades.
“Pro-life” young woman testifies before South Dakota legislature while still fornicating with her boyfriend. Counseled by Unruh.
Alpha Center’s degrading abstinence material being used 25+ years ago.

Leslee Unruh’s first husband was a disc jockey at the Sioux Falls dispensational “Christian” radio station KNWC.

Unruh turns the F.B.I. loose on Sioux Falls Operation Rescue leader, Paul Dorr
Leslee Unruh should have been charged with making materially false statements (under 18 U.S.C. § 1001) – multiple times – in this report to the F.B.I. on Paul Dorr. The more Dorr was holding her accountable to God’s Law the more false stories were spread by her. It was malicious. Finally, she took it to the F.B.I., falsely claiming Dorr intended to do violence and that she was afraid of him. Dorr only learned of the federal crimes she was committing well after the statue of limitations had expired. Dorr did a FOIA request of the US Department of Justice and later received this heavily redacted FBI Investigation file. This is lengthy, so scan through it to find the red arrows, red boxes and yellow highlights.

Rescue The Perishing’s Paul Dorr wrote Governor Noem an open letter rebuking the new law and exposing Talmudic hatred of Christ. Several state legislators received it and one who led the opposition wrote back and thanked us for it. Since distributing across the state Dorr received an invitation to speak on the subject at a major political picnic this summer in western South Dakota. See the full letter Here.

Iowa had a Supreme Court Jurist who was a hero for the defense of true justice. He was Charles F. Wennerstrum, a Presbyterian from Chariton, Iowa. He served on the panel of Judges in Nuremburg, Germany to oversee the trials of senior German Nazi officers. When he came home he publicly denounced the entire judicial process he experienced and said if he knew 6 months prior what he knew after presiding over their trials he would never have taken the position. Here was one Chicago Daily Tribune article that went world-wide.

Drake University Law Library is now the repository of so much of Judge Wennerstrum’s work. You can enter it here.

But the perversion of justice didn’t just happen in Nuremburg, but Tokyo, too. Wennerstrum’s archives include a fascinating account of a speech given to the Iowa Press Association in 1949 by a defense attorney, Owen Cunningham, who worked in both Nuremburg and Tokyo. Here is an excerpt from his opening remarks.

“Our system of Justice is on trial today and has been for the past three years. At Nuremberg in 1945 four nations – Russia, France, Britain, and the United States joined hands to prosecute the German leaders under a principle of law which was nonexistent except for their own say-so. The defendants should have been charged with violations of rules of land warfare only, offenses less grandiose and high sounding, perhaps, but well defined, and recognized by all civilized nations. No one would have complained had an orderly trial, conducted under established procedure universally recognized, been held for the prosecution of individuals for crimes which they individually committed or personally ordered.“

“It was the creation of new crimes, such as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to wage wars of aggression, which was wrong, especially coining and defining these crimes after they were alleged to have been committed. However vehemently Justice Jackson and later the Tribunal tried to deny it, it was legislation after the event and ex-post-facto, and contrary to the highest principles of justice. These Major War Crimes cases were based on a false premise and were destined to establish a bad precedent.“

“Our people are beginning to realize this more every day. The recent trial of the Cardinal end Clergymen in Europe, and the threatened trial of Madame and Kiang Kai-Shek have brought this subject closer to our door.“

To read Cunningham’s entire speech including history few have ever heard see here.

Here is the handout the Boomer men will be offering to participants on the Pride parade June 10.

Dear Pastor, Church leaders and other Christian men;                                         

Per my request several men from my men’s weekly Community early-bird Bible Study have decided to have a very public presence at the Sioux Falls, SD Homosexual Pride Parade June 10.  We are ‘Boomers.’ The men range in age from 65 to 80.  I asked these men to come to Sioux Falls to, first, publicly confess our sins of omission for our past decades of cowardice, apathy and silence in the public square during the advance of the sexual revolution against God’s Law.  Second, we will also call the homosexuals and others lost in sexual sin to repent and turn to Christ.  We intend to use large signs (3’x5’ and 4’x10’) and may have printed literature to pass out. Postal and email invitations have been going out to church leaders for several weeks.

The Holy Spirit convicted us through our study of the book of Jeremiah and now Ezekiel of our sinful omissions and our need to act, to speak up.  Here are some other texts demonstrating our sin of not speaking up. (Lev. 5:1, 19:17, Deut. 13:6-8; 1 Kings 1:6a).

The paralysis and fear of Jeremiah 6:24 must end.  ‘May the Lord shield us and may the feeblest among us become like David.’  (Zechariah 12:8) This group is made up of members of the Christian Reformed Church (primarily), Lutheran Church Missouri Synod and Baptist church. But any and all Trinitarian Christian men, who rightly fear God, are encouraged to join us in this time of public repentance!

Though the idea started in this Bible study, Rescue The Perishing is the one organizing this event.  The Sioux Falls Pride group has set their parade date for June 10, 2023.  Christian friends from Aiken, S.C. are planning to join us. We hope many more will respond like this.

We are not going as some sort of self-righteous heroes, as we know we are coming decades late to the contest. We cry out to God in prayer for His forgiveness of our past silence, His blessing on this public confession of our past sins and His blessings as we then call the sexual miscreants to join us in repentance and faith in Christ! To see the artwork for some of the signs we want carry, click Here. Here’s one below.

This is to extend an invitation to your church and/or your organization to join with us.  You can stand with us or organize your own public repentance and calling the sexual miscreants to repent, a few blocks further down the parade route.

Share this link with the pastors, elders and other men of your church. This invitation is for men of all ages, starting with Boomers.

We are holding a Solemn Assembly the night before in Sioux Falls. A humble yet fearless 41 yr. minister of the Gospel, Rev. Dr. Wayne Sedlak is scheduled to lead us in preaching as to why “We” need to repent and then lead us in prayer. See his recent sermons on this point here.

Schedule:
June 9, 7:00pm Solemn Assembly (location to be announced to those who register) Listen to Rev. Sedlak’s April 30, 2023, sermon on the duty of the Church to repent. Click Here.

Some sermon quotes:
“His[sic David’s] older brother became his enemy as it were….David found a united testimony against standing against Goliath…..We have sinned.  That’s the ‘we.’ Silent in the face of the dominion of unrighteousness. And then of course our theologians go forth and invent all kinds of theologies to justify why we continue to sit back and do nothing instead of first and foremost repenting.”

“There’s one thing about devotions – they’re safe. They’re necessary, but they’re safe. If that’s all Godliness is, there’s no mystery to Godliness. The mystery to Godliness is how you reconcile turning the other cheek to imprecations.”

June 10, 9:00am: Gather on Public Sidewalks on Sioux Falls Pride parade route.

To join you must register Click http://bit.ly/SiouxFallsHumility

This was published years ago by the New York Times. To our knowledge this still stands. No matter how innocent you are – don’t ever talk to them. Refer them to your lawyer!