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THE APPROACHINGDARKNESSDr. Chuck Missler

THE GREATOPPORTUNITYRon Matsen

CHRIST IN THE RANKS

 Dr. Steve ElwartTRUE 

DELIVERANCENancy Missler

 John Peterson

DECLARING OUR INDEPENDENCE

 

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CONTENTS p.6 The EncroachingDarkness: Dr. ChuckMissler 

There was a time when God

clearly blessed America. How-

ever, we then outlawed Him

from our schools and public

places...

p.20  Christ in the Ranks: Dr. Steve El-wart

There is a disturbing trend

today to marginalize a soldier’sfaith, particularly Christian

faith. American military leaders

didn’t always feel this way.

p.27  The Great Op-portunity: Ron Mat-sen

Everyone who has called on

the Name of Jesus Christ for their own salvation now has an

irrevocable calling upon their 

new life...

p.35  True Deliver-ance: Nancy Missler 

God loves us so very much

that He wants us freed—and

this freedom comes only by

constantly renewing our minds.

DECLARING OUR

INDEPENDENCE

COVER STORY

 John Peterson

p.12 THE SIGNERS OF THE Declaration

of Independence were certain that war would

bring untold suffering and sacrice, but there

was a prize worthy of giving their all—Liberty.

As Proverbs 18:13 states, “He that answereth a matter before he heareth it, it is folly and shame unto him.” As maturing Christians, we should nd value in diverse viewschallenging us to further study and to be open to additional perspectives. While we may not agree with all the details in each article, we see great value in them. Thesearticles are intended to stimulate discussion among the Koinonia Institute membership as well as our Personal Update subscribers.

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WEATHERING

THE STORM

Is the world facing

another major

upheaval?

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The last

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DISCOVERINGGOD

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ENCOURAGEMENT

FROM THE EDITOR

 Dr. Gordon McDonald  Executive Editor, Personal UPDATE 

THE LORD HAS GIFTED ME  with a calling that requires constant vigilance on what is going on in the world and in our country. This isn’t always easy to endure. And requently,I don’t handle it well. With sel-interest and blatant disregard or our Constitutionalprotections increasing in our nation, it is oten dicult to remember whose ght this

actually is.

Our country, and the world, seems to be headed or a direct conrontation with God Him-sel. Every day there is another story that bears witness to the erosion o the Godly prin-ciples upon which this country was ounded. Every law that is passed, every legal judgmentseems to undermine our God-given reedoms, which were secured by courageous souls whoought and died that we might remain ree.

These present trends threaten to shake the strongest o hearts. I understand. I eel that also.But in these days, when we take the time and slow down enough to remember what hasgone on beore and the sacrices that were made, we need not be discouraged. The sacrices

 were not in vain. Our eorts, successul or not, are not in vain. The desire to see God’s heart

rule this country once again is not in vain. We are not called to win. We are called to standup—or Him.

Chuck oten says that he is not a Republican or a Democrat, but a Monarchist. He servesa Coming King. In the ace o the concerted eort toviliy and condemn everything “God,” we must remem-ber. The worse it gets here, the closer we are to there.

 We are not o this world. Jesus will one day set up HisKingdom here on earth, but right now the world can’t

help but reject Him and, by extension, us. Be encour-aged today that you are numbered among those that areidentied with Him.

 

Dr. Gordon McDonaldExecutive Editor

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TECHNOLOGY >> SCIENTISTS DEVELOP ADVANCED BIOLOGICAL COMPUTER 

Technion scientists developed and constructed a molecular transducer, which isan advanced computing machine. This molecular computer was built entirely o biomolecules, such as DNA and enzymes that can manipulate genetic codes.

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 AMERICA  >>  FEDS SHUT DOWN “FINANCIAL HUB OF CYBER-CRIME”

Liberty Reserve was the nancial glue that held together a massive worldwide network o cybercriminals, but the network that enabled $6 billion to change hands has been rippedapart, U.S. prosecutors said, leaving thousands o criminals wondering where the money is.

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 ARCHAEOLOGY >> HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON DISCOVERED

The Hanging Gardens o Babylon have long been regarded as one o the Seven Wonders o the Ancient World, although not without controversy. It seems that the Gardens have also beenregarded as purely legendary, with no evidence that this ancient site ever existed in Babylon.

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INTERNATIONAL >> RUSSIA SENDS AT LEAST 12 WARSHIPS TO SYRIA 

In a move considered aggressive by U.S. and European ocials, Russia has sent at least 12

 warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Tartous, Syria. The deployment appears to bea warning to Israeli and Western ocials against military intervention in Syria’s bloody civil

 war, which has now claimed the lives o over 80,000 people. For more ino: Click Here

SCIENCE >> ‘ WARP SPEED, SCOTTY? IT MAY ACTUALLY BE POSSIBLE…

In the “Star Trek” TV shows and ilms, the U.S.S. Enterprise’s warp engine al-lows the ship to move aster than light, an ability that is, as Spock would say,“highly illogical.” However, there’s a loophole in Einstein’s general theory o relativ-

ity that could allow a ship to traverse vast distances in less time than it would take light.For more ino: Click Here

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EACH MONTH WE SELECT NEWS THAT WE FEEL WILL HELP KEEP YOU INFORMED.MANY OF OUR NEWS SELECTIONS ARE NOT GIVEN ADEQUATE ATTENTION BY THEMAINLINE MEDIA.

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THE ENCROACHING

DARKNESS

AMERICA’S CHALLENGE

 Dr. Chuck Missler - Founder 

BIODr. Chuck Missler President/Founder,

Koinonia Institute A ter a di sti nguis hed military career and more than 30 very successul  years in the corpora te business environment,Chuck was led to pursue a lie-long endeavor o   teaching the Bible ona ull-time basis. He  ounded Koinonia House,

an organization devoted to encouraging people to study the Bible. He also ounded Koinonia Institute to enable people to have a Kingdom eect on the world today.

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ave you noticed the moral decay pervading your land? Corruption is everywhere: through-

out the highest levels o government, in your entertainments, in your schools, even in

many o your churches.

Many o those in the corridors o power should be incarcerated or treason. There

are leaders who ail to exhibit the most elementary ethical conduct. Legislators that sign bills 

they haven’t read; executives who are allowed to ignore the laws; judges who reverse juries,

amend laws, and indulge in social engineering . The entertainment industry celebrates every 

imaginable evil and attacks all the amily values which God has estab-

lished or our welare. And the educational establishment deliberately 

dumbs down and corrupts your youth.1

There was a day when you could rely on the duciary posture o your advisors, counselors, and proessionals. Today that would be naïve

and hazardous. Every day the litany o unconstitutional abuses con-

tinues unabated. Every day sel-destructive polices extend their reach.

Every day it grows darker. Every day the debts grow larger; they are

already beyond any semblance o reality. 2

The cancer o entitlement mentality has even inected the middle

class. The growing dependence on government handouts ignores thereality that the only assets the government has are yours . To ulll the

growing collective expectations they will increasingly conscate your as-

sets to ulll their ambitions.3 

The problem with socialism is that you soon run out o other people’s money.

Margaret Thatcher 

THERE WAS A TIME WHEN GOD CLEARLY BLESSED AMERICA. HOWEVER, WE THEN

OUTLAWED HIM FROM OUR SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC PLACES...

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A Cloud of Spiritual Darkness

 As the centroid o geopolitical power on the Planet Earth continues its shit westbound

(abandoning the U.S.), you can also see a cloud o spiritual darkness emerging on your east-

ern shores. Europe, mired in the grip o socialism, is now also discovering the sinister agen-

da—and deadly demographics—o Islam. The Middle East continues to boil, continually threatening lives everywhere. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.

 America likewise has now become the victim o a leadership committed to everything 

 we once abhorred. Every time I pass a military cemetery I’m reminded that it is lled with

the bodies o patriots who gave their lives ghting everything our current leadership is now 

committed to.

 Your ounders worked very hard to avoid the instabilities o a “democracy”: it was liberty 

and reedom that garnered their sacrices. It was a constitutional republic they gave us—but

our complacency and apathy has allowed it to get trampled into the dust o myopic expe-

diencies. It is debatable whether it can ever be reestablished. You are now shackled to the

chains o debts that can never be repaid.

[I you don’t have a copy o The Founders’ Bible  on your amily coee table, you prob-

ably have no idea what I’m talking about! Unless you were raised in a military amily you

probably have only supercial generalities regarding our nation’s ounding —and the sacri-

ces that made our reedoms possible. At least

it could give your grandchildren a retrospec-

tive glimpse o the nostalgic dream which will

soon be orgotten, or only treasured as a distant

memory. See the article on page 12.]

The light o reedom is quickly dimming,

and you, too, are now heading into the tyranny 

o a police state and the slavery o debt. Both

 Washington and Wall Street are desperately try-ing to create the impression o a recovery. They 

insist on measuring progress on consumption 

(CPI) rather than production. The dierence—

the decit—is debt . America is now the world’s

largest debtor, rantically printing currency 

expecting that the oreign banks are oolish ORDER

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Get serious about 

 your personal 

commitment to the

Coming King!

enough to overlook the eroding values: it’s the “greater ool theory ” on steroids.

A Painful Blessing

That sounds like an oxymoron: how can a blessing be painul? It’s the essential punc-

ture o a delusion, like when a child discovers there’s no Santa Claus. Painul, but essential.

There comes a time when even patriotism can be an obsolete orm o idol worship. When I was in Boy Scouts, it was “God and country”: you didn’t have to choose between the two!

It appears that the time has come when we all need to reocus our personal priorities on

the Kingdom that’s coming: we need to reprioritize our

personal commitments to the Coming King!

There was a time when God clearly blessed America.

However, we then outlawed Him rom our schools and

public places. We allowed our kids to be taught that the

Creation itsel was some kind o cosmic accident . We

shredded the undamentals o lie—delity and mutual commitment—in our marriages and

other relationships. Now we wonder why our kids have no sense o destiny. They can’t even

nd a job.

Has God’s “abandonment wrath” begun? Paul has

given us a litmus test which reveals our status:

Romans 1:18-32, in which He unveils His

specic judgment on any culture that

ails to acknowledge Him as Creator!4

What Is our Remedy for the

Encroaching Darkness?

Throughout the entire

history since Pentecost , small

groups o Biblical believershave been struggling to remain

aithul to the Word o God  but 

have been oppressed and persecut-

ed by the local religious establish-

ments .5 Even i all the established

institutions become prostituted

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to serve the siren calls o social injustices (and there will be plenty to

deal with!), there remains a powerul alternative: but rst, we strongly 

admonish three—in act, our—steps (three are amiliar; the ourth is a 

surprise):

1) Get serious about your personal commitment to the Coming King! Jesus is not a “concept,” a worthwhile tradition, or a comort-

able compromise in a sea o alternatives: He is real, alive and will soon

be coming to take His Throne, an appointment established beore the

oundation o the world.

2) Repair your Biblical illiteracy ! Get into a weekly study group

committed to the exposition o that supernatural book which may have

been gathering dust on your bookshel.

3) I you’re really serious, commit yoursel to an aggressive spiri-

tual growth program with others like-minded. The Internet has now 

made all o man’s knowledge only a ew clicks away! And the spiritual  

resources now available are lie-changing: the Koinonia Institute is a 

unique think-tank with committed members anxious to meet you.

But there’s another opportunity entirely. “Irreducible complex-

ity” is an insight developed by Michael Behe.6 In its most basic orm,

ministry is composed o three essential components: 1) Education, 2)

Experience, and 3) Enablement.

The Koinonia Institute has been providing an eective alterna-

tive or the rst two components. The three parallel avenues o study 

leading to the Gold Medallion are innovative and eective, thanks to

the Internet. Practicums and ministry opportunities also address the

second component.

It is that third component, “Enablement,” which usually involveseither joining a Christian organization, or organizing the personal sup-

port to join an organization that requires it. However, there is now a 

unique alternative: becoming part o a network o independent, indi-

vidual “spiritual entrepreneurs” working undercover within the coming 

spiritual darkness.7 

4) I you are really, really serious, and are willing to commit your-

NOTES1. Cf. Berit Kjos, Brave

New Schools: w ith

concrete examples

from public school

ma t e r i a l s , K jo sshows how the edu-

caonal system pro-

motes pagan spiri-

tuality, unveils the

goals and strategies

behind Goals 2000,

and provides paren-

tal strategies to ght

the encroaching oc-

culc acceptance.

2. $140 trillion at lastcount, and growing;

$16.8 trillion cur-

rent, naonal debt,

plus $123 trillion

unfunded liabilies

for Social Securi-

ty, Medicaid, and

other entitlement

programs. Almost

$400,000 for every

man, woman, andchild. The U.S. gov-

ernment borrows

four out of every ten

dollars it spends.

3. President Obama

signed Execuve Or-

der 13603, which

authorizes the U.S.

g o v e r n m e n t t o

conscate from its

cizens whatever itfeels is necessary.

4. Three times (Rom

1:24,26, 28) it is God

who “gives them

over to” that which

is not convenient,

etc.

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sel all the way to achieving a Gold Medallion within the Koinonia 

Institute, you can also embark on a sel-nancing program to establish

your own personal ministry as the Lord leads.

For the truly committed, the Koinonia Missionary Fellowship

(“KMF”) now oers a unique approach to “Enablement.” It is a “club within a club”: a sel-governing gathering o lie members committed

as “underground” Ambassadors or our Coming King. Each partici-

pant can participate in a combined parsonage pool which reimburses

expenses in proportion to what he has put in the pool; he has his

“own skin in the game.” (This pool is also augmented by support-

ing donations external to the membership. Only earnings o the pool

are employed: the assets remain in the ministry in perpetuity.) The

participant is supervised by his own peers (not a remote headquarters

edom). He is accountable to his own Personal Advisory Board,

individually selected rom members o the KMF. Check it out: www.

KITrust.org .

 Your Own Action Plan

There is a cosmic war now approaching a nal climax. You have

a signicant destiny emerging in the coming turmoil. With a sense o extreme urgency, study , assess, and prepare or the encroaching storm.

Pray intensely about it. Pray or discernment and or resolve.

NOTES

5. E. H. Broadbent,

The Pilgrim Church,

1931, Gospel Folio

Press, Grand Rapids

MI, 1999 edion. Amust read for every

serious Chrisan.

6. “A single system

which is composed

of several inter-

acting parts that

contribute to the

basic funcon, and

where the removal

of any one of the

parts causes thesystem to eecve-

ly cease function-

ing.” Michael Behe, 

Darwin’s Black Box, 

p.39 in the 2006

edion.

7. See our concept pa-

per, “The Spiritual

Entrepreneur” on

www.KITrust.org.

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 DECLARING OUR INDEPENDENCE

When in the Course o human events, it becomes necessary or one people to dissolve the po-litical bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers o  

the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws o Nature and o Nature’s God 

entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions o mankind requires that they should declare 

the causes which impel them to the separation.

The summer o 1776 was, in the words o Founder  Thomas Paine, one o the “times

that try men’s souls.” From the end o the Seven Years’ War in 1763 to the Declaration o Independence, the relationship o the American colonies with Great Britain had deterio-

rated severely.

An Increasing Tax Burden

In 1764, to help oset its huge war debt and the expenses o running the colonies, the

English Parliament imposed the Sugar Act , which increased the duties on imported sugar,

by John Peterson,

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THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WERE CERTAIN THAT WARWOULD BRING UNTOLD SUFFERING AND SACRIFICE AT EVERY LEVEL, BUT THERE

WAS A PRIZE WORTHY OF GIVING THEIR ALL—LIBERTY.

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textiles, coee, wines, and dyes. That was ollowed by the Currency 

 Act , the Stamp Act o 1765, the Quartering Act , the Declaratory 

 Act o 1766, and the Townshend Acts o 1767, all o which imposed

heavy colonial taxes on imports and hardships on the citizens, which

led to a groundswell o protests, boycotts, and simmering violence.On March 5, 1770, the Boston Massacre occurred as a mob ha-

rassed British soldiers, who then red their muskets pointblank into

the crowd, killing ve and injuring six.

To protest the Tea Act o 1773, which gave the British East India 

Company a monopoly to trade tea in America, the colonists reused to

pay any import duties on the tea onboard the British ship Dartmouth,

and on December 16 dumped all the tea into the Boston harbor in

 what has been called the Boston Tea Party .

 An angry Parliament retaliated with the rst o the Coercive or 

Intolerable Acts in 1774, placing Massachusetts under military rule

and virtually ending any sel-rule by the colonists. Many colonists saw 

this as a direct violation o the British Constitution and a threat to all

their liberties.

The Loss of Liberty

By the time the First Continental Congress met in September

1774, the American colonies had been orced to endure taxation

 without representation, searches and seizures without probable cause,

the conscation o rearms, and the long list o other legal oenses

detailed in the Declaration that Parliament had let unresolved.

 Yet even when armed confict in the Revolutionary War broke out

on April 19, 1775, with “the shot heard around the world ” on Lexington Green in Mas-sachusetts, ew colonists desired complete independence rom Great Britain. Most were

merely ghting or their rights as subjects o the British Crown.

Things changed over the course o the next year, however, as Britain’s great military 

orce attempted to crush the rebellion. In August 1775, the king declared that the American

subjects were “engaged in open and avowed rebellion.”

Then in February 1776, Parliament passed the Prohibitory Act , which established a 

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which is dedicated tobringing Health, Fitness and Healing to Chris-tian Men. He is the author o seven books. As President and CEO o Koechel Peterson &  Associates, John has con-sistently set the tone or the highest design stan-dards in the industry or 

 30 years. He is known or his personal integrity in relationships and as a  great team leader. Johnhas been on the Board o  Directors o Koinonia House since 1999.

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The Signing of the Declaration of Independence

blockade o American ports and declared American ships to be enemy vessels. The result o 

all these actions is perhaps best refected in the words spoken by Thomas Jeerson on No-

vember 29, 1775:

Believe me, dear Sir: there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the 

God that made me, I will cease to exist beore I 

 yield to a connection on such terms as the British

Parliament propose; and in this, I think I speak 

the sentiments o America.

Quest for Independence

In October 1775, to quell the rebellion,

King George III ordered the enlargement o the

royal army and navy. When this news reached

 America in January 1776, it propelled the cause

or independence and led many colonists to abandon all hopes o reconciliation. In May,

the Congress learned that the king had negotiated treaties with German states to hire mer-

cenaries to ght in America. His actions convinced many Americans that England was now 

treating them as oreigners.

We hold these truths to be 

sel-evident, that all men are 

created equal, that they are 

endowed by their Creator 

with certain unalienable 

Rights, that among these 

are Lie, Liberty and the 

 pursui t o Happines s.— 

That to secure these rights,

Governments are instituted 

among Men, deriving their 

 just powers rom the consent 

o the governed,—That 

 In October 1775, to

quell the rebellion, King 

George III ordered 

the enlargement of the

royal army and navy.

When this news reached 

 America in January

1776...

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King George III

whenever any Form o Government becomes 

destructive o these ends, it is the Right o the 

People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute 

new Government, laying its oundation on such

 principles and organizing its powers in such orm,as to them shall seem most likely to eect their 

Saety and Happiness.

Cutting Ties With Britain

 When the Second Continental Congress

rst met in May 1775, King George III had not

replied to the petition or redress o grievances

sent by the First Continental Congress.

Thereore, the Congress gradually took on

the responsibilities o a national government, and one by one began to cut the colonies’ ties

to Britain. In June 1775, it established a continental currency as well as the Continental

 Army , appointing George Washington as its commander-in-chie , and in July created a 

post oce or the “United Colonies.”

The Privateering Resolution, passed in March

1776, allowed the colonists to arm vessels topatrol and deend against “the enemies o these

United Colonies.” On April 6, 1776, American

ports were opened to commerce with other na-

tions—an action that cut the economic ties dic-

tated by Parliament’s Navigation Acts.

Uniting the ColoniesBy mid-May 1776, eight American colonies had decided they would support indepen-

dence, but Maryland , Pennsylvania , New York , New Jersey , and Delaware resisted. On

May 15, 1776, Congress passed a set o resolutions drated by  John Adams that authorized

the colonies to set up state governments independent o the Crown, and several did.

This was an emphatic act o sovereignty , and as such it necessitated a ormal declara-

tion o independence rom the Crown. Four o the middle colonies voted against it, and

 ...it propelled the cause for independence and 

led many colonists to

abandon all hopes of 

reconciliation.

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Second Continental Congress

the Maryland delegation walked out in protest. Also on May 15, the Virginia Convention 

passed a resolution that “the delegates appointed to represent this colony in General Con-

gress be instructed to propose to that respectable body to declare the United Colonies ree

and independent states.” In keeping with these instructions,

Richard Henry Lee o  Virginia presented his resolution or

independence on June 7:

Resolved: That these United Colonies are, and o right ought 

to be, ree and independent States, that they are absolved 

 rom all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political 

connection between them and the State o Great Britain is,

and ought to be, totally dissolved.

There were still some stalwart delegates, however, who

 wished to pursue the path o reconciliation with Britain,

and some threatened to leave Congress i the resolution was

passed.

On June 10, Congress voted to postpone discussion o Lee’s resolution or three weeks

o recess. However, beore Congress recessed, a Committee o Five was appointed to drat a 

 During those

 nal weeksof June 1776,

support for a

congressional 

declaration of 

independence

was consolidated among the

colonies.

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declaration o independence. During those nal weeks o June 1776, support or a congres-

sional declaration o independence was consolidated among the colonies.

Writing the Declaration of Independence

The Committee o Five, composed o John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jeer-son, Robert R. Livingston, and Roger Sherman, instructed Jeerson to write the rst drat.

 Jeerson’s most immediate sources were his own drat o 

the preamble o the Constitution o Virginia and George

Mason’s Virginia Declaration o Rights, and he presented

his “air” drat to Benjamin Franklin and John Adams or

their considerations and amendments prior to the presen-

tation o a “rough draught” to the committee. They then

presented this document to the Congress on June 28.

The Declaration is Officially Adopted: July 4,

1776

On July 2, 1776, ater a great deal o wrangling and a powerul speech by John Adams,

the resolution o independence was adopted with twelve armative votes and one absten-

tion.

 With this, the colonies ocially severed political ties with Great Britain. On July 4, thenal wording o the Declaration o Independence was approved and sent to the printer or

publication. Then, at last, church bells rang 

out over Philadelphia declaring the Declara-

tion had been ocially adopted. Riders were

sent in all directions with the news, and in

many places it was celebrated with shouts

and processions, with the ring o guns andthe ringing o bells. Beore long, the Decla-

ration was read to audiences and reprinted

in newspapers across the thirteen states.

We, thereore, the Representatives o the unit-

ed States o America, in General Congress,

On July 4, the

 final wording of 

the Declaration of 

 Independence was

approved and sent to the printer for 

 publication.

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 Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge o the world or the rectitude o our intentions,

do, in the Name, and by Authority o the good People o these Colonies, solemnly publish and 

declare, That these United Colonies are, and o Right ought to be Free and Independent States 

. . . For the support o this Declaration, with the rm reliance on the protection o the divine 

Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

The Cost of Freedom

The people understood the enormous cost o the step they were taking. John Adams

 wrote to his wie regarding the meaning o his own signature on the document o reedom:

I am well aware o the toil, and blood, and treasure, that it will cost us to maintain this 

declaration. . . . I can see that the end is more than worth all the means, and that posterity 

will triumph in that day’s transaction.

 He and his ellow signers o the Declaration were certain that war would bring untold

suering and sacrice at every level, leaving empty chairs at amily tables, widows, atherless

children, grieving mothers and athers.

But there was, as Adams notes, a prize worthy o giving their all—Liberty —and there

 would be no king to stand in the way o it.

Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson

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 Dr. Steve Elwart, Executive Analyst, KI 

A

 pparently the former United States military’s policy o “don’t ask,

don’t tell” has been replaced with a new one. In the modern

 world where people “despise good and love evil,”1 it is just

ne or a soldier to celebrate a homosexual liestyle, but an-

other soldier could ace disciplinary actions i he were to share his

Christian aith.

On May 1, news sources reported that soldiers could be pros-

ecuted or sharing that aith, up to and including court-martial. The

Department o Deense later claried their statement saying that

that no troops or chaplains are being court-martialed or evange-lism.

 While explaining that evangelism is not a punishable oense,

the DOD spokesman said that proselytizing is. To “proselytize,”

dened as “to induce someone to convert to one’s aith,” would be

considered a violation o the Uniorm Code o Military Justice.

Dening “proselytizing” as a punishable oense has caused a 

great deal o concern and conusion among military chaplains andthe troops. Any sort o coercive conversion to any religion is already 

a violation o the First Amendment , so why was this rule put in

place? What is the distinction between “evangelizing” and “prosely-

tizing”?

This latest directive seems to be part o a trend to incrementally 

marginalize a soldier’s aith, particularly Christian aith, rom military 

THERE IS A DISTURBING TREND IN TODAY’S MILITARY TO INCREMENTALLYMARGINALIZE A SOLDIER’S FAITH, PARTICULARLY CHRISTIAN FAITH. AMERICANMILITARY LEADERS DIDN’T ALWAYS FEEL THIS WAY...

CHRIST IN THE RANKS

CULTURE WARS

by Dr. Steve Elwart Executive AnalystKoinonia Institute

Steve Elwart i s the  Executive Analyst or the Koinonia Institute and has been a member o   the Institute since 2006.He has spent 40 years in the Oil Industry. Inthose 40 years, Steve has had the opportunity towork not only in private industry, but also as a consultant with numerous  government agencies. As a Subject Matter Expert on energy, automation,a n d c y b e r s e c u r i t y ,S t e v e h a s w o r k e d  with two presidential administrations, several cabinet level departments,as well as numerous congressional stas and state commissions. Steve has also served as interim pastor o his church.

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lie. Another example o this margin-

alization is the ongoing struggle or

Christian chaplains to pray in public

settings in the name o Jesus, which is

the only way we can come beore God the Father .

 American military leaders didn’t

always eel this way. Between 1941

and 1945, the American Bible Society 

printed and distributed six million

New Testaments to men and women

in the armed services. The books

carried in the fylea letters rom the

commanding ocers and ocers o 

various military units. One o those

commanders was the Commander 

in Chie o the Armed Forces, Presi-

dent Franklin Delano Roosevelt . In

today’s new military, this letter could

be construed as a violation o military 

policy.

God in the “Brother’s War”

During the American Civil War , Christ was very much a part o army lie. In May 

1864 in a letter to the Rev. Robert J. Harp, the Superintendent o the Southwestern Depart-

ment Soldiers’ Tract Association, it was reported that,

The (Conederate) army was in the midst o a most extensive revival at the beginning o the 

month. Protracted meetings were being held in almost every brigade; thousands o our soldiers 

were thronging our rude camp altars, hundreds were giving their hearts to God, and scores 

were nightly asking or certicates o Church membership.

The report also stated that about 300 men and ocers were baptized in one day 

alone, with over 2,000 being saved in one week. Many times, the only thing that stopped

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the church services were attacks by the Union Army . During these times, the Conederate 

troops “literally went rom the altar to their entrenchments—rom their knees to the battle

 with their oes—still singing the songs o Zion and supplicating the throne o grace as they 

surrounded the res o the bivouac, or waited to receive the re o the oe.”2

The Union (Northern) Army also ound comort in Christ on the battleeld. This is

not to say that Christ was central to a typical soldier’s lie during the entire confict. In theearly stages o the war, it seemed as i religion had been let at home. Many soldiers, away 

rom home or the rst time, were oten tempted to “make some oolishness,” as one soldier

put it. Believing Christians in the eld were oten conronted with proanity , gambling ,

drunkenness, sexual licentiousness, and petty thievery .

This attitude began to change as the true horror o the war began to sink in. Ater the

decisive campaigns at Gettysburg , Vicksburg , and Chattanooga in 1863, revivals became a 

regular eature o Union army lie. By this time, veteran soldiers began seeking support in

religion.

In the Army o the Potomac, a great religious revival appeared during the winter o 

1863–64. Numerous brigades erected churches and chapel tents or prayer meetings. Gen-

eral McAllister said he had never witnessed a better religious eeling among the men. And

a reporter or a religious magazine thought the “piety o the Union army would win the

 whole nation to Christ.”3

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The War of the “First July Fourth”

Some historians have argued that the American Revolutionary War was the dening 

moment in the history o  American Christianity . During that period, Enlightenment ideas

and evangelical Christian values combined to produce what sociologist  Seymour Martin

Lipset has called “the rst new nation.”The Revolutionary War was unique in mod-

ern history in that it was not over territory or

spoil, it was a revolt to which republican and Bib-

lical belies fowed together and infuenced each

other. During the Revolutionary period many o 

the emphases o the First Great Awakening were

secularized and incorporated into the abric o the new nation. During this period in Amer-

ica, Protestant ministers preached that God had chosen America or a special purpose.

This ethos o striving to maintain God’s avor on the colonial war eort became a 

central part o the Continental Army ’s lie. Putting God rst,

even in war, became a central precept or General George

 Washington, the Commander in Chie o 

the Continental Army. On July 9, 1776,

 Washington issued an order rom his head-

quarters in New York to appoint chaplainsto every regiment. In the order, he wrote:

… The General hopes and trusts, that every 

ocer and man will endeavour so to live,

and act, as becomes a Christian Soldier,

deending the dearest Rights and Liberties o  

his country.4

Even with this order, chaplains had

one o the most demanding jobs in the

Continental Army. Historian Charles Roys-

ter , proessor o history at Louisiana State

University had written that “… proanity,

drunkenness, neglect o the Sabbath, and

This ethos of striving tomaintain God’s favor 

on the colonial war 

effort became a central 

 part of the Continental 

 Army’s life.

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disrespect or the clergy were widespread

among Continental soldiers.” This contrast-

ed sharply with the high moral ground upon

 which the war was being ought, and Chris-

tian Revolutionaries deplored the contrast.5

Other Revolutionary War generals also

believed that religious devotion was an es-

sential element toward good discipline and

enlisted the chaplains to help them in their

eorts to oster unit cohesion. Unit com-

manders required soldiers to attend church

services. One punishment or absence was

digging up stumps.

The Key to Military Success

 Washington himsel believed that not only was religious devotion a key to military dis-

cipline, he also believed that it was the key to the success o their endeavor. In Valley Forge,

despite their hunger and the lack o adequate cloth-

ing, Washington ordered all able-bodied men who

 were not on duty to participate in worship services.He and his ocers also attended these services. This

 was one o Washington’s written prayers during the

 winter at Valley Forge:

 Almighty God, and most merciul Father, who didst 

command the children o Israel to oer a daily sacrice 

to Thee, that thereby they might gloriy and praise Thee or Thy protection both night and 

day; receive, O Lord, my morning sacrice which I now oer up to Thee. I beseech Thee, my 

sins, remove them rom Thy presence, as ar as the east is rom the west, and accept o me or 

the merits o Thy Son, Jesus Christ, that when I come into Thy temple, and compass Thine 

altar, my prayers may come beore Thee as incense; and as Thou wouldst hear me calling 

upon Thee in Thy Word, that it may be wisdom, righteousness, reconciliation and peace to

the saving o my Soul in the day o the Lord Jesus.6

Washington also rec-

ognized that a soldier’sbehavior mattered, not 

only to good military

discipline, but to God 

 Himself.

Washington at Valley Forge

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Congress also understood the importance o giving God His proper place in the con-

fict. On May 8, 1778, Congress ordered all ministers to read an assessment o the war

rom their pulpits. The letter repeated reerences to the Almighty and their reliance on

His protection. The paper read in part, “Our dependence was not upon man,” Congress

asserted, “it was upon Him who hath commanded us to love our enemies, and to rendergood or evil”; our success has been “so peculiarly marked, almost by direct interposition o 

Providence, that not to eel and acknowledge His protection would be the height o impi-

ous gratitude.”7 

The surviving sermons rom this time indicated a ne line that chaplains had to tread.

They had to preach sermons that would build the soldiers’ aith that their Cause was both

 winnable and right, and they had to oster courage in the ace o both suering and combat

and encourage the good behavior that were the hallmarks o the upright Christian and disci-

plined soldier.

These two conficting priorities sometimes

put chaplains in a dicult position at times.

On Thanksgiving Day , 1777, one Continental

army unit, which had not been paid since Au-

gust, heard a sermon where the chaplain prepared a text giving advice to soldiers using the

 words o  John the Baptist . In the sermon, John was quoted as saying, “Do violence to no

man, neither accuse any alsely …”8 The chaplain conveniently let o the rest o the verse,

to which the soldiers happily nished, “And be content with your wages!”

That chaplains were such important part o military strategy was part and parcel o 

 what dierentiated the Continental army rom the British. The Revolutionary command

made sure that the Colonial soldiers knew what they were ghting or. “The ate o unborn

millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct o this Army,” wrote 

 Washington. He also recognized that a soldier’s behavior mattered, not only to good mili-

tary discipline, but to God Himsel. On August 3, 1776, rom his headquarters in New  York, George Washington issued this General Order :

… The General is sorry to be inormed that the oolish, and wicked practice, o proane cursing 

and swearing is growing into ashion; he hopes the ocers will, by example, as well as infu-

ence, endeavour to check it, and that both they, and the men will refect, that we can have 

little hopes o the blessing o Heaven on our Arms, i we insult it by our impiety, and olly …

Congress also understood 

the importance of giving 

God His proper place in

the conict.

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Evidence of Divine Providence

Through the years o struggle, it did seem as i God’s Hand

 was truly on the Colonial Cause. The 16 months between July 

1776 in New York and concluding in October 1777 at Saratoga  

include many examples o what many Americans would believe tobe o Divine Providence. Among them were the night the ground

expectedly roze between Trenton and Princeton allowing the Con-

tinental Army escape the annihilation British General Cornwallis 

had planned or it the ollowing morning, and the time Washing-

ton himsel survived a hail o bullets and cannon re when he was

caught between his own troops and the Redcoats at the Assunpink 

Creek Bridge during the second Battle o Trenton.

Casualties of War 

One sad note to the Revolutionary War was that the military 

leader’s attention to enlisting God in the cause and in the soldier’s

daily lie did not seem to carry through into civilian lie. In reality,

the war had the opposite eect.

The issue o the Revolution itsel had badly divided Americans,

both inside and outside the churches. Opinion ranged rom enthu-siastic endorsement o the Revolution by most Congregationalists,

Presbyterians and Baptists to non-participation on moral grounds by 

the Quakers, Mennonites and other Christian pacists.

The confict blunted the religious conscience o a generation o 

 Americans and encouraged many to become apathetic toward Chris-

tianity.

The ebb and fow o this country’s aith in God seems to ol-low cyclical patterns. During times o prosperity there is a alling 

away rom aith only to be brought back to God during times o 

crisis.

 We need to ollow the same advice Washington and other mili-

tary leaders ollowed in 2 Chronicles 7:14 and “seek His ace.”

That means all o us in “God’s army .”

1. Micah 3:2.

2. Jones, J. W. (2010). Christ 

in the Camp, or Religion

in Lee’s Army.Charleston,

SC: Nabu Press.3. Christianity Today.

(1992). Christianity &

the Civil War. Christian

History Magazine, p. Is-

sue 33.

4. Christianity Today.

(1992). Christianity &

the American Revolu-

on. Chrisanity Today ,

p. Issue 50.

5. Royster, C. (1979). A Revo-luonary People at War:

The Continental Army 

and American Character,

1775–1783. Charlotte,

NC: University of North

Carolina.

6. LaHaye, T., & Lambert,

F. (1987). Faith of Our 

Founding Fathers. Nash-

ville: Wolgemuth & Hy-

a.7. James, H. H. (1998).Reli-

gion and the Founding of 

the American Republic. 

Washington, DC: Library

of Congress.

8. Luke 3:14.

Chief of Chaplains. (1946).

 American Army Chap-

laincy—A Brief History. 

New York: Harper & Row.

Reid, D. G., Linder, R. D.,

Shelly, B. L., & Stout, H.

S. (1990). Diconary of 

Chrisanity in America. 

Downers Grove: Inter-

Varsity Press.

NOTES

FURTHER STUDY

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he last commandment of Jesus beore His ascension was or His disciples to “go into all 

the world and preach the gospel to every creature.”  1 How seriously should we personally 

take this command today? Is this command somehow only limited to those who eel

they have the git o evangelism? What needs to be said, under-

stood, and believed or a person to be born again?

For salvation, Man must rst understand the existence and char-

acter o God, then the purpose and power o the Bible, the person o 

 Jesus Christ , and the nature o Man. This awareness prepares Man

or the message o the Gospel. Being conronted with a holy and just

God should cause sinul Man, who is deserving o God’s judgment, tonaturally seek a way o salvation.

The Bible tells us that believing in the Gospel requires hearing the

Gospel. The apostle Paul  wrote to the Roman Christians saying,

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And 

how shall they believe in Him o whom they have not heard? And how 

shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they 

are sent? As it is written: “How beautiul are the eet o those who preach

the gospel o peace, Who bring glad tidings o good things!” 2

Sadly, the percentage o the world that is hearing the Christian

Gospel today is getting less and less. Preaching is one o the simplest

orms o  verbal communication. Where teaching can be dened

as “explanation,” thus sometimes requiring substantial preparation,

EVERYONE WHO HAS CALLED ON THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST FOR THEIR

OWN SALVATION NOW HAS AN IRREVOCABLE CALLING UPON THEIR NEW LIFE,

WHICH COMPELS THEM TO TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE WORLD AROUND THEM.

THE GREAT OPPORTUNITY

SHARING OUR FAITH

 Ron Matsen - Director  Lyonshead Media

by Ron Matsen,D i r e c t o r ,Lyonshead Media 

With over 40 years inthe pastoral ministry,Ron has taught verse-by-

verse through the Bible,hosted a live 2-hour TV  programme broadcas t across Europe or more than 2 years, and taught extensively on the subjects o evangelism, leadership,and end-times topics. Al-though Ron and his wie are native Caliornians,they moved to England in

1992 and are now in the  process o immigrating toNew Zealand where they will partner with Chuck and Nancy Missler at the new ministry base,The River Lodge.

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preaching is simply “declaration.” Paul instructed the Corinthian Church, “For since, inthe wisdom o God, the world through wisdom did not know God, it pleased God through

the oolishness o the message preached to save those who believe.”3 For example, i you dis-

covered that your local superstore was having a one-day sale on an item that previously was

too expensive to consider, your natural response to the discovery o this good news would be

to tell as many o your riends as possible, so they could enjoy the benet with you. How 

much more important is the Gospel message beore a 

 world lost in darkness and without hope?

The Apostle Paul then points out that every Chris-

tian has been given the “ministry o reconciliation.”

Now all things are o God, who has reconciled us to Him-

sel through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry o  

reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling 

the world to Himsel, not imputing their trespasses to them,

and has committed to us the word o reconciliation.4 

Thus we can ull the command o the Great Commission by preaching the “word o 

reconciliation” to an unbelieving world.

 All Christians need to recognize the act that they are no longer to become entangled

in the aairs o this present world, because they have been given citizenship in a heavenly 

kingdom. As “ambassadors or Christ,”5 we have been given a clear commission to represent

 As “ambassadors for Christ,” we

have been given a

clear commission

to represent and 

communicate...

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and communicate the messages rom our ruling King, Jesus Christ, to others. How can we

eectively accomplish this task?

The Discovery of God

The English author C. S. Lewis wrote, “Christian-ity, i alse, is o no importance, and i true, o innite

importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately 

important.”6 The Christian aith is NOT a simple, pri-

vate experience o personal interpretations or impressions. It is a serious, public exhibition

o a worldview that is based on a belie system that has a oundation o truth that can be

examined by an enquiring world.

Christianity does not ask its ollowers to take a blind leap o aith into the intellectual

abyss, but rather presents a perectly rational response to the evidence surrounding us, with-

in the world o science and through insightul discoveries rom the Bible.

The Bible tells us that or salvation, Man must rst understand the existence and char-

acter o God. Thereore, the road to the salvation o mankind begins with the exploration o 

the ultimate truth o the existence o God .

The beginning o a person’s reconciliation

 with God is their recognition o God.

The argument or and against the

existence o God has raged or ages, with

both sides declaring victory but rarely to

the converting o their counterpart. To

prove the existence o God, an under-

standing is needed that comes rom an

“aggregate o thoughts” knit together with

“summary logic.” I call it the “algorithm o complex theology .”

Simply stated, it is the idea that many 

dierent observations, when consolidated,

can yield a unied conclusion.

There are ve classic philosophical ar-

guments or proving the existence o God:

 ...the messages

 from our ruling 

 King, Jesus Christ,

to others.

C.S. Lewis

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1. The Ontological

Argument

The Ontological  Argument is

based on the widespread intuitive

knowledge o the existence o God

 within every culture. It ocuses on our

internal witness. It argues that once we

mentally grasp the concept o God, we

can see that God’s non-existence is im-

possible. In other words, i you believe

in the necessity o God, then you must

believe in the existence o God. Ques-

tions raised by this approach include,

“Why does mankind universally concern itsel with the existence o God i he does not ex-

ist?” “Why do I believe in a supernatural or spiritual realm?” “Why do people who say they 

don’t believe in God still ask or prayer ?”

2. The Cosmological Argument

The Cosmological  Argument seeks to prove the ex-

istence o God rom the act that the universe exists. Thebasis o this argument is built upon the observation that

the universe is nite—it had a beginning—and that it

came into being through something or someone. This is

also reerred to as the “First Cause Argument.” It ocuses

on the principle o the “rst mover.” That is, or every ac-

tion there must be a reaction or or every reaction there

must be a preceding action.

3. The Teleological Argument

The Teleological Argument seeks to prove the existence o God rom the act that the

universe is ordered. This is also reerred to as the “Argument rom Design.” It is based on

the principle that i we see design, there must be a designer (God), because we see “design”

that iners “purpose.” The study o design in both the cosmos and in lie systems reveals the

 wonders o both the Macro Universe and the Micro Universe. For more on the Teleologi-

The Bible tells usthat for salvation,

 Man must rst 

understand the

existence and 

character of God.

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cal Argument or the existence o God, you should check out the “Beyond Series”7 by Dr.

Chuck Missler .

4. The Moral Argument

The Moral Argument seeks to prove the exis-tence o God rom the inherent nature o morality 

 within mankind. It asks many tough questions re-

garding the basis o Universal Morality . I morality 

consists o an ultimately authoritative set o com-

mands, where can these commands have come rom

but a commander that has ultimate authority ? The apostle Paul warned the Roman Church

that all mankind stand guilty beore God because “what may be known o God is maniest

in them, or God has shown it to them.”8

5. The Religious Experience Argument

The Religious Experience Argument seeks to prove the existence o God by human

experience with the supernatural realm. The ocus o this approach is the idea that one can

only perceive that which exists, and so God must exist because there are those that have

experienced him. While religious experiences themselves can only constitute direct evidence

o God’s existence or those ortunate enough to have them, the act that there are many people who testiy to having had such experiences constitutes indirect evidence o God’s

Therefore, the road 

to the salvation of 

mankind begins withthe exploration of the

ultimate truth of the

existence of God.

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existence, even to those who have not had

such experiences themselves.

 Although you cannot completely,

empirically  prove or disprove the existence

o God using logic alone, we can certainly use the inormation available to us to guide

those that are blind to the glorious light o 

the Gospel into the direction o truth, so

they might seek the truth or themselves.

Otentimes, the best use o Christian apol-

ogetics is to unseat the condence o the

unbeliever in their aulty world view, to the

point that they seek a better answer or the

questions acing them concerning the purpose o their own lie. In the end Jesus said,

No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up

at the last day. It is written in the prophets, “And they shall all be taught 

by God.” Thereore everyone who has heard and learned rom the Father 

comes to Me.9 

Nevertheless, everyone who has called on the name o Jesus Christ

or their own salvation now has an irrevocable calling upon their new 

lie, which compels them to take the Gospel to the world around them.

Remember, it is a spiritual battle. With great opportunity comes great

opposition, so don’t be surprised when the eort to share the Gospel

becomes dicult.

 Ater all, it’s a matter o lie and death to those waiting to hear yourmessage o reconciliation.

* * *This article was excerpted rom this month’s eatured briengs, The 

Great Commission and Discovering God, by Ron Matsen, on page 33.For urther study in this topic, see Ron’s briengs, The Gospel and The Love o God on page 42 and, in the coming months, Deending the 

Bible and Human Nature.

1. Mark 16:15 (NKJV)

2. Romans 10:14,15

(NKJV)3. 1 Corinthians 1:21

(NKJV)

4. 2 C o r i n t h i a n s

5:18,19 (NKJV)

5. 2 Corinthians 5:20

(NKJV)

6. C. S. Lewis “Mere

Chrisanity”

7. Beyond Time and 

Space, Beyond Co-

incidence, Beyond Perception, and

Beyond Newton by

Dr. Chuck Missler,

Koinonia House.

8. Romans 1:19 (NKJV)

9. John 6:44,45 (NKJV)

NOTES

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The last commandment of Jesus before His ascension was for His disciples to“go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature.” The apostlePaul asks us, “How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not be-lieved?”

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It blesses us to report that Nancy Missler is on the road to recovery. For a current update on

Nan you can go to our website at www.kingshighway.org . July is the month that we cel-

ebrate reedom in America. Our passion and purpose at The King’s 

High Way Ministries is to see many Christians “reed” and “trans-

ormed” through our books and Bible study resources.

In order to give Nan more time to heal, The King’s High Way Min-

istries chose an article on “emotional reedom” that she originally wrote

in the late ’90s. We pray that it encourages you.

* * *You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you ree.

 John 8:32

 What does this really mean? Renewing our minds is dened as

“truth” when our words and our deeds match and become one. Jesus,

o course, is the Truth because He is the Word that became the Deed.

So, what I believe this Scripture says is that the more intimately and

ully we know Jesus, the more reedom we will experience.God loves us so very much that He wants us reed — reed rom

our selves; reed rom others’ reactions, reed rom our circumstances,

and reed rom the enemy’s infuence in our innermost man. This

 reedom comes only by constantly renewing our minds—moment by 

moment putting o all the things in our fesh (our soul and our body)

that are “not o aith” and putting on Christ.

GOD LOVES US SO VERY MUCH THAT HE WANTS US FREED—AND THIS FREEDOM

COMES ONLY BY CONSTANTLY RENEWING OUR MINDS—MOMENT BY MOMENT

PUTTING OFF ALL THE THINGS IN OUR FLESH THAT ARE “NOT OF FAITH” AND

PUTTING ON CHRIST.

TRUE DELIVERANCE

BE YE TRANSFORMED

 Nancy Missler, Founder, KHW 

N a n c y M i s s l e r  Director/Foundero King’s High Way 

Nancy Mi s s l e r ha s   published our studies:The Way o Agape, Be

 Ye Transormed, Faithin the Night Seasons,and her latest, TheKingdom, Power &Glory. In addition tothese popular studies she also has published six Plain and Simple Seriesbooks, as well as twoIn His Likeness Seriesbooks.

Nancy has been married  or over 50 years to Chuck  Missl er. They are the  parents o our grownchildren, one o whom has  gone to be with the Lord,and eight grandchildren.

BIO

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I sought the Lord, and He heard me, and delivered (or reed) me rom all my ears.

Psalm 34:4

The American Heritage Dictionary says the word “ reedom” means a state o 

independence or the condition o being  reed 

rom outside infuences. Interest-

ingly enough, that’s the same denition the dictionary gives or the word “deliver-

ance”—to set ree.

The reedom that I write about in my book Be Ye 

Transormed discusses the process o healing and renew-

al. This process is made up o our moment-by-moment

aith choices and is called sanctication. Sanctication

is choosing to give over to God anything that’s not o 

aith, so that His Lie can come orth rom our hearts.

Scripture tells us that i we are believers, Jesus has

delivered us rom the power o darkness. Read Colos-

sians 1:13, John 10:27-29 and 1 John 5:18. What is

necessary, however, and what we are ocusing on here,

is reedom rom our ears, our angers, depression, bitterness, guilt, etc., that the

power o sin (“law o sin” in our body, Romans 7:23) has used in all o our lives

to control and cripple us. This reedom comes only rom our moment-by-

moment choices and rees us rom the

baggage o lie that we carry.

An Example: What Went Wrong?

 A young man that I have known

or years, and one who loved The Way o  

 Agape, attended a healing and deliver-

ance service. Aterwards, he boasted o 

being totally delivered rom drug abuse.

Three months later, however, he was ul-

ly back into a lie laced with drug abuse.

I saw him one day and asked him,

God knows the

 perfect way and the

 perfect timing to

reveal “truth.” We

 just need to be

willing to hear it and 

deal with it. God,

then, will do the rest.

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“Tom, what happened? You said

you were totally reed. What

 went wrong?” “Nan,” he said,

“we’re all looking or the easy way 

out (to be delivered instantly).”He went on, “There’s no easy way 

out. It’s only our constant choices

that will allow us to remain ree.”

 A pastor o a large church

in Caliornia points out, “It’s the

fesh that we need reedom rom.

 We can’t cast it out—we need to

die to it. So, it’s our own deci-

sion, our own choice, and our own responsibility to stay ree.

I could easily stop choosing God’s Way today and in a very short time, I would rell all

o “lie’s baggage” (hidden chambers) that God has so magnicently emptied over the jour-

ney o my Christian lie. And, I’d be right back where I started rom.

For i, ater they have escaped the pollutions o the world through the knowledge o the Lord 

and Savior, Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.

2 Peter 2:20

Example: “I Had That Message Once”

I had lunch with a dear riend, several years ago, who had done this very thing. She

had orgotten to make moment-by-moment aith choices, and she had allowed the enemy 

to “rebuild” old strongholds that had once been destroyed and cleansed. My riend had be-

come discouraged and had begun to doubt God’s aithulness, because she was again experi-

encing things she had thought she dealt with years ago.

 What she didn’t realize was that because she had stopped “taking every thought cap-

tive” and she had stopped “making aith choices,” she was the one allowing new ungodly 

thoughts to enter back into her once-cleansed hidden chambers. So, it wasn’t God who

 was unaithul. Transormation is a process that we will be in or the rest o our lives and,

unortunately, there’s just no room or coasting—it’s a moment-by-moment aith walk.

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Begin With Small StepsSo, begin with small steps. Take one thing at a time. Don’t think God will cleanse all

your hidden chambers over a period o days. How many years has it taken you to ll them?

Give God time to expose and empty them in His Way and in His timing. You must just be

“willing” to deal with the things that He brings up and He will do the rest.

The exposing and the cleansing o our innermost man is God’s responsibility! Our

responsibility is simply to give Him permission to do so. I we have done that, then believe

me, He will do His part.

Example: Have No Fear 

 We also needn’t be araid o how or when God will reveal these hidden things to us.

 We simply must trust Him completely, knowing that it’s His Will or us to be reed.

 A precious sister at a weekend seminar a ew years ago was araid o opening hersel 

up to God because o some extremely painul things that had happened to her in the past.

Ruth was terried, but dared to trust God enough to give Him her ear and also her ull

permission to search her hidden chambers and reveal whatever He wanted to.

That night, Ruth’s roommate awoke to nd Ruth sobbing and crying out in her sleep.

The roommate immediately got up out o bed and quietly came over to comort her. How-

ever, when she got to Ruth’s bed, she heard Ruth sweetly saying over and over, “Jesus, Jesus,

 Jesus.”

The roommate was so moved and so touched, that she knelt down beside her and be-

gan to pray and intercede or her. In the morning, when the two o them compared what

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had happened, Ruth said she knew that God had done a marvelous work within her during 

the night. She knew in her spirit that even while she slept, God had emptied some o the

hurtul things in her hidden chambers.

 When she got home rom the retreat, her husband even noticed that something was

dierent. He said her countenance was radiant and that he could tell she had let go o some“baggage” she had been carrying around or years.

So, we don’t need to be araid o how or when God will reveal some o the painul

things o the past. We simply must trust Him enough to know that since He has made us,

He knows the perect timing and perect way to do it. 2 Timothy 1:7 says, “God has not

given us the spirit o ear, but o power and love and o a sound mind.”

I’m convinced that we all desperately need this

deep inner cleansing and healing in order to “know”

God intimately. By this, I simply mean we need to

allow the Spirit o God the reedom to search the

deep, unchartered recesses o our soul and bring to light all that needs to be dealt with.

Now, we don’t have to be cleansed o “all” the things in our hidden chambers beore we

can “know” God. That’s not at all what I mean. It’s going to take us a lietime in order to

do that and we still won’t have gotten rid o all that’s there.

 What I am reerring to is being obedient to God’s Spirit, and as He reveals something 

to us, we must immediately deal with it and give it over to Him. And the sooner we deal

 with it, the reer we will be…it’s “The Key” to reedom.

 With each thing that we hand over to Jesus, and with each hidden chamber that is

emptied, we’ll experience a closer intimacy with Him and more reedom to be who we really 

are.

Truly, i we know the truth, the truth will set us ree.

God knows the perect way and the perect timing to reveal “truth.” We just need to

be willing to hear it and deal with it. God, then, will do the rest.

Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itsel against the knowledge 

o God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience o Christ; and having in

a readiness to revenge [deal with] all disobedience....

2 Corinthians 10:5-6

Truly, if we know the

truth, the truth will set us free.

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 We invite you to join with us as we celebrate ourLord and Savior, Jesus Christ, Yahweh, Yeshua,

the great I AM as we walk where He walked.

Paul knew he had to go to Rome, and many have a longing

to visit the city that has deep Christian roots. Join us as wevisit both Imperial Rome as well as Christian Rome.

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Koinonia Institute has estab-lished a “Resident Study Pro-

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Strategic Perspecves Conferences Price

2012 IDAHO Full Conference DVD Set (9 sessions) -- NEW! 59.95

2012 IDAHO Full Conference AudioCD Set (9 sessions) -- NEW! 59.95

Strategic Perspecves Israel DVD Set (6 sessions) 49.95

The King’s High Way Series Price

The Kingdom, Power & Glory Workbook 12.95

The Kingdom, Power & Glory Leader’s Guide -- Notebook  19.95

Re-Igning the Passion -- DVD (4 hours) 34.95

Reecons of His Image: God’s Purpose for Your Life -- Book 12.95

Never Give Up! -- Book 6.95

Tomorrow May Be Too Late -- Book 6.95

The Key: How to Let Go and Let God -- Book 6.95

The Choice: Hypocrisy or Real Chrisanity? -- Book 6.95

Against the Tide: Geng Beyond Ourselves -- Book 5.95

Why Should I Be The First to Change -- Book (Introductory) 6.95

Private Worship: The Key to Joy -- Book 10.95

The Way of Agape Leader’s Guide -- Notebook 19.95

Be Ye Transformed Leader’s Guide -- Notebook 19.95

Faith in the Night Seasons Leaders Guide -- Notebook 19.95

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Commentaries (plus notes) DWNLD CDROM AUDCD DVD

Genesis (24 sessions) 39.95 44.95 89.95 89.95

Exodus (16 sessions) 34.95 39.95

Levicus (16 sessions) 34.95 39.95Numbers (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

Deuteronomy (16 sessions) 34.95 39.95

Joshua/12 Tribes (16 sessions) 34.95 39.95

Judges (16 sessions) 34.95 39.95

Ruth & Esther (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

I & II Samuel (16 sessions) 34.95 39.95

I & II Kings (16 sessions) 34.95 39.95

I & II Chronicles (16 sessions) 34.95 39.95 69.95 69.95

Ezra & Nehemiah (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95

Job (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95

Psalms (24 sessions) 39.95 44.95 89.95 89.95

Proverbs (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

Ecclesiastes (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95

Song of Songs (5 sessions) -- NEW! 24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

Isaiah (24 sessions)  39.95 44.95

Jeremiah/Lamentaons (24 sessions) 39.95 44.95

Ezekiel (24 sessions) 39.95 44.95 89.95 89.95

Daniel (16 sessions) 34.95 39.95 69.95 69.95

Prophets to the N. Kingdom (13 sess.)  29.95 34.95 59.95 59.95

Prophets to the Genles (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

Prophets to the S. Kingdom (13 sess.) 29.95 34.95 59.95 59.95

Prophets to the Post-Exile (22 sess.) 39.95 44.95

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Mahew (24 sessions)  39.95 44.95 89.95 89.95

Mark (16 sessions) 34.95 39.95 69.95 69.95

Luke (24 sessions) 39.95 44.95 89.95 89.95

John (20 sessions) -- NEW! 34.95 39.95 74.95 74.95

Acts (16 sessions)  34.95 39.95 69.95 69.95

Romans (24 sessions) 39.95 44.95 89.95 89.95

I & II Corinthians (24 sessions)  39.95 44.95

Galaans (8 sessions)  24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

Ephesians (8 sessions)  24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

Philippians (6 sessions) 24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

Colossians (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

I & II Thessalonians (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

I & II Timothy/Titus/Philemon (8 sess) 24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

Hebrews (16 sessions)  34.95 39.95 69.95 69.95

James (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95 44.95

I & II Peter (8 sessions)  24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

I, II, & III John (8 sessions) 24.95 29.95 44.95 44.95

Jude (8 sessions)  24.95 29.95 44.95

Revelaon (24 sessions) 39.95 44.95 89.95 89.95

Enre Old Testament on MP3 CD-ROM 499.00

Enre New Testament on MP3 CD-ROM 399.00

Minor Prophets Set - MP3 CD-ROM 99.95

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Small Group Study Packs (1 DVD set + 6 Wkbks) Price

Addional Workbooks of ________ if buying Sm Grp Pack 9.95

Prophecy 101 Small Group Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 84.95

Learn the Bible/24 Hours Sm. Grp. Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 139.95

Genesis Commentary Small Group Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks)139.95

Numbers Commentary Sm. Grp. Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 94.95

Proverbs Commentary Sm. Grp. Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 94.95

Daniel Commentary Small Group Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 119.95

Prophets N. Kingdom Sm. Grp. Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 109.95

Prophets S. Kingdom Sm. Grp. Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 109.95

Prophets to the Genles Sm. Grp. Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 94.95

Mahew Commentary Sm. Grp. Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 139.95

Mark Commentary Sm. Grp. Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 139.95

Luke Commentary Sm. Grp. Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 139.95

John Commentary Sm. Grp. Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 129.95

Acts Commentary Small Group Pack (1 DVD + 6 Wkbks) 119.95

Comprehensive Study Workbooks PRINT DWNLD

Learn the Bible in 24 Hours  14.95 7.95

Genesis Commentary  14.95 7.95

Numbers Commentary 14.95 7.95

Proverbs Commentary  14.95 7.95

Daniel Commentary 14.95 7.95

Prophets to the N. Kingdom 14.95 7.95

Prophets to the S. Kingdom 14.95 7.95

Prophets to the Genles 14.95 7.95

Mahew Commentary 14.95 7.95

Mark Commentary 14.95 7.95

Luke Commentary  14.95 7.95

John Commentary 14.95 7.95

Acts Commentary 14.95 7.95