Why Can’t I Get To Heaven Through Good Works?
by JACK WELLMAN · Prison Fellowship
I spent a long time in a discussion with a few people this
week discussing how hard it is to satisfy God's commands and do
what He tells us to do to spend eternity with Him.
**Many people believe that they’re a very good person and that
will bring them to heaven but this is actually false and we can be
thankful that it is.
Our good Works
Good works have their place in the life of the Christian. Salvation
is not one of them. James did say “What good is it, my brothers, if
someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith
save him” (James 2:14) in which he was really saying “faith by it-
self, if it does not have works, is dead” (James 2:17). We are saved
by faith and not works (Eph 2:8-9) but a faith that does work. In
other words, if someone claims to be a Christian and has no works to
show it, then James would ask “Can that faith save him?” No, because
it’s obviously not genuine, saving faith. Of course I am not saying
that we are saved by works but we are saved for works as Paul wrote
there were “good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we
should walk in them” (Eph 2:10).
Why Cant I Get To Heaven Through Good Works
How to get to Heaven
The last statistic I read and backed up by people I talk to is that
almost 90% of people believe they’re a good person and believe they
have done more good to go to heaven. If that were true, I ask them
“then why did Jesus have to die on the cross if you could be good
enough to go to heaven on your own?” We could live a million lives
and do good works in each and every one of them and not be deemed
good enough to go to heaven. Good enough is not good enough to God.
We have to be perfect as the Bible says “nothing unclean will ever
enter it, nor anyone who does what is detestable or false”
(Rev 21:27). It’s not about a plan of salvation but about the Man
of Salvation and that is through Jesus Christ alone because there is
absolutely no other way (Acts 4:12). If there were, God would have
revealed it to us in the Bible but it’s not there! If our works
could get us there, then Jesus died for nothing and He most certain-
ly did not suffer and die for no reason.
Who gets us to Heaven?
It’s not so much of how we get to heaven but Who gets us there. It
is only Jesus Christ and His righteousness that must be imputed to
us because remember, nothing imperfect can ever enter heaven (Rev
21:27) so that leaves us with a huge problem because our sins have
separated us from a holy God (Isaiah 59:2). Here’s how God solved
this problem for us and we read about the solution in 2 Corinthians
5:21 which says that it was “For our sake He made Him to be sin who
knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of
God.” It was not for our sake or our work’s sake but for Jesus’ sake
alone. God sees us as having Jesus’ righteousness and that’s what
it takes.
Why works are Useless
You still want to consider that your good enough to go to heaven by
your good works and that your good will outweigh the bad? Listen to
what God says about our works in Isaiah 64:6, “We have all become
like one who is unclean, and all our righteous deeds are like a pol-
luted garment. We all fade like a leaf, and our iniquities, like the
wind, take us away.” To anyone who says that they’re a good person,
I say that either you are right and the Bible is wrong or you are
wrong and the Bible is right but both can’t be wrong or both can’t
be right. The truth is that the Word says “None is righteous, no,
not one… no one does good, not even one” (Rom 3:10, 12). It's only
"by grace you have been saved through faith. And this isn't your own
doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one
may boast” (Eph 2:7-8) and believe me, if we could boast, we would.
I am glad that works cannot save us because when would we ever have
enough peace of mind to know how many good works was enough? Could
we die peacefully knowing that we’d done enough? No, there is no
peace of mind in that. God made peace with us through Jesus Christ
and “since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God
through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Rom 5:1).
Conclusion
We are saved by grace through faith and not by works. No amount of
good works could ever get us there. Only a good God Who sent His
perfect Son could get us to heaven and that’s by repentance and
faith. There is no way that a good person will ever make it to
heaven on his or her own but only bad people forgiven by a very
good God.
There is positively no other way to get there. Sadly, hell will be
full of self-proclaimed “good people” who brought their works and
filthy rags to hell with them.
May it never be so with you.**
God expects certain things from those who want to spend
eternity in Heaven with Him. Always remember that.
Conservatively,
John
The Future of Affirmative Action…12 November 2023
What's the Future for Affirmative Action in the Workplace?
If race-based discrimination is unconstitutional for college
admissions, how can we continue to allow it in the workplace?
Douglas Andrews
*Now that race-based discrimination has been rightly ruled un-
constitutional in college admissions, what are the odds that such
discrimination will continue to be allowed in the American work-
place?
*Put another way: Is it time to red-line racial discrimination
right out of the office?
It's a great question, and it's now top-of-mind among corporate
lawyers — the folks whose job it is to keep their companies from
getting sued for mega-millions. All of a sudden, "diversity" might
not be a good enough defense for looking at certain people's skin
color and deeming them less desirable in the workplace.
As Fox Business reports: "Federal law prohibits the considera-
tion of race and other protected characteristics like age, religion,
sex — including sexual orientation, gender identity, or pregnancy —
national origin, disability or genetic information in corporate
hiring decisions."
And yet, as Fox Business mealy-mouths it: "Many corporations
have sought to diversify their workforce by trying to recruit qua-
lified candidates from more diverse pools of applicants or through
training programs that offer opportunities to members of groups that
a company believes are underrepresented in their management teams.
Such initiatives are often part of a company's broader diversity,
equity and inclusion (DEI) program."
Here's a tip: Think of "diversity" and "DEI" as euphemisms for
"discrimination." Because that's what they are.
One can imagine both the rage and the despair currently being
felt among the activists in the New York Times's newsroom. Not only
is their president an international embarrassment and a source of
near-constant ridicule, but the policies they've championed and used
to divide Americans for more than a half-century are now, finally,
being rejected as unconstitutional and repudiated by the American
people.
And now, in the wake of last week's landmark Supreme Court dec-
ision striking down race-based discrimination in college admissions,
the writing may be on the wall for the corporate diversicrats, those
racial bean-counters who've made it their mission to ensure proper
numerical representation of the races everywhere except in the NFL
and the NBA and the hip-hop industry.
"The effects on business could be profound," the Times reports.
"Corporate America has embraced diversity, equity and inclusion
policies, particularly in the wake of protests over George Floyd's
killing in 2020. But Thursday's ruling opens the door for employees
— and conservative activists — to bring legal challenges to those
policies." (Is it just us, or does anyone else find it weird that
the Times is conflating the death of George Floyd with race-based
discrimination in the workplace?)
*Newly released reports have now shown that Floyd did NOT die
from his neck being pressured but from a drug overdose.*
Desperate to find a racially discriminatory silver lining in
the dark cloud of color-blindness, the Times trots out the experts:
"Corporate diversity efforts aren't exactly analogous to university
ones, some experts say. The equal protection clause doesn't apply
to private employers, Doug Brayley, a labor law specialist at Ropes
& Gray, told DealBook."
It's an interesting argument to make — and it betrays the weak-
ness of the diversitymongers' hand — when they're reduced to arguing
that the Constitution doesn't prohibit racial discrimination in the
private sector.
DEI though, is big business — really big business. As columnist
Charles Gasparino writes, "It's the acronym for the nearly $10 bil-
lion Diversity, Equity and Inclusion industry."
As to the argument that the Supreme Court didn't rule on DEI
when it struck down racial preferences in college admissions, Gaspa-
rino begs to differ: "Sorry," he says, "my sources who advise cor-
porations on governance issues say the Supremes actually did rule on
DEI since corporate DEI is based on some of the same noxious and now
unconstitutional premises that colleges have used to justify race-
based admissions."
(Affirmative action was a product of the percentage of members
of different races being equally employed but it didn't stop there.
This was similar to Equal Opportunity Employment but it too
was inflated by the Left to have "Equal" take on a new meaning ig-
noring the facts. Facts like only 13% of Americans are African-Amer-
icans, 20% are Hispanic, but 59% are considered White so it is easy
to try to blame whites for holding a majority of jobs.
The deciding factor should be qualifications, ability, and the
knowledge possessed regardless of creed or color because the first
concen of an employer should always be hiring someone who can do
the job without spending a fortune on training.)
Let's see if corporate America agrees. And if not, let the
lawsuits begin.**
According to the Constitution, "All men were created equal".
That simply means that people should strive to prepare themselves
for whatever they aspire to accomplish.
Blaming others for your failures is on you and it is not the
responsibility of others to provide for you unless you physically
are incapable.
God tells us he will protect and provide but we have to ask
for His Grace, Help, and follow His commandments.
Conservatively,
John
How Biden Destroyed the Immigration Laws…5 November 2023
*Here’s How Biden Admin Destroyed Our Immigration Law
Victor Davis Hanson / September 22, 2023
Since early 2021 we have witnessed somewhere between 7 million
and 8 million illegal entries across the now-nonexistent southern
border of the U.S.
The more the border vanished, the more federal immigration law
was rendered inert, and the more Homeland Security Secretary
Alejandro Mayorkas spun fantasies that the “border is secure.” He
is now written off as a veritable “Baghdad Bob” propagandist.
But how and why did the Biden administration destroy immigra-
tion law as we knew it?
The Trump administration’s initial efforts to close the border
had been continually obstructed in the Congress, sabotaged by the
administrative state, and stymied in the courts. Nonetheless, it
finally had secured the border by early 2020.
Yet almost all the Trump administration’s successful initia-
tives were immediately overturned in 2021.
Construction of the wall was abruptly stopped, its projected
trajectory canceled. The disastrous Obama-era “catch and release”
policy of immigration nonenforcement was resurrected.
Prior successful pressure on Mexican President Andres Manuel
Lopez Obrador to stop the deliberate export of his own citizens
northward ceased.
Federal Border Patrol officers were forced to stand down.
New federal subsidies were granted to entice and then support
illegal arrivals.
No one in the Democratic Party objected to the destruction of
the border or the subversion of immigration law.
However, things changed somewhat once swamped southern border
states began to bus or fly a few thousand of their illegal immi-
grants northward to sanctuary city jurisdictions—especially to New
York and Chicago, and even Martha’s Vineyard.
The sanctuary-city “humanists” there who had greenlighted
illegal immigration into the southern states suddenly shrieked.
They were irate after experiencing the concrete consequences of
their own prior abstract border agendas. After all, their nihilism
was always supposed to fall upon distant and ridiculed others.
New York Mayor Eric Adams went from celebrating a few dozen
illegal immigrants bused into Manhattan to blasting his own party
for allowing tens of thousands to swamp his now bankrupt city.
But why did the Biden administration deliberately unleash the
largest influx across the southern border in U.S. history?
The ethnic chauvinists and Democratic Party elites needed new
constituents, given their increasingly unpopular agendas.
They feared that the more legal Latino immigrants assimilated
and integrated into American society, the less happy they became
with left-wing radical abortion, racial, transgender, crime, and
green fixations.
Democratic grandees always had bragged that illegal immigra-
tion would create what they called “The New Democratic Majority” in
“Demography Is Destiny” fashion. Now they slander critics as
“racists” who object to left-wing efforts to use illegal immigra-
tion to turn southwestern red states blue.
Mexico now cannot survive as a modern state without some $60
billion in annual remittances sent by its expatriates in America.
But many illegal immigrants rely on American state and federal
entitlements to free up cash to send home.
Mexico also encourages its own abject poor and often indigen-
ous people from southern Mexico to head north as a safety valve of
sorts. The Mexican government sees these mass exoduses northward
as preferable to the oppressed marching on Mexico City to address
grievances of poverty and racism.
The criminal cartels now de facto run Mexico. An open border
allows them to ship fentanyl northward, earn billions in profits
and kill nearly 100,000 Americans a year. Illegal immigrants pay
cartels additional billions to facilitate their border crossings.
Don’t forget American corporate employers. Record labor non-
participation followed the COVID-19 lockdown. In reaction to the
dearth of American workers, the hospitality, meat packing, social
service, health care, and farming industries were desperate to hire
new—and far cheaper—labor.
Human rights activists insist that the borders themselves are
19th-century relics. And the global poor and oppressed thus have a
human right to enter the affluent West by any means necessary.
Many in the tony suburbs and in universities do not live any-
where near the southern border. So, they pontificate on the assur-
ance that thousands of unaudited illegal immigrants will never
enter their own enclaves or campuses.
The result is elite bottled piety—but not firsthand experience
with the natural consequences of millions chaotically fleeing one
of the poorest countries in the world to pour into the wealthiest.
Without background checks, vaccinations and health audits, legality,
high school diplomas, English facility, skill sets, or capital, the
result is an abject catastrophe.
Polls continue to show that the American people support mea-
sured, diverse, legal, and meritocratic immigration as much as they
oppose mass illegal immigration into their country and the subse-
quent loss of American sovereignty on the border.
They understand what the Biden administration does not: No
nation in history has survived once its borders were destroyed,
once its citizenship was rendered no different from mere residence,
and once its neighbors with impunity undermined its sovereignty.
Ending illegal immigration now depends solely on the American
people overriding the corrupt special interests and leaders who
profit from the current chaos and human misery.*
Since Joe became president, about 6 million illegals have come
into the US, not counting the 'got-aways, ones brought in for sex
trafficking, brought by coyotes and cartels and the ones that don't
pass through the border checks or don't get caught. This is esti-
mated to total about 7-8 million costing American taxpayers in the
billions and Biden still refuses to fix the problem.
Some figures show that 200,000-300,000 illegally enter the US
monthly.
We are in very serious trouble. Democratic cities are nearly
bankruptcy while they NOW scream at the Government for funds.
Hundreds of thousands are getting low income labor jobs as
cheap as half of minimum wage.
We are rapidly becoming a 3rd world country.
Sadly most liberals are not even aware because their corrupt
media just doesn't tell them.
God will save His people. Where do you stand?
Conservatively,
John
The Truth You Know Little or Nothing About…Part 2…29 October 2023
The Truth You Know Little or Nothing About Part 2
The Left began trying to get rid of Trump beginning within
days of his victory in the 2016 election.
There was the Steel Dossier investigation by the DOJ that cost
us millions but turned up nothing so they selected a Special
Prosecutor Mueller) that cost us some $30M and all he found was
evidence that Hillary broke numerous laws but nothing on Trump.
So next they decided to impeach Trump that again found he had
no broken any laws but since they had the House majority, they
decided, "Why not"? More millions wasted.
Pelosi's roll in the increase in the National debt.
While Trump was in office and requested funding for the border
wall, Democrats added billions in pork waste to the request to
inflate the spending as a tool to blame Trump.
During the pandemic Trump made 4 requests for funds and each
was used to steal from the taxpayer. Trump asked for $300B and the
Left forced a bill for $900B. Trump asked for $800B and the Left
would only approve $1.3T, The third one Trump requested $1.1T that
Pelosi inflated that one to $2.2T CARES Act, finally Pelosi tried
to force the HEROES Act of $3.1T. It never passed because much of
the CARES Act funding was never used.
My point is that a very small amount of these Bills actually
gave Americans relief from the pandemic. Very little was actually
requested by President Trump.
So when you think Trump increased the debt by some $7T, the
truth is that He requested only $3.2T and Pelosi forced the other
$4T on the American taxpayers, most of which was spent on the
Arts, NASA, raises for House Reps., Visa extensions for foreign
workers, ballot harvesting, amnesty for DACA aliens, even $25M
Capitol cleaning supplies, and unions. Does that sound like they
were going to help the victims of the Coronavirus?
The Truth of the events of Jan 6.
A challenge of the Electoral Votes was legal but Democrats knew
that if the challenge happened that the truth would be exposed of
of all the illegal events that took place for the previous ten
years but especially the year leading up to and after the 2020
election. Democrats had used the challenge 3 times since the 2000
election when G. Bush won.
Trump said on Jan 6. "Peacefully and Patriotically" go to the
Capitol to have your voices heard. Yet he is being accused of an
insurrection although NO Conservative Trump supporter has ever
attended a rally armed.
All those People Pelosi and the DOJ were well armed with batons,
flash bang grenades, and other things but still accuse Trump's
supporters of creating the chaos. Like I said this was desperation
on the Left to keep the truth hidden.
They have kept hundreds of innocent people in prison because at
this point, they can't fabricate a way out of this corrupt and
illegal scenario they have put themselves in when they know if the
truth is ever exposed they will end up in prison if not worse for
treasonous actions.
The President is the only person authorized to take classified
documents out of the secure skiff where people with proper clearance
can view them. Yet we have Biden, Pelosi, Pense, Obama, Clinton,
and his wife in possession of classified documents.
Classified documents were found in Biden's garage, U Penn offices
financed by China, and in his other home where Hunter lived.
Trump as president could and did declassify many documents before
he left office. Biden, Clinton, Pense, and Obama have never been
charged for any of this but they have fabricated 91 felony charges
against Trump because they are afraid that if he win again he WILL
indict dozens of corrupt Democrats and their minions.
Hunter's laptop he admitted was his but the FBI ignored for
years, until the statute of limitations expired. There is enough
proof on it to put Hunter, Joe, Jill, James, and even Joe's grand
children in prison.
How has Joe destroyed the economy?
Biden has sold off over half, some 350 million barrels of our
Strategic Petroleum Reserves, mostly to China. It was there to use
in the event of a war or emergency for national security, not to
line Joe's pockets. We now have about 340M barrels.
He has manipulated the unemployment numbers by allowing illegal
immigrants to take jobs that Americans would not and pay them less,
in some labor jobs, than half of minimum wage and then having the
states subsidize that with thousands in welfare and other freebies
to avoid being honest with "We the People".
The manipulating of the Labor Participation Rates and the false
job creation numbers that they have adjusted down every month since
last year.
Biden's $1T deficit is now $1.9T but the corrupt media just does
not tell the American people the truth.
The National Debt is about $33.7 trillion dollars.
Since I began this, much has changed.
Home interest rates are 8%, car loans 5-6%, inflation total under
Biden 17%, Home costs are higher than any time before because of the
interest rates.
The Left are so afraid of Trump that they have spent 8 years
and a hundred million dollars trying to find anything to keep him
from running for President since he now leads Biden by 9-10% in
almost every poll.
There is so much more but at least I have documented much of
the corruption of the Left.
Few on the Left even believe in God but know this. As we slip
further into this anti-American and hate-filled, 60 year effort to
make this a socialist/Marxist/communist nation God has made it so
clear that He will have the last word when we reach the end times
and the rapture and all involved will pay for their sins.
Pray for American and the world.
Conservatively,
John
The Truth You Know Little or Nothing About…Part 1…22 October 2023
The Truth You Know Little or Nothing About Part 1
All the things that you know little or nothing of the truth
about how corrupt and misinformed these things have either not
been shared with you or only a cut and pasted version.
Clinton Housing Bubble
Bill Clinton began pushing selling Housing & Urban Develop-
ment Low-income housing to people who could not afford the Fannie
Mae and Freddie Mac government backed loans in the 90s.
Congress forced HUD to give out 57% of their loans to these
families and increased the amount of government backed loans each
year that put more pressure on the lending banks.
When the Democrats (Pelosi & Reid) gained control of both the
the House and Senate in 2006, they began to reduce the portion
that was backed by Fannie and Freddie that forced the banks to go
to the government for bailouts but, in typical form, the Dems had
a need to make Bush look bad so they were reluctant to help the
people which left thousands of families with no home. When the
bubble burst, they got what they wanted, The White House, without
only one goal, carry out their plan to "fundamentally transform
America" into a socialist/communist, Marxist nation.
They recruited Obama, who had no verifiable history who many are
not even sure he is an American, but he sure can lie.
The economy crashed, inflation and the cost of almost everything
was crushing but they do not care about America or her people
but gave them complete control of the government and they worked
very hard at crushing manufacturing, true employment records,
and sought any way to bleed the economy of trillions and sending
millions of jobs to other countries.
Obama illegal Healthcare
Obamacare was designed to be a single payer socialist style of
healthcare that forced millions to lose their doctors and cause
some 160 Million to lose their coverage totally because it would
force insurance companies to shut down. On top of that it did
cause long delays in seeing a doctor and thousands of doctors left
their practice for specialties.
It also had premiums built in that forced anyone that opted
out of the system to pay steep fees for not using Obamacare.
Obama's selling of confiscated weapons to Mexican cartels.
In an operation called Fast and Furious Obama sold some 125,000
weapons confiscated and bought were sold along with many thousands
of pistols. Eventually Obama's scheme got exposed and he created
a cover story that it was plan to follow the weapons to find the
cartels. It was ALL a lie.
H. Clinton's Benghazi Lies with 4 dead Americans
The lies surrounding Hillary's blunder in Benghazi were harder
to believe than Fast and Furious. She claimed that we could not
get help to the embassy before she thought it would be too late.
America has never been a country to leave our soldiers or dead
behind but she didn't even try. If you can find it, seek what the
Libyan Rebels did to the body of our Ambassador after they killed
him and what we had to do to get the bodies of the 4 men that
were guarding the facility back.
Biden's $1B quid pro quo in the Ukraine
Biden's family got over $20M given for access 10 days after
he left office. This was after he held $1B in aid to Ukraine as
hostage until the investigator investigating Biden's son was
fired on camera. Easy to find. We have since learned that Biden's
Crime Family had extorted million from at least 4 other nations
to give them millions using the Biden name and influence to run
their con.
The 2016 Election filled with corruption
There have been dozens of conflicts and proof that the election
was corrupt but Trump targeted the swing states which made the
election results appear that Hillary had a 3M advantage but lost
the Electoral Votes.
The Illegal Steel Dossier
This jewel has been proven that this dossier was paid for by the
Clinton campaign and the Russian collusion was done by the Clinton
syndicate.
The Soros and Big Tech Infusion of Billions into the 2020
Election using drop boxes and Illegal altering of State Election
Laws. They got $400M from B. Gates and more from other Big donors.
There've been dozens of conflicts and proof that the election was
corrupt. From Ballot harvesting to thousands of voters that
had moved, died, never existed, or were sent ballots at addresses
that never existed. There were over 200 ballots sent to a vacant
lot. Then there was the Constitution that gives the legislature of
the states power to set the laws and rules for election procedures
yet the swing states election officials had judges, Attorneys
General, and even liberal governors and Lt. Governors made illegal
changes while the states denied any irregularities.
Truth is that some districts had more votes cast then people on
the voter rolls. Many never verified signatures and many other
situations that would have drastically changed the outcome if the
DOJ and Democrats made an effort to perform a fair, honest and
legal election.
I found that this could take a while so I will do Part 2
next week.
For now, you can see the trend here. They don't want their big
plan and corruption exposed so they have to find a way, legal or
not, to silence Trump and his efforts to restore the country to
the once great that most of us grew up in.
Biden, Soros, Hillary, Obama, and many others are determined
to "Fundamentally Transform America" to a Marxist/Socialist style
nation while Trump only wants to "Make America Great Again" but
fortunately God is on our side. Pray!
Conservatively,
John
You Get What You Pay For…15 October 2023
You Get What You Pay For
By: Bill O'Reilly August 20, 2023
Women are being "erased" in Afghanistan. So says a recent
article on the Daily Chatter website, our foreign news partner.
The Taliban retook the country two years ago this week after
the botched U.S. withdrawal by the Biden administration. Today,
Afghan women cannot be seen in public without a male escort, are
denied education, and have absolutely no rights whatsoever.
That's terrible, of course, but the blame lies with the Afghan
people themselves, who flat-out refused to fight for their own
freedom. America gave them a 20-year window to embrace a civil
society. Collectively, the Afghanis said, "Not interested."
San Francisco is a long way from Kabul, but it's a similar
story. The nation's most liberal city destroyed the two-party system
and is now in a " doom loop" of destruction and abhorrent public
behavior. Left-wing loons run the city and were given power by the
voters. So, who feels sorry for San Franciscans? Not me.
Over to Los Angeles where it's the same story, out of control
crime and disgusting public expositions. DA George Gascon will not
enforce the law, so concerned citizens launched a recall to boot
Gascon out. It failed; not enough voters wanted Gascon to lose his
job.
Say goodbye to Hollywood, as Billy Joel sings.
Angelenos are another voting bloc that has put ideology ahead
of public safety and civility. So, does the city deserve sympathy?
In New York, Governor Kathy Hochul will not rescind the "No
Bail Law," which she could drastically modify by Executive Order.
In fact, Hochul supported the insane policy. Last November, she won
reelection against a law and order Republican, Lee Zeldin.
Governor Hochul would have lost if not for getting 90 percent
of the African-American vote in New York City. Interesting because
the vast majority of violent crime victims in New York are black.
People often blame outside forces like the media, corruption,
and money for political ineptitude. But it's the voters and citizens
who are really at fault.
Thousands of American service people were killed or wounded in
Afghanistan, trying to give those folks a better future.
The Afghans didn't want it, just as millions of Americans don't
really care about safety in their own neighborhoods.
I know that sounds inexplicable, but stupidity and political
fanaticism can bring down any society, including ours.
All Americans should heed this vivid warning. San Francisco,
LA, Chicago, and New York are in atrocious shape. The progressive
movement and voter apathy are the reason.
The adage is "People will eventually get what they deserve."
It's true.*
This behavior is common in over 20 Democratic run cities in
the US and those that can't afford to leave are afraid because of
what the corrupt media tells them about the other 75% of our once
great nation.
The violence is now happening around the world and since Joe
was installed, our economy is being given away to nations that do
nothing to improve their situation since they know that if they
can't get hand outs, they will just board a train, bus, airplane,
or make their way to the US southern border and walk in and then
be handed a phone, food, clothing, and a ticket to whatever city
they choose that the corrupt Biden government will pay for with
our taxes.
Biden doesn't care and nearly half of the American people
believe the lies they are fed by the corrupt media and they let
that corruption think for them, rather than do their own research
to find the truth.
On one hand, they get what they deserve, but they are taking
the patriotic, loyal, Christian, and moral Americans, which would
include any chance of their family and children being given the
wonders and beauty of a free and fair country that they will be
responsible for destroying, out of pure ignorance and lack of love
and caring for one of the few remaining Republics governed BY, Of,
and For the people who have fought and died to keep those virtues.
We have reached the point where it is possible that today only
God can save us from total destruction.
Conservatively,
John
15 Things That Weigh More…8 October 2023
15 Things That Weigh More the Longer You Carry Them
WRITTEN by JOSHUA BECKER / The Epoch Times
If you read this blog regularly, you know I write a lot about
how too much stuff can weigh us down. But this blog has never been
just about cleaning out your garage or donating old clothes. It’s
about removing distractions and lightening the load in every part
of life.
Sometimes what drags us down isn’t a bunch of things in a
closet. It’s what’s going on inside us. Feelings and worries can
weigh a lot too, and the longer you carry them, the heavier they
get.
For example, here are 15 things you might be carrying inside
you that can get pretty heavy over time—especially the longer
you’ve been carrying them.
15 Things That Weigh More the Longer You Carry Them
1. Unforgiveness
Harboring resentment toward someone is like clenching a rock in
your outstretched hand. The longer you hold onto it, the heavier
it feels.
*Forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself, freeing you from that
weight.
2. Debt
Financial debt can be suffocating—and because of interest, it
often increases stress over time. Not dealing with it can result
in a life that feels both tight and limited.
*Address it head-on, create a plan, and relieve that burden.
3. Pride
The weight of our own ego often blinds us to our own faults. Pride
makes us defensive and prevents us from growing. Admitting we don’t
know it all is liberating, lightens our emotional load, and pro-
vides opportunity to find help.
4. Negative Self-Image
Feeling bad about yourself consumes a lot of mental energy. Every
time you look in the mirror and feel discontent, it adds to that
weight.
*The first step toward change is acceptance and love for who you
are now. You’re not perfect—nobody is. But if you’re trying your
best, you deserve more credit than you give yourself.
5. Perfectionism
The constant quest for perfection can be a never-ending cycle that
only sets you up for disappointment. Over time, it steals joy and
adds undue stress to your life.
*Pursue progress, not perfection. After all, the only way to
achieve perfection is to start making progress.
6. Fear of Failure
The fear of failure can paralyze us into inaction. The longer we
hold onto this fear, the more we deprive ourselves of opportunities
for growth and happiness.
*I believe so strongly in the importance of recognizing this dis-
traction, I included an entire chapter on the distraction of fear in
Things That Matter.
7. Procrastination
The burden of tasks left undone can grow heavier each day. They
hang over us, affecting our mood and our confidence.
*Take the first step, no matter how small.
8. Regret
When we live in the past, we carry the weight of our previous
mistakes.
*Learning from them is beneficial, but dwelling on them is detri-
mental.
9. Jealousy
Jealousy often creates a cycle of negative thinking and unproduc-
tive actions. The longer you allow jealousy to linger, the more
it will tarnish your happiness.
*Here’s how to overcome it.
10. Social Comparisons
The need to keep up with others takes a toll. Social media doesn’t
help, as it presents an unattainable standard. Limit your consump-
tion and focus on your own journey.
11. Negativity
Negative thoughts attract negative outcomes. The more you focus on
what could go wrong, the less room you have for positive actions
and reactions.
12. Unfulfilling Relationships
Relationships that don’t add value to our lives end up draining our
energy. Sometimes the healthiest thing to do is to walk away. It is
certainly important that we have relationships where we selflessly
serve and love, but there are times when holding onto a relation-
ship is only adding weight.
13. Guilt and Shame
While they serve as indicators that we’ve done something wrong,
prolonged feelings of guilt and shame can be debilitating. Seek to
make amends, find a remedy, and then let them go.
14. Unresolved Conflict
Conflict that is not dealt with becomes heavier over time. Address
issues directly and honestly, aiming for resolution and a lighter
emotional state.
15. The Need to Be Right
The need to always be right can isolate us and make every inter-
action a power struggle. Being wrong occasionally doesn’t make you
less of a person. In fact, it makes you a smarter one.
If any of these burdens resonate with you, take action today.
Even if it’s a small step, it’s still progress.
I assure you, on the other side of these burdens is a life of
peace, joy, and purpose. So start unloading these weights today
and feel the freedom and lightness that come with it.
Put God in the center of your life and pray.
Conservatively,
John
What You Know and Should Know More About…1 October 2023
What You Know and Should Know More About Part 2.
Picking up where I left off last week.
FBI Raid on Trump Home
In the middle of the morning on August 8, 2022 the FBI, on the
signature of an Obama lawyer, decided to raid President Trump's
Florida home. They proceeded to ransack his home seeking anything
the very open search warrant might find interesting. They went
through Ms. Trump's private clothing. This is normally done an-
nounced and prearranged and the warrant is supposed to be specific.
They claim that Trump had over 300 classified documents but he
also had executive rights to declassify anything he wanted.
They laid out empty classified document covers to appear that
there were actually classified documents. The FBI removed over
14,000 items including his passports, personal communications as
well as photographs and confidential letters that were attorney
client communications.
The NARA had been to Trump's home three times and removed boxes
of documents that Trump had declassified before leaving office.
NARA also removed many boxes and told Trump to put a second lock on
the storage room, which he did and told him that they got what they
needed and then came back weeks later and took part in the raid.
There is no limit on what he could declassify.
To clarify, there were classified documents in Biden's home,
garage, UPenn offices, Hillary's home, Pence's home, none of them
can ever remove classified documents from the Capitol and none of
them were or have been indicted or charged.
All of these stunts were intended to distract Trump from his
plans to campaign to take back his job that he should have never
lost but the Democrats are desperate enough that they must go to
any length to avoid the truth being exposed.
This is over 70 years of corruption on the edge of being exposed
that could put hundreds of people in jail and thousands will lose
their jobs. They lack ethics, patriotism, and even love of their
fellow Americans.
Trump's now been indicted 4 times and charged with 91 violations
that are mostly political motivated and were misdemeanors that they
skewed the law to make them appear as felonies or are past the stat-
ute of limitations.
Trump Indictment #1 Trump Supposedly falsified 31 records
they were claiming Trump was not allowed to pay a debt to a Stormy
Daniels that claimed he had an affair in 2006. (30 Mar 2023)
*I think most of those charges were thrown out today because
the Statute of limitations had expired.
Trump Indictment #2 Classified found in the raid on Trump's
Florida home. I detailed it above. Trump had executive power to
declassify whatever he wanted and he also had the boxes moved from
DC to FL while Trump was still President. The FBI raided his home
with a search warrant that exceeded the legal boundaries.(8 June 23)
Trump Indictment #3 Four charges related to an attempt to
overturn the results of the 2020 election. The reality is that Trump
had a Constitutional right CHALLENGE the Electoral count because 5
states were victims of Democratic manipulating of the laws that the
states legislatures set to control the election process. Because
they disagreed with the count submitted, they had the legal right
to decertify the original count on Jan 6 and submit a new set of
Electors and present them to Congress. The challenge requires each
state, when called have a formal challenge signed by Representatives
and at least one Senator. After that there is a one hour period for
the state to present their reason and evidence and then the Congress
votes to allow the new electors votes or not.
That process was scheduled to begin at 1 pm on Jan 6 and before
any of this could take place, the orchestrated coup by Pelosi, FBI,
DOJ, and hired rioters attacked the Capitol.
The Vice President presides but, for some reason, refused to
proceed with the Challenge. He turned his back on the Republicans.
He failed in his duties. (1 August 2023)
Trump Indictment #4 Georgia Corrupt 2020 Election
They are accusing Trump of trying to overturn the election
based on a call he made to the GA Sec. of State requesting that he
could recount or review the count asking for him to check because
he was 11,700 votes behind Biden. He did not ask him to compromise
his position. Many irregularities have been discovered since.
None of these indictments, if the law was adhered to, would
even make it to an actual trial.
Chinese spy balloon flyovers (4) but Dems claim there were
3 while Trump was in office but I can't imagine the Dems didn't
bring it up until Trump was out of office. Kirby said they were
benign and could be from anywhere but China was pissed. Hummm!
Trump's NY court civil trial began today and the judge seemed
like he was going to dismiss 80% of the charges.
I will try to update this hoax as the "Witch hunt" falls
apart and the truth is released.
Pray that God will keep us safe from the evil overrunning our
once great nation.
Conservatively,
John
What You Do and Should Know…24 September 2023
What you have read about and what has been hidden.
Never before has any President been treated with so much
disrespect, obstruction, and abuse from the corrupt media.
Crossfire Hurricane
This was an FBI investigation trying to accuse Trump of collud-
ing with the Russians in the 2016 election. The truth was that Trump
after a 3 year investigation found no found NO Russian collusion so
Trump in December of 2020 declassified the investigation but to this
day the FBI and Biden still refuse to release the declassified docu-
ments. In 2022 Republican Senators again reminded the Justice Dept.
that the documents have not been release.
They continue to ignore the President's directions.
They did find countless violations from the Clinton campaign
but Comey took it upon himself to declare that he would not recom-
mend indicting Hillary but by then we ALL knew that the DOJ, FBI,
and others were corrupt to the point of ignoring the same illegal
actions but the Left strands above the law. Hillary admitted de-
leting 33,000 emails after she was instructed to not destroy sub-
peonad evidence like the hard drive on her server. She used Bleach-
bit to erase evidence, hammers to destroy phones, as well as untold
number of classified documents that she had NO authority to have.
Mixed in here was 15 false accusations of Trump sexually as-
saulting different women but NONE made it to court except one that
won a case of defamation but that is still being appealed. Not a
single one ever claimed that he touched them.
The Democrats have a habit of judge shopping when they know they
have no case, so the fabricate false charges and pay of witnesses
using threats of destroying them financially.
Mueller Investigation
The Democrats then went after Trump with the Mueller Report. They
began this based upon the Steel Dossier which Mueller denied. Had
he found anything that would connect it to Trump, I am sure he
would have been all over it but history and research has proven
that it was fake and financed by Hillary herself. That dossier
would take pages to cover with all the evidence pointing away from
Trump.
They again accused Trump of colluding with the Russians in the 2016
election. This cost Americans over $30 million.
They accused Trump of conspiracy but there no proof. Tried to accuse
the Trump campaign of colluding with Russians that turned out to be
the Trump Organization researching opening some real estate there
but they never reached any agreement. Trump never went there.
The Democrats even accused Gen. Flynn of colluding except that every
administration has their foreign relations personnel meet and get
familiar with other countries people so they can hit the road run-
ning. He found NO obstruction. It seemed that getting an honest
unbiased investigation would have been futile. Later digging revealed
that both Comey and Mueller were very well connected to the Demo-
cratic Party.
Mueller lied about the proof that Democrats spied on him and his
summary was riddled with lies that have since been proven false. It
is a shame that our own DOJ cannot be trusted.
Trump Impeachment #1 With NO crimes committed by Trump
This proved to be a case of "we have the votes why not impeach"
to hell with having evidence or even giving Trump or his represen-
tatives a chance to defend him or rebut the lies fabricated by
Schiff.
There was no proof of Trump breaking any laws but exposed dozens
that the Democratic Committee committed.
Trump Impeachment #2 Again with NO crimes by Trump
This was based upon Trump's constitutional authority to chal-
lenge the Electoral count from the individual states. Trump also
was within his rights to ask for recounts, checking ballots for
signature and mailing date verifications. There were inconsistent
reporting and recording and transmitting of electronic ballots.
There were many cases of ballot harvesting and ballot stuffing.
There were cases of hundreds of votes being mailed to the same
addresses and some vacant lots. The state legislatures set the
guidelines for elections but in several swing states the governors,
AGs, and election officials had changed some of the rules set by
the legislature to create many voters being disenfranchised but
again the corrupt DOJ looked the other way.
January 6, 2021 Riot
This was the most evil choreographed act of chaos and even to
the level of creating an insurrection surrounded by weeks of plan-
ning to make it appear that Trump had anything to do with it. As
evidence has surfaced, it seems that Pelosi, the Capitol Police,
DOJ, FBI, and as many as 30-50 agents planted into the crowd to
stir up the people they brought in to cause the destruction and
even one veteran murdered by a Capitol Police LT. and a group of
uniformed police beat a woman nearly to death while others were
inviting unarmed Trump supporters to enter the Capitol. Not one of
Trump's supporters was armed or has been at all the rallies he has
held. Then the FBI ran all over the country arresting innocent
Trump supporters and locking them in prison, many who were not
even in Washington during the chaos. They have caused some to die
or commit suicide from abuse or even withholding their life
saving meds.
As each day passes more and more proof surfaces that the entire
Jan. 6, 2021 riot was planned and executed by the Left.
The PA and GA run-off election interference showed us that
rampant corruption took place in these states even to videos showing
the on-screen vote tallies changed by as much as 30K votes and now
we have more clueless, useless Senators keeping the country from
growing and being the Republic that our forefathers created.
I could say so much more about the corruption on the Left side
of our once great nation. I ask you all to do your research and see
just how bad things really are.
I will continue in part 2 next week about the Raid of Trump's
home and the 91 indictments for actions that never happened and
desperation to avoid the results of the truth coming out since they
went "all in" in 2020 because if they lose, thousands will end up
in prison, or in bankruptcy, or even permanently unemployed.
None of them are fulfilling their Oaths of Office and treason
can carry a death sentence.
God is still in charge so we have to ask Him to lead us not
into temptation but deliver us from evil. He says he will save our
nation.
Conservatively,
John
The Washington Post Is Clueless…17 September 2023
The Washington Post Is Clueless
Armstrong Williams / August 24, 2023
The Washington Post ran a front-page story on Aug. 21 that is
incoherent, betrays constitutional ignorance, and misunderstands
the purpose of government, Armstrong Williams says.
A front-page story on Aug. 21 in The Washington Post sounds a
false alarm: “American democracy is cracking. These forces help
explain why,” by Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse.
**The analysis is incoherent, betrays constitutional ignorance,
and misunderstands the purpose of government—not majority rule but
justice secured through checks and balances and separation of
powers, enabling every person an opportunity to march to their own
drummer, fearless of domestic predation or foreign aggression.
The glory of the United States is liberty, not a Leviathan ad-
ministrative state that dulls ambition and protects corporate be-
hemoths by agency regulations navigable only by $2,000-per-hour
elite lawyers.
The United States, of course, is not perfect. Mankind is made
of crooked timber. But it is adorned with the optimal form of gov-
ernment to secure justice than any other on the face of the earth.
Just ask the millions of immigrants yearly who risk life and limb
to enter the United States in search of opportunity and freedom.
The soundtrack of The Washington Post’s fault-finding is the
Constitution’s checks on majority rule. Why these checks should be
scorned is difficult to apprehend.
Thomas Jefferson observed, “An elective despotism was not the
government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded
on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be
so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that
no one could transcend their legal limits, without being effectual-
ly checked and restrained by the others.”
James Madison, father of the Constitution, observed in Federal-
ist 55, “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian
assembly would still have been a mob.”
Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson added in West Virginia
Board of Education v. Barnette (1943):
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain
subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place
them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish
them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right
to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, free-
dom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not
be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
In any event, The Washington Post’s exaltation of majority rule
is insincere. It first castigates the White House, Congress, and
the Supreme Court for not echoing the majority. But then excoriates
state legislatures that do! It deplores the fact that in numerous
states, the “dominant party has been able to move aggressively to
enact its governing priorities.”
Janus-faced, thy name is The Washington Post.
The newspaper deplores the supermajority required to amend the
Constitution to foster stability (two-thirds majorities in the
House and three-fourths of the state legislatures). Is The Washing-
ton Post afflicted with amnesia? Has it forgotten the 18-year-old
voting rights amendment (26th Amendment) ratified on July 1, 1971,
within four months of its submission?
Reporters Balz and Morse applaud the easy changeability of
state constitutions: “Over the history of the country, state con-
stitutions have been amended thousands of times.”
But unlike the United States Constitution, no state constitu-
tion has served as a template for constitutions fashioned by
foreign countries. No state constitution has earned the accolade
the U.S. Constitution elicited from British icon and statesman Lord
Gladstone: “the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time
by the brain and purpose of man.”
Contrary to The Washington Post, the Constitution is our deli-
verance from the nation’s afflictions.
Its abandonment has begotten our cosseted multitrillion-dollar
military-industrial warfare state that has spiked the national debt
past a crushing $32 trillion pursuing fool’s errands in Afghani-
stan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, and Ukraine.
It has begotten a surveillance state demolishing the Fourth
Amendment right to be let alone from government snooping absent
probable cause that crime is afoot.
It has begotten a cycloptic administrative state that daily
pours forth regulations to stifle individual ingenuity and to
shield corporate giants from competition.
Congress routinely delegates limitless legislative powers to
the president and executive agencies where checks and balances are
nonexistent. Executive agencies promulgate an average of 3,000 to
4,500 legislative rules annually—delegation run riot.
Congress persists in limitless giveaways of its legislative
power to escape responsibility for policies that might provoke a
primary challenge. A Congress member’s heaven is an uncontested
election indistinguishable from China or Russia.
The Constitution will be restored only if the American people
vote out of office its countless defectors who currently occupy
the corridors of power. A beginning would be the restoration of
civics as the centerpiece of public education.**
We have been conned out of our Constitutional freedoms by a
group of unelected puppeteers leading the man they installed to
the position through an untold number of anti-American, unethical
means that violated numerous state election laws and then found
themselves backed up to a wall with no way out except to break
even more constitutional laws.
And with all of that they never showed any concern for the
American people or responsible use of the hard-earned taxes paid
by those people.
Don't get me started on the Oath of Office they swore to ad-
here to or dangers of opening the Southern border.
The obvious thing is their hate for America and her people.
We continue to pray that God will still save our land and
His Love and Grace.
Conservatively,
John
