Celebration Time

July 3, 2025
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By Reverend Paul N. Papas II

July 1, 2025

There is plenty to celebrate this July 4th

Common sense has returned.

The biological definition of a woman is back and is part of the Congressional Record.  (1)

Gas and food prices are down.

Largest taxes cuts in history put in place.

Accountability is returning.

Sovereignty is reasserted.

Borders are sealed.

Wars have ended.

Freedoms are returning: Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Religion are key among them.

Freedom to safely travel is returning.

Those who broke in are being returned home.

Women sports are for women only again.  (2)

Charles Stanley says: Freedom is a word with multiple meanings. Some think of it as rights guaranteed by law to all citizens, others might envision release from a debt, responsibility, or illness. But no matter what definition we choose, there’s something inherent in us that yearns for liberty.

When the prophet Isaiah, and later Jesus (see Luke 4:18-19), spoke of “the favorable year of the Lord,” it was a reference to the Year of Jubilee described in Leviticus 25:8-55. During this period, all debts were to be erased, all slaves released, and land returned to its original owners. The Year of Jubilee can be seen as a metaphor for God’s salvation. The greatest freedom we can experience is the forgiveness of our sins, liberation from the strongholds that have held us captive, and the restoration of our relationship with our Maker and His creation.

The Word of God holds many promises of freedom for those who put their trust in Jesus. For example, we have freedom:

• In Christ (John 8:36; Romans 8:2; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:1).

• From sin (Acts 10:43; Romans 6:6-7; 1 Corinthians 10:13).

• From fear (Romans 8:15; Philippians 4:6-7; 2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV).

But with freedom comes responsibility. Getting a driver’s license is exciting because it means the freedom to drive, but you still have to follow rules. Living in a land that has declared independence from other countries means you’re free, but even the freest nation has laws its citizens must obey. For that matter, a person who defies all authority and attempts to live as he or she pleases is still subject to the laws of gravity, nature, biology, time, and the seasons. Similarly, freedom in Christ does not absolve us of responsibility and accountability.

Coming is a process which has begun.  There are those who resist the comeback. Some of them are paid protestors who can’t explain what or why they are protesting and there for their love of money.

At the same time revivals are breaking out as people head back to God. As reliance upon God increases the devil’s bark will increase as his bite looses it power. This is classic battle where good defeats evil again. Our help comes from above.

Keep looking up!

Kool & The Gang – Celebration

Reverend Paul N. Papas II is a Pastoral Counselor with Narrow Path Ministries (MA and AZ) and Founder of the Family Renewal Center AZ) www.narrowpathministries.org  and www.familyrenewalcenteraz.org

References

(1) https://www.wnd.com/2025/06/watch-finally-dems-learn-what-woman-is-after

(2) https://narrowpathministries.wordpress.com/2025/07/02/upenn-surrenders-to-trump-in-big-win-for-women-will-strip-trans-swimmer-lia-thomas-of-all-records-award-victories-to-females-impacted-by-his-inclusion-and-much-more/

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Report Card

July 6, 2023
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By Reverend Paul N. Papas II

July, 4, 2023

Can we rightly report to Ben Franklin that the Republic which we given by our Founding Fathers is a healthy Constitutional Republic or have we devolved into mob rule which is also known as democracy. I invite to decide after reading this and any of the referenced links below whether or not the house has slipped off its foundation. 

‘DEMOCRACY IS TWO WOLVES AND A LAMB VOTING ON WHAT TO HAVE FOR LUNCH’ – has been attributed four quotes about democracy to four different founding fathers: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton.

History does repeat itself. It is wise to know history to learn from it and not repeat it.

The people were getting tired of the overarching rules, regulations, and taxes of the British Crown, perhaps no more so than in Boston where a massacre would occur. So a Tea Party would be held, declarations and Congresses made, then a war with shots ringing out from Princeton to Saratoga to Yorktown.  https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1770.html

Founding Father James Wilson (a signer of both the Declaration and the Constitution, and an original Justice on the U. S. Supreme Court) affirmed:

The defense of one’s self . . . is not, nor can it be, abrogated by any regulation of municipal law. This principle of defense is not confined merely to the person; it extends to the liberty and the property of a man. It is not confined merely to his own person; it extends to the persons of all those to whom he bears a peculiar relation – of his wife, of his parent, of his child. . . . As a man is justified in defending, so he is justified in retaking his property. . . . Man does not exist for the sake of government, but government is instituted for the sake of man.   https://wallbuilders.com/american-revolution-act-biblical-rebellion/ 

Whether we consider natural reason, which tells us, that men, being

once born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to meat and drink, and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence: or

revelation, which gives us an account of those grants God, made of the world to Adam, and to Noah, and his sons, it is very clear, that God, as king David says, Psal. cxv. 16. has given the earth to the children of men; given it to mankind in common.

God, who hath given the world to men in common, hath also given

them reason to make use of it to the best advantage of life, and

convenience. The earth, and all that is therein, is given to men for the

support and comfort of their being.

http://www1.assumption.edu/ahc/1770s/coredivine.html

Many ministers could be singled out to show their significant impact, but the Rev. John Wise, (a clergyman in Massachusetts in the late 1600s and early 1700s) is worthy of special notice. He has been identified as one of the six most influential persons in shaping the American thinking that led to independence.

As early as 1687, the Rev. Wise was teaching that “taxation without representation is tyranny;” the “consent of the people” was the foundation of government, and that “every man must be acknowledged equal to every man.” If this language sounds strikingly similar to that later found in the Declaration of Independence, there is a good reason.

In 1772, with the American War for Independence looming on the horizon, leading patriots reprinted two of Wise’s works (which were distributed by Sons of Liberty, along with others) to reintroduce core Biblical principles of government to the thinking citizens of that day.  The first printing sold so fast that a second reprint was quickly issued, and many of the points made by Wise in that work subsequently appeared four years later in the language of the Declaration of Independence. As historian Benjamin Franklin Morris affirmed in 1864:

[S]ome of the most glittering sentences in the immortal Declaration of Independence are almost literal quotations from this [1772 reprinted] essay of John Wise….It was used as a political text-book in the great struggle for freedom.

Decades later in 1926 when President Calvin Coolidge delivered a speech on the 150th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he similarly acknowledged:

[T]hese thoughts [in the Declaration] can very largely be traced back to what John Wise was writing in 1710. He said, “Every man must be acknowledged equal to every man.” Again, “The end of all good government is to cultivate humanity and promote the happiness of all and the good of every man in all his rights, his life, liberty, estate, honor, and so forth”….His works were reprinted in 1772 and have been declared to have been nothing less than a textbook of liberty for our Revolutionary fathers.

But Wise not only advocated the Biblical principles of civil liberty, he also stood boldly in their defense. For example, when British-appointed Governor Edmund Andros tried to seize the charters of Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Massachusetts, revoke their representative governments, and force the establishment of the British Anglican Church upon them, Wise was a key leader against Andros’ plan. He was imprisoned for his resistance but remained an unflinching voice for freedom, forcefully asserting that representative government was God’s ordained plan in both Church and State.

It was Christian ministers such as John Wise (and scores like him) who, through their writings, countless sermons, and bold leadership not only helped found free governments in America but also laid the intellectual basis for American independence.

Is the house still on the foundation or did it slip off into quicksand? To me it looks as though the house is being swallowed up the quicksand in the swamp. I am positive that together we can put this house back on its proper foundation. Are YOU ready to do so now?

What the Fourth of July is REALLY ABOUT! War of Independence/Boston Tea party/French and Indian War

Reverend Paul N. Papas II is a Pastoral Counselor with Narrow Path Ministries (MA and AZ) and Founder of the Family Renewal Center (AZ) www.narrowpathministries.org  and www.familyrenewalcenteraz.org

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For further reading:

https://americasbesthistory.com/abhtimeline1770.html

https://www.loc.gov/collections/continental-congress-and-constitutional-convention-from-1774-to-1789/articles-and-essays/timeline/1770-to-1772/

https://www.loc.gov/collections/continental-congress-and-constitutional-convention-from-1774-to-1789/articles-and-essays/timeline/1773-to-1774/

https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/american-revolution-1763-1783/overview/

http://nationalblackroberegiment.com/history-of-the-black-robe-regiment/

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A Republic if you can keep it…

December 3, 2020
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By Reverend Paul N. Papas II

December 1, 2020

Eight days before we celebrated the 400th Anniversary of the foundation of freedom, the landing of the Pilgrims, and the structure our government, the Mayflower Compact, we suffered the worst attack upon our Constitutional Republic.

“The first civil act of the Pilgrims after their arrival in Cape Cod Harbor, was to draw up a compact or “combination,” as it is called by Bradford, which was signed by the male members of the company, and became the foundation on which the structure of our government has been built. Under date of Nov. 21st, Mourt’s Relation states that 

“this day, before we came to harbour, observing some not well affected to unity and concord, but gave some appearances of faction, it was thought good there should be an association and agreement, that we should combine together in one body, and to submit to such government and governor as we should, by common consent, agree to make and choose, and set our hands to this that follows, word for word.” (1)

Celebrating 400 Years of Freedom, the Landing of the Pilgrims! The Mayflower Compact- Nov 11, 1620

The cancel culture wants to erase our history. Our history shows that freedom is in our DNA and the DNA of our nation. Freedom comes from God. We started out with the Bible as a text book in our schools. On June 25, 1962 in Engel v.Vitale, the US Supreme Court by an 8-1 vote banned God from our schools.  Our history shows us that even though evil plans of kings and rulers seem to be winning, the Divine hand of God works a counter plan. God is still in Control. The story of our God-given rights is the great missing link to restore our nation again!

The November 3, 2020 attacked upon our Constitutional Republic was planned for years by a group who attempted to install a Communist Chinese puppet government. The media accomplices hid much of the negative information about Beijing’s candidate before the election. When the negative information about the puppet got out over 35% of them said they would not have voted for the puppet had they known the negative information before the election.  The media has decreed the puppet to be the president-elect.

Longtime readers know I am a student of history. I have checked the U.S. Constitution again and can not find any provision therein for the media to degree who an office holder will be.  Please check for yourself (2).

The November 3rd attack can be summarizes as follows: A well funded group of people who enjoyed many decades of corrupt self dealing hated one person because he was elected president in 2016 to end their corrupt self dealing and return the control of the government to the people. The well funded group tried many, many, many avenues to somehow remove the president, even before he was sworn in.  The president exposed and removed portions of the corrupt self dealers every time he found them and could.

Their Nov 3rd attack was designed to simply manufacture, by several means, and post more votes for Beijing’s puppet than for the for the president. Often times votes earned by the president were awarded to Beijing’s puppet. The goal was to proclaim and install Beijing’s puppet as the 46th president. Their corrupt scheme has been brought to light and being unraveled.

The well funded group included parties in several foreign countries, some of whom seek our destruction, with the use of the internet.

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There are a few paths to unwind the mess. The paths unwind the mess and restore trust in our elections again go through civil and criminal judicial processes; have the state legislatures pick the Electors to the Electoral College,  through the US Supreme Court, through the declaration of the elections being declared a national security issue in 2018, and or The Enforcement Act of 1871 codifying portions of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The full extent of the fear, pain, suffering, anxiety, deaths, and suicides caused by the well funded group may never be known.

Many people have already testified about what the well funded group has done. The Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Michigan legislatures have held public hearings to get to the bottom of the mess, correct the mess, and prevent it from happening again. This is not over.

Before you watch the three hearings below I offer my suggestions to prevent any possible reoccurrence of the well funded group’s attack. Years ago we used a simple punch card voting system.  After showing a proper picture ID we were given a ballot, a punch card. The punch card was inserted into the voting machine. The voter made a selection and used the stylus to punch a hole into the card. When the voter finished making selections, the card was removed and put into a secure box which tallied the total number of votes. The secure box was securely transported to location where the votes would be counted.

The box was unlocked and the votes were counted in the full view and presence of the candidate’s representative, a representative from each party, a monitor, and Board of Election, Town or City Clerk or their representative.

The one doing the counting, whether by loading the punch cards into the counting machine or by hand had two set of eyes right behind the counter, close enough to read everything. We always had the paper ballot to validate the count.

Absentee ballots had the signature on the voter registration matched with the one on mailed in envelope.

There was no opportunity for extra or manufactured vote to appear at any time.

Ballots were always secured and never left unattended.

The hearings below ran all day.

The survival of our Constitutional Republic hinges upon fixing this mess and restoring fair and secure elections.  Once our Constitutional Republic is restored healing is next.

Ben Franklin and the other Founding Fathers knew we would have tough days ahead and they gave us the tools to overcome them. We’ll come through this stronger. Let’s keep our Constitutional Republic.

Reverend Paul N. Papas II is a Pastoral Counselor with Narrow Path Ministries (MA and AZ) and Founder of the Family Renewal Center (AZ) www.narrowpathministries.org and www.familyrenewalcenteraz.org

Pennsylvania State Legislature Holds Public Hearing on 2020 Election

Arizona State Legislature Holds Public Hearing on 2020 Election

Michigan State Senate Committee on Oversight Holds Hearing on Election Issues 12/1/20

Then a call for a Special Session in Georgia to address the Election Steal

LIVE: Sidney Powell and Lin Wood Hold Press Conference in Atlanta 12/2/20

Rudy Giuliani and Legal Team Testify to Michigan House Oversight 

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/12/02/rudy-giuliani-and-legal-team-testify-to-michigan-house-oversight-livestream/

Second Georgia Senate election hearing

President Trump National Address on The Election: “The Most Important Speech I Ever Made”

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/12/02/president-trump-national-address-on-the-election-the-most-important-speech-i-ever-made-full-video-and-transcript/


References:

(1) https://www.mayflowercompact.org

(2) https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/full-text


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https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1334569329334083586

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/12/03/stunning-cctv-video-from-fulton-county-georgia-shows-workers-unloading-suitcases-of-ballots-after-monitors-told-to-leave-for-night/