David Phillips

BornAmerican:Oct1961 BornAgainInChrist:Sep1971 UnlawfullyTaxedSince:Nov1977 CMVOperatorSince:Jan1989

[David Phillips @D3715David]

“In the beginning the Word
already existed.
The Word was with God,
and the Word was God.” John 1:1 (NLT)

Every word from God was, is, and is to come.

“Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.” Jesus Christ, The WORD, Matthew 24:35 (NLT)

“What is written in the Scriptures is spoken by the Spirit of God. What is said to one church concerns all the churches, in every place and age.” Matthew Henry on The Revelation 2:7

Here’s what’s important—that was that is that is to come.

“I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don’t tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for me without quitting.
“But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first [*Greek, “you have lost your first love!”]! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.” The Revelation 2:2-5 (NLT)

What love? What works?

“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.” John 17:20-21 (NLT)

“. . . all the believers were meeting together in one place.”

“. . . all the believers lifted their voices together in prayer to God: . . . After this prayer, the meeting place shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. . . . All the believers were united in heart and mind. And they felt that what they owned was not their own, so they shared everything they had. . . .” Acts 2:1; 4:24-35 (NLT)

“I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose.”
1 Corinthians 1:10 (NLT)

“Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate? Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose.
Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. . . .” Philippians 2:1-8 (NLT)

“Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.” 1 Peter 3:8 (NLT)

“Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first.”

[🇺🇸RealRobert🇺🇸 @Real_RobN]

This is:

Sidney Katherine Powell VINDICATED on all accounts by the Texas Fifth Court of Appeals.

After three fucking years of litigation, in a 24-page ruling, the Texas Fifth Court of Appeals ruled that the Texas Bar miserably failed to prove Sidney Powell acted with “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation” in the four lawsuits she filed against the overthrow of the United States government on Nov 3, 2020.

The court highlighted serious deficiencies in the Bar’s filings—even catching the Bar lying.

A: “By its own admission, the Bar misidentified or failed to include multiple exhibits it claims to have relied on in its Second Amended Response.”

B: “The deficiencies go far beyond mislabeling exhibits.”

C: “The Bar not only failed to cite to or argue about any additional documents—the documents are not mentioned at all.”

D: “The court found that the Bar’s response contained numerous defects, including exhibits that did not match the documents described in its filing.

E: “The court concluded that, without competent summary judgment evidence, the Bar failed to meet its burden of proving the disciplinary violations.”

F: “You have to be a damn fool, and abjectly stupid not to see what happened here,” the opinion added.

In other words, for the first time in the history of the Republic, attorneys have been arrested, indicted, prosecuted, persecuted and disbarred—including Rudy Giuliani and, most recently, John Eastman—for simply defending their client, a candidate for the presidency of the United States, no less. Why? So that Democrat operatives could claim that the overthrow of the United States government on November 3, 2020 was —the “most secure election in history”. That’s why!

Every single justice of the California Supreme Court ought to be impeached, prosecuted, and disbarred for fraud and conspiracy.

Sidney Katherine Powell was an Assistant United States Attorney in three judicial districts under nine United States Attorneys from both political parties. She represented the United States in 350 criminal appeals, and represented private parties in another 150, all resulting in more than 180 published decisions. She was the youngest Assistant U.S. Attorney when she began practicing. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and the past president of the Bar Association for the Fifth Federal Circuit and the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers.

Exposing corruption in one of the most powerful and corrupt law enforcement agencies on the planet—the U.S. Department of Justice—Licensed to Lie is a book she prayed she would never have to write.

Licensed to Lie: Exposing Corruption in the Department of Justice is the true story of the strong-arm, illegal, and unethical tactics used by headline-grabbing federal prostitutes in their pursuit of power. Its scope reaches from the U.S. Department of Justice to the U.S. Senate, the FBI, and the White House.

This true story is a scathing attack on corrupt federal prostitutes, the judges who turned a blind eye to these injustices, and one of the most notorious criminals to ever occupy the White House, Barack Obama, who promoted them to powerful political positions.

[David Phillips @D3715David]

@Peripheralpal The punctuation of a period at the end of the story would have been like a nail in their coffin.

[David Phillips @D3715David]

“Good people pass away;
the godly often die before
their time.
But no one seems to care or
wonder why.
No one seems to understand
that God is protecting them
from the evil to come.
For those who follow godly paths
will rest in peace when they
die.” Isaiah 57:1-2 NLT

[David Phillips @D3715David]

“Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.” Genesis 1:9 NLT

From God’s point of view it is still happening just as we see here. And just as all six days are still happening. He is still letting light be just as everything and everybody are still reproducing “after their/his kind.” Genesis 1:2–2:1.
The Seventh Day is prophetic. It was, It is, and It is to come to never end.

“. . . God’s promise of entering His rest still stands, so we ought to tremble with fear that some of you might fail to experience it. For this good news—that God has prepared this rest—has been announced to us just as it was to them. But it did them no good because they didn’t share the faith of those who listened to God [*some manuscripts read: they didn’t combine what they heard with faith]. For only we who believe can enter His rest. As for the others, God said,
“In my anger I took an oath:
‘They will never enter my
place of rest’”
[*Psalm 95:11],
even though this rest has been ready since He made the world. We know it is ready because of the place in the Scriptures where it mentions the seventh day: “On the seventh day God rested from all His work.” [*Genesis 2:2] But in the other passage God said, “They will never enter my place of rest.” [*Psalm 95:11]
So God’s rest is there for people to enter, but those who first heard this good news failed to enter because they disobeyed God. So God set another time for entering His rest, and that time is today. God announced this through David much later in the words already quoted:

“Today when you hear His voice,
don’t harden your hearts.”
[*Psalm 95:7-8]

Now if Joshua had succeeded in giving them this rest, God would not have spoken about another day of rest still to come. So there is a special rest [*or, a Sabbath rest] still waiting for the people of God. For all who have entered into God’s rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall.
For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires. Nothing in all creation is hidden from God. Everything is naked and exposed before His eyes, and He is the one to whom we are accountable.” Hebrews 3:12–4:13 NLT

“If God be infinite in all places, let us not limit Him. Psalm 78:41, ‘They limited the Holy One of Israel.’ It is limiting God to confine Him within the narrow compass of our reason. Reason thinks God must go such a way to work, or the business will never be effected. This is to limit God to our reason, whereas He is infinite, and His ways are past finding out, Romans 11:33. It is limiting God, either to set Him a time, or prescribe Him a method for deliverance. God will be left to His own liberty. He will not be tied to a place, to a time, or to an instrument, which were to limit Him, and then He should not be infinite.” Thomas Watson

From the Infinity point of view: Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning God created the heavens [first ?) as in “the heavenly realms”? (Ephesians 3:10 of Psalm 82?)], and the earth [the epic of human history, mainly and purposefully of Adam — Jesus Christ (Romans 5:12-21; Luke 3:23-38)].”

Genesis 1:1: the Title of the Prologue that is Genesis 1:2 — 2:4a that encompasses Genesis 2:4b — The Revelation 22:5 (Hebrews 1:1-4)

We are still witnessing the manifestation of The Days “after their/his kind” that are perpetual until The Revelation 21:1 that brings us out of To Day, the Sixth Day unto To Morning, the Seventh Day (Hebrews 4:1-4).

[Michael Bradbury @MrMBB333]

SOMETHING IS RISING FROM THE OCEAN

Deep beneath the surface, Earth is putting on one of its rarest displays.

An underwater volcano north of Papua New Guinea has been erupting, and scientists are tracking towering steam plumes, ash, intense heat signatures, and massive floating pumice rafts from space. If the eruption continues, a brand-new island could emerge from the ocean.

New land doesn’t form before our eyes very often, making this one of the most fascinating geological events unfolding anywhere on Earth right now.

👇 If a new island is born from this eruption, what do you think it should be named?

#MrMBB333 #Volcano #Geology #NewIsland

[David Phillips @D3715David]

@AstronomyVibes Believe it or he’ll get his brother Donnie Yen to come Wing Chun yo butt.

[David Phillips @D3715David]

“In the beginning the Word
already existed.
The Word was with God,
and the Word was God.” John 1:1 (NLT)

Every word from God was, is, and is to come.

“Heaven and earth will disappear, but my words will never disappear.” Jesus Christ, The WORD, Matthew 24:35 (NLT)

“What is written in the Scriptures is spoken by the Spirit of God. What is said to one church concerns all the churches, in every place and age.” Matthew Henry on The Revelation 2:7

Here’s what’s important—that was that is that is to come.

“I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don’t tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for me without quitting.
“But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first [*Greek, “you have lost your first love!”]! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.” The Revelation 2:2-5 (NLT)

What love? What works?

“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.” John 17:20-21 (NLT)

“. . . all the believers were meeting together in one place.”

“. . . all the believers lifted their voices together in prayer to God: . . . After this prayer, the meeting place shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. . . . All the believers were united in heart and mind. And they felt that what they owned was not their own, so they shared everything they had. . . .” Acts 2:1; 4:24-35 (NLT)

“I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose.”
1 Corinthians 1:10 (NLT)

“Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate? Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose.
Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. . . .” Philippians 2:1-8 (NLT)

“Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.” 1 Peter 3:8 (NLT)

“Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first.”

[David Phillips @D3715David]

“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as You and I are one—as You are in me, Father, and I am in You. And may they be in us so that the world will believe You sent me.” Jesus of Nazareth, The Christ, John 17:20-21 NLT

[Not Evolution @NotEvolution1]

Plato - Fewer than 210 manuscripts for his existence

Alexander the Great - Fewer than 15 manuscripts

Genghis Khan - Fewer than 10 manuscripts prove for existence

Julius Caesar - Fewer than 10 manuscripts for his

Jesus Christ - Approx. 25,000 manuscripts prove His existence!!

[David Phillips @D3715David]

“By His divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know Him, the One Who called us to Himself by means of His marvelous glory and excellence. And because of His glory and excellence, He has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share His divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.

In view of all this, make every effort to respond to God’s promises. Supplement your faith with a generous provision of moral excellence, and moral excellence with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with patient endurance, and patient endurance with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love for everyone.

The more you grow like this, the more productive and useful you will be in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But those who fail to develop in this way are shortsighted or blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their old sins.” 2 Peter 1:3-9 (NLT)

Concerning the wisdom of Lao Tzu, which also includes the wisdom Confucius, Buddha, etc., etc., . . . :

“God gave Solomon very great wisdom and understanding, and knowledge as vast as the sands of the seashore.
. . .
And kings from every nation sent their ambassadors to listen to the wisdom of Solomon.” 1 Kings 4:29-34 (NLT)

[David Phillips @D3715David]

Ironic that Presidents Lincoln and McKinley were assassinated for using Hamilton’s “American System” to Make America Great Again in their respective histories.
Let’s pray our present president finally succeeds in it and the third time truly is the charm @PrometheanActn

[Today in History @TodayinHistory]

Alexander Hamilton was shot and killed by Vice President Aaron Burr during a pistol duel in New Jersey on this day in 1804.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

In December 1909, at a teachers’ conference in Columbia, South Carolina, a government speaker stood proudly explaining a new federal program for boys.

Young farm boys across the South were receiving seed, land, and agricultural training. Their crops were producing harvests far larger than their fathers had ever managed. Newspapers called it progress. Officials called it a success.

At the back of the room sat a 27-year-old schoolteacher named Marie Cromer.

She taught in a one-room schoolhouse in rural Aiken County. She was the teacher, the principal, the administrator, and often the only educated adult many children saw all week.

She listened quietly.

Then she raised her hand.

“What are we doing for the farm girls?”

That single question — recorded in the meeting notes — would eventually help create one of the largest youth organizations in American history.

Marie knew exactly what life looked like for the girls she taught.

Every spring, many disappeared from school because their families needed them in the fields. Some walked barefoot through summer because shoes cost too much. Most were expected to marry young, raise children young, and depend financially on husbands for the rest of their lives.

Their brothers might inherit land someday.

They would not.

Marie came home from that conference and decided to build something herself.

Without waiting for permission, she organized the Aiken County Girls’ Tomato Club — the first organization of its kind in the United States.

Each girl received tomato seeds, a small one-tenth-acre plot on her family’s land, and something even more revolutionary:

The right to keep every dollar she earned.

Marie also taught them bookkeeping, budgeting, record keeping, crop management, and food preservation. These girls were not being trained to “help” on farms.

They were being trained to run businesses.

In the spring of 1910, forty-seven girls joined.

They planted. Watered. Weeded. Harvested. Canned. Sold.

And for many of them, it was the first money they had ever controlled themselves.

Marie wanted the top student to attend Winthrop College, but she didn’t have the $140 scholarship money needed. So she wrote letters until she found a wealthy winter visitor willing to fund it.

That first year, a girl named Katie Gunter canned 512 jars of tomatoes from her tiny plot and earned a $40 profit — an enormous amount for a rural Southern teenager in 1910.

She won the scholarship.

Within a few years, some girls were earning $70 or $80 from a tenth of an acre — more than many grown men earned sharecropping cotton for an entire year.

Parents who had once dismissed their daughters’ education suddenly began paying attention.

The movement exploded.

Tomato clubs spread across Virginia, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, and beyond. By 1913, more than 20,000 girls across fifteen Southern states were enrolled in similar programs.

The federal government noticed.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture appointed Marie Cromer as one of the first women ever assigned to agricultural field work in federal service.

And the girls themselves understood what was changing.

One participant wrote in 1915:

“The work was long and sometimes tiresome. But I now have a bank account of sixty dollars.”

A teenage farm girl in rural South Carolina.

A bank account.

In her own name.

This was five years before women could even vote nationwide.

In 1914, Congress passed the Smith-Lever Act, combining the tomato clubs, boys’ corn clubs, and related youth programs into a national cooperative extension system.

A decade later, that movement received a new name.

4-H.

Today, nearly six million young people participate in 4-H programs across the United States. Agriculture. Science. Leadership. Public speaking. Entrepreneurship. Community service.

An entire century of opportunity traces back to one teacher sitting quietly in the back of a room asking why girls had been left out.

Marie Cromer never became nationally famous.

She didn’t seek political office. She didn’t tour lecture halls. She didn’t write bestselling books.

She simply saw girls being overlooked and decided that was unacceptable.

In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally recognized her as one of the founders of 4-H.

She died in 1964 at the age of eighty-one.

There is a small historical marker in South Carolina that carries her name.

But her real memorial isn’t a plaque.

It’s every young person who learned they were capable of building something for themselves.

Every child who discovered confidence through leadership.

Every girl who realized earning money, owning skills, and having choices could change the direction of an entire life.

Marie Cromer changed America with one question.

Not shouted from a podium.

Simply raised from the back of the room.

And more than a hundred years later, the country is still answering it.

Before 4-H became a household name, it began with one woman who believed rural girls deserved the same opportunities as boys. This forgotten story is truly unforgettable.

[David Phillips @D3715David]

@YourCalvinist Ahh! That rubbery-ring sound after Larry Joe Davis’ game winning kick when it bounced off the infamous math teacher Miss Turner’s head as she sat on the see-saw frame grading papers. And the playground of East End Elementary went absolutely wild!

[David Phillips @D3715David]

Here’s a commentary-note by William Gurnall on the Law and the Gospel i had marked down that fits this chapter in principle i perceive:

“The needle must enter before the thread with which the cloth is sewed. The sharp point of the
law must prick the conscience before the creature can by the promises of the gospel be drawn to Christ. The field is not fit for the seed to be cast into it till the plough hath broken it up. Nor is
the soul prepared to receive the mercy of the gospel till broken with the terrors of the law.”

[David Phillips @D3715David]

What has struck me over the last several years (especially since “church incorporation” has gained popularity) is the over emphasis and love given over edifices (buildings) that for the most part are only used two days of the week. So much waste. Like the food so many people leave on the plate at the “all you can eat” buffet restaurants. Such a wasteful spirit.

Anyway—i know i’ve posted this in the comments before, but it aims at the heart of the matter i believe:

“What is written in the Scriptures is spoken by the Spirit of God. What is said to one church concerns all the churches, in every place and age.” Matthew Henry on The Revelation 2:7

“I know all the things you do. I have seen your hard work and your patient endurance. I know you don’t tolerate evil people. You have examined the claims of those who say they are apostles but are not. You have discovered they are liars. You have patiently suffered for me without quitting.
“But I have this complaint against you. You don’t love me or each other as you did at first [*Greek, “you have lost your first love!”]! Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first. If you don’t repent, I will come and remove your lampstand from its place among the churches.” The Revelation 2:2-5 (NLT)

What love? What works?

“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. And may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me.” John 17:20-21 (NLT)

“. . . all the believers were meeting together in one place.”

“. . . all the believers lifted their voices together in prayer to God: . . . After this prayer, the meeting place shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit. . . . All the believers were united in heart and mind. And they felt that what they owned was not their own, so they shared everything they had. . . .” Acts 2:1; 4:24-35 (NLT)

“I appeal to you, dear brothers and sisters, by the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, to live in harmony with each other. Let there be no divisions in the church. Rather, be of one mind, united in thought and purpose.”
1 Corinthians 1:10 (NLT)

“Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate? Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose.
Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. . . .” Philippians 2:1-8 (NLT)

“Finally, all of you should be of one mind. Sympathize with each other. Love each other as brothers and sisters. Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.” 1 Peter 3:8 (NLT)

“Look how far you have fallen! Turn back to me and do the works you did at first.”

[David Phillips @D3715David]

Brother?
So there’s two categories of believers, “the living,” the faithful and unfaithful, who are the “sheep” at the LORD’s Right Hand?

But then, aren’t “the goats,” “the dead,” the wicked, at His Left Hand at the Judgment Seat upon His appearing and kingdom resurrected soul and body too to be judged unto the place prepared for the devil and his angels?

(Matthew 25:31-46; 2 Timothy 4:1)?

[David Phillips @D3715David]

@DRMSHPhD “Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, ‘Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons [*Greek, “his angels”].

How many? Time will tell.

[David Phillips @D3715David]

@GioBruno1600 Bruce Dern. He played the part of a low-down back-shooter really good.

[David Phillips @D3715David]

@EndWokeness So . . . did Chris Nolan un-hobbit Page for the role in The Odyssey?

[David Phillips @D3715David]

@GrowingUpRetro In our house “dinner” Monday thru Saturday was called “lunch”
Only on Sunday was “dinner” called “dinner”