The Common Sense Club

TRUSTING in HORSES”
-by Coach Dave Daubenmire.

Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember
the name of the LORD our God. Psalm 20:7

Sometimes when I sit down to pen a commentary I wish I didn’t
have to. I don’t know why the Lord has laid this yoke upon me, but
I try to be faithful to the gift and the calling that He has put upon
my life. They are irrevocable you know, the gifts and callings of
God, so I might as well embrace the work He has left on my desk.

I can’t explain it but sometimes I feel like I have on a different set
of glasses. Not rose-colored mind you, but more like binoculars
that help me see things that are farther down the road. I can’t explain
it, but I know it to be true.

I have always been amazed by guys who can “fix things”,
mechanically that is. I can spend all morning trying to figure out
how to get my riding lawn-mower operational and then my brother-
in-law pulls up, takes one look at the engine, and diagnosis the
problem. It is his gift, and I sure wish I had it.

But my gift is a little different. Although I have never been to
seminary, or spent time at the feet of great theologians, the Lord
has gifted me with the ability to “connect the dots” in regards to
the application of Biblical principles as they relate to cultural issues.
I think it makes some folks mad, especially the “credentialed
pulpiteers.” I know how they feel. I have experienced the same thing
with my brother-in-law. I’m the guy with all of the degrees yet I can’t
figure out that the spark plug needs cleaned before the engine will
start.

Education without application is like tires without air. One without
the other leaves one feeling a bit flat.

(I’m still not sure I am making myself clear.) Solomon put it this
way.”Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with
all thy getting get understanding.” Wisdom is the application of
knowledge. “Understanding” is the offspring of the union of
application and knowledge.

I remember praying a few years ago “Lord, help me see and
understand things that others don’t see and understand.” I’ll let you
be the judge of whether or not He answered that prayer.

The solutions to the problems facing America are so clear to me.
The cause/effect of our cultural collapse is so easy to diagnose. Like
my brother-in-law has often said to me while working on a piece of
my equipment, “Everything is connected together. All you have to
figure out is where the chain is broken. If it isn’t working there has
to be a reason. Just follow the trail.” Sorry to be simplistic, but that
is how I feel about America. Everything is connected.but we refuse
to follow the trail.

So follow along with me as we lift up the hood, check out the spark
plugs, and see if we can figure out how to get this baby running. It
is my opinion that we are trying to replace the wrong parts. Pardon
the corny phraseology, but we are putting the chariot before the
horse.

“Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember
the name of the LORD our God.”

America’s problems are spiritual, they are not mechanical. We can
not get out of this problem merely by changing the horses (parts).

We have tried that cure before. Substituting Republicans for
Democrats, or liberals for conservatives may change the direction
the chariots are pulled but it gets us no closer to the finish line.
Political parties and politicians are merely the horses that pull the
chariot. Changing them has brought us nothing more than a false
sense of hope. Every election we change a few of the horses, hope
that things will straighten out, and then lament the fact that the
stallions we put into office end up being nothing more than the same
old nag.

Trusting in horses has not worked.

Although the word chariot conjures up thoughts of a carriage in which
someone rides, a chariot was actually a weapon of war as
demonstrated in this video of Charleton Heston in Ben Hur. In our
American constitutional republic the constitution has become the
chariot, the weapon of choice, for those who want to over-throw this
nation. Many patriotic-Americans have labeled themselves
“constitutionalists”, and are trusting in that great founding-document
to win the war against an ever-expanding, all-powerful government.
“If only they would follow the Constitution.”

Although their intentions are good, the reality is that chariot
(constitution) is prisoner to the horses and the direction that they
choose to pull it. No matter how much we love to point out “original
intent,” “separation of powers,” and “government of the people.” the
chariot gets pulled in directions that it was never intended to go. The
Constitution in which we trust is the very weapon that the horses
uses to over-throw the will of the people. Extra-constitutional edicts
such at “the separation between the church and state,” the
“penumbras” of the constitution, and “equal protection” clauses have
run the chariot over those whom it was created to protect.

As long as horses are pulling the chariots there is no hope, and no
sense of generational permanence in that document upon which our
nation was founded. Allowing its clearly spelled-out principles to be
changed at the whim of the latest I-know-better-than-you judge has
caused this foundation stone to be crushed into sand. We all know
what happens when one builds upon sinking sand.

Trusting in chariots has led us into a swamp. The Constitution is not
a stand-alone document. James Madison, the “Father of the
Constitution” said, “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any
other.”

George Washington said “It is impossible to rightly govern a nation
without God and the Bible.”

Some men trust in chariots…

Recently I have been asked to speak at several “Tea-Parties” around
these parts. Word has spread very quickly about the zeal, passion,
and clarity with which I articulate The American View of our national
dilemma. The hearts of men and women are moved as I paint the
picture of the consequences of our national rejection of Jesus. But
my impassioned plea for “remembering the Lord” has tugged on the
bridle of the horses who are not “Christians.”

Some of my recent “invitations” to speak have included a request to
“tone down a bit” the “religious part” because some of the “coalition”
does not hold my same “religious” views. You see, it is easy to
change the horses, or fight with the chariot, than it is to harness the
rebellious heart of individual men and women.

Needless to say, I told them what they can do with the horse they
rode in on.

The god-haters have told us that our Constitution is a “living,
breathing document” designed to change with the times. That
attitude is the same one that gave us “living breathing” marriages
and mortgage contracts. The US Constitution was a contract
between a people and their Creator from whom the rights of the
people had been endowed. A contract is only as good as the people
who sign it.

Funny isn’t it, our once solid American dollar is in a free fall because
the gold that once under girded it has been removed. Remove the
firm foundation and a building is destined for collapse. For over two
centuries the ordinances of God were the pillars upon which this
nation stood. Remove those supports and the Constitution is not
worth the paper it was written on.

“To the kindly influence of Christianity we owe that degree of civil
freedom, and political and social happiness which mankind now
enjoys. . . Whenever the pillars of Christianity shall be overthrown,
our present republican forms of government, and all blessings which
flow from them, must fall with them.” Jedidiah Morse

I know what my brother-in-law would say. “Better firm up that
foundation.” Nothing short of a spiritual transformation can save
this nation.

Some men trust in horses, some men trust in chariots..

We need to remember the name of the Lord. Does any national
leader have the courage to say so?

As I'm sitting here looking over the
news articles today
All that I keep seeing is these politician's keep taking our freedom's away
By the day, By the hour I keep waiting for American's to make a stand
To keep freedom in this great land. 

As the days and hours keep passing by I keep wondering, why
When is enough, enough that American's get fed up?
For these days keep passing and I keep waiting, watching, and praying. 

I look off in this distance and see this
great cloud appear.
It is that the American people no longer live in fear.
They no longer fear the consequences
that may arise
Because, they have brave American's
right by their side 

1 by 1 and 2 by 2 this great awakening bleeds red, white, and blue.

 

BY: JAMES M. ROBERTSON

As I look, off in the distance

I can see a light shinning upon me.

There is a voice that overcomes me.

It says my love will always shine upon thee.

For you must make a stand

For you are given the greatest gift of any free man.

That greatest gift is the land of the free.

 

As I sat there pondering what the voice had meant.

My heart-felt soaking wet.

I did not know what this strange feeling was
building up in me.

I just sat there in disbelief and wondered
how could this be.

 

As the coldness of this feeling kept growing inside me;

I had been faced with so many different tragedies.

The coldness kept getting deeper and deeper within me.

I just kept shaking my head in disbelief.

 

I could not believe what my eyes had just seen.

For the Lord had shown me the greatest tragedy.

America would go through a great suffering.

That most people would their life in disbelief.

 

Until, one day when they open their eyes.

They have lost their freedoms that so many men had

shed their blood to live in the land of the free.

For this freedom, that these Americans

had so gratefully cherished had went away.

Till the children of this great land had all been turned into slaves.

 

Most people could not understand what had happened in this great land.

How they had lost all their freedoms to some communist plan.

Until one day this great awakening had spread all throughout the land

That becoming a slave was never part of their plan

This is the suppose to be land of the free in my home land

 

We all have to stand together so strong and so tall

To never allow freedom in America to fall

Whether that be the communist, socialist, or fascist way

This is the LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE.

 

How to unify the family: 

People today are divided by so many different variables.  That divide does not just happen outside the family it’s brought inside the home.  Once you bring that division into the home the outcome of the division will be separation.   

Do not get me wrong.  It is okay to disagree about your beliefs.

The way that you start unifying the family is by finding the spiritual side within yourself.  The way that you do this is take all of the outside influences our of the picture.   

By doing this you will see a change starting to occur.

Just like if you surrounded yourself if positive people you will start thinking positive about things in life.  The same result will occur within yourself.

I always have to work on doing this within myself.

I believe that by starting at this point it will start change the outcome of your life and your family.