To All Those Americans Who Love Freedom

March 27, in the year of our Lord 1999

Many people have said that we of the Christian Fellowship are just trying to hide behind the Free exercise clause of the First Amendment to avoid paying taxes or to make it more difficult to collect those taxes. We of The First Christian Fellowship of Eternal Sovereignty take the opposite view and that is that the Federal government has attempted to steal from us the exercise of our religion by imposing taxes in a manner and with rules and regulations that directly violate the teachings and warnings of the Bible, which is the very foundation of the United States Constitution; the common law and the instructions and teachings of the founders of the United States of America.

Alexander Hamilton wrote in The Federalist, No. 79.

In the general course of human nature, A POWER OVER A MAN’S SUBSISTENCE AMOUNTS TO A POWER OVER HIS WILL. (Emphasis by Hamilton)

If you have power over a man’s will then you have the power over his actions if not his beliefs. And what is the Exercise of one’s religion if not his actions in that religion. Webster’s 1828 dictionary defines Exercise: 2. Practice; performance; as the exercise of religion; and 10. Act of divine worship.

Mr. Chief Justice Marshall in M’Culloch v. Maryland, said that the power to tax is the power to destroy.

In Pacific Ins. Co. v. Soule, 7 Wall. 433, 19 L. ed. 95, referring to the unlimited nature of the power of taxation conferred upon Congress, it was observed, “With these exceptions, the exercise of the power is, in all respects, unfettered.”

The exceptions mentioned in the case did not include the limitations set forth by the First Amendment because they did not apply to the case but remember that the Bill of Rights were added specifically to limit the federal government and that limitations extend without question to the powers of taxation since Congress was allowed to make “no law” that would prohibit the free exercise of religion. All taxes are enforced by law.

But what was the meaning of “will” in Hamilton’s generation? (It is interesting to note who Webster quoted as examples of the use of the word “will”).

WEBSTER’S 1828 DICTIONARY:

WILL, noun 1. That faculty of the mind by which we determine either to do or forbear an action; the faculty which is exercised in deciding, among two or more objects, which we shall embrace or pursue. The will is directed or influenced by the judgment. The understanding or reason compares different objects, which operate as motives; the judgment determines which is preferable, and the will decides which to pursue. In other words, we reason with respect to the value or importance of things; we then judge which is to be preferred; and we will to take the most valuable. These are but different operations of the mind, soul, or intellectual part of man. Great disputes have existed respecting the freedom of the will.

Will is often quite a different thing from desire.

A power over a man’s subsistence, amounts to a power over his will.
Federalist, Hamilton.
2. Choice; determination. It is my will to prosecute the trespasser.
3. Choice; discretion; pleasure.
Go, then, the guilty at thy will chastise.
Pope.
4. Command; direction.
Our prayers should be according to the will of God.
Law.
5. Disposition; inclination; desire. “What is your will, Sir?” In this phrase, the word may also signify determination, especially when addressed to a superior.
6. Power; arbitrary disposal.
Deliver me not over to the will of my enemies. Psalm 27.
7. Divine determination; moral purpose or counsel.
Thy will be done.
Lord’s Prayer.

WILL, verb transitive [Saxon willan; Gothic wilyan; Dutch willen; German wollen; Swedish vilja; Danish ville; Latin volo, velle; Greek; French vouloir; Italian volere. The sense is to set, or to set forward, to stretch forward. The sense is well expressed by the Latin propono.]

1. To determine; to decide in the mind that something shall be done or forborne; implying power to carry the purpose into effect. In this manner God wills whatever comes to pass. So in the style of princes; “we will that execution be done.”

A man that sits still is said to be at liberty, because he can walk if he wills it. Locke.

Our will is our thoughts, our actions, our freedom of choice. Without it we are slaves and must follow the will of our master.

Our government has systematically removed us from a God fearing freedom-loving republic to a Satanic socialistic nation of international and hereditary tax slaves. This has been accomplished by slowly increasing taxes coupling them with benefits that make people believe they must have government benefits or they will suffer. In doing so they have made their posterity slaves to the debt they created by accepting those benefits.

Our Founding Fathers said this concerning hereditary bondage:

Honour, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that freedom which we received from our gallant ancestors, and which our innocent posterity have a right to receive from us. We cannot endure the infamy and guilt of resigning succeeding generations to that wretchedness which inevitably awaits them, if we basely entail hereditary bondage upon them.

Our modern government has embraced hereditary bondage and they call it the Social Security System. They say it is a voluntary system and then convince you that it is not. They say there is a Social Security Trust Fund but it is not listed in the US Treasury Department list of trust funds. They promised us that the Social Security Number would never be used as a general numerical identifier but it has become just that and it is believed by many to be the Prophesied numerical identifier, the infamous Mark of Beast. We of the Fellowship believe it is the Mark of the Beast. This system is not authorized by the Constitution. This system has created hereditary bondage based upon a lie. Satan is the father of lies.

To voluntarily accept or keep the Social Security Number; to be forced to pay into such a system; to have withholding taxes taken from our wages before we can render the firstfruits of our wages unto God; is to force us to violate our rights of free exercise of our religion.

To force us to testify against ourselves by signing forms that we know are false. To take our property without due process and/or a Seventh Amendment jury trial. To be denied the safeguards of the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments. To be restricted in courts from telling the whole truth after swearing before God that we will do so. All these combine to create a power over a man’s will by establishing a power over that man’s sustenance. This abuse of the constitutional power to tax literally destroys the man’s ability to worship according to the dictates of his conscience and therefore becomes unconstitutional by the restrictions placed upon the Congress by the First Amendment and a violation of law by the agencies that violate the restrictions defined in the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.

Christ preached the Gospel of Liberty in the Testaments of His Divinity. Our Founding Fathers established a government based on those principles. Christianity does not flourish in a socialist society. Satan is the father of socialism. Satan is Christ’s enemy. We cannot willingly accept Satan’s system and accompanying number and in our Republican form of limited government and even our current power abrogating government does not have the legal authority to take away our free will even if the majority falsely believes it is for the benefit of the political body as a whole.

Thomas Jefferson in 1775 said, “We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.”

We of The First Christian Fellowship of Eternal Sovereignty embrace that philosophy as an integral part of our religious beliefs.

The question before the American people is this: Will we be able to practice our beliefs? Or will we be forced through the government’s power to destroy, its power over the sustenance of man, to control our will and deny us our right to worship Christ?

To the second we shout, “Forbid it all mighty God.”

We submit this to America in the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, Amen

Christopher Holloman Hansen, Presiding Sovereign

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