Matthew 7:15-23

“Not everyone who says to me [Jesus], ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name and in your name drive out demons and in your name perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!’”

Inclusivity sounds good. Who isn’t for including people? This is what makes inclusivity the perfect weapon in the devil’s arsenal. It sounds so good. But then you read what Jesus says and you begin to understand that there is a limit to inclusion. Naturally, there is. No one wants to include a pedophile at a preschooler’s birthday party—oh, wait, that’s not true anymore. That’s exactly the kind of thing LGBTQ advocates and leftist politicians want.

It’s not the kind of thing Jesus tolerates. He is not inclusive of the workers of lawlessness. Unrepentant sinners will not inherit the kingdom of God. It is His Law that they work against. Why would they expect to inherit the thing they have rejected? Hubris coupled with willful ignorance. That’s why.

The reality is that we cannot pretend our way into heaven. It may make people feel better in the here and now, in our land of lies, but eventually, each person will stand before the Lord and the truth is that the unrepentant sinner will not be included in eternal life. It doesn’t matter if they said they were Christian or not. The one who knows Jesus knows that He values the Father’s will and that He willingly obeyed it. He delighted in keeping the Law. While we can’t keep the Law perfectly, the Christian wishes he could. That’s our desire. We want to keep the Law. We want to do the Father’s will. And in Christ we do!

The workers of lawlessness don’t. And so, Jesus will say to them, “I never knew you; depart from me, you workers lawlessness.”

To learn more about this may we suggest this week’s episode of Cross Defense (below) and Pastor Bramwell’s Easter Sunrise sermon (below that).

July is the appropriate month to remember that the American flag is America’s flag. That may seem like a strange thing to have to say, but it needs saying nonetheless, at least if we want to be gracious to particular readers. Some of our neighbors, with the help of Eureka’s Times-Standard, were kind enough to expand the Fortitude’s audience. Certainly, we can extend these neighbors courtesy and explain the obvious to those who have proven to be easily confused by what has been historically called common sense.

For the easily flummoxed, the American flag is the one with the blue field of fifty white stars and thirteen red and white stripes. It’s not the rainbow-striped banner that you see all over town. Don’t feel bad if that is what you thought. One could get that mixed up pretty easily these days, especially having just come out of June, which Democrat politicians officially recognize as LGBTQIA+ Pride month. This year your tax dollars paid for the Demon Month flag to fly on every Humboldt County flag pole along with Ol’ Glory. That is bewildering, to say the least. Or maybe you saw that President Biden displayed the evil emblem between two Star-Spangled Banners and concluded that the center flag was the unifying flag of our nation, to which Americans pledge allegiance. No one would blame you for such a conclusion. Or, perhaps our local parades are the source of your confusion. Ferndale’s Fourth of July parade was a great celebration. Ol’ Red, White, and Blue filled—and flanked—Main Street, and even though patriotic hymns were replaced with a mixed tape of surf music, a sense of grateful patriotism was shared by many. However, another parade filled Main Street the week before. Participants in that procession waved their multi-colored flags while a marching band motivated the proletariat protestors to slither with Satan’s sacrilegious Sisters amid signs displaying nonsensical slogans.

So yes, I completely understand if some are confused as to which flag is the symbol of all the people of our land. July’s flag is America’s flag. It’s this flag that stands for all Americans regardless of color, creed, sanity, or inclination to sexual immorality. If you are an American, yours is the flag that flew over Humboldt County long before a porn director and a pedophile prompted Gilbert Baker to rip off God’s Noahic symbol of covenantal peace, which came to him not as the result of sober-minded reflection on sacred truth, but when he “rode the mirrored ball of glittering LSD and love power.” Baker created his flag for the homosexuals’ “new revolution: a tribal, individualistic, and collective vision.” (https://gilbertbaker.com/rainbow-flag-origin-story/)

Tribalism. You don’t say?

Is there any question why our country is divided today?

Tribes of acid-dropping revolutionaries have waged a war on traditional Americans, whose Christian values are the very core of what the LGBTQ are revolting against. I thank the Lord, Jesus Christ, that we live in the land of the free and the home of the brave because ours is a pedigree that knows danger and has proven time and time again that evil cannot prevail over the sacrificial man who lives for God in service to his family, friends, and countrymen.

There are two flags with unifying power flying over our country, county, and city today. Only one is America’s flag. It’s the one Sergeant John Snedder raised on January 30, 1853, after the bugle sounded the “Call to Colors” for the first time in Redwood territory. It’s the one that brought a sense of security and the hope of peace to Ferndale’s settlers—and all the settlers who migrated west—because it symbolized the presence of American troops who would protect their fellow countrymen from hostile soldiers. It’s the one that Colonel R.C. Buchanan flew over the bay when ordered by the United States War Department to establish Fort Humboldt so that peace could prevail between the conquered Indian nations and the American settlers. (Humboldt Historian, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2, March – April 1980.)

As we see these flags flying in our skies, my prayer is that every Ferndaler would remember which flag is America’s flag so that we may live by the values that gave birth to the one that flies for virtue and valor and not the one that stands for the vile vice of self-made victims revolting in a psychedelic perversion of love.

I am your servant in Christ,

Rev. Tyrel Bramwell

2 Corinthians 12:10

If you would like to learn more about the values that gave birth to the United States of America, I can be reached via the contact page. If you would like to share this pamphlet with news outlets throughout the county, we thank you for helping us expand the readership of the Ferndale Fortitude.