The USA needs the Black Robe Regiment Again
A letter to Tennessee Church LeadersLeaders of Men,
In the spring of 1775 the British were planning on confiscating the arms stored in Lexington, Massachusetts. Samuel Adams and Paul Revere rode out and asked Reverend Jonas Clarke if the people of Lexington would fight. He replied, not with hope, but with the stalwart conviction that only comes from a true leader, one whose wisdom had prepared him and his community for the road ahead:
“I have trained them for this very hour,
THEY WILL FIGHT”
The Minute Men and Militias of the American Revolution were often congregations. They were sovereign Christian Soldiers inspired by their inalienable God-given liberty, paid for by blood.
Here, in this day, we get to fight by word and ballot only when those who would prefer to fight by bullet and blood know they would lose that contest.
While reading sermons from Jonas and the other Reverends in the Black Robed Regiment, there is a common theme: We are incapable of being in a right relationship with God while living under tyranny. It is for the sake of freedom that you have been set free. Outside of personal liberty, one cannot obey God. The voice of God speaks with radical, dangerous, wild freedom. Christians. As Jefferson and Franklin often said, Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God.
The British viewed these clergymen as key agitators, being a major driving force behind colonial resistance and the fight for their independence. Christian men will save this nation yet again. There isn’t another way. No, you are not hearing me… this is the only way. Without those who say yes to the spiritual lineage of David and his Mighty Men, there is only darkness. Without Christian men carrying the full depth of Yahweh, thee Great I AM, there is only slavery. Without Christian’s moving away from the feminized servitude of the world, there will only be new depths of bondage.
Eve is still handing you the same apple of obedience to another, a snake, a liar. MEN! Be like your God who anointed you with oil, invites you to his table, invigorates you with his spirit, blesses you with his authority, created you in his image, and declared you would do greater things? Why do you think the voice saying, “Who will go for Us?” comes to the lowly household and not the temple? Why do you think the voice called out from the desert and not the synagogue? This same voice calls out in our time: “WHOM SHALL I SEND?” The answer should be bursting out of you with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.
“Here am I, send me.”
At Bunker Hill, the strong conviction of the congregations of New England was so holy, so set apart, they weathered three bayonet charges from the greatest army on earth. The British would never forget the courage and ferocity of these Christian Soldiers. The memory of their holy vengeance would cause the British to blunder in several key moments throughout the war. You are those men's lineage! You are the glory of their testimony.
Like those who longed for Egypt, they do not know the time they are living within. Like in their day, it is our time to escape the bondage of the unjust rulers who hate God. They deny that there is a Lion in the tribe of Judah, that there is a strong right arm, that Warrior is His name, that there are Armies of Angels.
I ask you: What Great Man of God didn’t upset those with authority around them?
Every freedom-loving American can fill a night with conversation about the countless ways our government has violated its oaths of office and usurped its power. Here are a few grievous examples.
During COVID, the bravest Church leaders kept the doors open. We celebrated them like they were great men of renown.This most basic level of resistance should have been unanimous and automatic. Churches should have led the charge to arrest, try those who committed crimes against humanity and conspiracies against our inalienable rights. You are not getting it. Churches in Texas should be patrolling the border. If your city has high areas of crime, your church should patrol those streets. Those who do evil in your communities should GREATLY FEAR the local Church. Not in some ethereal way, but in a very real and practical way.
Without the consent of the governed, our public servants:
Welcomed a 3rd world invasion with purposefully open borders.
Released known killers into your communities.
Knowingly lied about COVID and then mandated their experimental solution.
For God’s sake, 80% of women in their first trimester miscarried, AND THEY KNEW IT. This is Murder.
Coordinated 1st Amendment violations with tech companies.
But we are a virtuous people who love peace and are patient with our fellow countrymen. We have borne many injustices and weathered many persecutions. Through it all, we have held these evildoers at bay by their fear that if they go too far, we will rise up in revolt. It is the ruling elite’s fear of the American people that has blocked the road to serfdom that so many other nations have slid down.
In times of fundamental disagreement, in times of great conflict, what keeps us on the path of peace?
What Madison said is still true:
“The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition... The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed.”
It is time to reestablish the traditions of the Lexington Minutemen and Green Mountain Boys.
It is time for the great counties of this 16th state of our Union to support the training and readiness of the good men of Tennessee and form Militias again.
What I am saying isn’t a new thing. It is getting back to the core of who we are as Americans. As the great Tennessean Davy Crockett said:
"To my mind, the great trouble is that people have gotten away from the true principles of self-defense, and citizens are not armed enough to protect themselves and their property."
We are our father’s sons.
It is the duty of each new generation of Americans to keep sharp that which so many gave their one noble life to secure. If we believe: “blessed are the peacemakers,” then blessed are those who do the hard work it takes to be so blessed, and woe to those who, in foolish apathy and soft surrender, abandon what it takes to realize this blessing.
I am asking the leaders of the 95 counties in Tennessee to call for the formation of County Militias and assist in their training and organization. There can be no greater legacy than to reestablish the principal reason which gave this earth a new birth of freedom, for it wasn’t fancy writing or loud declarations that got the job done; it was good men with the skills of war. It was good men who knew violence well. Fearing good men being dangerous is, in spirit, a violation of every oath of office, and there is no greater way of fulfilling that oath than by supporting good men being dangerous. If we are to be the home of the brave, we had best be good at it; we had better be diligent and trained. Ineffectual bravery is no use to anyone. Mighty Bravery is the hope of nations. Always has been, ever will be.
When good men are weak, evil men fill that void with a corruption that eventually leads to tyranny.
Where good men steward the ability to be dangerous, every good thing under the sun exponentially changes the world.
Has the world seen its last tyrant? Whether in ten, twenty, fifty, or hundreds of years, when tyranny comes again, whether foreign or domestic, we will only find reprieve where the ability of good men to respond has been diligently maintained. If good men are found to be weak, what then? If we do not possess the ability to resist, who then stands up? Who then stands ready? Do we then plunge into a second dark age where there are rulers and subjects? Must we again await the spark that is the spirit of man willing to do anything to be free? Must we wait in chains and bear the great cost of lives and progress when we have already thus far so nobly advanced? How dare we so frivolously invest the spent blood of the brave men before us.
It is the duty of each new generation of Americans to keep sharp that which so many gave their one noble life to secure. This crescendo of liberty, ignited by tea in a harbor, must have our continued dedication to carry it forward, not by slowly surrendering to bureaucrats, but through our increased devotion to the training and readiness it takes to stay free.
If the assassination of Charlie Kirk and subsequent torrent of celebration isn’t a lightning strike of clarity that there is an established and still growing evil in our shared world, I’m not sure anything could be. It wasn’t just Antifa, it was Doctors, Teachers, and Government employees who celebrated the death of a good man, a man far more temperate than most I know.
We are no friends of our forefathers if we do not put action behind what the founders so clearly stated was “necessary to the security of a free State.” All enemies, foreign and domestic, fear an armed citizenry. There is no greater gift we can give the next generation than to build upon our cherished inheritance and shared duty to this highest of virtues, to be found faithful and ready with a lamp lit, ready to preserve our great heritage.
Too many who have called themselves leaders are ashamed of our own Declaration of Independence. Are we not aligned with our founding and committed to its principles? Here in the Volunteer State… yes… yes, we are. We uphold and acknowledge that these same ageless and inalienable truths are just as self-evident now as they were in 1776:
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
If we believe: “blessed are the peacemakers,” then blessed are those who do the hard work it takes to be so blessed, and woe to those who, in foolish apathy and soft surrender, abandon what it takes to realize this blessing.
If there is a time and a place for men to overthrow tyranny, then the time and the place to make ready is ever before us. It is the most American thing there will ever be. Remember, when the British taxed us, we threw tea and wrote letters; when they marched to take our guns, we shot them.
Evil only speaks one language: FEAR.
But whose job is it to ensure that evil lives in fear of goodness? The Soverign King? Standing Armies? It is the right and duty of the American people. As Samuel Adams said after signing the Declaration, “We have this day restored the sovereign.” Above all else, it is the people's responsibility. It is our sovereign duty.
As I said before, if there is a time and a place for good men to overthrow a tyrant, then the time to prepare is now and always. If this Union lasts a thousand years before such events befall our nation, that generation will greatly bless all those who did what it took to keep this right and duty ready and effective.
I am asking the leaders of the 95 counties in Tennessee to call for the formation of County Militias and assist in their training and organization. There can be no greater legacy than to reestablish the principal reason that gave our world a new birth of freedom, for it wasn’t fancy writing or loud declarations that got the job done; it was good men with the skills of war. It was good men who knew violence well. Fearing good men being dangerous is, in spirit, a violation of every oath of office, and there is no greater way of fulfilling that oath than by supporting good men being dangerous. If we are to be the home of the brave, we had best be good at it; we had better be diligent and trained. Ineffectual bravery is no use to anyone. Mighty Bravery is the hope of nations. Always has been, ever will be.
We all hear the call from two perspectives, one from fear, one from faith. Our fear of men is worship to another, and the inaction that comes from it isn’t coddled, comforted, or pardoned; it is treated as what it truly is: wickedness. But you are not wicked, you are good. It is who you have always been and ever wanted to be. What are you waiting for?
Here is the good and bad news. You are accountable for what you just heard. Where what I have said is off the mark, it will fade; where I have spoken true, even if you be like Jonah… it will follow and haunt you the rest of your days.
We will win the WAR we find ourselves in by WORD and not BLOOD, because Christian Men will answer the call.
We are our father’s sons.
Let us honor them as they deserve, by being well-trained, good, and dangerous men.
Peace is found where Mighty Men Make Ready.
Church Leaders, LEAD US
Sincerely,
Samuel S. Adams
Hold Tension, Be Vast.Remember, restoration alone brings victory.