Sermon notes of Pastor Mark Downey

Scripture Reading: James 4:7 “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you"

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So I'm going to talk about this unknown cowboy, who, judging by his saddle, side arm and rifle was riding the trails circa 1870 or 1880. On the back of this early photograph is simply inscribed “Indian fighter.” The more I look at this young man, the more I can see the disappearing manhood from our heritage of the Aryan warrior, the rugged individual or even the Phinehas priest. His boyish look of a young King David should not be confused with youthful indiscretions. To the contrary, I see a determined lad living a fearless life of Joshua, with faith in his bloodline, boldly running through his veins. He was fighting the Canaanites of his day, in a wilderness-turning Promised Land. We don't know if he was a Christian, but there's no denying that the New Covenant/Law was written in his heart and mind as it is with every White person. You can tell by looking at him that he feared no evil, even though he may have walked through the valley of Comanches. My grandpa was a cowboy in Montana and my uncles looked up to him and always admired his true grit, living in a sod house and punching cattle in the waning years of open range in a wild west America. My grandpa's father was a captain in the Confederacy and after the war became a Texas Ranger, whose motto was 'The only good Indian is a dead Indian.” Orwellian historians now deny this expression, being entirely politically incorrect, flushed down the memory hole. In fact, the rewriting of history by Chicano lawyers and academics describe the Rangers in the 1979 book 'Gunpowder Justice' with the utmost calumny and contempt, stating their purpose: “to expose the popular image... to scholarly scrutiny and to analyse the reasons why the Texas Rangers have secured a tenaciously favorable reputation in the minds of the American public.” Let me tell you, the American cowboy is admired throughout the world and made its mark in history and we are exposing the modern Canaanite that would take away our heritage.