day no. 16,231: if they have to ask, your answer can be, "No!"

1 Kings 20:8

And all the elders and all the people said to him, “Do not listen or consent.”

If they have to ask, your answer can be, "No!" Especially if they're asking, "Can we stop asking?" If you never say, "No," they will no longer need to ask. If they ask, "May I take away your ability to say, "No," you should say, "No!" If they ask, "Will you please vote, 'Yes!," for putting an end to voting?" You should say, "No!" If you don't say, "No!" then, you will not be able to say anything later. You will surrender your ability to resist and the kicker will be that it was your own fault. If no one says, "No," everyone will eventually be muted.

You may vote your way into socialism; but you must shoot your way out of it.

If you vote to end all voting, you lose your ability to change your mind later. If you surrender your rights, you won't receive them back. In other words, you can only vote your rights away just the once.

You rights do not originate with you and they aren't distributed to you by the State. The State is not a rights factory. They cannot manufacture rights. Rights originate with God. They are His to give. You have them because He is generous. But if you use your freedom to enslave yourself to sin or the State, you won’t receive more freedom from either of them to get you out of it. If you accept the State's giving or taking away rights, you reject the rights given to you by God. You are free to despise what God has given you and trample it underfoot, but you are not free from the consequences of doing so anymore than a man who joyfully jumps off a cliff is free from the gravity of the situation that follows. If you give your rights to the State or give them the impression that they can manufacture their own, you will never get them back and you will find out just how well State-made products hold up -- which is to say, not very. Keep in mind, these are the same folk who invented the DMV.

You can give yourself over to your lusts, but you cannot get yourself back. You can gain the world, but it will cost you your soul. And what can a person give in exchange for that? How can a person buy back their soul? They can't. Giving yourself over comes to an end. You run out of self to give away and you are possessed entirely by something or someone else.

Our only way ahead is to say, "No" to man and "Yes" to God. For those who've already given in, it is never too late for God to set them free, but it will take an act of God. The prisoner who is in love with his cell cannot be set free any other way.