Civil Suit over Barmore shooting death prove that you cannot serve two Masters
You
can get no more evident that how we currently live today is to pleasing to God
than to have a church file a lawsuit against the city of Rockford, IL when the
Bible clearly tells us that Christians do not sue another. Now maybe some will say that the city of
Rockford is not a Christian because it is not a person then we can say the same
about the church, can we not? Some may
say that the children who was present during that shooting has been scarred for
life and deserve some sort of compensation for their duress, pain and suffering
but I say if you are attempting or had been attempting to teach these children
the true word of God at this daycare then why not show them the ultimate lesson
that Jesus shared with us, turn the other cheek.
The
title of the article is “Trial nears
in Rockford civil suit over Mark Anthony Barmore shooting death” and it
reports that “a trial in a lawsuit
stemming from the officer-involved shooting death of Mark Anthony Barmore could
begin in March, nearly seven years after the unarmed man was killed in the
basement day care of a predominantly black church in downtown Rockford. The civil suit was filed years ago on behalf
of the Kingdom Authority International Ministries Church, the Brown family that
operates it and about a dozen of the children who were in the House of Grace
basement day care on Aug. 24, 2009. Barmore, 23, was shot and killed that day
during a confrontation with police. The
lawsuit seeks compensation from the city for the emotional distress suffered by
the children and day care operators who were present during the shooting and
the loss of revenue to the church after the shooting. Rev. Melvin Brown said the trial threatens to
reopen old wounds in a case that divided the city. "I wish the city of Rockford, with all
the healing that we have tried to make, the city would have settled,"
Brown said. "This is going to open a new can of worms. A lot of truth will
come out." Without admitting fault,
the city in December 2014 settled a $1.1 million wrongful death lawsuit with
the Barmore estate. But no money went to the children who were in the day care
at the time of the shooting”.
Now
if your true master was God, you would pray for relief, turn the other cheek
and move only to show all who listens and watches how wonderful God truly is
but if you true master is man, you would do exactly what this church is doing
and trying to collect money for damages they did not suffer because of this
shooting but damages that they brought on themselves because of their choice to
try and serve two masters. Having lived
directly across the street from this establishment, some call a church; I can
safely say these things not because I think them but because I witnessed
them. They filed a lawsuit on behalf of
a church when anyone who really can read knows that the only true church is the
church of the soul and nothing man-made will ever be of God. So suing on behalf of a church shows that
your true master is not God. Secondly, the
say this suit is on behalf of the Brown Family but I fail to see just how this
shooting ever involved them except for the fact that they were present but how
many more of us has been present at shootings before. Being around a shooting is never grounds for
suing and if it is then all those veterans who served in a combat zone should
also be allowed to sue not only the United States but the government of the
country in which they fought. The brown
Family is supposed to be teaching the word of God and if anyone can tell me
where God teaches his children to sue please clue me in. Third, they say this is all about the
children who were there. I’d say that
maybe the fault on the children not being led from that environment may have
been a police matter, but it also could be the matter of those adults who were
present and also failed to act responsibly.
In case the police department failed in securing the children and
quickly while quietly getting them out of harm’s way, the responsibility of
that then fell to the adults present.
Failure to act properly by those adults can minimize the total
responsibility of the police and reduce their liability since those children
were left in the hands of those adults and not left in the hands of the city of
Rockford Police Department by those children’s parents.
This
is what attempting to serve two masters gets you. Nothing but complete confusion and evil wins
every time because we become so misdirected and unfocused on what we believe is
pleasing to God. Each and every time,
evil is able to take our focus away from God, evil is successful in taking our
eye off the sparrow, we lose and then we have the audacity to wonder how so
many people became atheist and do not believe anymore. Perhaps it is because we try and serve two
masters instead of trying to serve only one.
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