FORMER PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JESSE JACKSON SR. PLEADS WITH PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN TO PARDON HIS SON, JESSE JACKSON JR., WHO HAS ALREADY SPENT 30 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR FRAUD AS BIDEN PARDONED HIS SON, HUNTER BIDEN.
Pictured: Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. spent 30 months in prison after spending $750,000 in campaign cash on more than 3,000 personal purchases. His father, prominent civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. asked President Joe Biden to pardon his son
DANIEL WHYTE III, PRESIDENT OF GOSPEL LIGHT SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL, SAYS SINCE JOE BIDEN PARDONED HIS SON, HUNTER BIDEN WHEN HE SAID HE WOULD NOT, THE FLOODGATES OF PARDONING AND FORGIVING PEOPLE EVEN FOR REPUBLICANS WHEN TRUMP GETS INTO OFFICE IS WIDE OPEN. OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS, LOOK FOR A BONANZA OF GRACE, PARDONING, AND FORGIVENESS IN BOTH PARTIES. WHYTE SAYS THAT’S A GOOD THING BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE BEEN PARDONED BY GOD IF WE BELIEVE IN HIS SON JESUS CHRIST. “FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.”
The same day President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter, Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. asked the Democrat to extend the same courtesy to his own son.
Pictured: Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. spent 30 months in prison after spending $750,000 in campaign cash on more than 3,000 personal purchases. His father, prominent civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. asked President Joe Biden to pardon his son
Former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. spent 30 months in prison a decade ago after spending around $750,000 in campaign cash on more than 3,000 personal purchases including a Michael Jackson fedora, a Rolex watch and fur coats.
In a two-page letter to Biden, obtained by Politico, the 83-year-old civil rights leader explained away his son’s spending problem.
‘While my son came to Congress with my “big” name, our family had no “big” financial statements for our years of civil and public service,’ Jackson wrote. ‘He had no foundation for living in two places with a family, and over 10 years, he spent funds he raised each year – not taxpayer funds – a total of $75 thousand dollars each year for certain personal and living expenses.’
Jackson and his then-wife Sandi signed plea agreements, with Jackson pleading guilty of fraud, conspiracy, making false statements, mail fraud, wire fraud and criminal forfeiture.
‘Like Hunter, federal investigations begin in one place and always conclude somewhere else,’ the elder Jackson said.
He asked Biden to give his son and former daughter-in-law a ‘full and absolute pardon.’
‘I implore you to consider his full freedom as opposed to his continued sentence in the form of “felonization,”‘ Jackson wrote. ‘I hope that his pardon … would provide for the expungement of his as well as Hunter’s record,’ the civil rights leader added.
Speaking to Politico, Jesse Jackson Jr. confirmed that he had filled out documents for formally request a pardon from Biden – after not doing so with Democratic President Barack Obama after he was released from prison in 2015.
‘I did 30 months in prison. I did what the judge told me to do on behalf of the people. I honored it. I pled guilty. No jury had to find me guilty. So I owned my behavior,’ the younger Jackson said.
‘But the felonization doesn’t end. My marriage ended. My house is near foreclosure. I’m having difficulty getting hired. It doesn’t end,’ he continued, adding that it’s even harder for others to reenter society. ‘It shouldn’t be a life sentence.’
In his letter, Jackson Sr. pushed that spending reform was needed, as maintaining two homes as a member of Congress – one in a home district and then a place to live in Washington – was cost-prohibitive for many American public servants.
‘In addition to your pardon consideration for my son and his former wife, I pray that, some measure of relief and reform may result from this letter for the benefit of all citizens, and those elected citizens who go to Washington, D.C. to serve our country,’ Jackson wrote.
Jackson noted that his son made ‘full financial restitution’ – meaning now the home where his grandchildren reside in Washington, D.C. is near foreclosure.
‘Whether from a position of established wealth or a position of less means, I pray that they find service to the American experiment, a joy and not a burden, as they live in two place, protect and educate their children, and care for their families, while they protect and care for the American family,’ Jackson wrote.
The elder Jackson ended the letter by referencing Hunter again.
‘President Biden, even at this writing, I realize the burden you are carrying with your own son’s future,’ Jackson said. ‘I will keep you in prayer as you weigh the balance of his life and the power of forgiveness.’
Jackson Sr. has been living with Parkinson’s Disease since 2015 and retired last year.
At the time, Biden sent out a statement remarking on their ‘decades of friendship and partnership.’
‘Jill and I are grateful to Reverend Jackson for his lifetime of dedicated service and extend our appreciation to the entire Jackson family,’ Biden said.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on whether Biden would pardon Jackson Jr.
Politico reported Wednesday that Biden’s aides are discussing whether some of President-elect Donald Trump’s politicial foes should get blanket pardons before the Democrat heads out the door on January 20.
Among those named in the story were Sen.-elect Adam Schiff – who said he doesn’t want a preemptive pardon – former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney and Dr. Anthony Fauci, who’s been criticized by Trump’s MAGA allies for the COVID-19 pandemic response.
IF YOU WERE TO DIE TODAY, WHERE WOULD YOU GO: HEAVEN OR HELL? IF YOU’RE NOT SURE, “BELIEVE ON THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THOU SHALT BE SAVED” FOR JESUS CHRIST SAID THE MOST IMPORTANT WORDS EVER SPOKEN IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD WHEN HE SAID, “FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, THAT HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, THAT WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM SHOULD NOT PERISH, BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.” READ FURTHER RIGHT HERE:
THE BIG QUESTION
GOSPEL LIGHT MINUTE X #447 WITH DANIEL WHYTE III
This is the “Chief of sinners,” Daniel Whyte III, president of Gospel Light Society International, with the Gospel Light Minute X Podcast #447 titled, “The Big Question” I’m here to remind you of what the Bible says, that “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners” like you and me.
“HAVE YOU BEEN BORN AGAIN?”
The question is not “Have you joined a church?” or “Are you trying to do your best?” or “Do you have religion?” but “Are you twice-born?” Jesus Christ said in John 3:3, “Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God”.
We enter the physical world by birth. Spiritual life likewise is entered with a birth. We become members of a human family by birth; we become members of the family of God by birth, by being “born again.” There is no other way to get into the human family except by birth, and there is no other way to get into God’s family except by the new birth. Neither education, nor cultivation, nor reformation, nor “turning over a new leaf,” will accomplish this. What is needed is not a new “leaf” but a new “life”! “Ye must be born again” (John 3:7).
A New Nature Needed
By physical birth we become partakers of human nature; by being born again we become “partakers of the divine nature”. A Christian is the product of a divine “begetting”. The second birth is not an improvement of the old nature; it is the imparting of an entirely new nature. The old nature is hopelessly corrupt and incapable of ever being made fit for His presence. The new birth requires a creative act of the Holy Spirit. “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature”.
Not “Trying” But “Trusting”
“Trying to follow Christ” is not Christianity. Christianity is not imitation of Christ, it is the indwelling of Christ. Christianity is not trying to do anything. It is trusting Christ Who has done it all! He has “finished the work” and there is nothing left to do but simply to receive and trust Him. He shed His precious blood on the cross and the work is all done once and forever! Cease trying and begin trusting! Believers will progressively become more and more like Christ, but by His power, not their own.
What Must I Do To Be Saved?
Simply “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible says in 1 John 5:1, “Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God”. The Bible states in John 1:12,13, “As many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God”.
You are born again, you become a Christian by trusting a Person—receiving a Person. The very moment you do this, the Lord Jesus Christ comes in and life begins!
What Is Meant By “Believe”?
To “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ” means more than simply believing the historic facts concerning Him. Intellectual belief about Christ is not sufficient. The belief that brings salvation must be “with the heart,” that is, with the whole being. This belief also includes repentance: “Repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ”. The Bible states in Acts 17:30, “God … now commandeth all men every where to repent”.
The faith which saves, then, includes the necessity to repent, and to receive Christ as Saviour and Lord, to rest upon Him alone for salvation. It means to trust Him so utterly and completely that, if He should fail, there would be no hope at all!
May I Know That I Am Born Again?
This is an important question. We know that we are born again by the testimony of God’s Word. God says in John 5:24, “He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life”. Have you believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as explained by God’s Word? If so, then you are saved, you are “born again,” you have “passed from death unto life.” God says so! Take God at His Word, and go on your way rejoicing!
One Final Word
You may “belong to a church,” you may be “trying to do the best you can,” you may be “striving to live right.” Your outward life may be the model of moral correctness, and you may be looked up to, honored, revered, and respected. Yet, if you have not been “born again” you are just as lost as if you had never heard of Christ. Yes, you may teach in the Sunday school, read the Bible, sing, shout, “feel happy,” and all the rest—but if you have never been “born again” you are still in your sins and a stranger to the Lord Jesus Christ!.
If you want to be saved from the wrath to come and from an eternity in Hell, and if you believe that Jesus Christ suffered, bled, and died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again from the dead and you are willing to trust Jesus Christ with all of your heart so you can go to Heaven, please pray with me what is called the sinner’s prayer: Holy Father God, I acknowledge that I am a sinner and I admit that I have sinned against You and that I have broken Your Ten Commandments. I have lied before. I have stolen things before. I have lusted after people and things before. I have dishonored and disobeyed my parents. I have taken Your holy Name in vain. For Jesus Christ’s sake, please have mercy and grace upon my soul and forgive me of all of my sins, my failures, and my faults. As I now believe in Your Holy Son the Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that He suffered, bled, and died on the cross for my sins, was buried and rose again. Lord Jesus, please come into my heart and save my soul and change my life. Fill me with Your Holy Spirit and help me to repent of my sins past. Help me to turn from my old, evil life and follow You in the new life. For it is in Your Name I pray. Amen.
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