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EXPLANATION OF LIFE PURPOSE
The perfect law of liberty[1] born at the cross and the resurrection of Jesus Christ in A.D. 33
changed the world for good. Before His ascension to take the Throne He gifted the world with
two kinds of liberty, both of them internal to the individual:
• Spiritual liberty (freedom from sin)
• Liberty of conscience
Gospel liberty advancing for 1,789 years including 700 years of constitutional reasoning, gave
birth to man's best law of liberty of the United States Constitution, protecting at least four
kinds of liberty external to the individual:
• Religious liberty
• Economic liberty
• Civil liberty
• Political liberty
The U.S. Constitution is the best expression of civil government in all the world[2].
Americans are afforded the greatest individual liberty under law. The Constitution is the strike
of balance between the extreme of tyrannical rulers law and the extreme of anarchist without
law. The Constitution is just enough law necessary to protect individual life, liberty, and
property from those who would seek to steal, kill, and destroy these unalienable Rights. These
just claims are endowed by Jesus Christ, the Supreme Benevolent Ruler over all men and
nations.
MY STORY
I am a second-generation American whose family is America’s melting pot: the first-born son
to my Turkish immigrant father, Scottish immigrant mother and husband to my Japanese wife. 
After two years’ service in the U.S. Army in Germany, I served ten years in the National
Guard and Reserves in my native Oregon.  I founded and for 26 years operated a building
maintenance company.  A student of America’s Christian history and government for two
decades, I have spent 15 years home-educating my five children in the art of Christian self-
government and Christian liberty to sustain the American constitutional federal republic.
My life summed up after 50 years of American citizenship, 30+ years of Christian service, and
26 years of private contracting is thus:
My unalienable gifts to Liberty and Property, endowed by Christ and protected by the U.S.
Constitution have repeatedly and severely been violated and criminalized by
Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty
• Worldly business leaders
✓ my marketplace solutions are not honored but slandered
✓ theft of my reputation
✓ Satanic ethics by Believer and unbeliever alike
✓ the masses enriching the rival deity of worldly business
• Oppressive religious leaders
✓ my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is neutralized and diminished
✓ my contribution to the building up of the body of Christ is opposed by men
impersonating ministers of Christ 	

✓ thus representing the rival deity of institutional religion
• Tyrannical civil servants
✓ legalized theft of the property of my labor
✓ my good works to provide for family and employees is unlawfully regulated through
	

 administrative law
✓ the right to contract abolished
✓ meddlers rather than keepers of the peace
✓ forced under the threat of civil penalty to aggrandize the rival deity of state
Christ’s gift of my individual liberty has been trampled upon as if He never entered the world
—the resurrection made a mockery. I live in a pagan land (Satan ruling) where men and
women in business, church, and state control and regulate virtually every area of my life
purpose and living—making themselves out to be false gods.
Such expressions of authority are unlawful and bear no obligation upon me as a disciple of
Christ to obey them for that would be giving way to wickedness and idolatry.[3] Rather,
reprove and expose unfruitful works of darkness.[4] The witness of history testifies that you
never, never, never submit to unlawful authority—doing so violates the absolute authority of
Christ that He owns and governs everything.
History proves that people don’t break God’s law of liberty; God’s law of liberty breaks them.
LIBERATED TO OBEY THE LAW
In 2012, I cut off every entanglement[5] of unlawful authority in my life. I exited the
American matrix of:
• entangling house and land ownership
• entangling and invasive business ownership
• oppressive institutional church membership
Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty
• unlawful and invasive civil authority
Commencing 2015 at age 50, I am rebuilding my life on the exclusive terms of the perfect law
of liberty in Jesus Christ because He is my head. The quality and care of individual, family,
business and church life are my responsibility. Not another man or woman, entity, institution,
jurisdiction, bureaucracy, creed, et al.
Such building of personal and professional life finds protection under man’s best law of liberty
of the United States Constitution.
Therefore, according to the spirit of law codified in the Declaration of Independence, I uphold
the letter of Supreme law in America, the U.S. Constitution. It is the people’s law. “We the
People…do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America.[6]
I am liberated to live an abundant life—following the example of the freest man who ever
lived, Jesus Christ. I no longer serve to aggrandize pagan business, church, and state interests.
My life purpose exists independently of these spheres of legitimate authority, whose purpose is
to do good and not evil in harmony with eternal laws and principles gleaned from the pages of
Scripture and history, and in full compliance with the U.S. Constitution.
ARE YOU AN AUTHENTIC OR SYNTHETIC AMERICAN?
The original intent of an American is to experience Constitutional freedom: exercising,
promoting, and defending at least four kinds of external liberty.
The original intent of an American Christian is to live the fullest expression of individual
liberty as divinely empowered by the two-fold reality of Christ’s gospel—spiritual liberty and
liberty of conscience.
To live in harmony with God’s perfect law of liberty in Jesus Christ and man’s best law of
liberty of the U.S. Constitution. Anything less is a counterfeit and bastard of what is an
American. Here is what will make America great again! Here is how America is a light to the
nations.
A MAN IS HIS MESSAGE—EXPERIENCE PREVAILS OVER BOOK KNOWLEDGE
Barry Durmaz is now transformed by obeying the Sacred Fire of Liberty.
Life is war, and the natural condition of the garden is not beautiful flowers but weeds.
Virtually everything around you is in opposition to you living in full harmony with your life
purpose and mission.
When I approached business and church leaders for help with problems, their book knowledge
rendered them impotent. Consequently, they left me alongside the road of life for half-dead to
the point of murdered in non-material ways for simply being myself. That is how wicked the
Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty
opposition works to suppress your unique life purpose. The exceptionally good news,
however, is that I have prevailed over such darkness by the liberating power of resurrection
life.
To lead you on the path of the sacred fire of liberty, you want someone who has been in the
fight and continues to train everyday; who is intimate with the tactics of the enemy and can
prevail over them. I have scars for being in that fight of faith to exercise, promote, and defend
humanity’s greatest need—Liberty.
Navigating the opposition peacefully is the key to mastering the art of fighting without
fighting.
Until your freed of invisible chains that bind you from fulfilling your life purpose, the gift of
your time and talents are being squandered. Your destiny is on a detour over a cliff.
My life is transformed by following the sacred fire of liberty, and I will help you experience
the same because...
...your greatest need is Liberty!
WAYS I CAN HELP YOU
I believe the best way to start a new relationship is by giving. Contact me today for a
complimentary 45-minute Discovery and Dialogue. We will explore problems you're
experiencing whether I am the right person to work with you, your expectations, my
expectations, and how to get started to fulfill your one-of-a-kind life purpose and mission.
Specific projects we can work on
⁃ Discovering your life purpose
⁃ Gaining control over all your commitments
⁃ Eliminating stress through trusted management systems
⁃ Automating of pesky repetitive tasks
⁃ Entire household and business organization
⁃ Project management
⁃ Transformational communication practices
⁃ Ethically neutralize public safety officers for meddling with your liberty
⁃ Child training for greater peace and productivity
⁃ Overcome debilitating relationship problems
⁃ Identify, strategize, and eliminate entanglements of men
⁃ Ethically defy discrimination laws to hire the exact person you need
⁃ Stop using Social Security Number to regain lost liberty
⁃ Spiritual/Devotional life training & accountability
⁃ English language mastery training
Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty
⁃ Article writing
⁃ Proofreading documents
⁃ Marketing
⁃ All-around liberty living
•  Connect with me on LinkedIn     
•  Follow me on Twitter   
•  Like me on Facebook	

•  Add me on Google+
Liberty@ChristAndTheConstitution.com
804-396-2526
1 Luke 4:18-19; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:1 & 13
2 “[America] has in its keeping ‘the last word in human political institutions,’ — the Republican form of
Government.” Richard Frothingham, Rise of the Republic of the United States, 1890
“…the most perfect federal constitution that ever existed…” Alexis de Tocqueville; Democracy in America,
Chapter 8
3 “Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good,
and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for
he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices
evil” Romans 13:3-4
“But this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealthy to spy out our liberty
which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage), to whom we did not yield submission even
for an hour, that the truth of the gospel mighty continue with you.” Galatians 2:3-4
“God has always preserved freedom, and the power of self-government in man.” “And for this reason too,
magistrates themselves, having laws as a clothing of righteousness whenever they act in a just and legitimate
manner, shall not be called in question for their conduct, nor be liable to punishment. But whatsoever they do to
the subversion of justice, iniquitously, and impiously, and illegally, and tyrannically, in these things shall they
also perish; for the just judgment of God comes equally upon all, and in no case is defective.” Irenaeus, Against
Heresies
Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty
“Well, if I have found what your law prohibits to be good, as one who has arrived at such a previous opinion, has
it not lost its power to debar me from it, though that very thing, if it were evil, it would justly forbid to me? If your
law has gone wrong, it is of human origin ... nor does a citizen render a true subjection to the law, if he does not
know the nature of the thing on which the punishment is inflicted. It is not enough that a law is just, nor that the
judge should be convinced of its justice; those from whom obedience is expected should have that conviction too.
Nay, a law lies under strong suspicions which does not care to have itself tried and approved: it is a positively
wicked law, if, unproved, it tyrannizes over men.” Tertullian
“A law, properly speaking, regards first and foremost the order to the common good. Now to order anything to
the common good, belongs either to the whole people, or to someone who is the viceregent of the whole people.
And therefore the making of a law belongs either to the whole people or to a public personage who has care of
the whole people: since in all other matters the directing of anything to the end concerns him to whom the end
belongs.” Thomas Aquinas; Summa Theologica
4 “You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles
himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.” 2 Timothy 2:3-4
Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty

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Declaration of Life Purpose & Proposal

  • 1. EXPLANATION OF LIFE PURPOSE The perfect law of liberty[1] born at the cross and the resurrection of Jesus Christ in A.D. 33 changed the world for good. Before His ascension to take the Throne He gifted the world with two kinds of liberty, both of them internal to the individual: • Spiritual liberty (freedom from sin) • Liberty of conscience Gospel liberty advancing for 1,789 years including 700 years of constitutional reasoning, gave birth to man's best law of liberty of the United States Constitution, protecting at least four kinds of liberty external to the individual: • Religious liberty • Economic liberty • Civil liberty • Political liberty The U.S. Constitution is the best expression of civil government in all the world[2]. Americans are afforded the greatest individual liberty under law. The Constitution is the strike of balance between the extreme of tyrannical rulers law and the extreme of anarchist without law. The Constitution is just enough law necessary to protect individual life, liberty, and property from those who would seek to steal, kill, and destroy these unalienable Rights. These just claims are endowed by Jesus Christ, the Supreme Benevolent Ruler over all men and nations. MY STORY I am a second-generation American whose family is America’s melting pot: the first-born son to my Turkish immigrant father, Scottish immigrant mother and husband to my Japanese wife.  After two years’ service in the U.S. Army in Germany, I served ten years in the National Guard and Reserves in my native Oregon.  I founded and for 26 years operated a building maintenance company.  A student of America’s Christian history and government for two decades, I have spent 15 years home-educating my five children in the art of Christian self- government and Christian liberty to sustain the American constitutional federal republic. My life summed up after 50 years of American citizenship, 30+ years of Christian service, and 26 years of private contracting is thus: My unalienable gifts to Liberty and Property, endowed by Christ and protected by the U.S. Constitution have repeatedly and severely been violated and criminalized by Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty
  • 2. • Worldly business leaders ✓ my marketplace solutions are not honored but slandered ✓ theft of my reputation ✓ Satanic ethics by Believer and unbeliever alike ✓ the masses enriching the rival deity of worldly business • Oppressive religious leaders ✓ my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is neutralized and diminished ✓ my contribution to the building up of the body of Christ is opposed by men impersonating ministers of Christ ✓ thus representing the rival deity of institutional religion • Tyrannical civil servants ✓ legalized theft of the property of my labor ✓ my good works to provide for family and employees is unlawfully regulated through administrative law ✓ the right to contract abolished ✓ meddlers rather than keepers of the peace ✓ forced under the threat of civil penalty to aggrandize the rival deity of state Christ’s gift of my individual liberty has been trampled upon as if He never entered the world —the resurrection made a mockery. I live in a pagan land (Satan ruling) where men and women in business, church, and state control and regulate virtually every area of my life purpose and living—making themselves out to be false gods. Such expressions of authority are unlawful and bear no obligation upon me as a disciple of Christ to obey them for that would be giving way to wickedness and idolatry.[3] Rather, reprove and expose unfruitful works of darkness.[4] The witness of history testifies that you never, never, never submit to unlawful authority—doing so violates the absolute authority of Christ that He owns and governs everything. History proves that people don’t break God’s law of liberty; God’s law of liberty breaks them. LIBERATED TO OBEY THE LAW In 2012, I cut off every entanglement[5] of unlawful authority in my life. I exited the American matrix of: • entangling house and land ownership • entangling and invasive business ownership • oppressive institutional church membership Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty
  • 3. • unlawful and invasive civil authority Commencing 2015 at age 50, I am rebuilding my life on the exclusive terms of the perfect law of liberty in Jesus Christ because He is my head. The quality and care of individual, family, business and church life are my responsibility. Not another man or woman, entity, institution, jurisdiction, bureaucracy, creed, et al. Such building of personal and professional life finds protection under man’s best law of liberty of the United States Constitution. Therefore, according to the spirit of law codified in the Declaration of Independence, I uphold the letter of Supreme law in America, the U.S. Constitution. It is the people’s law. “We the People…do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America.[6] I am liberated to live an abundant life—following the example of the freest man who ever lived, Jesus Christ. I no longer serve to aggrandize pagan business, church, and state interests. My life purpose exists independently of these spheres of legitimate authority, whose purpose is to do good and not evil in harmony with eternal laws and principles gleaned from the pages of Scripture and history, and in full compliance with the U.S. Constitution. ARE YOU AN AUTHENTIC OR SYNTHETIC AMERICAN? The original intent of an American is to experience Constitutional freedom: exercising, promoting, and defending at least four kinds of external liberty. The original intent of an American Christian is to live the fullest expression of individual liberty as divinely empowered by the two-fold reality of Christ’s gospel—spiritual liberty and liberty of conscience. To live in harmony with God’s perfect law of liberty in Jesus Christ and man’s best law of liberty of the U.S. Constitution. Anything less is a counterfeit and bastard of what is an American. Here is what will make America great again! Here is how America is a light to the nations. A MAN IS HIS MESSAGE—EXPERIENCE PREVAILS OVER BOOK KNOWLEDGE Barry Durmaz is now transformed by obeying the Sacred Fire of Liberty. Life is war, and the natural condition of the garden is not beautiful flowers but weeds. Virtually everything around you is in opposition to you living in full harmony with your life purpose and mission. When I approached business and church leaders for help with problems, their book knowledge rendered them impotent. Consequently, they left me alongside the road of life for half-dead to the point of murdered in non-material ways for simply being myself. That is how wicked the Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty
  • 4. opposition works to suppress your unique life purpose. The exceptionally good news, however, is that I have prevailed over such darkness by the liberating power of resurrection life. To lead you on the path of the sacred fire of liberty, you want someone who has been in the fight and continues to train everyday; who is intimate with the tactics of the enemy and can prevail over them. I have scars for being in that fight of faith to exercise, promote, and defend humanity’s greatest need—Liberty. Navigating the opposition peacefully is the key to mastering the art of fighting without fighting. Until your freed of invisible chains that bind you from fulfilling your life purpose, the gift of your time and talents are being squandered. Your destiny is on a detour over a cliff. My life is transformed by following the sacred fire of liberty, and I will help you experience the same because... ...your greatest need is Liberty! WAYS I CAN HELP YOU I believe the best way to start a new relationship is by giving. Contact me today for a complimentary 45-minute Discovery and Dialogue. We will explore problems you're experiencing whether I am the right person to work with you, your expectations, my expectations, and how to get started to fulfill your one-of-a-kind life purpose and mission. Specific projects we can work on ⁃ Discovering your life purpose ⁃ Gaining control over all your commitments ⁃ Eliminating stress through trusted management systems ⁃ Automating of pesky repetitive tasks ⁃ Entire household and business organization ⁃ Project management ⁃ Transformational communication practices ⁃ Ethically neutralize public safety officers for meddling with your liberty ⁃ Child training for greater peace and productivity ⁃ Overcome debilitating relationship problems ⁃ Identify, strategize, and eliminate entanglements of men ⁃ Ethically defy discrimination laws to hire the exact person you need ⁃ Stop using Social Security Number to regain lost liberty ⁃ Spiritual/Devotional life training & accountability ⁃ English language mastery training Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty
  • 5. ⁃ Article writing ⁃ Proofreading documents ⁃ Marketing ⁃ All-around liberty living •  Connect with me on LinkedIn      •  Follow me on Twitter    •  Like me on Facebook •  Add me on Google+ Liberty@ChristAndTheConstitution.com 804-396-2526 1 Luke 4:18-19; 2 Corinthians 3:17; Galatians 5:1 & 13 2 “[America] has in its keeping ‘the last word in human political institutions,’ — the Republican form of Government.” Richard Frothingham, Rise of the Republic of the United States, 1890 “…the most perfect federal constitution that ever existed…” Alexis de Tocqueville; Democracy in America, Chapter 8 3 “Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. For he is God’s minister for your good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil” Romans 13:3-4 “But this occurred because of false brethren secretly brought in (who came in by stealthy to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage), to whom we did not yield submission even for an hour, that the truth of the gospel mighty continue with you.” Galatians 2:3-4 “God has always preserved freedom, and the power of self-government in man.” “And for this reason too, magistrates themselves, having laws as a clothing of righteousness whenever they act in a just and legitimate manner, shall not be called in question for their conduct, nor be liable to punishment. But whatsoever they do to the subversion of justice, iniquitously, and impiously, and illegally, and tyrannically, in these things shall they also perish; for the just judgment of God comes equally upon all, and in no case is defective.” Irenaeus, Against Heresies Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty
  • 6. “Well, if I have found what your law prohibits to be good, as one who has arrived at such a previous opinion, has it not lost its power to debar me from it, though that very thing, if it were evil, it would justly forbid to me? If your law has gone wrong, it is of human origin ... nor does a citizen render a true subjection to the law, if he does not know the nature of the thing on which the punishment is inflicted. It is not enough that a law is just, nor that the judge should be convinced of its justice; those from whom obedience is expected should have that conviction too. Nay, a law lies under strong suspicions which does not care to have itself tried and approved: it is a positively wicked law, if, unproved, it tyrannizes over men.” Tertullian “A law, properly speaking, regards first and foremost the order to the common good. Now to order anything to the common good, belongs either to the whole people, or to someone who is the viceregent of the whole people. And therefore the making of a law belongs either to the whole people or to a public personage who has care of the whole people: since in all other matters the directing of anything to the end concerns him to whom the end belongs.” Thomas Aquinas; Summa Theologica 4 “You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one engaged in warfare entangles himself with the affairs of this life, that he may please him who enlisted him as a soldier.” 2 Timothy 2:3-4 Transformed by the Scared Fire of Liberty