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You all are sweet.

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I met Scotty at the airport last night, and I know his brother Rick, but when I met

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Scotty, I was thinking, there's mischief in that smile.

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I can't hang around him, but we're getting a lot of trouble.

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What a precious congregation you are.

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I, uh, overwhelmed by the spirit of Lord during worship.

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God has great joy in this fellowship.

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He bless him.

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You bless me.

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I wanted to say in relation to what Scotty was saying

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for prayer that's going to get charismatic,

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I always look at prayer like labor and delivery.

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And when my wife was given birth, she's like,

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and the woman next door was like,

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people deliver different ways but bring it the lord loves prayer if my people who are called by

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my name will humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways then i will hear from

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heaven and heal their land and our land needs healing our land needs healing this is six states in

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five days pushing to get people to vote.

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And the most apathetic voting block in America is self-professing evangelical Christians.

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35 million of them aren't going to vote.

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I just can't process that.

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I don't know where in the scriptures you get that justification to be apathetic.

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And I'm not here to condemn.

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I'm just, I'm truly confounded.

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I don't know how a Christian can profess faith in Christ and live in a constitutional republic

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where we have the ability to elect our representatives.

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And you say, well, it's all tainted and it's all dirty.

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Politics is dirty.

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Well, so is the church.

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What's your point?

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Well, I'm tired of voting for the lesser of two evils.

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Unless Jesus Christ is running for office, you'll always be voting for the lesser of two evils.

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No, you don't understand, pastor, the conspiracy.

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They've infiltrated every vestige of culture.

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They've been doing that for 6,000 years.

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What's your point?

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You're telling me that government's greater than God?

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You're telling me that evil's greater than God?

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I mean, I'm pre-millennial.

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I believe in a rapture.

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but I don't sit around eschatologically looking at eschatological lint in my belly button while I wait for the end.

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Jesus had occupied until I come.

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He says you don't know the day or the hour.

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And you're looking at the horizon and you see the mass of misery and you think, well, now he's coming.

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And I don't have to do anything.

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And it's like self-fulfilling prophecy.

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You're ushering in the decline of Western civilization.

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And tell your children you don't have any.

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any hope for their future.

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A nation grows great

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whose citizens plant trees of the shade

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they'll never know.

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You're standing on the shoulders

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of mighty men and women

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who went before you

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and gave you the freest nation

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on the face of the earth.

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Come 2026, it'll be 250 years old.

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The oldest nation

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in the history of the world

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under one article of incorporation,

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the United States of America.

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America. America represents 4% of the world's population.

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4%. We have more patents, more Nobel Peace Prize winners, more symphonies, more accumulation of wealth than any other nation in the history of the world.

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It's not a Christian nation. No, it isn't. It's not a Christian nation. It has a Christian form of government.

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but Christians have abdicated their responsibility to participate.

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We have common law, which is right from the scriptures.

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Even our three branches of government comes out of Isaiah 3322.

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The Lord is our king, our lawgiver, and our judge, executive, legislative, and judicial.

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The first 13 colonies, first 13 states of this nation.

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And their constitutions declare that anyone holding office had to have a profession of faith in Jesus Christ.

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We have a Christian form of government that Christians refuse to participate in.

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52 years ago we abdicated our responsibility in the public square

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and we were we were indoctrinated to say

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and by the way what I'm about to express

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is a first century heresy called Gnosticism

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where you don't touch anything tainted or dirty

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because we're just heavenly minded and it was a heresy

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in the first century church it almost destroyed the church and it's back again

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and here's how you know a heretic

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I just preach the gospel.

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I don't do politics.

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You're a heretic.

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Now let me tell you why.

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You're clapping.

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Oh, they're heretics, yeah.

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Let me tell you why.

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The word politics, you think the meaning is

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Pauli, meaning many, and ticks meaning blood-sucking parasite.

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politics defined by Aristotle deals with the word polis,

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which means, are you ready for this, the concerns and the affairs of the city?

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Jeremiah 29:7, pray for the peace of the city, for in its peace, you'll have peace.

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Pray for the peace of the city in which you dwell.

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For in its peace, you'll have peace.

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You see, politics is a standard.

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of rules on how to get along with your neighbor.

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Well, let's just make it real simple.

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If God didn't intend us to be in politics,

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he would have never invented marriage.

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I mean, really, to celebrate a birthday,

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you've got to stay alive to celebrate an anniversary.

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You've got to stop from killing each other.

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Or maybe not you.

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But this is the idea that there's,

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how then shall we now live?

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Who says, what are the rules?

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Who makes the rules?

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Who makes the rules?

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Well, God did.

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Our founders understood that.

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That's how they designed the freest nation on the face of the earth.

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You ride in an elevator was invented by an American.

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You fly in an airplane.

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It was invented by an American.

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You enjoy air conditioning.

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It was invented by an American.

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You enjoy lighting.

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It was invented by an American.

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It was invented by an American, not Al Gore.

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How'd they do it?

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They struggled.

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And it was a Scottish preacher of descent,

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Scottish descent on the eastern seaboard of this great land.

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He influenced after the first great awakening with George Whitfield,

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and our founders all grew up under that influence of a return.

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to the Bible. They were all biblically literate. In the prayer of Benjamin Franklin in the

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Constitutional Convention, he invokes God and Scripture over 20 times because he had a working

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knowledge of Scripture, which most Christians don't. And John Adams, one of our founders,

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one of the presidents of our country, he was so moved by this minister.

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that he said this minister was responsible for the war of independence.

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His name was Jonathan Mayhew.

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He died in 1766.

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And I came to rediscover him during my trials in California when the governor, you know, that's warm in here.

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I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be bulky, but it's just, it's like, hot.

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Now you get to see that I used to be an all-American swimmer, now I'm a buoy.

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I got a furniture problem.

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My chest went into my drawers.

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Where were we?

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I came to rediscover Jonathan Mayhew

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when we were facing the tyranny of Governor New Salini.

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Governor New Salini declared that the church in California

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was non-essential.

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The bride of Christ, non-essential.

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Strip clubs were essential.

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The church was non-essential.

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The church was open during the bubonic plague, for goodness sakes.

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They had us so convinced by fear,

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which God hasn't given us a spirit of fear,

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but if power, love, and a sound mind,

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and COVID was a highlighter to really show how weak the church was.

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Had they said that COVID could only affect you above five feet,

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they could have had the entire country crawling on their knees.

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And as Governor Newsleini was declaring that the church was non-essential

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and the counties were enforcing these orders,

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the governor's got a lot of power,

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but he doesn't have the power to say the church is not essential.

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essential. Our founders, when they put this nation together, and they declared independence,

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they did it because of this preacher, Jonathan Mayhew. You see, when I defied the governor,

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all the pastors called me, not all of them, but a lion's share of them called me. And they said,

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you're on the wrong side of history. You're in disobedience to Romans 13, which is the most

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quoted verse in Nazi Germany to silence the church, which is God appoints all positions of authority,

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and you're to submit to those authorities.

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That's a real simple, yes sir, yes sir, oh yes sir.

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Jonathan Mayhew exegeted the text and he did it properly.

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And he did it for all the Eastern seaboard pastors to preach from the pulpits

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because the oppression of the king of England against these colonies was so overwhelming

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and they were wondering, what do we do, they're not listening to us, they've disbanded our branches

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of government, we have no representation.

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but they're there for our good.

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they cease to be the authority.

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It's not unlimited submission to tyranny.

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It just isn't.

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Liberty's not man's idea.

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there's liberty.

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I have come to set the captives free.

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Jonathan, may you preach this,

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and he coined a phrase,

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that was the inspiration of the war of independence

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that you've enjoyed for 250 years.

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He said, disobedience to tyrants

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is obedience to God.

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you don't disobey for light or transient causes.

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I didn't like the way that he made his imprint on the coins.

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I don't like that it's a 1% increase in the taxes.

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No, it's got to,

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not to be not for light or transient causes,

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our founders, when they did the Declaration of Independence,

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they said, went in the course of human events,

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it becomes necessary for one people to separate.

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And they went on to list all of the reasons, all of them.

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that all men are created equal,

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endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights,

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among those being life, then liberty,

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then the pursuit of happiness.

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is life.

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Liberty is of scarce little value.

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They did it in order.

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Liberties of scarce little value if you're dead.

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We are a nation of life.

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It's not a choice.

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It's a baby.

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Oh, three of you.

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Listen, I'm not here to condemn.

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Every person in this room has been affected by abortion.

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But I will say this.

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Let's stop doubling down and start doing it right.

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It's a baby.

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No, it's too small.

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So you're telling me a smaller person's less valuable than a larger person?

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Well, it's its level of development.

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It's not fully developed.

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So you're telling me an adolescent is less valuable than a fully grown adult?

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What's its environment?

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It's in the womb of the mother.

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So you're telling me I'm less valuable in Idaho than I am in California?

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It's this degree of dependence.

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It's dependent on the mother.

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So you're telling me someone in this room dependent on insulin or oxygen is less value.

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people and non-human. You have no argument. It can't be anything else but a human being. And it should be

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the safest place in the country. You say, what if it's been raped? I have a granddaughter whose

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mother was raped. And my kids led her to the Lord. And it was the most cathartic, blessed experience

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she could have had. I don't buy that anymore. I adopted. There are more parents waiting for

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children than there are children. And they're a blessing from the Lord, no matter how they enter the

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world. And if we start looking at it that way, we'll start understanding the value of life.

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Then liberty. We think liberty is the freedom to do whatever we want. Liberty is the freedom to do

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what's right. That's why they said the pursuit of happiness. They were listing the highest virtue of

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Aristotle and the Greeks, the highest virtue, the highest good. The highest good. He said you gave me water

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and I lost it. Oh, here we go. This water container is good because it's doing what it was designed to do.

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Hold water.

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Pursuit of happiness is the pursuit.

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In him is the fullness of joy.

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The pursuit of happiness is doing what you've been designed to do.

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And in doing good and doing right, you flourish.

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If you think that freedom and liberty is the ability to sin with license and impunity

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and to traffic children and to mutilate them and call that health care,

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As you give Chloe Cole a double mastectomy at 15, that's not liberty.

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That's evil, and it needs to be stopped.

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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For this reason, governments were instituted among men for the preservation of those inalienable rights.

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That's the purpose of government.

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And four times in that birth certificate, they listed God.

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And they appealed to God at the end because they appealed to God.

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because they were taking on the greatest nation

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on the face of the earth

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that had just defeated the second greatest nation

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on the face of the earth.

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The sun didn't set on the British Empire.

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Their soldiers were trained.

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And these 13 colonies barely mustered a continental force

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and only one in nine Americans fought in the Revolutionary War.

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Only one in nine.

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And at the conclusion of this document,

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they pledged their lives, their fortunes,

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and their sacred honor.

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and they knew they were all going to hang.

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And that was done on July 4th of 1776,

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and what inspired that was what happened in March of that same year.

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In January and February, Washington's Continental Forces

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had occupied Dorchester Heights

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and overlooking Boston Harbor that the British were occupying.

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And Washington, excuse me, Washington couldn't remove the British from Boston

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because he had no artillery.

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He had the heights, but he had no artillery.

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It was worthless.

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And as he was just positioned up there

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and waiting for how, and the snows to melt,

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for how to come in the spring,

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march up Dorchester Heights

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and wipe out the continental forces,

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Washington needed artillery.

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And in Boston was a 20-year-old rotund,

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heavyset bookseller by the name of Henry Knox,

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and this rotund, 20-year-old bookseller,

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approached Washington, he said, I know where you can get 61 tons of artillery. He goes, where?

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He says from Fort Ticonderoga that's been abandoned. He says, how do you know this? He says,

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I read a book. He would become his artillery commander of the Continental Forces at 20.

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Most of our founders were very young. Jefferson was in his 20s. So Henry Knox takes the supplies

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needed that was requisitioned by General Washington, and he performed one of the greatest feats in

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civil engineering to take 61 tons of artillery over two frozen lakes, two rivers, and a mountain

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range, and got it up on Dorchester Heights by March 6 as the fog lifted over Boston Harbor,

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and Howe was assembling his troops to march up, and right then they began to shell Boston Harbor.

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Howe realized he had lost, he waved the surrender flag, he said to Washington, if you cease to fire

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upon us with artillery, we won't burn the city if you'll allow us to evacuate peacefully, and they

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did. And they thought, we've got a victory, and they were all excited about it, and a couple other

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skirmishes, and they entered in to July, and they signed this Declaration of Independence, and they

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declared war. And after that, when they signed that document, guess what happened? They lost

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battle after battle after battle, after battle. They were down to 12,000 continental soldiers on Manhattan

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an island, and the British had surrounded Manhattan with British battleships. Continental forces had

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no fleet to speak of. The British own the seas. They took Fort Washington. They captured all of

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the ammunition supplies of the continental forces. Washington under the dark of night and heavy,

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thick fog crossed out of Harlem on the East River and was able to evacuate with 12,000 soldiers

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and get up to Valley Forge by the winter. And of the 12,500, 5,400 were remaining because the others

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were dying of dysentery. 5,400 continental forces were left. And this was December of 1776.

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and by January 1st, all conscriptions and the continental forces would be up,

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and this experiment in liberty would be over.

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Washington was writing letters to Martha and others saying this is over.

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It's bleak.

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It's frightening.

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I don't see an end to this in any capacity.

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Washington had sacred gatherings every morning in a separate tent.

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It was his prayer tent.

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He'd call in his officers, and they'd pray.

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It was a man of prayer.

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He read a pamphlet that was written by an atheist.

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And it's interesting,

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the enemy of my enemy is my friend.

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When we defied the governor,

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and he said, he named me in a,

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a thousand congregants or visitors that we would be arrested.

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And I remember showing up defying the restraining order,

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and I didn't know what to expect that day.

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When I showed up,

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men and women, just like you from all over the country,

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descended on our church and surrounded us and said,

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we'll take the citation, you worship in peace.

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And one man in particular, when I was the mayor of the city of thousands,

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Oaks. I had helped him open the first gun store in Thousand Oaks. That's like a unicorn.

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And he opened this gun store, and I helped him do that. And then my son-in-law and his friend,

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who our gun enthusiasts, went in and helped him drywall his store to get it open. He said,

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why are you doing this? He said, my son-in-law said, we wouldn't have the First Amendment without the

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second. And he goes, I never thought about that. He was just a gun enthusiast. And he was so moved by

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their selfless labor of love and his store open that the day we defied the restraining order,

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I saw him out there with this sign, made it on the news, it said it took this kind of S-H-I

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to get this atheist to church.

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He wanted freedom. He just didn't know the source.

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Folks like that were all swimming in the streams of liberty, but they wanted to know the source.

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And the source is Jesus. It always has been and it always will be for man.

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Christ has come to set man free. Man tries to enslave man.

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Satan comes to steal, kill and destroy. The gates of us.

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of hell. The reason why I say this is because Thomas Bain was an atheist, and he had written a

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pamphlet called the American Crisis that so moved this godly general that he read it. These are the

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times that try men's souls, the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot when the seasons shrink

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from the duty of their country, but those who defend it now deserve the love and respect of all men

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and women. He goes on to share, and I wish I have it fully memorized, but he goes on to share. And I wish I've had it fully

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memorized, but he goes on to share that tyranny like hell is not easily conquered.

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The way he says it is this.

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There it is.

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Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered, yet we have this consolation with us

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that the harder the conflict, the more glorious, the victory, the triumph.

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What we obtain too cheap, we esteemed too lightly.

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It is dearness only that gives everything its value.

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heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods,

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and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom

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should not be highly rated.

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Thomas Payne.

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Washington had that reprinted and passed out to all the soldiers who could muster,

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5,400 of them.

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And they read it, and then on December 24th he mustered what was remaining,

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and of the 5,400 that mustered, a third of them

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had to wrap their feet in burlap sacks because they didn't have boots.

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They left an 11-mile trail of blood all the way to the Delaware

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in one of the worst snowstorms in eastern seaboard history.

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There was supposed to be a split and a two-fronted attack,

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and one didn't make it across in time,

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so only 2,400 soldiers attacked the Hessians on Christmas Day.

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It secured a victory that turned the tide of the war,

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and here you are today, almost 250 years later,

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having enjoyed unprecedented freedom,

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and you're being called on in the most critical moment in modern history,

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probably the entirety of the history of this republic, and you're going to sit it out?

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Who does that? My atheist friend who doesn't believe in God sees the realization and the

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importance of this? Where do we as Christians get off with our moral pietism that somehow we don't

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soil our hands in politics? Or we're too busy to contend

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for our neighbor.

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In this country,

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to contend for them, we pull a lever.

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Well, the voting's corrupt.

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How did it get that way?

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Where were you?

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How do we fix it?

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Apathy?

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Rescue rapture?

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Some of you don't like that, I understand.

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But I'm pre-tribbed too, so back off.

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Nowhere does God allow you to have justification

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to abdicate your responsibility to your neighbor.

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And I want to invoke scripture before you think I'm a heretic.

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I want to read to you if you'd open up your Bibles to Matthew 16.

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I have no clock. You tell me when to stop.

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I can't see anything up here. I need to know what I'm doing.

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Honestly, I'm Scotch Irish. I can talk forever.

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I won't, though. I won't bore you to death.

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I'll say to you what Henry the 8th.

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said to his third wife, I won't be keeping you long.

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All right. Matthew 16, we're going to pick up at verse 5. This is Jesus speaking to his disciples.

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Now when his disciples had come to the other side of the Galilee, they had forgotten to take bread.

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Then Jesus said to them, take heed and beware of the leaven, of the fathen, of the

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Pharisees and the Sadducees. And by the way, in Mark 8, it says,

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Beware, Jesus says, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Herod. So we have Pharisees,

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Sadducees, Herod. Everyone let's do that together. Pharisees, Sadducees, Herod. One more time.

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Pharisees, Sadducees, Herod. Thank you. And they reasoned among themselves saying,

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is it because we have taken no bread? But Jesus being aware of it, said to them,

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oh, you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves? Because you brought no bread.

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Do you not yet understand to remember the five loaves and the five thousand and how many baskets you took up?

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And he did that twice, that miracle twice.

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It's like, are you worried about bread?

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This is a lesson, fellas.

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He says, nor the seven loaves or the four thousand and how many baskets you took up.

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How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees,

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and of Herod, Mark 8, if you want to look it up.

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Then they understood, and he did not tell them, that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread,

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but of the doctrine of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Herod.

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Before we read on, let me cover that.

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Leaven is a microorganism that you put into the dough, and it causes it to rise,

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Because these microorganisms flageolate and allow, it gives sourdough a whole new meaning.

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He's like, I'll pass.

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That's what they did.

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But it creates air pockets in bread and makes it rise.

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It causes something to look larger, but there's no substance in it.

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it's 11 is also equated with sin

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but Jesus invoked three

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people or two groups

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Mark got it right

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who was of the religious sect

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was a priest

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he understood to include the Sadducees

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you see in 6,000 years of recorded history

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there's the priestly class and the kingly class

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and these two realms of classes have throughout all of history suppressed them the masses with their hocus pocus and their armies and their authority.

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They look at the mass of humanity as saddles for themselves to ride.

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Never before in the history of the world had a nation arrived where they declared who the sovereign in the nation was,

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because for 6,000 years of recorded history, all it was was oligarchies.

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The few would rule the many, and you would be their saddles, and you would be their slaves.

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But our founders searched all of history, and they realized none of these governments would work if we're to follow the scriptures.

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They even, the most quoted book of all the founders was the Bible, and the most quoted book of the Bible was Deuteronomy.

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They searched civil law to understand government.

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And at the Constitutional Convention, they came to loggerheads,

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and the only founder that have his signature on the three major documents of our founding,

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the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Paris Peace Agreement,

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which was signed with Yorktown, the surrender, was Ben Franklin.

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And at the Constitutional Convention, they'd had enough

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because these 13 colonies were arguing.

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The states had the larger population, wanted greater representation,

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the smaller states wanted equal representation,

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They were going back and forth.

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The slaveholding states, the northern states didn't want the slaves.

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They wanted a sunset cloth in slavery.

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They went back and forth and forth and back, and they were yelling and arguing, and they were disbanding.

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It's this moment, this 80-plus-year-old man whose feet were riddled with gout stands up.

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And he says, when we were in war with England, we met in these chambers every day for prayer.

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have we forgotten so great a friend we have searched the handles of history to find a government

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suitable we've found none but have we thought about appealing to the father of lights that a sparrow

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doesn't fall from the sky without his full knowledge how can any government rise or fall without

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his strength he said i move that we have adjourned for three days of fasting and prayer and return

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you need to read this. It's documented. When they returned, they came up with one of the most

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amazing inventions of political science ever invoked, and it was called a bicameral legislature.

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They said, we're going to create a house of representatives. And based on the population of the

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state, you will have that number of representatives for the larger states, have more population,

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they'll have more representatives, a smaller states will have a lesser amount of representatives.

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but each state, the representatives of that state,

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will be allowed to elect or appoint their two senators,

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and every state gets two senators.

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That's the upper house.

468
00:31:46,138 --> 00:31:51,598
And then these elected congressional representatives in the lower house

469
00:31:51,598 --> 00:31:54,638
not only appoint the two senators for the state,

470
00:31:54,778 --> 00:31:58,678
but they get by the electoral college to elect the president.

471
00:31:59,678 --> 00:32:01,938
And the president will appoint a judiciary.

472
00:32:01,938 --> 00:32:06,798
and in the preamble of the Constitution,

473
00:32:07,378 --> 00:32:09,618
they declare who the sovereign of the country is,

474
00:32:09,618 --> 00:32:12,998
and they design this country so that you would have the power.

475
00:32:14,418 --> 00:32:16,738
And the preamble which every child used to memorize,

476
00:32:16,958 --> 00:32:18,398
and most everyone here doesn't know,

477
00:32:18,458 --> 00:32:20,798
is we the people of the United States.

478
00:32:21,298 --> 00:32:23,138
In order to form a more perfect union,

479
00:32:23,278 --> 00:32:25,498
do ordain and establish this Constitution.

480
00:32:26,298 --> 00:32:28,718
And it goes on to say the purposes of government

481
00:32:28,718 --> 00:32:30,798
and the seven articles of the U.S. Constitution,

482
00:32:31,298 --> 00:32:33,238
And the question that you ask people is,

483
00:32:33,698 --> 00:32:35,758
how many rights does the Constitution give us?

484
00:32:36,038 --> 00:32:36,418
None.

485
00:32:37,698 --> 00:32:40,658
It's designed to protect the rights given to us by God,

486
00:32:40,818 --> 00:32:43,418
and those seven articles are there to protect us

487
00:32:43,418 --> 00:32:44,798
from those who would represent us

488
00:32:44,798 --> 00:32:47,358
because they are constrained by those seven articles.

489
00:32:47,878 --> 00:32:51,698
And if anyone in this room wants my endorsement for office or you're running,

490
00:32:51,938 --> 00:32:53,718
I'm going to ask you one simple question.

491
00:32:54,098 --> 00:32:56,018
Name the seven articles in the Constitution,

492
00:32:56,018 --> 00:32:57,718
that you're going to swear to defend

493
00:32:57,718 --> 00:32:59,918
against all enemies sworn and domestic.

494
00:33:00,058 --> 00:33:02,798
If you're a frontline officer or military personnel

495
00:33:02,798 --> 00:33:04,698
and you're swearing to defend something,

496
00:33:04,778 --> 00:33:06,418
you know nothing about, why?

497
00:33:08,918 --> 00:33:10,558
Those things protect us.

498
00:33:11,158 --> 00:33:12,398
That's why we taught our children,

499
00:33:12,618 --> 00:33:14,178
and we've neglected to do that

500
00:33:14,178 --> 00:33:15,798
because we don't do school board meetings anymore.

501
00:33:16,098 --> 00:33:17,298
Why teach civics anymore?

502
00:33:17,998 --> 00:33:21,578
While we've been sleeping, the left has taken over.

503
00:33:24,238 --> 00:33:26,098
And here we are today, in the freest nation

504
00:33:26,098 --> 00:33:26,818
in the face of the earth,

505
00:33:27,318 --> 00:33:29,618
in the third-grade crisis of our country.

506
00:33:29,618 --> 00:33:34,878
This first one I'm speaking of is the War of Independence,

507
00:33:35,158 --> 00:33:37,198
and they come up with this bicameral legislature,

508
00:33:37,338 --> 00:33:38,038
and here's what they do.

509
00:33:39,018 --> 00:33:43,078
They say, we the people, we're going to allow the people of this country

510
00:33:43,078 --> 00:33:45,398
to directly elect the House of Representatives.

511
00:33:46,178 --> 00:33:48,978
And they will be the most powerful branch of government, the lower house.

512
00:33:49,438 --> 00:33:52,178
And the reason why they're going to be powerful is because they're going to appoint the senators,

513
00:33:52,298 --> 00:33:53,658
and they're also going to elect the president,

514
00:33:54,278 --> 00:33:57,758
and we're going to give them the purse strings.

515
00:33:57,758 --> 00:33:58,758
They're in charge of the budget.

516
00:33:58,758 --> 00:34:01,698
that's a powerful lower house.

517
00:34:03,038 --> 00:34:05,318
And then they give the Bill of Rights.

518
00:34:06,018 --> 00:34:10,018
The first 10 amendments to the Constitution, there's 27, by the way.

519
00:34:10,718 --> 00:34:14,938
And the very first amendment, the very first amendment.

520
00:34:15,018 --> 00:34:15,978
A lot of you know the second one.

521
00:34:17,018 --> 00:34:18,178
Right to bear arms.

522
00:34:18,738 --> 00:34:19,618
Let's do this.

523
00:34:20,978 --> 00:34:22,518
I got one right here, pastor.

524
00:34:22,638 --> 00:34:23,858
I got a Glock for the flock.

525
00:34:23,858 --> 00:34:34,698
you have that Glock because you're to protect the first 16 words of that First Amendment

526
00:34:34,698 --> 00:34:40,658
the Declaration of Independence is poetic and beautiful

527
00:34:40,658 --> 00:34:43,938
the preamble the Constitution's lovely we the people

528
00:34:43,938 --> 00:34:47,818
but the First Amendment is prohibitive and angry Congress

529
00:34:47,818 --> 00:34:53,038
shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion

530
00:34:53,038 --> 00:34:56,378
nor prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

531
00:34:57,379 --> 00:35:00,178
No government will ever get in the way

532
00:35:00,178 --> 00:35:03,718
of man worshipping God ever.

533
00:35:05,438 --> 00:35:06,119
Wow.

534
00:35:07,958 --> 00:35:08,379
Now,

535
00:35:08,379 --> 00:35:16,298
now rights are like muscles.

536
00:35:17,438 --> 00:35:18,859
You don't exercise them.

537
00:35:19,698 --> 00:35:20,399
You lose them.

538
00:35:20,398 --> 00:35:28,118
you can't exercise, then you lose it.

539
00:35:29,918 --> 00:35:33,498
This is critical in a republic because it's your nation.

540
00:35:34,418 --> 00:35:35,738
And you're saying you're not going to vote.

541
00:35:36,678 --> 00:35:40,418
You're abdicating your responsibility given to you by those who established it,

542
00:35:40,418 --> 00:35:42,618
where you've enjoyed the unprecedented freedom,

543
00:35:42,718 --> 00:35:47,418
but you won't even lift a finger to participate in the preservation of that republic.

544
00:35:48,918 --> 00:35:50,258
How can that be your Christian?

545
00:35:50,258 --> 00:35:56,758
duty. The Apostle Paul invoked his Roman citizenship and knew it better than you know your own

546
00:35:56,758 --> 00:36:12,458
constitutional republic citizenship. How is that possible? Well, this nation flourished under that

547
00:36:12,458 --> 00:36:18,478
formal government. They had a sunset clause to remove slavery. Actually, the fourth amendment that they,

548
00:36:18,478 --> 00:36:23,578
excuse me, the fourth item in the Declaration of Independence was the slavery issue,

549
00:36:23,738 --> 00:36:25,038
and it was the Southern states.

550
00:36:25,078 --> 00:36:28,818
I wouldn't say Southern, but the slaveholding states that pulled that out of the Declaration

551
00:36:28,818 --> 00:36:29,438
of Independence.

552
00:36:30,098 --> 00:36:33,718
The three-fifths compromise and the Constitution was, look, these slave states,

553
00:36:33,718 --> 00:36:37,638
if you're going to count these as people for your representation in the lower house,

554
00:36:37,798 --> 00:36:44,318
but not allow them to be human beings to operate with freedom, then you get three-fiths.

555
00:36:44,498 --> 00:36:48,298
And they had to come to a consensus because they were about to be invaded again.

556
00:36:48,298 --> 00:36:52,578
and they had a sunset clause written into it,

557
00:36:52,658 --> 00:36:53,718
and the Northwest Ordinance,

558
00:36:53,758 --> 00:36:55,698
you couldn't be a new state in the union

559
00:36:55,698 --> 00:36:57,358
if you were a slave state.

560
00:36:57,838 --> 00:36:59,118
You couldn't be a new state,

561
00:36:59,218 --> 00:37:00,478
according to the Northwest Ordinance,

562
00:37:00,478 --> 00:37:02,778
if you didn't teach the Bible in schools.

563
00:37:05,738 --> 00:37:09,498
Well, Calhoun came along with Andrew Jackson

564
00:37:09,498 --> 00:37:11,118
in the formation of the Democratic Party,

565
00:37:11,238 --> 00:37:13,178
and they reinvigorated slavery

566
00:37:13,178 --> 00:37:15,278
and tried to thwart the Constitution.

567
00:37:15,278 --> 00:37:18,278
I can't imagine any elected officials,

568
00:37:18,278 --> 00:37:19,638
is trying to thwart the Constitution.

569
00:37:19,818 --> 00:37:20,698
It's shocking to me.

570
00:37:21,138 --> 00:37:23,218
It certainly hasn't happened in modern days.

571
00:37:25,618 --> 00:37:28,418
And so slavery rises in these southern states

572
00:37:28,418 --> 00:37:34,998
start to gain their wealth on the back of other human beings

573
00:37:34,998 --> 00:37:38,238
based on their melanin content.

574
00:37:38,938 --> 00:37:41,958
And if you're a revisionist historian

575
00:37:41,958 --> 00:37:44,938
and you're sympathetic to the South and you've read Shelby Foot,

576
00:37:45,018 --> 00:37:47,778
and I'm a historian, I've majored in that,

577
00:37:47,778 --> 00:37:51,418
and you say, no, it wasn't about slavery, it was about states' rights.

578
00:37:51,478 --> 00:37:52,238
You were so wrong.

579
00:37:52,818 --> 00:37:53,498
I'm sorry.

580
00:37:54,098 --> 00:37:56,078
I just, that's one of the, I don't know where you came.

581
00:37:56,198 --> 00:37:58,538
Somebody wrote that and you read it and you believed it.

582
00:37:58,678 --> 00:38:01,338
Just read the secession documents of the southern states.

583
00:38:01,518 --> 00:38:03,238
It was exactly about slavery.

584
00:38:05,838 --> 00:38:08,018
But the North didn't want it to be about slavery.

585
00:38:10,058 --> 00:38:11,738
It's like we don't want to talk about abortion.

586
00:38:11,878 --> 00:38:13,218
It's too difficult of a topic.

587
00:38:13,858 --> 00:38:16,758
And I love the cotton coming from the south and the garments.

588
00:38:16,758 --> 00:38:21,438
and I do buy and trade and sell, and my industry's tied in with theirs and the north.

589
00:38:21,718 --> 00:38:25,558
And, you know, it's bad and I kind of feel bad about it.

590
00:38:25,598 --> 00:38:29,838
And there's some that we're pushing the Overton window, which is this window that when you have,

591
00:38:30,238 --> 00:38:32,658
you know, fanatics on the right and the left, the more fanatical are,

592
00:38:32,718 --> 00:38:35,178
the more they pull the issue to the right or to the left.

593
00:38:36,318 --> 00:38:39,298
And then you had abolitionists, you know, John Brown.

594
00:38:40,678 --> 00:38:43,158
You had John C. Calhoun that they're not even human.

595
00:38:44,438 --> 00:38:46,518
And then the nation is fighting in this capacity.

596
00:38:46,518 --> 00:38:49,778
You had just the folks in the middle that are just, what do we do with this?

597
00:38:51,638 --> 00:38:54,038
But the folks were being enslaved saying, when's this going to end?

598
00:38:56,138 --> 00:38:57,278
They're being sold.

599
00:38:58,118 --> 00:38:59,938
Frederick Douglass's niece.

600
00:39:01,038 --> 00:39:08,038
Frederick Douglass, his niece was auctioned, and they rejoiced in that in the South, mocking the North.

601
00:39:09,778 --> 00:39:16,498
Lincoln who had, and this is the second great crisis in American history, Lincoln, who had never held office with the exception of a fresh

602
00:39:16,498 --> 00:39:19,898
a freshman Congress member from Illinois, one term.

603
00:39:22,778 --> 00:39:24,998
He never professed faith in Jesus Christ.

604
00:39:25,738 --> 00:39:27,338
He never had membership in a church.

605
00:39:27,878 --> 00:39:29,258
He was never publicly baptized.

606
00:39:30,518 --> 00:39:33,998
But no president in the history of the Republic

607
00:39:33,998 --> 00:39:36,058
has quoted more scripture,

608
00:39:36,898 --> 00:39:38,938
invoked more scripture in his inaugural addresses,

609
00:39:39,538 --> 00:39:40,938
than Abraham Lincoln.

610
00:39:42,178 --> 00:39:43,558
And he saw it clearly.

611
00:39:44,698 --> 00:39:46,478
It's like what Peter Drucker says.

612
00:39:46,478 --> 00:39:49,498
he saw the future that had already happened.

613
00:39:50,898 --> 00:39:52,038
He knew it was wrong.

614
00:39:52,818 --> 00:39:54,738
I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer,

615
00:39:55,698 --> 00:39:58,158
but when the governor said the church was not essential,

616
00:39:58,698 --> 00:40:02,218
I didn't need to know the severity of the virus.

617
00:40:02,838 --> 00:40:04,178
I just knew he was wrong.

618
00:40:05,078 --> 00:40:06,478
The rest I'd figure out.

619
00:40:07,298 --> 00:40:08,698
Come to realize it just was a cold.

620
00:40:09,698 --> 00:40:14,218
22 million people across the world have died from the clot shot.

621
00:40:15,118 --> 00:40:21,818
22 million. That's more than we lost in World War I. And we let them do that to us and our children.

622
00:40:23,438 --> 00:40:28,358
And they devastated our economy and our buildings and they used it to take over an election.

623
00:40:30,298 --> 00:40:35,818
And no one ever believed it. The more we go along with it, we're like, oh my goodness, this is what's happened.

624
00:40:36,558 --> 00:40:44,878
Well, Lincoln saw the future that it already happened. And he looked down and he said, this war isn't about anything but slavery.

625
00:40:44,878 --> 00:40:49,338
And when he does the emancipation proclamation, it angers the north.

626
00:40:50,918 --> 00:40:53,138
And Lincoln's not going to win re-election.

627
00:40:54,478 --> 00:40:58,278
He's going to lose the McClellan, General McClellan, who is a southern sympathizer.

628
00:40:58,378 --> 00:41:01,418
He's going to seal the border and let the South be the South and the North be the North

629
00:41:01,418 --> 00:41:02,638
and have two separate nations.

630
00:41:02,838 --> 00:41:04,658
And he's good with that, the Mason-Dixon line.

631
00:41:06,198 --> 00:41:07,138
And he's winning.

632
00:41:07,738 --> 00:41:09,298
The Democrat candidate's winning.

633
00:41:09,298 --> 00:41:17,878
Nobody wanted to fight for the voiceless.

634
00:41:19,678 --> 00:41:21,038
Nobody wanted to do what's right.

635
00:41:22,778 --> 00:41:28,238
I mean, I don't hold slaves, but who am I to say, you know, their farm, their choice?

636
00:41:28,238 --> 00:41:40,358
Lincoln realized he's going to lose the election,

637
00:41:40,478 --> 00:41:42,218
calls Frederick Douglass into the White House.

638
00:41:42,878 --> 00:41:45,898
The first black man brought in not as a servant or a slave, but as a human being.

639
00:41:46,958 --> 00:41:49,378
He says to Frederick Douglass, I need you to get north, excuse me,

640
00:41:49,378 --> 00:41:54,918
I need you get south of the Mason-Dixon line and tell every black man and black woman and black child to get north.

641
00:41:54,998 --> 00:41:56,958
Because when McClellan wins, he's going to seal the border.

642
00:41:56,958 --> 00:42:01,378
and Frederick Douglass said I left there realizing this was an amazing man.

643
00:42:03,318 --> 00:42:06,178
Sherman, General Sherman, fought.

644
00:42:07,358 --> 00:42:12,118
He split the south right down the middle and made it down to Atlanta where I was just at yesterday,

645
00:42:12,498 --> 00:42:14,918
rallying people to get out the vote, swing state critical.

646
00:42:16,558 --> 00:42:22,398
And when he splits the south, the tide of the war turns, everyone was sick and tired of death.

647
00:42:23,718 --> 00:42:29,238
650,000 soldiers had died in the civil war in a nation of 33 million people.

648
00:42:29,338 --> 00:42:35,098
Every family had lost a father, a son, a husband, a brother, a friend.

649
00:42:36,618 --> 00:42:37,498
Every family.

650
00:42:41,998 --> 00:42:45,938
Well, Lincoln wins re-election because of Sherman.

651
00:42:47,238 --> 00:42:49,938
And the second inaugural address makes the rest of the North angry

652
00:42:49,938 --> 00:42:53,698
because he invokes the idea that God's going to will what he's going to do.

653
00:42:53,698 --> 00:42:58,538
do if we're going to enslave humanity and he made it all about slavery in the second inaugural address

654
00:42:58,538 --> 00:43:11,438
he wanted to bind up the wounds of the nation he wanted to repent he was more consumed with the will

655
00:43:11,438 --> 00:43:17,178
of god than the pulpits in america were as a war was coming to a close

656
00:43:17,178 --> 00:43:25,698
Lincoln decides to go to the theater.

657
00:43:26,838 --> 00:43:28,458
His wife had had a mental breakdown.

658
00:43:28,618 --> 00:43:29,498
She had finally recovered.

659
00:43:29,618 --> 00:43:31,518
He had lost two sons in the course of the war.

660
00:43:32,158 --> 00:43:33,038
He was exhausted.

661
00:43:33,198 --> 00:43:33,778
He was gaunt.

662
00:43:33,878 --> 00:43:35,278
He was frail, sickly.

663
00:43:37,378 --> 00:43:39,198
No one would go to the theater with him.

664
00:43:39,198 --> 00:43:41,998
No officers of importance.

665
00:43:42,158 --> 00:43:45,478
So a major, which is a very low rank in the Army,

666
00:43:45,578 --> 00:43:46,818
a major and his wife traveled.

667
00:43:46,818 --> 00:43:49,158
and met the president there at Ford's Theater.

668
00:43:51,818 --> 00:43:54,938
And Lincoln is sitting in the presidential box at Ford's Theater

669
00:43:54,938 --> 00:43:56,318
to watch my American cousin.

670
00:43:58,058 --> 00:43:59,918
And as he's watching the play,

671
00:44:00,658 --> 00:44:02,238
he leans into Mary Todd Lincoln,

672
00:44:02,418 --> 00:44:05,258
which she, this is confirmed by Mary Todd Lincoln herself

673
00:44:05,258 --> 00:44:06,498
in the curator of Lincoln Library.

674
00:44:06,498 --> 00:44:09,838
She leans into, he leans into his wife,

675
00:44:09,958 --> 00:44:13,298
and he says, my dear, when this is all over, meaning the war,

676
00:44:13,378 --> 00:44:16,058
I long to walk with you in the footsteps of our Savior.

677
00:44:16,538 --> 00:44:17,378
He wanted to go to Israel.

678
00:44:17,478 --> 00:44:18,258
He wanted to go to Jerusalem.

679
00:44:19,758 --> 00:44:20,818
And right when he said that,

680
00:44:20,898 --> 00:44:21,818
it was John Wilkes Booth

681
00:44:21,818 --> 00:44:23,418
who approached the back of his head with a derringer.

682
00:44:23,458 --> 00:44:24,858
He said, when this is all over,

683
00:44:24,918 --> 00:44:26,738
I longed to walk with you in the footsteps of our Savior.

684
00:44:26,918 --> 00:44:27,158
Bang!

685
00:44:28,598 --> 00:44:29,718
Right to the back of the head.

686
00:44:30,558 --> 00:44:31,318
He collapses.

687
00:44:31,858 --> 00:44:32,778
He's still alive.

688
00:44:33,858 --> 00:44:35,538
It's April 14th, 1865.

689
00:44:39,358 --> 00:44:40,898
They carry him across the street.

690
00:44:41,538 --> 00:44:42,458
He lives through the night

691
00:44:42,458 --> 00:44:44,518
to April 15th, 1865.

692
00:44:46,118 --> 00:44:49,078
and breathes his last.

693
00:44:52,118 --> 00:44:55,458
He died on Friday, April 15th, 1865.

694
00:44:55,698 --> 00:44:58,638
He died on Good Friday, April 15th, 1865.

695
00:44:58,998 --> 00:45:02,798
And you know what the pulpits in America said about the great emancipator?

696
00:45:05,258 --> 00:45:08,978
They decried the fact that he died in a theater on Good Friday.

697
00:45:09,338 --> 00:45:10,178
Moral pietism.

698
00:45:10,178 --> 00:45:18,478
The man saved the republic and the church was silent.

699
00:45:23,458 --> 00:45:25,658
And now we're to third great crisis in our nation.

700
00:45:26,598 --> 00:45:27,878
Let's go back to the text.

701
00:45:30,078 --> 00:45:30,998
Verse 13.

702
00:45:33,318 --> 00:45:36,438
When Jesus came into the region of Cessori of Philippi,

703
00:45:36,518 --> 00:45:37,838
he asked his disciples saying,

704
00:45:37,838 --> 00:45:39,998
who do men say that I the son of man am?

705
00:45:39,998 --> 00:45:46,198
So they said, some say John the Baptist, some say Elijah, and others Jeremiah were one of the prophets.

706
00:45:47,498 --> 00:45:50,118
And Jesus said to them, but who do you say that I am?

707
00:45:51,138 --> 00:45:55,818
Simon Peter answered and said, you are the Christ, the son of the living God.

708
00:45:55,858 --> 00:45:57,018
You're the Messiah of the world.

709
00:45:58,378 --> 00:46:02,318
Jesus answered and said to him, blessed are you, Simon Barjona for flesh and blood,

710
00:46:02,858 --> 00:46:06,098
has not revealed this to you, but my father who is in heaven and upon this rock.

711
00:46:08,758 --> 00:46:10,758
I will build my...

712
00:46:10,758 --> 00:46:11,998
What?

713
00:46:13,298 --> 00:46:14,538
That's what it says church, huh?

714
00:46:15,178 --> 00:46:16,758
Upon this rock, I'll build my church,

715
00:46:16,818 --> 00:46:18,778
and the gates of hell will not prevail against it.

716
00:46:24,058 --> 00:46:25,138
Upon this rock.

717
00:46:26,538 --> 00:46:31,178
You know, Tyndale, which is the very first English-speaking Bible,

718
00:46:31,278 --> 00:46:34,358
the Tyndale Bible, the very first English-speaking Bible

719
00:46:34,358 --> 00:46:36,798
that was written from the original manuscripts.

720
00:46:37,878 --> 00:46:40,558
It transformed the Western world.

721
00:46:40,658 --> 00:46:42,478
It's one of the reasons why England became Great Britain

722
00:46:42,478 --> 00:46:44,718
is because they had the written word

723
00:46:44,718 --> 00:46:47,378
and they had a complete Bible.

724
00:46:48,938 --> 00:46:53,298
It was Vodi Baccombe who teaches seminary in an African nation.

725
00:46:53,398 --> 00:46:54,998
He has these black African students,

726
00:46:54,998 --> 00:46:59,418
and he puts up a map of the concentration of the wealth of the world.

727
00:46:59,858 --> 00:47:01,938
He says to his black African students,

728
00:47:02,118 --> 00:47:03,658
what do you surmise from this?

729
00:47:04,238 --> 00:47:06,898
Because all the wealth is concentrated in Western Europe and America.

730
00:47:06,978 --> 00:47:07,218
He says,

731
00:47:07,218 --> 00:47:08,758
the white man is superior.

732
00:47:09,798 --> 00:47:11,078
Now Vody Bakum's black.

733
00:47:11,418 --> 00:47:14,058
He gets pulled over for riding a motorcycle for tinted windows.

734
00:47:14,618 --> 00:47:15,518
I mean, he's that black.

735
00:47:18,038 --> 00:47:21,498
And Vody takes another map and overlays it with that map

736
00:47:21,498 --> 00:47:25,958
of the spread of the gospel that went through Europe and America.

737
00:47:26,378 --> 00:47:28,118
He says, now what do you surmise?

738
00:47:28,878 --> 00:47:30,818
And these black seminary students say,

739
00:47:30,818 --> 00:47:34,518
the white man's not superior, his God is.

740
00:47:34,518 --> 00:47:40,398
Jesus.

741
00:47:43,038 --> 00:47:45,378
When Tyndale translated this word

742
00:47:45,378 --> 00:47:48,478
in the very first English-speaking Bible,

743
00:47:49,418 --> 00:47:51,158
he got to Matthew 16, 18,

744
00:47:51,838 --> 00:47:53,758
and he translated the word church correctly.

745
00:47:54,918 --> 00:47:57,178
And because of the way he translated it,

746
00:47:57,258 --> 00:48:00,118
the king of England had him hung

747
00:48:00,118 --> 00:48:01,998
and his remains burned.

748
00:48:01,998 --> 00:48:05,538
What in the world could he have done?

749
00:48:05,618 --> 00:48:08,578
He translated it correctly from the original language.

750
00:48:08,998 --> 00:48:09,818
And it read this way.

751
00:48:10,378 --> 00:48:13,978
Upon this rock, I will build my assembly.

752
00:48:16,338 --> 00:48:18,398
I mean, why are you burning me?

753
00:48:19,158 --> 00:48:20,018
Why are you hanging me?

754
00:48:21,278 --> 00:48:24,258
Because he invoked the real Greek word.

755
00:48:25,698 --> 00:48:27,818
Church didn't come to hundreds of years later.

756
00:48:29,278 --> 00:48:31,978
The word that was used in the original language was ecclesi,

757
00:48:31,978 --> 00:48:38,078
Ecclesia, the etymology of Ecclesia goes back hundreds of years before Christ used it.

758
00:48:38,378 --> 00:48:40,038
Christ didn't use a religious term.

759
00:48:40,378 --> 00:48:42,978
He didn't say synagogue or temple.

760
00:48:43,478 --> 00:48:45,218
He said Ecclesia.

761
00:48:46,438 --> 00:48:53,178
And Ecclesia according to Aristotle and all the Greek philosophers.

762
00:48:54,878 --> 00:49:01,538
It was the building they gathered for the citizens of the city-state to decide the welfare of the city.

763
00:49:01,538 --> 00:49:04,978
and above the doors of every ecclesia in the Greek city state

764
00:49:04,978 --> 00:49:08,898
were isonomia and elotheria, liberty and equality.

765
00:49:09,558 --> 00:49:14,158
And they gathered there to decide the laws for the future of their community.

766
00:49:15,538 --> 00:49:16,878
So when Jesus says,

767
00:49:17,378 --> 00:49:19,018
blessed are you, Simon Barjona,

768
00:49:19,118 --> 00:49:22,938
and any other person who professes that I am the Messiah of the world,

769
00:49:23,238 --> 00:49:24,098
blessed are you?

770
00:49:24,918 --> 00:49:26,518
For flesh and blood has not revealed that to you,

771
00:49:26,518 --> 00:49:27,578
but my father who is in heaven.

772
00:49:27,578 --> 00:49:28,918
And upon this rock,

773
00:49:29,698 --> 00:49:31,498
I will build the city hall,

774
00:49:31,498 --> 00:49:39,718
the public square and the gates which enslave will not prevail. No man will be a saddle for another

775
00:49:39,718 --> 00:49:51,658
to ride. They will be free. If my people who are called by my name will realize they've neglected

776
00:49:51,658 --> 00:49:58,318
so great of freedom and humble themselves and pray and turn from their wicked ways of apathy

777
00:49:58,318 --> 00:50:04,438
and inactivity, then I'll hear from heaven and heal their land.

778
00:50:05,498 --> 00:50:09,278
The lighthouse of the gospel, 80 cents, and every dollar in evangelism comes for the United States of America.

779
00:50:09,378 --> 00:50:11,358
You bind the strong man, this nation's finished.

780
00:50:11,758 --> 00:50:13,618
We're in the third great crisis.

781
00:50:13,758 --> 00:50:14,778
It was the civil war.

782
00:50:16,538 --> 00:50:22,238
And now we're in a constitutional crisis, a Christian form of government without active Christians participating.

783
00:50:23,638 --> 00:50:25,638
Because I just preach the gospel.

784
00:50:25,638 --> 00:50:27,158
I don't do politics.

785
00:50:27,638 --> 00:50:30,198
and you've now brought heresy into the church.

786
00:50:32,898 --> 00:50:36,258
Jesus said, upon this rock, I'll build my public square, my city hall,

787
00:50:36,338 --> 00:50:38,778
and the gates which enslave, the gates of hell.

788
00:50:40,558 --> 00:50:43,398
Let me bring it all together and call it a day.

789
00:50:46,698 --> 00:50:50,038
The leaven of the Pharisees, and Herod,

790
00:50:50,458 --> 00:50:55,018
Jesus brings them up to the headwaters of the Jordan and Cessori of Philippi.

791
00:50:55,018 --> 00:50:56,618
If you've ever been there, I've been there 22 times.

792
00:50:56,618 --> 00:51:00,818
it is the most resplendent park-like setting you can imagine

793
00:51:00,818 --> 00:51:03,538
and every culture that's dominated the region

794
00:51:03,538 --> 00:51:07,258
has carved into the cliff a temple to their god or goddess.

795
00:51:07,818 --> 00:51:11,918
There's unbelievable amounts of them just carved into the hillside.

796
00:51:13,778 --> 00:51:15,998
And at the time, Rome occupied the region.

797
00:51:16,118 --> 00:51:19,278
So they had a temple of Tobacus, the god of alcohol, Aphrodite,

798
00:51:19,358 --> 00:51:21,498
the goddess of sensuality.

799
00:51:22,178 --> 00:51:24,618
These Orthodox Jewish boys gets to the headwaters of the Jordan.

800
00:51:24,678 --> 00:51:25,858
It's a long way from the Galilee.

801
00:51:26,178 --> 00:51:31,458
And they get there and there's probably drunken nudity and revelry going on.

802
00:51:31,558 --> 00:51:33,678
And they're just frolicing in the waters of the Jordan.

803
00:51:33,798 --> 00:51:34,398
They're knee deep.

804
00:51:35,238 --> 00:51:38,038
And these Jewish boys are going, hey, look at this.

805
00:51:39,178 --> 00:51:42,098
Roman women bouncing around just drunk.

806
00:51:43,518 --> 00:51:50,278
So you imagine with me, in the cacophony of noise of pagan worship,

807
00:51:52,358 --> 00:51:56,158
these Jewish boys are looking at a turban.

808
00:51:56,158 --> 00:52:05,238
tyrannical empire and licentiousness and debauchery.

809
00:52:07,598 --> 00:52:09,378
And he says, who do men say that I am?

810
00:52:12,218 --> 00:52:14,538
Some say John the Baptist, I say Jeremiah, say Elijah.

811
00:52:14,938 --> 00:52:15,818
Who do you say that I am?

812
00:52:17,938 --> 00:52:19,578
Because you're a need to understand something, fellas.

813
00:52:20,958 --> 00:52:24,118
The leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees will result in this mess.

814
00:52:24,118 --> 00:52:34,258
but upon this rock your testimony i'll build my city hall i'll build government and gates will not enslave them

815
00:52:34,258 --> 00:52:43,998
more than a third of rome were slaves now one more more and i'm going to bring you constant to history

816
00:52:43,998 --> 00:52:53,118
i want to talk about three to five million slaves three to five million crying out to god for freedom

817
00:52:53,118 --> 00:52:57,198
and God sends an 80-year-old man by the name of Moses.

818
00:52:59,618 --> 00:53:00,518
80 years old.

819
00:53:05,238 --> 00:53:06,658
They're like, do you have anybody else?

820
00:53:06,898 --> 00:53:07,638
I got this.

821
00:53:11,198 --> 00:53:13,338
The first 40 years of his life, he was a somebody.

822
00:53:13,458 --> 00:53:15,798
He was raised in all the wisdom of the Egyptians,

823
00:53:16,118 --> 00:53:17,138
handsome in word and deed.

824
00:53:17,438 --> 00:53:19,778
Then he kills an Egyptian officer guard,

825
00:53:19,878 --> 00:53:21,338
and then he runs into the Midian Desert.

826
00:53:21,438 --> 00:53:23,098
And for 40 years, he's in the backside of the Middle East.

827
00:53:23,098 --> 00:53:28,018
Midian Desert, his face is leathery and his beard is long and he's been talking to goats so much,

828
00:53:28,058 --> 00:53:33,238
he has a speech impediment. And all of a sudden, this bush starts burning without being consumed

829
00:53:33,238 --> 00:53:49,098
and the voice comes out. Tell Pharaoh to let my people go. Moses says, he says, who do, who do men,

830
00:53:49,098 --> 00:53:54,398
He says, who shall I say has sent me?

831
00:53:55,338 --> 00:53:56,038
I am.

832
00:53:59,078 --> 00:54:00,498
Do you have another name?

833
00:54:00,598 --> 00:54:01,918
Because that's really weird.

834
00:54:03,918 --> 00:54:16,098
It's a tetragrammaton, Jehovah, Y, W, H, W, W, it's this idea of, I am, I'm, I'm not creative.

835
00:54:16,098 --> 00:54:17,458
I've always existed.

836
00:54:18,458 --> 00:54:20,158
I am and will always be.

837
00:54:21,218 --> 00:54:23,858
And his name is always connected to an attribute.

838
00:54:24,118 --> 00:54:26,538
Jehovah Jira, Jehovah Tisdakeneu, Jehovah Shalom.

839
00:54:27,398 --> 00:54:31,378
And he's saying to Moses, I will be for you whatever you need when you need it.

840
00:54:31,438 --> 00:54:33,218
Now go and do what I told you to do.

841
00:54:34,138 --> 00:54:34,838
Confront Pharaoh.

842
00:54:35,238 --> 00:54:37,258
He's the most powerful man on the face of the earth.

843
00:54:37,418 --> 00:54:38,358
I don't care.

844
00:54:39,298 --> 00:54:43,378
Listen, folks, you're scared and you're using excuses not to participate

845
00:54:43,378 --> 00:54:47,178
and you think it's so overwhelming that all you can do is tell everyone else

846
00:54:47,178 --> 00:54:51,778
what the problems are without coming up with any solutions or making any effort to change it.

847
00:54:54,598 --> 00:54:59,038
And I have news for you. I'm in California. We don't get a lot of victories there.

848
00:55:00,318 --> 00:55:04,718
But I've learned one thing. I'm not in charge of the outcome. I'm in charge of the obedience.

849
00:55:12,518 --> 00:55:16,958
So Moses confronts Pharaoh and says, let my people go. And Pharaoh like every tyrant says,

850
00:55:16,958 --> 00:55:18,758
who is God that I should obey him.

851
00:55:19,418 --> 00:55:20,358
You're at the wrong convention.

852
00:55:20,458 --> 00:55:22,218
You need to go to the smaller one down the street.

853
00:55:22,218 --> 00:55:33,138
And Moses goes,

854
00:55:33,138 --> 00:55:37,718
You've opened up a can of Jesus, you're not going to get the lid on.

855
00:55:38,718 --> 00:55:43,258
Ten plagues, last one is the Passover, the angel of death, the first born and every family dies.

856
00:55:43,358 --> 00:55:44,118
Farrell loses his son.

857
00:55:44,198 --> 00:55:44,678
He relents.

858
00:55:45,438 --> 00:55:48,738
He allows the Egyptian slaves to leave with the wealth of the Egyptians.

859
00:55:48,738 --> 00:55:52,058
And as they're exiting Egypt, Pharaoh realizes he's losing his slave.

860
00:55:52,058 --> 00:55:56,258
his slave economy, so he doubles down and he pursues them with the entirety of the Egyptian

861
00:55:56,258 --> 00:56:03,138
army. Oh, and by the way, let me back that up. Before he did that, when he says who is God that

862
00:56:03,138 --> 00:56:07,438
I should obey him, you know what Pharaoh did? He doubled the brick output and reduced the materials.

863
00:56:09,018 --> 00:56:14,638
And you know what all the three to five million Israelites wanted to do? Kill Moses.

864
00:56:16,438 --> 00:56:21,998
People want freedom. They just don't want to have to work for it. You don't want freedom. You just want to be

865
00:56:21,998 --> 00:56:26,118
taken care of. That's why you're subject to a nation that will give you everything.

866
00:56:26,978 --> 00:56:32,798
Just stay at home and order DoorDash. And I get a check every day. I get larger.

867
00:56:34,578 --> 00:56:40,498
No. They wanted to kill Moses. But God is the majority, and one man in God constitutes a majority.

868
00:56:41,038 --> 00:56:45,938
Ten plagues, Pharaoh relents. As they're exiting, he realizes he's losing a slave economy,

869
00:56:46,058 --> 00:56:49,978
sends his forces after him. Moses gets to the Red Sea, mountain ranges on either side,

870
00:56:49,978 --> 00:56:51,838
and the Egyptian army bearing down,

871
00:56:51,918 --> 00:56:53,738
the most powerful army on the face of the earth,

872
00:56:53,818 --> 00:56:56,958
bearing down, and all the Israelites complain to Moses.

873
00:56:57,918 --> 00:56:59,918
People want liberty, they just don't want to have to work for it.

874
00:57:00,958 --> 00:57:03,098
Moses goes to God, God parts the Red Sea.

875
00:57:03,298 --> 00:57:04,878
They go through in absolute clarity.

876
00:57:05,218 --> 00:57:06,578
The Egyptians are in abstract darkness.

877
00:57:07,018 --> 00:57:07,798
They stumble, fall.

878
00:57:08,258 --> 00:57:09,378
There's a distance between them.

879
00:57:09,418 --> 00:57:10,798
When they all get safely to their side,

880
00:57:10,878 --> 00:57:13,418
he brings the part back to normal and drowns them.

881
00:57:14,638 --> 00:57:15,878
They end up in the desert.

882
00:57:16,738 --> 00:57:18,098
God provides manna every morning.

883
00:57:18,778 --> 00:57:19,658
He provides water,

884
00:57:19,658 --> 00:57:23,318
where there isn't. He blows quail off course so they can have meat coming out their nostrils.

885
00:57:24,518 --> 00:57:27,698
Their shoes don't wear out for 40 years. Their clothes don't wear out for 40 years.

886
00:57:28,238 --> 00:57:32,238
But here's the greatest miracle. Moses goes up on Mount Sinai and gets a downloaded moral app.

887
00:57:35,478 --> 00:57:41,618
He comes back down and Aaron has melted the golden, he's melted all the gold and made a golden calf.

888
00:57:41,618 --> 00:57:41,618
And there's a rave party going on and there's a boat, boat, boat, boathe, boat

889
00:57:49,658 --> 00:57:50,698
And he does what God says.

890
00:57:51,038 --> 00:57:54,638
He instructs the children and the grandchildren,

891
00:57:54,878 --> 00:57:57,898
and he places the decalogue, the moral law in the center of the community.

892
00:58:00,438 --> 00:58:03,718
He commands us and believers today to know this law.

893
00:58:07,358 --> 00:58:10,198
I'd be hard-pressed to find 10 of you who can recite the 10 commandments.

894
00:58:11,118 --> 00:58:12,498
I'm going to teach them to you quickly.

895
00:58:13,318 --> 00:58:14,018
Hold up one finger.

896
00:58:15,098 --> 00:58:16,018
Say one God.

897
00:58:17,058 --> 00:58:18,038
Take two fingers.

898
00:58:18,778 --> 00:58:19,458
Bend the second one.

899
00:58:19,458 --> 00:58:28,158
say no idols don't bow down three fingers put them over your mouth don't take the name of the lord your god in vain

900
00:58:28,158 --> 00:58:33,478
i didn't hear you i still couldn't hear because your hands are over here no okay

901
00:58:33,478 --> 00:58:42,238
four make a pillow honor the sabbath day rest five salute on your mother and father

902
00:58:42,238 --> 00:58:49,438
six don't murder seven there's two

903
00:58:49,438 --> 00:58:51,418
in a marriage, not five, don't commit adultery.

904
00:58:54,798 --> 00:58:56,618
Eight, hide your thumbs,

905
00:58:57,258 --> 00:58:59,178
because if you steal, we'll cut them off.

906
00:59:00,738 --> 00:59:04,098
Nine, this is five, not four, this is four, not five,

907
00:59:04,178 --> 00:59:05,518
don't lie, don't bear false witness.

908
00:59:06,038 --> 00:59:07,418
Ten, don't covet.

909
00:59:08,038 --> 00:59:09,698
Don't pursue socialism.

910
00:59:09,698 --> 00:59:21,878
This is the Levin of the Pharisees, Sadducees and of Herod,

911
00:59:22,678 --> 00:59:25,618
from the moral law, come civil law.

912
00:59:26,618 --> 00:59:29,258
And when the moral law is applied to civil law,

913
00:59:29,318 --> 00:59:32,938
and that's the filter that we in the first five commandments are accountable to God,

914
00:59:33,938 --> 00:59:35,598
the laws of nature and nature's God,

915
00:59:37,198 --> 00:59:39,678
and the second five commandments were responsible to,

916
00:59:39,678 --> 00:59:45,318
each other not to steal, not to lie, not to covet, not to commit adultery, not to murder.

917
00:59:47,738 --> 00:59:49,518
That's the moral law.

918
00:59:50,238 --> 00:59:52,578
And then the Pentateuch that's applied to all the moral law.

919
00:59:53,978 --> 00:59:55,518
And here's the greatest miracle of all.

920
00:59:55,598 --> 01:00:00,858
These three to five million Jews lived together for 40 years without a police force or a standing

921
01:00:00,858 --> 01:00:03,418
army because they were accountable to God and to each other.

922
01:00:04,358 --> 01:00:09,538
And if that moral law is a part of a culture, as it used to be on the facades of all of our

923
01:00:09,538 --> 01:00:15,558
Supreme Court buildings and our elected officials know that law and apply it in their civil law.

924
01:00:16,218 --> 01:00:21,578
It will be, as it says, in the graduating class, it's invoked every graduating class at Harvard

925
01:00:21,578 --> 01:00:22,078
University.

926
01:00:22,178 --> 01:00:24,358
It was first invoked in 1915.

927
01:00:24,558 --> 01:00:27,118
It's in a plaque on the stairwell of Harvard Law School.

928
01:00:27,238 --> 01:00:32,638
It says the law is the wise restraints that make men free.

929
01:00:33,718 --> 01:00:35,858
You say, how do restraints make you free?

930
01:00:36,758 --> 01:00:38,818
Well, there's athletes in the room, you understand this.

931
01:00:38,858 --> 01:00:40,878
you apply restraints towards evil.

932
01:00:41,118 --> 01:00:44,458
While your buddies and your classmates are out partying on Friday night,

933
01:00:44,698 --> 01:00:47,658
you're in bed early because you've got a three-hour practice on Saturday morning.

934
01:00:47,997 --> 01:00:51,418
And if you're going to stand on that victory block, you've got to apply restraints.

935
01:00:51,658 --> 01:00:54,178
Any parent understands this with their students, their children,

936
01:00:54,578 --> 01:00:59,378
that no, they're not going to play the idiot box, Nintendo, Game Box, whatever X, I don't know.

937
01:00:59,817 --> 01:01:03,297
And they're not going to eat miserable food and sit in front of the TV all day.

938
01:01:03,297 --> 01:01:05,478
No, you're going to turn that off and go do your homework.

939
01:01:05,858 --> 01:01:07,478
Because freedom is having choices.

940
01:01:07,618 --> 01:01:12,418
the more you front-load your life and you educate yourself and you apply restraints towards evil

941
01:01:12,418 --> 01:01:17,297
in order to pursue excellence, then that nation will flourish. And even though it's 4% of the world's

942
01:01:17,297 --> 01:01:23,158
population, it will dominate the sea lanes. It will set the captives free from fascism in Europe.

943
01:01:23,638 --> 01:01:31,238
It will turn the tide of the war in all of Europe. It will end slavery, child labor laws.

944
01:01:32,358 --> 01:01:36,517
Because we front-loaded it. We apply restraints towards evil in order to pursue excellence.

945
01:01:36,518 --> 01:01:38,318
but if you remove the moral law.

946
01:01:38,398 --> 01:01:39,958
By the way, the law doesn't save.

947
01:01:40,878 --> 01:01:43,238
But Galatians 3 says that the law is a school teacher,

948
01:01:43,338 --> 01:01:45,718
a guardian to point us to Christ until faith comes.

949
01:01:46,098 --> 01:01:48,138
That atheist had held the sign came to Christ

950
01:01:48,138 --> 01:01:50,858
because he knew that that was the source of liberty.

951
01:01:51,978 --> 01:01:54,118
Because those laws have consequences.

952
01:01:54,498 --> 01:01:55,958
And they understand there's a God.

953
01:01:56,038 --> 01:01:58,178
You can be an agnostic, which means without knowledge.

954
01:01:58,318 --> 01:01:59,158
I know he's there.

955
01:01:59,518 --> 01:02:00,738
I know there's a designer.

956
01:02:00,878 --> 01:02:01,918
I just haven't met him.

957
01:02:02,278 --> 01:02:03,678
I believe in absolute truth.

958
01:02:03,778 --> 01:02:04,858
Well, his name is Jesus.

959
01:02:04,858 --> 01:02:17,017
us. And in the pursuit of this, those wise restraints will make us free, applying restraints

960
01:02:17,017 --> 01:02:21,257
towards evil in order to pursue excellence. But let me tell you what happens if you remove the moral

961
01:02:21,257 --> 01:02:28,757
law. The law just becomes a weapon to enslave mankind. It becomes the leaven of the Pharisees and the

962
01:02:28,757 --> 01:02:34,797
Sadduceeses and Herod. They enslave you with addiction. They cross your borders with fentanyl.

963
01:02:34,798 --> 01:02:42,698
and kill your children, they traffic your children, they mutilate your children, they indoctrinate your children,

964
01:02:43,698 --> 01:02:53,078
they bankrupt your country because you have no moral compass. And the reason why there's no moral

965
01:02:53,078 --> 01:03:00,058
compass is because moral men and women have done nothing. All that's necessary for evil to prosper

966
01:03:00,058 --> 01:03:04,378
is for good men and women to do nothing. And this is the final thing.

967
01:03:04,378 --> 01:03:07,198
I'm gonna

968
01:03:07,198 --> 01:03:09,158
you guys

969
01:03:09,158 --> 01:03:12,938
your child comes home from school

970
01:03:12,938 --> 01:03:15,158
and I want to teach you the difference between morality and character

971
01:03:15,158 --> 01:03:18,037
morality is not doing what's wrong

972
01:03:18,037 --> 01:03:20,817
I would

973
01:03:20,817 --> 01:03:22,978
venture to guess this is a room of moral people

974
01:03:22,978 --> 01:03:25,418
and I'm glad about that

975
01:03:25,418 --> 01:03:28,398
you don't drink smoke too, hang around with those who do

976
01:03:28,398 --> 01:03:31,517
I drink

977
01:03:31,517 --> 01:03:32,918
a little bit

978
01:03:32,918 --> 01:03:35,218
Hey, stop.

979
01:03:36,178 --> 01:03:37,398
It's for my stomach ailment.

980
01:03:38,838 --> 01:03:39,978
Paul told me to do it.

981
01:03:42,557 --> 01:03:44,118
Moral people don't do what's wrong.

982
01:03:45,198 --> 01:03:45,878
Character's different.

983
01:03:46,578 --> 01:03:47,498
Character's doing what's right.

984
01:03:48,418 --> 01:03:50,138
So your child comes home from school and says,

985
01:03:50,218 --> 01:03:52,458
Mommy, Daddy, all the kids in the school called Susie Fat.

986
01:03:53,278 --> 01:03:54,218
But I didn't.

987
01:03:55,418 --> 01:03:57,138
And you say, well, that's the moral thing to do, child.

988
01:03:57,978 --> 01:03:58,998
But where's your character?

989
01:04:01,038 --> 01:04:01,938
What do you mean?

990
01:04:01,938 --> 01:04:05,498
why didn't you tell the other children to stop it?

991
01:04:06,938 --> 01:04:08,258
I would have been the only one in the class.

992
01:04:08,298 --> 01:04:08,878
It would have laughed to me.

993
01:04:08,938 --> 01:04:09,798
It doesn't matter.

994
01:04:10,838 --> 01:04:11,498
You're Christians.

995
01:04:11,598 --> 01:04:13,058
You're more than conquers in Christ Jesus.

996
01:04:13,398 --> 01:04:15,018
God hasn't given you a spirit of fear,

997
01:04:15,238 --> 01:04:16,938
but a power, love, and a sound mind.

998
01:04:17,258 --> 01:04:19,178
And in 20 years, if we don't stand up

999
01:04:19,178 --> 01:04:20,638
and contend in those school boards

1000
01:04:20,638 --> 01:04:23,317
and contend in this government in the ecclesia,

1001
01:04:23,618 --> 01:04:25,158
for the sake of the next generation,

1002
01:04:25,618 --> 01:04:28,678
these mutilated children with double mastectomies

1003
01:04:28,678 --> 01:04:29,678
are going to look at us and say,

1004
01:04:29,678 --> 01:04:31,078
where were you?

1005
01:04:31,078 --> 01:04:34,338
You profess that your Savior is truth.

1006
01:04:35,257 --> 01:04:37,658
And you allowed them to do this to me.

1007
01:04:38,777 --> 01:04:40,658
Yeah, there's no apathy in the body of Christ.

1008
01:04:41,878 --> 01:04:42,957
Jesus said,

1009
01:04:43,418 --> 01:04:45,997
the gates of hell will not prevail on that testimony

1010
01:04:45,997 --> 01:04:49,618
because Christians will occupy the ecclesia.

1011
01:04:50,497 --> 01:04:52,317
And while we've been busy playing church

1012
01:04:52,317 --> 01:04:54,118
with budgets, buildings, and baptisms,

1013
01:04:54,217 --> 01:04:57,057
a secular progressive left has enslaved our children.

1014
01:04:57,178 --> 01:04:58,938
Let's go and set them free in Jesus' name.

1015
01:04:59,237 --> 01:04:59,457
Amen.

1016
01:04:59,458 --> 01:05:10,698
Thank you, everybody.

1017
01:05:10,698 --> 01:05:10,738
Thanks, everybody.

1018
01:05:10,738 --> 01:05:18,698
Thank you.