America's Amazing Christian Heritage with Alex Newman

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And I'm here. Oh, OK, let me start that over.

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So I'm Terri Cambersell, and I'm here with Creation Fellowship Santee.

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so you don't miss any of our upcoming speakers. Most of our topics are creation themed, naturally, but from time to time, we like to have some different off topics.

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And that's what we have tonight. Tonight, we're thrilled to have back our friend Alex Newman. He's an award -winning international journalist, educator, author, speaker, investor, and consultant who seeks to glorify

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God in everything he does. In addition to serving as president of Liberty Sentinel Media, he has written for a wide variety of publications in the

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United States and abroad. He currently serves as a contributor to the Epoch Times, a correspondent for the

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Law Enforcement Intelligent Brief, foreign correspondent and senior editor for the New American Magazine, a writer for WorldNet Daily, an education writer for Freedom Project Media, a columnist for the

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Illinois Family Institute, and much more. And I'll let him explain to you things that he's done and also where you can find his work and more information about him.

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But tonight, based on all of that experience, we're glad to have him come and talk to us about America's Christian heritage.

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Thanks. Well, thank you very much for the kind introduction. Thanks, everybody, for being here.

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Really appreciate the opportunity to speak to you guys again. It's an honor and a pleasure to be back.

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As per the request of the group, I will be speaking today about America's really, truly amazing

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Christian heritage. There is no other nation in the history of the world that has a story quite like ours.

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And even though young Americans today are being shamed over the history of their country, really, it's completely backwards.

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Americans have so much to be proud of in the history of their country. And even the things that Americans are being shamed about are actually things that we should be proud of.

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And that sounds strange to people who haven't heard the truth, but we will get to it when we get to it.

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You know, the fact that America is, and at least always has been, a

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Christian nation is really undisputable. If you look at all of the evidence, all of the documents from long before our nation was even founded, and then during the founding, what you'll see is that there is just libraries full of evidence proving this.

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And one of the first and most important documents in the history of our country is actually the Mayflower Compact. This actually laid the foundation for eventually the constitutions of the colonies, and then the constitutions of the several states, and then the constitution of the

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United States. And I've seen this in history textbooks for government schools, and I was just appalled, okay?

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What they say in many of the history textbooks that are used in public schools across America, they have the having undertaken, as you see there, they say having undertaken, and they put a dot, dot, dot, and then they say a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia.

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And that's cute until you start asking, well, what's in the dot, dot, dot? And why couldn't we include it?

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Well, what's in the dot, dot, dot is the key part. Why did they undertake the voyage? Well, for the glory of God and for the advancement of the

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Christian faith, okay? Those were among the top reasons for their voyage.

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It wasn't to have slaves. It wasn't to make money. It wasn't to hurt Indians. It was to advance the gospel.

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In fact, one of the very prominent individuals who came over in these journeys said that it would be such a blessing if we could just be stepping stones for the furtherance of the gospel, right?

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They just wanted to be one little tiny instrument in God's hands for the propagation of the gospel around the world.

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And this is the facts. These are the historical documents that show this. This sentiment was virtually unanimous in the colonies.

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In fact, in 1643, the colonies of New England formed a confederation. They joined together.

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And in the Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies, this is what they said. They said, we all came into these parts of America with one and the same end in name, namely to have slaves make lots of money and hurt

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Indians. No, right? That's not what they said. They all came to America with the same end, and that is to advance the kingdom of our

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Lord Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the gospel in purity with peace. That was the purpose.

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And they said all, right? They all came here for that purpose. Now, it's possible that somebody who didn't really believe that came here, but the general sentiment was, this is why we're here.

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They were here to advance the kingdom of Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the gospel.

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And of course, to propagate the gospel around the world. They really created the first Bible colonies that had existed in human history.

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It was incredible. They left what was nominally, at least,

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Christian England. They were unhappy with the ruling church there, and they wanted to live out a more pure form of Christianity.

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So after spending some time in Holland, they came over to what would eventually become Massachusetts and started a

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Bible colony there. And was it perfect? No, but it was a beautiful example of what a

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Christian society could look like. One of the first things they did was try to make peace with the Indians, make it clear that they were there for peaceful purposes, try to cooperate and collaborate with them.

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And even Jamestown, which had been formed a little bit earlier, if you actually look at the original charter that was given by the crown to go there, one of the main purposes was to bring the light of the gospel to the peoples who existed then in the

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Americas. So there was a little bit more commercial activity and more commercial interest going on in Jamestown, which is in what today is

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Virginia, in fact, what back then was Virginia as well. And so there's that. But right from the beginning, it was all

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Christian. Now we had from 1740 to 1760, we had something that was called the

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Great Revival. We had incredible preachers of the gospel who were on fire for the Lord, people like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.

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And their preaching actually was just incredible. If you read accounts of this,

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I mean, whole cities, whole towns and villages and whole regions were just repenting and coming to Christ and weeping.

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And the churches were just absolutely packed. And the people who, the men who would eventually become our founding fathers, many of them were just children sitting in the churches and absorbing this fiery preaching and this messages from the

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Bible. And really you can't understand the formation of our nation without understanding the Great Revival.

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You can't understand what motivated the founding fathers without understanding the fact that they were

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Christians, motivated by God's word. We've had some people in modern

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America argue that it was unchristian of our founders to do what they did, right?

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To go up against the British crown and the British parliament. There are even some very, very well -known pastors who have argued that our founding fathers were sinning when they decided to declare independence from the

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British. And so I wanna talk about that a little bit because that's an important charge, right? I've actually preached entire sermons on Romans 13 and Romans 13 is important and Romans 13 does say to submit to the government.

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But if our founding fathers were Christians, how could they, quote unquote, rebel against the

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British? Well, they, as we shall see, had very good reasons to do this and they didn't view it as unchristian at all.

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In fact, they viewed it as a Christian obligation, a Christian duty to resist what they viewed as evil and tyrannical dictates, not just from the king, but also from the parliament.

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So by the 1760s, the colonists were becoming increasingly oppressed by the

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British government. I mean, by our standards, we'd say, wow, what a utopia of liberty, right? Oh my goodness, 10 % taxes.

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Could you imagine 10 % taxes? But back in those days, this was very upsetting.

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We had the Stamp Act of 1765. The British were trying to raise taxes from the colonists and we had the

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Townshend Act, the Tea Act. And of course, this was all a violation of the English constitution.

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The English constitution, of course, was rooted in biblical principles and had been. In fact, England was a very, very

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Christian society. In fact, one of the most Christian societies in the world at that time. And the rights of Englishmen had come down through biblical traditions.

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We'll talk a little bit about that. So a lot of this goes back to the Magna Carta in 1215.

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King John actually was forced by his people to agree to certain limits on his power. And so citizens and nobles actually demanded.

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They said, King, you don't have the authority to take these rights from us. In fact, these rights are given to us by God and you must submit to them.

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And so King John, this was again in 1215, signed the Magna Carta and agreed to respect the rights of citizens.

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400 years later in the 1640s, we had King Charles I come on the scene and he was behaving as a dictator.

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In fact, he wanted to tread and trample on all the rights of the English at that time.

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He was so intent to rule on his own without the advice and consent of the people that he actually wanted to dissolve parliament.

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Then in 1642, the British, actually under the leadership of the Christian leader,

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Oliver Cromwell, a Puritan military leader, actually raised up a military and they went to war with King Charles.

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If you actually go outside the British parliament today, there are only two statues of individuals.

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One of those statues, you can see it right here, is Oliver Cromwell. Now, this should be a very important part of the history that Americans learn in school.

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This should be a very important part of the history that people around the world learn. And yet almost nothing is known today among contemporary

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Americans about Oliver Cromwell or the English Civil War. This was not the case in the 1760s when our founding fathers were considering what to do about the escalated tyranny from the

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British. So Oliver Cromwell, again, a Christian leader. You see him right here. He's standing in the statue.

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You see he's got a sword in one hand and a Bible in the other hand. And that really is a perfect description of him.

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He was, yes, a military leader, but more importantly, he was a Christian. In fact, one of the first things he did for the men he turned into an army was issue each one of them what he called the soldier's

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Bible, the Christian soldier's penny Bible. You can see it right here. So the Civil War went on. The British Parliament, under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell, went to war against the king.

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They actually accused him of treason. And you're thinking, well, how can the king commit treason? That seems to contradict many of the modern teachings that we hear on Romans 13.

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It's not possible for the king to commit treason, right? Whatever the king says is law. Well, that's not what the

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Christians of that time believed. In fact, the Christians believed that the king could commit treason.

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They actually found the king guilty. He was put on trial and then his head was removed. He was decapitated for his treason, for his crimes against the

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English people. And this really firmly established a Christian principle that at least until recently, children still learn in school, right?

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Prior to the advances in Anglo -Saxon Christian civilization, there was this thinking, even in many parts of the

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West, that it was called rex lex. This is Latin for the king is the law, okay?

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And this was really a misapplication, a distortion of the scriptures that the king could do anything he wanted, that the king was absolutely supreme and anything that the king said was divinely ordained and had to be obeyed regardless, right?

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And of course, the rulers of the era had an incentive to peddle this, I think, very false and very dangerous theology.

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But after the English Civil War, it was firmly established, not just in England, but in any place where England had an influence.

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The real correct order of affairs is lex rex, right? The law is king.

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And what the people who came up with this concept were thinking was that, look, even the king has to submit to God's law, okay?

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The king gets all of his authority from God. And so if the king uses that authority contrary to God's law, then he forfeits his legitimate authority.

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And because of the theology we've been taught around Romans 13, that sounds kind of strange to some people, but think about it in any other context, okay?

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A Bible says children should obey their parents in all things, okay? That is written multiple times in the

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Bible. Children must obey their parents. And yet, is there anybody here today who if I told my daughter to go dance at a strip club to bring home some extra money, would say, well, she's gotta obey her parents, right?

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What if I told my son to go rob a liquor store so that we could have some extra money around the house to make car payment, right?

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Would anybody say, well, you know, God said children need to obey their parents? No, right? That's preposterous. It's absolutely ludicrous.

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And we all recognize that. Why is it that even though my children have a duty to obey me, they not only have a right to disobey me if I tell them to go dance at a strip club or rob a liquor store, but they have a duty to disobey me?

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Well, the reason is obvious. God gave me my authority as a parent. And if I use my authority in an improper way by telling my children to defy

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God's clear laws, then my children have a duty to disobey me, okay? It's very, very simple.

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And this applies to governments just as much as it does to parents or to any other authority figure, right?

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You know, congregations are commanded to submit to the leadership of the church. And yet, who among us would say that if the pastor is stealing from the congregation, if the pastor is cheating on his wife, if the pastor orders us to keep silent about some horrific sin that he's committing, that we need to obey that, right?

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It's simply ridiculous. And a proper hermeneutics, a proper understanding of the Bible makes that crystal clear.

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From Genesis to Revelation, we have example after example after example of godly people standing up to unrighteous government, unrighteous decrees by government.

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And again, this is crystal clear throughout the Bible. Think back to the Hebrew midwives, for example. Pharaoh ordered them to murder all the baby boys.

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Not only did they refuse to murder the baby boys, they even lied to the king. And what did

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God do about that? Did he say, hey, you guys are supposed to be obeying the Pharaoh? No, actually it says that because they feared

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God rather than men, God dealt well with them, right? God was pleased that they disobeyed

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Pharaoh. We've got Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, right? They were ordered to start bowing down to this abomination, this golden statue of King Nebuchadnezzar.

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And not only did they not bow down, they said to the king straight to his face, look, we're not gonna bow down to your silly idol, right?

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God can protect us from you and from your fiery furnace, but even if he doesn't protect us, we're still not gonna bow down to your silly idol, okay?

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It's that simple. We have Daniel, right? He was ordered by the law, commanded not to pray to God.

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What did he do when this unrighteous law came through? He actually went up to his apartment. He opened up the windows. Everybody could see him and he prayed to God, okay?

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So we have example after example of this. We have Ahab standing up to, or excuse me,

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Elijah, standing up to King Ahab, right? We have the apostles directly disobeying the orders of the authorities to stop preaching in the name of Jesus.

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And then in Acts 5 .29, we learn why, because God does not expect us to obey unrighteous men when they're acting contrary to the authority that God has delegated to them.

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And so as the apostle Paul put it, it is better to obey God than men. And our founders understood this, and the

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English of the 1640s understood this, and that is why they went to war with their own king.

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Sam Adams is often called the father of the American Revolution. He was a devout Christian man.

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He established the committees of correspondence. They had kind of like their own version of big tech back in the day, so they needed to find ways to communicate without the spies of the

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British government figuring out. They needed to find ways to communicate without censorship. And so they established kind of an underground network to circulate information.

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These were called the committees of correspondence. These were established in 1772. And the very first document to circulate through these committees was written by Sam Adams, the father of the revolution.

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It was called the Rites of the Colonists. And I want to quote from this, because you probably recognize this language.

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Some of it appeared in the Declaration of Independence, but I want you to know the background of it, right? Because nowadays we hear, oh,

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Thomas Jefferson wasn't a Christian. Those weren't Christian ideas. They were just deists, right? I want to show you where these ideas came from.

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So again, this is from the Rites of the Colonies and the Rites of the Colonists by Sam Adams. And he says, the Rites of the

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Colonists as Christians may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institutes of the great lawgiver and the head of the

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Christian church, that's Jesus Christ, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the

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New Testament, okay? So where do our rights come from? They come from God. Where do we find out about what our rights are?

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You read your Bible, okay? And what did he say our rights were? A right to life, a right to liberty, and a right to property together with a right to defend them, right?

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Almost the same language appeared later in the Declaration of Independence, primarily written by Thomas Jefferson, where he said, you know,

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God gave us a right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He didn't want to say property because he didn't want to have anybody misinterpret that as institutionalizing slavery.

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Now, the Boston Tea Party took place in 1773. The people rebelled.

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They threw a bunch of tea out of the ships because what they said was the English government is behaving in an un -Christian manner.

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They don't have the authority to impose all these unjust taxes on us. They've already, the British monarchs have already agreed centuries ago that they need to respect the law.

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They need to respect the rights of the colonists. We have no representation in this parliament. We have no say.

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It's completely ridiculous that they should be charging us all these taxes when we don't even have a say in this government.

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So they threw the tea overboard. They refused to pay the taxes. The British got very upset and this united the colonies like never before, right?

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They came up with this idea of e pluribus unum, out of many, one. And the thinking was, yes, out of many different colonies, one people.

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And also out of many different denominations, right? There were many, many different Christian sects at that time. There were

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Presbyterians and Congregationalists and Anglicans or Episcopalians. They had all different, you know, they had some

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Baptists, all these different Christian denominations. And out of many, we were gonna become one

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Christian people. So they created the Continental Congress in 1774. It met for the first time in September.

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And the very first thing they did was pray to God. The very first resolution was that all the meetings needed to be open with prayer, okay?

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Oh, but they weren't Christian. No, they wanted to create a secular republic, right? In 1775, on March 23rd,

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Patrick Henry, another devout Christian, put it very clearly. He said, look, we are gonna be slaves.

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Either we're gonna be slaves or we're gonna fight. He says, you know, gentlemen may cry, peace, peace, but his life so dear or peace so sweet is to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery.

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Forbid it, almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death, right?

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And so they had spent a lot of time. They appealed to the governors that the king had put in place.

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They appealed to the British parliament. They appealed to the courts that had been put in place by the

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British government. They appealed to the king and over and over and over again, they were spit on, they were insulted, they were laughed at.

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And we read a lot of this in the Declaration of Independence. And so finally they said, look, we're just going to appeal to God, right?

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You guys might've seen that flag appeal to heaven. Actually, it flew over many of George Washington's men during the war.

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And that's what they said, fine, we can't appeal to any human institution. We're all out of human institutions to appeal to. We will just go ahead and appeal straight to the highest court, the court of God.

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Now on April 19th, we had the famous ride and history records that as the

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British are coming, it probably wasn't the British are coming because at that time, even the Americans were British, they're still subjects of the crown.

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But more than likely, he probably said the regulars are coming, the troops are coming or whatever.

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And so British troops showed up at Lexington and Concord and they said, hey, hand over your guns. Well, the colonists refused.

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They said, we are absolutely not handing over our guns. And somebody fired a shot, there's a differing accounts.

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We don't know exactly what happened. Somebody fired a shot, shots were exchanged, people died and that was the shot heard around the world.

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Reverend Jonas Clark, yes, a reverend was the leader of the militia that got in this first infamous skirmish against the

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British. Yes, he was a reverend, a pastor. He said from this day will be dated the liberty of the world.

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So he understood the profound significance of what was happening. And again, this is a Christian leader.

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This is a pastor. This is not some rabble rousing rebel as some would like us to believe.

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In fact, it was pastors who led the way. It was pastors who encouraged their congregation. They were preaching fiery sermons about the value of liberty.

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It is God who ordains liberty. If you read our Liberty Bell, okay, it's actually a quote from Leviticus.

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Proclaim liberty throughout the land and to all the inhabitants thereof. We read in the New Testament that where the spirit of the

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Lord is, there is liberty. And so it was the pastors who were preaching on the importance of liberty, on the proper role of government.

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And in fact, many of the church leaders were the leaders of the militias. Many churches actually formed minute men militias.

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In other words, they would be ready at a moment's notice. And the pastors were leading the troops. The pastors were the officers.

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And the pastors were preaching sermons about the duty of Christians to resist tyranny and to resist evil.

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Okay, you should read the sermons from that era. In fact, one of the books that I used to teach at our homeschool co -op,

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I taught American history last year. It's called America's Providential History. And they've got all these sermons from pastors of that era, preaching on these very topics.

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And it's just, it's so different than what we're accustomed to hearing. The Black Robe Regiment.

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There probably never would have been a war for independence had it not been for the Black Robe Regiment. Here in this image, you see the

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Reverend Peter Muhlenberg. He was a German immigrant, Lutheran, and he pastored a church in Virginia.

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And in 1775, in December of 1775, he was preaching a sermon to his congregation out of Ecclesiastes.

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There's a time for all things. There's a time to fight. And that time has now come. And he rips off his priestly garments.

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In those days, they wore black frocks with little white collars. He rips it off. And underneath, he's wearing the uniform of a

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Virginia colonel. He had been commissioned to lead the militia. And he marched outside.

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They had a boy playing the drums. And almost every man in that church, every able -bodied, fighting -age man joined the militia and served under Reverend Peter Muhlenberg.

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Peter ended up becoming one of Washington's top generals. He was one of the leaders of the so -called

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Black Robe Regiment. And many, many other clergy also did similar things all across the colonies at that time.

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And this is one of those historical, crucial historical pieces of information that have been almost completely wiped out of our textbooks, completely wiped out of our collective memory, that it was the pastors who led the fight for liberty, who led the fight to form this

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Christian republic. And I think it's critical that we restore a knowledge of that.

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Now, if you read the Declaration of Independence honestly, you'll see very clearly that it is a thoroughly

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Christian document. They wrote that we hold these truths to be self -evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights that are among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.

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Well, where did they get this idea? Where did they get the idea that God gave you a right to life?

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Where did they get the idea that God gave you a right to property? Well, we already know where they got it from.

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Sam Adams told us where they got it from. They got it from the Bible, okay? That was their source of information.

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And the Bible teaches that thou shalt not murder. And if God says you should not murder, and if God says the purpose of government is to punish evil, and God has defined evil as murder, what does that mean?

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That means God granted you a right to life, and the obligation, the duty of government, the

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Bible tells us the purpose of government is to punish evil and to protect the good. We don't get to define evil. We don't get to define good.

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God has already done that for us. God says murder is evil. Therefore, God has given you a right to life. God says theft and stealing is evil.

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Therefore, God has given you a right to property. In fact, when the colonies secured their independence, every single one of them incorporated the 10

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Commandments into their legal codes, believe it or not. Most of the 10 Commandments were still enshrined in our legal codes up until recent decades.

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The Supreme Court has been striking them down one by one, no fault divorced. A lot of states passed that in the 1970s.

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And little by little, they've been chipping away at this. But when the colonies secured their independence, every single one of them took

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God's law and enshrined it into the civil law. And this was what the founders believed.

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And again, these were all based on biblical principles. Yes, God gave you a right to life because God said government must punish evil, and God said murder is evil.

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Therefore, you have a right to life, and nobody can take it from you. And if someone does, the government has an obligation to punish that.

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That is the purpose of government, is to protect your rights. It's exactly what the founding fathers explained.

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If you go back here, they said to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men. That is why government exists, to protect you from murder, to protect you from thievery.

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In other words, to protect your right to life, to protect your right to property, to protect your marriage, and so on and so forth.

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Now, there are people today who very dishonestly argue that the founding fathers were talking only about white men.

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Only white men get a right to life. Only white men get a right to property. And in fact, that is an absolute lie.

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In the famous Lincoln -Douglas debates in 1858, Abraham Lincoln said, there's no reason in the world why the

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Negro is not entitled to the national rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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And in fact, these people who argue that the founding fathers were trying to exclude black people, they are completely wrong.

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And all you have to do is go read the writings of the Confederates, right? They were highly critical of the founding fathers. So where'd they get this silly idea that all people are equal, right?

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We know all people are not equal. Well, I'll tell you where they got that idea. They got it from the Bible, okay? And last time

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I was here in front of this wonderful group, we actually talked about the fact that God only created one race, the human race.

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God does not divide people up by races. That's a man -made creation. Now, our constitution was brought about after the

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Articles of Confederation were replaced. This took place in 1787. The founding fathers thought the

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Articles of Confederation were too weak. They didn't give enough authority to the central government to do the things that they thought the central government ought to do.

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But really what the constitution was trying to do was codify the ideas in the Declaration of Independence and put those into the supreme law of the land, also known as the constitution, okay?

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Very clearly, what they were doing was limiting the power of government and recognizing preexisting God -given rights, okay?

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If you look at the rights that the founding fathers secured, what you'll find is that these are based in the

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Bible, okay? God never recommends to people that they use the power of government to force people's conscience, right?

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God never tells us to use force or government to force people to accept Christ, to force people to believe in God, right?

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That's between them and God. The purpose of government is to just punish evil. It's not to tell people what they must think, what they must believe.

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Now, to be clear, many of the states did have established churches when the constitution was written, when the

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First Amendment was written. And sometimes people will say, well, how do you know there's a

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Christian nation? I don't see Jesus anywhere in the constitution. And I would say that's just because you're not reading your constitution very carefully.

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If you go down to article seven, you'll find a very clear reference to our Lord. It's the year of our

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Lord, 1787. And so I asked these people, what Lord do you suppose they were referring to?

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Could they have been referring to Lord Muhammad, Lord Buddha, Lord Shiva, Lord Vishnu, Lord Gaia?

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No, right? They were referring to the Lord Jesus Christ. In fact, if you do an analysis of the writings of the founding fathers, the person they most commonly quoted was, wow, actually

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I'm missing quite a few slides here. I may go back and find them. But the person they most commonly quoted was the

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Apostle Paul, believe it or not. Yes, the Apostle Paul was the most frequently quoted founding father.

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Excuse me, was the most frequently quoted writer by the founding fathers. Another person that they quoted very frequently, in fact, the most quoted legal scholar was a gentleman by the name of Sir William Blackstone.

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And I don't have the slides here, but he was one of the brightest legal minds of the age of that era.

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And he wrote the four volume commentary on the laws of England. And one of the things he said is that the laws of God are supreme at all times, in all places, over all governments.

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And no law that is contrary to the laws of God has any validity whatsoever.

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So he talks about how God has created two different types of laws. There are the natural laws, and then there are the revealed laws.

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And the founding fathers clearly alluded to this in the Declaration of Independence, where they talked about the laws of nature and nature's

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God. This is actually a language that was taken from many of the great thinkers of that era, including

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William Blackstone. And the laws of nature and nature's God, those are of course the laws that God has ordained.

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The laws of the physical world, laws like gravity, laws that can be discerned through creation.

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And then there are God's moral laws that are revealed in the Bible. So the founding fathers were very, very familiar with this.

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They were very well aware of this. And if you read the quotes from the founding fathers, what you'll find is over and over and over again, the founding fathers emphasize the importance of God, of the

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Bible. George Washington famously said that it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge and worship the one true

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God. And actually had the pleasure of going to Mount Vernon, his estates, his former plantation.

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And they often, the world today really likes to downplay his Christianity or minimize his

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Christianity, but his Christianity came through loud and clear. And on his grave, he actually has a quote from the

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Bible about eternal life coming from Jesus Christ and him alone. Truly, truly beautiful.

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And all of this of course, has been removed from our collective memory and from our history books.

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Now, there are a lot of people who say that America is a democracy. Of course, that is incorrect.

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James Madison, the author of our constitution did not believe in a democracy.

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In fact, he thought that was a terrible form of government. And a lot of people hear that and they're shocked by that. What do you mean?

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Well, guess who killed Jesus? It was a democracy. They said, hey guys, what should we do with this guy?

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Kill him, crucify him. Hey, would you rather have Jesus or Barabbas? Well, we want Barabbas.

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It was a democracy that crucified our Lord and savior. And so in the constitution, in the text of the constitution itself, our founders said that the

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United States, the US government shall guarantee to every state in this union, in a Republican form of government.

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If you look at where they got these ideas on government, there's actually a very clear track record going back from the early

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Bible colonies that existed in the early 1600s, all the way up through the constitutions of states like Connecticut and so on.

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And many of these people were actually inspired by the early Hebrew republics. If you go back and look at the form of government that existed,

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God actually told Moses to appoint leaders and that people could appoint leaders over themselves, rulers over hundreds and over fifties and over thousands.

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So they had a sort of representative Republican form of government. Now the difference between a

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Republican and a democracy, the fundamental difference is rule of law versus rule of people. Now, our founding fathers believed that God's law was supreme, right?

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If God says that it is wrong to murder, then it doesn't matter what the democracy thinks.

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It doesn't matter if 58 % or 68 % or 78 % or 98 % of people think that we need to legalize murder, you can't do it.

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It's against the law. And so the founders enshrined God's laws into the supreme law and they viewed these things as inviolable, right?

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Just because you can rally 60 % of people to believe that we should ban the Bible or shut down your church or something like that, the law is supreme, not the people.

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And so the founders viewed democracy as a very dangerous form of government precisely because they were informed by the

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Bible. The Bible teaches that the heart is desperately wicked, right? Man is desperately wicked is what the

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Bible teaches. Now, if you believe that man is generally good, which is what the world tells us, then hey, a democracy is a wonderful form of government.

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People are generally good, they'll make good decisions. If you believe what the Bible teaches, that the heart of man is desperately wicked, then the last thing in the world that you wanna do is trust men with unlimited power.

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So that's why the founders created a Republican form of government, not a democracy. And this is confirmed very clearly.

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You can read the Federalist Papers. I encourage everybody to read the Federalist Papers, incredibly important documents.

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Basically when the Founding Fathers wrote the constitution, there was a debate. Is this a good constitution?

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Should we approve this constitution? What's going to happen if we approve this constitution? So you had the pro -constitution side, people like James Madison, people like Alexander Hamilton, writing under pseudonyms in newspapers throughout the colonies, their arguments for why the constitution should be approved, why it was good, et cetera.

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On the anti -federalist side, you had the people who did not want the constitution. They believed it was dangerous.

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So James Madison, he's often called the father of our constitution. He wrote in Federalist Number 10 that democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention.

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They've ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property.

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And they have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. James Madison, the primary author of our constitution did not believe that we should have a democracy.

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He believed like Sir William Blackstone that God's laws are supreme and no law can be made that is contrary to God's laws that has any validity whatsoever.

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Some people compare democracy to two wolves and a sheep deciding what should be for dinner. Obviously the sheep will be dinner.

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Now, John Adams also understood the importance of private property. And I love the way he weaved this in with what the

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Bible teaches. So in 1787, now again, this is the year that the constitution was developed. He said that the moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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He said, if thou shalt not covet and thou shalt not steal were not commandments of heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free.

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John Adams also said that our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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So we have a very bizarre political spectrum that's often used today where you have totalitarian government on the right side of the spectrum and then totalitarian government on the left side of the spectrum.

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So you've got fascism on the right, communism and socialism on the left. And then everybody else is supposed to find a spot somewhere between these two different forms, really close cousins of totalitarianism.

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I think a much more sensible political spectrum would be to have no government on the right and total government on the left.

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So you'd have fascists and communists and socialists all on the far left. You'd have anarchists on the right.

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And then you would have the form of government that God prescribes, Christian Republican government, somewhere closer to the right, but not on the far right.

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Because God does prescribe government. God is the author of civil government. God is the creator of civil government and that needs to be respected.

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Now, some of the things that make America different, of course, are biblical foundations. If we had more time,

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I'd go into so much more of what the founders said and what the founders believed, their

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Christian views. It just bleeds through everything that they said and everything that they did.

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If you look at the first 108 universities that were founded in America, 106 of them were

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Christian institutions founded for the training of ministers of the gospel. Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, every single one of those was a

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Protestant Christian university founded for the primary purpose of training up ministers of the gospel.

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That was the reason they were set up. You don't learn this in school today. And you don't see it today because unfortunately, they have gone so far off the rails from their original design, from their original intention.

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But Christianity was absolutely ubiquitous in the time of our founders.

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And that was true really until very, very recently. The school system has unfortunately de -Christianized

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American society in a very rapid manner, but that is not the truth about our society.

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So what makes America different? We have biblical foundations, right? It was one of the first governments in the history of the world where the people who designed and created the government said, what does

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God's word say? How do we apply that in government? And of course this meant, one of the reasons why the founders were so intent on checks and balances is because they believed the

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Bible. Many of them were Calvinists. They believed in the total depravity of man, right?

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They believed that man could not be trusted for anything, for any reason. And so they said, we need a lot of different checks and balances in the system.

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We need to distribute power horizontally. So they created the various, what we call today, the branches of government.

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You had the executive branch, the legislative branch, and then of course the judicial branch, the court system. And it's interesting that this actually also comes from the book of Isaiah.

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It says that God is the lawgiver, God is the king and God is the judge, okay?

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Now we can trust God to be the king, the lawgiver and the judge because God is perfect. God is perfectly good. God is wise.

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God is literally perfection defined. God is love. God is justice. God is all of the things that we would want in a perfect government.

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And so we don't need to distribute power in a different way. But man, again, the Bible teaches is desperately wicked.

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So we do not wanna trust man with political power. So that's why they distributed power across the three branches.

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And that's why they also distributed power between the state and the federal level. They actually wrote extensively on this.

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The doctrine of the lesser magistrates is recently now coming back to the forefront where we have this understanding.

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And really this has been part of Christian history for 2000 years, but it really came to the fore during the

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Protestant Reformation when lesser magistrates were having to interpose on behalf of their people, on behalf of their constituents, their citizens.

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And so you would have a higher magistrate, like for example, the Holy Roman Emperor who would make some evil decree.

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And then you would have a lesser magistrate like some of the German princes who would say, no, we're not going to allow that to be enforced in our jurisdiction.

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We're not going to tolerate that. And so some of these traditions continue on down to this day.

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They often don't give credit to Christian theology and the

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Bible for their origins. But I mean, we see this today with, for example, so many of our governors now standing up to what's going on at the federal level, right?

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My governor in the state of Florida is actually, he just convened the legislature for a special session and asked them to please nullify these, what he calls the illegal edicts that Biden is propagating on these mandates for the experimental

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COVID injection. He's saying, no, we're not going to tolerate that. We need the legislature to come back into session and pass a law saying that these illegal edicts from Joe Biden are not going to be applied in the state of Florida.

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So this actually, again, has its roots in the Protestant Reformation and in the Bible. And it's just, you know, basic theology.

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We see this again in the Bible. I mentioned earlier, the Hebrew midwives, they interposed, right?

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The lesser magistrates, they interposed between the Pharaoh and his evil decree that all the young boys be killed.

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And so they protected the boys by interposing on their behalf. And so all of this was brought into America's system of government by our founding fathers.

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Now, I want to contrast that with the French Revolution, which took place actually shortly after our, what we call the

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American Revolution. And the French Revolution was really based on quite the opposite ideas.

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The French Revolution was anti -Christian. It was disgusting. It was violent. It was brutal.

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It was actually the product of conspirators. We have a lot of records about this.

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There's a very fascinating book called Proofs of a Conspiracy by John Robeson. He was a

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Scottish Mason who had traveled through the Masonic lodges of continental Europe and said, hey, there's a diabolical organization infiltrating these

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Masonic lodges. And man, they hate God. They hate country. They hate liberty. They're absolutely awful.

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And he said their first great success was the French Revolution. So if you look at what happened during the French Revolution, they literally beheaded tens of thousands of Christians.

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They slaughtered pastors and priests. They made a mockery of churches.

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They actually put a prostitute in Notre Dame and told people, hey, here, worship this goddess of reason.

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To get a sense of how much they hated God, how much they hated Christianity, they said, well, we can't even have a seven -day week anymore.

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You know, we have a seven -day week because God created the world in seven days. He worked on six and then he rested on the seven.

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We can't have that. That is just terrible. So they created, they instituted the 10 -day week as a kind of a final insult to God.

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Now, if you look at what our founding fathers said, they were going up against the most powerful military in the history of the world.

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The British military was the most powerful armed force ever, the most powerful empire on the planet, right?

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The British Navy controlled the seas of the world. They had access to the best weaponry, the most highly disciplined troops.

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And here you have a bunch of ragtag farmers with muskets and they say, hey, we're gonna roll out our muskets.

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No, they actually wrote in the Declaration of Independence with our firm alliance on the protection of divine providence, okay?

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They were putting all of their trust in God. They believed their cause was righteous. They were praying to God.

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They were begging God. And this is so clear when you read about George Washington, our first commander in chief, constantly in prayer.

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And you see the hand of divine providence protecting him and guiding him at every step of the way.

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In fact, if you read the accounts of his contemporaries, they were just amazed. They thought God had made him bulletproof, right?

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So the bullets whizzed past him and then it can never hit him. They couldn't believe it. And they agreed, God has his hand on this man.

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God is protecting this man. So I wanna address some of the criticisms of our nation before I wrap up.

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I'm close to being wrapped up here, but today we hear very often that America is this uniquely evil nation.

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America had slavery. And so therefore America is trash and we should throw it in the garbage and we should just forget it ever existed.

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In fact, if you read the 1619 Project, which is now being taught, by the way, in public schools all across the country, one of the premises, if you read the very first, the introductory essay, they say that this evil is embedded in the

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DNA of America. Okay, it's not Christianity. It's not the Bible that's embedded in the DNA of America.

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It's this evil, this racism, this slavery that's embedded in our DNA. But what do you do if the DNA is corrupt, right?

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There's no solution to this. You can't have enough civil wars. You can't pay enough reparations.

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You can't apologize enough times. There is no solution other than to kill the patient and let something new come in its place.

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But I submit to you that it was actually America based on the biblical ideals upon which it's founded that were responsible for ending slavery, not just here, but around the world, okay?

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And people today are surprised when they hear that. Well, what do you mean? America was so evil, we had slavery.

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Really, if you know the history of the world, America was very unique, right? Slavery was not unique to America.

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In fact, slavery was ubiquitous, virtually every society, every culture, every civilization all throughout human history in every part of the world practiced slavery.

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There was nothing unique about slavery in America. In fact, slavery was spread all over the world and it had existed from time immemorial, right?

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Go back to thousands of years before Christ, then we have Pharaoh enslaving the

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Hebrews, right? Slavery, again, is not unique to America. Slavery has been a plague on mankind forever.

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And yet, when you read your Bible, you see that God created us all equally. In fact, you see that God prescribed capital punishment for anyone who steals the life of a man.

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And that's another way of saying, you know, kidnaps a person and makes them into a slave. And even the people who voluntarily sold themselves into slavery under God's laws needs to be freed eventually.

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And you can see that in your Bible. So the founding fathers of America, they had read their

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Bibles and they said, hey, this slavery thing, yeah, it's been around for all of human history.

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And, you know, some of us even have slaves, you know, some of us inherited slaves, some of us used slaves on our plantation, but this is really wrong.

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We should not be doing this. And so they actually, if you read the constitution of the United States, they decided to ban the importation of slaves from Africa as a first step to getting rid of slavery.

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And this was revolutionary. This was unprecedented. You know, very few people realized that Americans were the first people in human history on the face of the planet to ban slavery.

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And, you know, I say that and people say, no, you have it wrong, Alex, you have it wrong. It was the British who were the first to ban slavery.

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Well, actually you need to learn your history. New Hampshire, multiple American states banned slavery long before it even occurred to the

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British, long before William Wilberforce was even around to do his preaching. Now, God bless William Wilberforce, he was a great man.

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He helped end slavery peacefully in the British empire before America as a nation ended slavery.

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But William Wilberforce and the abolition movement in Britain actually got their ideas.

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They were inspired by the abolitionists in America who were inspired by the Bible. And so our founding fathers, when they wrote those revolutionary words in the

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Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal, they laid the foundation for something that was unprecedented in human history.

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They laid the foundation for the eradication of slavery. Now, it didn't happen overnight, okay? In fact, it took a while, it took several generations until we got there, but it happened, okay?

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And it inspired people around the world. So the West, really Britain and America became among the first on planet earth to end slavery.

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Now, slavery continued around the world for centuries, right? You literally could buy and sell slaves legally all over the

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Arabian Peninsula 50 years ago. Some of you might've been alive when you could still buy a slave in the slave market, if you could buy

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African slaves in the slave markets of the Arabian Peninsula. In fact, in Mauritania, an

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African country, slavery wasn't criminalized until 2007, just 14 years ago.

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15 years ago, you could buy and sell a slave without getting in any trouble in an

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African nation. So it took a long time for the world to agree that with the

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Christian principles of America's founders that slavery was wrong and it needed to be abolished. In fact, many of the founders, including incidentally

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Thomas Jefferson, wanted to abolish slavery right off the bat. So did James Madison, even George Washington, right?

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He actually, in his will, he freed all his slaves and he said that those who couldn't support themselves should be supported from his estate.

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So not only was America not uniquely evil because of slavery, America was uniquely amazing.

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America was the nation that laid the foundation for the eventual abolishment and criminalization of this practice that had blighted mankind from the dawn of humanity.

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It laid the foundation to put that all behind us. And so when people say

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America's evil because America had slaves, I say, you have no idea what you're talking about. Slavery was not viewed as unusual or immoral until America enshrined these principles that all men are created equal, that all men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights.

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And then that slowly and gradually came to be accepted by other peoples around the world.

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So, yeah, I know we're running out of time. You know, there's so much more that could be said.

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Our military has a long and wonderful tradition, right? We've had chaplains in our military from the very beginning.

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The ACLU has sued many times to try to get rid of our chaplains. They've always been unsuccessful. Our Supreme Court ruled that America was a

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Christian nation. They actually looked in 1892 in the case of Trinity versus the United States. They did a big investigation about Christianity in America.

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And they said, yep, America is and always has been a Christian nation. If you look at our Supreme Court building, despite the abomination that the

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Supreme Court has become, right there at the very pinnacle of the triangle on top of the Supreme Court building is

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Moses holding the two tablets, the 10 commandments, okay? Because Moses was the great law giver from whom the laws of our union and civilization and really all mankind properly understood come, right?

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These laws were revealed to Moses by God. And of course, God is the ultimate authority on all law.

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Congress officially declared that America was a Christian nation. Ronald Reagan declared with the approval of Congress the year of the

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Bible back in 1983. And they very clearly pointed out that America is and always has been a

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Christian nation. Now, have we always lived up perfectly to our ideals? No, of course not, right?

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Again, we're fallen human beings in a fallen world, in a cursed world. Go back and look at what happened in the garden, right?

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Satan has been wreaking havoc. We have been wreaking havoc with our sin. And so no, America has not always lived up perfectly to its ideals, but America is amazing.

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Our Christian heritage is amazing. We have a duty to shout it from the rooftops. We have a duty to all the men and the women who've died in service to our nation, not to forget it.

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And I would say to do our best to restore it. So I'll leave it at that in case anybody has questions.

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I see quite a few comments in the chat now. I haven't read them yet, but I'll take a look at them and I will stop sharing this.

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And yeah, thank you guys. Well, thank you, Alex. That was really great. And we learned a lot from you.

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And then also we do have some questions in the chat. So the first one is, you mentioned some history classes that you taught and we'd like to know if they're online, anywhere available for anybody to watch them.

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No, unfortunately those history classes were at our local homeschool co -op. So I was actually just teaching a group of youngsters in our community.

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I had my oldest son in the class. I do teach advanced economics through the Freedom Project Academy, but unfortunately, and that is online, but unfortunately my history classes are not.

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But that book that I mentioned that I used as the textbook for my class, it's fantastic. I think it would be suitable for children ranging in age from nine or 10 years old up to 16 or 17 is broadly applicable.

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It's called America's Providential History. And it's very, very good. It gives you a real good overview of the divine hand of Providence throughout the history of our nation and the beliefs of the people who created our nation.

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I think I used that when I homeschooled also. It sounds familiar. But you know, you can keep teaching.

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You can make classes and then they get a bill. I mean, I'm just saying as a homeschool teacher. Well, that's what

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I do. Anyway, also I wanted to, oh, question about the 10 -day week.

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What went wrong there? Well, eventually the French came to their senses. The French Revolution got so far out of control.

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The blood was running in the streets. People were starving. The economy ground to a halt that people finally came to their senses.

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You know, France has never really fully recovered from that fiasco, but it goes to show what happens when you abandon the principles of God, the moral laws of God.

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And when you have such hatred of God that you can't even tolerate a seven -day week anymore. And unfortunately, that's the direction that our country is heading in.

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I think it's a good cautionary tale. You know, the principles of the French Revolution never died.

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In fact, they were resurrected again by Karl Marx. Of course, he was backed by the League of the Just. And really when you boil these principles down to their essence, this is

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Satanism, pure and simple. You know, if you look at the principles that Karl Marx taught, if you look at the principles of the

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French Revolution, they rejected everything that God ordained. So God ordained nation states. In fact, he tells us in the

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Old and the New Testament that he's the one who divided humanity into nations. He's the one who defines their borders.

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He's the one who determines the length of their days. And so the revolutionists, the

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French revolutionists, Karl Marx, all the way up to present -day communists reject the concept of nation states.

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And they teach our children today that borders are racist. God is, of course, the one who ordained marriage and family.

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The French revolutionists rejected marriage. They rejected family. They believed, just like Karl Marx and communists today, that women should be held in common, that children should be raised by the collective.

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And you know, there's actually, without going too far down the rabbit hole and getting too far off track, I think one of the most important books ever written on this, if you really want to understand the essence of these principles running from the

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French Revolution through Karl Marx, all the way up to the present -day communist movement, it's a book called Marx and Satan.

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It was written by a wonderful Christian pastor, Pastor Richard Bernbrandt. He's also the one who wrote

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Tortured for Christ. He was a pastor in Romania. He was imprisoned by the communist government there.

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He spent nine years in a Romanian gulag, and he was converting all the jail guards and singing hymns and making music with his chains and preaching the gospel to everybody.

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They finally kicked him out and said, you can't be here anymore. And his hypothesis was that, man, this

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Marxism, this is satanic. It must be satanic because it's so evil. So he started doing research, and what he found was mountains of evidence that that was actually not just a valid hypothesis, but a fact.

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He found poetry written by Karl Marx, openly embracing Satan, openly expressing his disdain for God, the creator of mankind and the universe.

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And so really what we're dealing with here is exactly what the Bible teaches. The Bible teaches that reality is, the reality that we exist in right now essentially is a giant spiritual war.

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And in fact, Ephesians chapter six outlines this very clearly. God tells us that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities and the spiritual wickedness in high places.

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And so what we're dealing with here is a demonic force that always and everywhere is trying to spread evil, is trying to undermine

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God's principles, is trying to wage war on God's people. And I think when Christians start to see the world as God describes the world in the

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Bible, things make much more sense. So I'll leave it at that. Okay.

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Another question. So you touched on whether or not Christians should always obey authority and obey government.

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So one big question that has come up in the last year and a half, and so we have it here is, in your opinion, do you think that pastors that shut down churches during the pandemic were sinning by disobeying the

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Bible to please the secular authorities? Yeah, that's a good question. And I'm always reluctant to criticize my brothers and sisters in Christ.

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And I don't wanna second guess pastors. I know at the time there was a lot of fear. A lot of people were concerned.

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We were watching the news and the news was telling us we were all gonna die. I will point out that I think fear is a sin.

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God tells us so many times, fear not, fear not, fear not. I actually preached a whole sermon out of a number where Moses sent

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Caleb and Joshua and the guys to go spy out the land. And they come back with this report about giants and we look like grasshoppers.

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And God gets so angry about their fear. He actually says, I'm gonna destroy this people.

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Like what in the world? I just took them out of Egypt and they saw all these incredible miracles I did.

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And they're gonna be scared of some puny little giants. I'm so mad, I'm gonna destroy them. So Moses prays and intervenes and God's there.

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I won't destroy them, but they are gonna wander around in the desert. So God really, really, really doesn't approve of us being scared of anything, of viruses, of dictators, of Satan.

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We are not to be scared of anything except we need to fear the Lord and that's it. So if fear motivated a pastor to shut down their church,

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I would ask them to please pray about that. I don't think we should ever be making decisions out of fear.

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If fear is what's guiding your decision to do anything, shut your church, open your church, open your mouth, say something, not say something, you need to check yourself.

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Because if fear is your motive, God tells us he did not give us a spirit of fear. That spirit is not coming from God.

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You don't wanna act on that. Now God does tell us it's a command. If you go to Hebrews chapter 10,

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God commands us not to forsake together, meeting together with the brethren.

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We are commanded by God to meet with fellow believers. And so that's exactly what we did.

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And I'm not tooting our own horn here, but when the churches in our area shut down, we got together with about eight other families and we said, okay,

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God commanded what we meet. So we're meeting, whose house are we meeting at? And we all got together and the men took turns preaching.

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We got the kids with us, had a wonderful time. We had breakfast together. None of us were scared of the COVID. And it was a wonderful time.

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And in fact, this still continues to this day. We still do it. It's wonderful, it's amazing. It's caused all of us to go deeper in our faith and to grow closer to God, closer to each other.

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So I would urge pastors to hopefully learn from this experience. If God said forsake not meeting together,

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God meant forsake not meeting together. And notice there's no asterisk there that says, well, if there's a scary virus or if the government says, then in that case, you have to forsake meeting together.

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And John MacArthur said something really profound. And actually I was kind of alluding to John MacArthur.

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He's one of the ones who actually said that our founding fathers were sinning when they rebelled against the

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British. And I love John MacArthur and his teaching. I disagree with him on a few theological issues, but I think he said something really profound when the government of California ordered him to shut down his church.

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He said, look, we respect you, we honor you. You're the government and we will obey you. But on this, we can't.

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Governor Newsom is not the head of the church. Jesus Christ is the head of the church. And Jesus Christ said to meet together. So we're meeting together.

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And incredibly, he's actually been vindicated by the courts. He received, I think, $800 ,000 from the state of California and his local governments.

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I love it, the wealth of the wicked being laid up for the righteous. And I think he had the right idea.

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When government commands something that God clearly forbids or when government forbids something that God has commanded, we have not just the right to disobey that government decree, it's an obligation.

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And we need to understand there may be consequences. The government may punish us, the government may throw us in jail, but if God said it,

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I'm gonna do it. And if Caesar disagrees, he better take it up with God. Okay, that's a great answer, very thorough.

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So I think for now, that's the last of our questions that we're gonna do on the air.

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So why don't you go ahead and tell people where they can find you a little bit more about your work, and then

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I'll let people know where they can find our videos. And then I think we'll go back into our

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Zoom and some people might like to ask some questions not on the public recording. Okay, very good.

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Well, thank you so much. So you can find a lot of my stuff at my personal website. That's libertysentinel .org,

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very eclectic mix of things. I post sermons that I write, I post blog posts,

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I post things about politics, medicine, I post videos that I do sometimes, I post things from friends that friends send me that I think are interesting.

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I post stuff from other believers who have something profound to say on something theological, something biblical.

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So big eclectic mix there. The senior editor of the New American Magazine, you can find us at thenewamerican .com.

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I'm a contributor to the Epoch Times, which is now the fourth largest newspaper in America. If you're not subscribed yet, it's a great newspaper, significantly better than the top three, the

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New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. Definitely, you'll find way more truth in the

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Epoch Times. I'm also the executive director of Public School Exit. It's a Christian ministry.

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We strongly urge parents and pastors to take seriously what the Bible teaches about education and also to understand that what's going on in the public schools is, it's not just wrong, it's absolutely diabolical.

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And so we work with churches across the country. We're trying to get them to set up schools and homeschool co -ops.

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And you can check that out if you're a parent and you'd like some resources, lots of different resources there. That's at publicschoolexit .com.

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And I could go on, but that gives you a decent overview and at least a few places to find me. So thank you guys so much.

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That's great. And I did post in the comments, if you're watching on Facebook, I posted your bio from your

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Liberty Sentinel website. So people can click on that and then see your whole website there. So that is in the

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Facebook comments of this video. And then we are Creation Fellowship Santee, and you can find all of our, most of our past videos on YouTube and some of them on our

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Bitchute and Rumble channels. You can also find past videos and upcoming events on our

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Facebook page. We'll be taking the next couple of weeks off for Thanksgiving, but we'll be back on December 2nd with a presentation by Dr.

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Jason Lyle about the Bethlehem Star. You can also email creationfellowshipsantee,

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Zoom links for our upcoming speakers. And with that, thank you very much, Alex. Just go ahead and hang back and Robin's gonna turn off the recording and the live stream.