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Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 1)

August 21, 2025 | S25 E236 | 28:35

Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 1)
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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - When God Intervenes (Part 1) | August 21, 2025
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen jackson: hey, i sat down recently with my father to do a
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  • Podcast for my "culture and christianity" podcast, and it
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  • Was so valuable to me.
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  • I mean, it was stories that obviously i'm familiar with, but
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  • As i heard him recount his faith, it ignited something in
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  • Me about the faithfulness of god across generations.
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  • Well, i encouraged my dad to put together a book about his
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  • Experiences with the holy spirit.
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  • It changed his life, my parents's life, ultimately my
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  • Family's life.
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  • I believe the book will be a real encouragement to you.
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  • I wanna make it available to you right along with "unleashing the
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  • Power of the holy spirit."
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  • It's something i put together a while back that's been one of
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  • The most effective tools we've ever had in the ministry.
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  • Together they'll open the doorway for you to not just have
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  • Language around the holy spirit, but to have something to
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  • Actually do to invite him into your life on a regular basis to
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  • Give you the wisdom you need to help you unlock the problems
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  • That we face.
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  • The spirit of god within us to help us, guide us, and direct
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  • Us, that's invaluable, and these books will help you understand.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: the title is "when god intervenes."
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  • If you've got an outline, you've--you know there is some
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  • Scripture coming.
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  • I tell you that because i want to begin with a bit of history.
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  • You know, throughout history, one of the ways that revolutions
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  • Are often fomented is they try to separate a group of people
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  • From their history.
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  • I used to read it, but i didn't understand it.
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  • The--often the first step in that is they teach you to hate
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  • Your history.
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  • It's not overly difficult to do because every person, every
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  • Group of people, every nation has chapters that are less
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  • Than stellar.
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  • Imagine if your life was consistently defined by the
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  • Darkest moment of your existence.
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  • And there are some chapters of american history that are not
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  • Our best, but the good news is through the grace and mercy of
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  • God, we have overcome them and prevailed to come to
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  • Better places.
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  • We are still doing that.
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  • And so i wanna take a minute and remind you a bit of our story
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  • Because i believe it puts it in a light that gives a purpose and
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  • A meaning to our generation beyond just personal salvation.
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  • And while i'm a total advocate for the new birth, conversion
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  • For--i understand that we are birthed into the kingdom of god
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  • For a purpose.
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  • And it's for a greater purpose than just getting a ticket you
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  • Can put in your pocket that says you get to go to heaven.
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  • In fact, if that's the only reason you think you were
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  • Introduced to the kingdom of god, i think it's highly
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  • Unlikely you'll get to go to heaven.
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  • We have to decide we want to live for the glory of god.
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  • But i believe our history matters in the present perhaps
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  • More than it ever has.
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  • And so i'll start with the declaration of independence.
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  • Just the preamble, that's the beginning.
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  • It says, "we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
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  • Are created equal, that they're endowed by their creator with
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  • Certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty,
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  • And the pursuit of happiness.
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  • We, therefore, the representatives of the united
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  • States of america, in general congress, assembled, appealing
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  • To the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our
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  • Intentions, do, in the name and by the authority of the good
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  • People of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare
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  • That these united colonies are and of right ought to be free
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  • And independent states.
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  • And for the support of this declaration, with a firm
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  • Reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually
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  • Pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our
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  • Sacred honor."
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  • When they signed that document, they understood that they put
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  • Their futures in the balance.
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  • Only about 1/3 of the colonists were in favor of the break
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  • With britain.
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  • There were another 1/3 that wanted to maintain the
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  • Relationship, and there were 1/3 that were waiting to see what
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  • Would happen.
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  • So those that supported the revolution put everything at
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  • Risk--their lives, certainly, their families--
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  • Without question.
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  • Their futures and whatever fortune they may have had.
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  • The skeptics say it was an attempt to get rich.
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  • Knuckleheads.
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  • That's a biblical term derived from a greek word that means,
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  • "i disagree."
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  • If you look it up in a greek lexicon, it's a synonym
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  • With baloney.
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  • After the constitution was passed and they added the bill
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  • Of rights, ten amendments, that was the only way the
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  • Constitution would have been passed.
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  • The first amendment says this: "congress shall make no law
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  • Respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
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  • Exercise thereof."
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  • You understood the constitution says that congress
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  • Shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion?
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  • The separation clause is not a part of the constitution.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • "or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or of
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  • The right of the people to-- peaceably to assemble, and to
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  • Petition the government for a redress of grievances."
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  • The amendment that provides for freedom of speech and freedom of
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  • The press provides for a freedom to worship god however we see
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  • Fit without interference of the government.
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  • So anybody you know that advocates for freedom of the
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  • Press and access they have to anywhere, anytime, any place,
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  • We're given a very similar provision of freedom by
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  • Our constitution.
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  • That's ours to guard.
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  • That's ours to watch over.
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  • You will maintain no liberties and freedoms that you don't
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  • Stand up for.
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  • Government is in the business of usurping freedom.
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  • Governments want power.
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  • They always have, they always will.
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  • And they will take every power and authority.
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  • They will intrude wherever we allow them to do so.
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  • Just a little bit of history.
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  • Our nation is a unique nation.
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  • We're not the only nation.
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  • We're not the only nation that has done good.
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  • We're not the only nation that has been used for the purposes
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  • Of god.
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  • But there are some things about this nation that are unique, and
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  • I believe we've been a unique force for good.
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  • Most of us aren't familiar enough with global history.
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  • Russia in the news a lot these days.
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  • The russian people have suffered horribly.
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  • When communism came to the russian people, tens of millions
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  • Of people died.
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  • Lenin and stalin butchered, terrorized, and tens of millions
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  • Of people were murdered in the name of giving something to
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  • The people.
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  • What they gave to the people was terror and murder and a reign
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  • Of oppression.
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  • And the people who advocate for socialism and communism have to
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  • Deny the history to do so, and it's only our profound ignorance
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  • That gives them a place in the public square.
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  • China, mao zedong with his great leap forward resulted in 45
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  • Million deaths in four years.
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  • For many years, they held a two-child policy.
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  • They forced abortion.
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  • They committed female infanticide.
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  • There were--there's remained 15 million abortions
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  • Annually there.
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  • Peaceful islam, as it's frequently described to us,
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  • Across the world where it's in force represents consistently
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  • Authoritarian, dictatorial, brutal regimes of violence.
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  • Women are not treated as anywhere remotely as equals.
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  • Outsiders are subject to dhimmi taxes.
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  • It's economic servitude.
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  • If you dare to mention any of the very observable facts that i
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  • Just recited to you in the public square, you're frequently
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  • Shouted down as being xenophobic.
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  • I looked it up, that means you don't like people from
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  • Other countries.
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  • If you advocate for a biblical view of family and human
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  • Sexuality, you're often called a whole list of names, which
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  • Usually begins with homophobic.
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  • I will tell you, as i have told you many times, and i'll
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  • Continue to repeat it, i believe with all of my heart that
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  • Christianity is the hope of humanity.
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  • Jesus changes us from the inside out.
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  • Christianity is a faith built on personal transformation.
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  • It's not intended to be political.
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  • There have been a few times when christianity has ventured into
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  • The political arena, and it's almost, without exception,
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  • Ended poorly.
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  • But that doesn't mean we don't have an assignment to hold
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  • Governments accountable.
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  • The american church has an enormous responsibility
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  • And opportunity.
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  • It's very popular these days and has been for quite a season to
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  • Assert that we are not a christian nation.
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  • We've elected multiple leaders to the most powerful positions
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  • In our nation who have had the brazenness to say that we're not
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  • A christian nation.
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  • It's gone unchallenged for too long.
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  • There are some things i think we should know.
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  • It is true that we're not a theocracy.
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  • It's absolutely true.
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  • It's equally true that we are tolerant of other faiths.
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  • Every faith is welcome in this nation.
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  • They have been from our inception.
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  • It's true that we're an inclusive society and we'll
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  • Embrace diversities of beliefs and show each one respect.
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  • It's true that our founders clearly did not want a state
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  • Church, a government-driven, government-enforced,
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  • Government-funded church to define how we worshiped.
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  • However, it's equally true that we're a nation with a
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  • Christian heritage.
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  • And we have the same right to celebrate our heritage of the
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  • Christian faith as any other group has a right to celebrate
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  • Their heritage of faith.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • If we will teach the heritage of any group of people in our
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  • Public schools, the christian heritage should be taught in our
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  • Public schools.
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  • Its contributions to the well-being of our nation should
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  • Be taught.
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  • It shouldn't be separate from the public discourse.
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  • It's true that those pioneering and founding our nation sought
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  • Freedom to worship the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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  • I can't do it from memory, and i can't say it as quickly as tim
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  • Did when he was here a few weeks ago, but i can remind you of
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  • Some facts.
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  • The mayflower compact was the first governing document of the
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  • Plymouth colony.
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  • It was written by the separatists, who came to be
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  • Known as the pura pilgrims, who crossed the atlantic aboard the
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  • Mayflower, seeking freedom to practice christianity according
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  • To their own determination and not according to the dictates of
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  • The english church.
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  • Prior to arriving in america, prior to leaving europe, many of
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  • Them had been imprisoned for their faith, had their
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  • Properties confiscated.
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  • They signed that document on november 11, 1620--41 of the
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  • Ship's more than 100 passengers.
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  • It's equally true that our finest universities were begun
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  • As schools to train christian ministers, places like harvard
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  • And yale.
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  • You have to sit a minute and think about that.
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  • They were founded as places to train christian ministers.
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  • The ministers were frequently-- some of them best educated and
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  • Most respected people in the communities.
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  • We've come a long way from that.
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  • Much of that on our own heads, nevertheless.
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  • Harvard university, the oldest institution of higher learning
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  • In the united states, was founded 16 years after the
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  • Arrival of the pilgrims at plymouth.
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  • Harvard college was established in 1636 by vote of the great and
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  • General court of the massachusetts bay colony and was
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  • Named for its first benefactor, john harvard of charleston.
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  • He was a young minister who, upon his death in 1638, left his
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  • Library and half his estate to the new institution.
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  • Their endowment has grown.
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  • Princeton university received its first charter from king
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  • George ii under the seal of john hamilton, who, at the time, was
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  • The acting governor of the royal province of new jersey.
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  • On october 22, 1746, princeton is the fourth college to be
  • 00:12:04.439 --> 00:12:08.910
  • Established in the british colonies after harvard,
  • 00:12:08.910 --> 00:12:12.213
  • William and mary, yale.
  • 00:12:12.213 --> 00:12:15.283
  • The charter was obtained through the efforts of a number of
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  • Presbyterians under the direct influence of the great
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  • Awakening, which is a revival that has swept through the
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  • Colonies in the early 18th century.
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  • Six of princeton's seven original trustees were graduates
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  • Of yale, which the trustees believe no longer provided a
  • 00:12:28.696 --> 00:12:31.833
  • Suitable atmosphere in which men could be trained for truly
  • 00:12:31.833 --> 00:12:35.336
  • Enlightened pulpits.
  • 00:12:35.336 --> 00:12:37.705
  • This situation influenced the trustees to establish a school
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  • Where young men could be trained not only for the ministry but
  • 00:12:40.608 --> 00:12:44.045
  • Also for other worthy endeavors.
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  • The state as well as the church.
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  • We've lost our history, folks.
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  • We're embarrassed to take christianity to the
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  • Public square.
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  • We're reluctant to say that christian universities should
  • 00:12:57.025 --> 00:12:59.627
  • Teach christian principles and honor the authority
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  • Of scripture.
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  • Don't support christian schools that don't treat--teach
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  • Christian values.
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  • [congregation applauding]
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  • Allen: hey, i sat down with my father recently, did a podcast.
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  • He told the story how he came to faith, how god transformed
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  • Our family.
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  • They started a home bible study, all the way up to the beginning
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  • Of this church that i've served now for decades.
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  • As i listened, the heart of it was the work of the holy spirit
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  • In his life and through his life.
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  • I asked him to do a book around the topic, and we have it, so
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  • Presence of the power of god to bring change and life and hope,
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  • Allen: it's true that the individuals who founded our
  • 00:14:20.041 --> 00:14:21.876
  • Nation were overwhelmingly christian men and understood
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  • Their actions to be guided by god.
  • 00:14:24.345 --> 00:14:26.714
  • It is true that our founding documents--the constitution,
  • 00:14:26.714 --> 00:14:29.317
  • The bill of rights--reflect a value system clearly derived
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  • From the bible.
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  • Our supreme court building, our halls of congress, many of our
  • 00:14:35.323 --> 00:14:37.959
  • Other of washington, d.c.'s buildings, which house
  • 00:14:37.959 --> 00:14:40.962
  • Significant government functions, have scripture verses
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  • Prominently carved into the stone of which they are erected.
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  • The liberty and freedoms that we know and we prize today have
  • 00:14:47.101 --> 00:14:50.238
  • Emerged from a christian worldview.
  • 00:14:50.238 --> 00:14:52.840
  • Things like equality before the law, women's rights, children's
  • 00:14:52.840 --> 00:14:56.177
  • Rights, fair labor practices, tolerance, all of these views
  • 00:14:56.177 --> 00:15:00.048
  • Emerge from a judeo-christian worldview.
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  • They did not originate with socialism or communism or any of
  • 00:15:03.651 --> 00:15:08.056
  • The other isms.
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  • We've forsaken of--much of our roots.
  • 00:15:10.792 --> 00:15:13.828
  • Do you know that 52 of the 55 signers of the declaration of
  • 00:15:13.828 --> 00:15:16.898
  • Independence were orthodox, deeply-committed christians?
  • 00:15:16.898 --> 00:15:20.635
  • The other three all believed in the bible as divine truth--the
  • 00:15:20.635 --> 00:15:23.271
  • God of scripture and his personal intervention.
  • 00:15:23.271 --> 00:15:26.107
  • It's the same congress that formed the american
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  • Bible society.
  • 00:15:28.176 --> 00:15:30.478
  • Immediately after creating the declaration of independence, the
  • 00:15:30.478 --> 00:15:33.081
  • Continental congress voted to purchase and import 20,000
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  • Copies of the scripture for the people of this nation.
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  • Patrick henry, you may remember him from history.
  • 00:15:39.988 --> 00:15:42.924
  • He's often called the firebrand of the american revolution.
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  • He's still remembered for his words, "give me liberty, or give
  • 00:15:46.294 --> 00:15:49.030
  • Me death."
  • 00:15:49.030 --> 00:15:50.398
  • Do you remember that?
  • 00:15:50.398 --> 00:15:51.733
  • Good job, coaches.
  • 00:15:51.733 --> 00:15:54.502
  • But in the current textbooks, the context of those words is
  • 00:15:54.502 --> 00:15:57.105
  • Frequently deleted.
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  • Here's the larger statement.
  • 00:15:59.374 --> 00:16:00.808
  • He said, "an appeal to arms and the god of host is all that is
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  • Left us.
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  • But we shall not fight our battle alone.
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  • There is a just god that presides over the destinies
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  • Of nations.
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  • The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone.
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  • Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the
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  • Price of chains and slavery?
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  • Forbid it, almighty god.
  • 00:16:20.862 --> 00:16:23.297
  • I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me
  • 00:16:23.297 --> 00:16:28.770
  • Liberty, or give me death."
  • 00:16:28.770 --> 00:16:32.473
  • Those sentences, for the most part, have been erased from
  • 00:16:32.473 --> 00:16:36.177
  • Our textbooks.
  • 00:16:36.177 --> 00:16:37.645
  • Was patrick henry a christian?
  • 00:16:37.645 --> 00:16:40.281
  • Well, the following year, 1776, he wrote this, and i quote, "it
  • 00:16:40.281 --> 00:16:44.719
  • Cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this
  • 00:16:44.719 --> 00:16:47.488
  • Great nation was founded not by religionists, but by christians.
  • 00:16:47.488 --> 00:16:52.593
  • Not on religions, but on the gospel of jesus christ."
  • 00:16:52.593 --> 00:16:56.831
  • For that reason alone, people of other faiths have been afforded
  • 00:16:56.831 --> 00:17:00.001
  • Freedom of worship here.
  • 00:17:00.001 --> 00:17:02.670
  • Consider these words that thomas jefferson wrote in the front of
  • 00:17:02.670 --> 00:17:05.239
  • His well-worn bible.
  • 00:17:05.239 --> 00:17:07.675
  • Again, i quote, "i'm a real christian, and that is to say a
  • 00:17:07.675 --> 00:17:09.977
  • Disciple of the doctrines of jesus.
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  • I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be
  • 00:17:12.547 --> 00:17:14.816
  • Rallied to the unity of our creator, and i hope to the pure
  • 00:17:14.816 --> 00:17:18.686
  • Doctrine of jesus also."
  • 00:17:18.686 --> 00:17:21.789
  • Consider the words of george washington, the father of our
  • 00:17:21.789 --> 00:17:24.058
  • Nation, in his farewell speech on september 19, 1796.
  • 00:17:24.058 --> 00:17:28.963
  • "it is impossible to govern the world without god and the bible.
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  • Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political
  • 00:17:33.067 --> 00:17:36.037
  • Prosperity, our religion and morality are
  • 00:17:36.037 --> 00:17:38.606
  • Indispensable supporters.
  • 00:17:38.606 --> 00:17:41.175
  • Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be
  • 00:17:41.175 --> 00:17:44.545
  • Maintained without religion.
  • 00:17:44.545 --> 00:17:47.081
  • Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our
  • 00:17:47.081 --> 00:17:50.251
  • National morality can prevail in exclusion of
  • 00:17:50.251 --> 00:17:53.554
  • Religious principle."
  • 00:17:53.554 --> 00:17:57.291
  • Was george washington a christian?
  • 00:17:57.291 --> 00:18:00.228
  • Well, consider these words from his personal prayer book.
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  • Folks, i would submit to you there's more evidence of their
  • 00:18:02.797 --> 00:18:04.732
  • Christianity than most of us.
  • 00:18:04.732 --> 00:18:07.268
  • And yet we've been told repeatedly they were marginally
  • 00:18:07.268 --> 00:18:09.637
  • Christian, they were greedy opportunists, and worse.
  • 00:18:09.637 --> 00:18:15.042
  • "oh eternal and everlasting god, direct my thoughts, words,
  • 00:18:15.042 --> 00:18:18.412
  • And work.
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  • Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the lamb and
  • 00:18:19.847 --> 00:18:23.684
  • Purge my heart by your holy spirit.
  • 00:18:23.684 --> 00:18:26.854
  • Daily frame me more and more in the likeness of your son, jesus
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  • Christ, that living in your fear, and dying in your favor, i
  • 00:18:30.158 --> 00:18:33.761
  • May in your appointed time obtain the resurrection of the
  • 00:18:33.761 --> 00:18:37.932
  • Just unto eternal life.
  • 00:18:37.932 --> 00:18:40.468
  • Bless, oh lord, the whole race of mankind, and let the world be
  • 00:18:40.468 --> 00:18:43.437
  • Filled with the knowledge of you and your son, jesus christ."
  • 00:18:43.437 --> 00:18:49.443
  • Consider the words of john adams, our second president, who
  • 00:18:49.443 --> 00:18:51.979
  • Served as chairman of the american bible society.
  • 00:18:51.979 --> 00:18:55.116
  • In an address to military leaders, he said this: "we have
  • 00:18:55.116 --> 00:18:57.718
  • No government armed with the power capable of contending with
  • 00:18:57.718 --> 00:19:00.688
  • Human passions unbridled by morality and true religion.
  • 00:19:00.688 --> 00:19:05.793
  • Our constitution was made only for a moral and
  • 00:19:05.793 --> 00:19:08.396
  • Religious people.
  • 00:19:08.396 --> 00:19:09.764
  • It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
  • 00:19:09.764 --> 00:19:14.268
  • They never imagined our nation could survive separate from the
  • 00:19:14.268 --> 00:19:18.206
  • Christian faith.
  • 00:19:18.206 --> 00:19:20.575
  • How about our first supreme court justice, john jay?
  • 00:19:20.575 --> 00:19:22.977
  • He stated that when we select our national leaders, if we are
  • 00:19:22.977 --> 00:19:26.180
  • To preserve our nation, we must select christians.
  • 00:19:26.180 --> 00:19:30.151
  • Can you imagine saying something like that?
  • 00:19:30.151 --> 00:19:31.852
  • He said, "providence has given to our people the choice of
  • 00:19:31.852 --> 00:19:34.155
  • Their rulers, and it's the duty as well as the privilege and
  • 00:19:34.155 --> 00:19:37.491
  • Interest of our christian nation to select and prefer christians
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  • For their rulers."
  • 00:19:40.494 --> 00:19:43.264
  • John quincy adams, the son of john adams, the sixth president
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  • Of the us.
  • 00:19:45.933 --> 00:19:47.301
  • He's also chairman of the american bible society.
  • 00:19:47.301 --> 00:19:50.271
  • He considered that to be his highest and most important role.
  • 00:19:50.271 --> 00:19:52.740
  • On july 4, 1821, president adams said this: "the highest glory of
  • 00:19:52.740 --> 00:19:57.278
  • The american revolution was this: it connected in one
  • 00:19:57.278 --> 00:20:00.214
  • Indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the
  • 00:20:00.214 --> 00:20:03.985
  • Principles of christianity."
  • 00:20:03.985 --> 00:20:06.921
  • Convinced yet?
  • 00:20:06.921 --> 00:20:08.889
  • Calvin coolidge, our 30th president, reaffirmed
  • 00:20:08.889 --> 00:20:11.492
  • This truth.
  • 00:20:11.492 --> 00:20:12.860
  • He wrote, "the foundations of our society and our government
  • 00:20:12.860 --> 00:20:15.396
  • Rest so much on the teachings of the bible that it would be
  • 00:20:15.396 --> 00:20:18.232
  • Difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would
  • 00:20:18.232 --> 00:20:20.635
  • Cease to be practically universal in our country."
  • 00:20:20.635 --> 00:20:25.573
  • In 1782, the congress voted this resolution: "the congress of the
  • 00:20:25.573 --> 00:20:30.177
  • United states recommends and approves the holy bible for use
  • 00:20:30.177 --> 00:20:33.047
  • In all schools."
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  • [congregation applauding]
  • 00:20:36.117 --> 00:20:40.855
  • William holmes mcguffey is the author of the "mcguffey reader,"
  • 00:20:40.855 --> 00:20:43.658
  • Which was used for over 100 years in our public schools,
  • 00:20:43.658 --> 00:20:47.161
  • With over 125 million copies sold until it was stopped
  • 00:20:47.161 --> 00:20:50.398
  • In 1963.
  • 00:20:50.398 --> 00:20:52.833
  • President lincoln called him the schoolmaster of the nation.
  • 00:20:52.833 --> 00:20:57.305
  • These are the words of mcguffrey.
  • 00:20:57.305 --> 00:20:59.106
  • He said, "the christian religion is the religion of our country.
  • 00:20:59.106 --> 00:21:01.442
  • From it are derived our notions on the character of god, on the
  • 00:21:01.442 --> 00:21:04.312
  • Great, moral governor of the universe.
  • 00:21:04.312 --> 00:21:06.881
  • On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our
  • 00:21:06.881 --> 00:21:09.350
  • Free institutions.
  • 00:21:09.350 --> 00:21:11.018
  • From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than
  • 00:21:11.018 --> 00:21:14.121
  • The sacred scriptures.
  • 00:21:14.121 --> 00:21:16.023
  • From all these extracts from the bible, i make no apology."
  • 00:21:16.023 --> 00:21:21.028
  • Of the first 108 universities founded in america, 106 were
  • 00:21:21.028 --> 00:21:24.398
  • Distinctly christian, including, as i've already mentioned,
  • 00:21:24.398 --> 00:21:27.868
  • Harvard, chartered in 1636.
  • 00:21:27.868 --> 00:21:30.471
  • In the original harvard student handbook, rule number one was
  • 00:21:30.471 --> 00:21:34.608
  • That students seeking entrance must know latin and greek so
  • 00:21:34.608 --> 00:21:37.078
  • That they could study the scriptures.
  • 00:21:37.078 --> 00:21:41.549
  • I quote, "let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly
  • 00:21:41.549 --> 00:21:44.485
  • Pressed to consider well the main end of his life in the
  • 00:21:44.485 --> 00:21:46.954
  • Studies is to know god and jesus christ, which is eternal life,
  • 00:21:46.954 --> 00:21:51.792
  • And therefore to lay jesus christ as the only foundation of
  • 00:21:51.792 --> 00:21:54.662
  • All sound knowledge and learning.
  • 00:21:54.662 --> 00:21:56.897
  • In seeing the lord only giveth wisdom, let everyone seriously
  • 00:21:56.897 --> 00:22:00.267
  • Set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him."
  • 00:22:00.267 --> 00:22:04.405
  • And the biblical notations are cited in that--
  • 00:22:04.405 --> 00:22:06.941
  • From the handbook.
  • 00:22:06.941 --> 00:22:08.976
  • See, we're not the first generation where our christian
  • 00:22:08.976 --> 00:22:11.011
  • Schools have wandered into the weeds, who seek the applause of
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  • A secular culture by diminishing our commitment to
  • 00:22:14.482 --> 00:22:17.385
  • Biblical values.
  • 00:22:17.385 --> 00:22:19.453
  • We're simply the current version.
  • 00:22:19.453 --> 00:22:22.356
  • The question is, how far will we allow the institutions to drift
  • 00:22:22.356 --> 00:22:25.326
  • Before we use our voices and our influence?
  • 00:22:25.326 --> 00:22:28.396
  • We see the outcome.
  • 00:22:28.396 --> 00:22:29.764
  • Places like harvard and princeton and yale stand far
  • 00:22:29.764 --> 00:22:33.067
  • From the boundaries of a biblical worldview today.
  • 00:22:33.067 --> 00:22:37.138
  • For over 100 years, more than 50% of all harvard graduates
  • 00:22:37.138 --> 00:22:40.207
  • Were pastors.
  • 00:22:40.207 --> 00:22:44.845
  • It is clear from history that the bible and the christian
  • 00:22:44.845 --> 00:22:47.448
  • Faith were foundational to our educational and
  • 00:22:47.448 --> 00:22:49.750
  • Judicial systems.
  • 00:22:49.750 --> 00:22:53.254
  • However, there was a pivot.
  • 00:22:53.254 --> 00:22:55.156
  • Pretty dramatic one, honestly.
  • 00:22:55.156 --> 00:22:57.458
  • Those kind of changes don't take place in a vacuum.
  • 00:22:57.458 --> 00:22:59.760
  • There was a lot of cultural drift.
  • 00:22:59.760 --> 00:23:02.129
  • But in 1947, there was a radical change in the direction of our
  • 00:23:02.129 --> 00:23:05.566
  • Supreme court.
  • 00:23:05.566 --> 00:23:07.301
  • It required ignoring the precedents of the supreme court
  • 00:23:07.301 --> 00:23:09.937
  • For the past 160 years.
  • 00:23:09.937 --> 00:23:12.573
  • They ruled in a limited way to affirm a wall of separation
  • 00:23:12.573 --> 00:23:15.810
  • Between church and state in the public classroom.
  • 00:23:15.810 --> 00:23:18.913
  • In the coming years, this led to removing prayer from public
  • 00:23:18.913 --> 00:23:21.549
  • Schools in 1962.
  • 00:23:21.549 --> 00:23:23.818
  • Do you know the prayer that was banished?
  • 00:23:23.818 --> 00:23:25.186
  • That heinous prayer that was not--we couldn't tolerate in a
  • 00:23:25.186 --> 00:23:28.289
  • Public place?
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  • I can give it to you.
  • 00:23:29.857 --> 00:23:31.225
  • It's only two sentences.
  • 00:23:31.225 --> 00:23:33.694
  • "almighty god, we acknowledge our dependence on thee.
  • 00:23:33.694 --> 00:23:37.431
  • We beg your blessings upon us and our parents and our teachers
  • 00:23:37.431 --> 00:23:40.334
  • And our country, amen."
  • 00:23:40.334 --> 00:23:44.205
  • That prayer was so reprehensible it had to be banned by the
  • 00:23:44.205 --> 00:23:46.607
  • Supreme court.
  • 00:23:46.607 --> 00:23:48.609
  • But we were busy.
  • 00:23:48.609 --> 00:23:51.011
  • We were planting and reaping, buying and selling, marrying and
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  • Giving in marriage.
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  • In 1963, our supreme court ruled that bible reading was outlawed
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  • As unconstitutional in the public school systems--1963.
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  • The court offered this justification: "if portions of
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  • The new testament were read without explanation, they could
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  • And have been psychologically harmful to children."
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  • Now we put smut in the libraries.
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  • Bible reading was now unconstitutional, though the
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  • Bible was frequently quoted by those who wrote our constitution
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  • And shaped our nation and its system of education, justice,
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  • And government.
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  • In 1965, the courts denied as unconstitutional the right of a
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  • Student in the public school cafeteria to bow his head and
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  • Pray audibly for his food.
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  • It was 1980, not that long ago, when stone v. graham
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  • Outlawed the ten commandments in our
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  • Public schools.
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  • They said this: "if posted copies of the ten commandments
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  • Were to have any effect at all, it would be to induce
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  • Schoolchildren to read them.
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  • And if they read them, meditated upon them, and perhaps venerated
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  • And obeyed them, this is not a permissible objective."
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  • Remember the first amendment?
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  • "it is not a permissible objective to allow our children
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  • To follow the moral principles of the ten commandments."
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  • James madison, the primary author of the constitution of
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  • The united states, said this: "we've staked the whole future
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  • Of our new nation, not upon the power of government, far
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  • From it.
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  • We've staked the future of all our political constitutions upon
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  • The capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves
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  • According to the moral principles of the
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  • Ten commandments."
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  • I've given you the brief history lesson because i believe with
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  • All of my heart every generation has to choose to honor god.
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  • There's really no question that those who founded our nation,
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  • Who made such sacrifices to allow it to come into being, and
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  • That many generations between there and now, have believed
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  • That the bible was an essential component to the well-being of
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  • Our nation.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: being a christ-follower is not as much about an
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  • Experience and a completed activity, a prayer, a visit to
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  • An altar, a response to an evangelist.
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  • It's certainly a beginning point of welcoming jesus into your
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  • Heart, but it's a life that we lead, so we continue to grow and
  • 00:26:19.827 --> 00:26:23.497
  • Learn and gain strength.
  • 00:26:23.497 --> 00:26:25.299
  • As life presents challenges, we get to know god in a new way.
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  • Well, i believe this book about the holy spirit is a tool to
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  • Help you gain a new momentum to grow through the things in your
  • 00:26:32.106 --> 00:26:35.976
  • Life under the direction of the power of the spirit of god.
  • 00:26:35.976 --> 00:26:39.279
  • Folks, we're not gonna outwork evil or outthink evil.
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  • We're not gonna out-organize evil.
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  • The only thing evil will yield to is a power greater than
  • 00:26:43.717 --> 00:26:46.587
  • Itself, and that power is the spirit of god that you and me
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  • Manifest in the earth through people of faith.
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  • We're salt and light.
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  • We're change agents.
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  • I wanna pray.
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  • Heavenly father, give us a discernment to recognize your
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  • Spirit, how we can welcome him into our lives and cooperate
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  • With him to bring your breakthroughs into our lives,
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  • Our homes, and our churches, in jesus's name, amen.
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