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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Founders Vision | Allen Jackson Now | May 14, 2026

I had the privilege recently of sitting down
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With a couple of friends, david and tim barton.
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David is the founder of wallbuilders.
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Tim, his son, is the current president.
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It is one of the premier,
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Resources for american history and the impact of our faith.
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And they have been working faithfully for decades
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That we just welcome to the church.
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We did a pop up museum,
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Which had hundreds of artifacts from our revolutionary period
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And beyond, reminding us of the christian heritage
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Of our nation, never a uniquely christian nation,
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But from its very inception, very definitively founded upon
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A biblical worldview.
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Judeo christian values.
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The interview is really to highlight some other things
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Other than their just their, their amazing,
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Comprehensive knowledge of history.
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They are working diligently and have been
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For a number of years with legislators
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From across the united states, state legislators,
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For policies that will bring restore
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Those biblical worldview issues into our communities again.
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And i wanted them to talk about that
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As well as what they're doing with education.
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I think we've all, since covid, understood that there are some,
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Pretty significant deficiencies with our education,
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Our public education, our higher education,
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And they have some great ideas about that.
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So i think the interview
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Is not only informative about our history,
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But it helps us
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Answer that question that we are always walking around with.
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And that's what can we do and what do we do from here?
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And i think you'll hear in both david barton and tim,
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Some very practical things we can do as simple as vote,
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Get involved in the process,
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Use your voice, influence your friends to participate.
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Folks, there's no question god's moving in the earth.
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The question is whether or not you and i are going to join him,
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Or whether we will remain in the bleachers
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And talk about what we think needs somebody else to do.
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And i hope you'll continue to pray
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That you will see what god is doing
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So you can join him in that activity.
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Thank you for taking some time.
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You remind us consistently
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That we're not as well-versed in our history as we might be,
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But wallbuilders and your whole organization
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Are engaged in some things far beyond
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Just reminding churches of that.
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And i wanted to give a little broader
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Exposure to that, because i think it's so important.
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Well, i had the privilege,
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Cathy and i had the privilege a few months ago
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Of being a part of your
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Legislators conference, which you do on an annual basis
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With legislators from across the states
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And helping them think about
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Issues that are in their state with biblical worldview issues.
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I don't know which one of you want to respond to that.
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Can you tell us a little bit about that initiative
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And what it involves,
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And the kind of fruit you've seen from it? yes, sir.
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So one of the things, broad picture,
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In case anybody doesn't know, is
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We do primarily stuff with american history.
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Working with our original historic collection,
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Our goal is to try to help people, understand from faith
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And have historic examples of how faith applies in
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Lots of areas of life.
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We focus on the church,
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On education, and on the government arena.
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And so this is just one of our government arena outreaches.
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We work with about a thousand state
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Legislators across the nation.
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There's about 7800.
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So there's a significant percentage
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That we actually engage with, we help with,
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Model legislation, among other things,
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But ultimately trying to go back and say,
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If it's not biblical,
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If it's not constitutional,
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If it's not protecting inalienable rights,
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We shouldn't support it.
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And we need to do things
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That are more directed in those regards.
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We bring in policy experts
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From all over the nation on whatever the topic is,
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Or in many cases, spiritual leaders as well for,
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Those that have never attended the conference before.
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We, from the morning through the afternoon
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Have a bunch of policy walks, but all christian worldview
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Related to people
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That will come in and say, okay, so this is what's going on
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With whether it be like an esg, whether it be,
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Something with there's bills now where we are having to clarify
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That i does not have human rights privileges.
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But we're literally like, hey, that's a real thing.
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We have to address this.
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And not to digress on that because,
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Not only should i not have human
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Rights privileges, but the unborn should.
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So we kind of cover all of those bases.
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But then every evening, one of the things we recognize is
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We don't want to just give them good ammunition to go back.
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As they're trying to navigate policy and legislation
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Every evening, we will have a spiritual emphasis.
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And so we want to feed not just their mind.
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We want to feed their heart and soul as well.
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And so pastor jackson came,
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And he was able to do one of the, the evenings for us
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Where we have a spiritual emphasis. phenomenal.
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But we do work all over the, the nation.
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And in fact, i think it was just this week
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That tennessee approved out of the house
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That they're going to allow the ten commandments
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To be posted in public schools in tennessee.
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Which, by way of background, and i appreciate the fact
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That everybody in the room pretty much applauded.
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You should have. that's very important.
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One of the things
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We have largely forgotten, the founding fathers said
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That america only works with a religious
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And moral foundation, and it used to be not debatable.
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The moral foundation was what we learned
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From the bible and ultimately,
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Even like the legal foundation of our nation derives
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From the ten commandments as much as,
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If not more than, virtually anything else you can identify.
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So. so this is part of the founding of our nation.
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If you go back to the early colonies, every single
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One of the early colonies,
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They included the ten commandments
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As part of the legal code
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For every single one of the early colonies.
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And here's what's also interesting
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Is there was never a colony that had more than 15 reasons
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That somebody could be put to death.
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But in every one of the colonies,
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Some of the reasons you could be put to
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Death was for violating the ten commandments,
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And they actually would list when they would write the law
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That thou shalt not murder.
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They would literally put the verse like exodus beside it,
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Identifying that they're taking
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That specifically from the bible.
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Again, the reason i say this is we now have a world
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And a culture that's growing up where our kids are being told
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That there's no objective truth. truth is subjective.
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It's how you feel. it's what you think.
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This is my truth. this is your truth.
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And and we're not having a moral standard for them to hold you.
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In fact,
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I would challenge
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When people are like, well,
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We we can't have the ten commandments.
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You can't have religion in school.
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Okay, well,
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Let me just ask a really simple follow up basic question.
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How do we determine right and wrong
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That this is a simple question
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Because there's only a couple options.
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It's either subjective, it's collective, or it's objective.
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Subjective means we decide for ourselves,
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Well, that's never going to be good.
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The majority of the world up until like 100 years ago,
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Thought that slavery was acceptable.
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The majority of the world, there was never a nation
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That didn't have slavery.
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So if we say we just collectively, we can point out
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That consistently
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Collective groups choose things that are immoral.
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Well, if it can't be subjective, it's not collective.
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The only other option is there has to be
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An objective standard we point to.
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Well, you could
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Then arguable there's more than one objective standard
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Because like the jews have, the torah,
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The christians have the bible, that the muslims have the koran.
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And people might argue there's different objective standards.
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And then what i would say is, okay, to make it easy
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If we're going to say we need a
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The best, the highest moral objective standard,
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Instead of analyzing all the textual documents,
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I would say, let's just compare the heroes of those religions.
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Yes. and this shouldn't be all that complicated,
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Because, by the way, fair.
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If you go back to the torah,
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Those are some of our biblical heroes.
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However, we can point out abraham had some major faults.
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Moses major flaws. david, major.
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You go to islam and they have muhammad,
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Who believed that you should kill your enemies.
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You shouldn't enslave them.
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You can have multiple brides
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And child brides and go down the list.
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And then you have jesus
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Who said you should treat other people
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The way you want to be treated. love your neighbor as yourself.
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And the reason i point this out is for people that say, no, we
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We shouldn't have christianity or we shouldn't have the bible.
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We shouldn't have ten commandments in public school.
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Okay, so what other options are there?
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Because you're always going to have a standard of morality.
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And if we're saying
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Jesus is the highest standard of morality ever given,
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Even if you don't believe he's savior, you should.
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But even if you're like, i'm not sure,
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But he's a great moral teacher,
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His moral teachings would help you live a better and
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More free life.
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More free life.
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The reason i'm
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Saying this is there's christians that are like,
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We can't have the ten commandments.
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There is going to be a moral standard.
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And if we're saying we can't use the bible, then
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All that is left is a lower degree moral standard.
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So we will be teaching our kids a lesser value.
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Morals that are going to equate to them having worse behavior.
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And as we see all kinds of horrific things where
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I don't want to be graphic, but where people
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Are taking firearms and going in places and shooting
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And like that's become far too normal. why?
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Because we've removed an objective standard of morality
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That says thou shalt not murder.
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This shouldn't be, by the way, when kids can go to jail
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For violating the ten commandments,
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But we've told them they can't see the ten commandments.
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You can go to jail for stealing.
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You can go to jail for killing.
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I mean, literally, and we're saying but they can't see it.
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And i'm saying all of this
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Because i want to get in front of the feeling
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For anybody who's in the room
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Or watching online
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Here, like,
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But i don't think we should
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Really have the ten commandments there.
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Then what else are we going to show them?
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To give them a moral standard?
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Because this is the best moral standard
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For the history of the world there has ever been. and.
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There was a
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Reason it was part of every single colony's laws.
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There was a reason the founding fathers advocated
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Above all
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The sermon on the mount
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And the ten commandments, they thought were the two most
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Moral and significant teachings
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That every student should learn and memorize.
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Okay, again, the reason this matters
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And part of why we celebrate.
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Back to our legislators conference.
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We introduced something to our legislators
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Several years ago
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Saying, hey guys, there's a unique opportunity
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Because you remember the coach kennedy decision,
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The football coach who was fired for kneeling.
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He won a supreme court case in 2022, the supreme court,
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And giving him the victory.
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They overturned what was known as a lemon decision.
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The lemon decision is essentially
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What removed all religious activity
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And expression from the public arena in public school.
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Well, the supreme court said, well,
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That was always bad policy,
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That that was never constitutionally correct.
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We are vacating or overturning it.
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When the ten commandments were taken out of school in 1980,
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The thing that the supreme court cited was the lemon decision.
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They said, well, the lemon test says we have to take it out.
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Lemon test is overturned, which means
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The only thing that said we couldn't have it is now removed.
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Let me point out,
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The ten commandments were part of education from the pilgrims
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Until 1980.
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This isn't a brand new idea.
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This is restoring
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What was the foundation in education that made america
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The most free, stable, prosperous
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And benevolent nation in the history of the world.
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And by the way, tennessee just passed
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That out of the house.
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I'll add to it
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That 27 states have now introduced laws to restore
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The ten commandments in their states.
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Five have so far passed laws.
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We've been at a bunch of states testifying to that,
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Because part of what we can help provide is the historical
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And legal background for the restoration of these things.
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So there's a lot of good going on.
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We had states this year passed a law
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To put prayer back in schools.
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They put bible back in schools that put bible back into reagan.
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We've had so much turnaround in the last 2 to 3 years.
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And so in
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Any given legislative session with and the founding fathers
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Did a brilliant job with the constitution,
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Making sure
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That they separated
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The federal government from the state government
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So that they get control of a lot of stuff.
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We're going to talk later about elections.
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The time, place and manner of elections
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By the constitution belongs to each state.
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So every state has a different way of doing elections.
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But if you go back
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And look at all that in any given year,
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Among all of our 50 state legislatures,
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There will be 150,000 bills introduced.
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So we'll monitor those bills and see what the trends are.
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We'll try to provide the experts for the legislators
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On whatever that trend happens to be,
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Whether it's religious,
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Moral trends or economic or whether it
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Happens to be something with esg or ucc or various codes.
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And so that's a service
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We try to provide for christian legislators
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As well as get them biblical instruction
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During the conference,
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Through great christian leaders like pastor jackson.
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Well,
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The part that was so fascinating to me was the help
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That wallbuilders provided and that
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That's a community of people because they come year
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After year, and i watch them work on language
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And share their common experience
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So that the laws they were putting in place
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Could withstand the challenges because inevitably, the aclu
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Or the southern poverty law center,
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Such an august body of integrity,
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Will often challenge them in court.
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And you were providing some
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Just a wonderful environment for those things to be overcome.
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You know, we have we have bowed at the wrong altar.
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And i hear this from local leadership and other places
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On a consistent basis.
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So if we do the right thing, we'll be sued
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As if that provides you an excuse
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To not do the right thing. i want to ask
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Every man in the room a question, real question.
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If you even if you knew today you would be sued
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If you were faithful to your wife.
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Does that give you a legitimate reason to go be unfaithful
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To avoid the lawsuit?
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You're going to do the right thing.
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Yes, yes.
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Even if there's a threat of a consequence.
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I want to answer that question out loud.
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The answer would be yes.
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I'm going to be
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Faithful to my wife, even if there's a consequence.
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Why will we do the wrong thing?
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Because we're afraid of the conscience.
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That makes no sense for the christ follower.
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That makes no sense for the christ follower.
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There's an adage
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That culture is is downstream of politics.
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But sometimes people think, well, no, it's the church.
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And i would say, here's
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There's two interesting things about this.
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When you look at culture,
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Culture is a reflection of two things.
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It is a reflection of the church,
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And it's a reflection of politics.
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And a lot of times people think, well, it's the church is
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What determines culture, that determines politics.
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But i would point out
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Politics actually determines culture,
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Especially in our modern era,
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At times more than the church does. now, that's
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Actually an indictment on the church in america.
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However, i do want to point out when roe versus wade
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Became the law of the land, which is already silly because,
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Law doesn't come from the supreme courts,
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It comes from congress.
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They're the ones that pass it off.
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So when the supreme court
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Had the 1973
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Roe versus wade decision and they said, we just found
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A new constitutional right to abortion,
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Miraculously, the words
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Aren't there, but we found it in the constitution.
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They said, this is now the law of the land.
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Again, they don't pass a law.
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But here's what's the reason i bring this up.
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What i want to point out prior to 1973,
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How many americans
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Supported abortion
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Publicly, outwardly supported abortion.
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And what you will find is it was in the single digits.
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Then abortion becomes the law of the land
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Because it's the law of the land.
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It becomes normalized.
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And now not only do you have the majority
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Of americans, here's the staggering part.
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You have the majority of christians
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That think we should not end all of abortion
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For whatever reason.
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And here's why i'm saying this.
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Because the reason that we got involved
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On the legislative front, and a lot of ways,
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Actually, is because of our faith,
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Because we recognize if we don't start upholding
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Legally some of these basic traditional values,
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Then this will change our culture for so much to the worse
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And make it more of a challenge
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For us as believers.
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And if that's confusing to anybo
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When when you are a christian right now over in europe,
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And literally
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Whether it's in canada, the uk and, well,
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You can't teach certain bible verses anymore,
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You can't read them out loud anymore.
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You can go to jail
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For hate speech, for reading the bible out loud.
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America, if we are not careful,
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Can go down that same slippery path.
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And i'm saying this because if the church thinks, well,
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We don't need to get involved in politics, politics,
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Or actually directing this ship there,
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They're the bigger rudder on this ship right now.
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And again,
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Largely that's an indictment on the church
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Because the church
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Has not been being the salt like we should be the salt.
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But part of how we can be the salt is to get involved
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In that political arena.
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And if we do, we actually can do things that uphold biblical,
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Traditional values, that uphold inalienable rights,
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That uphold constitutional principles.
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And that's exactly what the founding fathers did.
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They weren't people that checked their faith at the door.
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They were people.
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When when the declaration says, we hold these truths
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To be self-evident, that all men are created equal,
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Endowed by their creator
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With certain available rights,
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And that to secure these rights governments
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Are choose among men.
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When they said those are self-evident truths,
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Where did they discover those self-evident truths?
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And here's the interesting thing. so this is.
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If you have
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Come to the pop up museum, you've seen these.
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This is the first printing
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Of the original draft of the declaration.
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And, this came out in 1829.
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It was thomas jefferson's grandson
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That found the original one.
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I was like, this is amazing. people want to see this.
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Let's make some copies.
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So they made copies.
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This is from the first printing, the first copy that was made
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From the original draft.
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But here's the reason i want to bring this up.
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There was a historian named alice baldwin.
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She wrote a book called the new england clergy
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In the american revolution.
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And if you look through this, it's four pages.
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In her book, she talks about the influence
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Of the pastors in early america.
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But the amazing part is, she points out,
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The founding fathers didn't come up with a single unique idea,
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She said, and said
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They repeated all of the things
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They'd been learning from their pastor
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For the decades leading up to that moment.
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And one of her quotes, she says, there is not a right
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Asserted in the declaration, which had not been preached
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From the american clergy prior to 1763.
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And in her book she goes through and she lists the pastors
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And the sermons that delivered all of those rights.
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And the sermons that delivered all of those rights.
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If we read the bible, it's
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Very clear god has three institutions.
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God has the family.
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God has the church, and god created government.
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And i don't know of any christian
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Who would debate the fact that god gave guidance on
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How the family is supposed to operate.
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And as christians, we should follow the guidance
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That god gave. right?
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And whether that's for husband and wife,
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Whether that's for raising kids, whether it's for kids
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Submitting in, obeying
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Their parents, the lord for this is right.
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The bible gives guidance clearly on the family.
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The bible gives guidance on the church,
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That is, to equip the saints for the work of the ministry.
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And we can go through all the details
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Of what the bible says in the church.
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Here's what's interesting.
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The bible says far more
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About government and government leaders,
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And in dealing and addressing
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Government and government leaders
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Than it does the family or the church.
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And yet, for some reason, we spend more time
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On what the bible says, less about
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Than acknowledging, you know what?
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The bible has an awful lot to say
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About politics and government.
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And as christians, we're not supposed to only care
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About two of the three institutions god made.
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We actually need to recognize
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The bible speaks more to government,
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And therefore we should be interested
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And care about government in the midst of what we do.
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And that's literally what early pastors did.
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Going back to the fact that every single grievance
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Or every single right, and the declaration
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Had been preached from pastors prior
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To 1763, it again is an indictment on the church.
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But it's
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I want to be an encouragement of why, as a christian,
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We shouldn't be even reading our bible
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And thinking, well, as a christian,
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I shouldn't get involved politically.
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No, actually, if you read your bible,
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You should go man, how many times does
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He prophets go to these kings?
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How many times are they talking about?
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You should do this. you shouldn't do this.
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God will bless. god will curse.
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That's almost all dealing
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With government leaders and government officials.
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It's the majority of the bible and we can't read it.
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Disconnected from our reality
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That we live in a world with political leaders
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And the word of god speaks to every issue we deal with,
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Not just with family and church, but also with politics.
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Let me add a challenge to that,
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Because we're coming up
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On the 250th anniversary
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Celebration of that document right there, the tim held,
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And it probably takes you if you if you haven't read
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The document, read it's probably 15 minutes to read
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And you'll find 27 grievances in that declaration.
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Here's 27 reasons we're separated
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From great britain, because great and risen 1 to 27.
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And remember that every one of those grievances
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Had been preached from the american pulpit prior to 1763.
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So read the grievances as if they're sermon topics,
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And see what bible verses you can put
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Each of those 27 grievances.
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