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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 where separating from great britain,
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Great and rigid and 1 to 27.
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And remember that every one of those agreements
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Had been preached from the american pulpit prior to 1763.
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So read the grievances
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As if they're sermon topics, and see what bible verses.
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You can put each of those 27 grievances.
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Because pastors did that,
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That's what they did in the founding era.
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See if you can put bible verses to the same things
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As they put bible verses to back then.
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And that tells us a lot about where we are
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With our biblical knowledge, what we even know of,
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What the bible says about government.
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Because that declaration is a it really is a listing
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Of sermon topics.
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That's what we're celebrating on the 250th.
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This is two sermons that were printed as a book.
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Those are three sermons, if those are two sermons.
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So feeling convicted?
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Well, i was just going to say, any time
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They think you've gone long, i just want to point out.
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It used to be several hours for a sermon back in the day.
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I got to get in on this for a minute
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Because there's several hours for a sermon.
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John quincy adams,
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When he was president, i said, how john quincy
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Adams started keeping a diary when he's 11 years old.
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He kept her for 68 years.
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So john quincy adams has this massive diary.
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And at one point he was talking about
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He was 40 years in congress, president of the united states,
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Served in the first several presidential administrations.
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But he's talking about how that he would go to church.
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And by the way, they went to church at the us capitol.
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Church was held at the capitol
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Every sunday, and that's where he attended.
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Church was at the capitol,
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And they would have sermons at the capitol every sunday.
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And he he said that one sunday they had a brand
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New chaplain that had just been hired in the house.
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That chaplain came in and he preached that sunday service.
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And john quincy adams usually goes through and analyzes
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Every sermon.
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Well, the verses were good,
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But he could have
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Used this verse and he should use this one
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And the one and he just analyzed every sermon.
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And he got through and he said, this chaplain
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Preached this morning, and he has got to go.
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He only preached 40 minutes.
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What did he think we came to church for?
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We came here to be here several hours.
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But he talked, and that's literally his complaint.
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You're applauding.
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That's.
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So this is a book
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With two sermons from john wise.
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These sermons were actually preached
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Back in the early 1700s, but
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This was reprinted in 1772
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By the sons of liberty,
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Because in the midst of
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Their idea of trying to get every american rallying
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Together, working together,
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They said, we need to get everybody on the same page.
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How can we do that?
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And this was a pastor who had been in massachusetts.
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And by the way, just so you know, the sons of liberty,
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That's the group started by sam adams
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And john hancock and all the founding father
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Kind of patriots.
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So the founding fathers
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Are running the group that reprinted these two sermons.
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They decided
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That if we're going to get everybody on the same page,
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There was this pastor years ago
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Who would preach these great sermons.
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We should reprint those sermons
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And have them so americans could read them,
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Because that would that would help them
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Understand what we're thinking and where we're coming from.
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Now, how would these sermons
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Help them understand what's interesting?
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Because in one of these two sermons, john wise
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And i quote says, all men are created equal
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And endowed by their creator with certain inalienable
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Rights.
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That's in the declaration.
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This is also where they got the idea.
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He taught that god's preferred form of government
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Was the consent of the government.
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He thought, and this isn't these sermons, these two sermons.
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He taught that taxation without representation is tyranny.
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Those are all things that show up in the declaration.
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This was reprinted by the founding fathers circulated.
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So when the founding fathers are trying to raise up these
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Patriotic people in the way they did it, as we need sermons,
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I just want to point out,
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This is where we have a lot more disconnect today
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Than we realize, and we would go back and review some history.
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It's amazing the role the church had in leading
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So much of the movement.
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But by the way, they weren't leading
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Because they wanted to be rebellious.
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In fact, you can go back and look up.
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1776 there was a committee assigned to come up
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With the motto and the seal for our new nation.
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Benjamin franklin, thomas jefferson
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And john adams were all part of this committee.
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And franklin actually wrote a suggestion.
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It was not accepted.
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I wish it would ever have been amazing.
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But he wrote a suggestion benjamin franklin
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Considered one of the least religious founding fathers.
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His suggested motto was rebellion to tyrants
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Is obedience to god his seal.
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He said, we should have moses standing on one side,
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And then there should be in the red sea
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And pharaoh's army and chariots, all drowning in the water,
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And then in the background it could be this pillar of cloud
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And and a fire in the middle of it.
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Okay.
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Again, first of all,
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That would have been so cool if that had been our motto.
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But where did franklin come up with these ideas?
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This is clearly the influence of the church,
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The influence of christianity and the fact, again,
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It was pastor sermons that were shaping the culture,
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But specifically shaping
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The political culture of what led to the birth of the nation.
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So in the midst of this conversation, again,
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I would encourage you.
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We have to do a better job of not disconnecting our faith
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From the bigger picture of where god has us.
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In fact, if you go to jeremiah 29,
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Growing up as i did, born in the 80s, a kid of the 90s,
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My grandparents, my parents, jeremiah 29, 11, was everywhere.
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For another, plans i have for you, declares
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The lord, plans to prosper you, not to harm,
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And to give you a hope and a future.
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That that was like on
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Somebody's pillow, on somebody's frame, right?
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Bible cover. it was everywhere.
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And and so we probably
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Most of us have heard and seen jeremiah 2911.
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And i would ask most people in a conversation, hey,
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Do you know what comes before that?
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And most of us are like that. that's the verse i know.
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I don't know the rest of it.
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And i would remind them, okay, well,
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Back up to the beginning of jeremiah 29.
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Jeremiah says, i'm writing to all
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Who are being carried away into captivity.
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So people being taken as slaves into a land
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They don't even want to be in,
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And he starts in verse four and five
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And he says, don't despair, don't lose hope.
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God hasn't forgotten you.
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When you get there, don't stop getting married, get married,
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Have kids, raise families, plant crops and vineyards.
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He gets the verse seven,
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He says, and seek the peace and the prosperity of the land
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To which you've been carried away captive.
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Pray to the lord for it.
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For when it goes well with that land, it will go well with you.
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They didn't even want to be there.
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And he's like you.
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You need a seed to make the place
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You are living the best possible. pragmatically.
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Because if it goes better
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With them,
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It goes better with you.
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You need to pray for it
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And you need to seek the best for it.
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Okay, so as a christian, how do you seek the best for it?
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Well, one of the ways you got to seek the best for it
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Is you got to get involved in the political
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General idea of what's happening,
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Which means voting elections, which means sometimes
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You need to nominate your friend or your spouse
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To run for school board, to run for city council.
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Sometimes the problem is we don't have the right kind
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Of people that we even can vote for.
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But but again, the reason i say this
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Is because we have disconnected the reality that part
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Of our calling as christians to be salt and light.
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One of the things
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That god through jeremiah tells the people, the israelites
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Is also the place where god plans to you.
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You should work to make it the best possible environment
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There is,
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And the way we impact our environment will.
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Part of it is through the school board
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And the city council, through the mayor.
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It's through our state reps and our governor.
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And again, i'm saying this, not that.
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This is the trigger of like
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We are being christian nationalists.
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I am being a christian who loves god first,
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But recognize as god's calling
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That i should make the place where i live better.
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And the tools
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At my disposal to do that often are political tools.
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And i do love god, and i do love my nation
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And that is not a crazy idea.
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The term christian nationalism is being used as a pejorative
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To try to scare christians
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From keeping their faith and getting involved in the process,
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And that's simply not what the bible teaches
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On any level whatsoever.
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On any level whatsoever.
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George washington,
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When he retired at the end of 45 years of public service,
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I mean, he was the guy in america,
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Could have been a king if he had wanted to.
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He didn't want to.
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The bible talked about electing your leaders.
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And so in his final farewell address, he said, what produces
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Our political prosperity is religion and morality.
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You can't have political
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Prosperity without religion and morality.
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You can't have religion, morality.
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If religious and moral people
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Don't get involved in the political process,
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It's not going to be the immoral
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And the irreligious that bring religion and morality.
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And you can't have religion.
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You can't have political prosperity
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Without religion and morality.
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If i can, i want to show you slides
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For just a couple of minutes.
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So you kind of where the church is on this.
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We keep up with stats
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And do a lot of work on this kind of stuff.
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Shelby county and the county,
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There are 30 races in the county,
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And 15 of those races have no candidates in the race at all.
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Nobody even stepped up to want to be involved.
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If you'd lived in shelby county, you could have run
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For 15 different offices just by signing up.
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And if the godly, the scriptures say, when the righteous rule
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The people rejoice in the wicked rule, the people groan
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Only way.
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The righteous rule is they have to get on the ballot,
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And then they have to get elected once
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They're on the ballot.
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And this is something the church is backed away
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From for several years.
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If i go back to the time of founding father
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Daniel webster in his 1840 election,
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Voter turnout was 100%, and his particular election
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For congress,
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There were 5000 people in his district
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And there were 5000 votes cast in that district.
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So everybody felt a responsibility.
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I'll answer to god for what i do with my vote.
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He gave me a vote. what am i going to do with it?
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Christians are backed away from and
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I want to show you where we are now.
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So let me take put some slides up on the screen here guys.
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Here we go.
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So in voting i'm going to take you
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Through the numbers real quick.
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100% of those
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That are constitutionally able to vote can.
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And that means that you're
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18 years old and you're legal citizen.
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You're you're constitutionally able to vote
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That is a big deal, by the way, that you're a legal citizen
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For any state.
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This on that that's constitutional. so
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So within that framework,
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100% of adults that are 18 and legal says can vote.
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And at this point only 68% are registered to vote.
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So you see that are actually 65.3%.
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So already
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We have about one third of americans who say, i don't care
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What the rest of the nation does.
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I don't care where it goes.
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I'm not going to do anything to direct that.
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So at this point, we're having
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One out of three adults check out.
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Now, let me go back to the stats here for a minute.
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So in presidential elections,
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Which is where we have the highest voter turnout,
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Only 54% are registered to vote, and that's 54% is 65.3%.
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So that's not high voter turnout.
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That means only 36% of adults
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Vote in the presidential
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Election, democrat and republican together only 36%.
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And one note for this.
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This is from the last five decades of data.
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Yeah.
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What actually skews this more recently
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Is because of covid with the mail in ballots,
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When there was and president biden had the most incredible
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Vote count
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That there's ever been for any president in american history,
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Because he's the most popular one's ever been elected.
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Not that digress, but.
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This is excluding that election.
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So apart from that election, when there was,
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Actually in some counties had 125% voter
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Turnout.
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It's fine.
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It's fine,
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But it's excluding that one election.
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Just so you know, that's for five decades of data
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For where these numbers come from.
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So what you have is 36% of adults
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Voted, constitutionally able adults voted.
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And it only takes half that to win,
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Which means 18% is been choosing the president.
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And now this covers 11 presidential elections.
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So one out of five americans is choosing the president
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Of the united states. 11 presidential elections.
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If you go to off year elections,
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Which is where we are now, this is where you choose
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Senators, congressmen, governors, etc.
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Your average voter turnout drops to 38% of registered voters.
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It takes half that to win the election, which is,
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And only 26% of registered ones vote.
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And so you're looking at about 13% of adults choose
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Governors, choose u.s. senators.
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We were talking one out of eight americans are choosing.
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Let people gripe about the leaders i've got.
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We'll ask because seven out of eight
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Didn't vote for that leader.
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That's because four out of five didn't
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Vote for that presidential candidate, and that's on us.
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That's not on them.
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So when you get down into other elections,
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You take that one out of five number
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Or that one out of eight number
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And jump down into local elections,
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At local elections, it's only 6% turnout.
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Now, 6% of of registered voters, which means only
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4% of adults vote.
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Which means generally
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We're choosing our mayors,
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We're choosing our city council with 2%.
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I'll give you a couple of quirky, indications.
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Los angeles county, this the county of los angeles
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Is larger than the population of 23 states.
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So if you're the mayor of los angeles,
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That's like being a governor in 23 different states.
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Eric garcetti, the recent mayor of los angeles, brags
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That he was elected with 2.9% of the vote.
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A total is.
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So you essentially have
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A governor that more people than most governors have,
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And he's elected with 2.9% of the total vote of los angeles.
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If you go to houston and texas, where we are,
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Houston is larger than 20 states,
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And we elected in houston,
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A lady named elise parker with 4.9%.
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She was the first openly lesbian mayor in houston.
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She enacted policies and said, if from the pulpit you say
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Marriage is between a man and woman, that is now a crime.
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She went after several pastors for that.
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They did the same in san antonio.
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They made it a classy misdemeanor to say
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That marriage is between a man and a woman.
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So i can't even say what the bible says
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Without violating civil law.
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But again, when only 4.9% of the people in the city and houston
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Highly
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Christian city and san antonio is too,
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They just didn't vote in that election.
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A couple more. i'll point to fort worth.
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This is where
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All this gender confusion
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We've had over recent years that came out of fort worth,
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Which is just unbelievable to me.
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That's fort worth is in the middle of texas,
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Above fort worth independent school district.
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They said, you know,
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We've considered this and we don't think it
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Matters anymore what restroom kids choose
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Or what locker rooms they go to or what showers they use.
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We're going to let kids choose any.
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This is the the school board of fort worth
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Independent school district.
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They're the first ones in the nation that said this.
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And that's out of a very red state and a very red city.
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So what happened is arne duncan, who is secretary of education
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For obama, said, that's a great idea.
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Let's make this federal.
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And so this is where it went from a local city
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To federal level.
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And that's where it's come across all the states now.
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And so what happened is for us,
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This should have been a no brainer.
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Anybody that goes to the fort worth stockyards,
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You watched the cattle drive,
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You can tell what genders there are.
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And there's only two of them.
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And it's not hard to distinguish what the genders are.
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Every mammal species in the world, only two genders.
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So the city and the world.
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That should be clearest on genders.
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At least it has visual examples.
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Every day there were the ones confused.
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So fort worth has 918,000 people,
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The 13th largest city in the united states, 918,000.
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I went and looked at the president of the school board
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Who made this silly policy.
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He was elected with a total of 1200 votes out of 918,000.
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Now i start looked in his district,
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And i found a church in his district,
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And that one church alone had 3000 adults, and that one church
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Could have kept him
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From being the president school board,
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Which would decide the whole nation.
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From all this general stupidity
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We've had for the last 15 years.
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It came back to a local district.
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A local church could could have solved that problem.
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So a couple other examples. i'll give you a take.
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In bentonville, arkansas, this hometown of walmart,
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40,000 people lived there.
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There was a lady.
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This is not coming to bentonville.
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I'm going to get on the school
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Board and make sure it doesn't come.
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And she did.
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And that town of 40,000.
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She ran for school board and received a total of 35 votes
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Out of 40,000.
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She got elected with a majority of 35 votes.
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That's a sunday school class.
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Got her elected essentially sorted mass to one more example.
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Go to rice. fill iowa.
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There was a farmer in rice flour said, this is not coming.
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Our town.
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We know how many genders there are on the farm
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And this is not going to be in our schools.
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So he signs up. he runs for school board.
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Turned out on the day of the election,
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He got busy on the farm, didn't vote,
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And don't think that he lost by one vote.
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That wasn't it.
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There was not a single vote cast on the school board election.
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If he had voted for himself,
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He would be sitting on the school board.
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If he just voted for himself.
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So there's stories like this that go forever.
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And the point being that christians have to be involved
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In this arena, especially these damn ballot races, it's
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It takes a little bit of effort
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To find out who these people are,
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But a little bit of that first worth having good leaders
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Bible again, when the righteous rule
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The people rejoice in the lord. people groan.
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Nobody rules in america unless we put them there.
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That's on us.
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That's on us.
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Might i suggest you vote?
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And if you'll allow me,
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Every count in this community, every community
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Between now and election day is going to say,
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Jesus, when to ask a question.
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So don't be naive.
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If they've been in office, look at their body of work.
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If they've done the right thing while they were there,
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Support them. if they have it, don't pay attention.
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Look at the alternatives.
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That's right,
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That's right.
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I'm not telling you to vote for.
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I'm telling you to use your common sense.
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It's important we can't just complain and we can't just pray.
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It's like praying for food, not planning a garden,
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Right?
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We have to be involved
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In the process to get to the outcomes that we need
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In our adversaries.
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Would like us to be quiet and talk about the pharisees
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In the sadducees in the first century.
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And i'm happy to have that dialog.
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But we are ambassadors
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For jesus of nazareth in the 21st century.
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Marriage is not a political issue.
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It's a biblical issue.
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What our children have in their
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Libraries is not a political issue.
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It's a biblical issue.
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And we have to pay attention.
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And we have to pay attention.
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You're doing
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A lot of work for curriculum in schools.
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I know you've got a 92nd summary
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Of what wallbuilders is doing to make education better,
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But is such an enormous body of work,
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They at least need a window into that so they can pray.
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Yeah, the bible says, and jesus says in 1640
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He says every student
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Then is fully trained to be like his teacher.
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Education has a huge impact on our teachers.
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So if we can get good curriculum in.
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So what happens is there's two states
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That drive curriculum in the united states
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Because publishers publish for those two states,
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Texas and california, we have 24% of the nation's
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Public school kids.
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So if a publisher is going
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To put $90 million in doing social studies
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Curriculum history curriculum, they're going to choose
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Texas and california, texas, california.
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We're not like each other at all.
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We have very opposite philosophies.
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So generally, the national publishers choose texas and,
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California put our standards together.
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And so you get really bad history.
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And we've had this going on for several decades now.
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Texas this year said, no, we're not doing this anymore.
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We're big enough.
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With 5.5 million students in our schools, 5.7
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Million that will start publishing our own textbooks.
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And so what happens now in texas?
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We passed several laws in the last three years.
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But for example, now you have to, in every class,
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Have readings
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From the old testament
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And new testament as part of history,
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Because that's what the founding fathers read.
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That's what historians read.
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So you have that. we now teach patriotism.
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We now teach communism is wrong. socialism is wrong.
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These are all things that california
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Is on the other side of.
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So i'm one of the nine people selected in texas
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To write the standards for the school books.
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In texas, we have 23 different social studies courses.
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Those textbooks will be coming out.
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They will change the direction the nation,
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Because we'll start raising
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A generation of kids who see things from the
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Very different viewpoint.
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Allen Jackson: Founders Vision (Part 2) | Allen Jackson Now

May 15, 2026 | 22:19

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