Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - America Is A Christian Nation (Part 2)

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - America Is A Christian Nation (Part 2) | July 3, 2026

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♪♪♪
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Male announcer: from the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas, this is "pathway to victory"
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With dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory."
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Today's america is but a faint shadow of what
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Our founding fathers fought to establish.
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Every day in our nation's capitols, rogue lawmakers are
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Twisting biblical standards while liberal
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Politicians are working to muzzle christians
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From expressing their views in the media.
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Today, i'm eager to equip you with the factual
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History about america's spiritual heritage.
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My message is titled "america is a christian nation"
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On today's special edition of "pathway to victory."
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♪ i saw the lord seated high and lifted up. ♪
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♪ majestic in splendor. ♪
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♪ i saw the lord seated high and lifted up. ♪
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♪ filling the temple. ♪
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♪ his glory declaring the words of his praise. ♪
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♪ his mercies surrounding the depth of his praise. ♪
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♪ holy, holy is the lord. ♪
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♪ worthy, worthy is the lamb. ♪
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♪ he was and is and evermore shall reign. ♪
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♪ we sing glory, glory to his name. ♪
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♪ we sing glory, glory to his name. ♪
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♪ my eyes have seen the king. ♪
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♪ the lord of hosts is with us. ♪
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♪ and by majesty ♪
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♪ this land redeemed in--♪
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♪ holy, holy is the lord. ♪
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♪ worthy, worthy is the lamb--♪
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♪♪♪
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♪ we sing glory, glory to his name. ♪
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♪ to his name. ♪♪
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[congregation applauding]
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Announcer: as our nation marks 250 years, america
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Stands at a crossroads.
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Path that leads to ruin?
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Jeffress: joseph story was appointed to the supreme
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Court in 1811 by james madison.
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Now, if you know anything about american history, you know james
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Madison is said to have been the architect of our constitution.
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So james madison is the one who appointed joseph story who said
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This is a christian nation and talked about imposter religions.
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Now, do you think james madison, who knew the constitution
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Backwards and forwards, was its architect, would he appoint some
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Imbecile to the supreme court who didn't
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Understand the purpose of the constitution?
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Of course not.
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He appointed joseph story because he
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Knew story understood the constitution.
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Later on in his career joseph story went on to write a
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Commentary on the entire united states constitution that was for
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Years used in law schools around the country.
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And in his notes on the first amendment about the
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Establishment clause he said it is absolutely without debate
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That the founders' intention in that establishment clause was to
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Keep from elevating one christian denomination over
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Another christian denomination, but never in the founders'
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Imagination did they think that would be used to make
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Christianity subservient to other non-christian religions.
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Consider also the christian influence in our
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Country for the first 150 years of our nation.
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Did you know that for the first 150 years of our country a
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School book called "the new england primer"
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Was used in schools across our country?
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The primer was filled with creeds and with prayers and even
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With scripture verses that the students had to memorize.
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In fact, if you were going to graduate from
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The third grade, every student had to learn this
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Acrostic from "the new england primer."
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Every letter of the alphabet represented a
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Verse that the students had to memorize.
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For example, a, "a wise son maketh a glad father but a
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Foolish son is the heaviness of his mother;" b, "better is a
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Little with the fear of the lord than great treasure and
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Trouble;" c, "come unto christ all ye that labor and are heavy
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Laden and he will give you rest;" d, "do not do the
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Abominable thing which i hate, saith the lord;" e, "except
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A man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of god."
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That's what our students had to memorize in school.
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Can you imagine what would happen
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With such a textbook today?
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We're not even allowed to acknowledge that there might be
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A creator up there somewhere, that there's some
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Intelligent designer up there who made us.
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Do you think that has any relationship with the increasing
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Violence we're seeing in our schools?
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When you teach children that they're nothing but animals,
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Don't be surprised when they act like animals.
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The bible says the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom.
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But what i'm say--sharing with you is this was the spiritual
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Foundation on which our nation was built.
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So the natural question is, what happened?
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What happened?
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How do you explain the seismic shift in the
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Attitude towards faith in the public square
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That we've witnessed in these last decades?
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Well, first of all, the first stone that was laid in the
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Erection of the wall of separation between church
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And state actually happened in 1947.
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This was a supreme court case, everson
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Versus the board of education.
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This is the first time the words separation of church and state
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Were ever mentioned in a supreme court decision.
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Isn't this interesting?
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For the first 150 years of our nation's history,
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Not one supreme court decision ever talked
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About the separation of church and state.
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The first time it was mentioned was in 1947.
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You have to ask, if this is such a principle and foundational
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Doctrine of our country, why didn't the
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Supreme court refer to it for 150 years?
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The first time it was mentioned was in the case
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Of everson and the board of education.
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This case dealt with the state of new jersey
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Using tax dollars to support religious schools.
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Now, remember back then most all religious
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Schools were catholic schools.
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Remember that.
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The chief justice of--the justice of the supreme court who
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Delivered that decision in the everson case was justice hugo
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Black, and hugo black in that decision talked about his desire
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To build a high and impregnable wall of separation
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Between the church and the state.
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Now, what you need to know about hugo black is this.
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He had been a member of the ku klux klan,
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And the only people the ku klux klan hated more
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Than black people were catholic people.
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And many people now believe, including two recent judges on
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Our supreme court, the late antonin scalia and clarence
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Thomas, they believe that hugo black's wall of separation was
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Really an expression of his anti-catholic bigotry.
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He wanted to keep the catholic church
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From receiving any support whatsoever.
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In fact, justice clarence thomas said this.
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Quote, "this doctrine," of the separation of church
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And state, he's talking about, "this doctrine
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Born in bigotry should be buried."
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But there you have the first stone in 1947.
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Then built upon that was the second
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Stone in 1962, engel versus vitale.
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In this case, this court ruled that students in new york city
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Could no longer recite this simple 22-word voluntary prayer.
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Quote, "almighty god, we acknowledge our dependence upon
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Thee, and we beg thy blessings upon us, our
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Parents, our teachers, and our country."
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Can you imagine saying that's unconstitutional?
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But the court said even though it was a
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To-whomever-it-may-concern prayer not addressed to any
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Particular god, it was still breaching the,
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Quote, constitutional wall of separation
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Between the church and state.
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In fact, the court went on to opine, quote, "a union of
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Government and religion tends to destroy
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Government and degrade religion."
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That sounds so enlightened to us today.
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Oh, it destroys government and it degrades
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Religion to have the two joined together.
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But remember what john quincy adams said?
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The highest glory of the american revolution is this,
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That it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles
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Of civil government and the precepts of christianity.
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Ironically, even though this court case said you cannot pray
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In the public school, it's interesting that even today the
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United states congress begins every session in prayer.
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I was privileged a couple of years ago to lead one of those
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Prayers to begra--begin the congressional session.
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Those prayers are recorded every day in the congressional record.
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You can find a copy of the prayer
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There in the congressional record.
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But in 1970 the supreme court said that it is unconstitutional
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For students to voluntarily read aloud the prayers
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Recorded in the congressional record.
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Now, that is absolute lunacy, but that's where we're going.
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The third stone was laid in 1963, abington
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School district versus schempp.
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This is a case that said no longer could students
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Voluntarily read ten verses of the bible
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At the beginning of each school day.
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The prosecution brought in so-called expert testimony that
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Said that if portions of the new testament were read without
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Explanation they could be psychologically harmful to the
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Students and therefore you can't do it, and
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Yet compare that to what the supreme court
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Had said decades earlier in 1844 in the girard case.
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"why may not the bible, especially the new testament, be
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Read and taught as divine in a--revelation in the schools?
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Why can't its general precepts be expounded,
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Its evidences explained, and its glorious
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Principles of morality inculcated?
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Do you see the shift there?
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Two more.
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Despain versus dekalb county in 1967.
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This is a court case that let stand a lower court ruling in
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1966 that said a kindergarten teacher could
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Not any longer allow her students to recite this
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Simple poem.
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"we thank you for the flowers so sweet.
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We thank you for the food we eat.
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We thank you for the birds that sing.
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We thank you for everything."
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The court said you can't say that anymore in a school.
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Why?
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Because even though this poem does not mention
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God, it might cause the children to think
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About god, and that is unconstitutional.
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The culminating ruling, 1980, stone versus graham.
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This is a case involving the display of the ten commandments
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In the halls of kentucky schools.
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Private donors had allowed the ten commandments without any
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Explanation at all, just the ten commandments to be posted in
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The hallways of the public schools, and yet the supreme
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Court said, "no longer can you do that.
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No longer can you post these copies of the ten commandments.
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Thou shalt not steal.
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Thou shalt not lie.
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Thou shalt not murder."
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Why did they say that was no longer constitutional?
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Listen to what the supreme court said, 1980, stone versus graham.
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"if the posted copies of the ten commandments are to have any
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Effect at all, it will induce the schoolchildren to read,
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Meditate upon, perhaps venerate and obey the commandments.
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However desirable this might be as a matter of private devotion,
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It is not a permissible state objective under the
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Establishment clause of the first amendment."
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Again, how do you reconcile that with what
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The court had said 150 years earlier?
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Why may not the new testament be read and taught as divine
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Revelation and its principles of morality inculcated?
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How do you reconcile that with the words of john adams who said
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Our constitution is made for a moral and religious people?
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It is totally inadequate to govern any other people and yet
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Now the supreme court says you can't even tell
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Students they're not to lie, steal, and kill.
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How do you explain this shift?
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What has happened in the last 60 or 70 years?
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Has the constitution changed and somebody didn't tell us?
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No. what happened is this.
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We've allowed the atheists, the secularists, the infidels to
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Pervert our constitution into something our founders never
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Intended, and we cannot allow that to happen any longer.
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It is time for us to stand up and say without apology america
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Was founded as a christian nation.
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Now i have to tell you, this morning i read an interesting
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Commentary about me.
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And a liberal writer was talking about this controversy in
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Our church, and he made an amazing concession.
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He said, "you know, jeffress probably has a point.
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As you look back at the evidence, there is evidence
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That our nation, from the writings of the founders,
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From the early court opinions,
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Was decidedly biased toward the christian faith."
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He conceded that.
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He said, "but our nation was also biased and prejudiced,
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And there are court rulings that supported slavery.
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And we don't think that is right, and we needed
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To change from that, we needed to change and move away
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From our christian foundation as well."
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Well, isn't that interesting
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That somebody would equate slavery
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With following god and obedience to god as a nation.
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But let's just test his argument.
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Has it been a positive thing for us as a nation
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To unhitch ourself from our christian forefathers,
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To move into a secular direction?
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Is our society better today or worse off today than when this
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Assault on christianity began 60 or 70 years ago?
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Well, let's look at the statistics.
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William bennett, the former secretary of education under
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Ronald reagan, back in the '90s released what he called "the
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Index of leading cultural indicators" to show what
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Happened in our nation between 1960 and 1990 when this all-out
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Assault was beginning upon our christian nation when you saw
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All of these antagonistic court rulings and the
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Abdication of prayer and bible reading and
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The ten commandments from the schools.
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What happened during that 30-year period?
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During that period of time, quote, "there was a 419%
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Increase in illegitimate births, a quadrupling in divorce rates,
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A more than 200% increase in teenage suicide,
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A drop of almost 80 points in the sat scores,
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And a 560% increase in violent crime."
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And today, today that pattern still continues.
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Today, over 10 million teenagers in the us drink alcohol
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Regularly and 20% of those engage in binge drinking.
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Nearly 2,800 children die each year as a result
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Of gun violence and another 14,300 are injured.
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Nearly 1 million babies were murdered in the womb last year,
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And one in four women of the us will have aborted at least one
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Of their children by the age of 45.
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In 2011 over a half a million teenagers became pregnant, with
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About 30% of those pregnancies ending in an abortion.
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Are those statistics just a coincidence?
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Not at all.
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Not when you consider god's warning to his own people, the
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Nation of israel, a warning that is just as
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Applicable to us today as it was 3,000 years ago.
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In hosea 4, verse 6 god says, "my people
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Are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
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Because you have rejected knowledge, i
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Will also reject you from being my priest.
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Since you have forgotten the law of your god,
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I will also forget your children."
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God is no respecter of people or nations.
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The nation that reverences god will be blessed by god.
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The nation that rejects god will be rejected by god.
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Blessed is the nation whose god is the lord.
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As i close today, i decided not to close this message with
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A bible verse or even a quote from a
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Rabid conservative fundamentalist.
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Instead i want to close this quote from a very
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Unlikely source, a man named earl warren.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, earl warren was the
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Chief justice of the united states supreme court.
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Growing up in the south, i was led to believe that earl warren
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Was a villain of the american people.
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He was a liberal. he was a communist pinko.
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That's how people in the south referred to earl warren.
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As i look back, the reason they hated him
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Was because he believed in racial equality.
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That had as much to do with it as anything.
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Earl warren, an avowed liberal in many ways, gave this
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Assessment in 1954 of our nation's christian heritage.
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Listen to what he said.
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"i believe no one can read the history of our country without
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Realizing the good book and the spirit of the savior have from
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The beginning been our guiding geniuses.
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Whether we look to the first charter of virginia, or the
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Charter of new england, or the charter of massachusetts bay, or
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The fundamental orders of connecticut,
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The same object is present, a christian
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Land governed by christian principles.
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I believe the entire bill of rights came into
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Being because of the knowledge our forefathers
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Had of the bible and their belief in it.
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Freedom of belief, of expression, of assembly, of
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Petition, the dignity of the individual, the sanctity of the
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Home, equal justice under the law, and the
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Reservation of powers to the people.
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I like to believe that we are living today
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In the spirit of the christian religion.
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I like also to believe that as long as we do so,
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No great harm can come to our country."
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The nation that reverences god will be blessed by god.
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The nation that rejects god will be rejected by god.
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The choice is ours.
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Jeffress: may god be honored, and may our country prosper
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As we declare our allegiance to god alone.
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Blessed is the nation whose god is the lord.
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Well, the in god we trust matching challenge is ending
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At midnight on july 5, and we need to hear from you today.
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Every dollar you give between now and july 5 will be matched
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And therefore doubled in ministry impact until we reach
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The $1.5 million goal.
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As america celebrates 250 years, your gift will help
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"pathway to victory" boldy proclaim that this nation
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Under god still has hope.
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We're asking god to use men and women just like you to help us
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Reach this important goal.
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Thank you for responding today with your very best gift.
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Now stay right there, i'll be back with more
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"pathway to victory" in just a moment.
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Announcer: as our nation celebrates 250 years, do we
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Still remember the faith that built america?
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Dr. robert jeffress has created a beautiful book to make sure
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That we and our families never forget.
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The brand new 250th commemorative edition
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Of "america is a christian nation" is an 88 page, full
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America, select portraits of our founding fathers, and powerful
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Truth from god's word.
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Jeffress: america was founded on the principles of the
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Judeo-christian faith as revealed in the bible, and our
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Future depends on returning to that biblical foundation.
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Announcer: request the 250th commemorative edition of
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With the light of god's word.
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Jeffress: today's liberal elite have twisted and distorted
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American history, but there's no mistake.
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America was founded as a christian nation,
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And that's a heritage we can be proud of.
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Well, if you walk into a bookstore, you'll find countless
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Books promising the secret to success, but worldly advice
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Always falls short.
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Next time, we're going to begin a series titled, "the solomon
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Secrets," uncovering ten biblical keys
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To true success in life.
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Stay tuned for a preview of what's coming up next on
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"pathway to victory."
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Jeffress: regardless of how you define living well, i have some
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Good news and some bad news for you this morning.
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Which would you like to hear first?
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Well, let me tell you the bad news
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And get that out of the way.
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The bad news is you're probably not going to acquire all of the
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Material possessions, experience all the vocational success,
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Enjoy all the relationship success
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That you've ever dreamed of.
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That's the bad news.
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The good news is you can have more than you have right now.
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Announcer: set your dvr and join us next time for the message,
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"the art of living well," part of a new series,
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"the solomon secrets," here on "pathway to victory."
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Robert Jeffress - America Is A Christian Nation (Part 2)

July 3, 2026 | 27:29

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