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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Honoring 250 Years of Freedom | Stakelbeck Tonight | July 2, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck, and on the eve of america's
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250th birthday, we're pausing to reflect on the courage
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And sacrifice that allowed us to reach this historic milestone
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From a group of colonies determined
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To chart their own path away from the monarchy of england
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To the rise of the most successful republic in history.
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To help us celebrate this historic event and kick start
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The holiday weekend are our good friends
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Tim and david barton
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Of wall builders, folks that just released a must read
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Incredible book called lives, fortunes and sacred.
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Honor the signers of the declaration.
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Gentlemen, welcome the books. a big hit already, by the way.
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Wall builders. com pick it up right now.
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Just in time for the holiday, david, to start.
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I mean, look, 250 years, not many great civilizations
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Even reach that milestone, right?
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How rare? how unique is this?
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You got 5800 years recorded history,
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Which is thousands of nations.
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University of illinois
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And university of chicago
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Law school said, what's the average length
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Of of a constitution of a governing document?
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Whatever.
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And they researched and said the average length is 17 to
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19 years. so we're looking at 250.
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And just to put that in perspective,
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Our ally during the revolution was france.
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We probably don't win without francis help.
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Special there.
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Navy france had a revolution 20 years after we did,
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And they're now
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In their 15th constitution since the american revolution.
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So what we're sitting on is just unbelievable.
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We're so used to building, we think it's normal.
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Yeah. no, everybody else knows that this is something special.
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We need to really appreciate what this is. incredible.
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And, tim, look, the declaration of independence,
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The constitution still holding up today.
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A rarity as well.
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And by the way, gentlemen, you come bearing gifts.
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You've got some really cool stuff here.
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We'll take a look about.
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Look at the declaration.
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But look, tim, the declaration holds up.
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The constitution still holds up.
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We're talking 250 years.
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This is a special, special nation
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And some very special founding documents.
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It really is the fact that the founding fathers
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Had the brilliance to do something
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Very unique in their era.
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And i think we lose a lot of perspective on this
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When as americans, we've embraced what we think,
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Like just the normalization of these unique ideas.
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No, we were literally the only place in the world going, hey,
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We're going to do something different because we believe
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That there's a god and our rights come from him,
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Not the government.
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And so we're building something
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Totally separate
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From what anybody else was doing anywhere near their era
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Until it really is unique.
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But even as we celebrate and we should be celebrating
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The declaration of the constitution,
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There's a lot of people today that would be critics
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That we look at it for whatever reasons.
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But some would go, man, i'm not sure it's working anymore.
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And what i would point out, the founding fathers explained
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In their day, george washington, actually, i believe,
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Is this the this is the original. okay.
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This is the very first printing
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Of george washington's farewell address
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From all the way back in the 1790s.
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So that's 230 years old, 1796.
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So you're holding it in your hand right now? correct.
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This is george washington's farewell address.
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And in this farewell address, george
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Washington says that of all of the habits and dispositions
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Which lead to political prosperity,
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Religion and morality are the indispensable supports
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That that
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This experiment doesn't work if we remove religion, morality.
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The following year, when john adams becomes president in 1798,
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He writes
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This brilliant letter to the militia of massachusetts,
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Which i would encourage everybody to read.
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It's like five paragraphs, but it's so great.
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The most famous line from it is where he says
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That our constitution was made only for a moral
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And religious people, a totally inadequate
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To the government of any others.
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And the reason this matters
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Is, as we
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Look at the
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American experiment today,
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And there's a lot of people going,
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Man, i'm not sure if this is going to hold together.
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One of the biggest problems we are dealing with,
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Not just that
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We don't know our history anymore,
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But that we've lost the religious and moral foundation.
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And i think most people don't recognize
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Maybe have never been taught.
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The founding fathers were overwhelmingly
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Faith driven people, and they built something
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On the foundation of faith, knowing
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That this is the only way we would survive.
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And so the more secular we become,
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The less this experiment is working.
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But also that's super optimistic for me as as a christian,
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As a believer going, hey, church, right.
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The more we do a good job
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Of reaching the loss of discipling the found,
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Then the more we have restored a foundation
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That allows us to continue to be the most free, stable,
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Prosperous and benevolent nation in the history of the world.
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Amen.
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I'm not sure if you guys see
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Any of these clips of world cup fans coming from europe.
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They're in america, they're in texas,
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And they're saying, this is an amazing place.
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What a country.
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David and tim, you just kind of alluded to this.
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Have we kind of lost a sense of just how special and unique
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America is?
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Oh, we are so focused on looking at the pimples on our face
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That we're missing
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All the cancer
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That is in all the other countries
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That we're not having to experience.
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And so we're focused on, on
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Fighting in a way that they're coming and going.
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I have never seen so much freedom.
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Bucky's have you ever. yeah.
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It's like, well, when you have people going,
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Wait a second, you get free refills. yes.
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They're going to grocery stores going.
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There's there's food and like there's there's meat
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And there's choices.
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Yeah. yes.
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The things that we to your point take for granted
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And instead we,
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We maximize the problems that we have
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When the rest of the world is going.
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We would love to trade our problems for their problems
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If we could have your benefits.
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And i think it's actually so refreshing
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That so many americans just just get on social media
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And look for these videos, because it does
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Give such a great perspective.
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Most americans have never had the chance
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To really travel internationally,
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And all we've ever seen is the social media version
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Of other nations.
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And we go, well, they look so much better.
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But genuinely,
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When people come here and they see how it's different.
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In fact, one of the things i was involved
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In youth ministry
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For a lot of years,
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One of the things i would tell parents all the time is
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If you want to do something really great for your kids,
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Send them on a mission trip to a third world nation.
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Yes, because they will never appreciate what mom and dad are
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Doing for them or the house.
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They have the clothes, the bed, the food.
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But they'll also never appreciate america more
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Until they have the perspective to go, oh,
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Not everybody has what we have.
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And i think as we are
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Celebrating 250 years as a nation, it's
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Really important that we take time to recognize
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What we actually do have in this nation.
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Yeah. tim sowell said, god's will be right back.
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We want to see some more
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Of these documents, these amazing documents
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Relating to the declaration of independence.
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More with our good friends david and tim barton
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After the break.
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Again, folks, the book is called lives,
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Fortunes and sacred honor.
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Pick it up right now at wall builders. com.
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Don't move.
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Don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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In their powerful new book, lives, fortunes and sacred
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Honor, our good friends tim and david
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Barton of wall builders go back to the original sources
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To tell the remarkable stories of the founding fathers,
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The price they paid for freedom, and the biblical principles
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That shaped the birth of the united states.
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Guys, we've got some great materials here that you brought.
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I don't want to neglect them, but let's go blow by blow.
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Some of our favorite founding fathers.
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Yeah, a guy i know a little bit.
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Benjamin rush.
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I grew up in philadelphia,
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Where our founders spent a lot of time, obviously
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About ten minutes from benjamin rush middle school,
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I was little, i didn't know who benjamin rush was.
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I walked by it all the time.
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Tell us a bit more about benjamin rush.
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David, why he was so important?
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Yeah. benjamin rush, it's interesting.
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We've got about 250 folks
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We would throw in the group of founding fathers.
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So sanders
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And declaration centers, constitution, major generals,
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Governors like patrick
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Henry, sarah and john adams, certainly
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One of the top founding fathers, said that he thought the three
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Most significant founding fathers were george washington,
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Ben franklin, and benjamin rush.
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So john adams puts him in the top three.
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And by the way, in that letter, he says,
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And he might have had more important contributions
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Than washington or franklin, which is also mind blowing,
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That john adams like, i think benjamin rush
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Might have been the most important of all of us,
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And most americans probably don't know a whole lot.
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Ever heard his name?
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And he is awesome.
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He was. he was a renaissance guy.
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He's an educator.
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He started five universities three three.
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What still go today.
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He is called the father
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Of public schools under the constitution.
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He signed the declaration, ratified
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The constitution, served in three
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Presidential administrations.
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The director of the u.s. mint.
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He also is the most famous doctor in american history.
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He's called the father of american medicine.
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He started the first abolition society in america.
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Guys, just unbelievable what he did.
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He started the first bible society
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Because he found out there were people in philadelphia
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Specifically that didn't have bibles.
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So he starts a society.
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This is one of the
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This is a bible that he did through the bible society.
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This is one of the very first bibles
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You could actually give away to somebody.
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Benjamin rush, philadelphia bible society, then in 17.
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How old is that bible? this bible goes back to 1812.
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This is done in 1812. so. wow.
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When when we did, the constitution,
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Got it ratified, he said, you know, we used to be 13 nations.
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Now we're one nation with 13 states.
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If we're going to stay unified, we need to have a common basis.
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And so this is where he's called
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The father of public schools under the constitution.
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He laid out a plan of education for the nation
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At which the bible was the number one textbook.
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He came out the next year with this piece.
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This is 1791.
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And he gave a dozen reasons we would never take the bible
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Out of public schools in america.
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So this is this.
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The title of this
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Is it's a defense of the use of the bible in school.
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So when you're saying he gives a dozen reasons, literally,
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The title of the essay is a defense
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Of the use of the bible in schools,
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Where he's arguing that this is the most important
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Things kids could learn,
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Because they're never going
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To be able
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To enjoy freedom or fulfill
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God's calling if they don't know how to read the bible.
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Wow. amen. awesome.
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And by the way, that's kind of the fun part of of
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This time is rediscovering individuals.
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Tim and i both speak at a lot of public places.
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And tim, particularly when he goes
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Universities, he has this gift card
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And he holds it up to students
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At university, said, if you can name five
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Signers of declaration, i'll give you the gift card.
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He's had the same gift card nine years.
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Nobody knows.
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We know the signers are like universities in some cases.
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I mean, i spoke at the best and brightest.
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Yeah, i spoke at duke
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University law school and they could name too.
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So the kids at the law school
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Could name jefferson and franklin and that's it.
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And you know the picture that's behind you?
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Who are those guys?
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We used to know those 56, and that's why we did the book,
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To rediscover them. but that's what we have here.
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Yeah.
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And along the lines of the book,
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Because even even if we mention some names,
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I think a lot of people would go, oh, i've heard of sam adams,
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John hancock.
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You went through the names and they're like, well,
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I know some of their names.
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And we said, okay, well tell us their story.
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Most people would go, i'm out, right?
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I have no idea.
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And really, that's why we wrote
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The book, was to reintroduce people.
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Because when you begin to learn who they are.
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One of my favorite guys is a guy named john witherspoon. yes.
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He was a scottish presbyterian revivalist preacher
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Who was recruited to come to america
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By other founding fathers because there was a university
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In new jersey that needed a new president.
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And back then
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It was a college of new jersey, what became princeton?
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It was a christian college.
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And you were required under like their articles.
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You had to have a pastor to be the president.
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So they need a presbyterian pastor.
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And they're like, who are we going to get?
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Well, princeton university, princeton university.
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And they're like, hey, there's this amazing
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Revivalist preacher over in scotland.
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He would be perfect to teach our students.
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They recruit him, he comes to america,
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He gets here as tensions are beginning to bubble.
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Right.
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You have all the stamp act, tax things that are happening.
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But at princeton, in his tenure, he trained more founding
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Fathers than any other single individual
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Or than any other single university did.
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So he literally is more involved in the founding fathers
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Live discipleship, mentorship.
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So, so many of them take on the lessons that he taught them.
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One of the things,
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Like many founding fathers did, and advocating for the bible.
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This was a bible that he did for the state of new jersey.
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It was considered a family bible because it was large enough.
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So there's been some there's the family bible, right?
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Yeah.
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So this bible was large enough that you could have a family.
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Hey, let's sit down
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And we're going to have a bible study together
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So the family could gather around the bible.
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But this is literally a signer of the declaration
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Who does a bible.
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1791 1791 to go further to complement the pastor,
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One of the other founding fathers
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That is super fun to talk about
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Is a guy named francis hopkinson.
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Yes, francis hopkinson was a noted musician,
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Super talented,
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And before he signed the declaration,
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He actually was on staff at a church.
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He was the organist, he was the choir director.
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He did this book right here.
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This book is called the psalms of david.
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What's remarkable is this psalms of david is the 150
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Psalms set to music from 1767.
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This. yes, this is before the declaration.
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But but literally, you have one of the most famous musicians
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Who's a worship leader, putting the 150 psalms to music.
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And like, just for context and perspective,
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People are like,
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I'm not sure the founding fathers were religious,
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Or maybe they're atheist agnostics. india's.
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And i'm always like, hang on a second.
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So you have one of the most famous revivalist preachers,
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Which is like a billy graham of the era.
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You have the most noted musician worship leader,
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Which is like a chris tomlin,
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And you're like, but they didn't believe in god.
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And i'm going, guys, you're just this is crazy.
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How do we miss this?
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But because we don't know their names or their stories, we
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Believe a lot of incorrect ideas about the founding fathers.
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And once you get to know their story, you realize,
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First of all, that these were amazing men
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That really did sacrifice
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So much of their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor.
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But also these were men so motivated by their faith
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In what they were doing, which also gives us as christians
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An even greater connection and something that we should
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Rejoice even more about,
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That our nation was birthed and built
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By people that were motivated by their faith,
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Laying out a godly foundation
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More than arguably any other nation.
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It's really impressive, tim.
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So well said.
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More after the break with david
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And tim, folks lives, fortunes and sacred honor
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The signers of the declaration of independence,
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Literally, in some cases, laid down their lives for our nation,
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For our nation to be born more with david
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And tim after the break, pick up the book right now.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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As america marks 250 years of independence, it's
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Worth asking a sobering question.
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Do we truly understand the price that was paid
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To secure the freedoms we all enjoy today?
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The men who signed
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A declaration of independence didn't just pen historic words.
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They risked their lives, lost their fortunes,
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Saw their homes destroyed, and in many cases
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Never even lived to see the nation they helped create.
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Tim and david barton's new book, lives, fortunes and sacred
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Honor, lays it out, folks.
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It's a blockbuster bestseller picked up right now.
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Wall builders.com just in time for the fourth david lives
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Fortunes, sacred honor.
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I mean, literally some of the founders,
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As we just mentioned, never saw the nation that they
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And they knew
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What they were getting into
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And they never had a chance to
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Live in this great free nation
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That they helped create and found
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They were not about hyperbola
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What they said they followed through on.
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They kept their word, and seven of them
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Never lived to see the freedom
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They wanted everybody else to have.
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Some of them lost not only their own lives,
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But some, like francis lewis,
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Lost his wife,
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Who was made a prisoner of war by the british
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And mistreated in prison, and died there.
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They lost family members.
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They lost a lot of wealth
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Because we were not a funded nation.
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We had been part of great britain.
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That was our funding. now we don't have any funding.
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We can't afford to pay for an army and all this stuff
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And all the equipment.
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And so a lot of guys reach in their own pocket
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And they were told they would get repaid.
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They never got repaid and they never complained about it.
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We don't have a single complaint from any founding father
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On how much he sacrificed.
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I never got repaid,
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But not a single one of them lost their sacred honor.
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They all kept their word. nobody backed up from their word.
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It is amazing. incredible.
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I mean, the self-sacrifice. astounding.
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You talk
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About obviously in the book, guys,
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Tim, you've got a very important
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Document speaking of some of the men,
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The risks, the risks.
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They paid 56 men, obviously
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Signed declaration of independence.
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We've got a very special,
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Important document there teed up for us.
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Tell us more. yeah.
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So so when they're signing their name
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On the line of the declaration, that is the final draft.
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But but where it began,
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Thomas jefferson was on the committee of five.
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He, along with john adams and with franklin
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And livingston and sherman, they were the ones that were
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Put in charge of saying, hey, all of our frustrations
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We've been talking about put it on a document.
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So jefferson is the guy who writes the original draft.
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We have the very first copy, the first
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Printing of the original draft.
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And i know in a studio with lights everywhere,
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There's probably bears all over this thing,
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But it's actually four pages.
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So this is the introduction,
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The second paragraph, the most famous one,
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Where he says, we oh, these truths to be self-evident.
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You can actually see edits along the way as you go down.
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It's really fun.
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There's an edit down here, and beside that edit
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It says doctor franklin handwriting.
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There's an edit down here.
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It says mr.
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Adams.
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They were actually like
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Jefferson's tracking who's making this change?
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Which is so fun.
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When you get to the third and fourth page.
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The third page, he's continuing to list grievances.
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The fourth page,
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The very end is where he says, we mutually pledge to each other
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Our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
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So that's where it concludes.
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But the third pages, where he wraps up the grievances
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And then he gets into the political
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Philosophy, is leading them to separate on the third page,
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The last grievance, number 24 on the original draft.
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It is the longest grievance. it is nearly half of the page.
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Yeah, it's a grievance against the slave trade,
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Arguing for the humanity of all
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That were enslaved and pointing out
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That we have tried to stop this evil in multiple
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Or colonies, and the king keeps vetoing all of our laws.
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In fact, there's only two words that are not in cursive.
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As you go to this original draft.
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The first one is the word christian is underlined.
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And what he says is in this slave trade,
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He says this is the radical warfare of the infidel powers
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And infidels underlined, which is infidels, nonbelievers.
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And when he says periodical warfare,
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That is the warfare of pirates.
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Well, that's referring to the barbary pirates.
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Pirates like the non believing the muslim barbary pirates,
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He says that is the warfare of the christian king.
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Britain behaving like islamists, right? yeah.
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He's saying
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You're saying you're a christian doing
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What the muslim pirates are doing.
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And then he says, determined to keep open a market
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Where men should be bought and sold.
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The word men in all caps is in all caps and printed.
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So this is a head nod back to the second paragraph
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Where he says, we all these truths
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To be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
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And then he says, you're enslaving these men.
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It's interesting.
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That was what jefferson
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And his own writings and acknowledgment
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That was the most important part of the original draft.
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There were takes up most of the page
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As you write it. by the way, this is available.
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People can go read this online and i would encourage them,
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Like, please don't take my word for this, go look at this.
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Because if you understand, jefferson says he thought
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That was the most important
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Of all of the things that he put in there.
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And when people today
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One of the big slanders they have, the founding fathers
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Is all of them were these racist, bigoted slaveholders.
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But literally,
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You can go back to the original documents
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And realize that actually the vast majority
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Of the founding fathers, not even just here,
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Like in their own lives and writings, the vast majority
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Actually come out against slavery.
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But because we only know
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What the modern narrative is that we've heard from,
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Whether it's social media or some professor there for sure.
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Right.
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We've never spent time with original documents to go,
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Oh, that's not at all
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What they said or believed or how they acted.
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So this original draft
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Is super fun, which also people can go to.
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And we have some high res images, things available there
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For them to see.
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But this is a game changer for the modern narrative.
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The majority of the founding fathers
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Were not supportive of slavery or the slave trade,
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And it's pretty clear in their writings.
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Yeah, folks, wall builders.
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Com a treasure trove of information.
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Oh it's incredible, as you can see
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And hear from tim and david today.
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David, only about a minute left.
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Then we'll bring you right back after the break.
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But the state of america today, 250 years in,
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Kind of a precarious position for our nation
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Going forward, optimistic.
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As believers, we're always optimistic.
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Of course, god's on the throne, but for our nation, troubling
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Trend, encouraging trends. how do you see about a minute left?
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We have a bad case of amnesia.
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We haven't been taught history in three generations,
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Basically in america since world war two.
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So we're starting to rediscover it.
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The fact that americans
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Are all excited about the two 50th
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And the fact that patriotism is on the rise again, combine
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That with the fact
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That what we're seeing, particularly with gen z,
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The rise of faith, particularly young men
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In that younger generation,
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So the melting together of love for country, love for god.
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Back to the bible.
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Hey, america is not what i thought it was.
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I've been told wrong.
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There's some good trends now.
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There's still the opposition up here
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And they're well entrenched.
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But there's some really good
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Signs headed the right direction. agreed.
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Well said. david. tim.
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Hey, after the break we're wrapping up with david
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And tim barton, wall builders.
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Com pick up right now lives, fortunes and sacred honor.
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It's a much
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Must read for such a time as this goes out saying
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Wrapping up with david and tim after the break. stick around.
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Wrapping up with david and tim after the break. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck
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Tonight, a very special edition with our good friends
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David and tim barton of wall builders. again, wall builders.
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Com go right now lives fortunes
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And sacred honor blockbuster bestseller tim.
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Final thoughts?
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Big takeaway from the book.
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I would say that
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Every single one of the founding fathers
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Sacrifice far more than we realize.
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Whether it's a guy like a thomas nelson
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Jr who literally blew up
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His own house at yorktown, or at least try to,
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It was well built.
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Or a guy like john hart
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Who his wife was dying and he had to go on the run
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Because they were coming to capture and kill him.
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His wife's dead when he returned home.
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And like the sacrifice they made,
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Not only were these
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Incredibly honorable men, but they paid an awful lot
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For us to be free.
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Yeah, incredible.
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I'm inspired.
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David, i'm sure everyone watching is inspired.
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Can you take us out in prayer for our nation?
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Be happy to.
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And going back to what
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George washington said, the very first religion.
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Morality is what produces political prosperity.
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So, father,
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We look to you and father, we thank you for the awakening
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You've got going in the nation right now.
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As people are turning back to you, we see that.
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We see the numbers growing.
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People are turning even back to a love of america
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That we haven't seen in a few generations.
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Father, we pray that we keep that going,
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Keep it going
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In the right direction
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With religion and morality is the basis of this country.
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You tell us that blesses that nation
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Whose god is the lord and father.
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We want you to be the lord of the nation again.
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We will make you the lord of our lives as well.
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So, father, we pray for our leaders,
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Our state leaders, our local leaders, our school leaders.
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Give us good leaders.
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Father, let us return to you in jesus name.
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Amen. david. tim, this was great.
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It was fun. inspiring.
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As i said again folks, wall builders.com and follow david
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And tim on instagram across social media.
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Guys great job. we'll do it again soon.
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God bless and thanks for bringing
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These great great materials. just incredible.
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Thank you so much. absolutely.
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Tomorrow night
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More patriotic programing here on stackelberg tonight
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Celebrating the fourth 250 years. amazing.
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Until then, god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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July 2, 2026 | 23:29

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