America The Beautiful – AMERICA THE MIRACLE – AMERICA … ?

0:15 in the colonial period, the formation of a rabble in arms, as he put it. Who are these farmers going up against the greatest military force on the face of the earth? Who are these people? In the 13 colonies, they were being extremely blessed by God.

0:39 Their crops were overproducing. local farms were prospering cities were prospering or towns were well blessed by all that God had been presenting. And this was not only the words of those who lived in the colonies, but it was reported back to London that from the British forces that were stationed among even the residents of the colonial population, that they said the Americans have better chairs than we do in our homes. They have better beds than we do. And all of them can read and write. everything was better. But the expansion of the crown of England was continuing at the expense of the 13 colonies.

1:38 In our modern day language, the 13 colonies would have been called the ultimate cash cow as we funded Britain's global expansion. And so eventually war began to break out. And of course, we're very aware as Americans of what happened at Lexington and Concord, where you would say that this is where it officially began. But John Adams said, but what mean ye revolution? Revolution was not the war. He said revolution was in the hearts and the minds of the countrymen long before the war. The war was a result of what was going on in the human heart and quite frankly at the expense of the tyranny of the great King George III. And so liberty, the concept of it began to break out.

2:40 There was a man noted for his love for liberty. He was a big mouth. He got in trouble. His father wanted him to be a pastor like all those others who were highly educated in all the 13 colonies. In whatever community, from Philadelphia, from Boston, all the way down to South Carolina. The most educated individuals of any community or city were the pastors. Highly degreed, highly educated. Imagine, most of them by the age of 14 already knew Greek and Hebrew and Latin.

3:21 To enter Harvard University, which was founded in honor of Pastor John Harvard, if you've been to Harvard, if you stand there at the gate, the main entry gate, you look to the right, you've got to move a bush. By the way, they try to hide it. Move the bush, it's still there, it was just there not all that long ago. And it tells you about Harvard University and its reason, it's its charter statement for its mission, to train up missionaries and ministers for the gospel in North America. Harvard University, a lot of people don't realize that, that it's a seminary, that it was a seminary. And to enter that school, you had to have your knowledge of Greek and Hebrew and Latin. That wasn't a problem because the school took place at that time in the colonies in the homes. And the homes had Latin, Greek, and Hebrew as subjects.

4:22 Amazing, isn't it? But again, what's with the robe? so liberty from about 1680 out to about 1770 is being preached from the pulpits unlike any other place on earth match the sermons which are readable you can buy them i have hundreds of them i actually have a book that cost me i'm not going to tell you how much of colonial sermons that have them put together. It's only about that thick, but you can read them verbatim. Jonathan Mayhew.

4:58 You can read all about him. Jonathan Witherspoon, which have you ever heard of a woman by the name of Reese Witherspoon? She's a descendant. these men, as John Adams said, when asked after the revolution was had and when he was president, how did this happen? John Adams said simply, the pulpits thundered. the pulpits thundered. Alexa de Tocqueville, the Frenchman, who was deployed before the great and horrible French Revolution, came to America at the expense of the king. Figure out how we have a revolution in France like America did. And it was Alexa de Tocqueville that concluded, it's nothing that America trusts in of its incredible productive crops and its bounty of...

5:59 ability to produce, it's not in her harbors or in her commerce. Alexa de Tocqueville reported back to France and it shocked them he said I couldn't find the strength of America in any one of those natural attributes until the day I went into the pulpits of America and found out that American pulpits were alive and here's what I've concluded he said America is great because America is good and as long as America is good it will be great but the strength was in the pulpits. And so when King George issued his decree after the, I think it was after the Battle of Bunker Hill or Breeds Hill, it's otherwise known both at the time in the U.S.

6:55 or I should say the colonies and in London as the Battle of Bunker Hill that you should have learned about in school, I hope. The British won that battle but it cost them a thousand British regulars to defeat a bunch of farmers. And General Burgoyne mentioned, if this is a victory fighting these patriot farmers, then we are certain to lose. Wow. So King George III said this. All right. In fact, I'm going to show you a picture of the FBI, I mean the King George III's most wanted list. If any of these men were found by order of the King of England, they are to be without trial, suspended from a tree by hanging. If you find them, hang them, was the order.

7:50 Lemuel Haynes. By the way, one of three black pastors, I love that, they preached liberty and freedom. Hang him, said the king. Ezra Stiles, you can look him up later. He became president of at least one of the Ivy League schools, maybe two. Ezra Stiles, hang him. Samuel Cooper, hang him. the greatest orator in the pulpit in the colonial America period Samuel Davies Samuel Davies was the pastor of a guy, little guy growing up who became a very big mouth a guy by the name of Samuel Adams it was Samuel Adams whose father by the way I started earlier saying that his dad wanted him to go to Harvard to become a preacher and he went to Harvard Sam Adams went to Harvard and then he preached his first sermon and his dad said whatever you do You've got to find a different career because that's not it.

8:51 I was wrong. What encouragement. Thomas Jefferson said of Samuel Adams, there never would have been an American revolution without Samuel Adams. He was, and I quote, the spirit of the revolution. And yet Samuel Adams said, I didn't learn that, but by my pastor, Samuel Davies, taught and preached liberty and freedom, which comes from the merits of Jesus Christ. you don't hear this in public school hang him Israel Evans hang him John or Jonathan Witherspoon hang him Richard Allen John Murray William Smith hang him all hang them all Absalom Jones hang him out of the list of the king's orders to hang these origins of liberty and freedom which gave birth to this nation.

9:54 The only two non-ordained ministers were just ministers of truth and it happened to have been the two last guys on this list. I don't have their pictures for you, but you know their names. Have you ever heard of a guy by the name of John Hancock? Hang him. Why? Because John Hancock was funding the American Revolution. He and George Washington were the richest men of the colonies.

10:23 In fact, some things never changed. For over a year and a half, Congress could not fund the Revolutionary War effort because they couldn't come to agreement. So John Hancock and George Washington got together and out of their own purse funded the Revolutionary War for a year and a half because Congress couldn't get their act together. Some things never change. and the other guy to be hung when found without a trial was a guy as I mentioned Samuel Adams now he's not for you young people I'm not talking about a beer I'm talking about the man so I'm going to ask you to stand as we read the word of God today and we will examine what I'm calling today America the beautiful there's no doubt about that in my opinion I don't know about you I've had a chance to travel in many parts of the world many parts of the world, of course, are beautiful. But there's no place, I'm not boasting, I'm just saying how it is.

11:21 How is it that God has assembled not only some of the most beautiful places in America, but some of the most unique and diverse topography and geography that the world can visit or see today is under the roof of America. America is beautiful. There's no doubt about it. In my opinion, what is not beautiful about America is what man has done. God is good. And the evidence is overwhelming. America the beautiful. America the miracle. No doubt about it.

12:00 I'll leave off for you to go study how miraculous the founding of America was. And I'll just give you a hint. Start with the Mayflower Compact as an example. Though you can go way back beyond that. a miracle. And then thirdly, I say, America, it remains to be seen.

12:22 We will read Psalm 33. I'll read the odd-numbered verses if you read the even-numbered verses. Rejoice in the Lord, O you righteous, for praise from the upright is beautiful. Praise the Lord with our heart. Thank you. Sing to him a new song, play skillfully with a shout of joy. For the word of the Lord is right, for all his work is done in truth. He loves righteousness and justice. The earth is full of the goodness of the Lord. By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. He gathers the waters of the seas together as a heap. He lays up the deep in storehouses. that all the earth fear the Lord, that all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.

13:18 For he spoke and it was done. He commanded and it stood fast. The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the plans of the peoples no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever. The plans of his heart to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as his own inheritance. The Lord looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men. From the place of his dwelling, he looks on all the inhabitants of the earth. He fashions their hearts individually. He considers all their works. No king is saved by the multitude of an army. A mighty man is not delivered by great strength. A horse is a vain hope for safety, neither shall it deliver any by its great strength.

14:14 Behold the eye of the Lord. To deliver the soul from death and to keep them alive in famine. for the Lord. He is our hope and our shield. For our heart shall rejoice in him because we have trusted in his holy name. Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon us, just as we hope in you. And all God's people said, Amen. You may be seated. we'll be looking at Psalm 33, verse 12, out of this great Psalm, verse 12, is going to be the special verse of our day as we celebrate America's 250th birthday. By the way, you do know that the celebrations are supposed to be all year long. So be aware of that, by the way. I like the fact that it's not relegated this year to one day.

15:10 but Ben Franklin, we'll hear from him in a moment about his view and his worldview about God in what was going on in the world and in America at the time. But there's an anonymous quotation, and I want to make sure that you hear it today. It's important. It says, to visit history is to visit the works of God. I like that. When in the course of human events, he appears.

15:43 God is always looking, according to the Bible. He's always looking, the scripture says, for someone that he might show himself strong on their behalf because they have decided to do good. Many young people today need to have an infusion of that boldness that comes from scripture. You want to see God move? Is your Christianity boring? Step up to the plate. Ask God to show up. Don't be surprised if God says to you, you want to make some history? I think God is always in the mood to make history. I think the reason why if we do not see it happening, it's because we're not showing up to the grand author of it all. And I believe that when in the course of human events. Of course, those words ring true, and we understand those words from our founding documents.

16:35 And on Saturday, July 28, 1787, Benjamin Franklin at the age of 81 mind you now everybody talks about the deism of Benjamin Franklin do you know Benjamin Franklin nor Thomas Jefferson who's the other famous deist neither one of them ever called themselves deists that's more of a modern construct Once. did Benjamin Franklin live at times and for a good length of time a little self-indulgent life? Absolutely.

17:15 He was raised as all the colonists were in those days with the gospel. It was actually preached in their churches and was learned in their schools. We'll talk more about that, I think, if I follow my notes accurately enough today. But he definitely sold wild oats when he was in Europe. That's pretty famous. But listen, what if somebody chose to focus on your life just when you were 21? Yeah, exactly. Some of you are saying, no, please not. No. I understand that. I got saved at the age of 19, and I thank God for that because I don't think I would have lived much longer. But I don't go around talking about that time. I leave it alone. but there may be those that we went to school together. You might bring it up. I'm going to be quick to quiet that down because it's in the past in Christ, right? Fast forward to the life of Benjamin Franklin and if you've noticed in his 80s, late 70s and 80s on, Franklin said, and you can read the quotes of remarkable things about the Bible, about Jesus Christ, about him being Lord and Savior, about God's great providential hand in the establishment of this nation.

18:27 Ben Franklin. So when you hear people quoting as though he's a godless one, him and Jefferson, think again. Thomas Jefferson was the only founding father who signed his documents in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ. Thomas Jefferson is said to have written his own Bible. It's not true. Thomas Jefferson took the four gospels and he edited out all of the narrative and put in only the miracles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and he had it used as a tract to witness to people about the miraculous powers of God. Do you know this about the Bible? Pretty clever, right? in this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth and scarcely able to distinguish it when presented to us?

19:24 How has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights, another name for God in the Bible, to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of a contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us were engaged in the struggle, must have observed frequent instances of a superintendening providence in our favor. I have lived, sir, a long time. And the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men. and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?

20:19 After he delivered that speech to Congress, they broke off and they went across the street and they prayed. And from that moment on to this very day, Congress opens up every day in prayer at the U.S. Capitol. It's too bad they didn't know about the separation of church and state, by the way. How could they do that? well clearly CNN and others have gotten it wrong. You'll see how true this is as we look through these historical truths and these declarations of independence, which in Congress on July 4th, as we all celebrate 1776, when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve, hang on to your seats, one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, comma, I think we're there again today.

21:17 Political bans. In the United States, there's supposedly two parties. I don't think there's two parties anymore. What I'm going to say might hurt. It simply means that you should change the jersey you're wearing. Why is it right now that we're at a state, When I say going back 250 years ago, there comes a time when we should maybe dissolve our bonds one to another. When right now in the United States of America, we have the isms that are advancing. This last Tuesday should have sent a shiver of cold ice in your spine in America. If you're an American, as many in the United States in these midterm elections and their local elections, Colorado being an example of one of them, voting to be socialist, voting for communist, and atheism.

22:20 The isms. Ladies and gentlemen, if you do not know, atheism is a religion. are we heading for another time in American history where there comes a time to divide? Ladies and gentlemen, not all division is wrong. Sometimes it's necessary. But we are going headlong toward picking a complete new government where man is the Lord. one party at least claims to believe in God the other party will not mention God one party says our constitution works the other party says it needs to be replaced what's going on here and why the robe if I'm going to be found guilty of something in this 21st century I want to be found guilty of adhering to the truth I do not want to be found guilty of backwardness.

23:29 He goes on. These political bonds which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitled them. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. Here it is. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And before you bring out your wokeness and say, well, a black man's life was only one-third of a value to a person. That's what those guys believed. They were white men owning black slaves. Back up.

24:23 There were colonies from South Carolina all the way up into Maine. You got that, right? They did not agree on anything. Some of those colonies couldn't stand each other. John Adams put it this way. He told Abigail, she said, is it going to work? And he said, if you can get a clock to strike midnight, 13 of them at the same time, then it will work. In other words, we need a miracle. Did you know that the southern colonies, they wanted to preserve their slavery? Did you know that the northern colonies didn't have slavery?

24:59 Interesting. So how do you get them to come together in agreement? Did you know, and you should read this, Benjamin Rush, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, they were the founding fathers of the abolitionist movement in the 13 colonies. Do you know what that means? It means they were the ones that set the wheels in motion to stop slavery. You say, Jefferson had slaves. He had a bunch of slaves. Did you know that when he traveled, he took them with him? Did you know that when Jefferson, if you've been to Monticello, and I encourage you, we all should have a field trip to Monticello. Did you know that the crown of England said, you cannot, it's a penalty against the crown of England if you educate a black man. Do you know what Thomas Jefferson did? Get out the Bible. Let's teach them how to read. Did you know that? The wheels of motion began to move. You can't turn a big ship quickly, but they were underway. And to get the Declaration of Independence, to get the Constitution, they had to compromise to get this thing off the ground.

26:10 The whole motive was, let's get these guys from the south and we'll get the north and they'll agree at some point to get this thing going. And then in due time, we will form a more perfect union. but do we even have this patience anymore? We need to. When Psalm 33, 12 says, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people he has chosen as its own inheritance, this is what we want to talk about today. Number one, blessed. Blessed. The word blessed means happy. A lot of us as Christians, we're guilty of, you know, we shouldn't talk about happiness. I understand that, because the joy of the Lord is our strength, the Bible tells us. But you know the Beatitudes, blessed are the... Did you know the word means happy? Happy are the people who follow the ways of God.

27:04 Happy are the people who see his good hand at work. Happy are the people who are willing to look for God at work. You're happy. Even when things go bad, you can rely upon your joy because the joy of the Lord is strength. It's not subject to happenstance. We can even be happy in difficult situations because we rely upon God's joy as true believers. But what a bold statement. In one verse, verse 12 of Psalm 33, happy is the nation. Wait a minute, what nation? Well, first of all, who's the psalmist? We've got David 3,000 years ago under the inspiration of God putting forth the Bible, book of Psalms. God is announcing. It's recorded by the psalmist. Blessed is the nation.

27:57 I love this. Now, suppose, contrary to Tucker Carl, Katarlson, and Candace Owens, and these other crazies, well, it's not Israel. Yeah, actually, it's Israel.

28:24 It's Israel. this is a 3,000 year old verse. The psalmist is in Israel and he's talking about the God of Israel, about the nation. But you know what? Going back to those young founding fathers, they knew Latin, they knew Greek, and they knew Hebrew. So they read the Bible in the original languages.

28:49 Guess what they figured out? Something that we still maybe, I don't know if we have refused to recognize or we don't want to, I don't know. When it says blessed is the nation, the definite article the, guess what? It's there in the Hebrew and the Greek also. It means blessed is any nation.

29:09 It's not just Israel. It was born in Israel first, the promises of God. But then the word means any nation. The psalmist is saying any nation that will make the Lord their God will be blessed. America did that. And we were a blessed nation.

29:32 And what about a nation? Oh boy, hang on. God says, I've established nations. Are you okay? Hang on. Ushers, guard the doors. Here it comes. And I have established the borders of nations and I have put within the borders those who live therein. God said that. Book of Daniel. You say, what does that mean? God makes nations. By the way, read your Bible. God's going to judge nations. He knows where the lines are drawn. We shouldn't have lines. That's not nice. Well, listen, go chase unicorns or whatever you're looking for. The truth is there's nations and there's always going to be nations.

30:13 God is saying, happy is the nation whose God is the Lord. and that's something that we need to pay attention to. That's something that we need to listen to because you're going to hear something about this in a moment, but happy is the nation. So what nation do you live in? Maybe you're visiting right now, you're watching from afar right now, and it doesn't take a spiritual Einstein to know that God says in the Bible that you need to pray for your nation, whatever nation that is. and if you live in America, you should pray for America. and I know a lot of things that I'm saying right now it's going to be great fodder for what they always say about me and about you and about us is well you know these Christian nationalists by the way I want you to know something don't worry about me you guys are so sweet you're always trying I'm praying for you I saw what they said why are you worried about it do I look worried about it I'm not worried about it But they printed this about you.

31:24 They said that about you. Don't worry about it. Number one, I don't take them seriously. And the second thing is, I'm not going to let them intimidate me. This is the great thing about the truth. Look, according to their dictionary, I am not a Christian nationalist. According to a normal dictionary, I'm a Christian who happens to live in America. if I was a Christian who lived in Germany, I would be praying for Germany.

31:56 So think that one through for a moment. Jeremiah 29.7 tells us that we should all be taking care of the town in which you live in where God has placed you for its own welfare and you should pray for its peace. Wow. and the Bible says here, who's God? Blessed is the nation, who's God? God. The Hebrew Elohim. It's an amazing word. It's Genesis chapter one. Moses wrote it. In the beginning, Elohim created the heavens and the earth. Look, none of us understand that statement, by the way. By the way, if you can get through Genesis chapter one, verse 1. The rest of the Bible is downhill. You want to know why?

32:49 In the Hebrew, El is God, but Oim, our In, is a plurality. Here, O Israel, the Lord our God is one. But Genesis 1.1 says he's a singular plurality.

33:11 He's one God. who has manifested himself throughout Scripture in the Trinity. The Bible teaches God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. When Israel made angry the God of heaven, the Bible says that he turned on them, and the Spirit of God was angry and became their enemy.

33:40 Wow. What God are we talking about here? Well, before we go down that road, we need to remember that in our nation today, we need to make a decision, people, and that is, do we understand that government from the Bible, by the way, government came from the Bible. Government, it's recorded in the Bible, given by God. Listen to what Gerald Ford says. Now, it's very sad. Gerald Ford was barely in office long enough to have a quote. This is the only quote I know about Gerald Ford. He has a great aircraft carrier, though. A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. Do you know what that's called? That's called New York City. It's called areas of Colorado.

34:34 It's called what's happening in Texas. It's what's been happening in California. that's a scary statement but to the young generation according to the recent polls that's a comforting statement because they want socialism they want communism why? Raise your hand if you have a job. Raise your hand if you have a job. You get a check. You get paid for what you do. You know, you guys need to, you need to work harder.

35:12 You need to step it up. Because you see what's happening is America is going in the direction where A, number one, we are getting rid of this God of our founding fathers. ação because we don't like competition. we need you to work harder and longer so I don't have to work.

35:39 So I can get from you whatever I need so I can stay at home and play my games in my underwear while you sweat and hammer out an existence because I believe in socialism. So you need to go to work. You understand what I'm saying? How is that advancing in America right now as we sit here today on this Sunday. And yet last Tuesday, it advanced in America. Because you know what? We have stopped in our public school system. We have stopped in our parenting. We have stopped from the pulpits of educating people about a nation that was founded by God, beginning, if you want, with the Mayflower Compact. You can even go further back than that. We have not educated our generations. And they don't know what's up. They don't even know who. I saw this thing.

36:31 I don't want to talk about it. It made me so depressed. The guy was on the beach interviewing people. Who's George Washington? When was this nation born? And it was amazing. The guy's got a microphone, and it's 4th of July. There's sparklers going off. And the guy goes, what happened on this day in history? And people didn't know. Man, when I see that, I'll, like, freak out. who's God? Let me show you this quote by the great evangelist of yesteryear. Brethren, our preaching will bear its legitimate fruits. If immorality prevails in the land, the fault is ours in a great degree. He's speaking to a bunch of pastors and Christians. If there's a decay of conscience, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the public press lacks moral discrimination, the pulpit is responsible for it. If the church is denigrated and worldly, the pulpit is responsible for it.

37:31 If the world loses its interest in religion, the pulpit is responsible for it. If Satan rules in our halls of legislation, the Latin word for that is Sacramento. The pulpit is responsible for that. If our politics become so corrupt that the very foundations of our government are ready to fall away, the pulpit is responsible for it. Let us not ignore this fact, my dear brethren, but let us lay it to heart and be thoroughly awake to our responsibility in respect to the morals of this nation. Charles Finney, New York City, December 4th, 1873. He's like a prophet. Thank you. who's God who's God will we choose in the going forth of America look I know that everything you saw on TV this weekend was all yay we're the best it's the greatest the best is yet to come I'm sorry that's up that's up for us to see but the God of the Bible has always made this nation a place where these founding fathers did something radical that no nation had ever done in the history of man.

38:54 They read the Bible and they said, look, he did it for Israel. Maybe he'll do it for us. Did you know they had a nickname? They had a nickname for King George III. Did you know this? The 56 signers had a nickname for King George III. Anybody know what it was? Pharaoh. They called him Pharaoh. remarkable notice this this is to me awesome and if you haven't yet been offended uh now is the time whose god is the lord capital l capital o capital r capital d the word in hebrew is ya it's where you get the word yahovah or yahweh We sang the song, the battle hymn of the Republic, glory, glory, hallelujah.

39:47 Do you know what you're saying? Hallelujah is praise be to God our Lord. Watch. God is a title, it's a description, God. You can be God if you want to. You can carve out a piece of wood a God. our God is Yah, Yahweh. He's alive. He's the living God. In fact, he's the God that says all other gods that man has made are made up by man. I'm the one and only living God. I'm the only true God there is. Isn't that amazing? By the way, did you know the name Jesus? Yeshua, Yeshua, Yahushua, Jesus, we would say in Greek, Jesus, or Joshua in Hebrew means the same name.

40:44 The name means the same. The Lord is our salvation. Joshua and Jesus, the name means salvation. This entire book, the Bible, Adam and Eve messed it up, right about I'm not even going to include the leather covering there it is Adam and Eve thank you very much there it is there's creation Garden of Eden and the big big fumble this is God saying, please come back. I will provide the way. I will go to the cross. I will be your salvation. I will bring you back. I will redeem you. I will bring you out of the miry clay. I will give you a new life. I'll set your foot upon a rock. And our founding fathers looked at this 13 colonies and said, he did it for Israel. Let's see if he wants to do with us.

41:37 And they, listen, the pilgrim fathers covenanted together with God. Who's got the guts to say such a thing? They said, let's make a covenant with God. Young people today, get radical, will you? I mean, are you endorsing radicalism? Absolutely. Become a lover of God and you'll love people. Become radical in that and make a great difference. But he's the Lord. Listen to what John Adams said. John Adams said this, suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts they're exhibited. What a utopia. What a paradise would this region be. You all learned that in public school, right? No. But our second president and founding father, John Adams, knew about that. What about the people whose God, it says, whose God is the Lord, the people. The people. There's no doubt about it. I am not going to let, not while I'm alive, I am not going to let this replacement theology trash advance anywhere near my proximity.

42:53 God made a covenant with Israel. They've been unfaithful. Guess what? So have you. God will keep his promises made to Israel, and he's made his promises to his church. That's something not the same. Israel and the church are two separate things. And yet it's the same God who made promises to them both. If he doesn't keep his promises to Israel, you and I ain't got any. But he will keep his promises to Israel. No matter what they do, he will keep his promises. Look, are you a Christian? Do you think that the covenant that God made with you at the cross is all based upon your performance? Well, if that's true, may the luck of the Lord be with you because that's all you got. It has nothing to do with that. You come to Christ, you come to the cross broken, owning your sin, knowing how weak you are, asking him to intervene in your life, to save you, to forgive you, to write your name in his book of life. Our founding fathers, all 56 of them, had written testimonies about who Jesus Christ was.

43:59 Ask today, our leaders, who Jesus Christ is. Ask them. Ask Ilhan Omar. Ask Zohan Mandani. they worship all right they have another book folks I hate to shock you but they're very serious about their religion this is the United States of America it's not Saudi Arabia I want you to think about this this is the United States so I don't like this place I don't like America go why are you here look Thank you. I've been to Switzerland. Maybe we should move. It's very nice.

44:53 It's great. But guess what? I can't go to Switzerland. They won't let me in. I mean, to move. Because I don't have the credentials. I don't have what's needed. I've got to be able to prove to them that I can generate income for the country. You have to prove that. What do I do? What do I do? I marry people and I bury people. So they don't want me there.

45:21 But I got news for you. I just got back from Canada and England, and you know what I had to do? I had to stick my face in front of a screen. I had to look into the thing, and this computer screen gives me a green thumbs up if I'm okay because I passed the test. I read my eye pattern, read my geometry of my face. They didn't even look at my passport, which is kind of disheartening. And okay, gate opens. A gate, it's electronic. It goes, and you're in.

45:53 Do you realize that as a Christian, if you walked into Saudi Arabia, if we got on a plane today, we went to Saudi Arabia, and we went to go see Mecca, and did you know that if you were on this, and you have a big gold cross right now, you have to put that away. That's illegal. You can be arrested for that. And you have a Bible open on your lap. You can't do that. That is actually a possible death penalty in Iran to have a Bible open in public. Are you hearing me, folks? If you want to live there, go there. This is the United States of America. Our founding fathers were so secure in what they gave us as a government that the atheist, you're not going to find this in any other country. Go search and see. The atheist who doesn't believe in the God of this nation has the exact same rights and privileges as the believer who believes in that God who did. Did you know that?

46:46 What government in the history of man ever afforded such a thing? Amazing. God did this. The people. look what John Adams said John Adams and John Hancock said this on April 18th 1775 what a great t-shirt we recognize no sovereign but God and no king but Jesus wow mic drop Wow. By the way, King George, that's it. String him up. And the Bible says, the people that he has chosen. what does that mean that he has chosen a chosen people according to the bible god says he's looking for those who will do righteousness he's asking of us to put him first in our deliberation first in our battles first in our government first in our families first in our worship. I mean, it's amazing. And listen, friend, that's not egocentric of God. He is God.

48:09 We are created. He's trying to tell us, you have no idea how beyond you I am. listen to what Noah Webster had to say Noah Webster by his book it's the 1828 dictionary of the American language for the colonies in my opinion it's the one and only dictionary that exists this is what he said Noah Webster if the citizens of the United States neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office the government will soon be corrupt what's he talking about? Laws will be made not for the public good so much as for the selfish or for local purposes. Stop right there. Keep this on the screen. While you were sleeping,

49:03 California has a certain legislature, a legislator, who decided to write a bill, and they all passed it, of course, because that's what they can do. They don't have to put it to a vote to us. And it's this. Aren't you glad this passed? If you are caught tampering and molesting a child, your penalty has been reduced. It won't be as bad as punishment as it once was in California. You can take a nice deep breath and relax. If you're a pedophile it's not so bad here if you get caught. Go look it up. How'd that happen? Ask Noah Webster.

49:57 He knew. Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws. The public revenues, money, will be squandered on trains that don't go anywhere. No, I'm sorry. On unworthy men. And the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a Republican government, that simply means if you go outside over here to my right, to your left, we have a flagpole there and it says California Republic. It's got a big bear, beautiful grizzly bear. It's got one star up there and then it's got this verbiage saying California Republic. Do you know what that means? This is what it means. California, we the people. That's what a republic means. That means you have the say. if a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands oh my goodness he says it's so so nonchalant it's because the public neglects the divine commands like we all know what he's talking about you're going to hear about it in a second and elect bad men to make and administer the laws technically we elect bad men who write bad laws do you know what the divine command is?

51:21 get involved in your community that's the divine command let your light so shine that when men, the community, people see your good works they'll glorify your father which is in heaven think about that for a moment We don't want to hear this because this requires us, as Ben Franklin said when asked, Mr. Franklin, what kind of government have you guys given us? Franklin said, a republic if you can keep it. Translation, a republic where it's we the people. It's your voice that matters. But you're going to have to fight for that freedom every step along the way because there'll be people out to silence you and to take that freedom away from you. Wow. amazing. God has done things to this nation that is absolutely unheard of in the nations of the world. God has been good to us. You and I are living off the benefits of those who have waged this good fight before us a long time ago. Isn't it crazy, amazing? No nation on the planet right now can say that we had sparklers and fried chicken and we watched whatever we watched, the parade or whatever.

52:44 And we've been doing that for 250 years under the same governing document. There's only one nation on earth. Most governing documents last 17 years. That's the average of constitutions. The United States yesterday set a Guinness World Book of Records. for real. No nation in the history of man has been governed this long under one document. Congratulations. Thomas Jefferson in 1781 said,

53:20 and can the liberties of a nation be thought secure, listen to him, when we have removed their only firm basis? What is that, Tom? A conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God, that they are not to be violated, but with his wrath. Indeed, I tremble for my country, Thomas Jefferson said, when I reflect that God is just and that his justice cannot sleep forever. Wow, what do you think of that? Amazing. Our nation needs help, but it's not gonna come from the police department, the military. It's not gonna come from governors or presidents.

54:01 It comes from we the people seeking God. And listen, God is not calling the people who do bad to repent and follow him. He's calling those of us who name his name to repent and follow him. And then he says, I'll heal your land. I agree with Charles Finney. We're responsible. Can I say this? Just perchance you may not yet have been offended. we can scarcely handle this republic God has given us. We don't even know how to conduct ourselves with the freedoms that we have. And I'm going to prove it to you.

54:43 In recent elections, people have acted like lunatics. They've proven themselves unworthy to be custodians of a republic. Well, my team didn't win, so I'm not voting this November. Are you not supposed to get away from your petty localness to do what's better for all? We are Americans. We are supposed to sacrifice ourselves for the greater cause. But my team didn't win, so I'm not going to get involved. That is so petulant. It's shocking. in Christian communities which maybe does prove after all these decades I've been trying to get Christians to vote maybe that was a mistake maybe the Christian cannot handle it because they can't let the results be in the hand of the sovereign God we need a rebuking as a people and we need to think and understand this is an imperfect government we live in an imperfect world We seek God, we get involved, we leave the results to him.

55:52 But a lot of Christians do not accept the results that God gives. Know this. God speaks to nations. He says by the leaders, he gives them. If we all stay home and sit around, well, Pastor Jack, don't you believe Jesus is coming back? Yes, I do. Hopefully any second now. I mean it. but I got to act like he's going to wait 100 years. so I have to get involved. Oh, but it's dirty, it's ugly, it's filthy. Politics, all that stuff. Protecting the culture. Yeah, it's filthy. That's exactly where we're supposed to go. We've been washed by the blood of the lamb. We've been galvanized to go into the cesspool of what is lost and messed up. We should take a lesson from Satan. He has no problem getting in there.

56:45 he loves to corrupt government which God invented and he's going to continue unless we unite in his word God's word that is absolutely essential I can't believe how time is gone it's ridiculous I know I can't keep going there's a third service and the children's ministry would kill me if I kept going and the traffic people would kill me after I was dead Thank you. I'll just paraphrase this. You can look at it. Get your camera up. Take a look. Abraham Lincoln, on January 27th, 1837, basically said, there's no nation that's going to conquer us. That's not even possible. We're too strong. You know how we're going to get destroyed? From the inside. That's what he says here. From the inside. We will be the ones. We must ourselves be its author and finisher.

57:39 As a nation of free men, we must live through all time or die by suicide. Lincoln, amazing. Paraphrase, Joshua 24, verses 14 to 15. Joshua said, you guys want to goof off? You want to play marbles with God? Here's the deal. You guys are all messed up because you're worshiping the God of your fathers, all those pagan gods from the Amorites to the Hittites to all of those Babylonian deities. You want to worship those gods? Go do it. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. That's what Joshua said. Joshua, the leader. Joshua, the commander in chief. John Adams said this. The general principles on which, this is amazing, the fathers. You know, in his day, what's he talking about?

58:36 The fathers, the pilgrim fathers. You know how we have John Adams and those dudes as our founding fathers? They had the pilgrim fathers as their founding fathers. And if you want to know what they thought, go read the Mayflower Compact. It's two paragraphs. You'll make it. It's amazing. The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that and then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God. John Adams said that. I know I've been quoting a lot of John Adams. They all said such things. You can read all about them later. Adams went on to say this that our constitution was made only oh boy listen this hurts our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people it is wholly inadequate for the government of any other you want to know why America is messed up you want to know why things are nuts in Portland and I guess Newport Beach last night you want to know why There's no fear of God.

59:50 There's no fear of authority. There's no fear. There's no consequences. Constitution only works for a moral and religious people I want to ask you collectively as a nation are we moral and are we a religious people when that is gone the Constitution will not work Adams was very right. I'm going to leave you with what I think is moving. It's moving to me. I love this. Can you stand and I'll read this last quote. It's so precious.

1:00:31 You guys, they're in Philadelphia and they're all there and it's not going good. And this is all coming to the thought process of what are we going to do. and you can read this. It's recorded. Everybody is, that's it. I'm done. I'm leaving. This thing, we'll never win. We're getting slaughtered, and we were getting slaughtered.

1:01:01 I listened to David McCullough last night be interviewed by Charlie Rose on YouTube, and Washington had 3,000 troops left. He's on Manhattan Island, the battle for Brooklyn. We have 3,000 troops left. You know who knew that? Washington and his brigadier generals, nobody else. Washington said, we got to keep this a secret. We cannot know, the troops can't know, we're down to 3,000 men, when across the bay, there's 50,000 British Redcoats. So we got to make sure that our men think we're okay.

1:01:42 You ought to read about that. in 1776 by David McCullough. Sam Adams gets motivated in the moment, I believe inspired, because it changed everything. History tells us that he stood up.

1:02:02 Let us awaken then and invents a different spirit, a spirit that shall inspire the people with confidence in themselves and in us, a spirit that will encourage them to persevere in this glorious struggle until their rights and liberties shall be established on a rock. We have proclaimed to the world our determination to die free men rather than live as slaves. We have appealed to heaven for justice and our cause and in heaven we have placed our trust. Numerous have been the manifestations of God's providence in sustaining us in the gloomy period of adversity. We have had our cloud by day and pillar of fire by night. We have been reduced to distress. And the arm of omnipotence has raised us up. Let us still rely in humble confidence on him who is mighty to save.

1:03:00 Good tidings will soon arrive. He didn't know that. We shall never be abandoned by heaven while we act worthy of its aid and protection. and all God's people said