[SPEAKER_00]: If you could please turn, the second Corinthians, chapter three, verse seventeen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Second Corinthians, chapter three, verse seventeen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you could please stand on the reading of his word, if you can't understand that, I say that every week in the reason is sometimes people have physical conditions that makes it difficult for them and I get that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says in second Corinthians, chapter three, verse seventeen, now the Lord is the Spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: And where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honor the reading of His word and you may be seated.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now just a little while ago, we placed the lesions to the flag of the United States of America, didn't we?
[SPEAKER_00]: And it says, as they added to it, and they did.
[SPEAKER_00]: They added in nineteen fifty-four,
[SPEAKER_00]: They added the phrase, one nation under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, a lot of people don't know us for about a few years, nearly fifty.
[SPEAKER_00]: People have been saying that in schools and all.
[SPEAKER_00]: So finally, in nineteen fifty four, they made it official.
[SPEAKER_00]: One nation under God became the official term that was used.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there are other places of allegiance that we just did by the school, places to the Christian flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: and pledge allegiance to the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's nice to hear the kids do that, to see them put their hand over the heart and say those things.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love to see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag, and to the Savior whose kingdom it stands.
[SPEAKER_00]: One nation under God, and I came here to the rest of the right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll show you how I would if I was doing it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, it's nice to see you there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we've done the pledge leads for a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's very important to know that America was founded on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: America was founded on the gospel to Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's something that people don't want to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, but he's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, is every person a Christian who is an American or even who was an American when it's founded?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, but most war raised, most were raised and founded on Christian biblical beliefs and morals.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is true.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, George Washington said and he was most definitely a Christian.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, it is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see that there are many, many things that we had in this nation from the very get of the go.
[SPEAKER_00]: very good of the go that were very important.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I mentioned these things from time to time.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll read to you a couple of them right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: One of them is the very first, the very first thing that we had as a, you guess you'd call it a, what a constitution.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it was the very first paper written here in our country.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was the Mayflower Compact in November, Levin.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is the first official document
[SPEAKER_00]: a framework of government and it says in the starts off saying in the name of God, Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it goes on to say many other things, which I'll talk more about November.
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's important to know that we started off our nation, starting giving writing things and promises in the name of God and encryption in faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is how we started off our country.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even in the declaration of independence, as I've mentioned, even last week that there are fifty six men
[SPEAKER_00]: and fifty-two of them were active members of their church.
[SPEAKER_00]: They went through all of this and it says, in Congress, July, fourth, seventeen, seventy-six, we hold these truths to be self-evidence that all men were created equal, that they are endowed by their creator.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how my God was certain and amenable rights that among all these are life-librating the pursuit of happiness.
[SPEAKER_00]: These things were promised to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Another thing to wrote was the Constitution, in September, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, seventeenth, sevente
[SPEAKER_00]: Freedom of religion, amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: All people talk about freedom of speech and has important, but folks, freedom of religion was first because these people founded our country on the gospel of Jesus, on the Bible, even those who were not Christians, Benjamin Franklin and others, they knew of God, they knew of Christ, they knew of His truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm gonna tell you something.
[SPEAKER_00]: I take this out, not just once a year, a couple times a year, but this is a Bible I use this in the New King James, but I love this Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know who I love it, and you can see that I bought it, a wonderful cover for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love it because that's first Corinthians, fifteen, fifty, eight on here, stand firm, let nothing move you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love this Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: The reason why I love it is because it is filled with not only biblical truth, obviously, but it is also filled with American history and how it's founded on the gospel.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so I'll reduce some of that today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some of it because there's no way I can go through all of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: I even gave way little books that had most of what's in here in these little books.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's two of them actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wonderful little books.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wonderful.
[SPEAKER_00]: But one of the things that was also written
[SPEAKER_00]: that we find out is how we were spoiled on the freedom of speech.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're spoiled on the freedom of speech.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you hear people say all the time talking as if it's in the constitution, talking as if it's in the Declaration of Independence, which it is not.
[SPEAKER_00]: You hear about something called separation of church and state.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you've heard of it before.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've ever heard of that, if you've never heard of it, you've never watched it in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've never heard of that, you've never watched MSNBC.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've never heard of that, you've never been in school.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you've never heard of that, you've never watched television at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or talk to anyone who isn't a Christian.
[SPEAKER_00]: They talk about that continuously, but we're in the comfort.
[SPEAKER_00]: If it's not in the Constitution.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it came from the Treaty of Tripoli.
[SPEAKER_00]: which is now Libya.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the truth is, is that was from John Adams, you said at seventeen ninety seven, and this separation church estate was mentioned in what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, as the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on Christian religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says much more.
[SPEAKER_00]: But John Adams was not telling them that we're not a Christian nation.
[SPEAKER_00]: While he was saying to these people, these people that he said, we are not like crusaders.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, you have a freedom of religion.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was telling them that you do not have to be a Christian to live here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was saying you do not have to be a Christian to be free in this nation.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, you have the freedom to be a Christian or not be a Christian.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have the freedom to go to heaven or hell, just to be honest.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the facts are, we are a freedom nation and nation.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have the right to either no Christ or not, no Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we're still fat on the gospel of Jesus and on the truths of the word.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen, amen, amen, amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: We do have freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: As we spoke last week, last week, we had a sermon, and a sermon is called Freedom Fighters.
[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about the difference between freedom and the idea of freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, the false meaning, the false narrative of the freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: We spoke about how true freedom means to have liberty and rights and independence.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we talked about the history of that, the Revolutionary War.
[SPEAKER_00]: We even talked about Juneteenth and how some people had to, unfortunately, grow freedom from slavery.
[SPEAKER_00]: We talked about biblical freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: The definition means we saved a free from damnation, the burden of sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the false idea of freedom that the lost in immature Christians want to believe is that free to do anything you want to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, they believe that God doesn't care.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God does care.
[SPEAKER_00]: He cares because He loves you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now can you do those things?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, you can do anything you want to do if you truly want to.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that doesn't mean that you should do those things.
[SPEAKER_00]: doesn't mean that you should.
[SPEAKER_00]: God loves us.
[SPEAKER_00]: He loves us in us to tell us what is right and tell us what is wrong through the Holy Spirit.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's why I love the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love him because he didn't allow me to continue to live in sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't allow me to age his seven to continue to live like a little fool.
[SPEAKER_00]: He allowed me to know better.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see, so let me just say this.
[SPEAKER_00]: America was built on freedom as one nation under God and
[SPEAKER_00]: just that was written in nineteen fifty four became a truth in nineteen fifty six what do we put what do we put under eyes and how on our coins we put in god we pressed amen and so it became a national motto and by the way that was done uh... unanimously it was voted on our coins in nineteen sixty four it was put on our bills that was it in nineteen fifty seven long nineteen
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, by the nineteen sticks and fifties on everything and God we trust.
[SPEAKER_00]: The only people have problems with those who don't love God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't know God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't want to know God.
[SPEAKER_00]: But America's history was founded on the gospel.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're talking about the things.
[SPEAKER_00]: It may for our compacted decoracy of Independence of Constitution.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's all sorts of other historical facts that I'm going to go through if you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before I get into reading from this book, one of some of the wonderful things I'm gonna try to read as much as I can, if I can.
[SPEAKER_00]: If I can, some of the quotes and one of the things that the wonderful president said about God and how they love the Lord God, but it's impossible to read them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let me tell you a few wonderful historical facts that you may have never heard, maybe have.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the first one that I'm gonna tell you, because I'm gonna try to go and
[SPEAKER_00]: history, chronological history, seventeen forty six of October.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a French union war going on and there was a preacher who's in church and he's praying with all people because he saw the battleships coming on and he saw the battleships and he saw the people the French were coming to get him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't know if the Indians were with him at the time, but he saw that they were coming and he was terrified.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he called on the guy and said, Lord, God help us help us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know all the words.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to go through all the words.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he pray that God will come down and help them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And guess what happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, hurricane came.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's hard to say, hurricane came.
[SPEAKER_00]: But uh, hurricane came and it came and started destroying the ships and they went away.
[SPEAKER_00]: And God saved them at that time because of the prayer that the man said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now someone said, Oh, that's a coincidence.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well folks, also in seventeen seventy six, there is a battle for Long Island on August of twenty seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's whenever the battle started.
[SPEAKER_00]: It went off for a few days, but here's the thing that happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: When it happened, this first of all was the first big battle after the Declaration of Independence, the first big battle made your battle.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this after course, the first shots and everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what happened was, while they were going through all this, George Washington showed up, and he ended up getting trapped between the river of Manhattan and all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they were about to be killed and destroyed and folks, if this had happened and nearly did, if this had happened, we would all be taken over and we'd be speaking English right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact is, as we would have been controlled by Britain, well, here's what happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: As that was happened, well, first of all, let me tell you this, and you won't find some of the history books.
[SPEAKER_00]: But before this happened, believe it or not, the continental Congress decided to fast and pray for the men who are out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: People don't usually tell you that, but they fast and prayed for days and guess what ended up happening?
[SPEAKER_00]: while the George Washington, where all about to be killed, the Washington and the other generals decided to start trying to get boats, but men were about to be killed.
[SPEAKER_00]: So George Washington in nine thousand were about to be killed, and all of a sudden a great fog came upon them, and the great fog came upon them, and while the great fog came upon them, the British were about to come and get them, could see what was going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: And George Washington in the nine thousand troops got on those ships and went and got away to the other island.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as the fog suddenly went away, the English came to kill him on and saw they were all gone.
[SPEAKER_00]: And saw they had gotten away, and they knew that someone else had intervened.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, someone else didn't regard it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's another.
[SPEAKER_00]: The war of eight, keen twelve, John Madison was concerned, and he fasted and prayed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, fasting is important.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fasting is important.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fasting means not to eat, not to eat, but to spend your time, or whatever it is you fast upon.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's other things you can fast upon.
[SPEAKER_00]: not to watch television or whatever it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: They fast it any prayed and by the way, they didn't want to tell it is in either.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, well, they didn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they fast it in prayed for a long time and here's what happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: The British came over with four thousand six hundred troops.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, his wife, Daldy Madness, and I'm sure you heard of her.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Dalai Madison was about to eat.
[SPEAKER_00]: She had her dinner all prepared and she was about to eat it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they heard the people are coming.
[SPEAKER_00]: So she got outside and she got away.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the the troops all came in and the general sit down and eat her food.
[SPEAKER_00]: And her supper.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you hear people saying, Bill, eat your lunch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, this was true about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, anyway, what happened was about that time, all the troops were excited and they decided that British troops decided that they were going to start torturing the White House and they did.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were torturing the White House and they started torturing all these other buildings and things.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God intervened.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of a sudden a tornado came and the fire got caught up in the tornado and started burning all the people up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the roofs touched our coming off all these buildings and landing on top of the troops.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the men this one general says, my goodness is this what I'm paraphrasing.
[SPEAKER_00]: So my goodness is this what this country puts up with.
[SPEAKER_00]: This woman said, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: She said, this is from the Lord God above, again, I'm paraphrasing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so they got out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: They got in their boats and they started getting away because they're scared of what they've been up with.
[SPEAKER_00]: And guess what happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: When they were far away and getting away from their gods, it rained and it took out all the fires.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, don't tell me God was involved with the building of this country because it was one nation under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's right, God was involved because this country was founded on principles of Judeo-Christian ethics.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, let me just go through a few and four years.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna try to go quickly because there's an awful lot I could go through.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was founded on principle number one, the dignity of human life.
[SPEAKER_00]: As it says in Exodus, twenty-thirking, it says, you shall not murder.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, as you know, our country is founded upon unalatable rights, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, as it says in Matthew, twenty-two, thirty-nine, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus said that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they believe that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there's a lot more I can say about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go to principle number two.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were founded on the traditional monodamous family.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means one husband, one wife.
[SPEAKER_00]: They believed on that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was biblical.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that because Genesis chapter two, verse twenty three and twenty five four.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Adam said, this is my, this is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh.
[SPEAKER_00]: She shall be called woman because she was taken out of man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and they shall become what?
[SPEAKER_00]: One flesh.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Principle number three, a national work ethic.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are supposed to work.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not talking about if you have physical problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not talking about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: But we're talking if you can, you should work in work hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: Work hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen what it says.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says in second, that's only in three, ten.
[SPEAKER_00]: For even when we were with you, we commanded you this.
[SPEAKER_00]: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.
[SPEAKER_00]: We should be hard workers and folks.
[SPEAKER_00]: America is hard work.
[SPEAKER_00]: These people built up our nation from hard work, principle number four.
[SPEAKER_00]: the right to a God-centered education.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how our nation was founded.
[SPEAKER_00]: On a God-centered education, we'll talk about that.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says it in Proverbs one, seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs one, seven, that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fear of the Lord, and I'm not talking about being afraid of them, because I have respect for the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the beginning of knowledge.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see as it says in Ephesians six, four, Ephesians six, four, and you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: You already know what it says.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've promised chapter three, verse five, training up your child in the ways you go, and then we're not depart from them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've said that many times.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's true, but people don't want to do that now.
[SPEAKER_00]: As we know that,
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I don't want to get too deep into this and I talk about later, but believe it or not, Harvard and Yale and Princeton and Dartmouth and so many others, but believe it or not, they were all started by Christian preachers and churches.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every one of them, every one of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Harvard University was founded in sixteen thirty-six, and adopted the rules and precepts, which started, which stated that every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well the main end of life and studies is to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the original seal of Harvard was this.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says these words on it, truth for Christ and the Church.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now think about how much things have changed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now are they teach a Harvard that men can be women, that women can be men, and that who are you to question it?
[SPEAKER_00]: That we shouldn't love America, that women have the right to murder babies.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come on now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's principal number five.
[SPEAKER_00]: Principle number five is the Abrahamic covenant.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not saying that everyone's Jewish.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we're talking about.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there was a covenant between Abraham and God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in this covenant, which by the way is in Genesis chapter twelve, verse one through three.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now the Lord has said to Abraham, get out of your country from your family, from your father's house to a land that I will show you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will make you a great nation.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will bless you and make your name great and you shall be a blessing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in you, all the families of the earth shall be blessed.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was a covenant between God and Abraham.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now what does this mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why is this a part of the principles of America?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the principle of the Abrahamic covenant states that if every, if a person or a nation obeys God, observing the moral truth found in the Bible that that person or nation will be blessed.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we follow God, good things happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't, it won't.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, I mean, the Bible says at all time, follow the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And listen, what it says, if they disobey, they will bring punishment upon themselves.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Bible says it continuously, follow the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do what is right?
[SPEAKER_00]: It says in Galatians three, seven, therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham, those who are of faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, those who are Jewish?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, those who are of faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you were a Abraham.
[SPEAKER_00]: Abraham was a faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fat God said that he couldn't, he started the whole thing on his own faith because he could only press upon his faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: Principle number six or seven principles.
[SPEAKER_00]: So sprints will number six.
[SPEAKER_00]: Common decency.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's how I'll start it.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, morality, common decency.
[SPEAKER_00]: Simply put, this is the belief that a decent nation is made up of decent people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Where did that go?
[SPEAKER_00]: I can see it on your faces.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can see it on your eyes.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, are you sure this is the American we live in today?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, this is the American that was built upon the gospel of Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen what it says.
[SPEAKER_00]: Matthew, twenty-two, thirty-nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus says, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, folks, and you know that Jesus said this too in both the Matthew and in Luke.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do unto others as you would have them what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Do unto you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Treat people the way you want to be treated.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would love to tell you we always do.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'd be higher.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'd be a liar if I said that I always have done that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's times I've said stupid things.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you have to, by the way, I'm not judging you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just using a common sense.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's dog on to you for being human.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dog on to.
[SPEAKER_00]: We all mess up, but that's not an excuse to keep all messing up when you know you messed up.
[SPEAKER_00]: The man who knows his sin, don't he do it, sin?
[SPEAKER_00]: Either way, last but not least, principle number seven, are personal accountability that God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Perhaps the greatest restraint against acts of evil towards others is the knowledge that every person and nation will one day give an account for their actions to Almighty God.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is why it's so horrible that people started saying there is no God, and I start teaching that as a fact, as a scientific fact incidentally.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's important
[SPEAKER_00]: because what some of them believes they have no one to answer to but themselves, they believe that they only have to do what their self wants to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when they do that, oh, look out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look out.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have to believe anything or do anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the sad thing is, I still have to answer God before they sent to the amnesia in the hell.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't want that for anyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've heard people saying, well, I can't work, no, no, no, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't say that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't want that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I want them to come to know the truth which is Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: It says in Hebrews nine, twenty seven, and as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this is the judgment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, we're all gonna die.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're all gonna stand for God.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray and hope that people come to know the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus before, I hope you'll get their attention and shake them up.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they'll answer and answer, yes, save me, though.
[SPEAKER_00]: They did me.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's not because I'm smart.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was seven year old, goofy child.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God got my attention and woke me up and I don't know how old you were, but I praise God that he woke you up to.
[SPEAKER_00]: The great American statesman, Daniel Webster, once asked, was once asked, what is the most sobering thought on the ever entered your mind?
[SPEAKER_00]: And he quickly responded, my personal accountability to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's so many other things that I could go through.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's quote, quote, quote, fact, it's a fact, but I won't.
[SPEAKER_00]: I won't.
[SPEAKER_00]: because we'd be here for a long time.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, the only other one that I'm going to quote really quick is something that Ronald Reagan once said, and I love Ronald.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ronald Reagan said, without God, I don't remember what year this was.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it was nineteen eighty four.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good year.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was the year I got said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Actually, there's a few months before this.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, without God, there is no virtue because there's no prompting of the conscience without God.
[SPEAKER_00]: were mired in the material.
[SPEAKER_00]: That flat world that tells us only that the senses perceive.
[SPEAKER_00]: Without God, there is no worsening of the society.
[SPEAKER_00]: And without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I say to that,
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are so many things that could go through that are in this Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's one for Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: About the presidents and their Bible, about faith of our founders, about the Bible and American education and how it's gone astray.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what has happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, what has happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why has our country the way it is now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I could tell you.
[SPEAKER_00]: In nineteen sixty two, they removed prayer from the school.
[SPEAKER_00]: In nineteen sixty three, they removed a Bible from school.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that was the beginning of the downfall.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see what happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what was their true goal?
[SPEAKER_00]: The true goal of the unbelievers to do this was to remove God from America's future.
[SPEAKER_00]: To destroy what this country was founded on.
[SPEAKER_00]: because they felt like they would be condemned.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what a non-believer does.
[SPEAKER_00]: They feel under conviction when they hear about God, who gives him the right to make me read Scripture in school, who gives him the right to make me say a prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now the prayer wasn't an actual prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was more like a poem every morning, but still the phone spoke about Jesus spoke about God, spoke about what was right and wrong,
[SPEAKER_00]: I dare say that giving a kid a more, for instance, Dr. Suss, Dr. Suss gives more or less in his little stories because he was a Christian.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the great thing about Dr. Suss giving more out of it is a child knows what's right and wrong from the little moral stories.
[SPEAKER_00]: even looting tune sometimes gives the moral stories and that's how a child knows right from wrong sometimes even in comic books sometimes they used to have a lot of morals nowadays they give a lot of imm moral stories imm moral thoughts and sometimes on the cartoons in the last
[SPEAKER_00]: Ten years or so, they've gotten very immoral.
[SPEAKER_00]: Trying to teach the children that it's okay to do what you want to do, not what you're supposed to do, what God wants you to do, what God made you to do, and this is what has happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've decided to remove these things, who are you to say what's right, Ron?
[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, it doesn't matter what you say, what has what God said.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is what has happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: We were wants to be one nation under God, and the title of this sermon with the midst of the state earlier is one nation under.
[SPEAKER_00]: Under what?
[SPEAKER_00]: We were one nation under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what has happened is real was once one nation under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Israel was a nation of God and it was and sometimes it is now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it isn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Israel was a nation of God, but then it wasn't what happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's founded on the Abrahamic Covenant, like we said.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it was the Isaac Covenant.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was great.
[SPEAKER_00]: They made mistakes sometimes, but then they'd get right again.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then it was the Jacob Covenant, Jacob whose name was Israel.
[SPEAKER_00]: We saw that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then what happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I'll tell you what happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: when Jacob and all his children moved to Egypt and some did write.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then they became slaves for over four hundred and forty years to be exact.
[SPEAKER_00]: They became slaves slaves to Egypt.
[SPEAKER_00]: But then what happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: With a Lord came in and he intervened.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we know the Exodus happened with Moses.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what happened when they were set free?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the Israelites turned away from God and they decided to turn to themselves because they did that.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had to walk in the wilderness for forty years.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they weren't watching God and doing what God told me to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: That one nation under God then became what?
[SPEAKER_00]: One nation under self.
[SPEAKER_00]: One nation under sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: One nation under wilderness.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what happened.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the book of Judges alone.
[SPEAKER_00]: We see all sorts of things happening.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could go through every book I won't.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I will talk about this in the book of judges, which by the way, is three hundred and fifty years.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three hundred and fifty years in the book of judges.
[SPEAKER_00]: And guess what happened?
[SPEAKER_00]: Seven times they got right with the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Seven times they were they would got right with God and they were a place of loyalty.
[SPEAKER_00]: One nation under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And seven times they turned away from God and became a nation of apostasy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that horrible?
[SPEAKER_00]: Seven times.
[SPEAKER_00]: By first and second kings, we saw that downfall of Israel, we saw a civil war between Israel and Judah.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were caught in a slavery to sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: A slavery to sin, maybe right now, you're caught in a little bit of slavery sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you are.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to go through all the types of sin that you might be having a problem with.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might be.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know there's a temptation to sin in your life because you're human.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's a temptation to sin every day.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be hatred.
[SPEAKER_00]: It couldn't.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could start off with a little bit anger.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be angry and sin not.
[SPEAKER_00]: but it starts off with anger, then it could be hatred, there could be a little bit of a blasphemy in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be the fact that you have lust in your life, and I understand, but you gotta fight that too.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could very well be something in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be the fact there's something else that the Lord God is fighting to try to set you free from it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could be slavery of something, but their slavery is in, didn't stop it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what ended up happening?
[SPEAKER_00]: It actually led to literal slavery, slavery to Babylon, and then to a Syria.
[SPEAKER_00]: and other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you see it all the way into for second problems.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what it happens so in other books of the Bible, it happened for many, many years, seventy years.
[SPEAKER_00]: How many times no Testament that is realized that the Israelites turn away from God?
[SPEAKER_00]: What to be honest with you is too many times to know exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: I looked this up myself.
[SPEAKER_00]: Too many times.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's too, it's just impossible to know exactly how many times.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there's only one way to be released from the slavery of sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: The turn back to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you want to be one nation in their God, you got to turn back to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: It turned away from sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't want to be one nation in the sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's for sure.
[SPEAKER_00]: This one says in second Chronicles, seven, four, King.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what God said.
[SPEAKER_00]: If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear
[SPEAKER_00]: from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: America, America was one nation under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or, as today, are we one nation under God?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or are we one nation under odds?
[SPEAKER_00]: What does that mean with one nation under odds?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the phrase under odds is a betting term, actually.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a betting term.
[SPEAKER_00]: to see how much you can get if the odds went out and the odds, those are not good odds.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had to be made your odds to win a lot of money.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I don't bet, I don't believe in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't think it's wise and I don't only think it's a very crucial thing to do to be honest with you, but that's when you and God.
[SPEAKER_00]: The fact is, a lot of people are betting on self over God.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's very stupid.
[SPEAKER_00]: God is the great creator.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knows what's going on with this creation.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knows what's going to happen to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why would you bet on yourself over the creator?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why would you do that?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are you one nation or one nation in the God or one nation in the odds?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are we one nation in the God or one nation under sin?
[SPEAKER_00]: Are we one nation under God?
[SPEAKER_00]: Or as President Ronald Reagan said, are we one nation
[SPEAKER_00]: under and over.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's something these verses I use last week.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we need to remember this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm, a hundred and nineteen verse, forty five.
[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm, a hundred and nineteen verse, forty five says, I will walk in freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I have devoted myself to your commandments.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have a freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: And our freedom is the follow God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I know it's not a popular thing to do with a lot of people in this world in this nation.
[SPEAKER_00]: but we need to be devoted to the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or as it says in Romans eight verse two, for the law of the Spirit, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
[SPEAKER_00]: You've been set free from these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to be tempted sometimes to give into the things that sound good to the human ear and by that I mean the mankind ear to the things that sound good to all those around doesn't mean it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I could easily be distracted.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know about you, especially when I was young, like we easily distracted.
[SPEAKER_00]: And oh, how the devil wants to come knocking and get in the way between what the Holy Spirit wants to tell us.
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to be one nation under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if we're paying attention to everything else, all the distractions happening to me in our God when you're listening to all the other things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not telling you you shouldn't watch television once a while or all those that be careful you listen to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be careful even if the ministers are watching.
[SPEAKER_00]: Be careful of what you're reading because man, I even had talks with people, not that long ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: But people said, I thought I said this and about what I thought, I said, careful, careful, Satan's crouching at the door, as God said, to
[SPEAKER_00]: Kate and said, say, scratch has the door.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, what do I mean by that?
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they were listening to a ministers who are misquoting the Bible to get their own meaning from it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about that in a couple of weeks.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the fact is, you must be careful.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter, two, fifteen, through sixteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you'll hear it.
[SPEAKER_00]: What does it say?
[SPEAKER_00]: And first Peter, two, fifteen and sixteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: For it is the will of God that by doing right, you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now listen to this.
[SPEAKER_00]: As free people do not use your liberty as a covering for evil, but live as servants of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: As free people do not use your liberty as a covering for evil, but live as servants of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And here's what the one nation under odds, the one nation under sin, the one nation under and over would, would they need to hear this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Although, because they want to promise you, odds is non-sensible things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Although they, this is second, Peter, two, nineteen by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Second, Peter, two, nineteen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Although they promised them freedom, they themselves are slaves of corruption.
[SPEAKER_00]: For by that, which a man is overcome to this, he is enslaved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, back to the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians, for King thirty three.
[SPEAKER_00]: For God is not the author of confusion.
[SPEAKER_00]: but of peace as in all churches of the saints.
[SPEAKER_00]: I say this one a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because when the world tells us things and they try to quote the Lord with it, they try to miss quote the Bible, they try to confuse you with things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Trying to say, it's okay, it's okay to do this.
[SPEAKER_00]: They, of course, they don't want to say it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Call a sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, they don't want to say that it's wrong because they say they want you to feel confused.
[SPEAKER_00]: Want you to feel like you're wrong for not doing what they say is right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, America was founded on the gospel.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, man, you should do those things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, they're doing that to confuse you so that you walk away scratching your head.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, you stay have a lot of hair.
[SPEAKER_00]: I used to have a lot of hair.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not saying it's because I scratched my hair and he had a confusion.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what caused it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not saying it's because of all the brain surgeries.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I'm saying is that I did scratch my head a lot because of the confusion that people of the world would bring to me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, maybe there's connection, maybe there's not, but I am saying this, if you got a real perity here ahead of here, and I think a lot of you do dull don't, but I'll say this, don't go scratch your head of confusion instead, go to the word of God afraid.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pray, pray, pray, fast to pray, and make sure you don't let Satan take their perity here off your head.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's all I'm saying.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Romans chapter eight verse twenty one.
[SPEAKER_00]: That the creation itself also will be set free and that's us where the creation.
[SPEAKER_00]: That the creation itself also will be set free from a slavery to corrupt to corruption into the glorious freedom of the children.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh God.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get away from the corruption and we'll be set free.
[SPEAKER_00]: They into the glorious freedom and the children and God.
[SPEAKER_00]: You'll be freedom.
[SPEAKER_00]: Freedom will be children and God.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're set free from that corruption folks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Set free.
[SPEAKER_00]: One last one in this area, Ephesians three, twelve.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians three, twelve.
[SPEAKER_00]: In whom we have boldness and confident access through faith in Him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was talking about, we have access through faith in Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: We could be bold and confident in Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to be bold and confident in anything but Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: In this nation was founded on the gospel of what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ, the gospel of Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what this nation was founded upon.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, I love America.
[SPEAKER_00]: God bless America.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that I love.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: As much as I love America, as much as I love this nation, as much as I love this country of the United States of America, how much I love the Christian flag more.
[SPEAKER_00]: As much as I love the United States of America, I love Jesus so much more.
[SPEAKER_00]: As much as I love these two flags, all how much I love the Bible more.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so when I say the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, I love to say I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love to say I pledge allegiance to the Bible, God's holy word.
[SPEAKER_00]: I will make it a lamp of to my feet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I lie to to my path and hide its words in my heart that I may not sin against God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's so very true to keep it with you everywhere you go so that when Satan tries to come in and tear you down, that you make sure that you stand strong because we're gonna be one nation under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna be one church under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in order to do that, you must be one Christian under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: which makes us one church, the people, which makes us one city, which makes us one state, which makes us one nation.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's one by one.
[SPEAKER_00]: We must stand strong with the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: So when you hear one nation under, make sure that it's one nation under God and not under and over anything else.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't let the world lie to you and tell you that we're not a nation under God.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if we're not, the God help us come, take us home, do you come, come, take us home?
[SPEAKER_00]: because I'm ready anytime.
[SPEAKER_00]: But ask for me at my house, we will serve the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray you feel the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as we close today, I will read Psalm one, eighteen, verse five.
[SPEAKER_00]: Out of my distress, I call on the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord answered me and set me free.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now about prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord Jesus, we pray for this nation.
[SPEAKER_00]: and every nation will.
[SPEAKER_00]: We pray for those who do not know you Lord, we don't care if we disagree with them politically, if we disagree with them Lord, on whatever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, we love them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we want them to come to know you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or we pray especially for those who are morally disagreeing with your word.
[SPEAKER_00]: We pray Lord God that you'll set us right on the things that we're wrong about.
[SPEAKER_00]: We pray Lord God that you'll set us right each and every day that we'll put everything behind us and put you before us and that we'll follow you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or we thank you that you set us free that we have the ability to do this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I am so sorry for the times that we take our freedom for granted.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm so sorry that we have not always followed you like we should.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I pray right now that we will be active, wonderful, obedient, free children to spread your word to others.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not just say it, but to live it, to spread your word to all those and realize just how truly blessed we have been.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, I pray that our country will continue to grow in faith and I pray, Lord, for every single lost person right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they will understand the difference between believing in God and putting all their beliefs in His Son for Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray this and holy and precious name Amen.