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Now, live from the Truth Booth, your host, Robbie Dilmore. Have fun today is the 49th day before our 250th anniversary. And so, you know, one of the neat things about Kingdom Pursuits is: how does God take your passion and use it to build the kingdom?
Well, there is a passion for patriotism. that I have seen, especially passion For The fundamental Um understandings that led to the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence and and the movement that started this country to begin with, that speaks of the idea of both Um Revival and awakening. And so, how fun! I have somebody that really shares that passion with me. In fact, exceeds my own.
I know. How many events he's been to and things along these lines. And a lover of history, my friend Andy Thomas, who's also with Masculine Journey, and you know, we do boot camps together and that kind of stuff. But Andy has a passion for this particular subject, a passion for patriotism. And so, Andy, as you see it, we're on the cusp of just on this generation.
Something amazing. Yeah, I think so, for sure. Um Just about me a little bit, just where this comes from, is I remember this the the Bicentennial celebration. I was nine years old, and it made an impression on me, but I didn't and I was always a lover of history and Revolutionary War stuff and Civil War, all that stuff, and kind of got away from it. It was all my focus was on sports and stuff, but Since I got my heart back through the boot camp, I began to, you know, what are my passions?
And I went back to my youth a bit and it connected. And I began to see where our country I felt like we were a a country that was getting away from our founding and stuff.
So But that I think sometimes constantly In the Old Testament, God is constantly calling Israel back to their foundations. And You know, a lot of people will say, Well, we're in the New Testament, it doesn't work like that. You know, you can say Um You know, we really don't depend on nationalism or constitution or government. Will you Jesus said that my kingdom is not of this world, no doubt about it. But God doesn't expect us to get out of the public sector and get or and And the sharing of ideas and us bringing our strength of the gospel to those situations.
That's not our salvation, but we have to enter that square. And in doing so, I think. You don't just do that, you go back to the roots. And so That's kind of where I'm coming from. And I love my country dearly.
It's not a perfect country, it never was. You know, people will t try to nitpick and find every little thing wrong in its founding and there was certainly stuff, but there was a lot of stuff wrong with Israel and their founding and taking over the Pom Promised Land, their 40-year journey in the deserts, right?
So you're not looking for perfection, you're looking for God's plan. And there's certainly, I mean, America was founded to send the gospel all over the world. All these universities and stuff were founded to send missionaries. We've sent more missionaries, sent the gospel all over the world more than anywhere. And what would Satan like to do?
He would like to take that foundation from us and rip it away from us. And so I like, but now this is really, this 250-year celebration is kind of like a recentering, and God was like, you know, come back to where. You were founded, so. That's just kind of A nice setup. Yeah, absolutely.
You know, again, we got so much going on, and I think about even the children. today that are nine years old, that get a chance to get caught up in you know, what true heroism is, what true sacrifice is, what true, you know, faith looks like, and all those kind of things. And we have that in, you know, events like the Fifty Days of Prayer that Franklin Graham just instituted, and there's a big event tomorrow on the mall in Washington, D.C., you know, led by Jay Strach and Company. There's all kinds of and and so out. It's a neat opportunity, Andy.
So Uh just kind of Where I'm kind of gone with this, I've really just kind of like dedicated this year to actually go back and go to the battle places or go to where. You know, the site like in Halifax, North Carolina, recently this year, the Halifax Resolves. It was kind of like the precursor to the Declaration of Independence. And just, you know, I plan to go to Philadelphia and Washington right around July 4th just for that celebration and getting back to that. But, you know, before even all that, where did all this come from?
America was looking, they were looking for an identity. And it was in God. And I told you about, you know, sending the gospel and all that. But where did that come from? And Robbie was at NRB, I believe, and saw.
A, you know, a trailer for the movie The Great Awakening, and I went and saw that, and which even. More strengthened my understanding of what the purpose of this nation was because the great, I don't think the revolution would have happened without the Great Awakening. God people were, you know, had been here for a hundred years and they were kind of wandering. And George Whitfield came on the scene and many and many were saved. God did amazing things.
So people had begun to get spiritual freedom. But they had a tyrannical king that wouldn't allow them to worship the way that they desired, and they needed a civil freedom. And the reason for the revolution.
So that's where we're, you know, that's kind of what we're celebrating, not just the revolution, but even the Great Awakening. Just whenever God has a purpose. And if you don't value that, if you just walk away from it, it's not important, it's not relevant. I think that is you know, Israel got in trouble for that. God was constantly telling them to put up monuments to remind what he did.
I want to I want to remember what he did, not just in the the how the scriptures were developed and all, but w this country I live in, I want to identify with what he did and its founding. Yeah, and I'd love again, I couldn't recommend that movie enough. A great awakening. It's from Sight and Sound Theaters. But there was a scene that I just think it just.
It will forever grip me. Where he was describing because he had started out as an actor, and you may know he traveled the whole country, you know, sharing the gospel with hundreds of thousands of people, and there was a great awakening that he was very much involved in. But when he was an actor, he'd heard this story about how the Archbishop of Canterbury had come and asked this other actor, you know, how is it that you actors can make something that is not real seem so compelling, seem so real, when our preachers and our rectors and all the people that are running the church at the time, the Church of England, you know, they take something that's real and make it seem like it's nebulous, you know, and make it seem like it's out there somewhere. And what. George, the person who was portraying George Whitfield portrayed was this unbelievable passion and testimony.
And here's the truth: that God does exist, and you can have Him in your life, and when you do, He will change the way that things happen. And the man was kicked out of His country because of that passion. Because he could make God seem real. And You know, therein lies our opportunity, right? Is to take that kind of passion for our country, you know, but most of all for God and make it seem real.
And it's just a beautiful thing to see how that affected people. Great. I mean, Benjamin Franklin clearly would have been a very, very, very worldly man had it not been for the influence. Of the Great Awakening and people like George Whitfield, he wrote about and came to know. And it makes that point beautifully.
Yeah, for sure. Yeah, he was kind of still a secularist, and he wasn't really believing. I like the scene in the movie where. Ben's really kind of more of like what he can do or what he can bring. It's for the goodness where a lot of people get caught up where they don't accept the gospel because what they're trying to live out of the goodness that they have.
And it's all that scene around the lightning and all. and um George Whitfield. Talks up. The lightning hits and lights up the key. The key, and he was like.
It was the object lesson for Ben about what's the source of that power. What's the source of the power that makes a change? He yelled at Witchfield, You're a lightning rod. And he goes, What's the source, Ben? What's the source of the power?
And so, you know, it's so cool that we are living in a nation that was from that source, and we can be a witness to that source, right? And we can continue to make much of our foundations. I love the way you put that, Andy.
So, we're going to be back with a whole lot more Kingdom of Resuits. We got some 4th of July jokes. I know you're excited about those. We're going to do some. Patriot shenanigans when we come back, so stay tuned.
You're listening to The Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. God takes your passion. And uses it to build the kingdom. Today we're talking about Patriot Passion. How fun is that?
And we've got our good friend Andy Thomas. But you know. Speaking of the Fourth of July. Yeah, now they're fun the game. For the Ula?
No, tell the truth, man. I know you've been wondering some of these as we get a chance to play. Andy's very familiar with shenanigans, as is Nick. And so. You know, speaking of the 4th of July, I'm thinking you guys can get these if you think about it, okay?
What did the colonists wear to the Boston Tea Party? What did the colonists wear? to the Boston Tea Party. A Red Sox jersey. Good.
I don't like that. I bet they had Red Sox too. You got it, Andy? You happen to be wearing one. Oh, a t-shirt.
Very nice. No. T-E-A. You may have heard this one. I'm hoping.
that you thought of it anyway. What did the Statue of Liberty stand for? Did you come up with it? Did you think of it really? Nick, you laughed.
It can't sit down. It has to fall into the and I really, really like this one. What do you call a dog that is a cross between a patriot and a dog with curly hair. Oh my god. I don't know.
In other words, you've got this dog with curly hair that's a big-time patriot. You call that a Yankee poodle. Yankee poodle. I was after the curly hair and was getting to the poodle and then yeah, that's good. I like that Yankee poodle.
And the ever-famous what ghost haunted King George III. What ghost haunted? King George the Third. This is perfect for this particular anniversary too. It was the spirit of 76.
Oh, indeed. And so you knew at the end of those shenanigans, we actually would have a riddle for you to call in and win. And so today's riddle, you can call us at 866-348-7. 7884 866-348-7884.
So You may be aware that they signed the Constitution, excuse me, the Declaration of Independence. Uh There was an individual by the name of Andrew Clark. who was big on liberty. In fact, all. of the people that signed that particular document were very big on the word liberty.
And so With that in mind, Where did they get this concept of liberty? In what book of the Bible were they likely Where would they find this idea of liberty? in the Bible. 866348-7884-88464. Killing my thunder, man.
Oh, 866-348-7884. Where did you get this idea of liberty from the Bible? And if you can answer that, Nick, tell them what they can win. Absolutely. Yes, should we win a prize from our Kingdom Pursuits Prize?
Well, if you know the answer to Robbie's riddles, give us a call at 866-348-7884. We have. Action Bibles, Date the Word, uh Calendars, and we have back scratchers with the colors of salvation on them as well. That's right. It is a gospel back scratcher limited edition.
Um, that kingdom pursuits. We've worked on these for years to perfect to have just the right angle to scratch your back at the same time while sharing the gospel with the beads-you know, the colorful beads of green and red and white. I have not seen them. Black. Oh, oh, we have them.
I'll show you one on the way out. You know, they're. They are a They're much longer than the original version. They're now bamboo instead of plastic. I mean, this is the finest of gospel backstreamers.
And all you have to do is tell us in which book of the Bible, right? Did the colonists discover this idea of liberty? 866-348-7884. And so. Without stealing your thunder any further, I will.
I think mine probably my scripture com probably comes from a different book. But whenever you No, no, no, I want to I want to wait until after you dec declare somebody calls in and wins. Right.
Okay. Um You know, just I Kind of where this has led me. two is just a I know I'm really coming from the patriot side, but it all comes none of this means anything to me. The patriotism, my love of country, none of it. The gospel is a foundation for them and all.
I'm just going to read a real quick. I've got a um American Patriot Bible. This is a quote from Benjamin Rush. My only hope of salvation is the infinite, transcendent love of God manifested in the world by the death of His Son upon the cross. Nothing but his blood will wash away my sins.
I re rely exclusively upon it. Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. Who is Benjamin Rush? He was signed the Declaration of Independence along with Abraham Ward. Exactly.
Excuse me, Clark. And he was heavily involved in, I think, maybe he was actually a soldier. I think he was also a physician. I mean, and there's quotes all throughout this. And people will question, well, well, really, what were the founders?
Were they deists? Did they really believe in Jesus? There's so much stuff. I mean, talking about separation in church and state, the main text in schools until probably around the 1900s was the Bible. you know, all this foundational stuff.
People you know, the enemy has used through communist Marxist attitudes or whatever have tried to scrub all that stuff and make everything calling everything question. Co you know, so it's it's being challenged, but you just keep going back to the foundations, and there's tons of stuff out there like that, but Um One of the things I was gonna say though, I do I do the pa the just hearing the stories of how we won the revolution is still amazing. You had a country try trying to be you know, they're trying to find f f Found a country. and you're fighting the Indians and you're fighting some Indians, you know. You're fighting the British, of course.
You you've got all this problem with disease. You you're trying to hack out, you know, a substance living, you know, from, you know, Curating food or whatever. Absolutely. The story is amazing. One of those that, you know, I'll just make it personal.
And I know you're into genealogy like I am. And. Um I clearly had tons of relatives that lived in the early 1700s, and there was a thing called the French and Indian War.
So, not only was there the way that God orchestrated this thing. Was that, yes, there was a great awakening, that people were getting this idea that they needed liberty. But then many of the military people in America at the time were fighters in the French and Indian War, one of which was George Washington himself, right? And the reason that. That became significant in my own family was that I had a grandmother.
That Was pregnant with my great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather that lived in upstate New York when. The French And Indians came down and they raided their town, set the whole town on fire, took her in the middle of the night and whatever she had on that night, pregnant. And marched her to Canada in the snow. This was like in February, and you can imagine what it would be like in upstate New York in February. And they marched her in the snow to Canada, right?
And the idea, as this is documented, at that particular death march, was that if you fell behind, they tomahawked you. You were dead. We don't have time for you. We're taking slaves to Canada. And she's pregnant with my grandfather.
And I think about the fact that, okay. Wow God protected her Through that raid, through that death march, because that man that she was carrying would end up being the DNA. In other words, they would be my grandfather, da-da-da. And then, clearly, he brought about the great awakening, God did, that would bring people to this faith that would even believe that they could get this done. What kind of faith would it be that you're going to take on the most powerful country?
I mean, at the time, it would be like, okay, the Philippines have decided they're going to put a war with the United States and get their independence. Like, what? Yeah, sure. And yet they had the faith to do that. And God pulled the whole thing off through.
People like Whitfield and Benjamin Rush, and certainly Benjamin Franklin. Yeah, yeah. It is amazing. I'm like it's so you mentioned ancestry, so I wore my uh Sons of the American Revolution shirt in. You know, I don't want to speak on their behalf.
I just, it became something important to me. God, I feel like somewhere around. right before COVID, I think. Um, Gave me some guidance that I needed to get into ancestry. And I went and found that.
And I found my family. I found, I kind of knew this, but I learned a lot more. My family originally came from North Carolina, which is cool because I grew up in Missouri and moved back here to North Carolina. And then I found out I had a patriot who was in the Revolutionary War. It was at Valley Forge, had some stories around it, joined Sons of American Revolution, and just that organization and just what they stand.
They're again trying to remind people of where we came from and just that connectedness from that. But it's just. And all hits, all this came about here in the last four or five years, but really leading up to this year, I think, is just again, it's providence to me that God would remind us. You know, it's five Jubilees back. From the 50 years, right?
So it's just an awful lot of people. For those who are not familiar with the word Jubilee in the Old Testament, right, that they would count off 50 years to release all the. the debt, you know, people that would enlslave themselves and get their land back if if that that that might be the case. But I don't know if you knew this, but I found this out yesterday. That Maryland, one of the definitions, if you drive into Maryland, it says the old line.
L-I-N-E, the old line state. Do you know what that stands for? No, not at all. Not for this. Washington had this gape.
You know, from you know when they Essentially, marched on New York and all that. He had to get out of Manhattan. Right, yeah. It was a group of Maryland soldiers that held the line. the old line that that kept and apparently Like 400 of them that were a part of that, and a significant amount of them lost their lines because they held the lines so that Washington's army could escape.
And how many of those escapes did he make? You know, based on the prayers of. all these faithful patriots. And so we got prayers we can offer. We'll be right back with a whole lot more Kingdom Pursuits.
You need to call 866-348-7884. Where is Liberty in the Bible? You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Kingdom Pursuits, where we hear how God takes your passion and uses it to build the kingdom so fun today. You might tell it's my own passion to some extent.
Patriots. The passion for patriotism and how does that fit in exactly, you know, because you we realize that that that God is the is the ultimate idea of the Mm. you know, of our lives, of what we're doing. But I I love that that this nation is Was founded on the things that and it has been a light on the hill, and it has been the city on the hill, so to speak. And what can we do in this generation?
Right? In this time, because we were raised for such a time as this to be intimate allies of our Savior right now. Yeah. And You know, I think it's beautiful that as a kid, right, I'd love to stand up and say the Pledge of Allegiance. As a kid, I loved to sing the Star-Spangled Banner.
As a kid, I loved the parades and the July 4th and the Memorial Day, the fireworks, et cetera, et cetera. And so. You know, I I Am hoping and praying that this is something that we can. Get To the next generation, of the next generation, that they not only see. Oh yeah, I mean God bless America.
What were those foundations? What led to these things? And the faith of George Washington, we were talking about right before the break, the battle of Brooklyn Heights. I had no idea. You were just there.
I was just there. Yeah, last week I'd read the story. I'd listened to the. The uh Audiobook 1776 that talked about that. And that's never where I'd put a lot of it, and that was a losing thing.
We lost New York. But there was a lot lost there, but the army was preserved preserved, and God did a lot of miracles. He put up fog and let them escape the city and all this. But even before them, I'll let you talk a little bit more about the Marylanders. No, I didn't realize you knew that the 200, you were standing there where 256 of them out of the 400 died.
They did. It was a last stand. I can't remember the name. Lord Sterling, I believe, was the guy that, and I think he was killed actually, too. But they stood up.
This is the gospel. This is laying down your life for your brother. They stood up and allowed the other ones to escape. And that is our c our country is has a history of people laying down their lives for freedom, for liberty, for the benefit of others. Right.
And I I and I think what a neat thing when you drive into Maryland the next time and your kids are sitting there and you go, Kids, you know why that said old line state? Why Marilyn is that? Do you know? I didn't know. I didn't either.
And those kind of things. You know, amazing it so I just Yeah. Starting a new church building and went into the building. This two weeks ago, three weeks ago. And hanging on the wall is a painting from the Civil War.
And this kind of stuff, I see this painting. And it's amazing, and the city where my church is is Ramzur.
So It says I'm trying to remember the name of the Battle of Cedar Creek, I think is what it was. The Battle of Cedar Creek, which was the Civil War battle. And there's a picture of General Ramzur, which I didn't even know there was a General Ramzur. I didn't know that.
Okay. But General Ramzur is laying in the bed, dying. and across from him and he was a he was a he was a Confederate general. Apparently only 27 years old when he died. Oh, wow.
But quite heroic 27-year-old general by the name of Ramzur. And fascinatingly, across from him Well, there were two or three other Confederate officers in the room of him laying in bed dying, but what was striking about the picture painting was the Um The northern generals that were in the room, the most foremost was General Armstrong Custer. George Armstrong Custer is sitting across from the bed from him in this painting, right? And he's obviously ministering to him. And so I was like, man, I don't.
So I looked it up. I was like, what's this about? And as it turned out, General Custer Saw General Ramser shot, you know, he got shot out from underneath his horse, then he was shot.
Well, who rescued him from the battlefield? Tuster? Right.
Wow. And they took him to that house, you know, because, in fact, the painting is entitled, like, you know, Brothers in War. Right.
Yeah. That, you know, from what it said, that he highly respected his valor and his integrity in the fighting that he was doing, and he just couldn't let him lie there and die. And he did die. But nonetheless, it's just like, man, those things need to be told. That's important stuff.
They do. You know, I didn't realize this. Really, the Civil War wasn't the first Civil War in America. The Revolution was. You had.
you had uh from what I gather, you had about probably thirty percent Um Of the people living here were patriots, probably 30%, 20% maybe, were loyalists, loyal to the king, and then a lot of them, 30%, didn't care. Just stay out of my life, and some of them were just pulled in when they began to see, and some of them waited to see who it looked like who was going to win before they picked a side. But that very thing-Super Barrier. Good point. Me too.
I don't have a cat in this fight or a dog in this fight. But anyway, it's. You You know, and you look at that. I mean, there was civil war. I've been reading the Old Testament.
There's civil war constantly between Judah and Israel. And I know you love this movie and You know, it's a hard movie to watch, no doubt, The Patriot War. But oh my goodness, does it bring out that idea of these people, including George Franklin? I mean, Ben Franklin himself was loyal to the king for many, many years. And his son was.
Right.
And so here you've got this situation where. There there is a civil war just between the people in the in and and actually there were clearly American people that lived in America that joined the British troops in fighting against their brothers. Yeah, the Battle of Kings Mountain was nothing but Americans fighting, loyalists and patriots. There was no There was one the leader, and that was it for the loyalist side. Yeah, it's uh you know, and uh This whole idea of this is a love story set in a world at war, that's true.
We continue to deal with war and stuff, and not kinetic war, real war. And then you got spiritual warfare. And I think they all play hand in hand. But again, our country was founded out of that and you don't wanna You want to appreciate it. Nobody I want peace all the time.
But what is it? What's the quote from Brave Heart of the Night? First Night. There's a peace that only comes on the other side of war. And that's true.
And we've been pretty much a peaceable life.
Well, we've gotten drawn into stuff. But, you know, the ideal is you can live a peaceable life, but we are a world at war. And so. You're constantly going to have people that want to rise up and be tyrannical because there's an enemy that's trying to stir that stuff up. But again, I mean, I go back.
to the scripture. Blessed is the nation whose God is The Lord, Yahweh, and Psalm 33, 12. And I just think about that. You know, a lot of people these days are like, oh, I don't want to be a Christian nationalist. You're conflating religion and politics and all.
G to me, God the God the Father is the first Christian nationalist, right? And that may be offensive to somebody, but it's done in the right way. We're not trying to just, it's not a matter of just dictating all this stuff. It's saying those who choose God. He's going to take and use them and bless others, bless the nations.
And You know, I'm I'm proud to say that, that my nation, you know, was founded on that and I want to preserve that.
So the the movie A Great Awakening, it pointed out something absolutely beautiful that I think is incredible for us to consider. That there was legislation that was put forth based on Ben Franklin's speech. That they would pray before every session of Congress, which happens to this day. And so as. Whether you think there's a separation of church or state, here they are.
They're praying to the God of heaven to help this nation to be righteous, to help this nation to be in sync with what God is doing. They're praying that every single session of Congress. And you've been in that hall yourself. Oh, absolutely. And you've seen that this is something that we continue to do this day.
And. You know, the fact that we get a chance to speak up and say, hey, you do know that we're not praying to some. Other God. It's the one that is described right there. Yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, that's why you got to know the heart of the people that founded it, and you have to go back to their quotes and what they were thinking. And they all preserve the idea of how we were founded.
So. Beautiful.
Well, we each together still got my riddle that we're going to unrival when we come back.
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Today we're talking about a passion for patriotism. And uh our riddle that we hadn't anybody call in, but we want to spend some time with it 'cause it's so critical to what we're talking about today, was, you know, where is do you find liberty in the Bible? And why was that so instrumental biblically to the founding of this country? And why did our forefathers Put so much emphasis on it that again, Abraham Clark made sure it was on every coin that was minted in this country, liberty. And that word's huge, especially in Philadelphia, right?
It is.
So I know you have a scripture about the liberty, and there's a liberty all throughout the Bible, but. You know, I didn't know this until recently. Again, I'm learning stuff. I've always. studied the revolution and read about it and stuff, but You you this year has just opened me up to a lot more.
But you know, the Liberty Bell. as on it. Proclaim liberty throughout all the land and to all the inhabitants thereof. And it comes from Leviticus 25:10, and it's about the year of Jubilee that we were talking about earlier. And, you know, that was the idea: is that we were founded on liberty.
And that liberty was like that was the release of, um you know, like property back to people, debts. Getting your land back. And yet this was the founding of it. But it would be like I I look at what we did in founding this country was the Israelites taking the promised land. You know, coming into the promised land, we were coming into our promised land.
And again, there's a lot of stuff about who owned the land and all that. And it was. Just setting that aside, there were a lot of questions about you could say the same thing about when the Israelites took the promised land, right?
So I. I don't know. It just proclaim that liberty. We're five jubilees from that. That's 250 years.
So we're on the anniversary of that this year. And I think we still need to make the case to proclaim liberty throughout all the ways. We have something that we took for granted all our lives. We don't live in a Muslim country where you're not allowed to. Yeah.
You know, 1600 England, where you were Church of England or you were in trouble. Yep. And. You know, they a lot of persecution went into the reason that that the pilgrims, et cetera, came over here to begin with. And certainly for those of us in North Carolina, the whole Moravian Movement that happened that settled the Wachovia area here is it's all it's all part of what God was doing.
And it's fascinating to me. And I you know, you can't help but just go, hmm, that's interesting. He sent all these people that had been persecuted For loving Jesus into one place to form this and and you can tell if you watch the movie A Great Awakening, there were certainly a lot of shenanigans between the colonies. Yeah. Like they weren't states back then and they all had their own view of uh Yeah.
You know, there was a different type of way they worshiped in Massachusetts than there was in Virginia, I can assure you. Right.
And it was the same way, again, going back to the promised land, or when Israel entered the land, they didn't all do the same thing. Right, no, you had Manasseh and you had the boys down in Judah. You know, it was the sacrifices on the mountain. What is it? What is it?
What's the mountain? Garibim or Gerizim, yeah.
So again, it's a neat thing. That We stand at this particular Jubilee year for our country, right? And and we have this 50 days, 49 left now, to pray ourselves, to go into that place where we can say, God, you know, how can we Me as an individual m you know, be a light. Yeah. That light on the hill.
How can I make this country look more like Christ? What can I do to help? that next generation realized that not only or you know did they have a family that stood for Jesus, that they have those rights in their but they they they live in a country that stood for liberty and the ability of You know, people to live this way. And even when you look at the idea of liberty, clearly they didn't. Back it up with giving liberty to everybody until the Civil War.
Yeah. And then even then, we're still struggling. Exactly. So, you know, this was it's it's a pro it's a it's it is. Uh that's why I mentioned earlier.
It's not a per it wasn't a perfect country. The enemy's always going to try to To weave his way in, just like he did with Israel. You know, just, um I'm glad you brought it back to it's not, you know, you look at Nehemiah and how he was trying to build the wall and have a spiritual revival at the same time. I look at it as this: you want to have God's principles, values, and all reflected in your government. But really, what makes the difference is the change of heart in men.
and women. to actually have a revival, a spiritual revival. Again, none of this means that we want to populate heaven. That's ideally what we want to do. But God's people should always bring their influence and preserve or You know, I would say enforce to do what's right.
Like, how can you have a government that is not going on biblical person and expect them to do what's right? Yes. How else would they know? Exactly. Exactly.
So we have it written. Yeah. But it's beautiful.
So thank you, Andy. amazing time today talking about patriotism and You know, passion. That's an amazing thing. I am so thankful for you listening today. You're.
A lot of truth coming at you. I got to tell you, there's amazing, encouraging prayer with James Banks coming on about sweet dreams of prayer. Like, are you praying before you go to bed at night? It's really cool stuff. And, of course, that's followed by the Mike Zwick Show.
And if you're in South Carolina, you can hear Masculine Durance.
So, thank you all for listening. Got so much truth coming at you on the Truth Network. God bless.
