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Headley. And one of my favorite stories in there is about Natale Daggett. Natale Daggett, a professor of divinity, and for a time he was president of Yale College and was another distinguished clergyman who was illustrious for his patriotism as for his theological learning. He instructed the students in the duty of resistance to Great Britain as earnestly as he did in that of obedience to God.

Indeed, he regarded them as one and the same in duty. And in 1779, the college had recovered from the panic that had scattered the students into various towns in the interior and was in a prosperous condition. But in the midst of his tranquility, a rumor had reached New Haven in that General Tyron was preparing to make a descent upon it. The place was immediately thrown into a great alarm and meaning was called to deliver it on what was to be done.

Councils were various as to the best course to pursue, but Dr. Daggett declared that whatever else was determined about one thing was clear, the citizens must fight. At length, he dreaded calamity came and swift riders galloped into town, bringing the startling news that the British, for 2,500 strong, had landed about five miles distant at West Haven. At once all was confusion and terror. The college was hurriedly broken up and as all regarded as useless to attempt to resist such a large body of regular troops, it was determined that early in the morning the inhabitants and students should take their fight into the interior and leave the place to the mercy of the marauders. To give the former as much time as possible to remove their goods, a volunteer company of a hundred young men was formed to retard the march of the British by beating back their advance guards.

Accordingly, they assembled on the green and with such arms as they could lay their hands on and paraded in front of the deserted college. The streets were filled with the terrified fugitives, as in wagons, on horseback, and on foot. They streamed towards the country. It was a scene of wild confusion and contrasted strongly with the courageous little detachment preparing to go forth against such an overwhelming force. At length, everything being ready, grown and fife struck up a lively strain and taking up its line of march it had passed out of the city. It had not proceeded far when the clatter of a horseman horse's hoofs was heard along the road and the next moment the reverend professor of divinity yelled up on his old black mare with a long flowing peace in his hand.

He had not contented himself with giving patriotic advice but resolved to set an example. To their surprise, however, he did not stop to join them but pushed straight on towards the enemy. The little band gave him a loud cheer as he passed in, but the old man never turned to the right or the left but dashed resolutely onward and ascended a hill halted in a grove and commenced reconnoitering the enemy. The detachment turned a little to the south swept around the base of the hill and kept on until they came in sight of the advanced guard of the British and when throwing themselves behind a fence they poured in a destructive volley.

The guard halted and returned the fire but as the volley succeeded volley each more deadly than the last they turned and fled. The young volunteers then broke cover leaping the fence pursued them firing shouting as they went driving them from fence to fence and across field and after field and they kept courageously on till then suddenly found themselves face to face with a whole hostile army. As far as the eye could reach on either side the green fields were filled with scarlet uniforms the extended wings ready at the word of command to enfold them and cut off every avenue escape suddenly halting and taking in the full extent of their danger they without waiting for orders turned and ran for their lives and as they fled along the base of the hill on the top of which Dr. Daggett had taken his station they saw this venerable man quietly watching the advancing enemy. As the noise and the confusion of the fly detachment reached his ears he turned in a quiet glance below then leaving his following peace as the foe blazed away as the British pressed after the fugitives they were surprised at the solitary report of a gun every few minutes for the grove trees on that hill. At first they paid little attention to it but then bullets finding their way steadily into the ranks they were way steadily into the ranks they were compelled they were compelled. At first they paid little attention but the bullets finding their way steadily into the ranks they were compelled to notice it and an officer sent a detachment up to see what it meant. The professor saw them coming but never moved from his position his black mare stood near him and he could any moment have mounted and fled but he seemed never to have entered his head he was thinking only of the enemy and he loaded and fired as fast as he could and when the detachment reached the spot where he stood the commanding officer to his surprise saw a venerable man in black before him quietly loading his gun to have another shot pausing a moment at the extraordinary spectacle of a single man thus coolly fighting a whole army he exclaimed what are you doing there you old fool firing on his majesty's troops. This staunch old patriot looked up in the most unconcerned manner and replied exercising the rights of war the whole affair seemed to strike the officer comically and rather amused than offended at the audacity of the proceeding he said if I let you go this time you old rascal will you never fire again on the troops of his majesty's no thing more likely was the inner inner terrible reply thus was too much for a good temper of the Britain and he ordered this man to ordered his men to seize him they did so and dragged him roughly down the hill to the head of the column the Americans in the retreat had torn down the bridge over the river after crossing it thus compelling the British to march two miles farther north to another bridge the latter immediately placed Dr. Dagen on foot and at the head of the column as a guide and pressed rapidly forward it was the fifth day of July and one of the hottest days of the year under the burning rays of the noonday sun and the driving pace they were kept as even as the hardened soldiers wielded while Dr. Dagen unused to such exposure soon became completely exhausted but the moment he showed signs of faltering the soldiers pricked him with their bayonets at the same time showing curses and insults upon his head before the five mile march was completed the brave old man was ready to sink to the earth but every time he paused in realness if he's about to fall they caught him on the points of their bayonets and forced him to rally while the blood flowed in streams down his dress as they entered the streets of the town they commenced shooting down the peaceable citizens who had remained behind whenever they appeared in sight and Dr. Dagen expected every moment to share his fate at length they reached the green with it when a tory who had come out to welcome the enemy recognized Dr. Dagen as he laid cover with blood and dust and requested the officer to release him he did so and the wounded patriot was carried into a house nearby more dead than alive the utter exhaustion and brutal wounds combined brought him to the very gates of death and his life for some times was despaired of he however rallied and was able a part of the next year to preach in the chapel but his constitution had received a shock for which it could not fully recover and in 16 months he was born to the grave one more added to the list of the noble souls who felt that the offer of their lives to their country was a small sacrifice joe fetching i get thinking about that um we're getting ready to do fireworks and celebration and barbecues and family get-togethers but way back it was uh john adams wrote to his wife abigail the third of july 1776 and it's a longer letter i'm going to just do the last couple paragraphs the second day of july 1776 will be the most memorable epic in america in history of america they kind of had it wrong there's a little bit of what happened they approved everything actually on the fourth but the document itself wasn't signed till several months later but anyway this is what he wrote i'm apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival it ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to almighty god it ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade with shows and games and sports and guns bells bonfires of illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward or ever more you will think me transported with enthusiasm but i am not i am well aware of the toil and blood and treasure that it will cost us to maintain this declaration and support and defend these states yet through all the gloom i can see the rays of ravishing light and glory i can see that the end is more than worth all of the means and that posterity will triumph in that day's transaction even although we should rue it which i trust in god we shall not this is the kind of thing they no longer teach in the public fool system that's why ernie and i fast ernie and i call it the public fool system what did he say a day of devotion to almighty god first and foremost then the pomp and ceremony and parade and games and guns and bonfires and all this and he said we continue this celebration forever and he said we continue this celebration forever and he talks about it's going to cost us to maintain our constitutional republic they did not give us a democracy they gave us a constitutional republic a republic is a based on the rule of law laws that do not change in other words god's laws god's tens commandments his laws his statutes his judgments the founding fathers said our whole institutions all our institutions that was law and government were based on the ten commandments and the teaching of the new testament which is the gospel which is why adam said this day ought to be what devotion to almighty god we have a document that is really a covenant with god and our rights and freedoms came from god and so this was to be a religious holiday but it was to be one that would cost us dearly to keep and we are now in the greatest danger of losing that i have ever seen in my life would you agree with that pastor yeah we are but you know god said he would give us the victory you know i know people concerned but he said he would deliver the victory we have our marching orders so we know what we do he gave us three missions three missions one first and foremost the great commission second mission yep the second mission was to from genesis to revelation resistance to tyranny was obedience to god and failure to resist tyranny was always disobedient and then the third he tells us there in second thessalonians that we are to retain all the traditions of the apostles to stand our ground and not stand down and so that's what we are to do we are to run to this fight and the lord said don't worry about the victory i'll deliver that and god is always just so our job is to run told us are we gay he gave us the marching orders and if we're obedient he will deliver but he wants us to be obedient and you just said he gave us the three things that we were to do right three missions yep so we better get busy and the people of this country especially the christians those that take their father's name need to start obeying those things and doing them and holding our ground not giving an inch to the enemy right absolutely and joe let me tell you something anyone who refers to being a christian or even an american and is a voting age and not registered to vote are ashamed it is a shame they have an obligation they have a duty joe you know if you if you don't vote you've got no reason to complain when your vote is taken away when when things are happening the way they are happening out there if you won't stand and vote and you say well what's the sense of voting though they're just going to steal my vote well if you don't vote then you have nothing to complain about if you vote and they steal your vote you do like we're doing we're fighting with everything we have we're going after them we don't stop and we're letting them know how and we continue every day every day letting them know that that election was stolen that election was stolen and that joe biden is not the legitimate president he is an alleged illegitimate suppressor uh he did not win that election that again was everything about it from coast to coast the election fraud was unbelievable and right now the deathocrats are talking about more election fraud the republican party had better smarten up but here folks let me tell you if you are a professing christian or if you are a professing american and you're not registered to get out and vote to do your duty that's your duty then shame on you shame on you i'm ashamed of you and uh there you go what do you think of that joe i agree totally well we know one thing you and i have been preaching for a long time that this underneath everything is a spiritual battle there we have everything else on top of it underlined everything this is the anti-christ versus those who claim their father's name christian it's a battle between christ and the anti-christ and if that what they don't teach in schools anymore like if you start with the plymouth colony the mayflower compact was a covenant with god the new england confederation that bound new plymouth new haven massachusetts connecticut was a covenant with god the confederation said quote whereas we all came to these parts of america with the same end name namely to advance the kingdom of our lord jesus christ to enjoy the liberties of the gospel thereof with purity and peace and preserving and propagating the truth and liberties of the gospel new england confederation you won't find that in textbooks in america today either the two things i just read and if you look our entire declaration is america's submission and covenant with god when the men made it they were committing treason uh when they signed that document committee we talked about it treason punishable by death and because in there this covenant with god he's mentioned as the maker of the laws of nature nature's god he's a legislator that's to assume the powers of the earth the separate and equal station which the laws of nature and nature's god entitle us he's mentioned as the supreme judge of the universe of the world which makes him judge and uh the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude rectitude of our intentions he's called divine providence that means he's our king with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence and he's mentioned again as creator it makes him our founder what does it say we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal endowed by their creator god with what unalienable rights means rights that are god-given can't be taken away by man by government by anybody because they were god-given they are life liberty and the pursuit of happiness and you and i have taught many times that if you look at the early founders they look to the bible to see how to create government the uh isaiah 33 22 for example for the lord is our judge the lord is our lawgiver the lord is our king he will save us and these are the things that are never never taught in america anymore they don't want the people to know the truth that we were a christian nation everything about us was putting our faith and trust in god and so the first thing the enemy must do is what destroy the faith in god take god out of the constitution call us a democracy which we're not we have a democratic form of government within the confines of the republic that's based on what the ten commandments of god god's law laws that do not change and these are the truths that need to be taught they need to be taught to the children and if the schools won't teach them then the church must start teaching absolutely i couldn't agree more david one nation under god by russ walton in the beginning at the point in god's a good time in the constitutional convention and completed its work the lady sided up to old ben franklin said well ben what have you given us given us you've given us you have a republic madam if you can keep it there has been other governments before that have gone by that description the word republic but those were different different in origin different in nature different in structure the best of the past was incorporated into this new and true republic the rest the evil the excess was rejected so this new creation stood unique a system of self-government by the consent of the governed and with the union a constitutional republic with individual liberty elected representatives and limited government a government with its power nailed down fastened and confined to the proper defense of the individual to his pursuits of life liberty property and happiness those inalienable rights endowed by the creator a republic in which the power to govern was checked and balanced by the devices designed to stop the tyrant in his tracks the sons of liberty joined to erect four fences around the government so could not be out of hand or out of bounds the executive the legislation legislative the judicial and the individual each was to be checked or balanced by the other after god the individual came first only by his consent could government govern and then only to protect his life liberty and property not just his but all men's equally and so the founding fathers created a republic a democracy where half plus one can not a democracy where half plus one can squash the rest where a fanatical majority can deprive the individual of his rights his life his property not for these men they knew democracy with its excesses its leveling down process its inherent seeds of destruction they knew Plato's warning that the unrestricted democracy must result in a dictatorship the very essence of democracy rests in the absolute sovereignty of of the majority one founding fathers our father excuse me our founding fathers could never accept such a tyranny they recognize only one rightful sovereign over men and nations not the state and not the majority each religion had a form of government and Christianity astonished the world by exhibiting self-government the foundation stone of the united states of america but our founding fathers realized the impossibility of maintaining freedom unless those who are at liberty are able to exercise exercise self-restraint and they gave to this government just enough power to serve just enough and no more and even then with all the checks and the balances and the fences that that constitutional document it was not until the bill of rights was tacked on to the states can tacked on that the states consented to the union and ratified the federation christ died and rose to make all men free all nations though christ through christ we are freed from the wages of death and sin eternal freedom free from the ravages of appetite internal internal freedom if we choose to be free from the savagery of demagogues and kings external freedom if we choose to be just as jesus christ brought our internal freedom and our rebirth into a new life through him so he brought us to a new direction of our eternal freedom and a new purpose for our civil government if christ could die for men where did caesar get off forcing men to live and die for him there there was a spark the flame the beacon of light of the american idea the power of the great american republic the sense of the constitution of the united states the concept of a secular state was virtually non-existent in 1776 as well as 1787 when the constitution was written and no less so when the bill of rights was adopted to read the constitution as the charter for a secular state is to misread history and to misread it radically the constitution was designed to perpetuate a christian order why then is there in the main an absence of reference to christianity in the constitution because the framers of the constitution did not believe that this was an area of jurisdiction for the federal government it would not have occurred to them to attempt to re-establish what the colonists had fought against namely religious control and establishment by the central government the freedom of the first amendment from federal interference is not from religion but for religion in the constitutional states separation of church and state absolutely divorcement of god from government not so the american system is the political expression of christian ideas a nation founded upon a rock of religion and rooted in the love of man in 1851 when daniel webster was reviewing the history of this great american family he reaffirmed the need and the role for god and government let the religious elements of man's nature be neglected let him be influenced by no higher motives than low self-interest and subjected to stronger restraint than the limits of the civil authority and he becomes a creature of self-passion and blind fanaticism on the other hand the cultivation of the religion religious sentiment represents license licensing and inspires respect for the law and order and gives strength to the whole social fabric at the same time that is that it conducts the human soul upward to the author of its being more than 100 years after webster charles mallick the one-time ambassador of the united nations from lebanon put it this way the good in the united states would never have come into being without the blessing and the power of jesus christ i know how embarrassing this matter is to politicians bureaucrats businessmen and cynics but whatever these honored men think the infutable truth is that the soul of america is in the best and highest as a christian we'll be back right after this so face the flag son read what's written there the history the progress the heritage we share our flag reflects the past son that stands for so much more in this age of aquarius it still flies in the forward it leads the forward movement shared by all mankind to learn love to live with peace of mind to learn the mysteries of space as well as those of earth love each man for what he is regardless of his birth to live without the fear of reprisal for prisal for belief he's the tensions of a world that cries out relief is face the flag son take a good long look what you're seeing now can't be found in a history book it's the present the future son it's being written now and you're the one to write it the flag can show you how do you know what it stands for what its makers meant to think to speak privilege of dissent to think our leaders might be wrong to stand and tell himself these are the things that other men under other flags will never know but responsibility that's the cross that free men must bear if you don't accept that freedom isn't there a flag that guarantees the rise for men like me and you face the flag son and face reality our strength and our freedoms are based in unity the flag is but a symbol son the world's greatest nation as long as it keeps flying there's cause for celebration so do what you got to do but always keep in mind a lot of people believe in peace but there are the other kind we want to keep these freedoms we may have to fight again god forbid but if we do let's always fight to win the fate of a loser is futile it's there no love no peace just misery it's fair face the flags and thank god it's still there way to go duke oh there you go evidence of our christian heritage there are many many many evidences that our nation was founded on a commitment to god and the principles of his word in the summer of 1787 representatives met in philadelphia to write the constitution of the united states after they had struggled for several weeks they made little or no progress any one-year-old benjamin franklin rose and addressed a troubled and disagreeing convention that was about to adjourn in confusion in the beginning of the contest with britain when we were sensible of danger he had daily prayers in this room for divine protection our prayers sir were heard and and they were graciously answered all of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of of superintended providence in our favor have we now forgotten this powerful friend or do we imagine we no longer need his assistance i have lived sir a long time and the longer i live the more convincing proofs i see of this truth that god governs any affairs of man and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice it is probable that an empire can rise without his aid we have been assured sir and the sacred writings that accept the lord build the house they labor in vain that build it firmly believe this i therefore beg leave to to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven and its blessings on our deliberation to be held in this assembly every morning the very purpose of the pilgrims in 1620 was to establish a government based on the bible the new king england charter signed by king james the first confirmed this goal to advance the enlargement of our christian religion to the glory of god almighty governor bradford in writing of the pilgrim's land it described their first act being thus arrived in good harbor and brought safe to land they fell upon their knees and they blessed the god of heaven confirmed by the colonies the goal of government based on scripture was further reaffirmed by the scripture was further reaffirmed by individual colonies such as the rhode island charter of 1683 which begins we submit our persons our lives and estates into our lord jesus christ the king of kings and the lord of lords to who all those perfect and most absolute laws of his given us in his holy word those absolute laws became the basis of our declaration of independence which individuals which includes two in its first paragraph an appeal to the laws of nature and of nature's god our national constitution established a republic upon the absolute laws of the bible not a democracy based on the changing whims of people in his inaugural address to congress the first president of our nation stressed god's role in the birth of this republic no people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united states every step i wish they have advanced to the charter of an independent nation seems to have been the most important independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency we ought to be no less persuaded to the propitious smiles of heaven cannot be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which heaven itself has ordained one of george washington's early official acts was the the very first thanksgiving proclamation which reads whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of almighty god to obey his will to be grateful for his benefits and to humbly implore his protection and favor it goes on to call the nation to thankfulness to almighty god continuing through the decades of history we find in the inaugural address of all the presidents and in the constitution of all 50 of our states without exception maybe with obama and biden reference to the almighty god of the universe the author and the sustainer of our liberty the principles of god's word guided the decisions on which this nation built its foundation this was the discovery of alex de tocqueville the noted french political philosopher of the 19th century he visited america in her infancy to find the secret of her greatness as he traveled from town to town he talked with people and asked questions he examined our young national government our schools and our centers of business but could not find in them the reason for our strength not until he visited the churches of america and witnessed the pulpits of this land a flame with righteousness lord could we have that back today did he find the secret of our greatness returning to france he summarized his findings america is great because america is good and if america ever ceases to be good america will cease to be great that has happened throughout our history our fathers have given eloquent testimony of our commitment to god and his principles abraham abraham lincoln said it is the duty of nations as well as of men to their own dependence upon the overruling power of god and to recognize the sublime truth announced in his holy scriptures and proven by all history that those nations only are blessed whose god is the lord noel webster said the religion which has introduced civil liberties is the religion of christ and his apostles to this we owe our freedom constitutions of government the concluding words of our nation our national anthem summarizes the fact that the united nations of america the united states of america was born out of commitment to god and his principles blessed with victory and peace may this heaven and rescued land praise the power that hath made and preserved us as a nation then conquer we must when our cause is just and this be our motto in god our trust and as far as stars bangle banner and triumph shall wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave noel webster said this the moral principles and precepts contained in the scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws all the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice crime ambition and justice oppression slavery and war proceed from there despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the bible pastor joe uh you know you and i have way back we were talking about political correctness and then you've got vocism and cultural marxism all these things tried to take and change the meaning of our words and when you change the meaning of a word you change the meaning of history of law of the constitution and our founding fathers were very bright men they warned us of something it was called original intent original intent was and legally still is a fundamental maxim of law to determine the intent of the authors of a statute before you attempt to apply it joseph story his father was one of the indians at the tea party founded harvard law school was one of our great legal writers supreme court judge and he said the first and fundamental rule in the interpretation of all instruments or documents is to construe them according to the sense of the terms and intentions of the parties james wilson uh one of the six founders who signed both the declaration constitution he was one of the most active speakers said the first in covering maxim in the interpretation of any statute is to discover the meaning of those who made it so we have to go back even jefferson on every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the constitution was adopted recollect the spirit manifested in all the debates and instead of trying to you know fit trying what meaning may be squeezed out or invented against conform to the probable one it was passed and i could go down the list of the founders explaining that you have to go back and look at a word noel webster who uh put our first dictionary together if you'll recall had to master nearly 20 languages to do it he talks about the in the lapse of time changes have taken place in which particular passages obscure the sense of the original language the effect of these changes some words now being used in a sense different from that which they had and thus present wrong significant or false ideas whenever words are understood in a sense different from that which when they were introduced mistakes may be serious or very injurious alexander alexander hamilton said all that is needed to understand a phrase or clause in the constitution is to apply the quote unsophisticated dictates of common sense so our fathers founding fathers warned us about changing words changing definitions you know you've heard me speak before many of you how the fabian socialist said words are going to be the weapon of the new war by changing and shifting words and meanings and definitions we change the battlefield we change everything and that is what the enemy has done to us over the past several hundred years they keep trying to change the meaning of our words they go back and try and give us a new meaning for an old word and that's why you constantly hear everyone talking about our democracy democracy democracy and i want to remind you the greatest democratic vote in the history of the world when a politician stood on a balcony and looked at the crowd and said what shall i do with this man jesus and the crowd yelled in the greatest democratic vote crucify him crucify him democracy is the emotional rule of the mob and that's why the liberals always the minute there's something happened trying immediately the next day to pass a gun control law pass a new law no matter what happens they want to take advantage of that emotional reaction that's democracy that's why our founding fathers hated and feared democracy they gave us that constitutional republic the laws which do not change and we have the little bit of democracy inside the republic and there's so much that we need to do to make such that we need to do to read and study then franklin said this a nation of well-informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which god has given them cannot be enslaved it is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins and we now have probably the most ignorant generation of americans i've gone back and looked at a high school test that was done back in the 1800s and we've got college kids with two or three years of college couldn't pass one of the early high school exams they do not have the education they've dumbed us down they've changed our words they've quit teaching about the founding fathers the constitution about the long period of time that our country went through learning about self-government they don't they no longer teach where the founders found the great ideas for our republic and it is up to you the listener out there the christian to not be in that region of ignorance to teach your children the truth the true meanings the original temp of the constitution the original ideas of freedom self-government you know how we conduct our free market system we've got to go back what does bible say pastor early about the old ways the old paths are the best they were set up by some of the brightest men that god could put together to create the first government the first time people were able to come together create their own government freely debate over it without being controlled and god blessed us with some really brilliant men and ideas and we are losing that because of well ignorance franklin it is in the reign of ignorance the tyranny begins we've got the this is our time god has raised us up for such a time as this you know that fellow peter marshall the chaplain there of the senate he said that john peter the choice before us is playing christ or chaos conviction or compromise discipline or disintegration i am rather tired of hearing about our rights and privileges as american citizens the time is come it is now it is now when we ought to hear about the duties and the responsibilities of our citizenship and the american's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating god's government well again god's word the bible from genesis to revelation teaches without a hiccup without a stutter the resistance to tyranny is obedience to god and folks out there listening tonight one of the things god has said very clearly he has given you this command repent or perish he's told you repent or perish many of you listening to me out there tonight you may say well you know i'm an american i do good things but you have never given your heart to the lord i got news for you listen trust me on this one i know i'm right someday you're gonna die you're gonna die you know in fact there ain't nobody around here that was around 200 years ago they're gone right and in fact just in four days i've lost four dear friends i'm seeing people dying all around so he gives you he gives you a command and he tells you this he reminds you that that apart from the lord jesus that you're a sinner you're a sinner and you deserve hellfire according to god's righteousness but god so love the world he gave you an out he give you a get out of hell free card that's right he placed his son upon the cross he died a substitutionary death he took your place in my place upon that cross he didn't have to do it but he did it right and folks i got to tell you this and you know see what i'm telling you is real this world around you with all the wokeness and jokeness and trans things this world this world around you is not real this world around you is a delusion god said he would send them strong delusion but the fact of it is is this you're gonna die and when that happens comes to judgment and you're either gonna go to heaven or hell there ain't no in between you don't get any other options folks no other options you're going to heaven or hell and so here's what you've what what god has given you he's given you now he tells you if you pray to the father jesus said pray to the father pray to the father in my name asking for forgiveness of your sins and if you're sincere god will honor that commitment and then he said call upon the name of the lord jesus call upon the name of the lord jesus folks and give your heart to the lord completely and totally he he's got to be number one he's got to be number one he's got to be before mother father sister brother he's got to be before everything else what he told you he's got to be he's placed you remember remember when he hung upon that cross he held back nothing for you right and so call upon the name of the lord jesus ask him to be the lord of your life all of your life completely and totally and if you'll do that if you'll do that he will honor that commitment and when that happens believe me look you got god's word on all this when i tell you you got god's word on it there's nothing stronger than the word of god the universe was spoken into existence by that folks it's power there you will become a new creature when you've done that you will become a new creature a born-again believer and heir of the kingdom and you will be on the road to immortality again you've got god's word upon that and you will be in wealth with the power of the holy spirit again you have god's word upon that and there's nothing more sure than the word of god now we're coming to the end today and i wishing you all a blessed blessed fourth of july tomorrow joe you and all of yours out there a blessed fourth of july back at you with your family glad your brother's there to celebrate with you yeah it is it's i haven't seen him in a long time and so i want to thank all of you out there for your support over the years wish you a blessed fourth of july and we're at that time where we get here every night at this time we say good night say good night we say god bless say god bless and then we say always always always ready okay keep fighting the fight w r w l dot org please tune in next time for another edition of what's right what's left