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 Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.

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 If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.

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 Thank you for joining us today.

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 Well, it's a tremendous honor for me to be with you, Lansdale Life family.

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 So I am so impressed with Pastor Chris and Jill, and join me in thanking the Lord for your pastors

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 right here. So I write history books, but I also like to focus on the Christian faith

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 in there. My wife and I put together some books called Miracles in American History,

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 have a few in the back. And there's a movie, The Great Awakening. How many of you have seen that?

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 You've heard about it? And I know some of the people that helped inspire and put that together,

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 so I encourage that. But that was one of the situations that Europe was Catholic,

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 and then you had a reformation. And then you had each country in Europe choose one denomination as

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 the state denomination. So Germany and Sweden were Lutheran, Switzerland, Calvinist, Scotland,

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 Presbyterian, Holland, Dutch Reformed, England, Anglican, and Italy, Spain, France, Austria,

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 Poland, Catholic. And if you did not believe the way your king did, you're persecuted, you fled.

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 They spilled over and founded colonies. Every colony was started by a different

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 Christian denomination. Virginia was Anglican. Massachusetts was Puritan. Rhode Island was

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 Baptist. New York was Dutch Reformed. Connecticut, New Hampshire were Congregationalist. Delaware

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 and New Jersey were originally Swedish Lutheran, until they got taken over by the Dutch and

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 taken over by the English. And then Pennsylvania was Quaker, and it was unique. As you know,

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 William Penn was a Quaker and put in the Tower of London for eight months. And he says,

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 force makes hypocrites. Tis persuasion only that makes converts. In other words, believing

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 something because your government, the king, tells you to believe it is one thing, but

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 you might say that you believe when you really don't, just because you don't want to get

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 canceled. Imagine getting canceled, right? And so William Penn, his dad, helped defeat the Dutch

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 in the Anglo-Dutch Wars. And the king owed him, but didn't have any money. And so the king,

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 Charles II, gave Admiral William Penn some land in the New World that they had taken away

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 from the previous owners, right? The Swedish, the oldest church in Philadelphia is Old Swedes

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 Church. So it used to be part of the old New Sweden, Gustav Adolphus of Sweden. But anyway,

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 this land is now English. And so King Charles II gives a bunch of it and names it after Admiral

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 William Penn, called Pennsylvania. But the dad dies. And so he gives it to the son, William Penn.

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 And so William Penn comes over and does a holy experiment to see if Christians of different

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 denominations could live together in the same geographic area. Like, whoa, what a novel idea.

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 You mean my neighbor could actually be going to a different church? It's like, yeah, so the

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 attitude before the revolution was, if you don't like our denomination, fine, start your own

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 colony. It was one. But then when the revolution starts, they all began to say, hey, we need to

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 work together against the King. Otherwise, we're all going to lose out. But the Great Awakening was

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 prior to the revolution. It helped unite the colonies. And so you would have George Whitfield

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 come and he would preach and he was a new light. So the old lights were the Puritans who said,

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 you know, it's our way or the highway, right? I mean, he was a Puritan uniformity. And so

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 they closed the doors. So George Whitfield couldn't preach inside of a church. So he

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 preached outside and would draw crowds and sometimes 20,000 and he would preach without

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 a microphone. Could you imagine that? And so he'd have sometimes people throw fruit at him.

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 People would be hiding in trees and blowing a trumpet trying to drown out. I mean, he had

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 opposition, but he would say things like, there's not a Baptist Presbyterian, you know,

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 Methodist in heaven. And of course, everybody would drop their jaw and say, what did he say?

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 And then he'd finish the sentence that upon entering those gates, we don't lay aside the

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 badges of schism and join together and worshiping our savior Jesus. It's like, okay, okay, I get it.

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 And so it began to unite the colonies realizing, Hey, Jesus, we have something in common,

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 even though we're different denominations. So this Great Awakening revival swept the

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 colonies. George Whitfield preaches seven times up and down the colonies. But he's the first

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 one to preach to mixed race crowds. And now all these universities are started as a result of

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 this Great Awakening. And so the blacks that got saved under George Whitfield wrote the

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 Negro spirituals. This is a whole genre of songs. And one of the black men that got saved was a free

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 black teenager, John Morant. And there's the book, a narrative of the Lord's wonderful dealings

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 with John Morant, a black taken from his own relations. And so he was born in New York 1755.

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 His father dies when he's young. He travels with his mother to Florida, to Georgia, South Carolina.

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 He learns how to read, play the violin, the French horn. He's educated. And then in 1768,

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 at the age of 13, he heard George Whitfield preach in Charleston, South Carolina. And he

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 experienced a dramatic conversion to Christ. And so he's unable to speak or move for half an hour.

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 He was carried home. The doctors were called in, but he refused medicine.

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 He got better by constantly studying the Bible. But this troubled his family. And his family

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 treated him as if he was mentally unstable. And disagreements about religion caused him

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 to leave home. And so he wanders away and he's living in the woods, trusting God to provide for

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 him. And he's befriended by the Cherokee Indians. And he learns how to speak their language and he's

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 living amongst the Cherokee. And then the revolution begins to heat up and the British

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 would incite the natives to attack the Americans. It's one of the items listed in the Declaration.

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 The King is excited, incited the savage to butcher the inhabitants of our frontiers.

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 And so the Indians, the Cherokee see John Morant and they said, well, you're obviously not an Indian.

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 So you must be with the Americans and we've sided with the British. And so they capture

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 John Morant and the chief has him tied up and they're about to execute him when he starts

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 preaching to the chief in their own Cherokee language, the gospel. Talk about preach like

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 your life depends on it. And the chief's like, well, don't kill him just yet. Let me hear a

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 little bit more. Let me hear. And finally the chief converts and has him untied, lets him go,

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 and then gives him permission to preach throughout the tribe. And then preached through the other

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 tribes in the area, the Catawba and the Creek and the Husaw Indians. And then after a few years,

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 he decides he wants to go back to South Carolina and preach among the slaves. Well, now the

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 British are there and they capture John Morant. They have a press game. Now this takes a little

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 explaining. The British ship would pull into the harbor and you would have these rough and tough

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 sailors get off and wander through the streets. And if they saw, especially at nighttime,

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 if they saw some young man all by himself, they would come alongside and grab him and drag him

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 onto the British boat, lock him below deck and they would get a bunch of them, right? It was

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 called being pressed into the British Navy. And then they would take off and they'd sail and

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 a hundred miles out to sea, they'd open the hatch and they say, if you want to eat anything,

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 get to work. And they would put them to work, uh, taking, you know, would pull in the ropes

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 and the sails and so forth. And for six years, John Morant was in the British Navy. And then

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 he finally is taken to England and he gets off and he works for a cloth merchant. He studied for

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 the ministry and he was helped by the missionary minded Countess of Huntington. And he got ordained

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 to the ministry and 1785. And then he returns to preach the gospel in Nova Scotia.

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 He founds a church after the Countess of Huntington names it Huntington. And then he preached to quote

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 a great number of Indians and white people at greens Harbor, Newfoundland. And so, uh, after

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 overcoming six months bout with smallpox, he preaches in Boston and he writes his amazing life

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 story in a narrative of the Lord's wonderful dealings with John Morant, a black, it goes

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 through 17 additions. And he says, God often hides the sensible signs of his favor from his dearest

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 friends. Real Christians, wilts they are among fiery serpents are waiting with desire and holy

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 expectation for the good of the promise. This is a miracle in American history. Have you ever

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 heard that story before, right? So God loves to take little nobodies and do great things with them.

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 And, um, and so the revolutionary war does start and we have what's called the declaration of

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 independence where we break away from the King. The King of England was a globalist. He was a one

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 world government guy. The son never set on the British empire, right? They had India from 1714

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 when they landed there and opened the trading post. And then they had, uh, Hong Kong and eventually

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 parts of China. And, uh, they had, you know, all countries stretched all around the world. And, uh,

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 an America decides we don't want a globalist King telling us what to do. So we broke away and

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 flipped it. And so instead of a top down government ruled by some King that claimed to be divinely

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 appointed, we flip it and we have a bottom up form of government called government from the consent

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 to the governed. They actually look back to the pre King Saul part of the Bible. So we have an

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 old Testament and you have 400 years where you have millions of Israelites and no King it's

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 called the Hebrew Republic. It's the book of judges, right? Uh, and then when the, the priest

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 went woke and stopped teaching the law and Eli, the high priest, his own sons are sleeping with

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 women in the tent to meeting. That's when they all go to Samuel a prophet and they say,

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 we want it to be like the other countries. We want a King. So the founders of America

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 looked to the pre King Saul part of the Bible. And so instead of it being the creator gives

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 the power to the King and he dispenses it to his subjects, we skip the King and we say the

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 creator gives the rights to each one of us and he's not a respecter of persons and we're all

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 leaders. And, um, and so the declaration mentions God four times law. All men are created equal.

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 The King of England didn't believe that he believed he was created extra special,

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 right? The divine right of Kings. All men are created equal and they're endowed by their

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 creator with certain unalienable rights. It's not a social contract where the group gives you

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 rights. No, they come from God and therefore the government's purpose is to protect our creator

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 given rights. Uh, laws of nature, nature's God appealing to the Supreme judge of the world for

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 the rectitude of our intentions. That's a prayer. We have a prayer inside of our declaration of

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 independence and reliance on the protection of divine providence. So the revolution is heating up

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 and the continental Congress meeting in Philadelphia has a day of fasting. We are

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 initially recommend the 17th of may 1776 to be observed as a day of humiliation, fasting,

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 and prayer that we with United hearts confess and bewail our manifold sins and transgressions

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 and by sincere repentance and amendment of life, appease God's righteous displeasure.

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 And through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ obtained his pardon and forgiveness,

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 right? This is a month, a month or so before the declaration unanimously pass a day of fasting

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 through the marriage and mediation of Jesus Christ. Did you know that? All right. So they

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 were Christians of different denominations. And so lots of battles, lots of miracles. I just

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 picked out one. It's the battle of cow pens. You have some cows, put them in some pens. So it's in

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 South Carolina and the movie, the Patriot that Mel Gibson did highlights this battle.

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 And so you have a British Colonel, he's 26 years old. His name's Tarleton,

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 nicknamed the butcher, because at a battle of walks, ha, you have 300 Americans surrendering

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 and he has his dragoons. That's the light cavalry. Um, they have, uh, their sabers.

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 He sends them into the surrendering Americans and has them hack them to death.

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 All right. 300 of them. And so in the movie, the Patriot, he's like portrayed in there that

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 Colonel Tarleton him. And so, uh, the British are chasing the Americans and, um, the, uh,

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 Americans have the general Daniel Morgan and he says, they have light cavalry that travels

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 really fast. We have an army with wagons and we're going really slow. So they're going to

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 catch up with us and we're going to have to fight, but I'm going to choose where.

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 So Daniel Morgan decides to pick a spot in front of a river. Now you never want to fight a battle

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 in front of a river because if you're losing, it makes it really hard to run away. So it looked

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 foolish, but he did it on purpose as to set a trap. And so he has two groups of soldiers.

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 One are called militia and they're straight off the farm. They're sharp shooters,

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 but, uh, they fire a couple of times and run away. And then behind them are the continental

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 soldiers that have been in lots of battles and they won't run away. And so here's this

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 Colonel Tarleton, his light cavalry. They've been riding 24 hours nonstop and they see

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 the Americans in front of a river and they say, what fools. And he orders his men to charge

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 and the sharp shooter militia shoot once you shoot twice and then run away. And, uh,

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 but they don't really run away. They run in a circle. So the blue is the Americans, the red

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 or the red coats. And so they're charging. And so the, uh, the militia run away and the

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 continental soldiers act like they're going to run away. They take a couple of steps and then they

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 stop, they turn on their heels, they lower their guns and at point blank range, they shoot and kill

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 a hundred of the British dragoons. The ones that run away just circle around and hit the British

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 from the other side and 800 of the British throw down their weapons and surrender. And

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 Colonel Tarleton rides away. Well, when word gets to Lord Cornwallis that his dragoons is like

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 cavalry were captured, um, he was leaning on his sword. He leaned so hard, the sword snapped in half.

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 And so he's furious and he's going to chase the Americans. And so he now has an army with wagons

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 and so he begins to leave his wagons, um, and burn them because he doesn't want the Americans

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 to get the supplies so he can move his army faster. And he gets to the Catawba river two hours after

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 the Americans head cross, excuse me. And the Americans cross, but before the British can

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 cross, there's a flash flood. And so the British are delayed and then it's a race to the Yadkin

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 river. The Americans cross before the British can cross another flash flood. The river overflows,

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 the British are delayed. They finally crossed and now they're chasing the Americans to the

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 Dan river into Virginia and, uh, another flash flood. So here's the historical marker.

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 Boyd's and Irwin's fairies to the west were used by Nathaniel Green in his passage of Dan

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 river in mid February, 1781 while Cornwallis was in close pursuit. And so the Americans cross

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 and another flash flood and the British are delayed. And so the British commander,

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 Henry Clinton writes here, the Royal army was again stopped by a sudden rise of the waters,

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 which had only just fallen almost miraculously to let the enemy over who could not else have

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 eluded Lord Cornwallis his grasp. So close was he upon their rear. This was a miracle

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 in American history. And so Yale president Ezra styles, right? Should we not ascribe to a supreme

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 energy, the wise generalship displayed by general green, leaving the roving Cornwallis to pursue

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 his helter skelter ill fated March into Virginia, right? And Washington writes, we have abundant

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 reasons to thank Providence for its many favorable interpositions in our behalf.

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 It has at times been my only dependence for all other resources seem to have failed us.

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 So here we are fighting the most powerful military in the world. And we just have a thrown

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 together army, but God intervenes because we have days of fasting and prayer through the

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 merits and mediation of Jesus Christ. Well, let's fast forward. We have the war of 1812

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 and the British just got done fighting Napoleon and they decide they're going to now refocus back

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 on America. And so they send ships to Lake Erie and the president is James Madison.

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 And he recommends a day of public humiliation and prayer. Whereas in times of public calamity,

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 such as that of the war brought on the United States by the injustice of a foreign government,

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 it is especially becoming that the eyes of all be turned to that almighty power in whose hands

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 are the welfare and destiny of nations that they assemble on the second Thursday in September.

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 I had to look it up that September 9th in their respective religious congregations.

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 Well, what happened on September 10th? Well, the 28 year old Oliver hazard Perry,

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 and we had to build our ships on land and drag them into Lake Erie because we had no port

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 on Lake Erie. And, uh, most of his crew are free blacks from Ohio and they've not fought

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 in any major battles before. And so the, um, uh, have some pictures, but evidently they

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 didn't transfer. So the, uh, American ships are facing the British, but, um, the British

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 have long range cannons and they're splintering the American ships to pieces. And, uh, this

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 and shooting it. And, um, one cannon didn't even have a wick. And so he takes his musket is pistol

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 the smoke clears and he had disabled the entire British squadron. Never before had an entire

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 arms of the United States, a signal victory over their enemies on this lake.

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 moment surrendered to the force of my command after a sharp conflict. And then the president,

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 the squadron under the command of captain Perry, having met the British squadron of superior force,

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 a sanguinary conflict ended in the capture of the hole. Sanguinary means bloody. And, um, now

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 that victory meant that the British had to abandon Fort Malden and then Fort Detroit.

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 because of that 28 year old Oliver hazard Perry, right? His wife praying and the president having

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 a day of prayer on September 9th and the battles on September 10th. This is a miracle in American

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 history. And so we have this rich heritage where you have some one young guys that says,

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 things look hopeless. And then he raises up little nobodies with faith and courage to turn

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 things around. Now we're not done yet. Napoleon, uh, was conquering in Europe. He goes into Russia

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 with a half a million men comes back six months later with 50,000. It's like, how do you lose

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 that many men in six months? Well, Napoleon did. Uh, the, the Russians had burnt all the fields in

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 the British decide to invade our Capitol. And so this Admiral Cockburn, uh, is riding into the

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 and her husband's directing troops on the field. And they had just set the table to eat dinner

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 the British are coming. So she has them take the painting of George Washington down,

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 the only one he stood for while they painted and roll it up. And she's riding out of town on a

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 carriage when the British ride into town. And the British Admiral goes to the White House,

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 where our Congressman had run away. And he goes to the podium and he says, who votes to burn the

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 to which you are accustomed to in this infernal country? To which the lady replied, uh, no, sir,

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 this is a special interposition of Providence to drive our enemies from our city. Well,

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 the British are driven out and they go back to their ships across roads filled full of down

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 trees and the rains come and extinguish the fires. And they found out that two of their

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 of the nation during their possession. Though for a single day only, they wantonly destroyed

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 heaven has blessed. So we see these instances of God moving. Now, a lot of it's been removed

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 the national testing board. And these are video clips of them talking about, um, talking to

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 and mother Mary. And she said she channeled the endorsements of her book. This is like somebody

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 that's way up in the, I mean, we need to get back to the real history, not trying to produce

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 filled full of stories of times in our country's past where the whole world from Nimrod on it's

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 Caesars and Pharaohs and Kaiser's and Sultan's all ruling top down through fear. And America's

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 people of the United States as a day of public humiliation and fasting and prayer to almighty

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 and transgressions, why would it be important that they confess their sins? Well, have you ever

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 two magnets, one is God and the other is you. And the God magnet has two sides. One side said,

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 of their unbelief. This is Jesus. He wants to do miracles, but they didn't have any faith, right?

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 Balak wanted to stop him and gets the prophet Balaam to curse him. But it comes out of blessing

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 and lure them into sin, then you can defeat him. If they sin against their God and God was so mad

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 of Balaam. So anyway, if we have doubt and sin, God still wants to bless us, but the magnets don't

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 approval to the sin. It's like silence equals consent. So in a wedding ceremony, if you're

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 he would effectively be giving, be giving consent to the sin. And if God gives consent to one sin,

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 one time, he denies his just nature. He denies himself and he cannot deny himself. So he has

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 to judge every sin. And so that's where the gospel comes in, right? That Jesus took the

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 Is this interesting? So then an often overlooked one is a cholera epidemic. It's a pandemic.

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 handle off that well. So people would go to get water and they couldn't. So they have to go to the

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 we have a day of humiliation, prayer, and fasting. But then it spreads. We have 12,000

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 of cholera, 5,000 die in New York, in St. Louis, in Chicago, New Orleans, 150,000 Americans died

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 fair had to be postponed. The Dayton mayor, John Howard proclaimed a day of fasting,

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 a day of national, day of fasting. At a season when a fearful pestilence is spreading itself

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 worldly pursuits, assemble with humble what? Confession of sin. And fervently implore the

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 almighty ruler of the universe to remove us from the scourge and speedily restore to us the

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 inestimable blessing of health. So they have the day of prayer and the death rates drop off.

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 military attacks to now here's a health attack. But it's the same thing. We turn to the Lord

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 in prayer, we repent of our sins, and then we have faith. And we trust that God is going to

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 This is the president of the United States passing this out. And then he orders in 1918,

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 the president, commander, chief of the army and navy, and joins observance of the Sabbath.

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 army and navy be reduced to the measure of strict necessity. And then he has a day of fasting,

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 May 11th, 1918, in time of war, humbly to acknowledge our dependence on Almighty God

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 to implore his aid and protection, a day of public humiliation, prayer, and fasting.

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 So World War I, there's the trench warfare, and then you have October 6th, 8th of 1918.

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 head up, boom, he'd shoot him. And then he says, I realized I could shoot better standing up.

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 the other ones will scatter and you'll never get them. And then finally up comes a little white flag.

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 And down marches all these German soldiers. And they're like, where's all the rest of you guys?

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 And it's just him, maybe another guy crawls out of the bushes. And so he's marching them down

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 the road, 132 of them. And they're not about to run away because they know he's a sharpshooter

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 and he'll get them. And he gets the medal of honor. And then he writes, some of them officers

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 have been saying that I being a mountain boy and accustomed to the woods,

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 done all these things the right way just by instinct. I had never got much learning from

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 books except the Bible. Maybe my instincts are more natural, but that ain't enough to account

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 for the way I come out alive with all those German soldiers raining death on me.

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 I'm telling you the hand of God must have been in that fight. Just think of them 30 machine guns,

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 raining fire on me point blank from a range of only 25 yards and all them their rifles and pistols

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 besides those bombs. And then those men charged with fixed bayonets and I never receiving a

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 scratch and bringing 132 prisoners. I've only got one explanation that God must have heard my

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 prayers. Well, he comes back to America and he starts a Bible school, the Sergeant York Bible

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 Institute. And then you have Eddie Rickenbacker. He's a race car driver,

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 Indianapolis 500 type. And he is a chauffeur over in World War I for General Pershing.

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 And he sees these things going around in the sky. He'd never seen a plane before.

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 And he decides that he wants to fly a plane. And so he just goes over there and learns how to fly

403
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 and he becomes an fighter ace. And so they shoot down all these different enemy. And afterwards,

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 he comes back, writes a book called Fighting the Flying Circus because they'd fly through

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 the clouds. But in there he writes, three quarters of an hour of gasoline remained and

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 no compass. Then I thought the North Star cause he had been going the wrong direction.

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 Glory be there. She signs. I had been going West instead of South, keeping the star behind my rudder.

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 I flew South for 15 minutes then found myself above the river muse, picked up our faithful

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 searchlight and 10 minutes later I landed. As I walked across the field to my bed,

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 I looked up and repeated most fervently. Thank God. I could see would have run out of gas

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 on the wrong side. He would have been a prisoner. And he said, I had seen others die brighter and

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 more able than I. I knew there was a power. I believe in calling upon it for aid and guidance.

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 I'm not such an egotist as to believe that God has spared me because I am I, I believe there

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 is work for me to do and that I've been spared to do it just as you are. Well, then World War

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 two starts president Franklin Roosevelt passes out Gideon's new testaments and book of Psalms

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 by the millions. And he writes the forward to it. He says, um, to armed forces as commander in chief,

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 I take pleasure in committing the reading of the Bible to all who serve in the armed forces of

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 the United States throughout the centuries. Men have found in the sacred book, words of wisdom.

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 It is a fountain of strength signed Franklin D Roosevelt. Here's the president passing out

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00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:54,820
 new testaments and book of Psalms. And so back to Eddie Rickenbacker,

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00:43:55,539 --> 00:44:00,320
 he became the president of Eastern airlines, uh, head of the Indianapolis 500 Speedway.

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 But now with world war two, they send him out to the Pacific to inspect the airbases.

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 And the plane's compass was a tiny bit off. But when you're hundreds of miles out to see that

424
00:44:13,440 --> 00:44:17,659
 tiny bit off means that you're hundreds of miles away and they run out of gas and they have to

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 ditch in the ocean. And he's floating with, uh, seven men. He, there was an eighth one,

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 but he, uh, died, but there are seven of them and, um, they are out there for 28 days.

427
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 And one of them has one of those new testaments in his pocket. And so Eddie Rickenbacker says,

428
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 we'll pull it out and start reading it. And so every day they would read it. And, uh, now

429
00:44:43,380 --> 00:44:48,639
 they're running out of fresh water and they're, they don't have anything to eat. And so they're

430
00:44:48,639 --> 00:44:53,360
 reading from Matthew six where it says, you know, God will take care of the birds of the air.

431
00:44:53,500 --> 00:45:00,579
 He's going to take care of you. And, um, and so this is what, um, uh, this Johnny Bart,

432
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:08,179
 Bartek wrote in his book, um, life out there. He says, but as we went on, we all began to

433
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 believe in the Bible and God and prayer. We prayed and prayed for the seagull to land so we could

434
00:45:15,099 --> 00:45:19,500
 catch him. So here they are, they're starving and just above their head is a seagull that

435
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 keeps circling and circling. And he said, um, after reading the passage about 20 minutes later,

436
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:31,719
 that's when the seagull landed on Eddie Rickenbacker's head. And so like really slow,

437
00:45:31,860 --> 00:45:35,920
 he like reaches up and catches it and they wrestle it and kill it. And then they, you

438
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:40,559
 know, rip it apart and they eat it and everything. And, and then they, somebody has a key ring and

439
00:45:40,559 --> 00:45:44,239
 they bend it and make a fish hook and they take some of the innards and they they're catching

440
00:45:44,239 --> 00:45:51,320
 fish and, uh, and then they're out of, um, water and there's a cloud burst like a hundred yards

441
00:45:51,320 --> 00:45:55,780
 away and they're like watching it and our tongues are so chapped and they pray and the water

442
00:45:55,780 --> 00:46:01,739
 comes right over their three little dingy boats and the quenches their thirst and, uh, and then,

443
00:46:01,739 --> 00:46:07,760
 finally they're rescued after 28 days. And, uh, Rickenbacker says, I prayed to God every

444
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 night of my life to be given the strength to inspire in others the obligations we owe to

445
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:20,619
 this land for the sake of future generations, for my boys and girls so that we can look back

446
00:46:20,619 --> 00:46:27,660
 when the candle of life burns low and say, thank God I've contributed my best to the land that

447
00:46:27,679 --> 00:46:35,539
 contributed so much to me. So these are again times in our history where God likes to take

448
00:46:35,539 --> 00:46:42,559
 small people, young people who are 28 year old Oliver Hazard Perry, uh, 60 year old guy,

449
00:46:42,679 --> 00:46:47,860
 Eddie Rickenbacker, and do great things. There's more stories with the, you know,

450
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:52,480
 the Philippines are invaded and General Douglas MacArthur says to the weeping mothers of his

451
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:56,639
 dead, I can only say that the sacrifice and halo of Jesus and Nazareth has ascended upon

452
00:46:56,639 --> 00:47:00,860
 their sons and that God will take them unto himself. That was after the, the March of Bataan

453
00:47:00,860 --> 00:47:07,420
 where a lot of thousands of men died. Uh, there's the turning point in the war where we figure out

454
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 their secret code and can, um, know where the Japanese are going to be heading and so forth.

455
00:47:13,480 --> 00:47:21,340
 And, uh, there's the battle of Midway, uh, just a famous battle where, uh, we end up destroying

456
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 the Japanese carriers and so forth. And, um, I'm skipping past some of the stories for the sake

457
00:47:27,440 --> 00:47:34,340
 of time here. And, um, uh, and then we go to Europe and the Nazis capture Paris and, uh,

458
00:47:34,340 --> 00:47:39,260
 they capture almost all of Europe and Winston Churchill says the battle of France is over.

459
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 I expected the battle of Britain is about to begin upon this battle depends the survival of

460
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 Christian civilization. And then FDR says, I wrote a whole book on him preservation of these rights

461
00:47:52,780 --> 00:47:59,699
 is vitally important to the whole future of Christian civilization. And then we have the

462
00:48:00,280 --> 00:48:08,559
 bombing of Pearl Harbor. We entered the war on D day and, um, 9,000 die on D day. Um,

463
00:48:08,739 --> 00:48:13,559
 a friend of mine, Chris Long has the Ohio Christian Alliance and I sent out a daily

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00:48:13,559 --> 00:48:19,699
 email called American minute. And, uh, I had written how this world war two memorial in DC

465
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 had no mention of God. I mean, they had all the States represented. They have all the carvings

466
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:32,019
 and not one mention of God. They even had one of FDR speeches where it ends right before he

467
00:48:32,019 --> 00:48:36,300
 mentions God. And they said, Oh, we didn't have enough space to put the whole quotes like,

468
00:48:36,300 --> 00:48:43,320
 yeah. And so my friend, Chris Long, uh, got his Congressman, uh, and a Senator

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00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:52,760
 to introduce a bill to add FDR's D day prayer to the world war two Memorial and it passed.

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 And then they had to raise money. It took him 10 years to raise a couple of million dollars.

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 And then about three or four years ago, they finally dedicated it. And so if you go to

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 Washington DC to the world war two Memorial, about 50 yards off to the right is the circle

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 of remembrance. And, um, this prayer is there. And, uh, it says, almighty God, our sons, pride

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00:49:16,980 --> 00:49:21,039
 of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic,

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 our religion, and our civilization. Well, what's the civilization? Well, he's passing

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00:49:26,440 --> 00:49:32,760
 out Gideon's new Testament and book of Psalms. Um, and so there is a Senator Rob Portman and

477
00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:36,900
 this plaque and there's Chris Long on the side. And, and in the background you can see the,

478
00:49:36,900 --> 00:49:43,659
 the main world war two Memorial. And so FDR says those forces hate democracy and Christianity as

479
00:49:43,659 --> 00:49:47,679
 two phases of the same civilization. They oppose democracy because it is Christian.

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 They oppose Christianity because it preaches democracy. Uh, then FDR said the whole world

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 is divided between pagan brutality and the Christian ideal. We choose human freedom,

482
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 which is the Christian ideal. And then there's Europe battle of the bulge. What's,

483
00:50:04,639 --> 00:50:13,460
 it's not, uh, eating fatty foods. Um, it's, um, uh, the Americans landed at D day and we're pushing

484
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 the Germans back toward Germany, but they decide they're going to make, they're running out of

485
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 gas. And so they want to make one last blitzkrieg push to try to get to Antwerp Belgium to the

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 port so they can get ships full of gas. So they do it with eight different, you know,

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 divisions and they do it really fast. And so the line on the map bulges.

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 And so they're like doing this. Uh, so we have, um, uh, Eisenhower by rushing out from his fixed

489
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 defenses, the enemy may give us the chance to turn his great gamble into his worst defeat.

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 So I call upon every man of the allies to rise to new heights of courage with unshakable

491
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 faith and the cause for which we fight. We will with God's help go forward to our greatest victory.

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00:51:00,139 --> 00:51:07,300
 And so we drop in the 101st airborne and the Nazis had moved so fast. Our guys are now behind

493
00:51:07,300 --> 00:51:14,440
 enemy lines and they're completely surrounded and they're at Bastogne and they send a message

494
00:51:14,440 --> 00:51:20,800
 to our general Anthony McAuliffe saying you're completely surrounded surrender. And he gave a

495
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:27,960
 one word response nuts. You can just picture the German messenger and, uh, he says, well,

496
00:51:27,980 --> 00:51:33,940
 what does this American general say? He says nuts. He said, yeah. Anyway,

497
00:51:34,639 --> 00:51:39,860
 the German delay for awhile, but then they start attacking. Uh, it's freezing cold. Our

498
00:51:39,860 --> 00:51:44,679
 guys couldn't even get shovels into the ground. I talked to a guy who had fought in the battle.

499
00:51:44,679 --> 00:51:52,000
 He says they were down to rationing eight bullets a day to his men. They had to be really, uh, you

500
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:59,199
 know, and, uh, and so coming to their rescue is patent, but he's pinned down with the weather

501
00:51:59,199 --> 00:52:05,940
 being so snowy and rainy that the airplanes can't fly to give him cover. And so patent gets

502
00:52:05,940 --> 00:52:11,539
 his chaplain James O'Neill and tells him to compose a prayer for the weather to clear.

503
00:52:12,259 --> 00:52:16,139
 And the chapel is like, well, I don't know if I can do that. He goes, do it. And so anyway,

504
00:52:16,199 --> 00:52:20,599
 he writes this prayer and they print it on a quarter of a million index cards and they pass

505
00:52:20,599 --> 00:52:25,559
 it out to the soldiers. My father-in-law before he would died was in a, uh, you know, nursing

506
00:52:25,559 --> 00:52:29,960
 home and all these guys would have their military service, you know, posted. And the one

507
00:52:29,960 --> 00:52:36,059
 had this card and he had fought with Pat and so that's the prayer card. And, um,

508
00:52:36,460 --> 00:52:40,559
 and then the flip side had patents, Christmas greeting, and it says almighty and most

509
00:52:40,559 --> 00:52:45,000
 merciful father, we humbly beseech thee of thy great goodness to restrain these

510
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:50,840
 immoderate reigns harken to us as soldiers to call upon thee established thy justice among

511
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:56,760
 men and nations. Well, after they all pray that the sky clears and the planes can fly

512
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:01,980
 and bomb the artillery. And then the soldiers can march and they marched like

513
00:53:02,559 --> 00:53:06,119
 hundreds of miles in a real short time. And they come to the rescue of the 101st airborne.

514
00:53:06,719 --> 00:53:14,639
 And, um, uh, the Nazis then run out of gas and the, uh, we push them back and then finally by

515
00:53:14,639 --> 00:53:21,780
 April, uh, the war is over. Eisenhower said, uh, any group that binds itself together to awaken

516
00:53:21,780 --> 00:53:25,719
 all of us is a dedicated patriotic group that can well take the Bible in one hand, the flag in

517
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:32,059
 the other and march ahead. And, um, I have one more story. I forgot to ask pastor what time

518
00:53:32,059 --> 00:53:39,860
 I'm supposed to end my past time. No, it's 11. No, we'll, we'll do is 11 30. We'll tell the

519
00:53:39,860 --> 00:53:47,400
 parents to go get your children and bring them back in. All right. Well, I'll, um, if you need

520
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:53,280
 to do that, feel free to, uh, this is, let me, all right. So we're all familiar with Apollo 13

521
00:53:53,280 --> 00:54:00,300
 where the oxygen tank exploding actually years ago, uh, ran for Congress and I met a, a very

522
00:54:00,300 --> 00:54:04,480
 nice, wealthy billionaire foster freeze. He since passed away, but he would invite me to

523
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:10,980
 go pheasant hunting with him with a small group of people. Um, you know, uh, and, but one time we

524
00:54:10,980 --> 00:54:17,579
 went hunting with Gary Sinise and he's the Lieutenant Dan on the Forrest Gump and, uh,

525
00:54:17,780 --> 00:54:22,639
 and the Apollo 13 movie had come out recently. I said, how did you do those weightless scenes?

526
00:54:23,159 --> 00:54:27,340
 And he goes, Oh, the vomit comment. I go, what? Evidently the military is a plane that goes up

527
00:54:27,340 --> 00:54:31,420
 to 70,000 feet and then drops for two minutes and then does it again and then does it again.

528
00:54:31,659 --> 00:54:35,300
 And so, and those two minutes you're, you're, you're, you're in a free fall. So you're weightless.

529
00:54:35,739 --> 00:54:40,059
 And they would did the, all those scenes in these little two minute clips. And, um, anyway,

530
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:48,360
 so when the Apollo 13 had this oxygen tank explode, uh, the, uh, message was Houston,

531
00:54:48,420 --> 00:54:55,800
 we've had a problem and they remotely moved them, uh, you know, the, the electrical charge from

532
00:54:55,800 --> 00:55:00,579
 the landing module, cause they're not going to land back to the command module. Uh, they've

533
00:55:00,579 --> 00:55:05,340
 pieced together an oxygen filter. They have to turn off all the electricity so they don't waste it.

534
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:10,400
 And they're like freezing in cold space and all the moisture from their breath is like condensing

535
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:17,820
 and getting on all the instruments. And anyway, the president is Nixon and he has a day of prayer.

536
00:55:18,880 --> 00:55:26,119
 And, uh, then finally the, um, uh, the whole world is praying at the whaling wall and the Vatican.

537
00:55:26,179 --> 00:55:32,360
 And, um, you know, here's a church and it says, uh, special prayer for Apollo 13.

538
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:41,159
 And, uh, then they, it lands and near a hurricane and the whole world is celebrating and, uh,

539
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:46,400
 they have a prayer. And so Nixon says, when we learned of the safe return of our astronauts,

540
00:55:46,400 --> 00:55:50,000
 we asked that the nation observe a national day of prayer and Thanksgiving today.

541
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:55,039
 This event reminds us that in these days of growing materialism deep down, there is still

542
00:55:55,039 --> 00:56:00,699
 a great religious faith in this nation. I think more people prayed last week than have prayed

543
00:56:00,699 --> 00:56:06,940
 in many years in this country. We pray for God's assistance of the assistance of God when faced

544
00:56:06,940 --> 00:56:13,739
 with great potential tragedy. And so here they are praying on deck. And if you look at the

545
00:56:13,739 --> 00:56:19,280
 screen at Houston, they're all praying there at the command center, but on the, on the screen,

546
00:56:19,340 --> 00:56:26,559
 you see the, the men, the astronauts praying on the deck. And then Time magazine has a front

547
00:56:26,559 --> 00:56:33,860
 cover and the bottom is those astronauts praying after splashdown. And, um, and Apollo 14 left

548
00:56:33,860 --> 00:56:40,360
 a microfilm copy of the Bible on the moon and Apollo 15 is James Irwin. Um, I actually spoke

549
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:46,219
 at a event with his, his wife and daughter and big, uh, in Sarasota and they said he left the

550
00:56:46,219 --> 00:56:52,139
 Bible on the lunar Rover. And, but James Irwin basically came back and became a preacher.

551
00:56:52,679 --> 00:56:56,880
 And, uh, he says being on the moon had a profound spiritual impact on my life.

552
00:56:57,159 --> 00:57:03,599
 Before I entered space with Powell 15 mission, uh, July 1971, I was a silent Christian,

553
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:10,460
 but I feel the Lord has sent me to the moon so I could return to the earth and share his son,

554
00:57:10,559 --> 00:57:16,280
 Jesus Christ. And then he said, uh, Jesus walking on earth is more important than men walking on

555
00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:26,400
 the moon. And then just a week or so ago, uh, the Artemis two pilot, uh, Victor Glover, uh,

556
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:32,360
 they're circling the, um, the moon. And, uh, he says a great quote, but evidently

557
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:40,440
 the font color isn't there, but, um, he says, uh, we all need Jesus and, um, uh, whether we're on

558
00:57:40,440 --> 00:57:46,280
 the earth or, or circling the moon. Uh, you, did you hear that? It is a great quote. I have to

559
00:57:46,280 --> 00:57:54,239
 fix my slides, but, um, I, um, I wanted to end with one thought. Um, the first thought is

560
00:57:54,820 --> 00:58:01,980
 everything God made, he made with rules. And so there's laws of planetary motion,

561
00:58:02,380 --> 00:58:07,159
 laws of gravity, laws of physics, laws of optics, and he has laws for human behavior. It's called

562
00:58:07,159 --> 00:58:13,460
 being just, and he can't help it. He's a just God, which means he has to judge every sin

563
00:58:14,199 --> 00:58:18,099
 because if he doesn't judge a sin by default, his silence will be giving consent to the sin.

564
00:58:18,739 --> 00:58:23,940
 And if God gives consent to one sin, one time, he denies his just nature. He denies himself,

565
00:58:24,579 --> 00:58:29,460
 right? And he, and since he lives outside of time, if God were to deny himself one time,

566
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:32,619
 he would be denying himself for all time and God cannot deny himself,

567
00:58:34,260 --> 00:58:39,219
 which means he has to judge every sin and mathematical equations. There's constants

568
00:58:39,219 --> 00:58:45,059
 and variables in the equation of redemption. The constant is God is just was, is, and forever

569
00:58:45,059 --> 00:58:52,480
 will be just. You can leave that, um, okay. Um, uh, the star picture back up when you get a chance.

570
00:58:52,820 --> 00:58:57,659
 Um, so God is just was, is, and forever will be just. That's the constant. The variable is who

571
00:58:57,659 --> 00:59:02,820
 takes the judgment. You are a substitute, right? So God is just, he judges every sin, but he's love

572
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 and that he provided the substitute. He provided the lamb to take the judgment for the sin.

573
00:59:08,699 --> 00:59:12,760
 So, um, I have a degree in accounting, so I like things that balance.

574
00:59:12,760 --> 00:59:21,139
 Uh, you take any eternal being, Jesus, who is innocent suffering for a finite period of time.

575
00:59:21,460 --> 00:59:27,420
 It's equal to all of us, finite beings who are guilty, suffering for an eternal period of time.

576
00:59:27,860 --> 00:59:33,880
 Let me say that again. An eternal being who is innocent, suffering for a finite period of time

577
00:59:33,880 --> 00:59:38,380
 is equal to all of us finite beings who are guilty, suffering for an eternal period of time.

578
00:59:38,940 --> 00:59:45,019
 Infinity times finite equals finite times infinity. An unlimited being, suffering for a

579
00:59:45,019 --> 00:59:51,940
 limited period of time, is equal to all of us limited beings suffering for an unlimited period

580
00:59:51,940 --> 00:59:57,760
 of time. Jesus suffered the equivalent of eternal damnation in all of our places. He's the only one

581
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,559
 who could have done it. And out of love for the Father, and out of love for you and me,

582
01:00:01,639 --> 01:00:06,619
 He became the Lamb. And He took the wrath of an eternal just God upon Himself on the

583
01:00:06,860 --> 01:00:11,940
 cross in our place. Because God is just, He has to judge every sin. Abraham and Isaac,

584
01:00:12,000 --> 01:00:16,599
 going to the top of Mount Moriah, and Isaac says, Father, we have the wood for the sacrifice,

585
01:00:16,760 --> 01:00:20,840
 and we have the coals for the sacrifice, but where's the sacrifice? And Abraham says, Son,

586
01:00:21,099 --> 01:00:26,519
 God will provide Himself a Lamb. And it has a double meaning. I'm trusting God will have a ram

587
01:00:26,519 --> 01:00:30,800
 up in the bush, but the other is God will provide Himself. And that's what happened. Jesus,

588
01:00:31,019 --> 01:00:36,079
 the second person of the Trinity, the only begotten Son of God, in the plan of redemption

589
01:00:36,079 --> 01:00:41,559
 that was hidden from ages, it was a hidden plan. It says, if the princes of this world had known,

590
01:00:41,659 --> 01:00:45,440
 they never would have crucified the Lord of glory. The apostle Paul called it the mystery

591
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:50,260
 of the gospel, hidden from the foundations of the world, now revealed in us His saints.

592
01:00:50,900 --> 01:00:57,179
 In this hidden plan, Jesus, the Son of God, became man, and only as a man could God

593
01:00:57,179 --> 01:01:04,000
 die on a cross to pay for our sins. Charles Wesley wrote to him, amazing love,

594
01:01:04,000 --> 01:01:08,960
 how can it be that thou, my God, shouldst die for me.

595
01:01:11,019 --> 01:01:15,860
 And a day with the Lord is as a thousand years. Jesus experienced that day on the cross as if

596
01:01:15,860 --> 01:01:20,619
 it was a thousand years. You can take it a step further. You read the book of Revelation.

597
01:01:21,519 --> 01:01:25,599
 I'm still trying to figure it out, but one thing seems clear. It's God that is pouring

598
01:01:25,599 --> 01:01:29,619
 out the vials of judgment in the book of Revelation. Lamb breaks the seal. Angel throws

599
01:01:29,619 --> 01:01:33,099
 the center. Angel blows the trump. It's like, why is it? Well, God's a just God. He has to

600
01:01:33,099 --> 01:01:38,139
 judge every sin. He may not have judged along the way, so you can't get 10,000 years into

601
01:01:38,139 --> 01:01:42,139
 eternity and say, God, there was a sin way back when and you didn't judge it and you were silent.

602
01:01:42,420 --> 01:01:46,320
 Were you giving consent to that sin? Is there a party that's unjust we didn't know about?

603
01:01:47,559 --> 01:01:52,019
 It says the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever, and the angels cry out,

604
01:01:52,139 --> 01:01:55,300
 righteous and true are your judgments. Oh, Lord, nobody's going to question for the rest

605
01:01:55,300 --> 01:02:00,820
 of eternity that God judged sin, but that's the final judgment. He won't do any more judging

606
01:02:00,820 --> 01:02:07,159
 for the rest of eternity. But in that sense, Jesus had the equivalent of the book of revelation

607
01:02:07,159 --> 01:02:13,340
 judgment poured out on his head. Jesus took the judgment for every sin that everybody would ever

608
01:02:13,340 --> 01:02:18,780
 do upon himself on the cross. Experience it as if it was a thousand years. That's why we sweat and

609
01:02:18,780 --> 01:02:26,000
 drops of blood. So God is just, he has to judge every sin. But another question is, well,

610
01:02:26,480 --> 01:02:30,519
 why did God, but he's loving that he provided the lamb to take the judgment for the sin.

611
01:02:31,460 --> 01:02:35,940
 But an even deeper question is why did God make us in the first place?

612
01:02:38,159 --> 01:02:43,099
 You know, uh, in 2003, they focused the Hubble telescope on a spot in the sky where there was

613
01:02:43,099 --> 01:02:47,340
 nothing. It was a tiny spot the size of a grain of sand held between your fingers at arms length

614
01:02:47,340 --> 01:02:52,659
 against the night sky. Teeny little spot, nothing there. After 11 days, they developed the images

615
01:02:52,659 --> 01:03:01,579
 in that teeny spot was 10,000 galaxies with hundreds of billions of stars in each galaxy.

616
01:03:02,239 --> 01:03:09,599
 And this is the picture. It's the Hubble ultra deep space field. And every dot you see is a

617
01:03:09,599 --> 01:03:14,659
 galaxy with hundreds of billions of stars all in the space of the little size of grains. And

618
01:03:14,659 --> 01:03:18,239
 then they began to look in other areas. They hadn't looked before and they now estimate

619
01:03:18,239 --> 01:03:25,539
 the observable universe is 93 billion light years across and still expanding at the speed of light.

620
01:03:27,039 --> 01:03:30,860
 And so then they launched the James Webb telescope and they can see the red shift.

621
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 So light travels in waves with blue being the shortest, red, the longest,

622
01:03:35,420 --> 01:03:39,219
 and the red shift means you're seeing these galaxies moving away from us.

623
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 And the largest star they found is Stevenson two hyphen 18. It's the one in the middle.

624
01:03:45,019 --> 01:03:50,639
 It is so large. If you were to place Stevenson two hyphen 18 in our solar system,

625
01:03:50,639 --> 01:03:56,940
 it would engulf the orbit of Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun. We're the third planet

626
01:03:56,940 --> 01:04:07,860
 from the sun. Could you imagine one single star that enormous and God made it all. And he made you.

627
01:04:08,820 --> 01:04:18,960
 Why would he make you? What could you possibly offer a being that is that powerful? Nothing.

628
01:04:19,780 --> 01:04:26,980
 Except maybe something. What's a galaxy anyway? It's a bunch of rocks, hot rocks,

629
01:04:27,119 --> 01:04:33,719
 cold rocks, vaporized rocks, molten rocks. A rock cannot love you. So it's almost like at some

630
01:04:33,719 --> 01:04:40,260
 time in eternity past, God said to himself, then they're done that I can make everything.

631
01:04:41,160 --> 01:04:47,360
 I would really like someone in my image who could love me. Now it gets interesting because love by

632
01:04:47,360 --> 01:04:53,599
 definition must be voluntary. The moment it's forced, it evaporates. So in the context of

633
01:04:53,599 --> 01:05:00,519
 everything God controls, time, matter, space, energy, he intentionally created one tiny thing.

634
01:05:00,519 --> 01:05:07,000
 He does not control your will. I mean, he's powerful enough that he could control it if

635
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:11,239
 he wanted to, but that would defeat the very reason he made us different than everything else.

636
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:17,920
 And he doesn't need our love. He's not incomplete in our love somehow completes. He doesn't need

637
01:05:17,920 --> 01:05:23,079
 our love, but he wants it. Like parents don't need the love of their children, but they want it.

638
01:05:24,039 --> 01:05:29,260
 And the more you love somebody, the more you want that somebody to love you back.

639
01:05:29,980 --> 01:05:36,300
 God loves you infinitely. He has an infinite desire for you to love him back,

640
01:05:36,900 --> 01:05:43,219
 but he'll never force you because the moment he would force you, he himself would know he's

641
01:05:43,219 --> 01:05:47,820
 forcing you and he would know your response is not a love response, but he wants your love,

642
01:05:47,900 --> 01:05:49,980
 but he's not going to force you, but he wants your love.

643
01:05:52,300 --> 01:05:56,719
 What's the most important thing in your life? Well, somewhere near the top of the list,

644
01:05:56,719 --> 01:06:04,400
 it's loving and being loved. And so could it be that we're made in God's image? Could it

645
01:06:04,400 --> 01:06:10,980
 be that loving and being loved is a big deal to God? Now God loves everything he created,

646
01:06:11,639 --> 01:06:18,940
 but the question is, could what he created love him back? Galaxies can't love. Rocks can't love.

647
01:06:19,260 --> 01:06:23,920
 Electrons can't love. Animals follow instinct and they're not made in God's image.

648
01:06:25,400 --> 01:06:33,980
 You know, you look up the word angel in the Bible, it appears 289 times. Not one time is the word

649
01:06:33,980 --> 01:06:40,940
 love used to describe an angel's relationship with God. They worship God. They praise God.

650
01:06:41,059 --> 01:06:47,440
 They glorify God. The word angel means messenger. They deliver God's messages. They deliver God's

651
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:55,079
 judgments. Did you know that angels cannot forgive? God said, I'm sending my angel with

652
01:06:55,079 --> 01:06:58,920
 you into the promised land and you better obey him because he's not going to overlook your offenses.

653
01:07:00,340 --> 01:07:03,940
 They sang when the stars were created. They rejoiced when a sinner converts. Jesus says,

654
01:07:03,940 --> 01:07:08,260
 I'll confess you before the angels are heavenly witnesses. They do not forget anything.

655
01:07:09,320 --> 01:07:14,260
 They're mighty beings. They're incredibly intelligent beings, but they're not made

656
01:07:14,260 --> 01:07:20,519
 in God's image and Jesus did not die on the cross for angels. They were made for a purpose.

657
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:25,960
 What purpose were you made for? We're not very strong and we're not very smart.

658
01:07:27,599 --> 01:07:32,420
 You know, a king can have a castle with really powerful soldiers and then he can have children.

659
01:07:33,659 --> 01:07:38,460
 A billionaire can have a corporation with a hundred thousand employees and then he can have children.

660
01:07:39,579 --> 01:07:45,699
 There's a different relationship. The word love is used all throughout the Bible

661
01:07:45,699 --> 01:07:52,000
 to describe men and women's relationship with God. Love the Lord your God with all your heart,

662
01:07:52,079 --> 01:07:56,920
 soul, mind, and strength. Psalm's 91 because he said his love upon me, therefore I will deliver

663
01:07:56,920 --> 01:08:04,559
 him. Jesus rose from the dead and said, Peter, do you love me? We are beings uniquely created with

664
01:08:04,559 --> 01:08:12,480
 the ability to love God back, but for love to be loved, it must be voluntary, which means that

665
01:08:13,900 --> 01:08:20,180
 there's two more things. How can God give us free will to love him back yet him still

666
01:08:20,180 --> 01:08:27,640
 be in control of everything. God created light. Light is a photon, which is a perpendicular wave

667
01:08:27,640 --> 01:08:33,159
 in the electromagnetic field that travels at 186,000 miles per second. And Einstein's theory

668
01:08:33,159 --> 01:08:38,699
 of relativity is the closer you could travel approaching the speed of light for you, time

669
01:08:38,699 --> 01:08:44,520
 would slow down. And if you could travel the speed of light for you, time would stand still.

670
01:08:45,060 --> 01:08:49,819
 Well, God created light, so he's faster than light. So for God, time stands still.

671
01:08:50,600 --> 01:08:56,220
 We'll never comprehend that, but the closest we can get is a day with the Lord is as a thousand

672
01:08:56,220 --> 01:09:02,539
 years. Imagine experiencing one day as if it was a thousand years. In other words, we are

673
01:09:02,539 --> 01:09:08,659
 living in slow motion compared to God. God exists in the ever present now. I am that I am.

674
01:09:08,779 --> 01:09:12,220
 And when you're in his presence, you cannot think about the past. You cannot think about the

675
01:09:12,220 --> 01:09:15,359
 future. You can't even think. You just experience all the love in the universe.

676
01:09:17,360 --> 01:09:22,760
 You know, we have computers now on your cell phone where you can give a question. It'll go out

677
01:09:22,760 --> 01:09:28,399
 to the entire internet, gather all the information on that subject, organize it and put it on your

678
01:09:28,399 --> 01:09:33,260
 phone in a fraction of a second. We have quantum computers now that can do a billion

679
01:09:33,260 --> 01:09:39,340
 times a billion computations a second. Is God that fast? Yeah, God can do infinity

680
01:09:39,340 --> 01:09:43,699
 times infinity computations a second. He's so fast, he's faster than fast. He's so fast,

681
01:09:43,739 --> 01:09:48,859
 he's outside of time. We make our little free will decisions in time, but we're moving so slow.

682
01:09:48,960 --> 01:09:54,800
 He can readjust every electron and every variable in the universe before he lets time move forward

683
01:09:54,800 --> 01:10:01,199
 to the next nano frame. Time is moving. Jesus said, I'm the first and the last. Even the demons

684
01:10:01,199 --> 01:10:05,119
 crowd out. Have you come to torment us before the time they know we're like in a river headed

685
01:10:05,119 --> 01:10:11,579
 toward a waterfall, right? But God's outside of time. So we make our little free will decisions

686
01:10:11,579 --> 01:10:19,939
 in time, but he can readjust all the variables. It's sort of like a GPS on your phone and you

687
01:10:19,939 --> 01:10:24,439
 make a wrong turn. It recalculates. What if the guy in the car next is making a wrong turn at

688
01:10:24,439 --> 01:10:28,600
 the same time that his is recalculating? What if everybody in the city is making wrong turns

689
01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:32,920
 and it's all recalculating at the same time? What if everybody in the world's? So we make good

690
01:10:32,920 --> 01:10:37,920
 decisions. We make bad decisions. God's outside of time. He can readjust all the variables.

691
01:10:40,020 --> 01:10:47,279
 And God has a plan for our lives. And if we yield and surrender to him, his will is

692
01:10:47,279 --> 01:10:52,479
 done through us. But then we can fudge and it says some produce 30 fold, some 60 fold,

693
01:10:52,479 --> 01:10:57,979
 some 100 fold. And then we can harden our heart and say, no, God, I am not going to do that.

694
01:10:58,479 --> 01:11:02,840
 He's like, fine, I'll use somebody else. Like Mordecai told Esther, if you don't let God use

695
01:11:02,840 --> 01:11:07,239
 you to deliver the juice, he'll raise up somebody else. And then we can repent and say, God,

696
01:11:07,380 --> 01:11:11,260
 forgive me. I should not have hardened my heart. Give me another. And he'll rearrange all the

697
01:11:11,260 --> 01:11:16,479
 variables to give you another chance. I mean, God knows the future and he knows all the possible

698
01:11:16,479 --> 01:11:21,340
 futures. And he tells you what they are. And he lets you choose, right? Dude,

699
01:11:21,399 --> 01:11:24,619
 on army 28, if you hearken to the voice of the Lord, this will be your future. You'll

700
01:11:24,619 --> 01:11:27,100
 be blessed coming in and blessed come out. If you don't hearken to the voice of the Lord,

701
01:11:27,220 --> 01:11:31,880
 this will be your future. The diseases of each will come upon you. And God's smart enough to

702
01:11:31,880 --> 01:11:35,359
 know how we're going to choose. But the fact that he knows how we're going to choose does

703
01:11:35,359 --> 01:11:39,020
 not take away the fact that we still have to do the choosing. Because if he were to judge

704
01:11:39,020 --> 01:11:43,600
 somebody before they chose, he would be unjust for judging somebody who had not sinned

705
01:11:43,600 --> 01:11:48,140
 yet. So we still have to live it out, right? Is this getting too complicated for you?

706
01:11:49,940 --> 01:11:56,380
 So God created time. So we get to make our little free will decisions, but he's still in control. And

707
01:11:56,380 --> 01:12:01,800
 we sort of know that God's outside of time. Because if you're with somebody at some place

708
01:12:02,420 --> 01:12:07,479
 and you say, this is not a coincidence. This is a God ordained moment. This is

709
01:12:07,479 --> 01:12:11,640
 providential that you and I are here right now at this moment. God plans this.

710
01:12:12,539 --> 01:12:18,140
 And you feel the goosebumps of the presence of the Lord. And because God is outside of time,

711
01:12:18,819 --> 01:12:25,159
 God himself can be with each of us all the time. God himself, Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit,

712
01:12:25,619 --> 01:12:35,399
 be with each of us all the time. There's another thing. God has to hide himself

713
01:12:36,039 --> 01:12:44,720
 behind his creation because he is so incredibly awesome. If he were to appear to you in all of

714
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:49,680
 his universe, creating omnipotent power, brighter than a trillion, trillion sons,

715
01:12:50,159 --> 01:12:54,960
 your response would be involuntary. I mean, all the power in the universe, if he were to give

716
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:58,279
 you a glint, boom, you'd be down. You'd be like the apostle Paul in the book of Revelation.

717
01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:02,300
 I fell at his feet is dead. It would be an involuntary response. And God's like,

718
01:13:02,300 --> 01:13:07,220
 I can do involuntary responses all eternity long. Been there, done that. I'm interested

719
01:13:07,220 --> 01:13:11,659
 in this voluntary response. So he has to hide himself. People say, if God's real,

720
01:13:11,800 --> 01:13:16,319
 why doesn't he show himself? Because the moment he shows himself, your free will is gone.

721
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:22,500
 And the same hiding of himself that allows us to have free will necessitates that we have faith.

722
01:13:24,300 --> 01:13:27,300
 People say, I wish I knew the future. No, you don't. If you knew the future,

723
01:13:27,439 --> 01:13:31,100
 you wouldn't seek God. You wouldn't pray. I know it's going to happen. Why pray? I know

724
01:13:31,100 --> 01:13:34,880
 it's going to happen. No, he intentionally hides the future. So we have to turn to him.

725
01:13:34,899 --> 01:13:37,180
 And that's the whole goal of it. He wants a relationship with us.

726
01:13:39,400 --> 01:13:43,779
 I was thinking of a way of explaining how God has to hide himself for our response to be a

727
01:13:43,779 --> 01:13:50,020
 love response. Imagine a billionaire has a son who goes to college and he flies in on his

728
01:13:50,020 --> 01:13:55,380
 private jet, drives up in his Lamborghini. He's got a Rolex watch, gold rings, fancy clothes.

729
01:13:55,380 --> 01:14:02,399
 He's going to have every girl on campus wanting to meet him. But if he lays that aside and drives

730
01:14:02,399 --> 01:14:07,800
 up in a clunker, he's got holes in his jeans. All the uppity girls are going to ignore him.

731
01:14:08,380 --> 01:14:12,859
 But then there's a girl that likes to study with him in the library and they eat together

732
01:14:12,859 --> 01:14:18,420
 in the cafeteria and they become friends. And she takes heat from the click for hanging

733
01:14:18,420 --> 01:14:23,979
 around this nobody guy, but she believes in him. They fall in love. They get engaged.

734
01:14:23,979 --> 01:14:31,119
 And then one day he says to her, I want to take you back to meet my dad. And they're driving up

735
01:14:31,119 --> 01:14:35,659
 to this castle mansion estate and the girls like, whoa, you didn't, you didn't tell me about all

736
01:14:35,659 --> 01:14:45,060
 this. He knows that she loves him for him, not because of all of his stuff. If Jesus would have

737
01:14:45,060 --> 01:14:49,500
 come in his glory, every political ladder climber would be, I'm your friend. I'm your friend.

738
01:14:49,500 --> 01:14:54,479
 No, he's born in a manger. It says in Isaiah 53 of the Messiah, there was nothing in his

739
01:14:54,479 --> 01:14:59,399
 countenance that would make us want to desire him. He only wants those that love him for him.

740
01:15:01,119 --> 01:15:04,739
 So God is just and that he judges every sin, but he's loving that he provided the lamb to

741
01:15:04,739 --> 01:15:10,460
 take the judgment for the sin. But why did he make us? He made us for a relationship.

742
01:15:11,859 --> 01:15:14,260
 What makes a stranger into a friend, a relationship?

743
01:15:15,840 --> 01:15:22,840
 When we seek God and, but we're sinners, what we deserve judgment. Yeah. And Jesus is the way.

744
01:15:24,020 --> 01:15:27,680
 The lamb is God's way to love you without having to judge you.

745
01:15:27,939 --> 01:15:31,340
 It's his plan. He came up with it before the foundations of the world. He came up with it

746
01:15:31,340 --> 01:15:37,279
 so God can continue to be just, but he's love. And Jesus, I love for the father and I love

747
01:15:37,279 --> 01:15:43,500
 for you. And he became the lamb. He took the wrath from an eternal, just God upon himself

748
01:15:43,500 --> 01:15:49,140
 on the cross in our place. The lamb is God's way to get around his own just nature.

749
01:15:49,960 --> 01:15:53,619
 So he can continue to be a just God for all eternity because he's a loving God because

750
01:15:53,619 --> 01:15:58,619
 Jesus took the judgment in our place. And then he rose from the dead to prove he was who he

751
01:15:58,619 --> 01:16:05,699
 said he was. And then the Holy spirit, the third person of the Trinity comes and indwells

752
01:16:05,699 --> 01:16:12,520
 on the inside of us. And we feel this undeserved love of God that overwhelmed

753
01:16:12,520 --> 01:16:16,000
 that we're accepted by God. And it's not based on us being good enough. It's based

754
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:20,859
 on us approaching him through Jesus. We feel this acceptance from God and then we can't contain it.

755
01:16:21,180 --> 01:16:25,760
 We have to share this love with others. It's like the song we sang during the beautiful

756
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:31,060
 praise and worship. And it talked about that loving others through us.

757
01:16:32,559 --> 01:16:43,260
 So today, the God who created time arranged for you to be here so that you could hear

758
01:16:43,260 --> 01:16:51,279
 of his infinite love for you and how he desires so much for you to love him back.

759
01:16:52,279 --> 01:16:57,979
 And he's made a way that it's not based on you being good enough. It's made a way that you

760
01:16:57,979 --> 01:17:05,220
 approach him through Jesus that took the judgment in your place. So let's bow our heads and let's

761
01:17:05,220 --> 01:17:13,880
 come into the presence of the Lord and just say this prayer with me. Heavenly Father,

762
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 I thank you for making everything. I thank you for creating me.

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 But I have sinned. I deserve your judgment. Thank you for sending your son Jesus

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 to die on the cross to pay for my sins. Jesus, I confess you as my Lord and Savior.

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 I believe you were crucified. You died. You were buried. And you rose from the dead.

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 And I am risen with you. You're my Lord and Savior. Fill me with the Holy Spirit.

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 Holy Spirit, fill me. Let your presence dwell in me as the temple of the Holy Spirit

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 for the rest of eternity. Use me to share God's love with the hurting world.

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 Amen.

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 Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God and discuss His Word.

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 Don't forget to join us for worship live Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube.

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 Be blessed and have a great day!