Giving Everything on the Altar of Liberty: Charlie at Dream City Church

00:00:03 Speaker 1: My name is Charlie kirk I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. 00:00:11 Speaker 2: My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. 00:00:14 Speaker 1: If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start at turning point you would say college chapter. 00:00:33 Speaker 2: Go start attning point. Yould say high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. 00:00:39 Speaker 1: I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade, most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am. 00:00:46 Speaker 2: Lord, Use me. 00:00:48 Speaker 1: Buckle up, everybody, Here we go. Noble Gold Investments is the official gold sponsor of the Charlie Kirkshaw, a company that specializes in gold iras and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegold investments dot Com. That is Noblegoldinvestments dot Com. 00:01:17 Speaker 2: Thank you, everybody, please take a seat. Thank you, Luke. That was a wonderful introduction. Thank you. 00:01:23 Speaker 1: And I have to say, if if America had one thousand Dream City churches, this country'd be in a much better place. 00:01:30 Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. 00:01:32 Speaker 1: And this is now becoming kind of a tradition Independence Day weekend, and so I'm gonna do similar to last year. You know, I was very someone earlier said Charlie, you could just give the same messages last year if people forget, But no, no, I hold myself to a higher standard. 00:01:47 Speaker 2: So we're gonna We're gonna. 00:01:49 Speaker 1: Read part of the declaration today, We're gonna talk about what it means to celebrate independence. And before I go any further though, I just want to make sure that everyone here understands and realizes we're going to talk about this tonight. We should just be in a constant state of gratitude these last couple of days, especially because think about where we were a year ago and where we are now, and on July thirteenth, you. 00:02:19 Speaker 2: All remember where you were. 00:02:20 Speaker 1: I hope on July thirteenth, we're just a couple of millimeters determine the future of our country, and I think for much better and for not for far worse. We can say that it's all about how hard we worked or what we did. God has not done with America. Everybody. 00:02:35 Speaker 2: God is at work in this country, and God has not done with this country. 00:02:39 Speaker 1: So this weekend we celebrate Independence Day, and that is the signing of our birth certificate. Now, far too often we talk about the declaration, but. 00:02:50 Speaker 2: We don't actually read it. 00:02:51 Speaker 1: Now at Dream City Christian and at Turning Point Academy and at real schools in this country, they're learning the Declaration of Independence on word by word. They're going paragraph by paragraph, and we're going to do that partially here today. It's a long document, it's a beautiful document. But I want to first kind of frame the context of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, because I think it's lost on us exactly what was happening. 00:03:18 Speaker 2: So some people think the signing of. 00:03:20 Speaker 1: The Declaration of Independence was the beginning of the war against the British Empire. 00:03:25 Speaker 2: It was not. It did not begin the war. It justified the war. 00:03:29 Speaker 1: Back in April of seventeen seventy five, so a year and a half basically before a year and a couple months before that was Lexington and Concord. So the blood was already being spilled way before the declaration. So imagine a nation at war and we weren't really sure what we were doing or why we were fighting. We just knew the British were oppressing us. We knew that tyranny was bad, and we weren't even sure how long this was going to continue. The Battle of Bunker Hill that we all remember learning about growing up. That was in June of seven, eighteen seventy five, before the Declaration of Independence was written and signed. Now, after that, our founders were so pious and they were so Christian. 00:04:08 Speaker 2: Blessed are the Peacemakers. 00:04:10 Speaker 1: They wrote what is called the Olive Branch petition. So they sent a letter to the King trying to end the war in August of. 00:04:17 Speaker 2: Seventeen seventy five. 00:04:19 Speaker 1: The King responded and said, Nope, you guys are in rebellion and I'm going to crush you. So the founders were like, Okay, I guess we have a war on our hands and we didn't invite it, we don't want it. They're oppressing us, and we're going to play to win fast forward all the way now to July of seventeen seventy six. 00:04:36 Speaker 2: The war is raging. The rich of. 00:04:40 Speaker 1: The colonies are losing their farms, they're losing their ships, they're losing everything. And so to leport yourself for a moment into a room that is in Philadelphia in July, and I wanted to be been in Philadelphiladelphia in July. It's not a dry heat. Let me tell you, it's not like Phoenix. It is like ninety percent human. That is a port city and they're in a room with no air conditioning. At any moment, the British Empire could have arrived, because it was a port city. They could have went into Independence Hall and they would have arrested all fifty six men, and they would have hung them, every single one of them for treason, one by one. These fifty six men had a decision to make. They had a decision of whether or not they were going to continue this war of which the odds were beyond stacked against them. I think President Trump's assent to the Presidency's one of the greatest political comebacks ever that pales in comparison with the Founding Fathers were up against. They had no navy. They'dn't have a ship, theydn' have a canoe. They had no permanent alliances, nothing. They had no standing army. All they had literally, they were a bunch of farmers, merchants and preachers with muskets, right, Luke, That's what the Founding fathers were. But they had something that the British did not have. They had more faith in the British. They had a belief in the divine and they worshiped God Almighty. So here is the greatest fighting power. I know this might be hard for you to comprehend. Imagine if the script was flipped, we right now have the world's strongest military. Boy, we saw what our military did in Iran. I mean that was unbeliev I flew through the night. Incredible. So we have the world's strongest military. So imagine as strong a military that we have against like a random colony, just pick pick a colony anyway. That was how the odds were stacked against it. The British Empire. They were well trained. They were bringing in Prussian mercenaries from Germany. Thirty six thousand British troops had already occupied New York and Boston, this thing looked like the rebellion was about to be quelled. It was if you were like looking for all the young men out there, if you were looking at like the draft kings or the you know, let's just say the polymarket betting odds, it was like ninety nine point nine to zero point one that America or the colonies were going to survive. The guys that were kind of taken wages didn't look good. Again, some of the older folks like, what are you talking about. Gambling is a sin. You guys shouldn't do it as much as you do. But the fact that you get what I'm saying means that point delivered. 00:07:19 Speaker 2: Okay. 00:07:21 Speaker 1: It was the most unlikely scenario imaginable. And so these farmers and these merchants and these preachers with muskets stuck themselves into a room and they had a decision to make. And for about a week they were like, hey, we could surrender. And the reason they didn't surrender is because what was happening ten years prior. For ten years, the most successful, most robust Christian revival in history was underway. 00:07:49 Speaker 2: And this is the buried lead. 00:07:51 Speaker 1: This is the part of our birth certificate and our birthday as Americans. That's not talked about in the media, is not talked about in our public schools. 00:08:00 Speaker 2: I'll only maybe talk about the founding. 00:08:02 Speaker 1: Oh they were a bunch of slave owner, terrible people, But they don't talk about the ten years before the founding. Did you know that there were twenty five thousand sermons given over a decade to the population of the thirteen colonies, delivered by people like Whitfield and Jonathan Mayhew and Jonathan Edwards. So Jonathan Edwards had a sermon that he delivered thousands of times. The title of the sermon sinners in the hands of an Angry God. That's not exactly a prosperity gospel. That's not exactly Hey give me ten dollars and you're going to get very rich. That's about as harsh as it get. Oh, mister Edwards, thank you to our small town here in rural Massachusetts. What are you going to be talking about today? You're all sinners in the hands of an angry God. Oh, thank you, so nice and wonderful. What Jonathan Edwards was able to do is he was able to bring a once Christian colonies that were stepping away from God to repentance, everybody. You cannot get to revival without repentance, and you can't get to liberty without revival and repentance to Almighty God is what led to the founding. 00:09:14 Speaker 3: Hi, folks, Andrew Colvett here, I'd like to tell you about my friends over at y Refi. You've probably been hearing me talk about y Refi for some time now. We are all in with these guys. If you or someone you know is struggling with private student loan debt, take my advice and give them a call. Maybe you're behind on your payments, maybe you're even in default. You don't have to live in this nightmare anymore. Why ref I will provide you a custom payment based on your ability to pay. They tailor each loan individually. They can save you thousands of dollars and you can get your life back. 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They started with prayer and fasting, and they came to the conclusion and they said, hey, we got to do something about this. 00:10:31 Speaker 2: We're going to write a letter. 00:10:33 Speaker 1: We're going to justify it, we're going to synthesize it, and we're going to give the colonies, our people that are fighting their why we are going to now form and birth a new nation founded on ideals that are totally incompatible with the monarchy believes. And this is our nation's birth certificate, but it might be our death certificate. And I'm going to build that out for a second, because it's lost on so many of us, including myself when I was doing rea search for this, just how much these men and their families and their wives are risking. Because the wives also don't talked about enough. These wives understood they may never see their husbands again, that their kid, that their sons and their daughters may never be raised by a father. 00:11:16 Speaker 2: And so they decided, like, hey, who's you know. 00:11:18 Speaker 1: They looked around the room and here was like I think he was twenty seven or twenty eight. Thomas Jefferson like, hey, he's smart. Why don't you take a draft at it. So Thomas Jefferson wrote this in his twenties, and I'm going to talk about that in a second, but first I want to just remember the signers of the declaration that we don't always recount. We talk about John Hancock, we talk about Thomas Jefferson. I'm gonna list some names of some people that did sign their death certificate. You see the brutal the Brits, they were brutal, they were harsh. It's very easy for us in the Year of the Lord twenty twenty five to look back at seventeen seventy six and enjoy our pool parties and our burghers and our hot dog, which you should, and our fireworks on our ice cream. But I want you just today at church, to just imagine what it would be like to sign a document against the world's largest power, and your house, your kids, your livelihood, your four oh one k your second home, whatever could be snatched away from the world's largest power, and for some it meant that's exactly what happened. Like William Ellery, not a name that you would hear very often, signer of the Declaration, he watched the British burn his home and destroy everything he owned. 00:12:29 Speaker 2: These were nasty people. They went to his house. 00:12:32 Speaker 1: They took all of his kids up on a hill and they said, you worked your whole life to build this house. Now I want you to understand. We value our homes a lot here in twenty twenty five. For them, it was literally everything. There was no savings account, there was no like roth Ira, there was no like buying Amazon stock. Everything was the house. If you had a house, you were a rich person. You had land it could produce, and the British, in a form of torture, would make your entire life be burned in front of yours and your kids would have to watch it. Or how about Louis Morris. The British troops plundered his estate, drove off all of his cattle, and destroyed his property. Carton Braxton, signer of the Declaration, a wealthy Virginia planter and merchant. He lost all his ships. He saw his fortune ruined. He got so depressed by all of it he died in debt and never saw the end of the war. Thomas McKean was hunted by the British, had to move his family five times and died penniless five times in the span of three years, with no cars and no planes, constantly moving being. 00:13:34 Speaker 2: Hunted by the British. 00:13:36 Speaker 1: Abraham Clark, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independance. 00:13:39 Speaker 2: Two of his sons were captured by. 00:13:41 Speaker 1: The British and brutally treated and tortured in prison ships, and one nearly starved to death. Or John Hart fled into the woods to escape the British troops. His wife died while he was on the run, and his thirteen kids were scattered. His farm was ravaged, and he never saw his kids again. They did this by choice, everybody. This was not something that came to them. They went to this level of suffering. Or how about Francis Lewis. His wife was in prison for months, tortured by the British and died shortly after release. 00:14:13 Speaker 2: He died with nothing, totally impoverished. 00:14:16 Speaker 1: Or Richard Stockton, captured by the British in prison, abused scarf, and released only after swearing never to fight again. He never recovered and died before the war ended. Or John Morton alienated by all of his friends. Understand, when you signed this document, almost two thirds of the entire colonies were against this war, one third were neutral, one third with the British, and only one third worth support. Only three percent ended up fighting, and a small percentage of that actual fighting force were. 00:14:44 Speaker 2: Like the ones that drove it forward. 00:14:46 Speaker 1: So imagine if you think you were out numbered for not taking the vaccine, if you think you were out numbered for not wearing a mask when you showered, if you think you were outnumbered, I want you to imagine what it was like when everyone around you, This guy lost all of his friends. When you signed the declaration, you were not met with pomp and circumstance and a parade. You were not met as like a hero's welcome. You became a public villain. You became someone that all of a sudden you were and we in twenty twenty five. I want you to understand signing your name back in the ancient world was as there was almost no equivalent to in the modern era. 00:15:28 Speaker 2: There's nothing close because. 00:15:29 Speaker 1: We signed stuff all the time, right signing the document signing checks. When you sign something that is you're all encompassing body, that is everything, that is, your kids, your grandkids, your estate is it is a holy vow that you are making. John Morton was alienated by his friends and family for switching the Patriot cause. Died in seventeen seventy seven, never saw a victory or button. Gwynnett literally killed over fighting for the Revolutionary Clause, one of the signers of the declaration. So why would they do something like this, Why would they go up against the greatest power ever where they knew they were probably. 00:16:05 Speaker 2: Going to lose. 00:16:06 Speaker 1: They did it because they valued being right before God, not right before King George. 00:16:16 Speaker 2: The only reason they did it. 00:16:18 Speaker 1: And we should, honestly just remember these founding fathers that died and gave up everything. And I want you to understand it'd be one thing if you go and die for a war and you still have your land, you could die at least somewhat at peace that your kids are going to be okay, these kids that all entered into poverty. This guy thirteen kids nothing, so he dies of tormented death. 00:16:41 Speaker 2: I want you to imagine right now that. 00:16:42 Speaker 1: All of your savings disappear and you also die. I mean, it would be unthinkable, right Your kids would have to go on welfare, they'd have to become beggars. And so with all of that context, with that backdrop, the founders met in July of seventeen seventy six. They said, Tom, must you write the thing right? And they prayed on every single word. This was not, by the way, This was not like them skimming it. This was not like a docu sign or the terms of service on Apple when you get a new iPhone and no one reads that stuff and you go all the way to the bottom like okay, great, yeah, King George, God, thank you. Every word was debated, every word was prayed over. I'm going to focus on a couple elements I didn't in the previous service, but I'm going to say just one. I'm going to repeat one. It begins with when, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume the powers of the earth, this separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and Nature's God entitle them a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation. Now, some of that is written in a little bit of Old English, so it's hard to quite understand what Thomas Jefferson is saying. Here's what he's saying, King George. It's not just that, it's that's for us to separate from you. All people in all time, anywhere around the world deserve to be free, not under someone like you. This is a anthem for all of history. 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Charlie for Hillsdale dot com. Learn deeply, think clearly, lead boldly, carry it forward. 00:19:52 Speaker 1: Now I want to emphasize one thing he said here which drove King George crazy. The laws of nature and Nature's God entitle him. We as Christians believe that there is a God given moral law that is discernible by reason and conscious and nations must govern in harmony with it. And this is a perfect connection to what Pastor Luke said earlier. Why is it that Los Angeles, a bunch of bums can walk into Scarbucks and take as much food as they want and no one says stop when you refuse and you reject God all of a sudden, stealing is not wrong when you reject God. Abortion is not wrong when you reject God. There's nothing wrong with the transgenderism nonsense. Here are five things of which the natural Law says in great detail, and by the way, it's connected. 00:20:46 Speaker 2: To something that comes later in the declaration. Number one. 00:20:49 Speaker 1: We believe because the Bible teaches it, and it's in the natural law. Human life is sacred and every single life matters, regardless of how small or. 00:20:59 Speaker 2: How big that life is. Why do we believe that? 00:21:03 Speaker 1: We believe that because every human being is made in the image of God and is not a mistake. It is a miracle, it's not an accident. It is a design. And if you have a design, you have a designer. If you have creation, you have a creator. And the founding fathers on those goodness. And this is where all of a sudden they went, shots fired against the king. So the king is reading this, he had to call in a bunch of scribes. He couldn't believe it. He thought that he was going to get a letter from these found from the founding generation. He thought that these colonists, these farmers, these merchants, these pastors, they were going to do a writ of surrender, please spare us our life and don't burn our property. Instead, they got like a ten out of ten maximal aggression Trump tweet. Right, they got like whoa, Okay, we're going that intense. They went, we hold these truths to be self evident. Boom, shots fired. All men are created equal. Now that we should applaud that, and I wish Americans believe that more and more. But understand, the king doesn't believe that he's reading this. I no, I'm better than you. I'm the divine right of kings. I'm King George. You're not what do you mean? All men are created equal? So he had to call in his scribes, like, what do they mean by this? They say, well, sir, they think that you're equal to them. And what was the reason they gave? That they are endowed by their creator capital team This was not. This was not because they were doing a bunch of study of Greek and Roman history, and there are some Greek and Roman influences here. It's simply and solely a biblical worldview that expressed itself in the Revolution only in Genesis one twenty six and one twenty seven, which is universal human equality, that I'm not better than Luke, and Luke is not better than me, that we are all the same in God's economy. From that, then you get natural rights and you get what birth. Western civilization understand that if you visit a lot of the rest of the world, go and visit India right now, go and visit the tribes of Africa. They have cast systems and intergenerational ruling structures where not all people are created equal. They believe that there's some sort of hierarchy to existence. Well, I have more money than you, than I'm better than you. Only in America do we pause it in our birth certificate nope. Yep, you might have more money, but that does mean you have more rights. Yep, you might have a nicer car, but I have this. I'm same in God's economy, and both of us are going to have to go in front of God the judge one day, and both of us are equally made. Do you understand the significance of that? And it was at no small cost. So then the king is reading this, He's getting angry and angrier. And this is where it gets so profound that among these, oh that's up here are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. You cannot have liberty and you cannot happiness, have happiness if you do not protect life. Let us be a state in a country again that values life at every possible stage. 00:24:01 Speaker 2: From the unborn to the born to the elderly. 00:24:05 Speaker 1: And the founders articulated this beautifully, so I could go, I could go in all the different elements here, But let me just repeat something I said earlier that a rejection of the universal moral order, the natural law that was talked about in our birth certificate, the laws of nature and Nature's God. We are seeing the consequences of what happens when you do not have them. 00:24:27 Speaker 2: In the words of GK. 00:24:28 Speaker 1: Chesterton, it's not that when you have know God, people believe in nothing. It's that they'll believe in anything. That men can give birth, that borders don't matter, that you could change your sex on a whim, that life does not have any value. 00:24:44 Speaker 2: You see, the Founders, they. 00:24:45 Speaker 1: Were able to build the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world upon eternal biblical scripture and truth. And that is not just Charlie Kirk saying it today this Independence Day weekend. We need to also just look at what the Founders themselves said. This stuff you will not hear on CNN, I guarantee it. Patrick Henry, who is, let's just say, one of the more outspoken people of the Founding generation. He was a little bit of a rabble rouser, if you will, kind of he was a little bit of a bomb thrower. I know no one in politics that would probably fit that mold, but anyway, he fantasily said, give me liberty, to give me death. 00:25:20 Speaker 2: That's one of my favorite quotes. 00:25:22 Speaker 1: It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded by Christians, not on religions, but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Patrick Henry John Adams, the second President, our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. It's one of my favorite quotes. I'm going to get to a second quote in a second. But everybody, the Declaration and Constitution are tied together. What we enjoy as liberty right now starts to vanish, as you see in la when you no longer have a moral or religious people. So when Luke says, why is it that there's this kind of soft anarchy and no one stands up for what is right, Well, if you don't have a moral or Christian framework, then theft is not something to oppose. Oh they need the money, you know, just let them steal it. I'm sorry. In the Ten Commandments, God says dou shall not steal. There was not a parenthetical that said, however, it's less than one thousand dollars. I think it's okay. Private property is robustly defended throughout the Bible and throughout the Scripture. John Adams says, quote the general principles on which the founding fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson in June twenty eighteen thirteen, We pause it that there is a transcendent moral order above us, and we are What we are saying here is really at odds with a lot of the modern world. James Madison said, the only sure foundation for civil liberty is the Bible, not the teaching of Aristotle, which I love, or Plato, or of you know. 00:27:19 Speaker 2: A manual compt or Thomas Hobbs. 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Just go to wyrefi dot com and tell them your friend Andrews sent you. 00:28:25 Speaker 1: And So, what I want you to understand is when you see those fireworks go up this weekend, is that under the surface of all the liberty that we now enjoy for two hundred and forty nine years, it did not happen by accident. 00:28:37 Speaker 2: It was not just a roll of the dice. It was serious. 00:28:42 Speaker 1: Christians, serious believers that gave you all the freedom that you are able to enjoy. And here is my proof. People say, well, that's not true. The why is it that no one has been able to replicate America. Why is it that we are the freest, greatest nation for now two hundred. 00:28:59 Speaker 2: And forty nine years running. 00:29:01 Speaker 1: Why is them The next richest country in the world is China, which is the opposite of almost everything we believe a total police state, hyperd totalitarian, very materialistic. Now, look, we have to be honest in America. Some of these are slipping away in front of us. We worship stuff more than we should. But don't fool yourself. There is still a remnant that should be admired and encouraged of Bible believing Christians and churches like this that love God and love people and work for His purposes every single day. And we don't do a good enough job teaching our kids how great of a country that this is. We are the most generous country ever to exist in the history of the world. We give more to the poor, more to poverty, we give more to the Third world, we give more in humanitarian aid. We finance more Christian missionaries and more ministries. Seventy percent of all the Christian mission work is originated by five percent of the population here in America. When there's a tsunami, when there's a flood, when there's a civil war, they don't call the French, and they don't call the Belgians. They call the Americans. Because there's something different about this country. And it's because what we believe is American values in liberty, in e pluribus unum go anyone pull out a dollar bill before they try to have a centralized bank. 00:30:14 Speaker 2: Or digital currency. 00:30:15 Speaker 1: On the American dollar bill is the American Trinity. And the American Trinity are three things. Of course, we as Christians have the Christian Trinity, God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. On the US dollar is the American Trinity. Liberty in God we trust and e plurabus unum, e plurabist unim is one out of many, one that together the universal human equality reigns above all that. It does not matter if you're black, or you're white, or you're Hispanic. In God's economy, you are all human beings made in His image. It doesn't matter if you're tall, you're small, unborn or born, You're human being regardless of all of it. I'm gonna end with this. I could go on for like another hour of it. I'm gonna end with this, everybody, which is which is one of my fa favorite part of the entire declaration is the end, because the end shows what type of nation that we are. The end shows the profundity, the depth, the weight, and the heaviness of everything in front of us. There are two types of ways that you could do relationships. 00:31:22 Speaker 2: You can have a. 00:31:23 Speaker 1: Contractual relationship, which is perfectly okay. When you hire your doctor, when you at a doctor, when you buy a piece of property and you buy a land, when you buy a car, whatever, that is a contractual relationship. We as Christians understand that at times though you have covenantal relationships. The best example of a covenantal relationship is between husband and wife. That is a covenant. Jesus and the Church is a covenantal relationship. Throughout the Bible, there are covenantal relationships, the Abrahamic Covenant, the Noaic Covenant, the Dividic Covenant, the Mosaic Covenant, the Covenant with Israel, and of course the New Covenant with Jesus Christ. When you enter into a covenantal relationship, here is what makes a contractual relationship versus a covenantal relationship. First of all, a covenantal relationship says that this will last as long as we are faithful. A contractual relationship is here's the terms, it ends in ten days. That's it. You the least of the car. A covenantal relationship is built on love and kindness, respect and trust. A contractual relationship goes into paragraph six' a on the different. Terms nothing wrong with, that but is different and the most important. COMPONENT a covenantal relationship involves three. Parties where contracts relationship is two. Parties i'm buying, Something i'm selling. Something covenantal relationship is person Person. God it is a relationship between three. Parties this nation when it was, founded unlike every Other canada contractual relations and Ship mexico contracts a. Relation i'm not trying to bash on these. Countries is just the way it. Is But america was a covenantal relationship at the end of the, declaration very similar to The book Of, nehemiah as In namiah, nine when The jews were in, Exile King cyrus sends them. Back they were just a complete, mess, right And niemiah restores the covenant And namiah, nine we are now in front Of. God we're going to recommit To, god and we're Under god's. Covering the last part of the, declaration they, say we therefore the representatives in all, caps The United states Of. 00:33:37 Speaker 2: America. 00:33:38 Speaker 1: Everybody that's the first time that term was, Used The United states Of. 00:33:41 Speaker 2: America isn't that? 00:33:42 Speaker 1: Beautiful they say it in all caps in case you're missing. It in, General congress assembled appealing to the Supreme judge of the. 00:33:51 Speaker 2: World who are they appealing? To That's Jesus. 00:33:54 Speaker 1: Christ here's a fun trivia question for all of you this week in an independent's. Day you guys can tell your. Friends Does jesus appear in the declaration right? There the supreme judge of the. World this says in The book Of, Revelation jesus will take the seat of judgment as the supreme judge of the world at the end of the. 00:34:09 Speaker 2: Age the founders knew what they were. Saying do you. 00:34:11 Speaker 1: Know every single founder was Flutin, greek flute And, hebrew and they were taught The bible as a primary text document from a young, age so they knew what they were saying when they said supreme judge of the. World this was not an. Accident this was. Intentional they were appealing To Jesus. Christ they were praying To jesus at the end of this and here is the kicker as to why we are all here. Today they, said with great prayer and reverence that at any moment their house could be, burned their wife could be, kidnapped and their kids could be. Tortured and for the support of this declaration with who are they relying? On were they relying on? Reason were they relying on? Luck were they relying on? Chance were they relying On? Hinduism no reliance on protection of divine providence and now. Here so they went to divine. Providence that's one part of the. Covenant they went vertical and then they went. Horizontal we then pledged to each other our, lives our, fortunes and our sacred. Honey they go up and they go to the, sun and all of a, sudden they've created a triangular covenantal. 00:35:18 Speaker 2: Relationship. Everybody that's why we beat The. 00:35:20 Speaker 1: British it's because when all of a, sudden The british they were paid. Mercenaries our guys pledged to each other and to a higher. Power And i'll be honest the fact that our nation has lasted in its current form for two hundred and forty nine. Years it is the longest lasting political document ever written in the history of the. World we are under that, covenant and we will stop being under that covenant if our faithfulness, wanes if we become a secular nation Like Los angeles is if we go away From, god as the Prophet isaiah, says woe and to those who call good evil or evil. Good In isaiah thirty three twenty, two it, says for The lord is our, judge The lord is our, lawgiver The lord our, king and he will save. Us they all knew this, intimately the founding generation. Did. SO i want you to celebrate this nation the remainder of this. Weekend tell your friends about, it because it's actually a much bigger deal THAN i think we. Realize we should be so, grateful we should be in hands and he's kissing the ground and Thanking. God we get to live in this great, nation which is the inheritance not of, luck not of, chance not Of, buddhism but the inheritance of Courageous christians who put everything on the line so that we can live. Free thank, you, Guys god bless, you And god bless The United states Of. America for more on many of these stories and news you can, trust go To charliekirk dot. Com