October 8, 2025 • 19 mins
We pause for prayer, open Scripture, and talk candidly about maturing from milk to solid food, using gifts well, and remembering God’s faithfulness across generations. Along the way, we question the worship of titles, honor quiet attention, and anchor hope in Christ.
• gratitude, prayer, and a slower pace
• Song of Solomon as a vision of attentive love
• Hebrews 5 on maturity, training, and discernment
• stewardship of gifts as duty to others
• skepticism of credentials without character
• Psalm 105 and founding texts as moral memory
• practical habits for daily formation and service
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SPEAKER_00 (00:02):
Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope.
Back with another episode of theAmerican Soul Podcast.
Hope y'all are doing well,wherever y'all are, whatever
part of the day you're in.
I sure do appreciate you joiningme here, spending a little bit
of time with me.
I will try and use it wisely.
Hopefully, it'll give us allsome extra tools for our
(00:23):
toolbox, as we used to say inthe Marine Corps.
For those of y'all who continueto share the podcast, tell
others about it.
Thank you for those of y'all whocontinue to pray for me and for
the podcast.
Thank you very much.
Father, thank you for today.
Thank you for you, Father, andyour son Jesus Christ and your
Holy Spirit.
(00:44):
Thank you for your love, mercy,grace, forgiveness of sin.
Forgive us, Father, when wedon't forgive others as you have
forgiven us.
Forgive us our pride and ourgreed and our selfishness.
Forgive us when we get ourpriorities out of order.
(01:04):
Forgive us when we chase thethings of this world instead of
you.
Help us to store up forourselves treasures in heaven,
not here on earth.
Help us to seek to do your will,not to follow the shiny things
(01:29):
and baubles of this life, but tofocus on eternity with you and
your son Jesus Christ.
Be with those who are hurting,those who are alone, those who
are scared, comfort them.
Ease the pain of those who aresick from illness or injured.
(01:53):
Be with their loved ones,comfort them, give them
perseverance.
Thank you for all the manyblessings, Father, that you
bestow upon us, the ones that weadmit again, and forgive us when
we don't, forgive us our lack ofgratitude.
Thank you for clean water todrink, clothes to wear, healthy
(02:17):
people in our lives, the abilityto read your word, the ability
to pray to you without fear ofpersecution.
Guide us, Father.
Guide our leaders here inAmerica and around the world,
(02:39):
and be with those listening.
Comfort them, comfort theirfamilies, bless their marriages,
help them to feel your peace andyour joy.
Take away any fear andanxieties.
And guide my words here, Father,please.
In your son's name we pray.
Amen.
Have you made time for Godtoday?
(03:03):
Have you made time to read hisword?
Have you made time to pray, totalk to him, to listen to him?
Have you built some quiet timeinto your life, folks?
Do you actually look around atwhat's going on in the world?
Are you comfortable being whatthe rest of the world would call
(03:27):
bored?
Do you notice little things,folks?
Flowers, butterflies, trees, thesun, clouds.
The smile on the face ofsomebody you care about.
Are we so rushed and so harriedand hurried in our life that we
(03:50):
miss the important things?
I I'm afraid that we are missingand have missed a whole lot in
our lives because we've decidedthat we need to be rushing from
(04:11):
one thing to the nextconstantly, and we're not really
appreciating the people that areright in front of us.
Bible verses today we're gonnaread through Song of Solomon,
chapter one, the young ShulamiteBride and Jerusalem's daughters,
the song of songs which isSolomon's.
(04:33):
May he kiss me with the kissesof his mouth, for your love is
better than wine.
Your oils have a pleasingfragrance, your name is like
purified oil.
Therefore the maidens love you.
Draw me after you and let us runtogether.
The king has brought me into hischambers.
We will rejoice in you and beglad.
We will extol your love morethan wine.
(04:56):
Rightly do they love you.
I am black but lovely, Odaughters of Jerusalem, like the
tents of Kadar, like thecurtains of Solomon, do not
stare at me because I amswarthy, for the sun has burned
me.
My mother's sons were angry withme.
They made me caretaker of thevineyards, but I have not taken
(05:19):
care of my own vineyard.
Tell me, O you whom my soulloves, where do you pasture your
flock?
Where do you make it lie down atnoon?
For why should I be like one whoveils herself beside the flocks
of your companions?
Solomon, the lover, speaks Ifyou yourself do not know, most
(05:41):
beautiful among women, go forthon the trail of the flock, and
pasture your young goats by thetents of the shepherds.
To me, my darling, you are likemy mare among the chariots of
Pharaoh.
Your cheeks are lovely withornaments, your neck with
strings of beads.
We will make for you ornamentsof gold with beads of silver.
(06:04):
While the king was at his table,my perfume gave forth its
fragrance.
My beloved is to me a pouch ofmyrrh which lies all night
between my breasts.
My beloved is to me a cluster ofhenna blossoms in the vineyards
of Engedi.
How beautiful you are, mydarling, how beautiful you are.
Your eyes are like doves, howhandsome you are, my beloved,
(06:27):
and so pleasant.
Indeed our couch is luxuriant.
The beams of our houses arecedars, our rafter rafters
cypresses.
Bible verses for today you'regoing to start with Hebrews
chapter five verses one throughfourteen.
Every high priest is a manchosen to represent other people
(06:50):
and their dealings with God.
He presents their gifts to Godand offers sacrifices for their
sins, and he is able to dealgently with ignorant and wayward
people because he himself issubject to the same weaknesses.
That is why he must offersacrifices for his own sins as
well as theirs.
And no one can become a highpriest simply because he wants
(07:12):
such an honor.
He must be called by God forthis work, just as Aaron was.
That is why Christ did not honorhimself by assuming he could
become high priest.
No, he was chosen by God whosaid to him, You are my son,
today I have become your father.
And in another passage God saidto him, You are a priest forever
(07:36):
in the order of Melchizedek.
While Jesus was here on earth heoffered prayers and pleadings,
with a loud cry and tears to theone who could rescue him from
death, and God heard his prayersbecause of his deep reverence
for God.
Even though Jesus was God's son,he learned obedience from the
things he suffered.
(07:56):
In this way God qualified him asa perfect high priest, and he
became the source of eternalsalvation for all those who obey
him.
And God designated him to be ahigh priest in the order of
Melchizedek.
There is much more we would liketo say about this, but it is
difficult to explain, especiallysince you are spiritually dull
(08:18):
and don't seem to listen.
You have been believers so longnow that you ought to be
teaching others.
Instead, you need someone toteach you again the basic things
about God's word.
You are like babies who needmilk and cannot eat solid food.
For someone who lives on milk isstill an infant and doesn't know
(08:38):
how to do what is right.
Solid food is for those who aremature, who, through training,
have the skill to recognize thedifference between right and
wrong.
Psalm one hundred five versesone through fifteen.
Give thanks to the Lord andproclaim his greatness, let the
(08:59):
whole world know what he hasdone.
Sing to him yes, sing hispraises.
Tell everyone about hiswonderful deeds.
Exalt in his holy name.
Rejoice, you who worship theLord.
Search for the Lord and for hisstrength.
Continually seek him.
Remember the wonders he hasperformed, his miracles, and the
(09:19):
rulings he has given.
You children of his servantAbraham, you descendants of
Jacob, his chosen ones.
He is the Lord our God.
His justice is seen throughoutthe land.
He always stands by hiscovenant, the commitment he made
to a thousand generations.
This is the covenant he madewith Abraham, and the oath he
(09:41):
swore to Isaac.
He confirmed it to Jacob as adecree, and to the people of
Israel as a never endingcovenant.
I will give you the land ofCanaan as your special
possession.
He said this when they were fewin number, a tiny group of
strangers in Canaan.
They wandered from nation tonation, from one kingdom to
(10:01):
another.
Yet he did not let anyoneoppress them.
He warned kings on their behalf.
Do not touch my chosen people,and do not hurt my prophets.
Proverbs twenty six, versetwenty-eight.
A lying tongue hates itsvictims, and flattering words
cause ruin.
(10:25):
You go back to Hebrews chapterfive.
One of the things that studyingthe Bible, talking to God,
praying each day does is itgives us the skill to recognize
the difference between right andwrong.
Right?
Talking about verse 14.
Solid food is for those who aremature who through training have
the skill to recognize thedifference between right and
(10:47):
wrong.
And then you look back up atverse 12, you have been
believers so long now that youought to be teaching others.
Instead, you need someone toteach you again the basic things
about God's word.
One of the problems when wedon't use the talents that God's
given us, folks, is it's notjust us that suffers that,
right?
It's not just like we missed outon some kind of blessings or
(11:10):
awards or accolades.
We're hurting those around usbecause we're not using our
skill to the fullest.
It's the two sides of the cointhat we talk about often.
Yes, we should be grateful forthe blessings that God has given
us.
But we also have aresponsibility to use our
talents to the utmost, not tosit back and relax and be like,
(11:32):
oh, you know, I got theseblessings for God.
I don't really need to do allthis other stuff.
And we hurt those around us bynot using those talents, folks,
to the fullest extreme.
Whatever talents you've beengiven, you ought to be using
those for God and to help thosearound you.
(11:56):
And I can't tell you how often Ifeel like I haven't done that.
I've been blessed with so muchand I've used it so poorly,
folks.
Hopefully I'm doing a littlebetter now than I did in years
past.
Medal of Honor for today, HenryH.
Vickford, Corporal, highestrank, quartermaster sergeant,
U.S.
Civil War, Echo Company 8th, NewYork Cavalry, U.S.
(12:20):
Army, March 2nd, 1865,Waynesboro, Virginia.
Recapture of the flag.
Middleport, Niagara County, NewYork, accredited to, not awarded
posthumously, presented Marchtwenty sixth, eighteen
sixty-five, born Marchthirteenth, eighteen thirty
eight.
(12:40):
I don't even know.
A county in Michigan.
Died May twentieth, nineteenseventeen, Middleport, New York,
buried Heartland CentralCemetery, Heartland, New York.
Henry H.
Bickford.
Couple little pieces ofhousekeeping before we get into
the historical quote for today.
(13:01):
Our pastor sent out, well, I'llget to that in just a second.
I had a conversation with uhsomebody who means a great deal
to me recently, and we weretalking about a particular event
and whether this person that waslauded as an expert was really
(13:28):
an expert or not.
I think for too long now that wehave considered the letters
before somebody's name asindicative of wisdom or being
good and right.
And that's just simply not thecase, folks.
And there's probably a lot oftimes today when we need people
(13:50):
that really aren't part of thesystem based on a lot of the
decisions that we've seen in themedical industry, right?
We we apparently need somepeople that don't have uh MS or
PhDs or whatever, because a lotof our doctors don't seem to be
(14:13):
able to tell the differencebetween a boy and a girl, or
that abortion is murder, or thattransgender isn't a thing, that
it's uh indicative of a mentalillness.
You know, our military has madeso many poor decisions, and a
lot of them politically driven,but we haven't seen a whole lot
(14:34):
of our senior flag officerspushing back openly on some of
these horrible decisions for thelast half century or so.
Feminism, LGBTQ lifestyles, etc.
So maybe we need some peoplethat are not your typical flag
officers in the military.
Same thing with academia.
(14:56):
You know, like uh there's somany horrible decisions that
have been made on collegecampuses.
Maybe we need some people.
We definitely need some peoplethat have spent some time
outside of academic circles,outside of Ivory Towers that
don't have letters before orafter their name.
(15:19):
The point is that just justbecause somebody has a certain
degree or or title absolutelydoes not mean that they are wise
or virtuous.
And then the Bible verse fromour pastor, I just share this
(15:40):
with you because it was soencouraging to me.
Therefore, I tell you, whateveryou ask for in prayer, believe
that you have received it, andit will be yours.
And then another one he sent outthe other day, but I will sing
(16:02):
of your strength in the morning,I will sing of your love, for
you are my fortress, my refugein times of trouble.
Hopefully that encourages y'alla little bit.
So a few quotes out of NewJersey, New Jersey Constitution
1776.
No Protestant inhabitant of thiscolony shall be denied the
(16:24):
enjoyment of any civil rightmerely on account of his
religious principles, but thatall persons professing a belief
in the faith of any Protestantsect, who shall demean
themselves peaceably under thegovernment as hereby
established, shall be capable ofbeing elected into any office of
profit or trust, or being amember of either branch of the
legislature.
(16:48):
The provincial seal of NewJersey was Proverbs 1434.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Constitution of the state of NewJersey from 1844.
We, the people of the state ofNew Jersey, grateful to Almighty
God for the civil and religiousliberty which he hath so long
(17:09):
permitted us to enjoy, andlooking to him for a blessing
upon our endeavors to secure andtransmit the same unimpaired to
succeeding generations do ordainand establish this Constitution.
And one more from New JerseyColony 1697.
(17:33):
It being very necessary for thegood and prosperity of this
province, that our principalcare be in obedience to the laws
of God, to endeavor as much asin us lieth the extirpation of
all sorts of looseness andprofanity, and to unite in the
fear and love of God and oneanother.
(17:55):
Take due care that all laws madeand provided for the suppression
of vice and encouraging ofreligion and virtue,
particularly the observance ofthe Lord's day be duly put into
execution.
Just little bits of history,folks, that show from even
(18:18):
before we were a nation, duringour founding after how much we
were we relied on God and turnedto Him for guidance, and how
much we have to, again, today.
If you get a chance, again, Ifeel like I need to recommend
(18:40):
the Founders Bible, Patriot'sBible, and America's Guide and
Country Encyclopedia ofQuotations.
If you're looking for afamily-friendly middle grade
read for kids or grandkids toread together, I would humbly
recommend Countryside to get achance.
Try it out.
And if you enjoy it, if youwould leave a review somewhere,
(19:03):
I would appreciate that.
Also, the podcast, if you feellike you're getting something
out of it and you can, there's apage on the Buzz Sprout website
where you can leave a monthlydonation for as little as$3.
I would appreciate that.
Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name, thy
(19:24):
kingdom come, thy will be doneon earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread, and forgive us our
trespasses as we forgive thosewho trespass against us, and
lead us not to temptation, butdeliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, thepower, the glory forever and
ever.
Amen.
God bless y'all.
God bless your families.
(19:45):
God bless your marriages.
God bless America.
We'll talk to y'all again realsoon, folks.
God bless your nation, whereveryou are around the world.
Listen, looking forward to it.
Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope.
Back with another episode of theAmerican Soul Podcast.
Hope y'all are doing well,wherever y'all are, whatever
part of the day you're in.
I sure do appreciate you joiningme here, spending a little bit
of time with me.
I will try and use it wisely.
Hopefully, it'll give us allsome extra tools for our
(00:23):
toolbox, as we used to say inthe Marine Corps.
For those of y'all who continueto share the podcast, tell
others about it.
Thank you for those of y'all whocontinue to pray for me and for
the podcast.
Thank you very much.
Father, thank you for today.
Thank you for you, Father, andyour son Jesus Christ and your
Holy Spirit.
(00:44):
Thank you for your love, mercy,grace, forgiveness of sin.
Forgive us, Father, when wedon't forgive others as you have
forgiven us.
Forgive us our pride and ourgreed and our selfishness.
Forgive us when we get ourpriorities out of order.
(01:04):
Forgive us when we chase thethings of this world instead of
you.
Help us to store up forourselves treasures in heaven,
not here on earth.
Help us to seek to do your will,not to follow the shiny things
(01:29):
and baubles of this life, but tofocus on eternity with you and
your son Jesus Christ.
Be with those who are hurting,those who are alone, those who
are scared, comfort them.
Ease the pain of those who aresick from illness or injured.
(01:53):
Be with their loved ones,comfort them, give them
perseverance.
Thank you for all the manyblessings, Father, that you
bestow upon us, the ones that weadmit again, and forgive us when
we don't, forgive us our lack ofgratitude.
Thank you for clean water todrink, clothes to wear, healthy
(02:17):
people in our lives, the abilityto read your word, the ability
to pray to you without fear ofpersecution.
Guide us, Father.
Guide our leaders here inAmerica and around the world,
(02:39):
and be with those listening.
Comfort them, comfort theirfamilies, bless their marriages,
help them to feel your peace andyour joy.
Take away any fear andanxieties.
And guide my words here, Father,please.
In your son's name we pray.
Amen.
Have you made time for Godtoday?
(03:03):
Have you made time to read hisword?
Have you made time to pray, totalk to him, to listen to him?
Have you built some quiet timeinto your life, folks?
Do you actually look around atwhat's going on in the world?
Are you comfortable being whatthe rest of the world would call
(03:27):
bored?
Do you notice little things,folks?
Flowers, butterflies, trees, thesun, clouds.
The smile on the face ofsomebody you care about.
Are we so rushed and so harriedand hurried in our life that we
(03:50):
miss the important things?
I I'm afraid that we are missingand have missed a whole lot in
our lives because we've decidedthat we need to be rushing from
(04:11):
one thing to the nextconstantly, and we're not really
appreciating the people that areright in front of us.
Bible verses today we're gonnaread through Song of Solomon,
chapter one, the young ShulamiteBride and Jerusalem's daughters,
the song of songs which isSolomon's.
(04:33):
May he kiss me with the kissesof his mouth, for your love is
better than wine.
Your oils have a pleasingfragrance, your name is like
purified oil.
Therefore the maidens love you.
Draw me after you and let us runtogether.
The king has brought me into hischambers.
We will rejoice in you and beglad.
We will extol your love morethan wine.
(04:56):
Rightly do they love you.
I am black but lovely, Odaughters of Jerusalem, like the
tents of Kadar, like thecurtains of Solomon, do not
stare at me because I amswarthy, for the sun has burned
me.
My mother's sons were angry withme.
They made me caretaker of thevineyards, but I have not taken
(05:19):
care of my own vineyard.
Tell me, O you whom my soulloves, where do you pasture your
flock?
Where do you make it lie down atnoon?
For why should I be like one whoveils herself beside the flocks
of your companions?
Solomon, the lover, speaks Ifyou yourself do not know, most
(05:41):
beautiful among women, go forthon the trail of the flock, and
pasture your young goats by thetents of the shepherds.
To me, my darling, you are likemy mare among the chariots of
Pharaoh.
Your cheeks are lovely withornaments, your neck with
strings of beads.
We will make for you ornamentsof gold with beads of silver.
(06:04):
While the king was at his table,my perfume gave forth its
fragrance.
My beloved is to me a pouch ofmyrrh which lies all night
between my breasts.
My beloved is to me a cluster ofhenna blossoms in the vineyards
of Engedi.
How beautiful you are, mydarling, how beautiful you are.
Your eyes are like doves, howhandsome you are, my beloved,
(06:27):
and so pleasant.
Indeed our couch is luxuriant.
The beams of our houses arecedars, our rafter rafters
cypresses.
Bible verses for today you'regoing to start with Hebrews
chapter five verses one throughfourteen.
Every high priest is a manchosen to represent other people
(06:50):
and their dealings with God.
He presents their gifts to Godand offers sacrifices for their
sins, and he is able to dealgently with ignorant and wayward
people because he himself issubject to the same weaknesses.
That is why he must offersacrifices for his own sins as
well as theirs.
And no one can become a highpriest simply because he wants
(07:12):
such an honor.
He must be called by God forthis work, just as Aaron was.
That is why Christ did not honorhimself by assuming he could
become high priest.
No, he was chosen by God whosaid to him, You are my son,
today I have become your father.
And in another passage God saidto him, You are a priest forever
(07:36):
in the order of Melchizedek.
While Jesus was here on earth heoffered prayers and pleadings,
with a loud cry and tears to theone who could rescue him from
death, and God heard his prayersbecause of his deep reverence
for God.
Even though Jesus was God's son,he learned obedience from the
things he suffered.
(07:56):
In this way God qualified him asa perfect high priest, and he
became the source of eternalsalvation for all those who obey
him.
And God designated him to be ahigh priest in the order of
Melchizedek.
There is much more we would liketo say about this, but it is
difficult to explain, especiallysince you are spiritually dull
(08:18):
and don't seem to listen.
You have been believers so longnow that you ought to be
teaching others.
Instead, you need someone toteach you again the basic things
about God's word.
You are like babies who needmilk and cannot eat solid food.
For someone who lives on milk isstill an infant and doesn't know
(08:38):
how to do what is right.
Solid food is for those who aremature, who, through training,
have the skill to recognize thedifference between right and
wrong.
Psalm one hundred five versesone through fifteen.
Give thanks to the Lord andproclaim his greatness, let the
(08:59):
whole world know what he hasdone.
Sing to him yes, sing hispraises.
Tell everyone about hiswonderful deeds.
Exalt in his holy name.
Rejoice, you who worship theLord.
Search for the Lord and for hisstrength.
Continually seek him.
Remember the wonders he hasperformed, his miracles, and the
(09:19):
rulings he has given.
You children of his servantAbraham, you descendants of
Jacob, his chosen ones.
He is the Lord our God.
His justice is seen throughoutthe land.
He always stands by hiscovenant, the commitment he made
to a thousand generations.
This is the covenant he madewith Abraham, and the oath he
(09:41):
swore to Isaac.
He confirmed it to Jacob as adecree, and to the people of
Israel as a never endingcovenant.
I will give you the land ofCanaan as your special
possession.
He said this when they were fewin number, a tiny group of
strangers in Canaan.
They wandered from nation tonation, from one kingdom to
(10:01):
another.
Yet he did not let anyoneoppress them.
He warned kings on their behalf.
Do not touch my chosen people,and do not hurt my prophets.
Proverbs twenty six, versetwenty-eight.
A lying tongue hates itsvictims, and flattering words
cause ruin.
(10:25):
You go back to Hebrews chapterfive.
One of the things that studyingthe Bible, talking to God,
praying each day does is itgives us the skill to recognize
the difference between right andwrong.
Right?
Talking about verse 14.
Solid food is for those who aremature who through training have
the skill to recognize thedifference between right and
(10:47):
wrong.
And then you look back up atverse 12, you have been
believers so long now that youought to be teaching others.
Instead, you need someone toteach you again the basic things
about God's word.
One of the problems when wedon't use the talents that God's
given us, folks, is it's notjust us that suffers that,
right?
It's not just like we missed outon some kind of blessings or
(11:10):
awards or accolades.
We're hurting those around usbecause we're not using our
skill to the fullest.
It's the two sides of the cointhat we talk about often.
Yes, we should be grateful forthe blessings that God has given
us.
But we also have aresponsibility to use our
talents to the utmost, not tosit back and relax and be like,
(11:32):
oh, you know, I got theseblessings for God.
I don't really need to do allthis other stuff.
And we hurt those around us bynot using those talents, folks,
to the fullest extreme.
Whatever talents you've beengiven, you ought to be using
those for God and to help thosearound you.
(11:56):
And I can't tell you how often Ifeel like I haven't done that.
I've been blessed with so muchand I've used it so poorly,
folks.
Hopefully I'm doing a littlebetter now than I did in years
past.
Medal of Honor for today, HenryH.
Vickford, Corporal, highestrank, quartermaster sergeant,
U.S.
Civil War, Echo Company 8th, NewYork Cavalry, U.S.
(12:20):
Army, March 2nd, 1865,Waynesboro, Virginia.
Recapture of the flag.
Middleport, Niagara County, NewYork, accredited to, not awarded
posthumously, presented Marchtwenty sixth, eighteen
sixty-five, born Marchthirteenth, eighteen thirty
eight.
(12:40):
I don't even know.
A county in Michigan.
Died May twentieth, nineteenseventeen, Middleport, New York,
buried Heartland CentralCemetery, Heartland, New York.
Henry H.
Bickford.
Couple little pieces ofhousekeeping before we get into
the historical quote for today.
(13:01):
Our pastor sent out, well, I'llget to that in just a second.
I had a conversation with uhsomebody who means a great deal
to me recently, and we weretalking about a particular event
and whether this person that waslauded as an expert was really
(13:28):
an expert or not.
I think for too long now that wehave considered the letters
before somebody's name asindicative of wisdom or being
good and right.
And that's just simply not thecase, folks.
And there's probably a lot oftimes today when we need people
(13:50):
that really aren't part of thesystem based on a lot of the
decisions that we've seen in themedical industry, right?
We we apparently need somepeople that don't have uh MS or
PhDs or whatever, because a lotof our doctors don't seem to be
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able to tell the differencebetween a boy and a girl, or
that abortion is murder, or thattransgender isn't a thing, that
it's uh indicative of a mentalillness.
You know, our military has madeso many poor decisions, and a
lot of them politically driven,but we haven't seen a whole lot
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of our senior flag officerspushing back openly on some of
these horrible decisions for thelast half century or so.
Feminism, LGBTQ lifestyles, etc.
So maybe we need some peoplethat are not your typical flag
officers in the military.
Same thing with academia.
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You know, like uh there's somany horrible decisions that
have been made on collegecampuses.
Maybe we need some people.
We definitely need some peoplethat have spent some time
outside of academic circles,outside of Ivory Towers that
don't have letters before orafter their name.
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The point is that just justbecause somebody has a certain
degree or or title absolutelydoes not mean that they are wise
or virtuous.
And then the Bible verse fromour pastor, I just share this
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with you because it was soencouraging to me.
Therefore, I tell you, whateveryou ask for in prayer, believe
that you have received it, andit will be yours.
And then another one he sent outthe other day, but I will sing
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of your strength in the morning,I will sing of your love, for
you are my fortress, my refugein times of trouble.
Hopefully that encourages y'alla little bit.
So a few quotes out of NewJersey, New Jersey Constitution
1776.
No Protestant inhabitant of thiscolony shall be denied the
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enjoyment of any civil rightmerely on account of his
religious principles, but thatall persons professing a belief
in the faith of any Protestantsect, who shall demean
themselves peaceably under thegovernment as hereby
established, shall be capable ofbeing elected into any office of
profit or trust, or being amember of either branch of the
legislature.
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The provincial seal of NewJersey was Proverbs 1434.
Righteousness exalteth a nation.
Constitution of the state of NewJersey from 1844.
We, the people of the state ofNew Jersey, grateful to Almighty
God for the civil and religiousliberty which he hath so long
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permitted us to enjoy, andlooking to him for a blessing
upon our endeavors to secure andtransmit the same unimpaired to
succeeding generations do ordainand establish this Constitution.
And one more from New JerseyColony 1697.
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It being very necessary for thegood and prosperity of this
province, that our principalcare be in obedience to the laws
of God, to endeavor as much asin us lieth the extirpation of
all sorts of looseness andprofanity, and to unite in the
fear and love of God and oneanother.
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Take due care that all laws madeand provided for the suppression
of vice and encouraging ofreligion and virtue,
particularly the observance ofthe Lord's day be duly put into
execution.
Just little bits of history,folks, that show from even
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before we were a nation, duringour founding after how much we
were we relied on God and turnedto Him for guidance, and how
much we have to, again, today.
If you get a chance, again, Ifeel like I need to recommend
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the Founders Bible, Patriot'sBible, and America's Guide and
Country Encyclopedia ofQuotations.
If you're looking for afamily-friendly middle grade
read for kids or grandkids toread together, I would humbly
recommend Countryside to get achance.
Try it out.
And if you enjoy it, if youwould leave a review somewhere,
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I would appreciate that.
Also, the podcast, if you feellike you're getting something
out of it and you can, there's apage on the Buzz Sprout website
where you can leave a monthlydonation for as little as$3.
I would appreciate that.
Our Father, who art in heaven,hallowed be thy name, thy
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kingdom come, thy will be doneon earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our dailybread, and forgive us our
trespasses as we forgive thosewho trespass against us, and
lead us not to temptation, butdeliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom, thepower, the glory forever and
ever.
Amen.
God bless y'all.
God bless your families.
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God bless your marriages.
God bless America.
We'll talk to y'all again realsoon, folks.
God bless your nation, whereveryou are around the world.
Listen, looking forward to it.
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