September 29, 2025 • 21 mins
Jesse Coop explores how viewing relationships as divine gifts rather than entitlements transforms how we treat our loved ones. Drawing from Andrew Jackson's 1834 letter, biblical wisdom, and early American leaders' perspectives, he emphasizes treating people as blessings we're grateful for rather than possessions we're entitled to.
• The difference between seeing loved ones as blessings versus entitlements
• When we view people as gifts from God, we pay attention to them daily like precious treasures
• Reading from Titus 1:1-16 highlighting qualifications for church leadership and the importance of sound teaching
• Readings from Psalms 97-98 celebrating God's righteousness and justice
• Medal of Honor spotlight on Charles Albert Besse, who demonstrated extraordinary courage during the 1877 Indian campaigns
• Noah Webster's assertion that neglecting biblical principles causes societal ills
• John Jay's statement that the Bible teaches us how to be happy in this world and the next
• The importance of biblical literacy for both personal and national flourishing
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SPEAKER_00 (00:02):
Hey folks, this is Jesse Coop, back with another
episode of the American SoulPodcast.
Hope y'all are doing well,wherever y'all are, and whatever
part of the day you're in.
Sure do appreciate you joiningme, giving me a little bit of
your time, a little piece ofyour day.
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.
And for those of y'all whocontinue to share the podcast
with others, tell others aboutit, and pray for me and for the
podcast.
Thank you very much.
Very grateful for your supportand encouragement and prayers.
Father, thank you for today.
Thank you for you, Father, andyour son Jesus Christ and your
(00:45):
Holy Spirit.
Thank you for your love and yourmercy, your grace and your
forgiveness of sins through themerit of your son Jesus Christ
alone.
Help us to enter through thegate that is Jesus Christ.
(01:06):
Father, help us to walk thenarrow path all the way home to
you.
Help us to run the good race.
Give us the perseverance tofinish grace.
Wisdom.
Help us to help others along thepath.
(01:29):
Help us to strive to find thosewho are lost and bring them to
you and your son Jesus Christ.
Not out of arrogance or pride orconceit.
But humility and a desire forothers not to perish.
(01:58):
Be with the families of thosewho have lost loved ones.
Whether it's children orparents, siblings, spouses.
Comfort them.
Help us to comfort them.
Help us to care for the widowand the orphan.
(02:20):
Help us to ease the suffering ofthem and of any around the world
who are suffering for followingyour son Jesus Christ.
Help us to truly repent of oursins and to turn back to you,
Father, both as individuals andas a nation.
And God, my words here, please.
(02:42):
In your son's name we pray.
Amen.
Have you made time for Godtoday?
Have you made time to read hisword?
Have you made time to pray?
To listen to him, to talk tohim.
And if you're married, have youmade time for your spouse?
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Have you made them your toppriority?
Do you treat them as a one outof seven billion treasure?
I had one of those thoughts thatmanaged not to escape that I
wanted to go back and read alittle quote here that I think
(03:27):
is applicable.
One that we've read recently,and I was just thinking about
it.
This was a letter from AndrewJackson, Old Hickory, I believe
they called him, who won theBattle of New Orleans and who
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was the seventh president of theUnited States.
He was writing to Mary andAndrew Jackson Hutchings on the
death of their firstborn son, Ibelieve, in 1834.
My dear Hutchings, I am trulyhappy to find that you both have
met this severe bereavement withthat Christian meekness and
submission as was your duty.
(04:10):
This charming babe was onlygiven you from your creator and
benefactor.
He has a right to take away, andwe ought humbly to submit to his
will and be always ready to say,Blessed be his name.
We have one consolation underthis severe bereavement, that
this babe is now in the bosom ofits Savior.
(04:32):
This quote kind of came to meout of nowhere today.
And there are two thoughts aboutit.
One, we don't mourn like others,like pagans who don't know
Christ and who have no hope.
We mourn with hope because weknow that we're going to get to
see these people that we loveagain in heaven, that have put
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their faith in Christ.
The other is how do we look atthose people in our lives that
God has put there?
Especially folks, the trulygodly, good ones, noble ones.
And of course, Jesus Christtells us that no one is good
save God, but from an earthlypoint of view, how do we look at
(05:18):
those people that truly love usin our lives?
There's basically two ways tolook at it.
We can look at them as ablessing, as Andrew Jackson
talked about here.
This charming babe was onlygiven you from your creator and
benefactor, right?
We can look at these people as ablessing each day in our lives
(05:40):
that God gave to us.
Or we can look at them assomething that we're entitled
to, as my wife talks about sooften, something that we
deserve.
The second way is always goingto make us a little fearful,
perhaps, of losing them.
And I think really it's going tomake us it, it makes us treat
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those people indifferently witha callousness, because we think,
oh, well, we deserve that.
We don't think of them as ablessing, we think of them as
something we have a right to.
And so we don't get up each dayreally looking to enjoy those
people to the fullest.
On the other hand, if we look atthem as a blessing from our
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Creator, a gift from God andJesus Christ, if we really truly
look at them, you know how youlook at a gift, the best gift
that you get on Christmas eachyear, the very best gift, the
best gift you've gotten in fiveor ten years, maybe twenty
years.
That gift is really important toyou, at least for a while,
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right?
In an opulent society like welive in.
You really pay attention to thatgift a lot, especially if you've
waited a long time for thatgift.
Yeah, you pay attention to iteach day, you use it each day,
you take care of it each day,it's on your mind each day,
right?
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If we look at the people,especially again, the ones that
truly love us in our lives thatGod's put there as that kind of
blessing, then we're gonna payattention to them each day.
We're gonna care for them eachday.
We're gonna seek to please themif they're our spouse each day.
We're gonna seek to love themand lead them and discipline
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them if they're our childreneach day, like God does with us,
right?
We're gonna truly seek to do thevery best we can each day to
fulfill our role to that person,whoever they are, whatever that
role is.
And I that one of the reasons Ithought about this was marriage.
(07:53):
But you can apply this to kidsand parents and friends.
We take these people for grantedtoo often.
We don't treat them like ablessing and a gift from God,
and that changes the way that weinteract with them.
(08:18):
Marriage verse today is Proverbs5, 18 and 19.
Let your fountain be blessed andrejoice with the wife of your
youth.
As a loving deer and a gracefuldoe, let her breast satisfy you
at all times, and always beenraptured with her love.
I always make this comment atthe end of those two verses, or
I try to.
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It works both ways.
Bible verses for today.
We're going to start with Tituschapter one verses one through
sixteen.
This letter is from Paul, aslave of God and an apostle of
Jesus Christ.
I've been sent to proclaim faithto those God has chosen and to
teach them to know the truththat shows them how to live
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godly lives.
This truth gives them confidencethat they have eternal life,
which God, who does not lie,promised them before the world
began.
And now at just the right timehe has revealed this message,
which we announce to everyone.
It is by the command of God ourSavior that I have been
entrusted with this work forhim.
(09:31):
I am writing to Titus, my trueson, on the faith that we
shared.
May God the Father and JesusChrist, our Savior, give you
grace and peace.
I left you on the island ofCrete, so you could complete our
work there and appoint elders ineach town as I instructed you.
An elder must live a blamelesslife, he must be faithful to his
wife, and his children must bebelievers who don't have a
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reputation for being wild orrebellious.
A church leader is a manager ofGod's household, so he must live
a blameless life.
He must not be arrogant or quicktempered, he must not be a heavy
drinker and violent or dishonestwith money.
Rather he must enjoy havingguests in his home.
He must love what is good, hemust live wisely and be just, he
(10:16):
must live a devout anddisciplined life.
He must have a strong belief inthe trustworthy message he was
taught.
Then he will be able toencourage others with wholesome
teaching and show those whooppose it where they are wrong.
For there are many rebelliouspeople who engage in useless
talk and deceive others.
(10:36):
This is especially true of thosewho insist on circumcision
circumcision for salvation.
They must be silenced becausethey are turning whole families
away from the truth by theirfalse teaching, and they do it
only for money.
Even one of their own men, aprophet from Crete, has said
about them The people of Creteare all liars, cruel animals and
(11:02):
lazy glutons.
This is truth.
So reprimand them sternly tomake them strong in the faith.
They must stop listening toJewish myths and the commands of
people who have turned away fromthe truth.
Everything is pure to thosewhose hearts are pure, but
nothing is pure to those who arecorrupt in believing, because
(11:25):
their minds and consciences arecorrupted.
Such people claim they know God,but they deny him by the way
they live.
They are detestable anddisobedient, worthless for doing
anything good.
Psalm ninety seven one ninetyeight nine.
The Lord is King, let the earthrejoice, let the farthest
(11:46):
coastlands be glad.
Dark clouds surround him.
Righteousness and justice arethe foundation of his throne.
Fire spreads ahead of him andburns up all his foes, his
lightning flashes out across theworld.
The earth sees and trembles, themountains melt like wax before
the Lord, before the Lord of allthe earth.
(12:07):
The heavens proclaim hisrighteousness.
Every nation sees his glory.
Those who worship idols aredisgraced, all who brag about
their worthless gods, for everyGod must bow to him.
Jerusalem has heard andrejoiced, and all the towns of
Judah are glad, because of yourjustice, O Lord.
For you, O Lord, are supremeover all the earth, you are
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exalted far above all gods.
You who love the Lord hate evil.
He protects the lives of hisgodly people and rescues them
from the power of the wicked.
Light shines on the godly, andjoy on those whose hearts are
right.
May all who are godly rejoice inthe Lord and praise his holy
name.
(12:51):
Sing a new song to the Lord, forhe has done wonderful deeds, his
right hand has won a mightyvictory, his holy arm has shown
his saving power.
The Lord has announced hisvictory and has revealed his
righteousness to every nation.
He has remembered his promise tolove and be faithful to Israel.
The ends of the earth have seenthe victory of our God.
(13:13):
Shout to the Lord all the earth,break out in praise and sing for
joy.
Sing your praise to the Lordwith the harp, with the harp and
melodious song, with trumpetsand the sound of the ram's horn.
Make a joyful symphony beforethe Lord the King.
Let the sea and everything in itshout his praise.
Let the earth and all livingthings join in.
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Let the rivers clap their handsin glee.
Let the hills sing out theirsongs of joy before the Lord.
For he is coming to judge theearth.
He will judge the world withjustice and the nations with
fairness.
Proverbs twenty six, thirteenverses verses thirteen through
sixteen.
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The lazy person claims, There'sa lion on the road.
Yes, I'm sure there's a lion outthere.
As a door swings back and forthon its hinges, so the lazy
person turns over in his bed.
Lazy people take food into theirhand, but don't even lift it to
their mouth.
Lazy people consider themselvessmarter than seven wise
counselors.
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Don't be lazy, right?
Don't be a person that swingsback and forth on their bed.
Titus, a couple things for theTitus.
Verse 2, God who does not lie,right?
God promised us we choose tobelieve in Jesus Christ.
We're going to have eternalsalvation.
God doesn't lie.
You acknowledge Jesus Christ asthe Son of God that God raised
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from the dead, you have eternallife.
The elders, right?
And I know this is hard todaybecause apparently we can't tell
what a woman as a man is, eveninside on the conservative side.
We have a lot of trouble withthat, apparently, because the
Bible's very clear that men areleaders, that men are elders,
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deacons in the church, right?
And yet you see so many churcheswhere that's not the case.
So many women who claim tofollow Christ that also try to
be leaders in authority overmen.
Verse 10 there are manyrebellious people who engage in
useless talk and deceive others.
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This is especially true of thosewho insist on circumcision for
salvation.
This is true, folks, of anybodythat insists on something else
besides Jesus Christ forsalvation, whether it's uh
belonging to the Roman CatholicChurch or Greek Orthodox or any
Protestant denomination, or thatyou have to pray to Mary or
Joseph or the disciples orPeter, whoever, whatever, the
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thief on the cross.
The only person, the only thingnecessary for salvation and
eternal life is Jesus Christ.
Right?
It's Jesus Christ.
And I think we'll move on.
There's a lot of other goodstuff in there, folks.
Medal of Honor for today,Charles Albert Besse, corporal,
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highest rank, chief musician,retired, Indian campaigns, Alpha
Company, 3rd U.S.
Cavalry, U.S.
Army, January 13, 1877, ElkhornCreek, Wyoming.
While scouting with four men andbeing attacked and ambushed by
14 hostile Indians, held hisground, two of his men being
wounded and kept up the fightuntil himself wounded in the
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side and then went to theassisted assistance of his
wounded comrades.
Credited to Boston, SuffolkCounty, Massachusetts, not
awarded posthumously, presentedmay 15, 1890, born november
sixth, eighteen forty-eight,reading Middlesex County,
Massachusetts, died June fourth,nineteen oh nine, Biloxy,
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Mississippi, buried Old BiloxiCemetery, PMHH Biloxy,
Mississippi, location of MetalThird Cavalry Regiment Museum,
Fort Hood, Texas.
Charles Albert Besse.
I think we don't realize,because there's so many people
today that want to sell the liethat the quote indigenous people
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were harmless and utopic.
We don't realize how hard thoseIndian campaigns were.
And Charles Albert Bessie isjust another name that we ought
to remember a lot more againthan our movie stars, pop
singers, and collegiate orprofessional athletes in their
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statistics.
History quotes from today.
Noel Webster, revolutionarysoldier, legislator, judge, and
called the schoolmaster toAmerica, right?
Responsible for Webster'sdictionary.
The Bible is the chief moralcause of all that is good, and
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the best corrector of all thatis evil in human society.
The best book for regulating thetemporal concerns of men, all
the miseries and evils which mensuffer from vice, crime,
ambition, injustice, oppression,slavery, and war proceed from
their despising or neglectingthe precepts contained in the
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Bible.
Folks, I cannot tell you howtrue this is today.
All of the miseries and evilswhich we see in the United
States today, and in yourcountry, wherever you are around
the world too, folks, all ofthem are due to neglecting God
and the Bible, becoming a Bibleilliterate society.
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Right?
We can't just read the Bible andthen do nothing about it.
That's not going to solve theproblem.
But we have to start withreading the Bible and knowing
those precepts contained there.
And that absolutely is thesource of every single evil and
misery we see today in ourAmerican Republic and in your
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country, wherever you are aroundthe world.
There's nothing more you can doto improve America, to improve
your nation, than spread thegospel of Jesus Christ.
Spread the Bible.
John Jay, the very first ChiefJustice of the U.S.
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Supreme Court, the Bible is thebest of all books, for it is the
Word of God and teaches us theway to be happy in this world
and in the next.
Continue, therefore, to read itand to regulate your life by its
precepts.
There's no way that he wouldn'thave meant that, did not mean
that, not only for yourindividual life, but for our
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national life.
It's the only way to be happy inthis world.
It doesn't mean you're not goingto have suffering and pain,
folks, but that true joy thatcomes from knowing that you have
eternal life because of JesusChrist.
The only way.
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And it teaches us that way, notjust as individuals, but as a
nation.
Again, another reason it's soimportant to read the Bible each
day and to do the best we canto, as John Jay says here, to
regulate our lives by itsprecepts.
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If you get a chance, you'relooking for a family fun, middle
grade fantasy to read, I wouldhumbly recommend Countryside.
There's two books in the seriesso far, working on the third.
And if you enjoy it, if youwould share it with somebody
else, and if you would leave areview somewhere, I would
greatly appreciate that.
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God bless y'all.
God bless your families.
God bless your marriages.
If you're married, God blessyour nation, wherever you are
around the world.
Listening, God bless America.
We'll talk to y'all again realsoon, folks.
Looking forward to it.
Hey folks, this is Jesse Coop, back with another
episode of the American SoulPodcast.
Hope y'all are doing well,wherever y'all are, and whatever
part of the day you're in.
Sure do appreciate you joiningme, giving me a little bit of
your time, a little piece ofyour day.
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.
And for those of y'all whocontinue to share the podcast
with others, tell others aboutit, and pray for me and for the
podcast.
Thank you very much.
Very grateful for your supportand encouragement and prayers.
Father, thank you for today.
Thank you for you, Father, andyour son Jesus Christ and your
(00:45):
Holy Spirit.
Thank you for your love and yourmercy, your grace and your
forgiveness of sins through themerit of your son Jesus Christ
alone.
Help us to enter through thegate that is Jesus Christ.
(01:06):
Father, help us to walk thenarrow path all the way home to
you.
Help us to run the good race.
Give us the perseverance tofinish grace.
Wisdom.
Help us to help others along thepath.
(01:29):
Help us to strive to find thosewho are lost and bring them to
you and your son Jesus Christ.
Not out of arrogance or pride orconceit.
But humility and a desire forothers not to perish.
(01:58):
Be with the families of thosewho have lost loved ones.
Whether it's children orparents, siblings, spouses.
Comfort them.
Help us to comfort them.
Help us to care for the widowand the orphan.
(02:20):
Help us to ease the suffering ofthem and of any around the world
who are suffering for followingyour son Jesus Christ.
Help us to truly repent of oursins and to turn back to you,
Father, both as individuals andas a nation.
And God, my words here, please.
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In your son's name we pray.
Amen.
Have you made time for Godtoday?
Have you made time to read hisword?
Have you made time to pray?
To listen to him, to talk tohim.
And if you're married, have youmade time for your spouse?
(03:04):
Have you made them your toppriority?
Do you treat them as a one outof seven billion treasure?
I had one of those thoughts thatmanaged not to escape that I
wanted to go back and read alittle quote here that I think
(03:27):
is applicable.
One that we've read recently,and I was just thinking about
it.
This was a letter from AndrewJackson, Old Hickory, I believe
they called him, who won theBattle of New Orleans and who
(03:48):
was the seventh president of theUnited States.
He was writing to Mary andAndrew Jackson Hutchings on the
death of their firstborn son, Ibelieve, in 1834.
My dear Hutchings, I am trulyhappy to find that you both have
met this severe bereavement withthat Christian meekness and
submission as was your duty.
(04:10):
This charming babe was onlygiven you from your creator and
benefactor.
He has a right to take away, andwe ought humbly to submit to his
will and be always ready to say,Blessed be his name.
We have one consolation underthis severe bereavement, that
this babe is now in the bosom ofits Savior.
(04:32):
This quote kind of came to meout of nowhere today.
And there are two thoughts aboutit.
One, we don't mourn like others,like pagans who don't know
Christ and who have no hope.
We mourn with hope because weknow that we're going to get to
see these people that we loveagain in heaven, that have put
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their faith in Christ.
The other is how do we look atthose people in our lives that
God has put there?
Especially folks, the trulygodly, good ones, noble ones.
And of course, Jesus Christtells us that no one is good
save God, but from an earthlypoint of view, how do we look at
(05:18):
those people that truly love usin our lives?
There's basically two ways tolook at it.
We can look at them as ablessing, as Andrew Jackson
talked about here.
This charming babe was onlygiven you from your creator and
benefactor, right?
We can look at these people as ablessing each day in our lives
(05:40):
that God gave to us.
Or we can look at them assomething that we're entitled
to, as my wife talks about sooften, something that we
deserve.
The second way is always goingto make us a little fearful,
perhaps, of losing them.
And I think really it's going tomake us it, it makes us treat
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those people indifferently witha callousness, because we think,
oh, well, we deserve that.
We don't think of them as ablessing, we think of them as
something we have a right to.
And so we don't get up each dayreally looking to enjoy those
people to the fullest.
On the other hand, if we look atthem as a blessing from our
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Creator, a gift from God andJesus Christ, if we really truly
look at them, you know how youlook at a gift, the best gift
that you get on Christmas eachyear, the very best gift, the
best gift you've gotten in fiveor ten years, maybe twenty
years.
That gift is really important toyou, at least for a while,
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right?
In an opulent society like welive in.
You really pay attention to thatgift a lot, especially if you've
waited a long time for thatgift.
Yeah, you pay attention to iteach day, you use it each day,
you take care of it each day,it's on your mind each day,
right?
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If we look at the people,especially again, the ones that
truly love us in our lives thatGod's put there as that kind of
blessing, then we're gonna payattention to them each day.
We're gonna care for them eachday.
We're gonna seek to please themif they're our spouse each day.
We're gonna seek to love themand lead them and discipline
(07:30):
them if they're our childreneach day, like God does with us,
right?
We're gonna truly seek to do thevery best we can each day to
fulfill our role to that person,whoever they are, whatever that
role is.
And I that one of the reasons Ithought about this was marriage.
(07:53):
But you can apply this to kidsand parents and friends.
We take these people for grantedtoo often.
We don't treat them like ablessing and a gift from God,
and that changes the way that weinteract with them.
(08:18):
Marriage verse today is Proverbs5, 18 and 19.
Let your fountain be blessed andrejoice with the wife of your
youth.
As a loving deer and a gracefuldoe, let her breast satisfy you
at all times, and always beenraptured with her love.
I always make this comment atthe end of those two verses, or
I try to.
(08:48):
It works both ways.
Bible verses for today.
We're going to start with Tituschapter one verses one through
sixteen.
This letter is from Paul, aslave of God and an apostle of
Jesus Christ.
I've been sent to proclaim faithto those God has chosen and to
teach them to know the truththat shows them how to live
(09:10):
godly lives.
This truth gives them confidencethat they have eternal life,
which God, who does not lie,promised them before the world
began.
And now at just the right timehe has revealed this message,
which we announce to everyone.
It is by the command of God ourSavior that I have been
entrusted with this work forhim.
(09:31):
I am writing to Titus, my trueson, on the faith that we
shared.
May God the Father and JesusChrist, our Savior, give you
grace and peace.
I left you on the island ofCrete, so you could complete our
work there and appoint elders ineach town as I instructed you.
An elder must live a blamelesslife, he must be faithful to his
wife, and his children must bebelievers who don't have a
(09:54):
reputation for being wild orrebellious.
A church leader is a manager ofGod's household, so he must live
a blameless life.
He must not be arrogant or quicktempered, he must not be a heavy
drinker and violent or dishonestwith money.
Rather he must enjoy havingguests in his home.
He must love what is good, hemust live wisely and be just, he
(10:16):
must live a devout anddisciplined life.
He must have a strong belief inthe trustworthy message he was
taught.
Then he will be able toencourage others with wholesome
teaching and show those whooppose it where they are wrong.
For there are many rebelliouspeople who engage in useless
talk and deceive others.
(10:36):
This is especially true of thosewho insist on circumcision
circumcision for salvation.
They must be silenced becausethey are turning whole families
away from the truth by theirfalse teaching, and they do it
only for money.
Even one of their own men, aprophet from Crete, has said
about them The people of Creteare all liars, cruel animals and
(11:02):
lazy glutons.
This is truth.
So reprimand them sternly tomake them strong in the faith.
They must stop listening toJewish myths and the commands of
people who have turned away fromthe truth.
Everything is pure to thosewhose hearts are pure, but
nothing is pure to those who arecorrupt in believing, because
(11:25):
their minds and consciences arecorrupted.
Such people claim they know God,but they deny him by the way
they live.
They are detestable anddisobedient, worthless for doing
anything good.
Psalm ninety seven one ninetyeight nine.
The Lord is King, let the earthrejoice, let the farthest
(11:46):
coastlands be glad.
Dark clouds surround him.
Righteousness and justice arethe foundation of his throne.
Fire spreads ahead of him andburns up all his foes, his
lightning flashes out across theworld.
The earth sees and trembles, themountains melt like wax before
the Lord, before the Lord of allthe earth.
(12:07):
The heavens proclaim hisrighteousness.
Every nation sees his glory.
Those who worship idols aredisgraced, all who brag about
their worthless gods, for everyGod must bow to him.
Jerusalem has heard andrejoiced, and all the towns of
Judah are glad, because of yourjustice, O Lord.
For you, O Lord, are supremeover all the earth, you are
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exalted far above all gods.
You who love the Lord hate evil.
He protects the lives of hisgodly people and rescues them
from the power of the wicked.
Light shines on the godly, andjoy on those whose hearts are
right.
May all who are godly rejoice inthe Lord and praise his holy
name.
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Sing a new song to the Lord, forhe has done wonderful deeds, his
right hand has won a mightyvictory, his holy arm has shown
his saving power.
The Lord has announced hisvictory and has revealed his
righteousness to every nation.
He has remembered his promise tolove and be faithful to Israel.
The ends of the earth have seenthe victory of our God.
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Shout to the Lord all the earth,break out in praise and sing for
joy.
Sing your praise to the Lordwith the harp, with the harp and
melodious song, with trumpetsand the sound of the ram's horn.
Make a joyful symphony beforethe Lord the King.
Let the sea and everything in itshout his praise.
Let the earth and all livingthings join in.
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Let the rivers clap their handsin glee.
Let the hills sing out theirsongs of joy before the Lord.
For he is coming to judge theearth.
He will judge the world withjustice and the nations with
fairness.
Proverbs twenty six, thirteenverses verses thirteen through
sixteen.
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The lazy person claims, There'sa lion on the road.
Yes, I'm sure there's a lion outthere.
As a door swings back and forthon its hinges, so the lazy
person turns over in his bed.
Lazy people take food into theirhand, but don't even lift it to
their mouth.
Lazy people consider themselvessmarter than seven wise
counselors.
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Don't be lazy, right?
Don't be a person that swingsback and forth on their bed.
Titus, a couple things for theTitus.
Verse 2, God who does not lie,right?
God promised us we choose tobelieve in Jesus Christ.
We're going to have eternalsalvation.
God doesn't lie.
You acknowledge Jesus Christ asthe Son of God that God raised
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from the dead, you have eternallife.
The elders, right?
And I know this is hard todaybecause apparently we can't tell
what a woman as a man is, eveninside on the conservative side.
We have a lot of trouble withthat, apparently, because the
Bible's very clear that men areleaders, that men are elders,
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deacons in the church, right?
And yet you see so many churcheswhere that's not the case.
So many women who claim tofollow Christ that also try to
be leaders in authority overmen.
Verse 10 there are manyrebellious people who engage in
useless talk and deceive others.
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This is especially true of thosewho insist on circumcision for
salvation.
This is true, folks, of anybodythat insists on something else
besides Jesus Christ forsalvation, whether it's uh
belonging to the Roman CatholicChurch or Greek Orthodox or any
Protestant denomination, or thatyou have to pray to Mary or
Joseph or the disciples orPeter, whoever, whatever, the
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thief on the cross.
The only person, the only thingnecessary for salvation and
eternal life is Jesus Christ.
Right?
It's Jesus Christ.
And I think we'll move on.
There's a lot of other goodstuff in there, folks.
Medal of Honor for today,Charles Albert Besse, corporal,
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highest rank, chief musician,retired, Indian campaigns, Alpha
Company, 3rd U.S.
Cavalry, U.S.
Army, January 13, 1877, ElkhornCreek, Wyoming.
While scouting with four men andbeing attacked and ambushed by
14 hostile Indians, held hisground, two of his men being
wounded and kept up the fightuntil himself wounded in the
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side and then went to theassisted assistance of his
wounded comrades.
Credited to Boston, SuffolkCounty, Massachusetts, not
awarded posthumously, presentedmay 15, 1890, born november
sixth, eighteen forty-eight,reading Middlesex County,
Massachusetts, died June fourth,nineteen oh nine, Biloxy,
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Mississippi, buried Old BiloxiCemetery, PMHH Biloxy,
Mississippi, location of MetalThird Cavalry Regiment Museum,
Fort Hood, Texas.
Charles Albert Besse.
I think we don't realize,because there's so many people
today that want to sell the liethat the quote indigenous people
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were harmless and utopic.
We don't realize how hard thoseIndian campaigns were.
And Charles Albert Bessie isjust another name that we ought
to remember a lot more againthan our movie stars, pop
singers, and collegiate orprofessional athletes in their
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statistics.
History quotes from today.
Noel Webster, revolutionarysoldier, legislator, judge, and
called the schoolmaster toAmerica, right?
Responsible for Webster'sdictionary.
The Bible is the chief moralcause of all that is good, and
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the best corrector of all thatis evil in human society.
The best book for regulating thetemporal concerns of men, all
the miseries and evils which mensuffer from vice, crime,
ambition, injustice, oppression,slavery, and war proceed from
their despising or neglectingthe precepts contained in the
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Bible.
Folks, I cannot tell you howtrue this is today.
All of the miseries and evilswhich we see in the United
States today, and in yourcountry, wherever you are around
the world too, folks, all ofthem are due to neglecting God
and the Bible, becoming a Bibleilliterate society.
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Right?
We can't just read the Bible andthen do nothing about it.
That's not going to solve theproblem.
But we have to start withreading the Bible and knowing
those precepts contained there.
And that absolutely is thesource of every single evil and
misery we see today in ourAmerican Republic and in your
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country, wherever you are aroundthe world.
There's nothing more you can doto improve America, to improve
your nation, than spread thegospel of Jesus Christ.
Spread the Bible.
John Jay, the very first ChiefJustice of the U.S.
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Supreme Court, the Bible is thebest of all books, for it is the
Word of God and teaches us theway to be happy in this world
and in the next.
Continue, therefore, to read itand to regulate your life by its
precepts.
There's no way that he wouldn'thave meant that, did not mean
that, not only for yourindividual life, but for our
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national life.
It's the only way to be happy inthis world.
It doesn't mean you're not goingto have suffering and pain,
folks, but that true joy thatcomes from knowing that you have
eternal life because of JesusChrist.
The only way.
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And it teaches us that way, notjust as individuals, but as a
nation.
Again, another reason it's soimportant to read the Bible each
day and to do the best we canto, as John Jay says here, to
regulate our lives by itsprecepts.
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If you get a chance, you'relooking for a family fun, middle
grade fantasy to read, I wouldhumbly recommend Countryside.
There's two books in the seriesso far, working on the third.
And if you enjoy it, if youwould share it with somebody
else, and if you would leave areview somewhere, I would
greatly appreciate that.
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God bless y'all.
God bless your families.
God bless your marriages.
If you're married, God blessyour nation, wherever you are
around the world.
Listening, God bless America.
We'll talk to y'all again realsoon, folks.
Looking forward to it.
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