October 2, 2025 • 22 mins
We press pause on daily noise to ask hard questions about time with God, marriage as a daily priority, and the quiet power of integrity at home. Along the way we read Titus 2, Philemon, and Psalm 101, warn against gossip, honor Albert Beyer’s courage, and revisit providence in the Constitution.
• gratitude for Scripture and freedom to read it
• marriage as daily priority over distractions
• Titus 2 roles, self‑control, and mentorship
• Philemon’s model of restoration and brotherhood
• Psalm 101’s call to integrity at home
• Proverbs on gossip as fuel for conflict
• Medal of Honor remembrance: Albert Beyer
• founders’ quotes on providence and the Constitution
• critique of Everson and church‑state confusion
• practical steps to reorder time, habits, and home
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SPEAKER_00 (00:01):
Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope, 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.
I sure do appreciate y'alljoining me, giving me a little
bit of your day, a little bit ofyour time.
(00:21):
I know y'all have other thingspulling on your uh attention.
So thank you.
I'm glad you're spending ithere.
I hope that you get to listen toit with somebody else.
I hope it gives y'all somethingto think about, something to
talk about, to mull over, andhopefully it draws us all a
(00:41):
little closer to God and JesusChrist.
Father, thank you for today.
Thank you for you, Father, andyour son Jesus Christ and your
Holy Spirit.
Thank you for your love and yourmercy, your grace and your
forgiveness of sins.
Through the merit of your sonJesus Christ alone.
Thank you for the time to recordthis podcast.
(01:01):
Thank you for the people thatlisten to it and share it.
Be with them, be with theirfamilies.
Guide and bless them, surroundthem with your angels, protect
them from evil of any kind.
Help us, Father, to help thosethat have less than we do.
Help us to help our country turnback to you here in America and
in the nations around the worldwhere people are listening.
(01:23):
Guide our steps.
Give us patience, perseverance.
Help us to remember that the waywe see things is not the way
that you see or think aboutthings often.
You are looking from an eternalpoint of view outside of time.
(01:46):
Help us to remember that, totrust in you, even when things
seem dark, dangerous, when wefeel scared and anxious and
alone.
And in those times that aregood, Father, when we feel like
we have everything figured out,help us to be humble and not to
(02:13):
be vain.
Not to imagine that we are doingthis all on our own.
Remember how desperately we needyour blessings and how much you
have blessed us.
And be with our leaders, Father.
(02:34):
Help them to rule in fear of youboth in the state and in the
pulpit.
And God, my words here, Father,please.
Your son's name we pray.
Have you made time for Godtoday?
(02:54):
Have you made time to read hisword, to pray, to talk to him,
to listen?
Do you do do we remember or wereally grateful for the ability
to read his word without fear ofpersecution?
It's not and it's not just amatter of the fact that there's
people around the world todaythat can't do it, folks.
It's it's a matter of the factthat so many people in the past
(03:17):
suffered so much torture,imprisonment, death, rape,
pillage, plunder, so that wecould read God's word today
without fear of persecution fromthe state or the church, sadly.
Do we remember that?
(03:41):
And if you're married, do youact like it?
Is your spouse your top priorityeach day?
Or do you give more time to areyou more excited about your
favorite sports team?
I I always pick on this becausethat's my weakness, folks.
You need to make sure that thatwhen I'm talking about sports,
that you're thinking aboutwhatever your weakness is,
(04:04):
right?
Whatever you're susceptible to.
Uh books just for fun, TV shows,Netflix, Prime, Hulu, right?
Whatever it is for you, hunting,um, whatever it is that you've
put in priority over God andover people.
But for those of y'all that arelike me that like sports,
(04:26):
statistics is always a big deal,right?
I hated statistics in college.
Uh, I managed to somehow, uh,even with a degree in physics, I
managed to skate aroundstatistics because it was such a
nightmare, all my friends thathad to take it.
But in sports, we love ourstats, right?
Every single sport loves stats.
(04:51):
How much time do we how how welldo we know the statistics of our
favorite team, our favoriteplayer in any sport?
And then compare that to ourknowledge, the amount of time we
spend learning about God,learning about our spouse,
focused on pleasing our spouseeach day.
(05:14):
Right?
And and maybe it's not sportsfor you, maybe it's songs.
Maybe you know every singlelyric to every song written by a
particular singer?
How many Bible verses do youknow?
How many psalms can you recite?
(05:37):
Right?
How many memories have you madewith your spouse that you can go
through line by line thosememories?
That love.
Just a thought.
(05:59):
Marriage verse for today.
Comes out of Titus two, startingwith verse one.
You, however much must teachwhat is appropriate to sound
doctrine.
Teach the older men to betemperate, worthy of respect,
self-controlled and sound infaith and love and in endurance.
Likewise teach the older womento be reverent in the way they
(06:20):
live, not to be slanderers oraddicted to much wine, but to
teach what is good.
Then they can urge the youngerwomen to love their husbands and
children, to be self-controlledand pure, to be busy at home, to
be kind, and to be subject totheir husbands, so that no one
will malign the word of God.
Similarly, similarly, encouragethe young men to be
(06:43):
self-controlled, and everythingset them an example by doing
what is good, and your teachingsshow integrity, seriousness, and
soundness of speech that cannotbe condemned, so that those who
oppose you may be ashamedbecause they have nothing bad to
say about us.
How much just these two things,how much would it change our
nation today if we reallyencouraged our young men to be
(07:07):
self-controlled, and if weencouraged our young women to
love their husbands and be busyat home?
I I think that you would have tobe dishonest to say that that
those two things alone would notshow significant improvements in
(07:33):
our nation.
Bible verses for today?
Philimon one, verses one throughtwenty five.
This letter is from Paul, aprisoner, for preaching the good
news about Jesus Christ, andfrom our brother Timothy.
I am writing to Philimon, ourbeloved co-worker, and to our
(07:56):
sister, Athea, and to our fellowsoldier Acrippus, and to the
church that meets in your house.
May God our Father and the LordJesus Christ give you grace and
peace.
I always thank my God when Ipray for you, Philimon, because
I keep hearing about your faithin the Lord Jesus and your love
for all of God's people.
(08:18):
And I am praying that you willput into action the generosity
that comes from your faith asyou understand and experience
all the good things we have inChrist.
Your love has given me much joyand comfort, my brother, for
your kindness has oftenrefreshed the hearts of God's
people.
That is why I am boldly asking afavor of you.
(08:40):
I could demand it in the name ofChrist because it is the right
thing for you to do, but becauseof our love, I prefer simply to
ask you.
Consider this as a request fromme, Paul, an old man, and now
also a prisoner for the sake ofChrist Jesus.
I appeal to you to show kindnessto my child, Anisimus.
(09:03):
I became his father in faithwhile here in prison.
Anisimus hasn't been of much useto you in the past, but now he
is very useful to both of us.
I am sending him back to you,and with him comes my own heart.
I wanted to keep him here withme while I am in these chains
for preaching the good news, andhe would have helped me on your
(09:24):
behalf.
But I didn't want to do anythingwithout your consent.
I wanted you to help because youwere willing, not because you
were forced.
It seems you lost Anisimus for alittle while so that you could
have him back forever.
He is no longer like a slave toyou, he is more than a slave,
for he is a beloved brother,especially to me.
(09:44):
Now he will mean much more toyou both as a man and as a
brother in the Lord.
So if you consider me yourpartner, welcome him as you
would welcome me.
If he has wronged you in any wayor owes you anything, charge it
to me.
I, Paul, write this with my ownhand, I will repay it.
And I won't mention that you oweme your very soul.
(10:05):
Yes, my brother, please do thisme do me this favor for the
Lord's sake.
Give me this encouragement inChrist.
I am confident as I write thisletter that you will do what I
ask and even more.
One more thing, please prepare aguest room for me, for I am
hoping that God will answer yourprayers and let me return to you
(10:27):
soon.
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner inChrist Jesus, sends you his
greetings, so do Mark,Aristocus, Demus, and Luke, my
co workers.
May the grace of the Lord JesusChrist be with your spirit.
I know I murdered some of thosenames, folks, I apologize, as
always.
Psalm one o one verses onethrough eight.
(10:50):
I will sing of your love andjustice, Lord, I will praise you
with songs.
I will be careful to live ablameless life.
When will you come to help me?
I will lead a life of integrityin my own home.
I will refuse to look atanything vile and vulgar.
I hate all who deal crookedly.
I will have nothing to do withthem.
(11:11):
I will reject perverse ideas andstay away from every evil.
I will not tolerate people whoslander their neighbors.
I will not endure conceit andpride.
I will search for faithfulpeople to be my companions.
Only those who are abovereproach will be allowed to
serve me.
I will not allow deceivers toserve in my house, and liars
(11:32):
will not stay in my presence.
My daily task will be to ferretout the wicked and free the city
of the Lord from their grip.
Proverbs twenty six twenty.
Fire goes out without wood, andquarrels disappear when gossip
stops.
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We talk a lot in the church, andand rightly so about sexual
immorality.
God mentions it a whole bunch oftimes.
So there's nothing wrong withtalking about that.
But I think often that we don'taddress gossip enough.
(12:17):
There's quite a few proverbsthat talk about gossip.
And I think a lot of times wedon't acknowledge the damage
that it does.
And I and I think honestly, wedon't with women often.
You know, I think I think formost people, sexual immorality
(12:41):
probably is a bigger concern formen than for women.
Not always, folks, by any means.
But I think you can probably saythe reverse about gossip, too, I
think, typically.
You know, the the movie, my wifetalks about this often.
The movie Mean Girls has been asuccess over the years in large
(13:04):
part because it strikes a chordwith people.
There's a lot of, and she's toldme this before on multiple
occasions, there's a lot ofgirls that really that movie
resonates with because they hadto deal with mean girls growing
up, junior high, high school,college, and even into
adulthood.
And what is the center of thatmovie, really?
(13:28):
The sin at the center of thatmovie is often gossip.
At any rate, that's that's mytwo cents from that Bible
reading today.
Medal of Honor for today.
Albert Bayer Bayer, Coxwain,highest ranked Chief Master of
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Arms, Spanish-American War, USSNashville, U.S.
Navy, May 11, 1898, Centuegos,Cuba.
On board the USS Nashvilleduring the cutting of the cable
leading from Centuegas, Cuba, 11May 1898, facing the heavy fire
of the enemy, Bayer set anexample of extraordinary bravery
(14:08):
and coolness throughout thisaction.
Accredited to Boston, SuffolkCounty, Massachusetts, not
awarded posthumously presentedaugust sixteenth, eighteen
ninety nine by Commander RaymondP.
Rogers of the USS Nashville atthe Charleston, Massachusetts
Navy Yard.
Born june thirteenth, eighteenfifty nine, Hanover, Germany,
(14:30):
died october twenty ninth,nineteen twenty nine,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Buried Mount Moriah Cemetery, VAPlot one dash nine dash two,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,United States.
Albert Bayer Bayer.
That gentleman saw quite a bit,didn't he?
(14:52):
Born just before the Civil Warand then survived through World
War One right up until theDepression.
Another name to remember, folks,Albert Bayer.
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History quotes for today.
So one of the things that hasstrengthened my faith quite a
bit over the years of doing thispodcast has been the realization
of how many times throughout ourhistory God's hand had to be
involved.
And I hope that strengthens yourfaith too as we go through that.
And one of the things, one ofthose moments, I often talk
(15:36):
about Pearl Harbor, Midway,because both of those are just,
to me, prime examples of whereGod had to be involved.
There were just a couple of verymiraculous events.
There were probably a lot oflittle miraculous events, but
there were a couple major thingsthat happened there that just
shouldn't have happened.
The Constitution is another one.
(15:59):
And the sad part is that wedon't teach history enough, so
we don't know the sentiments ofour great leaders.
But that was the sentiment of alot of our founding fathers was
that the only reason that theConstitution passed was because
of God.
And not some random deist God,folks.
Not any God from Islam orBuddhism or Hinduism or Mother
(16:22):
Naturism or anywhere else, butGod the Father of Jesus Christ
and the Holy Spirit.
And so I just want to readthrough a few quotes about the
passing, the ratification of theConstitution.
Right, it's a double whammy too,because people today that claim
that we are founded as a secularnation, that's really hard to
(16:44):
square with founders saying theonly way our constitution passed
was with God, right?
If that's really the way theyfelt, do you really think that
they would set up a secularsociety, a pagan society?
September 17, 1787.
This was George Washingtonwatching the signing of the U.S.
(17:04):
Constitution, declaring itlittle short of a miracle.
Benjamin Franklin, to conclude,I beg I may not be understood to
infer that our generalconvention was divinely inspired
when it formed the new FederalConstitution.
Yet I must own I have so muchfaith in the general government
(17:26):
of the world by providence,capitalized, that I can hardly
conceive a transaction of suchmomentous importance to the
welfare of millions nowexisting, and to exist in the
posterity of a great nation,should be suffered to pass
without being in some degreeinfluenced, guided, and governed
(17:46):
by that omnipotent, omnipresent,and beneficent ruler in whom all
inferior spirits live and moveand have their being.
So a real quick thing here aboutthis quote by Benjamin Franklin,
and I had to look this Bibleverse up, but this is part of
the problem with us not doing athorough job of teaching
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history, is a lot of people saythat Franklin was a deist.
And there's quotes that you cango back and look at, some of his
own quotes to support this atdifferent times in his life.
But when you look at his writingas a whole, uh, even if he was a
deist, his worldview wasgrounded in the Bible.
But when you really start tolook at his quotes, what you
(18:32):
find is that he he wasn't a bigfan of religion, of the dogma,
the doctoral, like the doctrineof specific denominations.
But but like this quote, thiscomes straight out of Acts.
It's uh out of chapter 17, verse28.
(18:55):
I'm gonna start with verse 27.
That they should seek the Lordas happily as they might feel
after him and find him, thoughhe be not far from every one of
us.
For in him we live and move andhave our being, as certain also
of you own your own poets havesaid, for we are also his
offspring.
(19:15):
Right?
And so you look at Franklin'scomments here in this quote that
the passing of the Constitutionhad to be in some degree
influenced, guided, and governedby that omnipotent, omnipresent,
and beneficent ruler in whom allinferior spirits live and move
and have their being.
(19:37):
New Testament, Bible, JesusChrist.
Charles Pickney, another one ofthe framers, nothing less than
that superintending hand ofProvidence that so miraculously
carried us through the war, inmy humble opinion, could have
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brought it, the Constitution,about so complete upon the
whole.
That's another part, and we'vetalked about this with uh
Styles, who was a president ofYale, I think.
So many of our foundinggeneration, they were absolutely
convinced, rightly so, that itwas God that carried us through
(20:23):
that the Revolutionary War quitemiraculously.
And so just another of thosepoints.
And then the last one for todayis Alexander Hamilton.
Uh he was he represented NewYork at the Constitutional
Convention.
For my own part, I sincerelyesteem it a system which,
without the finger of God, nevercould have been suggested and
(20:46):
agreed upon by such a diversityof interests.
Another little point here justat the end, and I'll wrap up,
folks, is in 1947, the SupremeCourt decision that used a line
from Jefferson, separation ofchurch and state, which doesn't
even mean what they twisted itto mean in that particular court
case, Everson versus Board ofEducation.
(21:08):
But even if it did, it doesn't,but even if it did, Jefferson
was removed by 13 years fromthis convention, and Jefferson
wasn't even part of theconstitutional convention,
right?
But it it doesn't.
That's I'm just playing alongwith the left right now.
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Jefferson didn't at all meanseparation of God and state, and
that's really what that ruling,Everson versus Board of
Education, that's what theyreally meant.
That's what they managed to getthe camel's nose under the tent,
which has caused so muchdestruction over the last 80
years and why it has to beoverturned if we have any hope
of recovering our republic.
But you see these quotes again: Charles Pickney, Alexander (21:50):
undefined
Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin,George Washington talking about
God's hand being part of theratification of the
Constitution, and there areothers, but those are just a few
real quick.
Don't let anybody tell you thatAmerica was not born a Christian
republic, folks.
They don't know what they'retalking about, either gross
(22:11):
ignorance or purposefulmalevolence.
If you are looking for a fun,family-friendly middle grade
fantasy, uh, I would humblyrecommend Countryside if you get
a chance and check it out, readit, enjoy it together as a
family.
And if you do enjoy it, if youwould leave a review online
(22:32):
somewhere, parents orgrandparents or kids.
It would be great.
God bless y'all.
God bless your families, Godbless your marriages, God bless
America, God bless your nationwherever you are around the
world listening.
I know we have some new uhlisteners out there, and I will
try and read through some ofthose.
We'll talk to y'all again realsoon.
(22:53):
Thank you.
Looking forward to it.
Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope, 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.
I sure do appreciate y'alljoining me, giving me a little
bit of your day, a little bit ofyour time.
(00:21):
I know y'all have other thingspulling on your uh attention.
So thank you.
I'm glad you're spending ithere.
I hope that you get to listen toit with somebody else.
I hope it gives y'all somethingto think about, something to
talk about, to mull over, andhopefully it draws us all a
(00:41):
little closer to God and JesusChrist.
Father, thank you for today.
Thank you for you, Father, andyour son Jesus Christ and your
Holy Spirit.
Thank you for your love and yourmercy, your grace and your
forgiveness of sins.
Through the merit of your sonJesus Christ alone.
Thank you for the time to recordthis podcast.
(01:01):
Thank you for the people thatlisten to it and share it.
Be with them, be with theirfamilies.
Guide and bless them, surroundthem with your angels, protect
them from evil of any kind.
Help us, Father, to help thosethat have less than we do.
Help us to help our country turnback to you here in America and
in the nations around the worldwhere people are listening.
(01:23):
Guide our steps.
Give us patience, perseverance.
Help us to remember that the waywe see things is not the way
that you see or think aboutthings often.
You are looking from an eternalpoint of view outside of time.
(01:46):
Help us to remember that, totrust in you, even when things
seem dark, dangerous, when wefeel scared and anxious and
alone.
And in those times that aregood, Father, when we feel like
we have everything figured out,help us to be humble and not to
(02:13):
be vain.
Not to imagine that we are doingthis all on our own.
Remember how desperately we needyour blessings and how much you
have blessed us.
And be with our leaders, Father.
(02:34):
Help them to rule in fear of youboth in the state and in the
pulpit.
And God, my words here, Father,please.
Your son's name we pray.
Have you made time for Godtoday?
(02:54):
Have you made time to read hisword, to pray, to talk to him,
to listen?
Do you do do we remember or wereally grateful for the ability
to read his word without fear ofpersecution?
It's not and it's not just amatter of the fact that there's
people around the world todaythat can't do it, folks.
It's it's a matter of the factthat so many people in the past
(03:17):
suffered so much torture,imprisonment, death, rape,
pillage, plunder, so that wecould read God's word today
without fear of persecution fromthe state or the church, sadly.
Do we remember that?
(03:41):
And if you're married, do youact like it?
Is your spouse your top priorityeach day?
Or do you give more time to areyou more excited about your
favorite sports team?
I I always pick on this becausethat's my weakness, folks.
You need to make sure that thatwhen I'm talking about sports,
that you're thinking aboutwhatever your weakness is,
(04:04):
right?
Whatever you're susceptible to.
Uh books just for fun, TV shows,Netflix, Prime, Hulu, right?
Whatever it is for you, hunting,um, whatever it is that you've
put in priority over God andover people.
But for those of y'all that arelike me that like sports,
(04:26):
statistics is always a big deal,right?
I hated statistics in college.
Uh, I managed to somehow, uh,even with a degree in physics, I
managed to skate aroundstatistics because it was such a
nightmare, all my friends thathad to take it.
But in sports, we love ourstats, right?
Every single sport loves stats.
(04:51):
How much time do we how how welldo we know the statistics of our
favorite team, our favoriteplayer in any sport?
And then compare that to ourknowledge, the amount of time we
spend learning about God,learning about our spouse,
focused on pleasing our spouseeach day.
(05:14):
Right?
And and maybe it's not sportsfor you, maybe it's songs.
Maybe you know every singlelyric to every song written by a
particular singer?
How many Bible verses do youknow?
How many psalms can you recite?
(05:37):
Right?
How many memories have you madewith your spouse that you can go
through line by line thosememories?
That love.
Just a thought.
(05:59):
Marriage verse for today.
Comes out of Titus two, startingwith verse one.
You, however much must teachwhat is appropriate to sound
doctrine.
Teach the older men to betemperate, worthy of respect,
self-controlled and sound infaith and love and in endurance.
Likewise teach the older womento be reverent in the way they
(06:20):
live, not to be slanderers oraddicted to much wine, but to
teach what is good.
Then they can urge the youngerwomen to love their husbands and
children, to be self-controlledand pure, to be busy at home, to
be kind, and to be subject totheir husbands, so that no one
will malign the word of God.
Similarly, similarly, encouragethe young men to be
(06:43):
self-controlled, and everythingset them an example by doing
what is good, and your teachingsshow integrity, seriousness, and
soundness of speech that cannotbe condemned, so that those who
oppose you may be ashamedbecause they have nothing bad to
say about us.
How much just these two things,how much would it change our
nation today if we reallyencouraged our young men to be
(07:07):
self-controlled, and if weencouraged our young women to
love their husbands and be busyat home?
I I think that you would have tobe dishonest to say that that
those two things alone would notshow significant improvements in
(07:33):
our nation.
Bible verses for today?
Philimon one, verses one throughtwenty five.
This letter is from Paul, aprisoner, for preaching the good
news about Jesus Christ, andfrom our brother Timothy.
I am writing to Philimon, ourbeloved co-worker, and to our
(07:56):
sister, Athea, and to our fellowsoldier Acrippus, and to the
church that meets in your house.
May God our Father and the LordJesus Christ give you grace and
peace.
I always thank my God when Ipray for you, Philimon, because
I keep hearing about your faithin the Lord Jesus and your love
for all of God's people.
(08:18):
And I am praying that you willput into action the generosity
that comes from your faith asyou understand and experience
all the good things we have inChrist.
Your love has given me much joyand comfort, my brother, for
your kindness has oftenrefreshed the hearts of God's
people.
That is why I am boldly asking afavor of you.
(08:40):
I could demand it in the name ofChrist because it is the right
thing for you to do, but becauseof our love, I prefer simply to
ask you.
Consider this as a request fromme, Paul, an old man, and now
also a prisoner for the sake ofChrist Jesus.
I appeal to you to show kindnessto my child, Anisimus.
(09:03):
I became his father in faithwhile here in prison.
Anisimus hasn't been of much useto you in the past, but now he
is very useful to both of us.
I am sending him back to you,and with him comes my own heart.
I wanted to keep him here withme while I am in these chains
for preaching the good news, andhe would have helped me on your
(09:24):
behalf.
But I didn't want to do anythingwithout your consent.
I wanted you to help because youwere willing, not because you
were forced.
It seems you lost Anisimus for alittle while so that you could
have him back forever.
He is no longer like a slave toyou, he is more than a slave,
for he is a beloved brother,especially to me.
(09:44):
Now he will mean much more toyou both as a man and as a
brother in the Lord.
So if you consider me yourpartner, welcome him as you
would welcome me.
If he has wronged you in any wayor owes you anything, charge it
to me.
I, Paul, write this with my ownhand, I will repay it.
And I won't mention that you oweme your very soul.
(10:05):
Yes, my brother, please do thisme do me this favor for the
Lord's sake.
Give me this encouragement inChrist.
I am confident as I write thisletter that you will do what I
ask and even more.
One more thing, please prepare aguest room for me, for I am
hoping that God will answer yourprayers and let me return to you
(10:27):
soon.
Epaphras, my fellow prisoner inChrist Jesus, sends you his
greetings, so do Mark,Aristocus, Demus, and Luke, my
co workers.
May the grace of the Lord JesusChrist be with your spirit.
I know I murdered some of thosenames, folks, I apologize, as
always.
Psalm one o one verses onethrough eight.
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I will sing of your love andjustice, Lord, I will praise you
with songs.
I will be careful to live ablameless life.
When will you come to help me?
I will lead a life of integrityin my own home.
I will refuse to look atanything vile and vulgar.
I hate all who deal crookedly.
I will have nothing to do withthem.
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I will reject perverse ideas andstay away from every evil.
I will not tolerate people whoslander their neighbors.
I will not endure conceit andpride.
I will search for faithfulpeople to be my companions.
Only those who are abovereproach will be allowed to
serve me.
I will not allow deceivers toserve in my house, and liars
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will not stay in my presence.
My daily task will be to ferretout the wicked and free the city
of the Lord from their grip.
Proverbs twenty six twenty.
Fire goes out without wood, andquarrels disappear when gossip
stops.
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We talk a lot in the church, andand rightly so about sexual
immorality.
God mentions it a whole bunch oftimes.
So there's nothing wrong withtalking about that.
But I think often that we don'taddress gossip enough.
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There's quite a few proverbsthat talk about gossip.
And I think a lot of times wedon't acknowledge the damage
that it does.
And I and I think honestly, wedon't with women often.
You know, I think I think formost people, sexual immorality
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probably is a bigger concern formen than for women.
Not always, folks, by any means.
But I think you can probably saythe reverse about gossip, too, I
think, typically.
You know, the the movie, my wifetalks about this often.
The movie Mean Girls has been asuccess over the years in large
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part because it strikes a chordwith people.
There's a lot of, and she's toldme this before on multiple
occasions, there's a lot ofgirls that really that movie
resonates with because they hadto deal with mean girls growing
up, junior high, high school,college, and even into
adulthood.
And what is the center of thatmovie, really?
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The sin at the center of thatmovie is often gossip.
At any rate, that's that's mytwo cents from that Bible
reading today.
Medal of Honor for today.
Albert Bayer Bayer, Coxwain,highest ranked Chief Master of
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Arms, Spanish-American War, USSNashville, U.S.
Navy, May 11, 1898, Centuegos,Cuba.
On board the USS Nashvilleduring the cutting of the cable
leading from Centuegas, Cuba, 11May 1898, facing the heavy fire
of the enemy, Bayer set anexample of extraordinary bravery
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and coolness throughout thisaction.
Accredited to Boston, SuffolkCounty, Massachusetts, not
awarded posthumously presentedaugust sixteenth, eighteen
ninety nine by Commander RaymondP.
Rogers of the USS Nashville atthe Charleston, Massachusetts
Navy Yard.
Born june thirteenth, eighteenfifty nine, Hanover, Germany,
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died october twenty ninth,nineteen twenty nine,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Buried Mount Moriah Cemetery, VAPlot one dash nine dash two,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,United States.
Albert Bayer Bayer.
That gentleman saw quite a bit,didn't he?
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Born just before the Civil Warand then survived through World
War One right up until theDepression.
Another name to remember, folks,Albert Bayer.
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History quotes for today.
So one of the things that hasstrengthened my faith quite a
bit over the years of doing thispodcast has been the realization
of how many times throughout ourhistory God's hand had to be
involved.
And I hope that strengthens yourfaith too as we go through that.
And one of the things, one ofthose moments, I often talk
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about Pearl Harbor, Midway,because both of those are just,
to me, prime examples of whereGod had to be involved.
There were just a couple of verymiraculous events.
There were probably a lot oflittle miraculous events, but
there were a couple major thingsthat happened there that just
shouldn't have happened.
The Constitution is another one.
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And the sad part is that wedon't teach history enough, so
we don't know the sentiments ofour great leaders.
But that was the sentiment of alot of our founding fathers was
that the only reason that theConstitution passed was because
of God.
And not some random deist God,folks.
Not any God from Islam orBuddhism or Hinduism or Mother
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Naturism or anywhere else, butGod the Father of Jesus Christ
and the Holy Spirit.
And so I just want to readthrough a few quotes about the
passing, the ratification of theConstitution.
Right, it's a double whammy too,because people today that claim
that we are founded as a secularnation, that's really hard to
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square with founders saying theonly way our constitution passed
was with God, right?
If that's really the way theyfelt, do you really think that
they would set up a secularsociety, a pagan society?
September 17, 1787.
This was George Washingtonwatching the signing of the U.S.
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Constitution, declaring itlittle short of a miracle.
Benjamin Franklin, to conclude,I beg I may not be understood to
infer that our generalconvention was divinely inspired
when it formed the new FederalConstitution.
Yet I must own I have so muchfaith in the general government
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of the world by providence,capitalized, that I can hardly
conceive a transaction of suchmomentous importance to the
welfare of millions nowexisting, and to exist in the
posterity of a great nation,should be suffered to pass
without being in some degreeinfluenced, guided, and governed
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by that omnipotent, omnipresent,and beneficent ruler in whom all
inferior spirits live and moveand have their being.
So a real quick thing here aboutthis quote by Benjamin Franklin,
and I had to look this Bibleverse up, but this is part of
the problem with us not doing athorough job of teaching
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history, is a lot of people saythat Franklin was a deist.
And there's quotes that you cango back and look at, some of his
own quotes to support this atdifferent times in his life.
But when you look at his writingas a whole, uh, even if he was a
deist, his worldview wasgrounded in the Bible.
But when you really start tolook at his quotes, what you
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find is that he he wasn't a bigfan of religion, of the dogma,
the doctoral, like the doctrineof specific denominations.
But but like this quote, thiscomes straight out of Acts.
It's uh out of chapter 17, verse28.
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I'm gonna start with verse 27.
That they should seek the Lordas happily as they might feel
after him and find him, thoughhe be not far from every one of
us.
For in him we live and move andhave our being, as certain also
of you own your own poets havesaid, for we are also his
offspring.
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Right?
And so you look at Franklin'scomments here in this quote that
the passing of the Constitutionhad to be in some degree
influenced, guided, and governedby that omnipotent, omnipresent,
and beneficent ruler in whom allinferior spirits live and move
and have their being.
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New Testament, Bible, JesusChrist.
Charles Pickney, another one ofthe framers, nothing less than
that superintending hand ofProvidence that so miraculously
carried us through the war, inmy humble opinion, could have
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brought it, the Constitution,about so complete upon the
whole.
That's another part, and we'vetalked about this with uh
Styles, who was a president ofYale, I think.
So many of our foundinggeneration, they were absolutely
convinced, rightly so, that itwas God that carried us through
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that the Revolutionary War quitemiraculously.
And so just another of thosepoints.
And then the last one for todayis Alexander Hamilton.
Uh he was he represented NewYork at the Constitutional
Convention.
For my own part, I sincerelyesteem it a system which,
without the finger of God, nevercould have been suggested and
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agreed upon by such a diversityof interests.
Another little point here justat the end, and I'll wrap up,
folks, is in 1947, the SupremeCourt decision that used a line
from Jefferson, separation ofchurch and state, which doesn't
even mean what they twisted itto mean in that particular court
case, Everson versus Board ofEducation.
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But even if it did, it doesn't,but even if it did, Jefferson
was removed by 13 years fromthis convention, and Jefferson
wasn't even part of theconstitutional convention,
right?
But it it doesn't.
That's I'm just playing alongwith the left right now.
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Jefferson didn't at all meanseparation of God and state, and
that's really what that ruling,Everson versus Board of
Education, that's what theyreally meant.
That's what they managed to getthe camel's nose under the tent,
which has caused so muchdestruction over the last 80
years and why it has to beoverturned if we have any hope
of recovering our republic.
But you see these quotes again: Charles Pickney, Alexander (21:50):
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Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin,George Washington talking about
God's hand being part of theratification of the
Constitution, and there areothers, but those are just a few
real quick.
Don't let anybody tell you thatAmerica was not born a Christian
republic, folks.
They don't know what they'retalking about, either gross
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ignorance or purposefulmalevolence.
If you are looking for a fun,family-friendly middle grade
fantasy, uh, I would humblyrecommend Countryside if you get
a chance and check it out, readit, enjoy it together as a
family.
And if you do enjoy it, if youwould leave a review online
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somewhere, parents orgrandparents or kids.
It would be great.
God bless y'all.
God bless your families, Godbless your marriages, God bless
America, God bless your nationwherever you are around the
world listening.
I know we have some new uhlisteners out there, and I will
try and read through some ofthose.
We'll talk to y'all again realsoon.
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Thank you.
Looking forward to it.
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