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SPEAKER_00 (00:00):
Hey folks, this is
Jesse Cope, back with another
episode of the American SoulPodcast.
Hope y'all are doing wellwherever you all are, in
whatever part of the day you'rein.
I sure do appreciate you joiningme, giving me a little bit of
your time and attention, alittle piece of your day.
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I will try and use it wisely.
For those of y'all who continueto share the podcast with
others, tell others about it.
Thank you.
For those of y'all who continueto pray for me for the podcast,
thank you very much.
Extremely grateful for yourprayers.
Father, thank you for today.
Thank you for you, Father, andyour son Jesus Christ and your
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Holy Spirit.
Thank you for your love and yourmercy, your grace, and your
forgiveness of sins through themerit of your son Jesus Christ.
Thank you for those people,Father, that you put in our
lives to strengthen us along theway, that draw us closer to you.
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Thank you for those thorns inour flesh that draw us closer to
you, those challenges, thosetrials and tribulations that
draw us closer to you.
Be with those who are hurtingaround the nation, here in
America, across the world as awhole, be with those who are
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being persecuted for the sake ofthe name of your son Jesus
Christ.
Help us, Father, to help thosethat we can.
In whatever way.
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Help us to care for the least ofthese, to care for the widow and
the orphan.
Thank you for those men andwomen who follow you, Father.
Here today, and the ones whohave gone before us who have set
such a good example.
Help us to follow theirfootsteps and most of all to
follow the footsteps of your sonJesus Christ.
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Be with our leaders, please,Father, in the pulpit and in the
state.
Give them wisdom and courage anda strong faith.
Be with our military and our lawenforcement, our firefighters,
in particular, be with our ICEagents here in America today.
Comfort them.
Protect them.
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Be with those listening to thepodcast, Father.
Comfort them, surround them withyour angels, protect them from
evil of any kind.
Strengthen their families,strengthen their marriages,
strengthen our faith, Father.
And guide my words here, please.
In the name of your son, JesusChrist, we ask and pray.
Amen.
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Have you made time for Godtoday?
Have you made time to read hisword?
Have you made time to pray, totalk to him, listen to him?
And if you're married, have youmade time for your spouse?
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Do they know that they are yourtop priority?
Second only to God and JesusChrist.
Because all that really matters,folks, is whether you act like
it.
You can say whatever you want,but if you aren't following
God's roles and responsibilitiesfor you, you know, Jesus tells
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us clearly, and this is, man,this is scary, at least for me
sometimes, considering howpoorly I follow him.
But he says what?
He says, if we really love him,we'll follow his commands.
I had a pastor years ago.
You know, because sometimes ifyou're honest, you wonder
whether you're really doingstuff for Christ or whether
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you're doing stuff so otherpeople see you doing it, you
know, whether you're doing itfor the praise of men.
And I had a pastor, we were, Istill remember we were sitting
on a back porch talking, and hesaid, you know, at the end of
the day, if you are followingJesus Christ, if you're doing
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what he told you to do, ifyou're doing something that he
set an example of, that's reallyall that matters in the end.
I mean, yeah, your motivation,it matters.
But he said, if you're confused,conflicted, if you're worried
about why you're doingsomething, at the end of the
day, if you will just choose tofollow Christ's example and then
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let others worry about what theywant to worry about, even your
own heart, because your heart'sdeceitful, right?
I hope that makes sense, becausethat was really comforting to me
from him.
But he he said, just do whatyou're supposed to do.
And even if your motivationisn't exactly right, at least
you're doing what you'resupposed to be doing and
following Christ.
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And man, that's just so true, atleast from my experience across
the board, but especially inmarriage.
Just love your spouse, justfollow God's roles and
responsibilities.
So we're going to get back intofor our marriage verse today,
Song of Solomon.
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I think, I hope, we're inchapter five.
Yeah.
I'm sure somebody out therey'all are keeping me in line.
The torment of separation.
I have come into my garden, mysister, my bride.
I have gathered my myrrh alongwith my balsam.
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I have eaten my honeycomb and myhoney, I have drunk my wine and
my milk.
Eat, friends, drink and imbibedeeply, O lovers.
I was asleep, but my heart wasawake.
A voice, my beloved wasknocking.
Open to me, my sister, mydarling, my dove, my perfect
one.
For my head is drenched withdew, my locks with the damp of
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night.
I have taken off my dress, howcan I put it on again?
I have washed my feet, how can Idirty them again?
My beloved extended his handthrough the opening, and my
feelings were aroused for him.
I arose to open to my beloved,and my hands dripped with myrrh,
and my fingers with liquid myrrhon the handles of the bolt.
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I opened to my beloved, but mybeloved had turned away and had
gone.
My heart went out to him as hespoke.
I searched for him, but I didnot find him.
I called him, but he did notanswer me.
The watchmen who make the roundsin the city found me, they
struck me and wounded me.
The guardsmen of the walls tookaway my shawl from me.
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I adjure you, O daughters ofJerusalem, if you find my
beloved, as to what you willtell him, for I am lovesick.
What kind of beloved is yourbeloved, O most beautiful among
women, what kind of beloved isyour beloved, that thus you
adjure us?
Admiration of the bride by thebride.
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My beloved is dazzling andruddy, outstanding among ten
thousand.
His head is like gold pure gold,his locks are like clusters of
dates, and black as a raven, hiseyes are like doves beside
streams of water bathed in milk,and reposed in their setting.
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His cheeks are like a bed ofbalsam, banks of sweet scented
herbs, his lips are liliesdripping with liquid myrrh.
His hands are like rods of goldset with beryl, his abdomen is
carved ivory inlaid withsapphires, his legs are pillars
of alabaster set on pedestals ofpure gold.
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His appearance is like Lebanon,choice as the cedars.
His mouth is full of sweetness,and he is wholly desirable.
This is my beloved, and this ismy friend, O daughters of
Jerusalem.
I saw something one of themarriage counselor couples that
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I follow online, they weretalking about intimacy today,
and they they made the commentit's impossible to have intimacy
in a marriage if you don't haveall three kinds, basically, at
least for the long term.
It's like a three-legged stool.
I've used that analogy on hereon the podcast before.
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If you really want a strongmarriage, your spiritual and
physical and emotional intimacyall have to be strong.
Right.
Otherwise, if you only have oneof the three legs of the stool,
or even two, the stool becomesunstable.
Right.
Anyway.
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Bible verses, Hebrews, what didwe get to?
I think we did eight the otherday, yeah.
So we're on Hebrews chapternine, verses one through ten.
The first covenant between Godand Israel had regulations for
worship and a place of worshiphere on earth.
There were two rooms in thattabernacle.
In the first room were alampstand, a table, and sacred
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loaves of bread on the table.
This room was called the holyplace.
Then there was a curtain, andbehind the curtain was a second
room called the Most Holy Place.
In that room were a gold incensealtar and a wooden chest carved
called the Ark of the Covenant,which was covered with gold on
all sides.
Inside the ark were a gold jarcontaining manna, Aaron's staff
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that sprouted leaves, and thestone tablets of the covenant.
Above the ark were the cherubimof divine glory, whose wings
stretched out over the ark'scover.
The place of atonement, but wecannot explain these things in
detail now.
When these things were all inplace, the priests regularly
entered the first room as theyperformed their religious
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duties.
But only the high priest everentered the most holy place and
only once a year, and he alwaysoffered blood for his own sins
and for the sins the people hadcommitted in ignorance.
By these regulations the HolySpirit revealed that the
entrance to the most holy placewas not freely open as long as
the tabernacle and the system itrepresented were still in use.
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This is an illustration pointingto the present time, for the
gifts and sacrifices that thepriests offer are not able to
cleanse the consciences of thepeople who bring them, for that
old system deals only with foodand drink and various cleansing
ceremonies, physical regulationsthat were in effect only until a
better system could beestablished.
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Psalm one o six thirty twothrough forty eight.
At Meribah too, they, theIsraelites, angered the Lord,
causing Moses serious trouble.
They made Moses angry, and hespoke foolishly.
Israel failed to destroy thenations in the land, as the Lord
had commanded them.
Instead they mingled among thepagans and adopted their evil
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customs.
They worshiped their idols,which led to their downfall.
They even sacrificed their sonsand their daughters to demons.
They shed innocent blood, theblood of their sons and
daughters, by sacrificing themto the idols of Canaan.
They polluted the land withmurder.
They defiled themselves by theirevil deeds, and their love of
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idols was adultery in the Lord'ssight.
This is why the Lord's angerburned against his people, and
he abhorred his own specialpossession.
He handed them over to pagannations, and they were ruled by
those who hated them.
Their enemies crushed them andbrought them under their cruel
power.
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Again and again he rescued them,but they chose to rebel against
him, and they were finallydestroyed by their sin.
Even so he pitied them in theirdistress and listened to their
cries.
He remembered his covenant withthem and relented because of his
unfailing love.
He even caused their captors totreat them with kindness.
Save us, O Lord our God, gatherus back from among the nations,
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so we can thank your holy nameand rejoice and praise you.
Praise the Lord, the God ofIsrael who lives from
everlasting to everlasting.
Let all the people say amen.
Praise the Lord.
Proverbs twenty seven ten.
Never abandon a friend, eitheryours or your father's.
When disaster strikes, you won'thave to ask your brother for
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assistance.
It's better to go to a neighborthan a brother who lives far
away.
Two things out of Psalm 106strike me when we read here.
The first is how much alike weare with the Israelites here,
sacrificing their sons anddaughters, shedding innocent
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blood of their sons anddaughters.
What are we doing today inAmerica that's any different
than that with abortion and theLGBTQ transgender, the
mutilation of children,encouraging them to go down that
path?
It's impossible for us to expectGod's blessing, or it's it's
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very foolish on our part, itseems, to expect God's blessing
when we have shed so much bloodof our own children here in
America over the last 50 years.
And people make light of that,folks, but it is without a doubt
the modern equivalent of slaveryin the 1800s.
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And there is no way we're goingto avoid repaying this debt.
I just, it doesn't seem evenremotely feasible.
You know, Lincoln talked aboutthe fact that the Civil War may
well have been God's requirementon us as a nation.
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God have mercy on us and pity onus for what's coming because of
abortion.
The second thing is verse 35,they mingled with the pagans and
adopted their evil, evilcustoms.
We don't talk enough to ourchildren today about the need to
marry a fellow believer,somebody that really, you know,
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you need to sit and talk.
That ought to be the premiertopic of conversation before you
get married as a young man or awoman, is your top priority God,
right?
When you marry that person, whatyou need to be concerned with,
it's not money, it's not looks,it is is their top priority God.
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Or that do they love God morethan they love you?
Do they love you more than theylove themselves?
And are you willing to love themmore than you love yourself?
Right?
And and just like we talkedabout earlier with Jesus Christ,
how do we know if we loveChrist?
Will we follow his commands?
How do you know if your spouse,if this person is going to love
you, will you talk about theroles and responsibilities that
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God lays out for you as ahusband or you as a wife?
Are they gonna follow that?
Are you gonna follow that?
1 Corinthians 7, 1 Peter 3,Titus 2, Hebrews 13, 4,
Ephesians 5, Song of Solomonthat we're reading through.
I know I've forgotten a coupleothers in there.
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Proverbs 519.
Uh at any rate, it's a big deal,folks, to not be yoked, to not
be tied together with someonewho doesn't believe.
So we're gonna try and get backin order here for our medal of
honors.
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Charles G.
Goodwin, Charles GoodwinBickham, first lieutenant,
highest rank captain, PhilippineInsurrection, twenty seventh
U.S.
Infantry, U.S.
Army, May 2nd, 1902, Bay Yong,near Lake Lot Lanoi, Mendonano,
Philippine Islands, crossed afire swept field in close range
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of the enemy and brought awounded soldier to a place of
shelter.
Accredited to Dayton, MontgomeryCounty, Ohio, not awarded
posthumously, presented April29th, 1904, born august twelfth,
eighteen sixty-seven, Dayton,Montgomery County, Ohio, died
December 14th, 1944.
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Buried Woodlawn Cemetery, 101Tac 1420, Dayton, Ohio, United
States.
Charles Goodwin Bickham.
Another name there, folks.
All right, so our history quotesfor today.
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We don't appreciate the Bibleenough today.
It doesn't seem like, and wecertainly don't seem to
appreciate it as much as ourfounders did.
One of the little insets, right,in these books that I recommend
so often, one of them in ourfounder's Bible is it's titled
Our Most Sacred Treasure, AHistory of the English Bible.
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And it's got quite a few pagesin it.
I don't know how many thisparticular section is, but it's
not short.
Yeah, 15, 16 pages.
But there's two quotes in here.
We've read them before, they'regreat quotes.
During the revolution, we we raninto a problem, and that was
importing Bibles.
And so Congress figured out thatif we don't have these Bibles,
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uh, we're going to be introuble, right?
And one of the one of the quotesfrom then, there was a request
placed before ContinentalCongress, unless timely care be
used to prevent it, we shall nothave Bibles for our schools and
families and for public worshipof God in our churches.
Congress agreed with that andsaid the Congress desire to have
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a Bible printed under their careand by their encouragement.
But they found that it would becheaper to have the Bibles
imported.
Sounds familiar to some thingstoday.
And so Congress recommended theuse of the Bible is so universal
and so and its importance sogreat.
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Let me see, there was somethingelse I wanted.
Yeah, so they ordered the Biblesto be imported.
And then there's another quotein here.
I I don't think those Bibleswere ever imported for some
reason because a man namedRobert Aiken that we've talked
about on here, he ended upactually printing the first
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Bible in the United Statesspecifically for use in schools.
So you see both of thosecomments here about the need for
the Bible in schools.
Our founders didn't want theBible out of school.
They wanted the Bible to be theprimary textbook in the schools.
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But in 1854, there was a groupof people claiming that the
government was violatingseparation of church and state.
Oh, they were allowinggovernment-sponsored religious
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activities, right?
And so this is from the chairmanof the House Judiciary
Committee.
And he cites this 1777 act ofCongress requesting the import
of Bibles.
On the 11th of September, 1777,a committee having consulted
with Dr.
Allison, an early congressionalchaplain, about printing an
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edition of 30,000 Bibles andfinding that they would be
compelled to send abroad fortype and paper with an advance
of ten thousand two hundred andseventy two pounds, over two
million dollars in today'scurrency.
Congress voted to instruct theCommittee of Commerce to import
twenty thousand Bibles fromScotland and Holland into the
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different ports of the Union.
The reason a sign was that theuse of the book was so universal
and important.
Now, what was passing on thatday?
The Army of Washington wasfighting the Battle of
Brandywine.
The gallant soldiers of theRevolution were displaying their
heroic, though unavailing valor.
Twelve hundred soldiers werestretched in death on that
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battlefield.
Lafayette was bleeding.
The booming of the cannon washeard in the hall where Congress
was sitting in Philadelphia, inthe hall from which Congress was
soon to be a fugitive.
At that important hour, Congresswas passing an order for
imposing importing twentythousand Bibles.
And yet we have never heard thatthey were charged by their
generation of any attempt tounite church and state or
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surpassing their powers tolegislate on religious matters.
The more you dig into history,folks, the more you see the idea
of and what we have today, it'svery important that we
understand this.
What we got passed in 1947, whatwas the Supreme Court did?
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They used the phrase separationof church and state, but what
they really were bringing intoour country was separation of
God and state.
Our founders did not at all wantseparation of God and state.
And they're not talking aboutIslam or Buddhism or Hinduism or
atheism or Mother Naturism oranything else, folks.
They're talking about the onetrue God, the Father of Jesus
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Christ, the Son, and the HolySpirit.
They're talking aboutChristianity, that the only true
religion.
They didn't want to separate Godfrom the state.
They wanted to make sure that noparticular denomination was
favored by the state becausethey had seen the persecution in
Europe over the previouscenturies.
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Whether you're talking about theAnglican Church or the Roman
Catholic Church and Britain orEurope as a whole, they had seen
the persecution when a state wasmarried to a church, a
particular denomination, forthose who didn't fall into that
denomination.
That's what they didn't want.
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They wanted it not to matterwhether you were a Baptist or
Methodist, Protestant, Catholic,Orthodox, as long as you were
Christian.
And so you see Congress hereordering these Bibles, and then
you see again in 1854 thechairman of the House Judiciary
Committee saying, look, there'sno violation when the government
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supports Christianity as awhole.
The general principles of JesusChrist.
And we need to remember that,folks.
We ought to be teaching this.
Our kids ought to know this.
The Bible, they wanted the Bibleagain for what?
For the school.
We ought to be teaching ourchildren this in the school.
And the left knows that, folks.
They've known it for a longtime.
They've talked about this for ahundred years off and on.
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They're not doing anything thatthey haven't told us.
The problem is that we'veallowed it.
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I think that's it.
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, the power andthe glory forever and ever.
Amen.
God bless y'all, folks.
God bless your families, yourmarriages.
God bless America.
God bless your nation, whereveryou are around the world.
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We'll talk to y'all again realsoon, folks.
Looking forward to it.