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Speaker 1 (00:03):
It's that time time, time, time, lock and load. The
Michael Verie Show is on the air.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Democrats are desperate for anything they can put forward at
this point, anything that they can sell to the American people.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
But here's the problem.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
It turns out when they get to the whiteboard with
their dry erase markers, when they start writing those things down,
the bullet points are all deeply, deeply totalitarian and anti democratic.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Look, this is a moment where there are no bad ideas,
no bad idea brainstorm is what I'd like to call it.
And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about
what we need to do and think about doing around
the electoral college. We talk about the idea of Supreme
Court reform, which includes expanding the Supreme Court. We invite
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a conversation about multi members districts, talk about stay loved
for Puerto Rico and DC. These are the things I
think that we've got to do. We've got to neutralize
these redsticks for pets to the phone.
Speaker 4 (01:20):
Like the names. And it is time for the North
to pull up to the South.
Speaker 5 (01:43):
It is time for New York to pull up to Alabama.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
It is time for.
Speaker 5 (01:49):
All of us to come to Georgia to Louisiana, to Tennessee,
to Mississippi, and let them know exactly what they have
on COPD With this injustice, they think they can draw
us out of power.
Speaker 4 (02:04):
They do not know the sleeping giant that they just.
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Awakened, because what they thought was the final blow is
actually just the opening silo.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
We all have agencies, we can shape the future. There's
still a lot of it. Look, Okay, I've said this before,
Saul repeated. I don't anticipate this need to be the case,
but there is a break the glass scenario, and there's
so many people that have a deep understanding of what
it would look like if Democrats were locked out, and
we're gonna do everything to make sure that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
We have put together, I think the most extensive and
inclusive voter fraud organization in the history of American.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Polity, Sir, for all of us to come to Georgia,
We're go to California and Texas, to Louisiana, to Tennessee,
New York.
Speaker 6 (03:27):
We're going to South Dakota and Oregon, Touississippi and Washington
and Michigan, and then we're going to watch it at
ec to take back the White House.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
The criminal trial for a former Virginia elementary school assistant
principal began today. This principal accused of ignoring that a
six year old came to school with a loaded gun.
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Principal discovered it, did nothing about it. That gun was
later used to shoot the kid's first grade teacher. It
is said that the assistant principal, Ebony Parker, refused to
act because the six year old kid carrying the gun
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to school was black. The assistant principal is charged with
eight counts of felony child neglect, one for each of
the eight bullets in the gun that was brought into
the classroom these students mother was sentenced to nearly four
years in prison for felony child neglect and federal weapons charges.
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The story from WTKRTV in Norfolk. Where else Virginia.
Speaker 8 (04:52):
Primotal trial for the former assistant principle of Richneck Elementary School,
Ebony Parker, faces eight charges and is accused of not
taking action prior to a six year old shooting his teacher.
In twenty twenty three, I'm News, the reporter Brennant Bonton
covering Newport News and taking a look at what to
expect with the trial. Last fall, a jury found Parker
liable of gross negligence and awarded the teacher Abby's werner
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ten million dollars. This time around, Parker will once again
face a jury, but now in her criminal case.
Speaker 9 (05:20):
I think that's a little bit of a different story
to hold somebody civilly liable and as opposed to criminally liable.
Speaker 8 (05:26):
News three's True Crime seven to five to seven podcast
hosts John Sham recently sat down with local defense attorney
Eric Corslin to talk about the criminal case against Parker.
Parker faces eight felon accounts of child neglect, one for
every bullet in the gun that the six year old
had the shoot again January twenty twenty three gained national
attention because of how unprecedented it was. Corsland is not
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involved in the case and was asked how he thought
a defense attorney would try and defend Ebitee Parker and
how a prosecutor would approach the case.
Speaker 9 (05:55):
I think opening statements will be very powerful as well
to let people know where the prosecution is going with
this case, which I can tell you right now, she
knew about it. She could have prevented it, and the
defense are arguing that this was not her fault. She
didn't cause this, she should not be held responsible for this.
Speaker 8 (06:13):
In a criminal case, if they found her guilty, jurors
would have to have a unanimous verdict that she was
guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. That's a different standard than
a civil case. In a criminal case, you have to
be sure of it.
Speaker 9 (06:25):
You know, perhaps not one hundred percent sure, but you
really got to be sure of it because of what
you're dealing with here. On the civil side, it's what
we call a preponderance of the evidence, so just more
likely than not that she's liable.
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Separately, the boy's mom pleaded guilty for how the child
was able to get the gun and is serving out
her prison sentence. Ebity Parker did not testify in her
civil trial and is not required to testify in this case.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Either.
Speaker 8 (06:50):
Abby's werner did and could be called to the stand again.
Here's what she said in the last trial about the
moments after the shooting.
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I thought I had died, And.
Speaker 8 (06:58):
Now more than three years after the shooting, the latest
twist in the high profile case.
Speaker 7 (07:05):
Wouldn't it be interesting if a trial of a black
principle accused of not punishing a black student for bringing
a gun to school that was loaded, would be decided
by a black juror who said, I'm not punishing her
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because she's black. Wouldn't that be fascinating. The principle is
accused of showing favoritism, refusing to punish a kid because
he was black, And there's evidence in the case to
that effect that Ebony Parker did that she doesn't want
him punished because he's black. Therefore he goes on and
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shoots the teacher. And what if there was a juror
who didn't want her punished. Not punishing a black kid
because he's black. Gosh, it's almost like you could collapse
our entire system if people behaved in a racist manner,
and by racist I mean black people favoring other black people,
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protecting black people because they're black.
Speaker 3 (08:22):
Happen something wrong, well, something must be right.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
You are listening to Michael Berry.
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Two hundred and fifty years ago. Yesterday, on May seventeenth,
seventeen seventy six, something remarkable happened, just weeks before the
founders put pin to the Declaration of Independence. The entire
American colonial effort hit the pause button, not to plan
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battles because they were coming, not for political debate, for prayer.
The Second Continental Congress had passed a resolution back in
March of seventeen seventy six, two months earlier, largely thanks
to William Livingstone, who was a delegate from New Jersey,
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and it officially set May seventeenth aside as a colony
wide day of fasting, humiliation, self subjugation, and prayer. The
idea was straightforward, before asking God for victory the colonists,
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Did I say humiliation? Yeah, humbling humility. The colonists believed
they should first acknowledge their dependence on Him at the
capital age on God, and come clean about their shortcomings.
The language they used was striking. The proclamation framed the
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moment as one in which the liberties of America were
under serious threat, and called on the colonies to publicly
recognize God's authority over human affairs, confess their failures, and
ask for his intervention. They were just going through the motions.
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They were not just going through the motions. Did I
say they were? They were not just going through the motions.
The resolutions specifically asked colonists to seek repentance and implore
God to protect their leaders, hold the colonies together, and
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defeat the Brits. Churches regardless of denomination were encouraged to
hold public worship services, and the people were asked to
set aside their ordinary work for the day. As it
turned out, yesterday wasn't just a history lesson was also
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a live event. Thousands of people gathered on the National
Mall in Washington on Saturday to take part in a
large faith gathering organized by the Trump administration called Rededicate
to fifty National Jubilee of Prayer, Praise and Thanksgiving. The
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event was timed deliberately to coincide with both the twound
and fiftieth anniversary of that original seventeen seventy sixth Day
of Prayer and the nation's upcoming twund and fiftieth Birthday.
Organizers framed it as a chance to bring together Americans
quote united by a love of God and country. The
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crowd heard from religious leaders representing a range of Christian denominations,
along with at least one rabbi. Had a notable political presence.
President Trump, Marco Rubio, and JD. Vance all appeared via
pre recorded video messages. This country was founded in faith.
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But what about separation church and state. Michael that statement,
that concept comes from Thomas Jefferson telling the Westbury Baptists
that what happened in England will not happen here. The
government will not come into a church house and tell
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you how to do business. That was not intended to
keep the church out of government. It was intended to
keep the government out of church. Because you'll remember, when
the king could not be granted a divorce, he declared
himself the head of the Anglican Church. The government took
over the church. That's what we're against, not the role
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of Christians in government. Stop letting them isolate and marginalize
you as people of faith.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
We need you.
Speaker 7 (13:10):
In our government. We need you to be active, We
need you to be voices of reason. What are you
just going to leave it to the Heathens. Let's begin
with President Trump's message, shall we? This is the President
reading from the book of Chronicles.
Speaker 10 (13:31):
Thus Solomon finished the house of the Lord and the
King's house, and all that came into Solomon's heart to
make in the house of the Lord, and in his
own house he prosperously affected. And the Lord appeared to
Solomon by night and said to him, I have heard
your prayer and have chosen this place to myself for
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a house of sacrifice. If I shut up heaven that
there be no rain, or if I command the locusts
to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among
my people, If my people, which are called by my name,
shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face, and
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turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from
heaven and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Speaker 4 (14:24):
Now my eyes.
Speaker 10 (14:25):
Shall be open and my ears a tent to the
prayer that is made in this place. For now I
have chosen and sanctified this house, that my name may
be there forever, and my eyes and my heart shall
be there perpetually. And as for you, if you will
walk before me as David your father walk, and do
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according to all that I have commanded you, and shall
observe my statutes and my judgments, then will I establish
the throne of my thing them according to as I
have covenanted with David your father, saying, there shall not
fail you as a man to be ruler in Israel.
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But if you turn away and forsake my statues and
my commandments, which I have set before you, and shall
go and serve other gods and worship. Then then will
I pluck them up from the roots out of my
land which I have given them. And this house, which
I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out
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of my sight and will make it to be a
proverb and a by word among nations. And this house,
which is high, shall be an astonishment to everyone that
passes by it, so that he shall say, why has
the Lord done thus to this land and to this house?
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And it shall be answered because they forsook the Lord
God of their fathers, which brought them forth out of
the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods
and worshiped them and serve them. Therefore has he brought
all this evil upon them.
Speaker 7 (16:14):
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Speaker 4 (17:18):
Diamonds forever, and so smit them.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
Michael Barry remember that over the weekend at the Rededicate
two fifty event, honoring and remembering the moment that the
colonists two or fifty years ago, they're getting ready, they're
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getting ready to separate from their cousins and from the king,
and they know good and well that this is going
to mean they're going to be destroy in many were
slaughtered by the most powerful navy and army in the world,
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and yet they were such people of principle that they
did it anyway. They were people of principle rooted in faith.
Don't let anybody tell you there is no place for
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faith in this country, in your schools, in your government,
in your workplace. Don't let anybody ever tell you that,
because it's not true. This country was built on faith.
Vice President J. D. Vance said the morality and religion
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that formed the American conscious consciousness were decidedly Christian, founded
on the principles and the divinity of Jesus Christ. If
you are not a Christian, that's not an insult to you.
Saudi Arabia was not founded on Christian principles. Muslim nations
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were founded on Islam. Those that were not all were.
Some end up as Muslim nations. Some are decidedly declared
Muslim nations. The founders of this nation were people of
Christian faith. They proudly proclaimed that that other people came
here who are not proud proclaimers of Christian faith does
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not deny that fact.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
Well, I'm upset.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
You keep saying this country was founded by people of
Christian faith, and I'm not a Christian, so my feelings
are hurt. Well, I suppose you'll have to get over it,
because it does not make it untrue. Facts don't care
about your feelings. As Andrew Breitbart used to brilliantly say,
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here's what jade Van said.
Speaker 11 (20:05):
It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the
providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be
grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection
and favor.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
These were the opening lines.
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Of America's first ever Thanksgiving Proclamation. Whatever Miles Stone it
represented in the brief life of our young republic, the
duty Washington described to honor, obey, and give thanks to
our creator was woven into America's character long before the founding.
A keen awareness of that duty has stretched all the
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way back from William Bradford's own Pilgrim Proclamation in sixteen
twenty three, to the opening prayer of our first Continental Congress,
to Lincoln's call for national thanksgiving in the midst of
the Civil War, to this very gathering today. We have
always been and still are a nation of prayer, and
thank God for that. In times of suffering and in
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times of triumph, millions of Americans continue to turn to
prayer and their faith in God. John Adams famously said
that our constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of
any other.
Speaker 1 (21:24):
It was obvious to.
Speaker 11 (21:25):
The founders that our faith was the ground upon which
America stands.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
It was our very.
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Foundation as a people, and if this foundation were to crumble,
so too would the very values that make us Americans.
From our religious inheritance comes many of the virtues and
institutions we most cherish as a people, our system of justice,
our generosity to neighbors, our respect for conscience, and the
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moral discipline necessary for liberty itself. As my dear friend,
the late Great Charlie Kirk put it, all, law reflects
a morality. Neither law nor morality appears in a vacuum,
but ultimately come from religion. And the morality and religion
that formed the American consciousness were decidedly Christian, founded upon
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the principles and the divinity of Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
In seventeen eighty three, Washington.
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Also proclaimed that imitation of divine charity is necessary for
the mutual affection of our citizenry and the happiness of
our nation. If we do not see that God loves us,
we have little reason and little inspiration to love one another.
This love, which forms our morality, is the foundation.
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Of a peaceful and healthful society.
Speaker 11 (22:46):
That's why it's so encouraging to see a renewed sense
of faith emerging among America's young people, Defying predictions the
experts said that religion and faith were dying. Today, a
wave of young Americans.
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Is real turning to the pews, and we know that
they're looking for meaning.
Speaker 11 (23:04):
For authority, for direction, and of course for closeness with God.
That should give all of us hope for our future
together as Americans.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
It certainly gives me hope. As your Vice President.
Speaker 7 (23:15):
I would like to quickly read the letter that then
President Thomas Jefferson wrote to the panicked Baptists of Westborough.
I said Westbury earlier. That's a Tennis community in Houston
of Westborough who were worried that government would intrude in
the matters of the Baptist Association, to which he wrote, gentlemen,
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the affectionate sentiment of esteem and appromation, which you are
so good to express.
Speaker 10 (23:44):
Me.
Speaker 7 (23:44):
Ah, that's great. And he says, believing with you that
religion is a matter which lies solely between man and
his God, that he owes account to none other for
his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of
government reach action only and not opinions. I contemplate with
sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which
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declared that their legislature would quote, make no law respecting
an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,
thus building a wall of separation between church and state.
Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation,
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in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see
with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend
to restore to man all his natural rights, that means
given by God, convinced he has no natural right in
opposition to his social duties. I reciprocate your kind prayers
for the protection and blessing of the common Father and
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creator of man, and tendered you for yourselves and your
religious association assurances of my high respect and esteem. Thomas Jefferson,
January first eighteen oh two. This became known as strict
separationism or the wall of separation. And I want to
make sure you understand this so that you do not
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get duped by the left again, because their intentions are
evil and what they hope to achieve is the fall
of the church as we know it because they can't
have a Christian church. Their church is the government. I
want to be very clear. Separation of church and state
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was intended and must be the separation of the church
from the state, not the state from the church. The
church is a free association of individuals, just as you
can have political action committees or BLM or anything else.
The state shall not interfere in the church. That is
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the only wall. The church and it its members are free,
and I would argue duty bound to participate in the government.
Speaker 1 (26:06):
You are listening to the Michael Berry chef.
Speaker 7 (26:10):
The imagery of our Bible is very clear. Suffering to
be a person of faith does not mean that you
win political offices, that you make new friends, that you
have new customers to whom you can sell real estate
or insurance. You're a popular guy because you're at the
right church. Our faith, our follow our journey is about suffering.
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It is not a professional pecuniary gain. It is difficult.
That was the message National Intelligence Director Tulsey Gabbard recalled
the original call to prayer by the Continental Congress in
seventeen seventy six. They knew they would need God's favor
to defeat the most powerful navy and army in the
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world world and that was England.
Speaker 12 (27:03):
And fifty years ago today, on May seventeen, seventeen seventy six,
the Second Continental Congress called for a day of humility, fasting,
and prayer, just weeks before they declared independence. Our founders
didn't stride forward in pride. They knelt. They asked for
God's mercy. They asked for his guidance, because they knew
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that the cause before them was beyond their own strength. Now, today,
exactly two hundred and fifty years later, we gather here
on the National Mall to do the same, To give thanks,
to ask for forgiveness, and to humbly ask once more
for God's mercy and guidance as we enter the next
two hundred and fifty years of this republic. Now, our
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founders knew their time was short. They knew that the
road ahead was uncertain. The foundation of our independence is
our dependence upon the Supreme Soul, who's the supreme Controller.
Now all of us and all of our leaders need
to get on our knees and prostrate ourselves before the
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Supreme Lord, acknowledging that we are totally dependent upon him
for our success, indeed for our survival. Too often leaders
in this world have our eyes covered by pride born
out of our.
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Relative power, fame, or authority.
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We lose sight of the fact that we are tiny
and our time on this planet is extremely short, and
yet we see ourselves as the controllers, competing with each
other over who is number one. But the truth is
there's only one number one, and that's God. Our leaders
two hundred and fifty years ago knew this. They knew
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that we could not rely on our own strength, our
own fame, our own power, our own intelligence, but were
completely dependent upon God's favor. And so they humbly approached
that day of fasting two hundred and fifty years ago,
asking God for his protection, his guidance, his mercy. We
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are at this time totally dependent upon God to light
our path so that we can successfully navigate the troubled
waters that we are in into a future where our
children and their children and generations for hundreds and thousands
of years can live in peace, freedom and prosperity. So
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on this day, let us humble ourselves before God. Let
us beg for His mercy and guidance. Let us be
willing to forgive those who have offended us, as we
ask God to forgive us for our trespasses. And let
us all today, in the privacy of our own homes
and hearts, take shelter in God's love and remember him Allah.
Speaker 7 (29:57):
And finally there was the speech by Marco Rubio, and
a number of folks with whom I spoke, who watched
these or watched them after I sent them to them,
But maybe he had the best message of the day.
He said that our nation, more than any other, has
been shaped by Christian ideals, and he is right.
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On this day, two and a half centuries ago, our
forefathers gathered for the second time in as many years
for a national day of fasting and prayer. The resolution
of the Continental Congress called on the thirteen colonies to
humble themselves in preparation for the coming war, with true
penitence of heart and the most reverent devotion publicly to
acknowledge the overruling providence of God. In three and a
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half months time, the colonists would be an open revolt
against the most powerful empire in the history of the world.
Many on both sides of the Atlantic thought their cause
was a suicide mission. The founders were not naive men.
They knew their lives were on the line. That was
the premise of Benjamin Franklin's dark joke after signing the
Declaration of Independence, where he said, we must indeed all
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hang together, or most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
They had no guarantees of victory. They knew that what
they were trying to do had never been done before
in human history. But with the dark storm clouds of
war looming on the horizon, they did what Christians have
always done across place and time for two thousand years.
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They turned their eyes to heaven and placed their faith
in the hands of God. It is no coincidence that America,
from the very beginning, has occupied a unique and exceptional
place in world history. Before the Christian West, most societies
and civilizations, for that matter, thought in stagnant cycles. The
flooding of denial, the return of the rains, the cycle
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of the harvest. History for them was a wheel to nowhere.
It turned and turned, only to end up back where
it began. But our faith calls outwards into the lipmless
darkness of the unknown. It tells us to go forth
and preach the Gospel to the world as a witness,
and to all nations unto the ends of the earth.
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From that command came America. Our nation, more than any
other in history, was shaped by this Christian idea. We
saw it at work already in sixteen thirty, more than
a century before the Revolution, when John Winthrop stood on
the deck of the Arabella in the middle of the
Atlantic Ocean and preached a sermon to his fellow Puritan colonists.
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We shall be as a city upon a hill. He
told them, the eyes of all people are upon us.
That same faith pushed America further to new frontiers. It
was the engine of westward expansion. Who will respond to
the call from beyond the rocky mountains? One reverend wrote
in a public message to the American churches in eighteen
thirty three, calling for a wave of missionaries to leave
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the comforts of civilization and spread the gospel in the wilderness,
and countless Americans answered that call. It was the same
faith that was at work when Samuel Morse sent the
first long distance telegraph message in eighteen forty four. His
message was a verse from the Book of Numbers, What
hath God wrought? And on Christmas Eve nineteen sixty eight,
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three American astronauts orbited the Moon. They were the first
men in history to witness and earth rise from lunar orbit,
to look back at the blue marble of our home
from a quarter million miles away.
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The world was watching it.
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It was the largest television audience in the history of
the world up to that point. And what did they say?
They opened the Book of Genesis. In the beginning, God
created the heavens and the earth. This is who we are,
It is who we have always been. America is still
a young nation measured against the record of history.
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And from the beginning we.
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Have carried the belief that our country represents something new
in the world. But the soul of our nation has
always been rooted in an ancient faith.
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Be proud of your faith, proclaim it, whatever that faith
may be. Somehow, every religion other than Christianity feels comfortable
doing that, somehow Christians have grown silent. The Bible doesn't say,
proclaim your faith when it's convenient, or you might pick
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up more clients. What does the Bible say, very clear,
thank you and good night,