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real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth equip the saints and impact our culture. You know if America is such a bad

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place why is it that every year more people immigrate here legally than all of

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the other nations combined every year think about that I'm a little

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feisty this morning I'm sick and tired of the propaganda and the trash of

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revisionists and of those who try to change our nation's history.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast.

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Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled

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life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings to us

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you here is Jack Kibs.

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We cannot look at world history without being overwhelmed as Americans that

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world history has been much made up of by what God did through America. When we

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talk about American exceptionalism we're not talking about Americans being

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better than anybody else you need to understand that. American exceptionalism

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means that God did miraculous things with common people and to be an

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American is to be common people who have come together for the same cause. To be

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an American is a choice your passport doesn't guarantee that you're an

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American your passport guarantees that you're a citizen of this nation but to be

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an American is something of the spirit. It's some decision that you make based

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upon what this nation stands for and you are sitting in the most grand

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experiment of human government in the history of man. It's absolutely awesome and

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remarkable. When in the founding of our fathers and in the Pilgrim era before

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that it was understood that the new world across the seed they would say would

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be a land of freedom. Now many attempts were made to colonize the east coast of

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the United States and if you focus on any particular group you could come away

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with the selective part of history. Many of you have heard you've heard of the

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1619 project have you not heard of that? Your kids are being taught that

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trash in school. Why? Because our modern day system has decided to dial down on

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one little segment of American history and of course they picked the bad.

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None of the settlements worked well at all until it says though God was waiting until 1620

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when the separatist Pilgrims left Europe coming here to worship God aboard the Mayflower.

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And if you have any doubt you need to read the Mayflower Compact as I often

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challenge you as this church to read if you have any doubt. But in 1620 that settlement

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took hold barely took hold but it made it. While the others failed based on slavery based on

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possessions based on wealth based on manipulation based on the English crown they failed.

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One settle and that was the Pilgrims of 1620. The book of Jeremiah says in chapter 16 verse 17

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for his eyes are on all their ways and that was a verse mentioned by William Bradford regarding the

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journey of the Pilgrim fathers. I want to draw to your attention throughout this message moments

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of American history. Why are you out of go out today and thank God that you were either born here

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or that you immigrated here. I like to send that by the way. You know if America is such a bad place

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why is it that every year more people immigrate here legally than all of the other nations combined

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every year? Think about that. I'm a little feisty this morning. I'm sick and tired of the propaganda

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and the trash of revisionists and of those who try to change our nation's history. So on Saturday

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July 28th 1787 at the age of 81 years of age Benjamin Franklin stood in addressed Congress

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and I quote in this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth

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and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us. How has it happened sir that we have not

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hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the father of lights to illuminate our understandings?

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In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain when we were sensible of danger and we had

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daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers sir were heard and they were

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graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent

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instances of super intending providence in our favor. I have lived sir a long time and the longer

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I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men.

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And if a sparrow can fall to the ground without his notice is it probable that an empire can rise

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without his aid said Ben Franklin and by the way from that moment from that challenge they

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went to prayer and read American history. Well yeah everything changed from that moment on.

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After Franklin's challenge we wound up watching the fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence.

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We saw the drafting and the crafting of the constitution and a nation was off on its way to make

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its place known among the nations of the world. Make you wonder though that Franklin must have

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been wondering regarding that sparrow Jesus said in Matthew chapter 10 verse 29 what is the price

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of two sparrows is that not one copper coin but a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your

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father knowing it. That's the heart of our God. And so as I read to you right now just the moment

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the opening throws of the Declaration of Independence you would do well to study more at your leisure

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about what God was doing. 56 men brought together of an intellect each of them that is still to

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this day unknown unparalleled in human history that in one room 56 geniuses who sacrificed their

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money their property their freedoms their liberty and gave all some more than others.

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Many times we forget that guys like George Washington who was considered one of the top five

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wealthiest men in the colonies and the wealthiest man John Hancock both of them when Congress

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couldn't get their act together both of them from their own bank accounts funded the American

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Revolution War machine themselves John Adams being married to Abigail for 14 years out of those

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14 years he spent seven years in Europe trying to negotiate support for the American cause

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they sacrificed today America needs to get back and embrace sacrifice

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we need to watch out for leisure we need to be careful about affluence we write on the heels and

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we stand on the shoulders of these giants who gave everything so much so there are people who burn

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the flag based on the liberty that they bought us there are people who protest against this state

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and those who gave sacrifice gave you the first amendment right to say so it's amazing this

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this morning I looked at the some video that was sent to me by somebody I know that's all I'll say

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of what's happening in Morocco well people are fleeing Africa and trying to make it into

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Morocco the moment they cross the border they remote down no questions asked

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moved down beat the death destroyed seeking shelter and safety and yet on this nation's

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East Coast stands a statue of liberty inviting all those who want peace and all those who want

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a chance and all those who want prosperity and all those who want to have religious freedom to

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come here and still today as messed up as she is we want to make sure that we understand that

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she's been messed up by the hands of politicians who don't know anything about what we're talking about

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today in this service more on that later frankly would know nothing about it but Jefferson the

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craftsman in the Declaration of Independence in Congress July 4th 1776 the unanimous declaration of

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the 13 United States when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people

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to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the

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powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which laws of nature and natures

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God entitled them a decent decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should

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declare the causes which impel them to the separation and here it comes we hold these truths to be

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self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain

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unalienable rights and among these are the among these are the life liberty and the pursuit of

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happiness church family those words had never been uttered in the realm of political dialogue

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in the history of man ever never were the people invited to take control of their own destiny

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it was always despots kings and rulers and when Jefferson wrote that we hold these truths

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to be self-evident he's talking about what would be the first amendment that inside of you

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is this understanding and longing and knowing that you've got to be free and you're going to

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say what you think and you are going to do what you do because God has made you a person

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of individual actions and so that's why that's the first amendment and that you can outlaw

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worship but people will worship anyway and that's why it's in the first amendment

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and today like never before we need to remember and we need to restate it over and over again the

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first amendment declares that you may worship as your conscience dictates and the government cannot

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hinder you or molest you in your worship that is the first amendment of the United States you

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want to talk about separation of church and state in the context of the founding fathers

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they understood it perfectly well think about it to this day congress is opened up in prayer

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every day since Benjamin Franklin why is that the case because they understood the separation

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of church and state why is it today that we've got bibles that are not only all about but we've

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got a capital in our nation that is full of Bible Bible references Bible moments inscribed in

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granite why why because they understood the separation of church and state and then this that the

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state will not molest our hinder our worship it's not the other way around it's not the CNN version

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it's not MSNBC's version of it we need to remember that there is no place in this nation where your

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faith is prohibited according to the constitution of the United States and our founders understood that

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and they laid down their lives for that number one church when in the course of human events

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there was the move of God God moves in the course of human events one of the great things about today

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gathering together is that you and I are living in our moment when God moved we have a tendency to

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memorialize God's movements in history and we sterilize them the first thing I want you to see today

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that went in the course of human events there's the move of God and when I talk about that I speak

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regarding our past you got to remember when we see those great paintings of our of our founding

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fathers dressed in a peril of the day we wonder what funny clothes they didn't think they were

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wearing funny clothes none of them walked around and said look at us wearing our funny clothes

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and isn't it amazing that we're making history they lived in the moment you're living in the

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moment right now for your generation for your age in many ways there's no difference they chose

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to go against impossible adversity we don't have to talk about it but in our constitution it is

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against the law for the United States Armed Forces to quarter their troops among our citizenry

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you say what does that mean in this 13 colonies the British used to come in when they were hungry

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into your house and when they ate your food they would sleep with your daughter or your wife

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and our founder said that's wrong they would come in and they would take our guns and our

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powder which in those days meant that you're basically disdain you to starvation and our founders

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said that's wrong and when we had to ship our sermons back to Britain to be censored before they

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could be preached our black robe regimen of the pulpits of the colonial period said that's wrong

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and it's not gonna happen we're gonna preach what God says if you like it or not King George

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and they did it there was a move of God went in the course of human events and it was with Bible

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in hand America can boast this it's not only a fact that you can read about and there's libraries

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of books full of these events but there's paintings to capture it as well but I like to take you

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back I love the fact that pastor Robert Hunt listen to this chaplain of Jamestown Virginia

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he first lifted his voice and public thanks given in prayer get the date on April 29 1607

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when the settlers planted across at Cape Henry from that time on the settlers of Jamestown

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attended regular prayer in Bible study meaning led by Hunt before a chapel could be erected

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when Hunt held his first services they were held under the old sale from off of off their ship

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he pitched a easy up yes it were and had a sermon and I don't know if you've been to Jamestown

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but we've stood in the very spot and I took some pictures pretending I was preaching

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at the spot where that sale was erected it's marked today but it's quite remarkable quite awesome

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but it went on among the congregation was a captain John Smith anybody remember studying

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about him who described the worship services that took place in the open air as being

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attended to by God John Smith said of pastor Hunt's labors he saw the hand of God at work

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in his life and he believed God had intervened to save the colonies

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Hunt concluded that it was God who had thwarted Spanish attempts to settle North America

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and he had reserved that region for the Protestant English there's a lot of facts to back that up

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with Bible and hand moving forward the great awakening would take place the first great awakening

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according to the encyclopedia Britannica and I quote the increase of disagreement from the

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established churches English churches split during this period which led to a broader toleration

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of religious diversity and the return of the religious experience which listen fed the fervor

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that resulted in the American revolution if you ever ask yourself from or want to know the answer

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how did the revolution ever begin did Jefferson or Franklin wake up one day was it Sam Adams

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that said we're not gonna do this anymore we're gonna start a revolution no listen it all started

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in the preaching of the pulpits that I mentioned a moment ago called the black robe regimen

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that term was a derogatory term that was brought against them by the king of England

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England understood they were not only fighting a bunch of farmers turned soldiers

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they had heard rumors about George Washington being a bumbling fool he was a colonel in the British

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army if you remember that and at the battle of Brandywine he was the only one to survive

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what what is he going to do but then what happened was it was the spirit that was behind the effort

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the fight for liberty and freedom absolutely awesome I think we have the pictures it's not

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it's not a it's not a selfie or anything but while you're looking at that let me explain just to kind

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of rub it in some of you may know just by the way that he wore his hair he had a high forehead

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he stood on he preached in the open air you want to know why this is a big deal some of you historians

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get it immediately you know his name because what he was doing right there is 100% illegal you're

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not allowed to do that England forbade that you couldn't deliver a message unless it was indoors

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this young man and I mean young man left England and he came here and he's known as one of the

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founding fathers of the American Revolution unofficially I think it should be more official that's

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George Whitfield have you ever heard of orphanages he started orphanages in Georgia in the colonies

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George Whitfield Benjamin Franklin funded George Whitfield's missionary outreaches to the colonies

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then Franklin recorded that in one time delivering a message on Boston Common George Whitfield was

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reaching with his voice without magnification amplification he was reaching 30,000 people

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that those who heard him preach said that the atmosphere was divinely energized that people could

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supernaturally hear him preach a quarter a mile away America was taking place

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why because there was a people in the pursuit of freedom marked that down if you would

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the pursuit of freedom with Bible in hand if you open up your Bible you're going to find something

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that God has put within your heart the love of freedom the love of freedom is not bound up

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in red white and blue it's not bound up in her constitution it's not bound up in her declaration

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of independence the love of freedom is bound up in the human heart and it's addressed in the Bible

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Jesus said I've come to set you free not enslaved you the Bible says you're free in Christ Jesus

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so no longer become entangled in the affairs of this life free the pursuit of freedom

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