WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:10.040 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Everybody we're going to be 3 00:00:10.040 --> 00:00:14.760 wrapping up our conversation regarding God in American history. Is that a myth? 4 00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:19.280 Is that real? We'll talk about it. 5 00:00:20.080 --> 00:00:26.400 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast. 6 00:00:26.400 --> 00:00:31.760 Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled 7 00:00:31.760 --> 00:00:36.600 life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us 8 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:41.760 that's like saying amen or yes. Then that rating will encourage others to 9 00:00:41.760 --> 00:00:47.280 listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack 10 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:51.840 Kibs. Hey everybody welcome back to the podcast here and we're going to be 11 00:00:51.840 --> 00:00:58.800 talking about our fourth and final discussion regarding our founding as a 12 00:00:58.800 --> 00:01:03.400 nation, the involvement of God. A lot of people want to argue about that today. 13 00:01:03.400 --> 00:01:10.280 And I wonder if everybody to take this to heart. People want to argue about the 14 00:01:10.280 --> 00:01:16.440 existence of God in the formation of America. And I want you guys to know that 15 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:26.120 is a argument that began to very, very loosely arise in about 1925 and it's 16 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:32.880 escalated since. There's a reason for this. Number one, I avoid American history 17 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:40.960 that is written after 1925. I just don't trust most of the authors because 18 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:45.800 many of them are revisionist and many of them. Here's the reason why it's not 19 00:01:45.800 --> 00:01:54.920 because I'm being a bigot or I'm being a stinker or I'm being self-blinded to 20 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:59.000 other views. I don't care about other views. I only care about the facts. I'm 21 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:03.080 going to go with John Adams and I'm going to agree with him when he said facts are 22 00:02:03.080 --> 00:02:09.600 stubborn things. So from about 1925, 1929, there was a movement in the public 23 00:02:09.600 --> 00:02:14.720 school system to begin to change the narrative. And by the way, there was a lot 24 00:02:14.720 --> 00:02:19.600 going on in America at that time in or around that vicinity of time, like the 25 00:02:19.600 --> 00:02:26.640 Scopes trial and the ejection of God and creation out of the mind of America's 26 00:02:26.640 --> 00:02:31.160 education system. But one of the things also was the commencement of 27 00:02:31.160 --> 00:02:36.400 revisionism. And that was, and it's in effect now more than ever, they're 28 00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:42.640 winning. And that is to erase God from the founding of America. The beautiful 29 00:02:42.640 --> 00:02:49.680 thing is it can only happen to a silly person. That attack can only happen to a 30 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:55.720 silly person. Let me explain to you what I mean by silly. Silly meaning I don't 31 00:02:55.720 --> 00:03:00.160 want to know anything. I want you to spoon feed me something. Give me a 15-second 32 00:03:00.160 --> 00:03:04.440 sound bite and I'll be okay with that. Doesn't it have to be true? Just tell me 33 00:03:04.440 --> 00:03:09.720 something. And if I have a predisposition, in other words, if I don't believe in 34 00:03:09.720 --> 00:03:14.600 God, and if I don't want to believe that this was a nation founded upon Christian 35 00:03:14.600 --> 00:03:20.040 values, then tell me something that backs up what I want to hear. And people 36 00:03:20.040 --> 00:03:25.320 grab that and they run with it. So today our public education system is running 37 00:03:25.320 --> 00:03:32.960 with a godless America. Why are they so anti-founding father? For example, every 38 00:03:32.960 --> 00:03:44.440 single one of the sillies are anti-faith, anti-founding fathers. They will never 39 00:03:44.440 --> 00:03:50.640 mention a constitutional republic. They always mention democracy. We've mentioned 40 00:03:50.640 --> 00:03:55.240 that before. Big, big, big, big, big talk on democracy, but you better watch out 41 00:03:55.240 --> 00:04:00.640 because, but trust me, those of you on the other end of this this camera right 42 00:04:00.640 --> 00:04:07.040 now, the last thing you want is a pure democracy. It's absolute despotism. We have a 43 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:13.200 constitutional republic where not a handful of people are in charge, at least supposedly. 44 00:04:13.200 --> 00:04:19.240 We're supposed to be in charge. We, the people. And it's the greatest political experiment 45 00:04:19.240 --> 00:04:24.560 the world has ever seen, the United States of America. But let's talk about in the ending 46 00:04:24.640 --> 00:04:31.920 of our series. Let's talk about in many ways how it began. So when you talk about the founding 47 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:41.000 fathers, our founding fathers were guided by who they called their founding fathers. You 48 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:46.120 say, well, that's weird. You mean our founding fathers had founding fathers? Oh, yes, absolutely. 49 00:04:46.120 --> 00:04:52.280 And they didn't shy away from letting us know, letting us know who they were. The original 50 00:04:52.280 --> 00:04:59.120 founding fathers were the pilgrim fathers that got off the Mayflower. But before they 51 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:07.200 got off the Mayflower, they created the Mayflower Compact. So if you want to know facts about America 52 00:05:07.200 --> 00:05:14.360 in its birthing, take the time to read the two paragraphs of the Mayflower Compact 1620. 53 00:05:14.360 --> 00:05:21.080 Isn't it sad? I have to warn you, by the way, that there are people, and this is increasing. 54 00:05:21.400 --> 00:05:25.560 There are people who have taken the original and they've edited it and they've put it online. 55 00:05:26.680 --> 00:05:36.680 So watch out. So Google are searched for the original Mayflower Compact. It's very, very sad. 56 00:05:36.680 --> 00:05:45.840 Thank God it's enshrined in Washington DC where people tour and see it every day. But you'll 57 00:05:45.840 --> 00:05:52.000 find out that right there written in English is the fact that we've come here to proclaim the 58 00:05:52.000 --> 00:06:00.000 gospel upon this continent. And we're doing so to the glory of God. But let's move forward. Those 59 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:06.160 are the guys that our founding fathers said were their founding fathers. So let's move to 1787. 60 00:06:07.040 --> 00:06:17.040 1787 far and removed out from 1776. 1776, when we declared our independence from England, 61 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:21.760 technically, even though there had been some military skirmishes leading up to that, 62 00:06:22.320 --> 00:06:31.040 the wheels of liberty and freedom had been politically in play from about 1773, maybe even 63 00:06:31.120 --> 00:06:40.960 earlier. Somebody might even argue that the wheels began rolling in or around 1765 and what is known 64 00:06:42.080 --> 00:06:49.520 as the Boston, I'm sorry, the, yes, the Boston massacre. There was the Boston Tea Party, 65 00:06:50.320 --> 00:06:58.960 and there was the Boston massacre. So the wheels of political liberty and freedom were already 66 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:08.560 turning. And there was a guy who was the leader of the gang. He was a rebel. In fact, he was number one 67 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:17.520 on King George III's death list. If you find this guy, his troops were ordered. If you find 68 00:07:17.520 --> 00:07:25.600 this guy, no trial for him, hang him the day you find him. And that was the order of King George 69 00:07:25.760 --> 00:07:32.880 III regarding Samuel Adams. Samuel Adams, in my opinions, the biggest, the greatest hero outside 70 00:07:32.880 --> 00:07:42.400 of Washington himself of our nation's founding. But so 1787, we have the constitutional convention 71 00:07:42.400 --> 00:07:49.120 that's taking place. And this is what's going on. If you were to step into the room, it was crazy. 72 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:57.360 Number one, you've got 13 colonies completely independent. They've got their own government. 73 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:02.560 They've got their own representation. They've got their own economies. They've got their own 74 00:08:02.560 --> 00:08:11.520 currencies. They've got their own judicial systems. They are complete intact separate colonies. 75 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:22.480 And they also have differing, varying denominational beliefs when it comes to God. Don't 76 00:08:22.480 --> 00:08:28.000 get me wrong. They believed in the Bible. They had the Geneva Bible. They would later go 77 00:08:28.640 --> 00:08:36.320 and add the Thompson Bible. But they're united on the doctrines of the Word of God. That's the only 78 00:08:36.400 --> 00:08:44.480 place that they were really united on these colonies. But when it came to denominational persuasion, 79 00:08:44.480 --> 00:08:50.080 what flavor are you? Do you worship standing up, or sitting down? Do you open your eyes and look up 80 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:56.400 to heaven? Or do you bow your head and close your eyes when you pray? Do you baptize forward or 81 00:08:56.400 --> 00:09:02.160 backwards? Do you sprinkle? These are the things that they argued about. Some were enabaptist, 82 00:09:02.160 --> 00:09:10.880 some were constitutionalists, some were Methodist, some were Quakers. One thing they all 83 00:09:10.880 --> 00:09:17.600 made sure of, oh boy, this is going to be controversial, but it's 100% true. Is they made 84 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:28.080 sure that no one in leadership in all of the 13 colonies, no one was a Catholic. Isn't that 85 00:09:28.080 --> 00:09:34.720 amazing? Here's the reason why. They said there is no way that we could have a Catholic be 86 00:09:34.720 --> 00:09:41.920 involved in what we're doing because we're relying upon God to guide us. And the Catholic is 87 00:09:41.920 --> 00:09:49.280 looking upon the Pope to guide him. So we don't want, they called it popery, not popery, like 88 00:09:50.160 --> 00:09:59.440 flower smell, popery, the control or influence of the Pope in the governance of the colonies. 89 00:09:59.440 --> 00:10:05.920 And so that's why, by the way, many of you are too young to know this, but in my lifetime, 90 00:10:05.920 --> 00:10:14.400 there was a big shakeup in America because a president or somebody was running for president, 91 00:10:15.280 --> 00:10:19.920 and he was a Catholic. It had never happened before. What are you going to do? What are we going to 92 00:10:19.920 --> 00:10:26.240 do about it? And that guy wound up getting elected and I'm talking about John F. Kennedy. 93 00:10:27.200 --> 00:10:32.880 John F. Kennedy, or otherwise known as Jack Kennedy. President Kennedy was a Catholic, 94 00:10:32.880 --> 00:10:38.960 first Catholic in American history. That was a big deal. But here's their so split, 95 00:10:38.960 --> 00:10:46.400 the Northern colonies are saying freedom, liberty, let's do this full bore. The Southern 96 00:10:47.280 --> 00:10:54.800 colonies are saying, with you all the way, but this slave talk, wait a minute, we need slaves. 97 00:10:55.360 --> 00:11:02.240 Massachusetts, everybody, listen to this. Again, I'm sorry if I come across sarcastic sometimes, 98 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:08.560 it's just because I get so excited about the facts. Did you know that Massachusetts never had 99 00:11:08.560 --> 00:11:15.840 slavery? Did you know that Sam Adams and John Adams? Did you know they never had slaves? Never. 100 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:21.840 They hated it from the beginning, from the beginning. They saw that it was wrong. The Southern 101 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:28.240 states had slaves. Now many of those slaves, not all, many of those slaves were inherited by some 102 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:34.640 of our founding fathers. For example, Jefferson inherited his slaves. Washington inherited his slaves 103 00:11:34.640 --> 00:11:40.880 from his family. Before you call them rich white guys who were slave owners, you need to finish 104 00:11:40.880 --> 00:11:48.720 the sentence. They were rich white guys who were slave owners who clothed, fed, and in many cases, 105 00:11:48.720 --> 00:11:55.840 took very good care of their slaves while at the same time juggling two worlds at the same time, 106 00:11:55.840 --> 00:12:00.480 as I need to take care of these people because if I throw them out, they'll starve to death and 107 00:12:00.640 --> 00:12:05.760 or be captured or killed. But on the other hand, I need to work toward their freedom. 108 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:12.960 So there was a huge argument between the colonies about the coming together of this nation. 109 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:17.600 They bickered about currency. They bickered about trade. They bickered about 110 00:12:18.640 --> 00:12:24.320 who's in charge leadership. Listen to this, a big one, which is why we have, by the way, 111 00:12:24.400 --> 00:12:32.480 the Electoral College, which is a genius invention. By the way, this is another asset test. 112 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:39.680 When people freak out about the Electoral College, you need to know for, you need to know instantly 113 00:12:39.680 --> 00:12:44.400 you're you're talking to either a somebody who doesn't know a thing that they're talking about. 114 00:12:44.400 --> 00:12:50.720 And there's it's wrong, it's wrong. Or they do know what they're talking about and they're not 115 00:12:50.720 --> 00:12:55.200 really American. That's a strong statement, but check it out and see. Here's the reason why it's 116 00:12:55.200 --> 00:13:04.000 so good is because some of the wealthier colonies, they said we should have a bigger say in government. 117 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:11.120 So when we when all of us 13 come together, our voice counts for many voices because we've got more 118 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:18.480 money. For example, Massachusetts and Virginia were the powerhouses economically and militarily. 119 00:13:18.560 --> 00:13:25.120 And so they said, our vote should count for like 10 votes. Well, some of the smaller states, 120 00:13:25.120 --> 00:13:32.320 like Rhode Island said, excuse me. I thought we're all going to be equal on this. And so they hammered 121 00:13:32.320 --> 00:13:37.920 they thought and all of this bickering and fighting, they couldn't come to an agreement. 122 00:13:38.400 --> 00:13:48.800 And by now, listen up by now, there's an old man sitting in the room. He's somewhere in or around 123 00:13:48.800 --> 00:14:00.400 maybe even north of 80, 81, 82 years of age. His life had been filled. In fact, I encourage you to 124 00:14:00.400 --> 00:14:11.040 read about his life. Any writing about his life that really covers him before 1925. Read about 125 00:14:11.040 --> 00:14:19.680 Benjamin Franklin, his upbringing, his childhood, the abuse of him. He ran away. He went to Europe. 126 00:14:19.680 --> 00:14:25.680 You need to learn about that. He learned to trade printing. He worked at a family members printing 127 00:14:26.160 --> 00:14:36.320 press. But his achievements, I may be wrong about this, but there was a time and not too distant 128 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:41.840 history where Ben Franklin held more patents than any other American. I don't know if that's still 129 00:14:41.840 --> 00:14:50.240 true, but it was true for I think over a century, maybe two centuries. Ben Franklin invented the 130 00:14:50.320 --> 00:14:56.720 bifocals, for example, for your eyeglasses. Ben Franklin invented swim fins for your feet. I 131 00:14:56.720 --> 00:15:09.520 appreciate that. Ben Franklin invented, he invented medical devices for prostate surgery. Ben 132 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:20.080 Franklin. Ben Franklin in London, England, Ben Franklin saved the cathedral, St. Paul's cathedral 133 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:27.680 in London. He saved it by inventing the Franklin rod. Did you know that the house that you live in 134 00:15:27.680 --> 00:15:33.360 right now or the office building that you work in right now has a Franklin rod in it? Every building 135 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:39.040 in America, now the world has a Franklin rod. That means when lightning strikes your house, it 136 00:15:39.040 --> 00:15:44.720 doesn't blow your house up anymore. It hits the Franklin rod that is inside your home. 137 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:51.840 If struck by lightning, it takes the lightning bolt down through your home and into the earth 138 00:15:51.840 --> 00:15:56.640 and it dissipates underneath your house. Ben Franklin did that. Did you know that Ben Franklin, 139 00:15:56.640 --> 00:16:01.840 I'm totally getting off topic. Did you know that Ben Franklin was the first one to put in gas 140 00:16:01.920 --> 00:16:07.600 lighting and the streets of Boston? Ben Franklin. He's the first guy that closed up open sewers. 141 00:16:09.200 --> 00:16:13.200 There were open sewers. Ben Franklin had them closed up. Did you know that Ben Franklin 142 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:21.040 invented the post office? Ben, among so many other things, remarkable stuff. I could go on and 143 00:16:21.040 --> 00:16:27.040 on about Ben. I'm not supposed to though. We're talking about a split. And so this old guy says, 144 00:16:27.040 --> 00:16:33.920 hey, you know what? We're not making any headway here. We've been fighting for two weeks. 145 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:39.680 No, two weeks. That's not true. We've been fighting for some say four and a half weeks. 146 00:16:40.240 --> 00:16:46.080 Some people say five and a half weeks, depends on who you're reading. So Ben Franklin basically 147 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:50.800 stands up and he rebukes everybody. This is totally impromptu in the moment. I witness accounts. 148 00:16:51.760 --> 00:16:56.400 And this is what he says. This is spoken from his heart. He didn't he didn't have it in writing. 149 00:16:57.120 --> 00:17:09.920 Ben Franklin said on, hang on. I have the date. It's 1787, but I forget the date. The date is actually 150 00:17:11.280 --> 00:17:14.880 preserved for us. It doesn't matter. You do some homework yourself. 151 00:17:15.440 --> 00:17:18.240 And this situation of this assembly, 152 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:25.600 groping as it were in the dark to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when 153 00:17:25.600 --> 00:17:33.440 it presented to us, how has it happened, sir? That we have not hear the two once thought of humbly 154 00:17:33.440 --> 00:17:40.960 applying to the father of lights to illuminate our understandings. In the beginning of the contest 155 00:17:40.960 --> 00:17:47.520 with Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayers in this room for the divine 156 00:17:47.520 --> 00:17:55.600 protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard and they were graciously answered. All of us who were 157 00:17:55.600 --> 00:18:02.720 engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a super intending providence in our 158 00:18:02.720 --> 00:18:12.080 favor. To that kind providence, we owe this happy opportunity in consulting and peace of consulting 159 00:18:12.080 --> 00:18:21.920 in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten 160 00:18:21.920 --> 00:18:29.520 that powerful friend? I have lived sir a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing 161 00:18:29.600 --> 00:18:37.840 proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. If a sparrow cannot fall to 162 00:18:37.840 --> 00:18:44.720 the ground without his notice, is it possible that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been 163 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:51.040 assured, sir, in the sacred writings he's referring to the Bible that accept the Lord builds the 164 00:18:51.040 --> 00:18:58.240 house. Well, now he's referring to Psalm 127. They labor in vain who build it. I firmly believe 165 00:18:58.960 --> 00:19:05.440 this. And I also believe that without his concurring aid, we shall succeed in this political 166 00:19:05.440 --> 00:19:12.720 building no better than the builders of Bebel. We shall be divided by our little partial local 167 00:19:12.720 --> 00:19:20.960 interest. Our projects will be confounded and we ourselves shall become a reproach. I therefore 168 00:19:20.960 --> 00:19:29.200 beg leave to move that we henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven and its blessings 169 00:19:29.200 --> 00:19:36.480 on our deliberations be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business and 170 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:43.280 that one or more of the clergy of the city be requested to officiate in that service. 171 00:19:44.240 --> 00:19:52.000 Ben Franklin cited by public school teachers as being a secularist and the 172 00:19:52.720 --> 00:20:00.320 atheist or the deist in the group him in Jefferson. And that right there in his own words ought to tell 173 00:20:00.320 --> 00:20:09.200 you that Franklin was a wild man in his young age. He what he liked the ladies. And there's rumors 174 00:20:09.280 --> 00:20:15.840 that he fathered an illegitimate child in Europe. All that stuff. Let's say let's say it's all true. 175 00:20:15.840 --> 00:20:22.640 What about your life? What have you done? Franklin had a Christian upbringing but he didn't obey it 176 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:29.200 but it was in his head. Isn't it amazing? In later years in life, it's him and John Adams that 177 00:20:29.200 --> 00:20:35.280 agreed that we have no king but King Jesus. I find that awesome. So you know what? He didn't 178 00:20:35.280 --> 00:20:40.800 start out well but he finished well. So we need to be careful how we beat up on our founding 179 00:20:40.800 --> 00:20:45.360 fathers. It'd be kind of cool if they came back and started beating up on people today who are 180 00:20:45.360 --> 00:20:50.080 misrepresenting them trying to cancel them, you know, that kind of stuff. When I say beat up, 181 00:20:50.080 --> 00:20:56.720 I don't mean punch. I mean give truth because a punch you can heal from but truth. Oh, truth gets 182 00:20:56.720 --> 00:21:04.320 down in there and changes things up. And so the amazing thing is we got to be careful that we don't 183 00:21:04.320 --> 00:21:11.360 neglect the faith, the presence of faith in our founding. Now when he made that declaration, 184 00:21:11.360 --> 00:21:15.920 by the way, they stopped right then and there in George Washington actually helped lead them 185 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:24.000 across the street to prayer and prayer then started. And if I remember right, don't quote me, 186 00:21:24.000 --> 00:21:28.400 don't quote me. It was either an hour and a half or it was three and a half hours long, 187 00:21:28.480 --> 00:21:33.680 prayer meeting. And they went back after prayer. Guess what happened? 188 00:21:35.840 --> 00:21:44.160 You can read about the eyewitness accounts. They unexplainedly began to agree. They came to 189 00:21:44.160 --> 00:21:53.840 either reconciliation's harmony or compromise to begin a government. I think that's awesome because 190 00:21:54.800 --> 00:21:59.920 this is where you know the argument about will they only believe that a black man was three fifths 191 00:21:59.920 --> 00:22:06.080 of a human. You need to read why they got that. They agreed to that because the bone heads down 192 00:22:06.080 --> 00:22:15.600 south, they didn't want a black individual to count at all. So the northern states, the northern 193 00:22:15.600 --> 00:22:21.840 colony said, okay, give us that we at least give us this. All right, we're not happy about it. 194 00:22:22.720 --> 00:22:28.480 We'll give you three fifths. Think about that. You got to start somewhere. 195 00:22:30.240 --> 00:22:38.560 And they did. And so our founding fathers for weeks couldn't come to an agreement. Once they did, 196 00:22:39.680 --> 00:22:44.960 they came out with the United States Constitution. Shortly after that, they're going to come up with 197 00:22:45.200 --> 00:22:54.880 the first ten amendments remarkable. But this is kind of fun. In the weeks that followed, 198 00:22:54.880 --> 00:23:02.240 guess what happened? They not only opened up every day in prayer, but they began to walk 199 00:23:02.240 --> 00:23:08.560 to the local churches of all the denominations. And they would have prayer meetings at these 200 00:23:08.560 --> 00:23:13.440 other churches. Can you imagine there was a prayer meeting at Calvary Chapel. There was a prayer 201 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:18.400 meeting at first Baptist. There was a prayer meeting at second Baptist. There was a prayer meeting 202 00:23:18.400 --> 00:23:24.320 at the Lutheran Lutheran. There was a prayer meeting at the Methodist. Isn't that awesome? 203 00:23:25.360 --> 00:23:27.760 I just I love that kind of stuff. That kind of gets people 204 00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:34.000 both upset and excited at the same time. It gets me excited. When God moves in, he pushes a 205 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:38.240 side peripheral issues. And I think that's just awesome. And then listen, wrapping this up, 206 00:23:38.800 --> 00:23:46.400 it's this. Franklin was referring to Psalm 127. Unless the Lord builds the house, the laborers 207 00:23:46.400 --> 00:23:53.200 labor in vain who build it. And America is a great story of this truth. So I'm going to I'm just 208 00:23:53.200 --> 00:23:58.240 going to invite all of you to start standing up and speaking up. Don't allow stupid to run you over. 209 00:23:59.280 --> 00:24:03.600 Don't let stupid run you over. And there's a lot of really stupid people today. 210 00:24:04.160 --> 00:24:09.040 They're really loud. They don't know what they're talking about. And here's a big, big tip. 211 00:24:09.680 --> 00:24:13.280 They have never read the founding fathers and their own words. 212 00:24:16.240 --> 00:24:19.440 All of these documents are available for you to read in their own language. 213 00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:23.840 When I say language is in English, but in their own hand, 214 00:24:25.600 --> 00:24:32.400 we have the National Archives. We have the Library of Congress. You can look at this stuff online. 215 00:24:33.600 --> 00:24:41.520 Read them. So listen, if you're uneducated, we can fix that. But if you're choosing to be stupid, 216 00:24:41.520 --> 00:24:48.240 that's on you. Don't do that. So I want to end because I had an amazing opportunity 217 00:24:51.360 --> 00:24:58.480 to go to Washington, DC. It was awesome. Washington, DC. Now watch everybody. 218 00:24:59.040 --> 00:25:04.160 For those who think that there's a separation of church and state in favor of politics, 219 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:08.160 there's actually a separation of church and state in favor of the church. 220 00:25:09.040 --> 00:25:13.680 Read the First Amendment. Based on the First Amendment, the United States government flew me 221 00:25:15.040 --> 00:25:24.720 to Washington, DC to go into our nation's capital and to stand before the 113th Congress, 222 00:25:25.280 --> 00:25:32.400 session one, meeting one, and to open up that brand new Congress in prayer. 223 00:25:33.920 --> 00:25:41.920 Based on Franklin's recommendation that was adopted and carried out ever since. 224 00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:46.160 And so what I want to read to you is that prayer I offered up 225 00:25:47.200 --> 00:25:53.120 before the United States Congress. And here it is. Oh, and by the way, listen carefully. I have to 226 00:25:53.120 --> 00:26:01.440 confess. I do believe that when I put this prayer together, you have to do that. You have to submit 227 00:26:01.440 --> 00:26:07.920 the prayer to the Chaplain's office because they don't want weirdness. And so I really appreciate 228 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:14.400 that because the Chaplain, he's on it. It was great. So it couldn't be too long. It couldn't be too 229 00:26:14.400 --> 00:26:24.400 short. It had to be biblically accurate. Okay. So check this out. I borrowed from about five 230 00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:30.960 different prayers. Most of them are from Washington himself. I'm confessing right now. I borrowed 231 00:26:30.960 --> 00:26:35.840 because I'm thinking, you know what? It's their house. I'm going to borrow from the founders. 232 00:26:36.640 --> 00:26:47.040 And I think that will both bless them and bless God. Almighty God and Father, if it be your will 233 00:26:47.040 --> 00:26:54.320 that we be revived as a nation, hear my prayer, I ask you to make us a thankful people 234 00:26:55.120 --> 00:27:02.160 that we would bless you, the author of abundant mercies, enable us to display a gratitude 235 00:27:02.720 --> 00:27:12.960 for all your goodness by endeavoring to fear and obey you. Bless us with your wisdom in this house, 236 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:21.600 success in our battles and let our prosperity be tempered with generosity. We pray that you 237 00:27:21.600 --> 00:27:28.160 would keep the United States in your holy protection, that you would incline your hearts to cultivate 238 00:27:28.800 --> 00:27:38.000 a spirit of peace and obedience to both you and your government and that you would cause us 239 00:27:38.720 --> 00:27:47.920 to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly in the love that is characteristic of your son, 240 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:56.160 the author of our blessed faith. Grant us this prayer through Jesus Christ our Lord, amen. 241 00:27:57.120 --> 00:28:01.840 And Congress said, amen. And I want to believe that God here is that still to this day. 242 00:28:02.560 --> 00:28:09.200 As long as God is on this, on his throne, the opportunity of revival is to us to pursue. 243 00:28:09.920 --> 00:28:15.520 And so listen, we conclude this. I hope this stimulates you to look and research more and more 244 00:28:15.520 --> 00:28:22.960 history, not so much just for history sake, although history is awesome. But like the Bible, America 245 00:28:23.040 --> 00:28:29.520 has such a godly heritage and our nation has such a unique beginning of no other nation and the 246 00:28:29.520 --> 00:28:34.880 history of man like America. So you need to consider that the next to somebody wants 247 00:28:35.920 --> 00:28:42.320 to punch the statue of liberty in the nose. We need to realize this is the most unique nation 248 00:28:42.320 --> 00:28:46.880 on the face of the earth apart from Israel itself. God bless you guys. Oh, listen. 249 00:28:47.680 --> 00:28:53.520 If you are blessed by this stuff, if you want to share this, I encourage you to do that. 250 00:28:54.240 --> 00:28:59.200 It's very encouraging. I know this sounds weird, right? But the more people that view, the more 251 00:28:59.200 --> 00:29:03.680 people who subscribe, the more encouraging it is to us. It tells us that we're not speaking into a 252 00:29:03.680 --> 00:29:11.040 black or empty hole. So listen, if you like this, then let us know that. And you can share it with 253 00:29:11.120 --> 00:29:19.120 others. That would be awesome. And by all means, as we always say, it's time to live out what we 254 00:29:19.120 --> 00:29:24.000 believe in. That's what America needs to see. It's time for you and I to live out our faith 255 00:29:24.800 --> 00:29:30.000 like never before. So God bless you guys. Until next time, we'll have a whole new topic, a whole new 256 00:29:30.000 --> 00:29:30.880 series. Take care. 257 00:29:31.040 --> 00:29:39.680 This Jack Hibbs podcast, as well as all the broadcast outreach opportunities, 258 00:29:39.680 --> 00:29:44.320 are listener supporting. 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