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 And all God's people said, Amen. Thank you so much choir and orchestra for leading us this morning.

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 If you have your Bibles, I want you to turn to Deuteronomy chapter 6.

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 Deuteronomy chapter 6.

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 Well, the world has come to America recently to see the World Cup.

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 I don't even know where it is.

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 But soccer is not the main sport around here, but it is in the rest of the world, or football.

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 And I have had fun listening to people's impressions of America as they visit it for the first time.

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 It is something that Americans need to listen to, quite honestly.

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 A Scottish fan described Bucky's as a, quote, gas station mixed with Disney World wrapped in a gift shop.

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 Freddie from Germany called Taco Bell the Holy Land.

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 Elsa from Sweden tasted ranch dressing and said, I won't ever be able to live without it.

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 And I will tell you that I always ask missionaries what they need and what we can bring.

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 And many times I'll take an extra suitcase full of stuff that they can't get overseas, but they can get here.

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 Many times they ask for dry ranch dressing because it is not available anywhere else around.

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 It really, it's a rarity.

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 Kenny asked for ibuprofen.

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 And he said, can you find me 500 caplets of ibuprofen?

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 And we took him 1,000, praise God.

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 So anyway, over and over again, European visitors are shocked at the vastness of our country and the friendliness of Americans.

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 I saw a South African that was amazed at a truck stop did not have an armed guard and had bottled water and an ice machine on the sidewalk in front of the store and nobody was even taking it.

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 I didn't tell him the rest of the story.

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 I didn't tell him the rest of the story.

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 But anyway, that's what he thought.

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 One Scottish fan woke up his Bostonian neighbors playing the bagpipes at 630 a.m.

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 And he was greeted with breakfast and gifts.

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 Another Bostonian said of the Scottish, he said, the Tartan Army is the best thing in Boston since Tom Brady.

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 Listen, friend, I love to travel the world.

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 I do, and I'm thankful for the opportunity to go and serve the Lord in Dublin and to be able to see some things along the way.

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 But I'm telling you, I love to come home.

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 We live in the best country in the world, period.

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 And for those that don't believe it, you are welcome to leave.

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 And for those of us who stay, I want you to know we've been entrusted with much.

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 We must protect it.

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 We must preserve the good of our country and root out the bad.

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 A month ago, Dawn and I gave our oldest daughter away in marriage, and it served as a stark reminder to me that every generation eventually hands the future over to the next generation.

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 I'm not the only one who understood that.

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 Moses understood that.

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 And he shared that.

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 And we still need to keep it before us.

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 May this ring in our ears, our hearts, our minds, as strong as it did in those that heard it for the first time in person.

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 Deuteronomy chapter 6, beginning verse 1 says,

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 Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the rules that the Lord your God commanded you to teach you.

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 That you may do them in the land to which you're going over, to possess it.

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 That you may fear the Lord your God, that you may fear the Lord your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all of his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.

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 Hear, therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may be well with you, and that you may multiply greatly as the Lord, the God of your fathers, has promised you in a land flowing with milk and honey.

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 Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one.

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 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your might.

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 These words that I command you today shall be upon your heart.

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 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

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 You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

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 You shall write them on the doorposts of your house, and on your gates.

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 Those words that I just read once could not be read because a man's hand was lying on top of it.

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 Whose hand was that?

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 George Washington.

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 Upon his swearing in, George Washington placed his hand on an open Bible and made an oath to the Lord as his fingers touched this very scripture.

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 Now, does that surprise you?

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 I'm sure that the forefathers of our nation did not intend for our laws to be interpreted as they are today.

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 Today, the men that founded this nation were not like many of the men and the women that lead our nation today.

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 The few good, godly leaders we have are in a fight, folks.

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 How do we protect what we have and prepare the next generation for what's to come?

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 I believe we have to look in three directions.

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 One is I think we have to look back.

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 My great, great, great, great grandpa was the chief justice of the South Carolina State Supreme Court

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 and a governor of the state of South Carolina.

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 He was voted down by the Senate when he was recommended by Washington to take John Jay's place as chief justice of the Supreme Court.

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 That's what happens when you say dumb stuff days before a vote.

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 My great, great, great grand uncle was the youngest to sign the Declaration of Independence

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 and was also a governor of South Carolina.

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 I got Rutledge in my blood.

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 Do you know that some of the men who signed our Declaration of Independence

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 declaring our commitment to break ties with Great Britain

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 were also men of God that were responsible for founding the American Bible Society,

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 the American Tract Society,

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 as well as the Philadelphia Bible Society.

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 Many times our founding fathers are made out to be deities.

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 In other words, those that believe that God was the creator,

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 but that he does not value a relationship with us,

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 or that we need not value a relationship with him.

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 They don't think it's possible.

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 They believe that after creation that God took his hand off the earth.

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 A deist believes that we can't commune with God,

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 that we have no relationship with him,

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 that he is simply a cosmic creator

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 with no relation or concern for our world.

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 I want to ask you this morning to begin with,

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 do you think these men sound like deities?

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 Patrick Henry said,

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 it cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often

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 this great nation was founded not by religionists,

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 but by Christians.

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 Not on religions,

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 but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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 John Adams,

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 when speaking of the general principles

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 of which the fathers achieved independence said,

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 I will avow that I then believed and now believe

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 that those general principles of Christianity

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 are as eternal and immutable

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 as the existence and attributes of God

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 and that those principles of liberty

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 are as unalterable as human nature.

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 End quote.

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 They believed our leaders

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 ought to be men of Christ.

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 Benjamin Franklin said,

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 he shall introduce into public affairs

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 the principles of Christianity

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 that will change the face of the world.

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 John Quincy Adams,

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 our sixth president,

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 said the highest glory

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 of the American Revolution was this,

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 it connected with one indissoluble bond

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 the principles of civil government

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 and the principles of Christianity.

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 Sadly,

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 at least in my perspective,

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 that bond seems to have dissolved somewhat

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 in our society.

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 Noah Webster,

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 as in Webster's Dictionary,

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 said this,

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 the religion which has introduced civil liberty

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 is the religion of Christ and his apostles,

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 which enjoins humility,

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 piety,

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 and benevolence,

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 which acknowledges in every person

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 a brother,

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 a sister,

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 a citizen with equal rights.

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 This is the genuine Christianity.

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 And it is to this Christianity

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 that we owe our free constitution of government.

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 Eat that up,

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 ACLU.

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 These wise men understood

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 that liberty is all about Christ.

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 You can't separate it.

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 In 1796,

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 the Supreme Court of Maryland ruled,

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 by our form of government,

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 the Christian religion

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 is the established religion,

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 and all sects and denominations of Christians

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 are placed under the same equal footing

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 and are equally entitled to protection

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 in their liberty.

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 All denominations of Christians,

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 is what Maryland said.

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 In reality,

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 the First Amendment was added

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 to make sure that one Christian denomination

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 didn't rise above other Christian denominations.

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 And the assumption was

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 that Christianity was a given.

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 In the beginning of the nation,

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 there was no conflict with the First Amendment

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 and having Washington lay his hand on the Bible

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 open to Deuteronomy 6.

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 There was no conflict with the First Amendment

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 and having chaplains of Congress

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 lead the worship service

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 that concluded Washington's inauguration.

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 There was no conflict with the First Amendment

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 to be supporting ministers and missionaries

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 with federal money,

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 listen to this,

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 for the first 100 years of our nation.

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 My!

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 Times have changed.

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 In 1781,

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 a publisher petitioned Congress

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 for permission to print Bibles.

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 And Congress approved of it

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 and stated this,

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 the Congress of the United States

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 approves and recommends to the people

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 the Holy Bible

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 for use in schools.

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 End of quote.

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 When it was challenged,

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 the Supreme Court responded,

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 why not the Bible,

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 and especially the New Testament,

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 be read and taught

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 as divine revelation in the schools?

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 Where can the purest principles of morality

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 be learned so clearly

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 or so perfectly

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 as from the New Testament?

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 The state of Delaware's Constitution,

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 1776 stated,

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 everyone appointed to public office

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 must say,

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 listen to this,

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 I'm going to repeat this,

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 the state of Delaware,

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 the Constitution of 1776,

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 stated,

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 everyone appointed to public office

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 must say,

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 I do profess faith

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 in God the Father

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 and in the Lord Jesus Christ,

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 His only Son,

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 and in the Holy Ghost,

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 one God,

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 blessed forevermore.

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 And I do acknowledge

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 the Holy Scriptures

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 of the Old and New Testament

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 to be given

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 by divine inspiration.

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 End of quote.

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 John Jay,

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 the first Chief Justice

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 of the U.S. Supreme Court

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 and one of the many contributors

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 to the Constitution

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 stated this,

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 Providence,

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 when he spoke of God,

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 has given to our people

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 the choice of their rulers

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 and it is the duty

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 as well as the privilege

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 and interest

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 of our Christian nation

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 to select

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 and prefer Christians

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 for their rulers.

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 He went on to write,

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 the right to hold office

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 was to be extended

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 to persons

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 of any Christian denomination.

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 That's a lot, folks.

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 That's the foundation

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 of our nation.

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 And I say that today

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 because that's not information

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 that you're going to find

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 in your typical history book.

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 You're not going to hear that.

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 These truths

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 have to be preserved

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 and carried on

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 to the next generation.

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 But I don't think

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 we only look back.

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 I believe we also

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 look up.

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 Scripture says,

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 Hear, O Israel,

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 the Lord our God,

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 the Lord is one.

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 The issue is not

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 simply

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 what our founders

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 believed,

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 although it needs

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 to be known

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 and I believe

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 it needs to be celebrated.

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 the issue today

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 is what we believe.

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 The issue today

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 is what we're going

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 to do about it.

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 George Washington

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 may have placed his hand

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 upon Deuteronomy

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 chapter 6,

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 but the greater question

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 today is if Deuteronomy 6

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 is in our hearts.

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 Placing your hand

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 on something

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 is one thing.

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 Placing God's word

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 in your heart

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 is another thing.

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 Verse 6 of Deuteronomy

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 chapter 6 says,

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 And these words

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 that I command you today

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 shall be upon

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 your heart.

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 God's word

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 in our hearts

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 is what really

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 changes

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 a nation.

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 Having a burden

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 for God's word

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 to be paramount

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 in all that we do

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 will lead

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 God's people

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 to pray.

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 And when we pray

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 as we're instructed

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 to pray,

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 God moves.

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 1 Timothy

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 chapter 2

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 verse 1 through 4

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 says this,

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 First of all,

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 then I urge you

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 that supplications,

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 prayers,

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 intercessions,

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 and thanksgivings

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 be made

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 for all people,

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 for kings

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 and all who are

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 in high positions,

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 that we may lead

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 a peaceful

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 and quiet life,

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 godly and dignified

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 in every way.

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 This is good

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 and it is pleasing

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 in the sight of God

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 our Savior

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 who desires

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 all people

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 to be saved

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 and to come

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 to the knowledge

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 of the truth.

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 Christians,

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 we need to pray

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 for those that lead us

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 and pray

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 for our lives

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 will not get

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 in the way

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 when God

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 wants to do

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 a work

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 in us

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 and through us.

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 We need to pray

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 that we are

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 peaceful.

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 What a difference

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 it makes

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 when we pray

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 for God's

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 leadership

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 in our land.

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 Friend,

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 it is time

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 we throw up

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 our hands,

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 but not in disgust,

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 but we throw up

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 our hands to God

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 in prayer.

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 That we

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 look up

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 to Him.

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 That we turn

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 to Him.

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 That we don't

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 get sour

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 on the changes

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 that have happened

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 in our world

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 and in our nation.

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 It's not really

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 about that.

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 It's got more

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 to do with

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 how that's

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 affected us.

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 Are we salt

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 and light

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 in the world

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 in which we live?

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 What are we doing

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 for the cause

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 of Christ

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 in the way

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 in which we live?

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 in the way

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 in which we talk?

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 In the places

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 in which we go?

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 What are we

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 to do?

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 I think we look

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 up.

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 But not only

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 that,

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 but I also

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 think that we

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 look ahead.

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 For Deuteronomy

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 chapter 6

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 verse 7

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 says,

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 teach them

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 diligently

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 to your

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 children.

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 And I talk

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 a lot about

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 this.

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 It was

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 Deuteronomy

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 chapter 6,

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 the Shema

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 is a key

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 part of

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 Jewish life.

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 It was

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 central to

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 what they

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 stood for

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 in the days

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 of the Old

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 Testament.

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 It is

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 central in

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 Judaism

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 today.

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 They look

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 back to

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 this passage

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 of Scripture.

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 Scripture.

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 It is key.

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 It teaches

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 us what our

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 home ought to

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 be like.

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 Jesus said

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 in Matthew

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 28,

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 18 through

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 20,

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 that we need

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 to make

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 disciples in

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 Jerusalem,

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 in Judea,

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 in Samaria,

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 and the

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 uttermost.

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 We have a

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 story to

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 tell.

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 And that

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 story starts

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 at home.

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 To trust

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 the power

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 of the

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 gospel and

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 share that

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 gospel.

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 Share it

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 faithfully

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 at home.

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 Share it

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 as you go.

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 pray that

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 God will

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 convince you

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 that what

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 America needs

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 and what

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 this world

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 needs is a

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 godly

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 generation that

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 is protecting

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 our freedoms

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 and sharing

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 our love

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 for what we

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 can be in

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 Christ to

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 our children.

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 I want you

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 to hear me

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 today.

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 Every

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 generation is

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 only,

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 excuse me,

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 every nation

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 is only one

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 generation away

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 from forgetting

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 what made

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 it great.

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 Every nation

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 is only one

00:19:11.500 --> 00:19:13.859
 generation away

00:19:13.859 --> 00:19:14.480
 from forgetting

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 what made

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 it great.

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 And that's

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 why Moses

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 in Deuteronomy

00:19:20.680 --> 00:19:21.619
 chapter 6

00:19:21.619 --> 00:19:23.019
 wasn't talking

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 to politicians.

00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:26.680
 He was talking

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 to parents.

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 He was talking

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 to grandparents.

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 He understood

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 that what happens

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 in the living

00:19:34.060 --> 00:19:34.759
 room today

00:19:34.759 --> 00:19:36.480
 determines what

00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:37.200
 happens in the

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 nation tomorrow.

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 The future

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 of America

00:19:41.580 --> 00:19:43.120
 will not

00:19:43.120 --> 00:19:44.100
 ultimately

00:19:44.100 --> 00:19:45.700
 be determined

00:19:45.700 --> 00:19:47.160
 in Washington,

00:19:47.840 --> 00:19:48.320
 D.C.

00:19:50.160 --> 00:19:51.120
 It'll be

00:19:51.120 --> 00:19:51.799
 determined in

00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:52.340
 our homes.

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 It'll be

00:19:54.380 --> 00:19:55.200
 determined around

00:19:55.200 --> 00:19:55.680
 our kitchen

00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:56.259
 tables.

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 Listen to me,

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 church.

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 It'll be

00:20:00.019 --> 00:20:00.740
 determined in

00:20:00.740 --> 00:20:01.299
 our churches

00:20:01.299 --> 00:20:03.720
 and in our

00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:04.299
 hearts

00:20:04.299 --> 00:20:06.259
 that love

00:20:06.259 --> 00:20:06.799
 the Lord

00:20:06.799 --> 00:20:07.519
 their God

00:20:07.519 --> 00:20:09.100
 with all

00:20:09.100 --> 00:20:09.460
 of their

00:20:09.460 --> 00:20:10.019
 heart,

00:20:10.960 --> 00:20:12.039
 all of

00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:12.620
 their soul,

00:20:13.799 --> 00:20:14.620
 all of

00:20:14.620 --> 00:20:15.240
 their mind.

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 It'll be

00:20:17.160 --> 00:20:17.799
 determined by

00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:18.279
 people that

00:20:18.279 --> 00:20:18.860
 look back

00:20:18.860 --> 00:20:19.620
 to see how

00:20:19.620 --> 00:20:20.480
 God led us

00:20:20.480 --> 00:20:20.819
 to this

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 point.

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 and who,

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 let me add,

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 trains their

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 children in

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 that knowledge.

00:20:30.980 --> 00:20:31.860
 If the

00:20:31.860 --> 00:20:32.779
 history books

00:20:32.779 --> 00:20:34.080
 don't tell

00:20:34.080 --> 00:20:35.960
 it that we

00:20:35.960 --> 00:20:36.540
 use in

00:20:36.540 --> 00:20:37.200
 schools,

00:20:37.320 --> 00:20:37.860
 then let's

00:20:37.860 --> 00:20:38.420
 buy some

00:20:38.420 --> 00:20:39.460
 different books

00:20:39.460 --> 00:20:40.480
 and do it at

00:20:40.480 --> 00:20:41.140
 the house

00:20:41.140 --> 00:20:42.700
 so they'll

00:20:42.700 --> 00:20:43.019
 know it

00:20:43.019 --> 00:20:43.440
 anyway.

00:20:43.440 --> 00:20:46.039
 it'll be

00:20:46.039 --> 00:20:46.480
 determined

00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:48.580
 by people

00:20:48.580 --> 00:20:51.740
 that make

00:20:51.740 --> 00:20:52.940
 sure the

00:20:52.940 --> 00:20:53.340
 truth is

00:20:53.340 --> 00:20:53.600
 known.

00:20:53.700 --> 00:20:53.980
 It'll be

00:20:53.980 --> 00:20:54.640
 determined by

00:20:54.640 --> 00:20:55.980
 people who

00:20:55.980 --> 00:20:56.420
 look up to

00:20:56.420 --> 00:20:56.840
 the Lord

00:20:56.840 --> 00:20:58.539
 and bless

00:20:58.539 --> 00:20:59.220
 this country

00:20:59.220 --> 00:20:59.640
 with their

00:20:59.640 --> 00:21:01.640
 prayers for

00:21:01.640 --> 00:21:02.440
 not only its

00:21:02.440 --> 00:21:02.940
 greatness,

00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:05.420
 but also pray

00:21:05.420 --> 00:21:05.799
 for its

00:21:05.799 --> 00:21:06.299
 godliness.

00:21:07.580 --> 00:21:07.980
 Amos

00:21:07.980 --> 00:21:08.600
 chapter 5

00:21:08.600 --> 00:21:09.220
 verse 24

00:21:09.220 --> 00:21:09.779
 says,

00:21:09.779 --> 00:21:17.519
 The future

00:21:17.519 --> 00:21:18.240
 of America

00:21:18.240 --> 00:21:18.920
 is determined

00:21:18.920 --> 00:21:19.519
 by those

00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:19.839
 that look

00:21:19.839 --> 00:21:22.440
 ahead and

00:21:22.440 --> 00:21:23.019
 invest in

00:21:23.019 --> 00:21:23.500
 the gospel,

00:21:25.339 --> 00:21:26.180
 invest their

00:21:26.180 --> 00:21:26.700
 lives in

00:21:26.700 --> 00:21:27.039
 godly

00:21:27.039 --> 00:21:27.559
 character,

00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:28.759
 invest in

00:21:28.759 --> 00:21:29.079
 godly

00:21:29.079 --> 00:21:29.720
 principles in

00:21:29.720 --> 00:21:30.019
 the coming

00:21:30.019 --> 00:21:30.639
 generation.

00:21:32.099 --> 00:21:32.799
 My prayer

00:21:32.799 --> 00:21:33.319
 is, oh

00:21:33.319 --> 00:21:33.940
 dear God,

00:21:34.019 --> 00:21:34.720
 may we be

00:21:34.720 --> 00:21:35.579
 found faithful

00:21:35.579 --> 00:21:36.180
 in doing

00:21:36.180 --> 00:21:36.980
 all we

00:21:36.980 --> 00:21:37.579
 can do

00:21:37.579 --> 00:21:39.399
 to reach

00:21:39.400 --> 00:21:39.940
 as many

00:21:39.940 --> 00:21:40.440
 as we

00:21:40.440 --> 00:21:42.259
 can and

00:21:42.259 --> 00:21:42.600
 to make

00:21:42.600 --> 00:21:43.259
 this nation

00:21:43.259 --> 00:21:44.000
 as great

00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:44.400
 as we

00:21:44.400 --> 00:21:44.759
 can.

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 My friend,

00:21:46.420 --> 00:21:47.360
 that's where

00:21:47.360 --> 00:21:47.920
 we came

00:21:47.920 --> 00:21:48.340
 from.

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 Let's do

00:21:50.420 --> 00:21:51.280
 everything we

00:21:51.280 --> 00:21:52.820
 can to

00:21:52.820 --> 00:21:53.440
 get back

00:21:53.440 --> 00:21:54.060
 to that

00:21:54.060 --> 00:21:55.660
 and live

00:21:55.660 --> 00:21:56.160
 it out

00:21:56.160 --> 00:21:57.340
 in every

00:21:57.340 --> 00:21:59.420
 aspect of

00:21:59.420 --> 00:22:00.140
 our lives.

00:22:01.200 --> 00:22:02.160
 Before we

00:22:02.160 --> 00:22:02.880
 point fingers

00:22:02.880 --> 00:22:03.480
 at everything

00:22:03.480 --> 00:22:04.060
 else that's

00:22:04.060 --> 00:22:04.420
 wrong in

00:22:04.420 --> 00:22:04.860
 the world,

00:22:06.560 --> 00:22:07.080
 let's seek

00:22:07.080 --> 00:22:07.759
 God's face

00:22:07.759 --> 00:22:08.140
 at what's

00:22:08.140 --> 00:22:08.620
 wrong with

00:22:08.620 --> 00:22:09.040
 us.

00:22:10.140 --> 00:22:10.400
 Let's

00:22:10.400 --> 00:22:10.860
 get that

00:22:10.860 --> 00:22:11.280
 right.

00:22:12.080 --> 00:22:12.640
 When that's

00:22:12.640 --> 00:22:13.040
 right,

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 may God

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 influence

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 those around

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 imagine.

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 Amen?

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 Amen.

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