The American Soul
The American Soul
Faith, Freedom, and False Prophets
What happens when we hold Patrick Henry's revolutionary call for liberty against the mirror of America's spiritual condition today? This episode of the American Soul Podcast explores the uncomfortable parallels between colonial America's struggle against British tyranny and our modern battle against forces threatening to undermine faith and family.
Jesse Cope begins with a disarmingly honest confession about spending an entire day watching tennis—then asks the piercing question: "When was the last time I spent that many hours serving God?" This reflection sparks a deeper exploration of how our daily time allocation reveals our true priorities, challenging listeners to examine whether God truly comes first in practice, not just in principle.
Turning to Scripture, Jesse unpacks 2 Peter's warnings about false prophets, drawing connections to contemporary cultural movements that have slowly eroded traditional Christian values. The pattern becomes clear: like the British imposing increasingly restrictive measures on colonists, modern secular forces have advanced through incremental victories, each time promising that "just one more concession" will bring peace.
The heart of the episode features Patrick Henry's immortal "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, with Jesse highlighting Henry's critical insight: "Let us not deceive ourselves." This becomes the rallying cry for Christians today who must recognize that endless compromise has not and will not satisfy those opposed to biblical values. Just as the colonists eventually recognized that war was inevitable, Jesse argues that spiritual warfare requires Christians to take a stand rather than continuing to retreat.
Most powerfully, Jesse provides practical guidance for reclaiming cultural ground—from supporting law enforcement to influencing education to putting Christ back at the center of family life. His message balances righteous concern for America's direction with the reminder that, ultimately, our first allegiance must be to God's kingdom.
Whether you're concerned about America's spiritual direction, struggling with personal priorities, or simply seeking biblical wisdom for navigating today's challenges, this episode will inspire you to examine where you stand and what you're willing to fight for. Listen now, and consider: what would Patrick Henry say about the liberty we're surrendering today?
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Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope, back with another episode of the American Soul Podcast. Hope y'all are doing well, wherever y'all are and whatever part of the day you're in. Sure do appreciate y'all joining me, giving me a little bit of your time, a little piece of your day. I know y'all have dozens of other things vying for your attention, so I appreciate y'all coming here. For those of y'all who continue to share the podcast with others, thank you For those of y'all who continue to pray for me and for the podcast, thank you so very much, very, very grateful for your prayers Need them, want them, and for those of y'all who are new to the podcast, hope you enjoy it, hope you get something out of it and I hope you come back. Glad you get something out of it and I hope you come back. So glad you're here.
Speaker 1:Father, thank you for today. Thank you for you, father, and your Son, jesus Christ, and your Holy Spirit. Thank you for your love, mercy, your grace and your forgiveness of sins, the ones we admit and the ones we try and hide for whatever reason. Forgive us when we go astray, Father. Forgive us when we choose our own way. Choose our own way over theirs. Help us to truly love your Son, jesus Christ, and therefore to follow his commands. Help us to love you with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength. Help us to love our neighbors as ourselves. Be with those who are hurting, father, those who are alone and scared, especially the widow and the orphan, the poor and the needy. Help us to care for them. Watch over our veterans, father, those who have given so care for them. Watch over our veterans, father, those who have given so much for us. Be with them. Please comfort them, surround them with your angst. Feel the bodies of those who have been injured. Feel those who have emotional scars as well. Be with our leaders. Help them to make wise decisions. Turn to you for guidance, turn to you for wisdom. Help us to elect men who rule in fear of you. Father, and please, god, my words are your son's name. We pray, amen.
Speaker 1:Made time for God today? Have you made time to read his word? Have you made time to pray, to talk to him, to tell him what you're thankful for, to ask him for forgiveness for one of our sins? Each minute, pray for those around you your nation, your family, your country yourself, your nation, your family, your country yourself. And, if you're married, have you made time for your spouse? Does your spouse know that they are your second priority each day, behind only God and Jesus Christ? Do you know if they know it?
Speaker 1:You know, a lot of times, folks I won't throw you all under the bus but a lot of times I think I probably have a better opinion of the job that I'm doing than I'm actually doing. I think a lot of times I feel like I'm doing what I'm supposed to be, and maybe sometimes that's not always the case, and that's another good reason to talk to God on a regular basis and to read his word, because you're not going to get if you're looking and folks, if you're not reading scripture and you're watching Netflix, prime, hulu, listening to whatever music. That's where your moral foundation is going to come from. What you take in, just like food, what you take in as far as character and spirit. That's what's going to define your character and your spirit. And so if you, for example, if you watch a ton of sport, tell a little story on myself here, I talk about how much we've allowed public school and youth sports to control our lives. Right, I've spent a whole day recently public school and youth sports to control our lives. I've spent the whole day recently, six, seven o'clock in the morning until after that in the evening watching a tennis tournament. Now, ask me, there's nothing wrong, folks, with enjoying sport. The problem is when our priorities Get out of line.
Speaker 1:Ask me when the last time Was that I spent an entire day Serving God Pointedly? I'm not just talking about spend an entire day serving God Pointedly. I'm not just talking about trying to make sure that, as I'm going through the day, I'm doing what he wants me to, which is great. We need to do that. I think that has a lot to do with praying constantly.
Speaker 1:When was the last time that I spent a whole day feeding the little and the work and the poor and the needy? When was the last time I spent an entire day? How about this? Maybe this is a little bit more comfortable, more palatable. When was the last time I spent an entire day focused on loving my spouse? Or maybe this is a better way to ask the question the amount of time I spend each day reading the Bible, frank, how long do you think it's going to take me to add up to that? One whole day, 14 hours plus give or take of watching tennis? How much time? How long? How much time, how long, how many days or weeks do you think it would take me to make up that amount of time? If you're talking about loving your spouse?
Speaker 1:For those of y'all who are married and I know that I'm getting some eye rolls right now, probably, and that's fine, that's probably part of the problem is that we roll our eyes at comments like that and we go well, that's ridiculous, that's not realistic. And yet we don't even bat an eye at going to a baseball tournament over the weekend, softball tournament, volleyball tournament, and spending 14, 12, 14 hours a day and we're not. Don't make the mistake that I wish we could make and say oh well, I'm spending time with my kid, right, you're not spending time with your kid. You might be spending a little bit of time in between games, matches, right, or maybe at night you go out and you have a good time, right, and there's something to be said for that. Go to a tennis tournament, for example, or a volleyball tournament, and you kind of make it a family affair, and the real point of the trip, then, isn't the volleyball or the softball, though, folks. The real point of the trip is spending time together as a family. So you play a little bit of softball or volleyball throughout the day, but then your real goal is is not team building, it's not your kids spending more time away from you with the team, it's, it's y'all spending some time together going out to eat, walking, walking up and down the road somewhere, going to a national park, right, spending time going to a historical site, but whatever it is folks spending time together. You have to really be blind, or want to be blind, to not acknowledge that we have a serious problem with our priorities, particularly as far as sports and entertainment go, and how much time we're giving each day to it.
Speaker 1:I had some quotes from Churchill, but I don't have them in front of me right now, so we'll move on for the day and we'll do those quotes on another day. We'll do another, do those quotes on another day. We're going to go back into let's see 2 Peter 2, the rise of false prophets. But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality and, because of them, the way of the truth will be maligned and in their greed they will exploit you with false words.
Speaker 1:Their judgment from long ago is not idle and their destruction is not asleep. For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness, reserved for judgment, and did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a preacher of righteousness, with seven others, when he brought flood upon the world of the ungodly, and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter, and if he rescued righteous Lot, oppressed by the sensual conduct of unprincipled men no-transcript, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge the flesh in its corrupt desire and despise authority. Daring self-willed, they do not tremble when they revile angelic majesties, whereas angels who are greater in might and power do not bring a reviling judgment against them before the Lord. But these, like unreasoning animals born as creatures of instinct to be captured and killed, reviling where they have no knowledge will, in the destruction of those creatures also be destroyed, suffering wrong as the wages of doing wrong. They count it a pleasure to revel in the daytime their stains and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions as they carouse with you.
Speaker 1:Having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children, forsaking the right way, they have gone astray. Forsaking the right way, they have gone astray, having followed the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness. But he received a rebuke for his own transgression, for a mute donkey speaking with the voice of a man restrained, the madness of the prophet. These are springs without water and mists, driven by a storm, for whom the black darkness has been reserved For speaking out arrogant words of vanity. They entice by fleshly desires, by sensuality, those who barely escape from the ones who live in error, promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption. For by what a man is overcome? By this, he is enslaved. For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world by the knowledge of the Lord and Savior, jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and are overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first, for it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than having known it. To turn away from the holy commandment handed on to them. It has happened to them. According to the true proverb, a dog returns to its own vomit and a sow, after washing, returns to wallowing in the mire. Peter's being kind of rough here, first few verses.
Speaker 1:But false prophets also arise among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the master who brought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. Many will follow their sensuality and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned, and in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle, for their destruction is not asleep. I have a lot of people today, folks telling you a lot of stuff that doesn't have much of anything to do with God's work. It's just another example of why it's so important to read Scripture, because if you don't know what God actually said, if you don't know Scripture, then when somebody tells you something, you're not going to have any idea whether they're telling you the truth or not. Right, pretty good reason to pray too for discernment. You need to do that a little bit more often.
Speaker 1:Verse 2, many will follow their sensuality and because of them, the way of truth will be maligned. We certainly don't want to be folks, some of those people who claim to follow Christ but in reality we follow our own desires more than we follow Christ. There's a lot of different examples Sex, drugs, alcohol, money. Feminism is a great example. Lgbtq, no-fault divorce right, we don't talk about that often enough in the church. What is no-fault divorce? Even, it doesn't even make sense. So, nobody is wrong. We just got tired of each other. I mean, that's the epitome of selfishness, right? Feminists?
Speaker 1:Well, I know that God says that I'm supposed to respect my husband and submit to him. I know that I'm supposed to please him physically each day, but God doesn't really mean that. Those verses, they don't apply to me. And then they find people that tell them that, that confirm that, that tickle their ears, right. Lgbtq lifestyles I know that God says that marriage, sex, is just supposed to be between a husband and a wife, a man and a woman, but he didn't really mean that.
Speaker 1:Besides this, I found these people over here and they say this is what scripture actually means. Actually means Care for the widow and the orphan. I know that God said we need to take care of those around us, right, the widow and the orphan, but I have more important things to do. I don't have time for that. Just a few few folks. You could throw my own from earlier in the podcast under the bus too. You know. I know that my priorities are supposed to be God and Jesus Christ and then my spouse, but I have other things to do. Today there's this game I really want to watch maybe two or three actually and there's some new episodes of this show that I like, and this movie came out, and I've got to scroll through all of my Facebook and Instagram feed to get all my gossip. That's way more important than talking to you, god, or loving my spouse to you, god, loving my spouse.
Speaker 1:We need to remember verse three, folks. It's talking about the people that lead us astray, but it's pretty good warning for those of us that are allowing ourselves to be led astray too, and in their greed, they will exploit you with false words. Their judgment from long ago is not idle and their destruction is not asleep. I don't know anybody that willingly raises their hand and says I want to be exploited. Right, verse six, and if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to destruction by reducing them to ashes, having made them an example to those who would live ungodly lives thereafter?
Speaker 1:It's hard not to look at America today and see Sodom and Gomorrah, sodom and Gomorrah. It's hard not to look at America today and see a mirror image almost maybe not a mirror image, but definitely a strong resemblance to the pagan child sacrifice of the people that lived in Canaan, the Israelites and even the Israelites when they turned away from God. You know, there was a I think there was about a new temple they discovered somewhere down at South America, central America, and one particular part of it seems to have been especially designed for the living sacrifice of children, and the article talked about how horrific this was. And it was a left-leaning article or news agency, which made it even more ironic, but they talked about how horrific this was. And yet, how many millions are we up to now Of our own children here in America that we've literally ripped apart? I'm not sure that we really have any room In fact, I'm pretty sure we don't have any room to be talking poorly against Stalin or Mao or Hitler or these indigenous people that sacrificed their own children.
Speaker 1:We seem to be doing a pretty good job, and the altar here today is to ourselves for the most part. I'm sure that there's some. I've actually read an article or two about some satanic cults that help mothers who want to have abortions, who want to murder their own children but for the most part we just do it for our own selfishness, because that child's life isn't important enough to get in the way of our own dreams and desires. It's kind of like how we treat a lot of people around us. You're not important enough to get in the way of what I want, what I'm going to do, even on a small scale. Folks, that's really what we're saying to those that we supposedly love Spouse, kids, parents when we watch sporting events or TV or movies or social media over them. We're really telling them, in effect you're not important enough for me to put this phone down. You're not important enough for me to turn this video game off or turn the TV off One more 17. I'm sorry about the wind, folks. I thought maybe today would be a good day to go out for a walk with the dogs and record part of a podcast. The wind was consistently picked up, so maybe not the best idea in the world.
Speaker 1:Verse 17, though these are springs without water. I don't know why that it struck me when I read it in the past, but it's kind of like, I think, in Proverbs, the verse talking about rain clouds that don't bring any rain, or people that boast of giving gifts but they don't. I'm paraphrasing that when you're really thirsty, you cross in the desert or a dry land and you come to a spring and how excited you are to see that spring. And then you get to the spring and there's no water. That's pretty crushing. What do you think about us as an example to others who need to know Christ? And they get to us and then they just find that we're just kind of an empty corn husk. Or what about our kids or our parents that need us, and most especially our spouse that needs us? And they come to us looking for water for life, us looking for water for life. They get to us and they find that we're empty. Or maybe worse folks, maybe they find that we have water but that it's it's barred, it's sealed off and we can't get to it, or they can't get to it because we won't let them, because we're choosing ourselves. Pretty condemning how you're going through your day, folks. Pretty condemning to me too. How are you spending your day? Second, peter 2. Pretty good, all right, we're going to move on. So we're going to get back in and try and finish up.
Speaker 1:Patrick Henry, give me liberty or give me death. Speech from 23rd of March 1775. Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation, the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy in this quarter of the world to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir, he has none. They are meant for us, they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have so long been forging. And what have we to oppose to them? Shall we try argument, sir. We have been trying that for the last ten years. Have we anything new to offer upon the subject? Nothing. We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable, but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication. What terms shall we find which have not already been exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. He starts this little section and starts this little section and ends this little section with let us not deceive ourselves, I beseech you, sir. Let us not deceive ourselves.
Speaker 1:Folks, chamberlain and a lot of the British in the 1920s, late 1920s, 1930s, they deceived themselves about Hitler. It wasn't just the leadership, it was a huge chunk of the British population. They convinced themselves that if they just could figure out the right trick, if they could just figure out what Hitler wanted, they could give it to him and then he would back off and he would go back to Germany and it would be peaceful and there wouldn't be any war. And they, understandably, they didn't want to go back into war. They still bore the scars, the beginning of the destruction of their empire, from World War I. They didn't want to go back in the trenches. They didn't want to have the destruction of their young men, their families, their societies and all the pain, both physical and emotional, that went with that. You can understand that If you really sit there and think about it. You can understand why they were so desperate to maintain the peace. But that doesn't change the fact that they were deceiving themselves. Hitler was not ever going to be appeased. Change the fact that they were deceiving themselves. Hitler was not ever going to be appeased. You have to wonder if, even if he controlled the entire world, would he have ever been appeased.
Speaker 1:You wonder how often do we deceive ourselves? Right, we think that we're. If we can just find the right trick, if we can just find the right equation, if we can, if we can just find the solution to this one problem, we'll fix our job, our relationship with our kids, our relationship with our parents are married and we deceive ourselves by refusing to look at actions. You have parents that have never been around, over and over and over again. But you deceive yourselves because you know we deceive ourselves because we're a kid and we want our parents' love and we say, you know, the next time it'll be better. Same thing with our relationship. Perhaps we have grown kids and they continue to be disrespectful to us, to ignore us, to make horrible decisions, and we think, okay, well, maybe next time, next time, or a boss at work or, worst of all, our spouse, you know, we think okay tomorrow, you know we're going to wake up tomorrow and they're really going to love us, they're going to appreciate us, they're going to fulfill their roles, that God gave them and their responsibilities. And we deceive ourselves. And now each of those require, or have available to us, different actions. All of them start with talking to God and Jesus Christ and focusing on them.
Speaker 1:But with the left today, folks and Islam, this coexistence, this cancer that's been rotting through the body of America for the last century of leftism, feminism, communism, socialism, right, all socialism, right, all of it, we've deceived ourselves. We keep thinking, if we just, okay, they want homosexuality not to be a mental illness, fine, we'll do that. Okay, now they want, you know, special rights for the homosexual community. Okay, we'll do that and they'll be satisfied. Now we want to change the definition, god's definition of marriage from between a man and a woman to a man and a man or a woman and a woman. Okay, now they'll be satisfied. Okay, now they want to pretend that men can be women and women can be men. Okay, now, they'll be satisfied. Now they want to be able to murder their own babies if they don't want them, if it's an inconvenience. Now they'll be satisfied. You know my body, my choice. If we'll just give them that, they'll be satisfied. My body, my choice. If we'll just give them that they'll be satisfied.
Speaker 1:We take God out of the schools? If we take him out of the prayers, they'll be satisfied. No, no. If we take him out of the curriculum, they'll be satisfied. Now they want to take the Ten Commandments down. Okay, well, if we take the Ten Commandments down, they'll be satisfied. Well, now they want to take the Ten Commandments down. Okay, well, if we take the Ten Commandments down, they'll be satisfied. If we make no mention of God and Jesus Christ, they'll be satisfied. No, no, they're still not satisfied.
Speaker 1:If we pretend that all religions are equal and so we can pray to Allah or Buddha or the Hindu gods or all these other false gods, they'll be satisfied. And what have we not given folks? What is there left to give them? I mean, we're in the process of giving them our children, our marriages, our families, our nation. What other form of appeasement do you have in mind? What do you want to give to the left, so that they'll leave you alone in peace, so that you can have your normal life Right? Because that's really what a lot of us wanted, that's what the British wanted, right? They just, I just want to be left alone. If we'll leave them alone, what about the Muslims? If we'll leave them alone? Let them come to America, let them build their mosques. Let them come to America, let them build their mosques. Let them pray to Allah. They just want a little peace here. They don't want the whole country. They'll be satisfied, are they? Look at the UK today. Do you see satisfaction? Do you see the Muslims assimilating into British culture? Many European nations across the board Sweden, germany, france. Are they satisfied? Has the left ever been satisfied? At what point have we given them enough? Where they'll stop? They won't folks. They won't folks. We deceive only ourselves and allow them to continue.
Speaker 1:As patrick henry said here, the form those chains meant for us, where we have done everything that could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on. We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry. In Parliament, our petitions have been slighted, our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult, our supplications have been disregarded and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne In vain. After these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve, invalolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean, not basely, to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight. I repeat it, sir, we must fight.
Speaker 1:An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that has left us. They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week or next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supplingly on our backs and hugging the delusive phantom of hope until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot? Of phantom of hope until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot, sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means by which the God of nature hath placed in our power.
Speaker 1:The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destiny of nations and who will raise up friends to fight our battles. For us, the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone, it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest.
Speaker 1:There is no retreat, but in submission and slavery, our chains are forged. Treat, but in submission and slavery, our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable. And let it come. I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, but there is no peace. The war has actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field.
Speaker 1:Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What could they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God. I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death In vain.
Speaker 1:After these things, may we indulge in the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. When shall we be stronger folks? We've? We've diluted ourselves for about as long as we can ourselves. There's no hope of reconciliation or peace with the left, or with Islam, or with socialism, communism, fascism, nazism, all the different shades of the same evil. So what are we to do? The very first thing that we have to do. And if we don't do this, everything else, anything else that we try to do? And if we don't do this, everything else, anything else that we try, will fail. See, that's the great thing, or the great truth. If we try something with God, if we turn to God first and then try something, it may fail.
Speaker 1:From our point of view, we may be too far gone as a republic. We may have slaughtered so many innocent children. We have celebrated immorality of a kind that caused whole nations to be wiped out, caused whole nations to be wiped out Sodom, gomorrah, the pagan sacrifices of children talked about in the Old Testament. We may be so far gone, folks, that we're past the point, but if we are, we still need to turn to God, because, just like he took care of the Israelis, the Jews that were led into exile, the Babylon, he'll still take care of us. It may not turn out the way we want, but he, his son, jesus Christ, is still the only hope that we have of staying on the narrow path and gaining eternal life and salvation. Right, and that's the ultimate goal. That's what we ought to be focused on.
Speaker 1:So any solution offered by any politician, any party, that doesn't start, first and foremost with God and Jesus Christ, if it does start with God and Jesus Christ, at least there's the hope of success, the possibility. If it doesn't, there is no possibility. If we don't turn to the one true God, the only God, there's no hope. So that's the first thing. What else, though? Well, in our communities, folks, especially in Christian conservative communities across the nation, we ought to be pouring everything that we can into law enforcement, into firefighters, into EMS, into militia, and we ought to be pouring everything we can into our local district attorneys as well. You've seen the success that some of the men who stand for so much evil on the left have had in controlling district attorneys around the nation, and we ought to be doing everything we can to put God and Jesus Christ back in the center of education.
Speaker 1:Every opportunity you get is an opportunity to use to remind those around you why our nation has ever been so great God and Jesus Christ Christ. The left has understood for a century that if they could control children, if they could take children away from their families and from God, they could control the future of the nation. If you can take women out of the home, wives and mothers and put them in the workforce so the children are raised by strangers, starting at six weeks old, if you could take God out of the center of the family right, if you could make those roles and responsibilities in marriage and sex that God commands seem outdated or out of place and ostracize those who followed him Right, it's that great, paul Harvey. I think we just did it recently and went back through that speech. If I was a devil, I'd basically just keep doing what I've been doing.
Speaker 1:Any opportunity you have at your local school, anytime you interact with kids, opportunity you have at your local school. Anytime you interact with kids, bear God, jesus Christ, put them in the center of the conversation, at least a little bit. You know I harp on our sports so much, and how much, because that's one of my weaknesses. I enjoy sports so much, folks. I enjoy screens too TV, netflix, hulu, prime. Right, I have to fight those things because it's so easy for me to get sucked into them and I can sit there for hours.
Speaker 1:Every chance you get, put God and Jesus Christ in there. If you're a coach of a young team, pray before each practice. Pray at the end of each practice. Read a Bible verse it doesn't have to be a lot and don't ever make the mistake of the coexistence nonsense. If you've got a Jewish kid on your team or a Muslim kid on your team or a Buddhist or Hindu kid on your team, you don't need to read from their books. In fact, you shouldn't Read a verse from the Bible. Pray to God, the Father of Jesus Christ. Talk to the kids about it Any chance you get.
Speaker 1:If you interact with kids in some other extracurricular event, use it as an opportunity. If you're a teacher in a classroom, every chance you get read from some of our founding documents, explain to the kids where some of the statements come from. You don't even have to offer an opinion about it. Read the document, read the verses that go along with it. Move on with life. If you have any kind of influence and we all have some amount of influence, folks in our families, our marriages with our kids any amount of influence that you have encourage your local communities, towns, cities, counties, states. Put money into training, increasing the numbers that you have of law enforcement, firefighters, ems. Increase the support that your DA has. Make sure that you elect individuals who fear God and then support them.
Speaker 1:We don't need to be pouring money into welfare or infrastructure projects that are irrelevant. Infrastructure is super important, folks, especially in a military setting. We need good infrastructure, but there's a difference between necessary infrastructure and maintaining and improving it Right. It's like being every time we used to get into in the military and the Marine Corps. Every time we would get into a position, a defensive position, our job was to start immediately to harden that position. Didn't matter if we were going to be there for two hours, 10 days or an undetermined amount of time. That was our job was to start to harden that, and if you were an officer, staff and CO, your job was to make sure that your Marines and sailors were hardening their positions, and that was continuous right, kind of like chow you ate when you could, you slept when you could, and you continue to harden your positions. But it would be like taking a fire team in your unit right A four-man unit and moving them completely out of your perimeter, way out in the middle of nowhere, and tell them to start to harden a position out there that had absolutely no purpose and left them alone out in the middle where the enemy could get to them.
Speaker 1:I know that's kind of a weird analogy, but it's what popped in my head. We don't need to be working on infrastructure in particular. That has no relevance, but we definitely need to work on what does have relevance. I'm getting way off track here, folks. Anything that we can do, though, to make our community stronger, safer, more tied in to God, and Jesus Christ in particular, most of all, we've got to be doing that, because we haven't even remotely won the war, and that's what's coming, folks. You listen to Patrick Henry talk about look, we've done everything we can. We've begged and pleaded and petitioned, and it doesn't matter. Matter, folks, we've given everything we can except just completely accepted our chains, as Patrick Henry said here, that have been forged by the left, by Islam, socialism, communism. Those are our choices. And just on a side note, real quick, and then I'll leave you alone.
Speaker 1:If you're in a relationship those relationships we talked about earlier where we deceive ourselves, if it's with your parents or your kids or your spouse, worst of all, what do you do? How do you handle that? You turn to God, right? You don't want to. Nor can you abandon your parents or your children or your spouse. Now, that doesn't mean that if there's consequences for immoral actions, folks, then those consequences need to stand Right. We have eternal forgiveness through Jesus Christ. But that doesn't negate the earthly consequences of immoral actions. But that doesn't negate the earthly consequences of immoral actions. But focus yourself on God and Jesus Christ. And if you have been felt like you have been shackled or chained in some kind of relationship, you focus on God and jesus christ. And if that person wants to come along with you, right and pray for him too, then great. And if not, you cling to god and jesus christ.
Speaker 1:That's a great story out of pilgrim's progress. I've been reading, you know, the husband in the first book there were two parts and the husband in the first book there were two parts. And the husband in the first book begged and pleaded with his wife and children to come along on his journey. And they wouldn't, and he went anyway and he left them. And that sounds kind of harsh, you've got to remember. It's an analogy, right? It sounds kind of harsh, right? Oh my gosh, that husband left his wife and children to continue on his journey.
Speaker 1:But it's not, that's our calling, that's the free will, part of our job, our duty, right, john Adams, john Quincy Adams, duty is ours, results are God's. Our duty is to turn to God and Jesus Christ and to follow them is to turn to God and Jesus Christ and to follow them. If those, even those we love dearly, choose not to come, we can pray for them, we should pray for them. But our job is to follow Christ, and that ought to be our nation's point of view too. Our job as a nation is to look to those founding principles, teachings of Christ. If other people want to move here, that's great, and if they want to maintain some other kind of faith in their own home. That's between them and God. But as a nation, if you're going to come here to America publicly, you have a responsibility to follow those principles of Jesus Christ Not Islam, not Judaism, not Hinduism, not Buddhism, not atheism, not Mother Nature-ism or anything else the principles of God and Jesus Christ.
Speaker 1:God bless y'all. God bless your Christ. God bless y'all. God bless your families. God bless your marriages, if you're married. God bless America. God bless your nation, wherever you are around the world. Listen, we'll talk to y'all again real soon. Looking forward to it.