WEBVTT 00:00:00.400 --> 00:00:01.439 Hey everyone. 00:00:01.600 --> 00:00:13.919 As you know, my family and I are on vacation right now, but I couldn't think of anyone better to share with you this weekend than David Barton, who is the founder of Law Builders International. 00:00:14.160 --> 00:00:17.920 He works with Congress on the founding of many of our laws. 00:00:18.079 --> 00:00:22.000 He knows our history, our true Christian heritage. 00:00:22.239 --> 00:00:23.600 We support this man. 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:24.559 We love him. 00:00:24.640 --> 00:00:27.519 I know you've read his book, seen him on television. 00:00:27.760 --> 00:00:30.800 Please welcome David Barton. 00:00:36.399 --> 00:00:37.359 Thank y'all. 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:40.240 Thanks, guys. 00:00:42.479 --> 00:00:50.240 Well, welcome and welcome to our other campuses and to our affiliates and to the Overflow and to our online viewers. 00:00:50.560 --> 00:00:54.960 We are now just a matter of days away from another world's record in America. 00:00:55.119 --> 00:00:57.759 It is our national birthday, the 4th of July. 00:00:58.079 --> 00:01:02.640 This year will make 240 years that we have been under the same piece of paper. 00:01:02.880 --> 00:01:06.799 No other nation in the world has ever done what we've done 240 years. 00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:13.120 Most nations, every 10 to 15, 20 years, have a revolution or another government, another constitution, etc. 00:01:13.359 --> 00:01:14.159 We've we've had one. 00:01:14.319 --> 00:01:16.000 Our stability is unprecedented. 00:01:16.079 --> 00:01:18.959 We don't understand that stability is not the way of the world. 00:01:19.120 --> 00:01:21.359 Jesus said there'd be wars and rumors of wars. 00:01:21.519 --> 00:01:22.640 It was that way when he left. 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:24.400 It'll be that way until he gets back. 00:01:24.560 --> 00:01:25.760 America's been different. 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:28.159 We've also been different with our creativity. 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:30.799 We are only 4% of the world's population. 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:35.359 And 4% of the world's population should produce 4% of the world's whatever. 00:01:35.519 --> 00:01:54.159 But when you measure creativity by copyrights, by patents, by inventions, by technology, by discoveries, every year, by those measurements, America, our 4% produces more creativity, more inventions, more copyrights, more medical discoveries, more cures, more technologies than the other 96% of the world. 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:55.840 Unbelievable what we do. 00:01:56.079 --> 00:02:02.000 And then we have an economic prosperity that people don't understand. 00:02:02.159 --> 00:02:07.519 Our little 4% of the world's population, we produce 25% of the world's gross domestic product. 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:10.639 And it's not because we have greater natural resources, it's because we don't. 00:02:10.719 --> 00:02:14.080 There's a ton of nations who have more natural resources than we do. 00:02:14.240 --> 00:02:17.360 We just take what we have and make it go further than any other. 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:23.520 The difference with us today and where this has been, because we've been this way for a number of decades, a number of generations. 00:02:23.680 --> 00:02:35.520 But the difference is that had you been in school prior to World War II, you would have seen in our textbooks that we said the reason that America is different, the reason we're remarkable, the reason we have the stability is because of the Bible. 00:02:35.680 --> 00:02:37.680 Now, you're not about to see that in the textbook today. 00:02:37.759 --> 00:02:38.719 We say exactly the opposite. 00:02:38.800 --> 00:02:41.840 Oh no, no, America's founded secular nations, secular founders. 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:43.439 But that's really not true. 00:02:43.599 --> 00:02:52.479 And even to this day, even in our secular culture today, it is very easy to prove and demonstrate just how much impact the Bible has on us even today in ways that we don't recognize. 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:54.000 Just the way we talk to one another. 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:57.439 The idioms we use, and idioms are phrases that we use. 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:05.439 There's 257 idioms that we use in the language, in the English language on a daily basis that are nothing but quotations out of the Bible. 00:03:05.599 --> 00:03:09.520 You'll recognize all these, but every one of these is a direct Bible verse. 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:11.759 Things like, by the skin of your teeth. 00:03:11.919 --> 00:03:13.439 I'll give you my two cents worth. 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:15.120 Leopard can't change its spots. 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:22.800 There's nothing new under the sun, signs of the time, a thorn in the flesh, from the cradle to the grave, handwriting on the wall, a flying oil. 00:03:23.120 --> 00:03:26.800 257 phrases we hear on a daily basis are Bible verses. 00:03:26.960 --> 00:03:29.039 Now, I have a little thing we do at the office. 00:03:29.199 --> 00:03:34.639 When I hear somebody on TV use a Bible verse, I send it to the office, have them record it, put it down. 00:03:35.039 --> 00:03:40.159 Can I tell you how many Bible verses ESPN quotes on a daily basis? 00:03:40.639 --> 00:03:43.439 They have no clue that they're quoting the Bible. 00:03:43.599 --> 00:03:45.520 But these guys do it all the time. 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:56.639 And so you'll find that, you know, as you go out to, I don't know, McDonald's or you go to Macy's or Home Depot or you go wherever you go, you'll hear somebody use one of those 257 Bible phrases. 00:03:56.800 --> 00:04:02.400 Now, if you want to have a lot of fun, what you do is you stop them and say, hey, do you know what Bible verse you just quoted? 00:04:02.719 --> 00:04:06.319 Of course, they won't have a clue, but the problem is they'll look at you and say, No, I don't. 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:07.759 What Bible verse was that? 00:04:07.919 --> 00:04:09.120 And we won't have a clue either. 00:04:09.280 --> 00:04:11.360 You know, we don't know what the answer to that is. 00:04:11.919 --> 00:04:15.439 Every one of these idioms has an address for it. 00:04:15.599 --> 00:04:17.439 These are all Bible quotations. 00:04:17.519 --> 00:04:19.439 And we still use them in our language today. 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:21.040 We just didn't know they came from the Bible. 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:26.000 I think where we are today is very accurately described by President John Quincy Adams in this way. 00:04:26.240 --> 00:04:34.800 He says, in regard to the history contained in the Bible, it's not so much praiseworthy to be acquainted with it as it is shameful to be ignorant of it. 00:04:35.040 --> 00:04:41.680 See, we're at a cultural change in America where that in this generation, if you had recognized those idioms, we would praise you. 00:04:41.920 --> 00:04:44.399 I can't believe you knew that was out of the Bible, knew the addresses. 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:49.199 Back in their day, they would have said, time out, you didn't know that was out of the Bible? 00:04:49.439 --> 00:04:54.160 How can you call yourself an educated person and not know the greatest book written in the history of the world? 00:04:54.399 --> 00:05:00.800 See, what was shameful back then is now praiseworthy today because we just don't have the Bible knowledge we used to. 00:05:00.959 --> 00:05:03.439 Another person who talked about this is Teddy Roosevelt. 00:05:03.600 --> 00:05:11.839 And by the way, I'm going to use precedence for the next several minutes, and I do that deliberately, uh, because you would expect me to say something good about the Bible, or Pastor Robert, Pastor Thomas. 00:05:11.920 --> 00:05:13.519 You expect us to say good things about the Bible. 00:05:13.680 --> 00:05:21.040 What you don't expect is that for 150 years in American history, it was the presidents of the United States who carried the water on the Bible. 00:05:21.199 --> 00:05:25.439 They were all the time reminding the people and the nation, hey guys, it's the Bible that makes us who we are. 00:05:25.519 --> 00:05:27.519 And Teddy Roosevelt, this is what he said. 00:05:27.680 --> 00:05:32.240 He said the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and so entwined with our civic and our social life. 00:05:32.399 --> 00:05:33.839 Notice it did not say spiritual life. 00:05:33.920 --> 00:05:34.560 That was a given. 00:05:34.720 --> 00:05:42.000 He said the Bible's so much a part of our civic and our social life, it would be impossible for us to figure what life would be if these teachings were removed. 00:05:42.160 --> 00:05:45.680 If you take out of America what the Bible produced, you wouldn't even recognize America. 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:47.040 And that's what Teddy said back then. 00:05:47.120 --> 00:05:53.439 For example, that free market economic system that produces our economic prosperity that makes us different from other nations. 00:05:53.600 --> 00:05:58.560 The free market economic system in America developed quite differently from what it did in the rest of the world. 00:05:58.639 --> 00:06:03.759 And if you look back historically, our free market economic system was built on five Bible verses. 00:06:09.120 --> 00:06:13.600 Those Bible verses built the greatest economic system we've had in the modern world. 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:14.720 They came out of the Bible. 00:06:14.879 --> 00:06:18.800 If you took the free market economic system out of America, you would not recognize America. 00:06:19.120 --> 00:06:20.720 People don't know that that came out of the Bible. 00:06:20.879 --> 00:06:22.079 Same with our form of government. 00:06:22.240 --> 00:06:24.720 There are seven different forms of human government available. 00:06:24.879 --> 00:06:26.399 The Bible talks about all seven. 00:06:26.560 --> 00:06:30.800 The Bible specifically recommends a form of government called a Republican form of government. 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:31.600 That's what we call it. 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:33.199 It comes out of Exodus 18 21. 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:36.720 It says, choose out from among you, leaders of tens, fifties, hundreds, and thousands. 00:06:36.879 --> 00:06:37.519 Have elections. 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:39.759 Choose your local, county, state, federal officials. 00:06:39.920 --> 00:06:43.439 Founding fathers said that's what the Bible recommends, is elections at all level. 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:47.839 You also find that in Exodus 1, 15 and 16, Exodus 16, 18. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:54.160 So that's why Article 4, Section 4 of the Constitution requires that every state maintain a republican form of government. 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:55.279 We're not a democracy. 00:06:55.439 --> 00:06:57.199 That is one of the seven forms of government. 00:06:57.439 --> 00:06:59.759 Bible rejects that as being a really lousy form. 00:06:59.920 --> 00:07:01.040 Founding fathers did the same. 00:07:01.279 --> 00:07:03.839 Constitution says you have to have a Republican form of government. 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:09.199 If you take the Republican form of government out of America, the way we do our elections, you would not recognize America. 00:07:09.279 --> 00:07:12.319 But most people have no clue that that came directly out of the Bible. 00:07:12.480 --> 00:07:15.279 So we have a lot of our institutions that are Bible-based. 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:18.399 Another president, Frank Franklin Roosevelt, said this. 00:07:18.639 --> 00:07:26.399 He said, in the formative days of the Republic, the directing influence the Bible exercised on the fathers of the nation is conspicuously evident. 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:27.920 Unless you go to school today. 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:29.519 And then it's conspicuously absent. 00:07:29.680 --> 00:07:31.040 As a matter of fact, we say just the opposite. 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:33.279 Oh no, no, they were atheist agnostics deist. 00:07:33.600 --> 00:07:34.160 He continued. 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:42.319 He said, We cannot read the history of our rise and development as a nation without reckoning with the place the Bible has occupied in shaping the advances of the Republic. 00:07:42.480 --> 00:07:45.680 If America is moving forward, it's because we're following Bible teachings. 00:07:45.839 --> 00:07:47.199 We got plenty of warts in our nose. 00:07:47.279 --> 00:07:48.560 We've done plenty of things wrong. 00:07:48.720 --> 00:07:52.079 But when we're moving the right directions, because we're following what the Bible says. 00:07:52.240 --> 00:07:54.000 We're moving the wrong directions because we're not. 00:07:54.160 --> 00:07:56.160 See, it's the present United States telling us this. 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:58.959 And by the way, let me point out a founding father, Ben Franklin. 00:07:59.120 --> 00:08:01.920 There's 250 folks that we call founding fathers. 00:08:02.079 --> 00:08:05.759 Franklin is one of the five least religious founding fathers. 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:07.839 Now, Franklin's interesting for a number of reasons. 00:08:08.000 --> 00:08:12.560 He is the first man in American history to call for the United States of America. 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:16.319 Way back in 1754, he said, guys, let's not be 13 colonies. 00:08:16.399 --> 00:08:17.519 Let's be the United States. 00:08:17.680 --> 00:08:26.879 Well, they didn't buy into it back then, but 22 years later, he's one of 56 guys who signed the Declaration of Independence that started moving us toward becoming the United States. 00:08:26.959 --> 00:08:28.399 He's one of this 22 years. 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:36.879 Seven years after that, he's one of only three guys who signs the peace treaty to end the American Revolution and secure America as an independent nation. 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:39.840 Now we're getting a lot closer to being the United States. 00:08:39.919 --> 00:08:45.279 And four years later, he's sitting at the Constitutional Convention helping create the United States of America. 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.399 He's dreamed about this for 33 years. 00:08:48.559 --> 00:08:50.320 And by the way, this is Franklin. 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:51.919 You'll see him there in the center of the screen. 00:08:52.080 --> 00:08:53.120 He's the oldest guy there. 00:08:53.200 --> 00:09:01.360 He's 81 years old, got the white hair, and 81 is not impressive today because, I mean, the average lifespan in America today is 80 years old. 00:09:01.440 --> 00:09:03.120 So he's 81, so what? 00:09:03.600 --> 00:09:10.000 The average lifespan when they signed the Constitution, the average lifespan in America was 33 years old. 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:19.360 Which means that if you're a high school senior and you happen to be here this morning and you had been alive back then, you would have already had your midlife crisis. 00:09:19.679 --> 00:09:23.440 Because I mean, once you hit 17, it's it's half over for you. 00:09:23.519 --> 00:09:27.840 You're you're you're he's 81 years old. 00:09:27.919 --> 00:09:34.639 And but this is what he's dreamed for for 33 years, except it's not going the way it was supposed to, because everybody came with their own agenda. 00:09:34.799 --> 00:09:38.720 You had the New York plan, the Virginia plan, you had the Connecticut plan, the New Jersey plan. 00:09:38.960 --> 00:09:44.799 Of course, the guys from New Jersey didn't want the Connecticut plan, guys from Connecticut didn't want the Virginia plan, guys from Virginia didn't want the New York plan. 00:09:45.120 --> 00:09:48.879 Everybody had their own agenda, so all fighting and bickering going on. 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:51.600 Everybody's got their own way, and it's starting to fall apart. 00:09:51.759 --> 00:09:54.080 Alexander Hamilton headed back to New York. 00:09:54.159 --> 00:09:56.559 He's tired of fighting and bickering, he's got better things to do. 00:09:56.720 --> 00:09:58.720 George Mason, Virginia, he's out of there. 00:09:58.799 --> 00:10:01.600 He got better things to do with his time than fight with these other guys. 00:10:01.759 --> 00:10:04.879 Franklin's watching this thing fall apart in front of his eyes. 00:10:05.120 --> 00:10:12.240 And as he does, on Thursday, June the 28th, 1787, he gave the longest speech he gave at the Constitutional Convention. 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:13.120 Look at what he said. 00:10:13.279 --> 00:10:31.039 Franklin said, gentlemen, he said, in this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us, how has it happened, sir, that we've not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of Lights to illuminate our understanding? 00:10:31.360 --> 00:10:38.559 He said, in the beginning of the contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible of danger, we had daily prayer in this room for divine protection. 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:42.799 And this is the room that 11 years earlier is where they signed the Declaration of Independence. 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:44.960 And at that point in time, we did a lot of praying. 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:52.639 As a matter of fact, you'll find that by 1815 there had been 1,400 government-issued calls to prayer in America. 00:10:52.799 --> 00:10:54.799 Issued by the government, calling people to prayer. 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:56.960 Way back then, so they did a lot of praying. 00:10:57.120 --> 00:11:00.240 He said, Guys, don't you remember in this room we used to pray all the time? 00:11:00.320 --> 00:11:04.480 He said, our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. 00:11:04.720 --> 00:11:11.279 He said, All of us engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a superintendent providence in our favor. 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.600 And have we not forgotten this powerful friend? 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.879 Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? 00:11:17.279 --> 00:11:20.159 He said, I have lived, sir, a long time. 00:11:20.559 --> 00:11:27.919 And the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. 00:11:28.240 --> 00:11:34.879 He said, If a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:41.840 We've been assured in the sacred writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:54.879 I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without his concurring aid, we should succeed in this political building, but no better than the builders of Babel, and we should become a reproach and a byword down at future ages. 00:11:55.200 --> 00:12:06.000 I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of heaven and its blessings on our deliberation be held in this assembly every morning before we proceed to business. 00:12:06.480 --> 00:12:09.840 Now, may I point out that's not bad for your least religious founding father? 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:13.279 He has just chewed the other guys out for not praying enough. 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:15.279 This is your least religious founding father. 00:12:15.360 --> 00:12:16.399 But here's what I want you to see. 00:12:16.480 --> 00:12:19.679 In that speech of Franklin, that speech is 14 sentences long. 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:21.039 Here's my question. 00:12:21.679 --> 00:12:25.440 How many Bible verses did Ben Franklin just quote in those 14 sentences? 00:12:26.159 --> 00:12:28.799 The answer is 14 Bible verses. 00:12:29.120 --> 00:12:31.840 These are the Bible verses Ben Franklin just quoted. 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:34.879 Now, if you had recognized those verses, we would praise you. 00:12:34.960 --> 00:12:36.480 I can't believe you saw those verses. 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:43.120 Back in their day, even the least religious founding father knew the Bible that well, to quote 14 times in a speech. 00:12:43.279 --> 00:12:49.200 See, where we are today, we have become so biblically unaware that we actually have to tell you when we quote the Bible. 00:12:49.360 --> 00:12:50.960 I'm quoting to you out of John 3.16. 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:53.840 Now, Job 3.25 says, and we see in Isaiah 5. 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:55.840 I have to tell you when we're quoting the Bible. 00:12:55.919 --> 00:13:01.600 Back then, even the least religious founding father knew the Bible well enough that he didn't have to tell everybody else he's quoting the Bible. 00:13:01.759 --> 00:13:05.360 See, that's the cultural difference that's happened in the last generation or so in America. 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:07.120 Bible knowledge has really dropped. 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:17.120 But the knowledge of our history was so well known by previous generations that even when you take one of our least religious presidents, and by the way, let me give you the rest of the story on the Constitutional Convention. 00:13:17.360 --> 00:13:26.720 They they had this, you know, Franklin gives a speech, and according to the records of the convention, they then said, okay, let's kind of back away a bit, and they took three days off, kind of cooling off period. 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.759 George Washington said in that period of time that they went to church and they listened to patriotic orations. 00:13:31.919 --> 00:13:36.720 So three days, all this fight and bickering now, we're going to take three days off, kind of cool off a little bit here. 00:13:36.879 --> 00:13:43.519 So they go to church, and while they're at church, not only do they listen to patriotic orations, but they have special prayer time. 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:47.759 The Reverend William Rogers prayed over the Constitutional Convention. 00:13:47.919 --> 00:13:51.919 Now he's there in church, he's got the Constitutional Convention sitting in front of him right there in church. 00:13:52.080 --> 00:13:55.840 Everybody in Philadelphia knows this thing's falling apart because people are leaving town. 00:13:56.000 --> 00:14:03.120 And he's praying for them, and his prayer is not like what we might do today in a city council or it's not like a civic prayer. 00:14:03.279 --> 00:14:04.720 I mean, he's praying. 00:14:05.039 --> 00:14:07.679 We own a hundred thousand documents from before 1812. 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:12.320 We've got thousands of handwritten documents, the Washington's and the Adams and Jefferson's and Madison's, etc. 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:16.080 And I've got the prayer that he prayed over the Constitutional Convention. 00:14:16.240 --> 00:14:20.159 And that prayer that he prayed, they printed it on the front page of the newspapers. 00:14:20.240 --> 00:14:23.279 And that prayer was three-fourths of the front page. 00:14:23.519 --> 00:14:25.039 I mean, they really prayed. 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:27.039 He prayed over the Constitutional Convention. 00:14:27.120 --> 00:14:36.000 And so after three days off and going to church and listening to patriotic orations and getting prayer, when they came back, delegates like Jonathan Dayton said the whole atmosphere had shifted. 00:14:36.159 --> 00:14:37.200 It was a different feeling. 00:14:38.000 --> 00:14:41.600 Last week that's a really dumb idea, and this week, that's pretty good. 00:14:41.759 --> 00:14:53.279 And so what happens is they go from falling apart to this three days, they come back afterwards, there's a whole different atmosphere, and ten weeks later, they produce the most successful governing document in the history of the world. 00:14:53.519 --> 00:14:55.600 The one that we have been under from the very beginning. 00:14:55.679 --> 00:14:57.360 We've not changed like other nations have. 00:14:57.679 --> 00:14:58.720 We still have our first one. 00:14:58.879 --> 00:15:06.000 Now, if you know the Bible and you read the Constitution, you find Bible verses all over the Constitution. 00:15:06.159 --> 00:15:09.279 And yet today we're told, oh no, the Constitution is a secular document. 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:14.639 Matter of fact, there's a book by two professors at Cornell University, and it's called the Godless Constitution. 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:15.840 It's a secular document. 00:15:16.159 --> 00:15:25.679 When somebody tells me the Constitution is godless or that it's secular, what they've actually done is they have just told me that they are biblically illiterate. 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:30.159 There are Bible verses all over it, but they wouldn't recognize a Bible verse if it bit them in the ankle. 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:31.679 You know, they don't even know what it looks like. 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:37.279 And so what they've told me is they don't know the Bible because if you know the Bible, you see it all throughout the document. 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:45.519 And this is that kind of history that was so well known that even when we take a least religious president like Andrew Jackson, even for Andrew Jackson, it was a no-brainer. 00:15:45.759 --> 00:15:49.519 He said, the Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests. 00:15:49.759 --> 00:15:52.799 You also have presidents like Zachary Taylor. 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:54.480 Zachary Taylor was a war hero. 00:15:54.559 --> 00:15:56.000 His nickname was old Rough and Ready. 00:15:56.159 --> 00:15:58.080 Look what Zachary Taylor said about the Bible. 00:15:58.240 --> 00:16:00.320 He said, The Bible is the best of books. 00:16:00.480 --> 00:16:02.559 I wish it were in the hands of everyone. 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:06.000 It's indispensable to the safety and permanence of our institutions. 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:07.360 Notice he did not say faith. 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:10.159 He said the Bible is indispensable to our institutions. 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:16.159 You see, the more secular and the more Bible-free our institutions become, the less well they work. 00:16:16.320 --> 00:16:20.960 It doesn't matter whether it's education or judiciary or economics or governmental law. 00:16:21.039 --> 00:16:28.799 He said, guys, if you want your institutions to work, the Bible is indispensable to the safety and permanence of our institutions, and now we're moving in the opposite direction. 00:16:28.960 --> 00:16:29.759 But he continued. 00:16:29.840 --> 00:16:33.279 He said, especially should the Bible be placed in the hands of the young. 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:36.080 It is the best school book in the world. 00:16:36.240 --> 00:16:39.840 I would that all of our people were brought up under the influence of that holy book. 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:41.519 Best school book in the world? 00:16:41.679 --> 00:16:42.799 That's unconstitutional. 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:44.000 You can't do that. 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:50.799 Which is the irony that for us to do today, what we did for generations, almost for two centuries, is now suddenly unconstitutional. 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:54.000 But it wasn't unconstitutional back then because we knew our history better. 00:16:54.159 --> 00:16:56.720 For example, we have founding fathers like Benjamin Rush. 00:16:56.879 --> 00:16:59.759 John Adams said he's one of the three most notable founding fathers. 00:16:59.919 --> 00:17:03.440 John Adams said you got George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Benjamin Rush. 00:17:03.600 --> 00:17:09.119 This guy, so many things he did, but among other things, he is called the Father of Public Schools under the Constitution. 00:17:09.279 --> 00:17:14.799 And for a nation that loves education, we spend$460 billion a year on education. 00:17:14.960 --> 00:17:19.359 For a nation that loves it, you think we would know the father of public schools under the, but we don't. 00:17:19.519 --> 00:17:22.799 And the reason we don't is because of what he wrote and what he said and what he did. 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:27.200 You see, back in March the 10th, 1791, he said, Well, we used to be 13 nations. 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:28.160 Now we're one nation. 00:17:28.240 --> 00:17:32.640 And if we're going to stay one United States, what do we have to teach in our schools? 00:17:32.720 --> 00:17:34.319 And he said, easy, the Bible. 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:39.359 And he went through and gave a dozen reasons we would never take the Bible out of public schools in America. 00:17:39.519 --> 00:17:42.160 Now I can show you all sorts of other founding fathers did the same thing. 00:17:42.240 --> 00:17:43.680 I show you the textbooks they put in. 00:17:43.759 --> 00:17:46.160 The Bible is the primary reading text in public schools across the. 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:49.519 We had that for so long that in 1844, the U.S. 00:17:49.599 --> 00:17:52.960 Supreme Court, in a unanimous 8-0 decision, the U.S. 00:17:53.039 --> 00:17:58.799 Supreme Court said, um, if you're going to be a government-run, government-operated school, you will teach the Bible. 00:17:58.880 --> 00:18:01.440 We won't fund any government school that doesn't teach the Bible. 00:18:01.680 --> 00:18:02.720 Exactly opposite. 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:05.680 We never heard that in our history course, and yet that's part of U.S. 00:18:05.759 --> 00:18:06.720 Supreme Court records. 00:18:06.880 --> 00:18:09.039 What we hear is what happened in 1963. 00:18:09.200 --> 00:18:16.240 Abenchemp and Murray Collette, and that court decision, the Supreme Court for the first time said, hey, you know this thing about Bible in schools? 00:18:16.400 --> 00:18:17.920 We're not going to do that anymore. 00:18:18.160 --> 00:18:27.119 Now, the court that ruled that also said that removing the Bible out of schools, they said was without historical or legal precedent. 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:31.279 There's nothing in our history or nothing in the law that says we have to take the Bible, but we're going to do it. 00:18:31.519 --> 00:18:32.400 Then why did they do it? 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:34.400 If there's nothing in history, why take it out? 00:18:34.480 --> 00:18:36.240 And that's where you read, simply read the case. 00:18:36.319 --> 00:18:37.839 I've been involved in seven cases of the U.S. 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:38.480 Supreme Court. 00:18:38.640 --> 00:18:40.400 You want to know why the judges do what they do? 00:18:40.480 --> 00:18:41.039 Just read the case. 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:42.799 And when you do, you find this statement. 00:18:43.039 --> 00:18:50.000 The court said if portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could be and had been psychologically harmful to the child. 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:52.960 We've now discovered the Bible causes brain damage. 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:55.119 We've got to save our kids from brain damage. 00:18:55.359 --> 00:18:59.440 I would argue that we've suffered massive brain damage since we've taken the Bible out of school. 00:18:59.599 --> 00:19:01.519 We can't even tell male from female anymore. 00:19:01.599 --> 00:19:05.359 You know, we've lost our senses in all sorts of areas. 00:19:07.519 --> 00:19:10.079 The result of that is talked about by Dr. 00:19:10.160 --> 00:19:16.480 Benjamin Rush, who said the Bible, when not read in schools, is seldom read in any subsequent period of life. 00:19:16.720 --> 00:19:22.400 See, we know statistically that if you don't start it, the older you are, the harder it is to start reading the Bible. 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:26.880 Now, if you read it when you start in school back here at four, five, or six, you'll keep reading it for your life. 00:19:27.039 --> 00:19:31.519 But if you don't read it when you're four, five, or six, it's pretty hard to start as a teenager. 00:19:31.680 --> 00:19:34.880 It's even hard to start as a young adult, harder to start as a young adult. 00:19:35.039 --> 00:19:37.039 When you get over in your 30s, it's even harder. 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:39.839 And as time goes on, it's just harder to start reading the Bible. 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:51.359 So we used to do, but because we don't do that anymore, we have the massive biblical illiteracy across the nation that we now experience, where that even Franklin, who's one of our least religious founding fathers, knew the Bible as well as he did. 00:19:51.519 --> 00:19:55.920 Now, even for a lot of Christians, they don't know the Bible as well as Ben Franklin did. 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:59.279 So what we face today is we don't see how it applies. 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:05.839 And yet every single one of these topics, and I chose these topics because the Bible speaks explicitly about every one of them. 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:14.079 And you see, in previous generations, we knew what the Bible said about economic policy and tax policy, about military policy, about foreign affairs, about immigration, about anything else. 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:17.039 Today we have to hunt for verses to find that. 00:20:17.279 --> 00:20:21.519 We as Christians should know every one of those issues because the Bible is very clear about everyone. 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:24.400 Benjamin Rush had another great statement he made. 00:20:24.640 --> 00:20:26.000 He talked about the Bible. 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:31.839 He says the Bible contains more knowledge, demand, necessary to man in his present state than any book in the world. 00:20:32.000 --> 00:20:35.359 Now, today we compartmentalize faith and oh, he's talking about spiritual knowledge. 00:20:35.440 --> 00:20:36.079 No, he's not. 00:20:36.240 --> 00:20:39.279 If you want to know anything about education, you go to the Bible. 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:40.880 If you want to know about science, you go to the Bible. 00:20:41.039 --> 00:20:42.319 You want to know about medicine? 00:20:42.640 --> 00:20:43.119 Knowledge. 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:44.000 It came out of the Bible. 00:20:44.559 --> 00:20:45.519 Give you a great example. 00:20:45.680 --> 00:20:46.799 This man is Matthew Maury. 00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:48.400 We no longer really study him in school. 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:50.079 So Matthew Maury is a great guy. 00:20:50.240 --> 00:20:52.079 He's called the father of oceanography. 00:20:52.240 --> 00:20:54.799 He is the guy who discovered jet streams in the ocean. 00:20:54.960 --> 00:20:57.759 So Matthew Maury is the father of oceanography. 00:20:58.000 --> 00:21:05.599 He's the guy that back in the 1830s, now he grew up listening to speeches of founding fathers like James Mattis and others, and he went to sea as a little boy. 00:21:05.680 --> 00:21:08.160 He's a ship, he's a cabin boy. 00:21:08.240 --> 00:21:12.480 Well, he worked his way up to being a sailor, and then he became an officer, and then he became a ship captain. 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:14.640 Then he actually started owning ships himself. 00:21:14.799 --> 00:21:22.400 He loved the sea, but he was ashore one time, had a stagecoach accident that crushed his leg and it never grew back right, so he couldn't go back to sea, but he loved the sea. 00:21:22.480 --> 00:21:23.519 That was the love of his life. 00:21:23.680 --> 00:21:26.799 And so he's the guy who actually found that there were jet streams in the ocean. 00:21:26.880 --> 00:21:31.279 Now, think about it back in the 1830s and 40s with the technology they had, no satellites. 00:21:31.440 --> 00:21:32.640 How did you figure out exactly? 00:21:33.039 --> 00:21:42.160 He's the guy who said, Oh guys, if you'll move your ship over here about 50 miles, you'll be in a jet stream that'll take you to Europe and you'll get there a week faster than everybody else, which is a huge thing in commercial shipping. 00:21:42.480 --> 00:21:46.319 How do you find out where in the ocean that these are? 00:21:46.720 --> 00:21:50.079 Oh, you want to you want to leave Europe and go to Africa, then get over here. 00:21:50.160 --> 00:21:52.799 And if you're going from Africa to Australia, you want to be over here. 00:21:53.039 --> 00:21:56.319 He might mapped these out, and that's back in the early 1800s. 00:21:56.480 --> 00:21:58.160 How did he find that they were there? 00:21:58.319 --> 00:21:59.759 He said he found it out of the Bible. 00:22:00.240 --> 00:22:05.680 You see, he was homesick one day, and he had his family reading the Bible out loud to him. 00:22:05.759 --> 00:22:08.000 And he said that Psalm 8 is what got him. 00:22:08.160 --> 00:22:08.799 This is what it says. 00:22:08.880 --> 00:22:12.559 It says, Lord, thou madeest man to have dominion over the works of thy hands. 00:22:12.799 --> 00:22:19.519 Thou hast put all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, yea, and the beasts of the field, and the fowl of the air, and the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the sea. 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:21.599 And he goes, Whoa, read that again. 00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:25.200 You see, what jumped out of him was whatever passes through the paths of the sea. 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:26.480 Paths in the sea. 00:22:27.279 --> 00:22:28.000 Read that again. 00:22:28.640 --> 00:22:29.119 Slow down. 00:22:29.200 --> 00:22:29.519 Read it. 00:22:29.680 --> 00:22:32.160 Because he's seen paths through the forest and paths in the mountains. 00:22:32.319 --> 00:22:33.440 He's been on the sea his whole life. 00:22:33.519 --> 00:22:35.519 He's never seen a path that's read that again. 00:22:35.759 --> 00:22:37.440 God says there's paths in the sea. 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:39.039 There must be paths in the sea. 00:22:39.200 --> 00:22:45.279 So because God said that, that's why he started looking, and that's where he found the pathways through the sea that God put there. 00:22:45.440 --> 00:22:48.799 But that wasn't the only thing that really revolutionized him. 00:22:48.960 --> 00:22:52.400 Another thing you'll find is a Bible verse from Ecclesiastes 1-6. 00:22:52.799 --> 00:22:57.279 Ecclesiastes 1-6 says the wind goes toward the south, it turns around to the north. 00:22:57.440 --> 00:23:01.359 The wind whirls about continually and comes again on its circuit. 00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:02.720 The wind has a circuit. 00:23:02.799 --> 00:23:03.920 Wait a minute, south to north. 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:06.559 He's the guy who also found jet streams in there. 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:08.480 And again, think of the technology back then. 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:13.279 No way he can know that satellites, but he found the currents in the air, the jet streams that are up there. 00:23:13.440 --> 00:23:18.319 And because of that, for the first time in human history, weather prediction became possible. 00:23:18.480 --> 00:23:20.480 He said, guys, you see the way those currents are moving? 00:23:20.559 --> 00:23:21.759 You don't want to set sail right now. 00:23:21.839 --> 00:23:22.960 You do, you're going to have real trouble. 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:23.440 Wait for. 00:23:23.839 --> 00:23:27.039 And he he's called the father of naval meteorology. 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:32.799 Now, all of this is meteorology and oceanography and all this stuff because of what he found in the Bible. 00:23:33.039 --> 00:23:36.640 Now, today we're told that the Bible and science are incompatible. 00:23:36.720 --> 00:23:38.799 Well, of course, they were told that back then as well. 00:23:38.960 --> 00:23:45.839 He says, I've been blamed by men of science, both in this country and in England, for quoting the Bible in confirmation of the doctrines of physical geography. 00:23:46.000 --> 00:23:51.359 The Bible, they say, was not written for scientific purposes and is therefore of no authority in matters of science. 00:23:51.519 --> 00:23:52.640 Boy, do we hear that today. 00:23:52.799 --> 00:23:56.799 You know, you Christians, a bunch of Neanderthals, anti-science people, because you're faith people. 00:23:56.960 --> 00:23:58.880 No, Bible and faith aren't incompatible. 00:23:58.960 --> 00:23:59.599 And that's what he said. 00:23:59.680 --> 00:24:01.519 He said, they say that it's incompatible. 00:24:01.599 --> 00:24:02.720 He said, but that's wrong. 00:24:02.880 --> 00:24:04.400 He says, I beg pardon. 00:24:04.640 --> 00:24:07.680 The Bible is authority for everything it touches. 00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:09.839 The Bible is true and science is true. 00:24:09.920 --> 00:24:10.640 They're both true. 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:18.960 And when your men of science, with vain and hasty conceit, announce the discovery, disagreement between them, when scientists say, oh, that's incompatible with the Bible, he says, rely on it. 00:24:19.119 --> 00:24:21.519 He says the fault is not with the witness or his records. 00:24:21.599 --> 00:24:29.200 It's not God that's wrong here, but it's with the worm, the sinful human, who attempts to interpret evidence which he does not understand. 00:24:29.440 --> 00:24:33.680 He says, you count on it, science will eventually turn back to where the Bible is. 00:24:33.839 --> 00:24:41.920 Now, we have a national daily radio program we do, and about every two weeks, I love taking the new scientific studies that are out where science has shifted. 00:24:42.400 --> 00:24:44.079 Now they don't ever admit that they got it wrong. 00:24:45.119 --> 00:24:51.599 But I love the studies where they've been going this way for 30 years, and now they're coming back here, and you go, oh, look, that's where the Bible was. 00:24:51.759 --> 00:24:53.519 30 years ago, you said the Bible's wrong. 00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:54.240 Now look at this. 00:24:55.119 --> 00:24:57.200 See, this God is the great scientist. 00:24:57.359 --> 00:24:59.839 He created nature, he created the laws of nature. 00:25:00.000 --> 00:25:02.319 Nobody knows nature better than the one who created it. 00:25:02.480 --> 00:25:04.559 That's why you go to the Bible for scientific knowledge. 00:25:04.720 --> 00:25:08.079 But not just that, he also is the one who instituted the institution of government. 00:25:08.160 --> 00:25:11.279