The Charlie Kirk Show - July 07, 2024


Do Human Beings Want To Be Free? Independence Weekend At Dream City


Episode Stats

Length

36 minutes

Words per Minute

161.34247

Word Count

5,889

Sentence Count

463

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

14


Summary

Happy 4th of July! Today we read the Declaration of Independence and talk about the Bible in relation to the founding of the United States of America. What does the Bible have to do with our birth certificate? Why did our founding fathers write a letter to King George III? And why did they write it in the form of a telegram to a man who was in his late 20s at the time of the letter? The answer to all of these questions and more can be found in the most important document written by our founders, The Declaration written on July 4th, 1776, written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, and signed by John Adams, the President of the U.S.A. and the First Lady, Abigail Adams, in response to a complaint from King George V. and his son, George Washington, about their claim that the sun never sets on the British Empire. This is a story of a letter written by a young man in his early 20s to the King of England, King George, and the people who wrote it, and sent it to the most powerful man on the planet, George W. W. Bush, on July 1st, 1876. What a story it is! The Bible is in the Declaration, and it is also in the Ten Commandments, and in Genesis 1:26-27, which was written by Moses in the Old Testament. . We are made in the image of God, and we are made by God in the likeness of King George. God created us in the shadow of the earth, and He made us in His likeness. Thank you for listening to this message, and supporting us in this message. -Pastor Luke - Pastor Charlie Kirk and God bless you, God bless! - Blessings, Blessings and Blessings! and Cheers, Pastor Luke, Pastor Kristian, Pastor Charlie, Pastor James, Pastor David, and all of us, and God Blessings & Blessings from Charlie, and Good Blessings Blessings. - - Amen! -- - Tom, Cheers! - Kristian & Tommy, - Sarah, Sarah, Amy, and Mike, and Mark, Kristian God blessings, and Love, Blessings - Ephraim, and Jack, Christina, and Mary, Michelle, and Sarah, and Chelsie


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, happy Sunday!
00:00:01.000 It is Independence Day weekend and it's my message to you about our birth certificate and how the Bible is in the Declaration of Independence.
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00:01:25.000 Please take a seat.
00:01:27.000 Lots to cover today.
00:01:29.000 Thank you, Tommy.
00:01:29.000 After a greeting like that, I'm good.
00:01:31.000 I could just... By the way, how was that debate this last week?
00:01:35.000 That was something.
00:01:37.000 I thought Biden did great.
00:01:38.000 All right, that's all I'm going to say about that.
00:01:44.000 All the rest speaks for itself, as you would say, right?
00:01:46.000 You're all smart people.
00:01:47.000 You can see what I see.
00:01:48.000 We need God.
00:01:50.000 Right, oh my goodness.
00:01:53.000 All right, so this is a big week, and I was texting with Pastor Luke a couple months ago, and I said, hey, I felt bad last year.
00:02:02.000 I was supposed to actually give this speech last July 4th weekend, last Independence Day weekend, and I said, I want to kind of come back, if I can, on Independence Day weekend.
00:02:11.000 He said, absolutely, and this is a very profound time in our country's history.
00:02:19.000 It makes sense for us to take a pause and get back to our roots and the foundational elements of who we are as a country.
00:02:27.000 And what we are going to do today is we are going to read our country's birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence.
00:02:35.000 We are going to read our birth certificate and then I'm going to show you The scripture that our founders believed when they put it into our birth certificate.
00:02:46.000 And then we're going to talk about some other parts of the Word of God that speak to this.
00:02:50.000 Now, it's important to understand the context before we get into the Declaration of Independence and what led to this.
00:02:56.000 That was really written on July 1st or July 2nd.
00:02:59.000 It was finally published on July 4th.
00:03:01.000 John Adams, who had a lot of sway, they were in a big room.
00:03:05.000 Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Madison, they said, so who's gonna write this complaint to King George?
00:03:12.000 And John Adams said, that Thomas Jefferson guy, he's a good writer.
00:03:15.000 Now he wrote a bunch of pamphlets and he wrote a bunch of booklets.
00:03:19.000 He was a very gifted young man.
00:03:21.000 He was in his late 20s when he wrote this.
00:03:24.000 To give us some idea.
00:03:25.000 In his late 20s when he wrote this.
00:03:27.000 And understand the first and foremost audience.
00:03:30.000 This was a letter to the King of England.
00:03:34.000 King George.
00:03:35.000 The most powerful man on the planet.
00:03:37.000 The most powerful person that was able, with a snap of a finger, invade a country.
00:03:41.000 They said the sun never sets on the British Empire.
00:03:44.000 He is as powerful as it gets.
00:03:47.000 The known world was controlled by this guy.
00:03:49.000 And this was a telegram, a message, if you will, that took months to get to him, eventually, because he had to cross the sea, and declaring independence from King George.
00:04:00.000 Now, in order to do this, you had to have a very, very good reason.
00:04:04.000 So they appoint Thomas Jefferson.
00:04:05.000 They say, hey, you know, cook up some ideas here.
00:04:08.000 And our birth certificate, this letter to King George, is one of the most beautiful documents written in human history.
00:04:16.000 If we look at history and we say important moments and important events, obviously Genesis 1-1, in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
00:04:24.000 Genesis 1-26 and 1-27, and human beings are made in his image.
00:04:30.000 The Exodus story, which we'll talk about today.
00:04:32.000 Maybe Moses on Mount Sinai when he gets the Ten Commandments.
00:04:36.000 The incarnation when Jesus Christ took flesh.
00:04:40.000 The resurrection of Jesus Christ.
00:04:42.000 I believe that July 4th, 1776, was the most important moment in human history after the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
00:04:51.000 That's how important July 4th, 1776 is.
00:04:54.000 Now, why is that?
00:04:55.000 It's because it took the truths of the scriptures, what it says about what a human being is, what freedom is, what liberty is, how government should operate it.
00:05:05.000 It took all those truths and put them into practice.
00:05:09.000 You see, before July 4th, 1776, There was not a single example of government that made the arguments that was in this document.
00:05:19.000 And so in the birth certificate, Thomas Jefferson writes, when in the course of human events, let's stop right there.
00:05:26.000 That is an eternal message.
00:05:28.000 That isn't just saying, hey, things aren't so great here.
00:05:31.000 Thomas Jefferson and the founders are starting as broad as one can possibly start.
00:05:37.000 Basically saying, what we are about to write will be applicable In 1876, 1976, and 2024, that what we are about to write is always going to be true.
00:05:52.000 This is talking about a never-ending truth claim, and only the Bible speaks to such truths.
00:05:59.000 One of the coarser human events, it becomes necessary.
00:06:02.000 That's so important.
00:06:04.000 Not that it's a good idea, not that Maybe you should, but necessary.
00:06:10.000 What Thomas Jefferson is saying is that you as a human being have a necessary need to live in freedom and not in slavery.
00:06:20.000 To live in a state of self-government, not under a tyrant, a king, or a pharaoh, which we'll get to soon.
00:06:28.000 It becomes necessary for one person to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.
00:06:41.000 Let me go back.
00:06:42.000 Dissolve the political bands which connect them with another.
00:06:45.000 Who wants to see some dissolving of political bands right now?
00:06:47.000 I think that's a good idea.
00:06:48.000 Just as true today as it was in 1776, but the laws of nature and nature's God.
00:06:57.000 He didn't say the laws of nature and nature science.
00:07:01.000 He didn't say the laws of nature or reason.
00:07:05.000 He didn't say the laws of nature and Anthony Fauci.
00:07:09.000 You see, there are two things that every single founding father believed.
00:07:14.000 There is a God, and we are not Him.
00:07:17.000 There is a God, and we are not Him.
00:07:19.000 Now you might say, well that's rather obvious.
00:07:22.000 How many of our current elected leaders in Washington, D.C.
00:07:26.000 believe that there is a God, and we are not Him?
00:07:29.000 If you can pass those two tests, we have a lot more in common.
00:07:34.000 Then not in common.
00:07:35.000 In fact, I believe the divide in America is between those of us that believe there is a God and we are not Him, and those who do not believe that there is a God and that they are Him.
00:07:44.000 In fact, if you believe that there is a God and you are not Him, You all of a sudden do not believe in the insanity that men can give birth.
00:07:53.000 You don't try to turn human beings in this transhumanist project.
00:07:56.000 You don't try to experiment on us.
00:07:59.000 Instead, you have the humility that there is a God and Jesus is on his throne.
00:08:05.000 You see, the laws of nature and nature's God, what Thomas Jefferson and the founders are saying is, hey, King George, you're actually not in charge.
00:08:15.000 Oh, and it gets even more provocative.
00:08:19.000 You see, you understand, prior to this, no one had ever challenged the King of England.
00:08:23.000 Sure, us Scots are always, you know, rebelling against rebellious tyrants, but we weren't that eloquent.
00:08:29.000 We had William Wallace screaming to the sky, like... This was a thoughtful, deep, theological, and philosophical rebuke of monarchy.
00:08:42.000 You understand that before Thomas Jefferson and the founders wrote this, inspired by the scriptures, based on the scriptures, there was always one commonality of government.
00:08:53.000 Every single government, one form or fashion, with the exception of maybe Athenian democracy for a short period of time, was that there were a bunch of subjects, And one ruler.
00:09:04.000 A bunch of subjects and one ruler.
00:09:07.000 A bunch of subjects and one ruler.
00:09:09.000 The founders said, what if we make a bunch of rulers and a couple people that are subservient to the rulers?
00:09:18.000 What if the people are the rulers?
00:09:20.000 Never happened before.
00:09:22.000 You see, it continues, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.
00:09:32.000 Continues by saying, we hold these truths.
00:09:35.000 Let me stop right there.
00:09:36.000 The founding fathers believed that there is the truth.
00:09:40.000 Not as the college kids would say, well my truth, or my truth is this.
00:09:45.000 That there is one truth.
00:09:46.000 That there is one way.
00:09:48.000 And they believed that to be Jesus Christ is the way, the truth, and the life.
00:09:53.000 You see, There is a fair amount of revisionism, where people say, oh, the Founding Fathers weren't even Christians.
00:10:00.000 Do you know that 55 out of 56 of the Founding Fathers who signed the Declaration of Independence were Bible-believing, church-attending Christians?
00:10:09.000 55 out of 56.
00:10:11.000 They believed that Jesus was Lord, and out of that belief, we got this form and structure of government.
00:10:18.000 We hold these truths to be self-evident.
00:10:20.000 Now, let me stop there.
00:10:21.000 That was a raging insult to King George.
00:10:26.000 We hold these truths to be self-evident, but you don't get it?
00:10:29.000 You see, we can use our reason to know, in a self-evidentiary way, that the moral right of government is not how we've been living.
00:10:38.000 And then here comes the kicker.
00:10:41.000 The one, two, three, four, five, six words that changed humanity.
00:10:46.000 And you cannot get these six words in a test tube.
00:10:51.000 You cannot get these six words through a math equation.
00:10:55.000 You cannot get these six words by using the scientific method.
00:10:59.000 Of the entire Declaration, these six words are what separates America from the third world.
00:11:05.000 What separates our promise of government from every other promised government.
00:11:09.000 That all men are created equal.
00:11:12.000 Period.
00:11:13.000 Now, where would one get an idea like that?
00:11:19.000 Because we all have different talents and skills.
00:11:23.000 We might look different.
00:11:24.000 Some of us are tall.
00:11:25.000 Some of us are short.
00:11:27.000 Some of us are fit.
00:11:28.000 Some of us are not so fit.
00:11:30.000 Some of us are good at sports.
00:11:33.000 Some of us are not.
00:11:34.000 Because they did not mean that we have equal blessings from the Lord.
00:11:39.000 But they believe what Genesis 1.26 and 1.27 says clearly.
00:11:43.000 And what it says later in the New Testament.
00:11:45.000 Which is first, that we are all the same type of thing.
00:11:49.000 That every human being has a soul.
00:11:52.000 The idea of human equality is that, King George, you don't get to rule over us unless we give you permission.
00:12:02.000 Because we're all equal.
00:12:04.000 You're a human being the same way we are.
00:12:06.000 How many of you grew up hearing from a parent, oh, they put on their pants one leg at a time just like you?
00:12:14.000 That is, by the way, it's a beautiful thing to teach a kid, Because that's essentially saying the human equality truism in a different way.
00:12:24.000 You know, they have to go to sleep at night just like you do.
00:12:26.000 They have to brush their teeth just like you do.
00:12:28.000 They're the same type of thing.
00:12:31.000 They're not an angel.
00:12:33.000 They don't have supernatural powers.
00:12:36.000 When they say that all men are created equal, as it says in the New Testament, by the way, neither slave, nor Greek, nor Jew, but we are all one in Christ Jesus.
00:12:47.000 We are all one under the family of God.
00:12:50.000 That God does not look at us as our differences, but he looks at us in just one of two ways.
00:12:56.000 Are you saved, or are you unsaved?
00:12:58.000 Those are the only distinctions that God cares about when we get into the afterlife.
00:13:02.000 Are you saved, or are you unsaved?
00:13:06.000 All men are created equal.
00:13:07.000 Now let's play this out.
00:13:09.000 If all men are created equal, Then all of a sudden, the form of government that you then institute is a lot different if you believe that some people are better than others.
00:13:18.000 If I were to now apply it to today, our current leadership class in Washington D.C.
00:13:24.000 does not believe that you are equal to them.
00:13:27.000 They believe they are smarter than you.
00:13:29.000 They believe they are wiser than you.
00:13:32.000 They believe that they should remain more powerful than you.
00:13:34.000 They believe they should get to pick who the president is.
00:13:37.000 They believe that they should pick how you live your life.
00:13:40.000 The founders disagree.
00:13:41.000 All men are created equal.
00:13:43.000 And then here is the kicker.
00:13:45.000 That they are endowed by their capital C Creator with certain unalienable rights.
00:13:53.000 Let's talk about rights.
00:13:54.000 You see, we talk a lot about the Bill of Rights.
00:13:57.000 The right to free speech and religious assembly that we are able to have here.
00:14:00.000 The Second Amendment, which I love the Second Amendment, by the way.
00:14:04.000 I could do a whole sermon on the biblical basis of the Second Amendment.
00:14:08.000 And by the way, there is no First Amendment without the Second Amendment, just so we are clear.
00:14:14.000 The Third Amendment, that you can't put soldiers and quarter them into your home without permission.
00:14:18.000 The Fourth Amendment, the government can't spy on you without permission.
00:14:21.000 They violate that a lot.
00:14:22.000 The Fifth Amendment, that you have the right not to self-incriminate yourself in the trial.
00:14:28.000 Sixth Amendment and Eighth Amendment, jury of your peers, jurisdiction that is fair in choosing a quick and speedy trial.
00:14:37.000 The Ninth Amendment, that anything that is not outlined in the Constitution does not mean that necessarily those rights are not articulated within.
00:14:42.000 And the Tenth Amendment, We're big on rights in this country.
00:14:48.000 Everyone wants to talk about, well, I have a right to healthcare.
00:14:51.000 I have a right to speak my mind.
00:14:53.000 I have a right to an abortion.
00:14:56.000 Now, everyone likes to talk about rights, but you cannot have rights without responsibility.
00:15:03.000 It is a two-sided coin.
00:15:07.000 If you are big into rights, then you must be challenged.
00:15:11.000 Are you willing to now take responsibility?
00:15:13.000 Responsibility?
00:15:15.000 We are a rights-obsessed and a rights-preoccupied society with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:15:26.000 I'm going to talk about liberty in just a second.
00:15:28.000 But here's the kicker.
00:15:29.000 That to secure these rights, you see, then Thomas Jefferson continues, governments are instituted among men deriving from their powers from what?
00:15:39.000 The consent of the governed.
00:15:41.000 Right here, without them even realizing it, they were telling you what the Constitution was going to look like.
00:15:49.000 The Declaration and the Constitution are not at odds with one another.
00:15:52.000 They are keys that fit perfectly, like hand and glove.
00:15:58.000 Deriving from their power is the consent of the governed.
00:16:01.000 The sovereign in this country is within the people, not within an unelected leadership class.
00:16:09.000 Let's go back to liberty.
00:16:11.000 Now, liberty is thrown around a lot in this country.
00:16:14.000 I have a right to this.
00:16:15.000 I have a right to that.
00:16:16.000 How did the founders understand liberty?
00:16:18.000 You see, I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.
00:16:21.000 And when I visit these college campuses, I get in a lot of fun debates, would you say?
00:16:27.000 And by the way, one member on my team comes up to me, I can't stand that we're on TikTok, but I guess it works.
00:16:34.000 And they say we have like 60 million views a week on TikTok.
00:16:37.000 I said, wow, I don't even know what to think of that.
00:16:39.000 So anyway, when I talk to some of these individuals on campuses and they have tons of confidence and no wisdom.
00:16:45.000 And so they'll commonly ask, they'll say, I want liberty.
00:16:52.000 And I say, define liberty.
00:16:54.000 And they'll say, the ability to do whatever I want to do, whenever I want to do it.
00:16:58.000 Okay, well, in Galatians 5.13, For you were called to liberty, brothers, only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but instead to love and serve one another.
00:17:11.000 You see, there is a difference between liberty and license, liberty and indulgence.
00:17:22.000 Liberty is the ability to pursue what one ought to do.
00:17:28.000 Liberty is not having drag queen story hour in front of eight-year-olds.
00:17:34.000 Liberty is not marijuana clinics on every corner.
00:17:39.000 Liberty is not prostitution made legal.
00:17:42.000 That is license.
00:17:43.000 You know what liberty is?
00:17:44.000 The ability to homeschool your kid without the government getting in the way.
00:17:48.000 Liberty is the ability to say the church will never be deemed not essential again if they try to lock us down.
00:17:57.000 Liberty is about the higher things in life, not the lower things in life.
00:18:02.000 You see, liberty is what makes America different than any other country.
00:18:07.000 Dennis Prager famously says that, of course, in Christianity we have the Trinity.
00:18:12.000 God the Father, Holy Spirit, and the Son.
00:18:15.000 Do you know that America has a Trinity as well?
00:18:17.000 It's on every single coin.
00:18:20.000 It's in God we trust, e pluribus unum, and liberty.
00:18:24.000 Let's go one at a time.
00:18:26.000 In God we trust.
00:18:28.000 Are we still a nation that trusts God?
00:18:32.000 If one of those components fail to exist, the Trinity will then fall apart.
00:18:45.000 Liberty, we're talking about that.
00:18:47.000 And then E Pluribus Unum.
00:18:49.000 Which is the Latin phrase, out of many, one.
00:18:52.000 E pluribus unum, by the way, is the same thing as saying that all men are created equal.
00:18:56.000 Out of many, we are one person.
00:18:59.000 It does not matter if you are black or Hispanic or white, we are one human species.
00:19:04.000 America was founded on that ideal, and they're doing their best to try to destroy it.
00:19:08.000 You see, within this birth certificate, They were chartering our path forward.
00:19:15.000 Now the scriptures are very clear about what it takes to be free and what happens when people no longer want to live in a state of liberty.
00:19:25.000 You cannot be free and you cannot continue to keep liberty going without a memory of the sacrifices of what came before you.
00:19:38.000 I'm going to prove that in the Bible for just one second, but just so you understand, this birth certificate that we celebrate with hot dogs, fireworks, and some of you with other adult beverages, they thought they were signing their death certificate.
00:19:56.000 They knew that when signing this document, as soon as it got publicized, The King of England, King George, says, find them all, hunt them down, hang them publicly, and make a spectacle of them.
00:20:10.000 This was one of the greatest risks in the history of self-government.
00:20:15.000 This could have been a massacre.
00:20:18.000 But these men feared God more than King George.
00:20:26.000 So they signed this.
00:20:28.000 Thinking, and by the way, you know, almost every single one of these founding fathers lost their family farms, burned to the ground.
00:20:35.000 They had their treasures taken from them.
00:20:37.000 Some of them had their kids kidnapped from them.
00:20:40.000 I want you just to think about that.
00:20:42.000 You get to now live in a beautiful country that's increasingly less beautiful and less free because of the sacrifices of generations prior.
00:20:54.000 And I just have to take a pause.
00:20:55.000 I get some people that say, I'm too busy to go and vote.
00:20:59.000 Get over yourself, honestly.
00:21:02.000 I'm asking you to fill in a piece of paper, not sign your death certificate to the King of George.
00:21:09.000 But as we forget that sacrifice, you cease to be free.
00:21:13.000 Let's go to my favorite book of the Bible, Exodus.
00:21:16.000 I didn't do this morning, Tommy, so this is a little bit of new stuff.
00:21:19.000 So, for those of you that know the Genesis story, Genesis 50, one of the best parts, by the way, I love, for such a time as this, Genesis 50, 20 is a great, great verse, which is the story of Joseph, and he's about to die.
00:21:33.000 This is just so good for those of you that say they're throwing so much evil and so much nonsense at us.
00:21:38.000 Genesis 50 20.
00:21:39.000 You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done.
00:21:46.000 The enemy meant it for evil.
00:21:46.000 I love that.
00:21:48.000 God will use it for good.
00:21:49.000 So Joseph dies.
00:21:50.000 What is the story of Joseph?
00:21:52.000 He was thrown into a ditch, sold into slavery, went to Egypt, but more importantly, he was a vessel for God and he saved Egypt from famine.
00:22:02.000 Egypt was going to die.
00:22:03.000 Egypt was going to suffer.
00:22:05.000 Because of Joseph being an intermediary through his dreams of God's purpose, Egypt was not completely wiped out.
00:22:12.000 So Egypt was only able to exist because of Joseph.
00:22:16.000 So Exodus 1 rolls around.
00:22:19.000 And this is exactly what we are living through today.
00:22:23.000 Starts with the Israelites oppressed.
00:22:27.000 Now Joseph and all of his brothers And that generation died.
00:22:32.000 But the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful, and they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers, and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.
00:22:41.000 And this is one of the most important verses of the Old Testament.
00:22:45.000 Exodus 1.8.
00:22:46.000 And this will never be talked about.
00:22:48.000 I might be the first person ever, Pastor Tommy, to say this as like a teaching sermon.
00:22:54.000 Exodus 1.8.
00:22:56.000 Then a new king, to whom Joseph meant nothing, came to power in Egypt.
00:23:02.000 Imagine and fill it today.
00:23:04.000 And then a new generation rose of America, of whom Thomas Jefferson meant nothing over America.
00:23:11.000 What happens after Exodus 1-8?
00:23:14.000 As soon as Exodus 1-8 happens, the new pharaoh and the new king of Egypt said, kill all the Hebrews.
00:23:22.000 Because he doesn't remember or know or have any connection to how Joseph saved all of Egypt from extermination.
00:23:31.000 We failed to know our birth certificate.
00:23:35.000 We failed to know our foundational roots.
00:23:38.000 We have a new generation.
00:23:40.000 And then rose a president of the United States who did not know George Washington.
00:23:44.000 Well, he doesn't know his own name, so that's okay, but it's a separate issue.
00:23:50.000 Without a memory of what came before, you cannot have liberty.
00:23:57.000 The story of Exodus is very similar to what we are living through.
00:24:01.000 Remember, Pharaoh was one of the most brutal, evil, and nasty individuals in the entire scriptures.
00:24:09.000 When you reread Exodus, I want you to replace Pharaoh with Hitler, and then all of a sudden it starts to make more sense.
00:24:15.000 That's how evil this individual was.
00:24:17.000 Throw the firstborn into the Nile.
00:24:19.000 He would work the Hebrews into exhaustion, slavery.
00:24:24.000 God then delivers all of these miracles.
00:24:27.000 And delivers his chosen people into the desert, where they're finally able to live in some form of self-government.
00:24:34.000 Moses goes up on Sinai and gets the moral decalogue, and it starts with, I am the Lord your God, who delivered you out of the house of bondage of Egypt.
00:24:45.000 Why does it start like that?
00:24:47.000 Before the Ten Commandments even begins, God is reminding his chosen people, Moses did not deliver you.
00:24:57.000 Aaron did not deliver you.
00:24:59.000 I, the Lord your God, delivered you out of Egypt.
00:25:03.000 I did.
00:25:05.000 And this is so critically important because if we fail to recognize that it is God who delivers us, it is not the acts of men, then we're in a very troubling circumstance.
00:25:17.000 Continues later in the Old Testament to one of my favorite portions in the book of Numbers.
00:25:23.000 Anyone else like the book of Numbers?
00:25:24.000 A couple hands go up.
00:25:26.000 Now, I have a whole theory about this.
00:25:28.000 The actual title of the book of Numbers is not the correct title.
00:25:33.000 In Hebrew, it's actually called In the Wilderness.
00:25:36.000 How much better would it be if it was in the wilderness, right?
00:25:39.000 Numbers sounds like I'm gonna have to do geometry equations or something.
00:25:42.000 By the way, if you haven't studied the book of Numbers, it has talking donkeys, giants, spies, stories of betrayal, and lots of complaining because it's in the Old Testament.
00:25:53.000 By the way, if you want to know how I know this is the Word of God, The Hebrews are the most unimpressive group of people in the history of the written word, and God used them to become a great nation.
00:26:06.000 That's how I know that this is real.
00:26:09.000 All kidding aside, never has there been a historical text where the protagonist or the main character speaks so negatively about themselves.
00:26:18.000 In every other chapter, they're complaining, they're lying, they're stealing, they're cheating.
00:26:22.000 Must be true.
00:26:23.000 No one would talk about themselves unless it was true this negatively.
00:26:27.000 Continues to Numbers 14.
00:26:29.000 Now mind you, they are now living in a state of liberty.
00:26:32.000 Remember, liberty is no pharaoh, no king, no Hitler.
00:26:37.000 And here is the fundamental question that we will spend our remainder of time asking.
00:26:42.000 Do human beings want to always be free?
00:26:48.000 During the lockdowns, I learned the answer is absolutely not.
00:26:53.000 We're far too many people.
00:26:54.000 Unless liberty is a value that is taught, unless liberty is a value that is cherished, unless liberty is something that you seek because you are spiritually transformed, you are not going to desire liberty.
00:27:10.000 Instead, you will desire comfort, ease, and the flesh.
00:27:13.000 So, Numbers 14.
00:27:15.000 God's chosen people.
00:27:17.000 They've been delivered from Egypt.
00:27:19.000 They're no longer living under Hitler.
00:27:21.000 God blows quail off course and manna from heaven.
00:27:25.000 And what do they do?
00:27:27.000 They start complaining and they say, God, can you take us back to Egypt?
00:27:34.000 They want to go back to slavery, by the way.
00:27:37.000 They want to go back to Hitler because, quote, the food was better.
00:27:41.000 You don't believe me?
00:27:42.000 Joe, get me an actual Bible, because I think last time people said, come on, does it really say that?
00:27:46.000 Numbers 14.
00:27:48.000 It literally says, take us back to Egypt, where at least we had melons, leeks, cucumbers, and meat.
00:27:55.000 Now, that's a good trivia question for those of you.
00:27:59.000 Ask your friend, where do cucumbers make an appearance in the Old Testament?
00:28:05.000 There you go.
00:28:07.000 And the grumbling and the voices, if only we had died in Egypt, or in this wilderness, why does the Lord bring us to this land, oh, and let us fall by the sword?
00:28:14.000 And it continues by, they complain for three chapters straight.
00:28:20.000 No, four, I'm sorry, they keep going.
00:28:24.000 They wanted to go back and live under the worst person imaginable, because living in the desert was not easy.
00:28:34.000 What Thomas Jefferson started in motion with the Founding Fathers, what lived through, is we do not have an easy life when we live in liberty.
00:28:42.000 Far too often we have people that say, I would rather have a simple and comforting life than one that is of adventure and depth.
00:28:51.000 You know, I ask sometimes these college kids, I say, would you like to have a life where three meals are provided a day, you get free Wi-Fi, you get free room and board, and you don't have to work?
00:29:02.000 See, of course I say you should go to a federal prison, because that's what you get every single day.
00:29:06.000 But you don't have liberty.
00:29:12.000 you But you get three meals a day at a federal prison.
00:29:17.000 You get Wi-Fi, you get Netflix, you get Hulu.
00:29:19.000 You don't have to pay anything.
00:29:22.000 But you're not free.
00:29:24.000 Freedom is God's plan for His people.
00:29:26.000 It's why He delivered them out of Egypt.
00:29:29.000 It's why He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, and those of us that give our life to Christ, we are free and free indeed.
00:29:37.000 John 8.36, if the Son therefore shall make you free, you are free indeed.
00:29:42.000 Psalm 119.45, I will walk in liberty for I've sought your precepts.
00:29:47.000 God's heart for you and for us is not to live in the comfort and the ease of totalitarianism.
00:29:55.000 This is the question that is currently in front of us and let us go back to our roots.
00:30:01.000 Our founder said that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundations on such principles and organizing its power in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to the effect and safety of happiness.
00:30:23.000 You see, the choice in front of us is, are we going to continue on the narrow path?
00:30:29.000 Do you know the majority of countries around the world do not value liberty or freedom as a core value?
00:30:36.000 Their population says, just take care of us.
00:30:40.000 In France, their core values are fraternity.
00:30:45.000 Literally, it says fraternity.
00:30:48.000 The nice life, and the government takes care of them.
00:30:51.000 Higher taxes, more social benefits, less individual initiative and freedom.
00:30:56.000 Almost every other country around the world is around what form of government?
00:31:01.000 Lots of subjects, one ruler, or two rulers, or three rulers.
00:31:06.000 The Founding Fathers inverted it, where because they said that all men are created equal, it is the rulers are us, and that we get to decide who's actually in charge.
00:31:18.000 And we are in a fragile balance right now.
00:31:20.000 A very, very fragile balance.
00:31:23.000 In this birth certificate, it took a price.
00:31:26.000 You cannot have the Statue of Liberty, which we all say we enjoy, without also the Statue of Responsibility.
00:31:36.000 Both are necessary for us to be able to have a free and a virtuous and a deep life.
00:31:45.000 July 4th, 1776.
00:31:46.000 Remember the context.
00:31:47.000 They didn't have to sign this.
00:31:49.000 You know, they could have made peace with the King of George.
00:31:52.000 They could have wrote, you're in charge.
00:31:54.000 We are not.
00:31:55.000 Give us free stuff.
00:31:56.000 We'll go back to our farms.
00:31:57.000 This made every single one of them poorer.
00:32:01.000 This made some of them, they died a very bloody death.
00:32:06.000 The window of liberty is closing on America.
00:32:11.000 It is.
00:32:12.000 And it's closing for many reasons.
00:32:15.000 We think that a big sacrifice is showing up and just filling in a ballot and voting.
00:32:22.000 We think like that's a big sacrifice of our time.
00:32:25.000 We think that anything might alter our ease or our comfort.
00:32:28.000 And look at the memory that we must never forget.
00:32:31.000 The boys who stormed Normandy Beach 80 years ago this last month.
00:32:37.000 And we have one day to celebrate that and yet a whole month to celebrate pride.
00:32:44.000 Think about that.
00:32:45.000 One day to remember the sacrifice of the boys in Normandy, and a whole month for people's own quote-unquote self-identity.
00:32:56.000 There's only one thing that makes us free, and free indeed, and that is Christ Jesus.
00:33:03.000 On this 4th of July, this Independence Day, I'm not asking you to storm a beach or to sign a death certificate, which ended up being our birth certificate.
00:33:13.000 But I am asking you, as it says in Leviticus 25, which is on the Liberty Bell, by the way, proclaim liberty throughout the land of which you are in.
00:33:22.000 And when people in your life say, I want to be free, say, do you really?
00:33:25.000 Because being free also means you must be responsible.
00:33:29.000 And you cannot have both.
00:33:30.000 You cannot have it either way.
00:33:33.000 I'm going to read the end of the Declaration of Independence.
00:33:36.000 Which, by the way, how many people know that Jesus Christ makes an appearance in the Declaration of Independence?
00:33:43.000 At the end of the Declaration, it reads like a prayer.
00:33:46.000 We're supposed to believe these Founding Fathers are a bunch of deists and not Christians?
00:33:50.000 No, no, no.
00:33:51.000 We therefore, this is in the we form, all of them were saying this together.
00:33:57.000 In the book of Revelation, by the way, it says that Jesus Christ sits on the throne as the Supreme Judge of the world.
00:34:07.000 We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world.
00:34:16.000 For the rectitude of our intentions do in the name authority of the good people of these colonies solemnly and publish and declare that these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states.
00:34:32.000 That they are absolved completely from all allegiance to the British crown and that all political connection between them and the great state of Britain is and ought to be totally and completely dissolved.
00:34:43.000 And that as free and independent states, that we have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliance, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may have right to do.
00:34:55.000 And for support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
00:35:07.000 Let me say that last again.
00:35:09.000 How many of you would be okay losing all the money in your bank account and your home For your country.
00:35:15.000 How many of you would be okay dying for your country?
00:35:16.000 Some of you almost did.
00:35:17.000 Thank you for serving our country and our sacred honor.
00:35:21.000 They were pledging to each other everything.
00:35:23.000 They were all in.
00:35:26.000 All in.
00:35:27.000 Take my home.
00:35:28.000 Take my boat.
00:35:28.000 Take my car.
00:35:29.000 Take my kids.
00:35:30.000 Liberty is worth it.
00:35:33.000 Those are special people.
00:35:35.000 This country, we know where it's headed.
00:35:37.000 We feel it.
00:35:38.000 We see it.
00:35:39.000 We sense it.
00:35:39.000 We taste it.
00:35:41.000 Maybe in order to know the path forward, we must look at those who came before us.
00:35:47.000 And those 56 signers of that declaration, they couldn't have imagined 244 years, 200 whatever years since, that we'd be able to celebrate the way we are.
00:36:04.000 But also if they were alive today, they'd say, you guys realize that that window is closing.
00:36:08.000 You cannot be free if you are not courageous.
00:36:11.000 You cannot have liberty if you do not act boldly.
00:36:14.000 The Declaration of Independence is a foundational belief that liberty is not man's idea, it is God's idea.
00:36:22.000 It is an open question of whether or not we get to continue to live free.
00:36:28.000 It's up to us.
00:36:29.000 God bless.
00:36:29.000 Thanks guys.