Charlie Kirk Reads America's Birth Certificate and Reveals the Scripture That Inspired the Founding Fathers

[00:00] thank you thank you please take a seat

[00:02] lots to cover today uh thank you Tommy

[00:05] after a greeting like that I'm good I

[00:07] could just

[00:08] uh by the way uh how was that debate

[00:10] this last week uh that was something I

[00:13] thought Biden did great I thought he was

[00:15] just thought he all right that's all I'm

[00:16] going to say about that um all the rest

[00:19] speaks all the rest speaks for itself as

[00:20] you would say right you're all smart

[00:22] people you could see what I see we need

[00:25] God right oh my goodness um all right so

[00:29] this is uh this a big week and I was U

[00:32] texting with Pastor Luke a couple months

[00:34] ago and I said hey um I felt bad last

[00:37] year I was supposed to actually give

[00:38] this uh speech last July 4th weekend

[00:42] last Independence Day weekend and I said

[00:43] I want to kind of come back and if I can

[00:45] on on Independence Day weekend he said

[00:47] absolutely and this is uh this is a very

[00:50] profound time in our country's history

[00:53] and would it makes sense for us to take

[00:57] a pause and get back to our roots and

[01:00] the foundational elements of who we are

[01:02] as a country and what we are going to do

[01:04] today is we are going to read our

[01:06] country's birth certificate the

[01:08] Declaration of

[01:10] Independence we are going to read our

[01:12] birth certificate and then I'm going to

[01:14] show

[01:15] you the scripture that our founders

[01:18] believed when they put it into our birth

[01:20] certificate and then we're going to talk

[01:22] about some other parts of the word of

[01:24] God that speak to this now it's

[01:26] important to understand the context

[01:27] before we get into the Declaration and

[01:29] dependence and what led to this that it

[01:32] was really written on July 1st or July

[01:34] 2nd it was finally published on July 4th

[01:36] John Adams who had a lot of sway they

[01:39] were in a big room uh Benjamin Franklin

[01:41] Thomas Jefferson Madison they said so

[01:44] who's going to write this complaint to

[01:46] King George and John Adams said uh that

[01:49] Thomas Jefferson guy he's a good writer

[01:52] now he wrote a bunch of pamphlets and he

[01:53] wrote a bunch of booklets he was a very

[01:55] gifted young man he was in his late 20s

[01:58] when he wrote this to give us some idea

[02:01] in his late 20s when he wrote this and

[02:04] understand the first and foremost

[02:05] audience this was a letter to the king

[02:08] of England King George the most powerful

[02:11] man on the planet the most powerful

[02:13] person that was able with a snap of a

[02:15] finger invade a country they said the

[02:18] Sun never sets on the British Empire he

[02:20] is as powerful as it gets the known

[02:23] world was controlled by this guy and

[02:25] they this was a telegram a message if

[02:28] you will that took months to get to him

[02:30] eventually cuz he had to cross the sea

[02:32] and declaring independence from King

[02:35] George now in order to do this you had

[02:38] to have a very very good reason so they

[02:40] appoint Thomas Jefferson they say Hey

[02:42] you know cook up some ideas here and our

[02:45] birth certificate this letter to King

[02:46] George is one of the most beautiful

[02:49] documents written in human history if we

[02:52] look at history and we say important

[02:54] moments and important events obviously

[02:57] Genesis 1:1 in the beginning God created

[02:59] the heavens and the Earth Earth Genesis

[03:01] 126 and 127 and human beings are made in

[03:04] him in his image The Exodus story which

[03:06] we'll talk about today uh maybe Moses on

[03:10] Mount Si when he gets the Ten

[03:11] Commandments the Incarnation when Jesus

[03:13] Christ took flesh the resurrection of

[03:16] Jesus Christ I believe that July 4th

[03:20] 1776 was the most important moment in

[03:23] human history after the resurrection of

[03:25] Jesus Christ that's how important July

[03:28] 4th 1776 is now why is that it's because

[03:31] it took the truths of the scriptures

[03:35] what it says about what a human being is

[03:37] what freedom is what Liberty is how

[03:40] government should operate it it took all

[03:42] those truths and put them into practice

[03:45] you see before July 4th

[03:47] 1776 there was not a single example of

[03:51] government that made the arguments that

[03:53] was in this document and so in the birth

[03:56] certificate Thomas Jefferson writes when

[03:59] in the course human events let's stop

[04:00] right there that is an eternal message

[04:04] that isn't just saying hey things aren't

[04:06] so great here Thomas Jefferson and the

[04:09] founders are starting as broad as one

[04:11] can possibly start basically saying what

[04:14] we are about to write will be applicable

[04:17] in

[04:18] 1876

[04:20] 1976 and

[04:22] 2024 that what we are about to write is

[04:25] always going to be true this is talking

[04:28] about a

[04:30] NeverEnding truth claim and only the

[04:33] Bible speaks to such truths one of the

[04:35] course of human events it becomes

[04:37] necessary that's so important not that

[04:40] it's a good idea not that maybe you

[04:43] should but necessary what Thomas

[04:46] Jefferson is saying is that you as a

[04:48] human being have a necessary need to

[04:52] live in Freedom and not in slavery to

[04:56] live in a state of self-government not

[04:58] under a Tyrant a king or a pharaoh which

[05:02] will'll get to soon it becomes necessary

[05:04] for one person to dissolve the political

[05:06] bands which have connected them with

[05:08] another and to assume among the powers

[05:11] of the Earth the separate and equal

[05:12] station to which the laws of nature and

[05:15] Nature's God entitle them let me go back

[05:18] dissolve the political bands which would

[05:19] connect them with another who who wants

[05:20] to see some dissolving of political

[05:22] bands right now I think that's a good

[05:23] idea just as true today as it was in

[05:27] 1776 but the laws of nature and Nature's

[05:31] God they he didn't say the laws of

[05:33] nature and Nature's

[05:36] Science he didn't say the laws of nature

[05:39] or reason he didn't say the laws of

[05:41] nature and Anthony

[05:43] fouchy you see there are two things that

[05:46] every single single Founding Father

[05:49] believed there is a God and we are not

[05:52] him there is a God and we are not him

[05:55] now you might say well that's that's

[05:56] rather obvious how many of our current

[05:59] elected leaders in Washington DC believe

[06:02] that there is a God and we are not him

[06:05] if you can pass those two tests we have

[06:07] a lot more in common than not in common

[06:10] in fact I believe the divide in America

[06:13] is between those of us that believe

[06:15] there is a God and we are not him and

[06:16] those who do not believe that there is a

[06:18] God and that they are him in fact if you

[06:21] believe that there is a God and you are

[06:23] not him you all of a sudden do not

[06:26] believe in the insanity that men can

[06:27] give birth you don't try to human beings

[06:30] in this transhumanist project you don't

[06:32] try to experiment on us instead you have

[06:35] the humility that there is a God and

[06:38] Jesus is on his throne you

[06:43] see the laws of nature and nature is God

[06:46] what Thomas Jefferson and the founders

[06:47] are saying is hey um King George you're

[06:50] actually not in

[06:52] charge oh and it gets even more

[06:54] provocative you see you understand prior

[06:56] to this no one had ever challenged the

[06:58] king of England Sher us Scots are always

[07:00] you know rebelling against rebellious

[07:03] tyrants but we weren't that eloquent we

[07:05] had William Wallace screaming to the sky

[07:07] like this was a thoughtful deep

[07:12] theological and philosophical rebuke of

[07:17] monarchy you understand that before

[07:19] Thomas Jefferson and the founders wrote

[07:21] this inspired by the scriptures based on

[07:24] the scriptures there was always one

[07:26] commonality of government every single

[07:29] single government one form of fashion

[07:31] with the the exception of maybe Athenian

[07:33] democracy for a short period of time was

[07:36] that there were a bunch of subjects and

[07:39] one ruler a bunch of subjects and one

[07:42] ruler a bunch of subjects and one ruler

[07:45] the founders said what if we make a

[07:48] bunch of

[07:50] rulers and a couple people that are

[07:52] subservient to the rulers what if the

[07:54] people are the rulers never happened

[07:57] before you see it continues a decent

[08:00] respect to the opinions of mankind

[08:03] requires that they should declare the

[08:04] causes which impel them to

[08:06] separation continues by saying we hold

[08:09] these truths let me stop right there the

[08:12] founding fathers believed that there is

[08:15] the truth not as the college kids would

[08:17] say well my truth or my truth is this

[08:20] that there is one truth that there is

[08:23] one way and they believe that to be

[08:25] Jesus Christ is the way the truth and

[08:28] the life you see

[08:31] there is a fair amount of revisionism

[08:34] where people say oh the founding fathers

[08:35] weren't even Christians do you know that

[08:37] 55 out of 56 of the founding fathers who

[08:40] signed the Declaration of Independence

[08:42] were Bible believing Church attending

[08:44] Christians 55 out of

[08:46] 56 they believe that Jesus was Lord and

[08:49] out of that belief we got this form and

[08:52] structure of government we hold these

[08:54] truths to be self-evident now let me

[08:56] stop there that was a raging insult to

[08:59] King George we hold these truth to be

[09:02] self-evident but you don't get it you

[09:05] see we can use our reason to know in a

[09:08] self- evidentiary way that the moral

[09:11] right of government is not how we've

[09:13] been living and then here comes the

[09:15] kicker the One 2 3 4 five six words that

[09:20] changed humanity and you cannot get

[09:23] these six words in a test tube you

[09:27] cannot get these six words through a

[09:29] math equation you cannot get these six

[09:31] words by using the scientific method of

[09:34] the entire declaration these six words

[09:37] are what separates America from the

[09:39] third world what separates our promise

[09:41] of government from every other promised

[09:43] government that all men are created

[09:47] equal period

[09:50] now where would one get an idea like

[09:54] that because we all have different

[09:57] talents and skills we might look

[09:59] different some of us are tall some of us

[10:01] are short some of us are fit some of us

[10:04] are not so

[10:05] fit some of us are good at sports some

[10:08] of us are not because they did not mean

[10:11] that we have equal blessings from the

[10:14] Lord but they believe what Genesis 126

[10:17] and 127 says clearly and what it says

[10:19] later in the New Testament which is

[10:21] first that we are all the same type of

[10:24] thing that every human being has a soul

[10:28] the idea of human equality is that King

[10:32] George you don't get to rule over US

[10:35] unless we give you

[10:37] permission because we're all equal

[10:40] you're a human being the same way we are

[10:42] how many of you grew up hearing from a

[10:44] parent oh they put on uh their pants one

[10:47] leg at a time just like

[10:49] you that is the by the way it's a

[10:52] beautiful thing to teach a kid because

[10:55] that's essentially saying the human

[10:56] equality truism in a different way

[11:00] you know they have to go to sleep at

[11:01] night just like you do they have to

[11:02] brush their teeth just like you do

[11:04] they're the same type of thing they're

[11:07] not an

[11:08] angel they don't have Supernatural

[11:10] Powers when they say that all men are

[11:13] created equal as it says in the New

[11:15] Testament by the way neither slave nor

[11:18] Greek nor Jew but we are all one in

[11:21] Christ Jesus we are all one under the

[11:24] family of God that God does not look at

[11:27] us as our differences but looks as us in

[11:30] just one of two ways are you saved or

[11:33] are you unsaved those are the only

[11:35] distinctions that God cares about when

[11:37] we get into the Afterlife are you saved

[11:39] or are you

[11:40] unsaved all men are created equal now

[11:43] let's play this out if all men are

[11:46] created equal then all of a sudden the

[11:48] form of government that you then

[11:49] Institute is a lot different if you

[11:52] believe that some people are better than

[11:53] others if I were to now apply it to

[11:55] today our current leadership class in

[11:58] Washington DC does not believe that you

[12:01] are equal to them they believe they are

[12:04] smarter than you they believe they are

[12:06] wiser than you they believe that they

[12:08] should remain more powerful than you

[12:10] they believe they should get to pick who

[12:12] the president is they believe that they

[12:14] should pick how you live your life the

[12:16] founders disagree all men are created

[12:18] equal and then here is the kicker that

[12:20] they are endowed by their Capital C

[12:24] creator with certain unalienable

[12:27] rights let's talk about about rights you

[12:30] see we talk a lot about the Bill of

[12:32] Rights the right to free speech and

[12:34] religious assembly that we're able to

[12:35] have here the Second Amendment which I

[12:38] love the second amendment by the way I

[12:39] could do a whole sermon on the biblical

[12:41] basis of the Second Amendment and by the

[12:44] way there is no First Amendment without

[12:46] the Second Amendment just so we are

[12:48] clear the third amendment that you can't

[12:50] put soldiers and quarter them into your

[12:53] home without permission the Fourth

[12:54] Amendment the government can't spy on

[12:55] you without permission they violate that

[12:57] a lot the Fifth Amendment that you don't

[12:59] have you have the right not to

[13:01] self-incriminate yourself in the trial

[13:03] sixth amendment and seventh amend Eighth

[13:05] Amendment jury of your peers

[13:07] jurisdiction of that is fair and

[13:09] choosing qu a quick and speedy trial the

[13:12] ninth amendment that anything that is

[13:14] not outli in the constitution does not

[13:15] mean that necessarily those rights are

[13:17] not articulated within in the 10th

[13:18] Amendment that all things that are not

[13:20] articulated are left to the states and

[13:21] the people we're big on rights in this

[13:23] country everyone wants to talk about

[13:25] well I have a right to healthare I have

[13:27] a right to speak my mind I have a right

[13:29] to I have a right to an

[13:31] abortion now Everyone likes to talk

[13:33] about rights but you cannot have rights

[13:37] without

[13:38] responsibility it is a two-sided

[13:42] coin if you are big into rights then you

[13:45] must be challenged are you willing to

[13:47] now take responsibility

[13:49] responsibility we are a rights obsessed

[13:52] and a rights preoccupied Society with

[13:56] certain unal rights that among these are

[13:58] life

[13:59] liberty and the pursuit of happiness I'm

[14:01] going to talk about Liberty in just a

[14:02] second but here's the kicker that to

[14:05] secure these rights you see then Thomas

[14:08] Jefferson continues governments are

[14:10] instituted among men deriving from their

[14:13] powers from what the consent of the

[14:16] Govern right here without them even

[14:19] realizing it they were telling you what

[14:21] the Constitution was going to look

[14:23] like the the Declaration and the

[14:26] Constitution are not at odds one another

[14:28] they are key that fit perfectly like

[14:30] hand and

[14:32] glove that the deriving from their power

[14:35] is the consent of the government that

[14:37] the The Sovereign in this country is

[14:40] within the people not within an

[14:42] unelected leadership class let's go back

[14:45] to Liberty now Liberty is thrown around

[14:48] a lot in this country I have a right to

[14:50] this I have a right to that how did the

[14:53] founders understand Liberty you see I

[14:54] visit college campuses so you don't have

[14:56] to and when I visit these college

[14:58] campuses

[15:00] I get in a lot of fun uh debates would

[15:01] you

[15:02] say and by the way I one one member on

[15:06] my team comes out to me they they I

[15:08] can't stand that we're on Tik Tok but I

[15:09] guess it works and um they come they say

[15:11] we have like 60 million views a week on

[15:12] Tik Tok I said wow I I don't even know

[15:14] what to think of that so anyway when I

[15:16] talk to some of these individuals on

[15:18] campuses and they have tons of

[15:19] confidence and no wisdom and so they

[15:22] they'll commonly ask they will say

[15:25] they'll say I want Liberty and I say

[15:29] Define liberty and they'll say the

[15:31] ability to do whatever I want to do

[15:33] whenever I want to do it okay well in

[15:35] Galatians 5:13 for you were called to

[15:38] Liberty Brothers only do not use Liberty

[15:42] as an opportunity for the flesh but

[15:44] instead to love and serve one another

[15:47] you

[15:48] see there is a

[15:51] difference between Liberty and

[15:54] license Liberty and Indulgence

[15:59] Liberty is the ability to pursue what

[16:02] one ought to do Liberty is not having

[16:05] drag queen Story Hour in front of

[16:09] 8-year-olds Liberty is not marijuana

[16:13] clinics on every corner Liberty is not

[16:16] prostitution made legal that is license

[16:19] you know what Liberty is the ability to

[16:21] homeschool your kid without the

[16:22] government getting in the

[16:23] way Liberty is the ability to say the

[16:27] church will never be deemed not

[16:29] essential again if they try to lock us

[16:33] down Liberty is about the higher things

[16:35] in life not the lower things in life you

[16:38] see Liberty is what makes America

[16:41] different than any other country Dennis

[16:43] Prager famously says that of course in

[16:46] Christianity we have the Trinity God the

[16:49] Father Holy Spirit and the son do you

[16:51] know that America has a trinity as well

[16:54] it's on every single coin it's In God We

[16:57] Trust e pluris Unum and Liberty let's go

[17:01] one at a time in God we

[17:03] trust are we still a nation that trusts

[17:07] God if one of this room is but I don't

[17:11] know if the country is if one of those

[17:15] components fail to exist the Trinity

[17:19] will then fall

[17:21] apart Liberty we're talked about that

[17:23] and then Urus UNAM which is the Latin

[17:26] phrase out of many one urab Unum by the

[17:29] way is the same thing as saying that all

[17:31] men are created equal out of many we are

[17:34] one person it does not matter if you are

[17:36] Black Or Hispanic or white we are one

[17:39] human species America was founded on

[17:42] that ideal and they're doing their best

[17:43] to try to destroy it you see within this

[17:47] birth certificate they were chartering

[17:50] our path forward now the scriptures are

[17:52] very clear about what it takes to be

[17:55] free and what happens when people no

[17:58] longer longer want to live in a state of

[18:01] liberty you cannot be free and you

[18:04] cannot continue to keep Liberty going

[18:07] without a memory of the sacrifices of

[18:11] what came before

[18:13] you I'm going to prove I'm going to

[18:15] prove that in the Bible for just one

[18:17] second but just so you understand this

[18:19] birth certificate that we celebrate with

[18:22] hot dogs fireworks and some of you with

[18:24] other adult

[18:26] beverages they thought they were signing

[18:28] their death

[18:30] certificate they they knew that when

[18:34] signing this document as soon as it got

[18:36] publicized the king of England King

[18:38] George says find them all hunt them down

[18:42] hang them publicly and make a spectacle

[18:44] of

[18:45] them this was one of the greatest risks

[18:49] in the history of self-government this

[18:51] could have been a

[18:53] massacre but these men feared God more

[18:57] than King George

[19:02] so they signed this thinking and by the

[19:05] way you know almost every single one of

[19:07] these founding fathers lost their family

[19:09] farms burned to the

[19:10] ground they had their Treasures taken

[19:13] from them some of them had their kids

[19:14] kidnap from

[19:16] them I want you just to think about that

[19:18] you get to now live in a beautiful

[19:21] country that's increasingly less

[19:23] beautiful and less free because of the

[19:26] sacrifices of generations

[19:29] prior and I just have to take a pause I

[19:32] get some people that say I'm too busy to

[19:34] go and vote get over yourself honestly

[19:38] I'm asking you to fill in a piece of

[19:39] paper not sign your death certificate to

[19:42] the king of

[19:44] George but as we forget that sacrifice

[19:48] you cease to be free let's go to my

[19:50] favorite book of the Bible Exodus I

[19:52] didn't do this morning Tommy so this is

[19:54] a little bit of of new stuff so for

[19:56] those you that know the Genesis story

[19:58] Genesis

[19:59] one of the best part by the way I love

[20:00] for for such a time as this Genesis 5020

[20:02] is a great great verse uh which is uh

[20:05] the story of Joseph and he's about to

[20:07] die and this is just so good for those

[20:10] of you that say they're throwing so much

[20:12] evil and so so much nonsense at us

[20:14] Genesis 50:20 you intended to harm me

[20:17] but God intended it for good to

[20:20] accomplish what is now being done I love

[20:22] that the enemy meant it for evil God

[20:24] will use it for good so Joseph dies what

[20:27] is the story of Joseph he was thrown

[20:29] into a ditch sold into slavery went to

[20:31] Egypt but more importantly he was a

[20:33] vessel for God and he saved Egypt from

[20:37] famine Egypt was going to die Egypt was

[20:40] going to suffer because of Joseph being

[20:42] an intermediary through his dreams of

[20:44] God's purpose Egypt was not completely

[20:47] wiped out so Egypt was only able to

[20:49] exist because of

[20:52] Joseph so Exodus 1 rolls around and this

[20:56] is exactly what we are living through

[20:58] today

[20:59] today starts with the Israelites

[21:02] oppressed now Joseph and all of his

[21:05] brothers and and that generation died

[21:08] but the Israelites were exceedingly

[21:10] fruitful and they multiplied greatly

[21:13] increased in numbers and became so

[21:14] numerous that the land was filled with

[21:17] them and this is one of the most

[21:19] important verses of the Old Testament

[21:21] Exodus 18 and they'll never this will

[21:23] never be talked about I might be the

[21:24] first pastor Pastor first person ever uh

[21:27] Pastor Tommy to say this as like a a

[21:30] teaching sermon Exodus 18 then a new

[21:33] king to whom Joseph meant nothing came

[21:36] to power in

[21:38] Egypt imagine and fill it today and then

[21:41] a new generation Rose of America of whom

[21:43] Thomas Jefferson meant nothing over

[21:46] America what happens after Exodus 18 as

[21:50] soon as Exodus 18

[21:52] happens the new pharaoh and the new king

[21:55] of Egypt said kill all the Hebrews

[21:59] because he doesn't remember or know or

[22:02] have any connection to how Joseph saved

[22:05] all of Egypt from

[22:07] extermination we fail to know our birth

[22:10] certificate we fail to know our

[22:12] foundational Roots we have a new

[22:16] generation and then Rose a president of

[22:18] the United States who did not know

[22:20] George Washington well he doesn't know

[22:21] his own name so that's okay but it's a

[22:23] separate

[22:24] [Applause]

[22:26] issue without a memory

[22:29] of what came before you cannot have

[22:33] Liberty the story of Exodus is very

[22:35] similar to what we are living through

[22:38] remember Pharaoh was one of the most

[22:40] brutal evil and nasty individuals in the

[22:44] entire scriptures when you reread Exodus

[22:46] I want you to replace Pharaoh with

[22:48] Hitler and then all to start to make

[22:50] more sense that's how evil this

[22:52] individual was throw the firstborn into

[22:54] the Nile he would work the Hebrews into

[22:57] exhaustion

[22:59] slavery God then delivers all of these

[23:02] Miracles and delivers his chosen people

[23:05] into the desert where they're finally

[23:07] able to live in some form of

[23:09] self-government Moses goes up on cyani

[23:11] and gets the moral decalogue and it

[23:14] starts with I am the Lord your God who

[23:18] delivered you out of the house of

[23:19] bondage of Egypt why does it start like

[23:23] that before the Ten Commandments even

[23:26] begins God is reminding

[23:29] his chosen people Moses did not deliver

[23:32] you Aaron did not deliver you I the Lord

[23:36] your God delivered you out of Egypt I

[23:40] did and this is so critically important

[23:44] because if we fail to recognize that it

[23:46] is God who delivers us it is not the

[23:49] acts of

[23:50] man then we're in a very troubling

[23:53] circumstance continues later in the Old

[23:56] Testament to one of my favorite portions

[23:58] in the Book of Numbers anyone else like

[24:00] the Book of Numbers couple hands go up

[24:02] now I have a whole theory about this the

[24:04] the actual title of the book of so

[24:07] numbers is not the correct title uh in

[24:10] Hebrew it's actually called in the

[24:11] wilderness how much better would it be

[24:13] if it was in the wilderness right numers

[24:16] sounds like I'm going to have to do

[24:17] geometry equations or something by the

[24:19] way if you haven't studied the Book of

[24:20] Numbers has talking donkeys Giants spies

[24:24] stories of betrayal and lots of

[24:27] complaining because it's in the Old

[24:28] Testament by the way if you want to know

[24:31] how I know this is the word of God the

[24:33] Hebrews are the most unimpressive group

[24:35] of people in the history of the written

[24:39] word and God used them to become a great

[24:42] nation that's how I know that this is

[24:44] real all kidding aside never has there

[24:47] been a historical text where the

[24:50] protagonist or the main character speak

[24:52] so negatively about themselves I mean

[24:55] every other chapter they're complaining

[24:56] they're lying they're stealing they're

[24:57] cheating

[24:58] must be true no one would talk about

[25:00] themselves unless it was true this uh

[25:02] this this negatively continues to

[25:04] numbers 14 now mind you they are now

[25:06] living in a state of liberty remember

[25:09] Liberty is no Pharaoh no King no Hitler

[25:13] and here is a the fundamental question

[25:16] that we will spend our remainder of time

[25:17] asking do human beings want to always be

[25:23] free during the lockdowns I learn the

[25:26] answer is absolutely not

[25:28] right we're far too many people unless

[25:31] Liberty is a value that is taught unless

[25:34] Liberty is a value that is cherished

[25:37] unless Liberty is something that you

[25:39] seek because you are spiritually

[25:42] transformed you are not going to desire

[25:45] Liberty instead you will desire Comfort

[25:48] ease and the flesh so numbers 14 God's

[25:52] chosen people they've been delivered

[25:54] from Egypt they're no longer living

[25:56] under Hitler God blows Quail off course

[26:00] and Mana from heaven and what do they do

[26:03] they start complaining and they say uh

[26:06] God can you uh take us back to

[26:09] Egypt they want to go back to slavery by

[26:12] the way they want to go back to Hitler

[26:15] because quote the food was better you

[26:17] don't believe me I'm going I Joe get me

[26:19] an actual Bible because I think last

[26:20] time people said come on does it really

[26:22] say that numbers 14 uh it literally says

[26:26] take us back to Egypt where least we had

[26:28] melons leaks cucumbers and meat now

[26:32] that's a that's a good uh trivia

[26:33] question for those of you ask your uh

[26:36] ask your uh friend where do cucumbers

[26:38] make an appearance in the Old

[26:40] Testament there you

[26:42] go and the grumbling and the voices if

[26:45] only we had died in Egypt or in this

[26:47] Wilderness why is the Lord bring us to

[26:49] this land oh let us Fall by The Sword

[26:50] and it continues by they they complain

[26:53] for three chapters

[26:55] straight no four I'm sorry they keep

[26:58] going

[27:01] they wanted to go back and live under

[27:03] the worst person

[27:05] imaginable because living in the desert

[27:08] was not

[27:10] easy what Thomas Jefferson started in

[27:12] motion with the founding fathers what

[27:14] lived through is we do not have an easy

[27:16] life when we live in

[27:17] Liberty far too often we have people

[27:20] that say I would rather have a simple

[27:23] and comforting

[27:24] life than one that is of Adventure and

[27:27] depth

[27:28] you know I ask sometimes these college

[27:30] kids I say would you like to have a life

[27:31] where three meals are provided a day you

[27:34] get free Wi-Fi you get free room and

[27:36] board and you don't have to work say of

[27:39] course I say you should go to a federal

[27:40] prison because that's what you get every

[27:42] single

[27:43] [Applause]

[27:47] day but you don't have

[27:49] Liberty but you get three meals a day at

[27:51] a federal prison you get Wi-Fi you get

[27:54] Netflix you get Hulu you don't have to

[27:56] pay anything

[27:58] but you're not

[27:59] free freedom is God's plan for his

[28:02] people it's why he delivered them out of

[28:04] Egypt it's why he sent his son Jesus

[28:07] Christ and those of us that give our

[28:09] life to Christ we are free and free

[28:12] indeed John 8 836 if the son therefore

[28:16] shall make you free you are free indeed

[28:18] Psalm 11945 I will walk in Liberty for I

[28:22] have sought your precepts God's heart

[28:24] for you and for us is not to live in the

[28:28] comfort and the ease of

[28:31] totalitarianism this is the question

[28:33] that is currently in front of us and let

[28:34] us go back to Our

[28:36] Roots our founder said that whenever any

[28:39] form of government becomes destructive

[28:42] of these ends it is the right of the

[28:44] people to alter or abolish it and to

[28:47] Institute new government laying its

[28:49] foundations on such principles and

[28:51] organizing its power in such form as to

[28:54] them shall seem most likely the effect

[28:57] and safety of

[28:59] happiness you see the choice in front of

[29:02] us is are we going to continue on the

[29:04] Narrow Path do you know the majority of

[29:06] countries around the world do not value

[29:09] Liberty or Freedom as a core value their

[29:12] population says just take care of

[29:15] us in France their core values are

[29:21] fraternity literally it says

[29:23] fraternity the nice life and the

[29:26] government takes care of them hire taxes

[29:28] more social benefits less individual

[29:31] initiative and freedom almost every

[29:33] other country around the world is around

[29:36] what form of government lots of

[29:39] subjects one ruler or two ruler or three

[29:41] rulers the founding fathers inverted it

[29:44] where because they said that all men are

[29:46] created equal it is the rulers are us

[29:50] and that we get to decide who's actually

[29:53] in charge and we are in a fragile

[29:55] balance right now a very very fragile

[29:57] balance balance in this birth

[30:00] certificate it took a price you cannot

[30:03] have the Statue of Liberty which we all

[30:07] say we enjoy without also the statue of

[30:11] responsibility both are necessary for us

[30:14] to be able to have a free and a virtuous

[30:19] and a deep

[30:20] Life July 4th 1776 remember the context

[30:24] they didn't have to sign this you know

[30:26] they could have made peace with the king

[30:27] of George

[30:28] they could have wrote you're in charge

[30:30] we are not give us free stuff we'll go

[30:32] back to our Farms this made every single

[30:35] one of them

[30:36] poorer this made some of them they died

[30:38] a very bloody

[30:41] death the window of

[30:43] Liberty is closing on

[30:46] America it

[30:47] is and it's closing for many reasons we

[30:51] think that a big

[30:53] sacrifice is showing up and just filling

[30:56] in a ballot and voting

[30:58] we think like that's a big sacrifice of

[31:00] our time we think that anything might

[31:02] alter our ease or our comfort and look

[31:04] at the memory that we must never forget

[31:08] the boys who stormed Normandy Beach 80

[31:10] years ago this last

[31:12] month and we have one day to celebrate

[31:15] that and yet a whole month to celebrate

[31:20] Pride think about that one day to

[31:23] remember the sacrifice of the boys of

[31:25] Normandy and a whole month for for

[31:28] people's own quote unquote

[31:31] self-identity there's only one thing

[31:34] that makes us free and free indeed and

[31:36] that is Christ

[31:38] Jesus on this Fourth of July this

[31:41] Independence Day I'm not asking you to

[31:44] storm a beach or to sign a death

[31:47] certificate which ended up being our

[31:49] birth certificate but I am asking you as

[31:52] it says in Leviticus 25 which is on the

[31:54] Liberty Bell by the way Proclaim Liberty

[31:57] throughout the of which you are in and

[31:59] when people in your life say I want to

[32:00] be free say do you really because being

[32:02] free also means you must be

[32:04] responsible and you cannot have both you

[32:07] you cannot have it either way I'm going

[32:09] to read the end of the Declaration of

[32:11] Independence which by the way how many

[32:13] people know that Jesus Christ makes an

[32:15] appearance in the Declaration of

[32:18] Independence at the end of The

[32:20] Declaration it reads Like a Prayer we're

[32:23] supposed to believe these founding

[32:24] fathers a bunch of deists and not

[32:25] Christians no no no we therefore this is

[32:28] in the we form all of them were saying

[32:31] this

[32:32] together in the Book of Revelation by

[32:34] the way it says that Jesus Christ sits

[32:37] on the throne as the Supreme judge of

[32:41] the

[32:42] world we therefore the representatives

[32:44] of the United States of America in

[32:46] general Congress assembled

[32:48] appealing to the Supreme judge of the

[32:51] world for the rectitude of our

[32:54] intentions doe in the name authority of

[32:55] the good people of these colonies Sol L

[32:58] and publish and declare that these

[33:01] United Colonies are and of right ought

[33:03] to be

[33:04] free and independent

[33:07] states that they are absolved completely

[33:10] from all allegiance to the British crown

[33:12] and that all political connection

[33:14] between them and the great state of

[33:16] Britain is and ought to be totally and

[33:18] completely res dissolved and that as

[33:20] free and independent states that we have

[33:22] full power to Levy War conclude peace

[33:25] contract Alliance established congr

[33:27] Commerce and do all other acts and

[33:29] things which independent states may have

[33:31] right to do and for support of this

[33:33] declaration with a firmians on the

[33:36] protection of Divine

[33:39] Providence we mutually pledge to each

[33:41] other Our lives our fortunes and our

[33:43] sacred honor let me say that last again

[33:45] how many of you would be okay losing all

[33:47] the money in your bank account and your

[33:48] home for your

[33:50] country how many of you would be okay

[33:52] dying for your country some of you

[33:53] almost did thank you for serving our

[33:54] country and our sacred

[33:56] honor they were pledging to each other

[33:59] everything they were all

[34:01] in all in take my home take my boat take

[34:05] my car take my kids Liberty is worth

[34:08] it those are special

[34:11] people this country we know where it's

[34:13] headed we feel it we see it we sense it

[34:15] we taste it maybe in order to know the

[34:18] path forward we must look at those who

[34:21] came before us and those 56 signers that

[34:25] declaration

[34:27] they couldn't have

[34:29] imagined

[34:31] 244 years 200 whatever years uh

[34:35] since that we'd be able to celebrate the

[34:38] way we

[34:39] are but also if they were alive today

[34:41] they'd say you guys realize that that

[34:43] window is closing you cannot be free if

[34:45] you are not

[34:46] courageous you cannot have Liberty if

[34:48] you do not act

[34:49] boldly the Declaration of Independence

[34:52] is a foundational belief that Liberty is

[34:55] not man's idea it is God's idea it is an

[34:59] open question of whether or not we get

[35:02] to continue to live free it's up to us

[35:05] God bless thanks guys