Liberty is God's Idea, Not Man's Idea — My Speech at Dream City Church
America's Founding Fathers were courageous men with a vison of a free country centered on Christian values. Charlie's speech at Dream City Church over Independence Day weekend reflects on the founding of the United States and how the story of its founding makes it different from any country in history. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
My speech that I gave on Independence Day, but of course it's as true today as it was last week.
I think you'll really enjoy it and how the Bible inspired the founding of this country.
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Thank you, everybody.
Please take a seat.
Thank you.
Luke, that was a wonderful introduction.
Thank you.
And I have to say, if America had a thousand Dream City churches, this country would be in a much better place.
I'll tell you what.
And this is now becoming kind of a tradition.
Independence Day weekend.
And so I'm going to do similar to last year.
You know, I was very, someone earlier said, Charlie, you could just give the same message as last year if people forget.
But no, no, I hold myself to a higher standard.
So we're going to read part of the Declaration today.
We're going to talk about what it means to celebrate independence.
And before I go any further, though, I just want to make sure that everyone here understands and realizes.
We're going to talk about this tonight.
We should just be in a constant state of gratitude these last couple of days, especially.
Because think about where we were a year ago and where we are now.
And on July 13th, you all remember where you were.
I hope on July 13th or just a couple millimeters determine the future of our country.
And I think for much better and for far worse, we can say that it's all about how hard we worked or what we did.
God is not done with America, everybody.
God is at work in this country, and God is not done with this country.
So this weekend, we celebrate Independence Day, and that is the signing of our birth certificate.
Now, far too often, we talk about the Declaration, but we don't actually read it.
Now, at Dream City Christian and at Turning Point Academy and at real schools in this country, they're learning the Declaration of Independence.
They're going word by word.
They're going paragraph by paragraph.
And we're going to do that partially here today.
It's a long document.
It's a beautiful document.
But I want to first kind of frame the context of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Because I think it's lost on us exactly what was happening.
So some people think the signing of the Declaration of Independence was the beginning of the war against the British Empire.
It was not.
It did not begin the war.
It justified the war.
Back in April of 1775, so a year and a half basically before, a year and a couple months before, that was Lexington and Concord.
So the blood was already being spilled way before the Declaration.
So imagine a nation at war, and we weren't really sure what we were doing or why we were fighting.
We just knew the British were oppressing us.
We knew that tyranny was bad.
And we weren't even sure how long this was going to continue.
The Battle of Bunker Hill that we all remember learning about growing up, that was in June of 1775 before the Declaration of Independence was written and signed.
Now after that, our founders were so pious and they were so Christian, blessed are the peacemakers, they wrote what is called the Olive Branch Petition.
So they sent a letter to the king trying to end the war in August of 1775.
The king responded and said, nope, you guys are in rebellion and I'm going to crush you.
So the founders were like, okay, I guess we have a war on our hands and we didn't invite it.
We don't want it.
They're oppressing us and we're going to play to win.
Fast forward all the way now to July of 1776.
The war is raging.
The rich of the colonies are losing their farms.
They're losing their ships.
They're losing everything.
And so teleport yourself for a moment into a room that is in Philadelphia in July.
Anyone been in Philadelphia in July?
It's not a dry heat.
Let me tell you.
It's not like Phoenix.
It is like 90% humidity.
That is a port city.
And they're in a room with no air conditioning.
At any moment, the British Empire could have arrived because it was a port city.
They could have went into Independence Hall and they would have arrested all 56 men and they would have hung them, every single one of them, for treason, one by one.
These 56 men had a decision to make.
They had a decision of whether or not they were going to continue this war of which the odds were beyond stacked against them.
I think President Trump's assent to the presidency is one of the greatest political comebacks ever.
That pales in comparison to what the Founding Fathers were up against.
They had no navy.
They didn't have a ship.
They didn't have a canoe.
They had no permanent alliances, nothing.
They had no standing army.
All they had, literally, they were a bunch of farmers, merchants, and preachers with muskets, right, Luke?
That's what the Founding Fathers were.
But they had something that the British did not have.
They had more faith than the British.
They had a belief in the divine, and they worshiped God Almighty.
So here is the greatest fighting power.
I know this might be hard For you to comprehend, imagine if the script was flipped.
We right now have the world's strongest military.
Boy, we saw what our military did in Iran.
I mean, that was unbelievable.
They flew through the night.
Incredible.
So we have the world's strongest military.
So imagine as strong a military that we have against like a random colony.
Just pick a colony anyway.
That was how the odds were stacked against it.
The British Empire, they were well trained.
They were bringing in Prussian mercenaries from Germany.
36,000 British troops had already occupied New York and Boston.
This thing looked like the rebellion was about to be quelled.
It was, if you were like looking for all the young men out there, if you were looking at like the draft kings or the, you know, let's just say the polymarket betting odds, it was like 99.9 to 0.1 that America or the colonies were going to survive.
The guys that were kind of taking wages didn't look good.
Again, some of the older folks, like, what are you talking about?
Gambling is a sin.
You guys shouldn't do it as much as you do.
But the fact that you get what I'm saying means that point delivered, okay?
It was the most unlikely scenario imaginable.
And so these farmers and these merchants and these preachers with muskets stuck themselves into a room and they had a decision to make.
And for about a week, they were like, hey, we could surrender.
And the reason they didn't surrender is because what was happening 10 years prior.
For 10 years, the most successful, most robust Christian revival in history was underway.
And this is the buried lead.
This is the part of our birth certificate and our birthday as Americans that's not talked about in the media.
It's not talked about in our public schools.
They'll only maybe talk about the founding, and they'll be, oh, they were a bunch of slave-owning, terrible people.
But they don't talk about the 10 years before the founding.
Did you know that there were 25,000 sermons given over a decade to the population of the 13 colonies, delivered by people like Whitfield and Jonathan Mayhew and Jonathan Edwards?
So Jonathan Edwards had a sermon that he delivered thousands of times.
The title of the sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
That's not exactly a prosperity gospel.
That's not exactly, hey, give me $10 and you're going to get very rich.
That's about as harsh as it get.
Oh, Mr. Edwards, thank you to our small town here in rural Massachusetts.
What are you going to be talking about today?
You're all sinners in the hands of an angry God.
Oh, thank you.
So nice and wonderful.
What Jonathan Edwards is able to do is he was able to bring a once Christian colonies that were stepping away from God to repentance.
Everybody, you cannot get to revival without repentance and you can't get to liberty without revival.
And repentance to Almighty God is what led to the founding.
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So you have these guys stuffed in a room.
They just lived through the greatest Christian revival in history.
And so they were thinking to themselves, what do we do?
They started in prayer, by the way.
It's very important.
They started with prayer and fasting.
And they came to the conclusion, they said, hey, we got to do something about this.
We're going to write a letter.
We're going to justify it.
We're going to synthesize it.
And we're going to give the colonies, our people that are fighting, their why.
We are going to now form and birth a new nation founded on ideals that are totally incompatible with what the monarchy believes.
And this is our nation's birth certificate, but it might be our death certificate.
And I'm going to build that out for a second because it's lost on so many of us, including myself when I was doing research for this, just how much these men and their families and their wives were risking.
Because the wives also don't be talked about enough.
These wives understood they may never see their husbands again, that their sons and their daughters may never be raised by a father.
And so they decided, like, hey, who's, you know, they looked around the room and here was like, I think he was 27 or 28, Thomas Jefferson, like, hey, he's smart.
Why don't you take a draft at it?
So Thomas Jefferson wrote this in his 20s.
And I'm going to talk about that in a second.
But first, I want to just remember the signers of the Declaration that we don't always recount.
We talk about John Hancock.
We talk about Thomas Jefferson.
I'm going to list some names of some people that did sign their death certificate.
You see, the Brits, they were brutal.
They were harsh.
It's very easy for us in the year of the Lord, 2025, to look back at 1776 and enjoy our pool parties and our burgers and our hot dogs, which you should, and our fireworks and our ice cream.
But I want you just today at church to just imagine what it would be like to sign a document against the world's largest power and your house, your kids, your livelihood, your 401k, your second home, whatever could be snatched away from the world's largest power.
And for some, it meant that's exactly what happened.
Like William Ellery, not a name that you would hear very often, signer of the Declaration.
He watched the British burn his home and destroy everything he owned.
These were nasty people.
They went to his house.
They took all of his kids up on a hill and they said, you worked your whole life to build this House.
Now, I want you to understand: we value our homes a lot here in 2025.
For them, it was literally everything.
There was no savings account.
There was no like Roth IRA.
There was no like buying Amazon stock.
Everything was the house.
If you had a house, you were a rich person.
You had land, it could produce.
And the British, in a form of torture, would make your entire life be burned in front of your eyes.
And your kids would have to watch it.
Or how about Lewis Morris?
The British troops plundered his estate, drove off all of his cattle, and destroyed his property.
Carton Braxton, signer of the Declaration, a wealthy Virginia planter and merchant.
He lost all of his ships.
He saw his fortune ruined.
He got so depressed by all of it, he died in debt and never saw the end of the war.
Thomas McKean was hunted by the British, had to move his family five times and died penniless.
Five times in the span of three years with no cars and no planes, constantly moving, being hunted by the British.
Abraham Clark, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, two of his sons were captured by the British and brutally treated and tortured in prison ships and one nearly starved to death.
Or John Hart fled into the woods to escape the British troops.
His wife died while he was on the run and his 13 kids were scattered.
His farm was ravaged and he never saw his kids again.
They did this by choice, everybody.
This was not something that came to them.
They went through this level of suffering.
Or how about Frances Lewis?
His wife was imprisoned for months, tortured by the British, and died shortly after release.
He died with nothing, totally impoverished.
Or Richard Stockton, captured by the British, imprisoned, abused, starved, and released only after swearing never to fight again.
He never recovered and died before the war ended.
Or John Morton, alienated by all of his friends.
Understand when you signed this document, almost two-thirds of the entire colonies were against this war.
One-third were neutral, one-third with the British, only one-third were support, only 3% ended up fighting, and a small percentage of that actual fighting force were like the ones that drove it forward.
So imagine if you think you were outnumbered for not taking the vaccine, if you think you were outnumbered for not wearing a mask when you showered, if you think you were outnumbered, I want you to imagine what it was like when everyone around you, this guy lost all of his friends, when you signed the declaration, you were not met with pomp and circumstance and a parade.
You were not met as like a hero's welcome.
You became a public villain.
You became someone that all of a sudden you were, and we in 2025, I want you to understand, signing your name back in the ancient world was as, there was almost no equivalent in the modern era.
There's nothing close.
Because we sign stuff all the time, right?
Signing documents, signing checks.
When you sign something, that is your all-encompassing body.
That is everything.
That is your kids, your grandkids, your estate.
It is a holy vow that you are making.
John Morton was alienated by his friends and family for switching the Patriot cause, died in 1777, never saw a victory.
Or Button Gwynnett, literally killed over fighting for the revolutionary clause, one of the signers of the Declaration.
So why would they do something like this?
Why would they go up against the greatest power ever where they knew they were probably going to lose?
They did it because they valued being right before God, not right before King George.
It's the only reason they did it.
And we should honestly just remember these founding fathers that died and gave up everything.
And I want you to understand, it'd be one thing if you go and die for a war and you still have your land, you could die at least somewhat at peace that your kids are going to be okay.
These kids that all entered into poverty, this guy, 13 kids, nothing.
So he dies a tormented death.
I want you to imagine right now that every, all of your savings disappear and you also die.
I mean, it would be unthinkable, right?
Your kids would have to go on welfare.
They'd have to become beggars.
And so with all of that context, with that backdrop, the founders met in July of 1776.
They said, Thomas, you write the thing, right?
And they prayed on every single word.
This was not, by the way, this was not like them skimming it.
This was not like a docu sign or the terms of service on Apple when you get a new iPhone and no one reads that stuff and you go all the way to the bottom like, okay, great, yeah.
King George, God, thank you.
Every word was debated.
Every word was prayed over.
I'm going to focus on a couple elements I didn't in the previous service, but I'm going to say just one, I'm going to repeat one.
It begins with when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them.
A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to separation.
Now, some of that is written in a little bit of old English, so it's hard to quite understand what Thomas Jefferson is saying.
Here's what he's saying.
King George, it's not just that it's right for us to separate from you.
All people in all time, anywhere around the world, deserve to be free, not under someone like you.
This is an anthem for all of history.
It is a universal claim.
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Now, I want to emphasize one thing he said here, which drove King George crazy.
The laws of nature and nature's God entitle him.
We as Christians believe that there is a God-given moral law that is discernible by reason and conscience, and nations must govern in harmony with it.
This is a perfect connection to what Pastor Luke said earlier.
Why is it that in Los Angeles, a bunch of bums can walk into Starbucks and take as much food as they want, and no one says stop.
When you refuse and you reject God, all of a sudden stealing is not wrong.
When you reject God, abortion is not wrong.
When you reject God, there's nothing wrong with the transgenderism nonsense.
Here are five things of which the natural law says in great detail.
And by the way, it's connected to something that comes later in the Declaration.
Number one, we believe, because the Bible teaches it and it's in the natural law, human life is sacred and every single life matters regardless of how small or how big that life is.
Why do we believe that?
We believe that because every human being is made in the image of God and it's not a mistake, it is a miracle.
It's not an accident.
It is a design.
And if you have a design, you have a designer.
If you have a creation, you have a creator.
And the founding fathers understood this.
And this is where all of a sudden they went, shots fired against the king.
So the king is reading this.
He had a call in a bunch of scribes.
He couldn't believe it.
He thought that he was going to get a letter from the founding generation.
He thought that these colonists, these farmers, these merchants, these pastors, they were going to do a writ of surrender.
Please spare us our life and don't burn our property.
Instead, they got like a 10 out of 10 maximal aggression Trump tweet, right?
They got like, whoa, okay.
We're going that intense.
They went, we hold these truths to be self-evident.
Boom, shots fired.
All men are created equal.
Now, we should applaud that.
I wish Americans believed it more and more.
But understand, the king doesn't believe that.
He's reading this like, no, I'm better than you.
I'm the divine right of kings.
I'm King George.
You're not.
What do you mean all men are created equal?
So we had to call in his scribes.
Like, what do they mean by this?
They say, well, sir, they think that you're equal to them.
And what was the reason they gave?
That they are endowed by their creator, capital C. This was not because they were doing a bunch of study of Greek and Roman history.
And there are some Greek and Roman influences here.
It's simply and solely a biblical worldview that expressed itself in the revolution.
Only in Genesis 1.26 and 127, which is universal human equality.
That I'm not better than Luke, and Luke is not better than me, that we are all the same in God's economy.
From that, then you get natural rights, and you get what birthed Western civilization.
Understand that if you visit a lot of the rest of the world, go and visit India right now.
Go and visit the tribes of Africa.
They have caste systems and intergenerational ruling structures where not all people are created equal.
They believe that there's some sort of hierarchy to existence.
Well, I have more money than you, then I'm better than you.
Only in America do we posit in our birth certificate.
Nope.
Yep, you might have more money, but that doesn't mean you have more rights.
Yep, you might have a nicer car, but I'm the same in God's economy, and both of us are going to have to go in front of God the judge one day.
And both of us are equally made.
Do you understand the significance of that?
And it was at no small cost.
So then the king is reading this.
He's getting angry and angrier.
And this is where it gets so profound.
That among these, oh yeah, it's up here, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
You cannot have liberty, and you cannot happiness, have happiest if you do not protect life.
Let us be a state and a country again that values life at every possible stage, from the unborn to the boring to the elderly.
And the founders articulated this beautifully.
So I could go in all the different elements here, but let me just repeat something I said earlier.
That a rejection of the universal moral order, the natural law that was talked about in our birth certificate, the laws of nature and nature's God, we are seeing the consequences of what happens when you do not have that.
In the words of G.K. Chesterton, it's not that when you have no God, people believe in nothing.
It's that they'll believe in anything.
That men can give birth, that borders don't matter, that you could change your sex on a whim, that life does not have any value.
You see, the founders, they were able to build the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world upon eternal biblical scripture and truth.
And that is not just Charlie Kirk saying it.
Today, this Independence Day weekend, we need to also just look at what the founders themselves said.
This stuff you will not hear on CNN, I guarantee it.
Patrick Henry, who is, let's just say, one of the more outspoken people of the founding generation.
He was a little bit of a rabble-rouser, if you will, kind of.
He was a little bit of a bomb thrower.
I know no one in politics that would probably fit that mold.
But anyway, he famously said, give me liberty or give me death.
That's one of my favorite quotes.
It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded by Christians, not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Patrick Henry.
John Adams, the second president.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
It's one of my favorite quotes.
I'm going to get to a second quote in a second, but everybody, the Declaration and Constitution are tied together.
What we enjoy as liberty right now starts to vanish as you see in L.A. when you no longer have a moral or religious people.
So when Luke says, why is it that there's this kind of soft anarchy and no one stands up for what is right?
Well, if you don't have a moral or Christian framework, then theft is not something to oppose.
Oh, they need the money.
You know, just let them steal it.
I'm sorry, in the Ten Commandments, God says, thou shalt not steal.
There was not a parenthetical that said, however, it's less than $1,000, I think it's okay.
Private property is robustly defended throughout the Bible and throughout the scripture.
John Adams says, quote, the general principles on which the founding fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity.
John Adams, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson in June 28, 1813, we posit that there is a transcendent moral order above us.
And what we are saying here is really at odds with a lot of the modern world.
James Madison said the only sure foundation for civil liberty is the Bible.
Not the teaching of Aristotle, which I love, or Plato, or of Immanuel Kant or Thomas Hobbes, but it is the Bible.
And so what I want you to understand is when you see those fireworks go up this weekend, is that under the surface of all the liberty that we now enjoy for 249 years, it did not happen by accident.
It was not just a roll of the dice.
It was serious Christians, serious believers, that gave you all the freedom that you are able to enjoy.
And here is my proof.
People say, well, that's not true.
Then why is it that no one has been able to replicate America?
Why is it that we are the freest, greatest nation for now 249 years running?
Why is that?
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We'll talk about what's happening in the church, the media, and with our help.
When you'll attend, you'll gain insight and valuable perspectives on what's happening in the world today.
Learn how to recognize truth from deception.
Find boldness so you could defend your faith with confidence and compassion.
Join me, Pastor Alan, Sage Steele, Dr. Bill Lyle, and many more.
September 19th and 20th.
Registration is now open.
There's never been a more important time to seek the truth, embrace the truth, and boldly deliver the truth to the people around us.
Come find out what's happening in the world around us and what you can do to make a difference.
Learn more and register at alanjackson.com slash Charlie.
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I'll see you there.
The next richest country in the world is China, which is the opposite of almost everything we believe.
A total police state, hyper-totalitarian, very materialistic.
Now, look, we have to be honest, in America, some of these are slipping away in front of us.
We worship stuff more than we should.
But don't fool yourself.
There is still a remnant that should be admired and encouraged of Bible-believing Christians and churches like this that love God and love people and work for his purposes every single day.
And we don't do a good enough job teaching our kids how great of a country that this is.
We are the most generous country ever to exist in the history of the world.
We give more to the poor, more to poverty.
We give more to the third world.
We give more in humanitarian aid.
We finance more Christian missionaries and more ministries.
70% of all the Christian mission work is originated by 5% of the population here in America.
When there's a tsunami, when there's a flood, when there's a civil war, they don't call the French and they don't call the Belgians.
They call the Americans because there's something different about this country.
And it's because what we believe is American values in liberty, in e pluribus unum, go anyone pull out a dollar bill before they try to have a centralized bank digital currency.
On the American dollar bill is the American Trinity.
In the American Trinity are three things.
Of course, we as Christians have the Christian Trinity.
God the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.
On the U.S. dollar is the American Trinity.
Liberty.
In God we trust.
And e pluribus unum.
E pluribus unum is what?
Out of many one.
That together, universal human equality reigns above all.
That it does not matter if you're black or you're white or Hispanic.
In God's economy, you are all human beings made in his image.
It doesn't matter if you're tall or you're small, unborn or born, you're a human being regardless of all of it.
I'm going to end with this.
I could go on for like another hour, but I'm going to end with this, everybody.
Which is my favorite part of the entire declaration is the end.
Because the end shows what type of nation that we are.
The end shows the profundity, the depth, the weight, and the heaviness of everything in front of us.
There are two types of ways that you could do relationships.
You can have a contractual relationship, which is perfectly okay.
When you hire your doctor, when you go to doctor, when you buy a piece of property, when you buy a land, when you buy a car, whatever.
That is a contractual relationship.
We as Christians understand that at times, though, you have covenantal relationships.
The best example of a covenantal relationship is between husband and wife.
That is a covenant.
Jesus and the church is a covenantal relationship.
Throughout the Bible, there are covenantal relationships, the Abrahamic covenant, the Noahic covenant, the Davidic covenant, the Mosaic covenant, the covenant with Israel, and of course, the new covenant with Jesus Christ.
When you enter into a covenantal relationship, here is what makes a contractual relationship versus a covenantal relationship.
First of all, a covenantal relationship says that this will last as long as we are faithful.
A contractual relationship is, here's the terms.
It ends in 10 days.
That's it.
You're the least of the car.
A covenantal relationship is built on love and kindness, respect and trust.
A contractual relationship goes into paragraph 6A on the different terms.
Nothing wrong with that, but it's different.
And the most important component, a covenantal relationship involves three parties, where a contractual relationship is two parties.
I'm buying something, I'm selling something.
A covenantal relationship is person, person, God.
It is a relationship between three parties.
This nation, when it was founded, unlike every other, Canada, contractual relationship.
Mexico, contractual relationship.
I'm not trying to bash on these countries.
It's just the way it is.
But America was a covenantal relationship.
At the end of the declaration, very similar to the book of Nehemiah, as in Nehemiah 9, when the Jews were in exile, King Cyrus sends them back, they were just a complete mess, right?
And Nehemiah restores the covenant in Nehemiah 9.
We are now in front of God.
We're going to recommit to God.
And we're under God's covering.
The last part of the declaration, they say, we therefore, the representatives in all caps, the United States of America.
Everybody, that's the first time that term was used, the United States of America.
Isn't that beautiful?
They say it in all caps in case you're missing it.
In General Congress assembled appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world.
Who are they appealing to?
Well, that's Jesus Christ.
Here's a fun trivia question for all of you this weekend on Independence Day.
You guys can tell your friends, where does Jesus appear in the Declaration?
Right there, the Supreme Judge of the World.
It says in the book of Revelation, Jesus will take the seat of judgment as the supreme judge of the world at the end of the age.
The founders knew what they were saying.
Do you know every single founder was fluent in Greek, fluent in Hebrew, and they were taught the Bible as a primary text document from a young age?
So they knew what they were saying when they said supreme judge of the world.
This was not an accident.
This was intentional.
They were appealing to Jesus Christ.
They were praying to Jesus at the end of this.
And here is the kicker as to why we are all here today.
They said with great prayer and reverence that at any moment their house could be burned, their wife could be kidnapped, and their kids could be tortured.
And for the support of this declaration, who are they relying on?
Were they relying on reason?
Were they relying on luck?
Were they relying on chance?
Were they relying on Hinduism?
No.
Reliance on protection of divine providence.
And now here went.
So they went to divine providence.
That's one part of the covenant.
They went vertical and then they went horizontal.
We then pledged to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.
They go up and they go to the side.
And all of a sudden, they've created a triangular covenantal relationship.
Everybody, that's why we beat the British.
It's because when all of a sudden the British, they were paid mercenaries, our guys pledged to each other and to a higher power.
And I'll be honest, the fact that our nation has lasted in its current form for 249 years, it is the longest lasting political document ever written in the history of the world.
We are under that covenant and we will stop being under that covenant if our faithfulness wanes.
If we become a secular nation like Los Angeles is.
If we go away from God, as the prophet Isaiah says, woe unto those who call good evil or evil good.
In Isaiah 33, 22, it says, For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king, and he will save us.
They all knew this intimately.
The founding generation did.
So I want you to celebrate this nation the remainder of this weekend.
Tell your friends about it, because it's actually a much bigger deal than I think we realize.
We should be so grateful.
We should be on our hands and knees kissing the ground and thanking God we get to live in this great nation, which is the inheritance, not of luck, not of chance, not of Buddhism, but the inheritance of courageous Christians who put everything on the line so that we can live free.
Thank you guys.
God bless you.
And God bless the United States of America.
Thanks so much for listening.
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