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A Soldier's Mercy
00:03:04
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| May I share a quick story history? | |
| And those who know me know I get very emotional about this one. | |
| Pickett's charge. | |
| 7,500 young men. | |
| But think about if you're Robert E. Lee. | |
| It's going to take me a minute or two, so I hope I'm not cutting time. | |
| Think if you were Robert E. Lee. | |
| You're in your 50s, and you have sent these 15, 20, 25-year-old boys across that field. | |
| And you have watched them fall by the thousands. | |
| And at that moment, you saw the collapsing of your cause, that the Confederate flags were not cresting the hill. | |
| And Lee had this responsibility for 7,500 young men who fell because of a charge they shouldn't have done. | |
| But here's the story that always gets to me. | |
| These men are coming back, the ones that could still move and carrying their wounded, and Lee is writing amongst them saying, it's my fault. | |
| It's my fault. | |
| And the men are weeping, saying, no, sir, tell us to go back. | |
| We'll try again. | |
| And in the middle of all that bloodshed, there was a wounded Union soldier laying there who would write years later how he taunted Lee. | |
| Something about, we whipped you or something like that. | |
| Lee reigned in. | |
| Now, imagine, these men had been killing each other only minutes earlier, and here's an enemy soldier taunting a beloved general. | |
| And almost every other war in history, what would people have done to that enemy soldier within seconds? | |
| They would have bayoneted him. | |
| No. | |
| According to the description of what happened, Lee got off his horse, went to the Union soldier who looked up at him and was terrified, and Lee knelt down and said, Son, are you sorely hurt? | |
| He said, yes, I can't move. | |
| I've been shot through the legs. | |
| And Lee looked up, he said, take this boy to my surgeon. | |
| And he held that enemy soldier's hand and he said, Son, I will pray for you that you get safely home to your family. | |
| Now, if he could do that, how come we can't forgive the scars that still remain? | |
| Amen. | |
| I say amen. | |
| I believe unless the church rises up not to fight, but to love again, and to restore and to come together to not see black or white anymore. | |
| Amen. | |
| To see God, to see humanity, to see Americans, to see people who love each other. | |
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The Banner of Love
00:00:59
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| People, God's going to judge this. | |
| And if we don't love, you know the Bible says you're not going to heaven. | |
| You know who passes from death into life because they love. | |
| And we've got to have that banner back up. | |
| The banner over us is love. | |
| That's what it says. | |
| But the banner's been pulled down. | |
| The banner is now hate. | |
| When you hear of these great men of history, they weren't ashamed of their God. | |
| All the great leaders seemingly had faith in God. | |
| A constitution was written mainly by men of faith. | |
| Let's get God back. | |