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Defining Moments in American History
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| We should have freedom for all, not just freedom for half the people. | |
| America is divided and a nation divided. | |
| I've read it on the show yesterday. | |
| A nation divided cannot stand. | |
| Well, so what you're quoting is both Matthew and Abraham Lincoln. | |
| And so what's interesting about Lincoln is that he came into the nation at a time when the nation was in the process of dividing. | |
| And one of the things that, Jim, we've talked about is that there are four crucibles that are in the history of the United States. | |
| The Revolutionary War was a defining moment for who we were as a people. | |
| The Civil War was a defining moment. | |
| World War II, the Great Depression was a defining moment. | |
| And every one of those happened within 70 to 90 year cycles. | |
| And so we are now in the next cycle. | |
| This is based on research that was done in a curiously documented book called The Fourth Turning. | |
| And the writers predicted before 9-11 that right around now in American history, America would enter the crucible. | |
| And we would be once again in a crisis defining who we were as a people. | |
| God provided Washington for the first crucible. | |
| He provided Lincoln for the second crucible. | |
| And regardless of your thinking on FDR, he was the perfect person for the assignment for the Second World War, working with Churchill and the Alliance. | |
| And Donald Trump happens to step on the scene. | |
| And as far as I know, you could try to go back in history and recalibrate these individuals as evangelicals. | |
| I can't prove that from history, but I could say that their principles and their sentiments aligned with the Word of God and they quoted the Bible. | |
| So God provides what's called common grace leaders for the crucible of this nation. | |
| And we are entering into this unraveling, and it's happening in all these directions, and the Lord has given us leadership right now that is standing at that juncture. | |
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Step Out of Accords
00:00:53
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| But where would Britain have been without Churchill? | |
| Where would the United States have been without Lincoln? | |
| They were peculiarly gifted for the crucible that they were in. | |
| And I wonder, where will we be without the strength and the determination and clarity of agenda that Trump has? | |
| Because this president, I mean, think about the nerve it takes to step out of NAFTA, to step out of the Paris Climate Accords, to step out and to move the embassy to Israel. | |
| Wow. | |
| And to take on China and the tariff wars and what's happening there, which most Americans still don't understand, where they're at war with us economically. | |
| And so this guy is uniquely positioned, Jim, for the role he has. | |