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You’ve heard of a guy named Daniel Webster, also, no Webster, but what is that? But there is anything in my thoughts or style to recommend. The credit is due to my parents for instilling in me an early love of the scriptures. If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper, but if we and our posterity neglect its instructions and authority, no man can tell how certain a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory and profound obscurity.

We have allowed our children to be educated by humanist educators, for the most part. Now there’s some good teachers here and principals there now, but for the overall, most part, our children are being educated in a humanistic philosophy. By the very fact that in majority of schools, we have the teaching of evolution. Evolution is a religion of the atheist. An atheist can’t believe in creation because that requires a creator. So the only other alternative is we got here by a lot of little accidents, mutations.

You know, gases coming together, pfft, now. Next thing you know, you got some blob floating around in the ooze of the Nile. And so from a one cell to me, but we have developed into what we are today. And they don’t believe in a God. They’re humanistic. Everything revolves around man. And they have taken our children. And it doesn’t matter. You can take them to church on Sunday and they will get maybe an hour of Bible teaching and five days of humanistic philosophy.

And you think that it’s not going to make a difference in our country, how they think and how they feel and what they want to accomplish with their life? No Webster said this, the principle of all genuine liberty and of wise laws and administrations are to be drawn from the Bible and sustained by its authority. The man, therefore who weakens or destroys the divine authority of that book, may be acessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer.

And the people that have not the Bible and not Christianity and don’t want God or the Bible in our schools have nothing to do with it. Rewrite history, change everything. This accessory to all the public disorders which society is doomed to suffer. Because, see, it’s not in man that walk up to direct his steps. That’s why we need a Savior. That’s why we need the indwelling of the Holy Spirit to help us to do the things that God wants us to do, in order to love like we ought to.

And so because they don’t have the spirit of the Lord, they have to pass more laws, and more laws means more freedoms that you and I are going to lose. And so every time the Congress gets together, they are passing some law that takes away some of your rights and your freedoms. I don’t like what I see coming in America.

Let me read this to you because this is so good. Some of you know all this stuff, but there’s probably some of you that never get this. You see, what’s this got to do with the Bible? If you read this Bible, you’ll find out the Bible talks an awful lot about government. All the way through it’s about government, government, government, government. And the role that we’re supposed to play in government and how government affects our life. It was Paul who knew and understood the law that said, says, I appeal unto Caesar.

Why did he do that? Because he knew the law. He said, I’m freeborn. I’ve got rights. That’s why he wound up in Rome. You ever heard of a guy named Paul Harvey? He said this. A Reverend Joe Wright, pastor of the Central Christian Church in Wichita, before the Kansas state legislature. Now this guy had some gall. He had some intestinal four to two that we call it. Anyway, he had to pray. And in his prayer did he unload? And when he did, people got up and says that when he finished three members jumped to their feet and indignantly shouted, he can’t talk like that.

Another one says that it was gross and divisive, sanctimonious, overbearing. Then another guy named Daley called it blasphemous, ignorant, and others in the chamber agreed, and were very upset because of what this pastor had to say. Even though it was almost twenty years ago, listen to what he said. He prayed, Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and to seek your directions and guidance. Having problem with that so far, they did. We know your word says woe to those who call evil good, but that’s exactly what we have done.

We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and inverted our values. We confess that we have ridiculed the absolute truth of your word in the name of moral pluralism. We have worshipped other gods and called it multiculturalism. We have endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle. We have exploited the poor and called it a lottery. We have neglected the needy and called itself preservation. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. In the name of choice, we have killed our unborn.

In the name of right to life we have killed abortionists. We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building esteem. We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbors’ possessions and called it taxes. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored vaguars of our forefathers and called it enlightenment. O God, and know our hearts today. Try us and show us any wicked way in us.

Cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of Kansas and who have been ordained by you to govern this great state. Grant them your wisdom to rule and made their decisions. Direct us to the center of your will. I asked in the name of your son living Savior Jesus Christ a man. Now he got raked over the cold for such a… But did you know in the founding of this country and all the colonies they all believed this?

Almost every one of the states, I should say all of the states in America give recognitions to the Lord God Almighty about what this country is is founded for and of individual states. But lo and behold, we’ve had something taking change in our country little by little. That is a shame. I had an incident that took place up in Georgia. Any of y’all here ever heard of the CLA Christian Law Association from y’all head? Years ago I came down here and I had the opportunity of giving devotion for them.

And so I got a chance to meet a few of them. And I became the pastor up there in Atte’s, Georgia. Well, there just happens to be a guy that was up there, James Hunter, who was on the Oconee County School Board. And him and a lady named Kay Shepherd was on the board. And they didn’t like the idea of evolution being taught in the county. So they wanted an alternative. And they want to have something about creation. They’re on the board.

It their opinion You think well everybody ought to have the freedom of education. Let them hear both sides No, when you’re an evolution, so you don’t want those kids to hear the other side You don’t want to hear that? so anyway this guy contacted me and he asked me he says Would you be interested in in helping me? I said I’ll do anything I possibly can so anyway, I was contacted by CLA and You ever heard of a guy named Ken ham Ken ham has the creation thing that’s up there a big museum and so on and Anyway, they wanted to come to our church and so they needed a place I didn’t find But what I did is I got very interested A few years back, Michael Adams, who is the president of the University of Georgia, he threw this office.

They asked me if I would go to the University of Georgia. They were having this great big dinner, and they had a lot of legislators there. So I got a chance to sit up on the platform, know with all these big shots, you know, and I’m sitting down here on this end. I didn’t even know who was sitting on the side to me. I didn’t know some of these people. But anyway, there were politicians and all that and so I enjoyed my meal got a chance to shake hand with you the important people and I Gave a prayer.

I felt ashamed of myself. I didn’t pray like this guy did. I Just gave a little prayer for the food Anyway, I got a nice little letter from Michael Adams and I Started doing some digging So I went down to the law library and I Ask them, I want to see the original charter of the University of Georgia. So they says we don’t know where it is. I says the original charter, you know, when the founding fathers got together and they made this document, it had to go through the legislature in Atlanta.

I says there’s got to be an original document. Lo and behold, they kept searching and it was upstairs in an attic, some back papers, and they finally found a copy of it. There was nowhere anybody could find it, but I found one. And I got it and I even made a copy of it. And it just blew my mind to know how these guys were thinking. Because this was one of the first universities in the country, especially in Georgia.

It was a first. So I read it and I made some copies. And this is what it, listen to this, as it is the distinguishing happiness of free governments, that civil order should be the result of choice, not necessity. And the common wishes of the people become the laws of the land, their public prosperity and even existence very much depends upon suitably forming the minds and morals of their citizens. In other words, you want to have a good country, you got to educate the people, and they got to know what standards to have, what to believe, understanding our founding documents, to be able to think and the reason to relate, to record, to understand how to make wise decisions.

Then it says, when the mind of people in general are viciously disposed and unprincipled, and Their conduct disorderly, a free government, will be attended with greater confusion and with evils more horrid than the wild uncultivated state of nature. It can only be happy when the public principles and opinions are properly directed and their manners regulated. This is an influence beyond the stretch of laws and punishment. In other words, laws can’t make people like this. This is what I was talking about in Sunday school.

And what they had is similar to all the universities and colleges that were founded at the beginning of this country. And get what he said. This is an influence beyond the stretch of laws and punishment and can be claimed only. And they use the word religion, but I believe that the word religion is not necessarily a bad word if we can refer to it as true Christianity. But it says only by religion and education, it should therefore be among the first objects of those who wish well to the national prosperity to encourage and support the principles of religion and morality and early to place the youth under the forming hand of society that by instructing instructions, they may be molded to the love of virtue and good order.

Now they that started this country and was instrumental and started many of the universes in colleges and some of these great men served on the Supreme Court. They served in the legislature. They were men of character and they establish these books and it was for the purpose of educating them concerning Christianity. So how do you know it was Christianity? I knew you was going to say that. So I want to show you. It makes this statement. This country and the times of our common danger and distress found such security and the principles and abilities which wise regulations has long or before established in the mind of our countrymen.

So what was in the mind of our countrymen that started the country, they wanted to take that and put it into the minds of the next generation in order to secure the country. And then he says that our present happiness joined to pleasing prospect should conspire to make us feel ourselves under the strongest obligation to form the youth, the rising hope of our land to render the like glorious and essential service to our country. And this is what he says in the ninth thing on page 10 of the Georgia Review.

All officers, all officers, appointed to the instruction and the government of the university to all officers, people to teach and those that rule The trustees, all the shall be of the Christian religion, not any religion, the Christian religion. And then they state this, the trustee shall not exclude any person of any religious denomination whatsoever from free and equal liberty and advantages of education or from any of the liberties, privileges and immunities of the university in his education. In other words, all the board members and all the instructors had to be of the Christian religion, but anybody from anywhere could come and be educated by those who believe in Christianity.

Now if it is unconstitutional today, blessed be God, why wasn’t it unconstitutional at the founding of these universities, because it was not unconstitutional. It is not wrong to teach about Christ. That’s how they plan to preserve this country. And we have a loud, people to come along and tell them, you can’t do that. But you, you can’t do that. And why not? That’s why it was founded so that we could. Anyway, I wanted to read this one statement to you.

There was to be no religious test of any sort imposed upon prospective students. Indeed, one of the paragraphs of the charter provided them, the trustee shall not exclude any person. Then he says, at the same time, it was provided in another section of the charter that all officers of instruction or administration of the university should be of the Christian religion. That’s in the fountain. I wonder why it was hid back in some documents and nobody can find a copy of it Because see they don’t want these things out Just like they don’t want to teach the kids today are true understanding and the intent of the Constitution because They might lose the control of the kids And that’s what they consider to be their voting power their blocks coming up that gives them power because see they’ll be like little animals They can’t think they can’t raise them most adults today can’t

All they look at is the government owes me give me give me give me give me English Patrick in says give me liberty or give me debt Next generation says give me liberty next generation just says give me When they had asked me about holding the meeting up there with the CLA, they’re on radio all over the United States. There was a guy that works for the University of Georgia. When they made a statement on the board about what they wanted to do, what they had some people that were very upset that teach at the University of Georgia.

This is what he says. Enough is enough. A County County school board member, James Hunter and James K. Shepherd, or an embarrassment to the school system and to Oconee County as again has been demonstrated by their recent efforts to require the teach in so-called creation science. Neither appear to have the slightest notion of what evolution a biology is all about. Having studied, taught, and researched evolutionary biology for over Over 30 years at the University of Lebanon, I can at least claim some knowledge of the field.

Teachers have enough problems in today’s school environment without having the stress and pressures placed upon them by poorly informed school board members. Both should resign immediately. Anyway he goes on down here and says a few things. So I wrote him a letter to the editor. Can I read it to you? This is what I wrote. I remember I’m a nice guy. Samuel B. Jones that wrote that letter asked for a responsible clergy to comment on decisions of the Aconi County School Board members concerning the creation magazine being placed in the library.

My comments are in response to your article on the editorial page. First of all, I was there. I thought all the board members were very kind, gracious and informative in their remarks. I believe it is a shame to intimidate or humiliate 100K Shephram just because their views are different from yours. Has it become a requirement for all board members to adhere to the theory of evolution? Secondly, your article assumes that only people holding the view of evolution are dedicated, intelligent, and educated.

And that all others are self-serving, insulting, uneducated, embarrassing, and have no intestinal fortitude to speak out or to take a stand like you. Since you are an instructor in evolution at the University of Georgia, perhaps you should get a copy of the founding charter of the UGA. It was written by the representatives of the state of Georgia in General Assembly. I quote all officers appoint to the instruction and government of the University of Shelby of the Christian religion. Would you have recommended that these founders immediately resign for believing the same thing that James Hunter and K.

in case Shepherd believe? Didn’t you know that the president who took office on June the 15th, 1819 was a preacher of the Christian faith named Reverend Modell Moses Modell? This charter also states that the UGA was for the purpose of forming the mind and morals of their citizens and that this was possible only by religion in education. Doesn’t seem like our founding fathers ever intended for there to be a separation of God, morality or the Christian religion from education does it.

Since I accepted your challenge, I would like to challenge you to get a copy of the original chart of the UGA. If you cannot agree with that and uphold it, you should do as you have recommended to James Hunter and K. Shepherd by resigning immediately. So, some things just makes my blood boil. And, uh, not the way if you’re here this morning and you believe in evolution. It ain’t true. And I will be speaking on that coming up very soon because I believe the Bible and I believe in creation.

And this country that we say we so love was done by those who believed in this book. And they say the only way you can preserve this country is by teaching people this book. And that’s why the colleges and universities were started to educate the people and the the people that came out of those places, they were preachers of the Christian faith. Now I believe we ought to get back to it. If we want a revival in this country, it’s going to be happened because we went back to this.

We’ve lost our direction. How do we straight away from our source? And that happens in people’s lives. A man and a woman get married and then they start directing away. And it happens in churches. You can come here this morning and say, no, he’s the greatest preacher in the world. Now I’m not going to argue with him. But you know in about a week or two, if I say something that offends you, all it takes is one thing. You’ll forget about those 99 good things that I say.

Well, he said And I’ll never forgive him for that. And got a chance. So thanks for being here today. But before you leave, I got just one little huddle of height of my one of mentioned to you. Look up here. You said, we didn’t teach nothing much about the Bible. Everything I talked about was about the Bible. It’s because of my knowledge in the Bible, I can read different articles and pull things together. And if you listen to what I’m saying, they’ll make sense.

It’s to help our people. I don’t want us to become slaves down the road. But look up here, this is you and me. This wall represents sin. We all have sin on it. Now God, He says He loves us. I hate our sin, but he loves us. But since we’ve all sinned, we’re all condemned. And everybody does things wrong. I remember one day I did something wrong. But God says he loves us and doesn’t want us to go to hell.

He wants us to go to heaven. To go to heaven, you have to be perfect as righteous as God. None of us are perfect. We’ve all sinned. We’ve all come short of God’s perfection. So the Bible says that you and I, we need a Savior. And God says you can’t save yourself. It’s not your good works that get you to heaven. Go into church and give money and all those things won’t get you to heaven. This hand represents Jesus Christ.

He’s the Lord. God in the flesh came into the world because he loves us. He hates our sin because it separates us from him. So Christ took the sin, paid for them to cross, came back again from the dead. Said it will believe that he did it for us. It put that payment to our account and we get to go to heaven on what Jesus Christ did. That’s good news. God so loved the world. They gave His only begotten Son.

The whosoever believed it in Him should not perish, won’t go to hell, but have everlasting life. He said, if you believe this, these things have already written unto you that believe that you may know that you have eternal life. I know I have eternal life. He said, he that believeth on me, hath, present and hath, right now, hath everlasting life. If you believe it, you have something. What do you have everlasting life? You say, well, I believe it. Do you have eternal life?

Well, I don’t know. Then you don’t believe it. If you believe it, you got it. And she how do I know when I really believe when you can say you got it you can’t say you got it you don’t believe it You know, that’s how simple the Bible is the best news in the world. Let’s pray shall we? But every head bow in every eye closed and no one looking around If you hear this morning and you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior, I can’t save you North can the church But Jesus Christ can he is the Lord.

He’s God in the flesh You can’t make a mistake this way only the true and living God knows who you are knows what you’ve done He’s the one that sent his son to pay for everything you’ve ever done. And if you’ll trust him, he’ll save you and give you eternal life as a gift. I pray that you’ll trust him. It’s a sign of good judgment. A person has to be a fool to turn down a free gift. And I pray you’ll be wise.

So it is by a nice close and no one looking around. If you will trust Christ as your Savior this morning, I’d like to know it. I’d like to have prayer for you. So I’m going to ask you to let me know by simply slipping you in a real quick and put it right back down. And we’ll also say, yes, I will trust Christ as my Savior. And I’d like you to pray for me. Our Father, we do thank you so much for the privilege we have to live here.

And Father, we pray you’re here to be up on those that are in Washington that make decisions that affect all of our lives. We say for us to pray for all leaders, and that they’ll be wise and do right so that we can live a quiet and peaceful life. And that’s what we want. We ask now your blessings upon these persons here. Christ and we pray. Amen. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr.

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So live today and every day, believing that the Lord is coming soon, and just keep looking up.