The American Soul
The American Soul
Reconnecting God with America: Our Nation's Forgotten Faith Foundation
The connection between faith and freedom stands at the heart of America's founding vision—yet it's a relationship many have forgotten or never learned. As our nation drifts further from its spiritual moorings, we've witnessed a corresponding decline in liberty, revealing a truth our founders understood intimately: without a foundation in Christian principles, the American experiment cannot endure.
The evidence surrounds us, literally carved in stone throughout our capital city. From the Jefferson Memorial's declaration that "Almighty God hath created the mind free" to the Washington Monument's cap inscribed with "Praise be to God," our national monuments testify to a heritage deeply rooted in Christian faith. These aren't isolated references but consistent expressions of the worldview that shaped our founding documents and institutions.
For eight decades since the 1947 Everson v. Board of Education decision, we've witnessed a systematic separation of God from state—not merely church from state as commonly misunderstood. This separation has coincided with cultural degradation and governmental overreach that would have horrified the founders. They understood that without citizens governed by internal moral principles, external laws alone cannot preserve freedom.
The path forward requires what I call "trickle-up faith"—revival beginning not with legislation but with individual spiritual transformation. We must first change ourselves, then our marriages and families, before we can transform our communities and nation. This renewal starts with making daily time for God, studying Scripture, and prayer—not as desperate last resorts but as our first response to every challenge.
Join me in rediscovering America's soul and recommitting to the divine principles that made our nation exceptional. Together, we can rebuild that crucial relationship between God and country that alone can secure "the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity."
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Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope, back with another episode of the American Soul Podcast. Hope y'all are doing well, wherever y'all are, whatever part of the day you're in. I sure do appreciate y'all joining me, giving me a little bit of your time and attention, a little piece of your day. I will try and use it wisely. I will try and use it wisely. Hopefully it'll give us all some extra tools for our toolbox and hopefully it'll help us and our nations here in America and around the world turn back to God and Jesus Christ, even if just a little bit. For those of y'all who continue to share the podcast and tell others about it, thank you so much. For those of y'all who continue to pray for me and for the podcast, thank you Incredibly grateful for your prayers. And for those of y'all who are new to the podcast, I'm glad you're here. Hope you enjoy it. Hope you come back. Father, thank you for today. Thank you for you, father, and your Son, jesus Christ and your Holy Spirit. Thank you for your love and your mercy, your grace and your forgiveness. Thank you for those who have gone before us, who set such a great example for us. Who set such a great example for us. Help us to follow their example, to follow, most of all, the example of your son, jesus Christ, to follow his commands, to love you with our whole heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Help us to encourage one another, to strengthen one another. Be with those who are listening to the podcast, wherever they are, across the nation, here in America and around the world. Be with their families, father. Guide us, protect us, surround us with your angels, forgive us our sins. Help us to do your will each day. Be with the widow and the orphan. Help us to care for them. Help us to love mercy, to act justly and to walk humbly before you. Be with our leaders, both in the state and in the pulpit. Guide them. Be with their families, their wives, their children. Help us to elect men who rule in fear of you, father, help us to turn back to you. Be with those in our military, in our law enforcement, in our firefighters, ems. Protect them, keep them safe. Those who protect us, father, give them a strong faith, give them wisdom and courage. And God, my words here, father, please, in your son's name. We pray Amen. Have you made time for God? And God, my words here, father, please, in your son's name, we pray Amen. Have you made time for God today? Have you made time to read his word? Have you made time to pray, to talk to him?
Speaker 1:You know, so often we have to get to the point. It seems like these days, and maybe this has been true throughout human history but we have to get to the point where we don't have any other option left, where there's nothing else that we we can't even think of anything else to do before we turn to God and just through desperation, right, like, okay, god, I was kidding before, but now I really need you, instead of turning with that intensity and that fervor, that desperation, even as our first option. And that's not to say that God didn't give us a brain, folks. It's not to say that we shouldn't use the talents that God gave us. We absolutely should, but they're not mutually exclusive. We can go out and work hard and still talk to God as our primary source of guidance and what we need to do Right. We can use our brain to try and solve the problems in front of us and still turn to God in prayer as our primary solution. We've been pretending we could do this on our own for a long time now, in fact.
Speaker 1:I stumbled across a really interesting quote from US House of Representatives from 1854. Us House of Representatives from 1854. The great, vital element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure doctrines and divine truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ. The vital element in our system right, there are so many others that have made similar quotes that here in America we have to depend on God and Jesus Christ, otherwise we don't have liberty, folks, we can't have liberty without God and Jesus Christ. It just it won't happen and it's not. And we can see that today.
Speaker 1:The farther, particularly over the last 80 years, since 1947 and Everson versus Board of Education, right, where we tried to separate and did a pretty good job. The left really did a pretty good job of separating the state from God, not church and state, that's what they use. The phrase right, but separating God from the state. The farther we've gotten away from God, the farther we've gotten away from God, the farther we've gotten away from liberty. So it all comes back to us though, right, are we making time for God each day, or are we just saying that we do? And if we're married, does our spouse know it right. If the family is the cornerstone of the nation, as Reagan said, then the marriage is the cornerstone of the family. Do we act like it?
Speaker 1:Interesting conversation with a gentleman the other day. He's in his 80s now and we got to talking about children and spouses et cetera, and he made the comment that his, his grandparents, generation for sure, and his parents generation for sure, even into his generation for a while. If you ask them, you know, if you had to choose between your spouse and your child, who were you going to choose? And he said, up until that point, every single one of them would have he was pretty sure, without even any hesitation have chosen their spouse. And that's not the case today. We've been told that once you have kids, those kids become the priority and most people, whether out of true feelings or out of they don't want to rock the boat and they want everybody else. They don't want anybody else looking at them weird. Most people in our generation would say, oh, the kids for sure. You know I'd let my spouse go, whether you're talking about a physical event and saving them or not.
Speaker 1:But you know your spouse is the one, theoretically, that is your ride-or-die partner. They're the ones that have been there with you through the thick and the thin. They're the ones that are absolutely irreplaceable for you. Do we treat them like that? Do we treat our spouse as one out of 7 billion or whatever we're at now, I mean, because that's pretty rare treasure. Do we treat them like that? Each day?
Speaker 1:There's a host, a lady that I follow on X, and she made the comment that she said this is dangerous. Gentlemen, I just want to tell you that before I say it, she said that if your wife asks you, do I look fat? What they want is they want reassurance, they want comfort, they want to know that they don't have to change, that they're okay the way they are. And she said but you're really not helping them. If they are, if they've gotten overweight, you're not helping them at all to tell them what they want to hear, to say no, not at all. And of course, that goes against everything right that we learned today. She said if you really love your wife and you want to help them, you tell them yeah, you know, you've gained some weight. She said, of course, there's ways to do that, right, but, and she said, if the woman is really genuine about her respect for you or her love and the marriage and just herself. She said really he wants, she's going to want the truth and she's going to want to change with actions.
Speaker 1:And it got me to thinking and I know this is kind of jumping around on y'all, but so often, on both sides of the marriage, you hear people say that the marriage is about compromise. And that's true, folks. If it's, where do you want to go eat? What movie do you want to see tonight? What kind of car did we get? Even you can even compromise on where do you want to live? What kind of house do you want?
Speaker 1:Those are all great things to compromise on, but what we really say that with a lot of times are our God given roles and responsibilities Right, which is we talk about so often. It's super simple Husband and this is straight out of the Bible is supposed talk about so often. It's super simple Husband and this is straight out of the Bible is supposed to love, nourish, cherish their wife, wife is supposed to respect, submit to and physically satisfy their husband. You can go find them real quick Ephesians 5, 1 Corinthians 7, titus 2, 1 Peter 3, hebrews 13, 4, right, loyalty those areas that's not okay to compromise on.
Speaker 1:Because when you say, when you hear people say, well, he or she, they need to compromise with me, they need to meet in the middle, what they're really what they mean and what we really know they mean is, well, not on my needs, we're not going to compromise on that, but we need to compromise on his needs, or we need to compromise on her needs, right, and what that's really telling you is that they view their needs as needs, as true needs, as important, but not their spouse's. And then, really, you take that one step further easily and what it's telling you is they view themselves as important but not their spouse, right, all right, just make sure, folks, that you're not doing that. Make sure that you're not putting your own needs as more important than your spouse. If you want your spouse to treat your needs as important, think about it this way cleaning together sex, going for a walk, whatever it is that's important to your spouse.
Speaker 1:In your head, you bought into this modern narrative of, well, we need to compromise, we need to meet the middle. Okay, just think about it this way. If your spouse responded okay, you're right, we're going to compromise, you tell me what days you want me to fulfill my roles right. What days, for example, the husband, you want me to love and nourish and cherish you, or the wife, what days you want me to respect, submit to and physically satisfy you? Tell me what days you want to compromise. You know to do that, and then we'll do it. So Monday, wednesday, friday, we'll actually follow God's roles and responsibilities. But Tuesday and Thursday and the weekend we just get to do whatever we want to. Tuesday and Thursday and the weekend we just get to do whatever we want to. And then all of a sudden, compromise and meet in the middle doesn't sound as wonderful as the world has tried to make it sound.
Speaker 1:Like Right Titus 3, godly living. I need that reminder. Remind them to be subject to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good deed to malign no one, to be peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men. For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. But when the kindness of God, our Savior, and his love for mankind appeared, he saved us, not on the basis of deeds, which we have done in righteousness, but according to his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ, our Savior, so that, being justified by his grace, we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Speaker 1:This is a trustworthy saying statement and concerning these things, I want you to speak confidently, so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds. These things are good and profitable for men, but avoid foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. Reject the fastitious man after a first and second warning, knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning, being self-condemned. Personal concerns when I send Artemis or Tychus to you, make every effort to come to me at Nicopolis, where I have decided to spend the winter there, diligently. Help Zenos, the lawyer, and Apollos on their way so that nothing is lacking for them. So that nothing is lacking for them, our people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs, so that they will not be unfruitful. All who are with me greet you, greet those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all. So you go back up here to verse 2.
Speaker 1:How many of us follow this? To malign no one, to be peaceable gentle, showing every consideration for all men. At first blush that seems like well, that's going to be a lot harder for guys typically than girls, but it's really pretty brutal on both of us, right. With guys maybe it's more physical the peaceable gentle how many of us are that way, right? And then with girls, though, how many don't gossip about other girls behind their back? I can't tell you how often over the years my wife has talked about that comment about how vicious women can be versus guys. And 100% based on some of the stories that I've heard from her and seen in my own life, I agree. But again, how many of us do that? How many of us are ready for every good deed? How many of us malign no one? How many of us are peaceable, gentle, showing every consideration for all men, regardless of what they look like, where they're from, right.
Speaker 1:And then verse 3 is a pretty good warning, right, for we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, etc. Etc. But what happened to us? But when the kindness of God, our Savior, and his love for mankind appeared, he saved us, not on the basis of deeds, which we have done in righteousness but according to his mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out upon us richly. Through who? Through Jesus Christ, our Savior. Not through a pastor or a priest or a bishop or a cardinal or the pope, not through Joseph or Mary or the wise men or the thief on the cross or anybody since then, john Calvin, any reformer, not through any other person, but through Jesus Christ, our Savior, so that, being justified by his grace, we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. Folks, there's no path to eternal life that doesn't go through Jesus Christ alone. There's no like Jesus Christ plus right. Like sometimes you buy an app or you get something and it's whatever that app is called plus right. There's no Jesus plus, it's just Jesus. He's enough. He's all we need and we have to have all of him. This is a trustworthy statement.
Speaker 1:Concerning these things, I want you to speak confidently so that those who have believed God will be careful to engage in good deeds Again. With the good deeds, these things are good and profitable for men. Verse 9,. Almost every time I read this verse, it reminds me of the strife and the disputes between different denominations and how easily we let ourselves get really hurt when somebody doesn't agree with our particular denomination's doctrine. I can't tell you over the years how many times I've seen that. I see it constantly today, still on X.
Speaker 1:The number of people that spread lies out there. That you have to belong to their denomination in order to be saved. It's just astounding to me. Maybe it's all bots, I have no idea, but there's got to be a percentage of it. That's not. That are people that claim to follow Christ but then want to tell you if you don't belong to their particular club, you can't get in. The only club is Christianity folks. The only bouncer is Jesus Christ. Roman Catholics, orthodox, greek or otherwise, any of the various Protestant denominations you don't need any of them in order to get in to heaven, to eternal life and salvation. There's not a single one of them that you have to belong to in order to get in, and anybody that tells you that is not preaching you the gospel of Jesus Christ. What does he say about all this stuff, these controversies, the strife and the disputes? He says they're unprofitable and worthless. Maybe, just maybe, we ought to think about that a little bit more inside the church.
Speaker 1:And then verse 14, our people must also learn to engage in good deeds to meet pressing needs so that they will not be unfruitful. We have a gentleman and his wife at our church who recently went to an area where there's some flooding and worked there for a few days I don't know how long really, but that's the kind of action I think that God is looking for. You see, somebody has a need and you engage in good deeds to address that need. And you engage in good deeds to address that need. We had a group of young people from our church go out and do some shopping last year for Christmas presents I think I've talked about this on a podcast before For kids that didn't have a lot. That's meeting those needs.
Speaker 1:When you see somebody in your community, folks and you don't have to go across country, over oceans in order to find people that are in need. I promise there's people in your community wherever you are, across the nation it doesn't matter California, colorado, kansas, florida, louisiana, new York, colorado, kansas, florida, louisiana, new York, maine, wherever you are and around the world too, folks, whatever country you live in, whatever city you live in in that country, there's people there in that community, big or small, that need your help, that need your good deeds to address their needs and I'm talking to myself here too folks, good Lord for sure, all right, so I stumbled across something. Well, maybe we'll say that We'll either try and do it at the end of the podcast today or another day. So, one of the things, one of the main reasons right, I don't do a good job of really addressing the main reason for this podcast each day, addressing the main reason for this podcast each day but that is so that we as individuals turn back to God and Jesus Christ. Because if the nation's going to turn back, faith is definitely a trickle-up. It's not like trickle-down economics, right, it's trickle-up faith. You have to change yourself first before you can change your marriage. You have to change your marriage before you can change your family. You have to change your family before you can change your community or your school or your church. You have to change your local community or school or church before you can change your city as a whole or your state or your nation. Right, it's trickle up has to start with us and our personal relationship with God and Jesus Christ, and so that's as I said I don't talk about that, but that's got to be the point, right? It's one of the reasons we read through. We've started to this year Took me a while to figure that out but read through the Bible, parts of the Bible, each podcast. But the second part of that, the second kind of prong, if you will, about this podcast, is to re-educate, re-emphasize, rebuild that relationship between God and Jesus Christ and our nation, and I think there's a lot of people out there, I think there's more about that than there were a few years ago working on that, which is awesome. But that's really the second part of this American Soul podcast.
Speaker 1:But one of the things that the last 80 years, ever since again, everson versus Board of Education, which ought to be immediately overturned, was in this separation of church and state, which was really a separation of God and state decision, was in this separation of church and state, which was really separation of God and state decision. We have bought into this idea that Jesus Christ, the principles of Christ and God were never really associated with our nation and it's because the left has done such a bang up job of revising and destroying education, among other things, right, but there's a lot of really simple ways to see that that's just not true, that this idea that there wasn't this relationship, this divine relationship between Providence, god right and his son Jesus Christ, and our nation, that there wasn't that relationship there. One of them is just look at the fact that every single president has put their hand on the Bible on a particular verse when they took the oath of office. If we really wanted separation of God and state, not separation of church and state I beat that horse every day because it's not dead, folks, it's still alive and kicking If we really wanted separation of God and state, there's no way that our president, the leader of our nation, would put their hand on a Bible when they took the oath of office. There's no reason that our officers in the military are enlisted would end their oath with so help me, god, right. So there's a lot of little ways. There's no reason that our money would say in God we trust, and which, by the way, goes all the way back to the 1860s, not 1950s, like some people would try and say. And so those are just little examples.
Speaker 1:Well, another little example which is sometimes a big example, literally physically, are the monuments, and so I pulled some different information from different places. Again, american Patriots Bible by Dr Richard Lee, the Founders Bible edited by David Barton, brad Cummings, lance Wobbles, the Wall Builder Association and America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, william J Federer. Little bits of this are in different different ones of those. Some bits are in all three. But we're going to kind of go through some of the monuments in our nation, particularly in our capital, jefferson Memorial, some of the monuments in our nation, particularly in our capital, jefferson Memorial. It's on the south banks of the Washington, of the Tidal Basin in Washington DC, and these are some of Jefferson's words, own words, inscribed on the Jefferson Memorial right. So it's carved in there, which is great, because that makes it a lot harder Not impossible, sadly, folks but it makes it a lot harder for the left to come in and erase that.
Speaker 1:That's one of the things that made during COVID and the George Floyd debacle, the riots, the tearing down of statues. That's one of the things that's so dangerous about leftism, communism, socialism and Islam. That goes hand in glove with those is when you watch history. One of the things that they'll do the first things when they move in is they'll destroy history, they'll destroy monuments, they'll destroy parchments or historical texts, and the reason is is because if they can destroy it right? You see this, with China there's a great back and forth. It's dance troupe, it's not a dance troupe, acting troupe, and I can't remember the name of it, but they go around the world really trying to educate people through ballet about the true history of China, because they have this wonderful history right. But the Chinese, the Communist Party, they do not like that at all and they are brutal in their attacks on this company, to the point of calling other nations and saying, hey, you can't like Korea, you can't let these people perform, we're going to cause you all sorts of problems if you let them perform.
Speaker 1:Death threats etc. Kind of like Elon Musk and his team. The fact that Elon Musk and his team by the way, as a little side note the fact that they're getting death threats, ought to tell you all you need to know about the left and all you need to know about how corrupt our government has been and some of the people on the right that claim to be on the right but really aren't. You can't really claim to be on a side. I guess what you really ought to be labeled as is a traitor right to be on a side. I guess what you really ought to be labeled as is a traitor right. You hear people say a conservative in name only, or Christian in name only, or patriot in name only or whatever. You can't really be any of those things if you don't act like those things. You can't really be a Christian if you don't act like a Christian, you can't really be a conservative if you don't act like a conservative right. You can't really love America if you don't follow her founding faith and principles.
Speaker 1:So, thomas Jefferson, these are words that are inscribed in marble on the Jefferson Memorial. I think it's marble. Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burdens are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion. I think it's fascinating that Jefferson's one of the ones that the left always holds up as a deist, as not a Christian. And yet what does he say here, the holy author of our religion? He's talking about Christianity. Folks, no man shall suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and, by argument, to maintain their opinions in matters of religion. I know but one code of morality for men, whether acting singly or collectively, again, I know, but one code of morality Jesus Christ, god the Father. When they're talking about religion here, folks, they're talking about Christianity often, and when they're talking about they're and when they're talking about they're not going to suffer on their account of religious opinions, right? When they're talking about freedom of religion, what they're saying is that no man is going to be denied the ability to be a Methodist or a Baptist or a Catholic or an Orthodox or whatever denomination of Christianity they want to be, or whatever denomination of Christianity they want to be. They're not saying that Christianity is the same as Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism or atheism.
Speaker 1:Commerce between master and slave is despotism. Nothing is more certainly written in the book of life than that these people are to be free. Right, the book of life. You have your name in the book of life. So I choose to believe in Jesus Christ as the son of God, that God raised from the dead. He died for my sins and he's my only ticket pathway into heaven and eternal life. And so because of that, god tells me, I have my name written in the book of life. And Jefferson is here saying nothing is more certain than in that book of life. These people are to be free, these slaves. Again, a reference to God, the father of Jesus Christ. The precepts of philosophy and of the Hebrew code laid hold of actions. Only Jesus pushed his scrutinies into the heart of man, erected his tribunal in the regions of his thoughts and purified the waters at the fountainhead. All of this is carved into the Jefferson Memorial. Folks, I wonder how many of our students? I wonder how many of our students, I wonder how many of our graduating seniors this year know those quotes from the Jefferson Memorial. I wonder how many would be shocked that those quotes are carved into the Jefferson Memorial.
Speaker 1:One more quote by Jefferson. This isn't on the memorial, I don't think, but I thought it was fascinating because of the people that claim that he wanted separation of church and state, which is really separation of God and state right 1947, out of his private letter to a Baptist minister. It wasn't in the Constitution, separation of church and state. It's not in the Declaration and they certainly didn't mean separation of God and state at all. They would have been appalled. And Jefferson said deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.
Speaker 1:Talking about religion, there's another, I think a man named Winthrop, that said that, basically said that in other countries the state may support the religion, I think, but in ours it's religion that must support the state, and they're talking about Christianity. We don't have America, folks. I cannot emphasize this enough, especially if you're listening to the podcast and you don't have a lot of history on this subject. So there's a lot of pillars that hold up our nation, right Sort of, but it's like you go down level by level and at the bottom there's just one pillar that holds everything else up, and that's the principles of Jesus Christ. And so it's important to understand that mental picture of just this one pillar at the bottom, because all of the politicians that we elect, all the policy that we make, all the laws, doesn't matter what we do. If that pillar falls, everything falls right, like if you take the keystone out, then the whole arch collapses. So that's Jefferson, a lot of others. We may have to do this in more than one day.
Speaker 1:Lincoln Memorial, I think, if I can find it, yeah, so on the walls of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth. But what comes first Government of the people by the people, for the people, or under God? Because that's important. Under God comes first. If you had a whole nation made up of Adolf Hitlers right nation made up of Adolf Hitler's right, if you had a whole nation, say, of Nazis, and you had government of the people by the people for the people, not to mention the fact that it wouldn't last very long, it wouldn't be good folks, it wouldn't be good.
Speaker 1:Again, I use this, I talk about this so often it's like the Second Amendment Without the First Amendment, without people who follow. Because the First Amendment, again remember, is the ability to worship God, the Father of Jesus Christ, to be part of any denomination you want. It's not saying that you're not lowering the one true God down to the level of Allah or Buddhism or Hinduism or anything else, right? So the First Amendment you've got to have people that follow those general principles of Christ in order for the Second Amendment to be worth anything, because otherwise you're just giving guns to a lot of people with no morals. And if you don't have those unchanging morals of Jesus Christ. Right, you say. Well, I know people that don't believe in God and Jesus Christ, but they still have morals. If they really do, those morals are still based upon the principles of Christ, not their own making. Because if our morals are from our own making, then they can be one thing on Monday and a different thing on Thursday. Right, so this under God, again, it's a big deal On the right side of the Lincoln Memorial and we've read this recently, so I won't go back.
Speaker 1:But it's Lincoln's second inaugural address, which I didn't know this, but it contains. It mentions God 14 times and quotes the Bible twice. It's not that long. And that's there at the Lincoln Memorial again. Right, and I think this is a conclusion, maybe right, some of y'all remember we just talked about it. I should remember, but there are too many things bouncing around my head, With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. Let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations On the North Wall, right? I think it's the North Wall. Yeah, so this is another part of the Second and Outer World Trust, as was said 3,000 years ago. So it still must be said, the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. All right, I think we got time for one more Right? Maybe Washington? Let's see. There's a number of others. We'll come back and do some more, but I want to try and get to Washington.
Speaker 1:Little side note here this is not the Washington Monument, but on the rear wall of Washington's tomb are engraved verses from chapter 11 of John I am the resurrection and the life. Saith the Lord. He that believeth in me, though he were dead yet, shall he live. And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Eternal life through Jesus Christ alone. Washington Monument, 550 feet a little over, engraved on the metal cap at the top praise be to God. A number of verses carved or inscribed on the stairway at different points. So for the little children to come unto me and forbid them not, for such is the kingdom of God, luke 18, 16. Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22.6. Search the Scriptures, john 5.39, acts 17.11. Holiness unto the Lord, exodus 28.36, 39.30, and Zechariah 14.20. In God. We trust God and our native land. May heaven to this union continue its beneficence, all of these Washington Monument in DC and our capital.
Speaker 1:We'll do some more, maybe on the next podcast, but you see, folks, just a little bit of knowledge, and how many? Again, I ask the question and you can figure out the answer yourself. How many of our students across the nation that graduate from high school are aware? If you ask them about inscriptions of God, even if you let them into the question, you said hey, are there any inscriptions about God on these monuments that we've built around our nation's capital in particular, not to mention sculptures in different places across the country? We'll try and talk about one of those in particular tomorrow maybe or the next day, but are you aware of them? Do you know that they put God on these statues? Do you know these quotes from Thomas Jefferson? Do you know these Bible verses that they used in the Washington Monument? Do you know these comments about God in the Lincoln Memorial? How many students would say yes? How many of us as adults would say yes, and yet we've bought into this separation of God and state nonsense from the left.
Speaker 1:There's no way, folks, there's no absolute. You don't have quotes from the Quran from Muslims. You don't have quotes from atheism, from socialism, communism, from Marx or Lenin. You don't have quotes from Hindu or Buddha. Hindu or Buddha.
Speaker 1:Certainly, if they are some up there, folks, that I'm unaware of, because Lord knows, I don't know all the quotes that we've carved in the different monuments up there there is absolutely not this consistent pattern of going back to God and Jesus Christ in our country, regardless of those monuments, even if you took the monuments out. When you go back and you look at the commentary, the text of our presidents, our leaders, our Supreme Court justices, you see that this was born as a Christian nation. And I go back to that one pillar analogy. There's no way, folks, however good your life is right now, however satisfied you are I guess we're never really satisfied, right but however comfortable you are, your house, your land, your cars, whatever else you want to include in there, all of that stuff is in peril if we lose liberty, and we can't maintain liberty without maintaining that relationship between God and Jesus Christ. I'll try and read this again. I think this is off of a different Washington monument. Maybe Maybe it's part of the Washington Monument in DC, but it's a quote from Washington.
Speaker 1:We've read here multiple times on the podcast no people can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than those of the United States, above all other nations in this world. Folks, we have a responsibility, because of the blessings that God has bestowed upon us, to adore God and strive to follow his commands. And again, it's trickle up faith. Strive to follow the commands in yourself, in your marriage, in your family, community, right, church, schools, churches I already said, churches. Trickle up. God bless y'all. God bless your families. God bless your marriages, if you're married. God bless America. God bless your nation, wherever you are around the world. Listen, folks, we'll talk to y'all again real soon, looking forward to it.