Columbus, Covenant, and the Heart’s True North

We explore how to love a spouse through daily priorities, read Hebrews 12 with reverence and hope, and reconsider Columbus by turning to his own words rather than slogans. Prayer frames the hour, courage steadies it, and gratitude keeps the center firm.

• valuing your spouse’s priorities as daily practice
• Hebrews 12 on peace, holiness, and awe
• Psalms and Proverbs on praise, character, and desire
• Medal of Honor vignette on rallying what falters
• reading Columbus’s Book of Prophecies firsthand
• challenging simplified Indigenous and Columbus narratives
• takeaways on gratitude, obedience, and steady love

If you enjoy it, leave a review. If you feel like you can donate three or four or five bucks each month to the podcast, you can do that on the Buzz Sprout website

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome, Thanks, and Opening Prayer
• 2:38 Marriage Priorities and Daily Faithfulness
• 4:38 Schedule Shuffle and Columbus Week Setup
• 5:23 Hebrews 12: Peace, Holiness, and Awe
• 8:09 Psalms and Proverbs: Character and Desire
• 10:45 Medal of Honor Moment: H. H. Bingham
• 12:06 Reframing Columbus and Indigenous Narratives
• 13:26 Columbus’s Book of Prophecies Excerpts
• 18:35 Takeaways: Follow Christ, Gratitude, Resolve
• 19:30 Closing: Support, The Lord’s Prayer, Blessing

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:02

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. Sure do appreciate you spending a little bit of time here with me. I know you have other things vying for your attention. So thank you. For those of y'all who continue to pray for me and for the podcast, thank you. Very grateful for that. For those of y'all who continue to share the podcast with others and tell others about it, thank you. Very, very grateful for you spreading the word. 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 of sins. Through the merit of your son, Jesus Christ alone. Thank you for the people listening to the podcast. Please be with them. Be with their families. God and bless them. Surround them with your angels. Protect them from evil of any kind. Father, be with those who have addictions.

SPEAKER_01: 1:08

Whether it's food or drugs or sex, pornography, alcohol, money, thing. Gossip. Help us to break free of those addictions with your strength, Father. Give us your strength. Give us perseverance. Help us to appreciate those people that you put in our lives. Father. Help us to love them. As you love us. Love our neighbors as ourselves. Forgive us when we fail.

SPEAKER_00: 1:59

Forgive us when we go back to the same failings, the same sins over and over again, Father. Help us to overcome them. Help us to pick ourselves back up, or let you pick us back up. And keep stumbling forward, keep running the race until the very end, all the way home to you. And help us to store up for ourselves treasures there with you, Father, in heaven.

SPEAKER_01: 2:26

Not here on earth. And God no words, Father, please. In your son's family pray.

SPEAKER_00: 2:35

Amen. Stumbled across across a couple of great things. Uh article out of the Epic Times was one of them, and then a commentator that I follow online talking about relationships, marriage, and actually a couple commentators online recently. Folks, the the bottom line in a marriage is that whatever's important to our spouse ought to be equally important to us. And it it ought to be at least as important to us as our own thing is, whatever that is. And it doesn't it doesn't matter what it is, folks. That's that's irrelevant. It could be sitting and talking, holding hands, going for a walk, it could be cooking together, working out together, hunting together, going for a ride in a car together. It could be sex. I mean, it it can be any number of things, folks. Whatever it is that's important to your spouse ought to be as important to you as what's important to you, if that makes sense. However much you value your important things, you ought to value your spouses. And it ought to be an everyday thing, folks. Whatever it is. And if you don't know what it is, you need to figure out. And if you know what it is and you aren't doing it, you need to, as we used to say in the Marine Corps, you need to fix yourself. Square yourself away. We're gonna jump into the Bible verses today. And I'm gonna go ahead and tell you I got a little out of order on the next few podcasts, so forgive me. Somehow, I let Columbus Day stumble upon us without having put together the notes and the time for the podcast like we do each year. We spend about a week on the podcast, and so we're gonna start today. But that means I had to shuffle some other podcasts around. Uh, so forgive me for that. We'll come back to them, I promise. So we're gonna skip ahead to Hebrews twelve fourteen through twenty-nine, and we will start there. Work at living in peace with everyone, and work at living a holy life, for those who are not holy will not see the Lord. Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God. Watch out that no poisonous root of bitterness grows up to trouble you, corrupting many. Make sure that no one is immoral or godless like Esau, who traded his birthright as the firstborn son for a single meal. You know that afterward, when he wanted his father's blessing, he was rejected. It was too late for repentance, even though he begged with bitter tears. You have not come to a physical mountain, to a place of flaming fire, darkness, gloom, and whirlwind, as the Israelites did at Mount Sinai. For they heard an awesome trumpet blast and a voice so terrible that they begged God to stop speaking. They staggered back under God's command. If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned to death. Moses himself was so frightened at the sight that he said, I am terrified and trembling. No, you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to countless thousands of angels in a joyful gathering. You have come to the assembly of God's firstborn children, whose names are written in heaven. You have come to God Himself, who is the judge over all things. You have come to the spirits of the righteous ones in heaven, who have now been made perfect. You have come to Jesus, the one who mandates the new covenant between God and people, and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks of forgiveness instead of crying out for vengeance like the blood of Abel. Be careful that you do not refuse to listen to the one who is speaking. For if the people of Israel did not escape when they refused to listen to Moses, the earthly messenger, we will certainly not escape if we reject the one who speaks to us from heaven. When God spoke from Mount Sinai, his voice shook the earth, but now he makes another promise. Once again I will shake not only the earth but the heavens also. This means that all of creation will be shaken and removed, so that only unshakable things will remain. Since we are receiving a kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe. For our God is a devouring fire. Yes, give praise, O servants of the Lord, praise the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord now and forever. Everywhere from east to west, praise the name of the Lord. For the Lord is high above the nations. His glory is higher than the heavens. Who can be compared with the Lord our God, who is enthroned on high? He stoops to look down on heaven and on earth, he lifts the poor from the dust and the needy from the garbage up. He sets them among princes, even the princes of his own people. He gives the childless woman a family, making her a happy mother. Praise the Lord. When the Israelites escaped from Egypt, when the family of Jacob left that foreign land, the land of Judah became God's sanctuary, and Israel became his kingdom. The Red Sea saw them coming and hurried out of their way. The water of the Jordan River turned away. The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. What's wrong, Red Sea that made you hurry out of their way? What happened, Jordan River, that you turned away? Why mountains did you skip like rams? Why hills like lambs? Tremble earth at the presence of the Lord. At the presence of the God of Jacob. He turned the rock into a pool of water, yes, a spring of water flowed from solid rock. Proverbs twenty seven verse eighteen through twenty. As workers who tend the fig tree are allowed to eat its fruit, so workers who protect their employers' interests will be rewarded. As a face is reflected in water, so the heart reflects the real person. Just as death and destruction are never satisfied, so human desire is never satisfied. You really want to see who the real person is in front of you, watch their actions, because that reflects their heart, right? And that gives you an idea of the person's true character. You go back to Hebrews 12, 28, 29. Since we are receiving a kingdom that is unshakable, let us be thankful and please God by worshiping him with holy fear and awe, for our God is a devouring fire. We ought to be pretty fearful, folks. We ought to be concerned about pleasing God. We ought to be asking, because he promises that he'll help us when we ask. We ought to be asking to do his will each day, turning to him. And there ought to be some fear there, folks. There ought to be. May 6, 1864, Wilderness Campaign, Virginia, USA. Rallied and led into action a portion of the troops who had given way under the fierce assaults of the enemy. Accredited to Canyonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, not awarded posthumously, presented August 31st, 1893. Born December 4th, 1841, Philadelphia, died March 22nd, 1912, Philadelphia. Buried Laurel Hill Cemetery, Wi-Tac 195, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Henry Harrison Bingham. So each year, as I mentioned earlier, we delve into Christopher Columbus and his actual writings. There's some great excerpts from America's God and Country Encyclopedia of Quotations, William J. Federer. There's also some pretty good excerpts out of the American Patriots Bible and American Founders, or the Founders Bible by the Wall Builder Association. And then, of course, there's the books that Columbus from his notes had some other histories that people have done. But the modern narrative that we see in education so often today that Columbus came to the Americally to rape, pillage, plunder just doesn't match with the actual history. And the also the other flip side, right? Indigenous People's Day, we're going to talk about the Indigenous people, but it's not going to be quite in the way that so many academics and leftists want us to talk about it. We're going to talk about the actual history, the fact, for example, that there were cannibals on these islands and the atrocities that they committed, which kind of breaks down the narrative that the indigenous people lived this utopic lifestyle until the Americans got there or the Europeans. But at any rate, we we're going to go through this week and we're going to read some actual history. So we're going to start today. This is out of the Book of Prophecies, Libro de los Profitius. Probably said that wrong. For more than forty years I have sailed everywhere that people go. I prayed to the most merciful Lord about my heart's great desire, and he gave me the spirit and intelligence for the task. Seafaring, astronomy, geometry, arithmetic, skill in drafting spherical maps, and placing correctly the city's rivers, mountains, and ports. I also studied cosmology, history, chronology, and philosophy. It was the Lord who put into my mind I could feel his hand upon me, the fact that it would be possible to sell from here to the Indies. All who'd heard of my project rejected it with laughter, ridiculing me. There is no question that the inspiration was from the Holy Spirit because he comforted me with rays of marvelous illumination from the Holy Scriptures, a strong and clear testimony from the forty-four books of the Old Testament, from the four gospels, and from the twenty-three epistles of the Blessed Apostles. Encouraging me continually to press forward, and without ceasing for a moment, they now encourage me to make haste. Our Lord Jesus desired to perform a very obvious miracle in the voyage to the Andis to comfort me and the whole people of God. I spent seven years in the royal court discussing the matter with many persons of great reputation and wisdom in all the arts, and in the end they concluded that it was all foolishness, so they gave it up. But since things generally came to pass that were predicted by our Savior Jesus Christ, we should also believe that this particular prophecy will come to pass. In support of this I offer the gospel text, Matthew 24 25, in which Jesus said that all things would pass away, but not his marvelous word. He affirmed that it was necessary that all things be fulfilled, that were prophesied by himself and by the prophets. I said that I would state my reasons. I hold alone to the sacred and holy scriptures, and to the interpretations of prophecy given by certain devout persons. It is possible that those who see this book will accuse me of being unlearned in literature, of being a layman and a sailor. I reply with the words of Matthew 11 25, Lord, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hath revealed them unto babes. The Holy Scriptures testify in the Old Testament by our Redeemer Jesus Christ that the world must come to an end. The signs of when this must happen are given by Matthew, Mark, and Luke. The prophets also predicted many things about it. Our Redeemer Jesus Christ said that before the end of the world all things must come to pass that had been written by the prophets. The prophets wrote in various ways. Isaiah is one most praised by Jerome, Augustine, and by other theologians. They all say that Isaiah was not only a prophet, but an evangelist as well. Isaiah goes into great detail in describing future events and in calling all people to our holy Catholic faith. Most of the prophecies of Holy Scripture have been fulfilled already. I am a most unworthy sinner, but I have cried out to the Lord for grace and mercy, and they have covered me completely. I have found the sweetest consolations since I made it my whole purpose to enjoy his marvelous present. For the execution of the journey to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics, or maps. It is simply the fulfillment of what Isaiah had prophesied. All this is what I desire to write down for you in this book. No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Savior if it is just and if the intention is purely for his holy service. The working out of all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord, but it all happens according to his sovereign will, even though he gives advice. He lacks nothing that it is in the power of men to give him. Oh, what a gracious Lord who desires that people should perform for him those things which he holds himself responsible. Day and night, moment by moment, everyone should express to him their most devoted gratitude. I said that some of the prophecies remained yet to be fulfilled. These are great and wonderful things for the earth, and the signs are that the Lord is hastening the end. The fact that the gospel must still be preached to so many lands in such a short time, this is what convinces me. If nothing else, folks, you ought to see the very consistent desire of Columbus to do God's will, to follow his Savior, Jesus Christ, who is also my Savior, Jesus Christ. And if you claim Christ as your Savior, that ought to be our goal each day. He wasn't perfect. I'm the farthest thing from perfect. And you're not perfect either, folks. I hate to break it to you. But God, in his mercy and grace, has given us eternity with him because of his son. And we ought to be grateful above all else for that and to strive to do his will every day. If you get a check chance, if you would check out Countryside, I would appreciate it. If you enjoy it, leave a review. If you feel like you can donate three or four or five bucks each month to the podcast, you can do that on the Buzz Sprout website. I would appreciate that. I think that's it. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not to temptation, but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory forever and ever.

unknown: 20:03

Amen.

SPEAKER_00: 20:04

God bless y'all. God bless your families. God bless your marriages. God bless America. God bless your nation, wherever you are around the world. Listen, folks, we'll talk to you all again real soon. Looking forward to it.