We Cannot Keep Liberty Without Turning Back To Christ

A single headline can shake you, but a whole pile of them can start to numb you. We start by going back to Psalm 119, where God’s justice is called eternal and His instructions are perfectly true, then we test that claim against the pressure points people feel right now: fear, anger, and the sense that leaders keep getting the basics wrong. Along the way, we talk through two brutal news reports tied to sexual violence and immigration policy, and I share why I think a nation cannot ignore law, borders, and victim protection without paying a serious moral price. 

Then we shift to something just as practical and personal: marriage. I read 1 Corinthians 7:3–6 and keep it plain, because Scripture is plain. Mutual responsibility, mutual authority, agreement, and a warning about temptation are all right there, and bad teaching in this area doesn’t just confuse people, it damages homes. From there we read John 19 and sit with the cross, fulfilled prophecy, and the words that change everything: “It is finished.” 

We close with American Christian heritage, honoring a Medal of Honor recipient and looking at presidential oath-of-office Bible passages from Benjamin Harrison and Dwight D. Eisenhower. My point is simple: policies and elections won’t save a country that won’t return to God. If this brought clarity or conviction, subscribe, share the episode, and leave a review so more people can find it.

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Transcript

Psalm 119 On True Justice

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Psalm 119 Starting with verse 142. Your justice is eternal and your instructions are perfectly true. As pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in your commands. Your laws are always right. Help me to understand them, so I may live.

Kentucky Crime And Border Failures

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July twenty twenty-five. Amandor Martinez, Moorhead, Kentuck, Kentucky. Fifteen-year-old boy was murdered. And his mother was attempted rape. Sister was assaulted with a firearm.

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Martinez shot the boy three times, killing him when he tried to defend his mother from being raped. Then assaulted his teenager's sister with a firearm. The mother sustained bite wounds and other injuries while fighting him off. Martinez is a Mexican national who illegally entered the U.S., attempted injury three times in 2021, succeeded on the third. People that support illegal and mass Muslim immigration, folks, this is what they support, regardless of what they say.

Welcome And Listener Thanks

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Hey folks, this is Jesse Coke back with another episode of the American Soul Podcast. Hope y'all are doing well wherever y'all are. I sure do appreciate y'all joining me, giving me a little piece of your day. For those of y'all who continue to share the podcast with others and tell others about it, thank you for those of y'all who leave reviews, who share the countryside book series, or who have started to join us on the Sister Podcast, America's Christian Heritage, which we ought to be putting another episode out on the 25th of this month. We talked in the last one, we talked about early colonial pre-revolution education in America. We're going to talk some more about that and dig into some of our Ivy League colleges, I think, this time and their foundings. At any rate, and for those of y'all who continue to pray for me and for the podcast, thank you very, very much. Very grateful for your prayers.

Prayer For Families And Leaders

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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. Father, thank you for the people that listen to the podcast and share it. Please be with them, be with our families. Bless their marriages, their children, their nation. Comfort any who have anxiety, stress, doubts, fears. Help us to turn to you, Father. Help us to trust you and not to lean on our own understanding. Please keep us on the narrow path all the way home to you. Please be with our leaders in the pulpit and in the state. Give them wisdom and courage and a strong faith. Be with the families of our military and our law enforcement firefighters, EMS, who have died in particular. All of them, Father, but those who have lost husbands, brothers, sons, fathers, please comfort them.

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Surround them with your angels, protect them from evil. Guide us, Lord, in all that we do.

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God, my words here, please. Your son's name we pray. Amen.

Marriage Intimacy From 1 Corinthians

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John, actually, marriage verses for today, 1 Corinthians 7, 3 through 6. The husband should meet his wife's sexual needs, and the wife should do the same for her husband. The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Don't refuse to meet each other's needs unless you both agree for a short period of time to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come back again, together again, so that Satan might not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. I'm saying this to give you permission. It's not a command. You don't have to abstain. You can if you both agree, but you have to both agree and only for a short period of time to give yourselves over to prayer. And some of the translations say fasting. Folks, if if people are telling you different than this, and this is just one example that we read of the marriage verses in the Bible, right? God's clear commands, but if they're teaching you something other than this, they're they're leading you astray. And they're going to hurt your marriage and your relationship.

John 19 And The Cross

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John 19, 23 through 42. When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they divided his clothes among the four of them. They also took his robe, but it was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom. So they said, Rather than tearing it apart, let's throw dice for it. This fulfilled the scripture that says they divided my garments among themselves and threw dice for my clothing. So that is what they did. Standing near the cross were Jesus' mother and his mother's sister Mary, the wife of Clopus and Mary Magdalene. When Jesus saw his mother standing there beside the disciple he loved, he said to her, Dear woman, here is your son. And he said to this disciple, Here is your mother. And from then on, this disciple took her into his home. Jesus knew that his mission was now finished, and to fulfill scripture, he said, I am thirsty. A jar of sour wine was sitting there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put it on a hyssop branch, and held it up to his lips. When Jesus had tasted it, he said, It is finished. Then he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. It was the day of preparation, and the Jewish leaders didn't want the bodies hanging there the next day, which was the Sabbath, and a very special Sabbath because it was the Passover week. So they asked Pilate to hasten their dead deaths by ordering that their legs be broken. Then their bodies could be taken down, so the soldiers came and broke the legs of the two men crucified with Jesus. But when they came to Jesus they saw that he was already dead, so they didn't break his legs. One of the soldiers, however, pierced his side with a spear, and immediately blood and water flowed out. This report is from an eyewitness giving an accurate account. He speaks the truth so that you also may continue to believe. These things happened at fulfillment of the scriptures that say not one of his bones will be broken, and they will look on the one they pierced. Afterward, Joseph of Arimathea, who had been a secret disciple of Jesus because he feared the Jewish leaders, asked Pilate for permission to take down Jesus' body. When Pilate gave permission, Joseph came and took the body away. With him came Nicodemus, the man who had come to Jesus at night. He brought about seventy five pounds of perfumed ointment made from myrrh and aloes. Following Jewish burial custom, they wrapped Jesus' body with the spices and long sheets of linen cloth. The place of crucifixion was near a garden, where there was a new tomb never used before, and so because it was the day of preparation for the Jewish Passover, and since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

Psalm 119 And Proverbs On Righteous Rule

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Psalm 119, 129 through 152, pay. Your laws are wonderful. No wonder I obey them. The teaching of your word gives light, so even the simple can understand. I pant with expectation longing for your commands. Come and show me your mercy, as you do for all who love your name. Guide my steps by your word, so I will not be overcome by evil. Ransom me from the oppression of evil people. Then I can obey your commandments. Look upon me with love. Teach me your decrees. Rivers of tears gush from my eyes because people disobey your instructions. O Lord, you are righteous and your regulations are fair. Your laws are perfect and completely trustworthy. I am overwhelmed with indignation, for my enemies have disregarded your words. Your promises have been thoroughly tested. That is why I love them so much. I am insignificant and despised, but I don't forget your commandments. Your justice is eternal and your instructions are perfectly true. As pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in your commands. Your laws are always right. Help me to understand them so I may live. I pray with all my heart, answer me, Lord. I will obey your decrees. I cry out to you, rescue me that I may obey your laws. I rise early before the sun is up, I cry out for help and put my hope in your words. I stay awake through the night thinking about your promise. And your faithful love, O Lord, hear my cry, let me be revived by following your regulations. Lawless people are coming to attack me, they live far from your instructions. But you are near, O Lord, and all your commands are true. I have known from my earliest days that your laws will last forever. Proverbs 16, 12 and 13. A king detests wrongdoing, for his rule is built on justice. The king is pleased with words from righteous lips. He loves those who speak honestly. A lot of good stuff there, folks, in Psalm 119, that section we read today.

Books Reviews And Supporting The Show

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If you are looking for a family-friendly middle grade, read kind of along the lines of Narnia or The Hobbit, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Fablehaven. Hopefully, though, that has uh at least more than a lot of modern examples, a pretty good bent toward faith and family. If you would check out the Countryside series, there's two books in it: The Book of the Wise and The Tears of Medina. You can find them hardback, paperback, ebook, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, pretty much anywhere. And if you enjoy them, if you'd leave a review somewhere, those reviews, especially the five-star ones, help a great deal. Same thing for the podcast, uh, both The American Soul and the American America's Christian Heritage Podcast. If you're enjoying them, getting something out of them, if you'd leave a review, I would appreciate that a great deal. And if you have five or ten dollars a month, the cost of a cup of coffee that helps immensely keep the uh podcasts and the writing going. So thank you for any or all of those. And if you leave a review for either of the podcasts or either of the two books, or drop me a line, let me know. I'd love to read some good ones on the on the podcast if you're interested in that. So, or just drop us a note on the podcast in general.

UK Assault Case And Asylum Hotels

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May 23rd, sometime between May 23rd and June 12th, 2025, Horley, Surrey. Um Aswad, 26-year-old Syrian Muslim national and asylum seeker residing at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel, which is an asylum accommodation in Hori at the time. Goodness gracious, folks. We have homeless veterans in both the UK and the USA. We have so many of our own that need help. And we're putting these illegal and mass Muslim immigrants up in hotels like the Four Points by Sheraton. He fled Syria in 2018, entered the UK. More recently, he committed three separate sexual assaults on three different women while cycling past them.

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Traumatized the victims. All he got was a six-month prison term.

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We're giving away our wives and daughters, granddaughters, grandsons to illegals and Muslims that hate our nation, folks. And the people that are already here that hate our nation. Medal

Medal Of Honor And Oaths On The Bible

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of Honor winner for today, Abel C. G. Cadwalleter, Corporal, highest rank sergeant, U.S. Civil War, Hotel Company, 1st Maryland Infantry, U.S. Army, February 6th, 1865. Hatcher's Run and Dabney's Mills, Virginia. Gallantly planted the colors on the enemy's works in advance of the arrival of his regiment. Accredited to Frederick, Maryland, not awarded posthumously, presented January 5th, 1897. Born 1841, Baltimore, Maryland, died July 6, 1907, Baltimore, Maryland. Buried Loudoun Park Cemetery, YYTAC 1006, Tech 1007, Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Abel G. Cadwallader. One of those names, folks, we need to add to the ever-growing list, right? I'm going to read a couple of presidential oath of office. Bible verses, right? When you hear somebody tell you that we're a secular nation, uh, you can just point to the fact that all of our presidents have put their hand on the Bible from Washington, right? And not the Quran, not some Buddhist or Hindu book. Um the Bible. And and anyone, folks, just a little side note here, because we've started to have some officials in the United States, supposed officials, that have put their hands on books other than the Bible when they take the oath of office, those are uh irrelevant. And those those offices are not valid. It doesn't do any good to swear to an imposter because there's no no truth required there. There's no it's not binding in any way. It's like swearing on a rock or a piece of wood or a random light pole on a street. Benjamin Harrison, oath of office from 1889, Psalm 121, 1 through 6. God, the help of those who seek him. I will lift up my face, I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence comes my help. My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper, the Lord is your shade at your right hand, the sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve you from all evil, he shall preserve your soul, the Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in from this time forth and even forevermore. Benjamin Harrison, presidential oath of office 1889. Dwight D. Eisenhower, presidential oath of office 1953, put his hands on Psalm 127.1 and 2 Chronicles 7.14. Psalm 127.1, unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the Lord guards the city. The watchman stays awake in vain. It

Rebuilding A Nation Around Christ

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doesn't do us any good, folks, in America. It doesn't matter who we elect, it doesn't matter what policies we enact. If we don't put God and Jesus Christ back at the center of our nation, nothing else we do matters. You can't have liberty outside of a Christian society. You can't have high trust society without a Christian people. Every society across the globe, doesn't matter what the ethnicity or background, religion, ideology is, the degree to which they enjoy freedom or liberty or trust is based on the degree, how close they follow the principles of Christ. Even if they don't know it, even if it's a principle that somehow has gotten into Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism or, you know, in some shocking sense, Marxism or leftism of some kind, any degree of liberty or freedom or trust is directly correlated to how much of Jesus Christ they have in that society. And 2 Chronicles 7.14. Both of those again, Dwight D. Eisenhower, presidential oath of office, 1953. We have no idea what God's got in store for us, folks, but it will be better, exponentially better, in any case, if we will turn away from our wickedness, turn back to God, beg his forgiveness and his mercy. 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 and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen. God bless y'all. God bless your families, your marriages, your children if you have them, your nation, wherever you are around the world listening. God bless America. We'll talk to y'all again real soon, folks. Looking forward to it.