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Truths That Transform | D. James Kennedy;Rob Pacienza - The Faith of Washington | February 24, 2025
- After four bleak years,
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- Things are changing in our nation's capital.
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- But that's not by accident.
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- It's a result of people just like you
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- Who have put their christian faith into action.
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- Find out more, on truths that transform.
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- Welcome to truths that transform,
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- A production of coral ridge ministries, where we are
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- I'm pastor rob pacienza.
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- After four difficult years
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- When christian priorities were not only put aside,
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- But actively thwarted by the government,
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- There seems to be a breath of fresh air in washington, d.c.
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- That's because, rather than being
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- Intimidated or discouraged,
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- Christians faithfully stood their ground.
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- There are times when it's easy to be discouraged
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- And there are times when god lets us
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- See some of the fruit of our labors.
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- On today's program, you'll discover the faith
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- Of america's greatest leader and
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- It's not the story you've been taught in our modern schools.
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- And we begin with a look at the necessity and
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- Power of christian involvement in the political realm.
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- The idea that christians should cloister
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- In their church buildings and leave other institutions
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- To the world is not biblical.
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- When christians take seriously their calling to bring
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- The lordship of christ to bear in every sphere of life,
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- Amazing things can happen.
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- Here's our own christina vidal with more.
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- Some people think that christians shouldn't be involved
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- In politics to them, i say, why is that?
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- I think that christians should be
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- Involved in every sphere of culture.
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- If we don't show up,
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- We don't have the opportunity to be influential.
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- And just like in culture and entertainment,
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- In education or any other sphere with politics
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- Christians have a seat at the table and should be
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- Proclaiming the gospel news in every sphere of culture.
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- For centuries, the united states has led the way
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- As a beacon of hope for all nations
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- Who seek freedom, prosperity, and peace.
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- And as we begin this new political cycle,
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- The need for spiritual renewal and restoration
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- Is greater than ever, but without godly leadership
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- Political strength inevitably falls short.
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- Politics really reflects morality.
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- Some people don't agree with that.
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- But we know that politics is downstream from culture,
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- And culture is shaped by your worldview, whether
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- That's a christian worldview or a different worldview.
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- We all come to culture and then politics
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- Through what we internally believe at our core.
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- We need to raise the judeo-christian vision
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- Of the calling to christian statesmanship,
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- The vision of service,
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- The nobility of it, that god is involved,
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- That there are values and ethics that he has given us,
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- That there are guidelines
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- For leadership that can transform a society.
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- A christian statesman is someone who not only
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- Lives their faith internally, but does so publicly.
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- So in their role in government, in their role in leadership,
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- They're living out their faith in a way that's public,
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- That other people can see
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- And it impacts the way they vote,
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- It impacts the way that they interact with their constituency
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- And it impacts the way that they govern.
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- We, as the center for christian statesmanship,
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- Have the opportunity to equip and
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- Train up the next generation of christian leaders
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- And that's one of the reasons that d james kennedy
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- With a cultural mandate that says,
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- You can reclaim the culture and arts
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- And entertainment and government and family
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- And communication and sports,
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- And you can be a godly witness in every one of these areas,
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- That christ is king over it all.
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- That jesus didn't say go into world and preach the gospel
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- Every, oh, but don't get involved in government.
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- That's like this invisible line. don't get involved.
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- No, he thought it was going to be yeast and
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- It was going to go everywhere, including government.
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- And these godly principles would change the world.
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- One man who changed the world was william wilberforce
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- Elected to british parliament at the age of 21,
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- The young and well-to-do wilberforce
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- Experienced a life-changing transformation
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- After being exposed to the gospel.
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- One of the fascinating aspects of the william wilberforce story
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- Was after he had read the new testament and got saved,
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- He was considering leaving parliament
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- And becoming a preacher.
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- And john newton said, no,
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- You can serve god in government in parliament.
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- And this is such an important message because instead of
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- Saying, well, you need to serve the lord, leave your business,
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- Leave your career and become a preacher,
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- You can serve god in your arena.
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- John newton, best known for writing the hymn amazing grace
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- Is quoted as saying to the young wilberforce:
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- Wilberforce appealed to the british parliament
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- Against the slave trade in 1789 for the very first time
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- And continued doing so for nearly 2 decades.
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- A major hurdle when he began was the fact that the vast majority
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- Of the british parliament acquiesced to the slave trade,
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- As did the rest of the world at that time.
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- But wilberforce was undaunted by the odds against him.
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- So william wilberforce had a handful only
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- But he changed the world,
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- Whereas today there are hundreds, if not thousands,
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- Who have come through washington and they haven't done very much.
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- Now that's a deficiency in discipleship.
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- I don't criticize my brothers and sisters on capitol hill but
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- Many of them have had a very shrunken pietism that doesn't,
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- So i would say bluntly never has a nation had so many people,
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- At such a high level,
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- When the nation was all powerful
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- And they had incredible influence and
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- Yet a faith that did virtually nothing.
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- We're reaching that point now where
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- The typical american will have nobody in their circle
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- Of influence who has a biblical worldview,
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- Which means that god's word won't be represented
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- In the choices those people are making.
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- And so i think this is a message for the hour
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- That people need to realize that god can use you
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- In whatever sphere you're in,
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- Just yield yourself to him.
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- Christians have an option to shy away from politics
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- Or they can engage.
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- I believe that it's critically important for us to be involved
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- In all spheres of culture, including politics.
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- We know that government in many ways
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- Controls our lives from small things at a local level
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- To national, international politics,
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- But i believe that without a christian voice in that arena,
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- We create a vacuum for others
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- Who have very different worldviews
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- Than ourselves to proclaim what they believe.
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- I think that it's imperative that
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- Christians be involved in that process.
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- You absolutely should bring your biblical worldview,
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- Your morals, and your biblical values to you,
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- When you are governing,
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- Because ultimately god is government,
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- He says and of the increase of his government and peace,
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- There shall be no end.
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- The d. james kennedy center for christian statesmanship
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- Recently honored senator josh hawley of missouri
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- With its 2024 distinguished statesman of the year award.
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- The recipients for the
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- Distinguished christian statesmanship award
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- All share very similar characteristics
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- They're bold and courageous in the things that they say,
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- Take a stand for truth and they lead in a way
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- Where they're distinctively christian,
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- They don't compromise on their values,
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- And everyone knows that they truly are
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- A distinguished statesman by the way they live their lives.
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- I sincerely believe the hope for america
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- Is that people connected to god,
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- People who know there is a god stop being cynical,
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- Stop being afraid, stop retreating
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- And believe that they can shape society
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- And love and compassion in a way so as to win people
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- And we can rebuild what's been lost.
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- We know that, and not in anger and not with power politics
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- But with love and gentleness and with wholeness and with healing,
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- We can see things restored in this society that we know
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- We need to have and that can be reclaimed.
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- We have the greatest country in the world
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- And it is because of the constitution
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- And it is because it believes and it espouses
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- And it declares that all men are created equal,
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- Endowed by its creator, not by the government,
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- But endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.
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- Following god's way doesn't always mean
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- That it's going to be easy.
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- It's going to be safe.
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- It's going to lead to happiness every turn of the way.
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- But knowing that you are doing the lord's will,
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- Knowing that you are a model
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- Of consistency in exemplifying his truths,
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- That's what brings real joy in life,
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- That enables you even to endure persecution
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- Should you encounter it
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- For simply trying to do what god's told us to do.
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- William wilberforce is a wonderful example of a christian
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- Motivated by their faith to make a difference in the world.
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- Wilberforce as a christian, his heart was really touched
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- By the plight of slaves in the trans-atlantic slave trade.
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- He saw that this was an evil,
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- That it was a direct violation of christian teaching
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- In which we should value every human being,
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- Regardless of color, ethnicity, culture, et cetera
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- In 1807, wilberforce published a letter
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- On the abolition of the slave trade;
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- In which he cites the scripture that declares:
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- And wilberforce in his arguments before parliament
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- Pointed out biblical teachings such as
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- After nearly 2 decades of struggle,
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- Wilberforce was able to pass legislation
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- To abolish the slave trade in 1807.
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- That's the same year that the us congress
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- Had put into the constitution
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- To end the importation of slaves into america.
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- And who's the president at the time?
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- Thomas jefferson.
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- And he enforces the constitutional provision
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- To end the slave trade in america in 1807.
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- It would be many years later on his deathbed
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- That william wilberforce received the news
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- That slavery in its entirety was finally outlawed in britain
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- And the final result of a movement that he'd begun.
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- So this is a tremendous impact that the bible
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- Made a change in one person's life, william wilberforce
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- And also in john newton's life.
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- And it had the ripple effect of freeing millions of people
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- It's imperative that you recognize
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- There are absolute moral truths.
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- That's why we go back to the bible.
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- That's why we talk about a biblical worldview,
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- Not a christian worldview.
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- Which says, it doesn't matter what i think.
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- It doesn't matter what i feel.
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- All it really matters is what god tells us in his word.
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- That is truth.
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- If we don't take a stand and represent our worldview and
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- Impose that on policy, others with a different worldview will.
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- Well, i think one thing to say about our christian faith
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- Is that it's a real-world faith as christians,
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- We are really called to make a difference
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- In our world and in our society.
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- So it would be great for christians to be involved
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- In every sphere of society, politics, law, medicine,
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- Education, because the more we have christians
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- Who are genuinely trying to make the world a better place,
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- They're not doing it in their own strength,
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- But they're doing it empowered by god and his help.
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- The more society will flourish
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- In this vision of christian engagement,
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- Drawn from the bible,
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- That drove our founder, dr. d. james kennedy,
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- To establish the center for christian statesmanship
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- In washington d.c.,
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- Among numerous other key ministries.
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- Dr. kennedy wanted to see the same power
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- That animated william wilberforce to change the world
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- To be unleashed here again in america.
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- That's why he pointed us to those
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- Who settled and founded this nation,
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- Which has been the freest and most prosperous on earth,
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- Because they built on a biblical foundations.
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- There's been a lot of revisionist history about
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- What george washington and his fellow founders believed
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- But dr. kennedy shares the truth in his message,
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- “the faith of washington.”
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- Today i would like to talk to you about a man
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- Who in my opinion was one of the world's great noblemen,
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- George washington, the father of our country.
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- “first in war, first in peace,
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- First in the hearts of his countrymen,”
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- Said major-general henry lee after washington had died
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- And he was surely that but what made him so great?
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- Cyrus edmonds says,
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- “the elements of his greatness are chiefly to be discovered
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- In the moral features of his character.”
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- It was said that the character of george washington
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- Was the wonder of the world in his own day.
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- But what gave rise to that amazing character,
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- Which was the wonder of the world?
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- He was born, if we trace back the river to its source,
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- In a godly home.
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- Throughout all of his life long, whether he was a young man,
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- An officer in the army, a general,
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- Or the president of the united states
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- At nine o clock he would rise up leave the living room,
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- And take his candle and retire to his library.
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- And there from 9 until 10 he was not seen.
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- Then at ten o' clock he would emerge and go to his bedroom.
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- On several occasions,
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- Different people who happened to be in the home
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- Because of certain emergencies that arose,
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- Found that they had to go to the library
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- To seek his attention.
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- And they found him, invariably,
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- On his knees in front of a chair,
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- With a candle on the stand
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- Next to the chair and the bible open before him.
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- Praying.
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- Washington prayed aloud in private
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- But he always prayed aloud,
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- As was the custom of many people in that day.
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- After retiring he would arise every morning at four am and
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- Spend another hour in the same room, before the same chair,
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- In the same posture, with the same book open before him.
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- In the presidency he took the oath of office
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- And his first act subsequent to that was to bend over and
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- Kiss the bible on which he had just taken his oath,
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- A bible which was open to the book of genesis.
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- In that first inaugural address, he said this:
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- “it would be peculiarly improper to omit,
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- In this first official act,
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- My fervent supplications to that almighty being,
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- Who rules over the universe,
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- Who presides in the councils of nations,
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- And whose providential aids can supply every human defect...”
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- In his farewell address, he said,
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- Of all the dispositions and habits
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- Which lead to good government, religion and morality
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- Are the inseparable and necessary pillars and support.
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- And he said let not that man claim the name of patriotism,
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- Who seeks to undermine those pillars ...”
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- Would that our children could read and study
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- The life of this godly man who was first
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- In the hearts of his countrymen,
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- The father of our nation.
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- A man whose character was the wonder of the world.
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- And the source of it all was a life-long and
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- Abiding faith in the atoning death of jesus christ
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- In his perfect righteousness which clothed all
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- Of washington heinous sins as he saw them.
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- May god, as he has to my life, speak to your heart through
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- This man who was the father of our country.
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- And may we be better americans and better christians because
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- He, though dead, yet speaks to our lives.
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- May we pray
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- Father, should there be those here who have vainly trusted
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- In some supposed goodness of themselves,
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- May he, with washington, say, “o god, have mercy upon me for my
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- Vileness and my transgressions and the heinousness of my sin.
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- Cleanse me by the blood of jesus christ.
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- Wash me and renew me and make me whiter than snow.
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- For the merits of thy dear son, o god,
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- Receive me into thy presence and lord,
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- For those who are christians, may they say,
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- “o christ, i am convicted by this, thy servant and child.
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- Help me to be more faithful, more constant in my life.”
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- For jesus' sake. amen.
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- Hi, i'm jennifer kennedy cassidy.
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- My dad was passionate about seeing
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- The christian faith affect public life,
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- Including education, economics, science, and government.
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- Truth is like leaven that works its way through the entire loaf,
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- And the truth of god has an impact
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- On every aspect of culture.
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- George washington was a devout, active christian.
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- And his christianity was essential to the work
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- He did in helping to establish the country.
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- And he was far from the only one.
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- But we have forgotten our foundations, and as a result,
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- America has dangerously drifted from its core principles.
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- We need to recover those principles and build upon them,
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- Which is why my dad wrote the booklet,
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- What they believed:
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- The faith of washington, jefferson, and lincoln,
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- And we'd like to send it to you as thanks for your generous
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- Donation to help us do the vital work of this ministry.
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- This booklet looks at the core commitments and beliefs
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- Of each of these men,
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- Painting a fascinating portrait of who they were
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- And how the christian faith drove each one of them
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- To key advancements.
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- If that idea is surprising to you, all the more reason to read
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- What they believed:
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- The faith of washington, jefferson, and lincoln
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- By d. james kennedy,
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- Which we'll send you as thanks for your generous donation.
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- And if you're able to give a gift of $40 or more,
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- How dare we be quiet?
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- Featuring senator josh hawley of missouri.
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- Because my father was so zealous about christianity
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- Influencing every sphere of life, he founded
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- In 1995
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- Now celebrating its 30th birthday,
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- Dr. rob pacienza has revived and expanded the center's work,
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- And we recently presented senator hawley with
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- Our distinguished christian statesman award.
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- In this video, you'll see an exclusive
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- Interview with senator hawley,
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- Plus you'll get an inside look at the awards ceremony.
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- And the program also features a special interview with
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- Historian stephen mansfield plus other bonus material.
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- Josh hawley is one of the most articulate and impassioned
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- Defenders of truth and american ideals in public life,
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- And you won't want to miss this powerful interview.
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- That's the booklet from
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- D. james kennedy, what they believed:
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- The faith of washington, jefferson, and lincoln,
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- As thanks for your generous donation.
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- And the booklet plus the brand-new dvd program,
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- How dare we be quiet,
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- Featuring senator josh hawley,
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- As thanks for your gift of $40 or more.
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- And your partnership with us enables us
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- As well as expanding our outreach on capitol hill,
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- Defending and promoting america's christian heritage,
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- And so much more.
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- So please, contact us right away with your generous donation .
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- Since the supreme court's dobbs decision in 2022
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- That overturned roe v wade,
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- Pro-life measures on the state level have taken a real hit.
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- The end of wade was a great thing,
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- But as the issue moved to the states,
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- Pro-abortion groups were more motivated
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- Than ever to oppose restrictions.
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- While the republican party had for decades made support
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- For life and opposition to abortion part of its platform,
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- The changing political winds drove many
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- To minimize the issue in the name of electability.
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- That's been a real concern, and a reminder
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- To pro-life christians that our work has only begun.
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- But while pro-life language has been muted
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- In recent political campaigns,
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- Actions speak louder than words,
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- And elections have consequences.
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- Donald trump did not run in 2024 on a strong pro-life platform,
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- Which caused concern for many of those who care
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- About this issue above all others.
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- But his actions in the early days of his second term
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- Have been a massive victory for the pro-life cause.
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- In just the first week of his new presidency,
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- President trump issued pardons for 23 pro-lifers
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- Who had been prosecuted and, in some cases,
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- Imprisoned for peacefully protesting
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- At abortion clinics under the face act.
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- Joe biden's justice department had used this act
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- To punish pro-lifers and send a message of zero tolerance
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- To those who stand up for the unborn.
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- One 89-year-old concentration camp survivor
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- Was facing a possible 11-year prison sentence.
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- At the same time, biden pardoned his own family members for
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- Crimes they may have committed throughout his presidency
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- And for years of crimes leading up to it.
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- Trump put the pardon power to good use to free those
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- Who had been the victims of the biden doj's lawfare.
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- President trump also restored the mexico city policy,
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- Which cuts off american funding to international organizations
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- That perform or promote abortions.
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- He also strengthened enforcement of the hyde amendment,
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- Which prohibits taxpayer money
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- From being used for abortion domestically.
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- President trump, along with vice president j.d. vance
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- Spoke to the march for life crowds in washington and
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- Trump remains the only president ever to have done so in person.
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- And none of this even includes his first term,
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- In which he nominated strong justices who overturned roe
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- And upheld religious liberty and the right to life.
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- His hhs department put an end to california trying to force
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- Pro-life crisis pregnancy centers to give patients
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- Information about how to get abortions.
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- His administration defended christian healthcare workers
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- From being forced into participating in abortions.
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- And the list goes on and on.
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- There have been quite a few presidents who have elegantly
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- Articulated the pro-life position but it's becoming
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- Apparent that none has ever been more practically effective in
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- Actually defending the unborn than president donald trump.
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- We have a long way to go, but let it be a reminder
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- That your votes and your work are not in vain.
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- So, stay active and engaged,
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- And do not grow weary in doing what is right.
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- Coral ridge ministries is
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- I want to take a moment to extend to you a personal
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- Invitation to come join me right here in fort lauderdale for our
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- Annual kingdom come conference, april 4th through the 6th.
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- We will be focusing on having
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- The mind of christ in this secular age,
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- And you'll hear from great speakers like riley gaines,
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- Rosaria butterfield, erwin lutzer, and many more.
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- Time is running out,
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- So make sure to reserve your spot now at:
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- Where you can also find more information.
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- And i'll look forward to seeing you here at coral ridge
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- In fort lauderdale for kingdom come!
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- And now here's a look at the next truths that transform.
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- Creation studies institute is an organization
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- That affirms the word of god.
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- We want to reach the world with the truth of creation
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- And the gospel of jesus christ.
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- That's next week
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- This has been a production of coral ridge ministries
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