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The_Edwards_Notebook-Brave_Ministers041825 · The Ron Edwards American Experience V2

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  Speaker 1: Perhaps surprisingly, in colonial America, New England ministers played a
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  Speaker 1: key role in rallying popular support for liberty. Helo i'm
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  Speaker 1: ron Edwards on the day's page from the Edwards Notebook.
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  Speaker 1: The New England ministers pressed their congregations to overthrow King
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  Speaker 1: George because, unlike five oh one c three ministers of today,
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  Speaker 1: they believed that rebellion to tyrants was obedience to God.
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  Speaker 1: For many pulpits ministers recruited troops and strengthened them for battle.
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  Speaker 1: Those church leaders understood that the Bible places great emphasis
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  Speaker 1: on due submission to civil authorities, but they also noted
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  Speaker 1: that many passages approved resistance to ungodly authority. It is
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  Speaker 1: therefore no coincidence that one of the watchwords of the
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  Speaker 1: American Revolution was no King but Jesus. Most of the
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  Speaker 1: patriots found in their faith and in God's word, the
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  Speaker 1: courage to risk their own lives and properties in order
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  Speaker 1: to break the tyranny of unjust human authority. According to
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  Speaker 1: their Christian worldview, obedience to God took precedence over loyalty
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  Speaker 1: to country or government. Their primary allegiance was to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ, the original liberator. I'm run Edwards. Check
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  Speaker 1: out the run Edwards dot com.