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Bill Federer: Silence Equals Consent - The Sin Of Omission · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
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defending biblical Christianity.
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No topic off limits.
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And now, here's your host, David Fierazzo.
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Hey, friends, very important topic today.
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Thank you for watching and sharing the podcast and praying for us.
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Do you believe that silence equals consent?
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And we're going to be talking about the sin of a mission today.
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And we're going to answer the questions, how have godly people been persuaded to let
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ungodlessness or god, yeah, godlessness reign?
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And we're going to go back to a quote from 1954.
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In recent history, President Eisenhower said this relationship between a spiritual faith
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and our form of government is obvious.
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Man is endowed by his creator, born in the image of God.
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There's a brand new book out.
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I need you to mark on Amazon or go to Americanminute.com.
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The book is by Bill Federer, William J. Federer, it's called Silence Equals Consent.
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And on the bottom, it says, speak now or forever, lose your freedom.
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And this coming from someone who has just removed a video that I did a podcast last week
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from YouTube.
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It was taken down.
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We've been many of us have been censored, shadow banned, but we still continue to speak,
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but they are going to continue to come against us.
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But being silent is never the right option.
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What did the disciples say?
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We must speak about things that we have seen and heard.
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We must obey God rather than man.
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Let me bring in author and historian Bill Federer.
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Thank you so much for your time today, brother.
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I'm looking forward to diving into your book.
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Oh, great to be with you.
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All right.
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So let's start at the very beginning.
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Actually, there's a question before we get into the book.
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How did we get here where now we are being criticized and attacked and accused of being
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quote, Christian nationalists as if that's a bad thing and patriotism is a bad thing.
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Go ahead.
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Right.
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Well, nationalism is the opposite of globalism.
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There are people who are globalists.
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Yeah.
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One, broccism was the first director of the World Health Organization.
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Many people are familiar with that organization.
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And he said to achieve world government, it is necessary to remove from the minds of men
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their national patriotism.
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So globalists want to malign anybody that wants to preserve their nation.
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Currently, nationalism depends on the nation.
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If it's a socialist nation like the USSR or the Union of Nazi, which stands for National
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Socialist Workers Party, there's no individual rights, right?
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Ask the Jews.
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Islamist nations, no individual rights.
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Our nation is different.
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We believe in individual rights from a creator, freedom of religion, freedom of speech,
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freedom of assembly, from a right to trial by a jury of your peers.
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The top of all off, we are government from the consent of the governed.
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The people get to be in charge.
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That's sort of a good thing.
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So preserving other nations is bad that there's no individual rights.
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But our nation, guaranteeing individual rights, it's sort of good to want to preserve
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that, right?
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And then finally, last, Christian nationalism used to be called Christian patriotism.
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I haven't know Webster's 1828 dictionary.
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Lord nationalism is not in there.
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Lord patriotism is level one's country.
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And every leader encouraged it.
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George Washington said to the distinguished character of patriot should be our highest
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glory to law, the more distinguished character of Christian.
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Lincoln's inaugural, he said, intelligence, patriotism, Christianity are still competent
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to adjust in the best way all our present difficulty.
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Lincoln mentioned patriotism and Christianity right next to each other in his inaugural.
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Franklin Roosevelt passed out Gideon's New Testaments to all the soldiers in World
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War II.
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He wrote the forward as commander in chief.
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I take pleasure in committing the reading of the Bible to all who served in the armed
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forces.
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I wonder if the mainstream media would call Franklin Roosevelt a Christian nationalist.
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By defending our nation, passing out New Testaments, even Eisenhower said, any group
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that awakens us is a dedicated patriotic group that can well take the Bible in one hand,
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the flag in the other and march ahead.
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And as recent as 1965, 93% of Americans identify themselves as Christian, 93% that's 69%
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Protestant, 24% Catholic, 3% of the country was Jewish.
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The country has been predominantly Christian and patriotic.
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Yet the left, you have to ask yourself, why do they want to malign Christians?
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The same way that they call pro-life people anti-abortion.
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There's no pro-life group that calls itself anti-abortion, yet every single news article
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will call pro-life people anti-abortion.
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Negative word.
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So why do they call Christian Patriots Christian nationalists?
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Negative word association.
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They want a boogeyman type term.
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No, there's nothing wrong with wanting to defend and preserve a nation where individuals
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have rights and that individuals are governed from the consent of the governed.
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We are in a really dangerous place, Bill, and I know you talk about this and you've been
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thinking about this for years where believers not only need to know our history in America.
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First of all, know the Bible, then our history in America, and then world history that helps
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to understand who we are and where we are, where we came from, so we can be thankful for
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what we have.
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I want to ask you recently, this was several months ago, Pastor Jack Hibbs did the opening
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prayer in Congress and it was offensive because he used the name of Jesus and he mentioned
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God the Father and this was seen as a bad thing and they called him Christian nationalists
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and I know it's just in recent maybe years that that has now been flipped so the marketers
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of evil, the media, the left, the Marxists have used that now as a bad thing but they
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have the megaphone of the media, they have all the power to come against Christians and
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the biblical worldview.
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So your thoughts on that prayer and why at this time is that so offensive?
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You, of anybody, you know our history, hopefully people that are viewing know more of our history
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but you, my goodness, your books are amazing.
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So while the sudden you think people now, it's a really dangerous thing to stand up and
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mention the name of Jesus.
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Yeah, it is a socialist tactic called deconstruction where you separated people from their past, get
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them into a neutral where they don't remember where they came from and then you brainwash
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them into the socialist future you have planned for them.
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You know, I read through every charter of every colony.
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Every colony was started by a different Christian denomination.
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Virginia was Anglican, Massachusetts was Puritan, Rhode Island was Baptist, New York was
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Dutch reformed, Delaware, New Jersey were Swedish, Lutheran, Connecticut, New Hampshire
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worked under gaysionalist, Pennsylvania Quaker and they did not get along and they torn
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feather each other.
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But then they had to work together to fight the king during the revolution.
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After that, their attitude changed to we may not always agree on religion but you were
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willing to fight and die for my freedom, I need to let you practice your faith.
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But it was still under state's jurisdiction and so I read through every state constitution.
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Nine of the original 13 state constitutions required office holders to be Protestant, Christians
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to hold office.
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Three said all you had to do was be a plain Christian and one had zero religious requirements, Rhode
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Island, fathered by Baptist, they said if you required someone to be a Christian they
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could say they were just to get elected and that would be hypocritical.
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So you had 3 million people, 98% Protestant and 1% Catholic, 3,000 Catholics in a country
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of 3 million people and one tenth of a percent Jewish, 3,000 Jews, seven synagogues in the
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old nation.
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Then there's an Irish potato famine, early 1800s, millions of Irish Catholics come to America,
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many states change their state constitutions from acquiring office holders to be Protestant
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to just being Christian.
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And then there is a persecution of Jews in Bavaria and in 1851, Maryland changes its constitution
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from requiring all office holders to be Christian to Christian and if the party shall profess
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to be a Jew, the declaration shall be of his belief in a future state or rewards and punishments.
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After the Civil War many states rewrote their constitutions to say all you had to do is believe
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in God.
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And then in 1947 the federal government takes religion out of state jurisdiction and begins
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to morph it and allow belief in any religion until finally everybody's tolerated except
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the Christians.
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Right.
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So now it's backfired.
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They want to say, well, you Christians are intolerant.
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It's like, we're the ones that came up with the idea tolerance.
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Yeah.
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We didn't get along but then we began to tolerate each other and then it ripples on out
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to the Catholics and Jews and all the way out to the atheists and Satanists and last
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ones in when it kicked the first ones out.
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And here we are.
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On the back of your book, the book cover, you've got a quote by Billy Graham, it's chilling.
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He said, there is no doubt that nations come to an end when they have ceased to fulfill
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the function that God meant for them.
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Bill Federer, in your view and your estimation, what was the function of America under God
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and what is?
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Yeah.
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So we zoom out and look at all the recorded human history.
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The most common form of government is a king and a king is just a glorified gang leader.
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And you got Nimrod, Pharaoh, Caesar, Kaiser, Sultans are in these kingdoms, keep getting
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bigger because with the latest military advancement, kings can kill more people.
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Right.
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Instead of king killing able with a rock, they can kill with a bronze weapon iron weapon,
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failing spear, symmetra sword gunpowder and till finally the king of England had the
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biggest.
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The sun never set on the British Empire.
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He was a globalist.
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He had India, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, British Guyana, Canada, Barbados, permuted
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Jamaica and America.
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And America's founders decided they did not like this globalist king telling us what
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to do.
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They broke away and flipped it and made the people the king, the word citizen means cocaine.
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And then you go through where did America's founders get these ideas from the Reformation,
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from the Bible, what part of the Bible that first 400 years out of Egypt before King's
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law is called the Hebrew Republic.
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And it's from around 1400 BC to 1000 BC.
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This is the first instance in recorded human history of millions of people in no king.
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And it works because everyone was taught the law and everyone was personally accountable
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to God to follow the law, right?
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You're about to steal.
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Nobody's around.
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You know, you can get away with it.
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And then you think God is watching me.
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He wants me to be fair.
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He's going to be accountable.
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Maybe I should hesitate stealing.
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Create a tiny thing in your head called the conscience.
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If everyone believes this, you can maintain order with no king.
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And so this period, re King Saul is called the Hebrew Republic and it was studied by
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the Puritans.
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And so in New England, you actually had churches founding cities.
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So you had Baptist pastor Roger Williams and his Baptist church founded a city, Providence,
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Rhode Island.
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And you had a congregationalist pastor, Thomas Hooker, and his congregationalist church
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founding a city, Hartford, Connecticut.
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You had pastors founding cities.
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This is unique on the planet.
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At this time, in the early 1600s, you had 5,000 years of Chinese emperors, Indian emperors,
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and Maharajas, Japanese emperors, Korean emperors, Russian Tsars, Muslim sultans, African
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chieftains, the whole world's kings.
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And here you have this greenhouse.
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In other words, everybody was involved in church and everybody was involved in city government
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because it was the church founding the city.
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There were like no non-church members tagging along to be lazy and let them run everything.
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Everybody is involved in church and everybody is involved in the city government because
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it's the church founding the city.
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Wow.
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So they would have one building in town called the Meeting House and that's where the pastor
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would teach the Bible.
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That's where they'd do their city business.
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Yeah.
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The word synagogue means Meeting House.
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That's where the rabbi would teach the law and that's where they would do their city
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business.
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This is the 1600s.
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This is exploration of a covenant form of government that eventually turned into our
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constitution.
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And the word federal is Latin for covenant.
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That's there's so much in there, friends, you're going to probably want to rewind that
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and replay that section again from Bill Federer.
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When you mentioned the 1600s and this progression of where we're at and founding cities, I couldn't
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help but think of the black robe regiment, the pastors that actually were leaders, true
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leaders.
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And also the university system in America, 1636 Harvard University, John Harvard, a pastor,
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they were putting out theologians and their original motto was a shield as you know that
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says truth for Christ and the church, Veritas, Christo, educlezi, a truth for Christ and
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the church.
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Well, today you look at Harvard's logo and you know what's happening at Harvard now.
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There's one word Veritas, well, is it the truth when you remove Christ and the church
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from education from the universities, your thoughts on that before we have to take
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a break?
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Yeah.
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So, the Calvinist Puritans that founded Massachusetts, founded Harvard, founded Yale.
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After a century, it got a little dry and it became just a plan.
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Oh, God is a plan for your life, your marriage, your family, your church, your government.
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And some took it the next step and said, God and his infinite wisdom already knows who's
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going to wind up in heaven, so don't even bother preaching the gospel.
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And they became unavangelistic.
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So David Brainer got expelled from Yale because he said his professor was as spiritual as a
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chair.
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And so the Puritans now got nicknamed old lights and so on the 1700s, you had the new
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lights.
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And these were evangelists revival, the first great awakening and they said, it's more
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than a plan you have to have an experience with Jesus.
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And when you do your life will change and you won't do worldly things anymore like bars
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and brothels and government.
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So, wait, what was that last thing?
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Yeah, government, it's worldly.
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If you're really a Christian, you will not be involved in government.
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Well, gee, that's different than the 1600s where everybody's involved in church and everybody's
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involved in government.
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Yeah, this was this idea that if you're really spiritual, you'll withdraw.
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And four centuries of that teaching in Germany allowed Hitler to put Jews on train cars.
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And they went past the church and the Jews were crying for help and the church's response
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was, well, we can't do anything.
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There's the government that's killing Jews and we're the church and we can't get involved
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in government stuff because we're holy.
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It's like, can anybody see there's something wrong with that picture?
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And so it was called the German concept of the two kingdoms, kingdom of the government,
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the kingdom of the church, the two don't touch.
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So where the Puritan said everybody be involved in church, everybody be involved in government,
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the Piotis says, don't be involved in government because it's, you know, it's worldly.
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So it brings up a question, if all the spiritual people withdraw from government, who's left
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to be involved, but the less spiritual because they're less spiritual, though you until
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their ambitions become power, hungry, and tyrants.
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So so it's called the old light, new light controversy that went on in the early 1700s
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between the Puritans, but they would gotten a little dry.
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And then the revivalists that are holy, but so holy they withdraw from the government
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allowing the government to go down the drain.
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That's fascinating because we can see based on what you just shared, that's playing out
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today.
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Christian saying, oh, you know, it's politics secular, don't want to be involved.
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And by the way, we got to take a brief pause, we're with Bill Federer, the book is called
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Silence Equals Consent.
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When we come back, we're going to talk about Romans 13 and a misunderstood passage about
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the end of last year, earlier this year, earlier this year.
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Romans 13 has been a passage in the Bible that has been very, very misinterpreted, ripped
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out of context, and misunderstood.
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And I'm just going to read Romans 13 verse 1, every person is to be in subjection to
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the governing authorities for there is no authority except from God and those which
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exist are established by God.
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So does this mean that we are to submit to a secular government unlimited in all circumstances?
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Please explain this.
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Right.
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So from the beginning of time, whatever the king believed, the kingdom had to believe.
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When Nebuchadnezzar blew the trumpet, you had to bow to his statue.
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So you have Israel for 400 years from around 1400 BC to 1000 BC.
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They have no king.
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It's called the Hebrew Republic, the congregation of the Israelites, the assembly of the Israelites,
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and everybody's taught the law and personally accountable to God and follow it.
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Well, the priests stopped teaching the law and every man did what's right in their own
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eyes.
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And you have Eli, the high priest, his own sons are sleeping with women in the tent where
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the ark and the covenant is.
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And anyway, the people go to Samuel the prophet and they say the self-government system is
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not working anymore.
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We want to be like the other countries.
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We want a king.
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Samuel cries in the Lord tells them they did not reject you.
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They rejected me and they get King Saul.
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Now, why is this story important?
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Because the kings of Europe look to the Bible for their authority, but they look to the
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King Saul and on part of the Bible.
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The divine ride of kings.
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God chose me.
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The Calvinist Puritans looked to the pre King Saul part of the Bible, 400 years, millions
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of people.
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Everybody taught the law, personally accountable to God to follow it.
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So King Saul is the divider between England and America.
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Both are looking to the Bible for their authority.
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One is a king.
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He rules through fear.
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He wants a theocracy.
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He got to believe the what he says and the Hebrew Republic is no, the people are in charge.
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They rule from the consent, right, bottom up.
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And so this is important because Romans 13 is understood differently in a monarchy versus
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a republic.
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In a monarchy, subjects submit to the king.
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In a republic, the citizens are the king, the word citizen is Greek.
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It means cocaine, co-ruler, co-sovereign.
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And so instead of you submitting to a king, king have subjects who are subjected to their
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will, republics have citizens.
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And so we rule ourselves bottom up, right?
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And so the politicians are your servant.
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You hire them.
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You fire them.
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They do what you tell them to do or you vote them out.
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So this is important.
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Romans 13 is understood differently in a monarchy versus a republic.
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So I want to move on to, I always use the phrase from the Bible, love your neighbor, one
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of the commandments.
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And you wrote, is it, you asked the question, is it scriptural to not care about what
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kind of country we are leaving behind?
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If you, we love our neighbor, there's evil out there that we have never seen before.
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New levels of evil when it comes to the transgenderism and the public schools and the government
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and Hollywood, the entertainment industry pornography, everything else, drugs.
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And if you love your neighbor, you will speak up.
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And the book, of course, is called Silence Equals Consent.
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So Bill, talk to us a little bit about this and, and for people that are going, well, maybe,
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yeah, but I shouldn't speak up for whatever reason they're confused about this, that maybe
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we should be silent, but we're not loving our neighbor.
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And I don't think it's biblical to, if you're silent, you're consenting, explain that
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a little bit further.
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Right.
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So, numbers, chapter 30, it says, if a daughter's still living in her father's house in her
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youth and binds herself with a vow, and the day the father hears that if he is silent,
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her vows stand.
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But if he disallows it, she's released from the vow.
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That's come down to us as vows in a wedding ceremony.
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And the pastor tells the church members, if you are silent when you hear these wedding
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vows, you're given your consent.
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Speak now forever.
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Please.
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It's called the rule of tacit admission, T-A-C-I-T.
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It's in debt collection laws.
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Somebody owes you money.
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You wait 10 years to try to start collecting.
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The judge will say, you've been silent too long, your past statute of limitations, no
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money.
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It's in trademark law.
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You design a trademark.
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Somebody copies it.
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It's all over the internet.
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If you don't try to defend your copyright, they get to use it.
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It's in real estate law.
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You save up money by a rent house.
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Some squatter moves in.
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And if you know about it and you don't try to charge a rent or a victim, they can gain
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possession of your rent house through adverse possession just by you knowing about it and
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being silent.
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And it's even in our Constitution.
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Article 1, Section 7, Congress puts a bill on the president's desk.
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If any bill shall not be returned by the president within 10 days, the same shall be a law in
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like manner.
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As if he had signed it, all he has to do is be silent for 10 days and it equals his signature.
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So if a church member's silence gives consent to wedding vows, it gives consent to other
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things.
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And if they're killing babies in the community and the church members are silent, they're
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giving consent to killing babies.
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If they're teaching the trans agenda and you know that Jesus said in Matthew 19, he
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who made them at the beginning made a male and female and you're silent, you are giving
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consent to the teaching of something other than what Jesus would teach.
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I mean, think about here are teachers who cannot even define woman.
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If they think they can tell that a little boy is supposed to be a little girl, it's insanity.
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Yet Jesus said, if you allow one of these little ones who believes in me to stumble, it
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is better that a millstone be put on your neck and be thrown in the depths of the sea.
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So it's going to be a rude awakening for church members who say, oh, we don't get involved
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in politics.
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We just preach the gospel.
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We're so spiritual.
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We don't care what kind of country we're leaving our kids.
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It's going to be a rude awakening when they realize by their silence, they're not being
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spiritual.
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They're giving consent to all the wicked things going on out there.
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They're inviting judgment on themselves, right?
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They're in accessory to the crime.
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And so you look at the scriptures, the Apostle Paul Acts 22 talking to the Lord and he
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said, and when they shed the blood of the martyr Stephen, I stood there silent.
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Concentrating to his death.
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Paul didn't throw his stone.
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He didn't say a word, yet he knew he was guilty for the death of Stephen just by standing
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there silent.
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Proverbs 24 says, rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to death.
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Don't stand back and let him die.
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Don't try to disclaim responsibility by saying you didn't know about it.
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For God who knows all hearts, knows yours and he knows you new and holds you accountable.
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Mordek, I told Esther, there's a mandate from the government to kill the Jews.
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If you're silent, you and your family will be killed, God will raise up somebody else.
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Now, an interesting chapter is numbers 20, Moses and Aaron are called to the door of
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the tabernacle.
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And God says, take the grave of the assembly, thou and Aaron speak to the rock water will
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come out.
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Well, they gather the assembly, Moses list up his rod and he hits the rock twice.
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Water comes out abundantly.
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And to the chapter, the Lord tells Moses, Aaron will not enter the land because both of
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you are held against my command at the waters of Meribah.
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It's like both we just read the chapter.
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Aaron didn't do anything.
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The whole chapter didn't say anything.
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Yeah, that's just it.
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Aaron was at the door with Moses and he heard God say speak to the rock.
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When Moses lifted up the rod and hit the rock the first time, it probably took Aaron by
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surprise.
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When Moses lifted up the rod, the second time Aaron knew what was coming and he's not
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protested.
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He didn't say, well, Moses hold it.
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He was silent.
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And in that instant, Aaron was guilty.
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Moses was a sin of co-mission.
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Aaron's was a sin of old mission.
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You know, the verse that you mentioned, Leviticus 1918, love your neighbor as
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yourself.
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The verse right before it says, confront your neighbor directly so you will not
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be held guilty for their sin.
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They're loving each other.
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And they're confiding each other.
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One translation does rebuke your neighbor and you'll not incur their guilt upon
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you.
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And so it's this idea that if you, uh, where there was no king, the people were
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the king.
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Everybody was taught the law.
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Everybody helped enforce the law.
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There's so much more that we could get into with you, Bill, because this is
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such an important topic through the years, this, this marketing of, you know,
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Christians out of the public square get rid of the salt and light so we can
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have our way to whatever we want.
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It's really produced the separation of church and state lie, one of the biggest
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lies in America that Christians should not be involved or speak up about moral
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issues or political issues.
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A minute and a half just wrap us up with your final thoughts.
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Yeah, some people say, well, I'm not going to do anything.
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I'm just waiting for the rapture.
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I have a question.
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Who do you think you're going to meet when you're raptured?
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Uh, Jesus does.
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Jesus loved the little children.
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Oh, yeah.
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You think you might wonder why you didn't do anything to protect them?
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I mean, we're not North Korea or China where you don't vote where to America
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where the citizen is the king.
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The politicians are your servants.
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You hire them.
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You fire them.
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And even if we can't turn around, shouldn't we at least try?
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You know, maybe God is pulling back the curtain and letting evil expose itself
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to expose the condition of our hearts.
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If somebody can see them mutilating children and it doesn't bother them,
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they're giving their consent to that.
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And so it's, uh, you know, I tell people, imagine a guy watching football
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and you say, when was the last time you told your wife you're loving?
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And it's like, I can't remember, but she knows my heart.
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It's like, uh, I think we need a little marriage counseling here.
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People say, well, uh, God knows my heart.
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Yes, he does.
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He wants to hear some words out of your mouth and see some actions.
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So, so the book silence equals consent goes through this.
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That if you really believe something, it's going to come out of your mouth
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and it's going to come out in your actions and you're going to defend the children.
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Amen. Bill, thank you so much.
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I mean, we just scratched the surface of what's in the book.
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I went through the, the table of contents.
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My goodness, a lot of history that Christians need to know.
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Thank you, friends, go to Americanminute.com and get this book.
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Get a couple so you can give one away to someone else,
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especially people in churches.
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Brother, I love you.
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Thank you so much for all you do.
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God bless.
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Thank you.
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All right, guys, um, make sure I really mean that such an important book for this time.
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Well, we still have a voice while we still have the platforms that we have.
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We still have free speech.
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We've got to use it now.
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Well, we can get the book.
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God bless you and as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.