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yesterday and I told her, oh
she, if I said we got God in each other. Oh my, what a blessing,
have God in each other. Have people that care about you,
that love you. And I appreciate, you know what,
we're the only Bible some of them's ever gonna read. And I
hope they see Christ when they read our life. 2 Corinthians
3, I'm headed down this road, I don't know when I'm ever gonna
get off of it. I'm fixing to get in over my head. And what
I've been preaching on, the miracles of God in the American Revolution,
I think so important. Number one, because our history
is being hid from the American people. It's not that people
aren't interested. I think a lot of times they are.
And in the proper venue, they will appreciate it. But as a
church and a minister of the gospel, I'm interested in the
God side of it. And that's even, that's greater
than all the rest of it put together because you cannot understand
it apart from it. It'd be like, but Jeremy be just
like you, trying to explain you apart from Christ. How would
you explain Jeremy's life apart from Christ? You couldn't explain
it because it's interwoven. That's the way our nation is.
This thing was raised up for a special thing. And God's got
great glory. I wish you'd have got a lot more.
And this country owes God for all the good God's done for us.
Amen. I want to talk to you today.
You know the subject. Give me liberty or give me death. Oh, what words. I don't think
most people know what was in the breasts of those men when
they said that. They meant it. Every word of
it. And by their actions, they proved
it. 1 Corinthians 3, 17. Now the Lord is that spirit. And where the spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty. That means where the Word of
God is preached and where the Word of God is received and the
Spirit of God is there, there will be liberty, spiritual liberty. Where you've got spiritual liberty,
if it takes hold on a society or a civilization or a country,
it won't be long until they'll be having liberty in a physical
way. Cause the heart cries out for
liberty, especially when you're saved by the grace of God. Here's
the words of Patrick Henry at the, uh, Virginia. He is a, a
delegate St. Mark's or St. John's church,
Richmond, Virginia. He stood up, give this speech,
uh, called arms. that the state colony would have
a militia that was willing and ready to fight the aggression
of the British troops. I know not what course others
may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. Now that word liberty is the
state of being free from oppressive restriction imposed by authority
or the quality of state of being free. The quality or state of
being free. Freedom from arbitrary or despotic
government or control. Freedom from captivity or restraint. It is the opposite of slavery
or bondage. Now, when these tax acts first
started, it wasn't, it never was the money. It was the, whether
or not they had the right to do it. They understood that big
government, if they ever get their foot in the door, will
own the house before it's over and you'll be paying them rent.
They knew that. So, liberty is the opposite of
slavery and bondage. It is the opposite of servitude. To understand it best of all
is when slaves are emancipated. Morally, the power which enslaves
us is sin. But liberty goes beyond the formal
ability to make a choice. It delivers from the darkening
of the mind. It delivers from the enthralling
of the will. It delivers from the tyranny
of the sinful nature. That's what spiritual liberty
does. It frees the person from that binds them on the inside. Those of you that have been saved,
you know what that is. What did our forefathers call
religious liberty? They call it soul liberty. That's what we cry for. It's
having the life of God implanted within you. It's being set free
from that power that used to bind you. Being set free from
that nature that enslaved you, not just sin, but Satan. What's the instrument that God
uses to bring about liberty? Well, it's the truth, John 8,
32. You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you
free. It goes beyond some moral demand
of an external law and it goes to the heart of a man and frees
him from the inside. Oh, what a blessing that that
is. Now, here we go again. Give me liberty or give me death. When men began the great migration
from Europe to America, primarily England in the 17th and 18th
century, that'd be the 1600s and the 1700s, how this nation
was dubbed the land of opportunity. What was it called? It was called
the new world. World, New England, listen to
these words. There was a man that just came
to America about the time of the revolution. Now, far as I
know, he was an agnostic, one of the few men that were, but
Thomas Paine was one of the greatest minds that America ever had. for the need of liberty and freedom.
His little 49-page book called Common Sense was distributed. Some say 100,000 copies. And it was just the common sense
rationality of the need of being free, independent, no restrictions
from a foreign power. Listen to his words in 1775. We have the power to begin the
world again. A situation similar to the present
has not happened since the days of Noah until now, the birthday
of a new nation is at hand. Now it was gonna cost a lot,
but these men thought that the cost or the result would be worth
the result. because it would be truly liberty
and freedom. What's happening? Well, the Revolutionary
War is going to last for eight years. A lot of blood is going
to be shed. A lot of lives are going to be
ruined. A lot of property is going to
be destroyed. It's going to cost a lot. But
out of that is going to come a new nation. A nation where
the gospel can be preached. A nation that can send out the
gospel. A nation that can do good in
this world. Is it perfect? Far be it from
it. It's not perfect. We don't have
perfect people. The constitution's not perfect.
But thank God for the insight that these men had. And every
generation has to fight for liberty and for freedom. And I think
you know that. For 150 years, Our people knew
freedom. For the most part, England left
us alone. What prepared America to fight? Why were they willing? How would
you ever come to the place where you would think that a bunch
of inexperienced men could defeat the greatest army in the world,
the British empire? I tell you, it was 40 years in
the making. The Great Awakening is what set
the pace and set the stage for those men to be willing to lose
their lives, their fortune, and their sacred honor. Now, many
of our founding fathers may not have had a personal relationship
with God, though many of them did. But here's what I want you
to understand. Because of the Great Awakening,
one to two-thirds of the population of this country professed belief
in Christ. That they were Christians. That
they had been converted. All said they were Christians,
Bob. But about two-thirds had a conversion experience. But
our forefathers had a deep reverence for God. They had a deep belief
in the providence of God, had deep respect for the Word of
God, the man of God, the church or the people of God, and communities
were built around the church, many communities. The first building
that was ever erected was the church house. That's what the
pilgrims did when they came to America. The first building they
built was a meeting house for the church. 18th century freedom
fighters. It's what I like to call them.
Our forefathers were truly freedom fighters. They had moral impurities. Many of them owned slaves. They
had intellectual pride. Many of them had greed. There
was a lot of sins that these men committed, but listen to
this. Now, this is the key. They were
not ashamed to publicly acknowledge their dependence on God. Every one of them did. There
wasn't one of them that did that. Every one of them believed that
God was the one they had to depend on. That's why they called those
national days of fasting and prayer. I'm sure that some of
our forefathers, no doubt, died without knowing Christ. But again,
here's an important statement. They were instruments of divine
providence with a resolve, had a commitment. had to form a nation
where Christianity would be free and the people would be free.
That's what you need to understand. I don't have time to rehash all
this. I was gonna get to Concord. Boston would be offended by that,
it's Concord up there. But I'll not get to that. I could
go back, you could remember the 56 brave men that signed the
Declaration of Independence. Almost 20 of them lost all they
had and died in abject poverty. When you think about liberty,
having the freedom to not be oppressed by a foreign power,
What's our most famous monument? The Statue of Liberty. What's that bell called? I've
seen it in Philadelphia. That was rung at Faithful Day.
It is the Liberty Bell of the Stamp Act. When the citizens
rebelled, they made an effigy of the stamp man and they hanged
him on the Liberty Tree. That's what these people, they
weren't trying to be hard to get along with. They just didn't
want to be oppressed. They wanted self-governance.
They wanted to pass their own laws. They wanted to be left
behind and raise their family the way they deemed worthy. These men had an unbelievable
work ethic. Think about John Quincy Adams,
when he was 14 years old, was appointed secretary to the ambassador
of the Russian court of Catherine the Great. Now, if you don't
know this name, you need to be familiar with it, John Jay. John Jay was one of the most
famous of all of our justices when he was 14 years old. He
applied for King's College. Listen to one of the requirements
of the entrance exam when he was 14 years old to translate
the first 10 chapters of the gospel of John from Greek to
Latin. Y'all listening? That's called
a classical education where you learn Hebrew, Greek, and Latin. First 10 chapters translated
from Greek to Latin to get in to a King's College at 14 years
old. And of course he did. He became
an American statesman, patriot, and diplomat. He's one of our
founding fathers. He was the signatory of the Treaty
of Paris, the second governor of New York, and the first chief
justice of the Supreme Court. I'm talking about men. John Jay
was a great Christian. I'm talking about men that had
a work ethic, that had a belief in discipline and commitment
and dedication to the cause they were willing to die for. You
ever heard Thomas Jefferson? He sure has been lied on. Third
president of the United States. You'd think some Baptist preacher
wrote this. We have no evidence that Jefferson was even a Christian.
Listen to the words, I've been there too and it's some site,
Jefferson Memorial. Listen to the words on that memorial
from the lips of Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration
of Independence. He said, God who gave us life,
gave us liberty and the liberties of a nation. If the liberties of a nation
be thought secure, when we've removed them, their only firm
basis, a conviction in the minds of people, these liberties are
a gift from God that they're not to be violated, but with
His wrath. Now, dear people, you can never
understand the American Revolution and the United States of America
without understanding the mindset. of these men, how the Bible,
how the truths of God had shaped what they thought and what their
thought processes was. It comes out in the documents
they wrote, in the actions that we see them take, in the words
that are recorded that fell from their lips, how the Declaration
of Independence shows their mindset, We are created by God. That's what they said. I believe
we're endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights,
and these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is what the British crown
and parliament could not understand. They could not understand why
we so resisted a simple tax. They couldn't get it. Do y'all
understand why? Do you understand it wasn't the money? That they
were offended by it? Do you understand that they thought
it was tyranny? That it was over an extension
of a power they didn't believe that England had? Hey, a one
pound of tea, all they taxed them was three cents. That's
all it was. The Boston Tea Party, over three
cents a pound. It wasn't the money. It was a
principle behind it. How these Americans, to them,
this tax represented tyranny. The occupying force in Boston
represented tyranny. The proclamation of it, they
could not purchased land or saddle west of Appalachian mountains
called the proclamation line was tyranny to them. Them coming
and commandeering their homes by their soldiers was tyranny
unto them. And they'd rather die than live
under such a government. Are y'all with me? They were
not gonna be ruled by parliament 3,000 miles away. across the
Atlantic Ocean. Stay with me, I'll try to get
somewhere here. In America, nine out of 10 people
own land. In England, one out of 10 did.
You know what King George III said? Oh, they would be kings. It offended the parliament, it
offended King George that a common man, a commoner could own land. They thought only the aristocrats
and the rich people should own land. That's how they controlled
the populace. But the American people were
lovers of property and lovers of self-preservation and self-promotion. Think about this. This is what
the English couldn't understand. What's the big deal? Benjamin
Franklin, the richest man in Pennsylvania. George Washington,
the richest man in Virginia. John Hancock, the richest man
in Massachusetts, and in all the 13 colonies. And these men
are willing to lose it all, to lay down everything they've got,
to lose their will, to lose their standing, to be arrested, to
be hanged, all because they don't wanna pay taxes. It's not the
taxes. It's the liberty. It's the freedom. Boy, we've been letting the federal
government take our liberties for year after year after year
in America, and there's not an outcry now, but there was an
outcry then of what was happening. I mean, here they say, they treated
us like dutiful children. That's how they looked on us.
How they say, how ungrateful can you be? Oh, we protected
you. Oh, we helped fight and deliver
America from the French and Canada in the French and Indian war.
We have been your protector. You're nothing but an outpost
of the British colony and the British empire. That's not what
our forefathers thought. They thought of liberty. They
thought of freedom. They thought of self-governance.
That's what a sinner thinks about under conviction. I've got to
be free. I've got to have power over this
sin. I've got to have power over Satan. I've got to have power
over the weaknesses of my life. And it runs on the Christ. The
future looked awful messy, but it also looked rosy, for all
these taxes started. America, Boston's one of the
richest. The standard of living, one of
the highest in the world. Did y'all know that? Yeah, in
America, freedom, all this land, plantations, wealth, why mess
up, why bite the hand that feeds you? In the 1760s, the American
colonies are existing, and then here all these taxes start. Most of North America was nothing
but a wilderness. You have 13 countries. Those
13 colonies just like 13 countries. Little dirt paths is all that
connected them. It took two weeks to get a letter
from Boston to New York. I'm talking about people that
live in primitive times. Most colonists had never traveled
over 30 miles from their birthplace. And these bunch of people have
got something in their soul that they're gonna resist the greatest
power in the world. This is unbelievable. The 13
colonies stretched along the Eastern seaboard. Most of it
only went within 75 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, just a strip
of land. And these are just little royal
communities Did you know there's only four cities in the 1760s
that had 10,000 people living in them? They were Boston, New
York, Philadelphia, and Charleston. America was a rural nation. There was miles sometimes between
people's houses and this little group of squirrel hunters and
musket loaders are gonna take on the greatest army in the world. Boy, this is the preeminent story
of David and Goliath. Liberty, liberty, liberty is
in their soul. Benjamin Franklin is the most
popular American in the world. He's got all of these inventions
that's made him popular. He has gone to England and lived
there for a while. He's gonna establish a brand
new colony on the Ohio River. It's gonna be so huge that he's
gonna be the principal landowner and offer shares. One share would
be 40,000 acres of land. That's right. They were gonna
expand this thing. But British power was in the
hands of the aristocracy. What Franklin didn't know, what
Washington didn't know, is that the British, the ruling class,
never respected us. Stay with me now, I'm getting
somewhere. The mindset of America, no matter how successful we are,
they always look down their nose at us. We're the stepchild. Oh, that aristocracy. You did not gain position or
merit in England by hard work. It was totally by who your family
was. Well, Benjamin Franklin come
from a poor beginning. He's the 10th child of a candle
maker. He made all these discoveries
like the cause of lightning and all that he did. He was never
looked upon, but a commoner. Well, they didn't think he was
worthy to be in their presence. Are you listening? Behind Franklin's
back, they mocked him. They said he's a chimney doctor,
a printer's devil, the father of illegitimate children, and
an atheist. And that certainly wasn't true.
But like Franklin, Jefferson, Washington, Hancock was all looked
down upon as commoners not worthy of even being exalted to a position. They make fun of us. Well, they
have nice carriages, but they don't have matching horses. Or
they've got matching horses, but they don't have the right
saddling. I'm talking about people that
were very arrogant, pompous, and proud. The average English
citizen, as I said, did not own land. They were ruled by the
aristocracy. That's what our forefathers despised. They wanted a land where the
poor man could make it. Didn't matter if you had royal
blood. A land where there'd be no nobility.
A land where there'd be no kingship. A land where there'd be no royal
family. A land where the poor man could
become a millionaire. A land where freedom and liberty
would extend from sea to shining sea whenever that would happen.
The red coat soldiers themselves were weavers, shoemakers, and
farmers. You know what? Now, not the officers
now. They were highly educated and
of royal blood. But the common soldier, most
of them signed up because they were headed to debtor's prison. Here's what the British soldier
was thought of by the aristocracy. A popular English saying, I warned
a mess mate before a ship mate, a ship mate before a stranger,
a stranger before a dog, and a dog before a soldier. That's what they were looked
upon. Our forefathers soon found that out, that we were the contempt
of a ruling class and the parliament who did not respect us and looked
upon us as nothing but mere slaves of the nation of England. Oh,
and I'll tell you one thing, when our forefathers, why do
you think they had such a conviction in the Declaration of Independence? All men are created equal. Not bloodline, not how rich your
mom and daddy were. All men are created equal. It was a rebellion against the
mindset of Mother England. Boy, every bit of this is gonna
greatly impact our great nation. America never has had and never
will have, I don't believe, an aristocracy. Man, we take for
granted. So many of y'all have a house.
You've got a yard. Some of y'all have land to grow
crops. Only the rich had that in England
and America was that place where we could get ahead. The standard
of England, the measurement of England. Listen to this. Our
greatest men were not considered great by by the aristocracy and
the ruling class of Pampas, England. So in the 1760s, when they started
the British tax policies and inserted upon us their will,
how they would bring a ship, for example, bring a ship to
Boston Harbor. If it's full of tea, you got
three weeks to pay the tax. If you don't pay the tax, it's
not gonna be unloaded. when they started the Stamp Act.
Old George Washington said, Parliament has no right to put its hands
in our pockets without our consent. Y'all like that? Said they got
no right sticking their hands in my pockets when they not ask
me that they can. That's how he described it. Even
royal appointees like old Thomas Hutchinson, chief justice of
Massachusetts said, you must not deprive the colonies of their
right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should make laws for
the empire and not for the American people. Our people were proud
to be British citizens. That's what we were. That's why
Paul Revere couldn't say the British are coming. All Americans
were British. We were British citizens. We
were proud to be. They left us alone. We were not
French citizens, Dutch citizens, Spanish citizens. We were British
citizens for 150 years who governed ourselves, who taxed ourselves,
who set up our own court system, elected our own judges, were
totally self-governed. And that's why they rebelled. Now, The things are turning. In the 1760s, you've got people
being taxed without their consent, taxation without representation. Now listen to this. When they
were taxed without their consent, you know who in England got taxed
without their consent? Four groups of people. Number
one was servants, number two were people who did not own property,
number three was women, and number four was children. Some of these
proud American men are highly offended. They're being taxed
without consent and being treated as a servant, as people who did
not own property. Old George Washington said, a
line must be drawn between Great Britain and the colonies, clearly
establishing our rights and we must either ascend our rights
or submit and become abject slaves of the British. When the Stamp
Act happened, everything had paper got taxed. They're even
taxing playing cards. They're taxing a letter you send. They're taxing every document.
You know what that do to Benjamin? Frankly, he's got the printing
press and the newspapers. This infringement upon our rights
was stirred by this saying, don't let your courage cool. This is
one of these sons of liberty, probably Samuel Adams said this.
Don't let your courage cool or a few bullies scare you. We have
nothing to fear but slavery. Love your liberty, fight for
it like men who know its value. If we lose it, we'll never regain
it. The question was never to these
men again, the amount of taxation. It was a tyranny of England thinking
they could tax us and govern us without our consent. Are y'all
getting this? I'm telling you how this nation
came to be. I'm talking about how you got
saved. You was desiring liberty from oppression. Satan was oppressing
you, sin was oppressing you. You cannot get free. And you
heard about one had the power to set men free by the power
of the Holy Spirit and the shed blood of Jesus Christ. And he
freed you. You know what our forefathers
said? The power to tax is the power to destroy. The colonial
legislators sent official petitions to the British parliament, which
were completely ignored. Britain would not hear about
our grievances and our complaints. That's when, in August the 14th,
1765, the effigy of the step-man appeared hanging from the Liberty
Tree. There was such an outcry and
such a rebellion, they got the riots in the streets. Man, they'll
eventually run Thomas Hutchinson out of town. And over this very
thing, a friend of ours, Edmund Burke in Parliament said, we
need trade, not taxes. Let the Americans tax themselves. Well, because of all this uproar
and all this rebellion, 1766 was a repeal of the stamp tax. So here's all these immigrants
coming to America. You mean you can own land? Think
about this. Think about this. 90% of the
nation. You mean we can go there and
own land? We can go there and prosper? And think about the
Americans. The English citizens in Britain
were paying 50 times the tax they were asking us. What's the
big deal? The big deal's liberty. I keep
saying it. The big deal's liberty and the
big deal's freedom. Britain was greatly advantaged
from our natural resources. We'd send those big tall pine
trees. That's how they made the mask
for their ships. I mean, we would send raw material
to England. We'd send crops over there. Americans
would import almost all their finished goods from England.
There was a good trade. There was a good thing going
on from both sides. But then one side got to want
to control the other side and Britain trying to control us.
And then you've got this outcry for freedom. Now look what the
Brits do. On the day the Stamp Act is repealed,
they pass the Declaratory Act which gave the British absolute
right to make laws for the American colonies in all cases whatsoever. Now, did you get that? The declarative
act, that the parliament of England can make laws to control us in
all cases. A year later, new taxes are passed,
a stiff duty on all manufactured goods from England, everything
from paint to wind to paints and to tea, this declarative
act, struck terror in the heart of the American people because
a similar act earlier in that century had been used by England
to take over Ireland. They seen what was coming. This
is not just a little taxation. This is getting the door open
to control. And they're going to nip it in
the bud, Barney Five would say. The colonists are going to take
action. What are they going to do? Boycott the goods of the
British. Hey man, if you can't get somebody's attention, hit
them where the money's at. They got to boycott their goods.
And the manufacturing places and the factories in England
got to fill in the pinch. I'll tell you one thing, the
American people that insulted them is that the very idea that
somebody that's got wealth or power status is superior to me. That offended our people. It
ought to offend you. You put your boots on just like
I do. We've got different positions,
but the ground's level at the foot of the cross. You seeing
the mindset? The colonists began to tar and
feather custom officials. Oh, listen, I mean, these patriots,
man, they got tough. You know, you tar and feather
somebody, you take all their clothes off. And then you pour
hot tar all over them and you burn their skin and you put feathers
on them and run them down the middle of town. That's what they
were doing to the British officials. Hey, those people wanted England
to know you're not better than we are. We're going to govern
ourselves. We'll have liberty or we'll have death. They also
tarred and feathered loyalists. You got caught being loyal to
England, you got tarred and feathered. I mean, these boys been in business.
Amen. The colonists would not yield. They're not gonna surrender.
They're not gonna be controlled by foreign power. The last straw
was the T-tax, 1773. So they bring that, there's three
ships come in. The principal one from East Indian,
British East Indian Company was a Dartmouth. And it had all,
it had 20,000 pounds worth of teeth. That's when old Samuel
Adams and 50 of those sons of Liberty, put coal on their face,
done a sorry, poor job of looking like Mohawk Indians, and feathers
in their hat, and went and boarded the ship, and they threw all
the tea in the Boston Harbor. And that's when, December the
16th, 1773. Why did they do it that day?
That's the day the taxes due. Boy, I'm telling you, these men
are gonna fight for what they believe in. It's called liberty. It's called freedom. Boy, they
got a taste of it. They've had 150 years of living
in this land and they were not about to go back to the way that
it was. Well, you know what the British
do? When they throw all that tea in the harbor, the British
shut the port of Boston to starve them down, starve them out. You
know what the other colonies said? They were strangers. They had the first Continental
Congress, and you got men from 13 colonies. Most of them heard
of each other, but most of them never even met. John Adams had
never been more than 100 miles from Boston. They all met together
and they said, they can shut down Boston, they can shut down
Philadelphia. They can shut down Philadelphia,
they can shut down New York. They can shut down New York,
they can shut down Charleston. If they can revoke their charter,
they can revoke ours. An attack on Boston is an attack
on all of us. That's when Patrick Henry stood
up and said, this day I cease to be a Virginian and I am now
an American. And they stopped looking at each
other as just Virginians, Carolinians, Pennsylvanians. They looked at
one another as one. That's what gave them the power. Well, the British, they shut
down the port of Boston and institute martial law or military law. And you know what they done?
England had the greatest Navy, that's where the power was. They
set their warships up with the guns pointed on the buildings
of Boston. I mean, to fire, to shell them.
If there's any further rebellion, I'll tell you one thing, that's
what brought on Lexington. That's what brought on Concord.
The last straw for those colonists was when they tried to disarm
them. That's what Lexington's about.
I'll tell you when old Pitt Caron and Francis Smith, the leaders
of the British military showed up on Lexington Green. Those
men were not in the road. They were not obstructing the
road. They were just standing on the green, letting them know,
we're not afraid of you and we're not going to back down from you.
And that day, all those hundreds, they started out, they sent out
900 soldiers. Boy, old Jonas Clark, little pastor of the church,
had his 77 men, church members of his church, out there on the
Lexington Green. And whoever shot that first fire,
the shot heard around the world. Those men were standing there,
oh, Captain John Clark from the French and Indian War, deacon
there in the church. He was giving orders to his men.
He said, don't molest them, let them pass by. Don't fire upon
them unless they fire on you, but stand your ground. And if they mean to have war,
let it start here. Pitcairn comes up on his horse.
British soldiers come up. They dismount from the column
they were in and made their line, put their bayonets. Can you imagine
that sound? As those British come around
that curve, those men are standing there at daylight. Those men
don't even have bayonets, them little American colonists. All
they've got's a musket and their pouch of musket balls and their
little powder horn and they're standing there in defiance. against
the oppressors. Here comes that drummer, all
that impressive, that bright scarlet uniform and bright white
pants and those bayonets sparkling in the morning sun. How intimidating
that must have been. They lined up in front of them,
put a bead on them. And old Captain Parker said,
man, That old Pitcairn come up there and said, disperse you
blank rebels, disperse. Lay down your weapons. Captain
Parker said, disperse men. Don't you lay down your weapons.
They're not disarming us. Disperse. Half of them is already
walking away. When the British started firing
on our men, it was nothing but a turkey shoot. When it was over,
very few of our men even was able to fire back. Eight lay
dead and 10 were wounded, members of that church. That's Lexington.
That's where it all started. And I'll tell you what, old Pit
Karen was sitting there eating his meat and stirring his brandy
and water. Said, by the end of this day,
I'm gonna be mixing Yankee blood. Little did he know, they said
the British are coming. No, the Americans are coming.
And at Concord, they're gonna come out of them hamlets and
villages. They're gonna come from all over into that day.
They're gonna be 4,000. I mean, buzz saws out there to
take vengeance on what's just happened. You know what? 13 became one. Old John Adams,
Jesse, you come on. Old John Adams stood at the Continental
Convention, the first one. He said, man, we got 13 clocks. We need 13 clocks to strike as
one. And at the end of that convention,
Adam says, 13 clogs are striking as one. Now that was the secret. When you hit one, you've hit
all. Amen. If a nation trying to rise from
the dust of history to become a great super world power has
got enough wisdom to know the power of unity, why can't the
local churches figure that out? When we all become one, overlook
our little disagreements and our little personality quirks,
together one calls the cause of Christ. You become a great
people for the glory of God. You know what liberty means?
You know what liberty means to preach? You know what it is to
have liberty to pray? What it is to have liberty to
worship God when God drives back the oppressor? the liberty to
get saved. God's got to give liberty for
sinners to come to Christ. God's got to give liberty for
us to do the work of God. Where the Spirit of the Lord
is, there is liberty. Boy, thank God for the day of
liberation in my soul. You remember that day in your
soul? When God run the tyrant out of your heart, sets you free,
give you a life worth living, a purpose worth living. Amen. These men had enough insight
to do what they did for their posterity. That's what we're
to do in this hour. I don't know when the Lord's
coming. He may come today. He may come next year. He may
not come in my lifetime. But I know one thing, the church,
His church is going to be here when He comes. Somebody's got
to carry on, and we're the ones got to do it. Let's bow our heads
in prayer. Holy Father, thank you for the
precious blood.
Give me Liberty or Give me DEATH
Series American Revolution
| Sermon ID | 531211821312649 |
| Duration | 45:04 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday Service |
| Language | English |
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