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.