TODAY ON TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
WE MIGHT ASK OURSELVES THE QUESTION,
“IS THIS COUNTRY WORTH FIGHTING FOR?”
YOU COULD NOT HAVE AN EFFECTIVE FIGHTING FORCE
IF YOU ARE TRYING TO SEPARATE AND DIVIDE PEOPLE
IN THE FOXHOLE THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE CONDUCIVE.
HELLO, AND WELCOME TO TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM,
A PRODUCTION OF CORAL RIDGE MINISTRIES.
I’M PASTOR ROB PACIENZA.
IT HAS BECOME COMMON IN AMERICA,
ESPECIALLY ON SCHOOL CAMPUSES AND IN THE MEDIA,
TO LOOK AT OUR NATION SOLELY THROUGH THE LENS OF SINS
THAT WERE COMMITTED HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO BY OTHER GENERATIONS.
THE EFFECT IS TO DEFLATE PATRIOTISM AND INSTILL
EMBARRASSMENT ABOUT THE UNITED STATES.
ON TODAY’S PROGRAM, YOU’LL DISCOVER SOMETHING
THAT’S VERY COUNTER-CULTURAL TODAY THAT
AMERICA IS A NATION BLESSED BY GOD AND WORTH FIGHTING FOR.
EIGHTY YEARS AGO THIS SUMMER, THE AMERICAN MILITARY
LED THE D-DAY INVASION OF NORMANDY, FRANCE
THAT TURNED THE TIDE OF WORLD WAR II.
BRAVE AMERICANS HAVE LAID DOWN THEIR LIVES FOR CENTURIES
ON BEHALF OF THIS NATION.
BUT IN MORE RECENT YEARS, THE MILITARY HAS BECOME A
GROUND OF SOCIAL EXPERIMENTATION FOR THE WOKE LEFT.
OUR VERY OWN DAVID WRIGHT HAS MORE.
I THINK OUR MILITARY TODAY IS AS WEAK AS IT HAS BEEN
IN MY LIFETIME AND ITS DECLINED DELIBERATELY BECAUSE OF
THE POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.
IT HAS DECLINED SIGNIFICANTLY AND REMEMBER THAT
THE MISSION OF THE MILITARY IS TO WIN THE NATION'S WARS
THERE'S IT HAS NO OTHER MISSION.
THE UNITED STATES MILITARY IS THE MOST
POWERFUL MILITARY IN THE WORLD.
HOWEVER, IN RECENT TIMES, IT HAS SEEMINGLY GONE WOKE.
IT HAS SPENT SIGNIFICANT TIME AND ATTENTION
ON RADICAL LEFT-WING IDEAS LIKE TRANSGENDERISM,
CRITICAL RACE THEORY AND DEI.
WELL, UNFORTUNATELY, SOMETIMES WE HAVE POLITICAL
ADMINISTRATIONS THAT COME IN AND INSTEAD OF SEEING
THE MILITARY FOR WHAT ITS REAL PURPOSE IS,
THEY WANT TO USE IT FOR SORT OF THEIR SOCIAL POLICY.
DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION SOUNDS LIKE A WONDERFUL IDEA,
BUT WHEN YOU BEGIN TO UNPACK IT,
YOU REALIZE THAT IT ACTUALLY WORKS AGAINST US
EVEN IN RACE RELATIONS RATHER THAN FOR US.
IN 2021, SENATOR MARCO RUBIO AND CONGRESSMAN CHIP ROY
ARGUED IN AN 18-PAGE DOCUMENT THAT THE WHITE HOUSE’S
“SUSTAINED ASSAULT FUELED BY WOKE VIRTUE SIGNALING”
IS “ERODING OUR GREATEST SOURCE OF SECURITY” IN THE WORLD.
I THINK THE REPORT FROM SENATOR RUBIO AND CONGRESSMAN ROY
IS A VERY NECESSARY AND IMPORTANT STEP
IN REVEALING TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, RIGHT?
BECAUSE THE MILITARY WORKS FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE SUPPORT THE MILITARY,
BUT IT HAS TO BE A TWO-WAY STREET.
AND SO THIS REPORT WAS IMPORTANT FOR OPENING
THE AMERICAN PUBLIC'S EYES TO SEEING WHAT IS EXACTLY
WHAT'S HAPPENING INSIDE THE MILITARY.
I THINK IN MANY WAYS THE AMERICAN PEOPLE STILL HAVE THIS,
I THINK THIS SOMEWHAT ANTIQUATED VIEW OF THE MILITARY
AS SORT OF THIS LAST BASTION
OF CONSERVATIVE TRADITIONAL AMERICAN VALUES.
AND THAT'S NO LONGER THE CASE.
INDIVIDUALS SUFFERING FROM GENDER-DYSPHORIA
ARE NOW FREE TO SERVE IN THE MILITARY,
THANKS TO AN EXECUTIVE ORDER BY
PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ISSUED JUST HOURS AFTER HIS INAUGURATION.
THE MILITARY ALSO PROVIDES TIME OFF FOR ACTIVE SERVICE MEMBERS
TO UNDERGO SEX-CHANGE SURGERIES AT TAXPAYER EXPENSE.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR SAID TO THE YOUNG MEN ASSEMBLED
AT WEST POINT IN 1963, AS HE STOOD IN THE MESS HALL
YOUR MISSION REMAINS DETERMINED, FIXED AND VIABLE.
IT IS TO WIN THE NATION'S WARS, THAT HAS NOT CHANGED.
AND EVERYTHING THAT OUR MILITARY DOES SHORT OF GOING TO WAR
SHOULD BE FOCUSED ON DEVELOPING THEIR SKILLS AND BEING READY
WHEN THE TIME COMES THAT THEY DO HAVE TO GO INTO BATTLE.
UNFORTUNATELY, TODAY WE ARE SEEING A PERIOD WHERE
WE'RE WASTING A LOT OF TIME
THAT SHOULD BE USED PREPARING FOR THE ULTIMATE BATTLES.
WE'RE WASTING A LOT OF TIME WITH THINGS LIKE CRITICAL RACE THEORY
AND INCLUSION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT
CONTRIBUTE NOTHING TO THE READINESS OF OUR MILITARY.
SO I'M VERY CONCERNED ABOUT IT.
THE U.S. NAVY FACED HEAVY BACKLASH
FOR A PARTNERSHIP WITH A DRAG QUEEN INFLUENCER ON SOCIAL MEDIA
TO PROMOTE RECRUITMENT FOR THE NAVY.
ACTIVE-DUTY SAILOR YEOMAN 2ND CLASS JOSHUA KELLY,
WHOSE ALTER-EGO IS DRAG QUEEN HARPY DANIELS,
WAS NAMED THE NAVY'S FIRST DIGITAL AMBASSADOR.
I’M RIGHT UP THERE WITH THE BIG DOGS.
GIRLS COME ON LEAVE THE SAVING THE WORLD TO THE MEN.
I DON’T THINK SO.
FORMER NAVY SEAL, ROBERT O’NEILL TWEETED OUT IN RESPONSE:
“ALRIGHT. THE U.S. NAVY IS NOW
USING AN ENLISTED SAILOR DRAG QUEEN AS A RECRUITER.
I’M DONE.
TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR MILITARY FROM THE INSIDE?
I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO FIRST UNDERSTAND
WHO GENERALLY COMPRISES OUR MILITARY,
WHO ARE THE PEOPLE THAT,
ACCORDING TO ALL SURVEYS AND STATISTICS,
ARE THE PEOPLE MOST LIKELY TO JOIN THE MILITARY?
AND ACCORDING TO EVERY STATISTICAL SURVEY I'VE SEEN,
THE PEOPLE THAT ARE MOST LIKELY TO JOIN
THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ARE YOUNG MALES
BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18 AND 24.
AND THIS IS IMPORTANT.
THOSE WHO IDENTIFY AS HIGHLY RELIGIOUS
ARE SIGNIFICANTLY MORE LIKELY TO JOIN THE MILITARY
THAN THOSE WHO IDENTIFY AS NON-RELIGIOUS.
AND THAT MEANS THAT PEOPLE OF FAITH FORM
LARGELY FORM THE BACKBONE OF OUR MILITARY.
THE PROBLEM THAT OUR MILITARY IS FACING IS THAT IT IS NO LONGER
PRESENTING THAT AS AN ATTRACTIVE OPTION TO YOUNG PEOPLE.
THEY'RE TURNING AWAY AT HIGHER NUMBERS
THAN THEY EVER HAVE IN DECADES.
WE ARE SEEING ONE OF THE WORST RECRUITING AND RETENTION
CRISES IN OUR NATION'S HISTORY.
THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S CHIEF OF NAVAL OPERATIONS,
ADMIRAL MICHAEL GILDAY, DECIDED IN RECENT YEARS TO ADD
IBRAM X. KENDI’S BOOK, HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST
ONE OF THE LEADING SOURCEBOOKS ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY
TO HIS LIST OF RECOMMENDED READINGS.
TO GIVE AN IDEA OF HOW RADICAL KENDI’S BOOK IS,
ONE OF ITS FAMOUS ARGUMENTS IS THAT
“CAPITALISM IS ESSENTIALLY RACIST,” AND THAT
“TO TRULY BE ANTIRACIST,
YOU ALSO HAVE TO BE TRULY ANTICAPITALIST.”
WHEN YOU PUT MEN OR WOMEN OR MEN AND WOMEN INTO COMBAT,
WHAT YOU'LL FIND IS WHEN THEY GET IN ACTUAL COMBAT,
IT'S NO LONGER ABOUT THE OATH THAT THEY TOOK
TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES.
THAT'S WHY THEY SERVED.
THAT'S WHY THEY'RE THERE.
BUT WHEN THE BULLETS START FLYING,
THEY FIGHT FOR EACH OTHER.
THEY FIGHT FOR THE MAN OR THE WOMAN ON THE RIGHT AND LEFT
IN FRONT OF THEM AND BACK OF THEM,
THAT'S WHAT THEY FIGHT FOR. NOW,
WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN YOU TEACH CRITICAL RACE THEORY?
YOU SET THEM DOWN, YOU DIVIDE THEM UP AND YOU SAY,
ALL OF YOU ON THIS SIDE OF THE ROOM,
YOU'RE WHITE, YOU'RE THE OPPRESSORS.
AND ALL OF YOU ON THIS SIDE, OVER HERE,
YOU'RE THE BLACK OR THE BROWN, AND YOU ARE THE OPPRESSED,
THESE PEOPLE AND THEIR GENERATIONS BEFORE THEM
HAVE BEEN OPPRESSING YOU,
YOU DON'T HAVE A CHANCE BECAUSE THESE PEOPLE
AND THEIR PREDECESSORS ABUSED YOU,
DOES THAT BUILD UNITY?
I DON'T KNOW OF ANY WAY THAT WE COULD ASSESS THAT
THAT BUILDS THE KIND OF UNITY.
ALL IT BUILDS IS DIVISION.
ANOTHER INSTANCE OF THE MILITARY GOING WOKE WAS
DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC IN 2020.
THE AMERICAN MILITARY DISCHARGED SERVICE MEMBERS
WHO WERE NOT VACCINATED,
EVEN THOUGH THEY CLAIMED EXEMPTION FOR RELIGIOUS REASONS.
IT BECAME PAINFULLY OBVIOUS THE UNITED STATES NAVY
WAS BLATANTLY VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION
AND FEDERAL LAW AND JUST ACTING AS IF
IT HAD THE UNILATERAL AUTHORITY TO DO,
THAT IT COULD CREATE ITS OWN LAWS.
AND IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT CONGRESS HAD SAID,
THAT IT WAS THE UNITED STATES NAVY AND WHATEVER IT SAID WAS,
WAS THE SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND. WELL, GUESS WHAT?
THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS IN THIS COUNTRY.
PEOPLE OF FAITH ARE UN-WELCOME IN THE MILITARY.
EVEN IF IT'S NOT THE OFFICIAL POSITION OF
THE UNITED STATES THAT PEOPLE OF FAITH
NEED NOT APPLY THAT'S CERTAINLY THE
BELIEF FOR MANY OF PEOPLE MANY PEOPLE SERVING IN OUR MILITARY.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOK AT TODAY'S MILITARY AND UNDERSTAND,
I COME FROM A FAMILY WHERE MY FATHER SERVED IN WORLD WAR II.
MY OLDER BROTHER SERVED IN VIETNAM.
I SERVED 22 YEARS.
THIS WAS ALL ABOUT THE OATH THAT WE TOOK TO SUPPORT AND
DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN OR DOMESTIC.
IT WAS NOT ABOUT TURNING OUR MILITARY TO SOME SOCIAL
EXPERIMENT BASED UPON A CERTAIN IDEOLOGICAL AGENDA.
AND THE REASON WHY YOU SEE SUCH A LOW NUMBER
AS FAR AS RECRUITING AND RETAINING
OUR YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN IN THE MILITARY,
THEY DIDN'T JOIN THE MILITARY TO LEARN ABOUT PROPER PRONOUNS.
THEY DIDN'T JOIN THE MILITARY TO LEARN ABOUT CULTURAL MARXISM,
THAT ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN PIGMENTATION,
THEY ARE OPPRESSORS AND THE OTHER GROUP OF PEOPLE,
BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN PIGMENTATION,
THEY ARE OPPRESSED.
YOU COULD NOT HAVE AN EFFECTIVE FIGHTING FORCE
IF YOU ARE TRYING TO SEPARATE AND DIVIDE PEOPLE IN THE FOXHOLE
THAT IS NOT GOING TO BE CONDUCIVE.
WE ARE MOVING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION.
WHERE CROSSES WENT DOWN THEY COME BACK THEY’D COME BACK UP.
WHERE 10 COMMANDMENTS WERE PUT IN CLOSETS THEY COME BACK OUT.
THE LANDMARK SUPREME COURT RULING CONFIRMED THAT IS NOT
UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO ACKNOWLEDGE GOD IN PUBLIC LIFE.
AND THERE IS SOMETHING YOU AND I CAN DO RIGHT NOW
TO RESTORE GOD TO PUBLIC PLACES.
A FEDERAL JUDGE BANISHED THE GRANITE 10 COMMANDMENTS MONUMENT
FROM THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT BUILDING IN 2003
BUT YOUR SIGNATURE ON OUR RESTORE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
PETITION WILL HELP PERSUADE THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT
TO RETURN GOD’S LAW TO PUBLIC DISPLAY.
GO TO CRM.TV TODAY TO SIGN THE PETITION.
HELP US MOVE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN A POSITIVE DIRECTION.
IF YOU STAND YOU’VE GOT THE FREEDOM, WE’VE GOT THE MOMENTUM
AND I THINK WE CAN TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK.
BUT THAT’S GOING TO DEPEND UPON THE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY.
PLEASE SIGN THE RESTORE THE 10 COMMANDMENTS PETITION AND
TOGETHER WE WILL LIFT UP CHRIST IN AMERICA AS LORD OF ALL.
IN A SINFUL, FALLEN WORLD, ARMIES AND POLICE FORCES ARE
NECESSARY TO KEEP ORDER, PROTECT BORDERS, AND STOP TYRANNY.
UNFORTUNATELY, BECAUSE OF THE LEFT’S SOCIAL ENGINEERING,
MANY YOUNG PEOPLE HAVE COME TO BELIEVE THAT WE WOULD BE BETTER
OFF WITHOUT THE FORCES THAT PROTECT US AND KEEP ORDER.
AND THEY’VE BEEN TAUGHT THAT AMERICA
IS IRREDEEMABLY STAINED BY RACISM,
SEXISM, AND A HOST OF OTHER “ISMS” AND PHOBIAS.
SO DOES AMERICA STILL HAVE ANY VALUE?
SHOULD THE CHRISTIAN BE STANDING UP FOR IT?
IS AMERICA STILL A NATION WORTH FIGHTING FOR?
MY PASTOR AND MENTOR, DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY,
TAKES A STIRRING LOOK AT THAT QUESTION.
IMAGINE THAT THE YEAR WAS, SAY, 1939,
AND YOU WERE OF DRAFT ABLE AGE.
YOUR COUNTRY WAS AT WAR.
YOU MIGHT VERY WELL BE ASKING YOURSELF THE QUESTION,
“IS THIS NATION WORTH FIGHTING FOR?
IS IT WORTH MY DYING FOR?”
EASY QUESTION TO ANSWER?
OH. I FORGOT.
I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT YOU LIVE IN NAZI GERMANY.
THE QUESTION JUST BECAME A LITTLE HARDER TO ANSWER,
I TRUST.
WE MIGHT ASK OURSELVES THE QUESTION,
“IS THIS COUNTRY WORTH FIGHTING FOR
OR FOR THAT MATTER, ANY?
THE MORE PRECIOUS ANYTHING IS, THE MORE VALUABLE,
THE MORE A PERSON WOULD BE WILLING TO PAY FOR IT.
WELL, LET’S LOOK AND SEE WHAT WE HAVE AND HOW VALUABLE IT IS.
IF WE GO BACK 500 OR SO YEARS TO A TIME WHEN
THE OLD WORLD WAS GROWING OLD AND OLDER BY THE YEAR,
DECAY AND DESPAIR WERE EVERYWHERE TO BE FOUND,
BUT UNBEKNOWNST TO ANY OF THEM,
GOD HAD SAVED,
GOD HAD RESERVED IN THE MIDST OF TWO GREAT OCEANS
THE CONTINENT OF AMERICA FOR THE LATTER TIMES
AS THE LAST GREAT HOPE OF MANKIND.
I HAVE NOT HEARD THAT EVER MENTIONED ABOUT ANY OTHER NATION
BUT THIS ONE; THE LAST GREAT HOPE OF MANKIND.
JUST LOOK AT THE PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES OF
WHAT HAS BEEN GIVEN TO US BY GOD.
FROM “SEA TO SHINING SEA”
GOD HAS PLACED THIS MAGNIFICENT LAND,
WHICH IS MOST CERTAINLY OF ENORMOUS VALUE
AND WORTH FIGHTING FOR,
FROM THE SNOW-CAPPED MOUNTAINS TO THE VIRTUALLY
LIMITLESS PRAIRIES NOW GOLD WITH GRAIN,
FROM THE COUNTLESS RIVERS AND THOUSANDS OF LAKES,
WHICH MAKE IT FERTILE AND GREEN.
GOD HAS GIVEN TO US THIS ABUNDANTLY PRODUCTIVE LAND,
WHICH IS VIRTUALLY CAPABLE OF FEEDING THE WHOLE WORLD.
CONSIDERING WHAT WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN,
HOW MUCH MORE SHOULD WE BE WILLING TO RETURN?
AND SO, HAVING RESERVED THIS LAND IN THE MIDST OF THE OCEANS,
GOD AT LAST PREPARED A PEOPLE.
THOSE VALIANT PIONEERS, THE PILGRIMS AND THE PURITANS,
CAME TO ESTABLISH THAT PARTICULAR SORT OF LAND THAT
GOD WANTED IT TO BE
A LAND WHERE JESUS CHRIST WAS KING AND SOVEREIGN.
AS OUR FOUNDERS SAID:
“WE HAVE THIS DAY ON JULY 4, 1776
RESTORED THE SOVEREIGN, TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER.”
AND GOD GAVE US THOSE HEARTY MEN AND WOMEN,
THE PILGRIMS AND PURITANS WHO WERE,
ABOVE ALL, PEOPLE OF FAITH,
PEOPLE WHO LOVED GOD WITH HEART AND MIND AND STRENGTH AND SOUL,
PEOPLE WHO LOVED HIS WORD
AND READ IT DAILY AND DETERMINED TO TEACH IT TO THEIR CHILDREN TO
BRING THEM UP IN THE NURTURE AND ADMONITION OF THE LORD.
YES, THIS IT WAS AND IS A VERY SPECIAL LAND.
IT WAS BUILT UPON
THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
OTHER THAN THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN SO BENIGHTED
BY A SECULAR SCHOOL SYSTEM OR ARE SO BIASED THAT
THEY ARE UNWILLING TO LOOK AT THE TRUTH,
THERE CAN BE NO DOUBT
THAT THIS WAS FOUNDED AS A CHRISTIAN NATION.
THE PILGRIMS SAID THAT IT WAS THEIR HOPE THAT THEY WOULD AT
LEAST BE A STEPPING-STONE TO TAKING THE GOSPEL
TO ALL OF THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD.
DEAR FRIEND, THAT HOPE AND PRAYER
OF THEIRS HAS BEEN FULFILLED.
AMERICA HAS SENT OUT A STREAM OF THOUSANDS UPON THOUSANDS
OF MISSIONARIES AND HAS REACHED
ACTUALLY EVERY SINGLE NATION ON EARTH.
AND FURTHERMORE, WE SEE MORE AND MORE CHRISTIANS
SHARING THE GOSPEL THAN EVER BEFORE,
AND WE FIND THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY
THAT HAVE ACTUALLY COME TO A LIFE-CHANGING,
SAVING EXPERIENCE WITH JESUS CHRIST IS GROWING DRAMATICALLY,
WE ARE CALLED IN THE SCRIPTURES
TO BE SOLDIERS OF CHRIST, TO FOLLOW CHRIST,
THE CAPTAIN IN THE WELL-FOUGHT FIGHT,
TO SERVE IN HIS ARMY.
AND WE ARE TOLD THAT WE ARE TO TAKE THE WORD OF GOD,
WHICH IS THE SWORD OF GOD.
BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
WE ARE TO PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD,
AND WE ARE TO FIGHT THE GOOD FIGHT OF FAITH.
THAT KIND OF ARMY, HOWEVER, DOES NOT KILL PEOPLE.
THE ONLY STATISTICS THAT IT WOULD HAVE
WOULD NOT BE OF THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN KILLED,
BUT OF THOSE WHO WERE DEAD WHO ARE MADE ALIVE,
WHO HAVE FOUND THE JOY OF KNOWING CHRIST PERSONALLY,
OF EXPERIENCING HIS LOVE IN THEIR HEARTS,
WHO HAVE SEEN THEIR LIVES AND THEIR HOMES
AND THEIR FAMILIES TRANSFORMED BY HIS GRACE.
WHAT A WONDERFUL ARMY THAT IS, DEAR FRIEND,
AND ALL OF US ARE CALLED TO BE A PART OF IT,
AND IF YOU ARE NOT, YOU CAN ENLIST TODAY.
WHEN YOU RECEIVE JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR AND LORD,
YOU RECEIVE HIM AS THE CAPTAIN OF YOUR HEART,
THAT ONE THAT YOU ARE GOING TO FOLLOW.
AND YOU ARE GOING TO USE THE POWER OF HIS WORD,
THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST, TO QUICKEN THE DEAD,
TO CHANGE THE HEARTS OF THOSE WHO ARE IN LOVE WITH EVIL.
THE BIBLE SAYS: GOD SAYS THOSE THAT HATE ME LOVE DEATH,
AND THEY DO.
THEY LOVE ABORTION, THEY LOVE INFANTICIDE,
THEY LOVE SUICIDE, THEY LOVE HOLOCAUSTS,
THEY LOVE DESTROYING PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY HATE GOD.
IF THEIR HEARTS ARE CHANGED AND THAT STONY HEART IS TAKEN AWAY
AND A HEART OF FLESH THAT LOVES ITS GOD IS PLACED IN,
THEY WILL LOVE LIFE,
AND THEY WILL DO THEIR BEST
TO SEE THAT OTHERS COME TO KNOW THAT LIFE.
AH, DEAR FRIEND, GOD ALMIGHTY WANTS YOU AND YOU AND YOU
IN HIS ARMY, THE ARMY OF CHRIST,
THE ARMY OF LIFE THAT FOREVER ARMY
WHICH IS CHANGING AND WILL CHANGE THE WHOLE WORLD.
ARE YOU A PART OF THAT ARMY?
HI, I’M JENNIFER KENNEDY CASSIDY.
AS MY FATHER JUST SHARED, WE ARE CALLED TO SERVE
IN THE ARMY OF JESUS CHRIST.
BUT THAT’S NOT A MILITARY ARMY WITH WEAPONS.
INSTEAD, WE USE THE WORD OF GOD BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO BRING PEOPLE TO HIM AND
EXTEND HIS KINGDOM OVER THE EARTH.
THIS NATION WAS SETTLED AND FOUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO TOOK
GOD’S WORD AND GOD’S PROVIDENCE SERIOUSLY.
THEY KNEW IT’S THE ONLY SURE FOUNDATION TO BUILD UPON.
BUT THAT’S SOMETHING THAT OUR NATION IS QUICKLY FORGETTING-AND
THERE ARE MANY IN ACADEMIA, THE MEDIA,
AND ENTERTAINMENT WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS TRYING TO ERASE AND
REWRITE OUR HISTORY TO MAKE US A SECULAR NATION.
BUT JUST AS IN ANCIENT ISRAEL WHERE
“EVERYONE DID WHAT WAS RIGHT IN HIS OWN EYES,”
AMERICA IS QUICKLY BECOMING A PLACE
WHERE EACH PERSON MAKES UP THEIR OWN TRUTH
AND THE RESULT IS CHAOS.
THAT’S WHY WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU BY SENDING YOU A BOOK THAT
WILL TAKE YOU ON A JOURNEY INTO AMERICA’S PAST TO UNDERSTAND
WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR AMERICA AND WHO WE ARE AS A NATION.
WE’LL SEND YOU THIS FULLY ILLUSTRATED,
DELUXE HARDCOVER EDITION OF THE BOOK.
GOD’S PROMISES FOR THE AMERICAN PATRIOT,
AS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION.
THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU TO TELL THE TRUTH
ABOUT AMERICA’S HERITAGE,
TO PROCLAIM GOD’S WORD AND
BRING THE HOPE OF THE GOSPEL TO OUR NATION.
YOU’LL BE INSPIRED BY STORIES AND EXCERPTS FROM KEY FIGURES
THROUGHOUT AMERICAN HISTORY, AND THE TRUTH ABOUT HOW CENTRAL
CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN TO THE SUCCESS
OF THE AMERICAN EXPERIMENT.
IT COMBINES HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT OUR FOREFATHERS WITH
PROMISES FROM GOD'S WORD THAT YOU CAN RELY ON
IN YOUR OWN LIFE TODAY.
YOU’LL MARVEL AT HOW GOD HAS BLESSED AMERICA
AND IT WILL SUPERCHARGE YOUR OWN DESIRE
TO SEEK AGAIN HIS BLESSING ON OUR NATION.
AND IF YOU’RE ABLE TO GIVE A
GENEROUS DONATION OF $40 OR MORE,
WE’LL SEND YOU THE BOOK PLUS
OUR CLASSIC DOCUMENTARY PROGRAM ON DVD,
ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
THIS SPECIAL IS HOSTED BY MY DAD, DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY,
AND IT WAS A LABOR OF LOVE
SHOT ON LOCATION IN HISTORIC VIRGINIA,
AS WELL AS OTHER KEY SPOTS IN AMERICA’S SETTLING AND FOUNDING.
THIS POWERFUL PROGRAM DISPELS THE FALSE NOTION
THAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED AS A SECULAR NATION,
AND FEATURES EXPERTS LIKE HISTORIAN DANIEL DREISBACH,
THE OFFICIAL RESEARCH HISTORIAN AT MOUNT VERNON, MARY THOMPSON,
AND WILLIAM J. FEDERER AMONG MANY OTHERS.
MY DAD WAS PASSIONATE ABOUT AMERICA’S CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONS
AND FOUGHT AGAINST THE FORCES TRYING
TO ERASE OUR NATION’S GODLY HERITAGE.
HE’LL HELP YOU, YOUR CHILDREN, AND YOUR GRANDCHILDREN
REDISCOVER THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA IN THIS CLASSIC PROGRAM,
ONE NATION UNDER GOD.
THAT’S THE INSPIRING BOOK,
GOD’S PROMISES FOR THE AMERICAN PATRIOT,
AS THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION.
AND THE BOOK PLUS THE DVD, ONE NATION UNDER GOD,
AS THANKS FOR YOUR DONATION OF $40 OR MORE.
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THERE ARE MANY CHRISTIAN PASTORS AND LEADERS
WHO SAY THAT THINGS LIKE NATIONS AND GOVERNMENTS ARE WORLDLY,
AND THAT WE SHOULD PUT THEM ASIDE
IN FAVOR OF MORE “SPIRITUAL PURSUITS.”
BUT IS THAT TRUE?
A MORE CAREFUL READING OF THE BIBLE
LEADS US TO THE CONCLUSION THAT IT’S NOT.
LOOKING AT IT FROM ANOTHER DIRECTION
MAKES IT A BIT MORE OBVIOUS.
ARE OUR FAMILIES IMPORTANT?
OR SHOULD WE BE PUTTING THEM ASIDE
FOR MORE SPIRITUAL PURSUITS?
IT’S NOT HARD TO SEE THAT IT’S A FALSE DICHOTOMY.
WE SHOULD BE VALUING OUR FAMILY AND VALUING SPIRITUAL PURSUITS,
RECOGNIZING THAT THE FAMILY IS ONE OF THE UNITS
THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US FOR ACCOMPLISHING THAT.
A NATION IS SIMILAR.
DIFFERENT ONES ARE GOVERNED IN DIFFERENT WAYS
AND IN AMERICA, WE’VE HAD ONE THAT HAS ALLOWED
FREEDOM TO EXERCISE OUR RELIGION,
THE FREEDOM TO GATHER TOGETHER TO WORSHIP,
AND THE FREEDOM TO PROCLAIM THE GOSPEL OPENLY.
THAT’S A BLESSING
AND A MORE GOD-HONORING WAY OF GOVERNING A NATION
THAN THE WAY, SAY, NORTH KOREA DOES IT.
THERE ARE BETTER GOVERNMENTS AND THERE ARE WORSE GOVERNMENTS-AND
GOD IS THE MEASURE OF WHICH IS BETTER OR WORSE.
WHAT’S MORE, WHEN WE’VE BEEN GIVEN THE KIND OF GIFT
THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US IN AMERICA,
WE HAVE A BIBLICAL OBLIGATION TO PROTECT IT.
WE HAVE A STEWARDSHIP RESPONSIBILITY
OVER WHAT HAS BEEN ENTRUSTED TO US.
PROVERBS TELLS US,
THE FAMOUS PARABLE OF THE PRODIGAL SON
IS ABOUT ONE WHO FOOLISHLY SQUANDERS HIS INHERITANCE.
SADLY, AT LEAST SOME OF OUR INHERITANCE
HAS ALREADY BEEN SQUANDERED.
WHERE ONCE WE ACKNOWLEDGED GOD AND RESPECTED THE LAW,
WE NOW LIVE IN A NATION WHERE GOD IS MARGINALIZED
AND THE CONSTITUTION IS TOSSED ASIDE
EVEN BY JUDGES AND POLITICIANS WHO SHOULD KNOW BETTER.
OUR DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ONCE DECLARED
LIFE AS THE FIRST RIGHT
AND WE’VE SPENT THE PAST FIFTY YEARS
SLAUGHTERING MORE THAN A MILLION CHILDREN IN THE WOMB EACH YEAR.
AND AT LEAST PART OF THE BLAME GOES TO CHRISTIANS
WHO FAILED TO TAKE A STAND AND LOOKED THE OTHER WAY,
IN THE NAME OF FOCUSING ON THE “SPIRITUAL.”
TO DO SO ISN’T SPIRITUAL AT ALL,
BUT IS ACTUALLY A DERELICTION OF OUR DUTY.
SO WITH OUR NATION FACING A MAJOR ELECTION THIS FALL,
WE HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO BE REGISTERED, TO VOTE,
AND TO VOTE FOR OUR CHRISTIAN VALUES.
AND LET US BE THANKFUL FOR THOSE WHO DID TAKE A STAND,
AND WHO PUT EVERYTHING ON THE LINE FOR THIS NATION.
THE GREAT FOUNDING FATHER JOHN ADAMS,
WHO SIGNED THE DECLARATION, THE CONSTITUTION,
AND WAS THE SECOND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
WRITING TO HIS WIFE ABIGAIL,
ONCE DIRECTLY ADDRESSED YOU AND ME.
HE WROTE, QUOTE,
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THERE IS A WAR ON AMERICAN HISTORY,
AND IT'S A WAR OVER THE NARRATIVE OF AMERICAN HISTORY.
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