“We should, it’s not our acts that save us, but once we’re born again, we should have much fruit. And that’s actions of obedience. And so, this is what he’s referring to, that faith will take on form. It’ll take on the form of an action of obedience.”
“And the reason it matters, we know God’s ways work. So we’re looking, going, man, our Constitution is so successful. Why, how?
It’s been influenced by the Bible more than anything else. But then to your point, the second thing, Dad, is there’s a lot of people that today might argue we’re in a constitutional crisis. I think Charlie Kirk, right?
Even in some of his interviews, people might have seen videos over the last week or so. He talked about this, where he says, you know, people say we’re in a constitutional crisis. The problem is not the constitution.
The problem is the people. Why? Because, Dad, to your point, the really famous John Adams quote, it was in a letter written to the militia of Massachusetts in 1798.
And he said, our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It’s wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Our constitution doesn’t work for people that don’t have a religious and moral foundation because our constitution was built on giving freedom to people.
But when you have freedom to immoral people, they do immoral things, which is what has filled our newsfeed over the last several[…]”
If you can click the link, this is a great explanation why the “free speech” argument rings hollow when it comes to people being held accountable for publicly celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk. It’s not godly to celebrate a man being shot and killed for having controversial (biblical) views. In fact it’s evil to do such a thing.
Free speech works if the people are able to practice self-restraint that is brought about by biblical values. If the people don’t subscribe to the biblical morals and worldview that the Founding Fathers had, then the Constitution is not going to work, and America will become like the other nations of world.
America is a great country only because of the biblical foundation on which it was founded on. I hope that it continues for another 250 years.
I encourage you to listen to the whole episode. (The link to the podcast is at the end of the quote.)
“Having enough sometimes is not enough. It makes you become blind to the fact that you are walking in a ditch, and the blind leads the blind, and they are walking in a ditch.”