John Zubly played a key role in the struggle for independence in Colonial America. He also has a tragic story as he tried to stand for what he thought was best.
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00:00 --> 00:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Revived thoughts is a production of Revived Studios.
00:09 --> 00:11 [SPEAKER_01]: This is Troy Angel and you are listening to Revived Thoughts.
00:18 --> 00:25 [SPEAKER_02]: It is remarkable that after Israel conquered their enemies and took possession of the layer promised to their ancestors.
00:26 --> 00:29 [SPEAKER_02]: They nearly fell into a civil war among themselves.
00:30 --> 00:35 [SPEAKER_00]: every episode we bring you a different voice from history in a sermon that they delivered.
00:35 --> 00:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Today we're going back to Georgia in 1766.
00:38 --> 00:46 [SPEAKER_00]: To listen to a sermon by John Zubley, this sermon is titled the repeal of the Stamp Act.
00:47 --> 00:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Troy, how you doing?
00:48 --> 00:49 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm doing well.
00:49 --> 00:51 [SPEAKER_01]: It is, it is a good time to be here.
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00:52 --> 00:57 [SPEAKER_01]: We have had some busy schedules you and I, Joel, and it is nice just to sit in the chat with you, catch up with you.
00:57 --> 01:10 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're a listener and don't know, or maybe a new listener, Joel and I are old-time friends, know each other for a long time, and this podcast has been one of the great ways that we've been able to keep in contact throughout the years, and just hearing all this stuff you got playing has been really fun.
01:10 --> 01:11 [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah, it's good to be here, Joel.
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01:13 --> 01:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, big stuff plans plant stuff that I am going to be eager to share with our Revive Thoughts audience soon.
01:18 --> 01:19 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a little teaser.
01:19 --> 01:20 [SPEAKER_00]: A little teaser.
01:20 --> 01:26 [SPEAKER_00]: I got a project in the works that very shortly I'll be able to promote to you guys and get your guys' feedback.
01:26 --> 01:28 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to love it on, which I'm looking forward to.
01:28 --> 01:29 [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to love it.
01:29 --> 01:29 [SPEAKER_01]: It's crazy.
01:29 --> 01:32 [SPEAKER_01]: We both, yeah, it's crazy.
01:32 --> 01:32 [SPEAKER_01]: They're going to love it.
01:32 --> 01:33 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to tell them more about it.
01:33 --> 01:34 [SPEAKER_01]: But first,
01:35 --> 01:36 [SPEAKER_01]: positive responses.
01:38 --> 01:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, that makes me sound like after the positive responses.
01:40 --> 01:41 [SPEAKER_01]: No, it'll be in the future.
01:41 --> 01:41 [SPEAKER_01]: I know.
01:42 --> 01:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, Cooper said, as sent an email, liked the J.M.
01:46 --> 01:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Pendleton episode onto his descriptors and then he sent some thoughts on that.
01:50 --> 01:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Thank you so much for listening.
01:51 --> 01:52 [SPEAKER_01]: Glad you liked that episode.
01:53 --> 01:55 [SPEAKER_01]: We got a lot of positive responses to J.M.
01:55 --> 01:57 [SPEAKER_01]: Pendleton, which was great.
01:57 --> 02:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Because the gentleman who preached that one has kind of a Southern accent, and I really appreciate that he does as episodes for us.
02:05 --> 02:24 [SPEAKER_01]: like the southern accent guy and I'm like what the guy was and the guy himself was from you know the south so it made sense to Pimachum when we came with the accent We do by the way get comments on people like why is this British preacher having American accent because we don't have as many British speakers to fill them out So the first we can't would love to read for us.
02:24 --> 02:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Please let us know
02:25 --> 02:33 [SPEAKER_01]: One of our earliest British speakers that we did them on the show, he did a bunch of episodes for us at some of the early spurgents and stuff.
02:33 --> 02:39 [SPEAKER_01]: He literally message us, you know, it's like, I just need more of, I need some, I need spurgent to sound British and not American.
02:39 --> 02:40 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, we're welcome to have you.
02:40 --> 02:46 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you're one of our overseas listeners and you're, or you're somebody's listening going, oh, you know, why aren't these accents correct?
02:46 --> 02:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Because we are a volunteer-let program.
02:49 --> 03:05 [SPEAKER_01]: uh... none of us are getting paid and so we did we do the best or can't but once in a while i can match an accent with the person in the case of the sky jay and pillows i was able to match him with a gentleman from the south and i was pretty happy about that and the number of you who enjoyed that i was great some people have messaged me that all i can fake an accent no
03:05 --> 03:06 [SPEAKER_01]: No, thank you.
03:06 --> 03:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Please do not do that.
03:07 --> 03:12 [SPEAKER_01]: We would just like to keep the accents either the accent you have or I'll try to match you, but that's that's about it.
03:13 --> 03:23 [SPEAKER_01]: Alright Richard said on the Solomon's thoughtered amazing episode on Solomon's thoughtered loved how you connected the impact of
03:23 --> 03:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Thanks also for the awesome exclusive first of Jan Hus, a few weeks back, bring on the next one from Hus.
03:30 --> 03:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Working on the next one from Hus, my guy that read that one, did a great job, but his daughter just got married.
03:36 --> 03:38 [SPEAKER_01]: So he's traveling and doing stuff with that.
03:38 --> 03:41 [SPEAKER_01]: So I do hope to get him to do another Jan Hus before, too many times gone by.
03:42 --> 03:44 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm also really glad you like the Solomon's daughter.
03:44 --> 03:48 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought it was a great, interesting connection between Solomon's daughter and world history.
03:48 --> 03:51 [SPEAKER_01]: If you don't know what we're talking about, go back and listen to that episode.
03:51 --> 03:52 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a good one.
03:52 --> 03:53 [SPEAKER_01]: You shouldn't skip it.
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03:55 --> 03:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Brent says thanks for all you and Joel do.
03:58 --> 03:59 [SPEAKER_01]: It is such a blessing as community.
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04:01 --> 04:02 [SPEAKER_01]: We're happy to be a part of that.
04:03 --> 04:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Jason says you asked for responses to your recent conversation.
04:06 --> 04:09 [SPEAKER_01]: I had two major thoughts and Jason went on to share a bunch of thoughts.
04:09 --> 04:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to read the whole email.
04:10 --> 04:10 [SPEAKER_01]: It's very long email.
04:11 --> 04:15 [SPEAKER_01]: However, Jason, I also am including Jason on this episode because he's the gent.
04:15 --> 04:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to include his email because he's also the gentleman that reads the sermon for us this week.
04:19 --> 04:21 [SPEAKER_01]: So a great time to
04:21 --> 04:26 [SPEAKER_01]: And we got a five star review over on Apple Podcasts one of my favorite podcasts.
04:26 --> 04:29 [SPEAKER_01]: This person said Been listening to for a couple years now.
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04:33 --> 04:37 [SPEAKER_01]: This guy's name is Charlie Anybody used to listen to all of our episodes.
04:37 --> 04:37 [SPEAKER_01]: Wow.
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04:58 --> 05:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Just recently, I switched over from Spotify to listening on Apple podcasts.
05:01 --> 05:03 [SPEAKER_01]: I just finished listening to the episode on Frank E. Higgins and absolutely loved it.
05:03 --> 05:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Higgins reminds me of my wife's great grandma.
05:06 --> 05:09 [SPEAKER_01]: I never got to meet her, but I loved hearing people who knew talk about her.
05:09 --> 05:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I only know her as Granny Pearl.
05:11 --> 05:15 [SPEAKER_01]: She was faithful woman of God and it looked forward to meeting her in heaven after coming back from the army.
05:15 --> 05:19 [SPEAKER_01]: Her husband became an angry abusive alcoholic who would try to beat her when he drank.
05:19 --> 05:21 [SPEAKER_01]: She would always fight back and manage to pin him down.
05:21 --> 05:24 [SPEAKER_01]: She was sitting on his back praying and quoting the scripture until he passed out.
05:24 --> 05:25 [SPEAKER_01]: Then spent all night praying over him.
05:25 --> 05:27 [SPEAKER_01]: He eventually divorced her and remarried.
05:27 --> 05:30 [SPEAKER_01]: She never remarried but continuing ministry into him in his second wife.
05:30 --> 05:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Her faithfulness and consistency resulted in her ex-puzzment and his second wife choosing to play her faith in Jesus toward the end of her life.
05:37 --> 05:38 [SPEAKER_01]: What a cool, amazing story.
05:38 --> 05:41 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm very grateful Charlie that you shared that with us.
05:41 --> 05:45 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm really, it's cool that you connected that with Frank Higgins.
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05:51 --> 05:55 [SPEAKER_01]: But I just wanted to share that whole review with you because I thought, man, I can't
05:55 --> 05:58 [SPEAKER_01]: I want to meet this granny when I get to heaven someday too.
05:58 --> 06:11 [SPEAKER_00]: She sounds like Granny Pearl sounds like she was a character who also did some really cool stuff Okay, John Zubley Zubley not to be confused with John Zwingley, which I feel it's another jz not to be confused with
06:11 --> 06:13 [SPEAKER_00]: The 21st century rapper.
06:14 --> 06:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, so I was thinking, sorry, I was thinking of older extremely, but I also was thinking of the rapper Zubi who follows us on Twitter, by the way, millions of followers, but he follows a little less, which is so nice.
06:26 --> 06:38 [SPEAKER_01]: But also Zubi is famous for having the British female weightlifting award, because he identified as a woman for a minute, lifted the weight, then identified as a male, but Britain gave it to him.
06:38 --> 06:39 [SPEAKER_01]: So that's Zubi.
06:39 --> 06:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Not to be confused with that.
06:40 --> 06:41 [SPEAKER_01]: This guy was not him either.
06:41 --> 06:43 [SPEAKER_01]: John Zubi a different guy.
06:43 --> 06:45 [SPEAKER_00]: I got so lost.
06:45 --> 06:52 [SPEAKER_00]: What are you talking there was a there's a man named Zubi that's Zubi Zubi British female late.
06:52 --> 06:53 [SPEAKER_01]: Lift your award.
06:53 --> 06:54 [SPEAKER_01]: It is a thing.
06:54 --> 06:58 [SPEAKER_01]: He was good at goop.
06:58 --> 07:06 [SPEAKER_01]: Zubi, British male rapper, who jokingly identified as a woman, filmed himself lifting the British women's dead lift record, and he got it.
07:06 --> 07:09 [SPEAKER_01]: It's actually been acknowledged as his for-o-time.
07:09 --> 07:15 [SPEAKER_00]: John Zubi, who lifted him to the 1700, I'm moving on, I'm moving on, I'm moving on.
07:15 --> 07:17 [SPEAKER_01]: You brought up the other rapper.
07:17 --> 07:20 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't bring up our rapper whose name happens to be almost identical.
07:20 --> 07:30 [SPEAKER_00]: So is that is the rapper that you're referring to different than the the weight lifter or that's not the same guy He wraps and he's a podcast host and he's a weight lifter.
07:31 --> 07:33 [SPEAKER_01]: Did you say he followed the reason he does follow us?
07:34 --> 07:36 [SPEAKER_01]: We follow me, but I run the Levi thoughts account.
07:36 --> 07:38 [SPEAKER_00]: So how about that?
07:38 --> 07:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
07:39 --> 07:40 [SPEAKER_00]: How about that?
07:40 --> 07:47 [SPEAKER_00]: What a small world Shout out to Zubee Zubee If you're listening
07:48 --> 07:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, John Soobly from the 1700s is who we're talking about.
07:52 --> 08:04 [SPEAKER_00]: He was born in Switzerland and his family moved to America by all accounts what looks like when he was 11 years old leaving him behind.
08:04 --> 08:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I'm not sure that I, that's what it looks like.
08:07 --> 08:09 [SPEAKER_01]: It looks like home alone or something like right.
08:09 --> 08:14 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think, I mean, they must have left them with an uncle or something, but you think he's not in their way.
08:14 --> 08:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Either he was left behind with people, you know, that his family trusted, or like, people will just build different.
08:20 --> 08:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, 11-year-old, you're, you're good.
08:22 --> 08:27 [SPEAKER_00]: You work in at the factory, you know, like you, you're self-sustaining, you'll, you'll be okay, young man.
08:27 --> 08:30 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, maybe 11-year-old's back then, we're just building for tough.
08:30 --> 08:40 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I have an 11 year old and let's tell you, she's not ready for me to leave her and me live on a different continent for 10 years, so I definitely built a little different if that's the case.
08:40 --> 08:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, so yeah, presumably he had some other friends of the family or connections.
08:46 --> 08:51 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know why he didn't go with his parents, maybe he was continuing his education or such.
08:51 --> 08:54 [SPEAKER_00]: not sure, but his family left.
08:54 --> 08:57 [SPEAKER_00]: He was in Switzerland at the age of 11.
08:57 --> 09:02 [SPEAKER_00]: He'd worked towards becoming ordained in 1744.
09:03 --> 09:07 [SPEAKER_00]: He was ordained by the German Reformation Church in London.
09:08 --> 09:13 [SPEAKER_00]: And then he would move to America and catch up with his parents there.
09:14 --> 09:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, he had moved to their ten years before him.
09:16 --> 09:18 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd love to know more.
09:18 --> 09:19 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know more.
09:19 --> 09:35 [SPEAKER_00]: At first, he was preaching to small congregations around the Savannah River area before obtaining an official position as a minister and he ended up finding a wife, he married a woman named Anna Tobler in 1746.
09:35 --> 09:40 [SPEAKER_00]: So things are looking alright for our John Zubilee here.
09:40 --> 09:47 [SPEAKER_00]: His first like long tenure congregation, he had this congregation for ten years, I think this is so neat.
09:47 --> 10:16 [SPEAKER_00]: This is just like it shows you what what I feel like living in the 1700s and America must have been like in that his congregation was made up of the descendants of a shipwrecked that had you there were coming to the new world and their shipwrecked and They ended up in an area that is a near Charleston right now and that was the community and how I don't know I just feel like like that was America back then where like the the community that you visit
10:16 --> 10:31 [SPEAKER_00]: is made up of people that have probably been together since they were on that long boat ride to get over here and like that's their pocket and like imagine getting shipwrecked with that you're on a boat for nine months and you get shipwrecked and then you end up washing a ground.
10:32 --> 10:34 [SPEAKER_00]: What a camaraderie you have with that group of people, right?
10:35 --> 10:36 [SPEAKER_01]: That's a big for sure.
10:37 --> 10:38 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry.
10:38 --> 10:39 [SPEAKER_00]: No, you go.
10:39 --> 10:40 [SPEAKER_01]: I was going to say too.
10:40 --> 10:45 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they were going for New England and they ended up in Savannah, Georgia, Erie.
10:45 --> 10:46 [SPEAKER_01]: So I mean, that's another thing too.
10:46 --> 10:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, when I get on a plane and I'm like, I'm going to fly, you know, to to North Carolina, I don't expect to get off the plane and be in Iowa.
10:54 --> 10:54 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what I'm saying?
10:54 --> 10:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, there's just a different world when it comes to travel and stuff.
10:58 --> 11:00 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, that plane might land.
11:00 --> 11:03 [SPEAKER_01]: It might land in a completely different place than we expected.
11:03 --> 11:05 [SPEAKER_01]: And it might also crash right when I, you know, on the way.
11:06 --> 11:06 [UNKNOWN]: Mm-hmm.
11:06 --> 11:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and but at the same time this group of people like would like to congregate for church like they want they would like a minister that can preach the word to them and so when John Zubilee comes along he's he's happy to to fill that need to preaching and ministering to this community.
11:22 --> 11:34 [SPEAKER_01]: It also must have been stressful too, because if you've ever been like a small town, a close-knit community, you know, you're not feeling like the outsider there and all that inner-politic and stuff, now imagine these people are all descendants from the same shipwreck.
11:34 --> 11:35 [SPEAKER_01]: So they're really interconnected.
11:36 --> 11:39 [SPEAKER_01]: They have a long history here, and you're not a part of that.
11:39 --> 11:45 [SPEAKER_01]: It could definitely have been tough, but in 1758, after 10 years, so he stuck it out for quite a long time.
11:45 --> 11:50 [SPEAKER_01]: He became the pastor of a larger church in Savannah, and here's where he
11:50 --> 11:56 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the big reasons for this was the pressing issue at the time of British treatment of colonists.
11:56 --> 12:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Zubly published his thoughts and opinions on these political issues in pamphlets that were widely distributed, including this sermon we're going to listen to right now.
12:05 --> 12:08 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the most famous pamphlets he did, the repeal of the stamp act, Sirman.
12:09 --> 12:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Zubly believed that the mother country, quote of England, was not treating the American colonies very fairly by any standard in his writing and speaking.
12:17 --> 12:22 [SPEAKER_01]: quite popular among Americans during this era as he helped shape the Christian view of Britain and America.
12:23 --> 12:25 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is something that is always fascinating to me.
12:25 --> 12:30 [SPEAKER_01]: I remember way back in our days in Bible College, Joel, one of the popular debate topics at the time.
12:30 --> 12:45 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what debate topics are popular at Bible College cafeteria is now, but at the hours of the time, one of the big ones that would come up was Roman 13, was it a sin for the revolutionary founding fathers to revolt and go against America?
12:45 --> 13:03 [SPEAKER_01]: and I always became like they became something very interesting to me like what were the Christians saying at the found the of America because obviously they knew their bibles they were aware of Roman 13 like they knew about it so how did they talk about it what what were the reasons they didn't see what they were doing as violation of that command because they they weren't going to just
13:03 --> 13:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, we're sending big deal like they had reasons behind of it, and one of the very early Assurments we ever did on our show by Samuel Cooper.
13:10 --> 13:26 [SPEAKER_01]: It's called a revolutionary war sermon Was the sermon covering this issue of independence in America like here's some of the reasons they thought it was okay Very interesting old sermon go check it out Included quote one of my favorite parts of that sermon was included quotes from people in Britain in British Parliament
13:26 --> 13:29 [SPEAKER_01]: who were telling the British people like the American colonists are right.
13:29 --> 13:30 [SPEAKER_01]: Of course they would revolt.
13:30 --> 13:32 [SPEAKER_01]: You see how we treat them were terrible.
13:32 --> 13:39 [SPEAKER_01]: I would have revolted by now and I was like why I'd never heard that side of it for the British who were on America's independence side.
13:39 --> 13:40 [SPEAKER_01]: Interesting sentiment.
13:40 --> 13:46 [SPEAKER_01]: And this has always been just an interesting topic and Zubli is another one of those people who gets involved in that movement.
13:46 --> 13:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Zubilee's work would end up becoming quite popular.
13:50 --> 13:56 [SPEAKER_00]: He got to preach at some big meetings in Georgia, and Georgia was working towards its independence during this time.
13:56 --> 14:10 [SPEAKER_00]: And one of his sermons on liberty was shared at the Continental Congress meeting, and it was particularly notable because he references a lot of his
14:10 --> 14:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Heritage's home, his home's history, and that the Swiss had a rebellion in their own country as it was seeking freedom, and there were a lot of parallels that he was making between what Switzerland went through in his own country's history and what he sees in America going on.
14:29 --> 14:39 [SPEAKER_00]: here and it was it was a parallel and like a description that resonated well with the people there and ended up being circulated and used quite a bit.
14:39 --> 14:47 [SPEAKER_00]: At the Congress of 1775 he was a delegate and he stated that quote, I came here with two views.
14:47 --> 14:55 [SPEAKER_00]: One to secure the rights of America, second a reconciliation with great Britain and quote.
14:55 --> 15:03 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the big problems that Georgia had to face itself is that it really couldn't sustain any type of war.
15:03 --> 15:11 [SPEAKER_00]: It had only very recently begun to be colonized and there was no manufacturing or means to sustain the events of a war.
15:11 --> 15:27 [SPEAKER_00]: And they were looking at other parts of America, seeing these embargoes and trade wars that were happening with the Northern colonies and knowing that the way the third challenging Britain, Georgia wouldn't survive if we tried to challenge Britain in those ways.
15:27 --> 15:33 [SPEAKER_00]: This was, was Ubley's kind of observations as he's looking at this, and so
15:33 --> 15:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Zubilee, he wanted to find some compromise, one mediator.
15:37 --> 15:42 [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't for total independence, but he also felt like there needed to be something.
15:42 --> 15:46 [SPEAKER_00]: He went back to Georgia after the Congress meeting that he had.
15:46 --> 15:54 [SPEAKER_00]: He kind of got kicked out of his delicate position at the Congress and sent back to Georgia because he was seen as being too loyal to Britain.
15:54 --> 16:01 [SPEAKER_00]: partially because he had kept corresponding with he had a he had a friend who was the royal governor of Georgia.
16:01 --> 16:16 [SPEAKER_00]: So Georgia's a colony Britain has assigned a royal governor to oversee the George and colony and apparently him and John Zubly were were buds and would write each other
16:16 --> 16:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Again, Zubili is coming at this from a reconciliation type standpoint here, but it's becoming increasingly more dangerous to be friendly with anything British and America right now.
16:29 --> 16:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Eventually Zubili would end up being arrested and banished and criticized.
16:34 --> 16:37 [SPEAKER_00]: uh, and the situation would would go bad to worse for him.
16:37 --> 16:42 [SPEAKER_01]: America has something called a council of safety, during this time, which I have never heard.
16:42 --> 16:49 [SPEAKER_01]: It sounds like it's straight up out of a 1984 or wellian book, or something like that, and it ordered his arrest.
16:49 --> 17:16 [SPEAKER_01]: uh... he barely escaped but eventually would get arrested again and then he would get let go and arrested a second time it seems not as kind of back and forth but you can see here the guy who was once a star of the independent movement is now quote by the council safety two dangerous in quote to be allowed to go in public uh... he had denied that he ever wanted an independent america from britain he pointed out that the britain had treated tree america harshly but not that he wanted a war for independence uh... soon he was attacked everywhere
17:16 --> 17:18 [SPEAKER_01]: as a loyalist and his fame definitely died.
17:19 --> 17:22 [SPEAKER_01]: He claimed his faith had not changed, and it was the people in the movement that had changed.
17:22 --> 17:30 [SPEAKER_01]: When Britain was in the wrong, he called out Britain for their abuses, but the independent movement had become secular, it was about grievances and rights, he just didn't see it.
17:31 --> 17:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And so now he was calling out the other side saying, I haven't moved you guys moved.
17:35 --> 17:40 [SPEAKER_01]: To prove the point when Americans took over the town of Savannah, he got banned from preaching.
17:40 --> 17:41 [SPEAKER_01]: His home was confiscated.
17:41 --> 17:43 [SPEAKER_01]: His library was thrown into the river.
17:44 --> 17:46 [SPEAKER_01]: No one knows just how many books that was.
17:46 --> 17:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Nobody kept count.
17:47 --> 17:51 [SPEAKER_01]: But according to the eyewitnesses, it was a very large and very valuable library.
17:51 --> 17:52 [SPEAKER_01]: That was destroyed.
17:52 --> 17:59 [SPEAKER_01]: a few years later when Britain retook Savannah, he was reinstated and he preached and published harsh ideas against the revolution.
17:59 --> 18:04 [SPEAKER_01]: He saw Americans' violating Roman 13 and deeply against God's only of running the world.
18:04 --> 18:10 [SPEAKER_01]: The British happily published these ideas, like, hey, look, I'm going to stir on our side over here, listen to him, kind of a thing.
18:11 --> 18:15 [SPEAKER_01]: It did not go very well.
18:24 --> 18:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, he really does kind of have a sad life, it seems like because it seems like he was hated by post-sides of, you know, he was trying to walk the line, trying to be hospitable and understanding the post-sides ended up just kind of being hated by post-sides.
18:39 --> 18:46 [SPEAKER_00]: He died in 1781 and he never lived to see the revolution that he believed that God would purposely thwart.
18:47 --> 18:52 [SPEAKER_00]: He never had a chance
18:52 --> 19:01 [SPEAKER_00]: and supposedly his body is buried in the official Savannah Cemetery, but it's never been found, uh, and again, his story kind of ends a little bit on a sad note here.
19:02 --> 19:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet, in the midst of all this, you can see a man who was trying to live by his principles, for God, in a changing world.
19:11 --> 19:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And his sermon on the repeal of the stamp act changed history as a motivated colonists,
19:37 --> 19:46 [SPEAKER_02]: For before these days, there was no wage for man or beast, and no one could come or go in peace, due to the turmoil.
19:47 --> 19:49 [SPEAKER_02]: I set everyone against their neighbor.
19:50 --> 19:57 [SPEAKER_02]: But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as I did in former days to clear the Lord of hosts.
19:57 --> 20:06 [SPEAKER_02]: For the seed will grow well, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will produce its crops,
20:07 --> 20:14 [SPEAKER_02]: I will give all these blessings to the remnant of this people, Zechariah 8-10-12.
20:16 --> 20:27 [SPEAKER_02]: It is remarkable that after Israel conquered their enemies and took possession of the land promised to their ancestors, they nearly fell into a civil war among themselves.
20:28 --> 20:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Once the external threat from hostile neighbors was removed, a spirit of discord attempted
20:37 --> 20:40 [SPEAKER_02]: threatening to erupt within their own community.
20:41 --> 20:44 [SPEAKER_02]: This significant event is recorded in Joshua 22.
20:44 --> 20:48 [SPEAKER_02]: The essence of the story is as follows.
20:49 --> 21:05 [SPEAKER_02]: The tribes of Ruben Gad and half the tribe of Manassa had settled on one side of the Jordan River, while the rest of the tribes were settled on the opposite side.
21:05 --> 21:09 [SPEAKER_02]: as a symbol to affirm their unity with the rest of Israel.
21:10 --> 21:22 [SPEAKER_02]: Even though the river physically divided them, they wanted to declare that they were still one people bound by shared heritage, faith, and covenant.
21:22 --> 21:34 [SPEAKER_02]: This altar was intended to remind future generations of their shared identity and unity in worshiping the same God.
21:34 --> 21:40 [SPEAKER_02]: misunderstood the actions of the Eastern tribes and took alarm at their decision to build the altar.
21:41 --> 21:47 [SPEAKER_02]: They interpreted this as a step toward independence and separation from the rest of their brethren.
21:48 --> 21:57 [SPEAKER_02]: As a result, we are told when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation gathered together to go to war against them.
21:58 --> 22:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Joshua 2212, their minds were thoroughly
22:04 --> 22:06 [SPEAKER_02]: and they were prepared for bloodshed and slaughter.
22:07 --> 22:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Among this enraged multitude, however, there were some who maintained a sense of moderation.
22:16 --> 22:22 [SPEAKER_02]: Their wisdom and calming influence ultimately saved the people from unnecessary bloodshed.
22:23 --> 22:25 [SPEAKER_02]: These mediators considered the context.
22:26 --> 22:33 [SPEAKER_02]: The Eastern tribes had just returned from faithfully assisting their brethren in battle.
22:33 --> 22:45 [SPEAKER_02]: that those who had so recently demonstrated loyalty and sacrifice would now seek to divide themselves from the nation before resorting to violence.
22:46 --> 22:54 [SPEAKER_02]: The leaders sent a solemn assembly to the Eastern tribes to understand their intentions.
22:55 --> 23:00 [SPEAKER_02]: When the two sides communicated, the situation became clear.
23:01 --> 23:13 [SPEAKER_02]: The Eastern tribes explained that the altar was not meant for rebellion or independent worship, but to serve as a witness of their shared covenant with God and unity with the other tribes.
23:14 --> 23:18 [SPEAKER_02]: Upon hearing this explanation, the representatives were satisfied.
23:20 --> 23:29 [SPEAKER_02]: And finnious, the son of Aliase, are the priest, said to the children of Ruben Gadden
23:30 --> 23:33 [SPEAKER_02]: because you have not committed this trespass against him.
23:34 --> 23:37 [SPEAKER_02]: You have delivered the children of Israel from the Lord's judgment.
23:39 --> 23:42 [SPEAKER_02]: The resolution pleased the children of Israel and they praised God.
23:44 --> 23:51 [SPEAKER_02]: They decided not to go up and battle against their brethren, or destroy the land where the tribes of Ruben and Gadd live.
23:52 --> 23:57 [SPEAKER_02]: The spark that could have ignited a great fire was extinguished in time.
23:58 --> 24:10 [SPEAKER_02]: understanding and harmony will restore and everyone returned to their homes, living peacefully under their vines and fig trees, in the land God had recently given them.
24:11 --> 24:20 [SPEAKER_02]: As I reflect on this account, it seems there are parallels between the situation of Israel and what we recently experienced.
24:21 --> 24:27 [SPEAKER_02]: You are all aware that not long ago, the relationship between us and our brethren across
24:28 --> 24:29 [SPEAKER_02]: became terribly strained.
24:30 --> 24:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Grievous is mounted, and there was even talk that the 10 tribes, a term some used for us, might go to war against our brethren, despite the loyalty and sacrifices we demonstrated during a very recent conflict.
24:47 --> 24:57 [SPEAKER_02]: An unfortunate and poorly considered act by the British Parliament sparked the fire that
24:58 --> 25:09 [SPEAKER_02]: along with the alienation it caused, would inevitably lead to dire consequences, consequences too dreadful to fully imagine or describe without horror.
25:10 --> 25:27 [SPEAKER_02]: There was no shortage of individuals in Britain and America, who, like the young counselors of Ray Abouam, would have defended this act with harsh and oppressive measures.
25:28 --> 25:31 [SPEAKER_02]: but Blessed be God who thwarted their plans.
25:32 --> 25:41 [SPEAKER_02]: He placed a king on the British throne who values the liberty of his subjects as much as he guards the honor of his government.
25:41 --> 25:51 [SPEAKER_02]: Blessed be God who holds the hearts of all people in his hands for inclining the British parliament to listen to the cries of the innocent.
25:52 --> 25:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Through a just, noble, and generous repeal
25:58 --> 26:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Our fears were calmed, our difficulties eased, and our confidence restored.
26:05 --> 26:14 [SPEAKER_02]: This act has given us the joyful opportunity to offer our public thanks to the God of Britain and America alike.
26:16 --> 26:27 [SPEAKER_02]: And as in the ancient Jubilee, to proclaim liberty throughout the land for all its inhabitants.
26:28 --> 26:32 [SPEAKER_02]: more worthy of a public day of Thanksgiving across this vast empire.
26:33 --> 26:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Therefore, I earnestly urge my congregation to offer their heartfelt thanks to the most high for showing favor to our land.
26:44 --> 26:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us also make an appropriate return of gratitude to our gracious king and the British legislature for lifting the burdens from our shoulders and delivering us from our struggles.
26:58 --> 27:03 [SPEAKER_02]: My heart is with the leaders of Israel who willingly offered themselves among the people.
27:04 --> 27:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Bless the Lord, those who were freed from the sound of archers at the watering places, they are they will recount the righteous acts of the Lord, the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel, then the people of the Lord will go down to the gates,
27:25 --> 27:30 [SPEAKER_02]: These words provide rich material for reflection on this joyous occasion.
27:31 --> 27:42 [SPEAKER_02]: They are the words of God himself, and were initially meant to remind Israel of the remarkable transformation in their circumstances when they began rebuilding the temple.
27:44 --> 27:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Before that time, as the text tells us, there was no reward for labor, no peace within their borders, and God's hand brought them severe afflictions.
27:55 --> 28:02 [SPEAKER_02]: But afterward, God declared He would no longer deal with them as He had in the past.
28:03 --> 28:05 [SPEAKER_02]: They could now expect abundant blessings.
28:07 --> 28:11 [SPEAKER_02]: And the remnant of the nation would enjoy and possess these blessings moving forward.
28:13 --> 28:25 [SPEAKER_02]: These words which describe the nation's grim past and its hopeful future need little adjustment to apply to our own situation.
28:25 --> 28:33 [SPEAKER_02]: is to reflect on the time of Jacob's trouble, and the sorrowful state of Judah's remnant, when the hand of the Lord was against them.
28:34 --> 28:46 [SPEAKER_02]: To highlight the great and precious promises given to the penitent remnant of the Jewish nation, and to draw lessons from these reflections that are fitting for the purpose of our present gathering.
28:48 --> 28:53 [SPEAKER_02]: May I be granted the grace to speak on these matters in a manner that is fitting.
28:53 --> 29:00 [SPEAKER_02]: and may we not insult God by offering Him only an outward display or the empty formality of this meeting.
29:01 --> 29:11 [SPEAKER_02]: Instead may we present our entire selves, soul and body, as a tribute of gratitude to our sovereign benefactor and preserver.
29:12 --> 29:14 [SPEAKER_02]: Let this offering be our reasonable service.
29:16 --> 29:20 [SPEAKER_02]: Blessings feel even greater when they come after a long period of hardship.
29:21 --> 29:26 [SPEAKER_02]: The return of light is all the more cherished after enduring darkness.
29:27 --> 29:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Similarly, God here reminds his people of the distress they endured, so that his promise of peace and prosperity would be received with deeper gratitude.
29:37 --> 29:51 [SPEAKER_02]: If we examine these words fully, they take us back to the nation's condition during the Caldean invasion, before Judah was taken into captivity.
29:52 --> 29:59 [SPEAKER_02]: neither form man nor beast, nor was there peace for anyone coming in or going out.
30:00 --> 30:07 [SPEAKER_02]: In addition to the devastation of war, Judah also suffered from drought and famine as described in Jeremiah.
30:08 --> 30:09 [SPEAKER_02]: Judah mourns.
30:11 --> 30:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Her gates languish.
30:13 --> 30:20 [SPEAKER_02]: They sit in black upon the ground, because the ground is cracked, since there has been no
30:21 --> 30:24 [SPEAKER_02]: The farmers are dismayed and covered their heads.
30:25 --> 30:27 [SPEAKER_02]: Jeremiah 14 to and 4.
30:27 --> 30:36 [SPEAKER_02]: These calamities only grew worse as the Caldeans occupied the land, the Sieging the Holy City, and its sanctuary.
30:37 --> 30:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Such a sorrowful state was not unique to this period.
30:40 --> 30:44 [SPEAKER_02]: It often occurred whenever the people departed from God.
30:45 --> 30:48 [SPEAKER_02]: As noted in Chronicles, in those days,
30:49 --> 30:57 [SPEAKER_02]: There was no peace for the one who went out, or for the one who came in, but great turmoil was on all the inhabitants of the land.
30:58 --> 30:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Second chronicles, 15-5.
31:01 --> 31:08 [SPEAKER_02]: By the time of this message, the captivity had ended, and a remnant had returned to the land of their ancestors.
31:09 --> 31:15 [SPEAKER_02]: Yet even then, the situation remained bleak, and their difficulties were immense.
31:16 --> 31:17 [SPEAKER_02]: Jerusalem lay in ruins.
31:18 --> 31:22 [SPEAKER_02]: a heap of stones, and the surrounding land was desolate.
31:23 --> 31:28 [SPEAKER_02]: They faced resistance from the Samaritans and internal discord among themselves.
31:30 --> 31:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Their neglect of rebuilding God's house had also brought severe consequences upon them, as recorded in Haggiai, you expected much, but it turned out to be little.
31:46 --> 31:51 [SPEAKER_02]: because my house remains a ruin, while each of you is busy with your own house.
31:51 --> 31:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Haggy I-19.
31:53 --> 31:59 [SPEAKER_02]: And again, when anyone came to a pile of 20 measures, there were only 10.
31:59 --> 32:06 [SPEAKER_02]: When anyone went to the wine vat to drop 50 measures, there were only 20 Haggy I-216.
32:08 --> 32:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Such was the miserable state of the people at the time of this prophecy.
32:14 --> 32:29 [SPEAKER_02]: have truly wretched, must a nation be when there is no work for either man or beast, no peace in coming or going, and when the judgments of God set everyone against their neighbor in the severity of their suffering.
32:30 --> 32:36 [SPEAKER_02]: When there is no work for man or beast, it is a clear sign that the economy has come to a standstill.
32:37 --> 32:41 [SPEAKER_02]: Such stagnation strikes at the heart of a nation's well-being.
32:43 --> 32:51 [SPEAKER_02]: This hardship falls most heavily on the working in middle classes, the backbone, and most essential part of any society.
32:53 --> 33:05 [SPEAKER_02]: When fields lie barren, the farmer mourns, and even the wealthy struggle to procure life's necessities, while hunger and destitution seem inevitable for the poor.
33:06 --> 33:12 [SPEAKER_02]: Sometimes when a population grows beyond what the land can sustain,
33:13 --> 33:17 [SPEAKER_02]: find themselves without work and fall into dire straits.
33:18 --> 33:27 [SPEAKER_02]: At other times war or devastation, so depletes a country that laborers become scarce fulfilling the words of Isaiah.
33:28 --> 33:40 [SPEAKER_02]: I will make people more scarce than pure gold, more rare than the fine gold of Ofer
33:40 --> 33:44 [SPEAKER_02]: One stemming from overpopulation, the other from depopulation.
33:44 --> 33:47 [SPEAKER_02]: The effect is the same.
33:47 --> 33:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Wides spread distress.
33:51 --> 33:55 [SPEAKER_02]: Moreover, the suffering is not confined to those directly affected.
33:56 --> 34:07 [SPEAKER_02]: The rich cannot survive without the labor of the poor, and those who hire depend on having someone available to hire.
34:08 --> 34:10 [SPEAKER_02]: but trade is an artificial solution.
34:12 --> 34:24 [SPEAKER_02]: A country with ample space for its people to expand and sufficient land for cultivation to match their growth has a significant advantage over a purely trading nation.
34:25 --> 34:33 [SPEAKER_02]: The former can draw on internal resources while the latter must rely on trade with colonies or foreign nations.
34:35 --> 34:38 [SPEAKER_02]: The profits of trade may be greater
34:38 --> 34:42 [SPEAKER_02]: but a well-cultivated land will always sustain its population.
34:44 --> 34:55 [SPEAKER_02]: A nation blast with natural resources can easily obtain the necessities and even the luxuries of life, either from within or through the export of its produce.
34:57 --> 35:05 [SPEAKER_02]: As a ecclesiasties reminds us, the profit of the earth is for all, even the king is served by the field, ecclesiasties five nine.
35:07 --> 35:15 [SPEAKER_02]: However, when there is no work for man or beast, it is a clear sign that both agriculture and trade are failing.
35:16 --> 35:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Just as with the human body, when a political body begins to decline, if no remedy is quickly applied, the whole system suffers.
35:26 --> 35:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Over time it falls into decay and eventually collapses.
35:36 --> 35:46 [SPEAKER_02]: They were mainly the poorest of the people, farmers and vineyard workers, likely living as slaves, rather than subjects under the Babylonian king.
35:47 --> 35:51 [SPEAKER_02]: They lamented their condition saying, we are slaves in our own land.
35:52 --> 35:56 [SPEAKER_02]: Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners, our homes to strangers.
35:57 --> 35:58 [SPEAKER_02]: We are persecuted.
35:59 --> 36:06 [SPEAKER_02]: We labor, but we find no rest.
36:08 --> 36:16 [SPEAKER_02]: During these disasters, an added and profound affliction was the absence of peace for anyone going out or coming in.
36:16 --> 36:28 [SPEAKER_02]: Those already captive in Babylon could not safely return to their homeland and those who remained in the land were unable to flee to Egypt or any other place of safety.
36:30 --> 36:38 [SPEAKER_02]: Even within their own borders, peace was elusive.
36:39 --> 36:47 [SPEAKER_02]: This unrest is vividly described in the 41st chapter of Jeremiah, where we see examples of disunity and strife.
36:48 --> 36:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Even after their return to the land, conditions remained so unstable that despite the hope of restoration, there was still no peace for those going in or out.
37:01 --> 37:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Such a state was scarcely better than open warfare.
37:05 --> 37:11 [SPEAKER_02]: War, even in its least destructive form, is a grievous devastation of humanity.
37:12 --> 37:20 [SPEAKER_02]: Yawaramun brethren, civil war, an internal conflicts represents the worst kind of evil.
37:21 --> 37:35 [SPEAKER_02]: When one hand strikes against the other, when members of the same body seek each other's ruin, the entire body inevitably suffers,
37:36 --> 37:40 [SPEAKER_02]: This brings to mind a powerful scene involving an Abbasinian king.
37:41 --> 37:54 [SPEAKER_02]: This monarch believed it his duty to impose certain religious practices upon his subjects, who, in turn, believed it their duty to resist such impositions, even at great personal cost.
37:55 --> 38:05 [SPEAKER_02]: A battle ensued, and though the king was victorious, the battlefield was strewn with the dead.
38:05 --> 38:17 [SPEAKER_02]: and pointed to the slimes saying, these were your own people, your loyal subjects, willing to shed their blood and lay down their lives for you in any other cause.
38:18 --> 38:27 [SPEAKER_02]: They were our brethren, our own flesh and blood, and every victory like this is a step closer to the total ruin of your nation.
38:29 --> 38:34 [SPEAKER_02]: The general who spoke these words, acted with wisdom and a sense of patriotism.
38:35 --> 38:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Though the king had won the battle, he wisely agreed to abandon his initial goal, realizing that earning the loyalty and affection of his subjects was a far greater safeguard for his reign in kingdom than any submission he could force upon them through sheer power.
38:52 --> 38:57 [SPEAKER_02]: The unity of minds and interests is the true strength of any nation.
38:58 --> 39:02 [SPEAKER_02]: A kingdom divided against itself cannot stand.
39:03 --> 39:10 [SPEAKER_02]: While Israel fell by the sword of the Babylonians, it was their internal divisions that ultimately sealed their fate.
39:12 --> 39:15 [SPEAKER_02]: Their self-inflicted distress was overwhelming.
39:15 --> 39:23 [SPEAKER_02]: The hand of the Lord was stretched out against them, yet the people refused to return to him, the very one who chastised them.
39:24 --> 39:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Instead of bringing humility and repentance, their suffering only deepened their animosity
39:33 --> 39:38 [SPEAKER_02]: Their affliction, rather than fostering unity, became the root of further unrest.
39:39 --> 39:46 [SPEAKER_02]: They mistrusted, envied, and undermined each other, creating an atmosphere of hostility and suspicion.
39:47 --> 39:53 [SPEAKER_02]: As a result, there was no peace for anyone, whether coming in or going out.
39:56 --> 40:01 [SPEAKER_02]: When a nation reaches a state where there is no peace
40:02 --> 40:05 [SPEAKER_02]: due to affliction, it reflects a deeper problem.
40:07 --> 40:12 [SPEAKER_02]: People, when deprived of hope, often conclude they have nothing left to fear.
40:13 --> 40:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Tyranny and oppression, when pushed too far, become intolerable even to the loyal, and inevitably they rebound on their perpetrators.
40:22 --> 40:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Savvrons who test the limits of their subjects endurance play a dangerous game.
40:32 --> 40:45 [SPEAKER_02]: A kingdom plagued by internal divisions ruled by violence instead of justice, and burdened with inequities, ceases to be strong against its enemies, and risks self-destruction.
40:46 --> 40:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Such turmoil does not arise randomly, but often reflects divine judgment for collective sins, whether it be the arrogance of leaders or the rebellion of subjects.
41:00 --> 41:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Will there be evil in the city, and the Lord has not done it, Amus 36?
41:06 --> 41:12 [SPEAKER_02]: While God is a God of peace and not confusion, He also despises oppression and injustice.
41:13 --> 41:29 [SPEAKER_02]: The story of Rehaboham Solomon's Son serves as a cautionary tale upon ascending to the throne, Rehaboham and his counselors dismissed the grievances of the people and responded
41:29 --> 41:39 [SPEAKER_02]: The Result was rebellion, the imposition of an odious tax led to the stoning of the King's officer and the fracturing of the kingdom.
41:39 --> 41:46 [SPEAKER_02]: A civil war seemed imminent with Judah preparing to wage war against Israel.
41:48 --> 41:59 [SPEAKER_02]: However, God intervened through Shamiya the prophet, instructing Rehboum and his people not to fight their brethren.
42:00 --> 42:07 [SPEAKER_02]: Rayoboam listened to the divine command, avoiding bloodshed, but the ten tribes never returned to his rule.
42:08 --> 42:13 [SPEAKER_02]: The divided kingdom remained separate until they were ultimately conquered by their common enemy.
42:14 --> 42:25 [SPEAKER_02]: I do not recount the story of Rayoboam to justify every action of the ten tribes, but to highlight the pivotal moment when wisdom could have preserved unity,
42:27 --> 42:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Rayabone's failure to listen to the prudent council of his elder advisors, directly led to the division of the kingdom.
42:35 --> 42:45 [SPEAKER_02]: As recorded in 1 Kings 12, this defaction was a turning point, underscoring the dangers of arrogance and oppressive leadership.
42:47 --> 42:49 [SPEAKER_02]: God's justice is unwavering.
42:49 --> 42:57 [SPEAKER_02]: He does not condone wickedness in any form.
42:57 --> 43:00 [SPEAKER_02]: will not be unpunished, Proverbs 1121.
43:00 --> 43:10 [SPEAKER_02]: A Prussian and Rebellion, both abominations in his site may become instruments of judgment against one another.
43:12 --> 43:20 [SPEAKER_02]: While God despises sin, he is sovereign over all things, permitting events that fulfill his divine purposes.
43:22 --> 43:27 [SPEAKER_02]: As Isaiah reminds us,
43:27 --> 43:29 [SPEAKER_02]: I make peace and create evil.
43:30 --> 43:32 [SPEAKER_02]: I, the Lord, do all these things.
43:33 --> 43:34 [SPEAKER_02]: I say a 45, 7.
43:34 --> 43:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Through His wisdom, God may allow a nation's peace to be disrupted, whether by the hubris of its rulers or the excesses of its subjects, so that justice and repentance might emerge.
43:50 --> 43:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Such disorder marked by economic stagnation
43:58 --> 44:08 [SPEAKER_02]: In those days, there was no higher for man nor beast, nor peace to him that goes out, nor comes in, and every man is against his neighbor.
44:09 --> 44:12 [SPEAKER_02]: Yet this is only the dark half of the picture.
44:13 --> 44:17 [SPEAKER_02]: God's promises shine brightly against this backdrop of despair.
44:18 --> 44:27 [SPEAKER_02]: When God declares a change, it is a signal of His renewed favor and mercy.
44:27 --> 44:33 [SPEAKER_02]: plenty in liberty stands as an undeniable testament to his presence and blessing.
44:34 --> 44:36 [SPEAKER_02]: The promise to his people is clear.
44:38 --> 44:44 [SPEAKER_02]: I will not be for the residue of my people as in former days says the Lord of hosts.
44:44 --> 44:54 [SPEAKER_02]: For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will give her fruit, the ground will give her
44:54 --> 45:00 [SPEAKER_02]: And I will make the remnant of my people to possess all these things.
45:01 --> 45:07 [SPEAKER_02]: God's promise do not deal with Israel as he had in recent times.
45:07 --> 45:10 [SPEAKER_02]: It is a reminder of his steadfast nature.
45:11 --> 45:16 [SPEAKER_02]: While God Himself does not change, there is no shadow of turning within Him.
45:17 --> 45:22 [SPEAKER_02]: His dealings with humanity are often contingent upon their behavior.
45:23 --> 45:27 [SPEAKER_02]: This principle is succinctly expressed in second chronicles 15-2.
45:27 --> 45:34 [SPEAKER_02]: The Lord is with you, if you be with him, and if you seek him, he will be found of you.
45:35 --> 45:38 [SPEAKER_02]: But if you forsake him, he will forsake you.
45:38 --> 45:45 [SPEAKER_02]: God's actions towards the people mirror their disposition towards him.
45:46 --> 45:52 [SPEAKER_02]: With the pure He shows himself pure, and with those against He shows himself against
45:55 --> 46:02 [SPEAKER_02]: National sins provoked national calamities, but national repentance paves the way for national blessings.
46:03 --> 46:12 [SPEAKER_02]: The same God who warns of destruction for a rebellious nation also promises restoration and mercy when they turn from their wicked ways.
46:14 --> 46:24 [SPEAKER_02]: This principle is consistent with God's declaration through the prophet Jeremiah, where
46:25 --> 46:26 [SPEAKER_02]: if they repent.
46:26 --> 46:29 [SPEAKER_02]: Jeremiah 18, 7 through 8.
46:30 --> 46:36 [SPEAKER_02]: At this point in Israel's history, a profound transformation had taken place.
46:37 --> 46:47 [SPEAKER_02]: Through the prayers and intercessions of Daniel, Ezra, Nehemiah and others, the people wanted God's mercy and committed to turning from their sins.
46:48 --> 46:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Their repentance brought about a renewal of divine favor.
46:53 --> 47:01 [SPEAKER_02]: While Rebellion had previously brought desolation and suffering, their return to God prompted his return to them in mercy.
47:02 --> 47:04 [SPEAKER_02]: The promise was tangible.
47:04 --> 47:09 [SPEAKER_02]: The laborers and farmers would again find work and the fields would yield their produce.
47:10 --> 47:15 [SPEAKER_02]: The land, once desolate and nearly uninhabited, would be restored.
47:16 --> 47:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Places that had been barrening without man or beast would flourish again
47:22 --> 47:24 [SPEAKER_02]: bought and cultivated and commerce revived.
47:25 --> 47:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Jerusalem, once devastated, would become a thriving city described poetically in Zechariah 2-4 as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle they're in.
47:41 --> 47:43 [SPEAKER_02]: They're coming and going will be peaceful.
47:44 --> 47:47 [SPEAKER_02]: God will fortify their gates and bring peace to their borders.
47:48 --> 47:50 [SPEAKER_02]: They will no longer be a divided nation.
47:50 --> 47:55 [SPEAKER_02]: But we'll come together as one, united in purpose and spirit.
47:55 --> 48:05 [SPEAKER_02]: As God says, I will give them one heart and one path, so they may review me always for their good and the good of their children after them.
48:06 --> 48:08 [SPEAKER_02]: Jeremiah 32, 39.
48:10 --> 48:17 [SPEAKER_02]: God's promise is not just to remove the hardships they endured in the past, but to bring new life through His favor.
48:18 --> 48:21 [SPEAKER_02]: by nature, God is kind to everyone.
48:21 --> 48:24 [SPEAKER_02]: And this compassionate extends to all he has created.
48:24 --> 48:31 [SPEAKER_02]: Humanity would always experience his mercy if they didn't turn away from his love.
48:32 --> 48:35 [SPEAKER_02]: Sin is what separates us from God.
48:35 --> 48:48 [SPEAKER_02]: But when the cause of that separation is removed, his kindness flows freely like a natural stream bringing blessings to humanity.
48:48 --> 48:52 [SPEAKER_02]: creation reflects God's good intentions for mankind.
48:54 --> 48:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Anger and punishment are not his true nature.
48:57 --> 49:00 [SPEAKER_02]: These are extraordinary measures.
49:01 --> 49:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Kindness is his natural inclination.
49:05 --> 49:12 [SPEAKER_02]: When people return to him and he turns to them, he promises to reverse the suffering they've endured.
49:13 --> 49:16 [SPEAKER_02]: Instead of famine, there will be plenty.
49:16 --> 49:19 [SPEAKER_02]: the reigns will come at the right time.
49:19 --> 49:26 [SPEAKER_02]: Every kind of abundance and prosperity will fill the land they now call home.
49:26 --> 49:32 [SPEAKER_02]: The skies will no longer feel like unyielding brass, nor the earth like iron.
49:33 --> 49:39 [SPEAKER_02]: God will no longer withhold reign, but will hear the heavens and the heavens will respond to the earth.
49:40 --> 49:46 [SPEAKER_02]: The earth will in turn produce grain, wine, and oil, which will provide
49:47 --> 49:49 [SPEAKER_02]: Jose II, 21 through 22.
49:49 --> 49:55 [SPEAKER_02]: These blessings should not be fleeting, but lasting.
49:56 --> 50:06 [SPEAKER_02]: The days of their morning would come to an end, and the remnants of the nation that had returned to the Lord in His sanctuary would rejoice in receiving these blessings.
50:07 --> 50:17 [SPEAKER_02]: They would no longer hang their hearts on the willows, but once again, sing the songs of Zion in their own land,
50:17 --> 50:23 [SPEAKER_02]: who had brought them back from among the nations, and restored their fortunes, like streams in the desert.
50:25 --> 50:32 [SPEAKER_02]: A Lord I will praise you, though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you have comforted me.
50:33 --> 50:40 [SPEAKER_02]: Shout for joy and sing, you who dwell in Zion, for great is the holy one of Israel among you.
50:40 --> 50:46 [SPEAKER_02]: Isaiah 12, one in six.
50:46 --> 50:56 [SPEAKER_02]: as the final point to reflect on how we can apply what has been said in a way that aligns with the purpose of our gathering today.
50:56 --> 51:01 [SPEAKER_02]: Some among us may wonder, what is the meaning of this service?
51:02 --> 51:05 [SPEAKER_02]: It is neither the Sabbath nor a festival.
51:06 --> 51:16 [SPEAKER_02]: To them, I would reply, we are gathered today to offer our thanks to the great ruler of all things
51:17 --> 51:24 [SPEAKER_02]: One that, in part, had already begun to come upon us and which, as a punishment for sins, we fully deserved.
51:25 --> 51:36 [SPEAKER_02]: We are gathered to give thanks to God that our precious freedoms are preserved, that our land has not become a land of oppression, nor our fields a battleground.
51:37 --> 51:46 [SPEAKER_02]: We come together to thank God that our fears have been lifted, that the British parliament
51:47 --> 51:51 [SPEAKER_02]: through this act of fairness and moderation, have risen above themselves.
51:52 --> 51:59 [SPEAKER_02]: We rejoice that trust and affection have been restored between us and our mother country.
52:00 --> 52:12 [SPEAKER_02]: We give thanks to the most high that with the repeal of this act, there is work in prosperity once more that our ports are open, that our trade is free.
52:12 --> 52:13 [SPEAKER_02]: We celebrate
52:14 --> 52:23 [SPEAKER_02]: that we may go about safely, that division and strife among neighbors have ceased, that Manasa is no longer against Afram and Afram against Manasa.
52:25 --> 52:42 [SPEAKER_02]: We also pray that future generations will continue to enjoy these blessings, that mercy and truth may define our time and our nation and that our civil and religious liberties may remain intact until the end of time.
52:44 --> 52:50 [SPEAKER_02]: I believe there are few, if any, here today, who would think that we have no cause for gratitude.
52:52 --> 52:57 [SPEAKER_02]: For those who might feel that way, I would lose hope in convincing them otherwise.
52:58 --> 53:03 [SPEAKER_02]: It is often said that we understand the value of our blessings only when we lose them.
53:04 --> 53:13 [SPEAKER_02]: But I honestly pray that such a realization never comes to pass anywhere in the British dominions.
53:13 --> 53:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us reflect on the mercies of the Lord and acknowledge His goodness and the countless acts of kindness He has shown to the British nation.
53:23 --> 53:28 [SPEAKER_02]: Consider what our situation might have been if this burdensome act had not been repealed.
53:29 --> 53:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Shouldn't our gratitude match the magnitude of our deliverance?
53:33 --> 53:41 [SPEAKER_02]: Shouldn't we thought fully recall every step that led to this joyous outcome and humbly
53:42 --> 53:55 [SPEAKER_02]: who blessed the tireless efforts of our friends with success, the nearly unanimous steadfast and thoughtful unity displayed by the American people honors this generation.
53:55 --> 54:03 [SPEAKER_02]: It was both unexpected and deeply providential, and it gives us real cause for gratitude.
54:05 --> 54:12 [SPEAKER_02]: While I don't excuse, every action taken in moments of public unrest
54:12 --> 54:26 [SPEAKER_02]: The clear, strong, and constitutional appeals made by the people's representatives stand as a vital means through which providence revealed the justice of the American grievances.
54:27 --> 54:42 [SPEAKER_02]: These appeals inspired capable and honorable allies to champion our cause with courage and resolve.
54:42 --> 54:46 [SPEAKER_02]: ignored, who can say what the outcome might have been?
54:46 --> 54:52 [SPEAKER_02]: The consequences would surely have been felt on both sides of the Atlantic.
54:53 --> 55:11 [SPEAKER_02]: We are interconnected, either we rise or fall together, that our fears have now subsided that the mistrust and division have been removed, and that the dark night that loomed over us has turned into the bright promise of a hopeful
55:12 --> 55:17 [SPEAKER_02]: All of this demands our most heartfelt and exuberant gratitude.
55:18 --> 55:21 [SPEAKER_02]: So let us offer thanks to God.
55:22 --> 55:25 [SPEAKER_02]: Give the Lord the glory and honor He deserves.
55:26 --> 55:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Let those who cried out to Him in their troubles and were delivered from their distress praise his name.
55:33 --> 55:41 [SPEAKER_02]: He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke their chains.
55:42 --> 55:48 [SPEAKER_02]: For his goodness and his marvelous works for humanity, Psalm 107 14 through 15.
55:49 --> 55:58 [SPEAKER_02]: And next, let us offer our heartfelt thanks to our great and good king, the friend of humanity and the father of his people.
55:59 --> 56:08 [SPEAKER_02]: He takes pride in ruling through the love and loyalty of his subjects, and no king can have a stronger claim to the hearts of those he governs.
56:09 --> 56:22 [SPEAKER_02]: It brings him joy to a appeal of law that caused distress to his people, may all his servants follow his example and act in a manner worthy of such a noble king and kind master.
56:24 --> 56:39 [SPEAKER_02]: But every expression of loyalty and affection be shown to him by all his subjects, especially by his American people.
56:39 --> 56:50 [SPEAKER_02]: His illustrious house must now, if possible, demonstrate an even greater level of devotion in gratitude for this royal act of kindness.
56:51 --> 57:09 [SPEAKER_02]: Bless O God the King, may the crown rest long upon his head, grant him the desires of his heart, may he be a king after your own heart, give him wise counselors and faithful subjects,
57:09 --> 57:12 [SPEAKER_02]: be long, peaceful, and glorious.
57:13 --> 57:29 [SPEAKER_02]: May the wicked never stand before his throne, so that his rule may always be established in righteousness, and may our descendants generations from now, shed a tear of mourning when he is called to a kingdom that cannot be shaken.
57:31 --> 57:36 [SPEAKER_02]: Let me also urge you my listeners to remember the foundation from which you were formed.
57:37 --> 57:41 [SPEAKER_02]: whether by birth or by adoption, we are all British now.
57:42 --> 57:45 [SPEAKER_02]: Let Britain's interests always be dear to us.
57:46 --> 57:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Pray for the prosperity of the nation, for in her prosperity, you too shall prosper.
57:53 --> 58:02 [SPEAKER_02]: We have seen our mother country act as a caring and tender parent, let us never fail to act as beautiful children in return.
58:03 --> 58:05 [SPEAKER_02]: May the British cherish one another,
58:05 --> 58:08 [SPEAKER_02]: with a love that no trial can extinguish.
58:09 --> 58:17 [SPEAKER_02]: May British of the East and West be more united than Joseph and Ephraim, who were made one in the Prophet's vision.
58:18 --> 58:27 [SPEAKER_02]: If God detests those who so discord among brothers, let us also reject anyone who seeks to divide us or create animosity.
58:28 --> 58:34 [SPEAKER_02]: May Britain and British America
58:35 --> 58:40 [SPEAKER_02]: to anyone who would attempt to divide us, let them be accursed by both nations.
58:41 --> 58:53 [SPEAKER_02]: The wisest king once said, evil people do not understand justice, but those who fear the Lord understand, observe and learn from all things, Proverbs 285.
58:54 --> 59:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us then remember and let our descendants know that if a prudent and proper protest
59:03 --> 59:11 [SPEAKER_02]: The year 1765 would have been marked as the fatal year when American liberty was lost.
59:12 --> 59:23 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us also recall that the following year was notable for the repeal of a law that caused widespread distress and threatened to harm Britain on both sides of the Atlantic.
59:25 --> 59:33 [SPEAKER_02]: As we reflect on these significant and pivotal events, it would not be inappropriate to
59:34 --> 59:42 [SPEAKER_02]: honor the king, stand firm in your liberty, and do not allow yourselves to be ensnared again by the yoke of oppression.
59:43 --> 59:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us forgive our enemies and honor our allies, especially since some of them, a truly admirable and noble fact, have always stood out as champions of liberty and have rendered great service to the British nation.
01:00:00 --> 01:00:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Let
01:00:04 --> 01:00:11 [SPEAKER_02]: but let every act of kindness be carved in marble never to be forgotten.
01:00:13 --> 01:00:18 [SPEAKER_02]: May every friend of liberty and of their country be held in everlasting remembrance.
01:00:20 --> 01:00:27 [SPEAKER_02]: The purpose of the repeal was to eliminate the inconveniences and harmful consequences affecting the British kingdoms.
01:00:29 --> 01:00:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us therefore ensure that we do nothing
01:00:34 --> 01:00:38 [SPEAKER_02]: This wise and beneficial act was designed to prevent.
01:00:40 --> 01:00:50 [SPEAKER_02]: Above all, let us never give anyone a reason to doubt our loyalty to the King, or our sincere and steadfast attachment to our mother country.
01:00:52 --> 01:00:57 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us always be zealots for its prosperity and work tirelessly to promote it.
01:00:59 --> 01:01:03 [SPEAKER_02]: Each of us should say on this occasion, pray for the peace of Britain,
01:01:04 --> 01:01:13 [SPEAKER_02]: May those of you who may those who love you prosper, may peace be within your walls and prosperity within your palaces.
01:01:14 --> 01:01:18 [SPEAKER_02]: For the sake of my brothers and sisters, I will say, peace be with you.
01:01:18 --> 01:01:25 [SPEAKER_02]: For the sake of the House of the Lord, our God, I will seek your good Psalm 122, 6th or 9.
01:01:27 --> 01:01:32 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us cheerfully obey the laws of the land and consistently demonstrate
01:01:32 --> 01:01:35 [SPEAKER_02]: that we are loyal subjects of the best of kings.
01:01:37 --> 01:01:43 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us respond with billion respect to the care and tenderness of an affectionate parent country.
01:01:44 --> 01:01:52 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us show even those who have slandered and misrepresented Americans, how mistaken and unjust their criticisms have been.
01:01:53 --> 01:02:02 [SPEAKER_02]: Let the petty tools of division be silenced if they are capable of shame by conduct
01:02:03 --> 01:02:08 [SPEAKER_02]: By doing good, let us silence the ignorance and malice of foolish and wicked people.
01:02:09 --> 01:02:15 [SPEAKER_02]: But all distinctions of names, parties, and national prejudices be forgotten forever.
01:02:16 --> 01:02:18 [SPEAKER_02]: Let good people wherever they may be.
01:02:20 --> 01:02:29 [SPEAKER_02]: Be the objects of universal love and respect, and let bad people be the only objects of a
01:02:30 --> 01:02:34 [SPEAKER_02]: Let there be no competition except in promoting the common good.
01:02:35 --> 01:02:48 [SPEAKER_02]: Give everyone their due, taxes to whom taxes are due, customs to whom customs are due, respect to whom respect is due, and honor to whom honor is due.
01:02:49 --> 01:02:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Submit yourselves to every human authority for the Lord's sake,
01:02:59 --> 01:03:03 [SPEAKER_02]: to punish wrongdoers and commend those who do right.
01:03:04 --> 01:03:11 [SPEAKER_02]: Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as they cover for evil, live as servants of God.
01:03:12 --> 01:03:15 [SPEAKER_02]: First Peter II, 13 through 16.
01:03:16 --> 01:03:29 [SPEAKER_02]: There is a vital difference between liberty and lawlessness and it is deeply wrong to use the pretense of one to justify the other.
01:03:30 --> 01:03:34 [SPEAKER_02]: May they be sincerely regretted, and diligently avoided in the future.
01:03:36 --> 01:03:42 [SPEAKER_02]: Speak and act as those who will be judged by the law that gives freedom, James 213.
01:03:44 --> 01:03:54 [SPEAKER_02]: Above all, let us always remember that righteousness, exaltation, but sin is a disgrace to any people, problems 1434.
01:03:54 --> 01:03:59 [SPEAKER_02]: Our earthly happiness cannot be more effectively advanced,
01:03:59 --> 01:04:08 [SPEAKER_02]: Nor are civil and religious liberties more securely preserved than by living lives that reflect the dignity of our Christian faith.
01:04:09 --> 01:04:18 [SPEAKER_02]: Christianity is a benevolent institution that supports civil government and does not diminish the natural or civil rights of individuals.
01:04:20 --> 01:04:27 [SPEAKER_02]: It teaches leaders to govern with the fear of God, viewing their subjects as fellow human beings and brethren.
01:04:28 --> 01:04:31 [SPEAKER_02]: whose welfare is the very purpose of their authority.
01:04:31 --> 01:04:42 [SPEAKER_02]: It also instruct subjects to obey for the Lord's sake, not only kind and considerable leaders, but also those who may be harsh or unreasonable.
01:04:44 --> 01:04:56 [SPEAKER_02]: We cannot be good Christians, unless we are also good citizens in responsible members of society.
01:04:57 --> 01:05:09 [SPEAKER_02]: by seeking our eternal welfare, we ensure our temporal happiness as well, nothing that leads to future misery can contribute to our present joy.
01:05:11 --> 01:05:20 [SPEAKER_02]: If heaven forbid, we were ever to suffer under a tyrannical and oppressive government, it would be our sins that brought such a fate upon us.
01:05:22 --> 01:05:26 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us not squander our blessings through sin, nor persist in wrongdoing
01:05:27 --> 01:05:29 [SPEAKER_02]: less something even worse, but follow us.
01:05:30 --> 01:05:34 [SPEAKER_02]: True freedom cannot exist, while we remain slaves to sin.
01:05:34 --> 01:05:41 [SPEAKER_02]: I know bondage is as severe as being lead captive by Satan according to his will.
01:05:42 --> 01:05:45 [SPEAKER_02]: This is the condition of every soul without grace.
01:05:47 --> 01:05:55 [SPEAKER_02]: While they promise them freedom, they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people
01:05:55 --> 01:06:07 [SPEAKER_02]: 2nd Peter 219, how insignificant our fight for liberty will seem if we willingly surrender ourselves to be slaves to our desires.
01:06:08 --> 01:06:14 [SPEAKER_02]: If we truly hate bondage, then let us ensure that our bondage does not become eternal.
01:06:16 --> 01:06:21 [SPEAKER_02]: Eternal chains of darkness await every unrepentant sinner.
01:06:22 --> 01:06:29 [SPEAKER_02]: Do you not know that when you offer yourselves to someone as obedient servants, you are slaves of the one you obey?
01:06:29 --> 01:06:38 [SPEAKER_02]: Whether you are slaves to sin, which leads to death, or to obedience, which leads to righteousness, Roman 616?
01:06:40 --> 01:06:51 [SPEAKER_02]: When will the captive soul begin to feel the weight of its chains and long for true freedom?
01:06:52 --> 01:06:55 [SPEAKER_02]: and the world reigns, there is slavery and oppression.
01:06:56 --> 01:07:05 [SPEAKER_02]: Every deliberate sin tightens the chains and the longer sinful habits are indulged, the harder it is to break free.
01:07:06 --> 01:07:09 [SPEAKER_02]: Humanity was creative free, but also created good.
01:07:10 --> 01:07:20 [SPEAKER_02]: When we listened to the voice of the tempter, we lost both our goodness and our freedom.
01:07:20 --> 01:07:24 [SPEAKER_02]: If we wish to be truly free, we must become truly good.
01:07:25 --> 01:07:33 [SPEAKER_02]: We must be renewed in the spirit of our minds and created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness, Ephesians 424.
01:07:34 --> 01:07:49 [SPEAKER_02]: This, my friends, is the true essence of liberty, to be free from harmful constraints and to have the ability to do what leads to genuine happiness.
01:07:49 --> 01:07:54 [SPEAKER_02]: is to whole-heartedly serve the one who's service is perfect freedom.
01:07:56 --> 01:08:04 [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my friends, think about the joy we recently felt when we received the news that is the reason for our Thanksgiving today.
01:08:04 --> 01:08:10 [SPEAKER_02]: How our faces lit up with joy, how warmly we shook hands and celebrated together.
01:08:12 --> 01:08:18 [SPEAKER_02]: We were like people who feared being shipwrecked and had finally
01:08:20 --> 01:08:26 [SPEAKER_02]: It was as if we were suffocating, and then suddenly restored to life-giving air.
01:08:27 --> 01:08:32 [SPEAKER_02]: I have never seen news received with such universal delight and rightly so.
01:08:32 --> 01:08:47 [SPEAKER_02]: There was ample reason for our fears, and when those fears subsided, it was only fitting that our joy matched them, but I was sadly indifferent and cold, many of us have been.
01:08:48 --> 01:08:51 [SPEAKER_02]: toward the greatest news ever sent from heaven to earth.
01:08:52 --> 01:08:55 [SPEAKER_02]: The good news of great joy that a Savior has been born to us.
01:08:56 --> 01:09:06 [SPEAKER_02]: Jesus Christ Himself came to proclaim freedom to the captives to set at liberty those who are oppressed and to announce the year of the Lord's favor.
01:09:06 --> 01:09:09 [SPEAKER_02]: He was bound so that He might break our chains.
01:09:10 --> 01:09:16 [SPEAKER_02]: He laid down His life as a ransom for those enslaved by Satan and sin.
01:09:16 --> 01:09:26 [SPEAKER_02]: So that we might live eternally, our King is also our Savior and his subjects are purchased by his blood.
01:09:27 --> 01:09:45 [SPEAKER_02]: He invites strangers to come and bow before his scepter, with no other intention than the joy of making them eternally happy.
01:09:46 --> 01:09:57 [SPEAKER_02]: how ungrateful we are to Him and how unjust to ourselves if we choose to remain in the slavery from which He has gone to such incredible lengths to free us.
01:09:58 --> 01:10:05 [SPEAKER_02]: Come, my friends, let us seize this opportunity and truly become His subjects.
01:10:05 --> 01:10:16 [SPEAKER_02]: Let us cheerfully abandon the service of vanity and sin and wholeheartedly give ourselves to the Lord who redeemed us.
01:10:16 --> 01:10:45 [SPEAKER_02]: If from this joyful event, we might also begin our sincere and heartfelt efforts to become his freed people, so that delivered from the fear of our enemies, we might serve him in holiness and righteousness all our days, Luke 1 75.
01:10:46 --> 01:10:51 [SPEAKER_02]: Then the Sun will set us free and we will be free, indeed.
01:10:52 --> 01:10:58 [SPEAKER_02]: Then we will have the undeniable right to the glorious liberty of the sons of God.
01:10:59 --> 01:11:08 [SPEAKER_02]: When will the kingdom of Christ extend over the entire earth and when will those who now sit in darkness in the shadow of death pay him homage?
01:11:09 --> 01:11:16 [SPEAKER_02]: When will his gentle reign bring joy to every nation, banishing ignorance, slavery and
01:11:16 --> 01:11:21 [SPEAKER_02]: and spreading the blessings of peace, liberty, and the gospel across all of creation.
01:11:22 --> 01:11:28 [SPEAKER_02]: For these things, my friends, let us pray, your kingdom come.
01:11:28 --> 01:11:45 [SPEAKER_02]: And as we anticipate a kingdom, but cannot be shaken, let us prepare for it each day through faith and holiness.
01:11:46 --> 01:11:47 [SPEAKER_02]: will find rest.
01:11:48 --> 01:12:13 [SPEAKER_02]: Now, to the king, invisible, immortal and eternal, to him who is able to keep us and present us before God with great joy to the only wise God, our Savior, the glory,
01:12:24 --> 01:12:29 [SPEAKER_01]: There are a lot of lessons you can draw from the life of John Zubley, and this repeal is stamp-axe.
01:12:29 --> 01:12:32 [SPEAKER_01]: When I first found this sermon, I was like, oh, cool, it's revolutionary war sermon.
01:12:32 --> 01:12:38 [SPEAKER_01]: I looked briefly at his life, didn't see anything to make me think, oh, you know, it's a heretic or a free mace, and there's something weird like that.
01:12:39 --> 01:12:50 [SPEAKER_01]: So I ran into the sermon, and then when I put together his life story, it was much sadder and kind of like, oh, that's depressing, and his sermon itself was very intense.
01:12:50 --> 01:12:54 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, what do you what do you do with the guy who was on the wrong side of the Revolutionary War?
01:12:54 --> 01:12:58 [SPEAKER_01]: I suppose if you're a British listener, you might be thinking, you know, he's on the right side of it, actually.
01:12:59 --> 01:13:02 [SPEAKER_01]: But he had this quote in the middle of the sermon.
01:13:02 --> 01:13:04 [SPEAKER_01]: I think is a very powerful quote.
01:13:04 --> 01:13:08 [SPEAKER_01]: Let every wrong done to us be written and sand to fade with time.
01:13:08 --> 01:13:15 [SPEAKER_01]: But let every act of kindness be carved in marble never to be forgotten.
01:13:15 --> 01:13:18 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's different lessons you could draw from his life.
01:13:18 --> 01:13:21 [SPEAKER_01]: One lesson could be that he's a guy who in my opinion was wrong.
01:13:21 --> 01:13:23 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm a fan of the independent movement.
01:13:23 --> 01:13:25 [SPEAKER_01]: I think the revolutionary war was not a bad thing.
01:13:26 --> 01:13:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And yet even though he was on the wrong side of that issue, he's still in deep truths and deep ideas about God that are worth listening to and understanding.
01:13:35 --> 01:13:43 [SPEAKER_01]: things for contentious in the political world you could see how the Americans treated him were not great by burning his you know home in the library and all of that.
01:13:44 --> 01:13:48 [SPEAKER_01]: But you could also see how things haven't changed that much.
01:13:48 --> 01:13:54 [SPEAKER_01]: 250 almost years later this year it's 50 years for America.
01:13:54 --> 01:13:55 [SPEAKER_01]: Things are still divided.
01:13:55 --> 01:13:57 [SPEAKER_01]: People are still politically hot with each other.
01:13:57 --> 01:13:58 [SPEAKER_01]: People are still getting upset with each other.
01:13:58 --> 01:14:05 [SPEAKER_01]: How far is that line between this kind of divide of American revolution and that kind of stuff?
01:14:05 --> 01:14:05 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure.
01:14:05 --> 01:14:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Where do you get to the point where you throw your enemies' books in the water?
01:14:10 --> 01:14:19 [SPEAKER_01]: But I think if we all take that perspective of let every wrong done to us be written and sand to fade with time, but let every act of kindness be carved in marble never to be forgotten.
01:14:19 --> 01:14:20 [SPEAKER_01]: If we remember,
01:14:20 --> 01:14:25 [SPEAKER_01]: that just because somebody's on a different side from us does not necessarily mean they are evil and deserve how their books are in the water.
01:14:26 --> 01:14:31 [SPEAKER_01]: Remember that they're good followers of Jesus Christ trying to live out their principles walking through things.
01:14:31 --> 01:14:33 [SPEAKER_01]: That doesn't mean that one side is the less right or wrong.
01:14:33 --> 01:14:35 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't mean there's not truth.
01:14:35 --> 01:14:36 [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't mean any of those things.
01:14:36 --> 01:14:42 [SPEAKER_01]: It just means that you know, when time, a guy like Zubly I think is going to be in heaven.
01:14:42 --> 01:14:45 [SPEAKER_01]: trying to call out the sins he saw on all sides.
01:14:45 --> 01:14:56 [SPEAKER_01]: I think a lot of us can remember sometimes that we need to be more forgiving, more open to forgiving our enemies, hearing out our enemies, and be careful to make sure that where we stand hasn't moved too much as well.
01:14:57 --> 01:15:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Real estate impact, certainly, very interesting one, had a huge tremendous impact on history, zubly life, kind of a sad life in my opinion, the indisit just on a tough note.
01:15:07 --> 01:15:10 [SPEAKER_01]: And you have to wonder if he had seen
01:15:10 --> 01:15:15 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, we covered a bunch of people in the Civil War throughout the years where they were on the wrong side.
01:15:15 --> 01:15:22 [SPEAKER_01]: They were pro-South and the Civil War, but then after the South lost, a couple years later, many of them were like, you know what, I was wrong.
01:15:22 --> 01:15:24 [SPEAKER_01]: I actually didn't want the South to win.
01:15:24 --> 01:15:25 [SPEAKER_01]: I made a mistake.
01:15:25 --> 01:15:26 [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be on that side of things.
01:15:26 --> 01:15:29 [SPEAKER_01]: And I do wonder, Zubely could have lived five or ten more years if you would have come out.
01:15:29 --> 01:15:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And then like, you know what, I was wrong.
01:15:31 --> 01:15:33 [SPEAKER_01]: The Revolutionary War was a good thing.
01:15:33 --> 01:15:34 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm glad that we won.
01:15:34 --> 01:15:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe he wouldn't have, maybe he would have moved back to Britain.
01:15:36 --> 01:15:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Who knows, interesting tough, tough, tough life, tough sermon to work through.
01:15:42 --> 01:15:46 [SPEAKER_01]: But it just goes to show that politics today, contentious.
01:15:46 --> 01:15:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Politics 200 and 50 years ago, also contentious.
01:15:49 --> 01:15:55 [SPEAKER_01]: And if I might be so bold, the politics 200 and 50 years from now, might still be contentious if we're all still here.
01:15:55 --> 01:16:03 [SPEAKER_01]: I got a feeling that's just the way it kind of goes.
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