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Welcome to the Steve Day Show, Independence Day Special. Of course, it is July 2, the day that you're hearing this. No, we're not doing well, Actually, real Independence Day is July 2nd. Now we're just acknowledging that we're not doing the actually guy for Steve, still out sick. Pray for him and a quick recovery. It's me, Aaron McIntyre, joined by Todd Erzin as well, doing the Captain America on your left routine, filling in for Steve Dase. It is our honor, pleasure, duty to do so, and we're looking forward to bringing you a show that we have not done for a number of years, the Independence Day Special. It'll be things. If you're a longtime listener or viewer of this Steve Day show, there will be some elements that you will recognize. There will be some themes that you will recognize. We'll have the story of Caesar, Rodney. Steve will read from his new book, why Independence Day. That should be a new routine, a new tradition for our Independence Day show as well. We'll read the Declaration of Independence. John Adams. John Adams. We'll hear from one of the founding fathers himself. And what's the way forward in this time in our country where there is so much possibility, but it's fraught with peril as well. Our good friend Daniel Horowitz will be joining us for a slightly extended segment as well. Todd, it is. We're approaching the nation's 250th birthday and I know we'll have some things to say later on, but as I, as I get older and I start to understand, I think, human nature a little bit more. Cover human nature a lot more, See how people tick a lot more. The more inexplicable it becomes when you study the founding of our nation, the more inexplicable it becomes. Strictly from, I don't know if this is the right term, but an anthropological perspective. Completely divorced from the things of God, completely divorced from nature's God. If you look at human nature itself, the founding of our country is inexplicable. The extents, the risks that were taken, the lives, fortunes, sacred honor that were waged, that were lost willingly. These things don't just happen. And just because we had some brave men, some very good men, some very learned men, some very rich men who stood up and pledged those very things, that doesn't automatically guarantee success. That doesn't automatically guarantee success. The reason I say it's inexplicable is because to borrow yet another Marvel reference here at the top of the show, I've made this reference before this is the Dr. Strange one scenario. This is like the founding of this country. What we did, what our forefathers did, the founding fathers did. It's like going to the edge of a beach, picking up a pebble, throwing it and ending up with a pocket of gold in your pocket full of gold. It's just like a non sequitur. That is the level of providence that we're talking about here. That's the inexplicability, if that's a word that I'm talking about. These things don't just happen. As brave as these men were, this was all the providence of Almighty God. You cannot have any other explanation for the founding of this country, what our country has gone through, what our country has accomplished, other than the providence of Almighty God. And I just think it's important, before we begin today's special, Todd, just to acknowledge that right off the top, it'll be a theme that we will come back to and hit on several times over the course of today's show. But I just wanted to make sure we put this in proper perspective right out of the gate. Our nation was founded on God, and that is something that we have to keep in mind. And that's something we're going to have to increasingly think on and act upon if we want to have another 250 years or even another 25 years.
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Todd well, what you said is exactly why we have so much to worry about if we forsake that providence. Just as Adam and Eve getting kicked east of Eden, just as God's chosen people over and over again. Yes, God was long suffering and gave them many, many opportunities, but the degree to which they had to bottom out, recorded in lamentations, recorded in the Holocaust over and over and over again because they forsook that providence. It is written in scripture by the prophets that the people that claim to believe in him have far more to worry about in their error and their sin than the ones who don't, who are just destined to hell anyways. But the ones who blaspheme by claiming to believe, but leading the rest of the world into decadence and sin. Because in their so called claim belief, they don't live a life worth following. They actually live a life that is held in contempt and worth rejecting to the eyes of the world. That's where we live right now. We have a bunch of talkers and we don't have any doers. We do not have the people who understand that if we serve God, we will follow him. And if we follow him, the Father will honor us. It's the 11th hour for a chosen people. We, rightly, without bragging, are a chosen people because we humbled ourselves before God and said rights come from Him. And on that, this nation will be founded. And as has been laid out all this week on this show, we are spitting in the face of that tradition. God will not be mocked.
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I love how you went back to the beginning, the very beginning, which is exactly what Steve does in his newest release, his newest children's book, why Independence Day. America is great because God is good. Let's get our Independence Day special kicked off.
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America is a special place to live. We are lucky to live in a free country where many people around the world wish they could live. But why is America so special? To understand what makes America so special, we have to go way back in time long ago to the beginning of another special land. A long time ago, God set aside a nation for Himself called Israel. The people of Israel were slaves in Egypt, so God sent Moses to help free them from their captivity. To prove to the Israelites that Moses was the one he had sent. God did great miracles through Moses. Perhaps the greatest of those miracles was when he parted a giant sea to help his people escape the Egyptian army that wanted to hurt them. A few months after traveling to safety, God called Moses to the top of a very high mountain to give him another miracle. The Ten Commandments. These were the first words God had ever written by his own hand. And to show they were to be forever, God wrote them into a stone that could never be erased. These Ten Commandments told God's people for the first time what was right and what was wrong. And God wanted the Israelites to share these commandments with the rest of the world, too. Since God made us and loves us, he wanted everyone to know his ways so we wouldn't do bad things that harm ourselves or others. And you can see some of the great drawings that are there inside of our capitol. And that's why when you visit Washington, D.C. our nation's capital, you still see statues and paintings of Moses. Today, many, many years later, they are there to remind us that our laws are based on God's laws. For he knows what is right and what is wrong better than anyone else. Since no one could possibly love us more than God does, we know he always wants what's best for us, and we are always better off listening to Him. But that's not the only important thing that happened in Israel that inspired America. Many years after, Moses went up to the mountain to hear from God. God came down to Earth to meet us in the form of a baby named Jesus Christ. While he grew up, Jesus lived a perfect life free of sin. He taught the Gospel and showed us how we should live our lives to honor God. He said that since we couldn't get to heaven, heaven came to us. This is why we celebrate Christmas and why we give each other Christmas gifts in honor of God giving us the greatest gift, his one and only son. Just as Moses freed the people of Israel from slavery in Egypt, Jesus came and freed all of us from wanting to do bad things and disobey God. Jesus suffered and died for us on the cross, taking all of the punishment we deserved for the bad stuff we did and and still do to ourselves and each other. And then he rose again on the third day, the day we call Easter, to show that we can now live forever with God as long as we trust and believe in Jesus. After Jesus went back to heaven, he sent a special helper called the Holy Spirit to live inside of us. This helper allows us to understand God better and do good things. You can tell you have the Holy Spirit in you if you want to say no to bad things or if you want to ask God for forgiveness when you make a mistake. The Holy Spirit also makes us want to pray for others. It's like having a special friend inside you who always wants to help you be good. Now that his people had the Holy Spirit, it became easier to spread the message of Jesus all over the world. It was like a special gift that helped people understand and believe in Jesus, even without things like TVs or computers. Over the next 1,000 years, Christianity became the biggest religion in history, and it still is today. This shows that what they were saying was really true, because only God's truth and power could make something spread so far without any fancy tools. But not everyone was happy that the message of Jesus was spreading all over the world. There were some powerful people who didn't know about God's love or didn't like his love because they wanted everyone to think that they were more important, like gods themselves. Because of this, some of the people who loved Jesus and wanted to follow him were treated very, very unkindly. They were sometimes hurt or even put in jail for no good reason at all. One special group of these brave Christians who wanted more than anything to obey God was called the Puritans. It was also around this time that a brave and famous explorer named Christopher Columbus discovered what was called the New World. It was an entirely new continent that Christians had Never visited before. Lots of brave explorers sailed the big ocean, just like Christopher Columbus. And guess what? This new land was given a special name that it still has today. America. Now, the Puritans were a group who loved God very much. But their king was very mean and wouldn't let them live the way God wanted them to. So with brave hearts and prayers, they decided to sail all the way across the big ocean to this new place called America. And they hoped they could live happily ever after there, following God's rules without anyone being mean to them. The brave Puritans boarded a ship called the Mayflower. The journey was long and very scary, but they were excited to begin a new life and had faith that God would help. They finally landed and made their settlement in a place they called the Plymouth Colony, which later became part of the state of Massachusetts. After arriving, they wrote rules for how everyone should live together. They called it the Mayflower Compact. This was important because it marked the beginning of the country we live in today. And if you look at some of these drawings here, you can see the ratification of the Mayflower Compact. You can see the thirteen colonies. As more and more Christians follow the Puritans example and came to America, they started communities that were called colonies. Eventually there were 13 colonies. And each and every one of them represented Christianity in their own unique way. But just like what happened in England, the more Christianity spread in the American colonies, the more the King who owned the colonies became angry. This is because the more we study God's word, the Bible, the more we want to be free as God made us to be and not have to follow rules different from God's. Since we have God's spirit in us now to teach us right from wrong, we don't need government rules as much as we used to. Sure, we still need things like the police to protect us because there are still bad people doing bad things. But we don't need a king to act like he's a God when we already know the one true God. So one day, some of the Americans wanted to send a message to the King to stop ignoring them and treating them so badly. So they dumped a bunch of the tea he owned into the harbor. This became known as the Boston Tea Party. Instead of listening to their concerns, the King became even meaner than he was before. He made it so that the things people needed cost way more than they could afford. He even made people keep his soldiers with guns in their homes. After a long time of the King treating them badly, a group of people came together from all 13 colonies to talk about what to do about the mean king. These patriots became known as the Founding fathers. Finally, they all met up in a city called Philadelphia. And on July 4, 1776, they agreed to what became known as the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration was important because it reminded us that as God's people, we have to obey God first. Even if a king tells you to do something that God says is wrong, you should obey God instead of the king. Since the mean king was forcing the colonists to do things that disobeyed God, they were forced to defy the king by writing the Declaration and forming their own country based on what God says. These 13 colonies were called the United States of America. This was the day the country you are blessed to be born into and live in began. And it's also why we've been celebrating Independence Day on the fourth of July ever since. But just like the Pharaoh with Moses, the mean king did not want to let God's people go. So he brought his army to America to try to take it back over. They were called the Redcoats for their bright red and scary uniforms, and they were the most powerful army in the world at the time. Nobody thought our founding fathers had a chance, but they had a secret weapon, what they called providence, or the will of almighty God. Throughout the war for our independence, things just seemed to happen that we're so lucky. It had to mean that God was doing it, like when the great General George Washington miraculously crossed an icy river on Christmas night without being seen or heard and was able to surprise the enemy soldiers. It took almost five years to win the war for our independence. And there were times it seemed as if hope was lost and the mean king in his redcoats would win instead. But it was a blessing in disguise that our founding fathers had less soldiers and fewer guns, cannons, and ships than the enemy because it forced them to use other weapons, like the power of praying to almighty God for him to help create a country that would bless his name all throughout the world. God answered their prayers, and sometimes in funny ways. For example, this is one of the few times in history that the French were actually brave and courageous enough to come to our aid. There's no way that would have happened without the will and power of God. We usually have to save the French. Finally, In January of 1781, the final battle was won in Yorktown, Virginia. The redcoats gave up and went back home to England. The United States of America was free. Our founding Fathers, the Christian men who won the war for independence, immediately got back together to pray to God for wisdom and to write the rules for how our country should live in ways that honored God. Just as the Puritans had once done. They came up with what they called the Constitution and remains the law of our land to this very day. Our Founding Fathers wanted our country to be a shining city on a hill, bright and tall for the rest of the world to see. They wanted to inspire people in other parts of the world to follow their example and be free. This is why, other than Christ's Church where you go to Sunday school, nothing else has done more to spread Christianity and God's Word throughout the world than America has over the last 250 years. They also wanted future generations of Americans to always remember the true meaning of Independence Day and celebrate it. Founding Father John Adams suggested Independence Day should be celebrated not only with prayer and devotion to Almighty God, but also with what he called illuminations. You call them fireworks. And that's why we still set off awesome fireworks in the sky every July 4th. As you can see, our Independence Day isn't just the most important day in American history. It is one of the most important days in all of world history. Because of what the Founding fathers believed and fought for, America never would have happened. And without Almighty God, which means America won't be able to continue without Almighty God either. Previous generations understood it was their duty to honor God and keep America free. And now it is your turn back
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here on the Steve Day Show. It's our Independence Day special and we hope and pray that everyone is able to enjoy their, their times over the weekend. Celebrating the nation's 250th birthday. Celebrating with the family, friends, neighbors and hoping everyone has a good time while recognizing and hopefully preparing your, your minds for just what we are celebrating. It's not all about the fireworks though. Those are fun. It's not about cooking out though, that's fun. It is about the providence of God and the heritage that we have enjoyed for so long. And we are the vanguards now. It is our job to keep handing that down from generation to generation. Well, what is, what is the event that we are celebrating this weekend? What is the birthday of this country? We can talk all we want and we do talk all we want. We can talk all we want about the precepts of constitutionality. We can, we can talk all we want about the precepts of so so called conservatism. But what is this country actually founded upon? It is of course the Declaration of independence in Congress. July 4, 1776. The unanimous declaration of the 13 United States of America. When, in the course of human events it becomes necess for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty and, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness. Prudence indeed will dictate that Governments, long established should not be changed for light and transient causes. And accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. He has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in their operation until his assent has been obtained. And when so suspended, he is utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly. For opposing with manly firmness his invasion on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time after such disillusions. To cause others to be elected. Whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise. The state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without. And convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states from, for that purpose obstructing the laws of the naturalization of foreigners, Refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither. And raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone. For the tenure of their offices and the amount and payment of their salaries. He has erected a multitude of new offices. And sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. And he has kept among us, in times of peace standing armies without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction Foreign to our constitution. And unacknowledged by our laws, Giving his assent to their acts of pretend legislation. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us, for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states. For cutting off our trade with all parts of the world. For imposing taxes on us without our consent. For depriving us in many cases of the benefits of trial by jury. For transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses. For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, Establishing therein an arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument. For introducing the same absolute rule in these colonies. For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws. And altering fundamentally the forms of our governments. For suspending our own legislatures, declaring them invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. He has abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries. To complete the works of death, desolation and tyranny already begun. With circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages. And totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taken captive on the high seas. To bear arms against their country. To become the executioners of their friends and brethren. Or to fall themselves by their hands. He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us. And has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers. The merciless Indian savages. Whose known rule of warfare is undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. In every stage of these oppressions. We have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant. Is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature. To extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our immigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity. We have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred. To disavow these usurpations which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to the voices of justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation. And hold them as we hold the rest of mankind. Enemies in war, in peace. Friends. We therefore, the representatives of the United States of America. In General Congress assembled. Appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions. Do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies. Solemnly publish and declare. That these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states. That they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown. And that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved. And that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce. And to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration. With a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence. We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor. You know something I've been thinking about, Todd? I read that fresh again this year. The Declaration of Independence. And the phrase at the very beginning of the final paragraph. We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America In General Congress assembled. Appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of Our intentions do, in the name and by the authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be free and independent states continued. But appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions. That's something that Steve has emphasized countless times on this show. And it occurred to me thinking about that kind of more in depth and just trying to understand that the, the founders, what made them tick, their frame of mind. Something occurred to me.
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Todd.
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Conviction is not the same thing as confidence. It's not always the same thing as confidence. Confidence is knowing what you can do. Conviction is knowing why you're doing it. And I think you hear that especially in that phrase in the Declaration of Independence. These guys keep in mind they are learned, accomplished, rich men, powerful men to some degree. They had the conviction. They knew why they were doing what they were doing. But the reason they appealed to God for the rectitude of their intentions, the reason why they appealed to God is because they didn't know if this thing was going to be successful. That level of bravery, that level of, that level of bravery, it just. The median. The median male in this country. Todd doesn't know jack squat about. Just doesn't. And if we're going to have success, if we want to celebrate the nation's 275th birthday, we're going to have to recover that in short order.
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Yeah. Those men you're talking about, fantasy football, toy lightsabers and video games. That is living like pagans. You remember that theme from earlier in the week? Christians practicing Christians whose marriage was falling apart. And thank God they were given the light bulb moment for knowing where to go to find the answer. And it's just like we've been faking it this whole time. The guidebook was there. How to live as a Christian. We wanted to do it a different way. That's idolatry. That's living as a pagan. So the only question remaining here, going into this July 4th and all July 4ths, when we know a change is necessary, corporately or more personally, what are you prepared to do? Which idols are you prepared to smash? And if the answer is zero expectations, even more of what you're already getting and far worse for your children.
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Todd, one of our founding fathers has a lot to say, a lot to say in the same. In the same line of thinking as what you were saying. So if you don't, if you don't believe us, take his word for it. We'll be joined by John Adams in just a little. Back on the Steve Davis Show Independence Day Special. I'm Aaron, he is Todd and we are brought to you by Fast Growing Trees, our friends at Fast Growing Trees sponsoring this special edition of the Steve Day Show. Did you know Fast Growing Trees is America's largest and most trusted online nursery with thousands of trees and plants and over 2 million happy customers. They have all the plants your yard or home needs, including fruit trees, privacy trees, flowering trees, shrubs, houseplants, all grown with care and guaranteed to arrive healthy. It's like your local nursery, but anywhere. You live with more plants than you'll find anywhere else. Whatever you're looking for, Fast Growing Trees will help you find options that actually work for your climate, your space and your lifestyle. Fast Growing Trees make it easy to get your dream yard. Just click grow or click order and then grow get healthy, thriving plants delivered to your door right now. They have great deals on spring and linked to planting essentials, up to half off on select plants. Our listeners to this show get 20% off their first purchase when they use the code DACE at checkout. That's an additional 20% off. Better plants and better growing at fastgrowingtrees.com using the code D EACE for DACE at checkout fastgrowingtrees.com code DACE now is the perfect time to plant. Let's grow together. Use the promo code dace@fastgrowingtrees.com code dace back with more on our Independence Day special. If you didn't believe anything that Todd said towards the end of the last segment, well, you don't have to take his word for it. Here's John Adams.
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Madams, sirs, I appreciate this opportunity to take the floor. I do understand this gathering. It is precisely what my colleagues and I had in mind. What we dreamed of, why we abandoned our homeland, our England, and why we abandoned our King George. I am John Adams. I will become President of the United States. I will become the first of only two presidents whose son will also become president. But I will primarily be known for my work with the Declaration of Independence and the founding of this land. I was disliked by many, considered brutish, pushy, but I always professed my calling to be bold. My attitude has always been, come with me in Christ or get out of my way. I come to this Congress with two proposals for your Excuse me. With two proposals for your consideration, after which I intend to depart and charge you with defining their merit. Proposal number one, that the Christian heritage of this land shall be Revealed, shared, taught and stressed to all American children. In other words, the Christian history will be included in the public education. 55 members attended the Constitutional Convention. 52. Of those 55 were actively involved in their respective churches. Did you know? The words God and Jesus occur numerous times in the writings of our founders, hundreds of times. Oftentimes, a synonym was used, such as master, heavenly father, divine, provider, Jehovah, jireh. My friend George Washington used 54 different references to our Lord. Did you know? 54. Likewise, a hundred years later, a Mr. Abraham Lincoln will use 49 such references, and a Mr. Robert E. Lee will use 45. Did you know? Thus, the profound significance and impact of Jesus Christ on the history of this land, let alone the profound significance and impact of Jesus Christ and some rather remarkable Americans. One such American, a personal friend of mine, was Mr. Benjamin Franklin, and despite his shortcomings in morality, he too understood God's divine providence. Here, this is on file from the constitutional convention, dated June 28, 1787. Franklin was addressing the morning worship. Excuse me, the Congress. Well, how has it happened, sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly appealing to the father of lights to illuminate our understanding? In the beginning of our contest with Great Britain, when we were sensible to danger, we had daily prayers in this very room for divine protection. Our prayers, sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. I have lived, sir, a long time. And the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. And I firmly believe in this, my friends. That was Benjamin Franklin. That is but one example of the Christian heritage of this land. There are numerous others here. Patrick Henry. Yes. He said, give me liberty or give me death. But only after he said, an appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left. We shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and he will raise up friends to fight our battles. Is life so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, almighty God, and only then give me liberty or give me death. Did you know? The secular historians must have omitted something, don't you think? Mr. Thomas Jefferson believed that the constitutional freedom of religion is the most Inalienable and sacred of all human rights. Mr. George Washington. Without an humble imitation of the characteristics of the divine author of our blessed religion, we can never hope to be a happy nation. Mr. Abraham Lincoln. The only assurances of our nation's safety is to lay our foundation in morality and religion. Ladies and gentlemen, I suggest to you the Christian character of this land is not being taught to your children. Furthermore, the historical significance of Jesus Christ on the history of this land, like a woolen mitten on frigid fingers, has been a perfect fit. Allowing God's hand to guide this country to its survival and lead her to her divine destiny. The Bible tells us we shall reap what we sow. My friends, the Christian seeds have already been planted by numerous Christian men and women, including philosophers and presidents, generals and gentlemen, patriots and housewives and ministers. Take care of this Christian land. Let your children know of the Christian seeds planted by Christian men such as Jefferson Washington. Such as Mr. James Madison, another future president. Such as Mr. John Hancock, the very first signer of the Declaration of independence. Such as Mr. Noah Webster, the prolific thinker and remarkable author of the dictionary found in many of your homes. These were Christian men. Your efforts to teach that Christian heritage will not only be nurturing to all, but perhaps eye opening to self and certainly appreciated by our heavenly Father. Well, if you will excuse me. The heat here is somewhat reminiscent of the heat I experienced one summer many years ago in the village of Philadelphia. That first proposal sets the foundation for my second most difficult and certainly controversial proposal. That our future choices, yours and mine. Our future choices will be guided, guarded and governed by those Christian principles and ideals set forth in the first proposal. In other words, our Christian choices will be based upon Christian principles, not worldly principles. My friends, tomorrow we'll bring about numerous challenges, numerous changes. You know that. Why, the devil himself will attempt to erode the foundation of that first proposal by using man's own intellect, own inquisitiveness to tempt and eventually destroy those Christian principles and ideals if the devil himself were to tamper with our future course of events. Can you imagine, for example, what a shame it would be if one day man were to discover how to eliminate a child prior to its birth and the government approved it. What a shame it would be if one day a new type of cannonball was developed, one capable of enormous explosive power even in including clouds of poisonous plagues. And the peoples and the nations accepted their occasional use. And what a shame it would be if one day a device, an image box of some sort was capable of sending evil images into our homes. And we not only permitted it, but promoted it so thoroughly and participated in it so thoroughly as to allow its evil tendencies to desensitize our moralities and virtually destroy our family time together. What a shame it would be if one day the love and compassion we have for our neighbors became secluded and isolated behind locked doors, privacy fencing and hedges. And what a shame it would be if one day a person or group in authority were to decide the family unit is not really defined. A sexual rebellion, including same sex relationships, was allowed like smoke to seep under the doors into our log cabins, altering our marriage covenant. And the family unit itself. And the Christian neighborhood complained in private, but remained silent and spineless in their public opposition. What a shame it would be if one day man were to learn to soar like birds in some type of flying apparatus, only to turn around and use such a device to inflict harm on their fellow man. What a shame it would be if one day greed and ownership and materialism and corporate wealth became more important than giving honesty and helping thy neighbor to cut firewood. And lastly, what if our freedom to pray. What if our freedom to worship and pray freely and openly were taken away by our own government if King George were to arrive on this soil tomorrow and prevent your sons and your daughters and your grandchildren from praying during schooling while still such unlikely abominations must be repelled. Yes, the devil will use worldly men, but you must use the Christian principles and ideals set forth by my friends and my colleagues, your forefathers and your founding fathers to dismember such abominations. Thus my two proposals. I trust you will consider them. Absorb any wisdom found therein and adjust your lives accordingly. Oh, well, Now you know why I was disliked by many. Perhaps I have offended you or your neighbor. That was not my intention. But I will not apologize for my Christian heritage, nor will I stand idly by when I see it being challenged and or ridiculed by future individuals and or events. And lastly, my dear friend George Washington was constantly found to be in prayer. Did you know he had been leading our troops against the vastly superior forces of King George? One wintry evening around dusk, a Quaker, ironically a Tory Quaker by the name of Potts, Mr. Isaac Potts, came upon the general. The general was alone at the edge of the wood. Mr. Potts was not seen by the general. But this is what Mr. Potts observed. The general was alone at the edge of the wood. Only his four legged, trusty, ashen spotted mount named Nelson stood off his shoulder. It was quiet. It was cold. The General was on his knee, so quiet only an occasional snort from Nelson nearby colored the chilly, silent air. The General's hands were folded, his stature severe, his head was bowed and he was praying. Picture that on your imaginary canvas. Picture that General George Washington lies. Later, that Tory Quaker who observed this wrote about what he saw that evening outside his village at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. He wrote, if there is anyone on this earth who the Lord will listen to, it is George Washington. And I forgot feel a presentiment that under such a commander there can be no doubt of our eventually establishing our independence and that God in his providence has willed it so. My friends, this country is founded in God.
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Did you know John Adams this is our Independence Day Special on the Steve Day Show. Hour two is next. Hour two of our special Independence Day show on the Steve Dace show minus Steve Dace as he continues to be on the mend from an illness, praying for him to get better soon. Of course, as always, I have to do this. I have to remind you, wherever you listen, however you listen, whether it's on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, whether it's on the Platform that Shall Not Be Named or a platform like Rumble, please give us a thumbs up, please subscribe, please give us a five star review wherever, however you listen. Those are greatly appreciated. We had been having good run of a couple of weeks here and we want to keep that momentum going. As I said, this is our Independence Day special and over the course of the first hour we took a look back with the reading of of Steve's new children's book, really the the Founding of our country 3,000 years in the Making. We heard from a Founding Father in John Adams. We read the Declaration of Independence itself. We took a look back at the heritage that we sort of greatly, greatly enjoy, but quite frankly do not deserve. But I think now it is time to look forward and to do that, we're bringing in what is typically our prophet of woe and lamentations, Daniel Horowitz on the special edition of the Steve Day show, typically our prophet of woe and lamentation. This week we are going to dub him the prophet of Flamethrower. I told you before, I want you to make me regret having you on. And Daniel, with those stakes being very high, I saw earlier this week you are currently working on a piece coming out later at the Blaze Conservative Review examining where we go from here in the midst of some of the more disappointing, and let's just face it, cataclysmic decisions, even though they were to be expected, they were not a surprise coming down from the Supreme Court. You said on X the other night, we know what's doing or what we're doing is not working. And you have some of the ailments, I think you're working on some of the ailments of what's going on in right wing America, not left America. And you have some proposals on how to fix what ails us. Daniel, welcome to the special edition of the of the show. Thank you for coming on. The floor is yours. Like I said, make me regret having you on.
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Well, Todd and Aaron, happy Dependence Day. And hopefully by the end of this, maybe we could go through the weekend and turn it into Independence Day because we're dependent on we say we hate. You know, could you imagine if the Sons of Liberty, if Patrick Henry and Sam Adams would be like Con Inc. Maga Inc. Trump Inc. GOP Inc. This entire charade we've been dealing with our entire life. Oh, give me liberty. Or make sure they have that on, on camera there, the selfie, click, click, click, monetize. You know, they actually believed their words. So we celebrate, we extol what we extol, first of all, independence. Well, there's something that we actually did to facilitate that that I think we gloss over. They actually fought a bloody revolution, yet we won't even do 10 tranches below that. Like the most passive resistance to tyranny, judicial supremacism, break away at all from the current gop like Groundhog's Day every general election, first Tuesday in the first, you know, in, in November and nothing more. Be full time citizens, create those committees of correspondence. So what, what I sought to do with this, with this manifesto and it's going to be out hopefully, hopefully Friday in honor of July 4th. I, I wanted to rise to the time where we laid down some premises that we should all agree what we're doing is not working. The magnitude of tyranny we have is much worse, much worse than what they face then, let's be honest, a couple of pennies on the dollar for, for the Stamp act, okay? And yet that spawned the Sons of Liberty within a few months in 1765, within seven and a half years, they had the tea party. Within 10 years, Lexington and Concord. And remember, 10 years back then is like one month of new saturation today. Here we are 40 years after Reagan, 17 years after the modern day Tea Party. And then we went backwards and we've never had so many people speak an existential language, okay? All of our cop, let's be honest, there's limited bandwidth among the people, limited reservoir in their souls, in their hearts to accept, to ponder and certainly to fight to rectify things. And I think Todd is right about the sports bro culture, the bread and circuses, but that's always going to be there. But whatever little reservoir there is what should be our modern day sons of Liberty, Patrick Henry's and they kind of purport to be these speak in existential terms. This is not kind of like Rush Limbaugh 1989. You know, it's sports politics. It's interesting you believe. It's not like you don't believe in something. But I mean we're losing our culture and our country and our economy. Okay, so what are you going to do about it? Courts don't have this authority, so what are you going to do about it? And then it's on to the next thing and on to the next thing. So the people that should be the sons of liberty subvert the actual movement by clogging the very people we need to apply a modern day revolution, whatever that will look like, which is something we need to start thinking about. They subvert it and clog it with empty calories and actually worse, they white pill it and jiu jitsu it into vote gop. We saw yesterday, you know, the response or two days ago, the response was, you know, it was actually 5 to 4. Just vote a little bit more GOP and we're gonna have a convention in September and like the first GOP midterm convention that I'm telling you, if you find a way of electing a Republican majority House, Senate and president and Supreme Court in November, we're gonna do yeah, and will get one more justice somehow and we'll overturn it. What we're doing is not working. If everyone in our industry actually believed what they said, we would have long ago embarked on the path that would lead to a modern day 1776, which obviously the objective of that is that it's completely a political revolution, obviously. Certainly not bloody ideally and would would rectify at least some of the grievances in at least parts of the country. And the thing is, we don't need to reinvent the wheel guys. We have the system Madison gave us. On the one hand, everything is ravaged and raped. On the other hand, we do have federalism in the sense of imperfect as it is. We have significant parts of the country that are relatively much less Balkanized, less secularized. And the overwhelming majority of people broadly believe in what we do. Yet we're leading that sentiment into a garbage can and doing nothing with it. So that's why I laid down some ideas here, beginning with the thoughts. Do we actually believe that what is happening is worse and we have the right and obligation to alter and change? You might not have the agency to do it exactly the way you want at the time you want, as fully as you want, but you never could take that away from your heart that this is illegitimate. This must not pass. I believe we don't have that among our leadership. Oh, hey, Todd. 2028, who do you think's gonna run 2032? Do you think GP would keep the majority? I mean, everyone I bump into. That's what they asked me. They know what I do for a living, and that's all they want to know. By the way, you want to know who does have the spirit of a revolution, despite the fact that we're all kind of pulling our hair out? We have no economy, we have no culture, Demographics destroyed law. We have no governance by the consent of the governed anymore. And now even the choice of adding the new people to a civilization is determined by the unelected branch of government, and we do nothing about it. But you know who has that spirit of the revolution? The left. The left, despite the fact that they got a lot of what they wanted, they actually do this. They have laid the groundwork in blue states where the people working with the elected representatives, local officials, local judges, and local law enforcement say this area is a kill zone for anything we don't believe in. And it works. Now, I don't want to emulate the culture of assassination that they have that part of it, but my point is, they're the ones who have the spirit. And I gotta tell you one more thing uncomfortable, before maybe we get to some remedies I have in my old age. I've come to admire a lot of the left because I look at them, and when you meet some of them in person, they really do believe in what they're saying. And that's a scary thing, but they really do believe in it. And it's not cosplaying an online formulation. Like when they say, this is inhumane, this is immoral, you can't do this on immigration. No human being is illegal. They actually believe that. And they formulate like our founders did. They are the students of our founders. They are the spirit of 1776 for the opposite reasons, but they're harnessing it. They're like, this shall not stand. We might not have Full agency to do everything we want. But we're going to, we're going to get to where we need to. So we're now in this late hour where we have flock cameras at every inch. We have, every county government has more firepower, legal authority and surveillance technology than the entire, you know, army, British army at the time. So we can't really physically, there's not much we can do. The second amendment is, is a joke. We have more guns than ever and less liberty and less government by consent. And you know, we, we got to prayerfully get together and sort of bridge this and, and think we gotta restore something, we gotta change what we're doing. Obviously we don't want a French revolution, so you got to have the continuity of some rough contours of the state systems. We have legislatures kind of like we had during our founding, but we can get it again to the remedies. But I'll close with this, Todd and Aaron. What I'm bothered by is I can't even find people with which to have this conversation, right. And get in a room and have a constitutional convention style meeting over. Let's pray to God. Get in a room. Because I guarantee if we did that the solutions would come instead. We all know what this is about. It's about your favorite politician. It's about where your money is. It's all a game. It's all a game.
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That was tremendous. Todd, you've got to have some questions for Daniel.
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Well, I absolutely want to get into the remedies because if I can sum up what Daniel said as concisely as possible. And Daniel alluded to it when he said prayerfully, faith without works is dead. We've got a lot of big talkers in the name of the Lord on the right, but when it comes time to going out and being the hands and feet, those appendages are apparently chopped off and it's somebody else's job to do so. By all means, Daniel, start laying out the action points.
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So again, you know, the more people that recognize the problem, the easier the solutions will come. Obviously, any solution that's rooted in, oh, there's going to be a hot war. I mean, maybe there will, maybe they won't. I, I kind of have my doubts because people can't even miss buffet night to vote in the primary. So, you know, the, the, the. See that's the thing. Everyone's like, we got the guns. Actually the left has more guns, or at least they use them. I mean, you talk to any J. Sixer that did nothing but cross a rope line. A lot of them had arsenals of guns. It did no good. When the FBI SWAT team comes there like, you know, that's, that's not happening, buddy. You know the baby boomers. I got my, my staccatos and my expensive three thousand dollar pistols and ars and yeah, you know, when the next Democrat president comes for you, what's he gonna do?
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I know again, talk talk, talk talk talk talk talk talk and, and, and,
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and, and it's the same thing on the virtue side, you know, our founders understood you need virtue. Never before have we had this much talk about Christian nationalism.
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Right.
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Never before has the elected and unelected influencer class of the so called this saturated with adulterers and fornicators and degenerates. I'm just telling you that like it is, God will not bless a movement like that.
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Nope.
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That is just aside from the fact that people that cheat on their wives will cheat on you and sell you out. But practically, but spiritually, God will not bless a movement like that. Now, even during our founding time, nobody's perfect but, but I mean we've just openly embraced this stuff and, and that's, that's a whole other can of worms. But the point is you got to. What I'm finding is my solutions aren't that hard, except I don't know how to get to the first step. Once you get to the first step, it's very easy. You have to recognize the GOP is a subversive force. And actually if it didn't exist and you only had the Democrats organically, people would rebel. What the GOP is designed is to grab that energy and say I got it. I got it. Give me the ball.
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Ball.
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Give me the ball. Ten years ago we had the ultimate manifestation of that and it white pilled everyone into huh DLP as we were actually with the Tea Party starting to break out of that mold. Every 10 to 15 years there's a new iteration of the GOP which is the same as the old relative to the battles in front of us, even though they seem more aggressive on, at least rhetorically on yesterday's fight states to reset the clock and get us away from doing something. So you have to. Well, Daniel, where's the new party? Okay, but at least the recognition with that you could start bridging that. And obviously I talk about my convention idea and I think this is very much in the mold of our founders with the committees of correspondence. Todd, you are right on this that we, the main problem we have is we don't have self government. We have the. If you want to know what self government is, look at the left. They have a full time movement on every issue, sub issue in every county, executive, legislative, judicial, state legislative, executive, judicial, federal legislative, executive and judicial proceeding, and vote to monitor. And wherever they have majority sentiment, they enforce their will. They just knocked off another incumbent last night, a 30 year incumbent who's a radical leftist in the urban Denver area. Congresswoman, but she was like, had too much of an establishment maybe vibe or demeanor. Demeanor gone. They have a movement, we don't. We have a groundhog come out and vote for the GOP name you know of and go back to sleep. The way to do that, both to spawn and every day is election day sort of activism as well as a better modality of selection is to move as many offices as we can to state convention. The Utah convention model is a good model where, you know, look, let's face it, the turnout is abysmal anyway in the primaries. So rather than getting a random selection of low information people to select the guy with the most money to lie to, voters at least have high information. You come to a neighborhood precinct meeting and elect a delegate, just like our founders would have done. And you discuss and you deliberate and then a group of a few hundred delegates vote for your nominees for county, for state legislature, for governor, and maybe the federal stuff too. That's what Utah used to do. It got gutted, but they still have it kind of pro forma. Every single establishment guy would lose. We just had one in April there. It's not perfect, but here's the thing. This doesn't require the courts. It doesn't require a constitutional amendment which we're not going to get. We need 38 states to say that we can breathe and it's never going to happen. It doesn't really even require statutory change. Even states that claim to require a party as a private entity, that is the only way of electing critical mass patriots in one cycle. And even if they kind of slip through some bad guys now, you have the convention holding over them two years from now. So even if they lied once, it's, you know, so we're not talking about reaching 5 million people in Florida and Texas. 20 million people. You need 50, $100 million to run in Texas for governor. Okay, where are you going to get that? From all the sources that are going to corrupt you? Okay, this is a few hundred high information people. And this will spawn, this will put it back in the hands of high information people. It's not no oligarchy. Anyone who wants could show up. Okay. It's not a smoke filled room. You pick the guy in your neighborhood. That's the structure. And then I talk about having the Boston Gazette common sense equivalent the Des Moines Patriots. Okay. Where you doggedly focus on the issues and the people at a local level that really do make politicians sweat. Unlike nationally. It's just too saturated. You we need to get sheriff's posse. I'll give you one more and won't tease some of the other ideas. We need to make the militia great again. We've focused too much on the individual right to own and it's it is there. It doesn't do anything for you. The militia was important. Now I don't mean a bunch of drunkards going in the woods and cosplaying and then the FBI infiltrating it or mowing them down, which they'll do. I mean a sheriff's posse idea where once you elect through the convention system you're more likely to do it. A critical mass of people, sheriffs, county commissioners, state officials, state AGs that share your values. Then you have a sheriff's posse where you have oven by the people. An adjunct to the county law enforcement brought in under the color of law. And this is important because I promise you I would get arrested under the next administration for saying what I'm saying. They will come that they were basically already doing that. What are you going to do? These panty waist Republicans in red states ain't protecting you, I'll tell you that much. But one thing we're not quite at the point in this country is where the feds will start shooting at the sheriff's deputies together with the people's posse surrounding and protecting that person. We have to bring it into the color of law. We have to synergize at the doctrine of lowest magistrate even. No matter what I say, it's going to take a change. There's no button anyone could press. I'll leave you with this. The biggest takeaway from the revolution is that the pretext for it was pathetic, mundane and banal. Now you might think I'm disparaging them. No, but they were brilliant. The crux of Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me death speech was in response to those that are like why are you taking on the most powerful navy an army because of some stupid taxes. Let's be honest. They had their legislatures, they had their governors. They were self governing. They didn't have data centers, flock cameras. Government created Monopolies at every inch of their lives, surveillance state at every inch of their lives, government poisoning their food, medicine, controlling everything, subverting their. Their demographics. I mean, you have one of the grievances in the Declaration is about the Indians kind of instigating the Indians a little bit, but they weren't made citizens and subverting their state legislative votes and counting them in the census. And you didn't have. You didn't have any of this stuff. One district judge is accorded more power than King George ever had. But they understood that if you suffer while evils are sufferable, if you don't, in the words of John Adams in a letter to a loyalist, nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the Buddha, then it's too late. And that's what Patrick Henry was saying. What, it's going to become easier in 10 years from now to fight them. They saw where it was headed. We didn't nip it into. In the buds. It's a massive oak tree now. It's officious in every part of our. It's practically in our brain.
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This is such an important point, Daniel. They were men with chests. We are men without chests. So the ultimate question is said. You said, you know, we have to get to the point where we get the people in the room, and then the ideas might come simply, well, we are in an Isaiah 1:5 moment here. Where would you yet be struck? Covid didn't accomplish it. Transgenderism didn't accomplish it. H1B visas and mosques taking over Texas isn't accomplishing it. Daniel, you must have given it some thought. It's not going to be ideology. It's going to be circumstances and dire ones. What do you think they're going to be before we wake up?
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Up that. I mean, that's really the most important question. But I think you're right and you're wrong at the same time. I think people did wake up. I mean, just look at the data center stuff. It's. I. I've never seen, like, that's the first time where I'm seeing people are actually ahead of me. I mean, like, doesn't anyone see this? Oh, it's seen, all right. But the Republican Party and all of its organs are there to subvert it. It notice all the lead issues now. The Republican Party and its deity and its deity are squarely on the wrong side of it. Squarely subverting it, squarely electing people with PAC money from big Tech to do the opposite. The mosques people are lit over this. We do have it. And some of this stuff, it's even nonpartisan by the way. New coalitions forming the medical freedom, the health stuff stuff, the stuff kind of Zach Lane is, is running on very much crosses bridges and I think Zach Lane's issue set is where it's at in Iowa. I really do. The problem is the people. The self appointed people with the loudest voices, the highest on podcasts. They're either subverting about the next GOP sophistry or they're on the wrong side of it or they're talking about Jews or, or whatever. I mean that's, that's the problem. And look, this gets back to Stephen and my old friendly debate over the people versus the leadership. There's obviously a slice of the pie that's both and it's circular but we have, we have subversive leadership and I think that includes a lot more people than we're willing to admit. I can't even get people in private conversations like okay, nobody's listening. I'm not going to tell anyone anything you said about the Dear Leader. Okay, you know there's no spies here. Okay, let's understand like it ain't working. Okay, what are we going to do? They're just, they're just on a hamster wheel. I Todd, you're right about your sports growth thesis in the among the masses but Sam Adams point is you just need an irate minority. We do kind of have that on a lot of budding issues. Monopolies, big tech and look I gotta say on the left too the problem is when you have two generations of anti market fiscal and monetary policy and artificial monopolies that then create, are created that violate human dignity so the far left and, and people like us will home in on some of the same symptoms. Just keep that in mind that that rebellion is certainly happening on the left now and it does merge in some, in some instances I would, I am very optimistic about our Future. If the SOBs that are self appointed leaders, if you have $100 million conservative PAC, if you are a million person subscriber base and and itunes hits and elected officials lead or get the hell out of the way. Stop being that fat rear end in the corridor blocking people from putting out the fire. Because the good news is people, the Democrats aren't popular despite fight, you know everything with the Republicans, people don't want most of their stuff. They don't want the woke, they don't want the radical. And the good news is you get what you fight for. On the one hand we have lack of consent where nothing seems to be flowing from consent. On the other hand, look at what we fought for, overturning Roe v. Wade, school choice, lower taxes and guns. And on any measure, we have those issues and nothing else.
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Daniel, I want to make sure you have the last patriotic minute, but I'm not going to nip anybody's energy in the bud. I'm just going to say we already have that small group organization that people can go to right now and take over, and that's called school districts and school boards. And when they take those over, I will believe they are fully in the game on doing their part, because that's what they don't have to wait for anybody else to do right now. Take over your school district. But we've got about a minute and a half left before Aaron has to take us out. It's yours to say red, white and blue, whatever you want to.
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You know, I think, I think let's just leave it where, where you just presented it. Part of this political fentanyl that dulls our senses and is constantly getting us away from what you just said is we could be under barrage from 10 social and economic issues. And then. And we'll be talking, oh, who's the next guy? Jd. Jd. And again, this is not even a thing on jd. I don't care who it is. I don't want to hear about the next presidential. You are not going to take over blue America. Okay? According to Gallup, there's only 27% of Democrats who are extremely or very proud to be American and they're willing to say so in a poll.
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Yes.
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You're not taking that. That is lost. I'm black pilled on that. But that, but that is also very empowering that there's nothing we can do on that. We got to take over our areas. And you need to remember this, the lesson our founders knew and the lesson we Learned in Afghanistan.
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B
30 seconds, Daniel.
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Is you can't control people that don't want to be controlled on a very local level. If the culture is not there and there's no reasons in significant portions of flyover country, we cannot start from the bottom and go through all the social and economic issues and say we're going to get a group of 10 people in this county, you'd be shocked at the influence you could wield. That's how you party like at 1776.
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That was a fantastic note to end on Segues to exactly what we're going to be talking about next. The story of Caesar Rodney Daniel Horowitz, Happy Independence Day, man. I appreciate it.
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Happy fourth, Daniel Happy Fourth.
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We'll talk to you again soon.
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The steve day show.
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All in favor? All opposed? That was only a straw vote to see where we stand. Only Delaware and Pennsylvania stand against the independence resolution. But in order to adopt it, the vote must be unanimous. The actual vote will take place tomorrow morning. Until then, we are dismissed.
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Rat.
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If only Caesar Rodney of Delaware were here. He'd vote with us and bring Delaware to our side. Caesar Rodney is bedridden. Wait a minute.
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James.
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Could you and Moses race to Delaware to visit a sick friend?
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If it's thieves, I'm alone. You'll only have me to rob.
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We're not robbers.
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D
Ah, then you've come to escort me to the next world.
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E
No, just Philadelphia.
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D
That's a far cry from heaven. Dr. Franklin sent us with new of the independence resolution.
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E
The vote is tomorrow, and your vote is very important.
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D
Help me out of bed. Gentlemen,
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E
Wouldn't it be better if you rode in the carriage with us?
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D
Speed is everything. Thanks again, fellows.
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B
That cough sounds bad.
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E
We'd better try to keep up with him. I don't understand why he wouldn't let us take it. Now you've seen a real hero,
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D
Daddy. Rodney, I've got to make it inside. As I believe the voice of my constituents and of all sensible and honest men is in favor of independence, my own judgment concurs with them. I vote for independence.
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E
It's unanimous. The resolution on independence passes.
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A
It always stands out to me in that story of Caesar Rodney. So many men of that era, or maybe more precisely put, enough men of that era and eras after it. Just replete with duty. Just replete with duty. Enough. Enough men. Enough people. Bound by duty, bound by honor, bound by really doing and believing the things that they say and say and believe. As we close out today's Independence Day special, Todd, we'll just come back to this concept that I talked about earlier. The reason, ultimately the reason the American Revolution was a success, was not because, and this is kind of what you were talking about earlier. Not because these men were so brave. They were. It's not because they were willingly sacrificed. All of their lives, fortunes and sacred honors. They did. They lost. Many of them. Lost everything. But it's not because of that, it's because of the providence of Almighty God. But going back to this idea of conviction versus confidence, when you're starting a business, when you're starting a business, you have this ideal customer in your mind, right? You have this ideal customer. You know what this customer wants, you know the pain points of this customer. You are convicted that you can provide a service or a product to this customer. What you don't know, though, what you don't know is whether or not what you're selling will actually be bought. You're convicted that there is a customer out there like this. You are convicted about that, but you're not confident that that customer is actually out there until you go and start selling. That's kind of an example of what I'm talking about. These men acted under conviction at all times. Under that generation, 25 years later, into the American experiment, there were enough men, enough men who acted with the same amount of conviction 50 years later. Enough men in that generation, 75 years, enough men, enough people who were brave, who are willing to do the hard stuff, who are willing to make sacrifices. 50 years, 100 years after that. That's how this thing called America gets passed down generation to generation. There are always sinners amongst us. There are always, always treacherous amongst us. But the key word that I keep using is enough. That's the challenge for all of us. If we're going to do this another 25 years, another 250 years, I can't predict that right now. Where we're sitting, are there enough of us to act on conviction, to act on conviction, knowing that maybe what you're doing, what you're acting out, maybe it won't be successful, but you're going to do it anyway. Because you know that's right. That's the secret sauce of America. Beyond God's providence are the people who, in God's design and acting on God's word and acting on God's call on their lives, acted beyond the providence of God. We talk about that sometimes. It can sound mystical or magical. It's not that is God's. It is God's plan. That was God's plan unfolding before our eyes. But it was using men who were willing to do the hard things, sometimes the boring things. I think that's the challenge before us as we close.
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C
Todd?
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B
Yeah. That scripture I read earlier about if we serve God, we will follow him. Well, that's the backside of John 12. You know, if we love the Lord, if we love our lives, we will lose it. And if we Hate our lives in this world for his sake. We will gain it in heaven. Put another way. Matthew 20:5. A man who received one talent dug a hole in the ground and buried his master's treasure there. And when it came time for the master to settle accounts, he said, you wicked and lazy servant, we're having way too much fun while the world burns. We are not humbling ourselves before God and living a life of duty. That is not a flex for us. We're real men. No, it's. It's a thank you to God. You have given us paradise. What can we do to worship you accordingly? And that is to preserve, protect and defend the good, the true and the beautiful. We have a charge to keep faith without works is dead. And we had a real life example amidst all the bad that happened in the courts this week of a good that happened. And it largely happened. And I don't think it would have happened unless there were girls like my daughter across this entire country who stood up and said no, there are men and there are women and this is ours and you can't take it. And a great victory was won. Not just for girls, sports for reality itself. The good, the true and the beautiful. I. You've heard me complain before. We shouldn't have a moms for liberty, but they have to exist because we don't have a dad's for liberty. And a dance for liberty is just supposed to be who you are when you get up in the morning. Especially if you call yourself a follower of Christ. The crosses you must literally bear if you are a Christian still in this 21st century, if you are a Christian in China or in Africa or God only knows where, but here in America, a literal land overflowing with milk and honey. And you can't do the bare minimum that two we won't. I'll just fill in the blank. We won't be exist as a country in 250 years because God will make sure of it. Because we're in greats right now and we don't deserve it. What are you prepared to do? It's not a herculean task. It's not forsaking all that you know. It begins with smashing some idols that are quite frankly childhood toys that you're still addicted to as a middle aged man. If you can't do that bare minimum and just say like your teenage daughters did here and no further, what is the point of any of this? Happy 4th.
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A
I'm so glad you brought up what you said. This really is a land that is A paradise. Have you driven across it? I know you have. Have you? Number one. Unlike in places like Europe, which is also beautiful in its own right. Unlike there. You know what, Todd? I can just get in my car. I have a functioning car. It's got a fairly fresh oil change. I can drive anywhere. In four hours the landscape changes and it's pretty much all beautiful. It's pretty much all beautiful. The abundance that we have in this country means everybody, pretty much everybody has a full belly. It is paradise. It really is. I remember one of the finest, I think independence days that I can ever remember. I was visiting my brother in Spokane, Washington and he had some friends who had a little place out on the lake. And the lake was just teeming with people out carousing on the fourth of July. And it was late afternoon, early evening, and we were just sitting there on the lakefront up in the mountains, kind of in the mountains of the hills on this lake. Just beautiful, just gorgeous. And we just stayed there. We watched people speedboating around the lake. Everyone was having fun, everyone was having a good time. The evening ended with fireworks, one of the best displays. You could see them gleaming off the water. Just beautiful. I know a lot of people go places, do things. Obviously on the 4th of July, on Independence Day, I want you, if you're not going to act yet, I want you to think about what I just said, what Todd just said. This land is incredible, this place is incredible. Is the effort that we're giving as a citizen is that commiserate with the opportunity that we've been given, that we've been passed down. I think any of us, heck, even Steve and Todd, who do way more than the average bear, certainly me, I could look myself in the mirror. I think all of us, if we're all being really honest, all of us could do a little bit more. Some of us could do a lot, a bit more. As you are enjoying the abundance, the natural beauty, some of the man made wonders in this great land. Is your level, level of effort as a citizen, is it commiserate with the greatness of this place that God has given us and through his providence allowed us to be born into or brought into. Because if it's not, we're not going to have another 250 years. We're not going to have another 25 years. We might not have another 15 if we're being brutally honest, given some of the events that we saw earlier this week. Don't want to end it on a downer, but I do think we need to wrap it up by reminding everyone what we began this segment with. Cesar Rodney, One man's effort. Sick man had some sort of deformity on his face that he always covered up. He could have just gone and done his own thing, been embarrassed about the way his face looked. But no, he was bound by duty. He was sick but he had to make that ride. And he is a reason, one of the big reasons why we still get to celebrate the way that we do today. You matter. Your effort matters. It's needed. It's not only important, it's needed, it's necessary. And I think that's the note that we need to end it on on this Independence Day special. Have a wonderful Independence Day. Remember why we get to celebrate it. I hope we emphasize that enough on today's show. We enjoyed making this special for you. For Steve, I'm Aaron. For Steve and Todd, I should say I'm Aaron McIntyre. Go hard. Romans 8:28.