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[00:00:12] being an incredible teacher what our kids were his students his knowledge and passion have taught us all how important it is to be defenders

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[00:02:13] welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover my website is educate for life dot o-r-g and I’m gonna be

[00:02:20] talking about today we’re going to be talking about the idea that the that America is founded on Christian

[00:02:25] principles judeo-christian the judeo-christian religion in Texas right now there’s an interesting thing

[00:02:31] happening where they’re reviewing their textbooks and trying to find out if they

[00:02:36] want to use the same textbooks and and change their standards and so forth and because Texas is so large wherever text

[00:02:43] whatever Texas chooses for their their books a lot of times they have a heavy influence on what’s happening in the

[00:02:50] rest of the country so what books other states use and there’s a reference in

[00:02:55] their social studies textbooks in high school to Moses as being influential in

[00:03:01] the laws that we have in our country and so that being the case some people are

[00:03:07] really upset that there’s a reference to Moses in the the social studies textbooks for public high school

[00:03:14] students some people have complained about this or saying hey this shouldn’t be the case and they’re saying that hey

[00:03:19] our nation wasn’t founded on Christian principles therefore there’s no reason

[00:03:24] to have a reference to Moses so what I want to do today is go through a bunch of the evidence that actually hard

[00:03:30] evidence that demonstrates that our country was founded on Christian principles judeo-christian principles sometimes I’m surprised that this is

[00:03:36] still an issue it seems like it should be something that is settled but it keeps popping up and so until that goes

[00:03:44] away it’s worth talking about and clarifying so if you’re interested on my

[00:03:50] website there’s a whole there’s a whole lesson on this actual subject because it

[00:03:56] is so important there’s a whole on lesson 401 you can go to my website educate for life Oh our ji and you can

[00:04:03] watch three different lessons that actually give the evidence that not only was America founded on Christian

[00:04:09] principles judeo-christian principles but it’s important that it continue to be the case and I know a lot of people

[00:04:15] are of the opinion that hey we’re in a post we’re on a post Christian nation now and

[00:04:21] people you know feel like throwing up their hands and given up but the reality is is that that our Christian heritage

[00:04:27] our Christian foundations are the best thing for the country you have to ask yourself if Christianity isn’t going to

[00:04:33] be the foundation of the country then what else is it going to be I mean there’s lots of options out there in

[00:04:40] India the the foundation of the foundational philosophy for them is Hinduism and so what does that mean what

[00:04:48] what is the impact well the impact is things like the caste system which keeps

[00:04:53] people poor right if you’re in a lower caste it’s very difficult to get out of that caste and you’re stereotyped and

[00:05:01] prejudiced against based on what caste you’re in they also have a reverence for

[00:05:07] cows and how does that practically affect them well if people are very hungry they can’t eat the cows that are

[00:05:14] right there right you can’t raise beef to eat it and so that’s gonna affect you know your economy that’s gonna affect

[00:05:21] your ability to eat food there’s all sorts of things like that you can look at countries like Iraq or Iran which

[00:05:27] have as their foundational philosophy Islam and ask yourself well is that something we want well up until recently

[00:05:33] women in in Saudi Arabia which also has its foundational philosophy as Islam it

[00:05:40] couldn’t even Drive because and and even now even now under Islamic law Sharia

[00:05:46] law it’s dangerous for a woman to go out on her own simply because her testimony in court is

[00:05:53] worth half that of a man and that being the case if a woman is walking along the street makes eye contact with a man he

[00:06:00] can accuse her of trying to seduce him if there is no other man present to counteract this other man’s testimony so

[00:06:06] that woman it’s dangerous for her to go out on her own without her husband brother son whatever it may be

[00:06:13] and you also want to ask yourself okay is that what we want for America well I

[00:06:18] think most people would say absolutely not and what’s happening in our in our country though is that people are

[00:06:24] becoming increasingly at agnostic atheistic or skeptical and so they’re

[00:06:30] moving away from Christianity our country is moving more towards an agnostic view point now we still have a very

[00:06:35] large percentage of people that claim to be Christian and say they believe in the Bible they follow Jesus but there are a

[00:06:40] lot of people fighting to get any reference to Christianity out of the schools in Texas like I said this is

[00:06:47] just happening they’re arguing that there’s a reference to Moses as being influential in the in the founding laws

[00:06:54] of our country which is absolutely the case but they’re trying to remove that because they don’t want to even a

[00:07:00] reference to Moses in the social studies books which to me seems ridiculous that

[00:07:05] we even have to have this discussion but here it is we are having the discussion and it’s a very real issue so let’s talk

[00:07:13] about how we know that Christianity is the foundation of this country what

[00:07:18] evidence do we have that that is the case now before we hop into that I want you to be aware if you’re in Southern

[00:07:25] California I’m going to be speaking at the national apologetics conference put

[00:07:33] on by Veritas International University that’s on October 13th and I’m gonna be

[00:07:38] talking along with a bunch of other speakers Stephen Meyer including them if you don’t know who Stephen Meyer is he’s

[00:07:44] one of the founding quote fathers of the intelligent design movement and he wrote signature in the cell and many other

[00:07:50] things that are very very compelling arguments for an intelligent designer a

[00:07:55] creator a God who made everything and so I’m gonna be speaking with him and a

[00:08:00] variety of other speakers if you want to be equipped to be able to defend your faith that’s a great conference that’s on October 13th

[00:08:06] starts early in the morning around 8:00 or 9:00 a.m. and then goes all the way till about three o’clock I am the last

[00:08:13] speaker there and I’ll be speaking specifically on the scientific foresight of the Bible also something if you’re

[00:08:20] interested I am now offering coaching and discipleship classes specifically on

[00:08:25] how to share your faith and defend your faith so using apologetics sharing your

[00:08:30] faith on a regular basis in a way where you don’t have to be afraid or feel awkward my goal is to help people become

[00:08:36] comfortable sharing their faith so I want people to whether you’re an introvert or you’re an extrovert I want

[00:08:43] you to be able to find ways to share your faith so rather rather than battle against your personality right and you

[00:08:49] know I know a lot of people they’re very very fearful about when they when they even think about talking to somebody on

[00:08:55] the street about Jesus they just get butterflies in their in their stomach they get nauseous and they they feel

[00:09:02] like maybe they’re gonna throw up and I have friends like this and rather than constantly battle against our

[00:09:09] personality temperament why don’t we instead try to find ways to

[00:09:14] take our god-given gifts and use those to be become more evangelistic to be

[00:09:20] able to share our faith more often so my hope through this coaching and discipleship class is to help you find

[00:09:26] ways that fit with your personality to become more comfortable sharing your

[00:09:32] faith so that you’re not awkward and afraid and I’ve been doing this for quite a while I’ve been teaching about

[00:09:37] this for 12 years to high school students and and I love sharing my faith it’s one of the highlights of my of my

[00:09:44] time and days because I love to see it when it clicks with somebody and they go whoa wow that makes total sense and we

[00:09:53] have some videos on my website showing that if you’re interested in the coaching and discipleship go to my website educate for life so our G and

[00:09:59] the the coaching just starts October 23rd it’s gonna be Tuesday evenings it’s gonna be a live online discipleship

[00:10:06] coaching class with me and we’ll have one hour of discussing and looking at

[00:10:12] your personality temperament and how are you gonna be able to share their faith and then we’ll have question and answer and all that kind of stuff so I hope you

[00:10:19] can check it out again it starts October 23rd it’s going to go for six weeks and

[00:10:24] it’s going to be an hour every Tuesday evening 6 to 7 p.m. they will be recorded too so if you miss a class you

[00:10:30] can you can catch up on it ok so we’re gonna be coming up on a break here but

[00:10:36] what we’re talking about is what evidence do we have that America actually has a Christian and

[00:10:43] judeo-christian heritage so let’s start off with this fact there is no nation

[00:10:49] historically or present-day that has ever been under the same piece of paper as long as America has been under the

[00:10:56] Constitution over 220 years America been under the same Constitution people

[00:11:03] give lots of reasons for that they might say we have a good amendment process whatever the case but this is really

[00:11:10] amazing and it does stand out among the nations of the world why is it that

[00:11:15] America has such a stable government and political system that we have the

[00:11:22] Constitution for so long Brazil has been had seven constitutions since 1822 Poland’s had six

[00:11:28] constitutions since 1921 Afghanistan had five Constitution since 1923 Russia four

[00:11:35] Constitution since 1918 and France even though their Revolution started less than 10 years after Americas they’re on

[00:11:41] their fifteenth constitution and this is normal for nations throughout the world so the question becomes why is America

[00:11:49] so stable what is it about our Constitution or about our founding fathers that has allowed us to have such

[00:11:55] a incredibly reliable document to govern our nation we’re coming up on a quick

[00:12:01] break here so but then when we come back I’m going to talk about this we’re going to get into the details of what it is

[00:12:07] that makes our Constitution so so reliable and so stable stay with me I’ll

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[00:13:30] while our kids were his students his knowledge and passion have taught us all how important it is to be defenders of

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[00:13:41] continue to learn to be defenders of your faith through Kevin’s radio show and through his educate for life

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[00:13:58] thanks for being with me today this is Kevin Conover you’re listening to educate for life radio we’re local in

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[00:14:49] talking about America and whether it has a Christian foundation or not you know I was up at the Mount Soledad cross back

[00:14:55] when there was this big debate over whether it should be up there or not and I got into a discussion with a woman by

[00:15:02] the name of Debbie Allen at the time she was the president of the San Diego coalition of Reason and she was arguing

[00:15:07] that America was not founded on Christian principles and even if many

[00:15:12] people even if you could establish that it was founded on Christian principles they would say well it doesn’t need to be that way anymore and so the question

[00:15:19] is is what argument can we bring to bear that demonstrates that we need to keep Christianity as the philosophical

[00:15:26] foundation of our country why not have atheism right a lot of people say well we should be neutral not the agnostic

[00:15:34] means you don’t know right so a lot of people choose agnostic what they say is basically hey I don’t know let’s just be

[00:15:41] neutral let’s have no philosophical foundation but no philosophical foundation is a philosophical foundation

[00:15:47] it’s the philosophical foundation of atheism or agnosticism so you there’s really no neutral place here it’s not as

[00:15:53] if you can you can pursue neutrality you have to have a philosophical foundation

[00:15:58] if it’s if it’s not Buddhism right if it’s not Islam if it’s not Hinduism if

[00:16:04] it’s not Christianity well it’s going to be atheism or agnosticism which is a

[00:16:10] philosophical foundation in an itself so alexis de tocqueville he was a

[00:16:16] French political leader and historian he traveled America in 1831 he wrote a book called democracy in America and he’s

[00:16:23] where this idea of American exceptionalism comes from because he he’s famous for a quote where he said

[00:16:30] the position of the Americans is quite exceptional now in some senses he was derogatory towards America he didn’t

[00:16:37] always have good things to say about America but he did say that America is in a very unique and special position

[00:16:44] because of its founding because of the fact that the founding fathers had a lot of history to look at and examine about

[00:16:52] what worked and what didn’t work so America is exceptional now that doesn’t

[00:16:58] mean that America is technically right looking down its nose at other countries

[00:17:03] and saying hey we’re exceptional and you’re not that’s not the point the point is that America has a unique

[00:17:10] situation and it has a unique amount of blessings most people today would say that and and this is a quote from an

[00:17:17] atheist Bill Nye right when he was debating he

[00:17:22] has a YouTube video and in it he says something really interesting he says that a most of the scientific accomplishments in the world today most

[00:17:29] of the scientific discoveries and the progress that has made come from America

[00:17:35] now I find it interesting because in that video he’s he’s being negative towards Christianity and creation and

[00:17:42] the idea of creation science and so forth but then he goes on to say hey we

[00:17:48] have more people in the world that believe in creation than any other place in the world and then he also says we

[00:17:54] also have more of the scientific discoveries in the world now of course he would say that’s not a result of our

[00:17:59] belief in scientific creation but I would say actually that it is our judeo-christian heritage the fact that

[00:18:05] we have so many people that take the Bible at its word is actually what gives us our blessings our success our

[00:18:11] benefits and if if that case if the case can be made for that then we have a good solid argument for why we should

[00:18:19] continue to have Christianity as the philosophical foundation of our culture of our politics of

[00:18:26] all the important issues in our in our country why should that cross down Mount Soledad well because that cross

[00:18:33] represents where we get a lot of our ideas a lot of our morality and a lot of

[00:18:39] our blessings and so the United States Constitution was written in 1787 it was

[00:18:45] ratified in 1788 and it’s been in operation since 1789 according to the

[00:18:51] senate.gov website the United States Constitution is the world’s longest surviving written charter of government

[00:18:59] that’s incredible right so it was ratified by the required nine states by 1788 went into effect the following year

[00:19:07] superseding the Articles of Confederation so why has our Constitution done so well it’s got a lot

[00:19:15] of very very original ideas so for example one of them is unalienable rights that is part of our declaration

[00:19:24] but where does this idea of unalienable rights come from rights that cannot be alienated meaning they cannot be

[00:19:30] separated from the person that’s a big deal where where did this come from

[00:19:36] no king would ever say hey I’m gonna give you rights that nobody can take away and so according to the Declaration

[00:19:44] they were given to us by God another very very strange thing in our Constitution is consent of the governed

[00:19:50] right it’s government by the people for the people but what king would ever decide I’m

[00:19:56] going to not govern you unless I have your consent to be governed that’s a

[00:20:02] very strange idea and then of course we have separation of powers but what king would actually want to separate power

[00:20:09] meaning what king is gonna say I don’t I don’t want all the power let me let me

[00:20:15] give some of the power back why would a person do something like this these ideas are very unique to our

[00:20:21] Constitution to our declaration to our form of government they’re very valuable but where do these ideas come from now

[00:20:29] Founding Fathers one of the guys that the founding fathers praised more than any other is a guy by the name of John Locke right now there was a john locke

[00:20:36] on the show lost for a while that’s not who I’m referencing referencing somebody else right he lived

[00:20:42] from 1632 to 1704 and he was an attorney in Great Britain he wrote the

[00:20:47] constitution of Carolina he was a theologian he compiled a topical Bible now topical Bible if you don’t know

[00:20:54] write a topical Bible is simply a Bible that that organizes the subject matter into topic so if you want to look up

[00:21:01] love it has all the reference references to love if you want to look up grace it has all the verses in order and grace

[00:21:06] whatever it might be he wrote a topical Bible this this guy was not some you know Christian you know

[00:21:14] just a Pew sitting a seat warming Christian he he wrote his own topical Bible that’s incredible he wrote the

[00:21:21] verse by verse commentary on Paul’s epistles he wrote a verse by verse commentary and basically all he went was

[00:21:27] through all Paul’s letters he looked at it and told people what it meant that’s what a commentary is if you don’t know and and this is significant because John

[00:21:36] Locke is considered the father of almost all of Western civilization if founding fathers consistently looked up to this

[00:21:42] guy and it’s important to know who this guy was and where he was getting his ideas from because wherever he got his

[00:21:51] ideas from is where our Constitution in our declaration came from to a large degree and my favorite thing about John

[00:21:59] Locke is that he was an apologist he actually defended the Bible that was a big part of what he did he wrote two

[00:22:05] books called the reasonableness of Christianity in which he argues I’ve read one of them he in which he argues

[00:22:13] why Christianity is so reasonable it’s interesting what he was dealing with at the time when he was arguing for the

[00:22:20] reasonableness of Christianity but he was essentially saying that Christianity makes complete sense because he said we

[00:22:29] all are sinners we’ve made mistakes God is just he is moral he has to punish sin

[00:22:37] and therefore Christ dying on the cross for our sins makes perfect sense right

[00:22:43] I’ve talked to some skeptics down at the beach or at Balboa Park or wherever I’ve been talking to people and some people

[00:22:49] say that makes no sense that somebody else would have to pay for my sins right uh-huh well that’s the whole point

[00:22:55] of mercy and grace isn’t it that Christ was good enough and loving enough to pay

[00:23:01] for our sins even though we don’t deserve it that’s what Christ gave us and John Locke talks all about this in

[00:23:08] his books that the reasonableness of Christianity now according to the

[00:23:15] founding fathers the source that most influenced the Declaration of Independence was John Locke’s book the

[00:23:21] two treatises of government Richard Henry Lee actually claimed that the

[00:23:26] Declaration of Independence was copied from John Locke’s book now you’re gonna be amazed when I tell you how many times

[00:23:34] John Locke’s references scripture in his book the two treatises of government I were coming up on a break here so when I

[00:23:41] get back I’ll tell you this is this is mind-blowing how often John Locke references the scriptures and Richard

[00:23:47] Henry Lee says our Declaration was copied from this book by John Locke okay

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[00:24:43] his knowledge and passion have taught us all how important it is to be defenders of our faith it’s our honor and

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[00:26:04] hey thanks for tuning in today my name is Kevin Conover I’m your host and you’re on educate for life radio my

[00:26:10] ministry is specifically dedicated to helping people defend their Christian faith and share their faith that’s what

[00:26:16] I that’s what I do all day long I teach 12 I’ve been teaching for 12 years I teach seniors now over at

[00:26:23] Christian High School in El Cajon and I teach young people how to defend their faith and how to have a vibrant faith my

[00:26:30] hope and my goal is to help people be able to navigate the potholes in life

[00:26:36] right the things that that the sin that so easily entangles and overcome those

[00:26:42] things so that they can be better at sharing the good news of Jesus Christ with others the whole point of apologetics which comes from a Greek

[00:26:48] word meaning defend is to be able to defend the truth of Christianity but if you can’t if if you can’t defend the

[00:26:56] Bible right then it’s gonna be difficult to share the truth of God’s Word because there’s a lot of skeptics in society today there’s a lot of people pushing

[00:27:02] back against the truth of God’s Word if you’re interested in taking taking your walk with God to a different level a new

[00:27:08] level a higher level you want to get engaged in the game I’m offering a coaching a discipleship class it’s six

[00:27:14] weeks one hour per week 6 to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays starting October 23rd just go

[00:27:20] to my website educate for life dot o RG and you can sign up for the coaching

[00:27:25] class and I’d love to have you join us and strengthen your faith and not my

[00:27:30] guarantee to you is that you you will share your faith at least one time with somebody without feeling awkward or

[00:27:36] afraid maybe you’ll feel a little bit nervous but you will be able to share

[00:27:41] your faith with somebody I will teach you how to do that in a way that you are comfortable with so please check that

[00:27:48] out if you get a chance I love to have you join us I’m also speaking at the national apologetics conference up at

[00:27:54] South Bay Calvary Chapel up in LA on October 13th that’s with dr. Stephen

[00:28:01] Meyer and Veritas International and University so I love to have you out at that that’s going to be a great

[00:28:07] opportunity also to strengthen your faith and learn how to defend your faith all kinds of amazing speakers are going

[00:28:13] to be out there so what we’re talking about today is was America founded on Christian

[00:28:20] principles now you might ask yourself hey how is that on apologetics topic what what is that why should I care

[00:28:26] about that from an apologetic perspective well here’s why the Bible says blessed is the nation whose God is

[00:28:32] the Lord now that’s a that is a propositional claim the claim is that a nation that makes Yahweh their God is

[00:28:39] going to be blessed blessed is the nation whose God is Lord you know that also the Bible also says righteousness

[00:28:44] exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people now that that’s a loaded

[00:28:50] statement right there loaded propositional claim what it’s saying is is that righteousness as defined by

[00:28:57] Yahweh exalts a nation so if you follow

[00:29:03] the principles outlined in Scripture that God has decided is what qualifies

[00:29:08] as righteous then your nation will be exalted but if you go into sin as he

[00:29:15] defines it as Yahweh defines it then you

[00:29:20] will you will be in trouble you your nation essentially will suffer and I would argue that that’s exactly what

[00:29:26] we’ve seen in our country that the fact that we are approaching or maybe even

[00:29:31] over now twenty trillion dollars in debt as a country is a direct relationship

[00:29:37] with our values being shredded over time

[00:29:44] in 1960 in in 1962 prayer was taken out

[00:29:49] of schools in 1963 the Bible was removed from public schools in 1968 evolution

[00:29:56] was mandated in public schools and so in 1973 abortion was legalized nationally

[00:30:05] and and then you have all these this domino effect in 1970 no-fault divorce

[00:30:10] was legalized so what we’re doing is we’re reaping the repercussions of pushing God out of the schools

[00:30:16] right the primary place where our kids get educated is in the schools and this brings us back to today’s topic the

[00:30:23] topic we’re talking about today is that in Texas there’s a reference to Moses in the social studies textbooks and the

[00:30:29] high school textbooks and a group of people are saying we want more is taken out of that that textbook well

[00:30:34] depending on whether we keep Moses in or we take Moses out has an impact right

[00:30:40] righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord so we have

[00:30:46] to make a decision here whether we’re gonna fight to keep Moses in in the textbooks or not is it worth the fight

[00:30:53] and I would say absolutely it is there’s no doubt about it the evidence is overwhelming the clear that that’s the

[00:30:59] case so anyway let’s pick up where I left off from the last one I was telling

[00:31:06] you about John Locke he wrote a book called the two treatises of government and Richard Henry Lee said the Declaration of Independence was copied

[00:31:12] from that book in that four hundred page book Locke refers to the Bible 1500 times

[00:31:17] that’s almost three to four times per page that John Locke refers to the Bible

[00:31:23] in this four hundred page book and that book is the book that most influenced

[00:31:28] the Declaration so right there that is a a fact that we are influenced we have a

[00:31:35] philosophical foundation of biblical values of biblical principles a biblical

[00:31:42] thought and that’s not all the University of Houston did a study all the way back in 1984 and what they did

[00:31:49] was to two guys political scientist Donald Lutz and cha-cha Hyneman these

[00:31:54] two guys got 15,000 items of American political commentary and published they

[00:32:00] were published between 1760 and 1805 so what they did was they gathered all this this information 15,000 writings and

[00:32:07] they wanted to analyze these writings and say what is the sources that the

[00:32:12] Founding Fathers quoted okay so you’ve got these founding fathers they’re um

[00:32:18] where are they getting their ideas from to build the Constitution so what these two guys did was they took the 15,000

[00:32:24] writings and they examined who and what was being quoted they they research for

[00:32:30] ten years and they were able to isolate 3154 direct quotes so they

[00:32:38] they were able to take direct quotes and isolate them and find out exactly where they were coming from so when they they

[00:32:49] then compiled this information in a book called the origins of American constitutionalism and here’s what they

[00:32:55] found the single individuals quoted most often by the founding fathers where Charles

[00:33:01] Montesquieu he was quoted at 8.3% William Blackstone was quoted at 7.9%

[00:33:10] and John Locke was quoted 2.9% these three guys were the guys that were quoted more often than any other any

[00:33:18] other source but the source quoted more often the most often was the Bible 34%

[00:33:25] of the founders quotes came directly out of the Bible now this is hard to even imagine but one of every three quotes

[00:33:31] that they were able to isolate came directly from the Bible that the founding fathers were quoting

[00:33:37] I think it’s hard for us to understand how much the Bible filled these guys minds you know the Bible says meditate

[00:33:45] on God’s law day and night so that you may be prosperous and successful and

[00:33:50] these guys didn’t have the distractions that we have we have so many distractions we have things like

[00:33:57] Facebook we have tons of social media we have professional sports we have

[00:34:03] numerous opportunities to be entertained video games and movies and all this

[00:34:10] stuff they didn’t have any of this stuff right they didn’t have video games they had no social media they didn’t they

[00:34:17] couldn’t go to the movies they didn’t have professional sports like we have today no TV and so what do these guys do

[00:34:24] with their time well a lot of them spend a lot of time writing and reading that

[00:34:30] was a big part of what they did and so you have guys that are memorizing huge portions of Scripture and so they’re

[00:34:36] taking in all that scripture and when they’re putting the founding of the country together when they’re putting together our Constitution and our

[00:34:43] declaration they’re pulling from that vast amount of knowledge about the scriptures right these guys all came

[00:34:49] from Christian backgrounds every single guy that signed the Declaration was a

[00:34:55] part of a Christian denomination except for maybe two or three who were quote

[00:35:01] nondenominational but still if you were to look at them today you would consider them hey very much on the Christian side

[00:35:08] maybe they weren’t all come the two or three weren’t completely Orthodox but for the most part these guys all

[00:35:14] supported the truth of God’s Word and we’re coming up on another break here I have one more segment left stick with me

[00:35:20] I’m going to give you a few more evidences that just show how true it is that our country was founded on

[00:35:25] Christian principles and the Bible I’m gonna be right back thanks for being

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[00:37:14] welcome back to educate for life thanks for being here I’m your host Kevin Conover thanks for all you guys who are streaming and and watching me live here

[00:37:20] glad to have you here and I’m gonna be streaming the show from from here on out every Friday at 12:30 on Facebook so if

[00:37:28] you have friends that you think hey they’d be interested in this or they it’d be worth their time to listen to this show maybe there are skeptics about

[00:37:35] the Bible maybe maybe they have questions about the Bible feel free to have them watch the show and they can

[00:37:41] they can write comments they can send questions email me questions or text me questions I love to get that stuff and I

[00:37:48] love to have conversations with people about God in the Bible because it’s a critically important subject we need to

[00:37:55] know what is going to happen after we die that’s an important question I mean is Budda Budda right is is Muhammad

[00:38:01] right is Charles Darwin right who’s right out of all these different people

[00:38:07] who have told us or tried to answer questions the big questions about life

[00:38:12] what is the meaning of life why am I here where am I going when I die you know what am i worth all very very

[00:38:18] important questions I’m going to be having a coaching series coaching a discipleship class it’s online it’s

[00:38:24] going to be live starting October 23rd if you want to check it out I found that

[00:38:29] more than anything the best way to be able to become more comfortable sharing

[00:38:34] your faith and defending your faith is through discipleship you know that’s what Jesus did with the 12 disciples for

[00:38:40] three years it was discipleship and so you know listen to a radio programs great and watching a video is great but

[00:38:46] when it comes right down to it I think the best thing we can do is build relationships with one another in which

[00:38:52] we we are being discipled and we are disciple in others and so my goal

[00:38:57] through this coaching program is to impart some of the knowledge and wisdom

[00:39:03] that God has given me to help you get more comfortable sharing your faith not being afraid to share your faith and

[00:39:10] looking at your personality everybody’s got a different personality right if you’ve ever taken one of the personality

[00:39:16] tests like Myer Briggs or or whatever or the one where they classify you as like a lion or an otter or a golden retriever

[00:39:24] they give you these different class classifications and we all have different temperaments we all have

[00:39:29] different gifts God has given us and what we want to do is adapt our evangelism to our personality

[00:39:36] temperament there’s not one way to share the gospel there are many ways to share the gospel it you don’t just have to go

[00:39:42] down to the beach and and meet people for me that’s I’m very comfortable doing that I love doing it and I love being

[00:39:49] down there giving people hotdogs and water and we’re actually doing that tomorrow 10:00 to 12:00 down at Mission

[00:39:54] Beach but I love doing that but not everybody’s comfortable going out and talking to people like that so what we

[00:40:02] want to do is establish ways to help everybody find a niche in which they can share the gospel if we’re all playing

[00:40:08] that part as the body of Christ we’re going to get the word out and we’re going to be able to love people a lot more effectively than if we’re all right

[00:40:15] you don’t want to you don’t want an otter trying to be a lion or a lion trying to be a golden retriever let’s all be who God designed us to be

[00:40:22] and then fulfill fulfill the master plan of evangelism the Great Commission

[00:40:29] through the personality temperaments that we have so today what I’m talking

[00:40:34] about is was our our country founded on Christian principles and we’ve just established two amazing evidences that

[00:40:40] our country truly was founded on Christian principles the first one I established was that Richard Henry Lee

[00:40:46] said the Declaration of Independence was copied from John Locke’s book the two

[00:40:51] treatises of government and John Locke’s book the two treatises of governments fifteen hundred page book references the

[00:40:58] Bible 1500 times as three to three to four times per page that John Locke

[00:41:03] references the Bible as the source of his principles for government so that’s

[00:41:09] the first evidence I’ve given you the second evidence of a give I given you was the University of Houston study in

[00:41:15] which two gentlemen were able to isolate

[00:41:21] 3154 direct quotes from the founding fathers and analyze where those quotes

[00:41:26] were drawn from and what they found political scientist Donald Lutz and Chuck Charles Hyneman

[00:41:32] were able to find out that Charles Montesquieu was quoted eight point three percent of the time William Blackstone

[00:41:38] seven point nine at the time John Locke 2.9 percent of the time and the Bible was quoted 34

[00:41:44] percent of the time one of every three quotes was directly from the Bible now

[00:41:49] here’s what’s also really cool about this is that those three guys that are quoted most often those three individuals all three of them were

[00:41:55] Christians William Blackstone his legal writings were the primary source for law

[00:42:01] in early American history he was a very strong Christian Charles Finney he was

[00:42:08] one of the most famous ant evangelists during the second rate of weighty awakening he said that he was going to

[00:42:14] school to study law he read so much of the Bible in William Blackstone’s writings that he ended up

[00:42:21] becoming a Christian and a preacher instead of a lawyer is that just tells you how much William Blackstone referred

[00:42:27] to the Bible in his own writings and so you know the next time somebody says to

[00:42:32] you hey our country wasn’t founded on Christian principles or our country was not founded on biblical values our laws

[00:42:39] are not established on biblical values you can say back to them you can give them these two evidences you know we

[00:42:46] don’t want to just have a screaming contest who can yell the loudest the country was founded on Christian

[00:42:51] principles that the country was not founded on Christian principles we’re nets gonna have a screaming contest back and forth what we want to actually do is

[00:42:58] provide evidence for the truth right and so when we provide the evidence for the truth then that helps people open their

[00:43:05] eyes and see hey wait a second I better take a second look at this and I’ve got

[00:43:11] a few minutes left here before I have to wrap up but here’s a couple laws that

[00:43:16] are actually drawn directly from the Bible this is article 1 section 8 in the Constitution on uniform immigration laws

[00:43:22] it’s actually taken from Leviticus 1934 it says the alien living with you must must be treated as one of your

[00:43:28] native-born love him as yourself for you were aliens in Egypt I am the Lord your God now interestingly here the American

[00:43:37] law says to treat somebody come in an immigrant can actually come in and become a full citizen not all countries

[00:43:44] allow this right you can’t go to China and become a full citizen of China you can’t go to many countries around the

[00:43:50] world and become a full citizen with all the rights that come with citizenship but in America you can now of course we have a

[00:43:57] big battle on immigration right now and we want we want good healthy immigration

[00:44:03] we don’t want illegal immigration we want immigration that’s following the rule of law and having people come into

[00:44:09] the country become citizens in an organized and orderly way that’s very important but the amazing thing again

[00:44:15] about America is that it supports immigration and why because of the Bible love the alien as yourself for your

[00:44:24] aliens in Egypt I am the Lord your God absolutely phenomenal now there’s only one thing that a that an immigrant

[00:44:32] cannot do and that has become president the president according to article 2 section 1 in the Constitution the

[00:44:38] President must be a natural-born citizen now where did they get that idea from well amazingly in Deuteronomy 1715 this

[00:44:45] is what it says be sure to appoint over you the king the Lord your God chooses he must be from among your own brothers

[00:44:52] do not place a foreigner over you one who is not a brother Israelite so just like in the Bible where an immigrant

[00:44:59] could have full citizenship could could become completely a part of Jewish culture in America any immigrant from

[00:45:07] any country can become a complete full citizen but they can’t do one thing they can’t be a president and that’s because

[00:45:14] our founding fathers said you know what this Bible this is true this is a solid

[00:45:20] book we want to base our country off the principles the laws the guidelines that

[00:45:26] are in the scriptures and that’s exactly what they did and so you know the Bible says blessed

[00:45:34] is the nation whose God is the Lord it says righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people so

[00:45:42] that’s what we want so when in Texas they’re having a big argument right now over whether Moses should be in the

[00:45:47] social studies textbooks or not absolutely he should and it’s a sad fact

[00:45:53] that people aren’t being taught about our judeo-christian heritage you know if you’re a teacher out there if your administrator out there if you’re if you

[00:45:59] have some sort of influence in this school the schools of America we need

[00:46:05] kids to learn about our heritage our judeo-christian heritage they need to know how the Bible

[00:46:12] influenced our culture and continues to influence our culture we haven’t lost

[00:46:18] that influence you know that you know a lot of people say America is going

[00:46:23] downhill and we’re losing ground there’s a lot of really great things happening right now you know it looks like we’re

[00:46:29] gonna have a new Supreme Court justice that’s got biblical values here soon

[00:46:35] thank the Lord and we’ve got all kinds of good things happening you know God

[00:46:41] Jesus Christ discipled 12 people and those 12 people changed the whole world

[00:46:47] the world has radically changed because of the influence of 12 disciples of

[00:46:53] Christ twelve imperfect people and so you know we have 75 percent of people in

[00:46:58] America claim to be Christian we are not even close to beyond hope and so there is never a time you’re beyond hope when

[00:47:05] when you’ve got God on your side the point is is that we want to be on God’s side and so what we have to do is

[00:47:13] continually look at ourselves look at our lives and look at the decisions we’re making and saying hey are my decisions active

[00:47:19] decisions that are supported by what the Bible says so we want to know the Word of God hey so I hope you’ve enjoyed the

[00:47:25] show today and this will be up on our YouTube channel not too long from now it’ll also be on our website if you want

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[00:48:02] the people around you and an encouragement to them god bless you and I hope you have a great day I will see you next week did you miss part of

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