In this episode of The Joe Rooz Show, broadcasting live from Eagle Pass, Texas, Joe dives into a thought-provoking Bible study centered around what he terms the "Christian's Bill of Rights." Joe explores the parallels between the rights outlined in the U.S. Constitution and the spiritual rights he believes are granted to Christians through the Ten Commandments. He passionately discusses the importance of these rights, such as the right to protect, the right to purity, and the right to worship, and how they are under attack in modern society. Joe also reflects on historical perspectives, emphasizing the cyclical nature of history and the lessons that can be learned from it.
Additionally, Joe shares a poignant letter from a British soldier during the American Revolutionary War, highlighting the soldier's spiritual journey and newfound faith. The episode concludes with a heartfelt prayer and a call to action for listeners to engage with their faith and consider the spiritual and political themes discussed. Joe encourages listeners to support the show and Rumble, and to participate in the upcoming week's events, including a packed schedule of guests and discussions on American history and politics.
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(00:01:45) Introduction to Bible Study Sunday
(00:05:15) Supreme Court Ruling and Political Wins
(00:06:46) Historical Insight and Independence Day Reflection
(00:16:57) The Christian's Bill of Rights
(00:27:50) Right to Protect and Private Property
(00:43:40) Right to Purity and Societal Challenges
(00:54:48) Right to Rest and Worship
(01:05:40) God's Right to Be Worshiped
(01:08:49) A Soldier's Letter and Reflection on Faith
(01:19:36) Closing Prayers and Announcements
- Wayne Rankin
- Rosanna Rankin
- Carolina Jimenez
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Alrighty folks, this is Joe Roos. It is great to be with you once again on a beautiful Sunday afternoon here in Eagle Pass, Texas, broadcasting from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass, and doing the very best that we can to bring you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. This is the Joe Ruse show. Alright, folks. Hope you guys had a great, great weekend. This is our Bible study Sunday, and we are looking forward to getting into our study here in just a quick moment. Keeping in line with our political theme over the last couple of shows, well, our Sunday shows, and with our weekday shows.
This is just keeping in line with that. This is, tonight, we're gonna be talking about what would I call it? I would I guess I would call it the Christian's Bill of Rights. It's gonna be very interesting. Very, very interesting indeed. But of course, before we get into that, we do have some housekeeping that we need to take care of. Folks, when Rumble first started in 02/2013, they built this platform for the small creator. They didn't censor. They didn't have biases. They were fair, and they treated all creators equally. No one thought platforms would ever censor political conversation or or even censor opinions on on COVID, but some of us all know all too well.
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That it is far overreaching their authority that's granted to them by Congress. So that was a huge win. That was a huge win, and of course, that that impacts a number of President Trump's executive orders, particularly the one on birthright citizenship. So very very excited about that. Great great news over that. Just a string of wins for this administration over this entire weekend. And, we're looking forward to a great week ahead of us, and, just to remind you tomorrow, before we get into our bible study, tomorrow we have, both hours are set up. And, they're both they're gonna be really good conversations. Literally looking forward to it, and quite the difference in in the guests. So you'll see that, tomorrow when, when they come on. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Looking forward to it. It's gonna be great. Now, without any further ado, I'm gonna ask you if you would to, grab your bible, and hopefully, you have one nearby. I mean, if you're watching the show, if you're planning on watching the show, you know this is a Bible study show, so you should be ready for the Bible study. Right? Right.
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And it's gonna be, it's gonna be a lot of fun. It has to do with something that, oh, from years ago, from one of the original shows that I did with, my friends back in New York. And, still have the audio clip from it. I'm gonna make that a t shirt, and we'll show you what that is on tomorrow's show. Alright? Alright. Hopefully, you have your bible and if you're ready, we're gonna get into our bible study in in just a minute here. You know, one of the things that I find very intriguing is, people who study history. People who study history have a very, a very deep insight into, believe it or not, the future.
Because one of the things that or a statement that I've heard from an old preacher friend that I I use quite a bit, is the only thing that men don't learn from history is that men don't learn from history. So that's when I say that, you know, people who study history have amazing and incredible insight into the future, and it's because of that statement alone. The only thing men don't learn from history is that men don't learn from history. I mean, if you think about it like this, if we learned from history, I am pretty sure we probably do a lot of things very, very differently.
There was another historian that wrote this, he said, the the history of nations shows a cycle, a sequence of events, a chronological order that always seems doomed to repeat itself. Now, we we talked about this, a couple of shows ago with one of our guests. Great great conversation. And, let me see. It's a little distraction here. Sorry about that, but put that back. And so this was the sequence that we talked about. The history of a nation's people, or his the history of a nation shows that, that a people go from bondage to spiritual faith.
Alright. Now it's it's really difficult when you try to figure out what the condition America was in in 1776, 1775, and so on, because I wasn't alive back then. And neither were you, at least I don't think so. You know, knowing some of the numbers that come out of Doge with the social security payments, you might be. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But, in that time period, the enlightenment period, it was it was considered by many that we were in some kind of a stage of a of bondage to the British Empire. And you might be wondering why I'm talking about this type of stuff. It's because, you know, next week is Independence Day, and we're not gonna be doing a show on Independence Day. And, so I wanted to make sure we talked about this, these these political spiritual issues, in the days leading up to it. Something for you to contemplate when Independence Day actually comes. Now, again, it was, you know, considered by many that we were in some kind of a of a state of bondage to the British Empire. Now interestingly, you know, for whatever you might think about that, history reveals that our forefathers had no particular problem discussing spiritual truths.
In in in those days, you know, they they they rather chose to cling tenaciously, if you think about it to a lot of those spiritual truths to their faith. And they made no apologies for it. They made no apologies for frequently discussing God, the very necessary intervention of God in their affairs, and the inalienable rights given by God. Now last week, on last week's Sunday Bible study show, we talked about those inalienable rights. So God was a personality that permeated their discussion on all levels. So we already said that there was, some type some type of bondage in effect, and then they went from bondage to spiritual faith, and then to courage, and then from courage to freedom.
Now folks, freedom is always always been obtained at a price. Always. And it was very, very necessary for courage to be involved. From courage to freedom. From freedom to abundance. Now, I don't think any nation on the face of the earth has enjoyed more abundance than we have, than The United States. From abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from fear to dependence, from dependence to bondage. Now I don't know exactly where you'd put us today on that chart, but my estimation is that, we're pretty much in that dependency category right now. Just one step away from bondage.
Today, political today, political candidates make, very, very, very few and ambiguous declarations as to where they stand on a particular issue. But there's the but there always seems to be a great deal of interest on the part of the American public of these people and their candidates, and for all levels of office, you know, of, you know, the old, what can you do for me? What can that candidate do for me? What can he do for what can she do for me through the vehicle of government? What can they do for us? Now, I think that's kind of the wrong way to look at it.
I'm not really interested in what government can do for me. And if you hung around with me any length of time, you know, whether it's on the show, off the show, you know, personal life, you know, personal friend, they'll tell you this. I am really not interested in what government can do for me, and I really don't want government to to do anything for me, to be quite honest with you. I really don't. And the reason why I don't want government doing anything for me is because every time they try, they just mess it up. The only thing the only thing that I want government to do is what it was designed to do, and supposed to do, and envisioned to do as our forefathers planned it.
And you might be sitting there scratching your head saying, I don't know. What what are you talking about? The only thing that I want government to do is to protect my right to do for myself. That's all I want them to do. Nothing else, nothing more than that. Look, if I wanna build a house that's destined to fall down around my ears, then, hey, let me build it. Leave me alone. Let me build it. If I wanna drive down the road without a seat belt and kill myself, then let me do it. That's my responsibility. I promise you, if I die because I'm not wearing a seat belt, I promise you I will not sue anybody. Okay?
I personally will not sue anybody. The older I'm getting, the more I'm I'm resenting the amount of interference that the government has in my life. But I do see the I do see America today as a land of great dependency, where more and more people are depending upon the government. You know, eventually, you you know, you get to the place where you depend upon the government so much, where every move you make, you have to consider government. When you get to that place, they put you in bondage. They put you in bondage. So the thing that would that would appear to me at least is that this whole thing has gone almost full circle in these last two hundred fifty years.
But that's really not the issue I wanna address tonight. That's kinda just a springboard. That's that's where I want you to start. That's where I want you to to get those, get those juices flowing in the brain. You know, start to think about these things, especially in light that our Independence Day celebrations coming up next Friday. So I want you to think about it. What we're gonna do today is, I'm gonna I'm gonna just bring something to your attention that that, you know, maybe you never thought of before. And honestly, I hadn't thought about it until I started brainstorming about this and thinking about it in light of scripture. So if you would, if you have your bible, like I have mine right here, my handy dandy bible.
If you would take your bible and turn over to the book of Exodus and chapter 20. Exodus and chapter 20. Exodus is the second book in your bible. You opened up your bible, you got Genesis, Exodus. Second book of your bible, twentieth chapter of that book. Let's make some room here. I have my fabulous seventeen seventy five coffee right here. That's the good stuff, my friends. That is the good stuff. So what did I say? Exodus 20. Right? Exodus chapter 20. So what I wanna talk to you about today, keep again, keeping in line with the political theme of our last couple of shows, Sunday shows. What I wanna talk to you about today is the Christian's Bill of Rights.
When our American forefathers framed the Constitution, it really it was not long after that that they penned the first 10 amendments. And those first 10 are often referred to as what? We know what that is. Right? The Americans Bill of Rights. Right? Or your Bill of Rights. And, we hear those amendments referred referred to frequently in political discussions around this nation. For for example, the first amendment has to do with what? Free speech. Right? The second amendment has to do with the right to bear arms. So, you you hear all of these kinds of amendments frequently resorted to, frequently appealed to by different groups, all to substantiate their position on any particular issue.
I believe I believe, and I'm gonna try to demonstrate it to you today, that God has given the child of God, the Christian, a bill of rights. And I think those rights are framed in the 10 commandments themselves. Now generally, of course, you know, we wouldn't really look at it that way. You know, someone look at a commandment as as, something that interferes with their rights. Someone look at, a commandment as something that impedes their right to live as as they want to. But, you know, I disagree with that. Wholeheartedly, I disagree with that. I I would actually have to say that anytime God gives you an admonition, anytime that God gives you a commandment, in reality, what God is doing is God is looking after your best interest.
God is giving you a right. So as I began to look at this, I said, you know, what we have here is a bill of rights that God has declared, and and and and as I mentioned these things to you, because there are 10 of them, And, honestly we're not gonna have time to elaborate on each and every one of them, but I'm gonna I'm gonna encourage you. I want you to to let your thinking process run random. Just think about what I'm gonna tell you. And as we're going through this, I I really hope that you continue to listen. I hope that you invite some of your friends and your family, your followers to to to check this thing out. Check out what this nudge I was talking about over here on Rumble.
I hope you do that. But I encourage you to think. Put that thinking cap on. And while you're listening, I want you to just engage your imagination. I mean, you may come up with something that I hadn't even thought of. So I want you to think about how these rights are attacked. Think about it on those terms. Alright? How are these rights attacked? If God has given the child of God a bill of rights, then it it it really does just kinda make sense that the devil's gonna do all in his power to attack those rights. He's gonna do everything that he possibly can do to erode away and undermine those rights that God has given.
And those rights, I find contained right here in the 10 Commandments. Alright. Now, not to be confusing, but I'm not gonna start from the beginning, and work my way down to the end. Okay? What we're gonna do today is that we're actually gonna reverse the order, and we're gonna end where God starts, and that's with all the emphasis upon him. Okay? So that's where God starts. So we're gonna go basically, you know, from back to front. Alright. So, let's take a look at Exodus chapter 20. Hopefully, you're there. Exodus chapter 20, and, we'll begin in verse number 17. Exodus chapter 20 and verse number 17.
Again, if you don't have your bible, that's fine. You can either listen along, if you're listening on the audio stream, or if you, if you if you're if you're watching on on Rumble, YouTube, wherever it is that we're streaming right now, because we didn't cut the feed for this. It's Sunday, we'd let the show run. I'm gonna put it up on the screen for you so you can follow along. Alright? So Exodus chapter 20, and by the way, we use the King James Bible. That's the only Bible that we use. That's the only Bible we recommend that you use. So, if you're using another version, that's unfortunate because you're gonna miss a lot of things, but you'll get the gist of it. Just follow along. Alright?
Exodus chapter 20 verse 17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything. That is thy neighbor's. Alright? Now take your bible. Just turn a page or two over to Exodus chapter 22. Exodus chapter 22, please. Exodus chapter 22. Because in Exodus chapter 22 and in verse two, God kind of expands on this. Alright? This is what he says. Exodus 22 and verse, two. Exodus twenty two two. If a thief be found breaking up and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be no bloodshed for him, for he should make full restitution. If he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass or sheep, he shall restore double. Alright. So now let me let me tell you what that all translates to when when you think about it in the terms of, a bill of rights. God said, thou shalt not covet what the other guy has. Alright? So basically, that means that that that that you shouldn't covet what I have, I shouldn't covet what you have. Alright? Thou shall not covet.
Alright? So do you know what that is? Do you know what right that translates to? That translates to a right to protect. A right to protect. If I didn't have the right to protect, then God would not have said, thou shalt not covet. God would say, just go ahead, open your door, let everybody come in. Let them help themselves. Come on in. Help yourself. Let's go. Kinda like what the what the previous administration did here with The United States. It just threw the doors wide open. Yeah. Come on in. Come on in. Help yourself. Whatever you want, they'll pay for it. So in the terms of a right, I have a god given right because thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet, I should say. Right? Thou shalt not covet.
I have a god given declaration to protect that which I have, and which god has graciously given to me. Amen? Now don't you see through the system that you and I function in today that there is a great attack on that right right there. They don't want you to have a gun to protect yourself. They don't want you to have a gun in your home to protect your home and to protect your family, your property against someone that's coveting what you have. I mean, when a thief breaks into your house, he's coveting what he what doesn't belong to him. Now you say, sorry, are are you opposed to the system?
Look, I am a flag waving American. I am a patriot through and through, but I am greatly, greatly disappointed in our nation. I am discouraged about the direction that America is going. When I look at it from the viewpoint that we're talking about today. When I look at it with that viewpoint, I see that there is a a great undermining effort that I believe is satanically inspired to erode away the rights that God has given us, the Christians' bill of rights. So I say that we have the right to protect. You know, any effort that's made by any elected official, whether it's at the state house, congress, and the senate, or any others to erode away that right is anti god, anti biblical, and anti American.
We absolutely must fervently stand on these rights because it was god who designed them. It was God who ordained it. I have the right to protect. Now you can obviously see how each one of these could be a sermon in themselves, you know, but that's not all. Exodus chapter 20 and verse 16. Exodus chapter 20 and verse number 16. Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Oh. Right? Well, where where do you find a parallel to that? Well, that parallels the passage in the constitution, the amendment in the constitution that says that we have a right to a fair and speedy trial. You know, this system has been has been designed and so constructed where a thing can drag out forever.
I have a I have a classic a classic illustration for you. There was a pastor some years ago in Upstate New York, and there was a lady that was attending his church that came into a substantial sum of money. Alright. She didn't earn it. It was left to her, but nonetheless, she got it. And, and it was it was her desire to to give an amount of that money to the church, so she did. So she gave it with the understanding that any gift that's given to a church is just that, a gift. Okay? I mean that that I think that kind of makes sense. Alright? That that I mean, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Well, as things always happen, sometime later she got mad at the pastor.
You know, it does happen from time to time. It does. That might be a shock to some people, but it does happen. Well, you know, she was upset with him, because he wasn't doing the things the way that she thought they should be done. You know, that's the thing, some folks, you know, they they try to buy that kind of power in a church. Believe it or not, I mean, it it's it's it's terrible. It really is, and I've seen it firsthand. Not only in this particular situation I'm talking about here, but also in in in church policy in in some of the churches that I've been part of over the years.
Particularly the one that I I was an associate pastor of back up in New York. So, you know, so I so she tried to buy that power, and and, you know, that that was fairly obvious that that was her motivation. So so, so so she got upset with this pastor, and, then what she ended up doing was she start to spread these vicious rumors and lies about him. And, eventually she found a crooked lawyer who who agreed to, take him to court, and then to actually try to sue the church, sue sue him to try to get the money back. Now of course the church had already spent the money on on improving the physical facilities. The money was gone. It was wasn't there anymore.
It was spent, and they did it they did it judiciously, they did it wisely, all documented. They did they did it the right way. But the problem is that as it was spent, regardless of that, she sued the pastor, and this thing had drug on or dragged on on and on and on. And then what she would do is every time it would come to trial, she would tell her lawyer to put the thing off. Knowing full well knowing full well that all this was doing was just adding more and more misery, and strain, and stress, not only on on the pastor, the the the this preacher's life and his ministry, but on the church and the members of the church. But because she kept on playing games with it and kept on trying to put it off, he was robbed of the opportunity of a fair and speedy trial to settle the matter and just put the thing to bed finally.
Why? Because she bore false witness against him. Now you see how the how that right that you have, if someone bears false witness against you, you have the right, biblically, biblically speaking, to settle that thing, to get that thing taken care of one way or the other. But folks, there is a satanic attack to drag these kinds of issues just on and on and on and on, never ending. Alright. Verse, verse 15. Verse 15. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not steal. Alright? That is a god given right to own private property. Whether the private property is a car, or a boat, or a real estate, a gun, a fishing rod, TV, couch, whatever it might be. You you know, you get the idea.
Whatever it is, you have a God given right to private property, to own private property. If God didn't want you to own private property, he never would have said, don't steal. Now there are those who would like to take that right away from you. Just earlier today, I I was talking to someone, we were talking about, agenda 2030. Agenda 2030, if you're not familiar with that is, look it up. Look it up before they take it off, before it disappears off off the web here. Agenda twenty thirty, the World Economic Forum says by that that by the year 2030, you, the individual person, will have nothing, and you'll be happy. So what they're saying is is that you will not own anything. You will have no private property.
Your home, your not even you wouldn't even have a home. You would have a a small apartment that is open and accessible to anybody at any time. You don't own a car, no cars, and if anybody does own a car, or has a car, I should say, I can't even say own. If anybody does have a car, well that's it's community property. Anybody can take it and use it at any time. No property. No property at all. They're gonna set you up in these small in these fifteen minute cities. You're not even gonna need a car. You're just gonna be able to, you know, take mass transit wherever you go. You know, nothing's gonna be too far away from where you everything's gonna be within fifteen minutes. You're gonna, you know, you'll be able to walk to work every day so you don't hurt the environment. You'll be able to take mass transit so you don't hurt the environment.
They're gonna tell you what you eat. They're gonna tell you when you sleep. They're gonna tell you what kind of clothes you wear. They're gonna tell you every aspect of your life is gonna be dictated by someone else. That's agenda twenty thirty. That's taking away your right to private property. Yeah. There are some people that own property, like real estate where, you know, some of it could be and has always been construed by some, you know, misguided bureaucrat that, example, I I mentioned it last week. I know a guy who who owns property up in New York, New Jersey rather. I'm sorry.
Bought the property, paid for the property, pays taxes on the property, and then some lunatic from the state shows up and says, hey. Wait a second. You can't cut down any of these trees back here. That's what he was. He was clearing some land. He wanted to expand out some, you know, recreational area of his of his property for his family. So he's clearing out a few trees there, and some nut job from the state shows up and tells him, hey, you can't do that because this is now considered to be protected prop protected forest or protected wetland, whatever it whatever it was. Bought the property, paid for the property, pays taxes on the property, can't use the property.
Why? Because it's not their property. It was stolen. What do you mean it was stolen? When the state said that you can't touch that because it's protected land, they stole it from you without compensation, but you still have to pay your taxes on it. And if you don't pay the taxes on it, they come in there and they lock you out of it and they say you can't have it, even though you've already paid for it. They steal it from you. Don't get me started on property taxes, man. Property taxes are some of the most Look, all taxation is immoral.
And I know a lot of people disagree with me on that, but but all taxation is immoral. Taxation is theft. And try to convince me that it's not. When the government comes up to you, puts a basically puts a gun to your head and says, you've been living on this land for thirty years, you've been living on this property for thirty years, you don't have a mortgage, you're not paying the bank anymore, you think you own this? No. You still gotta pay tax to us, and if you don't pay the taxes, even though you've already paid off your mortgage and you already paid off the property, the payments for the property, if you don't pay your taxes, you could still lose this. It's not your property then.
Taxation is theft. Property taxes are immoral. And, you know, we didn't have those kind of problems in America when America was a bible reading people. Because people innately understood, instinctively understood that there was something wrong with that kind of thinking. It just didn't make sense. But the moment that America laid down her bibles and and forsook going to church where the bible was taught and preached, not these not these not these bible studies, places you meetings that you go to where they don't even talk about your bible. They talk they whatever the novel of the day is. I don't have a book with me. But whatever the novel of the day is, you have a you you have a book club instead of a bible study.
When we forsook going to church and reading and studying our bibles and going to churches that taught and preached the bible. When that stopped, we became possessed with that kind of erratic, illogical, immoral mentality that's leading us down the wrong path. You have a right to own private property. That's why God says, thou shalt not steal. There are senior citizens in our community that are living on fixed incomes, that are losing the right to own property because the government steals it through property taxes. And they just keep jumping them up and jumping them up and jumping them up.
You think about those folks that that that that that bought that small little home thirty, forty years ago, And those property taxes going up and up and up. You know, when I you guys know I'm from New York. And, several years ago, it was 2016, 2015, somewhere around there, there was a hurricane that came through, hurricane Sandy. Right? And I remember reading about this back then, and I don't know why it just came to mind, but it it it did this this illustration particularly. But the people that that owned, it was see where I lived, there there there were these little beachfront communities and they weren't like the the wealthy people that you see it like Moth's Vineyard and and, and and places like that, like the Obama's, you know, the the multimillion dollar homes. These are small little shacks, basically.
And you think about those folks that purchased those little small shacks, like beach properties, you know, like cabanas and things like that that that actually live there all year round. And they bought these things thirty, forty plus years ago. And after hurricane Sandy came through, they saw their property taxes increase almost 200%. Someone's stealing. Someone's stealing. They're just thieves. That's all they are, man. It's all they are. It it it's just just a disregard for what God says. Thou shalt not steal. Alright. I I I I I got to preach in there. Sorry.
But that's not all. Let's take a look at, verse number 14. Exodus twenty fourteen. Thou shall not commit adultery. Uh-oh. That's a bad one. Alright? Thou shall not commit adultery. You know what that is? Do you know what that is? That's my right. That's your right to purity. To purity. You know, I was reading an article in a Christian magazine not too long ago, and the story was about about about a pastor and his, his his family, young children, that moved to Las Vegas. And, you know, everybody loves, you know, those and I noticed that too. A lot of people, they love going to Las Vegas, you know. Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, that type of thing. Right?
Love Vegas. Love Vegas. Well, this this this young family, pastor, wife, kids, they moved to Las Vegas, and, they went out there with the intention of starting a church. And, I mean, you wanna talk about trying to set up a a mission in the middle of Sodom and Gomorrah, you got it right there. But one of the things about the article that struck me was a quote from the wife, and she said I'm gonna paraphrase it because I don't have it in front of me, but but paraphrasing it, she said that since they moved to Las Vegas, whenever she has to load up the kids in the car and and and and go someplace, she found that she had to actually drive, or plot a course through the back roads so that she didn't have to travel the main roads and expose them to the all of the obscene billboards that are all over that community.
Do you know what people in Las Vegas have done? Do do you realize what they've done? They have done their very, very best to rob families of the right to purity. You know what you know what the TV has done? The TV has has has done its best to rob your family of the right of purity. You know what the public schools are doing? When they pass out condoms, or or when they have these, these, transvestite drag queen story hours, and and dances, and and performances, and, you know, strip tease acts in in the in the classroom. They're robbing your kids of the right of purity.
I mean folks, if you're gonna maintain purity in in this age, you're gonna have to fight for it. You're absolutely 100% gonna fight for it. You're gonna have to fight tooth and nail. Tooth and nail because every source in society is against it. They wanna rob you of a God given right. Folks, don't look at this like a burden. Don't look at it like it's oppressive. Don't look at it like it's it's something that that you can't put up with. Look at it as a right, as a blessing. Verse 13. I must move on. Verse 13, thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not kill. You know what that is?
You know what that is? That's a right to life. That's a right to life. I attended a function a few years ago, up in New York, And, I was sitting around at a table with about eight people. And, I mean, I don't know how we got on the subject of it, you know, but we started talking about how how old our parents were when when we were born, and, you know, and almost everyone at the table, almost every mother almost every person at the table said that their mothers were at least in their thirties, some in their forties, and and some in their fifties.
Hey, folks. There's hope. Right? That's hope. Not for me. No. No. No. No. Not for me, man. I'm gonna make that one thing very very very clear, not for me. No. Well, the conversation, we went around the table, and, it kinda came out of my mouth. I didn't really think about it. I said, aren't you glad aren't you glad abortion wasn't in vogue when we were born? How many of us sitting at the table right now wouldn't be here? Now, of course, knowing that that all of my friends that were sitting at the table here didn't share my spiritual and, political sympathies.
Let's put it that way. Just got really quiet. It got really quiet. It was about as quiet as a turkey farm on Thanksgiving afternoon. I mean, really, what are they gonna say? You know? Would you like to be an abortion statistic? Not me. Thank you. No. Do you know what America's done? They've attacked the right to life. Just attack it, attack it, attack it. Every single way that they could possibly conceive, they attack it. And listen, I am thankful. I am very, very thankful that that Roe v Wade was overturned and the matter was sent back to the states to decide. I am very happy at that that my federal tax dollars are not going to pay for an abortion for somebody, Whether it's here or Rwanda or some other country somewhere around the world.
Very, very thankful for that. I would like to see more states outlawed. Get rid of it altogether. But take what we can get to start with, and we gotta keep working at it. Gotta keep plugging away at it. Keep working. Alright. That's not all. How about verse, how about verse 12? Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the lord thy god giveth thee. You know what that right is right there? That's that's my right to respect. That's my right to respect. I have a right, a god given right to respect.
Now again, don't you see how the attack is leveled? Your children are programmed in every conceivable way known. Children today are programmed that their parents know nothing. Their parents are idiots. Their parents are stupid. Don't listen to your parents. Listen to us. How many shows how many shows do you see on channels like Nickelodeon or other show other channels that are geared specifically toward children where they it portrays the adult, whether it's the father or the mother, more so the more so the father. More so the father in every show that I've seen like this, more so the father, but the parent figure, father or mother, is portrayed like an idiot, like they're stupid.
And the kid is the one that's logical, the kid is the one that's thoughtful, the kid is the one that's that that always has the answer. How many how many of you seen that? You know you have. Don't lie. Don't listen to your parents, listen to us. Wait a second. Hold on a minute here. You're robbing me and my kids the right of respect. The right of respect. And that right of respect is linked with a long life on the land that the Lord, thy God, has given you. Don't rob me of that respect. My parents deserved respect and honor. Deserved it.
The Bible declares it, and I believe it. You know, kids, if you any kids listening, even if you're my age and your parents are still alive, don't call your parents the old man, the old lady. Man, that that just that irritates me to no end. The old man, the old lady. And don't talk back to them either. Don't talk back to them either. By the time you turn 25 or 30, you know something, you're gonna be amazed. You're gonna be amazed at what they've learned. You're gonna be shocked at what they know. It's absolutely incredible. In my own life, my own experiences, I I miss my dad so much. You you you couldn't I I couldn't even describe to you.
I miss my dad so much. I would love to be able to pick up the phone right now, call my dad, and get his opinion on some things that I'm dealing with. Get some of that wisdom that that's accumulated over the over the years of his life. My dad's with the Lord right now. My dad went home to be with the Lord. It'll be five years. But my dad had wisdom, man, and I didn't take advantage of it in my youth. I've come to appreciate it more as I've gotten older, and would I wouldn't give for right now to have five minutes. Five minutes.
The right of respect. The right of respect. Alright? But that's not all. Look at me over in verse number eight. With me in verse eight. Like I obviously know I'm hitting these things really quick, you know, because there's there's really just so many of them, but I want you to think with me. Like I said before, I want you to think with me because, you know, you can see that, you know, because this is God's book, and the devil hates God's book, the attack has really been spiritual satanically inspired. It has been a satanically inspired attack.
Attack the book. Attack the book. Attack the book. And, you know, in in in attacking the book, leveling the criticisms when I say attack the book, you level the criticisms and the insults. But in in attacking the book, what he's doing is is he is he's attacking the very rights that god himself has given you. Folks, these things aren't burdens. They're not. They're not burdens. Thank God for them. Thank God that you have the right to purity. Thank God. You don't have to go to bed at night. I don't have to go to bed at night worrying about AIDS, or syphilis, or gonorrhea, or or whatever. Amen? Don't have to worry about those things. I've got a right to purity.
Alright? Verse eight. This is always a touchy one, but verse eight. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days thou shalt thou labor and do all thy work, But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it, thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days, the Lord God made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Alright. Look. Again, this is one of those touchy ones. When I've talked about this in the past, I've I've, you know, I've I've gotten hammered on this one. Not hammered like I lost the argument, but just the attacks. Alright? Because you're not I'm not gonna lose the argument on this one. Okay? There are a few things that I I can concede that, you know, maybe I I could, but not this. I think I've made it abundantly clear from whether it's when I'm preaching, and I'm behind the pulpit, or since I've been teaching bible here, you know, behind the microphone or in or in Sunday schools or whatever, that we are not under obligation to keep the Sabbath day as presented in the 10 commandments.
Alright? We are not obligated. The apostle Paul made that very clear. The apostle Paul is who? The apostle to the church. And if you are saved, if you are a blood bought born again Christian, you are the church. You are part of the body of Christ. That is the church. The apostle Paul made it very clear. The Sabbath day was given as a sign. Alright? And you can go to Ezekiel chapter 20. Ezekiel chapter 20, you'll find that the Sabbath day was a sign to a very specific group of people. The Sabbath day was given as a sign in Ezekiel 20 to the Jewish people. It is for the Jew.
If you are a if you are a blood bought Bible believing Christian, you are not a Jew. Therefore, you are not obligated to keep the Sabbath day as presented in the 10 commandments. All the other commandments, by the way, just just point of fact, all the other commandments are reiterated somewhere in the Pauline epistles, and they are certainly active in the church age, the age in which you and I live, without a doubt whatsoever. None whatsoever. But I am not under an obligation from a moral sense from a moral sense to keep the Sabbath day holy. I am not a Jew, and I am not part of that kingdom.
We understand that. But do you know what this is? Purely from a a a Christian rights standpoint, This is my right to rest. Now years ago, what we decided to do here in America is was to open every business we possibly could on Sunday. One of the biggest problems that we have in getting folks to come to church is getting around their work schedule. Amen? I mean, so many people have to work now on Sundays, because there is every kind of business in the world is open on a Sunday. That's an attack on your right to rest and serve the lord as you choose.
Just attack it, attack it, attack it. Undermine it. Erode it away. Let's do away with these god given rights. Alright? How about verse seven? Thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain, for the lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Do you know what that is? You know what that that's my right to respect holiness. I have a god given right to respect holiness, and there are a lot of people out there that do not want you, or there are a lot of people out there who don't want to allow me to have that right. Do you know who the most discriminated people in America are?
You know who they are. Do you know who the real minority in America is? It's not black folks, it's not Latinos, it's it's not Asian folks. Color, ethnicity, race has nothing to do with it. Nothing whatsoever. I'm gonna tell you who the real minority is in America. It's folks that wanna keep this book first place in their life. It's people who wanna keep the book. People who wanna follow the book. That's the real minority. The real minority in America is someone who's trying to build their life on this book. You wanna talk about being assaulted? If you wanna talk about being a target, holy cow.
It's just like you're walking around with that big red and white target on your chest all the time. All the time. And and by the time I say that I have the right to respect holiness, you know that there's some idiot in a booth in a restaurant right next to me that's taking the name of the taking the name of the Lord in vain with every other breath. There's somebody on the television cursing God every time you turn around. They do it in the newspapers, magazines, online. You you you get these newsletters. You cannot get away from it wherever you turn. You know, I was having lunch with a with a friend of mine, in a restaurant, and, there was a couple. There was legitimately a couple, having a knockdown drag out fight.
A guy and a girl, verbal fisticuffs right outside the place, cursing and swearing as loud as they possibly could. And I I I seriously, you know, if you know me, you know me. You understand that this is me. I had this overwhelming compulsion to go out to my car and get a tire iron and just crack them both upside the head. You know why? Because they're robbing me of a right that god gave me, a right to respect holiness. You know, I don't consider thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain a burden. I don't consider that to be a great, big, heavy, thou shalt not that god put on me.
I consider it to be a right. It's a privilege. It's a joy. But then again, I guess it all depends on how you look at it. Right? Alright. Verse four. Verse four, thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them, for I, the lord thy god, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
So do you know what that is? You know what that is? That's my right to worship. That's it. Right there. It's my right to I have a right to worship. Now, of course, there's those that would like to take that right away from me. That would like to take that right away from you. Don't you worship in public schools? We better not find your kid praying over his lunch. Don't you dare worship on the courthouse lawn. Don't you dare set up that nativity scene on Christmas. You know? And then if you listen to the advocates of Hillary Clinton's crowd long enough, they're gonna end up telling you that you don't even have a have a right to have a worship service in your own house, because you'll be infringing on the rights of the children.
Never once considering that the child has a right to worship. I have a right to worship. Thank you. I have a right to it, and I'm gonna continue to exercise it. I'm gonna continue to exercise it regardless of what anybody says. I will continue to do it. Alright? Now the last one is god's right. The last one we're gonna look at is god's right. God listed nine rights for the Christian. Nine rights. The last one is God's. The last one is God's. Verse number two. I am the lord thy god, which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Know what that is? That's God's right to be worshiped. That's God's right to be worshiped. Now, if there is a devil, and there is, and he's opposed to all of these rights that we just discussed, and he is, then you can jolly well rest assured that he will attempt to take the worship that rightfully belongs to God, and somehow concentrated upon himself because he is a thief and a liar. He has coveted in his heart what belongs to another. He has stolen to the best of his ability that which belongs to God, and that is the right to be worshiped.
That's God's right. That's God's right. And I'm telling you, he has that right, and I'm gonna give my allegiance to his right to be worshiped. You know, thank God though there Over the ages, there have been a few that have done exactly that. I was going through some some files on my computer, and, I found something, that was really interesting. And I I hadn't I I don't remember I don't remember exactly when I got it, but it came as an email attachment. I remember it. I remember saving it. I still remember when it was, but it's it's more than a couple of years ago, and I and I kinda forgot about this letter, and, or this file rather.
But when I read it when I read it, I I I said to myself that in some kind of a relationship, I wanted to share it with you because I I I want you to see how this has to do with God's right to be worshiped. So what it is, it's it's it I'm gonna have to read it to you because I can't remember it. I can't memorize it. It's too long. I'm getting old. My memory is like Swiss cheese. But this is this is a copy of a letter that was dictated by a British soldier to his wife in England on June 1775, a little bit after the the Battle of Breed's Hill or or Bunker Hill. So what I'm gonna do, I'm giving you the other side of the story.
The, the or or, you know, the other picture of it today. Because, you know, naturally when we think about the war of independence, you know, we like to think about the American struggle, the American fight, American independence, American freedom, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Alright? That is all well and good. But today, what I'm what I'm gonna do to and and we're gonna close it up right after this, is I wanna read you this letter from a British private to his wife. Okay? I quote, and by the way, they don't write letters like this anymore, anywhere. Quote, my dearest love, before these lines reach you, grim death will have swept me off the stage of life, and filthy reptiles will be be feeding on that form once so dear to you.
No more shall you repose in these arms. No more shall these eyes, now swimming in the shades of death, behold your lovely person or gaze, or gaze with delight on you or my dear infants. Yesterday, we had a bloody and obstinate fight in which we had a great number killed and wounded. I received one ball in my groin and another in my breast. The balls are the bullets. I am now so weak with the loss of blood that I can hardly dictate these few lines as the last tribute of my unchanging love to you. The surgeons inform me that three hours will be at the utmost that I can survive. Alas, too true was the dire presage which brewed into my mind that we should never meet again on this side of an awful eternity.
On our passage from England to America, I gave up I gave myself up to reading the Bible, it being the only book I was possessed of. The almighty parent of mankind was pleased to draw me. The almighty parent to mankind was pleased to draw my heart to him by the sweet attractions of his grace, and at the same time, to enlighten my mind. There was in our regimen a corporal whose name was Pierce, a pious man. I inquired after him. We soon contracted a strong friendship. He was pleased to explain to me the amazing love of God in giving his son, Jesus Christ, to bleed and die for mankind. He condescended to unfold to me the mystery of salvation by faith, the nature of the new birth, the great necessity of holiness of heart and life. In short, he became my spiritual father. And to him, under God, I owe all the good I am acquainted with.
Soon after we landed, God was pleased to speak peace to my soul. Oh, the bliss, the unutterable joy that I felt through the blood of the lamb. How I longed to tell the whole world what Jesus had done for me, but how did I long, yea, burn, to have you, my dear love, to taste and know the love of God in Christ Jesus? I would have given the world to have been with you, to have informed you of the pearl of great price. My dear love, as we shall never meet before this veil of tears, let me impose this last this dying obligation upon you. If I was ever dear to you, let me beg of you. Do not neglect the last advice of your departing husband, which which is that you may give yourself up to God, read the Bible and good books, and be often found among them who inquire after salvation, and the lord will guide you in this way.
And, oh, endeavor to bring up the dear little ones in the fear of God. Never fix your heart upon the vain and unsubstantial things of this world. Heaven and the love of God are the only things that demand our hearts or are worthy of engrossing them. I'm gonna continue in a second, but I I just I wanna insert this one thought right here. Thank God. Thank God for a British corporal on a ship headed for war in America named Pierce, who stood in the middle of a great many rogues and ruffians on his Christian bill of rights, on his right to to to purity, who stood on on on his right to respect, to reverence holiness. It it became obvious.
It became known. And then when there was an inquiring and hungry heart, he knew where to go. He knew where to go. He knew he knew the man who stood out from the rest. He knew the man who might possibly give him the answer concerning eternity and his soul. Thank God. Thank God for Corporal Pierce, whoever he is. Whoever he is, thank god for him. I'm pretty sure I can tell you I know where he is. The letter continues. You are yet young, nor can I wish you not to enter again into the marriage state when I am cold and in the dust? But let me give you some advice.
Marry with no one, however handsome or rich he may be, unless he fears and loves God. This is the only thing needful. During the four years we cohabitated together, many things occurred which I forbear mentioning. But as I have obtained pardon of god, my awful judge, for all that I have done, I most humbly beg you that you would pardon me, whereinsoever I have offended you, and I most heartily acquit you of anything you have done to disoblige me. I have been an a worthless husband to you, an undutiful son to my parents, a vile rebel against my god.
Oh, God, be merciful to me a sinner. I die in peace with all the world. I die in a full assurance of eternal glory. A few moments and my soul shall be ranged among the disembodied spirits in the general assembly of the church of the firstborn who are written in heaven. Oh, my love, I beg of you. I beseech you. I charge you to meet me in the realms of glory. Fly to the arms of the once bleeding Jesus. Cry to him day and night, and he will hear you and bless you. And you, my dear infants, though you have not the perfect knowledge of your worthless father, I beg you to meet me in the realms of bliss. The God who blessed Jacob and Joseph will bless you. Seek him and he will be found of you. Call upon him, and he will hear and bless you.
What has this world but sin and sorrow? Amen to that. The rich are oppressed with their wealth. The poor are groaning for the want of that which the others are burdened with. The men of power are afflicted with holding the reins and guiding the helm. The governed are oppressed with imaginary evils. The life of a soldier is blood and cruelty, and that of the sailor dangers and death. A city life is full of confusion and strife. A country life is loaded with toil and labor. But the greatest of all evils flows from our own sinful nature. Wherever we are, we may be happy.
We carry the key of bliss in our breast. The world itself never yet made anyone happy. God alone is the bliss of a reasonable soul, and he is everywhere present. And we have everywhere free access to him. Learn then, my dear children, when you grow up, to seek for permanent happiness in God through a crucified redeemer. My dear wife, should the spirits of the departed have any knowledge of things that are below, and at the same time, any intercourse with them though unseen, how shall I rejoice to be thy guardian angel, to attend you and smile, to see you combat sin, conquer the world, and subdue the flesh?
How shall I smile to meet thee on the bright frontiers of heaven? These hands shall weave for you with joy the wreath triumphant. I first will hail you. Welcome to our native mansions. I first shall guide your conquering feet to the celestial city and introduce you to the jubilant throng who thread who tread the streets of the new Jerusalem. I first will lead thee to the sacred throne of our God, where we will together bow, transported at the sublime seat of the ever adorable Jesus. Then then we will strike our melodious harps of gold in the most exalted strains of harmony and love. Then shall our love be consummated, refined, and eternalized.
The world recedes. It disappears. Heaven opens my eyes, my ears, with sound seraphic ring. Lend lend your wings. I mount. I fly. Oh, grave, where is thy victory? Oh, death, where is thy sing thy sting? Dear love, more would I say, but life ebbs out of pace. My senses cease to perform their office. Bright angels stand around the gory turf on which I lie, ready to escort me to the arms of my Jesus. Bending saints reveal my shining crown and beckon me away. Yay. Methinks my Jesus bids me come. I do. I do. Dear love. I do.
John Randon private his majesty's army. I guess he's met the captain of his salvation folks. Right? Destined to be part of a far, far greater army. One is gonna return someday and put into subjection those that would disdain the Christian's right, the Christian's bill of rights, the word of God. Oh, heavenly father, I just wanna thank you for the day. Lord, thank you. Thank you for giving us this day of rest. Thank you, Lord, for giving us the book that we have, where we can find comfort, we can find peace, we can find wisdom, and, God, we can find life.
Thank you, God. Thank you for this letter that we read. Thank you for this man named Pierce, whoever he is, whoever he may have been. We thank you for him. We thank you for men like him. We thank you for women like him, children like him, who stand on their convictions, who stand on the on the rights that you have outlined for us, these Christian bill of rights. God, thank you for them. And father, if there's any listening today that doesn't know Jesus Christ as their savior, father, I just ask you right now that you would save them, you would draw them into yourself, they would have a they would develop a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as their only savior, And that they would be obedient to the scripture and call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. Father, we thank you for it. We ask your blessings on the rest of the day. Lord, we thank you for our president. We thank you, lord, that you have hedged him about. You have protected him from harm. And, father, I pray that you continue to do that. I pray for our country.
Lord, I pray that you would give those that are have been elected to represent us in the general government. God, we pray that you would give them wisdom and discernment as they work on things that affect each one of us, and that they would heed the voice of the people, and more importantly, the voice of God. Father, we pray for those in the state house. Pray for those that are in positions of leadership in our communities. God, we ask your blessings upon them. We know that these offices are all appointed by you and that you raise kings and you set kings down. And, God, we pray for them. We pray that you would give them wisdom and discernment as well as they make the decisions that ultimately affect each and every one of us. Father, we thank you. We ask your blessings on the remainder of today and the week going forward in Jesus' name.
Amen. Alright, folks. Well, the Christian's bill of rights. Hope you found that to be somewhat informative. I hope that, it was a blessing to you, and I hope that you learned something from it. That's more important. And, you need to get into your bible if you haven't been. Alright. Now, tomorrow tomorrow show we got, we have two guests. So, we're not gonna really get too much into the news unless unless we decide to do a third hour, which I don't know if we're going to or not. We shall see how that all progresses. And then, we got a packed week. We got a packed week, so we're not gonna do a show on Friday in in observance of Independence Day, but we will have our Saturday spotlight show, and we will also be back doing our Sunday bible study show, on the following Sunday. And, I think we're probably gonna stick with the unless unless something changes along the way, we're probably gonna end up sticking with the, the whole, like, biblical pop, you know, politics in the bible kind of stuff on on the week on on the on the Sunday show. So we'll see how all that plays out during the course of the week, you know. Because, you know, don't think I don't just randomly pull these things out of a hat, you know. I I I do pray about it, and I do ask the Lord for guidance on it to let me know where he wants me to go with this stuff, and and, you know, last week was politics in the bible, tonight another politics in the bible, and since the show during the week is a lot of politics, it might be another politics in the bible type show next week. I don't know. I've been kinda contemplating doing a, doing a study on American history.
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Alrighty folks, this is Joe Roos. It is great to be with you once again on a beautiful Sunday afternoon here in Eagle Pass, Texas, broadcasting from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass, and doing the very best that we can to bring you the best quality talk radio we could muster without all the bluster. This is the Joe Ruse show. Alright, folks. Hope you guys had a great, great weekend. This is our Bible study Sunday, and we are looking forward to getting into our study here in just a quick moment. Keeping in line with our political theme over the last couple of shows, well, our Sunday shows, and with our weekday shows.
This is just keeping in line with that. This is, tonight, we're gonna be talking about what would I call it? I would I guess I would call it the Christian's Bill of Rights. It's gonna be very interesting. Very, very interesting indeed. But of course, before we get into that, we do have some housekeeping that we need to take care of. Folks, when Rumble first started in 02/2013, they built this platform for the small creator. They didn't censor. They didn't have biases. They were fair, and they treated all creators equally. No one thought platforms would ever censor political conversation or or even censor opinions on on COVID, but some of us all know all too well.
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That it is far overreaching their authority that's granted to them by Congress. So that was a huge win. That was a huge win, and of course, that that impacts a number of President Trump's executive orders, particularly the one on birthright citizenship. So very very excited about that. Great great news over that. Just a string of wins for this administration over this entire weekend. And, we're looking forward to a great week ahead of us, and, just to remind you tomorrow, before we get into our bible study, tomorrow we have, both hours are set up. And, they're both they're gonna be really good conversations. Literally looking forward to it, and quite the difference in in the guests. So you'll see that, tomorrow when, when they come on. It's gonna be a lot of fun. Looking forward to it. It's gonna be great. Now, without any further ado, I'm gonna ask you if you would to, grab your bible, and hopefully, you have one nearby. I mean, if you're watching the show, if you're planning on watching the show, you know this is a Bible study show, so you should be ready for the Bible study. Right? Right.
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And it's gonna be, it's gonna be a lot of fun. It has to do with something that, oh, from years ago, from one of the original shows that I did with, my friends back in New York. And, still have the audio clip from it. I'm gonna make that a t shirt, and we'll show you what that is on tomorrow's show. Alright? Alright. Hopefully, you have your bible and if you're ready, we're gonna get into our bible study in in just a minute here. You know, one of the things that I find very intriguing is, people who study history. People who study history have a very, a very deep insight into, believe it or not, the future.
Because one of the things that or a statement that I've heard from an old preacher friend that I I use quite a bit, is the only thing that men don't learn from history is that men don't learn from history. So that's when I say that, you know, people who study history have amazing and incredible insight into the future, and it's because of that statement alone. The only thing men don't learn from history is that men don't learn from history. I mean, if you think about it like this, if we learned from history, I am pretty sure we probably do a lot of things very, very differently.
There was another historian that wrote this, he said, the the history of nations shows a cycle, a sequence of events, a chronological order that always seems doomed to repeat itself. Now, we we talked about this, a couple of shows ago with one of our guests. Great great conversation. And, let me see. It's a little distraction here. Sorry about that, but put that back. And so this was the sequence that we talked about. The history of a nation's people, or his the history of a nation shows that, that a people go from bondage to spiritual faith.
Alright. Now it's it's really difficult when you try to figure out what the condition America was in in 1776, 1775, and so on, because I wasn't alive back then. And neither were you, at least I don't think so. You know, knowing some of the numbers that come out of Doge with the social security payments, you might be. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. But, in that time period, the enlightenment period, it was it was considered by many that we were in some kind of a stage of a of bondage to the British Empire. And you might be wondering why I'm talking about this type of stuff. It's because, you know, next week is Independence Day, and we're not gonna be doing a show on Independence Day. And, so I wanted to make sure we talked about this, these these political spiritual issues, in the days leading up to it. Something for you to contemplate when Independence Day actually comes. Now, again, it was, you know, considered by many that we were in some kind of a of a state of bondage to the British Empire. Now interestingly, you know, for whatever you might think about that, history reveals that our forefathers had no particular problem discussing spiritual truths.
In in in those days, you know, they they they rather chose to cling tenaciously, if you think about it to a lot of those spiritual truths to their faith. And they made no apologies for it. They made no apologies for frequently discussing God, the very necessary intervention of God in their affairs, and the inalienable rights given by God. Now last week, on last week's Sunday Bible study show, we talked about those inalienable rights. So God was a personality that permeated their discussion on all levels. So we already said that there was, some type some type of bondage in effect, and then they went from bondage to spiritual faith, and then to courage, and then from courage to freedom.
Now folks, freedom is always always been obtained at a price. Always. And it was very, very necessary for courage to be involved. From courage to freedom. From freedom to abundance. Now, I don't think any nation on the face of the earth has enjoyed more abundance than we have, than The United States. From abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from fear to dependence, from dependence to bondage. Now I don't know exactly where you'd put us today on that chart, but my estimation is that, we're pretty much in that dependency category right now. Just one step away from bondage.
Today, political today, political candidates make, very, very, very few and ambiguous declarations as to where they stand on a particular issue. But there's the but there always seems to be a great deal of interest on the part of the American public of these people and their candidates, and for all levels of office, you know, of, you know, the old, what can you do for me? What can that candidate do for me? What can he do for what can she do for me through the vehicle of government? What can they do for us? Now, I think that's kind of the wrong way to look at it.
I'm not really interested in what government can do for me. And if you hung around with me any length of time, you know, whether it's on the show, off the show, you know, personal life, you know, personal friend, they'll tell you this. I am really not interested in what government can do for me, and I really don't want government to to do anything for me, to be quite honest with you. I really don't. And the reason why I don't want government doing anything for me is because every time they try, they just mess it up. The only thing the only thing that I want government to do is what it was designed to do, and supposed to do, and envisioned to do as our forefathers planned it.
And you might be sitting there scratching your head saying, I don't know. What what are you talking about? The only thing that I want government to do is to protect my right to do for myself. That's all I want them to do. Nothing else, nothing more than that. Look, if I wanna build a house that's destined to fall down around my ears, then, hey, let me build it. Leave me alone. Let me build it. If I wanna drive down the road without a seat belt and kill myself, then let me do it. That's my responsibility. I promise you, if I die because I'm not wearing a seat belt, I promise you I will not sue anybody. Okay?
I personally will not sue anybody. The older I'm getting, the more I'm I'm resenting the amount of interference that the government has in my life. But I do see the I do see America today as a land of great dependency, where more and more people are depending upon the government. You know, eventually, you you know, you get to the place where you depend upon the government so much, where every move you make, you have to consider government. When you get to that place, they put you in bondage. They put you in bondage. So the thing that would that would appear to me at least is that this whole thing has gone almost full circle in these last two hundred fifty years.
But that's really not the issue I wanna address tonight. That's kinda just a springboard. That's that's where I want you to start. That's where I want you to to get those, get those juices flowing in the brain. You know, start to think about these things, especially in light that our Independence Day celebrations coming up next Friday. So I want you to think about it. What we're gonna do today is, I'm gonna I'm gonna just bring something to your attention that that, you know, maybe you never thought of before. And honestly, I hadn't thought about it until I started brainstorming about this and thinking about it in light of scripture. So if you would, if you have your bible, like I have mine right here, my handy dandy bible.
If you would take your bible and turn over to the book of Exodus and chapter 20. Exodus and chapter 20. Exodus is the second book in your bible. You opened up your bible, you got Genesis, Exodus. Second book of your bible, twentieth chapter of that book. Let's make some room here. I have my fabulous seventeen seventy five coffee right here. That's the good stuff, my friends. That is the good stuff. So what did I say? Exodus 20. Right? Exodus chapter 20. So what I wanna talk to you about today, keep again, keeping in line with the political theme of our last couple of shows, Sunday shows. What I wanna talk to you about today is the Christian's Bill of Rights.
When our American forefathers framed the Constitution, it really it was not long after that that they penned the first 10 amendments. And those first 10 are often referred to as what? We know what that is. Right? The Americans Bill of Rights. Right? Or your Bill of Rights. And, we hear those amendments referred referred to frequently in political discussions around this nation. For for example, the first amendment has to do with what? Free speech. Right? The second amendment has to do with the right to bear arms. So, you you hear all of these kinds of amendments frequently resorted to, frequently appealed to by different groups, all to substantiate their position on any particular issue.
I believe I believe, and I'm gonna try to demonstrate it to you today, that God has given the child of God, the Christian, a bill of rights. And I think those rights are framed in the 10 commandments themselves. Now generally, of course, you know, we wouldn't really look at it that way. You know, someone look at a commandment as as, something that interferes with their rights. Someone look at, a commandment as something that impedes their right to live as as they want to. But, you know, I disagree with that. Wholeheartedly, I disagree with that. I I would actually have to say that anytime God gives you an admonition, anytime that God gives you a commandment, in reality, what God is doing is God is looking after your best interest.
God is giving you a right. So as I began to look at this, I said, you know, what we have here is a bill of rights that God has declared, and and and and as I mentioned these things to you, because there are 10 of them, And, honestly we're not gonna have time to elaborate on each and every one of them, but I'm gonna I'm gonna encourage you. I want you to to let your thinking process run random. Just think about what I'm gonna tell you. And as we're going through this, I I really hope that you continue to listen. I hope that you invite some of your friends and your family, your followers to to to check this thing out. Check out what this nudge I was talking about over here on Rumble.
I hope you do that. But I encourage you to think. Put that thinking cap on. And while you're listening, I want you to just engage your imagination. I mean, you may come up with something that I hadn't even thought of. So I want you to think about how these rights are attacked. Think about it on those terms. Alright? How are these rights attacked? If God has given the child of God a bill of rights, then it it it really does just kinda make sense that the devil's gonna do all in his power to attack those rights. He's gonna do everything that he possibly can do to erode away and undermine those rights that God has given.
And those rights, I find contained right here in the 10 Commandments. Alright. Now, not to be confusing, but I'm not gonna start from the beginning, and work my way down to the end. Okay? What we're gonna do today is that we're actually gonna reverse the order, and we're gonna end where God starts, and that's with all the emphasis upon him. Okay? So that's where God starts. So we're gonna go basically, you know, from back to front. Alright. So, let's take a look at Exodus chapter 20. Hopefully, you're there. Exodus chapter 20, and, we'll begin in verse number 17. Exodus chapter 20 and verse number 17.
Again, if you don't have your bible, that's fine. You can either listen along, if you're listening on the audio stream, or if you, if you if you're if you're watching on on Rumble, YouTube, wherever it is that we're streaming right now, because we didn't cut the feed for this. It's Sunday, we'd let the show run. I'm gonna put it up on the screen for you so you can follow along. Alright? So Exodus chapter 20, and by the way, we use the King James Bible. That's the only Bible that we use. That's the only Bible we recommend that you use. So, if you're using another version, that's unfortunate because you're gonna miss a lot of things, but you'll get the gist of it. Just follow along. Alright?
Exodus chapter 20 verse 17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything. That is thy neighbor's. Alright? Now take your bible. Just turn a page or two over to Exodus chapter 22. Exodus chapter 22, please. Exodus chapter 22. Because in Exodus chapter 22 and in verse two, God kind of expands on this. Alright? This is what he says. Exodus 22 and verse, two. Exodus twenty two two. If a thief be found breaking up and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.
If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be no bloodshed for him, for he should make full restitution. If he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft. If the theft be certainly found in his hand alive, whether it be ox, or ass or sheep, he shall restore double. Alright. So now let me let me tell you what that all translates to when when you think about it in the terms of, a bill of rights. God said, thou shalt not covet what the other guy has. Alright? So basically, that means that that that that you shouldn't covet what I have, I shouldn't covet what you have. Alright? Thou shall not covet.
Alright? So do you know what that is? Do you know what right that translates to? That translates to a right to protect. A right to protect. If I didn't have the right to protect, then God would not have said, thou shalt not covet. God would say, just go ahead, open your door, let everybody come in. Let them help themselves. Come on in. Help yourself. Let's go. Kinda like what the what the previous administration did here with The United States. It just threw the doors wide open. Yeah. Come on in. Come on in. Help yourself. Whatever you want, they'll pay for it. So in the terms of a right, I have a god given right because thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet, I should say. Right? Thou shalt not covet.
I have a god given declaration to protect that which I have, and which god has graciously given to me. Amen? Now don't you see through the system that you and I function in today that there is a great attack on that right right there. They don't want you to have a gun to protect yourself. They don't want you to have a gun in your home to protect your home and to protect your family, your property against someone that's coveting what you have. I mean, when a thief breaks into your house, he's coveting what he what doesn't belong to him. Now you say, sorry, are are you opposed to the system?
Look, I am a flag waving American. I am a patriot through and through, but I am greatly, greatly disappointed in our nation. I am discouraged about the direction that America is going. When I look at it from the viewpoint that we're talking about today. When I look at it with that viewpoint, I see that there is a a great undermining effort that I believe is satanically inspired to erode away the rights that God has given us, the Christians' bill of rights. So I say that we have the right to protect. You know, any effort that's made by any elected official, whether it's at the state house, congress, and the senate, or any others to erode away that right is anti god, anti biblical, and anti American.
We absolutely must fervently stand on these rights because it was god who designed them. It was God who ordained it. I have the right to protect. Now you can obviously see how each one of these could be a sermon in themselves, you know, but that's not all. Exodus chapter 20 and verse 16. Exodus chapter 20 and verse number 16. Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor. Oh. Right? Well, where where do you find a parallel to that? Well, that parallels the passage in the constitution, the amendment in the constitution that says that we have a right to a fair and speedy trial. You know, this system has been has been designed and so constructed where a thing can drag out forever.
I have a I have a classic a classic illustration for you. There was a pastor some years ago in Upstate New York, and there was a lady that was attending his church that came into a substantial sum of money. Alright. She didn't earn it. It was left to her, but nonetheless, she got it. And, and it was it was her desire to to give an amount of that money to the church, so she did. So she gave it with the understanding that any gift that's given to a church is just that, a gift. Okay? I mean that that I think that kind of makes sense. Alright? That that I mean, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. Well, as things always happen, sometime later she got mad at the pastor.
You know, it does happen from time to time. It does. That might be a shock to some people, but it does happen. Well, you know, she was upset with him, because he wasn't doing the things the way that she thought they should be done. You know, that's the thing, some folks, you know, they they try to buy that kind of power in a church. Believe it or not, I mean, it it's it's it's terrible. It really is, and I've seen it firsthand. Not only in this particular situation I'm talking about here, but also in in in church policy in in some of the churches that I've been part of over the years.
Particularly the one that I I was an associate pastor of back up in New York. So, you know, so I so she tried to buy that power, and and, you know, that that was fairly obvious that that was her motivation. So so, so so she got upset with this pastor, and, then what she ended up doing was she start to spread these vicious rumors and lies about him. And, eventually she found a crooked lawyer who who agreed to, take him to court, and then to actually try to sue the church, sue sue him to try to get the money back. Now of course the church had already spent the money on on improving the physical facilities. The money was gone. It was wasn't there anymore.
It was spent, and they did it they did it judiciously, they did it wisely, all documented. They did they did it the right way. But the problem is that as it was spent, regardless of that, she sued the pastor, and this thing had drug on or dragged on on and on and on. And then what she would do is every time it would come to trial, she would tell her lawyer to put the thing off. Knowing full well knowing full well that all this was doing was just adding more and more misery, and strain, and stress, not only on on the pastor, the the the this preacher's life and his ministry, but on the church and the members of the church. But because she kept on playing games with it and kept on trying to put it off, he was robbed of the opportunity of a fair and speedy trial to settle the matter and just put the thing to bed finally.
Why? Because she bore false witness against him. Now you see how the how that right that you have, if someone bears false witness against you, you have the right, biblically, biblically speaking, to settle that thing, to get that thing taken care of one way or the other. But folks, there is a satanic attack to drag these kinds of issues just on and on and on and on, never ending. Alright. Verse, verse 15. Verse 15. Thou shalt not steal. Thou shalt not steal. Alright? That is a god given right to own private property. Whether the private property is a car, or a boat, or a real estate, a gun, a fishing rod, TV, couch, whatever it might be. You you know, you get the idea.
Whatever it is, you have a God given right to private property, to own private property. If God didn't want you to own private property, he never would have said, don't steal. Now there are those who would like to take that right away from you. Just earlier today, I I was talking to someone, we were talking about, agenda 2030. Agenda 2030, if you're not familiar with that is, look it up. Look it up before they take it off, before it disappears off off the web here. Agenda twenty thirty, the World Economic Forum says by that that by the year 2030, you, the individual person, will have nothing, and you'll be happy. So what they're saying is is that you will not own anything. You will have no private property.
Your home, your not even you wouldn't even have a home. You would have a a small apartment that is open and accessible to anybody at any time. You don't own a car, no cars, and if anybody does own a car, or has a car, I should say, I can't even say own. If anybody does have a car, well that's it's community property. Anybody can take it and use it at any time. No property. No property at all. They're gonna set you up in these small in these fifteen minute cities. You're not even gonna need a car. You're just gonna be able to, you know, take mass transit wherever you go. You know, nothing's gonna be too far away from where you everything's gonna be within fifteen minutes. You're gonna, you know, you'll be able to walk to work every day so you don't hurt the environment. You'll be able to take mass transit so you don't hurt the environment.
They're gonna tell you what you eat. They're gonna tell you when you sleep. They're gonna tell you what kind of clothes you wear. They're gonna tell you every aspect of your life is gonna be dictated by someone else. That's agenda twenty thirty. That's taking away your right to private property. Yeah. There are some people that own property, like real estate where, you know, some of it could be and has always been construed by some, you know, misguided bureaucrat that, example, I I mentioned it last week. I know a guy who who owns property up in New York, New Jersey rather. I'm sorry.
Bought the property, paid for the property, pays taxes on the property, and then some lunatic from the state shows up and says, hey. Wait a second. You can't cut down any of these trees back here. That's what he was. He was clearing some land. He wanted to expand out some, you know, recreational area of his of his property for his family. So he's clearing out a few trees there, and some nut job from the state shows up and tells him, hey, you can't do that because this is now considered to be protected prop protected forest or protected wetland, whatever it whatever it was. Bought the property, paid for the property, pays taxes on the property, can't use the property.
Why? Because it's not their property. It was stolen. What do you mean it was stolen? When the state said that you can't touch that because it's protected land, they stole it from you without compensation, but you still have to pay your taxes on it. And if you don't pay the taxes on it, they come in there and they lock you out of it and they say you can't have it, even though you've already paid for it. They steal it from you. Don't get me started on property taxes, man. Property taxes are some of the most Look, all taxation is immoral.
And I know a lot of people disagree with me on that, but but all taxation is immoral. Taxation is theft. And try to convince me that it's not. When the government comes up to you, puts a basically puts a gun to your head and says, you've been living on this land for thirty years, you've been living on this property for thirty years, you don't have a mortgage, you're not paying the bank anymore, you think you own this? No. You still gotta pay tax to us, and if you don't pay the taxes, even though you've already paid off your mortgage and you already paid off the property, the payments for the property, if you don't pay your taxes, you could still lose this. It's not your property then.
Taxation is theft. Property taxes are immoral. And, you know, we didn't have those kind of problems in America when America was a bible reading people. Because people innately understood, instinctively understood that there was something wrong with that kind of thinking. It just didn't make sense. But the moment that America laid down her bibles and and forsook going to church where the bible was taught and preached, not these not these not these bible studies, places you meetings that you go to where they don't even talk about your bible. They talk they whatever the novel of the day is. I don't have a book with me. But whatever the novel of the day is, you have a you you have a book club instead of a bible study.
When we forsook going to church and reading and studying our bibles and going to churches that taught and preached the bible. When that stopped, we became possessed with that kind of erratic, illogical, immoral mentality that's leading us down the wrong path. You have a right to own private property. That's why God says, thou shalt not steal. There are senior citizens in our community that are living on fixed incomes, that are losing the right to own property because the government steals it through property taxes. And they just keep jumping them up and jumping them up and jumping them up.
You think about those folks that that that that that bought that small little home thirty, forty years ago, And those property taxes going up and up and up. You know, when I you guys know I'm from New York. And, several years ago, it was 2016, 2015, somewhere around there, there was a hurricane that came through, hurricane Sandy. Right? And I remember reading about this back then, and I don't know why it just came to mind, but it it it did this this illustration particularly. But the people that that owned, it was see where I lived, there there there were these little beachfront communities and they weren't like the the wealthy people that you see it like Moth's Vineyard and and, and and places like that, like the Obama's, you know, the the multimillion dollar homes. These are small little shacks, basically.
And you think about those folks that purchased those little small shacks, like beach properties, you know, like cabanas and things like that that that actually live there all year round. And they bought these things thirty, forty plus years ago. And after hurricane Sandy came through, they saw their property taxes increase almost 200%. Someone's stealing. Someone's stealing. They're just thieves. That's all they are, man. It's all they are. It it it's just just a disregard for what God says. Thou shalt not steal. Alright. I I I I I got to preach in there. Sorry.
But that's not all. Let's take a look at, verse number 14. Exodus twenty fourteen. Thou shall not commit adultery. Uh-oh. That's a bad one. Alright? Thou shall not commit adultery. You know what that is? Do you know what that is? That's my right. That's your right to purity. To purity. You know, I was reading an article in a Christian magazine not too long ago, and the story was about about about a pastor and his, his his family, young children, that moved to Las Vegas. And, you know, everybody loves, you know, those and I noticed that too. A lot of people, they love going to Las Vegas, you know. Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, that type of thing. Right?
Love Vegas. Love Vegas. Well, this this this young family, pastor, wife, kids, they moved to Las Vegas, and, they went out there with the intention of starting a church. And, I mean, you wanna talk about trying to set up a a mission in the middle of Sodom and Gomorrah, you got it right there. But one of the things about the article that struck me was a quote from the wife, and she said I'm gonna paraphrase it because I don't have it in front of me, but but paraphrasing it, she said that since they moved to Las Vegas, whenever she has to load up the kids in the car and and and and go someplace, she found that she had to actually drive, or plot a course through the back roads so that she didn't have to travel the main roads and expose them to the all of the obscene billboards that are all over that community.
Do you know what people in Las Vegas have done? Do do you realize what they've done? They have done their very, very best to rob families of the right to purity. You know what you know what the TV has done? The TV has has has done its best to rob your family of the right of purity. You know what the public schools are doing? When they pass out condoms, or or when they have these, these, transvestite drag queen story hours, and and dances, and and performances, and, you know, strip tease acts in in the in the classroom. They're robbing your kids of the right of purity.
I mean folks, if you're gonna maintain purity in in this age, you're gonna have to fight for it. You're absolutely 100% gonna fight for it. You're gonna have to fight tooth and nail. Tooth and nail because every source in society is against it. They wanna rob you of a God given right. Folks, don't look at this like a burden. Don't look at it like it's oppressive. Don't look at it like it's it's something that that you can't put up with. Look at it as a right, as a blessing. Verse 13. I must move on. Verse 13, thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not kill. You know what that is?
You know what that is? That's a right to life. That's a right to life. I attended a function a few years ago, up in New York, And, I was sitting around at a table with about eight people. And, I mean, I don't know how we got on the subject of it, you know, but we started talking about how how old our parents were when when we were born, and, you know, and almost everyone at the table, almost every mother almost every person at the table said that their mothers were at least in their thirties, some in their forties, and and some in their fifties.
Hey, folks. There's hope. Right? That's hope. Not for me. No. No. No. No. Not for me, man. I'm gonna make that one thing very very very clear, not for me. No. Well, the conversation, we went around the table, and, it kinda came out of my mouth. I didn't really think about it. I said, aren't you glad aren't you glad abortion wasn't in vogue when we were born? How many of us sitting at the table right now wouldn't be here? Now, of course, knowing that that all of my friends that were sitting at the table here didn't share my spiritual and, political sympathies.
Let's put it that way. Just got really quiet. It got really quiet. It was about as quiet as a turkey farm on Thanksgiving afternoon. I mean, really, what are they gonna say? You know? Would you like to be an abortion statistic? Not me. Thank you. No. Do you know what America's done? They've attacked the right to life. Just attack it, attack it, attack it. Every single way that they could possibly conceive, they attack it. And listen, I am thankful. I am very, very thankful that that Roe v Wade was overturned and the matter was sent back to the states to decide. I am very happy at that that my federal tax dollars are not going to pay for an abortion for somebody, Whether it's here or Rwanda or some other country somewhere around the world.
Very, very thankful for that. I would like to see more states outlawed. Get rid of it altogether. But take what we can get to start with, and we gotta keep working at it. Gotta keep plugging away at it. Keep working. Alright. That's not all. How about verse, how about verse 12? Honor thy father and thy mother, that thy days may be long upon the land which the lord thy god giveth thee. You know what that right is right there? That's that's my right to respect. That's my right to respect. I have a right, a god given right to respect.
Now again, don't you see how the attack is leveled? Your children are programmed in every conceivable way known. Children today are programmed that their parents know nothing. Their parents are idiots. Their parents are stupid. Don't listen to your parents. Listen to us. How many shows how many shows do you see on channels like Nickelodeon or other show other channels that are geared specifically toward children where they it portrays the adult, whether it's the father or the mother, more so the more so the father. More so the father in every show that I've seen like this, more so the father, but the parent figure, father or mother, is portrayed like an idiot, like they're stupid.
And the kid is the one that's logical, the kid is the one that's thoughtful, the kid is the one that's that that always has the answer. How many how many of you seen that? You know you have. Don't lie. Don't listen to your parents, listen to us. Wait a second. Hold on a minute here. You're robbing me and my kids the right of respect. The right of respect. And that right of respect is linked with a long life on the land that the Lord, thy God, has given you. Don't rob me of that respect. My parents deserved respect and honor. Deserved it.
The Bible declares it, and I believe it. You know, kids, if you any kids listening, even if you're my age and your parents are still alive, don't call your parents the old man, the old lady. Man, that that just that irritates me to no end. The old man, the old lady. And don't talk back to them either. Don't talk back to them either. By the time you turn 25 or 30, you know something, you're gonna be amazed. You're gonna be amazed at what they've learned. You're gonna be shocked at what they know. It's absolutely incredible. In my own life, my own experiences, I I miss my dad so much. You you you couldn't I I couldn't even describe to you.
I miss my dad so much. I would love to be able to pick up the phone right now, call my dad, and get his opinion on some things that I'm dealing with. Get some of that wisdom that that's accumulated over the over the years of his life. My dad's with the Lord right now. My dad went home to be with the Lord. It'll be five years. But my dad had wisdom, man, and I didn't take advantage of it in my youth. I've come to appreciate it more as I've gotten older, and would I wouldn't give for right now to have five minutes. Five minutes.
The right of respect. The right of respect. Alright? But that's not all. Look at me over in verse number eight. With me in verse eight. Like I obviously know I'm hitting these things really quick, you know, because there's there's really just so many of them, but I want you to think with me. Like I said before, I want you to think with me because, you know, you can see that, you know, because this is God's book, and the devil hates God's book, the attack has really been spiritual satanically inspired. It has been a satanically inspired attack.
Attack the book. Attack the book. Attack the book. And, you know, in in in attacking the book, leveling the criticisms when I say attack the book, you level the criticisms and the insults. But in in attacking the book, what he's doing is is he is he's attacking the very rights that god himself has given you. Folks, these things aren't burdens. They're not. They're not burdens. Thank God for them. Thank God that you have the right to purity. Thank God. You don't have to go to bed at night. I don't have to go to bed at night worrying about AIDS, or syphilis, or gonorrhea, or or whatever. Amen? Don't have to worry about those things. I've got a right to purity.
Alright? Verse eight. This is always a touchy one, but verse eight. Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days thou shalt thou labor and do all thy work, But the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God. In it, thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days, the Lord God made the heaven and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
Alright. Look. Again, this is one of those touchy ones. When I've talked about this in the past, I've I've, you know, I've I've gotten hammered on this one. Not hammered like I lost the argument, but just the attacks. Alright? Because you're not I'm not gonna lose the argument on this one. Okay? There are a few things that I I can concede that, you know, maybe I I could, but not this. I think I've made it abundantly clear from whether it's when I'm preaching, and I'm behind the pulpit, or since I've been teaching bible here, you know, behind the microphone or in or in Sunday schools or whatever, that we are not under obligation to keep the Sabbath day as presented in the 10 commandments.
Alright? We are not obligated. The apostle Paul made that very clear. The apostle Paul is who? The apostle to the church. And if you are saved, if you are a blood bought born again Christian, you are the church. You are part of the body of Christ. That is the church. The apostle Paul made it very clear. The Sabbath day was given as a sign. Alright? And you can go to Ezekiel chapter 20. Ezekiel chapter 20, you'll find that the Sabbath day was a sign to a very specific group of people. The Sabbath day was given as a sign in Ezekiel 20 to the Jewish people. It is for the Jew.
If you are a if you are a blood bought Bible believing Christian, you are not a Jew. Therefore, you are not obligated to keep the Sabbath day as presented in the 10 commandments. All the other commandments, by the way, just just point of fact, all the other commandments are reiterated somewhere in the Pauline epistles, and they are certainly active in the church age, the age in which you and I live, without a doubt whatsoever. None whatsoever. But I am not under an obligation from a moral sense from a moral sense to keep the Sabbath day holy. I am not a Jew, and I am not part of that kingdom.
We understand that. But do you know what this is? Purely from a a a Christian rights standpoint, This is my right to rest. Now years ago, what we decided to do here in America is was to open every business we possibly could on Sunday. One of the biggest problems that we have in getting folks to come to church is getting around their work schedule. Amen? I mean, so many people have to work now on Sundays, because there is every kind of business in the world is open on a Sunday. That's an attack on your right to rest and serve the lord as you choose.
Just attack it, attack it, attack it. Undermine it. Erode it away. Let's do away with these god given rights. Alright? How about verse seven? Thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain, for the lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Do you know what that is? You know what that that's my right to respect holiness. I have a god given right to respect holiness, and there are a lot of people out there that do not want you, or there are a lot of people out there who don't want to allow me to have that right. Do you know who the most discriminated people in America are?
You know who they are. Do you know who the real minority in America is? It's not black folks, it's not Latinos, it's it's not Asian folks. Color, ethnicity, race has nothing to do with it. Nothing whatsoever. I'm gonna tell you who the real minority is in America. It's folks that wanna keep this book first place in their life. It's people who wanna keep the book. People who wanna follow the book. That's the real minority. The real minority in America is someone who's trying to build their life on this book. You wanna talk about being assaulted? If you wanna talk about being a target, holy cow.
It's just like you're walking around with that big red and white target on your chest all the time. All the time. And and by the time I say that I have the right to respect holiness, you know that there's some idiot in a booth in a restaurant right next to me that's taking the name of the taking the name of the Lord in vain with every other breath. There's somebody on the television cursing God every time you turn around. They do it in the newspapers, magazines, online. You you you get these newsletters. You cannot get away from it wherever you turn. You know, I was having lunch with a with a friend of mine, in a restaurant, and, there was a couple. There was legitimately a couple, having a knockdown drag out fight.
A guy and a girl, verbal fisticuffs right outside the place, cursing and swearing as loud as they possibly could. And I I I seriously, you know, if you know me, you know me. You understand that this is me. I had this overwhelming compulsion to go out to my car and get a tire iron and just crack them both upside the head. You know why? Because they're robbing me of a right that god gave me, a right to respect holiness. You know, I don't consider thou shalt not take the name of the lord thy god in vain a burden. I don't consider that to be a great, big, heavy, thou shalt not that god put on me.
I consider it to be a right. It's a privilege. It's a joy. But then again, I guess it all depends on how you look at it. Right? Alright. Verse four. Verse four, thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them nor serve them, for I, the lord thy god, am a jealous god, visiting the iniquity of the fathers unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me, and showing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
So do you know what that is? You know what that is? That's my right to worship. That's it. Right there. It's my right to I have a right to worship. Now, of course, there's those that would like to take that right away from me. That would like to take that right away from you. Don't you worship in public schools? We better not find your kid praying over his lunch. Don't you dare worship on the courthouse lawn. Don't you dare set up that nativity scene on Christmas. You know? And then if you listen to the advocates of Hillary Clinton's crowd long enough, they're gonna end up telling you that you don't even have a have a right to have a worship service in your own house, because you'll be infringing on the rights of the children.
Never once considering that the child has a right to worship. I have a right to worship. Thank you. I have a right to it, and I'm gonna continue to exercise it. I'm gonna continue to exercise it regardless of what anybody says. I will continue to do it. Alright? Now the last one is god's right. The last one we're gonna look at is god's right. God listed nine rights for the Christian. Nine rights. The last one is God's. The last one is God's. Verse number two. I am the lord thy god, which hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Know what that is? That's God's right to be worshiped. That's God's right to be worshiped. Now, if there is a devil, and there is, and he's opposed to all of these rights that we just discussed, and he is, then you can jolly well rest assured that he will attempt to take the worship that rightfully belongs to God, and somehow concentrated upon himself because he is a thief and a liar. He has coveted in his heart what belongs to another. He has stolen to the best of his ability that which belongs to God, and that is the right to be worshiped.
That's God's right. That's God's right. And I'm telling you, he has that right, and I'm gonna give my allegiance to his right to be worshiped. You know, thank God though there Over the ages, there have been a few that have done exactly that. I was going through some some files on my computer, and, I found something, that was really interesting. And I I hadn't I I don't remember I don't remember exactly when I got it, but it came as an email attachment. I remember it. I remember saving it. I still remember when it was, but it's it's more than a couple of years ago, and I and I kinda forgot about this letter, and, or this file rather.
But when I read it when I read it, I I I said to myself that in some kind of a relationship, I wanted to share it with you because I I I want you to see how this has to do with God's right to be worshiped. So what it is, it's it's it I'm gonna have to read it to you because I can't remember it. I can't memorize it. It's too long. I'm getting old. My memory is like Swiss cheese. But this is this is a copy of a letter that was dictated by a British soldier to his wife in England on June 1775, a little bit after the the Battle of Breed's Hill or or Bunker Hill. So what I'm gonna do, I'm giving you the other side of the story.
The, the or or, you know, the other picture of it today. Because, you know, naturally when we think about the war of independence, you know, we like to think about the American struggle, the American fight, American independence, American freedom, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Alright? That is all well and good. But today, what I'm what I'm gonna do to and and we're gonna close it up right after this, is I wanna read you this letter from a British private to his wife. Okay? I quote, and by the way, they don't write letters like this anymore, anywhere. Quote, my dearest love, before these lines reach you, grim death will have swept me off the stage of life, and filthy reptiles will be be feeding on that form once so dear to you.
No more shall you repose in these arms. No more shall these eyes, now swimming in the shades of death, behold your lovely person or gaze, or gaze with delight on you or my dear infants. Yesterday, we had a bloody and obstinate fight in which we had a great number killed and wounded. I received one ball in my groin and another in my breast. The balls are the bullets. I am now so weak with the loss of blood that I can hardly dictate these few lines as the last tribute of my unchanging love to you. The surgeons inform me that three hours will be at the utmost that I can survive. Alas, too true was the dire presage which brewed into my mind that we should never meet again on this side of an awful eternity.
On our passage from England to America, I gave up I gave myself up to reading the Bible, it being the only book I was possessed of. The almighty parent of mankind was pleased to draw me. The almighty parent to mankind was pleased to draw my heart to him by the sweet attractions of his grace, and at the same time, to enlighten my mind. There was in our regimen a corporal whose name was Pierce, a pious man. I inquired after him. We soon contracted a strong friendship. He was pleased to explain to me the amazing love of God in giving his son, Jesus Christ, to bleed and die for mankind. He condescended to unfold to me the mystery of salvation by faith, the nature of the new birth, the great necessity of holiness of heart and life. In short, he became my spiritual father. And to him, under God, I owe all the good I am acquainted with.
Soon after we landed, God was pleased to speak peace to my soul. Oh, the bliss, the unutterable joy that I felt through the blood of the lamb. How I longed to tell the whole world what Jesus had done for me, but how did I long, yea, burn, to have you, my dear love, to taste and know the love of God in Christ Jesus? I would have given the world to have been with you, to have informed you of the pearl of great price. My dear love, as we shall never meet before this veil of tears, let me impose this last this dying obligation upon you. If I was ever dear to you, let me beg of you. Do not neglect the last advice of your departing husband, which which is that you may give yourself up to God, read the Bible and good books, and be often found among them who inquire after salvation, and the lord will guide you in this way.
And, oh, endeavor to bring up the dear little ones in the fear of God. Never fix your heart upon the vain and unsubstantial things of this world. Heaven and the love of God are the only things that demand our hearts or are worthy of engrossing them. I'm gonna continue in a second, but I I just I wanna insert this one thought right here. Thank God. Thank God for a British corporal on a ship headed for war in America named Pierce, who stood in the middle of a great many rogues and ruffians on his Christian bill of rights, on his right to to to purity, who stood on on on his right to respect, to reverence holiness. It it became obvious.
It became known. And then when there was an inquiring and hungry heart, he knew where to go. He knew where to go. He knew he knew the man who stood out from the rest. He knew the man who might possibly give him the answer concerning eternity and his soul. Thank God. Thank God for Corporal Pierce, whoever he is. Whoever he is, thank god for him. I'm pretty sure I can tell you I know where he is. The letter continues. You are yet young, nor can I wish you not to enter again into the marriage state when I am cold and in the dust? But let me give you some advice.
Marry with no one, however handsome or rich he may be, unless he fears and loves God. This is the only thing needful. During the four years we cohabitated together, many things occurred which I forbear mentioning. But as I have obtained pardon of god, my awful judge, for all that I have done, I most humbly beg you that you would pardon me, whereinsoever I have offended you, and I most heartily acquit you of anything you have done to disoblige me. I have been an a worthless husband to you, an undutiful son to my parents, a vile rebel against my god.
Oh, God, be merciful to me a sinner. I die in peace with all the world. I die in a full assurance of eternal glory. A few moments and my soul shall be ranged among the disembodied spirits in the general assembly of the church of the firstborn who are written in heaven. Oh, my love, I beg of you. I beseech you. I charge you to meet me in the realms of glory. Fly to the arms of the once bleeding Jesus. Cry to him day and night, and he will hear you and bless you. And you, my dear infants, though you have not the perfect knowledge of your worthless father, I beg you to meet me in the realms of bliss. The God who blessed Jacob and Joseph will bless you. Seek him and he will be found of you. Call upon him, and he will hear and bless you.
What has this world but sin and sorrow? Amen to that. The rich are oppressed with their wealth. The poor are groaning for the want of that which the others are burdened with. The men of power are afflicted with holding the reins and guiding the helm. The governed are oppressed with imaginary evils. The life of a soldier is blood and cruelty, and that of the sailor dangers and death. A city life is full of confusion and strife. A country life is loaded with toil and labor. But the greatest of all evils flows from our own sinful nature. Wherever we are, we may be happy.
We carry the key of bliss in our breast. The world itself never yet made anyone happy. God alone is the bliss of a reasonable soul, and he is everywhere present. And we have everywhere free access to him. Learn then, my dear children, when you grow up, to seek for permanent happiness in God through a crucified redeemer. My dear wife, should the spirits of the departed have any knowledge of things that are below, and at the same time, any intercourse with them though unseen, how shall I rejoice to be thy guardian angel, to attend you and smile, to see you combat sin, conquer the world, and subdue the flesh?
How shall I smile to meet thee on the bright frontiers of heaven? These hands shall weave for you with joy the wreath triumphant. I first will hail you. Welcome to our native mansions. I first shall guide your conquering feet to the celestial city and introduce you to the jubilant throng who thread who tread the streets of the new Jerusalem. I first will lead thee to the sacred throne of our God, where we will together bow, transported at the sublime seat of the ever adorable Jesus. Then then we will strike our melodious harps of gold in the most exalted strains of harmony and love. Then shall our love be consummated, refined, and eternalized.
The world recedes. It disappears. Heaven opens my eyes, my ears, with sound seraphic ring. Lend lend your wings. I mount. I fly. Oh, grave, where is thy victory? Oh, death, where is thy sing thy sting? Dear love, more would I say, but life ebbs out of pace. My senses cease to perform their office. Bright angels stand around the gory turf on which I lie, ready to escort me to the arms of my Jesus. Bending saints reveal my shining crown and beckon me away. Yay. Methinks my Jesus bids me come. I do. I do. Dear love. I do.
John Randon private his majesty's army. I guess he's met the captain of his salvation folks. Right? Destined to be part of a far, far greater army. One is gonna return someday and put into subjection those that would disdain the Christian's right, the Christian's bill of rights, the word of God. Oh, heavenly father, I just wanna thank you for the day. Lord, thank you. Thank you for giving us this day of rest. Thank you, Lord, for giving us the book that we have, where we can find comfort, we can find peace, we can find wisdom, and, God, we can find life.
Thank you, God. Thank you for this letter that we read. Thank you for this man named Pierce, whoever he is, whoever he may have been. We thank you for him. We thank you for men like him. We thank you for women like him, children like him, who stand on their convictions, who stand on the on the rights that you have outlined for us, these Christian bill of rights. God, thank you for them. And father, if there's any listening today that doesn't know Jesus Christ as their savior, father, I just ask you right now that you would save them, you would draw them into yourself, they would have a they would develop a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ as their only savior, And that they would be obedient to the scripture and call upon the name of the Lord and be saved. Father, we thank you for it. We ask your blessings on the rest of the day. Lord, we thank you for our president. We thank you, lord, that you have hedged him about. You have protected him from harm. And, father, I pray that you continue to do that. I pray for our country.
Lord, I pray that you would give those that are have been elected to represent us in the general government. God, we pray that you would give them wisdom and discernment as they work on things that affect each one of us, and that they would heed the voice of the people, and more importantly, the voice of God. Father, we pray for those in the state house. Pray for those that are in positions of leadership in our communities. God, we ask your blessings upon them. We know that these offices are all appointed by you and that you raise kings and you set kings down. And, God, we pray for them. We pray that you would give them wisdom and discernment as well as they make the decisions that ultimately affect each and every one of us. Father, we thank you. We ask your blessings on the remainder of today and the week going forward in Jesus' name.
Amen. Alright, folks. Well, the Christian's bill of rights. Hope you found that to be somewhat informative. I hope that, it was a blessing to you, and I hope that you learned something from it. That's more important. And, you need to get into your bible if you haven't been. Alright. Now, tomorrow tomorrow show we got, we have two guests. So, we're not gonna really get too much into the news unless unless we decide to do a third hour, which I don't know if we're going to or not. We shall see how that all progresses. And then, we got a packed week. We got a packed week, so we're not gonna do a show on Friday in in observance of Independence Day, but we will have our Saturday spotlight show, and we will also be back doing our Sunday bible study show, on the following Sunday. And, I think we're probably gonna stick with the unless unless something changes along the way, we're probably gonna end up sticking with the, the whole, like, biblical pop, you know, politics in the bible kind of stuff on on the week on on the on the Sunday show. So we'll see how all that plays out during the course of the week, you know. Because, you know, don't think I don't just randomly pull these things out of a hat, you know. I I I do pray about it, and I do ask the Lord for guidance on it to let me know where he wants me to go with this stuff, and and, you know, last week was politics in the bible, tonight another politics in the bible, and since the show during the week is a lot of politics, it might be another politics in the bible type show next week. I don't know. I've been kinda contemplating doing a, doing a study on American history.
So I might do something like that, you know, American history in the bible. We'll see. We'll see how it all pans out as the days and weeks or the days and weeks, the days progress. Alright folks, well, with all of that mess said, let's, let's do our usual. Give our shout outs to our executive producers, Wayne and Rosanna Rankin, our executive producer, Carolina Jimenez, our producer anonymous Angela, and, and to everyone else who is, considering or contemplating donations to the show, we really do thank you and appreciate that. Again, what you can do is if you wanna really help us out with the donation, just head over to our website, joeroos.com, joeroos.com.
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Introduction to Bible Study Sunday
Supreme Court Ruling and Political Wins
Historical Insight and Independence Day Reflection
The Christian's Bill of Rights
Right to Protect and Private Property
Right to Purity and Societal Challenges
Right to Rest and Worship
God's Right to Be Worshiped
A Soldier's Letter and Reflection on Faith
Closing Prayers and Announcements
