It is good to be back with you again and this is 4th of July weekend and this is another

world's record that we sit tomorrow.

229 years under the same piece of paper.

No nation's ever done that. There's 182 nations in the

United, in the world right now, 182 nations to the UN. We are the only nation that does not have

a revolution every 20 or 30 or 50 years.

And that's a blessing we often take for granted.

So this is a time of celebration.

It's been a time of celebration since the very beginning.

And you know it used to be back in the old days we even celebrated the 4th of July with

sermons. This is a sermon from 211 years ago. It's from 1794 but we had sermons on the 4th of July.

Now, that seems to be an appropriate way

to celebrate it at least then.

But today, as Pastor Brady said,

we have so much of separation of church and state stuff

that it's kind of told us that, well, you know, government's a secular institution, and that's kind of told us that well you know government's a secular institution

and that's why it's always remained as well as it has is because it's been secular

and you religious people really don't need to be involved in it and we don't need to see

your 10 Commandments out.

And you know, this kind of stuff that goes on all the time.

So within that framework, is that the intent?

Is that what was designed?

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