Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's The Wall Builder Show, where we're taking on the hot topics of the day.

From a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective, I'm Rick Green America's Constitution Coach here with David Barton and Tim Barton.

And we're going to key in on Tim Barton's presentation about the American

Revolution that he gave just a week or two ago at the pro-family legislators conference. We got the

first part of it yesterday. Going to get the second part today. Let's jump right in.

Why is our government larger now than it's ever been in the history of our nation? Well,

we're more secular now. And either there's a really big God or there's a really

big government. You don't have both because either my God shall supply all my needs or I look to the

government to supply my needs. I mean, this is a big deal, right? But this is why the more secular

we become, the bigger government grows and a secular government will never be a limited government

because they're going to try to supply and provide and do everything and they're not going to do it well. But let me go back to

the declaration because they didn't just lay out these three thoughts in that second paragraph.

In the concluding thoughts, they also said something quite significant. They said,

and for the support of this declaration with a firm reliance on the protection of vine providence,

we mutually pledged to each other our lives,

our fortunes, and our sacred honors. They said, we are giving everything we have for the cause of

liberty. And historians have documented, they paid an incredible price for it. In fact, one historian

back in the mid-1900s, when he wrote about this, here's what he acknowledged about it. He said,

nine signers died of wounds or hardships during the Revolutionary War. Five were captured or imprisoned. In some cases,

with brutal treatment, the wives, sons, and daughters of others were killed, jailed,

mistreated, persecuted, or left penniless. One was driven from his wife's deathbed and lost all

his children. The house of 12 signers were burned to the ground. 17 lost everything they

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