Evaluating Presidential Impact: From Founding Fathers to Modern-Day Leaders
The WallBuilders Show
Tim Barton, David Barton & Rick Green
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🗓️ 7 March 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | President Thomas Jefferson said, I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves. |
| 0:15.1 | And if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, |
| 0:20.4 | the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education. |
| 0:25.4 | This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. |
| 0:29.4 | This is Wall Builders, the intersection of faith and culture. This is the place where we take on all the hot topics of the day, but we do that looking at them through a biblical lens. In other words, what's the Bible say about how to treat our neighbor? That's all politics is is how do you treat your neighbor in all |
| 0:43.4 | these different ways what can we learn from history about how to treat your |
| 0:47.0 | neighbor what works what doesn't work and then of course how do we do that |
| 0:49.5 | properly in our country in a constitutional republic. |
| 0:52.5 | How does our constitution work, how does our system work as a constitutional republic, |
| 0:56.2 | and how do we live that out as citizens? |
| 0:58.0 | That's what we're all about here at Walbolders and we appreciate you being a part of it by listening |
| 1:01.3 | today. |
| 1:02.3 | If you're curious about the name |
| 1:02.8 | wall builders it comes from the scripture in Nehemiah that says a rise and |
| 1:05.6 | rebuild the walls that we may no longer be a reproach. If you think about it |
| 1:09.8 | back then the walls were the strength of the nation. If you let the walls fall down, if you had a |
| 1:14.5 | weak system, then you were overrun. You couldn't survive. And it's the same way today in terms |
| 1:19.5 | of the foundational principles. You let those fall apart. You get cracks in the foundation and ultimately it |
| 1:24.1 | crumbles. That's what happened in America. We're rebuilding the walls though just like |
| 1:28.1 | in the book of Nehemiah because we're rebuilding the foundations. That's why |
| 1:31.9 | David Barton started wall builders all those years ago. That's why David Barton started Wall Builders |
| 1:33.3 | all those years ago, and that's why you've seen |
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