with a country divided the republic at risk and morality being redefined it's time to gather around the

campfire get back to basics and spark the revival that this country so desperately needs

this is the american campfire Revival with Cook Cameron.

I want us to talk a little bit more about this whole idea of power.

People love power. People do crazy things in order to gain power. Power often feels good when you have it, and when you have it,

most people want more of it. And the pilgrims, we talked about last night and the night before,

they understood what it was like to be on the receiving end of bad church power and bad king power. So you have the civil government king and the government can exercise bad power and a church can actually be very powerfully controlling in the

lives of people as well. But civil government is actually designed by God to be good, and so is church designed to be good.

And we as the family of faith want to understand the roles that they play in God's view of the

world so that we can have earth reflecting heaven and its goodness and its rightness. That was Jesus's prayer. Lord, may your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Heaven's the pattern for earth. And so I want to talk about that. So, as I said, we're going through the American Covenant, the untold story, and the pilgrims got abused by

big church religion because it was so powerful it was dictating to all the people.

I love this quote.

I believe it's by George Washington.

I believe it was him who said that government is power.

If you boil down what is government, it's ultimately power,

it's force, right? It's the ones who make the laws. It's the ones who judge the people of whether

or not you're innocent or guilty of breaking that law, and then you have those who enforce the law

and punish lawbreakers. Government ultimately is force, ultimately is power. And I believe

George Washington also said that government is like

fire. It makes a good servant, but a terrible master. Think about that. That's a great question.

You should memorize that one. Government is like fire. Makes a good servant, but a terrible master if this fire is contained and it is my servant

it's serving me i can roast marshmallows over it i can warm myself uh when i'm cold i can cook my food

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