Welcome to the intersection of Faith in the Culture. This is Well Builders Live, where we're talking about today's hottest topics on policy and faith in the culture. Always from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective, especially on the constitutional side today, foundations of freedom Thursday.

It's a chance for us to dive into those founding principles, and we love it when you pick the topics. So please send in your questions to us radio at wallbuilders.com. That's radio at wallbuilders.com. It might be a question about the Constitution itself and the original intent of the founding fathers might be about the founding fathers. It could be about a policy of today and how to look at that from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective. But send those questions in. We'd love to hear from you, and we're going to get to as many of them as we possibly can today. We're here with you.

David Barton, he's America's premier historian, and our founder here at Wall Builders, Tim Barton's with us, National Speaker and Pastor, and President of Wall Builders. And my name is Rick Green. I'm a former Texas legislator. The two websites you can find out more about us at are wallbuilders live.com and wallbuilders.com. And at either of those websites, we would really appreciate it if you consider us for an gift. It helps us to continue this good word and actually spread the program. Get it in front of more people. So the more people we get this education in front of, the more people we can inspire to be a part of the solution

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today. And our first one is coming from Jeremy. He said, hello, wallbuilders for the US Senate. After the recent election, the seats show us having 49 Republicans, 49 Democrats and two Independents. But the media and the Democrats claim they control the Senate 51 to 49. Why is this? Thank you, Jeremy from Texas. Jeremy, great question. You have challenged us to not just do history, Constitution and Bible, but we have to do math. We got to do math to guys. I don't know. Yeah.

Well, yeah, math, too. I guess it's part of it. There's a, there's some math in the Constitution since you have to figure out how many seats and how many states. So I guess it's right with it. So that's right. And really the media gets it right. There are 51 Democrats. Technically, there are two Independents, but they caucus with the Democrats, which means they meet with them to make plans with them. They do the committee work with them, etc. Now cinema is probably a little less with them than King is. And you got a, you got a senator from Maine.

And the senator from Arizona and Arizona, she was a, a Democrat and kind of as a protest. She said, I'm not Democratic more. I'm going independent. That can be good for her back home. Quite frankly, but it's like the guy from, from Maine, try to find and voting with Republicans on anything.

I mean, he claims to be independent. He gets elected as an independent. But if you look at his voting record and line it up with Democrats or Republicans, it's going to be about 98% Democrat, maybe 2% Republican somewhere in that vicinity.

The cinema is probably going to be more like 87, 88% Democrat and maybe 10, 12% Republican. So both of them caucus on the Democrat side. So essentially, there are 51 Democrats, because they're not going to vote for Republican Speaker like McConnell.

They're going to go with Schumer. And when it comes to those kind of things, that's why they call them Democrats.

Yeah. So it'll probably, you know, stay that way, 51, 49 over the over the next two years. And unfortunately, it makes it even easier for the Democrats and the Senate than the last, the last couple of years. But hopefully the House can muck up the works of the leftist that have been trying to run roughshod over the country and dramatically change the nation.

All right. Next question is going to come from the great state of Texas out of Arlington, John Sins, this dear wallbillars after the recent midterm elections. I was admittedly a little discouraged until I tuned into the wallbillars podcast. I so appreciate the positive outlook, which emanates from your show, even when the circumstances seem negative.

That said, I recently heard a pastor who my admirer say that he believes we have seen the last free and fair elections in the United States. I went back to feeling a little discouraged about the future of our country. I've got three little boys ages four, two and almost four months. And I'm greatly concerned about the country. I'll be passing on to them.

Ultimately, I know our hope is not in this world. And I have faith that God will take care of my children, no matter what happens to the US. But it also saddens me to think that the best days of our country could be behind us.

My question is this, what reasons do we have to hope that our country will turn itself around and continue to be as Abraham Lincoln said the last best hope of earth. God bless from John in Arlington. If first of all, John God bless you for those three boys. And you are raising up the remnant brother. You're raising up warriors for Christ and warriors for Liberty. And don't forget that lots. You can do to be a part of the solution.

So David Tim, I mean, you know, this is really what we're all about is having that biblical world view. Even when things are negative, you know, even if it does look like we're losing a particular fight, but I actually see a lot of hope out there as well. And I'm not, you know, being Paul the Anna here. I'm not just waving the flag and hoping there's not anything bad. We know there's a lot of destruction in the country. We've poured a lot of poison and garbage into the culture. That's going to have negative effects. But we do stay optimistic around here because, you know, we've got that John Quincy Adams mentality.

Yeah. And Rick, first of all, let me point out, I'm not sure how long you'll be able to use the poly Anna expression that you're not just poly Anna, because I already think there's probably a lot of listeners who are not sure who poly Anna is.

Polly, who is possible, right, possible, maybe audience is still familiar with the old Disney poly Anna, but yeah, as you mentioned, John Quincy Adams is a great example of our philosophy that we're John Quincy Adams, as he was fighting against slavery in the US House, he's a leader of the anti slavery movement, and he's not seeing the success, the results that he would hope for in that position.

And when that reporter came to him one day and said, Mr. Adams, how do you stay motivated when you haven't been successful when there's not a practical benefit from all the labor and effort you've been putting in, and his response was based on his life motto, he wrote that his life motto was the duty as ours, results or gods, what he tells reporters, essentially, it's only my job to do the right thing. It's up to God, what happens after that. And this is our position that we are going to consistently take. It's a position similar to

Caleb and Joshua from the Bible, where they were two of the leaders chosen when the 12 tribes were going to go take the promised land of Moses, hey, let's choose a leader from each of 12 tribes, we'll send them in, spy out the land, come back and give us a report. It was only Joshua and Caleb, they came back and said, man, let's go take this land, because everybody else, look at the giants, it's too big, it's too challenging, it's too hard.

And Joshua and Caleb, even acknowledged, yes, there are giants, but if God has called us to do this, we should go at once and let us take the land God has given us.

And our position is always going to be the Joshua's and Caleb's that there's certainly we don't want to be ignorant and pretend like there's not giants in the lands. Yes, there's absolutely giants in the land, but there's no giant greater than the God that we serve.

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