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🗓️ 4 July 2025
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0:00.0 | Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. Happy Fourth of July. |
0:08.3 | And the title of our post today is Independence Forever. |
0:15.5 | One can only imagine the range of emotions present in Independence Hall when the Declaration of Independence |
0:23.8 | was signed. In the classic book, The Light, and the Glory, Peter Marshall and David |
0:31.6 | Manuel offer the following account. Quote, the magnitude of what they had done began to weigh upon them. |
0:41.1 | They realized that they and their countrymen were no longer Englishmen, but citizens of a fledgling nation |
0:49.5 | a few minutes old. Many stared out the window. |
0:55.5 | Some wept openly. |
0:58.6 | Some, like Witherspoon, bowed their heads and closed their eyes in prayer. |
1:05.4 | John Hancock broke the silence, saying, gentlemen, the price on my head has just been doubled. A wry, chuckle |
1:16.9 | followed, and then Samuel Adams rose, he said, we have this day restored the sovereign, |
1:26.8 | to whom alone men ought to be obedient. He reigns in heaven, |
1:32.8 | and from the rising to the setting sun, may his kingdom come. End quote. It is ridiculous to suggest that these founders did not believe God was involved in |
1:49.7 | this endeavor. John Quincy Adams, son of John and Abigail Adams, and sixth president of the |
1:58.6 | United States, made the profound statement on the 45th anniversary of the |
2:05.5 | signing, quote, the highest glory of the American Revolution was this. It connected in one |
2:15.9 | indesoluble bond bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity. |
2:25.8 | Wow. |
2:27.9 | Adam's belief in this indesoluble bond and God's destiny for America, taking the gospel of the kingdom |
2:37.6 | to the ends of the earth, never waned. On America's 61st birthday, July 4, 1837, he made the following |
2:48.6 | staggering declaration, connecting the birth of our nation to the birth of Jesus Christ. |
2:57.2 | Quote, he said, quote, why is it that next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, |
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