With a country divided, the Republican risk and morality being redefined, it's time to get 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.

We've been talking about mandates from heaven, and that's in contrast from mandates from hell,

of course. And I want to ask you a question, why have we been receiving so many mandates

from the top? Well, the promise is that we're going to be safer. The promise is that mandates are good for us. They'll help us to rebuild fundamentally change our nation into a different type of nation. The narrative is that what we've done in the past has not worked, and so therefore we need to

build back and make it better, and the mandates will help us get there by sort of circumnavigating

the people and just initiating orders and commands that must be obeyed and the promise is blessing.

Well, our pilgrim forefathers and foremothers understood once they got a hold of the Bible

that there were some competing mandates against the mandates of King James.

And they discovered in the Bible that God had given mandates.

And these were mandates from the most kind and loving and just and powerful being in the universe, and that is God.

And those mandates, those blessings, and those covenants from heaven were inextricably bound

to the promise of blessing, because that is

the nature of God to produce freedom and life and light to those who are in relationship with him.

And so once they understood that, they wanted to leave the nation that was in bondage due to mandates from the king, who had set himself up as God.

I mean, they had mandated, the king had mandated their children's education.

The parents couldn't decide.

The king did.

The king had mandated their health care.

He mandated what they, what they could put in their bodies and not put in their bodies, whether they would get health care or not, and the quality of their health care. He had mandated their individual rights. He had mandated their family rights, mandated their ability to provide for their family through business and hard work,

mandated how much they could or couldn't enjoy that and how much they'd have to bless their

neighbors with and provide for a future of their family. They had their travel ability mandated,

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