Welcome. It is good to be with you tonight. I'm really glad that you all have come back out for the third

installment. Tonight we're going to start by reviewing the biblical principles that we've identified

as being key to the constitutional provisions that we've studied. So the first of five that we've identified so far

is that we're created in the image of God and therefore our rights are inalienable. God gives

them to this. Man can't take them away. Secondly, all people are sinners. Therefore, the founders

created in the Constitution. a system of enumerated

means listed powers and you only have that power that's listed, and limited powers, checks

and balances, federalism, all those things are designed so that no person would have too much

power. Third principle is God has exclusive jurisdiction,

I would add, over the hearts, souls, and minds of men. Therefore, government may not legitimately

intrude in our exercise of religion or other First Amendment freedoms. And that's the part we're

going to study tonight, is the other First Amendment freedoms. Four is true Christianity comes from a voluntary response to the claims of Jesus.

And coercion to try to seek somebody to force him to become a Christian is incompatible, first,

with our faith, and it's also incompatible with our freedom.

Fifth, the Bible is the final standard for judging religious truth, not the bishops working

through civil government, as the practice was in the Church of England in England during

the period of time of the American colonies. So those are the five principles that we've

studied so far. That's where we are. Good. The idea that the Bible is the highest law

gave rise to the very idea of a written constitution as the highest law of the land. Those things

work in parallel. Now, you probably remember from your study of colonial America that Britain

didn't have a written constitution. And that's still true today. Almost 20 years ago, I took four students from Patrick Henry College to engage

in a moot court competition against Oxford University. It was a head-to-head competition between

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