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The Kirk Cameron Show

Your Conscience is your Property

The Kirk Cameron Show

Kirk Cameron

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality:christianity

4.9776 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

The human conscience stands as a profound gift bestowed upon us by the Divine Creator. It is a uniquely sacred endowment that separates humanity from all other terrestrial beings. Our ability to perceive moral truth, to wrestle with ethical quandaries, and to be guided by an innate sense of right and wrong - this is the hallmark of our spiritual essence. The conscience represents one of the deepest wellsprings of our personal sovereignty and individuality. To honor this inner voice is to safeguard a liberty as precious as any constitutionally enshrined right. For the conscience belongs solely to each of us - it is our most intimate and inviolable form of property. To learn more, visit kirkcameron.com  To learn more about the sponsor of today’s show and what our family currently uses for our healthcare check out Christian Healthcare Ministries by visiting - https://hubs.ly/Q02vWQGy0 Editing and production services provided by thepodcastupload.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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.

0:15.8

This is the American Campfire Revival with Cook Cameron.

0:23.8

Well, here's what I wanted to talk with you about tonight.

0:28.2

Let's see. We've been looking into the American Covenant book for quite a while now,

0:35.0

and we're still coming to the end of Chapter 6, and I'm on page 144 right now,

0:40.7

if you want to follow along in the American Covenant book. And we're talking about conscience.

0:50.2

Your conscience is a gift that God has given to you. And it's something that is different than every

0:56.9

other creature on the planet. A fish doesn't have a conscience. A duck and a dog doesn't have a

1:02.6

conscience. You know, if a dog steals a bone and goes and buries it for itself, I doubt it's running

1:07.7

around with a guilty conscience thinking, you know, I really shouldn't have done that. And our founding fathers talked a lot about life, liberty, and property. And they

1:16.5

read the writings of an English philosopher named John Locke. John Locke, they referred to as the

1:22.1

great Mr. Locke. His thinking was so clear and it was so thoroughly saturated in biblical wisdom.

1:29.9

And the founding fathers, including Thomas Jefferson and Madison and others, were thoroughly

1:35.5

versed in the writings of Locke.

1:38.1

And they conceptualized property as something so much more than just external things like stuff I own,

1:47.8

property, money, land, and a house. They understood property to also include the internal things.

1:56.0

In fact, the internal things were more important than the external things because it was it was the life of a man

2:02.7

it was the the conscience and the creativity of a woman that would manifest itself in outward things

2:11.4

that you make and that outward property is a result of the inward, and so they saw to it to guard the inner

2:18.6

property just as much, if not more, and regard it as sacred. And I'm going to read to you a little bit

2:25.5

here from Madison. James Madison, they called the Father of the Constitution. He said this. He said, in one sense,

2:36.1

a man's land or merchandise or money is his property, but in another sense, a man has his

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