My daughter was married recently and I remember that line in the ceremony where the

minister says if like if anyone has reason you know to protest in the union of this man and his wife.

Let him speak now or forever hold his peace.

Now these wedding ceremonies really have their Old Testament and their scriptural basis.

I didn't realize the extent to which that's true.

You know, you come down the aisle, right down the middle, and the congregation is sitting on the

right and on the left.

Well, it's symbolic of the

Abraham a covenant where Abraham came and walked up and down in the middle of the two

parts of a sacrifice and so there's a lot of symbolism but this line about

speak now or forever hold your peace actually comes from the Old

Testament. Where if a father hears a daughter making a vow regarding something and he doesn't speak up then the vow shall be held.

Why?

Because your silence is your consent.

And then Bill Federer, this great powerful reformer, educator, teacher that is part of the courage to our faculty we have, he's like a walking

Hillsdale College curriculum, this guy. He lays it down, boom, that

you're being silent in the eyes of God and scripture when you see certain things happening in your nation

is a form of your tacit agreement, approval, and endorsement because your silence is consent.

That's one of five truth bombs

that exploded over the audience

when Bill Federal shared

and more than I decided I was going to give you the full

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