Speaker 1: 0:02

Hey folks, this is Jesse Cope, back with another episode of the American Soul Podcast. Hope y'all are doing well, wherever y'all are and whatever part of the day you're in. I sure do appreciate y'all joining me, giving me a little bit of your time, energy, a little piece of your day. Hope it gives you something to look forward to with somebody else Spouse, parents, children, friends, co -workers. Hopefully it gives us some extra tools for our toolbox and hopefully it helps our country turn back to God and Jesus Christ, even if just a little bit. For those of y'all that continue to spread the word about the podcast, to tell others about it, thank you so much. Y'all help it to grow more than any kind of advertising ever could. For those of y'all that give me encouragement, either in person or online, thank y'all so much. And for those of y'all that send your prayers again, either in person or online or whatever form they are, thank you Definitely. Definitely need the prayers, for sure, and I appreciate the encouragement. Definitely need it too, sometimes. Thank y'all so much.

Speaker 1: 1:45

Not a lot on the homestead Chickens little chicks which are turning into bigger chicks have managed to survive again. Got a little work done in the yard, in the garden, finally in the yard, in the garden, finally, thanks to stealing my father's lawnmower for a little bit. I think that's about it, father. Thank you for today. Thank you for you, father, and your Son, jesus Christ, and your Holy Spirit. Thank you for your love, mercy and grace, for your forgiveness of our sins through the merit of your Son, jesus Christ alone. Thank you for the time to record this podcast and the people that listen to it. Be with them and their families. Guide us, lord. Bless us, surround us with your angels, give us assurance, help us to trust you no matter what. Help us to know that we can trust you no matter what, even when we feel like everything is against us, even when we feel like everything is against us, even when we feel like evil is winning. Help us to help those around us who don't know you. Help us to pull them back from the edge of the cliff to be a shoulder that they can lean on, to keep from stumbling, to draw them to you, father and your Son, jesus Christ. Be with our nation, be with all our nations. Guide us back to you and your Son, and guide my words here, father, please. In your Son's name, we pray Amen. Have you made time for God today? Have you carved out a little piece of your day, even if just a few minutes, to give to God and to His Son? Have you read the Bible? Have you prayed? Have have you made that your top priority?

Speaker 1: 4:26

Thinking about this the other day, how many of us particularly those of us that go to church, but those of us that claim Christ right, what did Christ say? The very most important top priority was Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your might. And I know we're human, I know that's the excuse or the justification I'm about to get. I give it often myself. I'm not Jesus, I'm human. But how many of us really do that on a day-to-day basis? How many of us even have that as our goal on a day-to-day basis? When we get up and that's our first thought, is that first command? You know, jesus Christ, the son of God, tells us that that's the number one priority. How many of us actually listen to him and at least strive to do that each day? Even I, I'm ashamed to admit even the number of days where that that doesn't even cross my mind, or if it does, it's just, it's very quickly.

Speaker 1: 5:55

And then the second one right, love your neighbors yourself. Well, for those of us that are married, have we made time for our spouse? Do they know that they're our second priority after only God? And I don't expound on that particular point. Well, maybe I do, but I thought of a very tactile that's not the word I'm looking for, but a textbook example of this. If we tell our spouse, right, and a lot of us probably don't even tell our spouse, which is damning in and of itself but if we tell our spouse hey, man, you're the love of my life, you're the most important thing in my whole world, except for God and Jesus Christ. You're so important to me, I love you so much. You know, go through all of this, right.

Speaker 1: 6:54

And then our spouse wants something, wants to do something. They want our time, they want to go for a walk, hold hands, have sex. They want to go for a walk, hold hands, have sex, sit and talk, go on a date, whatever it is. But I'm really talking about the day-to-day stuff, right? The stuff you can do each day, right? So maybe you don't go on a date each day, but holding hands, walking, having sex, talking, listening, all of that stuff you can do on a day-to-day basis, right, bake them a cake, cook them dinner, do the dishes vacuum, whatever it is. But we moan and complain about that, or we don't even do it. I'm not sure which is worse doing it with a bad attitude or not doing it at all.

Speaker 1: 7:44

But then at 4.30 in the morning, we get up to work out because, man, it's important, I got to get up and work out, I got to stay in shape. I don't want to turn into a fat, lazy blob. Or we stay up because our football team is playing Friday night or Saturday night or Sunday night or Monday night or Thursday night, whatever it is, or we just stay up for any team, right. Or how many of us in the last two weeks have gotten up early to watch an event in the Olympics that we really wanted to watch no-transcript but we tell our spouse we don't have time and energy for them? Or how many of us tell our spouse that, man, we're just too tired, it's too much of a burden to love you each day, but at night we sit there and scroll our phone for an hour sitting on the couch, or we take that remote control and we don't have time for our spouse. But, man, I got to get up early to watch the news, or I'm going to stay up late after the kids go to bed so I can watch this TV series that I really want to or this movie. Why would our spouse believe us? Why should they? So I think I mentioned this. We've finished up that series on Justice Brewer. If you haven't listened to that, if you're just joining the podcast, highly recommend go back and listen to that last series about the last five or six podcasts talking about the Holy Trinity Supreme Court case from the end of the 19th century. Justice Brewer lays out again and again and again and again why we're a Christian nation Supreme Court Justice. A lot better off listening to him and then some of the talking heads today.

Speaker 1: 10:06

But I think I mentioned some of the stuff going on in Britain and if you haven't been paying attention you need to take a look. You don't have to take a long look, you'll get the gist pretty quickly. But there are a number of people being arrested and even sentenced to jail time for what they've said or posted online. That appears hurtful and really what it is is. It depends on what group you're being hurtful to right, you can say anything you want about Christians, but if you say something about Muslims or the LGBTQ group right you're going to get tossed in jail. Lgbtq group right You're going to get tossed in jail. And there's actually a police chief of some town little or big, I don't know that has threatened to extradite citizens from the US who make harmful quote-unquote, harmful comments online, which is it's funny, right, because it's laughable. But I've said this for a number of years, folks, really since the podcast started and, in my own personal life, even before that.

Speaker 1: 11:27

But we have a fight coming, likely a third civil war in the United States, and Britain looks like they're knocking on the door of their own civil war. It's either that the only other. There's two choices. One would be great, and that would be a miracle by God and father. If you're listening right now, we sure could use that if you're willing. But barring that, the other choice is slavery under the tyranny of the left, and in the UK they're really getting a helping hand from Islam along the way, and we would too, here in the United States, for sure, no doubt. Islam would definitely go along with the tyranny of the left. You can see that in some of the connections during World War II between the Nazis and the Muslim countries in the Middle East. They don't necessarily like each other, folks I'm not saying that, don't misunderstand but they both view each other as useful tools, and this shadow of Nazi Germany, stalinist Russia, maoist China from the 20th century is stretching into the UK. You can see it in real time right now, with these arrests being made because people said something that was viewed as offensive, and so I haven't spent a lot of time in this Winston Churchill biography in the last few months, and we may go back and do a little bit If you haven't been around the podcast before.

Speaker 1: 13:11

There's a trilogy that we talk about and really the second book in that trilogy every once in a while. It's a biography by William Manchester, published by Little Brown, and it's titled Alone and it covers Churchill's life from 1932 to 1940. And the similarities are eerie and I'm just going to read a few quotes out of this today. But man, it's scary stuff. Well, you'll see, I'm looking for the. There's quite a few here that I want to read. There's quite a few here that I want to read, but I'm looking for one in particular and I don't know if I'm going to be able to find it now that I want it. That's always the way it works. I marked all of these. I promise I did. Ah, I got it. So this is a section out of this biography. If you've got it, it's off of page 371.

Speaker 1: 14:29

And this is kind of an intermix of the author of Manchester's words with Churchill's comments. There were, he said, unexplored options. Unfortunately, none were encouraging. But what he found unendurable was quote the sense of our country falling into the power, into the orbit and influence of Nazi Germany and of our existence becoming dependent upon their goodwill or pleasure. In a very few years, perhaps in a very few months, we shall be confronted with demands which may affect the surrender of territory or the surrender of liberty. Affect the surrender of territory or the surrender of liberty? A quote policy of submission end quote would entail restrictions upon freedom of speech and the press. Indeed, I hear it said sometimes now that we cannot allow the Nazi system of dictatorship to be criticized by ordinary common English politicians. And I mean, that's exactly what you see today in Britain, and you really are starting to see it in the US as well. It's just more in your face. Out of the UK, the left brings censorship folks, and you need to remember every time we talk about any of this stuff it goes back to rejection of God and Jesus Christ. The farther you get away from God and Jesus Christ, the farther we get away from liberty Every single time. But you know they were dealing with the same stuff and this is from the late 30irties when Churchill made these comments.

Speaker 1: 16:21

I won't bore you with too much history here, some of y'all might be interested. But a very small group of leaders between France and great Britain and Germany. They made an agreement called the Munich I think it was a Munich agreement and basically they they gave Czechoslovakia away to Germany right, which wasn't their country to give to begin with, but they were the powers at the time. And this, these next couple of comments, are kind of in the aftermath of that. This is from Churchill. What are they made of?

Speaker 1: 17:04

The day is not far off when it won't be signatures we'll have to give, but lives, the lives of millions. Can we survive? Do we deserve to do so when there's no courage anywhere? You know, we've given again and again and again over the past century, people that consider themselves conservatives, patriots, christians, trying to appease the left in America, feminism, separation of church and state, roe v Wade, lgbtq lifestyles, illegal immigration, dei, critical race theory, identity politics, two income families, identity politics, two income families, co-ed military units the list is pretty lengthy of moral ground that we've given away to try and appease the left, and it's never stopped them. It's cost tens of millions of lives via abortion, the destruction of marriages and families across the nation because of leftist godless policies, and still we give hoping at some point it'll be enough. It won't folks. It'll never be enough. It won't folks. It'll never be enough. The left will never stop just like Nazi Germany didn't, until force to Coming out.

Speaker 1: 18:50

Just after they saw the terms of this agreement, there was a young Tory MP, richard Law was with Churchill and Churchill they walked past this restaurant and all these people were jumping and excited and celebrating. This was well into the night, early morning hours maybe, after this agreement had been signed, and they were really hopeful that it was going to bring peace and Chamberlain had told them it was going to bring peace. And Chamberlain had told him it was going to bring peace. And you know they were still scarred from World War I and the trenches and how many young men they lost there, and so they were just desperate for peace. And Churchill's comment was those poor people, they little know what they will have to face. And I feel like that's a pretty good comment on patriots, people that consider themselves patriots.

Speaker 1: 19:51

Again, we have been so desperate to get back to quote, unquote, normal for so long in America. You hear people talk about that, you heard it during COVID, you hear it constantly and so many people, by the way they act, that's what they want to get back to, that's what they hope, that if Trump can win in November, we'll just we'll get back to normal. And that comment by Churchill those poor people, little do they know what it's going to cost them. You can't have peace with the left folks. There's no normal situation in which you can peacefully coexist in America with people that completely reject God and despise Christ. I'm going to go over just a little bit here and I'm sorry, that's just not an option.

Speaker 1: 20:52

It's like CS Lewis and so many others have said about Jesus Christ he was either demented. He was either a fool right Truly, I mean like insane or he was a demon from the very pit of hell, or he really was who he claimed to be the Son of God Right. You have to make one of those three choices. And Lewis and others like him have said good teacher, which is what a lot of people try and make Jesus out to be. That wasn't one of the options. It's never been an option. We've tried to make it an option, but it's not. That's the same fairy tale that we're chasing in.

Speaker 1: 21:43

Peaceful coexistence with the left you can submit to the left or you can beat the left, but peaceful coexistence has never been an option. And that's really true of all those different policies that are truly moral grounds. You can either stand against the left when they slaughter babies and stand for death, or you can go along with them for death, or you can go along with them. But you can't separate little individual circles and say, over here you can kill babies and over here you can't, and hope that those two little geographic circles are going to stay.

Speaker 1: 22:34

The British wanted peace with Nazi Germany. They were so scared of war in the 30s and you understand it after the horrors they experienced in trench warfare in World War I. But that was never an option. Churchill knew that was never an option. He knew for a fact that at some point they were either going to have to willingly submit to the tyranny of Hitler and Nazi Germany or they were going to have to fight, and we need to understand that. Today, folks in America, peaceful coexistence with the left is not an option. There are other options, that's just not one of them. God bless y'all. God bless your families. God bless your marriages. God bless America. We'll talk to y'all again real soon. Folks Looking forward to it.