Welcome And Opening Prayer

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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 in whatever part of the day you're in. Sure do appreciate you joining me and giving me a little bit of your time, a little piece of your day. I will try and use it wisely. Hopefully, you're getting to listen to it with somebody else. Spend some time with somebody you care about. For those of y'all who continue to share the podcast and tell others about it, thank you. For those of y'all who continue to pray for me and for the podcast, thank you very much. Very grateful. Father, thank you for today. Thank you for this day that you've made. Thank you, Father, for your Son Jesus Christ, most of all. Thank you for your Holy Spirit. Thank you for all the little blessings that we ignore or forget. Clean water to drink, clothes to wear, food to eat, healthy people in our lives, our own health. The trials and tribulations that come our way, Father, that strengthen our endurance, patience, perseverance, make us better servants for you and for your son. Help us to remember, Father, to store up for our soul the treasure in heaven with you and your son, not here on earth. Help us to follow the commands of your Son Jesus Christ, to love you with our whole heart, mind, soul, and strength, and to love our neighbors as ourselves. Forgive us our sins, forgive us when we forget, when we fail, when we go back to the same old sins time and time again. Help us to care for the widow and the orphan, the poor and the needy. Help us to care for those who have less than we do. Be with our leaders. Pulpit, state, whether it's politics or military or law enforcement or anything else. Be with our military and law enforcement firefighters, EMS, just in general. Thank you for those who listen to the podcast. Father, please be with them and their families. Watch over the Christians around the world who are being persecuted. Watch over those in Nigeria. Help us guide our country back to you and your son, Jesus Christ. And guide my words here, Father. In your son's name we pray. Amen. How have you spent the last 24 hours, folks? Are you pleased? You look back over that 24 hours. I saw something today. There's a gentleman I follow online, and he talks a lot about faith and marriage. And he said, you know, when you give time to your spouse, right, you sit and you do whatever it is that's important to them. That's a positive. And that's that's 20 minutes. I guess the the flip side was he was saying if you don't do that, that's 20 minutes you're never going to get. 30 minutes, you're never going to get back. An hour you're never going to get back in your life. And so how are we spending that? You know, when I sit here and watch a TV show for an hour, two hours, or three hours, or whatever, is that really being a good steward of the talents that God has given me? Is that being a good steward of the people that God's put in my life? Right? For men. We're supposed to be leaders, yes? And I and I know. You can lead all you want. And if your wife won't follow, or your children, or whoever else, you know, that that's on them, folks. As John Quincy Adams said, duty is ours, results are God's. But we have a lot of responsibility. Well, we bear all the responsibility for our own actions. And thank God for Jesus Christ, right? At any rate, look back over your last 24 hours. How much time did you give to different things? Is God really your top priority? And if you're married, is your spouse really your second priority? Marriage verse for today, 1 Corinthians 7, verses 2 through 6. Each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband because of sexual immorality. The husband should meet his wife's sexual needs, and the wife should do the same for the husband. The wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise, the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does. Do not refuse to meet each other's needs unless you both agree for a short period of time to devote yourselves to prayer. Then come back together again so that Satan might not tempt you because of your lack of self-control. I'm not saying this. I'm saying this to give you permission. It's not a command. So you you don't have to abstain. You can if you both agree. I think there's you could preach sermons on this every week for a month of Sundays, and you would still be doing good for the marriages in the church. Scripture from today. You have heard that the Antichrist is coming, and already many such antichrists have appeared. From this we know that the last hour has come. These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us. Otherwise, they would have stayed with us. When they left, it proved that they did not belong with us. But you are not like that, for the Holy One has given you his spirit. And all of you know the truth. So I am writing to you not because you don't know the truth, but because you know the difference between truth and lies. And who is a liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ, anyone who denies the Father and the Son is an anti-Christ. Anyone who denies the Son doesn't have the Father either. But anyone who acknowledges the Son as the Father also. So you must remain faithful to what you have been taught from the beginning. If you do, you will remain in fellowship with the Son and with the Father. And in this fellowship we enjoy the eternal life He promised us. I am writing these things to warn you about those who want to lead you astray. But you have received the Holy Spirit, and he lives within you, so you don't need to teach, you don't need anyone to teach you what is true. For the Spirit teaches you everything you need to know, and what he teaches is true, it is not a lie. So just as he has taught you, remain in fellowship with Christ. And now, dear children, remain in fellowship with Christ, so that when he returns, you will be full of courage and not shrink back from him in shame. Since we know that Christ is righteous, we also know that all who do what is right are God's children. See how much our Father loves us, for He calls us His children, and that is what we are. But the people who belong to this world don't recognize that we are God's children because they don't know Him. Dear friends, we are already God's children, but He has not yet shown us what we will be like when Christ appears. But we know that we will be like Him, for we will see Him as He really is. And all who have this eager expectation will keep themselves pure just as He is pure. Everyone who sins is breaking God's law, for all sin is contrary to the law of God. And you know that Jesus came to take away our sins, and there is no sin in him. Anyone who continues to live in him will not sin, but anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is. Psalm one twenty one verses one through eight. I look up to the mountains. Does my help come from there? My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. He will not let you stumble. The one who watches over you will not slumber. Indeed, he who watches over Israel never slumbers or sleeps. The Lord Himself watches over you. The Lord stands beside you as your protective shade. The sun will not harm you by day nor the moon at night. The Lord keeps you from all harm and watches over your life. The Lord keeps watch over you as you come and go, both now and forever. Proverbs twenty eight verses twenty seven through twenty eight. Whoever gives to the poor will like nothing, but those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed. When the wicked take charge, people go into hiding. When the wicked meet disaster, the godly flourish. Couple things here, folks. Some of this stuff is kind of hard out of one John, right? Like anyone who continues to live in him will not sin, but anyone who keeps on sinning does not know him or understand who he is. Does that mean that we're supposed to be absolutely perfect? Because I would question anybody that claims that they're 100% perfect and without fault. But this verse says anyone who keeps on sinning does not know God, right? Well, does that mean because we have Jesus Christ and our sins are forgiven, that they're wiped clean? I don't know, folks. My whole point is there's some things in the Bible that I just don't understand. There's some parts that I just can't explain. And I'm just a layman. I'm not a theologian, not a priest, not a pastor. I've said that multiple times. I'm just a simple man trying to draw a little closer to God and Jesus Christ each day and do what they want me to do. But I I think, as our pastor says so often, it's a good thing in a way that you don't understand everything. Because if you did, you would be God, and obviously none of us are, right? The other part here that I think is really simple and important for us to understand as Christians is verses 22 through 23. And who is the liar? Anyone who says that Jesus is not the Christ. Anyone who denies the Father and the Son is the is an Antichrist. Anyone who denies the Son doesn't have the Father either. But anyone who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. I acknowledge Jesus Christ as a Son of God, my Lord and Savior. I have the Father also, right? And we need the flip side of that is if you come along and somebody says, No, Jesus is not the Christ, he isn't the Son of God, then you know that at the core they're anti-Christ, right? Just a couple thoughts. All right. Medal of honor for today is let's see. William Blogging Blogging Also known as William Blogden, Ships Cook, US Civil War, USS Brooklyn, US Navy, august fifth, eighteen sixty four. Fort Morgan, Mobile Bay, Alabama, USA. On board the USS Brooklyn during successful attacks against Fort Morgan, rebel gunboats, and the ram Tennessee in Mobile Bay on five august, eighteen sixty four. Stationed in the immediate vicinity of the shell whips, which were twice cleared of men by bursting shells. Blogging remained steadfast at his post and performed his duties in the Powder Division throughout the furious action, which resulted in the surrender of the prize Rebel Ram, Tennessee, and in the damaging and destruction of batteries at Fort Morgan. Credited to New York, New York, not awarded posthumously, born 1832 in England. That is all the information that we have about William Blogging or blogging. Interesting thing here, folks, just my own little two cents. Ships cook, right? That was his rank. One of the problems with the idea of co-ed military units, men and women serving together, or the people even that say, well, we can have coed units just as long as they're not combat, right? The problem is that in combat, any MOS has the potential to be a combat MOS. And anybody that's honest, that's been in combat will tell you that. Just because you are in a certain MOS, like say admin, MOS, by the way, for those of y'all that don't know, military occupation specialty, I think that that's right. But it's basically it's what you do for a job inside the military. Just because you belong to admin, administrative stuff, paperwork, or supply or logistics, or comm or whatever else you want to say that's not technically coded as a combat MOS, that doesn't mean you're not going to see combat. And this idea that we can control the units, that we can pick and choose where combat occurs, where we have troops in contact is absurd. I mean, it's absolutely ludicrous. There's nowhere in history where you would ever see that. And so even this idea where you have some people on the conservative side saying, well, you know, women in the military is okay. Coed units are okay just as long as they're not combat. That's just a non-starter, folks. That's like saying, well, we can have female police officers just as long as they don't, you know, run into any criminals. I mean, it it is that ludicrous. Or we can have female firefighters just as long as they aren't, you know, they don't actually go to fires. And you can see that here with this man, ship's cook. And yet, what was he doing? He was part of the powder division on the ship, and he stayed there through the combat. So our Thanksgiving proclamation today was uh from John Langdon. Langdon was a signer of the Constitution, U.S. Senator, president or governor of New Hampshire, sixth-generation American, and uh willingly put quite a fortune apparently in jeopardy during the revolution, kind of put his money where his mouth was. As president governor of New Hampshire, this is a proclamation for a general thanksgiving to the state on October the twenty-first, seventeen eighty-five. Proclamation for a general thanksgiving, the munificent Father of Mercies and Sovereign Disposer of Events, having been graciously pleased to relieve the United States of America from the calamities of a long and dangerous war, through the whole course of which he continued to smile on the labors of our husbandmen, thereby preventing famine, the almost inseparable companion of war, from entering our borders, eventually restored to us the blessings of peace on terms advantageous and honorable, and since the happy period when he silenced the noise of contending armies, has graciously smiled on the labors of our hands, caused the earth to bring forth her increase in plentiful harvest, and crowned the present year with new and additional marks of his unlimited goodness. It therefore becomes our indispensable duty not only to acknowledge in general with the rest of mankind our dependence on the supreme ruler of the universe, but as a people peculiarly favored, to testify our gratitude to the author of all mercies in the most solemn and public manner. I do therefore agreeably to a vote of the general court appointing Thursday the twenty fourth day of November next, to be observed and kept as a day of general thanksgiving throughout the state, by and with the advice of counsel, issue this proclamation, recommending to the religious societies of every denomination to assemble on that day to celebrate the praises of our divine benefactor, to acknowledge our own unworthiness, confess our manifold transgressions, implore his forgiveness, and entreat the continuance of those favors which he has been graciously pleased to bestow upon us, that he would inspire our rulers with wisdom, prosper our trade and commerce, smile upon our husbandry, bless our seminaries of learning, and spread the gospel of his grace over all the earth. And all servile labor is forbidden on said day, given at the council chamber in Concord, this 21st day of October in the year of our Lord 1785, and in the tenth year of the independence of the United States of America. I mean, come on, folks. I just, this is one of those that you just read that alone and you don't even have any other proof at all. And when somebody looks at you and tells you that America was founded as a secular deist pagan nation, whatever they want to phrase it, you just know that they do not have a clue about history and reality. We have to get back to God and Jesus Christ, folks. There is no other path that even remotely has a chance of saving our once great nation. Besides turning back to God, the Father of Jesus Christ, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. In our courts, our constitutions, our institutions, military, law enforcement, firefighters, education. Doesn't matter. Department of Education, EPA, pick one. We have to have God and Jesus Christ at the center of our country. And we did. And you can see the founders turning to him through these proclamations. If you are looking for a fun family middle grade read, I would humbly recommend Countryside if you get a chance to check it out. And if you enjoy it, if you would leave a review somewhere, I would greatly appreciate that. Those help immensely. And if you feel like you're getting something out of the podcast and you have three or four or five dollars a month to donate to the podcast, I would greatly appreciate that. There's a web page on the Buzz Sprout website for the podcast where you can set up that donation. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day, our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us, and lead us not to temptation, but deliver us from evil, for thine is the kingdom, power, and the glory forever and ever.

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Amen.

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God bless y'all. God bless your families. God bless your marriages. God bless America. God bless your nation wherever you are around the world. Listen. We'll talk to you all again real soon, folks. Looking forward to it.