* Guest: Dr. Scott Bradley, Founder and Chairman of the Constitution Commemoration Foundation and the author of the book and DVD/CD lecture series To Preserve the Nation. In the Tradition of the Founding Fathers – FreedomsRisingSun.com
* Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Sunday, when Christians commemorate the passion, or suffering, and death of Jesus Christ on the cross. It is a day of fasting, prayer, repentance, and meditation on the agony and suffering of Christ. The biblical account of Jesus’ death on the cross can be found in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
* Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? – John Quincy Adams.
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[00:01:18] The good Friday you say what is good Friday ladies and gentlemen, we're going to talk about
[00:01:21] that for a couple of minutes because it's worthy of our time to say the least.
[00:01:25] Good Friday is the Friday before Easter Sunday when Christians commemorate the Savior Jesus
[00:01:33] Christ and His life, the suffering of the Savior, the death of Jesus Christ, the resurrection
[00:01:43] of Him as well.
[00:01:45] It's a day of fasting, prayer, repentance.
[00:01:49] That's one of the most important things I'll tell you that right now.
[00:01:52] Judgment meditation on the life and the suffering and most importantly in my humble view,
[00:01:59] the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the biblical accounts of Jesus Christ of course and His
[00:02:06] death and His resurrection, etc., can be found in, of course, the Bible, Matthew, Mark,
[00:02:13] Luke and John.
[00:02:15] And in another testament, that's right, the Book of Mormon, another testament to Jesus
[00:02:21] Christ has an account of the Savior after He was resurrected as well.
[00:02:26] Happy Easter weekend as we kick it off right and welcome Dr. Scott Bradley to the broadcast.
[00:02:31] Welcome sir.
[00:02:32] Well, good morning Sam.
[00:02:34] Good morning to all.
[00:02:35] Hope everyone is well and happy and enjoying the joy of an Easter weekend that's beginning
[00:02:43] today as you point out.
[00:02:44] Good Friday.
[00:02:45] Yes, anything more you want to say about it though?
[00:02:47] It's really a celebration and different people focus on different aspects but it's
[00:02:51] really a worldwide Christian commemoration, isn't it?
[00:02:55] Well, it is.
[00:02:57] It's interesting the resurrection as you point out is a central theme that we also take
[00:03:02] a lot of joy in and hope and it's more than hope.
[00:03:07] It's an assured thing but I think that this idea that the Savior truly did atone, He paid
[00:03:15] the price and it's a heavy price.
[00:03:17] It's a price that our mere mortal minds really can't comprehend something so massive as
[00:03:24] an eternal payment that was acceptable to God the Father in regards to making right all
[00:03:32] of our foibles.
[00:03:33] I mean, you know, mine alone would have been, I mean, I feel horrible about this, the burdens
[00:03:39] that I placed out there but the fact is he was willing, the Father was willing, it was
[00:03:44] accepted, you know, the suffering in the garden to guess 70 that occurred.
[00:03:48] I think a lot of people, I don't know as even downplay it.
[00:03:53] They don't know anything about it other than thinking it was based upon fear.
[00:03:57] No, it wasn't.
[00:03:58] Yeah, they just dissimissed it all maybe, right?
[00:04:01] Well, it's one of those things where it was preliminary and he was dreading it and all
[00:04:05] this kind of stuff but no, I think there was heavy burdens that were born even that great
[00:04:12] drops of blood were shed from every poor.
[00:04:15] I mean, it was a complete compression of his soul, I think and it returned also while
[00:04:23] he was on the cross.
[00:04:25] And so this was a...
[00:04:27] I don't think there was any fear in him at all.
[00:04:30] I think it was more passion and suffering that we're talking about rather than fear, right?
[00:04:35] Well, true but you know, he had never, again, I'm a poor mere mortal.
[00:04:42] And this thing, so anything I would say would be inadequate.
[00:04:47] But great and good and wonderful and all-knowing and all-seeing and all-powerful as he is.
[00:04:54] He had never been a savior before in the sense that he had gone through the actual compression
[00:05:01] of powerful...
[00:05:04] I don't know, overwhelming things that set upon him.
[00:05:10] I think Satan and all of his minions were there trying to make him fail.
[00:05:14] I think that if you've ever had great sorrow in your life about things that have happened
[00:05:20] that should not have happened, I mean, that's enough and it was only yours.
[00:05:25] Yeah, and it's a drop in the bucket compared to...
[00:05:28] It's really in our mortal state impossible to comprehend the detail to which he went
[00:05:35] and the suffering and etc.
[00:05:37] But it's enough, in my mind, for us to do the very best we can to acknowledge it,
[00:05:44] to have respect for it, to celebrate it.
[00:05:47] That's why it's called Good Friday.
[00:05:50] You know, he wasn't considered good, only God was good before him until he conquered death.
[00:05:55] And then, you know, he was good also.
[00:05:58] And so we need to really kind of understand the depth and breadth of this thing,
[00:06:02] to the best of our ability.
[00:06:03] We don't even understand it perfectly.
[00:06:05] We're human and we can't...
[00:06:06] But we can understand that enough to say, hey, it has become a governing value in my life
[00:06:12] to realize he's the savior of the world and the savior of my soul.
[00:06:17] And I can do my very best to make sure that I honor that in a meaningful way.
[00:06:22] And I know that isn't perfect, but I do believe it's enough though.
[00:06:25] He accepts our offering in other words.
[00:06:28] That's a comforting thought, you know?
[00:06:30] But I think, you know, there's little parallelisms, if you will, that happen.
[00:06:38] First of all, I mean, this is not really so much parallelism.
[00:06:41] Most of us don't offer ourselves freely and even...
[00:06:46] I mean, there were perjured witnesses that were brought in.
[00:06:50] The testified falsely against him, but even their perjured testimony couldn't
[00:06:57] convict him because it was so contradictory.
[00:06:59] One said, I will destroy the temple.
[00:07:01] One said, I can destroy the temple.
[00:07:05] You know, I mean they did...
[00:07:06] The testimonies were so different that they could not have in any way, shape or form,
[00:07:13] found him guilty.
[00:07:14] But he offered his own testimony there in front of them.
[00:07:17] And suddenly it's, oh, you've heard it from his own mouth.
[00:07:20] You know, how can any of us deny this?
[00:07:23] It was a free will offering in every way that shape and form.
[00:07:27] Another parallelism or thought is the court was a corrupt court.
[00:07:34] The court was a court that was bent on having guilty outcome.
[00:07:40] Yeah, we have those kind of courts today, my friend.
[00:07:43] We're no stranger to that, are we?
[00:07:45] Indeed, we have...
[00:07:48] We have...
[00:07:48] I'm sorry to say, by the way, just the ancient Israel had an injunction against
[00:07:57] testifying against yourself, much like we do, the Fifth Amendment.
[00:08:02] That had a biblical origin, but they put him under oath,
[00:08:09] basically he said, testify against yourself.
[00:08:12] And so these kinds of things are happening where words are twisted, perverse things are done,
[00:08:18] perjured witnesses are brought forth.
[00:08:21] We have foregone conclusions from courts that have already decided before the Emmy
[00:08:28] Edel.
[00:08:28] They were haz selected to have the outcome that they get.
[00:08:32] I mean, this kind of stuff...
[00:08:33] I mean, this...
[00:08:34] The one in the Savior was the most gross violation of justice and everything that's happened
[00:08:40] in the universe.
[00:08:41] I'm quite confident.
[00:08:42] But today we find those things in little court cases that happen in our municipalities
[00:08:48] where creeps basically run the court.
[00:08:52] And I think that those that are creeps ought to start thinking about,
[00:08:55] well, wait a minute, do I want to be in the same boat as those guys that were judging the Savior?
[00:09:00] Or do I want to be for mercy and justice and correct principles and everything all the time?
[00:09:06] And I just one little other thing.
[00:09:08] I know we're going to have a break in a second, but I...
[00:09:13] A lot of conservatives, let's put it that way.
[00:09:15] I used the vernacular that's common in today's society.
[00:09:18] Again, I dislike those liberal conservative names because they've been co-opted.
[00:09:24] But I'll use it in the terminology that we normally hear it used in public.
[00:09:30] So many conservatives today are hang them high guys.
[00:09:33] You know, it's a quick trial and hang them all.
[00:09:38] You know what I mean?
[00:09:39] The trial is a formality.
[00:09:41] And I think that the good shepherd, the Prince of Peace,
[00:09:46] that we commemorate his death this weekend,
[00:09:50] I think he really was an embodiment of justice and mercy
[00:09:55] and truth and holiness.
[00:09:57] All of those things rolled into his immaculate way.
[00:10:01] But I just can't see how conservatives are following the Prince of Peace by being
[00:10:08] warmongers, by being those that are so bent on those that are accused of a crime.
[00:10:16] I mean it's kind of like...
[00:10:17] Let's just say for a second...
[00:10:21] You know, if anybody's accused, there must be justice in the accusation.
[00:10:27] They wouldn't have accused them if it wasn't real and it wasn't truth.
[00:10:31] We do it all the time and we hang them high, baby.
[00:10:35] All right, let's go ahead and skip the break on this one.
[00:10:37] Well, yeah, let's skip the break.
[00:10:40] All I can tell you is this...
[00:10:43] The good Friday is really something to understand,
[00:10:46] something to reverence, something to ponder about,
[00:10:49] something to really in my mind at the time to step back and assess your life and say,
[00:10:55] Where am I going?
[00:10:56] Can I recalibrate my compass?
[00:10:59] Can I be more faithful to God?
[00:11:01] Can I repent and cleanse my inner vessel and turn to him a little bit more?
[00:11:06] Lengthen my stride, whatever terms you want to use.
[00:11:08] Do a little more.
[00:11:09] Work a little harder.
[00:11:10] Be a more faithful servant if you will.
[00:11:14] Have a little bit more gratitude in my heart,
[00:11:16] a little more appreciation for what was done for me.
[00:11:20] You know, it's all that.
[00:11:21] And I know we should be doing that daily.
[00:11:23] I get it, but I'm just saying this is a special time to really focus on that.
[00:11:27] You know, a lot of Christians around the world celebrate all week for this.
[00:11:31] Dr. Bradley, I mean, people in America are just like,
[00:11:34] Oh, Easter, whatever.
[00:11:35] You know, let's go hunt for some eggs and call it good.
[00:11:37] There's no, no people know.
[00:11:40] We've got to celebrate, understand, appreciate, ponder, change,
[00:11:46] details in our lives, really recalibrate.
[00:11:49] We've got to really make this count, Dr.
[00:11:53] Well, that, you know, the passion week,
[00:11:55] the whole week leading up to that.
[00:11:56] Many Christians, that is a pretty intense kind of focus on the Savior's life.
[00:12:02] And just in mention, you talk about recalibration of what we do.
[00:12:07] There's so many things we could take as exemplary in the Savior's life,
[00:12:12] but there's others that were there with him that were pretty exemplary too.
[00:12:15] And I just when you said, you know, basically introspect and recalibrate,
[00:12:20] it came to mind again, something that is a very telling moment, I think.
[00:12:26] It happened during passion week just before the Savior retired to Gethsemane
[00:12:30] to that great burden that he bore there.
[00:12:33] But here he was in this upper room, you know, they called the last supper with his 12 most
[00:12:40] trusted confidants and associates and everything.
[00:12:44] And he says, one of you guys is going to be training.
[00:12:47] And it's like, who is it?
[00:12:51] And you know, it would have been so easy to point the fingers and say,
[00:12:54] oh, I always knew that guy over there.
[00:12:56] He was kind of a turkey the whole time or whatever.
[00:13:00] No.
[00:13:00] And the apostles said, Lord, is it I?
[00:13:03] Is it I?
[00:13:04] I mean, they did an introspection.
[00:13:06] It was something that was not accusatory in their minds.
[00:13:10] It was something they were so appalled to think could I, could I fail him?
[00:13:15] Could I betray him?
[00:13:16] Is it me?
[00:13:18] Has it me?
[00:13:18] I mean, I think there was a genuine introspection.
[00:13:21] And of course he gave the supper bread to Jesus, to Judas.
[00:13:27] And he told him to go do quickly what he was doing.
[00:13:29] But the fact of the matter is all the other guys were there saying,
[00:13:33] oh man, oh, don't let it be me.
[00:13:36] And I think sometimes we're so quick to accuse, so quick to find fault.
[00:13:41] You know, the beam in our eye prevents us from being able to help with the
[00:13:45] mode in somebody else's eye.
[00:13:47] And I sometimes worry that in our overconfidence, Peter was overconfident.
[00:13:56] I mean, just think for that for a moment.
[00:13:57] I mean, when Peter says, I'll never betray you.
[00:14:00] Jesus says, Peter, you know what?
[00:14:02] Before the crack of dawn, you're going to deny me three dimes.
[00:14:06] What are you kidding me?
[00:14:07] Never.
[00:14:08] You know, all the go to die in your place, whatever.
[00:14:11] But the fact of the matter is we all have
[00:14:14] schisms in our eternal souls, I guess that need to be corrected.
[00:14:19] And it's a, this should be a time that we introspect and say,
[00:14:23] how can I more conform my life
[00:14:26] to the whole plan that God and his son have so perfectly carried out for us?
[00:14:31] I mean, this whole creation, look how fitly formed everything is.
[00:14:35] From the smallest infinitely small molecule element, I don't know what you want to call it,
[00:14:41] Adam on this earth through the vastness of the universe,
[00:14:45] everything is fitly formed.
[00:14:47] Every planet stays in its commanded space.
[00:14:50] The earth is recycling and renewing itself, cycles of life constantly.
[00:14:56] The seasons come and go, the moisture we get,
[00:14:59] the everything's provided here, the fertile soil that if we'll work it,
[00:15:04] we'll have our nutrition.
[00:15:08] We need and it's not just in the physical earth,
[00:15:10] it's a spiritual thing too.
[00:15:13] It's a spiritual thing that is so complete and fitly formed.
[00:15:17] It's perfect.
[00:15:18] And I think we take a lot of things for granted and so rarely recognize the
[00:15:24] true amazing miraculousness of every single aspect, each breath we take,
[00:15:30] each morsel we take of.
[00:15:33] I mean, think of the sweet tender love that we have in our lives.
[00:15:37] Think of a child, a gift from God, such a perfect wonderful gift and
[00:15:44] which should be cherished?
[00:15:45] What about our spouse?
[00:15:46] I mean, again, everything, when my mind starts rolling like this,
[00:15:51] it's difficult to even stop the discussion because it is so vastly good
[00:15:57] that we rarely, I think, give adequate, we never give adequate thanks.
[00:16:02] But to give appreciation and to never stop appreciating,
[00:16:06] I think that's probably one thing that we could do with better germ.
[00:16:09] Above.
[00:16:12] There's no doubt about it and it's something that, you know,
[00:16:14] I realized that our discussion of it is completely inadequate.
[00:16:17] I realize that the things that I say are not that important in the scheme of
[00:16:25] the important events of the world.
[00:16:27] But I do know that I want to be part of the praise, part of hopefully the introspection and
[00:16:34] humility, part of those who take these things seriously never for granted kind of a thing.
[00:16:42] I really feel like it's important to focus on Good Friday,
[00:16:47] to focus on Easter weekend, to focus on what it really means.
[00:16:51] And you know, sadly, Easter time is really the Savior's birthday.
[00:16:56] You know, I know we celebrate it in December and it's Christmas and all that.
[00:16:59] And I love Christmas too. Don't get me wrong.
[00:17:01] But to me this day eclipses all other holidays.
[00:17:05] This day really is something that Christians, and especially
[00:17:11] Americans should really understand and be grateful for.
[00:17:16] The founding fathers who was not lost on them either doctor.
[00:17:18] Let's be very clear about that.
[00:17:20] Indeed.
[00:17:21] In fact, John Quincy Adams gave him magnificent talk and if we go over the break maybe I'll
[00:17:27] look it up for anybody that might be interested in it where he parallels and likens and dovetails
[00:17:34] Easter, excuse me, the birth of the Savior and the birth of this nation.
[00:17:40] I'll gather that if you're interested in me doing that over the break at the bottom of the hour.
[00:17:46] I think it's absolutely worth our time ladies and gentlemen.
[00:17:49] And I'm normally not, you know, live on Sunday so we can't do it then but we've got to give this
[00:17:54] time, focus, clarity, remembrance, all these words that articulate how we need to treat this day
[00:18:03] or treat this, let me be very clear.
[00:18:07] Factual event in history.
[00:18:11] Okay, it's not for play.
[00:18:13] It's not for joke.
[00:18:14] It's not a symbolic or a virtual or any of those words.
[00:18:19] It is factual real live event that took place.
[00:18:23] We got to understand that.
[00:18:24] We got to realize that we got to spend time focusing on that.
[00:18:28] You know, it wasn't something that just oh for you it might be right but for me it's not
[00:18:32] Sam or this.
[00:18:32] No, no, no, what is truth said, punches pilot?
[00:18:36] Well, the truth is reality.
[00:18:40] And reality is that he did indeed suffer on the cross and he did indeed
[00:18:45] build the temple in three days and take his mortal tabernacle of clay up again
[00:18:50] as an immortal being and conquer death.
[00:18:53] That is real.
[00:18:55] You know, hashtag real right?
[00:18:56] This is serious business and real and we got to make sure that that's really taught
[00:19:01] to the youth in our lives as well.
[00:19:03] We need to make sure the youngsters, the next generation understands it.
[00:19:06] Understands that it's a pivotal understanding in history and it's brought forward
[00:19:12] in the creation of the greatest country on the face of the earth America.
[00:19:16] It was not lost on the founders.
[00:19:17] They understood it.
[00:19:18] They realized that they gave really their lives, their forces, their sacred honor for this idea
[00:19:24] that we look to Christ not government.
[00:19:28] Look you can't understate this stuff doctor.
[00:19:31] I agree with you.
[00:19:33] Let's go back to your statement that the birth of the Savior and the death of the Savior
[00:19:38] were, you know, they were decades apart but the same time and season.
[00:19:44] And I'll share, I mean, you know, this is something our family
[00:19:48] and this is maybe a quirk of me.
[00:19:50] Okay, so take it for what it's worth, a grain of salt or whatever you want to.
[00:19:55] But I'll just share briefly and if it's okay, I think you're correct.
[00:20:04] I think the Savior was born in the spring of the year.
[00:20:06] I think he was born a Passover time and I'll tell you some of the thoughts that I have on
[00:20:10] that at just a moment but you really there is no justification in saying it really happened
[00:20:18] on the 25th of December.
[00:20:21] That was a pagan holiday that you know was slipped in there and yeah we can all be together
[00:20:26] on this holiday, you guys do your thing, we'll do ours and that was the origins of the 25th
[00:20:31] of December thing but there's no real justification for saying that the Savior was born then
[00:20:36] and you might say well there's no justification for what I'm going to say right now either
[00:20:41] but I think about this.
[00:20:45] God in all of his wisdom and understanding knew the end from the beginning
[00:20:50] and this Passover time that Jesus was sacrificed in, the great sacrificial lamb
[00:20:57] that happened, the one and final if you will, that really was all the others were leading up to
[00:21:05] that. We're pretty confident that yeah it did happen at the Passover time in Palestine
[00:21:11] but there's some other things and without taking all the time necessary to go through this thing
[00:21:17] I'm confident in my own mind that the Savior was born at Passover in BC 1
[00:21:24] and you need to understand that they were the Julian calendar, BC 1, using the great Gregorian calendar
[00:21:31] that's now and you have to do the math to bring it forth from the from the Jewish calendars
[00:21:36] to the to the Julian calendar that came out in 46 BC and how that got out of whack and everything
[00:21:42] the Gregorian calendar corrected it anyway if you're using the Gregorian calendar which we are
[00:21:48] using now my belief is that Christ was born April 6th BC 1 okay so but here's some other things
[00:21:57] that I think interesting. I think that Caesar chose to basically do his census at that time
[00:22:07] because everybody was getting not everybody but a great number were gathering in the area of
[00:22:12] Jerusalem it's pretty easy to count people when they're in a big group rather than having
[00:22:16] travel all over creation throughout Palestine to go number noses so I think he was doing his
[00:22:22] census then why did Joseph and Mary have a difficult time finding a place to stay that night
[00:22:28] it was because of all of the pilgrims that had come to the area to worship during Passover
[00:22:33] I mean it was a great congregation if you look and read in Geo excuse me Josephus
[00:22:40] he says about a quarter of a million lambs were sacrificed during Passover time that's a huge
[00:22:46] congregation of people if if five or ten or fifteen people came together for a Paschal lamb
[00:22:53] and you killed a quarter of a million of them do them math I mean that's a huge congregation
[00:22:57] and then an addition and again I'm talking fast without a whole bunch of details
[00:23:02] yeah it's bigger than a million man marches we see in modern day people way bigger way bigger way
[00:23:07] bigger but here's another one that I think is when the when the host of angels came to the
[00:23:13] Shepherds keeping watch over the flock by night I believe that that flock was the sacrificial lamb
[00:23:20] flock these were the the lambs without blemish these were the ones that would be sacrificed
[00:23:26] at that time of the Passover and so these Shepherds had a very very honorable position to
[00:23:33] to keep track of these these sacrificial lambs if you will and they got invited to see the real lamb
[00:23:41] I mean all of these things in my opinion tied together and our families kind of talked about this
[00:23:48] through the decades about the how amazing all of this is he was born at Passover the Shepherds
[00:23:56] that were keeping watch over the flock the Paschal flock that would be sacrificed they got to see
[00:24:01] the perfect sacrifice some of them anyway we're able to come and participate there in that
[00:24:08] that thing with the angels and let's be clear they like us didn't understand the whole picture
[00:24:15] they knew it was important they had reverence for it as we ought as well but they didn't understand
[00:24:21] really either and that's the most really contemplate all right we just talked about the Shrews.
[00:24:28] The chosen of course that's my point the chosen really highlights this though in the best way I've
[00:24:34] ever seen is a perfect far from that is it a genuine incredible attempt absolutely we need to
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[00:25:08] Donald Trump commenting briefly on the road ahead for the wife and young child of slain New York City
[00:25:14] police officer Jonathan Diller they devastated they're gonna tough road it's gonna be a very tough
[00:25:20] road Trump paid respects at the family wake on Thursday in New York the 31 year old NYPD officer
[00:25:26] was shot by a suspect during a routine traffic stop in Queens on Monday Trump said he's an advocate
[00:25:32] for law and order president Biden's being criticized by Republicans for attending a fundraiser
[00:25:38] in New York meanwhile Biden and first lady Jill Biden offering their condolences to victims in the
[00:25:43] wake of a stabbing spree that happened in Illinois this week a state department official stepping
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[00:25:55] position with the Bureau of Democracy Human Rights and Labor she said she could no longer work for
[00:26:00] the administration as she says it has enabled Israeli atrocities in Gaza the president of Ukraine
[00:26:07] urging Congress to deliver critical aid to Kiev in its war with Russia President Zelensky briefed
[00:26:13] House Speaker Mike Johnson on the battlefield situation on Thursday warning of Ukraine's dwindling
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[00:30:05] before the break I mentioned to Sam that I would look up a statement made by John Quincy Adams back
[00:30:21] in the 1830s it had to do with tying together the parallelisms of the birth of the Savior and the
[00:30:30] birth of this nation and so John Quincy Adams for you know everyone should be well aware of he
[00:30:36] was the son of John and Abigail Adams it was a here's a young man born and bred if you will to
[00:30:43] the statesmanship that he exercised he traveled with his father in so many of the things that his
[00:30:49] father was involved in just a real high quality Christian guy I mean just amazing so he gave
[00:30:56] this address the 4th of July 1837 and he was talking about Independence Day and he tied in the
[00:31:04] birth of the Savior he said why is that next to the birth of the Savior of the world your most
[00:31:11] joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day Independence Day is it not that in the chain
[00:31:19] of human events the birthday of the nation is indesolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior
[00:31:26] that at forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation is it not that the
[00:31:32] Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's
[00:31:38] mission upon earth that will lead the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts
[00:31:45] of Christianity and gave to the world the first irrevocable pledge of the fulfillment of the
[00:31:53] prophecies announced directly from heaven at the birth of the Savior and predicted by the greatest
[00:32:00] of the Hebrew prophets 600 years before that's the end of the quote now a couple of real quick things
[00:32:09] that the fulfillment of the prophecies announced directly from heaven at the birth of the Savior
[00:32:14] peace on earth goodwill toward men the prince of peace was born that's what he's tying it to now
[00:32:20] he says it was predicted by the greatest of the Hebrew prophets 600 years before I think he aired
[00:32:26] on that Jeremiah was the Hebrew prophet 600 years before the birth of the Savior that's not
[00:32:33] diminishing Jeremiah's great notability but I believe he was referring to something that the
[00:32:40] prophet Isaiah said where he predicted speaking messianically the wonderful counsel the mighty God the
[00:32:46] everlasting father the prince of peace I think he's referring to Isaiah's statement at that and that
[00:32:52] was a misstatement a miss I don't know miscued somehow no word but it was factual it was just a little
[00:33:00] bit miss you know so a lot of times we may say the wrong spot one of the prophets we might you
[00:33:04] know not realize that you know oh yeah yeah yeah you're right when it's brought up and so
[00:33:08] you misspoke but it didn't miss but he didn't miss fact if you will he didn't and that's the
[00:33:15] thing that the reason I brought it up is there some maybe you know people like this too Sam
[00:33:22] where they become so weedling that they tie it down to some little misstated thing
[00:33:29] when the whole broads the whole spectrum of the message was so much better they strained at
[00:33:34] nats and swallow camels and that's why I'm highlighting this I agree he missed spoke but I don't
[00:33:39] agree that he got the facts in terms of the point wrong he got it absolutely spot on right
[00:33:44] and he missed spoke it's kind of like if I'm talking about oh atoms then I say John when I met
[00:33:48] Samuel that kind of stuff right yeah that's kind of a mistake it's a mistake but focus on the facts
[00:33:54] that he was pointing out and the real point he was trying to make right absolutely this land
[00:34:01] was a fulfillment of prophecy that brought hope to a whole world and I guess that's one of the
[00:34:07] reasons why I get so passionate about trying to preserve this nation because it is the last great
[00:34:14] hope you look around the world find me a place that there is more hope in I mean I mean is it
[00:34:21] in the Paul or is it in I mean pick any little I mean backwater major country I don't care where it is
[00:34:29] everything is so screwed up all across this world socialism has engulfed the entire world and
[00:34:35] this country largely too but we have the foundation of liberty that will allow the blessings
[00:34:41] of liberty worshiping to do according to the dictates of our consciousness and the idea of being
[00:34:47] able to provide for our families a prosperity a piece of freedom where in all the world can we
[00:34:52] find such a hope as is in this nation that's why if you go back and you read the preface that
[00:35:01] angels wrote to the communist manifesto in the 1880s America has mentioned three times
[00:35:09] America has been in the sights of the communist since day one and America is the last bastion
[00:35:18] that will protect our liberty and allow these things of worship of prosperity of peace of freedom
[00:35:24] and it's crumbling folks then it's because of lack of interest in caring and we the people have
[00:35:31] to bear that responsibility but in the days of the early founding fathers and their sons because
[00:35:38] John Quincy Adams was the son of John and Abigail but these people understood these things clearly
[00:35:47] and they fostered that concept when he made this speech I mean holy cow we're talking 1837
[00:35:56] I mean we're talking about what 61 years since the day of independence was declared
[00:36:02] they're getting reminded regularly when John Hargrove spoke before gentzestence of congress
[00:36:08] he talked about the judgment day and preparing for Christ returned those were the things they
[00:36:14] talked about when Timothy Dwight spoke about the on the 4th of July he talked about the thing that
[00:36:22] would preserve the nation and there's a whole bunch of things he talked about. Yeah I want to
[00:36:25] highlight something that I think is really important a phrase that he uses that I really think helps
[00:36:30] us understand not only good Friday but the resurrection of the Savior the fact that we look to God not
[00:36:36] government he says this is it not that in the chain of human events and I really want to focus
[00:36:46] on that phrase because I think that's what ties this all together the founding fathers understood
[00:36:50] that the earth was put in its orbit by God God people the earth with his children his sons and
[00:36:58] daughters he you know set his son to rise from the dead to give us all hope to give us all an
[00:37:07] opportunity for eternal life and they understood this so clearly and they tied the birth of the
[00:37:14] nation to the birth of the Savior in this and I'm going to use these words in the chain of human
[00:37:20] events because they realized all these things are interconnected and anybody who tries to tell you
[00:37:26] that we're not a Christian nation or that we weren't a Christian nation or the founding fathers
[00:37:29] were a bunch of deists or this or that and again it's all absolute bogus okay it's bunk they clearly
[00:37:36] taught about the chain of human events this chain means it's all connected and it's all under God's
[00:37:43] heaven and it's all under God's purpose and we've got to look to the Savior to save us now not only
[00:37:51] individually but as a nation it's holistic doctor it is truly and you know one little tiny link in
[00:38:01] that that I mentioned earlier and why I'm maybe so far different than so many people this idea
[00:38:07] that the Savior was born at the time of the Passover is all making true that's right I agree
[00:38:13] when the fact the fact of the matter is that this chain of events that came all down through time
[00:38:17] God knew the end from the beginning he he set everything in motion it was his plan it is being
[00:38:24] carried out regardless of how stubbornly reflective or irreflective we are either way it doesn't matter
[00:38:31] and we end up we're part of the whole process whether we'd like to admit it or whether we're
[00:38:37] willing to see it but I hope we'll look more carefully and embrace the holistic approach of it by
[00:38:45] the way that that statement that I quoted earlier is Isaiah 9 and 6 and this is what Isaiah said and
[00:38:54] I believe this is what John Quincy Adams was referring to Isaiah 9, 6 is for unto us a child is born
[00:39:02] unto us the son is given and the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be
[00:39:08] called wonderful counselor the mighty God the everlasting father the prince of peace so I believe
[00:39:13] that was the reference that that Adams was giving at that point and it all ties into the to the
[00:39:19] announcement by the angelic host the shepherds this is the guy okay and so it's a it's a really it
[00:39:29] all ties together in my mind that this is where everything fits and we we ought to give thanks and
[00:39:36] credit and and kind of see where we fit in that whole big program because because we are a part
[00:39:42] of the program whether we want to admit it or not and some of us deny our our I don't know our
[00:39:50] responsibility in that I think we might say well by the way just as a quick thing Luke 4 I you
[00:39:56] know don't don't get me started in the scriptures my kids and everybody when we when they were growing
[00:40:02] up we did our scripture reviews every single evening and we did a scripture chase but if you read
[00:40:09] in Luke 4 when Jesus went back to his hometown and you know he made it known that he he wanted to
[00:40:18] to speak he was of age and and it was okay and so when when they brought him the scroll they brought
[00:40:25] him you know 61st chapter of Isaiah and it was speaking menacing messianically and I it's just
[00:40:34] interesting as as I review maybe we do need to take a break now I don't know but that's right let's
[00:40:41] take a quick break will come right back ladies and gentlemen and we'll talk about this review
[00:40:46] because this is really the the seat change when they realized who he was this is Liberty Round Table
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[00:43:07] Ladies and gentlemen it is a good day actually it's a great day
[00:43:12] it is good Friday ladies and gentlemen as we celebrate Easter weekend
[00:43:18] yeah in the chain of human events ladies and gentlemen the birth of our nation
[00:43:22] absolutely connected to the birth of the Savior Jesus Christ that's who we look to instead
[00:43:27] of government for solutions for guidance and we really talked yesterday if you go
[00:43:32] to listen to the yesterday's broadcast we had a great guy on who runs a Christian news service
[00:43:37] who talked about nobody in congress has the guts to really talk about how if we turn to God
[00:43:45] and repent he'll heal our land there's a quote what is it two chronicles 714 is that where it is I
[00:43:50] think nobody has the guts to quote that in its entirety before congress or before the courts
[00:43:55] or before the world they all went about butchered manipulate it and went about okay we have got
[00:44:01] the start to put God first and that's what this day really should help us recalibrate focus on
[00:44:07] and do dr. Bradley coming back to your thoughts though as you study the scriptures together
[00:44:12] and you focused on this they brought the Savior Jesus Christ the scrolls right right well you know
[00:44:19] after his mission started if you will there's three year mission of course his mission had been
[00:44:25] been eternal but you know there was this three year mortal mission and he returned to his hometown
[00:44:32] down back to Nazareth here he was the carpenter son if you will and grew up chasing butterflies in
[00:44:37] the fields or whatever well I call a little kids did and you know a prophet in his own country is
[00:44:43] oftentimes not appreciated as much but at any rate when he was there on synagogue and they
[00:44:51] brought him the the scroll that had the 61st chapter of Isaiah in it and you can reference what's
[00:44:57] in Luke 4 back to the 61st chapter of Isaiah verses one and two but here's what it says beginning
[00:45:04] on verse 18 of Luke chapter four and so he quoted the place where it was written there by and he
[00:45:11] said this the spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the
[00:45:19] poor he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted to preach deliverance to the captives and recovering
[00:45:29] of sight to the blind to set up liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the
[00:45:35] Lord and he closed his book and then he had commentary on it he says this day this scripture is
[00:45:40] fulfilled in your ears so of course it was not one it was not and this is when they were
[00:45:46] actually who he was and what claim he was making right exactly he was making a claim that to them
[00:45:53] was blasphemous and they wanted to you know killing so it wasn't time it goes on at verse 24 I say
[00:46:00] until you know prophet is accepted in his own country but but here's the deal though I think in two
[00:46:07] very brief verses that Isaiah had foreshadowed back in the 61st chapter the Savior brought that out
[00:46:16] and said okay this is happening this is me okay if you will that's right and he he he outlined
[00:46:26] preached the gospel to the poor sent me to heal the brokenhearted these are the things the
[00:46:32] Savior does so well to preach deliverance to the captives I mean there's a liberty theme in
[00:46:39] these brief words that are stated in both Isaiah and in Luke there's a liberty theme to the gospel
[00:46:45] of Jesus Christ we also an agency theme about we have the ability to choose an act for ourselves
[00:46:54] this is fundamental to the gospel of Christ doctor but but you can't do that you can't if you live
[00:47:02] in a land that you're completely it the truth is withheld from you how can you choose the correct
[00:47:08] path if you've never heard it see there's a number of things you have to have freedom of conscience
[00:47:13] so you have to be able to choose you have to be able to have life which could be tied into a
[00:47:18] portion stuff and a war and all those kind of things and you have to have private property you say
[00:47:23] private property what the heck does that have to do with anything well if if a man has his
[00:47:28] property is whether it's his tools or his land as a farmer whatever removed from him as is
[00:47:34] is you know the government controls and contains all of this the government regulates this that's why
[00:47:40] regulations and licensing laws are wrong but but that's another topic but if you have your tools
[00:47:47] of providing for your family constrain your control or remove from you it gets pretty desperate
[00:47:53] and think what people have been willing to do to feed a hungry child I feed themselves even but
[00:47:59] for I mean how desperate things become and that's why in a world where we don't have proper
[00:48:07] government there is a constraining ability to live our lives and our lives were to be free our
[00:48:13] agency was to be held sacred so so this little couple of verses he talks about again the
[00:48:21] liverance he talks about recovering sites so he's going to heal people settle liberty them that
[00:48:26] are bruised so if you're suffering if you're carrying burdens if you have hurt he's going to fix it
[00:48:32] preach the acceptable year of the Lord so in it just these brief a couple few words
[00:48:39] and these were so it should have been received with joy in the hearts of his hometown but no he was
[00:48:44] he was this kid they saw him grow up in their village you know and anyway
[00:48:51] it was gracious these these are gracious words and this is not the son of Joseph and again
[00:49:00] he says no prophet is accepted in his own country you can read down there through the rest of it
[00:49:04] but but the point of the matter is I guess I was trying to make was that yeah the angels
[00:49:09] announced him they they referred back to what Isaiah had said you know and they also had this
[00:49:17] should have been a pronouncement that they should have received in joy when he came back to his
[00:49:21] hometown and he went to his people if he if he were they rejected him and there was going to be
[00:49:28] a lot of that and there continues to be a lot of that in today's world where no matter it's
[00:49:35] not important we preach a secular gospel now unconstitutionally in our schools it's a faith-based
[00:49:42] belief system that has no God we're going to go with the learning wisdom of man and the power of
[00:49:48] government and all this kind of stuff don't get me wrong government is necessary it's a necessary
[00:49:53] evil if you will and you look what's happening in Haiti right now where there's just anarchy ruling
[00:49:58] and how horrific it is there so governments important but it's got to be in its proper bounds
[00:50:05] and that's what the United States was set up under the American founding fathers a recognition
[00:50:10] where our rights come from the consent of the governed these ratifications of constitutions
[00:50:16] where the people say we'll be governed by these individuals within these bounds as established
[00:50:21] within our constitutions all of this stuff religious liberty is the crown to all liberty ladies and
[00:50:28] gentlemen and when you look at a place like Haiti where they don't have any religious liberty or
[00:50:31] any liberty at all for that matter and it's just anarchy look Satan reigns supreme okay now I'm not
[00:50:38] saying everybody's following Satan there there might be good people but they are under absolute
[00:50:42] the jack booted thug of tyranny they're under anarchy they're under all this mixture of just
[00:50:47] satanic raining you know supreme temporarily of course but my point is the contrast is critical
[00:50:55] to understand and we must embrace agency and look to God look to Christ there is no other way
[00:51:04] and you see it's opposite and every other liberty is relative to this religious liberty based on
[00:51:10] agency based on the ability to understand have knowledge and choose versus the opposite doctor
[00:51:16] it's so clear between the united states and a country like Haiti or North Korea or some of
[00:51:20] it somewhere else that I mean you could just feel and see the difference everywhere you go and look
[00:51:29] if that's you know if you do in comparison trust now by the way we're descending to that too I
[00:51:34] mean think about the spring of 2020 I know I know I mean come on boy Floyd I don't know I just
[00:51:44] it's so amazing we have such a gift I mean we have the gift of the Savior absolutely it's that's
[00:51:50] the maximum blessing of gift because all other things follow on that but this free land is a gift
[00:51:56] and we're trying to burn it down you look at chaz in you know the where was a Portland yeah
[00:52:02] was a Portland or Seattle anyway Seattle anyway no I mean and what ruled there it's kind of a
[00:52:10] mini Haiti is what we keep creating in this country and it's and if people haven't been following
[00:52:17] that what a tragic travesty there are innocent souls that are put upon by as you talk about jack
[00:52:23] booted thugs and you say oh yeah I know people that I've known for decades and care about
[00:52:31] that think that that we ought to overthrow the constitution that we need to go back to a
[00:52:36] you know anarchy basically they say oh won't be anarchy we'll have good people rule it'll
[00:52:41] be the middle or a monarchy or they always think that there's a grasses greener better plan and
[00:52:46] there is not without any there's no evidence of anything better there's no nothing with the
[00:52:51] longevity and history and clarity that the constitution provides it is about god family and country
[00:52:56] and we're gonna wrap up this hour now we're gonna talk about a bunch of other topics next hour but
[00:53:02] I really want to hammer home that I believe in Christ I testify he lives he did die on the cross
[00:53:11] he was resurrected he invites all men and women to follow him keep his commandments and he promises
[00:53:16] us biblically that he will protect us and heal our land if we turn to him repent and jettison
[00:53:22] are evil ways and okay this is the recalibration that we're looking for individually as families
[00:53:28] as communities or as a country we have got to focus on this if we want if we have a prayer
[00:53:34] to maintain our liberty maintain our freedom we have got to put this at the center of it if we don't
[00:53:41] we'll simply lose the prize dr. Bradley your final thought well we are at a hinge point in this
[00:53:48] country and you talk about nations failing you know you look at the decline and fall of Rome or
[00:53:54] you look at any of the great societies the great European countries uh the united states is vulnerable
[00:54:00] every bit as much as they were it is a hinge point it's time for us to make a choice a decision
[00:54:06] and follow it in the correct path rather than let the you know everything unravel
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