The American Soul

Never buy into the lie that America was not born a Christian nation, or that our founders intended for our Christian faith to be excluded from our government and institutions, including the education of our children. They very much wanted our Christian faith involved. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

Our people and leaders have long acknowledged that we are one nation under God. And not some random god or generic deity, but under the one true God of heaven, the father of Jesus Christ. Don’t ever listen to the modern myth that America was not born a Christian nation. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

Patrick Henry, quoting the Proverb that sin was a reproach to any nation but that righteousness exalteth a nation, implored his listeners to spread the truth, God’s Word, in whatever their sphere of influence was. He knew America was and had to be a Christian nation. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

Regardless of how much culture or society approves, we have a responsibility to speak the truth. America was born a Christian nation. We hurt our children by taking God and the Bible out of education. These are just two examples. What people do with the truth is between them and God.

The solution to our problems in America today isn’t government, that is the problem. Our solution is God. As a nation we must turn back to Him and seek His forgiveness if we have any hope of success or even survival. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

As a Christian nation, we need the principles of Christ in our institutions and government. Our great leaders have long acknowledged this. However socialism, forced redistribution of wealth, does not do that; it does not follow Christ’s teachings. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

From Washington and Adams, to Lincoln and Grant, to Coolidge and Wilson, to Reagan, our Presidents have known that we needed God and the Bible in our politics, government, institutions and education. America cannot survive without Christ.

We need to encourage each other today. I speak as a Christian and as an American. We need to speak the truth and to encourage each other. Know that you are not alone if you love America and her founding faith and principles.

The greatest threat to America today is not from overseas, not from China or Iran or anywhere else. It is from within. It is from her own sons and daughters who despise her and seek to destroy her foundation. We must turn back to God and look at those who have gone before us and sacrificed so much, and rededicate ourselves to the preservation of our republic.

Lincoln acknowledged in his Gettysburg Address that America was a Christian nation. Freedom and Liberty can only be sustained in our republic by following the principles of Christ. The farther we fall from those founding principles based on the teachings of Christ, the closer we get to repeating that horror that Lincoln watched our nation suffer through.

When our founders refer to the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God in the Declaration, they are making specific reference to the God of the Bible, the God of Christianity... not some generic deity or Islam or Buddhism or Hinduism or anything else.

America can only function properly when her people follow the principles of Christ in their daily lives and in their professions. That doesn’t mean that every American must be a theologian first or even a Christian, but it does mean, regardless of what our profession is, we must implement the teachings of Christ into all that we do. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

Congress has no right to take even one penny from Americans in order to “give” to those who do not. There is nothing kind or caring about it because it is not giving out of our own time or finances, but by taking from others. This is just another example of why it is so important to remember that America is a Christian nation built on the principles of Christ. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

The welfare state, particularly redistribution of wealth by force, has never coincided with the teachings of Christ. We have a responsibility to care for the poor and needy, but we have a responsibility to do it in the same manner that Christ did, by giving of ourselves and our own means… not by stealing from others to “give.” Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

We need lawyers and doctors, teachers and administrators, plumbers and electricians, Marines and Airmen, and parents most of all who follow the teachings of Christ. If we don’t have this “moral and religious people” our country simply will not function. We see this today clearly in places our nation is falling apart. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.… We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States… And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

We cannot have freedom and Liberty; we cannot hope to maintain our republic, without the principles of Christ. For America to remain a free nation we must have a people who follow Christ’s teachings. Our founders knew this and generations before and after them did as well. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

America is great because we are good. It isn’t our strength or speed or intellect, but our character that makes us great. As soon as we stop being good we stop being great. And it is the principles of Christ that have made us good. Without Him we cannot stand. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

We have lost common sense and common decency in America because we have forgotten our founding faith and principles based on the teachings of Christ and therefore forgotten who we are. We have lost the honesty, integrity and virtues that made our nation great and we must get them back or forever be lost as a nation of free men. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

The truth is often unsettling to people, especially if we don’t want to see it or don’t like what it shows us about ourselves. The inconvenient truth today for many people is that the modern myth of separation of church and state is a complete lie. Our founders always intended for our Christian faith to influence our government and institutions. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

The times America has been truly great; the times we have acted noble and righteous are the times we have followed our founding faith and principles based on the teachings of Christ. The times we have failed as a nation are the times we have walked away from Christ, from God and the Bible as a nation. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

If we do not have a people who follow the principles of Christ, we do not have our republic. The latter cannot survive without the former. Even outside observers have acknowledged this truth. And this is just another reason why the modern myth of separation of church and state is so destructive. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

The idea that we can somehow be moral in finance or government or education or any other profession, but immoral in our personal lives and that everything will work just fine is absurd. This is just an extension of the modern lie of separation of church and state. If we are immoral in our personal lives it is only a matter of time before that appears in our professional careers. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4

Even people outside of America know we were born a Christian nation. They see that the only way we maintain our greatness is by following God. It is not our own strength or wisdom, not our massive economy or military might that makes us great. It is our reliance upon God.

The Declaration of Independence relies on God, the Father of Jesus Christ, for our rights, for morality, and for protection. Without God there can be no Declaration. Without God there can be no America. Check out the rest of the podcast: Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-american-soul/id1570150486 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6kl30VBem4ZuxTTRzXnYq3?si=beoj0pr8QyO4vUdRl1Z6sA&dl_branch=1 And check out more here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/jtcope4 Instagram: @jtcopeiv Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jessetcope Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jtcopeiv/ Gab: https://gab.com/jtcope4