1 00:00:06,440 --> 00:00:08,760 Speaker 1: One of the interesting things that I've noticed in the 2 00:00:08,800 --> 00:00:11,880 Speaker 1: pantheon of great leaders such as Churchill we're going to 3 00:00:11,880 --> 00:00:18,800 Speaker 1: talk about, is that for people of faith, you wonder, well, 4 00:00:18,840 --> 00:00:23,560 Speaker 1: what's going on during history when you don't see God 5 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:26,880 Speaker 1: conspicuously at work. Well, there's a book in the Bible 6 00:00:26,960 --> 00:00:30,440 Speaker 1: called the Book of Esther. Interesting book almost was thrown 7 00:00:30,440 --> 00:00:34,000 Speaker 1: out of the canon of scripture because God's name isn't 8 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:40,320 Speaker 1: mentioned once. The name of Yahweh Jehovah, the god of Abraham, 9 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 1: Isaac and Jacob, not mentioned. But years after the wise 10 00:00:48,120 --> 00:00:50,839 Speaker 1: scholars that included it in the you know, in the 11 00:00:50,840 --> 00:00:57,040 Speaker 1: Canada Scripture. Years later, they started utilizing some techniques with 12 00:00:57,840 --> 00:01:00,840 Speaker 1: looking at the analysis of the Hebrew documents that formed 13 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:04,040 Speaker 1: the Book of Esther, and they found that hidden within 14 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:08,600 Speaker 1: the first letters, as often happens in certain Bible, some 15 00:01:09,640 --> 00:01:13,560 Speaker 1: like someone nineteen in the Bible that there are words 16 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:16,360 Speaker 1: that spell something out, and they found the name of 17 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:21,000 Speaker 1: God Yahweh written hidden in the code of the book, 18 00:01:21,480 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: and front and backwards different parts of the book revealed 19 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:33,840 Speaker 1: God's name, communicated God in providence, God moves his invisible hand, 20 00:01:33,880 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 1: comes down and is seen by visible events. As with Churchill, 21 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:44,800 Speaker 1: there were many great Christians and believers who were evangelicals, 22 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: Rhys Howells, the Intercessor, Smith Willlsworth. That's from my charismatic 23 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: and evangelical perspective. These were historic figures in Britain that 24 00:01:56,240 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 1: were praying as they watched Hitler rizing and stomping through Europe, 25 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:05,920 Speaker 1: and their prayers were answered by the hand of Providence 26 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: in the same way that I will say, and as 27 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 1: I predicted in twenty fifteen and stand behind now Donald Trump, 28 00:02:14,680 --> 00:02:19,079 Speaker 1: is such a hand of providence vessel God raises up, 29 00:02:19,320 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: and God raises up these unique characters that are forged 30 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:27,760 Speaker 1: in a different arena than the political arena or than 31 00:02:27,800 --> 00:02:31,640 Speaker 1: the theological arena. But yet they come into a period 32 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 1: of time where they were built in secret for the 33 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: work they have to do. I've showed that, hopefully to 34 00:02:38,600 --> 00:02:42,720 Speaker 1: some degree, with Lincoln when we talked about him earlier, 35 00:02:44,919 --> 00:02:53,680 Speaker 1: and with Churchill. My first recollection of him being a 36 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: unique character in history was from a quote from John Kennedy. 37 00:02:56,520 --> 00:02:59,320 Speaker 1: When I was younger, never quite forgot what he said. 38 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:03,079 Speaker 1: He said in the dark days and darker nights, when 39 00:03:03,120 --> 00:03:07,079 Speaker 1: England stood alone, and most men save the Englishmen, despaired 40 00:03:07,360 --> 00:03:13,880 Speaker 1: of England's life. Churchill mobilized the English language and sent 41 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:21,040 Speaker 1: it into battle. Churchill mobilized the English language and said 42 00:03:21,080 --> 00:03:26,400 Speaker 1: it into battle. And it's true his speeches and his 43 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: perspective was what clarified, in a sense, prophetically inspired and 44 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: infused to will the fight. And if you ever see 45 00:03:36,240 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: any of the great movies that are out that have 46 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: come out in the last couple of years, Gary Olden particularly, 47 00:03:42,880 --> 00:03:48,480 Speaker 1: it shows that Churchill almost wasn't in office, and that 48 00:03:48,600 --> 00:03:53,200 Speaker 1: the leaders that were there, from Neville Chamberlain on down, 49 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 1: that they would have caved. They did not have what 50 00:03:58,600 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 1: it took. They were willing to negotiate with the Nazis 51 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:09,520 Speaker 1: for some form of peaceful coexistence, even if it meant 52 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:14,080 Speaker 1: that they would have to surrender their sovereignty. But not Churchill. 53 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:17,960 Speaker 1: He was unique in history in the same way that 54 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:21,040 Speaker 1: I think Donald Trump is unique in history. Who the 55 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:24,960 Speaker 1: one man for that moment, who could stand against the tide? Now, 56 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:28,520 Speaker 1: what makes an individual like that important? When history goes dark, 57 00:04:29,440 --> 00:04:33,480 Speaker 1: God raises up a voice to defy fear, to expose 58 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:37,560 Speaker 1: the lies, and to rally the weary to a renewed 59 00:04:37,720 --> 00:04:46,680 Speaker 1: sense of warfare and overcoming. So let me go down 60 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:49,440 Speaker 1: into hit Hitler. Yeah, so let's talk about Hitler, one 61 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:53,360 Speaker 1: of my favorite leaders of the last one hundred years. Now. 62 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,080 Speaker 1: Churchill had a family dynamic I want to talk about. 63 00:04:57,080 --> 00:04:59,880 Speaker 1: And I had to dig this one up because I thought, psychologically, 64 00:05:00,160 --> 00:05:02,080 Speaker 1: I look for what's different. There's a lot of material 65 00:05:02,120 --> 00:05:04,840 Speaker 1: on Churchill. I'm interested in what's different that I can 66 00:05:04,880 --> 00:05:06,480 Speaker 1: share with you that you haven't really thought about. Well, 67 00:05:06,480 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: here's what I want you to think about. What's the 68 00:05:09,240 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: role your parents play in your formation as a child, 69 00:05:13,080 --> 00:05:18,000 Speaker 1: I say is pretty significant. In Lincoln's case, we never 70 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:23,200 Speaker 1: talked about this, but it was his mother who loved 71 00:05:23,240 --> 00:05:25,880 Speaker 1: him and saw something. His dad was a real evidently 72 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:28,880 Speaker 1: a real jerk. He didn't like him that much. Not 73 00:05:29,040 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 1: very close to his father, not real nice. His mom, 74 00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:38,000 Speaker 1: I think, died and the man remarried, I guess, and 75 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:41,919 Speaker 1: the second wife was the one who particularly was fond 76 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:45,720 Speaker 1: of Abe and so was his mother that encouraged him 77 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:50,760 Speaker 1: and gave him the nurture that the gruff, cold, distant 78 00:05:50,920 --> 00:05:56,560 Speaker 1: and detached father didn't give his gifted young son. Churchill 79 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,800 Speaker 1: had a similar experience. I wanted to think about your own 80 00:05:58,839 --> 00:06:02,200 Speaker 1: family of origin. He had a difficult relationship with his father, 81 00:06:02,320 --> 00:06:11,000 Speaker 1: Lord Randolph, a nobility and a figure of great renown, 82 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,800 Speaker 1: and Lord Randolph regarded young Winston as a disappointment and 83 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:18,640 Speaker 1: worse yet, he articulated the fact that he figured his 84 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:23,240 Speaker 1: kid is gonna be a failure. Churchill once wrote, he 85 00:06:23,320 --> 00:06:25,880 Speaker 1: told me that I would never amount to anything, and 86 00:06:25,920 --> 00:06:27,599 Speaker 1: that I should be a disgrace to him and to 87 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:34,680 Speaker 1: my family. You'll never amount to anything and be a 88 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:37,839 Speaker 1: disgrace to all of us. I like to have that 89 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:40,479 Speaker 1: if you when I have a victim narrative over your head. 90 00:06:40,640 --> 00:06:44,640 Speaker 1: My father told me I never amount to anything. Despite this, 91 00:06:45,360 --> 00:06:48,280 Speaker 1: he longed for his father's approval. Here's the quote I 92 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:49,840 Speaker 1: want you to get. I don't know if I've got 93 00:06:49,880 --> 00:06:53,440 Speaker 1: those quotes here. But he died, he said. He wrote 94 00:06:53,440 --> 00:06:55,520 Speaker 1: of his father, he died at forty five, and I've 95 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:58,000 Speaker 1: always felt that I was robbed of a great companion. 96 00:06:58,600 --> 00:07:02,559 Speaker 1: His father died forty five, and guess what, he never 97 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:08,480 Speaker 1: saw his son step into what he was ultimately what 98 00:07:08,560 --> 00:07:14,000 Speaker 1: he could ultimately be proud of. Kind of a tragedy, 99 00:07:14,040 --> 00:07:18,520 Speaker 1: isn't it. In contrast to his mother, Jenny, who was 100 00:07:18,600 --> 00:07:25,360 Speaker 1: American and quite an attractive lady at that believed deeply 101 00:07:25,800 --> 00:07:29,200 Speaker 1: in young Winston's potential, and she poured confidence into him 102 00:07:29,240 --> 00:07:32,960 Speaker 1: at a young age. Oh Winston, you're so gifted. Winston, 103 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:37,160 Speaker 1: you're so smart. Winston is so funny. She's shown for 104 00:07:37,320 --> 00:07:41,880 Speaker 1: me like the evening star. He wrote. I loved her beauty, 105 00:07:41,960 --> 00:07:45,320 Speaker 1: I loved her dearly, but I did it at a distance. 106 00:07:45,440 --> 00:07:48,240 Speaker 1: She was like a fairy princess, a radium, being possessed 107 00:07:48,280 --> 00:07:53,160 Speaker 1: of limitless riches and power. Kind of idolized mommy, and 108 00:07:53,200 --> 00:07:55,240 Speaker 1: Mommy thought he was great, but I guess back then 109 00:07:55,280 --> 00:07:57,880 Speaker 1: they kind of sentuated Edinburgh and all the schools and 110 00:07:57,880 --> 00:08:00,400 Speaker 1: the prep schools and all that stuff. You didn't really 111 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:03,000 Speaker 1: have a chance to have those family vacations where you 112 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:06,120 Speaker 1: all get to know each other like we do in America. 113 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:10,360 Speaker 1: But her encouragement shaped the boldness and persistence that ended 114 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,200 Speaker 1: up defining his public persona. The point being, and I'm 115 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: laboring to make it, is you don't need anyone's approval 116 00:08:16,960 --> 00:08:20,920 Speaker 1: to succeed, but it's helpful to have just one voice 117 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:23,880 Speaker 1: that believes enough in you to let your fire. Typically, 118 00:08:23,920 --> 00:08:25,720 Speaker 1: if it isn't a mom, it's a dad, it's not 119 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: a dabt, it's a mom. It's not that it's a 120 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:30,760 Speaker 1: siblings to brother or sister, if it's not that teachers 121 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:37,439 Speaker 1: are the great vehicle that can speak to a child's potential. So, 122 00:08:38,480 --> 00:08:44,040 Speaker 1: like Lincoln, Churchill dealt with depression. He called it the 123 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:49,640 Speaker 1: black Dog. He privately described his reoccurring depression as as 124 00:08:49,640 --> 00:08:53,239 Speaker 1: the black Dog. He experienced deep emotional loads, sometimes suicidal 125 00:08:53,280 --> 00:08:57,760 Speaker 1: thoughts race through his brain, especially during periods of isolation 126 00:08:57,960 --> 00:09:01,640 Speaker 1: and public failure. Remember his dad's voice, You're going to 127 00:09:01,640 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 1: be a disgrace. But he never gave in and stead 128 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: he developed the mental discipline to manage the pressure at Chartwell, 129 00:09:10,960 --> 00:09:15,400 Speaker 1: which was his home, his special location that he retreated to. 130 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: He found therapy during his period of being rejected and 131 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:24,480 Speaker 1: abandoned by his own country before the Second World War, 132 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:32,000 Speaker 1: by painting and by building stone walls by hand himself 133 00:09:32,200 --> 00:09:35,680 Speaker 1: and not always perfectly straight, and by laying bricks, he 134 00:09:35,720 --> 00:09:40,120 Speaker 1: found there was a therapy in physical exertion of doing something. 135 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:45,679 Speaker 1: Now what created what triggered the depression. He was raised 136 00:09:45,720 --> 00:09:49,240 Speaker 1: to a very high prestigious role in the First World Wars, 137 00:09:49,240 --> 00:09:52,880 Speaker 1: first Lord of the Admiralty, kind of like Pete Hegseth 138 00:09:53,000 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: type role with the Department of Defense and says England 139 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: is a maritime power projecting a string through the oceans 140 00:10:00,880 --> 00:10:08,760 Speaker 1: rather than Land primarily. Being in charge of the Admiralty 141 00:10:08,840 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 1: was a big deal. But Churchill had come up with 142 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:17,200 Speaker 1: an ideas, an idea for a military maneuver in the 143 00:10:17,200 --> 00:10:20,680 Speaker 1: First World War in a place called the Dardanelles that failed. 144 00:10:21,400 --> 00:10:23,400 Speaker 1: There's much going back and forth as to whether it 145 00:10:23,440 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: was his failure or a failure of execution on someone 146 00:10:25,640 --> 00:10:31,040 Speaker 1: else's part, but it was. It was catastrophe militarily and 147 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:35,480 Speaker 1: it caused the death of tens of thousands of British 148 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:41,640 Speaker 1: in Tripoli. As a result, he had to step out 149 00:10:41,640 --> 00:10:46,600 Speaker 1: of his role and frankly deal with the voice of 150 00:10:46,600 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: his father who said, you'll be an embarrassment to us, 151 00:10:50,559 --> 00:10:54,400 Speaker 1: and that's what he felt. After the First World War 152 00:10:55,520 --> 00:11:01,160 Speaker 1: he ended up retiring to a great degree from public life. 153 00:11:01,200 --> 00:11:03,520 Speaker 1: His party bounced back and forth from his party to 154 00:11:03,559 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: the other to the competing party, and he had great 155 00:11:08,080 --> 00:11:10,679 Speaker 1: debts financial pressure. So he had to take to writing, 156 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,880 Speaker 1: writing history and writing for papers, and it helped to 157 00:11:14,920 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: sharpen his brain and his mind and his understanding as 158 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:24,040 Speaker 1: he began writing. But as Hitler rose to power. He 159 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 1: had a unique realization that he alone understood the threat 160 00:11:29,240 --> 00:11:33,600 Speaker 1: of Nazi Germany better than others, and he rallied together 161 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:40,440 Speaker 1: what he called his shadow Cabinet of experts in munitions 162 00:11:40,480 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: and war manufacturing, and they engaged in a kind of 163 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,680 Speaker 1: spying state craft. They were like a wholesome deep state, 164 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,960 Speaker 1: and they brought back to him reports of how the 165 00:11:51,040 --> 00:11:54,240 Speaker 1: armaments were going in Germany and what the British response was, 166 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:56,840 Speaker 1: and how much they were spending and how far behind 167 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:00,720 Speaker 1: they were. So he became armed to the teeth and 168 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,240 Speaker 1: ready to lead, and the nation would turn to him 169 00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: and say, we need Winston. We'll be back in a moment. 170 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:22,160 Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. Well, his enemies, Halifax, Neville, Chamberlain, 171 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:27,679 Speaker 1: the lords, the admiralty, all of them knew that in 172 00:12:27,720 --> 00:12:31,559 Speaker 1: the desperation of watching Hitler's blitzkrieg roll across Europe in 173 00:12:31,640 --> 00:12:36,839 Speaker 1: nineteen forty, they needed Churchill because he was the one 174 00:12:36,840 --> 00:12:40,680 Speaker 1: who had predicted what was coming, and so they turned 175 00:12:40,720 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: to him, and here he was, and he began in 176 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,840 Speaker 1: a grim moment because you know, he had to endure 177 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:54,960 Speaker 1: the the fact that they had no military preparation to 178 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:59,840 Speaker 1: face their opposition. But I'll tell you some quotes of Hitler, 179 00:13:00,080 --> 00:13:04,199 Speaker 1: Hitler quotes of Churchill that prepared him to deal with Hitler. 180 00:13:05,360 --> 00:13:09,280 Speaker 1: In fact, I want to say something. What's interesting to 181 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:16,000 Speaker 1: me is that Adolf Hitler would refer to Churchill, who 182 00:13:16,120 --> 00:13:19,880 Speaker 1: was out of power, out of office, over at Chartwell, 183 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: kind of on the backside of the desert, like you know, 184 00:13:24,360 --> 00:13:26,640 Speaker 1: John the Baptist waiting for the time of his showing 185 00:13:26,679 --> 00:13:31,439 Speaker 1: at Israel. And Hitler didn't talk about Halifax, and Hitler 186 00:13:31,480 --> 00:13:35,000 Speaker 1: didn't talk about Chamberlain. Hitler didn't talk talk about King George. 187 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:41,000 Speaker 1: Hitler had this demonic sense that his reel enemy was 188 00:13:41,040 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: Winston Churchill. It's like the demons in him knew Churchill. 189 00:13:47,640 --> 00:13:51,559 Speaker 1: He was right. Churchill's great quote was, Okay, if you're 190 00:13:51,559 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: going through hell, just keep going. Last thing you want 191 00:13:54,080 --> 00:13:57,839 Speaker 1: to do is stop halfway through hell. Now watch the 192 00:13:57,920 --> 00:14:00,080 Speaker 1: quotes here, because they reveal a lot of them. Man 193 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:03,240 Speaker 1: the man is a quotable man. To each of us. 194 00:14:03,280 --> 00:14:06,440 Speaker 1: There comes a time in their life, a special moment 195 00:14:06,480 --> 00:14:08,920 Speaker 1: when they're tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance 196 00:14:08,960 --> 00:14:12,440 Speaker 1: to do a very special thing. What a tragedy if 197 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:17,480 Speaker 1: that moment finds them unprepared man. Think about that. I 198 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,120 Speaker 1: want you to think about that. I want you to 199 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:27,880 Speaker 1: think about what incentivizes you. Uh. There's there's a concept 200 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: in martial arts and in various sciences that's called the plateau. 201 00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:38,200 Speaker 1: See a lot of people love a breakthrough, a high, 202 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,200 Speaker 1: but then they don't like the plateau. But you see, 203 00:14:40,200 --> 00:14:44,520 Speaker 1: it's the plateau where you keep practicing, practicing certain moves 204 00:14:44,560 --> 00:14:46,720 Speaker 1: and certain disciplines over and over again. It's kind of 205 00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:50,200 Speaker 1: like in the karate kid wax On wax Off Daniel. 206 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:52,120 Speaker 1: You know, I had to he had to learn that 207 00:14:52,240 --> 00:14:56,720 Speaker 1: even this mundane repetition on the plateau, practicing certain things, 208 00:14:57,040 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: when it came time for combat, it's suddenly only became 209 00:15:00,600 --> 00:15:05,880 Speaker 1: muscle memory. The plateau is frankly your prayer life. You're 210 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:09,160 Speaker 1: reading scriptures. This is what I mean as a Christian. 211 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:10,960 Speaker 1: I think about this. To do what I do here 212 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:14,640 Speaker 1: many times, like on a day like this, I literally 213 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:19,000 Speaker 1: have to go into the grainary of hours that I've 214 00:15:19,000 --> 00:15:23,600 Speaker 1: spent in reading history, are studying something and boom, bring 215 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: it out. Because I have deadlines and I don't have 216 00:15:25,840 --> 00:15:29,040 Speaker 1: the time to now go do preparation. I have to 217 00:15:29,080 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: be prepared and draw out of the well what's already 218 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,040 Speaker 1: in there, So a church will saying, is what a 219 00:15:35,080 --> 00:15:39,240 Speaker 1: tragedy if the moment finds you, and because you weren't 220 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: stimulated by the moment, you miss your moment of preparation. 221 00:15:44,200 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: But that whole thing about preparation matches another thing, which is, 222 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:51,880 Speaker 1: I really do believe that there's a sense of destiny, 223 00:15:51,920 --> 00:15:54,480 Speaker 1: a sense of purpose. You've got a prophetic call in 224 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: your life. Whether whether you know what it is or not, 225 00:15:56,920 --> 00:16:00,000 Speaker 1: it's there. You can ask God to reveal it to you. 226 00:16:00,320 --> 00:16:05,520 Speaker 1: But this is a great quote from Churchill. I felt, 227 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:09,680 Speaker 1: all my past life has been but a preparation for 228 00:16:09,720 --> 00:16:13,200 Speaker 1: this hour, for this trial. What a great quote. This 229 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:16,760 Speaker 1: guy's not even an evangelical and he's got more faith 230 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:20,440 Speaker 1: for history working out in his life. He's said everything 231 00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:23,400 Speaker 1: I've gone through, it was the First World War was 232 00:16:23,440 --> 00:16:25,520 Speaker 1: my tour. I didn't even give you the guy's history 233 00:16:26,120 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: in Africa and the Boers War and when he was 234 00:16:28,880 --> 00:16:31,960 Speaker 1: a prisoner and he was a journalist and he broke 235 00:16:32,040 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: out and escaped and came back as a kind of 236 00:16:34,160 --> 00:16:38,480 Speaker 1: a celebrity journalist and talking about his experience in the 237 00:16:38,520 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: Boer War and his battles. I mean it's a bit 238 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,120 Speaker 1: like Teddy Roosevelt, you know, with a sense of aggressive 239 00:16:45,360 --> 00:16:49,040 Speaker 1: masculine drive and wanted to be where the action is 240 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:52,280 Speaker 1: and do something historic and significant and risk his life. 241 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: And well, he said, all of that was a preparation, 242 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: including the depression, including the failure at the Dardanelles, including 243 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:04,800 Speaker 1: Deale with you know, is his obscurity. It prepared me 244 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: for this trial. Those are great quotes, and that's where 245 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:16,480 Speaker 1: we go to. I'll fight. I'm going to fight. It's 246 00:17:16,480 --> 00:17:18,880 Speaker 1: like Donald Trump, fight, Fight, Fight. I'm going to fight 247 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:20,399 Speaker 1: them on the land. I'm going to fight them on 248 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:22,760 Speaker 1: the beach. We're not giving up. We're not giving any 249 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,280 Speaker 1: other guys didn't have that attitude. Halifax didn't have it, 250 00:17:26,080 --> 00:17:29,560 Speaker 1: Lord knows, Neville Chamberlain Peace in our time didn't have it. 251 00:17:33,280 --> 00:17:38,720 Speaker 1: So uh. Though not overtly evangelical, he had a sense 252 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,960 Speaker 1: of destiny. In fact, one of the quotes, I wish 253 00:17:42,040 --> 00:17:44,160 Speaker 1: I had prepared here, but I didn't give us. Maybe 254 00:17:44,200 --> 00:17:47,120 Speaker 1: we'll bring it up or in post. When he saw 255 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:52,000 Speaker 1: the Second World War forming, he met with Roosevelt, and 256 00:17:52,080 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: he framed as almost as a theologian, the conflict of 257 00:17:58,200 --> 00:18:01,880 Speaker 1: the of Germany versus the rest of the world, Nazism 258 00:18:02,359 --> 00:18:07,080 Speaker 1: versus Western civilization, and what he said was upon this 259 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:14,439 Speaker 1: battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. I remember the 260 00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:19,359 Speaker 1: kind of Prescian prophetic gift that a leader like that has. 261 00:18:20,680 --> 00:18:25,040 Speaker 1: He almost spoke to AI right now, what's coming next? 262 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,520 Speaker 1: I mean, I shudder when I think of what happens 263 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:32,920 Speaker 1: as an a moral or a technocratic state takes over 264 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:36,560 Speaker 1: the power to control all speech, all image, all communication, 265 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,919 Speaker 1: then monitor you in the process. Because he said this 266 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:46,320 Speaker 1: haunting phrase, the real threat of Nazi ideology, of fascist 267 00:18:46,400 --> 00:18:51,200 Speaker 1: dictatorship is made all the more menacing by the lights 268 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:58,119 Speaker 1: of perversions of science, perverted science or technology in the 269 00:18:58,280 --> 00:19:02,680 Speaker 1: hands of a hair estate controlling what you think and 270 00:19:02,800 --> 00:19:07,320 Speaker 1: say and do. He believed England had a moral destiny 271 00:19:07,320 --> 00:19:12,480 Speaker 1: to stand against tyranny. And that's why, boy, you have 272 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:16,840 Speaker 1: a Christian nationalist meltdown pan attack to Ret's assault if 273 00:19:16,880 --> 00:19:18,800 Speaker 1: you were to be with Churchill today, because you know 274 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,720 Speaker 1: what he wanted to have played. When he met on 275 00:19:20,840 --> 00:19:26,600 Speaker 1: the Missouri with Franklin Roosevelt in order to discuss their 276 00:19:26,680 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: plans for partnership against the Nazis, he insisted that they 277 00:19:32,359 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 1: play onward Christian souldiers marching as to war with the 278 00:19:40,160 --> 00:19:46,440 Speaker 1: cross of Jesus. He insisted that they have onward Christian soldiers. 279 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:51,639 Speaker 1: He understood in his own way, under the Anglican influence 280 00:19:51,680 --> 00:19:56,000 Speaker 1: of his faith, that there was an ultimate moral issue 281 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,960 Speaker 1: and a spiritual battle that was being fought against the 282 00:19:59,000 --> 00:20:05,080 Speaker 1: sinister forces of Hitler and Nazism. So let me in 283 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:06,879 Speaker 1: a few minutes we have I got to give you 284 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,520 Speaker 1: the human side of Churchill, not if there's any particular 285 00:20:11,560 --> 00:20:13,520 Speaker 1: great takeaway other than I hate the fact that you 286 00:20:13,560 --> 00:20:16,960 Speaker 1: might not know these things. The devil did try to 287 00:20:17,040 --> 00:20:20,160 Speaker 1: kill him. He was in New York, New York, after 288 00:20:20,320 --> 00:20:25,639 Speaker 1: meeting with FDR and forming their alliance, speaking to Congress 289 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:28,920 Speaker 1: and bringing the Americas up to date on the moral 290 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:31,960 Speaker 1: crusade and the toughness of what they were able to 291 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 1: do and the hope for what they could accomplish together 292 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:39,440 Speaker 1: against Japan and Germany and Italy. And because they drive 293 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:41,720 Speaker 1: on a different part of the street over there in England, 294 00:20:41,760 --> 00:20:44,160 Speaker 1: he gets out in New York and gets run over 295 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:51,239 Speaker 1: by a cab, almost killed. While he's in Washington, he 296 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: goes to New York in nineteen thirty one to get 297 00:20:53,320 --> 00:20:56,680 Speaker 1: his by a car. The great quote is it's well 298 00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: known that a New York taxi driver has the right 299 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:03,600 Speaker 1: of way right away over everybody and except for a truck. 300 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:09,560 Speaker 1: And so he was run over the the in a 301 00:21:09,600 --> 00:21:12,840 Speaker 1: great moment in the White House meeting with Fdr. And 302 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 1: Roosevelt loved Churchill because Roosevelt himself is a bit of 303 00:21:16,960 --> 00:21:20,120 Speaker 1: a bonb yvant. He loved a bit of repartee. He 304 00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,320 Speaker 1: was a cocktail guy, and he and a conversationalist, and well, 305 00:21:24,440 --> 00:21:26,879 Speaker 1: Winston let it get regale him. And the two of 306 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:29,760 Speaker 1: these guys be drinking and you know, and and talking 307 00:21:29,840 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: late at night and kind of developed a kind of 308 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,560 Speaker 1: a friendship between the two of them, which was very 309 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,400 Speaker 1: helpful because they had a relationship that backed up the war. 310 00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:43,920 Speaker 1: But Roosevelt, who of course was was invalid. He he 311 00:21:43,960 --> 00:21:48,080 Speaker 1: wheeled up to Churchill's door and kind of like knocked on. 312 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:49,960 Speaker 1: Churchill didn't hear me, just kind of open it and 313 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:54,159 Speaker 1: wheeled himself in. And Churchill was in the bathtub. And 314 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:59,560 Speaker 1: so Churchill stands up, dripping wet, fully naked and says 315 00:21:59,600 --> 00:22:03,880 Speaker 1: to Franklan Roosevelt, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, has 316 00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:06,480 Speaker 1: nothing to hide from the President of the United States. 317 00:22:07,359 --> 00:22:11,280 Speaker 1: Of course, this was met by gales of laughter and 318 00:22:11,560 --> 00:22:13,640 Speaker 1: story that would be told over and over again. As 319 00:22:13,680 --> 00:22:15,640 Speaker 1: Franklin could have had to say that I was poor, 320 00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:17,720 Speaker 1: I'd go with the church and there is but naked 321 00:22:17,760 --> 00:22:20,399 Speaker 1: in the bathtub and stands up. But these stories you 322 00:22:20,480 --> 00:22:25,240 Speaker 1: might as well know. The great classic one. It's when 323 00:22:25,320 --> 00:22:29,680 Speaker 1: lady asked her a very refined British aristocrats, to find 324 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 1: Winston and dinner, and all these dinners they have a 325 00:22:33,600 --> 00:22:37,840 Speaker 1: bit boring and borish, and she said, if you or 326 00:22:37,880 --> 00:22:43,159 Speaker 1: my husband, I'd poison your tea, to which church replied, Madam, 327 00:22:43,200 --> 00:22:47,399 Speaker 1: if ire was your husband, I'd actually drink it. But 328 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:52,520 Speaker 1: this was in all his public life. He dealt with 329 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:57,959 Speaker 1: his critics, and he dealt with his enemies with the 330 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: skill of one who is a combat and he was 331 00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:07,439 Speaker 1: never actually bested by any of them. There's a terrible 332 00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: story about Bessie Braddock. She said, Winston, you are drunk, 333 00:23:14,920 --> 00:23:17,800 Speaker 1: and Churchill said, my dare, you're our labor. Tomorrow I'll 334 00:23:17,840 --> 00:23:22,399 Speaker 1: be sober, which you can't get away there. You couldnt 335 00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,480 Speaker 1: even get away with saying that nowadays. But the reality 336 00:23:25,560 --> 00:23:29,080 Speaker 1: is Churchill had that kind of a personality. Now, when 337 00:23:29,119 --> 00:23:31,760 Speaker 1: the war was over, you would think that the nation 338 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,879 Speaker 1: would reward the man that had saved them by re 339 00:23:35,960 --> 00:23:42,040 Speaker 1: electing him as Prime Minister. Now he was sadly drubbed 340 00:23:42,040 --> 00:23:46,720 Speaker 1: out of office. They were tired of Winston. He was 341 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:49,280 Speaker 1: kind of like the guy they wanted in war, but 342 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:52,520 Speaker 1: not the guy they wanted in peace, And so he 343 00:23:52,640 --> 00:23:55,760 Speaker 1: had to deal with that. They would eventually later on 344 00:23:55,800 --> 00:24:00,360 Speaker 1: an old, old man, you know, be re elected. But 345 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,600 Speaker 1: the truth is Churchill had to deal with the fact 346 00:24:04,640 --> 00:24:10,800 Speaker 1: that destiny required him for those critical five years that 347 00:24:10,840 --> 00:24:14,399 Speaker 1: would determine the survival of Christian civilization in Europe and 348 00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:18,359 Speaker 1: around the world. And when nobody else was there, he 349 00:24:18,560 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 1: had the grit to stand in the gap because God 350 00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:25,119 Speaker 1: formed him for that moment, and the prayers of people 351 00:24:25,280 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: deployed the right tool at the right time. And I'll 352 00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,959 Speaker 1: suggest to you that that same thing happens today, and 353 00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:35,920 Speaker 1: that we should be looking carefully to see not who 354 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,080 Speaker 1: agrees with our theology, but who actually has the principles 355 00:24:39,480 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: and the ideas and the character to handle tough times. 356 00:24:44,880 --> 00:24:47,000 Speaker 1: Well that's my story and I'm sticking with it. We'll 357 00:24:47,000 --> 00:25:01,600 Speaker 1: see you again in our next episode. So years ago, 358 00:25:01,960 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 1: I remember asking the question, is there any strategy and 359 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:09,560 Speaker 1: history that can correspond to the United States of America, 360 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:18,920 Speaker 1: this once more Christian nation recovering from its collapse. I mean, 361 00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:24,520 Speaker 1: it's moral like spiral. And the answer was given to me, 362 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: There's only one that could really one period of history 363 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,040 Speaker 1: that could really be instrumental in teaching us. That would 364 00:25:31,040 --> 00:25:35,840 Speaker 1: be the period of England at the time of the 365 00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:39,160 Speaker 1: French Revolution. The whole nation would have been anarchy, the 366 00:25:39,200 --> 00:25:45,080 Speaker 1: fires of revolution spreading. But they hit you know, they 367 00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:48,439 Speaker 1: hit a water wall in Britain. And how could it 368 00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:52,200 Speaker 1: be possible that the same you know, COVID goes around 369 00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:55,639 Speaker 1: the world, But why wouldn't that same moral contagion of 370 00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:59,000 Speaker 1: frustration with the elites. Certainly Britain had their elites, they 371 00:25:59,000 --> 00:26:03,840 Speaker 1: had their royalty, they have poverty something in France, you know, discombobulated. 372 00:26:03,840 --> 00:26:07,480 Speaker 1: But over in Britain it didn't take hold. And what 373 00:26:07,760 --> 00:26:12,480 Speaker 1: was it, Well, it was the work of the first 374 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: and second Great. It was the great Awakening that happened 375 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:22,000 Speaker 1: with Whitfield, the Methodist Church. It was the power of 376 00:26:22,680 --> 00:26:27,399 Speaker 1: an evangelical sensibility that came to the nation. It was 377 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:34,119 Speaker 1: the strength of Wilberforce and the reformation that he had brought. 378 00:26:35,400 --> 00:26:38,240 Speaker 1: I've got the name here William Wilberforce for a reason, 379 00:26:39,359 --> 00:26:44,800 Speaker 1: because Wilberforce shows us a model of not only how 380 00:26:44,840 --> 00:26:50,240 Speaker 1: to overcome the threats of socialist, progressive, left wing communist revolution, 381 00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:55,200 Speaker 1: but what the structure and the strategies are that can 382 00:26:55,400 --> 00:27:00,000 Speaker 1: save a nation. Remember, Old England is where we came from. 383 00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:03,080 Speaker 1: New England is where I used to preach in the 384 00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:08,000 Speaker 1: United States. New England, I mean, we're an offshoot of 385 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,400 Speaker 1: the British colonies and a fairly young nation as nations 386 00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,960 Speaker 1: go that have been around like Italy and the Roman 387 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,680 Speaker 1: conquests at the time of Christ. Where are a young 388 00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:21,560 Speaker 1: country compared to them? So there's something to learn about. 389 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:26,000 Speaker 1: What did Wilberforce, What did Whitfield, what did Wesley? What 390 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,280 Speaker 1: did these guys do in Great Britain? And maybe what 391 00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,280 Speaker 1: do they need to do now now that they're in 392 00:27:32,320 --> 00:27:35,040 Speaker 1: the spiral they're in? Well, here's where I want to go. 393 00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:41,640 Speaker 1: Wilberforce rises up as a unique feature because he at 394 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: the same time that our country had slaves, Britain had 395 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:54,119 Speaker 1: been massively in the slave trade from the Caribbean and 396 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,200 Speaker 1: various parts of the world, Africa, where they would literally 397 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,800 Speaker 1: have the sugar plantations going and taking the slaves and 398 00:28:01,840 --> 00:28:07,199 Speaker 1: bringing them to England and creating their whole system of 399 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: their empire run off of this slavery market. Well, Wilberforce 400 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,760 Speaker 1: is the one who could be said to be credited 401 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:21,680 Speaker 1: with breaking that in history. How did Wilberforce do that? 402 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:24,840 Speaker 1: When we failed to deal with it? As I said 403 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:27,479 Speaker 1: in an earlier episode, we ended up going through a 404 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:34,159 Speaker 1: civil war because Christianity wasn't able to penetrate government and 405 00:28:34,320 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: shift the conscience of the nation and move people to 406 00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:41,080 Speaker 1: reject slavery in the South, we ended up having an 407 00:28:41,160 --> 00:28:47,000 Speaker 1: armed conflict. Wilberforce's weighs a lot better than civil war. 408 00:28:47,800 --> 00:28:51,160 Speaker 1: So what did he do? Massive figure in history? When 409 00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:59,719 Speaker 1: he died, I'll keys this out. In his eighties they 410 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:02,400 Speaker 1: found him. He was a shriveled up kind of guy 411 00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:07,640 Speaker 1: because he had scoliosis, spine bent over, and they were 412 00:29:07,680 --> 00:29:12,239 Speaker 1: horrified to discover that all those years he had this 413 00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: back brace almost like an iron claw that went up 414 00:29:17,800 --> 00:29:21,000 Speaker 1: his back, around his waist and wrapped around the collar 415 00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,520 Speaker 1: of his neck, which he kept concealed, and they kept 416 00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,000 Speaker 1: him from completely tipping over, and so he was held 417 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:32,120 Speaker 1: up in this painful iron brace his whole life. But 418 00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:38,440 Speaker 1: nobody saw it, nor did he complain about it. The 419 00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:43,920 Speaker 1: one quote that I remember is a man in Parliament 420 00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:50,160 Speaker 1: I see. I can find his his quote here because 421 00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:54,800 Speaker 1: I thought it was so interesting that he said. I 422 00:29:54,880 --> 00:30:00,600 Speaker 1: listened to Wilberforce speak. Name is Boswell. He said he 423 00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:04,760 Speaker 1: would come into parliament, and he approached it frail and small, 424 00:30:05,320 --> 00:30:09,160 Speaker 1: bend over. But the shrimp became a whale, and I 425 00:30:09,280 --> 00:30:13,680 Speaker 1: was carried away by his eloquence, and forgot that he 426 00:30:13,840 --> 00:30:19,880 Speaker 1: was even small. He seemed to fill Parliament with the 427 00:30:19,920 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: strength of what he had to say. Well, what was 428 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:29,960 Speaker 1: it that Wilberforce had to say? He says that God 429 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:35,160 Speaker 1: visited him. He visited him as a young man. His 430 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:38,400 Speaker 1: aunt and his uncle, his father died. Notice how these 431 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: patterns in family history affect and shape you. His father died, 432 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:46,320 Speaker 1: he had to go live with his aunt and his uncle. 433 00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:49,680 Speaker 1: But his inn and his uncle were affected by the 434 00:30:49,720 --> 00:30:58,360 Speaker 1: Whitfield Wesley revivals. Whitfield, the great evangelist George Whitfield, preached 435 00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:03,120 Speaker 1: in their house and had meetings in there on their property. 436 00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:08,600 Speaker 1: The place was packed. The family was so impacted by 437 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:13,200 Speaker 1: Whitfield they were ardent believers by the time that young 438 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:18,840 Speaker 1: Wilberforce went to stay with Auntie. They really evangelized the 439 00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:21,840 Speaker 1: heck out of that kid. You say, pray you need 440 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:25,160 Speaker 1: Jesus or the kid. Well, the kid evidently has an 441 00:31:25,240 --> 00:31:32,760 Speaker 1: encounter with God and it's and he hasn't yet submitted himself, 442 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,800 Speaker 1: but he knows it's real. His mother thinks he's fallen 443 00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:41,000 Speaker 1: into a cult and immediately reels him back home and 444 00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,520 Speaker 1: tries to get him back with his old buddies, his 445 00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,280 Speaker 1: old friends, and get back to normal, get away from 446 00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:51,239 Speaker 1: the religious fanaticism. Huh, Well, the thought didn't leave him 447 00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,120 Speaker 1: because God began to wrestle with him. He goes on 448 00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:57,440 Speaker 1: to you know, to Cambridge, becomes best friends with William Pitt, 449 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:05,640 Speaker 1: aristocratic wealth, the young future prime minister, and the two 450 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:10,160 Speaker 1: of them were buddies in college, best friends, and commiserated 451 00:32:10,160 --> 00:32:12,280 Speaker 1: about what they were going to do with their political careers, 452 00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:17,000 Speaker 1: and they both decided Kate will be prime minister. He'll 453 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,440 Speaker 1: serve two terms and he's going to set it up 454 00:32:19,720 --> 00:32:23,120 Speaker 1: for William. So William Wilberforce he can have his turn, 455 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:24,640 Speaker 1: and the two of them were actually going to go 456 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,280 Speaker 1: kind of play politics together and champion each other as 457 00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: buddies will. This is when Wilberforce gets dealt with by 458 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,360 Speaker 1: God and God starts to convict him and he gives 459 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:43,400 Speaker 1: us life to Jesus. He says, man, I wanted to 460 00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,440 Speaker 1: do politics, that was my ambition, But I realized God 461 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 1: set before me not one, but two folks. Listen to me. 462 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:58,680 Speaker 1: Not since Moses has there ever been a mandate this 463 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:06,440 Speaker 1: audacious given to an individual regarding a nation. Wilberforce was 464 00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:11,400 Speaker 1: told by the Lord two things, son, not just one. 465 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:14,240 Speaker 1: I want you to abouce slavery, completely, get rid of it. 466 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,600 Speaker 1: Now imagine this. Back then, ten percent of the GDP 467 00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:21,840 Speaker 1: of the nation, a tenth of the economy is off 468 00:33:21,920 --> 00:33:26,040 Speaker 1: of this industry. And in the weird psychology of Europe, 469 00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:30,120 Speaker 1: they thought they were helping people become more civilized by 470 00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: coming into Europe. So Wilberforce is going to eradicate slavery. 471 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:38,480 Speaker 1: Look at how we did it in the United States. 472 00:33:38,520 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 1: See how big a job that was. And then the 473 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,320 Speaker 1: Lord as this to them, and I want a complete 474 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:47,200 Speaker 1: reformation of morality, complete overhaul on the morals of the nation. 475 00:33:47,360 --> 00:33:50,280 Speaker 1: If the morals were right, then the slavery wouldn't be 476 00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:53,600 Speaker 1: an issue. So it's not just like, let's say ending abortion, 477 00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:55,880 Speaker 1: but I want you to take care of her, deal 478 00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: with gay marriage, and get everything back on our Christian foundation. 479 00:33:59,440 --> 00:34:01,840 Speaker 1: That would be God giving you that call right now, 480 00:34:01,880 --> 00:34:05,040 Speaker 1: and abortion and gay marriage. Just do it. Oh my God, 481 00:34:06,880 --> 00:34:10,279 Speaker 1: God has sent before me two great objectives, the abolition 482 00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 1: of the slave trade and the reformation of matters. Matters 483 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:17,520 Speaker 1: in that period of time meant morality, how people behaved. 484 00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:22,600 Speaker 1: Do you have any more on him? Here? He said, 485 00:34:22,640 --> 00:34:24,600 Speaker 1: you may choose to look the other way, but you 486 00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,520 Speaker 1: can never say again that you didn't know. He had 487 00:34:27,520 --> 00:34:32,160 Speaker 1: a real conviction about conscience. He says, once God speaks 488 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:36,480 Speaker 1: to you, once the word of God shows you what 489 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,680 Speaker 1: the truth is, you cannot turn away from your hell 490 00:34:39,800 --> 00:34:44,120 Speaker 1: to that standard. And so he practiced that vigilantly. Now 491 00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:47,720 Speaker 1: I want to talk about the strategy that was employed, 492 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:53,800 Speaker 1: because it didn't happen easily. Wesley was in his older 493 00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,919 Speaker 1: years when young Whitfield wrote them and said, Hey, man, 494 00:34:56,960 --> 00:35:01,040 Speaker 1: I think God wants me to overt turned slavery, And 495 00:35:01,640 --> 00:35:07,239 Speaker 1: Wesley said, basically, it's listen, I'm a man of faith, 496 00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,240 Speaker 1: but I'm telling you, if God's not in it, it's 497 00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:13,799 Speaker 1: not going to be happening in your lifetime. But if 498 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:17,560 Speaker 1: God's in it, it can happen. It'd have to be God. 499 00:35:18,960 --> 00:35:25,680 Speaker 1: So you need to know this about Wilberforce, and that 500 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:30,600 Speaker 1: is the fact that God raised him up as a 501 00:35:30,719 --> 00:35:35,600 Speaker 1: vessel to completely shift the nation, and the way that 502 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,240 Speaker 1: he would do it would be he would be working 503 00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:46,600 Speaker 1: with the transformation of culture through the conviction of the conscience. 504 00:35:48,600 --> 00:35:54,439 Speaker 1: He gathered together with other Christians in Parliament and they 505 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:58,279 Speaker 1: joined forces together. They were derisively called the saints by 506 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,360 Speaker 1: the rest of Parliament, but those Christians made the decision 507 00:36:01,360 --> 00:36:03,320 Speaker 1: that they were going to do something that would affect 508 00:36:03,760 --> 00:36:07,320 Speaker 1: the direction of the nation. It wouldn't happen overnight. Wesley 509 00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,640 Speaker 1: was virtually almost right because it was somewhat forty fifty 510 00:36:10,719 --> 00:36:14,280 Speaker 1: years later, Wilberforce is near his deathbed and he gets 511 00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:18,680 Speaker 1: handed a piece of paper saying, essentially, slavery will be eradicated. 512 00:36:19,280 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 1: What you've given your life to accomplishing at the end 513 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:25,239 Speaker 1: of your life. You can see it's like Moses looking 514 00:36:25,280 --> 00:36:29,040 Speaker 1: at the promised land out there in the horizon. But 515 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:33,480 Speaker 1: what William Wilberforce had done was in order to create 516 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:38,280 Speaker 1: a conscience in the nation. He began assailing every single 517 00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:44,600 Speaker 1: ghastly immoral practice they had. Young kids would be getting drunk. 518 00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:46,080 Speaker 1: They were able to drink at the age of seven. 519 00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:47,719 Speaker 1: He said, you got to raise the workforce age. You 520 00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:49,480 Speaker 1: can have kids working fourteen hours a day in the 521 00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:52,200 Speaker 1: minds drinking gin when they come out. And so he 522 00:36:52,320 --> 00:36:57,120 Speaker 1: started to create laws and push for moral reform and 523 00:36:57,239 --> 00:37:01,960 Speaker 1: continuously pinprick the nation in a hundred places. The Society 524 00:37:01,960 --> 00:37:03,759 Speaker 1: for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. You know where 525 00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:06,800 Speaker 1: that came from. Wilberforce watched a man beat his horse 526 00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:09,200 Speaker 1: over the head with the club. He said, this is ghastly. 527 00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,120 Speaker 1: Laws should be against the cruel treatment of animals. And 528 00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,279 Speaker 1: so he basically made a conscience formed in the nation 529 00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:22,200 Speaker 1: by legislation and constant public persuasion on the habits that 530 00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:25,040 Speaker 1: they had. Welcome back in a minute, I want you 531 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:40,239 Speaker 1: to hear the rest of this in terms of the 532 00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:43,080 Speaker 1: battle he had. He went on for twenty thirty years, 533 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:47,600 Speaker 1: just shutdown, failure after failure after failure, but he persisted, 534 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:54,120 Speaker 1: He persisted in building a conscience in the culture. And 535 00:37:54,239 --> 00:37:55,920 Speaker 1: this is something to think about and we don't do 536 00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:59,000 Speaker 1: this very well, but we ought to learn something from Wilberforce. 537 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:06,600 Speaker 1: Slavery was only one expression of the reformation of morality, 538 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:10,680 Speaker 1: reformation of manners. Remember Wilberforce's quote, here is a true 539 00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:13,520 Speaker 1: Christianity is a new principle of action within That sounds 540 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:15,520 Speaker 1: a little vague, but to him, here's what it means. 541 00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,080 Speaker 1: If you're really a Christian, you have a new heart 542 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,600 Speaker 1: and that ought to spring out in manifesting new direction 543 00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,120 Speaker 1: in your life. And what you put your hand to 544 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:28,640 Speaker 1: is an extension of a change nature. If you really 545 00:38:28,680 --> 00:38:32,160 Speaker 1: don't have any action out here that reflects a change 546 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,920 Speaker 1: of nature, you're probably not a true Christian. That's what 547 00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,439 Speaker 1: he call it's a true Christianity. So he said, listen, 548 00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,719 Speaker 1: true Christians would engage with social ills. The left does 549 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:45,600 Speaker 1: this all the time. I think we Christians are kind 550 00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:49,920 Speaker 1: of like slow at this because we got a pietism mysticism. 551 00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:52,520 Speaker 1: It's all about supernatural and getting saved and going to 552 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,719 Speaker 1: heaven and going to church. The left is like a 553 00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:57,160 Speaker 1: counterfeit for the Church. It's like they're into fighting this 554 00:38:57,200 --> 00:38:59,560 Speaker 1: and fighting that freedom by this, all their courses in 555 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:03,120 Speaker 1: curriculam about the oppressed and the suppressed, the victims that 556 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:07,200 Speaker 1: this to that, and there's a misguided evangelical zeal which 557 00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:10,000 Speaker 1: is trying to get ready to save the whales, and 558 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: you know, and then the hoot owl and you know, 559 00:39:13,000 --> 00:39:16,200 Speaker 1: global warming and climate change and redistribution of wealth and 560 00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:19,359 Speaker 1: stop the police and defund the police. All of that 561 00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:22,320 Speaker 1: is like what happens when you don't have a healthy 562 00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:26,080 Speaker 1: conscience working in a nation doing proper reform. You got radical, 563 00:39:26,120 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 1: crazy reform. Wilberforce said, let's harness this baby. And so 564 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:33,880 Speaker 1: what he did was he he got whole kinds of groups, 565 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,759 Speaker 1: they call them societies, and of his society for the 566 00:39:36,760 --> 00:39:40,200 Speaker 1: prevention of the curl out, of society against drunk drunk driving, drunk, 567 00:39:40,239 --> 00:39:43,600 Speaker 1: you know, drunkenness with miners, like an eight year old 568 00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:45,800 Speaker 1: told you, like eleven year olds would go mining fourteen 569 00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:47,239 Speaker 1: hours a day and go with their dad and go 570 00:39:47,239 --> 00:39:51,400 Speaker 1: get drunk on gin. So there were child labor laws. 571 00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,080 Speaker 1: He said. He used to be a public entertamer. You know, 572 00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,160 Speaker 1: a public entertainment in London was they have a public hanging, 573 00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:00,600 Speaker 1: especially women, women being hung in public. It's like, you know, 574 00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 1: you could be and it was like a carnival and 575 00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:05,840 Speaker 1: guys were selling stopping got your popcarn hair three for 576 00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:08,000 Speaker 1: fifty and it's like here comes be hanging and there 577 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,080 Speaker 1: comes Katie out there. Ooh, what's her crime? I want 578 00:40:11,080 --> 00:40:12,920 Speaker 1: to see you hang? And you see you go up 579 00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:14,200 Speaker 1: there and you don't get the thing run in there, 580 00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,960 Speaker 1: and it was a public almost entertainment. Wilberforce said this 581 00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,000 Speaker 1: has got to stop. And he preaching Parliament, but he'd 582 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:23,279 Speaker 1: have his little society. He's got his methodists, he's got 583 00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:26,800 Speaker 1: his evangelists, got his evangelicals, and they had lots of tracks, 584 00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,719 Speaker 1: lots of tracks. They were all handing on tracks to 585 00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:32,400 Speaker 1: the literate talking about this and their moral reformers and 586 00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,680 Speaker 1: that little army of his listen to what they did. 587 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:38,719 Speaker 1: They I think they initiated something like one hundred and 588 00:40:38,719 --> 00:40:44,319 Speaker 1: twenty different laws and reforms, child labor reform, children as 589 00:40:44,320 --> 00:40:47,520 Speaker 1: young as six were drunk gin soak factories that ended 590 00:40:47,600 --> 00:40:52,719 Speaker 1: animal welfare. He founded the SPCA, Prison reform, education reform, 591 00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:56,959 Speaker 1: He started the Sierra Leone and India started sending missionaries 592 00:40:57,000 --> 00:41:01,200 Speaker 1: out with missionary work from the nation. Did public hangings 593 00:41:01,200 --> 00:41:05,960 Speaker 1: in all forms of cruelty, And what happened is it 594 00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,960 Speaker 1: gradually built a conscience. But more than that, he started 595 00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:12,399 Speaker 1: meeting in private at the clap Of Estate and this 596 00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,279 Speaker 1: is a place where he met and he said, let 597 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:17,520 Speaker 1: me see if I could draw this for you. This 598 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,520 Speaker 1: is kind of a powerful idea. What Wilberforcet did was 599 00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:25,040 Speaker 1: he basically took, like I talk about these seven mountains 600 00:41:25,080 --> 00:41:28,320 Speaker 1: of culture. He said, we're going to deal with Great 601 00:41:28,320 --> 00:41:30,879 Speaker 1: Britain and we're going to change the way of things. 602 00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:36,680 Speaker 1: So he took the church influencers and he worked with 603 00:41:37,040 --> 00:41:42,280 Speaker 1: his government people watch this. He worked with media people, 604 00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:46,160 Speaker 1: he worked with the arts community, and he worked with 605 00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:52,040 Speaker 1: business to check this out. What Wilberforce did with these 606 00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:59,160 Speaker 1: four was amazing. He took them all and they met 607 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:03,719 Speaker 1: at the house of a businessman and so this is 608 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,840 Speaker 1: the family mountain actually, And so he basically had the 609 00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:12,200 Speaker 1: families come to the business mountain over here where they 610 00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:19,920 Speaker 1: had a property which was called the Clapham Estate or 611 00:42:19,960 --> 00:42:25,040 Speaker 1: the Clapham Fellowship. And they would go from London all 612 00:42:25,120 --> 00:42:27,080 Speaker 1: the way, all of it. And he took the elite 613 00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:31,520 Speaker 1: believers in media and government, from the prominent families of 614 00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:36,480 Speaker 1: influence in Great Britain and preachers and they met here 615 00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:39,760 Speaker 1: at the home of a wealthy businessman, and they gathered 616 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:44,279 Speaker 1: together there and they fellowshipped over weekends, and during those 617 00:42:44,320 --> 00:42:48,680 Speaker 1: weekends they had meals together and discussed who they were influencing. 618 00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,799 Speaker 1: Now watching this works, who were they influencing at the 619 00:42:51,840 --> 00:42:55,880 Speaker 1: top of the structures, who were they talking to? And 620 00:42:56,040 --> 00:42:58,640 Speaker 1: how were you? How's the It was almost like evangelism. 621 00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:02,560 Speaker 1: How's the how how's the conversation going? Because they all 622 00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:07,160 Speaker 1: agreed that's a slave trade was going to be the 623 00:43:07,200 --> 00:43:10,280 Speaker 1: target they were going to take down, and in doing 624 00:43:10,320 --> 00:43:14,560 Speaker 1: that they would deal with all the other reforms, creating 625 00:43:14,600 --> 00:43:18,239 Speaker 1: a conscience in culture till that big one came down. 626 00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:22,200 Speaker 1: But you see how many genius this is. The Clapham Estate, 627 00:43:22,280 --> 00:43:25,919 Speaker 1: in my opinion, is one of the great unused strategies 628 00:43:25,920 --> 00:43:30,120 Speaker 1: of Christianity. What it means is Christians that are the elites, 629 00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,960 Speaker 1: are the people of influence that have prominence, visibility, influence 630 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:40,400 Speaker 1: should actually be meeting together and and and humility and 631 00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:44,200 Speaker 1: before Jesus praying about is what are you? What is 632 00:43:44,239 --> 00:43:46,200 Speaker 1: You're calling us to do? Lord? How can we use 633 00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:50,920 Speaker 1: our agency in order to produce change and reform? This 634 00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:54,520 Speaker 1: could be done in a city this could be done 635 00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,920 Speaker 1: in a region of the country, and in Great Britain, 636 00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,120 Speaker 1: it was done in a nation. By the time they 637 00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,399 Speaker 1: were done, I mean, get this, I'm going to change 638 00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,719 Speaker 1: the color here just to make a point. I'm going 639 00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,400 Speaker 1: to go to purple. Do you know what they produced 640 00:44:09,400 --> 00:44:13,319 Speaker 1: as a result of that Victorian England? You ever hear 641 00:44:13,400 --> 00:44:15,840 Speaker 1: the word Victorian and you think of some kind of 642 00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:21,280 Speaker 1: a you know, proper British. The Victorian England came out 643 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:26,799 Speaker 1: as a result of Wilberforce shifting the morality of the 644 00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:31,560 Speaker 1: nation and ending the slave trade. That little shrimp of 645 00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:33,880 Speaker 1: a man that needed a neck brace to hold him 646 00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:40,200 Speaker 1: up persisted for twenty thirty forty years, being defeated, defeated, defeating, 647 00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,439 Speaker 1: but gradually his reforms. And you know what he said 648 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:47,160 Speaker 1: was the secret. I want you to hear this language. 649 00:44:47,880 --> 00:44:55,279 Speaker 1: A sustained pattern of public persuasion would to god, we 650 00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,960 Speaker 1: had that that all of the glenn Beck's and the 651 00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:01,880 Speaker 1: war rooms and the Charlie Kirks, And I mean, in 652 00:45:01,920 --> 00:45:07,000 Speaker 1: a sense it's happening without coordination, by people hearing and 653 00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:10,480 Speaker 1: sharing the same ideas and articulating in their own ways. 654 00:45:10,760 --> 00:45:14,879 Speaker 1: But a sustained pattern of public persuasion. If we were 655 00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,920 Speaker 1: saying and thinking and believing and beating the drums at 656 00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:22,960 Speaker 1: the same time with the same strategy, how much more 657 00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:26,080 Speaker 1: influence would there be rather than a cacophony of different 658 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:29,440 Speaker 1: drum beats going and everybody's clashing symbols and kind of 659 00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:31,960 Speaker 1: like get everybody pull in their direction. But if we 660 00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:35,440 Speaker 1: could move together, This's what Wilberforce did. They had that 661 00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,440 Speaker 1: the government mountain was where they went and voted, but 662 00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,560 Speaker 1: their public persuasion was what the elites were all working 663 00:45:42,560 --> 00:45:46,720 Speaker 1: on a dinners in private, they did plays, they wrote books. 664 00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:50,000 Speaker 1: The artists wrote award winning books and did award winning 665 00:45:50,120 --> 00:45:52,919 Speaker 1: art projects that touched the high culture of the nation 666 00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:56,200 Speaker 1: in order to put a conscience in them about the 667 00:45:56,239 --> 00:46:00,359 Speaker 1: issue of slavery. All of them played their part. Listen, 668 00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:03,759 Speaker 1: that's how homosexuality became. Like LGBTQ got written into so 669 00:46:03,800 --> 00:46:06,680 Speaker 1: many scripts. Abel and I watch Netflix and so net 670 00:46:07,120 --> 00:46:11,080 Speaker 1: frustrating because it takes two years for you to get 671 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:13,320 Speaker 1: the you know, the stump something out of your system 672 00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,279 Speaker 1: because we're watching stuff that was put in during the 673 00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:20,440 Speaker 1: Biden administration, so we're having to regurgitate all that. But 674 00:46:20,480 --> 00:46:22,840 Speaker 1: it's always got a subplot, whether a trans this or 675 00:46:23,080 --> 00:46:25,040 Speaker 1: you know, two gay lovers, you know, lesbian or something 676 00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,319 Speaker 1: like that. It's like, hey, you're talking about three to 677 00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:29,759 Speaker 1: four percent of the population. Forget about the gen zs. 678 00:46:29,760 --> 00:46:32,440 Speaker 1: They all been you know, propaganda. It's three percent of 679 00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,320 Speaker 1: the population. Why is it fifty percent of the cast members. 680 00:46:37,040 --> 00:46:39,560 Speaker 1: But that's what happens. Wilberforcet would go into the arts 681 00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:42,320 Speaker 1: world and say, uh, we're going to have some cool Christians. 682 00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,799 Speaker 1: We're going to make Christianity cool. We're going to make 683 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:51,600 Speaker 1: righteousness cool, because that's what the Reformation of Matters was. Well, 684 00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,680 Speaker 1: I'm sharing that with you because the lessons that we 685 00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:59,680 Speaker 1: learned is eighteen oh seven, the Slave Trade Act was passed, 686 00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:04,080 Speaker 1: two hundred and eighty three votes against it, sixteen to 687 00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:11,040 Speaker 1: keep it parliament. Parliament applauded. Wilberforce wept silently, head bout 688 00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,720 Speaker 1: in gratitude. Three days later he went into glory, stood 689 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:22,480 Speaker 1: in front of Jesus. His death was. On his deathbed, 690 00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:26,160 Speaker 1: he received whether the Slavery Abolition Act had passed. He 691 00:47:26,239 --> 00:47:31,600 Speaker 1: finished his race the way he had fought, with perseverance, gret, grace, 692 00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:37,359 Speaker 1: and he never complained about his personal price. All right, 693 00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:42,520 Speaker 1: that's William Wilberforce and I hope you've enjoyed the series 694 00:47:42,600 --> 00:47:43,040 Speaker 1: thus far.