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The Blessings of Liberty

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The Blessings of Liberty explores the Christian heritage of our Constitution. Listen/Download this and other mp3 messages at http://light4living.org/sermons/r~20466/the_blessings_of_liberty.

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Patrick Henry

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The Blessings of Liberty

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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. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men…

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE THE US CONSTITUTION

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Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath

made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke

of bondage.

Galatians 5:1

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Sundays Excepted

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If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law.

Article One: Section 7

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And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. Acts 20:7

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For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

Jeremiah 3:2

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Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

James 4:8 / 10

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The Religious

Test

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The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.

Article Six

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And lamentable it is to see ye effects which have followed. Religion hath been disgraced, the godly greeved, afflicted, persecuted, and many exiled, sundrie have lost their lives in prisones & otherways. On the other hand, sin hath been countenanced, ignorance, profannes, & atheisme increased….

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So then every one of us shall give account

of himself to God. Romans 14:12

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The Year of our Lord

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…done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth…

Article Seven

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Representative Louis Gohmert

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Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.

Exodus 120:12

“God of Our Fathers”Daniel C. Roberts