I sure appreciated that song. It made me want to preach tonight's sermon this morning. Maybe I will anyway after I get done with this one. Let's turn in our Bibles to the book of Deuteronomy. Deuteronomy 6. Deuteronomy 6. I know that several of you are going to be traveling this week, and I hope that you have a good, safe journey. Sometimes you can't help. I know this. Sometimes you can't help it, and sometimes it's just needful to be gone on Sunday. But whenever you can get back, and it's not going to make that much difference to you, try to be back on Sunday if you can. I know it's not always possible and feasible and desirable or whatever, If you just pray about it, say, Lord, would you want us to leave Saturday night or Monday morning? Then follow the Lord's will. Let's turn in our Bibles. You already have Deuteronomy 6. Let's stand together and read from God's Word. Deuteronomy 6. We're going to begin reading with verse 10. Before we do, let's go to the Lord in prayer. Our Heavenly Father, we come to You today. We thank You to be able to be in Your house. We thank You for Your many blessings upon us. Thank You, dear God, for all that we have to be thankful for. And Lord, we know there's so many things that we ought to be expressing our thanks to You for that maybe don't even cross our minds or we don't realize that things that have happened that maybe don't seem like they're a blessing to us, but they are a blessing to us. And we'll find out in the glory what a blessing these things were. We pray, dear God, that You will help us this morning to worship You in spirit and in truth. We pray, especially for any that are here and lost, that this would be the day that they would come and receive the Lord Jesus as their Savior. Help them, O God, to understand that our Lord Jesus went and humbled Himself and died a terrible death to ransom them for eternity. And I pray that you would help them to have the courage and the urgency to step out and step forward to receive the Lord as their Savior. And we pray and ask that you would bless now in Jesus' name. Amen. Now look at Deuteronomy 6, verse 10. The children of Israel are about to go into the Promised Land. It's been a long time coming. Many things have taken place, but the Lord is giving them some exhortation about this good land into which they're going to be going. In verse 10, he said, And it shall be when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities which thou buildest not, and houses full of all good things which thou fillest not. and wells digged, which thou diggest not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantest not, when thou shalt have eaten and be full, then beware lest thou forget the Lord which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name. Ye shall not go after other gods of the gods of the people which are around about you, for the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you, lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee and destroy thee from the face of the earth. Ye shall not tempt the Lord your God as you tempted Him in Massa. Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and His testimonies, and His statutes which He hath commanded thee. And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to cast out all thine enemies from before thee, as the Lord hath spoken. And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondsmen in Egypt, and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand. And the Lord showed signs and wonders great and sore upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household before our eyes. And he brought us out from thence that he might bring us in to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers. And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes to fear the Lord our God for our good always, that he might preserve us alive as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God as He hath commanded us. And may the Lord add His blessing to the reading of His Word. Please be seated. I want to mention something. I want to preach a message pertaining to Thanksgiving this morning. You know, Thanksgiving as a holiday is a holiday really distinct. to America. I'm not going to go into the history of it, the proclamation of it. It goes back a long, long time. There's just something about the American people that has inclined us to not only to recognize God's blessings, but our leadership from the very beginning to recognize how important it is that we express our thanksgiving to God. Now you and I as Christian people, those of you who are saved this morning, we understand this better than anybody else could understand it. I hope that we all understand the importance of thanksgiving and the power that there is in just being a thankful people. We were talking about the wiles and the devices of the devil a little bit in our Sunday school class this morning. There are many things that we need to appropriate and use to our advantage to face the wiles and the devices of our enemy, the devil. He's a vicious enemy. He can never get those of us who are saved into hell. That's a done deal because the Lord God saved us at the cross through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. We are saved. And thank God there's nothing that the devil can ever do about that. But he would like to make us miserable. He would like to trip us up. He would like to get us in a spirit of despondency. He would like to get us taking wrong steps and going in the wrong directions and suffering tragic. One of the most powerful things against the wiles of the devil is the spirit of thanksgiving. We ought to be developing a spirit of thanksgiving, expressing that, cultivating a spirit of praise to God. The Bible says that God inhabiteth the praises of His people. Now, that's not hard to understand. When God's people, for example, people like this get together and they're really in a spirit, they've got it in their hearts, thanksgiving to God. And there's praises on their lips to God. In a very special way, God comes down and inhabits the praises of those people and He works in a mighty way on our behalf and to His glory. So praise and thanksgiving. And I'm proud this morning to be a part of a nation that more uniquely than any other nation in the history of nations understands the importance of Thanksgiving. The father of our country, George Washington, understood it. He understood it. You know why? Because for one thing, he was a saved man. Don't ever let anybody teach you any different than that. He was a Christian man. All of the documented evidence, as well as the observation through the pages of history of his pristine life, would show us that the founding father of this country was a devoted Christian. And he had a lot to say about our nation giving thanks to God for what the Lord had done for us. I just want to say three things in connection with this passage this morning about thanksgiving. Thanksgiving as a nation. Thanksgiving as individuals. You know, the Bible says men ought always to give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. I want to read this passage of Scripture. Moses is speaking on behalf of God to the people. They're ready to go in. You know, there's so many parallels between Israel and the United States of America. their history. God brought them out of bondage. An oppressive, ever-growingly impressive bondage. God brought them to a place of freedom and independence. And God did that for us as Americans. Over 230 years ago, God caused the most ethical time in our nation's history. was when we went up against insurmountable by any measurement odds to win our freedom from Great Britain. It'd be like myself and little Gavin Acker getting into a fight out in the foyer. There'd be no contest. But what would you think if you came back and you looked, and here I am stretched out on the floor, and he's standing over me with a big smile on his face? Now, that just sounds absurd. But really, that is a good picture of what happened. You'd stand back and say, what happened here? Somebody might say it was an accident, he tripped and fell. But you couldn't say that about our winning our freedom. It wasn't any accident. It was the divine hand of a providential God setting us free. And He did not set us free for economic reasons. That blather started back in the mid to late 20s in this country with some ungodly educators that managed to work and worm their way into power in the educational system. But prior to that time, there wasn't anybody that accepted the tomfoolery of an idea that the United States of America became independent, was all about money. It wasn't all about money at all. When people first started coming up on these shores and building their little settlements and struggling to preserve their settlements and make a life here on these shores, they came motivated by a desire to worship God freely. And they believed this Bible. And from the early, early 1600s, preachers were preaching on themes of liberty and freedom. And this became uniquely ingrained and instilled in the minds of what would become the American people. We were under bondage to the greatest empire on earth, Great Britain. God saw fit to set us free. And so, we have something to rejoice in. I just want to say three things. We have something to rejoice in. This passage teaches us we have something we need to always remember, and we have something that we need to make it our business to rehearse. In other words, to tell the story as often as we can. Now, notice in verse 10 and in verse 11, the Bible tells us where Moses, now on God's behalf, He says that God has given you great and godly cities which thou buildest not. And he goes on and says God is going to give you houses full of all good things and wells that you didn't even have to dig and on and on and on. All of these blessings. You know, we have a lot of blessings to rejoice in. You know what people are anticipating mostly today about Thanksgiving, about Thursday? about Thanksgiving dinner? They're not thinking, for the most part, about not having enough. They're thinking about restraining themselves from all that we're going to have. Amen. How unlike so much of the rest of the world. God has given us so much and so much that we can rejoice in. I want to mention two things God has given us. I'm talking about Americans. I'm talking about American Christians. We have this to rejoice in just as Israel rejoiced in the fact that God was giving them a good land. God has given us a good land. God gave us this land. That makes it special in and of itself. You know, most Jews, or many, many, many Jews, no matter where they are in the world, whether they are living in America or have citizenship in Great Britain or wherever they are in the world. Most Jews, and they don't even understand it themselves, but no matter where they are, they feel a strong attachment. They have a supernatural sentiment and a supernatural strong feeling. where Israel is concerned, where their land is concerned. God put that in their hearts. Now, we're living in a day when many people are losing this. But I'm telling you what, American people have historically, and ought to get back to it, to feeling strong in their hearts about America. I've been in many different countries in the world, and I'll tell you, no matter where I've ever been, I've never forgotten I was American. I never failed to be, yes, I'll say it, proud to be an American. Happy. Because really, we look back at a history. There's nobody else that has the history of their country's founding where it's penned out for them that God gave it to them. God worked miracles on their behalf. God gave them this land. This land is our land. And God gave it to us. And we have a lot to rejoice in just because of that. Our land is a beautiful land. Amen. Now, you can't say that about all of the rest of the land in the country, in the world. It's not all beautiful. Some of it is very, very dreary. I had a preacher friend of mine a few years ago. I was preaching a revival for him. He stopped at a 7-Eleven. up in New England to get some gas, and when he went in, he happened to mention what a beautiful day it was. How beautiful the trees were, and it was fall, and the trees were changing. The man behind his desk was from another part of the world, and he said, oh, over in our country, it's prettier than this. All this sand we have, the sand, it's beautiful, the sand my foot. I'm telling you, you can go a long way to find any place in this world any prettier than the United States of America. And right now, we're fixing the sea like I see every year this time of year. I feel like I've been sent down in the middle of an oil painting when God is changing all these colors around us. America the beautiful. Really, God has given us a beautiful land. to rejoice. And as I said, He's given us a bountiful land. Boy, when you study it out and you look at the statistics and everything else, make the comparisons, the contrast. There's nothing to compare with the forest of this land, with the timber resources, the mineral resources, all of the different harbors that we have. It's just a wonderfully rich country in all of these ways and so abundant in these resources and all of the wildlife that When our pilgrim fathers came here, for many, many years, it's still this way. All of the wildlife. It's amazing to me, here in this area, just all of the different kinds of wildlife. One week. Now, you don't always see these in the road. Sometimes they're alive and running around, but I've seen many, many different animals. It's just hawks. All kinds of ravens around here. All of these deer. I saw a coyote off the side of the road, and a skunk in the road, and I could just go on and on and on, but all of the different kind of wildlife there is. God has given us a richly bountiful, bountiful land. And so, all of the different, do you ever think of this, all the different soils. There's no other nation like America. We can raise tropical fruit in one part of our country, And then we can raise different kinds of fruit trees in another part of our country. And we can raise cotton in another part. It's a pitiful thing that a nation so self-sufficient as ours has been made to be so dependent. And when I say been made, this did not happen by accident. There's no excuse for us to have to be going out and buying stuff from every place else. That nonsense did not start in this country until 25 or so years ago. I'm just telling you this because some of you are so young, it would be good for you to have a little lesson about the way things used to be. When I was the age some of you teenagers, I walked in a store, you could search the whole store over and not found anything, hardly, that wasn't made in the USA. I'm just talking about how wealthy and affluent and blessed this nation has been. If you found anything, when I was a teenager, if you found anything that said made in Japan on it, it was junk. And it was junk and everybody knew it was junk. I'm not saying it's junk now, but back then, nothing could compare with what we had in America. By the way, you wouldn't find anything made in China. You wouldn't find anything made in China. Because this country had some principles, and they said, we will not invest one penny in red, communist, enslaving, godless China. Amen. I'm getting a little ahead of myself here. This is the rehearsing part. People need to learn their history. Now, Israel was to rejoice because of the good land she'd been given. She was to rejoice because of the liberty into which they'd been brought. They'd been, as we were, under Great Britain. We became more and more and more like serfs on the plantation under King George in Great Britain. And it was one tax after another tax, tax, tax. You know what they used to call tax? They defined tax as this, legalized plunder. And it's still what it is. And it was nothing but oppression for hard-working American people who had already lived here, been living here since the early 1600s and learning and getting used to the concept of being free. When they started all this taxing and everything else, all these oppressive things and threatening to come and take people's guns away from them, that's what they did back then. And they actually did lodge their soldiers in American homes. And then just treated them like animals. And finally, enough was enough. And you know what God did? God allowed us to have the victory and become the freest people that ever existed in the history of nations. Of free people. Just like God delivered Israel out of bondage. Now, let me just say this. Everybody's familiar with Jamestown. First colony of Jamestown. You know what, in that colony down there in Jamestown, Virginia, they experimented with some economical ideas. You know what their first experiment had to do with? Collectivism and communism. They said, we'll all just work and we'll share what we've all done. I want to just stop right here and put a little parenthesis here. That is ungodly thinking. You nor I deserve anything that somebody else worked for just because we want it or need it. Amen. You work for your own things. You're going to be a bum with your hands. I don't care if it's a bum driving up in a late model automobile and getting out in some nice clothes to get their check for something they've not worked for, they could have worked for. They're still bums. Amen. Well, they had their experiment. See, America experimented with communism. Let's just distribute the wealth. Distribute the wealth. When you hear that phrase, we just need to spread the wealth around. That's communism. And they experimented with that in Jamestown. Do you know what it quickly led to? A period known as the Starving Time. Yeah, that's what it's called in history. The Starving Time. because the people would not work. They wouldn't do anything. They said, let somebody else do it all. I'll just malinger around, dally around here and do nothing and let everybody else in the colony feed me. And you know what it did? It put the whole colony into a starving time. And a better percentage of them died. Now that's what communism, collectivism, totalitarianism and all of that is worth. That's what it does. That's why we call it the free enterprise system. It's free. See, this stuff that's going on today is so totally against all of American history and principles. The idea that I have a business and the government's going to tell me who I can hire and who I can't hire. That I own a house that I want to rent and the government tells me who I can rent it to and who I can't. That, but let it call it what it is. That's totalitarianism. That's communism. That's collectivism. That is ungodly stuff. That's why people ought to get that book, The Five Thousand Year Leap, and read it. Now, they had their experiment. Then they got over that. They said, alright, eat it, it won't work. It's not going to eat. Back to the Bible. It's amazing how people rallied themselves. They weren't having as many headaches anymore. And they got up and went to work because they knew they wouldn't have anything to eat if they didn't. And the colony began to prosper. And once they had introduced this free enterprise system, Here in America, in a period of 200 years, we advanced commercially, economically, and socially in every way. We advanced in 200 years what it had taken 5,000 years up to that time. That's why they call it the 5,000-year leap. When I first saw that book, I thought, what a goofy title, the 5,000-year leap. Couldn't figure out what in the world. That's why. Because in the United States, under freedom, we went did in 200 years what it took 5,000 years to accomplish before that. So here we have a land of freedom, but our freedom is imperiled. Let me say this, I was talking about resources a while ago, all of the minerals and all of the rest of it that we have here, but you know what our most important resource is? It's freedom. One of the richest men this country ever knew, and he wasn't the first one to say it. They didn't all say it the same way, but they all said the same thing. He said, if you take away every plant that I have, if you take away all of my money, and you take away all my employees, you just take it all away from me. He said, it won't be too long until I'll be right back because of this system. In every way, our freedom as Americans is the most important resource we have. I want to tell you, right now, China is drilling for oil off our coast. That never would have happened before. The Japanese have about ruined the American fishermen because they're whaling and fishing right off our coast, which they never would have dared to have done before. But that's the situation that we've been put into. One European country after another, right now while I'm speaking, European countries own millions of acres of American land that they have bought up in anticipation of this Texas corridor that the government intends to build stretching all the way from Mexico across America and into Canada and the foreigners have come in and bought up millions of acres and they own it. And I could go on and on and on. Now here's the unique thing about America, it's not a thing to be proud of. We are one of the few, very, very few countries in the world that will sell its real estate to a foreign power. Now, we have a lot to be thankful for today. We need to be thankful for the freedom that we still have in America. Some things, you know, if we lost all our fishing rights and our fishing industry went down, if we lost our ability to get the oil up out of the ground. By the way, there's enough oil here to last Americans 500 years in their own country. Right now. But if we lost these natural resources, if we lost some of the stuff, you know, maybe we could regain that. Probably we could. But you know what we can't regain? The most important resource we have, and that's our freedom. Our founding fathers understood that. When they wrote the Constitution of the United States, They understood. They had studied and understood the governments of history and what worked and what didn't work. But more than anything else, they had an understanding of Holy Scripture. And they understood that the worst enemy to freedom is man himself because of the sinful nature of man. and how precious freedom is. That's why they gave us a Constitution instead of a monarch, a government of law. No president, no congressman, no senator, nobody. It's not just President Obama or President Bush or any of them. Since about 1915 or so, even before that, since Theodore Roosevelt, these people have been ignoring the Constitution and you're surfing their power. The last thing our founders wanted us to have was a government of men which leads to dictatorship and monarchy and all of that kind of thing and oligarchy. That's why they gave us written laws, why we have a constitution. Here's what John Adams said. He said, cities may be rebuilt and a people reduced to poverty may acquire fresh property. But a constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. That's what history teaches. So we're in imminent danger where our liberty is concerned. And the source of our danger is not China or Japan. The source of our danger is unprincipled people and lazy people in America. I was looking over that oath of enlistment when a person takes the oath as I remember so well when I walked two miles. It wasn't in the snow, kids, but I walked two miles. to the old post office down in Stanton, Missouri when I was barely 17 years old and sat on the post office steps and waited for the van, gray van, from the Navy Department to come and pick me up and carry me back up into downtown St. Louis and Locust and stood on those footprints up there and took the oath of allegiance to the armed forces. It hadn't changed any. As far as I know, this is pretty much the oath that all of our elected officials and the President, the Congress on down, Those like this I, your name, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and domestic, and that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that is to the Constitution. There's no soldier, sailor, marine, Coast Guard, airman, that owes any allegiance to anything but the Constitution of the United States. No policeman, no sheriff, no marshal, no American citizen are allegiances to that document. Now, I was reading some things and telling you this. We have so much to be thankful. We don't want to lose it. I got an email and I checked it out and I read about this and then I was called even again this morning just to double check. But right now, there is a Senate bill, I think it's S510. And what that bill does, they're going to vote on it soon, is what it will lead to is it will become a crime for any Americans to have any seeds. I'm not talking about these hybrid seeds that you plant them and then you can't replant them. Once you plant them, it's over. I'm talking about the old-fashioned kind of seeds that reproduce themselves like we used to plant our corn and then we'd go and harvest our corn and we'd save some of it back to plant the next year and on and on it went. But now they have these genetically modified seeds that once you plant them you got to buy more seeds and Monsanto over here owns, has almost a monopoly on all of those seeds. And this bill will make it illegal for an American to have any Non-hybrid seed. And furthermore, includes in it regulations that will regulate whether or not an American can have a backyard garden. You say, that sounds crazy. Whoever came up with that? I'll tell you who came up with it. Lenin and Stalin came up with it. And they did almost the exact same things. And people weren't allowed to have any seed or raise any garden. And if they were caught doing it, they were put into a prison. And if their neighbors knew about it and hadn't informed on them, their neighbors were put in a prison. We're living in serious times. We need to rejoice in the freedom we have and be so thankful for our freedom that we're not going to let anybody take it away from us. Now let me just quickly say we also have something to remember. Look at verse 12. We're told not to forget some things. Verse 12, he says, beware lest thou forget. Here's what he says in verse 13. He tells us we need to remember to fear the Lord. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God. Now somebody says, I just don't like the idea of having to pray to God all the time. That's not what it's talking about. God's not saying this because He's a big bully. It's talking about reverence to God. It's talking about respect to God. Americans, just as Israel, Americans ought to always respect and reverence God Almighty in heaven. That's what it's talking about. It's talking about recognizing Him. They're talking about throwing Him out of everything, like they're trying to do today. They even want to sandblast all the inscriptions off our monuments now. They're working at it now, doing that. You know what I call that? Defacement of my property. I paid for that. Amen? It's our taxes. That's ours. There's no business going in there defacing that. Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God. Give Him the reverence and obedience that's due to His holy name. There's only one God. That's God. No man or woman down here can pretend to be God. He's God. Romans 1 and verse 30 says, In the end time it will be just like the worst periods of history. Men will be haters of God and despiteful and proud and boasters and inventors of evil things and they'll be disobedient to parents and without understanding, covenant breakers and without natural affection. So he says, this is what we need to remember. And he only mentions two things. One is remember to fear God. And then he says, remember to be faithful to God. Verse 13, he says, Thou shalt fear the Lord by God and serve Him. Serve Him. We ought to be looking for opportunities to serve the Lord. Amen. God is saying to a nation, here's the principle for nations. Don't ever forget to fear God. This is the safe place. And don't ever forget to be faithful to God. Be faithful to the Lord. Look at verse 16. Here's several things he says. Verse 16 he says, Don't tempt the Lord. Is that happening in America? Is God being tempted today? In verse 17 he says, Diligently keep the commandments of the Lord. Don't take His commandments off the wall, out of the courthouse or whatever and throw them in the alley. Keep the commandments. Verse 18, do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord. Be good, upstanding, God-fearing citizens. Verse 19, cast out all thy enemies before they. Don't forget that part. Somebody jumps up in your face, threatening your freedom, cast them out. God says this is the safe place for a nation. Then I'll close with this. He says, not only is there something to rejoice in, something to remember, but in this good land that I've given you, there's always wants you to be rehearsing something. Verse 20, He said, And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What meaning What does this mean? What's this all about? Then he says, you tell them what it's all about. In other words, rehearse these things. You know how important it is for people to understand their own history? I've given you this quote before, but Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, the first step to the ruin of any country is to sever them from their own history. Now, here's what's been going on For at least, oh, 50, 60 years, people have been rewriting our history, just rewriting, making it up, making stuff up to go along with their ideas of what they would like America to be, which is a slave state. They've been revising history, and they've been just removing it altogether. Now, if my life depended on having to prove that, I wouldn't bat an eye. I used to look over these history books for over 10 years. They came in to the Department of History that I chaired, and I would be sent these different history books that were being sent to colleges and universities all across the country to review them. Every one was worse than the one before it. People cutting stuff out, removing things, rewriting it. It's not an accident. It's not because people are just dumb. It's because they have an agenda. They don't want people to know their own history. I think one of the best things we could do as a church, talk about programs, a good program would be to get back here in this back building and offer some history classes to the community. Amen. Well, I'll tell you this. When thy son asketh thee, Thursday, We're all at our homes and getting ready for dinner or seated around the table. Be a real good time sometime Thursday for people to talk about the heritage that we have. Amen. By the way, you know Christmas is coming up. Can I just suggest something? How about giving people some history books for Christmas for gifts? Amen. Instead of a tie, give him 5,000 year leap or a history book. Instead of so much of this junky, rotten claptrap, how about getting some videotapes, like some of David Martin's things or people like that. DVDs, video. I'm telling you, it's more exciting The history of America, I've said this for over 30 years, the history of America is more exciting than anything that Hollywood could ever make up. Amen. But Thursday would be a good time to just talk about the heritage that we have. And Thursday would be a good time to talk about the hope that there is in the Lord Jesus Christ. And hey, if you don't have anything to talk about in that score, you could change that situation before you leave here today. There is hope in God. I was reading the Psalms over and over. The Psalmist says, hope in God. Our hope is in God. Hope thou in God. Psalm 78 and verse 6, he says that the generation to come might know even the children which should be born who should arise and declare to them, and declare them to their children," that is their heritage, that they might set their hope in God. Now that's why I have hope for America, really. It's because I know what God did when His people turned to Him in the past. As long as 2 Chronicles 7 and verse 14 is in the Bible, I have hope for America. I mentioned early on in the message that the Revolutionary War, the founding of this country was the most ethical time in our history. But there's one other, there's a second most ethical time in American history and we are living in it. George Washington, Patrick Henry, Betsy Ross, Martha Washington, all of those lived in the first ethical time. Abigail Adams, John Adams, they lived in the first ethical time. There hasn't been another ethical time. like that until now, right now. And we're living in it. What they did made all of the difference. Their trust in God and what they did, their follow through to get God's blessing and hand upon them to get their liberty. And what we do How we trust in God and how we follow up will make all the difference in whether we keep this hard-won God-given liberty and have many thanksgivings to come. I'll tell you, it'll be a sparse thanksgiving in American homes if there's no freedom, there's no liberty. Let's all stand together. The greatest freedom of all is freedom from sin. And Jesus made that possible for anyone and everybody who will come and receive Jesus as their Savior. And you know, that works kind of like this business of our American freedom works. We can stay right where we are and do nothing and be slaves. And if you're a lost person, you can stay right where you are and do nothing and stay a slave to sin and go into Satan's bondage more and more and more. Or you can come to Jesus and receive Him as your Savior.