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[00:01:23] Good day, good day, good day, it's Faith Day. This is the Ron Edwards American Experience. I'm Ron Edwards, and welcome. How are you? I know you're having a great day, aren't you? It's a great day in the neighborhood. And, you know, despite some of the things that are going on that may be negative, there's always, or most of the time, a silver lining to these gray clouds.

[00:01:47] Well, oh yeah, we do have a great guest today, B-Man, Brian McKay, pastor, and he's going to be joining us in just a few moments. But in the meantime, let's take our attention towards England. By the way, thank you for tuning in from throughout the world, around America, throughout England, Spain, and Belgium, and other great places around our beautiful planet.

[00:02:10] But it's kind of sad to report that an ordained Church of England chaplain sacked and reported to a terrorist organization, Watchdog, for a sermon that he recently preached concerning, well, he spoke against identity politics. And he's begun his appeal at the Employment Appeal Tribunal in England, and he's supported by the Christian Legal Center.

[00:02:37] The Reverend Dr. Bernard Randall is seeking permission to appeal on 13 grounds after his sacking was controversially upheld. And Dr. Randall took legal action against Trent College in Derbyshire following his dismissal for a sermon he gave.

[00:02:57] Now, this sermon was given way back in 2019 on the teaching on marriage, and he gave the sermon saying that it was okay for students to question and debate LGBT teaching after Trent College invited extreme gender identity group, educate and celebrate into the school. And their goal is to do so.

[00:03:27] Dr. Randall was subsequently blacklisted as a safeguarding risk by the Church, and he has been barred from ministry for almost six years. In that time, however, Dr. Randall's concerns over the ENC have been vindicated with the government-funded group plagued by scandal, including one of its own patrons facing multiple child sex offense charges.

[00:03:56] Facing repeated delays in his pursuit of full justice, Dr. Randall's appeal was stayed last year pending the outcome of the landmark Christy Higgs case at the Court of Appeal. Judge James Taylor justified the state due to the precedent of the Higgs ruling, which would set in a higher court for Dr. Randall's appeal.

[00:04:21] Both cases involve issues of principle about the freedom for Christians to express their beliefs and opposition to harmful transgender ideology, sex education, extreme gender identity beliefs without fear of losing their jobs.

[00:04:36] Now, just recently, Mrs. Higgs, who has also been supported by the Christian legal center, won her groundbreaking case with judges ruling that her dismissal was disproportionate and constituted unlawful discrimination on the grounds of religion and belief.

[00:04:54] Now, the reason why I brought this up, and particularly about what the goings on in England is because this exemplifies one of the things that we Christians here in America must do. Be willing to fight for our rights. Because our rights came from whom? They came from God.

[00:05:16] And therefore, since God gave us these rights to speak his truth, it is upon us to be willing to speak the truth and to buck up and stand up against those who would want to squash our ability to speak the truth. Too often ministers are found on the street corners of London or Birmingham and elsewhere, Manchester.

[00:05:40] And if they dare speak the word of God on any of those street corners or in the parks throughout England, jolly old England, that is, they can be arrested quickly or pushed aside by people who don't want to hear about Jesus Christ. But yet, the Islamists are allowed to dangle their decoration from lampposts, block streets at any given time.

[00:06:08] If someone tries to break through their street blockages, guess who will get arrested? Not the person who needs to probably drive to work or wherever. I mean, I'm sorry, not the people that are blocking the streets, but rather the person who is being blocked and needs to get to work or wherever he is going or she is going.

[00:06:32] They will be arrested if they try to push through a mob of Islamists to block the streets. And the reason why this is happening is because for too long, Christians have been shown to be weak. Many times, Christians only showed strength against one another.

[00:06:53] But now, the world has to see us and develop the habit of publicly fighting against discrimination, which is another form of evil, and be willing to stand up for the right that God gave us to speak of the truth. To tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. I mean, how childish can these chumps be on the left? They're so childish and they're so sensitive.

[00:07:22] They're such sensitive dweebs that when they hear the name Jesus, they go to Nutsville. If you don't want to hear the gospel, plug up your ears, pour some wax in it or whatever. Don't wash your ear for about a week. It'll plug up with wax and you'll be okay. But how dare these people want to get in the way of individuals who are speaking about the truth given to us by the one who created all of us, who owns the earth. He's the owner.

[00:07:53] We're just leasing. And we cannot be bothered by what they may come after us with. We have to be willing to just keep pushing, keep pushing. One of the reasons why the Islamists, the freaktoids of the world, the LGBTQ, whatever, whatever, whatever. I forget how far up the alphabet they've gone. I know it's beyond the eye.

[00:08:22] But they just keep going, going, going, going, going. It's almost – it's probably a Z. They've thought of something with Z recently, I think. But anyway, we have to be willing to just keep going and keep going and keep going. And we should have learned our lesson observing the leftist organizations. They started their stuff in the late 50s. And they were pushed down and pushed down. But guess what?

[00:08:51] They never stopped. They never stopped. They had their babies. They brought their babies up in an evil manner. They took over the schools. And generation after generation was taught further and further away from the principles of God and against patriotism as well. So, yeah, you're right, Doug. Doug, my producer says, think of any letter or number and they'll come up with something.

[00:09:22] But it is what it is. But there's some good things happening, too. It was very heartwarming to see that HUD Secretary Scott Turner prayed over Los Angeles. He had a visit out there not only just to pray but to look over the sites where the fires had occurred that were allowed on purpose. And he prayed that the people that were affected would be the ones to rebuild their homes and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera,

[00:09:52] and not be pushed out of the way or not be pushed into 15-minute city housing, which is the goal, by the way. Not long, just a few weeks before the fires of California, the governor of California was meeting with the governor of Hawaii

[00:10:10] as they were discussing how people can be moved out of the way and they can take over their land and rebuild it with apartments for illegals, for freakazoids, and 15-minute city structures. So that would be controlled by government.

[00:10:37] But anyway, we've got these things and other things that are on my mind that I want to talk about. And Brian McKay, he's here. He'll be discussing some of those things with me when we return on this, the Ron Edwards American Experience Faith Day edition. The Ron Edwards American Experience Talk Show, where our unalienable rights are celebrated. You're going to be called crazy. Many people also called Noah crazy.

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[00:14:01] This is the Ron Edwards American Experience. Thanks again for joining us. And great day. Great day. And let's join our guest. His name is Pastor B-Man, Brian McKay. Hello, sir, and welcome back. Hey, my brother Ron. It's good to be back with you. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.

[00:14:22] My friend, you are well aware of the administration, the Trump administration, and the things that they are doing, the things that they are trying to do, all that are good for our republic and even for the planet, things that he's doing internationally and trying to work wars out and rumors of wars, etc., etc.

[00:14:44] Do you think, just from your spiritual observation, that the Trump administration and many of his actions and goals are a reflection of the prayers of the saints over the past few years or several years based upon 2 Chronicles 7 or 14? Yes. In a nutshell, yes.

[00:15:13] I do believe that he has got a mandate, not only from the people of the United States of America, but he also has a mandate from heaven. He's got direction. I know this last staff meeting, his first staff meeting in his second term, I think it was like, what, last week? And they opened up that staff meeting with all of his secretaries, all of his directors, everybody there.

[00:15:39] The first thing they did was opened up with prayer. They honored God, and they asked the Holy Spirit to come in and lead and guide the meeting. That was such a profound moment. And I truly believe that God is working through him. Yeah. And that's the one thing that sets this administration apart from many others. I think that the one that comes closest to that in my lifetime is the Reagan administration.

[00:16:08] He was a prayerful man as well, but he wasn't as open about it as Trump is, I believe. But he wasn't dealing with the level of evil that Trump is dealing with either. I mean, we are literally or have been in literally in recent years in a life or death situation for this country. And I think we've been spared for the time being anyway. Massive destruction. What say you? Yes, and I truly believe that's true.

[00:16:38] But the one thing that's restraining judgment falling upon this country and upon the world is those of us who are believers in Christ Jesus. It is the Holy Spirit that's restraining destruction on our behalf. That is what I believe and I see. Because I know that God gives, he removes kings and he puts in kings.

[00:17:04] Well, in our case, he removes presidents and he puts in presidents. And in this case, I truly believe that President Trump and Vice President Vance are men of God, men of faith. President Trump may not act like your normal Sunday Christian, but man, he has got the anointing from heaven to fix what is broken. He understands and he sees it. And now he's doing something.

[00:17:32] He came the last time really not knowing how to operate as a president. This time he knows. He knows what's bad and he knows what's good. And he's undoing all the damage that the Biden administration did. And that's what we're dealing with right now. That's the sorrow that we're seeing in a way, because many of us are still suffering. Many of us are still persevering.

[00:17:59] But our faith and our hope is in Christ Jesus because God is still on the throne. We've got to keep our focus on the Lord. Yeah. And that's what that's really what keeps us going. And that's what keeps the victories coming as well.

[00:18:17] But in the midst of the madness, I you know, sometimes I get a little disturbed when I see some of the shenanigans that are going on in the streets of America or even in Congress. When the other night during his State of the Union address, the way the leftist Democrats acted, they were worse than spoiled brats. Yes. Well, actually, they were acting like spoiled brats.

[00:18:44] Not because like it's a child that just simply wants to do something or have a toy or and they have a tantrum. No, these people went to Nutsville and continue to do so over a guy, a president and others who want this nation to be great, a nation under God with liberty and justice for all. That's what these people have been acting out against.

[00:19:11] And I think the good news is that they are so open now. And so that anyone that has any doubt, they still want to maintain doubt and pretend like, oh, because Trump isn't perfect. Oh, I don't know if I can fall in line with believing, you know, for better for America.

[00:19:29] But when they see how horribly these people are acting, it's even beyond what a typical moderate or typical liberal would be able to stomach. What say you? Yeah, absolutely. They're exposing themselves in a very crude way. But think about it beyond.

[00:19:53] If God's hand, his anointing is upon a person who is the one that always overreacts and, oh, how shall we say it, goes nutsoid, right? Because of the anointing of God, it is the devil and his imps, right? And we see it full blown right now.

[00:20:18] The anointing of God is on President Trump, his leadership and his skill sets and his directives that he's laying out, I truly believe, are what must take place to save America, which God has not removed his hand from. But the ones that are fighting it are those that are given over to the spirit of Satan, the Antichrist. It's in full blown. You can just see it.

[00:20:46] If you don't understand it, you can definitely see it for sure. And they expose themselves and they expose the spirit. Yeah. And like I said, I think that's a good thing because they are so outlandish, so crazy. They're an embarrassment to anyone that has just a modicum of decency in their hearts. And it turns people off. It sure does. Yeah.

[00:21:12] So in that regard, you see the military being cleaned out. You see they're trying to get a hold of education and clean it out. I mean, they're drastically trying to turn things around. You know how out of all the main or the large organizations in the world, you know the ones that is, I guess, lagging the most in the area of cleaning itself up or being cleaned out from another source?

[00:21:43] One guess. The Democratic Party. Well, okay. I'll say number two. Come on now. Which one is it? One more guess. Oh, okay. Boy, they're all getting cleaned out, aren't they? Boy.

[00:22:08] The one that's lagging the most as far as cleaning out itself or being cleaned out externally. The church. There you go. Bingo. Bingo. Yeah. I won the prize. Woo-hoo. Yeah. We'll send you something in the mail. But, yeah. And that's kind of heartbreaking. It is.

[00:22:36] But at the same time, that proves that the – just like in the Dragon Media, we have new media, my show and many others, that are bringing the truth to America and the world. And ABC News is going broke. They're laying off massive amounts of people. I think the same thing similarly is happening in the traditional church. They're fading or their influence is fading.

[00:23:02] While you have millions and millions of sincere men and women, boys and girls who are seeking God and praying for this nation. That's how this nation even has the chance to turn around now. Not because of the traditional church, which is slow to turn around, but the millions of people who are not in the traditional church and are just sincerely reaching out to God. What say you? And on that note, I know you've got to leave.

[00:23:29] But before you leave, you've got to leave us with a prayer. You've got that. I truly believe that the Spirit of God is moving across the surface of this nation and the world. And he is drawing all men unto himself, all men and women, unto himself. And he's cleaning up his house. Scripture tells us that judgment comes to the house of God first. And that's what we're seeing.

[00:23:57] So let's not give up on the church because the church is the Lord Jesus. He started it. But he's cleaning it up. He's cleaning up the bride first. Let's stay involved in our churches. Stay involved. If you're part of Victory Biker Church here in Michigan or around the world, please stay involved. We've got a lot of work to do. But saying that, let's pray. Let's pray for our country and our president for sure.

[00:24:26] Father, we come before you in Jesus' name. And, Lord, I thank you, Lord God, that this is the day that you have made. And we rejoice and are glad in it. And, Lord, I thank you. We thank you, Lord God, for President Trump and Vice President Vance and their administration.

[00:24:44] Father, we plead the blood of Jesus over them, over their families, over all of their committees and all of the organizations that they oversee. Lord, bless them and give them all wisdom from heaven. And we thank you, Father, for it. Lord, bless America. Bless us, O God, so that we will not give up and we will not give up the fight against evil. We will not go against your word anymore.

[00:25:14] And, Father, we pray that you would forgive us, O God. Forgive us, O God, for, oh, Lord, bending the knee to the whims of the evil one. And, Lord, I just thank you, Father God, for forgiving us and cleansing us and restoring us back to our rightful place in you. To be the mouthpiece of your spirit, Lord God. To preach the gospel worldwide and to stand up for righteousness.

[00:25:44] Stand up for holiness. Stand up for the word of God. And, Lord, I thank you that you're not done with us. And I thank you, Lord God, for blessing us. Lord, we trust you that you are still on your throne. That none of this has surprised you. None of this has taken you by surprise. You knew, you know, and you are fixing. And so, Lord, we pray.

[00:26:12] Lord God, your kingdom come. Your will be done here on earth as it is in heaven. And we thank you, Father, for it. Bless my brother, Ron, and bless this show. And I thank you, Father, for blessing everyone who listens to this. May your grace and your power be made known in America again. And we thank you, Father, in Jesus' mighty name I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much.

[00:26:41] And God bless you and your family and your church. And we look forward to our next visit. God bless you, brother. Talk to you soon. God bless. Take care. This is Ron Edwards, and we'll be right back on this faith-day edition of the Ron Edwards American Experience.

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[00:31:33] Yes, this I know. This is a Ron Edwards American Experience Faith Day. And thanks again for joining us. And, you know, contemporary Mother Josephs are very rare indeed today. Appropriately, a bronze statue of Mother Joseph in Sanctuary Hall at the United States Capitol acknowledges her. Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart famously led members of her congregation to the Pacific Northwest

[00:31:59] to establish a network of schools, seven academies, five schools for Native American children, and two orphanages, not to mention 11 hospitals. While this heroine showcases the ideal of the Pacific Northwest, a vacuum exists today. Historically, Oregon was part of a territory with the second most church venues in the United States of America.

[00:32:24] In contrast, Seattle ranks today among America's most unchurched cities. New survey data from the ongoing Household Pulse Survey, a product of U.S. Census Bureau, show that a clear majority of adults in the Seattle area, in fact around 64%, never attend Christian church services or do or less than one a year.

[00:32:50] The good news is that praying Christians are discerning the times and seasons. The wind of spirit is once again on the move and even in Seattle. But arguably, political obstacles must be overcome hugely. Back in 2013, Seattle Mayor Michael McGinn dubbed himself the most progressive mayor in the United States of America.

[00:33:17] Thereafter, Mayor Ed Murray one-upped him by boasting he would remake Seattle into the most progressive city in the United States. Admittedly, voters loved it. They ate it up. They said, give me more big government. Give me the lash. For a time they did. But, argues Danny West neat, that's all over. No longer does Seattle aim to be the most progressive city.

[00:33:42] Instead, he observes voters want less idealism and more in the way of good results. Put another way, folks have asked and wondered and then answered Dr. Phil's signature question. How's progressivism working for you? Well, I'll answer that. Apparently not too well. Freedom from religion.

[00:34:08] Redistribution of wealth under the United Nations principle of sustainability. Science by consensus. You know, gender identity, things like that. Deflected accountability. Guns kill. People don't. Centralized power. Sanctuary status. Reverse discrimination. Slippery cultural norms and ethics. Earth servitude over stewardship.

[00:34:36] Tyranny of technocracy. Defund police movements. Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. None of these components of progressivism deliver good results. Or, as they like to call it, utopia. They just don't. What they utilize, what they bring about is hell on earth. Biblical Christianity alone holds the answer.

[00:34:58] For that reason, the unconstitutional Johnson Amendment intended to muzzle Christians and deny them their First Amendment right to free speech must be resisted and completely overturned. And in fact, it can be automatically overturned because it's not a law. It cannot be enforced. We still have the First Amendment. We still have freedom of speech.

[00:35:26] We just have to be willing to exercise it. And when we are resisted in our freedom of speech, we have to continue to speak louder. Push harder. Don't back down. Because when idle silence meets wickedness, the church misses her calling. She becomes useless, a waste of time. And God's favor is repelled.

[00:35:52] The mission of Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminds us that silence in the face of evil is itself evil. As Jesus addressed government discussion of his day with a profound sense of clarity, so must we. We cannot be ignorant little Christians running around not knowing anything about government. Can't be stupid.

[00:36:18] The Lord is our judge, lawgiver, legislative lawgiver, and king. Isaiah 33, 22 clearly states, he is personified government, not to be mistaken for partisanship. Seattle's churches awaken to their call to prayer for civic duty. Now imagine government without Christian influence.

[00:36:47] For many 21st century Seattle comes to mind. When Christians bypass civic duty, the church suffers escalating persecution from without and spiritual deception from within. See, when the world sees us act weak, they govern themselves accordingly and start picking on us because we appear weak. And if we allow that too long, it becomes a habit. And it then progresses to simply a way of life.

[00:37:16] Something we must reject wholeheartedly. More often than not, moral relativism trumps biblical mandate. Because, once again, it is allowed to. Given misplaced love of money and pleasure, I mean misplaced love of money and pleasure, doesn't mean that we should be without money and not enjoy life.

[00:37:43] Many are preoccupied with materialism. And youth are often seduced by scripturally forbidden, yet culturally celebrated alternative lifestyles and oppositions of science. Falsely so-called, i.e. gender dysphoria, protocols, etc.

[00:38:13] Young girls are forced to forego modesty along with a fair chance at competing in women's sports. And we also like to look the other way when it comes to looking at the root of why young girls and women are forced to compete against men in sports. There's the old saying, what goes around comes around. Remember when the feminists said that, hey, we can go into the men's locker rooms?

[00:38:41] The female reporters wanted to go into the men's locker rooms back in the 70s. Hey, we can go into and join up in men's organizations? How dare men have organizations to themselves? Despite the fact that women's organizations were never challenged by straight men to want to get into their organizations because men are logical. They understand that, you know, men need to hang around men and women can have their organizations, too.

[00:39:10] But increasingly, Seattle's culture lacks natural affection, even. This demonstrated by the influx of human trafficking, open and legal prostitution, quick fix abortions. Yet as the leftists, don't they always run around saying that, oh, we love so much. And they call those of us on the right as being mean-spirited, that we don't care.

[00:39:40] All we care about is our guns, yada, yada, yada. You know, they're so boring. They're like one-trick ponies, one lie after another. You know, they believe in no-fault divorce, rampant pornography, sexualization, little children, substance abuse and addiction. Yeah, a culture of death reigns supreme and a cong, a contagion of contention.

[00:40:11] You know, look at the contention in the Congress. How the left who supports all that is evil and depraved, how they acted in front of the entire world when President Trump was giving his speech. A very good one, by the way. Their political posturing was nothing more than asinine behavior.

[00:40:36] Well, something that is not asinine is the return of the Ron Edwards American Experience Faith Day edition right after this. I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. This is Apostle Ellis L. Smith of Jubilee City Church, and you're listening to the Ron Edwards American Experience. Who is this King of Glory?

[00:40:59] Son of God and Son of God.

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[00:44:17] Thank you, God. Thank you, God. The giver of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is the Ron Edwards American Experience, Faith Day Edition. Thanks for joining in from throughout the world and America. You know, before the break, I was talking about the breakdown of morality and just the destruction of what was one of America's, one of the world's most beautiful cities, Seattle.

[00:44:42] But it would seem, therefore, that the kingdom of heaven contained good seed. But while men slept, yep, the enemy sowed bad seed and corrupted just about every city in America, England, France, you name it. Gone on big time throughout the world. But God. Indicting fear, faithlessness, wrong motive, and passivity.

[00:45:10] David queried, is there not a cause? First Samuel 17 through 29. Indeed, there is. Now, for American Christians today, for Seattle Christians, informed, principled, voting, speaking out on God's behalf, and most importantly, praying for those in authority or more than speaking out on God's behalf.

[00:45:37] And most importantly, praying for more than just privileges. They are mandates. When informed Christians pray, speak, stand, and vote in alignment with God's word and principles, the lot is cast into the lap, and its very decision is from the Lord. Proverbs 16.33. Now, surprisingly, some government is a dominant theme in Scripture.

[00:46:06] Believe it or not. Good government promotes literacy, advances just law, provides religious liberty, and allows churches freedom to preach. I'm not saying that, hmm, the government of Russia is good, but I tell you what, the Christian church has more liberty in Moscow than in Minnesota. Gives me pause to think.

[00:46:35] Meaning that we still have a lot to clean up here in the United States and jolly old England. It is a conduit for human flourishing when you have good government, and most importantly, for furthering the gospel. While God's kingdom is mentioned more than 80 times, earthly kingdoms are mentioned 36 times, and earthly kings 108 times in Scriptures.

[00:47:05] Despite the fact that modern Christians desperately many times want to ignore the importance of government, especially here in America. In Exodus 18, Moses set up a network of judges called to function ethically and enforce the law our sovereign God provided legislatively on Mount Zion. And in that story, in that configuration of time,

[00:47:32] I recognize that as the first time that it was officially recognized by God and man, Moses, Jethro, etc., about the importance of the individual, the individual rights of everyone, the right to choose. And we all should remember that God and government go hand in hand or should. The church is called to civic duty. Believe it or not, church,

[00:48:02] you have a call to civic duty. And I call the church to stop ignoring that civic duty. And I don't mean those pastors like the ones who are very socialist oriented. If you notice, the socialist leftist pastors, they're very involved in civics. Unfortunately, it's the wrong flavor of civics. And that is why those who truly understand God's word

[00:48:31] understand the interpretation that the founding fathers of America and then people like William Wilberforce in England, Wesley and others, who understood the importance of civic duty and good government. The church is called to civic duty. It reminds us of Pastor Peter Mullenberg, who donned the uniform of an officer in the Continental Army.

[00:48:58] Among others, of the black-robed regiment, 300 like-minded men in his congregation put legs to prayers and stood up to fight the American Revolution that birthed the land of the free and home of the brave. And history was made. Now, indeed, the coined Greek term for church,

[00:49:27] ecclesia, means summoned group, literally. They who are called out. Historically, the ecclesia references ones called out from the world system of Rome to a sort of city council by which kingdom subjects were afforded keys to the kingdom to bind and to loose. To this day, believers are the ecclesia and kingdom reign heralds kingdom power.

[00:49:55] Now, that's explained in Matthew 16, verse 19. Now, Scripture mandates that we as believers seek justice, not run away from it, not go hide in the corner and hope they don't come after us. But we are to seek justice and give justice to the weak and the fatherless, maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute. That's posted in Isaiah 17, Psalm 82, verse 3.

[00:50:26] Accordingly, throughout history, Christians have influenced government for good. For example, their efforts led to outlawing child abandonment, infantile, infanticide, and abortion in Greece. Cruel, gladiatorial contests in Rome, human sacrifice, pedophilia, and polygamy among European cultures and burning windows in India. Throughout America's history,

[00:50:57] Christians have brought faith into the public square. Early on, Christian patriots boldly crossed the church state line to birth one nation under God. To this end, founder of the Black Road Regiment pastor, Peter Mullenberg, took to the battlefield and encouraged others to do likewise. Singing the Declaration of Independence, Witherspoon bowed in prayer and Samuel Adams stated, We have this day

[00:51:27] restored the sovereign to whom alone men ought to be obedient. And I'll end on that note. And I pray that you, my friends throughout America, England, and the rest of the world, look to God for your liberty. But, don't just look, don't just pray, but act according to his providential principles. If you do that,

[00:51:57] you shall win. We shall win. I'm Ron Edwards. Thank you so much. And now that I see that my time is up, again, I thank you for your time. That's all, folks. Tags at stage right. And as I always like to say at this time, remember to pray for your family, pray for your friends, pray for your family members and your nation

[00:52:25] and even your enemies that they get it right before it's too late. And treat others the same way you would like to be treated. Until next time, bye now. and you, you... Thank you.