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The Declaration of Independence at 250꞉ A Devotional Reading on Natural Law & Liberty

Posted by Ben McClintock, Wednesday, 05 Aug 2026.

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Thank you all for coming to our special devotional reflections on liberty. And today is August 2nd, 2026. And today is the special 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. It was noted as, I think it was ratified and voted on as the final day of July 4th. And that's why that's on the document. But it's not as well known that August 2nd when was most of the signers signed. And so I just wanted to give honor to this day in its own special way, aside from the 4th of July celebrations that have happened this year.

And just acknowledge it as a special day. So thank you everyone for joining. And we're gonna go ahead and or I just as also one more introduction. Rod is gonna help me from the Tree of Liberty Society and we're filming this and meeting under Tree of Liberty Society umbrella. But there's lots of us that aren't in that membership. So we welcome you if you're not and the Tree of Liberty Society is an educational tool. Lots of to learn principles of liberty. And just as a quick reminder as you come in, if you can mute your phone to keep it quiet.

So yeah, so Tree of Liberty Society is an educational group where we just learn and study together the principles of liberty. So we can be aware of the things like the founding fathers and what's going on currently today that we need to be noticing and aware. And so I'll go ahead and get started. I found a few fun patriotic or revolutionary hymns. They are from the revolutionary wartime and they would have been hymns that they would have marched to. I don't know if they were before or after the Declaration of Independence, but they were definitely during that time frame of what is the revolutionary period.

So I'm gonna play one and then we're going to have Jessica Egan say a prayer and looks like she's here. So after this, we'll have Jessica, you can unmute your mic and go ahead and give us an opening prayer. Thank you.

Okay, our dear father in heaven, we're so grateful that we can gather together virtually and remember the Declaration of Independence and the miracle of the founding of the United States of America.

We're grateful we have the chance to meet together and to ponder these things and we pray that the spirit of liberty may rest upon us and that we can each do our parts to maintain our freedom and to share it with others. And we pray for their spirit to with us today as we are in this devotional. And we pray that we can all be organized and set it up that we could all benefit from this and we say these things in Jesus Christ, amen.

Amen, thank you so much, Jessica. And I forgot to mention that that name of that hymn was called Chester written by William Billings. And we'll go ahead and have Patty Glauser, she's going to share her favorite scripture on liberty and share a quick thought about why.

So the scriptures I chose was 2 Nephi 1, verses 6 and 7. I added 6 in because the last half of it really leads into 7. So it says, wherefore I, Lehi, prophesy according to the workings of the spirit which is in me, that there shall none come into this land, save they shall be brought by the hand of the Lord. Wherefore this land is consecrated to him whom he shall bring. And if it so be that they shall serve him according to the commandments which he hath given them, it shall be a land of liberty unto them. Wherefore, they shall never be brought down into captivity. If so, it shall be because of iniquity.

For if iniquity shall abound, cursed be the land for their sakes. But unto the righteous, it shall be blessed forever.

Thank you, Patty. That's actually one of my very favorites as well. Now, we're going to read from, we're actually going to read the full text of the Declaration of Independence. And Rod is going to show that on the screen so that we can follow along. We're going to break it up into a few parts. And I'm going to start with that. And, okay.

The Declaration of Independence in Congress, July 4th, 1776. The unanimous declaration of the 13 United States of America. When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. And to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they declare the causes which impel them to the separation. With that, I don't know if you guys noticed and could pick out by what authority the founding fathers were declaring their independence.

If you look through it, you can notice that it says, "By the laws of nature and of nature's God, entitle them." So, I love that phrase and that's something I've been thinking about a lot this year and the last few months. And knowing and having confidence that that is the authority which gave them, again, this right and opportunity to declare their independence. And knowing that that came from God. And I'm going to share with you just a few short definitions of what natural law is. "Natural law is the unchanging, unchangeable laws that govern man, the universe, and the universe.

They are found in the revelations of God and through the reason of man as it confirms to revelation." So, that definition I got from Ben McClintock, which I think, I'm not sure if he got from somewhere, if he just compiled that from all of his knowledge. But if you notice, at the end it says, "As it conforms to revelation." So, what we know to be natural law and our will to do what we want has to be backed up by God's law or by God's revelation. And then another definition is, "The law, therefore, is what distinguishes right and wrong, derived from nature herself, the most ancient principle of all things, to which the laws of men direct themselves when they impose penalties on the wicked and protect and defend the good."

And that is by Serio. I'm sure I'm not saying it correctly. And then lastly, "Is not the law of nature a rule which he, God, has given to things, and the law of man's nature, which is reason and emanation of the divine wisdom, or some footsteps of divine light remaining in us?" And that was by Al Gorney Sidney, "Discourses Concerning Government." And then lastly, I wanted to just share a few more phrases about what natural law is. Natural law is our right to do what we want and what we will without infringing harm upon another person. And then this summer, I always like to take part in this, I can't remember what they call it, but it's a reading at the park for the young children, for the youth in our town.

And I always ask for first week of July so that I can share a patriotic book with the children. And I wanted to share something this summer with them when I did that. And I came up with, like, how do I explain what liberty is, or, and natural law to these children so it's so simple that a child could understand. And I came up with liberty is the opportunity to choose good. Sometimes we think of, oh, freedom, freedom and liberty, and I even would tie in natural law as kind of interchangeable, but freedom and liberty are a little bit different. Freedom we think of like, oh, we have the right to do anything we want, but in reality, we, liberty is what we're seeking, and liberty is the opportunity to choose good. And with that opportunity, it really is derived from the atonement of Jesus Christ.

And it's, that's the whole purpose and plan of salvation is the opportunity to come here to earth and to choose to follow God and Jesus Christ so that we can return to them. And through the atonement is how he gave us that agency to do so, so that we could actually fully choose that good or that gospel. And there's a scripture in Romans 2, 13 through 15. All this read, well, let's see, for, okay, in 13 it says, "For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. For when the Gentiles have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law. These having not the law are a law unto themselves." And what I really want to highlight is this verse 15, "Which show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscious also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another."

So 15, I really love because it says that the law is written in our hearts and that our conscious will bear record of it. We got someone with the, okay, sorry. So anyway, lastly, I just wanted to share again with that scripture, to me shows that our liberty and our agency is tethered to the gospel of Jesus Christ and to His atonement. And I am so grateful for that knowledge, but also for the opportunity to follow Him and to have the study of liberty and knowing of it. And I'm always doing continually studying and building upon that. But knowing that we can choose good and that this declaration was laid out for good purposes, such as having that full opportunity to choose good.

And that's what I would like to share about that first paragraph. And then Rod will read the second. Thank you. Thanks, Denise. "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." One of the things that I want to point out here real quick is that, first of all, to Denise's point, all of our rights come from the Creator, from God. They don't come to us from the government, and the government can't take them away from us. And the last part of that opening line there is that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

What many people aren't aware of is the fact that they debated on whether or not to change this to say life, liberty, and the pursuit of property. But then they decided that they could leave it as happiness because it would imply the same thing. And perhaps that would have been more common in their day. People were perhaps a little more thoughtful along these lines. But without any property, you can't really have happiness, can you? Because anything can be taken away on a whim, and you have no control, which is where we're headed. "That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed." Now, Ben McClintock has a really good talk that he's given. He gave it elsewhere on a non-Tree of Liberty Society platform, and it was referred to as a constitution for the U.S.

We have that same talk on the Tree of Liberty Society website under a different name that I can't recall at the moment. I apologize. But the point that he makes there is, look, it's to secure these rights given to us by the Creator that we have governments instituted among men. Then look at what the next line says, "That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends," as in securing the rights given to us by God, "it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness." We put this government together to secure our God-given rights.

When they don't do that any longer, it's our duty and our right and our privilege to get rid of that government that no longer serves its true purpose and to put another one in its place. "Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes." So we don't just get rid of the government for flippant reasons. "And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed." Now, why would that be? Because in order to replace the government, it's going to cost blood, isn't it? It's going to be our blood, our children's blood, that of our brothers and friends and sisters and neighbors.

And we don't want that, right? So we try and put it off as long as we can and suffer those evils as long as we can. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security." Now abuses, we know what that is, right? We know what it means to be abused. Usurpations, though, is not something that's commonly discussed in modern lingo. To usurp is to take away something that isn't rightfully yours.

Usurpations are when the government takes powers and abilities and duties that were not given to them by the people. Now we live in a day where 99% of what happens in government is a usurpation, things that were not given to them, outlined to them, enumerated to them in the Constitution. "Such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government." So they went through this as colonies, put up with what they could, but now they felt it was necessary to do something about it. "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states." Now I would suggest we look at all the things that are going on in the world today, not at who's doing them, but at what is being done.

Because I know that we're prone to cults of personality, and sometimes it's hard to separate people that we like from actions that we don't like. So to be principled, we have to just be paying attention to the actions themselves. And I would suggest from my own observation, that most things that are going on today in government are repeated injuries and usurpations that have as their direct object the establishment of tyranny over the states. We've heard a lot about AI, these gigantic data centers that the government agencies are using to process our data, all of the cameras and other systems that are being used to track us. We should think long and hard about those things, because even though there's been a modernization of what's being done, if we boil it down to the brass tacks, down to the actual basics of what's actually being done, injuries and usurpations, establishment of tyranny.

To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. So again, facts are what is. Candid means you're just telling it like it is. Let's talk about the facts. So let's hear what they were complaining about with the King of England, and let's think to ourselves whether or not these things apply to us in some way in our own day. Denise? Thank you, Rod. So Brittany is going to share the list of grievances, is what they're commonly called, and there's 27 of them. So Brittany, if you're ready, you could go ahead. All right. So let's go through these facts that they proposed to everybody of what was happening to them, and I'm sure you guys will start to hear some things that are kind of common as we go through these.

All right. He has refused his assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate and pressing importance unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other laws. Hold on, Brittany. Let's pause for just a moment. Sure. Something that's not really well known with these first two paragraphs here, what was going on in some of these other ones, is that the people themselves were passing laws, the people themselves, laws that they believed in and they approved, and the king said, "No, you can't put any of these things into action until you have my approval."

That's what was going on. Go ahead, Brittany. Thank you. It's okay. He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public records for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved representative houses repeatedly for opposing with many firmness his invasions on the rights of his people.

He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers incapable of annihilation have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining in the meantime exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without and convulsions within. He has endeavored to prevent the population of these states for that purpose, obstructing the laws for naturalization of coroners, refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new appropriations of lands. He has obstructed the administration of justice by refusing his assent to laws for establishing judiciary powers. He has made judges dependent on his will alone for the tenure of their offices and the amount of payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of new offices and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance. He has kept among us in times of peace standing armies without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the military independent of and superior to the civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws, giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation. For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us, for protecting them by a mock trial from punishment for any murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these states, for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world, for imposing taxes on us without our consent, for depriving us in many cases of the benefits of trial by jury, for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offenses, for abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government and enlarging its boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies, for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws and altering fundamentally the forms of our governments, for suspending our own legislatures and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns and destroyed the lives of our people. He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, dissolution and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy, scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow citizens, taking captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of their friends and brethren or to fall themselves by their hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions. Now, I might not be able to go into depth of all the detail of every single one of those things, but I would like to just kind of say a few things really quick before we move on to the next parts of this. But I think we all can agree that all of us have taxes that are imposed upon us at this time that we did not vote for, that we did not say yes to, that there have been excited domestic insurrections that have happened all the time within our people.

I mean, just the fact that during COVID we had things like the Pride Boys versus Black Lives Matter and all of those things, those are happening on our soil and things that are happening that were being allowed by our government to happen to us. I think we have an obligation to nullify the contract when jurisdiction is unauthorized, which is exactly what has been happening to us at this time. They only have enumerated 17 powers. They are limited to actually exercising. And I think that us recognizing this declaration of independence can help us all to maybe look further into those 17 enumerated powers that they're actually allowed to do, and we should nullify the rest.

Thank you. I think back to Denise. Thank you, Brittany. So Rod will read the final paragraphs, and then after he gives his reflections on that, I will read the signers. Thanks. Thanks, you guys. I want to just say real quick, if you get a chance on your own, I've shared a link to the transcript here on the archives.gov website to read this for yourselves if you don't have a copy at home.

But to go through each of those grievances one by one and consider, again, what things have been going on in our country in the last several decades, and particularly just within the past few years. Do we have a standing army in times of peace? We absolutely do, and yet that was something that grieved the founding fathers. Only thing that has changed now is that they've given us a constant state of war without ever declaring war so that they could have an excuse to keep a standing army that is unconstitutional. In every stage of these oppressions, we've petitioned for redress in the most humble terms.

Our repeated petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. So again, have we done our part right here, petitioning for redress in the most humble terms when we see laws being passed and things being done that we know violate the Constitution, violate the laws of nature and nature's God? Are we speaking out, standing up and letting them know that it's wrong? I'm not saying that I think it's going to change their minds, but in God's eyes, we don't really have any standing unless we've actually taken a stand first and petitioned for redress.

Nor have we been wanting an attention to our British brethren. We've warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. Again, speaking up, speaking out, telling them when we disagree. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity.

We must therefore acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace, friends. We therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress, assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, or God, do, in the name and by authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent states, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved, and that as free and independent states they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do, and for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."

So just a few comments here. One is in the end here. Look, "We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Our children today, if they attend public schools, are being taught that they were a big bunch of fat honkies who were all just racist, etc., etc., and they were looking to get rich on everybody else's backs. That's not how this works. A lot of them, many of them, lost everything that they had. Some lost their lives. Some of them lost the lives of their children as a direct cause, or a direct result, I mean, of signing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and partaking in, participating in the Revolutionary War. It wasn't anything that they were looking to benefit themselves, but they pledged everything that they had to the cause.

Another thing I want to point out is that one of the, if you go to archives.gov and go to the page that links to this one that I shared and that we've been looking at on the screen here, it actually says on this official government website that even though this is one of our founding documents, it is not legally binding. That's a quote, so go and look for yourselves. The government doesn't consider the Declaration of Independence legally binding. But guess what? The whole point of the Declaration of Independence was that we are bound by the laws of God and not of man, and that when we put them in the places of office under our Constitution, we were doing so under the laws of nature and of nature's God and binding them under the laws of God as well.

If they don't consider it legally binding today, then that's a problem, isn't it? Because they don't feel bound by their oaths to uphold the Constitution, which binds them to the laws of nature and of nature's God. Denise? Thank you. That was wonderful. And now I would just like to give a reverence to those men that signed, and like you said, some gave all, and so I just wanted to read their names and give them reverence at this time. In Georgia, Button, I'm not sure if I'm going to even pronounce those correctly, Button Gwinnett, George Walton, North Carolina, William Hooper, Joseph Hughes, John Penn, South Carolina, Edward Rutledge, Thomas Hayward Jr., Thomas Lynch Jr., Arthur M. Hicks, John Hancock, Maryland, Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Virginia, George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nilsen Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton, Pennsylvania, Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross, Delaware, Cesar Rodney, George Reed, Thomas McKean, New York, William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Louis Morris, New Jersey, Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkins, John Hart, Abraham Clark, New Hampshire, Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Massachusetts, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Payne, Elbridge Jerry, Rhode Island, Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery, Connecticut, Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott, New Hampshire, Matthew Thompson.

Thank you. And thank you so much. Hope you guys enjoyed reading that and taking the time out of our day for reflecting on the Declaration and honoring those men. And now we're going to listen to another of the Revolutionary War time hymns. And this one's called "Free America." And then after that, Laurie will share a story about one of her favorite of the founding fathers and how much he gave in his resilience. So I'll go ahead and share to play our song. As I read this version of this pivotal speech given by Patrick Henry, I wish for the listeners to liken the situation of our forefathers to the one that we're living today.

Compare their trials to ours and notice the similar patterns. Remember too that these were just ordinary people who exhibited extraordinary courage. We are also just ordinary people who have the power to make an extraordinary difference in our country if we choose. And it says Patrick Henry's famous speech, "Let us not deceive ourselves longer. Sir, we've done everything we could have done to avert the storm now coming on. We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne. Our petitions have been slighted, our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insults. Our supplications have been disregarded and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve inviolate these inestimable privileges for which we have been contending, we must fight.

I repeat, sir, we must fight. An appeal to arms and to the God of host is all that is left to us. They tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be next week or next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed and a British guard stationed in every home? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Is it vain, sir, to extenuate the matter? Gentlemen may cry, "Peace, peace," but there is no peace. The war has actually begun.

The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle? Wish, what would they have? Is life so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased with the price of chains and slavery? Here I want to insert John Rohn's eyewitness account. Imagine being in that building with hundreds of other men, right there in the front row, to see, hear, and feel the emotions in that church. And this is John Rohn's account. He stood as in John Rohn's account of Patrick Henry.

He stood as in the attitude of a galley slave loaded with fetters awaiting his doom. His form was bowed, his wrists were crossed, his manacles almost visible. After a solemn pause, he raised his eyes and chained hands toward heaven and prayed in words and tones that thrilled every heart. "Forbid it, Almighty God!" He turned toward the timid loyalists in the house who were quaking with terror at the idea of the consequences of participating in these proceedings, which would be visited with the penalties of treason by the British Crown. And he slowly bent his form near to the earth and said, "I know not what course others may take."

And he accompanied the words with his hands still crossed. He seemed to be weighed down with additional chains. After remaining in this posture of humiliation long enough to impress the imagination, he arose proudly and proclaimed, "But as for me," and the words hissed through his clenched teeth while his body was thrown back and every muscle and tendon was strained against the fetters that bound him. And then the loud, clear, triumphant note, "Give me liberty!" electrified the assembly. It was not a prayer but a stern demand which would submit to no refusal or delay. And as each syllable of the word liberty echoed through the building, his fetters were shivered, his arms were hurled apart, his hands were open and his arms elevated and extended.

His countenance was radiant. He stood erect and defiant while the sound of his voice and the sublimity of his attitude made him appear as magnificent as an incarnation of freedom. After a momentary pause, only long enough to permit the echo of the word liberty to cease, he let his left hand fall powerless to his side and clenched his right hand as if holding a dagger. While pointing aimed at his breast, he stood like a Roman senator, divine Caesar. He closed the grand appeal with the solemn words, "Or give me death!" which sounded with the awful cadence of a hero's dirge, fearless of death and victorious in death. And he suited the actions to the words by a blow which seemed to drive the dagger into the patriot's heart. As a latter-day patriot, I was familiar and impressed with this courageous speech, but that was about the end of it.

Since 2020, I have been waking up to the awfulness of our situation and have become more diligent in studying the lives of those who fought for our freedom. I had no idea that Patrick Henry had a wife who struggled with severe mental illness as well as dealing with everyday challenges of life. Also, Patrick Henry was studying to be a lawyer and one of the best lawyers at that time was so impressed that Patrick Henry had such a great grasp of natural law that even he, one of the greatest attorneys, did not understand himself, even having read all the great law books of that time. In our culture today, we have a "get out of getting involved" free card and an excuse to tolerate tyranny.

Parents have made themselves into chauffeurs so they don't have time to get involved but magically have time to watch the latest popular TV programs and go on social media. If I had a nickel every time someone refused an invitation to rally for liberty, the government would have confiscated a million dollars from me. Perhaps it's not that extreme, but I am disheartened to see how many people will admit that our government is out of control but refuse to exert themselves to use their spines and stand up. I am so grateful for the few of you who have gathered on this call today. I have been searching for you since 2020, since the fake pandemic. Fortunately, we have plenty of scriptural accounts that prove that God uses a handful of people to make monumental changes for His glory.

As a Latter-day Saint, I believe that Heavenly Father did not just send His children randomly to earth in these last days. He carefully selected His boldest warriors to fight the enemy that threatens our liberties. He prepared us for success. Jesus Christ has already won. My prayer for us is that we will wake up to these facts and go forward knowing that we will win too. Thank you, Laurie. That was wonderful. Gives us a better view into what things were like for an individual. And like you said, I didn't know that about his wife either, and puts things into perspective of they had similar struggles that we do today.

So, thank you all for joining us. And we're going to close with one more song and a closing prayer by Micah. So, this last song is called "The Liberty Song." Come join hand in hand, brave Americans all, And rouse your bold hearts at fair liberty's call. No tyrannous act shall suppress your just claim, For staying with is honor America's name. In freedom we're born and in freedom we'll live. Our purses are ready, steady, boys, steady, Not as slaves but as free men our money will give.

Oh, we're worthy for fathers, let's give them a cheer. To climates unknown, dear courageously steer. From oceans to deserts for freedom they came, And dying beat with us their freedom and fame. In freedom we're born and in freedom we'll live. Our purses are ready, steady, boys, steady, Not as slaves but as free men our money will give. Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all, By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall, In so righteous a cause let us hope to succeed, Heaven approves of each generous deed.

In freedom we're born and in freedom we'll live. Our purses are ready, steady, boys, steady, Not as slaves but as free men our money will give. Heavenly Father, thank you for this time that we've had to be reminded of the ancestors of our past and the guilty blood that they shed in order to secure what little freedoms we have left today and that we may stand and encourage to do the things that it seems no one else wants to. We're grateful to thee, Lord, and we say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

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