Ever wonder why the Pledge of Allegiance holds such significance in our lives and how it ties into Independence Day? Buckle up; this episode will take you on a soul-stirring exploration of our great nation's cornerstone freedoms of speech, religion, want, and fear! Revan Charles Irrow-Oven and I pay a heartfelt tribute to the brave souls who fought for our nation, revisiting the Pledge and indulging in a deep conversation about the Gospel of God, our faith, and the trailblazers who have walked on this righteous path before us. As we wrap up this segment, we offer a prayer for grace and peace to all who are loved by God and called to be his holy people.
We then usher in a discussion on the Gospel's power, revealing salvation and the dire consequences of suppressing God's truth. We illuminate how God's divine nature and power are evident to all, yet many choose to glorify mere creations and trade His truth for a lie. As we dissect these profound realities, we give a nod to our nation's fallen heroes who died to protect our freedom, making us free from life's chains. To conclude this resonating episode, we belt out the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner", a symbol of courage, resilience, and the timeless values we hold dear. The flag, after all, stands for freedom and justice, much like the heart of our discourse today.
Ever wonder why the Pledge of Allegiance holds such significance in our lives and how it ties into Independence Day? Buckle up; this episode will take you on a soul-stirring exploration of our great nation's cornerstone freedoms of speech, religion, want, and fear! Revan Charles Irrow-Oven and I pay a heartfelt tribute to the brave souls who fought for our nation, revisiting the Pledge and indulging in a deep conversation about the Gospel of God, our faith, and the trailblazers who have walked on this righteous path before us. As we wrap up this segment, we offer a prayer for grace and peace to all who are loved by God and called to be his holy people.
We then usher in a discussion on the Gospel's power, revealing salvation and the dire consequences of suppressing God's truth. We illuminate how God's divine nature and power are evident to all, yet many choose to glorify mere creations and trade His truth for a lie. As we dissect these profound realities, we give a nod to our nation's fallen heroes who died to protect our freedom, making us free from life's chains. To conclude this resonating episode, we belt out the lyrics to the "Star-Spangled Banner", a symbol of courage, resilience, and the timeless values we hold dear. The flag, after all, stands for freedom and justice, much like the heart of our discourse today.
Turn your radio on, turn the lights to the wall, turn the lights to the master's radio. Get in touch with God. Get in touch with God.
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Turn your radio on. Turn the radio on. Listen to the songs of the fathers and the mothers and the many friends going on before Turn your radio on. Turn the radio on.
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We shall make this song from the bottom of the shore. Get in touch with God. Turn your radio on. Turn your radio on. Turn the radio on And listen to the music in the air. Turn your radio on. Turn the radio on. Turn the lights down low. Turn the lights down low And listen to the master's radio. Get in touch with God get in touch with God.
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Turn your radio on. Turn the radio on. Turn your radio on and listen to the music in the air.
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Turn your radio on, turn the lights down low and listen to the master's radio. Get in touch with God.
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Turn your radio on. Turn your radio on.
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Hello and welcome to the City of Church's Church podcast. I'm your host, Revan Charles Irrow-Oven. Today is Independence Day weekend And our four-hour pledge of allegiance.
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The pledge of allegiance to the flag is a blessing to the ideas of our forefathers, the men who fought and died in the building of this great nation. It's a pledge to fulfill the duties and obligations as citizens of the United States And the upholding principles of the Constitution. And, last but not least, it's a pledge to maintain the four great freedoms cherished by all Americans The freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the freedom from want and the freedom from fear.
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I pledge to be a judge to the flag of the United States of America And to the republic for which it stands one nation under God And to the republic for which liberty and justice are born.
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Amen, amen, amen.
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Thank you. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the day. He is traveling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored. He hath loose the faithful lightning of his terrible soul. His truth is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah. His truth is marching on In the beauty of the lilies. Christ was born across the sea, with the glory in his bosom that transfigures human need. As he died to make men holy, let us live to make men free. While God is marching on, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah. His truth is marching on. Glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, glory, hallelujah. His truth is marching on. His truth is marching on Marching on Amen, amen.
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It's Freedom Weekend. Now for a square foot, for today is for a woman's wine.
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Regarding his son, paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God, the gospel he promised beforehand through his prophets in the holy scriptures. Regarding his son who, as to his earthly life, was a descendant of David and who, through the spirit of holiness, was appointed the son of God in power by his resurrection from the dead, jesus Christ, our Lord. Through him we receive grace and apostleship to call all the Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith for his name's sake, and you also are among those Gentiles who are called to belong to Jesus Christ, to all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be his holy people. Grace and peace to you from God, our Father, and from the Lord, jesus Christ. First, i thank my God, through Jesus Christ, for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world. God, who my serve in my spirit in preaching the gospel of his son, is my witness how constantly I remember you in my prayers, at all times, and I pray that now at last, by God's will, the way may be open for me to come to you. I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong, that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each other's faith. I do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, that I plan many times to come to you, but I've been prevented from doing so until now, in order that I might have a harvest among you, just as I have had among the other Gentiles.
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I am obligated both to Greeks and non-Greeks, both to the wise and the foolish. That is why I'm so eager to preach the gospel also to you who are in Rome, for I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, then to the Gentile. For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed, a righteousness that is by faith, from first to last. Just as it is written, the righteous will live by faith. The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people who suppress the truth by their wickedness, since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. For since the creation of the world, god's invisible qualities, his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made so that people are without excuse.
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For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him. But their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles. Therefore, god gave them over to the sinful desires of their hearts, to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator, who is forever praised, amen. Because of this, god gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged unnatural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
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In the same way, the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their error. Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind so that they do what ought not to be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, god-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful. They invent ways of doing evil. They disobey their parents. They have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy, although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things, but also approve of those who practice them.
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Dear Lord, i pray to you today, for the word I spoke for today made I come through this podcast of people who hear me to know you and to make them free from all life chains. You're the one who brought my chains, dear Lord, to make me free, i pray to you today. Today's Amen, now for a Lord prayer. Our fire is knocked out in heaven. How it be. Thy name, thy kingdom, come. That will be done on earth. Thy name in heaven, get us to stay on thy bread and forgive all the stress, stresses as we go through the shoes, our paths against us, ladies and gentlemen, temptations, but the lyrics from you, thy kingdom, and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
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Today episode is God make me free. This is free and recon. Yes, god will make you free if you believe His word in the Holy Scriptures and the Holy Bible. Yes, god will make you free. God will make you free from presence, from chain, from slavery, from the oppress. Yes, today I am glad I am living here in America where I can talk freely about God. Another person to coach you right now, and Shire and Eropiopia and Egenesia, who are pressing the God's word to, not the pressing Christians to put them in jails for believing in you. I hope one day we can elect a personal and a country who can set them free, yes, and also we can elect officials that will not over cause our jails and to let some of us free, to let us own our pre-shared ministries and fathers to come into the jail and help them on a journey so they can be free. Let's break the chains from this world. Let's break the chains to make our free like how it preys on this world. God bless the USA, god bless our president, god bless Ukraine, amen.
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If tomorrow all the things were gone, i'd work for all my life and I had to start again with just my children and my wife, i'd thank my God above to be living here today, cause the flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away. And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died, who gave that pride to me, and I'll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today, cause there ain't no doubt of this land. God bless the USA, from the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea, detroit down the hillside and New York to LA. Well, there's pride in every American part and it's time we stand and sing. And I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died, who gave that pride to me, and I'll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today, cause there ain't no doubt of this land. I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died, who gave that pride to me, and I'll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today, cause there ain't no doubt of this land Next to you, and defend her still today, cause there ain't no doubt of this land. I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free, and I won't forget the men who died who gave that pride to me, and I'll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today, cause there ain't no doubt of this land. I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that pride to me, and I'll gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today, cause there ain't no doubt of this land. You place your hand on this Bible when you swear to tell the truth, his name is on our greatest monuments and all our money too. And when we pledge allegiance, there's no doubt. When we stand, there's no separation from one nation under guilt.
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In God we still trust here in America. He's the one that turns through every time the goal and gets rough. He is the source of all our strength, the one who watches over us Here in America. In God we stand. Now there are those that must, who want to push him out and erase his name from everything this country is all about, from the schoolhouse to the courthouse, to silence his word. Now it's time for all believers to make our voices heard In God. We still trust here in America. He's the one that turns through every time the goal and gets rough. He is the source of all our strength, the one who watches over us Here in America, in God. We still trust In God. We still trust, here in America, in God. We still trust here in America, in God. We still trust In God. We still trust God bless America. Then, that I love stand beside hers and guide her through the night, with the light from above, from the mountains to the prairies, to the oceans, wind with foam. God bless America, my home, sweet home. God bless America, my home, sweet home. No-transcript. Come, let's go America. And that I love Stand beside her and guide her through the night, with a light from above, from the mountain to the prairie, through the oceans, white with old skies. God bless America, my home, sweet home. God bless America, my home, sweet home.
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America, deep within the heart, has always known that there is freedom, somehow breathed into the very soul of life. The prisoner, the powerless, the slave have always known it. There's something that keeps reaching for the sky and even life begins because of baby fights for freedom, and songs we love to sing have freedoms theme. Some have walked through fire and flood to find their place of freedom and some face tell itself for freedom's dream. Let freedom ring wherever minds know what it means to be in chains. Let freedom ring wherever hearts know pain. Let freedom echo through the lonely streets where prisons have no key. We can be free and we can sing. Let freedom ring. God built freedom into every fiber of creation and he meant for us to all be free, and more. Oh, but with my life, my freedom, with the blood of his redemption his cross stepped part in all my very soul.
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I'll sing it out with every breath. I'll let the whole world hear it, This Hallelujah anthem of the free that I am. noise and head and chains can never hold us captive. The sun is made free and free indeed. Let freedom ring down bridges from a hill called Calvary. Let freedom ring wherever hearts know pain. Let freedom echo through the lonely streets where prisons have no key. You can be free and you can sing. Let freedom ring. Let freedom echo through the lonely streets where prisons have no key. You can be free and you can sing. Let freedom ring. You can be free and you can sing. Let freedom ring. Let freedom ring, Thank you.
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Heart is a voice of angels, born in a song to me, over the fields of glory, over the Gospels sea. Safe in the arms of Jesus, where I am free from care, safe from the world's temptations sin cannot harm me then, free from the blight of sorrow, free from my doubts and fears. Only a few more trials, only a few more tears. Safe, safe, safe in the arms of Jesus. Safe, i'm safe, safe, safe in the arms of Jesus.
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Sometimes in our lives we all have pain, we all have sorrow.
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But if we are wise, we know that there always tomorrow.
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Lean on me when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend. I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long till I'm gonna need somebody to lean on. Please swallow your pride. If I have pain, you need to borrow, for no one can feel those of your needs. Then you won't let show you. Just call on me, brother, when you need a hand. We all need somebody to lean on. I just might have a problem that you'll understand. We all need somebody to lean on. Lean on me when you're not strong, and I'll be your friend. I'll help you carry on, for it won't be long till I'm gonna need somebody to lean on. You just call on me, brother, when you need a hand. We all need somebody to lean on.
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I just might have a problem that you'll understand.
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We all need somebody to lean on. If there is a load you set to bear that you can't carry, i'm right up the road. I'll share your load. If you just call me, call me. If you need a friend, call me. If you need a friend, call me. If you need a friend, call me. If you need a friend, call me, call me. Oh say, can you see by the dawn's early light What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming, through the stride and bright stars, through the perilous fight O'er? the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming, and the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night That our flag was still there. Oh say, does that star spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
