Rick Green [00:00:07] Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. This is the WallBuilder Show, taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical and constitutional perspective. And today we are getting the conclusion, the finale, the very last part of rebuilding Liberty. Now you've heard me talk a lot about rebuilding Liberty, I'm Rick Green, America's constitution coach, by the way, here with David Barton and Tim Barton. And we're talking about rebuilding liberty because we wanna make sure the foundation is strong as we go into the 250th anniversary of the nation. And over the last few days and last week, we've been airing our brand new course called Rebuilding Liberty. Now the course is based on my book, a blueprint for rebuilding liberty just in time for America's 250th. And we invited in, of course, David Barton and Tim Barton, but also John Amachukwu and Kirk Cameron and Chris Dunham and Rabbi Daniel Lapin and all these other people have comments in this course and some of the teaching in this courses. So you really do wanna do the whole course. And honestly, you want to do the course with friends and family. It's just so much more effective. We've been doing this a long time, and what we have found is that if you just have an online course you do by yourself, it's not the same. If you do the courses in your living room or at your church with a couple of friends or 200 friends, it just lands different. You learn so much more. You end up being able to talk about it and interact and get ideas for how you're going to implement the action items. And that's of course, a lot of what you're gonna hear today are the action items of how to rebuild Liberty. We've sprinkled some of that throughout the course, but today we're going to wrap it up with a lot of action and a lot of options for you to take action in your community. So let's jump in. This will be the second half of week four. Yesterday we did the first half and it will be the conclusion to the entire course. This is rebuilding Liberty. 

Speaker [00:01:51] What I see in my generation is a hunger, a desire, to not only be involved and know truth, but to know why they believe that truth. Because I think our generation is truly, the veil is just being torn. And they are realizing the ignorance that a certain kind of corrupt system wants them to live in. And we're not about that. If there's anything my generation does not want, it's that they don't want to be controlled, right? They don't the foot of oppressive tyranny on their neck. And we are finally just saying, okay, there's got to be a better way than what we're seeing. And so we start looking for those pockets of society that are actually speaking truth and teaching truth. And then we just want to attach ourselves to that and be a part of it. 

Speaker [00:02:35] Yeah, I would totally agree with that. Actually, I think a way to put it would be that our generation knows they've been robbed and our generation is hungry and they are truth seekers. I would say I see in them a drive to know. I do think what we're seeing is an understanding that there is actually an identity there that has been under attack. And so you have this pendulum where some have. Because they've rejected God and they've rejected tradition and morals and things that have been foundational in a rock. Because we have a movement trying to reject that, you have now a generation looking for, okay, who am I? And we're already seeing the effects of that, the crumbling of it. But then you see the revival taking place because they're coming into contact with what is real, God. And so that's why revival's taking place is because the moment they're told, they go, this is what I've been looking for. And so I'd say that is why they want to be different. We want to different, just like scripture says, be in the world not of it. I think that's what we're coming across right now. 

Rick Green [00:03:35] A lot of people may be here tonight and certainly a lot of those that are going to be watching around the country have had a split in the family over politics or over, you know, a young person goes off to college, they come back and they get the lies and they got a lot of this nonsense about America and they come home and blame the parents or the grandparents or whatever and there becomes this real rift. What's the encouragement you would give to parents and grandparents to keep the conversation going to keep the relationship going. But not water down the truth, but yet be curious enough to have that conversation. I mean, just kind of tell us what you recommend to them to be able to still reach those kids and those grandkids and at least be able ask questions. 

Speaker [00:04:15] Jesus said, this is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. If we're called to love like Jesus, how did he love? Boldly speaking the truth and sacrificially, but he never compromised on truth. And that's a sad situation. And I don't, I never wish that upon anybody. But for a parent in that situation, my encouragement would just be to love sacrificially and to speak truth in love. Right? The apostle Paul said, if I speak truth without love, I'm nothing but a clinging symbol, I am nothing but noise. But Revelations 21.8 also lists a number of people that will be spending the second death in hell. And the first one it lists is cowards. So you also have to understand that Jesus said, too, that His truth, His gospel will even divide families. It will divide fathers against their sons, daughters against their mothers. And while I don't wish that upon anybody, You have to understand that in eternity, you will face a holy God. And what will you tell Him? Did you stand up for truth? Did you speak for truth or did you compromise on truth, even for the sake of family? And then did you pray and let the Lord do His work on your son, on your daughter, on their heart? Well, they have their journey with the Lord because you can't make them believe anything, but you can present them truth and let God do the rest. 

Speaker [00:05:35] I'm just remembering the verse that says, train up a child in the ways they should go and when they grow up, they shouldn't depart from it or they won't depart form it. That scripture oftentimes is sometimes a false security for parents to go, oh, well, if I train them up in the way they should, they will never fall from the truth. But that's not what it says. So really what it is is encouragement to the parent to say, train them in the truth, and when the grow old, though they may have to come to a point where they have to decide who they're gonna be because they stand before God. What they cannot say before God is that they never knew. They can never depart from the truth that was instilled. So that is an encouragement to the parents that God has given you to train them up in the ways they should go. 

Speaker [00:06:20] Just to share a mission statement for the Patriot Institute, to develop leaders in knowledge and virtue for the purpose of restoring biblical truth in all pockets of society. So we're about developing leaders, but not just to know the know, but to know what is good, what is right, to know virtue and how to walk out virtue in your life. And all of that in order to restore biblical principles in all pocket of society, because when we do that, then we save a country. 

Rick Green [00:06:49] Quick break everybody, we'll be right back, you're listening to The WallBuilder Show. 

Speaker [00:08:03] Everything that's based upon how we run our local government, how we're involved to our nation at large from Washington, D.C., we have the opportunity to look at how laws and rules and how courts and how politics works. Jesus said when he held up that infamous coin now, when he asked the people whose inscriptions on this coin, and they shouted to him, Caesar's. Jesus said, then render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God, the things that are God's. And most Westerners don't get what that means. Jesus announced that this coin that has Caesar's inscription on it, give it to Caesar. But just know this, friends, Caesar belongs to God. That coin belongs to God. Rome belongs to got. It all belongs to good. So as Christians, if I understand that, then I'm gonna be involved in the process because it's the stewardship God has entrusted me to vote, to say something, to take a stand. I want to be salt and light until my time here is done and that is my Christian duty and that has to affect, for the glory of God, the world that I live in. 

Speaker [00:09:15] Ten years ago, my parents filmed a reality TV show where they took my siblings and me around the country to learn about America and its legends. 

Rick Green [00:09:24] What was so significant that happened in the first three days they were here. 

Speaker [00:09:27] A prayer! A prayer and a vital study! Yeah, I got it! 

Speaker [00:09:32] Now, yes, that is little baby Rhett in his high-pitched voice. You'd think, as an 11-year-old, I wouldn't have cared. But my parents didn't teach me through textbooks, but by going to battlefields, hearing stories from their descendants, reading documents that the legends themselves wrote. 

Rick Green [00:09:46] We are walking in the footsteps of George Washington. 

Speaker [00:09:49] But now that I'm older, I'm seeing that my generation have a completely different point of view. 

Speaker 7 [00:09:55] Do you love America. 

Speaker [00:09:57] Yes, I do. 

Speaker [00:09:58] I hate America. 

Speaker [00:09:59] A recent poll found that just 16% of Gen Z said that they are proud to live in the United States. It's blatantly clear that most of my generation haven't heard the incredible stories of the men and women that built this country. But I also know there are so many unsung heroes that I have yet to hear about. It's time to set out and tell the tales of these legends that are barely even mentioned. 

Rick Green [00:10:35] Well, welcome back to our tavern section in our final week of week four. I hope you got you some good Patriot brew coffee going and that you are enjoying these four weeks of rebuilding Liberty. Tonight in our finally week together, I just wanna try to bring it all together. I know you've heard from a lot of people with a lot ideas of how to rebuild Liberty. And we actually list quite a few options for you with the 12 step recovery program. In the book, but you've got to seize on something. You got to find something and I'm really hoping when you heard from all these different people and these different ideas that something pricked your heart. That there was some idea where there was the Ten Commandments or hosting Rebuild Liberty courses or working on a constitutional amendment to get rid of federal duplicity or secure the enumeration to make sure that our census actually works appropriately. One of these topics had to have grabbed your attention and you said, Hmm, I could do something about that. Start there. Do something. Every single one of us can be a part of Rebuilding Liberty. And just like the comparison that we started with at the beginning of this course with Nehemiah and rebuilding the walls and having the right bricks and the right mortar and all those things, the people that rebuilt the walls rebuilt close to their house. So do this locally where you live. You know, since we're doing our final segment in the in the tavern part of Rebuilding Liberty, I want I thought about a tavern story And it's actually in 1776. So I know most of our course has been on the Declaration of Independence itself and the words of Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration. And that's certainly what we're rebuilding with as we celebrate the 250th. But I want to fast forward a few months right after the Declaration of Independence, because I think you're probably going to hit some moments like this over the next year. You know, when the declaration was signed, there was some excitement across the colonies. Everybody was excited about the prospect of our independence and becoming the United States of America and getting away from tyranny. But there were still years of fighting to take place. In fact, there were a lot of defeats that would take place I'm not saying that you're gonna have defeats, but I would suggest to you that this win, if this victory of rebuilding Liberty for future generations, it's not gonna happen overnight. We're probably gonna experience some setbacks. It's gonna be tough and it's gonna take some time. And so I take us back to 1776, just a few months after the declaration had been signed. The excitement had kind of worn off. We were fighting a lot and not winning a lot. In fact, Washington had been defeated in New York soundly, and he was really on the run. He was retreating across New Jersey and crossing the Delaware and getting away from the British troops and just trying to survive the winter. Newt Gingrich wrote a book called The Crossing and he tells the story of this in a powerful, powerful way, but he talked about the fact that can you imagine being General Washington and going from 25,000 troops down to 2,500? Can you imagine if 90% of your team deserted you? Can you imagine if you had been losing battle after battle? Nathan Hale has been killed. I mean all of these things have happened and you're trying to figure out how do I rally these folks? How do I get this thing going again? If we were to get in our time machine and go back in time to that part of 1776, it was pretty depressing. It looked bad. No nation was willing to help America. Every nation had said there's no way you're going to win. Forget it. Most Americans had pretty much given up on the effort just a few months after the Declaration of Independence. And as we mentioned. Most of Washington's troops had deserted him. Another break, everybody, stay with us. You're listening to theWallBuilders Show.

Rick Green [00:15:06] Welcome back to TheWallBuilders Show. We're gonna jump right back in to Rebuilding Liberty. If we were to get out of our time machine and walk among those troops as they were resting for the night in the retreat, we would happen upon one young man riding by the light of the fire as everyone else is pretty much given up and just trying to figure out how to survive. And if we were look over that young man's shoulder and see what he's writing, these are the words that we would see. These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this present crisis shrink from service to his country. But he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered, but we have this consolation that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Listen carefully to this next line. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. "'Tis dearness own that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods, and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an item as freedom should not be highly rated." That's, of course, Thomas Paine, an American crisis, the first of his American crisis pamphlets, and he would publish that just a few days before the crossing that would become so famous, the battle that would turn everything around. Now there's a lot of different historians that debate over this, but many of them do say that Washington had it read to the troops there before they crossed the Delaware. Remember they're crossing in a snowstorm. It's an impossible odds. They're crossing to walk nine miles in the snow, many of the without boots. They said you could see the trail of the Americans by the blood in the snow. They're going to walk nine miles to attack the very same Hessian soldiers that had just mopped the floor with them a few weeks before. And George Washington knew that he needed the power of Thomas Paine's pen to rally the troops. Well, of course, they would win that battle. It would be a rout and it would cause the Americans to believe once again that they could win. Washington's troops would swell back up to 15,000 in just a short period of time. It's one of the greatest military comebacks in history. But the words of Thomas Paine are so important. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly. We started rebuilding Liberty four weeks ago with this idea that tough times make tough men, tough men make good times, good times make soft men, and soft men unfortunately lead us into tough times. I think when we obtain freedom so cheaply, we don't respect it, we don't value it, and we don't invest in it. And it's been so easy for most Americans over the last few decades that, frankly, we lost that secret sauce as we talked about in the first week. We lost that patriotism because we had an erosion of the American spirit that was caused by that eradication of the America memory. I hope if nothing else during these four weeks of rebuilding liberty that you've had a rekindling. You've had an ignition of your patriotism, an igniting of the torch of freedom inside of you so that you want to be part of preserving it, so that now you recognize the value of it. Sometimes the value comes because you see it slipping away. You watch some of the things that have happened in our country in the last few years. You watch the divide. You watch that the political persecution of political opposition and all the things that have happened, it makes you start wondering, wow, we could lose freedom. We could hand to our children a nation that is no longer free. It's one reason I want to close with the last part of Thomas Paine's letter, or actually just a few paragraphs later, he tells the story. And this is why I mentioned the Tavern of being in a tavern and the tavern owner himself is standing in the doorway of the taverning. And he's holding his kid, his kid's about seven or eight years old, and he talks about the fact that as long as there's peace in his day that he'll be happy, that he recognizes that at some point they'll probably have to be a separation, but as long there's peace in my day, I'm happy. And Thomas Paine lit him up in that American Crisis pamphlet. He talked about how evil that is, how wrong that is. That a real man, a real father, would say if there is to be war, if there is to a fight, if it is to sacrifice of lives, fortune, sacred honor, let it be in my day. Let me give of my time, my money, my reputation, so that my children may live in freedom. So that my grandchildren, my posterity, can live in Freedom. I think Thomas Paine is right and I hope that you have caught a hold of this vision of doing our part to rebuild the walls, to make sure that we're passing the torch of freedom intact to the next generation, that it's lit even brighter than it was when it was handed to us. Let's take that responsibility to do this on our watch. And again, it's not gonna be easy. Now we don't have to do what the founding fathers had to do. We don't go lay down our lives necessarily. Maybe some of you will in the military or as first responders, but most of us, it's just gonna be two, two, two. We're gonna give two hours of our life a week. That's our time. We're going to give 2% of our fortune investing in good causes out there and good candidates. And just two times a week, we're going to post and share and put our reputation on the line, our sacred honor, by standing up and speaking truth in order to rebuild the walls. By using that mortar we talked about earlier in this course of being dangerous, being willing to step up and speak truth, being what Victor Marx is, a dangerous gentleman, that we once again are willing to risk for the big reward of freedom. I hope you found at least one idea of things that you can do, but I hope you'll latch on to more. All right, everybody. Final break for today. You're listening to The WallBuilder Show. We're airing Rebuilding Liberty. 

Rick Green [00:22:01] Welcome back. Thanks for staying with us. Here we go. This is the conclusion of the conclusion. This will be the final part of week four, which is the final part of Rebuilding Liberty. I'm just going to remind you real quick as we're signing off in our final week, there's twelve steps here. I'm asking you to use two hours a week to invest in one of those steps. I'm ask you to take two percent of your fortune and invest in one of the steps. And then two times a week share some posts. That will further that particular step. Step one, and everybody watching this right now can do this one. Host a Rebuild Liberty Course sometime. Between now and the 250th on July 4th, 2026. Everybody can be a host or a coach at PatriotAcademy.com. Secondly, start planning for your celebration right there in your neighborhood, your church, maybe it's your home for the 250 on July fourth, 20 26. Use the guidelines in the workbook and get started on that planning right now. Third, do something with your local public school on Constitution Day, September 17th. Or celebrate freedom week or whatever the laws that have been passed in your particular state do something to get these good values that we've talked about for the last four weeks back into your school specifically on constitution day and if we've already passed constitution day when you're watching this start planning for next year it'll be back around next year so those three steps will will help us to restore civic literacy it'll help us get people once again to love the values that the nation was built upon. Then the next three steps are gonna help us to restore religious liberty and a God-consciousness in our culture. Maybe you wanna get involved in getting In God We Trust up on the dais at some of your local government entities. Maybe the Ten Commandments is gonna be your particular step, either at the schools or county courthouse or some other government building. And then maybe you wanna be involved in working with getting chaplains in the local school or Bible curriculum or some of those other ideas that we've already talked about in the course. All of those things help to restore both civic literacy and biblical literacy and our religious liberty so that we can, in fact, restore freedom in this country. And then those last six steps that we talked about in the course, some of those are pretty detailed. Some of those are going to take some time, but it's things like restoring parental rights, making sure once again in our constitutions, our state constitutions and our U.S. Constitution, that we guarantee that parents get to make the decisions. About the health and the education and the upbringing of their children. Restoring property rights. We're working really hard at Patriot Academy, right there in Constitution City, Texas, to make sure that property rights are once again restored, that the person who owns the land makes the decision, not some government bureaucrat or engineer. Restoring properties rights, restoring parental rights, and then of course making sure that we get rid of federal duplicity. We've talked a lot about that throughout this program. All the things the federal government's doing that it shouldn't be doing. Making sure that we get rid of that and get it back to the states, fixing our enumeration, making sure we're not counting illegal aliens, we're only counting citizens, we make sure that representation in congress is appropriate and accurate, making, sure we get term limits on congress and judges, getting rid of emergency powers, all of these things will restore limited government, it will restore the proper jurisdictions of government. All right, we've been in the tavern long enough, I gotta take a swig of my patriot brew coffee. And encourage you to have your own tavern gatherings in your parlor, in your house, or maybe out in your backyard, or at your church, or wherever you want to gather with friends and family, and host that next Rebuilding Liberty class. I'm really thankful that you've been a part of this four weeks with us. I want to thank all the people that contributed to this, whether they donated to make it happen, or they helped to teach in one of the weeks. We've had a lot of master bricklayers in this course. Now it's your turn to become a master brick layer. We've given you the bricks, we've given the mortar and the right mindset, now it's time for you to go Rebuild Liberty. Well, everybody, that's it. That was Rebuilding Liberty. And the whole course is available right now at our website, wallbuilders.show. You can just listen back to back to all of our shows last week and our shows this week, and you'll be able to hear the whole course. If you want to watch the videos for the course, it's free. You just got to go to patriotacademy.com sign up for free as a host or coach, and you will have a dashboard to be able, to host this class in your home or at your church, or just watch the video by yourself. But as I said earlier, We recommend you get people together. It just makes it so much more, not only entertaining, but it just helps it stick because you talk about it. And then you end up with these action items and you have people that'll do those action items with you. So strongly encourage you to go to PatriotAcademy.com today, get signed up as a host or coach, download those videos and share them with your friends and family. Thanks so much for listening to the WallBuilders Show.