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May give you an example. Within 15 minutes of what that tour guide told us, we walked in to the University of Virginia library. My friends, there is a neural 30 foot high. And at the apex of that Nero in what used to be the law school and now the library. There is the biggest depiction of the Ten Commandments and Moses you've ever seen. And I said to the tour guide now, you told us just a few minutes ago, this university was specifically founded on the idea that, that, that education and religion did not go together. I said, How do you explain that? And his answer was, I don't know. And I said, Let me share with you what I think Moses is the great lawgiver. He didn't write these laws. He was given these laws as a gift to all mankind for all time sake. And the United States of America is an upholder of law, law above opinion. He said, I never thought about it that way. And I said, baby, You should. We then walked about ten feet from there onto, into one of the most beautiful chapels I've ever been in. And in the Windows is depicted a huge cross. Multiple depictions of Jesus Christ and his parents, multiple depictions of the disciples. And I said to this young man, Do you know who those people are? And he said, I think I do. And I said, Well, why do you think they're at the University of Virginia and a chapel on the grounds of the University of Virginia. If religion is unimportant. And you know what he said? I don't know. I think that we're living in a time. And this is very important and this is the point of everything I've been saying. We are living in a time in your generation. And by the way, if you forget everything I've said. And if you're looking into a small technical device at this moment, I'm asking you to please put it down and to just hear me one-on-one. Because if you forget everything I've ever said, I'm begging you to hear this. This is why come to your classroom today. And it's a great honor to be here, you're ready for this. The United States of America has never been in greater peril than we are in now. We've been through great depressions, civil wars, two world wars and a Cold War. If you add all those wars together, we've had about four World Wars. Were in one now against radical Islam, and they mean business. But you know what, a very famous historian said, the following. Great societies do not perish by murder. They perish by suicide. And I want to share with you what I believed to be the suicide threat to this country. It is the overwhelming sense among Hollywood. The major media, education, the federal government and its bureaucracy, the major foundations to secularize our country. To erase God from government, to erase him from the media, to erase him from film, to erase him from the military, to erase him from higher education, to erase him from the public schools and the private schools. And here's why I've asked you to just give me your undivided attention for this one minute. Because here's a promise to you. This is a promise. Your generation will decide whether we are too, maintain our leadership for freedom in the world. That's not rhetoric, that's not hyperbole. If your parents were here, if your aunts and uncles, grandparents, right? I would say the same thing. But your generation is going to decide this. Because I want to assure you that a few miles from here at the University of Virginia and a lot of miles away at many other universities. And I speak on a different college campus about once every three weeks. I want to reassure you all that by enlarge with important exceptions, there professors are working overtime. To revise the history of the United States of America. They are working overtime to push God out of the public square, to push him out of the military, to push him out of the major institutions and foundations. And you know what? It is your birthright. It is not a matter in your young lives. It's not a matter of, if, of, if you will face this kind of potential discrimination against Christians. It is a matter of when. And I'm asking from one brother in Christ to other Christians. Are we ready? Do we know our history? Can we confidently? And I do mean confidently, defend ourselves. I want to give you three examples, if I may. There is a major attack going on today against the institution of marriage. Let me tell you what marriage is. Marriage is a gift of God himself, between one man and one woman for a lifetime periods. That's a marriage. Marriage is not two men or two women. Marriages not to man to man married to one woman, which by the way is coming. Or two women and one man, or any other combination. Marriages between a man and a woman, period. That's the definition of marriage. I'm looking at a computer screen. I can tell you all that this is a couch. Words matter, definitions matter. This is not a couch. This is a computer screen. Objective reality and objective truth. The attack that you are living on, the living in, that we are all living in. This culture is an attempt to redefine marriage. May tell you the euphemism that's used. Marriage, equality. You're going, if you all have heard it, you're going to hear it a lot more. Marriage equality suggests that we have to expand. The definition. May tell you, my friends, it's not an attempt to expand the definition. It's to constrict and to destroy marriage in the Christological concept between one man and one woman. Do you know that there are so many lawsuits today seeking to redefine marriage that we can't keep them all straight. And as you know, notoriously this summer, our own Supreme Court said that there is no federal definition of marriage. Did you know that by one vote, they said that federal benefits, any kind of federal benefits that currently go to a married man or married woman must be extended to couples of the same sex. That's very frightening. Let me give you another example beyond marriage, human life. You know, you are not a body. Cs Lewis famously said, you are a soul and your soul has a body. Every person who was ever born or pre born matters. Why? Because we are made in the imago Dei. We're made in the image of God Himself. There was never, ever, ever a person who did not matter. Ever. Since 1973. In the most notorious Supreme Court case ever, Roe against Wade, the Supreme Court redefine human life. And it made abortion legal up to and including all nine months of pregnancy. Anybody in here would like to guess how many abortions we have had in the United States of America just since 1973. 55 million. That's called a Holocaust. 55 million, about one every 24 seconds. That brings great shame on our land. The other very shameful, notorious ruling and dress in the Dred Scott case, which confirms slavery. This was a, this was a terrible mark on our nation's history. We lost 750 thousand Americans in the Civil War. Because we did not codified in law that black and white people are one. A 100 percent equal without exception forever. Because we are all made in God's image, all of us. But what have we done in the United States of America since 1973, we have zeroed out of the human family, 55 million humans. What does your generation going to do about it? I have to tell you, I'm extremely hopeful. Your generation is more pro-life than your parents and grandparents. With two clicks of a mouse, you can look and see. It's not an elephant or a mouse. It's a human being, it's not a choice. The pro-choice rhetoric is all wrong. Choice means that the two people get to decide, but only one person gets to decide. In the, in the current rubric, this is unjust. Marriage and life are very big. I would say, the biggest public policy matters of your generation. What is your generation going to do about these matters? We have never, ever needed Christians more than we need you now in public life. We need you in the media. We need your writing screenplays, you writing the music. We need you in the military, we need you in banking, in the law, in medicine, in real estate. Now, more than ever. Never to be apologetic for what it is you believe and why you believe it. And the third biggest public policy issue of your lifetime, along with the redefinition of marriage, along with the question of life, is the overriding monumental issue of religious liberty and the rights of conscience. If I had nine hours, could not cover all of the major attacks that are going on in the courts today to crack down on your religious liberty and rights of conscience. Let me ask the most basic question. I can't. This is the easiest. Whenever. Where do your rights come from? Sorry, from God. They don't come from government. They don't come from the Constitution. They don't come from the Declaration of Independence. They don't come from the maniere Carta. They don't come from anybody in Washington DC. They don't come from the media. They come from God. Now let me ask you another question. Whose country is this? That's correct. Why in this idea of religious liberty, is there this sense that it's, that it's the Democrats country or the Republicans country, or the media's country, or the Supreme Court's country, or the militaries country. No, it's your country. And your God given rights can never be taken away. And the first one, the top one, is your religious liberty and your rights of conscience. And I want to tell you something. Here's my right hand in the air. I promise. I promise. There are hundreds of thousands of people who get up every day in our bless it, remarkable, exemplary country working overtime to take away your religious liberty. It may tell you what they're counting on. Their counting on Christians. To give up, to become discouraged, to not engage, to lay down like lambs? I can't tell you. I wish I could tell you. I can't tell you how many Christians I have met. Thousands of Christians, thousands who are in despair about the course of our country. When I tell them I'm from Washington, I oh, oh, I don't know how you do it. I would never want to go there. What a mess. No. That's just the opposite. Just the opposite. Every single one of the new tab of the Old Testament books is written to a political leader. 1 third of the New Testament books written to political leaders, why? We're not to retreat. We are to engage. As Christians. We are not slouching toward Gomorrah. We are marching toward Zion. Were not crusading toward some victory. We are marching from the Victory. Our job is not to Christianize Washington or to Christianize the social order, or to Christianize the media. It's to be of service. We've already one is christians. We are Christians, we are citizens of two places. This is our earthly home, but we're going someplace else. That is our ultimate home. And while we are here, we are to engage at every level with confidence, with peace and serenity. To know that the victory is already been won. And now it's our turn to step up to the plate and to do what we're supposed to do.