Proclaim Liberty | James Buntrock

Ahead of Independence Day, this message is about remembering what God has done, for Israel and for this nation, so it can be passed down to the next generation. Drawing from Psalm 78, Psalm 103, and Exodus 3, it traces God's deliverance of the oppressed from Egypt through the American founding, tying the Mayflower Compact and the Declaration of Independence to that same pattern of a people crying out and God answering, then moves through Leviticus 25 and the idea of Jubilee, noting that America is currently in its fifth fifty year cycle, which leads into the shared death date of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson on the nation's 50th anniversary, John Quincy Adams calling the Declaration the nation's Ark of the Covenant, and a walk through the symbolism of the Great Seal, including the lesser known, more overtly biblical designs proposed by Franklin and Jefferson, before closing in Luke 4 and Galatians 5, connecting Jesus proclaiming liberty to the captives with the nation's own story of freedom, and calling for restoring religion and morality as the real foundation rather than adding more laws.