TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Independence Day 2023: The Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear

Episode Date: July 4, 2023

In this special Independence Day edition of TRUNEWS, host Rick Wiles explores the consequences of removing Bibles from American classrooms. Through a legacy interview from 2012 featuring Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear, they delve into the profound influence of the Bible on early American education and its role in shaping the nation. Reflecting on the eroding impact of this decision, the episode highlights the significance of the Bible in imparting moral guidance and instilling a sense of civic duty, urging a renewed commitment to preserving its legacy in American education.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 7/4/23 You can partner with us by visiting TruNews.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 690069 Vero Beach, FL 32969.It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

This is True News, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help us God. I'm Doc Burkhart. Welcome to a special Independence Day edition of True News, where we embark on a journey to explore the immense and far-reaching consequences of the faithful decision to eradicate Bibles from our classrooms. Rick Wallace takes us back to a legacy interview from 2012 featuring the esteemed Patriot Pastor Garrett Lear, as they delve into the profound influence of the Bible on early American education and its pivotal role in the birth of our great nation. In an era characterized by a relentless assault on our historical legacy and cherished values, it becomes increasingly crucial to reflect upon the magnitude of removing Bibles from

our educational institutions. The decision has reverberated through the past five decades, leaving an indelible impact on the course of American society. Well, prepare to embark on a captivating exploration of the historic significance associated with the presence of the Bible in our classrooms and how it fundamentally shaped the minds and hearts of our founding fathers. Sacred teachings and wisdom contained within its pages not only imparted moral guidance but also instilled a profound sense of civic duty, thus laying the groundwork for the birth

of a nation that was firmly rooted in the principles of freedom, justice, and equality. However, the decision to remove Bibles from the classroom marked a monumental turning point, ushering in an era where the foundational values of our nation began to erode and lose their prominence. The absence of the Bible, once a bedrock of education, created a void within subsequent generations, making it all the more imperative for us to revisit this pivotal moment in our shared history. On this episode of True News, we commemorate this momentous Independence Day, honoring the sacrifices of those who fought for our freedom

and reigniting our commitment to preserving the legacy and impact of the Bible in American education and the very foundation of our beloved nation. Here's True News host Rick Wiles with the Patriot pastor, Garrett Lear. Noah Webster, born 1758 and died 1843, is known as the father of American education. And long before the socialists, evolutionists, and atheists took over our schools, Noah Webster influenced the education of American boys and girls more than any other person.

His name is synonymous with the word dictionary. And many of you, in fact, many Americans have a Merriam-Webster dictionary in their home or office, and yet many people don't even know that it was authored by a devout Christian man. Now, here are some quotes by Noah Webster. He said, Now, just compare those words with the educators of today, the leaders of the socialist, atheist National Education Association. This is what Noah Webster said. He said, the Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government, as well as in all social transactions. He went on to say, in my view, the Christian religion is the most important

and one of the first things in which all children under a free government ought to be instructed. In my view, he said, before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed. As they are in almost every kingdom of Europe, the supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword, because the whole body of the people are armed and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be on any pretense raised in the United States. Now today, if he said that on CNN or Fox News, he would be branded an extremist, a domestic terrorist.

Janet Napolitano would order Homeland Security agents to track Noah Webster, to read his emails, follow his searches on the Internet. He would be tagged as a domestic extremist. He also said every child in America should be acquainted with his own country. He should read books that furnish him with ideas that will be useful to him in life and practice. As soon as he opens his lips, he should rehearse the history of his own country. Now think about those words and then consider this. The mentally deranged young man, Jarrett Loeffner, who shot and killed six people, wounded, I i believe another 19

shot congresswoman gabriel giffords in the head killed a federal judge killed a nine-year-old child that young man was educated in a school that obtained its books and curriculum from a socialist Marxist outfit run by Bill Ayers, the communist, the friend of Barack Obama. That young man was educated in Marxism. In fact, his favorite books were The Communist Manifesto and Hitler's Mein Kampf. And the socialists, the Marxists in the media and in Congress and the bloggers,

they tried to put this shooting on the conservative patriotic people of this country. The truth is, this young man is the product of their warped Marxist education system. And if we had retained Noah Webster's principles of education, that boy would never have turned out to be a monster. So who really is responsible for that tragic shooting? Mr. Garrett Lear is on the telephone to talk about reviving our Christian heritage before it's too late. He's known across America as the Patriot Pastor. He has a rich knowledge of the founding of America, the thoughts of the founding fathers, and his understanding of the influence of Christianity

on the colonies and the American Revolution in the early days of our nation. He can trace his family back nearly 390 years. He's a member of the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution. And he has served the Lord as a pastor, evangelist, chaplain, Bible college teacher, worship leader, revival speaker. He's also the founder of the Well of Living Water Ministries, and he was recommended to us by our good friend, gospel singer Ron Jones. This is his first time on True News.

The Patriot Pastor, Garrett Lear. Pastor, welcome to the program. Well, I will have no other king but King Jesus, and I am certainly honored for the opportunity to be with you today, Rick, on the program. And your intro certainly excited me. I have quoted many times Noah Webster myself, and it brought to mind something that most people in America don't know about the derivation of public education in America, because just as you have said, our government schools, and I don't call them public schools anymore, the debacle that we call public education is really a government school with an agenda that is not compatible with what our founding fathers gave us. But there was an act in Massachusetts colony in

1647, and it was called the Old Deluder Act or the Old Deluder Satan Act. This is for real. I mean, if anyone wants to do, any of our listeners want to do a Google search, they can find it. And basically it says, it being one chief project of that old deluder Satan to keep men from the knowledge of the scriptures as in former times by keeping them in an unknown tongue. So in these latter times, by persuading from the use of tongues, that so that at least the true sense and meaning of the original might be clouded and corrupted with false glosses of saint-seeming deceivers, and to that end, that learning may not be buried in the grave of our forefathers in

church and commonwealth, the Lord assisting our endeavors. Now, I'm not going to read the whole thing, but I'm basically going to just surmise the rest of it is that in any township in the jurisdiction of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England, after the Lord had increased them to 50 households, they were to appoint within their town to teach all children how to read and write, and the wages of that person, that schoolmaster, would be paid by either the parents or the masters of such children, or the inhabitants in general. And the purpose was so they could read and write, read the Bible, and that they would know the Scriptures and they would not be deceived by Satan.

So let's, we fast forwarded to what you just said, Rick, concerning this horrible tragedy that's happened in Tucson, what was this young man, all of the years he was in school, what was he learning? He obviously didn't learn the Ten Commandments, thou shalt not murder. And he certainly didn't learn to read and the way to read Scripture to know that this was a horrible thing to do, and he shouldn't have done it. From everything I have read about him, he spent most of his life buried in video games and online virtual reality rooms, pretending to be another person, living in a fantasy world. He was warped by the godless society that has risen up in this country.

And so he is a product of that society. And they are the ones who are responsible. They're trying to blame people like me. They're trying to blame Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh and conservative talk radio hosts. The guy didn't even listen to talk radio. He didn't watch news programs. He wasn't interested in the news. He was reading the Communist Manifesto.

He is a product of the socialist engineering that has been going on in this country for decades. And it's time, Pastor, we stand up and say it. We get beat up in this. The patriots, the Christians, the conservatives are getting beat up by the media all the time because we don't fight back on their level and and i i say let's give them a dose of their own medicine you know let's tell the public who they are and what they've done let's expose them let's let's pull the let's pull the veil off and and show the whole country what these people really are they're god haters they're god. They're God-haters. They're atheist God-haters. That's it. And what happens to people that are God-haters? We have been told

as Christians, for the most part, we're supposed to be nice. We're not supposed to say anything that would be offensive to somebody. And incidentally, Scripture is very plain when it says that the gospel is an offense to them that perish. And so we know that many of these people that are offended by the gospel, that are God-haters and hate Scripture and don't want to know about their actions, what it leads to, that they are lost and they are living in darkness. And I think about Psalm chapter 3. It says, Lord, how are they increased that trouble me? Many are they that rise up against me. Many there be that say of my soul, there is no help for him in God, say la. But thou, O Lord,

art a shield for me, my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. And I can tell you, Rick, over the years, and I've been in ministry 37 years, I can tell you that I have spent more time outside the four walls of the buildings known as churches. And by the way, I consider the church to be us, the ecclesiastical people, meeting in different locations. And I've spent lots of time in revival tents, on the steps of Capitol buildings all over this country, in parks, in meeting halls of all kinds. And I have made the same declaration, the things that I'm saying here on this broadcast, the same declaration, even in front of audience this past summer. I spoke in Jaffray, New Hampshire, I think for the fifth time. I was invited back to the Live Free or Die Festival, where 70% of the people identify themselves as atheists. And I told them that atheists have no part in America. They don't believe our foundational

documents. And all of them were in open gun carry, which you can do here in New Hampshire. A lot of people said, that's pretty stupid to get up there in front of all these people and say things like that. They could shoot you. Yes, they could. But I'll tell you one thing I'm more concerned with. I'm concerned with being a coward and stepping back from the things that I know that the Lord wants us to do.

You look at the first chapter of the book of Joshua, know that the Lord wants us to do. And, you know, you look at the first chapter of the book of Joshua, four times the Lord had to say to the people, be of good courage, be of good courage. Yes, there's some scary things out there. Yes, there are people in the mainstream liberal media that are trying to browbeat us and accuse us of being this and call us that and so forth. Well, you know, we're going to be persecuted for righteousness' sake. I've had many Christians tell me, well, I don't understand this when you're talking about persecution.

And I said, well, you don't understand it because you've never done anything to be persecuted for. You haven't said anything that wasn't nice. And by the way, nothing in Scripture tells us we need to be nice. We are exhorted, John 8, 32, and other places. We need to make sure that what we're saying is true.

Isn't that why this program is called True News? That's right. That's right. We're going to tell the truth. Garrett, before we go a little bit deeper here into the Christian heritage of our country. I want to find out a little bit more about you and your background. You're in New England. You're in New Hampshire. I grew up in Western Maryland,

and so I grew up in an area where I was just absolutely, totally surrounded by history, revolutionary war history and Civil War history. I mean, the county that I lived in, Washington County, was the first jurisdiction named for George Washington. The first Washington's monument was in Boonesboro, Maryland, which was in the county where I lived. It wasn't Washington, D.C. It was Boonesboro, Maryland, which was in the county where I lived. It wasn't Washington, D.C. It was Boonesboro.

The town of Williamsport, Maryland, was actually the original site for the nation's capital. George Washington, as the architect, laid out the streets that he was originally planning to put the capital at that part of the Potomac and then decided he was going to go further down the Potomac, and that's where he ended up, a place now called the District of Columbia. I mean, every place in my life growing up, it was history. You know, as a kid, I played in Fort Frederick, which still is the oldest French and Indian fort still remaining. Actually, the oldest colonial fort remaining in North America.

I often, you know, drank good, cool water from a spring where George Washington's troops were known to fill their canteens. I could, you know, I could just go on and on and on. Many times sitting at, you know, Antietam Battlefield at Bloody Lane and just thinking about the carnage that took place that day as men fought with one another. So I grew up with this history around me. But as I'm reading your biography, I realize, you know,

you get family roots going way back, all the way to the Mayflower. Tell us about your family history. Well, you know, when I was growing up, and I was born in the Cradle of Liberty, which is in the Boston area. I was born in Lexington, Massachusetts. And I walked by the Minuteman statue of John Parker, who was a deacon in that fine Pastor Jonas Clark's church.

And he was the captain of the Minutemen, or the local militia. And, of course, Pastor Clark was one of the most important people in the colony, and one of the finest Christian men that you could ever find. Most all the people who were the Minutemen who fought in the Battle of Lexington were in his church. I mean, I saw the reenactment year after year, and of course, as I traveled to all these different historical sites, I have to say that as a boy growing up, they meant something to me, and I knew it was important, but like everyone else in that time, and I grew up in the 50s, I wanted to play baseball, and I wanted to make my way in the world and didn't give a whole lot of thought to some of the things that my mother actually,

my ancestry going back to the Mayflowers through my maternal side, through my mother. And my mother told me things. And I remember the things that she told me, and it didn't seem like any of the other relatives cared too much about those things. They were more concerned with modern endeavor, like being successful in business or whatever, but for some reason with me, and I started to read when I was four years of age, and I always wanted to read historical books. I mean, I just adored history in school. I wanted to read biographies of people.

I did not realize at that time, it wasn't really until I was an adult, a grown-up man, and after having traveled to different parts of the country, I actually graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy, Wayne, Pennsylvania, and the nation's shrine in Valley Forge. I have an ancestor buried there, that I am American-made, and I'm all American parts. And this is in my DNA. When I think about what my ancestors, and I had four ancestors that I'm descended from, who were on the Mayflower, what they went through to come to this continent, what they survived, and actually a couple of them didn't even survive the first winter, as many didn't. And yet, when the Mayflower was setting sail to go back to England, as the contract was, in the spring,

not one of the survivors got back on that ship to go back to England. They said, no, by divine providence, and if we read the Mayflower Compact. See, Rick, when I read these documents or I go to these places, I don't just go there anymore as a historian, and I belong to a number of very notable historical societies and so forth. I don't go there just for facts. When I go there, it's though I am their descendant and I'm their representative today. That's right. And I probably will shock a lot of our listeners by saying, I am a modern-day founding father.

I am coming saying the same things they said, talking about the same things that they were dealing with, and so forth, because we are dealing with many of the same things that they dealt with then. That's right. Garrett, you know that those godly men and women prayed awesome prayers. They prayed for their sons and daughters and their grandchildren and great-great-great-grandchildren, and I believe those prayers are still active. I believe they're still before the Lord.

And when we stand as sons and daughters of those men and women and say, we are the descendants of the godly men who came here, and we, Father, are asking you to remember their prayers, remember their sacrifice, remember their loyalty and their commitment to you, and help us today, Father. Help us to live for you like they did. I believe the Lord answers those prayers today. I do, and I believe that in the very way of Elijah and Elisha, their mantle has

fallen upon those of us who understand what they're saying. And let's just say, Rick, that at one point in time, and I can't say specifically what day it happened or what week or even what month that it happened, but quite a number of years ago, I started to understand what they went through. I started to look at it not as ancient history, but even a modern-day struggle, because it's part and parcel with the nature of the fallen world that we live in, some of the circumstances we find ourselves in, and recognize the fact that I needed to take the same stand as they would. And I found something very interesting.

By taking the stand that they did, and taking a stand myself for this culture and in this civil war of values and so forth that we're in, I found a special anointing in the Lord. I found that the more I stood up, the straighter I became. The more I stood up, the more courage I had. The more that I spoke out, the more I understood what I needed to speak out about. And recently, back in June, I believe it was the 26th of June of 2010, I had been requested by David Barton of Wall Builders and Jim Garlow of Skyline Wesleyan Church in San Diego, if I would give a tour of the Lexington Green for a group. They were calling it the Next Great Awakening Tour.

And they put a group together, a very fine group of people, and they brought them across the country. And I was doing the, let's say, the Lexington phase of their trip. And it was interesting. One of the fellows that came there, I had known him, he actually does some tours in Boston. And so I said to them, folks, look over and there written in stone, paid for by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the story of what happened here, what these people believed in. The eight who died here, the martyrs who died for the cause of Christ and freedom in America, are buried right over there. But the spot that I am standing on right now, the spot where I've gathered all of you together in the northwest corner of the

Lexington Common is the place where the eight of them fell. The blood of the martyrs is in the dirt that we're standing on. It's in the soil. When I said that, I mean, that's the first time I recall ever saying that. And when I said it, this fellow that came up from Boston to join in the tour, he later told me that when you said that, I felt a shock go from the heel of my feet through the top of my head, thinking, yes, we're standing on this sacred ground. Then I pointed over to the old church there, and I said, in the burial ground over there, in the cemetery, is Pastor Jonas Clark, Captain John Parker, and John Hancock, Pastor John Hancock, the grandfather of John Hancock, the signer of the Declaration of American Independence. I mean, everybody was so exhilarated as I stood there and portrayed Jonas Clark and read his account of what happened and his actual affidavit of what happened and prayed the prayer that he prayed. These people were so excited when the bus driver said,

we've got to get on the bus and get going. Nobody would get on the bus. They were just all around me as if they wanted, and they were touching me, and I had a musket, I had my Bible out, and they just, it was like wanting to touch the history that's so important. And I have stood on that tree. It's because, Garrett, we have been stripped of our identity. The socialists, the atheists in this country over the last 40, 50 years have deprogrammed us. They have erased our consciousness of memories of who we are. And so the American people, many of them are reaching out.

They're trying to connect with their ancestors. They're trying to connect with their origins as a people. And I've never been on a foreign battlefield, you know, like from World War I or World War II, but I've been on many Revolutionary War and Civil War battlefields. And I have felt that same sense of awe and reverence and humility as you stand at a place knowing that the blood of American men are in the soil. I've had that feeling. I've been in these places. You can't go to Bloody Lane in Antietam and not think about the fact that they said blood flowed down the wagon tracks of that lane. You know, what you were just saying, Rick, about how the socialists and the Marxists and the fascists and the communists and all the other

ones that have tried to strip us of who we are. Well, you have to brainwash somebody, and you have to strip them of who they are so that you can program them to be who you want them to be. And I can tell you my experience, and I'm in my 63rd year of life. I am a very loyal friend, and I am a good compatriot to those that are compatriots, but I am the worst nightmare of somebody who wants to try to strip me of who I know that the Lord has made me and who the Lord has told me that I am. Every one of us need to know who the Lord has made us to be, and we need to know and understand, and there are many people out there that try to make me feel ashamed for America.

I said, I'm not ashamed of America. I know America's not perfect. America's not my God. Christ is my God. Christ is my Savior. America's not my Savior. But at the same time, look at the history of the world and say, have there ever been a people that have been so blessed as Americans have been? And what's the reason why?

Let me ask you that question. Many of the founding fathers, many of the settlers, the colonists, the pilgrims who came here in the 1600s, in the early 1700s, they referred to the New World, to America, as the new Israel. They openly spoke and wrote of their belief that God had ordained this land to be settled, and it would be a city on a shining hill. It would be as a new Israel, a new Jerusalem. Well, they had experience. They had lots of experience of tyranny, of divine right monarchs,

and how people were kept in bondage. And they said, this will not happen in this new land. And you just mentioned, Rick, when you mentioned about the shining city on the hill, that was a speech given in 1630 by John Winthrop, governor of the Mass Bay Colony, on the deck of the sailing ship the Arabella. And I defy anyone out there, it's easy to find these things these days on the internet, read the City on the Hill speech by John Winthrop, and see that it's a prophetic word, it's a challenge. It's also the quintessential vision for America, what America, the founders believed. And when I say founders, I look at the Mayflower Compact as the true birth certificate of America. I believe that the Declaration of American

Independence is just that. It's a declaration of independence. It's sort of, in a sense, the declaration that we have come of age. So when you look at all these foundational documents, for example, if you look at the Constitution of the Plymouth Colony in 1643, it talked about the republican form of government requires the consent of the governed. Now this later, I mean, here we are, you know, in the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration, this similar wording comes forward, because this is something birthed in the heart of God, we can find it in Scripture, and they look through, they search through the Scriptures saying, we will have a government unlike any government the world has ever known.

Not perfect, because men are part of it. And it's also interesting, as we look at, you know, what the Founding Fathers were studying, and how they were very fluent in reading the Bible, and what they planned. In the early 19th century, okay, in the early 1800s, a man was sent from France named Alexis de Tocqueville. He wrote a book called Democracy in America. He gave a glowing report. Now, he was being paid by the French because they had had a revolution, we had a revolution. Their revolution was nothing but chaos, and even the author of the revolution, which was Robespierre, died on his own guillotine. And so they said, how is it that America is so much newer than we are? They had a revolution, and they're so strong, and we had a revolution, and we're an ancient culture, and we're so weak.

Find out what they're doing. And what he said was this, and the phrase has become known as American exceptionalism, that America is strong because America is good. When America ceases to be good, America will cease to be strong. Now, many of our listeners may be saying, but what about this, and what about that, and what about that in our history? Yes, we've had some very bad things that have happened in our history in America, but it's a fallen world, and imperfect people were involved. But historically, there's never been a country that has had so much good and so much strength from that good because of the place they put the Lord. He said that the pulpits, and talking about de Tocqueville again, the pulpits are ablaze with righteousness.

And the people in America have combined civil government and Christianity in a way that's unheard of and unknown in Europe. Not so that people would have their freedom of Christianity to be, put them in some kind of bondage. They were free to worship God in spirit and truth. But today, as we're being told, well, you can't pray here.

You can't say that here. And I've gone before the legislature in New Hampshire, opened the Bible many times, like I did last week, and started to read where somebody would yell out, you can't do that, stop that. Or I'd read the Constitution, you can't do that, stop that. And I'd say, no, I'm not going to stop. Really? You've had people telling you to stop reading? Yeah. I've had that happen in the legislature. I've been on the streets of Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, and other places where I've been told, you cannot preach the gospel here. You can't hand out Bible tracts. And I said, yes, I can,

because my master and my Lord has sent me here, and he's asked me to be a witness for him. And so I can do it. And I was threatened with arrest for nine years in a row at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire, a big beach here in New Hampshire. Nine years in a row. And I told them, look, if I'm really breaking the law, then you need to handcuff me and take me in and I'm going to go. But just remember, I'm going to sue and I'm going to uphold my rights. I'm not voluntarily giving my rights away, which I don't think you really can do anyway. They never arrested me because I wasn't breaking the law. I said, they knew that, I knew that. It's just simple. Other people came, and they listened, and they just stopped doing what they're doing.

They don't know what their rights are. Gary, let me ask you this. Are the words and phrases and terminology and concepts that are found in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, are they the products of sermons that were preached by Christian pastors years before? Oh, absolutely. I know that there are a lot of people that will thump me for this, and by the way, for any of our listeners, I have had every kind of debate you can name under the sun, I believe.

You know, all the radio that I've done and open forum, I take questions. I mean, I just was on a speaking tour, a lengthy speaking tour in Illinois. I open up a question sometimes for two hours, which most speakers know is a dangerous thing to do. So I've heard many things. But I can tell you, Rick, that many people would say it's an Enlightenment document and it was influenced by the French Enlightenment and so forth and so on. But if you look at the sermons that were preached in the founding era,

let's say 1700 till maybe 1800, that 100-year period of time. How about one that I mentioned last Wednesday? Civil magistrates must rule in the fear of God, which the scriptural site of that is 2 Samuel chapter 23. It was preached by Charles Chauncey, Jonathan Mayhew, Samuel West, who I am a descendant of, preached these things. The Stamp Act, I mean, think about a sermon, Rick, that would be preached today from the pulpit somewhere that would affect government and people in government so much that they would repeal Obamacare or they would repeal some act that they had just done. And that's what happened with the Stamp Act, with the preaching of Jonathan Mayhew in 1764 in Boston.

So it was a preacher sermon who instigated the opposition to the Stamp Act. Absolutely. Oh, and it was the... Well, I hope he wasn't a 501c3 church, because the IRS would come in and lock him up for opposing public policy. Well, here's what Jonathan Mayhew said. Come and get me. In fact, he preached many times in front of the royal governor sitting in the front row.

You know, they also understood way back what had happened in England with Henry VIII. And if anyone knows the story of Hugh Latimer, Hugh Latimer was a bishop and King Henry liked to come in here and preach and sit in the front row. And, you know, King Henry, if he didn't like you, you'd be dead before sunset. He didn't like what you said, and you offended him. You'd be dead before the day was out.

And not only dead, so would your family, and he'd take away all your family estate and whatever. And Hugh Latimer would stand there and he'd say, Latimer, Latimer, King Henry is here. Latimer, Latimer, King Henry is here. Latimer, Latimer, King Henry is here. But then the Holy Spirit would lay on his heart and say, Latimer, Latimer, King Jesus is here. This was the kind of preaching that caused people like Peter Oliver, who was a Tory loyalist sympathizer in Boston, to tell the royal governor, it's the preachers, this Black Robe Regiment. And I consider myself one of the leaders of the 21st century Black Robe Regiment in America today. And also in England, the prime minister,

Waldo, was asked by King George III, what is happening to our colonies? Why are they fighting me? I'm their king. And Sir Oliver, I mean, Sir Waldo said to him, my lord, me thinks that cousin America has been led astray by a Presbyterian parson. He was the Presbyterians. Well, they just said it that way. I know.

They were still rocking and reeling from John Knox in Scotland, and it was because of the wearing of the Geneva robes. Yes. So they just classified. But there were Episcopalians who were preaching this. There were Lutherans. There were Moravians. There were Quakers.

There were other—there were Congregationalists, lots of Congregationalists that were preaching and of course Baptists and so forth, they just lumped them all together and the way that he explained it and being the King Henry being the head of the church of King George I meant, George III the head of the Anglican church

wouldn't have understood all this, he just said it in a convenient way. Those guys like the Presbyterians that are always fighting and telling us that we have a covenant with God and we have to honor the covenant and that no man rules over God. And by the way, when we make the statement, we'll have no other king but King Jesus, that was one of the most prominent things during the war for American independence. When Samuel Adams signed the Declaration of American Independence,

he said, we have today restored the sovereign to whom all men owe their obedience. Well, you know, those were fighting words back then, and they're still fighting words today. Oh, yeah. You just stand up in public and say, I have no king but Jesus, and watch the uproar that will ensue because of your stand for the Lord Jesus Christ. If the government doesn't, the federal government in this country does not like people saying they have no king but Jesus. Well, that's true, and I can tell you, Rick, it isn't just been when I've stood in the government,

you know, halls of government and said those things, which I do and have done lots of. I mean, I've been in Washington, D.C. in front of cameras and did these things and challenged many different people that way. But you know what has been the real heartbreak, Rick, is when I have stood amongst a congregation of dozens upon dozens of Christian clergy, preachers of the gospel, and said the very same thing, and they all just sit there and look at me like I have two heads. I know. And I say to them, what is the matter with you? Every one of you should be on your feet, clapping, or on your face before God, or kneeling, or whatever it is in your Christian tradition that you do, but you should be on your feet clapping or on your face before God or kneeling or whatever it

is in your Christian tradition that you do, but you should be doing it now. When you hear that declaration, we will have no other king but King Jesus. That is the declaration over America. And of course, as I also add to, someone has stolen my country, and I want her back, and I want her back now. A lot of people say, what do you say that for? I said, because I didn't give this country away. I haven't given my country away. Somebody's stolen her.

And it's a her because America is identified in the female gender. And of course, the issue that when I say that, it's not just me saying it. I believe that the Lord is saying that to us. This country belongs to me, and someone has stolen it. It's time to get her back. I think, you know, as we're down here to just a few seconds, you know, the politest words that I can use about what's happened is too many of our pastors have been neutered. That's true. That's about it. They're neutered. And they're not men. They don't have backbone.

And they're unwilling to put their life on the line for God and country, they become hirelings. And the reason America has ceased to be great is because we are ceasing to be good. And so the solution to our national ills is to return to the passion and the fire that this nation had for Jesus Christ hundreds of years ago. And we will restore our nation's greatness and our glory as a people. That is the only choice we have. That's it. And I'm going to spend the rest of my life proclaiming that message.

I'd love to have you back on. I'm just going to have you rest of my life um proclaiming that message i i'd love to have you back on we we you know i'm just going to have you on throughout this year my i've got a mission this year um this is life and death for our country we we really don't have the luxury of a lot of time to to just sit around and talk about this stuff uh we we're going to lose our country soon uh i you know the the image i've got is that we know we're we're swirling lose our country soon you know the image I've got is that we're swirling around in the toilet bowl right now you know I see it as like years ago when I

started this ministry you know I was trying to tell people if you know if we don't get it together we're going to be tossed in the toilet bowl well now hey somebody has flushed it and we're starting to swirl around and and we're getting real dangerously close to that big black hole um of no return we're not going down

that hole no we're not i declare that in jesus name we're not going down there we're going to be like the frog uh that is being that the heron is trying to swallow the frog, and the frog is in the heron's mouth, but the frog's got his hands around the heron's throat. That's right. You may have me in your mouth, but you're not going to swallow me. That's right. You know, Garrett, I said to you a few days ago last week on the program, listen, I know

that the number of Christians who know who we are in Christ in America. I know that number has dwindled greatly in recent years, over the decades. But truthfully, what does it matter with our God? As long as there are some of us— He's used a remnant in the wilderness many times. That's right. As long as there are some of us who will believe Him. Yeah. Just like

that. Commit his word and believe him for what he said with good old-fashioned chutzpah. That's right. You know, that's guts. That's, you know, when I stood on the platform for three, the third time in the last three years commemorating the original 1773 Boston Tea Party and Fannel Hall in Boston, which this past December I did that, when I'm there and I'm standing and I'm being looked at by statues, so to speak, of all the greats, you know, Samuel Adams and John Adams and so forth, and declaring to the group that came out there, let me tell you, there are people that are catching what we're saying. So what you're doing, Rick, is very important. It's not in vain. It's what the Lord has called you to do,

and people are receiving it, and we're not necessarily looking for a multitude. We're looking, as Samuel Adams said, we don't need a multitude. We just need an irate minority that are willing to set brush fires in men's minds. Amen. The website is thewelloflivingwater.com. Do you have another website, or is that the main website? Patriotpastor.org, thepatriotpastor.org, and we have lots of videos there of different speeches that I've given in different places we try to keep that on there uh pretty much all the time and uh different radio programs and so forth and so on and different pictures and different statements so okay that'd be the

well of living water dot com or the patriot pastor dot org or also free church ministry dot net so any of those three and they all link together, so you can find us. We're not hiding. You're one of those free churchers. Okay, I'm going to have to have another conversation with you on that subject. Free Church Ministry, we're the free New Testament church in America. All right, we'll have another conversation about free churches, too. My guest today, Garrett Lear, the Patriot Pastor.

The website is thepatriotpastor.org. Thank you, Garrett. Appreciate you coming on True News. Well, thank you, Rick. And I will be praying for you and looking forward to joining you again. Well, thank you for joining us today on this special Independence Day edition of True News. We would love to hear from you. Please let us know that this special God cast has been a blessing in your life.

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