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this is really cool. you know, just seeingall of you sing that "growing pains" theme song, it sort of threw me back 25 years. iwanted to run up here and just say, "mom, dad, i was not sneaking out of the house tohang with eddie and boner on a school night! i was studying at the library! i know howimportant grades are to my beloved parents and i figured studying was far more importantthan my curfew. perhaps i was wrong." i'm here with my son and we're so excitedto be here at liberty university. it's a real honor to be here. i'm amazed that so manyof you know about "growing pains," you're just too young! you guys are watching reruns?i'm seeing the signs, show me that smile, and i'm sorry, i can show you the smile, buti can't show you the curly mullet and the
parachute pants anymore. those are reallybad fashions and hairstyles; i can't go there anymore. but i'm excited to be here. i knowmy son's excited to be here. i hear 52% of the college campus is girls, and so he knowsthere's over 5,000 pretty girls here. my son's 15, so he's kind of excited about that. they'retrying to recruit him here already to liberty. and i know there's such an amazing amountof time, effort, prayer from so many of your parents, your family to have you here. andyou're in such a good place. you're in a place where there's been a spiritual legacy anda heritage that's being passed down to you through so many who have invested their livesto teach the next generation. you, you're their hope. you're their hope to walk intothis world and change this world, to bring
heaven to earth, to see this world becomemore heavenly through you and your commitment through what you learn and what you do withwhat you learn. you're also my hope. your generation is the generation that can do amazingthings and turn things around and spark revival in the hearts of the people of the church,which is always where it begins for things to turn around in a culture. and it's my honorto speak with you this morning. thank you for having me. thank you for showing up. i know that i'm following in the footstepsof some great people. in fact, i'm a little nervous here this morning because i'm following,i'm glad i'm following david jeremiah and not donald trump, because after my talk thismorning, i imaging, i can hear david jeremiah
saying, "you're forgiven," while donald trumpwould say, "you're fired." and if you had told me 20 years ago that iwould be here speaking with you at a christian university like liberty, i would have toldyou you're crazy because i was an atheist at the time. i grew up in a house where wedidn't talk about god, i denied the existence of a creator, didn't go to church, and pridedmyself on the intellectual position that god did not exist. but i can tell you today; ican tell you very thankfully, that i am a recovering atheist. i lost my faith in atheismabout 20 years ago when someone took me to a church for the very first time and i wentto the front of this church, not because i wanted to find out more about god, but becausei was so captured by the message that this
preacher had preached from the pulpit. you see, i was there simply because a girlinvited me to church and i wanted to get to know her a little bit better. her family wentto church, so i figured i needed to go to church or i wouldn't get to see her again.and i heard a message from a pastor named chuck swindoll. i didn't know who he was.but that was like sort of standing there at shortstop and having babe ruth just hit aline drive to your head and i got an earful of who god is. as chuck swindoll preached from the word ofgod and he talked about the power of god, and the holiness of god, and the graciousnessof god, and the cost of redeeming sinners,
criminals who had violated god's law and theirown conscience and in order to redeem them, it cost the blood of god's only son. he talkedabout eternity. he talked about heaven and hell, about repentance and faith, and i satthere listening and i was so captured not only by the way he could articulate this storyand this message, but at the depth of his understanding, his intelligence, and it prickedmy conscience and it didn't leave me alone until i answered those questions. he talkedabout sin and how all of us needed a savior and that just didn't compute with me. i knowmany of you are here today because you grew up in christian homes and this is the nextlogical step, to go to a great christian university and further your faith.
some of you may be here singly because yourparents are hoping that you'll get a hold of some faith. well, i would've been one ofthose. you see, i figured i didn't need a savior, i didn't need any sort of imputedrighteousness credited to my account from someone who died 2,000 years ago, becausei thought i was a pretty good person. if you had asked anyone who knew me in the days of"growing pains" at 17, 18 years old, when i would have come to college, they would'vetold you, "oh, what a nice guy, what a great guy. if he died today, he wouldn't end upin hell." but god paints a very different picture andsays there's only one good, and that is god. in fact, there was another rich young manwho ran up to jesus and asked him, "what do
i have to do to get eternal life?" and jesusbegan to run him through the 10 commandments. why did he do that? well, he did it becausehe wanted to show him the standard of goodness and that the only one who's truly good isgod himself. and he said, "you know the commandments. you shall not lie, you shall not steal, honoryour father and your mother." and when you and i take just a quick look into the mirrorof the 10 commandments, we quickly see how far we fall short. have you ever lied? ofcourse you have. you'd be lying to say that you haven't lied. correct? have you ever stolenanything, regardless of the value? if you reach into my wallet and pull out a dollarbill or a hundred dollar bill, it's stealing either way. have you ever taken somethingthat doesn't belong to you and stolen it?
and then think of this one. jesus said whoeverlooks with lust has already committed adultery with that person in their heart. god knowsour secret private thought life. we share that with him. a quick look at those commandmentsshows me, and i would venture to say if you're honest, it shows you, that you and i are self-admittedliars, thieves and adulterers at heart and that's only 3 of the 10 commandments! we haven'teven looked at the other 7. as an atheist, this concerned me. becauseif there is a god who is perfect and holy and judges me by his standard of goodness,not my fans, and i'm not winning a popularity contest with the media in order to get thereward of heaven, but rather i need to meet the standards of the creator of heaven andhis standard is moral perfection, i fall short.
and if he gives you and me justice, we wouldn'tbe headed for heaven. we'd be headed for god's place of punishment, which the bible refersto as hell. that concerned me, deeply because i know that i'm part of the ultimate statistic:10 out of 10 people die. i can't get around it. it's an appointment that i will not belate for, and neither will you. does that concern you? i don't know where you are with god, but iknow where you are with the death ratio. it's at 100% and you're a part of it. and whenyou stand before god, you too will fall just as short as i do. maybe not as far, becausei've broken 11 of the 10 commandments, but i know you'll need god's forgiveness. andthere's not a number of prayers, there is
not a quantifiable amount of repentance orgood deeds that you and i can do to bribe the just judge of the universe to let us offfor our crimes. but god in his mercy, pastor swindoll said,paid the price to pardon you and me by sending his son to sacrifice his own life's bloodafter living a perfect life to pay the price for the crimes you and i committed againsthim. and then he rose from the grave and defeated death and ascended into heaven and sits atthe right hand of the father, ruling and reigning in session with the trinity, defeating evil,offering forgiveness to all who will repent and put their faith in him. i thought thatsounded like a really good deal. and so, in my sports car, at 17 years old,on the side of van nuys boulevard in hollywood,
california, i closed my eyes and i prayedfor the very first time. i didn't know hoe to do it. i was not taught how, but i closedmy eyes and said, "god if you're there, i want to know. i want you to show me. if you'rereal, cut past all of the fake and phony religion, i don't want to be like those religious fruitcakesthat i see on television, i don't want to be a fake. i'm an actor; i know how to pretend.i want to know the real thing. and would you please make me the man you created me to be?" and the funny thing is, i knew that i hadto come to god on his terms or it was no good. you see, my whole life as a celebrity revolvedaround my terms. if you or someone else wanted to have a meeting with me, or have a conversationwith me, you'd have to go through my agent
or my manager, they would set up a time thatwas convenient for me in a break in my schedule and a location that was acceptable to me andthen perhaps we would have a conversation when i was on "growing pains." but i knew that as the star of "growing pains,"sitting in my sports car, wanting to talk to the god of the universe, i would not bethe celebrity in that relationship. make sense? and i needed to come to him on his terms,and that is humility and repentance and absolute trust and faith in jesus christ as my lord,the ultimate authority, and my savior, the one who would provide what i need. i can standhere and tell you today as a recovering atheist that there's nothing i've ever done in mylife, there's no one i've ever met, there's
no place i've ever been that is more exciting,that is more important and more needful in my life than becoming a follower of jesuschrist, of having my sins forgiven and being made into a child of god through faith inhis son. since those days, i didn't know what wouldhappen. i didn't know if suddenly i would lose my career, if becoming a christian wouldblacklist me with the media if i ever wanted to work again. but you know what? i'm so thankfulfor all the jobs i didn't get. i'm so thankful that i'm still alive unlike some of my coworkersand friends that i grew up with in hollywood. we auditioned for the same parts and now throughsuicide, overdose, or just plain poor choices, many of them are dead and just not doing well.and i thank god, that god saved me from all
of that and put me on a different path andgave me a different agenda to glorify him and to bless all people. god's opened some amazing doors and he's closedsome amazing doors. the best door he opened, apart from salvation, is he opened the doorfor me to marry mike seaver's girlfriend. i don't know if you remember her, but shewas gorgeous. she's beautiful. i married her. i stole her away from mike seaver. she playedkate mcdonald on the show and we got engaged, we got married. we're now married for 21 yearsand we have 6 children. and my kids are 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, and 9 years old. so pray forus. we're definitely looking for universities and colleges and liberty's pretty attractiveright now.
i also had the chance to be a part of a specialmovie called "fireproof." how many of you saw that? "fireproof" is an exciting movie.i think marriage is important, how about you? i know many of you are hoping to meet yourfuture bride or your future husband right here on the campus of liberty university.i can't think of a better place to meet them. and i'm all for getting married young, early.i got married when i was 20 years old. spend as much time with that woman as you can. asmuch time with that young man as you can, and let your marriage continue to grow andmature and develop and become better with time like a fine wine, just becoming somethingso beautiful and intoxicating to the world around you as you release the fragrance ofa gospel-centered, mutually-loving and exclusive
nature to your commitment and treasuring ofone another. "fireproof" was all about that. a man whowas watching his marriage go up in flames all the while rescuing burning buildings allaround him. and it wasn't until his father stepped in and tried to help him save hismarriage that he realized the problem was not his wife, his problem was his own selfishheart and he needed to get that right with god first and then begin trying to win backthe heart of his wife before she divorced him. it's amazing to me that a christian movieproduced by a little church in albany, georgia wound up being the number one grossing indiefilm of 2008 of all independent films in 2008.
it taught me a lesson: marriage is still important.marriage is the foundation and bedrock of family and family is critical for civilizationand society to exist and to flourish. while i was making the movie, "fireproof,"more opportunities came along. most recently, i had a chance to be a part of another film;it's a documentary film that i produced for the very first time on my own. i didn't comeat it as an actor. i didn't come at it as a politician. i really approached this filmas a father, and just completed this spring. it's called "monumental: in search for america'snational treasure." and while i was promoting that movie, i had a chance to go on a lotof national television and worldwide television programs: cnn, nbc, abc, fox, a lot of theprograms, some of you may have seen the interview
that i did with piers morgan on cnn. and youknow, sometimes when a christian is asked a question and has a conviction about notbacking down and wussing out and being honest about who he is and whose he is, it can getyou into some hot water. and it seems that i hit the side of a hornet's nest when i answereda question. i don't know if any of you have seen thoseinterviews, but here's a tip. if you ever get the opportunity in your life, in yourcareer to go on a worldwide television program and sit across the table from someone witha diametrically opposed world and life view, and stare into the barrels of five loadedquestions, like, "what do you think of homosexuality? what do you think of gay marriage? what doyou think of abortion, even in the cases of
incest and rape? what do you think of thecatholic church having to pay for contraception against their moral conscience? and who doyou think will make the best president for the next four years?" you should go for it. that will get your heart racing. that willget your blood pumping. what will you do? will you try to change the subject? will youworry about being politically correct or will you stand up and will you bear witness andtestimony to the god that loves you and has saved you? and will you speak the truth inlove because the truth is always love speech; it's not hate speech. the truth communicatedwith compassion, with a desire to see people in a right relationship with god, helped andhealed and whole, is the most genuine form
of love speech you can give to anyone. ami right? but you know, i also learned a lesson from that. and that is that blasphemy lawsare still alive and well in america, and i seemed to have blasphemed the god of politicalcorrectness and they tried to drag me out into the public square and crucify me. blasphemylaws don't go away. it's just the god who is blasphemed changes. i made the movie, "monumental," because itwas very important to me to see my kids walk into a world that was safe and blessed andhealthy. you guys are young. i practically qualify for an old guy now and i'm concernedabout the world that you and my children are walking into. when i turn on the news, i seethat all signs say "panic!" it doesn't look
good right now in america. financially, we're16 trillion dollars in debt. it's hard to really grasp and get the enormity of thatnumber. that's not millions, or billions; it's trillions, and 16 of them. it's almostdifficult to even conceive of. morally, we're unraveling as a nation. i can walk down tothe local mall or public high school and see things there that i'm telling you, when iwas your age, was just unthinkable, and now it's normalized and celebrated and protected.and when you're around for a little while, and some of us who have been around longerthan the rest of us, can see this stark contrast much more clearly than we can. and when youstart to see your hair turn grey and some wrinkles start to show up on your face, you'llbe able to say the same things, unless you
do something about it. and so i made "monumental," because i wantto do something about it. and when i turned on the news to get some help, i find thatmost people are playing the blame game. the right blames the left, the left blames theright, the rich blame the poor, the poor are blaming the rich, government blames big business,businesses blaming big government, the church blames hollywood, and the media blames religionfor all the problems in the world. so with everyone playing the blame game, i'm not gettinga clear picture of what we're supposed to do. and i think, wait a second, maybe it'ssimpler than this. maybe it's as simple as we've just forgotten what made our countrysuch a great nation in the first place. maybe
we just need to go back, in order to go forwardwith the right plan. i brought a short clip of the movie "monumental" that i would likefor you to watch. can we play that now? there's nothing like bones to remind you ofyour heritage. the set of ideas that is being implemented and advanced. this capitol atthis time is terribly frightening to people who are students of history. when you lookat the roman empire, the parallels to what is going on in america are absolutely frightening.and the question is, are we going to go the right path ourselves, or are we going to continuedown the wrong path so many nations have fallen into? so my plan was, change my name to marty mcfly,buy a delorean and go back and talk to the
men and women who built this country. butsince i couldn't do that, i bought a plane and went to england and began retracing theescape route of the pilgrims before they were called pilgrims, they were called "separatists,"and follow them into the dungeons of the castles they were thrown into, into their undergroundworship meeting places, so they weren't found out by king james. king james made a greatbible, but he didn't make a great king. he was persecuting true believers in his lastand then followed them to holland where they spent 12 years under the care of their pastor,john robinson, and learned all of the nation building techniques they brought with themon the mayflower over to the new world. you guy, their culture was in a much worse statethan ours is in now. darkness was all around
them. the king had tripled the debt. the peoplewere, in essence, slaves to a king who was a tryant on steroids. and guess what? theydidn't bury their head in their lap. they didn't tuck their head between their kneesand say, "oh no, the end is near; let's just get ready for the end." they got off the defense,got on the offense, made a 500 year plan, and went and built a new nation. and they brought with them the principlesthat we've now become famous for and the things that have made us so successful and prosperous.things like limiting the powers of government. right out of isaiah, they have the principlesof the three branches of government. electing our own leaders, representatives to representus, not having a king at the top tell us what
we have to do, and these will be men and womenof character. the free enterprise system, religious and political freedom, freedom ofspeech. and you build a nation from the bottom up, not from the top down. it's from the insideout, beginning with a transformed heart. this is what made us so unique in all of the world,you guys! history tells us this. and i wanted to find out: what was the secret sauce, therecipe, that made america so unique? and let's get back to that. and i was hoping that the forefathers hadenough foresight as christians to know that we would get off track one day, that we tendtowards selfishness and greed and pride as human beings, and we will get off track. andi was wondering, did they think enough to
leave us a reset button? so we could get backto original factory settings if the hard drive ever got corrupted, if we ever needed a newoperating system. how do we go back? and they did! they left it for us in the formof the largest granite monument in the united states of america, and it's sitting on topof the hill in massachusetts, in plymouth. and it's 81 feet tall, 180 tons of granitemaking it the largest in the united states of america and it spells out a biblical worldand life view and our forefather's strategy on how to build and sustain a free and justsociety under the word of god, and no one's even heard of it. it's hidden behind a forestof trees in a residential area. and "monumental," the documentary, puts youin the footsteps of the pilgrims, and we land
at that monument. and at the top, her nameis faith, she's pointing to heaven with a star on her forehead, because the pilgrimsbelieved that wisdom was necessary and you get it from the one true god of heaven andearth. and his word, which she is holding in her left hand, it is the geneva bible.the first bible complete in english with chapters, verses, and study notes that inspired ourforefathers to build this new nation. and she is putting her foot on plymouth rock.she's supported by four smaller statues, which represented the way our forefathers envisionedfaith working out in the world. you see, faith was not just a personal thingto them. it wasn't about "how do i save my soul and get my ticket to heaven?" it wasabout building a world around you and heavenizing
the earth through your faith. and it was expressedfirst through the smaller statue in the one left corner called morality, and moralityis sitting there with the ten commandments in one hand and the scroll of revelation inthe other hand. this is a state government monument! to her right is the prophet moses,to her left inscribed in granite is the evangelist penning the gospels, because they believedtrue morality was not imposed on the outside by a king or a government, or even from yourparents. it had to begin internally through the gospel, which transforms the heart. whenyou repent and trust in christ, you're made into a new creature, forgiven, accepted andlove by god, and now you're empowered to love the things god loves and you want to do what'sright and your standard is the word of god,
no other standard. once you're changed and you have an idea ofwhat is good and what is evil, you then formalize those things into law. and that's the secondstatue on the second corner, law. and law is there with his hands stretched out in mercy,holding the law book. and his book of law is directly under the great book, which isthe bible, over his head. so a law that man makes must never be in contradiction or violatethe eternal rules of right. and to his right is inscribed lady justice with scales anda sword because she doesn't bear the sword in vain but the laws are just and the punishmentmust fit the crime. but to his left is mercy. and mercy is availableto criminals under this just and merciful
system. once you have laws in a society, youhave civility, not anarchy. and you're not confusing calling good, evil, and evil, good.and your laws are in place, now you can educate your children. that's the third statue onthe third corner. and it's a mother educating her child, and she's sitting in victory, becausethat's how you win. you educate your children. and to her right is youth and to her leftis an old man named wisdom, because the pilgrims believed that you train up a child in theway he should go and when he's old, he will not depart from it. this is our forefather'sstrategy. and the old man has a long grey beard, he's got the ten commandments and abible on his right hand and to his left, he's holding a globe, indicating that you are togo in the ways of god, it's a lamp to your
feet, a light to your path, and to go intoall the world and preach the gospel to all nations. and then the fourth corner is the final result;the fruit of the strategy and his name is liberty! he's liberty man! and he's this strong,young man seated on his chair with a sword back in it's sheath, chains on his wristsand his ankles are broken, and there's a big claw over his shoulder that's connected toa lion, and the hide of that lion is draped over his back. and he has on the helmet andthe breastplate and the sandals and he's defeated the lion of tyranny, which is representativeof england and his eyes are looking out. he's vigilant. he's there to protect and servehis family and his faith, and you don't mess
with him, because these things are preciousto him. he's not some passive, religious wimp who just rolls over and says, "i want to sharejesus with you." he says, "i know who i am and whose i am, this is my identity, thisis my faith, this is my family. character, love, compassion is of the utmost importanceto me and to our land. and we will call evil, evil, and good, good, and you have freedomto come here, freedom under our laws and we will teach our values to our children andto our children's children and you too can enjoy the sweet fruit of freedom and libertywith us." to his left is his wife. her name is peace.you guys, that's the strategy! we've had it for 400 years. we've known the playbook. andwe've simply gotten away from running those
plays. if we see the opponents marching downthe field and we're on our own 10-yard-line, we can't complain; we've got to play better.we've got the playbook. let's listen to the coach and start running the plays again. it's interesting to me that faith is at thetop of this entire monument and platform that spells out the strategy. and while one ofour political parties has questioned whether or not god should be in the platform, accordingto our forefathers, god is the platform! you are the hope of our generation. you are thehope through your faith in christ working in partnership with god. live our your faithand heavenize the earth. god bless you.
