{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Out of Our Minds","title":"Loving America","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4019,"description":"Andrew Henry returns to the podcast, joining Pastor Tim Bayly to discuss why they are thankful for the United States of America and what the need of the day is for Christians living in her. They discuss the American Revolution and its messy complexity; John Adams; the desire for simplistic explanations amid conflicts and controversies; the work of politicians and pastors; living in your station; localism; the crisis of discipline; and cultivating the ability to say \"I was wrong.\"\nShow notes:\nAlfred F. Young, Liberty Tree: Ordinary People and the American Revolution\nGeorge W. Forell, \"Luther and the War Against the Turks,” Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 17, Article 52. \nAndrew mentions Samson, so I thought to include... \nCalvin’s comments on Numbers 6:6.He shall come at no dead body:\n\nThis, too, they had in common with the high-priest, that they were not even to mourn for their relations. Although Moses enjoins two things, that the Nazarites should make themselves unclean neither by entering the house of mourning, nor by mourning themselves, it was indeed a duty of humanity to bury the dead; but if any of the people had touched a dead body, or had come near a death-bed or bier, they were polluted. But God demands more of the Nazarites, lest, they should contract uncleanness; for it was not sufficient for them (as will be seen again presently) to purify themselves according to the accustomed means, but it behoved them to be far removed from all things that would pollute them. But why the touch of a dead body was a pollution, we shall consider more at large in its proper place. Now it must be briefly concluded, that because by death is represented God’s curse, the wages of sin, the Israelites were thus admonished to beware of dead works. (336) As to the mourning, the reason of the prohibition was different, viz., that those who professed the special service of God, should set, an example to others of magnanimity and submission. If it were sinful to weep and...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/tajZsvhF48BhpLxJbgzBly9ZhPOxgQUsBV4_vDr9k-c/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzIxNjY3LzE2MjI2/NTgwNjMtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}