I Have My Rights (2 of 5)
Series: Conflict Resolution
Jeff Strite
Mark 10:35-45
OPEN: I'm going to read from an ancient document and when I'm finished I'm going to ask you what document these words are from (we put the words up on the screen and underlined the word ''Rights'' in the passage):
''When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness....''
Does anyone know where these words come from? (the opening words to the ''Declaration of Independence'')
Now I don't know if you noticed, but the word ''Rights'' (as in ''unalienable Rights'') began with the capital letter ''R'' (I underlined it for you). The fact that this word was capitalized indicates that our nation's founders regarded this declaration of our ''RIGHTS'' to be highly important - and so they capitalized it!!
The United States of America is a NATION of RIGHTS. In fact, our nation's founders saw fit to include additional document to Constitution. It's called the ''Bill Of Rights'' and it listed 10 amendments declaring the rights of individuals and states in our nation. These rights are (theoretically) rights that neither the President nor the Congress, nor Court or Lawyers... can take away from us.
Among those RIGHTS (listed in the Bill Of Rights) are the rights to freedom of religion, of speech, of the press... and so on.
Now just in case they missed something, the founders put this as the 10th amendment ''The powers not de ...
Series: Conflict Resolution
Jeff Strite
Mark 10:35-45
OPEN: I'm going to read from an ancient document and when I'm finished I'm going to ask you what document these words are from (we put the words up on the screen and underlined the word ''Rights'' in the passage):
''When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness....''
Does anyone know where these words come from? (the opening words to the ''Declaration of Independence'')
Now I don't know if you noticed, but the word ''Rights'' (as in ''unalienable Rights'') began with the capital letter ''R'' (I underlined it for you). The fact that this word was capitalized indicates that our nation's founders regarded this declaration of our ''RIGHTS'' to be highly important - and so they capitalized it!!
The United States of America is a NATION of RIGHTS. In fact, our nation's founders saw fit to include additional document to Constitution. It's called the ''Bill Of Rights'' and it listed 10 amendments declaring the rights of individuals and states in our nation. These rights are (theoretically) rights that neither the President nor the Congress, nor Court or Lawyers... can take away from us.
Among those RIGHTS (listed in the Bill Of Rights) are the rights to freedom of religion, of speech, of the press... and so on.
Now just in case they missed something, the founders put this as the 10th amendment ''The powers not de ...
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