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God and Guns Podcast GNG 367 - Liberty Has a Price   Intro: Welcome back to Episode 367 of the God and Guns Podcast . I’m your host, Troy. (Doug) And I’m your other host Doug. (Troy) We use this podcast to talk about  God, guns, and the responsible Christian gun owners' interests. On this week's God and Guns Podcast we will be discussing the price of Liberty.   Want to thank our sponsors:  Bandwidth Sponsor:   Firearms Radio Network - Other Shows - Content   Patriot Patch Co   This Week's God and Gun activities: Doug: God: sportsman daily devotional   Guns: EDC . Been working way to many hours at work and have not had much of a break. Grand kids soccer, softball. Went to Panama city last week for a couple days.   Troy: God: Daily Bible Reading, Church, Church Security   Guns: got a Ruger Scout Rifle, scope and rings.     Family:    Farm: Corn and SoyBeans are planted, Alfalfa was replanted. First baby calf of spring.   Ham: Heading to Dayton Hamvention in a couple weeks. Shop it done, ready to start setting up the ham shack and move tools in. EDC Check: Troy: Shadow Systems XR920n a Crossbreed Super-Tuck Holster, using a STOG Enhanced Life Saver, Sof-T Tourniquet, steam light    Doug:  Sig P365 with Romeo Zero optic . Hornady critical duty ammo. Benchmark OTF.    Feedback:  ITunes   Comedy   On this day in History: 1863 The Union army issues General Orders No. 100, which provided a code of conduct for Federal soldiers and officers when dealing with Confederate prisoners and civilians. The code was borrowed by many European nations, and its influence can be seen on the Geneva Convention.    Bible Verse Galatians 5:13 ESV For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. Galatians 5:1 ESV For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. John 8:36 ESV  So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 2 Corinthians 3:17 ESV  Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.   Main Topic Liberty has a price, can you pay it? Will you pay it?   Division- social media push Founding Fathers sacrifice    Striking the match.  Paul Revere's ride  In David Hackett Fischer’s Paul Revere’s Ride, the section (primarily in the chapter “First Strokes,” around the Powder Alarm of September 1, 1774) describes the initial British moves under General Thomas Gage that escalated tensions and effectively “struck the match” for open conflict leading to the American Revolution.52 Context and Gage’s Dilemma By 1774, after the Intolerable Acts and the dissolution of Massachusetts’ charter government, Gage (the royal governor and commander) faced a growing patriot resistance network in New England. He sought to disarm the colonists and seize military stores (gunpowder, arms, and cannon) without provoking full-scale war, believing a show of force could restore order while upholding British law and parliamentary authority. Paul Revere and other Boston mechanics, meanwhile, had built an intelligence and alarm system to counter such moves.42 The Powder Alarm (September 1, 1774) – The First Major “Stroke” Gage secretly ordered ~260 British troops (under Lt. Col. Maddison) to seize ~250 barrels of provincial gunpowder from the Powder House near Cambridge and move two cannon from Boston Common. The operation succeeded quietly by noon, with no immediate resistance. Word spread rapidly, however. Rumors (exaggerated) flew that the British had fired on civilians, killed people, and were marching to disarm the countryside. This triggered the “Powder Alarm”: thousands of New England militiamen mobilized and marched toward Boston.57 This event served as a critical trial run. It exposed the strengths and weaknesses of the patriot alarm system (which Revere helped organize) and showed Gage that force could backfire by unify