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OUR FOREFATHERS\u2019 COVENANT<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

Part 3<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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January 3, 2020<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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After our Christmas and New\nYear\u2019s holiday break, let\u2019s continue looking at the specific wording that our\nearly settlers used in describing the covenants they made with each other in\nthe establishing of this country.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

Two weeks\nago, I said that we would take a look at the charter that John Winthrop wrote\n(actually, he wrote it jointly with roughly a dozen other men) for the\nMassachusetts Bay Colony.\u00a0 It would take up all of today's Coffee Break,\nand then some, if we were to quote the entire charter; but there is a paragraph\nin the charter germane to our ongoing discussion, and that's where I'd like to\nbegin today.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"And, Wee doe of our further Grace, certen<\/span>\nKnowledg<\/span> and meere<\/span> Motion,\ngive and graunte<\/span> to the saide<\/span>\nGovernor and Company, and their Successors, That it shall and maie<\/span> be lawfull<\/span>, to and for the\nGovernor or Deputie<\/span> Governor, and such of the\nAssistants and Freemen of the said Company for the Tyme<\/span>\nbeing as shal<\/span> be assembled in any of their generall<\/span> Courts aforesaide<\/span>, or in\nany other Courtes<\/span> to be specially sumoned<\/span>\nand assembled for that Purpose, or the greater Parte<\/span>\nof them (whereof the Governor or Deputie<\/span> Governor,\nand six of the Assistants to be alwaies<\/span> seaven<\/span>) from tyme<\/span> to tyme<\/span>, to make, ordeine<\/span>, and establishe<\/span> all Manner of wholesome and reasonable Orders, Lawes<\/span>, Statutes, and Ordinances, Directions, and\nInstructions, not contrairie<\/span> to the Lawes<\/span> of this our Realme<\/span> of\nEngland, aswell<\/span> for setling<\/span>\nof the Formes<\/span> and Ceremonies of Government and\nMagistracy, fitt<\/span> and necessary for the said\nPlantation, and the Inhabitants there, and for nameing<\/span>\nand setting of all sorts of Officers, both superior and inferior, which they\nshall finde<\/span> needefull<\/span> for\nthat Governement<\/span> and Plantation, and the\ndistinguishing and setting forth of the severall<\/span>\nduties, Powers, and Lymytts<\/span> of every such Office and\nPlace, and the Formes<\/span> of such Oathes<\/span>\nwarrantable by the Lawes<\/span> and Statutes of this our Realme<\/span> of England, as shalbe<\/span> respectivelie<\/span> ministred<\/span> unto them\nfor the Execution of the said severall<\/span> Offices and\nPlaces; as also, for the disposing and ordering of the Elections of such of the\nsaid Officers as shalbe<\/span> annuall<\/span>,\nand of such others as shalbe<\/span> to succeede<\/span>\nin Case of Death or Removeall<\/span>, and ministring<\/span> the said Oathes<\/span> to the\nnewe<\/span> elected Officers, and for Impositions of lawfull<\/span> Fynes<\/span>, Mulcts,\nImprisonment, or other lawfull<\/span> Correction, according\nto the Course of other Corporations in this our Realme<\/span>\nof England, and for the directing, ruling, and disposeing<\/span>\nof all other Matters and Thinges<\/span>, whereby our said\nPeople, Inhabitants there, may be soe<\/span> religiously, peaceablie<\/span>, and civilly governed, as their good Life and orderlie<\/span> Conversation, maie<\/span> wynn<\/span> and incite the Natives of Country, to the Knowledg<\/span> and Obedience of the onlie<\/span>\ntrue God and Savior of Mankinde<\/span>, and the Christian Fayth<\/span>, which in our Royall Intention, and the Adventurers\nfree Profession, is the principall<\/span> Ende<\/span> of this Plantation.\"<\/span><\/p>\n\n

I realize\nthat this may be somewhat hard to read because of the archaic English spelling,\nand the terminology used, but let me point out the phrases toward the end of\nthis paragraph which read (with spelling corrected for today's English):<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"...and\nfor the directing, ruling, and disposing of all other Matters and Things,\nwhereby our said People, Inhabitants there, may be so religiously, peaceably,\nand civilly governed, as their good Life and orderly Conversation, may win and\nincite the Natives of Country, to the Knowledge and Obedience of the only true\nGod and Savior of Mankind, and the Christian Faith, which is our Royal\nIntention, and the Adventurers free Profession, is the principal End of this\nPlantation.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

Following\nthe approval of the Massachusetts Bay Charter, John Winthrop wrote in his own\ndiary, <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"For this end we\nmust be knit together. We must entertain each other in brotherly affection. We\nmust be willing to give up our superfluities to supply others' necessities...We\nmust delight in each other; make others' conditions our own; rejoice together,\nmourn together, labor and suffer together... So shall we keep the unity of the\nspirit in the bond of peace. The Lord will be our God, and...make us a praise\nand a glory, that men shall say of later plantations, \"May the Lord make\nit like that of New England.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"We must delight in\neach other, make others' conditions our own; rejoice together, mourn together,\nlabor and suffer together....\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Brother!\u00a0\nTHIS man understood the nature of covenant!<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I quoted a\ncouple weeks ago from a historical work that John Schafer of Penn State put\ntogether on the life of John Winthrop.\u00a0 Let me share a bit more of that\nwork here to put things in perspective.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"When the settlers saw what the new land was like, scores of\nthem refused to get off the ships and decided to sail back to England\nimmediately. Others were so weakened by malnutrition that they were already\ndying. Within a few days of their arrival, John's son Henry drowned in a river.\nThe situation was more than a mortal man could bear. But John Winthrop refused\nto give up. He seized control of the situation, confident that God was with\nthem and would see them through. Rather than giving orders, he rolled up his\nsleeves and began to build shelters. He led by example and soon the whole\ncompany was working as hard as he.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"Realizing that they did not have enough provisions to last\nthrough the coming winter, he sent a ship back to England with one message for\nhis son: Send food now! But the ship would take a long time to arrive. Governor\nWinthrop collected provisions while the settlers made shelters for the winter.\nThey carved caves in the hillsides and dug holes in the ground. When autumn\ncame, many began to fall sick and die. By November, Winthrop had lost eleven\nservants from his household. But he never wavered; he set the example in\nbravery.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"Fall turned to winter, and hundreds died. The whole company\nwas tottering on the brink of starvation. In February, their supplies totally\nran out. John Winthrop reached into a barrel to pull out their last handful of\ngrain to give to a starving settler. Just as his hand was coming out of the barrel,\nsomeone shouted, \"It's here!\" At that very moment a ship arrived,\nbringing new supplies of food. John Winthrop distributed the food and\nproclaimed a day of thanksgiving to God.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"Out of one thousand who had come to the New World, two\nhundred died the first winter. When spring came, another two hundred gave up\nand went back to England. Many of the British investors decided this was a\nlosing business and pulled out, leaving the colonists without support or\nsupplies. John Winthrop took his own money which he had acquired from the sale\nof his estate and used it to buy more provisions. In that first year, Winthrop\nalmost single-handedly fed the colony out of his own pocket. Later that year,\nhis wife Margaret and the rest of his children arrived. Winthrop found that two\nmore of his children had died that year, including the newborn baby daughter\nwhom he never saw. But he praised God for bringing his family to the New World,\nand he never wavered in his conviction that the Lord was with them.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"Over the next ten years, twenty thousand settlers poured\ninto Massachusetts. Winthrop governed them as if they were his own children. He\nrequired that they treat the Indians with dignity and respect, so that they\nmight be won over to Christ. A few settlers resented his power and influence.\nBut no one could deny that the very existence of Massachusetts was due to the\ncourage, faith, and sacrifice of their governor. Even secular historians marvel\nat his kindness, wisdom, and leadership, and agree that John Winthrop was one\nof the princes of our civilization.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Is there\nany doubt in your mind that the American Colonies were established so that the\nGospel of Jesus Christ might be spread and so that folks could freely worship\nthe Lord?<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

We've all\nheard and most of us have been taught just how stern and rigid those Puritan\ncolonists were.\u00a0 We've all read or heard about the abuses and the\nintolerance that existed between the various groups of Christians -- the\nSeparatists, the Puritans, the Quakers, the Anglicans, and the Baptists -- as\nthey settled their own communities and colonies, but what is often missed in\nthe discussion is that almost all of these colonists were, as one historian\nnoted, \"children of the Reformation.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\nReformation was barely a hundred years old.\u00a0 Societies were just beginning\nto come out of the superstition and blindness of the Dark Ages.\u00a0 Drastic\nchanges were taking place within the body of Christ around the world as Truth\nwas finally beginning to dawn once again in the hearts of men and women.\u00a0\nThe Holy Spirit was at work, bringing revelation to people of many fundamental\ntruths of the Gospel long buried, shrouded in the darkness of centuries of\nspiritual blindness, hierarchical rule and the politicization of offices and\ncallings.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

That\nabuses and intolerance still existed is no surprise.\u00a0 The body of Christ\nwas still steeped in rigidity.\u00a0 (Come to think of it, there are today\nlarge portions of the body of Christ still bound within the confines of their\nreligious doctrines and understanding -- many of whom are highly intolerant\ntoward folks who have moved beyond those strictures.)\u00a0 Those whose\ndevelopment of faith in the Lord had gone beyond the limits of understanding\nthat prevailed in traditional church structure were persecuted regularly, and\neach new revelation from the Holy Spirit brought new persecution to those whose\nunderstanding had yet to be opened.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In order\nto see things in their true perspective, therefore, one must get beyond the\nintolerance and bickering that went on between those of differing Christian\ndoctrines and understanding.\u00a0 It is mandatory that we see the individuals\nwho braved the intolerance, risked personal hardship and death, and covenanted\nwith others of like faith to establish these colonies so that people could\nfinally shake the rigidity of state-sponsored religion and provide an\nenvironment in which people could truly grow in their faith and relationship\nwith the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Let's make\nsomething very clear.\u00a0 The establishing of these colonies was NOT for the\npurpose of allowing people who were Muslim, Buddhist, or any other\nnon-Christian religion to establish themselves and their un-Godly\nbeliefs.\u00a0 The driving force behind these adventurers was faith in Jesus\nChrist, and the desire to worship Him without the imposition of doctrines they\nsimply couldn't accept.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

We need to\nget to the Connecticut Charter.\u00a0 I wanted to follow up with all that I had\nshared concerning John Winthrop's work to establish a government for the\nMassachusetts Bay Colony that honored Jesus Christ and made clear that the\npurpose of creating that body politick<\/span> was to\nengender an environment in which the Gospel could prosper.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

As I noted\ntwo weeks ago, the establishing of these colonies was NOT for the purpose of\nallowing people who were Muslim, Buddhist, or any other non-Christian religion\nto establish themselves and their un-Godly beliefs.\u00a0 The driving force\nbehind these adventurers was faith in Jesus Christ, and the desire to worship\nHim without the imposition of doctrines they simply couldn't accept.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Not for\none moment did they ever conceive the idea that they were becoming state\nsponsors of a particular religion, since none of them considered that\nChristianity as a whole was a religion.\u00a0 To those early settlers,\nChristianity was the ONLY free way for a people to live.\u00a0 <\/span>This nation was established so that people\nwould have the total freedom to worship the Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0 <\/span>Rather, they sought to provide for an orderly\nsociety, founded upon Christian principles, which allowed for religious\ndifferences such as those that prevailed between different groups of\nChristians.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

We talked two\nweeks ago about Roger Williams' creation of the Rhode Island Colony and writing\nof a charter that clearly recognized that all government was subject to God the\nCreator, and His Son, Jesus Christ; and yet rejected the imposition of\ndoctrinal beliefs.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

It is\nextremely important for us to recognize that every single colonial charter --\nand every subsequent state charter -- recognized the Lord as the author -- and\nthe final authority -- of all good government.\u00a0 NONE of our nation's\nfounders and forefathers ever considered that as an establishment of\nreligion.\u00a0 \"Establishment of religion\" meant to them the\nincorporating of the doctrines of particular church denominations.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

We've been\ncursed as a nation during the past 50-plus years since the FDR Supreme Court\ndeclared that honoring God violated \"The Establishment Clause\" in the\nConstitution.\u00a0 Obviously, that Court ignored the words of our founding\nfathers.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

They\nignored the writings of James Madison, John Jay and Alexander Hamilton in The\nFederalist Papers -- writings which articulated the thought processes which\nwent into the making of the Constitution of the United States.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

They\nignored the historical precedent established with every single one of the 13\noriginal American Colonies.\u00a0 They ignored the words that were incorporated\ninto the charters of each of these United States in which the Lord receives\nhonor and is clearly spelled out as the governing force behind this nation and\nits establishment.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Well, I\nthought I was going to get to the charter of the Connecticut Colony today, but\nI guess that will wait for next week.\u00a0 Have a good weekend, everybody!<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In case you are missing out on real fellowship in an environment\nof Ekklesia<\/span>, our Sunday worship gatherings are\navailable by conference call \u2013 usually at about 10:30AM Pacific.\u00a0 <\/span>That conference number is <\/span><\/b>(712) 770-4160<\/span><\/b>, and\nthe access code is <\/span><\/b>308640#.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>We are now making these gatherings available on\nvideo using ZOOM.\u00a0 <\/span>If you wish to\nparticipate by video on ZOOM, our login ID is 835-926-513.\u00a0 <\/span>If you miss the live voice-only call, you can\ndial <\/span><\/b>(712) 770-4169<\/span><\/b>, enter the same access code\nand listen in later.\u00a0 <\/span>The video call, of\ncourse, is not recorded \u2013 not yet, anyway.<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Blessings\non you!<\/o:p><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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