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

Part 13<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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March 13, 2020<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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I was just reading\nfrom a collection of comments made by some of our Supreme Court justices\nthroughout the years and stumbled on one that deserves repeating within the\nframework of this series of discussions.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

We've\nalready talked about Thomas Jefferson and some of his contributions to our\nnation's founding.\u00a0 What some folks may not know or remember is that he\nappointed John Marshall to be the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in\n1801.\u00a0 John Marshall served this nation as Chief Justice for 34\nyears.\u00a0 In a letter dated May 9, 1833 to Jasper Adams, addressing the\nquestion of our nation's foundations and liberties, he wrote, <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"The American population is entirely Christian, and with us\nChristianity and Religion are identified. It would be strange indeed, if with\nsuch a people, our institutions did not presuppose Christianity, and did not\noften refer to it, and exhibit relations with it.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

And\nnow it is supposedly illegal for our various institutions of government, and\npeople within those institutions to name the name of Jesus Christ, or to\nworship the Lord publicly and acknowledge Him as Lord, or THE final authority\nin this nation?\u00a0 <\/span>Right.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Now\nyou know why I'm doing this series.\u00a0 Americans -- and especially\nChristians -- need to wake up and realize that the left is systematically\nrobbing us blind and stealing our heritage as a Christian nation.\u00a0 When\nChristians stand by and do nothing, stay out of the political process treating\nit as though it has \"cooties\", the leftist liberals who hate our\nheritage, hate God, and hate everything this nation was founded upon,\nprogressively encroach on our freedoms, rewriting history to suit their agenda,\nre-shaping our society so as to eliminate our memories of how our founding\nfathers covenanted with the Lord and each other in order to build a free and\nprosperous society.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In\nMatthew 25:33-34, 41, we read: <\/span>\"And he\nshall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.\u00a0 Then\nshall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father,\ninherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the\nworld.......Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me,\nye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels....\"<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

And\nwhat determined the difference between those \"on the right\" and those\n\"on the left?\" Those on the right exemplified agape<\/span><\/i> love -- the love of the Lord Jesus Christ\n-- whereas those on the left did not.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\u00a0Those\non the right exemplified agape<\/span><\/i> love --\nthe love of the Lord Jesus Christ -- whereas those on the left did not.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Today,\nwe have idiots on the left claiming that socialism is how you exemplify the\nlove of the Lord.\u00a0 What they totally ignore is the fact that Jesus places\nthe responsibility on the individual, NOT on the government.\u00a0 Using\ngovernment to deal with social needs and ills is a safe and secure cop-out for\nthose who want to ignore their own personal and individual responsibility --\nAND ANSWERABILITY -- to the Lord.\u00a0 They attempt to make bigger and bigger\ngovernment (at the financial expense of every individual) the solution to every\nproblem.\u00a0 Instead of solving the problem, big government only exacerbates\nit.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Hence,\nJesus accurately and appropriately puts these people in the category of\n\"goats\" on the left whose ultimate end is \"everlasting\nfire.\"\u00a0 And that's exactly where the \"left\" belongs!<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

OK.\u00a0\nNow that I've lit a few firebrands myself a la Patrick Henry, I'll come down\noff my perch.\u00a0 Grab your cup, pull up a chair and let's talk about George\nWashington.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Born\nin 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia to parents who were part of \"the\nVirginia Gentry,\" and descended from English Gentry, George Washington's\nupbringing could be referred to as a mix of Anglicanism and Quakerism.\u00a0\nFrom his Anglican heritage, he developed the inclination to withhold his\npersonal convictions concerning his relationship with the Lord, choosing rather\nto refer to the Lord as \"Providence,\"\u00a0 From his Quaker heritage\nand surroundings, he despised war and everything associated with it.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

His\nlife, therefore, was a striking contrast to one who so hated war.\u00a0 A\npragmatist, he took Patrick Henry's view as enunciated before the Continental\nCongress thus, \" As individuals professing a holy religion,\nit is our bounden duty to forgive injuries done us as individuals. But when the\ncharacter of Christian you add the character of patriot, you are in a different\nsituation. Our mild and holy system of religion inculcates an admirable maxim\nof forbearance. If your enemy smite one cheek, turn the other to him. But you\nmust stop there. You cannot apply this to your country. As members of a social\ncommunity, this maxim does not apply to you. When you consider injuries done to\nyour country your political duty tells you of vengeance. Forgive as a private\nman, but never forgive public injuries. Observations of this nature are\nexceedingly unpleasant, but it is my duty to use them.\"<\/span><\/b><\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Highly\nintolerant towards the bickering that went on between the various\ndenominational groups, Washington refused to associate himself with any\nspecific church.\u00a0 As Commander-in-Chief of the military forces, he banned\na practice referred to as \"Guying\", referring to Guy Fawkes, and the\nNew England celebration of \"Pope's Day.\"\u00a0 It was a practice\nwhich ridiculed Roman Catholics, and George Washington took the sensitivities\nof his Catholic soldiers to heart by ordering that the festivity forever be\ncancelled among the military.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Attending\na church service with his wife, Martha, the minister called for the serving of communion.\u00a0\nWhen Martha participated in the communion and he chose not to, the minister\npreached a sermon pointedly directed at Washington's non-participation.\u00a0\nThat the minister would use his pulpit to exercise personal condemnation on the\nPresident was so offensive to Washington that he refused to set foot in a\nchurch -- any church -- from that day forward.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

That\nsaid, those who knew him and walked with him as close friends and confidantes\nsaw him as a man of deep personal faith and conviction.\u00a0 Despite the fact\nthat he rarely demonstrated his faith in a public arena, John Adams (who\nsucceeded Washington as President) wrote to his wife in 1774 that at the First\nContinental Congress, \"Washington was kneeling, and Henry, and Randolph\nand Rutledge, and Lee and Jay....\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In\ncontrast to the public kneeling question, there is considerable documentation\nfrom eyewitnesses to show that George Washington did pray on his knees in\nprivate. His step<\/span>-<\/span>grandson and step-granddaughter and other relatives\nreported seeing Washington on his knees in prayer in the library at Mount\nVernon. His aides-de-camp recalled discovering him on his knees in prayer in\nhis office in military headquarters buildings during the war years. His\npresidential personal secretaries told of coming upon Washington 'lost in\nreverent prayer' before he had to make a major policy decision. Isaac Potts, a\nQuaker, told his wife -- and later many others -- of seeing Commander in Chief\nGeorge Washington in a solitary, reverent, kneeling prayer in the snow at Valley\nForge. Potts thought Washington was 'upon his knees praying for his\narmy.'\" (Commentary, compliments of Paul Bessel)<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In\n1827, Robert Lewis, a nephew of George Washington and private secretary during\nthe first part of Washington's presidency, wrote that he had plenty of\nopportunity \"for observing his private devotions in his library both\nmorning and evening; that on those occasions [Lewis had seen him] in a kneeling\nposture with a Bible open before him, and believed such to have been his daily\npractice.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

There\nare many historians who have pooh-poohed George Washington's faith, just as\nthere are many revisionists who have sought to portray America as something\nother than a Christian nation.\u00a0 Earlier, I quoted from Chief Justice John\nMarshall's statement concerning America as being Christian.\u00a0 Listen to\nwhat Washington said in his farewell speech when he left office as President.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"For this you\nhave every inducement of sympathy and interest. Citizens by birth or choice, of\na common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The\nname of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always\nexalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from\nlocal discriminations.\u00a0 With slight shades of difference, you have the\nsame Religion, Manners, Habits & Political Principles<\/u>. You have in a\ncommon cause fought & triumphed together.\u00a0 The independence &\nliberty you possess are the work of joint councils, and joint efforts--of\ncommon dangers, sufferings and successes.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

I\nhave underlined Washington's comment here to illustrate.\u00a0 Despite\nobviously and observed doctrinal differences between Catholics, Presbyterians,\nBaptists, Quakers, Anglicans, etc., George Washington saw them as \"slight\nshades of difference,\" with faith in God and Jesus Christ as being the\ncentral and binding factor.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

He\ncontinued his farewell address and on page 20 & 22 of a 32-page prepared\naddress to the nation, he said (and this is perhaps the most widely quoted\nportion of his speech among Christians):<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"Of all the\ndispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion and\nmorality are indispensable supports<\/u>.\u00a0 In vain would that man claim the\ntribute of Patriotism, who should labour to subvert these great Pillars of\nhuman happiness, these firmest props of the duties of Men & citizens.\u00a0\nThe mere Politician, equally with the pious man ought to respect & to\ncherish them.\u00a0 A volume could not trace all their connections with private\n& public felicity.\u00a0 Let it simply be asked where is the security for\nproperty, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert<\/span><\/em> the Oaths, which\nare the instruments of investigation in Courts of Justice?\u00a0 And let us\nwith caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion<\/u>.\u00a0\nWhatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of\npeculiar structure--reason & experience both forbid us to expect that\nNational morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

'Tis<\/span><\/b><\/span> substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary\nspring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force\nto every species of Free Government. Who that is a sincere friend to it, can\nlook with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric............\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

\".......Observe\ngood faith & justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace & harmony\nwith all -- Religion & morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that\ngood policy does not equally enjoin it?\u00a0 It will be worthy of a free,\nenlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the\nmagnanimous and too novel example of a People always guided by an exalted\njustice & benevolence.\u00a0 Who can doubt that in the course of time and\nthings the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages\nwhich might be lost by a steady adherence to it?\u00a0 Can it be, that\nProvidence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its\nvirtue?\u00a0 The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which\nennobles human Nature.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

Although\nwe find few mentions of the name of Jesus Christ among his writings or quotes,\nit was clear that Washington's life revolved about his faith in the Lord, and\nthat he made few, if any, decisions of import without first taking things to the\nLord.\u00a0 He viewed his faith -- and that of his fellow-Americans -- as woven\ninto the very fabric of our existence.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Perhaps\nno leader in the history of this nation has been so revered, so iconized, and\nso remembered.\u00a0 Much less outspoken in public about his faith in God than\nperhaps Patrick Henry or John Adams, there is still a wealth of documentation\n-- particularly among his personal writings -- to demonstrate where he stood.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Let's\nwrap up today with two -- make that three -- quotes from Washington.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

This\nfirst comes from an address to the Continental Army on July 9, 1776.\u00a0\n\"The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man, will endeavor so\nto live, and act, as becomes a Christian Soldier defending the dearest Rights\nand Liberties of his country.\"<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Our\nsecond quotation comes from a letter he wrote to Brigadier General Thomas\nNelson on August 20, 1778, \"The Hand of Providence has been so conspicuous in all\nthis, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than\nwicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.\"<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Lastly,\nwe find this from his prayer at Valley Forge as witnessed by one of his\nofficers, \"Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and\nearth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from heaven\nin pity and compassion upon me Thy servant, who humbly prostrates myself before\nThee.\"<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In case you are missing out on real fellowship in an environment\nof Ekklesia, our Sunday worship gatherings are available by conference call \u2013 usually\nat about 10:30AM Pacific.\u00a0 <\/span>That\nconference number is <\/span><\/b>(712) 770-4160<\/span><\/b>, and the access code is <\/span><\/b>308640#.<\/span><\/b>\u00a0 <\/span>We are now making these gatherings\navailable on video using ZOOM.\u00a0 <\/span>If you wish\nto participate 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 and listen in later.\u00a0 <\/span>The video call, of course, is not recorded \u2013\nnot yet, anyway.<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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

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