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

Part 16<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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March 27, 2020<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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We finished up last\nweek talking about Roger Sherman and began talking about Jonathan Edwards.\u00a0 <\/span>During the next two weeks, I\u2019d like to talk\nabout Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield, probably the two men who played\nthe greatest part in the move of God we\u2019ve come to know and refer to as \u201cThe\nGreat Awakening.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>These two men were as\nopposite as can be from one another in their upbringing, yet the move of God in\ntheir lives was almost beyond imagination.\u00a0\n<\/span>In their years of ministry, they came to know each other and became\ngreat friends. <\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

One of the\nmen who greatly influenced Roger Sherman was a preacher by the name of Jonathan\nEdwards.\u00a0 Born October 5, 1703, Edwards came from a family and generations\nof ministers who taught holiness and relationship with Jesus Christ.\u00a0 His\nmother, also the daughter of a family of ministers (the former Esther Stoddard)\nwas noted for her unusual sensitivities to the Holy Spirit, even exhibiting the\nGifts of the Holy Spirit (along with speaking in other tongues) more than two\ncenturies before the Azusa Street Revival.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Fifth in a\nfamily of eleven children, Jonathan Edwards grew up with a sense of the\npresence of the Lord rare for his times.\u00a0 A gifted writer with a natural\nproclivity for historical and scientific studies, he began writing at age ten,\npenning a rather humorous tract for distribution among churches titled, The\nImmateriality of the Soul<\/i>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Just\nbefore his thirteenth birthday, he enrolled in Yale University where he\nastounded his professors and instructors with his knowledge, not just of\nScripture, but of God's grand plan and design for the human race (which his\nprofessors treated as \"philosophy.\")\u00a0 His discourses and\n\"philosophical essays\" quickly earned him status as a valedictorian\nand \"head of the class.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Jonathan\nEdwards was more than a gifted writer, however.\u00a0 He had an obvious genius\nthat extended into natural and engineering sciences and even postulated\n\"atomic theory\" before his 16th birthday.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Despite\nhis in-depth knowledge of the Scriptures, there was a hunger after God and\nafter personal relationship with Jesus Christ that drove him.\u00a0 At age\nnineteen, even before graduation from Yale, he was called to serve for eight\nmonths as the interim pastor of a small Presbyterian Church in New York City.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

During\nthat interim pastorate, he had an experience with the Lord that -- in the\nterminology of the day -- he only knew how to reference as\n\"salvation;\" and yet it clearly took him into a dimension of\nspiritual understanding of intimacy with Jesus Christ most of his peers\ncouldn't relate to.\u00a0 It led him to write an allegorical interpretation of\nthe Song of Solomon, and expanded his understanding of \"nature\" such\nthat he often wrote and taught with joy on the \"beauties of nature\"\nas part of God's handiwork.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

It was in\n1724 when Jonathan Edwards was 21 years old that he became one of two tutors at\nYale to replace Timothy Cutler (Roger Sherman's mentor) and the other six whose\nresignations at Yale prompted a wholesale turning to the Lord Jesus Christ in\nsearch of answers.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Three\nyears later, at age 24, he married his sweetheart of more than four years,\nSarah Pierpont, who was then seventeen.\u00a0 At nineteen, and just prior to\nhis 20th birthday, when he first met Sarah (then age thirteen), Edwards wrote\nin his diary that he was determined to marry her when she came of age because\nof her \"deep spiritual enthusiasm,\" her manifest love for the Lord\nand her exemplary holiness.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\nobvious bond of love that developed between Jonathan Edwards and Sarah Pierpont\nundoubtedly contributed to his unique interpretation of the Song of\nSolomon.\u00a0 Sarah Pierpont Edwards became the mother of their twelve\nchildren and serious contributor to his dissertations and sermons in the years\nthat followed.\u00a0 Sarah's experiences of supernatural divine visitations\nbecame the subject of many of his writings, including TheReality of\nSpiritual Light<\/i> as well as The Supernatural Divine Illumination of the\nSoul<\/i>.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

It was the\nyear 1739 that the Great Awakening began to fully blossom throughout the\nAmerican Colonies, and spread back across the Atlantic into England and\nScotland under the leadership of Jonathan Edwards and his recent acquaintance\nand fellow-minister, George Whitfield.\u00a0\u00a0<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Edwards\nbegan to hear of an unusual outpouring of the Holy Spirit in England and\nScotland and in 1747 became part and parcel of a similar movement in America\nreferred to as \"A Concert in Prayer\" in which prolonged prayer,\nfasting and intercession on behalf of those in the colonies became central.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

There is\nno doubt that his involvement in the intercessory movement gave real impetus to\nthe Great Awakening.\u00a0 The experiences that he and George Whitfield had --\nalong with those Edwards witnessed with his wife, Sarah -- led him to begin\nwriting a series of pamphlets and articles addressing the need for spiritual\ninput in earthly governments.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Although\nEdwards is almost universally equated with his Sinners\nin the Hands of an Angry God<\/span><\/i><\/b> firebrand preaching, his essays\ntitled, Dissertation Concerning the Nature of\nTrue Virtue<\/span><\/i>, the Dissertation\nConcerning the End for which God created the World<\/i><\/span><\/b>,<\/i> along\nwith An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing\nMotions Respecting that Freedom of the Will which is supposed to be Essential\nto Moral Agency<\/span><\/i><\/b>,<\/i> became the works to which many of our\nnation's founding fathers referred, inspiring them in their formation of the\nArticles of Association in 1774; the Declaration of Independence in 1776; the\nArticles of Confederation in 1781 and the United States Constitution in 1788.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In 1750,\nhe became a pastor in Stockbridge, Massachusetts and missionary to various\nIndian tribes where he earned the wrath of many of his religious colleagues as\nwell as those serving in official government positions for exposing the\npractices of many who were enriching themselves and building personal fortunes\nat the expense of the Housatonic Indians.\u00a0 His ministry among the Indians\nproved to be highly fruitful.\u00a0 His preaching also against slavery didn't\nset well with many who either couldn't or wouldn't see his reasoning from\nScripture.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Edwards\nnever lived to see the real fruit of his endeavors, nor the harvest that came\nfrom the seed of his life sown into the people to whom he preached, ministered\nand interceded for.\u00a0 A year after being installed as the President of\nPrinceton University in 1757, he was inoculated for smallpox -- a disease that\nwas raging throughout Princeton, New Jersey and its vicinity.\u00a0 He died on\nMarch 22, 1758, having been taken with smallpox as a result of the inoculation.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In the 55\nshort years of his life on this earth, Jonathan Edwards accomplished more than\nmany of his peers put together.\u00a0 Within a span of 45 years, he penned more\nthan 60,000 pages of treatises, discussions on spiritual issues, sermons and\nessays -- not counting his essays on science and nature.\u00a0 Those attracted\nto his message and that of the itinerant preachers who sprang up across the\ncolonies called themselves the \"New Lights,\"<\/i><\/b> and those\nwho were not were called the \"Old Lights.\"<\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The Great\nAwakening was perhaps the first truly \"American\" event, and as such\nrepresented at least a small step towards the unification of the\ncolonies.\u00a0 Thus, many historians point to the Great Awakening as one of a\nnumber of events which provided a basis for a truly \"American\"\nsociety, and increased the independent, self-determined spirit of colonists.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

His son,\nJonathan Edwards, Jr., along with Samuel Hopkins and Joseph Bellamy were often\nreferred to as his \"New Light disciples.\"\u00a0 His son-in-law, Aaron\nBurr, had married Edwards' daughter, Esther.\u00a0 They became parents to Aaron\nBurr, Jr., (Jonathan Edwards' grandson) who became Vice-President of the United\nStates under Thomas Jefferson.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Jonathan\nEdwards' cohort and companion during much of the Great Awakening, George\nWhitfield, came from extremely poor beginnings in England, but was no less a\nbrilliant and articulate spokesman for the Gospel.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Wikipedia\ntells us that<\/span>, \"George Whitefield was the son of a widow (his father, a\nwine merchant, died when he was two years old) who kept an inn at Gloucester.\nAt an early age, he found that he had a passion and talent for acting and the\ntheatre, a passion that he would carry on through the very theatrical\nre-enactments of Bible stories that he told during his sermons.\u00a0 <\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

He was educated at the Crypt School, Gloucester, and Pembroke\nCollege, Oxford.\u00a0 Because Whitefield came from a poor background, he did\nnot have the means to pay for his tuition. He therefore entered Oxford as a\nservitor, the lowest rank of students at Oxford. <\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

In return for free tuition, he was assigned as a servant to a\nnumber of higher ranked students. His duties would include waking them in the\nmorning, polishing their shoes, carrying their books and even doing their\ncoursework (see Dallimore). He was a part of the 'Holy Club' at Oxford\nUniversity with the brothers, John Wesley and Charles Wesley. His genuine piety\nled the Bishop of Gloucester to ordain him before the canonical age.\"<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Though\nmuch like John Wesley in his preaching and doctrine, Whitfield and Wesley\ndisagreed over the doctrine of Predestination, and their disagreements led them\nto eventually go separate paths in ministry rather than come to a public show\nof disunity.\u00a0 Known for his powerful voice and his ability to reach into\nthe very soul of his listeners, he was one of the first evangelists to preach\nto crowds of 20,000 and more people at a time.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\nanointing of the Holy Spirit to his preaching was so powerful that signs,\nwonders and demonstrations of the supernatural became commonplace.\u00a0 With\nsome people experiencing spontaneous deliverance from evil spirits with all the\nattendant manifestations, some of his less believing peers -- and even modern\nhistorians, ignorant of the supernatural -- referred to the demonstrations as\n\"mass hysteria.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

History\ntells us that George Whitfield preached an average of 500 sermons per year, and\nmore than 18,000 in his lifetime.\u00a0\u00a0In England, he preached to several\ncrowds numbering between 80,000 and 100,000 -- and even more -- and his voice\nwas so powerful that at least on one occasion, some folks said they heard him\nas much as three miles away.\u00a0 More commonly reported, folks heard him from\na mile distant, and the singing of the crowds was easily heard two miles away.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Perhaps\nthe most widely-recognized figure in 18th century America prior to George\nWashington, (and easily the most traveled evangelist before our modern times)\nGeorge Whitfield preached in every single American colony, and in every major\ncity (along with many, many smaller cities and towns).<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Benjamin\nFranklin had heard of Whitfield's preaching on many occasions, and in August of\n1739 came to hear the evangelist while he was preaching on Society Hill in\nPhiladelphia.\u00a0\u00a0Whitfield's preaching so galvanized Franklin that he\nsoon became a frequent attendee and participant, often following the evangelist\nto other cities to hear him preach.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Benjamin\nFranklin often joked (and wrote in his diary) that \"George Whitfield\npicked my pockets.\"\u00a0 It was a humorous reference to the fact that\nwhenever an offering was taken up during the meetings, he couldn't resist\nemptying his pockets of all the money he had on hand to contribute to\nWhitfield's needs and expenses.\u00a0 Drawn by \"an irresistible magnetic\nforce that compels me,\" Benjamin Franklin found that he could not stay\naway from the evangelist's meetings.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

On at\nleast one (and perhaps two occasions), Franklin determined to empty his pockets\nof all monies before heading off to Whitfield's meetings.\u00a0 He thought it a\nway to avoid the strong urge to give to the evangelist when offerings were\ntaken up.\u00a0 The practice was abandoned after he wound up borrowing money\nfrom others at the meetings in order to give.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

He became\na close friend to Whitfield, and although there is no evidence that he accepted\nJesus Christ as his personal Lord and Savior, there is no question that\nWhitfield's preaching greatly influenced Franklin's life and decisions.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I don't\nreally have time today to do justice to George Whitfield's story, nor the\nimpact he made on our founding fathers, nor the effect his preaching had on\ntheir decisions as they argued for a unified nation.\u00a0 Rather than tell a\nhalf-story, we'll conclude the story of George Whitfield in next Friday\u2019s\nCoffee Break<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n

Have a\ngreat weekend, everyone.<\/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\nusually at 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 usingZOOM.\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-onlycall, 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

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