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

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In last week\u2019s Coffee\nBreak, I deviated somewhat from the discussions on our nation's founding\nfathers -- those who were actively involved in the politics and policies that\nbrought those American colonists together to form a cohesive nation under God\n-- to talk about a couple of preachers (Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield)\nwhose lives, whose teaching and preaching became integrated into the thoughts\nand decision-making processes that formulated our Articles of Association in\n1774; the Declaration of Independence in 1776; the Articles of Confederation in\n1781 and the United States Constitution in 1788.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

We first\ntalked about Jonathan Edwards, and how his active labors in the Gospel during\nthe Great Awakening brought about a sense of cohesiveness among Christians\nthroughout the colonies.\u00a0 But it was George Whitefield whose travels\nthroughout every single one of the colonies made him one of the most-recognized\nfigures of the 18th Century.\u00a0 His preaching drew unprecedented crowds of\nlisteners and participants.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I noted on\nFriday that history says George Whitefield preached an average of 500 sermons\nper year, and more than 18,000 in his lifetime.\u00a0\u00a0In England, he\npreached to several crowds numbering between 80,000 and 100,000.\u00a0 When he\nbegan his travels across the Atlantic to preach in the American Colonies (he\nmade a total of 13 trips across the Atlantic), he first landed in Philadelphia\nand began preaching from a balcony on the old courthouse on October 30,\n1739.\u00a0 It gave him an elevated place from which to preach.\u00a0 An\nestimated crowd of 6,000 people turned out to him him preach that morning, and\nanother crowd of 8,000 gathered to hear him that same evening.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

A week\nlater, the news of his dynamic preaching had spread.\u00a0 He preached to\n10,000 people in the morning, and 25,000 in the evening.\u00a0 Newspaper\nreporters wrote that \"as many as 500 people fell prostrate under the\npower,\" and that \"many people made demonstrations\" (meaning that\nthere were visible signs and manifestations of deliverance from evil\nspirits).\u00a0 One reporter wrote, \"Audible cries of the audience often\ninterrupted the messages.\u00a0 People were usually saved right during the\nprogress of a service.\u00a0 The altar call as such was not utilized.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

When preaching\nhis farewell address in Philadelphia a week or so later, more than 35,000\npeople assembled in the streets to hear Whitefield.\u00a0 From Philadelphia he\nheaded to New York where throngs of people met him.\u00a0 Even before he could\nreach a promontory or an elevated place in the city where he could see and be\nseen by the crowds, some 8,000 people assembled before him in an open field to\nhear him.\u00a0 After preaching to that crowd, he made his way into the city\nwhere he preached to 15,000 people his first Sunday morning, and another\ngathering of more than 20,000 that same afternoon.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Following\na short stay in New York, he traveled with an entourage of more than a thousand\npeople to Chester, Georgia.\u00a0 So powerful was his preaching that the\nbusiness of city and state government ground to a halt.\u00a0 The courts closed\ntheir doors as judges sat and listened to him and would not resume their court\nactivities or hear any cases until George Whitefield had finished his\npreaching.\u00a0 He traveled back and forth between Savannah, Georgia,\nMaryland, and Charleston, South Carolina where he established \"Bethesda\nHouse\" on March 25, 1740 as a place for orphans and the homeless.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Let me\npause for a second.\u00a0 Of the estimated 18,000 messages that George\nWhitefield preached, no more than perhaps ninety remain in written form.\u00a0\nWhen one reads those written messages, it becomes clear that they really were\nnothing more than outlines.\u00a0 The outlines themselves contain nothing that\nwould indicate the profound impact of Whitfield's preaching, nor are they\nparticularly revelatory in content.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

What\ndifferentiated George Whitefield from his peers was that he rarely, if ever,\npreached from a prepared sermon.\u00a0 His preaching was extemporaneous.\u00a0\nHe was a dramatist.\u00a0 The Holy Spirit had given him revelation on some\nfundamental truths, and his preaching was quite theatrical as he became the\nmessage he was preaching.\u00a0 When he preached on individuals from Scripture,\nand their lives, he became those individuals in front of his audiences.\u00a0\nThe Word of God became a living, breathing demonstration to the hearers.\u00a0\nThere had never before in history been a preacher quite like him.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Where\nJonathan Edwards was an articulate writer on the truths of the Gospel, George\nWhitefield was the spokesman who breathed those truths in such a way that tens\nupon tens of thousands -- and even hundreds of thousands -- of people turned to\na personal relationship with Jesus Christ.\u00a0 More than that, the principles\nof the Gospel were instilled in the hearers in such a way that it permanently affected\nand altered their lives, their thoughts, and the way in which they lived.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

When\nGeorge Whitefield returned to New England, he headed for Boston where\nMassachusetts' Governor Belcher awaited him.\u00a0 Once again, the largest\ncrowds ever assembled in Boston's history turned out to hear this Holy\nSpirit-anointed preacher and evangelist.\u00a0 His first morning in Boston,\nmore than 8,000 people assembled to hear him, and more than 15,000 returned to\nthe famous \"Commons\" to hear him that evening.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

When he\nwas asked to preach at the \"Old North Church\" (synonymous with Paul\nRevere's ride), thousands were being turned away, so he took his message\noutside to them.\u00a0 Governor Belcher then drove him back to the Commons\nwhere another crowd of 20,000+ awaited him.\u00a0 The faculty and staff at\nHarvard University invited him to come and speak.\u00a0 The university\nfacilities were hardly equipped to deal with the crowds of people that turned\nout to hear Whitefield, so the faculty invited him back four or five more times\nso that everyone would have the opportunity to hear and respond to his message.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Jonathan\nEdwards was very much aware of George Whitefield and his preaching, and the two\nhad become good friends.\u00a0 Edwards was, at the time, pastoring in\nNorthampton, Massachusetts.\u00a0 Whitefield preached for Edwards four times\nduring the short month he was in New England between October 17 - 20.\u00a0 His\npreaching there culminated in the beginning of a revival and an outpouring of\nthe Holy Spirit that lasted for more than a year and a half.\u00a0 He departed\nfor England in March of 1741 where he spent the next three years traveling\nthroughout England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Not since\nthe days of John Knox had Scotland seen such a move of God.\u00a0 Crowds\nranging in respective sizes of 30,000, 20,000, 10,000 -- and even 100,000 in\nGlasgow -- turned out to hear George Whitefield.\u00a0 For the first time in\nhis years of ministry, he came very close to being a martyr for the Gospel as a\nman manifesting demonic spirits leaped out of the crowd and beat him senseless\nwith a gold cane.\u00a0 When he recovered, he made a statement that folks would\nhear several times from him in the coming years, \"We are immortal until\nour work is done.\"\u00a0 Again he said, \"Let the name of Whitefield\ndie so that the cause of Christ may live.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Despite\nthe fact that he was attacked on numerous occasions, stoned several times --\nalmost to the point of death -- in Ireland, England and Scotland and left\nbloodied and almost unrecognizable, his request to the Lord, \"May I die\npreaching,\" was fulfilled Sunday morning, September 30, 1770.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

He had\nbeen back in America for just over a year, and was in Newburyport,\nMassachusetts with his friend, Jonathan Parsons at the First Presbyterian\nChurch -- a church which George Whitefield had helped to found.\u00a0 He had\npreached for hours the night before, and people had gathered at the parsonage\nbegging him to continue.\u00a0 There he preached on Faith and Works until the\ncandles were used up at 2:00 AM.\u00a0 As his candle extinguished, he told a\ntraveling companion, Richard Smith, \"My asthma is returning.\u00a0 I must\nhave some rest.\"\u00a0 Four hours later, George Whitefield went to be with\nthe Lord.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Jonathan\nEdwards had sown seed throughout the area.\u00a0 One historian wrote,\n\"Whitefield's presence was the straw that was to break the devil's\nback.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

At a\nmemorial service held later, John Wesley said, \"Oh, what has the church\nsuffered in the setting of that bright star which shone so gloriously in our\nhemisphere.\u00a0 We have none left to succeed him; none of his gifts; none\nanything like him in usefulness.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Indeed,\nAmerica suffered a great loss in his passing.\u00a0 Like Edwards who was 55\nyears of age when he passed on, George Whitefield was 55 years and nine months\nof age when he went to be with the Lord.\u00a0 Yet despite the fact that\nneither of them were involved in government in any way, there were few involved\nin the American Revolution and the forming of this nation whose lives had not\nbeen unalterably changed and impacted by the writing and preaching of Jonathan\nEdwards, and the preaching with signs following of George Whitefield.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Historians\nlater wrote that the intercessory prayer movement begun by Jonathan Edwards,\nfollowed by his articulate writings, and capitalized on by George Whitefield's\npreaching, created such a wave of revival throughout America and caused such a\ncohesiveness, a sense of unity and \"corporate family\" among the\ninhabitants that it bred all of the necessary conditions essential for\nAmerica's founding as a nation.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Where\ncolonists had before times held pretty much to themselves -- and particularly\namong the various denominational groups -- and reserved their interaction\nbetween colonies to business and political affairs, they now had a sense of\n\"belonging\" to and with each other with shared experiences,\nmotivations and goals.\u00a0 Jonathan Edwards' writings and articles became\ndefacto references by many of the founders as they sought to pull the colonies\ntogether in a common bond.\u00a0 George Whitefield's preaching resulted in such\nchange in the lives of so many thousands of people that it lit the fires of\nindependence, creating a purpose for a nation that could come together in the\nGospel of Jesus Christ and found \"one nation under God\" in which the\nGospel would have free course.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

No two men\nbetter deserve to be included among those we revere as our nation's\n\"founding fathers\" than Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield.\u00a0\nWithout their obedience to the Lord, and their daring to break the traditional\nmolds of religion, it is doubtful that the American Revolution would ever have\ntaken place.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I failed\nto add one piece of information to the past two discussions concerning Jonathan\nEdwards and George Whitefield, so let me add this tidbit.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Everyone\npretty much knows that Benjamin Franklin had a fairly notorious private life,\nand that he was known for his rather \"Bohemian lifestyle\" -- to put\nit carefully.\u00a0 As I commented last Friday, George Whitefield greatly\nimpacted Franklin's life.\u00a0 The two of them became friends, and Franklin\noften accompanied George Whitefield to his meetings to listen to him.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

We have no\ndirect evidence of any conversion on Benjamin Franklin's part despite being\nexposed to what was obviously some of the most powerful and anointed preaching\never heard.\u00a0 Yet Franklin could hardly sit under George Whitefield's\npreaching without being changed and affected and\/or having his very liberal\nviews permanently altered.\u00a0 The evidence of Whitefield's preaching and its\nimpact in Benjamin Franklin's life came some years after Whitefield's death\nwhen Franklin was addressing the Federal Convention in 1787.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Listen to\nwhat Benjamin Franklin had to say:<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"Mr. President:<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

The small progress we have made after 4 or five weeks close\nattendance & continual reasonings with each other\u2014our different sentiments\non almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes and ays,\nis methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding.\nWe indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, some we have been\nrunning about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models\nof Government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which having\nbeen formed with the seeds of their own dissolution now no longer exist. And we\nhave viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their\nConstitutions suitable to our circumstances.<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

In this situation of this Assembly, groping as it were in the dark\nto find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to\nus, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly\napplying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the\nbeginning of the Contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had\ndaily prayer in this room for the divine protection.\u2014Our prayers, Sir, were\nheard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the\nstruggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending providence\nin our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of\nconsulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity.\nAnd have we now forgotten that powerful friend?<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more\nconvincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men.\nAnd if a a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable\nthat an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the\nSacred Writings, that \"except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain\nthat build it.\" I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without His\nconcurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the\nBuilders of Babel: We shall be divided by our partial local interests; our\nprojects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye\nword down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this\nunfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and\nleave it to chance, war and conquest.<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring\nthe assistance of Heaven, and its blessings on our deliberations be held in\nthis Assembly every morning before we proceed to business, and that one or more\nof the clergy of this city be requested to officiate in that service.\"<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

David\nBarton, the founder and president of WallBuilders, Inc. writes the following\ncommentary (excerpted) as his follow-up to some of James Madison's notes on the\nFederal Convention of 1787.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"Although\nauthorized by the Congress of the Confederation, the Constitutional Convention\nof 1787 was nevertheless cloaked with secrecy and confidentiality.\u00a0 The\nofficial papers of the Convention sat in the Department of State, untouched,\nuntil 1818.\u00a0 Yet in retrospect, the gathering reveals both the men and the\nissues they faced during the founding era.\u00a0 Through analysis of both the\nPhiladelphia debates and the various ratification conventions, we realize the\nconcerns and needs of a developing nation.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Men of\nmeans and education pursued a limited, federal government capable of providing\npolitical and economic stability in a land of diverse sectional\ninterests.\u00a0 The fight for freedom had been experiential; much of the\nstruggle for structure and unity would be theoretical.\u00a0 The doctrines of\nscholars would meet with the practical necessities of an emerging nation,\nresulting in a balanced blend of pragmatism and principle\u2014the Constitution of\nthe United States of America.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

We will\npick it up here next week.<\/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<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n

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