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

Part 23<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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May 15, 2020<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

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As has already been\nnoted, Alexander Hamilton was a man of faith, a man with an implicit trust in\nthe Lord Jesus Christ.\u00a0 <\/span>The tragedy today\nis that the truths surrounding all of our nation\u2019s founding fathers has been\nscrubbed from our educational system, beginning in the first grade of grammar\nschool and continuing on into our colleges and universities.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n\n

Before we move on to discuss the life of Benjamin Rush, let\nme wrap up our discussions on Alexander Hamilton and then deviate for a little\nbit to talk about the Liberty Bell, and the significance it played in our\nnation\u2019s founding.<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n<\/span>\n\n

Alexander\nHamilton\u2019s last letter on politics, written two days before his death,\nillustrates the two sides of his thinking already emphasized; in this letter he\nwarns his New England friends against dismemberment of the union as \"<\/span>a clear sacrifice of great positive advantages,\nwithout any counterbalancing good; administering no relief to our real\ndisease, which is democracy<\/u>, the poison of which, by a subdivision, will\nonly be more concentrated in each part, and consequently the more\nvirulent.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

No\njudgment of Hamilton is more justly measured than James Madison\u2019s written in\n1831.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"That he possessed intellectual powers of the first order,\nand the moral qualities of integrity and honor in a captivating degree, has\nbeen awarded him by a suffrage now universal. If his theory of government\ndeviated from the republican standard he had the candour to avow it, and the\ngreater merit of co-operating faithfully in maturing and supporting a system\nwhich was not his choice.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

Alexander\nHamilton's Covenant Theology -- as noted yesterday -- was, more than anything\nelse, the force that directed his thought processes.\u00a0 More visionary than\npractical at times, he looked prophetically into the future to a day when the\nrule of Jesus Christ would govern all societies.\u00a0 His visionary\nperspective sometimes overruled the practical when it came to implementing\ncovenant concepts for government.\u00a0 He saw the formation of the United\nStates not just as the putting together of a set of unified states under a\nconstitution, but as a people who entered into a blood covenant with each other\nin the Biblical sense.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In our\nprevious discussions on Covenant and its principles, I noted that covenant is\nnot something folks enter into as a contract or an agreement which can be\nbroken or dissolved because of some disagreement.\u00a0 Covenant envisions\ndisagreement.\u00a0 Covenant sees differences.\u00a0 But covenant ONLY works in\na practical sense when you have a people committed to the Lord who understand\nthe sacredness of it.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Alexander\nHamilton and a large majority of our nation's founding fathers all understood\ncovenant.\u00a0 They gave themselves to one another, to the death.\u00a0 They\nall understood that no real covenant can function and be operative without\nentering into it under God.\u00a0 God the Father gave His only Son, Jesus\nChrist, who shed His blood on the Cross in order that we could receive and\nparticipate in that same covenant He originally made with Abraham.\u00a0 It was\na covenant of blessing.\u00a0 It was a covenant of God's mercy.\u00a0 It was a\ncovenant made in agape\/kheseed<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Agape<\/span><\/i><\/b>,<\/span><\/b>(the Greek word) of course, is who God\nis.\u00a0 Agape<\/span><\/i><\/b>is a love that\nknows no bounds.\u00a0 Kheseed<\/span><\/i><\/b>is\nthe Hebrew equivalent (the \"k\" sound is almost silent), and the Old\nTestament abounds with literally hundreds of uses of this word describing,\nmercy, faithfulness, a love that chases after, lovingkindness, tender mercies\n-- and much, much more.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Hamilton,\nMadison, Washington, Adams, Sherman, Henry -- and even Jefferson, as he\napproached the end of his life -- understood covenant within a framework of\nwhich our current society seems completely oblivious.\u00a0 Though they called\nthemselves Whigs, Federalists, New Republicans, and numerous other things which\ndenoted their concepts of how the government should be assembled and how our\nConstitution should be framed, each of them understood that they were\nimplementing a society and a governance for that society such as the world had\nnever seen.\u00a0 With perhaps a couple of exceptions, virtually every single\none of those men we refer to as our \"founding fathers\" revered God\nand worshiped Him, understood that Christianity was the only practical way to\nachieve a self-governing society in which peace, prosperity and true liberty\nwould last.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

They were\nright.\u00a0 Throughout the centuries, nations have risen and fallen.\u00a0\nSocieties have come and gone.\u00a0 Governments have been formed and\ndissolved.\u00a0 America is the ONLY nation on the face of the earth ever\nformed as \"one nation under God,\" and it has lasted longer than any\nsociety in history.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I noted\nyesterday that Alexander Hamilton was a master of reading the hearts and\nintents of people, (in truth, he had the ability to function with that Gift of\nthe Spirit we know as \"the discerning of spirits.\") and when he saw\nquestionable methods or tactics being applied by his fellow-founders, he wasted\nno time in letting them know that he wouldn't stand for anything less than\nabove-board truthfulness and integrity.\u00a0 When his arguments appeared to\nfall on deaf ears, he would go around the individual in question and inform\nothers of those actions he considered ill-advised.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

It is\nquite likely that he never understood that he was functioning with a prophetic\ngift of the Holy Spirit, and the concept of modern-day prophets was something\ntotally missing from his era.\u00a0 Patrick Henry was another of our founding\nfathers who easily operated in a prophetic realm, and most likely never\nunderstood it as such.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Yesterday,\nI said that Alexander Hamilton's personal faith in Jesus Christ was the guiding\nforce that governed his life.\u00a0 His personal sense of covenant and the deep\ncommitment that comes in covenant relationship drove him.\u00a0 For Hamilton,\ncovenant was the essential means by which government could and must\noperate.\u00a0 Through Federalism he saw the opportunity to help bring about a\n\"nation under God, indivisible, and with justice for all.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Take a\nlook as we conclude today's discussion at some of what Hamilton had to say\nabout Christianity and government, and the formation of our American\nConstitution.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"For my own part,\nI sincerely esteem it a system which without the finger of God, never could\nhave been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

\"I have carefully\nexamined the evidences of the Christian religion, and if I was sitting as a\njuror upon its authenticity I would unhesitatingly give my verdict in its\nfavor.\u00a0 I can prove its truth as clearly as any proposition ever submitted\nto the mind of man.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

In a\nletter written to James Bayard two years before his death, Hamilton wrote,<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"In my opinion,\nthe present constitution is the standard to which we are to cling.\u00a0 Under\nits banner bona fide must we combat our political foes, rejecting all changes\nbut through the channel itself provided for amendments.\u00a0 By these general\nviews of the subject have my reflections been guided.<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

\"I now offer you\nthe outline of the plan they have suggested.\u00a0 Let an association be formed\nto be denominated \"The Christian Constitutional Society,\" its object\nto be first:\u00a0 The support of the Christian religion. second: The support\nof the United States.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n\n

Hamilton's\ndying words to the minister who attended him following his being shot by Aaron\nBurr were:<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"I have a tender\nreliance on the mercy of the Almighty, through the\nmerits of the Lord Jesus Christ. I am a sinner. I look to Him for mercy; pray\nfor me.\"<\/a><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n\n

As Americans, we are blessed beyond measure\nto have had people such as Alexander Hamilton involved in the formation and\ndefense of this nation, its Constitution and governance.\u00a0 There is no\ndoubt in my mind -- and I totally agree with Alexander Hamilton -- that America\ncame together under \"the finger of God\" with specific purpose for the\nspreading of the Gospel, for the creation of a society which would ultimately\nbecome an example to the world of just mankind can prosper, live in peace and\nknow true liberty so long as they honor the Lord Jesus Christ.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

For 240+ years, we have done just that\ndespite the efforts of God-haters, liberals and leftists who have expended\nevery effort possible to destroy our nation's Christian foundations.<\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n

There isn't a day that goes by that I don't\nthank the Lord for being born in this nation.<\/span><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I do want\nto deal with another of our founding fathers today -- Benjamin Rush -- but\nthere's a quote I find eminently appropriate for our all of our\ncelebrations.\u00a0 It comes from Leviticus 25:10<\/st1:bcv_smarttag>,\nand appears as a quotation on the nation's Liberty Bell:\"Proclaim Liberty throughout all the land to the\ninhabitants thereof.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In looking\nfor the name of the individual(s) who commissioned the making of this bell, I\nwas trying to find out who called for the inscribing of the Scripture\nverse.\u00a0 It appears that our history has omitted the name of the person who\nactually proposed this, but the order for the casting of the original bell with\nscripture verse intact came from an order of the Assembly of the Province of\nPennsylvania for the State House in Philadelphia (also known as Independence\nHall) in 1751.\u00a0 Although we have no concrete evidence to back it up, it would\nappear that the commissioning of the bell was to commemorate William Penn's\nCharter of Privileges written 50 years before.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

We covered\nthat in more depth back in a previous Coffee Break, but just to put the quote\nfrom Leviticus in context, here is the first paragraph of William Penn's\npreamble to that Charter of Privileges:<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"BECAUSE\nno People can be truly happy, though under the greatest Enjoyment of Civil\nLiberties, if abridged of the Freedom of their Consciences, as to their\nReligious Profession and Worship: And Almighty God being the only Lord of\nConscience, Father of Lights and Spirits; and the Author as well as Object of\nall divine Knowledge, Faith and Worship, who only doth enlighten the Minds, and\npersuade and convince the Understandings of People, <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

I\ndo hereby grant and declare, That no Person or Persons, inhabiting In this\nProvince or Territories, who shall confess and acknowledge One almighty God,\nthe Creator, Upholder and Ruler of the World; and professes him or themselves\nobliged to live quietly under the Civil Government, shall be in any Case\nmolested or prejudiced, in his or their Person or Estate, because of his or\ntheir conscientious Persuasion or Practice, nor be compelled to frequent or\nmaintain any religious Worship, Place or Ministry, contrary to his or their\nMind, or to do or suffer any other Act or Thing, contrary to their religious\nPersuasion.\"<\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The\nWhitechapel Bell Foundry in London cast the very first Liberty Bell, but its\nmetal composition was so brittle that the very first time the bell struck, it\ncracked.\u00a0 John Pass and John Stow, who were local Philadelphia founders,\noffered to melt and recast the bell and strengthen its composition.\u00a0 The\nnew bell was completed and hung in March, 1753.\u00a0 The first time it rang,\nhowever, the city fathers didn't like its tone, so Pass and Stow recast it a\nthird time.\u00a0 They completed the work in short order, and in June, 1753,\nthe bell was re-hung.\u00a0 Although some of the city fathers still didn't like\nthe tone of the new bell, the majority of citizens agreed that it was a good\nsounding bell, and this time the bell stayed.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

That bell\ncracked almost a hundred years later, although the date of its initial crack is\nin question.\u00a0 That crack, however grew in proportion on February 22, 1789\nin honor of George Washington's Presidency when it tolled for several\nhours.\u00a0 An attempt to repair the crack some 57 years later resulted in\nonly extending the flaw, and the bell has not been rung publicly since.\u00a0\nThe bell was recast and a replacement donated by Henry Seybert in 1876 at the\nCentennial Anniversary Celebration.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The name,\n\"Liberty Bell,\" however, was not the name the bell was known by until\n1835.\u00a0 In fact, the bell had no name per se until R. G. Williams published\nVolume 1, No. 2 of The Anti-Slavery Record in February of 1835.\u00a0 His\ncomment is worth reprinting here:<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

\"The Liberty Bell. Being in Philadelphia a few days since,\nI was invited after viewing the room in which the Declaration of Independence\nwas signed, to ascend the tower of the State House, to take a view of the city.\nThe view was delightful. On our ascent, we did not fail to examine the\ncelebrated Bell. It weighs 2300 pounds, and was cast 23 years before the\nDeclaration of Independence was signed. On that occasion it was rung, and has\nbeen run every 22d February and 4th of July since. <\/o:p><\/span><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n\n

It is remarkable that the following inscription was on the bell\nwhen it was cast. It was considered a sort of prophecy:<\/span><\/i><\/b>\"PROCLAIM\nLIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND, AND TO ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF.\"<\/span><\/b>May\nnot the emancipationists in Philadelphia, hope to live to hear the same bell\nrung, when liberty shall in fact be proclaimed to all the inhabitants of this\nfavored land? Hitherto, the bell has not obeyed the inscription; and its peals\nhave been a mockery, while one sixth of \"all inhabitants\" are in\nabject slavery.\"<\/span><\/i><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

In fact,\nAbraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation almost 29 years later fulfilled the\nprophecy, and the Liberty Bell became a prophetic symbol of the freedoms we\nenjoy in Christ as Americans.\u00a0 It commemorated to a certain degree the\nwords of those Mayflower settlers whose compact and covenant began,\"In the name of God\u2026Having undertaken for the glory of\nGod and advancement of the Christian faith\u2026 \"<\/span><\/b>announcing the\nfact that this nation's very beginnings were undertaken\"for the Glory of God, and advancement of the\nChristian faith.\"<\/span><\/b><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

The signs\nand symbols, the Scripture references that abound in our founding fathers'\ncommentaries, and their labors of love and covenant to establish this great\nnation make abundantly clear that they purposed to have \"one nation under\nGod, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.\"<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

Looks like\nI\u2019ve run out of time to deal with Benjamin Rush so we will pick it up there\nnext week.<\/a><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n\n

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As has already been noted, Alexander Hamilton was a man of faith, a man with an implicit trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. The tragedy today is that the truths surrounding all of our nation\u2019s founding fathers has been scrubbed from our educational system, beginning in the first grade of grammar school and continuing on into our colleges and universities.
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