Sacred Duty- Our Founding // Sunday, October 18, 2020
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Sunday, October 18, 2020
Sacred Duty – Our Founding (Part 1)
1 Chronicles 12: 32 …men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do…
We hate Christians and Christianity. Even the best of them must be considered our worst enemies. They preach love of one’s neighbor and mercy, which is contrary to our principles. Christian love is an obstacle to the development of the Revolution. Down with love or our neighbor! What we want is hate…Only then can we conquer the universe. ~ Anatole Lunarcharsky, Russian Commissar of Education
Our BEHAVIOR is shaped by our VALUES…
Which are ultimately built upon the foundation of our WORLDVIEW
Genesis 6: 5 (ESV) The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Genesis 8: 21 (ESV) …the intention of man's heart is evil from his youth…
Jeremiah 17: 9 (ESV) The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
Proverbs 14: 12 (ESV) There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way to death.
John Adams
The general principles on which the fathers achieved independence were the general principles of Christianity. I will avow that I then believed, and now believe, that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God.
The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.
Suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. . . . What a Eutopia – what a Paradise would this region be!
I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.
John Quincey Adams
The hope of a Christian is inseparable from his faith. Whoever believes in the Divine inspiration of the Holy Scriptures must hope that the religion of Jesus shall prevail throughout the earth. Never since the foundation of the world have the prospects of mankind been more encouraging to that hope than they appear to be at the present time. And may the associated distribution of the Bible proceed and prosper till the Lord shall have made “bare His holy arm in the eyes of all the nations, and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.” (Isaiah 52:10)
Samuel Adams
I . . . [rely] upon the merits of Jesus Christ for a pardon of all my sins.
The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better.
He also called on the State of Massachusetts to pray that . . .
The peaceful and glorious reign of our Divine Redeemer may be known and enjoyed throughout the whole family of mankind.
We may with one heart and voice humbly implore His gracious and free pardon through Jesus Christ, supplicating His Divine aid . . . [and] above all to cause the religion of Jesus Christ, in its true spirit, to spread far and wide till the whole earth shall be filled with His glory.
With true contrition of heart to confess their sins to God and implore forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ our Savior.
Elias Boudinot
Let us enter on this important business under the idea that we are Christians on whom the eyes of the world are now turned… [L]et us earnestly call and beseech Him, for Christ’s sake, to preside in our councils. . . . We can only depend on the all powerful influence of the Spirit of God, Whose Divine aid and assistance it becomes us as a Christian people most devoutly to implore. Therefore I move that some minister of the Gospel be requested to attend this Congress every morning . . . in order to open the meeting with prayer.
Supreme Court Justice David Brewer
[I]n what sense can [America] be called a Christian nation? Not in the sense that Christianity is the established religion or that the people are in any manner compelled to support it. On the contrary, the constitution specifically provides that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof.” Neither is it Christian in the sense that all its citizens are either in fact or name Christians. On the contrary, all religions have free scope within our borders. Numbers of our people profess other religions, and many reject all.
Nor is it Christian in the sense that a profession of Christianity is a condition of holding office or otherwise engaging in public service, or essentially to recognition either politically or socially. In fact, the government as a legal organization is independent of all religions. Nevertheless, we constantly speak of this republic as a Christian nation – in fact, as the leading Christian nation of the world.
Justice Brewer: America was “of all the nations in the world . . . most justly called a Christian nation” because Christianity “has so largely shaped and molded it.”
1862 Supreme Court decision in Church of The Holy Trinity vs U.S.
“This is a Christian nation.”