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FROM D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES
THIS IS KENNEDY CLASSICS
♪
WELCOME TO KENNEDY CLASSICS
HELLO, I'M FRANK WRIGHT, PRESIDENT OF
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES WHERE WE ARE STANDING FOR
TRUTH AND DEFENDING YOUR FREEDOM.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING, AND WELCOME TO KENNEDY
CLASSICS.
I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU TO DOWNLOAD OUR MINISTRY APP,
WHICH FEATURES ALL OF OUR TELEVISION PROGRAMS,
INTERVIEWS, AND COMMENTARIES, AS WELL AS
BIBLE TRANSLATIONS AND MUCH MORE.
JUST VISIT THE APP STORE FOR YOUR MOBILE DEVICE
AND SEARCH FOR D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES.
I ONCE READ AN ACCOUNT OF SOMEONE FINDING A MESSAGE
IN A BOTTLE.
THIS PARTICULAR BOTTLE WAS FOUND FLOATING MORE THAN
100 YEARS AFTER IT WAS FIRST CAST INTO THE SEA.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT A MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE THAT WE FIND
SO INTRIGUING?
PERHAPS IT IS THE WINDOW THAT OPENS FOR US TO
BETTER SEE WHAT PARTICULAR PEOPLE WERE THINKING AND
DOING.
WHAT WERE THEIR TRIALS AND SORROWS?
WHAT WERE THEIR HOPES AND JOYS?
WERE THEY WRITING WITH GOOD NEWS OR PERHAPS WITH
BAD NEWS.
WHAT WERE THE UNIQUE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT CAUSED
THEM TO LEAVE SUCH A MESSAGE FOR OTHERS TO
READ?
IN THIS SEASON IN WHICH WE CELEBRATE THANKSGIVING, WE
ARE REMINDED OF THE PILGRIMS THAT CAME BEFORE
US.
THESE WERE A PEOPLE FULLY COMMITTED TO AN
EXTRAORDINARY UNDERTAKING.
AND IN DOING SO THEY LEFT A MESSAGE FOR US-
ONE ALMOST LOST TO OUR MODERN UNDERSTANDING.
AND WHAT DID THE PILGRIMS HAVE TO SAY?
HERE IS DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY WITH HIS MESSAGE-
"THE PILGRIMS SPEAK TODAY."
OUR SCRIPTURE LESSON THIS MORNING IS TAKEN FROM THE
1ST OF THE THREE CHAPTERS COMPRISING THE LORD'S
SERMON ON THE MOUNT.
MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, BEGINNING WITH VERSE 10.
MAY WE HEAR THE INSPIRED WORD OF OUR GOD.
AMEN.
AND MAY GOD SPEAK TO US TODAY THROUGH THIS
PORTION OF HIS HOLY WORD.
AND MAY HIS NAME EVER BE PRAISED.
AMEN.
WITH THANKSGIVING DAY FAST APPROACHING,
I THOUGHT THAT THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME FOR US TO
CONSIDER THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THIS NATION,
WHAT IT MEANS IN OUR HEARTS TODAY AND WHAT IT,
ACTUALLY, SHOULD MEAN TO EACH ONE OF US.
AND, OF COURSE, WE CANNOT PROPERLY UNDERSTAND IT
WITHOUT GOING BACK TO THOSE WHO BEGAN THIS
COUNTRY AND GAVE US THE FIRST GOVERNMENTAL
CONSTITUTION IN THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE OF AMERICA,
WHICH WAS, OF COURSE, THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT.
I SPEAK, OF COURSE, OF THE PILGRIMS.
THOSE HARDY AND BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN WHO CAME OVER
HERE SO LONG AGO TO THESE SHORES AND FOUNDED FOR US
THIS NATION- TO WHOM WE OWE SUCH A DEBT OF GRATITUDE.
WHO WERE THEY?
WHY DID THEY COME?
AND WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO SAY TO US TODAY?
I'LL VENTURE TO SAY THAT THERE ARE MANY WHO DO NOT
KNOW- THE PILGRIMS WERE A CHURCH.
THEY WERE A SINGLE LOCAL CHURCH WHO,
WITH THEIR PASTOR, DETERMINED TO MOVE THE
CHURCH, AS WE MOVED THIS CHURCH FROM COMMERCIAL
BLVD, OVER HERE TO U.S. 1.
HOWEVER, THEY DETERMINED TO MOVE A LITTLE BIT
FARTHER THAN THAT, TO SAY THE LEAST.
BUT IT WAS A CHURCH RELOCATION PROJECT.
THESE WERE PEOPLE THAT DECIDED THAT THE ONLY
THING TO DO WAS TO SEPARATE FROM THE CHURCH,
THEY WERE CALLED SEPARATISTS.
WE KNOW THEM TODAY AS PILGRIMS.
PILGRIMS OF COURSE MEANS THAT THEY WERE WANDERERS,
WANDERERS ACROSS THE EARTH.
AND THEY WANDERED ACROSS MANY THOUSANDS OF MILES OF
THIS PLANET AND THEY BEGAN IN EASTERN ENGLAND IN THE
COUNTIES OF LINCOLNSHIRE, YORKSHIRE AND
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.
AND THERE, PARTICULARLY, AT THE LITTLE TOWN OF
SCROOBY IN NOTTINGHAMSHIRE,
THERE BEGAN IN 1606, A GROUP OF THESE PEOPLE WHO
WITHDREW FROM THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND FORMED
THEMSELVES INTO A COVENANTED PEOPLE WITH GOD
DETERMINED TO WALK ACCORDING TO ALL OF THE
LIGHT THAT GOD HAD GIVEN, OR WOULD GIVE TO THEM OUT
OF HIS WORD, ACCORDING TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY,
REGARDLESS OF WHAT PERSECUTION OR SUFFERING
THEY ENDURED AS A RESULT THEREOF.
AND TO THIS CHURCH THERE CAME A YOUNG MAN AS
ASSISTANT MINISTER, BY THE NAME OF JOHN ROBINSON,
ASSISTANT TO RICHARD CLYFTON,
WHO SHORTLY THEREAFTER LEFT TO GO TO AMSTERDAM,
LEAVING THIS CONGREGATION AT THE LITTLE TOWN OF
SCROOBY, IN THE HANDS OF THE ONE WHO WAS TO COME TO
BE KNOWN AS THE PILGRIM'S PASTOR, JOHN ROBINSON,
A REMARKABLE YOUNG MAN AND A MOST REMARKABLE
CONGREGATION, TO SAY THE LEAST- IN FACT,
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE CONGREGATIONS THAT HAS
EVER EXISTED ON THE FACE OF THIS EARTH.
THEY MET, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH,
IN THE MANOR THAT WILLIAM BREWSTER LIVED IN.
HIS FATHER HAD COME SOME YEARS BEFORE THAT TO
SCROOBY TO TAKE CARE AND TO LIVE IN THE MANOR HOUSE
OF THE ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, BY THIS TIME,
JAMES I HAD COME TO THE THRONE.
THERE HAD BEEN LITTLE FREEDOM IN THE TIME OF
ELISABETH.
THEY HOPED THAT THINGS WOULD GET BETTER,
BUT THEY GOT WORSE.
HE WAS AN AUTOCRAT, AND JAMES I IS FAMOUS FOR HIS
SAYING, WHICH WAS: "I WILL MAKE THEM CONFORM,
OR I WILL HARRY THEM OUT OF THE LAND."
WELL, ONE OF THE GROUPS THAT HE "HARRIED OUT OF
THE LAND" OF ENGLAND WAS THE CHURCH,
A LITTLE UNDERGROUND CHURCH AT SCROOBY, NOW,
WHAT HAD BROUGHT ALL OF THIS TO PASS WAS THAT
SOME TIME BEFORE THINGS, OF COURSE,
HAD MOVED ALONG IN GENEVA WITH THE WORK OF CALVIN,
AND THESE PEOPLE WERE ALL DEVOTED FOLLOWERS OF
THE TEACHINGS OF CALVIN.
AND THE GENEVA BIBLE HAD BEEN PRINTED THERE,
AND THAT BIBLE HAD BEEN SMUGGLED INTO ENGLAND AND
AT SCROOBY THEY HAD A PRECIOUS TREASURE;
THEY HAD THE BIBLE IN THEIR OWN LANGUAGE.
THIS WAS AGAINST THE LAW AT THIS TIME FOR THE
CHURCH OF ENGLAND, AS IT HAD BEEN FOR THE CHURCH OF
ROME.
IT WAS NOT ALLOWED THAT AN ENGLISHMAN WOULD HAVE THE
BIBLE IN HIS OWN LANGUAGE IN HIS OWN HANDS.
BUT THE PEOPLE HAD THE WORD OF GOD AND AS THEY
READ THAT WORD OF GOD, THEY SAW THAT THINGS WERE
NOT RIGHT IN THE CHURCH AND THINGS WERE NOT RIGHT
IN THE LAND.
AND SO, THEREFORE, THE WHOLE MOVEMENT THAT
BROUGHT THESE PEOPLE TO AMERICA THAT FOUNDED THIS
NATION, BEGAN WHEN PEOPLE GOT THE WORD OF GOD INTO
THEIR HANDS AND THEY BEGAN TO STUDY THE HOLY
SCRIPTURES.
SO THIS IS A NATION THAT WAS BORN OF THE BIBLE,
EVEN AS NEWSWEEK SAID SOME YEARS AGO,
THAT HISTORIANS ARE NOW COMING TO REALIZE THAT IT
WAS THE BIBLE, EVEN MORE THAN THE CONSTITUTION,
THAT FOUNDED THIS NATION OF AMERICA.
BUT NO SOONER HAD THEY ORGANIZED THEMSELVES INTO
A SECRET SEPARATIST CHURCH IN 1606,
AND THEY BEGAN TO BE HARRIED AND HUNTED
AND PERSECUTED BY THE AUTHORITIES.
THEY WOULD HIDE OUT AND MOVE FROM PLACE TO PLACE;
THEIR HOMES WOULD BE WATCHED,
THEY WOULD BE THROWN INTO JAIL, CLAPPED INTO PRISON,
AND FINALLY, ROBINSON AND HIS PEOPLE DECIDED THAT
THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE FOR THEM TO DO BUT TO LEAVE
ENGLAND IF THEY WERE TO WORSHIP ACCORDING TO
THE WORD OF GOD AND THE DICTATES OF
THEIR CONSCIENCE.
SO THEY DETERMINED TO GO TO HOLLAND,
WHICH WAS A PLACE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY,
WHICH OTHERS HAD GONE TO BEFORE.
THEY MADE ARRANGEMENTS WITH AN ENGLISH CAPTAIN
TO TAKE THEM THERE.
THEY GOT IN THE LONG BOATS TO GO OUT TO THE SHIP,
AND THEY FOUND THAT THEY HAD BEEN BETRAYED BY THE
CAPTAIN AND THEY WERE ROBBED OF ALL OF THEIR
MONEY AND POSSESSIONS AND BROUGHT BACK TO THE
MAGISTRATES AND THROWN INTO PRISON.
AFTER BEING KEPT THERE FOR SOME WHILE,
THEY WERE FINALLY RELEASED AND AFTER MANY OTHER
DIFFICULTIES, THEY ARRANGED WITH A DUTCH
CAPTAIN TO TAKE THEM TO AMSTERDAM.
AND SO, PIECE BY PIECE, GROUP BY GROUP,
THEY FINALLY WERE REJOINED TOGETHER IN AMSTERDAM,
WHERE THERE WERE SOME OTHER ENGLISH
CONGREGATIONS.
THEY CAME TO HOLLAND IN 1608,
AND THEY WERE TO STAY AT AMSTERDAM 1 YEAR
AND IN LEYDEN FOR 11, FOR A TOTAL OF 12 YEARS
IN THE LAND OF HOLLAND.
AND IT WAS DURING THOSE YEARS THAT ROBINSON
DEVELOPED AND FORMED THIS PEOPLE INTO THE,
WHAT WOULD BE THE FOUNDING FATHERS AND MOTHERS OF
THIS COUNTRY.
AND THEY WERE A MARVELOUS CONGREGATION.
IN FACT, THE MAGISTRATES IN LEYDEN SAID TO THE
WALLOONS, OR THE FRENCH WHO HAD COME THERE,
"YOU PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS ENGAGED IN ARGUMENTS AND
DISPUTATIONS AND LAWSUITS.
LOOK AT THE ENGLISH.
THEY HAVE DWELT AMONG US FOR 12 YEARS AND THEY HAVE
NEVER HAD ONE SUIT OR ONE ARGUMENT.
THEY LIVE IN PEACE.
WHY CANNOT YOU DO THE SAME?"
THEY WERE LOOKED ON SO FAVORABLY THAT
THE DUTCH DELIGHTED TO LEND THEM MONEY,
KNOWING THAT THEIR WORD WAS THEIR BOND,
THAT THEY WOULD REPAY IT AND THAT THEY WORKED
DILIGENTLY AT WHATEVER CALLING THEY FOUND.
THEY WERE INDEED A MARVELOUS CONGREGATION OF
DEVOTED AND CONSECRATED CHRISTIAN PEOPLE UNDER A
MARVELOUS PASTOR, JOHN ROBINSON.
WILLIAM BREWSTER WAS ELECTED IN LEYDEN AS
THEIR ELDER.
THEY ONLY HAD THE ONE PASTOR AND ONE ELDER,
AND THAT'S THE WAY THEY THOUGHT IT SHOULD BE DONE
AT THAT TIME.
HE HAD ALSO ATTENDED CAMBRIDGE,
HAD NOT GRADUATED, BUT HAD STUDIED LATIN AND GREEK,
WHICH WOULD STAND HIM IN GOOD STEAD WHEN HE CAME TO
AMERICA.
FINALLY AFTER THESE 11 YEARS,
THINGS BEGAN TO HAPPEN THAT MADE THEM REALIZE
THEY HAD TO MOVE ON AGAIN.
THE DUTCH PEOPLE AT THAT TIME WERE VERY WORLDLY AND
THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF IMPIETY AND UNGODLINESS
AMONG THEM.
THE SABBATH WAS GROSSLY PROFANED.
THEIR CHILDREN WERE GROWING UP AND WERE
MARRYING WITH THE DUTCH PEOPLE AND THEY WERE
AFRAID THAT THEY WERE GOING TO LOSE THEIR
CONGREGATION, SO THEY DECIDED THAT THEY WOULD
MOVE TO A NEW LAND AND THAT THEY WOULD ESTABLISH
A PLACE WHERE THEY COULD WORSHIP AND LIVE ACCORDING
TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE SCRIPTURE.
THE DUTCH WERE SO ALARMED WHEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT
THEY WERE LEAVING THAT THEY OFFERED TO MOVE THEM
AT THE GOVERNMENT EXPENSE TO ANY PLACE IN HOLLAND,
BECAUSE THEY WERE SUCH EXEMPLARY CITIZENS- AT
GOVERNMENT EXPENSE, YET, OR EVEN TO SHIP THEM TO
ANY OF THE DUTCH COLONIES ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD OF
THEIR CHOOSING- AT GOVERNMENT EXPENSE.
REMARKABLE THING THAT A CHRISTIAN CONGREGATION
SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOOKED ON IN SUCH A LIGHT,
AND YET THAT'S THE WAY THEY WERE CONSIDERED.
THEY DECIDED, HOWEVER, TO GO TO THE BRITISH COLONIES
IN NORTH AMERICA.
THEY DETERMINED THAT IF THEY WOULD GO IN TWO
GROUPS, AND IF A MAJORITY WENT IN THE FIRST GROUP,
THAT ROBINSON WOULD GO WITH THEM,
AND IF IT WAS A MINORITY, THAT ROBINSON WOULD STAY
WITH THE MAJORITY AND COME LATER.
IT WAS A MINORITY THAT DECIDED TO GO,
AND SO JOHN ROBINSON, AS EAGER AS HE WAS TO GO WITH
THEM, STAYED WITH THE WIVES AND THE CHILDREN AND
THE ELDERLY, AS HE HAD DONE BEFORE IN ENGLAND,
UNTIL THAT DAY WHEN HE COULD JOIN THEM IN
AMERICA.
BUT THE MINORITY OF THE GROUP SAILED, OF COURSE,
TO SOUTHHAMPTON AND THEN OUT TO SEA,
AND THEN BACK TO PLYMOUTH FOR REPAIRS.
THEY LEFT THE SPEEDWELL THERE AND ALL GO ON TO THE
MAYFLOWER AND THEY STARTED OVER TO THIS COUNTRY.
AND OF COURSE, AFTER 63 DAYS THROUGH THIS HOWLING
AND FIERCE AND VAST WILDERNESS OF SEA,
THEY MADE IT TO CAPE COD.
FORTUNATELY, THE WINTER DID NOT LAST LONG.
THE FIRST MILD DAY OF SPRING CAME VERY EARLY IN
MARCH 3RD, BUT BY THIS TIME,
HALF OF THEM WERE DEAD.
IF IT HAD BEEN A LONG WINTER,
THEY MIGHT ALL HAVE DIED AND WE MIGHT NOT
BE HERE TODAY.
BUT, THEY CONTINUED, THEY MANAGED TO GET THROUGH
THAT FIRST YEAR AND THE SECOND,
THINGS BEGAN TO LOOK UP AND THE REST OF THE
PILGRIM CHURCH FROM LEYDEN AND PRIOR TO THAT FROM
SCROOBY, CAME TO JOIN THEM IN THEIR NEW LAND.
HOWEVER, THEIR PASTOR, JOHN ROBINSON,
HAD TAKEN SUDDENLY ILL AND IN JUST A COUPLE OF DAYS,
HE HAD DIED.
THEIR HEARTS WERE DESOLATED BY THE LOSS OF
THEIR PASTOR.
ELDER BREWSTER, OF COURSE, HAD BEEN SENT ON IN THE
FIRST SHIP TO AMERICA TO BE THE ACTING PASTOR,
AS HE WAS THE ONLY ELDER ABOARD.
AND HIS TRAINING AT CAMBRIDGE, NO DOUBT,
STOOD HIM IN GOOD STEAD AS THEY MET TO WORSHIP.
AND THE PILGRIM WORSHIP SERVICES WERE SOMETHING
THAT WERE VERY IMPORTANT.
AS WE SEE, MANY OF THEM WALKED 10 OR 12 MILES TO
GO TO CHURCH AND BACK EACH DAY.
THEIR SERVICES- THEY HAD AN EIGHT O'CLOCK SERVICE
IN THE MORNING, A NINE O'CLOCK, A TEN O'CLOCK,
AND AN ELEVEN O'CLOCK SERVICE,
IN WHICH AN HOUR'S SERMON WAS PREACHED AT EACH ONE
OF THESE SERVICES, EXCEPT THEY WERE ALL ONE SERVICE.
PEOPLE STAYED FOR THE ENTIRE FOUR HOURS.
ROBINSON PREACHED AND BREWSTER PREACHED,
THEN SOME MEMBER OF THE CONGREGATION PREACHED FOR
AN HOUR, AND ANOTHER ONE FOR ANOTHER HOUR,
AND OF COURSE, THERE WAS PRAYER AND SINGING OF
SONGS AS WELL.
AND THEN, AGAIN, THEY MET IN THE AFTERNOON,
AND AT THREE, FOUR, FIVE, AND SIX,
FOR ANOTHER FOUR HOURS, THEY HAD ANOTHER FOUR
HOURS OF WORSHIP.
SO, EVERY SABBATH DAY, THERE WERE EIGHT HOURS OF
WORSHIP SERVICES THAT WENT ON AMONG THE PILGRIMS,
AND THAT IS THE KIND OF DEVOTION THAT THESE
PEOPLE HAD.
NOW, WHAT WE HAVE SEEN, WHO THESE PEOPLE WERE,
THAT THIS WAS ACTUALLY A CHURCH CONGREGATION AND
THEIR PASTOR SEEKING TO RELOCATE WHERE THEY COULD
WORSHIP GOD WITHOUT HARASSMENT AND PERSECUTION
BY THE STATE OR THE CORRUPTION OF AN UNGODLY
SOCIETY.
WHAT DO THEY HAVE TO SAY TO US TODAY?
WELL, THE FIRST THING THAT I WOULD HAVE YOU TO NOTE
THAT THESE WERE MEN AND WOMEN OF CONVICTION.
IT WAS CONVICTION BORN OF THE WORD OF GOD.
THESE WERE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE WORD WHO WERE
WILLING TO GO TO PRISON; THEY WERE WILLING TO BE
KILLED; THEY WERE WILLING TO CROSS THIS WILD AND
FEROCIOUS DESERT OF THE OCEAN AND GO INTO THE
MIDST OF SAVAGES, ALL BECAUSE OF THE WORD OF
GOD, WHICH WAS SUCH A PRECIOUS TREASURE.
MANY OF US TODAY HAVE TWO, THREE, FIVE,
OR TEN BIBLES IN OUR HOMES,
AND YET WE SPEND LITTLE TIME REALLY SEARCHING THEM
OR READING THEM, OR HIDING THEM IN OUR HEART.
AND I THINK AS WE LOOK BACK TO OUR FATHERS AS WE
SING, "FAITH OF OUR FATHERS LIVING STILL,
WE WOULD BE TRUE," HOW TRUE ARE WE TO THAT LOVE
THAT THEY HAD FOR THE SCRIPTURES,
AND THAT CONVICTION THAT IT WAS THE VERY WORD OF
GOD FOR WHICH THEY WERE WILLING TO GIVE THEIR
WHOLE LIVES AND EVEN TO BE HARRIED OUT OF THE LAND,
IF NECESSARY.
SECONDLY, THEY WERE MEN AND WOMEN WHO LOVED ONE
ANOTHER, WHO LIVED AS EXAMPLES UNTO ALL OF THE
WORLD.
THEY DETERMINED TO ESTABLISH A CITY,
A SHINING CITY ON A HILL, A LIGHT FOR ALL THE WORLD
TO SEE THE GOSPEL.
THAT WAS THEIR GREAT DESIRE,
THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE THAT KIND OF A LIFE,
THEY WERE TRULY A PEOPLE OF GOD WHO LIVED,
IT IS SAID BY BRADFORD, AS PERHAPS NO OTHER
CONGREGATION LIVED SINCE THE TIME OF THE APOSTLES
IN SUCH PEACE AND UNITY AND LOVE.
THEY WERE MEN AND WOMEN OF PEACE;
THEY LOVED EACH OTHER, THEY CARED FOR EACH OTHER,
AND THEY LIVED IN PEACE IN THE MIDST OF A CORRUPT
WORLD.
THEIR GREAT DESIRE WAS TO LIVE FOR GOD,
TO FOLLOW HIS COMMANDMENTS.
ONE OF THE REASONS THAT THEY LEFT HOLLAND WAS
BECAUSE OF THE CORRUPTED MORALS OF THE PEOPLE,
AND PARTICULARLY THEIR PROFANATION OF THE SABBATH
WHICH GRIEVED THE HEARTS OF THESE PEOPLE.
AND I WONDER WHAT THE PILGRIMS WOULD THINK ABOUT
US TODAY AS THEIR CHILDREN.
AND LASTLY, THEY HAD A GREAT ZEAL TO WITNESS.
WILLIAM BRADFORD, THEIR HISTORIAN,
THE SECOND GOVERNOR OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION,
WHO WAS WITH THEM THROUGHOUT ALL OF THIS,
FROM SCROOBY TO AMSTERDAM TO LEYDEN TO PLYMOUTH,
HE TELLS US THAT THEY HAD A GREAT DESIRE TO SHARE
THE GOSPEL WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
BUT IN HOLLAND THEY HAD TO APPEAL TO THE BURGOMASTERS
OF LEYDEN TO MOVE INTO THE CITY AND WHEN THEY DID,
THEY HAD CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS THAT THEY HAD
TO LIVE UNDER TO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF LIVING THERE,
AND ONE OF THEM WAS THAT THEY WERE NOT ALLOWED TO
PROSELYTIZE ANY OF THE DUTCH PEOPLE INTO THEIR
CHURCH.
THAT WAS A LAW, AND THEY INDEED WERE GREATLY
FRUSTRATED BY THAT.
THEY WANTED TO SHARE THE GOSPEL.
IT WAS THEIR DESIRE, SAID BRADFORD,
EITHER TO BE THE CAUSE OF REACHING OUT TO THE WORLD
WITH THE GOSPEL, OR AT LEAST TO PROVIDE A
STEPPING STONE FOR OTHERS TO DO IT- THAT THE GOSPEL
MAY GO.
AND SO, WHEN THEY SIGNED THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT,
THEY SAID THAT THEY HAD UNDERTAKEN THIS JOURNEY
FOR THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE ADVANCEMENT
OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, AND THEY DID PROVIDE
A STEPPING STONE.
IT WAS ONLY A FEW YEARS LATER,
THAT THE FIRST MISSIONARY, JOHN ELIOT,
SET OUT INTO THE WILDERNESS OF AMERICA TO
TAKE THE GOSPEL TO THE INDIANS IN THEIR
OWN LANGUAGE.
MANY MORE WERE TO FOLLOW UNTIL MORE MISSIONARIES
HAVE GONE OUT FROM AMERICA THAN FROM ANY OTHER NATION
IN HISTORY.
I HOPE THAT YOU WILL BE CHALLENGED AS I AM,
AS ONE OF THEIR DESCENDANTS,
OR ONE OF THOSE WHO HAS INHERITED WHAT THEY
CREATED FOR US, I WONDER WHAT THEY WOULD THINK OF
WHAT AMERICA IS TODAY.
I WONDER WHAT THEY WOULD EVEN THINK OF US AS
CHRISTIAN DESCENDANTS.
I WONDER IF THEY WOULD BE PLEASED WITH THE WAY THAT
WE HAVE HELD UP THAT TORCH.
I WONDER IF THEY WOULD FEEL THAT THIS IS INDEED A
CITY SET ON A HILL.
MAY GOD HELP US TO BE LIKE THEM.
LET US PRAY.
FATHER, WE PRAY THAT YOUR SPIRIT MAY QUICKEN IN US
A DESIRE TO LIVE HOLY AND GODLY LIVES,
TO WALK IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THOSE WHO CAME TO THIS
COUNTRY SO LONG AGO, WHO LEFT US SUCH A GODLY
EXAMPLE AND WE SO OFTEN HAVE DROPPED THE TORCH,
WE HAVE WANDERED FROM THAT PATH,
WE HAVE NOT MADE A CITY SET UPON A HILL.
LORD, MAY WE BE THOSE KIND OF FAITHFUL AND GODLY MEN
AND WOMEN, BOYS AND GIRLS, THAT WOULD NOT ONLY PLEASE
THEM, BUT WILL PLEASE THY HEART.
FOR THEY LIVED, O GOD, TO PLEASE THEE.
MAY WE DO THE SAME, FOR THE SAME GOD THAT WAS WITH
THEM IS WITH US TODAY; THE SAME CHRIST THAT LED THEM
ACROSS THE LANDS AND ACROSS THE OCEAN IS HERE
TO LEAD US THIS DAY.
MAY WE FAITHFULLY LIVE FOR HIM, TO HIS GLORY,
AND TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF HIS KINGDOM.
IN HIS NAME WE ASK.
AMEN.
I TRUST THAT IT'S YOUR DESIRE TO PLEASE THE HEART
OF GOD THE WAY THE PILGRIMS DID AND TO LEAVE
A GODLY LEGACY FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO DO EITHER IF
YOU DON'T KNOW JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR
AND LORD.
DO YOU KNOW FOR CERTAIN THAT YOU WILL SPEND
ETERNITY IN HEAVEN WITH GOD?
IF NOT, DON'T LET ANOTHER DAY GO BY WITHOUT HAVING
THAT ASSURANCE.
YOU SEE, ETERNAL LIFE- BEING IN HEAVEN- IS AN
ABSOLUTELY FREE GIFT.
WE CAN'T EARN IT, WE DON'T DESERVE IT BECAUSE YOU SEE
WE'RE ALL SINNERS.
I KNOW THAT WE DON'T USE THAT WORD MUCH TODAY BUT
SIN IS ANYTHING THAT IS DISPLEASING TO GOD AND WE
ARE ALL GUILTY.
GOD LOVED US SO MUCH THAT EVEN THOUGH WE ARE GUILTY
HE SENT HIS ONLY SON, JESUS, TO DIE UPON THE
CROSS FOR OUR SINS.
AND THEN THREE DAYS LATER HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, HE
PURCHASED A PLACE FOR US IN HEAVEN WHICH HE OFFERS
TO US RIGHT NOW AS A FREE GIFT.
AND WE RECEIVE THIS GIFT BY FAITH- SAVING FAITH-
WHICH IS TRUSTING IN JESUS CHRIST ALONE FOR ETERNAL
LIFE.
IF THIS MAKES SENSE TO YOU AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW
PEACE WITH GOD NOW AND FOREVER, THEN PRAY WITH ME
THIS PRAYER.
"LORD, JESUS CHRIST, THANK YOU FOR OFFERING ME THE
FREE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE.
I REPENT OF MY SINS AND ASK YOU TO FORGIVE ME
AND CLEANSE ME.
I PLACE MY TRUST IN YOU ALONE FROM THIS DAY
FORWARD.
IN YOUR NAME I PRAY, AMEN."
IF YOU JUST PRAYED THAT PRAYER, THEN YOU HAVE JUST
BEGUN THE GREATEST ADVENTURE OF YOUR LIFE.
AND TO HELP YOU, WE WANT TO SEND YOU BEGINNING
AGAIN WRITTEN BY DR. KENNEDY FOR NEW
BELIEVERS.
AS YOU READ IT, YOU'LL LEARN HOW TO STUDY THE
BIBLE, HOW TO PRAY, HOW TO TALK WITH OTHERS ABOUT
WHAT YOU HAVE JUST DONE.
IT'S OUR GIFT TO YOU WHEN YOU WRITE TO OUR ADDRESS
OR CALL OUR TOLL-FREE NUMBER AND ASK FOR
BEGINNING AGAIN.
GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU DO.
AS YOU HEARD IN DR. KENNEDY'S MESSAGE
TODAY, AMERICA BEGAN AS A CHURCH RELOCATION PROJECT.
AND YET, ALL AROUND US, WE HEAR THE FALSE ASSERTION
THAT AMERICA WAS FOUNDED AS A SECULAR NATION, AND
THAT THE CLAIMS OF CHRISTIANITY DO NOT BELONG
IN OUR LAW, OR IN OUR POLITICS.
BUT SUCH ASSERTIONS SIMPLY DO NOT HOLD UP WHEN WE
UNDERSTAND THE TRUTH OF GOD'S ROLE IN AMERICAN
HISTORY.
IT IS VITAL THAT YOU UNDERSTAND THAT ROLE, AND
WE HAVE A NEW RESOURCE THAT WILL GREATLY HELP.
IT'S THE BOOK, GOD'S PROMISES FOR THE AMERICAN
PATRIOT, BY DR. RICHARD LEE AND JACK COUNTRYMAN.
THIS BOOK IS LIKE A TREASURE MAP, LEADING YOU
TO HIDDEN RICHES AS YOU DISCOVER THE PROMISES FROM
GOD'S WORD THAT HAVE SERVED AS THE FOUNDATION
UPON WHICH AMERICA WAS FORMED.
AND WE WANT TO SEND IT TO YOU AS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR
GENEROUS DONATION TO THE ONGOING WORK OF THIS
MINISTRY.
SIMPLY WRITE TO US AT:
OR CALL TOLL FREE:
OR GO ONLINE TO:
THIS 197-PAGE BOOK FEATURES SHORT CHAPTERS
THAT CAN EASILY BE READ EACH DAY AS A DEVOTIONAL.
AND YOU'LL DISCOVER THE STORIES OF HEROES, PAST
AND PRESENT, WHO'VE DEVOTED THEIR LIVES TO
ESTABLISHING AND SHAPING AMERICA ON THE PROMISES
OF GOD.
GOD'S PROMISES FOR THE AMERICAN PATRIOT COMBINES
HISTORICAL FACTS ABOUT OUR FOREFATHERS WITH THE
PROMISES FROM GOD'S WORD, GIVING A POWERFUL LOOK AT
THE IMPORTANCE OF BIBLICAL VALUES AND HOW THEY AFFECT
THE FABRIC OF OUR CONSTITUTION.
YOU'LL MEET CHARACTERS FROM THE FOUNDING ERA ALL
THE WAY UP TO THE PRESENT DAY, AND BE ENCOURAGED BY
SCRIPTURAL PROMISES AND TRUTHS THAT HAVE BEEN
FULFILLED IN AMERICAN HISTORY.
YOU WILL WANT TO HAVE GOD'S PROMISES FOR THE
AMERICAN PATRIOT FOR YOURSELF, AS WELL AS TO
SHARE WITH YOUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN WHO NEED
TO UNDERSTAND AMERICA'S CHRISTIAN HISTORY AND ARE
NOT LIKELY TO LEARN IT AT SCHOOL.
WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU AS OUR THANKS FOR YOUR
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THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR THIS EDITION OF KENNEDY
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