America - The Great Experiment

real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth equip the saints and impact our culture. You know if America is such a bad place why is it that every year more people immigrate here legally than all of the other nations combined every year think about that I'm a little feisty this morning I'm sick and tired of the propaganda and the trash of revisionists and of those who try to change our nation's history. You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast. Today if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings to us that's like saying amen or yes then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you here is Jack Kibs. We cannot look at world history without being overwhelmed as Americans that world history has been much made up of by what God did through America. When we talk about American exceptionalism we're not talking about Americans being better than anybody else you need to understand that. American exceptionalism means that God did miraculous things with common people and to be an American is to be common people who have come together for the same cause. To be an American is a choice your passport doesn't guarantee that you're an American your passport guarantees that you're a citizen of this nation but to be an American is something of the spirit. It's some decision that you make based upon what this nation stands for and you are sitting in the most grand experiment of human government in the history of man. It's absolutely awesome and remarkable. When in the founding of our fathers and in the Pilgrim era before that it was understood that the new world across the seed they would say would be a land of freedom. Now many attempts were made to colonize the east coast of the United States and if you focus on any particular group you could come away with the selective part of history. Many of you have heard you've heard of the 1619 project have you not heard of that? Your kids are being taught that trash in school. Why? Because our modern day system has decided to dial down on one little segment of American history and of course they picked the bad. None of the settlements worked well at all until it says though God was waiting until 1620 when the separatist Pilgrims left Europe coming here to worship God aboard the Mayflower. And if you have any doubt you need to read the Mayflower Compact as I often challenge you as this church to read if you have any doubt. But in 1620 that settlement took hold barely took hold but it made it. While the others failed based on slavery based on possessions based on wealth based on manipulation based on the English crown they failed. One settle and that was the Pilgrims of 1620. The book of Jeremiah says in chapter 16 verse 17 for his eyes are on all their ways and that was a verse mentioned by William Bradford regarding the journey of the Pilgrim fathers. I want to draw to your attention throughout this message moments of American history. Why are you out of go out today and thank God that you were either born here or that you immigrated here. I like to send that by the way. You know if America is such a bad place why is it that every year more people immigrate here legally than all of the other nations combined every year? Think about that. I'm a little feisty this morning. I'm sick and tired of the propaganda and the trash of revisionists and of those who try to change our nation's history. So on Saturday July 28th 1787 at the age of 81 years of age Benjamin Franklin stood in addressed Congress and I quote in this situation of this assembly, groping as it were in the dark to find political truth and scarce able to distinguish it when presented to us. How has it happened sir that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with Great Britain when we were sensible of danger and we had daily prayer in this room for the divine protection. Our prayers sir were heard and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of super intending providence in our favor. I have lived sir a long time and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow can fall to the ground without his notice is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid said Ben Franklin and by the way from that moment from that challenge they went to prayer and read American history. Well yeah everything changed from that moment on. After Franklin's challenge we wound up watching the fulfillment of the Declaration of Independence. We saw the drafting and the crafting of the constitution and a nation was off on its way to make its place known among the nations of the world. Make you wonder though that Franklin must have been wondering regarding that sparrow Jesus said in Matthew chapter 10 verse 29 what is the price of two sparrows is that not one copper coin but a single sparrow can fall to the ground without your father knowing it. That's the heart of our God. And so as I read to you right now just the moment the opening throws of the Declaration of Independence you would do well to study more at your leisure about what God was doing. 56 men brought together of an intellect each of them that is still to this day unknown unparalleled in human history that in one room 56 geniuses who sacrificed their money their property their freedoms their liberty and gave all some more than others. Many times we forget that guys like George Washington who was considered one of the top five wealthiest men in the colonies and the wealthiest man John Hancock both of them when Congress couldn't get their act together both of them from their own bank accounts funded the American Revolution War machine themselves John Adams being married to Abigail for 14 years out of those 14 years he spent seven years in Europe trying to negotiate support for the American cause they sacrificed today America needs to get back and embrace sacrifice we need to watch out for leisure we need to be careful about affluence we write on the heels and we stand on the shoulders of these giants who gave everything so much so there are people who burn the flag based on the liberty that they bought us there are people who protest against this state and those who gave sacrifice gave you the first amendment right to say so it's amazing this this morning I looked at the some video that was sent to me by somebody I know that's all I'll say of what's happening in Morocco well people are fleeing Africa and trying to make it into Morocco the moment they cross the border they remote down no questions asked moved down beat the death destroyed seeking shelter and safety and yet on this nation's East Coast stands a statue of liberty inviting all those who want peace and all those who want a chance and all those who want prosperity and all those who want to have religious freedom to come here and still today as messed up as she is we want to make sure that we understand that she's been messed up by the hands of politicians who don't know anything about what we're talking about today in this service more on that later frankly would know nothing about it but Jefferson the craftsman in the Declaration of Independence in Congress July 4th 1776 the unanimous declaration of the 13 United States when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which laws of nature and natures God entitled them a decent decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation and here it comes we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights and among these are the among these are the life liberty and the pursuit of happiness church family those words had never been uttered in the realm of political dialogue in the history of man ever never were the people invited to take control of their own destiny it was always despots kings and rulers and when Jefferson wrote that we hold these truths to be self-evident he's talking about what would be the first amendment that inside of you is this understanding and longing and knowing that you've got to be free and you're going to say what you think and you are going to do what you do because God has made you a person of individual actions and so that's why that's the first amendment and that you can outlaw worship but people will worship anyway and that's why it's in the first amendment and today like never before we need to remember and we need to restate it over and over again the first amendment declares that you may worship as your conscience dictates and the government cannot hinder you or molest you in your worship that is the first amendment of the United States you want to talk about separation of church and state in the context of the founding fathers they understood it perfectly well think about it to this day congress is opened up in prayer every day since Benjamin Franklin why is that the case because they understood the separation of church and state why is it today that we've got bibles that are not only all about but we've got a capital in our nation that is full of Bible Bible references Bible moments inscribed in granite why why because they understood the separation of church and state and then this that the state will not molest our hinder our worship it's not the other way around it's not the CNN version it's not MSNBC's version of it we need to remember that there is no place in this nation where your faith is prohibited according to the constitution of the United States and our founders understood that and they laid down their lives for that number one church when in the course of human events there was the move of God God moves in the course of human events one of the great things about today gathering together is that you and I are living in our moment when God moved we have a tendency to memorialize God's movements in history and we sterilize them the first thing I want you to see today that went in the course of human events there's the move of God and when I talk about that I speak regarding our past you got to remember when we see those great paintings of our of our founding fathers dressed in a peril of the day we wonder what funny clothes they didn't think they were wearing funny clothes none of them walked around and said look at us wearing our funny clothes and isn't it amazing that we're making history they lived in the moment you're living in the moment right now for your generation for your age in many ways there's no difference they chose to go against impossible adversity we don't have to talk about it but in our constitution it is against the law for the United States Armed Forces to quarter their troops among our citizenry you say what does that mean in this 13 colonies the British used to come in when they were hungry into your house and when they ate your food they would sleep with your daughter or your wife and our founder said that's wrong they would come in and they would take our guns and our powder which in those days meant that you're basically disdain you to starvation and our founders said that's wrong and when we had to ship our sermons back to Britain to be censored before they could be preached our black robe regimen of the pulpits of the colonial period said that's wrong and it's not gonna happen we're gonna preach what God says if you like it or not King George and they did it there was a move of God went in the course of human events and it was with Bible in hand America can boast this it's not only a fact that you can read about and there's libraries of books full of these events but there's paintings to capture it as well but I like to take you back I love the fact that pastor Robert Hunt listen to this chaplain of Jamestown Virginia he first lifted his voice and public thanks given in prayer get the date on April 29 1607 when the settlers planted across at Cape Henry from that time on the settlers of Jamestown attended regular prayer in Bible study meaning led by Hunt before a chapel could be erected when Hunt held his first services they were held under the old sale from off of off their ship he pitched a easy up yes it were and had a sermon and I don't know if you've been to Jamestown but we've stood in the very spot and I took some pictures pretending I was preaching at the spot where that sale was erected it's marked today but it's quite remarkable quite awesome but it went on among the congregation was a captain John Smith anybody remember studying about him who described the worship services that took place in the open air as being attended to by God John Smith said of pastor Hunt's labors he saw the hand of God at work in his life and he believed God had intervened to save the colonies Hunt concluded that it was God who had thwarted Spanish attempts to settle North America and he had reserved that region for the Protestant English there's a lot of facts to back that up with Bible and hand moving forward the great awakening would take place the first great awakening according to the encyclopedia Britannica and I quote the increase of disagreement from the established churches English churches split during this period which led to a broader toleration of religious diversity and the return of the religious experience which listen fed the fervor that resulted in the American revolution if you ever ask yourself from or want to know the answer how did the revolution ever begin did Jefferson or Franklin wake up one day was it Sam Adams that said we're not gonna do this anymore we're gonna start a revolution no listen it all started in the preaching of the pulpits that I mentioned a moment ago called the black robe regimen that term was a derogatory term that was brought against them by the king of England England understood they were not only fighting a bunch of farmers turned soldiers they had heard rumors about George Washington being a bumbling fool he was a colonel in the British army if you remember that and at the battle of Brandywine he was the only one to survive what what is he going to do but then what happened was it was the spirit that was behind the effort the fight for liberty and freedom absolutely awesome I think we have the pictures it's not it's not a it's not a selfie or anything but while you're looking at that let me explain just to kind of rub it in some of you may know just by the way that he wore his hair he had a high forehead he stood on he preached in the open air you want to know why this is a big deal some of you historians get it immediately you know his name because what he was doing right there is 100% illegal you're not allowed to do that England forbade that you couldn't deliver a message unless it was indoors this young man and I mean young man left England and he came here and he's known as one of the founding fathers of the American Revolution unofficially I think it should be more official that's George Whitfield have you ever heard of orphanages he started orphanages in Georgia in the colonies George Whitfield Benjamin Franklin funded George Whitfield's missionary outreaches to the colonies then Franklin recorded that in one time delivering a message on Boston Common George Whitfield was reaching with his voice without magnification amplification he was reaching 30,000 people that those who heard him preach said that the atmosphere was divinely energized that people could supernaturally hear him preach a quarter a mile away America was taking place why because there was a people in the pursuit of freedom marked that down if you would the pursuit of freedom with Bible in hand if you open up your Bible you're going to find something that God has put within your heart the love of freedom the love of freedom is not bound up in red white and blue it's not bound up in her constitution it's not bound up in her declaration of independence the love of freedom is bound up in the human heart and it's addressed in the Bible Jesus said I've come to set you free not enslaved you the Bible says you're free in Christ Jesus so no longer become entangled in the affairs of this life free 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