Stand For Biblical Values | Jentezen Franklin
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this generation has come to believe that
the church has no part in determining
how people should vote and that the
church has no say so in it when a
minister or a Christian speaks out like
I’m doing this morning against voting
for a Bill in Congress that is not
biblical many believe that that preacher
is out of line and that he should be
silent but that was not how this nation
was founded and
formed when they started the colonies
for one reason religious
freedom they came here on and they
established the colonies it’s amazing
they really were religious sanctuaries
for various denominations of Christians
for example Pennsylvania was founded by
the Quakers because the Quakers which
was a religious Bible teaching preaching
group of people they wanted to practice
their faith without being interfered by
Britain and the and the church of
England and their Doctrine they wanted
their own Doctrine that’s where
Pennsylvania came from Maryland was
established as a Catholic State for the
Catholics Massachusetts was established
by and for the Puritan denom ation there
was no separation of church and
state Reverend John Witherspoon was one
of the 56 signers of the Declaration of
Independence out of six 56 men who
signed the Declaration of Independence
one of them was a
preacher from the beginning American
preachers have played a major role a
major role in America and in the
establishment of laws let me let me give
you an example Reverend John
mullenberg on in
1776 was a member of the black robe I
love this the black robe clerical group
there was a group of
influential
preachers the black robe regiment is
what they called themselves back then
the preacher wore black
robes and this man John
mullenberg decided
to preach and stand so strong that he
did something his congregation did not
expect he preached from the third
chapter of
Ecclesiastes when he saw that Britain
was coming to take away their freedom
here in this nation he said in
Ecclesiastes chapter 3 three there is a
Time For Peace and then he preached this
part there is a time for
war then he shocked his congregation
when he pulled his robe off and he had
his enlisted War uniform on he turned to
a drummer boy that he had sitting over
there and he started doing the drum roll
and walked down the aisle and said to
his congregation if you want freedom for
your life for your religion for your
children for your families follow me
into battle and he walked outside and
the men kissed their wives
goodbye and Mill Gibson made a movie
about it called the
Patriot how’s
that I’m a calm little preacher
this morning amen keeping my coat
on I like this next guy let me tell you
about another preacher you say well
you’re sitting there in
Freedom you’re sitting there and it cost
you nothing you’re sitting here and you
say what you want to say go where you
want to go do what you want to do it was
because men and churches stood
up Pastor James Codwell now I like this
guy he was a pre I almost want to become
a presbyterian he was a presbyterian in
the First Presbyterian Church in
Elizabeth toown New Jersey and he began
to preach sermons on Liberty and freedom
on capitalism and how that the word of
God is a reward teaches reward and says
in the New Testament if a man won’t eat
if a man won’t work he shouldn’t eat
unless he’s unless it’s a widow or poor
or or physically infirm if you’re
La you don’t reward that it’s not
equality it is
not it’s get up and go to work and you
can be anything you can dream to be if
you want it hard enough and try hard
enough and I know that certain people
need a helping hand that’s all biblical
I can’t I can’t preach everything up
here the Bible clearly teaches help the
poor and the needy do everything you can
for those who are disadvantaged but the
Bible never rewards people who are
lazy who do not work now I like this guy
because his preaching became so strong
that he was put on a assassination list
by by the by England and they called him
the rebel PE uh uh priest and he would
walk up to the big wooden pool pit and
he would reach up under his robe and he
had two pistols and he laid them on both
sides uh and then he pulled out the old
black book and let it fly and kept his
eye on the congregation I thought Lord
have mercy I’m a I’m just a little wimpy
preacher I don’t even have my guns I’m
not even packed in this
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morning it’s really
something they couldn’t get him so they
killed his wife this is all historical
facts they killed his
wife and after he went to her funeral he
rode he rode to where the battle was
taking place listen to this and when he
got there the troops had run out of
wading for their musket guns I don’t
even know what wading is but apparently
if you don’t have it you the the the
trigger the it will not connect and and
you can’t send the the the musket where
it needs to go but listen to this so
when they needed uh uh I better go back
to my notes when they when they needed
wading paper for wading to make the guns
W those musket guns work and they didn’t
have any paper he had to he he rode on
his horse to the local Presbyterian
Church went inside took all of the hym
books gathered them up took them out to
the battlefield threw them down on the
ground and told the troops tear the
pages of the hymns out and uh use it for
wading and and shoot your gun and take
care of
business man what is wrong with
us what is wrong with us
maybe another one that I’ll tell you
about is Pastor Jonas Clark on April
1877
1775 as Paul Riv was writing through his
town in
Massachusetts screaming the British are
coming the British are coming this Brave
Pastor was asked by he had someone there
who who he was hiding by the name of
John Hancock who would end up signing
the independence the the Declaration of
Independence and and and they had a
little meeting and even Paul R
participated and they said do do you do
you think you can get together enough of
your congregation that they would hold
things right here until we can organize
down the road and this great preacher
spoke up by the name of Pastor Clark and
he said the men of Lexington
Massachusetts will fight Clark responded
I I have trained them for this hour and
they will fight if need be die to under
the shadow of the house of
God the next morning Pastor Jonas Clark
and Deacon John Parker LED Lexington
Minutemen out to face the Invaders as
the British approached the Minutemen
they cried out the British cried out the
name in the Name of the King of England
throw down your arms in response
response rang out the colonist we
recognize no Sovereign but God and no
King but
Jesus and he said we don’t want to fight
Pastor I I don’t have time to read
everything but he told him he said we
don’t want to fight but if you want to
fight a fight you’re going to get we’re
going to defend our churches we’re going
to defend our rights we’re going to
defend our faith our family our children
and that was the shot that was heard
around the world world and today we sit
here in America God Bless America and we
are free the home of the free and the
land of the Brave praise God give the
Lord Praise I love my nation Hallelujah
nothing wrong with that that’s not evil
we’ve done a lot of good
we need a new black robe
regiment we need not to fight with
bullets and
bombs but to fight with wheels and
words and to tell the truth of God’s
word we need in this critical hour
Matthew 22 and verse 21 Render unto God
the things that are gods and render
under Caesar or the government the
things that are the governments what
does that mean that means in America the
government is not Washington
DC the government is not the Democrats
or the
Republicans the government is we the
people and he’s addressing Jesus said
that said that verse by the way way he
said if you have if you’re fortunate
enough to get to be the
government to live in a nation where
it’s not a president it’s not a king who
has all authority and all power but if
you are the government give to the
government what you as a great citizen
ought to give to the government and that
includes Doctrine from the Bible which
is love and freedom and deliverance and
why would the church not do that
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