"IN THE NAME OF GOD" BEGINS OUR SEARCH THIS
DAY FOR THE MEANING OF THIS MONUMENT MORE IMPORTANTLY
FOR THE MEANING OF THE PILGRIMS.
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES PRESENTS
TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
WITH AMERICA'S GODLY CHRISTIAN ROOTS, HOW IS IT
THAT WE ARE WE LOSING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN OUR
DAY?
TODAY AMERICA IS MORALLY IN THE SHAMBLES BUT THE
MAIN PROBLEM IS WE'VE FORGOTTEN GOD, WE'VE
FORGOTTEN THAT GOD IS THE SOURCE OF OUR LIBERTIES.
AND WHAT HAPPENED THE FIRST TIME SOCIALISM WAS
TRIED ON AMERICAN SOIL?
NUMBER ONE, PEOPLE WERE NOT HAVING ANY INCENTIVE
TO GO TO WORK, BECAUSE NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY
WORKED, THEY GOT PAID THE SAME BECAUSE EVERYONE, IT
WAS DIVIDED EQUALLY.
AND THEN SECONDARILY HE SAID THAT WIVES WERE
GETTING UPSET BECAUSE THEY'RE ENDING UP DOING
LAUNDRY FOR HUSBANDS WHO AREN'T THEIR OWN HUSBANDS.
ON THIS THANKSGIVING WEEKEND, WE LOOK TO THE
PAST FOR A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW WE
CAN LIVE FOR THE FUTURE.
IT'S ALL ON TODAY'S TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
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WELCOME TO TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM, A PRODUCTION
OF D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES, WHERE WE ARE
STANDING FOR TRUTH AND DEFENDING YOUR FREEDOM.
WE CELEBRATED THANKSGIVING THIS WEEK, BUT SADLY MANY
HAVE FORGOTTEN THE REASON FOR THE HOLIDAY, ITS
ORIGINS, AND WHY IT'S AN ESSENTIAL BULWARK FOR OUR
FREEDOM, EVEN NOW.
ON TODAY'S PROGRAM, WE'LL SHOW YOU THE IMPORTANCE OF
THANKSGIVING, AND REMIND YOU OF AMERICA'S GREATEST
EXPERIMENT IN SOCIALISM- ONE THAT FAILED MISERABLY.
AND WE HAVE AN ENORMOUSLY VALUABLE RESOURCE FOR YOU
THAT WILL ENCOURAGE YOU AND STRENGTHEN YOU TO STAY
THE COURSE IN THESE PERILOUS TIMES.
AS WE BEGIN, OUR OWN DR. JERRY NEWCOMBE IS AN
HISTORIAN AND AN EXPERT ON AMERICA'S CHRISTIAN
ORIGINS.
HE JOINS ME NOW TO TALK ABOUT THANKSGIVING'S VITAL
IMPORTANCE IN OUR DAY.
JERRY WELCOME.
THANK YOU FRANK.
ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE YOU HERE.
YOU KNOW, IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION IN ONE OF JESUS
LETTERS TO THE CHURCHES HE SAYS REMEMBER THE HEIGHTS
FROM WHICH YOU HAVE FALLEN AND REPENT AND DO THE
THINGS YOU DID AT FIRST.
WE HAVE FALLEN FROM SOME PRETTY HIGH PRECIPICES,
HAVEN'T WE, WHEN IT COMES TO REMEMBERING OUR OWN
CHRISTIAN HERITAGE?
YEAH WE REALLY HAVE, I MEAN PEOPLE FORGET THAT
THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES WAS THE
MODEL FOR CONSTITUTIONS ALL OVER THE WORLD.
WE WERE LIKE A CITY ON A HILL AND TODAY AMERICA IS
MORALLY IN THE SHAMBLES, BUT THE MAIN PROBLEM IS
WE'VE FORGOTTEN GOD.
WE'VE FORGOTTEN THAT GOD IS THE SOURCE OF OUR
LIBERTIES, AND BECAUSE OF THAT WE HAVE SEEN SO MANY
THINGS FALL DOWN IN OUR DAY.
AND IN MANY WAYS PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN THE
IMPORTANCE OF THANKSGIVING AS IT RELATES TO OUR
FREEDOMS AND OUR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE AS A NATION,
HAVEN'T THEY?
YES THEY HAVE, I MEAN FOR EXAMPLE, THE THANKSGIVING
TRADITION THAT WE CELEBRATE ULTIMATELY GETS
BACK TO THE PILGRIMS WHO SETTLED PLYMOUTH IN 1620,
THAT WAS THEIR FIRST TIME, THEIR FIRST HARVEST IN
FALL OF 1621 WHEN THEY THANKED GOD FOR WHAT THEY
HAVE RECEIVED AND THEY CELEBRATED WITH THE
INDIANS.
AND THEN JUMPING FORWARD TO THE TIME WHEN GEORGE
WASHINGTON BECAME OUR FIRST PRESIDENT UNDER THE
CONSTITUTION, AND WHAT DID HE DO.
ON OCTOBER 3 1789 HE WROTE UP A NATIONAL DAY OF
PROCLAMATION AND HE SET ASIDE A CERTAIN DAY LATER
IN NOVEMBER AS A DAY OF THANKSGIVING.
THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE HAD AS A NEW NATION
A NATIONAL DAY OF THANKSGIVING, AND THEN
JUMPING FORWARD TO THE PRESIDENCY OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN.
HE MADE IT AN ANNUAL EVENT, EVEN DURING THE
TIME OF THE CIVIL WAR WHEN THINGS WERE SO BAD, HE
SAID WE STILL NEED TO LOOK AT GOD AND REMEMBER GOD
AND HE SAID THESE THINGS HAVE HAPPENED TO US
BECAUSE WE'VE FORGOTTEN GOD, WE NEED TO GIVE
THANKS TO GOD AND HE MADE IT A NATIONAL HOLIDAY AND
WE'VE BEEN CELEBRATING THANKSGIVING AS A NATIONAL
HOLIDAY EVER SINCE.
ONE OF THE LESSONS WE'VE FORGOTTEN ABOUT
THANKSGIVING TOO IS THE FIRST YEAR, THE FIRST
WINTER THE PILGRIMS SPENT THERE WAS DEATH AND DYING
AND NEAR STARVATION, AND YET WHEN THAT SECOND
AUTUMN CAME AND THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HARVEST,
THEY WERE THANKFUL TO GOD.
WE NEED TO BE THANKFUL TO GOD IN GOOD TIMES AND IN
BAD, DON'T WE?
YOU'RE 100% RIGHT AND IN FACT SOME HISTORIANS SAY
ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE DAYS RELATED TO THE
PILGRIMS AND WHAT HAPPENED WAS, YOU KNOW THAT THE
MAYFLOWER, IT'S CAPTAIN AND ITS CREW HAD TO STAY
OVER THAT WINTER, AND DURING THAT WINTER OF
1620-1621 IS WHEN HALF OF THE PILGRIMS DIED, AND
EVEN SOME OF THE CREW MEMBERS.
THEN WHEN THE SPRING CAME AND FINALLY THE CAPTAIN
COULD GO AND SAIL BACK TO ENGLAND HE ASKED, "DOES
ANYBODY WANT TO JOIN ME?"
YOU KNOW, GIVE UP AND GO BACK TO THE HOME FROM
WHENCE YOU CAME, AND NONE OF THEM SAID YES.
THEY ALL AGREED TO STAY THERE AND WORK IT OUT AND
BY GODS PROVIDENCE HE ESTABLISHED THIS GREAT
COLONY OF PLYMOUTH AND THE PILGRIMS CAST THIS VERY
LONG AND POSITIVE SHADOW ON AMERICA AND IT'S JUST
SUCH A GREAT STORY BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS THEY
THANKED GOD THROUGH GOOD TIMES AND BAD.
WELL JERRY, THANK YOU, WE'LL TALK WITH YOU SOME
MORE LATER IN THE PROGRAM ABOUT AN IMPORTANT
RESOURCE THAT WE HAVE.
WHAT A GREAT TIME TO FOCUS ON THE PROVIDENTIAL CARE
OF GOD, HIS FAITHFULNESS TO OUR FORBEARERS WHICH
REMINDS OF HIS CONTINUAL FAITHFULNESS TO US AS WELL.
I AGREE, THANKSGIVING IS AN ANNUAL REMINDER OF THIS
NATION'S CHRISTIAN ROOTS, THANK YOU FRANK.
DAILY TIME IN GOD'S WORD IS ESSENTIAL.
IT'S THE FUEL WE NEED TO LIVE OUR LIVES FOR HIS
GLORY IN THESE TRYING TIMES.
THE DAILY DEVOTIONAL, STRENGTH FOR TODAY, BY
DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY AND DR. JERRY NEWCOMBE
PROVIDES TIMELY BIBLICAL TRUTH TO HELP YOU FORTIFY
EACH DAY OF THE YEAR WITH THE PURPOSE AND
TRANSFORMATIONAL POWER THAT ONLY COMES FROM GOD.
WHILE YOU STRIVE TO SERVE THE LORD JESUS CHRIST
LOYALLY DAY-TO-DAY, THIS STRONG SOURCE OF BIBLICAL
PERSPECTIVE AND ENCOURAGEMENT WILL HELP
YOU MEET EACH DAY IN VICTORY.
CONTACT US TODAY TO RECEIVE YOUR DAILY
DEVOTIONAL STRENGTH FOR TODAY.
MY FRIEND AND MENTOR, DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY, WAS
ONE OF THE FOREMOST VOICES OF OUR TIME CALLING US
BACK TO OUR TRUE HISTORY AS A NATION.
I'M JOINED NOW BY HIS DAUGHTER, JENNIFER KENNEDY
CASSIDY.
JENNIFER, YOUR DAD WAS INVITED TO SPEAK AT THE
100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL MONUMENT TO THE
FOREFATHERS IN PLYMOUTH WASN'T HE?
YES HE WAS, AND HE WAS SO CLEAR ON THE LEGACY OF OUR
FOREFATHERS AND WHAT IT MEANS FOR US TODAY.
MY FATHER KNEW THAT AMERICA WAS BUILT ON A
CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION, AND THAT IT WAS A FOUNDATION
THAT WOULD EVENTUALLY BRING FREEDOM AND
PROSPERITY TO ALL OF US.
TODAY, THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAMMER AWAY AT THAT
FOUNDATION, TRYING TO DENY THE CHRISTIAN MOTIVATIONS
OF OUR SETTLERS AND FOUNDERS.
AS THEY WORK TO SECULARIZE AMERICA, OUR FREEDOMS ARE
ERODING.
THEY TELL US THAT THE CHRISTIAN FAITH HAS NO
PLACE IN OUR PUBLIC LIFE AND GOVERNMENT
INSTITUTIONS.
BUT IN DOING SO, THEY COULDN'T POSSIBLY BE ANY
FURTHER OUT OF STEP WITH THOSE WHO ESTABLISHED THIS
NATION.
AND THEY REMOVE THE BASIS OF OUR CHERISHED FREEDOMS.
MY FATHER REMINDS US OF THAT IN THIS PORTION OF
HIS STIRRING MESSAGE, "THE PILGRIM LEGACY," PREACHED
AT THE NATIONAL MONUMENT TO THE FOREFATHERS IN
PLYMOUTH IN 1989, WHERE HE WAS INVITED TO SPEAK BY
THE PILGRIM SOCIETY.
IT'S A MESSAGE THAT'S EVEN MORE NEEDED NOW THAN THE
DAY HE PREACHED IT.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN."
THUS BEGAN THE COMPACT SIGNED IN THE CAPTAIN'S
QUARTERS ON THE MAYFLOWER AS IT STOOD AT ANCHOR OFF
PROVINCETOWN BAY, OFF IN THE BAY.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD" BEGINS THE "BIRTH
CERTIFICATE OF AMERICA," AS IT IS CALLED.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD. AMEN," BEGAN THE
DEDICATORY ADDRESS OF WILLIAM BRECKINRIDGE FOR
THIS MONUMENT 100 YEARS AGO.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD" BEGINS OUR SEARCH THIS
DAY FOR THE MEANING OF THIS MONUMENT,
MORE IMPORTANTLY, FOR THE MEANING OF THE PILGRIMS,
WHOSE HONOR THIS WAS BUILT TO CELEBRATE.
"IN THE NAME OF GOD" IS WHERE AMERICA BEGAN,
AND I TRUST THAT TODAY, THAT THOUGH THEY HAVE BEEN
LONG DEAD, THEY MAY STILL SPEAK TO US AND THAT WE
MIGHT LEARN SOMETHING OF THOSE GRAND IDEALS,
THOSE SPIRITUAL TRUTHS, THAT SO GRIPPED THEIR
LIVES AND SO CHANGED THE WORLD.
THE PREDOMINANT, PRE-EMINENT,
OVER-ARCHING STATUE BEHIND US, OF COURSE,
IS THE GREAT FIGURE OF FAITH.
AND IT WAS FAITH THAT ANIMATED THE PILGRIMS.
IT WAS THEIR FAITH IN THE LIVING GOD THAT CAUSED
THEM TO BE WILLING TO GIVE UP THEIR HOMES,
TO GIVE UP THEIR NATIVE LAND TO SAIL TO HOLLAND
AND TO LIVE IN THE MIDST OF PEOPLE WHOSE TONGUE
THEY COULD NOT UNDERSTAND, WHERE THEY HAD NO SKILLS
THAT ENABLED THEN TO ACCEPT ANYTHING BUT THE
MOST MENIAL JOBS IN MOST CASES, AND
WHERE THEY ENDURED IN THAT WILDERNESS,
AS IT WAS CALLED A MOMENT AGO VERY APTLY,
FOR 12 YEARS.
IT WAS THEIR FAITH THAT GAVE THEM THE COURAGE TO
SET SAIL IN THAT MAYFLOWER.
AND I'M SURE MOST ALL OF YOU HAVE BEEN ON IT.
AND I, FOR ONE, WANT TO SAY THAT 10 MINUTES IN
THAT HOLD WAS QUITE ENOUGH FOR ME.
AND AS I RECALL THAT THEY WERE IN THAT
FOR 9 MONTHS.
I AM ASTONISHED AT THE STALWART SOULS THAT
BROUGHT THIS NATION FORTH SO LONG AGO.
IT WAS THEIR FAITH THAT STRENGTHENED THEM.
THEY, OF COURSE, HAVE BEEN CALLED, AND RIGHTLY SO,
THE PEOPLE OF A BOOK, THE PEOPLE OF THE BOOK-
THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
AND THEY HAD DISCOVERED THE INCREDIBLE GRACE OF GOD.
THEY HAD LEARNED OF THE GRACIOUS SAVIOR WHO
OFFERED THEM FREELY THE GIFT OF ETERNAL LIFE,
IF THEY WOULD BUT TRUST IN HIM AND TRUST THEY DID.
AND THEIR HEARTS WERE LIFTED UPWARD AND THEY
PLACED THEIR HOPES IN THAT ONE WHO HAD LOVED THEM
AND DIED FOR THEM AND RISEN AGAIN.
AND SO, PROPERLY SO THE STATUE HAS ITS FINGER
LIFTED TO HEAVEN, AND THAT I THINK IS A VERY GOOD
DEFINITION OF FAITH.
ONE HAS SAID THAT FAITH IS SIMPLY POINTING AWAY FROM
OURSELVES UNTO THE LIVING GOD IN JESUS CHRIST.
AND FOR A CHRISTIAN, THAT IS WHAT HIS FAITH IS.
THAT WAS THEIR FAITH.
IN THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT THEY SAID THAT THEY HAD
UNDERTAKEN THIS JOURNEY TO THE NORTHERN PARTS OF
VIRGINIA "FOR THE GLORY OF GOD,
AND ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH."
THAT WAS THEIR GREAT DESIRE TO BRING THE
GOSPEL, THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, TO THOSE THAT
DWELT IN DARKNESS HERE ON THIS CONTINENT.
THEY SAID THAT THEY WOULD CREATE VARIOUS
INSTITUTIONS FOR THE "ENDS AFORESAID."
AND WHAT WERE THOSE?
FOR THE GLORY OF GOD, THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE
CHRISTIAN FAITH, THE HONOR OF KING AND COUNTRY.
THOSE WERE THEIR GOALS; THAT'S WHAT THEY LIVED FOR
AND THAT'S WHY THEY CAME.
SEATED AROUND THE BASE OF THE STATUE WE HAVE FOUR
OTHER STATUES THAT EMBODY SOME OF THE THINGS THAT
WERE MOST MEANINGFUL TO THEM.
I AM GOING TO DEPART FROM THE USUAL ORDER AND BEGIN
WHERE MOST USUALLY PEOPLE END,
AND THAT IS WITH THE STATUE TO LIBERTY.
THERE WE HAVE WHAT THE PILGRIMS SOUGHT,
THE REASON THAT THEY LEFT ENGLAND,
THAT WHICH THEY STRUGGLED SO FAR TO OBTAIN:
LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE, RELIGIOUS LIBERTY,
AND CIVIL LIBERTY AS WELL.
ON YOUR RIGHT AND MY LEFT WE SEE THE STATUE OF
MORALITY, HOLDING AS YOU'VE BEEN TOLD ALREADY
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE DECALOGUE,
IN ONE HAND AND THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK OF
THE REVELATION IN THE OTHER.
SHOWING THAT THEY BELIEVED THAT MORALITY CAME FROM
THE SCRIPTURES, FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW,
FROM THE BEGINNING TO THE END- THAT ETHICS
DERIVED FROM RELIGION.
AND THAT IS A GREAT TRUTH.
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN AN ETHICAL SYSTEM THAT WAS
EFFECTUAL ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD THAT WAS NOT BASED
UPON RELIGION.
AND THEY KNEW THAT, AND THAT IS WHY THE DECALOGUE
AND THE BOOK OF REVELATION ARE IN THE HANDS OF
MORALITY.
AND THAT IS THE REASON THAT THEY CAME HERE.
THEY WANTED TO HAVE A FREE CHURCH IN A GODLY SOCIETY
WHICH WAS BASED UPON MORALS DERIVED FROM THE
TEN COMMANDMENTS.
AND THAT BRINGS US TO THE STATUE BACK FARTHER,
TO YOUR RIGHT AND MY LEFT, WHICH IS THE GREAT STATUE
OF LAW.
AND YOU WILL NOTICE, ALSO, THAT THEY BELIEVE THAT LAW
WAS BASED UPON MORALITY, AND WE HAVE SEEN THAT
MORALITY IS BASED UPON THE SCRIPTURE,
SO HERE HAVE THE THREE-TIERED CAKE OF
RELIGION, MORALITY, AND LAW.
AND ONE IS BASED UPON THE OTHER;
AND CANNOT BE ANY OTHER WAY.
THEREFORE, WE NEED TO HOLD FIRMLY TO THAT FREEDOM OF
RELIGION, WHICH WAS NOT FREEDOM FROM RELIGION,
AS SO MANY THINK TODAY.
(APPLAUSE)
AND MAY WE, THEIR DESCENDANTS,
THE INHERITORS OF THEIR GREAT LEGACY, MAY WE,
THIS DAY REDEDICATE OURSELVES TO THOSE
SPIRITUAL AND GODLY IDEALS THAT THIS COUNTRY MIGHT,
INDEED, BECOME A NATION SET ON A HILL FOR ALL
THE WORLD TO SEE, TO ADMIRE, AND TO EMULATE.
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS YOU.
(APPLAUSE)
THOSE WHO DENY OUR CHRISTIAN FOUNDATIONS IN
AN EFFORT TO SECULARIZE AMERICA ALSO WANT TO
FORCIBLY MOVE THE NATION IN THE DIRECTION OF
SOCIALISM.
AND THEY HAVE BEEN INCREASINGLY SUCCESSFUL IN
THAT GOAL, WITH RECENT POLLING DATA SHOWING A
MAJORITY OF YOUNG PEOPLE NOW PREFERRING SOCIALISM
TO CAPITALISM.
BUT IN AN ERA OF HISTORICAL IGNORANCE, MANY
DON'T KNOW THAT SOCIALISM WAS ONCE TRIED ON AMERICAN
SHORES.
AND AS YOU'RE ABOUT TO SEE, IT WAS A DISMAL AND
PAINFUL FAILURE.
OUR OWN JOHN RABE HAS MORE.
IN SEPTEMBER OF 1620, THE PILGRIMS,
A SMALL CHURCH OF REFUGEES FROM ENGLAND WHO HAD
SPENT 12 YEARS IN HOLLAND, SET OUT FOR AMERICA
ABOARD THE MAYFLOWER.
THEY WANTED TO SET UP A COLONY WHERE THEY COULD
BE FREE TO WORSHIP AND GLORIFY GOD AS THEY
BELIEVED HE HAD DESIGNED, RATHER THAN AS DICTATED BY
THE STATE.
THEY WANTED TO RAISE THEIR CHILDREN AND BUILD A
COMMUNITY ACCORDING TO BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES.
DURING THEIR LONG JOURNEY, RECOGNIZING THAT UNITY AND
COOPERATION WOULD BE CRUCIAL TO SURVIVAL IN THE
TOUGH NEW WORLD, AND REFLECTING THE BIBLICAL
COVENANTS, THE PILGRIMS ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT
CALLED THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT TO ESTABLISH A
GOVERNMENT AMONG THEMSELVES.
WHEN THEY HAD SEPARATED FROM THE CHURCH OF
ENGLAND, THEY FORMED THEIR OWN CHURCH COVENANT,
BY THEIR OWN VOICES AND BY THEIR OWN INDIVIDUAL
INITIATION.
AND SO THAT PRACTICE, THEY CARRIED OVER TO THE CIVIL
REALM, AND THEY DREW UP THE MAYFLOWER COMPACT
ONBOARD THE SHIP OFF OF PROVINCETOWN HARBOR
IN PLYMOUTH.
AND WHEN THEY DID THAT, THEY BEGAN IT WITH THESE
WORDS: "IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN."
IN FACT THEY SAID IN THIS ACTUAL DOCUMENT THEY CAME
FOR THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF
THE CHRISTIAN FAITH.
AND THUS THE FIRST SETTLING GOVERNMENT IN
NEW ENGLAND WAS FORMED.
MONTHS AFTER THEIR DEPARTURE, WRACKED BY
SICKNESS, BUFFETED BY THE WEATHER AND BLOWN OFF
COURSE, THEY ARRIVED AT PLYMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS.
THOUGH THE PILGRIMS SOUGHT TO LIVE AS GOD DESIGNED,
THERE WAS ONE AREA IN WHICH THEY WERE PROHIBITED
FROM DOING SO WHEN THEY ARRIVED IN PLYMOUTH.
THE VOYAGE HAD BEEN FUNDED BY A BRITISH INVESTMENT
GROUP CALLED THE ADVENTURERS, WHO HOPED TO
REAP PROFITS FROM THE NEW WORLD.
THE ADVENTURERS MANDATED THAT THE SETTLERS WERE TO
HOLD ALL THE LAND AND THE FRUIT OF THEIR LABORS IN
COMMON, WITH EVERYTHING DIVIDED EQUALLY.
THEIR MOTIVE FOR DOING THAT WAS TWOFOLD.
ONE, THAT WAS THE WAY EVERYBODY DID IT IN
ENGLAND.
ON THE OTHER HAND, THEY DISTRUSTED PROFIT.
THEY DISTRUSTED THE PROFIT MOTIVE.
THE COLONY WAS GOVERNED BY WILLIAM BRADFORD.
WILLIAM BRADFORD'S LEADERSHIP WAS IMPERATIVE
BECAUSE BRADFORD WAS THE KIND OF CALM GOVERNOR THAT
WOULD MAKE SOME VERY SOUND DECISIONS.
AND OF COURSE WAS THE INDIVIDUAL WHO WROTE THE
JOURNAL AND THE HISTORY OF THE PILGRIMS AND
WHAT WE NOW KNOW AS OF PLYMOUTH PLANTATION.
WILLIAM BRADFORD NOTICED THAT THE RESULTS OF THIS
EXPERIMENT IN COLLECTIVISM WERE QUITE NEGATIVE.
A SIMILAR EXPERIMENT HAD FAILED EVEN MORE MISERABLY
AT THE JAMESTOWN SETTLEMENT IN VIRGINIA.
IT WAS A LESSON THAT WOULD BE PROVED OVER AND OVER
AGAIN IN WORLD HISTORY.
SEVERAL THINGS HE NOTED WERE HAPPENING.
NUMBER ONE, PEOPLE WERE NOT HAVING ANY INCENTIVE
TO GO TO WORK, BECAUSE NO MATTER HOW MUCH THEY
WORKED, THEY GOT PAID THE SAME BECAUSE EVERYONE
IT WAS DIVIDED EQUALLY.
AND THEN SECONDARILY HE SAID THAT WIVES WERE
GETTING UPSET BECAUSE THEY'RE ENDING UP DOING
LAUNDRY FOR HUSBANDS THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN
HUSBANDS, AND NOT THEIR OWN FAMILIES.
BRADFORD WROTE, "SEEING ALL MEN HAVE THIS
CORRUPTION IN THEM, GOD IN HIS WISDOM SAW ANOTHER
COURSE FITTER FOR THEM."
REALIZING THAT FAILING EXPERIMENT WAS ENDANGERING
THE NEW COLONY, BRADFORD DECIDED THAT EACH FAMILY
WOULD BE APPORTIONED ITS OWN PIECE OF LAND ON WHICH
TO SOW AND REAP.
AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THAT CHANGE,
THEY WENT THROUGH 5 WEEKS OF DROUGHT.
AND THEY LEARNED ANOTHER LESSON.
EVEN IF YOU HAVE THE RIGHT SYSTEM,
IF YOU DON'T TRUST GOD FOR THE PROVISION,
IT WON'T WORK.
THEY HAD A PRAYER MEETING, AND A PRAYER AND FAST DAY
ON A WEDNESDAY, PRAYING FOR RAIN.
AND THEN IT RAINED GENTLE SHOWERS.
AND INDEED, WHEN THE RAIN FINALLY CAME,
THE CHANGE TO PRIVATE FARMING QUICKLY BORE FRUIT.
WHAT DID IT DO?
WELL IMMEDIATELY IT DOUBLED THE AMOUNT OF
LAND FARMED THE FIRST YEAR, AND TRIPLED IT THE
SECOND YEAR.
SO BY THE THIRD YEAR AFTER THIS, THEY WERE FARMING
MORE THAN 180 ACRES, WHEREAS THEY WERE ONLY
FARMING ABOUT 30 INITIALLY.
WHERE BEFORE THERE WAS LACK, THE COLONY STARTED
TO BECOME PRODUCTIVE AND PROSPEROUS.
THEY THEN HAVE A DAY OF THANKSGIVING.
TO GIVE THANKS TO GOD FOR THE WISDOM TO SET UP
THE RIGHT SYSTEM OF ECONOMICS, AND ALSO
FOR THE PROVISION THAT GOD GAVE THROUGH THAT
SYSTEM.
AND THE LESSONS WE CAN LEARN FROM THAT ARE HUGE.
WE ARE TO GO BEFORE GOD, LIKE THE PILGRIMS DID,
AND THANK HIM FOR EVERY PROVISION THEY'VE BEEN
GIVEN, AND THEN ASK HIM FOR THE ENDURANCE
NECESSARY TO PERSEVERE FOR THE FUTURE.
THE PILGRIMS LOOKED TO GOD FOR THEIR PROVISION, AND
WHEN THEY COMBINED THAT DEPENDENCE WITH BIBLICAL
PRINCIPLES, THE NEW COLONY ABSOLUTELY THRIVED.
WE HAVE THEM TO THANK FOR THIS NATION IN WHICH WE
LIVE TODAY.
THEY RECOGNIZED THAT DAILY DEPENDENCE ON GOD WAS
ABSOLUTELY VITAL- A FACT WHICH MODERN SECULARISTS
TRY TO OBSCURE AND DENY.
THE FACT IS, DAILY DEPENDENCE ON GOD IS VITAL
FOR EACH OF US.
AND WE HAVE AN OUTSTANDING RESOURCE TO SHARE WITH YOU
WHICH WILL HELP GUIDE YOU IN YOUR DAILY WALK WITH
THE LORD, AS YOU LEARN MORE AND MORE TO DEPEND
ON HIM.
I'M REJOINED NOW BY DR. JERRY NEWCOMBE.
JERRY, THIS IS A TREMENDOUS RESOURCE WE'RE
VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT, TELL US WHAT THIS IS.
THIS BOOK CALLED STRENGTH FOR TODAY IS A DAILY
DEVOTIONAL BASED ON THE TEACHINGS OF D. JAMES
KENNEDY AND EACH DAY HAS ITS OWN ENTRY AND WHAT I'M
AMAZED ABUT FRANK IS WHEN PEOPLE GET BACK TO ME AND
THEY SAY OH THANK YOU FOR THE DEVOTIONAL I READ SUCH
AND SUCH AND IT WAS JUST WHAT I NEEDED THAT DAY AND
I'LL LOOK AT THE ENTRY AND I'LL LOOK AT THE DATE AND
I'LL THINK YOU KNOW THAT DATE WAS ARBITRARILY
CHOSEN, IT WASN'T JULY 4TH IT WASN'T NOVEMBER 11TH,
IT WAS ARBITRARILY CHOSEN, AND YET GOD AND HIS
PROVIDENCE USED THAT BECAUSE THIS CONTAINS
ABOVE ALL THE WORD OF GOD AND DR. KENNEDY AS YOU
KNOW WAS SUCH A STUDENT OF THE SCRIPTURES, HE SPENT
SO MUCH TIME STUDYING THE SCRIPTURES, AND THEN DOING
HIS BEST TO UNDERSTAND IT AND THEN MAKE IT
UNDERSTANDABLE TO US AN HOW WE CAN APPLY IT TO OUR
DAILY LIVES, AND SO THAT'S WHAT THE GOAL OF STRENGTH
FOR TODAY IS.
WE WOULD LIKE TO SEND YOU A COPY OF THIS OUTSTANDING
DAILY DEVOTIONAL, STRENGTH FOR TODAY, BY DR. D. JAMES
KENNEDY AND DR. JERRY NEWCOMBE, AS OUR THANKS
FOR YOUR GENEROUS DONATION TO THE WORK OF THIS
MINISTRY, STANDING FOR TRUTH AND DEFENDING YOUR
FREEDOM.
SIMPLY WRITE TO US AT:
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AND JERRY, WITH A NEW YEAR COMING UP, THAT'S WHEN
PEOPLE LIKE TO START INTO DAILY DEVOTIONS, THIS IS A
GREAT GIFT AND PEOPLE CAN GET IT IN TIME FOR
CHRISTMAS, YES?
YES THEY CAN, AND ONE OF THE ASPECTS OF STRENGTH
FOR TODAY IS DAILY MOTIVATION AND INSPIRATION
FROM A BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE.
WE LIVE IN SUCH A NEGATIVE WORLD AND SO OFTEN IT'S
EASY TO BE DISCOURAGED AND TO THINK WELL WHAT
DIFFERENCE CAN I MAKE, AND THIS BOOK SHOWS
YOU CAN MAKE A LOT OF DIFFERENCES.
AND PART OF THE GOAL OF STRENGTH FOR TODAY IS THAT
ON A DAILY BASIS YOU GET FED REASONS WHY TO
BELIEVE, CREDIBLE REASONS BASED ON THE WORD OF GOD
AND BASED EVEN ON EVERYDAY LIFE.
YOU WILL WANT TO MAKE THIS GREAT DEVOTIONAL A PART OF
YOUR DAILY WALK WITH GOD IN 2019.
AND WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU AS THANKS FOR YOUR
GENEROUS DONATION, WHICH HELPS US CONTINUE
BROADCASTING BIBLICAL TRUTH AND THE GOOD NEWS OF
JESUS CHRIST TO A WORLD THAT DESPERATELY NEEDS TO HEAR IT.
SIMPLY WRITE TO US AT:
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THANKSGIVING IS A TIME FOR PRAISING AND THANKING GOD
FOR HIS ABUNDANT PROVISION.
ALL WE HAVE WE OWE TO HIM, BUT WE DARE NOT VIEW THIS
IN A VACUUM.
THE REASON WE CELEBRATE THIS HOLIDAY THIS WEEK IS
BECAUSE OF THE PILGRIMS IN PLYMOUTH COLONY IN 1621.
WHY DOES THAT MATTER?
WELL, RECENT STUDIES HAVE SHOWN THAT LESS THAN
ONE-THIRD OF AMERICANS COULD PASS A BASIC
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP TEST.
AS THE OLD SAM COOKE SONG GOES, "DON'T KNOW MUCH
ABOUT HISTORY."
BUT A NATION THAT DOES NOT KNOW WHERE IT WAS
YESTERDAY, DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS TODAY, NOR DOES
IT KNOW WHERE IT IS GOING.
AMERICA HAS EXPERIENCED LEVELS OF BLESSING AND
FREEDOM THAT ARE UNPARALLELED IN HUMAN
HISTORY.
THIS IS LARGELY BECAUSE OF OUR UNIQUELY CHRISTIAN
ROOTS, WHICH WERE ON DISPLAY NEARLY 400 YEARS
AGO IN PLYMOUTH.
BUT ALL OF THAT IS AT RISK NOW, BECAUSE WE HAVE
FORGOTTEN AND, IN SOME CASES, HAVE JETTISONED OUR
CHRISTIAN HERITAGE.
THIS NATION WAS SETTLED AND FOUNDED BY CHRISTIANS
SEEKING RELIGIOUS LIBERTY- AND THAT RELIGIOUS
LIBERTY INCLUDED ALL PEOPLE.
IT WAS THIS CHRISTIAN FRAMEWORK THAT GAVE US THE
FIRST AMENDMENT, PROTECTING THE FREEDOM
FROM GOVERNMENT INTERFERENCE OF CHRISTIANS
AND CHURCHES, AS WELL AS ALL OF THOSE RELIGIOUS
GROUPS THAT WOULD FOLLOW.
NOW, CHRISTIANS ARE BEING SYSTEMATICALLY DENIED
THEIR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
WE HAVE BEEN CUT OFF FROM OUR PAST BY THE RADICAL
LEFT, AND WE ARE SUFFERING AS A RESULT.
OUR CHRISTIAN HISTORY AND MORALITY ARE SEEN AS AN
IMPEDIMENT TO THOSE WHO SEE ABORTION, SAME-SEX
MARRIAGE, AND TRANSGENDER BATHROOMS AS THE CROWNING
ACHIEVEMENTS OF CIVILIZATION.
BUT LET GOD BE TRUE AND EVERY MAN SHOWN A LIAR.
ON THIS THANKSGIVING, WE REMEMBER THE TRUTH.
AND WE AGREE WITH THE WORDS OF GEORGE WASHINGTON
IN HIS THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION, IN WHICH HE
PRAISED "THAT GREAT AND GLORIOUS BEING, WHO IS THE
BENEFICENT AUTHOR OF ALL THE GOOD THAT WAS, THAT
IS, OR THAT WILL BE."
D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES IS STANDING FOR TRUTH AND
DEFENDING YOUR FREEDOM.
I'M FRANK WRIGHT.
THANKS FOR JOINING US FOR THIS EDITION OF TRUTHS
THAT TRANSFORM.
WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT TIME.
NEXT WEEK ON TRUTHS THAT TRANSFORM.
THE GOSPEL OF MARK, BUT HASN'T IT BEEN SOUPED UP,
BEEFED UP OVER THE CENTURIES?
HASN'T JESUS BEEN TURNED FROM AN INNOCENT JEWISH
RABBI INTO SOMEONE WHO CLAIMS TO FORGIVE SIN?
JESUS WAS A MAN, HE WAS BORN, HE DIED A TERRIBLE
DEATH OF CRUCIFIXION AND HE WAS RESURRECTED.
THAT'S NEXT WEEK.
TODAY'S PROGRAM IS AVAILABLE ON DVD FOR YOUR
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THIS HAS BEEN A PRODUCTION OF
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