What Is Our Heritage?
What Is Our Heritage? Psalm 16
Read Psalm 16
Our heritage as a nation:
1. Our forefathers came here to escape religious persecution as well as indiscriminate taxes.
Puritans came here because they were continually persecuted wherever they resided in Europe.
The Church of England insisted that all under English rule worship in their settings only.
Where the Catholic Church was dominant there was persecution of anyone that deveated from their teachings.
2. Our forefathers came here to seek out a new life and future.
Georgia was largely settled by those who could not pay the excesive tax that was leveled on them by King George III. Most of the colonists and adventurers who came here form Europe had been restricted by either law or social stature and were looking to use and generate new ideas of how to generate wealth and change in economy of society as well as the church.
3. Our forefathers came here to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Of the 55 signers of the Decleration of Independence were deeply committed Christians. The others were convinced that the Bible was divine truth and believed in the God of its Scriptures as well as His personal intervention in the lives of His creation.
Schools were originally set up by churches for the teaching of the Bible.
Benjamin Harris' "New England Primer" was used for 210 years (until 1900). It consisted of a rhyming alphabet introduced by the reading of Scripture and was used to teach reading and pronounciation.
Benjamin Rush warned that America ever removed the Bible from classrooms, all our time would be spent in the fighting of crime.
In 1781 Congress ruled that a new English edition of the Bible be printed and distributed and used in schools.
John Adams, our second president served as the first leader of the American Bible Society.
This information is assembled with other imposing facts on www.earstohear.net/Heritage/didyouknow.html .
Our heritage as followers of Jesus Christ:
1. We were created by God.
Genesis 1 and 2 tell how God created all the universe and then capped the end of His creating by making mankind in His image. He put us in charge of His creation and gave us dominion over it.
John 1:1-5 gives us the understanding that Jesus is God the Creator and that all hings were made by Him.
2. We are set apart by God.
Genesis 1:26-29 tells that we alone are made in the image of God.
Ephesians 2:10 says that we were created for the purpose of doing good works.
Revelation 4:11 relates to us that all creation was to give pleasure to God.
3. We have salvation through Jesus Christ, who is both god and Lord.
Genesis 6:5-8 makes it clear that after the fall into original sin in the garden of Eden by Adam, mankind freefalled to an exteremely low moral state. Now He wanted to destroy it all. However, "Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord."
Isaiah 45:21-25 lets us understand that, from the very beginning, God wanted to communicate with us and save us from our distress of our sin-stained situation.
Romans 14:11 "Nothing is unclean of itself." However, when we get involved in all things beautiful we can really make a mess of it and corrupt the simplest of what God intended to be good.
Philippians 2:10-11 The only way out of this mess is through Jesus Christ.
"That at the name of Jesus evry knee should bow, everything in heaven and earth, and
every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
How about you? Is your knee bowing and are you confessing with your tongue that Jesus Christ is Lord? Your Lord?
Read Psalm 16
Our heritage as a nation:
1. Our forefathers came here to escape religious persecution as well as indiscriminate taxes.
Puritans came here because they were continually persecuted wherever they resided in Europe.
The Church of England insisted that all under English rule worship in their settings only.
Where the Catholic Church was dominant there was persecution of anyone that deveated from their teachings.
2. Our forefathers came here to seek out a new life and future.
Georgia was largely settled by those who could not pay the excesive tax that was leveled on them by King George III. Most of the colonists and adventurers who came here form Europe had been restricted by either law or social stature and were looking to use and generate new ideas of how to generate wealth and change in economy of society as well as the church.
3. Our forefathers came here to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Of the 55 signers of the Decleration of Independence were deeply committed Christians. The others were convinced that the Bible was divine truth and believed in the God of its Scriptures as well as His personal intervention in the lives of His creation.
Schools were originally set up by churches for the teaching of the Bible.
Benjamin Harris' "New England Primer" was used for 210 years (until 1900). It consisted of a rhyming alphabet introduced by the reading of Scripture and was used to teach reading and pronounciation.
Benjamin Rush warned that America ever removed the Bible from classrooms, all our time would be spent in the fighting of crime.
In 1781 Congress ruled that a new English edition of the Bible be printed and distributed and used in schools.
John Adams, our second president served as the first leader of the American Bible Society.
This information is assembled with other imposing facts on www.earstohear.net/Heritage/didyouknow.html .
Our heritage as followers of Jesus Christ:
1. We were created by God.
Genesis 1 and 2 tell how God created all the universe and then capped the end of His creating by making mankind in His image. He put us in charge of His creation and gave us dominion over it.
John 1:1-5 gives us the understanding that Jesus is God the Creator and that all hings were made by Him.
2. We are set apart by God.
Genesis 1:26-29 tells that we alone are made in the image of God.
Ephesians 2:10 says that we were created for the purpose of doing good works.
Revelation 4:11 relates to us that all creation was to give pleasure to God.
3. We have salvation through Jesus Christ, who is both god and Lord.
Genesis 6:5-8 makes it clear that after the fall into original sin in the garden of Eden by Adam, mankind freefalled to an exteremely low moral state. Now He wanted to destroy it all. However, "Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord."
Isaiah 45:21-25 lets us understand that, from the very beginning, God wanted to communicate with us and save us from our distress of our sin-stained situation.
Romans 14:11 "Nothing is unclean of itself." However, when we get involved in all things beautiful we can really make a mess of it and corrupt the simplest of what God intended to be good.
Philippians 2:10-11 The only way out of this mess is through Jesus Christ.
"That at the name of Jesus evry knee should bow, everything in heaven and earth, and
every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father."
How about you? Is your knee bowing and are you confessing with your tongue that Jesus Christ is Lord? Your Lord?
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