“The Greatest Threat To Liberty”

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The Greatest Threat to Liberty

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When George Washington was about to leave office, after giving near 50 years of service to his country, he addressed the nation through what has come to be known as his Farewell Address.  In that Address he warned us what to do and what not to do in order to preserve this new government which aimed at giving the “greatest amount of liberty to the greatest number of people.”  In warning us how this new Republic could be overthrown by those working inside it, he stated,

“But let there be no change by usurpation [one branch of government stealing power from another branch] …for…this…is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.”

(Washington, George. September 19, 1796, in his Farewell Address, published in the American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphia, September, 1796. James D. Richardson (U.S. Rep. from Tennessee), ed., A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents 1789-1897, 10 vols. (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Gov. Printing Office, published by Authority of Congress, 1897, 1899; Washington, D.C.: Bureau of National Literature and Art, 1789-1902, 11 vols., 1907, 1910), Vol. 1, p. 213-224, Sept. 17, 1796. Tim LaHaye, Faith of Our Founding Fathers (Brentwood, TN: Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 987), p. 91.)

And yet, for over 80 years, the branches of the Presidency and the Supreme Court have been stealing the power which our Founders gave to the Congress, or reserved to the people and the states.

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“Ben Franklin’s Speech Saved Our Constitution”

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The many educational elitists in our land would have us believe that our Founding Fathers were people who had no faith in God; or, at best, were skeptics.  They often point to Ben Franklin as proof of that, quoting some wrong things that Franklin said in his early life.  However, they will almost never quote from his speech at the Constitutional Convention in May of 1787 when he was eighty-one years of age.  But I want to quote, at length, from his speech that most surely saved that Convention from breaking up from selfish interests, and thus brought about the writing of our Constitution; which has produced the greatest amount of liberty for the greatest number of people in all of world history.  Consider Franklin’s faith in God when he stated:

“Mr. President:

“The small progress we have made after 4 or 5 weeks…is methinks a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the Human Understanding.

“We indeed seem to feel our own want of political wisdom, since we have been running about in search of it.  We have gone back to ancient history for models of Government, and examined the different forms of those Republics which, having been formed with the seeds of their own dissolution, now no longer exist.  And we have viewed Modern States all round Europe, but find none of their Constitutions suitable to our circumstances.

“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 understanding?

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“Revival Produced Our Founder’s Thinking”

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By the late 1600s the fervency of the church in America had died down to just embers compared to their Pilgrim forefathers.  The Pilgrims’ grandchildren and great-grandchildren had lost the fire their ancestors had known.  But God was hearing the prayers of His remnant in America who knew the true purpose God had for them and this nation.   And in 1734 the Spirit of God touched down in Northampton, Massachusetts in such a notable way it would change the course of this nation, and set the tone for the birthing of the American Republic.

Jonathan Edwards was Pastor of the Northampton Church, and one of the greatest and Godliest Pastors America ever knew.  He recorded what this move of God was like.  He wrote,

“And then it was, in the latter part of December, that the Spirit of God began extraordinarily to…work amongst us.  There were, very suddenly, one after another, five or six persons who were, to all appearance, savingly converted, and some of them wrought upon in a very remarkable manner.

“Particularly I was surprised with…a young woman, who had been one of the greatest company-keepers in the whole town.  When she came to me, I had never heard that she was become in any ways serious [about God], but by the conversation I had with her, it appeared to me that what she gave an account of was a glorious work of God’s infinite power and…grace, and that God had given her a new heart, truly broken and sanctified….

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