The reason why Glencairn Presbyterian is NRA Country!!!

Deuteronomy 1: 13-17

¹³ Bring you men of wisdom and of understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you:

¹⁴ Then he answered me and said, the thing is good that thou hast commanded us to do.

¹⁵ So I took the chief of your tribes, wise and known men, and made them rulers over you, captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, and captains over fifty, and captains over ten, and officers among your tribes.

¹⁶ And I charged your Judges that same time, saying, Hear the controversies between your brethren, and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger that is with him.

¹⁷ Ye shall have no respect of person in judgment, but shall hear the small as well as the great: ye shall not fear the face of man: for the judgment is God’s: and the cause that is too hard for you, bring unto me, and I will hear it.

On May 31, 1638, the Rev Thomas Hooker preached from this Biblical passage. His sermon was the basis for the Fundamental Articles of Connecticut; which was the basis of the Constitution of the United States. In other words, our governmental framework is the "grandchild" of a Calvinist sermon! This is the main reason why King George III in Mother England called our struggle for independence a "Presbyterian rebellion".  

Doctrine:

I. That the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God’s own allowance.
II. The privilege of election which belongs unto the people therefore, must not be exercised according to their humors, but according to the blessed will and law of God.
III. They who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is their power, also, to set the bounds of the power and place unto which they call them.

Reasons:

I. Because the foundation of authority is laid, firstly, in the free consent of the people.
II. Because, by a free choice the hearts of the people will be more inclined to the love of the persons (chosen), and more ready to yield (obedience).
III. Because of that duty and engagement of the people.

The lesson taught is threefold:

I. There is a matter of thankful acknowledgement in the (appreciation) of God’s faithfulness towards us and the permission of these measures that God doth commend and vouchsafe.
II. Of reproof—to dash the conceits of all those that shall oppose it.
III. Of exhortation—to persuade us as God hath given us liberty, to take it.

And lastly. As God hath spared our lives, and given us them in liberty, so to seek the guidance of God, and to choose in God and for God.”

Do not expect the revisionists to admit that!

"While we give praise to God, the Supreme Disposer of all events, for His interposition on our behalf, let us guard against the dangerous error of trusting in, or boasting of, an arm of flesh. ...If your cause is just, if your principles are pure, and if your conduct is prudent, you need not fear the multitude of opposing hosts. What follows from this? That he is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who sets himself with the greatest firmness to bear down profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy of his country."

This is extracted from a sermon preached by the Rev John Witherspoon; who was the only minister to sign the Declaration of Independence. He preached from the 76th Psalm on Friday May 17, 1776-the same day the Continental Congress called for a national day of fasting and prayer. The idea being, of course, to implore God's guidance in the ensuing struggle against mother England. The history of our republic is teaming with that which underscores just how "Presbyterian" its birth really was!

This fervent Presbyterian minister and Whig held passionately to the incumbency of the private citizen to be armed, holding:


"That it be recommended to the legislature of every colony, to put their militia upon the best footing; and to all Americans to provide themselves with arms, in case of a war with the Indians, French or Roman Catholics, or in case they should be reduced to the hard necessity of defending themselves against murder and assassination."

If Rev Witherspoon's assessment is not enough, read Luke 11:21. He doubtlessly would have referred you to this verse and others.

But what about "separation of church and state" ???

Truth is it was written by Thomas Jefferson. The lie is that's part of our constitution. that was part of a letter he wrote on New Year's Day in 1802 to the Baptists of Danbury, Connecticut.

 

Messrs. Nehemiah Dodge, Ephraim Robbins, and Stephen s. Nelson
A Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association, in the State of Connecticut.

Washington, January 1, 1802

Gentlemen,

The affectionate sentiment of esteem and approbation which you are so good as to express towards me, on behalf of the Danbury Baptist Association, give me the highest satisfaction. My duties dictate a faithful and zealous pursuit of the interests of my constituents, and in proportion as they are persuaded of my fidelity to those duties, the discharge of them becomes more and more pleasing.
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole

American people which declared that their legislature would "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. Adhering to this expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I reciprocate your kind prayers for the protection and blessing of the common Father and Creator of man, and tender you for yourselves and your religious association, assurances of my high respect and esteem.

Th Jefferson
Jan. 1. 1802

Jefferson based this on Isaiah 5 and the idea was to guarantee that secular interests would never impede or constrict religious freedom. Freedom of religion, rather than from it, was the whole point.

Indeed  from the very earliest days of our fledgling Republic,
Presbyterians have been at the forefront

  the overwhelming majority
of officers in the Continental Army

held various sessional and diaconal

 roles in the Presbyterian Church.
All but one

of the Continental Army's Colonels were Presbyterian elders.

the Constitution of the United States

 is in fact a Presbyterian document.....To this end 

The real preamble

 of our way of life  was uttered,not written
centuries ago

in Protestant Rome. The reformer John Calvinsaid that  

 "A nation that refuses to recognize the sovereignty

 of Jesus Christ over  It to rule
is not a legitimate sovereignty

but a usurpation" .

 Now I ask you. . and Ask  all dissenters of my position. if we are not living  under a  radically secularized usurpation. what is it then?



.  That's why Glencairn Presbyterian. is NRA country