In this episode of The Joe Rooz Show, Joe delves into the spiritual side of American history, focusing on the American Revolution and the westward expansion. Joe passionately discusses the influence of the King James Bible on the founding fathers and the spiritual movements that shaped the nation. He reflects on the pioneers who moved westward, leaving behind religious influences, and the circuit-riding preachers who followed them, spreading the gospel and igniting revivals across the frontier. Joe highlights the significant role of Baptist and Methodist preachers in these revivals and shares anecdotes of their dedication and resilience.
Joe also recounts the historical context of the War of 1812 and the spiritual revivals that followed, emphasizing the importance of the Bible in America's development. He shares stories of influential figures like Andrew Jackson and Peter Cartwright, illustrating their impact on American spirituality and history. Throughout the episode, Joe encourages listeners to reflect on America's manifest destiny and the role of faith in shaping the nation's future.
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(00:04:13) Introduction and Welcome
(00:04:36) Bible Study and Spiritual Reflections
(00:06:53) American Heritage and the Spiritual Side of the Revolution
(00:10:36) The Influence of the Age of Enlightenment
(00:19:47) Westward Movement and Religious Influence
(00:27:14) Circuit Riders and the Spread of the Gospel
(00:34:52) The Revival of 1800 and Camp Meetings
(00:40:39) Impact of Revival on American Society
(00:49:24) Peter Cartwright: A Man of Faith and Action
(00:55:36) The War of 1812 and Manifest Destiny
(01:01:38) Andrew Jackson's Legacy and Faith
(01:07:08) America's Manifest Destiny and Future
- Wayne Rankin
- Rosanna Rankin
- Carolina Jimenez
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All right. Hey, folks. This is Joe Ruse. It is great to be with you once again as we open up and study the precious word of God, your King James Bible. And you know folks, whenever and wherever you find yourselves listening or watching, it's always my prayer that you also find yourself in the grace and in the mercy of our Lord and savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Hey, folks. Welcome to the Joe Russo, and of course, as always, we are transmitting to you live once again from the asylum studios, from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass.
Alrighty, and it is hot. Holy schnikes, It is hot. Like, crazy hot. And I hear some feedback. Alright. I think we got that under control. Alright. Well, another hot day here in Eagle Pass, Texas. That's okay. You know, it's it's what it is. You live in the desert. What do you expect? But, yeah. It's, what was it? It was a 102 at start time. It's eighty nine eighty nine degrees here in the studio, even with the fans and the AC going. But, all honesty, I did start it late, so, you know, it's that's what happens when you're a little sleepy and drowsy on a Sunday.
But hot and as as uncomfortable it might be, it is a beautiful night for a bible study. And, folks, I hope you guys had a great week. We did not have a show on Friday, so it felt kinda weird not doing that. But I had something pop up at the job that I had to take care of, and I was there late. And, there was no way we're getting a show in on on Friday. And then, we took Saturday off as well. Wasn't really feeling so great. Started feeling a little bit under the weather. And, to be quite honest with you, wasn't sure we're gonna do a show today either because, yeah, I'm not really feeling so great. I got a I got a little bit of a sore throat here going, and, but we'll see how it goes. So, hopefully, we'll be up and ready to go for you tomorrow, for tomorrow night's show. We got a a good one set up for you. I hope anyway, we'll see how it all turns out. But, if you've been with us for the last, several Sundays, we've been, talking and studying the about the, the spiritual side of our American heritage and the American Revolution. And last week, we talked a little bit about, that movement westward and how that, like, immediately after the constitution, there there became a great movement across the Alleghenies.
And, and these guys these were rough individuals, folks. They were pioneers, you know, just just hard and hardy people. But, in that westward movement, one thing that they left behind for the most part was, a great religious influence. And tonight, we're gonna continue on, talking about those specific things. Now as always, before we get started, head over to our website, joeroos.com. Go over to that contact section, and, send us over a message. Let us know what you're thinking. Let us know whatever's in your heart, whatever's in your mind, any questions, comments, cares, or concerns that you might have.
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But, you know, the history revisionists have been really, really hard at work trying to extricate you, the public, from a lot of the facts and truths about the colonists and some of the things that they stood for, some of the things that they believed in, and, particularly, the spiritual side of things. So, we saw God at work all the way back at Lexington And Concord, Bunker Hill, Breeds Hill, Trenton, and we saw God at work in the Declaration of Independence. We saw God still working in the constitution of These United States, and, and then we studied, two weeks ago, we studied the first amendment. And then last, you know, three weeks ago, we did the first amendment. Two weeks ago, we did the second amendment, and we spent some time in that with some detail, and, really for some admiration for the wisdom that God gave those individuals as they formulated and forged those great documents together.
And, you know, look, I I I there there are some people out there that that believe that the constitution is something that it's not. Alright. I do not believe that the constitution is a sacred document. I'm sorry. I don't. And if you wanna disagree with me, you wanna argue with me about that, that's fine. We could do that. But, I I don't believe it's a sacred document. I believe it's a great one. Absolutely. That's for sure. And as far as I'm concerned, there's only one sacred document and that's my bible. That's my King James bible. That's the bible that I have sitting right here across from me.
But you see, the men that put that constitution together were so influenced by this book, as we have studied, so tremendously influenced by the word of God that it couldn't help but be a very reasonable approach to a republic with the freedoms that you and I have enjoyed over the years and the liberties that have been exercised by us as Americans. And so as we move forward and got beyond the constitution in in 1789, we began to realize that it really didn't take very long for Satan to to, you know, to to get to work, to get to and get to, some hard work. Because a term that has been utilized periodically for America is manifest destiny.
And we talked about that a little bit last week. And when you really understand American history from the spiritual side of it, there's absolutely no question that God had a destiny in mind for this country. You and I have, you and I have just been very privileged to have a very tiny part in it. I mean, except by God's grace, you know, you could have been born in Bangladesh, with no particular destiny whatsoever as far as the things of God are concerned. And it's, you know, it's it's it's very presumptuous for us to to take that for granted ever, but to be very thankful for what God has done for us.
That's the key thing. We need to be thankful for what God has done for us. Well, this this manifest destiny, began to develop more and more, and it became very, very clear and obvious that God had a plan for America as we know it. Satan, the adversary, the opponent, of course, went straight to work. Trying to wash down the, the sore throat with my methylene blue. And one of the first things that, that, that, that he was busy introducing during the so called age of enlightenment, we're talking about Satan here, which was about from 1790 to about 1830, was some of the French writings that entered into this country. The age of reason, the age of relativity, the age of realization.
So, really very some various atheistic writings came in and influenced a lot of people, and, even in the religious community. You know, a lot of influence trickled down through that, and and, one of the very, very bad doctrines that we talked about last week was, that that came about out of this was hyper Calvinism. Now, there are a lot of Christians, that came to the conclusion that John Calvin of the reformation was correct in a lot of his very, very bad theology. And that God, predetermined, before the foundation of the world, who would be saved and, who wouldn't.
And therefore, you know, man really isn't kinda isn't given any choice in the matter, but he's predestined to whatever destiny God has designed for him. Alright? I don't know if that sounded confusing to you or not, but that's basically what it is. So basically, all it really did, it it it eliminates choice. It eliminates choice. And the Bible is a book of choice. The Bible is a book of choice. You have a choice, don't you? You had a choice whether to listen to the show tonight or not, or to watch the show tonight. You could have just, you know, slugged it out and listened to something else or, you know, or or or planted yourself on the couch and, you know, been a potato.
But thankfully, you said you won't be. Amen? Thankfully, you said you thankfully, you said I will not be a potato today. I'm gonna do a bible study. I'm gonna learn something. Alright? Alright. Now that's just a small illustration, but, but you had a choice. You had a choice when it came to salvation. Didn't you? Let's just think about that. Just you had a choice. God confronted you through his holy spirit with the alternatives, and you chose Christ. You chose Jesus Christ. You didn't choose a religion. You didn't choose a church. You chose Jesus Christ. And in choosing him and receiving him as your savior, you activated choice.
Alright? Now now the Bible is a book of choice. And all the way from Adam and Eve in the garden, they made a choice all the way down to Revelation chapter 22. Choices are being made and being so I I had to mute it, and I don't want you to hear me cough. So some people sought to, I guess, theologically eliminate the choice. And you know what that does when you eliminate the choice? That absolves them from any responsibility to communicate the message. They could just sit on their posterior back ends. Had to think about what I was gonna say there. You know, you know, the Bible says in the multitude of words, there wanteth not sin. So, you can get in trouble. You know? I've gotten in trouble a few times. I have, which we're not gonna talk about tonight. But, but, but now, you know, for the most part, it's almost like, and if you study the book of Job, particularly, you'll get it. It's almost like God and Satan are playing chess.
The devil makes a move, God makes a counter move. The devil makes a move, God makes a counter move. Alright? Now, while Satan was introducing this age of rationalization, which was seriously deteriorating at a very, very quick rate, the spirituality of America, and you and you know something, it only really takes a generation. It only takes a generation. And if you study your old testament, you can see, how, you know, one generation is is red hot for God, the next is is is colder than a dead clam. Over and over and over again, that's repeated. I mean, you know, you you see it in the book of Judges over and over and over again. We were talking about, the book of Judges today in our church.
You know, then you run down through the book of Kings, and then, you know, just stop and think about in our lifetime. Just in our lifetime alone, things have dramatically changed in the last forty, maybe fifty years. Have they not? I mean, they really have. They really have. So, you know, it it really only takes one generation. Well, one or two generations. And America is in a serious spiritual decline as as opposed to the vision that the, that the early Puritans had, and then even moving on through the colonies and and so on. Well, God said, okay.
I gotta counter move. I gotta counter move. Now last week, we talked a little bit about the the movement westward and and how that immediately after the constitution, there there, became a great movement across the Allegheny Mountains. Well, the West in those days, you know, it wasn't it wasn't places like Colorado and Wyoming and, you know, the West in those days was Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania. Now that was the Wild West. You don't think of that. You don't look at it like that now, but that that was it. That was the Wild West. I mean, you know, for the most part, with with the exception of Lewis and Clark, you know, you know, that part of the world really hadn't even been thought of.
But you see, there was this great migration. And in the period of about twenty five, maybe thirty years, a million people moved across the Allegheny Mountains, which when you really consider it, that's quite a bit. You know, when the whole population of the country was was only a little bit more than 3,000,000 at that time. So a third of them a third of them went westward. Westward, they went long before Horace Greeley was ever born and and and thought of saying, you know, go west young man. But here they came. But in that westward movement, remember these were rough individualists, you know, pioneers, you know, just strong, hardy people.
But one thing that they left behind for the most part was a great religious influence. And so they became known particularly in in in Kentucky and and and tell in Tennessee as as just a pretty wild bunch. I mean, a lot of hard living, hard drinking, just, you know, just that kind of mentality that, you know, that invaded, these kinds of people. And God say, okay. I'll pick on that bunch for a little while, you know. Nothing is impossible with the Lord. Nothing is impossible. If the Lord's gonna do something miraculous, he'll probably pick on the wildest, meanest character on the planet and get him saved, and a whole lot of things might happen then.
So what he did was, he motivated and he moved in the hearts and the lives of of a lot of preachers that became known as circuit writing preachers, and immediately started to to to come to that part of that country, these circuit writing preachers. You know, they came from, they came from North Carolina, Virginia, they settled in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, and, and, you know, the the the majority of this first wave of circuit riding preachers were Baptists. They were Baptist people. That was the first wave. Not the only one, but it but it was the it was the first one. And, act actually, as a matter of fact, the first the first sermon ever preached where, Chicago sits today was by a Baptist preacher to a bunch of Indians.
That was the first sermon ever preached. Long before anybody ever heard of DL Moody, or or or or or men like that, you know, guys like that hadn't even thought of yet. So in in fact, you know, this freak this preacher's name was reverend Isaac McCoy, who was a Baptist missionary, to the Indians of Michigan. He preached that sermon on 10/05/1825, where Chicago is today. Interestingly, though, these individuals were were were gripped with a concept and a and a vision and an idea that was absolutely necessary to reach the lost at any cost. To reach the lost at any cost.
And that was a theme that permeated their very, their their their very processes and their focus. You know, it was a Baptist preacher who wrote and and some of you may may may know the song. It's a great it's a great old hymn. The song says this, quote, must I go and empty handed, thus my redeemer meet? Not one day of service give him, lay no trophy at his feet. Must I go and empty handed, must I meet my savior so? Not one soul with which to greet him. Must I empty handed go? I bet you thought that I was gonna sing it. Nah. I'm not gonna torture you like that. But, you know, the you know, the Bible said to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Well, that's me. I cannot carry a note.
But you see that that's that that hymn, that's just as relevant today as it was then. You're gonna hit the judgment seat of Christ empty handed. Well, that was a prevail that was the, prevailing theme of the day. You know, one of the old historians, man by the name of Vedder, acquaints us with, the caliber of circuit riding preachers who made America great. And I'm gonna read, a passage to you from, from one of his historical volumes. He said this, quote, many men of God went forth into the wilderness not knowing where they should find a night's lodging or their next meal, willing to suffer untold privations if they might only point some to the lamb of God.
It is impossible to estimate too highly or to praise too warmly the services of these men of strong faith and good works. Their hardships were such as we of the present day can hardly imagine. We of the present day. And this guy was writing that a hundred years ago, you know, long before they had air conditioning and satellite TV, you know, he said, they traveled from little settlement to little settlement on horseback with no roads, save an Indian trail or or or blaze trees, fording streams over which no bridges have been built, exposed to storms frequently sleeping exposed to storms frequently sleeping where where night found them, often prostrate by fevers or wasted by malaria, but indomitable still, if they did not wander in sheepskins and goatskins like ancient heroes of faith.
They wore deerskins and homespun took the place of sackcloth. Their dwelling was all of outdoors, living in the plainest manner, sharing all the hardships of a pioneer people. The circuit preacher labored in a parish, as one of them said, took half of creation, for it had no boundaries on the West. And then one of them writes in eighteen o five no. Eighteen o five, that's that's Lewis and Clark. Amen? That weren't they around eighteen o four, eighteen o five? Alright. Eighteen o five, one of them wrote this, quote, every day I travel, I have to swim through creeks or swamps, and I am wet from head to feet. And some days from morning to night, I am dripping with water. I have rheumatism in all my joints. What I have suffered in body and mind, my pen is not able to communicate to you.
But this I can say, all my body is wet with water and chilled with cold. My soul is filled with heavenly fire. And I can say with Saint Paul, but none of those things move me neither count I my life's dear unto myself so that I might finish my course with joy. Think about that. Wow. That was a bunch right there. That was a bunch. Well, these circuit riders, they just permeated the New West, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, and they just, you know, as as was indicated in what I what I read to you, traveled from settlement to settlement, preaching the gospel.
And in their wake came a whole other group of them. That group was called the Methodists. You might have heard of them. The Methodists. And the Methodist circuit riders were led by a godly American bishop by the name of Francis Hasberry. Now now most people haven't heard of Francis Hasberry, but, or Asberry, I should say. But, he was, you know, he he was he was a big time Methodist preacher, big time Methodist Bishop. There there's an Asbury Methodist Church in New York in in in, in honor of his work. And, well, the Methodists, as opposed to the as as opposed to the to the Baptist, were extremely Armenian in their doctrine.
Not that the Baptist were necessarily Calvinist, like like we stated last week, but but they did hold strictly to the doctrine of the security of the believer, where the Methodists were Armenian, and and they then they rejected, eternal security. But they did preach the gospel, and they had a great, flame of desire in their heart to see people get saved. Now I'm talking about the old time Methodist now. You know, I'm not talking about, you know, I'm talking the old time. You know what I'm saying? I'm talking like yesteryear. Alright?
And, but the Methodists, of course, you know, originated in England under the leadership of two brothers, John and Charles Wesley. Their mother was probably one of the one of the godliest women that ever walked the earth, Susanna Wesley. Listen to this. She had 19 children. 19 children. And, do you know that that woman dedicated at least fifteen to twenty minutes every single day to spend alone with every one of those kids. To pray with them, to teach them from the bible, and, and that's why so many of them turned out to be such great individuals, you see, which which is a whole other story in itself. Well, originating in in England, you know, England was not all that hospitable actually to the gospel.
Believe it or not. Look at England today. But at that time, it wasn't really hospitable to the gospel even though some great things came out of England like our King James Bible. Still, though, what was known as the mobs, that's the general population, general populace. You know, they were pretty tough on preachers. They were pretty tough on people of the Bible, regardless of their denominational preference. Simeon writes in his historical approach, if Methodism had not come into contact with the mob, it would never have reached the section of the English people, which most needed salvation. The religious society shuts up in their rooms.
The religious society shut up in their rooms would never have reformed the country. That's a good point. That's a really, really good point. You know, you don't make an impact just by sitting inside your your four walls. You know, you you gotta get out from behind the four walls. Quote, it was necessary that a race of this heroic men should arise who would dare to confront the wildest, most brutal men and tell them the meaning of sin and show them the Christ of the cross and at the judgment throne. The incessant assaults of the mob on the Methodist preachers showed that they had reached the masses with a superb courage.
Rarely if ever equaled on the battlefield, the Methodist preachers went again and again and again to the places from which they had been driven by violence until their persistence wore down the antagonism of the assailants. Just wear them down, man. Just wear them down. Wear them down. Quote, then out of one out of the once furious crowd, men and women were gathered whose hearts the Lord had touched. Well, these these guys these guys were toughened up in England. So when they came to America, and they went to the American West, and met a crowd of a similar type of disposition, a similar rowdiness, they were prepared for it. They were more than prepared for it.
They were like, just dish it out, man. Bring it on. We're ready for it. Bring it. Let's go. Let's do it. So as you begin to analyze, that particular history, the Methodists and the Presbyterians and the Baptists all differed some in their doctrine. But in those days, they all agreed on one very, very critical point, and that is you must be born again. You must be born again. They all agreed on that. And interestingly, they all had one document and only one that they utilized. You know, they didn't have 65 English translations. They had one.
They had the old King James Bible, and that's what God used to initiate a tremendous revival in America. You know, Grady in his historical book says this, and this is a great paragraph, so I wanna read this this one to you. I loved it when I read it, and I said, man, I love this stuff. I I I I I gotta bring this to you guys. But this is what he said, quote, not only did the frontier parsons have the right bible in their pulpits, but they also knew how to use them, especially when preaching on the fires of hell. Although a convicted sinner in today's America can find refuge in any number of compromising hell denying churches, such was not the case in the nation's earlier days.
When an unsaved person visited the Baptist church in town, he was certain to hear, if you don't get born again, you'll split hell wide open. Petrified, then he would run out of the building and flee to the First Presbyterian Church next door. Because the minister appeared more reserved, the sinner was was prone to lower his guard. This time, the shocking message was, if you're not one of the elect, you'll split hell wide open, and there's nothing you can do about it either. Having staggered out the back door and across the street to the last church in town, the poor wretch is last seen jumping out of the window with a Methodist preacher screaming at the top of his lungs, if you're born again, you can still lose it and you'll split hell wide open anyway. That was kind of the theme, you see? I mean, they all agreed on one very, very principle thing, you must be born again.
You must be born again in the words of Jesus Christ himself. Now they may have they may have had a different theology, you know, beyond that, but but that very key key thing was it. You must be born again. So preaching like that kept the nation on the edge of their pew, and God used that to initiate, in this age of human reason and rationalization, or to initiate in this age of human and, human reason and rationalization. And so and so on, he he used that kind of preaching to initiate a great revival, and it was called the revival of eighteen hundred. And, a reverend McCready McCready in Logan County, Kentucky, had held an out an outdoor communion service in June 1800.
And that thing has kind of exploded, you know, with with with people, with interest, and and so this preacher then, he could plan for another more protracted meeting to be held in late July at Gaspar River, Kentucky. Now Kentucky was a real epicenter of of debauchery at that point. For example, there there was a county named Bourbon County. Still is. That's Lexington. And and so convinced that the Lord convinced that the Lord was was moving, they had a meeting there, and this was America's first legitimate camp meeting because people were coming from a 100 miles in every direction. And what they would do is they would come, they would just pitch up a tent, they would camp out for the meeting, and, that's why they call it a camp meeting. And, that was the title that was given to it.
And so, you know, they were preaching, they were praying, and and trusting God to move, and then, and all of a sudden, the spirit of God really began to get a hold of some of these people. And, and and hundreds and hundreds of people started to come to the Lord and have genuine confession of and repentance and trusting Christ as their savior. And, you know, from that point, everything's kinda just, you know, began to spread, and it would spread and spread. Now coming a 100 miles on a horse or or or in wagon, that's a long way, you know, but that's what they were doing.
So so reverend Barton Stone, who was a Presbyterian pastor from Bourbon County, Northeast Of Lexington, he heard about it, and and he said, well, I gotta travel down there and see what this is all about. Now, you know, the Presbyterian just just by nature, you know, they're kind of reserved, you know, and I mean, they're a little more politically correct in their in their demeanor at least, but but this guy said, I just gotta find out what what's going on down there. So he came down to view the first revival, or or there's revival meeting firsthand.
And so after watching the, the whole proceeding, he decided that he was gonna put together, his own in his area the following summer, and so he did. It was a place called Cane Ridge. And in August '1, and a great deal of time was given for prayer and for preparation and for promotion, and the results were astronomically amazed. They were just amazing. Absolutely astronomical. Lexington, at that time, was the largest known town in Kentucky. It only and and and it only had, I think, was 1,800, population of 1,800. As many as as many as 25,000 people began descending on Cane Ridge as far away from as far away as Tennessee and Ohio.
Stone said that the that the the roads were crowded with wagons, carriages, horses, and footmen moving to that solemn camp. And, you know, the meeting was not in vain. It was not in vain. Literally hundreds, if not thousands of people came to the Lord, and that spirit of revival just spread like oil on water. In other words, it just went in every direction. So so camp meetings kinda became the order of the day. Now, even though there were, you know, differences in in some doctrine, you know, the Baptist and the Presbyterians, the Methodist very frequently worked together at these camp meetings. They cooperated.
But again, you you have to realize that the Bible says, how can two walk together except they'd be agreed? Well, they agreed on the necessity of the new birth, and they had no other Bibles to disagree about, you know? So there was a real basis of agreement there, And they worked together, and they prayed together to do everything that they could to win the lost. Now throughout the ensuing months, the Holy Spirit just literally cleaned house. Literally cleaned house. George Baxter, president of Washington College, Virginia, personally toured Kentucky in eighteen o one just to check this thing out. And so here's what the president of the college said.
Quote, on my way, I was informed by settlers on the road that the character of Kentucky travelers were entirely changed and that they are remarkable for sobriety as they've been formally known for dissoluteness and immorality. And indeed, I found Kentucky the most moral place I had ever seen. That's the result of God. That's the result. Only God does that. Only God does that. Quote, a profane expression was hardly ever heard. A religious awe seemed to pervade the country. Upon the whole, I think the revival in Kentucky, the most extraordinary thing that has ever visited the Church of Christ, and all things considered, it was peculiarly adapted to the circumstances, to the country, into which it came.
Infidelity was triumph, and religion was at the point of expiring. Something extraordinary seemed to seemed necessary to arrest the attention of a giddy people who were ready to conclude that Christianity was a fable and a and a fraternity of delusion. The revival had done it. It had confounded infidelity, awed vice into silence, and brought numbers beyond calculation in the serious impressions. Now that's written like a college a college president would write stuff. Amen? But you see what he's saying though? Do you do you understand what he's saying? He's saying, man, God just got all over them.
It changed their language. It changed their behavior. It changed their deportment in every way. Well, then the things started to move east, which is interesting. I don't have time to go into all that stuff, but but but but some of you have been around me long enough to know that, that's pretty interesting because directions mean things in your bible. Don't they? Directions mean things. So this revival went east. So now in eighteen o two now remember, the first revival, 1800 in Logan County, Kentucky. In eighteen o two, the reverend Timothy Dwight, who was the president of Yale College, we know we we now know it simply as Yale, but but Yale College was was, he he was a he was a former, army chaplain to George Washington.
After, and that year, he he says and he testifies as the as the president of the college, a formal conversion of 80 men out of the school's total enrollment of a 160. So six so 50% of them trusted Christ. 50%. Benjamin Silliman, a faculty member who came to Christ at this time wrote to his mother excitedly. Now, here's one of the professors and here's what he wrote to his mother his mother. He said this, quote, Yale College is a little temple. Prayer and praise seem to be the delight of the greater part of the students, while those who are still unfeeling are awed in a respectful silence.
Now under Dwight's leadership, additional awakenings occurred in eighteen o eight, 1813, and 1815. And some other Ivy League schools got got bit with the same thing. Princeton, Dartmouth, for example, were similarly blessed. You know, the significance of the thing was that Dwight was a revivalist innovator, and he parted company with the Calvinism Calvinism of his grandfather, who was somebody you may have heard of, a man by the name of Jonathan Edwards. So some big things were taking place. Some really big things were taking place. But one of the most fruitful converts of the revival of eighteen hundred was a Kentucky guy, boy, really, of, 16 years of age.
Now his name and I I have referred to him very briefly last week. And I always laugh when I talk about him because I personally like the guy. I like his style. His name was Peter Cartwright. Well, Peter Cartwright would go on to preach 18,000 sermons during the ministry spanning seven decades. So seventy years, this man preached 18,000 sermons. He was considered to be one of the most outstanding circuit writers of American Methodism, And he was, in in in every respect, a man's man, and he perfectly embodied the caliber of those hardy, backwards preachers who won the West for Christ.
I I kinda talked about this story last week. I was just but I was shooting from the cuff, so but I've got it right here in front of me, and I got it in print. So and I'm I'm and it's just a paragraph long, so I'm gonna read that story to you. Alright. So this is the kind of guy that that, Peter Cartwright was. Upon visiting a certain town in Ohio, Cartwright discovered that the owner of a local tavern was a notorious bully who delighted in threatening Methodist ministers whereupon the indignant preacher made a beeline for the beer joint.
Well, when you get to heaven, don't you want the Lord to kinda rewind a few things for you? I know I do. I mean, Lord, I know you've got this up on DVD or or whatever it is they record these things on now, but, you know, I wanna catch this one. I wanna see this. Quote, as the story is told, no one knows for sure who threw the first punch, but the reverend Cartwright was able to straddle the bewildered bartender in short order and proceeded to beat the nasal mucus out of him. Oh, this is even better. While singing all hail the power of Jesus' name in the whole process.
Cartwright later added that he had to sing all four stanzas before the bully would promise not to pick on any more Methodists. Doesn't remind you of too many TV evangelists these days, does it? No. No. No. No. No. Well, that was Peter Cartwright. The guy was, yeah, he was an innovator. He was rough. He was tough. But, you know, something out of all that, he had a heartbeat for the gospel. He He had a heartbeat for the gospel. One time, he, he found himself, and this is a story worth repeating. And and I and I want I was I thought about whether or not to take the time to do it because, you know you know, but, but it's okay. You know, I'm gonna do this. If I don't get through all this stuff tonight, we got next week. Right? So, and if you get raptured in the meantime, you'll know it all when you get up there, so you'll be fine. Alright. But, he he he found himself in the in this kind of compromising situation unwiddle unwittingly one time.
He'd see he'd settled down for, for a late a late night lodging at a at a at a, at a guest house in in the Cumberland Mountains, and, you know, he'd been tired. He'd been traveling all day. He was just just out, you know, exhausted. You know, horseback, you know, all day long tires you out. But, he was informed that there was a dance that was gonna be held, that very night at that place. So, he basically, he intentionally positioned himself way back in the in the in the farthest corner that he could find, and and to quote him, a a, quote, beautiful, ruddy young lady sought him out for a dance.
Well, in the understatement of the century, he testified this, quote, I can hardly describe my thoughts or feelings on the occasion. Finally, he relates, I I resolved on a desperate experiment. Alright. So now this is the account that he wrote himself years later. He wrote this himself. Quote, I grabbed her right hand with my right hand while she leaned her left arm on mine. In this position, we walked on the floor. The fiddler began to put his fiddle to the best order. I then spoke to the fiddler to hold a moment and added that for several years, I had not undertaken any matter of importance without first asking the blessings of God upon it.
Here, I grasped the young lady's hand tightly and said, let us all kneel down and pray, and then instantly dropped on my knees and commenced praying with all the power of soul and body that I could command. The young lady tried to get loose from me, but I held her tight. Presently, she fell on her knees. Some of the company kneeled, some stood, some fled, some sat still, some looked curious. The fiddler ran off into the kitchen. While I prayed, some wept out loud. Some cried for mercy. I rose from my knees and commenced in an exhortation, which after I sang a hymn, the young lady who invited me on the floor lay prostrate crying earnestly for mercy. I exhorted again. I sang and prayed nearly all night.
About 15 of that company professed religion, and our meeting lasted next day and next night. And as many more were powerfully converted, I organized the society, took 32 into the church, and sent them a preacher. This was the commencement of a great and glorious revival of religion in the in the in the region of the country, and several of the young men converted at this Methodist preacher's dance became useful ministers of Jesus Christ. That was Peter Cartwright. That was Peter Cartwright, one of my heroes of the faith. Absolutely unashamed of Jesus Christ.
That's what it takes. That's what it takes. Well, moving on down through history, as these various Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterian circuit riders continued soldiering down America's growing turnpike to the Pacific. Thomas Jefferson was ending his second administration, and so his handpicked successor was a man by the name of James Madison, who won the election and became our next president, and he was very appropriately suited for the job. He was considered to be the chief architect of the constitution, the original author and promoter of the Bill of Rights, secretary of state under Jefferson. But interestingly interestingly, he was trained at the feet of Reverend John Witherspoon of Princeton.
And we talked about, Witherspoon and and his involvement in the constitution, and, and even in the declaration of independence. A great many preachers were involved in that in that, in that entire process. And, and and Madison Madison was a great president. He was a great president. Let me read to you a very brief quote, something about something he said. Quote, we've staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government. Far from it, we have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the 10 commandments of god.
Can you imagine? Just for a second, can you imagine that statement emanating from the White House? I think you have more of a chance of hearing it now under this administration, but as a whole, I don't think you'd ever hear that. Well, it was during Madison's second term as president that hostilities were resumed between England and The United States. It was called the War of eighteen twelve. Britain was up to its old tricks, and they began harassing particularly American commercial vessels to enforce their wartime embargo against France and trying to suck us into the war with France. And they were responsible for a number of, Indian uprising by, British agents up in Canada, Upstate New York, in that part of the world, you know, to create difficulties.
And so a war basically erupted that we generally refer to now as the war of eighteen twelve. A a excuse me. A significant British expeditionary force came ashore and captured Washington DC on 06/24/1814, forcing Madison and the first lady to flee the Presidential Dining Room. Upon entering the capital itself, a British admiral sat himself in the speaker's chair and announced sarcastically, all in favor of burning, say aye. Now, of course, it was unanimous, and so every public building in Washington DC was set to the torch, including the White House.
Interesting sidebar here. Very interesting sidebar. Three months later, on September 14, the British fleet subjected Baltimore's Fort McHenry to a spectacular all night aerial bombardment that failed to affect any American capitulation whatsoever. There was a young Washington attorney who happened to be aboard the enemy's flagship on that fateful night, and, he was pursuing a diplomatic mission to to free a popular physician. And, he ended up making an enduring contribution to to to his country's culture that, probably more than compensated for the momentous destruction.
Do you know what that contribution was? You know what that contribution was? The Star Spangled Banner. Francis Scott Key penned the words the glorious Star Spangled Banner. Now what you might not know is he was a Bible believing Christian, and here's what he he himself said years later. Quote, the patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges him in all of his ways, has the promise of almighty direction, and will find his word in his greatest darkness, a lantern to his feet, a lamp into his path. He will therefore seek to establish his country. In the eyes of the world, such a character shall make her not unworthy in the name of a Christian nation.
So the guy that wrote our national anthem said we're a Christian nation. That's not what some of our presidents have said, but that's what he said. Well, Britain suffered a number of, embarrassing defeats, naval defeats, mostly on the Great Lakes, and that's where the majority of the battles took place. And and so they they they finally decided, you know, you know, maybe this isn't worth it after all. And so they signed the Treaty of Ghent, which is in present day Belgium, on Christmas Eve of eighteen fourteen. However however, fourteen days after the peace treaty was signed in Europe, on the 01/08/1815, the bloodiest battle of the war was fought, the Battle of New Orleans.
Because neither side at that point had heard that the war was technically over. As As far as they were concerned, they were still hot after it. You see, there was no email back in those days. No smartphones. Sir Edward Pakenham, a 38 year old brother-in-law of the famed Duke of Wellington, gave the fateful order to advance a massive 8,000 British redcoats. Those that were these were veteran soldiers. They moved and they moved forward. And so the Battle of New Orleans had begun. Now sir Edward had desired to meet the American dogs in an open fight on the appointed European combat terms. You know, they were still fighting dumb. You know, remember?
8,000 of them moving out there, all in regiments and perfect lines marching across a great open field. Now on our side, we had a guy named Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson, and he was ram riding the American side. And he had set up this this really ingenious kind set this thing up really in an ingenious kind of way. And, it was called the the 1000 Yards Of Defiance. And, there was a canal, a dried up canal called the Rodriguez Canal, which was really just a dried up drainage ditch that that that connected his two flanks. Well, the British couldn't flank him because the Mississippi River was on one side and the series of Cypress swamps on the other.
And so the only way that the British could get to him was straightforward. You see? And and they thought, well, you know, there's no problem with that because that's the way we fight our wars over in Europe. You know? So 8,000 of them, here they are, and they're just marching, you know, toward Andy and his troops, you know, shoulder to shoulder. But what happened here was a great fog settled in. Now you talk about manifest destiny. Over and over and over again, you see the hand you see the hand of God and and and, in a lot of these things.
And this great fog settled in on this great plain a thousand yards across. And, but, but but at one point, it lifted just enough for sir Edward to look through his eyeglass, and, and what he saw, what what he thought was an absolute joke. Because what he what he looked at was this motley, assemblage of ragamuffins, miscellaneous misfits ever united in the history of military campaigns. Yeah. That's us. And he about laughed himself silly. 3,000 strong and more or less inclusive of every male capable of shooting a gun anywhere around. Now here here here was Jackson's army.
To quote Grady, here it was, quote, in addition to the nucleus of smaller regular army and artillery units, Tennessee and Kentucky sharpshooter volunteers, and we talked about them with their, with their long Kentucky rifles and their ability to hit a good target at 250 yards of those things as opposed to the British, that that had muskets and that didn't really have that kind of ability. Quote, toting their deadly Kentucky long rifles, various sailors various sailor escapees from the Carolinas and other recently captured United States vessels, a battalion of free blacks, numerous slaves, a contention of French Santo Domingo refugees, the New Orleans militia of sharpshooters and ordinary citizens, Louisiana Creoles in their gaudy red blue uniforms, a few Choctaw Indians, a number of prisoners under temporary release from the local jails, and even several 100 several 100 pirates under the leadership of the famous Jean Lafitte.
A couple of weeks before the battle, the governor of Louisiana put a $500 bounty on Lafitte's head, whereupon the pirate captain returned the favor by putting a 3 hun $30,000 bounty on the governor's head. Alright. So that was Jackson's army. Alright. That was Jackson's army. I mean, you talk about integration. Man, you talk about integration. Sorry. I I my head's a little foggy. I mean, you look at that you look at that army, that's every kind of thing that you could think of was represented in that army. But you see, the Americans had learned.
They they understood. They they weren't gonna be dumb Europeans. They weren't gonna stand out there and march out there and see who falls first. They were hiding between cypress trees, little embankments, cotton bales that they had towed in there. And lo and behold, this fog persisting, and here comes the British with fife and drum or, you know, whatever marching across this this field realizing that that 3,000 idiots, in their estimation, must be decimated. And then all the booty of New Orleans lay in front of them. But when they were about 200 yards away, the fog lifted.
The fog lifted. And those sharpshooter shooters took aim at a whole bunch of bright red bull's eyes. The fog lifted. Out of the 8,000 British against 3,000 redneck marksmen, the British ranks were decimated decimated. When the smoke cleared, 700 British lay dead, including Pakenham, three fellow generals, 11 colonels, and 75 lower officers, and over 2,000 enemy soldiers were wounded. Now get a little of this. Get a little of this. The American casualties were put at thirteen killed, fifty eight wounded. Right? That was the battle of New Orleans. That was the battle of New Orleans. Well, that battle, of course, made Andrew Jackson a national hero, and he went on to lead an expedition against the Spanish in Florida. He ran them out of Florida, which just enhance his reputation.
We're We're just about out of time, but I I gotta tell you this one. You gotta know this. Andrew Jackson was better known for his attendance at duels than to be at church, but on one particular Monday in in, October 1818, I think it was, he decided to visit a revival meeting in Nashville where guess who was preaching? Peter Cartwright. Peter Cartwright was preaching. Well, it so happened that when the general entered, as the preacher was reading his text, and and here was his text, for what shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Well, all the seats were totally occupied, and so the great famous Indian fighter and war hero was very content to stand, and he was gracefully leaning against the middle post in the church house.
Now at the side of his stately appearance, the host pastor, somebody they referred to as brother Mac, well, let's just say he became nervous to the extreme knowing just what Peter Cartwright was capable of, anything basically in his imagination. And so sitting on the platform, he just discreetly as he could came up behind Cartwright and tugged on his coattail and said, brother Cartwright, general Jackson is here. General Jackson is here. Be careful. General Jackson is here. Well, Cartwright, absolutely aghast at the pastor's double standard. So so so so here here here's what Cartwright himself wrote about that particular occasion.
Quote, I felt a flash of indignation run all over me like an electric shock, and facing about to my congregation and purposely speaking out audibly, I said, who is general Jackson? And if you don't get his soul converted, God will damn him as quick as anybody. Folks, that's Peter Cartwright. That's Peter Cartwright. You know, if the Methodists talk today like that, I would even go to a Methodist church. Quote, the preacher tucked his head down, squatted low, and would no doubt have been thankful for a leave of absence. The congregation, general Jackson, all smiled or laughed outright at the preacher's expense.
Now when the congregation was dismissed, my city station preacher stepped up to me and very sternly said to me, he goes, you are the strangest man I ever saw, and general Jackson will chastise you for your insolence before you leave the city. Very clear of it, I said for general Jackson, I have no doubt I I have no doubt will applaud my course. And if he should undertake to chastise me well, there's two that can play that game. The next morning, very early, my city preacher went down to the hotel to make an apology to general Jackson for my conduct in the pulpit the night before. Shortly after he left, I passed by the hotel and met the general on the pavement.
And before he approached him by several steps, he smiled, reached out his hand, and said, mister Cartwright, you're a man after my own heart. I'm very surprised that mister Mack, to I'm very surprised that mister Mack to think that I would have been offended at you. No, sir. I told him that I highly approved of your independence, that a minister of Jesus Christ ought to love everybody and fear no mortal man. I told mister Mack that if I had a few thousand such independent, fearless officers as you are and a well drilled army, I could take all of England. In 1828, Jackson was elected to be the next president.
And just before he could be sworn into office, he, he he suffered one of the great setbacks of his life. His beloved wife, Rachel, she died of a massive heart attack on Christmas Eve of 1828, and she would she would lay to rest in her garden. And a friend of the widower said, I never pitied any person more in my life. I shall never forget his look of grief. Now Jackson had a, a running controversy with some of the bankers of The United States and particularly what he called the second bank of the United States. It it's kinda like what we would call, like, the Federal Reserve. That's something Jackson warned us against.
And so Jackson had his concerns, and at at at at one point, a bearded man attempted to assassinate him, and there was great speculation. Great speculation with some foundation that that that some of the bankers had set this this fellow up to, and promised him a great bounty if he was successful. Well, this guy, he came up behind the president, pointed two pistols at him point blank range. Point blank, squeeze the triggers, neither one of them fired. Neither one of them fired. To that, Jackson said, quote, a kind providence has been pleased to shield me against the recent attempts on my life and irresistibly carried my many minds to the belief of the superintending providence.
So in other words, or or or in in as simple as far as possible, God has a manifest destiny for this country. God has a manifest destiny for this country. Now my question to you is this, is it over? Is it over? Or is that destiny still in place? It's a great question. It's a great question. On 03/04/1837, president Jackson delivered his farewell address and reiterated the theme of America's unique destiny in the world history. And here's what he said in his farewell delivery. You have the highest human trust committed to you. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number. He has chosen you as the guardians of freedom to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
May he who holds his hands in the in the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors he has bestowed and enable you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge he has committed to your keeping. Well, retirement years brought a season of serious reflection, and I'm I'm gonna finish up with this. The seed that was sown in Jackson's heart by Peter Cartwright and probably other preachers as well, was ready to bear fruit from the installation of God's word on the heart. Now, I'm sure you all know the story, the parable of the sower.
You know, the parable of the sower, the heart is compared to fertile ground, and the seed is the word of God. The seed has been sown repeatedly in the heart of this great patriot, this great historical figure. So Chamberlain, in his historical analysis, writes this, quote, the evening of his stormy life had come. The remains of his much loved wife were resting in the humble graveyard near the house. Alas, thoughts of eternity were forced upon him after attending a series of religious meetings. Jackson became greatly convicted of his sin. Less necessary, isn't it? Absolutely.
Absolutely. He goes on. He passed the night walking in his chamber in anguish and prayer. In the morning, he announced to his family his full conviction that he had repented of all of his sins, and through faith in Jesus Christ, that obtained forgiveness. Family prayer was immediately established, and he was privileged before his death to read through the entire bible twice. On 05/29/1845, only a few weeks before his death, Jackson declared this, sir, I am in the hands of a merciful God. I have full confidence in his goodness and mercy.
The Bible is true. Upon that sacred volume, I rest my hope for eternal salvation through the merits and blood of our blessed Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Well, I would call that a solid testimony. Amen? Wouldn't you? Finally, on 06/08/1845, just moments before he sailed into eternity, Jackson reassured everyone with these words. He said, my dear children, do not grieve for me. It is true I'm gonna leave you. I am well aware of my situation. I have suffered much bodily pain, but my my sufferings are nothing compared to that which our blessed redeemer endured on the accursed cross that all might be saved to put their trust in him.
God will take care of you for me. I am my god's, and I belong to him. I go but a short time before you and hope to and trust to meet you all in heaven, both white and black. That's what he said. That's what he said. Great patriot. Great patriot. Now before expiring, Andrew Jackson made one last appeal to America, before America, to build her future on the blessed word of God. He said he said this, quote, that book, sir, referring to the Bible, is the rock upon which our republic rests. It's still true. It's still true. If we're gonna have a republic, the very concept of a republic came from that book.
It didn't come from anywhere else. Nowhere else but that book. So a little bit of history there, and you could see that God had made up his mind that there was a manifest destiny for America. And every time it was met with opposition, God said, I got a counter move. I got something going on here. Watch this. So, well, a little more history. And, if you're interested, we'll pursue it more next week or a little bit more next week. We'll just keep on moving down the trail. Okay? Alright. Father, thank you. You've been good to us. As Americans, we've enjoyed the sweet taste of liberty and freedom. But, Lord, sometimes we feel that that, that's really being encroached upon. It's encroached upon those who are ignorant of our heritage and our history.
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All right. Hey, folks. This is Joe Ruse. It is great to be with you once again as we open up and study the precious word of God, your King James Bible. And you know folks, whenever and wherever you find yourselves listening or watching, it's always my prayer that you also find yourself in the grace and in the mercy of our Lord and savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. Hey, folks. Welcome to the Joe Russo, and of course, as always, we are transmitting to you live once again from the asylum studios, from the pimple on the backside of Texas, the beautiful city of Eagle Pass.
Alrighty, and it is hot. Holy schnikes, It is hot. Like, crazy hot. And I hear some feedback. Alright. I think we got that under control. Alright. Well, another hot day here in Eagle Pass, Texas. That's okay. You know, it's it's what it is. You live in the desert. What do you expect? But, yeah. It's, what was it? It was a 102 at start time. It's eighty nine eighty nine degrees here in the studio, even with the fans and the AC going. But, all honesty, I did start it late, so, you know, it's that's what happens when you're a little sleepy and drowsy on a Sunday.
But hot and as as uncomfortable it might be, it is a beautiful night for a bible study. And, folks, I hope you guys had a great week. We did not have a show on Friday, so it felt kinda weird not doing that. But I had something pop up at the job that I had to take care of, and I was there late. And, there was no way we're getting a show in on on Friday. And then, we took Saturday off as well. Wasn't really feeling so great. Started feeling a little bit under the weather. And, to be quite honest with you, wasn't sure we're gonna do a show today either because, yeah, I'm not really feeling so great. I got a I got a little bit of a sore throat here going, and, but we'll see how it goes. So, hopefully, we'll be up and ready to go for you tomorrow, for tomorrow night's show. We got a a good one set up for you. I hope anyway, we'll see how it all turns out. But, if you've been with us for the last, several Sundays, we've been, talking and studying the about the, the spiritual side of our American heritage and the American Revolution. And last week, we talked a little bit about, that movement westward and how that, like, immediately after the constitution, there there became a great movement across the Alleghenies.
And, and these guys these were rough individuals, folks. They were pioneers, you know, just just hard and hardy people. But, in that westward movement, one thing that they left behind for the most part was, a great religious influence. And tonight, we're gonna continue on, talking about those specific things. Now as always, before we get started, head over to our website, joeroos.com. Go over to that contact section, and, send us over a message. Let us know what you're thinking. Let us know whatever's in your heart, whatever's in your mind, any questions, comments, cares, or concerns that you might have.
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But, you know, the history revisionists have been really, really hard at work trying to extricate you, the public, from a lot of the facts and truths about the colonists and some of the things that they stood for, some of the things that they believed in, and, particularly, the spiritual side of things. So, we saw God at work all the way back at Lexington And Concord, Bunker Hill, Breeds Hill, Trenton, and we saw God at work in the Declaration of Independence. We saw God still working in the constitution of These United States, and, and then we studied, two weeks ago, we studied the first amendment. And then last, you know, three weeks ago, we did the first amendment. Two weeks ago, we did the second amendment, and we spent some time in that with some detail, and, really for some admiration for the wisdom that God gave those individuals as they formulated and forged those great documents together.
And, you know, look, I I I there there are some people out there that that believe that the constitution is something that it's not. Alright. I do not believe that the constitution is a sacred document. I'm sorry. I don't. And if you wanna disagree with me, you wanna argue with me about that, that's fine. We could do that. But, I I don't believe it's a sacred document. I believe it's a great one. Absolutely. That's for sure. And as far as I'm concerned, there's only one sacred document and that's my bible. That's my King James bible. That's the bible that I have sitting right here across from me.
But you see, the men that put that constitution together were so influenced by this book, as we have studied, so tremendously influenced by the word of God that it couldn't help but be a very reasonable approach to a republic with the freedoms that you and I have enjoyed over the years and the liberties that have been exercised by us as Americans. And so as we move forward and got beyond the constitution in in 1789, we began to realize that it really didn't take very long for Satan to to, you know, to to get to work, to get to and get to, some hard work. Because a term that has been utilized periodically for America is manifest destiny.
And we talked about that a little bit last week. And when you really understand American history from the spiritual side of it, there's absolutely no question that God had a destiny in mind for this country. You and I have, you and I have just been very privileged to have a very tiny part in it. I mean, except by God's grace, you know, you could have been born in Bangladesh, with no particular destiny whatsoever as far as the things of God are concerned. And it's, you know, it's it's it's very presumptuous for us to to take that for granted ever, but to be very thankful for what God has done for us.
That's the key thing. We need to be thankful for what God has done for us. Well, this this manifest destiny, began to develop more and more, and it became very, very clear and obvious that God had a plan for America as we know it. Satan, the adversary, the opponent, of course, went straight to work. Trying to wash down the, the sore throat with my methylene blue. And one of the first things that, that, that, that he was busy introducing during the so called age of enlightenment, we're talking about Satan here, which was about from 1790 to about 1830, was some of the French writings that entered into this country. The age of reason, the age of relativity, the age of realization.
So, really very some various atheistic writings came in and influenced a lot of people, and, even in the religious community. You know, a lot of influence trickled down through that, and and, one of the very, very bad doctrines that we talked about last week was, that that came about out of this was hyper Calvinism. Now, there are a lot of Christians, that came to the conclusion that John Calvin of the reformation was correct in a lot of his very, very bad theology. And that God, predetermined, before the foundation of the world, who would be saved and, who wouldn't.
And therefore, you know, man really isn't kinda isn't given any choice in the matter, but he's predestined to whatever destiny God has designed for him. Alright? I don't know if that sounded confusing to you or not, but that's basically what it is. So basically, all it really did, it it it eliminates choice. It eliminates choice. And the Bible is a book of choice. The Bible is a book of choice. You have a choice, don't you? You had a choice whether to listen to the show tonight or not, or to watch the show tonight. You could have just, you know, slugged it out and listened to something else or, you know, or or or planted yourself on the couch and, you know, been a potato.
But thankfully, you said you won't be. Amen? Thankfully, you said you thankfully, you said I will not be a potato today. I'm gonna do a bible study. I'm gonna learn something. Alright? Alright. Now that's just a small illustration, but, but you had a choice. You had a choice when it came to salvation. Didn't you? Let's just think about that. Just you had a choice. God confronted you through his holy spirit with the alternatives, and you chose Christ. You chose Jesus Christ. You didn't choose a religion. You didn't choose a church. You chose Jesus Christ. And in choosing him and receiving him as your savior, you activated choice.
Alright? Now now the Bible is a book of choice. And all the way from Adam and Eve in the garden, they made a choice all the way down to Revelation chapter 22. Choices are being made and being so I I had to mute it, and I don't want you to hear me cough. So some people sought to, I guess, theologically eliminate the choice. And you know what that does when you eliminate the choice? That absolves them from any responsibility to communicate the message. They could just sit on their posterior back ends. Had to think about what I was gonna say there. You know, you know, the Bible says in the multitude of words, there wanteth not sin. So, you can get in trouble. You know? I've gotten in trouble a few times. I have, which we're not gonna talk about tonight. But, but, but now, you know, for the most part, it's almost like, and if you study the book of Job, particularly, you'll get it. It's almost like God and Satan are playing chess.
The devil makes a move, God makes a counter move. The devil makes a move, God makes a counter move. Alright? Now, while Satan was introducing this age of rationalization, which was seriously deteriorating at a very, very quick rate, the spirituality of America, and you and you know something, it only really takes a generation. It only takes a generation. And if you study your old testament, you can see, how, you know, one generation is is red hot for God, the next is is is colder than a dead clam. Over and over and over again, that's repeated. I mean, you know, you you see it in the book of Judges over and over and over again. We were talking about, the book of Judges today in our church.
You know, then you run down through the book of Kings, and then, you know, just stop and think about in our lifetime. Just in our lifetime alone, things have dramatically changed in the last forty, maybe fifty years. Have they not? I mean, they really have. They really have. So, you know, it it really only takes one generation. Well, one or two generations. And America is in a serious spiritual decline as as opposed to the vision that the, that the early Puritans had, and then even moving on through the colonies and and so on. Well, God said, okay.
I gotta counter move. I gotta counter move. Now last week, we talked a little bit about the the movement westward and and how that immediately after the constitution, there there, became a great movement across the Allegheny Mountains. Well, the West in those days, you know, it wasn't it wasn't places like Colorado and Wyoming and, you know, the West in those days was Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Pennsylvania. Now that was the Wild West. You don't think of that. You don't look at it like that now, but that that was it. That was the Wild West. I mean, you know, for the most part, with with the exception of Lewis and Clark, you know, you know, that part of the world really hadn't even been thought of.
But you see, there was this great migration. And in the period of about twenty five, maybe thirty years, a million people moved across the Allegheny Mountains, which when you really consider it, that's quite a bit. You know, when the whole population of the country was was only a little bit more than 3,000,000 at that time. So a third of them a third of them went westward. Westward, they went long before Horace Greeley was ever born and and and thought of saying, you know, go west young man. But here they came. But in that westward movement, remember these were rough individualists, you know, pioneers, you know, just strong, hardy people.
But one thing that they left behind for the most part was a great religious influence. And so they became known particularly in in in Kentucky and and and tell in Tennessee as as just a pretty wild bunch. I mean, a lot of hard living, hard drinking, just, you know, just that kind of mentality that, you know, that invaded, these kinds of people. And God say, okay. I'll pick on that bunch for a little while, you know. Nothing is impossible with the Lord. Nothing is impossible. If the Lord's gonna do something miraculous, he'll probably pick on the wildest, meanest character on the planet and get him saved, and a whole lot of things might happen then.
So what he did was, he motivated and he moved in the hearts and the lives of of a lot of preachers that became known as circuit writing preachers, and immediately started to to to come to that part of that country, these circuit writing preachers. You know, they came from, they came from North Carolina, Virginia, they settled in Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Illinois, and, and, you know, the the the majority of this first wave of circuit riding preachers were Baptists. They were Baptist people. That was the first wave. Not the only one, but it but it was the it was the first one. And, act actually, as a matter of fact, the first the first sermon ever preached where, Chicago sits today was by a Baptist preacher to a bunch of Indians.
That was the first sermon ever preached. Long before anybody ever heard of DL Moody, or or or or or men like that, you know, guys like that hadn't even thought of yet. So in in fact, you know, this freak this preacher's name was reverend Isaac McCoy, who was a Baptist missionary, to the Indians of Michigan. He preached that sermon on 10/05/1825, where Chicago is today. Interestingly, though, these individuals were were were gripped with a concept and a and a vision and an idea that was absolutely necessary to reach the lost at any cost. To reach the lost at any cost.
And that was a theme that permeated their very, their their their very processes and their focus. You know, it was a Baptist preacher who wrote and and some of you may may may know the song. It's a great it's a great old hymn. The song says this, quote, must I go and empty handed, thus my redeemer meet? Not one day of service give him, lay no trophy at his feet. Must I go and empty handed, must I meet my savior so? Not one soul with which to greet him. Must I empty handed go? I bet you thought that I was gonna sing it. Nah. I'm not gonna torture you like that. But, you know, the you know, the Bible said to make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Well, that's me. I cannot carry a note.
But you see that that's that that hymn, that's just as relevant today as it was then. You're gonna hit the judgment seat of Christ empty handed. Well, that was a prevail that was the, prevailing theme of the day. You know, one of the old historians, man by the name of Vedder, acquaints us with, the caliber of circuit riding preachers who made America great. And I'm gonna read, a passage to you from, from one of his historical volumes. He said this, quote, many men of God went forth into the wilderness not knowing where they should find a night's lodging or their next meal, willing to suffer untold privations if they might only point some to the lamb of God.
It is impossible to estimate too highly or to praise too warmly the services of these men of strong faith and good works. Their hardships were such as we of the present day can hardly imagine. We of the present day. And this guy was writing that a hundred years ago, you know, long before they had air conditioning and satellite TV, you know, he said, they traveled from little settlement to little settlement on horseback with no roads, save an Indian trail or or or blaze trees, fording streams over which no bridges have been built, exposed to storms frequently sleeping exposed to storms frequently sleeping where where night found them, often prostrate by fevers or wasted by malaria, but indomitable still, if they did not wander in sheepskins and goatskins like ancient heroes of faith.
They wore deerskins and homespun took the place of sackcloth. Their dwelling was all of outdoors, living in the plainest manner, sharing all the hardships of a pioneer people. The circuit preacher labored in a parish, as one of them said, took half of creation, for it had no boundaries on the West. And then one of them writes in eighteen o five no. Eighteen o five, that's that's Lewis and Clark. Amen? That weren't they around eighteen o four, eighteen o five? Alright. Eighteen o five, one of them wrote this, quote, every day I travel, I have to swim through creeks or swamps, and I am wet from head to feet. And some days from morning to night, I am dripping with water. I have rheumatism in all my joints. What I have suffered in body and mind, my pen is not able to communicate to you.
But this I can say, all my body is wet with water and chilled with cold. My soul is filled with heavenly fire. And I can say with Saint Paul, but none of those things move me neither count I my life's dear unto myself so that I might finish my course with joy. Think about that. Wow. That was a bunch right there. That was a bunch. Well, these circuit riders, they just permeated the New West, Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, and they just, you know, as as was indicated in what I what I read to you, traveled from settlement to settlement, preaching the gospel.
And in their wake came a whole other group of them. That group was called the Methodists. You might have heard of them. The Methodists. And the Methodist circuit riders were led by a godly American bishop by the name of Francis Hasberry. Now now most people haven't heard of Francis Hasberry, but, or Asberry, I should say. But, he was, you know, he he was he was a big time Methodist preacher, big time Methodist Bishop. There there's an Asbury Methodist Church in New York in in in, in honor of his work. And, well, the Methodists, as opposed to the as as opposed to the to the Baptist, were extremely Armenian in their doctrine.
Not that the Baptist were necessarily Calvinist, like like we stated last week, but but they did hold strictly to the doctrine of the security of the believer, where the Methodists were Armenian, and and they then they rejected, eternal security. But they did preach the gospel, and they had a great, flame of desire in their heart to see people get saved. Now I'm talking about the old time Methodist now. You know, I'm not talking about, you know, I'm talking the old time. You know what I'm saying? I'm talking like yesteryear. Alright?
And, but the Methodists, of course, you know, originated in England under the leadership of two brothers, John and Charles Wesley. Their mother was probably one of the one of the godliest women that ever walked the earth, Susanna Wesley. Listen to this. She had 19 children. 19 children. And, do you know that that woman dedicated at least fifteen to twenty minutes every single day to spend alone with every one of those kids. To pray with them, to teach them from the bible, and, and that's why so many of them turned out to be such great individuals, you see, which which is a whole other story in itself. Well, originating in in England, you know, England was not all that hospitable actually to the gospel.
Believe it or not. Look at England today. But at that time, it wasn't really hospitable to the gospel even though some great things came out of England like our King James Bible. Still, though, what was known as the mobs, that's the general population, general populace. You know, they were pretty tough on preachers. They were pretty tough on people of the Bible, regardless of their denominational preference. Simeon writes in his historical approach, if Methodism had not come into contact with the mob, it would never have reached the section of the English people, which most needed salvation. The religious society shuts up in their rooms.
The religious society shut up in their rooms would never have reformed the country. That's a good point. That's a really, really good point. You know, you don't make an impact just by sitting inside your your four walls. You know, you you gotta get out from behind the four walls. Quote, it was necessary that a race of this heroic men should arise who would dare to confront the wildest, most brutal men and tell them the meaning of sin and show them the Christ of the cross and at the judgment throne. The incessant assaults of the mob on the Methodist preachers showed that they had reached the masses with a superb courage.
Rarely if ever equaled on the battlefield, the Methodist preachers went again and again and again to the places from which they had been driven by violence until their persistence wore down the antagonism of the assailants. Just wear them down, man. Just wear them down. Wear them down. Quote, then out of one out of the once furious crowd, men and women were gathered whose hearts the Lord had touched. Well, these these guys these guys were toughened up in England. So when they came to America, and they went to the American West, and met a crowd of a similar type of disposition, a similar rowdiness, they were prepared for it. They were more than prepared for it.
They were like, just dish it out, man. Bring it on. We're ready for it. Bring it. Let's go. Let's do it. So as you begin to analyze, that particular history, the Methodists and the Presbyterians and the Baptists all differed some in their doctrine. But in those days, they all agreed on one very, very critical point, and that is you must be born again. You must be born again. They all agreed on that. And interestingly, they all had one document and only one that they utilized. You know, they didn't have 65 English translations. They had one.
They had the old King James Bible, and that's what God used to initiate a tremendous revival in America. You know, Grady in his historical book says this, and this is a great paragraph, so I wanna read this this one to you. I loved it when I read it, and I said, man, I love this stuff. I I I I I gotta bring this to you guys. But this is what he said, quote, not only did the frontier parsons have the right bible in their pulpits, but they also knew how to use them, especially when preaching on the fires of hell. Although a convicted sinner in today's America can find refuge in any number of compromising hell denying churches, such was not the case in the nation's earlier days.
When an unsaved person visited the Baptist church in town, he was certain to hear, if you don't get born again, you'll split hell wide open. Petrified, then he would run out of the building and flee to the First Presbyterian Church next door. Because the minister appeared more reserved, the sinner was was prone to lower his guard. This time, the shocking message was, if you're not one of the elect, you'll split hell wide open, and there's nothing you can do about it either. Having staggered out the back door and across the street to the last church in town, the poor wretch is last seen jumping out of the window with a Methodist preacher screaming at the top of his lungs, if you're born again, you can still lose it and you'll split hell wide open anyway. That was kind of the theme, you see? I mean, they all agreed on one very, very principle thing, you must be born again.
You must be born again in the words of Jesus Christ himself. Now they may have they may have had a different theology, you know, beyond that, but but that very key key thing was it. You must be born again. So preaching like that kept the nation on the edge of their pew, and God used that to initiate, in this age of human reason and rationalization, or to initiate in this age of human and, human reason and rationalization. And so and so on, he he used that kind of preaching to initiate a great revival, and it was called the revival of eighteen hundred. And, a reverend McCready McCready in Logan County, Kentucky, had held an out an outdoor communion service in June 1800.
And that thing has kind of exploded, you know, with with with people, with interest, and and so this preacher then, he could plan for another more protracted meeting to be held in late July at Gaspar River, Kentucky. Now Kentucky was a real epicenter of of debauchery at that point. For example, there there was a county named Bourbon County. Still is. That's Lexington. And and so convinced that the Lord convinced that the Lord was was moving, they had a meeting there, and this was America's first legitimate camp meeting because people were coming from a 100 miles in every direction. And what they would do is they would come, they would just pitch up a tent, they would camp out for the meeting, and, that's why they call it a camp meeting. And, that was the title that was given to it.
And so, you know, they were preaching, they were praying, and and trusting God to move, and then, and all of a sudden, the spirit of God really began to get a hold of some of these people. And, and and hundreds and hundreds of people started to come to the Lord and have genuine confession of and repentance and trusting Christ as their savior. And, you know, from that point, everything's kinda just, you know, began to spread, and it would spread and spread. Now coming a 100 miles on a horse or or or in wagon, that's a long way, you know, but that's what they were doing.
So so reverend Barton Stone, who was a Presbyterian pastor from Bourbon County, Northeast Of Lexington, he heard about it, and and he said, well, I gotta travel down there and see what this is all about. Now, you know, the Presbyterian just just by nature, you know, they're kind of reserved, you know, and I mean, they're a little more politically correct in their in their demeanor at least, but but this guy said, I just gotta find out what what's going on down there. So he came down to view the first revival, or or there's revival meeting firsthand.
And so after watching the, the whole proceeding, he decided that he was gonna put together, his own in his area the following summer, and so he did. It was a place called Cane Ridge. And in August '1, and a great deal of time was given for prayer and for preparation and for promotion, and the results were astronomically amazed. They were just amazing. Absolutely astronomical. Lexington, at that time, was the largest known town in Kentucky. It only and and and it only had, I think, was 1,800, population of 1,800. As many as as many as 25,000 people began descending on Cane Ridge as far away from as far away as Tennessee and Ohio.
Stone said that the that the the roads were crowded with wagons, carriages, horses, and footmen moving to that solemn camp. And, you know, the meeting was not in vain. It was not in vain. Literally hundreds, if not thousands of people came to the Lord, and that spirit of revival just spread like oil on water. In other words, it just went in every direction. So so camp meetings kinda became the order of the day. Now, even though there were, you know, differences in in some doctrine, you know, the Baptist and the Presbyterians, the Methodist very frequently worked together at these camp meetings. They cooperated.
But again, you you have to realize that the Bible says, how can two walk together except they'd be agreed? Well, they agreed on the necessity of the new birth, and they had no other Bibles to disagree about, you know? So there was a real basis of agreement there, And they worked together, and they prayed together to do everything that they could to win the lost. Now throughout the ensuing months, the Holy Spirit just literally cleaned house. Literally cleaned house. George Baxter, president of Washington College, Virginia, personally toured Kentucky in eighteen o one just to check this thing out. And so here's what the president of the college said.
Quote, on my way, I was informed by settlers on the road that the character of Kentucky travelers were entirely changed and that they are remarkable for sobriety as they've been formally known for dissoluteness and immorality. And indeed, I found Kentucky the most moral place I had ever seen. That's the result of God. That's the result. Only God does that. Only God does that. Quote, a profane expression was hardly ever heard. A religious awe seemed to pervade the country. Upon the whole, I think the revival in Kentucky, the most extraordinary thing that has ever visited the Church of Christ, and all things considered, it was peculiarly adapted to the circumstances, to the country, into which it came.
Infidelity was triumph, and religion was at the point of expiring. Something extraordinary seemed to seemed necessary to arrest the attention of a giddy people who were ready to conclude that Christianity was a fable and a and a fraternity of delusion. The revival had done it. It had confounded infidelity, awed vice into silence, and brought numbers beyond calculation in the serious impressions. Now that's written like a college a college president would write stuff. Amen? But you see what he's saying though? Do you do you understand what he's saying? He's saying, man, God just got all over them.
It changed their language. It changed their behavior. It changed their deportment in every way. Well, then the things started to move east, which is interesting. I don't have time to go into all that stuff, but but but but some of you have been around me long enough to know that, that's pretty interesting because directions mean things in your bible. Don't they? Directions mean things. So this revival went east. So now in eighteen o two now remember, the first revival, 1800 in Logan County, Kentucky. In eighteen o two, the reverend Timothy Dwight, who was the president of Yale College, we know we we now know it simply as Yale, but but Yale College was was, he he was a he was a former, army chaplain to George Washington.
After, and that year, he he says and he testifies as the as the president of the college, a formal conversion of 80 men out of the school's total enrollment of a 160. So six so 50% of them trusted Christ. 50%. Benjamin Silliman, a faculty member who came to Christ at this time wrote to his mother excitedly. Now, here's one of the professors and here's what he wrote to his mother his mother. He said this, quote, Yale College is a little temple. Prayer and praise seem to be the delight of the greater part of the students, while those who are still unfeeling are awed in a respectful silence.
Now under Dwight's leadership, additional awakenings occurred in eighteen o eight, 1813, and 1815. And some other Ivy League schools got got bit with the same thing. Princeton, Dartmouth, for example, were similarly blessed. You know, the significance of the thing was that Dwight was a revivalist innovator, and he parted company with the Calvinism Calvinism of his grandfather, who was somebody you may have heard of, a man by the name of Jonathan Edwards. So some big things were taking place. Some really big things were taking place. But one of the most fruitful converts of the revival of eighteen hundred was a Kentucky guy, boy, really, of, 16 years of age.
Now his name and I I have referred to him very briefly last week. And I always laugh when I talk about him because I personally like the guy. I like his style. His name was Peter Cartwright. Well, Peter Cartwright would go on to preach 18,000 sermons during the ministry spanning seven decades. So seventy years, this man preached 18,000 sermons. He was considered to be one of the most outstanding circuit writers of American Methodism, And he was, in in in every respect, a man's man, and he perfectly embodied the caliber of those hardy, backwards preachers who won the West for Christ.
I I kinda talked about this story last week. I was just but I was shooting from the cuff, so but I've got it right here in front of me, and I got it in print. So and I'm I'm and it's just a paragraph long, so I'm gonna read that story to you. Alright. So this is the kind of guy that that, Peter Cartwright was. Upon visiting a certain town in Ohio, Cartwright discovered that the owner of a local tavern was a notorious bully who delighted in threatening Methodist ministers whereupon the indignant preacher made a beeline for the beer joint.
Well, when you get to heaven, don't you want the Lord to kinda rewind a few things for you? I know I do. I mean, Lord, I know you've got this up on DVD or or whatever it is they record these things on now, but, you know, I wanna catch this one. I wanna see this. Quote, as the story is told, no one knows for sure who threw the first punch, but the reverend Cartwright was able to straddle the bewildered bartender in short order and proceeded to beat the nasal mucus out of him. Oh, this is even better. While singing all hail the power of Jesus' name in the whole process.
Cartwright later added that he had to sing all four stanzas before the bully would promise not to pick on any more Methodists. Doesn't remind you of too many TV evangelists these days, does it? No. No. No. No. No. Well, that was Peter Cartwright. The guy was, yeah, he was an innovator. He was rough. He was tough. But, you know, something out of all that, he had a heartbeat for the gospel. He He had a heartbeat for the gospel. One time, he, he found himself, and this is a story worth repeating. And and I and I want I was I thought about whether or not to take the time to do it because, you know you know, but, but it's okay. You know, I'm gonna do this. If I don't get through all this stuff tonight, we got next week. Right? So, and if you get raptured in the meantime, you'll know it all when you get up there, so you'll be fine. Alright. But, he he he found himself in the in this kind of compromising situation unwiddle unwittingly one time.
He'd see he'd settled down for, for a late a late night lodging at a at a at a, at a guest house in in the Cumberland Mountains, and, you know, he'd been tired. He'd been traveling all day. He was just just out, you know, exhausted. You know, horseback, you know, all day long tires you out. But, he was informed that there was a dance that was gonna be held, that very night at that place. So, he basically, he intentionally positioned himself way back in the in the in the farthest corner that he could find, and and to quote him, a a, quote, beautiful, ruddy young lady sought him out for a dance.
Well, in the understatement of the century, he testified this, quote, I can hardly describe my thoughts or feelings on the occasion. Finally, he relates, I I resolved on a desperate experiment. Alright. So now this is the account that he wrote himself years later. He wrote this himself. Quote, I grabbed her right hand with my right hand while she leaned her left arm on mine. In this position, we walked on the floor. The fiddler began to put his fiddle to the best order. I then spoke to the fiddler to hold a moment and added that for several years, I had not undertaken any matter of importance without first asking the blessings of God upon it.
Here, I grasped the young lady's hand tightly and said, let us all kneel down and pray, and then instantly dropped on my knees and commenced praying with all the power of soul and body that I could command. The young lady tried to get loose from me, but I held her tight. Presently, she fell on her knees. Some of the company kneeled, some stood, some fled, some sat still, some looked curious. The fiddler ran off into the kitchen. While I prayed, some wept out loud. Some cried for mercy. I rose from my knees and commenced in an exhortation, which after I sang a hymn, the young lady who invited me on the floor lay prostrate crying earnestly for mercy. I exhorted again. I sang and prayed nearly all night.
About 15 of that company professed religion, and our meeting lasted next day and next night. And as many more were powerfully converted, I organized the society, took 32 into the church, and sent them a preacher. This was the commencement of a great and glorious revival of religion in the in the in the region of the country, and several of the young men converted at this Methodist preacher's dance became useful ministers of Jesus Christ. That was Peter Cartwright. That was Peter Cartwright, one of my heroes of the faith. Absolutely unashamed of Jesus Christ.
That's what it takes. That's what it takes. Well, moving on down through history, as these various Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterian circuit riders continued soldiering down America's growing turnpike to the Pacific. Thomas Jefferson was ending his second administration, and so his handpicked successor was a man by the name of James Madison, who won the election and became our next president, and he was very appropriately suited for the job. He was considered to be the chief architect of the constitution, the original author and promoter of the Bill of Rights, secretary of state under Jefferson. But interestingly interestingly, he was trained at the feet of Reverend John Witherspoon of Princeton.
And we talked about, Witherspoon and and his involvement in the constitution, and, and even in the declaration of independence. A great many preachers were involved in that in that, in that entire process. And, and and Madison Madison was a great president. He was a great president. Let me read to you a very brief quote, something about something he said. Quote, we've staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government. Far from it, we have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the 10 commandments of god.
Can you imagine? Just for a second, can you imagine that statement emanating from the White House? I think you have more of a chance of hearing it now under this administration, but as a whole, I don't think you'd ever hear that. Well, it was during Madison's second term as president that hostilities were resumed between England and The United States. It was called the War of eighteen twelve. Britain was up to its old tricks, and they began harassing particularly American commercial vessels to enforce their wartime embargo against France and trying to suck us into the war with France. And they were responsible for a number of, Indian uprising by, British agents up in Canada, Upstate New York, in that part of the world, you know, to create difficulties.
And so a war basically erupted that we generally refer to now as the war of eighteen twelve. A a excuse me. A significant British expeditionary force came ashore and captured Washington DC on 06/24/1814, forcing Madison and the first lady to flee the Presidential Dining Room. Upon entering the capital itself, a British admiral sat himself in the speaker's chair and announced sarcastically, all in favor of burning, say aye. Now, of course, it was unanimous, and so every public building in Washington DC was set to the torch, including the White House.
Interesting sidebar here. Very interesting sidebar. Three months later, on September 14, the British fleet subjected Baltimore's Fort McHenry to a spectacular all night aerial bombardment that failed to affect any American capitulation whatsoever. There was a young Washington attorney who happened to be aboard the enemy's flagship on that fateful night, and, he was pursuing a diplomatic mission to to free a popular physician. And, he ended up making an enduring contribution to to to his country's culture that, probably more than compensated for the momentous destruction.
Do you know what that contribution was? You know what that contribution was? The Star Spangled Banner. Francis Scott Key penned the words the glorious Star Spangled Banner. Now what you might not know is he was a Bible believing Christian, and here's what he he himself said years later. Quote, the patriot who feels himself in the service of God, who acknowledges him in all of his ways, has the promise of almighty direction, and will find his word in his greatest darkness, a lantern to his feet, a lamp into his path. He will therefore seek to establish his country. In the eyes of the world, such a character shall make her not unworthy in the name of a Christian nation.
So the guy that wrote our national anthem said we're a Christian nation. That's not what some of our presidents have said, but that's what he said. Well, Britain suffered a number of, embarrassing defeats, naval defeats, mostly on the Great Lakes, and that's where the majority of the battles took place. And and so they they they finally decided, you know, you know, maybe this isn't worth it after all. And so they signed the Treaty of Ghent, which is in present day Belgium, on Christmas Eve of eighteen fourteen. However however, fourteen days after the peace treaty was signed in Europe, on the 01/08/1815, the bloodiest battle of the war was fought, the Battle of New Orleans.
Because neither side at that point had heard that the war was technically over. As As far as they were concerned, they were still hot after it. You see, there was no email back in those days. No smartphones. Sir Edward Pakenham, a 38 year old brother-in-law of the famed Duke of Wellington, gave the fateful order to advance a massive 8,000 British redcoats. Those that were these were veteran soldiers. They moved and they moved forward. And so the Battle of New Orleans had begun. Now sir Edward had desired to meet the American dogs in an open fight on the appointed European combat terms. You know, they were still fighting dumb. You know, remember?
8,000 of them moving out there, all in regiments and perfect lines marching across a great open field. Now on our side, we had a guy named Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson, and he was ram riding the American side. And he had set up this this really ingenious kind set this thing up really in an ingenious kind of way. And, it was called the the 1000 Yards Of Defiance. And, there was a canal, a dried up canal called the Rodriguez Canal, which was really just a dried up drainage ditch that that that connected his two flanks. Well, the British couldn't flank him because the Mississippi River was on one side and the series of Cypress swamps on the other.
And so the only way that the British could get to him was straightforward. You see? And and they thought, well, you know, there's no problem with that because that's the way we fight our wars over in Europe. You know? So 8,000 of them, here they are, and they're just marching, you know, toward Andy and his troops, you know, shoulder to shoulder. But what happened here was a great fog settled in. Now you talk about manifest destiny. Over and over and over again, you see the hand you see the hand of God and and and, in a lot of these things.
And this great fog settled in on this great plain a thousand yards across. And, but, but but at one point, it lifted just enough for sir Edward to look through his eyeglass, and, and what he saw, what what he thought was an absolute joke. Because what he what he looked at was this motley, assemblage of ragamuffins, miscellaneous misfits ever united in the history of military campaigns. Yeah. That's us. And he about laughed himself silly. 3,000 strong and more or less inclusive of every male capable of shooting a gun anywhere around. Now here here here was Jackson's army.
To quote Grady, here it was, quote, in addition to the nucleus of smaller regular army and artillery units, Tennessee and Kentucky sharpshooter volunteers, and we talked about them with their, with their long Kentucky rifles and their ability to hit a good target at 250 yards of those things as opposed to the British, that that had muskets and that didn't really have that kind of ability. Quote, toting their deadly Kentucky long rifles, various sailors various sailor escapees from the Carolinas and other recently captured United States vessels, a battalion of free blacks, numerous slaves, a contention of French Santo Domingo refugees, the New Orleans militia of sharpshooters and ordinary citizens, Louisiana Creoles in their gaudy red blue uniforms, a few Choctaw Indians, a number of prisoners under temporary release from the local jails, and even several 100 several 100 pirates under the leadership of the famous Jean Lafitte.
A couple of weeks before the battle, the governor of Louisiana put a $500 bounty on Lafitte's head, whereupon the pirate captain returned the favor by putting a 3 hun $30,000 bounty on the governor's head. Alright. So that was Jackson's army. Alright. That was Jackson's army. I mean, you talk about integration. Man, you talk about integration. Sorry. I I my head's a little foggy. I mean, you look at that you look at that army, that's every kind of thing that you could think of was represented in that army. But you see, the Americans had learned.
They they understood. They they weren't gonna be dumb Europeans. They weren't gonna stand out there and march out there and see who falls first. They were hiding between cypress trees, little embankments, cotton bales that they had towed in there. And lo and behold, this fog persisting, and here comes the British with fife and drum or, you know, whatever marching across this this field realizing that that 3,000 idiots, in their estimation, must be decimated. And then all the booty of New Orleans lay in front of them. But when they were about 200 yards away, the fog lifted.
The fog lifted. And those sharpshooter shooters took aim at a whole bunch of bright red bull's eyes. The fog lifted. Out of the 8,000 British against 3,000 redneck marksmen, the British ranks were decimated decimated. When the smoke cleared, 700 British lay dead, including Pakenham, three fellow generals, 11 colonels, and 75 lower officers, and over 2,000 enemy soldiers were wounded. Now get a little of this. Get a little of this. The American casualties were put at thirteen killed, fifty eight wounded. Right? That was the battle of New Orleans. That was the battle of New Orleans. Well, that battle, of course, made Andrew Jackson a national hero, and he went on to lead an expedition against the Spanish in Florida. He ran them out of Florida, which just enhance his reputation.
We're We're just about out of time, but I I gotta tell you this one. You gotta know this. Andrew Jackson was better known for his attendance at duels than to be at church, but on one particular Monday in in, October 1818, I think it was, he decided to visit a revival meeting in Nashville where guess who was preaching? Peter Cartwright. Peter Cartwright was preaching. Well, it so happened that when the general entered, as the preacher was reading his text, and and here was his text, for what shall it profit a man if he should gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Well, all the seats were totally occupied, and so the great famous Indian fighter and war hero was very content to stand, and he was gracefully leaning against the middle post in the church house.
Now at the side of his stately appearance, the host pastor, somebody they referred to as brother Mac, well, let's just say he became nervous to the extreme knowing just what Peter Cartwright was capable of, anything basically in his imagination. And so sitting on the platform, he just discreetly as he could came up behind Cartwright and tugged on his coattail and said, brother Cartwright, general Jackson is here. General Jackson is here. Be careful. General Jackson is here. Well, Cartwright, absolutely aghast at the pastor's double standard. So so so so here here here's what Cartwright himself wrote about that particular occasion.
Quote, I felt a flash of indignation run all over me like an electric shock, and facing about to my congregation and purposely speaking out audibly, I said, who is general Jackson? And if you don't get his soul converted, God will damn him as quick as anybody. Folks, that's Peter Cartwright. That's Peter Cartwright. You know, if the Methodists talk today like that, I would even go to a Methodist church. Quote, the preacher tucked his head down, squatted low, and would no doubt have been thankful for a leave of absence. The congregation, general Jackson, all smiled or laughed outright at the preacher's expense.
Now when the congregation was dismissed, my city station preacher stepped up to me and very sternly said to me, he goes, you are the strangest man I ever saw, and general Jackson will chastise you for your insolence before you leave the city. Very clear of it, I said for general Jackson, I have no doubt I I have no doubt will applaud my course. And if he should undertake to chastise me well, there's two that can play that game. The next morning, very early, my city preacher went down to the hotel to make an apology to general Jackson for my conduct in the pulpit the night before. Shortly after he left, I passed by the hotel and met the general on the pavement.
And before he approached him by several steps, he smiled, reached out his hand, and said, mister Cartwright, you're a man after my own heart. I'm very surprised that mister Mack, to I'm very surprised that mister Mack to think that I would have been offended at you. No, sir. I told him that I highly approved of your independence, that a minister of Jesus Christ ought to love everybody and fear no mortal man. I told mister Mack that if I had a few thousand such independent, fearless officers as you are and a well drilled army, I could take all of England. In 1828, Jackson was elected to be the next president.
And just before he could be sworn into office, he, he he suffered one of the great setbacks of his life. His beloved wife, Rachel, she died of a massive heart attack on Christmas Eve of 1828, and she would she would lay to rest in her garden. And a friend of the widower said, I never pitied any person more in my life. I shall never forget his look of grief. Now Jackson had a, a running controversy with some of the bankers of The United States and particularly what he called the second bank of the United States. It it's kinda like what we would call, like, the Federal Reserve. That's something Jackson warned us against.
And so Jackson had his concerns, and at at at at one point, a bearded man attempted to assassinate him, and there was great speculation. Great speculation with some foundation that that that some of the bankers had set this this fellow up to, and promised him a great bounty if he was successful. Well, this guy, he came up behind the president, pointed two pistols at him point blank range. Point blank, squeeze the triggers, neither one of them fired. Neither one of them fired. To that, Jackson said, quote, a kind providence has been pleased to shield me against the recent attempts on my life and irresistibly carried my many minds to the belief of the superintending providence.
So in other words, or or or in in as simple as far as possible, God has a manifest destiny for this country. God has a manifest destiny for this country. Now my question to you is this, is it over? Is it over? Or is that destiny still in place? It's a great question. It's a great question. On 03/04/1837, president Jackson delivered his farewell address and reiterated the theme of America's unique destiny in the world history. And here's what he said in his farewell delivery. You have the highest human trust committed to you. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number. He has chosen you as the guardians of freedom to preserve it for the benefit of the human race.
May he who holds his hands in the in the destinies of nations make you worthy of the favors he has bestowed and enable you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance to guard and defend to the end of time the great charge he has committed to your keeping. Well, retirement years brought a season of serious reflection, and I'm I'm gonna finish up with this. The seed that was sown in Jackson's heart by Peter Cartwright and probably other preachers as well, was ready to bear fruit from the installation of God's word on the heart. Now, I'm sure you all know the story, the parable of the sower.
You know, the parable of the sower, the heart is compared to fertile ground, and the seed is the word of God. The seed has been sown repeatedly in the heart of this great patriot, this great historical figure. So Chamberlain, in his historical analysis, writes this, quote, the evening of his stormy life had come. The remains of his much loved wife were resting in the humble graveyard near the house. Alas, thoughts of eternity were forced upon him after attending a series of religious meetings. Jackson became greatly convicted of his sin. Less necessary, isn't it? Absolutely.
Absolutely. He goes on. He passed the night walking in his chamber in anguish and prayer. In the morning, he announced to his family his full conviction that he had repented of all of his sins, and through faith in Jesus Christ, that obtained forgiveness. Family prayer was immediately established, and he was privileged before his death to read through the entire bible twice. On 05/29/1845, only a few weeks before his death, Jackson declared this, sir, I am in the hands of a merciful God. I have full confidence in his goodness and mercy.
The Bible is true. Upon that sacred volume, I rest my hope for eternal salvation through the merits and blood of our blessed Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Well, I would call that a solid testimony. Amen? Wouldn't you? Finally, on 06/08/1845, just moments before he sailed into eternity, Jackson reassured everyone with these words. He said, my dear children, do not grieve for me. It is true I'm gonna leave you. I am well aware of my situation. I have suffered much bodily pain, but my my sufferings are nothing compared to that which our blessed redeemer endured on the accursed cross that all might be saved to put their trust in him.
God will take care of you for me. I am my god's, and I belong to him. I go but a short time before you and hope to and trust to meet you all in heaven, both white and black. That's what he said. That's what he said. Great patriot. Great patriot. Now before expiring, Andrew Jackson made one last appeal to America, before America, to build her future on the blessed word of God. He said he said this, quote, that book, sir, referring to the Bible, is the rock upon which our republic rests. It's still true. It's still true. If we're gonna have a republic, the very concept of a republic came from that book.
It didn't come from anywhere else. Nowhere else but that book. So a little bit of history there, and you could see that God had made up his mind that there was a manifest destiny for America. And every time it was met with opposition, God said, I got a counter move. I got something going on here. Watch this. So, well, a little more history. And, if you're interested, we'll pursue it more next week or a little bit more next week. We'll just keep on moving down the trail. Okay? Alright. Father, thank you. You've been good to us. As Americans, we've enjoyed the sweet taste of liberty and freedom. But, Lord, sometimes we feel that that, that's really being encroached upon. It's encroached upon those who are ignorant of our heritage and our history.
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Introduction and Welcome
Bible Study and Spiritual Reflections
American Heritage and the Spiritual Side of the Revolution
The Influence of the Age of Enlightenment
Westward Movement and Religious Influence
Circuit Riders and the Spread of the Gospel
The Revival of 1800 and Camp Meetings
Impact of Revival on American Society
Peter Cartwright: A Man of Faith and Action
The War of 1812 and Manifest Destiny
Andrew Jackson's Legacy and Faith
America's Manifest Destiny and Future
