IN GOD WE TRUSTED

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IN GOD WE TRUSTED
One Nation Under God
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Scriptural Foundation for Trusting God

• Three reasons why you should trust God
• 1. Its a command - Proverbs 35-6
• 2. Its conditional - Ps 511
• 3. Its a complement - Ps 111

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Our Godly Heritage

• Our Foundation
• Our Education

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Our Godly Foundation
May Flower Compact

• William Bradford
• Governor of Plymouth Colony
• Dec.11, 1620
• What could Now sustain them but the spirit of
  God and his grace
• 1Cor 159-10

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The Massachusetts Example

• The Cambridge Platform of 1646
• Four Steps
• Unless a man was a member of the Puritan Church,
  in good standing, he could not vote nor hold an
  office.
• Church attendance was compulsory for everyone
• Church and State approved New Church
  incorporation
• State support and unified discipline upon
  infractions

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Old Deluder Satan Law

• Massachusetts 1642 and Connecticut 1647
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• It being one chief project of that old
  deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of
  the Scriptures, as in former time...It is
  therefore ordered...that after the Lord hath
  increased the settlement to the number of fifty
  householders, they shall forthwith appoint one
  within their town, to teach all such children as
  shall resort to him, to write and read...and it
  is further ordered, That where any town shall
  increase to the number of one hundred families or
  householders, they shall set up a grammar school
  for the university. 1647 1Thes 35

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Our Godly Education

• Bonifacus
• by
• Cotton Mather

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Three Examples

• I will often tell the Children, What cause they
  have to Love a Glorious Christ, who has died for
  them. Eph 624
• I would show them, their main END must be To
  Acknowledge the Great God, and His Glorious
  Christ and bring Others to Acknowledge Him And
  that they are never Wise nor Well, but when they
  are doing so. Pro 1130
• Tis a Nobler work to make he Little Ones Know
  their Saviour, than to know their Letters Phil
  310

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• Dr. D. James Kennedy

I think the only answer is to return to the
historic root of education in America Jer 616
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The New England Primer

• Features
• First printed in 1690 by Benjamin Harris
• It was used in American classrooms until 1900
• It was known as the Little Bible of New England
• 120 million copies printed
• Alphabet in Bible verses
• Lords Prayer and Ten Commandments
• Spelling words with Bible Characters
  names
• Westminster Shorter Catechism

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Children Come Up for Prayer