Last week we talked about Teaching from a Biblical Worldview perspective. Let’s talk about why we should teach History as His Story. Psalm 78 challenges parents:

O my people, listen to my instructions. Open your ears to what I am saying, for I will speak to you in a parable. I will teach you hidden lessons from our past- stories we have heard and known, stories our ancestors handed down to us. We will not hide these truths from our children; we will tell the next generation about the glorious deeds of the Lord, about His power and His mighty wonders. For He issued His laws to Jacob; He gave His instructions to Israel. He commanded our ancestors to teach them to their children, so the next generation might know them— even the children not yet born— and they in turn will teach their own children. So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting His glorious miracles and obeying His commands.”

“So each generation should set its hope anew on God, not forgetting His glorious miracles and obeying his commands.”

Wouldn’t this be life changing for so many people to know the faithfulness of God, not only through the Word of our wonderful God in the Bible. But the stories of His faithfulness throughout generations and centuries in different countries where He especially showed up and showed off to make Himself known and to glorify His Great Name.

But as the Church backslid in the 1800’s and the Horace Mann’s of their day rose up and began to supplant our Biblical Worldview heritage, we no longer know these stories that build our Faith in God, and our courage as we read the True stories of men forsaking their Life, Liberty and Property to serve and honor Him alone. As we let anti-Christ forces mock us and our God and said nothing, our children have suffered.

But Noah Webster lived contemporaneously with Horace Mann and began to build an “ark” as Rosalie Slater called it, the 1828 Dictionary where he captured our language at the height of when we reasoned Biblically. (Compare these words in the 1828 with dictionaries now: Education, Marriage, Government, and Right.) This is why this resource is such a treasure.

Then our History was rewritten in the 1900’s. It is crucial to find original documents to teach history, His Story to the next generation. In these stories, written sometimes centuries ago, we find a Providential perspective. This is defined in the 1828 as:

“… the care and superintendence which God exercises over His creatures. He that acknowledges a creation and denies a providence involves himself in a palpable contradiction; for the same power which caused a thing to exist is necessary to continue its existence. Some persons admit a general providence but deny a particular providence not considering that a general providence consists of particulars. A belief in divine providence is a source of great consolation to good men. By divine providence is often understood God himself.”

Providence has been redefined in modern day dictionaries and Bibles. But the early Americans used this word often:

John Jay was a member of the American Bible Society and one of the authors of the Federalist Papers. He shared, “Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers.”(1)

“John Quincy Adams was also a bold outspoken Christian. An officer in the American Bible Society, he worked to place the Word of God in every home, even writing a book used to instruct 10 year-old Americans how to read through the Bible each year and get the most out of their reading. Shortly after being elected president of the United States, he declared that he was ‘relying above all upon the superintending Providence of that Being in Whose hands our breath is’.”(1)

Dr. Benjamin Rush, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, when a yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia and so many of the doctors left, stayed to help the sick, saying, “ I prefer, since I am placed here by Divine Providence, to fall in performing my duty (if such must be the consequence of staying upon the ground) than to secure my life by fleeing from the post of duty allotted in the Providence of God. I will remain, if I remain alone.”(1)

Some modern writers claim that our forefathers were deists. But in reading their writings in original documents, it’s obvious that they are lying. We believers, seeking God’s blessing on our lives, our families and our nations must teach the younger generation His Story so they have Faith in God and Hope to obey His commands.

(1) David Barton, Founders Bible, (Newbury Park, Shiloh Road, 2012), p. 763-767.

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A2S3 Executive Execution of Law  

He shall from time to time give to the Congress Information of the State of the Union, and recommend to their Consideration such Measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient; he may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper; he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers; he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, and shall Commission all the Officers of the United States. ~ A2S3

The president, as the people’s executor can only recommend needed legislation to ensure the General Welfare of the nation and has the Constitutional authority to call Congress to convene to do so.

Alexander Hamilton said in Federalist 77, “In regard to the power of convening either house of the legislature, I shall barely remark that in respect to the Senate, at least, we can readily discover a good reason for it. As this body has a concurrent power with the executive in the article of treaties, it might often be necessary to call it together with a view to this object, when it would be unnecessary and improper to convene the House of Representatives.”

Hamilton explains why the executive branch is best to receive ambassadors in Federalist 69, “The President shall receive ambassadors and other public ministers… [This] is more a matter of dignity than of authority. It is a circumstance which will be without consequence in the administration of the government; and it was far more convenient that it should be arranged in this manner than that there should be a necessity of convening the legislature, or one of its branches, upon every arrival of a foreign minister, though it were merely to take the place of a departed predecessor.”

Father, we thank You for our president, please help him faithfully execute the laws of our nation. Keep him safe and give him wisdom in all the decisions that he makes, in Jesus’ Mighty Name, Amen.

 

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I have learned many of these quotes from The Making of America by Cleon Skousen.    You may purchase it here.

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“It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1 NIV

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