Ive been researching the sermon titles and topics from our Founding Fathers Generation because this was when we had the 2nd Great Awakening.
When I look at what they preached on you would be shocked as they preached the gospel with fire, with passion, with zeal.
The most popular sermon from that era was from Jonathan Edwards titled “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
We have this idea as Americans that we are just going to storm into Washington DC, take it over, guns blazing.
Am I angry at what is happening, absolutely. Does it break my heart to see our leadership in the shape that it is in, absolutely but how we are going to win back our nation is not by storming D.C. but from the pulpits spread across this great land. We have to wake up there first before we can take action.
When Thomas Jefferson penned these words:
“That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness…”
We have to think of what drove the Colonists to write these words?
They didn’t just start running around like a crazy mob but what drove them were the principles that came from the revival of a people stirred up.
He says “it is the right of people to abolish it, institute a new government laying its foundation on such principles…”
What is our foundation today and where do our principles derive from? Our Founders foundation was the Word of God and within the Scriptures we find what guided their principles.
America was founded in the pulpits therefore it must be won back in the pulpits. In order for that to happen America’s preachers need to wake up and preach the gospel message with the same passion and fire that those Founding Era ministers preached with. Like every soul in the universe depended upon hearing the Gospel message!
The Gospel stirred the Colonists to movement. Many are stirred today but not by the gospel. There is no real movement in the hearts of our people today. People are filled with anger but not over the condition of their neighbors heart.
Until we start repenting of our sin we will continue down the road we are on. We will fall. We will crumble and America will cease to exists as we’ve known her.
Sermons like Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God stirred up something inside the people’s hearts that sparked a revival that started a revolution that birthed America.
Restoring Faith, Family, and Freedom in America 