Solomon Stoddard was an early colonial pastor who had a tremendous influence on New England. Not only was he the grandfather of Jonathan Edwards, but he also had a huge and overlooked impact on world history.
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00:36 --> 00:46 [SPEAKER_03]: We're going back to the year 17, 17, to listen to a sermon preached by Solomon Saadard and Northampton, where's Northampton, where are we going?
00:47 --> 00:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Massachusetts, of course.
00:49 --> 00:49 [SPEAKER_01]: Good question.
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00:53 --> 01:11 [SPEAKER_01]: nice night where we're going colonial let's do it yeah we haven't been to the old colonies in a while i do like colony episodes i think they're pretty cool but yeah but that this is a good one and this song is soldered is the grandfather of Jonathan Edwards and he was very very important part of american history
01:11 --> 01:22 [SPEAKER_01]: And if you know anything about famous pastors, Jonathan Edwards is a big deal actually, was telling a little bit of his story today at the dinner table with my kids and my children were like, John, then, where did you know that name?
01:22 --> 01:39 [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they just started off of one of our cups or something like that, or one of the shirts or something, but what you can get by the way, right, I thought it was going to merge story, get some of those shirts, okay, but yeah, so it was kind of cool to hear that, but the thing was, it was kind of like an episode where I was like, it'll be cool to do Jonathan Edwards grandpa.
01:39 --> 01:41 [SPEAKER_01]: I know he was an important guy.
01:41 --> 01:50 [SPEAKER_01]: I did not realize, well, by the time I was done with the story, I sent it to Elise, just like snippet of it, and she sent back like, oh, that's like a martyr and missionaries story.
01:50 --> 01:51 [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, it really is like that.
01:51 --> 02:01 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, this story is way more intense, way more cool, way more, I just really love his story, and it actually really ties in to Jonathan Edwards's own ministry and impact.
02:01 --> 02:04 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it's, it is not a stretch to say,
02:04 --> 02:26 [SPEAKER_01]: Perhaps entire church and world history would be different if it wasn't for Solomon's daughter, which is a big claim to make But I feel like I can I feel like I can make the case for you would agree like that it is a big claim But you really can see how a thread that starts with this guy ends and changing the world a little bit so really cool I I'm so I love I love I love I was like this.
02:26 --> 02:29 [SPEAKER_01]: I love episodes where I went in being like I want who this guy is
02:29 --> 02:35 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and I find this amazing story kind of buried in there now I love all the episodes I love everybody.
02:35 --> 02:39 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait to get to heaven and meet all these people But you know sometimes you're like, okay, he's the easily smart kid.
02:39 --> 02:42 [SPEAKER_01]: You wrote a bunch of Greek books and any preach Should everyone love them.
02:42 --> 02:49 [SPEAKER_01]: I am I this is not that story So pretty cool and not who not Solomon Satter is also famous like if you
02:49 --> 02:55 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a small sliver of you, like there's people who are listening and they're like, I have no idea who this is, never heard of them.
02:55 --> 03:02 [SPEAKER_01]: There's a small sliver of you who are who are famous, what you think he's famous for, is not hardly what we're going to talk about.
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03:44 --> 03:46 [SPEAKER_01]: These mountain men, but I'm interested.
03:46 --> 03:47 [SPEAKER_01]: I've mentioned before.
03:47 --> 03:51 [SPEAKER_01]: I love the stories of people who were out in the front of your far away preaching Christ.
03:51 --> 03:54 [SPEAKER_01]: We've covered many different versions of them.
03:54 --> 04:00 [SPEAKER_01]: on this show, A William Anderson Scott, who was over in California with the gold miners, most recent episode, Frankie Higgins with the Lumberjacks.
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06:21 --> 06:23 [SPEAKER_01]: You people are interesting to me, the way you
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07:09 --> 07:10 [SPEAKER_01]: It's dead, yeah.
07:10 --> 07:12 [SPEAKER_03]: Is that sort of... No, it's a cover.
07:12 --> 07:13 [SPEAKER_01]: You're at peace with the world.
07:13 --> 07:14 [SPEAKER_01]: Is what it sounds like.
07:14 --> 07:14 [SPEAKER_01]: That's what it is.
07:14 --> 07:17 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, there's a... That's what it must be.
07:17 --> 07:21 [SPEAKER_01]: I will say, I do 99% of the time, mostly, both in two minutes.
07:21 --> 07:23 [SPEAKER_01]: My wife will be, you know, should be talking at night.
07:23 --> 07:27 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm just like, yes, that's nice.
07:27 --> 07:33 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know much to say, but I do get it pretty early and go for a run and you know all that so pretty a bit I think it's just that All right, all right, let's keep going.
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07:49 --> 07:50 [SPEAKER_01]: Pretty talk about stottard.
07:51 --> 07:52 [SPEAKER_01]: I am I'm excited
07:52 --> 07:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Unless I find out from a listener his name is actually stodard or so that I thought then I'll be kind of responsible.
07:58 --> 08:08 [SPEAKER_03]: It's always possible on this show Solomon stoddard born in the year 1643 1643 is when we are gonna go back to
08:08 --> 08:12 [SPEAKER_03]: This is a time of English settlers, right?
08:12 --> 08:15 [SPEAKER_03]: Born on American soil, this is, were way back, were way back.
08:16 --> 08:20 [SPEAKER_03]: His family stood at the pinnacle of colonial society.
08:20 --> 08:27 [SPEAKER_03]: His father was a wealthy merchant, but it was his mother who connected him to some of the most influential figures in his era.
08:28 --> 08:37 [SPEAKER_03]: She was the niece of John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts Bay colony, and
08:37 --> 08:42 [SPEAKER_03]: we explore with with Rups famous city on a hill sermon in another episode.
08:43 --> 08:58 [SPEAKER_03]: She was also the sister of George Downing the name downing the the individual for which Downing Street was named after it's the area in London that the Prime Minister's office is at and has been at since 1735.
08:58 --> 09:01 [SPEAKER_03]: Stoddard's mom.
09:01 --> 09:02 [SPEAKER_03]: She's got a lot of connection.
09:02 --> 09:04 [SPEAKER_03]: She's got the the network there.
09:05 --> 09:09 [SPEAKER_03]: But even this privilege cannot shield young Solomon from hardships.
09:09 --> 09:13 [SPEAKER_03]: His mother did pass way when he was just three and a half years old.
09:13 --> 09:14 [SPEAKER_03]: So sad.
09:14 --> 09:30 [SPEAKER_03]: Still he excelled academically graduating at 15 from the most prestigious private school in New England now We say that I do want to like one of these days
09:30 --> 09:35 [SPEAKER_03]: But I, you know, it's a long time before the petition, like, how many schools were they're new England?
09:35 --> 09:39 [SPEAKER_01]: The most prestigious schools also, the only school with New England, right?
09:39 --> 09:51 [SPEAKER_01]: It wasn't the only school, but I do think, I mean, you know, it's like saying, revive studios has the best church history podcast studio in Indonesia, or at least on Isle of Java.
09:51 --> 09:57 [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's probably true, but I don't know that we're, you know, I don't think the competition stiff.
09:57 --> 09:58 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
09:58 --> 10:04 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, or I graduated, I graduated top in my class and uh, there was my school in my class.
10:04 --> 10:09 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, exactly, something like that, that's, that is the vibe it gave off.
10:09 --> 10:19 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't want to take his, I didn't want to take his glory from him, um, but I did that to stay in by, but I was like, you know, was that a tough game to get into?
10:19 --> 10:27 [SPEAKER_03]: He grew up in a strict Puritan household life was disciplined there, regulated by spiritual and social rigor.
10:27 --> 10:34 [SPEAKER_03]: Children were taught diligently to avoid being offensive in words and gestures.
10:34 --> 10:44 [SPEAKER_03]: the only alcohol allowed was weak beer, tobacco was forbidden, and blasphemy and failure to observe the Lord's Day could result in expulsion from the colony.
10:45 --> 10:47 [SPEAKER_03]: Troy, I do think it would be interesting.
10:47 --> 10:48 [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe I'll investigate this on my own.
10:49 --> 10:51 [SPEAKER_03]: Like, a day in the life of
11:06 --> 11:14 [SPEAKER_01]: But was it I don't really know like what or was it like yeah There were some rules in the books, you know, but it's it's foot loose style But it wasn't really that bad.
11:14 --> 11:30 [SPEAKER_01]: I would be very I think that'd be a really interesting episode like cuz cuz we talk about people like John Calvin and these piratins Everyone loves them, but I have made the point like but would you want to live there like right you love the preaching and the teaching and the books But would you actually want to live in a city?
11:30 --> 11:42 [SPEAKER_01]: Like the one that they're like if a modern version of this propped up would you actually move there because I think a lot of people would totally be about the Jesus part of it, but wouldn't necessarily like the rest.
11:43 --> 11:52 [SPEAKER_03]: I feel like it is largely a product of its time in that the kind of the strict religious dedication nature of it.
11:53 --> 12:00 [SPEAKER_03]: I feel like is a contributing element that allows survival to happen, because that's the thing.
12:00 --> 12:10 [SPEAKER_03]: very difficult scenarios to be honest, both in keeping yourself fed, but also, you know, you're under attack from Indians and stuff like that, very stressful.
12:11 --> 12:22 [SPEAKER_03]: You need something to more rigorously structure your hope around, I feel like, then I feel like it's something that could exist in our current era.
12:21 --> 12:22 [SPEAKER_03]: I might be wrong.
12:22 --> 12:24 [SPEAKER_03]: I don't know, but I feel like that's one of those.
12:24 --> 12:33 [SPEAKER_01]: I know that Calvin did some of these things too, and I do know that they tried it in England, but I agree with you that I think it was more of a survival element in New England.
12:33 --> 12:38 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, because of the survival element, I mean, it's something I don't remember the exact statistic.
12:38 --> 12:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Somewhere between, isn't one in eight, one in three, a very large number of the people who come to America, especially in these the 17th century, don't make it, right?
12:47 --> 12:49 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, it was something like the people on the Mayflower,
12:49 --> 12:56 [SPEAKER_01]: unbelievable statistics and numbers of people are starving and dying trying to build this dream of a Christian country in a new land.
12:57 --> 12:58 [SPEAKER_01]: So I do agree with you.
12:58 --> 13:00 [SPEAKER_01]: I do think it was a binding force that helped them.
13:00 --> 13:08 [SPEAKER_01]: You couldn't afford to have people drinking at the tavern late at night till they were plop drunk because you needed these people disciplined.
13:08 --> 13:09 [SPEAKER_01]: We were, you know, it's not a safe one.
13:09 --> 13:10 [SPEAKER_03]: It could be a bear attack.
13:10 --> 13:11 [SPEAKER_03]: at any point.
13:11 --> 13:14 [SPEAKER_01]: You could be a fairer, you could be, you could be frozen for winter.
13:14 --> 13:19 [SPEAKER_01]: You know what you understood how the land worked and it won't was going to happen on a day today.
13:19 --> 13:21 [SPEAKER_01]: So I definitely agree with you.
13:21 --> 13:25 [SPEAKER_01]: It could be a good revive conversation, it could be a good, lots of different directions.
13:25 --> 13:26 [SPEAKER_01]: We could go with that.
13:26 --> 13:28 [SPEAKER_01]: But I think about that a lot.
13:28 --> 13:36 [SPEAKER_01]: Like and look to some really great men came from this, but I also in this episode kind of points to this too, the next generation, a lot of them weren't
13:36 --> 13:46 [SPEAKER_01]: the most faithful Christians, which I think is kind of like, if this is a success, people who kind of sometimes like we should bring this back, we should build the Christian kingdom, you know, and go back to it.
13:46 --> 13:49 [SPEAKER_01]: But if it's so successful, why didn't it seem to work?
13:49 --> 13:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Why did generation one love it?
13:51 --> 13:53 [SPEAKER_01]: But generation two rejected it, you know what I'm saying?
13:53 --> 13:56 [SPEAKER_01]: Like if if this city came back, if we built it again,
13:56 --> 14:02 [SPEAKER_01]: I can't but think it would go the same way where the first group would love it and follow all the rules, but their children would kind of give up on it.
14:02 --> 14:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Because that's what we saw, everywhere where it tried, the children were the ones who kind of were like, ain't in, like, in foot loose who said, you know, we're not going to keep going that direction.
14:11 --> 14:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Footless is a movie about a town of people who decide they want a dance when they were told not to dance in case that reference isn't getting through.
14:19 --> 14:28 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I feel like this is human nature though, like it's very difficult for generational consistency for most religious structures that we see.
14:28 --> 14:32 [SPEAKER_03]: I went down a, um, a shakers rabbit hole the other day fascinating.
14:32 --> 14:34 [SPEAKER_03]: Man, shakers are, are of an odd.
14:34 --> 14:51 [SPEAKER_03]: group of bunch, a hot bunch of group, but I feel like it, I feel like it was a similar situation where like that first generation built a lot of structure around it and then that second generation had trouble keeping it together.
14:51 --> 15:01 [SPEAKER_03]: Another aspect I find fascinating from historical standpoint about this era is just the notion that you can get off a boat and a new world.
15:01 --> 15:11 [SPEAKER_03]: You're chopping down trees to make the first cabins that you guys are going to be staying in, like it is the epitome of early times, colonizing a new world.
15:11 --> 15:20 [SPEAKER_03]: And by the end of your lifetime, it has been built up into a legitimate
15:20 --> 15:39 [SPEAKER_03]: that is self-sustaining and it's got, you know, all of the job duties, you get your town doctor, you get that's always been wild to me that you couldn't over a lifetime see such progress like that that's a cool concept to me that such changes to the land can happen and such progress can happen to the land.
15:39 --> 15:47 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously they literally carved out, I mean, the world at that time in a way that we, there's no comparison to what they were doing.
15:47 --> 15:57 [SPEAKER_01]: But they aren't that many, I mean, but even just taking away like these are literally fleshing out new maps and territories that have never been touched before by European's obviously the Native Americans were already there.
15:57 --> 16:01 [SPEAKER_01]: But I will say, too, there aren't really that many places left like that.
16:01 --> 16:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Like, right, truly out maybe Alaska, maybe some places in Western America.
16:06 --> 16:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I guess there are probably some places down in Patagonia, but for the most part, like the world.
16:11 --> 16:23 [SPEAKER_01]: We did, I don't know, I don't feel like there's as many places where you can really just start with nothing and build an entire new, you know, there's always a town or something nearby, I feel like in a lot of places now.
16:24 --> 16:28 [SPEAKER_01]: I know there are very rural parts of America, so that's not to say that it's not there.
16:28 --> 16:30 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just, it's different that it was back then.
16:31 --> 16:37 [SPEAKER_03]: I saw a meme that said, I'm, I remember when this was all corn fields years old.
16:37 --> 16:40 [SPEAKER_03]: That's kind of like this on a continental scale.
16:40 --> 16:45 [SPEAKER_03]: Like I remember when nobody was here, I'm that old type of thing.
16:45 --> 16:47 [SPEAKER_03]: I guess I had a personally really don't have that.
16:47 --> 16:53 [SPEAKER_03]: My wife says that she remembers her town, which is a now-developed city when that's... Yeah, I will say.
16:53 --> 17:10 [SPEAKER_01]: You grew up in kind of the city that like where your city was where you grew up everything is still kind of the way it was I can definitely say that I grew up in a part of Jackson before to that really like it was swamp when we moved in and it became a city like in it part of suburb as much as a suburb can be while we were there
17:10 --> 17:29 [SPEAKER_01]: I've definitely seen it even actually of the town I am in, sleepy little town in Indonesia is becoming a fast hot up in summer, which is different in Asia because we're at least where we are, it's already full of people and it's just getting more and more crowded and it will end up looking
17:29 --> 17:45 [SPEAKER_01]: What is nice is that for us we're starting to get like some pretty good shops and pretty good restaurants that are moving in that I mean they were some okay one Yeah, there were some ones we liked before but there's a lot of new ones coming in and maybe a McDonald's that's what I have an entire class of students that are praying for McDonald's to come to our town And I'm with them.
17:45 --> 17:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Bye
17:45 --> 18:12 [SPEAKER_01]: you may be you may be in America right now somewhere going oh I don't like McDonald's you don't live overseas you don't know what it is different okay but uh but it also it's just it's just like there are now apartment complexes where there were rice fields and they're now um so it's the same thing you humanity is always watching like oh I so now I guess for us because we're like I remember one of us all and then some of the old timers will say they'll be like I remember one of us all rice fields
18:12 --> 18:27 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's just a human condition wherever you are maybe to just you you remember when it was different It was all country somewhere if you were grew up outside of a city and it starts to become a city Yeah, we got keep going We got a lot.
18:27 --> 18:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.
18:27 --> 18:29 [SPEAKER_01]: This is a long episode We didn't have time for one of those jokes.
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18:31 --> 18:36 [SPEAKER_03]: But by the age of 18, Solomon began setting Puritan theology earnestly.
18:37 --> 18:43 [SPEAKER_03]: This was the height of the Puritan influence in both New England and the New World across the Atlantic.
18:43 --> 18:57 [SPEAKER_03]: The English Revolution under Oliver Cromwell was drawing to a close shaping the religious and political context in which Stoddard would come of age and eventually leave his mark on an early American life.
18:57 --> 18:59 [SPEAKER_01]: He was a very well-studied man at 18.
18:59 --> 19:02 [SPEAKER_01]: He gave a full dissertation on like theology and philosophy.
19:02 --> 19:03 [SPEAKER_01]: I think this would be cool.
19:03 --> 19:08 [SPEAKER_01]: As somebody teaches 18-year-olds, I wish they would give a full dissertation on theology and philosophy when they graduated.
19:08 --> 19:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it would be nice.
19:10 --> 19:12 [SPEAKER_01]: He holds a unique place in his brain.
19:12 --> 19:21 [SPEAKER_01]: I look this up and Harvard, he was made the library keeper aka the first official library
19:21 --> 19:27 [SPEAKER_01]: But at the time, because there were no other libraries, really, this made him the first official librarian.
19:28 --> 19:32 [SPEAKER_01]: So now, when you're had a party, which you guys are at a party's all the time, we're always given you a fact towards for the party.
19:33 --> 19:41 [SPEAKER_01]: But when you're at that nice Bible study in there, you'll be like, well, you know, as Solomon started by the way, the first American librarian, right?
19:41 --> 19:52 [SPEAKER_01]: And the gas from the crowd will be like, wow, I always wondered who it was and you now know that it's Solomon Stoddard, you know, what it went on the first book came in late and he was like, you got to pay a fee.
19:52 --> 19:57 [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if they were like, well, what is this right, because he's the first one and he had some rules.
19:57 --> 19:59 [SPEAKER_01]: I thought the rules were kind of funny.
19:59 --> 20:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Mr. Solomon was taught the chosen library keeper for the rectifying of library and rules for library keeper 16 orders were made No person resident in the college one example except an overseer could check out a book another was no scholar in the college Under a senior could borrow the book for a long time and no one under master of art unless it be a fellow
20:20 --> 20:23 [SPEAKER_01]: without the allowance of the president of the Harvard could borrow a book.
20:23 --> 20:27 [SPEAKER_01]: So they were pretty strict on those books, which I guess makes a lot of sense.
20:27 --> 20:36 [SPEAKER_01]: I had to come over on a sailing vessel or, you know, get donated and if somebody steals a book, you're out of that book for a really long time until you can get another one.
20:36 --> 20:41 [SPEAKER_01]: So he had a very important job that first librarian, keeping things strict.
20:42 --> 20:45 [SPEAKER_01]: So strict stuff for that library and checking out books in colonial America.
20:45 --> 20:47 [SPEAKER_01]: I just thought that was an interesting,
20:47 --> 20:52 [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't, you gotta, you gotta throw them in there where you can't, I don't even, librarians aren't quite what they used.
20:52 --> 20:53 [SPEAKER_01]: They used to have a lot of power.
20:53 --> 20:54 [SPEAKER_01]: They used to be a really...
20:55 --> 20:56 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they still do research.
20:56 --> 20:57 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not attacking librarians.
20:57 --> 21:01 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying, like, in the world, like, you used to be when you needed no stuff.
21:01 --> 21:04 [SPEAKER_01]: You called up or went to the library and they had to help you do the research.
21:04 --> 21:09 [SPEAKER_01]: It was a very important part of American history and world history for a very long time.
21:11 --> 21:19 [SPEAKER_03]: from their Solomon Stutter traveled far from New England, accepting a post in Barbados, where he would serve as a chaplain for two years.
21:20 --> 21:26 [SPEAKER_03]: The move was driven partially by fragile health, but also by a desire to experience ministry in different settings.
21:26 --> 21:29 [SPEAKER_03]: Even so, his heart remained tied to home.
21:29 --> 21:38 [SPEAKER_03]: and by the age of 26 he had returned a Boston already, thinking ahead to the possibility of crossing the Atlantic to Britain to pass our church in England.
21:39 --> 21:41 [SPEAKER_03]: Providence intervened before those plans could take shape.
21:42 --> 21:56 [SPEAKER_03]: Eleasor, Mather, Brother of Increase Mather and Uncle to Cotton Mather died unexpectedly, and he had been serving as a pastor in North Hampton, which at the time was still a very dangerous frontier settlement.
21:56 --> 22:00 [SPEAKER_03]: Solomon stepped in to cover the vacant pulpit.
22:00 --> 22:11 [SPEAKER_03]: And within only a few months, he ended up meeting and falling in love with L. E. Zer's widow, Esther, Esther Mather, and now our man, Solomon,
22:11 --> 22:16 [SPEAKER_03]: got married and went into Pavan kids and raising 13 children together.
22:17 --> 22:21 [SPEAKER_03]: He would remain pastor of the same church in Northampton for 55 years.
22:21 --> 22:25 [SPEAKER_03]: It was not a quiet country parish.
22:25 --> 22:33 [SPEAKER_03]: The town stood on the edge of colonial expansion where wilderness pressed close and danger was never far away.
22:33 --> 22:39 [SPEAKER_03]: Bears and wolves roamed the region and the conflict with the native tribes remained an ongoing threat.
22:39 --> 22:44 [SPEAKER_03]: even four decades into his ministry after the town had grown significantly.
22:44 --> 22:55 [SPEAKER_03]: Solomon argued that residents should raise trained dogs to help defend against attacks, since rating parties could strike quickly and disappear into the forest.
22:55 --> 23:04 [SPEAKER_03]: and his concerns were not theoretical, only a few miles from Northampton, 19 settlers were killed on a Native American raid.
23:04 --> 23:17 [SPEAKER_03]: During King Phillips' war, there was this border conflict between the natives and the English settlers, and Northampton itself, his town, was kind of just right in the middle of this conflict, and it was targeted multiple times.
23:17 --> 23:25 [SPEAKER_03]: So this was the environment that he was preaching in and shepherding in and bearing the dead end and baptizing new believers in.
23:25 --> 23:33 [SPEAKER_03]: It was not an easy place to spin more than half a century, like he did, but it was the place where his ministry took root and endured.
23:33 --> 23:48 [SPEAKER_01]: And by the way, we said 55 years, but it's actually maybe 60, because I think there's some overlap where he was kind of passing the reins on to his grandson Jonathan Edward, so really, I mean, that's about as long as you can ever pass through somewhere right, like I mean, so that is incredible.
23:48 --> 23:57 [SPEAKER_01]: If you like, if you want to hear more about King Flows 4, we really color that Salem which trials our first ever deep dive, I still think it was one of my, I loved it was my favorite to do.
23:57 --> 24:00 [SPEAKER_01]: and we really covered some of these like wars going on and stuff.
24:00 --> 24:01 [SPEAKER_01]: So it's a pretty cool one.
24:01 --> 24:07 [SPEAKER_01]: If you go find it on Patreon, we never did release it to the public, not because we're it's not some secret thing.
24:07 --> 24:09 [SPEAKER_01]: It just it just hasn't made us way out.
24:09 --> 24:15 [SPEAKER_01]: One of the big debates of Stoddard's life happened between him and them may there's over what is called the halfway covenant.
24:15 --> 24:22 [SPEAKER_01]: And this is that thing where if people when I've talked to people when I mentioned we were doing Solomon's
24:22 --> 24:26 [SPEAKER_01]: We revi thoughts try to explain the big issues in the lives of these men.
24:26 --> 24:27 [SPEAKER_01]: We always try to be neutral.
24:27 --> 24:29 [SPEAKER_01]: I've appreciated that people throughout the years.
24:29 --> 24:31 [SPEAKER_01]: I've been like, you guys do a pretty good job of being neutral.
24:31 --> 24:32 [SPEAKER_01]: That is something we strive for.
24:33 --> 24:36 [SPEAKER_01]: We're not trying to put our thumb in the scale and force you to have our theology.
24:37 --> 24:39 [SPEAKER_01]: We have people from all over the theological.
24:39 --> 24:39 [SPEAKER_01]: We want them to be Christian.
24:39 --> 24:40 [SPEAKER_01]: We want them to be sincere.
24:40 --> 24:44 [SPEAKER_01]: And we're not interested in heretics and more of them.
24:44 --> 24:46 [SPEAKER_01]: That kind of stuff.
24:46 --> 24:51 [SPEAKER_01]: We try not to, you know, they're a great amazing Christians from different theological spectrums.
24:52 --> 24:55 [SPEAKER_01]: I think church history kind of forces you to acknowledge my side.
24:56 --> 24:58 [SPEAKER_01]: I like, doesn't always have all the answers.
24:58 --> 25:03 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes we made some big mistakes and likewise, people who are on the opposite side, the guys on the side that I don't like.
25:03 --> 25:05 [SPEAKER_01]: Sometimes do some amazing things for God.
25:05 --> 25:06 [SPEAKER_01]: It humbles you.
25:06 --> 25:07 [SPEAKER_01]: And so I think it's cool.
25:07 --> 25:09 [SPEAKER_01]: With that said,
25:09 --> 25:10 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's 22.
25:10 --> 25:13 [SPEAKER_01]: We've had people get mad at us and write it and be like, you're on this side.
25:13 --> 25:14 [SPEAKER_01]: You're on that side.
25:14 --> 25:16 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, and we don't try to hide it from you or anything.
25:16 --> 25:24 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just that we really do seek some neutrality where we can, but when it comes to theology questions, sometimes we try to share it all and say, hey, what do you think?
25:24 --> 25:34 [SPEAKER_01]: This is what I'm going to skip in the reason is because we're not theology podcast show when we aren't we take we cover a lot of the Allege on our show, but we're not theology podcast show.
25:34 --> 25:40 [SPEAKER_01]: There are other shows that talk about the halfway covenant and why this was important they can cover it better
25:40 --> 25:42 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just something that I just don't think.
25:43 --> 25:43 [SPEAKER_01]: I looked at it.
25:43 --> 25:44 [SPEAKER_01]: I researched it.
25:44 --> 25:49 [SPEAKER_01]: It's all about infant baptism, church membership, and how it affects things in New England and the 1600s.
25:49 --> 25:50 [SPEAKER_01]: It's important.
25:50 --> 25:52 [SPEAKER_01]: It really didn't matter at the time.
25:52 --> 25:53 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a big debate.
25:53 --> 25:57 [SPEAKER_01]: And it became a huge conflict between this stoddard and the major family.
25:58 --> 25:59 [SPEAKER_01]: It affected the colonies.
25:59 --> 26:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and it was it within the if made their family increase and we I mentioned the made their family because we've covered increase and cotton may there on our show Cotton may there huge in the Salem witch trials, but also as one of the coolest sermons we've ever done Where he preached to pirates on death row one of my favorite sermons go check it.
26:15 --> 26:16 [SPEAKER_01]: I used that sermon all the time with my students.
26:17 --> 26:25 [SPEAKER_01]: It's a great sermon and And I don't know if that's how I do hate a brag, but I stood at their spot their burial site in Boston pretty cool, right?
26:25 --> 26:26 [SPEAKER_01]: So you could go go
26:26 --> 26:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the mayors are in great, but they even debated amongst themselves.
26:29 --> 26:35 [SPEAKER_01]: All that say, go find another podcast to talk about the halfway covenant, so we don't cover.
26:35 --> 26:35 [SPEAKER_01]: We're not, I don't know.
26:36 --> 26:43 [SPEAKER_01]: It's just not something I had time to dig into and I just don't know that that many of our listeners are on the edge of their seat to find out of that.
26:43 --> 26:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I despite it being at odds with others during the time he preached firmly that people need to be converted and people could experience relationship with God, and that may sound very normal.
26:53 --> 26:57 [SPEAKER_01]: You may have of course that's what most people preach, but this actually was a little bit new.
26:57 --> 27:08 [SPEAKER_01]: He's one of the first people that preach like you need to have a relationship, a personal experience with God conversion, that's not to say the Puritans didn't believe in.
27:08 --> 27:10 [SPEAKER_01]: repentance, but it was a more personal.
27:10 --> 27:18 [SPEAKER_01]: It's what the great awakening, John that I was John Wesley's, George with Field, so guys are going to preach this very personal conversion experience.
27:18 --> 27:22 [SPEAKER_01]: That's going to change everything a lot of ways, but it's not or it's actually doing it before them.
27:23 --> 27:28 [SPEAKER_01]: And his church grew as he preached the word, hoping to see sinners change, lies converted,
27:28 --> 27:31 [SPEAKER_01]: You can see how this would be a great cornerstone of the Great Awakening.
27:31 --> 27:41 [SPEAKER_01]: This shift kind of from you need to repent to you need to also know God and add that while you're repenting, you're coming into a knowledge and relationship with your Savior.
27:42 --> 27:56 [SPEAKER_01]: It had a huge effect in many of these second generation people living in New England who had walked away from God, we're not following the rules, we're kind of doing their own thing, we're convicted under the preaching of Solomon's Father.
28:03 --> 28:10 [SPEAKER_03]: Solomon Stoddard's church already stood on the edge of danger, perched where Indian raids were a constant threat.
28:11 --> 28:15 [SPEAKER_03]: And in 1678, that danger became a terrifying reality.
28:15 --> 28:21 [SPEAKER_03]: Stoddard was ambushed while traveling on the road.
28:21 --> 28:26 [SPEAKER_03]: It seemed like there was a conflict between the French and the Indian.
28:26 --> 28:32 [SPEAKER_01]: No, it was a conflict where they were passing through and the French were helping the Indians.
28:32 --> 28:35 [SPEAKER_01]: And or at least a Frenchman was helping this group of Indians.
28:36 --> 28:37 [SPEAKER_03]: Okay, that makes more sense.
28:37 --> 28:38 [SPEAKER_03]: I was a bit scared.
28:38 --> 28:51 [SPEAKER_03]: So the French was helping the Indians and the French was about to shoot
28:51 --> 28:52 [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, rep.
28:52 --> 29:02 [SPEAKER_03]: So this, this, the, the Indian was rep and for stoddard and, uh, the Indian would say quote, that man is Englishman's God in quote.
29:02 --> 29:04 [SPEAKER_03]: So I guess, so there's this reputation.
29:04 --> 29:14 [SPEAKER_03]: There's this, uh, cloud that stoddard has amongst everyone there amongst the Colonials, amongst even that these native tribes here, where they know,
29:14 --> 29:18 [SPEAKER_03]: But this is a clergyman here that does not mean us harm.
29:18 --> 29:20 [SPEAKER_03]: He is at peace.
29:20 --> 29:23 [SPEAKER_03]: And so he was kind of being protected on all sides.
29:23 --> 29:31 [SPEAKER_03]: And there's multiple stories of this, where there's conflict that takes place, and then someone says, don't you realize this is Solomon's taught hard?
29:31 --> 29:33 [SPEAKER_03]: And then everyone chills out.
29:33 --> 29:34 [SPEAKER_03]: And so, praise the Lord.
29:34 --> 29:38 [SPEAKER_03]: He's got that type of cloth that goes with and that God kind of protects him.
29:38 --> 29:43 [SPEAKER_03]: We're all of these scenarios where he recounts and where people talk about him being so close to death.
29:43 --> 29:50 [SPEAKER_03]: And then the reality of his reputation is just kind of protecting him throughout these conflicts.
29:50 --> 29:58 [SPEAKER_03]: So pretty neat stuff, but unfortunately, with time, tragedy did end up striking his family in 1701.
29:59 --> 30:08 [SPEAKER_03]: So this is a bit later in his life, but his stepdaughter, Eunice Mathers, was kidnapped, captured by Indians.
30:08 --> 30:15 [SPEAKER_03]: They never saw her again, like the sad reality of it, so she must have been napped at some point in her travels.
30:16 --> 30:21 [SPEAKER_03]: And so this loss propelled Stoddard to take a pretty urgent action here.
30:21 --> 30:37 [SPEAKER_03]: He began writing directly to the governor of Massachusetts, warning that unless colonists confronted and subdued native raids, the entire region could face devastation.
30:37 --> 30:43 [SPEAKER_03]: but it was also starkly dangerous in Stoddard's courage and influence were tested at every turn here.
30:43 --> 30:48 [SPEAKER_01]: Now, I think Solomon's strong opinions against the Indians makes perfect sense, right?
30:48 --> 30:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, your your stepdaughter's kidnapped, you're seeing settlers getting killed left and right.
30:53 --> 30:57 [SPEAKER_01]: You yourself have almost been killed and he's actually two different times.
30:58 --> 31:01 [SPEAKER_01]: He's described another time where he was outside like meditating.
31:01 --> 31:07 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, next to a church and the same scene played out where like the Indians almost killed them, but then they were like, oh, that's Solomon.
31:07 --> 31:08 [SPEAKER_01]: We're not going to attack him.
31:08 --> 31:14 [SPEAKER_01]: So yeah, it's somehow had a very respected reputation, uh, they were like he's like, you know, they're religious man.
31:14 --> 31:17 [SPEAKER_01]: We won't kill him, but it's still scary stuff.
31:17 --> 31:21 [SPEAKER_01]: But what's really cool about a story is despite the strong opinions, we see him change.
31:22 --> 31:24 [SPEAKER_01]: Over time, he has a softening and is heart.
31:25 --> 31:29 [SPEAKER_01]: And I can only think it's by the Holy Spirit, so 1701, daughter's getting kidnapped.
31:29 --> 31:30 [SPEAKER_01]: He's writing letters.
31:30 --> 31:31 [SPEAKER_01]: We have to stop the Indians.
31:31 --> 31:33 [SPEAKER_01]: They're planning to wipe us out.
31:33 --> 31:44 [SPEAKER_01]: But then over time, we see him start to encourage missionaries to go to the Indians and he starts preaching like, hey, we need to share Jesus with the Indians nearby.
31:44 --> 31:50 [SPEAKER_01]: And in 1723, he writes a pamphlet and he basically asks the question, will
31:50 --> 31:53 [SPEAKER_01]: will we be like, it God will be mad at us.
31:53 --> 32:00 [SPEAKER_01]: We will be to blame if God sends disasters and wars on us because of how we treated our neighbors, the Indians.
32:01 --> 32:03 [SPEAKER_01]: We haven't shared Jesus with them, certainly enough.
32:04 --> 32:15 [SPEAKER_01]: So whatever happens to the American colonists here, we deserve it because if we were really loving our neighbors, we would be sharing the gospel with these guys and sitting more missionaries and taking care of them more.
32:16 --> 32:17 [SPEAKER_01]: And it's really,
32:17 --> 32:17 [SPEAKER_01]: crazy.
32:17 --> 32:23 [SPEAKER_01]: I can imagine losing friends, losing neighbors, living in constant fear, being attacked multiple times yourself.
32:24 --> 32:30 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think I did even, I don't remember if we mentioned do we whole, which was on the tack where literally a bunch of people got slaughtered before his eyes.
32:30 --> 32:35 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this is a tough life on the front tier he's living.
32:35 --> 32:41 [SPEAKER_01]: and yet his heart softens and he wishes to see the people doing these things come to Christ.
32:42 --> 32:44 [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, he's an old man too.
32:44 --> 32:48 [SPEAKER_01]: At this point, he's like in his 80s and 90s when he writes that pamphlet.
32:48 --> 32:52 [SPEAKER_01]: And he held these at the UNICE person was kidnapped when he was 60 something.
32:52 --> 32:56 [SPEAKER_01]: So, I mean, he's having to let go of this bitterness, late in life.
32:56 --> 32:57 [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm even bitterness.
32:57 --> 32:59 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it makes sense why he felt this way.
32:59 --> 33:05 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think anybody would go excuse me
33:05 --> 33:17 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and yet he lets it go and he changes towards a heart of mission and a heart of praying for those who persecuting and that by the way, totally goes against like this pureton image that these guys are all jerks who who look down on people.
33:18 --> 33:26 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you can't imagine a people more, you know, you would have more reason to look down on than these people who are hurting your loved ones and yet he forgives them and it's.
33:26 --> 33:29 [SPEAKER_01]: praying and writing and telling people go and share the gospel.
33:29 --> 33:33 [SPEAKER_01]: I just for me I just look at that and I go, man, only Jesus can do stuff like that.
33:33 --> 33:42 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, he's no one but God can take these hearts that are justified in their frustration and turn them into love for their enemies like he does.
33:42 --> 33:53 [SPEAKER_01]: I love stories like that and I when I read that I was just so really encouraged to see how God really did change his heart Understandable where it was but really makes a difference.
33:53 --> 33:54 [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's just cool
33:54 --> 34:00 [SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's just one of those things that proves that only Jesus is real and only God can do it, it's just wild.
34:01 --> 34:16 [SPEAKER_01]: At a time when people were talking about exterminating Indians like animals and he himself had written something similar where he said, he had called for his town, the raise wolves, he said, they're going to act like, the quote was something like if they're going to act like savages will raise beast to chase after them or something.
34:16 --> 34:22 [SPEAKER_01]: So he's very strongly opinionated years before that was around the time when his stuff that was kidnapped.
34:21 --> 34:24 [SPEAKER_01]: And then he changes to these are human souls.
34:24 --> 34:26 [SPEAKER_01]: May the image of God, we've got to share Jesus with them.
34:26 --> 34:27 [SPEAKER_01]: What are we doing here?
34:27 --> 34:28 [SPEAKER_01]: We're, we're to blame.
34:28 --> 34:33 [SPEAKER_01]: God will bring disasters on our lands if we don't do our job to them.
34:33 --> 34:43 [SPEAKER_01]: A quote from him directly, some preachers preach much about moral duties and the blessed of the state of God they men, but don't seek to awaken sinners and make them sensible of their danger.
34:43 --> 34:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Many men are in a deep sleep and flatter themselves as if there were no hell.
34:47 --> 34:51 [SPEAKER_01]: Or at least that God will not deal harshly with them to damn them.
34:51 --> 34:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Psalm 36, two ministers must give them no rest in such a condition.
34:54 --> 34:57 [SPEAKER_01]: They must pull them as brands out of the fire.
34:57 --> 35:08 [SPEAKER_01]: And so you can see here that was more for his congregation, but just his heart to see people changed for God and to come to Christ.
35:08 --> 35:11 [SPEAKER_01]: He sees his job as bringing people out of the fire.
35:11 --> 35:20 [SPEAKER_03]: According to the Christian history institute, five distinct seasons of revival swept through Solomon Stoddard's Church in North Hampton.
35:21 --> 35:27 [SPEAKER_03]: There was one in 1679, one in 1683, 1696,
35:27 --> 35:42 [SPEAKER_03]: And then in 1712, and then one more in 1718, so waves of conviction and conversion moved through the congregation, men and women, who had heard the scriptures preach, suddenly felt their weight.
35:42 --> 35:47 [SPEAKER_03]: Lives were changed, and confessions were made, and Christ was embraced.
35:47 --> 35:50 [SPEAKER_03]: Stoddard did not call these moments awakenings.
35:50 --> 35:52 [SPEAKER_03]: He called them harvests.
35:52 --> 35:53 [SPEAKER_03]: to him.
35:53 --> 35:59 [SPEAKER_03]: These were seasons where the seeds long sewn finally broke through the soil.
35:59 --> 36:03 [SPEAKER_03]: He believed that the spirit worked in rhythms, he said.
36:03 --> 36:07 [SPEAKER_03]: And that faithfulness in preaching would one day yield fruit.
36:07 --> 36:18 [SPEAKER_03]: Looking back, it is not difficult to see how these early years sparked and prepared the ground for what would soon erupt across the colonies as the great awakening.
36:18 --> 36:28 [SPEAKER_03]: That moment would crest just after Stoddard's death under the leadership of a man who followed him in North Hampton, his own grandson, a young Jonathan Edwards.
36:29 --> 36:47 [SPEAKER_03]: Nearing the end of his near 60-year stint at the same pulpit, Stoddard sensed his strength fading, and the church needed an assistant, needed some new leadership to rise up in the congregation, called the brilliant young graduate again his grandson, Jonathan Edwards.
36:47 --> 36:52 [SPEAKER_03]: and Northampton was no backwards outpost by this point.
36:52 --> 37:00 [SPEAKER_03]: It had been developed, it was educated and thoughtful, but it still had some of that marked tension of the front tier life.
37:01 --> 37:15 [SPEAKER_03]: Stodder knew that the next pastor would need both intellectual depth for the new developed and striving township, but also spiritual resilience for some of the more stressful things that might arise.
37:15 --> 37:34 [SPEAKER_03]: Stoddard would recounts testing him for two years before he formally handed over the leadership Stoddard required Edwards to devote himself rigorously to study sometimes as much as 10 hours a day reading and preparing for the weight of pastoral ministry.
37:34 --> 37:42 [SPEAKER_03]: Only when he was satisfied that his grandson could withstand whatever storms might come, did he pass on the mantle.
37:42 --> 37:59 [SPEAKER_03]: And the result would shape American Christianity, the quiet harvest of Stoddard's long ministry gave way to the thundering sermons and theological brilliance of Jonathan Edwards, who would become one of the most important pastors, preachers, theologians, and American history.
37:59 --> 38:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Edder is, by the way, towards the end of his life, would publish a diary of David Breiner, who was a machiner to an audience considered, and many ways could be, on a human perspective, a failure.
38:11 --> 38:22 [SPEAKER_01]: He died young, up to Berkulosus, after only three years of mission work, he ends up getting Edward's his own daughter to Berkulosus, to kind of fell in love, couldn't get married, and she will die not long after, Breiner does.
38:22 --> 38:29 [SPEAKER_01]: Um, Edwards could have had every excuse, not the publisher's journal, but he read it and asked after what being asked by Brandon to read it.
38:29 --> 38:38 [SPEAKER_01]: And he asked if he could publish it, Brandon thought if you can think it could do some good for God, go ahead, brainer dyes, but he was so honest, so raw about what it was like to be a missionary.
38:38 --> 38:42 [SPEAKER_01]: What it was like to share Christ with the Indians, but he was going through his own work with God.
38:42 --> 38:46 [SPEAKER_01]: And words really thought it would reach a lot of people and Edwards was right.
38:46 --> 38:46 [SPEAKER_01]: Edwards.
38:47 --> 38:47 [SPEAKER_01]: Number one book.
38:47 --> 38:51 [SPEAKER_01]: If you had, if you lived in the world at the time,
38:51 --> 39:09 [SPEAKER_01]: before his famous sermons like sinners, the hands of an angry god, the most likely thing you owned by Edwards would have been this diary from David, brainer, it ended up inspiring, men like William Carey, an ad-nirem Judson and huts, all of the famous missionaries that we look up to today were all inspired by David Brain and Spook.
39:09 --> 39:12 [SPEAKER_01]: John Wesley made it required reading of all the methodists that he like,
39:12 --> 39:29 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean this book did so much for the world and I think helped give me the spark that led to the Great Missionary Century that came a hundred years later and I can't help but wonder if Edward's his grandfather and his love of revival and his change of heart,
39:28 --> 39:36 [SPEAKER_01]: toward the Indians, didn't have a huge influence, you know, if Edwards had come into the church and he was still bitter, we've got to get rid of them.
39:36 --> 39:43 [SPEAKER_01]: One of your jobs as pastor is to protect your people and so you need to preach against these Indians and encourage the politicians to raise up.
39:43 --> 39:56 [SPEAKER_01]: But if he still wasn't that posture towards the Indians, would Edwards have had that heart that may David Brainer know about him enough to bring his journal, maybe Brainer wouldn't have brought the journal that journal would have never been published.
39:56 --> 39:59 [SPEAKER_01]: and who knows would that have affected all these people who went out to me?
39:59 --> 40:12 [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, obviously the Lord would have worked, but you do have to wonder if maybe we would look in a very different history of the world, had it not been for the fact that Solomon's thought or did forgive them, did have a heart for them, did start encouraging missionaries,
40:12 --> 40:32 [SPEAKER_01]: did encourage the people of God to go and save those Indians, which then may be blood into his grandson and successor Jonathan Edwards, who had the same heart even went and preached to the Indians after he was kicked out of his church for a few years, which led to David Brainer coming to him, which led to the journal getting published, which led to all the people reading it and wanting to be missionary some cells.
40:32 --> 40:38 [SPEAKER_01]: You know, what a wild story, and it seemed to all come from that moment of forgiveness out of Solomon's thoughter.
40:38 --> 40:42 [SPEAKER_01]: And I, like I said, I think that's a huge thing that came from a guy.
40:42 --> 40:45 [SPEAKER_01]: I had never heard of, I mean, I heard of him, but I never really knew that much about him.
40:45 --> 40:48 [SPEAKER_01]: This sermon was called Stirring Up Young People.
40:48 --> 40:56 [SPEAKER_01]: It was pretty to get the attention, remember, these children and the Puritans that are no longer following God, he's preaching about how to get them back to following God.
41:12 --> 41:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalms chapter 148 verses 12 and 13.
41:18 --> 41:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Young men and maidens let them praise the name of the Lord.
41:21 --> 41:24 [SPEAKER_00]: This Psalm is a call to praise the name of the Lord.
41:25 --> 41:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us look at what it means in various details.
41:29 --> 41:33 [SPEAKER_00]: This superior creature is in verses two and four are called to praise him.
41:34 --> 41:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise him and all his angels.
41:37 --> 41:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise Him, Son and Moon, and all the stars of light.
41:41 --> 41:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise Him, you heavens of heavens, and the waters that are above the heavens.
41:47 --> 41:54 [SPEAKER_00]: We also see the inferior creatures told to praise him, those who are in the earth, and in the air, and in the sea.
41:54 --> 42:07 [SPEAKER_00]: These include the irrational inverses 789 and 10, the dragons and all deeps, fire, hail, snow and vapor, stormy went all the filling his word.
42:07 --> 42:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Mountains and all hills, fruitful trees and all seeders, beasts and all cattle, creeping things and flying birds, and the rational, they are distinguished, and they are given an order in which to praise him.
42:22 --> 42:36 [SPEAKER_00]: One, kings first, then all people, princes and all judges of the earth, the greatest menow glory to God, and it is not beneath them to praise him, and then secondly,
42:36 --> 42:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Though God may not bestow as much outward mercy upon them, they'll glory to Him, and He accepts praise from them just as well as from the greatest.
42:46 --> 42:57 [SPEAKER_00]: He does not delineate either in regard to their sex, male and female were created by Him, and therefore both should praise Him, nor in respect to their age, old men and children.
42:58 --> 43:03 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the universal duty, almost praise the name of the Lord.
43:03 --> 43:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Let us now look at the doctrine.
43:06 --> 43:10 [SPEAKER_00]: It is very desirable that young men and maidens would praise the name of the Lord.
43:11 --> 43:15 [SPEAKER_00]: This was David's desire, and this is the desire of every godly man.
43:16 --> 43:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Childhood and youth is vanity, and it is a common thing for young men and maidens to busy themselves with other things besides praising the name of the Lord.
43:25 --> 43:29 [SPEAKER_00]: But it is desirable that they would praise the name of the Lord.
43:29 --> 43:31 [SPEAKER_00]: It is praiseworthy.
43:31 --> 43:35 [SPEAKER_00]: and a great honor of theirs when they praise the name of the Lord.
43:35 --> 43:40 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a mercy when God gives the comforts of life to young men and maidens.
43:41 --> 43:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Zechariah 917, how great is His goodness and how great is His beauty?
43:48 --> 43:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Even corn will make young men cheerful and new wine cheers up the maids.
43:54 --> 43:59 [SPEAKER_00]: But it is a greater mercy when God gives a spirit of holiness to them.
43:59 --> 44:04 [SPEAKER_00]: We have several examples of young ones in the Scripture that have had a spirit to praise the name of the Lord.
44:04 --> 44:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Samuel and David and Solomon in Josiah and Timothy, and it is greatly desirable that other young people were of that spirit.
44:14 --> 44:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Young ones are called on in Scripture to praise and glorify God, ecclesiasties 12-1.
44:20 --> 44:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Remember your creator in the days of your youth, Psalm 34-11.
44:25 --> 44:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Come you children, listen to me, and I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
44:29 --> 44:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Many things are necessary to complete the happiness of a people, and this is most necessary above all others.
44:38 --> 44:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalms 144-12, that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth, that our daughters may be as cornerstones polished around the palace.
44:48 --> 44:56 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, you may ask, when are they to praise the Lord the answer when they carry on in a way that is praiseworthy to God?
44:56 --> 45:00 [SPEAKER_00]: First, by worshiping Him in a suitable manner.
45:01 --> 45:04 [SPEAKER_00]: The proper business of worship is glorifying God.
45:04 --> 45:08 [SPEAKER_00]: When they worship Him, they honor Him as God, Psalm 299.
45:08 --> 45:12 [SPEAKER_00]: In His temple, everyone comes together to speak of His glory.
45:13 --> 45:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Divine worship is too great and honored to be given to any creature.
45:17 --> 45:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Revelation 1910, worship God, so men glorify God when they pray to Him and in their religious manners, ask blessings of Him and do give credit to the blessings they enjoy to Him.
45:29 --> 45:34 [SPEAKER_00]: By worshiping God, they give a testimony to the Almighty power and goodness of God.
45:34 --> 45:38 [SPEAKER_00]: And they acknowledge their dependence on Him.
45:38 --> 45:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Prayer is praise.
45:40 --> 45:44 [SPEAKER_00]: The language of prayer is, yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory.
45:45 --> 45:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 613.
45:47 --> 45:52 [SPEAKER_00]: So religious attending of the preaching of the word is praising of God.
45:53 --> 46:01 [SPEAKER_00]: When they are hearing the word with reverence, they acknowledge the authority and majesty of God and his divine truth and faithfulness.
46:01 --> 46:12 [SPEAKER_00]: So we acknowledge that His Word is the rule of faith and life, that His Word is able to make us wise to salvation, and that it is worthy to be believed and obeyed.
46:13 --> 46:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Acts 10, 33.
46:15 --> 46:26 [SPEAKER_00]: We are here present before God to hear all things that are commanded by God, and a religious singing of Psalms is giving glory to God, Psalm 147-1.
46:26 --> 46:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise you the Lord, for it is good to sing praises to our God, so a religious receiving the seals of God's covenant is praising God.
46:37 --> 46:40 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a thankful memorial of the redemption of Christ.
46:40 --> 46:46 [SPEAKER_00]: First Corinthians chapter 11 verse 26, you show the Lord's death.
46:46 --> 46:49 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a testimony given to the saving virtue of Christ's blood.
46:49 --> 46:54 [SPEAKER_00]: The cup of blessing, which we bless, is not the communion of the blood of Christ.
46:54 --> 46:56 [SPEAKER_00]: 1 Corinthians 10, 16.
46:57 --> 46:59 [SPEAKER_00]: We also praise Him by holy living.
46:59 --> 47:05 [SPEAKER_00]: A life with a holy walk is a practical acknowledgement of the gloriousness of God.
47:05 --> 47:13 [SPEAKER_00]: When people live a humble, honest patient chased and temperate life, they do glorify God, John 158.
47:14 --> 47:17 [SPEAKER_00]: By this, my father is glorified in that you bear much fruit.
47:18 --> 47:24 [SPEAKER_00]: In that way, they show the praises of him that cause them out of their darkness into his marvelous light.
47:24 --> 47:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew 516, that men may see your good works and glorify your father that is in heaven.
47:32 --> 47:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Sinful works reproach God, but holy works commend Him.
47:36 --> 47:39 [SPEAKER_00]: When people have a holy life, they show a fear of God.
47:39 --> 47:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Ecclesiastes 12-13, fear God and keep His commandments.
47:45 --> 47:50 [SPEAKER_00]: A holy life is a testimony to the goodness and a righteousness of the ways of God.
47:50 --> 47:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Jose at 149, the ways of the Lord are right and the just will walk in them.
47:56 --> 48:01 [SPEAKER_00]: By their obedience, they show that they revere God's authority.
48:01 --> 48:06 [SPEAKER_00]: The language there is that God is their Lord and they are His servants.
48:06 --> 48:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, by his obedience, they show that they lay weight on the promises and threats of the word, that they cannot profitable to be obedient and dangerous to be disobedient.
48:19 --> 48:21 [SPEAKER_00]: That they depend on the word of God.
48:21 --> 48:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Reason one, God deserves it from young people as well as from elders.
48:26 --> 48:28 [SPEAKER_00]: It is to be desired on God's account.
48:29 --> 48:31 [SPEAKER_00]: It is an honor due to his name.
48:31 --> 48:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Young ones are bound to God as well as their parents.
48:34 --> 48:37 [SPEAKER_00]: They have no freedom to neglect the glory of God.
48:37 --> 48:39 [SPEAKER_00]: God may challenge it from them.
48:39 --> 48:42 [SPEAKER_00]: As well as from their parents, limitations 327.
48:42 --> 48:45 [SPEAKER_00]: It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.
48:46 --> 48:49 [SPEAKER_00]: God is their creator just as he is of elders.
48:49 --> 48:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Ecclesiastes 121, remember your creator in the days of your youth.
48:54 --> 49:02 [SPEAKER_00]: They owe their being to God, and because they owe their being, they owe their obedience, and they live upon the mercies of God as well as elders.
49:03 --> 49:15 [SPEAKER_00]: They dwell on His earth, breathe in His air, are enlightened by Him, and though they are in the strength of young age, yet they depend upon the care of God for their food and clothing life and health.
49:15 --> 49:17 [SPEAKER_00]: God has nourished and brought them up.
49:18 --> 49:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 1, 2.
49:19 --> 49:22 [SPEAKER_00]: They are under the same covenant bonds as elders.
49:22 --> 49:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Deuteronomy 523, the Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb.
49:28 --> 49:36 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord did not make this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive today.
49:36 --> 49:39 [SPEAKER_00]: The young are under firm obligations to God.
49:39 --> 49:42 [SPEAKER_00]: They will be covenant breakers if they neglect to glorify God.
49:42 --> 49:45 [SPEAKER_00]: They are under covenant encouragement.
49:46 --> 49:48 [SPEAKER_00]: God is in a near relationship to them.
49:48 --> 49:52 [SPEAKER_00]: For He is not only their Father's God, but their God also.
49:53 --> 49:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Exodus 15, He is my God and I will prepare for Him a habitation.
49:58 --> 49:59 [SPEAKER_00]: My Father's God and I will exalt Him.
50:00 --> 50:03 [SPEAKER_00]: They will be damaged if they don't praise Him.
50:04 --> 50:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Reason Two, it is a sign of the presence of God within His commands.
50:09 --> 50:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Christ has promised His presence with His commands, Matthew 28, 19 and 20.
50:15 --> 50:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Hello, I am with you always to the end of the world.
50:18 --> 50:29 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the filled in different ways, and it is a matter of great lamentation when there is only a little blessing upon commands, such as when the hearts of men are made fat.
50:29 --> 50:39 [SPEAKER_00]: As I say a 6 9 and 10, but when young minds and maids do all praise the name of God, it is a sign that the Spirit of God is present among them.
50:39 --> 50:42 [SPEAKER_00]: That is a great promise.
50:42 --> 50:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 5921, my spirit that is upon you and my words that I have put in your mouth will not depart out of your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed.
50:52 --> 50:59 [SPEAKER_00]: And when young ones are praising God, it is a manifest token of God's gracious presence with the means of grace.
51:00 --> 51:07 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a display of the
51:07 --> 51:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 44-3, I will pour out my spirit upon your seed and my blessing upon your offspring.
51:14 --> 51:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Godly men often pray for a blessing on following his commands.
51:18 --> 51:27 [SPEAKER_00]: They look upon that as a foundation of many other mercies, and when young ones prays God, they take notice of the goodness of God in hearing their prayers.
51:27 --> 51:30 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a smile upon the people.
51:30 --> 51:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Reason 3, it gives great hopes of the continuance of the power of godliness.
51:36 --> 51:40 [SPEAKER_00]: If young ones carry on religiously, that is a foundation of hope for the time to come.
51:40 --> 51:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Even though some of them may die in their youth, it is probable that many of them will live to old age.
51:48 --> 51:53 [SPEAKER_00]: They that are young now are to be the future pillars of the church, 30 years from now.
51:53 --> 52:00 [SPEAKER_00]: Ancient elders will die often, but if young ones are hardy in the faith, it is hopeful the faith will not die.
52:00 --> 52:08 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a reason to hope that most of them that are religious when they are young will continue to be so when they are old.
52:08 --> 52:27 [SPEAKER_00]: There is reason to hope that those that flourish now in God's house will still bring out fruit in old age, Psalm 92 13 and 14, that when the outward man decays, the inner man will be renewed, 2 Corinthians 416, and therefore it is a great encouragement to see them embracing religion.
52:27 --> 52:32 [SPEAKER_00]: If religion is upheld in the next generation, it must be by those that are young now.
52:33 --> 52:35 [SPEAKER_00]: The burden will lie upon them after a while.
52:37 --> 52:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Reason 4.
52:38 --> 52:41 [SPEAKER_00]: It is an encouragement concerning their salvation.
52:41 --> 52:47 [SPEAKER_00]: When young ones carry on extravagantly and corruptly, there is reason to fear their damnation.
52:48 --> 52:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Their feet are going down to death.
52:50 --> 52:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Their steps take hold of hell.
52:53 --> 52:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Therefore the wise man gives that warning in Ecclesiastes 119.
52:58 --> 53:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Rejoice so young in your youth and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth.
53:02 --> 53:10 [SPEAKER_00]: and walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but no you, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
53:11 --> 53:15 [SPEAKER_00]: But when they have a faithful spirit in a holy life, they're on the way to salvation.
53:16 --> 53:21 [SPEAKER_00]: If God plans to bring meant to salvation, he will make them seek after it.
53:21 --> 53:32 [SPEAKER_00]: And generously speaking, He makes them seek it in the days of their youth, reforming their manners, trying to God, studying the scriptures, waiting upon God in His commandments.
53:32 --> 53:35 [SPEAKER_00]: These are the methods to prepare men for eternal life.
53:35 --> 53:42 [SPEAKER_00]: And when the spirit of young ones is going in that direction, there's a occasion to rejoice in the hopes of their eternal happiness.
53:42 --> 53:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Second John 4, I rejoice greatly that I found your children walking in true.
53:48 --> 53:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's begin to apply it.
53:50 --> 53:55 [SPEAKER_00]: First, there is a great need for parents to train their children's faithfully.
53:56 --> 54:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Parents are generally careful to bring up their children into some employment calling so that they may be ready to do service to themselves and others.
54:04 --> 54:08 [SPEAKER_00]: But they should also be careful to bestow religious education upon them.
54:08 --> 54:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 226, train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
54:15 --> 54:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 6-4, bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
54:20 --> 54:24 [SPEAKER_00]: People usually do something in that way, but with too much carelessness.
54:24 --> 54:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Neglecting this is one of the things which causes degeneracy of the land to appear.
54:30 --> 54:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Part of the reason is that parents are not faithful themselves, so it is no wonder that they are negligent in the education of their children.
54:38 --> 54:39 [SPEAKER_00]: But there is a great need for it.
54:40 --> 54:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Children are corrupt by nature.
54:42 --> 54:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Although they have natural consciences urging them to do what is good, yet they have depraved dispositions prompting them to evil.
54:48 --> 54:51 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a natural conflict in them to the ways of God.
54:52 --> 54:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Romans 87.
54:54 --> 54:57 [SPEAKER_00]: The natural mind is enmity to God.
54:57 --> 55:00 [SPEAKER_00]: And there are many temptations to mislead them.
55:00 --> 55:03 [SPEAKER_00]: There are a multitude of temptations to drive their corruption.
55:04 --> 55:10 [SPEAKER_00]: And there is need of more care than many parents do take, that they may praise the name of the Lord.
55:10 --> 55:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Parents must work by instruction.
55:12 --> 55:17 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not sufficient that they are brought to public worship, and that they learn to read the Word of God.
55:17 --> 55:25 [SPEAKER_00]: But parents should see to it that they profit by public means, and they should be instilling the principles of religion into them privately.
55:25 --> 55:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Timothy had a godly mother, and he was versed in the holy scriptures from a child, second Timothy 3-16, and just as parents should instruct their children and principles of faith, they should also teach them the ways of obedience.
55:38 --> 55:40 [SPEAKER_00]: That was one of the designs in the book of Proverbs.
55:41 --> 55:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 1-4, to give understanding to the simple, to the young man, knowledge, and discretion.
55:47 --> 55:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Through Proverbs, the law of nature is defeated, and there is great need that the precepts would then should be taught often.
55:54 --> 56:01 [SPEAKER_00]: So that God's convincing light should be set before them and that they are urged and spoken with, and that rules are pressed upon them.
56:02 --> 56:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 31 verse 2 and 3, what my son and what the son of my womb and what the son of my vow give not your strength to women.
56:11 --> 56:17 [SPEAKER_00]: young people are giddy in an inattentive, and advice and counsel needs to be regularly renewed.
56:18 --> 56:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Parents must work by example.
56:21 --> 56:23 [SPEAKER_00]: Bad examples are very infectious.
56:24 --> 56:32 [SPEAKER_00]: Examples teach in equity, examples stimulate natural corruption, and examples make men bold to transgress.
56:33 --> 56:39 [SPEAKER_00]: And if parents give bad examples to their children, it will be no wonder if they follow in their steps.
56:39 --> 56:42 [SPEAKER_00]: men live by examples more than by precepts.
56:42 --> 56:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Jerobome is example did mischief to all the succeeding kings of Israel, but if parents give good examples, that is a ground of hope that children will follow them.
56:53 --> 56:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Good examples are lovely and amiable and commend themselves to the consciences of children.
56:59 --> 57:09 [SPEAKER_00]: They look on the good examples of their parents as the honor of their parents and their own honor, and the love they have for their parents makes their good examples more lovely in their eyes.
57:10 --> 57:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Parents work by restraint.
57:12 --> 57:16 [SPEAKER_00]: It was Eli's fault that he did not restrain his children.
57:16 --> 57:21 [SPEAKER_00]: First Samuel, 313, his sons made themselves vile and he restrain them not.
57:22 --> 57:28 [SPEAKER_00]: Parents have the authority to do it, and if other methods will not do, they must exert this authority.
57:29 --> 57:33 [SPEAKER_00]: It is not enough for parents that they do not approve of the sins of their children.
57:33 --> 57:36 [SPEAKER_00]: They must not allow them to carry on sinfully.
57:36 --> 57:42 [SPEAKER_00]: A toleration of sin in children makes the parents' guilty and partakers of their sins.
57:42 --> 57:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Some children aren't much more teachable than others, and there is no need to restrain them.
57:48 --> 57:55 [SPEAKER_00]: But others are violently set in the ways of sin, and it doesn't bother their consciences to go directly against the commands of parents.
57:55 --> 57:58 [SPEAKER_00]: In these cases, parents must restrain them.
57:59 --> 58:02 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the way to prevent the growth of sin into heal their hearts also.
58:03 --> 58:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Spoiling of children is the way to ruin them.
58:06 --> 58:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Children left on their own often times bring their parents to shame.
58:10 --> 58:13 [SPEAKER_00]: The second application is one of evolution.
58:13 --> 58:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Whether or not the young man in Maine's do praise the name of the Lord, we may see what reasons we have for rejoicing or for sorrow.
58:23 --> 58:30 [SPEAKER_00]: It is worthwhile to note, not only how our rulers carry on, but also how the body of the people carry on.
58:30 --> 58:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Likewise, to appreciate what evidence of the spirit does appear in young ones.
58:35 --> 58:45 [SPEAKER_00]: They that are young now are likely to have a great influence upon public affairs after a time, and the better they carry themselves, the more hope there is of there being worthy later.
58:46 --> 58:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Young ones especially need to consider whether they do their duty.
58:50 --> 58:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Do you praise the name of the Lord?
58:52 --> 58:54 [SPEAKER_00]: Some youths are disorderly in the night.
58:55 --> 59:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Parents make them work diligently in the daytime, but in the evening, they gather together in groups and spend their time in unprofitable talk.
59:04 --> 59:06 [SPEAKER_00]: These are like the beasts that creep out at night.
59:07 --> 59:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 10420, you make darkness and it is night when all the beasts of the forest creep out.
59:15 --> 59:17 [SPEAKER_00]: It is hard to actually know how they spend their time.
59:18 --> 59:23 [SPEAKER_00]: When the family attends religious duties, they are out and no account can be given for them.
59:24 --> 59:25 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this to praise the name of the Lord?
59:25 --> 59:28 [SPEAKER_00]: They should join with the family and confessing sin.
59:29 --> 59:35 [SPEAKER_00]: They should be here begging mercy and acknowledging God's goodness, but they don't care about the worship of God.
59:35 --> 59:41 [SPEAKER_00]: Do we think that these people are loving God and attending secret duties of worship?
59:41 --> 59:42 [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't matter.
59:42 --> 59:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Neglecting family worship is a great offense to God.
59:46 --> 59:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Are these people concerned for the honor of God or the salvation of their own souls?
59:51 --> 59:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Do they care about the commands of God?
59:53 --> 59:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Does it lie on their hearts to give God the glory for their daily mercies?
59:58 --> 01:00:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't they plainly show that they do not have the spirit of faith?
01:00:02 --> 01:00:05 [SPEAKER_00]: They are running to danger, Proverbs 27-8.
01:00:05 --> 01:00:11 [SPEAKER_00]: As a bird that wanders from his nest, so was a man that wanders from his palace.
01:00:12 --> 01:00:17 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this for the praise of the name of God that when the family goes to bed, the young man is running out on the town?
01:00:18 --> 01:00:22 [SPEAKER_00]: He has no business, but he throws himself into temptation.
01:00:23 --> 01:00:25 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes he gets wounded, or brings shame.
01:00:26 --> 01:00:27 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of them frequent the tavern.
01:00:28 --> 01:00:30 [SPEAKER_00]: The tavern is a place of play.
01:00:30 --> 01:00:34 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a great deal of company there in the evening, so on wet days and on public days.
01:00:35 --> 01:00:38 [SPEAKER_00]: There, they're spending their time poorly.
01:00:39 --> 01:00:44 [SPEAKER_00]: There is a great deal of vain worldliness, arrogant talk, and sinful joking.
01:00:45 --> 01:00:47 [SPEAKER_00]: They're swaggering and wasting.
01:00:47 --> 01:00:50 [SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes they are jeering good men and mocking the faith there.
01:00:51 --> 01:00:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this praise in the name of the Lord?
01:00:53 --> 01:00:55 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this an honor to God?
01:00:55 --> 01:01:00 [SPEAKER_00]: They're not redeeming the time, as the rule is, Ephesians 516, Isaiah 511.
01:01:00 --> 01:01:04 [SPEAKER_00]: They continue until night, till wine and flames them.
01:01:04 --> 01:01:06 [SPEAKER_00]: They drink till they're giddy and sometimes talk heresy.
01:01:07 --> 01:01:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes they quarrel and fight with one another.
01:01:09 --> 01:01:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Is this to praise the name of the Lord?
01:01:13 --> 01:01:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 23 verse 29 and 30, who has woe, who has sorrow, who has contentious, who has babbling, who has wounds without cause, who has redness of eyes?
01:01:23 --> 01:01:28 [SPEAKER_00]: It is day that Terry long at wine that they go to seek mixed wine.
01:01:28 --> 01:01:31 [SPEAKER_00]: At the tavern, they get what they have earned.
01:01:31 --> 01:01:36 [SPEAKER_00]: The fruit of their labor is consumed and they are under temptation to cheat and extort to get more.
01:01:37 --> 01:01:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Taberns are nurseries of profanity.
01:01:40 --> 01:01:44 [SPEAKER_00]: God would not have the less honoring among them if they were dead and rotting.
01:01:44 --> 01:01:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Some are given over to frivolous dances.
01:01:47 --> 01:01:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Men and maids will be in company together, stirring up lust in one another.
01:01:51 --> 01:01:54 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not to praise the name of the Lord.
01:01:54 --> 01:01:59 [SPEAKER_00]: They go to cherish on the Sabbath day, and at night, they're out sporting with one another.
01:01:59 --> 01:02:04 [SPEAKER_00]: If they'd meditate on what they've heard and pray over the Word, that would be for their prophet.
01:02:04 --> 01:02:08 [SPEAKER_00]: But instead, they get together and it's a shame to speak of what they do.
01:02:08 --> 01:02:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 512, it is a shame to speak of the things that are done by them in secret.
01:02:14 --> 01:02:16 [SPEAKER_00]: This is not to praise the name of the Lord.
01:02:16 --> 01:02:20 [SPEAKER_00]: They watch for one another's company as the eagle does for its prey.
01:02:21 --> 01:02:25 [SPEAKER_00]: They are making provision for the flesh to fulfill their lusts.
01:02:25 --> 01:02:32 [SPEAKER_00]: When they've been listening to the sermon, then they afterwards get together and gratify their carnal feelings with pleasurable fortation and gestures.
01:02:33 --> 01:02:38 [SPEAKER_00]: They throw themselves into great temptations and are in danger of committing adultery.
01:02:39 --> 01:02:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Some neglect the worship of God, they come universally to hear the word of God on the Sabbath, and generally at other times, but they don't attend the secret duties of faith between God and their own consciences.
01:02:51 --> 01:02:53 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a reason to suspect many of them.
01:02:53 --> 01:02:58 [SPEAKER_00]: For there are scarcely five or six of them in a town that actually attend the Lord's supper.
01:02:58 --> 01:03:01 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord's Supper is a memorial of the death of Christ.
01:03:01 --> 01:03:04 [SPEAKER_00]: It's there we show the Lord's death, 1 Corinthians 1126.
01:03:05 --> 01:03:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Do these men praise the name of the Lord when they turn their backs on this ordinance and refuse to celebrate this memorial of Christ's passion?
01:03:14 --> 01:03:16 [SPEAKER_00]: The Lord's Supper is a seal of the covenant of grace.
01:03:17 --> 01:03:21 [SPEAKER_00]: God then sets his seal to the saving virtue of the blood of Christ.
01:03:21 --> 01:03:25 [SPEAKER_00]: and do they praise the name of the Lord when they refuse to receive the seal of the covenant?
01:03:26 --> 01:03:30 [SPEAKER_00]: God in this ordinance makes an offer of Christ to slain for our redemption.
01:03:31 --> 01:03:34 [SPEAKER_00]: Do they praise the name of the Lord when they refuse to attend it?
01:03:34 --> 01:03:39 [SPEAKER_00]: Coming to this ordinance is an open acknowledgement of the truth of the gospel.
01:03:39 --> 01:03:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't that make neglecting it a denial of the gospel?
01:03:43 --> 01:03:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Some may neglect it from tenderness or conscience, fearing whether they have freedom to come, but many others neglect it from a careless and eerily just spirit.
01:03:53 --> 01:03:56 [SPEAKER_00]: They neither come to it nor are they careful to prepare themselves for it.
01:03:57 --> 01:04:00 [SPEAKER_00]: The next thing to consider is the command to praise the name of the Lord.
01:04:01 --> 01:04:07 [SPEAKER_00]: David calls on young men and maids to do it, and indeed, God calls on you to do it.
01:04:07 --> 01:04:12 [SPEAKER_00]: This work is not left to old people, God expects it from you also.
01:04:13 --> 01:04:17 [SPEAKER_00]: You may not say that the elders do it now and you'll take your turn when you were older.
01:04:17 --> 01:04:19 [SPEAKER_00]: You must hardly engage in this work now.
01:04:20 --> 01:04:24 [SPEAKER_00]: If it has been neglected up until now, let it be neglected no longer.
01:04:25 --> 01:04:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't rob God of His glory.
01:04:27 --> 01:04:29 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a glorious job to praise God.
01:04:29 --> 01:04:33 [SPEAKER_00]: The angels of heaven are employed themselves this way.
01:04:33 --> 01:04:34 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a debt you owe to God.
01:04:34 --> 01:04:36 [SPEAKER_00]: He is worthy to be praised.
01:04:37 --> 01:04:37 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 183.
01:04:38 --> 01:04:39 [SPEAKER_00]: His name alone is excellent.
01:04:40 --> 01:04:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Praise him in all ways of worship, praise him in all ways of obedience.
01:04:45 --> 01:04:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Now, let us examine our motivation to praise the Lord.
01:04:49 --> 01:04:53 [SPEAKER_00]: First, all creatures in the world do it, accept the devil's and wicked men.
01:04:54 --> 01:05:01 [SPEAKER_00]: There is great an amazing variety of creatures in heaven and earth, and they do with one voice proclaim the glory of God.
01:05:01 --> 01:05:04 [SPEAKER_00]: If we look up to heaven, there the angels are praising God.
01:05:05 --> 01:05:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Those morning stars sing together, the sun and moon and stars of light.
01:05:09 --> 01:05:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Look into the air, there the clouds and wind of the meteors praise God.
01:05:14 --> 01:05:18 [SPEAKER_00]: Look to the earth and the sea and all creatures within give a testimony for God.
01:05:18 --> 01:05:19 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 145-10.
01:05:20 --> 01:05:22 [SPEAKER_00]: All your works will praise you.
01:05:23 --> 01:05:26 [SPEAKER_00]: However, the devils do reproach God.
01:05:26 --> 01:05:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Those cursed creatures are enemies to the honor of God, and a number of men are drawn in to fall in with the same design.
01:05:36 --> 01:05:42 [SPEAKER_00]: So, will you separate yourselves from the rest of creation to join in with the devil's and a crew of ungodly men?
01:05:42 --> 01:05:48 [SPEAKER_00]: When the majority of the world agrees to exalt to God, will you forsake them and join with the devil?
01:05:49 --> 01:05:58 [SPEAKER_00]: It is good for you to say as David, Psalm 103, 21 and 22, bless you, the Lord of all his hosts, you ministers of his the due pleasure.
01:05:59 --> 01:06:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Bless the Lord, all his works, and all places of his dominion, bless the Lord, oh my soul.
01:06:06 --> 01:06:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Another motivation is you will be better off when you die.
01:06:09 --> 01:06:12 [SPEAKER_00]: The living know they must die.
01:06:12 --> 01:06:14 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't expect to continue here forever.
01:06:14 --> 01:06:18 [SPEAKER_00]: You are but strangers in the world, and you don't know if you'll die soon.
01:06:18 --> 01:06:24 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing in your nature or condition or in the Word of God that does guarantee a long life for you.
01:06:25 --> 01:06:29 [SPEAKER_00]: Man is like the grass and the glory of man is the flower of the field that fades away.
01:06:29 --> 01:06:31 [SPEAKER_00]: I say a 40 verse six.
01:06:32 --> 01:06:36 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't praise God,
01:06:36 --> 01:06:41 [SPEAKER_00]: If you haven't done the work that you were sent into the world for, that will be heavier than the pains of death.
01:06:42 --> 01:06:45 [SPEAKER_00]: It will sting you to remember your life before.
01:06:45 --> 01:06:47 [SPEAKER_00]: How will you go before God to judgment?
01:06:48 --> 01:06:53 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a terrible thing when you must die and yet you have no safety after you die.
01:06:54 --> 01:06:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Ecclesiastes 517 When he becomes sick, he is filled with sorrow and wrath.
01:06:59 --> 01:07:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Your conscience will crush you, damn 523.
01:07:02 --> 01:07:08 [SPEAKER_00]: The God in whose hand your breath is, you have not glorified, and you will take up that lamentation.
01:07:09 --> 01:07:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 512 and 13.
01:07:11 --> 01:07:14 [SPEAKER_00]: How have I hated instruction and my heart despised or proof?
01:07:14 --> 01:07:19 [SPEAKER_00]: And I have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined my ears to them that instructed me.
01:07:20 --> 01:07:28 [SPEAKER_00]: But, if you improve your time and serving God, that will be no affliction to you in the evil day, but a comfort.
01:07:29 --> 01:07:33 [SPEAKER_00]: It will be an ease in death, a relief under your pains for those who know God.
01:07:33 --> 01:07:36 [SPEAKER_00]: That was a great comfort to his attire when he lay at the point of death.
01:07:37 --> 01:07:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 23, he said, remember now Lord, I beg you, how I have walked before you and truth and with a perfect heart and have done that which is good and nice sight.
01:07:47 --> 01:07:52 [SPEAKER_00]: If you don't praise the Lord, you would vainly desire to forget the life you would live.
01:07:52 --> 01:07:56 [SPEAKER_00]: It'd be a tear to you to remember and to think that God remembers what you have done.
01:07:56 --> 01:08:01 [SPEAKER_00]: Also, if you don't praise the Lord, it will make your life uncomfortable.
01:08:02 --> 01:08:06 [SPEAKER_00]: The paths of wisdom are ways of joy and all her paths are peace.
01:08:06 --> 01:08:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 317.
01:08:08 --> 01:08:11 [SPEAKER_00]: David says it is pleasant to sing praise to the Lord.
01:08:12 --> 01:08:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 147-1.
01:08:13 --> 01:08:17 [SPEAKER_00]: It is right to the nature of man to walk in the ways of uprightness.
01:08:17 --> 01:08:21 [SPEAKER_00]: Your conscience will approve and applaud a holy life.
01:08:21 --> 01:08:23 [SPEAKER_00]: But unholy living is uncomfortable living.
01:08:24 --> 01:08:27 [SPEAKER_00]: If men neglect to serve God, they put themselves in chains.
01:08:28 --> 01:08:36 [SPEAKER_00]: If men live a life of disobedience,
01:08:37 --> 01:08:39 [SPEAKER_00]: The wicked is like a troubled sea that cannot rest.
01:08:40 --> 01:08:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 5720, every sin is a tyrant, men's lusts are scourges to them.
01:08:46 --> 01:08:50 [SPEAKER_00]: Wrath kills the foolish man, and envy slays the unwise one.
01:08:51 --> 01:09:00 [SPEAKER_00]: So pride, covetousness, unbelief, art mean task masters, and a sinful and unsanctified life is troubling to the conscience.
01:09:00 --> 01:09:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Such men have the shame of their own hearts.
01:09:04 --> 01:09:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Conscience is chiding, shaming, and crushing them.
01:09:08 --> 01:09:11 [SPEAKER_00]: When they hear the rebukes of the word, their own hearts will echo it.
01:09:12 --> 01:09:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And their own conscience is imagining danger and threatening them with the vengeance of God.
01:09:16 --> 01:09:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Some are more stupid than others, but on many occasions, their conscience will terrify them.
01:09:23 --> 01:09:26 [SPEAKER_00]: Job 1521, a dreadful sound to his ears.
01:09:26 --> 01:09:27 [SPEAKER_00]: They have awful visions of hell.
01:09:28 --> 01:09:30 [SPEAKER_00]: They're scared with death and judgment.
01:09:30 --> 01:09:33 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes they think of the blackness of darkness forever.
01:09:34 --> 01:09:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes of being with the devils.
01:09:36 --> 01:09:38 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes of the everlasting flames.
01:09:38 --> 01:09:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Their hearts will many times think about this terror and all their life they are chained to these fears.
01:09:45 --> 01:09:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews 215, another motive is that God gave you souls for this reason that you may praise the name of the Lord.
01:09:52 --> 01:09:56 [SPEAKER_00]: God has given rational souls to you that you might praise the Lord with understanding.
01:09:56 --> 01:10:02 [SPEAKER_00]: Surely God is angry with men if they don't use their souls to that end that they were made for.
01:10:02 --> 01:10:04 [SPEAKER_00]: He will count them where they'd to be destroyed.
01:10:04 --> 01:10:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Why do you imagine that God has given you rational souls?
01:10:08 --> 01:10:10 [SPEAKER_00]: Was it only to keep your body from rotting?
01:10:11 --> 01:10:13 [SPEAKER_00]: The ways of a beast would have been served for that.
01:10:13 --> 01:10:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Some beasts that have no souls live longer than men do.
01:10:16 --> 01:10:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Did God have a higher design than to prepare you to enjoy sensual pleasures?
01:10:21 --> 01:10:24 [SPEAKER_00]: Or was it for you to make you capable to rebel against him?
01:10:25 --> 01:10:31 [SPEAKER_00]: The brute creatures being destitute of rational souls are not able to rebel, so they can't sin or dishonor God.
01:10:32 --> 01:10:41 [SPEAKER_00]: but did God advance you to a higher place of Excellency and give you a soul of superior nature and dude with angelical faculties all so that you might act like devils?
01:10:42 --> 01:10:48 [SPEAKER_00]: Did God make you better than the beasts of the earth that you might make yourself worse than them?
01:10:49 --> 01:10:50 [SPEAKER_00]: You are made to glorify God.
01:10:50 --> 01:10:56 [SPEAKER_00]: And if this is not done by you, you don't fulfill the end of your creation.
01:10:57 --> 01:10:59 [SPEAKER_00]: Other creatures attend what they were made for.
01:10:59 --> 01:11:03 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you don't attend what you were made for, God may well repent of making you.
01:11:04 --> 01:11:08 [SPEAKER_00]: Another motive is that you commend those that appraised and glorified God.
01:11:09 --> 01:11:11 [SPEAKER_00]: Men in former generations have carried themselves differently.
01:11:12 --> 01:11:14 [SPEAKER_00]: Some have praised and glorified God.
01:11:14 --> 01:11:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Men, like Moses, Noah, Samuel, Hezekiah, and Paul, and you praise them.
01:11:20 --> 01:11:22 [SPEAKER_00]: You count them wise and worthy.
01:11:22 --> 01:11:26 [SPEAKER_00]: They are renowned in all generations on that account.
01:11:27 --> 01:11:30 [SPEAKER_00]: You look upon them that have served God as the best kinds of men.
01:11:30 --> 01:11:32 [SPEAKER_00]: many were poor and persecuted.
01:11:33 --> 01:11:36 [SPEAKER_00]: Yet you count them men of whom the world was not worthy.
01:11:36 --> 01:11:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews 1138, all generations called them blessed.
01:11:40 --> 01:11:47 [SPEAKER_00]: Others have neglected to praise and glorify God, men like a chan, hazy, dogg, a hithafel, and demoss.
01:11:48 --> 01:11:55 [SPEAKER_00]: There have been great numbers of men that have neglected the service of God and they were devoted to serve their Conno and sinful affections.
01:11:55 --> 01:11:57 [SPEAKER_00]: And you despise these men in your hearts.
01:11:57 --> 01:11:59 [SPEAKER_00]: You count them fools and man men.
01:12:00 --> 01:12:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Even if some were rich, some of them learned some lived with honor in this life, but you have a low opinion of them.
01:12:07 --> 01:12:09 [SPEAKER_00]: You think it had been better for them if they had never been born.
01:12:10 --> 01:12:11 [SPEAKER_00]: You pass that judgment onto them.
01:12:12 --> 01:12:13 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 49.13.
01:12:13 --> 01:12:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Their way is their folly.
01:12:16 --> 01:12:18 [SPEAKER_00]: You can count them among the fools in Israel.
01:12:18 --> 01:12:19 [SPEAKER_00]: You wonder how they could be happy.
01:12:20 --> 01:12:22 [SPEAKER_00]: How they dared to think such a way.
01:12:22 --> 01:12:24 [SPEAKER_00]: How they were not ashamed to live such a life.
01:12:25 --> 01:12:27 [SPEAKER_00]: They were despicable in your eyes.
01:12:28 --> 01:12:31 [SPEAKER_00]: And so men will think of you when you are dead.
01:12:32 --> 01:12:34 [SPEAKER_00]: If you glorify God, they will bless you.
01:12:34 --> 01:12:36 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you don't, they will count you a miserable man.
01:12:37 --> 01:12:42 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't you commend men that glorify God, but you won't tread in their steps?
01:12:43 --> 01:12:45 [SPEAKER_00]: Will you condemn those that have not done it?
01:12:45 --> 01:12:46 [SPEAKER_00]: And yet, imitate them?
01:12:48 --> 01:12:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Another motive is that heaven notices how you live.
01:12:52 --> 01:12:55 [SPEAKER_00]: The angels are observing this world of ours.
01:12:55 --> 01:13:00 [SPEAKER_00]: They are often coming and going and descending and ascending as Jacob saw them in a dream.
01:13:00 --> 01:13:07 [SPEAKER_00]: Genesis 2812, being ministering spirits sent to minister to them that will be airs of salvation.
01:13:07 --> 01:13:12 [SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews 514, and they are giving information on how you carry yourselves.
01:13:13 --> 01:13:19 [SPEAKER_00]: And since the dying go to heaven are able to give an account of the behavior of others in the places they come from.
01:13:19 --> 01:13:24 [SPEAKER_00]: One would think that you should be concerned that the Saints in Heaven should not hear an evil report about you.
01:13:25 --> 01:13:40 [SPEAKER_00]: Certainly, they are concerned about the work of Manipon Earth, Luke 157, Joy will be in heaven over one center that repents, saints that are in heaven will be concerned about the state of religion, and getting the knowledge of how it thrives in such a country and such a town.
01:13:41 --> 01:13:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Surely they will be asking after their acquaintances and after their sons and their daughters, and one would think that many of you should be ashamed to think what a count must be given of you, to your friends if you have any friends in heaven.
01:13:53 --> 01:13:59 [SPEAKER_00]: It may be someone be ashamed that it should be told at the next town how they behave themselves.
01:14:00 --> 01:14:03 [SPEAKER_00]: You think of how much worse it is that they should be told in heaven.
01:14:03 --> 01:14:08 [SPEAKER_00]: The account that must be given to many people is that they care a little for anything else except the world.
01:14:09 --> 01:14:10 [SPEAKER_00]: They care nothing for religion.
01:14:11 --> 01:14:13 [SPEAKER_00]: They are swallowed up in the carousel of the world.
01:14:13 --> 01:14:17 [SPEAKER_00]: They have somewhat a form of godliness, but nothing of the power.
01:14:17 --> 01:14:20 [SPEAKER_00]: They are panting after the dust of the earth.
01:14:20 --> 01:14:23 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't savor of God's gracious spirit.
01:14:24 --> 01:14:30 [SPEAKER_00]: They go to a meeting on the Sabbath in at other times, but the cares of the world do choke the seed of the word.
01:14:31 --> 01:14:38 [SPEAKER_00]: And the account that must be given of others is that they are a phariseical, proud creatures, minding nothing but their outside.
01:14:39 --> 01:14:41 [SPEAKER_00]: or that they are of rude behavior.
01:14:42 --> 01:14:47 [SPEAKER_00]: When they should be in bed, they are out in the company with wedges, more they're hanging around in the taverns.
01:14:48 --> 01:14:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine what it would do to your heart to consider what discussion there isn't having about you.
01:14:52 --> 01:14:59 [SPEAKER_00]: To have an ill name here is a shame, but it is more shameful to have an ill name in heaven.
01:15:00 --> 01:15:07 [SPEAKER_00]: You would be embarrassed to think it is said in heaven that much work has been spent on you, but it is in vain.
01:15:07 --> 01:15:13 [SPEAKER_00]: And yet another motive is if you will not praise the name of the Lord on earth, then you won't do it in heaven.
01:15:14 --> 01:15:16 [SPEAKER_00]: Praising God is heavenly work.
01:15:17 --> 01:15:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Saints and angels will spend an eternity in praising and magnifying God.
01:15:20 --> 01:15:26 [SPEAKER_00]: They'll be making melody to the Lord, and you think they will be very happy according to that.
01:15:27 --> 01:15:31 [SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 84-4, blessed are they that dwell in your house.
01:15:31 --> 01:15:33 [SPEAKER_00]: They will still be praising you.
01:15:33 --> 01:15:40 [SPEAKER_00]: But, if you neglect to praise God here, God will not admit you among the holy ones there.
01:15:41 --> 01:15:44 [SPEAKER_00]: There will be a glorious company in heaven.
01:15:44 --> 01:15:49 [SPEAKER_00]: You will beg to be admitted for even on earth you have had your pangs where you secretly long to go to heaven.
01:15:49 --> 01:15:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Number 2310, let me die the death of the righteous and let my last end be like this.
01:15:58 --> 01:16:05 [SPEAKER_00]: When you are going out of the world, you will cry earnestly to God to admit you and will fill your mouth with arguments, but you will be rejected.
01:16:05 --> 01:16:09 [SPEAKER_00]: God will have no compassion on you, but will harden his heart against you.
01:16:09 --> 01:16:14 [SPEAKER_00]: He'll remember what a life you led here and how you rejected his authority.
01:16:15 --> 01:16:17 [SPEAKER_00]: You didn't render to him the glory of his faithfulness?
01:16:18 --> 01:16:20 [SPEAKER_00]: How you preferred other things instead of him?
01:16:21 --> 01:16:23 [SPEAKER_00]: and he will stop his ears against your cries.
01:16:24 --> 01:16:29 [SPEAKER_00]: He won't accept from you that you were poor and low in the world, or the unholyness of your parents.
01:16:29 --> 01:16:32 [SPEAKER_00]: But his objection will be that you did not honor him.
01:16:33 --> 01:16:37 [SPEAKER_00]: For he says, they that honor me, I will honor.
01:16:37 --> 01:16:43 [SPEAKER_00]: First Samuel 230, and he will not admit you, Matthew 25, 11 and 12.
01:16:43 --> 01:16:49 [SPEAKER_00]: The foolish Virgin said, Lord, open to us, but he answered and said, truly I say to you, I know you not.
01:16:50 --> 01:16:57 [SPEAKER_00]: And the last motivation is, if you won't praise the name of the Lord on earth, you must do it in hell.
01:16:58 --> 01:17:02 [SPEAKER_00]: It is commonly said that we could men in hell were blasphemed God, and I don't deny it.
01:17:02 --> 01:17:05 [SPEAKER_00]: That is expected of them, Revelation 1611.
01:17:05 --> 01:17:10 [SPEAKER_00]: They blasphemed the God of heaven because of the plagues and because of their swords.
01:17:10 --> 01:17:18 [SPEAKER_00]: though that is spoken directly of anti-Christians when God brings his judgment upon them, but ungodly men in hell will also praise God.
01:17:19 --> 01:17:21 [SPEAKER_00]: God will praise himself by executing his wrath on them.
01:17:21 --> 01:17:25 [SPEAKER_00]: He will show his own glory when he executes revenge upon them.
01:17:25 --> 01:17:31 [SPEAKER_00]: As he did when he brought plagues upon Egypt, he caused his name to be declared through the earth.
01:17:32 --> 01:17:36 [SPEAKER_00]: But besides this,
01:17:36 --> 01:17:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Now you are ready to flatter yourself as if you were in no danger, but then you will acknowledge that God is stronger than you.
01:17:43 --> 01:17:46 [SPEAKER_00]: Where were the workers of sin hide themselves?
01:17:47 --> 01:17:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you will have to acknowledge your fallen madness and withstanding the gracious cause of God.
01:17:52 --> 01:17:55 [SPEAKER_00]: You will then have to own the justice of God.
01:17:55 --> 01:18:03 [SPEAKER_00]: Now men have reasons to believe they are safe from it, but then there will be no excuses.
01:18:03 --> 01:18:09 [SPEAKER_00]: Romans 319, every mouth will be shut and all the world will become guilty before God.
01:18:09 --> 01:18:20 [SPEAKER_00]: As faro acknowledged, God's righteousness in Exodus 927, the Lord is righteous and I, my people are wicked, before they would not believe in the faithfulness of God in His threats.
01:18:21 --> 01:18:32 [SPEAKER_00]: But then they will say, as in 1 Samuel, chapter 7, verse 29, the strength of Israel will not lie nor repent.
01:18:33 --> 01:18:44 [SPEAKER_00]: Someone may object, it just isn't the manner of young men and maids to serve and glorify God if they were to do it, they would stand out and be alone, so they must do his others do.
01:18:45 --> 01:18:48 [SPEAKER_00]: My answer is this is no vindication of you.
01:18:49 --> 01:18:52 [SPEAKER_00]: Your religion is wickedness even if everyone were to practice it.
01:18:52 --> 01:18:55 [SPEAKER_00]: The multitude of sinners is no justification of sin.
01:18:56 --> 01:18:57 [SPEAKER_00]: Neither is it any security.
01:18:58 --> 01:19:01 [SPEAKER_00]: If hand join in hand, the wicked will not be spared punishment.
01:19:02 --> 01:19:05 [SPEAKER_00]: Multitudes of young ones are burning in hell for their sins.
01:19:06 --> 01:19:11 [SPEAKER_00]: If you could hear their groan, you would have little heart to follow their example.
01:19:12 --> 01:19:15 [SPEAKER_00]: Nor is being young and insurmountable time of temptation.
01:19:16 --> 01:19:20 [SPEAKER_00]: Samuel, David, Solomon, Josiah, managed to vanquish this temptation.
01:19:20 --> 01:19:21 [SPEAKER_00]: And so may you, too.
01:19:22 --> 01:19:26 [SPEAKER_00]: A second objection often made is now is our only time to enjoy pleasures.
01:19:27 --> 01:19:32 [SPEAKER_00]: And I would answer that is it would be no loss if you never did enjoy the pleasure of sin.
01:19:32 --> 01:19:39 [SPEAKER_00]: there are pleasures to be enjoyed in a way of faith and they are far better less damaging and fuller and longer lasting.
01:19:40 --> 01:19:42 [SPEAKER_00]: The pleasures of sin have poison in them.
01:19:42 --> 01:19:43 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 2332.
01:19:44 --> 01:19:47 [SPEAKER_00]: At last, they bite like a serpent and sting like an atom.
01:19:48 --> 01:19:49 [SPEAKER_00]: Ecclesiastes 119.
01:19:50 --> 01:19:53 [SPEAKER_00]: Know that for all things God will bring you into judgment.
01:19:53 --> 01:19:58 [SPEAKER_00]: You may get such a wound by indulging yourself in the pleasure of sin that it may never be cured.
01:19:59 --> 01:20:02 [SPEAKER_00]: And it may be right now as you're only time to secure eternal life.
01:20:03 --> 01:20:06 [SPEAKER_00]: You have no assurance of any time coming later to do it.
01:20:07 --> 01:20:09 [SPEAKER_00]: The course of nature won't promise it to you.
01:20:09 --> 01:20:12 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no promise from God to secure it for you later.
01:20:13 --> 01:20:16 [SPEAKER_00]: And you are warned to believe in that present time?
01:20:16 --> 01:20:22 [SPEAKER_00]: Isaiah 556, seek the Lord while he may be found, call you upon him while he is near.
01:20:22 --> 01:20:28 [SPEAKER_00]: The last common objection is it is not to be expected that we should be as good as older people.
01:20:28 --> 01:20:30 [SPEAKER_00]: We are not guilty of any great sins.
01:20:31 --> 01:20:34 [SPEAKER_00]: You will not have us be as religious and as perfect as the elderly.
01:20:35 --> 01:20:42 [SPEAKER_00]: And I answer that that if you are not better than some elderly professors of the faith, you will never enter the kingdom of God.
01:20:43 --> 01:20:51 [SPEAKER_00]: Men go convinced themselves that just a little religion will secure salvation, and so they give themselves over to worldliness and lukewarmness.
01:20:51 --> 01:20:54 [SPEAKER_00]: But be assured, the way to life is narrow.
01:20:55 --> 01:20:58 [SPEAKER_00]: Some that have a name that they live are actually dead.
01:20:59 --> 01:21:06 [SPEAKER_00]: There could even be seriousness in sobriety in awareness and affection and zeal and yet the person may still be in a perishing condition.
01:21:07 --> 01:21:10 [SPEAKER_00]: It is a mighty change that prepares men for salvation.
01:21:10 --> 01:21:22 [SPEAKER_00]: And I am afraid that the un-savory lives of some elders make some young ones to harden their hearts and to think that a little religion will serve good enough, but you should remember the words of Christ.
01:21:22 --> 01:21:35 [SPEAKER_00]: Matthew chapter 5 verse 20, unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will in no way enter the kingdom of heaven.
01:21:46 --> 01:21:54 [SPEAKER_01]: Sauder was preaching at his time trying to reach the children of the Puritans, the second third generation there in America to get them to come to Christ, and you know what?
01:21:54 --> 01:22:04 [SPEAKER_01]: I would say young people are still in need of being stirred up as a teacher, who works with young people, as SMA spends a lot more time with them than, you know, I ever thought I would.
01:22:04 --> 01:22:04 [SPEAKER_01]: We still need it.
01:22:05 --> 01:22:06 [SPEAKER_01]: We need people preaching the truth to them.
01:22:06 --> 01:22:08 [SPEAKER_01]: We need people go.
01:22:08 --> 01:22:10 [SPEAKER_01]: I really encourage you.
01:22:10 --> 01:22:13 [SPEAKER_01]: Go spend some time with the young people at your church.
01:22:13 --> 01:22:14 [SPEAKER_01]: Go meet with people.
01:22:14 --> 01:22:15 [SPEAKER_01]: Go disciple and mentor.
01:22:16 --> 01:22:20 [SPEAKER_01]: Go get involved and share the love of Jesus with those who are younger.
01:22:20 --> 01:22:21 [SPEAKER_01]: They are looking for truth.
01:22:21 --> 01:22:25 [SPEAKER_01]: They are desperate for something real to sink their teeth into to build their life on.
01:22:25 --> 01:22:42 [SPEAKER_01]: There is so it is so difficult to imagine just how much they are bombarded by messages from this world from their phones It is so hard to imagine just how much stuff is out there How much chat chbt and just the craziness of their world
01:22:42 --> 01:23:01 [SPEAKER_01]: that they're growing up into and they never has, there's always been a great need, but never has the opportunities right right now for people to come in and reach into the lives of young people, share the truth of the gospel with them, stir them up and encourage them and do like Stodder did make it your mission to help them.
01:23:01 --> 01:23:02 [SPEAKER_01]: They need it.
01:23:02 --> 01:23:02 [SPEAKER_01]: There's definitely
01:23:02 --> 01:23:09 [SPEAKER_01]: If you're looking for a group, I want to be like a starter who reached the Indians and John then, where it's well, I don't know that you can reach them right now.
01:23:09 --> 01:23:20 [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that that ministry feels still available, but you know who is right in front of you who it may be considered in some ways a thankless job, just like many others throughout history, but they could really use you young people.
01:23:21 --> 01:23:32 [SPEAKER_01]: They are, they've got an interesting time and they could really use something eternal and true to put their hopes on and I think Jesus Christ being shared with them would be a worthy
01:23:32 --> 01:23:47 [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you for listening to today's episode of Revived Thoughts.
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01:23:56 --> 01:23:58 [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, John Rainer is great.
01:23:58 --> 01:24:00 [SPEAKER_01]: He has done so many sermons for us.
01:24:01 --> 01:24:02 [SPEAKER_01]: We are extremely grateful.
01:24:02 --> 01:24:04 [SPEAKER_01]: He's been just so kind.
01:24:04 --> 01:24:05 [SPEAKER_01]: He has an audiobook.
01:24:05 --> 01:24:07 [SPEAKER_01]: So if you're ever like, hey, I need a narration.
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01:24:08 --> 01:24:09 [SPEAKER_01]: But if you do, go find him.
01:24:09 --> 01:24:10 [SPEAKER_01]: Go look him up.
01:24:10 --> 01:24:11 [SPEAKER_01]: He does this professionally.
01:24:11 --> 01:24:13 [SPEAKER_01]: He's involved with a bunch of different work.
01:24:13 --> 01:24:14 [SPEAKER_01]: But he's just always been nice.
01:24:14 --> 01:24:16 [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, he will reach out to me.
01:24:16 --> 01:24:18 [SPEAKER_01]: Even though he runs, he does this for a living.
01:24:18 --> 01:24:20 [SPEAKER_01]: He charges people money for this.
01:24:20 --> 01:24:23 [SPEAKER_01]: But he has just always had such a kindness, such a heart for the ministry.
01:24:23 --> 01:24:26 [SPEAKER_01]: He'll reach out to me and be like, hey, it's been a while.
01:24:26 --> 01:24:27 [SPEAKER_01]: Do you need a sermon?
01:24:27 --> 01:24:35 [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, yeah, of course So I really appreciate his work and I think he did a great job with this one If you enjoyed this episode, please share it.
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01:24:42 --> 01:24:45 [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, maybe maybe the young person likes a good podcast, right?
01:24:45 --> 01:24:46 [SPEAKER_01]: You can share that with them
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