The Declaration Of Independence - What Price Freedom!

 This is copied from the bulletin of Calvary Baptist Church on 472 Ocean Rd in Portsmouth NH. It is dated 07/14/2024.

The Declaration of Independence
What Price Freedom!

        We are a nation of people with God given rights, our is a government designed to protect those rights. It all began with the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

        A new kind of freedom was born that day but the journey from the declaration to independence was to be blood stained and long. Between them were war, agony, wounds, death, prison and destitution for the men who signed that declaration. What price they paid for freedom.

        The Declaration of Independence of the Untied States of America was grounded in one unforgettable and unforgotten premise: every person derives his right from the Great Architect of the universe, God our Father, and the chief purpose of the government is to ensure and protect those rights. Few documents ever inscribed upon paper anywhere  are held in esteem equal to that of this statement of honor.

        The 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence lost everything they had. They were traitor to England, a technical criminal and a fugitive from London justice. As the presiding officer, John Hancock already had a price of 500 pounds on his head before he signed with a bold flourish. 

        It was a long, bloody, agonizing and terrible road from the declaration to independence. 

        The spirit of the 1776 declaration is not in us today, we are trading our independence for the security of the enslaved. O child of God, be faithful in witnessing to others and winning others to Christ. Lets just do what God left us here to do. Let's join hands and hearts for revival in our day, across our land and around the world before Jesus comes again. Will you join me in prayer? I pray that you will.

TomLeeM

2024 / 07 / 27











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