# God and country Sunday

Category: Evangelism & Soul Winning
Key Passage: Psalm 44
Speaker: Paul Chisgar
Date: June 30, 2025

Would you take your Bibles and turn to Psalm chapter 44? We will read a couple of different passages to establish a point about the importance of history. I want you to notice how God emphasizes the importance of history to the nation of Israel.

Look at a couple of things about this as a starting point to talk a little bit about history.

By the way, we have a new board in our PA booth, and so I’m sure things will be adjusting and changing. We had our PA really overhauled this week. Usually after that, you have fine-tuning to happen. So if I sound like a girl for a bit, it’s not me; it’s the PA, all right? Now, don’t look so weird at me. I’m 55, so, you know, but anyway, they’re working on that, just so you know.

Psalm 44. We are going to start in verse number one.

Psalm 44, verse number one. The Bible says, “We have heard with our ears, O God.” Watch this. So they didn’t see it; they heard with their ears and other eyes. “Our fathers have told us what work thou didest in their days in the times of old. How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand and plantest them? How thou didst afflict the people and cast them out.”

Talking about the nation of Israel, how they entered into the promised land and God chased out the bad, brought them in, settled them there, and even disciplined Israel when they needed it. Now, you call that history to the nation of Israel. They didn’t see it; they didn’t live it. It was in the past. They’ve heard about it from their fathers. I thought it was fitting the last song we just sang, “Faith of Our Fathers.”

Verse number three: “For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them, but thy right hand and thine arm and the light of thy countenance because thou hast favor unto them.” So by the history, they learned that it wasn’t because they were so mighty; it was because God blessed them.

I think it’s very important for America to learn that. If we know our true history, we will know that. And that’s what they’re doing.

Verse number four: “Thou art my king, O God; command deliverances for Jacob.” Sometimes Jacob is used in place of the nation of Israel; his name was changed to Israel.

Now look over in chapter 78, Psalm 78 and verse number three. Psalm 78. Just two verses here, verse number three and verse number four.

Psalm 78, verse number three. He says, “Which we have heard.” Well, they didn’t see it. They heard and known, and our fathers have told us. It’s in our history here.

Verse number four: “We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done.” Psalm 78 is much about the nation of Israel. He’s talking about all the blessings, the history that God had given them.

You remember when the nation of Israel crossed over the Jordan River? I think in some ways it’s a greater miracle than the Red Sea splitting because the Jordan River was flowing so much—so much at that time the banks were overflowing. Is that the right term, overflowing? Yes, it’s flowing fast. And we’re in Tennessee, so we’re okay, amen.

God split the Jordan River and they crossed over. Remember what he said? He said, “Hey, take a man from each tribe, and I want you to take a rock and carry it up on the other side. And I want that man to put it there and build a memorial.”

And this is what it says in Joshua 4:7: “And these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel forever.” It was going to be history to them.

Now for just a bit, I kind of just start off this way, showing you God puts importance on history.

This is the annual service. We don’t do this every Sunday, but we’re really focused on our Christian heritage. And sometimes in our day and time, you will not hear about that anywhere else. So we’d like to focus on that in our church here. Maybe Brother Patrick, if you want to just turn me down just a touch, if you would. We’ve got more power, I feel like, in our PA because we’ve broadened some things in it and whatnot. So we’ll be working on it.

Here’s the thing for me typically. I don’t know about you, but for me, I’ll hear something like this. I’m going to share it. Man, I love it. I like it, but I can’t remember all that. Anybody out there like that? So I’m going to work on us retaining five—excuse me, not five—three facts. All right, I’ll let you know when we get to them, but we’re going to center on those things.

Then at the end of the service, we’re going to pass out a little handout with those three facts because I would love it if we would retain some things for years and years from this morning. That’s one of my goals, very different for me than the typical thing.

Now, here’s the importance of history. Listen to me just very closely at the beginning of this, would you please? History is to a nation what memory is to a person. Did you get that? History is to a nation what memory is to a person.

If you have someone and they have amnesia, they have total loss of memory—someone hits them upside the head with a bat. They might deserve it, but anyway, you know, but they do that, and they lose their memory. Anyone can come along and say, “Hey, you were like this. You were mean. You were kind. You were funny. You always said this,” and you would believe it because you have no memory.

You see, the liberal, the leftist side, the woke crowd, they want so bad to change America. And so they work very hard at wiping our memory out. See? Because then they can say, “Well, you’re this, that, or the other,” and people believe that because history is to a nation what memory is to a person. You all follow me? They work very hard on specifically erasing the Christian part of our history.

Then often they’ll do this: they’ll try to vilify America’s history and make it sound like we were so bad because then we’ll be more willing to change. They vilify because we’ve got no memory. Y’all want me out there? So the importance of history—let me just talk for a bit about it.

Often our founding fathers are promoted as being deists. Now, it depends on what you use as a definition of our founding fathers. Many would say it’s about 250 men and ladies, and some will narrow it down to about five of them; there’s a broad spectrum. But here’s the thing: if you take 250 of our founding fathers, or maybe just a handful of them that were deists, the vast majority of them were very godly men.

All right, we’re going to go back for just a minute here to the start of our nation at the Declaration of Independence, all right? Can we get that first picture there, picture number one, up on the board? And I’m going to turn some of these lights off so you can see it a little bit better here. Can we get, not the fact one, but the picture number one there? While they’re doing that, let me talk to you about what a deist is, all right? That’s often promoted—that the founding fathers were deists, all right? Don’t look up there; look right here. I know I’m ugly, but look right here. We’ll get that in a second.

A deist is someone that believes there is a God. They believe God created the universe, and it’s kind of like back in the day when you had clocks you had to wind up. God kind of wound it all up, and he just lets it run. He flung it out there, and it runs itself. God took his hands off; he has no control. Man makes its own destiny; man’s in control; God has no control. That’s a deist, all right? Y’all with me? And that’s what they try to paint our founding fathers as—deists.

Now, let’s look at this picture number one. I’m talking about the founding fathers signing of the Declaration of Independence. That’s a picture with those men there, 56 men. We can go to the second one there, if you would, please.

Here’s the 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence. That’s the birth certificate of America. They signed it July 4th, 1776, 249 years ago, coming this Friday. That’s a birthday, and it’s a birth certificate. And these 56 men signed it.

Now, here’s one to get to picture number three of these 56. I’ll tell you what, if you just want to skip pictures, how about we’ll get fact number one? This is one of the things I want you to retain. We’ve got a lot of different things going on with their PA back there. What a day that’s throwing pictures when we’re adjusting to a new board, right? You know, if you’re going to do it, might as well do it all at one time. Help me out. How many is half of 56? I see smoke coming out of your ears. I can’t count past 8. Amen. 28.

So here we’ve got 56 men that signed the Declaration of Independence. Twenty-nine of those men not just went to a Bible school or seminary, but 29 of those men graduated. Over half of the men that signed the Declaration of Independence went to what would be considered a Bible school or seminary.

We have Brother Lucas here, and he grew up in our church, who went off to the Marines, and he just graduated from Crown Bible College and is taking his master’s there now. And he was going to preach last night. He did a great job teaching in Sunday school. He stepped on my toes a little bit. My wife was sitting there, and she was elbowing me when he started talking about washing the dishes and things. He was talking about us men washing dishes and folding clothes. And my wife was elbowing me. I said, that’s the last time he’ll teach or preach here. I was teasing, of course. He did a fabulous job.

But here’s my point: a person graduates from Bible College; they are not a deist. They just spent years of their life studying God’s word. More often than not, they’ve become preachers. He’s preaching for us. He did a wonderful job in Sunday school, besides stepping on my toes. That was great. No, I want you to remember that. Help me out. Help me out now.

Let’s read this thing here. Let’s read this. Can you all see that? Good, good. If you can’t, put your binoculars on. All right. Let’s try to read it out loud together because I want us to retain this in a way. Here we go: “Of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, 29 graduated from schools that were considered Bible schools.” Wow. Does that sound like deism to you?

Now, some will say up to 52 were very, very strong Christians, very deeply committed Christians. Some of that can be debated, but 52. But we know of the 56, 29 graduated from Bible colleges. They didn’t just go; they graduated.

If the leftists and the liberals and that crowd, the woke crowd, can get us to quieten down, that’s what they want. But I want us to be able to have just a couple of quiver arrows in our quiver ready to shoot. And I want you to retain that: of the 56 that signed the Declaration of Independence, how many had gone to Bible school or seminary? That’s over half. That’s over half.

Now let’s talk about this man, probably the most famous signature on the Declaration of Independence. Everybody knows. Go sign your what? Yeah, let’s get that picture number four, if we could please. Picture number four up there. And John Hancock, he’s known for his signature. He was the first one to sign the Declaration of Independence.

There’s a little bit of debate about why he signed it so large. Some say he said, “Well, I want all my enemies to know I’m signing it. They want to get me and get me,” and he signed it. Some say that’s not true. They’ll debate about that to the cows come home, but we know it’s a large signature for sure. And we’ll get that picture number four here in just a second. He was the longest-serving president of the Continental Congress. He was a governor of Massachusetts—the first governor of Massachusetts and the third governor of Massachusetts. He served there twice. And just a couple things about him, the most noted man signer of the Declaration of Independence. And we’ll get his signature here in just a second. But I want you to notice this about the most famous signature on the Declaration of Independence: was he a deist or not?

Well, when he was governor of Massachusetts, he called 22 times for the people of Massachusetts to fast and pray for God to intervene.

We can get this thing working here. There’s the signature. There’s the signature. Let’s go to that next one there, picture number five, if you would, please. And Brother Patrick said, “I just got a four.” Come on, man, hang on here.

Picture number five is one of those declarations when he’s calling them to a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer. Now, that’s the most famous signature on the Declaration of Independence. If a deist calls 22 times for the state he’s a governor of to fasting and prayer, something just doesn’t jive about that. Something’s not right to him. These are godly folk.

Can we go to the next slide there, if you would, Brother Patrick? I want you to notice something about that. We’re kind of zooming in on it. I don’t know if this thing works here. Let’s see. It does. Look at that. If you notice this, once you see, this is the same proclamation for a day of fasting, humiliation, prayers. I want you to notice down here, and it talks about mediation of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Friend, you don’t call that a deist; you call that a born-again Christian, amen. Twenty-two times he called for his state that he was governor of to fast and pray. And in that proclamation, this one here we’re looking at, he calls Jesus Christ his Lord and Savior.

Now, help me out. Fact number one: How many signed the Declaration of Independence? I can’t hear it. This side is a little bit, maybe a little bit louder. How many men signed the Declaration of Independence? Good. Of the 56, this side over here, how many went to Bible college or seminary? When not graduated? Right. Now, that’s fact number one.

We’re going to get fact number two right here, just talking about these days of proclamations. And here’s fact number two: By 1815. Now let’s look at our nation, 1776, right? July the 4th. And if it goes to 1815, watch that. Is that 39 years? 49 years? 39, thank you, brother. He’s got a good mathematician. Thirty-nine years later, so you still have these founding fathers around in leadership.

So fact number two: By 1815, there had been 1,400 government calls to prayer and fasting in America, largely by our founding fathers. Wow. Help me out, would you call that a deist or a Christian? Yeah.

Now, I want to try to retain this fact number two here. By 1815, there had been 1,400 government calls to prayer and fasting in America. Look, that’s largely the founding fathers who are in leadership still. So help me out. By what year were we talking about? 1815. Right. How many proclamations for fasting and prayer had there been? 1,400. Wow.

I want you to retain that if you can. I want you to remember that when somebody says, “Well, they were a bunch of deists, agnostic. Some of them were atheists.” Well, maybe, maybe if you stretch it, maybe there are about four or five. But look, by 1815, there are 1,400 proclamations for fasting and prayer by our government—our government. Friend, I’m telling you, America started as a Christian nation. My high leg, they were deists? Hey, they were godly men. They were Christian men. We were started as a Christian nation. Amen.

I don’t want you to have some arrows you can put in your quiver and say, “No, wait a second. By 1815, there are 1,400 days or proclamations of days of fasting and prayer by our government.” I want you to retain these things. Hold on to them a little bit. That’s fact number two.

Can we go to picture number seven, if you would, please? Picture number seven. This is also John Hancock. It’s a brief; it’s something he was encouraging the people of Massachusetts to do. I can’t really read that, so I’m going to read some of it here for you. He says, “I do therefore in pursuance of the recommendation of the said General Assembly.” He goes on. He says, “I do request of all money or other property collected,” he goes on, “as a fund be employed for the society for the purpose of propagating the knowledge of the gospel among the Indians and others in America.”

Now, you’re talking about one of the founding fathers, one of those that signed, whose signature was the largest on the Declaration of Independence, and he’s calling for the people of Massachusetts to give, offering, if you will, for getting the gospel to the Indians.

Friend, you don’t call that a deist. That’s one of our main founding fathers, and he’s asking publicly for his state to give money to go for the cause of getting the gospel to Indians, Native Americans. And I’m just telling you, that’s our history. And these are some documents. I want you to see these things. And the actual, by the way, be so careful about what they say about the Founding Fathers. Find out what they wrote. Check out their briefs, if you will. We’re looking right now. Check out their declarations. Check out what they said themselves. Read the Federalist Papers. Find out what they said, friend, not what somebody else says they said.

We’ve got the documents. It’s there. I forget years ago, I gave a cassette tape—no, it wasn’t an 8-track, I’m not that old now—but I gave a cassette tape to a neighbor. He was graduating Middle Tennessee State University with an education degree. And he said, “You know, I’ve never heard of you.” He said, “The first time I listened to this, I was kind of mad,” and said, “Well, some proof.” And he said that the man on the tape kept talking about going to the Lowell Library and looking at the documents. And he said, “I started studying. I was like, wow, he’s right. But I’m graduating from a secular university, and I’ve never heard any of this.”

That’s because history is to a nation what memory is to a person. And they can wipe out the memory and they can say, “Well, you’ve always been just a wicked, secular, ungodly nation,” and we’ll believe it. But, friend, we do have a memory in our country. It’s called our history. And it’s kind of the documents, and we were very, very much a Christian nation, friend.

In fact, how many men signed the Declaration of Independence? How many of them went to—how many of them graduated from a Bible school or seminary? That’s over half of them. In fact, by 1815, how many days, by the government, how many days, proclamations of days of fasting and prayer were there? How many were there? One thousand four hundred. I want to try to retain some of these things here, all right?

Now let’s change gears here just a bit. We’re going to talk just a touch about the education, specifically the universities of early America. All right, we’re going to talk about that for just a minute here. In fact, let’s just jump on to fact number three. We get fact number three up there if we could, please. And let’s just look at this.

Fact number three: Of the nine colonial colleges—now that’s pre-Revolutionary War, all right—there were nine colleges before the Revolutionary War. Of the nine universities before the Revolutionary War, you know how many of them were Christian? They were just packed out. I mean, look at the universities—look at Harvard and Yale now, right? Look at Princeton now. Look at all of them now. No, you’ve already read it. You’re cheating.

Eight of them. Eight of them were Christian. Now, the other—the other wasn’t necessarily; it was started secular, but the Christians pretty much ran it. We’re going to just leave that out. But eight of the nine colonial colleges were started as Christian. Like Crown, Crown School of the Bible, like, you know, these House Anderson College and all these other ones, you know, the 10th and Temple—all these colleges are started Christian. You know, of the nine pre-Revolutionary War colleges, eight of them were started as Christian colleges. Wow.

Let’s talk for just a second here about the Ivy League colleges. There are eight universities that are considered the Ivy League colleges. Can we get that next picture? I think it’s picture number eight here. We’ve got a list of the Ivy League. Here they are. Here they are up at the top: Dartmouth. Congregationalists started that. Harvard, Congregationalists started that. Congregationalism was pretty good back in the early days of America. Brown was the Baptist College. That meant they ate all the time at that college right there. Served chicken daily at that college right there. Cornell really was the one that was not started as a Christian university. And I’m saying it was a bad one; it was not started as a Christian College—Cornell. Yale was a Congregationalist; Columbia, Church of England; Princeton, Presbyterian; University of Pennsylvania, the Quakers there. That’s the Ivy League.

Let’s talk about them. You know, these Ivy League universities at our end time—you know, you have to rob a bank or have some rich uncle or aunt to go to these places. Let’s look at the first one. Let’s look at Harvard. Harvard was the first university we had in the United States—Harvard. Can we go to picture number nine, if you would please, there about Harvard?

Eighteen years after the Pilgrims set foot on the shores. And they said, very openly—I was going to read it, but we won’t have time to do it—but they said, “We’ve got our houses built, we’ve got our churches built to worship God.” And within 18 years after they set foot on North America, they started Harvard. This is the reason they started it. They said, “We don’t want the preachers we have now. They understand they can read and write; they’re illiterate and whatnot. But when these guys are in the dust,” is what they said, “we don’t want illiterate preachers that can’t read or write.”

And so they started Harvard for that purpose. Very openly, that’s why they started Harvard. That was the beginning of Harvard. It started in 1636 for the education of preachers. In fact, in the 17th century—now listen to this—Harvard, 52% of the graduates became preachers. Yeah, that’s Harvard.

This is interesting here: “Harvard University, founded in 1636 by Massachusetts Bay Colony, its charter declared that its purpose was to train a literate clergy because the colony’s leaders were dreading to leave an illiterate ministry to churches when our present minister shall lie in the dust.” Listen to this: “The college was named after Reverend John Harvard, who donated his library and considerable funds to establish the university.” I like this part right here: “Initially, Harvard’s motto, right here, in Latin read, ‘Truth for Christ and His Church.’” By the way, not just whatever kind of religion—Truth for Christ. Christ Jesus Christ and His church. I don’t know about you, but I’ll call that Christian. How about you? Yeah.

So we’re looking at this saying, Fact number three: How many colonial colleges were there? Nine. How many of them were Christian, started as Christian? Eight of them. Almost every one of them. Harvard started to train preachers. Yale University was started by ten preachers. And here’s the reason why Yale got started: they said Harvard had backslid and kind of went worldly, and so ten preachers said, “We got to start another one.” They started Yale. That’s how Yale got started.

This is interesting: Princeton, Reverend John Dickinson started it, and I’m quoting him, he said, “Cursed should be all learning that is contrary to the cross of Christ.” Wow. That’s Princeton. The college I can’t pronounce the name, Dartmouth, was established very much to reach the Indians for the Lord. Eleazar Wheelock established it and was a close friend of evangelist George Whitefield, a great preacher in the early days of America. We could go on and on.

Let me talk for just a minute here about another founding father. By the way, the secularists, they really like to mention the four or five that they can kind of argue were deists, and they’ll just bring them up, bring them up. And there’s a whole host of others that were heavily involved that they don’t like to mention. That’s really what happens a lot.

Let’s talk about this man for just a minute here, Benjamin Rush. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was considered by John Adams to be one of America’s three most notable founding fathers. Now, that’s not what some person today says; that’s what John Adams said. He’s ranking alongside George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. So we have a man that was very heavily involved in the start of America, Benjamin Rush. He’s also known as the father of American medicine. He was a founding member of America’s First Bible Society. He helped organize America’s first anti-slavery society. He is properly titled the father of the public school under the Constitution because he advocated for free public schools for all youth. That’s Benjamin Rush, all right?

Let’s look at picture number 10 about Benjamin Rush, would you please here? This is a founding father and Declaration of Independence signer, Benjamin Rush, who declared, “The only foundation for a useful education in a republic is to be laid in religion.” He goes on and says, “Without this, there can be no virtue, and without virtue, there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all Republican governments.” I like this: “The religion I mean to recommend in this place is the religion of capital letters” (emphasis added by him) “of Jesus Christ.” Wow. Doesn’t sound like a deist to me.

Dr. Rush also warned of the consequences when schools ignore teaching the Bible. “I am adamant that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them.” And this is added: “We need more Bible in the schools, including the public schools, not less.” That’s added in there. But the hand of God was very, very evident in the beginning of America.

It’s amazing. We’ve talked from this pulpit about some of the miracles during the Revolutionary War that God did to help 13 ragamuffin colonies. Really, we didn’t have the military; we didn’t have the organization; we didn’t have the money. And it was just a miracle that we won the Revolutionary War. Our generals were far from perfect military-wise. The British—the British was the most powerful military by far in the world at that time. And yet the hand of God, so many instances have shown the hand of God.

We’ve talked a lot about John Hancock. Let’s do one more thing about John Hancock. Can we go to picture number 11, would you please? Picture number 11. This is a proclamation for a day of Thanksgiving. Of course, he would kind of rotate between Thanksgiving and prayer and fasting; he did many of those. But this one is for Thanksgiving. And if I remember, it’s in 1780.

And really, this proclamation of a Day of Thanksgiving is all about a conspiracy, treason, to take George Washington—either kill him or take him as a prisoner—was discovered. Just the hand of God how this came about. And so he says, “Hey, nobody can deny so many things, unusual things happened to make this where it was brought out that we’ve got to thank God. This is God in it.”

Now, what was he talking about? Why did he proclaim this day of Thanksgiving for saving our leader of the Continental Army? What was that? Well, there’s a man, Benedict Arnold. He was born in America. He had become a major general in America. He fought for the colonial troops, for America. In fact, as far as in battle, he was very brave. The Battle of Saratoga, one of our first great victories in the Revolutionary War. He was a leader in many ways, very brave. There was a big statue of him there—a great leader—but he had an ego that was bigger than he was. He had some financial debt also, and he was mad that they weren’t promoting him fast enough.

And the Second Continental Congress really had a lot of control over that, and he wasn’t happy. He said they keep passing him over and they won’t give him credit for some of his victories, and they’re giving it to other people and on and on. By the way, he got in a lot of fights with other leaders, and in debt—so many things about him weren’t right. But he was a brave military leader. George Washington trusted him because of his military success, and he gave him control of West Point. It was a fort, one of America’s major forts, and he had given it to his control.

But in 1780, Benedict Arnold was just—well, “They’re not treating me good enough,” and on and on. And he said, “Well, maybe the British will respect me more.” He had been meeting with them, conspiring with them for a while. They said, “We’ll give you 20,000 pounds, and once you commit the act, then we’ll take you over here to our side. We’ll make you an officer general for,” if I remember right. And Benedict Arnold—love of money is the root of all evil—he began to… They had a very well-laid plot. It wasn’t the hand of God; it would have been successful.

He had showed them how West Point could be taken by the British soldiers. He gave them the plans for it. In fact, he had weakened the fortification of West Point so they could take it. And at that time, George Washington was coming to West Point, and he and his wife were going to entertain George Washington. And at that time, he was going to let the British troops come in. Of course, they would either kill or capture George Washington. That was the plot.

Well-planned out, well thought through. It wasn’t for the hand of God; it would have happened. But here’s a couple things about it: He was meeting with the British officer, John André, in New York. Now, that part of New York was American at the time, and the colonies controlled that part. And he met in secret, and he drew up the plans. And with this John André—John André was a spy from Britain, a British spy—and he drew the plan, showed him all the fortifications of West Point. He gave the plans to John André.

And John André, he didn’t want to, but because it was in the American side, he was dressed as just a civilian; he was a spy. And he took that paper, folded it up, and he put it in the bottom of his shoe, just in case he got caught or whatnot. And John André was going to go back out to the ship that delivered him to that part, but the Americans just happened to be shooting at that ship. And so that ship said, “Well, we’ve got to leave.” So John André said, “Well, I’m going to have to disguise myself,” and he started traveling through the American part of New York, and he got what he thought was through that to what he was told, and what he thought in many ways, to the British side of New York.

And so he’s free, if you will. He made it to the other side, and he thought everything’s good. And he just happened to come upon three guys. Now, he’s on the British side of New York. And so he sees these three guys and thinks, “Hey, find him some friends,” you know. And he starts talking to them, thinking they are British. One of them was wearing an old, a hushed military jacket, worn out, they say, but that jacket really deceived him, and he thought, “Well, he’s wearing that, so he must be British.”

So John André sees these three guys. Now, here’s the thing about those guys: they were not supposed to be on that side because they were Americans. In fact, they had just escaped and were able to get out and just happened to come along on top of John André. And John André sees him with this old, hushing military jacket. Well, these are the British. And so he just—he starts talking more than he should talk. And he starts telling them, “Man, I made it! Man, you know, I’m safe.” And he starts spilling his guts. And these are three American militiamen that were on the other side by chance.

Now, he wasn’t even supposed to—he was supposed to take the ship, but the ship got fired on by chance, so the ship had to come this way per chance. And then he just happens to meet on their side three American militiamen that just escaped out of prison. And he just happens to start spilling his guts. And they’re like, “Whoa, tell us more. Keep talking.” It was like the guy, he said, “Why in the world am I talking all day long?” And he went back home, and he realized he put his wife’s false teeth in there. So I was talking all day long. Come on now, you’ll get it after a while there, you know. Yeah, that’s been her about worse than ladies sometimes, too. He had his wife’s false teeth in that day. He’s just spilling his guts.

And those three men say, “Hey, we don’t like what we’re hearing.” And they took him as a prisoner. Here’s another interesting part of it: they searched him. The first time they searched him, they didn’t check his shoes. They didn’t find anything. Well, maybe it’s okay. So they decided to search him the second time. And the second time, they found the bottom of his shoes—the whole plans.

They took him over to an American post there. There were almost some things that didn’t go well there, but God intervened. The guy that ran that American post—his leader was some of these guys—but there was a higher leader who said, “No, no, don’t do that.” In fact, they ended up taking John André, and they found the plot. And they just pulled a doll—John André was executed for treason.

John Hancock got away. That’s why he just became so hated because he ended up fighting for the British, and so the American would be fighting this—we’re fighting John Hancock—just a traitor for sure, or for money and for prestige. But, you know, if they had to take West Point, that controlled the Hudson River, and they took George Washington, the whole course of events would have changed, but God and His providence made sure those men were on the wrong side at the right time. John André started talking to their own people just because they were wearing a certain jacket. And he couldn’t ride a certain ship because he had to leave.

You see, all through the Revolutionary War, the founding fathers were talking about how God intervened time and time again. Can I say this, friend? We didn’t make America great; God made America great. If America is going to stay great, it’s not going to be us; it’s going to be God. “Righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Yeah. What is Psalms 127? “Except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”

Original File: Pastor Paul Chisgar- ＂God and Country Sunday＂ Sunday AM 06⧸29⧸2025 [bnQRhE9loXQ]