Well, welcome to Cornerstone Chapel. Welcome to our online viewers as well. And welcome today to

election sermon 2024. Who's ready for this? So it has been said that if you don't want to ruin a good

dinner party, then don't talk about faith or politics.

Well, today I'm about ready to ruin a good dinner party, because we're going to talk about

both today in the House of the Lord.

Now, if you're new to Cornerstone, let me explain what's going on and why today is different

from most Sundays. In 2008,

I was asked by David Barton and historian and the founder of wall builders whether or not I ever

preached election sermons. I said, David, I don't even know what an election sermon is. And he pointed out two resources to me that I have here.

It's a two-volume set entitled Political Surmons of the American Founding Era, 1730 to 1805.

These are sermons the pastors preached over these many decades during the period prior to the Revolutionary War

and subsequent to the Revolutionary War. Because pastors understood their duty to stand in the

pulpit and to take God's word as the lens through which we evaluate everything. And the pastors

would speak out about the issues of the day,

the policies of the day, the politicians of the day, and even the candidates running for office.

They were unashamed in their pulpits. That two volume set records many of those sermons. And yes,

even during the colonial period, there was voting in America.

In fact, we have the privilege of living here in the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the Virginia

General Assembly is the oldest continuous lawmaking body in the Western Hemisphere, established

July the 30th, 1619.

So we have a great heritage here in Virginia of voting.

We have a great heritage here in Virginia and in other states of pastors proclaiming God's

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