Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15. Give Him 15. The title of our post today is,

don't underestimate its importance. As a follower of Christ, my allegiance is to Him and His Kingdom above all else. I am also, however, a patriotic American

devoted to this nation which he raised up to trumpet the gospel, the good news, to all the world.

That he did so is both historically accurate and a sacred trust. John Quincy Adams, the sixth U.S. President and son of John and

Abigail Adams, said, the highest glory of the American Revolution was this. It connected in one

indissoluble bond, the principles of civil government with the precepts of Christianity.

It connected in one indesoluble bond, the principles of civil government, with the precepts of Christianity.

In 1837, at the age of 69, in delivering a Fourth of July speech at Newburyport, Massachusetts, Adams said, and this is profound, why is it that next to the

birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day,

the 4th of July? Is it not that in the chain of human events,

the birthday of this nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?

That it forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation.

The forming of America forms a leading event in the progress of the gospel dispensation. Is it not that the Declaration of Independence

first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemer's mission upon earth,

that it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity.

That, as they say, will preach.

Do not accept anyone's revision of America's history.

Do not be moved by ridiculous accusations

against patriotism and love of country.

And do not accept the heretical and ludicrous arguments

that God would never raise up a nation

for the primary purpose of trumpeting the gospel.

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