Psalm 67.

may God be gracious to us and bless us and make his face to shine upon us that thy way may be known upon Earth, thy saving power among all nations.

Let the peoples praise thee, O God, let all the peoples praise thee. Let the nations be glad and sing for joy. For thou dost judge

the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Let the peoples praise the, O God, let all the peoples praise thee.

The earth has yielded its increase. God, our God has blessed us. God has blessed us. Let all the ends of the earth fear him.

The first missionary endeavor of the Protestants in England was born out of a Puritan hope. You remember who the Puritans were?

Between the years, roughly 1560 to 1660 in England, pastors and teachers, laymen who long to purify, that's where

the word came from, to purify the Church of England and bring its teachings and its

practice into alignment with the reformed teaching they had come to cherish.

They had a view of biblical authority and divine sovereignty

that produced an undaunted hope in the victim. sovereignty that God would one day conquer all opposition in all the nations and reign

savingly over the peoples. They really believed when they read in Psalm 86 that it would be true.

There is none like thee among the gods, O Lord, nor are there any works like thine. All the nations thou hast made shall come and bow down before

thee, O Lord, and they shall glorify thy name. They had this tremendous confidence that the reign of Christ was going

to be extended until people from every tongue and tribe and nation would bow.

And the whole earth would be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord. And that hope gave birth not only to the modern missionary movement in

1793 with William Carey, but 150 years earlier with the

first efforts of Protestant missions in the English-speaking world.

Between the years, 1627 and 1640, 15,000 people from England emigrated to America. Almost all of them, Puritans seeking religious freedom

and bringing with them this massive confidence in God that he was going to use them to fulfill

the promises of scripture that one day all the nations, including the nations of America, would bow the knee to God.

The seal of the Massachusetts Bay Colony has on it, had on it, an Indian.

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