Hey, guys.

Good to be with you.

I want to start this morning with a Bible passage out of Revelation.

Revelation chapter 1, verses 5 and 6.

The Bible says this.

It says, and Jesus Christ has made us kings and priests unto God and his father.

What's that mean? This is not a verse we spend a lot of time on. It's not one most people memorize. It's not something that's common like a lot of verses. But it's really significant. It's really significant as it comes to American history. And it's from history that you can always find examples showing you how something works and how it works out. So what's it mean to be king and priest? We can go back into our own story. When you go to the story of the American founding,

there are great examples of what it means to live out this verse. In the American founding,

the first two settlements we had, the first one was Jamestown, 1606, 1607. The second one was

Plymouth in 1620. Now, these two settlements, the first two in America, are really quite different from each other. I think they're very accurately described by the title of a work that Charles Dickens did in 1859 called a tale of two cities. That really is the start of America's the tale of two cities. Very often today we hear more of one city than we do the other.

So I'm going to take you back and take it through the start of these two places. Let's start with

Jamestown. Jamestown 1607, the settlers come ashore in Jamestown. And as they come ashore,

they land first on a place called Cape Henry. They land on Cape Henry. And before they come ashore

and do anything permanent, they stop there on the shore where they land. They land on Cape Henry, and before they come ashore and do anything

permanent, they stop there on the shore where they land, they erect a cross, they kneel down,

and they dedicate this land to the Lord Jesus Christ. Very openly did so. Very openly did so as Christians,

if you have any doubt about that, just go back and read their charter of 1606 the year before.

It says that we're undertaking this

endeavor we're doing this and this is what they said because it tends to the glory of god's divine

majesty and propagating the christian religion and such people yet live in darkness and miserable

ignorance of the true knowledge and worship god we're doing this because there are people who don't know

jesus and they need to know jesus and we want to make sure and get gospel to them. So this is what they say in their charter. This is what they did when they

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