Guest Speaker Timothy Barton

Wall Builders

What a fabulous service we had listening to this ordained minister, and president of Wall Builders talk to us about truth.

Some people, as Jack Nicholson said, can’t handle the truth, or don’t want to. And what Pastor Barton said was that your kids are being robbed of the privilege of learning basic history because of this very thing.

He showed us a rather embarrassing video in the style of “people on the street” being asked random history questions like, “Name the writers of the Declaration of Independence.” “I don’t know,” was the answer or some wild guess that was also wrong. “What year was it signed?” “1984?” Are you kidding me?

John 14:6 says -I am the way and truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Did you know that all the decisions that led to the creation of the declaration of independence were made on Biblical theology.

These men knew the Bible. John Adams quoted that the Bible was the greatest book ever written.

”We hold these truths to be self-evident.” In other words, the embarrassment is to be ignorant of what is written in the Bible.

Pastor Barton told a story of a man asking him how they can look up to leaders like the signers of the Declaration when the majority of them owned slaves. He said all he had to prove to make his argument invalid was if he could show just one who didn’t own a slave. He listed five, but there were more.

You have to know the whole truth. You have to know what Paul Harvey used to call the rest of the story. I hate it when people make suppositions. Like that man in the story. He just supposed the majority were slave owners. John Q. Adams spent his entire career trying to abolish slavery and never got to see it out, but guess who learned at his knee? You got it! Abraham Lincoln.

The Founding Fathers weren’t always good men, like us, they made mistakes…big ones. But God used them so others that came after them would do good things.

Benjamin Franklin once owned slaves, but later became the head of the movement to abolish slavery.

Genesis 1: 27 -So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them.

He also gave us inalienable rights and government was created to protect our God given rights.

Our guest speaker explained who John Wise was and how the Declaration was written using phrases from sermons he wrote that the Sons of Liberty had reprinted in 1772.

Samuel Adams was the leader of the Sons of Liberty and they promoted getting to know Jesus and knowing your New Testament.

John Quincy Adams became our 6th president and was known as the hellhound of abolition.

The truth is the gospel of Jesus Christ and we all begin as sinners. Yet Jesus may use us to be person that influences another to do the right thing.

He gave the best talk and I enjoyed it very much, but he talks so fast that I was grabbing notes and snippets of the important bits, so I’m sorry if my message sounds a bit chopped up.

If you’d like to hear it yourself, here is the link. Its just over an hour long but you won’t regret it. I wish my history teachers had been so interesting and thorough.