Exclusive from Gen. Flynn: Puritans Heard This Sermon About America While Crossing the Atlantic, But It's Even More Important Today

westernjournal.com ^ | 7/16/2021 | MICHAEL FLYNN

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America’s singular function is to be as described deep in the Bible itself: a light for the world, a light that cannot be hidden.

My interpretation of the light is the truth, and I know from personal experience that truth cannot be hidden — it always rises to the surface. Although some may desire to keep falsehoods and lies alive, I firmly believe that the return to faith by many Americans today is further evidence of God’s divine Providence and his determination for America to be a light for the rest of the world.

What is America’s foundation? She was a new creation preordained by God yet made by man. Through prayer, toil, hardship, sacrifice, then resilience and determination, America was founded so future generations could shine, reflecting the greatness of him.

America was destined to be a truth, a light, a foundation for mankind to embrace. Through Providence, America’s foundation remains strong. It is “We the People,” in our human form that gives in, too easily at times, to the very weaknesses we tend to deny exist in our own lives. Remember, although America was divined by our Creator, our nation was made by man; therefore, it can be destroyed by man.

To most nations across the entire planet, America is seen as the last bastion of salvation — salvation not in the biblical sense but in a practical sense. I’ve stated on many occasions there is one thing far more important than personal freedom, and that is your personal faith in God. There is only one America, built on faith, faith in ourselves as individuals, faith in each other (especially our families), and faith in our communities and our country.

Today, with a scornful wonder, the world now sees us as oppressed. You say, “Really, America

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“My call to action is twofold: First, stop complaining about your problems, and two, take action in your personal lives. I like the phrase “local action has a national impact.” There are many examples springing up all across America. This is what further strengthens the foundation as well as the structures of our city on the hill....”

In 1630, John Winthrop delivered a sermon on board a ship hazarding an Atlantic Ocean crossing. The congregation comprised people seeking to discover a new world and a new life. They were sacrificing everything, leaving their former homeland for a variety of individual reasons, but principally due to political persecution for their Christian beliefs.

According to “The Puritans: A Sourcebook of Their Writings,” Winthrop “preached to the emigrants that the eyes of the world would be upon them, that they would be as a city set upon a hill for all to observe.” If these faithful principles were true from the very origins of America, then from the very beginning, America has played a role in setting the world right.

[Nateman]

Europe was riven for centuries with religious strife. America was the place people went where they could escape religious persecution and worship as they saw fit. By handing over the schools to the state the schools by necessity could not play any favorites (at first).

There may not be an alter in the classrooms , nor people on their knees praying but make no mistake, the "State of Utopia Perpetual' has become the object of worship now .

[GOPJ]

Gen. Flynn is right. We are the light of the world. That’s wonderful... and worth fighting for...

The problem is commie thugs - the darkness of the world - hate our freedoms. Hate our ‘equal before the law’... Hate our system of Justice. Hate the fact we offer hope to their enslaved billions...

Commie thugs will do everything in their power to kill the light... because they’re evil - and they represent all that is evil in the world.

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