Samuel Davies

And also folks like Harry Hoosier, Harry Hoosier was an evangelist in the Second Great Awakening.

By the way, great names in the Second Great Awakening would be Charles Finney and would be Samuel Davies.

Not Samuel Davies.

Come on, Matthew and others.

And this is Francis Asbury.

Well, it, of course, goes back to the regulative principle, but what impresses me, I think, and what's actually been, I guess, educational for me is whenever, this was about a year and a half ago, Yeah, well, actually last October, about a year ago, I was up in Virginia with Pastor Rahm from the FCC congregation, and we made some trips to historic Presbyterian meeting houses or churches.

And you go into these churches, like where Samuel Davies is preaching and whatnot, you go into these churches, and they're completely bare.

I mean, it's nothing but a pulpit.

and pews that's all you see in there and then of course we've all encountered i'm sure pictures of puritan worship houses meeting houses and it's the same thing just very bare there's nothing there's no there's no decorations there's no paintings there's certainly no stained glass windows there's a pulpit and there's a pew and there's you know like a like usually like a white wall and i think at the very least we have to ask ourselves especially as presbyterians presbyterians you mentioned yes word is the focus of everything we do the word and the spirit but also simplicity historically presbyterians were marked by simplicity in worship and that goes back to the regulative principle so when you have the regulative principle is basically it's the idea that god his the word regulates what we do in in worship and of course you have uh nadab and abihu offering strange fire in leviticus 10 you have the second commandment things like this And these are all indications that God is very clear about the particularities when it comes to what we're to do in worship.

Nothing but the superintending care of Providence could have saved him from the fate of all around him.

Shortly after the battle, Presbyterian minister Samuel Davies said that he had hoped, and I quote, Providence has preserved him in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.

Now, when you start talking about the supernatural, you can't help but think about things like destiny.

And it was at the Monongahela where people began to believe that George Washington was destined for great things.

We've gotta get back to that kinda stuff, and that's why I think history is so good.

There's so many great ministers in history, the Samuel Davies and the Jonathan Edwards and the Jonathan Edwards and all those guys we need to be studying.

They're all our heroes.

They've just gotten away from us.

Amen

... does fall back on individual responsibility.

If each of us would just say, "I don't care what anybody else does, I'm playing to an audience of one, and I'm gonna find one person and disciple one person," you might be the Samuel Davies that discipled a young kid named Patrick Henry.

And Patrick Henry-