Let Freedom Ring, God’s Protection

Let Freedom Ring

Our Freedom in Jesus 07/20/25

God’s Protection

Last week I started a series Called Let Freedom Ring, Our Freedom in Jesus.

We just celebrated our nation’s independence day. A day that a nation asked God to guide and use it, for His honor and glory

We saw last week that true freedom come’s through Jesus.

John 8:36 (NKJV) 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

II Corinthians 3:17 NKJV Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.”

America has done so much for the furtherance of the Gospel, to me there has been no nation like the USA, and you know what, I’m proud to be and American.

Let’s look at another amazing story of our History as a nation and the protection we have because of Jesus.

These short stories each week are taken from the book 100 Bible Verses that made America. Robert Morgan.

August 17, 1755

Divine Body Armor

2 Samuel 10:12 (NKJV) 12 Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people and for the cities of our God. And may the Lord do what is good in His sight.”

In the mid-1700s, both France and England had colonies in America. The strife between them led to the French and Indian War, which preceded the American Revolution by just over a decade.

The French colonies, having a smaller population, allied themselves with various Native American tribes to fight the English. The British administrator of Virginia, Robert Dinwiddie, selected a twenty-one-year-old soldier named George Washington to travel from Williamsburg to northwest Pennsylvania on a diplomatic mission to avoid war. The negotiations failed, but the attempt was well publicized and made young Washington a household name.

Later, during the ill-fated Battle of the Monongahela (near present-day Pittsburgh), Washington, who was recovering from illness, exhibited remarkable courage and leadership when British forces marched into an ambush and suffered a disastrous defeat.

Washington’s survival was miraculous. After the battle, he wrote his mother, saying, “I luckily escaped without a wound, though I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me. . . . I was not half recovered from a violent illness that had confined me to my bed and a wagon for above ten days.”

Washington believed God had protected him, and it infused him with confidence in God’s guarding, guiding hand.

Writing to his brother, John, he said, “By the all-powerful dispensation of Providence I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side.”

The Native Americans were equally perplexed at Washington’s survival. One of the chiefs had repeatedly fired at him and ordered his young warriors to do the same, all of them being true marksmen. But their bullets were “turned aside by some invisible Power.”

Chief Red Hawk claimed to have personally shot at Washington eleven times. Another chief, perplexed at Washington’s survival, is said to have predicted, “He will become the chief of nations, and a people yet unborn will hail him as the father of a mighty empire.”

Washington’s incredible survival created a sensation in the Colonies, and many felt God’s hand was on him for a special purpose. That opinion was expressed in a famous sermon preached in Hanover County, Virginia, on August 17, 1755, by Samuel Davies.

Davies, a Presbyterian evangelist whose wife had died from a miscarriage shortly before their first anniversary, was battling tuberculosis. He wanted to use every moment for the Lord. He wrote hymns, advanced the Great Awakening, served as president of Princeton University, and preached sermons that left a lasting impression on the Colonies.

In his August 17 sermon, “Religion and Patriotism,” Davies preached to Captain Overton’s Independent Company of Volunteers and encouraged the troops to bravery as he quoted his text, 2 Samuel 10:12: “Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people and for the cities of our God.”

He spoke of the defeat at Monongahela but reminded the soldiers that “God governs the world.”

“As a remarkable instance of this,” he said, “I may point out to the public that heroic youth, Colonel Washington, whom I cannot but hope Providence has hitherto preserved in so signal a manner for some important service to his country.”

Davies didn’t live long enough to see how prophetic his words were. He died in 1761, at age thirty-seven. His text, however, lives on. It’s remarkable how often the Bible commands us to be strong and to stay encouraged. The eye of providence that preserved young Washington hasn’t lost its keenness. The hand that steers the stars and turns the pages of history is the same that arranges our days and bestows the grace needed for each one.

Please put up this picture when I start talking about Washington as a man of prayer:

Picture of George Washington at Valley Forge.

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When George Washington took the oath of office as the first president of the United States, he opened his bible to the 17th chapter of the book of Genesis, at St. Paul’s chapel in NYC, which survived 9/11, he shocked everyone, he got down on his knee, and kissed his Bible and looked up and said, you will be our God and we will be your people.

Our history as a nation is so amazing and so filled with God and each week this month I want us to see different events that shaped our nation.

Church Family, what I have found is that, TRUE FREEDOM ONLY COMES THROUGH A RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.

Again look at:

John 8:36 (NKJV) 36 Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.

This week I want us to see that in our Freedom and in the love that God has for us, He also gives us protection.

2 Samuel 10:12: “Be of good courage, and let us be strong for our people and for the cities of our God.”

We need to get these scripture of God divine protection into our lives.

God’s protection can be invisible, but it’s there.

Psalm 34:7–8 (NKJV) 7 The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him, And delivers them. 8 Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!

God’s protection is there even in the fire’s of life.

Isaiah 43:1–3 (NKJV) 1 But now, thus says the Lord, who created you, O Jacob, And He who formed you, O Israel: “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; You are Mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. 3 For I am the Lord your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

Psalm 119:114 (NKJV) 114 You are my hiding place and my shield; I hope in Your word.

He is our Rock, our fortress, our protection, in the craziness of life.

Psalm 91:4 (NKJV) 4 He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.

Psalm 91 is one of the most quoted passages about divine protection. The image here is both powerful and tender—God is a mighty warrior, but He’s

also like a bird gathering her young under her wings.

Psalm 91:1–16 (NKJV) 1 He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 2 I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress; My God, in Him I will trust.” 3 Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler And from the perilous pestilence. 4 He shall cover you with His feathers, And under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler. 5 You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, Nor of the arrow that flies by day, 6 Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. 7 A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you. 8 Only with your eyes shall you look, And see the reward of the wicked. 9 Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place, 10 No evil shall befall you, Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling; 11 For He shall give His angels charge over you, To keep you in all your ways. 12 In their hands they shall bear you up, Lest you dash your foot against a stone. 13 You shall tread upon the lion and the cobra, The young lion and the serpent you shall trample underfoot. 14 “Because he has set his love upon Me, therefore I will deliver him; I will set him on high, because he has known My name. 15 He shall call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him, And show him My salvation.”