Thought of the Week:
FOUR BULLET HOLES IN HIS COAT
George Washington was considered by some to be bullet proof. Twenty years before the American Revolution Colonel George Washington on July 9, 1755, fought in the French and Indian War. Officers all around him were shot off their horses. Washington left the battle with four bullet holes in his coat, one in his hat, bullet fragments in his hair and two horses shot out from under him yet he was unharmed. During the two hour battle this 23-year-old officer rode to and fro on the battlefield repeating the Generals orders to his officers and troops. Of the eighty-six British and American officers sixty-three were casualties. Washington was the only officer on horseback who was not shot down. Fifteen years later, in 1770 — now a time of peace — George Washington and a close personal friend, Dr. James Craik, returned to those same Pennsylvania woods. An old Indian chief from far away, having heard that Washington had come back to those woods, traveled a long way just to meet with him. He sat down with Washington, and face-toface over a council fire, the chief told Washington that he had been a leader in that battle fifteen years earlier, and that he had instructed his braves to single out all the officers and shoot them down. Washington had been singled out, and the chief explained that he personally had shot at Washington seventeen different times, but without effect. Believing Washington to be under the care of the Great Spirit, the chief instructed his braves to cease firing at him. He then told Washington: I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle…. I am come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of Heaven, and who can never die in battle.” The Bulletproof George Washington by David Barton. According to George Washington’s mothers’ Bible he was sprinkled when he was not quite two years old in the orthodox Episcopal manner. At the age of thirty-three he took an oath to conform to the doctrine of the Church of England. Then years later a strong wave of evangelism swept the Methodist and Baptist faiths and Washington talking to a Baptist Chaplain in the Continental Army said, “I have been investigating the Scripture and I believe immersion to be the baptism taught in the Word of God, and I demand it at your hands.” Washington was immersed in the Potomac River in the presence of forty-two witnesses. Baptism does not save you. Faith in Jesus does. John 3:15-16 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Have you repented of your sins and asked Jesus for eternal life?
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