This day marks two great deliverances God worked for England. On November 5th, 1605, the plot to blow up Parliament was exposed. While conspirators prepared explosives in caverns deep below, God shot a piercing ray from heaven and dragged their dark treachery into the light. And on this same day in 1688, William of Orange landed at Torbay, securing religious freedom and ending the threat of enforced Catholicism.

This day should be celebrated not with the wild parties of the young, but with the songs of the saints! Our Puritan ancestors faithfully kept it as a day of thanksgiving. The great Matthew Henry preached special sermons every year on this anniversary. Our love of the gospel and our gratitude for freedom should make us remember with holy thanks.

Let our hearts cry out: "We have heard with our ears! Our fathers have told us the mighty things you did in their days and in the ages before them!" You have made this nation a home for the gospel. And when enemies have risen against her, you have been her shield. Help us sing again and again for your repeated deliverances. Grant us more and more a hatred of every system that sets itself against Christ, and hasten the day when all such deception is destroyed.

Until that day and forever, we stand on this promise: "No weapon formed against you shall prosper."

Should not every lover of Christ's gospel use this day to plead for the destruction of false teaching and the spread of divine truth? And would it not be wise to search our own hearts? To root out any hidden self-righteousness that lurks there like smuggled contraband?

The weapons formed against God's truth have always failed. They failed in 1605. They failed in 1688. They will fail today. And they will fail tomorrow. Because God has spoken, and his word cannot be broken.