1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,540 with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and 2 00:00:04,540 --> 00:00:11,119 faith. Today, why have Americans given up the constitutional republic bequeathed by our 3 00:00:11,119 --> 00:00:17,920 founding fathers for the tyranny of a kingship like the days of old? In the old days, kings were 4 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:23,839 lavished with magnificent carriages and castles, just as the president is with Air Force One and 5 00:00:23,839 --> 00:00:29,899 the White House. In the old days, the king staged magnificent dinners and went fox hunting with 6 00:00:29,899 --> 00:00:34,899 other kings, just as the president does in state dinners and rounds of golf with other kings and 7 00:00:34,899 --> 00:00:41,659 heads of state. In the old days, kings declared wars of conquest and raised money for them by 8 00:00:41,659 --> 00:00:46,600 squeezing the people of his realm, just as our president does with the War Powers Act recently 9 00:00:46,600 --> 00:00:53,700 given him and the Federal Reserve. In the old days, kings were protected by an elite guard and had 10 00:00:53,700 --> 00:00:59,479 killed whomsoever they willed by those whom they felt threatened, just as our president does with 11 00:00:59,479 --> 00:01:05,340 the Secret Service and drone strikes, the CIA and other clandestine military units. In the old days, 12 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:11,280 kings made proclamations and decrees throughout the land, which had the force of law promulgated often 13 00:01:11,280 --> 00:01:16,060 in various ministries of the state, just as our president does through his executive orders 14 00:01:16,060 --> 00:01:23,079 and the federal bureaucracies. Many of these kings had the fig leaf, additionally, of institutions that 15 00:01:23,079 --> 00:01:29,719 on paper represented the people, just as Julius Caesar did with the Roman Senate or Henry VIII did with 16 00:01:29,719 --> 00:01:36,120 the Parliament of England and Adolf Hitler had with the Bundestag of Germany. But these were, in reality, 17 00:01:36,379 --> 00:01:43,019 weak and docile puppets of the king, even as our Congress has become a docile puppet under President 18 00:01:43,019 --> 00:01:49,780 Obama. President Obama now has more legislative power in his pen and phone than does the entire 19 00:01:49,780 --> 00:01:55,379 legislative branch of the United States government, that is the Congress. Now, we observed last week 20 00:01:55,379 --> 00:02:02,900 how fellow tribesmen often elected their ancient pagan kings, sometimes for a term of office and 21 00:02:02,900 --> 00:02:08,939 sometimes for life. They did so with great trial and fanfare, making a spectacle of both the process 22 00:02:08,939 --> 00:02:15,840 and the elected kings tribes did in the past in various ways by demonstrating abilities to make rain, 23 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:21,379 the candidates did or halt plague or call upon the spirits of fallen warriors in the past to aid in 24 00:02:21,379 --> 00:02:28,139 battle. And they also displayed great fanfare in their inauguration into the kingship. Days and weeks of 25 00:02:28,139 --> 00:02:34,479 feasting and ceremony and religious ritual. These are all trials and ceremonies through which our 26 00:02:34,479 --> 00:02:42,360 American kings now must pass. This crass and garish primary season does not so much reveal the policy 27 00:02:42,360 --> 00:02:49,620 and wisdom and trustworthiness of the prospective candidate as it does in his ability to inflate 28 00:02:49,620 --> 00:02:55,360 his own image and destroy the image of his opponent against whom he competes as king. No two people 29 00:02:55,360 --> 00:03:01,180 better epitomize this behavior than Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, both of whom are known for their 30 00:03:01,180 --> 00:03:07,639 abilities to personally destroy opponents. Our candidate for king must boast and brag of the wealth and 31 00:03:07,639 --> 00:03:13,319 jobs he or she will create, the enemies he or she will defeat, and they must also, parenthetically, 32 00:03:13,500 --> 00:03:18,900 swear fidelity to those ancestors and their values that first made the tribe great, whether they adhere 33 00:03:18,900 --> 00:03:26,860 and abide by those values or not. This kind of sensational image-making or voodoo spellcasting, 34 00:03:27,039 --> 00:03:32,280 as archaeologists call it, but it's the same thing, image-making and voodoo spellcasting, 35 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:38,139 is only amplified in the actual presidential contest. Americans are no longer persuaded to 36 00:03:38,139 --> 00:03:43,259 vote for a candidate based upon policies and character, or but rather upon empty promises 37 00:03:43,259 --> 00:03:51,080 and vague feelings they may have for the candidate. The candidate no longer scores points for how little 38 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:57,259 he can do, but rather for how much he can do for the people. The candidate no longer scores points 39 00:03:57,259 --> 00:04:03,699 for his willingness to stay out of our way to be our own success, but rather scores points to be our 40 00:04:03,699 --> 00:04:09,280 way to success. The candidate no longer scores points to find creative ways to shrink government 41 00:04:09,280 --> 00:04:16,459 as in the way, but rather scores points to grow government as our only way. In the final analysis, 42 00:04:16,899 --> 00:04:22,000 there is very little difference between Democrat and Republican on this particular issue, 43 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:27,660 that of growing government. Both will grow government, Democrat or Republican. Democrats 44 00:04:27,660 --> 00:04:35,819 swiftly, Republicans may be at a slower pace, but both will grow government. Democrats may highlight 45 00:04:35,819 --> 00:04:41,399 social services, and Republicans may be military defense, but in the end, budgets, deficits, and debt 46 00:04:41,399 --> 00:04:47,360 will all increase under either administration. Every president since Calvin Coolidge has done so, 47 00:04:47,439 --> 00:04:51,500 even Ronald Reagan, who told us government is the problem and not the solution, managed 48 00:04:51,500 --> 00:04:57,060 at the end of eight years to expand government rather than shrink it. The federal government 49 00:04:57,060 --> 00:05:04,220 continues to burgeon and grow into a leviathan, a beast, an evil, self-serving parasite that will 50 00:05:04,220 --> 00:05:09,579 eventually kill its host, that is the people. But of course, parasites like our federal government 51 00:05:09,579 --> 00:05:15,379 do not stop to consider their own eventual demise. They're parasites, and they keep on sucking the 52 00:05:15,379 --> 00:05:20,860 lifeblood of its host until both it and they perish. It is up to the host, rather, 53 00:05:20,860 --> 00:05:28,680 to pry the parasite from off its body. And Washington, dear listener, is not broken, by the way. We hear 54 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:34,779 this from candidates all the time. Washington is not broken. It rather is chugging along very nicely, 55 00:05:34,959 --> 00:05:41,240 thank you, doing precisely that for which was intended by our floundering fathers, not our founding 56 00:05:41,240 --> 00:05:47,279 fathers. We have a set of floundering fathers who have steered our federal government on another 57 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:53,639 course. As we will document for you very carefully in weeks to come, Washington, D.C. is structured to 58 00:05:53,639 --> 00:06:00,500 act as a whirlpool, a black hole, if you will, of forces that direct the wealth and power generated by 59 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:07,019 the people to a handful of banks and power elites. We observed this most recently in the collapse of 60 00:06:07,019 --> 00:06:13,420 the housing market in 2008. The six major banks that comprise the Federal Reserve made bad housing 61 00:06:13,420 --> 00:06:18,000 loans at the direction of the federal government. And although warnings were there aplenty, 62 00:06:18,639 --> 00:06:23,279 the housing market collapsed nevertheless, and so too did the fortunes of most of us, 63 00:06:23,579 --> 00:06:29,660 the average American. Our poverty was then compounded when Congress voted to guarantee the 64 00:06:29,660 --> 00:06:37,660 loans and repay the banks via the taxpayer in the Dodd-Frank bill. So not only did we get stuck 65 00:06:37,660 --> 00:06:44,220 having our property taken from us, but insult was added to injury in our having to fork over additional 66 00:06:44,220 --> 00:06:52,220 taxes to insulate the banks and their cronies from damage. Oh, Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, they should be in 67 00:06:52,220 --> 00:06:59,839 jail for this. None of this happens, however. All that I've detailed for you does not happen without the 68 00:06:59,839 --> 00:07:05,120 consent of the people. That is the governed, as Thomas Jefferson put it. This is true throughout 69 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:11,779 history. The governed have always been more numerous and powerful than the governors, but generally the 70 00:07:11,779 --> 00:07:17,519 governed, the people, have been ignorant of the science of government, as Madison calls it. They 71 00:07:17,519 --> 00:07:23,439 have been untrained to wield it. They have been unarmed to defend themselves. And the people have 72 00:07:23,439 --> 00:07:30,379 generally been too busy and or complacent to exercise their inherent power. But the United States of America 73 00:07:30,379 --> 00:07:37,540 changed all that. Our founding fathers gave us a fine-tuned constitutional republic that required 74 00:07:37,540 --> 00:07:46,540 all of these factors, that is wisdom and knowledge and arms, and the actual exercise of our powers, 75 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:53,740 our inherent power, required all of these factors to be at a high level of efficiency among the people. 76 00:07:54,519 --> 00:07:56,980 Washington observed, for example, I quote him, 77 00:07:56,980 --> 00:08:04,519 the power under the Constitution will always be the people, unquote. Washington also underlined the 78 00:08:04,519 --> 00:08:09,240 necessity of education and knowledge amongst the people. He said, and I quote, 79 00:08:09,519 --> 00:08:15,680 knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness, in one in which the measures of 80 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:21,300 government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the people as in ours. Knowledge is 81 00:08:21,300 --> 00:08:27,399 essential, unquote. The knowledge of which Washington spoke was the relatively sophisticated understanding 82 00:08:27,399 --> 00:08:32,620 of how a constitutional republic worked, why it is the best form of government yet devised by man, 83 00:08:32,840 --> 00:08:39,799 and whence it came. Therefore, our founders launched a program of education to ensure that citizen 84 00:08:39,799 --> 00:08:46,240 government would be an informed government. Washington also said, and I quote, a primary object should be 85 00:08:46,240 --> 00:08:52,460 the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally 86 00:08:52,460 --> 00:09:00,220 important, unquote. Our last several generations, however, have been consciously, deliberately kept ignorant of the 87 00:09:00,220 --> 00:09:06,620 science of government. Almost every president since Woodrow Wilson, who, of course, invented the League of Nations, 88 00:09:06,620 --> 00:09:12,820 which fortunately failed, but almost every president since him has nudged or pushed us towards world 89 00:09:12,820 --> 00:09:18,600 government and centralized power, that is tyranny, and a constitutional republic gets in the way. 90 00:09:19,559 --> 00:09:25,259 Instead, Americans have been on a steady decline towards the default setting of the human soul, 91 00:09:25,399 --> 00:09:30,539 and there is a default setting of the human soul since the fall of Adam and Eve, and that is ignorance of 92 00:09:30,539 --> 00:09:37,500 God, paganism, and tyranny. Last week, I showed you how the revolting obsession with these presidential 93 00:09:37,500 --> 00:09:44,519 primaries is identical with the ancient tribal rituals of selecting shaman kings. The tribe would 94 00:09:44,519 --> 00:09:49,360 be swept up in wonders, wizards, and worship for however long the process had been determined. 95 00:09:49,919 --> 00:09:56,100 We have been caught up in wonders, wizards, and worship in these primary elections for the last few 96 00:09:56,100 --> 00:10:02,019 months, have we not? Well, in ancient pagan tribes, the shaman who could deliver the most, things like 97 00:10:02,019 --> 00:10:08,000 rains in season, or the fruitfulness in the field and the farm, or perhaps success in war, this particular 98 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:14,799 shaman would be crowned king and chief. This is what we expect from our presidents today. They are our 99 00:10:14,799 --> 00:10:21,039 modern equivalents, and we are willing to lavish our worship and our wealth upon them in return, and Obama 100 00:10:21,039 --> 00:10:26,940 is exhibit A in this regard. Those of us who call ourselves Christians are just as susceptible to this 101 00:10:26,940 --> 00:10:32,799 madness. I hear this kind of thing all the time. Oh, but pastor, this is the most important election of 102 00:10:32,799 --> 00:10:39,820 our lifetime. It will determine the fate of our constitutional republic. Oh, flapdoodle, poppycock. 103 00:10:40,419 --> 00:10:46,200 In the first place, you have already succumbed to the pagan tribal mentality if you think that one man 104 00:10:46,200 --> 00:10:53,460 can make this difference. One man can make a tyranny. Make no mistake about this. One man can make a 105 00:10:53,460 --> 00:10:59,519 tyranny, which Obama is doing by fundamentally transforming America. But the very definition of 106 00:10:59,519 --> 00:11:05,779 a constitutional republic is that the states and the people make it. And most importantly for us at this 107 00:11:05,779 --> 00:11:12,139 point, the states and the people keep a constitutional republic. It is a complete contradiction of principles 108 00:11:12,139 --> 00:11:17,720 and definition to say that one man, a president who in a true constitutional republic is but a severely 109 00:11:17,720 --> 00:11:23,399 circumscribed executive, it's a complete contradiction of principles and definition to say that one 110 00:11:23,399 --> 00:11:29,139 man is going to save us. If this is what you think as a constitutional conservative, then you have 111 00:11:29,139 --> 00:11:36,679 been swept up in the king shaman hysteria and you have been deceived. Such a man is just a republican side 112 00:11:36,679 --> 00:11:43,240 of the coin of tyranny to which the democrats are the other side of the same coin of tyranny. Oh, the most 113 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:48,700 important election of our generation. Oh, the election that will save us or make or break us as a 114 00:11:48,700 --> 00:11:54,440 constitutional republic. That happened a long time ago with the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. 115 00:11:55,440 --> 00:12:00,879 While many other presidents expanded the power and the tyranny of the federal government. For example, 116 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:06,779 Abraham Lincoln, who is certainly no favorite president of mine, or Teddy Roosevelt or Woodrow 117 00:12:06,779 --> 00:12:12,700 Wilson, all of these. No one appeared upon the scene as a shaman king with deliverance in his powerful 118 00:12:12,700 --> 00:12:19,200 right hand, as the Bible says, like Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The hagiographies that constitute his 119 00:12:19,200 --> 00:12:26,700 biographies note his nicknames. He had two big nicknames, Boss Franklin and King Franklin. That was 120 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:33,940 the one that was used most often. King Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Roosevelt earned these titles by the 121 00:12:33,940 --> 00:12:38,600 sweeping powers that he assumed in order to bring us out of the Great Depression. Ostensibly, 122 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:45,940 he was supposed to do this. And of course, historians say in hindsight, that his measures during the 123 00:12:45,940 --> 00:12:52,899 Great Depression rather retarded a recovery. But Roosevelt successfully created the illusion of 124 00:12:52,899 --> 00:12:58,940 doing something by creating government programs that seem to help people like the Works Progress 125 00:12:58,940 --> 00:13:05,100 Administration or the Civilian Conservation Corps, and of course, Social Security. But always the price 126 00:13:05,100 --> 00:13:12,639 of free stuff is freedom. And with FDR, the illusion was greater progress, but the reality was greater 127 00:13:12,639 --> 00:13:20,539 tyranny. Once more, it was the people who made FDR king. They made him king three times. It was the 128 00:13:20,539 --> 00:13:26,480 people who made Obama king as well. And they did it twice. And it will be the people who will make the 129 00:13:26,480 --> 00:13:33,519 bloviating bombast Donald Trump king, or perhaps the former Secretary of State Hillary Klingon. Make her 130 00:13:33,519 --> 00:13:40,559 queen. She looks like a Klingon to me. I call her Hillary Klingon. In either case, it is no one's fault 131 00:13:40,559 --> 00:13:47,820 but ours. We, the people of the United States of America, ordain and establish this kingdom to the 132 00:13:47,820 --> 00:13:55,100 Donald or the Klingon. We, as Americans, are not exceptional in this regard, though. Perhaps you 133 00:13:55,100 --> 00:14:00,360 remember from your biblical history that Israel was bequeathed a tribal republic upon their conquest 134 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:06,580 of the Promised Land in the days of Joshua and Caleb. The books of Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and Samuel, 135 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:13,659 they chronicle those days. And in those days, God was king and ruled Israel by means of his covenant 136 00:14:13,659 --> 00:14:20,080 made with them at Mount Sinai. God's rule was mediated to the people through the Levites, who 137 00:14:20,080 --> 00:14:24,559 oversaw worship at the tabernacle, prophets who he raised up from time to time, and of course, 138 00:14:24,559 --> 00:14:32,000 judges who led the 12 tribes of Israel. This was the intent of God for Israel perpetually and as a 139 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:37,879 model for all the world politically as well. The tribal republic of Israel was to be a shining city 140 00:14:37,879 --> 00:14:43,759 on a hill, as America was for the world, for the nations to flock to, just as our founding fathers 141 00:14:43,759 --> 00:14:49,539 hoped the United States of America would be. And Moses points this out in his reflection on the giving 142 00:14:49,539 --> 00:14:56,759 of the law. He says in Deuteronomy, See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God 143 00:14:56,759 --> 00:15:00,779 commanded me that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 144 00:15:01,220 --> 00:15:05,840 Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, 145 00:15:06,519 --> 00:15:11,720 that is the rest of the world. Who, Moses says, when they hear all these statutes will say, Surely 146 00:15:11,720 --> 00:15:17,240 this great nation is a wise and understanding people, for what great nation is there that has a 147 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:23,519 God so near to it, as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call upon him? And what great nation 148 00:15:23,519 --> 00:15:30,200 is there that has statutes and rules so righteous as all this law that I set before you today? Unquote. 149 00:15:30,559 --> 00:15:37,500 That's the voice of Moses, dear listener. What happened to Israel is that she quickly saw that she was 150 00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:45,879 too unique, so far different from the nations that she stood out as odd. The impulse to conform is 151 00:15:45,879 --> 00:15:52,600 strong in human nature, isn't it? When that impulse is to conform to the word of God, it's good. But when 152 00:15:52,600 --> 00:15:58,720 that impulse to conform to the word of man, it is bad. This is the impulse to which Israel succumbed. 153 00:15:59,259 --> 00:16:04,700 It is when the elders of Israel, the very men who should have been mediating God's rule, the elders 154 00:16:04,700 --> 00:16:12,000 of Israel came to the then judge of Israel, Samuel, with a request. They said, Appoint for us a king 155 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:19,620 to judge us like all the nations. Oh, what sad words, tragic words. Appoint for us a king to judge us 156 00:16:19,620 --> 00:16:24,720 like all the nations. Does that sound familiar? That's exactly what your presidents want you to do 157 00:16:24,720 --> 00:16:31,519 in our own day, is appoint a president for us like all the nations. That is, rather than a 158 00:16:31,519 --> 00:16:37,799 constitutional republic, we want a king to rule over us. Unique in a fallen world of tyranny, 159 00:16:37,799 --> 00:16:47,409 Israel possessed true liberty in a tribal republic under a benevolent, loving God. No other people 160 00:16:47,409 --> 00:16:53,789 on earth had such an arrangement. If Israel had persisted, they would be the evangelist nation 161 00:16:53,789 --> 00:16:58,649 that would convert the earth. The peoples would see the laws and statutes of Israel and the 162 00:16:58,649 --> 00:17:04,710 immeasurable blessings that accrued to them because of their adherence to them, and the nations would seek 163 00:17:04,710 --> 00:17:10,690 to come under it. But instead of being the magnet that drew the other nations, oh, Israel became the 164 00:17:10,690 --> 00:17:18,450 iron filing drawn to the magnet of paganism and the fallen lost impulse for a strong man, a shaman king. 165 00:17:18,990 --> 00:17:26,369 Appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations, Israel said. And the great irony is that while 166 00:17:26,369 --> 00:17:31,230 Israel could have been the magnet that drew the nations to her creator and savior, instead, Israel 167 00:17:31,230 --> 00:17:37,390 chose to assume the role of a mere iron filing to be drawn to paganism and tyranny. Appoint for us a 168 00:17:37,390 --> 00:17:42,829 king to judge us like all the nations. America is the same, virtually the same thing. This was an 169 00:17:42,829 --> 00:17:50,670 outright rejection of God and the rich heritage of liberty that Israel had. God told Samuel to proceed 170 00:17:50,670 --> 00:17:57,690 as Moses says, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them. 171 00:17:57,690 --> 00:18:04,910 How like Israel we are in this presidential season. Appoint for us a king to roll over us like all the 172 00:18:04,910 --> 00:18:11,230 nations. Most Americans may not see it like this, but this is our behavior. Democrat, Republican, 173 00:18:11,769 --> 00:18:17,970 Socialist, Libertarian. This behavior is precisely that of the primitive tribal nations of long ago. 174 00:18:18,690 --> 00:18:24,250 We do not want self-government in America centered in the individual states in a true republic. 175 00:18:24,250 --> 00:18:31,029 We rather want a shaman king to rule over us. America has functionally rejected God and the 176 00:18:31,029 --> 00:18:37,569 model of a constitutional republic in favor of the tribal strongman, the pagan tyrant, the magical 177 00:18:37,569 --> 00:18:44,630 wizard who can create jobs, heal the planet, alter the weather, bring peace to the nations. Remember the 178 00:18:44,630 --> 00:18:50,750 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Obama before he'd done anything? And also to fundamentally change the 179 00:18:50,750 --> 00:18:58,049 country. These are actions and aspirations of a pagan tyrant. While most of the Republican candidates 180 00:18:58,049 --> 00:19:03,710 are more modest in their claims, far less delusional and arrogant than the present occupant, 181 00:19:04,109 --> 00:19:10,069 nevertheless, the Republican candidates aspire to the same levers of power, and we want to give it to 182 00:19:10,069 --> 00:19:15,529 them. There will be no scaling back of the powers of the presidency under any of them. We Americans have 183 00:19:15,529 --> 00:19:20,670 become accustomed to sweeping tyranny. We are comfortable with a president's pen and phone replacing a 184 00:19:20,670 --> 00:19:26,569 gelded Congress. But the Congress of the United States is impotent because the American people are 185 00:19:26,569 --> 00:19:34,809 ignorant and complacent. Congress is impotent because we are ignorant and complacent. If we demanded that 186 00:19:34,809 --> 00:19:40,670 Obama be held accountable for his crimes and the egregious violations of his oath of office, Congress would 187 00:19:40,670 --> 00:19:47,750 impeach and convict him. He would be in Guantanamo Bay himself instead of trying to close it. For the way he has 188 00:19:47,750 --> 00:19:53,970 betrayed our national security and flooding our nation with illegal aliens, Syrian immigrants, most of whom 189 00:19:53,970 --> 00:20:00,970 are veterans of the ISIS war against Syria's Assad, and the funding an army of terrorists abroad. But all 190 00:20:00,970 --> 00:20:06,490 of them in Congress, to a man, are afraid of negative blowback from the voters who would believe the spin 191 00:20:06,490 --> 00:20:12,049 that we are racist for wanting to impeach the first black president. Consequently, the geldings in Congress 192 00:20:12,049 --> 00:20:17,470 would lose, in the next voting cycle, their privileged places and the perks that they now enjoy. 193 00:20:18,190 --> 00:20:23,950 If we severely curtail the obscene overreach of the federal beast, constricting its powers to that of the 194 00:20:23,950 --> 00:20:29,349 constitutional executive our founding fathers intended, rather than the which Dr. King it now has, 195 00:20:29,609 --> 00:20:34,849 Republicans would be chagrined because they look forward to exercising the expanded powers for which 196 00:20:34,849 --> 00:20:41,690 Obama has set a precedent. The establishment Republicans, in particular, men like Jeb Bush and John Kasich, 197 00:20:42,049 --> 00:20:48,650 Chris Christie refused to call for the prosecution of people like Obama or Hillary Klingon or Lois Lerner 198 00:20:48,650 --> 00:20:53,809 or Eric Holder because it would put a damper on the red-hot fires of tyranny which they hope to 199 00:20:53,809 --> 00:20:59,589 exercise if they're elected. Republicans cry crocodile tears for the passing of the Constitutional 200 00:20:59,589 --> 00:21:05,369 Republic while salivating behind closed doors in anticipation of getting dictatorial powers themselves. 201 00:21:05,890 --> 00:21:10,650 They tut-tut at Obama for bloating the federal government and contemptuously treading down the 202 00:21:10,650 --> 00:21:16,470 barriers of the separation of powers our Constitution established, but behind our backs, they support them 203 00:21:16,470 --> 00:21:23,230 and crowd the pig trough of power saying, we're next. What is the solution then? How are we to cope 204 00:21:23,230 --> 00:21:29,269 with runaway inflation, runaway corruption, and runaway tyranny? One thing is certain, dear listener, 205 00:21:29,390 --> 00:21:35,329 it's not by choosing a president in the way we are doing it this cycle around. Nothing has changed in my 206 00:21:35,329 --> 00:21:39,990 lifetime of voting, and I do not expect that this four-year cycle will be any different. 207 00:21:41,049 --> 00:21:47,250 No one of the candidates, Republican much less Democrat, have a systematic plan for bringing us 208 00:21:47,250 --> 00:21:53,089 back to a constitutional republic, and even if they did, it would automatically be disqualified for being 209 00:21:53,089 --> 00:22:02,329 a one-man show. Oh, the popular definition of insanity, dear listener, is doing the same thing 210 00:22:02,329 --> 00:22:08,430 over and over again, but expecting a different result, isn't it? Well, if this is true, why are 211 00:22:08,430 --> 00:22:15,049 we electing a witch doctor king president in the same way we have always done, but rather we're 212 00:22:15,049 --> 00:22:21,369 expecting a constitutional republic to come out of it, huh? We are electing a witch doctor king in the 213 00:22:21,369 --> 00:22:26,589 same way we always have, but we expect a constitutional republic to come out of it. Over and over again, 214 00:22:26,589 --> 00:22:32,990 when we do this, we expect a different result. Will this candidate really be the witch doctor king, 215 00:22:33,069 --> 00:22:38,150 we hope, and he'll be able to magically produce the economy, the freedom, the greatness that he 216 00:22:38,150 --> 00:22:45,289 promises? Well, if so, he'll be the shaman king we say we hate. Dear listener, there are three things 217 00:22:45,289 --> 00:22:50,369 that we can do. Number one, there must be a spiritual reformation of the American people. 218 00:22:50,369 --> 00:22:57,170 Number one, there must be a spiritual reformation of the American people. Our constitutional republic, 219 00:22:57,289 --> 00:23:03,730 as Adam said, our constitution was made only for a moral and ethical people. Without revival, 220 00:23:04,009 --> 00:23:09,829 there will be no survival. Only when a people make God their king do they stop restlessly casting 221 00:23:09,829 --> 00:23:16,250 about for a human deity, a tribal shaman king, like we're doing today in this presidential cycle. 222 00:23:16,250 --> 00:23:23,210 The human soul is wired for a king, make no mistake. It's true king, though, King Jesus. And 223 00:23:23,210 --> 00:23:29,589 until King Jesus is made king of our lives, we will continue to cast about for a substitute king to fill 224 00:23:29,589 --> 00:23:36,789 the void in our soul, even as we are doing this presidential cycle. A true constitutional republic is 225 00:23:36,789 --> 00:23:43,450 simply out of the question until most Americans make Christ their king. The constitutional republic that 226 00:23:43,450 --> 00:23:49,890 we conservatives have come to appreciate and love developed in a Christian milieu, developed in a 227 00:23:49,890 --> 00:23:56,930 Christian petri dish, if you will. The capacity for self-government by a people first begins with the 228 00:23:56,930 --> 00:24:02,930 self-discipline of the individual believer who is able to govern his own nature and appetites after 229 00:24:02,930 --> 00:24:09,289 becoming a Christian. Then he will rebuild his family, his local community, and then and only then be 230 00:24:09,289 --> 00:24:14,890 ready to carefully construct a limited federal government. So the first thing we need is a 231 00:24:14,890 --> 00:24:21,369 spiritual reformation of the American people. The second thing we need is the states and the people 232 00:24:21,369 --> 00:24:27,809 must reclaim their rightful place as supreme over the federal government. When this happens, when we 233 00:24:27,809 --> 00:24:33,950 personally are regenerated, the states and the people must reclaim their rightful place as supreme over 234 00:24:33,950 --> 00:24:39,910 the federal government. It was the individual states, sovereign, whole, distinct, one from another, 235 00:24:40,069 --> 00:24:46,210 who combined to form a union for their mutual good. In the states, the people had close and direct 236 00:24:46,210 --> 00:24:51,069 government of their fortunes and fates. And over the centuries, especially with Lincoln during the Civil 237 00:24:51,069 --> 00:24:58,710 War, the once federal puppy has morphed into the Cujo beast that it is today. We must stand and take our 238 00:24:58,710 --> 00:25:05,130 place as citizens responsible for our own destinies and elect state governors and representatives with 239 00:25:05,130 --> 00:25:10,450 backbone and character and courage, which we do not have today, and to destroy then the federal 240 00:25:10,450 --> 00:25:16,650 Leviathan and return the balance of power to the states and the people. And then thirdly, we must also 241 00:25:16,650 --> 00:25:23,569 elect a president in the mold of a constitutional executive. Once we have our true king, we're prepared to 242 00:25:23,569 --> 00:25:29,789 choose a federal executive. This executive will be a servant of the people, a just man who will execute 243 00:25:29,789 --> 00:25:36,029 the laws passed by Congress, not executive orders decreed through his pen and phone. And he will use 244 00:25:36,029 --> 00:25:41,269 the powers of checks and balances to reign in the excesses of the other two branches and not expand the 245 00:25:41,269 --> 00:25:47,009 powers in excesses of his own office. And he will also be commander in chief of our armed forces in wars 246 00:25:47,009 --> 00:25:54,509 declared by Congress, not adventures and pet conflicts of his own choosing. So in this hysterical circus 247 00:25:54,509 --> 00:26:00,970 circumstance of the presidential season, please step back, take a deep breath, think with me through 248 00:26:00,970 --> 00:26:07,150 these realities. Nothing will change until we do. Pray with me that we not only return to the 249 00:26:07,150 --> 00:26:13,170 constitutional republic we once were, but also more importantly, that we return to the king who first 250 00:26:13,170 --> 00:26:18,829 made us that constitutional republic. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox 251 00:26:18,829 --> 00:26:24,670 Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sundays at 10 a.m. at 1014th Street on the corner 252 00:26:24,670 --> 00:26:29,190 of 4th and Boulevard. Call us at 523-0196.