1 00:00:04,559 --> 00:00:09,699 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a 2 00:00:09,699 --> 00:00:14,419 moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. 3 00:00:14,640 --> 00:00:21,760 Today, mobs, messiahs, and manipulators, part two. But I want to emphasize today, 4 00:00:21,879 --> 00:00:27,519 who are the manipulators behind the scenes? We don't often think about this. Who are the 5 00:00:27,519 --> 00:00:33,079 manipulators behind the scenes, provoking the mobs and financing the messiahs? No mob ever 6 00:00:33,079 --> 00:00:39,899 demonstrates or riots for the ends they think they're on the streets for. There are always 7 00:00:39,899 --> 00:00:45,520 others with different motives who manipulate the passions of the mob. Edgar Allan Poe said this 8 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:51,600 about mobs. He says, the nose of a mob is its imagination, and by this, at any time, it can be 9 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:58,960 quietly led. Poe knew mobs. There were plenty of them in the 19th century in America. Leaders, 10 00:00:58,960 --> 00:01:05,280 there are a plenty. Manipulators, there are a plenty. It is our purpose today to introduce 11 00:01:05,280 --> 00:01:11,599 you to those in the past who have quietly led mobs, and those in the present who are quietly 12 00:01:11,599 --> 00:01:16,959 leading the mobs. We see in the streets today, and we will see in the streets this summer. Make no 13 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:22,760 mistake about this, dear listener. There will be riots. There will be mobs. There will be chaos in 14 00:01:22,760 --> 00:01:27,980 the streets. We can foresee that. You don't have to be a prophet or the son of a prophet to see this 15 00:01:27,980 --> 00:01:35,719 coming, both at the Democrat and Republican national conventions and any other incident that may 16 00:01:35,719 --> 00:01:44,159 flourish or flare into existence in the course of the summer. Now, last week, we saw how the summer 17 00:01:44,159 --> 00:01:50,579 of this election year is going to be one of mobs and messiahs. Will we fall prey to the mentality of 18 00:01:50,579 --> 00:01:56,400 the mob, you and I, Christians, even if we never actually become part of a mob in the streets of 19 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:01,519 Cleveland at the Republican national convention or in Philadelphia at the Democrat national 20 00:02:01,519 --> 00:02:08,080 convention? Passions have been so provoked in this election cycle that taking sides with candidates is 21 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:13,560 equivalent to joining a mob in the streets, or even though one never ventures from his cell phone, 22 00:02:13,639 --> 00:02:19,120 iPad, or laptop. I have received emails, for example, phone messages that equate Trump with a 23 00:02:19,120 --> 00:02:25,520 godless antichrist and Ted Cruz with a saintly messiah figure and a kind of political schizophrenia 24 00:02:25,520 --> 00:02:31,180 to others equate Ted Cruz with an unprincipled new world order tool of the Bush family. And Trump 25 00:02:31,180 --> 00:02:36,139 is the only true patriot who understands what's at stake in fighting the globalist elite 1% who want 26 00:02:36,139 --> 00:02:42,840 to dominate the rest of us. No. And then, of course, on the Democrat side, you have the passion of the 27 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:47,199 Bernie bots who love Bernie Sanders and see him as a fresh alternative to the corrupt establishment 28 00:02:47,199 --> 00:02:52,259 gangster Hillary Klingon, as I like to call her, who only wants to maintain the status quo of the 29 00:02:52,259 --> 00:02:58,180 Democrat establishment that is so well served by the Obama administrations. Well, these passions, 30 00:02:58,780 --> 00:03:05,080 or factions, as Madison calls them in Federalist Paper No. 10, these passions are the very thing that 31 00:03:05,080 --> 00:03:11,060 drives the masses of people into the streets and turns them into mobs. The Apostle James in the Bible 32 00:03:11,060 --> 00:03:17,080 asks this pertinent question that we must all answer this summer. What causes quarrels and what 33 00:03:17,080 --> 00:03:24,699 causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? Unquote. Passion, 34 00:03:24,939 --> 00:03:30,840 William Penn says, talking about passions and political passions, he says, passion is the mob of 35 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:37,419 the man that commits a riot upon his reason. That's one of my favorites. Passion is the mob of the man 36 00:03:37,419 --> 00:03:44,819 that commits a riot upon his reason. You do not have to leave the peaceful Idaho hills for the streets 37 00:03:44,819 --> 00:03:50,460 of a big city to have the mentality of the mob. Passion is the mob of the man, Penn says. What are 38 00:03:50,460 --> 00:03:55,060 the passions stirred in us by the contending candidates this election season? We must be 39 00:03:55,060 --> 00:04:00,659 ever so careful that the thoughts, feelings, and opinions provoked by the important issues and 40 00:04:00,659 --> 00:04:07,520 persons in this election cycle do not drive us to the irrational behavior of the mob. Author Dan 41 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:13,939 Simmons says, mobs have passions, not brains. Good succinct summary, mobs have passions, not brains. 42 00:04:14,939 --> 00:04:21,959 Paul cautions Christians especially about letting passions carry us away into hatred and alienation. 43 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:29,579 Paul says this to Titus, for example, we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to 44 00:04:29,579 --> 00:04:36,519 various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one 45 00:04:36,519 --> 00:04:41,540 another. Unquote. These are the passions, I'm afraid, that are stirred in this election season. 46 00:04:42,199 --> 00:04:48,220 And what few people realize is that there are often brains behind mobs, skillful manipulators of 47 00:04:48,220 --> 00:04:53,319 human behavior that use the action, energy, and force of the mob for their own ends. This has been 48 00:04:53,319 --> 00:04:57,959 true since the days of Jesus when the Sanhedrin gathered, coached, and directed the mob that gathered 49 00:04:57,959 --> 00:05:04,399 in the courtyard of the Roman procurator in Judea, Pontius Pilate. Do you remember from your reading of 50 00:05:04,399 --> 00:05:08,839 the Bible? The ostensible reason the Sanhedrin wanted the crowd to call for the death of Jesus 51 00:05:08,839 --> 00:05:15,120 was for the release of a local hero, Barabbas, who was an insurrectionist. That is, he was a freedom 52 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:20,040 fighter with the zealots, and he had murdered Roman occupiers. He was a hero to the people. And 53 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:26,300 Matthew tells us, now the chief priests and elders persuaded the crowd to ask for Barabbas and destroy 54 00:05:26,300 --> 00:05:32,139 Jesus from Matthew 27. But Matthew also tells the real reason the Sanhedrin wanted Jesus killed. 55 00:05:32,759 --> 00:05:37,899 Pilate knew, Matthew says, Pilate knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up. 56 00:05:38,639 --> 00:05:43,439 Oh, the Sanhedrin had long ago perceived what was at stake. They said in one meeting, if we let him go 57 00:05:43,439 --> 00:05:48,120 on like this, that is, Jesus, everyone will believe in him, and the Romans will come and take away both 58 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:56,000 our place and our nation, unquote. Our place and our nation, they considered Israel, the Sanhedrin did, 59 00:05:56,560 --> 00:06:02,579 just like all special interest groups. And here, contemporary-wise, I include the Republican 60 00:06:02,579 --> 00:06:07,800 and Democrat establishment. And just like all special interest groups throughout history, 61 00:06:08,259 --> 00:06:13,819 the Sanhedrin knew that Jesus threatened their soft, cushy lifestyle. They were not going to give 62 00:06:13,819 --> 00:06:18,459 it up without a fight, and neither will the Republican or Democrat establishment. Well, 63 00:06:18,740 --> 00:06:25,339 therefore, the Sanhedrin tell the mob one thing, that is, riot on behalf of a true pastor, Barabbas, 64 00:06:25,420 --> 00:06:29,720 while they seek to use the mob for another clandestine purpose, that is, to kill Jesus. 65 00:06:30,240 --> 00:06:35,399 In fact, Matthew tells us that the Sanhedrin was successful in their plot. The Bible says, 66 00:06:35,620 --> 00:06:39,740 so when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, that is, in trying to release Jesus, 67 00:06:39,740 --> 00:06:45,879 so when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water 68 00:06:45,879 --> 00:06:51,220 and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, I am innocent of this man's blood. See to it yourselves, 69 00:06:51,420 --> 00:06:59,040 unquote. A riot was beginning amongst the mob. As it was in Jesus' day, so it ever has been when 70 00:06:59,040 --> 00:07:06,100 politics merges with mobs. What all men understand intuitively, if not consciously, is that the 71 00:07:06,100 --> 00:07:12,139 authority of a mob is the anarchy it brings. The power of the mob is the irrational wholesale 72 00:07:12,139 --> 00:07:18,180 destruction it brings. There is authority to a mob. There is power in a mob. The authority of the mob 73 00:07:18,180 --> 00:07:24,420 is the anarchy it brings, and the power of the mob is the irrational wholesale destruction it brings. 74 00:07:25,199 --> 00:07:31,660 Now, Saul Alinsky understands this. He wrote Rules for Radicals, which is the handbook for modern 75 00:07:31,660 --> 00:07:38,560 Marxist radicals in these days, for leftist radicals. It was for Barack Obama. In fact, 76 00:07:38,860 --> 00:07:43,600 Hillary Clinton wrote her college thesis on Saul Alinsky in his book, Rules for Radicals. 77 00:07:44,019 --> 00:07:49,819 Saul Alinsky says this, then, about mobs. He puts it euphemistically, too. Listen to this. 78 00:07:50,199 --> 00:07:57,019 The power of the have-nots rests only with their numbers. That is, the mob. He goes on to say, 79 00:07:57,019 --> 00:08:04,139 power has always derived from two main sources, money and people. Lacking money, the have-nots must 80 00:08:04,139 --> 00:08:10,279 build their power. They're perhaps maybe nuts as well, but the have-nots must build power from their 81 00:08:10,279 --> 00:08:16,939 own flesh and blood, Alinsky says. He goes on to say, a mass movement expresses itself with mass 82 00:08:16,939 --> 00:08:23,959 tactics, euphemistic for riots and mobs. He goes on to say, against the finesse and sophistication of 83 00:08:23,959 --> 00:08:30,019 the status quo, the have-nots have always had to club their way, unquote. Implicit violence, 84 00:08:30,180 --> 00:08:35,159 explicit violence right there, isn't it? That was Saul Alinsky in his Handbook for Radicals, 85 00:08:35,399 --> 00:08:42,899 Handbook for Leftists, then, Rules for Radicals. A mob is a terrifying thing when once it gets rolling, 86 00:08:43,399 --> 00:08:49,120 wreaking anarchy and destruction, all men recoil in horror at anarchy and destruction in the political 87 00:08:49,120 --> 00:08:53,720 order. And when they are given the stark choice between the two, they prefer just what Pilate 88 00:08:53,720 --> 00:09:01,100 gave them, tyranny and injustice versus anarchy and destruction. The manipulators of mobs and 89 00:09:01,100 --> 00:09:07,360 messiahs, they know this, too. Community organizers are exhibit A in this regard. When Barack Obama 90 00:09:07,360 --> 00:09:13,840 burst upon the American political scene in 2008, he was introduced as a community organizer, as if it 91 00:09:13,840 --> 00:09:20,519 were some altruistic social worker function, when, in fact, the job description meant that he agitated 92 00:09:20,519 --> 00:09:27,159 in neighborhoods for radical social change. This is what Obama did then in Chicago as an organizer, 93 00:09:27,159 --> 00:09:33,500 and it is what he is doing now in Washington, D.C., as president, organizer-in-chief, if you will. 94 00:09:33,820 --> 00:09:40,960 Once a community organizer, always a community organizer. The community organizer is a disciple, 95 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:48,399 then, of Saul Alinsky, previously mentioned, whose Bible is Rules for Radicals. Alinsky worked in the 96 00:09:48,399 --> 00:09:53,480 poor neighborhoods of Chicago in the early to middle parts of the 20th century, where he brought 97 00:09:53,480 --> 00:10:00,759 about social change through controversial tactics that sometimes ended in violence. Well, this originates 98 00:10:00,759 --> 00:10:06,240 in Alinsky's view of the necessity of conflict. Listen to this very carefully, listener, because it is a 99 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:14,220 principle of the left, even today. There is a necessity to conflict to achieve one's ends. Alinsky says in 100 00:10:14,220 --> 00:10:20,659 his Rules for Radicals, the organizer is immediately confronted with conflict. The organizer dedicated to 101 00:10:20,659 --> 00:10:26,580 changing the life of a particular community must first rub raw the resentments of the people of the 102 00:10:26,580 --> 00:10:33,559 community. Does that sound familiar? Fan the latent hostilities, Alinsky says. Fan the latent 103 00:10:33,559 --> 00:10:39,200 hostilities of many of the people to the point of overt expression, a euphemism for riots. 104 00:10:40,399 --> 00:10:47,179 He must search out, Alinsky says. The organizer must search out controversy and issues rather than avoid 105 00:10:47,179 --> 00:10:53,639 them, for unless there is controversy, people are not concerned enough to act, unquote. Do you see the 106 00:10:53,639 --> 00:10:59,419 strategy here? Oh, you conservatives, you Republicans who just want to move on from issues like gay rights 107 00:10:59,419 --> 00:11:05,860 or abortion? Oh, conflict is inherent in the left, and unless you learn to deal with it, you're going to 108 00:11:05,860 --> 00:11:12,320 capitulate every time, as conservatives and Republicans do all the time. Alinsky's disciples, 109 00:11:12,539 --> 00:11:18,019 like Barack Obama, have refined this technique, and they continue to use it today, conflict, as we see in 110 00:11:18,019 --> 00:11:23,200 Ferguson, Missouri. It will be used this summer in Cleveland, Ohio, as the resentments of the people 111 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:29,100 of the community are rubbed raw, and the latent hostilities, as Alinsky calls them, of many people 112 00:11:29,100 --> 00:11:37,019 are fanned until they find overt expression, that is, in riots. Alinsky's book, Rules for Radicals, 113 00:11:37,399 --> 00:11:43,779 became the handbook for protest and change on the left ever since. It still serves as the handbook 114 00:11:43,779 --> 00:11:49,779 for those protesting Donald Trump's rallies, and they will be consulted this summer, too, in Cleveland at 115 00:11:49,779 --> 00:11:55,539 the Republican National Convention. Make no mistake, resentments will be rubbed raw against Trump, and 116 00:11:55,539 --> 00:12:03,480 hostilities will be fanned, and will be expressed overtly, that is, in mob behavior and riots. Cynically, 117 00:12:04,179 --> 00:12:10,320 Obama and those around him have employed Alinsky's methods the entire eight years of his administration. 118 00:12:10,740 --> 00:12:16,759 How naive and gullible we were. So convinced were we, and by we, I mean euphemistically, the low 119 00:12:16,759 --> 00:12:22,799 information voter. So convinced were we that merely electing a mixed-race president would solve all of 120 00:12:22,799 --> 00:12:27,179 our conflicts, that we refused to submit him to the level of scrutiny required of so important an 121 00:12:27,179 --> 00:12:33,059 office. That would be racist to question his background and past activity. Would most of America 122 00:12:33,059 --> 00:12:37,580 have voted for him if they realized that rather than bringing peace and healing to the races, he would 123 00:12:37,580 --> 00:12:42,879 deliberately bring conflict and hostility to the races? Would the Nobel Prize Peace Committee have 124 00:12:42,879 --> 00:12:47,740 awarded him the Nobel Prize for Peace so hastily if they knew that instead of bringing peace to American 125 00:12:47,740 --> 00:12:55,059 race and ethnic and class differences, he would rather deliberately agitate conflict? He's a true 126 00:12:55,059 --> 00:13:01,620 son and disciple of Alinsky. Alinsky says this in his Rules for Radicals About Conflict, once again, 127 00:13:01,919 --> 00:13:08,779 as organizer, or I'm sorry, Alinsky says, an organizer must stir up dissatisfaction and discontent, 128 00:13:08,779 --> 00:13:14,820 provide a channel into which the people can angrily pour their frustrations. The job then is getting the 129 00:13:14,820 --> 00:13:19,500 people to move, to act, to participate, in short, to develop and harness the necessary power to 130 00:13:19,500 --> 00:13:24,919 effectively conflict with the prevailing patterns and change them. When those prominent in the status 131 00:13:24,919 --> 00:13:29,779 quo turn and label you an agitator, they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, 132 00:13:29,860 --> 00:13:36,980 your function. The organizer is to agitate to the point of conflict, unquote. Saul Alinsky in Rules for 133 00:13:36,980 --> 00:13:43,639 Radicals, and how successful Obama has been. If community organizer is synonymous with agitator, 134 00:13:43,740 --> 00:13:50,019 then Obama has achieved his goal. Every faction in America imaginable, racial faction, gender faction, 135 00:13:50,220 --> 00:13:56,360 ethnic faction, political faction, religious faction, is far more agitated today than when he took office. 136 00:13:56,840 --> 00:14:03,679 Peace has not come, issues are not resolved, and America is not united. In fact, a case can be made 137 00:14:03,679 --> 00:14:10,539 that we have never been so divided since the Civil War. So, know, oh listener, that the mobs and 138 00:14:10,539 --> 00:14:15,600 violence you see this summer, whether at the political conventions or in the streets of our 139 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:22,159 major cities, owing to some yet unforeseen racial incident, they have, as their manipulators, 140 00:14:22,519 --> 00:14:28,539 are very present and the men and women like him. The mobs may think they have their agenda and their 141 00:14:28,539 --> 00:14:35,399 purpose, like perhaps reacting to a cop, killing a local person maybe, but the manipulators have their 142 00:14:35,399 --> 00:14:42,100 own wider agenda and purpose. Things like expanding their own power and authority, just as the Justice 143 00:14:42,100 --> 00:14:48,460 Department did in taking over the Ferguson Police Department. It is virtually a federal police 144 00:14:48,460 --> 00:14:55,399 department now, and others across the country are being federalized as well. Obama and Alinsky are 145 00:14:55,399 --> 00:15:00,759 only drawing upon a well-established tradition in the communist Marxist left, too, I would submit to 146 00:15:00,759 --> 00:15:07,360 you. Men like Mao Zedong were manipulators of mobs as well, long before Barack Obama saw the light of 147 00:15:07,360 --> 00:15:13,539 day. The classic model for the use of mobs and violence for political ends is the Cultural Revolution 148 00:15:13,539 --> 00:15:23,559 of the 1960s, designed and implemented by Chairman Mao himself. If nothing else, Mao was a cunning genius of 149 00:15:23,559 --> 00:15:30,840 terror. And one biographer of Mao puts it this way. He says, in June of 1966, Mao intensified the 150 00:15:30,840 --> 00:15:36,519 terrorization of society. He picked as his first instrument of terror young people in schools and 151 00:15:36,519 --> 00:15:42,899 universities. Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. He goes on to say, which, of course, is the natural hotbed 152 00:15:42,899 --> 00:15:50,059 for activists. Young people in schools and universities. Does this sound familiar? Intent upon a purge of 153 00:15:50,059 --> 00:15:56,259 enemies, both real and imagined. Mao began a propaganda campaign whose theme was Guard the Great Helmsman. 154 00:15:56,899 --> 00:16:04,299 The student troops of terror that emerged were labeled famously then the Red Guard guarding Mao. They 155 00:16:04,299 --> 00:16:09,279 would do just as the social justice warriors of today's modern Red Guard on American campuses do. They would scream 156 00:16:09,279 --> 00:16:17,220 slogans and epithets in the faces of reactionary bourgeois professors and cultural icons in China. 157 00:16:17,940 --> 00:16:25,279 Even those loyal and long-standing members of the party that had helped Mao achieve power. But now Mao was 158 00:16:25,279 --> 00:16:32,200 ready to purge. Well, Mao found his tactics even more successful than first expected. And so Mao had all 159 00:16:32,200 --> 00:16:38,899 classes in China's universities suspended in June of 1966 so that they could give their full time then 160 00:16:38,899 --> 00:16:45,580 to social justice. Mao said this about that time. He says, now lessons are stopped and young people are 161 00:16:45,580 --> 00:16:52,259 given food. They're given food. Wow. Because food was at that time in short supply because of Mao's policy 162 00:16:52,259 --> 00:16:57,740 to ship already short supplies of food abroad as a token of goodwill to spread his doctrine of Marxism, 163 00:16:57,740 --> 00:17:03,299 starving his own people. While Mao goes on to say, with food they have energy and they want to riot. 164 00:17:03,879 --> 00:17:12,619 What are they expected to do if not to riot? The mobs of brainwashed, propagandized zombie students 165 00:17:12,619 --> 00:17:19,859 were unleashed upon society and they did just that. They rioted. Does this sound familiar, listener? 166 00:17:20,380 --> 00:17:26,160 It is the brainwashed students of today's campuses that are doing exactly the same thing at the behest of 167 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:33,119 Maoist community organizers who are following Mao's playbook. To show you how effective these Maoist 168 00:17:33,119 --> 00:17:40,519 trainers have been, why? Brown College, for example. Brown College students complained recently to the 169 00:17:40,519 --> 00:17:47,759 dean that classes and homework are interfering with their social justice activism. The college campus 170 00:17:47,759 --> 00:17:54,240 newspaper says this, there are people breaking down, dropping out of classes and failing classes because 171 00:17:54,240 --> 00:18:00,359 of the activism work they are taking on. How effective then are the Maoists with this technique? 172 00:18:01,299 --> 00:18:08,019 Well, let me just remind you here as we're about halfway through our broadcast. I am Pastor David Bass at 173 00:18:08,019 --> 00:18:14,720 New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on 174 00:18:14,720 --> 00:18:21,240 the corner of 4th and Boulevard. Call us for comments, perhaps, or feedback at 523-0196. 175 00:18:21,240 --> 00:18:29,000 Or you can check out our website, too, newgenevaopc.org. And we have a new website, too, a brand new website 176 00:18:29,000 --> 00:18:35,000 where you will find past messages. Many of you have been asking for copies of these messages. Well, 177 00:18:35,039 --> 00:18:41,259 we put them up on a brand new website, which is called omnispotestas.org. I have to spell that for you, 178 00:18:41,380 --> 00:18:50,920 omnispotestas, which means all authority. And it's spelled O-M-N-I-S dash P-O-T-S-T-A-S. 179 00:18:51,240 --> 00:19:01,900 dot org then. So that's omnispotestas, O-M-N-I-S dash P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S dot org. Well, to show you what's 180 00:19:01,900 --> 00:19:07,819 coming, dear listener, as we today are talking about mobs, messiahs, and manipulators, there is 181 00:19:07,819 --> 00:19:13,500 a thing coming down the pike. During the Cultural Revolution begun on college campuses in China, 182 00:19:13,920 --> 00:19:19,279 during the Cultural Revolution, millions of Chinese were either killed or committed suicide. 183 00:19:19,279 --> 00:19:25,500 Many of them committed suicide, which was the only honorable way out in Oriental society when 184 00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:31,799 humiliated or shamed as the Red Guards made them. Well, millions of idealistic Chinese students were 185 00:19:31,799 --> 00:19:36,440 conned into thinking they were helping the Great People's Revolution come about. They were advancing 186 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:41,279 the Great Leap Forward. They were moving their nation into the brighter future, just like today's 187 00:19:41,279 --> 00:19:45,859 social justice warriors think they're doing on American campuses. Their manipulators, 188 00:19:45,859 --> 00:19:52,819 however, are deliberately aping the tactics of Mao. These are virtual red brigades of our own in the 189 00:19:52,819 --> 00:19:59,960 Cultural Revolution. Perhaps you remember from the Obama White House, former communications director 190 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:05,920 Anita Dunn telling a group of high school students, my two favorite philosophers are Mao Zedong and 191 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:11,779 Mother Teresa, unquote. Everyone, even her defenders, admitted that this was an inexcusable 192 00:20:11,779 --> 00:20:17,819 gaffe for supposed communications director to be communicating to the country. But it was revealing 193 00:20:17,819 --> 00:20:23,640 this administration is communicating precisely what Mao was communicating to the students on Chinese 194 00:20:23,640 --> 00:20:31,579 campuses. What are they expected to do if not to riot, as Mao says? Well, this brings us to another 195 00:20:31,579 --> 00:20:37,660 very important component of the manipulators of mobs and messiahs, that is, those who finance and support 196 00:20:37,660 --> 00:20:44,960 the mobs. For example, although the mainstream media tried to report that the Ferguson protests and 197 00:20:44,960 --> 00:20:51,460 riots were made up of grassroots Americans who spontaneously rose up to oppose racist police 198 00:20:51,460 --> 00:20:58,559 and justice systems, we now know that the community organizers and agitators who led not only the local 199 00:20:58,559 --> 00:21:04,680 mobs but also brought in trained protesters bust into Ferguson, they were all financed by radical 200 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:10,640 progressive billionaire George Soros. All of these people incurred costs of travel and food and lodging, 201 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:15,160 loss of work, nothing of which could be borne in its entirety by the principles. Not to worry, though, 202 00:21:15,900 --> 00:21:22,000 a sugar daddy of socialism was there with a slush fund. And according to the Washington Times, 203 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:28,900 in an article written by Kelly Rydell, the Washington Times, no less, they say that Soros has funded the 204 00:21:28,900 --> 00:21:35,640 Ferguson protests and riots with at least $33 million since August of 2014 when it all began. 205 00:21:35,640 --> 00:21:42,779 And there is more to come for this summer, too, dear listener. So this distinction is important to 206 00:21:42,779 --> 00:21:48,799 make. While the local citizens were furious with their police and court system for perceived racism 207 00:21:48,799 --> 00:21:54,859 and injustice, I say perceived because it wasn't so in reality, then the mobs were seeking to redress 208 00:21:54,859 --> 00:22:01,400 those grievances. The Times reports that Soros paid community organizers of Marxist groups like Black 209 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:08,099 Lives Matter to rile up the black and extreme left community in order to create as much civil unrest 210 00:22:08,099 --> 00:22:14,339 as possible with the ultimate goal of tearing down the heart and soul of America, the article says. 211 00:22:14,420 --> 00:22:20,900 That is capitalism and the free market system. Thus you have, once again, the ostensible goal of the mob 212 00:22:20,900 --> 00:22:28,700 in their own minds, but the real hidden goal of those who manipulate the mob. The masses turned 213 00:22:28,700 --> 00:22:33,500 into mobs always think they're doing one thing while the manipulators use them for another thing. 214 00:22:34,240 --> 00:22:41,299 Today's social justice warriors on American campuses are in reality being used by the left to achieve 215 00:22:41,299 --> 00:22:48,440 Marxist ends, not community ends. Soros and men like him, President Obama and former Attorney General 216 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:55,140 Eric Holder included, they are out to tear down the heart and soul of America that is capitalism and the 217 00:22:55,140 --> 00:23:01,539 free market system. Listener, this fact cannot be overemphasized. The masses of the people are transformed 218 00:23:01,539 --> 00:23:08,619 into violent mobs by manipulators who use the passions and grievances of the masses to steer them in a direction 219 00:23:08,619 --> 00:23:16,799 that they desire. The nose of the mob, as Poe says, the nose of the mob is imagination. And by this, at any time, 220 00:23:16,799 --> 00:23:23,480 it can be quietly led. If you are a Christian listening to this message today, know that there 221 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:29,500 are no good mobs in the Bible. No such thing. It's an oxymoron. What causes quarrels and what causes fights 222 00:23:29,500 --> 00:23:36,059 among you? The Apostle James asks, is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? This is the 223 00:23:36,059 --> 00:23:41,920 heart of the mob. The mob sought to rape the angels in Lot's refuge that is his home in Sodom. The mob sought 224 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:46,359 to slay Jesus at the behest of the Sanhedrin, crying out, crucify him, crucify him. 225 00:23:46,359 --> 00:23:52,059 The mob sought to stone Stephen to death, crying out with a loud voice, stopping their ears, and rushing 226 00:23:52,059 --> 00:23:57,380 together at him, stoning him to death. Numerous mobs, as we saw last week, sought to kill the 227 00:23:57,380 --> 00:24:02,400 Apostle Paul as he preached the gospel throughout the Gentile world. So, dear listener, dear Christian 228 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:08,839 brother and sister, do not succumb to the siren song of the mob. There is only one crowd, one assembled 229 00:24:08,839 --> 00:24:15,259 body that the Bible recognizes as legitimate, and that is the body of Christ. The heavenly host of 230 00:24:15,259 --> 00:24:20,759 believers assembled in the heavenlies. The author of Hebrews says this, you have come to Mount Zion, 231 00:24:20,859 --> 00:24:25,980 and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal 232 00:24:25,980 --> 00:24:32,480 gathering, and to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven, and to God, the judge of all, 233 00:24:32,759 --> 00:24:37,839 and to the spirits of the righteous made perfect, and to Jesus, the mediator of a new covenant. 234 00:24:37,839 --> 00:24:45,259 Unquote. Also, we see then the multitudes in heaven, too, in the book of Revelation. John says this in 235 00:24:45,259 --> 00:24:51,339 Revelation 7, I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all 236 00:24:51,339 --> 00:24:57,700 tribes, and peoples, and languages, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, 237 00:24:57,799 --> 00:25:04,420 with palm branches in their hands, and crying out with a loud voice, salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the 238 00:25:04,420 --> 00:25:11,900 throne, and to the Lamb. Unquote. This is our community, brothers and sisters. We're in Christ, 239 00:25:12,019 --> 00:25:17,099 dear brothers and sisters in Christ. Remember who you are this summer, as the debate rages over who 240 00:25:17,099 --> 00:25:23,660 will lead our executive branch as president. He or she is no Messiah. There is only one Messiah, 241 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:29,500 the Lord Jesus Christ. The mobs burning, and looting, and destroying are not your people. They're not your 242 00:25:29,500 --> 00:25:34,380 community. The multitude that no one can number, from every nation, tribe, and people. These are your 243 00:25:34,380 --> 00:25:41,039 people. The church. The cynical manipulators who wish to steer and use mob action for their own nefarious 244 00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:47,960 ends. Men like Soros, and Obama, and Holder. These are not your benefactors. The Holy Spirit of God 245 00:25:47,960 --> 00:25:54,140 directing his church. He's the one who loves you, and intends the best for you. Remember that this summer. 246 00:25:54,140 --> 00:26:01,619 This summer, dear Christian, dear fellow listener, give yourself to Christ and his church, not the devil 247 00:26:01,619 --> 00:26:07,920 and his mob. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for 248 00:26:07,920 --> 00:26:16,099 holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. Call us at 523-0196, 249 00:26:16,099 --> 00:26:24,319 523-0196, or check out our website, newgenevaopc.org, and our new website, where you'll find a catalog 250 00:26:24,319 --> 00:26:36,059 of past messages for your perusal, and that is omnispotestas.org, O-M-N-I-S-P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S.org, 251 00:26:36,460 --> 00:26:38,319 omnispotestas.org.