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Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church

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with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith.

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Today, let me ask you, what do we call a dead body, reanimated with energy but no soul?

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We have this popular cultural meme. It's called a zombie, right? Well, in analogy,

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what do we call a dead charter of government, reanimated with energy but no soul?

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Oh, I call it a zombie constitution. Dear brothers and sisters, I feel today as if we

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in the United States of America are living with a zombie constitution and a reanimated republic.

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Funk and Wagnall's Dictionary defines a zombie as a corpse reactivated by sorcery but still dead.

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That's kind of how I feel about our constitutional republic today. It goes on to say,

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a zombie, the supernatural power by which a dead body is believed to be reanimated, unquote.

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How this describes the federal government in its current state as I look to it day by day as news

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comes pouring across my desk. For many conservatives, the election of Donald Trump reanimated, if you will,

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the federal government with some conservative policies but with no real change in the body

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politic of Washington, D.C. No, that still grinds on the same. Our body politic is still the same old

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reactivated corpse of a constitution that it was when he got there and ever will be unless life that is a

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living, breathing, constitutional soul is given to it. But without a true constitutional soul,

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all efforts will be but a corpse reactivated by sorcery, if we can call our constitutional

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republic as it is presently made, a zombie constitution, a reanimated corpse of a republic.

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What is the constitutional soul of our republic, dear listener? I tell you, and I assert this with

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the greatest confidence and the greatest force, that is, the soul of the constitution is biblical

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Christianity. Keep this in mind because nothing will change until we understand this and until

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our constitutional republic is filled once again with a living soul of biblical Christianity.

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Our founders knew that Christianity must animate the soul of the American constitution.

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In reflecting upon those men and their thoughts, Noah Webster said this. He said,

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no truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any

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government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people, unquote. This,

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of course, is precisely because Webster and all of his generation knew that the constitutional republic

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was a product of millennia of sacrifice and development. It had its roots in biblical law,

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custom, and practice. You remember the roots of western republics in the tribal republic of Israel.

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You remember how the kings and emperors of the west, I cover this in my series on the Christian

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roots of the American constitution. And you may remember how the kings and emperors of the west,

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once they experienced a conversion to Christ and his gospel as it began to spread, they sought to ground

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their rule subsequently in the law and justice of the Bible. Even as did the most notable example,

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that would be Justinian II and his revision of the Roman law code in accord with biblical principles.

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It's come down to us as the Justinian code. And you also recall our own direct roots of liberty,

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in the English Bill of Rights, for example, or the Magna Carta of 1215. And then, of course,

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Blackstone's commentaries on English law. All of these and much, much more were profoundly

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influenced by the Bible and Christian principle derived from the Bible. Our own constitution was

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steeped not only in this tradition, but also in the fresh tradition of the colonial charters of New

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England, which were almost exclusively tailored to be constitutional republics with a strong affinity

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for the Christian religion. Now, Daniel Webster says this about that period. He says,

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let us not forget the religious character of our origin. And here he was thinking about the colonial

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charters. He goes on to say, our fathers were brought hither by their high veneration for the

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Christian religion. They journeyed by its light and labored in its hope. They sought to incorporate its

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principles with the elements of their society and to diffuse its influence through all their

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institutions, civil, political, or literary, unquote. Daniel Webster. He understood, as did our founding

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fathers, that the soul of the Constitution is biblical Christianity. The soul of the Constitution is

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biblical Christianity. Note with me as well, secondly, that as the body without the soul is lifeless,

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so the Constitution without Christianity is lifeless, isn't it? Take away the heart and soul from a

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constitutional republic, and what is left is a lifeless political corpse. You may have the dead

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forms of that corpse, as the United States does today still. They have a shadow of a Congress. They

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have a bloated, overreaching executive and a pretentious rogue judiciary. But these shadows,

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these dead forms have no life in them. What they do have is a soulless, reanimated corpse of a body,

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even as a zombie, as a dead man enabled by the powers of a sorcerer. We have a zombie constitution. We

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have a reanimated republic moving about and acting evilly before us. Do we not evacuate the soul of a

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man and something will rush in to fill the void? Evacuate the soul of a constitutional republic and

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something will rush in to fill that void? Voodoo priests know this, and they are prepared with an

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answer, too. Now, we can carry this zombie analogy a little bit further. In voodoo, it is said that the

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priest or the priestess, which is a hungan in Haiti, a hungan, they can reanimate a human corpse by calling

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upon spirit forces of the underworld, and these are called tibonage, to invade that body and then be at the

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service of the priest to do his bidding. Revenge, murder, theft, control of others through sheer

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terror are some of the uses to which the zombie is put by the voodoo hungan in places like Haiti

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and in tribes in the Congo of Africa, the Congo of Africa, the place where voodoo has its origins.

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And one can imagine the superstitious terror that lives in such places when an otherwise rotting corpse

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suddenly appears at one's doorstep, possessed of a spirit, the tibonage, in control of another,

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the hungan, to kill, maim, steal, and destroy. Behold your so-called constitutional republic,

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dear listener, once living, truly possessed of the soul of one, that is, the Christian religion,

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but now a zombie constitution, a mere reanimated republic. America has all the features of a

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constitutional republic. We still see, as I mentioned, a congress, a president, a judiciary,

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like a zombie has the features of a human body, but those features are lifeless and they do not

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function as a human body normally does. The body parts act as if they have life, but they achieve

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only the ends of death. So it is with our zombie constitution, our reanimated but otherwise dead

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republic. These parts act and move so as to mimic the behaviors of a constitutional republic, but actually

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achieve the ends of a status tyranny. Oh, that once our living, breathing, soulful constitutional

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republic, activated by the soul of Christianity, is now a mere lifeless, zombified corpse. This is

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evident to us from what it achieves and how it operates. We can tell by its fruits. For example,

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our constitutional republic, our zombie constitution and reanimated republic, no longer labors for the

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things of life for which it was designed. That is the preamble or the mission statement of the

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constitution. You may remember the mission statement of the constitution. That is, we, the people of the

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United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility,

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excuse me, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of

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liberty to ourselves and to our posterity, do ordain and establish this constitution for the United

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States of America, unquote. That's the preamble. That is the mission statement of the constitution,

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the purpose of government, and it was sixfold. But note these things with me, seven things in this

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sixfold purpose. Number one, we, the people, we, the people, is now they, the elite,

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in the zombified constitution. We, the people, is now they, the elite. It's a truism that Washington,

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D.C. is now captive to special interests. Anyone who thinks that Washington, D.C. labors on behalf

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of we, the people, has turned off the critical faculty part of their brain, and they've chosen to

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live in a fantasy world. Just pick up a copy of Peter Schweitzer's books, Extortion, maybe, or

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Clinton Cash, and catch a glimpse of the tip of the iceberg of this situation. But it runs much deeper

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than that. Washington, D.C. is not just captive to special interests, but it is also becoming

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increasingly evident that there's a trend to integrate the United States into a larger world

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economy, a larger world judicial system, where she is accountable to world courts, not just our own,

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and a larger world governing body, too, under whose legislation the United States would be accountable.

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And one has only to look for proof to things like the treaties, Trans-Pacific Partnership, for example,

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or TPP, which Trump has canceled, thankfully, or to the North American Free Trade Agreement, with us now

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for years, NAFTA, which Trump hopes to renegotiate, thank God, as well. You have to look only to these

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to see only the most egregious examples of attempts to economically hobble and disadvantage the United

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States at best, and to redistribute our wealth to foreign nations and peoples at worst. Additionally,

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those who stand to gain from this trend of world integration, that's what you have to do. You have

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to look to see who is going to profit by this. They intend to push us towards international agreements

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whose terms will be decided not by legislative and judicial bodies here in the United States,

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but rather in foreign bodies, like the World Court in The Haag, or unelected bureaucrats in the

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United Nations or in NATO. This has become evident as men like Al Gore, talk about a man who profits

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from disaster, right? Al Gore becomes wealthy as climate change treaties are made and signed to our

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disadvantage, or George Soros as he profits from the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. And of

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course, international bankers play dangerous games with our economy to their own profit, not for the

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good of the people. Well, on we could go. All of this is to say that if we were honest about the true

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authority of the Constitution, we would have to change the opening words of the preamble from

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we the people to they, the elite. The living, vibrant constitutional republic of our founders has

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become a zombie corpse of a constitution, a virtual reanimated republic where the people are dead to

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their authority and a foreign spirit, a sorcerer, if you will, a sorcerer elite now energized the soul

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of the zombie republic that was the United States of America. Secondly, note with me, the formation of a

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more perfect union is now cynically steered towards a perfect statist tyranny. Yes, the formation of a

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more perfect union, as our Constitution puts it, is now cynically steered towards a perfect statist

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tyranny in the zombie republic of America. The founders crafted the Constitution as an improvement

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upon the Articles of Confederation, which almost all at the time agreed stood as a charter too weak

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to accomplish the united purposes of the several states. Therefore, the founders created a federal

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system that would negotiate treaties on behalf of all the states, for example. It would raise an army

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and navy for the defense of all the states. And this new constitution would do things like regulate

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interstate commerce and coin money and standardize weights and measures on behalf of all the states.

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These and other glaring problems under the Articles of Confederation were addressed in order to form a more

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perfect union, as the Constitution says, to benefit the several states. But all of that has changed over the

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time of the Constitution's composition, dear listener. That union in bonds of peace and trust and unity has withered and

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died. And in its stead are zombie chains instead of bonds, zombie turmoil instead of peace, zombie suspicion where there was once

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trust, and zombie tyranny instead of mere union. The Constitution was written on behalf of and for the mutual benefit of the

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states, not for a self-serving federal government in Washington, D.C., as it is now constituted under the

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zombie Constitution, the reanimated republic, if you will. And, for example, amendments 9 and 10 of the Constitution were added

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in particular to hem and hedge the federal government from future encroachment upon the relative independence of the

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states. I refresh your memory of amendment number 9, for example, which reads, the enumeration in the Constitution of

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certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. That is, rights were

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limitless in the Constitution for the people. And amendment number 10 reads, the powers not delegated to the

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United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the states are reserved to the states

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respectively or to the people. This means that power belongs to the people in the states. Only those powers that

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were specific to the United States or prohibited to the states, these are the only ones limited by the

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states. The powers otherwise are limitless to the people and to the states as well as their rights.

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Now, over the decades and centuries, however, sometimes imperceptibly like a court case here or an

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executive order there, and sometimes in big chunks like in the Civil War or with authoritarian presidents like

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Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Barack Obama, over time, the certain rights and powers reserved

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to the states or the people have been usurped by the federal government in Washington, D.C. And as I point

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out tirelessly, this is the fault of the states and the people. It is us. It can be the responsibility and the

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fault of no other. The virtual death of this more perfect union has contributed to the zombie

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constitution, the one dead to union, but exercising the reanimated motions of status tyranny in its place.

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Thirdly, note with me too, when we discuss the zombie constitution, the reanimated republic,

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we see that the goal to establish justice, which is one of the purposes of government, the goal to

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establish justice has given way to a two-tiered system of justice, hasn't it? This is one of the

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prime directives of government. The Bible gives this to us too. Our own sense of justice is taken

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from the Bible where Moses says, justice and only justice shall you do in the land the Lord your God

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is giving you. He commands the judges of Israel, justice and only justice shall you do. And the

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founders understood this prime directive, whether they read the Bible or Blackstone's commentary on

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the English law, it was itself a system of law based upon the Bible itself. Without true justice

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in the land, dear listener, evil can only flourish as it does today. Solomon says in Ecclesiastes,

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because the sentence against an evil deed is not executed speedily, the heart of the children of man

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is fully set to do evil. How much worse is it when there is no sentence at all against an evil deed,

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much less one handed down, but executed tardily, right? And I give it as an example, the decades it

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takes for capital cases to win their way through the courts, right? Talk about delayed justice.

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And there are presently two tiers of justice in America, one for the rich and powerful and another

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for the rest of us. We see this played out for us on a daily basis, don't we? Whether it is Eric Holder

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running in the Fast and Furious scandal, Hillary Clinton and the millions scammed in the Clinton

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Foundation, or Barack Obama and his abuse of power during his administration. The death of justice in

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the halls of power, the death of justice in the halls of power, seen in the contempt for the little

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people, as Hillary Clinton calls us. This will inevitably lead to lawlessness and contempt for law and

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order in the land as well. This is amply illustrated for us throughout history and the Bible.

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But the death of justice in the Constitution does not mean that there is not a kind of

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reanimation of something that looks a pale shade like justice, even as a zombie resembles what it

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once was. That is a living, breathing soul. And I give you as an example, the kangaroo court being

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convened for Donald Trump in his so-called collusion with Russia during the election. Oh, what a laughable

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situation. The hysterical hissy fits of the progressive left hide behind the mantle of justice

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while practicing injustice for the sake of politics. And this too is zombie constitutionalism,

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a mere reanimated corpse of justice. Instead, there will be no living constitution again unless we

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practice justice as recommended by the prophet Micah. And he tells us, he has told you, oh man,

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what is good and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice and to love mercy and to walk humbly

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with your God? Fourthly, note with me, from the Constitution, we have a reanimated corpse of a

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Constitution doing on notice number four with me, the duty to ensure domestic tranquility,

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government now transgresses by fostering domestic violence and unrest. Oh, and what could be a better

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example of a zombie constitutional republic than our last president, a community organizer whose whole job

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description is to create conflict? Do you know this about community organizers, dear listener?

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Barack Obama's mentor, Saul Alinsky, taught that out of conflict between two opposing sides

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comes resolution favorable to the side of the oppressed if the community organizer is smart about

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it. The job of the community organizer is to go into disadvantaged communities and organize them

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to find a point of conflict with the perceived oppressor and then agitate that conflict. Who did

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this better than President Barack Obama, who never stopped being a community organizer even once he got

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into office? You may remember the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, which he exacerbated. And surveys time

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after time list that indeed race relations were at their nadir, worse than they were since the civil

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riots back in the 60s by the time President Obama left office. Well, note with me number five as well.

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Instead of providing for the common defense, our zombie constitution, our reanimated republic,

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leaves us defenseless. Our open borders are exhibit A in this regard. We know that the drug gangs,

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for example, now control the southern border instead of our border patrol. And we have also known that

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countless OTMs as they're called, that is other than Mexican, have been flooding into the United States

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over the decades. We know that crime and terror and threats to our national security will increase

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because of our poorest borders. Our zombie constitution leaves us defenseless because our politicians are

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spineless in stopping the poorest borders. They want cheap labor. They want Democrat voters.

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And so the borders continue to be open, leaving us defenseless. Instead of the common defense,

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we have a zombie constitution. We have a reanimated republic where indeed evil is done rather than good.

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Additionally, the influx of refugees and immigrants from Syria and the Middle East,

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they as well are designed to deliberately destabilize us. No longer does the constitution provide for the

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common defense, but our zombie constitution leaves us defenseless. Number six, note with me as well,

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instead of promoting the general welfare, our zombie constitution promotes special welfare.

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The founding fathers meant by this provision, promoting the general welfare, that the federal

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government would restrict itself to those actions which would benefit all of the people or all of the

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states as a whole and not a single class or segment of the people or only a few states.

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Rather, the constitution would promote the general welfare of all the people and all the states.

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But our zombie constitution, our reanimated republic, in contradiction to this directive,

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of course, in contradiction then to this directive, is providing a whole segment of voters through

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direct handouts from the federal treasury, isn't it? Including social security, welfare, food stamps,

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Medicare, unemployment, a host of other programs we could give in litany that buy off narrow segments

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of the general public for whom general welfare was to be provided the whole of the people according

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to the constitution. Well, lastly, then number seven, rather than securing the blessings of liberty to

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ourselves and our posterity, our zombie constitution puts them in jeopardy. Yes, rather than securing the

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blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, which under the living constitution, the constitution

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with a soul, our zombie constitution puts those in jeopardy. With every new nibble that the zombie

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takes upon our liberties, we come closer and closer to dying ourselves as a free people. And not only will

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we pay the price, but so will our children if we do not once again bring that constitution to life.

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The soul of the constitution is biblical Christianity. That is what needs to happen.

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There needs to be complete and utter reformation of the American way of life for this to happen.

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That can only be done, too, by the sovereign hand of God. We must pray about these things,

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dear listener. Pray to the sovereign hand of God that he might change the hearts and minds of Americans,

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that we might once again have a vibrant and living heart and soul to the constitution. That is the

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biblical faith, the Christian religion, Christ himself. There will be no resurgence of a proper

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constitutional republic until there is a rebirth of the soul of one. You're going to continue to see

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the country unfold as it has been in bitterness and conflict and alienation. That can only happen,

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that change can only happen in the people themselves. And until then, you will continue to see the

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floundering, arm flapping, leg stumbling, glassy-eyed stare of a zombie in our national life together as

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godless men try to bring to life that which only God can vivify. Only God can bring to life the soul

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of the constitution. That is the biblical faith, the Christian religion, Christ himself in the lives,

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hearts, and minds of the people. Without Christ in the people, there will be no living constitutional

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republic for the people. We, the people, will continue to be governed by the zombie on behalf

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of they, the elite, dear listener. Remember with me, the soul of the constitution is biblical

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Christianity, and our founders knew that. Christianity must animate the soul of American

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constitutionalism or else it will be a zombie constitutionalism. It will achieve the ends of

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death and not the ends of life. It will achieve the ends of demonic and devilish government and

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tyranny, statism, and not the ends of government as reflected in the preamble of our constitution.

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So, our own constitution was steeped not only in this tradition, was it not? The tradition of having

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the soul of the biblical religion, but also the fresh tradition of the colonial charters too that

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reflect these things. The soul of the constitution is biblical Christianity. Pray for a revitalization,

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a reformation of the soul, the heart of the American people, that we might again see a biblical

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constitutional republic and not a zombie constitution, a mere sorcerer reanimated republic as we are

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experiencing. Now, deliver us, O Lord, from this. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox

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Presbyterian Church. New Geneva meets for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on

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the corner of 4th and Boulevard. I invite you to join us. I invite you to come and visit us in one of our

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worship services. Come out of the shadows. Join us. Perhaps you've been meaning to for some time now,

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and we just invite you to come and join us. We need you. You need us. We have much to offer

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as a church, and we know that you have much to offer us too as an individual Christian. Please

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come and visit us. New Geneva meets for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner

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of 4th and Boulevard, and you can call us for more information at 523-0196. That's 523-0196.