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

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

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today, an amble through the preamble to the Constitution with the Savior. Yes, I want to

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take an amble through the preamble to the Constitution with the Savior, with you today.

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Now, the preamble to the Constitution is famous for succinctly summarizing the six purposes

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of human government. And are you listening, President Trump? President Trump could use a

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lesson here, because I heard him on several occasions when he was asked, what is the purpose

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of government? Oh, he drew a mind blank, and he couldn't explain. He's mumbled something about

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health care and education. No, no, no. The preamble to the Constitution succinctly summarizes the six

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purposes of human government, and they are to form a more perfect union, to establish justice,

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to ensure domestic tranquility, to provide for the common defense, to promote the general welfare,

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and then lastly, to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

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And to these, we must return. Now, our founding fathers were students of history and government.

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They called government the divine science, and they understood the conclusions of history,

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that these six purposes were advanced by the recently minted Constitution. And what I want to do is

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amble through the preamble to root them in biblical principle and show you how they are being threatened

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today by those in power. That is a great irony in the light of from whence they derived their power,

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that is the Constitution. If we're going to return to Christ, Constitution, and Capitalism,

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which I have been preaching, that is Christ for our spiritual lives together,

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together, the Constitution for our political lives together, and Capitalism for our economic lives

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together, and replace it with what we have now, that is Secularism for our spiritual lives together,

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Statism for our political lives together, and Socialism for our economic lives together,

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the three C's versus the three S's. If we're to do this, then we must understand clearly,

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down to our toenails, how Christ applies to our political lives together under the Constitution.

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Because so much of it does. It includes the preamble to the Constitution. So let us begin our

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amble through the preamble by seeing how Christ informs our first purpose for government, and Christ

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does underline the first purpose for government. And it's how it's being threatened by the deep state

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too. That is to form a more perfect union, to form a more perfect union. And the deep state is trying

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to foster the most imperfect disunion in contrast to a more perfect union. Now, a chief purpose of

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government is to foster unity over those they govern. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Christ

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so often remarked in his ministry, and Lincoln quoted this and applied it to the struggle of the civil war

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in the United States. Unity at a variety of levels is necessary to the survival of a people. Now, the

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Constitutional Convention was called in 1787 in large part to address the lack of unity that the 13

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states were experiencing under the Articles of Confederation, which was the national charter

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erected after the Revolutionary War. The sovereign states were so off-put by the tyranny of centralized

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government has so recently experienced in the King and Parliament of England that they set up a very

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weak central government under the Articles of Confederation. Consequently, the federal government

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experienced difficulty in raising taxes to fund itself, calling a militia to defend the country as

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a whole, establishing a single currency to make sense of the chaos of currencies the states were printing,

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and then even to regulate moderately the destructive trade policies the individual states were setting up

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against one another. Well, cumulatively, the lack of a stronger central government was creating a far

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less than perfect union, to the point that it threatened to break up the union itself unless

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it was remedied. Ergo, the Constitutional Convention. And that more perfect union is being threatened now,

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again, today, but for different reasons. Let me list some of those reasons for you. First of all, deep

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state interest in the United States, that is the permanent bureaucracy, the permanent government in

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Washington D.C., which has ballooned beyond all imaginable size. This deep state interest in the

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United States of America wishes to bring us under greater control of a world government system that must

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first weaken us to control us. That is the old strategy of divide and conquer. Yes, the deep state is

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manufacturing the strategy of divide and conquer. Ever since the administration of President Woodrow Wilson in the

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early 20th century and his attempt to bring us into the League of Nations, well, our federal government has been

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moving us closer and closer towards a one world government accelerated with the creation of the United Nations after

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World War II. The mask is slipping in this regard. Now, I used to consider that kind of thinking paranoid conspiracy theory.

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Oh, but one must deliberately close his eyes and stop up his ears to be unaware of the forces moving us

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towards a one world tyranny. For example, let me just give you three brief examples. First of all,

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there's the United Nations Agenda 21. Agenda 21. If you haven't heard of this, you better do some homework.

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It is a comprehensive plan for the 21st century to impose severe limits on human consumption of the

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world's resources in the name of saving the environment, of course, of course. And it is to the absolute

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disadvantage of the United States of America. Not only is there Agenda 21, but there's a variety of trade

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treaties that bleed us dry. For example, the North American Free Trade Agreement or the Trans-Pacific

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Partnership, all of which, thankfully, President Trump is renegotiating. And then thirdly, there's the

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preparation to bring foreign troops onto American soil to do to citizens what our own forces would

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never do. That is, fire on us in times of civil unrest. And the most recent example of this was that

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Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin, who met with the United Nations Assistant Secretary General

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to explore bringing in United Nations troops to help bring peace to the violent, gun-ridden streets of

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Chicago. Oh, these are just three examples of trends towards a one-world government system that our

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leaders are guiding us. But in order to accomplish this end, they must first weaken the more perfect

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union in our preamble, through which I'm ambling with you, to which our Constitution exhorts us to a

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more perfect union. Only when we are sufficiently divided as a union can we be satisfactorily absorbed

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in disunion into this new world order, peace by weakened peace. Therefore, for those with eyes to see,

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a panorama of divide and conquer is being played out right now before us. For example, we are being

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deliberately divided along racial lines. This is no coincidence that racial tension is worse now after

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Obama than it was before. We are being deliberately divided along racial lines. Martin Luther King Jr.'s

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vision for an America united under one principle, where, as he puts it, a man is judged by the

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content of his character rather than the color of his skin. Well, this principle is quietly being

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exchanged for a new progressive one, where a man is judged in preference for the color of his long

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oppressed skin, as long as it's not white. Never have the races been more divided than since the 60s.

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And you could make an argument that it's getting worse. Self-segregating blacks and self-loathing

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whites accentuate racial differences and divides in America today. George Soros-sponsored groups like

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Black Lives Matter generate racial grievances rather than human agreements concerning race.

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And perhaps the most egregious proponent of racial friction is Barack Obama, our community organizer

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in chief. While the job title community organizer sounds innocuous enough, even boring and technical,

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maybe the actual job description is more insidious. Obama is a protege of the original community

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organizer, Saul Alinsky. Does that name sound familiar? Saul Alinsky was the very prototype of

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subsequent models of community organizers. From the mid-20th century, he was, and the author of the

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Bible of community organizing, Rules for Radicals, famously dedicated to that first rubble, as he puts

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it, Lucifer. Alinsky was brilliant in devising strategies for oppressed and disorganized groups

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and communities in the inner cities of America. But it came at a cost, division, strife, and alienation.

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A community organizer is trained to come into a community and identify points of division between

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two or more groups. And if there are no natural frictions, then the community organizer creates them.

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And he aggravates them with a number of tried and true tactics explored by Alinsky in order to

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polarize groups completely from one another. The conflict thus created demands a solution from the power

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structure, the powers that be. And of course, the community organizer has that solution in the form

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of his list of demands on behalf of the aggrieved people. Well, this brief and admittedly incomplete

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description is sufficient to make my point. The creation of conflict, the creation of conflict is at the heart

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of community organizing and community organizing is at the heart of Obama and progressivism creating

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conflict. It's how they succeed. It's what they do. And stupid conservatives go on thinking that if we

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just meet the demands of this or that group in this or that crisis, that the conflict will just go away

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and we can get on with lowering taxes and defeating terrorism. Oh, that is not what happens. However,

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either conflict is fostered in a new area by the community organizer or further demands are made in

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the issue that's just been won. Oh, so it is in the area of race and ethnic relations, whether it is

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Ferguson, Missouri or St. Louis or college campuses or reparations or quotas and casting for the local

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drama club. I don't know whether you've heard of this little issue, but it's there. Tension, racial

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tension has never been higher. And that's just the way progressives want it, but it's not the way it should

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be, nor is it the way that Christ constitution and capitalism would have it either. I submit to you

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that Christ is the only solution for racial division and conflict in America today, Christ.

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And the apostle Paul puts it this way. He says, for in Christ Jesus, you are all sons of God through

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faith. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor

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Greek. There is neither slave nor free. There is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ

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Jesus. Now, many of us in the church forget what a revolutionary message we bring. Oh, Christ in

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bringing salvation to all men obliterated the forest of divisive distinctions at the foot of this one tree,

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the cross. Don't miss this one tree. In the forest of divisive distinctions, dear listener, there are

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all equal. All of us are equal sinners who receive equal forgiveness for our trespasses and stand upon

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equal ground before our savior, Jesus Christ. For the forest of divisive racial distinctions,

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there is neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free. Now, the racial division, Paul mentions,

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between Jew and Greek in the first century was every bit as divisive as that of skin color in our own

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day, if not more so. The fact that now in Christ there is neither Jew nor Greek radically altered the

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race relations of the first century. Additionally, many so-called scholars criticized Christianity for

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bringing slavery to the new world when, in reality, it was this principle of the Bible that neither is

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there slave nor free in Christ Jesus any longer that actually formed the seed in the abolition movement

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in the United States for the ridding of slavery. Therefore, if we are to achieve a more perfect

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union, dear listener, in the area of race and ethnic relations, then we must return to Christ and his

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gospel. It alone will help us unite as we all in good faith come to Christ. The perfection of the

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principle in our preamble of a more perfect union will only be accomplished with life in Christ and

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his church. Well, I wish to remind you, as we're about in the middle of our broadcast, that this is

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Pastor David Bass. I serve at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Idaho Falls, Idaho, and we meet

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for holy worship on Sunday morning at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard.

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And you can call us for more information at area code 208-523-0196. And you can check out our

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websites, newgenevaopc.org. That's newgenevaopc.org. Or check out our catalog of previous messages,

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radio messages. And that is found on our website, omnispotestas.org. That's O-M-N-I-S dash P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S

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dot org, omnispotestas.org. Well, secondly, let me also, as we amble through the preamble to the

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Constitution with our Savior, let me note as well that the deep state is using other issues to divide us.

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And that other issue is we are being deliberately divided along gender lines. Yes, we are being

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deliberately divided along gender lines. Now, those in the deep state that are nudging and shoving us,

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if you will, towards a new world order, a new world system, they divide us along as many fracture

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lines as they can create. But none is more provoked and encouraged today as that divide over gender,

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unless, of course, it is of race, previously described. They're neck and neck in terms of

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their divisive influences in America. Now, sex and gender. Sex refers to biological differences,

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biology, chromosomes, hormonal profiles, internal and external sex organs. And there are two of these,

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of course, the same across cultures. But there's also gender. And gender describes the characteristics

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that a society or culture delineates as masculine and feminine. Gender means masculine and feminine.

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And these roles can differ across cultures. Gender is the point of conflict now in our culture. And that

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division began with the feminist movement back in the 70s, but has degenerated. There were many noble

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points to the feminist movement in the 70s, but it has now degenerated into a morass of confusion and

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debauchery in which a site like Tumblr can seriously catalog 325 different genders. Believe it or not,

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check it out. I couldn't believe it. But they go on to say that there are 325 different genders.

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They do it with a straight face and they say that's only so far. Now, let me sample a few of these with

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you. First of all, this gender stands out. It's called the absorbo gender. I'm not kidding you,

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absorbo gender. And that's a gender that changes to conform to the genders of those around you.

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As you are around more and more people, even if some leave, they continue to add to the genders that

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you feel. See, so much of this is about human feeling. And then there's the angeligender. Yes,

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the angeligender. And this is a gender found only among angels. That's hard to describe to non-angels.

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So if you're not of the angeligender, then, oh, it's difficult for you to understand.

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This angeligender is only for the godkin and the angelkin. Oh, yes. Don't ask me what those are.

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I know what they are, but I don't have time to describe it to you. Then there's the anon gender,

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the anon gender. And this gender is that unknown to both yourself and others. Oh my goodness. I can't

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figure that one out either. Then my favorite is the bog gender. Yes, the bog gender, also known as

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the swamp gender. And this gender is that which feels like a bog or a swamp or a marsh or similar

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ecosystem. Well, I'm only into the Bs. It goes all the way through Z into 325 different genders.

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Now, personally, I have a 326th gender to add to this list. Now, as I was driving into town today,

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I saw a unicorn in the clouds and I closely identified with it. I am now fully persuaded

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that I am of the unicorn gender. Yes. Clap your hands for me, dear listener. And I will personally,

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on the other hand, consider it a macro or I'm sorry, a microaggression against me. If you question

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my sincerity or the reality of my unicorn-ness, and I'll have the county sheriff arrest you for

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hate speech crime. And it just makes me want to run to my safe space in the student union lounge,

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just thinking about being rejected in my unicorn-ness. Well, dear listener, all of this would

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be laughable if not for the police state speech codes on college campuses, which require you to use

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the proper gender categories and pronouns or else face disciplinary action. Dear listener, you are

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being groomed for tyranny. This is nothing more than grooming for tyranny. This proliferation of genders

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and the resulting conflict that it creates has been concocted on college campuses where the maxim still

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stands. Yes, on college campuses, there's no idea so outlandish that some professor somewhere does not

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propound it. And this is one of those outlandish ideas. So this gender conflict, this gender agenda

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is concocted on college campuses, funded by progressive foundations, and then parroted by the

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mainstream media. Oh, no. Gender agenda is not the fruit of culture evolving step by ascending step

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towards a beatific socialist utopia. No. Rather, this gender agenda is a crass, cynical, poisoned pill

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stuffed down the unwilling throat of Americans as social justice. It is meant to confuse and conflict

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us. It is deliberately designed to turn a more perfect union into a most imperfect disunion. The

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gender agenda should be soundly, decisively rejected by the American people. Instead, we must begin to

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embrace again that which unites us. That is Christ and his gospel. Christ and his gospel. Once more,

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Paul exhorts us, do you remember, there is neither Jew nor Greek. There is neither slave nor free.

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There is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. Dear listener, unity is found among the

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two genders in Christ Jesus. There is masculine and feminine. All others divide. Men and women are all

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one in Christ Jesus. Now, this does not mean that we are asexual nor genderless. It merely defines the

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absolute equality of every soul before the cross. Remember, dear listener, do not miss the one tree

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for the forest of genders. At the foot of Christ's tree, the cross, we all find forgiveness. There also,

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dear listener, there also, when we look closely, when we study the text, we discover our true sexuality

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and our true gender as we learn who we are as creatures made in the image of God. Crucial to understanding

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sex and gender is understanding that we are made in the image of God. Genesis tells us, so God created man

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in his own image. In the image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created them. Unquote.

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Male and female, God created us in the image of God. So, sanity and a more perfect union will return

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when we return to biblical principle, to Christ and his church, and then explore biblical principle

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there on out. In addition to the disunion being fostered among racial and gender lines, dear listener,

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we could go on and on because we are being deliberately divided along religious and economic

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and immigrant and native-born lines, too, for that matter. Now, the deep state knows that the more

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division, the better for their purposes, for their ends, which, of course, is to divide and weaken us

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and then incorporate us into a larger world system. They have learned their lesson well from the

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British, who employed the divide and conquer strategy effectively to control their far-flung

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colonial empire, as did the Roman Empire before them. This is nothing new. What we are experiencing

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is nothing new. We have to step back and stop being manipulated like chess pieces and stop being

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manipulated and tempted in one direction like lemmings running over a cliff. They know, the deep state

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knows, that by aggravating the inherent divisions, even as Britain understood, by aggravating inherent

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divisions, they can divide and weaken so as to conquer. By aggravating the inherent divisions in

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India, for example, the British Empire was able to control a vast populous continent with relatively

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few soldiers. They pitted Muslim against Hindu, Hindu against Buddhist, Buddhist against Sikh, Sikh against

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Muslim, Brahmin against priest, warrior, and priest warrior against merchant farmer, and then the merchant

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farmer, of course, against the untouchable. When in conflict with one another, these groups are in

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conflict with one another, when that is stirred up, well then, who swoops in to bring order and save the

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day? Of course, it's the British colonial governor and his troops. This was the basic strategy of divide

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and conquer throughout the British Empire. And it is the basic strategy of divide and conquer that the deep

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state is employing to divide and conquer America. And as America descends deeper and deeper into chaos and

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conflict, we too will cry out for a savior. And of course, that is the almighty state. We have moved,

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from Christ, constitution, and capitalism to the miserable existence of secularism, statism, and

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socialism. And you watch most of those trained in public schools and raised in our culture, the

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millennials in particular, when we sink deeper and deeper into chaos and conflict, they will cry out

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for the savior of the almighty state to intervene and bring law and order. The more perfect union

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created by our founding fathers will collapse into the most imperfect disunion. We will be held

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together by the iron bonds of a tyrannical state instead of the fraternal bonds of a constitutional

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republic. Let me repeat that. In days to come, we will be held together by the iron bonds of a

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tyrannical state rather than the fraternal bonds of a constitutional republic. And only when the church

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begins to live out its oneness in Christ in our spiritual lives together, will we be able to live

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out our union in a republic for our political lives together? The blame for living under secularism,

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statism, and socialism can be squarely laid at the foot of the church. As goes the church, so goes the

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nation. The world does have a model, dear listener, for unity in the church. If we will just live that out

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in all of its faculties in the life of the church, now it's a tall order, but we must shoulder this

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responsibility, take this mantle upon us, take this yoke of Christ's upon us. It's a tall order, but we

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must model racial unity and grace. We must model the sexual and gender identification outlined in the

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Bible. Can we do this, dear listener? Oh, brothers and sisters, I cry out to you. Can we do this? And I say,

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yes, we can. Christ says that we can. From whence comes deliverance? If not from Christ and his church,

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we will be sunk into secularism, statism, and socialism if we do not return to Christ,

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the Constitution, and capitalism, dear listener. And it is the church that must model this before the

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world. Pray with me for this, dear listener. Labor with me for this end. If you've got suggestions or

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steps we as a church might take, then call me. I'm open. And I have a few ideas of my own too.

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But may the grace and the love of Christ be with us all as we model racial harmony and gender and

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sexual identities in biblical principle. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox

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Presbyterian Church in Idaho Falls, Idaho. And we meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m.

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at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard in Idaho Falls. And you can call us for

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information at 208, excuse me, that's area code 208-523-0196. And I encourage you to check out our

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websites as well. And they are two. Number one, newgenevaopc.org. That's our church website,

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newgenevaopc.org. And then we also have another website, which catalogs then our previous radio

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messages. And you can access, excuse me, access those at omnisprotestas.org. That's O-M-N-I-S dash P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S

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dot org. Omnisprotestas dot org.