1 00:00:04,820 --> 00:00:12,240 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass of New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church in Idaho Falls, 2 00:00:12,400 --> 00:00:18,179 Idaho, with a moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life 3 00:00:18,179 --> 00:00:25,899 and faith. And today, I would like to continue to take you on an amble through the preamble 4 00:00:25,899 --> 00:00:35,039 to the Constitution. Now, we have been doing this now off and on for a few months, and why we can 5 00:00:35,039 --> 00:00:40,259 amble through the preamble with Christ is because our founding fathers understood the biblical basis 6 00:00:40,259 --> 00:00:46,259 for government, and they articulated the six principles of human government that is in the 7 00:00:46,259 --> 00:00:51,460 preamble to the Constitution. Did you know that? Oh, I wish that President Trump knew this when he 8 00:00:51,460 --> 00:00:55,759 was asked a question on the purpose of government, and he stumbled when he did when he was campaigning. 9 00:00:55,899 --> 00:01:03,119 So, we must have clearly put before us in our own minds the six principles of government, 10 00:01:03,579 --> 00:01:09,019 the six reasons that government exists. Number one, to form a more perfect union. Number two, 11 00:01:09,120 --> 00:01:16,239 to establish justice. Number three, to ensure domestic tranquility. Number four, to provide 12 00:01:16,239 --> 00:01:23,159 for the common defense. Number five, to promote the general welfare. And number six, then, to secure 13 00:01:23,159 --> 00:01:30,060 the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Now, we have ambled through the first 14 00:01:30,060 --> 00:01:38,280 three principles previously. Check out our website, omnispotestas.org, where they are cataloged. 15 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:51,099 That is omnispotestas, O-M-N-I-S-P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S.org. There you will find those three principles 16 00:01:51,099 --> 00:01:58,980 previously dealt with. You'll be able to find them as you peruse that website. But today, we want to 17 00:01:58,980 --> 00:02:05,680 show how providing for the common defense is a biblical principle and must be supported by all 18 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:12,719 Christians. I want to cover four things with you here, four things to demonstrate why providing 19 00:02:12,719 --> 00:02:19,680 for the common defense of a constitutional republic is a biblical principle, and it must be supported 20 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:26,580 by all Christians if you call yourself by that name. The first principle I want to establish with you, 21 00:02:27,080 --> 00:02:33,580 number one, we are bound by the civil covenant. Yes, dear listener, number one, we must provide for 22 00:02:33,580 --> 00:02:39,319 the common defense in a constitutional republic because all Christians are bound by the civil 23 00:02:39,319 --> 00:02:45,120 covenant. Not only all Christians, but all mankind is bound by the civil covenant, responsible, 24 00:02:45,599 --> 00:02:54,240 responsible, excuse me, before God Almighty for it. Now, most Christians are ignorant of these things 25 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:59,919 and think that perhaps the rainbow in the sky, for example, is a sign of a promise that God would 26 00:02:59,919 --> 00:03:07,780 no longer deluge the earth with a universal flood. But they only read half of Genesis 9 when they do. 27 00:03:08,280 --> 00:03:15,300 The first part of Genesis chapter 9 inaugurates what we call the civil covenant, of which the rainbow 28 00:03:15,300 --> 00:03:22,219 is a sign and seal. And the civil covenant establishes the basis for human government, and that is justice. 29 00:03:22,219 --> 00:03:31,479 Listen, dear listener, to Genesis chapter 9. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is its blood. 30 00:03:31,900 --> 00:03:39,039 And for your lifeblood, I will require a reckoning. From every beast, I will require it, and from man, 31 00:03:39,439 --> 00:03:46,319 a reckoning, okay, for the life of man. And Genesis 9 goes on to say, from his fellow man, 32 00:03:46,319 --> 00:03:52,900 I will require a reckoning for the life of man. Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his 33 00:03:52,900 --> 00:04:00,199 blood be shed. For God made man in his own image. And you be fruitful and multiply, increase greatly on 34 00:04:00,199 --> 00:04:07,120 the earth and multiply in it, unquote. Establishing the civil covenant there in Genesis chapter 9. 35 00:04:07,699 --> 00:04:12,719 This is the real essence of the rainbow. Justice is the principle inherent in the command, 36 00:04:12,719 --> 00:04:19,540 whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed. For God made man in his own image. 37 00:04:19,879 --> 00:04:25,839 The basis, the founding understanding of the civil government. All understanding and application of 38 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:32,680 justice is derived from this text. Government begins here. We are commanded to be God's mediators of his 39 00:04:32,680 --> 00:04:41,339 justice by shedding the blood of the murderer in God's stead. This core act is the prototype of government, 40 00:04:41,339 --> 00:04:48,079 whereby godly magistrates administered justice across the board in every instance, with this 41 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:55,439 as the model. So, with this in mind, it is important to remember that the protection and 42 00:04:55,439 --> 00:05:01,180 defense of the people is integral to the civil covenant. The prime directive of every king of 43 00:05:01,180 --> 00:05:06,600 Israel was to march out to meet the invader Philistines or Assyrians or Babylonians, 44 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:15,040 and in exchange for loyalty to him and his princes, the king covenanted with the people to protect the 45 00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:20,579 people against invaders and marauders and bands of thieves who would periodically sweep through the 46 00:05:20,579 --> 00:05:28,839 land. This is the seed idea of the common defense, a biblical seed idea of the common defense that our 47 00:05:28,839 --> 00:05:36,060 founding fathers incorporated into the constitution. It is why they authorized the Congress to raise an army 48 00:05:36,060 --> 00:05:44,120 and form a navy. So, God obliges government to defend the people. It is what they do. It is their prime 49 00:05:44,120 --> 00:05:49,540 directive, like a carburetor feeds gasoline to an engine or a mother hen defends her chicks or a mama 50 00:05:49,540 --> 00:05:58,139 bear defends her cubs. So, a government must provide for the common defense of her people. The first instinct of 51 00:05:58,139 --> 00:06:03,879 government is to provide for the common defense. Well, that's reason number one. Reason number two, 52 00:06:03,879 --> 00:06:11,300 why a constitutional republic must provide for the common defense is number two. An armed citizenry 53 00:06:11,300 --> 00:06:19,120 is a safe citizenry. Yes, you knew it had to come to this. An armed citizenry is a safe 54 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:24,160 citizenry. One of the salient features of this obligation of the federal government to provide for 55 00:06:24,160 --> 00:06:31,480 the common defense was to ensure the militia was properly armed. It is one reason, and I emphasize 56 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:36,839 here not the only reason, but it is one reason for the second amendment, which reads, a well-regulated 57 00:06:36,839 --> 00:06:44,639 militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms 58 00:06:44,639 --> 00:06:53,000 shall not be infringed. The militia was composed of citizens who were called up in times of war to be 59 00:06:53,000 --> 00:07:00,139 supplied, trained, and sent out to defend their homes and nation. The arms they used were generally their 60 00:07:00,139 --> 00:07:05,220 own. But it was also well understood that those arms were for the enemies of the constitution, 61 00:07:05,680 --> 00:07:14,480 whether foreign or domestic. Yes, those arms that citizens bore, kept and bore, those arms were for 62 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:20,000 the enemies of the constitution. And that means there were some foreign enemies and there were some 63 00:07:20,000 --> 00:07:26,920 domestic enemies. Guns intended to defend the constitution against both kinds of enemies. This is 64 00:07:26,920 --> 00:07:33,639 important to understand. This principle and understanding is incorporated in the oath of office 65 00:07:33,639 --> 00:07:40,639 of every federal office holder from president to dog catcher. And that goes, as you may remember, I 66 00:07:40,639 --> 00:07:48,639 then supply the name, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States 67 00:07:48,639 --> 00:07:55,139 against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, 68 00:07:55,139 --> 00:07:59,660 that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, 69 00:07:59,660 --> 00:08:05,079 and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. 70 00:08:05,220 --> 00:08:13,980 So help me God. Unquote. Yes, bearing arms against enemies, foreign and domestic. Therefore, 71 00:08:14,379 --> 00:08:21,980 each citizen was understood to keep and bear arms, not only for the invading forces from Russia or China 72 00:08:21,980 --> 00:08:29,980 or ISIS, which are modern enemies, but also, of course, to bear arms against those enemies of the 73 00:08:29,980 --> 00:08:38,320 constitution who may treasonously or treacherously in the breast of our nation dwell among us or even 74 00:08:38,320 --> 00:08:46,539 inhabit public office. That is enemies domestic. This includes the very government instituted amongst them, 75 00:08:46,539 --> 00:08:52,539 which the foresight of the founders knew could become corrupted in subsequent generations. 76 00:08:53,200 --> 00:09:00,120 That is, the Second Amendment was provided also to arm a citizenry against its own government when it 77 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:08,940 turned tyrannical. Oh, this, your government today wants you quickly to forget. Nothing to see here. 78 00:09:08,940 --> 00:09:16,100 These are not the ideas you want, if I can paraphrase a little bit. But indeed, our founding fathers 79 00:09:16,100 --> 00:09:22,460 understood clearly that in future generations, it could be that their own government, their own federal 80 00:09:22,460 --> 00:09:27,899 government in particular, might turn on them and become tyrannical. And in that case, there was 81 00:09:27,899 --> 00:09:37,179 nothing to do but to arms, to arms. In fact, Alexander Hamilton expressed this very explicitly in Federalist 82 00:09:37,179 --> 00:09:44,000 paper number 28 of the Federalist Papers, which were written to justify the composition of the 83 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:49,539 Constitution of the United States. Alexander Hamilton, in defending the Second Amendment, 84 00:09:50,539 --> 00:09:57,259 in defending the idea of arms, that is, says this, if the representatives of the people betray their 85 00:09:57,259 --> 00:10:03,039 constituents, oh, that's happened today, hasn't it? If the representatives of the people betray their 86 00:10:03,039 --> 00:10:10,340 constituents, there is then no resource left but to the exertion of that original right of self-defense, 87 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:17,340 which is paramount to all positive forms of government. Do you realize that? Hamilton and 88 00:10:17,340 --> 00:10:21,259 the other founders, for that matter, understood that there was an original right of self-defense 89 00:10:21,259 --> 00:10:26,440 that all men have. And they have that right against their own government, if necessary. Well, Hamilton 90 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:33,460 goes on to say, and which against the usurpations of the national rulers may be exerted with infinitely 91 00:10:33,460 --> 00:10:40,159 better prospect of success than against those of the rulers of an individual state. Hamilton goes on 92 00:10:40,159 --> 00:10:46,639 to say, in a single state, if the persons entrusted with supreme power become usurpers, the citizens must 93 00:10:46,639 --> 00:10:53,820 rush tumultuously to arms, without concert, without system, without resource, except in their courage and 94 00:10:53,820 --> 00:11:03,080 despair. Unquote. Alexander, Alexander Hamilton, excuse me, indeed advises that in, when a government 95 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:10,879 turns tyrannical, that we, the citizens must rush tumultuously to arms. So the second amendment was 96 00:11:10,879 --> 00:11:19,840 provided indeed for us to rise on occasion of tyranny, rise to arms and overthrow them. Do you see why an 97 00:11:19,840 --> 00:11:27,799 armed citizenry is more often than others a safe citizenry? And armed citizenry is a safe citizenry. 98 00:11:27,840 --> 00:11:33,779 And why our government is so eager to disarm us? Our guns are not only for hunting, they're not only 99 00:11:33,779 --> 00:11:39,960 for self-defense of our lives and property, not only for the enemies foreign who may wish to take us by 100 00:11:39,960 --> 00:11:47,299 force, but our arms are also for enemies domestic who treasonously, treacherously act to betray our 101 00:11:47,299 --> 00:11:53,980 constitution and all for which it stands. This is one of the reasons tyrants give pause to their plans 102 00:11:53,980 --> 00:12:00,220 for treason. They cannot impose it without great loss on an armed citizenry. They cannot impose it 103 00:12:00,220 --> 00:12:07,700 without prospective failure upon an armed citizenry either. So in this way, our constitution provides 104 00:12:07,700 --> 00:12:16,779 for the common defense. Thirdly, we must say the other third reason that, um, a constitutional republic 105 00:12:16,779 --> 00:12:24,059 must also provide for the common defense. Number three, if there are no borders, there is no common 106 00:12:24,059 --> 00:12:31,179 defense and ergo no country. Yes. Reason number three, a constitutional republic provides for the 107 00:12:31,179 --> 00:12:37,740 common defense. And that is, if there are no borders, there is no common defense by definition 108 00:12:37,740 --> 00:12:44,399 and thus no country either. Oh, wake up America and wake up your neighbors, your friends, your 109 00:12:44,399 --> 00:12:49,740 relatives, and let them know if there are no borders, there is no common defense by definition 110 00:12:49,740 --> 00:12:57,240 and ergo no country either. Just like the skin on the human body is the first line of defense 111 00:12:57,240 --> 00:13:03,340 against infection and disease. So borders are the first line of defense against enemies who would harm 112 00:13:03,340 --> 00:13:09,799 us. Now, this does not mean that all immigrants are enemies and consequently analogous to infection 113 00:13:09,799 --> 00:13:16,259 and disease. No, I'm not saying this. Please do not twist me to say this. All this analogy intends to 114 00:13:16,259 --> 00:13:22,879 point out is that no country that calls itself a country can be won with integrity without enforceable 115 00:13:22,879 --> 00:13:30,460 borders. A constitutional republic is responsible for conscientiously keeping and enforcing definable 116 00:13:30,460 --> 00:13:37,240 borders. No human would long survive stripped of his skin and no country will long survive stripped 117 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:45,100 of its borders. It is the height of naivety and stupidity to think that all and every person who wants 118 00:13:45,100 --> 00:13:51,080 to come into the United States has the best of intentions. Oh, we have seen this time and time again, 119 00:13:51,080 --> 00:13:57,200 haven't we? And still we have a substantial minority in our country who wish to make it so that is 120 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:04,019 making us a place. We would be a place. We'd no longer be a country, but merely a place. And this kind 121 00:14:04,019 --> 00:14:09,899 of policy would make us a place where any and all may merely stride in and begin taking advantage of the 122 00:14:09,899 --> 00:14:18,620 life in the United States of America. Yet we have observed repeatedly law abiding citizens victimized by 123 00:14:18,620 --> 00:14:24,320 illegal aliens committing crimes. These are the true infection of America, aren't they? Illegal 124 00:14:24,320 --> 00:14:30,120 Americans committing crimes. The murders of Kate Steinle and Molly Tibbetts, famously most recently. 125 00:14:30,639 --> 00:14:36,899 We have also seen MS-13 gang members flooding across the border like an infectious disease 126 00:14:36,899 --> 00:14:43,539 to bring with them drugs. Bands of immigrants seeking a better life here, but suckers held hostage by 127 00:14:43,539 --> 00:14:51,159 MS-13 gangs. And then the whole immigrant community, once they're here, brutally raped and extorted for 128 00:14:51,159 --> 00:14:58,019 the money that they earn. And then these terrorized by unspeakable tortures that President Trump says 129 00:14:58,019 --> 00:15:05,539 makes them animals. And he's right. MS-13 gang members, animals. We also see community organizers 130 00:15:05,539 --> 00:15:11,679 flooding across the borders who fully intend on taking back the southwest United States of America 131 00:15:11,679 --> 00:15:19,960 by conquest, by conquest via invasion by illegal aliens and sometimes called Azatlan, for example. 132 00:15:20,100 --> 00:15:25,659 This new country would be returned to its rightful owners, that is Mexico, who had it stolen by the 133 00:15:25,659 --> 00:15:30,659 gringos in the first place, so they maintain. This is roughly the vision of groups like La Raza, 134 00:15:30,659 --> 00:15:38,460 which is the race. And indeed, they hold themselves up as the race, do they not, as they take conquest 135 00:15:38,460 --> 00:15:45,860 of the southwest United States again by invasion by illegal aliens. Well, then there are also the 136 00:15:45,860 --> 00:15:52,820 sleeper cells of ISIS soldiers who, when activated, will commit acts of terror on U.S. citizens and 137 00:15:52,820 --> 00:15:59,460 cities and soft targets. Well, in addition to this tangible threat of conquest and invasion and violence, 138 00:15:59,460 --> 00:16:06,600 there are also other threats, perhaps less sensational, but nevertheless very real. And they include, 139 00:16:06,980 --> 00:16:12,759 for example, a spike in the rates of infectious diseases, a spike in the rates of infectious 140 00:16:12,759 --> 00:16:20,860 diseases. One of the things that indeed a constitutional republic is responsible for is providing for the 141 00:16:20,860 --> 00:16:26,820 common defense against infectious diseases. One of the prime directives of the old Department of 142 00:16:26,820 --> 00:16:33,960 Immigration and Naturalization was precisely this, that is, to screen aliens entering the country for 143 00:16:33,960 --> 00:16:41,320 diseases and either quarantine them or send them back to their places of origin. And in this way, American 144 00:16:41,320 --> 00:16:48,840 citizens themselves would not be unnecessarily threatened by them. That is the first line of defense, 145 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:56,139 is it not? Borders and this kind of treatment of illegal, and it's to protect the citizens who are 146 00:16:56,139 --> 00:17:02,799 already here. The citizens who are already here and by right are deserving of protection of their 147 00:17:02,799 --> 00:17:08,859 common defense. This is an intrinsic responsibility of a constitutional republic in providing for the 148 00:17:08,859 --> 00:17:15,200 common defense. But now, instead of carefully, humanely screening aliens for infectious diseases, 149 00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:20,700 we let any or all enter without knowing so much as to whether they have a common cold, much less the 150 00:17:20,700 --> 00:17:27,259 spike in diseases we see over the last decade. And they have included and rampant among illegal 151 00:17:27,259 --> 00:17:36,299 aliens, malaria, dengue fever, hepatitis. Tuberculosis is making a comeback as well in prime, in prime 152 00:17:36,299 --> 00:17:43,759 instance because of illegal aliens. And then a disease called Chagas disease, a vermin infection. 153 00:17:43,759 --> 00:17:51,720 Well, there has also been then, as well, not only a conquest, a tangible threat through conquest, 154 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:59,779 invasion, violence, and disease, but also a tremendous burden on social services in this country. At the 155 00:17:59,779 --> 00:18:08,359 federal, state, and local levels, taxpayers shell out approximately $135 billion to cover the costs incurred 156 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:13,619 by the presence of more than 12.5 million illegal aliens. That's a conservative number too. 157 00:18:13,759 --> 00:18:20,519 And about 4.2 million citizen children of illegal aliens as well. And that amounts to a tax burden 158 00:18:20,519 --> 00:18:28,799 of approximately $8,000 per illegal alien family member and a total then a grand whopping total of 159 00:18:28,799 --> 00:18:38,539 almost $116 billion. So we see, suffice it to say that the first issue regarding illegal immigration 160 00:18:38,539 --> 00:18:45,160 is not compassion and love and understanding for the immigrants, not the first issue. It is indeed a 161 00:18:45,160 --> 00:18:51,240 tangential issue and we should be compassionate and loving and understanding. But our first calling 162 00:18:51,240 --> 00:18:59,440 then, the first calling of a constitutional republic is not this, but borders and the common defense for 163 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:06,940 the citizen. If we really are filled with the compassion, love, and understanding we say we have, 164 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:13,980 then it will first manifest itself for one another. For those we wish to defend from enemies, 165 00:19:14,339 --> 00:19:22,319 foreign and domestic, that love and compassion and understanding will first be manifest to and for 166 00:19:22,319 --> 00:19:28,799 the citizens of our constitutional republic for whom we make common defense. That's our theme and our 167 00:19:28,799 --> 00:19:35,339 topic today as we take an amble through the preamble to the constitution. And we see indeed 168 00:19:35,339 --> 00:19:43,339 what that entails for a constitutional republic to provide for the common defense. And these things 169 00:19:43,339 --> 00:19:48,539 are ignored. These things are overlooked. These things are glided over and not even treated at all 170 00:19:48,539 --> 00:19:54,680 by most colleges, most schools today. Are they? What are the six purposes of government articulated 171 00:19:54,680 --> 00:20:01,279 in the preamble to the constitution? And today we are dealing with providing for the common defense, 172 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:07,480 which every constitutional republic worth its name with integrity must provide for its citizens. 173 00:20:08,259 --> 00:20:15,700 And example number four, then let me treat of with you this day. And that is peace through strength. 174 00:20:15,700 --> 00:20:24,880 Our fourth idea entails peace through strength. If we are to provide for the common defense in our 175 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:31,299 constitutional republic, then we must have a strong, properly oriented military. That's very important 176 00:20:31,299 --> 00:20:38,059 to keep in mind too. We must have a strong, properly oriented military. Strong in that we have the best 177 00:20:38,059 --> 00:20:47,059 equipped, best trained Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps in the world. And oh, God bless Donald Trump, 178 00:20:47,119 --> 00:20:53,480 who has helped then to increase funding for this. Now strength is not only in the amount of money that 179 00:20:53,480 --> 00:21:00,220 you direct towards your military, but it does comprise a large part of it. We show what we value by how we 180 00:21:00,220 --> 00:21:08,019 spend our money. Do we not? Because we always have to make true then the patriotic spirit, uh, the incentive 181 00:21:08,019 --> 00:21:15,339 and the desire to make common defense for one another. We always express that and what we spend our money 182 00:21:15,339 --> 00:21:21,980 upon. Do we not? And if we are then going to be the best equipped and best trained Army, Navy, Air Force, 183 00:21:21,980 --> 00:21:27,440 and Marine Corps, then we must direct our monies and put our mouth, put our money where our mouth is, 184 00:21:27,480 --> 00:21:37,740 excuse me. But, uh, our strong, uh, military strength then must also be properly oriented. And when I say 185 00:21:37,740 --> 00:21:45,480 that strength must be properly oriented, it must be in that we stick to our prime directive of common 186 00:21:45,480 --> 00:21:55,160 defense, not unusual offense, common defense, not unusual offense, which our military strength has 187 00:21:55,160 --> 00:22:02,420 been, I'm sorry, perverted unto in days gone by much more than it used to be. I fully agree with the 188 00:22:02,420 --> 00:22:08,960 change of name. Our defense department used to be called the war department. Now it was intended indeed 189 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:16,579 to, uh, provide, uh, for the common defense in times of war, ergo, the war department. Uh, but it's more 190 00:22:16,579 --> 00:22:22,859 politically correct. And I think also more proper to our orienting to decola the defense department. 191 00:22:22,859 --> 00:22:27,859 Indeed, our founding fathers would have agreed with that, that indeed we need a department to help 192 00:22:27,859 --> 00:22:35,579 defend the United States against enemies foreign and domestic. Well, um, so we must be oriented properly 193 00:22:35,579 --> 00:22:41,160 then. And I'm afraid that has not always been the case in the past. Has it George Washington in his, 194 00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:50,119 uh, departing speech after his second term, um, warned America against having entangling alliances. 195 00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:58,039 That is law alliances that drove us to things like peace or to war or, uh, inordinate expenditures 196 00:22:58,039 --> 00:23:04,119 on foreign aid and foreign military support and things like that, uh, which he had seen happen in 197 00:23:04,119 --> 00:23:12,259 England and saw how he drew, uh, England inevitably into, uh, wars on the European continent. He did 198 00:23:12,259 --> 00:23:16,920 not want that for the United States and neither should we, we should not involve ourselves in 199 00:23:16,920 --> 00:23:23,160 entangling alliances. That's how we got into world war one. For example, I'm fully persuaded that 200 00:23:23,160 --> 00:23:28,700 America should never have entered into world war one. We would have saved ourselves tremendous amounts 201 00:23:28,700 --> 00:23:36,079 of, um, uh, treasure lives, blood and treasure. Uh, if we had not entered into that one, I'm fully 202 00:23:36,079 --> 00:23:44,359 persuaded, uh, that we should not have entered into it. Not to mention the war in Iraq. Yeah. Weapons of 203 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:50,319 mass destruction were not there, were they, or the war in Vietnam for that matter as well. These are all 204 00:23:50,319 --> 00:23:57,299 wars, examples of wars that America has fought. World war one, our war in Iraq and the Vietnam war 205 00:23:57,299 --> 00:24:04,019 that we should have had no business fighting and, and getting ourselves involved in entangling alliances. 206 00:24:05,019 --> 00:24:11,339 So we should have definitely peace through strength. We should devote ourselves to having 207 00:24:11,339 --> 00:24:17,319 the best, the strongest, the best equipped and trained army, Navy, air force, and Marine Corps in 208 00:24:17,319 --> 00:24:25,859 the world that we might deter war against us. We should not be leading from behind as, um, uh, 209 00:24:25,859 --> 00:24:31,500 president Obama exhorted us to do. And we've found ourselves falling further and further behind with 210 00:24:31,500 --> 00:24:37,279 that kind of a strategy. We should lead with a strong army, Navy, air force, and Marine Corps. 211 00:24:37,279 --> 00:24:43,259 We should have peace through strength and then a strength properly oriented to toward defense 212 00:24:43,259 --> 00:24:50,039 and not unusual offense. The constitution says that a constitutional Republic should provide 213 00:24:50,039 --> 00:24:59,980 for common defense, not unusual offense. Well, these, um, four things then we have treated with you 214 00:24:59,980 --> 00:25:06,799 that we are bound by the civil covenant, that an armed citizenry is a safe citizenry. And that indeed, 215 00:25:06,799 --> 00:25:11,319 if there are no borders, number three, if there are no borders, there is no common defense, 216 00:25:11,559 --> 00:25:18,119 ergo, no country. And then fourthly, peace through strength. I exhort you to these things 217 00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:23,799 in understanding them and exhorting our leaders then as well to provide for the common defense 218 00:25:23,799 --> 00:25:30,940 in this biblical sense. Now, this has been pastor David Bass at new Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian 219 00:25:30,940 --> 00:25:37,579 church with a moment of truth. New Geneva meets for holy worship on Sunday. We exhort you to join us, 220 00:25:37,759 --> 00:25:43,400 to, um, visit us and find out who we are, what I preach on Sundays, these kinds of things. 221 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:48,819 And, uh, if you've been curious, now's the time to come and we invite you to do so. Uh, we meet for 222 00:25:48,819 --> 00:25:56,799 holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 1014 street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And, uh, you can 223 00:25:56,799 --> 00:26:08,119 call us for further information at area code 208-523-0196. That's area code 208-523-0196. Or you can 224 00:26:08,119 --> 00:26:16,240 consult our websites. I encourage you to go there too. Our church website is newgenevaopc.org. You'll 225 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:23,240 find there a lot of articles and, uh, our sermons cataloged there are Sunday morning sermons. But then 226 00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:28,839 we also have another website where you will find cataloged these radio messages a couple of years 227 00:26:28,839 --> 00:26:41,440 back. And that website is omnisprotestas.org. O-M-N-I-S dash P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S.org. Omnisprotestas.org. 228 00:26:41,559 --> 00:26:49,599 And once again, you can call me pastor David Bass at area code 208-523-0196.