1 00:00:04,690 --> 00:00:09,570 Greetings, this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church 2 00:00:09,570 --> 00:00:14,509 with a moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and 3 00:00:14,509 --> 00:00:21,010 faith. And today, I want to ask you, how does the Declaration of Independence speak to the 4 00:00:21,010 --> 00:00:27,710 necessity of abolishing our present form of government, which has been so destructive of 5 00:00:27,710 --> 00:00:35,530 our rights in recent history, and then instituting a new form of government, which our phonic fathers 6 00:00:35,530 --> 00:00:40,829 and Thomas Jefferson, in particular, in the Declaration of Independence said, from time to 7 00:00:40,829 --> 00:00:47,630 time, that a people has to do. You know, over the last few broadcasts, I have been arguing for the 8 00:00:47,630 --> 00:00:55,210 necessity of establishing a worldwide government composed of a Congress of Christian constitutional 9 00:00:55,210 --> 00:01:02,429 republics. The time has come. The juncture in history, when this is necessitated, is upon us, 10 00:01:02,490 --> 00:01:09,290 dear listener. We see the world moving ever closer to a world government. A world government 11 00:01:09,290 --> 00:01:16,890 will happen. Right now, that world government is being shaped by forces that are completely unaffected 12 00:01:16,890 --> 00:01:26,269 by either the people or God. I articulated very clearly, systematically, over one particular broadcast 13 00:01:26,269 --> 00:01:34,370 that, indeed, a worldwide elite composed of the super-rich and their lackeys, world politicians, 14 00:01:34,810 --> 00:01:41,409 have been securing their rights, their benefits, their wealth, their prosperity at the expense of 15 00:01:41,409 --> 00:01:49,129 ours. What we need is a worldwide awakening to these facts and then an immediate spiritual awakening to 16 00:01:49,129 --> 00:01:56,030 Christ and his gospel. I'm not saying that a Congress of Christian constitutional republics will 17 00:01:56,030 --> 00:02:05,010 happen without the majority of people in the world being Christians. This will not happen without the 18 00:02:05,010 --> 00:02:12,930 providence of God without a worldwide evangelization of the peoples, and then a labor towards establishing 19 00:02:12,930 --> 00:02:18,449 Christian constitutional republics throughout the world, in particular countries, each, of course, 20 00:02:18,509 --> 00:02:24,569 with their own particular flavor and characteristics, but being essentially, nevertheless, Christian 21 00:02:24,569 --> 00:02:31,050 constitutional republics. And for this to happen, it's going to have to begin somewhat here. 22 00:02:31,050 --> 00:02:40,250 We are going to have to reclaim our heritage and make an impact for improvement by making of our 23 00:02:40,250 --> 00:02:46,090 constitutional and explicit Christian constitutional republic, but that's going to have to be secured 24 00:02:46,090 --> 00:02:54,330 first. And we can help do that as history sometimes focuses our thoughts, and in this case, the Declaration 25 00:02:54,330 --> 00:03:01,030 of Independence helps to guide us as to when we, indeed, need to throw off the tyranny that presently 26 00:03:01,030 --> 00:03:10,270 oppresses us and establishes a Christian constitutional republic. The Declaration of Independence is very 27 00:03:10,270 --> 00:03:21,349 clear. It gives us at least 30 examples and instances of oppression and tyranny when the bar has been reached. 28 00:03:21,909 --> 00:03:28,909 So I want to review then, continue in our review of the Declaration of Independence and how it speaks to us 29 00:03:28,909 --> 00:03:37,110 this day as to when tyranny is upon us. Now, last time, we looked at the prologue of the Declaration of Independence, 30 00:03:37,909 --> 00:03:43,090 right? When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political 31 00:03:43,090 --> 00:03:50,189 bands which have connected them with another, right? That was the prologue introducing the cause of the 32 00:03:50,189 --> 00:03:55,550 Americans, the cause of the constitutional republic. And then we also looked at the prime directive of 33 00:03:55,550 --> 00:04:01,650 government, that eloquent, soaring passage. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are 34 00:04:01,650 --> 00:04:06,370 created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unelienable rights, that among 35 00:04:06,370 --> 00:04:12,150 them are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That, of course, is the prime directive of government. 36 00:04:13,110 --> 00:04:19,209 We spoke to that and reviewed that as well. And then we also looked at the prudent qualification 37 00:04:19,209 --> 00:04:26,389 that Jefferson incorporated into the Declaration, that prudent qualification, where he says prudence 38 00:04:26,389 --> 00:04:30,410 indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient 39 00:04:30,410 --> 00:04:39,790 causes. And today, what we want to look at then finally is Jefferson's, and by signing the 40 00:04:39,790 --> 00:04:47,509 assent of the founders as well, as to the undeniable circumstances of the people. There were indeed 41 00:04:47,509 --> 00:04:55,430 undeniable circumstances which dictated a revolution, which dictated establishing a new form of government. 42 00:04:55,569 --> 00:05:02,110 And let's come to that right now then, the undeniable circumstances of the people. And with these, 43 00:05:02,449 --> 00:05:10,350 Jefferson writes, but when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object 44 00:05:10,350 --> 00:05:20,250 evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such 45 00:05:20,250 --> 00:05:26,329 government and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance 46 00:05:26,329 --> 00:05:34,310 of these colonies. And such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems 47 00:05:34,310 --> 00:05:40,990 of government. The history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and 48 00:05:40,990 --> 00:05:48,329 usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these 49 00:05:48,329 --> 00:05:56,670 states. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. That is then the undeniable 50 00:05:56,670 --> 00:06:05,110 circumstances of the people which Jefferson articulated very clearly and eloquently. The abuses of and 51 00:06:05,110 --> 00:06:12,009 trampling over the rights of the colonists were not isolated incidences, were they, occurring here and 52 00:06:12,009 --> 00:06:18,529 there and could quickly be remedied by the king in parliament if they had willed to do so? No. A prudent 53 00:06:18,529 --> 00:06:26,610 man could let such abuses pass. But rather, these abuses and usurpations were consistent and 54 00:06:26,610 --> 00:06:33,250 sustained such that an intelligent man could see a conspiracy, if you will, or as Jefferson puts it, 55 00:06:33,310 --> 00:06:42,050 a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, all having in direct object the establishment of an 56 00:06:42,050 --> 00:06:53,430 absolute tyranny over these states. Indeed, a conspiracy is nothing more than an observation of a design, 57 00:06:53,430 --> 00:07:02,050 right? A pattern, a plan. And in this case, king and parliament designed to reduce the colonies under 58 00:07:02,050 --> 00:07:08,329 absolute despotism. And such is the past to which we, I submit to you, we, the heirs of the declaration, 59 00:07:09,069 --> 00:07:16,209 such is the past to which we have come in the 21st century. Any intelligent man or woman with their eyes 60 00:07:16,209 --> 00:07:22,990 open, who are awake, who are awake, can see the pattern and direction in which the abuse of our 61 00:07:22,990 --> 00:07:30,149 rights leads. It leads to absolute despotism and tyranny. What then? Are we to appeal to God and wait 62 00:07:30,149 --> 00:07:37,350 for a miracle? Do we have a reluctant permission from God to change things? No. According to our 63 00:07:37,350 --> 00:07:44,649 founding fathers, it is our right, it is our duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards 64 00:07:44,649 --> 00:07:52,269 for our future security. If Jefferson and the founding fathers were alive today, they would be apoplectic 65 00:07:52,269 --> 00:07:59,509 with us because we have not been willing to throw off. We have not been willing to seize our right and 66 00:07:59,509 --> 00:08:07,889 our duty. Are you listening out there? Armchair patriot, you who waves the flag at the parade on the 4th of 67 00:08:07,889 --> 00:08:12,750 July, and then you vote every four years for president, but otherwise you'd leave the struggle 68 00:08:12,750 --> 00:08:19,209 for liberty to others? Oh, the founding fathers would be apoplectic with us. They would be goading, 69 00:08:19,389 --> 00:08:25,810 they would be exhorting, they would be chiding us indeed to throw off such government as we now live 70 00:08:25,810 --> 00:08:33,230 tyrannically under. Not only is it your right, Mr. Armchair patriot, but it is your duty to throw off 71 00:08:33,230 --> 00:08:41,110 tyrannical government and to become an integral part of forming a free government. Our founding fathers 72 00:08:41,110 --> 00:08:47,590 did it for themselves and they did it for us. Their posterity, right? It is up to you to do it for yourself 73 00:08:47,590 --> 00:08:55,870 and for your posterity. What will your children say about you? Oh, my dad was lazy, sitting on the sofa, 74 00:08:55,870 --> 00:09:02,809 watching football games and drinking beer. Ah, how will our children judge us? How will they look back 75 00:09:02,809 --> 00:09:10,230 on this? Will they be grateful in that we did the right thing and we fought, win or lose? Or will they 76 00:09:10,230 --> 00:09:17,529 say in their hearts, Pops, you're a lazy, ignorant coward. You frittered away our heritage. Indeed, that is 77 00:09:17,529 --> 00:09:28,070 the circumstance that presents before us supporting facts as well. And we find then, as we look at the 78 00:09:28,070 --> 00:09:36,710 Declaration of Independence, we find the supporting facts, over 30 of them. And I would make a case that 79 00:09:36,710 --> 00:09:45,350 these 30 particular facts, which support the allegations articulated previously, are all relevant 80 00:09:45,350 --> 00:09:52,789 today. They all obtained today because, really, evil never changes. Tyranny never changes. It has a different 81 00:09:52,789 --> 00:10:01,429 face with a different generation, but the actions and the behaviors of tyranny are always the same. Well, this 82 00:10:01,429 --> 00:10:08,570 particular supporting facts include, and let me articulate for you, first of all, the first fact, if you have the 83 00:10:08,570 --> 00:10:14,850 Declaration before you, these are often just kind of glided over. We like the soaring rhetoric of the opening passages 84 00:10:14,850 --> 00:10:23,850 but the mundane particulars we often pass over or ignore. If we are indeed going to be free men 85 00:10:23,850 --> 00:10:30,409 ourselves and establish a Christian constitutional republic, then we must needs look at the particular 86 00:10:30,409 --> 00:10:39,509 facts of tyranny. And here they are. Number one, he, that is King George III, has refused his assent to 87 00:10:39,509 --> 00:10:46,889 laws necessary for the public good. Now, this first one is there first because it is chief. It is so 88 00:10:46,889 --> 00:10:55,389 important. King George I vetoed popular legislation of the colonists. Tyranny. One man. This was pure 89 00:10:55,389 --> 00:11:02,570 tyranny on the king's part, and there was no such thing as a veto override at that time that parliament 90 00:11:02,570 --> 00:11:12,269 had or that the colonists had. Congress, indeed, ensured, when the Constitution was composed, that Congress had a veto 91 00:11:12,269 --> 00:11:21,950 override to secure legislation. Article I, Section 7, Paragraph 2 provides for this remedy. We have a constitutional 92 00:11:21,950 --> 00:11:31,669 rule for a king. When he tyrannizes the people, right, with a two-thirds majority, the legislature can override a veto of the 93 00:11:31,669 --> 00:11:38,210 president, lest he become a king. We now have a constitutional remedy for a king when he tyrannizes 94 00:11:38,210 --> 00:11:44,730 the people. What we need today, however, is a remedy for the deep state when it tyrannizes the people. 95 00:11:45,509 --> 00:11:52,409 For indeed, I submit to you, the components, the members of the institutions of the deep state have 96 00:11:52,409 --> 00:11:59,889 refused assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. For example, in 1986, I go back 97 00:11:59,889 --> 00:12:05,429 to California. It passed a ballot initiative to make English the official state language. It was struck down 98 00:12:05,429 --> 00:12:11,330 by the California Supreme Court. The same happened with people's initiatives to limit appropriations 99 00:12:11,330 --> 00:12:18,509 as a constitutional amendment. And then the marriage amendment, famous in 2008, I remember this, that 100 00:12:18,509 --> 00:12:24,389 limited marriage to that between a man and a woman. Oh, struck down by the California Supreme Court. 101 00:12:24,389 --> 00:12:30,169 Indeed, a crucial component of the deep state. The deep state has done the same thing again and again 102 00:12:30,169 --> 00:12:38,490 to popular legislation, like reversing Obamacare. There's a special place in hell for a man like John 103 00:12:38,490 --> 00:12:45,309 McCain, who is so bitter and angry for having lost the presidency and seen, indeed, Donald Trump 104 00:12:45,309 --> 00:12:51,950 succeed where he failed. A bitter old man, John McCain died. And just to get his vengeance, 105 00:12:51,950 --> 00:13:00,889 he, indeed, voted against the elimination of and the overhaul of Obamacare, right? Or maybe building 106 00:13:00,889 --> 00:13:07,470 a wall at the southern border. This is popular with the people. Trump was elected, in some sense, 107 00:13:07,570 --> 00:13:12,070 primarily to build that southern border wall. But it has been frustrated by the deep state. 108 00:13:12,929 --> 00:13:18,490 The people have wanted dozens of legislative measures, which have been most wholesome and 109 00:13:18,490 --> 00:13:24,409 necessary for the public good, which the deep state like a tyrant, like King George III, nameless 110 00:13:24,409 --> 00:13:30,230 and faceless, but just as tyrannical as King George III. The deep state has denied us our 111 00:13:30,230 --> 00:13:36,649 legislation because they stand in the way of securing the wealth and prosperity of a global elite. 112 00:13:37,450 --> 00:13:44,090 This is those for whom the deep state acts today, not for us, not for the people, not for the good 113 00:13:44,090 --> 00:13:51,289 and wealth and prosperity of the people, but rather that of a global elite, as I have articulated week 114 00:13:51,289 --> 00:14:00,450 after week for you. Indeed, politicians, government has always been the handmaiden of the rich and the 115 00:14:00,450 --> 00:14:07,870 wealthy. And indeed, if government has been the handmaiden of the wealthy over history, then our 116 00:14:07,870 --> 00:14:15,789 politicians have been the absolute prostitutes, the whores of the rich, been bought and sold by the rich 117 00:14:15,789 --> 00:14:24,690 in order to secure the wealth and the circumstances of a global elite. That is what the deep state's 118 00:14:24,690 --> 00:14:31,929 primary mission is today. And this is why we need to throw off the tyranny of the deep state. For decades, 119 00:14:31,929 --> 00:14:38,809 the people have sought legislation, which would be most wholesome and necessary, as Jefferson puts it, 120 00:14:38,809 --> 00:14:44,809 for our good. For example, the repeal of the onerous constitutional amendments that are proven 121 00:14:44,809 --> 00:14:53,649 contrary to a free peace, like the 16th Amendment, which provides for a direct tax on income. Oh, and then 122 00:14:53,649 --> 00:15:02,769 the corollary of the international banks, right? Or the 17th Amendment, which provided for direct 123 00:15:02,769 --> 00:15:08,230 election of senators by the people rather than the respective state legislatures. This has proved 124 00:15:08,230 --> 00:15:17,529 onerous as well. We've also had legislation then frustrated by, vetoed by, upturned by the deep state 125 00:15:17,529 --> 00:15:24,830 to balance the budget, maybe, to eliminate useless and tyrannical bureaucracies like the environmental 126 00:15:24,830 --> 00:15:31,009 protection agents, or the National Education Administration, or the Internal Revenue Service. 127 00:15:31,330 --> 00:15:39,470 All of these have been consistently thwarted by the deep state. Oh, the very first one, then that was 128 00:15:39,470 --> 00:15:45,289 brought forward by our founding fathers and by Thomas Jefferson, is true of us. That is, the king has 129 00:15:45,289 --> 00:15:49,269 refused his assent to laws most wholesome and necessary for the public good. Well, the deep 130 00:15:49,269 --> 00:15:55,850 state has done the very same thing in our day. Secondly, he has also then forbidden his governors to 131 00:15:55,850 --> 00:16:01,769 pass laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation, till his assent 132 00:16:01,769 --> 00:16:10,029 should be, and when so suspended, pretend to them. Yes, King George III let other legislation languish 133 00:16:10,029 --> 00:16:17,529 on his desk, effectively vetoing it. If I don't sign it, it can't become law, right? It's a classic 134 00:16:17,529 --> 00:16:24,370 passive-aggressive behavior employed by tyrants, and it's one of the reasons why our Constitution 135 00:16:24,370 --> 00:16:33,009 then provides in Article I, Section 7, Paragraph 2, that if the president doesn't sign legislation passed 136 00:16:33,009 --> 00:16:40,049 by Congress, within 10 days, it automatically becomes law as if he had signed it. Thank you, 137 00:16:40,090 --> 00:16:45,330 King George. Indeed, our Constitution wisely makes for this provision. But that does not stop 138 00:16:45,330 --> 00:16:52,750 the deep state in our own day from practicing this subtle, destructive behavior, passive-aggressive 139 00:16:52,750 --> 00:16:59,590 behavior. The illegal immigration issue is Exhibit A. Progressive politicians do not want 140 00:16:59,590 --> 00:17:06,190 to stem the tide of illegal immigration because it gives them an issue to demagogue at election time 141 00:17:06,190 --> 00:17:12,190 and then ostensibly gives them voters to elect them into office, too. Establishment Republican 142 00:17:12,190 --> 00:17:18,490 politicians do not want to turn off the spigot of illegal immigration because it supplies their 143 00:17:18,490 --> 00:17:25,369 corporate big agricultural supporters and contributors with cheap labor. And so it becomes 144 00:17:25,369 --> 00:17:31,009 convenient for all concerned in the deep state to look the other way as if nothing was happening, 145 00:17:31,630 --> 00:17:38,150 even as our southern border became an open sewer of terrorism, disease, drug smuggling, and human 146 00:17:38,150 --> 00:17:44,789 trafficking. And the same kind of passive-aggressive attitude of King George III that provoked our 147 00:17:44,789 --> 00:17:51,069 founding fathers to rebellion is driving us today with the passive-aggressive attitude of the deep 148 00:17:51,069 --> 00:17:59,910 state. Well then, we also have a third particular, a third complaint in the Declaration of Independence, 149 00:17:59,910 --> 00:18:06,190 which goes like this. He, that is King George, has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of 150 00:18:06,190 --> 00:18:11,269 large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of representation in the 151 00:18:11,269 --> 00:18:20,450 legislature. A right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. Oh, this one gets me. 152 00:18:21,170 --> 00:18:26,670 King George wouldn't sign legislation passed by the people's representatives unless those same people 153 00:18:26,670 --> 00:18:33,930 declined to be represented by the members of the Continental Congress they chose. Oh, what a convoluted 154 00:18:33,930 --> 00:18:40,849 twist of fate. What intimidation. In effect, King George was saying, I won't recognize those acts 155 00:18:40,849 --> 00:18:48,130 passed by your representatives unless you forsake their representation. Can you see why the colonists were 156 00:18:48,130 --> 00:18:55,130 at their wits' end with the king? King George III had such an overweening sense of his own paternalistic 157 00:18:55,130 --> 00:19:02,089 goodwill that he thought he knew what was best for his subjects, and he was offended that they wanted 158 00:19:02,089 --> 00:19:08,869 representatives other than himself to decide what was best for them. Oh, it's the same devil's bargain 159 00:19:08,869 --> 00:19:14,670 being made by the deep state to progressives everywhere. We will give you what you want. That 160 00:19:14,670 --> 00:19:21,150 is free stuff like college and health care, a guaranteed minimum wage, a yada, yada, yada, all those things 161 00:19:21,150 --> 00:19:29,930 that are being thrown up and thrown out by the progressives in the Democrat Party running for the 162 00:19:29,930 --> 00:19:35,589 nomination of that party. And we'll give you all these things in exchange for free market choices, 163 00:19:35,589 --> 00:19:41,450 your liberty, your freedom to choose is being taken away. Let big daddy government make those 164 00:19:41,450 --> 00:19:47,710 decisions for you. We will rob some of you of your vote by impeaching a president who threatens 165 00:19:47,710 --> 00:19:53,930 our soft circumstances we have for ourselves over the deep state. We will create massive bureaucracies 166 00:19:53,930 --> 00:20:01,069 with virtual legislative power over you for your own safety and for your own good, who have technical 167 00:20:01,069 --> 00:20:07,049 account with Congress, but which virtually go unchecked. Go on and on in this section. All of 168 00:20:07,049 --> 00:20:14,109 these situations in deep state has adopted the same paternalistic attitude. We know better. Give us your 169 00:20:14,109 --> 00:20:22,089 liberties and we'll give you stuff. Well, as well that the founders had against the king for redress of 170 00:20:22,089 --> 00:20:28,930 grievances, and that is he has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, 171 00:20:28,930 --> 00:20:36,950 and distant from depository of their public records for the sole purpose of fatiguing them. Compliance 172 00:20:36,950 --> 00:20:44,569 with his measures. Brothers and sisters, hasn't the deep state done this to us throughout the last few 173 00:20:44,569 --> 00:20:54,789 decades? It's the old trick of bureaucratic red tape. Yes, it was not unknown in colonial days. King George 174 00:20:54,789 --> 00:21:01,849 III and Parliament, for that matter, practiced the old technique of red tape to tie up liberty. Make 175 00:21:01,849 --> 00:21:09,430 things so difficult and arduous and complicated that you just give up. You surrender your liberty for 176 00:21:09,430 --> 00:21:16,549 convenience. Most individuals cannot file their taxes by themselves today. Most businesses cannot do 177 00:21:16,549 --> 00:21:24,069 employee payroll in-house without great expense and just try and get a building permit in a major 178 00:21:24,069 --> 00:21:31,589 metropolitan city. Donald Trump should have been unanimously declared president just for having 179 00:21:31,589 --> 00:21:38,470 successfully done this for most of his career in building, right? Or even try and drain a swamp on 180 00:21:38,470 --> 00:21:44,069 your own property, much less in Washington, D.C. Try and drain a swamp on your own property without 181 00:21:44,069 --> 00:21:51,849 running afoul of the Environmental Protection Agency. For example, one ski resort near us is tied up in red 182 00:21:51,849 --> 00:21:59,470 tape. Ski resort has been trying to get a new ski lift built for years and years. But the permitting has 183 00:21:59,470 --> 00:22:05,430 held them up, cost them an additional multi-thousands of dollars that will be reflected in the lift tickets 184 00:22:05,430 --> 00:22:13,170 that I buy as a skier. And it's all because it might threaten the environment of a frog. This is just a 185 00:22:13,170 --> 00:22:18,849 deliberate. Even the frog is nothing but a beer environmentalist who don't want to see any ski 186 00:22:18,849 --> 00:22:27,950 lift built, right? And so while most people express exasperation at what we all know has become the 187 00:22:27,950 --> 00:22:35,869 status quo all over the state and federal government, red tape has become a means to rob you of your 188 00:22:35,869 --> 00:22:41,950 liberties, dear listener. Few of us recognize that it is a favorite tactic of tyrants 189 00:22:41,950 --> 00:22:51,130 to oppress the people. Yes. And then we go on with a fifth complaint. That is, he has dissolved 190 00:22:51,130 --> 00:22:58,430 representative houses repeated for opposing with manly firmness. He has the people. Oh, yes. In 191 00:22:58,430 --> 00:23:03,650 England, the king had to call sessions of parliament and he could dismiss them at any time. And in the 192 00:23:03,650 --> 00:23:09,210 colonies too, he could do the same. In fact, he had completely dissolved them with an eye to reconstitute 193 00:23:09,210 --> 00:23:17,289 them at a later date. And this King George III did with impunity. But number seven, that's seven. 194 00:23:17,809 --> 00:23:25,109 Number six, excuse me. He has refused for a long time after such dissolutions to cause others to be 195 00:23:25,109 --> 00:23:31,809 elected, whereby the legislative powers incapable of annihilation have returned to the people at large 196 00:23:31,809 --> 00:23:36,230 for the state. The state remaining in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from 197 00:23:36,230 --> 00:23:42,369 without and convocation within. In a classical passive aggressive tactic, this is what this one 198 00:23:42,369 --> 00:23:50,430 describes, number six here, or F in my accounting. In a classical passive aggressive tactic, the king 199 00:23:50,430 --> 00:23:56,430 would take his time reconstituting those colonial legislatures if he did it at all. And in the meantime, 200 00:23:56,430 --> 00:24:03,130 things of immediate and pressing concern presented themselves, like tribal uprisings on the frontier, 201 00:24:03,630 --> 00:24:10,049 or there were pirates on the seas as well, or legislation to regulate a growing commerce between 202 00:24:10,049 --> 00:24:15,829 the colonies. The colonies were flourishing and burgeoning if indeed the hands of tyranny were kept 203 00:24:15,829 --> 00:24:21,730 off of them. What the people were forced to do was call their own continental congress without the 204 00:24:21,730 --> 00:24:27,609 permission of the king. These surreptitious legislatures were called committees of correspondence 205 00:24:27,609 --> 00:24:34,029 and they operated as representatives of the people in lieu of the king's toadies. Now it's reaching a 206 00:24:34,029 --> 00:24:39,170 point in our own day when perhaps it is necessary for Americans to elect alternative legislatures 207 00:24:39,170 --> 00:24:45,970 ourselves, to rise up in a popular revolution and elect representatives who will do the will of the 208 00:24:45,970 --> 00:24:51,849 people instead of the will of the global elite and the deep state. And all that would remain is to 209 00:24:51,849 --> 00:24:57,269 determine where and when they would meet and how they would assert their newfound authority over the 210 00:24:57,269 --> 00:25:03,609 present system. And all of this would meet, of course, with strenuous and violent opposition from the 211 00:25:03,609 --> 00:25:09,630 powers that be. No tyrant ever relinquished power without violent resistance. And we should not expect 212 00:25:09,630 --> 00:25:14,710 anything different from the deep state. And quickly, I think we would discover who was willing to live 213 00:25:14,710 --> 00:25:20,970 free or die. Quickly, we shall find out who is a summer soldier and a sunshine patriot, and who is 214 00:25:20,970 --> 00:25:26,569 the one willing to stand fast for freedom, as Thomas Paine would put it. Which are you, dear listener? 215 00:25:27,410 --> 00:25:32,390 Well, this has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We're going through 216 00:25:32,390 --> 00:25:38,609 the particulars then of the Declaration of Independence to see if they do not imply indeed, in fact, today. 217 00:25:39,190 --> 00:25:44,150 And I urge you to continue to listen with us and also to join us for worship on Sunday. 218 00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:51,750 New Geneva meets for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and 219 00:25:51,750 --> 00:25:58,069 Boulevard. We're going through the book of Revelation right now, and we indeed encourage you to join us 220 00:25:58,069 --> 00:26:05,009 for worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. Our Bible study 221 00:26:05,009 --> 00:26:10,490 is indeed meeting as well, our study of the book of Revelation. We've changed our venue, though. 222 00:26:10,490 --> 00:26:21,690 We're now meeting at Leo's place on Thursday at 7 p.m., and we encourage you to join us. Leo's 223 00:26:21,690 --> 00:26:30,470 is on the corner of 1st and Holmes, and it's a great place for us to meet for our Bible study. 224 00:26:30,690 --> 00:26:36,490 Join us there at 7 p.m. on Thursdays, and also join us for worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th 225 00:26:36,490 --> 00:26:41,049 Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. You can call us for further information and feedback 226 00:26:41,049 --> 00:26:50,049 at area code 208-523-0196. That's area code 208-523-0196.