Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And today, how does the Declaration of Independence speak to the necessity of abolishing our present form of government, destructive of our rights, and instituting a new one? That's all language borrowed from the Declaration of Independence, because over the last few broadcasts, we have been arguing for the necessity of establishing a worldwide government composed of a Congress of Christian constitutional republics around the world.

We see the world moving ever closer to a world government. It will happen, but presently it's being shaped by forces unaffected by either the people or God. Rather, we see the world government taking shape, being shaped by a global elite composed of the super-rich and their lackeys, the super-politicians of the nations. What is required immediately is a worldwide awakening to these facts—that's an educational process—and also an immediate spiritual awakening to Christ and His gospel. And that, indeed, is a spiritual necessity, one that is controlled and timed by God Himself.

Once these things happen, and only when these things happen as a precondition, will the godless, even demonic formation of the present world government be altered in its trajectory. This is now our only alternative, dear listener. To deny it is to continue to live in the matrix, as we might offer. You know, we might want to take the red pill. And it means, as well, if we buy these things, that we will pretend that we are free, when we are in reality, having our wealth, our health, our happiness, yea, our very lives sucked dry for the ends and well-being of the global elite.

This reality is apparent to those with eyes to see. Open your eyes, dear listener, and see these truths, these realities, and act. But sometimes history helps to focus our thoughts. And in this case, the Declaration of Independence, written by our founding father, Thomas Jefferson, at the behest of the Continental Congress in 1776, well, that declaration can set the context for our independence as well.

From the deep state, Jefferson, at the behest of the Continental Congress, the founding fathers hoped to justify independence from Britain on the basis of commonly received understandings of God-given rights and the consequent purposes of government. Jefferson strove to portray that the colonies represented justice and liberty, while the Crown and Parliament of England represented injustice and tyranny. One of my favorite citations, quotations from history, is that of JFK, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who gave a speech on April 29 of 1962 at a dinner hosting Nobel Prize winners. All very bright people, right?

And he said at this speech, he says, I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. Someone once said that Thomas Jefferson was a gentleman of 32 who could calculate an eclipse, survey an estate, tie an artery, plan an edifice, try a cause, break a horse, and dance the minuet, unquote. JFK, indeed, one of the most brilliant men in United States history.

While after briefly articulating the received understandings of enlightenment liberty, the Declaration of Independence then goes on to catalog the extensive transgressions of those liberties by British Crown and Parliament. And it does it in excruciating detail. And we shall descend into the proverbial weeds of the Declaration that very few people really do. After quoting the opening paragraphs, those soaring and inspiring words in those opening paragraphs. But we do descend into the weeds because the nasty details of tyranny change very little over the generations.

And they're there. They're present in the Declaration. Brutal armies behave like brutes in every century. Monarchs in every age attempt to crush subjects who challenge their authority. And judges in every age with a vested interest in the establishment, they continue to rule in favor of it and against the people in complete tyranny.

Well, I aim to demonstrate over the next few weeks that the Declaration of Independence has, ironically, come full circle. Oh, so important to understand. Indeed, if we understood our present circumstances, and if we understood the Declaration of Independence and its particulars, why, then we would see that we have come in the United States full circle. Because the Declaration is as applicable to the government that it proposed to establish as a free, independent constitutional republic. It is as applicable, then, to ours.

All we need to do is compare the abuses of the mother country, England, with those of the homeland. That is our own deep state of the United States of America, which has, like a wolf in sheep's clothing, taken the place of our constitutional republic. The deep state has taken the place of our constitutional republic. Well, what are those particular abuses, then, dear listener? We must go on to articulate what, indeed, if we are going to justify this, what are those particular abuses?

Let's survey the Declaration of Independence together, and I hope you have one at your elbow there, here, as I articulate the particular abuses.

First of all, we have, then, the prologue to the Declaration of Independence, which reads, when in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature, of nature's God, entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation of the prologue in such a large and audacious undertaking, like setting up a free republic like the United States of America, which, indeed, Jefferson and Washington and Adams and the other founders intended to do in such this, in such of a large audacious undertaking, hiving off of the most powerful empire of the day, the British empire, that is, one had better be prepared to give an account of the why and wherefore of these things to the rest of the world.

That's the purpose of the prologue. And, of course, always, in I was France, in particular, which the United States hoped to line up as an ally against Great Britain, because they realized that they wouldn't be able to completely liberate themselves from England unless they could align other nations with them, and France in particular. So, the prologue was directed most generously and most particularly to the nation of France. And then we also have the prime directive of government, then, given next. What is that prime directive of government?

Ah, Jefferson says, we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, here's the purpose of government, that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Yes, the prime directive of government is to ensure these rights. That is the eloquent, inspired portion of the Declaration of Independence that everyone loves to quote, don't they?

And that generations of American schoolchildren used to memorize. I used to memorize this in grade school, and it lays out three fundamental truths of the human condition. Those fundamental truths of the human condition are, number one, we are all created equal, and number two, that we are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and number three, these truths are intrinsic to us as creatures by virtue of our creator. Yes, God has given these to us, not government. They're God-given rights, and they cannot be taken away by government because they're not given by government.

God deliberately bypassed human government and gave us these rights immediately. Our equality is that under the law, together with an equality of opportunity, and not outcomes. Yes, the unalienable rights that we have are too numerous to mention, but which are summarized as life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. The creator, of course, as well, is the Christian God of the Bible, too. Not Allah or Buddha or some amorphous being of deism, but rather the creator in the Declaration of Independence is the Christian God of the Bible, explicitly named in all the charters and constitutions of the American colonies.

So, given these three truths, the prime directive of government is to secure these rights. Yes, not to lord authority or to give us free stuff, but rather to secure our fundamental rights as people. And here's a truly revolutionary idea in the day, that government is meant to be the servant of the people, not the master of the people. Here too, four, the people existed to serve the king. The monarch or the royalty, the tyrant, right?

And the founding fathers, in their reading of history in the Bible, deduced the opposite. Men institute governments, rather, to secure the rights of the people and the various and sundry powers that the people have. They are set up and continue at the pleasure of those governed, that is, by their consent, the consent of the people. Let's say foundational idea that we see throughout the history of philosophers like John Locke or Adam Smith. And when that consent, the consent of the governed is withdrawn, governments change.

They must change. This is especially true, as Jefferson says, when any form of government becomes destructive of these ends. That is, when they no longer secure the people's rights, but rather destroy those people's rights. In such a case, the people can damn well do as they please in setting up a new government. That was their right, and it's ours too.

Our present form of government, a deep state run for the rights of the few, and the enrichment of a global elite, has become destructive of these ends, even in our own day. That is, our God-given, unalienable rights. And consequently, it is our right to institute a new government. Jefferson says that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government. That is where we are at today.

Dear listener, we must institute a new government in place of the deep state. Jefferson goes on to say, laying that government's foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness, and happiness, unquote, right? And then Jefferson goes on to give a prudent qualification, a prudent qualification. He goes on to say in the declaration, if you're following with me, he says, prudence indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes.

And accordingly, all experience has shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed, right? That's that prudent qualification. Because in order to distance the American Revolution from the hysterical and radical revolution that was brewing in France, which was rife with violence and bloodshed, instead, Jefferson underlines the patient endurance of the American colonists. In effect, he's saying it's not as if we're being rash and impetuous. We put up with evils.

We appeal peacefully for redress of grievances. And we waited patiently for change to come about. But it was all for naught, right? That's the idea behind the prudent qualification. Our colonists, our forebearers, our forefathers waited until the pattern of tyranny was unmistakable.

And it was clear to any intelligent mind that looked unbiasedly at the facts. And indeed, when history looks back at our own time and period, they will see indeed that we waited patiently, that we suffered under tyranny for a long, long time under the deep state, but only when it became very clear that there was a pattern, that there was a system in place that we were indeed justified in throwing off the deep state in order to form a new government institute, new ways and means, right? Well, then we also see then the undeniable circumstances of the people, which are in the Declaration of Independence, too.

The unmistakable circumstances of the people, because Jefferson goes on to say, but when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object, when this evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. And he says, such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former systems of government, that is, the colonial legislatures and governors of king and parliament in Great Britain.

The Declaration goes on to say, the history of the present king of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states, right? That is indeed the undeniable circumstances of the people. The abuses and trampling over the rights of the colonists were not isolated incidences occurring here and there, quickly remedied by the king in parliament.

No, a prudent man could let such abuses pass, but rather, as Jefferson so clearly articulates, these abuses and usurpations were consistent and sustained such that an intelligent man could see a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, a plot, if you will. Indeed, all having in direct object, the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states, unquote, a conspiracy theory. Indeed, that was the setup then during the revolution. Such is the past to which we, the heirs of the Declaration, I submit to you, have come in the 21st century.

Any intelligent man or woman can see the pattern and direction or conspiracy, if you will, in which the abuse of our rights leads to absolute despotism and tyranny. What then? What then, dear listener? Are we to appeal to God and wait for a miracle? Do we have a reluctant permission from God to change things?

No. According to our founding fathers, it is our right, it is our duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for our future security. Are you listening? Are you listening? Are you listening out there, armchair patriot?

You who wave the flag at the parade on the 4th of July and vote every four years for president, but otherwise, you leave the struggle for liberty to others. Not only is it your right, dear listener, but it is your duty to throw off tyrannical government. And you must become an integral part of forming a free government. Our founding fathers did it for themselves and they did it for us, their posterity. It is up to you to do it for yourself and your posterity.

Yes, will your children look back and curse you or bless you for what you did during these times? How will our children judge us? How will they look back on us? Gratefully in that we did the right thing and we fought, we risked all like our founding fathers did, win or lose. Or will they say in their hearts, pops, you are a lazy, ignorant coward.

You frittered away our heritage. Is that what you want your kids to say about you? Is that what you want history to say about this generation? Oh, and then of course, we must also behold the supporting facts. Yes, to behold the supporting facts because Jefferson then goes on to say about what's coming.

He says, to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. Indeed, if Great Britain was indeed tyrannizing the colonies, if they were indeed beginning to clamp down on them and to impose a tyranny over the states, the colonies, it needed to be proven that this was the fact. And so Jefferson says in the declaration to prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world. And that is indeed what is going to happen there in the rest of the Declaration of Independence. The first one he mentions is he, that is the king, King George III at this time.

King George III has refused to assent to laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. When a king refuses to assent to laws, then you have a lawless king. King George III vetoed popular legislation of the colonists. This was pure tyranny on the king's part. There was no such thing as a veto power override either that the Congress could pass to secure that legislation.

That's one of the geniuses, genius portions then of our declaration is that Congress can veto the decisions of the president because in Article 1, Section 7, Paragraph 2 of our Constitution, that particular portion provides for this remedy. And while we now have a constitutional remedy for a king when he tyrannizes the people, what we need today is a remedy for the deep state when it tyrannizes the people. There's no constitutional remedy for this, for the deep state has, as the Declaration says, refused to assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

For example, in 1986, California passed a ballot initiative to make English the official state language. I don't know if you remember back this far. I'm a gray hair who remembers this. But of course, that law, that ballot initiative was struck down by the California Supreme Court. And the same happened with people's initiatives to limit appropriations in a, such as a constitutional amendment, and also the marriage amendment in 2008, which limited marriage to that between a man and a woman.

Oh, all along the line, the deep state has done the same thing to popular legislation like reversing Obamacare or building a wall at the southern border. The people themselves have wanted a dozen types of legislative measures that are most wholesome and necessary for the public good, as the Declaration says, which the deep state, like the tyrant King George III, has denied. Because the deep state stands in the way, and these different measures then stand in the way of securing the wealth and prosperity of a global elite, which the deep state is here to protect. The deep state is here to protect the global elite.

For decades, the people have sought legislation which would be most wholesome and necessary for our good. The repeal of onerous constitutional amendments that are proven contrary to a free people, like the 16th Amendment, which provides for a direct tax on income, or the 17th Amendment, which provides for a direct election of senators by the people rather than the respective state legislatures, which robs the states of particular powers that the Constitution formerly granted to them.

And then legislation to balance the budget or eliminate useless and tyrannical bureaucracies like the Environmental Protection Agency, or the National Education Administration, and the Internal Revenue Service. All of these have been consistently thwarted by the deep state. Well, dear listener, we have just begun then to introduce the variety of complaints which the founding fathers had against the imposition of tyranny by both King and Parliament of Great Britain back during our founding.

But we are seeing with greater and greater clarity that indeed the deep state of America now, rather than the United States of America, we now have the deep state of America, which is supreme rather than we the people ordaining and establishing our Constitution. It indeed has been the deep state, which is now ordaining and establishing its own subterfuge Constitution upon America. Now we've seen it around us multiplied in many ways. But we have also seen then how the different complaints against King George III and Parliament applied just as much today to us because tyranny never changes.

So we're going to be going through point by point the 30 some different points of complaints against the deep, against Great Britain and the king, which are just as applicable now to us in America today against the deep state. So join us, stick with us as we see these particular complaints that justify our throwing off the tyranny of the deep state among us today and establishing a Christian constitutional republic. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a moment of truth. And we urge you to continue to join us and to check out our variety of radio broadcasts that go back some four years.

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