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

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

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faith. And today, I want to continue with this very important theme for the United States of

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America today. That is, how do the grounds for the founding fathers dissolving the political

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bands which connected them with another, that is, with England, our founding fathers, that is,

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of course, is from the Declaration of Independence. How does that compare with our grounds for doing

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the same thing with the deep state of America in our own day? We must think along these lines,

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dear listener, because our liberties are quickly being frittered away. In weeks previous, we have

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been looking at the 29 particulars of the Declaration of Independence that Thomas Jefferson listed as

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reasons. And these were only the most important, the top of the reasons. There could have been many

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more. But Jefferson, in the Declaration of Independence, listed 29 reasons why the American

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colonists were perfectly justified in carrying out a revolution against its mother country,

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that is, England. We have seen how these 29 particulars are eerily parallel to conditions

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in America today. If not worse, the founding fathers would be goading us, exhorting us to throw off

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the bands of tyranny that are presently around us because they're stronger and tighter than they were

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even in the days of the founders. We are not equal to those founding fathers in these things.

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And, for example, the so-called Wuhan China virus is only the most recent acceleration of that tyranny

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as our constitutional liberty to practice our religion, to speak freely, to peaceably assemble

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as a church congregation, and to petition our government for redress of grievance has been

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abridged. These liberties are abridged in one fell swoop. The draconian measure to lock down

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America is urged upon us because of medical necessity. Necessity. We must do this to protect,

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to keep safe the American public. It's only temporary, but necessary, necessary for the moment.

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Ah, William Pitt, that great British statesman and parliamentarian, said about necessity, right? He says,

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necessity is the plea for every infringement of human liberty. It is the plea of tyrants. It is the creed

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of slaves. Oh, America, you are becoming a nation of necessary slaves. Slaves to necessity. Slaves

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consequently to tyranny. And when we look back, we see we are no safer at the end of this period of so-called

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lockdown than we were at the beginning. For anyone who yet subscribes to the efficacy of the measures

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that were imposed on us by our state and federal governments. Oh, I urge you to begin by screening Dr.

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Erickson and his COVID-19 briefing on YouTube or the frontline doctors, the over 150 frontline doctors

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who indeed give us an update that runs counter to the, to the mainline understanding. Now I won't go into

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all the details here with Dr. Erickson's COVID-19 briefing, but it is, it is that of Dr. Erickson

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indeed that reveals the contrast, the contradictions. What is apparent is that we are less free now than

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we were when this scare, this, this plandemic occurred. Step-by-step, by increments, your liberty

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will be increasingly restricted now that you have proven yourself so compliant in this phase of

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operations. Oh, dear listener, do you really think that things will return to normal? Just about the

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time that the present lockdown is lifted, the old virus will return or a new deadly or pestilence will

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appear or some other crisis of necessity. As Pitt puts it, this will fall upon us again, necessitating

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another lockdown or severe restriction of our liberties. Just when you thought you were safe

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and things were returning to normal, here it comes again, right? We are no safer, really, but we are

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less free. Our experience with the stampede panic created by our government only proves Ben Franklin's

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dictum. And he said, those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. America, at this rate, by our performance in this crisis,

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we deserve neither liberty nor safety, and we will have neither of them in the future if we proceed

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at this pace. Because of our bovine compliance, oh, the colonists did not show bovine compliance. King

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George III would have loved to have the present population of America back in 1776 rather than

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the one he had. Oh, the colonists rebelled against a 3% tax on tea, but we blithely put up with over

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40% tax on our income. Conservatively, by the time all the hidden taxes are factored, the colonists

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rebelled because King George restricted immigration of free Englishmen who cherished liberty. We calmly allow

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untold millions of illegal immigrants to flood our shores who have no interest nor conception of what

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liberty is. We saw how the tactics were different, but the goal was the same, and that was to destroy

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the kernel of free, self-aware citizens who prized principled liberty. Oh, that's the goal of both King

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George III and the progressive elements in our own society. Our founding fathers rebelled when the king

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broke up town hall meetings, established the Church of England in the colonies, and smashed the printing

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presses of papers who criticized him. But we obediently shut up, and we do as we're told when media is banned

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or censored, or churches and church services are closed as non-essential, and our gatherings are broken up

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despite peaceably assembling. Oh, dear listener, what if King George could have had us there instead of his

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people? What King George III could have done with the brainwashed herd that is 21st century America? King George

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would have had a circus day milking us for all he could, ordering us to shut up and shut down, to eat and drink

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what we tell you, and line up for your vaccines. Liberty would have been left to another generation,

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if at all. And it might well be that if our generation had existed under King George, we might

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still be an abject slavish colony yet today. Oh, but thank God that was not the case under our founding

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fathers. What's wrong with us? As facts submitted to a candid world, as Jefferson counseled the colonists to do

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to present and to submit facts to a candid world, the declaration laid out 29 particulars as a brief

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summation of a long train of abuses and usurpations. Now we take up with where we left off last week,

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we left off with complaint number 20. And so we'll take up today then complaint number 21 and 22. I want to

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take them together both 21 and 22. They have the same theme as to why then the colonists freed themselves

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from England. 21, he complains for taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and

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altering fundamentally the forms of our government. And then 22, for suspending our own legislatures

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and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever. Complaints

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21 and 22, as we're coming closer to 29 of them, right? The American colonies were created as legal

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entities by means of a charter granted by the British crown to operate under the authority of and benefit

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to the king. These charters were granted for a specific period of time to be renewed at the

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expiration of that fixed period. Now, as these charters expired under the reign of King George,

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he would substantially change the form of government to which the colony may have operated for generations

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and under laws which it had enacted and found to be just and salutary. Otherwise, the charter would not

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be renewed. King George would threaten them. This was one of the reasons that the 9th and 10th amendments

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were created in our own constitution. Number 9, amendment number 9 says, the enumeration in the

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constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

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And then amendment number 10, the powers not delegated to the United States by the constitution,

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nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively.

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These two amendments, dear listener, had these kinds of things in mind to act against them. These

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two amendments have been entirely ignored. However, in our history, our form of government has been

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altered or suspended, abolished in the course of our history, just as it was under King George

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for the colonies. Now, our founding fathers knew that the people's rights were innumerable,

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that is without limit. So, the articulation of 10 of them was not meant to deny or disparage,

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as the 9th amendment says. Just the mere articulation of 10 amendments was not meant to

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deny or disparage the myriad of others that were not specifically named. This is one reason why James

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Madison was so hesitant to list only 10 amendments, because he knew that when it came to the rights of

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the people, the sky was the limit. Those rights cannot objectively be numbered at the end of the

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day. Now, if that weren't enough, Madison insisted that this qualifier be added in the 10th amendment.

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That is, every power not specifically enumerated in the constitution for the federal government

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is to be the prized possession of the states or to the sovereign people. The federal government,

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in our constitution anyway, at least on paper, is limited. The federal government is limited only to

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those things specifically granted to it in the constitution and no others. That is enumerated

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powers, not enumerable powers. It cannot go around. The federal government cannot go around sequestering you

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in your home or saying you can't meet at church or in a restaurant or go for a walk in the park.

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That is way past the mandate of government. It has. The federal government has no inherent power.

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The state government, for that matter, doesn't either to dictate education policy as it does in the

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National Education Administration or environmental policy as the Environmental Protection Agency does

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or the federal government has no right to gather every factoid of personal data on you as the

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National Security Administration does. Or it doesn't have any right to dictate what you must put into your

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body, like an unknown vaccine cocktail filled with adjuvants, preservatives, stem cells from aborted

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babies, and God only knows what else. But that is coming, dear listener. Oh, the tyranny of vaccines

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is coming. It is the goal of the pandemic paranoia being created now amongst us. And if you trust Bill Gates

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to punch one of these vaccines in your arm, then you are truly a naive, brainwashed. Pollyanna, the federal

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government has morphed from a strong, noble eagle into a corpulent, cumbersome, vicious dragon that now tyrannizes

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over us. The old American eagle, if you look closely, has morphed into a vicious dragon. And we like it just

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fine. We skip merrily along through the daisies, ignoring the warning signs, content to see only the

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positives, as long as we can have our drugs and devices, trusting that they only mean the government

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only means our good. Yes, they want to take care of you. Investing a trust, we do. We invest a trust

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in government that should only be reserved for God. But instead, Americans are suspicious of the God of

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the Bible, and they implicitly trust the dragon that is the federal behemoth. Oh, God, the complaints

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then of the founding fathers in the Declaration of Independence go on, too, do they not? Into 23

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through 27. Let me cover complaints 23 through 27 so we can indeed see what the founders were

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complaining of and why we have similar complaints. Complaint number 23 was, he, that is King George

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III, has abdicated government here by declaring us out of his protection and waging war against us.

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24. He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our

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peoples. He is at this time transporting large armies. 25, complaint 25. He is transporting large

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armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny already begun with

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circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages and totally

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unworthy the head of a civilized nation. And then complaint number 26. He has constrained our fellow

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citizens taken captive on the high seas to bear arms against their country, to become the executioners of

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their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands. And then complaint number 27 was,

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he has excited domestic insurrections amongst us and has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our

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frontiers, the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistinguished destruction of

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all ages, sexes, and conditions. Unquote. Oh, complaints number 23 through 27. They all have a

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particular theme. These are six particulars of sides of one huge tumor. The king had already in reality

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declared war on his own colonies. By the time the Lexington Concord battle broke out, that's generally

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considered to be the start of the revolution. Even by that time, the king had long since opened

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hostilities upon the colonists. He had already burned and plundered cities like Boston. He had sent in paid

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mercenaries like German Hessians. And he had already provoked the Indian tribes on the frontier to

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terrorize the colonists. And he even went so far as to capture merchant marine soldiers, not even

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military combatants, but merchant marine soldiers he impressed on the seas and forced them to serve in the

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British Navy to fight against their own countrymen. Injury to insult, or insult to injury, excuse me.

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So, when governments reach this stage, dear listener, becoming active dragons against the very people

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it is meant to protect. Oh, revolution becomes inevitable then. At least for free men. Oh, are we at

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such a stage, dear listener? Are we even free men? Has our dragon turned on us? The deep state,

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the government. Do you feel the heat of his breath down your neck yet? The dragon of the deep state.

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Are we free men or are we slaves? We have to look in the mirror or the collective mirror and ask

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ourselves, are we free men or are we slaves? Do we espouse the creed of slaves? As Pitt put it,

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the creed of slave slaves, which is necessity, necessity. We have to do this for now. Oh,

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we're all going to die. No, that is manifestly not what is happening. No, people are so vested

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in their past behavior, however, that they will not relinquish their masks. They will not

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embrace friends when they see them and said, maintain that six foot space or not even coming

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out of your house. I know people who are still not coming out of their houses, gripped by, ruled by

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fear and necessity. And they are truly slaves and espousing the creed of slaves. The dragon is hissing.

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Dear listener, the dragon is hissing. Necessity. Necessity. Stay locked down. Wear your masks. Be

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obedient. All this is for your own good. It's only temporary. Oh, remember when it was a 15-day

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effort to slow the curve, right? To level the curve. What's happened since then, huh? Necessity is the

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plea, as Pitt puts it, for every infringement of liberty. And necessity has infringed our liberties.

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Our government has used necessity to infringe our liberties, right and left. Pitt says that it is the

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argument of tyrants. Our government, a gaggle of tyrants, is using this argument of necessity,

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but it is also the creed of slaves. And we are slaves because we're embracing it. We're being

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compliant. You are slaves if you indeed obey this. Which will we prove ourselves to be? Ultimately,

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dear listener, who and what will we be? Ultimately, well, let's close these complaints of the Declaration

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of Independence and compare them and see where we are. All right. Complaint number 28. In every stage of

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these oppressions, we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms. Our repeated petitions have

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been answered only by repeated injury. A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which

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may define a tyrant is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. And then complaint number 29. Nor have

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we been wanting in attention to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by

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their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them

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of the circumstances of our immigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native

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justice and magnanimity. And we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these

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usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. 28 and 29 complaints.

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The argument for the colonies to declare themselves free states ends, as it should, with a rehearsal of

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how they patiently and peacefully sought a redress for all of these grievances to king, parliament,

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and people. But all of it was ignored or contemptuously dismissed. This, of course, is the first avenue of

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redress, peaceably. A proverb in the Bible, Proverbs 25 and verse 15 says,

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With patience, a ruler may be persuaded, and a soft tongue will break a bone.

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Oh, for decades now, patriots, we have patiently tried to persuade our rulers of the case for the

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Constitution. I know that many of you have lived this and done what you can. I have shelves of books

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which articulate the meaning in history and the proper place for the Constitution as the supreme law

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of the land. Articulate spokesmen and spokeswomen have filled our airwaves on TV and radio and cyberspace

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with programs which do the same. We have sent liberty-loving patriots to our capitals to represent

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us in our legislatures and our executive branches, who have in turn appointed constitutional originalists

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to the courts, for example. I have spent a good portion of my ministry, too, my career patiently

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establishing the biblical roots of our Constitution and the culmination of millennia of development in

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redemptive history. But, oh, this frustrates me to no end, dear listener, but tyranny has had a life

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and a development track of its own, too. Abraham Lincoln imposed dictatorial measures, for example,

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on the country during the war between the states. And he did it, once again, all out of necessity.

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He suspended the writ of habeas corpus. He jailed journalists who disagreed with him. And he imposed

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the first forced impress of citizens into the army. That is a draft. Tyranny was given a further

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injection of steroids in World War I under President Wilson. And it has been metastasizing ever since.

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Americans have been complacent and consciously ignorant of their liberties and those liberties

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ultimate source. That is our creator, from whom they are endowed inalienably, our rights endowed

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inalienably by our creator. Instead, we Americans have been lulled by lies. Wealth comes from government

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is one of those lies, right? Wealth comes from government. You didn't make that, as Obama said,

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right? Or John Locke. Adam Smith all said that a man's labor is his own and that wealth comes from

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man's labor, not from government. Or the lie that our rights come from government. And indeed,

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if our rights do come from government and not endowed by our creator, well then, if rights come

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from government, they can be taken away or they can be suspended, even as we see they're doing now,

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because we believe that our rights come from government inherently, right? Or the lie that

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you are here to serve the state. The state is omniscient, right? That is, they know everything.

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They're trying to know everything about us, aren't they? Or they're on the present. That is, they're

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everywhere at once. And indeed, they are trying to be on the present, are they not? Or they're

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omnipotent. That is, they are all powerful. And indeed, government is trying to be all powerful in

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our lives, isn't it? It will never give up. It will never stop taking until you're dead. Oh,

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dear listener, these are the stakes in this battle. Or they tell us, oh, don't listen to those

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conspiracy theorists. No, this isn't the dragon you're looking for, right? The old Jedi mind trick.

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Yeah, the deep state, that's not the dragon you're looking for. You know, don't worry. He doesn't bite.

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That dragon doesn't bite. No, another lie from the deep state. While we are told that the strong,

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bold eagle of our founding fathers that we saw soaring in the sky was only putting on a few

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pounds now through the centuries, in reality, that soaring, majestic eagle has been feeding upon us

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and morphing into an ugly, twisted, seething dragon who, as Revelation puts it, is making war on the

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saints. Oh, that metaphor, dear listener, the eagle. The eagle is no longer taking care of your

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rights. The dragon is feeding on them, is taking care of your rights and liberty, all right, by

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consuming them. The eagle is no longer serving you by protecting your rights and your liberties. No,

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the dragon is serving you now. He is certainly serving you, rare, medium, and well done. And he's

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feasting on you. Well, the declaration then concludes, and I read you the last several

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paragraphs. We, therefore, the representatives of the United States of America, in general Congress

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assembled, appealing to the supreme judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do,

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in the name and by authority of the good people of these colonies, solemnly publish and declare that

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these united colonies are and of right ought to be free and independent states, that they are absolved

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from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the great

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state of Britain is and ought to be totally dissolved, and that as free and independent states, they have

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full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other

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acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm

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reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes,

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and our sacred honor. Our founding fathers put it all on the line, dear listener. They appealed to God to judge

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their conscience as to whether they were acting in accordance with biblical principle, that is, for the rectitude of

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their intentions. Oh, dear listeners, stop and do the same, even now. Oh, Christian patriot, it is time that we put

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these things on the line, relying on that same God. They were ready to lay it all down, were they not? Oh, yes.

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Their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. Are we ready to do the same? Are you ready to do the same?

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Because the times call for us to do this very thing, dear listener. This has been Pastor David Bass at New

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Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Now, New Geneva Meets for Holy Worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street

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on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. I urge you to go ahead and join us on Sunday mornings. Maybe you've been

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anticipating doing this. I urge you to do so. Now is the time. Cross our threshold on Sunday at 10 a.m.

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at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And you can call us for more information at 208-523-0196

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or get a catalog then of our sermons. We go back four or five years with a record of all of these

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messages. And you can access that at omnisprotestas.org. O-M-N-I-S dash P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S dot org.

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Omnisprotestas.org. Or give us a call at area code 208-523-0196.