1 00:00:04,690 --> 00:00:10,869 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a moment 2 00:00:10,869 --> 00:00:16,250 of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And today, 3 00:00:16,530 --> 00:00:24,730 what are the further evidences that we are living in days of demonic delirium? Last week, 4 00:00:24,730 --> 00:00:31,429 we posed and answered the question, how are we to account for the bizarre widespread evil behavior 5 00:00:31,429 --> 00:00:38,250 of those in power over us? In particular, many Americans indeed have been demonstrating 6 00:00:38,250 --> 00:00:45,009 bizarre widespread evil behavior, but our rulers, those in power over us in particular, and the answer 7 00:00:45,009 --> 00:00:52,829 came back loud and clear. We are living in days of demonic delirium. Now, the Oxford English Dictionary 8 00:00:52,829 --> 00:01:00,770 defines delirium as an acutely disordered state of mind involving incoherent speech, hallucinations, 9 00:01:00,770 --> 00:01:06,849 and frenzied excitement. And then when combined with the presence and prompting of spiritual 10 00:01:06,849 --> 00:01:13,890 forces of evil, that is the demonic, voila, you have demonic delirium. And for so many among us, 11 00:01:14,049 --> 00:01:19,689 the temperature of this demonic delirium has been raised so gradually that we're like frogs in a 12 00:01:19,689 --> 00:01:24,349 pot of water who have not noticed it until it reaches the boiling point. And by that time, it's 13 00:01:24,349 --> 00:01:30,109 too late. By the time we realize it, the water is boiling and we cannot jump out of the pot. We are 14 00:01:30,109 --> 00:01:36,870 cooked. The idea of demonic delirium is not a sensational fiction that hysterical crockpots 15 00:01:36,870 --> 00:01:44,250 dream up to scare audiences. No, no, no, no. Rather, demonic delirium is a spiritual reality 16 00:01:44,250 --> 00:01:51,090 that has obtained throughout periods of redemptive history in varying degrees, historical cycles of 17 00:01:51,090 --> 00:01:57,549 waxing and waning, of increase and decrease, of ebb and flow, when evil seems sometimes more 18 00:01:57,549 --> 00:02:04,590 and sometimes less present in a society than at other times. And we cited many historical 19 00:02:04,590 --> 00:02:11,870 examples. For example, such a society, excuse me, is at its worst when it reaches the point 20 00:02:11,870 --> 00:02:17,370 of the antediluvian that is the pre-flood world. When the Bible tells us the Lord saw that the 21 00:02:17,370 --> 00:02:22,610 wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only 22 00:02:22,610 --> 00:02:29,150 evil continually. That's the benchmark of depravity. When man's behavior has reached its nadir of 23 00:02:29,150 --> 00:02:36,610 potential for good, but its apex for potential for evil. And we also saw that the land of Canaan was 24 00:02:36,610 --> 00:02:43,449 so filled with demonic delirium at the time of Joshua's conquest of the land that God commanded a 25 00:02:43,449 --> 00:02:50,189 Holocaust, a destruction of every man, woman, and child so that the evil would be exterminated. And 26 00:02:50,189 --> 00:02:55,650 that included the product of the sons of God who cohabited with the daughters of men. That would be 27 00:02:55,650 --> 00:03:03,189 the Nephilim from Genesis chapter 6. And so, throughout biblical history, we can briefly cite other times 28 00:03:03,189 --> 00:03:12,270 of demonic delirium, right? A case could be made as well in human history that in more recent history, 29 00:03:12,270 --> 00:03:18,310 for example, the French Revolution of the 18th century, when the streets of Paris ran red with the 30 00:03:18,310 --> 00:03:24,389 blood of Frenchmen, beginning with the heads of the monarchy under the guillotine. But soon, as the bloodlust 31 00:03:24,389 --> 00:03:32,189 reached a fever pitch in frenzied excitement, as our definition puts it, into every class it began to 32 00:03:32,189 --> 00:03:37,189 reach, the bloodlust began to reach into every class in France until it even claimed the heads of those who 33 00:03:37,189 --> 00:03:44,150 began the revolution. For example, Robespierre. And a case could be made that the Marxist 34 00:03:44,150 --> 00:03:51,629 revolution in Russia under Lenin, and later China under Mao, were days of demonic delirium. In addition to the 35 00:03:51,629 --> 00:03:58,210 untold suffering and misery brought about by this evil, it is estimated that Lenin and Stalin alone accounted for 36 00:03:58,210 --> 00:04:06,129 over 56 million deaths of their own citizens, while Mao Zedong was responsible, excuse me, for the deaths 37 00:04:06,129 --> 00:04:13,270 of over 70 million of his own people, all in the name of the People's Revolution. How many of the people 38 00:04:13,270 --> 00:04:20,370 do you have to sacrifice to your evil before you consider them saved? Each of these revolutions was 39 00:04:20,370 --> 00:04:27,829 characterized by zealous, brainwashed devotees in disordered states of mind who acted in frenzied 40 00:04:27,829 --> 00:04:34,410 excitement as they swept all before them, regardless of the cost in human life and suffering. I recommend 41 00:04:34,410 --> 00:04:44,050 two books for your perusal in this regard, Days of Demonic Delirium. The first book is entitled The Devil 42 00:04:44,050 --> 00:04:51,430 and Karl Marx by Paul Kengor, The Devil and Karl Marx. That says it, doesn't it? And the subtitle is 43 00:04:51,430 --> 00:04:59,970 Communism's Long March of Death, Deception, and Infiltration by Dr. Paul Kengor, who is professor of 44 00:04:59,970 --> 00:05:07,310 political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pennsylvania. And in his book, Dr. Kengor not only 45 00:05:07,310 --> 00:05:14,029 traces Marx and Engel's involvement in the occult and demonic, but also the vast swath of 46 00:05:14,029 --> 00:05:20,129 evil their system wrought upon humankind throughout the 20th and into the 21st century. Evil of such 47 00:05:20,129 --> 00:05:26,069 magnitude and character is perpetrated there that it can only be properly characterized as demonic. 48 00:05:26,769 --> 00:05:32,170 Marx and Engel's were not the only ones to dabble in spiritism and the demonic either. It seemed to 49 00:05:32,170 --> 00:05:38,930 obsess many of their followers thereafter. Very few biographers are willing to go there, especially 50 00:05:38,930 --> 00:05:45,250 those sympathetic to the cause, but not Dr. Kengor. The Devil and Karl Marx is the first book I recommend 51 00:05:45,250 --> 00:05:53,649 to you. Secondly, I recommend a book entitled simply Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Oh, you remember reading 52 00:05:53,649 --> 00:06:04,949 Dostoevsky, perhaps that dense author, Russian author, whose novels you studied in college, perhaps as a 53 00:06:04,949 --> 00:06:12,410 freshman or a sophomore, crime and punishment being one. But he has also written a lesser known book called Demons, 54 00:06:12,649 --> 00:06:22,430 a novel of 19th century Russia. Demons by Dostoevsky. When socialist ideals were beginning to take hold among 55 00:06:22,430 --> 00:06:29,670 Russia's avant-garde intellectual class, but also revolutionaries and peasants, a novel of the 19th century. 56 00:06:29,670 --> 00:06:36,569 It was deeply disturbing to Dostoevsky. Now, he creates the setting for his novel in a small Russian 57 00:06:36,569 --> 00:06:43,029 town and in his inevitable way gradually builds the drama until characters are behaving in ways 58 00:06:43,029 --> 00:06:48,550 towards each other that can only be described as demonic, whether it's in families or among friends 59 00:06:48,550 --> 00:06:55,430 or in society or even in church. It is especially true for Dostoevsky for the men who would bring 60 00:06:55,430 --> 00:07:03,209 revolution and change. They, in particular, are demons. And, as if he were a prophet, Dostoevsky has 61 00:07:03,209 --> 00:07:11,610 one character foreshadowing the demon V.I. Lenin, a man named Pyotr Verhoevensky. Oh, it's a rollicking 62 00:07:11,610 --> 00:07:19,209 good tale. Well, the point is that we are not the only ones to observe this phenomenon of days of demonic 63 00:07:19,209 --> 00:07:26,589 delirium. It is a recurring historical pattern. Both Dostoevsky and Kengor document this for us. 64 00:07:26,589 --> 00:07:32,629 What we tried to do last week was to begin to find some objective ways to identify this behavior 65 00:07:32,629 --> 00:07:38,730 beyond those of the sensational. These phenomena are certainly present in days of demonic delirium, 66 00:07:38,850 --> 00:07:46,449 the sensational. The acutely disordered state of mind is there. We see it in the New Testament, 67 00:07:46,449 --> 00:07:52,350 for example, for those who live in the tombs, like the Gadarene demoniac, or throw themselves into fire 68 00:07:52,350 --> 00:07:59,209 or water, who is the poor son of a father who appealed to Jesus for exorcism, or incoherent 69 00:07:59,209 --> 00:08:04,290 speech, the howling of the Gadarene demoniac, or the muttering, peeping, and chirping of the prophets 70 00:08:04,290 --> 00:08:11,730 of Baal in Isaiah's day, or the hallucinations, as the Apostle Paul points out, on those insisting on 71 00:08:11,730 --> 00:08:17,589 asceticism and worship of angels going on in detail about visions puffed up without reason 72 00:08:17,589 --> 00:08:23,689 by his sensuous mind, or even the frenzied excitement that we see in demonic delirium. 73 00:08:23,990 --> 00:08:29,250 For example, the priests of Baal who cut themselves, who leaped and danced in great agitation, 74 00:08:29,810 --> 00:08:35,730 the twisted men of Sodom who lurked outside of Lot's house all night seeking to have sex with his angel 75 00:08:35,730 --> 00:08:42,730 guests. All these, the sensational, is but the tip of the iceberg, though. Nine-tenths of demonic 76 00:08:42,730 --> 00:08:48,250 delirium lies below the surface and must be identified for what it is, that is, evil behavior 77 00:08:48,250 --> 00:08:56,070 by the bulk of mankind. And once more, a metric that helps us measure the extent of our demonic 78 00:08:56,070 --> 00:09:02,970 delirium is an old one, long employed by the church, and that is the seven deadly sins. Yes, 79 00:09:02,970 --> 00:09:12,950 the seven deadly sins. They are, of course, pride, envy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust. Oh, 80 00:09:13,149 --> 00:09:19,190 the church throughout history has used this list as a kind of shorthand for what man, given over to 81 00:09:19,190 --> 00:09:25,389 evil, looks like in the particular sins he commits. And when given over to one or more of them, demonic 82 00:09:25,389 --> 00:09:34,710 delirium results. In fact, so susceptible to temptation are we to these soul-destroying sins 83 00:09:34,710 --> 00:09:44,389 that the church tradition has associated particular evil entities to each deadly sin as a chief 84 00:09:44,389 --> 00:09:50,070 tempter. We saw this last week. For pride, there's Lucifer. For envy, there's Beelzebub. For wrath, 85 00:09:50,070 --> 00:09:57,009 there's Sathanas. For sloth, there's Abaddon. For greed, there's mammon. For gluttony, there's Belphagor. 86 00:09:57,210 --> 00:10:04,070 And for lust, there's Asmodeus. Once more, let me be clear. This is all apocryphal stuff, okay? 87 00:10:04,309 --> 00:10:10,809 It's not inspired scripture. I use it merely to illustrate what is real, that what is real is the 88 00:10:10,809 --> 00:10:16,429 oscillation of good and evil in history when evil reaches such a pitch of manifestation 89 00:10:16,429 --> 00:10:25,090 in the world that we can call it days of demonic delirium. Now, we propose to take these seven deadly 90 00:10:25,090 --> 00:10:32,490 sins one at a time, and we began with a ruling sin, which is pride, born proudly by Lucifer himself. 91 00:10:33,169 --> 00:10:39,629 Now, we saw St. Augustine calls it the beginning of sin, and Henry Fairley, in his book, The Seven 92 00:10:39,629 --> 00:10:46,250 Deadly Sins Today, says that pride is the keystone of the arch of sin. It runs through everything we do, 93 00:10:46,250 --> 00:10:55,129 everywhere in our natures, how right he is. We chronicle, then, how this keystone in the arch of sin, 94 00:10:55,409 --> 00:11:03,590 pride, that is, is set squarely in souls of those who flagrantly flaunt themselves over us today, 95 00:11:03,929 --> 00:11:08,590 whether the self-proclaimed stars of Hollywood who are really fallen stars of Wormwood 96 00:11:08,590 --> 00:11:14,549 and the pit of the beast, or whether it be politicians of Washington, D.C., the District of 97 00:11:14,549 --> 00:11:21,350 Columbia, who are really goblins and ghouls of demonic D.C., the District of Criminals. So, 98 00:11:21,509 --> 00:11:28,049 always keeping in mind, then, how pride suffuses. Pride really does suffuse all that we do and think. 99 00:11:28,330 --> 00:11:34,070 Let's tackle the remaining deadly sins. The second one we want to look at is wrath and anger. 100 00:11:34,070 --> 00:11:41,490 Number two of the deadly sins is wrath and anger. Behold the companion to pride, too, isn't it? 101 00:11:41,570 --> 00:11:46,750 Behold the companion to pride. Is any sin more cheek-by-jowl united than these two? 102 00:11:47,470 --> 00:11:53,870 When pride is frustrated of its purpose, what is the resulting effect? Oh, it is wrath. It is terrible, 103 00:11:54,210 --> 00:12:00,970 raging anger. How dare my will be frustrated? That wrath is vented upon its object. That is the thing 104 00:12:00,970 --> 00:12:08,230 which turned aside its desire. It is indeed demonic when given full space for expression to wrath and 105 00:12:08,230 --> 00:12:16,269 anger. Anger is called the devil's furnace because the fires of this deadly sin ignite so many other 106 00:12:16,269 --> 00:12:24,250 ancillary sins, don't they? Vengeance and violence and the means of achieving those ends. Well, this deadly 107 00:12:24,250 --> 00:12:32,090 sin not only destroys personal relationships, fairly calls it, one word may destroy even a sublime love, 108 00:12:32,210 --> 00:12:39,610 one word of anger, right? But also destroys entire nations. Let me ask you, did George W. Bush go to war 109 00:12:39,610 --> 00:12:46,970 against Iraq and Saddam Hussein in part because Saddam had plotted to assassinate his father, George H.W. 110 00:12:47,029 --> 00:12:53,389 Bush? Oh, it's hard to escape such a conclusion, especially since there really were no weapons of mass 111 00:12:53,389 --> 00:13:00,049 destruction found in Iraq. Despite the claims, there was a demonic wrath as well in Hitler's hatred of 112 00:13:00,049 --> 00:13:06,470 the allies who had defeated Germany in World War I. He had been a private in the German army at the time 113 00:13:06,470 --> 00:13:13,269 and Hitler had seen the humiliating armistice his country had been forced to sign. Hitler's inability 114 00:13:13,269 --> 00:13:19,289 to reconcile this anger to these circumstances is what comprised the substance of his struggle, 115 00:13:19,289 --> 00:13:26,789 which in German is Mein Kampf. Oh, there was also a demonic wrath in the sustained butchery of the 116 00:13:26,789 --> 00:13:32,450 French Revolution when centuries of oppression of the peasant class by the nobility was suddenly 117 00:13:32,450 --> 00:13:38,149 thrown off and those with the sword at their throats for so long now wielded it. Even something more 118 00:13:38,149 --> 00:13:45,529 deadly and efficient than a sword, really, the guillotine. Oh yes, the guillotine. Many more examples 119 00:13:45,529 --> 00:13:52,330 could be cited historically, dear listener, whether it's the demonic butchery of the Protestants by 120 00:13:52,330 --> 00:13:59,350 Catholics at the St. Bartholomew's Massacre in France in 1572 when many thousands of French 121 00:13:59,350 --> 00:14:05,370 Protestants were killed by Catholic loyalists or the rape of Nanking, as it was called, when in World War II 122 00:14:05,370 --> 00:14:11,409 the Japanese systematically murdered, raped, and pillaged one of the largest cities in China as they 123 00:14:11,409 --> 00:14:18,330 overwhelmed the Chinese mainland. Man's inhumanity to man, as the cliche goes, could be encapsulated in 124 00:14:18,330 --> 00:14:27,029 this deadly sin alone. The sin of wrath. Wrath and anger are manifest also in the demonic delirium 125 00:14:27,029 --> 00:14:34,850 of rulers and people. What but demonic delirium, for example, can explain the unbounded hatred of 126 00:14:34,850 --> 00:14:42,450 President Donald Trump. For all of these years, every tactic imaginable was employed to destroy 127 00:14:42,450 --> 00:14:48,429 President Trump by the demonic denizens of the swamp when he threatened to drain it. Thank you, 128 00:14:48,529 --> 00:14:54,210 President Trump, for doing this one thing. Among many things you did, like a skilled Toreador, you 129 00:14:54,210 --> 00:15:01,409 waved your red cape in front of the raging bull of the District of Criminals, and sure enough, they snorted 130 00:15:01,409 --> 00:15:07,350 and pawed the ground and charged you with fierce, irrational anger that can only be explained as the 131 00:15:07,350 --> 00:15:15,269 hallucinating, frenzied excitement of disordered minds in demonic delirium. Ah, in my lifetime, I have 132 00:15:15,269 --> 00:15:23,330 never seen the engines of wrath put into high gear with such ferocity as against you. One small anecdote 133 00:15:23,330 --> 00:15:31,049 will suffice. For example, when a reporter asked Nancy Pelosi once during the height of impeachment in 134 00:15:31,049 --> 00:15:36,570 her vendetta against the president there, the reporter said, why do you hate President Trump so 135 00:15:36,570 --> 00:15:44,309 much? And Pelosi became visibly gripped by a spirit and hissed and snapped with bitter venom. I don't hate 136 00:15:44,309 --> 00:15:52,490 Trump. I am a good Catholic and I pray for him. But all of her vituperative mannerisms betrayed her. 137 00:15:52,490 --> 00:15:58,889 At that moment, and this good Catholic threw up her bile and wrath like green vomit in the 138 00:15:58,889 --> 00:16:04,570 exorcist. All of the power that the District of Criminals could muster was marshaled against 139 00:16:04,570 --> 00:16:09,690 President Trump. You know this full well, don't you, listener? Even a number of assassination 140 00:16:09,690 --> 00:16:16,389 attempts, which were fortunately foiled but kept on the down low communication-wise. Well, in the end, 141 00:16:16,649 --> 00:16:22,470 Trump was betrayed by his own party in this past election when the transparent election fraud 142 00:16:22,470 --> 00:16:30,409 went unchallenged by spineless slithering Republican snakes who secretly bore him hatred for upsetting 143 00:16:30,409 --> 00:16:37,789 their feathered nests and corrupt ways. Indeed, the devil's furnace, wrath and anger, was stoked to the 144 00:16:37,789 --> 00:16:46,070 max against President Trump. Well, what else can explain also the obsession? Wrath ventured and vented. 145 00:16:46,070 --> 00:16:53,129 The obsessive wrath vented against conservative Americans. What can explain it except demonic 146 00:16:53,129 --> 00:16:59,190 delirium? The evil, corrupt demons that tyrannize over us have always expressed a primal fear, 147 00:16:59,570 --> 00:17:04,730 for example, of our keeping and bearing arms. But have you seen the capital city lately? 148 00:17:05,390 --> 00:17:13,230 Washington, D.C. is entwined with razor wire National Guard troops and barricades as if it were under siege. 149 00:17:13,230 --> 00:17:20,369 The District of Criminals now is beginning to look like its sister city, Pyongyang in North Korea. 150 00:17:20,890 --> 00:17:27,990 Culturally, politically, yay, existentially. Your increasingly wicked leaders hate you with an 151 00:17:27,990 --> 00:17:34,130 enduring hatred. They want to put you in camps. They want to re-educate you benighted Trump voters. 152 00:17:34,390 --> 00:17:38,609 You're being objectified as every other target group in history has been objectified 153 00:17:38,609 --> 00:17:45,009 for extermination. Once you are so villainous as to be no longer human, you will be a proper thing to 154 00:17:45,009 --> 00:17:52,750 be eliminated and exterminated. What but demonic delirium, for example, can explain the hellish 155 00:17:52,750 --> 00:18:00,430 scenes that characterize blue cities now across the country as Antifa and Black Lives Matter burn 156 00:18:00,430 --> 00:18:07,710 and loot and murder in cities like Portland or Los Angeles or Minneapolis in mostly peaceful 157 00:18:07,710 --> 00:18:15,450 demonstrations. Please, mainstream media, peaceful demonstrations. Don't relieve yourselves on my 158 00:18:15,450 --> 00:18:22,670 shoes and tell me it's raining. You all share wrath and hatred towards America and you dance with the 159 00:18:22,670 --> 00:18:28,309 light in the fires in the streets like demons and you drench your hands in the blood of victimized 160 00:18:28,309 --> 00:18:35,849 children trafficked across America and the aborted children in your sacred Planned Parenthood temples to 161 00:18:35,849 --> 00:18:43,849 Lucifer. Your master demon of wrath, Sathanas, delights in your revelry and provokes you to further anger 162 00:18:43,849 --> 00:18:49,869 until you are consumed in the fires of our burning cities and eventually the fires of hell. For the sake of 163 00:18:49,869 --> 00:18:55,390 the elect of Christ and the children, may that consignment to hell come sooner than later for you, 164 00:18:55,390 --> 00:19:02,369 possessed agents of demonic delirium. Well, there is not only wrath and anger, but there is also greed that 165 00:19:02,369 --> 00:19:09,430 possesses those who rule over us. Oh, Henry Fairley in his book, The Seven Deadly Sins Today, defines greed 166 00:19:09,430 --> 00:19:16,430 as not so much the love of possessions as the love of possessing. Good definition. Thumbnail definition of greed, 167 00:19:16,730 --> 00:19:24,490 the love of possessing. And so it is. Greed is not limited to possessions exclusively, but extends to any object 168 00:19:24,490 --> 00:19:30,910 which may be possessed like people or power. St. Augustine observed the close connection between greed 169 00:19:30,910 --> 00:19:37,630 and fear as well. He points out that greed motivates a man to accumulate wealth and possessions more than 170 00:19:37,630 --> 00:19:46,369 he could ever hope to use. And also then a fear of losing that wealth drives him to hoard and protect it 171 00:19:46,369 --> 00:19:52,529 to the very destruction of others and eventually himself. Greed may expand a man's possessions, 172 00:19:52,910 --> 00:20:00,210 but it shrinks his soul. The word miser, in fact, derives from the word misery. But that does not stop 173 00:20:00,210 --> 00:20:06,750 those filled with demonic delirium from giving full reign to their greed. The demon mammon is their master, 174 00:20:07,170 --> 00:20:12,789 making his home in the district of criminals. And I have already chronicled for you in other broadcasts 175 00:20:12,789 --> 00:20:19,710 how our opponents, the Chinese, have self-consciously used well-honed techniques developed 176 00:20:19,710 --> 00:20:28,069 over centuries, by Sun Tzu in particular, that depend upon the greed that now resides in every human 177 00:20:28,069 --> 00:20:33,490 heart. And they have used it to compromise and buy the politicians that crawl through the swamp 178 00:20:33,490 --> 00:20:39,529 in the district of criminals. For example, there's the old technique of Shu Hui, which is bribery, 179 00:20:39,529 --> 00:20:46,029 Chinese for bribery. Or Tan Wu, which is Chinese for embezzlement. These are all financial instruments 180 00:20:46,029 --> 00:20:54,210 used to compromise those in Washington, D.C. Or Nuo Yang, which is misappropriation of funds. And that 181 00:20:54,210 --> 00:21:00,009 happens constantly with government funds, doesn't it? Misappropriation, redirection of it. Or Zhu Xi, 182 00:21:00,170 --> 00:21:08,230 which is Chinese for smuggling. All of these economic techniques rely on the human nature's inherent 183 00:21:08,230 --> 00:21:16,410 calling to greed. Is it cynical for the Chinese to do this? Of course it is. But in the hands of a 184 00:21:16,410 --> 00:21:23,730 skilled, unprincipled enemy, these techniques have been very effective. Demonically delirious politicians 185 00:21:23,730 --> 00:21:32,750 like Nancy Bologna or Rich Mitch McConnell or Diane Not-So-Feinstein and Joe Fraudin, too, have exercised 186 00:21:32,750 --> 00:21:39,430 their love of possessing for decades now. And consequently, they are wholly owned subsidiaries, 187 00:21:39,609 --> 00:21:46,349 compromised, wholly owned subsidiaries of the Chinese Communist Party. Oh, we have not yet begun 188 00:21:46,349 --> 00:21:51,910 to pay the price for this betrayal, dear listener. We have not yet begun to pay the price for this 189 00:21:51,910 --> 00:22:00,430 betrayal of our security and our national policy due to the demonically delirious greed of the swamp 190 00:22:00,430 --> 00:22:06,190 denizens. Well, there is not only greed, but then there is the fourth deadly sin, which is lust. 191 00:22:06,710 --> 00:22:14,009 Lust, as Henry Fairley in his book, The Seven Deadly Sins Today, defines lust as gratification of a 192 00:22:14,009 --> 00:22:21,549 craving, the appeasement of an appetite we cannot subdue. Rather than being fulfilling, lust is 193 00:22:21,549 --> 00:22:27,849 self-emptying, unquote. Henry Fairley, well said, Henry. It is not so much a sin of the flesh, 194 00:22:27,849 --> 00:22:35,349 lust, as it is a sin against the flesh. The Apostle Paul puts it this way in 1 Corinthians 6. He says, 195 00:22:35,710 --> 00:22:41,589 flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually 196 00:22:41,589 --> 00:22:50,529 immoral person sins against his own body. Ah, this is why lust is a deadly sin. That which was designed 197 00:22:50,529 --> 00:22:58,410 to crown intimacy and drive procreation, that is the sex drive, designed to crown intimacy and drive 198 00:22:58,410 --> 00:23:06,369 procreation on the river of life is instead wasted in the stagnant pool of self-serving lust. Oh, lust 199 00:23:06,369 --> 00:23:13,329 borrows from love to pay cravings. And yet lust is indeed one of the most corruptible attributes of our 200 00:23:13,329 --> 00:23:21,109 nature, isn't it? Dependably corruptible sexual parathesia. This term sexual parathesia is the 201 00:23:21,109 --> 00:23:27,289 clinical term used by the American Psychiatric Association to denote various kinds of perversion 202 00:23:27,289 --> 00:23:34,190 of the sexual nature. The old catalog used to include all of which now lies well within the scope of the 203 00:23:34,190 --> 00:23:43,430 alphabet genderization of perversion. The alphabet genderization of perversion. LGBTQIA+. What does 204 00:23:43,430 --> 00:23:50,930 all that mean? Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual, and the plus for anything 205 00:23:50,930 --> 00:23:58,150 else that may get thrown in at a later date. That old catalog of sexual parathesia might well be 206 00:23:58,150 --> 00:24:05,529 retired soon, unless its lone remaining entry could be straight binary relationships like you, husband 207 00:24:05,529 --> 00:24:13,609 and wife. Oh, dear listener, once more, this deadly sin makes easy prey of our perverse politicians, doesn't 208 00:24:13,609 --> 00:24:21,549 it? Lust. For the demon Osmodeus, even if he is but a symbolic tempter of tyrants, he nevertheless beckons, 209 00:24:21,650 --> 00:24:26,970 doesn't he? The model of this corruption is once again our strategic enemy, that is China, and they have 210 00:24:26,970 --> 00:24:35,750 employed the honey trap, known as deode duolo, or moral decadence. Chinese for moral decadence. And here, the 211 00:24:35,750 --> 00:24:42,230 sexual proclivities of any given politician are serviced in exchange for political favors like important 212 00:24:42,230 --> 00:24:49,329 votes or top-secret information or legislation that benefits Chinese interests. Jeffrey Epstein has become 213 00:24:49,329 --> 00:24:56,410 the poster boy for lust, as his entire career was devoted to sexually compromising the rich and powerful on his 214 00:24:56,410 --> 00:25:02,369 infamous Lolita Express to the Caribbean, where a man could act out his most perverse fantasies in 215 00:25:02,369 --> 00:25:09,329 demonic delirium at the hospitality of those who were his best friends. Yes, best friends in lust and 216 00:25:09,329 --> 00:25:14,869 debauchery. And to his everlasting chagrin, said politician would find himself on candid camera, 217 00:25:15,329 --> 00:25:20,930 whereas acting out in demonic delirium would be evidence for the jury if he ever got out of line 218 00:25:20,930 --> 00:25:27,769 or crossed the commands of new overlords. Well, time does not permit us to treat extensively of the 219 00:25:27,769 --> 00:25:33,769 other deadly sins, envy, sloth, and gluttony. But you can use your imagination and see the very same 220 00:25:33,769 --> 00:25:40,470 demonic delirium at work amongst those who have the rule over us. But the blessing in all of this is that 221 00:25:40,470 --> 00:25:46,930 there are corresponding virtues which contrast with the seven deadly sins, which we must practice and 222 00:25:46,930 --> 00:25:52,910 insist that our slaves to demonic delirium adopt, even as their own, in a sweeping revival and 223 00:25:52,910 --> 00:25:59,029 reformation. And I want to deal with this next week when we see that for pride there is humility, 224 00:25:59,410 --> 00:26:06,809 for lust there is chastity, for greed there is generosity, for gluttony there is temperance, 225 00:26:06,890 --> 00:26:12,849 for envy there is kindness, for wrath there is meekness, and for sloth there is diligence. Oh, 226 00:26:12,849 --> 00:26:18,029 I look forward to covering these things with you in the course of the next week or so. Indeed, 227 00:26:18,329 --> 00:26:26,269 the antidote to the seven deadly sins are the seven lively virtues. We practice those virtues at New 228 00:26:26,269 --> 00:26:33,230 Geneva, and I invite you to join us for holy worship on Sundays at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner 229 00:26:33,230 --> 00:26:38,490 of 4th and Boulevard. And you can call us for more information, give us some feedback, or more 230 00:26:38,490 --> 00:26:49,210 information on New Geneva at area code 208-523-0196. That's area code 208-523-0196.