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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 during this Fourth of July season, it may even be the Fourth of July today when you

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hear me, I want to challenge you to think about our covenantal, our constitutional obligation

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to posterity. The Constitution was indeed written and composed not only for that generation,

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but for posterity. When my great-grandfather emigrated from Ireland to America in the late

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19th century, he arrived with the clothes on his back and very little else. And my great-grandfather

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worked in the fields and orchards of western Michigan. He couldn't read or write, but he

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swore it would be different for his grandchildren and his children. And it was true. Over the years,

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over the generations, each of my fathers improved and passed on a heritage. My great-grandfather

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told him that this was America, he said to my grandfather. This was America, the land of

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opportunity, and he must take what was given to him and improve upon it. And each generation

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subsequently has exhorted the same thing, even as I have exhorted my own children, because they have

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done the same thing. They have inherited that sense of respect for and burdened to take what was given

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to them and improve upon it. Dear listener, there are no guarantees in life, only opportunities. And nowhere

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have those opportunities been more abundant than here in the United States of America. My generation

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was handed down. A tradition and a heritage from their fathers developed and a kind of covenant

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succession. And we summarize it in what we taught our kids about who they were. We asked our kids,

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who are you? And they were expected to answer, I am Rachel or Katie or John Bass, covenant child.

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They had an identity. They were Rachel, Katie, or John Bass, covenant child. And in a world of people

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who don't know who they are and how they got here and where they're going, our kids always had an

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identity. They knew who they were. They had a name with a heritage. They existed within the framework of

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a sacred covenant with all of its obligations and benefits. And as we will see, every covenant

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incorporates as a vital part of its very existence, covenant succession. Covenant succession. That is the

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provision for the bond and blood to be handed down in good faith to the next generation with all of its

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obligations and its benefits intact. What we will do today is take a brief look at the state of that

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covenant succession under the civil covenant since it's the 4th of July. That civil covenant being for us

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the Constitution of the United States of America. Now, there is a provision for covenant succession in the

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Constitution. Do you know where it is and what it is? Well, let me make two points with you. Number one,

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covenant succession. Covenant succession. It is the sacred obligation of one generation to bequeath to the

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next generation the covenant under which they live. Yes, we are obliged. It's scriptural. It's biblical.

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Covenant succession. That's point number one I want to make with you, covenant succession. It is the sacred

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obligation of one generation to bequeath to the next generation. The covenant under which they live.

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Our founding fathers understood the solemn nature of covenant, dear listener, better than we do. In fact,

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arguably, the very first Constitution of the United States was the Mayflower Compact in which they swore

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for the glory of God and the advancement of the Christian faith. We do covenant and combine

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ourselves into a civil body politic. Unquote. That was the very first Constitution, 1620. Constitution,

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covenant, compact. These were all synonyms for a bond in blood sovereignly administered,

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as O.P. Robertson defines a covenant. A bond in blood sovereignly administered. In fact, at the

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Constitutional Convention, they briefly debated just what to call this new instrument of government

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that they had made. The previous one was called the Articles of Confederation. But we were more than

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a loose confederation now under this document. This document bound us more closely as states in a

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union. And therefore, more precisely, this instrument of government was a Constitution, a compact or a

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covenant. And Constitution was the term finally settled upon since so many of the 13 states employed that

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term in their own founding documents. So let this not escape you. Our Constitution is in fact a sacred

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covenant, a bond in blood between the governed and those elected to govern. The Founding Fathers mutually

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pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor, as the Declaration of Independence closes.

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And unlike those who serve the deep state today and swear to defend the Constitution against all

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enemies, foreign and domestic, and then promptly violate that oath at every turn, seeking self

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instead of others, scoffing at the Constitution, and they say things like, we haven't been a constitutional

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republic for years now. Unlike these treasonous, blood-sucking weasels, the Founding Fathers took their

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world seriously. And they saw honor as a sacred thing, a thing which can only be bestowed by God

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himself on creatures who keep covenant, even when it means their own personal loss and disadvantage.

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Psalm 15 verse 4 puts it this way, God honors those who fear the Lord, even when he swears to his own

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hurt and does not change. And the ancient suzerain vassal covenant treaty, too. The ancient suzerain

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vassal, that means king or subject, the ancient suzerain vassal covenant treaty upon which so many

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covenants in the Bible are based, is composed of six elements, one of which I want to highlight here

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for you today. But those six elements are the preamble, and the preamble identifies the king or

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the suzerain as Exodus chapter 20, and the preface to the 10 commandments says, I am the Lord your God.

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That's the preamble. And then there's a historical prologue that recounts the great king's

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previous relationship to his vassals and all the benefits he's given to them. And that's reflected

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in Exodus 20 verse 2. I am the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the

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house of bondage. That was what he did for Israel. And then there are stipulations and laws, and we go

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on to enumerate the 10 commandments. And then there are blessings and curses as well, number four. And the

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blessings and curses are a list of the blessings for obedience and the curses that will fall on the

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vassal if he breaks that covenant, right? Then there are signs and seals and confirmations. That's

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ritual oaths accompanied by physical signs and seals. That is the sacrifice of animals, the throwing of

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blood on the people and on the altar. And then finally, number six, there is covenant succession.

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This is a part of every suzerain vassal covenant, and it's a part of the constitution too.

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The covenant succession is arrangements and provisions for the continuity of the covenant

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relationship over future generations. And the feature I want to focus on today is this last one,

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covenant succession. If a covenant is sacred, that is sealed and witnessed to by God, then that covenant

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is worth passing on to the next generation. Those under covenant are obliged to bring their children

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into that covenant relationship too. This was understood in the very bones of biblical men.

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It was their heir they breed. It was the food that he ate, so to speak. For example, the civil covenant

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of which we spoke a few weeks ago is perpetual. It was cut with Noah, but binding on all subsequent

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generations. God said to Noah, behold, I established my covenant with you and your offspring after you.

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Then there was the Abrahamic covenant too. That provided for covenant succession, accompanied by the sign

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and seal of circumcision. God said to Abraham, for example, I will establish my covenant between me and you

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and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant to be God to you

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and to your offspring after you, unquote. And Jesus himself made provision for covenant succession too

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when he instituted the Lord's supper and gave its meaning. He said, in fact, in the same way, also he took the

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cup, Paul says, after supper, saying, this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this as often as you drink it

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in remembrance of me. And that would be true throughout the generations. For as often as you eat this bread and

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drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes, Paul says. And then that new covenant succession too was

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confirmed by the apostles. Peter says in his Pentecost sermon, repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of

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Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promises for you

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and for your children and for all who are far off. Everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself. These are a few

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samples of covenant succession from the Bible. It is important to remember that covenants and constitutions

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throughout Christendom were modeled on those of the Bible, including our own constitution. Well then, you

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might say, Mr. Smarty Pants Pastor, where might we find covenant succession in the constitution?

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Hmm. Now let's consider for a moment the preamble to the constitution. Do you remember

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our constitution begins? We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union,

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establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general

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welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity. Ding, ding, ding, ding.

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There it is. Do ordain and establish this constitution for the United States of America. That preamble

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outlines the six purposes of government. And one of those is to secure blessings of liberty to ourselves

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and our posterity. One of the purposes of government is to make provision for our children. Selfish and

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short-sighted is the man who does not consider those who come after him. That is, his children and their

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children. As honorable men, our founding fathers did consider the generations to come. The constitution

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was for their children to use and to perfect and to bequeath to their children. Henry Clay, who was a

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second-generation American, the famous Senator Henry Clay, said this, the Constitution of the United

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States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity. Unlimited,

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undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. Unquote. Clay got it. He understood. Brothers and sisters,

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that includes us. The Constitution of the United States of America was crafted for us and for our

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children. And it was given us at great cost and great sacrifice. That is, as Jefferson puts it,

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our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Now, most of us will never know the price that the

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generation of the revolution paid to establish that document of genius and God-guided providence.

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Oh, the voices of those who died to purchase that liberty cannot speak to us for themselves,

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nor could they enjoy the fruits of liberty that we enjoy. They bought it for us. Listen to the

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poignancy and the heavy heart of one of the founding fathers who said, who spoke to us. He says,

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posterity. He's speaking to us to subsequent generations. He says, posterity. You will never

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know how much it costs the present generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make a good

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use of it. Unquote. That was from John Adams. He understood the cost of the generation of the

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revolution to purchase our liberty. And the same can be said for their children who had to beat the

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British a second time in the war of 1812, or their children who died in the war between the states,

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or their children's children who died in World Wars I and II, or in Korea, or Vietnam, or the Middle East.

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We will never know the cost that they paid to preserve our freedom. Oh, dear listener, behold,

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covenant succession. It's before your very eyes in the pages of our history. That covenant succession

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is literal. It is real. It is tangible. It is bought for us in blood, the blood of those who

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sacrificed for our liberties. But are we making a good use of it, dear listener? Are we, this

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generation, us, you and me, are we making a good use of it as Adams exhorted? Oh, that brings me to

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point two. Covenant succession. Covenant succession. The sacred obligation to bequeath to the next

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generation the covenant under which we live is in grave peril, if not lost, altogether. Yes, that is

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my second point regarding the covenant succession built into the Constitution. The sacred obligation

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to bequeath to the next generation the covenant under which we live is in grave peril, if not lost,

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altogether. Dear listener, what can you say about a government, our present tyranny? What can you say

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about a government tyranny ostensibly structured by the Constitution, which has as its targets its sworn

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enemies, those who know and insist on fidelity to that Constitution? What can you say about such a

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government? That is the presence of the state right now, the present state of the state, and it is

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tyranny. For example, famously now, the Internal Revenue Service under Lois Lerner. You may remember

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back in 2012, this came up. Lois Lerner refused tax-exempt status to conservative groups with names

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that were flagged with words in their title like Tea Party or Constitution or Liberty, right? We now know

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that Obama himself ordered that prior to the 2012 election, and there have been no consequences for

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that tyranny. Or another example, more contemporary, John Brennan, that pathetic former CIA director

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under Obama, thinks that the government should unleash its law enforcement agencies and intelligence

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community on what he calls a pro-Trump insurgency. Oh dear, 75 million people who voted for Trump,

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which includes, of course, a laundry list with which he labels us, a laundry list of undefined

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smear names. But he also highlights even libertarians. Oh, he's just one of the criminal

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deep state operatives who are genuinely threatened in their power, privilege, and perks. They're

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threatened by the Constitution because they are unconstitutional. Or the thing that really turned

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the corner for me, the thing that woke me up, was listening to an interview with Madeline Albright

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some time ago, former Secretary of State under Obama. And she thought that the biggest threat to America

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was not Russia or China or terrorist states in the Middle East, which had been kind of suggested by her

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interviewer. But she told her interviewer the greatest threat to America was gun owners,

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constitutionalists, and veterans in the United States. Oh, that was a cup of cold water for me,

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but a cup of cold water tossed in my face. It woke me up to the tyranny coming. And of course,

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one of my favorites, and this is several examples from many, many, many, many, but one of my favorites

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in the oops, we let it slip category, a Spokane, Washington deputy, when asked by police, why police,

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excuse me, when he was asked why police now needed heavy duty military armored vehicles. Oh, your local

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police are now being militarized, dear listener, not only the militarization of local sheriffs and

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police, but also federal agencies. The IRS is militarized now. The Federal Drug Administration,

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what do they need tanks and armored vehicles and M-16s for? Or the Environmental Protection Agency,

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what do they need M-16s and armored personnel carriers for? Oh, but this Spokane, Washington deputy,

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was asked why local police forces now needed heavy duty military armored vehicles. And he responded

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by saying, and I quote, we've got a lot of constitutionalists and a lot of people that

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stockpile weapons, unquote. In other words, the average American. And these, dear listener, are only a few

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samples, just a few samples of the overt threat that a return to the Constitution from the tyranny of the

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deep state poses to those with vested interests in running the country unaccountably to the people.

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This is not an exaggeration, dear listener. And witness the recent presidential election. Exhibit A,

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the recent presidential election to tell us why we are under a tyranny. The Maricopa County recount

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has uncovered for us now unquestioned voter fraud in Arizona. That is why the Democrats are doing

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everything they can to stop that recount, including lawsuit after lawsuit. The clear indication is that

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President Trump actually won the state of Arizona. The very same irregularities exist in Pennsylvania

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and Michigan and Wisconsin and Georgia. President Trump won unexpectedly in 2016, but the deep state

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was not going to allow that to happen in 2020. And it didn't. Did it? Dear listener,

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the Joe Biden presidency is a complete, utter, transparent fraud. He is illegitimate. He has

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no right or authority to exercise power as president of a constitutional republic. We have every right to

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withdraw our consent to be governed by such naked tyranny as is resident in Joe Fraudden. Your franchise of

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power, that is, your sacred vote, has been stolen from you. And if they did it once successfully, they will do it

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again and again and again. Your constitutional republic is dead if your franchise indeed is dead, if your vote no longer

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counts. And that is the case thus far. And that this is a sensitive point for the deep state is indicated by the

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hysterical labeling of any questioning of the election as treason. Can you believe that? Even though

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elections have been questioned all through history, most recently in 2016 to Donald Trump, the Democrats

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were questioning his election, right? But no, no, no. Now this one with Joe Fraudden in office, if you

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question it, it's treason. Amen. I would say to that, amen. It is treason of a sort under Othaliah in the

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Old Testament in 2 Kings. Othaliah was the queen who betrayed the line of Judah by slaughtering all

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of the sons of that line, except one who was sequestered away. And when he was restored, she cried

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treason, treason. And that was ironic too, since it was her who actually betrayed Israel. Well, that's

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going on in the deep state today. There are Othaliahs all over the place. And so it is with our

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contemporary Othaliah, Nancy Pelosi, a betrayer, a traitor, who is at the forefront of the effort to

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protect and cover the theft of the 2020 election from Donald Trump. It is this Othaliah who has

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transformed our capital city, D.C., right, the District of Criminals, into a fortress such that

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the United States now looks like North Korea and is swiftly on its way to behaving like North Korea too.

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There is a great deal of evidence that the constitutional republic established by our

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founding fathers has in fact morphed into the deep state tyranny. Much, much evidence. And we

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don't have time to go into all of it today. And don't scoff at the notion of a deep state either.

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The deep state I define as the well-funded bureaus, agencies, and departments of the federal

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government, which exercise the day-to-day operations of that government, but who are accountable to no one

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but themselves. And in fact, increasingly dictate to the shallow state, what I call the shallow state.

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That is those elected officials we put in office who ostensibly give the appearance that we live in

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a democracy. But that's only in appearance. They come and go. The deep state remains and continues like

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a beast to serve not the people, but themselves. Gorging themselves on power and money and prestige

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at the expense of us, of we, the people. Well, dear listener, so far with this trajectory,

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we will bestow the blessings of liberty and prosperity upon no one, much less our posterity.

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No liberty and prosperity for our posterity. If this keeps up, and if you cannot see this conspiracy,

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and I'm a conspiracy theorist as far as this goes, right? And I'm a conspiracy realist as far as this

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goes. And if you cannot see the conspiracy against the American people, against the American people,

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and a conspiracy is merely a plan. It's a plan known to some, but deliberately hidden from others,

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generally those who are being planned against. A plan is just a, or a conspiracy is just a plan,

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right? Known to some, but deliberately hidden from others. And that's precisely what's going on

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with the deep state. And if you don't see it, then you're either consciously a participant in it,

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or else you are a naive, brainwashed Pollyanna who's whistling his way through the woods. Is this okay

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with you, dear listener? Is this okay with you? We are charged, we are obliged under the civil covenant

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to fulfill all of the terms of a covenant, one of which is covenant succession. That is ensuring

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that we pass along to our posterity, to our children, a covenant that is fully functional and

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intact. What is it exactly, dear listener, that you think you will bequeathed to your children under

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the civil covenant? The particular expression of that covenant is given to us in perhaps the most

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profound system of liberty ever devised providentially, that is the constitution of the United States of

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America. But so many of us seem to be sleepwalking through these days or slough off our responsibility

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to subsequent generations, like Hezekiah, King Hezekiah, who, when Isaiah told him that the next

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generation would be taken into slavery, said, the word of the Lord that you have spoken is good.

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For he thought, why not if there will be peace and security in my days? Unquote. Oh, that's America

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today for so many Americans. If there will be peace and prosperity for me in my day, then so much for

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posterity and the devil take the hindmost. Oh, Groucho Marx put it very succinctly. He said,

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why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me? That's hubris,

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but it gets at the heart of the attitude of so many today. We are at a crucial juncture in the

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history of our constitutional republic, dear listener. It may already be too late. There may

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yet be time, too. We don't know. We are in what one of my professors calls the deep, dark tunnel of

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chaos. We're in the middle of it. We don't know what's going to come out the other end of that tunnel,

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but it is time to fight on every front for it. On it depends liberty and slavery. George Washington

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said to his troops in the dark days of the revolution, and we are in those dark days

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ourselves, but he said to his troops, the hour is fast approaching on which the honor and success of

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this army and the safety of our bleeding country depend. Remember, officers and soldiers,

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that you are free men fighting for the blessings of liberty, that slavery will be your portion and

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that of your posterity if you do not acquit yourselves like men, unquote. Inspiring words

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from George Washington. Someone once said, events overtake us slowly at first and then suddenly. Oh,

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we are in that sudden phase right now. Wake up, dear listener. Posterity remembers those who knew the

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days in which they lived and acted, but history also forgets those who did nothing or shirked their

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responsibilities or just tried to keep their heads down and not be noticed. Oh, you will be consumed,

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dear listener, if you do not stand and fight. We are in those days. We are at that juncture of history.

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Sam Adams said, and I agree with him, if you love wealth, and many think that they're going to

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get by or that they're going to make something of this. If you love wealth better than liberty,

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the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us

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in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you.

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May your change set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen,

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unquote. Oh, so is the attitude of Sam Adams. So is my attitude towards those who will not stand and

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fight who will not ensure to the best of their powers and abilities that we do indeed retain the

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benefits of liberty to ourselves and to our posterity. That is what is at stake in this day

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and time, dear listener. Unquit yourselves like men and stand and make sure you pass on as a heritage

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to your children the benefits of liberty. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox

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Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner

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of 4th and Boulevard, and you can call us for more information and feedback at area code 208-523-0196.

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208-523-0196.