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

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Moment of Truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. And

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today, I want to challenge you to think through the issue of what are the 28 principles of the

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Constitution that has enabled the United States of America, indeed, to become the greatest nation

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ever in history, one that has transcended the backwardness of history to make a 5,000-year

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leap. Yes, we are examining the book by Dr. Skousen, The 5,000-Year Leap. He is one who

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shepherded several scholars to, indeed, establish 28 principles. He discovered 28 principles in the

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Constitution that has enabled the United States of America in just under 250 years of history to make

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a leap over the backwardness, over the benightedness, over the moral darkness of 5,000 years of human

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history in order to bring to the world an enlightened republic in which more freedom, more prosperity,

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and more liberty has existed in these 200 brief, 250 years of American history than has ever existed

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on the earth before. And this will continue if, indeed, we come to see and establish those principles

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again in America and, indeed, rediscover our Constitution because our public education system

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is in the process of causing a night of forgetfulness to descend upon the hearts and lives and brains

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and spirits of our children in public schools. And it's up to us, parents, you and I, churches,

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you and I, private schools, you and I, Christian schools, you and I, to, indeed, bring back the

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knowledge, the true knowledge of the liberty of America as it has been ensconced in our Constitution.

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And as Dr. Skousen has done, and I encourage you to discover Dr. Skousen and his book,

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The 5,000-Year Leap, or his book on the Constitution as well at the website,

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the National Center for Constitutional Studies.org, nccs.org, the National Center for Constitutional

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Studies. Just a great site. And you'll find this book, The 5,000-Year Leap. It'll be an eye-opener for

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you if you've not read it already. But if you have read it, then you know that I am counting down

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the 28 principles that have been established with our Constitution by our Founding Fathers

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that have given us the greatest liberty the world has ever seen. And that first principle was, of

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course, natural law, a principle of natural law well-established since the times of the Romans,

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in particular under Cicero, but indeed preceded with the tribal republic of Israel. But that principle

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of natural law is, natural law is the only reliable basis for sound government and just human relations.

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And we covered that last week, and I refer you to that lecture. And today we're going to take up

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the second principle that our Founding Fathers understood clearly in establishing our republic.

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And that second principle was, a free people cannot survive under a republican constitution

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unless they remain virtuous and morally strong. A free people cannot survive under a republican

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constitution. How many times have you heard me say such things? Myself, dear listener, how many

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times have you heard our Founding Fathers echo these same things? Oh, always in the background and

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forefront of their minds as they went about the business of building this new republic, was the truth

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that great liberty brings great responsibility, and that man cannot be responsible without moral

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integrity. Are you listening, politicians of our day? Yes. Man cannot be responsible without moral

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integrity. So many of our politicians in our world today do not have that necessary requirement,

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moral integrity. Dear listener, when it comes to government, think of who you have ceded

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your power to. You don't leave your piggy bank with Jesse James. You don't let your daughter

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date Charles Manson. And you don't hand the judge's gavel to the Roman Emperor Caligula. No, none of these men

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had the moral integrity to assume any of these trusts. And although they are extreme examples, perhaps,

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amusing examples, perhaps, they do prove my point. And perhaps you've heard me cite one of my favorite

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founding fathers, John Adams. John Adams said shortly after the Constitutional Convention, he said,

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our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the

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government of any other, unquote. Is that burned into your memory yet? It should be, because it distills

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the consciousness with which our framers labored as they made our Constitution. And as I have demonstrated

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to you in past lectures, our founding fathers gave liberty to the states and individuals so extensive

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and absolute that it would be dangerous to give it to an immoral and degenerate people. Yes,

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our founding fathers, they gave us liberty. They gave us liberty so extensive and absolute

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that it would be absolutely dangerous to give it to an immoral and degenerate people.

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Adams and his fellow delegates to the Constitutional Convention saw the potential for great good as

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they constructed the document that would set up our new government. The federal government would

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hopefully be just strong enough to exercise its enumerated powers and do this on behalf of all the

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states, not in its own self-interest as a bloated entity into itself as it is today, that it would be

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just as strong and no stronger. The original intent of the framers was to hem in and hedge about

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a strong central government, the pernicious effects of which they had so recently observed in throwing off

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the chains of King George III and the British Parliament. The widest possible liberty and freedom was to be

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given to the states that the people might live and prosper according to the dictates of their conscience.

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A measure of this wide and expansive liberty is reflected in the Tenth Amendment, perhaps the most

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ignored and transgressed amendment in our constitutional history. And that Tenth Amendment says very briefly,

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and succinctly, the powers not delegated to the United States, that's the federal government,

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the powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states,

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a reserve to the states, respectively, or to the people, unquote. The powers delegated to the federal

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government were to be so few and strictly enumerated, so that the widest possible liberty,

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would be left to the people. When those people were just and moral, that's the essence of what we're

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driving at today. When those people were just and moral, they could govern their appetites and their

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actions so as to prosper as responsible citizens and not hurt their neighbor. But when those same people

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were unjust and immoral, they gave liberty to their appetites and injustices so as to debase and

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debauch themselves and their neighbor. Oh, our founding fathers saw this. They saw it repeat itself

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throughout history. As they studied history, they were true students of history, unlike most of the

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mindless Antifa and Black Lives Matter people in our nation today. Our founding fathers saw this

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debasement and debauchery repeat itself throughout history, most recently in their own countries of

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origin. Thomas Paine puts it this way. He says, Americans are, in the main, industrious, frugal,

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and honest, while their counterparts in Europe sought after luxury, indolence, amusement, and pleasure.

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Unquote. Sounds like he's talking, indeed, about the millennial of today, or indeed the Gen X of today,

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or indeed the baby boomer of today, too, who does the same kinds of things. In Thomas Paine's day,

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there was the laboring colonist in his field versus the drunken Frenchman in Europe. And then, unlike the

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politicians of our day, politicians of our day, rather the statesmen of our founding, they debated and

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agonized over whether the average American citizen was morally ready for the measure of liberty that their

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new constitution would provide. They really debated this. Unlike the politicians of our day, the statesmen of

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our founding understood that the constitution framed liberty for we the people to be just and moral, not free

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to be wicked and immoral. Conditions were sufficiently corrupt in the days before the Great Awakening, for

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example, that many of our founders wondered if we were really ready for liberty. They debated this point

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among themselves before even launching independence and declaring such to the world before committing

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their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, as the Declaration says, to such a venture. Dear listener, historically,

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if you look back, the Great Awakening changed all of that. Maybe you've never even heard of the Great

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Awakening. Well, starting in the 1740s, under the preaching of Jonathan Edwards, one of the geniuses

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of America, a powerful spiritual awakening swept over the colonies, a revival. God sovereignly moved

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to save souls and call those souls to himself. In churches throughout the 13 colonies, men and women and

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children underwent an amazing transformation. This has to happen today, dear listener. For example, during the

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period preceding the revolution, during the Great Awakening, the taverns, previously packed with drunken

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citizens, swilling rum, the taverns were empty while the churches were full. Farms, which were previously

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derelict and run down due to laziness and sloth, these farms were transformed into thriving enterprises

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because of renewed consciences. And houses of prostitution, too, which previously thrived owing

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to the indulgence of decadent lust on the part of the colonists, these houses of prostitution were shut

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down by town sheriffs as husbands returned home to save their wives and marriages because their souls were

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now saved. Also, crime in the streets, like in the streets of America today, whether it be

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Chicago or Portland, in the time of the colonists, crime in the streets, known as the pestilence of

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thuggery, where most cities of the colonies were not safe to be in after dark, owing to the gangs of

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thugs that roamed the streets. Are we talking about Chicago of today? Are we talking about Portland of today

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or Seattle of today? Well, these streets and the crime-ridden streets of the colonies suddenly

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declined, the crime in it suddenly declined, that such men like George Whitefield felt secure enough

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to preach revival in those same streets. Well, dear listener, it's hard to capture the sense of

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excitement and renewal that infused the national soul during this time in our history, known as the

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Great Awakening. Its effects waxed and waned from the 1740s until well into the 1770s, right up to and

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including the days of the Revolution. George Whitefield, for example, though broken and exhausted by his

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demanding schedule, nevertheless preached right through 1770, just after the British gunned down those

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colonists on Boston Green and what has come to be known as the Boston Massacre. But, dear listener,

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what is often missed in the study of American history is the mutual effect of the spiritual awakening

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on the revolution and the revolution then on the spiritual awakening. In the preaching of the

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awakening, for example, people were hearing the one consistent gospel of Jesus Christ, that a man is

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saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ alone. Oh, what a precious message that needs to be preached

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again in America. All through the colonies, this one message united people in one faith, regardless of their

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denominational affiliation. And that still holds true today. This one true message that we have salvation by grace

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through faith in Jesus Christ alone unites all Christians. The gospel also brought home another

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unifying principle. As the book, The Light and the Glory proclaim, The Light and the Glory, written by

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Peter Marshall, this book says, and I quote, they, that is the colonists, were beginning to discover a basic

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truth, which would be a major foundation stone of God's new nation, and which by 1776 would be declared

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self-evident, that in the eyes of their creator, all men were of equal value. Unquote. The Great Awakening

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and its beneficent effects on the national soul also persuaded the founders that the colonies were ready to

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become states. At the time, nations were confederated together, but they were ready to become states now

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precisely because they were morally and spiritually prepared for liberty. One contemporary of the

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revolution, he wrote this, and looking back on those days, he says, and I quote, the two or three years

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before the Declaration of Independence always appears to be the great period of the revolution,

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the time of greatest self-denial and national cohesion, when men ceased to extort and abuse one

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another, when families and communities seemed peculiarly united, when the courts were wonderfully

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free of that constant bickering over land and credit that had dominated their colonial life. Unquote.

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We were ready for liberty then. Can we say the same thing now? Oh, Samuel Adams,

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puts it this way. He says, the sum of all is, if we would most truly enjoy the gift of heaven,

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let us become a virtuous people. Then shall we both deserve and enjoy it. That is liberty.

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While, on the other hand, if we are universally vicious and debauched in our manners through the

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form of our constitution, excuse me, though the form of our constitution carries the face of the most

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exalted freedom, we shall in reality be the most abject slaves. Yes, Adams saw this. If we are

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vicious and debauched, we will in reality be slaves with all the freedom that we supposedly have. And I

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submit to you, dear listener, we today, we in America are swiftly becoming a nation vicious and

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debauched. As more and more of us demand our rights in order to escape our responsibilities.

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We want unrestrained freedom to indulge our appetites as if these were constitutional rights.

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No, your appetite is not a constitutional right. We want to indulge our sexual appetites in every

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manner imaginable and then abort the mistakes so that no one needs to be saddled with a baby.

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As Obama used to put it, we are swiftly becoming a nation of slaves chained to desires that were

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meant to be safely and happily answered in the exclusive bonds of monogamous marriage between a

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man and a woman. We want to indulge the appetite of our greed such that both business and government

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conspired to bankrupt this generation and our children, as evidenced by our descent into

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financial recession. And we are swiftly becoming a nation of slaves to chained to the desire to

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possess all our eyes lay sight of and possess it now. The Bible says the borrower is slave to the lender.

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And the more we borrow against the future, the more we will be slaves to it, dear listener.

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This is why I keep coming back to this theme that our nation in its present condition is not ready

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for the kind of liberty envisioned by our founders. What is a precondition for it is a complete reformation

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of the hearts and souls of individual Americans before the collective heart and soul of our nation

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is ready for liberty. Oh, only then will we be fit to keep the constitution our founders gave us.

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What will continue to happen in the meantime is what we see increasingly, our descent into tyranny.

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It is an ineluctable law of nature. If you behave like a beast, you will need to be controlled like a beast.

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And only a tyrant can do this effectively. If you behave like a sexual animal, you will need to be

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restrained like an animal. If you go prowling after another's property like an animal, stealing and

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forging like a Wall Street wolf, you will need to be restrained like an animal. If you kill and brutalize

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like an animal, whether it is in your family or in the streets, you will need to be restrained like an

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animal. And as our culture and our entire nation becomes more bestial, we should not be surprised to see the

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requisite restraints demanded by people as they groan under the weight of the beasts in the land. We have a

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nation of beasts, whether it's in Congress or whether it's in the streets. A strange and fascinating dynamic

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begins to take place, dear listener. They will wish to indulge their own bestial appetites, but when the

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ensuing pain and chaos overtakes the people, they will long for some restraint on the bestial behavior of

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the other guy. And as long as these beasts are few and far between, as they have been in the past in a

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republic, it can survive. But after a certain threshold is reached, and I submit to you, we've reached that

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threshold. And beasts become the rule and not the exception in our land. Then only a tyrant can answer

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those needs of restraint. Only a tyrant can impose the kind of law and order such bestial chaos requires

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in a bestial society. Ben Franklin says, only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become

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corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. Unquote. Oh, that sounds like the voice of experience,

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doesn't it? Ben Franklin saw it play out in Great Britain. And it was playing out in America, too,

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for that matter. Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom, Franklin says. He says, as nations become

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corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters. Franklin understood this law of nature. If you behave

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like a beast, you'll need to be controlled like a beast. Bestial nations, as America is increasingly

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becoming, bestial nations require beast masters. That's precisely what we will get unless and until we

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become, in Franklin's words, a virtuous people. True virtue. As only one source, dear listener,

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I submit to you, the God of heaven and earth, the God of the Bible and his son, Jesus Christ.

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Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except through me.

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In Christ, we find our spiritual life. It is Christ coming to us in the Holy Spirit who first brings

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us from spiritual death to spiritual life so that we are able to see with spiritual eyes and hear with

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spiritual ears. The Bible comes alive to us and we long for the company of God's people and we seek to

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change our lives into the pattern of the blessed one who saved us. And we seek to be like him and

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become Christ's disciples. Now, no one better epitomizes repentance and reformation like the

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gospel character, Zacchaeus. He was a rich tax collector in Jericho, which meant that he was

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both dishonest and roundly hated in the world of his day. Just as in our own day, the locals groaned

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under the heavy burden of taxation the Romans imposed upon them. But when Jesus called this man, Zacchaeus,

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to repentance and salvation, he underwent a complete reformation of character. He became, if you will,

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a virtuous citizen. On account, as the account notes for us, excuse me, Zacchaeus gave half of his goods

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to charity and he restored all that he had taken dishonestly. He restored it fourfold. Can you imagine

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the great spiritual awakening that would happen in America if every citizen underwent this kind of

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conversion? And note Jesus' blessing on him too. Then from Luke chapter 19, he said, today salvation has

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come to this house since he also is a son of Abraham. For the son of man came to seek and to save the lost.

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Dear listeners, this year's state here today, are you one of the lost whom Jesus seeks? All of us feel

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like this occasionally, don't we? We behave like beasts. But is this characteristic of your entire life?

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Do you feel like your life is lost in a continuous downward spiral of bestial behavior soon to end?

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Oh, the lives of beasts are short and miserable, aren't they? Well, if this is the case with you, if you sense

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that not only America at large, but in your own life, you are heading down the path of the lost beast

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with your bestial behavior, then I invite you to come to Christ this day and trust in him as your only

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Lord and Savior. Then and only then will you become a virtuous citizen as well of the greatest republic God

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has made on the face of the earth. And more importantly, you will become a glorious, virtuous citizen

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of God's eternal kingdom. That's far more important. God's eternal kingdom, the kingdom of our Lord and

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Savior Jesus Christ. Believe in this one today. For the Son of Man, as he told Zacchaeus, the Son of Man

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came to seek and to save the lost. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian

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Church. New Geneva meets for holy worship at 10 a.m. on Sunday. And we indeed do celebrate the liberty

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that we have under our constitution and we revere our constitution, but we preach the word of God as

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well on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. Perhaps you've been

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thinking of crossing our threshold and visiting us. We encourage you to do so. You'll find a warm

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welcome and you'll find an opportunity to worship the Savior in spirit and in truth. We meet for a

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worship at 10 a.m. on Sunday at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. You can call us for

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more information and feedback at 208-523-0196. That's 208-523-0196.