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

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

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faith. And today, what are the third and fourth principles of our founding fathers when they

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established our Constitution? We have been examining the 28 principles upon which our

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founding fathers framed our Constitution. And last time we looked at principles one and two,

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and today we'd like to examine principles three and four so that you might better understand the

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true basis upon which our republic was founded. And those 28 principles have been distilled from

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the vast array of works and labors of our founding fathers, encompassing everything from readily

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available documents like the Federalist Papers to some perhaps less well-known items like the

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letters of Benjamin Franklin. But make no mistake about this, dear listener, the Constitution you have

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held out before you today by our present administration and progressives when they

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bother to consult it, and even many unknowing conservatives. That Constitution is not the

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Constitution crafted so assiduously and brilliantly by our founding fathers. Progressives like to call

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the Constitution a living, breathing document liable to change and alteration depending upon the needs

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and whims of the times. Oh, but if our Constitution was a living, breathing document, it's more like a

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slimy monster crawling out from the pit of hell. When have you ever seen, indeed, a piece of parchment

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living and breathing? It isn't. It hasn't. Because the Constitution is indeed a written document, a dead

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letter until we make it come alive according to its principles. Our founding fathers saw the Constitution

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as a simple, unchanging charter with a stable meaning. Now, progressives try and convince you

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that the Constitution is a mysterious document shrouded in lofty verbiage that only the exalted seers on

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the Supreme Court can interpret. While in contrast, really, when you think about it, our founding fathers

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actually wrote the Constitution in clear, simple English, meant to be understood and interpreted

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by the common man. That is, you and me. And progressives try and convince you that the Constitution gives

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priority of place to the federal government, the Leviathan, as the source of power and rights. While

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the founding fathers persuasively argued that God was the source of our rights and that power resided first

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in the people, not the federal government. Oh, all of these things, dear listener, and much, much more,

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we intend to elucidate for you in the weeks that follow as we uncover the 28 basic principles upon which

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our founding fathers established the Constitution. And let me acknowledge once again the book from which

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much of this was drawn, and that was the 5,000-year leap written by the late W. Cleon Skousen

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of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, done in cooperation with a number of associate scholars

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also at the National Center for Constitutional Studies. If and when America ever experiences a

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renaissance of the American Constitution, returning to its basic principles, and make God so grant this,

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well then, much of the credit will have to go to men like W. Cleon Skousen,

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and its National Center for Constitutional Studies. These people have done Yeoman's work

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in faithfully preserving the original intent of our founding fathers in regards to the Constitution.

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Now, I urge you to purchase this book and other publications like The Making of America,

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The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution. I used this in our homeschool, The Making of America,

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The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution, another valuable resource, all of which you can find

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at their website, nccs.org, nccs.org. Buy these books! And then also make a generous contribution,

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perhaps, to this group. They are modestly and humbly doing much to restore America to its previous

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status as a constitutional republic. Well, returning to our 28 principles, let me articulate

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principle number three, and that is the most promising method of securing a virtuous and morally stable

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people is to elect virtuous leaders. That makes sense, doesn't it? The most promising method of securing a

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virtuous and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders. Seems pretty obvious on its face,

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but is more complicated than it first appears, especially centuries down the road. For example,

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from whence will we draw a Congress, an executive of virtuous leaders? Where are we going to find them?

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Will we call them from space aliens who visit us in crafts from beyond our galaxy? Oh,

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when we observe men like Joe Biden or women like Nancy Pelosi, who has so much plastic surgery on her face

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that she looks like a space alien anyway, well, then we must conclude that that is a distinct

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possibility. Maybe we can call upon angels from heaven to rule over us. Might that be the source?

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In fact, even James Madison said, if men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to

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govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary, unquote. That's

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from the Federalist Papers, and that was from paper number 51 by James Madison. But the truth is,

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men are not angels, and angels do not rule over us, do they? God has so ordained that we should derive

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our leaders from among our own race of fallen creatures, that is, our fellow men. And so it is

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necessary that we elect virtuous leaders, not scoundrels. But since we are not angels, and angels do not

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rule over us, the obvious possibility also obtains. That is, it is perfectly possible that scoundrels and

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not virtuous men can rule over us. The choice is up to us. We must be discerning. Elect the virtuous

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or the scoundrel. Ah, dear listener, gaze upon the field of men and women who presently rule over us. And tell me we are

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ruled by the virtuous or the scoundrel. Virtue is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary. Virtue is defined as

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moral excellence or goodness. Moral excellence or goodness. Oh, dear listeners, Joe Biden, who has sold his

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soul then to China. Or Mitch McConnell, too, who has married into the high-ranking families of China and

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sold his soul as well. Or Ilhan Omar, who has betrayed America, even though she is a refugee from the Middle

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East. Oh, dear listener, are any of these virtuous men or women? It has recently come to light indeed that

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these are all corrupt people. They have been paid off by China. There are two main strategies that they

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have used. I own Shoryu is the Chinese for financial payoffs, financial corruption. Indeed,

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enlist and undermine American leaders by putting them on the Chinese payroll in one way, shape,

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or form. Or the honeypot, that is sexual compromise. The Chinese have used these two strategies

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very effectively to undermine people like Joe Biden and his son, Hunter Biden, or Mitch McConnell,

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right, married into the families, the rich families of China. Or indeed, Nancy Pelosi,

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whose husband has benefited from Chinese business deals now for decades and decades. So all of these

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have been compromised. And I have detailed this in greater detail in previous broadcasts. And you'll

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find these broadcasts then cataloged on our website where our other radio programs are cataloged as well.

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And you'll find those radio programs at omnispotestas.org. That's O-M-N-I-S-P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S.org. All of these

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previous broadcasts going back five, six years can be accessed at our website, omnispotestas.org.

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O-M-N-I-S-P-O-T-E-S-T-A-S.org. That's Latin for all authority. Omnis protestas. All authority indeed has

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been granted to Jesus Christ. And he indeed has made of us a constitutional republic. Are we going to

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return to our roots? Huh? Oh. Can we call a man or a woman virtuous who has used his or her office of

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power for their own financial advantage or their own pleasure and sexual advantage? I would submit to

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you, no. Not a one of these persons I have demonstrated for you has moral excellence or

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goodness. Rather, all of them and many, many more have behaved like scoundrels, not virtuous men and

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women. And they should all be in jail, not remaining in power, ostensibly there to get us out of the very

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financial and moral and constitution and power and military predicaments that they are responsible

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for getting us in. Our founding fathers understood intuitively that if a man was going to be a servant

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of public virtue, then he had to be a man of private virtue. That is, if he were to be a man who would

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behave in a moral fashion with a public trust, he must be a man who would behave in a moral fashion

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in his own private sphere. If a man would deal honestly with his neighbor in a transaction of

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business, then he would be more likely to deal honestly in a transaction in government with a public

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trust. Private virtue comes before public virtue. Oh, our politicians these days are sad examples of

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an eternal truth. That is, the first qualification is character. The first qualification for public

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service is character. We rarely look at this, do we? When we vote for an official, whatever other skills

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and gifts a man or woman may possess for office, the first and prior qualification is character. So what

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if they're gifted speakers and persuaders? Or if they are master politicians skilled at shepherding

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important legislation through Congress like Nancy Pelosi? Or whether they're experienced jurists who

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know the history of case law, if they are corrupt in their character? Like, indeed, so many of our

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Supreme Court justices are. Oh, it has recently been revealed that substandard rivets used to fasten

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the steel plates of the Titanic. I'm drawing an analogy here. Substandard rivets were used to fasten the

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steel plates of the Titanic. It may have been one of the reasons that the Titanic sank so swiftly with great

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loss of life. Unscrupulous designers, wanting to cut corners and costs, deliberately ordered low-grade

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iron rivets to fasten the outer plates of the skin of the Titanic. And consequently, when she encountered

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the stress of a collision with a North Atlantic iceberg, well, those rivets failed on a massive scale

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that would have not occurred had she been fitted with proper rivets. Seawater rushed in at a rate that

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would have been dramatically slowed had stronger rivets been employed, giving those passengers more

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time to evacuate and rescue vessels to arrive to save them. Oh, such a simple thing. Had the designers been

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men of character, hundreds of lives would have been saved on the Titanic. Well, that's exactly what

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happens in our politics today. Unscrupulous politicians have riveted our economy and our

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military and our destiny, together with substandard fasteners as well, if you will. How different might be

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our nation's destiny if we have the men and women of character in office? Our founding fathers had a

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completely different view of politics in their own day. Our generation has had such a cynical view of

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politics and politicians that it's difficult to capture the dignity and the exalted place given to

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politics by our founders. Both John and Sam Adams considered politics to be a divine science,

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quote-unquote, worthy of pursuit by the best of men, not the worst of men. As John Adams puts it, he says,

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politics are the divine science after all. How is it possible that any man should ever think of making

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it subservient to his own little passions and mean private interests? Ye base-born sons of fallen Adam

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is the end of politics a fortune, a family, a gilded couch, a train of horses, and a troop of livery

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servants, balls at courts, splendid dinners and suppers, unquote. That indeed was John Adams' challenge

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to his own generation. But it does seem to be, indeed, the pursuit of so many in politics today.

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A fortune, a family, a gilded couch, a train, if you will, of limousines rather than horses, or a troop

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of servants, or dances at courts, splendid dinners and suppers. That is indeed to be the object of so

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many in politics today. Are you listening? Politicians of our present day. Politics, the word politics

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derives from the Greek word for city, polis. You can hear the derivative there. Polis was the Greek

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word for city, and politics derives from it. It originally meant, in the ancient Greek city-states,

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it originally meant men who assembled without pay in order to set coherent policy, right, for the

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direction of the greater good of the whole people. Politics, policy, polis, all of this bound together.

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And these disinterested people did this sacrificially, oftentimes at the cost of their own time and

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fortune, not its increase. And our founding fathers envisioned politics in this vein, rather than

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the current one, where every politician seems to be bent upon his own aggrandizement rather than

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the good of his country. Salaries of politicians were set deliberately low, so that the temptation would

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not be to seek office for profits. And conflicts of interest were scrupulously avoided, so that no elected

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official could be seen to be acting so as to benefit himself or his family and friends back home. Oh, John

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Adams puts it this way. He says, I never engaged in public affairs for my own interest, pleasure, envy,

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jealousy, avarice, or ambition, or even the desire of fame. If any of these had been my motive, my conduct

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would have been very different. In every considerable transaction of my public life, I've invariably acted

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according to my best judgment, and I can look up to God for the sincerity of my intentions. Unquote. Oh, this

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should be the oath of office for politicians entering into public service today. Is it too much to ask for

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the modern 21st American politicians to return to this original vision? The sense of entitlement has

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infected not only the people who feel they're entitled to government money and programs, but that

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sense of entitlement has also infected our politicians who feel that to the victory go the spoils, right? And

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because they won, they deserve their turn at the trough, the pigs of public progress. That is precisely why

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the Democrats who have taken over in Washington, D.C. have passed so many stimulus bills, right? And

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trillions and trillions of dollars now in aid, right? It's really less a measure to genuinely stimulate

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a recalcitrant economy as it is a payback to those who got Joe Biden elected. Everyone from the corrupt

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voter fraud groups to the mayors of pet Democrat cities. Make no mistake about this fellow citizen,

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Joe Biden is no more and no less than a run-of-the-mill politician in the mold of others

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like Bush or Clinton or Carter. Well, we must always remember then the most promising method of securing a

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virtuous and morally stable people is to elect virtuous leaders. Let us look to our task, dear listener,

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dear voter, and let us indeed check those we vote for according to this standard. Well, the fourth

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principle then of our Constitution is this. The fourth principle, without religion, the governments of a

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free people cannot be maintained. Without religion, without religion, and the religion in the minds of

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our founding fathers was Christianity. Without religion, the government of a free people cannot be

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maintained. Oh, gee. Oh, hold on a minute. I can almost hear the ACLU rustling their lawsuit forms,

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getting ready to sue me for even thinking this thought. But nevertheless, an American truth,

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it remains, right? Without religion, the government of a free people cannot be maintained. And that religion

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in the minds and hearts of our founding fathers was Christianity. Our founding fathers understood to

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their toenails that genuine human morality cannot exist apart from spiritual supernatural religion.

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Unless a man is convinced that he will have to stand before the almighty God of the Bible and give an

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account for his actions in the afterlife, what motivation will he have for behaving in a moral fashion now?

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Benjamin Franklin put it this way. He said,

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The soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting his conduct

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in this. That's so concisely and aptly put by Benjamin Franklin. The soul of man is immortal

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and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting his conduct in this. Unquote.

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Now, biblical Christianity has as its heart the additional truth that our Savior,

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the Lord Jesus Christ, has lived a perfectly righteous life in our stead and has died for our sins such that

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all those who put their faith in him will be endowed with Christ's very own righteousness.

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And so, when such a man stands before God Almighty upon that day, he will not have to stand in his own

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imperfect righteousness, full faults and shortcomings, condemned to hell by them. No, rather,

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he will be endowed with a righteousness not his own, but that righteousness which is native to and

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glistening with Jesus Christ. The Apostle Paul puts it this way. We are justified by his grace as a gift

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through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood

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to be received. This is part of the good news of the gospel of Christianity. When a person receives

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Christ's righteousness by faith, he stands justified before God. Paul also says,

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we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law, even as Abraham believed God

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and it was counted, that is, imputed to him as righteousness. Even then, the Christian will be

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held accountable before God for his conduct in this life, though. He's saved by grace through faith,

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but is fully expected to respond to that salvation and gratitude by living a life of righteousness.

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Paul says in Ephesians chapter 2, by grace you have been saved through faith, and this is not your own

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doing. It is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one can boast. For we are his workmanship,

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created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them,

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unquote. And so, biblical Christianity has at its core the truth that though we are not saved by our

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good life, we are saved unto a good life. And additionally, the rest of mankind will one day stand

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before God who is seated on a great white throne, as Revelation puts it. And I saw the dead, as John

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says in Revelation, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. And I saw another

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book open, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according

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to what they had done. So, dear listener, there's a day coming when all of us will stand accountable

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before the great God who made us. And those not written in the book of life will be thrown into the

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lake of fire, that is, into hell. That is why, as a preacher, I must appeal to you, while there is still

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time, to respond to the offer of the gospel and receive by faith the salvation offered to you in

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Jesus Christ. For as the Bible says, as Paul says, there is no other name given under heaven by which we

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must be saved. This is the backdrop against which our founding fathers saw the necessity of religion

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in America. With this vital religious faith at work in the lives of citizens, those citizens would

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act in the main, at least with integrity, with actions and behavior shaped by a moral code based upon the

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Bible. With such self-regulated citizens behaving well because they feared God and not the state.

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Oh, true is that of so many of us here in America. So many in America these days fear the state rather

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than God, and they will pay the price at the end. But if we had self-regulated citizens regulated

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according to the scriptures and biblical principle, we would behave well because we feared God and not

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the state. And if that is indeed the case, if that characterizes a people, then, and only then,

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is the widest possible freedom to be granted. A true republic can be entrusted to no other people

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than such a people that is a moral and ethical people. That's what I mean when I say the first

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government is self-government. The very first government is self-government. Without it,

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no other government matters. The biblical Christian has within his inner core then and only then a

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moral compass that directs his actions and his thoughts guided outwardly by the Bible and then

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inwardly by God's Holy Spirit. Oh, dear listener, we need to return to this morality and this religion

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so that we might have as the first government self-government and then we indeed are fit to

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govern our families and then perhaps to govern our own villages and cities and then perhaps our states

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and only then can we aspire to govern nationally when we indeed have self-government that is guided by

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the Bible and biblical principle. Well, I urge you to this and I urge you to ponder these things. We'll

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continue with this fourth principle and finish it off and move on to others then beginning next week

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but let me just remind you that this has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian

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Church and we love the Constitution and we urge that return to it and we also then preach the Lord

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Jesus Christ as the one who indeed has given us true moral principle by which we may live and we urge you

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then to join us for holy worship on Sundays at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard

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and we have a warm and friendly welcome for you and we just urge you to join us and perhaps you've been

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thinking of crossing our threshold and discovering who we are and we indeed are 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 of

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4th and Boulevard and you can call us for more information at area code 208-523-0196. Give me some

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feedback perhaps as well area code 208-523-0196.