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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

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life and faith. And today, why is America blithely unaware of our slide into the new

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American slavery? Yes, for the next couple of weeks, that'll be my theme, the new American

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slavery. Slavery. Does that sound like an exaggeration or hyperbole or even an oxymoron,

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right? Americans and slavery just don't go together. Americans have never been slaves.

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We immediately and instinctively retort, don't we? We fought the British for our liberty. We've

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been fighting stubbornly ever since. We are, after all, the land of the free and the home of the brave,

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right? Now, in many ways, this protest is true. At various periods in our history, we've been true to

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our roots and we fought for our freedom. But it misses one important phenomenon, and that is

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incrementalism. That is change by slow degrees over time. Change so slow, no one really notices it

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happening. It's the old frog in the kettle metaphor, right? Drop a frog in a boiling pot of water,

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or he'll immediately leap out. Put him in a pot of cold water and gradually raise the temperature,

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and he won't even notice it until it's too late, and he is one boiled frog. Well, I submit that

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Americans are like that frog in the kettle, slowly having the temperature of our tyranny raised until

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we are one boiled frog. And we don't have a lot of time to jump out either. There are those who have

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been turning up the temperature of our slavery incrementally for decades now, and we are gradually

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reaching the boiling point. Perhaps our servitude will become clearer if we know exactly what a slave

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is. I quote from the book, Slavery, A World History by Milton Meltzer, and he defines a slave as,

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a slave is a man who is the property of another. Very simply put, a slave is a man who is the property

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of another. Banish the simplistic American image of race slavery in our past, the vast plantations of

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the South in the 19th century with black men picking cotton in the fields and black women

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cooking and nannying the children from Massa in the big house, right? American race slavery was these

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things and more, but in the vast scope of human history, slavery encompassed so much more, and we'll

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touch on it so we can get a closer look at what is happening to us as a people here in the United

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States. But foundational to slavery, foundational as practiced everywhere by all men and nations at all

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times in history is this principle. A slave is one man who is the property owned, possessed at the

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complete disposal of another man with all that that entails. In fact, Meltzer's opening chapter in his

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book is immediately challenging. That first chapter is thing or person, a book on slavery, thing or person,

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right? And I urge all of us to pause and consider the evidence before dismissing the new American

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slavery as some sort of conspiracy theory. Once again, if I'm a conspiracy theorist in your mind,

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then you are a naive, brainwashed Pollyanna. We are sliding into slavery. Consider, for example,

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number one, slavery is not the exception in history, but rather the rule of history. We're merely sinking

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back into the rule rather than the exception. Slavery is not the exception in history, but rather the rule

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of history. Most Americans have no patience with history and think that they can live without it.

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Such people are doomed to repeat it, including the chapters on being slaves. That's very close.

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Most Americans living today and their children and their children's children will be slaves.

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This is almost a certainty with the alacrity with which our soon-to-be masters are moving. But these

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slave masters in the 21st century, they are not singular monsters who have suddenly appeared on the

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stage of history. No! They are as old as Pharaoh, who made slaves of the Israelites. The modern masters

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are as old as Nimrod, who made slaves of the Chaldeans and forced them to build the Tower of Babel.

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Our modern slave masters are as old as the serpent in the garden, who made slaves of our first parents,

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Adam and Eve. Slavery has constituted the norm of how men live from the earliest mists of time,

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and it's no different today. We are fundamentally the same in nature as we were then. Slavery will

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characterize our future. Historians have unearthed evidence of some primitive men forcing other men to

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work their fields and husband their animals soon after we transitioned from nomadic hunter-gatherers to

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settled farmer shepherds. And that evidence goes back some 10,000 years. Slavery stretching over 10,000

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years. That evidence is sparse at first, but accumulates steadily until we come to the Sumerian

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cultures of Mesopotamia, about 3,000 BC, and then the evidence floods upon us. Sumer was composed of a

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small class of princes, priests, and soldiers, with a vast majority of men being chattel slaves. Chattel,

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that means property, property of the upper class. Most men were property of the upper class. Such

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would be the basic pattern of civilization worldwide now for millennia. So, always keep in mind as you

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ponder the future, dear listener, and say it can't happen here. Au contraire. Always keep in mind what is

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foundational to slavery. He is property to another, and this has been going on for millennia. The slave

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is property of another. Meltzer says, once again, in his book, he says, to possess something, to hold

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property, means to have unlimited power over it. The slave is subject to his master, not just to his

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authority, but to the full exercise of his master's power. This is coming upon you and me, dear listener.

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Consequently, the slave is treated as other property is treated. Meltzer, once again, says, like cattle,

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a slave can be bought, sold, hired out, exchanged, given as a gift, or inherited. For, in theory, a slave

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is legally not a person. In most cultures, he had no individual rights and has enjoyed no legal protection.

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The law bothers with him only to ensure his complete subjection to his master, unquote. Now,

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men were made slaves for a variety of reasons, even as we will be made slaves, but for the very same

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reasons. Men were made slaves when they went into debt to another. Debt slavery was outlawed in England

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and then in America many centuries ago, but it's coming back in our ability to have to pay

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in debt, pay with whatever means necessary. Or men were made slaves when they committed a crime

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against another or against society or when they were caught up in the dragnet of slave hunters who would

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prey upon whole villages and whole regions, sometimes, of a particular continent. This happened in Africa.

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But most often, slaves were either captives of war or else, later in a civilization's history, as

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civilizations matured, slaves were born into slavery as a child then of another slave. The master inherited

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the children of his slaves. There was no escape either for most slaves, no escape, no upward mobility

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to look forward to, no way out of a life of servitude except death. Slavery was ubiquitous throughout our

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history as a human race, dear listener. Slaves built the pyramids in cities of the Nile. In Egypt,

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slaves tilled the terraced hills of Greece and they built the Parthenon of Athens. Slaves manned the oars

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of the ships of war in Carthage. Slaves composed almost two-thirds of the population of Rome during the

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empire and they did everything from blow the nose of the emperor to dig in the mines of Las Medulas.

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One of the most notorious mines where life expectancy was very short. Slavery was an integral part of

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every civilization and culture in history, dear listener. It was a given. It was assumed to be

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the natural state of mankind and still is, if you consider the broad sweep of history and the broad

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sweep of thinking, even in modern 21st century humanity. Slavery is assumed to be the natural state of

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mankind by not only the master, but also by the slave himself. Once again, Mr. Meltzer puts it this

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way. He says, how much slavery was taken for granted can be judged from the absence of discussion

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in ancient literature. Slavery existed in every society as a vital part of economic life, yet most

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ancient authors did not write about it as a problem. They may have conjectured about its origin or

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detailed the slave's life, but few imagined it was possible to abolish it. Unquote. Slavery was the

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way of life in the ancient world. It's an important fact to keep in mind when we come to consider a

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thing like the abolition movement in 19th century America. It was then that slavery as an institution

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was challenged on Christian principles. It was then that men and women imagined that it was possible

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to abolish slavery altogether from the experience of mankind, but not so for the bulk of our history.

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Slavery is the norm, not the exception in the history of mankind. Well, secondly, we must also consider

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that man is cursed with a slave mentality, making him susceptible to being either a master or a slave.

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Yes, this is the general composition of the inside of man. Man is cursed with a slave mentality,

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making him susceptible to being either a master or a slave. And it's important to include the master

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as part of slave mentality, for slavery could not exist without the attitude of one man presuming to

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have the right of property over another. To have a slave, one requires a master. But it is of a whole

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that the mentality or the state of the spirit, we might say, is one of slavery. Your modern masters

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rely upon this baseline mentality, dear listener. Your modern masters rely on this for most men

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in order for their system of modern American slavery to work. Slavery does not work if the slave

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refuses to comply and cannot be persuaded or forced to comply. But fortunately for the masters throughout

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history, the vast swath of mankind is already predisposed not to freedom, but to slavery. That

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is the sad commentary on our race. The slave complies with all of the indignities of his state because of

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three reasons. Number one, the slave complies with all of his indignities because the consequences

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for not doing so are perceived to be harsher than those for complying to the command of the master.

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These consequences could be anything from not getting his bowl of gruel that night to being whipped and

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beaten all the way to being disposed of altogether, ultimately in death. Americans are facing this

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quandary as the state grows in its tyranny and brings consequences, punishes Americans, not for a lack

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of compliance to law, but punishes its citizens for lack of compliance to mere dictates of a president,

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for example, or a mayor or a governor of a state or even a health official who has really no legislative

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power or enforcement power at all. This tyranny is a red flag for the sure state of the new American

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slavery. Well, number two, the slave also complies with all of the indignities of his state because

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the slave perceives that he has no personal power or resources to alter or abolish his present

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circumstances and institute new ones for himself. The perceptions of the slave is that he's powerless,

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resourceless to change anything. The slave's strength is limited to that of his own person,

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and he has not the time nor resources to plan or execute a strategy for freedom. That's been the

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case for millennia. It is the old, what can I do alone syndrome, right? What can I do alone all by

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myself? Ah, the slave is too busy laboring for his next meal to worry about freedom. We see this

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situation quickly developing in America with our supply lines breaking down, inflation, excuse me,

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inflation literally taking food off of our tables. Americans are quickly being reduced to giving all

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of their strength, energy, and resources to just simply feeding themselves and their families. That in

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and of itself is an infallible sign of the new American slavery. And then thirdly, the slave

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complies with all of the indignities of his state because finally, the slave resorts to the default

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setting of the human heart, that of habit, or what we call today the normalcy bias, that this is the way

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things are, always happen, and always will be. That sense of the normalcy bias, of habit, stems from a

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lack of imagination, that things could possibly be any different. A slave has been told the gods have

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ordained these things to be so, or that because this is the way our ancestors have done things,

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that this is the way we must do them, right? The slave then becomes a prisoner of his own mind,

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preferring to let things proceed the way they are because they're safe and they're known,

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and they don't involve the risk of non-compliance, we mentioned earlier, or the risk of self-reliance.

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I have to rely on myself, that's the good old American way of freedom, but it is not the way

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of slave mentality. The slave tells himself that he can't rely on himself, but has something he must

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rely upon from massa, if you will, or just the plain scary unknown. The slave becomes a prisoner of his

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own mind. Americans are lapsing into this default setting of the human soul, and they're doing it very

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quickly. Previous generations of Americans were taught, and they were groomed for liberty in their

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schools, in their churches, and their families. It was an American principle, wasn't it? But now,

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the old shadow of habit creeps upon us. The normalcy of slavery returns in the shape of the new

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American slavery. Now, it is important to note the direct cause of the slave mentality, and that is,

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of course, the fall of mankind in our first parents, Adam and Eve. In our high-handed rebellion against

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the one who created us, the human race gained not our freedom, but our slavery. By falling prey to sin,

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we become slaves of sin. Jesus himself tells us, truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices

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sin is a slave to sin. So, if, as the abolitionists of the 19th century America tell us, chattel slavery

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is a sin, well, then it, of itself, is a product of the sin nature, chattel slavery. The sin mentality,

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which is intrinsic to our nature as a race. Slavery exists because we are predisposed by our fallen sin

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nature to practice slavery, to live in it, to make of it an institution of our respective civilizations,

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yea, to be slaves ourselves. What else can we do as slaves to sin? But to sin, and sin by doing

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chattel slavery. So, dear listener, do not be so proud as to think that you cannot succumb to that

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ancient predisposition towards a slave mentality. It can happen to us all unless we indeed are educated,

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redirected, groomed to be free men and women. That idea of an intrinsic slave mentality, a predisposition

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towards it, it's wired into our nature, and it must be transformed out of us. And we'll deal with that

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more a little bit later. But it is indeed, just a tease here, it is indeed through Christ and Christ

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alone that we are transformed from slavery into liberty. And the most freest, and the most free,

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excuse me, the most free countries in history have been those that have been under the rule of Christ

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and under the influence of Christian culture. That is a fact. Well, then thirdly, we must also note that

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slavery was, is now, and always will be the most profitable business on the planet. Excuse me,

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let me say that again. Slavery was, is now, and always will be the most profitable business

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on the planet. Oh, this all too pertinent fact was brought home to me recently by the scholar

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Catherine Austin Fitz. Catherine Austin Fitz, F-I-T-T-S, who is a currency expert and author

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of the publication, The Solari Report. I encourage you to resource her. She maintains that slavery is,

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was, and always will be the most profitable enterprise ever, bar none. Wall Street,

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big oil, big pharma, even a soft job in Congress, cannot compare to the rich returns of slavery.

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And this is being made manifest before our eyes in our own day. For example, just one example,

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at our southern border, as the Mexican cartels trade in human slaves for their sex, labor, and drugs.

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Oh, exacting a man's labor for one's own benefit, and then giving him nothing in return,

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is hugely profitable. It's slavery. Exacting a man's labor for one's own benefit, and then giving

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him nothing in return, is hugely profitable. And this has been evident to men very early in our

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history, whether he has had the chance to sit down and chart this fact on a ledger or not. It is the old

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illusion of getting something for nothing. Although we'll see that this apparent abiding truth

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is, in reality, an illusion. You don't get anything for nothing. A price is always paid for one man

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enslaving another. Both men pay a price. Once again, Meltzer says this about the effect of slavery

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on both men. He says, for both, it is a moral disaster. Keep that in mind just briefly. Slavery for

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both master and slave is a moral disaster. We'll expand on this here in the future. But for now,

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we must consider why masters are motivated to enslave their fellow man as property. It is for profit,

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nothing else. For example, the scholar Kenneth M. Stamp. That's a double P, S-T-A-M-P-P. Kenneth

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Stamp. In his book, The Peculiar Institution, Slavery in the Antebellum South, Mr. Stamp goes

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through a whole list of reasons why Southerners justified Negro race slavery. For example, because

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the black African was made by his nature to be a slave. That was one reason they gave. Or that God

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had ordained that the black African slave was to be civilized by the white man through slavery. Or

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that because the best of Western life and culture could never exist without slavery. But after all

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was said and done, Stamp concludes this after popping those balloons of illusion, Stamp concludes this,

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and I quote, the pathos in the life of every master lay in the fact that slavery had no philosophical

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defense worthy of the name, that it had nothing to commend itself to posterity, except that it paid,

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unquote. Very succinctly put, nothing. Slavery in the South, and I would submit to you, slavery across time

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throughout the millennia has had nothing to commend itself to posterity, except that it paid. That's the

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essence of the pursuit of slavery is profit. It's true throughout history, and it's true today.

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After chronicling the rise of Italy's Renaissance culture and economy, once again, Meltzer puts it

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this way. He says, in Renaissance Italy, traders from Europe and the Levant brought silks, carpets,

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furs, spices, and timber, and sold wines, figs, linen, and woolens. But the most profitable commodity

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of all was slaves. Yes, that has been true, not only in Renaissance Italy, but all through history.

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The reason why your masters now today are hurting you, they're manipulating you into slavery, is precisely

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because it is the most profitable enterprise ever, bar none. It is the ultimate form of business success,

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guaranteed to control the market for profits. Oh, do you remember, have you heard what Klaus Schwab,

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the chairman of the World Economic Forum, has said about us in the future, about the great swath of mankind

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here coming in the future under the Great Reset? Under the Great Reset, Klaus Schwab says,

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you will own nothing, have nothing, and you will be happy. The temerity of this man. You will own nothing,

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have nothing, and you will be happy. Oh, you get that? Be happy or else, right? The beatings will continue

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until morale improves. That's the upshot of what Klaus Schwab is telling you. You will own nothing,

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have nothing, and you will be happy. That's a summary of the Great Reset. And what does that

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sound like to you, huh? What does that sound like? Yes, it sounds like slavery, doesn't it? That's

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precisely the condition of slaves from the beginning, from millennia. You own nothing, you have nothing,

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but you're expected to be happy. You are being made poorer, dear listener, through inflation, aren't you?

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Your dollar is worth far less because of government spending. You, dear listener, are being brought

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closer to having nothing, as Mr. Schwab says. You are being brought closer to having nothing by supply

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line shortages. Actual goods, physical goods, are becoming less and less and dira and dira. You are

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closer to having your liberty of movement severely restricted, as all slaves had. They couldn't move

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about as they pleased. You are coming closer and closer to having your liberty of movement

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severely restricted through high gas prices and interruptions and inconveniences in air travel,

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for example. And you are being brought to the brink of debt slavery, too, with impossibly high mortgages,

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credit card balances, high taxes, the whole panoply of the expenses of living in the modern world.

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And in addition, the cost of noncompliance, too, to the state is getting higher and higher. Oh,

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the so-called whip tactic of the slave master, costs for noncompliance. And this is guaranteed,

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dear listener, if your guns are taken away, if indeed the state is successful in taking away your last

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bastion of defense, that is your arms, your guns. If these go away, then swiftly your liberty will go

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away as well. And the slavery, which is coming upon all of us, if something is not done to intervene,

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that slavery will come upon us very swiftly. So these are just a few of the things, and I'll cover

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others. Next week, for instance, liberty is the all too rare exception. If slavery is the norm,

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then liberty is the exception, right? And we'll cover other items here, indicators of how we are

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moving into the new American slavery. And stand with me. Become aware of these things, dear listener.

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Become aware of the new American slavery coming upon us, and let us find liberty. We find liberty,

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first and foremost, in Christ Jesus. The first liberty is spiritual liberty, and we find liberty there in

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him first and foremost, and then it spreads to our families, to our churches, and to our nation as

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well. Our founding fathers understood this, and we need to understand this as well as we battle the new

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American slavery. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

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We meet for holy worship on Sunday. Come and join us Sunday mornings at 10 a.m., and we meet at

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101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard, and you can call us for more information at area code

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208-523-0196. 208-523-0196.