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

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moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith.

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Today, what is principle 26 of the Constitution that is explicated, that is explained,

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that is enlarged upon in the book, The 5,000-Year Leap? Now, if this is the first lesson you've

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heard on this topic, let me commend to you the book, The 5,000-Year Leap. It is a book that

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asserts correctly that humanity has taken a leap of progress in every arena of human endeavor

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that is intellectual, scientific, technological, economic, and social, and has done that more in

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the last 230-plus years of the existence of the United States than in the last 5,000 years of

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human history. That's a pretty sweeping assertion, isn't it? Well, there's a reason for that.

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It's because the creation of and the opportunities offered by the Constitution of the United States

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of America. What has created the richest, most productive economy that the world has ever seen?

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Oh, the economic liberties created by the Constitution of our nation. What has given us

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the greatest religious liberties in the history of the world? Oh, it is the Constitution of the

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United States of America with its special amendment guaranteeing religious freedom. What has enabled

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men to freely develop their talents and genius, creating everything from the steam engine to the

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automobile to the atomic bomb? Oh, once again, the Constitution of the United States of America

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that guarantees the right to every man, his ideas, in patents and in profits. On and on we could go.

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Our Constitution has struck the perfect balance between the necessity of a modicum of government

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with the widest possible freedom for him to pursue his interests and passions without interference from

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the government. How the ancients would have given a right arm for this document. Yet God in his

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providence has given it to us, and we are its stewards for the duration of our pilgrimage upon earth.

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What the book, The 5,000-Year Leap, has done is distill the principles of that Constitution. Oh,

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in our summary of them, we have made our way through the first 25 and now come to principle 26. And you

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may acquire this book from the National Center for Constitutional Studies. Their website is nccs.org.

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Well, principle 28 is, the core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family. Therefore,

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the government should foster and protect its integrity. Oh, how we need to hear this and assert

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this again and again and again, dear listener. The core unit which determines the strength of any

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society is the family. Therefore, the government should foster and protect its integrity. But our

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government is doing just the opposite these days, isn't it? If this principle is true, then someone

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should break the news to our rulers in Washington, D.C. Lately, they seem to be doing everything they

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can to corrupt and destroy the family. Consequently, they're also corrupting and destroying the core of

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society as well, are they not? Oh, very few people understand today the centrality of the family

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to all of civilized society. And this is primarily due to the modern secular religion of progressivism

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that has as its holy trinity tolerance, diversity, and radical egalitarianism, which asserts the

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complete level equality without distinction in every area of civilization, right? Diversity, equity,

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and inclusion, right? That's also another byword amongst progressives these days. Well, owing to this last

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member of the trinity, radical legalitarianism, the individual is supreme. The individual's needs and wants

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and fulfillment are uppermost regardless of the cost to anyone around them, even the closest of family. We have

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already observed this for generations in high divorce rates, child abuse, a whole spectrum of addictions

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that drain a family of its resources. If such mothers, fathers, and children understood how they have

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been groomed by our radically socialist culture to focus on self in complete disregard for family,

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they would rightly feel betrayed and begin to change their way of life. This goes for that new subclass

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of child that has been abused by the system and having sex change operations performed on them,

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filled with drugs because they think that they might be another gender. On and on the damage goes and the

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destruction goes in the lives of individuals because they pursue a radical individualism rather than

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seeing themselves in a place of family. Now, our founding fathers rightly understood the centrality

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of family, while tyrants have always understood that tyranny cannot be achieved without first destroying the

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family. Karl Marx plainly taught in documents like Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto that in order

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for communism to succeed, it must first destroy, number one, private property, number two, religion,

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and number three, the family. About the family, Marx says, bourgeois marriage is in reality only a system of

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wives in common. What communists seek to introduce is an openly legalized system of free love, unquote.

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Free love didn't begin in the 60s. Free love began with Karl Marx. This they proposed to do through what

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Marx termed a community of women. Oh, a community of women which would serve the needs of men and, where

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necessary, bear children for the state. However, even this proposal did not always meet with warm applause,

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even in communist circles. As the Communist Manifesto notes in frustration, it says, quote,

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abolition of the family, even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the communists,

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unquote. So it's not even popular with all communists. Well, our founders could not be

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further down the spectrum than such tyrants in their view of the family. One of my favorite

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summaries is from the Connecticut Constitution, which was written in 1639, all the way back then.

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The Connecticut Constitution declares in its first article, quote, the scriptures hold forth a perfect

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rule for the direction and government of all men in all duties, which they are to perform towards God

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and men, as well in families and common wells, as in matters of the church, unquote. Now, here we have

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not only the role of the Bible in the formation of our Constitution, which was drawn on heavily by our

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founding fathers, but the three great covenants, which organize civilizations, three great covenants,

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and those are the family covenant, the church covenant, and the civil covenant. The Bible directs

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families and commonwealths, as in matters of the church, as the Connecticut Constitution puts it.

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But perhaps no one has stated it better than the founder, Elias Boudinot, who lived from 1740 to 1821.

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Boudinot was a congressman from New Jersey and president of the Continental Congress. He said,

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quote, good government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people

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degenerate, their political character must soon follow. Good government begins in the family,

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dear listener. This is precisely because we in the West understood with the principles of the Bible

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that family is the basic building block of civilization, not the individual. Alone,

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the individual perishes. In family, he thrives. There are a number of reasons why God determined to

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make of the family the fundamental building block of earthly society and government. First of all,

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number one, husband and wife reflect the image of God. Husband and wife truly reflect the image of God.

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As clearly revealed in the Bible, husband and wife taken together represent the image of God and man.

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Genesis 5, verses 1 and 2 puts it this way, when God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.

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Male and female, he created them, and he blessed them and named them man when they were created, unquote.

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It was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve or Eve and Evelyn, that represented the completed image of God.

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It is one man and one woman taken together in the lifelong bond of marriage that represents the

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very image of God, not a homosexual relationship, a transsexual relationship, a man with man or

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lesbian relationship, woman with woman, or more than one or two. Any other construction is a distortion of

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that image, dear listener. Well, secondly, the second reason why God determined to make the family

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the building block of earthly society and government. Number two, husband and wife accurately model

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Christ and his church. Husband and wife accurately model Christ and his church. The apostle Paul

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unfolds the fact that the husband is a mini picture of Christ, while the wife is a mini picture of

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Christ's bride, the church. He observes, Paul does in Ephesians chapter 5, husbands love your wives as

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Christ loves the church. As the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their

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husbands. Now, this is so because in a unique way, the husband and wife relationship mirrors that of

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Christ with his church. It is tender and loving and unique and exclusive between the two parties.

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It is not two Christ in a gay relationship that's meant to be modeled here on earth. It's not two

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churches in a lesbian relationship that is meant to be modeled here on earth. No, it is the husband as

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a model of Christ and the wife as a model of the church that is to be modeled in the family. So make no

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mistake about this, dear listener. Gay marriages, trans marriages, trans families, and lesbian marriages,

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trans families distort the model given in the Bible. Thus, they distort the very notion of family

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to any civilization and society. These kinds of relationships should be resisted at every

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level and every societal structure. Well, the third reason why God has chosen to make the family

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the fundamental building block of earthly society and government is, number three, the family is the

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economic engine of all society. The family is the economic engine of all of society. Yes, the family

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becomes the prime motivator for a man to go out and wrest a living from a reluctant creation, for a wife

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to sacrifice in order to nurture her husband and children, and the reason for children to help enrich the

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family and model their lives on their parents' example, passing on a heritage and way of life. In every example

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one can cite from Genesis to Revelation, property is exclusively familial and was designed by God to be so.

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Property is familial. Land and property for Adam and his descendants was passed on from father to son.

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Land and property for Abraham and his son was passed on from father to son. Land and property in Israel was

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exclusively held within the clan and family. The whole purpose of the year of Jubilee, for example, celebrated every

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49 years, was that every square inch of land and property was to be returned to the original family of origin

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as designed and given in its original disbursement in the conquest. Oh, even a superficial reading of the

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Pentateuch reveals that God cherishes and designates the family as the primitive building block of any nation's

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economy. Well, the fourth reason why God has chosen to make the family the fundamental building block of

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earthly society and government is the family is the political engine for all of society. The family is the

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political engine for all of society. A republican form of government, that is a representative form of

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government, existed in Israel that began with a foundational building block, not of the individual,

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but of the family whose vote was represented by the father or patriarch. And this is made crystal clear

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in the Pentateuch with prescriptions for representation according to families. For example,

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in Deuteronomy 16, you shall appoint judges and officers in all your towns that the Lord your God is giving

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you according to your tribes, and they shall judge the people with righteous judgment. In those tribes,

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it was the father or patriarch who cast the vote, not each and every individual. Government was federal or

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republican in nature. The family was represented by the father who cast his vote for the entire family as a unit.

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And number five, the fifth reason why God has chosen to make the family the fundamental building block of

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earthly society and government is the family is the creative engine for all of society. The family is the creative

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engine for all of society. The family literally creates new citizens of both heaven and earth by virtue of its

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ability to birth and nurture and prepare children for life in the city of heaven and the city of man. Angels, as

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beautiful and powerful as they may be portrayed in the Bible, still cannot reproduce after their kind and make

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new baby angels. In this regard, man is unique. We are, in a sense, co-creators with God insofar as we

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reproduce after our kind and make little basses and smiths and joneses. This is reflected decisively in the

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creation mandate. Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of

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the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living creature that moves on the earth, as

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Genesis 128 says. We are ensouled creatures who have the unique ability to create out of our own bodies

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other ensouled creatures. How awe-inspiring, how full of wonder this privilege is as a human.

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All praise must go to God for having designed and created such a thing. We create from nothing little

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boys and girls who were not there before and then prepare them for a brief life here upon the earth

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and an eternal life with God in the heavenlies by introducing them to their Savior, Jesus Christ.

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Any model of marriage and family that does not reflect this ability and necessity is an unholy

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distortion. My challenge to the gay community still stands. You go to an island with your homosexual

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families and we will go to an island with our heterosexual families and within a generation

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we'll see who has thrived and survived with great posterity. By definition, the homosexual and

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lesbian communities cannot create families but must prey upon us breeders, as you call us, if you are

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going to perpetuate yourselves and your culture. You must rely on deception and recruitment within the

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head of sexual community in order to survive. In this way, the homosexual becomes a drag and a parasite

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and a predator upon the body politic of any civilization. In the face of all these realities,

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it becomes apparent why the radical socialist progressives among us find it utterly necessary

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to destroy the family in order to establish the socialist workers' paradise. As long as the five

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elements of the family endure in a society, that society thrives and prospers. If a people hates

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and seeks to destroy such a god and culture, then it must first destroy the pillars of that god and

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culture. In the case of the United States of America, it must destroy the family as we have

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known it. How successful has the social progressive among us been in destroying the family? Oh, just look

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at what has happened. Insofar as the United States has accommodated the gay agenda, for example, or the

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trans agenda, it has weakened the family. To those who ask, what's so bad about tolerating gays and gay

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families and trans and transsexuals? Well, live and let live, I say. It doesn't hurt me and my family

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to have gay marriages and trans marriages and families living next to me. To that, we must say,

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think again. Look for a moment how it does hurt you. All of the factors just noted for you that

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constitute a free society are under attack by the gay agenda. Remember, families not only live next door

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to you, but by definition, they are always modeling and exemplifying for you and your children the

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lifestyles they espouse. Your children are watching and learning. Do you want them persuaded of the gay

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lifestyle? They are being deliberately recruited by these people, by these cultures. Make no mistake

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about this, young father and mother. Part of the agenda for the gay and trans community is recruitment,

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since by definition, they cannot reproduce after their own kind. They need to recruit your children

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if they are to perpetuate their way of life and culture to the next generation. Biblical Christianity

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is also under attack and is now considered hate speech by the progressive community. Your freedom

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to practice your religious faith and speak freely on these issues is now threatened by speech codes and

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hate crime legislation. Even now, the power of the state is being marshaled to stifle opinion and dissent

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under the PC euphemisms hate speech and hate crime. Private property created and handed down to

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posterity in families is under attack as the very definition of family and is altered, dear listener.

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Where does your wealth go? Under our increasingly socialist economy. Oh, it goes to these groups.

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Additionally, we see increasingly where the real hate is with a passage of measures like Proposition 8

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in California, defining marriages between one man and one woman. You remember the resistance to that so

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long ago? And now the trans protective legislation where you can go to jail for speaking ill of

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transsexuals and their way of life and their desires for a transitioning, right? Oh, it does matter,

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dear listener. These things do matter to you. And number two, also note, insofar as the United States

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of America has accommodated the culture of death, it has weakened the family. And America has accommodated

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the culture of death. Both abortion at the beginning of life and euthanasia at the end of life have

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seriously chopped away at the pillars of life and family. God intends for us to create new life

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at the start and respect his timing in the taking of life at the end. This is the envelope of life

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whose sides are shrinking at both ends, facilitated by our courts and culture instead of respecting and

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protecting life's integrity. When we destroy life in the womb at the beginning with abortion and

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infanticide, and then we destroy life in hospice at the end of life with euthanasia, we cause the

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culture of death to thrive. America increasingly is becoming a culture of death. That is a culture

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where death has meted out to those deemed unworthy as once more the ugly, tri-headed griffin of

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tolerance, diversity, and radical egalitarianism, as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion,

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right? In declaring my life to be supreme, radical individual, in following the doctrine,

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others' lives must give way to mine. And so the baby in the womb, if it's too inconvenient for my

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career right now or apt to have a defect or even the wrong sex or eye color, that baby has to go.

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His or her life ripped from the womb. Conversely, if granny is eating away at my inheritance in the

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nursing home, pull the plug. If government health care becomes the law of the land, health care will

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be rationed, and euthanasia will be recommended. You have a great irony here, then. When God is gone

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and my life is supreme, death becomes a culture, not life, as others' lives must give way to mine.

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Thirdly, observe, insofar as the United States has accommodated radical feminism, it has weakened

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the family. Every cultural mandate that pulls a woman away from her husband and children into the

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world weakens the family. This is precisely what the siren song of career and personal success and

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achievement have done to the American woman. Oh, dear listener, a woman's first and primary calling

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is as a wife and mother. Without her, culture collapses, and we can bid adieu to civilization

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as we know it. The old adage, the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world, holds more wisdom than

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we give credit. This is where a woman's true power, authority, and chief joy reside. If the so-called

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liberated woman of contemporary American culture, who has been hypnotized by the golden bauble of male

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achievement as her prize, too, if she would listen once again to the Bible and her own instincts in

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these matters, she would once again take her place as queen of home and hearth, and America would return

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in part to greatness. These are things government should be encouraging and protecting, not the

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blurring of sexes and interchangeability of roles and transsexuality. When government and culture

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encourages women to abandon home and husband for the supposed greener pastures of paycheck and

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profession, that government and culture only weakens itself. Well, fourthly, we must also observe,

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insofar as the United States has accommodated the welfare state, it has weakened the family. How

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insidious and destructive is this component of the progressive in America? When one man offers the

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fruits of another man's labor to one who hasn't earned it, that's the essence of socialism, that one

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undermines a foundational pillar of society, that is, the right of a man to sell his labor in a free, open

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market for a just wage. And like falling dominoes, other consequences ensue, too. That man from whom the

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ability to sell his labor has been deprived is also deprived of the enjoyment of the fruits of his labor,

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unhindered by meddling from the state. His incentive to work and earn is also stolen from him in the process.

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And how corrosive to the spirit of a father and husband. The prime directive and impulse of a man

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is to tame and bring to godly order and otherwise disordered creation, whether it be farming fields,

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damming rivers, or building skyscrapers. Oh, this has been the spirit of America for generations,

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until recently at least. In a desire to fulfill the socialist mandate of Marx and his ilk,

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much of America has gone after the redistribution of wealth as one of the methods of the socialist state.

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And in doing this, families are destroyed in the welfare state. We've seen this in black culture,

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white culture, Hispanic culture, when the wealth generated by a father is seized through increasing taxes

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and redistributed to the enemies of family. Would you tolerate the taking of a portion of your paycheck

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to see it handed over to a neighbor of yours who wanted your current home? In a thousand and one

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ways, your government is set against family, not for it. Can you deny or refute the examples I have given?

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You cannot. The 26th principle of our founding fathers, the core unit which determines the strength

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of any society, is the family. Therefore, the government should foster and protect its integrity.

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Oh, this is being violated egregiously by our government. Our government does not foster and

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protect the family. They insidiously undermine and they are destroying it. You are having the

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constitution piously waved in front of your nose from time to time by those in government. Oh, but behind

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your back, that government and your family is being eroded and destroyed. Judge for yourself,

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dear listener, one of the glories of the gospel is that God saves sinners one by one, individual soul

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by soul. Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and

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is baptized will be saved, as Mark has put it, as one individual soul that has been born from above

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by the power of God through the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. I personally rejoice in

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this. But I also realize that the primary setting for the word and sacraments of the church is not

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society or my own individual apartment, but the family and church. I did not learn Christ as a

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little boy in government-run schools, but on my mama's knee. I did not learn character and the work

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ethic in a government boarding house, but from my father and my uncles. I did not imbibe the rich

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elixir of liberty and free government from what I saw in Washington, D.C., but from my family and

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neighbors growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Dear friend and neighbor listening now, I cannot

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emphasize enough the importance of this 26th principle if we are to reclaim America for her

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constitution. The core unit which determines the strength of any society is the family. Therefore,

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the government should foster and protect its integrity. May you and I labor together to hold

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our government accountable for fostering and protecting the integrity of your family, of my

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family. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. New Geneva meets for

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holy worship at 10 a.m. on Sundays at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard, and you can call us

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for more feedback at 208-523-0196. 208-523-0196.