1 00:00:04,719 --> 00:00:11,060 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church with a 2 00:00:11,060 --> 00:00:15,880 moment of truth, where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and faith. 3 00:00:16,420 --> 00:00:24,780 And today, I want to challenge you with the understanding that in the euphoria of the recent 4 00:00:24,780 --> 00:00:33,520 election of Donald Trump, can we now relax and go back to old ways of food, fortune, and fun? 5 00:00:33,520 --> 00:00:40,280 Ha ha, yes. We can take a break from paying attention to what's going on among those who 6 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:46,140 govern us, can't we? Well, Trump's got it under control. He'll take care of things, right? Like 7 00:00:46,140 --> 00:00:51,159 the song that FDR used in his presidential campaign when the Great Depression hit, it was 8 00:00:51,159 --> 00:00:58,420 happy days are here again. Is that true for us? Well, of course, as you might gather, I'm exaggerating 9 00:00:58,420 --> 00:01:03,320 what many of us might be thinking or feeling in the wake of Trump's landslide victory 10 00:01:03,320 --> 00:01:09,239 in the recent election, right? We worked so hard, we invested so much time, money, and energy in 11 00:01:09,239 --> 00:01:17,299 taking this life and death step. And this election, we can say without exaggeration, was an existential 12 00:01:17,299 --> 00:01:24,459 moment for our constitutional republic. Well, then, aren't we allowed to relax a little bit and 13 00:01:24,459 --> 00:01:32,780 rest on our laurels? Oh, yes. Rest on our laurels. That's an interesting phrase that applies exactly to 14 00:01:32,780 --> 00:01:41,680 our situation as American citizens. Roman generals would have the fragrant, lushly green laurel branch 15 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:48,680 placed on their brow after significant military victories and campaigns. And it would be done in 16 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:55,560 elaborate ceremonies honoring them. And it was believed that the god Apollo declared the laurel 17 00:01:55,560 --> 00:02:04,319 plant sacred after his true love, the nymph Daphne, was turned into a laurel plant. That's why Apollo was 18 00:02:04,319 --> 00:02:12,599 depicted wearing a crown of laurel. And consequently, a laurel wreath was the appropriate prize for a victor 19 00:02:12,599 --> 00:02:20,419 or a laureate, right? But as the Roman Empire decayed, well, Roman generals grew complacent and lazy, 20 00:02:20,879 --> 00:02:27,699 trusting in and pointing to their laurels as proof of their greatness. But of course, the barbarians who 21 00:02:27,699 --> 00:02:34,960 swept over the Roman Empire cared not a fig about these laurels, and they conquered Rome anyway. Rome was 22 00:02:34,960 --> 00:02:43,219 caught resting on her laurels, and she paid the price in being conquered. Therefore, let that be a cautionary 23 00:02:43,219 --> 00:02:53,400 tale for us. Let us not be caught resting on our laurels at this crucial stage in our history and be conquered 24 00:02:53,400 --> 00:03:01,400 by the deep state. Just because we experienced a significant victory in this last presidential election 25 00:03:01,400 --> 00:03:09,659 does not mean that the war is won. Rather, it means we are now poised to strike with great force our 26 00:03:09,659 --> 00:03:18,020 enemies on every front in the war against tyranny, the evil oppression of the deep state, that is. The beast 27 00:03:18,020 --> 00:03:26,500 must be vanquished. The power we wield is that acknowledged in our constitution, but in reality 28 00:03:26,500 --> 00:03:34,580 granted by our creator, the Lord God, and that is we the people. We the people, as our constitution 29 00:03:34,580 --> 00:03:41,680 commences, right? Thomas Jefferson says, I consider the people who constitute a society or nation as 30 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:48,599 the source of all authority in that nation. All authority belongs to the people, unquote. Thomas 31 00:03:48,599 --> 00:03:57,740 Jefferson. Our founding fathers knew from experience that any ruling body of men detached from direct 32 00:03:57,740 --> 00:04:05,259 accountability to the people who are being governed while they became tyrannical over them, even as we 33 00:04:05,259 --> 00:04:12,580 have seen in our own day. Once again, Jefferson, every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers 34 00:04:12,580 --> 00:04:20,560 of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories, and to render even 35 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:28,399 them safe, their minds must be improved to a certain degree, unquote. Thomas Jefferson. Well, in just a few 36 00:04:28,399 --> 00:04:37,579 words, Jefferson has captured our experience in our generation, right? Our quote-unquote rulers, that is, 37 00:04:37,579 --> 00:04:44,360 those chosen from among us to govern as our representatives, well, those representatives have 38 00:04:44,360 --> 00:04:53,899 degenerated into tyrants who despise us, and they rule over us for their own benefit alone and not for 39 00:04:53,899 --> 00:05:01,839 we the people. And in order to persuade us that this is the way it should be, that is, we the benevolent 40 00:05:01,839 --> 00:05:10,819 kings and queens over you. We dictate what's good for you. Well, in order to effect this, the modern deep 41 00:05:10,819 --> 00:05:20,000 state has created the education industrial complex. Yes, what I call the education industrial complex, or 42 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:26,759 the ministry of propaganda, we could also call it, right? Headed by the Department of Transification, 43 00:05:26,759 --> 00:05:33,360 no longer the Department of Education, but the Department of Transification, and it should be 44 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:41,439 eliminated. Trump wants to do it. So did Reagan. I hope Trump can pull it off. Well, this Department of 45 00:05:41,439 --> 00:05:50,399 Transification, it says that we, and it ensures that we, the people, are indoctrinated from a young age, 46 00:05:50,399 --> 00:05:57,019 that our founding was evil because of slavery, our constitution is flawed because it was conceived by 47 00:05:57,019 --> 00:06:03,279 privileged old white men, and that we need not instruct the next generation in the principles of 48 00:06:03,279 --> 00:06:11,699 a constitutional republic, but rather lead them into a Marxist paradise. Oh, the education industrial 49 00:06:11,699 --> 00:06:20,220 complex has seen to it that every other avenue of information is twisted to serve this end, 50 00:06:20,220 --> 00:06:29,439 right? A Marxist utopia. That would be mainstream media, all the legacy media as it's called, all 51 00:06:29,439 --> 00:06:37,680 the organs of the old media, and social media too. But thank God for Elon Musk, who has returned us 52 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:44,779 Twitter, right, or acts as it's called, and even the churches in liberal mainstream denominations. I have 53 00:06:44,779 --> 00:06:51,860 seen this personally as a minister. Even the churches in liberal mainstream denominations, and megachurches 54 00:06:51,860 --> 00:07:00,360 too, they spew out the poisonous socialism of diversity, equity, and inclusion. But as we observed 55 00:07:00,360 --> 00:07:08,920 in this last election cycle, silencing and brainwashing Americans is a bit like squeezing Jell-O, 56 00:07:08,920 --> 00:07:14,959 isn't it, tyrants? Tyrants can't seem to get a hold of us, and most of us melt right out of their grasp 57 00:07:14,959 --> 00:07:22,060 like Jell-O. As long as we can create alternative avenues of information, and that's a big caveat, 58 00:07:22,540 --> 00:07:28,779 it needs to be done. We need to keep creating alternative avenues of information, and as long 59 00:07:28,779 --> 00:07:35,139 as we can do that, we will freely communicate. That is why we, the people, must be ever vigilant 60 00:07:35,139 --> 00:07:42,639 in protecting and cultivating the First Amendment. Yes, it is our first line of defense against the 61 00:07:42,639 --> 00:07:48,879 present tyranny of the fourth branch of government, that is the intelligence branch of government. 62 00:07:49,199 --> 00:07:57,360 There's not only an executive and a legislative and a judicial branch, but as I have covered in past 63 00:07:57,360 --> 00:08:03,560 broadcasts, and I urge you to look this up, there is now a fourth branch of government that tyrannizes 64 00:08:03,560 --> 00:08:10,019 over the rest, and that is the intelligence branch. Once again, I am reminded of Jefferson's 65 00:08:10,019 --> 00:08:19,000 encouragement at the end of the Revolutionary War. His faith in an informed American electorate was 66 00:08:19,000 --> 00:08:26,040 reaffirmed, and he says, and I quote, the firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses 67 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:32,899 of the press. Abuses of the press. Well, it seems like the more things change, the more they stay the 68 00:08:32,899 --> 00:08:40,360 same, huh? He experienced, Americans experienced the abuses of the press back in the Revolutionary War 69 00:08:40,360 --> 00:08:46,840 period. Well, he says, the firmness with which the people have withstood the late abuses of the press, 70 00:08:47,340 --> 00:08:54,700 the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, oh, show that they may safely be trusted, 71 00:08:54,700 --> 00:09:02,019 that is, the people may be safely trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct 72 00:09:02,019 --> 00:09:08,940 judgment between them, unquote. Yes, as long as Americans have access to a free press and a free 73 00:09:08,940 --> 00:09:15,100 market of ideas, and they're not dumbed down and brainwashed by the larger culture that is turned into 74 00:09:15,100 --> 00:09:22,860 progressives, we will firmly withstand the abuses of the press, and we will, the people, discern between 75 00:09:22,860 --> 00:09:30,080 truth and error. Dear listener, our founding fathers understood to their toenails the necessity of an 76 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:38,179 informed and virtuous people. Once again, Jefferson, reflecting on these things, says, a people can become 77 00:09:38,179 --> 00:09:46,980 so demoralized and depraved as to be incapable of exercising a wholesome control. Their minds are to be 78 00:09:46,980 --> 00:09:55,059 informed by education, what is right and what wrong, to be encouraged in habits of virtue, and deterred from 79 00:09:55,059 --> 00:10:01,940 those of vice by direct punishments. And he goes on to say, proportioned indeed, but irremissible. That is, 80 00:10:02,379 --> 00:10:08,820 it must be fit to the crime, but must be sure and swift, those punishments. Well, he goes on to say, 81 00:10:08,820 --> 00:10:18,039 Jefferson does, and I quote, in all causes or in all cases, to follow truth as the only safe guide 82 00:10:18,039 --> 00:10:25,279 and to eschew error, which bewilders us in one false consequence after another in endless succession. 83 00:10:25,919 --> 00:10:34,019 These are the inculcations necessary to render the people a sure basis for the structure of order and 84 00:10:34,019 --> 00:10:39,360 good government, unquote, Thomas Jefferson. Consequently, dear listener, it is imperative 85 00:10:39,360 --> 00:10:47,820 that you and I get and stay informed on what's happening in our world. This is no time to figuratively 86 00:10:47,820 --> 00:10:55,759 roll over and go back to sleep. Many of us are now awakened to the Rolling Stones' Midnight Rambler. 87 00:10:55,899 --> 00:11:02,580 Remember that song, the Midnight Rambler creeping around the bedroom door while we slept in our social 88 00:11:02,580 --> 00:11:10,840 slumber. Those evil, cunning, deep state ramblers are still intent upon finally overthrowing our 89 00:11:10,840 --> 00:11:17,980 constitutional republic and murdering us in our figurative sleep. So, we cannot rest on our laurels, 90 00:11:18,100 --> 00:11:26,019 dear listener. We cannot go back to sleep. We must assume our role as the inaugurators and the 91 00:11:26,019 --> 00:11:32,960 responsible agents of the Constitution. That is, we the people. We the people. And there are seven 92 00:11:32,960 --> 00:11:41,580 things that we must do. Seven things that we must assure get done, indeed, if we are to be we the people 93 00:11:41,580 --> 00:11:51,159 of the Constitution. That is, those in whom God has entrusted the leadership and the final say in the 94 00:11:51,159 --> 00:11:59,120 creation of our nation and its Constitution. First of all, we the people must continue to act in our own 95 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:06,500 sphere of influence. Oh, dear listener, so important. We the people must continue to act in our own sphere 96 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:14,440 of influence. Do not go back to sleep. Stay active. Do your part, dear listener. That is, not all of us can 97 00:12:14,440 --> 00:12:23,059 wield power and influence on a grand scale. Now, President Trump can have a permanent and salutary 98 00:12:23,059 --> 00:12:31,659 influence on America for generations to come if he indeed exercises his power wisely. And we must all 99 00:12:31,659 --> 00:12:41,440 pray that he does so. But so can you have a permanent and salutary influence on America. That is, you can do so 100 00:12:41,440 --> 00:12:50,179 on your own scale. With self-conscious intent and godly wisdom, you can speak to and do good unto those 101 00:12:50,179 --> 00:12:57,000 in your own sphere of influence. That is, your family, your friends, your workmates, your neighbors, 102 00:12:57,580 --> 00:13:05,139 all of your fellow citizens. For example, be ready to speak intelligently on the important issues of our 103 00:13:05,139 --> 00:13:12,379 day. Read, become educated, inform yourself. And if you can do so, then speak intelligently on the 104 00:13:12,379 --> 00:13:20,600 important issues of our day. If you can do so in a calm, reasoned manner, you will influence many for 105 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:28,779 constitutional principles. And also, in continuing to act in your own sphere of influence, volunteer in 106 00:13:28,779 --> 00:13:36,940 your community for constructive causes, for example. For example, on my mind recently has been the Nest 107 00:13:36,940 --> 00:13:46,139 Crisis Center for Women. And that worthy, worthy effort helping to work with pregnant women in crisis 108 00:13:46,139 --> 00:13:53,639 who don't know where to turn and what to do, they are laboring on behalf of pregnant women and their 109 00:13:53,639 --> 00:14:01,580 children. And they need volunteers and they need financial support. Or your local church also has 110 00:14:01,580 --> 00:14:08,879 activities that benefit so many. Work for your church, volunteer for your church. Or groups like 111 00:14:08,879 --> 00:14:15,519 Stand Up for Idaho. This is a worthy group. Indeed, they deal with local issues. We're always exhorted, 112 00:14:15,679 --> 00:14:22,799 right, to think globally but act locally. Well, act locally in getting informed on the issues 113 00:14:22,799 --> 00:14:30,200 we face as we face as Idahoans. And Stand Up for Idaho is one group that does so and does so 114 00:14:30,200 --> 00:14:37,200 effectively. And they need your attendance. They need your financial support to keep us informed on 115 00:14:37,200 --> 00:14:45,980 issues that directly affect our lives and liberty here in Idaho. Well, I just sampled a few real 116 00:14:45,980 --> 00:14:55,519 constructive ways that you can work locally to indeed have a powerful influence in your own sphere of 117 00:14:55,519 --> 00:15:03,179 influence, dear listener. Well, secondly, we the people must run for and elect unto office, political 118 00:15:03,179 --> 00:15:10,259 office, people of integrity to government service. Oh, I lament sometimes, why is it that so many 119 00:15:10,259 --> 00:15:17,740 progressives run for elective office and they infest the city councils and school boards and state capitals 120 00:15:17,740 --> 00:15:25,100 of our nation? Well, I do remember, I'm old enough to remember, that following the attempt to violently 121 00:15:25,100 --> 00:15:32,460 overthrow the American system in the 60s, Marxists here in America changed strategies and they started to 122 00:15:32,460 --> 00:15:39,860 work within the system. That was a buzz term during the 60s. We have to start working within the system 123 00:15:39,860 --> 00:15:46,860 to nevertheless overthrow the country. And likening it to Chairman Mao's legendary, at least for the 124 00:15:46,860 --> 00:15:54,299 communists, it was legendary, Chairman Mao's military long march through China to power in the 40s, 125 00:15:54,779 --> 00:16:02,039 our modern American Marxists and Maoists call their accumulation of power a long march through the 126 00:16:02,039 --> 00:16:08,480 institutions in America to arrive at what they presently hold. And how successful they've been, 127 00:16:08,480 --> 00:16:15,879 how nearly complete has been their coup d'etat. Well, dear listener, that is why now that so many of us 128 00:16:15,879 --> 00:16:24,100 are awake, some of us must run for and be supported in elective office from dog catcher to defense 129 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:31,720 secretary. Well, the defense secretary is appointed, but at least to dog catcher to president, right? We must 130 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:39,399 change the perception of government service from that of being a slime ball rather to statesman again, 131 00:16:39,559 --> 00:16:45,940 the ideal. Our founding fathers, in fact, called the study and practice of government, the divine 132 00:16:45,940 --> 00:16:54,519 science. Yes, it was. And you can see its divinity, if you will, reflected in the elegance of our 133 00:16:54,519 --> 00:17:02,700 constitution. And the now derogatory label politician, that's actually a diminutive, isn't it? Derogatory 134 00:17:02,700 --> 00:17:10,720 label politician actually derives from a worthy citizen who makes policy, thus politician, right? 135 00:17:11,279 --> 00:17:18,319 Even the word policy derives from the Greek word for the ancient city-state, polis. In ancient Greece, 136 00:17:18,319 --> 00:17:25,119 only men of intelligence and education and integrity could shape policy of their respective city-states. 137 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:32,619 And it was a necessary and noble calling, politician. We constitutionalists must return to that vision 138 00:17:32,619 --> 00:17:41,039 and restore the reputation of policy makers by running for office ourselves and then fulfilling the duties 139 00:17:41,039 --> 00:17:49,160 of that office honorably and with integrity. Well, thirdly, we the people must also live out lives of 140 00:17:49,160 --> 00:17:56,539 family on the biblical model. We the people must also live out lives of family on the biblical model. 141 00:17:56,920 --> 00:18:02,339 One of the tenets of the Communist Manifesto is to break down and destroy the family and replace it 142 00:18:02,339 --> 00:18:09,460 with the state. Karl Marx knew that the building block of a free capitalist constitutional republic 143 00:18:09,460 --> 00:18:17,799 was the biblical family. And therefore, religion and the family must be destroyed and disfigured 144 00:18:17,799 --> 00:18:24,039 beyond all recognition. And that destruction and disfigurement is happening with the transgender 145 00:18:24,039 --> 00:18:30,859 movement literally disfiguring our children. Do you perceive the slow process over the decades, 146 00:18:31,359 --> 00:18:37,740 a study in gradualism, in the boiling of the frog, if you will? First of all, feminism took the wife 147 00:18:37,740 --> 00:18:44,680 and mother out of the home. Feminism has been a destructive force in our culture. And the sodomite 148 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:51,180 movement, the acceptance of homosexuality as a legitimate alternative lifestyle, right, gave us the 149 00:18:51,180 --> 00:18:58,700 option of perversion as an alternative lifestyle. And then the designation of pedophiles as minor 150 00:18:58,700 --> 00:19:07,920 attracted perversions. What a euphemism. Pedophile as merely a minor attracted person has blurred the 151 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:14,519 wicked crimes of this class of perverts. And then finally, the transgender movement has ushered in the 152 00:19:14,519 --> 00:19:22,480 ancient androgyne into modern times. I have an entire series on this. The idea of transgender is 153 00:19:22,480 --> 00:19:29,900 nothing new, but harkens back to the Greek and Roman and ancient androgyne culture or androgyne. 154 00:19:30,559 --> 00:19:37,980 And if it's successful, it will weaken and bring down the family and the culture and the society 155 00:19:37,980 --> 00:19:45,259 as it did in ancient Greece and Rome. Instead, we must cleave to and defend the biblical family. 156 00:19:45,259 --> 00:19:52,839 One husband and father united to one wife and mother with all of the children that God may 157 00:19:52,839 --> 00:20:01,200 graciously give to them. We the people might just as easily be called we the families because we are 158 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:08,440 God's building blocks as families for a strong constitutional republic. And then fourthly, we the 159 00:20:08,440 --> 00:20:15,119 people must also experience religious revival and reformation. This is one component yet 160 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:22,680 missing in our reawakening to constitutionalism. Hand in hand with it goes indeed the idea 161 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:30,619 of religious revival and reformation. This constitution was made only for a moral and ethical 162 00:20:30,619 --> 00:20:38,079 people, as John Adams eloquently put it. It is entirely unsuited to any other, he went on to say. 163 00:20:38,579 --> 00:20:45,099 Indeed, without a religious and moral and ethical people, the constitution degenerates, 164 00:20:45,099 --> 00:20:52,279 into what we see before our eyes today in the deep state. Yes. As I have articulated in previous 165 00:20:52,279 --> 00:21:00,339 broadcast, our constitution was crafted upon centuries of Christian principles. And it was 166 00:21:00,339 --> 00:21:08,680 also preceded by colonial constitutions that were overtly Christian. In fact, our revolution was preceded 167 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:14,579 by the great awakening, which revolution would not have transpired if not for the initial spiritual 168 00:21:14,579 --> 00:21:23,819 preparation that revival provided. And we must return to these roots, dear listener. It still holds true. 169 00:21:23,819 --> 00:21:33,039 And we've seen it with the irreligious and the pagan and the unspiritual and unchristian men and women 170 00:21:33,039 --> 00:21:40,000 that have infested our institutions, that indeed our constitution was made, as John Adams said, 171 00:21:40,099 --> 00:21:48,519 only for a religious and ethical people. It is entirely unsuited to any other. We must return to those 172 00:21:48,519 --> 00:21:54,059 biblical roots. We must experience religious revival and reformation. 173 00:21:54,059 --> 00:22:02,539 Number five, we the people must ensure that justice be visited upon those who govern us. That is punishment 174 00:22:02,539 --> 00:22:10,119 for wrongdoers and rewards for those who do good. That's the heart of justice. And it's heartening to 175 00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:17,740 see some of the moves that President Trump has taken in order to bring accountability to those who have 176 00:22:17,740 --> 00:22:25,720 done wrong. Biden's pardons notwithstanding. Hopefully Biden's pardons, his blanket pardon over his old 177 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:33,880 administration. What a farce. Hopefully that will be struck down by the Supreme Court and President Trump 178 00:22:33,880 --> 00:22:43,680 and the courts and the Justice Department and other venues in his administration will bring all of these 179 00:22:43,680 --> 00:22:54,440 criminals to account. And we will see Mayorkas, Merrick Garland, Anthony Fauci, among others, behind bars 180 00:22:54,440 --> 00:23:02,000 in the near future. We must ensure that justice be visited upon these. Punishment for wrongdoers and 181 00:23:02,000 --> 00:23:06,900 rewards for those who do good. There have been many who have done good, whether it's in the 182 00:23:06,900 --> 00:23:16,759 the COVID crisis or those behind bars for January 6th. They must be rewarded. They must be released and 183 00:23:16,759 --> 00:23:24,500 rewarded. Number six, we the people must educate ourselves and our children on constitutional principles. 184 00:23:24,859 --> 00:23:32,180 This is so vital, dear listener, that indeed, as we have expressed, as indeed Thomas Jefferson 185 00:23:32,180 --> 00:23:41,920 expressed in the comments I made a little earlier, that only an informed citizenry can indeed make the 186 00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:48,859 right choices, make the proper choices based on good information and intelligence. And then finally, 187 00:23:49,099 --> 00:23:56,200 number seven, we the people must acknowledge God as the sovereign king of our constitutional republic. 188 00:23:56,200 --> 00:24:05,240 The rallying cry during the revolution in defiance of King George III was King Jesus alone, right? 189 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:14,880 King Jesus only as king. And indeed, God is sovereign over the affairs of America. And Washington reflected 190 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:22,180 on that after the revolution, that the grand hand of providence indeed guided America through those dark 191 00:24:22,180 --> 00:24:29,819 days and helped to establish peacefully a constitutional republic. We must acknowledge God as the sovereign 192 00:24:29,819 --> 00:24:37,619 king of our constitutional republic. We say, we the people, of course, we the people are indeed sovereign 193 00:24:37,619 --> 00:24:44,000 over our constitution. But behind that was recognized by our founders and must be acknowledged by us as 194 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:51,000 well, that God is the ultimate sovereign king over all things and is bringing all things to fruition in 195 00:24:51,000 --> 00:24:57,779 his kingdom. And the constitutional republic of America is one of those grand pieces in redemptive 196 00:24:57,779 --> 00:25:05,720 history that figures into God's kingdom. So, number seven is final. We the people must acknowledge God as 197 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:12,059 the sovereign king of our constitutional republic. So, dear listener, we are not to rest on our laurels. 198 00:25:12,059 --> 00:25:20,380 We indeed must continue to be active. President Trump and his administration cannot reform America, 199 00:25:20,380 --> 00:25:28,500 cannot bring America back to its roots, cannot make America great again without you. We must do our 200 00:25:28,500 --> 00:25:36,640 part. Indeed, if America is going to be great again, America must first become good again. And that can only 201 00:25:36,640 --> 00:25:44,799 happen through the sovereign power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Indeed, as he brings revival and reformation to 202 00:25:44,799 --> 00:25:52,920 the very heart of the people. As goes the church, so goes the nation. So, pray for revival and reform in 203 00:25:52,920 --> 00:26:00,259 the hearts of every American. And indeed, we can once again bring a constitutional republic back to life, 204 00:26:00,779 --> 00:26:08,619 resurrected, if you will. And it will be done as God uses you and me, we the people. This has been 205 00:26:08,619 --> 00:26:15,819 Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. And New Geneva Meets for Holy Worship on 206 00:26:15,819 --> 00:26:24,579 Sundays. 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