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

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

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And today, I want you to consider the four properties of freedom that were articulated

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by our founding fathers. Most people seem to know what freedom is, or at least they think they know

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what freedom is in the sense of our founding fathers. But really, much of what our founders

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understood as freedom goes over the heads of many Americans today. So with the 4th of July

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season upon us already, what a great time of year. I love the 4th. Hot summer days with

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fireworks and great food and fun, food, faith, and freedom is what characterizes the 4th of July for

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me. And so I would like to take just a few moments to review what our founders understood as the four

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crucial properties to freedom, without which freedom is not freedom at all. And so let's go

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through that here today. One of my favorite far side cartoons that was done by Gary Larson has the

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founding fathers sitting around an empty parchment, scratching their heads with a quill pen, and

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Thomas Jefferson saying, now is that us the people or we the people? Now, I like that cartoon because

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it pictures the way that many people naively see our founding fathers kind of making up the

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constitution as they went along. When in reality, they were drawing upon centuries of thinking and

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practice and hard experience. And this includes their understanding of freedom, which we of course want

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to treat today. The great German author Goethe said, none are more hopelessly enslaved than those who

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falsely believe they are free. That's a profound and compact statement that says a lot. None are more

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hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Oh, in order that we might never fall prey to

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falsely believing we are free when in reality we are slaves. Let's examine the now lost idea of freedom as

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understood by our founding fathers. There are four properties of freedom our founding fathers saw as

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indispensable to the constitution. Four properties of freedom without which our constitution is but an

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empty scrap of parchment as Gary Larson portrayed it. Well, that first property of freedom is true

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true freedom begins with spiritual liberty. Ah, so crucial, dear listener. As a pastor, especially I exhort

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this to you. True freedom begins with spiritual liberty. The man who is free in his spirit can never be

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enslaved by anyone or any society. And conversely, the man in spiritual bondage can never be free in any

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society. All around him, a man may have liberty to act in any way he pleases, but if he does not know how to

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act, he is but a slave of his desires. For America and most of the founding fathers, that spiritual

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freedom is summed up in Jesus' words, and I quote, if you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,

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and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. So if the son sets you free, you will be free

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indeed. Ah, despite what you hear in the mainstream media and the culture of death all around us, the

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founding fathers never conceived of a separation of church and state. In the narrow way, it's being

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interpreted today. No, the first amendment guaranteed that Congress shall make no law respecting the

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establishment of religion, not that religion would have no part in American life into the very chambers

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and councils of our government, for that matter. Just before the war for independence, when Boston was

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being blockaded by the British and all seemed hopeless, one of the leaders of Boston, a man named

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William Prescott, one of those men who's often overlooked, but one of the great founding fathers,

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William Prescott. He was a member of the Committee of Correspondence, which committees formed the basis

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for the Continental Congress. Well, he wrote during the siege of Boston, he said, our forefathers passed

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the vast Atlantic, spent their blood and treasure that they might enjoy their liberties, both civil and

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religious and transmit them to their posterity. Let us, then, be of one heart and stand fast in the liberty

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wherewith Christ has made us free. And may he, of his infinite mercy, grant us deliverance out of all our

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troubles." Unquote. The patriot William Prescott. At the very heart of the revolution and founding of our

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Congress, Congress was first and prior a spiritual freedom. Our founding fathers were free in spirit

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and soul before they ever established a government. They were free in their hearts, their minds, their

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spirits because they had found redemption and liberty from sin and death first in Jesus Christ. No human

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government, no benevolent dictator, no human law can give you spiritual freedom. Only Christ can give you

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this freedom. And then, conversely, once you have spiritual freedom, no government, no tyrant, no law can

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take that away from you. The man who is thus free in his spirit can never be enslaved by any society.

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Well, the second property of freedom that I want to share with you, which the Founding Fathers

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all knew to their toenails, that second property of freedom is true freedom is bound up with self-government.

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Self-government. Oh, we have lost sight of this idea of self-control and self-government as the first

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government. Government begins in the will of the individual citizen, not in Washington, D.C.

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In our day, of course, the use of the word government has narrowed to refer to the federal government.

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Ask any man on the street, what's government? Where's government? Well, it's in Washington, D.C.,

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of course, right? No. The Noah Webster English Dictionary of 1828 defines government as direction,

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regulation, control, restraint. That is government, as understood by our Founding Fathers.

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Well, government in its broadest sense was seen operative in five concentric spheres, dear listener.

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Government was seen as transpiring in five concentric spheres that begins with the smallest

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sphere, that is the self. One must be able to govern oneself. The next sphere was the family.

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No father can control and govern his family if he has lost government of himself. And then the school

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is the third concentric sphere. The church, the fourth concentric sphere. And then the civil government

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is the last, the fifth concentric sphere. The beginning and basic sphere of government begins

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with the self. If a man cannot govern himself, what hope is there for government in Washington, D.C.,

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or Boise or City Hall? From the beginning, self-government has formed the very basis of

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character and personality for the godly man. For example, Proverbs 25, 28 says,

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a man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls. Ah, that's the essence

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of self-government. A man without self-government is like a city broken into and left without walls.

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The unbridled lust of an over-sexualized culture, the cynical greed of U.S. aid government officials,

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for example, or the mushrooming credit card debt and personal bankruptcy of the American consumer,

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the lawsuits that spring up like poisonous weeds, as Amos put it in his day, or the violence and murder

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and assault and rape and road rage, the rampant divorce and sexual immorality of our mores and

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in the media. All of these and more testify to the breakdown of self-government in the individual

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American in his life and culture. We hear every spoiled, self-indulgent American insist,

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my rights, my freedom, away with responsibility. But freedom is not license, dear listener. Freedom

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is not license to do anything we please. But freedom is a cherished right that has, as one of its properties,

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the necessity of behaving responsibly according to the biblical moral code, that is, to exercise

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self-government. Ironically, our very liberties and freedoms depend upon this principle of self-government.

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A man who cannot govern his anger and rage, but he assaults and kills, he'll have to be restrained by

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external government, that is, the state. The man who does not have self-government and cannot control

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his greed and his covetousness, but he steals and lies and cheats, he'll have to be restrained by

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external government, that is, the state. Or the man who cannot control his sexual lusts,

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but commits incest and sodomy and rape and pedophilia, that man will have to be restrained by

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external government because he has no internal government, that external government being the

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state. In other words, the tyranny of the state bears an inverse relationship to the amount of

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self-government amongst the individuals of that society. That is a formula you can count on, dear

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listener. The tyranny of the state bears an inverse relationship to the amount of self-government

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amongst the individuals of that society. The greater the self-government of the citizens,

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the lesser the need for the external government of the state. And conversely, the lesser the self-government

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of the citizens, the greater is the need for the external government of the state. Oh, America is,

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as Biden's open borders illustrates, America today is like a city broken into and left without walls.

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Without self-government, we are defenseless, dear listener. Our Department of Homeland Security may make

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of America an impregnable fortress. Our Attorney General may multiply agents and peer into our computers

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and bedrooms and bank accounts under the Patriot Act, but you will not be able to secure this nation until her

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respective individual citizens, you and me, until we secure our own out-of-control behavior with self-government.

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Freedom is not license to do anything we please, but rather, freedom is a cherished right that has,

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as one of its properties, the necessity of behaving responsibly according to the Biblical moral code,

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that is to exercise self-government. Well, the third property of freedom, as understood by our founding

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fathers, the third property of true freedom, true freedom recognizes and serves its author. Oh, yes,

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dear listener, we must have respect unto God. True freedom recognizes and serves its author. We are

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endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, right? So states that memorable, illuminating

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clause in our Declaration of Independence. The great King of heaven and earth is the one who has endowed

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us with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Our founding fathers understood this to the core of

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their being. Thomas Jefferson took some of this very wording in the Declaration from the Christian

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philosopher John Locke, who reasoned that since God has endowed us with free agency and self-government,

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the authority and power of civil government resides in the people themselves, and no one has the right to

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rule unless the majority of the people have elected that person to occupy that high office. Do you

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realize how revolutionary this concept was in 1776, dear listener? As familiar as it is to many of us who

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remember these things in our own day? Well, even in England, where our first liberties and rights

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originated, the philosophy of government still held for the divine right of kings. Oh, ergo King George III,

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who thought he had the divine right from God to rule the American colonies. Oh, au contraire, dear Mr.

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Tyrant, no. The people, indeed, we, the people, are that by whom the executive and the

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legislative and the judicial branches of government must be governed. God endowed kings and princes

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under the divine right of kings to rule. They said that God endowed kings and princes the right to rule,

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and that therefore power moved downward in a pyramid from king to princes to magistrates,

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and then, if ever, to the people. Our founding fathers inverted that pyramid, sensing the

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biblical model where, indeed, power flowed from the people to their representatives and the executive,

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if you will. But through it all, it was God who authored freedom in the first place. Freedom originates with

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him, bestowed then to the common mass of mankind, and government is only a steward of God, given power

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on behalf of and at the leisure of the people. We, the people. Every other model of government on the face of the

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earth, from the tower of Babel on down, has had only and exclusively one source for power, and that was

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the state. Most of our own citizens have no clue as to whence their liberties. Most of our own citizens

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have adopted the default setting of the human spirit, which is always the pagan model, the model of tyranny,

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the model which says our rights and freedom come from the state, not from God. But it was not so

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with our founding fathers. Thomas Jefferson said so presciently, he said, God, who gave us life,

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gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these

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liberties are the gift of God? Ah, very profound from Thomas Jefferson. Men will, even as they have in

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our own day, begin to cede those liberties given from God, begin to cede those liberties to the state,

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which they see as the head and source of them anyway, so many people. This is the very attraction of

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many of our own leaders to the systems and policies of the nations of the world, why our Supreme Court

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justices can consult other law codes of tyrants rather than our own constitution, why socialists in our

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own Congress can fawn and drool over the United Nations rather than see to our own free institutions, and why our

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public schools no longer feel it necessary to teach government and history and civics, but sex ed instead.

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So, if we refuse to acknowledge the High King of Heaven who bestowed our liberties, we will never miss

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them when they're taken from us. Ah, make no mistake about this, fellow citizen. There are forces in America

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that are working double time to remove the conviction that our liberties are the gift of God, as Thomas

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Jefferson put it, right? Progressive culture, militant Islam, a hostile press, a whole host of forces would

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like nothing more than to remove from the collective American soul the conviction that our liberties are

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the gift of God. Do not let them do that, dear listener, dear fellow citizen. Always remember, true

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freedom recognizes and serves its author, the living God. Well, the fourth and final property of freedom,

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which our Founding Fathers understood to their toenails, the fourth and final property of liberty is,

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number four, true freedom is a liberty tree watered by the blood of patriots and tyrants. Yes, true

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freedom is metaphorically a liberty tree watered by the blood of patriots and tyrants. Ah, freedom costs,

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freedom is expensive, and it can be lost. Thomas Jefferson said, the tree of liberty must be refreshed

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from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Oh, this is a significant insight. Implicit

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in it are several profound principles, dear listener. Thomas Jefferson saw it. First, it must be noted that

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tyrants intuitively seek to usurp the liberty of free men. Oh, tyrants cannot stand to see the average

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man breathe a free breath or earn a free dollar. Just as Pharaoh, king of Egypt, could not stand to see the

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freedom of the sons of Israel continue, just as King George III could not stand to see the freedom of the

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sons of England continue in the American colonies. So, ah, the progressives and socialists and one-worlders in our own

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country cannot stand to see the freedom of the sons of liberty continue to the next generation.

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Every generation has faced its own tyrant. The names change, but the principle is always the same.

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Freedom must die in order that the power of the tyrant might live. Tyrants clinging to their own

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power and privilege will not relinquish them cheaply to the cost of their very lives. Therefore,

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it is necessary for patriots to insist that they pay that price. Tyrants must either yield or die to

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the advance of free men. This and thus we find the tree of liberty watered by the blood of those very

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tyrants. And secondly, it must be noted as well that the tree of liberty is watered with the blood of

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the patriots too. If we insist that the tyrant yield his blood for the life of the tree of liberty,

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it is only reasonable to assume that we will yield our own blood for that which nourishes us.

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As Andrew Ford puts it, he said, the price of liberty is, always has been, and always will be

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blood. The person who is not willing to die for his liberty has already lost it to the first scoundrel

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who's willing to risk dying to violate that person's liberty. Profoundly put, are you willing to die

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for your freedom? The natural state of man is for a few to rule in tyranny over the many. Such has been

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the course of history for the larger share of our race. Freedom is the exemption, the exception. Freedom

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is the realm of the few. Freedom is the province of those willing to pay the price of their blood,

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having been preceded by the down payment of their forefathers' blood, and having had the promise of

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the mortgage of their sons' and grandsons' blood. This is true because, just as certainly as the struggle

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between good and evil will go on to the end of time, so the warfare between freedom and tyranny will go

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on until the Lord himself returns in great glory to free us one last time for eternity. You stand here

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today in a time and place where freedom is again threatened by the tyranny of those

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who we face in a judicial tyranny, for example, that would rob us of our own property through eminent

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domain. We face a social and cultural tyranny that would force a soul-destroying diversity

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and multiculturalism of same-sex marriage and unrestricted illegal immigration. We face a tyranny of

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Islamic law and terrorism from radical Muslims who would destroy biblical freedom and our present

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government, which same government seems increasingly unable to defend us against them properly, and we

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face the tyranny of a weak and ignorant majority in America who have not yet awoken to the need of the

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hour, that they might make the necessary sacrifices for theirs and their posterity's freedom, too.

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It's time to awaken from our sleep, America. Daniel Webster said, God grants liberty only to those

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who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it, unquote. Freedom was not won by the summer

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soldier and the fair-weather friend of liberty in the beginning. The ones who said, I support the Patriot troops,

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but not the Revolutionary War. Freedom is and always has been kept and transmitted to posterity by those

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willing to sacrifice blood and treasure, that is, their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, as our Founding

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Fathers did. The couch potato will not preserve freedom. The man and woman consumed with cocooning in

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their own little world will not preserve freedom. The man who's only merely looking out for number one

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will neither preserve freedom nor his number one, that is, himself. No. Such men will never pay the

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price, will never bear the burden, will never make any sacrifice for yours or even their own liberty, and

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consequently will never be free. Samuel Adams had some very strong language for the Tories and the

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fence-sitters in the middle of the rotors in his own day. He said, If ye love wealth greater than liberty,

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the tranquility of servitude rather than the animated contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace.

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We seek not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you,

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and may posterity forget that you were ever our countrymen. Samuel Adams. You can hear the contempt

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for cowardice and weakness in that freedom costs. It is expensive, and it can be lost. The tree of

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liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Are you willing to

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pay the price of freedom? Are you willing to learn and absorb and become these four properties of

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freedom that you've heard here? If so, then you will be free, as only an American can be free, and you

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will be free indeed. This has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We hope

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that you have just a joyous and a refreshing Fourth of July, and may you learn and become these four

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attributes, these four properties of freedom as you live out your life as an American. New Geneva meets for

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holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. We invite you to

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cross our threshold, find out who we are, worship with us, and you can give us more feedback by calling

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our number, 208-523-0196. More information and feedback, 208-523-0196.