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

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

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faith. And today I want to challenge you to be heartfelt thankful this season. My favorite

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national holiday is approaching, and that is Thanksgiving. It's our only genuinely Christian

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religious holiday that has been formally declared celebrated in America, and it has been

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neglected in the last few decades, but not here, not at New Geneva. We still feel that a thankful

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heart is a graceful heart, and a thankless heart is a graceless heart. So we want to encourage you to

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be graceful, that is, full of grace to your brother and sister, Christian brother and sister. And one

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of the ways to have a heart full of grace is to have a heart full of thanks as well. Paul exhorts us to

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this in Philippians chapter 4, those classic verses where he says, Rejoice in the Lord always. Again,

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I will say, Rejoice. Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Do not worry about

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anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. Let your requests

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be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts

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and your minds in Christ Jesus. Ah, yes, dear brother and sister, one of the ways indeed to have joy and

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rejoicing in the Lord and to have peace in one's heart is to give thanks. Have you given thanks

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recently for answered prayer, brother and sisters? The Lord always answers prayer, just not in ways we

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anticipate or expect or maybe hope in our flesh that he will answer them, but the Lord always hears

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our prayers and he always answers them too. So just tune your heart today to give thanks to the Lord for

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having answered your prayers and your supplications, and also prepare your hearts for that great national

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holiday of Thanksgiving, which our founding fathers had established. Those pilgrim fathers of ours

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had, of course, their first Thanksgiving, and this was after a particularly tough previous winter

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where there was five kernels of corn as a daily ration during the really hard times, right? But they had

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come together, our pilgrim fathers, as they came to this land and settled in Plymouth Bay, landing on

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Plymouth Rock as they denominated it. And immediately after disembarking, they created a compact, as they

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called it, the Mayflower Compact, which in many ways became the prototype of the United States

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Constitution. But let me just refresh your memories, if perhaps you haven't heard this in a while,

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the Mayflower Compact, that is that prototype of the United States Constitution, establishing a

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constitutional republic. Governor William Bradford, as they had disembarked from the Mayflower on November

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11, 1620, had already prepared this compact by which they agreed to govern themselves. And it goes like

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this, and I quote, "...in ye name of God, amen, we whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of

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our dread sovereign Lord King James, by ye grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland King,

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defender of ye faith, having undertaken for ye glory of God, and the advancement of the Christian faith,

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and honor of our King and country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of

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Virginia, do by these presents, solemnly and mutually, in the presence of God and one of another,

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covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and

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preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid, and by virtue hereof, to enact, constitute,

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and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices, from time to time,

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as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony, unto which we promise

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all due submission and obedience, in witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names.

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At the 11th day of November, in the year and reign of our sovereign Lord King James of England, France,

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Ireland, and, yes, by Scotland, in 1620. Unquote. Ah, yes, that grand and eloquent Mayflower

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Compact by which they agreed to govern themselves and became then, hence, the prototype of the United

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States Constitution. Well, they struggled, they suffered for years to make a goal of things,

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and after one particularly difficult winter, they had a relatively prosperous year, and decided indeed

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to gather together and give thanks to God for their abundant harvest, and called what has become known as

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the first Thanksgiving. On November 29, 1623, three years after the pilgrims arrived, well, Governor

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William Bradford made this official proclamation for a day of Thanksgiving in this small, struggling

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colony that had nevertheless had a good year, good harvest, and I quote his declaration,

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to all pilgrims, inasmuch as the Great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian

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corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetable, and has made the forest to abound with game,

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and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages,

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has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the

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dictates of our own conscience. Now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all pilgrims, with their wives

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and little ones, do gather at the meeting house on the hill between the hours of 9 and 12 in the

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daytime on Thursday, November 29 of the year of our Lord 1623, and the third year since the pilgrims

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landed on Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to the pastor and render Thanksgiving to Almighty God for his

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blessings. Signed, William Bradford, governor of this colony, unquote. The declaration of Thanksgiving,

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the very first Thanksgiving. And of course, that was one of the signal moments in our history,

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when indeed they celebrated with the Indian tribes, the local Indian tribes, who brought in fresh game,

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that is venison and wild turkeys, which is where we get, of course, our tradition of having turkey at Thanksgiving,

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because of, but they had abundance of many, many other things as well, including fish and clams,

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and abundant produce, then from the fields. So what a great first Thanksgiving, and subsequent

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Thanksgivings have been in memory of that one as well, including those in my family. I don't know about

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you, but I have some of my fondest extended family memories of celebrating Thanksgiving with my paternal

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side of the family, especially, and we would always just have a great classic Thanksgiving feast.

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And I still love reprising those every year with all the trimmings, right? Turkey and ham and all the

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trimmings that go with that. And we always had a worship service that has fallen by the wayside,

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has it not? But our local Reformed church always had a morning, just a very brief morning service,

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where we sang a few hymns and gave thanks to God and gave public testimony as to how God had been good

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to us over the past year. And then we would repair to one of our homes where we would have Thanksgiving

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dinner and watch the Lions play football, too. Food, faith, and football. I was always the trilogy

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in the Bass family on Thanksgiving Day. And we always just had great family memories,

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times of getting together and renewing those relationships. And most importantly, giving

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thanks for a prosperous year previous. And even growing up as a smart aleck teenager, I still always

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respected and attended those Thanksgiving dinners with my family and just have great memories. And I hope

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that you do as well. And it has always been in the American tradition to do so. And even George

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Washington made a proclamation right after the Revolutionary War that America should give thanks.

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And this was his proclamation for a national day of Thanksgiving, the proclamation which he

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promulgated on October 3rd of 1789, after the inauguration of the Constitution, new Constitution

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that had recently been ratified. And this was his proclamation. I quote,

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whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,

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to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.

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Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next,

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to be devoted by the people of these United States, that we then may all unite unto him

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our sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection of the people of this country

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previous to their becoming a nation, for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable

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interpositions of his providence in the course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree

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of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and rational manner

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in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and

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happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted for the civil and religious

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liberty with which we are blessed, and also that we may then unite in most humbly offering

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our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and ruler of nations, and beseech him to pardon our

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national and other transgressions, to promote the knowledge and practice of the true religion and

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virtue, given under my hands at the city of New York, the 3rd of October, A.D. 1789, George Washington.

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Unquote. What a great and elegant promulgation of a great day of Thanksgiving, instituted then,

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at the very beginning of our nation, under our great charter, the Constitution of the United States

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of America. And we are obliged, then, to give thanks as well as we promulgate the true religion and

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virtue, as George Washington has put it. So tune your hearts, I would ask you to do, as you go to church

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these next several weeks in preparation, and tune your hearts towards Thanksgiving. Fill your heart

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with Thanksgiving. Are there things that perhaps you are angry at God about, that perhaps you are bitter,

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perhaps he hasn't answered your prayers in precisely the way that you would have wanted him to? And there

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may be a residue of thanklessness that lingers in your heart, and I would just encourage you to, indeed,

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clean house. Sweep that residue of thanklessness from the chambers of your heart, and fill it, rather,

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with goodness and thanksgiving and joy. And consequently, you will find your heart being full of grace as

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well. Once again, a thankless heart is a graceless heart. How can grace, excuse me, how can grace

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dwell in a heart that is full of bitterness and thanklessness? They cannot coexist. Grace will not

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dwell in a heart that is thankless. So turn to the Lord your God, know that he loves you, and that all

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things will work towards your good and for his glory in your life. It may not seem that way right now,

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and your life circumstances may not be prime at this time, and I understand that as well. Many are

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struggling economically in days like this, after the destruction, four-year destruction of our economy by

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the present administration. Hopefully that will change with the inauguration of a new administration,

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but many of us are struggling financially and physically, are we not? Some of us may not be in

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the best of health either. Others of us may find our family situations painful and tragic. Others of us

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may find our own personal lives, our emotional stability and state, our spiritual state, and so forth,

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not of the best quality that we would like to see transpiring in our lives. Nevertheless,

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you have much to be thankful for. I would submit to you, brothers and sisters, just the fact that you

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are in the land of the living listening to this broadcast here today is something for which one

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might give thanks, and also knowing that God loves you and has his best for you in mind and in heart.

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He may be testing you with trials at this time in your life, but he will bring you through them.

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He will walk with you through them, and you will come out the other side rejoicing. So as, you know,

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Paul exhorts us, rejoice in the Lord always. Again, I will say rejoice. So lift up your prayers and your

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supplications. Continue to do so, dear brother and sister. Continue to do so in faith with

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thanksgiving, thanking God for what he will do already, and use these next few weeks, these next

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few Sundays perhaps, to prepare your hearts for a day of thanksgiving as God will provide. And you

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might even think to join us at New Geneva on Sundays. We worship at 10 a.m. on Sunday mornings

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at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And we always have hearts of thanks as well. And

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pray that you will too, and use these next few weeks to just prime your hearts, to fill it full

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of thanksgiving, and you will find grace flooding the chambers of your heart as well as you do so.

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Lift up your prayers in faith, giving thanks to God already for the answering of your prayers.

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And you will find that a thankful heart makes way for a graceful heart, brother and sister. That's

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my prayer for you this day. I also want to heartily commend to you the listening to of our radio programs.

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And we are located at americastruths.org. That is where you will find the catalog of our podcasts

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and this radio program. In the past, you could subscribe to our podcast as well, so that you'll

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get that in your feed every week. And there is also a rich catalog going all the way back to 2016.

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And you can find by category either the year or the series you might want to sample or selected topics

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as well. For example, you can find under the series, one of the ones that I think has been

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important to understanding what's going on in America today is America's unconscious slide into

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slavery. America's unconscious slide into slavery. I call it the new American slave. There are many new

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American slaves out there. You thought slavery was abolished right after the Civil War. Oh, no, no,

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no, no. As Catherine Austin Fitz puts it, slavery was, is, and will always be the most profitable trade

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in human institutions. Slavery. Yeah. Americans are, as you dialed this up, it's a two-part series.

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And you'll find that Americans are increasingly sliding into slavery due to government tyranny,

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impossible debt, worthless money, and a servile mentality that has been cultivated in our public

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schools and all through our culture. Slavery is the norm for most of history, too, as you'll discover.

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Liberty is always the exception. So we are merely returning to the norm here in America under the

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new American slavery. And you'll find that series on our website, americastruths.org. And another

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series that you'll find, and one of my favorites, is the 28 Principles of the Constitution from the book,

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The 5,000 Year Leap. Oh, yes. You will find that series on our website, americastruths.org. And this is one

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that has taken quite a long time to catalog with 28 Principles, of course, and then the introduction

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and so forth. But The 5,000 Year Leap, of course, is that landmark book published by the Center, the

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National Center for Constitutional Studies, its founder being, of course, the great Cleon Skousen.

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And he and his team assembled this book, The 5,000 Year Leap, and articulated very concisely 28

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principles of our Constitution. And I cover those over a period of almost a year in broadcasting,

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covering those principles for you. And it's been one of my favorite series. But that is one that you can

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go to and select. And we have other series as well, probably another one of the important ones

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that I would recommend for you is the doctrine of the lesser magistrate. We are looking for ways

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to take back our governance. And there is a way to resist the tyranny that we are presently under,

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a tried and true path to take in resisting tyranny. And that's been articulated for us

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by Christian students of government now for centuries. And it's the little known now today in

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our own day, sadly, sadly, dear listener, the doctrine of the lesser magistrates. It's the biblical

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response to tyranny. And I have a three-part series on this, dear listener, that you must listen to if

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we are going to resist effectively. We're having some spurts under Donald Trump. Donald Trump is not

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going to be our savior, dear listener. We are going to have to indeed resist tyranny to a man,

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all of us, ourselves. And although it's unfamiliar to most Christians today, the doctrine of the lesser

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magistrate is a well-established principle for God's people to resist tyranny, even to the point of armed

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resistance. We just don't go around shooting up the place. No, we must have a biblical approach to

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resisting tyranny. It means that if the supreme power is unjust and tyrannical, then the lesser power

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has the obligation and duty to resist the superior power and has God's blessing for doing so. It is

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the doctrine of the lesser magistrates. And you will find that three-part series on our website,

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americastruths.org. And that's one a must listen to, as far as I'm concerned. We also have then

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probably another one that is an obsession of mine, and that is the just war theory and the war in

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Ukraine. That is a two-part series as well. The just war theory, long established in the Christian

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church. Once again, a little known today, but there is a seven-principled theory of what a just war

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looks like so that the church can exhort the king and the magistrate to follow according to principle

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before opening a war. And of course, when you compare it with our war in Ukraine, now you will find,

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you might guess, what you will find. That is, you will find that we are not fighting a just war,

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but rather we are fighting an unjust war in Ukraine, our participation in it in America.

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Well, then, we also have other series, I think, that are valuable for understanding

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our culture today. And one of those other series that I would highly recommend to you,

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I had an eye-opening time preparing this series. It's a two-part series called The Transgender Agenda

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is a Dead End for America. That's the name of that series. You'll find that in our broadcast archive.

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The Transgender Agenda is a Dead End for America. You can subscribe to our podcast, too, and get all

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of these. You would have gotten all of these in your box as they came. But this series, two-part series,

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is The Transgender Agenda is a Dead End for America. I give you a perspective from history. This is nothing

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new. People have, for centuries, had a history. We observe the destructive effects of androgyny.

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That's its real name, not transgenderism. It's androgyny. And it has a long history on societies

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that embrace it. It always spells the extinction of that society as well. And we see that aggression

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is also a part of the transgender androgyny. And it's necessary, then, to predate and to groom

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the offspring of mothers and fathers, or breeders, as we are contemptuously referred to. Otherwise,

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of course, the transgender culture is incapable of reproducing the next generation of transgenders.

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They must predate upon us, the breeders, as they contemptuously call us. Well, this series,

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The Transgender Agenda, is a Dead End for America. This is also on our website, americastruths.org.

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Many, many other topics and series as well, all relating to the Christian faith, too. That's one of my

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prime directives is to show you the interface between religion and politics. There is no such

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thing as a separation of church and state. Every state has its God. And it's only a matter of which

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God it is and his laws they are following. So I urge you and encourage you to check out our website,

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americastruths.org. And there you will find these series and many, many more and many other topics as

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well, going all the way back to 2016. Well, this has been Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox

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Presbyterian Church. And courtesy of our church, we do indeed have these broadcasts. And I hope that

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once again, that you have just a blessed Thanksgiving, dear brothers and sisters in the

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Lord Jesus Christ. We have so much to be thankful for, even in the midst of the war, the cultural war

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that we are in. And I encourage you to take some time out to give thanks in the course of the week.

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And join us Sunday before, if you would, Sunday before Thanksgiving. And we will help to prime

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your heart. Once again, a thankless heart is a graceless heart. A grateful heart is a graceful

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heart, a heart full of grace. That's what I pray for your heart this day. We need it in these days and

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times, don't we? In a graceless age that we live, we need hearts full of grace. And only the Lord Jesus

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Christ can pour that grace into your heart that you might thrive and that you might be full of joy

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and that you might be full of thanksgiving as well. May your heart be full of thanksgiving this season.

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And just reminding you again, this is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church.

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We meet for Holy Worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on the corner of 4th and Boulevard.

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And you can call us for more information or feedback, 208-523-0196. 208-523-0196.