1 00:00:04,780 --> 00:00:10,660 Greetings. This is Pastor David Bass at New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church 2 00:00:10,660 --> 00:00:16,140 with a moment of truth where we challenge you to think through an important issue of life and 3 00:00:16,140 --> 00:00:24,280 faith. And today, I want to ask you, what were the preconditions for we the people, which the 4 00:00:24,280 --> 00:00:33,759 founders assumed, had to obtain if our Constitution was ever to succeed? Preconditions for the success 5 00:00:33,759 --> 00:00:41,100 of our Constitution. Do those preconditions exist now in our nation? I want to ask as well. 6 00:00:41,799 --> 00:00:49,799 Now, as the Vice-Regent under God Himself, our Constitution establishes the people as the 7 00:00:49,799 --> 00:00:56,759 supreme power in a republican form of government. Part of the great experiment of America is this 8 00:00:56,759 --> 00:01:02,899 establishment of the body of citizens, the people, as the supreme ruler of the nation 9 00:01:02,899 --> 00:01:11,640 instead of a single tyrant or monarchy or privileged ruling class. It is considered an experiment because 10 00:01:11,640 --> 00:01:20,420 a free republic and all of its wondrous benefits is not the natural state of humankind. It must be 11 00:01:20,420 --> 00:01:29,739 carefully, studiously crafted. Certain conditions must preexist if a constitutional republic is to come 12 00:01:29,739 --> 00:01:37,340 into being. And as we have detailed in previous broadcasts, slavery and tyranny are the default 13 00:01:37,340 --> 00:01:43,340 setting of the human soul apart from divine intervention. Ponder and consider with me, over 14 00:01:43,340 --> 00:01:51,900 three millennia of Egyptian dynasties were only and exclusively ruled by pharaonic tyrannies. Perhaps 15 00:01:51,900 --> 00:01:59,420 4,000 years of Chinese history were dominated by emperors who treated the people as abject peasants and 16 00:01:59,420 --> 00:02:06,760 servants. There's only one place where a tradition of a free Christian republic saw its birth, and that is 17 00:02:06,760 --> 00:02:14,819 in the West. But our founders were also painfully aware that a constitutional republic could not survive 18 00:02:14,819 --> 00:02:23,060 even a generation if we the people consisted of an ignorant pagan rabble. Such a nation would quickly sink into 19 00:02:23,060 --> 00:02:29,699 another run-of-the-mill tyranny of the world. And one of the unknown signers of the Constitution, a man named 20 00:02:29,699 --> 00:02:37,539 Abraham Baldwin, observed this when considering what happens to a people that abandoned Christianity and a thoroughly 21 00:02:37,539 --> 00:02:44,419 educated populace into principles of liberty. He said, when the minds of the people in general are viciously 22 00:02:44,419 --> 00:02:51,860 disposed and unprincipled and their conduct is disorderly, a free government will be attended 23 00:02:51,860 --> 00:02:57,460 with greater confusions and evils more horrid than the wild, uncultivated state of nature." 24 00:02:59,300 --> 00:03:07,460 Does that sound familiar? Sounds like that to which the 21st century America is headed? When a people 25 00:03:07,460 --> 00:03:13,300 characterized by an evil nature are given free reign in a society to manifest themselves, what do you 26 00:03:13,300 --> 00:03:21,300 suppose it will manifest itself as? Evil, of course. Consequently, when we the people are evil through 27 00:03:21,300 --> 00:03:29,139 and through, what are we to expect? Anything better than when the monarch, the tyrant, the emperor is evil? 28 00:03:29,139 --> 00:03:36,099 No. In fact, it can be argued that it is easier to rid a country of one or a small number of evil 29 00:03:36,099 --> 00:03:43,699 tyrants than to wipe out an entire nation of its citizens who are evil. Knowing this, seeing it 30 00:03:43,699 --> 00:03:49,460 confirmed in the historical record, our founding fathers insisted that four preconditions exist 31 00:03:49,460 --> 00:03:57,060 in a Christian constitutional republic before it can be expected to succeed. Number one of those four, 32 00:03:57,060 --> 00:04:05,699 number one, we need, as a precondition, a Christian moral and ethical framework. A Christian moral and 33 00:04:05,699 --> 00:04:12,659 ethical framework. There's no way that a republic governed by the people can flourish without the 34 00:04:12,659 --> 00:04:19,300 Christian faith tempering every facet of its life. Self-government requires self-discipline in accord with 35 00:04:19,300 --> 00:04:26,420 the code, and that code for our founding fathers was implicitly biblical Christianity. The constitution is 36 00:04:26,420 --> 00:04:32,740 framed with this in mind. Samuel Adams puts it this way, he's so eloquent, he says, and I quote, 37 00:04:32,740 --> 00:04:39,860 a general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the liberties of America 38 00:04:39,860 --> 00:04:46,019 than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are virtuous, they cannot be subdued, 39 00:04:46,019 --> 00:04:53,300 but when they lose their virtue, they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or 40 00:04:53,300 --> 00:05:01,060 internal invader. If virtue and knowledge are diffused among the people, they will never be enslaved. 41 00:05:01,699 --> 00:05:11,459 This will be their great security. Samuel Adams, unquote. Well, we see Israel was consigned to exile 42 00:05:11,459 --> 00:05:18,420 because she forgot the God of her youth and his law. As Hosea says, my people are destroyed for lack of 43 00:05:18,420 --> 00:05:23,459 knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since 44 00:05:23,459 --> 00:05:30,019 you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children. In fact, Israel came to a 45 00:05:30,019 --> 00:05:37,060 point where she could not distinguish good from evil. Isaiah says, woe to those who call evil good and good 46 00:05:37,060 --> 00:05:45,540 evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter, 47 00:05:45,540 --> 00:05:54,660 unquote. Well, so many so-called Christian nations forgot God and his law too, and they paid the price. 48 00:05:54,660 --> 00:06:02,019 France, for example, in the French Revolution of 1789, which was just after our revolution, 49 00:06:02,019 --> 00:06:09,060 they rejected God altogether and exalted the goddess reason. The leaders of the French Revolution even 50 00:06:09,060 --> 00:06:15,779 created a statue, an idol of reason, if you will, and paraded it around during the tennis court oath. 51 00:06:16,339 --> 00:06:23,300 A significant moment in the revolution when the leaders dedicated themselves to resistance to God, 52 00:06:23,300 --> 00:06:32,980 the church and monarchy. Well, the trouble was no moral restraint was evident in the following days 53 00:06:32,980 --> 00:06:40,100 when the French Revolution descended into the reign of terror, as it's known now. Thousands were executed 54 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:47,459 at the guillotine for little more than owning a silk brocade jacket, for example. The great egalitarian 55 00:06:47,459 --> 00:06:55,860 democratic experiment in France, having jettisoned Christianity and biblical morality, decayed into 56 00:06:55,860 --> 00:07:04,500 the dictatorship of Napoleon. A republic where the people govern themselves demands a clear standard 57 00:07:04,500 --> 00:07:11,300 of right and wrong, and the leaders and the people who elect them with the integrity to live by it. 58 00:07:11,300 --> 00:07:17,620 Otherwise you get what we have in the United States today, an evil, corrupt, debauched system, 59 00:07:17,620 --> 00:07:24,339 where those in power are up for themselves, and the people over whom they rule are easily fooled 60 00:07:24,339 --> 00:07:31,620 because they look for what they can get and want to believe as truth the lies they are told. As John 61 00:07:31,620 --> 00:07:39,379 Adams puts it, our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to 62 00:07:39,379 --> 00:07:47,540 the government of any other." For example, Davy Crockett of Alamo fame also served as a congressman 63 00:07:47,540 --> 00:07:53,620 from Kentucky in the early 1800s, and he gave a speech opposing a bill that would give government 64 00:07:53,620 --> 00:08:00,500 relief to a widow of a naval officer. Very sympathizing, right? But in that speech he expressed 65 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:06,420 great sympathy for the widow, and he offered to put up a week's salary to her benefit. But he also 66 00:08:06,420 --> 00:08:12,500 insisted, and I quote him now, he said, Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of 67 00:08:12,500 --> 00:08:18,420 charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much 68 00:08:18,420 --> 00:08:26,660 of our own money as we please in charity, but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate 69 00:08:26,660 --> 00:08:34,259 a dollar of the public money. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the 70 00:08:34,259 --> 00:08:42,179 payment of a debt, and we have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as charity. Unquote. 71 00:08:42,179 --> 00:08:51,059 Davy Crockett. Charity. Welfare checks are outside of the purview of government. Who has the moral 72 00:08:51,059 --> 00:08:57,379 character to take a stand like this today? Every one of the reprobates who serves in Congress today 73 00:08:57,379 --> 00:09:04,340 cannot wait to give away government resources. Our money, the blood, sweat, and tears of the taxpayer 74 00:09:04,340 --> 00:09:12,419 can't wait to give it away to lazy, cynical fellow citizens. And this on top of the graft and theft 75 00:09:12,419 --> 00:09:19,379 that they commit in making themselves wealthy at taxpayer expense. One need only look at the Somali 76 00:09:19,379 --> 00:09:26,580 daycare scandal perpetuated by evil government officials like Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar 77 00:09:26,580 --> 00:09:32,419 and Governor Tim Walz. For people like them, and they exist in the millions in America, 78 00:09:32,419 --> 00:09:40,179 the American government is only a super cash ATM from which they can withdraw free money. But this was 79 00:09:40,179 --> 00:09:49,700 foreseen by wiser men than us. For example, to quote Alexander Fraser Teitler, who was a Scottish 80 00:09:49,700 --> 00:09:57,299 historian in the 18th century, Alexander Teitler says, and I quote, a democracy cannot exist as a 81 00:09:57,299 --> 00:10:03,700 permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves 82 00:10:03,700 --> 00:10:10,740 largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, he says, the majority always votes for the 83 00:10:10,740 --> 00:10:16,980 candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy 84 00:10:16,980 --> 00:10:26,580 always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship, unquote. Prescient, 85 00:10:26,580 --> 00:10:34,100 this man. Bingo. An immoral, covetous populace will always bankrupt its government treasury. 86 00:10:34,740 --> 00:10:40,980 Teitler's phrase, a loose fiscal policy. That's an understatement of what the United States fiscal 87 00:10:40,980 --> 00:10:48,259 policy is today. In fact, what can we say about the fiscal state of the U.S. is that it is history's 88 00:10:48,259 --> 00:10:52,500 greatest monument to the transgression of the Eighth Commandment, thou shalt not steal. 89 00:10:52,500 --> 00:10:59,860 What else can we say about the other commandments, huh? Have no other gods before me? Oh, instead, 90 00:10:59,860 --> 00:11:04,500 Americans have any other god but the god of the Bible. Thou shalt do no murder. Instead, 91 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:10,259 we abort our children and coddle illegal alien murderers. Or how about thou shalt not commit 92 00:11:10,259 --> 00:11:17,220 adultery. Instead, we indulge every kind of sexual perversion. The first and greatest precondition 93 00:11:17,220 --> 00:11:22,980 for a free constitutional republic needs to be restored to its proper place. That is a Christian 94 00:11:22,980 --> 00:11:31,940 moral and ethical framework. Right now, there's an ugly devilish chaos of evil in our federal dominion 95 00:11:31,940 --> 00:11:38,820 of demons, the deep state. All talk about ending the deep state and returning to the good old days of 96 00:11:38,820 --> 00:11:45,539 yesteryear is nostalgic nonsense. We can welcome the future only by conforming to God's plan for the 97 00:11:45,539 --> 00:11:52,500 future. That is a millennium of peace and prosperity under the rule of Christ and his church. I sketch 98 00:11:52,500 --> 00:11:59,940 what this looks like in previous broadcasts. For example, from January 19th of 2020, I have a broadcast 99 00:11:59,940 --> 00:12:08,659 called A Christian Millennium, Eight Propositions for a Christian Millennium. And then from February 2nd of 100 00:12:08,659 --> 00:12:16,580 2020, I have a broadcast, A Christian Millennium, The Irredeemably Corrupt Deep State Must Be Destroyed. 101 00:12:16,580 --> 00:12:24,740 And I have a whole series on A Christian Millennium on our website then, americastruths.com, 102 00:12:25,299 --> 00:12:32,740 americastruths.com. The whole first part of 2020, I spent broadcasting on what that Christian 103 00:12:32,740 --> 00:12:39,379 millennium looks like. And I encourage you to check that out on our website, americastruths.com. 104 00:12:39,379 --> 00:12:47,059 Well, there you will also find five other broadcasts related to this subject. Perhaps you remember them 105 00:12:47,059 --> 00:12:51,539 from days past. It's one of the subjects I've devoted the most careful attention to since it 106 00:12:51,539 --> 00:12:59,299 matters so deeply. Christ will establish his kingdom without fail, with or without us. And the choice is 107 00:12:59,299 --> 00:13:06,500 yours. Well, the second precondition for a constitutional republic, the second precondition 108 00:13:06,820 --> 00:13:14,419 of our founding fathers is a widely educated populace in the principles of republican governance. 109 00:13:14,980 --> 00:13:20,980 A widely educated populace educated in the principles of republican governance. 110 00:13:21,779 --> 00:13:27,460 This is a factor in a free constitutional republic of which so many Americans are ignorant, 111 00:13:27,460 --> 00:13:33,620 in a great irony. The great majority of Americans are utterly ignorant of the education and training 112 00:13:33,620 --> 00:13:40,259 in how a free people govern themselves. Yes. In direct contradiction to George W. Bush, 113 00:13:40,259 --> 00:13:46,019 who said upon his invasion of Iraq, he said mankind has a natural desire for freedom. 114 00:13:46,899 --> 00:13:52,659 And he thought that all we had to do was set up democratic elections and voila, Iraq would suddenly 115 00:13:52,659 --> 00:13:58,580 become a western style democracy and enter the civilized world in direct contradiction to this 116 00:13:58,580 --> 00:14:05,460 simplistic notion. However, we see again and again that mankind's tendency is towards slavery 117 00:14:05,460 --> 00:14:13,539 and tyranny instead, natural inclination. Despite our dear sacrifice of blood and treasure in Iraq, 118 00:14:13,539 --> 00:14:19,299 she has sunk back into the tyranny and oppression of a brutal, 119 00:14:19,299 --> 00:14:27,460 merciless Islam since we left, hasn't it? History has demonstrated time and time again with a painful 120 00:14:27,460 --> 00:14:35,299 consistency that liberty is hard-learned. It is unnatural. It is revealed to an ignorant human 121 00:14:35,299 --> 00:14:43,139 race by God himself. True freedom begins with spiritual liberty found only in Jesus Christ. He said, 122 00:14:43,139 --> 00:14:50,580 If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set 123 00:14:50,580 --> 00:14:58,340 you free. That's our Lord Jesus Christ. Liberty begins with salvation in Jesus Christ. It is requisite 124 00:14:58,340 --> 00:15:05,139 first to abide in Christ's word. Live in what he says, dear listener. All other liberties, political, 125 00:15:05,139 --> 00:15:11,299 economic, religious, they come only in the wake of spiritual liberty. And that liberty begins with a 126 00:15:11,299 --> 00:15:18,500 careful teaching against the natural state of the human soul. A people must be taught against the 127 00:15:18,500 --> 00:15:24,659 natural tendencies of their hearts in order that freedom and liberty can be had. True liberty has been 128 00:15:24,659 --> 00:15:30,659 purchased over a great stretch of redemptive history at a great cost in terms of human suffering 129 00:15:30,659 --> 00:15:37,059 and sacrifice. For example, Israel was liberated from her slavery to Egypt through great cost, 130 00:15:37,059 --> 00:15:43,620 at the Red Sea, and in the wilderness wanderings for 40 years. Israel began as a tribal republic in 131 00:15:43,620 --> 00:15:49,779 the Promised Land with every opportunity for success. But eventually, even this tribal republic, 132 00:15:49,779 --> 00:15:56,100 with God himself as a king, succumbed to the tyranny of monarchy. The people wanted a king like all the 133 00:15:56,100 --> 00:16:03,220 other nations. And the period of the kings in Israel is a long, sad story of failure after failure, 134 00:16:03,220 --> 00:16:09,620 with a few luminous exceptions like King David or King Josiah. And early principles of a republic, 135 00:16:09,620 --> 00:16:16,100 they shone as sparks of hope in places like Greece and especially Rome during her period of the Roman 136 00:16:16,100 --> 00:16:24,419 Republic. The point we want to emphasize is that liberty is learnt, not lavished naturally. 137 00:16:24,419 --> 00:16:31,620 As George Washington puts it, a primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of 138 00:16:31,620 --> 00:16:39,940 government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? What duty more pressing 139 00:16:39,940 --> 00:16:45,220 than the communication of it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the 140 00:16:45,220 --> 00:16:53,539 country? Unquote. George Washington. Only through patient, consistent teaching of constitutional principles 141 00:16:53,539 --> 00:17:00,659 could an otherwise ignorant populace learn to govern themselves in true liberty. Thomas Jefferson, 142 00:17:00,659 --> 00:17:08,339 he warned that, and I quote, a tyranny of government will follow unless the people at large are educated at the 143 00:17:08,339 --> 00:17:14,819 common expense of all. Unquote. Jefferson understood the importance of educating the general public 144 00:17:14,819 --> 00:17:20,579 in the principles of a constitutional republic. He said the most effectual means of preventing the 145 00:17:20,579 --> 00:17:28,819 perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, 146 00:17:28,819 --> 00:17:34,339 and more especially, to give them knowledge of those facts which history exhibits, 147 00:17:34,339 --> 00:17:39,619 that possess thereby of the experience of other ages and countries. They may be enabled to know 148 00:17:39,619 --> 00:17:47,380 ambition under all its shapes and prompt to exert their natural powers to defeat its purposes. Unquote. 149 00:17:48,099 --> 00:17:54,099 In other words, tyranny can only be defeated when the people are sufficiently educated to recognize 150 00:17:54,099 --> 00:18:01,140 it when it rears its ugly head. That's precisely why tyranny thrives in America today. We do not know 151 00:18:01,140 --> 00:18:07,299 ambition under all its shapes, and therefore we allow it to thrive as long as we get our perks. 152 00:18:07,940 --> 00:18:14,099 Do we understand the value of history in America? A systematic exposure to the knowledge of those 153 00:18:14,099 --> 00:18:18,900 facts which history exhibits, as Jefferson says, would go a long ways towards waking up this 154 00:18:18,900 --> 00:18:24,099 clueless generation who are obsessed with affordability, it's a new buzzword, and clicks and 155 00:18:24,099 --> 00:18:30,660 blue checks on their social media accounts. And like clueless puppies with a shiny bauble, 156 00:18:30,660 --> 00:18:36,980 they're being hypnotized by the false promises of socialism, dangled in front of them by fraudsters 157 00:18:36,980 --> 00:18:43,539 like Mayor Mamdani in New York. Dear listener, there's a reason that the public school system 158 00:18:43,539 --> 00:18:50,980 no longer teaches American history and civics and government. If they did, we would realize how we have 159 00:18:50,980 --> 00:18:56,980 been had, deliberately deceived in having our liberties stolen from us over the decades, 160 00:18:56,980 --> 00:19:04,500 and we would throw the bombs out. The deliberate strategy of Marxism is this, historical blackout. 161 00:19:05,220 --> 00:19:11,059 Just as London went stone cold back at night when German bombers flew their missions overhead in World 162 00:19:11,059 --> 00:19:17,460 War II, turning out their lights, curtaining their apartments, the Londoners did. Well, so Marxists use 163 00:19:17,460 --> 00:19:22,980 this metaphor for turning out the lights of history so that the people are in the stone cold dark, 164 00:19:22,980 --> 00:19:29,700 ignorant of their past and how they went from liberty to slavery at the hands of evil men like those that 165 00:19:29,700 --> 00:19:37,859 rule over us today in the United States. Liberty is learnt, dear listener, it's not lavished naturally. 166 00:19:37,859 --> 00:19:44,660 Liberty is learnt, not lavished naturally. Parents, teacher children, abide in the life and teaching of 167 00:19:44,660 --> 00:19:51,539 Jesus Christ first and foremost. And as a corollary inculcate history and the principles of a constitutional 168 00:19:51,539 --> 00:19:59,059 republic. These are irreplaceable preconditions for liberty. A third precondition is a constant vigilance 169 00:19:59,059 --> 00:20:05,299 against tyranny. A constant vigilance against tyranny. This was a quality of our founding fathers 170 00:20:05,299 --> 00:20:11,140 cultivated in their generation. They had plenty of experience with the tyranny of king and parliament. 171 00:20:11,140 --> 00:20:17,700 Jefferson said, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. There is no greater naivete, dear listener, 172 00:20:17,700 --> 00:20:24,819 than that of thinking that government has your best interests at heart. Rare is the man who is drawn to 173 00:20:24,819 --> 00:20:33,539 power in order to serve his fellow citizens. Most are grasping after it for their own interests. Henry 174 00:20:33,539 --> 00:20:40,180 Kissinger captured the feeling, the exhilaration felt by those who seek it. He said, power is the ultimate 175 00:20:40,180 --> 00:20:50,099 aphrodisiac. George Orwell, in his classic 1984. He puts it plainly, what Marxists and globalists are 176 00:20:50,099 --> 00:20:57,779 seeking. Two characters, O'Brien and Winston. O'Brien, the evil perpetrator, says to Winston, 177 00:20:57,779 --> 00:21:05,140 and I quote from the book, the party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in 178 00:21:05,140 --> 00:21:12,259 the good of others. We are interested solely in power, not wealth, or luxury, or long life, 179 00:21:13,059 --> 00:21:21,059 or happiness. Only power. Pure power. What pure power means, you will understand presently, O'Brien 180 00:21:21,059 --> 00:21:26,420 says to Winston, and begin torturing him. But he goes on to say, O'Brien does, we know that no one 181 00:21:26,420 --> 00:21:33,059 ever sees his power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not 182 00:21:33,059 --> 00:21:38,500 establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution. One makes the revolution in order 183 00:21:38,500 --> 00:21:44,980 to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture 184 00:21:44,980 --> 00:21:54,259 is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me? O'Brien says, you can 185 00:21:54,259 --> 00:22:02,339 almost hear the devil cackling in the background. How stupidly naive Americans have become. We continue to 186 00:22:02,339 --> 00:22:08,819 turn to the government for every need and whim, thinking it is kind and compassionate and 187 00:22:08,819 --> 00:22:17,700 wants to serve us, right? Government only wants to serve us. Yes, they want to serve us on a platter, 188 00:22:17,700 --> 00:22:26,180 rare, medium, or well done. Oh, dear listener, Pollyanna was a character developed by the author Eleanor 189 00:22:26,180 --> 00:22:35,220 Porter in the early 20th century. In her book, Porter makes Pollyanna always optimistic about people 190 00:22:35,220 --> 00:22:42,420 and naively trusting and attributing the best of intentions to everyone. She was gushing and sweet 191 00:22:42,420 --> 00:22:50,180 and naive. Voila. Behold the great body of Americans when it comes to government. Instead of being vigilant, 192 00:22:50,180 --> 00:22:56,259 we are vacillating. Instead of being wary of government, we are in wonder of it. Instead of 193 00:22:56,259 --> 00:23:02,099 looking with suspicion on government, we look with satisfaction on it to give us our crumbs from the 194 00:23:02,099 --> 00:23:08,579 table. Well, it's already too late to forestall tyranny, dear listener. It's already upon us. What must 195 00:23:08,579 --> 00:23:14,019 happen next is precondition number four. Our founding fathers, precondition number four, 196 00:23:14,019 --> 00:23:20,900 a willingness to act when circumstances required. This was a precondition for a free constitutional 197 00:23:20,900 --> 00:23:27,859 republic, a willingness to act when circumstances required. This was the precondition which ignited 198 00:23:27,859 --> 00:23:34,420 the American Revolution in 1776. Americans had grown accustomed to their rough liberties in the 199 00:23:34,420 --> 00:23:39,619 American wilderness over the centuries, and they were willing to stand up and fight when they were 200 00:23:39,619 --> 00:23:46,740 challenged. They made a revolution over a three percent tax on tea and other imports. Oh, the generation of 201 00:23:46,740 --> 00:23:53,380 Washington and Jefferson and Adams, they would be ashamed to call us fellow Americans if they saw what we put up 202 00:23:53,380 --> 00:24:01,700 with, a federal leviathan, a federal dominion of demons. That great patriot Samuel Adams, when pondering his 203 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:09,460 fellow countrymen who were too timid to join the cause of liberty in 1776, he said to them quite frankly, and I 204 00:24:09,460 --> 00:24:16,259 quote Adams, he said, if ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the 205 00:24:16,259 --> 00:24:25,140 animated contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down 206 00:24:25,140 --> 00:24:33,380 and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you 207 00:24:33,380 --> 00:24:43,380 were our countrymen. Oh, Sam Adams. So much for warm feelings and going along to get along, huh? Sam Adams 208 00:24:43,380 --> 00:24:49,539 was one man who was a man of Issachar, and I quote from the Bible, those who knew the times and understood 209 00:24:49,539 --> 00:24:56,259 what must be done. The men of Issachar, as the Bible says about them, we need men of Issachar today as much 210 00:24:56,259 --> 00:25:04,500 as the America of 1776 needed them. Now, I have outlined politically and prolifically in the past, 211 00:25:04,500 --> 00:25:09,859 some of the things that must be done in order to destroy the deep state and reestablish a Christian 212 00:25:09,859 --> 00:25:16,740 constitutional republic. And those broadcasts are, number one, the doctrine of the lesser magistrates, 213 00:25:16,740 --> 00:25:22,259 the biblical response to tyranny. And that's in three parts, the doctrine of the lesser magistrates. 214 00:25:22,259 --> 00:25:30,500 And that you will find on our website for January 8th, January 22nd, and February 5th of 2023. 215 00:25:31,220 --> 00:25:39,859 And then also most recently, April 12th of 2026. And that broadcast was The Vulnerabilities of the 216 00:25:39,859 --> 00:25:46,980 Federal Dominion of Demons. That is the deep state. Six vulnerabilities I list. These and many, 217 00:25:46,980 --> 00:25:55,940 many more, really, they can all be accessed at our website, americastruths.org. Now, I do not just 218 00:25:55,940 --> 00:26:04,740 cry and moan about tyranny, dear listener. I outline and act upon real, practical solutions to tyranny. 219 00:26:04,740 --> 00:26:11,140 And I urge you to do the same. For now, dear listener, work with me to reestablish the four 220 00:26:11,140 --> 00:26:18,500 preconditions for a constitutional republic just outlined for you. Then together, we can build a 221 00:26:18,500 --> 00:26:26,339 Christian constitutional republic for ourselves and our children. This has been Pastor David Bass at 222 00:26:26,339 --> 00:26:34,019 New Geneva Orthodox Presbyterian Church. We meet for holy worship on Sunday at 10 a.m. at 101 4th Street on 223 00:26:34,019 --> 00:26:40,660 the corner of 4th and Boulevard. And you can call us for feedback or perhaps some more information at area 224 00:26:40,660 --> 00:26:49,779 code 208-523-0196. 208-523-0196.