The First Constitutional Republic | Isaiah 33:22

and this morning

yesterday's activity a good time

celebrating

the 250th anniversary of our country

I believe greatest country it's ever

been that's my opinion

it was it was founded on biblical

many biblical ideas and it is my concern

that those ideas eroded and lost have

been eroded and lost in many ways. I

want to talk about how some of those

ideas come from the scriptures. I'm only

touching a few. I' I've been told that

in the discussions of the constitutional

convention, the book of Deuteronomy

decided more than any other source. And

many people today want to a really big

deal out of the Roman Republic and say

well we were based on the Roman Republic

but it's very interesting Roman Republic

was founded in 509 BC

which is a good 1200 years after the

Hebrew republic was founded a lot of

Christians have never even heard about

the Hebrew republic what's a republic

republic is representative government

where you have rep representatives

governing over the people If you've ever

said the the the pledge of allegiance or

heard the pledge of allegiance, you know

that the flag we remember the republic

for which it stands. It stands for

republic, not for a democracy. Our

founders looked at democracy as a great

evil because when when you have a

democracy, it's possible for as

Deuteronomy warns for the multitude

direct judgment. When when the majority

of people can get together and vote to

take away the property of other people,

the lesser people or when you have a

government where people in in strong

positions of of financial positions can

buy government.

So we have a constitution that protects

us. And you may think well constitution

a written constitution that was a new

idea. Well, again,

as we'll see, the first republic, the

Hebrew republic, was a constitutional

republic. God gave them a government and

he gave them laws. And the idea was that

those laws were over everybody. It was

over the judges. It was over the king.

It was over the people. So, the idea of

the rule of law is rooted in scripture.

And I want to look at some of those

foundations this morning. And so my

sermon though this morning is the first

constitutional republic.

Government of government is a biblical

concept and the blessing befitting of

godly population. If you stand with me

for the reading of God's word, we're

going to read one verse more sermon this

morning. Isaiah

Isaiah 33:22

33 verse 22. For the Lord Yahweh is our

judge. Yahweh is our lawgiver. Yahweh is

our king. He will save us. Let us pray.

Oh Lord God, we thank you that you are

the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

We rejoice that our Savior Jesus is name

salvation.

He will save. He has favor. God, we look

to you, the sovereign judge of all the

earth. Just as the the founders who pend

the Declaration of the Independence

declared their dependence upon you,

sovereign judge of all the earth. Lord,

we depend upon you this morning. We look

to you, Father, as we look at some

developments in our country. We look to

you. You are our hope. You are our

savior. You are. You are our king, our

judge, our lawgiver. We look to you this

morning. And we pray that you would rule

and reign in the heart of your people.

Amen.

I'm going to be looking at various this

morning. I'm going to be going to

various places. A little more

but particularly Deuteronomy

to begin with. But I wanted to show you

I wanted to start off with this one

verse that in it you see what we call

the three branches of government but

they're all found in one person in God

in Yahweh. You see all caps L O R Yahweh

is our judge. Okay. So there within

within God he is a judge and in our

government we have a judicial branch.

Yahweh is our lawgiver. Okay. Yes, he's

our lawgiver. Rights come from God.

Morality comes from God. And we have in

our constitutional republic a

legislative branch. And the Lord is our

king. What does the king do? The king

would lead out to war. The king the king

was the executive. The executive of a

nation. And so you have an executive

branch. And then we have this little

declaration. He will save us. It's very

important if you're going to have a

sustained people that your savior is

Yahweh. Your savior is Jesus Christ our

Lord. Why is that? Because when you

don't look to him to be your savior,

what do people look to? They look to the

government. This is one reason why

atheists are very very dangerous to be

empowered because there's no higher

power for the atheist than the civil

swords. That's the highest power. That

that is the highest court of

arbitration. But for the Christian, we

understand that that government, the

government is on Christ's shoulders and

all legitimate authority comes from him.

So all authority is under authority

whether it be in the church or in the

family or in the civil sphere that that

all authority comes from him and he is

our savior. When people look to the

government to save them that give them

power and the same power that gives them

the ability to save or they think we're

the ability to save is ability to take

and to steal and to oppress. This is the

problem with pagan government and

ungodly government. This is This is

what's called humanistic government is

that when you look when you look to the

government to be the fountain head of

rights, the source of of everything.

When you look to the government to be

your savior to give you cradle grade

security, then then the government wants

to have the power claims the power to do

that. And it's the power that the

government has the power to give you

everything you want. It's been said has

the power to take everything you have.

And that's why it's extremely important

that people understand our father is in

heaven. He's not in wrong. Our provider

is our savior. He saves us. We don't

look for the government to save us. Now,

why why is it that we have three

branches of government in our country?

Well, because our families understood

that human beings are sinners

and they have sinful sinful inclinations

and that human beings in in positions of

power themselves need accountability.

They need authority. Why Romans 13 says,

"Let every soul be subject to the powers

that be is everyone who has authority

must be under authority." We see this in

the church that that when God when Paul

set up churches, there was a plurality

of elders. There was mutual

accountability. And so the founders of

our country, they they recognize that by

dividing up the government into three

branches with a a judicial branch and a

legislative branch and an executive

branch, they could keep each other in

check because they knew they read their

Bibles. They knew that uh sinful people

need accountability. Government needs

governing. That's why Romans 13 says

that every soul

be subject to the powers of that would

include the king that would that would

include every level government we are

under authority and that's how we have

authority this is a concern I have for

even in the church when people tell me

that we're home churching they're just

going to have church in their home okay

so there's nobody to keep the father

accountable in that we need each other

elders need eldering pastors need There

needs to be a plurality and and so in

civil government our founders with a

firm understanding that human beings we

we are fallen we are sinful and

therefore we need checks and balances.

God is holy and righteous. So in the one

person of God he can be judge and

lawgiver and king and savior but for

human beings absolute power corrupt

absolutely as the go and so in wisdom

knowing the symptoms of man there are

there's a division of government now I

want to look at chapter one when Moses

came out of Egypt I said some months ago

that he's a mutous man

that I quoted out the man in all the

earth. He had the most power of any

other human being other than Jesus. He

had the most power that's ever heal

supernatural power.

Moses acted as a king and as a priest.

He has he had complete total power when

he came out of Egypt and and before God

put him in that position, he let him be

a for the in the desert to humble him.

But but even Moses, even Moses

misrepresented God by his authorities.

But when Moses brought the children of

Israel out of Egypt, he was weary

because all day long he would be hearing

cases and solving problems and it was

his father-in-law came to him Jethro and

he said, "What you're doing isn't good.

You need to delegate. You need to

delegate your authority to other

people." And so this in chapter one,

Deuteronomy chapter one and Exodus

chapter uh 18 we have the foundation of

the Hebrew republic. Deuteronomy chapter

Deuteronomy 1 · chapter mention

1 vers9 says at that time when I came

out of Egypt at that time I said to you

I am not able to bear you by my son. The

Lord your God has multiplied you and

behold you are today as numerous as the

stars of heaven. May the Lord, the God

of your fathers, make you a thousand

times as many as you are and bless you,

as he has promised you. How can I bear

myself the weight and the burden of you

in your strength? Cheers for your

tribes, wise, understanding, experienced

men, and I will appoint them as your

head, and you answer me the things that

you have spoken is good for us to do.

Now, notice he says, you know, the

people among you. So he says choose

choose from uh choose for your tribe

wise understanding experienced men. So

is there a democratic element here? It

appears so they were to choose. Moses

didn't know personally every single

person in there

in the desert. So he said you select you

choose you elect

certain people. What kind? Well, men

that are wise,

wise men, people that that have a

reputation for problem solving, people

who had accomplished something in their

life, people that had a track record

that demonstrated wisdom and

understanding and experience. They

weren't to be noviceses. They were to be

people with a track record. That's why I

I think that before anybody runs for

office, they ought to have a track

record of having done something, manage

something, build something. They'll have

a track record. And and uh in Ezekiel, I

think it's in Ezekiel 81 when it says

men that fear God. Men that fear God and

he says, "And I so they were to elect

and given me the ordination." This is

even as a church, we have uh when we

have members meetings and there's a need

for more elders or or deacons, we'll

say, "Okay, we're going to have

a nomination, a selection process. And

as a church, we'll select people and um

then the elders will approve them after

they've been um kind of duted for a

while and looked through to see if they

fit the qualifications found here in in

First Corinthians chapter 3. And so we

1 Corinthians 3 · chapter mention

read on in verse 15. I took the heads of

your tribes wise and strange men and set

them at heads over you. Commanders of

thousands, commanders of hundreds,

commanders of 50, commanders of t and

officers and throughout your time. These

men would be known as the elders of

Israel. The word elders means old

literally but they became the president

of the elders of Israel. This is where

the concept of elders come from. There

would be 70 elders that that were kind

at the top and they would be on the

Supreme Court. So we read also about the

judges in verse 16 says I charge your

judges at that time hear the cases

between your brothers and judge

righteously between a man and his

brother or the

you shall not be partial in judgment.

You shall hear the small and the great

alike. You shall not be intimidated by

anyone for the judgment is God's and the

case too hard for you. you shall bring

to me and I will hear it and I and I

commanded you at that time all the

things that you should do. So here we

see he selects officers commanders and

also they select judges. So we have

these commanders that their their word

wouldn't be and it's been argued that

when God set up his republic he had an

executive branch and judicial branch but

no legislative branch.

Why? Because God gave them a body of

laws and the judges were to apply God's

law to given cases. It was a case law

system. When you you may have heard that

there are 613 laws in the Bible. 10 of

them were special. They were set aside.

They were written on stone by the finger

of God. They were put in the ark of the

covenant. There there's something

special about the ten commandments. Many

of the laws that you hear 613 have to do

with laws for the priest and how to

handle the sacrifices and the steps to

take and the things to be done. But many

of the laws are also civil laws that

were caseless. They were a case that a

judge could look at, could study, would

identify the the principle behind it,

the general equity principle of it. And

even though that particular case law may

have to do with oxen or don falling

under the road, the idea behind the case

law was it illustrated a principle that

with sound reasoning, honest judges

could apply it to a wide variety of

cases. And this is why when you read

when you read the law of God, don't

don't look at it as well, this is just a

bunch of archaic rules. If it sounds

strange to you, if it sounds harsh to

you, identify what the principle is and

you'll find that you can apply it to

many things in your life, including your

personal life. You see Paul doing this

in the New Testament. You see, Paul was

applying the law of don't mle the ox to

paying people wages. What does muzzling

ox have to do with wages? Well, when a

when an ox was spreading out in the

field, God's word said you're not to put

a muzzle on it. They need to be able to

eat while they work. And so Paul takes

that principle and he's able to apply it

to the local pastor actually.

So these laws were given to the judges

to apply to all sorts of situations.

There's a great advantage to this. The

great advantage was uh today we have

unending laws. We have we have rooms in

Jefferson City. We have room filled in

books of law that that some lawyer might

go digging through to try to find a

loophole, but we have tons of tits of

law, statuto laws. Biblical law wasn't

like that. It was a case that the wives

could read, could memorize, could study,

could discuss, could dialogue and debate

and and they could apply it to a variety

of situations. The common law of England

was based upon this system. So at the

founding of the republic, we were nation

founders had common law court a lawyer

to study under the tillage of another

lawyer and eventually pass the bar and

they learned legal reasoning and they

learn to apply principles general

principles from thousands of years of

British law to gave

them the law and they applied it to many

situations and wise men could make

decisions now we've gone over to

tyrannical sort of thing where the

government wants to pass a law that

we've got we got nonelected agencies.

We've got the EPA, we've got um the FDA,

we have all these the ACF, we got all

these agencies without any

representation in the government

whatsoever. Our Congress is delegating

power to people that are themselves not

elected and can't be voted out of

office. That wasn't our founders vision

and that wasn't God's vision. for

ancient Israel. God gave them a set of

laws. It wasn't an uneven multipet

amount of laws. Now, there were

officers. They would make decisions and

I'm sure in little things they were

making all kinds of commanders were

making all kinds of decisions. But it's

interesting to know that their judges

had a case law system and you didn't

have to know 10,000 laws to to uh do

something simple. much regulation

because we forsaken this concept. But

the founders understood that concept and

it was rooted in God's word. Now that's

that's where your judges and your uh

your judges and your officers came from.

Now later on

in Deuteronomy 16 he again talks about

these judges and officers. Deuteronomy

officers. In Deuteronomy 16, he says,

"You shall appoint judges, talking about

the teacher, and officers."

You got officers or elders and judges in

all your towns that the Lord your God

has given you according to your tribe.

And they shall judge the people with

righteous judgment. You shall not

pervert justice. You shall not show

partiality. And you shall not accept the

blind. For a blind blinds the eyes of

the wise and subverts the cause of the

righteous. Justice and only justice you

shall follow that you may live and the

land that the Lord your God is given

you. You ever wonder how all of our our

president even ones that come in with

only moderate wealth be

fabulously wealthy.

I mean they go into office and they got

$400,000 a year and then they leave

office with many many many millions of

dollars. How does that happen? How is it

the Congress people that that have just

been in in Congress their entire pretty

much their entire lives and never ran a

business, how can they have gazillion

dollars? How does that happen? Well,

here it is.

And God said that's not the way it's

supposed to be. You will judge with

impartiality and judgment.

specified that whether a stranger, a

foreigner or native born, whether rich

or poor, regardless, none of that

matters. The same laws to apply for

everyone. You ever notice how in the

declaration we hold these truths to be

self-evident that all men are created

equal? What does created equal mean?

We're not all equal. I mean, we're not

all equally handsome or tall or wealthy

or have equal life expenses. Everybody's

different. What way are we equal?

We're equal under the law. The concept

is that if it's if the same law should

apply to everyone, not the favor, your

favorite doesn't get treated different

than the one that you don't like. You

don't you're not supposed to treat if

you're a judge. Well, if you're a judge

and you have a relative before you, you

were supposed to not sit on that case.

But but even if you didn't know

somebody, not to favor people on the

basis of the color of skin, how wealthy

they are, or how poor they are.

Sometimes it goes the other way. Some

people favor the poor. They go, "Oh, I

feel so bad for them." And so they give

them a sentence because we're poor.

Look, this last couple years, we've had

stabbings and different things that

happened by somebody that had been in

prison many times and been let off the

hook. It's like, what's going on here?

This is an obvious

criminal. Why are they being led out to

stab people? Well, we have justice. When

you don't have god-fearing people

filling the positions of power in the

land, then they're going to show

favoritism.

There's going to be a system of bribery.

There's going to be wealthy corporations

to get government contracts. You're

going to have a large industrial

military complex, like I talked about

last week, uh, forcing, trying to buy

their way into war so they can make more

profits. This is why Christians must be

involved in government

because we need God-fearing people that

hate covetousness that that that fear

God that hate covetousness and

understand where rights come from and

morality comes from because if we vacate

those positions then the ungodly fulfill

them and and that doesn't mean everybody

who calls himself a Christian is not at

all. They need to be wise and

understanding and they truly fear God.

We need God.

We don't I don't I don't think we have

the people to fill those offices right

now. But, you know, I'm looking out at

young families and um I I think that we

have to look way off into the future. We

have to look into the coming

generations. We need to be raising up

children that are fit to be

that are fit to be rulers, that are

wise, that understand God's word, that

fear God, that hate coe that honest. It

will not take a bride. We need to

produce that kind of person. As you're

raising up your your child, you don't

know what God's future is for them. You

don't know what what God has for them or

what their gifting and proclivity will

be. But when it comes to integrity, you

should say, "I'm raising up my son, my

daughter to be fit to to handle this

republic, fit to rule, because we need

people that will not pervert justice,

that will not on the basis of the color,

skin or or whether a foreigner or native

born. It should be one law for everybody

and that's why they must not be um able

to be

everyone to be under law.

Now I I wonder what this Deuteronomy 16

because the next chapter chapter 17 I'm

skipping some verses that talk about

other issues but right away after it

talks about the the judges and officers

it talks about the executive branch

oh I skipped something else the

importance of of reasonable this is

another principle of law that that we

have from the scriptures it

All right, I'm skip that.

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kind of a tier judiciary. We still got a

little bit Deuteronomy one talks about

how rulers of tens and hundreds and

thousands and a case was too hard it

would go right on up to the Supreme

Court. So in verse 8

requiring decision between one kind of

homicide another one kind of another or

one kind of assault another case within

your town that is too difficult for you.

Then you shall arise and go up to the

place that the Lord your God will choose

and you shall come to the priests and to

the judge who is in office in those days

and you shall consult them and they

shall declare to you the decision. Then

you shall do according to what they

declare to you from that place that the

Lord will choose and you shall be

careful to do all that they direct you.

Now, as time went on that this at the

beginning here, it was a judge and it

was the priest

because the priest was reading God's law

constantly and knew God's law and could

advise people on difficult cases because

their job was to constantly be reading

God's law. So, they became expert in the

law. Later on, they would have appointed

which became corrupt and ended up

drawing

falsely falsely putting them to death.

But they had seven people on the Supreme

Court who uh were were at the very top

of of the court system. If it was too

hard, the case was too hard, it would go

up to the Supreme Court. I don't know

what the appeals process was, but they

did have a Supreme Court when things

were not straightforward, it could go up

to them. And I think this may have may

have influenced our our founders. All

right. Verse 11. According to the

instructions they give you and according

to the decision which they pronounce to

you, you shall do. You shall not turn

aside from the verdict that they declare

to you, either to the right hand or to

the left. The man who acts

presumptuously by not obeying the priest

who stands to minister there before the

Lord your God or the judge, that man

shall die. So you shall pour the evil

from Israel, and all the people shall

hear and fear and not act presumptuously

again. I I see here a principle the rule

of law kind of thing and once all people

say why can't we just have somebody get

their tights and put on and go around

and justice themselves well that leads

to chaos we can't have vigan justice you

need you need to have the rule of law

and so if anybody rejected the rule of

law they were to be put together you

know it takes more than a pair of tights

it takes biblical wisdom and so God God

wanted um God had at the top uh the

instructions of the judge and the police

was to be obeyed. It was to be done in a

lawful and orderly way. This is to keep

chaos from ensuring nations that don't

have a wellestablished justice system.

Justice is just handled by whoever wants

to take it upon themselves. It leads to

chaos. It leads to

a lot of parts of the world today where

wars will go around and they they kill

whoever they choose because it's not

done under the rule of law. Now this is

the one the executive branch

the executive branch originally didn't

exist. It was just a republic but God

knew eventually they were going to have

an executive.

So in 17:14 down when you come to the

land that the Lord your God has given

you

and you possess it and dwell in it and

then say I will set a king over me like

all the nations that are around me. You

may indeed set a king over you whom the

Lord your God will one from among your

brothers. You shall set his king over

you. You may not put a foreigner over

you who is not your brother. So first

thing that's important here is she says

it needs to be someone from among your

brothers naturalborn citizen somebody

who is a a a citizen of Israel who has a

history has a vested interest in your

country at the time of of Christ there

was an Edomite Herod was sitting on the

throne of Israel and Israel was under

the tower of Rome because of the

disobedience God put them under foreign

power. But God said when you set a king

over you, he should be from among your

having your value and ethical system. I

um

this is this is something that you know

be interesting what'll happen in the

next election. There's already

candidates a lot of people are looking

at that aren't actually citizens. Maybe

we'll hear about it later. But the idea

being here is you want people and the

best interest in your country because we

don't want to be like all the other

nations of the world.

It's I remember years ago reading the

the Supreme Court decision for Roie Wing

through that decision and as I'm reading

the legal reasoning they they couldn't

find any justification the constitution

for abortion they said the numbers of

the constitution

and the shadowy it's not actually there

but we kind of can visualize it there.

But it was interesting to to read the

judge quoting the ancient Greeks, the

ancient Roman, quoting European court,

not American court, not American

founding documents, but foreign

governments, other gods, other belief

systems in order to justify the

murdering of a preborn child because you

can't constitutionally

validate murdering preborn children and

you definitely typically validate

murdering pre-born children because the

first inhalerable right is the right

they look elsewhere they look to foreign

courts and foreign governments

in even ancient history and that's why

one of the reason why God did not want

them putting a foreigner under or as

king because they didn't have the same

ethical system

you're one from among your brethren. He

had to be a naturalb born family member

in Israel. All right. Now talking about

the king says only he must only he must

not acquire many worship for himself or

cause the people to return to Egypt and

to acquire in order to acquire many

worship since the Lord has said to you

shall never return that way again. and

he shall not acquire wise for himself,

let his heart come away, nor shall he

acquire for himself excessive silver and

gold. So here went with this word

acquire. I like King James and I looked

it up in Hebrews 2. I like King James

better than this. I want to read it

again from King James. Instead of

acquire the word multiply. Let me read

again. Thou shalt set him king over you

over thee, whom the Lord your God shall

choose. One from among your brethren,

thou shalt set over thee. Thou may not

set a stranger over thee, which is not

thy brother, that he shall not multiply

horses to himself, nor cause the people

returned to Egypt to the end that he

should multiply horses. For as much as

the Lord said unto you, you shall

henceforth return no more that way.

Neither shall multiply wives to himself

that his heart turn away greatly

multiply to himself silver gold. So you

don't multiply chiefly three things.

You're not to multiply horses. You're

not to multiply wine. And you're not to

multiply silver and gold. Why? Why not

multiply horses? Well, horses were

for points,

for offensive warfare, for conquering

people. God did not want his people to

be the policemen of the world. He didn't

want Israel to be engaged in offensive

warfare. Now, when they were attacked,

they were to be brutal against the

people that attacked them. They were

given conditions, conditions of them. If

they didn't do it, they would they would

wipe out the men. They they uh but if

they didn't if they didn't submit to

then they would be put under tribute.

But God didn't want them to go out and

try to conquer a bunch of people. They

were a peaceful people. If they were

attacked, they were to fight back. But

they were not to be like the Assyians

and the Babylonians and the and the

Greeks who went out to conquer so that

they could liquidate people's assets and

fortunes and spread it amongst

themselves. God didn't want to be a

murderous nation. See, this is one of

the ideas of rule of law. It's wrong for

you as an indiv individual to murder.

Guess what? It's also wrong for the

collector, for the government to murder.

The same law applies whether you're a

king or an individual. It's wrong to

murder. You don't. It's wrong to steal.

It's wrong for you and I to steal. It's

wrong for the king to steal. It's wrong

for the government to steal. That is

wrong not just for individuals, but for

families, for street guns, for the local

city council, and for the the president

or anybody else. Theft is wrong. Murder

is wrong. And therefore, God didn't want

them to be the people that goes out and

murders people and steals their

multiply

welf

about an unsatisfied appetite. It's not.

It was about treaty and covenants with

four nations. Every time a king made a

treaty with another nation, we'll read

about I might read about a little bit

with Solomon. Solomon made all married

all these foreign wives. What is he

doing? He's making other

family now and we'll do business

together. You won't go to war with me

because I'm family and I won't go to war

with you because you're And so by

marrying all these wives, the Solomon

was making treaties with foreign power.

So there's a danger here not just in the

king marrying many wives and the

polygamous nature of it which everywhere

we read about polygamy in the scripture

something bad is happening and we see

the strife and the problems that go with

with a non you know non- monogous

marriage.

We read about Abraham's multiple wives

led to trouble. Jacob's multiple wives

led to trouble. David's multiple wives

led to trouble. Esau's multiple wives

led to trouble. Solomon's multiple wives

to trouble. We have a lot of pages of

scripture showing us that polygamy is a

really really bad idea. And Jesus says

that from the beginning it wasn't. So he

made the male and female shall become

one flesh. But aside from the the

corruption, the the adulterous nature of

of polygamy, um the the many foreign

trees would become a snail. Just like

foreign trees become climate, we make

foreign trees like World War I. I

remember learning about in high school.

The reason we got in World War I is all

all of Europe had foreign treaties with

each other. So that when one went to

war, they said, "Well, now we got to go

to work. we are shooting with these

people. Your problem becomes our

problem. Our founders of America, they

didn't want that. They they they adise

against

let they'll do their thing in times of

peace. We'll be friends. We'll do

business and in times of love we'll be

your enemies. But but really we want to

mind our own business. We want to be

engaged in the big conflict. Europe has

been at war for for a thousand years. We

don't want to be engaged in that. But

time Wilson came along,

uh, we had, uh, all kinds of trees for

four nations and we were drugged dragged

into World War I, which then led to

World War II and and now we're we're in

making deals and break them. I don't

know why any nation would honestly want

to make a treaty with America because

now we just break them all the time

to be

yeah

and then uh you can have liberty here

and everything's going to be great and

then we end up leaving. So we get

engaged in things

and people get slaughtered

not our businesses to begin with. God

didn't want his people

going and

kindled with Moabites and Philistines

and Ammonites and Egypt. He didn't want

him doing that. He wanted him to have uh

employee

yourself. But that's the idea behind

don't multiply or don't multiply wide is

so that you're not um engaging in all

these people.

You know, I'll say another thing about

war

on it again. War often times kills the

brightest and best of the

brave intelligent people become officers

and he's the first person you're going

to shoot.

Your greatest resource is your young

people. It's not about the money. And

it's just it's a it's a tragedy. I think

and I I actually listened to something

not long ago

sent me

how Europe has been in all these foreign

wars and uh their patent levels have

dropped down since World War II. Yeah.

The fact is dying on the battlefield.

It's a consequence. War is war is when

it's justified one side is right.

our side both both sides are wrong and

it's murdered. So we need to think very

greatly before we rush into war. And

then he says greatly multiplied to

himself silver and gold. What's that?

That's talking about taxation, big

government, a government that says, "We

can save you. We can solve your

problems. Look to us." I would rather

have uh strong families living in nice

houses than weak families and big

government,

right? I I would rather all of you have

nice air conditioned houses with plenty

of space for the kids to play than a big

pyramid in the middle of St. Louis.

on the horizon

and and God would ra that for his

people. But when the government when the

when it says that he shall not greatly

multiply silver and gold, this is this

is talking about oppressive tyrannical

temptation.

When the people want the government to

save them, they say, "Oh, give us free

stuff." What are you asking for? You're

asking the government to use their sword

to somebody else to give to you.

We have it because that's what the

American people want. Now, our

constitution was supposed to protect us

from that. But when people to take the

Lord, to take his word, um then you're

going to end up with tyranny. That's the

way it works. There's a um

a quote

to read earlier by John Adams. Our

constitution was made only for a moral

and religious people. It is wholly

inadequate to the government of any

other

moral and religious people. Why? Because

people are

envious and they're greedy and they want

what they didn't work for.

And and I'm not just trying to pick upon

the poor that maybe wants to services,

but there's also the other side. There's

the very wealthy that we use their

wealth to bribe the politicians to get

what they want. So the point isn't to

take on the rich or the poor. We're 1%

either direction. The point is that if

you don't have a godly nation that fears

God, that looks to our father who is in

heaven to give us our daily life. When

we lose sight of that, when people start

wanting the government to be their

savior, the provider gives education of

everything, then you're asking the

government to effectively die and that

is going to lead into

a consequence of it. Okay? So, they're

not to multiply horses. They're not to

multiply w to multiply gold and silver.

Look at this in verse 18.

the king said from the throne of his

kingdom he shall write for himself a

book a copy of this law approved by the

priest and it shall be with him and he

shall read it all the days of his life

that he may learn to fear Yahweh is God

by keeping all the words of this law and

these statutes and doing them that his

heart may not be lifted up above his

brother and that he may not from the

commandment either to the right hand or

to the left so that he may continue long

in his kingdom and his children in

Israel. So it's interesting he wasn't to

go out and buy a copy. He was to write a

copy and he had to have it approved by

somebody other than himself.

So this wasn't just for his personal

devotion. He has the king has to write

out a copy of the law which means what

he need to be able to read and write.

I'm going to be able to read like in

ancient Israel. The king should be able

to read and write. And then he would

take it to the priest and the priest

would say spelling error. Start over.

Grammar error. You messed up in your

copy of Deuteronomy.

And and he would write and in the

writing of it, if you've ever written

scripture, you you start noticing

details that when you just read it, you

flip over. He was to read it and he was

to meditate in it.

that this is the constitution.

The constitution of Israel was the

Torah.

So he says, you're bound by it. There's

a time when David is having the ark of

the covenant brought into Jerusalem. And

the Philistines had the ark of the

covenant for a little while in early.

And so they they put the they put the

arc of the covenant on a cart and they

they they tied the cart to um some

somewhat

and uh contrary to the nature of these

cows, these cows left their calves and

carried the ark of the government into

the borders of Israel. And they knew

that was God doing it because a cow

wouldn't leave their cows to carry an

array

with the cow. So they knew it was the

hand of God. So anyway, the cart is

there for many years. Eventually David

wants to bring the ark of covenant into

Jerusalem. So I thought, you know, let's

do it's very efficient. Let's just put

it on a cart like the Philistines. Let's

do what the world did. The world does

it. They got away with it. The

Philistines could put the ar of on a

card. But God didn't ordain for the ark

to be carried on a card. It had holes in

the side of it that poles could be as a

priest in the front and a priest in the

back carrying the cart.

Now, if the king had read the book of

law, he would know that.

And so, the cart is traveling along the

road and it gets unsteady and it starts

to fall over and a man named reaches out

to study the ark because he doesn't want

the ark to fall on the ground.

said he thought his hands were more holy

than the ground he was walking on. So

God stuck him dead. And the point of all

that, one of the points driven home is

is David David was very upset about it,

but he went and he read the law that the

ark was not to be carried on. It was

holy to be carried by the priest. So the

the king was being told that day, you're

supposed to know God's law. You're

supposed to know the constitution. This

is the constitution that the Hebrew king

swears to uphold.

That that's a very important thing. I've

been told that when Trump was in office,

he was used to swear put his hand on the

Bible and swear

like every president

that George Washington was the one that

didn't say that they have to put their

hand on the Bible, but George Washington

put his on the Bible and and uh and

swore to uphold the constitution. Well,

if if we were to actually keep the

constitution, our country will look very

different.

But I I suspect that many people who are

ruling over us, not serving us, but

ruling over us, never even read the

but the Israelite king was to make a

copy of it and he was to read it. all

the days of his life. It was to be

perpetual study. He was to be studying

the books of the law to know him

frontwards and backwards. So he could be

a wise decision maker that feared God

and he knew exactly what was because God

was letting him know you are under this

law. And because he was under this law,

he was not to be lifted up above his

brethren. So look at what it says. Says,

I'll read again verse 19. And it shall

be with them, and you shall read it all

the days of his life, that he may learn

to fear Yahweh Elohim by keeping all the

words of his law, and doing them, that

his heart may not be lifted up above his

brother, and that he may not turn aside

from the commandment either to the right

or to the left, so that he may continue

long in his kingdom, he and his children

in Israel. His heart was not to be

lifted upon his brother. Other He's a

civil servant.

He's not He's not He doesn't have a

divine right. He's a civil servant. He's

under God.

The two most popular books in 1776

country heard Joe say this was a book

called China

and the other book right

the title Rex means the law is king. Not

the king is law, but the law is king.

And here's a very important concept that

the king, like the rest of us, is under

law. It's wrong for you and I to murder

and steal. It's wrong for him to murder

and steal. The same law. It's wrong for

us to commit adultery and to cheat and

to lie, and it's wrong for the civil

magistrates to lie. This is a concept of

constitutionalism that the rule of law

applies to everybody.

You know, I I I think there was lots of

evidence that Fouchy should have been

tried for murder. My my opinion, not

knowing all that, not having the case,

but that's my opinion. I think the man

should have been, from what I what I

gather, let's let me be terrible. It

seems highly probable to me. He should

have been prosecuted. Apparently, he's

not under law.

Apparently not.

And and this is a violation of ethics.

It's a violation of

It's a violation of concept of rule of

law. Nobody whether private or it should

be above the law.

We we had mixed for much less offenses

than many of the things that have gone

on in the decades since

we've lost sight of the concept of the

real law that the law is. You don't get

to do special things because you're

somebody's son or somebody's daddy.

One law for everybody. The heart of the

king is not to be lifted up above his

people. This is a biblical concept.

They're not to take bribes. They're not

to pervert justice. They're not to

respect the rich or the poor and

judgment. It's to be one law for

everybody. And the rule of law is to

govern. So what kind of people would

other than a godfearing

an honest a high trust society based

upon the fear of the Lord? I believe

this is why Adam warned us that

only for a moral and religious only for

a people that talks with selfgovernment.

If you're the kind of person that if you

can get away with it, you'll do it.

You're not fit to be in a republic,

not a constitutional republic

because when people don't practice self

and the chaos

leads to an outsg,

the bigger the government. The bigger

the government, the more The more taxes,

the less money you have for your family,

the less money you have to invest, the

less money you have to to have in the

godly over the god over the earth. It's

a byproduct.

It's a byproduct. A byproduct

of

all right. Now what ends up happening

with Israel

later on they live under republic for

500 years but they don't you read the

book of judges the theme in the book of

judges there was no king in Israel but

every man did what was right

everybody had their own little moral

compass and they did what they thought

and it led to chaos judges lots of

with the judges

like the wild cutting up concubines and

all over the body parts all over the

place and wild stuff.

Why is that? Because

every manuel

was the last of the judges of Israel.

And Samuel was the end of the period of

judges and the

He was a prophet. I want read a little

bit from firstap.

The name of his firstborn son was the

name of his second. They were judges.

Yet his sons did not walk in his will to

come after

justice. Then all the elders of Israel

gathered together and came to stand at

Rama and said to him, "Behold, you are

old and your sons do not walk in your

way. Now appoint us a king to judge us

like Paul."

So there's a lack of self-government in

the existing system. This leads to chaos

and corruption and that leads to the

people saying we need to change. We need

a revolution. We need something right.

It was a failure of self-government and

it was a failure of the judges to be

ethical people that led to the people

say give us a king

like all the other nations.

We want to be like all the other

nations. We want to be like Europe.

We want to be we want to be like France.

You want to be like this?

What? Why would you want to be like

those countries?

Visit Europe.

Live there for years. But my wife and

they live in tiny houses. They drive

tiny cars. They have

not near the

why why are we want to emulate Europe

that's grown so much in the last 250

years so greatly. Why would we want

other countries and model ourselves

after them.

Everybody has free healthare. I've been

I've

not great

European hospital. Not that great.

The thing when they said, "Give us a

king to judge us." Samuel prayed to the

Lord. The Lord said, "Obey the voice of

the people and all that they say to you.

not rejected you, but they have rejected

me from being king over them. According

to all the deeds that they have done

from the day I brought them out of the

land of Egypt, even to this day,

forsaken me and serve another god, for

they are also doing to you. Now then,

obey their voice, only you shall warn

them and show them the ways of the king

who shine over them. So God God has

Samuel warn them.

They haven't rejected you. They actually

rejected about 500 years. They keep they

want to be like all the nations around

them. They want to be like the world. By

the way, this is something we should say

to our children. When our children like

all the other kids do

everybody else gets to do this, yeah,

why do you want to be like all the other

nations?

Why do you want to do you're not you're

my son, you're my daughter. I'm not

you're this isn't about sanitization. We

serve the Lord. We don't do those

things.

But Israel was constantly wanting to be

like pagan and they

said okay fine do it but tell them what

kind of tell them what type of king

we're going to end up having. So Samuel

told all the words of the Lord to the

people who were asking for a king he

said these will be the ways of the king

who will reign over you. take your sons

and appoint them to chariot and to be

his horse and to run before chariot.

It's going to be a draft. Now, in God's

law, it's obeyed a draft. But then it

says there will be a draft. And God's

law, God said if anybody is a part, if

they just planted a vineyard, if they

just got married, if for any reason

somebody doesn't want to show up in the

battle, they could leave. They did not

have to serve. But but what I'm saying

is, you know what you're looking for?

wanted the government to to be your

provider.

If you if you're gonna if you want him

to be your ultimate protector, he's

going to have the power to take your

children and and pick them in further.

That's what's going to happen. Lord

permit them. He said, "This is what

you're going to conduct."

And verse four says, "And he will

appoint for himself commanders of

thousands, commanders of 50, and some to

plow his ground and to reap his harvest

and to make instruments of war and

equipment of his chariot. He will take

your daughters to be

and cooks and bakers. He will take the

best of your fields and vineyards and

otes and give them to the he of yours

and of your vineyards. He will give it

to his officers and to your servants. He

will take your male servants, the female

servants and the young men and your

donkeys and put them to work. Now, these

things are things that God

will take vineyard and he will be

condemned for it. God's not saying this

is lawful. He's saying you're really a

like all the other nations. This is

what's going to end up happening.

He will take a tenth of your flock and

you shall be a slave. And in that day,

you will cry out because of your king

and you have chosen for yourselves. But

the Lord will not answer you in that

day. The people refused to obey the

voice of Samuel. And they said, "No,

that they shall be a king over us, that

we also may be like all the nations, and

that our king may judge us and go out

before us and fight our battle." And

when Samuel had heard all the words of

the people, he repeated them in the

years of the Lord. And the Lord said to

Samuel, "Obey their voice and make them

a king and go every city." Now, what

this illustrates is like, "Oh, remember

George W. Bush saying that he believed

that the heart of all human beings

and on that would become a democracy and

self.

But if you read the scriptures actually

people prefer the security of slavery to

liberty because liberty takes

it takes the will of God in the hearts

of men. People want security. Israel

traded their liberty for

They wanted they wanted a government

that would provide for them that would

take care of them. And and as a result

when when your desire is for the

government to be your savior then you

then the government will end up being

your lord and dictator that that is what

will happen. That is why only a

self-governing godly people are fit to

live in a constitutional republic.

If we're not a godly people, people

going to look for the government. The

government's going to become retirement

and it's going to take what you have.

That's the pattern. It's only for a

moral and religious people, his holy

others. I was going to read to you about

the fall of Solomon. I won't read that.

It's a whole another thing to go into.

But very interesting that everything

that God told

uh told them they came to do, not to

multiply gold, not to multiply, not

If you read 10, it will discuss every

single one of those multipol

that's what would be happen.

So without self-government,

without self-government,

liberty cannot.

And if Christians aren't involved and

not just Christians only

so far

a little beat up in some

very

cannot long not what we have can't long

have it or what we have we've all we

don't even know how much we've lost here

you know my my father was born in 1925

to hear him took place in his life

since 2010 but um but without

reformation without righteousness but

the spirit of the word

liberty. But if you reject the word of

liberty, you will

need national

from the top to the bottom. We need

the nations of all the earth

and

father we thank you God. We thank you

Lord for the blessings that we still

enjoy.

I thank you, Father, that our family

homeschool.

We're still able to assemble.

We still have relative freedom of

express

ourselves.

But Lord, we know God that liberty

cannot be long

a

America are the comes from the root of

Christ. But the best that we have are

things that come from you. Apart from

you, we have no good.

Thank you, Jesus, for the blessings.

God, I pray for our nation that you

would lead us to repentance, that you

would send an awakening, you would send

a revival that that not not just an

emotional revival, but Lord, you would

restore your people to the word that

your people

Read your word and be careful like the

king must be careful to read and do your

law. I pray your people will become