Self-Preservation Is A Natural Right!

Is it wrong to defend oneself, or is it a right from God? If it be an inherent right, can it be taken from us?

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You see him in the Law of Nations. I'm not going to try to pronounce his name, but it's in the book, The Law of Nations from 1758, which says, "No engagement can oblige or even authorize a man to violate the law of nature. All authors who have any regard to conscience or decency, agree that no one ought to obey such commands as are evidently contrary to that sacred law. Those governors of places who bravely refused to execute the barbarous orders of Charles IX on the memorable day of St. Bartholomew have been universally praised."

Those that resisted the government, they were universally praised because they knew, because it's hindsight's 2020, those people were praised for resisting. When a sovereign does injury to anyone, he acts without any real authority. A sovereign means somebody claiming to be in charge in the government. When they violate, when they do injury to you by putting undue regulations on you, by taking away your means of providing for your family and so on, taking away your ability to operate your property as you see fit, he's not acting with any actual real authority.

When a prince attempts to deprive us of life, or of those the loss of which would render life irksome, so if he's going to take away something or put a regulation on something that makes your life irksome, who can dispute our right to resist him? This was something that was just today is like, "Oh my goodness, that's crazy, that's radical, that's extreme. This is the extremist liberty boot camp." Because but during the founders' time, this was blanket across society.

They understood this was obvious. Self-preservation is not only a natural right, but an obligation imposed by nature and no man can entirely and absolutely renounce it. Self-preservation is a right. We have the right from God to defend ourselves against any type of threat to our life or to make our life irksome. The revelation to the Prophet Joseph, he says, "The Lord says, 'Here is one principle which is eternal. It is the duty of all men to protect their lives and the lives of the household, and no power has a right to forbid it.'"

Nobody has a right to forbid your ability to protect your life and those in your household. Sorry, this is the revelation I was referring to. "Verily I, the Lord, say unto you, if the church with one united effort perform their duties, if they from this time forth, like Joseph in Egypt, laying up in store against time of famine, every man having his tent, his horses, his chariots, and his armory." We were supposed to.

It was a commandment to be able to not just get your supply of food, but to get your armory and your horses and those things that will help you to move. If those things are not kept, they remain at the scourge also. If you're not going to stockpile and store weapons, there's a scourge upon you. "Therefore be wise this once, O you children of Zion, and give heed to my counsel, sayeth the Lord."