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- About a thousand votes. That's the margin right now in a US Senate race almost no one saw coming. This is The Gospel Briefing. I'm Charles King. Here's what we know. In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom leads Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith by one thousand one hundred thirty-eight votes. Ninety-six percent of the expected vote is in. Colom, forty-nine percent. Hyde-Smith, forty-eight point nine. And here's the twist. Mississippi has no formal recount process. Candidates cannot request one. None is automatically triggered. After certification, a candidate can examine the ballots and file a legal challenge. That's it. Ballots are still coming. The Secretary of State says around three thousand six hundred mail ballots could arrive by November tenth. Colom's campaign manager estimates roughly fifteen thousand provisional ballots remain. The state cannot give a definitive number. Consider the context. Mississippi voted for President Trump by sixty-one percent in 2024. It has not elected a Democratic senator since 1982. If Colom holds, he would be the state's first Black US senator since Reconstruction. Nationally, projections now show Democrats taking the Senate, fifty-four to forty-four. That is a reordering. Why it matters this morning: close outcomes tempt Christians to put weight on seats that cannot carry it. Psalm one hundred forty-six says, "Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation." Elections matter. Princes are not where salvation lives. If you want to sit with that, keep Psalm one hundred forty-six open in Bible Copilot and follow along. Supporting development one. Bob Dylan visited the pope. The eighty-four-year-old songwriter met Pope Leo the Fourteenth at the Vatican yesterday, between concert dates in Italy. Leo gave Dylan a rosary. Dylan gave Leo a copy of his autobiography. The Vatican says the meeting was brief and private. Here's the backstory. Leo quoted Dylan in his 2026 book on peace, citing a 1963 protest lyric against the atomic bomb. Dylan, born to a Jewish family, became a born-again Christian in 1979 and has recently described himself as a religious person who reads Scripture, meditates, and prays. Two men. Very different lives. Ecclesiastes three says God has put eternity in the human heart. Even famous hearts. Pray for people you assume are too far gone, too famous, or too strange for the gospel. Supporting development two. Radio host Charlamagne Tha God issued a blunt warning to Democrats after their midterm wins. His message, in short: don't get comfortable. He said, quote, "A Democrat victory has not proved that they've earned lasting trust." He then listed demands — housing costs, healthcare premiums, Medicaid, wages, investigations into corruption and conflicts of interest. You don't have to share his politics to notice the pattern. Winners get complacent. Proverbs sixteen warns, "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall." That warning belongs to whoever just won, in any party. Pray for wisdom today before you repeat what you have heard. And pray by name for whoever currently holds power where you live. This episode is presented by Bible Copilot. Our Verse of the Day is Psalm one hundred forty-six, verses three and five. Open Bible Copilot and study the Verse of the Day first. You'll get a guided walk-through — what the passage says, what it means, what it teaches about God, and how to apply it today. Three questions each day are free. Start at mybiblecopilot dot com slash gospel. That's mybiblecopilot dot com slash gospel, or search Bible Copilot in the App Store. Psalm one hundred forty-six, verses three and five: "Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God." A Senate seat hangs on a thousand votes. A songwriter meets a pope. A radio host warns the winners. None of them is your help. One name is. Thanks for listening to The Gospel Briefing. Whatever gets called today and whatever doesn't, your hope was never on the ballot. We'll see you tomorrow.