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Erika Kirk THROWS Down the Gauntlet; Islam Attacks AGAIN | The Mark Driscoll Show | Ep 10 · The Mark Driscoll Show

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Well, howdy and welcome to the Mark Driscoll show.
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I'm Pastor Landon Chase with here with Mark Driscoll.
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We've got a full show today. Charlie Kirk's alleged killer
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appears in court with an ELIP. Reader fills us in on what he
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said to his lawyer. A school district is now using
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teddy bears to try to transition kindergarteners.
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And Pastor Mark will recap his trip to DC.
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It was an awesome trip. You will not believe what he's
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about to say about it. Buckle up, it's going to be a
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good one. Let's jump right in.
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Well, that does not look like an innocent man.
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No. If if you're innocent, you're
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you're freaking out, you're anxious, you're defensive, you
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are not calm, you are not collected, you're certainly not
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smiling. Some of the conspiracy theories
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regarding the execution, the murder of the martyrdom of our
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brother, my friend Charlie Kirk, or just wild.
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First, why would a father turn a son in if he was innocent?
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I mean, you've got a son. Yeah, I've got sons.
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The last person to turn a guy in if he's innocent is his dad.
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Of I mean, you're sentencing your son to death.
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You're sentencing your son to death and you're destroying your
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entire family's legacy and name and reputation.
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You're sending your entire family into APR storm a media
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nightmare. You're sending your family into
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hiding from, you know, death threats and media.
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I mean, you're you're literally burning your entire family to
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the ground for generations. What father does that if it's
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not true? I mean, it's insane.
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And, and then to see the man, I mean, he doesn't look innocent
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to me. I mean, if I was an innocent
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man, I would, I would be sleepless, I would be exhausted.
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I would be defenseless. I would be, I would be
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distraught. I I I would not he he looks like
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a guy who has no remorse, no regret and.
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Maybe enjoying? It actually seems like he is
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enjoying the attention that he has achieved and accomplished
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his mission. And it's it's really remarkable
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and reprehensible. I'm glad that they have allowed
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media into the courtroom so that we can see it.
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I'm glad. And and what we're seeing here
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is is ultimately it's demonic. And when we speak of demonic,
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we're using a word from the Bible.
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Jesus half brother James actually uses the word demonic.
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He says that certain things are earthly, unspiritual meaning
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devoid of the Spirit of God and demonic.
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That's what James says. And demonic is simply this, like
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this is Satan's game plan. And Satan has unholy divine
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beings that go out to do his work, and his work is to steal,
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kill, destroy. And what happens with Charlie?
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The world has been, they've stolen a great man by killing
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him and by destroying or seeking to destroy the work that he was
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doing. And so this is all together
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demonic. This is evil.
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And you need to, we need to retain that category.
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And yeah, and just seeing the man, it just it, it brings an
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anger in me. It's like you're destroying a
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human being that has a wife, has kids.
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And what he was doing is he was sitting on a stool, sharing his
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microphone and platform with people who disagree with him in
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a way that was kind and agreeable.
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And so here is a civil man being murdered by someone who lacks
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all civility, not being destroyed by anything he has
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done to you personally because you've never met him, and simply
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being executed because you disagree with what he thinks.
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Yeah, I, I, I it's such a struggle to, I mean, even grasp
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that Charlie's gone. Like a year ago, he was at
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Election Sunday at our church and he was hanging out in your
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office with you and Erica, like. His daughter was down on the
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ground playing with the toys that your son plays with and our
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grandkids play with. He was such a sweet man for, for
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I I think everyone's struggling. There's feels like they're so
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many conspiracy theories going around right now and all this.
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Maybe talk to him about how you see the demonic behind
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everything and this genuinely could just be a demonically
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empowered 22 year old boy really that was able to pull this off.
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Yeah, there's a there's a line where mental health goes into
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demonic oppression or even possession.
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Demonic oppression is where evil comes over you to a degree that
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that you're participating with it, and it's a blurred line
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between your personality and their personhood.
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Demonic possession is where you're gone, like your
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personality is gone and their personhood is taken over.
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And here what you're looking at to me is a man who is just fully
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demonic. And so it often times starts
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with what we would call mental health.
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And I know this will be controversial.
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There are people that will say, like, I hear voices and they
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tell me to do horrible things. Well, that could be a
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psychological problem. It could be a biochemical
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hardwiring problem. It actually could be spiritual.
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You could have a divine being speaking to you just like you
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have a human being speaking to you.
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When you hear like you need to kill them, you need to murder
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them, you need to execute them, they need to die.
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When you hear that, well, that ain't God.
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We know that. So then is that you talking to
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yourself or is that a a demon talking to you?
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And Revelation 12/10 says that Satan is the accuser of the
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children of God, that he accuses them day and night.
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If you're hearing something in the second person, you may be
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having a a demonic encounter. And so the problem that we have
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today is we have a lot of people with mental health, but we don't
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have any clinical categories to deal with the demonic.
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Like in the DSM, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
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Health Disorders, which is considered the Bible for mental
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health, it mentions the soul 0 times.
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It doesn't even acknowledge that you have a soul or that you're a
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spiritual being. It doesn't talk about the Holy
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Spirit or demons 0 times. So if you're having mental
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health issues and maybe it's spiritual or it's demonic
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oppression or possession, you go to somebody that's clinically
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trained but not spiritually aware.
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They don't even consider that it could be demonic.
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And what that means is if it's demonic, you can give them as
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many prescriptions as you want. Nothing is going to help because
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what they need is deliverance. They need the Spirit of God to
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cast the unclean spirit out and to replace the unclean spirit
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with the Holy Spirit so that they can live a new life as a
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new person by a new power. And so a guy like this,
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honestly, he needs to get saved. Otherwise, he is pure evil and
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he is just going to die and go to hell and get tormented
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forever because like Judas Iscariot who murdered Jesus, he
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is literally just handed himself over to Satan.
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And so this is what Judas does. It literally says Satan entered
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into him and then he murdered Jesus.
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Here you've got this guy, Tyler Robinson.
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Satan enters into him. He murders Charlie because
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Charlie is serving Jesus. This is a replay, a lesser
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replay. Charlie is not Jesus, but he is
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serving Jesus. This is a replay of what we saw
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with the murder of Christ would Judas Iscariot.
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Yeah, and we don't see any remorse from this kid.
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There hasn't been any. There hasn't been a public
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apology. I'm sorry to the wife, to the
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kids. There's been none of that.
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Because any sane 22 year old OK, you can, you can whatever.
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You must throw out the courage to make a horrible life ending
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decision for someone else. You have to sit in that the next
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weeks and months after it's been 3 months.
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That eats at a normal person any any sane.
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Anyone with a conscience? And it has not apparently with
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with this kid. And I think that really lends
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the demonic and just the soul. Take care and God bless.
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Speaking of the soul, we want to show this clip of Erica this
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week challenging parents and how to raise their kids so that this
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doesn't continue to happen. Yeah, because this often times
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starts with mental health and and you've got to check
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yourself. Like am I living online?
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Am I bitter? Am I starting to get suicidal
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ideation or am I starting to fantasize about harming others?
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I mean, there, there are some, there are some indicators that
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you're, you're getting darker and not doing well. 100% Well,
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let's roll that clip guys. I will never agree with
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political violence. My husband is a victim of it.
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I'm a victim of it. But what I'm trying to say here
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is that we can blame everyone else.
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We have to look in the mirror. When you become a father, when
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you become a mother, how are you raising your kids?
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Are you taking responsibility or are you giving them a device and
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saying go down that rabbit hole? I'm trying to go to Pilates
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class. You can just sit in the corner
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and look at your iPad or look at your phone and go down that
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rabbit hole and see what you can learn from that instead of being
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a parent. So my call to action from that
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is parents step up. Do you want your kid to be a
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thought leader or an assassin? That's where we're at.
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Do you think our political leaders have a responsibility to
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turn the temperature down right now?
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Well, I think everyone has a responsibility to do that, and
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I'm doing my part. I'm not in control of other
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people. Interviewer just takes it right
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back to the 10,000 foot view and Erica's trying to get granular
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and deal with the parents because that that's where this
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stuff really starts. Because I mean, we're raising a
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son, he's 2, he's awesome. The thing he doesn't ever get is
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screens. Like maybe on a flight for an
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hour he'll watch a screen, but that's the only thing 'cause
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he's a little boy and it's hard to fly.
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But it is wild what what we allow our children to watch,
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specially online. A stack came out this week that
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109 out of the 300 pieces of kids content on Netflix are
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LGBTQ plus like they have. It's an agenda.
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It's an agenda in a third of the things on Netflix that we just
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let our kids. It just goes on autoplay.
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So one thing we'll play and then it'll take it to a like show and
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a like show. YouTube's the same way.
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YouTube Kids. It's wild what all these
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platforms are doing to indoctrinate our kids, so we're
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really cautious. But do you believe Erica is
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right in calling out the parents in this?
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Yeah, no, I absolutely. And parents will give an account
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to God and, and at the end of the day, if you don't parent
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your child, you know, you are responsible in the sight of God.
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And, and I appreciate Eric and I I love Eric, I respect Eric and
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I and I would just say to everyone, pray for her.
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They're going into Amfest this week, which is a massive event.
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They've got security issues. JD Vance will be there.
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We know a lot of the team. It's an event without Charlie.
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So it's going to be very complicated.
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And Erica's in a double bind. She's in an impossible position.
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We're talking about this off show.
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Like if if she goes out and does media events, they're saying
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she's a terrible mother. She's at home with her kids.
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If she's home with her kids, they're saying she's a terrible
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leader. She's not out doing it.
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She's just going to get criticized either way.
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And she's a, she's a wonderful woman doing a great job under
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impossible circumstance. So pray for her and pray for her
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family and pray for a team going into Amfest.
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But statistically, we know that by the time a child graduates
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from high school, they spend more time on a screen today,
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substantially more time on a screen than they do in a
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classroom. That means that this is the
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primary influence on the raising of a human being.
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Well, that's a terrifying fact. And you know, to me, I, I mean,
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I grew up. What's wild is I grew up before
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the Internet. See anyone my age is like, man,
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that would be really nice. Like it's just a lot how much
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data we have all the time. Well, I, I graduated from
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college before the Internet. I have a degree in
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communications before the Internet.
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So like your generation and your son's generation, it seems
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normative. It's very new and so from my
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perspective, we're running a massive sociological,
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psychological experiment. We have no idea what the outcome
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is. All of the early indicators are
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it's devastating and causes mental health, suicidal
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ideation, brokenness. And there is, there isn't.
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The more time you spend online and the younger you start, the
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worse your life and future. There is no indicator that it
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has any benefit. So do you think parents should
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be more cautious and concerned about Netflix than the Jews?
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Like, we're so worried about the big picture.
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All the Jews are like, all these, like, Islam, all this
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stuff. What about in your house?
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Yeah, that, that seems to be where Erica's taking it, where
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you preach a lot. Yeah, I think you've got a
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guard. What comes into the technology
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of your home, especially when your children are younger,
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you've got to be very wary and careful at what age you give
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them a phone, a dumb phone probably today is a really good
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idea so you can get them in case of an emergency.
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Yeah. And I would say, too, when you
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send your kids over to someone's house, you know who is there?
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What is there, what, what are the ground rules?
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Like if you're sending someone over regularly to play at
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someone's house or for overnights?
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I mean, what are the rules there?
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What is happening? What is the exposure?
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You know, we're living in a day that honestly is custom built to
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break and to create mental health for children.
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This is not, this is not a culture that is built to raise a
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child. It's it's built to break a
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child. So a parent that's letting their
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kids have a lot of screen time, including just like free screen
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time on Netflix, cannot let the demonic into their.
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Yeah, I mean, well, all of a sudden the the child is probably
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getting a lot of anxiety. They're they're getting
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normalized sexuality and LGBTQIA, whatever the alphabet
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soup is. And also, then particularly with
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young boys, if they're into video games now, they're into
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pretty hardcore realistic violence and shooting.
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So you put mental health, sexual perversion and violence
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together. You're like at an age when the
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brain isn't fully formed and can't really process.
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And now you're blurring the line between reality and fantasy.
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And then you add to that, let's say in video games like chat
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rooms and interaction, and now you've got adults that are
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grooming them and you've opened up a portal into complete
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demonic abuse and perversion. I mean, you've got you've got
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gateway to sexual perversion, violence, adult coercion,
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dopamine hits on the front of the brain that isn't yet fully
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formed. And the question is, well, what
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does that child do? Probably nothing That looks like
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the fruit of the Spirit A. 100% And so I think Erica's point,
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like this Tyler Robinson kid, he was raised in a conservative
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Mormon household, all of a sudden ends up in transgender
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groups, sleeping with a guy boyfriend, just in a group with
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furries, like all this weird stuff.
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And he's only like a few years out of the household.
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This starts when you're raising your sons.
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Yeah, and what's weird too, it's just a weird, like, facts.
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So also the the shooter in Butler, PA, with President Trump
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and Tyler Robinson, the killer of Charlie Kirk, They're both in
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these underground, like bizarre sex fetish furry communities.
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These very, you know, small outlier, bizarre sex fetish
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groups, but they're producing, you know, shooters.
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I mean, it's, it's, it's strange and, and what you've got to,
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with a lot of the, the shootings at Christian schools and places
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of faith, the media sort of suppresses it, but it's a high
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proportion of transgenders, some of whom are on, you know,
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hormones and puberty blockers and, and, and, and testosterone
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and, and it's, it's sort of messing with the biology of the
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body. And, and nobody's asking like,
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well, is this affecting their mental well-being?
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And is it instigating, you know, unwell behavior?
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Nobody wants to ask that because it's like, well, that would be
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bigoted. Well, let's just let's just ask
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the question and and follow the facts.
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Yeah. And I think something that's
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been brought up a lot is both those young men are exactly who
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Charlie was trying to reach exactly.
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And it's exactly who you try to reach with a lot of your
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teaching. So to either of those young men
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or a young man that is being radicalized right now that could
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go make this decision, if they were sitting in my seat, what
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would you tell them? Well what?
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What is appealing to radical jihadist young men?
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What is appealing to radical anti-Semitic young men?
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What is appealing to perverted, radical trans young men?
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The underlying issue for most of them is bitterness.
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They're bitter against someone or something.
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They feel like somehow someone or something is failed them and
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owes them. And so they get better.
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And bitterness is a deep demonic root, and Satan and demons, they
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get a foothold, the Bible says, through bitterness.
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So even if you feel that you've been wronged, you have to
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forgive. And then you need to choose as a
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man to press through that which you feel is unjust and wrong.
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And you need to press into your future, get through your
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bitterness so that you can move on to your destiny and your
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legacy. And so, you know, whether it is
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the heterosexuals that suppressed you, or it's the Jews
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that it's suppressed you, or it's, you know, the colonialists
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that have suppressed you, whatever it is, stop being a
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damn bitter victim and a child. Grow up and be a responsible man
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pressed through whatever your excuse is.
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Go get a job, you know, worship Jesus Christ.
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Repent of your own sin. Take responsibility, you know,
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generate revenue, be a positive contributor.
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Stop just bitching like a baby. Marry a woman, buy a house, have
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some kids. Take responsibility and be part
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of the solution, not the problem.
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And get off of the freaking Internet with a bunch of other
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yahoos who are just bitter, spending their day bitching
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about what they should get rather than getting off the
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Internet and doing what they should do.
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it's a very similar topic. There was a tragedy this weekend
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Hanukkah attack in Australia. It was AI believe a father son
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duo that was shooting up for more than 20 minutes without a
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confrontation, just a church gathering.
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So let's let's go ahead and roll that clip.
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Oh. Very, very cool.
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So that guy jumped in, confronted him, stopped, stopped
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this incident, took the gun, probably should have pulled the
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trigger a couple times, but he was a little more restrained
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than that. He was a Muslim man.
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This is wild. So the, the backdrop is, and I
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think the latest indicators are that 16 people were killed, that
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count to go higher. There's people that are injured.
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So the backdrop, it's the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah and
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they're a Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia.
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I've been there. Bondi is a historic beach,
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probably the most historic beach in all of Australia.
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In Sydney years ago when I had the honor of touring and
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preaching in Australia, Grace and I actually had one of our
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wedding anniversary dinners on Bondi Beach.
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And so our kids have been there as well.
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It's a beautiful area and so the Jewish people are there to
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celebrate Hanukkah peacefully. Rolls in to the best of the news
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is reporting a father son radicalized jihadist Muslim
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father son. The New York Post reported that
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they were radicalized and had at least the son had had graduated
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from a pretty extremist training program at a mosque.
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And so now you're looking at jihadi Muslims.
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And so they show up and just start opening fire on on Jewish
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people. This raises just innumerable
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issues. Number one, we are seeing a
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growing tide of anti-Semitism and a friend of mine, I don't
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know if he's a, he's a political commentator.
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I don't know if he posted online yet, so I won't say his name,
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but not to blame him, but just as an observation.
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So like Tucker Carlson this year on X has posted 0 criticisms of
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Muslims and repeated criticisms of Jews.
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That's like, well, so is, is the existential threat in the West
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coming from Jews or jihadis? Not just Muslims, but jihadis,
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those that are committed to violence and overtaking Western
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values. In addition, you're seeing on
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the fringe right an openness, especially among some, some
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younger far right people, just an open hatred of the Jewish
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people. Well, this is this is what
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happens when you when you overtly call a group of people
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evil, subhuman, then it becomes morally justifiable to destroy
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them. If someone is wrong, you
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disagree with them. If someone is evil, you have to
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stop them. And so you know this, this is
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part of the growing anti-Semitism and the and the
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problem, the other issues you see here, you see the despicable
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evil when a father wrongly leads his son toward murder.
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A father can lead their son almost anywhere.
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That's, I mean, you're a dad, I'm a dad.
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The thought of this being father son is unconscionable.
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The amount of hatred and bitterness in that household to
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get him there is. Wild.
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This is a father son deal. So this is unconscionable.
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But then this also exposes within Australia the real
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weakness of the government. So Australia is so woke, so
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progressive, so far gone culturally, it's almost hard to
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imagine. They don't have the freedom of
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speech, freedom of religion. They don't have the right to
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bear arms. That it's, it's not like
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America. It's, it's very, very different.
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And, and So what you've got there as well, you've got the
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wokeness and the, and the, the DEI initiatives are so great.
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Like I don't know if we have it, but what's shocking is that
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they've taken away people's firearms.
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So these two guys are there, they're shooting for 20 minutes,
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20 minutes, and nobody returned fire.
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And the police are there. The police are there.
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You you can hear for 20 minutes. You can hear the sirens.
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The cops are surrounding them. No one is returning fire.
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No one is engaging or approaching.
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You've got. He doesn't have hostages or
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anything, he's just standing there with a gun.
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He's an open target. In America, we'd love that.
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I mean, we would take him down very quickly.
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Somebody would return fire, a veteran would approach.
28:00
I mean, and, and what you've got, you've got surrounding
28:03
this. I don't know if we have the
28:03
clip, you have multiple female officers wearing bulletproof
28:08
vests that are literally standing in the open in the
28:12
surrendered position, not returning fire.
28:15
This is what happens. See cause DEI diversity, equity,
28:20
inclusion is in the name of tolerance and diversity.
28:24
Everybody should get the job and it's there are certain jobs that
28:29
only the people that can do the job.
28:31
Like what if you're going to be a police officer?
28:33
I don't want the £105 girl that when given flight, fright or
28:39
freeze chooses flight or freeze. I want the 250 LB door kicker
28:45
whose grandpa was a gorilla that only does fight, you know, when
28:50
it comes to somebody that's going to be an air traffic
28:52
controller. I don't think we should give the
28:54
blind guys a chance just so that we're doing diversity and it's
28:58
their turn. You know, I mean it, it's just
29:01
it's insanity. But this is what happens.
29:04
And, and when you start to vilify police officers, when you
29:08
start to negate rule of law, when you start to defund,
29:12
devalue, disrespect, dishonor, disregard the police when you
29:16
really need them, what you get is, you know, civil patrol
29:21
officers show up. I mean, this is exactly what
29:24
we're going for right now in New York.
29:26
Just voted for a democratic socialist mayor.
29:29
If you want to know what it looks like, it looks like
29:31
freaking Sydney, Australia. This is what we just voted for
29:34
in Know the People's Republic of Seattle, our former hometown.
29:38
They just voted for a democratic socialist mayor that literally
29:43
is going to run the playbook for Sydney, Australia.
29:46
This is exactly what we're voting for in America.
29:49
And and what happens is evil never stops itself.
29:54
And so unless there are strong good door kicker alpha men who
29:59
get between evil and women and children, then evil completely
30:04
takes over. And this is exactly what it
30:06
looks like. So to his credit, the guy who
30:08
got involved, apparently he's also a Muslim.
30:11
So the problem is not that you're a Muslim.
30:14
The the problem is you're a jihadi.
30:16
So if you're going to come into a country, are you going to be a
30:18
citizen? Are you going to carry forth the
30:20
values? Are you going to respect the
30:22
law? Are you an invader or you coming
30:25
in to, you know, assimilate into the culture?
30:28
So the man who took away the gun, he he's apparently a
30:31
Muslim, did a great thing honor him as a as a as a good man.
30:36
He did apparently take the gun and then leave it at the tree.
30:41
I wish you would have kept the gun and continued his job.
30:45
But you know, isn't it wild the two men are firing for 20
30:49
minutes and the only person who engages them is a civilian?
30:55
It's wild. I just looked up.
30:57
So Sydney, their police force, they've been doing a big DEI
31:00
push and approximately 32% of their officers are a woman, are
31:06
women. And in America we're at 10% in
31:09
full time roles, women cops. But our goal is by 20-30 to have
31:15
that be at 30%. So we are aiming to be Australia
31:19
in America. It's what the major cities are
31:22
going for. So women, Women shouldn't fill
31:26
any job that a man could fill. So the jobs, whether it be in
31:31
combat, whether it be in firefighting, whether it be
31:35
another first responding, whether it be in police force,
31:39
the standard should be set and you should have to meet those
31:43
standards. And if those standards are
31:47
lowered to accommodate people, what we are now getting is
31:52
people who cannot do the job, meaning we are putting in harm's
31:56
way not only the people doing the job, but the people that
31:59
they are supposed to protect and preserve.
32:02
That is not loving or caring, that is irresponsible and that
32:07
is negligence. I mean, you know, if you're in
32:10
combat and you can't run a certain number of miles and
32:13
carry a certain weighted pack and engage in hand to hand
32:17
combat. But this is so.
32:19
The most asinine thing I may have ever heard is diversity is
32:22
our strength. It's a weakness for.
32:26
Sure, it's a weakness for sure. Like, Oh well, there's a three
32:28
foot guy who weighs 80 lbs. That doesn't make us stronger in
32:33
a cage fight. You know there's a guy who can't
32:36
see. That doesn't make us stronger in
32:39
a gunfight. There's a gal who you know, will
32:42
have a nervous breakdown if we get her pronouns wrong.
32:45
That doesn't make us stronger in a cultural fight.
32:49
It it's, it's, it's lunacy. Yeah, for I think it was
32:53
interesting. I'm forgetting who, who who
32:57
talked about it, but talking about DEI and stuff, there's no,
33:01
there's zero women that want to go be a coal miner or a
33:05
bricklayer. Those are very hard jobs and
33:09
they're 99% male. But we want DEI and all these
33:13
very public roles. And it was interesting.
33:16
Netflix just came out with some coal mining show where there's
33:19
the woman coal miner's the hero. And it's like that.
33:21
That's never going to happen. That's just, that's just not it.
33:24
Women are great at a lot of things, things men could never
33:27
do that. I mean, they are singularly
33:29
gifted at something men will never be.
33:32
Capable zero of us were born to a man.
33:34
They have a unique superpower. They do have a superpower and
33:37
they should enjoy it. And I mean live into that
33:41
gifting and calling because it's incredible to be able to
33:44
produce. Life is insane to a man.
33:46
We we can just work hard that that's all we can do.
33:49
But this is where I mean, to me, it's like you go from the
33:54
theoretical to the to the practical and the theoretical is
33:58
we would like to have a very diverse police force.
34:01
The practical is to a father son, jihadi team are shooting
34:06
for 20 minutes and somebody needs to stop them.
34:11
OK, well, nobody did. You know, I mean for 20 minutes.
34:16
I don't know about you. Like if if this was a church
34:20
service with the baptismal and I'm stuck on an open beach.
34:25
I'm not thinking. Diversity is our strength.
34:29
I thinking everyone should own a gun, good men should own guns
34:32
and good men should get involved.
34:33
Yeah, and I, and I would say too, just for pastors and faith
34:36
leaders, we've really got to start to rethink public events.
34:40
Like, I've done public baptisms at public parks and beaches, and
34:44
I've done outdoor rallies and evangelistic events and crusades
34:48
and such. And I think it's really time to
34:50
rethink all of that. I mean, it's very, very sad.
34:53
But we saw Charlie Kirk shot in a public place.
34:57
We now see the Jewish celebration of Hanukkah turn
35:00
into a mass murder. It's sad when your faith can't
35:04
be public, but when it jeopardizes the safety of the
35:09
people who are participating. You really got to start to think
35:13
about being indoors, security checkpoints.
35:16
I think it was even Ben Shapiro after Charlie was shot, said,
35:19
you know, I think I'm going to do anymore indoor outdoor events
35:22
rather we're going to bring it inside with security
35:24
checkpoints. And so, yeah, I would just
35:26
encourage faith leaders start thinking about security and
35:30
outdoor events, though we should have the freedom to do them.
35:34
You know, is the is the reward worth the risk?
35:36
Yep, 100%. And yeah, John Lovell call that.
35:41
He's a good friend of yours. It's a soft target.
35:43
And he did not let our flock be a soft target because we're
35:46
called to be pastors and shepherds, shepherds protecting
35:49
our flock. And if people want to make an
35:51
example of our flock, we can't do that.
35:53
We need to protect our flock because it feels like these
35:56
things are going to happen more and more and the end zone of
36:00
Islam is to terrify, destroy and take over.
36:04
Islam, jihadi Islam is, is not a religion of proposition, it's a
36:09
religion of imposition. It's converter die and and those
36:14
who don't understand that. And so again, you can be a
36:16
Muslim and come into the country, but you can't be a
36:19
jihadist and come into the country.
36:20
And so here you saw, you saw a jihadi and a Muslim, a Muslim
36:25
who is willing to be a citizen and a jihadi who is ill intended
36:30
to destroy, you know, the very fabric of the nation of which
36:33
there are part. And so you've got to even in
36:36
your immigration, you've got to distinguish those two. 100% And
36:39
Speaking of Convert or Die in Seattle, there's been a big news
36:44
story of these gender kit lessons developed for
36:49
kindergartens. And the big picture book was
36:54
titled Introducing Teddy. And Teddy is a teddy bear named
36:58
Thomas who decides he wants to be Tilly, a girl teddy bear.
37:01
And so they're teaching this to children in Seattle.
37:05
And the big lessons are acceptance, compassion, gender,
37:09
gender role, and that we're all unique.
37:12
And this is being taught to our not to our children, 'cause we
37:15
left Seattle, but it's being taught in the United States of
37:20
America in public schools funded by our government.
37:24
Is there any hope for government schools?
37:26
Like what? What is your take on all this?
37:27
Yeah. So I mean, you know, I, I grew
37:30
up in Seattle. We left Seattle over a decade
37:32
ago. For those who live maybe in
37:36
still conservative pockets, it is hard to fathom or conceive
37:40
how far gone certain places are. And so this is just one of many
37:46
case studies or examples. So this is AK through 5
37:51
curriculum, four children. So you're looking at 5 or 6 year
37:56
olds. They don't know the world at
37:59
all. They well and they certainly
38:01
aren't thinking about genitalia and sexuality unless they're
38:05
being groomed. 100%. The only way a child at age 5 or
38:10
6 is thinking about genitalia or sexuality is if they're being
38:13
groomed by pedophiles for abuse. They otherwise they shouldn't be
38:18
thinking about those things. And so this is a curriculum
38:22
that, yeah, is teaching them to to undergo gender transition.
38:30
And so, yeah, if you are a parent that is a Christian or
38:34
sane in these areas, you cannot send your children to a
38:40
government school. It's not a public school.
38:42
It's a government school. And a government school is
38:46
trying to brainwash your child to be dependent upon the
38:51
government. And, and if the child is
38:55
dependent upon the government, they're going to grow up to
38:59
despise your God. And, you know, we're seeing this
39:04
right now in places like Seattle, where they voted for a
39:07
democratic socialist mayor, and New York, where the goal is to
39:11
have your child in a daycare run by the government, then go to a
39:16
school run by the government. Sexualized, traumatized,
39:19
brainwashed by the government, then go to a college run by the
39:24
government. Then live in housing run by the
39:26
government. Shop at a grocery store owned by
39:29
the government. Have health care run by the
39:32
government. Travel on transportation run by
39:36
the government. That's North Korea.
39:41
There is no freedom because you are, from womb to tomb, entirely
39:47
dependent upon the government. And so if you are a parent, you
39:52
cannot allow your child to be taken hostage and captive by the
39:58
government, and the goal of the government is to seize your
40:02
child as early as possible. To cause them to be a dependent
40:08
of the state for the rest of their life.
40:11
And there is no freedom in that whatsoever.
40:15
And so you know, this is your responsibility as a parent, but
40:19
particularly as a father. It is a sin against Jesus Christ
40:24
if you claim to be a believer and allow your child to be in
40:29
any sort of educational system that has anything like this in
40:34
the curriculum. This is there are various ways
40:37
to educate your child. Perhaps in certain places that
40:41
are still conservative there are options for your child in a
40:45
government school that are run by Christians or conservatives
40:48
that it wouldn't be a sin. But in many if not most places
40:52
today, this is not an open handed issue.
40:55
This is moved to a closed handed issue to where pastors need to
40:58
start to rebuke the parents and their flock and they need to
41:02
start to draw hard bright lines that this is a sin against God
41:07
because God is over government and God has given children to
41:11
parents, not to governments. And that ultimately the parents
41:15
are responsible for the children.
41:17
And when the children are given to the government, then the,
41:21
the, the government is not responsible.
41:23
God holds the parents responsible.
41:26
And so you know, the, and if you're a parent and you don't
41:30
have good educational options, you may need to consider
41:33
homeschooling and, or you may need to just move.
41:36
Yeah, you need to move to a state that has school choice.
41:40
And, and I, I was, I was in DC this week and somebody from the
41:44
Department of Education came in for some 2 day event we had with
41:48
pastors and I, I didn't. So they talked about the fact
41:50
that they're in the process of trying to dismantle the
41:53
Department of Education and send all of the dollars back to the
41:57
states where it should be. And that the Trump
42:01
administration is going to be sending the funding back to the
42:04
states, but the funding is only available for those states that
42:08
have school choice. So if you move to or live in a
42:12
state that has school choice, there's going to be financial
42:15
opportunity for you to have options to choose how to educate
42:20
your child. But if you're in a state that
42:22
does not have school choice, there is no federal funding that
42:25
is available to you. That's.
42:27
Very interesting. So if you live in Texas or you
42:30
live in Arizona, not only is it good, it's getting better.
42:35
So like this will blow your mind.
42:37
For my friends that are in Seattle and other places like in
42:40
Arizona right now, it's 7 plus $1000 a year per child.
42:44
That's just given to you. That's given to you.
42:46
You can use it for a homeschool or a homeschool Co-op.
42:48
You can use it for a charter school.
42:50
You can use it for a private school.
42:52
You can use it for a Christian School.
42:56
In addition, you can take the first couple $1000 of your taxes
43:00
and you can redirect it for someone else's child to use it
43:04
for their school. So let's say you got 2 sets of
43:07
grandparents through school choice.
43:10
They could redirect their first few $1000 of taxes.
43:14
Let's say let's say you're putting cowboy in a Christian
43:18
School. You can get 7 + 1000 dollars and
43:20
then we as well as other relatives could send the 1st
43:24
2000 dollars of our taxes into the school.
43:27
You could pay for a really nice Christian School or a classic
43:32
education or STEM education for your son and it's no money out
43:36
of pocket for you. And now the Trump administration
43:39
is looking at adding federal dollars to that.
43:42
It's awesome. And as a parent, you get to
43:44
decide how your child is educated.
43:47
Or you're in a state like Washington where they're going
43:51
to brainwash your child. They're going to spend a lot of
43:54
money on bureaucracy. The overwhelming odds are that
43:59
the teacher is someone who hates your God and has no child and is
44:07
going to brainwash your child to hate your God and is going to
44:11
get paid a very large salary to do so.
44:15
We, I mean adults are like whoever you spend the most time
44:18
with is who you become. Oh, let me they'll say that and
44:21
send their kid off to hang out with some middle-aged woman
44:23
that's a lesbian and not married.
44:25
And it's like, oh, you want your child to spend 8 hours a day
44:28
with her and come see you for an hour or two and do homework the
44:31
whole time they go to bed every day for the next 12 years.
44:34
That's a terrible decision. And I pulled the stats.
44:37
Places like Washington, DC, it's 18% of people are LGBTQ and a
44:43
place like Arizona is less than half of that so.
44:46
And Wyoming is probably next to 0. 4.
44:49
Percent. So this is not a biological
44:51
reality. This is a mental health issue
44:54
that that becomes either accepted or rejected culturally.
44:58
Natural selection would deal with the biological reality very
45:00
quick on these things. That's why they need to
45:02
radicalize their kids, because it doesn't.
45:04
Make any children so they need to steal yours a. 100%.
45:08
Well, in children too, they tend to children believe what adults
45:11
tell them, especially adults in positions of authority.
45:14
And so as a child, you're like, well, the adults is the teacher,
45:17
they said, so it must be true until you grow up and you're
45:20
like, yeah, the purple haired transgender lesbian cat lady
45:24
teacher is not right on things. Yep. 100 percent, 100%.
47:01
Thank you to our partners at Gold Co and thank you for
47:05
following up. Speaking of your D cert, Ctrip
47:09
would love to hear how was that, how did it go and you were in DC
47:13
all week? Yeah, I made some notes.
47:16
My wife Grace and I went to DC this week.
47:18
We've been getting invited for years.
47:20
We've never went to DC. So we went for the week.
47:24
We were invited by the National Faith Advisory Board, and we
47:29
spent two days. The first day was at the Museum
47:31
of the Bible. The second day was at the
47:33
Eisenhower Building next to the White House.
47:36
And so we we were there at the request of Paula White and Jenny
47:42
Corn who lead the National Faith Advisory Board.
47:47
So let me just take the hose and put it on the bees nest.
47:50
Let me just and so there are many online who are Christians
47:55
that just have all kinds of terrible things to say.
47:58
I really like both of those women and I enjoyed my time with
48:03
them. I find them to be very
48:06
hardworking. They love Jesus, they are
48:10
volunteering and unpaid and putting in an incredible number
48:14
of hours and trying to do good things and I appreciate them and
48:17
I respect them. Some will criticize and say
48:20
especially Pastor Paula White shouldn't be a pastor.
48:24
There's a whole back story to that.
48:25
It's an open handed issue. Everybody knows where I'm at on
48:28
this issue and I'm conservative on this issue and have not
48:31
changed my position whatsoever. But I love her and I like her
48:34
and she's my sister in Christ. And I'm not going to fight over
48:37
this issue. But but what I do also know is
48:41
there'll be some people will be like, well, she shouldn't have
48:43
this position. Well, here's how you get this
48:45
position. President Donald J Trump chooses
48:48
you, so that's how you get it. Yeah, for a reform guys, they
48:54
should get that. Yeah, so like and well, if you
48:56
reform, God apparently predestined her before the
49:00
foundations of the world to be the National Faith Advisory
49:03
Board leader, If you believe in the sovereignty of God, you got
49:07
to just say, well, God and your sovereign Providence.
49:10
And if you're a meticulous Providence hard reform guy, you,
49:14
you can't even complain. You got to just be like, Lord,
49:17
it is your sovereign wealth. So there you go.
49:18
You just, you just got to eat what you cook.
49:21
That's what you got to do here. And so and so the National Faith
49:25
Advisory Board, it doesn't exist in every administration.
49:28
The Trump administration has chosen to put faith at the
49:32
center of the White House. So some administrations will put
49:37
faith, you know, in some secondary, tertiary position,
49:40
often some government building in the White House is faith
49:46
representing issues for people of faith at the center of the
49:49
administration, which is really good.
49:53
And this may shock people. Donald Trump does not come from
49:58
the center of evangelicalism. What?
50:01
Yeah, I know. It's shocking.
50:02
It's shocking. He, he did not grow up on Veggie
50:04
Tales. He he didn't kiss dating
50:08
goodbye. He wasn't afraid of being left
50:10
behind. He's he's not sure what Jesus
50:14
would do. He he doesn't, you know, fix his
50:18
breath with testaments. He didn't grow up in the center
50:21
of evangelicalism. Why is it so important to him?
50:24
Well, so so he doesn't. He doesn't know a lot of
50:26
pastors. So a couple decades ago, Paula
50:30
White just felt like, I'm going to start praying for she didn't
50:33
know him. She started praying that she
50:35
would get to know Donald Trump, and she wanted to share Jesus
50:38
with him. And she got to meet him, and
50:41
they struck up a friendship, and he trusts her.
50:44
So she's been praying for him and sharing Jesus with him for
50:47
decades. She didn't know he'd become
50:50
president. She didn't know all of this.
50:53
And he trusts her because she's been trustworthy.
50:58
And so he says, hey, I trust you.
51:02
Come to the White House. I believe that faith is
51:05
important, and I want to protect religious liberty and faith.
51:09
And I trust you because I've known you for a long time and
51:12
you've operated with integrity. Praise God.
51:16
Praise God. Thank you.
51:19
And So what we have now is not only a faith office at the White
51:24
House, but in the other major parts of the administration,
51:28
there's a representative for faith and they're representing
51:32
people of faith. And so we had two days of like
51:35
Ted talks, small invite only number of faith leaders, pastors
51:44
were there and people came in and, and, and shared what
51:47
they're doing in the administration.
51:50
I'll give you an example. Like RFK came in and talked and
51:55
shared some interesting things like the SNAP benefits 10% goes
52:01
to candy bars and 8% goes to sugary soda drinks for. 20%.
52:07
And you're like, and that creates diabetes and poor
52:10
health, which then pushes our need for, you know, medical help
52:16
that later on creates diabetes and medication.
52:19
And so he's making the argument that if we really care about
52:22
people, we've got a fixed diet, especially in poor communities.
52:26
You're like, that's interesting. We heard from people from all
52:30
the departments. The gal from the Department of
52:33
Education was really interesting.
52:35
She podcast, by the way, that's cool.
52:38
And she's trying to dismantle the Department of Education.
52:41
And her whole premise was putting education back into the
52:46
hands of parents based upon her reading of the New Testament and
52:50
biblical convictions. I love it.
52:52
I was like, OK, sister, that's good.
52:55
I'll give you some other ones as well.
52:56
There was there was one of the senior leaders under Pam Bondi
53:00
in the Department of Justice. He's actually, he's actually a
53:05
pastor saved in the Jesus movement and covers pulpits for
53:10
churches around America. So cool.
53:12
He's a preacher. I was like, that's pretty great.
53:16
And the, yeah, the other one, too.
53:19
Secretary Christine Gnome came in.
53:21
She's getting lit on fire all the time.
53:23
Shared her testimony and why she's doing the job.
53:26
One of my favorites was Secretary Scott Turner from the
53:31
Hud's Housing and Urban Development.
53:33
He's a pastor. He served under Pastor Jack
53:36
Graham at Prestonwood Baptist Church.
53:38
He was the president of the Southern Baptist Convention.
53:41
Jack Graham's a great guy, good man of God.
53:43
And I'll tell you, man, like I would absolutely be honored to
53:47
have Scott Turner come preach at my church.
53:49
The guy was amazing. We had Border Patrol agents that
53:53
love Jesus and came in and did some amazing work.
53:57
I mean, it was just really interesting.
53:58
And, and some of the things that the faith division is working on
54:01
and, and this is where maybe Christians don't understand
54:03
primarily what they're doing is policy.
54:06
And policy is messy, complicated, arduous.
54:15
And so they're, they're trying to figure out based upon
54:18
previous administrations, how have they really weaponized the
54:22
government against people of faith?
54:25
Like there was a presentation that that showed it's been
54:30
significantly easier for a gay couple to adopt A child than a
54:34
Christian couple. Trying to put more of them in
54:37
the future. It's.
54:38
Crazy if you were going to adopt A child, you had to agree to
54:43
raise the child LGBTQIA friendly and if you're a Christian,
54:49
you're like, I can't do that. So so they discriminated against
54:52
Christians adopting children and they're they're they're changing
54:55
that with policy. One of the ones Lennon there
54:58
that just blew my mind. They released us to go meet with
55:03
representatives. They're they're pushing a bill
55:05
right now. I did not know this.
55:07
These are some of the just, there's a million of these, but
55:11
one of them is to pass Med school and to get your license
55:16
as a doctor, you need to be present and or participate in a
55:20
certain number of abortions. Gosh.
55:22
Which goes against their whole thing of do no harm.
55:24
The Hippocratic Oath and there is no, there is no objection or
55:31
exception for conscience. It's.
55:33
Wild. So let's say you're a Christian.
55:36
Let's say you're a Christian woman who says I'm pro-life, I
55:40
love kids, I want to be a pediatrician and I want to help
55:43
kids. To do that I need to go be
55:48
involved in a certain number of abortions.
55:51
So, so they're discriminating against Christians being in
55:54
healthcare. I mean, because like during
55:57
COVID, a lot of them dropped out over the vaccine and a lot of
55:59
them will drop out over this. So all of the doctors are
56:03
government? Yeah, That's that's.
56:06
So, so now, so now the faith division is saying we need to
56:08
overturn that and we need to say that there is an exception for
56:13
people of faith who can't, because of conscience, be
56:17
involved in abortions to get their medical license because
56:20
it's murder, because it's murder.
56:23
And so there's a million of these that they're involved in
56:26
and, and they were sharing all of the things that they're
56:30
working on and it was really encouraging.
56:33
Should. Christians, be encouraged that
56:36
Trump, Paula White, these people are surrounding themselves with
56:40
good godly pastors, men and women.
56:43
Yeah, they're trying very hard. And, and I think if you're going
56:45
to pray for something, a lot of what's happened so far is by
56:49
executive order, but it needs to get cemented into law.
56:52
And it feels like we've got about nine months because if the
56:56
midterms don't go well, I, it seems to me like we're going to
57:00
have two years of impeachment and law fair and, and nothing is
57:06
going to get done. And so executive orders can be
57:09
overturned day one if the next guy's a bad guy.
57:14
And so you want to move from executive orders, which are
57:16
temporary to laws, which are more in cement.
57:21
And So what they're doing right now, they're, they're working to
57:23
move executive orders into law and the real.
57:27
And so there there's been over 200 executive orders and over
57:31
150 of them have been moved into law.
57:34
And so they're intentionally moving this direction.
57:37
And so the Christians who you would naively be like, I wish
57:40
somebody else was in, there's like, no, you don't understand
57:43
all of the important work that is getting done and the real
57:46
close timeline of opportunity in which it needs to happen.
57:51
And the number of faithful believers that are working so
57:55
hard to do this and to argue over secondary issues and to
58:00
miss sight of the necessity of the hour.
58:03
What you're really looking at. I mean, they were talking about
58:05
too, like I think there was, they were talking about like 20
58:09
Catholic pro lifers were arrested for silently praying
58:14
outside an abortion clinic. Silently praying.
58:18
Gosh. You're getting arrested for your
58:20
thoughts in America. I mean, not, I mean, we have
58:26
freedom of speech and we have freedom of religion.
58:28
We sure as like have freedom of thought.
58:30
Gosh. I mean, you know, they, they,
58:34
they showed that, you know, there that the government was
58:37
listening to sermons of pro-life pastors and, and was actively,
58:44
you know, weaponizing the government against those who
58:48
were faith leaders with pro-life views.
58:51
Yeah, and and so you're at at this point.
58:54
And so people like, well, we need to separate.
58:56
Christians shouldn't be involved in government.
58:58
And they kept saying, they said politics matter because policy
59:02
matters and policy matters because people matter.
59:06
That was the the the phrase throughout the week that made a
59:09
lot of sense to me. Politics matter because policy
59:12
matters and policy matters because people matter.
59:15
People live within policy. And if the policy is bad, it
59:19
hurts people. So we need policy to be good so
59:22
that we can help people. And so I, I overall was very
59:27
blessed, very encouraged. I was very honored to be there.
59:31
And the, the, the point of the time together, they said no
59:36
video recording. So I didn't take any photos.
59:38
I didn't take any videos. I honored all of that.
59:41
There was time of worship that they said you could record.
59:44
So some of that is online, but the the the point that was most
59:51
emotional for me, I'll share in our remaining time together.
59:57
So Sebastian Gorka is pretty well known, you know, radio
1:00:03
person, great voice from hunger. I didn't really know his back
1:00:07
story. He's only shared his testimony.
1:00:09
I was told twice. This was only the second time.
1:00:12
So he came in and like I said, it was like a series of Ted
1:00:15
talks over 2 days. And it was in the Eisenhower
1:00:18
building. He came in and he came up and he
1:00:20
said, I never prepare my talk. I'm not sure what to talk about.
1:00:24
He's like, OK, I'm going to tell you my story.
1:00:28
And it was just impromptu. So he asked, you know, what is
1:00:32
your most important prized possession?
1:00:35
And he talked about handguns, including one that was like the
1:00:39
Miami Vice gun and is 19. You'd love.
1:00:41
This is 1966 Mustang. And like the things that were
1:00:45
his prized possession and how he sold all of them to take the job
1:00:50
because it was a 90% pay cut. And he has overseen the arrest
1:00:57
of over 400 terrorists, primarily jihadists, bad actors
1:01:01
who got into the country and were plotting to kill Americans
1:01:06
so far this year. And he gave us the why.
1:01:11
And the why was that his dad was in Hungary and it got
1:01:15
infiltrated with communist Marxist that were promising
1:01:20
freedom and life for the citizens.
1:01:23
And his dad was a young man in college and saw that it was all
1:01:27
deception and his dad was a Christian.
1:01:30
And so his dad is a college student, formed an underground
1:01:36
Christian group of men who started doing Intel collection
1:01:41
against the Communists and sending it to MI 6 intelligence
1:01:46
in Great Britain, saying here's what's really going on in the
1:01:50
country, here's what's really going on on the campus.
1:01:53
It's it's a Marxist takeover, it's communism, it's it's
1:01:58
deception. His dad was sending that
1:02:01
information to a legendary double agent in MI Six who was
1:02:06
working for the communists, for the Marxist.
1:02:12
Nothing was ever done but that information was given to the
1:02:15
Marxist and communists, who then arrested his dad, abused and
1:02:21
beat him, put him in two years of solitary confinement.
1:02:24
He was, I think he was 20. His dad was 20 years old.
1:02:26
My. Gosh.
1:02:28
Christian Now he's being persecuted for his faith.
1:02:32
He's put underground and he is forced into hard labor, I think
1:02:38
producing coal with hand tools, tons a day for years in solitary
1:02:45
confinement. His dad never broke.
1:02:48
His dad never denied Christ. His dad ended up being
1:02:53
eventually in confinement with a bunch of hard, hard line, old
1:02:58
school, real deal Jesuit priests, and they worshipped and
1:03:05
they prayed together. His dad was only given one
1:03:08
toothbrush and he scraped it into a cross and he would kneel
1:03:15
before it and he would pray to Jesus Christ when he was in
1:03:17
confinement. And that's the one thing that
1:03:20
Sebastian has in his safe is his most prized possession is his
1:03:25
dad's cross that he prayed to out of his toothbrush in
1:03:29
solitary confinement, fighting the communists.
1:03:32
And that's why he took the job. That's incredible.
1:03:35
I mean, I was in tears. I I couldn't believe it.
1:03:38
And I'm like, these are the people that are doing the jobs
1:03:43
and This is why they're doing that.
1:03:47
And, and I was, I was shocked at some of the people and the depth
1:03:56
of their faith and the sacrifices they are making and
1:04:00
the why behind them. It's incredible.
1:04:03
Yeah. And so the National Faith
1:04:04
Advisory Board I have the utmost respect for, was tremendously
1:04:09
encouraged by, honored to be invited to and.
1:04:14
Yeah. And and have only good things to
1:04:16
say about and I'm exceedingly grateful for.
1:04:20
So cool, so cool. So Christians can be, I'd
1:04:22
encourage you guys be praying for these pastors, these people,
1:04:26
these men and women that are making huge sacrifices, as you
1:04:29
just shared, to try to affect America's policy because people
1:04:33
matter and that is incredible. Thank you for ask Mark, for
1:04:35
going there, for praying for those men, for praying for
1:04:37
Trump. And thank you guys for tuning in
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