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What will it take to end the Iran war? A biblical look at confronting evil · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You're listening to the Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
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  Well, what will it take to end the war in Iran?
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  It's a really valid question.
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  And I think this war definitely is on the minds of many, many Americans, if not the majority of Americans.
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  It's now entering into the third week.
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  And there's not really an end in sight.
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  In fact, President Trump was asked, when do you think the war is going to end, or what will it take?
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  And he uh pretty much skirted that issue.
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  And he said, well, uh, let's just put it this way the war is not done yet.
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  Even though we've uh we've basically crippled Iran, it's done when I say it's done.
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  And I guess the question for us is um what do we think about it?
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  Uh I mean, we have the right to have an opinion, and here at America Out Loud, uh, we really celebrate the we celebrate truth and we celebrate freedom to be able to express ourselves and to talk about what's on our hearts and what's on our minds.
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  And I I read a very recent article by uh one of our own by Pastor Jeff Crippen, which was excellent.
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  Uh you can find it on the uh the America Outloud.news uh site.
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  It's it's one of the top stories.
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  And his article is when evil goes unchallenged, and it was really thought provoking, and he's coming from the perspective of uh, you know, scripturally, what does the Bible say whenever whenever we let evil go unchecked?
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  And I'll just read his first paragraph here.
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  I think it's excellent.
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  This whole article is excellent.
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  You know, it's only a five minute read, and it's well worth your time.
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  He said one of the greatest and most dangerous delusions we can fall prey to is that there's something in this world which is pure evil.
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  You know, and he's right.
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  We can't deny that there's evil in the world.
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  Evil, which has no alloy of goodness in it whatsoever.
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  When a person refuses to admit this truth, they are destined to be its prey, wasting their time trying to negotiate with it while behind the scenes the darkness is plotting our destruction.
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  We see this very thing, and I hope this is obvious to you in the current dealings with the Iranian regime.
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  And he's absolutely right.
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  You know, if if we take a naive approach, um evil people aren't like, oh, well, gee golly day, you know, they're kind people, so we're gonna return in kind.
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  We're gonna be kind to them.
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  This is not how evil people think.
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  You know, I spent the better of it a decade and a half studying, researching to the point where it was an unhealthy obsession, researching how evil people think, and and particularly child sexual predators, and that's because it was very personal to me.
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  Evil struck within my own home at the hands of my own father, who's now serving life sentence in prison.
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  I had no clue, not one clue how he was able to do what he did, and to so many victims to produce many, many victims.
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  We think into the hundreds, literally.
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  He did that for his entire adult life for more than four decades, was producing victims over and over and over again with some of the most vile crimes known to humanity.
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  I mean, I've I've read I've read some of his reports.
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  It's nauseating, it's disgusting, it's it's sickening, it's warped.
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  And I'm still trying to process that the man who raised me, the man who stood in the pulpit where I preach.
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  He preached for 27 years.
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  I admired him.
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  He was he was a mentor of mine, or at least that's how I viewed him.
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  I went into ministry because of him.
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  You know, and and and I look back at that, and I'm like, how did we miss it?
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  And there was literally nothing, and I mean nothing, nothing except for two things that would stop him.
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  Death or prison.
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  And he's admitted it.
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  He's as he's admitted as much and said, I never, never was gonna stop.
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  You know, you have to understand how evil people think, how evil works.
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  And this isn't people struggling.
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  I I want to separate this because many Christians can't do this.
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  They can't separate people who struggle with sin from people who are evil.
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  And so they just lump them all together and they see things like uh, well, we're all sinners.
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  Let me tell you, the Bible makes a very clear distinction, and and Pastor Jeff Crippen is a hundred percent right.
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  There is a distinction between pure evil, he calls it pure evil.
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  Pure evil.
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  It's kind of a play on words with with the word pure.
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  There is nothing pure about evil, and so it's a play on words.
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  You know, it is absolutely it's it's so evil, it's so twisted, it's so messed up.
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  And the Bible has a lot to say about that.
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  And I want to read some of those scriptures because way too many good Christian people get bamboozled into this idea that we just need to be pacifist.
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  I I've read I've read posts by Christians who I admire, and you know, um again, I'm not pointing fingers.
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  They they absolutely 100% have every single right to express their opinion just the same as I do or anybody else does.
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  And so I'm not trying to change our minds.
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  I'm not, you know, I'm I'm not condemning them for the way that they think.
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  But I do want to draw a contrast.
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  And I want to show that their view is this pacifist view, it's this idea that grace will grace and love will just change people's hearts.
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  And if we just love them more, then the evil will subside, or even even go away.
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  That we can conquer evil by being a pacifist, by just loving people, love them to pieces until they they stop doing evil.
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  And let me tell you, this is my view, it doesn't work that way.
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  I don't think anybody could have hugged Adolf Hitler into being a peaceful man.
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  He was twisted, he was messed up, he was mentally deranged.
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  There was something fundamentally wrong with his heart, with his brain, he was messed up.
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  He was pure evil to execute millions of Jews.
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  If you've ever seen the pictures, if you have ever gone to a Holocaust museum, it is absolutely beyond nauseating.
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  I mean, it's it's it's emotional, it's it's dark, it's uh man, you leave there with just so many emotions, anger, uh, sadness, rage.
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  Um, deep deep sorrow.
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  You know, just so many different different emotions.
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  And uh, and I talked about this one time before.
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  I went to I went to Germany and Switzerland on a on a campaign with college, and we got to visit uh one of the biggest concentration camps that that Hitler had.
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  It was in France, and I can't remember the name of it.
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  It's still um it's still uh left exactly as it was right after the war ended.
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  And when you go there, it I mean, it is absolutely just heartbreaking.
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  We did a self guided tour, and they give you a piece of paper with uh with history, and they have the different stations labeled, and as you get to each station throughout the concentration camp, uh you you read about what that was, uh what they did, you know, from the the watchtowers, uh, where uh soldiers would stand in the wash.
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  Watchtowers and would literally just just for game.
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  They would just start shooting random people, innocent people.
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  Just for fun.
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  For literally no other reason than to entertain themselves.
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  And I mean, I'm telling you, the more you learn, the more you get enraged, and you're like, uh like you start to get a picture of what evil actually is.
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  These people were not going to be hugged back into kindness.
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  But I guess the other question we could ask is what would it take to end World War II.
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  You know, what did it take to stop Adolf Hitler?
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  And this is one thing that it's just it's such a soapbox of mine.
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  It's it's something that just really, really irritates me.
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  And that's that we uh, you know, people on the left like to refer to President Trump as Hitler.
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  And Trump followers, they're Hitler.
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  Folks, I assure you, uh, we are so detached from history.
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  People who who think that way.
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  It's not a cute little slang term.
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  You know, and the sad thing is I think they mean it.
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  I think they legitimately think that President Trump is Hitler.
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  Uh, it's it's not it's not funny, it's not cute.
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  It's not uh it's it's not cool.
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  And I'm not saying he's a great man.
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  That's I I am not defending our president here, believe me.
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  I've talked repeatedly about this.
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  He is not a moral example.
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  I'm not somebody who would take my kids to uh you know, point them in President Trump's direction and say, I want you to emulate everything that this man is in your Christian walk.
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  Um, I just he is not somebody who I would uh let in a million years be an example to my kids as a moral Christian example.
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  So I'm not defending President Trump here.
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  I'm not idolizing him, not in the least.
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  But we have to be real, we have to be honest.
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  And we have to understand what evil is, and there's a difference.
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  There's a difference between uh irrational, uh shoot from the hip.
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  Kind of mentality.
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  Uh, just kind of uh thoughts all over the place.
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  President Trump is is not known to uh be able to contain his tongue.
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  Look at a lot of the posts that he puts out there, and he's deleted post because you know it's bad when when he thinks he went too far, and he's just he doesn't think before he opens his mouth.
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  He has diarrhea of the mouth constantly.
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  He just doesn't know when to shut up.
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  But that doesn't make him evil.
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  And what Pastor Crippin is talking about when he talks about pure evil.
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  It's people who wish death on other people.
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  It's people who uh people who wish harm on other people, they inflict harm under people, uh they inflict harm on people for pure sport, they do it because they think it's funny, they do it because it's gonna gain them something, or they do it because fundamentally they believe that it's not evil, and that they're justified in doing so.
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  And we find this with the regime in Iran.
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  They don't even think twice about lining people up, literally and hitting them with a firing squad.
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  They don't think twice about raping and beating women and children.
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  They don't think twice about it.
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  To them, it's not that's not evil.
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  And they mock, they make fun, they they laugh about it, they think it's funny.
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  That's how you know it's evil.
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  That's the difference between people who struggle with sin.
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  Right?
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  People who struggle with sin, the very fact that we're using the word struggle, it means that they have a conscience.
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  It means that they wrestle with the things that they do or don't do, they wrestle with that, and it bothers them.
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  They lose sleep over it.
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  I can assure you that people in the regime in Iran, the Ayatollah do not lose sleep.
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  If you think for a second that it bothers them, think again.
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  You know, you have to understand how pure evil people think.
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  And so for me, the question wasn't why did my father do what he did.
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  Because I I don't know, I can't ever fully comprehend how somebody gets to that point and why they think the way that they think.
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  I was less interested in why, and I was more interested in how.
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  How did he get how did he do it?
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  How did he get away with it?
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  And the reason I was obsessed with that question was because I wanted to know how to recognize evil and to stop it.
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  Everything that I've ever seen on uh abuse prevention, it's all like you know, the silly red flag, like, oh, they're handing candy out to kids, like all this stuff that doesn't work.
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  And I was like, I I'm not interested in that.
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  I'm not interested in reporting after a crime has already taken place.
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  I want to truly prevent, I want to understand how people think, how they get away with with their crimes, how they operate, you know, and basically it's it's gathering intel.
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  And when I see our president, he is very good at that.
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  He's exceptionally good at understanding how the enemy thinks.
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  And that gives me some form of comfort.
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  He knows exactly what Iran was capable of.
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  And he said, we have to disarm their capabilities.
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  We've seen this in history before.
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  We know how this ends.
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  What will it take to end the war?
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  That's a valid question.
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  And a lot of people, I know a lot of people are very opposed to the war.
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  They think that it was it was dumb.
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  Should just sit on our hands and hope and pray that Iran doesn't do anything out of sorts.
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  And people are pointing to the fact that President Trump, and I do think he was mistaken in announcing victory so soon.
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  Whenever we did the uh the bunker busters last year, you know, we swooped in and we bombed a nuclear enrichment site, and President Trump right away, he he declared victory.
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  Well, we you know, we crippled them, we keep we crippled their capabilities of ever having an atomic bomb, and then months later, he comes back, and all of a sudden we're bombing Iran again, and his reasoning was well, they were right on the cusp of building nuclear bombs.
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  Well, wait a second, you know, and it's a valid criticism from people.
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  I thought that we dismantled their capabilities.
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  I mean, that's what you've been telling the whole world.
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  He's been pronouncing victory, and now all of a sudden he's like, well, they were they were very, very close to having an atomic bomb.
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  And they will use it.
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  You know, make no mistake, Iran is very different from a lot of other countries on planet Earth.
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  They are pure evil.
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  They would love nothing more than to drop a nuke on the United States of America.
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  That's just that that's that's who they are.
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  And so the criticism is well, wait a second, you declared victory, and now all of a sudden we're at war, and you also said that you're a president of no wars.
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  And I've you know, I've I've listened to so many different things, and of course, so much information is classified, and you know, I'm I'm not like licking my chops trying to get a hold of classified information.
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  I just uh it's way beyond beyond my uh pay grade.
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  But I've heard the reasonable voice from the Democratic Party.
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  I've listened to Senator Fetterman, and Senator Fetterman said, I've been at every single briefing, and there was no other option.
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  This was the right thing to do.
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  We had to cripple Iran's capabilities based on the intel that we received.
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  And uh, you know, for whatever reason, we probably have to trust the intel that people received.
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  And what we know now that we didn't know, at least I didn't know before, is that they have Iran has nuclear enrichment sites like deep deep or storage deep deep under these granite big granite mountains that are bunker busters cannot penetrate.
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  And so this leaves the big question uh how do we how do we get that?
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  Because they will use that for harm.
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  They absolutely 100% will.
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  This is how evil people think.
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  I want to read one more sentence or uh one more paragraph here from Pastor Jeff Crippen.
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  This is on America Out Loud.news.
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  It's an excellent, excellent article.
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  The title of the article again is when evil goes unchallenged.
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  You know, what happens when we don't challenge pure evil?
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  So here's this this next paragraph, and uh it's just so spot on.
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  He said, those people among us who insist, as the Pope recently did, that reason can prevail, that everyone fundamentally wants peace, and that the bad guys are the ones who conclude that the devil cannot be convinced to lay down his arms.
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  These kinds of people are the danger within.
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  They are delusional, they cling to the delusion that man is fundamentally good, that all religions are good, and they do this in spite of the plain testimony of history.
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  Now he's absolutely right.
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  He goes on, I gotta read this next um sentence or two.
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  The reason because it's just what I was talking about.
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  The reason President Trump and our military leaders decided to take up arms against the Iranian regime is because they understand the nature of this enemy.
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  That it's exactly what I was just saying.
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  President Trump understands how evil people work, how they think, how they operate.
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  He understands our playbook.
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  He is very strategic.
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  And you look at the order in which he's he's doing things, you know, beginning with renaming the the Gulf of Mexico is the very first thing he did.
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  I mean, literally on day one, renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
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  All right, why why did he do that?
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  To mock people on the left?
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  No.
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  He did that to get to open up the the ability to be able to drill baby drill and start getting oil that the the American people can start to reserve to be energy independent.
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  You know, uh very, very, very smart move.
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  All right, then what happened next?
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  Venezuela.
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  He captured Maduro and uh, you know, really honestly at the same time put Cuba on notice and seized the oil coming out of Venezuela that was illegal, it was sanctioned oil that China was buying on the cheap.
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  Now that was the next domino, cut off the Venezuelan oil that China really depends on.
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  All right, then we have um, I guess before Iran, or maybe during the the war at Iran, President Trump announces that we have an oil refinery company that's that's moving to Texas.
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  It's the first time in 50 years that we've built a refinery on American soil.
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  It's huge, massive, massive refinery.
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  Well, what's the president up to?
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  Yeah, he's very clearly making us energy independent.
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  All right, then the war on Iran.
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  Yeah, he starts crippling them, and then he cuts off their oil supply to China right before, and he he timed it, and I think it's very intentional.
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  I don't think it's coincidence, he timed it right before his visit to China.
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  He has all the leverage in the world to negotiate with China, and China is, I mean, they're pure evil.
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  And Trump would much rather negotiate with a country like China than to have to uh go to war.
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  We do not want to go to war with China, trust me on this.
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  Even though I think we're very, very, very capable, uh, I don't think it would be the same outcome as as Iran.
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  Certainly wouldn't be as swift.
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  So we have to understand how evil people work, because if we take this pacifist approach, you know, if we assume, like Jeff Crippen says, if if we just assume that everybody's good, everybody has a good heart.
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  And they insist that they insist that uh, like the Pope did, that reason can prevail, that we can just talk to people.
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  We can we can sit at the negotiating table and we can shake hands, and at the end of the day, we can agree to disagree, and and and we can come to terms, and uh the world will be a peaceful place.
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  Let me repeat Pastor Jeff Crippen, they are delusional.
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  If you think that reason can prevail, now I say this all the time, and I I want to clarify this.
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  I say all the time that the vast majority of people on planet Earth are good people.
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  I truly believe that.
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  I do.
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  I think that the majority of people are good people.
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  Uh doesn't mean that they don't mess up, that they don't commit crimes, things like that.
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  But I I don't think that the majority of people are evil.
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  However, we cannot deny that there are really wicked people out there.
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  It only took one Adolf Hitler to convince an entire nation to slaughter millions of innocent Jews.
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  You know, Joseph Stalin.
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  It only took one evil person.
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  Look at Iran.
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  You know, it takes one evil leader to start convincing other people or coercing other people into into evil.
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  And for 47 years.
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  The good people of Iran have been under an oppressive regime.
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  They're absolutely horrible excuses for human beings.
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  They're terrible.
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  And you can not reason with them.
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  Look at Iran right now.
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  Do you think they're backing down?
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  Not for a second.
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  They're not gonna back down.
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  And Trump knows this.
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  That's why Trump said, I'm not interested in negotiating.
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  Nope.
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  You uh you cease.
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  You stand down, you cease and desist.
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  That's when the war ends.
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  We're gonna cut you to your knees.
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  He knows that there is no negotiating with pure evil.
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  You can't do it.
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  You're insane.
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  You're delusional.
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  If you think you can negotiate with people like the Ayatollah, you're you're delusional.
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  All right, it's not gonna happen.
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  So here's what Peter says about this.
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  This is in 2 Peter chapter 2, and I absolutely love what he says.
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  He says, For God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them into hell and committed them to chains of gloomy darkness to be kept until the judgment.
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  If he did not spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah, a herald of righteousness with seven others when he brought a flood upon the world of the ungodly.
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  If by turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah to ashes, he condemned them to extinction, making them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly.
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  Now, I want to I want to say this because a lot of people are like, oh, see, God is an evil God.
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  If you don't believe in him, he just zaps you dead.
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  This is not what he's talking about when Peter says ungodly, he's not talking about people who merely don't believe in God.
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  That's this is not the case.
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  He's talking about wickedness that is so evil, it's so pure evil that the hearts of the people would never turn.
• 32:15
  You know, read some of the stories in the Old Testament.
• 32:18
  Read some of the stories of what the people in Sodom and Gomorrah were doing.
• 32:22
  You know, people are like, oh, you know, God, God wiped them out because they were there was homosexuality.
• 32:29
  That's not why he wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah.
• 32:33
  Read the stories.
• 32:37
  Read about the Levites' concubine, read that story in the scriptures.
• 32:42
  It's gruesome.
• 32:44
  Absolutely utterly gruesome.
• 32:48
  And then you'll start to get a picture of who the people were that God was dealing with.
• 32:53
  They were pure evil.
• 32:57
  You cannot negotiate with them.
• 32:59
  All right, Peter goes on.
• 33:01
  He says, and if he rescued righteous lot, greatly distressed by the sensual conduct of the wicked.
• 33:08
  For as that righteous man lived among them day after day, he was tormenting his righteous soul over their lawless deeds that he saw and heard.
• 33:18
  It tormented Lot.
• 33:19
  Lot couldn't stand to see the things that he was witnessing.
• 33:22
  It was uh it was trauma.
• 33:25
  It was very traumatic.
• 33:28
  You know, this isn't just people cursing and you know uh doing things that are quote unquote sinful.
• 33:37
  This was pure evil, the kind of stuff that we're seeing under the Iranian regime, that kind of oppression, that kind of evil.
• 33:47
  All right, Peter goes on.
• 33:48
  Then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to keep the unrighteous under punishment until the day of judgment, and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority.
• 34:04
  Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones.
• 34:11
  All right, think about the Ayatollah.
• 34:16
  They're bold and willful, they despise authority.
• 34:19
  They're literally bombing their neighbors, they're shooting missiles into every single neighboring nation.
• 34:30
  Like you can't tell me that that's not bold and willful.
• 34:35
  All right, Peter goes on.
• 34:36
  Whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord, but these talking about the evil people, like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed, blaspheming about matters which they are ignorant, will also be destroyed in their destruction, suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing.
• 35:02
  What a clear picture of what's going on in Iran right now.
• 35:05
  I mean, if ever there's a clear picture, this is it.
• 35:10
  Listen to the next sentence.
• 35:11
  This is chilling.
• 35:13
  They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime.
• 35:19
  They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime.
• 35:24
  They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.
• 35:32
  Did you ever hear?
• 35:33
  Did you hear audio clips of the um you know the statespe from Iran?
• 35:41
  They're like, oh, we we just wanted to negotiate.
• 35:44
  We were minding our own business, and like they're so full of it.
• 35:50
  They revel in the daytime while they feast with you.
• 35:54
  There have been so many fake negotiations with Iran, and quite frankly, our president, President Trump lost patience.
• 36:04
  He understands how evil people think.
• 36:09
  They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime.
• 36:12
  They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions while they feast with you.
• 36:18
  They have eyes full of adultery, insatiable for sin.
• 36:22
  They entice unsteady souls.
• 36:25
  They have hearts trained in greed, accursed children.
• 36:32
  They love gain from wrongdoing.
• 36:35
  Um, listen to how he describes them.
• 36:37
  These are waterless springs and mists driven by a storm.
• 36:42
  For them, the gloom of utter darkness has been reserved.
• 36:48
  All right, he he goes on on and on and on.
• 36:51
  Like he's not done.
• 36:52
  He keeps going on for sentence after sentence after sentence.
• 36:57
  Listen to this.
• 36:58
  For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than to, after knowing it turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.
• 37:07
  What the proverb says has happened to them.
• 37:09
  The dog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.
• 37:17
  Blots and blemishes, pure evil.
• 37:22
  That's who we're dealing with in Iran.
• 37:24
  You can not negotiate with them.
• 37:27
  It's impossible.
• 37:28
  It's literally impossible.
• 37:32
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• 39:08
  What will it take to end the war?
• 39:10
  How do we approach evil?
• 39:12
  As Christians, what do we believe about evil?
• 39:15
  Can we be pacifist?
• 39:16
  Can we negotiate?
• 39:17
  Should we have negotiated with Iran?
• 39:20
  These are all questions that uh I think good Americans have.
• 39:24
  And if we're really rational about this and uh try to understand it and try is the key word.
• 39:30
  You try to understand the full grasp of evil and what evil people are capable of.
• 39:36
  You begin to realize there's a reason why the Iranian people are celebrating America right now.
• 39:43
  There's a reason why 99.9% of Iranians living in the diaspora.
• 39:51
  People who are spread all over because of persecution.
• 39:55
  They're celebrating President Trump.
• 39:57
  They're thanking President Trump.
• 39:59
  They're thanking.
• 40:00
  America.
• 40:03
  They're still praising us in the streets.
• 40:06
  There's a reason for that.
• 40:08
  They've lived under the thumb of evil for 47 years.
• 40:15
  You know, the church is very persecuted in Iran.
• 40:21
  I mean, very persecuted.
• 40:24
  Very interesting fact.
• 40:26
  The church is growing faster in Iran than out of anywhere in the world.
• 40:34
  And it's all underground.
• 40:36
  It's all hidden.
• 40:38
  The Christian church in Iran is 100% underground.
• 40:42
  They have to be.
• 40:54
  But many people are executed simply for professing Christ as their savior.
• 41:03
  You see, Americans, we don't understand that.
• 41:05
  We don't get that because a lot of people, oh, we've lost so many freedoms under Donald Hitler.
• 41:14
  No, we haven't.
• 41:18
  We really haven't.
• 41:21
  We are so incredibly blessed in this nation.
• 41:25
  The very fact that I'm speaking right now without fear of persecution or prosecution means that we live in a free nation.
• 41:37
  And for that, I am eternally grateful.
• 41:44
  Every day I kind of pinch myself, and I'm like, I can't believe we're so blessed here.
• 41:50
  The opportunity to make money, I talk about this all the time, to put your money to work, to invest your money, the market, there's a free market.
• 41:58
  It's literally as easy.
• 42:00
  And man, this is going to be my other soapbox.
• 42:04
  This breaks my heart.
• 42:05
  I talk about so often on the show because it's one of the things that breaks my heart the most.
• 42:10
  It's that we have such ample opportunity to do well, to eliminate debt, to be responsible with our money, to put our money to work, to uh invest in the stock market.
• 42:24
  And I just I mentioned this the other day, that there's a new study that came out, and when you take all the working Americans, age uh adult Americans age 21 to 64, the average among all of working Americans, the average among all working Americans age 21 to 64 that they have in retirement accounts comes to a grand total of 955.
• 42:53
  That is absolutely utterly heartbreaking to me.
• 43:00
  That we we complain and we're like, oh, we have it so hard here, and it's just so terrible, and uh we don't get paid enough, and what an awful country, and there's just no opportunity, and it's an absolute lie.
• 43:15
  It's just that we don't have we don't have discipline in this nation.
• 43:19
  If you don't believe me, look at the health crisis within this nation.
• 43:23
  We're not disciplined in the way we eat or diet or exercise or sleep or invest.
• 43:32
  We're just not a disciplined nation.
• 43:36
  And so we don't really have anybody to blame but ourselves.
• 43:41
  That doesn't make our nation evil.
• 43:43
  It doesn't make it bad, it doesn't make it terrible.
• 43:46
  Heck, it doesn't make the people terrible.
• 43:48
  I believe, I believe in America.
• 43:52
  I believe in Americans.
• 43:56
  I want to see Americans do well.
• 43:58
  I want to see people be wealthy.
• 43:59
  I want to see people be healthy.
• 44:01
  I want to see people do well and to be kind to their neighbors and to bless other people.
• 44:08
  And I believe fully believe that because we're a free nation that's not pure evil, we don't have a pure evil regime, that we have ample opportunity to be blessed.
• 44:26
  I believe it with all my heart.
• 44:27
  I'm I'm living proof of it.
• 44:31
  You know, I have a I have a daughter, a 15-year-old daughter who's starting her own business right now.
• 44:40
  She's in the process of starting her own business mostly on her own, and you wouldn't believe what she's been able to accomplish already.
• 44:50
  And she's partnering financially and otherwise with her younger brother, who's 12 years old.
• 45:00
  It's incredible.
• 45:01
  And like I just step back and support them and applaud them and cheer them on, and they're doing all the heavy lifting.
• 45:11
  It's incredible.
• 45:12
  It's inspiring.
• 45:13
  It's it's really cool.
• 45:14
  But you know, this is what happens when you believe in people.
• 45:19
  When you give people freedom, when you allow them to experiment and uh to play around with ideas, and right now in Iran, it's the polar opposite.
• 45:29
  Everything's controlled, everything is um coerced, even the way they dress.
• 45:37
  Look at look up pictures.
• 45:39
  I'm telling you, it's so incredible.
• 45:40
  When you look at how women were able to dress in the 1970s in Iran.
• 45:50
  It looked like America.
• 45:54
  It looked identical.
• 45:57
  People were happy that's the you know, women on beaches and wearing bikinis and you know, living their best life.
• 46:07
  They were free.
• 46:10
  And then something happened.
• 46:14
  And then they weren't.
• 46:17
  Not only were they not free and are not free, but the regime is so full of hatred and evil and wickedness.
• 46:29
  Chanting death to America, they've been chanting that for for decades.
• 46:33
  Death to America, saying we are gonna find the opportune time.
• 46:40
  And I believe it.
• 46:41
  Wholeheartedly, I believe it because I understand how evil people think.
• 46:46
  I wrote about it in my first book.
• 46:49
  You know, the whole the whole premise of my memoir is talking about how evil people think and how as Christians, how we counter evil people.
• 47:00
  We've got to manipulate evil people.
• 47:04
  I never talk about negotiating with them.
• 47:06
  I talk about manipulating them.
• 47:10
  And the scriptures, I think, are very clear that that's what we have to do.
• 47:16
  You either manipulate them or you eliminate them, and uh, I'm not one to eliminate people.
• 47:21
  That's for one, it's a crime.
• 47:25
  For two, it's just I just it's it's not our place as Christians.
• 47:34
  You know, we can't negotiate with people, so what do we do when people are evil?
• 47:39
  Well, we do the best that we can in a moral and ethical way, and we manipulate them to get them to stand down.
• 47:48
  We resist them, and we do that through manipulation.
• 47:53
  But anyway, you can, if you're interested, you can read more about that, uh, because I go into great detail about how we do that.
• 48:02
  But I want to look, there are a couple articles, and I thought I was gonna have more time to go into it, but um, I'm just gonna I'm gonna link to them in the show notes here, but one of them is understanding war.org.
• 48:14
  And uh this is excellent because uh the title of this is and it just was published on March 15th.
• 48:20
  The war in Iran, operational progress but challenges remain.
• 48:24
  And it does a really, really good job of explaining how we've crippled them and what our techniques are, and you know, the U.S.
• 48:34
  and Israel and what it's gonna take to actually finish this off.
• 48:41
  Uh, I'll read a couple sentences here.
• 48:43
  Iran's military weakness relative to the United States led it to adopt an asymmetric strategy against Washington that seeks to outlast Washington rather than to militarily defeat it outright.
• 48:57
  And that's absolutely true.
• 49:00
  The regime is already said, our goal is to get oil to 200 a barrel to create so much pain on the entire world globally that everybody's calling Washington, D.C.
• 49:15
  saying you have to end the war.
• 49:19
  That's that's their strategy.
• 49:23
  It says the various lines of effort that uh comprise this strategy have changed over the years, but during this war, Iran has relied on the five key efforts outlined above.
• 49:33
  Iran has likely calculated that if these five prongs cause U.S.
• 49:36
  casualties, drive up oil prices, and impose economic cost on both the U.S.
• 49:42
  and its Gulf allies, the United States and Israel would make a political decision to end the war without achieving their objectives.
• 49:50
  Again, this is how evil people think.
• 49:54
  They have zero interest in negotiating, and therefore the president, our president, President Trump has.
• 50:00
  Zero interest in negotiating.
• 50:02
  You can not negotiate.
• 50:03
  Peter talks about it in Second Peter too.
• 50:06
  I just read that.
• 50:09
  There is no negotiating with evil people.
• 50:12
  So what do you do?
• 50:14
  You cripple them and you take their weapons away.
• 50:19
  And that's exactly President Trump's strategy.
• 50:22
  And you know, it's interesting reading stories from the left because they're like, President Trump has no strategy.
• 50:29
  CNN, here's a CNN article.
• 50:32
  It's all about just ripping Trump and like he has no strategy.
• 50:36
  Here's the title of the article.
• 50:38
  Um Trump has already won the Iran war, why does he need foreign ships to help him end it?
• 50:49
  A week ago, President Trump told Britain not to bother sending ships to the Middle East because he'd already won the Iran war.
• 50:58
  Now he's calling on America's special relationship ally, fellow NATO states, even China, to dispatch vessels to open the Strait of Hormuz.
• 51:09
  He implied that if he uh if help didn't arrive, Europe's U.S.
• 51:12
  defense umbrella and his planned stomach this month with Chinese leader Xi Jinping could be at risk.
• 51:21
  But then it goes on, and it's you know, basically saying he started this war and has no strategy whatsoever.
• 51:31
  Um kind of interesting.
• 51:37
  He has a strategy.
• 51:40
  And if you look at the strikes, it's it's absolutely ridiculous to say that there's been no strategy, that this is just kind of a willy-nilly, you know, he's just um hitting random targets and and uh has no idea what he's doing, and so they're painting him as this bumbling buffoon, and I see a very different story.
• 52:02
  And based on some of the intel, based on some things that Fetter uh uh Fetterman is saying, yeah, he said I attend these briefings every single day.
• 52:12
  I see exactly what we're doing.
• 52:18
  That's very strategic.
• 52:20
  Now, whether we're successful, uh, fully successful or not, that's time will tell.
• 52:25
  I am no judge of that.
• 52:28
  But I'm just making the point that I don't see many options.
• 52:34
  We do not ever want Iran to have nuclear weapons.
• 52:43
  Ever.
• 52:47
  I mean, you start a nuclear war, uh, it's it could be the end of the earth as we know it.
• 52:57
  And they're crazy enough, they're evil enough, they would do it.
• 53:02
  And it's an absolute mistake to underestimate what they're capable of.
• 53:07
  And President Trump, you know, he he made this point repeatedly, and I agree, I agree with with this point.
• 53:15
  He said, look at what all they threw at us.
• 53:20
  Look at everything that they threw at us.
• 53:24
  Look at all the missiles, just tens of thousands of missiles.
• 53:31
  You know, they they had uh just massive amounts of airplanes, ships, you name it.
• 53:38
  He said they they were very capable.
• 53:43
  Can you imagine if they had gone through and we allowed them to secretly make atomic bombs?
• 53:52
  You know, nuclear weapons, and then we tried to go in once we knew that the weapons were complete, and then we tried to go in and and uh do it as they're building their their army and they're building their their missile reserves and all their drones.
• 54:07
  Look at what their drones have been capable of.
• 54:09
  I mean, they're very capable.
• 54:12
  Iran, at least they were, they were very capable.
• 54:19
  And so President Trump said we we had to act and we had to do it now.
• 54:26
  Yeah, I it's what's the option?
• 54:29
  And other people, it's like people on the left just screaming with their blue hair, you know, throwing themselves down in the streets.
• 54:38
  Like, why didn't we negotiate?
• 54:41
  We've been negotiating for 47 years, and look what it's gotten us.
• 54:47
  You have to understand how evil people operate.
• 54:52
  And the Bible is very clear.
• 54:54
  They do not stop, they will not stop, they revel in the daytime.
• 54:58
  That's what pure evil is.
• 55:00
  And so back to Pastor Jeff Crippin's article.
• 55:04
  I agree wholeheartedly.
• 55:06
  When evil goes unchallenged, it accelerates, it takes off, we empower evil, uh, we stand behind evil.
• 55:15
  Uh, we may as well just applaud it and and uh, you know, we can't come back and say, well, we didn't know any better.
• 55:24
  Then you better figure it out.
• 55:26
  If you don't know any better, you better you better study evil, study evil people, read history, and learn what triggers them and learn how we've stopped them.
• 55:41
  Historically, war has been the only way to stop people for the most part.
• 55:48
  There are exceptions to every rule, I get it.
• 55:53
  But for the most part, when you have people chanting death to America, and they they they train people and uh they brainwash people, they coerce people, they line people up and execute innocent people.
• 56:10
  When you have a regime that's that evil, they need to be stopped.
• 56:16
  And that, my friends, is the hidden lightness.
• 56:18
  Uh, my prayer is that they are stopped in their tracks, that these evil people are removed.
• 56:25
  Uh, as far as I'm concerned, they can be removed from the planet because they're not gonna change.
• 56:33
  So uh when will the war end?
• 56:36
  We don't know.
• 56:37
  Prayerfully, very soon.
• 56:40
  But it's gotta be swift and it's gotta be harsh.
• 56:43
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• 56:50
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• 56:51
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• 56:54
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• 57:01
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