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S6 236. A.C.D - Dr. Alex McFarland - Transgender Delusion - Time to Wake up America · Millennial Mustard Seed

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Hello folks, this is Princess. You are listening to the
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I think that what we're doing right now is a great benefit and
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virtue because it's an end around between this whole
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corrupt informational system, media system.
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We claim to believe in a God who spoke the universe into
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existence and literally raised himself from the dead, and yet
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we are not going to believe that anything else exists in the
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spirit realm, even though his word tells us that they do.
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Their bodies weren't permitted to go to sleep like humans do,
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and they weren't permitted to go to heaven, so they wander the
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earth. You know, I've seen the eyes
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Then people start to get weapons, they start to get
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armor, they start to build cities, they start to fortify
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their cities. Now God looks down and there's
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violence everywhere. The battle, this war that we are
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at is not against each other. It's against these
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principalities and these rulers and these archons in the high
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places. It's really worthwhile to read
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the Bible yourself. Fear is one of the primary
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drivers of mind control because we have to take every thought
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captive and resist fear. You're going to have a testimony
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that is a justice case against the Kingdom of darkness.
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Welcome back to the MMS. I'm Rod Smith, Music your
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creator and producer and part time host of the Millennial
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Mustard Seed podcast. Aaron Christian Davis hosts this
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interview with Doctor Alex McFarlane.
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The transgender delusion has gone on long enough.
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Doctor Alex and Aaron get into a bunch of fascinating topics
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about transgender delusion, and it's time for America to wake up
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now. Doctor Alex McFarlane is a youth
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culture and religion expert. Doctor Alex McFarlane is an
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interesting character. He's authored over 20 books,
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including a newly released 100 Bible Questions and Answers for
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Families. The 21 Toughest Questions for
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Your Kids That They Will Ask About Christianity and.
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This was published by Focus on the Family.
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He redirects biblical worldview and teaches in schools of
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practical government for the cherished Bible college located
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in woodland parks, Colorado. Doctor Alex McFarland is a
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frequent guest on Fox News and has been interviewed by many
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other media outlets, including fox and friends.
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Focus on the Family, NPR, All Things Considered, The New York
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Times and The Washington Post, BBCCBN.
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He's a contributor writer in print and electronic media,
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including LA Times, Boston Herald, celebrity News magazine,
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Christianity Today, Charisma on Mission, Billy Graham's Decision
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Magazine and more. What's interesting is I have no
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affiliation with any of these companies, but how I got
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connected with Doctor Alex McFarlane is quite interesting
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and I chose Aaron to do this interview.
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I think he has the personality and he asks the right questions,
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which you guys will see as soon as we get into this episode.
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But what we're doing here is exploring the reality of what
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God said according to genders. I have a lot of production to do
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these days, but Rod is super busy.
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This World by BHB, which is the anthem this year for the
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podcast, and my newest song called See Me Through, so
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hopefully you guys enjoy that. That was written in a hard
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It is just the right thing to do to help us find more people that
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Let's. Go.
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Welcome back to another episode of the Millennial Mustard Seed.
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I am your host, Aaron Christian Davis.
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I have the honor and the pleasure to be joined by Alex
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McFarland. Alex McFarland is a Christian
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apologist, author, religion and culture analyst, and advocate
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for biblical truth. He's wrote over 20 books, he's
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the Co host of Truth and Liberty TV broadcast and also exploring
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the word and he can also be found on the River FM for
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anybody that listens to old school radio.
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Well, first of all, Aaron, thanks for having me on.
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It's a great honor. And man, I love the title, The
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Millennial Mustard Seed. That's that's a cool title.
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And just thanks for spending some time today.
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You know, before we started recording, you and I were just
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talking and man, I feel like you're an old friend already.
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So thanks for thanks for being with me, brother.
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I completely agree and the honor is mine.
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I know this is going to sound like an old person, but every
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day is a gift. I mean it really is.
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And we can do things that that count for eternity.
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And one of my favorite Bible verses and I got saved when I
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was 21. I was in college long time ago,
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35 years ago. But First Corinthians 1558 says
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be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the
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Lord for your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
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Isn't that awesome? I mean, whatever we do for
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Jesus, I mean, it really matters.
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It is not in vain. It's very crucial and you know,
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life is not perfect. There's challenges, you know,
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but God is faithful. And I would just say to
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everybody that hears this, if you've never trusted Christ,
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Jesus is as close by as a prayer and the Lord loves you so much.
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I I don't even have a vocabulary adequate to convey how much
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Jesus loves you and what all Jesus will do for you and he he
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died to Paris in debt. If you turn to Christ and said,
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dear Jesus, please forgive my sins.
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Dear Jesus, please save me. I want to follow you from this
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moment forward. He has promised to receive you.
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He will receive you. The greatest, the greatest thing
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ever is to put your faith in Christ.
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I know you know that you and I are fellowshipping around the
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things of God this this morning, but everybody listening, I would
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say give your life to Jesus. It's the greatest thing you'll
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ever experience. Yeah, I I remember having a
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conversation with Rob not that long ago, maybe a few months
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ago, and just feeling convicted about not doing enough for the
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Kingdom. I don't think you have that
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problem. You, you're kind of everywhere.
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I mean, like you've been a contributor on Fox News, NP, Rs,
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All Things Considered, New York Times, Washington Post, and to
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top it off, Billy Graham's Decision magazine.
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Much more than that. Those are just some of the, the,
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the things that you know, I, I kind of jotted down, but what
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inspires you? Jesus is the most real thing in
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my life. It's it's funny, Aaron and and I
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want to say to everybody listening, God is calling you
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every human being in this world and and many, many listening are
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saved. I'm sure you have a huge
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listener base of people that are Christians already, no doubt,
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and they're probably some listeners that are not sure.
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Maybe you're kind of kicking the tires and like what what is this
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Christianity? Is this really real?
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It really is true. It's funny, Aaron, when I was a
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little kid and and I had to be younger than six because we
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moved when I was 5 and I turned 6 at this new house.
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So IA lot of my early early childhood.
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I remember we moved and it was before we moved.
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So one day I was lying in the front yard on a summer day
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looking up at the sky. And it was one of those days
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where it was a sunny day, but yet you could see the moon.
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You ever seen that? Like it's weird, you can see the
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moon even though it's daytime. You ever seen that?
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And, and I was a little kid. This is going to sound weird,
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but I think this might have been my first awareness of God and it
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had to be the Holy Spirit. But I'm lying in the yard, I'm
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looking up at the sky and you could see the moon.
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And this thought went through my head.
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I was like, what if the moon fell on us?
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I hope the moon doesn't fall down on us.
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And and I thought, it's not going to do that because God is
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holding it there. And I have no idea how in the
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world I thought that, but I was on a sunny day, you could see
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the moon even though it was daytime.
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And I thought it's, it's not going to drop down and fall on
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us because God is holding it. And, and I, I've thought back on
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that and I don't know what prompted me to think that, but
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to my recollection, that's like the first time I thought about
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God, that God, God was holding the moon in place right then,
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you know, growing up, I have an older sister and we like kids do
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we would fight and stuff. But like, if I was mean to my
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sister, I felt bad about it. And I, I realized I had a
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conscience. And I remember as a kid, I was
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like struggling. I would know the right, but I
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would want to do the wrong. My mother would say, don't spoil
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your supper. Don't, don't go in that kitchen
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and eat some cookies before supper.
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And I might disobey my mom, but I felt bad about it.
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That conscience, that awareness of right versus wrong.
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You know, the apostle Paul writes about this in the book of
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Romans, in Romans Chapter 7, The Apostle Paul, he's like that
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thing I don't want to do, I do. And that thing I do want to do,
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I don't do. Oh, wretched man that I am.
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And I think every one of us probably can relate to the fact
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that there there's there's a an arm wrestling match between good
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and evil, right versus wrong. Growing up, I had a very keen
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sense that that I was a Sinner. You know, at 21 when I got
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saved, I was going to this, I started going to a Bible study
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when I was in college and I heard the gospel.
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And anyway, I went to the the man that led the Bible study and
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and I said, I'm afraid I'm not saved.
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I'm afraid if I died, I would go to hell.
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And he shared the gospel with me.
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And Romans 323 says all have sinned and come short of the
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glory of God. And he asked me, he said, do you
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do you admit that you're a Sinner?
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I was like, Oh yeah, I mean, you didn't have to twist my arm.
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I knew I was a Sinner and I wanted to be forgiven.
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And Aaron, knowing the Lord Jesus, that the Son of God, the
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perfect sinless virgin, born righteous, the Son of God died
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on the cross and the wrath that I deserved from my sin, that
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Jesus suffered and endured that pain and that punishment for me.
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And by putting my faith in Christ, I am forgiven.
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I'm delivered from the punishment that I really did
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deserve. It changes your life forever.
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And it doesn't matter what you've done.
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Jesus still loves you. And whatever has been done to
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you, if you've been wounded, Jesus will heal you.
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Nothing else matters. I mean, there's money, career,
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all this stuff. We do the bucket list and and I
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understand that, but if you don't have Jesus, you don't have
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anything. If you do have Jesus, you've got
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it all. The banner over our men's group
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and also Millennial mustard seed is Never underestimate the power
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of love because it defeats all. Yeah, but also, you talk about
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wrestling matches. The word says that we wrestle
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not against flesh and blood, but principalities and powers.
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I think that would be a good transition into one of the
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topics that we're going to discuss, which is America's
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transgender delusion. So are we fighting against these
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people, high places in government, people that
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obviously are under a strong delusion, or do you think it's
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something deeper than that based on the work?
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I actually think transgenderism is demonic.
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I I really do, because I mean, you think about this.
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It's one thing to say, God, you can't tell me how to behave.
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The Bible says thou shalt not steal, but people steal stuff.
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The Bible says thou shalt not lie, but people tell lies.
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It it's one thing to say, God, you can't tell me how to behave,
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but transgenderism says, God, you can't even define who I am
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or what I am. God, you have no claim on my
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life whatsoever. That's really the posture, the
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attitude, and and that is demonic.
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The Bible is very clear. Human biology is very clear.
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On our radio show, I interviewed A molecular geneticist from Ohio
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State University. Her name was Doctor Georgia
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Purdum, PURDOME APHD. She's been published in medical
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journals, scientific journals, A bonafide true scientist, a
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molecular geneticist and I quote, she said there are two
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genders. There are male and female.
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Female is XX chromosome male XY, no Y, no guy.
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Now here's the thing. I've I've been at universities
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to speak and do Q&A and I'll say, look there, there is only
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male and female. Literally I've had people scream
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at me at universities during Q&A and it doesn't bother me.
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I mean, I'm I'm there to speak truth and they're like male and
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female binary. You can't impose your religion
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on us. Look, the the idea that there
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are males and females, that's not religion.
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That's just reality. You, you use the word delusion,
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and delusion is to resolutely, doggedly, adamantly believe that
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that which is false. That's a delusion.
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We are in a world that is under psychological, emotional, and
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yes, spiritual delusion. Satan has deceived so many
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people. Here's the devil's MO.
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Satan wants people to die without Jesus.
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I was on AQ and a show and somebody said don't gaze and
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transgender have the right not to be hated by Christians.
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First of all, I I want to say look true Christians don't hate
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anybody. I I don't I don't hate anybody.
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I I actually love people. I love people enough to tell the
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truth. Augustine, he was a great
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Christian thinker 1600 years ago, Augustine, brilliant guy.
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He said love is to seek the highest good of another.
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So to truly love somebody and to seek the good, to seek their
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welfare and their benefit is to tell the truth.
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And so Aaron, there's so many people.
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We don't hate anybody. We're not against anybody, but
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I, I am broken hearted when I see people, their, their mind,
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their body and even their soul is destroyed by believing that
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which is false. So yeah, this thing of telling
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the truth in the modern world, it can get kind of exciting
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because some people will love you for telling the truth and
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other people will give you the middle finger.
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And I've seen both. Absolutely.
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I do you think that we're like maybe perhaps programmed to
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obviously you know what we're created in the image of God.
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So we are literally pre programmed to love truth and
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hate lies. So this has nothing to do with
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hating anybody that's transgender, But is it OK for us
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to hate the lie of transgenderism and do something
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about it and do it out of love and truth?
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I, I think absolutely, absolutely.
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And, and we've got to understand that human beings are made in
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the image of God. You know, Matthew 25 talks about
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like if we visit somebody that is in prison or if we feed
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somebody that's hungry, and Jesus said if we give a, a cup
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of cold water in his name, it's like we've done it for him.
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So to every fellow human being, you know, we love you.
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And this is the beautiful thing. You know, even George
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Washington, America's first president, he, he wrote a little
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booklet for soldiers in the Continental Army during the
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Revolutionary War period. It was a a neat little book.
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Called on manners and civility, Manners and civility.
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And you know The funny thing, a lot of people don't know this.
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I, I interviewed a George Washington scholar.
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She, she wrote a book called The Faith of our Founding Father.
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And I'm trying to think of her name.
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It was like Susan Janelle or something like that.
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But anyway, she said that Washington, let's say the
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soldiers in the Continental Army, if they would curse at
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each other and use profanity, that he would find them, like
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they would have to pay a little fine.
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And George Washington was really big on respect and kindness
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because here's what he said. When I honor you, I'm honoring
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the one whose image you bear. See, we're made in God's image.
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And Jesus said when I give a cup of cold water to the least of
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these, it's as if you've done it for me, right?
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And George Washington understood that.
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So here's the deal. We hate lies.
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We hate falsehood, sin and darkness because that destroys
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people. But but we love our fellow human
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beings. And I mean, look, I've been
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around the block a little bit and people will say, well, you
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know, you're, you're homophobic. You, you, you're afraid of what
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you don't understand. No, I'm not afraid of anything
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or anybody. I, I fear God.
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I reverence and fear God. And then they'll say, well,
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you're being hateful, not being hateful, just like, yeah, I,
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when I was in college, I was 21 years old, partying, doing,
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doing all the, the stuff that lost college kids do.
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And I was just very thankful that people cared enough about
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me to, to they say, Alex, you're on the wrong path.
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Alex, you, you need Christ in your life.
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So we we actually, the fact that we tell unpopular truths, it's
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not hateful. It's actually love, really.
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I completely agree. You know, I'm sure you've
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followed people like Charlie Kirk where he goes to, you know,
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college campuses all across America, as you know, he would
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say that way we don't have to. But you know, just watching some
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of the videos and some of the context, a lot of those
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discussions, you know, again, what is a woman, you know, very,
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very just biblical, I don't know, pretty concrete things
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that really shouldn't even have like a discussion or any
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questions about them. Don't you think that the people
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that are arguing with him, he's handling himself very, very
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calmly and rationally and backing everything up biblically
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and being very humble, but everybody else is angry and
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projecting anger and hatred onto him.
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Is that not what the enemy does? What the adversary does is
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project lies and we're the ones that are hateful when really
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it's them and that there might be a spirit that's operating in
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them where whether it be the spirit of confusion or, you
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know, delusion or, you know, going against God's word, which
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is be fruitful and multiply. How are we supposed to do that
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if, you know, we're chopping parts off?
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I mean, like it, it gets so deep and dark.
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I can't even believe this is a thing.
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I, I, I think we're all kind of in a status to where it's just
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like, did that really happen? No different than COVID, Like,
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you know, people have COVID brain.
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People forgot that that happened.
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People forget about Lahaina, about, you know, Hurricane
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Helene, you know, about Hollywood burning to the ground.
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I mean, like what what is going on in the world today to where,
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you know, there's so much information that's being
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broadcasted and thrown at us. Do you think maybe the point is
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to literally just over suppress our minds to where we can't
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focus on one topic, that being mainly Jesus and truth?
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Exactly, exactly. And and let me say this, you
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know, for years in media, the term broadcasting was used.
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You know, there was 3/3 networks, CBSNBC and ABC and
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there was NPR. You know, there were four
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channels, right and broadcasting.
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And that's why when you know, like the the six O clock news
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was on TV, there was a guy, a very famous newscaster named
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Walter Cronkite. And you know, he would have
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75,000,000 viewers because there were only three channels.
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Now they don't really use the term broadcasting.
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They use the term narrowcasting because like, I don't know how
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many you know, this, this show you and I are doing, I mean,
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probably, you know, several 1000 people will hear this, right?
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But the, the age of just getting 30 to 50% of all the American
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ears, it's, that's over because we have so many hundreds and
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hundreds of channels. And so in a way, I mean, it's,
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it's, it's OK. The Internet has changed
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everything, you know, I mean, my goodness, you know what?
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My mother was a school teacher, Aaron, And when the Internet
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first came about, she was like, now what is this thing the, the,
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the web? I said, mom, it's like having
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the Library of Congress in your house.
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And, and I'll never forget. And my mother, she, she's in
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heaven. She was a great Christian.
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She taught school for 28 years. I showed her Wikipedia, right?
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And, and she was like, Oh my goodness, you can like, search
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for anything. I was like, yeah, Mom, anything.
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Wikipedia. Isn't it awesome?
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You know, so. But, but you're right, the
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average person, and I just read this stat a few months ago,
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Aaron, in one month you will experience as much information
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as most people did in their entire lifetime 100 years ago.
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I've got a a replica by the way. Do you mind me chasing this
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rabbit a little bit? This information over
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simulation? Go down that hole.
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So there was Sears, SEARS, Sears.
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It's not. It doesn't exist anymore, but it
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was a huge company before there was Amazon, there was Sears,
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right? So I've got a Sears catalog from
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100 years ago. It's a replica.
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It's not like real, but anyway, fascinating.
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And they sold, you know, horse and buggy and saddles and
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shovels and stuff like that. But there was a page of books
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and, and there's the Bible, right?
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And you could from Sears, you could order books.
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And it said every home needs a dozen books.
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And it said your, your family and your children, you need a
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history book, you need a recipe book.
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You need a book on English and grammar, you need a book.
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And so they said, here are the the 12 books we recommend.
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And they said additionally, there's another book and you
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need the Holy Bible. So, and this was a secular
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company. I mean, 100 years ago, it was
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the Amazon of the day, but I was thinking about this, a dozen
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books and you would know all there is to possibly know.
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And now The thing is, we are so inundated, saturated with
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information. And that's not necessarily bad,
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but I just want to challenge everybody to unplug and and read
28:31
this book, the Holy Bible, because in the noise, the the
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noise, the unrelenting tidal wave of data every day, man, we
28:42
are like drowning in data and content and we don't remember
28:47
much of anything. And yet there's that still small
28:51
voice and and I think Satan, he he doesn't care what we do.
28:56
Maybe you could be a, you know, a drunk in the gutter, or you
29:00
could be ACEO of a Fortune 500 company.
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Satan doesn't care as long as you live and die and leave this
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world without Jesus Christ. And so, amidst the noise, come
29:15
back to that simple foundational truth.
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For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
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that whoever believes in him will not perish, but everlasting
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life. You know, a few minutes ago,
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Aaron, you mentioned Ephesians. Ephesians chapter 6, verse 12
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says we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against
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principalities, powers, against the rulers of the darkness of
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this world, the spiritual wickedness in high places.
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See. Hey, look, Jesus is king, We are
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victorious in Christ, but the devil is man.
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The devil is busy. Frankly, I think because his
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time is short, I think we very likely may be alive when Jesus
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Christ returns. And so folks, it's time to have
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our house in order and to know the Lord, to be living for
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Jesus, to be helping others find Christ.
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Because one of these days, man, there's going to be a trumpet, a
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trumpet blast. Somebody asked me, check this
30:22
out. I was in Salt Lake City, UT to
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preach and I was being interviewed by a local
30:26
newspaper. It was not a Christian paper.
30:28
And the guy, he said, do you, do you literally believe Christ is
30:32
going to return? I said, I literally believe
30:35
Christ is going to return. I, I God, God has a really good
30:40
track record of keeping his promises 100% accuracy.
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And Christ said he is going to return one day.
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And Aaron, you and I, we may be alive when Jesus Christ comes
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back. Amen, with our hand on the plow.
30:57
Yeah, absolutely. So another Bible verse that I
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wanted to bring up, you know, we talked about, you know, the the
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World Wide Web, the Internet. Now we've got AI, you know,
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Daniel 12/4. Now the Bible talks about this.
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So as far as testing the Spirit, it's like, yeah, no, Jesus is
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the word. He's the way, the truth and the
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life and everything that he's ever claimed or prophesied on,
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you know, has and will continue to come to pass.
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But Daniel 12 four says, but thou, O Daniel, shut up the
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words and seal the book until the time of the end.
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Many shall pass by and knowledge shall be multiplied.
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So we live in an age where everybody's talking about end
31:48
times. You know, we've got wars, we've
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got rumors of wars, we've got pestilence, we've got famine.
31:54
You know, we had 2020 happening. You know, that's a different
31:57
conversation. Maybe that was just a test run.
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Who knows, right? But knowledge will multiply.
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So now we literally have these little black boxes that we carry
32:08
around all the time and we can access any information that we
32:12
want to at any given time as long as we have a signal.
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So what would you like to expound upon as far as that
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goes? Are are we experiencing and
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living out literally the the the prophecies of Daniel?
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Yeah, I I absolutely think so. And and let me say this too, and
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this is huge, the rebirth of the nation of Israel.
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You know, like 200 years ago in Europe, there were atheists and
32:39
skeptics like Friedrich Nietzsche was a German atheist
32:44
and there was Voltaire who was a French atheist.
32:49
And one of the things they love to point out, they would say,
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OK, the Bible must be false because the Bible says in the
32:56
Book of Revelation, Israel, this Jerusalem that there is no
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Israel, right? Since March of 70 AD Rome
33:06
destroyed Jerusalem so and the Jewish people were dispersed all
33:11
over the world. How can the Bible be true?
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The atheists would say because in the last days Israel is going
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to do this and that. Well, there is no such thing as
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Israel anymore. Therefore the Bible must be
33:22
false. Fast forward to May 14, 1948,
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and by the way, it's a miracle story.
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Let let me digress. In World War One, Israel, Alma,
33:36
I'm sorry, England almost fell to Germany in World War One.
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In fact, World World War One almost bankrupted Great Britain
33:48
and they didn't have ammunition and Germany was about to take
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over the world. Well, there was a Jewish chemist
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at Oxford named Kaim Weitzman, and he prayed and he found a way
34:04
to synthesize the chemical acetone synthetically, and they
34:09
were able to make the ammunition they needed.
34:13
And Britain successfully survived World War One.
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Well, sometime later. This is fascinating.
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I think it's fascinating. Winston Churchill, Prime
34:24
Minister of Great Britain and Lord Balfour.
34:29
And there is in Trafalgar Square a statue of this British General
34:35
Balfour. They wanted to honor Kaim
34:39
Weitzman and they they knighted him and he said this, He said,
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well if you want to honor me for synthesizing acetone and helping
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save World War One, say Britain, would you help us re establish
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the nation of Israel? Now get this.
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Lord Balfour, his great, his grandfather was a Plymouth
35:08
Brethren preacher and his grandfather had always preached
35:13
that before Christ returns, the nation of Israel would be
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rebuilt. And Balfour said to Churchill,
35:22
we could actually be instruments of God if we help reestablish
35:26
the nation of Israel because my grandfather said Israel will be
35:32
rebuilt one day. This was in the, you know, early
35:36
40s. Well, Churchill said, OK, Great
35:40
Britain owns 5,000,000 acres of land in Uganda.
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We'll give it to the Jewish people.
35:47
And so they met with the man that would ultimately be the
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first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben Gurion.
35:54
If you ever go to Israel, you'll land in Ben Gurion airport.
36:00
Well, David Ben Gurion and Kime Weitzman met with Churchill and
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Balfour and Harry Truman, President Harry Truman and
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Churchill said, hey, we're going to give you 5,000,000 acres in
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Uganda and let's call it the New Jerusalem.
36:18
And Weitzman said no, let's go to Transjordan.
36:23
That's what they called the land of Israel and please help us
36:28
and, and Britain had occupation there.
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It's got to be the real Jerusalem.
36:35
And they did. Now this is going to blow your
36:37
mind in I believe it was Syria. There was an Islamic man named
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Nadir. NADIR.
36:49
Nowadays it's just like in the news every day that Islamic
36:55
terrorists are killing Jews and they hate Israel.
36:59
But it wasn't always that way. So Nadir heard that they were
37:04
going to reestablish Israel, and he wrote a letter to Ben Gurion
37:09
and Weitzman. And he said, we, the children of
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Ishmael, will sit down again and break bread with the children of
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Isaac. We, our brothers under Abraham,
37:23
we welcome you back to your homeland.
37:26
Well, about a very short time later, I'm I'm it was like 6
37:30
months later after he wrote this letter, Nadir was poisoned and
37:34
died. And presumably it was radical
37:39
Muslims that that killed Nadir for his friendship with Israel.
37:44
But here's my point about your question.
37:47
May 14, 1948, the the Star of David was raised on a flagpole
37:53
in Jerusalem and then President Harry Truman, the First Nation
38:00
on earth. Truman issued this press release
38:04
and it said the United States of America recognizes the nation of
38:08
Israel. And I think one of the reasons
38:12
God has blessed this nation from the colonial days, we have been
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a friend to the Jewish people. And certainly since May 14,
38:20
1948, America, except in some rare occasions like under Obama
38:27
and Biden, in general, we've been a great friend of the
38:31
nation of Israel and the rebirth of the nation of Israel, which
38:35
was 77 years ago, 77 years ago this month.
38:42
Aaron that tells me that the, the time clock of history is
38:48
almost done really. I mean, and again, I would say
38:53
have your house in order. Jesus is coming.
38:56
The Jewish people are in their land.
38:57
I was talking to Dinesh D'souza last night and just brilliant.
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He has 1° from Dartmouth and I think his other degree is maybe
39:06
from Princeton, but 2 Ivy League schools.
39:09
The guy's brilliant, brilliant, brilliant guy.
39:13
And he, he said, you know, we're living in prophetic times.
39:19
And you know, you mentioned the Daniel 12 verse about knowledge
39:23
will increase 10 years ago. Think about 10 years ago there
39:30
for every man, woman, boy and girl on the planet in servers,
39:35
there was 125 terabytes of information.
39:41
Nowadays, I, I don't know that it could even be calculated and
39:45
the, the amount of digital content, I mean, the, the amount
39:49
of data stored in servers is doubling just like every 90
39:54
days. Now, half of it is bunk, you
39:59
know, I mean, there's, there's everything from truth to lunacy.
40:05
That's why I want to, I want to encourage people.
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I'll say this and I'll throw it back to you, Aaron.
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Folks, I know we, we read on screens.
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We're always on screens, right? There's my wife and our dog.
40:15
Yay Angie and Esther. Listen, but you need to buy
40:21
books and I mean book books. I'll tell you why, because books
40:29
are immune to spin. You know, you need to buy the
40:34
Bible, you need to buy good books.
40:37
The other thing I would say this psychologist tell us when we are
40:40
reading a book, the the haptics or the touching the pages,
40:47
they're more neurons or firing. When we read a book, we remember
40:52
more. We have better recall, better
40:56
assimilation. And look, I'm as guilty as
40:59
anybody. I spend hours on the Internet
41:02
researching for all the stuff I did.
41:04
But don't forget books, because look, if the PC thought police
41:11
totally scrub the Internet of Truth our our really only
41:18
recourse is going to be the good old printed page.
41:23
But. Absolutely, yeah.
41:27
And there's definitely something to expand upon as far as that
41:30
goes regarding these phones and the terabytes of information
41:35
we've got, AI literally recording everything that we do.
41:41
I don't know, this is actually like a a very interesting topic.
41:45
We discuss it, you know, kind of behind the scenes every now and
41:47
again, you know, Satan, Lucifer, the dragon will present himself
41:54
as like, you know, the Lord of Light, you know, and he's not
41:58
omniscient or omnipresent. So like, how does he convince so
42:02
many people that he is God? Right?
42:07
Well, maybe it's technology, you know, there's nothing new under
42:11
the sun. So we see all these data centers
42:13
and stuff that are popping up all across the world.
42:15
We have all these cell phones. There's been a push to have a
42:19
cell phone in every single hand of every single human being on
42:23
planet earth. Do you think maybe they're
42:27
storing conversations, emails, text messages?
42:30
So that way, you know, when the tribulation does happen and the
42:35
dragon presents himself is the the Angel of light that he
42:41
tricks people into believing that he's omniscient and
42:46
omnipresent because he's basically been tracking and
42:50
tracing us this entire time. No different than 2000 mules.
42:53
I mean, we saw the technology that was being, you know, was
42:56
able to be used with Dinesh D'souza.
42:59
You know, we had some election shenanigans.
43:01
We'll just leave it at that. You know, God raises up kings
43:05
and sets them down. But 2020 didn't really seem to
43:12
be on the up and up. They did Geo tracking.
43:16
You know, obviously we, we saw a lot of things, you know, that
43:21
just weren't, weren't legit. And then we were stuck with four
43:25
years and praise God, we're in a reprieve.
43:28
But at the same time, you know, you said something very
43:30
profound, you know, get your house in order.
43:33
I mean, Jesus says that he's going to create a home for us, a
43:37
place for us, right? And my father's house, there are
43:39
many mansions. I go to make a place for you.
43:43
If it weren't so, I would not have told you.
43:46
Don't you think that we should be getting our houses in order
43:50
to receive Jesus and prepare for his return?
43:54
Yeah, absolutely. And that that's why it's
43:57
imperative to know the word of God so that we won't be deceived
44:04
in in a minute. I want to reference Revelation
44:06
chapter 13. But you, you know, everything
44:12
for a Christian is stewardship. You know, the Bible says,
44:16
moreover, it is required of a steward that he be found
44:20
faithful. And you know, The thing is,
44:22
Aaron, you know, really we, we don't really own anything.
44:26
God entrusts stuff to us. God entrusts us with life.
44:31
You know, praise the Lord, we're alive.
44:33
God has and and you know, we didn't have to exist.
44:37
God didn't have to make us. I mean, the world could have
44:40
been just fine really without me or any of us.
44:45
And yet God Almighty said, I'm going to give you life.
44:49
That's really a great gift. And then our time is a gift and
44:55
money is entrusted to us. We're to be faithful stewards,
44:59
right? But one of the areas of
45:00
stewardship is what I call the life of the mind really.
45:05
And I think we're to be lifelong learners.
45:07
And you know, I know we we all, you know, we have downtime.
45:11
We just veg out, maybe, you know, watch TV or something like
45:14
that. But really, I think of all
45:18
people a Christian should be a learner.
45:21
And 1st Corinthians 619 and 20 says that we are not our own.
45:27
We're bought with a price. So Jesus made us, and Jesus
45:31
redeemed us. And the most precious commodity
45:35
in the universe, the blood of Christ, was shed for our
45:38
redemption. The Bible Paul talked about, he
45:42
was sold under sin. In other words, enslaved, bound,
45:48
chained, and Jesus with his own blood.
45:51
The price of redemption set us free, right?
45:55
So we got to remember we're stewards.
45:57
Now here are the areas of stewardship.
46:00
And this is not original with me.
46:01
It's I heard it somewhere. Time, talent, treasure,
46:04
testimony. We all have 168 hours in a week.
46:08
We all have some talents, some skills and abilities, and then
46:12
we all have some money. Some have more than others, but
46:16
we have some treasure. But we also have our influence.
46:20
And we're to be a good steward of these things, right?
46:23
And I think one of the big areas of stewardship that I just want
46:27
to challenge all my fellow believers is, is to be a learner
46:32
that way. Because, look, when the
46:34
deceptions come along, we are not deceived.
46:38
And the best way that you can learn and to have discernment
46:44
and truth is to know the word of God.
46:48
Aaron, a lot of places I go, people say, man, you sure do
46:51
quote a lot of Bible verses. Well, yeah, because I mean, the
46:55
the Scripture is to the Christian what nutrition is to
47:01
the body. An athlete has to have exercise
47:06
in nutrition. Well, that's what the word of
47:09
God is to the believer. And if, if you're a Christian
47:13
and, and you're not in the word and you don't know the Bible,
47:18
you can be saved and be biblically ignorant, but you'll
47:22
be like apathy, you know, and you'll be very vulnerable.
47:26
Now, let me, I got to read something here.
47:28
And this is, you know, AI and the Internet and my goodness,
47:32
technology is getting all the more sophisticated.
47:35
And you, we've all seen robots and holograms and, man, there's
47:39
stuff that's just nearly supernatural, OK, The Beast, it
47:46
says in Revelation 1313, the beast does great wonders.
47:52
He makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight
47:56
of men, and deceives them that dwell on the earth by means of
48:00
those miracles which he had the power to do in the sight of the
48:04
beast, saying to them that well on the earth that they should
48:07
make an image to the beast which had the wound by the sword and
48:11
did live. And he gave power of life unto
48:14
the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both
48:17
speak and 'cause as many as would not worship the image of
48:21
the beast to be killed. And here's my point, all right.
48:26
You know, they've, they've talked about trying to control
48:29
the weather from heaven. Seriously, I'm, I'm, I'm kind of
48:33
an Elon Musk fan. I, I in some levels respect Elon
48:37
Musk. I really pray for him.
48:39
I mean, if, if Elon Musk gave his life to Jesus, it would be
48:43
almost like Saul of Tarsus getting saved.
48:46
But there there's talk of trying to put stuff in the sky that
48:51
would control the weather. The Bible says that during the
48:55
tribulation period, the the beast and the image of the beast
49:00
will cause fire to fall from heaven.
49:03
They're the Antichrist is going to fool people into thinking
49:08
he's God. And it says that the beast will
49:12
do great miracles. They're not miracles, but
49:15
they're, they're, they're fraudulent faux miracles.
49:20
Here's what I'm trying to say. Look, so that you won't be
49:24
deceived, believe what God says. Because Aaron, man, I could just
49:31
see that that the image of the beast.
49:34
Imagine you walk up to this statue of the Antichrist and it
49:40
speaks to you. Oh, hello, Alex.
49:43
I've known you your whole life. You were born in Greensboro, NC.
49:48
You, you know, I mean all of your digital footprints, your
49:54
life history is on servers everywhere.
49:58
So people who don't know the true and living God, people who
50:03
don't know God's truth, I could easily see how people would be
50:08
deceived. Couldn't, couldn't you?
50:11
I mean, the, the, the AI false God could deceive people and
50:18
people go, OK, sure, I'll worship you folks.
50:23
Have your house in order. Yes, and the Word, I, I love
50:29
what you said. Having an actual Bible, a
50:33
tangible Bible that you can read and get used to, that is your
50:37
weapon. It's a double edged sword.
50:39
It's the only thing that passes the test of time.
50:42
Everything will perish. The earth and the heavens will
50:46
pass away, but the world, or excuse me, the word, is the only
50:50
thing that that makes it through.
50:53
It never dies. Matthew, 2435.
50:56
Exactly. So, yeah, we are living in a
50:59
time where like, yeah, I mean, we can, Oh my gosh, this is like
51:02
a whole another episode in itself.
51:04
We can talk about geoengineering.
51:06
We can talk about what they're putting in the water.
51:08
We can talk about Project Bluebeam.
51:11
We can talk about all these lying signs and wonders.
51:14
We can talk about drones and all the fantastic displays that
51:18
they're doing. We can talk about the phones and
51:22
tracking and tracing saying and all these things, but I, I, I
51:27
don't want the listeners to be fear based or anything like
51:31
that. So again, we are protected and
51:33
we know, we talk about pocket ROMs, you know, so those that
51:37
are literally led by the Spirit of God that we are protected.
51:41
That's what the word says. So it also talks about, you
51:46
know, the the greatest exodus, so great that the previous
51:50
exodus out of Egypt wouldn't not even be talked about anymore.
51:56
So we're we're definitely in a time that is kind of building
52:01
up. I think we're in the birth pangs
52:02
right now. And you know, Matthew 24, all
52:05
these, you know, signs in the skies, you know, blood moons,
52:09
earthquakes happening in diverse places, pestilence, famine,
52:13
wars, rumors of wars, people just kind of acting crazy,
52:17
right? I mean, like, you step outside
52:19
into the world today and it's just like what is going on with
52:21
people? People are acting nuts.
52:23
It's not logical, it's not rational.
52:26
It, you know, are we thinking critically as Christians?
52:32
You know, like how do we separate, separate ourselves
52:34
from the world, right? Well, get back to the word think
52:37
critically, think logical and rational.
52:40
We're going to get to a point where, like, you can't even
52:42
believe your own eyes. The only way to see what is real
52:47
and what is true is to be led by the Spirit.
52:49
What are your thoughts on that? Yeah, I mean, you know, with
52:53
with AI and they can sample people's voices there.
52:59
There have been some kind of funny humorous things, songs
53:04
like for instance, Elvis, you know, Elvis was an early rock
53:09
and roller and there's some AI generated Elvis things on
53:14
YouTube that are like Elvis doing some rap songs or
53:17
something like that. And I mean, I'm a pretty because
53:22
I'm a musician. I've been playing guitar and
53:24
I've been playing played in church yesterday in the praise
53:28
band. I've, I've got a pretty keen ear
53:32
and I was listening to this AI generated Elvis and I'm like my,
53:38
this sounds like Elvis, but it, but it wasn't, it was AI
53:42
generated. And so anyway, check this out.
53:46
Aaron, this is going to blow your mind.
53:47
I was doing a commercial for one of our conferences we put on and
53:54
I, my producer gave me a, a sheet of copy to read right?
54:00
And the time changed or something like that, I forget.
54:03
Let's say it was 7:00 PM and I said 6:00 PM.
54:08
So they had to fix it. So they, they had just an AI
54:12
generated sentence that I said, but it wasn't me.
54:17
It was computer generated. It sounded just like me.
54:22
So here's the thing, we don't want to be deceived, you know,
54:28
and let me just say one last thing.
54:30
First Corinthians 69 through 13, I'm sorry, 9 through 12, you
54:37
know, it says do not know that the unrighteous will not inherit
54:40
the Kingdom of heaven. Do not be deceived.
54:43
And there's a list of people. Now anybody can be saved.
54:47
And and there's this list fornicators and murderers and
54:51
liars. And it says as such were some of
54:55
you were a past tense verb. So you might have been that way,
54:59
but you're not that way now because you've turned you've
55:02
repented come to Jesus been saved right.
55:05
Well, in the word of God in that grocery list of those that do
55:11
not inherit the Kingdom of heaven is the Greek word
55:15
arsenicoite, which is homosexuals right now can, can
55:21
gay people would be safe. Of course, anybody can be safe.
55:24
Heterosexual promiscuity, homosexual activity, but you've
55:28
got to turn from sin to Christ. So I was on, I got an iPhone
55:34
about a year ago, a new phone and I'm, I'm downloading a Bible
55:38
app and and I was like, this would be cool.
55:41
I can search this Bible app. Well, that verse wasn't in
55:45
there. I look the first Corinthians 69
55:51
it didn't say homosexual. Now all that other fornicators,
55:56
adulterers, liars, murderers, but they had left out the word
56:00
homosexual and you can be sure I quickly deleted that app and did
56:06
a little more searching till I found a Bible app that contained
56:09
the whole word of God. Now here's my point.
56:12
The digital tech overlords think they can edit the Bible.
56:18
That's why. And the I think about this,
56:21
Aaron, somebody who really didn't know the word of God very
56:24
well, they would be very vulnerable to people who just
56:29
edit the Bible as they choose. Yes, I use a lot of technology,
56:34
but we don't want to be deceived by those that edit the Bible as
56:39
they see fit. And by the way, while we're
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talking about the the perfect infallible word of God and we're
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not to tamper with it. Revelation 22 as as God's word
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comes to a conclusion, he says, I testify to every man who hears
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the words of the prophecy of this book.
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If any man shall add to these things, God will add to him the
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plagues written about in this book.
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And if any man shall take away from the words of this prophecy,
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God will take away his part of the tree of life.
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So regarding Scripture, we're not to add to it.
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We're not to subtract from it. And I'm not anti technology, but
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folks, you know, know the word so that if somebody comes along
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trying to change it you, you won't be vulnerable and be
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deceived. So you have a summer camp that's
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coming up. You've been doing it for 25
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years. It's in Virginia.
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You guys are breaking ground. It's going to be in the first
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week of August. Sounds like it's a Bible camp
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for kids. Yeah.
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The the website isequipretreat.org.
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Exactly. Yeah, we actually.
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And then? Yeah.
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We do 7 camps. We're going to be in Montana,
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we're going to be in Iowa, we're going to be in upstate New
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Jersey and the Hudson River Valley.
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Very beautiful. We'll be down in Georgia,
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Temple, GA. But yeah, we're in Virginia this
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summer of 25. For about 2-3 years we've been
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praying about doing a Virginia camp.
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And so we, we scoped out this really beautiful camp called
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Camp Pianka Tank. That's kind of a, a mouthful,
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but it's run by the Virginia Baptist and it's beautiful,
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recently remodeled, there's swimming and hiking and all the
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fun camp stuff. But Aaron, I mean, we, we teach
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the Bible, we have worship, we have Bible study.
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Like last summer, we had about 168 teenagers pray to accept
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Christ and then total will have about 1200 kids in camp.
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And so we are, no matter where you are in America, we're
58:56
somewhere near you folks. And what we do, Aaron, are you
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familiar with apologetics, which is like defending the Christian
59:06
faith? Yeah, I love apologetics.
59:10
And there's, of course, the Bible, history, archaeology, the
59:15
proof of Christianity. So we share the simple gospel,
59:21
get saved, but we also share apologetics and and we say to
59:25
the the kids in their middle school and high school, if the
59:29
ages are middle school through high school, but we say, look,
59:33
we want to equip you before you graduate high school and maybe
59:38
whether you go to college or whether you go into the
59:40
workforce. We don't want you to lose your
59:43
faith. We want to help you understand.
59:46
Here's where the objections are. Here's what you're going to
59:49
hear. And we want to give you a heads
59:51
up on what you're going to hear. But here's the other side of the
59:55
story. Here's why Christianity is true.
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Jesus Christ is reality. The Bible is God's true word.
1:00:05
And mom and dad, lest you think your kid is not interested and
1:00:09
know they really are. I mean.
1:00:12
Last summer when we had several of our kids that were high
1:00:15
school seniors and they've been two and three and four years,
1:00:19
that, I mean, some of the kids were crying.
1:00:20
They're like, I'm, I'm sad I can't come back next year.
1:00:24
And I said, well, we're going to try to start one for college
1:00:26
students too. But the website
1:00:29
isequipretreat.org, my own website is just my name,
1:00:33
alexmcfarland.com. And we've got for for the
1:00:38
grown-ups. We have a speaker series called
1:00:40
Conversations that Matter. I would encourage people to
1:00:43
check out Alex mcfarlane.com/conversations.
1:00:48
And we're bringing we we book well, every major Christian
1:00:53
speaker you've ever heard. It's been our privilege to work
1:00:56
with like people like Lee Strobel and Ravi Zacharias and
1:01:01
Josh McDowell and just we love to book really good speakers.
1:01:05
This summer. I've got Charlie Kirk in an
1:01:09
event and we just had Dinesh. We've got Lauren Green from Fox
1:01:15
News, one really great guy. It's not really apologetics, but
1:01:20
it's fantastic. Gary Chapman, who wrote a book
1:01:23
called The Five Love Languages. I think Gary Chapman has
1:01:27
probably saved more marriages than any author out there.
1:01:30
And we've got Doctor Chapman coming to speak about building a
1:01:34
Christian home. So anyway, my my website
1:01:39
isalexmcfarland.com. And chances are I'm coming soon
1:01:43
to a city near you. Barnes and Noble anywhere has my
1:01:47
book, Amazon.com hearing more and more that like Costco and
1:01:51
Sam's Club and Walgreens has. I wrote a book called the well,
1:01:57
two books on questions because I'm on the radio.
1:02:00
So I wrote 100 Bible questions and answers.
1:02:04
Then I did a second book came out about a year ago called 100
1:02:08
Bible Questions for Families. And the third volume in the 100
1:02:13
questions comes out this fall, 100 Bible Questions on Prophecy
1:02:19
and the End Times. Wow, this is very timely.
1:02:22
Yeah, man, so the the Prophecy book and, and this is published
1:02:27
by a very wonderful publisher called Broad St. publishing the
1:02:30
100 questions books. They're, they're like I say,
1:02:34
every Barnes and Noble, but The Prophecy 1 comes out about
1:02:38
September 15th. And we, we, we spent almost two
1:02:44
years working on this book. And you know, what's really
1:02:46
wild, Aaron, is that so much stuff is going on in the news.
1:02:52
For instance, archaeological discoveries proving King David,
1:02:58
proving things about Israel. The pool of Siloam where Jesus
1:03:05
healed people last summer was excavated and open to the
1:03:08
public. And I actually got to go and see
1:03:12
it before it was open to the public in Jerusalem.
1:03:15
And so we're, we're doing this book on the fulfillment of
1:03:18
prophecies. And we kept having to update it
1:03:21
because there's just so much stuff.
1:03:24
And again, hey, you know, no man knows the day or the hour only.
1:03:30
Only God knows the day. Christ will return, but Jesus
1:03:34
will return. Although we got to be getting
1:03:38
close. I, I think we're, I think you
1:03:42
and I very likely could be alive when Jesus comes back.
1:03:49
Praise God, Yeah. No, no man knows the day or the
1:03:52
hour. But Matthew does say that there
1:03:55
are signs of the times, the zeitgeist, right?
1:04:01
So all we have to do is be, you know?
1:04:05
Be. Really led by the Spirit,
1:04:06
Obviously. Pray for discernment, you know,
1:04:09
ignore all these lying signs and wonders because, you know,
1:04:12
obviously the devil was a theologian, so he knows
1:04:16
Scripture and he's going to try to twist everything.
1:04:18
Everything's inferred. So whether or not he's trying to
1:04:21
mimic prophecy and, you know, obviously he's not led by the
1:04:25
Spirit, we don't know. We just have to continue to be,
1:04:28
you know, good stewards and pray for discernment and just focus
1:04:34
on him and just keep going. I mean, like I said, I don't
1:04:37
feel like I'm doing enough. You definitely are.
1:04:40
I just want to honor you and say like, you know, I'm very, very
1:04:43
proud of everything that you're doing.
1:04:44
I mean, the list is long. You're doing so much and I think
1:04:50
that's just amazing. You're you're doing it, brother.
1:04:54
I've just been around. I'm 61.
1:04:57
I've just been around a while. But the Lord is good, man.
1:05:01
The Lord is good. Hey, I want to say this and, and
1:05:04
forgive me, I've got to go, but yeah, when I was a new believer,
1:05:08
I was 21 years old and I had a, a notebook.
1:05:12
I was just taking notes and journaling, I guess you might
1:05:15
call it. And I came across this the other
1:05:17
day and I wrote this, I was 21 and it had to be from the Holy
1:05:22
Spirit. I'm, I'm not smart enough to
1:05:24
think of this, but I I wrote we are not saved by works, but
1:05:30
everything we do post salvation should be a decades long thank
1:05:36
you note back to Jesus. So we don't work.
1:05:40
Jesus did the work on the cross, but every day we can be working
1:05:45
on that thank you note and make our life a thank you note back
1:05:49
to Jesus. Alex, would you like to end us
1:05:53
in prayer? Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for
1:05:55
this time together. Thank you so much for the the
1:05:58
Millennial Mustard Seed show and Aaron having me on.
1:06:03
And Lord, I just pray for one thing.
1:06:05
We give you glory. Thank you for creating us.
1:06:08
Thank you for loving us. Thank you for the the privilege
1:06:12
of salvation. And Lord, I pray for everybody
1:06:16
watching, or if there's anyone seeing this who has not come to
1:06:21
faith yet, I pray that today they would call out to you and
1:06:25
be born again. And then for every Christian,
1:06:28
Father, cleanse us, fill us, send us, use us.
1:06:33
And like, like it says in the book of Habakkuk, that one day
1:06:36
the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth as the waters
1:06:39
cover the sea. Help us to contribute to that
1:06:43
and let us live each day gratefully for you.
1:06:46
And Lord, one more time we want to say, Jesus, we love you and
1:06:50
thank you for loving us. In Christ's name I pray, Amen.
1:06:53
Amen. I trusted in your word many
1:07:23
troubled nights. All that darkness thought I lost
1:07:26
my sight. The devil shooting shots shutter
1:07:29
in my life, but I'm covered by the blood.
1:07:31
So I'm going to be all right. I'm down one, but I'm up two.
1:07:36
I've been down once. But his Love's true.
1:07:39
I'm seeking his face, feeling the grace.
1:07:41
I'm running this race for eternity.
1:07:43
Space. I need more love, less tears, no
1:07:46
more drugs, less fears. The stress reel, the test it.
1:07:50
I'm washing over everything up in my mind.
1:07:53
Come over. The devil has a feel you out of
1:07:55
time. The truth of life, don't.
1:08:28
Ever leave me, Jesus Christ. I really.
1:08:30
Need you tonight I'm. Like Lord God.
1:08:32
You put it on. My you're moving in and through
1:08:35
me and you're. Erasing all the dark.
1:08:38
You're the way, You're the truth.
1:08:39
You're the lie. Lord God, you said you never
1:08:46
leave me. Lord God, you said you'd always
1:08:49
see me through. You'd always see me through.
1:09:07
Yeah, you justified the sentence Me.
1:09:08
I pray you won't be penalty. Sometimes I ain't remember and
1:09:11
think about the penalty. Desires of the heart.
1:09:14
Brought the gun and called the enmity.
1:09:16
Thought you know the truth here, despite what we pretended to be.
1:09:19
I'm giving you the enemy. This is what it looked like.
1:09:22
And This is why I took Christ. The one we made of cook.
1:09:24
Life. Forgive me for my idle words.
1:09:26
Every word I took life. Sometimes I should have stayed
1:09:29
here. For every step I took life.
1:09:30
My God ain't deserved me. Chastised and mercy.
1:09:33
Baptized and mercy. Yeah, I should have died.
1:09:37
It's like the curses try God, the purses they catch that.
1:09:40
My purpose here I'm still. Alive, thought God, you said you
1:09:44
never leave me. Lord God, you said you'd always
1:09:47
see me through. You'd always see me through.
1:09:54
Lord God, you said you'd never leave me.
1:09:57
Lord God, you said you'd always see me through.
1:10:02
You'd always see me through.