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#691 A Simple Nativity Scene and the War for the Family · Claymore: Become Who You Are

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SPEAKER_00: Merry almost Christmas.
0:02
SPEAKER_00: I hope you're doing well.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope you got your shopping done.
0:05
SPEAKER_00: You know, most of our secular culture, that's what they're doing, right?
0:08
SPEAKER_00: Going shopping.
0:09
SPEAKER_00: And here I am.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm going to be talking to you about some of the evils of the day.
0:12
SPEAKER_00: But the good news is we have that baby coming in in the nativity scene.
0:17
SPEAKER_00: Now, Jesus Christ personally comes into this story to redeem us.
0:21
SPEAKER_00: That's really good news.
0:22
SPEAKER_00: But you see the attack going on, the attack on marriage, the family, especially the child in the womb.
0:29
SPEAKER_00: So hey, I got to bring it up.
0:31
SPEAKER_00: Full disclosure, I don't do much shopping myself, but my wife will be out there too.
0:36
SPEAKER_00: But there's such an urgency to this battle today that I personally sense that I need to share this with you.
0:42
SPEAKER_00: You know, it's it's intense uh this time at Christmas for me, and I sense this because souls are at stake and time is really running short.
0:49
SPEAKER_00: We don't have forever for this.
0:51
SPEAKER_00: Big changes are in store for us at this time.
0:53
SPEAKER_00: We're gonna see some crazy stuff going on toward the end of this year and into 2026.
0:58
SPEAKER_00: We don't know exactly what's gonna happen, but the upheavals around the world are real and they're accelerating.
1:04
SPEAKER_00: And in fact, the nativity scene in the birth of Christ began the end times when Jesus came in.
1:10
SPEAKER_00: Jesus entered human history in real time, and that sense of urgency, right, of this time winding down, we get this, you know, these prophetic messages have been coming to us.
1:19
SPEAKER_00: But it's contrasted with the awe and wonder of the good news of Jesus Christ, his actions in human history.
1:25
SPEAKER_00: And that's what I want to talk about on the show today.
1:28
SPEAKER_00: A simple nativity scene and the war for the family, the war for the human heart.
1:34
SPEAKER_00: I want to start out with Luke 17, just the first two verses.
1:38
SPEAKER_00: Temptations are and sin, temptations to sin are sure to come, but woe by him from whom they come.
1:45
SPEAKER_00: It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea, then he should cause one of these little ones to sin.
1:53
SPEAKER_00: You know, Jesus knew this battle was coming, right?
1:56
SPEAKER_00: It was sin has been around for a long time.
1:58
SPEAKER_00: It's just that the if you really want to see evil, if you really want to see the attack, um watch the trans movement, you know, the LBG, the T of that, and the Q of that, the queering, the total twisting and distorting of of culture of the human heart.
2:15
SPEAKER_00: So I want to start by saying this plainly because many of you need to hear this, and I understand the culture that you guys grew up in.
2:24
SPEAKER_00: You know, you didn't ask for this, you didn't design it, you inherited a world saturated with pornography, broken homes, fatherlessness, confusion about masculinity, lies about sex, and institutions that often mocked faith, marriage, and truth itself.
2:39
SPEAKER_00: Some of those institutions are actually parts of the church, huh?
2:43
SPEAKER_00: We we see the evil coming up.
2:45
SPEAKER_00: That's why there's an urgency to this.
2:47
SPEAKER_00: You see the deep state, the evil being promulgated on us from the our culture and the libraries, the school systems, but also in the church, huh?
2:56
SPEAKER_00: With these appointments with these bishops and stuff.
2:58
SPEAKER_00: So we see it all around us.
2:59
SPEAKER_00: That's why we have Claymore, huh?
3:01
SPEAKER_00: That's the logo behind me, the big sword.
3:03
SPEAKER_00: That's why I put Trump's hat up there.
3:05
SPEAKER_00: Uh Trump uh is not our savior.
3:08
SPEAKER_00: He's not God, he's just a human being, a very flawed human being, actually.
3:12
SPEAKER_00: But there's one thing, he he's he's against all this twisting and distortion.
3:16
SPEAKER_00: He understands the global power grab that we see all around us, that a Biden administration, Kamala Harris, or whoever would be in, if the Democrats controlled uh the the the government, and they could again, you know, even in the midterm elections, they could come back and Trump won't be able to get much done again.
3:34
SPEAKER_00: But we see that you know he's pushing back against these trans ideologies and this globalism, uh the insanity uh that we're going through in our culture.
3:43
SPEAKER_00: And and you know, God uses maybe in Trump's case, you know, he he takes you know a a you know a broken man inside and gives him gives him the wherewithal, the wisdom to be able to come into the story, brokenness and awe, divorced a number of different times, et cetera, and uses him for good.
4:00
SPEAKER_00: You see this throughout history.
4:02
SPEAKER_00: And so again, you guys grow up in this broken culture.
4:06
SPEAKER_00: Um you you might have just got used to it, like so many of your the generations that came before you, maybe even parents, you know, maybe even boomer grandparents for some of you, and they're just sat in that proverbial fro uh pot with that frog and can actually they actually believe that a man could become a woman or vice versa.
4:23
SPEAKER_00: Well, why couldn't they believe that?
4:26
SPEAKER_00: This is uh an uh oppression, huh?
4:28
SPEAKER_00: When when Satan comes into the story and he's all around us, Jesus don't forget he came into the battle to fight Satan, sin and death.
4:35
SPEAKER_00: And so when we take God out, we're defenseless.
4:39
SPEAKER_00: We make these small actions that make us very dark uh in in our hearts.
4:44
SPEAKER_00: We don't see anymore, they don't see the goodness, they get Trump derangement syndrome, and they push back against many of the things that he's trying to do well, including the peace agreements and stuff.
4:54
SPEAKER_00: But there's nothing that sticks out like the attack on children.
4:58
SPEAKER_00: So I want to address that today.
5:00
SPEAKER_00: So what surprises me from so many of the young people that I meet, they feel this restlessness, this anxiety, even depression sometimes.
5:09
SPEAKER_00: And when we tell them, you know, anxiety in a way could be very good because it's it's that cognizant dissidence in your heart that says, you know, my heart tells me, and I look at the culture, my experience of life, and something doesn't add up.
5:23
SPEAKER_00: There's got to be something more.
5:24
SPEAKER_00: And so instead of covering it up with uh medications, uh numbing it with uh with porn and drugs or whatever, you're you're you're coming in to this apostolate, and we're talking about these things, and you go, ooh, there's a battle going on, right?
5:38
SPEAKER_00: So I I called this um podcast today a simple nativity scene and the war on a family for a reason.
5:47
SPEAKER_00: So the nativity stopped me cold one day, very recently.
5:51
SPEAKER_00: While I was walking around my neighborhood, I was just looking at Christmas decorations.
5:55
SPEAKER_00: I love to do that.
5:56
SPEAKER_00: You know, some people are very creative in the way they decorate.
5:59
SPEAKER_00: But a number of them have nativity scenes.
6:01
SPEAKER_00: And don't forget this either, it's so important.
6:04
SPEAKER_00: Just two years ago, you know, people were vandalizing nativity scenes.
6:08
SPEAKER_00: People were mocking people that had nativity scenes out there.
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SPEAKER_00: People were embarrassed to put them out there.
6:14
SPEAKER_00: It's amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: It changed big time.
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SPEAKER_00: Nobody would say Merry Christmas just a couple years ago.
6:20
SPEAKER_00: So I'm walking around, I see a nativity scene there, nothing extravagant.
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SPEAKER_00: Mary, Joseph, a child laying in the straw, a few animals around with some old Christmas lights inside, and it stopped me.
6:32
SPEAKER_00: Because that scene reveals something our culture is trying desperately to erase.
6:37
SPEAKER_00: God chose to enter the world through a family, not through some system that man developed, not through a state program, socialism, Nazism, communism, whatever, fascism, not through a technological utopia that we're going to create for ourselves, you know, not by some illusion, but through a woman and a child through that family, uh, the holy family we call it.
7:01
SPEAKER_00: Every one of you, I don't care if you're single, married, father, future father, was once that child.
7:07
SPEAKER_00: Every one of us was a child.
7:09
SPEAKER_00: We exploded from the union of our moms and dads, huh?
7:11
SPEAKER_00: Kind of hard to imagine, even, right?
7:13
SPEAKER_00: Mom and dad had sex together.
7:15
SPEAKER_00: Um, sometimes you don't even know your mom or dad, or so sometimes they got divorced when you're really young.
7:20
SPEAKER_00: But God knew you.
7:21
SPEAKER_00: He wanted you, he loved you.
7:22
SPEAKER_00: It's very, very important to remember remember this that Jesus came into the story to unite himself with you.
7:28
SPEAKER_00: That's again part of Claymore.
7:29
SPEAKER_00: No matter where we came from, I'm not wearing any other labels.
7:33
SPEAKER_00: I'm wearing Jesus Christ on my sleeve, and that's it.
7:37
SPEAKER_00: You know, everything else comes underneath because I cannot give what I don't have.
7:40
SPEAKER_00: I have to draw from the well first, right?
7:42
SPEAKER_00: So let's get back to the family, though, because this is the easiest way to look at the world and see the real evil that's going on and the beauty of the good news.
7:51
SPEAKER_00: You know, we came into a love story in the very beginning before sin.
7:55
SPEAKER_00: This was a love story.
7:56
SPEAKER_00: It's hard to say it's a love story with all the violence and stuff going on.
8:00
SPEAKER_00: But this is Jesus.
8:01
SPEAKER_00: Remember when he came back after he rose from the dead?
8:05
SPEAKER_00: He came, the apostles were hiding for fear of the Jews.
8:08
SPEAKER_00: They thought they were next.
8:09
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus comes right through the door, right?
8:11
SPEAKER_00: Just the door never opens, comes right through the door.
8:14
SPEAKER_00: First thing he does, go read this.
8:16
SPEAKER_00: Peace be with you.
8:18
SPEAKER_00: My peace I give unto you.
8:19
SPEAKER_00: Peace be with you.
8:21
SPEAKER_00: And it's amazing.
8:22
SPEAKER_00: And then he blew on them.
8:24
SPEAKER_00: Rua, the spirit.
8:25
SPEAKER_00: He gives back the spirit that we had in the beginning that was robbed, twisted, and distorted.
8:30
SPEAKER_00: That's what they try to rob from you, that spirit, that connection to the heart.
8:33
SPEAKER_00: So think about this.
8:34
SPEAKER_00: The family is not a social construct, it's a spiritual reality, a reflection of the inner life of the Trinity itself.
8:41
SPEAKER_00: You've heard me talk about this before, so I'm not going to rehash that.
8:45
SPEAKER_00: But don't forget that the family is a spiritual reality.
8:48
SPEAKER_00: And that's precisely why it's under attack.
8:50
SPEAKER_00: And it has been for many, many years.
8:52
SPEAKER_00: It's just accelerating now.
8:53
SPEAKER_00: This is not by accident.
8:55
SPEAKER_00: The very real spiritual attack, and those that cooperate with Satan, do this, right?
9:02
SPEAKER_00: Think about this: the attack on the innocent and pure.
9:05
SPEAKER_00: Why do they call the innocent and pure?
9:07
SPEAKER_00: Because they're closest to God, right?
9:09
SPEAKER_00: Children.
9:09
SPEAKER_00: That's why I started off, you know, uh with that millstone around their neck.
9:14
SPEAKER_00: Those that rob children of their innocent, obliterate their moral imaginations, you know, try to kill them in the womb.
9:21
SPEAKER_00: But if they get escape the womb, attempt to uh attempt to render them uh infertile, using the language of gender-affirming cure, love and compassion you're gonna hear.
9:30
SPEAKER_00: But make no mistake, Satan is a liar and the father of lies.
9:34
SPEAKER_00: He puts those words right on their lips.
9:36
SPEAKER_00: Whether they understand that or not, this is evil.
9:39
SPEAKER_00: And they're spewing evil.
9:41
SPEAKER_00: I don't care who it is.
9:42
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna play a couple little clips here to make these points in just a few minutes.
9:46
SPEAKER_00: But mutilating the bodies of children is not love or compassion.
9:50
SPEAKER_00: Just remember this because they're twisting and distorting the words.
9:53
SPEAKER_00: This is from Satan.
9:54
SPEAKER_00: The first clip I want to play you is from Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green, who always stood up for marriage and the family and children, and she has been attacked viciously for that.
10:05
SPEAKER_00: Attempts on her life, etc.
10:06
SPEAKER_00: Don't forget Charlie Kirk was assassinated over this.
10:10
SPEAKER_00: This is a brutal battle.
10:11
SPEAKER_00: I felt this in our apostle here at John Paul II Renewal Center.
10:16
SPEAKER_00: Satan is real and he's out there and he's using people to get to us.
10:21
SPEAKER_00: And that's that's the brutal battle Jesus said in this world.
10:24
SPEAKER_00: If you follow me, you'll be persecuted.
10:26
SPEAKER_00: And she has been.
10:27
SPEAKER_00: But anyways, this the clip that I'm going to show you is just before the vote.
10:32
SPEAKER_00: She she brought up a bill to be voted on, and it passed.
10:38
SPEAKER_00: It's amazing that it passed.
10:40
SPEAKER_00: But to protect children, these are young people again, children, against these trans ideologies, against puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, mutilating their bodies.
10:51
SPEAKER_00: And people are protesting and standing up against this.
10:53
SPEAKER_00: You can't make it up.
10:54
SPEAKER_00: Marjorie, unfortunately, after this year going into January is retiring.
11:00
SPEAKER_00: It's too bad.
11:00
SPEAKER_00: You know, I think she just was attacked too much.
11:03
SPEAKER_00: She just got beat up.
11:04
SPEAKER_00: Uh you can only take so much of this stuff, right?
11:06
SPEAKER_00: And to try to live honestly and uprightly.
11:10
SPEAKER_00: And you know, politics is messy, and that's why I always give Trump a lot of credit.
11:14
SPEAKER_00: Uh you you almost have to be a little egotistical and kind of just boom, edgy, to be able to survive and actually get things done against the powers and the evil, and he's doing this all the time.
11:25
SPEAKER_00: So hang on for a second.
11:27
SPEAKER_00: Let me just show you that little clip of Marjorie Taylor Green.
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SPEAKER_03: One of the most serious responsibilities we have as adults, and particularly those of us who are elected and hold power when it comes to legislating and making laws, is to protect children.
11:48
SPEAKER_03: Today the House is delivering on what the American people voted for, the opportunity to vote to end the genital mutilation of children via transgender treatments for children.
12:00
SPEAKER_03: This important bill that I've introduced years ago and finally is getting a vote today will let the House set to vote on this this afternoon will criminalize gender-affirming care on minors, not adults, on minors who have not yet grown up to make adult decisions.
12:19
SPEAKER_03: It will end genital mutilation and chemical castration of children and imprison offenders for up to 10 years.
12:27
SPEAKER_03: This is a direct legislative reflection of President Trump's executive order and every single Republican's campaign promise in 2024.
12:37
SPEAKER_03: It was also one of the top issues across the country.
12:41
SPEAKER_03: Most Americans agree that kids just need to grow up before they do anything radical, like a massectomy on a 15-year-old girl, castrate themselves through surgery, or even take dangerous drugs that have lifelong effects.
12:58
SPEAKER_00: That's something, huh?
13:00
SPEAKER_00: Can you imagine that people are allowing their own children to get their breasts and stuff cut off?
13:09
SPEAKER_00: Just think about that, meditate on that, and just think how lost these people are.
13:13
SPEAKER_00: Okay, the next clip I want to show you, and this is going to be very short.
13:16
SPEAKER_00: I probably should have played a little longer one because it's just so good.
13:19
SPEAKER_00: This is Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill, the 26th Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services, the director for this uh CDC, under Donald Trump.
13:31
SPEAKER_00: So he has a big job, and he comes out on stage, and I'm not going to play the whole thing, but just this little clip where he just comes on stage and he just nails it.
13:39
SPEAKER_00: And um he says, hey, this is a demonic attack.
13:43
SPEAKER_00: This is why I like Trump.
13:44
SPEAKER_00: He brings these people in, they know what's going on, and this is the highest level of government.
13:48
SPEAKER_00: You know, if you look to Europe and and some of these woke Western countries, Australia, Canada, you know, it they they're pushing these ideologies down to us.
13:59
SPEAKER_00: Joe Biden, just remember this, just what, not less than a year ago, had had uh uh Richard Levine, a man who pretended he's a woman, dressed like a woman, was the you know, God bless him, was the ugliest woman.
14:14
SPEAKER_00: Uh, you know, you just hear her all over him, and just you know, here was a guy that was married, and I just want to show the insanity of of this, was married, had three kids, decides he's gonna be a woman.
14:25
SPEAKER_00: You have to have a mental illness anyways, in charge of the nation's health and mental illness.
14:31
SPEAKER_00: You can't make this stuff up.
14:32
SPEAKER_00: But anyways, the even worse, he's pushing all of this radical gender, I uh gender ideologies on kids, and uh actually pushing against what's called talk therapy, where a child would um be struggling with these issues, and and you couldn't go in certain areas of the country and they were claming down more and more and more.
14:51
SPEAKER_00: Licensed therapist, uh psychologist could not help these kids uh be comfortable in their own bodies.
14:58
SPEAKER_00: This this is demonic.
14:59
SPEAKER_00: Don't forget what I'm telling you, it's demonic.
15:01
SPEAKER_00: So let's watch this very short clip from uh Jim O'Neill.
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SPEAKER_01: The denial of fundamental truths can destroy nations from within.
15:11
SPEAKER_01: At the root of the evils we face, such as the blurring of the lines between sexes and radical social agendas, is a hatred for nature as God designed it, and for life as it was meant to be lived.
15:25
SPEAKER_01: This ideology does not just deny biology, it declares war against it.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, what I didn't play you uh is, and if you if you dig that clip up, what I did not play you is he he said just specifically, he just said, hey, let's face it, a man cannot become a woman, a woman cannot become a man.
15:46
SPEAKER_00: God bless him.
15:47
SPEAKER_00: And now these guys won't get the kickbacks, they won't get the big jobs when they leave, right?
15:51
SPEAKER_00: Because you know, everybody is gonna be uh pushing back against them in this crazy culture.
15:56
SPEAKER_00: The last clip then I want to show you is from Democrat uh representative Delilah Ramirez, uh that's just this is from a couple days ago.
16:04
SPEAKER_00: She represents um uh Illinois' third district, which includes parts of Chicago, uh suburbs of Cook, even DuPace County.
16:12
SPEAKER_00: So basically where I grew up, who is attacking them for standing up to protect children, and again, is is calling on.
16:21
SPEAKER_00: I want to listen, I want you to listen to this language.
16:23
SPEAKER_00: Now, here's a fairly young lady.
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SPEAKER_00: How does she get to the point where she believes that a little boy, little boy, can become a girl just because he wishes it in his mind and we're gonna, you know, we're gonna chop off some body parts.
16:36
SPEAKER_00: All you're doing when you chop off body parts is you're a child with without your body parts.
16:42
SPEAKER_00: It's that's all you are.
16:44
SPEAKER_00: Nothing else has changed, you know.
16:46
SPEAKER_00: And and here's the other thing.
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SPEAKER_00: When we talk about gender affirming cure, the the stats show that up to 90 plus percent of these children, if just left alone, will come out of this what they call gender dysphoria, you know, this uncomfortableness with our bodies.
17:03
SPEAKER_00: I never speak to, especially to women, uh, when I ask them about puberty, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 years old.
17:11
SPEAKER_00: You know, who loved puberty?
17:14
SPEAKER_00: Nobody did.
17:15
SPEAKER_00: Nobody understands it.
17:16
SPEAKER_00: Your body's changed and accepted.
17:18
SPEAKER_00: Nobody's comfortable with it.
17:19
SPEAKER_00: Now you get a twisted and distorted, evil, demonic culture with demonic people that are spew this.
17:24
SPEAKER_00: Now, Ramirez, and I want you to think about this too.
17:27
SPEAKER_00: I don't know her.
17:28
SPEAKER_00: I don't know her background.
17:29
SPEAKER_00: Maybe she's not baptized, she has no protection, maybe she grew up in an atheist home.
17:33
SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
17:34
SPEAKER_00: Maybe a very dysfunctional home.
17:35
SPEAKER_00: Maybe she was sexually abused.
17:37
SPEAKER_00: So many of these um people, and I don't know this with her, but so many of the people that are struggling that we work with that are struggling with LBGTQ, IA plus, you know, um these labels, they go on and on and on and on and on.
17:52
SPEAKER_00: And kids make them up as they go now, um because they don't fit into any of these other categories.
17:57
SPEAKER_00: So they figure, wow, if I make up a new one, maybe that'll make me happy, right?
18:01
SPEAKER_00: And then these these people push this.
18:03
SPEAKER_00: But you say, what happened?
18:04
SPEAKER_00: But anyways, my point is so many of them have been sexually abused, you find out.
18:09
SPEAKER_00: Um or you know, growing up in this pornographic culture, you know, they're getting to an age where men start to look at, say, these girls and they're very uncomfortable.
18:18
SPEAKER_00: They don't know what's going on.
18:19
SPEAKER_00: And with this pedophile culture and this pornographic culture, people are hitting on even little girls.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: It's a sick place.
18:25
SPEAKER_00: We all got to stand up and wake up to that, right?
18:28
SPEAKER_00: So uh again, I want to just play you this little clip from here.
18:33
SPEAKER_02: And now they're denied life-saving gender affirming care.
18:37
SPEAKER_02: Since my Republican colleagues seem confused about what love, what care, and what protection looks like, let me be very clear.
18:44
SPEAKER_02: The Protect Children's Innocence Act is not it.
18:48
SPEAKER_02: No one who causes or tolerates the suffering of children can claim to be their protector.
18:54
SPEAKER_02: Love for our children would ensure each of them have every single thing they need to thrive assured to them.
19:00
SPEAKER_02: So I want to urge my colleagues here in the House of Representatives to vote no.
19:05
SPEAKER_02: Let's build a future where our our children, including our transgender little ones, are seen, are loved, and valued.
19:12
SPEAKER_02: And with that, I yield back.
19:18
SPEAKER_00: But sometimes we can get anesthesized to this.
19:21
SPEAKER_00: We we we can we can get down with that frog in the in the proverbial pot, right?
19:25
SPEAKER_00: They turn up the water and it's getting warmer and warmer before we know it.
19:28
SPEAKER_00: We're boiling to death.
19:29
SPEAKER_00: You know, we lose our reason, we lose our intellect.
19:32
SPEAKER_00: Until that baby comes into our life, that Jesus in that nativity scene, until we say yes to him and bring his spirit back in, our reason, our intellect, which should be seeking the truth.
19:43
SPEAKER_00: What is the truth of things?
19:44
SPEAKER_00: What's true?
19:44
SPEAKER_00: What's good, what's beautiful?
19:46
SPEAKER_00: Now we take out the good, we bring in the evil.
19:49
SPEAKER_00: What's good we we we twist it and distort it.
19:52
SPEAKER_00: What's beautiful, we profane it.
19:54
SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, there's no more truth, right?
19:56
SPEAKER_00: Just my truth or your truth.
19:58
SPEAKER_00: We live in a moral relativism.
20:00
SPEAKER_00: And there's no way to live.
20:02
SPEAKER_00: So remember, why Satan, huh?
20:04
SPEAKER_00: Why does Satan do this?
20:06
SPEAKER_00: Why does he come into these people's lives?
20:08
SPEAKER_00: Why does he use them as mouthpieces for his work?
20:11
SPEAKER_00: Because he seeks his own anti-creation.
20:14
SPEAKER_00: Remember, he's a fallen angel, a spirit without a body.
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SPEAKER_00: He has no sex.
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SPEAKER_00: He's not able to co-create new life with God like man and woman.
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SPEAKER_00: That's one of the reasons he is jealous of man.
20:25
SPEAKER_00: And the other thing is he he wants to destroy God, but he can't.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: So he'll go after what?
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SPEAKER_00: The form of marriage and the family in the image and likeness of God, reflecting Trinitarian love in this created world.
20:37
SPEAKER_00: Now he wants to create an anti-creation.
20:40
SPEAKER_00: He is sexless, so he wants to render us sexless.
20:44
SPEAKER_00: He wants to take human sexuality out, twist it and make it sterile.
20:48
SPEAKER_00: You know, this is the foundation for a new life.
20:51
SPEAKER_00: And he wants to ruin that.
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SPEAKER_00: He wants to create his anti-creation.
20:55
SPEAKER_00: Well, this woman, you know, Romeris, has fallen for the lie and the illusion pushed by Satan who seeks to destroy the image and likeness of God in the created world.
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SPEAKER_00: This illusion of gender-affirming care.
21:07
SPEAKER_00: What is gender-affirming care?
21:08
SPEAKER_00: It's this range of social, uh, psychological, behavioral, medical interventions, they say, designed to support and affirm an individual's gender identity, particularly when it differs from their sex assigned at birth.
21:24
SPEAKER_00: This is nuts.
21:25
SPEAKER_00: This is absolutely nuts.
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SPEAKER_00: And you have you have uh WPATH, World Professional Association for Transgender Health pushing this.
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SPEAKER_00: You have the American Academy of Pediatrics, AAP, pushing this kind of stuff.
21:38
SPEAKER_00: You can't make this stuff up.
21:40
SPEAKER_00: These are doctors, educated doctors that go to medical school that that actually believe this.
21:45
SPEAKER_00: And again, I want you to remember this because until you came back into the gospel, you might have gone along with this too.
21:52
SPEAKER_00: Because there's people in my family and around me that just say, Yeah, Jack, well, a man can become a woman.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: No, you can't.
21:57
SPEAKER_00: They said, What do you mean you can't?
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SPEAKER_00: And they actually fall for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Just go, what kind of people are living in this culture today?
22:05
SPEAKER_00: So men and women in this modern culture, what are we told?
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SPEAKER_00: The collapse of marriage is inevitable.
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SPEAKER_00: Nothing we can do about it.
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SPEAKER_00: The sexual chaos, it's progress.
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SPEAKER_00: Children are resilient enough to handle adult confusion, to handle divorce, to handle these gender ideologies.
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SPEAKER_00: No, no, they don't.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a lie.
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SPEAKER_00: We're living through what Sister Lucia of Fatima and wrote to John Paul II and Cardinal Kafara.
22:31
SPEAKER_00: Remember that letter I talked to you about?
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SPEAKER_00: This is a war.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is the last war, the last great spiritual battle between our Lord and Satan is going to be a spiritual war centered over what?
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SPEAKER_00: Marriage and the family.
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SPEAKER_00: And the focus of that, because they're the most pure, innocent, and defenseless, are children.
22:48
SPEAKER_00: When the family falls, everything else falls.
22:51
SPEAKER_00: It all follows.
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SPEAKER_00: Your faith, culture, freedom, even civilization itself.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: Somebody asked me, how can we change this culture and restore the country back to where it was?
23:03
SPEAKER_00: It's going to be very, very difficult now because there's too many people that have thrown God out.
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SPEAKER_00: We're defenseless, really.
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SPEAKER_00: This nation is coming down fast.
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SPEAKER_00: But if you wanted to restore it, you start with restoring marriage in the family.
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SPEAKER_00: You protect children from abortion and from these gender ideologies.
23:19
SPEAKER_00: This is just the basic.
23:20
SPEAKER_00: If we actually did this and connected it with Christ in the church to give us the power and the clarity to do that, it would change the world because you're not doing it on yourself.
23:29
SPEAKER_00: So many of you of you are feeling this personally, like I do.
23:33
SPEAKER_00: Like, wow, you can't allow this to happen to children.
23:37
SPEAKER_00: We want to be faithful, but you're never shown how, were you?
23:40
SPEAKER_00: You want to be strong, but you were taught to numb yourself, pornography, alcohol, et cetera.
23:46
SPEAKER_00: You want meaning, meaning, but you were handed distraction and said, huh?
23:50
SPEAKER_00: Look at this phone, play video games, etc., etc.
23:53
SPEAKER_00: Still, this is the power of this.
23:55
SPEAKER_00: This is what I want you to remember, especially for you young people.
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SPEAKER_00: Something in you resists that.
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SPEAKER_00: Something in you says, I'm searching for something more.
24:04
SPEAKER_00: What is that?
24:04
SPEAKER_00: That's your reason.
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SPEAKER_00: Your reason hasn't been totally twisted and distorted by evil.
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SPEAKER_00: Reason always seeks what?
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SPEAKER_00: Seeks the truth.
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SPEAKER_00: What is the truth of things?
24:14
SPEAKER_00: Can a man really become a woman?
24:15
SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, we're done with that.
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
24:18
SPEAKER_00: You're not weak.
24:20
SPEAKER_00: You are redeemed.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't do anything.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, you can, because God uses all of us.
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SPEAKER_00: If we just take up our cross, do our little share, this is the good news.
24:29
SPEAKER_00: Here's where many men get crushed by the Spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: They look at the church's vision for marriage, chastity, fatherhood, self mastery, and think, that's beautiful, but it's impossible.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't do it.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, you can.
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SPEAKER_00: Saint John Paul II addressed this exact lie in Veritata's splendor.
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SPEAKER_00: Veritata's splendor is an encyclical, he wrote, the splendor of truth, the splendor of truth.
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SPEAKER_00: When we walk into the awe and wonder of the splendor of truth, the awe and wonder of that baby who is the splendor of truth in that nativity scene.
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SPEAKER_00: And he said this.
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SPEAKER_00: It would be a very serious error for all of us to conclude that the church's teaching is essentially only in an ideal, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Something that's an ideal but we'll never get there, according to the so-called concrete possibilities of who I am.
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SPEAKER_00: But he says, What man are we talking about?
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SPEAKER_00: That man that's living in the earthly domain, dominated by lust, or a man redeemed by Christ.
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SPEAKER_00: This is it.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the turning point.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the excitement.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the good news.
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SPEAKER_00: And you can experience this yourself.
25:35
SPEAKER_00: These aren't just words.
25:36
SPEAKER_00: Jesus didn't come for sin management.
25:38
SPEAKER_00: He came with power.
25:40
SPEAKER_00: Christianity does not ask fallen men to save themselves.
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SPEAKER_00: It proclaims that Christ has already redeemed him.
25:48
SPEAKER_00: Grace is not a motivational slogan.
25:51
SPEAKER_00: It's power.
25:52
SPEAKER_00: If the moral life feels impossible, it's not because Christ failed, but because we've forgotten who we are in him, who we are to him, created in love, by love, and for love.
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SPEAKER_00: And Christ takes on a body that comes in to redeem us.
26:06
SPEAKER_00: We have to say yes to be saved, but he already did the act, huh?
26:09
SPEAKER_00: You are not created to drift.
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SPEAKER_00: You're created to fight for truth, for love, for your future family, for your own happiness.
26:18
SPEAKER_00: Why the enemy always targets children?
26:22
SPEAKER_00: Again, Satan has no creative power.
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SPEAKER_00: He cannot make life.
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SPEAKER_00: He can only twist and distort what God created good.
26:29
SPEAKER_00: Try to remember that in your mind.
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SPEAKER_00: This is why the attack always begins with children.
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SPEAKER_00: If you confuse them early, sexualize them when they're young, convince them identity is something you invent, whether that you know, rather than what you receive.
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SPEAKER_00: But Christmas exposes that lie.
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SPEAKER_00: The child in the manger did not come to affirm our confusion.
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SPEAKER_00: He came to heal it.
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SPEAKER_00: He entered history through a family so that families could be restored.
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SPEAKER_00: A man born of a woman.
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
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SPEAKER_00: It's the only way a child can only be born from a woman's womb.
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SPEAKER_00: He can only be fertilized, right?
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SPEAKER_00: He can only be the life, the life force by a man and a woman coming together.
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SPEAKER_00: The man with the seed, the woman with the womb, huh?
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SPEAKER_00: The womb who takes that baby and gives them a place to grow.
27:23
SPEAKER_00: Gosh Almighty, can you imagine that we'll take that baby out and call it a right to murder our children?
27:29
SPEAKER_00: Where are our heads?
27:31
SPEAKER_00: If you're a father or hope to be one day, hear this.
27:33
SPEAKER_00: Your presence matters more than you know.
27:36
SPEAKER_00: You have more power than you think.
27:38
SPEAKER_00: And when you move toward God, when you move toward Jesus Christ, when you say yes to them, you're self-determining who you become, what kind of a man I become.
27:47
SPEAKER_00: Every little step, every time I get in my knees and pray just a little bit, every time I come here with you and share on a podcast, I'm I'm moving toward Christ.
27:55
SPEAKER_00: I'm giving up my heart to Christ.
27:57
SPEAKER_00: I am becoming that person, right?
27:59
SPEAKER_00: You're gonna look back in 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, and you're gonna go, holy cow, I can't believe my eyes were so dark.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: So your faithful, your faithfulness is not invisible.
28:11
SPEAKER_00: You fight for your fight for virtue, right?
28:14
SPEAKER_00: Virtue, you know, those disciplines, those habits to the good, it's not wasted.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: Every time you do that, you become that person.
28:21
SPEAKER_00: You make that little baby step toward it.
28:23
SPEAKER_00: And remember this the battle we're fighting is not against that uh Ramirez and all of these crazy people, including doctors, uh educators who are mutilating children.
28:35
SPEAKER_00: It's it's really not them.
28:37
SPEAKER_00: The powers we're fighting is evil.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: The power, the force of evil is around us.
28:42
SPEAKER_00: That's what we sense.
28:43
SPEAKER_00: That's why we feel anxious, oppressed sometimes.
28:45
SPEAKER_00: We feel this oppression all around us.
28:48
SPEAKER_00: It's an evil power.
28:49
SPEAKER_00: That's why we need to be strong in the Lord.
28:51
SPEAKER_00: This is what St.
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SPEAKER_00: Paul says.
28:52
SPEAKER_00: I'm gonna only read you a part of it, but read all of Ephesians 6, starting at verse 10, and just go on through.
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SPEAKER_00: It's amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: But he says, just in those few verses 10 to 12, be strong in the Lord, for we're not contending against flesh and blood, but against the powers and principalities and rulers of this present darkness.
29:12
SPEAKER_00: Those are ranks of angels, and man along, he wants that power too.
29:17
SPEAKER_00: And he goes in, whether he knows it or not, in the beginning, those little movements away, so you determine yourself, right, either by moving toward God or away from God, and then you determine yourself to become like Satan.
29:30
SPEAKER_00: You're anti-creation.
29:32
SPEAKER_00: This is why what we're seeing in the world, right?
29:34
SPEAKER_00: We've thrown out God, and it's a mess.
29:37
SPEAKER_00: This is not about politics alone.
29:38
SPEAKER_00: Now, I brought up politicians, but this is not really about politics.
29:41
SPEAKER_00: You see it in the church, you see it in the families.
29:44
SPEAKER_00: It's about who your children will belong to.
29:47
SPEAKER_00: Christmas is not sentimental.
29:49
SPEAKER_00: What it is, believe it or not, it's a declaration of war.
29:52
SPEAKER_00: Jesus has entered enemy territory when he came here to unite himself to each one of us.
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SPEAKER_00: It was a it was ruled by the power of Satan.
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SPEAKER_00: Sin and death was inevitable.
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SPEAKER_00: So he came to free us from our default position after the fall, which was sin and death again.
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SPEAKER_00: A body and a soul.
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SPEAKER_00: Without grace, the default position is sin and death.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why you see it around us, people without grace, growing up without grace.
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SPEAKER_00: But Jesus comes in in Revelation 21, 5, behold, I make all things new.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: The world tells you to lower your standards.
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SPEAKER_00: Don't worry about it.
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SPEAKER_00: Christ tells you to rise with him.
30:30
SPEAKER_00: The world tells you to adapt to brokenness, get used to it, normalize it.
30:35
SPEAKER_00: Christ tells you that redemption is real.
30:38
SPEAKER_00: You're not born too late.
30:40
SPEAKER_00: You're not born for any other reason, but God brought you in at this moment because he needs the power of you guys to start to change things around.
30:49
SPEAKER_00: Don't do this alone.
30:50
SPEAKER_00: Always download uh the Claymore battle plan.
30:53
SPEAKER_00: Don't forget the hand the Claymore handbook, the spiritual warfare handbook, has been written.
30:58
SPEAKER_00: Now it's got to just get edited and laid out, and we'll get it to the publisher as soon as we can, and hopefully we have it for you early next year so you can you can start to share this with one another.
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SPEAKER_00: In the nativity scene, the Savior has been born, a man born of a woman again.
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SPEAKER_00: He's taken on human form, body and a soul, united it with his divinity in his body, soul, blood, and divinity.
31:20
SPEAKER_00: And in a sense, he's united all of our humanity when he came into the world.
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SPEAKER_00: My humanity, your humanity.
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SPEAKER_00: And he unites it to divinity, and then what does he do?
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SPEAKER_00: He offers it to the Father to redeem us, to save us, to overcome sin and death.
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SPEAKER_00: It's an incredible act of selfless love.
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SPEAKER_00: He dies on a cross, overcoming sin and death.
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SPEAKER_00: This is what happens at every mass.
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SPEAKER_00: This is why we say go to confession, confess your sins, get washed, and then go to mass, because at mass we enter into and make present in this one time, that one time historical event at the crucifixion on Golgotha, you know, on that hill where Christ died, that one time event of Jesus comes all the way down to us through history, through every day in all the masses around the world so that we can all participate in that one time eternal sacrifice and manifest it in each one of us.
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SPEAKER_00: It's powerful.
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SPEAKER_00: Where Jesus enters our time and into our hearts.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the power of this.
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SPEAKER_00: At the Last Supper, he establishes what?
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SPEAKER_00: The Eucharist.
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SPEAKER_00: This is my body given for you.
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SPEAKER_00: That's on Holy Thursday, the day before he goes and is hung on the cross.
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SPEAKER_00: He said this before that.
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SPEAKER_00: No greater love in the Gospel of John, this is John 15.
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SPEAKER_00: No greater love than this that a man lays down his life for his friends.
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SPEAKER_00: That's what Jesus said.
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SPEAKER_00: He's laying down his life for his friends.
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SPEAKER_00: Then with his mother Mary, Saint John and uh the evangelist who wrote the Gospel of John, a few others, including Mary Magdalene, looking up at Jesus beneath the cross, knowing that it was all finished.
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SPEAKER_00: They heard Jesus say what?
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SPEAKER_00: I thirst, I thirst.
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SPEAKER_00: Imagine you're there and you hear these words as you're looking up and he's taking his last breath.
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SPEAKER_00: I thirst, I thirst for you, I thirst for each one of you.
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SPEAKER_00: I gave up my life for you.
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SPEAKER_00: And then he said, It is finished.
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SPEAKER_00: It's consummated.
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SPEAKER_00: He bows down his head and gave up his spirit.
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SPEAKER_00: He's consummated.
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SPEAKER_00: What does that mean?
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SPEAKER_00: He poured out everything for his bride.
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SPEAKER_00: A little while later, a Roman centurion follows orders.
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SPEAKER_00: He would come up and he thrust a lance to the heart of Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: And what came out?
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SPEAKER_00: Water and blood.
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SPEAKER_00: The awe and wonder of this.
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SPEAKER_00: The water, that's what you see behind me, an image of divine mercy.
33:36
SPEAKER_00: This is what Sister Faustina said.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the time of mercy, but the time of mercy will be over.
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SPEAKER_00: See, we're we're ending this time of mercy where you can accept mercy.
33:44
SPEAKER_00: He said, if you don't accept my mercy, then you're going to get my justice.
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SPEAKER_00: But think about the awe and wonder about this, the beauty of this.
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SPEAKER_00: So the water and the blood come out.
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SPEAKER_00: The water is baptism and forgiveness, confession.
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SPEAKER_00: The blood is the Eucharist.
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SPEAKER_00: When I take in the Eucharist, I'm taking it in Jesus Himself, divinity.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm uniting with him.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm becoming one flesh with God.
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SPEAKER_00: Awe and wonder.
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SPEAKER_00: Think about that.
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SPEAKER_00: Before Jesus returns to the Father in heaven, what does he do on the crucifix and on the altar at every mass then?
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SPEAKER_00: He turns to us.
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SPEAKER_00: He turns to us and he pours himself out to us and receive we receive him.
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SPEAKER_00: Body, soul, blood, divinity.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the bridegroom, a man.
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SPEAKER_00: See, that's why a priest has to be a man because he's there in Persona Christi.
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SPEAKER_00: And a man on the cross.
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SPEAKER_00: Why?
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SPEAKER_00: Because he's given himself to the church.
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SPEAKER_00: Right?
34:37
SPEAKER_00: It's finished.
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SPEAKER_00: It's consummated.
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SPEAKER_00: I I'm basically impregnating you with life.
34:42
SPEAKER_00: And who's the church?
34:43
SPEAKER_00: The church takes on the role of a symbol.
34:45
SPEAKER_00: Now, this is not sexual, right?
34:47
SPEAKER_00: This is spiritual, but takes on a role of a of a woman.
34:50
SPEAKER_00: And we all participate in that.
34:52
SPEAKER_00: You know, the the church is not a building.
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SPEAKER_00: It's made up of the organic building blocks of each person.
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SPEAKER_00: And this makes up her body, the church's body.
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SPEAKER_00: When we join the church, when we participate in the sacraments, we we become the body of Christ, who is fed by Jesus Himself.
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SPEAKER_00: We partake in that.
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SPEAKER_00: Where do we come one flesh with him again?
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SPEAKER_00: In the Eucharist.
35:13
SPEAKER_00: And again, uh I'm reiterating this, but these are important concepts.
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SPEAKER_00: We go from body, soul to the vault position of sin and death, like you see all around us, to a body and soul filled with grace given to us in the blood and water that flowed from the heart of Jesus on the cross.
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SPEAKER_00: We are then redeemed.
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SPEAKER_00: And what is that redemption, that act over there?
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SPEAKER_00: What does it do for every human being?
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SPEAKER_00: It gives us the potential for human flourishing, the potential for human freedom.
35:38
SPEAKER_00: But what is left?
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SPEAKER_00: Our fiat, our yes with our blessed mother.
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SPEAKER_00: Let it be done to me according to your word.
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SPEAKER_00: This is why claim are we do this first thing in the morning.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the first thing we do every morning.
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SPEAKER_00: Before we look at that phone, we say those words and then do whatever he tells you, realizing that temptation is not a sin.
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SPEAKER_00: So I open him up to the grace.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's the first action.
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SPEAKER_00: We say yes to Jesus.
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SPEAKER_00: We're filled with divine life and love.
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SPEAKER_00: And then what's second?
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SPEAKER_00: We have to act.
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SPEAKER_00: We have to act again.
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SPEAKER_00: Number two, to confess him with our lips and to go out and become persons of love.
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SPEAKER_00: Receive divine life, become divine life in the world.
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SPEAKER_00: Love your neighbor.
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SPEAKER_00: This isn't brain surgery.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the two great commandments, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Love God, be filled, receive, be filled with divine life and love, and then go out and become that.
36:23
SPEAKER_00: So the next time you pass a nativity scene, maybe tonight, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Remember this.
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SPEAKER_00: The child in the manger came to make men whole again.
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SPEAKER_00: And in a world that's forgotten what it means to be a man, that makes you dangerous.
36:36
SPEAKER_00: That makes you dangerous.
36:38
SPEAKER_00: So they look at you, a Christian, why do they say Christian men?
36:42
SPEAKER_00: Why is the attack always on Christian men, especially white Christian Christian men, but Christian men in general?
36:49
SPEAKER_00: Why?
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SPEAKER_00: Because you're dangerous.
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SPEAKER_00: If you ever wake up, they say, and actually accept him and see the evil around you like we're talking about today, you will wake up and you become dangerous to Satan and all his minions.
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SPEAKER_00: So by acting, this is what happens, huh?
37:06
SPEAKER_00: But we got to join together.
37:08
SPEAKER_00: We got to do this together because you're never supposed to be sent out by yourself.
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SPEAKER_00: Satan would love to pick you off.
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SPEAKER_00: So your next act right now, subscribe, share this with your family and friends.
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SPEAKER_00: It's our duty.
37:18
SPEAKER_00: God wants everyone to be saved.
37:20
SPEAKER_00: Download the Claymore battle plan outline.
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SPEAKER_00: The link is in the show notes.
37:24
SPEAKER_00: That gives you the whole outline.
37:27
SPEAKER_00: Start a formation, you know, once you get there, and go down, especially that 10-minute battle plan, and then go into the next things.
37:34
SPEAKER_00: Know that the battle plan handbook is going to be available soon.
37:37
SPEAKER_00: We're going to be able to fill in all of the questions that you have.
37:40
SPEAKER_00: In the meantime, Jesus, I trust in you.
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SPEAKER_00: I say that many times a day.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus, thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: Jesus, I trust in you.
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SPEAKER_00: From Sister Faustina.
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SPEAKER_00: So everybody, if I don't talk to you again, have a blessed Christmas.
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SPEAKER_00: Say a prayer for me.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll say one for you.
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SPEAKER_00: Write me if you have any questions.
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SPEAKER_00: Talk to you again soon.
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SPEAKER_00: Bye-bye, everyone.