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Mark & Amber Archer: Discerning The Times, Exposing The Darkness · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
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  defending biblical Christianity, no topic, off limits.
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  And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
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  Discerning current events, defending biblical Christianity.
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  I always remember that one, maybe because it's the last one.
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  We are back for another podcast, thank you guys for tuning in, thank you for sharing,
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  and most importantly for praying for us, we are moving along if you just missed it.
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  A week or so ago, we can have a go, we had our 500th episode of World View Matters, and
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  it's just, to me, it's a head scratcher, I don't know how we, but we're here, and we
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  just keep plugging away.
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  So I've got some great guests, they are going to be in Green Bay, Wisconsin May 1st and
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  2nd to speak at our World View Matters conference, and it is Mark and Amber Archer, before we
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  get to them, let me thank our sponsors, because I want to make sure that's part of the package,
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  you know, when you do a trade, or when sponsors come on board, we promise to give them mentions,
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  and put them in the program at the conference, and to, you know, things like that.
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  So I do want to mention them, they are on the bottom of the website worldviewmattersconference.com,
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  major sponsors, Harbanger's Daily Legacy Church Creative Edge Productions,
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  the Family Radio Network Freedom Project Academy, and his sword ministries,
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  or one more major sponsor, Alpha Omega Gold.
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  And now the other sponsors, I just want to shout out to our amazing grace,
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  Verlo Matrus, Fearless Features, Mark and Amber Archer, Liberty Sentinel, Alex Newman,
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  NCLED Lighting, Crossway Christian Fellowship, and that's our brother Brad Reeves out there in
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  Maryland, Lighthouse Christian Books in Green Bay, One Way Christian Church in Green Bay,
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  Birkowitz Mechanical, Training Godly Warriors in Michigan, Grace Christian Academy,
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  Delory Chiropractic in Depear, Wisconsin, coming soon ministries, Wisconsin Christian news,
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  and hey, David Fierraso Ministries, gotta give myself a plug. So guys, thank you so much
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  for just helping us along the way here, being so patient. We've been talking about this
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  conference for years, and now we're less than a month away. I do want to say, Mark and Amber,
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  we're excited. There are less than 70 tickets available. And we've got, I don't know,
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  several weeks yet to promote it and plug it and get the word out. And oh, and we're on the top.
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  Harbinger's Daily put a banner on the top of their website. World View Matters conference. And
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  so there it is. Harbinger's Daily News, if you go there to get your news filled for the day or
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  the week, look at that beautiful banner at the top. We're just really blessed by the support,
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  and the favor. Thank you, Lord, that God's given us. Mark and Amber, welcome.
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  Hello again. Hello again. Yes. So we recently did an interview. They had me on, guys,
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  if you have not seen it, they had me on just to talk about the theme of the conference,
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  the purpose, what's going on in the church, what times are we living in? What does the body of
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  Christ need? Spiritual warfare and things that you and I, the three of us are going to talk about
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  in this podcast today. There it is. Oh, there's that it. All right. Fearless with Mark and Amber.
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  Fearless. So guys, since we last saw you, that was recently, wasn't that like a week or two ago?
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  So let's talk about you're going to be in Green Bay. What we were talking about before we got on
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  the podcast, how do you decide what to include? I know it depends on the audience and maybe the
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  purpose of the conference. But this is the body of Christ. And you know, people need a lot.
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  We need a lot of equipping and we need to sharpen each other. And so when you put together,
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  I mean, you know, you're speaking at the octan counter, the octan counter, the arcan counter.
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  Are you going to Kentucky? Ken Ham, shout out to Ken Ham. So how did you put that together when
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  both of you are speaking? And it's one presentation. Just share a little insight for our audience.
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  Well, I think it's been, it's really been easy for us. I mean, because we work together every day.
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  So it's not like, it's not like it's something new. But for us, we just looked at it and said,
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  you know what, you're going to tackle the first movie. I'll do the second one. You do the third one.
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  I'll do the fourth one. And you can end it with the fifth one. And so that's exactly what we did
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  is just, you know, kind of taking people along on the journey that we've been on.
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  Because it really, it's, it's incredible to see the Lord work and how everybody continues to
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  come alongside. And just as believers, being able to unite in a common cause and mission
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  to advance the gospel and, you know, advance the kingdom of God.
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  Yeah, it kind of depends on, you know, if it's something specific, if somebody's inviting
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  us to come to speak, then, you know, sometimes the marriage conference.
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  Yeah, so if we did a marriage conference last year. And of course, we asked them, well,
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  what do you want us to talk about? And, and we had this great plan going in. And we ended up just
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  sitting and talking to everyone about, it was quite completely off script. And everybody thought
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  it was great. So with, with what we're, what we're going to be talking about, at your conference,
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  especially as we're, we really are focused on talking about the, the, the world views.
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  And it's a, it's a, it's an appropriate subject for this show, I think, because the world view
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  does matter. And, and especially biblical sexuality. And so we can, we can riff on that for a
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  long time, you know, based on the films that we're doing, because that's what the attacks have been.
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  So, so also you're working on principalities. That's going to be your brand new one, hopefully
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  available in June. And you're, you've been doing a lot of work on that for a while. Oh, you know,
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  what? Yeah, there's your page with all your other projects. Um, so I sent you a scripture and I
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  just re, I remembered now, why did I come across that? Oh, because I was going, so I was going through
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  first Corinthians. And six, chapter 16 is the last chapter. And I came across this verse and I
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  remembered this is the verse that Charlie Kirk texted to his closest friends the day he was
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  assassinated. Oh, he texted this verse is that's why when I came to the end of first Corinthians
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  and read that again, I'm going, wow, and I thought about spiritual warfare, which is we'll talk more
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  about that. Let me share the verse with everybody. First Corinthians 16 verse nine for a wide door
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  for effective service has opened to me. And there are many adversaries. Another translation says
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  there's much opposition, a wide door of service, a wide door of work, meaning for the kingdom of
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  God. There's always opposition. There are many adversaries sometimes seen, sometimes not seen,
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  meaning the demonic realms. Could you could have speak to that Mark or Amber before we move on?
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  Yeah, I mean, working on this film in particular, principalities is really opened our eyes to a lot
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  of this that there's so much that we when you tell people that you're that you're speaking about
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  spiritual warfare, they always assume it's like an episode of ghost hunters or something. And you say,
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  no, no, no, what you have to realize is like Ephesians talks about that everything is being moved
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  along and manipulated behind the scenes by powers and principalities. That's so spiritual warfare
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  plays out right in front of you all the time. So it's not just the, you know, the spooky
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  ghost stuff. It's it is in front of us constantly. What we what we write off as, you know,
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  political arguments, it's because there's spiritual warfare going on. What we write off as,
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  you know, things like Islamic extremism. Well, it's it's demonic warfare being manifested in real time.
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  So it is it's everywhere. So Amber, I want to direct this one to you along those lines. What are some
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  of the ways we know that we're dealing with spiritual warfare? What are some examples? Like even
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  what you guys have encountered since you've been working on the films that you have? Well,
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  what I can say is, you know, open doors doesn't mean that it's going to be an easy path. And we know
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  that the enemy attacks the mind first. And so when you talk about spiritual warfare, if you just
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  look around turn on the news and you can see the battle taking shape right in front of your eyes.
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  But so many times, especially, you know, we are in a biblically illiterate society in church.
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  And so they don't know how to recognize what they're actually seeing when it's right in front of
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  their face. And so that's that's really what we've been working on. The heart of what we're doing
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  is to try and help people see, you know, taking it from a biblical perspective, seeing it with a
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  biblical lens and, you know, applying a biblical worldview to every scenario that you come across
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  in your life. Because if you don't, if you don't know the truth, you know, you're going to be
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  sucked in and misled and deceived. The same way Satan deceived Eve in the garden. He didn't come
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  with a weapon. He came with a question. Did God really say? Yeah. And that applies to a lot,
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  right? If you can put doubts just instant and the enemy does this, he I don't want to give him
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  credit, but he's really good in a demonic way of putting doubts. And if if the enemy can discourage
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  believers from the work that we're doing or what someone watching or listening right now,
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  you've got talents and abilities that hopefully you're using for God or asking God, how can I
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  be more effective? How can I serve you? What can I do as far as my gifts and talents and my sphere
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  of influence? If the enemy can discourage you and that's half the battle, then he doesn't have to
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  worry about attacking you. If he can get you to beat yourself up and discourage you, right?
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  My dad is famously said, my dad has taught Sunday school classes for 40 plus years.
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  And he has famously said that Satan is perfectly happy hiding a thimbleful of error in a
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  lake of truth. And when we talk about this and how media especially corrupts your worldview,
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  it's because Satan doesn't show, Satan specializes in addiction. He's like your drug dealer.
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  He doesn't show up and hit you with a full dose of fentanyl right off. He'll show up and he'll
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  give you a little taste of something that's seemingly innocuous, but it's got just a little bit of
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  error in it. And then it creates that need. And so you come back in each time, he doses you a
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  little bit more. And what we've told people and what we say in a lot of our talks is if you want
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  to understand spiritual warfare, if you want to understand the influence of media, all you got to do
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  is study addiction and how it works because that's what media is doing. And that's the prince of
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  this world is behind that. He specializes in that. So I forgot to mention at the very beginning,
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  I want to take this opportunity. I didn't give your website fearlessfeatures.org. I know Jeff showed
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  it fearlessfeatures.org and also Mark's book compromised. You can order that linked it's linked
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  on there. So I want to go to some notes that you sent me that you and Amber were talking about.
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  You made a great point. I think this was Mark quoting Amber that the Christians cannot
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  grow in isolation. We also talked, I think before we got on the podcast that we're more isolated,
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  maybe it was the beginning of this conversation. It's where easier targets for the enemy. Amber,
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  you want to speak to that? Well, and it weakens your conviction, right? If you're isolated and you
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  have no one to either encourage you along the way, lead you back to the truth, you know, you can
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  very easily get swayed in the wrong direction and your conviction be completely lost if you
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  isolate yourself away from other believers. We're not told, we're told to gather and do not
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  forsake the gathering. So there's a reason why we need each other. Yes, and we should not only
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  sharpen each other, but if we're real, and I think in this day and age friends, use discernment,
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  but just get the mask, take the mask off. Just be real on Sunday morning or when we're talking
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  with our Christian brothers and sisters, we don't need to pretend everything's great when it's not.
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  We don't have time for that. I don't. So I hope you can have those kind of relationships
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  at your church. If you're listening to this or watching this, I hope you have a church that
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  you can be real with either your pastor or the brothers and sisters you gather with. Mark,
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  you want to speak to that? Yeah, we were talking earlier about how what I, what the Lord's really
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  put on my heart is reaching men because I see every week at our church that women come in by
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  themselves. And I know that their husbands are just not interested in being part of the church.
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  And what I see there is the men, it's a double-edged sword because Satan has so attacked masculinity
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  in our culture, he's convinced men that they're not needed. And it convinced women that they don't
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  need the men. But yet what the women desperately want is for the men to lead and bring the family
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  to church. And what I see is broken families, families that there's a mother and a father and a
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  family together. But on Sunday mornings, it's a broken home because the men want to isolate
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  themselves. And as you were saying that earlier and I thought one of the arguments that I've heard
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  in this warrior culture as men saying, well, Jesus isolated himself.
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  No, Jesus didn't. He spent time with the father. And he went to pray. And he went to pray. He prayed
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  and fasted for 40 days with the father. That was not him isolating himself. There's a time and a
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  place to isolate yourself from the world. But that you need to be with the Lord in those times. But
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  just completely isolating yourself and cutting yourself off from any and all influence,
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  godly influence is not healthy. Like Amber said, you can't grow in that. That's where Satan
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  gets you. That's how he gets you off on your own and any attacks you.
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  Well, let's talk about that. Let's talk about how that's where the cults get to kids. That's
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  where the sex traffickers and the LGBTQ recruit. And that's where those who would want to harm you
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  or get you into their cult when you're isolated. You're an easier target, right?
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  Oh, yeah, absolutely. In fact, there's a famous interview clip that's been around on social
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  media for a year or two with a convicted pedophile. And he talks about the interviewer asks
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  him how he picked a kid to target. And he specifically says, if there was a father in the picture,
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  I wouldn't even approach them. I was looking for kids that didn't have a father. And
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  it's guided. Yeah, especially that they didn't have a father in the picture because then I knew
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  I could get him. And it's so convicting. And to see that and to hear that. And it's what people
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  like you and I have been saying for a long time. Yeah, dads, that's why you have to be there. You
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  cannot break men who break up their homes because they've got some misguided sense of, you know,
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  I'm a man. I got to be alone and I can do this on my own. It's on my own. No, you're you're
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  shirking your duties before the Lord. It's not the Lord will not honor that.
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  So one of the sponsors of the World View Matters Conference is Pastor Steve Smotherman and
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  Legacy Church and Albuquerque, New Mexico. There's a church in New Mexico and there's
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  a church in Maryland sponsoring a Wisconsin Biblical Summit conference. So Steve's motherman
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  has often said, the LGBT cannot reproduce so they have to recruit. Oh, yeah. What a great
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  pretty profound. They cannot cannot reproduce so they have to recruit. And you think about the
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  LGBT, the whole goal of that. What is that? It's demonic population control. It prevent them from
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  having children. You know, they have to recruit because they can't reproduce. Very fascinating when
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  you talk about this, the LGBTQ, what you call the LGBTQ mafia. Yeah. But yeah, they so here's
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  what it is. Here's the contrast. And here's the interesting thing. They've built up this idea of,
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  it's a counterfeit of the truth. Yeah. Community, the LGBTQ community. What are we supposed to have
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  in the church? Community, the community of believers, the fellowship of the saints. The LGBTQ
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  has perverted that and has counterfeited because young people want that community. They want that
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  acceptance. They want to be around people of like mine. Very interesting, isn't it? If you contrast
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  that. Oh, yeah. Satan is the great counterfeiter. He's the biggest fraud, biggest fake in world
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  history and people still fall for it. That's amazing. The, you know, the transgender, the T of the
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  LGBTQ is really the, if you look at the letters in a row, transgenderism is where it progresses to
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  the outward manifestation of the demonic influences that are controlling each of them. You know,
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  lesbianism, gay, bisexual, it's all demonic, demonic, demonic, you get to the transgenderism.
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  Now we want to look and dress and act like the demons that we've been influenced by. You know,
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  when you see the pictures of the guys with the demon horns and all the makeup and, you know,
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  reading to the kids, look, look, isn't that, isn't that cute? How they look like the demons that
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  they actually worship? It's, it's just staggering that people don't say it. Yeah, yeah, it's super.
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  I'm glad you brought that up because we watch, I don't know what channel this is where we watch
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  reruns the of some sitcoms. I don't remember what channel is, but they, they advertise this show
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  with the drag race or whatever the, and they are truly demonic. And if you back up and look at
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  what is this? What, what are they? Well, they're men, primarily gay, homosexual men doing perverted
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  things dressing up like women to sexually, I don't know, arouse or entice. It's just so demonic.
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  And if you look back, I don't know how many years has it been now, you guys 10, maybe less,
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  where they started the drag queen story hours and public libraries and other public places,
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  parks. And you're going, what, what, where are we living? What parent is okay with this in public?
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  Yeah. Well, and it's leading to the normalization of pedophilia. I mean, and that's one of the
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  things that was an entitled nine that we don't nine. And one of the reasons why we get banned,
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  you can't talk about, you can't talk about pedophilia. Well, no, we are because it's on the rise
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  and people don't understand, you know, that the things that were once abominable are now being
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  accepted and celebrated. And if you're not celebrating it and accepting it, well, now you're
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  the problem. And, you know, you need to be punished. And title nine now also officially banned by
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  Amazon. Yeah. I'm going to add that in there. We're we're talking the other day. It's that we're
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  bad in about 50%. That's, you know, under God, that's a badge of honor. But I know it doesn't help
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  you getting getting it out there to raise awareness and to educate informed people. That's really,
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  really amazing. And amazing. That's surprising. But um, so Satan goes after young people,
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  Satan goes after the most vulnerable, the isolated. Um, also, let's make make a little transition now.
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  I had no agenda going into this, by the way. We talked to Mark and Amber. Let's just talk about
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  worldview issues and what's going on. Free flowing conversation. Thank you, Holy Spirit,
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  leading this. Hopefully God is being glorified. But the body of Christ needs to understand
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  what our church is doing. How does Satan reach those in a church? Well,
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  this day and age, you've got to put some churches and air quotes. Let me go over to second Timothy
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  for. And we talked a little bit about this before before we got on the podcast. Paul says,
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  I give you this charge. Preach the word. Preach the word in season and out of season. He says,
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  I solemnly charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living in
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  the dead. Preach the word. Preach the gospel. Preach the whole council of God. Make disciples.
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  But verse three. And now this applies to what's going on in a lot of our churches in America.
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  Unfortunately, we're here today for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine.
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  But wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance
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  to their own desires. Now, what God desires? And they'll turn away their ears from the truth
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  and will turn aside to myths. Would you care to speak to that? You guys, that's where we are in
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  a lot of churches. Unfortunately, you get teachers, Bible teachers, pastors, and you have to put
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  some pastors and air quotes. They'll just tell you what you want to hear. It's about happiness,
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  not holiness. Go ahead, guys, whoever wants to jump in. Well, and that's what you're seeing with
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  all this. You've got this new age worship that's going on. You've got a sorghum sport. Everybody can
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  take whatever, whatever. And let's just combine them all. What was I called? You combine
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  polytheism. Polytheism. You're combining all of these different religions. Well, I like a little
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  bit of this and a little bit of this. And so it doesn't, there's no cohesive one one way.
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  You know, it's, it's all what makes me feel good. And, and how can I live my life this way?
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  And then, and then they'll go after me and say, well, well, who are you, who are you to say that
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  I can't live this way? You know, and so then the church is, is people are going, well, who,
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  well, now I don't want to offend anybody. And I'm, I'm a good Christian.
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  Well, we live in an age two where I mean, think about, think about the, the, the youth that are now
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  coming into young adulthood. They have grown up with drop down menus, right? I get to customize
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  everything. And so they go into church and they want drop down menus for God. Well, I want this,
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  I want them to look like this and talk like this and tell me these things. I, I want my custom
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  avatar, God. And if I don't like it, I can fast forward. I can skip, right? I can, I can respond.
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  I can get a new God. And so that's what they're, that's what they're used to. And then you get the,
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  the, the glory-seeking air-quote pastors. And we have said this many times that there's a
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  difference between people who, I'm talking about doing podcasts. For example, there's a difference
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  between people who seek to be an influencer and people who go forward to speak the truth.
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  And this is something that we've talked about a lot and are very clear on telling people,
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  I am not here trying to be an influencer and I'm not here to try to be popular. I'm, I'm here
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  out of an act of obedience. Well, we make our films. If I wanted to be popular, I would not be making
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  the films that I am. I certainly wouldn't be true. Yeah. So there's, there's a difference between
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  wanting to influence and wanting to be, to tell the truth of, of the word of God, right?
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  Last week, I should share a meme on my Facebook page about Jesus. He's, he looks like he's
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  teaching the crowd, like on the surmount on the mount. Things Jesus never said, do your best not
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  to make waves. Remember, it's all about, it's all about unity. And then he says, things Jesus
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  never said, after all, you want the world to like you. Sometimes you need to just go along to get along.
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  And you and I, the three of us can laugh at that because we know what the Bible teaches,
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  but to some, it sounds maybe what's wrong with that. Just not wanting to offend, not going
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  along to get along. I want to briefly, we only have a minute left. These friends go to gotquestions.org
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  and type in syncretism because it's the practice of these different beliefs, different systems
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  trying to blend them all into one, creating a distorted faith or a belief system that conflicts,
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  you're conflicting with yourself with all these different beliefs. So syncretism, I thought we'd
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  end on that note. You guys a minute or so left. We'll see you May 1st and 2nd, Green Bay,
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  Wisconsin, Mark and Amber, just any closing thoughts for our audience today, the body of Christ.
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  You know, just excited to be with other believers. It is, it is always so amazing and impactful.
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  When you get people who you don't fellowship with on a regular basis and everybody is excited
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  and charged and ready to go out and to be able to encourage each other, iron, sharpen,
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  iron. I mean, we're ready for it. Yeah. And the big tech sensors cannot suppress you when you're
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  in the same room. Good call. Yes. And I'll tell you what, the speakers that we've got coming,
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  the Alex Newman's, the Elijah Abraham's, the Olivia Melnick's, the Scott Sharers, you guys
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  and many, many more lera Perry's small. We will not be censored, but we're talking about things
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  that might offend some people out there, but we need to equip the body of Christ so that people
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  know how to respond to all that's going on around us from culture to Bible prophecy to education,
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  to these demonic movements and cults, the spiritual warfare. Guys, it went by fast, great conversation.
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  And thanks again for having me on your podcast recently and we'll see you soon. Thanks. Awesome.
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  Thank you. All right. Friends, we appreciate you guys sharing the podcast. Praise God. And I hope
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  you make it to the conference May 1st and 2nd in Green Bay. God bless you. And as always,
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  keep speaking the truth about things that matter.