Audio Only Road Trip DL: Election Thoughts, Brief Rejoinder to R. Scott Clark

Well, greetings and welcome to an audio-only dividing line this evening. It's the, well, it's last night on my current road trip and today was a long six and a half hour trip and so I'll just be honest with you, I don't have the energy to hook up cameras and lights and the ATEM and set up the microphones and just do all that stuff that is necessary to do the regular dividing lines, so it's audio only this evening.

I just want to briefly make some comments about the election and again I'm not certain what we're gonna be able to do tomorrow, the next day, I know we can't do anything tomorrow, so, but I did want to, you know, catch up on a few things here and most people just listen to the program anyways, nobody needs to see me.

Everybody knows exactly what I look like right now, just sitting here, you know, with the background and actually I don't have the background up, I don't want to do that right now, I'm tired. So I did just catch an amazing sunset, I took about 25 pictures of that, it was just awesome, it was just beautiful, so glad I looked out the back window and went whoa and grabbed my iPhone and ran out there and I got some got some good pictures.

The Election, Media Bias, and the Reality of 2024

Anyway, it's the day after the election and the election has already been called, that surprised me, however, those of us who live in the short bus state of Arizona, they say, what, another 10 days? It's just, it's so embarrassing, it really is.

Yeah, I was talking with Chris Honholds who's up in Nevada and I guess they finally called Nevada, but yeah, it's embarrassing, you know, it goes to how the law is set up, well, we ought to set the law up so that we can be with all the rest of the nation and not look like we're a bunch of idiots, but yeah, that's where we are.

But anyway, the election has been called, Kamala Harris gave her sort of concession stump speech a few hours ago, I listened while I was driving and so that's that. Am I surprised? Yeah, to be honest with you, I mean, I had said in the last month and a half, two months, I had said to a lot of people, I said, look, if we had a fair election, and I could trust it was going to be a fair election, then yeah, he's going to probably win by a landslide.

And given that Kamala Harris, in my opinion, was the least qualified candidate for the office of president to ever be presented by either of the major parties, I consider both her and Biden to be insults to the American people.

He was clearly senile, she participated in the cover up of that. She has no visible skills. She doesn't know what she's talking about. She's a complete ditz and airhead. I'm sorry, that's just the reality.

That's why she didn't do news conferences. That's why she doesn't take questions. She's just, oh, wow. Hopefully, I've seen memes that have said my pronouns are was were or something like that has. Oh, my pronouns are has been.

I really hope she does, you know, because she could try to get back in the Senate and just continue to inflict this nation with her ditziness. That could certainly happen, especially from California. Anyway, but I was I was looking at 2020.

I was looking at Joe Biden getting over 80 million votes. And I knew that a senile old man in his basement was not going to get 80 million votes. It was the covid election. It was mail in balloting. And as long as mail in balloting is is around, you're going to have fraud.

And we had fraud in that one on level that's just astonishing. And now everybody's talking about everybody's nobody's saying that this one was was fraudulent. But you just simply put the numbers out. And and it's so obvious that 2020 was completely off the scale.

I mean, 20 million vote difference. All the proceeding, the ones that the two elections that came before 2020. So so and then now this one, they are all consistent with each other, you know, slightly increased numbers because population is growing.

But 2020 is just this complete outlier. It's it's so obvious that it was fraudulent. It's astonishing. But anyway, here we are in 2024. So, yeah, I I kept saying, yeah, well, if it was fair, I think it would probably be.

I mean, what the Democrats have done in this nation over the past four years is Obama's fundamental change. And what that is, is abandonment of constitutional principles, any type of Christian heritage and the meaning of law and everything that goes along with it.

So someone has said, oh, I saw someone on Twitter said, what do you mean there's no such thing as a rapture? Clearly, 20 million Democrat voters have been raptured since 2020. I felt like going, yeah, well, that would actually fit in the more likely meaning of the Greek term when Jesus is talking about one taken and one left.

The one taken is only being taken to judgment. So, yeah, that would make sense that 20 million Democrats were taken to judgment. But anyway, so it was what happened was in the middle of night, you know, I wake up and had to adjust some blankets or something.

It was it was getting pretty nippy in the in the RV. And it's going to get much nippier tonight. It's already cold outside and the wind is blowing and it's going to drop below freezing. I'm over 4000 feet altitude where I am right now.

And so I'm having to do all the winter stuff that I've never had to do in this before. And but it's all working so far. So we'll we'll see how things go tonight. I need to have it tested out before I head back to St. Charles, because normally when I'm back there in December, there's snow and lots of cold winter stuff.

So we'll see how this unit does. But I got up around three o 'clock in the morning or something like that, and I glanced at the phone and I went ahead and looked at Twitter. And that's what I was seeing.

That's I think I think by then Trump had already claimed victory, if I recall correctly. But so I sort of knew when I got in the morning what I was going to be looking at. So a couple of things. One of the things I've done sort of entertaining while I've been driving is since I have Sirius satellite radio, I switched over from Fox to MSNBC.

I did that a couple of times before and after the election. It was very strange, the difference between the two. It really was, you know, beforehand. It was so disastrous coming. We can't let this happen.

We've got to hope and hope and hope. And then afterwards, it's just like pure depression. There's a lot of discussion of how all of the spas in Washington, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles are all booked up right now because people are doing self-care.

Just like really? Wow. OK. You know, if if Trump had lost that, that's not what anybody would have been saying. It's just you just shake your head and because they don't they don't recognize how weird they are.

They think we're the weirdos, but that's the fact is, as I'll say later, the nation is as divided as ever. There are two nations living in these within one set of borders. We might actually have borders now starting in January.

And that cannot last long. But that's where we are. That's that's where we are. The mainstream media. Should have to register as paid political operatives, the Democratic Party, the. You know, when the bias really started getting obvious, you know, in the late 90s, early 2000s, we talked a lot about it.

Now you look back, then they were at least trying to pretend to be journalists back then. Now there isn't even any pretense. It is just just pure advocacy. They're trying to find actual journalists that will dig into things and and do investigative journalism to handle anything fairly whatsoever.

It is it's never gonna happen. And sadly, I think a lot of Americans are just starting to get used to it. If you've done reading about the Soviet Union, everybody understood that Pravda, which means truth.

Was the opposite of what its name was. If you read it in the state controlled media, then you knew it was a lie. You knew it was what the what the government wanted you to believe, but you knew it was a lie.

Well, that's what we're getting to. And I have to admit. I don't know if Trump could have won this if Elon Musk had not bought Twitter. I really don't. I'm just that that was a big, big element of it.

I think I could be wrong, but that's. Yeah, I'm sure he's breathing a sigh of relief because had Trump lost, they it wouldn't have taken a year for the government to have gotten rid of Elon Musk or at least broken stuff up, forced him to get rid of Twitter, something like that.

But I don't I don't know. But that's. Yeah. So the nation dodged Marxism. And that's that's what. That's what Harris represented was Marxism. If you don't understand that, then you don't understand Marxism, you don't understand when you hear her saying over and over and over again that what we want to do is we want to get everybody to the same place.

That is not the Constitution. That is not free market capitalism. That is not anything that has ever been a part of American political theory, jurisprudence or anything else. That's Marxism. And of course, it works because it's a lie.

They're not actually trying to get everybody the same place, but that's how you control the people. And so we did dodge Marxism for at least the next. Four years, probably. Well, you know, we'll see. But we've got to understand that the Trump massively overpromised.

Every politician does that. The days of, you know, journalists going, well, but how could you possibly do that? Because this would cost this and that would cost that. That's all past. Now it's just all these pious platitudes and same old, same old stuff.

We're going to give you an opportunity economy. What does that mean? I don't know, but it sounds really nice. And I was told to say it. It's on the teleprompter. That's the essence of it. Trump would give you details, but still, there were times he'd just start going, you know, we're just going to make the nation powerful and strong and peaceful and no more wars.

And I'm going to stop the Ukraine war and I'm going to stop the war in the Middle East. He can't do all that stuff. And even the things that he has some kind of appropriate constitutional authority to do.

Would require the cooperation of the House and the Senate, and it looks as as of this evening anyways, like he may have that he may have the next two years. Presidency, Senate and House to get a lot of stuff done, but the Senate majority is still rather small, so there's a lot of stuff you still can't do because of the filibuster rule and how the Senate works and you're supposed to have bipartisan stuff going on in the Senate, but it never happens anymore because the left won't do it.

And the main thing is he would have to have strong, committed Republicans backing him. And there aren't very many strong, committed Republicans left. So he way over promised he's not going to be able to deliver all that stuff now.

Are there certain things that I think inevitably? I think energy costs will go down. Keystone pipeline fracking. I would love to see a huge increase in the nuclear industry. Stuff like that. Yeah. Getting rid of regulations.

I could see an economic upturn, but the problem is even fixing things like inflation. That comes from the government printing money. That's where it came from. It's not the grocers. Yeah, I know. Have you seen that grocer down the street?

He's got this $3 million house. No, it has nothing to do with that. Inflation comes from the government printing money that has nothing behind it. It's just fiat money. Honestly, it's ungodly. It's against God's law.

There's supposed to be real value in what you exchange for services. So that's a whole other area that we could discuss at some point. Anyway, he can slow some of that. He can make it possible for us to make more real money and actually build the economy and things like that.

But I don't get the feeling that he's nearly the fiscal conservative that we would actually need to pay off $36 trillion in debt. And here's the real problem from my perspective. The only way to make fundamental change and to put the country on the right track requires long-term planning and consistency and sacrifice on the part of the people of the United States.

Look, if the people of the United States as a population said, you know what, we're going to pay our bills and we're going to get rid of our debt and we're going to be willing to live with less and sacrifice and pull together, of course we could do it.

Of course. But who in the world is going to do that today? Like I said, there's two different nations within the borders of this country. And if it would help one side, the other side is not going to do it.

And I am committed to the reality that the left wants to destroy this nation anyway, so they're not going to do what's best for the nation. So you can't fix these things in two years. And I say two years because the midterms almost always result in one or the other of the houses going back to the other side and then you end up with gridlock.

And gridlock is better than what we would have had with Marxism. But my concern is most of what I heard people saying about voting for Trump was based on their own bottom line. It was not really having any kind of idea of what the nation would have to do long term to prosper, not just economically, but as a culture.

I don't see that. And so I'm very, very concerned about that. The next two years will be interesting. But like, for example, if he doesn't get the house, then nothing's going to happen. I mean, well, OK, a few things can happen all by executive order.

That's sort of how things are being done last four years. But and he can do some judges because he'd have the Senate. But still, if the house goes to the Democrats, he's going to be impeached every other week.

They already did it. They did it three times, didn't they? Was it like three three impeachments, one after he left office? I mean, it was sort of like, you know, the literal beating of the dead horse.

It was just pathetic. But they'll do it again. Don't put anything past Marxists. They have. That's all there is to it. And so. I just. I don't know how much he can get done. And of course, there's just so much else going on in the world.

That. He has absolutely no control over. No matter what he what he thinks, he has no control over these things. And so I. You know, I said on this program that selfishly I was hoping that he would win because minimally I figure that gives me four, probably five more years.

Of being able to travel the nation's roads and do debates and speak in churches and try to encourage folks like, well, you know, like like the trip I'll be going on in in less than three weeks. I will pull out again in this beautiful RV and I will head for first to prior Oklahoma and people prior Oklahoma.

It's barely a wide spot in the road. It's true. It's true. And I've been going there. Gone through there many years now. Derek Melton and that church there. Look, I've got there's lots of pastors like this that I don't know, but I've gotten to know so many pastors.

That are not just godly men, but they they love what they do. They have a heart for their people. They're just they're they're what makes the church run. It's it's wonderful to be with them. I'm looking forward to having two Thanksgivings this year since my family will have Thanksgiving five days early.

We'll have it on the weekend before the scheduled Thanksgiving because it's so late in the year this year. And then I head out and I will be with Derek and his folks for the traditional Thanksgiving date and speaking of the church on the atonement.

Great. What a subject for Thanksgiving. I mean, they go together. What are we giving thanks for? The lamb standing as a slain is central to all of that. So that'll be great. But there's an example getting to know Derek, his wife, his family, the people in the church there.

They're they're they're being committed to the gospel and to its promulgation and living it out. I just love getting to do that. And then, of course, I go from there, St. Charles, and this will be year 24, 24 years going to Covenant Grace Church, Van Lee and the folks there, Ken Gontars, all the folks there.

They have a new sign on the building. So we're going to have lots and lots more people there because there's a new sign. But, you know, 24 years going there and that's, you know, people would say, but it's not a big church.

No, it's not. Well, you know, if you're ever going to get it, I don't want to get big. I want to do what I'm doing. I've seen a lot of people want to get real big and crash and burn in the process. And I'm just not smart enough for that stuff.

I've just got to keep it simple and focus on what's important. And, you know, I keep telling everybody, I just want to finish well, you know, that's that's that's the best you can you can hope for and you can pray for.

So anyway, I, as I said, I, you know, maybe it's selfish of me to want to be able to do that for, you know, because I'm not sure how long I can physically do it. There's there's stuff you've got to do and setting up and tearing down that takes certain kinds of physical strength.

I'm having to use some tools right now. You know, these 50 amp electrical cord, the 50 amp electrical cord that the unit runs on having some problems with the with that right now. It acted strange this evening, but we'll see if that was just weird, something weird or just what all those guys got to be working on something.

But anyhow, I will sometimes have to use like a and of course, I know I make sure the electricity is off, but I have to use a tool to to get that those plugs because they're, you know, those big 50 amps.

It's not like a little 120. Believe me, it takes a fair amount of force to get those things apart. And, you know, I could I could foresee I'm doing the arthritis thing. I could foresee issues in the future.

But hopefully not. Hopefully, I could do another solid five years. And because I see other folks out there doing it. So I would certainly keep trying to be able to keep doing what we're doing and take advantage of the opportunities.

What Christians Should Do in the Next Four Years

But here's the here's the most important thing. Um, let's say we let's say, you know, a lot of people saw a lot of brothers, sisters saying, Okay, we've got four years. And what are we gonna do? Because I remember saying that.

In 2016. I remember saying that in 2016. And that time went very, very fast, very, very quickly. And so what are we going to do with this time? We're just gonna go okay, good, we're gonna be able to forward fuel and, you know, live our lives a little bit more easily for four years, and then we're right back to where we started.

How do we make an impact? How do we? How do we touch a nation that.

That?

And I've heard differing numbers. But there were 10 ballots ballot initiatives in various states around the United States on abortion in this election. And I heard different numbers seven or eight passed, including the diabolical 139 in my home state here in Arizona.

And, you know, the I don't I can't think of, you know, the Arizona Republican Party didn't care what they they they've they've made the decision we ain't touching abortion anymore, we're done. And so they just let it go by, and it passed by like a two to one margin.

And our church. There were people in our church that just worked 18 hours a day. Making calls going door to door doing everything they could possibly do to stop this thing, and yet it's gone through. And we have to encourage them and make sure they understand, you know, when when we would go out to the Easter pageant Mesa years and years and years ago, and we pass out our tracks.

When the night was over, we'd be walking back to our cars and we'd find the track some of the tracks laying on the ground and we'd pick them up, we're not gonna leave trash around and they'd have footprints on them or they're torn in half or stuff like that.

And we called them fallen warriors. And I more than once said to all of our volunteers. This tract was not wasted. Some tracks go out for salvation, some tracks go out for judgment. But God is glorified when his truth is proclaimed.

And we have to keep that idea here too. What we did in fighting 139 was right, it was righteous, it was what Christ would have us to do. We were seeking to rescue the perishing, save the dying. And you might say, but but but it's still happening.

Yeah.

When the Christian church was founded, the Roman Empire practiced exposure is very common, especially if you had a female child to. That's not what you wanted. Then you just put the child out in the street and let the dogs eat them.

That was how abortion was handled. And, you know, Christians would very often go through the streets and gather those babies up and adopt them as their own. But there weren't enough Christians in Rome to do all of that, obviously.

So there were still lots of children who died and there were lots of cities where there were no Christians at all for quite some time. And you might say, well, well, then why bother? Well, because God is working his purpose in each one of our lives.

And every person who manned those phones and put the bumper stickers out and knocked on doors has been changed by doing the right thing, by acting in a righteous fashion. And there is a day coming. There's a day of judgment coming.

And I have I've often thought that if I could ever have the opportunity to, like, look at Gretchen Whitmer in the face. Or today I was listening again, it was during one of my insane stints when I turned on MSNBC just just to listen.

It's like it's like listening to aliens talking from the planet. It's just astonishing. But they had a abortion advocate woman on it. And I you know, she's talking about reproductive rights. Another utterly profane phrase.

It's a lie. Has nothing to do with reproductive rights. No one is saying that women should be forced to have children. No one is defending rape. In fact, we're the ones that would say a rapist should be executed.

Reproductive rights is a euphemism for the murder of unborn children. And as such, it's a lie. And what I would say to that woman who I heard on MSNBC today is you need to understand that in a relatively short period of time, you're going to be standing before God.

You're going to be judged by Jesus Christ. You're going to be judged by his word. You're going to be judged by his truth. And I have to wonder if in eternity to come, one of your greatest means of being punished will be to simply have to see the face of every child that never got to live in this world because you helped to have them chopped up in the womb.

I don't think they get told that very often, at least not seriously. We have to prophetically speak to this culture. And you say, but they don't believe there's going to be a judgment. That's true. They are secularists.

But they know it's true anyways. It's a knowledge they're suppressing. They know that the day of judgment is coming. But they suppress that knowledge. And we need to be the ones used by God to remind them of those things and then trust that the spirit of God will move.

And even if we are called to be faithful at a time when it is not God's intention to move, that's still what we're called to be. We are called to be faithful even in the context of not getting to see the fulfillment of what we want to see done.

Even if babies continue to die, we glorify Christ and we are conformed to His image when we seek justice and righteousness. And that's what we need to continue doing. It would be much more enjoyable to live in a day when God's spirit moves and the elect are drawn in and righteousness prevails.

But we don't get to determine times and seasons. And just as the disciples were like, now Lord, now will you establish the kingdom now? They didn't have an understanding of what the kingdom was. And it wasn't until the spirit came that they began to understand that it was going to be through suffering that much of this was going to take place.

So that's what we're called to do. We're called to be faithful in the midst of those types of situations. And so I just so honor the folks at Apologia who gave everything to stop this. You have honored Christ.

You truly have. And for everyone else who likewise fought. I mean, you know, everybody's going, oh, they defeated it in Florida, Proposition 4. Yeah, but it got 55 of the vote. Thankfully in Florida, they have adults in charge and realize that you shouldn't be able to change your constitution by a 50 plus 1 majority.

That such things require significantly more thinking. That's why people are trying to get rid of the filibuster. That's why they don't like the Senate is because they don't want governmental systems for mature people.

They want governmental systems for kids because that's basically what we have now in our country, our children. So we are definitely seeing the impact, the long term impact of the public indoctrination system.

Kamala Harris, an open and clear Marxist, should not have gotten more than 100 ,000 votes. In a nation that understands its own governmental system, what it's based on, what its history is. She shouldn't have gotten 100 ,000 votes.

And that only from the wacko radicals. And let me say, and I know there's been a lot of discussion about this, but. In the long run, the only way a society is going to be able to maintain itself with true justice.

Is to recognize that the decision making apparatus and methodology. Must be based upon allowing those people who have a vested interest, a full knowledge of the governmental system. History of that nation, those are the people who should be voting.

People who don't understand the constitution, people who do not have a proper worldview. Voting should be done by families. Voting should be done by those who are not receiving government assistance. I'm sorry if you're offended by that, but it's just so painfully obvious.

That if you're living off government largesse, you're going to vote for the people that are going to give you more. You're not going to vote for someone who's going to do the right thing for the country.

The thing that's going to be best for the country in the long term. No, you just want them to keep giving you free stuff. And there's a reason we're $35 trillion in debt. And probably $25 trillion of that has just been giving money away to people who don't work.

And hence should not vote. Families should be the ones who vote. That's where, and again, it's sort of a duh thing here because that's pretty much how it was set up. The founders weren't stupid, but the founders were not woke.

And that's where the problem is today. So those are conversations that unfortunately are very rarely had. But they need to be had much more in the future. So there's some thoughts on that. I'll just close with one other thing that I just happened to bump into as I was getting ready to record this.

Tom Askle had tweeted an invitation to R. Scott Clark. It was an invitation to, I think it was sit down with Tom Nettles, to discuss what is reformed. Everybody knows, well I hope everybody knows, that R. Scott Clark for years and years and years has evidently defined what it means to be reformed based solely upon paedobaptism.

And I'd like to point out that the rainbow stolled priestesses in the PCUSA promoting Kamala Harris and gay marriage were baptized as infants. And hence he would have to say they're reformed. And I get to go, they're not reformed.

Because if you want a meaningful definition of reformed, it's going to flow from the nature of God, the Trinitarian harmony and gospel, the result of the atonement, predestination and election. All the doctrines of grace are what give form to and the power to the message of reformed churches.

And so he can say that no Baptists are reformed because the only meaningful definition of reformed is paedobaptism. And I just find that silly and I was looking through it, looking through what he wrote that Tom Askell was responding to.

And so one of the things he does, which has been a hallmark of Presbyterianism, I had to correct someone about this just recently. You may recall I did that on the program, but they will use the term Anabaptist.

And they'll just use it interchangeably with Baptist. And anybody who actually knows anything about the Anabaptist movement, you've read The Radical Reformation. I'm sorry, not the film The Radicals. I enjoyed that too, but you've read The Radical Reformation.

You've read some primary material or at least good secondary material. Maybe you've fascinated your family for a couple hours telling the stories of stories of Munster. You know the term Anabaptist is wildly vague and only has a few connections to almost any groups that exist today at all.

And to use it of Reformed Baptists, whose confession of faith is 98 the same as Westminster. It either just shows a super ignorance or just a cavalier attitude toward the truth. Prejudice, maybe even a level of animus.

It's possible. And that is sort of the time when we Baptists sort of sit around going, Yeah, you know, there's a long history of people doing this. Of just throwing us all in one big pile and never really engaging with our arguments.

And then killing us. It's a long Baptist martyrology at the hands of Reformed people.

It really is.

That would never happen again. Well, I'm not sure why. In fact, recently, I would say, having seen how people can treat each other online. No, it could happen again. Yeah, it really sadly could. So anyways, I just saw this section.

And I was reminded of the fact that there was. It was just so sad to see how often even great men like John Calvin would misrepresent Anabaptists because they had no firsthand knowledge. They would not.

They would not even even though he married. His wife was the widow of an Anabaptist, but they especially thanks to Munster. It was like, nope, we're not even going to talk about it. We know what you people are.

That's it.

They they operate out of ignorance. And it seems like R. Scott Clark is happy to continue to operate out of ignorance, even to this day, though there's no excuse for it. There's no reason for it at all to continue to do so.

But.

As I've said many times, if you know, if that's where you want to go, I.

I'm.

I don't care about the phrase anymore. You know, there are so many people who. Use that term of themselves that are completely ungracious and that I'm just like, hey, I.

Don't want to be.

I'm not really interested in whether you revoke my reformed card or not. I'm just going to keep. Plugging away and let the differences. In how we make application of biblical truths speak for themselves, I think that's probably.

The best way to do it.

So anyway, I wanted to just. Share some thoughts on the subject of the election. I'm I'm thankful. Marxism is an anti-Christian philosophy.

So.

When when Marxists lose any election, I'm thankful for that. But. At the same time, it's very obvious to me that. Marxism wasn't being rejected because the vast majority of people understand how evil it is.

But because the person represented representing it was a ditz was just an airhead. And thoroughly unlikable. And that's not the good reason. The reason to reject Marxism, no matter who presents, what if Marxism was being presented by someone who was really sharp?

Really on the ball, knew how to use social media and make TikTok videos and stuff like that. Yeah, I think they'd get real. They do well, sadly.

The.

Secular cancer is still alive and well in the body politic of the United States of America. The horrific promotion of the murder of unborn children that passed in so many places is a clear demonstration.

That. We have a lot of work to do. And we've got two, four years. To be working. You know, and that's going to go by fast. 2016 doesn't seem that long ago, does it? Not for me. So, I mean, in 2020 is so long ago in most people's memories that isn't it astonishing that all the covid stuff had almost nothing to do with this election?

Very few people cited what Biden and these others had done to us only a few years ago as being relevant. It was all inflation, price of eggs. Not the totalitarianism that. Fell around our ears all around us, which means to me it wouldn't take much for that to come back.

And so there's that. Anyways, so want to put these thoughts down and we will, Lord willing, be have a couple weeks of regular programs before we head back out on the road again. Thanks for listening to the dividing line.

We'll see you next time.

God bless.