My Thoughts on the State of our Culture and the 2016 Election Part 2

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Okay, so the the black helicopter crashed over there, and then and then the oh, oh hi

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Welcome welcome back Okay, I wish it was that exciting, but it's called windows and it just goes and you get the blue screen of death and Could it have been some nefarious thing?

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I don't know it's never happened before So Huh I Don't remember it happening like that just everything freezing up like that And people are going well if your computer froze.

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How are you still tweeting? This is a computer here, and this is a computer here and This is a phone, and he's got a phone

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And that's the PC over there that went and so I still have access, but anyway

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Okay We were on a roll there weren't we yes? We were so we're gonna try to wrap this up I was gonna try to get within one hour and still gonna try to Aim for around that so it's just just a few minutes to finish up here, but you don't get apart.

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Oh, no. No you don't Don't do they it's better for you Little plausible deniability there, and I couldn't stop him.

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He just he just kept talking um What I had started I think from looking back through the channel and sort of seeing where we were is

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I was talking about the the cost of this election to the voice of evangelicalism in The United States whatever evangelicalism is

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I realize that's a nebulous term any longer Back during the

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Clinton years there was a Consensus on the part of Bible -believing

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Christians liberals were off doing their thing because there are different religion anyways But there is a consensus amongst

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Bible -believing Christians that What Bill Clinton was doing and we didn't even know the extent at that time.

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Maybe some people did I didn't That the the activities he was engaged in fundamentally compromised his ability to be the quote -unquote leader of the free world and That was based upon a moral and ethical understanding of What it means to give your word to be a leader to have integrity

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We're not talking about sinlessness. I realize stuff in Kennedy's life, for example, or Nixon or can't think of anything with Ford, but I Get it.

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I'm not talking about perfection But the the constant

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Lifestyle of Irresponsibility Playboy ism breaking of covenants

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That marks Donald J. Trump to to do the let's just locker room chatter thing

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Is pretty much the end of anyone who goes that direction having anything to say to this culture morally or ethically and when

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Christian leaders pastors men who are in the pastor Actually said well he owned it and he repented

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I didn't watch all of the debacle of the

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The debate Because it was Sunday night some of us still have church services on Sunday night and I did actually turn the radio on as we were driving to church so that I could hear because I knew that Right at the start.

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They're gonna get to the tape and as I listened to Trump dodging

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Walking around it Calling it locker room talk that that is not owning

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Say, oh, I'm sorry. I'm when you say I'm sorry. If anyone is offended that is not actually an apology.

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That's not ownership and Anybody who thinks that's repentance you and I are on completely different biblical planets

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Because it's not and many people

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Have raised the warning That there is I just while we were resetting stuff

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I happened to just look through look through Facebook a little bit and there were like two more articles that had come up About the destruction of the

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Moral and ethical foundation for the the evangelical church to say anything

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Because of the willingness to on the one hand go. Oh Bill Clinton bad bad bad

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Donald J. Trump. Well, you know because the situation we're in we'll just have to overlook that why things have changed a lot things have changed a lot and So Fundamentally sort of wrapping up where I'm coming here.

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I Think it goes back to the start. I think we are looking at a completely broken system

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I Think we are looking at the clear obvious judgment of God You've all seen the meme.

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It's been repeated in 47 different forms But at least it's an accurate quote when

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God wants to judge a nation. He gives them wicked rulers John Calvin, he's right that's absolutely right on that one and The Choice that is placed before the

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American people. There's a picture of a little girl just screaming crying and it says

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I don't want to vote for either one and There's there's a reason for that and those of you

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Who say you know what? I don't agree with you That the system is fundamentally broken.

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I think we've still got a shot but the only shot is

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To not have Hillary Clinton in Why can't I go with you because the

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Weimar Republic Because you're basically saying

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I'm going to Throw the dice on a man whose behavior lifestyle and character

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Screams Compromise breaking of covenants unreliability

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Screams it I Can't go with you Now will

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I never speak to you again? Um No, obviously

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I'm I've tried to keep these things separate. I Mean those of you who were on the Trump train early on and ignored all this stuff yeah, we've got some things got to talk about but Many of you are now sitting to go.

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Well, no, I wasn't I warned against this but here's where we are and I just Have to do this.

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Okay If you have to do it You're taking a risk I cannot take and do not tell me don't pull a

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Copeland on me and Tell me I'm gonna be guilty of every abortion that takes place after January of next year

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I'm not guilty of them now, and I'm not gonna be guilty of them then Hillary Clinton is

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Barack Obama is But don't tell me that if I won't risk my vote

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Upon a covenant -breaking man with Absolutely disqualifying character that somehow

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I'm guilty of what of what Another disqualified person is going to do Doesn't follow that's irrational

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That is the road to utter destruction The church will survive persecution

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May look very different in the future be much smaller But it'll probably be purified

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But will we survive Selling our souls showing more faith in Donald Trump and Mythical Supreme Court nominations

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Then in the power of the gospel That's where I am.

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I can't vote for either one of them and I won't and If you do that's between you and God but people have asked and so I'm just telling you where I'm coming from what

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I see. Ah, you're a downer. Ah, you know, okay Time will tell but as I see things now,

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I know we're going into a difficult difficult time Uh, but on one hand

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I sort of know what the difficulties are gonna be with the one side the other side man

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Anarchy is a bad thing too Totalitarianism that's a bad thing.

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Anarchy bad thing. Just a bunch of bad things and Why is that well again,

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I I think it's the judgment of God I really do think it's judgment of God We are called to be faithful And to proclaim the only way of peace with God Through the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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We are to call sin, sin We're to do what John the Baptist did it cost us what it cost

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John the Baptist And John the Baptist said to a leader what you're doing is immoral

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And it cost him his head Are we willing to do that or are we willing to vote for Herod When Herod says

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I won't I won't persecute you for a while. Anyway, lots more to be said

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I'm sure I skipped over a bunch of stuff that I had thought of or think of all the time, but You're probably bored anyways, and we're gonna have to make this part two

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After the computer crash or the black helicopters or whatever. You can come up with whatever you want to think it was

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It was just simply Windows being windows and and it happens so There's my thoughts on it one of the things

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I haven't gotten to And I'm not sure how to do it and we're running out of time because I think

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I only have Yeah, we only got one more program And then I'm headed off to Brisbane Sydney and Wellington and it's two and a half weeks long before we'll be coming back

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Yeah, will I get back or will I be a new citizen of either Brisbane Sydney or Wellington Yeah, that's man of the country that well

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I get back November 7th, which is lucky because that's the day before the election so so Either side to have a hard time getting getting rid of me at that point

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But I haven't gotten to the unbelievable webcast With the former

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Seventh -day Adventist minister And Josh McDowell's son

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Because I think there's a lot in there that throws that casts some more light upon the

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Andy Stanley Evidentialism apologetic stuff and I promised I was gonna review it and I I need to do that because there's some really important things there that need to be gotten to whether I'll be able to With preparation for what's coming up have time today.

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I just don't know. I just don't know. I took a risk today because There are some of you

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You know, you you're really emotionally involved in this some people really

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Politics religion politics religion vies for what's vitally important. I get that I get that I just I have to continue being me and doing and saying what

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I need to say and We've done that for 30 coming up on 33 years now

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That's a third of a stinking century Yeah, just remind you of that you had a birthday recently you should be thinking about these things

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Long time this isn't safe to do

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But normally what we do isn't safe to do and it does seem that as our audience has grown and we have more and more people listening

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The danger grows No matter what I do or how I do it pray for us pray for the upcoming trip the the debate the dialogue with Abdullah Kunda on peace with God and Lord willing we will see you if we're still around next