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Are you gonna bark all day little doggie, or are you gonna bite?
Delusional yeah delusional is okay in your worldview. I'm an animal. You don't chastise chickens for being delusional. You don't chastise pigs for being delusional. So you calling me delusional using your worldview is perfectly.
Okay, it doesn't really hurt.
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Desperate times call for faithful men and not for careful men. The careful men come later and write the biographies of the faithful men lauding them for their courage.
Go into all the world and make disciples not going to the world make buddies not to make brosives, right? Don't go in the world make homies.
Disciples, I got. I got a bit of a jiggle Nick. That's a joke.
We cannot let somebody say they're speaking truth when they're not.
Nations will fear the name of the Lord and all the kings of the earth will fear Your glory.
Psalm 102.
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Pretty good speech actually China pretty good speech. We're gonna go through it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, China. We're gonna do a couple minutes to go through some of a speech talk about important things Related to that and we're gonna talk about some of the cultural insanity going on as well we hope to give you guys a good time today help you guys laugh and We hope you guys learn some stuff and we just have a good time together.
So, you know one of the things we used to do early on in apology a Radio history prank calls. We did prank calls. Some of you guys remember that that was fun I'm gonna start doing that again prank calls.
I don't think any of those stores are open anymore I know seriously called Christian bookstores and we would ask for ridiculous Books and Christian items and the goal was to not laugh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, don't get hung up on and don't laugh so basically we would write 10 10 items you had to ask the Christian bookstore for and We should play through some of those.
Those are a lot of fun. And we're fun. The goal was always smoked us. Yeah, she always beat us. She could do without laughing. Do we ever win against her? I don't think we did so we'd write down like 10 items you gonna ask but none of us saw the items we had to Ask for until the person was on the phone and flip the page over and then we had to ask for the most Ridiculous ridiculous items and people would go look for them.
Like Joel Osteen hair cream kind of thing. Yeah, but it was a lot of fun. One of the things that's reminiscent of the old apology a radio is this right here and I just felt like playing it. I felt like playing I thought Mount Rushmore.
I thought you know, you know I'm saying I don't know.
It just I'm connecting the dots now. I didn't know it felt right.
Mount Rushmore the rugged wilderness and. You know, it just it just feels it feels right to me. So it was like it's. I don't know if you guys ever seen this but it's the guy in the Buffalo.
Get away from the bear.
So that was a guy in a Buffalo. That's Luke. That's when men were men. Yeah when they rode buffers. Where were where are the men who are riding Buffalo's? They don't exist. They don't exist. I'm gonna start writing Buffalo into work.
Yeah, I'm gonna come into the studio right at Buffalo. That would be awesome. It would be all right now. Not in this climate, no, I heard actually this week it's gonna we're gonna have Death Valley temperatures.
Yep, and I sent that to our other elder. Pastor Zach is on his mandatory sabbatical right now and I sent it we sent it to our other elder. I didn't like it by the name of Pastor James White and it was like hey Death Valley temperatures and you and I were like, wow, right?
That's terrible.
I have a wedding this weekend. So I was like, I'm gonna die.
And he was like he was like, well, it looks like somebody just moved to the alley or something like that. Just totally dissing. Totally throwing down our our feelings and our emotions about how hot it is here.
But he just is dismissive like whatever, you know the other day. I heard that he went. He goes to get his. To get fixed up by a Nicoletta. We have the world's best chiropractor at Apologia. She actually fixed my leg yesterday.
She ripped it back out of its socket and like flew across the room as she did it. Didn't apologize at all and said that she wasn't sorry for it. But did you know the James did this. He went to go his get his adjustment and then after his adjustment.
He was gonna go ride the bike for five hours.
Do you know that it sounds about right five hours?
How does a human being just to make a decision on like I'm gonna I'm gonna get up and I'm gonna ride for five Yeah hours today hours. Is he getting ready for a competition? No, like they're like he can't there are no competition right around the world on his bike is he gonna do like a country thing virtually I rode this mountain.
He actually has he I think he did he say he's actually like Mileage wise gone around the planet like 16 times or something. I don't know. It's a lot. It's a lot I'll tell you what, dr. White's gonna outlive all of us.
He is and is incredible. Not if it keeps eating taco time incredible shape a taco time. We'll take him down. Yeah. That is his kryptonite taco time taco time. Yep white and delights him Mexican food. Dr White loves his taco time.
If we go to if we go to Salt Lake City, we have to all eat a taco time. Cuz he was mad that we didn't he's very much about traditions. You know, it's that. Especially since he's so much against traditions.
Yeah against yeah against unbiblical traditions, but he's got some traditions of his own. See, that's why he's he's so keenly aware of the fact that all of us have traditions because he knows that he has addition.
Yes, not that they're unbiblical. There's nothing wrong with taco time, but he's very much like this is what we do. This is what where we go. This is what I buy. This is that's how we do it.
It was up to him. He'd still stay in like the same like budget in in Salt Lake City. He.
Well, that's the thing is like it was even though it's in the ghetto. There was a situation in the past where like Sean McCraney that apostate guy. He he was like, you know sort of challenging and then James was like it was like well We'll send Jeff up there to do a debate with you and he was like, I know exactly where to go I know where to send him and I think he was even suggesting like put me up and like the old hotel like, you know.
Yeah, it's like from the 50s or something. It's like, you know, yeah hole in the wall. Like, you know, it's it's only five bucks a night. Yeah. Yeah, but it's next to the taco time. It is probably next to the taco time.
Yeah, he would do that too. You guys realize that the James is that way if if it was up to him. He probably would like if you could have like a Marriott. That's decent decently priced and like, you know, it's a nicer place.
Maybe it's a hundred bucks a night. But if he grew up going to the to the the beat-up little motel down there. It still has a sign that says air-conditioning and color TV. Yeah, I guess five bucks. I'll stay there.
Never mind the fact that his festive with roaches and that's where they film psycho. It doesn't matter like the toots and drug. Do you just be like that's where I've always gone and that's where I'm gonna die.
That's how I'm gonna do it. That's that's what James does so now you guys know a little more information about.
Pastor James and how he doesn't. We've already received multiple complaints because we're on the same time the dividing line. Sorry it happens.
I yeah, just it's just the way the schedule works guys. We're not trying to compete with our other feller elder. Just it's just how it works in terms of our schedule and our stuff. It says a crisp meat burritos.
Dr White kryptonite kryptonite that is that is true. That is very very true. Alright, so let's get into today. I wanted to show everybody some stuff and talk about current events stuff. Did you guys know that there is a trend right now of people?
It's like a cancel culture trend. Cancel culture is very popular right now. Everyone knows about that cancel culture trends regarding even actors and actresses. Who can't play roles? They can't play roles of somebody that they're not in real life.
So we're gonna talk and play a little bit of this Situation with Halle Berry. Halle Berry apparently was going to play this transgender character. And then she came out and she apologized and essentially said like I'm not gonna do it like I don't have a right I don't have a right to step into that skin.
Oh. You mean acting? Oh. You tell me acting. Oh like you're not you're not gonna act anymore. So like basically everybody who plays a role has to be that person in real life. How does one get into that mindset that like I can't act and play the part I have to be that person.
It's such it's such insanity.
Yeah.
It's madness and it's an embarrassing to to a culture to get into that kind of mindset where you have to actually be the person that you're Pretending to be so I don't know if you've got a lot of money to be pretend to be a cat.
That's right.
Catwoman that's right. She didn't apologize for that. She did not.
Yes.
Terrible movie that's for dang. Sure. Absolutely. I would not recommend this but times with that. Well, let's let's let's go. Let's go this direction. Let's talk about the way things were and talk about where they're at now.
I Missy I was born in 1978. And so 42 years old. I got three grandkids. I got five children and So I've been I've been around for a little bit a little bit. I'm a little older than and then Luke and he always make he likes to make to point that out.
So is my wife you're the oldest of us. You're gonna die first. Well, I'm gonna meet Jesus first. So before you My only come back come back as well, I'll see the Lord of Glory before you do so. But James would definitely be there first.
No, he won't no not with his riding his bike. So I've been around for a while and one of the things I can remember from my childhood and some of you guys probably Remember this as well is that we recognize that race racism with tribalism biblically speaking tribalism.
Saying like your color is what makes you better or looking down on a color or culture. Pride it's it's disgusting. Racism belongs in the pit of hell and people will go to hell for their hatred of another person because of the color of their Skin, so we're all there now, right racism is evil.
It's awful. Civil War had a lot of consequence. United States of America. If you didn't know this every country that Christianity came to every country the gospel came to. Ultimately in history that country was freed from its slavery and it's it's a commitment to slavery.
So it's it's literally history of the church you go watch it everywhere. The gospel went when the gospel transformed that culture the gospel transformed that culture even down to if they were practicing The slave trade or had a historic practice of the slave trade.
Christianity destroys that it abolishes that it ends it everywhere and guess what? What's amazing is the Christian Church was able to do that in 2 ,000 years of church history. Without shedding blood without a war but in the United States of America We had a war and over 600 ,000 people died as a result of the Civil War.
We're not going to get into all the complications of that issue right now man, stealing and kidnapping and Enslaving is worthy of the death penalty in God's law. Christianity gives you a basis to despise Slavery like that and so we have a basis for it.
But when we look back at our history say yeah. The Civil War created a lot of consequences for our nation and like worse even to this day. Still feeling the consequences from how that war was fought and then the sorts of things that came afterwards like the Jim Crow laws disgusting disgraceful despicable things in our country, but Praise God we got to the point where we started realizing what people started fighting for this stuff is unjust.
It's unrighteous. It's un-christian. It's it's hateful. It's disgusting get rid of these Laws systemic laws laws and ordinances local ordinances regard to like this is a white fountain and that's a colored fountain.
How disgusting is that? Thank God that stuff is gone and we despise it and we keep scoring upon it all that but what's amazing is like in the civil rights movement you're thinking like around like the like the Peak of the 50s and into the 60s and all that stuff goes on there now.
Of course, there's still ripple effects from all that stuff. You know, it doesn't just end and everyone goes Okay, ollie ollie oxen free like we're good nuts behind us now, of course, there's still ripple effects.
Here's my point 78 is when I was born. I remember 80s child my childhood raised in coming up. I remember watching shows comedy shows where people were ribbing each other and joking with each other and having fun with Each other's culture like you could tease each other in in a respectful funny loving way.
Joke about it right tease because you don't mean any harm with each other. You're teasing with each other. You'd even joke about yourself. For example, let me put it this way when I see A person of another color than me a different count of melanin than me.
Asking questions and joking about white culture. I laugh about it. Yeah, like I laugh about like I saw one comedian He was joking. He was like he was like we know this culture over here. They have this kind of food and this this kind of practice and culture and it's funny and we have this and they were like.
But what do white people have? Like what do you guys have like macaroni and cheese? Like what's your what's your cultural staple food? Like what is it Matt? And I thought about like, I don't know. It's a pot pie I don't know.
What is it? What do white people have? I don't know, but I'm like I'm like totally laughing about it. Like I'm like that is funny. Like what is it? Like Salisbury steak TV dinners?
I don't know. What is it?
So like I have teasing like when you when you tea because because you don't mean it like if you see somebody as equal and You love one another you can you can laugh about silly things about your culture and not take it seriously, right?
But what's with this offended? Ridiculously a heightened offense. Culture and cancel culture where you can't even tease Somebody anymore like for example in this I'm gonna I'm gonna play it. So you guys get a flavor of what I'm talking about and how we are living in insane times.
This this is from late 70s. I believe late 70s, maybe 80 81. I think it's like 78 maybe. This is Eddie Murphy and he was it's it's a famous skit. It's called white like me. It's from SNL and I wanted to say this.
Honestly, I This this cracks me up like it's Eddie Murphy Pretending to be white for a day. He's doing white face Okay, and I don't have a problem with that. No I've no problem. I think this is one of the funniest bits SNL ever did it's one of their classics.
He pretends to be white for a day and he steps into like white the white culture and he discovers all this secret world Underneath the white coat and it's hilarious. And I'm not offended by it like the stuff that he's talking about is obviously not true.
Like when he's when they're joking and you're gonna see in a second when he's joking about it. It's obviously totally a joke and not true and I I'm white. He's black. I think he's hilarious here, but we lose the ability to do all this with this ridiculous.
Broken.
Reasoning that we've fallen into when we talk about cancel culture and you've allowed the Marxist the neo-marxist to come in with this class conflict between whites and blacks that disrupts us and the amazing thing is.
And this is the sad thing and then I'll play the video is this nonsense comes into the Christian Church. And it begins to divide divide white brothers from black brothers. That's disgraceful. I love my black family in Christ.
I love I love them. I love black culture and these neo-marxists are coming in and they're destroying our ability to see each other as image of God because the first thing they want us to highlight is color and oppression and You're automatically this because the color you have and like that's into the that's in the church now.
And so we've lost the ability to joke with each other. We've lost the ability to not take ourselves very seriously. We've lost the ability to think clearly and we've just succumbed to this class conflict.
A.
Propaganda from the neo-marxist. We can't even laugh about things like this that are actually really really funny. A.
Lot of people talk about racial prejudice and. Some people have gone so far as to say that they're actually two Americas one black and one white but talk is cheap. So I decided to look into the problem myself firsthand to go underground and actually experience America.
As a white man, I hired the best makeup people in the business. If I was gonna pass as a white man. Everything had to be perfect. Okay, let's try this.
Listen.
The other kind of Harry Reams in I like I Study for my role very carefully. I Watched lots of Dynasty.
See. See how they walk.
Their butts are real tight when you walk. I gotta keep my butt real tight. And I read a whole bunch of Hallmark cards. You always mean lots more to me than you could ever guess for you have done so much to fill my life with happiness.
Finally, I'm buying this newspaper. That's all right. There's nobody around. Go ahead. Take it. Take it. Go ahead take it. Yeah, take it slowly. I began to realize that when white people are alone. They give things to each other for free.
There was only one other black man on the bus. He got off on 45th Street. The problem was much more serious than I'd ever imagine. Let me get this straight. Mr Mr. White. $50 ,000. But you have no collateral you have no credit you don't even have any ID.
Is that correct? That's right Mr. White, I'm sorry. This is not a charity. This is a business. And Harry.
Why don't you take your break now? I'll take care of Mr. White. Okay. Thanks, Bob. That was a close one. We don't have to bother with these formalities, do we Mr. White?
What a silly Negro.
Just take what you want. Pay us back any time or don't we don't care.
So there you go.
There's a good example like that's you know, not very long ago in our history where people could joke. Like that he could step into the white culture tell jokes, you know. He could he could he could he could tell a story.
Without everybody losing their minds. And I see something like this. I'm I'm white and I'm not offended by it. I think it's hilarious. Yeah, he's obviously a comedian telling a joke and. But he's even in this case.
Not only is he ribbing on white culture and he's obviously joking about it. None of this stuff happens.
All right.
But the the point is is he's also playing a character that he's not in real life. And that's just not allowed now. No when Halle Berry apologizes because she says well I don't think I don't want to see a movie that she's talking about.
Anyways, it didn't even sound remotely interesting to me when she talks about playing a transgender.
Person.
Woman that that transitions to become a man then she apologizes later because she's not from that community. It's like so there's no actors and actresses anymore. You can't play roles anymore. You have to actually be that person.
How's that work? Like how's that work? What movies would you have? I mean, so if you're gonna do a movie about the history of Scotland, you can't have like Braveheart. You can't have like American actors.
With maybe not great Scottish accents but doing doing the movie like in Scotland like you have to only hire Scottish people like. Do they have to be descendants of the people who are part of those battles?
I mean like I what where where do you want to end this insanity?
Do you ask you want to say I'm just gonna say it's funny because you know, so is she only allowed to play a role that is a black woman and. My first question and the second question is Who are you to say that she's a woman.
So I just it's a it's just a like a whole basket of contradictions. Proper pronouns here.
So I'll play just a little bit as I'm gonna spend too much time on this. But this is her interview talking about when she was she was wanting to play this role.
Where woman is. A trans there's gonna have to be. She's a woman that transitioned into a man. Really character in a project.
Love and I might be doing by the way everyone real fast. The the the sketchiness of the audio there is not on our end. It's not it's not our internet or yours. That's it's the interview. She did just so everyone understands.
Don't don't think everything's messed up right now. It's it's just how it sounds. So here we go.
It's to me and I thought I do Movie that's the character. I'm good. I want to experience that world. Understand that world. I want Character, I want to you know deep dive in that I did bruise.
All right, so that's that was her explanation and I'll get to her apology here. There's like a little there's a long little interview section there. But here is here is her official apology.
I'll play this on Twitter saying as a cisgender woman I now understand that I should not have considered this role and that the transgender community should Undeniably have the opportunity to tell their own stories.
I am grateful for the audience and critical conversation over the past few days and I will continue to listen. Educate and learn from this mistake. I vow to be an ally in using my voice to promote better Representation on screen both in front of and behind the camera, you know, that is that's that's her saying.
I will submit.
Yep, I I will submit. I'm so sorry. Please forgive me. Please forgive me these that's what that's what this this this cancel culture and the the alphabet people and Everybody who's who's engaging in the neo-marxist sort of like playbook and all that's been going on underneath this.
That's that's what they want. They want your full submission. They want blood and so this is somebody who as an actress was like well I want to play this role and understand this world and then all of a sudden she gets attacked from the people that just cannot think critically and who can only see color who can only see gender and hate the world that God made and That's how they live their lives that's how they live in this world.
She gets she gets attacked by them and she realizes I could lose everything I could lose everything because they'll cancel me. They'll have people that they're vicious. It's it's it's a vicious world to live in.
And so what does she do? It's it's full submission. It's full submission. They should tell their own stories. I'm grateful for the audience and the critical conversation over the past few days and I will continue to listen and Educate and learn from this mistake.
I vow to be an ally. So this is her like just saying please Please please forgive me. I'll be your ally. Yeah, they're they're the moral authority. No, exactly. That's very good. They are the moral authority now and How dare you how dare you as an actress?
Act and she was trying to celebrate them, which they shouldn't be celebrated, but she was trying to be supportive and celebrate them.
Yeah, she was on their side. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, she was their ally, but she was an actress and she's not allowed to act because they apparently want no more actors in the World no more playing roles.
No more pretending. So I imagine if you're gonna have a story of like a person who's handicapped. You have to find a person who's truly handicapped. Which was I think a comedian did a funny thing on this recently and they were like basically like what would they be getting a Reward for for being them like you like Oscars are like you did the greatest job.
Playing you and this thing like how do you how does that happen? Like why what's what's special about finding a person who only is that thing, right? It's not special and nobody's mesmerized by an actor actress.
That is that in real life, right? As a matter of fact what what you you talk about people who like well, that's that's how that person is in real life. Like it's a pretty you know I'm saying there's there's actors who are even famous people and they're just like in the same.
They're this the cast is the same thing and everything and that's how they are in real life sort of a thing. There's not much of a divide between who they are in real life and who they are on the screen and everyone just understands like We just enjoy watching them, but that's really kind of how they are in real life.
There's lots of actors like that, but none of that's impressive. Who's impressive what's impressive when Christian Bale? loses like all of his weight down to his bones and Plays in the machinists. Did you see that?
I saw a picture. It's I haven't seen it. It's it's I'm not recommending the movie I'm just saying like in terms of like how people were like, oh my goodness I think he said he ate an apple a day. They're like, how'd you lose that much weight?
He's like I went to the doctor and said how do I survive and lose weight like look like I'm dying and he's like Well, you just need some vitamins and minerals to eat an apple a day. And he's so he said it was easy I ate an apple a day.
It's why it's so impressive because he's not that person in real life and he lost all that weight to get into that mind of The character and play the character. I mean, it's just that's what's impressive to people is when like, oh my goodness.
That guy's nothing like that in real life and then look at him over there or look at her. Like okay, what's the movie I I haven't seen the movie but it's based on the true story and it's with Charlize Theron she it monster.
Oh, no, I haven't seen anything, but I know I follow that whole story when it happened in the past. That that woman who was killing all those men. She was like a serial killer prostitute. And so when they picked her for that role and she was playing I was like, how's she gonna play that role?
That woman is you know, she's not a looker. Can we say that and be loving, you know, I love her for Jesus sake, but let's just be honest. She's not a looker. That's all there is to if you've seen the interviews, you know, she wasn't she wasn't a looker.
Well, you picture at least Aaron and you're like, okay, how's that gonna work? And then she they came out and you're like, whoa. Whoa, like she is phenomenal. Like how she she got into the character. She she she beefed herself up like she she and she she messed up her mug and it was like, okay.
All right. Yeah. Yeah, she did a great job and that's what's impressive because she's not that person in real life and that's why everyone like, you know, lauds them with so much like a Reward and awards.
I was like, wow, what a fantastic skill, but we're not allowed to do that anymore because cancel culture and.
Now.
You just have to be the person you are in real life. Another example now watch this is funny. This is actually is amusing to me. Just to show you in terms of time this this was dropped at least on their YouTube channel.
Key and peel super super. Talented guys, I mean in acting and their their skill and writing. I'm not recommending all their stuff. They've just done some cultural commentary stuff. That's actually really really good.
These guys are very very talented. They're actually some of the most brilliant probably talented writers of our day and they're hilarious at times. Again not recommending all their content I'm recommending some.
You can't deny their talent, but this was in 2014. Key and peel. Do this skit and it's about local gangsters. I just want to point some stuff out to you real fast. We won't play the whole thing just a piece.
We need a crazy bottle like you in our game with this bandana. I Welcome you to the game. Yo. Hold up. Oh. What's going on. Hey Carlito, I was just Welcoming Eduardo into the game. Why? Who he what he did?
He's crazy, man. We were thinking that the game is a crazy guy. Yeah, man. This guy is loco Eduardo.
Oh.
No, no, I'm the local one in this game. What. Okay. Okay. Check this out. I'm a duck. I'm a crazy duck. No Carlito. It's not that kind of look. So obviously I.
Can't play the whole thing here. But here's here's something dropped in December 4th 2014 like I said according to their channel. That's not very long ago and That's that's that's not allowed anymore.
Here you have guys key and peel actually they're they're mixed. But like all of us are we're all we're all of we're all a bunch of mutts. Can we just acknowledge that we're all a bunch of mutts?
But.
They're they're not. That culture right. And then they do a bit where they're. They're joking about a culture. They're teasing but they're not those people. Now I gotta I gotta say this when I watch that it never crossed my mind seeing something like that.
Oh, these guys are racists.
Right, not at all.
Right. They're just comedians. They're right again. They're telling jokes. But but in order to tell the joke they have to step into that that culture in that world and and they're poking fun at themselves.
Then they here's the thing about campy. Oh campy. Oh can tell jokes about black culture. Mm-hmm. They can tell jokes About white culture they can tell jokes about Hispanic culture and Asian culture they can do that and you're not supposed to be offended by it because they're getting everybody and they're just Stopped taking everything so seriously.
Yeah, like, you know I'm saying if if you can think rationally and you have a stable and balanced mind. You don't have to take everything with offense and take everything. So seriously again. When I see somebody of a different culture making fun of white culture in a way That's just poking fun and teasing and they're making fun of themselves.
I'm not offended in the slightest I'll probably laugh harder than anybody if they tell a good joke about white culture. Everybody has this heightened. Sort of radar for racism right now only because you've been worked on you've been worked on for a long time.
Now if you heard what I said at the beginning of the episode, you know that I said that racism. Tribalism is an evil wicked sin that belongs in hell. If you hate somebody for color their skin or their culture all that stuff.
It's it's you'll go to hell for it. Okay, if you don't have Jesus, that's one of the things you're gonna spend eternity in hell for. So all that all that needs to be said. But when it comes to the hyper sensitivity here people have been worked on you've been worked on to see things only on the basis Of color to always be offended to.
I mean now it's just cancel them cancel them. Do you know people have tried that to us to before it was a couple years ago. Somebody didn't didn't like us and so they were like doing this campaign on like Twitter.
Hey, everyone cancel. Apology. I cancel apology. YouTube police got us by the way. I did they yeah, is it we're back on.
Everybody's saying that we got shut down. Are we back? Oh, it's back. We're back on.
Yeah, it went when the thing goes up. We'll dispute it with YouTube and we'll let them know that we're doing. Commentary. Well, it's fair use commentary. So we'll sorry about that. Everybody. It'll it'll later.
It'll all be intact. So next thing I wanted to play this as well and it'll probably it'll probably get hooked again. But I'll just I'm gonna do it. Anyways Just to show you this which I thought was actually a good commentary one of the things happening today related to cancel culture.
Into the the constant conflict over the color of the skin and the attempt to create so much racial division and animosity. Which is in the playbook create class conflict. That's how you create upheaval to turn the civilization over and then ultimately move your way into communism.
That's that's how it goes. You can read their works. You can read their literature. That is the game plan. It's a gay versus straights whites versus blacks the rich versus the poor. Conflict conflict class conflict warfare and then destroy the nation and then communism welcome.
Well, what's interesting is now you have it this I could play video after video video. Imagine some of you guys and you've probably seen this already where now you have James has said it a lot this this culture this cancel culture this conflict this racial conflict culture.
There is no atonement in This whole ideology. It's you're guilty. You will be forever be guilty. Nothing is enough. There's no atonement. It's just forever judgment. It's forever conflict is forever judgment.
You are what you are. You will always be this and you just need to leave it live a life. Groveling at at the feet of the person you've offended whether that's the alphabet people whether it's people Who are of a different color, whatever the case may be?
And so when we we we talk about where we're at now, no atonement. It's so you see white people.
Literally.
Groveling at the feet of someone who has black skin. Begging for forgiveness and confessing confessing their guilt. For what for beat for being white. Exactly. And this is a sad state of affairs because there there is no atonement.
But only in Christ there is atonement in Jesus. He's taken away all of our sins everybody white and black. And whatever color yellow, whatever color you are. You're all guilty. We're all guilty before a Holy God.
And the only atonement that takes away guilt and shame and sin and Condemnation is Jesus only through faith in him this new Brand of condemnation and shame that comes in over over color of skin. There is no atonement.
There there is no endgame for them and they admit that like it's perpetual condemnation and shame. Why. Because the color of your skin it's because of the color of your skin. That's racism. Straight up straight up racism.
If it was flipped the other direction Let's say it was an Asian person talking that way about a black person we'd all call it out as racism. If it was a white person talking about a black person or an Asian person or a Native-american we'd call it out as racism what they're guilty forever because the color of their skin we'd say that's disgraceful.
Despicable.
Racism we should all despise and he scorn upon but it's accepted now. We're no like you're perpetually guilty because the color of your skin. You're part of this class of humanity. And so you're guilty because of the color of your skin and there is no atonement in their theology and in their worldview.
But I thought this was funny. It's Key and Peele and They're actually in this bit here. They're making the name of the bit is awkward apologies from white people. So I'll just try to play as much as I can get away with before YouTube will pause this but again later on this will.
All be up. I'll do the dispute and we'll tell them it's fair use.
Commentary, but here we go. So the Lannisters are the blonde People and the female Lannister is married to Robert Baratheon. Who's the king? It's is it Baratheon or Baratheon right? All right, and then the other blonde girl is the Can I get you something?
Oh, I don't know. Um three kamikaze shots, whatever. I can't believe he just did that.
What's that?
Served me before you guys. I'm really against that. I'm so sorry. That's okay, we've got beers. No, I mean, I'm sorry about Everything that's fine. No. No, it's been a hundred years of not fine. I mean 20 years ago, you guys wouldn't have even been allowed in here 20 years.
That would be 1992. It was really beautiful oh.
She's done that just happened, didn't it? Yeah, so they're totally poking fun.
This awkward is awkward white apology. And making fun of how ridiculous it sounded to them and this this wasn't very long ago either. But I think this is a brilliant piece of comedy and cultural commentary.
They're making fun of people who pander right to them and It's silly to them. So here's another one. I love this one and I remember them because I grew up in the 90s. Amazing.
So the Lannisters, okay, she's the Queen Jamie Lannister is the other one Jamie. And yeah, what a man. Hey, give me another lager. I mean, yeah spilled my last one. I'm a tribe shirt believe that but whatevs got this thing in 93 Midnight Marauders tour.
Check that out. It's everywhere. Oh, yeah. Hey. Who's your favorite member of tribe?
Again.
No, man, love him dude behind the scenes, but he was like All right. Good. See you guys around though. Mm-hmm. Cool. Okay, one more one more one more. Come on, son. No.
So, uh, there you go, yeah, I'm sure the streams gonna come up here in a second. Sorry everybody. One thing one of the things that's become so ridiculous about YouTube is the the restrictions they have on.
If you have Christian content you are in danger on YouTube of being suppressed. Of being shadow banned or being completely shut down. I mean completely shut down and someone needs to start a solid solid solid Platform.
Yeah for videos like YouTube because their policies are just getting so insanely now there I want to say this. They have a right. It's their private property. They have a right to do whatever they want, right?
I want them to have that right. I want to have that right. Private property means private property. If it's my business is my business.
We also have the right as a community to say we don't like your ideas and your practices that we're going elsewhere. So people have a right. So someone please create a streaming Service and video service that's that's better.
But even in their restrictions now like they're so tight now like you can't even do cultural commentary anymore. So used to be fair use you could talk through like news clips. You know talk through film things and you could play through and they might strike it afterwards and say hey.
Can you answer for this now? They're just like you'd be midstream going through a cultural commentary thing and they just shut you right down like that. Are we back? I don't know. Let's let's let's hope we are.
Well, let's see. Is it running right there? Where am I at here? Okay, I've lost all that. Okay so let's just get into the let's get into the Trump the Trump one and Let's see if we can get through that without being shut down.
Playing Trump. So that's an automatic shut down. Yeah, I know we're playing Trump. Why I mean I shouldn't have done this I I named Trump in the the video thing. Here's the description that probably automatically gets a shadow banned.
All right. So pastor Luke wanted to talk a bit about the Trump Mount Rushmore speech and I hope we're back on again. This will be on at least later. So let's go ahead and get into this now. This is the speech that created all the controversy.
Fairly recently is about a week old and President Trump went to Mount Rushmore to speak in front of Rushmore a very symbolic thing in terms of current cultural circumstances and conversation we've got Statues being destroyed and taken down.
You've got history being destroyed and taken down now. I just want to suggest something This this is just the cherry on top. What I mean by that is this whole idea of erasing history.
Of.
Redefining things erasing it getting it out of people's minds. It didn't start with the George Floyd Riots. No didn't start there. You know where it started. It started when public education became a thing.
Did you know that public education was fought against by the Christian Church. Violently. Now when I say violently, I mean in a Christian way. There were no riots and there were no loot. There was no looting.
But what there was was it was a violent?
Intellectual.
Opposition to public school education. It does become. I know that it comes as a shock to Christians today. It was a shock to me to us. That public education wasn't always a thing and the public education was fought against by the Christian Church.
Because there were ministers there were Christians that said if we do this if you give the government if you give the state. Control of education they didn't have it before it was all private and it was excellent.
Did you know that we were the one of the most highly literate and educated? countries in the world like in world history and That was all private education education was controlled by private institutions.
Homeschooling private education it was done in churches all that stuff and we it was like through the roof amazing. We developed some pretty amazing people in this world through private education. It wasn't government controlled and they said you do this you give the education system over to the government to the state and that means the end of Christian influence and it means the end of Western civilization.
That's what they argued they argued that and then what happens we lost and Public education became a thing and then look it didn't take what a generation a generation and a half. Before you start saying well, we're not really talking about like How we got here in terms of worldview and intellectual ideas the influence of Christianity on all these areas of life.
You start just getting little spots of history. No details. Just like there's a guy named George Washington, you know, you know First president even though he wasn't the first president. His first president after a particular time but there were also colonies before that that had their own governments and they were together in many ways and There's a whole story behind that in terms of like where we were before even 1776 and then ultimately George, Washington.
But you just learned spots in history. Like, you know There was a thing called slavery and Abraham Lincoln was totally opposed to slavery and he you know. He wanted to abolish it. Listen to what he was saying before it was politically expedient for him and you know, there's so much stuff you don't learn.
There's so much stuff. You don't learn like in terms of like the people in the north and the south that were abolitionists that were trying to fight against Slavery, you don't you just don't learn this stuff.
You don't learn like there were people in the south that despised slavery and were desperate to try to get rid of this Institution that they had inherited and didn't want but they were like maybe we can do this over like 20 years and educate them and like get them like their own land and Businesses and get them on there on their way and started people in north and south working on that all that stuff.
Well, you don't learn that you just learn like north good south bad, right? Yeah, you learn general he fought for the south so bad take down his statue. It's like Did you even read what he said about slavery?
You know how he felt about it. And then even people in north that are vilified. They're vilified when they shouldn't be vilified like we're talking about a sinful fallen world and you want to erase all this history.
You don't want to teach it to our kids, but the public education system was the start. Well, you see going on in the streets now. We see going on the streets which leads to the Mount Rushmore speech where they're taking down these statues and trying to erase history.
Guys, that's the same playbook. It's the same playbook. You've seen it before. Yet look look at the history of communist nations Marxist influence. They turned to communism. What do you got? Let's burn some books.
Let's destroy the history, right? Because there is no history. There's just the perpetual present. There's just what you're creating now. So them destroying the history. It's meaningless to them. They don't want to be reminded of any in any way of the Christian history or really any history at all because Marxism doesn't have That perspective it doesn't have the perspective the history matters like that.
There's this perpetual Present right and and where we're at right now, so it's a destruction of the monuments destruction of the history. This is what's even saying that's a problem that I have a problem with the destruction of the monuments is not.
Everyone should understand. It's not carte blanche. Like I agree with everything those guys believe, right? I agree everything where they were. No, you have to you know, where you came from, you know what they believed.
You don't want to repeat the errors of history either. So being reminded of history helps you not to repeat the errors of history and it's incredible. It's absolutely incredible. At any rate when they come and destroy these monuments you understand it's the cherry they've already been revising history and destroying history and so Trump, of course holds to the.
Maybe it's not popular now some places this popular sentiment that we shouldn't really destroy these things we should protect them and it's wrong to destroy private property period but He goes to Mount Rushmore and here's what he said Pastor Luke you can stop me whatever you want.
It was all made possible by the courage of 56 patriots who gathered in Philadelphia 244 years ago and signed the Declaration of Independence. They enshrined a divine truth that changed the world forever.
When they said all men are created equal. These immortal words set in motion the unstoppable March of freedom our founders boldly declared That we are all endowed with the same divine rights given us by our Creator in heaven and That which God has given us we will allow no one ever to take away ever.
Good place ever ever.
I love that part but I meant to mention the first five minutes or so was kind of I told you told Jeff was like a Nebuchadnezzar kind of like look it look at this kingdom. I have built. But I appreciate he started here.
And I mean, that's a great way to start off. But you know whether or not he truly believes what he just said, you know, he's he's thanking our Creator Almighty God for what we have and that's more than the man the office before him did.
So, well, yeah, and and we should mention this. Okay, so a couple things just quickly here is that when you think about the Declaration of Independence the context they were living in. Slavery is a thing.
It's a present reality. We believe that slavery was a wicked institution. God's law again says man-stealing and enslaving is worthy of the death penalty. So a lot of them had have inherited this sort of thing didn't want it.
It was it was definitely a thing people were doing and they were wicked that I believe they should have been punished for it. So all that is there right. But like this is this is underneath like the background of like the war for independence and.
And.
The Declaration of Independence all that stuff like this stuff was going around in the culture around and yes. They say like endowed with these inalienable rights They're by their Creator. All of them are equal.
Like you do have to say hey guys. We think about what you're saying there. What about these guys you're you've got people kidnapping and enslaving black people like if you thought about that and the answer is yes.
They did think about it. They did have debates like that and they were like, you know Can we abolish slavery immediately and they're like well that might affect like how we were able to move forward as a nation immediately because it Can create internal strife between us at the moment.
We need to be able to fight this war. So there were there were definitely conversations happening about this is wicked. Christians knew it was wicked. But there were also people people who are professing to be Christian, of course, they were like no.
This is a good institution to have I look understanding all that's behind there. But listen, it says it.
Creator creation.
Equal under God and of course, we all recognize like you had some work to do guys. You definitely had some work to do to get there. But but do we do we fail to acknowledge the goodness of that? Worldview Creator creation image of God all equal, you know, what doesn't give you that I'll tell you what doesn't give it to you Marxism.
Yeah Marxism's dialectical materialism cannot give you it cannot give you Equality like that now, I will say as a caveat. I think a dramatic failure in the Constitution. It is a dramatic dramatic Dramatic serious failure and it does answer a lot of our problems today is Other Christian nations in history when those nations were converted and you have Christians in government and everywhere else.
They would acknowledge in their formal documents the triune God of the Holy Bible. It would actually point to this God Jesus Jesus. Exactly the Hawaiian Constitution after 20 years of missionary work 1819 1820 to 1840 yeah, all the missionary work Hawaiian islands are almost completely converted and They say in their formal Constitution that no law of the Hawaiian Kingdom shall be at variance with the laws of Jehovah God.
That's a specific now. We're talking about Tetragrammaton. We're talking about like this is the name of God and the Christian scriptures kind of a thing. At least of course, we understand where that comes from in terms of the English how we do it in English my point is is this Christian nations would actually name the triune God of Holy Scripture in their trees with other nations and Let's just say there's a whole history behind us of people who were very upset during the time of the Declaration of Independence.
And the Constitution when people were actually like not willing to actually in these formal documents name this God the whole general idea of creator. Yes, we know that the Christian worldviews in the atmosphere and many of them are Christians.
We understand that and so what they were talking about was like the Christian God. But there were Christians then who were saying hey y 'all are gonna collapse this ain't gonna work. You can't generally name a deity.
You have to talk about this God and so yes, it's true that there is a failure in the Constitution in our formal documents in that point where we have to name the Christian God that would be a bigger help, but It's something we're stuck with it.
Where are we? What are we gonna do now? But but I just want to point out that the materialist worldview the humanistic worldview the atheist or secular worldview all this Neo-Marxism can't give you the goodness of what he just said.
Yeah, right now. I'm listen. I I am NOT I'm not wearing a red Trump hat right now. I'm talking about what the man's quoting from what he's saying. Yeah, the worldview that is trying to overcome everything in this nation around us right now.
It can't give you atonement. It can't give you a workable worldview. It can't build anything and it can't give you equality. Like when you talk about BLM the formal organization BLM the Marxist organization BLM.
We're talking about people who call white people subhuman. Right, that's racism. But that in itself is racism. It doesn't it can't it can't defeat racism and make equality. All it does is it says no we need this kind of racism to be upheld.
That's all it does because it's not Christian only the Christian God can give you peace harmony unity beauty. Truth goodness all of that. So all that on Trump's statement there I think it's important because what these people can't give you today is what he illustrated their equality.
1776 represented the culmination of thousands of years of Western civilization and the triumph of not only spirit but of wisdom philosophy and reason.
And yet and I want to just highlight because it's important to do. So that if he's talking about thousands of years if he means 2 ,000 years, he's right. Yeah, and if he's if he's talking about all of these blessings to humanity.
What he's really talking about is the blessings of the gospel in the biblical worldview on world history and civilization. There just is no question that the modern rise in Technology and science and medicine came from the Christian worldview some of the greatest scientists and philosophers and doctors over the last couple hundred years.
They they believed what they believed and did what they did because of a Christian worldview underneath them. They were educated in Christian institutions. They held to a Christian view of history and reality in many respects.
And so you just can't get away from it. Science was given rise out of the Christian worldview and all the advances of modern medicine and now we've poo-pooed it all we say. No, God, we don't want your good worldview and your good gifts and your good gospel.
We don't want your son. And so we'll build our own civilization. Well, I think what would help is number one. I want Trump to know Jesus. That would be amazing. And I think I've seen changes in him. I don't know the man personally but I have seen some changes in terms of just like where he was to where he's at.
Now, I hope the Christians around him are having a good influence on him. But I like to see him be more courageous and just explicitly say all these things are from Jesus. All these things are from the Christian Scriptures because that's the truth that's really what he's aiming at like when you talk about Western civilization and the blessings of Western civilization what you really mean is Christianity that gave this to us.
We should just say it because that's really where it comes from. Just say it.
As we meet here tonight There is a growing danger that threatens every blessing our ancestors fought so hard for. Struggled they bled to secure. Our nation is witnessing a merciless campaign to wipe out our history to fame our heroes erase our values and indoctrinate our children.
Okay.
So let's think about solutions. How do you stop? The indoctrination of our children. Like you want to talk about axe to the root sort of a thing? Yeah, you know I'm saying you got you got abolished government schools.
Yeah, you got problem weeds. What are you gonna do? What do you do? Do you want to go cut the tips off of them like like let's fix this up. Or do you how do you? Like what like what are you what are you gonna do to it like Talk down to it or something I don't know like what do you do you pull it from the root if you're gonna take down a problem tree you got to Get to the to the roots it or it's coming back right.
So like Luke said the answer to the indoctrination problem is the government schools.
Abolish public.
Government funded Education. Do away with it brothers and sisters if you have your children I didn't used to be we didn't used to be so bold about this. No, we didn't know we didn't used to be so bold about it, and we still want to be gracious about it.
But brothers and sisters, please hear me on this if you have your children in public school education they are being indoctrinated in an Opposing worldview, and there's no way out of it. There's no way out of it.
It's it's what is it. Seven hours a day of indoctrination. Indoctrination. Indoctrination and all the arguments that we used to make because I used To make them too. I was in I was there. I want to send my kids into school to be missionaries.
You know I don't want to remove the Christian influence from the schools. It's like you expect your eight-year-old to be a missionary in the school really you think that's how they're working. Bad company corrupts good morals.
And if they're surrounded by bad company all day long with an opposing worldview with authorities above them who have an opposing worldview. You think your eight-year-old is gonna fare well there? No, they're being indoctrinated in an opposing worldview, and if you say well when I get him home.
I'll disciple them. Let's be honest. Let's be honest think about two weeks of classroom hours, okay? Let's say it's seven hours a day or six hours a day at school. How many hours is it?
I think it's like 30 hours a week.
Thank you, so say it's 30 hours a week. So I say 60 hours a week. Be honest dads. I had to be honest myself years ago. We had to be honest 60 hours a week. 60 hours. I'm sorry. 60 hours in two weeks time.
Question how much time do you spend specifically discipling and indoctrinating and educating your child in the Christian worldview over? Two weeks. Be honest. Can you compete with? 60 hours of class time in two weeks.
Can you be honest. No you can't. Can you compete with that if you? Homeschool your kids. You're dang right. You can. Can you compete with that if your kids are in private Christian education? Good private Christian education.
You're dang right. You can. Yes you can. But you can't do it when you have years and years and years Of indoctrination, it's weird. It's funny. You have solid Christian parents people that are godly godly amazing Jesus loving believers.
All of a sudden you see these kids that are raised in these homes with these godly parents under the Word of God with the Word of God going to church and all of a sudden you see 17 years old 18 years old these kids do what they're like now.
They're like professing homosexuals. They're going off into the world doing all kinds of crazy thing and like what happened. How come you believe all these things? Oh, I wonder I wonder why they believe all those things.
Could it be that they were taught a view of origins throughout their whole? Education history that was Antithetical to Christian origins. Could it be that they were taught a view of society and history that's antithetical to everything.
We believe as Christians. Could it be be that they were taught an ethical system in school. I mean think about it. You're like an ethical system. What what do you think is sex education is in schools?
You think they're talking about ethics there when you when your kids and my kids are in public schools learning sex education. Do you think they're learning the Christian view of sex? No answers. No. The answer is no when they're going in there.
They're being told everything goes. Experiment figure it out. You know, if you don't think you're a boy, maybe you're not really a boy maybe you can live a different way you can you can do you baby and They're being taught an ethical system.
And then you have you have specific stuff going into the education system in terms of indoctrination that changes What history really was? Changes who these men and women really were what they believed does not give you the full picture and understanding.
It just gives you like brute fact George Washington first president white guy. Own slaves like that's it's brute facts. Nothing. No context. No understanding nothing at all. And so it's also an abysmal education.
Can we just admit that to you? It's abysmal I'll say a more in the more modern vernacular public government funded.
Education sucks.
Okay, that's the modern vernacular you went like what's the lowest you can go in terms of like describing how awful it is. It's not even any good and people admit that in the public school education system.
Do you know what you can do if your kids are homeschooled and Christian private education schooled? You can actually control the quality of education. Mm-hmm. You could say they're not doing well in this area.
They need to do better. I need to find better curriculum and maybe better tutors in this area and we need to work on this area and you can control That and you know what else you protect them from all the lies all the indoctrination.
It's not to say that our kids are gonna grow up. Perfect. They're not they're not gonna grow up. Perfect. They're gonna be sanctified if they know Jesus, they're gonna be sanctified just like you. But in terms of our responsibility as parents protect them protect them from this garbage.
So when President Trump is talking about the erasing of history and the indoctrinating children brothers and sisters. There's a reason for it and we can't just say America. America, I'm gonna love American values.
You better have an answer. You got a problem with the indoctrination. You see all these young college age kids acting a fool in the streets of America over the last couple of months. Listen, they've been here the whole time.
Yeah, they didn't just become.
Stupid.
They didn't just become foolish all of a sudden overnight. This is their worldview. This is what they were taught. This is the ethical system. They believed and when they had an opportunity to be unleashed, I'm not talking about the peaceful protesters.
That's good and allowed and everybody should have been speaking out against injustice of the police. I'm talking about the people that went and shot random people on the street or beat up random people of a different color or Destroyed black businesses or burned buildings to the ground.
These people were running amok. Because this is how they were raised. Yeah, they were indoctrinated. I bet you watch. It's a good social experiment if you took everybody that was rioting and looting over the last two months.
And ask ask them could y 'all raise your hand. How many of you guys were homeschooled? Yeah like how many.
Probably a 0
Maybe it's maybe one straggler here. They're like, you know some. Some weird guy with you know, skinny jeans on or something. It's like my dad like whatever. I don't know. Maybe he was playing too much.
Anyone that was. Anyone that was homeschooled was probably because they had to be because he got kicked out of public school to write. But ask the rioters.
And the looters. How many of you guys were? Public schooled. How many guys are private schooled? I think you would. You would have a pretty solid answer. All right. So let's just go a little bit more here.
Angry mobs are trying to tear down statues of our founders to face our most sacred memorials and Unleash a wave of violent crime in our cities. Many of these people have no idea why they're doing this, but some know exactly what they are doing.
They think the American people are weak and soft and submissive. But no the American people are strong and proud and they will not allow our country And all of its values history and culture to be taken from them.
So I.
That resonates with me. Yeah, it does because I because I I I do hope for the preservation of the Christian culture and stuff that created all the goodness and blessing around us. So I resonates with me and I and I really like this speech.
I thought I thought that President Trump actually this was a good.
Speech. Yeah, it was. There's parts in it that I didn't agree with but there's like this part. Yeah, it was amazing.
Yeah, I mean obviously it's amazing. You have to say it now. Yeah, I don't agree with everything. He said he's like you like this speech you agree. It's like no.
Well, I'm not a Trump apologist. We're gonna if he's wrong and something we're gonna say he's wrong if he's right like this. We're gonna say he's right. But if you have to tell people like I'm not saying everything he says is right.
That's right. But you know, I think it's important for us to point out. By the way right now, yeah, we do. Okay. Sorry. We have an appointment. We're pastors. We have to go do some counseling right now.
We maybe we'll pick up on this later. But I just want to say final thoughts on on this particular thing I think it's important for us and this is sort of maybe the summary of what I wanted to aim at what I think we Wanted to aim at and talking about this is when President Trump Says some really powerful words there about preservation of culture and all the blessings that we have around us I think it's important for us to recognize.
Most of us probably don't know like what exactly are those things? You know, I mean like if we have if we haven't really thought as Americans we haven't really thought about well, what exactly is good about the worldview that created this?
What is that worldview? What are the blessings that we should preserve and why should we preserve them the question? I think that we have to ask to be Effective in the culture around us is this question and we say it all the time here it applies in so many ways.
Whether it's the area of apologetics or justice or whatever. It's this question by what standard by what standard like by what standard? Should I operate should I think I want to preserve this value in America?
The question is why on a whim like you like that because the opposition has their own likes and dislikes their own Tastes right and you can't have this you cannot have this simply be. One person's tastes versus another person's tastes and that's what you get when you abandon God in your Constitution.
And you have sort of like anything goes right like my God's just as valuable as your God. No, there's only one God. Jesus is the king. He's ruler over all he has all authority like hey I want to just say a heads up to all the secularists and humanists and everything else I want you to know where the world is going.
Jesus says all authority in heaven and earth and earth has been given to me. Go disciple the nations teach them to obey me all of history is going under the authority of Jesus Christ. It is it is true.
It is true at Apologia Church. We're trying to convert the world. That's right. Amen. It is true that we're trying to bring the nation that we're currently in and our state Under the blessings and authority of Jesus Christ.
There's no question about that. I have no. No embarrassment about that. But one of the things we need to recognize is that as Christians in this nation that resonates with us. The values of our past the blessings in our country.
We want to preserve them. No one can take them from us. We have to actually be bold enough to say. Because why? Well, it's because this value should exist because Jesus says and this justice should be in place because God says like we can't just have a Taste test and sort of like it's my taste versus your taste.
Because you get the chaos all around you you have to have an ultimate now the Marxist they have their ultimate the atheists have their ultimate Themselves and whatever the current society is saying but Christians are supposed to have a different ultimate.
It's Jesus when we say this is true. It's because he says so my encouragement is this when we are fighting this cultural battle. Let's do it with the gospel first and foremost. Let's call people to the Lordship of Jesus Christ and to his authority and to his salvation and when we fight these battles.
Let's do it explicitly as Christians. Example ending example when we're fighting against the issue of abortion in our country. It shouldn't just be in a general sort of pro-life issue squishy sort of like way like, you know, love.
Abortion kills love. No abortion is murder because God defines it as that abortion is murder. We should criminalize and abolish it not regulate it like the pro-life industry is trying to do. We should fight this explicitly as Christians.
We should say well because God calls it murder. That's the image of God. And of course, yes, I have science showing you exactly what's in there. It's human from conception, but I'm telling you. Yes, you have to stop this because it's murder.
It's the image of God and you cannot take the life of a human being in an unjustified manner with malice of forethought. That's murder. Why are we trying to end abortion in this way? Because we follow Jesus.
Amen. Like be explicit remember this the unbelievers the skeptics the secularists or the Marxists all those guys. They have their commitments and there are no holds barred. Right, no compromise. They have their commitments and they they're like, this is who I am and this is we're gonna make America.
It's time for Christians start start acting like Jesus has all authority. That's right and start speaking to them in like manner. So we will catch you guys next week right here on Apologia radio get more at Apologia studios .com.
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