Trump, Rushmore, and Buffalos

Non -rockabotas must stop. I don't want to rock the boat. I want to sink it!

Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie? Or are you gonna bite? We're being delusional. Delusional?

Delusional's 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. She hung up on me!

Yes! What? What? 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 go into the world and make buddies. Not to make brosives.

Don't go into the world and make homies. Disciples. I got a bit of a jiggle neck.

That's a joke, Pastor. When we have the real message of truth, 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.

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We're going to talk about cultural insanity. We are going to talk a bit about President Trump at, not

China, but Mount Rushmore. Pretty good speech, actually. China. Pretty good speech. We're going to go through a few.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, China. We're going to do a couple minutes to go through some of his speech, talk about important things related to that, and we're going to 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 one of the things we used to do early on in Apologia radio history.

Prank calls? We did prank calls. Some of you guys remember that. That was fun. We need to start doing that again. Prank calls.

I don't think any of those stores are open anymore. I know. Seriously. So we called Christian bookstores, and we would ask for ridiculous books and Christian items, and the goal was to not laugh.

Yeah, or get hung up on. Yeah, don't get hung up on and don't laugh. So basically we would write 10 items you had to ask the

Christian bookstore for, and we should play through some of those. Those were a lot of fun. Those were fun.

Joy always smoked us. Yeah, she always beat us. She could do it without laughing. Did we ever win against her? No. I don't think we did.

So we'd write down like 10 items you had to ask, but none of us saw the items we had to ask for until the person was on the phone and flipped 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, but it was a lot of fun.

One of the things that's reminiscent of the old Apology Radio is this right here, and I just felt like playing it.

I felt like playing it. I thought Mount Rushmore. I thought, you know what I'm saying? I don't know. I'm connecting the dots now.

I didn't know why you were there. It felt right. Mount Rushmore. The rugged wilderness, and it just feels right to me.

I don't know if you guys have ever seen this, but it's the guy in the buffalo. Oh. One day the guy in the buffalo was cruising around through the plains seeing a bear, and he thought to himself,

Oh no, I'm going to get away from the bear. Oh no, he's going to chase me.

Oh no, I better just turn around and chase him back. Guess what? I'm on a buffalo.

So that was the guy in the buffalo. Luke, that's when men were men. Yeah. When they rode buffaloes.

Where are the men who are riding buffaloes? They don't exist. They don't exist. I'm going to start riding a buffalo into work.

Yeah. I'm going to come into the studio riding a buffalo. That would be awesome. It would be awesome. Not right now, though. Not in this climate, no.

I heard actually this week we're going to have Death Valley temperatures. And I sent that to our other elder.

Pastor Zach is on his mandatory sabbatical right now. And we sent it to our other elder 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 going to die. And he was like, Well, it looks like somebody just moved to the valley or something like that. Just totally dissing, totally throwing down 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 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 that James did this?

He went to go get his adjustment. And then after his adjustment, he was going to go ride the bike for five hours.

Did you know that? It sounds about right. Five hours. How does a human being just make a decision?

Like, I'm going to get up and I'm going to ride for five hours today. Five hours. Is he getting ready for a competition?

No. There are no competitions. Is he going to ride around the world on his bike? Is he going to do like a cross country thing? Virtually. Virtually.

I rode this mountain today. Has he actually? I think. Did he say he's actually like mileage wise gone around the planet?

Probably. Like 16 times or something like that? I don't know. It's a lot. It's a lot.

I'll tell you what. Dr. White's going to outlive all of us. He is incredible. Not if he keeps eating

Taco Time. Incredible shape. Yeah, Taco Time will take him down. Yeah. That is for dang sure. That is his kryptonite.

Taco Time. Taco Time. Yep. White and delightsome Mexican food. Dr. White loves his

Taco Time. If we go to Salt Lake City, we have to all eat at Taco Time. He was mad that we didn't last time.

He's very much about tradition. Did you notice that? Which is kind of a cool thing. Especially since he's so much against traditions.

Yeah, against unbiblical traditions. But he's got some traditions of his own. See, that's why he's so keenly aware of the fact that all of us have traditions because he knows that he has traditions.

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 where we go.

This is what I buy. This is how we do it. If it was up to him, he'd still stay in the same budget inn in Salt Lake City.

Because of tradition. Well, that's the thing. Even though it's in the ghetto. Well, there was a situation in the past where Sean McCraney, that apostate guy, he was sort of challenging.

And then James 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 put me up in the old hotel. It's like from the 50s or something.

It's like hole in the wall. It's only $5 a night kind of thing. But it's next to the

Taco Time. It is probably next to the Taco Time. He would do that, too. You guys realize that? The James is that way.

If it was up to him, he probably would. If you could have a Marriott that's decently priced and it's a nicer place, maybe it's $100 a night.

But if he grew up going to the beat -up little motel down there, that still has a sign that says air conditioning and color

TV, he'd be like, oh, it's $5. I'll stay there. Never mind the fact that it's infested with roaches, and that's where they film

Psycho. It doesn't matter. Prostitutes and drug deals. He would just be like, that's where I've always gone, and that's where I'm going to die.

That's how I'm going to do it. That's what James does. So now you guys know a little more information about Pastor James and how he does things.

And we've already received multiple complaints because we're on the same time dividing line. Sorry, it happens. Yeah, it's just the way the schedule works, guys.

We're not trying to compete with our other feller elder. It's just how it works in terms of our schedule and our stuff.

It says crisp meat burritos, Dr. White kryptonite. That is true. That is very, very true.

All right, so let's get into today. I wanted to show everybody some stuff and talk about current event 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 trend 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 going to 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 going to 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're talking about acting. Oh, like you're not going to 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? Like, I can't act and play the part.

I have to be that person. It's such insanity. It's madness, and it's embarrassing 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. She got a lot of money to pretend to be a cat in Batman. That's right. Catwoman.

That's right. She was Catwoman. She didn't apologize for that. She did not. She should have, too. Yes. Because it was terrible.

That was a terrible movie. That's for dang sure. Absolutely. Absolutely. I would not recommend. Well, let's go this direction.

Let's talk about the way things were and talk about where they're at now. See, I was born in 1978, and so 42 years old.

I got three grandkids. I got five children. So I've been around for a little bit.

A little bit. I'm a little older than Luke. He likes to point that out. So is my wife.

You're the oldest of us. Sure. You're going to die first. Well, I'm going to meet Jesus first. Before you.

My only comeback is, well, I'll see the Lord of Glory before you do. But James will 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 racism with tribalism, biblically speaking, tribalism, saying your color is what makes you better, or looking down on a color or culture, pride, 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 consequences in the

United States of America. If you didn't know this, every country that Christianity came to, ultimately in history, that country was freed from its slavery and its commitment to slavery.

So 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 it. 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, we say, yeah, the Civil War created a lot of consequences for our nation, and even to this day, we're 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 unchristian. It's hateful. It's disgusting. Get rid of these laws, systemic laws, laws and ordinances, local ordinances, with 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 heap scorn upon it.

All that. But what's amazing is, like, the Civil Rights Movement, you're thinking around 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. It doesn't just end and everyone goes, okay, olly olly oxen free.

We're good, and that's 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 child 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 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. I laugh about it. I saw one comedian. He was joking. He was like, this culture over here, they have this kind of food and this kind of practice and culture, and it's funny, and we have this.

They were like, but what do white people have? What do you guys have? Macaroni and cheese? What's your cultural staple food?

What is it, Matt? I thought about it. I was like, I don't know. Is it pot pie? I don't know. What do white people have?

I don't know. But I'm like totally laughing about it. I'm like, that is funny.

Like, what is it? Like Salisbury steak TV dinners? I don't know. What is it? Gross. So I'm teasing.

Because you don't mean it. If you see somebody as equal and you love one another, you can laugh about silly things about your culture and not take it seriously.

Right. But what's with this offended, ridiculously heightened offense culture and cancel culture where you can't even tease somebody anymore?

Like, for example, I'm going to play it so you guys get a flavor of what I'm talking about and how we are living in insane times.

This is from late 70s, I believe late 70s, maybe 80, 81. I think it's like 78 maybe.

This is Eddie Murphy, and it's a famous skit. It's called White Like Me. It's from SNL.

And I want to just say this. Honestly, 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, that's fine. At all. I have 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 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 they're joking, and you're going to see in a second when he's joking about it, it's obviously totally a joke and not true.

And 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 Marxists, the neo -Marxists, 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 white brothers from black brothers. That's disgraceful.

I love my black family in Christ. 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 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 propaganda from the neo -Marxists.

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 there are 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 going to pass as a white man, everything had to be perfect. I think that's a little light.

Okay, let's try this. That's another kind of Harry Reams -ish.

I like it. I study for my role very carefully. I watch lots of Dynasty.

See how they walk? Their butts are real tight when they walk. They gotta keep their butts tight.

I gotta remember to keep my butt real tight when I walk. And I read a whole bunch of Hallmark cards.

My lovely wife. 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 was ready. Ah! What are you doing?

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.

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. It was much more serious than I'd ever imagined.

Now let me get this straight, Mr... Mr. White. You'd like to borrow $50 ,000 from my bank.

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... Ah, Harry! Why don't you take your break now? I'll take care of Mr.

White. Okay. Thanks, Bob.

That was a close one. It certainly was. We don't have to bother with these formalities, do we,

Mr. White? What a silly Negro. Just take what you want,

Mr. White. Pay us back any time. Or don't. We don't care.

So there you go. There's a good example. That's not very long ago in our history where people could joke like that.

He could step into the white culture, tell jokes. He could tell a story without everybody losing their minds.

And I see something like this. I'm white, and I'm not offended by it.

I think it's hilarious. He's obviously a comedian telling a joke. But even in this case, not only is he ribbing on white culture and he's obviously joking about it.

None of this stuff happens. But the point is he's also playing a character that he's not in real life.

And that's just not allowed now. When Halle Berry apologizes because she says, I don't want to see a movie that she's talking about anyways.

It doesn't even sound remotely interesting to me. When she talks about playing a transgender person, a woman that transitions to become a man, then she apologizes later because she's not from that community.

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? How's that work? What movies would you have? So if you're going to do a movie about the history of Scotland, you can't have

Braveheart. You can't have American actors with maybe not great Scottish accents, but doing the movie in Scotland.

You have to only hire Scottish people. Do they have to be descendants of the people who are part of those battles?

Where do you want to end this insanity? Do you have something to say? I was just going to say it's funny because 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?

Exactly. So it's just like a whole basket of contradictions.

Yeah, proper pronouns here. So I'll play just a little bit. I don't want to spend too much time on this, but this is her interview talking about when she was wanting to play this role.

I'm thinking of a character where the woman is a trans character.

I don't know where it's going to have to be. She's a woman that transitioned into a man.

Wow. A character in a project of love. By the way, everyone, real fast.

The sketchiness of the audio there is not on our end. It's not our internet or yours. It's the interview she did.

Terrible. Just so everyone understands. Don't think everything's messed up right now. It's just how it sounds. So here we go. And I thought, after I do the movie, that's the character

I'm going to play. I want to experience that world. I want to understand that world.

I want to understand the character. I want to deep dive into that. Like I did

Bruce. All right. So that was her explanation, and I'll get to her apology here. There's a long little interview section there, but here is her official apology.

I'll play this. She apologized 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 onscreen, both in front of and behind the camera.

You know what that is? That's her saying, I will submit. Yep. I will submit.

I'm so sorry. Please forgive me. Please forgive me. That's what this cancel culture and the alphabet people and everybody who's engaging in the neo -Marxist sort of like playbook and all that's been going on underneath this, 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 attacked by them, and she realizes

I could lose everything. I could lose everything because they'll cancel me. They'll have people that's vicious. It's a vicious world to live in.

And so what does she do? It's this 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 the moral authority now.

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. Yeah. 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 going to 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 Oscars are like, you did the greatest job playing you in this thing.

Like how does that happen? Like what's special about finding a person who only is that thing?

It's not special and nobody's mesmerized by an actor or actress that is that in real life.

Matter of fact, you talk about people who like, well, that's how that person is in real life.

Like it's a pretty, you know what I'm saying? There's actors who are even famous people and they're just like in the same, 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 Machinist.

Did you see that? I saw a picture. I haven't seen the movie. 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, I'm dying and he was like, well, you just need some vitamins and just eat an apple a day and so he said, well, it was easy.

I ate an apple a day. It's not easy. That'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 haven't seen the movie, but it's based on the true story and it's with Charlize Theron.

She is monster. Oh, I haven't seen that either, but I know what you want. I followed 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, they picked her for that role and she was playing,

I was like, how's she going to 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 this.

If you've seen the interviews, you know, she wasn't, she wasn't a looker. Well, you pick Charlize Theron and you're like, okay, how's that going to 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, 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 Peele, super, super talented guys.

I mean, in acting and their, their skill in 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 Peele do this skit and it's about local gangsters and I just want to point some stuff out to you real fast.

We won't play the whole thing, just a piece. Whoa! Eduardo, man!

You are so loco, man! Wow! We need a crazy vato like you in our gang.

With this bandana, I welcome you to the gang. Yo! Hold up.

Okay. What's going on? Hey, Carlito. I was just welcoming

Eduardo into the gang. Why? Who he? What he did?

He's crazy, man. We were thinking that the gang needs a crazy guy.

Yeah, man. This guy is loco. Show him, Eduardo. Watch out. Whoa!

Loco! Loco! Loco! Huh? No, no.

I'm the loco one in this gang. What? Okay, okay. Check this out.

Quack, quack, quack. Quack, quack. I'm a duck. No, no, no. I'm a crazy duck.

No, Carlito. Carlito, it's not that kind of loco. Obviously, I can't play the whole thing here.

But here's something dropped in December 4th, 2014. Like I said, according to their channel. That's not very long ago.

And that's not allowed anymore. Here you have guys,

Key and Peele. Actually, they're mixed. Like all of us are. We're all a bunch of mutts.

Can we just acknowledge that? We're all a bunch of mutts. But they're not that culture.

And then they do a bit where they're joking about a culture.

They're teasing. But they're not those people. Now, I gotta say this. When I watched 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 telling jokes. But in order to tell the joke, they have to step into that culture and that world.

And they're poking fun at themselves. Here's the thing about Key and Peele. Key and Peele can tell jokes about black culture.

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... Stop taking everything so seriously. You know what

I'm saying? 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 because of their skin or their culture, all that stuff, you'll go to hell for it. If you don't have

Jesus, that's one of the things you're going to spend eternity in hell for. So all that needs to be said.

But when it comes to the hypersensitivity 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 too before? It was a couple years ago.

Somebody didn't like us and so they were like doing this campaign on like Twitter, hey everyone, cancel apology, cancel apology.

The YouTube police got us by the way. 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. When the thing goes up, we'll dispute it with YouTube and we'll let them know that we're doing commentary.

It's fair use commentary. So we'll, sorry about that everybody. 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 going to 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 and to 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 this civilization over and then ultimately move your way into communism.

That's how it goes. You can read their works. You can read their literature. That is the game plan. It's 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 this, I could play video after video.

I imagine some of you guys, you've probably seen this already, where now you have, James has said it a lot.

This culture, this cancel culture, this conflict, this racial conflict culture, there is no atonement in this whole ideology.

You're guilty. You will forever be guilty. Nothing is enough. There's no atonement. It's just forever judgment. It's forever conflict.

It's forever judgment. You are what you are. You will always be this and you just need to live a life groveling 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 talk about where we're at now, no atonement. And so you see white people literally groveling at the feet of someone who has black skin, begging for forgiveness and confessing their guilt.

For what? For being white. Exactly. And this is a sad state of affairs because 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 color of skin, there is no atonement.

There is no end game for them. And they admit that. It's perpetual condemnation and shame.

Why? Because of 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 of the color of their skin?

We'd say that's disgraceful, despicable racism we should all despise and heap scorn upon.

But it's accepted now where no, you're perpetually guilty because of 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. 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 of Baratheon who is the king.

Is it Baratheon or Baratheon? Right. And then the other blonde girl is the...

Can I get you something? Oh, I don't know. 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 100 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 at this awkward white apology and making fun of how ridiculous it sounded to them.

And 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 the people who pander 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. Yo, yo, yo. What up, man?

Hey, give me another lager. You know what I mean? Spilled my last one on my tribe shirt. You believe that?

But whatevs. Got this thing in 93. Midnight Marauders tour. Check that out.

It's everywhere. Oh, man. Hey, who's your favorite member of tribe? They got us again.

Smoke. Smokey. You know what I mean? Love him, dude. It's more behind the scenes. But he was like, alright, good.

See you guys around, though. Cool. One more, one more, one more. Come on, son. Boom. Alright, wait.

Oh, he spun. Wow. He spun. So, there you go. Yeah, I'm sure the stream is going to come up here in a second.

Sorry, everybody. One of the things that's become so ridiculous about YouTube is the restrictions they have.

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 for videos like YouTube because their policies are just getting so insanely.

I want to say this. They have a right. It's their private property. They have a right to do whatever they want. I want them to have that right.

I want to have that right. Private property means private property. If it's my business, it's my business. But we also have the right as a community to say, we don't like your ideas and your practices, so we're going elsewhere.

So, people have a right. So, someone please create a streaming service and video service that's better.

But even in their restrictions now, they're so tight now. You can't even do cultural commentary anymore. So, it used to be fair use.

You could talk through news clips. You could talk through film things. 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 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

Trump one and let's see if we can get through that without being shut down.

Oh, goodness. You're playing Trump, so that's an automatic shutdown. Yeah, I know. We're playing Trump. I shouldn't have done this.

I named Trump in 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.

It was 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 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. It didn't start there.

You know when 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 was no looting.

But what there was was a violent intellectual opposition to public school education.

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 that 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 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 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 happened? 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, first president, even though he wasn't the first president.

He's 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 learn 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.

It's like, well, you should 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 their way and started.

People in North and South were working on that, all that stuff. Like, you don't learn that. You just learn like North, good, South, bad. Right? Yep.

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?

Like, you know, how he felt about it? And then even people in the North that are vilified.

They're vilified when they shouldn't be vilified. Like, we're talking about a sinful fallen world. 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. What you see going on in the streets now, what we see going on in the streets, which leads to the

Mount Rushmore speech, where they're taking down these statues and trying to erase history. Guys, it's the same playbook.

It's the same playbook. You've seen it before. 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 that history matters like that. There's this perpetual present.

Right? And where we're at right now. So, it's the 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 believed.

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, the popular sentiment that we shouldn't really destroy these things.

We should protect them. And it's wrong to destroy 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. Ever. I love that part. But I meant to mention the first five minutes or so was kind of,

I told Jeff, it was like a Nebuchadnezzar kind of like, look at, look at this kingdom

I have built. But I appreciate he started here and I mean, that's a great way to start off.

Like, you know, whether or not he truly believes what he just said, you know, he's thanking our creator, almighty

God, for what we have and that's more than the man in the office before him did. Well yeah, 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 definitely a thing people were doing and they were wicked.

I believe they should have been punished for it. So all that is there, right? But like, this is underneath like the background of like the war for independence 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 by their creator, all of them are equal.

Like you do have to say, hey guys, we're thinking about what you're saying there. What about these guys?

You've got people kidnapping and enslaving black people. Like have 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're 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 definitely conversations happening about this is wicked.

Christians knew it was wicked. But there were also people who are professing to be Christian, of course, they were like, no, this is a good institution to have.

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 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. They would actually point to this God, Jesus. Like Hawaii, Jehovah God. Exactly.

The Hawaiian constitution after 20 years of missionary work, 1819, 1820 to 1840, 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, we're talking about Tetragrammaton, we're talking about this is the name of God in 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 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 this of people who were very upset during the time of the

Declaration of Independence and the Constitution when people were actually not willing to actually in these formal documents name this

God. The whole general idea of creator, yes, we know that the

Christian worldview is in the atmosphere and many of them are Christians, we understand that and so what they were talking about was the Christian God but there were

Christians then who were saying hey, y 'all are going to collapse, this ain't going to 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 and 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.

What are we going to do now? 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. Right? Now listen,

I am not wearing a red Trump hat right now. I'm talking about what the man's quoting from what he's saying.

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.

That in itself is racism. 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 there, 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.

I never think of that. Yeah. And if he's talking about all of these blessings to humanity, what he's really talking about is the blessings of the gospel and 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 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 in 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?

You want to talk about acts to the root sort of a thing? You know what I'm saying? Abolish government schools.

Yeah. You got problem weeds? What are you going to do? What are you going to do? Do you want to go cut the tips off of them?

Like, let's fix this up. Or how do you - What do you Edwards with their hands up? Like what are you going to 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 going to take down a problem tree, you got to get to the root. 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? Not at all.

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 don't 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 going to fare well there?

No. They're being indoctrinated in an opposing worldview. And if you say, well, when I get them 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 they get. So say it's 30 hours a week. So 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. Oh, 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 a week

No. 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'll have solid Christian parents, people that are godly, godly, amazing,

Jesus -loving believers that you can't do it and 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 professing homosexuals, they're going off into the world doing all kinds of crazy things and you're 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 that they were taught an ethical system in school? I mean, think about it.

You're like, an ethical system? What do you think sex education is in schools? You think they're talking about ethics there?

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. The answer is 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 do you, baby. And they're being taught an ethical system.

And then, 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 and what they believed.

It does not give you the full picture and understanding. It just gives you like, brute fact. George Washington, first president, white guy, owned 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 too? It's abysmal.

I'll say in the more modern vernacular, public, government -funded education sucks.

Okay? That's the modern vernacular. Like, what's the lowest you can go in terms of 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 their education. You can 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 going to grow up perfect.

They're not. They're not going to grow up perfect. They're going to be sanctified. If they know Jesus, they're going to 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! I'm going to 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. Right. 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 the 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. 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...

See if they were public schooled. And ask them, could you all raise your hand, how many of you guys were homeschooled?

Yeah. Like how many hands do you think would go up? Probably a zero percent. It's just...

I don't know. Maybe one straggler here or there like, you know, some weird guy with, you know, skinny jeans on or something and he's like,

I hate my dad. Like whatever. I don't know. Maybe he was playing too much TikTok. Anyone that was... I don't know.

Anyone that was homeschooled was probably because they had to be because they got kicked out of public school too many times. But ask the rioters and the looters how many of you guys were public schooled and how many of you guys were private schooled.

I think 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 are 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 that resonates with me. Yeah. It does because I do hope for the preservation of the

Christian culture and stuff that created all the goodness and blessing around us. So it resonates with me and I really like this speech.

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 which was amazing.

Yeah I mean obviously it's amazing you have to say it now. 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. If he's wrong on something we're going to say he's wrong. If he's right like this we're going to say he's right but 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 do we have an appointment by the way right now?

Yeah. Yeah we do. Okay sorry. We have an appointment. We're pastors. We have to go do some counseling right now. Maybe we'll pick up on this later but I just want to say final thoughts 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 in 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 what I mean? Like 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 okay?

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 and 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 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 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 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 ishy 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 this way?

because we follow Jesus amen like be explicit remember this the unbelievers the skeptics the secularists the

Marxists all those guys they have their commitments and there are no holds barred right no compromise they have their commitments and they're like this is who

I am and this is who we're going to make America it's time for Christians to start acting like Jesus has all authority that's right and start speaking to them in like manner that's right so we will catch you guys next week right here on Apologia Radio get more at apologiastudios .com

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