What #STOPTHESTEAL Rallies Mean

Government Lockdowns, Romans 13, and the Failure of Pietist Christianity

Welcome to the Conversations That Matter podcast. My name is John Harris. Lots of craziness in the world today. We're gonna talk about a little bit of it leading up to Thanksgiving. In fact, if you're in certain states, like New York, let's say, Thanksgiving may be crazy because you can't have more than 10 people.

And in New York, you know, an Italian family in New York, I mean, that's not even your nuclear family. Sometimes that's more than 10 people. It's just, California is similar. A bunch of states have these lockdowns by decree of the governor.

So the jurisdictional issues are just insane. I mean, this is, you know, the go-to, and I've seen some videos where, there's one I think I saw, it was yesterday in, I believe it was Ohio, if I'm not mistaken, or Michigan, I forget.

It was somewhere in the Midwest, but you had a crowd of people basically chanting, get out, to some police who had come into this private business where the people weren't wearing masks. And one of the things, though, leading up to this sort of altercation was the questioning of the police, the pushback, and said, where's the law?

Show us the law. Where is it? And of course, there is no law that says these things. This wasn't passed by a legislature. This is the decree of the executive branch. And one of the things that I really, honestly, I'll be just perfectly honest with you about this year that I'm thankful for, and of course, this is Thanksgiving week.

There's many things we have to be thankful for. There's always things to be thankful for. But one of the things about this year is the pietist wing of evangelical Christianity, and Christianity in general, that wing that just kind of wants to be like an ostrich, stick its head in the sand, kind of assume that everything outside of their local church, or even their personal relationship with Christ sometimes, I mean, depending on how wide the circle is, is irrelevant.

That kind of Christianity isn't working anymore. It's just not practical. It's not where people are. It's not the kind of situations they're facing. It was a luxury that people were able to just have a horrible interpretation of Romans 13, myopic one, for so long in this country, because this country did not challenge directly, generally, the goings on in the church or in the religious life of the people.

And now that has changed completely. And 2020 is the year that it happened. And so churches that are having to rethink these things, many pastors have changed their positions on the lockdowns, masks, all that kind of thing, which I think is great.

And the ones that aren't, the ones that are stubbornly trying to still be like an ostrich with their head in the sand, are being kind of viewed by popular audiences, the common people, the lay people, the people that actually fund these institutions.

They're kind of being viewed as irrelevant. How can you help us navigate the life we live in? It's that old adage, so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good. And of course, the application of God's law is so wide and far reaching.

It applies to things like civil government. It applies to the daily decisions we have going to work and functioning. And so I think if you're heavenly, if you're truly heavenly minded, if you truly care about the eternal truth, laid down in God's word, you're gonna be earthly good.

But of course, I understand the adage, I get it totally. And this is the year where the wheels are falling off of that kind of religious tradition, if we want to call it that. Because it is, it is a pharisaical religious tradition basically.

So anyway, I'm happy for that. I just want to tell you guys, I've just been, you know, I wasn't even expecting opening the show with that remark, but I've just been seeing some things out there that make me happy to see that churches, even though it's very late in the game, are starting to finally, some, some, not all, but some are starting to finally figure out, wait a minute, hold on.

Is that really what Romans 13 says? Does government really have the right to do this? I mean, jurisdictionally speaking, is that even legal to have this lockdown mandate when there's no law? So anyway, that's just something.

You know what, I'll probably do an episode on this. I've had a number of people ask me, hey John, what about the mask issue? You know, how do you navigate that? And honestly, people approaching it from a completely wrong angle, some of them.

And that's okay, I'll talk about it in a future episode. But the question is usually asked, show me specifically, like chapter and verse that tells me I don't have to wear a mask. As if the burden of proof and the onus is just completely on the people who don't want to wear masks, when in fact it's not.

The onus and the burden of proof is completely on a tyrannical government. It's completely on the people wanting to force the masks. And we'll discuss that, like I said, in a future episode. But the subject of this episode is not that.

I wasn't actually planning on saying any of that. We're gonna talk a little bit about the Stop the Steal rallies. I'm not someone who normally goes to political protests, you know, rallies, whatever. I've been at a few.

I remember, you know, I was at one of the Tea Party ones when the Tea Party was a thing. You know, I've been up at, when I lived in New York, we went up to the state capitol a few times for different issues.

And one time there was kind of a, this was before they had legalized same-sex marriage and there was kind of a rally there, I remember. I was young at the time. But, you know, it's not a habit of my life.

And I think for most people, we don't want to go to rallies. Most people don't want to do that. We don't want to be involved more politically than we need to be. We think politics is kind of, it's dirty in some ways.

I mean, I just think this is how most people think about it. Even most conservatives think about it this way. I don't know if liberals all the time do. Liberals tend to, it is their religion often. So they're much more likely, I think, to get involved in protests.

But conservatives are generally like, leave me alone. I just don't even want to think about it. And in 2020, we haven't had that luxury. Again, this is, it is infringing. The political realm is infringing on our lives so much.

And so for me, this was a matter of conviction that, you know, even thinking about it from this perspective, in the future, when I have kids and grandkids, and if the Lord tarries and I'm able to have a relationship with them in a free area where we're able to do that, I want to be able to tell them, yeah, this is where I was.

I was part of it. I saw what was happening. In 2020, I did everything that I knew to do to make sure that freedom was not lost. This isn't about Donald Trump, guys. And those who say it is, who think it is, are, you're out to lunch.

This has nothing to do, really, with Donald Trump, except for the fact that Trump is the sitting president and Trump is willing to fight. This has to do with election integrity, and behind that is the loss of our freedom.

And freedom in the sense of civil liberties that have been the mainstay in this republic since its, well, there have been exceptions, but the general pattern has been, for the most part, that we have faith in the institutions, that we do have free and fair elections, that Americans on both parties are gonna treat each other with respect.

They're gonna treat the church with respect. They're gonna make sure that there are commonly shared values that Americans hold that are enshrined and those are protected. Well, we don't live in that anymore, and elections is just one aspect of that, but it's a pretty big one.

It's a pretty big one. We don't really have another recourse. We don't have the media. As political conservatives and social conservatives, the two go together, we don't have the media. We don't have the political establishment.

We don't have academia. We don't have big tech. We don't even have big business. What we do have are our voice on election day. That's what we have, and now we're finding out, wait a minute, that has been compromised to an extent that it could have, and it looks like it did impact the election in such a way that the wrong candidate won and perhaps wrong candidates won.

It's a frightening thought, and it is one of the last, it's the last things, and I mean, after this, and here's what a lot of conservative pundits are saying. I'm not the only one saying this. There's only really one thing after you lose elections, like lose them in the sense of their integrity, not fair and square losing, but you lose faith in the electoral process.

There's one last refuge you have, and you know what that is. You know what that is, and I hope you guys are all, even if you're not a firearms person, even if you're someone who didn't grow up with that, I hope you're thinking about at least having some kind of mechanism for defense, because that's the last, that's it.

After, when you don't have elections anymore, and there's people, and I've seen them, Antifa thugs, I saw them in D .C., when there's those kind of people that want to kill you, make no mistake, that's what many of them want.

We're already hearing all kinds of things about progressives now that they think Biden's won. They want to do kind of re-education, and they wanna put, they make, AOC was the infamous one for having the enemies list, but there's others who have said they wanna do re-education.

This is for Trump voters to deconstruct their Trumpism. This is where we're at. So I sure hope you are hearing what I'm saying and taking it seriously, because if we don't have faith in the electoral process, things could get, things could get ugly.

And so, anyway, part of the reason that I'm going to these events, I don't wanna lose that. I don't wanna lose the country that I grew up in. I don't wanna lose the integrity of our system, because I know that leads to tyranny.

And there have been some encouraging things. There have been some disappointing things in my observations at both of these rallies. And I wanna talk about that with you a little bit. So first, let me share with you, this is in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

That's where I went last weekend. And I want you to notice, first of all, how diverse this crowd is. Here's some pictures. You have a Japanese flag in the bottom left corner here. You have a few people with masks, but by and large, most of the people there do not have masks which technically I think is actually breaking the new, whatever the new edict is.

I mean, I walked into a Planet Fitness there on the way up and they told me that I had to have a mask even on the cardio machine. I mean, you know, and it was in brand new regulation because of the governor.

But people here are mainly not wearing masks. Many of them though, like I said, the Japanese flag, there's a Korean flag and a lot of people from China, North Korea, those kinds of places that immigrated to the United States along with American flags, don't tread on me, Trump flags, these kinds of things.

And that is fascinating. Here's a South Korean, I believe, flag, top left. And you know, how many people were there? Probably a few hundred. You know, I don't know, 500 people maybe. It wasn't a huge, huge crowd, not like the hundreds of thousands that were at the one in DC that I was at the week before.

But I would say more than 50 were not Caucasians, mainly Asian immigrants. And I thought that was absolutely fascinating. And I wanna show you before, actually we'll get here in a minute to the observations.

So they had like an open mic kind of thing where I guess they didn't have like a keynote speaker or anything. This was a very grassroots. This was very just common people. No Republican state legislators there, no politicians, which is kind of a disappointing thing.

I'll talk about that in a minute, but they had an open mic. And so people were able to just go and make a little speech. And so I'll tell you what led up to this. I'm gonna show you the speech I made.

There was one point in the rally, it seemed like it was kind of dying off a little. They had some speakers who just, they weren't as articulate perhaps and just not motivating. And so I walk up to where the bullhorn is and stuff.

And I'm like, all right, I'm gonna try to get this party revving again, right? And as soon as I'm like in line for it, this guy comes out who just really charismatic, like he's tall, his dad was North Korean.

He's an Asian guy. He's got kind of like tactical gear on. And he starts just giving this excellent speech. And he's talking about, I mean, he mentions Jesus Christ a few times. And that's one of the things I've noticed at both the Stop the Steal, overtly religious guys, overtly religious.

And I'll talk about that in a minute too. But he starts talking about Jesus Christ as king and he's against the Chinese Communist Party. And we look out at the front of the state capitol and there is, I don't know, like six or seven cars, you know, like escalades and stuff come down the street.

And they have signs in different languages, like Chinese it looked like. And you had even, it's a different religion, I think Falun Gong. I mean, I've never had any experience with Falun Gong, but one of the cars had Falun Gong.

I guess they're a persecuted minority in China of some kind. But all these Asian, these vehicles from, I guess, China, Chinese immigrants. And it became, while this guy was speaking, a rally against the Chinese Communist Party.

Now, you think about this for a minute with me. Why in the world would an election in the United States be turned into, a protest about that election turn into a protest against the Chinese Communist Party?

And why would there be so many more Asians there than Caucasians? And I was asking someone there, I said, is Harrisburg, is there like a big population of Asians? And people didn't seem to think there was.

So that even makes it more interesting to me in a way. It means these people are committed. They're probably traveling from somewhere to be here. And I can't say the same, honestly, for a lot of the other people that live in Pennsylvania.

And I can't say the same for Christians either. And that's a sad thing to me. And what I mean by, there are a lot of, I think everyone there probably would have claimed to be some form of either Christian or Catholic or something other than the fallen gong car.

I do think that, because so many of the things were overtly religious. I mean, I think they prayed the Lord's Prayer, if I remember. I mean, there's so much scripture I'm having a hard time remembering.

Every speaker just about that came up had to mention God in some way. So there were Christians. But what I mean by that is there weren't, it wasn't a lot. And certainly we didn't see leaders, like Republican leaders, but we didn't see really pastors.

There was like one pastor there. And that, in one way, I felt almost like, does this, these immigrant people, these people that their dad, like this man who spoke, his father escaped North Korea and he was there speaking out against the Chinese Communist Party and against the Democrats.

They put them in the same, isn't that interesting, guys, that those who know tyranny, who have lived or their parents have lived with tyranny in their backyard in North Korea and China, they look at the Democratic Party and they see something familiar.

Doesn't that bother anyone? Does that bother any of you Christians out there, knowing what the Chinese and the North Koreans do to Christians? Or does it really matter? Because, well, the Democrats can come to our churches too, like David Platt says, and it's fine to vote for a Democrat.

They see something that we do not see. When they have tyranny in their backyard. Same thing with the Cubans in Florida, who had an understanding of what it was like in Cuba, so they came out for Donald Trump.

They're seeing something that most of the quote unquote evangelicals in this country fail to see or don't want to see. I'm not sure which half the time. And I think we've taken liberty for granted for so many years, we have no clue what we may be in for.

And once you're in the cage, then it's too late. And so I have to say, these individuals who were respected, the liberty that they have been afforded, and including the liberty to worship God, who travel to be at this event, I have so much respect for.

And I just think it's very telling. The makeup of this particular audience in Harrisburg. I noticed that the big one in DC, it was also very diverse. You had all kinds of people, but this one, it just stood out to me.

And so anyway, so I'm there, I'm waiting in line, this guy takes the mic, and he is just so good. He got the crowd really revved up. And I decided, I kind of left the area because I was like, okay, we're fine now.

We don't need, don't need me. Because clearly, everything's taken care of. Well, I wasn't planning on speaking at that point. And then, the guy who was speaking before me, he noticed, I guess, that I was waiting to speak, and he comes up to me, and he just basically hands me, or he tells me, he's like, hey, you're speaking next.

And so I was like, oh, okay. And it was kind of almost sprung on me. So I was kind of, this was kind of stream of consciousness here a little bit. But here is what I said at the Stop the Steal rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania last weekend.

Freedom, Self-Government, and the Fight Against the Great Reset

Comes to a political protest, and I know many of you feel the same way. But I drove by Washington, D .C. last week. I'm here this week. I live in Lynchburg, Virginia. And we were chanting earlier about 1776.

Well, my family trace is back to 1776. My last name is Harris. And I have relatives that live in Harris and came from all over this country, as many of you did. We've had speakers here whose ancestors came from North Korea, who came from all over the place, and they came here, why?

Freedom! Self-government, not government by men who are people who... And 16. Me too. You're forgiven! Okay. I'm gonna tell you why I did this, John, and why I've become someone who travels five hours to show up at a protest.

They call it the Great Reset. How many of you have heard of the Great Reset? Research, it is not a conspiracy theory. It's standing in the way of globalists who want to... National communism. I did this in Virginia.

Call your state legislators. Tell them Trump campaigned. It's a lot of money in your small town, in your city, whatever platform you have. Everyone has friends, everyone has family, even if it's one or two people, organized like so many people who are trying to keep their head down are doing.

We're gonna lose our country if we stay silent. My ancestors didn't do that. They fought. Their blood is soaked in the soil of this place.

Yeah, I tend to lose my voice within about two seconds of doing street preaching. I've tried that a few times, and I got a limit. But hey, that's what one guy, and I'm just a guy, guys. Like I said, even in that little speech there, I am just a small business owner.

That's what one person can do when they go to some of these rallies. You're there to encourage other people, guys. And I know it encouraged, especially older folks, it encouraged a lot of them to say, hey, there's a young guy, relatively, who's here, who drove, who sacrificed, who cares about the future of this country.

Some of them veterans who fought for this country. They wanna know that there's someone who cares. And that is a way that you can show that. And there's also, obviously, practical things to get done. I mean, look, I didn't see anyone from the mainstream media there.

But there were plenty of people with cell phones. There was one outfit that looked like maybe they were an Asian. I don't know what country, but they represented some alternative media, maybe from an Asian country.

The videos make their way online, usually, somehow. I mean, I do think it does make a difference. You're encouraging people, and you are getting the message out that we need to call our state legislators, we need to donate.

And I said to the Trump campaign, I mean, now you can either donate, I guess, to the Trump campaign, or you can donate to Sidney Powell directly. By the way, little tangent here, because I know this is kind of a big deal right now.

There's so many conservatives in the media seem to think that everything's just falling apart. And look, I'm not in the back rooms hearing what Sidney Powell is saying to Jenna Ellis, to Rudy Giuliani, to Trump.

I have no clue exactly what's happening in those back rooms. But I made a little video to encourage you guys on Twitter yesterday. And I just said, look, you're operating, basically, half the conservative media or more are just operating based on speculation right now.

They're just assuming they know why Sidney Powell is not with the Trump legal team. And there could be multiple reasons for it. It could be a strategic difference. It could be that she's gonna file in criminal court or something, and they're filing in a civil court.

It could be there's just strong personalities, and Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell and Rudy don't, they don't all see eye to eye. But they're working separately to accomplish a similar outcome, and there's nothing wrong with that.

And this isn't just about getting Donald Trump the rightful, making sure that he's in because we throw out the illegal votes. This is about more than that. This is gonna, this fight needs to continue even after whoever the president-elect ends up being is in office.

Because this is, I mean, and I think Sidney Powell is committed to the long game. I mean, if you know anything about Sidney Powell, she's gonna write a book about it. She's probably gonna write a few books about it, maybe at least one.

She's gonna fight this tooth and nail. She seems like a fighter to me. And her track record is that. And she's a, track record is that she's a pretty good lawyer. So if you wanna give financially, give to Sidney Powell or give to the Trump team or whoever you think.

But I wouldn't freak out too much about this detail. I mean, there's probably plenty of other things you could freak out about if you wanted to. But this little thing that Rudy Giuliani put out there that Sidney Powell's not part of our team, to me, all the worry about that is based completely on speculation.

And I've listened, look, I've listened to a lot of guys. Sidney Powell doesn't have the goods. Oh, she's even saying Republicans are in on it. It's like, guys, really? You don't think Republicans might be also in on some corruption?

I mean, come on. I mean, look, until she really drops a lot of the primary source evidence, which, why would you expect her to do that ahead of a court date? I mean, do you, guys, do you remember how long it took for, I mean, this whole thing with Russia collusion, even with the Comey situation, with the Clinton emails, do you remember how long that whole process took?

And we're expecting that in a few weeks, Sidney Powell's just going to drop all the primary sources she has so she can signal to the Democrats all the information she has so they can be ready for her in court.

I mean, come on. I mean, let's get real about this, guys. This takes a lot of resources to pull off. And I'm just more realistic about this. I'm trying to be, at least. I see, the way I see it, guys, right now with the election itself is you have really, I mean, there might be a third option, possibly, but it's such a small possibility I don't even want to talk about it quite yet.

There's two things I could see happening that are positive outcomes, right? One is enough states don't certify the elections or courts throw out certifications, whatever, they're challenged somehow, that Biden does not reach the 270.

Remember, it's not about Trump getting to 270. It's about keeping Biden from reaching 270. That is a more attainable goal at this point. And the other thing, of course, is that it goes to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court has to make some hard rulings on some of this stuff, which I don't know if there's time for that.

Those are kind of like the two ways that this could shake out, and they may be long shots. But look, that doesn't mean you don't get behind them. It doesn't mean you don't put everything into them. This is gonna have far-reaching consequences.

And one of the reasons is because there's a lot of people who don't have any faith in the system right now. That's a really bad place to be if they don't think that they have a political recourse for their grievances.

That's a really, really bad place to be. And you want to make sure that even if Donald Trump, it doesn't make it to be the president-elect, that you're still fighting this, and you're still in court dealing with some of these issues.

So I don't think a donation to any of these things is a bad waste of money or anything like that, because this isn't really about Donald Trump, just so you guys know. But I'm not caving in either. And I'm not, look, I want to encourage you.

I think Trump can still do this. And there are some questions about, I'll leave some breadcrumbs. There are questions about foreign interference. You can look at two years ago, the executive order Trump made about that topic.

There is something. We'll go look up the Insurrection Acts. I know it's public now, so you know about the server in Germany, supposedly, that was involved in the election in some way. There are other things as well.

And so there is another thing brewing that is related, but it's not part of the legal fight, not at this point. And so I don't know. Where does that end up? I don't know. Does the DOJ get involved? Are they involved already?

I don't know. So lots of possibilities. We've got to be ready for them, right? And if there's anything that you hear me saying, it's be ready. Be ready with your family. Make sure that you can defend yourself.

Make sure, you know, this is the common sense things that you'd have in any emergency. Make sure you have those just in case. You always want to be ready. And if you have, look, if your area has a reputable, some areas have these.

I know some of you think I'm crazy for even mentioning this, because your area doesn't. But some areas, especially in red states, have, like the Constitution allows for, well-regulated militias that have good reputations.

They're not crazy people, and you want to do your homework on that. But you might want to start looking into something like that in case there's real civil unrest. Look, if Trump pulls this off somehow, you think there's not going to be civil unrest?

And even if he doesn't, and you've got half the country, or more than half, possibly, who think that they don't have any recourse for their grievances, what would that do? I mean, it takes one little match for a flame, and that flame can get big.

But all it takes is one first strike. So I just encourage you, I'm not trying to scare you, but just be ready. Just be ready. And this is our time. The Lord has put you here on this earth for a reason, at this time, geographically, where you're standing right now.

And he just expects you to be faithful, to obey his commands, to steward well the things he's given you. That includes your country. And so, anyway, a few more things to say about this, because I keep getting off on tangents.

I'm sorry about that, but hopefully they're helpful tangents for you. Let's talk about some of the observations. This is a real reason I made this video, just to give you some observations about the Republican Party.

The Religious Meaning of Stop the Steal Rallies

First of all, these Stop the Steal rallies are overtly religious. Overtly so. Check out this clip.

Christ is king! Christ is king! Christ is king! Christ is king! Christ is king! Christ is king! We are the So those are just three locations, three different states.

I've seen this with my own eyes, like I said. Constantly references to God and Jesus that are brought up. I've seen the Lord's Prayer being recited, public readings of scripture. These are all good things.

And sometimes mixed within that, I didn't see it in Harrisburg, but in the D .C. rally, sometimes there's foul language here and there, and there's other things that are mixed in that would cause maybe confusion for some people, and perhaps rightfully so, at points.

I know some of the pushback to this kind of thing, when similar things from the religious right have emerged in the 90s and 2000s, the pushback from some conservative evangelicals was, hey, hold on. There's Roman Catholics there.

There's probably members of cults. People who aren't even Christian, and they're marching with you, and how can you even, what fellowship is like to do with darkness? How can you even partner with such a person?

And here's the thing. I'm just gonna tell you kind of what I think of that. I'm not there because, like I said, I told you why I was there. I'm not there to have a Christian worship service. I'm not there to put my stamp of approval and endorse aberrant theology.

A lot of this stuff is super basic stuff that people, I mean, Christ is King is just a really basic pronouncement. Now, which Christ are you talking about? I mean, those are important things, but I don't think all the people there are Christians.

I don't think all the people there are even, I mean, I don't see a lot of public repentance of sin and those kinds of things. I don't think this is a revival. I don't. I'm gonna tell you what I think it is and why I'm comfortable going to these Stop the Steal rallies.

The reason people are saying this, and I'm just about positive on this, is because they're recognizing something. And it's probably a few things, but the main one is they see the government, the current, the Great Reset, the globalist push.

They see the Democrat Party. They see Black Lives Matter, the mask thing, all these things as being part of a religion. They're finally recognizing. Common people are recognizing this. That this is a competing religion.

And you can't just fight a religion with secularism. Secularism doesn't work. It never does. Even the most secular communist empires have had to basically elevate their leaders, like Mao or Stalin, to a level of deity.

North Korea is a perfect example of this. They have to have a religion. The state becomes the religion. And people are recognizing that is exactly what's happening. And so for all the David Platts and the John Pipers and the Tim Kellers, and the list just goes on and on and on, all these people, the Nine Marks guys, who just think that, oh, you can just, Democrats in our church, that's fine.

No problem, Republican, Democrat, whatever floats your boat. You can come to our church and worship God. All the people who think that, it's like they're living in 1975 or something. I mean, it's like, hey, Jimmy Carter could just arise out of the Democratic Party today.

We could have people who just disagree on the way the economy should function, but hey, they can be Christians and stuff. That ain't what we're dealing with, guys. That ain't what's going on. And the common people, the lay people, get it.

The people who would show up at these demonstrations, I think they get it. And they see that, hold on, the government is claiming to be king. The government is saying what we can and can't do. The government is infringing on our personal liberty and our religious liberty, and Christ is king.

You're not king. Christ is king. It is a statement of rebellion against the government to remind them that they are not the sovereigns. They don't get to make those decisions, and that is a glorious truth.

It is true. No matter whose mouth that comes out of, it is absolutely true. And so here's the thing for Christians. I think it's an opportunity. I've told someone this a couple days ago. And I wish I would have even thought of this more, but you can go to some of these rallies, and this is a great opportunity, an open mic or something.

I mean, there's lots of, I could have shared the gospel. I could have done a lot of things I didn't do in that speech. I didn't have much time, and there's people in line and stuff, but you can go with the mindset of, look, I'm gonna share good theology here.

I'm gonna share the gospel, and I'm gonna relate it back to self-government. If we govern ourselves, the government can't do much. They can't oppress us if we're self-governing. The Constitution was made for a moral and religious people.

It's wholly inadequate for any other. And so this is an opportunity for Christians to show up at these events. I mean, true Orthodox Bible believing, and some of them are there, obviously. But for those, I'm saying the big Eva types who wanna distance themselves, who would never be caught dead at something like this, it's actually an opportunity for you.

And hey, look, an Antifa rally might be too. You just might wanna make sure you have body armor if you go to one of those. But look, this is a great opportunity because you get the chance. I wrote a tract years ago, and I should probably get it reprinted.

It was a 4th of July tract. And I remember one year, I dressed up like George Washington, and we were handing out this thing, and it was a pocket Declaration of Independence. So you could read the Declaration of Independence, but we put, we had custom tracts, or tract plan, I forget which.

They printed in the back a whole thing I had written on the foundation of America, of our legal system, which traces back to British common law. But the idea of self-government, the idea of understanding man being evil, so we need checks and balances, and these kinds of things.

And I routed it right into the gospel. And it was, I mean, that's a tool that you can use. Those kinds of things, having those kinds of conversations. This is something that you can remind patriots of, because as they're reminding the government that they're not king, you can remind them of who the Christ is that they're talking about.

This is who he is. He's born of a virgin. He's the third person of the Trinity. He died for your sins. That means there's something called sin, and we've broken God's law. That means we need to be in a right relationship.

Jesus Christ is made a way. Through his sacrificial death on the cross, he made him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God, repent, believe. I mean, it really is a narrative that is just ready for this kind of, it's fresh.