RLL.Ep.46: The War on Domestic Terror

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The Biden administration has set it's sites on "white supremacists" and "disinformation spreaders."

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You're listening to radio looks lucid. I'm your host Steve Matthews. Thanks for joining me for episode 46 the title of today's episode is the war on domestic terror
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Well here I am once again finding myself on late on a
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Saturday night. Well, that's actually early Sunday morning. It's about 24 minutes after 12, it's very early on a
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Sunday morning Doing a doing a podcast and every week I do this to myself
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And I always say well You know, I'm gonna next week I'm gonna get this done at a decent hour and get the bed at a decent hour and and everything's gonna be great.
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Well Every week somehow it seems like I managed to fail to do that You know, you've probably had things like that in your life, you know, you always keep saying well,
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I'm gonna do this I'm gonna do this and and you think it's gonna happen and somehow it doesn't happen a Little computer noise there in the background.
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Sorry about that Yeah, you think that it's going to happen and somehow for some reason it doesn't now
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My excuse this week for not getting this out early in the day is I was helping my dad out paint the bathroom
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And this is one of these projects that you know, it's actually on I think this is a third
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Saturday of doing this you know how it is when you're you're a weekend warrior and you got a job and you do things through the week and and And you always end up having to spend all your
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Saturdays on Doing projects and so Saturday is the big day to do projects
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So we spend a good deal of the time doing Doing the painting and I have to admit when it comes to to things in life that doing projects around the house
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Or you know that that's not that's not my thing never has been I mean, you know dad went when
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I was growing up I mean he was was always Not only was he he didn't
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Merely just do projects. He actually enjoyed doing projects. I Don't know
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I have a hard time with that I've never had the patience to do the to do that kind of work and I tend to get
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Kind of tend to get kind of frustrated with I have a very low threshold of frustration But you know and and the thing is dad's super skilled at it and I really respect what what he does
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I mean, you know ever since I was a kid, I mean, you know, he you know, he's out there You know doing plumbing doing electric working on the car pouring concrete
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Building stuff, you know building the patio building furniture All this kind of thing.
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He's kind of like, you know, there's that TV program I guess about 20 25 years back with Tim Allen with Tim the tool man, you know
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And and and he was always building stuff and this well Well, that was that was my dad and in long before that show ever came on the air.
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That was my dad and My brother's got some of that as well I mean, he seems to be very skillful at that and seems to enjoy doing some of it.
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I I don't I mean I I have a lot of respect for people who who can do this stuff But for me,
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I don't know. I I just I have a very I get very easily frustrated with that sort of thing
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But you know dad dad's still great at that stuff. But yeah, he's he's he's a little bit older now And and sometimes he needs a little bit of help and and so I'm glad I was was able to pitch in and help
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I think I still got a little bit of paint here on my my hand now that I see it I thought I got it all off.
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Hopefully I don't have any my hair I Did have some in my hair before it seems like no matter what
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I do whenever I paint my hair carefully I mean always managed to somehow get paint in my hair and that's kind of hard to do because I don't have a whole lot of hair, but Anyway, be that as it may.
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So anyway, it's it's because I was having to help dad paint the bathroom that That I'm getting to my my weekly podcast at almost 1230 on a
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Sunday morning. Mm -hmm anyway So that's my excuse for the week and and hopefully
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I'll probably have another one next week, but I hope I won't I hope I'm gonna Get this done earlier, but but we'll see
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I'm gonna I'm gonna keep working on it and keep working on it So anyway what I want to talk about this week.
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I titled the the episode here today The the domestic war on terror or the war on domestic terror
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I should say the war on domestic terror is the title of the episode and So why am
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I talking about that here? Well, one of the things and I I think that It's actually pretty shocking some of the kind of language that's that's coming out of people in very high places in our country and it's it's getting to the point where you you kind of get a sense that That our government that the
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Biden administration in particular really sees a pretty good chunk of the
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American people as as an enemy almost as a as a foreign enemy as as terrorists and You know,
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I never thought that I would see this kind of language out out of our government But it's it's not just once or twice and it's not from obscure people.
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It goes right to the very top As part of Biden's inauguration speech he was talking about having a
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Essentially declaring war on white supremacists and domestic terrorists and all of this other type of thing and and that rhetoric has continued
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Right down here over the past a couple weeks and it shows no sign of going away And and this is something that that is is a is going to be a big part of his administration
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And I'm not sure that necessarily that a lot of regular Americans have Have woken up to that fact, you know,
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I think there's a tendency to think well, you know, you know, I'm an American You know, I'm a I'm a good person.
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I you know, I I go to work. I love the Lord. I I pay my taxes I raise my family
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I try to do the things that that a good citizen would that a Christian would and And you know, why would anybody consider me to be an enemy well apparently the the by administration does and I hope to be able to to show you
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Show you that by going through a few of the stories here, you know One of the things that really caught my attention.
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I was actually watching something on Tucker Carlson this past week and He he cited there was a piece in the in the
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New York Times and This this article in the New York Times. It's titled our private messaging apps the next misinformation hotspot and what they do is they
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The these authors and there's there's two authors. This was a piece that came out February 3rd. So it was just a few days ago and it was written by Brian X Chen and Kevin Roos and they talk about The you know, the the fact that there are dangerous people including far -right groups
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You know They were barred from Facebook and Twitter and and and now they're going on to some of these private messaging programs like telegram and signal
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Well, you know It's kind of funny in some ways for them to sit and complain about that because of course
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It's people like Brian Chen and Kevin Roos Probably I don't know these two gentlemen
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But when in you read through their their article here in the New York Times, they they probably you kind of get the sense
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They probably approve of that You know they they want to see all of these these people these conservatives these Trump supporters or what have you get get kicked off of Twitter and get kicked off of Facebook Well when you kick them off of Twitter and Facebook those people are gonna want to go do something someplace
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You know and now you have a hard time even finding out what they're saying now they're complaining about that You know,
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I mean the the bottom line is is these people don't want you with an opinion or don't want you expressing an opinion anywhere at any time
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For any reason, you know, they want to shut you up and shut you down I mean, we're getting into a time where we're dissent just merely dissenting just merely disagreeing with the official line
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It makes you a suspect person in the eyes of the New York Times in the eyes of the
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Biden administration in the eyes of the FBI or the in the eyes of You know of of the army.
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I mean right now you've got the I guess what the Secretary of Defense has Stood down the army and they're gonna spend all this time trying to to root out
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Extremism, you know, and of course, you know, what is extremism? You know, they they never quite get around to describing
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Accurately what extremism is, you know, what's a white supremacist? Well, they never really tell us
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You know, apparently it's anybody that disagrees with the New York Times I mean is I think one of the
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I think one of the the basic definitions of those words I mean if you disagree with the
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New York Times If if you don't think the most recent presidential election was the most honest most awesome presidential election in the whole history of presidential elections
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Well, you know, you're you're probably an extremist. You might be a white supremacist, you know, who knows
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You're certainly a suspect person, you know, if if you don't think that the kovat narrative is Is awesome, you know
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If you don't think that everybody should be locked into their house for the next ten years and never allowed to go anywhere without four masks
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Under face. Well, you know, you just might be Yeah, you just might be a be a white supremacist
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I mean in in the eyes and again in the eyes of the New York Times or the eyes of the FBI or the by administration
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You know if you You know any any number of things if you go against the official the official explanations
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You know, you're shut up. You're shut down. It's like a new Sort of like a new feudalism a neo feudalism
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I mean, that's the way it was in the in the Middle Ages, you know with the Roman Catholic Church And and if you expressed an opinion that the the bishops the
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Cardinals or the Pope didn't like, you know Well, I mean, you know, you could be on the the receiving end of some very bad business.
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It was dogma I mean, that's usually what the sometimes the the word is used for that is dogma
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I mean, they're official truths that you have to believe and if you don't believe them if you don't give the right answer
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And if you don't jump When the official power says how high well, you're in a world of trouble
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And more and more we're getting into that point right now and It's it's an amazing thing to watch.
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It's a disturbing thing to watch but it's not a new thing You know, it's like what Solomon said. There's nothing new under the
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Sun. Well, I mean this this Urge on the part of government officials and the part of people in in high places whether they're in in Social media like Facebook or YouTube wanting to shut down any kind of dissent whether they are
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Presidents whether they are secretaries of defense or or other people You know what we're getting into the age of dogma, you know
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Where there are certain things that you have to believe and if you don't believe them Well, you are you're a very bad person and in some very bad things are going to happen to you
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But these two gentlemen here in the New York Times Tucker Carlson was talking about this particular piece
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Earlier this week and and there was was one paragraph in particular that he read on the air that really struck me
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I want to share it here with you. This is what what Tucker Carlson read? This is a direct quote from from this
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New York Times article He says this over the authors say this the shift to private messaging is renewed a debate over whether encryption is a double -edged sword while the technology prevents people from being spied on Might also make it easier for criminals and misinformation spreaders to do harm without getting caught
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Now the the thing and in Tucker Carlson pointed this out and this is the thing that you should really
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Get when you see this note how they put criminals and misinformation spreaders right together so Basically criminals and misinformation spreaders are the same thing.
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So again, what's a misinformation spreader? Well, apparently I mean if you You look around you look around and you see what's going on a misinformation spreader is anybody who disagrees with an official explanation a
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Misinformation spreader apparently is somebody who says well, you know, the the last election was fraudulent and that Joe Biden is an illegitimate president.
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I Guess apparently that makes me a misinformation spreader, you know if The you know, if somebody says the kovat lockdowns are a fraud
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Well, I guess that means you're a misinformation spreader and this goes for even people who are medical doctors
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You don't to take it from me. I'm just some some Some podcasters sitting here talking that at 1230 on a
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On a on a Saturday on a Sunday morning You know, I I don't have any special degree in virology
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But I mean there are people who have studied this type of thing who have spoken out against this There are some very good theological
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Christian reasons not to lock people down. You don't lock down healthy people That's one of the basic things that you get out of Out of the out of the scriptures, you don't quarantine healthy people
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I've talked about this before but this is something that bears bears mentioning again You know if somebody, you know, you read through say the book of Leviticus and it talks in there in great detail about Diagnosing somebody who has
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Someone who potentially has leprosy and there's a very detailed Process for going through this and it's only after that process is complete only after the person's received due process
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Is that person quarantined? I Bible that quarantine people with serious diseases is is okay to do is acceptable to do
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But there has to be some kind of procedure You don't just lock everybody down and hopes that you know 15 days to flatten the curve
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Well, I mean they were saying that almost a year ago. That was last March You know, well, it's
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February now. So we're coming up on a whole year and we're still locking down and I mean there was just a thing here.
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Oh Well, I guess it was so within the last day or so the Supreme Court ruled that churches in in In California can reopen but they can't help.
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They have to reopen it only 25 % So it's really not much of a victory I mean the idea that a governor can tell churches you can't meet on the
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Lord's Day is a violation of the Constitution it says right in the First Amendment of the
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Constitution of the Bill of Rights and that you have a right to peace of the assemble and The the incorporation doctrine which came along with the 14th
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Amendment applies that to the states as well No governor has a right to to shut down the churches people have a right to speak they have a right to peaceably assemble and when when governors prohibit churches from meeting or when government governors limit the ability of churches to Meet and the
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Supreme Court really, you know, the ruling isn't really much of a victory They're saying oh you can meet but but you can only meet at a 25 % capacity
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Neither the Constitution or the Bible Authorizes Caesar to have anything to say about when and under what circumstances churches may meet
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There's nothing there there's zero support for this and and so I I'm sorry, but I don't cheer this this latest
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Supreme Court ruling And And I I'm so encouraged, you know when
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I when I read about the stance that the Grace Community Church has taken you know, that's that's the that's
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Yeah MacArthur's church out in or out near near LA and You know what he's done is is a very brave thing.
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Now. There are some things that I have criticized John MacArthur for doing I mean if you read the
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Trinity Foundation if you look at some of the work John Robbins has done I mean there are some some criticisms. He's leveled at at John MacArthur, but on this particular issue.
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I think he's been quite good He stood strong and I wish I can't tell you
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I wish wish wish wish wish More Christians would be as bold as what
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Grace Community Church has been You know in there are some pastors who have been there are some ministers who have been but by and large most have chosen to go along with the state diktats
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And and I think that that's unfortunate because if we're ever going to get any real pushback on this if we're ever going to really
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Tell Caesar The Caesars overstepping his bounds which he is Is that that's going to have to come from Christians I really do think that Christians are going to have to be the ones to take the lead on this and this is a wonderful Opportunity for us to do that Now, I mean
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I've I've struggled with the whole you know kovat thing I mean where I I I Cannot bring myself to wear a mask in church on the
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Lord's Day. I just I can't do it You know, I I can't sit there and Donna mask and sing amazing grace
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I just I can't do it I I feel like a liar It's it's something
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I really struggle with now, I know that maybe there are some of my My brothers and sisters in Christ, maybe
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I don't see don't don't see it that way And you know, I I think maybe there's some room to to disagree on this but But that's a big deal and and I think that we are making as Christians a big mistake
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We allow the state when we allow Caesar to dictate how we're going to worship
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There is no support for that in Scripture. In fact, there's a lot of Fairly explicit passages that that refute that whole idea, you know the we see various things in the scriptures where where governors
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Magistrates of different sorts attempt to control scripture, you know, whether it's you know Nebuchadnezzar telling everybody they have to bow down to his golden image or whether it's
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Darius saying well, you can't worship anybody except You know except the the gods
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I guess what of the the Medes and Persians for 30 days or You can see it when the
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Sanhedrin arrested the Apostles what Peter and John they brought him They said you you know, did we not strictly warn you not to teach anymore in the name of Jesus, you know
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Now you've filled Jerusalem with his his teaching, you know, and their response was well, we must obey God rather than men
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So, I mean there are there are probably other things in Scripture that you can find other examples of this in Scripture but those are three that come to mind and You know what we get from that is, you know that that Caesar does not have jurisdiction over when the church meets
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Under what circumstances it meets the doctrine of the church there is to be a separation of church and state the separation of church and state is actually a
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Christian idea and in the United States that idea has kind of gotten itself a little bit of a bad name because it's usually pushed by some very liberal people like the the
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ACLU that that really Misinterpret that whole idea that home did that misapply that idea?
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But yes, the the church and the state should be separate Both church and state governments are legitimate governments, you know, the civil magistrate the the civil government is legitimate
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It's it's actually created by God. I mean the Apostle Paul talks about that, right? You know, he says, you know
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This is an exact quote But he tells that every soul be subject to the the governing authority for there is no no authority except from God He talks about the civil magistrate is
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God's minister So, you know civil government is not not something is not man -made it's it's it it comes from God, you know, and in God puts the civil governors there for the purpose of Maintaining order you know one of the what's that the third use of the law, you know is or I always get those confused anyway,
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John Calvin had the three uses of the law, you know, and one of those was to To have a standard by which people could live even if they weren't necessarily
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Christian people even if they weren't necessarily believers, but to provide a standard to limit them to limit sin
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You know, that's why the civil governor is there is to to put a limit on Evil -doing because we are all of us by our nature corrupt
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You know, we talked about the doctrine of total depravity, you know among the reformed right and you know, we Calvinist Total depravity well
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I mean one of that's one of the reasons why we have civil government is because of the total depravity of mankind
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And if we didn't have some kind of governing authority if we didn't have a civil magistrate who the bears the sword
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I mean you you would have You would have chaos you'd have anarchy you'd have some very terrible things happening
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So the civil magistrate is God's minister, but the civil man the civil Magistrate is limited in what he can do
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Anyway, I didn't mean to get off on that whole tangent there but it
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I guess what I'm kind of saying here with all of this is the
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The government here in the United States the the federal government here in the United States is Is grossly overstepping its bounds and they are taking new
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Initiatives right now to attempt to control thought now, of course, New York Times isn't the government
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But what the New York Times is doing is they are expressing an idea That is very much in favor in in the
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Biden administration, you know, and they they talk about here in that very same sentence criminals and misinformation spreaders and You know, the the
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Biden administration is apparently terrified to of anybody that disagrees with it I mean, you know, they've got you know barbed wire fences all over the capital.
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They've got troops garrisoning in, Washington, DC you know, I mean it looks like you know like one of these
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Like, you know like Baghdad or one of these these these military outposts in a foreign country
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I mean and they seem genuinely afraid of the American people. Why are they so afraid of the American people? You know,
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I read something the other day. I mean about this and in the author, you know Spec I mean,
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I guess it's to some degree speculation But one of the reasons that he gave is well, you know, maybe
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Maybe they're afraid there. They're afraid their propaganda hasn't hasn't taken hold. Maybe they're afraid and they seem very much afraid of anybody questioning, you know how
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Joe Biden became president or Or or his policies. I mean they seem genuinely afraid of the
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American people This is not a government that it's of buyer for the people they don't seem to To to care at all for the
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American people I mean if you look at just the some of the executive orders that Joe Biden has signed he's destroyed jobs
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He's promised to to import about as many migrants Immigrants and in refugees as possible with no concern whatsoever to the effect that that's going to have on the
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American people I guess in that respect. He seems to be very eager to do his bidding of his
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Probably his his master in the Vatican and of course talking about Pope Francis It's really quite remarkable how the the stated policy goals of the
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Biden administration line up with the Vatican And of course Joe Biden is our second Roman Catholic president, so it's it's not surprising that there is a a close correspondence there
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But anyway, I wanted to kind of get back to this the whole idea of The domestic war or the war on domestic terror.
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I keep saying that wrong There's a an article by By Paul Craig Roberts The other day this past week.
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I thought that was it was quite good. It was dated February 2nd And the title of of his particular piece here.
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It's called the Biden regime will be America's first totalitarian government and I'll just read a few paragraphs here
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It is unavoidable the the prostitutes have white conservative American Trump supporters set up as systemic racist megaterrorist enemies of democracy and white supremacist oppressors as Biden's staffing reveals the regime is staffed with people hostile to white
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Gentiles The regime's anti -domestic terrorism bill voids the First Amendment by criminalizing dissent from controlled explanations
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And he says I am NOT the only one who sees this and then he goes on to cite Several different people one of them he cites here is is
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Tulsi Gabbard she's retired She was a member of Congress from from Hawaii and she was a
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Democrat and and this is what she says here And he quotes her here. I'll just read the quote. He says this or she says this
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This is an issue that all Democrats Republicans Independence libertarians should be extremely concerned about especially because we don't have to guess about where this goes or how this ends
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What characteristics we are looking for is we are building this profile a potential extremist. What are we talking about religious extremists?
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We're talking about Christians Evangelical Christians, what is a religious extremist? Is it somebody who's pro -life?
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And this was quoted out of out of the National Review and and in that National Review article she
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I'm not going to read the whole quote here, but she she references a a quote by John Brennan now
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John Brennan is a former CIA director and he was also one of the people that was involved in the the plot to apparently to remove
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Donald Trump as president and Of course, he's he's going to be unindicted Nothing's going to happen to him because that's the way the the deep state works.
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But there's a there's a tweet out there it in it found by a
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Fellow by the name of Tom Elliott and he he saved a video segment of John Brennan being interviewed on MSNBC And I think this was maybe back on the inauguration day for Biden on the 20th or somewhere thereabouts
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I want to play this for you. It's a bit about a minute or so and I want you to listen to To what
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John Brennan has to say, so here we go on the call I was thinking today that this is the most relaxed. I've been in the course of many inaugurations
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I've watched because I'm not responsible for it, but I can tell you that when I was in the government I was I had white knuckles because of the nature of the threats
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But it's so much more difficult today because of what we have seen not just over the last two weeks
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But that certainly has riveted our attention But because of this growth in polarization in the
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United States and domestic violence and white supremacist groups So I know looking forward that the members of the the
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Biden team who have been nominated or have been appointed Are now moving and laser like fashion to try to uncover as much they can about what looks very similar to insurgency movements that we've seen overseas
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Where they germinate in different parts of the country and they gain strength and it brings together an unholy alliance frequently
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Yeah, well, it seemed to I don't know what happened there lost lost the audio but but anyway,
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I think you you can get the get the sense of religious sticks religious extremists authoritarians fascists bigots racists nativists even libertarians and Unfortunately, I think there has been this momentum that has been generated as a result of unfortunately the demagogic rhetoric of people
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That's just a part of government. But also those who continue in the halls of Congress and so I really do
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Think that the law enforcement homeland security intelligence and even the defense officials are doing everything possible to root out
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What seems to be a very very serious and insidious threat to our democracy in our
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Republic? I want to read you a little bit of how Tom Friedman describes the security
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Okay, so that's the end of the segment there but sorry about the the little technical glitch there but This is an extraordinary thing
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I mean again, you know, John Brennan is not a an obscure kind of a guy he was former director of the
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CIA and he's also Very frequently get very frequently a guest on on news programs and he seems to be especially prominent on places such as MSNBC I don't know if he's on CNN as much or not, but but he's very prominent.
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I mean, he's he's out there He puts himself out there. He's he's on TV quite a bit and And here he is in this particular interview about a minute and a half and he talks about moving with a laser like fashion try to uncover as much as they can't about you know, religious extremists authoritarians fascists bigots racist nativists,
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I don't know I guess a nativist to somebody maybe who questions the the flooding the country with Taxpayers subsidized immigrants migrants and refugees.
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I mean probably And even libertarians he says You know, this is is very disturbing stuff
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You know again, he's trying to make people, you know Maybe who disagree with government policy and to be being being domestic terrorists
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So I mean merely disagreeing with the government now, I mean, I I've seen John Brennan other places
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He says oh, well you have you have a right to to disagree But I mean when you you read statements like this, you know, you really wonder
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You know when you you read stuff in the New York Times by writers who who put the who talk about criminals and Misinformation spreaders in the same sentence.
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Well, you really wonder, you know, how much of it of a an ability do I actually have to disagree?
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So, you know, I I don't know, you know, but but it's very disturbing to even hear this kind of thing and You know another guy that another
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Again going through Paul Craig Roberts article here. He has a link to another Article here. And this is a commentary by John Whitehead and it's called enemies of the deep state the government's war on domestic terrorism is a trap and You know again, you know,
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John Whitehead expresses Deep concern serious concern about some of the language and some of the the legislation that's being drafted by the government and The way that they appear to be going after and essentially making war on Maybe half the
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American people I'm gonna put a link. I'm gonna put a link to all these these various articles here in the in the show notes and the final
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Interestingly the final let's see if I can get that here our Thought I had everything nice and organized here and in and now they
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I find that I don't be he's got a piece in there By a
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Gentleman by the name of Glenn Greenwald now Glenn Greenwald is he's an investigative reporter and and he's
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I guess you would call him I don't know if you call himself a progressive or a liberal. I'm not
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I'm not sure. He's not he's not somebody who Is a Republican, you know, he's not
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You know Conservative Christian or or anything like this? I don't know exactly what his politics are, but he seems to be be an honest guy and and here's a quote from This is a this is a quote here from Glenn Greenwald, this is what
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Glenn Greenwald said He said the last two weeks have ushered in a wave of new domestic police powers and rhetoric in the name of fighting
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Terrorism there are carbon copies of many of the worst excesses of the first war on terror that began nearly 20 years ago
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This new war on terror When it is domestic in name from the start and carries the explicit purpose of fighting extremists and domestic
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Terrorists among American citizens on US soil presents a whole slew of historically familiar dangers when governments exploiting media generated fear and dangers
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Are themselves with the power to control information debate opinion activism and protests?
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So, you know, that's that's Glenn Greenwald again He's somebody who is I mean, you would probably least call him a liberal
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I think that's probably fair to say that but he gets this he understands this stuff Glenn Greenwald has been somebody and I've followed his work and he can do some some very good work and You know, he's also concerned about this so it's you know, there are any number of people who you can confined, you know from Throughout the range of political
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Throughout the political spectrum who are looking at some of the things that are being done and saying hey, this is dangerous
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They There is a an act a bill before Congress It's let's see.
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It's HR Blah -blah -blah. I don't have the the actual number on it
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But it's called the the Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act the DTPA and I read through it
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It's about it's 17 pages. And what's really interesting is it's basically a a very thinly veiled declaration of war specifically on white people
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If if you just did a quick word search 15 times it mentions the term white supremacists and this is on a 17 page document
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There are four mentions of the term neo -nazi But when you search for say Black Lives Matter or Antifa, there's not a single
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There's not a single Mention of this anywhere in in this bill and so basically it seems to be essentially a declaration of war on say conservative or Conservative white people now the thing is you may say to yourself
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Well, it's talking about white supremacists and I'm not a white supremacist. Therefore. I'm fine well, you have to understand that the definition of white supremacist, you know that that's never defined anywhere within this bill and If if you you just kind of read through some of the rhetoric, especially that you've seen over the last year
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But even before that but especially in the last year Basically a white person and a white supremacist are the same thing
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You know if somebody were to ask me, okay, how would I define a white supremacist? well, I'd I'd say well, it's you know,
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I'd maybe somebody that belongs to the Klan or You know, maybe a skinhead or you know, somebody that belongs to some, you know neo -confederate group or something like that You know, maybe those people are white supremacist and there are people like that They're not very many of them, but there are people who are like that But but that's not the way that that term is employed
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In in today's language, I mean if you listen to some of these critical race theory types
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These people who push critical race theory all white people are white supremacists. All white people are racists and You know, therefore,
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I mean this this kind of a bill could be You know used just against white people in general or you know, you're talking about people like like John Brennan getting on here and talking about the the
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You know that there's a laser light, you know, there's a laser like focus, you know on on people who are religious extremists
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Well, what's a religious extremist? I don't know, you know, Tulsi Gabbard raised that question Tucker Carlson has raised that question
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Okay, you know, so what's an extremist? Well, you know an extremist appears to be anybody who disagrees with the official controlled explanations
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And and that's that is is the world that we are living in You know, and I actually
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I talked to a friend of mine about that this week and you know, and he said well You know, we don't know that, you know, what's gonna happen?
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And of course, he's right about that We don't know what's gonna happen and certainly as Christians we can pray that This type of legislation doesn't go anywhere
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You know, I and maybe you won't I mean, maybe this stuff will all fall apart, you know, who knows what's gonna happen?
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Okay, but I think it's important that we at least be aware of it
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We need to at least be aware of it Here's one other brief item that I wanted to share with you and this is also a
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This is a short video it's about a minute long and it's it's an interview and again, this is from MSNBC They seem to be the usual suspects for these kinds of videos, but it's a it's an interview it's being hosted by Nicole Wallace and Essentially she she almost implies that you know that Maybe it'd be an okay thing if you know, if you know if conservatives and Trump supporters, you know
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We're on the receiving end of a drone strike now. She doesn't come out and say it explicitly But if you listen to her rhetoric it is she kind of insinuates is she kind of it?
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She actually does I think imply that So let me play this and let's see what you think here.
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Here we go And again this thing so John Hammond that is a bulletin released to all law enforcement earlier this week that there is until the end of April a persistent threat of domestic extremism domestic
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Terrorism carried out in the ideology and around this belief that the election
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Was fraudulent that the kovat restrictions are unnecessary all of those ideologies pushed by Donald Trump But my question for you is around incitement
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We had a policy and it was very controversial was carried out under the Bush years and under the
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Obama years of Attacking terrorism at its root of going after and killing
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And in the case of Amar al -Awlaki an American a Yemeni American with a drone strike for the crime of inciting violence inciting terrorism
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Mitch McConnell was in the Senate that he was in the Senate after 9 -11 to how does Mitch McConnell Who understands that the way you root out terrorism is to take on in the case of Islamic terrorism kill those who incited?
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How does he not vote to convict someone that he said on the floor of the Senate incited an insurrection?
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No, you know in fairness, I think to Nicole Wallace, you know, maybe you know, she reaches a conclusion
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Okay Well if Mitch McConnell thought droning some guy over in Some American citizen over in the
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Middle East was okay because he was inciting terrorism, you know, how can he be against? Convicting Donald Trump who also incited apparently terrorism
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At least in her mind you know, you know and she talks a little bit about those drone that that drone strike or that that program of Going after terrorism is a root and you know, and that it was was controversial.
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She says some things like that You know, she could probably come back and say well, I'm you know
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I'm not really saying that I I think that that conservatives and Trump supporters or you know evangelical
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Christians should be should be drone striked if they they happen to to disagree with the regime, but you know
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She kind of insinuates. I mean that idea is right there below the surface in what she says and it's not that far below the surface, you know and You know, maybe maybe you could defend what she says and says well, you know, she she just misspoke and that's not really what her intention was but you know,
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I don't know if you can strictly say that she implied that that's That that's an okay thing, but I am very uncomfortable when
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I hear that kind of rhetoric It makes me very uncomfortable And when you you see it not just from her you're seeing it from from I said
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John Brennan You see it in in the New York Times or the linking, you know, the criminals and misinformation spreaders together
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You see this and you see how these people put Terrorists and and people who disagree with them
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Very close to together almost side -by -side almost the same thing Yeah, this is this is very disturbing to see this and again you don't even have to be a
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Christian you don't have to Be a a Republican to look at this and say this is pretty scary
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I mean, you've got people who you know, you've got Tulsi Gabbard. You've got Glenn Greenwald I mean,
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I don't think either one of them are are Christians and they're not Republicans But they they can look at this and say, you know, this is very dangerous stuff
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So what are Christians to do now? You know, I know I sit here and I talk about the the war on domestic terror, you know
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And oh boy, that's a what a fun topic to listen to on a on a on a you know Friday night Sunday or Saturday night early
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Sunday morning. Yeah, but that's a that's an uplifting topic I I don't I don't talk about these things
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To try to scare you that that's that that's not my intention Why do I do this podcast?
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Why do I write my blog the way I do? Well, I do it principally I do it to glorify
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God and I also do it to to edify his people That's that's my prayer
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You know when I when I sit down to write when I sit down to to podcast Is I ask that the
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Lord would give me good, you know to give me wisdom to give me me knowledge to give me understanding And to be able to share that with people that that's what
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I love to do in particular You know I think the Lord's people the Christians deserve to know the truth and to know what's going on And I feel like a lot of times maybe as Christians We don't pay as much attention to some of these things as what we ought to Yeah, and I've there are a couple of verses in Scripture I wanted to share here with you because I've used them before it's kind of a recurring theme and in some of my work
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Especially about preparedness, but I I want to just I want to quote these to you again because I think they are so I Think they really do have application to the the period of time.
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We're going through right now One of these is Proverbs 22 3 It says a prudent man foresees evil and hides himself, but the simple pass on and are punished and the second passage is
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Well, it's Proverbs 27 12. It says it has almost the identical wording I'll read that to you a prudent man foresees evil and hides himself the simple pass on and are punished
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So notice in both of these cases, it talks about a prudent man and that prudent man does two things
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He foresees and He hides himself. So he foresees evil coming and he hides himself foresees and hides
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You know, those are the two the two verbs. They're prudent man foresees and he hides And you know the first thing we need to do if we're going to be prudent men and then we should be prudent
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I mean the end of the Bible, you know commends people who use use prudence.
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I I've talked also several times there's a couple of parables that Jesus talks about we he talks about a
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You know a man he says, you know what man who you know wanting to build a tower doesn't first sit down decide You know, does he have enough money to build that tower?
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You know lest he get part of the way through and have to quit and then people mock him and say ha hey look he started
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Any he he didn't finish You know, I've I've used there was an example Of Of that.
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I remember back during the financial crisis. This is back in 2008 there was a a kind of a combined office retail center that was being built sort of in a one of the
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High -priced ends of town here in Cincinnati. It was over in Kenwood It was right by the highway and then maybe started building this thing and they got part of the way through it then the financial crisis hit and I don't know all of the the ins and outs, but I don't know whether the the
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Contractor went bankrupt or the people that were building it went bankrupt or what the deal was But somebody either head went bankrupt or had major financial problems they had to quit and this so this just partially finished building was sitting there here in this kind of Ritzy part of town and it was right by the highway and in it was partially built and had steel girders it would just kind of sitting out there in the open and and I Figured that that probably had to just drive the the city fathers nuts
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Watching this thing sit there for for several years and it was maybe I don't know three four or five years They eventually finally got around to finishing the thing, but it was just partially finished building, you know
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And it looked look pretty bad. It didn't wasn't a good look wasn't a good look for anybody you know, especially
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I guess if you're you're you're in Kenwood wasn't a great look for them and So, I mean, yeah
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It's important to be able to finish what you start in in in Jesus commends this this individual this this prudent man
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It sits down and you know decides, okay. I want to do this project. Do I have the money? Do I have the means to complete it?
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And he commends that in people and he talks gives another parable very similar to that where he talks about, you know
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What King you know who is? Thinking about going out to battles and first sit down decide whether he can meet his opponent's army with 20 ,000 with his 10 ,000, you know, and if he says well, you know,
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I I don't think that I can win the fight He sues for peace Rather than go out and maybe you lose everything.
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Maybe he'll he won't necessarily have everything that he wants But he'll he'll still be able to retain his power, you know, if he's prudent if he sits down and and make some wise decisions
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So again, Jesus commends these people and and here we have in Proverbs. It commends the prudent man the prudent man foresees
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But he doesn't just foresee So, I mean we we have to be wise we have to be have knowledge.
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We have to be able to apply that knowledge You know wisdom is applied knowledge, okay
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I mean we can sit we can read the Bible and we can understand what the Bible says about economics about politics But we have to be able to apply it to to our lives
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We have to be able to apply it to the situations that we see around us So we for we foresee
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But then we have to also take action, you know, because you notice here the prudent man hides himself
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Now there probably are times maybe you know, I can think of some examples in my own life, you know where I looked and said
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Yeah, you know, I think this could possibly be a problem Maybe I should do X Y or Z and then for whatever reason
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I don't do it, you know, I forget about it get busy I think ah, you know, that's that's probably really never gonna happen.
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And then what happens? Well, the very thing that I foresaw and and then I find it that I'm not prepared for it
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We can probably all think of examples like that, right, you know and and so it's not enough
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Just to foresee it's not enough just to be able to look and say, you know This is kind of getting to be a little bit dangerous.
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We also have to take Take action, you know, so prudent man foresees, but he doesn't just only foresee also hides himself.
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So he takes effective action And it contrasts the prudent man here too with with the simple, you know they're the simple they they look at stuff and either they they they they don't notice it at all or maybe they notice it and They just discount say yeah, everything's gonna be fine
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Well, listen to the rhetoric that's coming out of of the Biden administration and coming out of Joe Biden himself coming out of people who are in his administration people who are
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Associated, you know with his administration one way or supporters of his administration like John Brennan people in the press
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You know such as these two authors in the New York Times You know, they are lending credence and it's more than just that I mean there's a many more examples
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I could go out and find But I think just the ones that I cited I think should be at least sufficient to give you an idea of the intellectual tenor
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That's out there and you know, there was that book, you know written many years ago
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It was called ideas have consequences, you know, because ideas tend to you know at some point or another the filter down in into effect our actions and Now John Robbins wrote about that I think what did he say that not not only do ideas have consequences
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But only ideas have consequences. I I think I'm remembering that correctly and one of the things when you you read through Gordon Clark you read through John Robbins is they talk about the the primacy of the ideas the primacy of the intellect because Everything that you and I do it's all based on some prior ideas some prior theory
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So I mean ideas rule the world You know that saying the pen is mightier than the sword.
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That's really true. I mean, it maybe seems counterintuitive But but that really is true because it's the ideas that are are written down by the pen
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That that move armies that move nations And when you listen to the ideas that are coming out of the
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Biden administration Itself or people associated with the Biden administration or people who support what
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Biden is doing You look at that and you realize this is some really dangerous stuff
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You know in in you and I as Christians, you know, we need to be able to to hide ourselves
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Now that can mean different things to different people I'm not gonna try to get into to talking about all of this But when you hear this kind of rhetoric when you hear these kinds of things, you know
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We have to be wise in in the way that we act Another thing we're not supposed to do one of the things we we shouldn't should do we foresee and we hide ourselves
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Something we shouldn't do is to fear you think of how many times you know, Jesus talked to his disciples fear not
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You know somebody there's a youtuber. I listen to and he he does a Friday news wrap every
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Friday And and he always was closes his video with us and he talks about The you know, the great the
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Great Commission, you know where Jesus says all authority on in heaven and on earth Or all authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth
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He quotes this quite often. Well always at the end of his his broadcast and So, you know
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Jesus has all authority this stuff that's going on with Joe Biden whether you know Whether it's a rigged election whether it's a corrupt administration, you know all of this stuff
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None of it's happening, you know apart. Not only is is God Perfectly aware of it.
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He's brought this about Now we can talk for different reasons about why he brings these sorts of things about, you know,
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Augustine I know I've talked about this, but it's probably worth mentioning this again, you know, Augustine, you know, you think about it really is
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Augustine Okay, this is the talk about the the church father Augustine here You know, he lived at the time when when
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Rome was sacked and in AD 410, you know, and people kept asking him Well, well, how come
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Christians are suffering through this? I mean if you're God so great How come Christians are are suffering right along with everybody else and in one of the answers, you know
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He gave is you know, well, you know maybe Christians are you know get too comfortable and they become too too afraid to maybe rebuke people and you know, hold people accountable and speak the gospel and and and to to speak the
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The law and to apply it to public officials or to apply it to people in their lives because well, you know by golly
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I've got I've got a pretty comfortable life here and I don't want to rock the boat you know and and and and so God has a way of Chastising his people
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He does this. I mean, of course, you know Hebrews talks about that, right? It says, you know, no, no chastisement is pleasant
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You know why you're going through it I'm paraphrasing a little bit but I think I that's a reasonable paraphrase there
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You know, the the chastisement is is not pleasant, but he says, you know, if if you don't have chastisement
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You're not sons You're illegitimate children and and not only that but that chastisement yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness
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So, you know Well, you know as Christians when we go through difficult times like this and I have to tell you
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I'd I'd I Think the Biden, you know, the Joe Biden presidency is going to be a disaster for the
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United States. This is not a good thing But you and I we're gonna go through this thing together and by God's grace.
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Not only are we gonna get through it But I think we have a great opportunity to do some good work but we have to trust in Christ and And in trusting in him we can have the boldness to face a world that is hostile to us
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You know one of my favorite verses in Scripture. It's it's it's 1st Corinthians 16 13
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And I really love the the King James translation, especially of this and let me read this here
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It just says watch he stand fast in the faith quit you like men
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Be strong. I love that part about quit you like men and that's a really good translation too, by the way of the
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Greek The Greek verb that underlies quit you like men is
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Is andrids of my I mean it literally means to act like a man, you know to be a man
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I mean, you know, we say that today's what man up, you know this kind of thing Well, I mean that's literally what the Greek says there quit you like men and And that's what we need to learn how to do
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You know, we're facing some difficult times but you know as as Christians, you know, we know
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We have the right man on our side, right the man of God's own choosing just like what Martin Luther said, so You know
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Christians have survived in all kinds of very difficult times. You think of the
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Great Commission of Jesus said, you know All authority has been given to me on heaven on earth, you know, his next word was go therefore, you know
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He's telling his disciples, you know go therefore and you know teach, you know, all that, you know, teach my doctrines
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You know baptizing the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit, etc Well, what was he sending him out to he was sending them out to the
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Roman Empire Which was a very hostile environment I mean, they are the you know, the
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Roman Empire did not like Christians and Christians suffered sometimes Christians suffered death You know the the author of Hebrews talks about Some of the the
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Christians that he was writing to and he said you gladly endured the plundering of your goods So I mean some of the his his his readers, you know had suffered because of Christ, you know
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They'd suffered because of their faith in Christ. So they knew about this type of thing and you know, Lord willing you know,
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I I'm not saying that we want to go out and and Find ourselves in all kinds of suffering but it's possible
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It could come our way, you know and we have to be ready for these things and we also have to be be wise in the way that we conduct ourselves and That that's really my prayer
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For you as Christians that that you would be, you know for for my brothers and sisters Especially who are in Christ who are watching this, you know that we'd be prudent that we
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See trouble that we we to the degree that it depends on us to to hide ourselves to avoid putting ourselves in dangerous and in foolish situations
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To be bold to speak the gospel to act like men This is this is what we need to be doing.
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So anyway, that's that's about all I had for this week I just want to say thank you so much for for watching for those of you who are also watching live on on D live
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I am on D live and also on periscope and on Twitter so so thanks so much for spending some time with me here early on a
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Sunday morning and Lord willing we'll be back to to talk again next week and until that time