It's Over... - Voddie Baucham

Let's take a look at some very strange things happening around us, progressing to the most disturbing at the end, which you will not want to miss.

First, DeMar Hamlin. Defensive backs than any team in football, 95 % of the time.

So you're essentially a weak side linebacker in the run game as well. Here's Higgins wide open to midfield and lowers the shoulder for 13.

This is where Joe Burrow is so good. And now another Bills player is down.

Tell exactly who that is. Maybe Hamlin. Welcome back to Cincinnati where medical personnel have been working on Bill's safety,

DeMar Hamlin, for the last nine minutes. Hamlin made a hit. He got up, took a couple of steps and then just fell to the ground.

We don't know, of course, the extent of his injuries, but the entire Bills team is out on the field right now.

Several players are down on their knees. Other players are holding hands, praying. You can just see the worried looks on their faces.

As soon as we have more, Joe, we'll pass it on up to you guys in the booth. Okay, Lisa, we're going to take a break.

They have been administering CPR. I mean, really just terrifying that he was up, collapsed to the ground.

It's one of those things, the hit doesn't look bad, but bug, I mean, often that's how it is. It's not necessarily about a big hit.

It's about the type of hit. Yeah, Susie, we play a violent game and you just hate to see it.

That's all, I just pray for the young man, pray for his family right now. That's all I can say, all I know how to do right now.

There's prayers all across the NFL community. Everybody's thinking of DeMar Hamlin right now and that's all we can do, hope and pray that he's okay because it is chilling and scary to watch that entire situation unfold on the field.

Everybody gathered around him and everybody praying that this young man is going to be okay. It's just tough, man. It's tough to watch, man.

After Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest after being hit on the field, there was an outpouring of prayer for Hamlin from across the country.

Millions are praying for the young player from outside the hospital. And we will be praying every single second, every single day for your son.

Incredibly, a man even decided to pray for Hamlin live on ESPN. I've heard the

Buffalo Bills organization say that we believe in prayer and maybe this is not the right thing to do, but it's just on my heart that I want to pray for.

It is. DeMar Hamlin right now. I'm going to do it out loud. I'm going to close my eyes. I'm going to bow my head and I'm just going to pray for him.

I believe in prayer. We believe in prayer. We lift up DeMar Hamlin's name in your name. Amen. Amen.

Amen. Thankfully, Hamlin is now stable and recovering after this frightening accident.

He said, I love you boys. And of course, I think I got the guys. DeMar Hamlin sends his teammates a heartwarming message amid new signs of improvement on his road to recovery.

According to the Buffalo Bills, the player is breathing on his own and talking.

Days after suffering cardiac arrest on the field following a hit during a January 2nd game against the

Cincinnati Bengals. Hamlin's story reminds us that our lives can be taken away from us at any moment and that it's a grave mistake to think we can simply put off trusting in Jesus for salvation until later in our lives.

And I will admit, as we all must, that life is a terminal illness for all of us. Every year, 60 million people die in the world.

Three million every year die in our own country. They all will live forever, either in heaven or hell.

The difference is their relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. Is he their savior or is he their judge?

Second, a woman was arrested for merely standing and praying in her head. If I've got a choice, then no.

Okay, well then, you're under arrest. Advanced suspicion of failing to comply with the Public Spaces Protection Order.

Governments are becoming so authoritarian that in some places it's now illegal to simply stand and pray, not even audibly.

It's truly frightening how far powerful people will go to protect evil.

Isabel Von Spruce is the leader of 40 Days for Life campaign in Birmingham, England.

She's not a terrorist. She's the opposite. She's someone who prays a lot. Earlier this month, she was praying silently outside an abortion clinic in Birmingham.

She wasn't yelling or carrying a sign or blocking the doorway or doing anything disruptive. She was just praying. Praying, not to the government, to God.

And that's not allowed anymore. So police approached her and arrested her and charged her with violating a Public Space Protection Order and committing, quote, antisocial behavior.

And we're not making this up. It was caught on video. The West is supposed to represent freedom and democracy.

But more and more, Christians are experiencing persecution for failing to conform to the pressures of culture and government.

The church in America is going to suffer so terribly. And we laugh now, but they will come after us.

They will come after our children. They will close the net around us while we are playing soccer mom and soccer dad, while we are arguing over so many little things and mesmerized by so many trinkets.

The net, even now, is closing around you and your children and your grandchildren, and it does not cause you to fear.

You will be isolated from society as has already happened. Anyone who tries to run for office who actually believes the

Bible will be considered a lunatic until finally we are silenced. Third, the new

Martin Luther King Jr. statue. To honor Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Boston unveiled a statue, which many say is hideous and even inappropriate.

The embrace unveiled on Boston Common today, the statue honoring the life and legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

and his wife, Coretta Scott. Can you pause that for a second? What the F is that? What in the world is that? So from one angle, you can actually see that it is arms, but from the first angle, it does not look like arms.

From the first angle, it looks like bizarro world garbage. What is happening right now? So obviously the modern artists decided that they were going to have a message, and the message was that you're gonna go inside of it, and you're gonna walk around, and you're gonna look up to the sky.

How about statues that look like things, guys? How about that? Is it too much to ask? I'm fine with a statue of Martin Luther King.

It's a beautiful one over in Washington, D .C. I'm wondering why they decided to go for the headless statue of Martin Luther King as opposed to the one that had a head.

What happened here? Go back to the first angle for a second when they first unveiled this thing, because yeah, what is that?

This right here. It looks as if a person is wrestling an anaconda. Bizarre, bizarre statue.

Super weird. Modern art has been seeking to deconstruct the idea of objective, traditional beauty, and wants us to view as beautiful things that are not, in fact, beautiful.

The purpose of this is to destroy everything related to the Bible and tradition, which is seen as out of date, to be replaced with things that are completely new, different, and antithetical.

There are some things that God made just because they're beautiful. This separates cultures, people.

There are many cultures in the world that don't do things because of aesthetics. They don't do things because of beauty, but were made in the image of God.

This is the difference. We use this illustration of the bridge, right? I have to get from this side of the river to the other side of the river.

And in many cultures, it's just, okay, fine. We have to get from here to there. What do we have? We got some rope. We got some vine. Just take that across, grab that, crawl across.

Fine, we got to the other side. And then there are cultures that build bridges that are so beautiful that you'll go 100 kilometers out of your way just to drive across it.

Number four, the controversial conversion of M .I .A., a popular British rapper and singer.

Here's M .I .A. describing her vision of Jesus. Then I went to the Caribbean that Christmas and I had this vision.

And then it just like turned my creative world upside down for about five years. I had a vision of Jesus Christ.

First of all, I want to say that my vision of Jesus was he wasn't wimpy looking. Like he didn't look like he was starving and had been hung on a cross for, you know, days.

He looked really strong and it was the strongest thing I've ever seen. And I was thinking, wow,

I did not believe in Jesus or Christianity. And I don't believe that this person is gonna save anyone.

And here's what M .I .A. said in an interview with Zane Lowe about her conversion to Christianity.

When M .I .A. was in this interview with Zane Lowe, she replied, yes, I am a born again

Christian. I do not want to hide that. I don't want to lie. And I want my fans to know there's a reason I'm telling them that Jesus is real.

She said Jesus revealed himself to her in a dream and it changed her life. And now she's a born again believer.

However, like with most mega celebrities who profess faith in Christ, there are some significant concerns about M .I

.A.'s professed faith in Christ. There seems to be strong new age and even Hindu influences concerning what she believes about Christianity.

Here's what M .I .A. said in an interview with Russell Brand. In Hinduism, we have this thing called

Navaratri where you fast for nine days. And it's dedicated to the three goddesses. So our trifecta in Tamil culture, it's not like the father, the son, and the

Holy Spirit, but it's Shiva, Vishnu, and Brahma, you know? And that's where the sound Aum comes from.

So Aum, which is A -U -M, is the creator, which is basically your base, you know, and where your reproductive organ is.

And then the Au sound, or you, is from your like middle part of your body.

That's your heart. So that's basically the sustainer who keeps you alive is the heart.

And then Shiva, which is the mental one, and that's the ending syllable, which is Mm. So that's a heady sound where you make it in your head.

And that's basically, Shiva's role is he's a destroyer and he's supposed to destroy ignorance, you know?

So those are the trifectas in Hinduism of creation, sustaining, and destroying ignorance.

I love the way, excuse me, carry on. Yes, and then in Christianity, they have the same sort of concepts.

And I really wanted to explore, you know, the interconnectedness of those things. M .I

.A. says a lot more in this interview, but it seems that M .I .A. is mixing together Christianity with concepts that are simply not biblical.

Let's pray that she will fully embrace the Bible as truth and reject all philosophies and ideologies that are contrary to what

God has revealed in his word. And finally, Steven Crowder is one of the most popular conservative voices, and he professes faith in Jesus Christ.

He tweeted, there is no eternal salvation outside of Jesus Christ, and no way to the

Father except through him and him alone. Why? Because he is risen, and no one else is, has been, nor ever will be.

Happy Easter. I certainly hope Crowder's faith is genuine, but Crowder has recently gone viral for doing some very questionable things that lots of people have been talking about.

I'm gonna read you the timeline of what happened during this negotiation and when he decided to tape his friend, his supposed friend,

Jeremy Boring. So here is the timeline here. October 5th, 2022 is when we sent Steven this supposedly evil term sheet.

On November 2nd, Steven called up Jeremy and said, I want $30 million a year and a bunch of changes to the term sheet. I'm not gonna redline the term sheet.

I'm not gonna edit the term sheet. I just want you to send me a brand new offer. On November 6th, four days later, November 14th or thereabouts, we decided that we couldn't meet his demands.

His demands were not rational in business terms, that he wanted too much money and all the rest of it. So we let him know, no hard feelings.

We're still friends, just like we do in every contract negotiation. Fast forward another month, December 12th, he registered the site

StopBigCon. That's when he registered it. Remember, October 5th is when he received the terms. November 14th is when we said we could not meet his demands.

December 12th is when he registered StopBigCon because he knew that three days later, he was going to be announcing that he was leaving the

Blaze. He needed a plan and attacking us was the plan. December 15th, he announced he was leaving the Blaze. A month after that, he texted

Jeremy in friendly fashion to ask if they could talk. On January 9th, he called Jeremy and proceeded to tape him.

Without permission, without Jeremy's knowledge, he proceeded to tape a person who was supposedly his friend. And remember, this is all based on the passion of the upset that he had over a term sheet that was submitted to him on October 5th.

It is a month, it's actually 36 days after. So January 17th is when he launches StopBigCon.

So just to get this straight, just to get the timeline straight, because this is what we would call a premeditated move in an attempt to grow your email list.

This means 104 days elapsed between when Steven Crowder received the term sheet that we submitted to him and when he launched

StopBigCon. 104 days. And it means that 36 days elapsed between when he decided to attack

DailyWire and Jeremy by purchasing StopBigCon and when he called Jeremy to tape him. It makes me nauseous to be talking about this, honestly.

It makes me sick to be talking about this. I'm sad for Steven that he feels the necessity to plan for months, apparently, to attack his friends, to try to grow an email list in the most cynical possible fashion and tape his friends on the phone and then release that public.

Who does that? Who does that? Is that something you do? I mean, let me just ask you on a personal level. Have you ever done that? Have you ever taped your friends?

Is that a thing that you do? This story is extremely disturbing for numerous reasons. First, Steven is very public in claiming to represent the name of Jesus Christ as a

Christian. So it would reflect poorly upon Christians if Steven exhibited behavior that was contrary to Christian morality.

Second, as Ben said, it is absolutely despicable that Steven would both tape someone who considered

Steven a friend and then use that recording publicly in front of millions of people to attack that friend, especially when the issue was just an initial term sheet that could easily be negotiated or rejected.

And third, it's extremely dishonest for Steven to claim that he is fighting for the people whom he says the

Daily Wire is exploiting, yet also have this extremely premeditated plan to grow his email list and brand.

Steven claims that he wants to protect creators whom the Daily Wire is exploiting. Look, let me put it this way.

If you give me your word, this is all that matters here. Just give me your word that there will never be a clause in a contract again for some unsuspecting kid or someone who doesn't have the luxury to walk away from $50 million, as I did, true, guilty as charged.

Give me your word that you will not penalize them 25 % for demonetization, another 20 % for a strike, another 20 % for Facebook, Spotify, Apple, up to 80%.

Just give me your word that that clause, that that spirit will not be in any contract sent out to anyone else who's at the front lines fighting for this country, and we're done.

All of this stops right now. You will never hear from me again. I will go out and sing your praises.

You can pick up the phone. You have my word. That's all it is. That's all this is about. In the interim, to everyone else, stopbigcon .com,

be a signatory. However, the very people whom Crowder is alluding to here, who are supposedly being exploited by the

Daily Wire, for example, Brett Cooper, Matt Walsh, Candace Owens, and Jordan Peterson, have all come out and said that the

Daily Wire is doing no such thing. Currently, there is absolutely no evidence that the

Daily Wire is doing what Crowder is accusing the Daily Wire of doing. The right thing for Crowder to do now is to repent of betraying and misrepresenting people who had considered him a friend, and to examine his standing before God, because a true

Christian cares about being truthful and honest above building a brand and email list.

Do you have a new relationship with God? Then you have a new relationship with sin, because you have a new relationship with God's commands.

Prior to conversion, a man does not walk around thinking about the commandments of God, trying to obey the commandments of God, broken when he breaks the commandments of God, confessing when he breaks the commandments of God.

He has no relationship with the commandments of God. He does what is right in his own eyes. But if he's been truly converted, what will happen?

There will begin a relationship with God's commands, with God's will. He will want to know

God's will for his life. He will want to obey God's will. He will ask for power for obedience.

He will confess sin when he finds himself breaking God's will. This is the evidence of true conversion.