Who Is Thinking For You — Shane Idleman

This is a very important topic. We're just as confused as ever before on what's going on in the news. And we sent out some questions to the Ignite Youth Group. Some of them are here this evening on what are the top questions on their minds?

What are some of the things they're questioning and confused about? And we see what's happening in Afghanistan. What a mess. What a just heartbreak. And what's going on with COVID and the mandates and all the different things.

So I'm going to try to sort through it. On one hand, as Christians, and if you're in God's Word and you're educating yourself, you have a pulse on things, but you're not perfect. And so I don't profess to know it all.

That's for sure, especially on these issues, because some things we thought were crystal clear, other things we're not sure of. And I've kind of just stepped back a little bit and taken a lot of things to prayer in seeking God's will.

God's Thoughts Versus the World's Thoughts

The title is, Who Thinks for You? Because somebody is thinking for you. What I mean by that is God's thoughts are being planted into your soul and your spirit, and then you're acting upon those, or the thoughts of the world are being planted into our minds.

And that's really what you see out there is kingdoms colliding. You see God's kingdoms, God's thought process, God's will, God's truth is colliding with the way the world thinks. Who thinks for you? And of course, we find ourselves in Romans 12, one through two on this topic.

And Paul is writing the church in Rome, and he says, which I'm sure he would say to us today as well, I beseech you. That word is I beg you. And if I could, I would tell you, I beg you to look to God's Word and be conformed, actually transformed by God's Word, because the times are getting dire.

It's getting hard to discern the fake news, the real news, how to act, how not to act. Has any of this produced any negative attitudes in you or just me? If I have another store, tell me to put a mask on.

I don't know. But you see, I have to be careful. I'm human too. I've got emotions. I've got anger. I've got fear. I've got frustration. And working through those, but being transformed by God's Word. So Paul says, I'm begging you by the mercies of God.

It doesn't get much clearer than that. This is a plea that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. So you can't get away from holiness. You can't get away from that being acceptable to God.

And this is your reasonable service. Now, the reason this verse is so interesting is because so many people ask me and the church, what is God's will for my life? Have you heard that? Well, it starts right here.

If you're not doing it here, you're not going to know God's will in other areas of your life. Present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, holy before God, living holy, not perfect lives. And it's interesting, as I was even looking through David's life, as I'm going through the Bible, I'm looking at different characters.

You know, he was a man after God's own heart, yet he did things that he shouldn't do. Even Samson. Even Samson. And I'm like, why didn't the prostitute take him down? But Delilah did. I'm like, I don't understand sometimes.

And so I'm not excusing these things. All I'm saying is, it's an attitude of repentance and getting back on track. And I'm not excusing sin. I don't encourage it. But when you fall, fall forward. And God, you can still live holy and righteous before God if you're constantly seeking him, giving him your life, living holy, making decisions that honor him.

And then the famous part of the verse as well, and do not be conformed to this world. Young adults, how many ignited in here? Some of you are in here. This word, have you ever seen them make a clay pot where they take the clay and it's moldable and it's being conformed?

So they're saying, do not let, Paul's saying, do not be conformed to this world. And what he means by world, the word is cosmos. It means a world's way of thinking. The world thinks differently than God, if you haven't figured that out yet.

Pretty clear difference here. And so if you're being conformed to the direction of the world, the thought process of the world, you will not be transformed by the renewing of your mind, according to God's word.

The Battle for the Mind

So we have this, do we have this two opposing forces, if you will. And I don't really call the Holy Spirit a force. It's actually the triune nature of God, but the Holy Spirit drawing you and transforming you into the image of Christ.

And now you have the world trying to do what? The same thing. So who thinks for you? Who's making you do what you do? Who's planting the thoughts? And this is where we have a huge choice to make. And this is where I think the thoughts are won or they are lost in my life and your life as well.

This is where the battle is won, the battle for the mind. And who thinks for you? And I'm sure you see it on Facebook and different places, Twitter, TikTok, all these crazy places. You see Christians do things and you're like, how is that possible?

Why? They're a Christian. Now, some people aren't Christian. They're just Christian in name and they don't know Jesus Christ. But some people are genuinely, I believe, believers, but they've quenched and grieved the spirit.

And you're like, why do they disagree with me on everything from politics to vaccines, to COVID, to the agenda, to all this stuff? Why are there, they don't see this, abortion's okay. Like, I don't understand what's going on.

And it's often because the thinking, who's doing the thinking for them, they're conformed to what the world believes and what the world thinks. And Adrian Rogers said something very interesting. At first, the man molds his idol, but then the idol molds his man.

And that will happen to you, that'll happen to me. The more you give yourself over to that idolatry, the more that idol will begin to control you. And Jeremiah talked about it in his book, and I think also Isaiah, where they would actually go and cut down trees and they would make an idol, their God, and worship it in their house.

And then once they gave over to that, that idol began to then take over in their life. And so if there's anything in your life you begin to give yourself over to, when you're younger, you can handle some things, but eventually those things begin to handle you.

And as you get older and you give yourself over to more of these things, they begin to control you. You once controlled them, but now they begin to control you. And it's this hook of idolatry, and we give ourselves over to something, then that latches on.

The Competing Voices of the World and the Flesh

So the competing voices, we've talked about God's voice and the voice of the world, and really the cry is, if you were to sum up everything, the cry is, validate my sin. That's what the world says, I want you to validate my sin.

I want to live however I want, and I want you to acknowledge that this is right, and it is good, and if not, you are intolerable. Isn't that what we're trying to do? Validate sin. And that's what the world wants to do.

God's word says something completely different. And I've talked about this before, so I won't go into a lot of detail, but we know how to tell what is of God and what is of the world. Basically, what is of the enemy working in our hearts, our own thoughts going to the, let's call it the dark side, right?

It's the lust of the flesh. So if your flesh craves something, now it's okay to, you know, crave, you got to eat, you got to, I mean, there's certain things, God-given cravings, but if you're being led by the flesh, something the flesh wants, the flesh desires, that's a pretty good indication it might be the wrong voice that's leading you, the wrong thought process.

Especially when we tell, with the youth in here, don't think you want to date someone because how they look. Now, it's okay to be attracted to them, but if you're, oh, I have to date them because how they look.

When I was younger, it was Brad Pitt. Who's it today? Oh, still Brad Pitt. Who? Oh, okay, Tatum. Little Nas X? The Weeknd? But see, but we're drawn to these people, or you see someone at school or church, and that it might not be wrong necessarily, but if that, the feeling should be the caboose of the train, not the engine.

And so we make decisions based on the lust of the flesh. Oh, I like how that person looks. Are they a Christian? I don't know. I don't care. That's what we said in high school. That wasn't even on the radar until you learned the lesson later.

And so the pull of the flesh, what the flesh craves, what the I wants, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the I, the pride of life is not of the Father, but it's of the world. So what your I goes after, what you want, you know, I have to have this.

And as a truck lover, you know, you want the next big truck. It's a year old. I want the one with the tailgate. We saw a commercial. What was it for? Shane with the Chevrolet. You go, Dad, you want that?

I go, that's a pretty cool tailgate. You push a button and you got half a tailgate, and then it comes in half, another tailgate. It's got tool bins. It's like, that is pretty cool. I want that, but they're expensive.

And so the I is taking you. Why do people get in big financial debt in regard to housing and the housing market? Hmm. Buying what they don't really need often. It can't because, see, we're buying things because of how they look or how the flesh feels, and we're caving into addictions or overweight or all these things because of the lust of the flesh.

And then we want what we want, the lust of the I. And then somebody tries to correct us and say, hey, you might not, you might not be going in a good direction. Well, I, you're just judgmental. And that's the pride of life.

So you have the pride of life. Pride prevents you from being teachable and humble and open to the things of God. So that's how, that's how the pull the enemy work. It's actually not very difficult. When Eve saw that the fruit there was what?

Pleasant to the eye, good for food, lust of the flesh, lust of the eye, and desirable to make one wise. She took of it and ate. And so we see the enemy always uses those three things. So that's one way to think, okay, who's thinking for me?

If this is something my flesh wants, now that's not necessarily a bad thing because afterwards my flesh is probably going to want to eat, right? But the flesh, flesh inside is going to want Panda Express and In-N-Out burger and maybe two double doubles and French fries and a chocolate shake.

And I tease myself, I drink some and then try to throw it away, but I can't, the whole thing. And so see how the flesh takes over. I'm going to start a fast. I'm not going to say, I'm not going to eat any junk food tomorrow.

And then here comes chocolate time. The flesh is, or what about women say, my biological clock is ticking. I got to find somebody. And we rush out ahead of things. And so that's basically how the competing voice works.

God says, it's actually very clear, filter your feelings and these lusts and these decisions, filter them through my word. And they don't line up with that, then you know, you're not going in a good direction.

So you actually have to saying no, the blessing follows saying no. You usually don't feel like it. At first you feel like caving into the lust of the flesh, but then when you say no and obey God's word, that's when the satisfaction comes.

You either experience a pain of discipline or the pain of regret. That's how it, scripture is clear on this. And then when that happens, we're hearing the wrong voice. I just, last night I was reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's book.

Bonhoeffer, Political Power, and Deception

Actually it was a book written by him. His autobiography, not his autobiography, a biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Do you know who he was? He was actually hung by a piano string because he was part of the attempt to kill Adolf Hitler.

He was a Christian pastor in Germany. And I will tell you, reading this book more than anything, what alarms me is the parallels that we're seeing in America today. Silence the true churches, give the liberal churches a voice, control what goes in the media.

It has to be state-sponsored, get rid of the police force and bring in the brown coats that work for just Hitler and the SS. And so he was hung by piano string because of a failed attempt on Hitler's life.

And what happened is they brought a bomb in to where Hitler was with some of his generals. Bonhoeffer didn't, he was just part of it. And they killed many people, tortured them, their wives, their children because of this failed attempt.

And this general brought a suitcase and put it underneath this 18 foot long table. It was a big, though, wood table. I think it was oak or something. And so Hitler was behind something like this, one of the legs.

And so when it went off, it seared him, but he was fine. But a couple of people around him died. It was a failed attempt. And it's interesting what he said. I highlighted it. I could not believe it. He went out to the German public and he announced on radio that he said, now more than ever, I know that providence and God is on my side because he spared my life.

The wrong voice. And then how many churches went with him, went in his direction because he promised them safety and took away their freedoms? The parallels are amazing. And we shouldn't be surprised because either God is controlling you in our world system, in our government, different things, or the enemy is.

There's not something in between. It's either anti-Christ against God or for God. And you wonder how in the world can that happen in Afghanistan with what the current president did. It's not only alarming, it's appalling, it's treason.

Wrong, wrong mindset. How can they leave people stranded there knowing that they can be rescued, leaving, telling the planes they can't take off. There's, this is, this is diabolical because it's the enemy working in the hearts and minds of these people.

I believe many of these people are pathological liars. One lie after another. It just keeps coming. The big one, I don't know if you've seen this, and again, I don't just, oh look it, I read this on YouTube, I better tell you.

I have to research a lot of things, double check, triple check, make sure the source, but it just, the Freedom of Information Act came out, and they finally released some emails, and Fauci's in big trouble.

One of the senators ran, Paul was on Fox News, and they said, they're actually, some senators are calling for his arrest. This isn't conspiracy theory, I'm not making it up. They, there's ties with the Wuhan lab that he knew exactly what they were testing and doing in China.

He knew it, he called it in 2020. They predicted a massive epidemic, and here's how we'll handle it. Oh wow, isn't that a coincidence? And so it's all coming out. You say, how does this happen? Diabolical, it's lying, it's the prince of this, the world, it's the, it's, it's anti-Christ and against Christ.

And I read another survey from, it was a secular newspaper. Who are the people against all these things the government's doing? You know, why are they fighting, you name it, masks, vaccines, whatever you want, the mandates.

You know, there's different views on different things, but I think we all agree that we shouldn't be forced to do anything, especially on something that's experimental, we don't know the ramification.

But like, look at this group of people, look at these group of people who are against all this. It's, it's evangelical Christians. Oh, they're the bad people. Well, it could be that they're discerning what God is doing, because they're hearing from God, and they're discerning God's will and not being led away by the prince of darkness.

I think that's what it is. It's, it's not these people believing a conspiracy theory, we see exactly what's going on. And I'm going to answer some of the youth questions that came in just a minute. But I want to share with you, why is, you know who Larry Elder is?

Running for governor? Okay, without endorsing, I think you know who I might be leaning towards. But anyway, I was actually, saw on Paul Chapel, Lancaster Baptist tweet or Facebook page that he actually led him to the Lord at lunch, led him to the Lord at lunch about a week ago.

So I mean, that's, that's encouraging. But anyway, a black man from the inner city who worked his tail off to get where he's at. Now the, now the liberals are against him. Now everyone's against him. Wait a minute, why is that?

Are you really for what you say you're for? No, they're not. It's a mindset. It's a kingdoms are colliding. So be encouraged. That's what's going on. Why so much confusion? Because who thinks for you?

We're thinking outside the box and according to God's will and the world system, many in America are not. So here's the big places, or here's the big areas that change our thinking. So young adults, this is mainly for you.

Entertainment and Popular Culture

I know a lot of you are in here tonight. Number one, entertainment. Entertainment, it is shaping the way you think. If you're listening to songs that say, hate the police and hate your parents, guess what you're going to do?

Both. That's why I mentioned Lil Nas X and Weekend and Billy. What's their name? English or Irish or whatever. It's like, is that, was that close? Okay. You guys know, but they are influencing you more than your parents and more than your church.

They, some of them don't know if they're a boy or a girl. Lil Nas X just did a fake YouTube thing where he's pregnant, posting his picture of his pregnancy. What is this? This is insanity. Insanity is the definition of doing the same thing, expecting different results.

You cannot continue to reject God and get different results. Truth will always prevail. You can't fight truth. And so if you're listening to these people, if you're listening to this type of material, you will be led astray from God.

That's just plain and simple. There's no, well, no, I think I can keep a good balance. I even, I even talked to one youth pastor 20 years ago. My wife will remember this. I just, just, you know, one of those things.

He goes, Shane, but I have to listen to and watch what they watch so I can relate to them. But I listened to his sermons are dead. There's no power in his life. He's just, he just looks like the world.

That's his excuse. You can't, you know, it's okay to, you know, a little bit like, what do they believe? What are they thinking? So you can relate to your kids. But if you're entertained by it, that's why it's called entertainment.

Sports and Social Media as Influences

If you're entertained, so entertainment is huge. What about sports? So many kids are, are quoting LeBron James and communism because of what he promotes and love is love for China and socialism and different things.

Now I know these things hurt, but just, just look it up. Just, if you don't believe me, look, does he love America? Does he love God? And they're influencing millions and millions of people. Social media.

I don't even know who invented TikTok, but it needs to go. These guys, these people have too much time on their hand. And even my son will watch something or my daughters, I better not say point out. It's like, no, you can't try that at home just because they try it on YouTube.

Doesn't mean it's going to work. You can't blast a rocket ship out of the backyard. And so, but it's influencing. So you have entertainment, you have sports, you have social media, all they're, they're in, they're thinking for you.

So you're a product of what you're, you're being conformed to that. So you look like that. And that's kids. That's why you don't get along often with your parents because your parents are trying to point you to Christ.

The world's trying to take you away and there's a kingdoms are colliding. Well, hold on. I'm not done yet. What about news? News outlets, be careful where you get your information. What about friends and all these, all these influence that can be counter.

You're going counter cultural with, with, with God, they're pushing you into the culture. And so you have all these competing voices and the big one right now, well, as well as false churches. I've, I never thought we'd see so many false churches 20 years ago.

False Churches and the Authority of Scripture

I mean, friends, I know pastors that I've been at meetings with like, well, you know what? I don't know if we can really trust Paul's writings. Yeah. Right over that Hill. Oh, I can't say anything about abortion because the government okays it.

I mean, you know, submitting to the government Romans 13, that is the worst exegesis of Romans 13 I've ever heard. Is it because they're a coward, not filled with the spirit? False churches. Say we, Shane, we just need to love everyone where they're at.

We don't call out sin. The problem is that's not preaching. That's accommodating. We can be welcoming, but not affirming. And to truly love someone, you point out, see, the problem is they don't have the inerrancy of scripture in their heart.

Now there are many churches, especially in people, people I know are promoting something that you'll be hearing more about when I'm in Genesis called critical race theory. And basically they're using racism to try to prevent racism.

And as we always say, you have to change the heart. That's it. We don't have a skin problem. We have a sin problem. You change the heart. And so what this, what this teaches though, I'm going to get to it in just a second, because one of the kids are asking this question, America is bad.

It is evil. And so guess what else is bad? You're going to be hearing about this, I think pretty soon. And if you haven't already, so is the constitution. You know what that means? We, the people in the toilet, we, the government are your new commanders in chief here.

And by the way, white people, you're all oppressors. That's what you are. You've been oppressed and you are oppressors. You oppress people. And so you have to apologize for that. You have to work on not being so white.

And so what they're doing is they're actually forcing racism. Well, Shane, what should we do? You pointed out there's racism in the police departments. There's racism in the government. There's racism in the churches and you change the heart.

You get to the heart of the problem by changing the heart. But churches are apologizing for that. And they're putting the rainbows, the rainbows are now, if you go to Palm Springs, you're going to see a lot of rainbows on church, on church signs.

And that means they're welcoming, they're actually affirming of the LGBTQ lifestyle, that that's how God made them. It's not our job to say anything. And so now you're being led astray by false doctrine.

Well, how do I know if it's true or not? Does it line up with scripture? It's very clear. God doesn't change. Praise, aren't you glad God's word doesn't change? When it said in Leviticus, thou shall not lay with a man as a man lays with a woman.

Thou shall not put on woman's clothing if you're a man. Guess what? That still applies. But they say, but they also say don't eat seashells or shellfish, I guess. Don't eat seashells. Do not eat seashells.

But they say, well, look at the dietary laws. True. But the dietary laws, guess what? They're still not good. For example, shellfish, I know it's going to upset some people, but they're actually, they live at the bottom of the ocean.

They are the sewer of the ocean. They clean the waste of the ocean. So lobster, shrimp, all that is very unhealthy food. And so God knew what he's doing. Don't eat pork. You want to know what? You want to get into the worms and pesticides, parasites.

You want to be, okay, avoid that. So see, God knew what he was doing with the dietary law. Very clean diet. The animals are cloven hooves and not cloven hooves. Very good animals to eat, digestive, and for amino acids and for the digestion system of the human body to absorb it and work, you know, as food.

But then you take all these other animals that you shouldn't be eating. So see, God knew what he was doing, outlining that. But no moral law, no moral law where God says thou shalt not. Today he says thou shalt.

Never. You won't find anything. From committing adultery to the LGBTQ agenda to homosexuality to you name it. If it was sin then, it's sin now. And but see, but Shane, that's mean spirit. You're not helping people.

Actually, I think I am helping people. Because I'll say, I'll tell them, and we love you. You're in a struggle. I've been in struggles. We're all in different struggles. Come on, let's be honest. You don't put some sins way up there.

Oh, poor guy up there. Well, without Christ, all sin is sin. Adultery, fornication, homosexuality, it's all sin across the board without Christ. And so we have to encourage people, hey, take your struggle to the cross.

And then once they do, there's tremendous joy, tremendous peace, tremendous hope that they didn't have before. So who really loves them? Who really wants to help them? And so you have these competing voices.

Schools, Media, and Cultural Formation

What about in the classroom? That all these teachers, have you seen these videos of Antifa teachers and teachers making kids say pledge allegiance to the gay pride? And another teacher just screaming, you know, if you're unvaccinated, I just hate you.

I want to kill unvaccinated people. It's like these people have lost their mind. And so now you have the classroom, false churches, the news. And so if you're inundated on all these things, but no time for God, no time in his word, you are not only being led astray, you are led astray in your thinking.

That's why God is boring. That's why you hate church. That's why you hate your parents forcing you to go to church. That's why you don't want to be here right now. And you wish this service was over. It's because you've been conformed to what the world says, who thinks for you, but don't worry.

I want to encourage you. There's hope. Young adults, we need you like never before. God wants to work in your heart. A couple of questions that the youth are asking, and I want to answer them. How is it possible that everyone is lying, Shane, from the media to the president, to doctors?

Discerning Truth in a Climate of Misinformation

Have you heard about that? I mean, you've heard, you've probably thought that, you know, well, you, Shane, how do you know? Like, so everyone's lying. They're probably talking about COVID, masks, vaccines, and what you do is you research, you pray, you seek godly counsel, you use wisdom, you meditate on God's word, you fast, you humble yourself, and then you're better able to discern what is going on.

So I just explained why I believe there's a lot of misinformation out there is because the world's mindset, is Satan a creation of truth? What is he called? The liar, the deceiver, and so we see a lot of that lying and deceit.

Oh, I knew I had it. 900 pages of documents was uncovered by The Intercept. It confirms what has been clear for months that the NIH, I believe that's the National Institute for Health, did indeed fund research at the Wuhan lab, and that's going to be coming out.

And so what we do is we use discernment, look at the numbers. Do you remember the fake numbers that came out? The altering of numbers, there's no more flu, there's no more pneumonia, there's nothing. Everything's COVID, so of course there's going to be high numbers.

And then you also look at, are people getting the flu and pneumonia? Is it, is it, I've talked to doctors, many different doctors, you follow the money. Yeah, are you ready? Are you ready? I don't know if you're going to believe this, look it up yourself.

The richest companies in the world, do you have any idea what kind of companies they are? Pharmaceutical, pharmaceutical companies. And what you need to know is they have boards of directors, they have to hit numbers, and they look at profit margins, same store growth, and what drug is profiting.

If you've ever seen American Greed on TV, have you heard of it? I never had until I just stumbled upon it. They just did a huge story two weeks ago of a major company who was giving kickbacks to doctors, 2 ,000, 3 ,000, 8 ,000, but they're putting it under speaking fees.

So they have to say, hey, I'll pay you 8 ,000 doctor to speak, say whatever you want, but if you prescribe this drug, it's actually for end of life patients, but they're just giving it to people with knee problems and shoulder problems.

It created, and this whole thing came out to where, and that's not uncommon. It's not uncommon. They'll push certain things. It's really, man, I'm trying to be loving here, but it is a drug pushing business.

Now there are some things that people need. I'm not against that. I'm not throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but be careful. Why is it always about the drug and not what's causing the problem? I've talked to doctors.

Why do you recommend statin drugs to stop the liver from producing insulin instead of changing their diet? Well, then I won't have a patient anymore. Exactly. Why do you recommend Coumadin, a blood thinner?

Because their heart's working too hard instead of getting them on a proper diet and lose weight, they can do that same thing. Well, I mean, I can just keep going on and on and on, and we have to understand that.

So in studying, we understand that it's not about health. It's not about health. It's about pushing products. I mean, I can go way back into how even the medical field was, and I'm not against it. I think we need good doctors.

We need good nurses, and thank God for them. There's a lot of people doing good things, but if you look at, it's not health-focused, it's product-driven and revenue-driven. That's just the truth, if that's upset you, that's between you and the facts.

And so when you look at that, who's making, now, when I found out COVID paid, doctors get $16 ,000 for a COVID patient? Well, hold on, $16 ,000? Why don't you get that for any other kind of patient? And then $32 ,000 if they're on a ventilator?

Hold on, hold on. There's my favorite word, shenanigans. And so you see all of this, God gives us wisdom for a reason. You see now there's agendas, is there not? There's agendas being pushed. Churches closed down, you're not essential, but let's keep the abortion clinics, the liquor stores, the pot marijuana houses open, no biggie there.

Obama can have his big party and nobody's masked, nobody cares about anything up there, wherever they were on the East Coast. But now you guys, see, it's just, come on, no more drinking Kool-Aid. And so there's a holy boldness here.

Christian Boldness in Public Life

Luther was bold and fought Germany. Zwingli was bold in Switzerland. God calls us to be loving and firm and understanding, but still standing up and saying, this is not right. If you do a CO2 test with a child with oxygen, they're breathing some very unhealthy, so are you, breathing some very unhealthy byproduct.

Did you know when you blow in what you blow out of your lungs is toxic? You're getting it out of the body, it's been used and regenerated in the body to bring light living oxygen in. And now you're breathing it out and you're keeping it here.

And how does that even work? The virus can't escape out this way and touching things. I mean, to do it right, you need an N95 mask, suck to your face with gloves on, you take it off the right way, throw it in the trash and wash your hands, get out of town.

So it's just, you look at the outright lunacy. And why would, if it's free dialogue, free discussion, why does Facebook remove my messages? And YouTube sends me, oh, we had to delete your post because your video, because it was false information.

No, it's true information that you deem false. And why are these, who are the fact checkers? That's what I would like to know. Who are these fact checkers? We need to fact the fact checkers. And so, like I said, you can Google this, event 201, it happened in 2020.

Big, big names out there, they talked about what happens if a pandemic breaks out and here's how we're going to handle it. And guess what happened? And so you see, there's just too much there. You see, you see control.

And like I quoted Hillary Clinton, never let a crisis go to waste. And so yes, something can be real, but how we're handling it can be extremely over the top and controlling and manipulating and the enemy of our soul, the liar, is going to use it.

You don't know this, and I don't know if I should tell you, but oh well. When it was Trump, when he had the Department of Justice, William Barr, I saw the letter, I heard it read. He actually wrote our governor a letter and said, you will not deem the church as not essential, or we will fight this to the Supreme Court.

That's when he finally lifted and said, okay, I'm not going to. Can you imagine if we had who we have in office now? The churches aren't going to stand it. They're going to come down on you like never before because you are God's voice of truth.

You have the boldness and the audacity to challenge their thinking. Everything is just hanging in the balances. So when you weigh all of that, I just gave you, I just gave you. That's why I can say most people, most political leaders, most people in the media are lying to the American public, or they just don't have the right information.