There isn't a financial advisor in the country who would tell you that gambling your money is part of a diversified portfolio, but 52% of Gen Z has taken money out of their investments to gamble on sports. The Bible doesn't talk about gambling specifically, but it does talk about loss of hope and complaining, which are the roots of this gambling epidemic. 

***Kids Warning*** The news says that Perez Hilton had a "self-harm episode" or some euphemism like that. It was much worse than most could imagine. How did this happen? And were there demonic forces at work?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day and bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day. It can all get very overwhelming. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story as I can't get this button on my shirt. 

There we go. Story of the day today. Perez Hilton. Kids warning for today's episode. My goodness. I saw this, his name trending on Twitter this morning. 

I didn't click it because whatever. when you find out what happened. His name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. He's now 48 years old. He's one of the first celebrity or online celebrity bloggers. And he himself has become a celebrity over these years. 

Gosh, I don't know what, like 30 years ago. I don't know when he first started his website Perez Hill, but it was the internet first started whenever like blogging first started, right? And again, since then, he's become a bit of a celebrity himself. He's done terrible, awful things in his career. Also very troubled personally. He's a homosexual. 

He has three children born via surrogacy. So three children who will never know their mother and who don't really have a father. He was hospitalized earlier in this year for 21 days, sepsis and some other stuff. And he said there he had a religious awakening. And he said he returned, he was refocusing on his Catholic upbringing. His parents are Cuban. 

And I've seen some videos of his where he talks about God. But these videos are troubling. He says he hears voices and he says this voice is the voice of God, like audibly hears God talk to him. We did a segment the other day on the radio, Breitbart News Daily, Sirius XM, Patriot 125, six to nine in the morning, Monday through Friday. We talk about sin and how people deal with sin differently. 

Sin can manifest itself in many different ways. And I like this framework that sin can manifest internally, verbally, and behaviorally. So it manifests internally as pride and bitterness and envy. It manifests verbally, lying, gossip, manipulation, blame shifting on. And then behaviorally with lust and greed and anger and neglect. And then those all combine and we see it with lots of different self -destructive, ungodly, damaging, actions so and and some make headlines and some don't right so like some will be a school shooter that will school murderer that will make headlines others like compulsive gambling or drinking drugs like that those don't make headlines but they're just as self -destructive and and horrible and life life altering and damaging and ending for many people prezes came out in this horrific self -harm so again kids warning if you missed the first one. 

He was doing this live stream with three other people on TikTok, or at least three of the people were on the screen, like hundreds were watching. And all the people who saw this happen, it speaks to the company he was keeping. because they're watching one of the most horrible things I've ever seen and responding not in kind. It's very weird. You may have read headlines about this, that he's had a mental health episode. That doesn't even begin. 

He takes a knife and he starts to cut all over his chest and his face. He slices all over himself, over and over. The words he says as he does this, he responds orgasmically. He responds as if this is giving him sexual pleasure. He says stuff like, it hurts, but it feels so good. This is what you all wanted. 

He says, I'm a, I'm a blanking parasite loser. And he cuts his whole body over and over, slices himself. And the people who are watching this, they're alarmed, but like, not that alarmed. Like one of the guys starts making jokes about, and I didn't even jokes. It's like, he's just so, this guy's so brain dead that he's with. He's like, hey man, the water is not good where you are. 

You got to stop drinking the water, man. You got to, you got to go, go back to, he just moved to Miami. You got to go back to Vegas and save for water. It's like, oh man, you're so disconnected. You have no idea. Like everyone here is in such a dark place. 

So that's what happened. I think John Nolte got it right. He says Perez Hilton is more proof that fame, plastic surgery, and factory built children can only keep the demons at bay so long. Eventually it's just you. A demon called narcissism that can no longer be satisfied and the inevitability of the abyss. The only answer is humility, surrender, and Christ. 

Without that, it all ends in madness and annihilation. Pray for Perez Hilton. Let's talk about what's broken. There's a lot of sins involved with everything going on. So let's just mention one that I don't think we've ever mentioned here, and it doesn't get a lot of publicity. That's worth talking about. 

It's the one that he was most profited from. That's gossip. Proverbs, it's in the Bible. I'm not making this up. Everything's in the Bible. That's the whole theme of this podcast. 

It's all in the Bible. Proverbs 16, 28, a dishonest man spreads strife. Now, we in our culture, we say, well, if a gay guy does it, then it's catty and fun. No, it's not. And we're also advised, not advised, we're told not to do it. Then we're advised to not hang out with people who do it. 

Proverbs 20, 19 says, whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with a simple babbler. So don't do it. Don't hang out with people who do it. And check out this one, Proverbs 18, 8. Gossip not only hurts other people, it's bad for you. 

So Proverbs 18, 8 says, the words of a whisperer gossiper, are like delicious morsels. They go down into the inner parts of the body. So hearing gossip, it feels good. It's like a delicious morsel of food, but it poisons your heart and your soul. Gossip is not harmless speech. It is sinful. 

And someone like Perez Hilton, he's not the only one, but people like him, they just live in that world. I mean, a lot of people do consuming it, but the people who make that stuff, man, they're living in a dark place. So let's go to the Bible. I don't know exactly what happened. with Perez, I'm not there, I don't know him, right? But it looks like something that could be demonic. 

Again, there's nothing new under the sun. The priests of Baal were worshiping Baal and cutting them off. with swords. The Bible says they were cutting themselves until their blood gushed all over them, as was their custom. So it wasn't just a one -time thing. We recorded an episode with Doug Wilson. 

We're going to release it this weekend. But before we went on to talk about what we were supposed to talk about, I asked him his thoughts on this. And he didn't really hear about it yet, so I just kind of described it to him quickly. And I just asked him, I was like, could this be demonic? I'm like, what's your instinct on this? You hear about something like this, like, what's your first thought? 

And he said, well, demons hate the people that they're tormenting. He was referring to like the cutting part, that demons hate the people they're tormenting, which I never thought of, but of course it's true. And also that's where you get, you know, when Perez said stuff like, I'm a parasite loser, stuff like that. I asked him about Perez saying he's, you know, returning to his Catholic roots or whatever. And Doug had a great line. He said, desperate people often flail. 

People who are spiritually desperate, they flail about and they can flail in any number of directions. And sometimes they may end up in the right place. Sometimes, but most of the time they end up in a very dark place. And that's clearly was where he was. But demons know the Bible. They know God's word. 

They know how to lie. Satan himself, of course, quoting scripture to Jesus. How about this verse right here? Let's focus on this one today. Let's land here. First Timothy 4 .1. 

Now the spirit expressly says that in later times, some will depart from the faith. by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teaching of demons. Through the incessarity of liars, whose consciences are seared. Deceiving spirits. These are demons who rebelled against God. 

And their goal is to keep men and women away from the truth, away from God's word. And one way to do it is to trick them into believing that the person, the patient, in C . S. Lewis' words, does know God and that they're hearing God's voice now even. And how do people do that? fall for this, how are they deceived by this? 

Because their consciences are seared. It's easy to talk about Perez and point fingers, but this is the point in the podcast where we usually move away from the initial topic that's in the news and we end up talking about you and me, each of us. I don't know if you noticed, but that's what we do. We start with a person where it's easy to be like, oh, look at that failed, broken thing. And that's the turn. So we tell the story and then we'd say, oh, this is what's broken. 

And that's where we turn into us because we gossip too. He may be the guy who starts the gossip or whatever, spreads the gossip. But so do we, when we listen to it and we hear it and we spread it, right? So we're engaged in it with all this brokenness too. He was not the only one who's deceived by demonic forces. So anyway, this is the point where we turned us on. 

I'm going to move away from Perez because it's not about him. We all are at risk. We all have consciences or parts of our conscience that are seared. We have deceiving spirits that tell us what we want to hear, but they lie. But when they tell us these lies, We have trouble hearing the truth because our consciences are seared. It's an amazing concept. 

We don't feel the convictions that we should. The Holy Spirit is telling us. because we're so far from the truth and so far from God's word. I pray that we can all have the sensitivity that we need to hear the truth. We need sensitivity in our consciousness, in our conscience. It's hard to say. 

We need sensitivity so that when we're told lies, we can tell their lies, and then we need to be in God's word so we can respond to the lies with the ultimate truth, which is God's word. This is how God speaks to us. God speaks to us in his word. Believing isn't enough to guard yourself from lies. James 2 .19 says even the demons believe and shudder. Our solution is to get in the word every single day. 

Avoid gossip, get out of the gossip business, get in the word, the truth. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. If you listen to this podcast, wherever you listen, thank you. If you could just subscribe to our YouTube page too, that'd be awesome. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith.

The scenes coming out of Spain looked like something out of the movie World War Z. But how quickly we've forgotten, it's not that different from what happened across our border under Biden for 4 years. What exactly happened in Spain, and what does the Bible say about betrayal from a nation's leaders?

Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun, so thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day today, a migrant invasion of Spain, and therefore, all of Europe. Before I share that though, let me share a smaller example, a story of an Algerian man in Spain, so we have an Algerian man in Spain who beat a Spanish man into a coma. This Algerian man has been arrested 18 times since 2020. Eight. 

I grew up thinking that if you get arrested, that's it. That's it for you. You're done. Your life is ruined. This Algerian guy has been arrested 18 times since 2020 and is fine. No problems at all. 

Back on the streets. Now, this latest attack is on video and he's just stomping this guy's head over and over on the sidewalk. Now, this is a story of one African man beating to near death a Spanish man. The story I want to talk about today is tens of thousands of Africans beating to death's door, all of Spain. I'm sure by now you've seen video of what's been happening in Morocco. It's a Morocco, Northern Africa, right? 

The Strait of Gibraltar is right there to get across to Spain. And I first saw these, these videos and I, I didn't, I thought these were Africans invading into Spain. As I said, that's a long boat ride. So the narrowest part of the straight is eight miles. And. I'm thinking like that's still like it's pretty busy waterway. 

I can't imagine getting on a dinghy and making the, but here's what really happened in Spain. There are now I know of two little sections of Morocco that are little slivers in Morocco on the edge of the Morocco and the Mediterranean. Sea that are controlled by Spain. So you have these little Spanish enclaves is the word I keep hearing here. There's little Spanish, little slivers that is technically Spanish territory in Morocco. And one of those cities, Ceuta, C -U -E -T -A, Ceuta, has these walls. 

And the Africans have, I'll tell you how in a second, gotten around the walls. and they know how to do it now. And last count, I heard 50 ,000 men did it. Now here's why. There's two reasons. First, there was a Supreme Court case in Spain that said the military, the police, they are allowed to stop an African coming across the border illegally. 

If they're coming through or over under the fence, then they can be repelled back. But if a migrant comes by sea, the Supreme Court said, you're not allowed to turn them around. So what do these Africans do? They swam around the wall. They, they hopped in the ocean, like walking on the sand, hopping the ocean in Morocco, swim a couple of yards out a couple of yards over. And then a couple of yards back in voila, we arrived by sea. 

Now we're in Spain. It's not unlike our border that we have with Mexico. When it goes to Tijuana, it gets to Tijuana and it just ends right in the water. And that's it. Now. Now, well, San Diego's got a couple problems. 

First, Tijuana, they dump their raw sewage right in the ocean there, so you really, really wouldn't want to swim in that water. You'll get sick, very sick. But you could just swim right across. Now, in America, we'll still send you back, at least now with this administration. But in Spain, they said, oh, nope, can't send them back if they do this. Isn't that amazing? 

So somehow, these migrants all found a ton of pool floaties. Some NGO or someone paid for all these pool floaties on Amazon. and a couple of these larger dinghies as well. And some people just swimming around the wall and then they land in Spain and now they're home free. They can take a ferry across to Spain proper. They can get on a flight. 

And then once they get to Spain, there's something called the Schengen zone or something like that, where it's this agreement with I think 29 European countries that you don't need a passport to go between countries. So once you get on Spain proper, you're whatever, you can go wherever you want. That's it. You're all over Europe. So that happened this weekend, or Friday. Then on top of the Supreme Court decision, you have amnesty. 

So Spain has a communist prime minister. He's from the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. We'll talk more about them in a minute. They're just like our DSA, right? They're just like Mamdani. This is a Reuters article from last month that says 600 ,000 of the 1 .2 million migrants in Spain who applied for legal status in its most recent amnesty drive have obtained temporary work permits. 

This is a one year renewable residence permit to undocumented migrants who have lived in Spain for at least five months and have no criminal record. Okay. So you have an amnesty drive and you got a Supreme court decision that says, if you come by sea, then you're good to go. That's all it takes. So I saw these videos. I don't know if you had the same reaction I did, but it looks, they didn't look AI. 

They looked fake. but not like, I don't say it really looked unreal. They didn't look fake. They didn't, they looked unreal. Is that, is that different? Uh, it almost looked like, like a movie. 

Like I've never seen the movie, but I've seen the trailer of world war Z. I just remember a scene in the trailer where hordes of people are trying to climb over a wall or something. And that's, and I got, there's 50 ,000 of these people as Africans in this small city and where they all go into the bathroom. For instance, there's hordes of people. And my other thought was that this looks worse than it was during the Biden years, but it's not worse. It's just more concentrated. It's more concentrated and more foreign looking, just the terrain and everything looks more foreign. 

But there's similar images of this all across America when Biden was president. And then you still see pictures, or maybe not anymore, but there were videos in Southern California where 20 illegals would be on a boat. and the boat would just zoom right into the beach, right onto the sand. There's families and sunbathers on the beach and all these illegals would hop out and run on the beach and just run into the town, just run into La Jolla. They're gone. Amazing. 

So we've seen the same thing happen in America under the last four years of Biden. And now in Spain, they're seeing the same thing. All men, all 18 to 30 years old, not a woman or child in sight. Total betrayal of their people. Actually, we'll get to that in just a minute. So Spain is 50 million people. 

In 1960, there were 210 ,000 immigrants. Fine. In 1995, there were a million. In 2010, there were 6 million. Today, they're approaching 10 million. So pretty soon, foreigners, mostly Africans, people from the Middle East, Muslims, are going to be in the majority, or at least plurality. 

And when you get the plurality of foreigners, along with useful idiots, that's it. It's over. The country's over. This is, if I may, I wish it never happened for the sake of Spain and Europe and just decency. But the silver lining is that Trump is going to use this in the midterm conventions to highlight what was happening in America under Biden. Let's remind everybody what was happening, what the president saved us from by shutting down the border, and what will happen the second the 

these DSA Democrats take power again. Stephen Miller said on Twitter, the Democrats did this to America every single day for four years under Biden and will do it again instantaneously, but orders of magnitude greater if they're given any form of national power. Democrats, this is Stephen Miller, Democrats will see your home trampled and stolen by invaders and they will rejoice. So this is terrible for Spain and Europe, but they may be a lost cause at this point. I don't know if this point hits with you like it does for me, but think about Middle East, a country in the Middle East. Name any country in the Middle East, first one that comes to mind. 

That country you thought of probably used to be a Christian country. Name a Middle Eastern country, it used to be a Christian country. One day, now if you talk to somebody today and you're like, oh, what religion is Egypt? They'll say, oh, Muslim. Well, it didn't used to be. One day, like a generation or so, it'll be the same conversation with England. 

you talk to a younger person in, in let's say 20 years and you say, Oh, name a name, a Middle Eastern country. They're like, Oh, England. Like, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. That didn't used to be. Didn't used to be a middle. It didn't used to be a Muslim country. 

It used to be a Christian one, but that's the direction that they're heading in. And the DSA candidates here in America would, I mean, they actively talk about how they don't want any borders. So they certainly would bring it. here, and they would do it with glee. All right, so what's broken in this story? Every time there's a story like this, I'm not going to do Romans 13, where the Bible says of our government, rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. 

Would you have no fear of the one who's in authority? Then do what is good and you will receive his approval. For he, the government, is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God and avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. The sword is the state's power to enforce the law. 

And of course the law should be in line with God's will and based on the best ordering of a society. God is a God of order, not a God of chaos. And our communities and our country should reflect God's order. But I want to talk about legal authority in this podcast today. I want to focus on a word I said a moment ago. betrayal. 

What happens when a government betrays its people? That was a feeling I got when I was watching these videos. I was like, oh, what an utter betrayal. Now, I don't know if that's true because I don't know Spain. So that's a question. Is the government of Spain betraying the people of Spain? 

Now, one thing to know about Spain is the prime minister, again, from the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. So it's easy to say, oh, well, the majority of people, they voted for that guy. They voted for that prime minister. So the Spanish people want open borders and they got what they voted for good and hard. But the truth is Spain is a parliamentary system. So in their lower house, um, so you vote for like their lower house, whatever. 

And then those people vote for the prime minister. But what happens in these parliamentary systems with tons of different parties is you vote for who you like, who's in a different party. And then the parties joined together to form like these mega parties or whatever. So the biggest political party, This party that has the most seats in the lower house in Spain, it's called the PP party, the People's Party, which is the closest to the Republican Party in America. It's hard to compare parties in Europe with America, but the PP in Spain is a right of center party. Again, that's all relative too, but they have 137 seats in their lower house. 

The Socialist Party, which this prime minister is a member of, only has 121 seats. so fewer. But they joined forces with this thing called the Sumar Party, which is like the green environmentalist feminist people, and there's 31 of them. So they joined together. They therefore have a majority. They're the ones who picked this prime minister. 

So the Plurality Party is a conservative party that doesn't like what's happening. So did this prime minister betray the people? Maybe. It's hard to say in a parliamentary system like that. I remember hearing my whole life that people are like, Oh, I'm against the two party system. It's way better than the parliamentary system. 

So it's hard to say again, if this is a betrayal of the Spanish people, but for sure, it's a betrayal of the nation of Spain. The people of Spain may want it. I don't know. Sort of like the people of New York city voted for Mondani, right? But who are these people? All right. 

It's really just the foreigners who voted for Mondani. The New Yorkers voted for Cuomo. The foreigners voted for Mondani. So is it something that Mondani does a betrayal of the people? I don't even know what the people are at this point, right? But Mondani could do something that's a betrayal of New York city and a betrayal of American values and same thing with Spain. 

So what happens when a government betrays the nation? I think the Bible speaks to this. Two points. First, the idea of nations. Paul's in Athens, so this is where he's talking to the people of Athens about their temple to the unknown God. So the Greeks, they're thinking that if we forgot about a particular God, we have all these gods, but if we forgot one, then we have this tomb to this catch -all, it's a catch -all tomb or a catch -all temple. 

to make sure if we've missed one, we know that we still got him covered and we're still worshiping to him too. And Paul saw this and he said in Acts 17, 23, he said, this, I proclaim to you, the God who made the world and everything in it. being Lord of heaven and earth does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything to see himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place that they should seek God and perhaps feel their way towards him and find him. So Paul saying, God made all of us. He made all the nations. 

He made all their boundaries. He made all their dwelling places. He made all their times. The word nations, the Greek word ethnos, ethnos, right? So it's where we get like ethnicity. That's all right. 

So the idea, the original idea is just a word for a multitude of people living together. So it could mean a tribe, a nation, a people group, whatever. It's the same word in Greek in Matthew 28, 19, therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. So it may not be the modern nation state that we have today, but it's still the idea of peoples with boundaries. That's all throughout the Bible. So nations are a biblical concept. 

We don't need to get rid of nation states, but can the leaders of a nation betray the nation? That's the main topic I want to discuss. I think Isaiah one speaks to this. So Isaiah is speaking on God's behalf to the leaders of Jerusalem and Judah. And it's not a good, well, it's a good message. It's not good news for them. 

Well, it's good news, I guess, if they listen. It's not a heartening message at first. That's a fair way. So these people are the rebelling against God and God's judgment is going to come on them in the form of foreign invasion, foreign invasion from Assyria and Babylon. The idea is that God can bring judgment on a nation by using foreign nations. God can use foreign nations to inflict his judgment on Israel. 

Do I need to say it a different way? We get it, right? Do you get it? And George Washington, he wrote about this. All of our founding fathers did. They wrote about, our blessings from America are here because we're a virtuous people and we need to keep being virtuous if we want to continue to see God's blessings. 

His 1789 Thanksgiving address, George Washington said, whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and to humbly implore his protection and favor. " And then later he says, "...that we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection to the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation. " The acknowledgement here is that God is involved in the affairs of people and nations. So the idea of nations are in the Bible, the idea of peoples and nations, the idea that God is involved in the affairs of people and nations. internally and then by also extension externally, even in the form of judgment against a people by using external nations to attack them. And Isaiah 1 right out of the gate, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. 

They have forsaken the Lord. But I guess it's like the extremist take today that Maybe not extremists, it's like the weirdo take or something, like the radical. That's not really radical to go. It's a radical take with that when bad things happen to our country. First of all, it's the result of sin, like for sure, but also maybe God's judgment. Isaiah 1 -7 says, your country lies desolate. 

Your cities are burned with fire. In your very presence, foreigners devour your land. It is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners. That's what it says. Now check out this one, verse 27. Good news for some. 

Zion shall be redeemed by justice and those in her who repent, who repent by righteousness, but rebels and sinners shall be broken together and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed. Proverbs 29 .4 says, by justice, a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down. When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan. When the wicked rule. I hope leaders around the world hear the people groaning. And I pray we, and then repent. 

And I pray we never forget the betrayal that we experienced from our leaders not too long ago. There are still choices to be made coming up here soon. And we and our leaders should listen to God's law and know that God is a God of order, not of chaos. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. We're almost at 10 ,000 followers. 

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