If we lived in a Christian culture, the NFL would have distanced itself from the lifestyle of Tyreek Hill. Instead, they're distancing themselves from the Christian worldview of Harrison Butker.

Hey, welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Thanks for being here. I want to talk about Harrison Butker, the kicker for the chiefs who is in a bit of a bit of hot water right now. We don't live in a Christian country anymore. There are a lot of Christians, a lot of so-called Christians and some Christians, but we don't

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live in a Christian country. Every cultural institution in this country is controlled by people hostile to Christians for the most part. The NFL, if we were in a Christian world, the NFL would have put out a statement saying we don't agree with the lifestyle choices of Tyreek Hill. Tyreek Hill's wife is pregnant. Tyreek has had Enriquez had four kids this year and he already has ten. So in a Christian world, Christian country, the NFL would come out and say,

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we don't approve of that. We'd like to distance ourselves from those lifestyles. We've decided that he can continue to play football with us, but just so you know, we don't want to platform that lifestyle. But no, instead the NFL puts out a statement against the guy who says husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her. That's that's the guy that the NFL is

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like whoa we need we need to put out a statement against this guy. So Harrison Butker spoke he gave the graduation commencement at Benedictine College never heard of this school but I'm grateful for all this pro-homos protest going on because it's given us another opportunity to look at other schools that maybe have not been historically as popular, have been around forever.

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I guess Benedictine College is a newer school as well, it's in Kansas. So it's like, oh great, tell me more about these schools that are still schools. Let's see, the NFL's Senior Vice President and Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer

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clarified that Butker's values are not the nfl's harrison bucker give a speech is personal capacity his views are not those of the nfl is an organization the nfl step-by-step and our commitment to inclusion which only makes our league stronger

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weird we're very inclusive just not of harrison and those views those christian views those snow tyreek hill whatever that guy, very inclusive of that. Whatever worldview that is, we need more of it, it makes us stronger.

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But the worldview, the Christian worldview of Harrison, that is no good. We'd like to distance ourselves from that. So here's what he said, I think it's important to say what he said. Every news article I read about it, it doesn't quote him or it won't link to his full statement. So here's one part and then I'll play a little bit. By the way, he's Catholic and this is at a Catholic college. I'm not Catholic by the way, but here we go. While COVID might have played a large role throughout your formative years, it's not unique. Bad policies and poor leadership

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have negatively impacted major life issues. Things like abortion, IVF, surrogacy, euthanasia, as well as a growing support for degenerate cultural values and media all stem from the pervasiveness of disorder. Our own nation is led by a man who publicly and proudly proclaims his Catholic faith, but at the same time is delusional enough to make the sign of the cross during a pro-abortion rally. He's been so vocal in the support of the murder of innocent babies that I'm sure to many people

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it appears that you can be both Catholic and pro-choice. He's not alone. From the man behind the COVID lockdowns, Fauci, to the people pushing dangerous gender ideologies onto the youth of America, they all have a glaring thing in common. The Catholic. This is an important reminder that being Catholic alone doesn't cut it. He goes on, says, these are the sort of things we're told in polite society to not bring up, the difficult and unpleasant things, but if we're gonna be men and women for this time in history, we need to stop pretending

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that the Church of Nice is a winning proposition. We must always speak and act in charity, but never mistake charity for cowardice. Very good. Okay, that's like the political thing that got him in trouble. Culturally, I think this is the thing that got him in most trouble.

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For the ladies present today, congratulations on an amazing accomplishment. You should be proud of all that you have achieved to this point in your young lives. I want to speak directly to you briefly because I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you.

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How many of you are sitting here now about to cross this stage and are thinking about all the promotions and titles you are going to get in your career? Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited

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about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world. I can tell you that my beautiful wife, Isabel, would be the first to say that her life truly started when she began living her vocation as a wife and as a mother. I'm on this stage today and able to be the man I am because I have a wife who leans into her vocation. I'm beyond blessed with the many talents God has given me, but it cannot be overstated that all of my success is made possible because a girl I met in band class back in middle school would convert to the faith, become my wife, and embrace one of

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the most important titles of all, poll maker. She's a primary educator to our children. She's the one who ensures I never let football all or my business become a distraction from that of a husband and father. She is a person that knows me best, and it is through our marriage that Lord willing

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we will both attain salvation. That's not going to go over well. He went on to talk about men as well, but let's focus on this part here.

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So a couple of years ago, certainly a few decades ago,

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that would have been not even a thing to say. If someone said it, they'd be like, okay, yeah. But now the NFL has to distance itself from it. Someone called into the Breitbart show this morning and they said, Slater, I agree with it, I get it, but that really should be a message not to women

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at their graduation ceremony after they spent four years and $100,000 in loans, that should be a message at like a high school graduation ceremony or maybe the first day of college, being like, hey, are you sure you really want to do this?

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Are you sure this is the right decision? That's a good question for men and women. Like, there's pros and cons. You don't have to do this. You don't have to do the college thing. But let's take a minute here

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and talk about a woman's role in the home or outside of the home. Let's talk about what he said. As opposed to every other media outlet which is just like, oh he's a monster. The outrage, the internet is crazed over. Let's actually just talk about it. The role of women in and outside of the home. Oh goodness that's a lot for this podcast to cover. But just a couple things to Titus 2 says this, first it talks about the men, then it goes to women.

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The older women likewise, so this is advice Paul is giving, the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things, that they admonish the young women, the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their husbands, that the Word of God may not be blasphemed. So we have a message from Paul to the older women on what to do with their lives, what not to do, and then also to make sure that you teach the young women good things.

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There's the teacher, teachers of good things is a Greek word that's only used once in the entire scriptures. It's a combination of a couple of words, but teachers of good things. That's beautiful.

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The word admonish here is tricky as well. When I hear the word admonish, I think of something pretty harsh, like a harsh talking down. But that's not it. I looked up Webster's 1828 Dictionary. To warn or notify of a fault, to reprove with mildness, to counsel against wrong practices, to caution or advise Colossians 316 same word admonish one another in Psalms and hymns so it's not this harsh it's not calling for older women to yell scream or talk down to younger women it's to give a warning and counsel and reprove with mildness it's wonderful okay to do what to do what

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what are the older women to teach the younger women to love their husbands to their children to be homemakers and what does all that entail. There's a lot here but I think the interesting thing here is that young women need to be taught how to love, taught to and taught how to love their husbands and children. If it was natural which I think a lot of people, I would think it is, if it's natural then it wouldn't be necessary to say, hey, make sure the older women teach the younger women

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how to love their husbands, or to love their husbands, and children, and then how to do that. If it were natural, and some of it is, right, but if it were all natural, then that wouldn't be necessary to say. So the question is, what are we teaching young women

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from the ages of like when they're five, or whenever they could start like really understand this, what are we teaching them? What are we teaching young girls and women about what it means to love your husband and love your kids as opposed to just loving yourself?

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Give an example. Just came across this yesterday, perfect timing. Naomi Wolf, she wrote this on the Twitter. She said, I went to a nail salon today and I read a Cosmo, Cosmopolitan magazine, which I rarely do.

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It's aimed at 20-something women, okay? So this would be older women working at Cosmo, or maybe they're just gay men, I don't know, but whatever, older people talking to younger women. One feature was about how hot it is to essentially have sex with your best friend's husband. Second feature was about how great it is to cut off ties with your family and that 26%

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of young people have done so. Those were the two feature stories. She said, we are being infiltrated, I'd say we have been infiltrated, by people who want us to collapse culturally or just go to hell, which is both. If I may take this moment to recommend a women's magazine called EV Magazine, E-V-I-E, it's run by conservatives, I don't know if they're Christian, I think they are, but definitely

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has a more Christian worldview. It's not preachy, it doesn't define itself as a Christian women's magazine but they define themselves as focused on the good, the beautiful, and the true and they would never have stuff like Cosmo. It's like the opposite of Cosmo in a beautiful way. EVIE magazine if I may. But that's an example, that's what we're currently teaching young women on what it means to be a woman, to be a wife, and to be a mother.

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That's obviously wrong. Cosmo is about loving yourself and the Bible is about loving others. How to love your husband, how to love your kids. Which then leads to Proverbs 31. And gosh, we could do a whole month on this. But Proverbs 31, 24, she, the woman, makes linen garments and sells them, and supplies sashes for the merchants.

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So here we have a woman selling stuff, working for her family, right, she's making linen garments, and making enough of them that she can sell them to others. But I love the next line. Strength and honor are her clothing. She shall rejoice in time to come.

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The clothes are not the key.

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The money's not the key. It's her strength and honor that are the most important thing. So Tanya, actually maybe we should spend more time on this. Here's the thing that's a good place to end. We live in a cultural moment that has put a lot of pressure on young women to do everything

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at once and everything at the same time. And I think it would be wise if we had a new cultural message moving forward that yes you can do it all just not at the same time and yeah you can do it all but let's instead focus on what we should do not just what you can do and if you can't do everything at the same time let's let's think about what's more urgent in the moment because there's a very short window of having little kids. And we as a country, as a culture,

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should put more love and joy and delight in that period of a woman's life, and a man's life, and a family's life. We should put more love and delight in that as an entire culture. And I think if we do that,

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things can get back to well God's plan but I guess you can't say that stuff out loud the NFL is against that message that the NFL disavows itself of this biblical message Mike Slater dot locals calm for the itself of this biblical message Mike Slater dot locals calm for the transcript and commercial free Mike Slater dot locals calm

Jerry Seinfeld's commencement address made click-bait headlines for foolish reasons, but his commencement address itself was excellent. He made one point in particular, about what kinds of things are worthy pursuits, that was Biblical and Good and a wonderful reminder. 

Hey, welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Thanks for being here. It's graduation season, got a lot of commencement addresses going on. I want to play a clip here from Jerry Seinfeld. This made news, clickbait news, that all these students walked out of Jerry Seinfeld's commencement address.

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What did he say that was so controversial that people walked out now we know with nothing they walked out before you start talking and they were pro-hamas those the palestinian pro-hamas people they walked out with the palestinian flags or whatever and uh... crowd booted

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but that i have i've made it all very dramatic and and it wasn't but uh... it did maybe aware that jerry salford at the commencement address a duke university where his kids uh... go to school or went to school or whatever. Here is a part that I think is worth hearing.

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I want to play the whole thing here. It's three minutes. I want to play it all because, yeah, it also fits into one of my theorems, and that is perhaps the opposite is true. When you're presented with a statement of a fact, as we're told, before you go down that road and considering whether

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or not it is true, stop for one second and say, okay, well, hold on. Perhaps the opposite is true. And we do that all the time on the show. And this is a good, Jerry does this here as well.

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Privilege is a word that has taken quite a beating lately. Privilege today seems to be the worst thing you can have. I would like to take a moment to defend it. Again, a lot of you are thinking, I can't believe they invited this guy. Too late. I say, use your privilege. I grew up a Jewish boy from New York. That is a privilege if you want to be a comedian.

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Thanks. If I messed up a funny story around my relatives, they would go, that's not how that joke. The prostitute has to be behind the drapes when the wife comes in. You went to Duke. That is an unbelievable privilege. I now have an honorary doctorate, a humane letters degree from Duke University. And if I can figure out a way to use that, I will. I haven't figured anything out yet. I think it's pretty much as useful in real life as this outfit I'm wearing. But so what? I'll take it. My point is we're

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embarrassed about things we should be proud of and proud of things we should be embarrassed about. When I was writing my TV series... Thanks. What a crowd. So on my staff in the 90s we had a lot of Harvard guys. They were fantastic, but I could never understand why these guys were so embarrassed about being from Harvard. They would never talk about it.

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They would never mention it. I'm not talking about Harvard now. I'm talking about the way it used to be. You're never going to believe this. Harvard used to be a great place to go to school. Duke. You didn't fake your fabulous education, you earned it, be proud of it.

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Don't just drop it on people right before you serve in pickleball. Okay, Duke 24 coming at you. But if it comes up, if someone asks, don't say it looking down, stubbing your toe in the dirt. When someone asks where'd you go to school, you say I went to Duke. Watch them take that uncomfortable hard swallow. AI on the other hand is the most embarrassing thing we've ever invented in mankind's time on earth. Oh so you can't do the work, is that what you're telling me? You

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can't figure it out? This seems to be the justification of AI. I couldn't do it. This is something to be embarrassed about. The ad campaign for ChatGPT should be the opposite of Nike. You just can't do it. Making fake brains is risky. Frankenstein proved that. He was so dumb he thought a monster needed a sport jacket. It's not a wine tasting, we're terrorizing villagers. No one's going to tell you, I'm sorry Mr. Stein, it's jackets only this evening. What I like is we're smart enough to invent AI, dumb enough to need it,

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and still so stupid we can't figure out if we did the right thing. Making work easier, this is the problem. So obsessed with getting to the answer, completing the project, producing a result, which are all valid things, but not where the richness of the human experience lies. The only two things you ever need to pay attention to in life are work and love. Things that are self-justified in the experience, and who cares about the result. Stop rushing to what you perceive as some valuable end point,

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learn to enjoy the expenditure of energy that may or may not be on the correct path.

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It's great. Focus on the things that are self-justified, work and love. I'm okay with him saying work. He's a workaholic. He's like a healthy workaholic.

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He speaks a lot, Jerry speaks a lot about how he constantly needs to be working. And that's okay, right? Work is a part of God's creation. It existed pre-fall, when Adam and Eve worked in the garden. Work is good.

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Work can bring glory to God, no matter what you do. Work and love, self-justified experiences. The greatest dedication, of course, though, of your life is to God. Psalm 119.57, you are my portion, O Lord. I'm thinking of the story of Esau and Jacob. This is one part of the story. So this is after the betrayal. Jacob went off to a different land. And then the Lord said to Jacob, go back to the land of your fathers and to your relatives,

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and I will be with you. So the two men had a chance to reconcile, they hoped. But they weren't sure, so they sort of prepared as if they were going to battle. Genesis 33 now Jacob lifted his eyes and looked and there Esau was coming and with him were 400 men so he divided the children among Leah Rachel and the two maidservants and he put the maidservant and their children in front, Leah and the children behind and Rachel and Joseph last he split everyone up then he crossed over before them and

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bowed himself to the ground seven times until he came near to his brother so before this he sent over a bunch of gifts and now he's bowing to the ground in front of Esau. He's like, I mean no harm. Here's all my stuff and I want no power over you. Now keep in mind none of this would have been necessary if there was no betrayal in the first place but alas here we are. But Esau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his

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neck and kissed him and they wept and he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children and said, who are these with you? And he said, the children whom God has graciously given your servants. So they just have this nice reuniting moment, very good. But here's the reason I'm bringing it up. Then Esau said, what do you mean by all this company which I met?

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Like, why did you send me all this stuff? And Jacob said, these are to find favor in the sight of my Lord. And Esau said, I have enough, my brother. Keep what you have for yourself. Keep in mind this is the person whose birthright was stolen from him. Betrayal.

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And Esau now says, I have enough, my brother. Now Jacob insists and Esau ultimately takes it, but that line, I have enough. 1 Timothy 6, 6 says, Godliness with contentment is great gain. I have enough. The outcome, if Esau's outcome was more, then he'd be like, Great!

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Give me all this! Right? But no, I have enough.

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The outcome isn't in question here. It's a process. The outcome can't matter. Because wicked people are successful, successful, and righteous people may not be successful monetarily. See, that's the thing.

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That's the only metric we use to gauge success. That's how we, in our society today, that's how we gauge success. That's how we judge success. How much money do you have? And that that can't be right. That obviously can't be right.

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And you can be a righteous person and do good work who sells a great product, but for a million variables, completely outside of your control, the product doesn't sell well. And this other guy over here, this wicked person over here,

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who sells an inferior product, his does. And you're like, oh, well maybe they just had, that guy hired the better marketing team who happened to know the right person in order to get on a certain platform. Who knows?

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But the outcome can't be it. And that's why we need to focus more on the things that are not outcome-based. The things that are good, period. The things that are good in and of themselves. The things that are self-justifying at every moment. And really, it's love.

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That's why when the man asked Jesus what commandment's the greatest. Jesus said you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul with all your mind that's the first the greatest and first commandment and the second is like it you shall love your neighbor as yourself that's the self-justifying thing and that's all you need that is success and that's all we should be living our life for and to go back to Psalm 119 where What's the main focus of our love is you are my portion, oh Lord.

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The other point of this podcast is to still be abreast of the news, but not feel anxiety. I just feel like this is a worthy couple minutes here to decrease some of the anxiety that you may be feeling of the rat race. I got it, I need more, I need this, I need that.

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Yes, you got to put food on the table, you got to provide. That's why work is also good. But if your whole life is dedicated around this outcome, then that's just not gonna work. Let's take some advice from the Bible and from Jerry Seinfeld to focus on the things

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that are not outcome-based. That's just every single day, loving God, loving your family, loving your neighbor. Mike Slater, dot locals dot com, commercial transcript Mike Slater, dot locals dot com, commercial transcript or commercial free, at transcriptmikeslater.locals.com.

There are plenty of reasons to be discouraged by the state of things. There are plenty of reasons to be cynical. But the Bible gives us no reason to "grow cold", no matter how bad things get.

Hey, welcome to politics by faith brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Thanks for being here. I was camping last week. That's why there were no episodes last week. I probably should have said that before we left. Sorry about that.

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It was beautiful. We were in Indian boundary and like near teleco planes in the mountains of East Tennessee and there was no cell reception, which is the best part about it. And I think it was such a wonderful time we're gonna play five or six days we've never felt so relaxed when we came back home we run you know when you need a vacation for the vacation come back you almost got to

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build another extra day to rest from a vacation we didn't have any of that we came back so fully completely refreshed it was it was wonderful my only regret We didn't I wish I the father made it a more spiritual time More Bible around the fire thing. I miss I miss that opportunity. That's a shame. I regret that a lot We talked a lot about God right we're hiking and all that stuff God's creation No question about that, but should have should have had more Bible reading with the family

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So next camping trip, they'll be another one right kids loved it. Oh having the time of their lives it's just just fishing hiking getting dirty everything about it was just great we were coming back down the mountain about a 30-minute trip down the mountain and we're maybe 15 minutes down and I let out a sigh I was driving I let out sighs my wife said what was that for? And I said, I don't know, actually. I think the stresses of the world were just coming back.

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I wasn't actively thinking about anything on a link. Just subliminally, pffft. It's like turning back around and going back up to the mountain. Times are going to be tough. There's no question. We were talking on the radio show this morning. Oh by the way on

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Breitbart News Daily on Sirius XM patreon every Monday at 6 o'clock We have our gratitude segment and for like a half an hour people call in and talk about things are grateful for and it's been wonderful We talk more about that other day, but just a friendly reminder that that's if you can join us for that It's really really edifying and wonderful But anyway later in the show we talked about this poll that said if a country invaded America, like Russia invaded Ukraine,

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would you stand and fight or would you run? And way too many people would run. 52% of Democrats said they would leave. And only 68% of Republicans said they would stay and fight. 25% of Republicans said they'd cut and run. As the Wall Street Journal said, that's not exactly the don't try to me spirit that we were hoping for even among

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Republicans. And what's weird about this poll is I think of those 68% of Republicans who said they'd stay and fight, it's easy to talk a big game and say you would, but maybe you wouldn't when, when it really came down to it, right? China's really, you know, unloading troops in America or parachuting in. I bet a bunch of those people would run or not fight or join the Chai cops probably. But of the 52% of Republicans who said they run,

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you could have lied too, right? Like why did more Democrats not just lie, be like, yeah, I'd totally fight, knowing they wouldn't even, right? Like what's up, you could have lied. It wasn't the military recruitment office I was asking.

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It was just a poll, like a Pew poll. You could have lied and they didn't, wow. And the point was, Douglas Murray said, you have to do a lot to miseducate people, to hate this country. So we live in a country now where people are not,

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they hate it so much, they've been taught from as early as they can go to school in the public school system that this is a rotten, no good country, now born out of slavery, rooted in slavery, built by slavery, still systemically oppressive,

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blah, blah, blah, you get it now. That of course, young people don't even think this is a country worth fighting for. It's bad. Bad thing. If we continue down that path, bad things will happen for us here while we're on earth. Anyway, that's all that. That's the politics. Now let's jump to the faith. I happen to read Matthew 24 about end times. Jesus can come back. He will come back and it'll be any second.

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We have no idea when it's going to be. We're not going to get into all of the end time stuff on this podcast, but there's one line that I think is worth thinking about and praying about. It's 24 and 9, Matthew. Then they will, let's read the whole thing. Then they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will be hated by all

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nations for my name's sake. And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be saved." It's this line here.

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Because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. Man, that speaks to me. Because in this political time, it's really easy to get cynical. But you can't... And maybe there's a good thing about cynicism too maybe there's something good about that or I'm realistic I'm not cynic I'm realistic

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but whatever it is we can't let our love grow cold that's that's the sin that's the bad thing we can't let the love of the church grow cold we can't let our love ever grow cold as cold as as bad as things get outside of the church. That's a shame and all, but our love can never grow cold. We can never be brought down by the world.

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Spurgeon made the analogy of the water outside of a ship. It can be cold, and it won't hurt the people inside the ship. It can't hurt the church of God. But when the mischief of the world oozes into the church itself, uh-oh, and the love of God's people waxes cold. Oh, then the ship is in sore distress. The people on the ship now as well. If the church's love grows cold,

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oh man, then the world will be worse off too, of course, when our hearts grow cold. Spurgeon said, What cold singing we get, pretty music made by pipes and wind, But how little soul song! And what poor praying! You call it praying? What little giving!

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When the heart is cold, the hand can find nothing in the purse. Is there anything that goes on as it ought to, when love waxes cold? We can never give up our hope, and we can never give up our love. Things one day will be very bad. Verse 21 says, Then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been seen since the beginning of the world until this time no nor shall ever be will be

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the most awful time in the history of the world when God pours out his wrath on a world that has rejected him that'll be very ugly but then Jesus has a second coming he'll be back and if you're a Christian life will be grand I look forward to that day from the political perspective that's the only day that matters there November 5th is a big one, but nothing compared to Jesus coming back.

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And who knows, it might happen before November 5th. Only God knows. But I hope this is all encouraging to you. I hope it takes some pressure off of your heart, off your shoulders today. No matter how broken the world gets,

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we must never grow cold. And we shouldn't, because we're gonna go to heaven one day, and Jesus is gonna come back, and all will be made right. That's awesome. Why should we lose hope from that?

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Why should we grow cold? Let's do the best we can in the meantime. But I'm grateful that there's already an end to the story that we know of and for us, it's good.

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