Yes, I meant to put "scam" in the title twice because the Republican party promised to eliminate the Green New Scam. As of now, the Green New Scam remains in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Every Republican voted against it in 2022, but nearly every Republican is going to vote to keep it today. What gives?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. I want to keep this one on the shorter side because I don't feel good, honestly, is the answer. We'll keep it quick. One big beautiful bill may get passed today. My biggest complaint with it, obviously compromise, give and take. Sure. Okay. There are 13 Democrats, congressional Democrats who are in districts that Donald Trump won. So they're on shaky ground. 13.

There's three Republicans in districts that Kamala Harris won. So only three Republicans are on shaky ground. And that's the context of this. I'll like, Oh, you know, they got to make sure they vote not on something really actually actually what we need in this country, because those three may lose their. And it's just so frustrating. Like when will these politicians look out for the American people,

look out for others, as opposed to only looking out for the self, imagine the freedom to just do the right thing and let the chips fall where they may and not caring if maybe you get fired for it in the next election. Isn't that okay? Like you do a thing that you think is right and best for your constituents and the American people and America and then in the next election comes up and they're like, we don't like you anymore. And you say, okay, I'll go get a different job.

I don't give you the thing that's really grinding my gears. Are the green new deal subsidies continuing? This is totally insane. The inflation reduction act of 2022. I can play the clips again if you want, but I got Janet Yellen, I got John Podesta,

I got Joe Biden himself saying that this inflation reduction act is really just the green new deal, largest green energy infrastructure investment in the history of the world. Okay. That was their big pitch. Inflation reduction.

Every single Republican voted against it rightfully, but it's all still in this bill. It's still all in the one big, beautiful bill. Now it's come. They may vote on it today and like the next minute or hours as we're talking right now. And maybe it'll all change. I hope I'll be first to let you know. I'm first to celebrate it, but I doubt it because they're not even really talking about it. It's all still in there. It was the very first part of the 2024 platform from the Republican party, like the grand unity of Donald Trump's team and the Republican Party coming together

with a big platform. The very first thing on it was unleashing American energy, comma, and stopping the socialist green new deal. First thing, here's your chance. They're not doing it at all. And maybe to make it worse,

they're saying they are, but they're not. How it looks right now is the subsidies will continue. Like here's what we need to do. What you need to do is eliminate all the subsidies immediately, done. Now some people are gonna come forward

and be like, well, hold on. We started this project, this wind project. We're two years into it. It's a 10 year commitment. A hundred people work there. People lose their jobs, congressman. And we say, all right, fine. If you got one now, your grandfathered in. Now, if you eliminated everything right now,

we'd save a trillion dollars. If we eliminate everything, except for the ones that are currently going on, grandfather these in, we'll save $600 billion.

Great.

The bill doesn't even do that. It allows new subsidies to continue to be made and new credits to continue to be given out until the end of Donald Trump's term, the end of January, excuse me, the end of the year 2028, after Donald Trump's out of office, you can make, get more subsidies, more credits will be handed out. And then it phases out, but it barely phases out. And it won't be by then because we'll have new Congresses and they'll continue it all later as is. This is

so incredibly frustrating. Now, one person called in this morning and said, you know how many of these congressmen are, you know, have a lot of stocks in these solar or green energy companies and are investing in these companies somehow like Nancy Pelosi has been very successful in doing. You can decide how cynical you want to be about it. Maybe not at all. Maybe, maybe these congressmen are doing what they think is best for their

constituents in every way, whether it's the salt increase or all these different aspects. Maybe they think it's best for their constituents and they genuinely truly do. And maybe they love the Green New Deal projects

for lots of different reasons. They think wind farms off our coast are just beautiful and wonderful and great and that's what they really think. Or are they doing it to keep their cush job? And they're not going to do what's best for the American people.

They're going to do what's best to just get them elected again. And that's all they care about. They want to keep the power. They want to keep the fame. They want to keep the perks. I don't think people get credit for how addicting perks are. Oh, they're, they're, they're, it's a, it's a poison.

like, there's, I'll give you an example. Here was my first taste of it.

My first taste of fame. I had never shared the story I was with.

So how do I describe this?

A friend of mine who became an agent mentor, like figure of mine. I was in Jackson, Tennessee,

very beginning of my radio career. And he was in Nashville and he ran a company that organized tours like the Glenn Beck tour. So Glenn Beck would go on tour, book tours, and he organized the book tours. He's like, hey, you wanna come along? I was like, Glenn Beck's my hero.

Yes, please. So I went on the bus for a couple days and we drove around and I had a pass. I had a lanyard and a pass and we're at some bookstore. I forget where we were maybe Florida and this this line is at the peak of Glenn Beck's fame. There was a line out the door down the block threefold as far as the eyes could see, there was a line. And if I was just one of the regular people, I would have had to stand in line, but I had

a lanyard and I, with this pasque, I could go to the front of the line, I could go past the rope, I could go in the door that you're not supposed to go in, I could go anywhere I wanted because I'm very, very important. And man, that feels good to your ego, just the little things like that, little dumb things

like that.

You ever had a backstage pass at a concert? I haven't, but I bet that feels good too. Look at all these other schmucks have to stand in line, but look at me, I go right to the front and I go, and you hand it to the big bouncer guy and he's all come right in oh thank you very much that's addictive you'll do anything to keep that once you got it you'll do anything vote for this bill yeah whatever help me keep my job I want the perks

just the other day I read Jeremiah 45, five. So you have Jeremiah here, prophet giving advice to Baruch, who's like his scribe, but he's more than that. He's a companion of his. And Jeremiah says, and do you seek great things for yourself? Do not seek them. I actually like the King James version better.

And seek is thou great things for thyself? Seek them not. I like seek them not. Seek them not. I will bring adversity on all flesh, says the Lord, but I will give your life to you as a prize in all places wherever you go.

Baruch thought he'd be in a higher position than he was right now. He felt bad about it. But God through Jeremiah told Baruch or pulled Baruch away from this path of focusing on

the self.

I will bring adversity to all flesh. So don't worry, God will bring judgment to everyone. And all the worldly power and popularity and prestige and backstage passes and perks. Get a little pin if you're a congressman, let's go to places other people aren't allowed to go.

Very important, very important. Go on the house floor. No one else is allowed on the house floor, only you. All that stuff will go away. These are only things of the world. And God says, he'll take care of you.

He says, I will give you a life to you as a prize at all places, wherever you go. Baruch literally means blessed.

That's what the word means.

And if you're a Christian, then you are too. More than Baruch even was. He didn't have the Holy Spirit. You're blessed beyond anything we deserve. What about the fame and the re-election and I want to keep my job and the this and the

that?

Seekest thou great things for thyself?

Seek them not.

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If the One, Big Beautiful Bill passes, there will be no more taxes on tips. Is that fair to people who are paid a salary? Joseph and the cupbearer can give us some insight.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. I just heard that we are right around 5,000 downloads per episode. Most over 4,000, almost every episode over 4,000, a couple over 5,000. That's awesome. Very grateful to you for being here and spreading the word. I made a half joking passing reference to the Bible today on the Sirius XM show, but the more I thought about it, I was like, I actually it's not really a joke. It's actually actually pretty right.

So let's go into more detail here. We've been talking about the one big, beautiful bill, one big, beautiful bill may get passed tomorrow as I'm talking right now. There's some back and forth about the salt deductions and all that drama. And there's a lot of problems with it. And we've talked about a lot of the problems. The green new scam subsidies continuing not enough reform with Medicaid. I think the salt gap is too high, but it's a lot of good things with it too. The main headline is no tax on

tips, no tax on overtime. That's what we spent the most time talking about as well. No tax on tips. Got people really fired up. Adam in Connecticut called yesterday and today. This is a hilarious phone call. It's like classic. One of our best phone calls. He told the story today.

He thinks it's unfair, right? He's the guy who yesterday said, if I'm making $100,000 in salary and my neighbor's making $100,000 in tips, he doesn't get taxed and I do, that's not fair. And then today he called and told the story about his wife forced him to go to Disney World and they had to buy this meal plan

where food instead of costing 500% as much as it should, it only costs 400% as much as it should. And they went out to some buffet place and they had a forced gratuity of 20% to the waiter who didn't do anything. He served himself.

And he's like, this is crazy. We paid the waiter $80 for an hour. We didn't do anything. And I just looked around and saw all the money. This guy's making a hundred thousand dollars doing nothing. And he's like, this is not fair. It was a great phone call.

And he got fired up. And my conclusion is good for that guy. Good for him. And the bartenders and the waiters and everyone else who gets paid by tip and now don't pay any taxes on the tips. Great. Good for you. Congratulations. That's awesome. We had a Marty in South Carolina call in and she said, be better, not bitter. I like that. We've got to be better, not bitter. It's okay, we don't have to be selfish.

You may not directly benefit from this victory right here, but your time will come. Got a ton of emails on this point. Richard said, I tell my wife all the time, one of the problems with this country is people's inability to look at a fellow American

and simply say, good for you. It's always about me. We become selfish. Kathleen Romino said, now that some people are getting income tax relief, notice how others are rising up and saying, what about me? Perhaps we're witnessing the art of the deal.

I like that very much. But this be better, not bitter. I like this a lot. Let's just be happy to our fellow American who get a tax break. Someone called in and said, no one's bitter that we're maybe increasing the child tax credit if you have kids.

What if you don't have kids? Oh, they get it and I don't, like whatever. No need to nitpick and only support a thing if it in fact only benefits you. We had a restaurant owner call in yesterday as well and I asked her how your employees feel about this.

She's like, oh, they're all super excited. I said, well, how politically active are they? They said, not at all. They're not engaged normally in any way. But now maybe they will be. Right, you're like, hey, you like not paying tax on tips?

Well, let me tell you about the Republican Party. Let me tell you about the conservative movement. Let's talk about other ways that we can let you keep more of your money. Also, we're benefiting people who are working. This isn't a giveaway to welfare recipients. It's not a welfare program, not a new welfare program. It's a benefit for people who already are working. If anything, we should be taxing welfare, not taxing tips.

Let me make this one point, then we'll get to the Bible. I heard the story the other day of the elephant and the rope. And a man sees an elephant with a rope tied around its leg. And the guy says to the owner of the elephant, what's the rope about? And the man says, oh, that's so the elephant doesn't run away. And the man says, oh, but it's not tied to anything. It's just tied to his leg and then just laying on the ground there.

And the man said, well, when the elephant was young, the rope was tied to a pole and the elephant wasn't strong enough to pull away from the pole. But now the elephant's all grown up, but all we have to do is tie a rope around its leg

and it doesn't even try to run away. And I think we've become so beaten down by the way things have been our entire lives. We're so on autopilot with our government that we're just like that big dumb elephant with a rope tied around its leg. And we're like, oh, well, I guess we're going to be taxed into oblivion forever. Nothing we can do about it.

And here's Trump coming in, a raging elephant with ropes on all legs, bloodied by tranquilizers, that one of its ears shot off, and saying, we're changing everything. Run, no tax on tips, get out of here while you can. And we're back here, we're like another elephant who's actually tied up, maybe we're an elephant behind bars, us salary people.

And I just see this elephant who's now free, or realizes it's free, it's always been free, but it realized it can actually just go and you don't know more tax on tips and we're saying go run just don't forget the rest of us don't forget the rest of us save yourselves just remember us when you're free and I made the joke it's we're like Joseph with the Kings cup bearer remember me when you talk to Pharaoh so you can get me out of here next.

So you tip people who are very happy now, very soon, that you want to pay tax on tips. Great, take that joy, give some to us now. Lower our tax burden as well. So I made that Joseph joke. And then after the show, I thought about it.

And that's actually pretty spot on in a lot of ways. So here's the backstory here. Joseph was in Egypt. Of course, he was about to be killed by his jealous and bitter brothers. Brothers who were mad that Joseph was dad's favorite and got a nice coat. Jealousy can make you very blinded, cause you to make terrible decisions. So we're going to kill our brother. And they say, all right, well, I guess we'll just sell him into slavery and he gets to Egypt.

But God was with Joseph. It says in Genesis 39, the Lord is with him. And whatever he did, the Lord made it prosper. So he's in Egypt and he rises up and Potiphar's wife then accuses him of rape. So he gets sent to prison. The ups and downs of this guy, it's ridiculous.

He's the height of living in dad's house, then the pit of his brother to slavery, and then to Potiphar's house. He got a nice gig there running the roost and then he did the right thing against Potiphar's wife and then was thrown in prison for it. It's like a real roller coaster for Joseph. So he's in prison and then one day the Kings Baker baker and the king's butler get thrown in with him as well and they were accused, we think, something probably of like plotting against the king. So the butler oversaw

the king's wine, pharaoh, and the baker oversaw the pharaoh's food. Now there's one detail here in this story that I think is most relevant to us other than the don't forget about me and And that's this right here. Then the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt who were confined to the prison had a dream. Both of them, each man's dreams in the night and each man's dream in the dawn interpretation. And Joseph came into them in the morning and looked at them and saw that they were sad.

So he asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in the custody of the Lord's house saying, why do you look so sad today? I think the insight here is that here's Joseph looking out for other people. Here he is in prison unjustly with no hope, no end in sight. And he wasn't bitter. He was better. He looked at these two other guys and genuinely asked, what's wrong? Why are you sad? He genuinely cared about these two guys.

They told him their dream. And Joseph says, I can interpret that. And one of the dreams was you'll be back in the Pharaoh's presence in three days. And that's exactly what happened. But here's the big point.

Within three days, Pharaoh will lift up your head and restore you to your place and you will be you will put Pharaoh's cup in his hand according to the former manner which when you were his brother but remember me when it is well with you and show kindness to me make mention of me to Pharaoh and get me out of this house for indeed I was stolen away from the land of the Hebrews and also I've done nothing here that they should put me in

the dungeons. Remember me when you get out of here, what you're going to remember me. So three days pass. Uh, by the way, the baker did not have a good dream. They hanged him, but the Butler was brought back. But how about this line? Yet the cheap Butler did not remember Joseph, but forgot him. Oh, foiled again. Two years passed, two more years. Joseph was in prison.

Amazing, every day, imagine that, two years. It happens all the time when you read the Bible. It's just like this thing, then this thing, then this thing. And it's hard to get a sense of time. Like Jesus went from here to here, and you're like, oh, well a week they walked for a week or right. We don't know that doesn't say that, but that's how far walks distances from

point A to point B. And even when we, it says two years past, we're just like, Oh, two years, do, do then what? It's like, Oh wait, no, no, no. Think two years past, which is probably how long it'll be before another good bill is passed that actually lowers people who are on salary.

But two years. And then Pharaoh had a dream. No one could interpret it. And the Butler was like, Oh yeah, there's this guy. Gee, thanks a lot. Butler. Joseph never says what happens when he sees the Butler again. Surely. Hey man, two years? You forgot? Never bitter. Never bitter, never angry. I don't believe there's any textual evidence of Joseph being bitter in any way, letting it into his heart. We know the

end of the story when he saw his brothers again. No animosity, no hatred, no bitterness, even on those who directly wronged him, even the pot of her, his wife, never sought vengeance, never turned away from God, most importantly. So in conclusion, we, in every aspect of our life need to be more like Joseph injustice after injustice against him, never bitter. And even in the midst of the injustice, looking out for the Injustice after injustice against him, never bitter. And even in the midst of the injustice, looking out for the interest of other people.

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The question is: How long has the Biden family known this? How long have his physical health failings, alongside his cognitive failings, been kept from us? Either way, it's an opportunity to talk about something that's more important than our time on Earth.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you very much for being on here this weekend. If I had to make a political connection to today's episode, it would be Joe Biden having prostate cancer. Now, this happened to be announced on the day that the big expose book about the cover up of his health,

his cognitive health by Jake Tapper, which is hilarious. By the way, Jake Tapper. But in the day that this book was released, it What kind of message are you sending to children who have stutters across America? Jake. But on the day that this book was released, it is announced that Joe Biden diagnosed with prostate cancer and they want us to believe that they just found out about this on Friday. Now, I don't know.

I don't know for sure, but I imagine that the hope was from the Biden team that this would distract the American people from the reality of the last couple of years cognitively and people would have sympathy for him and his new physical health issue. But in reality, people can have that, can have that sympathy and also say,

well, wait a second, this means that the coverup was even worse than the book says. Because I don't believe that they just found out he had cancer on Friday. I don't think that they just found out he had cancer on Friday. I don't think there was that. I'm sure he had cancer for years.

Nowhere in the book. I don't know. I haven't read the book yet, but I haven't heard anything about a bombshell claim that he's had cancer for the last three years, but here is Joe Biden back in 2022.

And guess what? The first frost, you know what was happening? You had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. That's why I and so damn many other people I grew up I have cancer and why I can't for the longest time.

Delaware had the highest-

Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. That's why who? That's why what? I and so many other people know and he's so senile and the media gave him such a pass that everyone just like skipped over that. No one was like, wait, wait, did you say you had cancer?

Or it's like, ah, whatever, it's just Joe just saying stuff. The point I'd like to make among a few others in this episode is that no earthly king or president will live forever and either will America as much as we love it. As much as we love it, we have something else even better to look forward to. We start off every Monday on SiriusXM with Gratitude Monday. And I'd like to share a quote from our founding fathers. And it's pretty amazing that I've lived for 40 years and I've never heard this quote in my entire

life. I love this movement that we've been living under. I don't love it. I hate it actually, that has led people to believe that our founding fathers were not Christian and they did not intend to make this a Christian nation. And, uh, you know, we separate church from state, all this nonsense, absolute total nonsense, but what a lie. And one of the most successful lies that has permeated so much of our American culture.

And one proof that it was successful is I've never heard this quote in my entire life. This is John Adams. He wrote in his diary, 1756. So it's quite a bit before even the revolution. John Adams on a Sunday said,

suppose a nation in some distant region should take the Bible for their only law book, and every member should regulate his conduct by the precepts there exhibited. Every member, every citizen, would be obliged in conscience to temperance and frugality and industry. I'm just going just stop there.

Just that. Just those three virtues. Temperance is moderation. Just being frugal, not blowing your money, working hard. Just those three things alone. Every citizen would be obliged to justice and kindness and charity towards his fellow

man and to piety and love and reverence towards Almighty God. In this commonwealth, no man would impair his health by gluttony, drunkenness, or lust. No man would sacrifice his most precious time to cards or any other trifling and mean amusement. No man would steal or lie or in any way defraud his neighbor, but would live in peace and goodwill with all men.

No man would blaspheme his maker or profane his worship. But irrational and manly, a sincere and unaffected piety and devotion would reign in all hearts. What a utopia, what a paradise would this region be. I've gone my entire life without hearing that quote. Not once, not once anyway. Another one if I may, Ben Franklin.

He said, I have lived, sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men and if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice it is probably is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid such a beautiful line there isn't that great if a sparrow can fall Matthew 6 25 if a sparrow can fall, Matthew 6, 25. If a sparrow can fall, then wouldn't it make sense that also an empire would

need to rise with it, like couldn't, couldn't happen without him. God, we've been assured, sir. And the sacred writings that except the Lord build, they labor in vain that build it. I firmly believe this. And I also believe that without his concerning aid, we shall succeed in

this political building no better than the builders of Babel." And that didn't go well, the builders of Babel. I was reading Hebrews 11 this morning, Hebrews 11, where this podcast was named after. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, for by it, the elders obtained a good testimony." And it goes through all these great figures of the old Testament. By faith, this is of Abraham, by faith, he dwelt in the land of

promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents, not a house, just a tent because they were there temporarily with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him as of the same promise for he waited for the city which has foundations whose builder and maker is God what city? New Jerusalem. New Jerusalem be a wonderful place America's great America's great but it's no new Jerusalem the one the city built by God. This whole Hebrews 11 is so good. By faith

Abraham obeyed when he was called out to go to the place which he would receive as an inheritance and out he went not knowing where he was going. We talked to Wilfred McClay today, he's a professor at Hillsdale College. He's one of the guys in the video series that the White House is putting out called A Story of America and we talked to him today on the radio for like half an hour, he's great. He has a book called Land of Hope. It's a textbook, Land of Hope,

an Invitation to the Great American Story. It's intended for kids in school and teachers, but more adults have read it just because they never got that instruction, myself included. And he made an interesting point I've never thought of before.

He says in the Declaration of independence, it never says what type of government we're going to build. It just says this one's no good. It's like this one, we're out. And there had to be a faith there. Similar to Abraham, where Abraham was way more obviously, but so I'm just going to go. God told me to go. I'm just going to go. I don't even know where I'm going. I'm going to do it. And same thing in our country. We're just, we got to go. This is no good. We're going to do something different and we're going to see God along the way. Last week, we shared the prayer at the opening of the second continental, uh, continental convention. And we prayed to God for wisdom and to bring us to a place.

And he did a place that no people have ever been before. Country like ours. By faith, Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed and she bore a child when she was past age because she judged him, God faithful, who had promised. All of it's only possible with God,

even seemingly impossible things. It's all only possible with God. Nothing, nothing else could happen without God. Gosh, we need that reminder all the time. I don't know why we need it all the time, but we do. At least I do. And as wonderful as America is, Hebrews 11, these all died in faith. Like all these heroes died, not having received the promises, but having seen

them afar off, were assured of them, embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. were strangers and pilgrims on the earth." Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. I just want to say it over and over again. Sometimes I need to hear things multiple times before it clicks. Strangers, they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For those who say such things declare plainly that they seek a homeland. And truly, if they had called to mind that country from which they had come out, they

would have had opportunity to return. But now they desire a better, that is, a heavenly country. Therefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God for he has prepared a city for them and our modern Christian world. Uh, you know, we're told that we need to be bold and not be ashamed of God. And so to talk about Jesus and God and glorify God, don't be ashamed of it, but here it's flipped, it says we should act in a way that doesn't make God ashamed of us.

There it is. Therefore, because of all these things, God is not ashamed to be called their God. He prepared a city for them. Goodness, do I want God to say about me what he's just said in all of Hebrews 11 here, what he said about all these other people. What did they do?

What did these other people have?

Well, they have faith.

And they desired him and they desired heaven. And they knew that the things of heaven were worth way more and were of way greater value and would last way longer than anything down here. Jeremiah Burroughs wrote an amazing book called The Jewel of Christian Contentment. I'm looking for a year here. So it would be mid-

early 1600s. He wrote this, when the heart of a man has nothing to do, but to be busy about creature comforts. So when all you're focused are on the things of this world, every little thing troubles

him.

But when the heart is taken up with the weighty things of eternity, with the great things of eternal life, then the things of here below that disquieted it before are things now of no consequence to him in comparison with the other, the eternal things, the heavy things, the important things. How things fall out here is not much regarded by him

if the one thing that is necessary is provided for eternity." Gosh, that's such a good quote. Rewind, I'm not gonna read that one again, rewind 20 seconds and listen to it again, it's amazing. Here's another one, back to Hebrews 11, by faith Moses when he was born was hidden three months by his parents because they saw he was a beautiful child and they were not afraid of the king's command. They obeyed God

over man because they knew that eternity was more important and what God had in mind at its door is way better. I love the end of Hebrews 11 the writer's like listen I got to get going here I got got, I can't list them all.

But he said, he said all these people who through faith subdued kingdoms,

worked righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword out of weakness were made strong, became valiant in battle, put foreign armies to flight. Women received their dead, raised to life again. We did an episode last week about how these are our ancestors too. All these people in the Old Testament, these are our spiritual ancestors. Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance that they might obtain a better resurrection. Still others had trial of mockings and

scourgings, yes, and of chains and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn in two, were tempted, were slain with a sword. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins, being destitute, afflicted, tormented. Of whom the world was not worthy. Amazing, the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth. And they didn't even get to see Jesus. Like we do. And they never had the Holy Spirit.

Like we do. We have it way better. But we could still have it even better. America's great. It's our 250th anniversary. It's going to be awesome. We're going to celebrate a lot of great things about this country. Praise God. But it's nothing 250th anniversary, it's gonna be awesome, we're gonna celebrate a lot of great things about this country. Praise God. But it's nothing compared to what's to come.

And all the leaders, the great leaders of the world, the not so great ones, they're humans too.

They've all died.

All the presidents, all the prime ministers, all the emperors, all the kings.

But never the king of all the kings.

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