MikeSlater
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Politics By Faith Podcast, May 16, 2023
Biden, White Supremacists and You.
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Biden told a crowd of black graduates that the biggest terrorist threat is White Supremacy. When will we say enough of this already? Bottom line: Depravity leads to division and division leads to collapse. We'll learn from the most horrific and least preached chapter of the Bible, Judges 19.


Welcome to Politics by Faith. I'm Mike Slater. Thanks for being here. If you're new to the podcast, the very short mission statement is we take a news story of the day, something that causes anxiety, we give some historical perspectives, biblical peace to help that anxiety go away. The scripture of today is Judges 21-25. This sentence is terrifying, and this is who we are today. The Bible says, In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.

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What made me think of that? Joe Biden gave the commencement address at Howard University, which is a HBCU, a historically black college and university. Here's what he said. To stand up against the poison of white supremacy as I did my inaugural address to single out as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy. And I'm not saying this because I'm on a black HBCU. I say wherever I go. This rhetoric, it's got to stop. And it's so sad because this is clearly going to be the centerpiece of his campaign going into 2024 and our country can't take much more of this.

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We have to be close to the breaking point on it. And I get, I get very angry at the people who are continuing to push this victimhood narrative and this race-baiting narrative. We have people not only in New York City with what happened on the subway there, but in D.C. our nation's leaders who are whipping up race riots, and it has to stop. It's completely unnecessary. All right, so what's going on here? Every candidate going into 2024 is going to try to find their angle. And the media will lift up whatever team Biden comes up with. And it looks like it's going to be three things.

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Trump is a January 6th election denying maniac. He's a liar. That's all you heard after the town hall on CNN liar, liar, liar, liar. Do you watch the focus group afterwards? The guy's like talking to these Republicans. How can you believe the lies of this giant liar? Do you believe the lies? There are lies and you believe the lies. What do you think of the lies? And then the third thing is white supremacists are killing black people. They're going to go back to that. Now do not be fooled for one second. The left the activists do not care about black people. Here's some necessary wisdom from the great Thomas soul. He said a crucial fact about white liberals must be kept in mind. They are not simply in favor of blacks in general. Their solicitude, that's their care and concern, is poured out for blacks as victims, blacks as welfare mothers, criminals, political activists against the larger society, as well as those blacks who serve as general countercultural symbols against the larger society. That's who they care about.

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They care about those black people, not black people in general. This is Shelby Steele's book, White Guilt. In the age of white guilt, whites support all manner of silly racial policies without seeing that their true motivation is simply to show themselves innocent of racism. So part of it's like, well, I'm not racist. Look, I support black people. Do you? And does this thing that you think supports them actually support them? This is Richard Hanania. He said, They, white liberals, treat black people and other official victim groups not as fallible mammals like the rest of us, but as sacred cows or holy children who must be worshipped, protected, and adored.

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White saviorism, which is the beating heart of social justice, is impervious to facts or reality, because it's not about saving people or communities. So then what is it about? Well, it's about proving that they themselves are not these evil racists that were made out to be. Now, that's, I actually think, the generous analysis. I think the more accurate analysis, certainly for Joe Biden, is they're using this as a tool, as a wedge to divide America and gain power. That's what I believe is really the root of it.

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Does that make sense? So you have the one root which is this white guilt, like, oh, I'm not racist. Look, I support welfare. But I think the truer or more powerful force here is the people who are really leading this which is, oh, we can use this as a way to divide and get power. It's all about control. I believe that's the true heart of what's really going on. We did a TV special about control and I actually didn't talk about this aspect. I said there's two ways to control people. The first is transportation, right, to prevent people from going places. I used to be a big supporter of the self-driving car and I still think they'll happen but I'm more aware of the major downside of that is the self-driving car and that is that it's all connected to the grid and the government control of the grid. So if the government says you can't go certain places, you can't go here, you've gone too far, you're not allowed to go here for whatever reason, the government has that ability. If you don't think that in the beginning of COVID, if the government had this ability, they wouldn't have prevented your car from leaving the driveway. I don't know what to tell you. Because we all lived through that. And how convenient how easy for the government to say, lockdown order, your cars don't work now.

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So that's one way to control people is literally where they can go. The second is how they spend money. And that's the central bank digital currency. And that's the main focus of the TV special we did this week. But the central bank digital currency is the government controlling all the money. Every expenditure, every expense goes through the federal government first. And they can decide who you can give money to, who's allowed to receive money, what you're allowed to spend money on, all that stuff.

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Those are the two we focused on in the TV. But the third one, most relevant here, is that the government can control your mind. The government can control your mind. I'll never forget, I talked to someone who escaped North Korea and they truly deeply profoundly believed that Kim Jong-un at the time could read your mind. You couldn't even think bad thoughts about Kim Jong-un. It was one thing to do something that your neighbor could see and snitch on. You couldn't It's unbelievable. Frederick Douglass told a heartbreaking story when he was a slave.

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And it was about food. Now, of course, his slave masters and the most brutal slave masters barely fed their slaves anything. Douglass says that he would, as a boy, fight with the dogs for crumbs underneath the table. Here's what he said. Our food was coarse cornmeal boiled. This was called mush. It was put into a large wooden tray or trough and set down upon the ground. The children were then called like so many pigs, and like so many pigs they would come and devour the mush, some with oyster shells, other with pieces of shingle, some with naked hands, none with spoons.

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He that ate fastest got most. He that was strongest secured the best place, and few left the trough satisfied. So they ate like dogs underneath the table and pigs. That's bad enough. But what Frederick Douglass said was even more insidious, and evil even more insidious from the slave masters, was around Christmas. On many plantations, the slaves would get six days off around Christmas, and they could do whatever they wanted. And some would travel to visit family if they knew of any anywhere. But most would stay on the plantation and the masters would let them eat whatever they wanted.

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They could have, they could eat whatever they wanted. And more importantly, they could drink whatever they wanted. Douglas says, fiddling, dancing and drinking whiskey and this latter mode of spending the time was by far the most agreeable to the feelings of our masters. It was deemed a disgrace not to get drunk at Christmas. To encourage drinking as much whiskey alcohol as possible, the masters would take bets on to see who could drink the most alcohol. Why did they do this? This was a cruel trick from the slave owners, to trick the slaves into thinking that freedom was bad. Into tricking the slaves into thinking that freedom meant getting drunk, and to tricking the slaves into thinking that they couldn't handle it.

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They couldn't handle real freedom. Here's what he said, at the end of the holidays, sickened by the excessive alcohol, the hungover men felt that we would had almost as well be slaves to man as to rum. They were so sick from their six days off, their six days of freedom, six days of drinking. They were so sick. They were like, oh, it's better just to be a slave. So Douglas said, we staggered up from the filth of our wallowing, took a long breath and marched to the field, feeling upon the whole rather glad to go from what our master had deceived us into a belief was freedom back into the arms of slavery. Oh, wow.

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And Douglas goes on, he talks about how this was in ways even more cruel than the obvious physical abuse. It was a form of mind control over the slaves, telling slaves that freedom is too hard for you. You can't do it. You can't do it on your own. And we slave owners, we're here to rescue you. We're here to help you, to save you. This slavery that you live in, this is good for you. That sounds so sick, so awful. And maybe what's even sadder is I see the same mentality today. I see the same mentality today. From Joe Biden speaking at Howard University, this message that you can't do it on your own. Oh, you gotta watch out for the white supremacists out there.

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What are you talking about? Oh, it's systemic. Everyone's trying to keep you down. All the white men are trying to keep you down. You can't do it. And then you see a lot of rap culture today with teaching young people, especially, all the same sinfulness and waste and drinking and drugs, obviously. The same thing that the slave owners wanted their slaves to engage in as much as possible so that they could come back.

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The slave owners could come back and say, see, you can't do it on your own. We just gave you six days of freedom and look what you did to yourself. You're a mess. Back to the fields. And so many elements of black culture today, but that's American culture now, say the same thing like, oh, waste all your money, take drugs, sleep with everyone you can, oh, your life is going poorly, oh, you're poor, oh, you have a bunch of kids, you're not married all the...

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Oh, well, you need us because the white man is trying to keep you down. This is Ayaan Hirsi Ali, black woman. She said, for black Americans to progress, we need to cast off today's dependency on white guilt for recognition and support. What is the way forward if you accept that blacks in America are free? It's to have courage to live that freedom. It means holding ourselves accountable for our behavior. It means learning to shape our destiny regardless of skin color. And it means ignoring the divisive rhetoric propagated by those such as Patrice Galours, she's the head of Black Lives Matter, Kamala Harris, and Ibram X.

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Kendi. And may I add to that, Joe Biden. Let's lament here for a minute. I just, I'm just so discouraged that it still works. That there's not enough, more people, I know you are, but there's more people who are like, enough already, knock it off and just calling it out for what it is. Now let me give you two more laments here. So this is interracial violent crime incidents in 2018. Most recent numbers, I'm sure we can get more recent ones, but I'm sure it's the same. Interracial violent crime incidents in 2018. We're told that, again, biggest terrorist threat in America is white supremacy.

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How many white on black violent crimes? This is from the Bureau of Justice, by the way. How many white on black violent crimes in 2018? There were, we'll call it 60,000. 59,778. So 60,000 white on black violent crimes. How many black on white violent crimes? 550,000. Ten times as many. Ten times as many black on white violent crimes as white on black. Yet Joe Biden gets up there and says that the biggest terrorist threat is white supremacists. What are you talking about? Now black on black crime is a horrific problem. This is the murder rate per 100,000. St. Louis 65 per 100,000.

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Baltimore 52. Jamaica's 52. South Africa 42. St. Lucia 39. Honduras 38. Belize 31. Mexico 28. Colombia 27. Nigeria 22. Brazil 22. Our cities are way more violent than any other countries in the world. I'm sure like, you throw out war torn countries, maybe a little different, but Jesus by many ways, St. Louis and Baltimore are war torn. And I lament all of that how broken and terrible it is. I just hate it. Beyond words. I think the kids growing up there, knowing no difference. It's brutal. All right, let's get to some history here. Let's get to some history, and then we're going to tell the story of Judges 19, which is, I would say it's widely known as the worst, most horrific chapter of the Bible, but it's not widely known as that because it's almost never preached on because it's so horrific.

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Like what? That is exploitation. Compare that messaging from the left with Booker T. Washington. Booker T. Washington, also born into slavery, near the end of it though. Then he spent the rest of his adult life building the Tuskegee Institute to teach young black people to thrive in America after slavery. Here's what he said to his students. He said, during the days of slavery, we were shielded from competition.

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Today we have to prepare ourselves to compete with the world. If I were to go into certain communities in the United States and say, the German is ignorant, well, I should be pointed to the best paying truck farm in that neighborhood, owned and operated by a German. If I went to that town and I said, the German is without skills, I would be shown the largest machine shop in the city, owned and operated by a German. If I said, ah, Germans are lazy, I should be shown the largest and finest residence on the most fashionable avenue, built from the savings of a German who began life in poverty. If I said, oh, the German can't be trusted, I should be introduced to a man of that race who is the president of the largest bank in the city.

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And if I said that the German is not fitted for citizenship, I should be shown a German who is respected and influential member of the city government. Now, when your critics say that the Negro is lazy, I want you to be able to show them the finest farm in the community owned and operated by a Negro. When they ask if a Negro is honest, I want you to show them a Negro whose note is acceptable at the bank for $5,000. When they say that the Negro is not economical, I want you to show them a Negro with $50,000 in the bank.

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When they say that the Negro is not fit for citizenship, I want you to show them a man of our race paying taxes on a cotton factory. I want you to be able to show them Negroes who stand in the front of the affairs of state, of religion, of education, of mechanics, of commerce, and of household economy, you remember the old admonition, by this sign we shall conquer, let it be our motto as well. That is the message of empowerment. Today's message is, you can't do it. You can't do anything. You can't get ahead. White people are here to kill you.

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They're terrorists, so says the President of the United States of America. At a college graduation, no less. It's unbelievable. If you could take the worst things that have been done to black people in our history—slavery, segregation, Jim Crow—it was all based on the belief that black people are inferior. And if you take all the progressive policies today, it is still based on the idea that black people are inferior and incapable. One demand from the reparations crowd is that all black people have an automatic credit score of 700. I was like, what?

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You can't pay your bills on time? What are you talking about? Just came across this video the other day of a guy giving advice. He's like a mentor to the black community kids and this is his advice. You know, we can solve our own problems. I told these children, I gave them five rules a day. I said, graduate high school, further your education, get a trade of some type, if possible, do not have children out of wedlock or until you're married. The other thing was to live below your means and invest in property or stock. Ain't no Messiahs coming out the sky, sorry.

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You know, the truth of it is we got to take care of us. I was raised by people who were born in 1922 and 1932. And they told me because these people were born before social welfare. This is what you have to do. You take care of each other. Huey Newton said that, you know, leaders don't decide the revolution is going, you know, it's the people, you know, it's the people. So once the people start making that a habit, we get better. And if we as black people start doing the right thing, economically, living below our means, not projecting this thing of richness. We'll start to enrich our lives by spending more time with our children.

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We'll start to set up for our grandchildren to be in a better place, but that takes what we told those young men today, discipline. There are so many in America today who worship at the altar of victimhood and stoking race riots, and I just hate it. There's no need for this division. So here's my argument. The thing that could unify us is the gospel. The great unifier is that we are all sinners, regardless of the amount of melanin in our skin. We're all sinners and Jesus died for all of our sins and we can all live a life of righteousness based on biblical principles from God. Can you imagine the unity if we all followed the Ten Commandments? We'll just start there. Now some won't, of course, but the rest of us in near unison would say that's wrong Don't steal But we can't do that anymore Because no one even knows the Ten Commandments Imagine the unity and the prosperity if we all said no sex out of wedlock Imagine the unity if we all said hey men and women figure out this marriage thing.

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Marriage is sacred. Get it together. If we could just do those last two things, how much pain and misery could be prevented? Imagine the unity of instead of living in a culture of selfishness, we lived in a culture of selflessness. Booker T. Washington told his students, he said, the best way for us to improve our lot in life is by being entirely unselfish. Let every person get into the habit of planning every day for the comfort and welfare of others. Let each one try to live as unselfishly as possible, remembering that the Bible says, he that would save his life must lose it. And you never saw a person save his life in this higher sense, in the Christ-like sense, unless this person was willing day by day to lose himself in the interest of his fellow men.

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Such persons save their own lives, and in saving them, save thousands of others. I got to read more, it's so good. What are some of the things that we do want you to learn to do? We want you to have to learn to see and appreciate the practical value of the religion of Christ. This is Booker T. Washington. We hope to help you to see that religion, that Christianity, is not something that's far off, something in the air, that is not to be something to be enjoyed only after the breath has left the body. We want to have you to see that the religion of Christ is a real and helpful thing, that it's something which you can take with you into your classrooms, into your shops, onto the farm, and that you do not have to wait until tomorrow before you can find out about the power and helpfulness of Christ's religion.

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We want you to feel that the religion is a part of your lives and that it's meant to help you from day to day. We hope to have you feel that the religious services that we have you attend here are not burdens, but that it's a privilege, greatly to be desired, to come to these meetings and into the prayer meetings of the various societies on these grounds, and not in a humble, intimate way with the spirit of Jesus. We want you to feel that religion is something to make you happier, brighter, and more hopeful. If we took, this is me talking, end quote, if we took the top kind of like 10 practical principles of the Bible and said, let's have 70% of the country believe this to be true. We would be so much better off in this country, but we can't even do that. And for that reason, we're spiraling and we're no better now than the people in Judges 19 who believe there was no God and they were left to their own devices and then wondered why things didn't go well.

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What happened in Judges 19, you ask? Judges 19 is such a fascinating chapter because I would guess it is the least preached chapter of the Bible ever. F.B. Mayer, he was a famous pastor in the 1800s, he famously recommended to not even read it. He said it would be, this was in one of his devotionals, he said, it would be sufficient to ponder these words without reading further in this terrible chapter, which shows the depths of the depravity to which may sink apart from the grace of God. But of course, we can't skip it. We have to read it. Judges 19 is just one of the worst things in the whole Bible, but it's true. True story. The opening line is key. In those days when there was no king in Israel, that's echoed later at the very end, Judges 21, 25.

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This sentence is terrifying and it's who we are today. In those days, there was no king in Israel. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. Isn't that what we do today? Someone steals something? That's not right. Who are you to say? That's what it is. Maybe he really needed that thing. Everyone's doing what's right in their own eyes. There's 21 chapters in Judges, each one worse than the last.

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And it's the story of the people of Israel just destroying themselves, turning away from God, the same God who saved them out of slavery in Egypt. And they just keep turning away again and again and again. And that's where we are right now. Everyone doing what is right in their own eyes. So let's get the quick of the story here and it's worth reading all of Judges. It's a wild time. So this guy has a concubine, which was a legal status back then. It was above nothing, but below wife. By the way, God didn't approve of this, but it was a thing that was.

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So the concubine left him and went to her father's house. Was there for a couple months. And the man goes to her father's house and says, hey, I want her back. And the father-in-law, I guess, brought him into the house and said, oh, stay for a couple of days. It was all very hospitable. So a couple of days later, they leave. And they're going back home. And the servant to the man says, hey, let's stay in this city.

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And the man says, no, we can't stay in this place of foreigners, we gotta keep going, we gotta power through, we gotta make it to a city in Israel. So they keep going, they power through, and they finally get to this city in Israel, Gibeah, G-I-B-E-A-H, Gibeah. So they get there, and no one will take them in, which is the first sign that these are a wicked people. Finally, one old guy did.

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An old guy saw them and said, hey, peace be with you. Let all your needs be my responsibility. Come stay at my house. So brought them in, gave food to the donkeys, washed their feet, they ate, they drank, all good, right? Well, verse 22, so chapter 19, 22. As they were enjoying themselves, suddenly certain men of the city, perverted men, surrounded the house and beat on the door. They spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, bring out the man who came to your house, that we may know him carnally.

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It's like Sodom and Gomorrah. So then it gets even worse. The old man says, stop banging on the door I'm not gonna give you this guy here is my virgin daughter instead and the man's concubine this is the same thing Lot did and Sodom is here don't take the man take my daughter so here the old man says take my daughter take the man's concubine humble them and do with them as you please but to this man do not do such a vile thing so the man took his concubine and brought her out to them and this is what the Bible says and they knew her and abused her all night until morning and when the day began to break they let her go then the woman came as the day was dawning and fell down at the door of the man's house where her master was till it was light it is it gets worse by the way but quick timeout it is fascinating how Bible commentaries in history have managed these verses here.

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Adam Clark, early 1800s or so, he left this part of his Bible commentary in Latin so that only Bible scholars could understand the full depravity and perversion of these men. It was too awful of a story for people to even hear about. So the man wakes up distraught, right, over what happened to his concubine. No, he opens the door, sees her laying there, and says, Get up, let us be going. But there was no answer. So the man lifted her onto the donkey, and the man got up and went to his place. When he entered his house, he took a knife, laid hold of his concubine, and divided her into twelve pieces, limb by limb, and sent her throughout all the territory of Israel.

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And so it was that all who saw it said, no such deed has been done or seen from the day that the children of Israel came up from the land of Egypt until this day. Consider it, confer and speak up." Confers, another translation of that is take counsel. Like let's chat about this. This is pretty bad. Now, what I left out is, we don't know the name of this guy, but we do know he was a Levite.

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So these were supposed to be the teachers of the law. These were men set apart from the profane and the corrupt. These were the holy men, and look how bad they were. This is how horrifically Israel had fallen. So we have rape, we have murder, we have the callousness of the Levite man. And then what did all this depravity lead to? Civil War. Where do you think our depravity is leading to? Where do you think it goes? What's the end? It's so weird, like we're watching our country just spiral, and we're like watching it like it's a movie.

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We're like, oh, I wonder what happens next. Oh, look, here the transgenders came in on this season. I wonder how that's gonna go. Oh they're using women's locker room. Okay, let's see what happens next. Oh look, they're doing strip dances in front of kids. Huh, okay, well I don't know. Let's see what's going to happen. It's like, no, stop seeing what's going to happen next. We are living it right now. Where do you think it's going if we don't do anything? So the question is, why did he cut her up into 12 pieces? He sent each piece to each of the 12 tribes. So the 11 got together and said, this is crazy, we have to go attack the tribe of Benjamin who did this.

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And they eventually did, and all but 600 men of that tribe were killed. And the 11 were not moral leaders throughout all of it as well. But the point of me sharing this, and the relevance of me sharing this, is depravity leads to division. Depravity leads to division and ultimately depravity leads to collapse. That's where we are headed and our leaders, you just heard Joe Biden, are trying to whip us into a mob and divide us even more because mobs are crazy. And that's what's in your control. That's one of the main points of this episode, if I may. If you get nothing else out of this episode, avoid the mob. If the government's goal is to control you, the way they do it is by manipulating a mob or creating a mob mentality and groups of people together to lose their minds, hoping you get caught up in it and make terrible decisions.

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January 6th is a good example. So please avoid mobs of angry people. The word mob comes from the Latin word mobile vulgus. It means a fickle, common people. Fickle, mobile, like mobile, like moving. It's like easily moved common trash vulgus com fickle common people and I got shortened down to mob but here's the thing we're not fickle people we are rooted in truth we are rooted in God's Word we are rooted in giant eternal principles. It's the fickle people who are tossed to and fro.

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It's the fickle people who are manipulated. That's what Paul is talking about in Ephesians when he says, don't be children, don't be tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness and deceitful schemes. Rather, speaking the truth and love, the truth, we are to grow up in every way into Him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, unity, joined and held together by every joint with which is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love. That's the unity that Paul is talking about.

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People united in Christ aren't deceived by political rhetoric. No matter how hard they try. No matter how hard they try to whip up a mob into a frenzy, you will not get caught up into it because you know the truth. And you also realize everyone's capacity for doing terrible things, especially when caught up in a mob. There's a bunch of mobs in the Bible. One of my favorites is Paul in Ephesus. This is in Acts 19. I think we've told part of the story before, but there's this guy who makes silver for people to buy little trinkets for their false gods.

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And Paul's telling people to knock it off with this false god stuff, so it hurts this guy's business. This is Acts 19, 28. When they heard this, they were furious and began shouting, Great is Artemis of the Ephesians. So this guy, this silversmith, whipped everyone up into a crowd, into a fury, right? A fury, they became furious. Soon the whole city was in an uproar. The people seized Paul's traveling companions from Macedonia, and all of them rushed into the theater together. I love this line, the assembly was in confusion.

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So they go to this place, and the mob is in charge now, and the assembly was in confusion. Some were shouting one thing, some another. Most of the people did not even know why they were there. I love that. Most of the people didn't even know why they were there. And then of course when Jesus was killed on the cross, one of the centurions, we know of, hopefully more, but at least one of them regretted his role in the whole crucifixion. Talk about a mob. Luke 23, 47, surely this was a righteous man. So that's what's in your control is to make sure you don't get caught up in a mob. That's what they want. So what do we leave with?

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What can we meditate on? What can we think about at night to help the anxiety go away right now. First let me tell you about Patriot Gold Group. We have our special this week. We're talking a lot about gold and I go over the story of FDR in 1933 who confiscated everyone's gold. Like what? What do you mean? And it was it was a little surreal when I first bought gold that like the FedEx guy just came to my door and just handed it to me. Like what? Like how is this legal? It is for now. I own gold for a lot of reasons. Give them a call and see if this is a good decision for you and your family.

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Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his deeds, your old filthy self, and have put on the new man, who is renewed in knowledge according to his image, excuse me, according to the image of Him who created him, God, where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all." I'll add black or white. It's so important to emphasize that last part there. Christ is all and in all. A house divided against itself cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln was not the first person to come up with that line.

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That was Jesus. Mark 3 25. And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand. Let us vow right now that we give no more power to the people who are seeking to divide. But instead focus all of our energy on the one who can unite.

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This causes these progressive politicians to get even more entrenched.

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Given your propiquity for History, here’s a Euro-Catholic Christian Feast of Great Fanfare for you and your peeps.

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Gibbon noted that had the Muslims won this day, all of Europe would have been Islamized and Western Civilization would have been extinguished.

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On Christian Martyrs

Good day Brother Slater,

Semen est sanguis Christianorum.
(The blood of Christians is the seed of the Church)
Tertullian 160-230 AD, Apologeticum, 50
https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14520c.htm

V. Pretiósa in conspéctu Dómini.
Precious in the sight of the Lord

R. Mors Sanctórum eius.
Is the death of His Saints.
Psalm 115:15 (116)

List of Christian Martyrs
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christian_martyrs

Your attendance to Christian Martrys, in light of the murder of Charlie Kirk, is timely and kudos for your focus in this most virtuous of Deeds before God.
May God Bless you for your good work to illumine this vital matter for Christian Souls!

And I saw seats. And they sat upon them: and judgment was given unto them. And the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not adored the beast nor his image nor received his character on their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
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Charlie Kirk: Freedom, Without Virtue, Leads To Chaos
Politics By Faith, October 16, 2025

Charlie was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom on what would have been his 32nd birthday. His wife said 5 profound statements in about 40 seconds. We break them down in today's episode. 

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Oh, I was on vacation last week and I had big plans to record episodes and I didn't. A lot of high hopes, always on vacation. Alas, we're back. I want to play this clip of Erica Kirk at her husband's Medal of Freedom ceremony. I think in this 40 second clip, there are five profound truths that are worth knowing. 

Charlie often said that without God, freedom becomes chaos. and he believed liberty could only survive when anchored to truth. And I remember in one of his speeches, he told the audience that the opposite of liberty isn't law, he said it's captivity, and that the freest people in the world are those whose hearts belong to Christ. But what's so powerful is that Charlie had the ability to communicate so brilliantly across all generations. And he reminded us that in a world that tells us freedom is doing whatever you want to do, the real freedom is the power to live freely and to do what is right. And in one of his journal entries, he wrote that he wanted everyone to know that you can't have liberty without moral responsibility. 

Freedom divorced from faith eventually just destroys itself. 

It's incredible stuff there. Incredible truths there. Without God, freedom becomes chaos. The opposite of liberty is not law, it's captivity. The freest people are those whose heart belong to Christ. Freedom is not doing whatever you want. 

True freedom is the power to live freely and do what is right. You can't have liberty without moral responsibility. and freedom divorced from faith ultimately destroys itself. Again, going back to chaos. Our founding fathers knew these things. I'm so grateful that Charlie brought them back to the forefront. 

It's our job to take them and run with them and live, live them and share them with as many people as we can. John Adams knew that the American system of government was designed only for a moral and religious people. And if you live a life of the flesh, With your mind set on things of the flesh, you will do things of the flesh and it will lead to death. It will lead to a bad life. You'll become a slave to those things here on earth, not to mention what will happen to you for all of eternity. But our founding fathers knew that true happiness did not come that way. 

And they knew that a country can never survive if people were living in the flesh. This idea that the opposite of liberty is not law, because that's the idea is like, Oh, you can't tell me what to do. I'm gonna do whatever I want. You can't make a law to tell me. It's like, all right, fine, but you're going to go down this road and it's not the law, but it's going to be captivity. It's going to be chaos and captivity and destruction and slavery. 

You're going to become a slave to the flesh, a slave to your sin. John 8, 34, Jesus says, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. Romans 6, 16, to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey. You are that one slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death or of obedience leading to righteousness. 2 Peter 2, 19, they promise them freedom. but they themselves are slaves of corruption. 

For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved. " I want to read a few more quotes here from this book I've been going through, Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers. I've got like three quotes here that I think echo what Charlie had said and Erica is going to continue to say, and we need to know. This is Noah Webster of the dictionary. And of course, to prevent crimes, war, and disorders in society, no human laws dictated by different principles from those in the gospel can ever secure those objectives. 

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. These are our founding fathers. For instruction then in social, religious, and civil duties, resort to the scriptures for the best precepts and most excellent examples of imitation. Reverend Sam Cooper gave a sermon. He preached in front of the governor of Massachusetts, one John Hancock, also preached to the Massachusetts assemblymen at the time. And this was on the very beginning of the Massachusetts constitution in 1780. 

And the preacher man said this directly to the leaders. He said, our civil rulers will remember. that as piety and virtue support the honor and happiness of every community, they are particularly requisite in a free government. Virtue is the spirit of a republic. for where all power is derived from the people, all depends on their good disposition. That's such a good point. 

If power comes from the people, power to the people, power from the people. If that's where the power comes from, you better make sure they're good people. If they are impious, factious, and selfish, if they are abandoned to idleness, dissipation, luxury, and extravagance, if they are lost to the fear of God and the love of the country, all is lost. Having got beyond the restraints of a divine authority, they will not brook the control of laws enacted by rulers of their own creating. You think they're going to, if they disobey the laws of God, you think they're going to obey the laws of man? Having got beyond the restraints of a divine authority, they will not brook the control of laws enacted by rulers of their own creating. 

They elect these fools. They're going to listen to their own laws. And now we live in a society where those people don't even enact laws. And we have judges that just let people free after they break the law. I'm going to look up. Two words here. 

Dissipation, I want to make sure I get that one right. Dissipation, scattered attention, a dissolute, irregular course of life, wandering from the object to object to object in pursuit of pleasure. Oh, that's a good idea. They're abandoned to idleness, dissipation. Oh, there's lost. A course of life usually attended with careless and exorbitant expenditure of money, indulgence in vices, which impair or ruin both health and fortune. 

Very good. And then I wonder what the old time definition of brook is. Having got beyond the restraints of a divine authority, they will not brook the control of laws. They will not brook, bear, endure, support. I never heard that used before. 

I'll give you one more. 

We'll go back to Benjamin or Noah Webster. The Christian religion is the real source of all genuine Republican principles. It teaches the equality of men as to the rights and duties. And while it forbids all oppression, it commands due subordination to law and rulers. It requires the young to yield obedience to their parents. and enjoins upon men the duty of selecting their rulers from their fellow citizens of mature age, sound wisdom, and real religion. 

" Check this out. Real religion. Men who fear God and hate covetousness. It's Exodus 18, 21. The religion of Christ and his apostles and its primitive simplicity and purity, unencumbered with the trappings of power and the pomp of ceremonies, is the surest basis of a Republican government. Those men who destroy the influence and authority of the Christian religion. 

Oh, the sentence right here. Those men, and we've had decades of these men and women, those men who destroy the influence and authority of the Christian religion, sap the foundations of public order, of liberty and of Republican government. We see the chaos. Noah Webster was totally right. Completely right. We've had decades now of people of influence and authority sapping the foundations of public order. 

We have on the SiriusXM show tomorrow, a lot of stories about crime. And there's two things that will stop crime, the law and God. The law is there for when you get caught. There's the law, you break it, there's proper punishment. We have breakdowns all throughout that, which we'll talk about more tomorrow, but you know it all, right? Just letting people, people have been arrested 30 times for violent crimes, letting them back on the streets. 

That's a breakdown. But those are all the things that we see. But do you know, we only solve about 44%. The last time we had these numbers was in 2023. It's worse now, surely. We solve 44 % of violent crimes. 

What percent of murders do you think get solved? If you asked me, I'd be like, oh, like 98%, 99%, 57 % of murders. And I've heard some numbers as low as 45. Obviously, it depends where you are too. That means there's some cities probably where maybe 30 % of murders get solved. So what do we do with that? 

The law is there for when you get caught. But what about when no one sees what you do? I should say, what about when no one sees what you do? He does. God does. He sees everything. 

And going to hell is a pretty good deterrent to stop people from doing bad things. But we've replaced God with Santa Claus and his naughty list. It's one of many reasons why there's so much crime today. No more idea of hell. But to bring it back to Charlie Kirk, freedom is not the point. Freedom is not the end of the story. 

Freedom is the beginning. Virtue is the goal. Freedom is only good if it directs people to virtue. If freedom leads people to sin, that leads to death. You know, the suspect of the LA Palisades fire was captured. This fire he started destroyed 6 ,000 homes, killed 12 people. 

A month before he lit the fire, he told a family member that he burned a Bible. He said, I literally burnt the Bible that I had. It felt amazing. I felt so liberated. Liberated. I'm so free. 

I can do whatever I want. And he did. He went on to do whatever he wanted. And what he wanted to do was to start a fire that destroyed a community. Freedom.

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Seeped and Steeped in The Bible
Politics By Faith, October 3, 2025

Our founding fathers and grandfathers knew the Bible deeply in their minds and souls. How can you hear the words of George Washington and Patrick Henry's most famous speech and come to any other conclusion? 

The word of the day is seeped. Seeped. 

Good word, isn't it? To be seeped. The modern dictionary definition, Webster did not have this word in his original 1828 one, is to flow or leak a liquid slowly through porous material or small holes. The idea, though, concept is that something is so deeply permeated into the item. that it is now an integral part of it. Now in this interesting English situation here, where you have the words seep and steep, and they can both do with liquids, so it can get confusing. 

But when you're talking about a deep tradition of something, it's actually the word steep. So something is steeped in tradition, for instance. I like both concepts, right? I feel like the idea of seeping into, And the argument I want to make here is that the Bible, it seeped its way through all the aspects of our culture in America. But I also like the idea of our culture being steeped in the Bible. Let's go with steep for now. 

So I suppose the word of the day is steep, not seep. But this is the idea I want. Either way, this is the idea that I'm looking for. I'm reading this amazing book. I'm going to mention it many more times because I'm only like 25 % done. It's called Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers. 

And I want to read two sections here in particular. The first is about George Washington, and then I want to get to Patrick Henry. George Washington was steeped in the Bible. The Bible seeped into every aspect of his life. But again, we'll go with steep. Listen, so this is, this author went through all these different examples of George Washington using biblical references. 

I didn't even know many of these references originated in the Bible. That's how unsteeped I am and how little it has seeped into the culture that I grew up in and still live in today. So let me read from this. The language of the English Bible so permeated the vernacular that some speakers and writers may not always have been conscious of the fact that a popular phrase or image had biblical origins. In any case, Washington routinely incorporated into his working vocabulary familiar biblical language, such as forbidden fruit, Genesis 3, sweat of the brow, Genesis 3 .19. Fat of the land. 

Genesis 45 .18. George Washington used these words all the time. Stumbling blocks. Leviticus, Ezekiel, Romans, 1st Corinthians. Seven times seven years. Leviticus. 

Thorn in our side. Numbers, Judges, 2nd Corinthians. 

First fruit. 

Deuteronomy, Nehemiah. Sleep with my fathers. Deuteronomy, 2nd Samuel, 1st Kings. Neither sleep nor slumber. Psalm Isaiah. All the days of your life. 

Psalms 23, 27. Like sheep to the slaughter. Psalm 44, Acts 8, Romans 8. Engraved on every man's heart. Jeremiah 17, 31, Romans 2. Separating the wheat from the tares, Matthew 13. 

A millstone hung to your neck, Matthew 18, Mark 9, Luke 17. Wars and rumors of wars, Matthew 24, Mark 9, Luke 17. By the way, every time George Washington wrote about these things, he didn't have to say, good and faithful servant. As it says in Matthew 25, 21, the good and faithful, it just did, everyone knew what he was talking about. Take up my bed and walk, Mark 2, John 5. Widow's might, Mark 12, Luke 21. 

The scales are ready to turn. from the eyes, Act 9, and Throne of Grace, Hebrews 416. Those are maybe half the examples. George Washington was steeped in a biblical culture. I want to quote here Patrick Henry. One of his most famous speeches, one of the most important speeches in the buildup to the American Revolution, was a speech he gave on March 23rd, 1775 at a church in Richmond, Virginia. 

I've read this speech many times. I had no idea all the biblical allusions in it. I'll only cross check one here. But Patrick Henry talks about, the whole point of the speech is peace. There's no peace. That's Jeremiah 6, 14. 

They have healed the wound of my people lightly saying peace, peace when there is no peace. The whole point, I've read this speech a million times. Patrick Henry, that famous line, peace, peace when there is no peace. I didn't know that was Jeremiah 6. Let me quote this speech here. Mr. President, said Patrick Henry, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. 

We are apt to shut our eyes. Proverbs 16, 30, Isaiah 6, 10, 33, 15, 44, 18. Against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. That's actually from the Odyssey. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who having eyes see not and having ears hear not? 

Jeremiah 5, Ezekiel 12, Psalm 115, 135, Isaiah 42. The things which so clearly concern their temporal salvation. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost. Exodus 6 -9 Job 7, 11. Sorry, Sorry, I chuckle because it's everything. 

Every sentence of this speech is a biblical reference. I am willing to know the whole truth. John 8, 32. To know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided. Psalm 119. 

And that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know that there had been in the content of the British ministry for the last 10 years to justify those hopes. with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and in this house. Is it not? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition had been lately received? 

Trust it not, sir. It will prove a snare to your feet. Jeremiah 18, 22. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Matthew 26, Luke 22. In vain after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. 

There's no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve and violate these inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not baselessly to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be attained, we must fight. I repeat it, sir, we must fight. An appeal to arms and to God of hosts is all that has left us. Tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? 

Will it be next week or next year? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty And in such a country as that which we possess, Deuteronomy 3 .12, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God, Isaiah 45 .21, who presides over the destinies of nations and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. 1 Samuel 8, 2 Chronicles 32. 

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. Ecclesiastes 9, 11. It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. 

Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come. I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace, but there is no peace, Jeremiah 6, 14. 

The war has actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears, Acts 7 20, the clash of resounding arms, our brethren already in the field. Why stand here idle? Matthew 26. What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? 

Is life so dear? Acts 20 24. Or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take. But as for me, Genesis 17 4 and Joshua 24 15. 

But as for me, give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me death speech is just seeped with biblical references, because he himself was steeped in a Bible -based culture. This is my dream. This is what I want. More than anything, my prayer for our country is that we once again can put the Bible in the front as the foremost, most important text, document, and truth, and that the people of this country can steep in it. and it can permeate inside of us, inside of our bones and our mind and our souls, so that it becomes a part of our speech, part of our language again, every aspect of what we do and how we think. 

This is what created our country, the men who built this country and women. were steeped in the Bible. If we want to save our country, we should do the same. More importantly, if we want to save souls, we should do the same. The book again is called Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, Daniel Driesbach. I'm only 25 % of the way through. 

I would love for his sales to just skyrocket and have him be like, what in the world? 

What happened? 

What happened? Why did my book sales do? Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, Daniel Driesbach. It's got like a yellow cover with a red Bible on the front. Mike Slater dot locals . com is my website. 

Transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot locals .

 

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September 29, 2025
Keep Bad Bunny Out Of Your Home
Politics By Faith, September 29, 2025

Bad Bunny will be performing at the Super Bowl halftime show. He's one of the most-streamed artists in America. He's awful and nothing he creates should be allowed in your home or in your kids' brains.

Welcome to politics by faith thanks for being here just want to mention briefly here bad bunny just got news that bad bunny will be performing at the halftime of the super bowl it's noteworthy for a couple reasons first he said he would never perform in america again because of trump and ice he said honestly i can't risk the safety of my fans like that mainland america just doesn't feel necessary to me anymore he's from puerto rico so he says mainland america so he's concerned that ice would be at his concerts which i've never heard of ice ever doing but wouldn't be a bad idea but he's concerned ice is going to be there and round up all of his fans uh but then he said in this commercial i've been thinking about it these days and after talking with my team i think i'll do just one more date in the united states have you heard of bad bunny He is the third, what a ridiculous name by the way, Bad Bunny. He's the third most streamed artist last year behind Taylor Swift and The Weeknd. He was number two the year before that. And in the year 2020, 2021, 2022, he was the most streamed artist in the world. That's crazy. I've never heard a song of his. 

I don't think I have. And there's a lot of people on the internet who are acting like Bad Bunny is satanic. And of course he is. You're either of God or of Satan. John841. Jesus says, you are of your father the devil and your will is to do your father's desires. 

He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there's no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character for he is a liar and the father of lies. And first John 3 10 says, by this it is evident who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God. nor is the one who does not love his brother. You have to cut it all off. 

All of it. 

All the pop music. Be serious. Be serious. Your kids are desperate to be protected from this. Act like it is life or death. Your kid's souls are on the line. 

Why? Hand any of your child's soul over to these people who hate you. Your kids don't know better. You do. Keep them away from this. Give them something else good. 

because this stuff is so wicked. We are so numb, so numb to how off we are. I think this is the biggest, I don't know what else could be worse. I'm open to suggestions, but I think this is the biggest hurdle impediment for people repenting and getting saved is they don't think they're that bad. Like, oh, it's not, yeah, it's not that bad. No, it's really, you're really bad. 

You're in a really, really bad spot. This is all really bad. You're really bad. I'm really bad. We're all really horribly, awfully bad, like indescribably bad. Here's the problem. 

If you were walking down the sidewalk and I handed you a lifeguard buoy, flotation device, you know, like those long red foam things that lifeguards... If you're walking down the street and I handed you that, you would say, uh, okay, uh, I don't, I don't need this. I'm just, I was walking down the sidewalk. What's what's going on. But if you were drowning in the ocean and I threw one, you'd be pretty darn grateful. People are living their lives like they're just walking down the sidewalk. 

And then we throw Jesus at them and they're like, well, I don't, I don't need this. 

I'm fine. 

Everything's good. 

What people need to realize is they're drowning. They're drowning in the ocean. Then and only then will the good news mean anything. I think, this is my experience, is our culture doesn't do anything with the bad news. And if you don't highlight the bad news, if you don't understand the bad news, then the good news doesn't hit you as good. So what's the bad news? 

The bad news is all have sinned. All are sinners by our very nature. Romans 3 .23, there is no distinction for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. All. Only by faith are you justified. Justified means as if you have not sinned. 

And grace means you get what you don't deserve. So mercy means you don't get what you deserve. Grace is, you get what you don't deserve. See the difference? So you don't deserve grace, but you get it. Unmerited favor for us all, sinners. 

You deserve hell because of your sins. But by God's grace, you get something you don't deserve. You get heaven. And you don't get God's wrath. Romans 5, verse 1. the opening line, it says, since we have been justified by faith, you have peace with God. 

It's just so interesting. Not peace of God. You don't have the peace of God. You know, people think of, oh, the peace of God. Oh, peace of mind. And that's true. 

That's a thing. Peace of God. That's great. That's not what this is. This is the peace. You get peace with God. 

With God. 

What do you mean? Because the day of wrath, if you're not saved, is not peaceful. All we hear about in our culture, if you ever hear anything about God, is how God is love. And that's totally true. But what is love? When people hear that, oh, God is love means I can do whatever I want. 

No, no, of course not. It's not loving to let your two -year -old run into the middle of the road just because he wants to. Of course not. No parent would do that. And our heavenly father doesn't want us to do that. The equivalent of that. 

It's not love to let people do whatever they want. So you have to define love, but also God is just. Psalm 711, God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation every day. That's a great word, indignation. So I went to the Noah Webster's dictionary, 1828. It's the best dictionary. 

It's the only dictionary you gotta go to. It's Webster's Dictionary, 1828 . com. And I looked up indignation. Anger or extreme anger. Mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. 

The anger of a superior. Extreme anger, particularly the wrath of God against sinful men for their ingratitude and rebellion. You know, Webster always went back and gave Bible verses whenever possible to every definition. And he cited 2 Kings 3 .27. Well, what in the world happened there? So here's what it says. 

Then he took his eldest son. This is the king. The king took his eldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great indignation against Israel. " So the king murdered his son to the false god Shemash, the false god of the Moabites. You can imagine God being pretty angry at that. 

But God wasn't just angry one time thousands of years ago. 

He feels indignation every day. 

At who? Us. Romans 118, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. Everything in our culture is unrighteous. Nearly every single thing of it. You name it. 

One last bad news, then we'll get to the good news. This is Romans 5, 10. For if we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son. How much more that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life? You were an enemy of God. You were an enemy of God and Jesus Christ still saved you. 

What did he save you from? What did Jesus save you from? How about that too? So first people think they don't need saving, but then the question is, okay, fine, I do need saving, but from what? We don't make that clear. We don't make it clear that you need to be saved. 

Be like, Oh, I'm just walking down the sidewalk. I don't need a lifeguard buoy. What are you doing here? Okay. People don't know that they need saving. And then once they're like, you know what? 

I'm drowning here. I'm drowning. I need saving. It's like, Oh, really? You're just like sad or depressed or you're feeling away that nets. And that's great. 

Like Jesus. So that's a good, but you know, you need to really understand that you need saving, not from like bad times in your life. Although you do, we all do, but you really need saving from God's wrath. That's what you're being saved from. If you don't know that you're an enemy to God and therefore sentenced to eternal damnation to experience the wrath of God for all of eternity, then I don't know if the good news seems that good. 

What do you fear the most? People fear man. That's not man. 

You need to fear the most. 

Some people say it's Satan. 

I feel Satan. No, you don't. You don't need to fear Satan. God. The greatest enemy is God. Matthew 10, 28. 

Do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. Rather, fear him who can destroy both body and soul in hell. are not two sparrows sold for a penny, and not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your father. And even the hairs on your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore, you are more valuable than many sparrows. So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge before my father who's in heaven. 

But whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my father who's in heaven. " You do not want Jesus to deny you before God, because God is the one who in his just and righteous judgment will send you to hell. Our modern culture today has made everyone think that God loves them no matter what. God loves you. God loves you no matter what. Let me quote John MacArthur. 

He says, the truth is this. God is our worst enemy, our ever present deadly danger, our eternal judge and executioner who will destroy both body and soul in hell. This is what is meant by the fear of God, right? What is the fear of God? The fear of God is the beginning of what? Beginning of wisdom. 

The fear of God. When people hear the fear of God, we've been told that it means awe. or reverence like an awe of god oh you have an awe of god and it does it can mean that too to have an on that's good you should have that but it also means fear. The fear of the Lord means fear. Proverbs 14 27, the fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death. 

What do they mean fear? What does fear mean? It means fear. So you better get right with them. And the way to get right is to have faith in Jesus. And once you do, you are justified and now you will have peace with God. 

I think All Christians should work on having a good 60 second or whatever amount of time, but like pretty quick description of the gospel. And there's a lot of different ways to do it, but however exactly you word it, whatever you're most comfortable with, it has to weave in there that we are sinners, profound sinners, and we can only be saved through Jesus. Jesus died for your sin, the just for the unjust. God imputes, so he places our sinfulness to Jesus. Christ dies, then is raised from the dead. But not only that, the righteousness. 

Christ is given to you. So Jesus takes your sins, you get his righteousness. We're not born better, we're born again. And all of those who come to Jesus, everyone who places their faith in Christ, will be saved and sanctified. So that you're not just saved from the penalty of sin, that'd be one thing, but one day our bodies will be glorified with Jesus and we'll live forever with him in heaven. You cannot inherit the kingdom of God. 

You cannot do it. Jesus did it for you. And because we're saved, now we can go do amazing works. Because you're saved. The works won't save you, but because you are saved, let's get to work. Martin Luther has a famous line, he said, God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does. 

Jesus already accomplished everything necessary for your salvation. You are set free for the need to justify yourself to God to go to heaven. It's done. No matter what you do. And out of gratitude for that reality, Fully recognizing what we deserved and where we were going with, like, the good news is now the greatest thing imaginable. And out of that gratitude, we can work to serve our neighbors. 

Knowing that, knowing the importance of this, the beauty of it, the severity of it, why would we allow any filth into our lives and into our homes and into our kids' hearts? Even if it's a part of the Super Bowl halftime show.  MikeSlater . Locals . com. Transcript commercial free on the website, MikeSlater .

 

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