Democrat Governor Tim Walz went out of his way to protect this child molesting illegal alien from deportation. Why would he do such a thing? How could anyone defend this? We need to be a society that is much more severe against this sin and the people who enable it.

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Kids warning. All right. Story of the day today. Pardoning an illegal alien. child rapist. Here's what happened. 

A man from Laos came to America illegally back in 1994. He was given some legal status of some sort after he came here illegally by the Clinton administration. For a four year period, he raped a 10 year old girl. It's from around the year 2000, around the year 2002 or so. He paid the girl $10 to keep quiet. When he was interviewed by police, he told the police quote, it's a cultural thing to marry and have sex with girls as young as 12. 

He also claimed that the victim was just as guilty as he was and should also be arrested. This caused him to lose his legal ish that he was convicted. So his conviction for this caused him to lose whatever legal status the Clinton administration gave him. So he's back to being an illegal alien again, but here's, here's one. He avoided jail time. This story is so awful. 

Every single thing about this story is crazy. He avoided jail time. He was convicted and went to trial. But because the video family didn't allow her to cooperate or they didn't cooperate and i don't know what this is i don't know if this is cultures protecting their own or whatever i'm assuming like maybe this girl also was from laos right so maybe there's um like uh i don't even know what religion they are maybe it'd be like if muslims would be like a sharia law thing or something where the woman has no say the girl has no say in court or something i don't know what cultural thing is happening there but the family didn't cooperate. And this is in my analysis, New York Times, New York Times says Mr. Vang had received a lenient sentence, 30 years probation, which is like in part because the victim in the case, who was then 12, was experiencing pressure from her family not to cooperate. 

So that's not me, that's New York Times analysis. So we have a child rapist walking on the streets of Minnesota, illegal alien, illegal, convicted, child abuse, first degree sexual abuse. He should have been killed or castrated right there in a sane legal system. Instead, he's walking around Minnesota as an illegal alien child rapist. Now, an immigration judge issued a final order of removal for this guy in 2006. He's back to being an illegal alien, right? 

So we're ready to deport him. We're ready to deport him. We're willing to deport him. Again, final order of removal, 2006. You heard that right. It's 20 years ago. 

I know 2006 kind of sounds like this year or last year. It was 20 years ago. We're going to deport him. What did the governor of Minnesota do? What should he have done? What would you have done if you were the governor of Minnesota? 

You would, of course, hand him over to the feds or allow the feds to come in and get him and remove him because why would you want a child rapist in your city? So he could have been helpful to the city. Like, hey, we're going to use our local police. We'll help you. What do you need? Where do you need to go? 

We'll help you get there. Whatever. Be helpful to get the child molester off the streets. He could have been neutral. Just gotten out of the way. We're not going to help you, but do what you got to do. 

But no, he went out of his way to make it hard. Tim Walz, out of nowhere, pardoned this illegal alien child rapist for the crime of child rape. Pardoned. I would like to know how Tim Walz knew that this guy was going to be deported. Because again, the final order of deportation was back in 2006. So how did he know that ICE was coming after him at all? 

How did he know that, right? Because the pardon comes out of nowhere. It's a crime from 2006. Why pardon now? Why pardon at all? So how did Walls even know that ICE was looking for him? 

But why did he pardon him? Because the reason he's now an illegal alien again is because of the crime. If you pardon him for the crime, then now he's not illegal anymore. He goes back to whatever legal status he had with the Clinton administration. and then can't be deported. That's amazing. 

42 year old guy from Laos, worse than a loser, like a total, like a force for wickedness and evil and destruction and abuse. And the governor of Minnesota decided to go out of his way and pardon him to protect him from deportation. That is an incredible story. Now that was a story as I shared it a couple of days ago on SiriusXM. The update of the story, why I'm sharing it here as well, is that Marco Rubio got wind about it. took it from the Department of Homeland Security, this issue, and made it a State Department issue and now he's gone. 

Marco Rubio said just weeks ago, foreign child rapist was freed to once again endanger America's children after receiving a pardon from Tim Walz. This guy admitted to committing heinous crimes against a 10 -year -old girl in Minnesota. He attempted to pay his victim for her silence, dismissed his acts of abuse as a minor thing. Americans should never have to live in fear that foreign sex predators shielded from deportation by their own elected officials could endanger them or their children. What an insane time this is. 

Tim Walz, by the way, in the pardon letter referred to this guy as a citizen of the United States. He is not a citizen. Marco Rubio said Americans should never be forced by their elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals who have no right to be here in the first place. And this administration will always stand with the American people and defend them from violent criminals. Crazy. Okay, we talked about this last week or came up earlier in the week I should say on Sirius XM because we did a segment on Thomas Jefferson and Monticello and just learning about our history and the importance of learning about our history. 

And one of the reasons why it's important to know our history is because a story like this, it's bad enough, it's heinous, it's not enough, it's awful enough. It's even worse when you know our history and where we came from and how difficult it was to create this country in the first place. When you know who we came from, when you learn more about our founding fathers and the men and women of the revolution. When you have a deeper understanding of our past and their deep sense of justice, then things like this are intolerable. It's like a different level. It's like you hear about it first time and it's heinous and it's awful and terrible, but then it's like this next level of intolerable. 

I mean, the founders called these acts against us. the British, the intolerable acts, right? We need more things in this country to be intolerable. Tolerance has been the name of the game for decades, and it's gotten to not a laughable level. It's now a heinous, hideous, wicked level of tolerance. Gosh, I just saw a video the other day of R . 

C. Sproul. He was talking about how there's this perversion, this is an older video, about how there's this perversion that's working its way in the church where church leaders will tell people that God loves you unconditionally. It's like, oh, where's that? That's not in the Bible. God loves you unconditionally. 

Of course, that tells the unrepentant person that I don't have to do anything. I don't have to change in any way. God loves me no matter what I do. Guys, unconditional love. No, no, no, no. If anything, it's unconditional wrath. 

And the only way the wrath is allevied is because of Jesus. He paid the consequence for it instead of you. Tolerance. But you can see this, this idea of unconditional love turns into this idea of tolerance, no matter what, and tolerance to the end for anything. No, no, no. We need things to be intolerable again. 

And when you know where you came from, your zeal increases, your passion increases, your care and concern, your love increases, and you become less numb to it all, which is what the left wants you to be. They want you to be numb to the evil around us. That's what Satan wants too. But we can't be, we need to be more sensitive to evil. We need to be more passionate against it. Let's go to the Bible. 

We could talk about the age of consent, right? This guy's like, Oh, and my, where I come from now, the Bible doesn't have an age. Quran certainly doesn't, but it is a lot. There's a lot in there about who you should have sex with your wife. So this male from Laos can talk about in his culture. It's okay to have sex. 

with people, with eight -year -old girls. You're sick. But how about you find yourself a wife? The Bible says marriage is man and a woman, not a girl, becoming one flesh. We are told to honor God with our bodies and also with our wife's body. We're called to protect little ones. 

A millstone around this pervert's neck is too nice of a punishment. We're supposed to protect little ones, not use them for our own sexual gratification. My God, this is disgusting. The Bible is also clear about The state being allowed to punish crime, which the state of Minnesota did not do here. Romans 13 three, always worth a review. I know we bring this one up a lot, but rulers hold no terror to those who do right. 

But for those who do wrong, do you want to be free from one fear of the one in authority? Then do what is right and you will be commended. For the one in authority is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid. For rulers do not bear the sword for no reason. They are God's servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment to the evildoer. 

Not in Minnesota, they did not bring punishment to the evildoer. They failed. 1 Peter 2 .3 says, Be subject for the Lord's sake to every human institution, whether it be the emperor or supreme, or to governors sent by him to punish those who do evil and to praise those who do good. Again, the government did not punish those who do evil. This pervert used this child. Children are a gift. 

They're a gift. Psalm 127 .3 says, Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward. This is in that beautiful section about building a home. Unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchmen stay awake in vain. 

" There's a beautiful scripture which we should bring up again about God's sovereignty and control over all things, but the reason that it goes to house and then is what good is building a house if you can't make it a home with family in it? The family is the most important building block of a society, which is why, among other reasons, why do we need to keep child molesters away from everyone always to the nth degree. And we hear, this is a bit of a sidebar, but we hear parents today, maybe online, you'll hear parents complain about kids. They're kids. They're a pain, they're annoying, they're a burden, they're a bother. 

I can't wait for summer to be over so kids can go back to school, get them out of my hair. No, no, no. Kids are a heritage from the Lord. They're a gift, not a burden. One is profoundly full of sin to use children for their own sexual pleasure, and they deserve horrific punishment. What we're called to do, we're called in Psalm 82, 4, rescue the weak and the needy, deliver them from the hand of the wicked. 

We don't have enough hatred of the child abusers. We don't. The punishment for child abuse in this country does not reflect the severity of the sin. And the fact that A Democratic governor in Minnesota would not only allow this person back on the streets, but then prevent him from being deported, all because of his TDS. That is sick behavior. Thank goodness we have an administration today that would not let him get away with it. 

I'd love to see some accountability for walls now and all the child abuse, child abuse enablers that we have in our country.

The One Big Beautiful Bill last year made some reforms to food stamps. It's now been a year, and the Washington Post searched for some sob stories about how Trump is cruel and awful. But what does the Bible say about food stamps?

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So thanks for being here to get the true story. The story of the day today, Washington Post wrote an article, Trump's one big beautiful bill has cut food assistance for millions of Americans. SNAP benefits have plummeted by half in Arizona, a year after President Donald Trump's signature legislation. All right, what really happened here? The one big beautiful bill, remember that? As the Washington Post put it, part of the bill tightened eligibility for food aid and pushed states to do more screening. 

It turns out the number of Arizonans, that's the state that they really focused on, the number of Arizonans on food stamps was cut in half. That's 500 ,000 people, including 200 ,000 children, no longer on food stamps. I assume starving to death. Look for some death tolls coming soon. Now we need to be clear because the Washington Post does not. How did the One Big Beautiful Bill heighten eligibility? 

That's how they put it, right? It tightened eligibility. So you used to need to work until your mid fifties. Now you have to work in order to get food stamps. You have to work from the ages of 18 to 64. You also need to do something. 

This is for able bodied adults. Nothing in the One Big Beautiful Bill with food stamp reform affects disabled people in any way. Able bodied adults, important distinction here, have to work 80 hours a week. month, 20 hours a week, part -time job. You have to work, volunteer, or do approved job training to get by. To be clear, you don't have to do anything. 

You just can't get food stamps. If you're an able -bodied adult who isn't trying to get a job, like job training, volunteering, like helping the community in some way, or actually have a job, you can do that. You don't have to do this. You're not going to get taxpayer -funded welfare. Also, they changed the eligibility for parents. So if you're a parent, you don't have to work to get the food stamps. 

It used to be until your kids turned 18, but now it's 14. So they lowered that. So if you have a 14 year old who's at school all day, then you need to go get a job as well. They also tightened eligibility for non -citizens. Much harder to get if you're a legal alien or not here, or if you're just not a citizen. Remember when the one big beautiful bill was going around being debated? 

There were, you know, the left had all these sob stories that they were sharing and none of them were true because all the sob stories they talked about were for disabled people in some way. That's not what this is for. This is able -bodied adults. So I'm thinking, all right, Washington Post writing an article about it, like checking in a year later, like what sob story are they going to come up with? So my first thought is single mom, five kids, now they're 14 and older. So now mom's got to go get a part -time job. 

That was the worst scenario I could think of in my brain of who this article is going to be about. So who did the Washington Post find to pull on our heartstrings? That that's that's it. That was pretty much that story. But for kids, Michelle Flowers says it took eight months for her to get her food stamp benefits reinstated after they lapsed last year. And she only got it done, she said, because she was laid off from her job at a call center 

and finally had time. So part of this article is about how long it takes to just work through the system. I don't think that's that bad. I think applying for food stamps would be pretty miserable. It should be worse than the DMV. However bad having a job is, getting food stamps should be worse. 

It should be so painful. People are in line or on hold, and they're like, you know what? I'll just get a job at this point. I'll mop the floors here. I'm standing in line at the welfare office. I'll just mop these floors and you pay me in two weeks. 

How about that? Instead of me standing here, I'll be in line here for a month. So I'll just mop the floors. You pay me in two weeks and we'll call it even. Right. So I don't, I don't know if that's like, I don't know if it should be easy. 

The 36 year old mother of four was exactly the kind of person the supplemental nutrition assistance program was meant to help. Not really food stamps, like 36 year old mothers of four. One of the main problem with food stamps is that welfare has replaced the father. Without food stamps, I think men and women would make better marriage and mating choices. But for a few decades now, they haven't needed to do that. The daddy government will come in and fill the void. 

She said they're making the process too hard, Flower says, as she waited with a friend now navigating that system in a benefits office in Phoenix. So the Washington Post doesn't go into any details about Flowers, this woman's life or decisions or any details about anything at all. It sounds like she's a mom who had a lot of kids and doesn't have a job. And there's no dad around. I don't know how many dads, but there's no dad around. So she's got to do something. 

She's got to find it. And now the kids are over 14. So she's got to find a job. She's got to volunteer. She's got to do something already. get food stamps. 

That's it. That's the story. That's the end of their sob. There are no other sob stories. The one thing that was it. The Bible is very clear about this. 

Second Thessalonians 310. If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. End of story. There it is. I don't know if we've ever done anything more like clearly relevant, like a story that where the Bible is like right there. If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat. Eat. 

That's the end. That's it. Now again, unwilling to work. There are some people who are unable to work. That's who food stamps should be there to help. We're talking about the unwilling to work. 

And that's what the Bible says to able bodied adults. When this is being debated about, you know, being put in the one big beautiful bill, the left is freaking out about all the disabled people who are on food stamps are getting kicked off. That's not what that was all lie. Like they're fine. This is for able bodied adults. All right, let's go to the Bible here. 

So what do we do with this? So you're so cruel. That's what the Bible says, I don't know what you want me to do. We are also commanded in the Bible, Deuteronomy 15, 11, for there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore, I command you, you shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor in your land. And Paul in Colossians 2 .10 says they desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do. 

Now, again, obvious distinction between the widow and the unwilling. Also, there are some people who are poor because of circumstances out of their control. And we need to have that discernment. And that's where church and charity come in and provide that discernment. The government can't. They can't provide discernment. 

And they've never even really tried. It's like, Trump is like the first attempt at being like, all right, let's tighten this up a bit. What would a church do? What standard would a charity have? As opposed to just the government handing out money to illegal aliens and everyone else that just asks. We used to also have a society with shame, where people were ashamed to get welfare. 

In the movie, it was a Cinderella man where the boxer goes after he wins a fight, he goes back to the welfare office and gives the money back to the welfare office. Not only have we made efforts to de -stigmatize, I think that should be stigmatized, but we, you know, we call it, instead of calling it food stamps, we called it WIC and now we call it SNAP. Sounds fun. And we've replaced the actual physical stamps. There used to be actual stamps with this digital card, so no one knows, but there should be some stigma on it actually. Here's what I want to talk about though, in light of this story. 

Sermon on the Mount. We are often told to Not judge. Don't judge. Can't judge. Judge not. Jesus said. 

Jesus says don't judge. I love when non -Christians tell you they'll do something horrific. And we're like, that's not a good idea. They'll say, oh, that guy in that book that I don't believe in says you can't judge me. Not allowed to judge anyone. Can't judge people for their behavior, for their actions, for their lifestyles. 

No judging ever. Jesus said judge not. But of course he did not mean to never have discernment. And we know that's not what he meant because the very next section says do not give dogs what is holy and do not throw your pearls before pigs lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you how do i know who the dogs are if i can't judge how can i watch out for people in sheep's clothing, for wolves in sheep's clothing who appear to be harmless and honest, but I can't judge if they're wolves or not. Jesus said, don't judge. 

Jesus said, you shall know them by their fruits, but I can't judge fruit, good or bad, not allowed to do anything. Of course, that's not what Jesus meant. Of course, we're supposed to have discernment. I like this insight from Mart Lloyd -Jones. This is a section he wrote about passing judgment, or I should say passing. It's like a different term. 

Having discernment within the church, among church members. He said, they show clearly that judgment is to be exercised in the realm of the church. This is worthy of an entire study on its own because owing to our flabby ideas and notions, it is almost true to say that such a thing as discipline in the Christian church is non -existent today. He wrote this in the fifties, maybe. He said, when did you last hear of a person being excommunicated? When did you last hear of a person being kept back from the communion table? 

Go back to the history of Protestantism, and you'll find that the Protestant definition of the church is that the church is a place in which the word is preached, the sacraments are administered, and discipline is exercised. Discipline to the Protestant fathers was as much a mark of the church as the preaching of the word and the administration of the sacraments. But we know very little about discipline, and it's the result of this flabby, sentimental notion that you must not judge, and which asks, who are you to express judgment? But the scripture exhorts us to do so. We're also told to be on the lookout for false doctrine, but we're not allowed to judge. So clearly that's not what it means. 

It doesn't mean you're supposed to turn off your brain. So what does judge not mean? Jesus says, judge not. What is he talking about? Quite simply, it means we should exercise discernment, judgment, but not assume the role of ultimate judge as in condemnation for eternity. We've been told don't judge. 

It doesn't mean turn your brain off from being able to think. No, we're supposed to think critically and carefully and distinguish right from wrong. And we could critique beliefs and teaching and conduct. But we can't pass a final judgment on a person's soul or their worth before God. That final verdict is for God alone. We also have to judge properly with humility and realize that you're no better. 

I'm no better than that person on welfare. It's easy for me to say, oh, you shouldn't do it. And maybe they shouldn't. But you have to say that with the humility of knowing that my entire ability to work, the situations that I've had in my life are all a blessing from God. So you can make a discernment and say that person has no work ethic. It's true. 

You can make a discernment, a judgment and say that person made terrible life decisions about having kids when they shouldn't have had kids, shouldn't have had relations with that guy again, right? Like you can make, you could say that, but also say with the humility of, oh gosh, God, I am so grateful that you gave me parents who had a work ethic to show me what it looks like. And God, I'm so grateful that you gave me an amazing wife and a wonderful family, right? So true criticism is thoughtful and fair and constructive. to them and to others listening. That's fine. 

It's good. I like this summary. Biblical judgment is discerning but humble, principled but charitable, careful but not cynical, and honest about error but hopeful about people. It is right and proper and biblical to say, no, you're able -bodied. You have to work if you want money for food from the government. That's not judgmental. 

We leave the final judgment, however, to God.

Bryan Johnson is a super-rich tech bro who thinks he can biohack his way to immortality. He was just diagnosed with an incurable disease. We can criticize his foolishness, but the truth is, we aren't much different from him.

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And if you could subscribe to our YouTube page, that'd be great. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. The story of the day today, Brian Johnson is going to die. Here's what really happened. Have you ever come across this guy before? 

Is that name ring a bell? Brian Johnson. He's a super rich Silicon Valley man. venture capitalist guy. He's not a Christian, so he worships the self. That's what happens when you're not a Christian, you worship yourself. And his form of self -worship is to see if he can live forever. 

That's his goal. His goal, his life goal is to live forever. Now, different tech bros have different ways of doing this. One way is through AI. So the idea here is you upload your entire life and your writings and your emails and all your thoughts up into this AI server so that when you die, you live forever in a computer, right? So people can communicate with you. 

And, and, and you're like, imagine like emailing or texting a deceased parent or child or loved one. That's just, it's just terrifying to me. And so the idea of it is how much, this is the question, like how much of our lives are we going to be living in AI so that when you die, you don't even know you're dead. Like you're still living on in AI. That's what the technology people today, a lot of these tech guys want to try to figure out and make it so that you don't even know you're dead. Like you really think you are living forever. 

It's very matrix sounding, but that's one terrifying thing that some tech guys are doing right now. basically like they want AI to replace the soul so that your soul can live on. Your soul, your AI soul can live on forever here on earth. The other way that this, I want to live forever idea is being implemented is with this guy. Brian Johnson decided that the way he's going to live forever is to literally live forever. like his body he wants his body so i guess a good way of putting this is the the first version i brought up is that's this like fake soul to live on forever brian johnson wants his body to live forever so he's done everything he can to like hack his body. 

He goes to bed at 8 .30 every night, wakes up at 4 .30 precisely every single morning. Goes immediately underneath these lights to set his circadian rhythms. He does, I don't know, his electrode heart rate variability therapy. He does this precise workout regime, eats a precise number of calories every day. He only eats from 6 a . m. 

to 11 a . m. every day, takes like 100 pills a day. Every you know, zinc, all the vitamins and stuff you could possibly imagine, spends millions of dollars a year. He built this home laboratory with this dedicated medical staff to track every aspect of his health, constantly taking blood panels, red light therapy, gene therapies, tried this plasma stuff. One of the creepy ones that got a lot of attention a couple years ago is he would take plasma from his son and inject it into himself, right? 

He claims He has the body of an 18 year old, but he puts every aspect of life into like a checklist, like a box. So one of his aspects of health is he wants to meet with one in -person, he has to have one in -person friendship contact a week to support his social health. And you're like, yeah, that's a good thing to do, but checking a box, that's not really in the spirit of friendship or life. His philosophy, and this is so sad, his philosophy, this is the name of his documentary that he made, like this is his, If you go to his Twitter page or his Facebook page, like this is what it says up at the top is don't die. It's like he's gamified his body for maximum longevity, but he was just diagnosed with an incurable stomach disease. 

He says his stomach is eating itself. So he is going to die. Now we're all going to die. Not sure when exactly. Some people have a better idea of when, as you get closer to the end, kind of a better idea of when the end will be. But even then, you don't know for sure. 

But I can assure you, you will die. We don't like to think about this. I don't know why. I like to think about it. We should think about it. We used to live in a society where you couldn't not think about it. 

People were dying all the time. You probably had six kids who died in child when they were born. Probably had a wife or two who died giving birth. Like you were surrounded by death all the time. Today we're not. We've sanitized it from pretty much every aspect of our life. 

But death was a pretty normal thing. Like most people saw many people die in their life. Have you seen anyone die? Really? And even maybe you think you have in the hospital. or something, like my dad in the hospital, it was also sanitized and hospital -like. 

And you know, then even then the body's whisked away and that's, that's the end, right? So we don't really have any associations with death like we used to. So we kind of forget that we're going to die. So I'm just here to tell you, you will. Now, not everyone has died. True. 

Enoch and Elijah, those are the only two. They were taken by God. Actually, I think the Bible is pretty funny on this. I don't, I don't think the intention here was to be funny, but in Genesis five, uh, it says the days of Adam after he fathered Seth were 800 years and he had other sons and daughters. Thus, all the days that Adam lived were 930 years and he died. When Seth lived 105 years, he fathered Enosh. 

Seth lived after he fathered Enosh 807 years and had other sons and daughters. Thus, all the days of Seth were 912 years and he died. That's the genealogy of Genesis 5. It keeps going on and on and on and it always ends with, and he died. But Enoch was taken by God and Elijah and Elisha were walking together and Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven. Those are the two. 

And, uh, Brian Johnson's never going to join that list because you cannot hack your way to immortality. And God, so the first thing is you will die. Second thing, God already knows how long you're going to live. He knows when you're going to die and how. Job 14, 5, our days are fixed. The number of our months with you, you set a statute, a statute, and we can't exceed it. 

Our days are fixed. Psalm 139, 16, your eyes saw my unformed substance and your book were written. Every one of them, the days that were formed for me. when as yet there was none of them. So God knows even before you were born, how long you would live. God's outside of time and he knows everything. 

So you can't biohack your way past God's control and power and like take the right number of vitamins. Now, I don't want to totally dismiss all of this. Like some people take that to mean like, well, I can just do whatever. And like, there are things that are still in your control within the days that you have. So God may know that you're going to die when you're 82 years and six days. Oh, but it's not that close to your birthday. 

Although it'd be pretty cool to make it to 82. It's something to celebrate. Whatever the day is, he may have those numbered, but there are things in your control that you can do to make those 82 years and six days better than they otherwise would. Right. Does that make sense? So the amount you move, exercise, all that stuff. 

Right. So there are some things that are within your control, but the days are not. And it's sad that someone could be so deluded into thinking that they can live forever in their earthly body. Maybe it's even worse that someone would want to live forever in their earthly body. So let's go to the Bible. Um, because here's the truth. 

We can talk about how sad it is Brian Johnson for him to live his life in this way, but we all kind of live like it. Not with the doctors and the constant blood panels and all that stuff. We don't, no one lives like that, but we live with the same mentality. We all live like we're going to live forever. or we live like this is all there is. We live like we're going to live forever because we don't. 

do what we need to do now. We don't take care of the things we need to take care of now. We don't do the things we need to do now as if we have forever to do them. And we live like this. We live like this is all there is when we don't consider all the actions, all of our actions based on eternity. This one short blip that we call life. 

We live like this short blip of existence. Is this the end of it? But in reality, eternity is forever. It's sad because Brian Johnson dedicating his life to keeping this forever. But this isn't forever, and it's not meant to be forever, and it's not forever, and it shouldn't be forever, and I don't even want it to be forever, but eternity is. We just can't comprehend it. 

We can't comprehend eternity. Our heads can't wrap our head around it. There's no end to it. We just can't think that way. So we live our life in a way that says, you know, YOLO, you only live once. Who cares what I do here? 

And we live in this fallen atheist society that doesn't even think heaven exists or hell. So we don't think that there's an eternity after it. So as delusional and sad as you think Brian Johnson is, we, for the most part, are much better. We spend so much time on the things of this world and planning for things that we think are coming. And there's prudence, of course. Proverbs talks all about it, but we don't think about eternity. 

I mean, Jesus is so clear. Treasure and set your treasure in heaven. What about my 401k now? It's like, yeah, okay. 401k now, but also treasure in heaven. Like that's where it needs to be. 

And life is a vapor. The Bible says life is a vapor. So how should we live our life? Well, with eternity in mind, with the afterlife in mind. Our life today should be lived with the afterlife in mind. Brian Johnson, his main problem was he didn't think there was an afterlife or he wants to avoid the afterlife. 

He can't. But I want to live in such a way now that I only am considering the afterlife. Jonathan Edwards, he said, our lives, though short, are deep, beautiful, and meaningful if we view them as means to glorify the eternal God. When Jonathan Edwards was young, he was like 19, he vowed, while I do live, I should live with all my might to glorify God. Why is Brian? What does Brian Johnson live for? 

His motto was don't die. Big whoop. Jonathan Edwards motto was something more like live for eternity. And of course, with that comes a yearning to die. I can't wait to die. How great will it be to be in heaven? 

Why do I get to heaven? Great question. Believe that Jesus is the son of God who died for your sins and go get baptized. Peter said, and it's the only way you can't. Avoid it. You can't avoid dying. 

And when you do die, go in one of two places. Peter said in Acts 4 .12, salvation is found in no one else for there's no other name under heaven given to mankind by which we must be saved. Now in our post -Christian world, we think everyone goes to heaven. If heaven is ever considered a thing that exists, everyone goes there or, you know, you just gotta be nice. All right. But the truth is only Christians go to heaven. 

John 3 .36 says, whoever believes in the sun has eternal life. Eternal life. But whoever rejects the sun. will not see life. For God's wrath remains on them. That's one of my favorite verses right there. 

God's wrath remains. God's wrath is on the unbelievers. already. If you are unsaved from that wrath, then you will go to hell for eternity. If you're saved, then you're saved from hell and you'll go to heaven. Life is short. 

Eternity is forever. Live life accordingly right now. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. Please subscribe on our YouTube page. Helps us with the algorithm. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. Spread the word.