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Father's Day Message: You're Not Good Enough
Politics By Faith, June 17, 2024
June 17, 2024

I am so grateful to the two callers we had for our Gratitude Monday segment on Sirius/XM. They both had the same theme: we're not able to do it on our own. Of course you're not lol. Why does it take us so long to figure that out?


Hey, welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Hope you had a nice Father's Day. Maybe you didn't. Father's Day can be hard for a lot of different reasons, for a lot of different people. There's a Father's Day sermon that I've never heard before. I'm sure it's out there. But Father's Day sermons that I've ever heard are... The intent is to encourage men get beat up a lot. So here's a Sunday to lift up men and fathers. Keep it up men, you can do it!

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First of all, I don't feel beat up. I'm too busy. I'm too busy raising four kids, trying to be a good husband to get beat down by some college professor calling me toxic or whatever. I'm just too busy. I don't have time for you.

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I'm trying to raise a family. But one sermon I'd love to hear given to dads is not to encourage them with the you can do it dad you can do it don't give up keep doing the right thing I think a good message to dads is you can't do it there's no way you can do this on your own you you think you can what what what possibly has happened in your life that you think you can raise children to be good people. You think that's within your power to raise these human beings to...

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No, that's your goal. You're going to fail miserably. You can't do it. You're not even close. You're not a good person. You'll never raise other people to good people. I get so frustrated at Jack for leaving things on the ground. Just leave stuff on the ground all the time. And I got so mad at him so many times, so often, for years.

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And then I finally realized, hmm, he's probably seen my office. That might be why he leaves stuff on the ground. So what, I'm gonna get mad at my kids for being just like me? Those are the most frustrating things, right?

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Those are the things you get most frustrated about at your kids are the things that are just like you. But my point is I can't even keep my office clean. You think I'm gonna raise my son to keep his room clean? Okay, I can't even do that. So I'm the one who's gonna raise him

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in ways to become an upstanding member of society? Come on, get over yourself, Dad. You know, I'm a close. We had, that's my encouraging father's name. Get over yourself. There's no way you can do this.

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We had two callers today on our Gratitude Monday. Every Monday at 6 o'clock on SiriusXM Patriot we have a gratitude segment. I don't know if anyone's ever going to call in. For a while no one did. Then I started to pray about it. I said, God, I hope some people call in and these calls are encouraging to other people.

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Every time I pray that, it's going really well. So we had two callers today. First guy called from Arizona. And he was, yesterday he was either 12 or 14 days sober. And he said he got sober when he finally realized he couldn't do it on his own. He couldn't break addiction on his own and that's when God broke it and he gave this great he gave

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a bunch of wisdom but he had this great line I've never heard this before John 2 when Jesus turned water into wine at the wedding and check out this line when the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine and did not know where it came from though the servants who had drawn the water knew. The master of the feast called the bridegroom. And I love this because I love lines in the Bible that are just seeming afterthoughts.

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I love lines in the Bible where you read it and you just kind of skim past it. And when someone draws your attention, it's like, no, no, no, look, look at these few words. This little sidebar is in parentheses even. When the master of the feast tasted the water that now became wine, and did not know where it came from, though the servants who had drawn the

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water knew, the servants knew. And his line was something like, you have to be the servant to see the miracle first, or sometimes even at all. You have to be the one serving to see the miracles so go out and serve people to see more miracles It was awesome. That's such a good line the master of the feast all he knew was that it was good wine He didn't know that it was water just a minute ago

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He missed the miracle The servants didn't they were there the whole time Charles Spurgeon said do the ordinary duties of Christian men and women things in which there is no power of themselves, but which Jesus Christ makes to be connected with His divine working. Oh, it's so good. Just do the thing.

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Do the things which seemingly have no power within themselves, but that Jesus Christ makes to be connected to His divine working. And it shall be for your instruction and your comfort that you had such work to do. The servants which drew the water knew." Are you with me on the point that you can't do it on your own? Like the servants didn't do it. They didn't turn the water into wine. They drew the water but they didn't turn it into wine. Like you don't, you're not raising, I mean you're raising your kid. You're doing it

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but you're not, it's not you. Like you can't do it. You're not capable of doing it. Just like you're not capable of turning water into wine. The second I called in, he used to weigh 650 pounds. He's lost 450 pounds. He drank a handle of vodka every night and didn't leave his home for four years. He's overcome two addictions, but only because of God. And he knew that. We can think we can do things on our own. Raise children. That's so laughable if you think about it. I've got four of them. I've got four raised children. I'm doing the best I can. My wife and I are doing the best

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we can, but it's not even close to good enough. We can't do anything on our own. Stop trying. Stop thinking you can. This self-help nonsense. That's just new age. New age hooey. Can't do anything without God That's my Father's Day message you can't you're not a good dad and you can't be You'll never be Without God, so stop trying to do it on your own Stop trying to think you can do anything good on your own. It's all him

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If things aren't going well now run to him and if things are going kind of well That's God's grace Better glorify him because of it. Those two calls reminded me of a book by Allie Beth Stuckey. I read it many years ago. It's only been out for four years.

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I was just thinking about it the other day. It's so funny. I haven't thought about it for years and it just popped up in my brain just the other day. It's Allie Beth Stuckey. It's called You're Not Enough and That's Okay, Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love.

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It has a pink cover, but men don't be discouraged by that. It applies to everyone. And there's these myths that we're told that you are enough. No, you're not. The culture today says you determine your truth. No, you don't.

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There's a lie that the devil tells us today that you're perfect just the way you are. No, you're not. There's a lie that says you can't love others until you love yourself. No, no, no. You need to love God. Put him at the center.

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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. 

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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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