In this country, there are people "of the Devil," and there are people "of Christ." We are called to build. The rest are dead set on destruction. Whether it's institutions, organizations, or statues and memorials, those of the Devil can't stop destroying everything that is good, beautiful, and true.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible, so we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day. They never stop. They keep coming. I'm going to bombard you. 

But Ecclesiastes says it's not the new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day today. Vandalizing the World War II Memorial. So what happened here? The president tweeted out the other day, our beautiful World War II Memorial was just hit by spray painting vandals. There could be no greater insult to those Americans, American heroes who died in World War II. 

First, the reflecting pool. Now this, we are on their trail. Where do these animals come from? So someone wrote with spray paint on the World War II Memorial. They wrote clean hands, dirty money. I don't know what that means, but then they just made this big mess. 

all around. And then someone or someone else, I don't know that same person, I don't know, poured bubble soap in the fountains of the memorial. So it made this big foam bubble mess. The good news of this story is that the U . S. attorney for Washington, D . 

C. is also the DA for D . C. The weird quirk of how, like what Washington, D . C. even is. I mean, thank goodness that Jeanine Pirro is the D . 

A. of D . C. because she is able to arrest murderers and drug dealers. There's no other city in the country where the D . A. 

is going to be someone like Jeanine Pirro. D . C. is the only place. So she's in charge of this, and she already charged someone. Two felony charges, vandalism against property and destruction of Veterans Memorial. 

That's a specific charge. Melissa Ferris. Facing up to 10 years in prison, now in custody, of course, it's a degenerate. looking person as they almost always are. Her outside is a reflection of her heart, a heart that is consumed with destruction. And that's what I want to talk about here. 

That's what I want to talk about what's broken in this story. I cannot stress enough how dead set these people are on destruction. We don't, it's hard for us to understand this because you're not, you're not dead set on destruction. You're trying to build things. You're trying to make things better. These people are, they're different. 

They set on destruction at the risk of getting off topic. Let me, let me weave for just a second here. This is on my mind. Cause we've been talking a lot about this on the, on the radio show lately, the importance of a high trust society. And we've taken it for granted our whole life. We've lived in a high trust society and we didn't recognize it. 

And now we're losing it. And it's going to be gone fast. A basic example we can all understand is. You grew up in a world, in a country, in a culture where you walk into a store and it's all there. And then you take a thing off the shelf and you put it in a basket or a cart and then you go over there to the checkout person and you pay and then you walk out the door. Well enough people just stopped doing that. 

Like they would just steal stuff. So then the stores had to lock everything up. We all know about that example. It's mostly foreigners who do this. because they come from low -trust societies, or it's just degenerate people. Maybe they grew up here, but they're not American at their core because that's not our culture. 

But there's other examples of high -trust society that we're losing. McDonald's said they're getting rid of self -serve soda stations. Have you ever thought about that? Have you ever thought about the fact that you can buy one soda, and you just walk over there, or you just get a water. You could ask for a water, and you just go over there, and you grab a drink. And if you want another one, you gotta go back and pay, but that's okay because you can just fill it up yourself. 

Like that's a high trust society, but they're getting rid of that. Why are they doing it? McDonald's said they're getting rid of it because of quote, changing consumer habits. No, it's because disgusting people keep stealing soda. We talked about a story the other day on the radio of how people are not only attacking and robbing the mailman, mail carriers, Now gangs are infiltrating the post office to become mail carriers so they can systematically steal from you and I, from everyone. They can steal important documents, credit cards, whatever they want. 

So how about taking mail delivery for granted? I never thought twice about that one. I never thought that people would just steal the mail because we've always lived in a high trust society, but people now steal the mail. It's crazy. Someone called in the other day because I have an open call for anyone who ever has a high trust story. that they wanna celebrate. 

This guy called in and said they were in a convenience store in their town, and the person forgot their wallet, and the cashier person said, ah, don't worry about it, I owe you. Next time you're here, pay it off. And the guy was the second person in line, said, what? What was that? Oh, that's how it used to be. All these old -timey movies, the Wild West, where people put stuff on their tab. 

Tab? You have a tab? What do you mean you have a tab? If you ever, if you have an example of a high -trust society, thing, element, example, story, something in your town that's high trust. Please let me know. I love these stories so much. 

Let me know in the comments of our YouTube page, your high trust society example, whether it's something you had growing up or let's pray something you still have today. Just one that popped in my head is in my town I used to live in, we went back a couple of years ago for a vacation and just like a mile or so down the lake where we stayed, there was like a farm stand. Like a farm stand is a classic example, right? You put your money in the little Folgers cup, make your own change. This guy did that though, but for maple syrup. 

This guy had this little shed of maple syrup. There had to be like $10 ,000 worth of maple syrup. That's an expensive item. And it was all just, you know, grab it, whatever. Grab what you want and leave your money right there. Like, oh man. 

So please let me know in the comments your high trust society story. And I love to hear these stories because when, every time they happen, it, it tells people that this is how we do it, right? Like, so, so if you, if someone does a high trust society thing to you, you're more likely to then do another high trust society thing to someone else. And then it snowballs because people are like, oh, wow, we were doing that. We're, we're honest. Oh, that's awesome. 

I want to be honest like that too, to people and it snowballs for the better, but it could spiral down fast as well. It's one of the things we lose when the whole third world comes here because they view your trust as weakness. It's a weakness to be taken advantage of. The vice president had an anti -fraud round table like a week or so ago. And the second person in command there, someone at the treasury department, said these welfare programs were designed for a high trust society. And they worked without having to do a lot of paperwork and checking in on people and all the rest. 

When more foreigners come in than ever before and it's just game on. People taking advantage of this thinking, wow, these Americans are just a bunch of suckers. Can you believe it? They're just giving all this money away. I can't believe they're so stupid. Third worlders, they come here and they see our high trust as weakness. 

Can you believe people are just given free food away at the food pantry? They're just giving food away. It's like, yeah, that's not what that's for. Can you believe we just got to fill this form and we'll make millions of dollars a year with our fake daycare? It's free money. They just give it to you. 

They see our trust as weakness. Similarly, back at the end of my weave, I think this ties in here because these are people who walk around and they just see, they see weakness. And there's other people who walk around and they're dead set on destruction. It's in their heart. They see things that are good, beautiful, and true. and their wicked heart says, I have to destroy that. 

And it could be a thing like a statue or like a war memorial. It could be an organization like the Boy Scouts. It could be a company like Bud Light or Cracker Barrel. It could be an industry like Hollywood, or you can even think like Star Wars specifically. Like it's good, I'm gonna destroy it. That woke feminist woman who came in there, Kathleen Kennedy or whatever her name is, comes in and just destroys the whole thing. 

I saw a video the other day of the Vanderbilt Divinity School. It's hollowed out and woke trans in every way. It could be any other part of our culture, like professional sports. It could be an institution like marriage, whatever, whatever it is. I just list off a pretty broad range of things. The left, they're very good at knowing what the most important things are to take down. We talked a lot about last week. 

We're going to keep talking about it too. The left, about 50 years or so, their focus on taking down marriage. I know what I'm saying is true. it's in the Bible. Satan and his demons are destroyers. Check out this line in the Bible, Revelation 9 11. 

It says they have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, A -B -A -D -D -O -N, and in Greek he's called Apollon. The word Abaddon in Hebrew, it says that's what his name is. His name Abaddon in Hebrew, it means destruction. That's literally what the word means. This is the fallen angel who's in charge of this bottomless pit. 

His name is Destruction. Other translations of that Hebrew word are Ruin. I looked at the Blue Letter Bible and described it as the name of the angel prince of the infernal regions, the minister of death and the author of havoc on the earth. Also a destroying angel. The fallen angel, the demon's name is Destruction. I know I'm hitting on something I think is right on. 

Jesus calls Satan a murderer from the very beginning. A murderer destroys life. The devil is like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. Satan destroys. Demons destroy. That's their goal. 

John 10, Jesus says the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. This is what ungodly people do, their intent on destruction. We see what Satan is capable of in Job. Now Satan's permitted to do all this here, right? But we see what he's capable of when he strikes Job and how he strikes Job. He takes away Job's livelihood, kills his animals, his servants, kills all 10 of his children. 

They were eating together, having a wonderful time as a family. Satan then attacks Job's health and then Satan tries to turn Job against God. These are the strategies of Satan. They're all destruction. They're destroying health, life, relationships. So what Satan does, he destroys. 

And people today, they act in Satan's name. 1 John 3 .12 says, we should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. Cain was of the evil one. There's a lot of people who are, even today. We shouldn't be though. We are of Christ. 

There are some people who are of the evil one. We are of Christ. Christ. We are called to hire. We are called to godliness. We are called to righteousness. 

We are called to build. Whether it's building monuments to World War II veterans, to maintain their memory, or for building a family or a school, or you're serving your town, or you're doing amazing work at your job, we build. Colossians 3 .23 says, whatever you do, work heartily as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord, you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. I will be fair though. The Bible does say that we destroy too. 

In general, we're builders, but there is one thing we destroy. 1 John 3 says, the reason the son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. Maybe we don't do that then. Jesus already did. Jesus destroyed the works of the devil. It's now our job to build. 

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***Kids Warning*** The news says that Perez Hilton had a "self-harm episode" or some euphemism like that. It was much worse than most could imagine. How did this happen? And were there demonic forces at work?

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There we go. Story of the day today. Perez Hilton. Kids warning for today's episode. My goodness. I saw this, his name trending on Twitter this morning. 

I didn't click it because whatever. when you find out what happened. His name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. He's now 48 years old. He's one of the first celebrity or online celebrity bloggers. And he himself has become a celebrity over these years. 

Gosh, I don't know what, like 30 years ago. I don't know when he first started his website Perez Hill, but it was the internet first started whenever like blogging first started, right? And again, since then, he's become a bit of a celebrity himself. He's done terrible, awful things in his career. Also very troubled personally. He's a homosexual. 

He has three children born via surrogacy. So three children who will never know their mother and who don't really have a father. He was hospitalized earlier in this year for 21 days, sepsis and some other stuff. And he said there he had a religious awakening. And he said he returned, he was refocusing on his Catholic upbringing. His parents are Cuban. 

And I've seen some videos of his where he talks about God. But these videos are troubling. He says he hears voices and he says this voice is the voice of God, like audibly hears God talk to him. We did a segment the other day on the radio, Breitbart News Daily, Sirius XM, Patriot 125, six to nine in the morning, Monday through Friday. We talk about sin and how people deal with sin differently. 

Sin can manifest itself in many different ways. And I like this framework that sin can manifest internally, verbally, and behaviorally. So it manifests internally as pride and bitterness and envy. It manifests verbally, lying, gossip, manipulation, blame shifting on. And then behaviorally with lust and greed and anger and neglect. And then those all combine and we see it with lots of different self -destructive, ungodly, damaging, actions so and and some make headlines and some don't right so like some will be a school shooter that will school murderer that will make headlines others like compulsive gambling or drinking drugs like that those don't make headlines but they're just as self -destructive and and horrible and life life altering and damaging and ending for many people prezes came out in this horrific self -harm so again kids warning if you missed the first one. 

He was doing this live stream with three other people on TikTok, or at least three of the people were on the screen, like hundreds were watching. And all the people who saw this happen, it speaks to the company he was keeping. because they're watching one of the most horrible things I've ever seen and responding not in kind. It's very weird. You may have read headlines about this, that he's had a mental health episode. That doesn't even begin. 

He takes a knife and he starts to cut all over his chest and his face. He slices all over himself, over and over. The words he says as he does this, he responds orgasmically. He responds as if this is giving him sexual pleasure. He says stuff like, it hurts, but it feels so good. This is what you all wanted. 

He says, I'm a, I'm a blanking parasite loser. And he cuts his whole body over and over, slices himself. And the people who are watching this, they're alarmed, but like, not that alarmed. Like one of the guys starts making jokes about, and I didn't even jokes. It's like, he's just so, this guy's so brain dead that he's with. He's like, hey man, the water is not good where you are. 

You got to stop drinking the water, man. You got to, you got to go, go back to, he just moved to Miami. You got to go back to Vegas and save for water. It's like, oh man, you're so disconnected. You have no idea. Like everyone here is in such a dark place. 

So that's what happened. I think John Nolte got it right. He says Perez Hilton is more proof that fame, plastic surgery, and factory built children can only keep the demons at bay so long. Eventually it's just you. A demon called narcissism that can no longer be satisfied and the inevitability of the abyss. The only answer is humility, surrender, and Christ. 

Without that, it all ends in madness and annihilation. Pray for Perez Hilton. Let's talk about what's broken. There's a lot of sins involved with everything going on. So let's just mention one that I don't think we've ever mentioned here, and it doesn't get a lot of publicity. That's worth talking about. 

It's the one that he was most profited from. That's gossip. Proverbs, it's in the Bible. I'm not making this up. Everything's in the Bible. That's the whole theme of this podcast. 

It's all in the Bible. Proverbs 16, 28, a dishonest man spreads strife. Now, we in our culture, we say, well, if a gay guy does it, then it's catty and fun. No, it's not. And we're also advised, not advised, we're told not to do it. Then we're advised to not hang out with people who do it. 

Proverbs 20, 19 says, whoever goes about slandering reveals secrets. Therefore do not associate with a simple babbler. So don't do it. Don't hang out with people who do it. And check out this one, Proverbs 18, 8. Gossip not only hurts other people, it's bad for you. 

So Proverbs 18, 8 says, the words of a whisperer gossiper, are like delicious morsels. They go down into the inner parts of the body. So hearing gossip, it feels good. It's like a delicious morsel of food, but it poisons your heart and your soul. Gossip is not harmless speech. It is sinful. 

And someone like Perez Hilton, he's not the only one, but people like him, they just live in that world. I mean, a lot of people do consuming it, but the people who make that stuff, man, they're living in a dark place. So let's go to the Bible. I don't know exactly what happened. with Perez, I'm not there, I don't know him, right? But it looks like something that could be demonic. 

Again, there's nothing new under the sun. The priests of Baal were worshiping Baal and cutting them off. with swords. The Bible says they were cutting themselves until their blood gushed all over them, as was their custom. So it wasn't just a one -time thing. We recorded an episode with Doug Wilson. 

We're going to release it this weekend. But before we went on to talk about what we were supposed to talk about, I asked him his thoughts on this. And he didn't really hear about it yet, so I just kind of described it to him quickly. And I just asked him, I was like, could this be demonic? I'm like, what's your instinct on this? You hear about something like this, like, what's your first thought? 

And he said, well, demons hate the people that they're tormenting. He was referring to like the cutting part, that demons hate the people they're tormenting, which I never thought of, but of course it's true. And also that's where you get, you know, when Perez said stuff like, I'm a parasite loser, stuff like that. I asked him about Perez saying he's, you know, returning to his Catholic roots or whatever. And Doug had a great line. He said, desperate people often flail. 

People who are spiritually desperate, they flail about and they can flail in any number of directions. And sometimes they may end up in the right place. Sometimes, but most of the time they end up in a very dark place. And that's clearly was where he was. But demons know the Bible. They know God's word. 

They know how to lie. Satan himself, of course, quoting scripture to Jesus. How about this verse right here? Let's focus on this one today. Let's land here. First Timothy 4 .1. 

Now the spirit expressly says that in later times, some will depart from the faith. by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teaching of demons. Through the incessarity of liars, whose consciences are seared. Deceiving spirits. These are demons who rebelled against God. 

And their goal is to keep men and women away from the truth, away from God's word. And one way to do it is to trick them into believing that the person, the patient, in C . S. Lewis' words, does know God and that they're hearing God's voice now even. And how do people do that? fall for this, how are they deceived by this? 

Because their consciences are seared. It's easy to talk about Perez and point fingers, but this is the point in the podcast where we usually move away from the initial topic that's in the news and we end up talking about you and me, each of us. I don't know if you noticed, but that's what we do. We start with a person where it's easy to be like, oh, look at that failed, broken thing. And that's the turn. So we tell the story and then we'd say, oh, this is what's broken. 

And that's where we turn into us because we gossip too. He may be the guy who starts the gossip or whatever, spreads the gossip. But so do we, when we listen to it and we hear it and we spread it, right? So we're engaged in it with all this brokenness too. He was not the only one who's deceived by demonic forces. So anyway, this is the point where we turned us on. 

I'm going to move away from Perez because it's not about him. We all are at risk. We all have consciences or parts of our conscience that are seared. We have deceiving spirits that tell us what we want to hear, but they lie. But when they tell us these lies, We have trouble hearing the truth because our consciences are seared. It's an amazing concept. 

We don't feel the convictions that we should. The Holy Spirit is telling us. because we're so far from the truth and so far from God's word. I pray that we can all have the sensitivity that we need to hear the truth. We need sensitivity in our consciousness, in our conscience. It's hard to say. 

We need sensitivity so that when we're told lies, we can tell their lies, and then we need to be in God's word so we can respond to the lies with the ultimate truth, which is God's word. This is how God speaks to us. God speaks to us in his word. Believing isn't enough to guard yourself from lies. James 2 .19 says even the demons believe and shudder. Our solution is to get in the word every single day. 

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