The scenes coming out of Spain looked like something out of the movie World War Z. But how quickly we've forgotten, it's not that different from what happened across our border under Biden for 4 years. What exactly happened in Spain, and what does the Bible say about betrayal from a nation's leaders?

Politics by Faith. It's 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, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun, so thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day today, a migrant invasion of Spain, and therefore, all of Europe. Before I share that though, let me share a smaller example, a story of an Algerian man in Spain, so we have an Algerian man in Spain who beat a Spanish man into a coma. This Algerian man has been arrested 18 times since 2020. Eight. 

I grew up thinking that if you get arrested, that's it. That's it for you. You're done. Your life is ruined. This Algerian guy has been arrested 18 times since 2020 and is fine. No problems at all. 

Back on the streets. Now, this latest attack is on video and he's just stomping this guy's head over and over on the sidewalk. Now, this is a story of one African man beating to near death a Spanish man. The story I want to talk about today is tens of thousands of Africans beating to death's door, all of Spain. I'm sure by now you've seen video of what's been happening in Morocco. It's a Morocco, Northern Africa, right? 

The Strait of Gibraltar is right there to get across to Spain. And I first saw these, these videos and I, I didn't, I thought these were Africans invading into Spain. As I said, that's a long boat ride. So the narrowest part of the straight is eight miles. And. I'm thinking like that's still like it's pretty busy waterway. 

I can't imagine getting on a dinghy and making the, but here's what really happened in Spain. There are now I know of two little sections of Morocco that are little slivers in Morocco on the edge of the Morocco and the Mediterranean. Sea that are controlled by Spain. So you have these little Spanish enclaves is the word I keep hearing here. There's little Spanish, little slivers that is technically Spanish territory in Morocco. And one of those cities, Ceuta, C -U -E -T -A, Ceuta, has these walls. 

And the Africans have, I'll tell you how in a second, gotten around the walls. and they know how to do it now. And last count, I heard 50 ,000 men did it. Now here's why. There's two reasons. First, there was a Supreme Court case in Spain that said the military, the police, they are allowed to stop an African coming across the border illegally. 

If they're coming through or over under the fence, then they can be repelled back. But if a migrant comes by sea, the Supreme Court said, you're not allowed to turn them around. So what do these Africans do? They swam around the wall. They, they hopped in the ocean, like walking on the sand, hopping the ocean in Morocco, swim a couple of yards out a couple of yards over. And then a couple of yards back in voila, we arrived by sea. 

Now we're in Spain. It's not unlike our border that we have with Mexico. When it goes to Tijuana, it gets to Tijuana and it just ends right in the water. And that's it. Now. Now, well, San Diego's got a couple problems. 

First, Tijuana, they dump their raw sewage right in the ocean there, so you really, really wouldn't want to swim in that water. You'll get sick, very sick. But you could just swim right across. Now, in America, we'll still send you back, at least now with this administration. But in Spain, they said, oh, nope, can't send them back if they do this. Isn't that amazing? 

So somehow, these migrants all found a ton of pool floaties. Some NGO or someone paid for all these pool floaties on Amazon. and a couple of these larger dinghies as well. And some people just swimming around the wall and then they land in Spain and now they're home free. They can take a ferry across to Spain proper. They can get on a flight. 

And then once they get to Spain, there's something called the Schengen zone or something like that, where it's this agreement with I think 29 European countries that you don't need a passport to go between countries. So once you get on Spain proper, you're whatever, you can go wherever you want. That's it. You're all over Europe. So that happened this weekend, or Friday. Then on top of the Supreme Court decision, you have amnesty. 

So Spain has a communist prime minister. He's from the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. We'll talk more about them in a minute. They're just like our DSA, right? They're just like Mamdani. This is a Reuters article from last month that says 600 ,000 of the 1 .2 million migrants in Spain who applied for legal status in its most recent amnesty drive have obtained temporary work permits. 

This is a one year renewable residence permit to undocumented migrants who have lived in Spain for at least five months and have no criminal record. Okay. So you have an amnesty drive and you got a Supreme court decision that says, if you come by sea, then you're good to go. That's all it takes. So I saw these videos. I don't know if you had the same reaction I did, but it looks, they didn't look AI. 

They looked fake. but not like, I don't say it really looked unreal. They didn't look fake. They didn't, they looked unreal. Is that, is that different? Uh, it almost looked like, like a movie. 

Like I've never seen the movie, but I've seen the trailer of world war Z. I just remember a scene in the trailer where hordes of people are trying to climb over a wall or something. And that's, and I got, there's 50 ,000 of these people as Africans in this small city and where they all go into the bathroom. For instance, there's hordes of people. And my other thought was that this looks worse than it was during the Biden years, but it's not worse. It's just more concentrated. It's more concentrated and more foreign looking, just the terrain and everything looks more foreign. 

But there's similar images of this all across America when Biden was president. And then you still see pictures, or maybe not anymore, but there were videos in Southern California where 20 illegals would be on a boat. and the boat would just zoom right into the beach, right onto the sand. There's families and sunbathers on the beach and all these illegals would hop out and run on the beach and just run into the town, just run into La Jolla. They're gone. Amazing. 

So we've seen the same thing happen in America under the last four years of Biden. And now in Spain, they're seeing the same thing. All men, all 18 to 30 years old, not a woman or child in sight. Total betrayal of their people. Actually, we'll get to that in just a minute. So Spain is 50 million people. 

In 1960, there were 210 ,000 immigrants. Fine. In 1995, there were a million. In 2010, there were 6 million. Today, they're approaching 10 million. So pretty soon, foreigners, mostly Africans, people from the Middle East, Muslims, are going to be in the majority, or at least plurality. 

And when you get the plurality of foreigners, along with useful idiots, that's it. It's over. The country's over. This is, if I may, I wish it never happened for the sake of Spain and Europe and just decency. But the silver lining is that Trump is going to use this in the midterm conventions to highlight what was happening in America under Biden. Let's remind everybody what was happening, what the president saved us from by shutting down the border, and what will happen the second the 

these DSA Democrats take power again. Stephen Miller said on Twitter, the Democrats did this to America every single day for four years under Biden and will do it again instantaneously, but orders of magnitude greater if they're given any form of national power. Democrats, this is Stephen Miller, Democrats will see your home trampled and stolen by invaders and they will rejoice. So this is terrible for Spain and Europe, but they may be a lost cause at this point. I don't know if this point hits with you like it does for me, but think about Middle East, a country in the Middle East. Name any country in the Middle East, first one that comes to mind. 

That country you thought of probably used to be a Christian country. Name a Middle Eastern country, it used to be a Christian country. One day, now if you talk to somebody today and you're like, oh, what religion is Egypt? They'll say, oh, Muslim. Well, it didn't used to be. One day, like a generation or so, it'll be the same conversation with England. 

you talk to a younger person in, in let's say 20 years and you say, Oh, name a name, a Middle Eastern country. They're like, Oh, England. Like, Whoa, Whoa, Whoa. That didn't used to be. Didn't used to be a middle. It didn't used to be a Muslim country. 

It used to be a Christian one, but that's the direction that they're heading in. And the DSA candidates here in America would, I mean, they actively talk about how they don't want any borders. So they certainly would bring it. here, and they would do it with glee. All right, so what's broken in this story? Every time there's a story like this, I'm not going to do Romans 13, where the Bible says of our government, rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. 

Would you have no fear of the one who's in authority? Then do what is good and you will receive his approval. For he, the government, is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not bear the sword in vain. For he is the servant of God and avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. The sword is the state's power to enforce the law. 

And of course the law should be in line with God's will and based on the best ordering of a society. God is a God of order, not a God of chaos. And our communities and our country should reflect God's order. But I want to talk about legal authority in this podcast today. I want to focus on a word I said a moment ago. betrayal. 

What happens when a government betrays its people? That was a feeling I got when I was watching these videos. I was like, oh, what an utter betrayal. Now, I don't know if that's true because I don't know Spain. So that's a question. Is the government of Spain betraying the people of Spain? 

Now, one thing to know about Spain is the prime minister, again, from the Spanish Socialist Workers Party. So it's easy to say, oh, well, the majority of people, they voted for that guy. They voted for that prime minister. So the Spanish people want open borders and they got what they voted for good and hard. But the truth is Spain is a parliamentary system. So in their lower house, um, so you vote for like their lower house, whatever. 

And then those people vote for the prime minister. But what happens in these parliamentary systems with tons of different parties is you vote for who you like, who's in a different party. And then the parties joined together to form like these mega parties or whatever. So the biggest political party, This party that has the most seats in the lower house in Spain, it's called the PP party, the People's Party, which is the closest to the Republican Party in America. It's hard to compare parties in Europe with America, but the PP in Spain is a right of center party. Again, that's all relative too, but they have 137 seats in their lower house. 

The Socialist Party, which this prime minister is a member of, only has 121 seats. so fewer. But they joined forces with this thing called the Sumar Party, which is like the green environmentalist feminist people, and there's 31 of them. So they joined together. They therefore have a majority. They're the ones who picked this prime minister. 

So the Plurality Party is a conservative party that doesn't like what's happening. So did this prime minister betray the people? Maybe. It's hard to say in a parliamentary system like that. I remember hearing my whole life that people are like, Oh, I'm against the two party system. It's way better than the parliamentary system. 

So it's hard to say again, if this is a betrayal of the Spanish people, but for sure, it's a betrayal of the nation of Spain. The people of Spain may want it. I don't know. Sort of like the people of New York city voted for Mondani, right? But who are these people? All right. 

It's really just the foreigners who voted for Mondani. The New Yorkers voted for Cuomo. The foreigners voted for Mondani. So is it something that Mondani does a betrayal of the people? I don't even know what the people are at this point, right? But Mondani could do something that's a betrayal of New York city and a betrayal of American values and same thing with Spain. 

So what happens when a government betrays the nation? I think the Bible speaks to this. Two points. First, the idea of nations. Paul's in Athens, so this is where he's talking to the people of Athens about their temple to the unknown God. So the Greeks, they're thinking that if we forgot about a particular God, we have all these gods, but if we forgot one, then we have this tomb to this catch -all, it's a catch -all tomb or a catch -all temple. 

to make sure if we've missed one, we know that we still got him covered and we're still worshiping to him too. And Paul saw this and he said in Acts 17, 23, he said, this, I proclaim to you, the God who made the world and everything in it. being Lord of heaven and earth does not live in temples made by man, nor is he served by human hands as though he needed anything to see himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything. And he made from one man, every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place that they should seek God and perhaps feel their way towards him and find him. So Paul saying, God made all of us. He made all the nations. 

He made all their boundaries. He made all their dwelling places. He made all their times. The word nations, the Greek word ethnos, ethnos, right? So it's where we get like ethnicity. That's all right. 

So the idea, the original idea is just a word for a multitude of people living together. So it could mean a tribe, a nation, a people group, whatever. It's the same word in Greek in Matthew 28, 19, therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. So it may not be the modern nation state that we have today, but it's still the idea of peoples with boundaries. That's all throughout the Bible. So nations are a biblical concept. 

We don't need to get rid of nation states, but can the leaders of a nation betray the nation? That's the main topic I want to discuss. I think Isaiah one speaks to this. So Isaiah is speaking on God's behalf to the leaders of Jerusalem and Judah. And it's not a good, well, it's a good message. It's not good news for them. 

Well, it's good news, I guess, if they listen. It's not a heartening message at first. That's a fair way. So these people are the rebelling against God and God's judgment is going to come on them in the form of foreign invasion, foreign invasion from Assyria and Babylon. The idea is that God can bring judgment on a nation by using foreign nations. God can use foreign nations to inflict his judgment on Israel. 

Do I need to say it a different way? We get it, right? Do you get it? And George Washington, he wrote about this. All of our founding fathers did. They wrote about, our blessings from America are here because we're a virtuous people and we need to keep being virtuous if we want to continue to see God's blessings. 

His 1789 Thanksgiving address, George Washington said, whereas it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits and to humbly implore his protection and favor. " And then later he says, "...that we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks for his kind care and protection to the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation. " The acknowledgement here is that God is involved in the affairs of people and nations. So the idea of nations are in the Bible, the idea of peoples and nations, the idea that God is involved in the affairs of people and nations. internally and then by also extension externally, even in the form of judgment against a people by using external nations to attack them. And Isaiah 1 right out of the gate, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly. 

They have forsaken the Lord. But I guess it's like the extremist take today that Maybe not extremists, it's like the weirdo take or something, like the radical. That's not really radical to go. It's a radical take with that when bad things happen to our country. First of all, it's the result of sin, like for sure, but also maybe God's judgment. Isaiah 1 -7 says, your country lies desolate. 

Your cities are burned with fire. In your very presence, foreigners devour your land. It is desolate, as overthrown by foreigners. That's what it says. Now check out this one, verse 27. Good news for some. 

Zion shall be redeemed by justice and those in her who repent, who repent by righteousness, but rebels and sinners shall be broken together and those who forsake the Lord shall be consumed. Proverbs 29 .4 says, by justice, a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down. When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan. When the wicked rule. I hope leaders around the world hear the people groaning. And I pray we, and then repent. 

And I pray we never forget the betrayal that we experienced from our leaders not too long ago. There are still choices to be made coming up here soon. And we and our leaders should listen to God's law and know that God is a God of order, not of chaos. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith. We're almost at 10 ,000 followers. 

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A 16-year-old lifeguard saved the life of a 10-year-old boy in California. It's a beautiful sight. We should honor the lifeguard's bravery and skill. We should also be in awe at the power of God's creation. The bible speaks a lot about the ocean and waves. Why does God use this metaphor?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day, then we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day. Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day. Can we just do a nice one for once, please? 

Do we always have to take a terrible story and then work to make it hopeful? Can we just start with a nice one for once? Sorry, I just prepped like two hours. We just did a whole show on COVID and that got me ticked off. And then we did, uh, I just prepped for tomorrow's show on radio about this straight up crazy invasion of tens of thousands of Africans into Spain. Like what the heck? 

Uh, and it's the end of the week. And I just kind of feel like doing a hopeful one. Is that cool? A 16 year old in Santa Cruz, California, Northern California, South of San Francisco, a lifeguard, 16 year old lifeguard saw a 10 year old boy swept out by the waves. 16 years old. I was a lifeguard. 

Let me say it like this. I was a lifeguard when I was 16. A lot like this young man, except I did it at a pool. I was at a pool. I can't even believe we let 16 year olds be lifeguards at a beach, at a serious beach, like Northern California. That is tough work. 

That is man work. You got to be strong. I swam in college. And when I moved to San Diego, people asked me to go surfing. I was like, no problem. Surfing? 

I could definitely surf. I've never surfed in my life. Like, oh, it's so hard about that. Piece of cake. Getting out there? No problem. 

I'm an amazing swimmer. I will never forget it. I got smashed nonstop. Couldn't do anything. Couldn't, I couldn't get out there. I'm not even talking about like, Oh, I had trouble getting up. 

I couldn't get to where you were. You're supposed to go to sit on the board to wait for the wave to come. I couldn't even, it was awful. It was so incredibly humbling. I was just wrecked. could not get past the waves. 

How is this possible? And eventually you figure out, but you figure it out, but you don't get there by fighting it. You can't fight against the waves. You can't, you can't do as possible. You'll never win. You'll never win. 

The ocean is so powerful when you're 10. I'm guessing this boy wasn't swimming in the ocean. I'm guessing he was just like playing in the water, like up to his ankles or something. And then a wave comes in and sweeps him out. I'm guessing that's what happened. Cause the ocean is ferocious, but this lifeguard saw it and he ran out to get him two kids, two kids. 

10 year old boy and a 16 year old boy. Gosh, my oldest is nine. I think we could be strong enough to be a lifeguard like this one day. My goodness. And there's video of it. Someone took a video of it and the waves, they kept coming from, it seems like every direction. 

There's a couple of things that stand out from the video. First, they keep coming. You can't tell us from the video, but it's 58 degrees. Water's 58 degrees out there. So it's cold enough. It's gonna take your breath. 

That's hard enough. And then it just smashing you nonstop. But here's what I love about this lifeguard. One wave in particular was coming to get him. He grabs the boy and he leans into the wave. That's a move from someone who knows what he's doing. 

That's skill. That's excellent. I love it. seeing people who know what they're doing, who are excellent at what they're doing, who are skilled. I love seeing people who are skilled in their craft. Excellence is a virtue that we need more of. 

And the only way to get more of it is to admire it and celebrate it when we see it. It needs to be praised. And people need to have this extra desire. The praise we give on excellence is fuel for everyone to try to be more excellent. So when you see excellence like this and you're like, Oh wow, look what he did there. He, he grabbed the boy and lean into the wave so that he could pop up instead of just getting smashed by it. 

It's awesome. Another thing that stands out is at one point in the rescue, um, some guys who were on the beach try to come out and help the lifeguard. They can't swim that well. It looks, they can't beat the waves. They don't know what they're doing. Like the lifeguard does. 

So the waves start kind of hitting them about and the lifeguard, I think, I think this is what I'm seeing. The lifeguard sees that these guys could drown him. And it looks like the lifeguard, he like does something like this and it looks like he's calling them off. It looks like he's telling them to back off. You gotta be very careful when you're a lifeguard. That's why they have that buoy. 

That's why they have the red flotation buoy thing. When you go out to rescue someone and they're thrashing about, you can't just go grab them because if they're thrashing, they'll drown you. So you keep your distance and you push your buoy to them so they can grab the buoy and then you can pull them in. If I remember my lifeguarding training from 30 years ago. But again, that speaks to the excellence and well -trained skill. Sorry, the story just popped in my head. 

This one's sad. I'm supposed to be happy. I forget where this was. I want to say Texas, but that may not be right. A whole family of people drowned. I don't exactly know who the family members was, but it was like a boy and then four adults. 

And they drowned trying to rescue the boy. They were all fishing in the river. The river took the boy away. They all tried to rescue the boy. And I think the police knew the situation because there was maybe a little boy who went up to the street. I can't even finish the story. 

to see this 16 -year -old risk his life to save this other boy. Spectacular. Pulls the boy ashore with the sounds of terrified and sobbing women on the beach. The guy who recorded the video said, I've never seen a rescue this intense before. So when I saw it unfolding, I just didn't know how it was going to turn out. I mean, people watching, everyone thought the boy was going to drown and maybe even the lifeguard was going to drown. 

The lifeguard's mom told the media, I'm blown away by the love kindness, gratitude, and respect you're sending his way. A few people have asked about a GoFundMe, but honestly, he was just doing the job. He was just doing the job that he absolutely loves. He could start a GoFundMe and probably make 50K, maybe more. But the parents are like, nope, doing his job, doing what he loves. This is the point of the podcast when we usually talk about something that's broken or like what the broken aspect of the story is, what the sin is in the story. 

It's called the fallen conditioned focus. Like what's the broken here? Broken part? Nothing. There's nothing broken about the story. It's wonderful all around. 

Maybe we'll find out his family are Christians or Trump supporters and the media will destroy them. I hope not. But I will say he was invited to the White House for a proper honoring. I look forward to that. They also talked about maybe the boy coming along as well. That would be a really nice thing. 

And I'm very much in favor of heroes being honored. I think it should be a regular occurrence and the White House should lead the way. It should almost be like a TV show. It should be like an expected TV show, like this month's heroes or this week's heroes. Just show Americans doing great things. That's how important it is that we lift up these virtues and that we can be reminded of who we are, and we lift these people up. 

This is who we aspire to be, all of us, each in our own way. Let's go to the Bible. First point of the Bible, the power of God, and we see it through nature. God, the creator of the universe, the precision of nature from the tiniest nanoparticles to the massive scope of the universe, all of it speaks to God's power. Last week in church, in the class before church, the preacher asked for adjectives to describe God. And everyone shouted out really wonderful adjectives. 

How would you do it? How would you, what word would you use to describe God? I was thinking, and the one that stood out to me was powerful. I think of God as powerful. We don't enough. I don't know. 

Do you think of God as powerful? We don't, we don't think about that enough on a regular basis. Heavens declare the glory of God and the sky above proclaims his glory. Psalm 19 .1. And it's also looking forward to Jesus. Hebrews 1 .3 says he is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature. 

And he upholds the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the majesty on high, having become as much superior to angels as the name he has inherited is more excellent than theirs. As amazing as God's creation is, God is more amazing. He obviously created. Jesus is more amazing. And there's so much in the Psalms about nature. 

The heavens declare the glory of God. Active, tense. These heavens, they continue to proclaim every day how incredible God is. We should be in awe constantly of the stars, the sun, clouds, moon. We should be all of creation every day, constantly in awe. It's a great thing to do with your kids is to teach them to be in awe. 

And the way to teach them to be in awe is to be in awe. And not just have a nice sunset, although it's a great thing, but everything, flower, look at that cloud, wow, thunderstorms, whatever, any nature thing you're a part of, speak to the aweness of it. Like, whoa, this is huge, this is amazing, this is powerful, God is powerful. Someone gave me that advice when Jack was born. So I wanna pass it on to you. your kids or your grandkids. 

Psalm 104 31. May the glory of the Lord endure forever. May the Lord rejoice in his works. Who looks on the earth and it trembles. Who touches the mountains and they smoke. Earthquakes and volcanoes. 

I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. Isn't that great? But God's more powerful. He just has to look or touch. That's That's it. 

Boom. Check out this conclusion from David, Psalm 83. When I consider your heaven, heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is mankind? That you are mindful of them, human beings that you care for them. Oh my gosh, this powerful, all powerful creator. And he cares about us? 

You have made them man a little lower than the angels and crown them with glory and honor. God is powerful and he loves us. A lot of these verses I just shared have to do with like the cosmos and that's great too, but the oceans, he talks about the oceans. Psalm 89 .9, you rule the raging sea. When its waves rise, you still them. God's in charge of all of it. 

Job 38 .8, oh my goodness, all the Job quotes about creation. God sets boundaries for the sea and says, When the waves must start and stop, he's in control of all of it. Psalm 146 .6, God is the maker of heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them. Amos 9 .6, the Lord summons the waters of the sea and pours them out on the earth. God is in control of all of it. So when we see the ocean, we hear the ocean, we feel it. 

We should be in awe at the power of God. I was humbled. Sorry, just even just saying the word feel the ocean. I can't remember my first surfing expedition. And I guess, boy, was I humbled. I didn't know at the time to think, man, God is great. 

I should have. This is the God that we love and that we serve. I prefer to be on his team. But I also want to comment the final point here on the metaphor. of a common Christian metaphor of when we're in trouble. Well, there's two, actually. 

There's difficult and deceit. Let's do the deceit. We don't want to be deceived, right? And the Bible says we don't want to be deceived. We can no longer be children tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness and deceitful scheming. Rather, speak in the truth in love. 

We are to grow up in every way into Him who is the head into Christ. I can't be deceived, tossed to and fro. I don't even know what I think, what's going on, where am I? Let's read the Bible. That's your rock. How many people in life feel like that? 

Every day they live like that, just tossed around by deceit and the devil schemes. We are, I don't want to say we're a lifeguard. Jesus is the ultimate lifeguard, if you will, but you know what I mean, right? We can help rescue people from the chaos, just like that lifeguard in California. And the ocean metaphor that's often made too is when life is difficult, right? Psalm 46 one says, God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. 

Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Jesus calmed the storm. Of course, the sea became still. Peter sank in the waves, but Jesus reached out and saved him. Psalm 93 ,4, mightier than the thunders of many waters, mightier than the waves of the sea, the Lord on high is mighty. Isn't it incredible how much, how much is in the Bible about waves and water? 

This isn't everything, of course, just shared a couple here. And of course I'll end here. We are called to build our house on the rock. Matthew 7, 24, Jesus says, everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them, or if I may add, hears these scriptures The psalm about God and the ocean and his power and doesn't care or isn't in awe. 

Foolish man who builds his house, who builds his life on the sand. And the rain fell and the floods came and the winds blew and beat against that house and it fell and great was the fall of it. So three points on today's episode. First, let's celebrate heroism and virtue and excellence. Let's be in awe of the waves and let's build our house on the rock. youtube . 

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I can't believe Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch could be so ignorant about our founding. I can only assume he's "just" a coward. I'm always happy to defend the Christian roots of our country.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible, so we can walk away with peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day -to -day Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch denies our founding. Here's what happened. Conservative Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch was on PBS. 

This clip is just totally ignorant about our nation's founding. This is very sad. It's very disturbing that someone could become a conservative Supreme Court justice and get this so wrong. It's bad enough that like a Sotomayor or a Justice Jackson gets it wrong. You expect that out of them. You would think at least we can rely on a conservative justice to get this right. 

And he's not even close. And he's oddly giddy and confident about it. If you can see this clip we're going to play here, if you're watching on our YouTube page, which by the way, youtube . com slash apolitics by faith, you can see not only him, but pay attention to the person interviewing him, Margaret Hoover. If you see the clip, she's like, oddly aroused by this. It's weird. 

She loves what Gorsuch is saying. She loves it. She loves when he says that we are not founded as a Christian nation. It's very, very weird. So here's Neil Gorsuch, conservative Supreme Court justice. You make the point also that there is no common religion or cultural heritage of Americans. 

Yes. We are a creedal nation. Creedal because we believe in the creed, we believe in those three founding ideals which you mentioned previously. That sentiment, particularly as expressed by you, has received some criticism from conservative circles and drawn backlash, where people have said how wrong you could be about this. But how would you respond to those who say, we absolutely had a common cultural heritage and religion? 

Well, first of all, did you know that there is a Catholic signer on the Declaration of Independence? Charles Carroll. Right? And we were founded in a lot of our colonies for religious pluralism, right? And the opportunity to practice your own faith in your own way. And we were never supposed to be a nation that was about one race or one religion. 

It was about those ideas. Those things are perfect ideas that speak to every human heart and that unite us all. Is there a revisionism in, as we tell our story now? We're not just a creedal nation. We have a creed, sure, but we are a real actual place made up of particular people who came from a particular place, who created a nation based on particular values, based on a particular culture that they came from. We are seeing now more than ever, that there are other peoples from other places with different values based off of different cultures from different places. 

And they're not the same. And you can't snap your finger and become an American just like that. All of our founders, all of them, rejected this idea that you could just magically become an American all of a sudden. All of them rejected it. But now Neil Gorsuch knows better. And his proof of religious pluralism, the problem with that is it opens up the door for Muslims. 

which are totally foreign to our founding fathers and still to our country today should be. And he's opening up the door to this religious pluralism talk because of Charles Carroll, because he was Catholic. Come on, Neil. I don't want to stop it again. Let me just finish the end. We've always been a white Christian nation. 

I just don't see it that way. I mean, Charles Carroll, right. From Maryland. Catholic. Right. When he went to sign his name, they kind of poke fun of him when he went to sign his name on August 2nd. 

and said, Charles Carroll, that's like John Smith. The British will never figure out who you are. So he added of Carrollton, his hometown, so that everyone would know exactly who it was. And America is supposed to be about those ideas. And America is available to each and every one of us. And it's up to each and every one of us to see that those ideas continue to flourish. 

But you refute the idea that we came from the same heritage and the same religion. Well, I mean, it's demonstrably not true that we came from the same religion. I mean, think about the Amish who came here in the 1600s on a handful of rickety boats, a third of them dying along the way for their freedom and populating much into Pennsylvania and down into the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and now throughout the rest of the country. What, they weren't part of the American experiment? Of course they were. The Quakers, same story? 

Of course they were. And so America was not found, I mean, we have a First Amendment for crying out loud. No established religion. Everybody has the freedom of religion. Everybody has the freedom of speech. We are all equal under law, okay? 

Now, you cannot believe in those ideas. Fair enough. Then we have a problem. But those three ideas are something all of us can unite behind. Yeah, we got a problem all right, Neil. His point of bringing up Charles Carroll is so ridiculous. 

Charles Carroll was from Annapolis, Maryland. Back then it was pronounced Maryland because it was a colony that was originally founded as a safe haven for persecuted Roman Catholics. Now, Puritans then took over the government and it became less of a particularly Catholic colony. Of course, its influence was still there. And also they, of course, still allowed Catholics to positions of prominence. But to take that religious freedom, and then extrapolate that to Muslims and Buddhists and Hindus and pagans and Wiccans. 

That is suicidal, Neil. Absolutely suicidal. You think you're a good person. You think you're so pluralist and open and blah, blah, blah. That is suicidal to our nation. Our religion in this country is Christian. 

That is how we were founded. And then as other evidence are the Quakers and the Amish. Our religion is Christian. I'm more than happy to go over the religious tests of every colony and then state. that they had to run for office, a religious test, a religious test that was so fundamentalist that most Christian churches in America aren't as stringent as like the state of Delaware. Like to join a church today, you barely have to proclaim these truths. 

Like you used to have to run to be the dog catcher. The, uh, we'll go Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, 1776. I do believe in one God, the creator and governor of the universe, the rewarder of good and the punisher of the wicked. And I do acknowledge the scriptures of the Old and New Testaments to be given by divine inspiration. That's your oath of office in Pennsylvania. Delaware said, I do profess faith in God, the Father, and in Jesus Christ, his only son, and in the Holy Ghost. 

By the way, if you're a Muslim, you couldn't do that. You couldn't say that because you don't believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God. And in the Holy Ghost, one God, blessed forevermore. And I do acknowledge the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament are given by divine inspiration. That's Delaware. Maryland? 

The law says that as it is the duty of every man to worship God in such manner as he thinks most acceptable to him. Ooh, does that mean Muslims? Here's the rest of it. All persons professing the Christian religion are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty. Christian religion, Neil! That's our founding. 

New Jersey said, there shall be no establishment of any one religious sect in this Providence. No, see, that allows Muslims too. And it goes on, and that no Protestant inhabitant of this colony shall be denied the enjoyment of any civil right on account of his religious principles, but that all persons professing a belief in the faith of any Protestant sect shall be capable of being elected to any office of prophet or trust. " This was never about protecting Muslims and their right to hold office. My goodness, Neil. Does he not understand that the First Amendment is not about, it's about create, it's about not creating a national religion. 

But the reason why our founders didn't want to create a national religion and didn't want to give the federal government the power to do that is because every state already had their own religion. It wasn't because they hated religion. It's because they loved theirs so much of their own state. They didn't want a federal government mandating it for theirs. How can Neil Gorsuch be so ignorant about that? That is so sad. 

Our special this weekend, give you a little sneak peek. is about the consequences of sin. And one scripture I want to go over is Proverbs 14, 34, which says, righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people. And this fact is true for people, it's true for individuals, for families, for towns, for countries. And I love this analysis from Charles Bridges, early 1800s. He said, no nation is so low as not to sink even lower under sin. 

The strongest nations are given an indelible blot if they're overcome by sin. Check out this line. What an enemy. an ungodly man is to his country. He may talk eloquently about his patriotism, but even if God should elevate him in his work, he will only bring disgrace on his people. " Wow. 

That's amazing. All right. So what's broken in this story, what Neil Gorsuch did right there, my producer gave a kind assessment of Gorsuch, more kind than I wanted to give initially. We'll go, we'll call it a charitable take that Neil Gorsuch, he's less of a fool, more of a coward. Maybe that's more charitable. Maybe he's not. 

He's a coward. Let me show you this quote from William Bradford. He was the governor of the Plymouth colony. He came over to Mayflower. He's talking about the courage that it took to come over to America. And he said, and surely it could not be thought, but the very hearing of these things could not but move the very bowels of men to grate within them and make the weak quake and tremble. 

He says even hearing about how difficult this journey was going to be made people afraid. And then he went over all the excuses that people made not to come to America, that it was too expensive. It was going to cost too much once we got here. So many people failed before us. Other colonies didn't make it. He said when the Pilgrims went to Holland, that was hard. 

And that wasn't that far away. Imagine how hard it's going to be. to the new world. So what did we do? He said, it was answered that all great and honorable actions are accompanied with great difficulties and must be both enterprised and overcome with answerable courage. It was granted the dangers were great, but not desperate. 

The difficulties were many, but not invincible for though there are many of them likely yet they were not certain. Amazing. He said, yeah, it's going to be hard, but we're going to be courageous. He went on to say, we're going to plan the best we can, but why are we going to survive? We're going to survive because it's what he said. Their condition was not ordinary. 

Their ends were good and honorable. They're calling lawful and urgent. And therefore they might expect the blessing of God in their proceeding. Yay. Though they should lose their lives in this action, yet might they have comfort in the same and their endeavors be would be honorable. So it's sort of like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, their real names, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. 

As they said, even if we die. We still love God. And that's what the pilgrims are saying. Even if we die, it doesn't matter. Our effort is noble and worthwhile and honorable and righteous. Our cause is righteous. 

What cause? What cause, Neil? The cause to preserve a pure church and live faithfully under Christ. The reason for crossing the ocean and starting a colony, which eventually became the United States, was for the glory of God. To worship God according to the Bible. You know, most of the men who are on the Mayflower, weren't pilgrims, they were sailors that were here to help us get us over here. 

And when we got here, there was some animosity, the whole journey, but there was animosity between the pilgrims and the sailors. The sailors were ready to take over, maybe even kill the pilgrims. So William Bradford was able to come up with what today we know as the Mayflower Compact. It starts off with, in the name of God, amen, is the opening line. But then it says, we, whose names are underwritten, having undertaken for the glory of God an advancement of the Christian faith, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one another covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic for our better ordering and preservation. It's right there, Neil. 

It's right there. The pilgrims having undertaken this mission for the glory of God, not Allah, not Buddha, not for the glory of money, but for the glory of God. I will always defend our Christian founding from the pagans and from the useful idiots and the cowards. Let's end here and tell the story of the faithless spies. Moses sent spies to scout Canaan. This is in Numbers 13. 

And the spies came back to Moses and Aaron and told them everything. Numbers 13, 27, we came to the land to which you sent us. It flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. However, the people who dwell in the land are strong and the cities are fortified and very large. And besides, we saw the descendants of Anak there. These are giants. 

They went on to say that we're like grasshoppers compared to these people. And the people who heard this, the Israelites, they wept. They wept. And then everyone complained and grumbled against Moses. This is when they said, Oh, if only we just stayed and died in Egypt. You know what Moses said? 

Moses said, if the Lord delights in us, he will bring us into this land and give it to us. A land that flows with milk and honey. Only do not rebel against the Lord and do not fear the people of the Lord. for they are bred to us, bred for us. Their protection is removed from them and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them. 

God can do anything. Why are so many elites? Why are so many intellectuals? Why are they afraid of our founding? Why are they ashamed of him? We are not. 

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