These two women were offered $26 million for their farm. They told the data center people, "No". Why? How could you say no to that much money? I believe these two ladies have a deep connection with a patriot of this country who gave an important speech 251 years ago this week. 

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective. There's new headlines every single 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. There's a family in Kentucky that refuses to sell their farm for a data center. 

Sell their farm. And you're thinking, I wouldn't sell either. Stand up to the you know what's $26 million. Oh, well, I mean, for for $26 million. I think that's, I would probably sell. I want to tie that story into a speech that was given this week, specifically March 23rd, 251 years ago. 

First, here's what happened with this family, according to the local Kentucky news. 

If it's my way, I'll stay and hold and feed an Asian. 26 million doesn't mean anything. 

Some people might find it hard to understand how Delcia Bear can turn away a $26 million offer to buy some of her land until you spend a little time with her walking the dirt road she grew up on and in the house her daddy built. 

My grandfather and great -grandfather and a whole bunch of family has all lived here for years, paid taxes on it, fed a nation off of it. He even raised wheat through the depression and kept the bread lines up in the United States of America when people didn't have anything else. 

Delcia is one of dozens of landowners approached by an anonymous buyer, one of the major players in artificial intelligence, likely Google or Meta or Amazon, to purchase their land. The market value for land in Mason County is about $6 ,000 an acre. The realtor that came to her door last April offered her and her mother about 10 times that. 

They call us old stupid farmers, you know, but we're not. We know whenever our food is disappearing, our lands are disappearing, and we don't have any water and poison, we know we've had it. 

Delcia's mom, Ida Huddleston, is now 82 years old. She says she does not need the money or the hassle. She was born on this land, and she plans to die here. And she certainly does not trust the promises made by the AI companies or the people who want them to build here. So what do you say to the people who are in town that say, hey, this is going to bring jobs, this is going to bring economic prosperity? 

I say they're a liar and the truth ain't in them, is what I say. 

It's a scam. 

For Delcia, scam or not, she says she's connected to her home like Scarlett O 'Hara was in Gone with the Wind. 

As long as she was attached to that land, her spirit never would die. And that's the exact same thing for me right here. As long as I'm on this land, as long as it's feeding me, as long as it's taking care of me, there's nothing that can destroy me if I've got this land. 

I met that realtor who came to their door. thought they were going to make these people's day. Oh, I'm going to give them 26 million. They're going to be so happy. They're going to give me a big hug. But they said, get off my property right now and don't ever come back. 

That line from grandma, she said, the truth is not in him. That's 1 John 2, 3. Now by this, we know that we know him if we keep his commandments. He who says, I know him and does not keep his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps his word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this, we know that we are in him again. 

1 John 2, 3. I love these two women. What good is 26 million? to people who don't care about money? What good is $26 million to people who understand that there are things more important in life than money? I saw a cartoon. 

There's a couple of people starving around a fire. And then the caption said, sure, the planet got destroyed, but for a beautiful moment in time, we created a lot of value for shareholders. You wouldn't, you wouldn't, but the shareholder value was through the roof. but at what cost. I want to bring it to the Bible here. Here's what I want to do a little bit different than maybe we normally do. 

Those great patriots, those women in Kentucky, they come from the same line of great Americans as our founding fathers and founding grandfathers, because they're people who understand that there's something more important than money. They're people who believe in the first of all, but they understand that there's something more important than money. They're grounded in the land and grounded in what's right above all else. This week, it was March 23rd, 1775. Patrick Henry gave his famous, give me liberty or give me death speech 251 years ago this week. And I want to read it. 

I want to read the whole speech, but I'm going to pause and give the biblical references throughout it. These Patriots, 181 of them, I believe met in Richmond instead of Williamsburg because they wanted to avoid the royal governor Lord Dunmore. So they went to Richmond and they met in the largest building in town, St. John's church. And the question was, should we go to war with the strongest military in the world? Oh, and if we lose, we die. 

Patrick Henry got up to speech. It was not a foregone conclusion that we would win, of course, that we would even fight. Patrick Henry gets up. He says, Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes. It's Proverbs 1630, Isaiah 44, 18 says, they know not, nor do they discern for he has shut their eyes so that they cannot see and their hearts so that they cannot understand. 

He said, We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren until she transforms us into beasts. That's a reference to the Odyssey. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who having eyes see not and having ears hear not? Jeremiah 521. Hear this, O foolish and senseless people who have eyes, but see not, who have ears, but hear not. 

And also Ezekiel 12 .2, which says, Son of man, you dwell in the midst of a rebellious house who have eyes to see, but see not. who have ears to hear, but hear not, for they are a rebellious house. So Patrick Henry says, Are we are we going to be those people who have ears and eyes, but we don't use them? The things which so clearly concern our temporal salvation. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost. That's Job 711. 

Therefore, I will not restrain my mouth. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul. Henry said, I'm willing to know the whole truth. John 8 32. And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. 

I'm willing to know the whole truth to know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided. That's Psalm 119, 105. Our word is a lamp to my feet. Your word is a lamp to my feet. and a light to my path. 

He says, and this is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging in the future, but by the past. And judging by the past, I know, I wish to know what there has been in the conduct of the British ministry for the past 10 years to justify those hopes with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves in the house. Is it that insidious smile with which our petition has been lately received? Trust it not, sir. It will prove a snare to your feet. 

Jeremiah 18 .22, a cry. Let be heard from their houses when you bring the troops suddenly upon them, for they have dug a pit to take me and laid snares for my feet. Are you with me on how Patrick Henry was able to just pull all of this, all these biblical allusions in his speech, and that all the people there knew exactly what he was talking about? Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. It's all throughout the Gospels, of course. Judas. 

Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comforts those or excuse me, comports with those war -like preparations which are made within our borders. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir. These are the implements of war and subjugation, the last arguments to which kings resort. I ask, gentlemen, sir, what means this martial array if it purpose be not to force us to submission? 

Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain, any enemy in this quarter of the world, to call for this accumulation of navies and armies? No, sir. He is not. Like, what else are they doing here? They're meant for us. 

They can be meant for no other. They're sent over to bomb us. rivet upon us those chains which the British ministry have been so long forging. And what have we to oppose them? Shall we try argument? Sir, we've been trying that for the last 10 years. 

Has it been any avail? What terms shall we find which have not been already exhausted? Let us not, I beseech you, sir, deceive ourselves. Sir, we have done everything that we could be done to avert the storm which is now coming on us. We have petitioned. We have supplicated. 

We have prostrated ourselves before the throne. and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted, our remonstrances have been produced, additional violence, insult and insult, our supplications have been disregarded, and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne. In vain, after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve and violate those inestimable privileges of for which we have been so long contending. 

If we mean not basically to abandon the noble struggle in which we've been so long engaged, in which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fight. I repeat it, sir, we must fight. An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that has left us. They 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? 

Will it be when we are totally disarmed and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction? Shall we acquire the means of effectual resistance by lying supinely on our backs and hugging the defensive phantom of hope? Until our enemies shall have bound us hand and foot, 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," that's Deuteronomy 312, and this land which we possessed at that time, "...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. which says, there's no God else beside me, a just God and a savior. There's none beside me. There's a just God who presides over the destinies of nations and who will rise up friends to fight our battles for us. 

It's first Samuel 8 20 that we may also, uh, that we also may be like all the nations and that our King may judge us and go out before us and fight our battles. And then also second Chronicles 32 eight says with him is an arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord, our God to help us and to fight our battles. Patrick Henry said, the battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. Ecclesiastes 9 .11 says again. I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. 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. 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. 

One of the most famous lines in American history comes from Jeremiah 6, 14, which says they have healed the wound of my people lightly saying peace, peace when there is no peace. And also Jeremiah 8, 11. They have healed the wounds of my people lightly saying peace, peace again, when there is no peace. The war has actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the north. will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. 

Our brethren are already in the field. Why stand we here idle? It's Matthew 6, excuse me, Matthew 26. And about the 11th hour, he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, why do you stand here idle all day? There's Patrick Henry. 

Why are we standing here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear? Acts 20, 24, but none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I may finish my course with joy. Do you find life so dear 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, Joshua 24, 15, as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. I do not know what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death. Our founders and all the hearers of that speech. They knew every single reference, biblical reference, and they knew exactly what Patrick Henry was doing with what became one of the most important speeches in American history. It inspired people at the moment, of course. 

The vote was narrow. 65 to 60 was the final vote to rise up the militia. But it was that speech that swayed everything. It was Virginia, after all. Also, Thomas Jefferson was there. He wasn't yet a national figure. 

He was known somewhat, but he wasn't a hero by any means. This wasn't the first time that Thomas Jefferson heard a Patrick Henry speech. When Thomas Jefferson was 20 years old, he was studying law. And he heard a speech that Patrick Henry gave, the speech where Patrick Henry called the king a tyrant. And Thomas Jefferson later said of Patrick Henry, it appeared to me. that he spoke as Homer wrote. This is who we come from. This is our heritage. Those two ladies in Kentucky know it.

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I could have picked any headline about any number of issues, but this particular story stood out as especially horrific. Are the bad things that happen in America part of God's judgment against us for stories like this? Praise God for His Grace in spite of our sins.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away with peace and perspective because there's new headlines every single day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story. Headline out of England. It's an older headline, but we'll make it more relevant to today. The headline says, Aborted Babies Incinerated to Heat UK Hospitals. 

Read that one again. Use your brain and your heart. really did not want to accept this. Aborted babies incinerated to help heat UK hospitals. Ali Beth Stuckey said, I do wonder if the Islamification of the UK is divine judgment for its wickedness. Yes, is the answer. 

It's true for us too. So let me read a little bit of this story. The bodies of thousands of aborted and miscarried babies were incinerated as clinical waste, with some even being used to heat hospitals. 10 National Health Service trusts have admitted burning fetal remains alongside other rubbish, while two others use the bodies in waste -to -energy plants, which generate power for heat. At least 15 ,500 fetal remains were incinerated by 27 hospitals over the last two years alone. Yikes. 

Of course, God will bring his judgment upon us for this level of depravity and disobedience to his word. We should be grateful that right now it isn't much, much worse because we deserve even worse judgment than he's given us already. It is only because of his grace that he has not yet. I was on Andrew Klaven's show the other day and we were talking about sin and how you should stop sinning. It was particularly about pornography. He asked me how someone should stop sinning and I gave a secular answer and I gave a spiritual answer. 

I'll wait till the episode comes out. You can hear for yourself. Uh, I should have said it that way. Oh, you can hear it for yourself there. I mean, uh, episode doesn't come out yet. So I'm going to let it, I don't want to beat him to it. 

Let him, uh, let the episode, let him release it first. And that's what I meant to him. So it was fine. I think I did an okay job with that answer. And then right after the show, I went downstairs and I talked to my wife and told her what I said. And she, she's like, okay. 

And I said it and she goes, yes, but it's God's grace. And then she went on a two and a half minute sermon about God's grace. And I thought, Oh, I should have said that. Why you should have said that. Where were you eight minutes ago? That would have been a way better answer than what I gave. 

We were talking about pornography specifically. And the question was, it was something like, why does the truth about the real relationships and beauty and how God's way is better? Why does that truth not land with people who think fake and ugly and sinful is better? And I came back with, wherever it is in 1 Corinthians 8, maybe, for the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved. it is the power of God." " So it's like, okay, well, you can talk about righteousness, but to someone who's perishing, I mean, the cross is, it's folly. 

It's only for us who are being saved to understand that the cross is the power of God. And that's true. But as my wife said, it is only by God's grace that any of us think that anything is good, beautiful, or true, or who can see God's goodness at all ever. It is grace that any good things ever happen, that any relationships ever work, that we ever experience anything good. We had this whole conversation about sin with Andrew Klamer. It was 30 minutes, 35 minutes, whole conversation about sin. 

I forgot to mention God's grace. My wife never does. On The Satellite Show, I've been talking a lot lately about the difference between Islam and Christianity, doing a little comparative religion analysis. They're totally different, right? A lot of Muslims will tell you, oh, we believe in Jesus, too. We believe in Jesus. 

Yeah, well, you don't think Jesus is God. So we have a major fundamental problem there. And we don't worship the same God. You call your Allah the great deceiver. Our God cannot lie. You don't believe in the Trinity. 

And you think that people are born neutral and can earn their way to heaven. So we have some major differences here. On that last point, Muslims think you're born neutral and you have to work really, really hard. And if you do everything right, and maybe if you kill enough infidels, then you can get into whatever their version of heaven is. They have no concept of original sin and therefore no need for a savior. They have no concept of original sin. 

So therefore, need for grace. And this is a solid definition of grace. As I raise my chair again and we'll fix it after the show. Grace is defined as God's favor towards the unworthy or God's benevolence on the undeserving. 

That's us. 

In his grace, God is willing to forgive us and bless us way beyond anything. And it totally in spite of the fact that we don't deserve to be treated this generously in any way. We were born in sin. We broke God's laws. 1 John 1 8 says, if we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar and his word is not in us. We've all sinned. God's grace is what saved us. Ephesians 2 8 says, for by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing. It is a gift. 

from God. Grace is called a gift multiple times in the Bible. Ephesians 4, 7 said, but grace is given to each of us according to the measure of Christ's gift. It's a gift, which means you don't deserve it and there's no way you can repay it. And our lives are so much better because of it. 2 Corinthians 8, 9 says, you know, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, if for your sake, he became poor so that you through his poverty, his becoming poor so that you might become rich. 

And we are rich with grace. for sure. Thank you, Jesus. You don't deserve God's, you don't deserve salvation. You don't deserve grace. You better be grateful. 

Our founding fathers and grandfathers knew this. John Jay was the first chief justice of the Supreme Court. He said, our gracious creator has provided for us a redeemer. These inestimable benefits are of the free gift and grace of God, not of our deserving, nor in our power to deserve. First Supreme Court justice, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, he was signer of the Declaration of Independence. He said, on the mercy of my redeemer, I rely for salvation and on his merits, not on the works I've done in obedience to his precepts. 

It's not my works, it's all him. And our founding fathers knew this to the core. It's how they designed our constitution, with checks and balances, because they understood human nature. Why would a new government need checks and balances if people are perfect or could be perfect? But Muslims, they think people can be, which is why in Iran they have a supreme leader. He's perfect in every way. 

We don't do that in America. The only reason America exists, the only reason we have any freedom or prosperity at all is God's grace. Our founding grandfathers wrote about this a lot, how we have sinned and we're not worthy of anything good. But by the grace of God, we have all of these blessings around us. And it's still true today. And out of that, we always need to be grateful to God and to love him. 

And also. to give grace to others. 1 Peter 4 .10 says, As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of God's varied grace. Let us proceed this week. with giving grace to others, our friends, our family, coworkers, people around us who don't yet see the light. Let's give them grace. 

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The Conservative Podcast War is...unfortunate. I wasn't going to say anything until the odd altercation started by Rand Paul against Markwayne Mullin at his confirmation hearing. It seems we need a refresher on what the Bible says on how to handle personal disputes. Also, WWCKD?

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What's really going on here? I don't even know, to be honest. I just know there's a lot of drama. I was never really going to say anything about it, but something happened today that made me feel like something's worth talking about. So, quick background here. I'm not in it. 

I'm not famous enough. I'm in a good place right here. If you're watching on the YouTube, youtube . com slash adpoliticsbyfaith, the people in the podcast wars, I'm down. I'm like here in the hole. I'm very content. 

with my life and with being with my family and my level of fame. It's a place where if you're just famous enough where you get a little ego boost every once in a while, which is nice from time to time, people thank you for your job. No one else gets thanked for their job. The amount of times I get thanked for my job versus other people's jobs that deserve way more thanks is way out of whack. And I get to talk to cool people. It's great, I love my job, but I'm not like, need to hire security for my family. 

Famous, because that level of famous is not good. 1 Timothy 2 says, pray for all the kings who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. There's a couple of cool parts about that scripture. First, early Christians were killed because they weren't worshiping the emperor. But the Bible here says the job of a Christian is to pray, not to the emperor, but for the emperor. So that's a neat point. 

But obviously the main point is just be left alone. We just want to be left alone. I just want to live as quiet and peaceable as a life as I can with the people I love. But my understanding is that a lot of the big conservative podcast people are getting in pretty public fights and it's very odd. And I don't know any of these people involved, any more than anyone does. But just watching from afar, it draws people in because it's drama. 

It's like The Real Housewives or whatever, that level of drama, but for conservatives. And it's very unproductive and should stop. And I was never going to talk about it, but I think the thing that got me into it lately is, I heard Rand Paul in the Mark Wayne Mullins confirmation hearing. He's a senator from Oklahoma and he's going to be the next head of Homeland Security. He'll he'll make it through. But he and Rand Paul, who's the head of the Homeland Security Committee on the Senate, he and Rand Paul have some beef or something. 

I didn't know this. I don't know if anyone did until today. But here's Rand Paul at the committee hearing. 

The leaders in our country disavow violence and lead by example. Through the years, I've personally been exposed multiple times to political violence. I was in the right field batting cage when the crazed shooter unleashed nearly 200 shots at our congressional baseball practice. I'll never forget Steve's police valiantly trying to drag his body away as the gunman continued. Later that year, a Trump -hating felon attacked me from behind. in my yard. 

I was just straightening up from picking up a tree limb. I was wearing noise cancellation headphones. Never saw him coming. Running pell -mell down the hill. I was struck in the back. The force of the blow sent us through the air nearly 10 feet down the hill until a shoulder impaled me as we hit the ground. 

Six of my ribs were broken. Three of the ribs were completely separated such that for weeks the ends of the ribs would grind upon each other. My lung was damaged. For weeks I could inhale but not have the rib strength to exhale. I developed two pneumonias. The pain was such that I could only sit up in bed by tying a rope to the foot of the bed and pulling myself up. 

But even then, the pain was that of a thousand knives. Over the year of recovery, I began to cough up blood. I underwent removal of part of my lung. Complications led to an infection in the space between my lung and chest wall. I spent a week in the hospital having the infection lavaged every six hours through a chest tube. Recently, Senator Mullen, if you have time to listen. 

You were confronted by constituents that were angry because you voted against my amendment to stop all funding for refugee welfare programs. Instead of explaining your vote to continue these welfare programs for refugees, you decided to transfer the blame. You told the media that I was a freaking snake and that you completely understood why I had been assaulted. I was shocked that he would justify and celebrate this violent assault. That caused me so much pain and my family so much pain. I just wonder if someone who applauds violence against their political opponents is the right person to lead an agency that has struggled to accept limits to the proper use of force. 

You might argue you were mad and angry. about being confronted by your constituents. But Senator Mullen, your constituents are justifiably upset with you. By now, most of America knows that the Somali welfare fraud in Minnesota stole over $9 billion. But instead of defending your vote, you took to continue the vote to continue these refugee welfare programs. You chose to lash out at me. 

You went on to brag that you'd already told me to my face that you completely understood and approved of the assault. Well, that's a lie. You got a chance today. You can either continue to lie or you can correct the record. You have never had the courage to look me in the eye and tell me that the assault was justified. So today you'll have your chance. 

Today, I'll give you that chance to clear the record. Tell it to my face. If that's what you believe, tell it to me today. Tell the world why you believe I deserve to be assaulted from behind, have six ribs broken and a damaged lung. Tell me to my face why you think I deserved it. And while you're at it, explain to the American public why they should trust a man with anger issues to set the proper example for ICE and Border Patrol agents. 

Explain to the American public how a man who has no regrets about brawling in a Senate committee can set a proper example for over 250 ,000 men and women who work at the Department of Homeland Security. Senator Peters, you're recognized for your opening. 

That was his opening. Listen, I don't want anyone to be in pain and it sounds like a brutal experience physically. What does that have to do with anything, Senator? Also, I didn't know this until today, but there's a teleprompter in the back of the Senate chamber. So Rand Paul's doing this, this, this like say it to my face thing and everything you just read was off of the teleprompter screen. I just feel like I should give, I should play the clip of one of those. 

Mullen's initial response. 

Here it is. I can understand why the neighbor did what he did. As far as my terms as a snake in the grass, sir, I work around this room to try to fix problems. I've worked with many people in this room. Seems like you fight Republicans more than you work with us. I did address those remarks. I did explain your gimmicks by the amendment you put forth. 

And as far as me saying that I invoke violence, I don't. I don't think anybody should be hit by surprise. I don't like that. But if I do have something to say, everybody in this room knows I'll come straight to you. I'll say it publicly and I'll say it privately, but I'll never say it behind your back. So for you to say I'm a liar, sir, that's not accurate. 

And I got proof to say that because you have spent millions of dollars in my campaigns against me, because we just don't get along. However, sir, that doesn't keep me at all from doing my job. I can have different opinions with everybody in this room, but as Secretary of Homeland, I'll be protecting everybody, including Kentucky, as much as I will my own back yard in Oklahoma. It's bigger than the partisan bickering that we have is bigger than the political differences we have. The truth is I have a job to do and I don't like to fail at anything at all. So I can set it aside if you're willing to set it aside. 

Let me earn your respect. Let me earn 

very weird confrontation, like a very weird, like, I can't get over, I guess, Rand's say it to my face thing, as he's eight feet elevated above everyone else behind this, you know, Senate desk, and you, Mark Wayne Mullina, way down there below, and we're both sitting here and we can't move, and I'm reading this from a teleprompter, it's like, say it to my face. to my face. It's like just weird. Like, Grant, you could have gone to Mark Wayne's office and said all that to his face. So that's this is a good example of the show, right? So that's the news of the day is one of the pieces of drama or whatever. 

And I'm sure we could go into more detail on the the podcast wars that are out there. But let's just let's just get to the Bible here. So first, Matthew 18, 15 says, If your brother or sister sins, go and point out their fault just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you've won them over. But if they will not listen, take one or two others along so that every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses. If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church. 

And if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector. So if I made it to the conservative podcasters and to Rand, to Mark Wayne, if you have a problem with someone, go and talk to them. Not a text, a phone call or in person, like talk like humans. I'll see these tweets that some conservatives will send, a tweet, a public tweet to other conservatives, and sometimes they're like, and you didn't respond to my text that I, like what? Talk to the person one -on -one, and if they don't listen and there's still some issues here that you want to get resolved, go get some advice from a mutual friend, bring them in on it, try to resolve it. If that doesn't work, you just got to 

on because people unfortunately do care about your beef that you're throwing out there publicly because it's a drama and we're attracted to that. But we shouldn't be wasting our time with this. We have a country to save. If I may make an aside here, all this podcast war silliness, it shows to me also how important Charlie Kirk was to the conservative movement. He was way more of a linchpin behind the scenes than I think most people gave him credit for. I think when Charlie was assassinated, I think, of course, there was remorse and lament for his family and all that. 

But from a conservative movement perspective, we were like, oh, you know, his speeches and his campus tours and his Q &A moments and the YouTube videos and stuff like that. That's what I think people were thinking we would miss the most, or what we've lost. But I think what we've lost with Charlie Kirk in particular was something much more important, something much more valuable, and something that was much more impressive about him as a man, and that was his ability to bring a bunch of broken, probably jealous and envious and certainly ambitious people together, and have them focus on moving the movement forward. Charlie Kirk, within the conservative movement, was a peacemaker. James 3 .18 says, peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness. The full scripture is, but the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. And instead people are fueled by, I think it's envy and anger or something, but this is why James 1 .19 says, for Christians to be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to speak, slow to tweet and slow to anger for human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires. I love all the verses in the Bible about the tongue. James 3, 5 says, so the tongue is a small member, yet it boasts of great things. How great a forest is set ablaze by such a small fire. 

And the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness. The tongue is set among our members, staining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life and set on fire by hell. 

Yikes. 

So my two points of practical advice, first practical advice is keep your mouth shut. Uh, Martin Lloyd Jones made that point. He gave an amazing sermon. One of his, I think the best sermon series. 

I have it right there. 

Let me pull it up. 

Martin Lloyd Jones studies and sermon on the Mount. Amazing book. Um, One of his points on Blessed Be the Peacemakers is just quiet. Stop talking. Stop talking. And when it comes to tweeting, if you sit down and you write out a carefully crafted tweet to a fellow conservative enemy of yours, or whether you rip out a hastily spit out tweet, calling someone out, just delete it. 

Just write it out and then delete it. And then just go for a run or pray or something. Matthew 5, 9. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the sons of God. " Mart Lloyd -Jones, he said, the peacemaker is active, not passive. He doesn't merely reflect. 

from causing trouble. I think that's me. I just gotta stay out of it. But that's not a peacemaker. A peacemaker actively works to resolve tensions, to reconcile differences, to bring harmony where there's discord. It's one of the hardest works in the world because it requires humility, wisdom, and love. That's practical advice, is to zip it and write the tweet if you want, but just delete it. 

The spiritual advice is for all of us to guard our hearts, keep your heart with all vigilance for from it flow the springs of life. We talked about that scripture recently. I'll give one more scripture here dedicated to Charlie Kirk, Romans 15, excuse me, 14, 19. So then let us pursue what makes for peace and for mutual upbuilding. We have a lot of work to do in this country of spreading the gospel, spreading the good word, spreading Christian ethics and morals, spreading God's kingdom on this earth, spreading. Political wisdom we've way more focused. 

We need way more focus on good things not on petty drama Don't let the enemy win in causing divisions over ego Let's focus on and unite over what is true and good youtube . com slash at politics by faith I won't give daily updates anymore on my quest to be the biggest podcaster in the world So that I can be so famous 1 ,340 subscribers. It's amazing. Super grateful. YouTube . com slash at politics by faith.  If you could subscribe over there, that'd be amazing. Spread the word.