Our president and our Navy SEALs killed "El Mencho". Technically, the Mexican government and the Mexican military did, but...it wouldn't have happened without constant pressure from Trump. We'll give the true story and relate it to Judges 3.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. This is where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so that we can walk away with perspective and peace. 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 is El Mencho is dead. 

I'm recording this just a couple hours before the State of the Union address. One hope I have for the president is, among others of tonight, highlighting Team USA, but also throughout his speech, I would like it to be clear about how competent this administration is. domestically, also foreign policy with the operations in Iran, Venezuela, Operation Hawkeye. Maybe he'll mention that tonight in Syria against ISIS. And what happened in Mexico the other day, what happened in Mexico is not getting nearly the attention that it deserves. El Mencho was the highest level cartel leader in the Narco state, just to our south. Brandon Darby is the head of Breitbart Border Chronicles. 

We've been talking to him for a long time, but last year or so, he has said that he will know Scheinbaum, the president of Mexico, is serious about fighting the cartel if they ever do anything that hurts El Mencho. Because what Mexico did is they would keep giving us cartel leaders, but they were all the enemies of El Mencho. So every time they did that, they were helping the person they were most in bed with. Well, they killed him. It is entirely because of the Trump administration. All the actions from the administration of blowing up the drug boats off the coast of Venezuela, of course, capturing Maduro. 

It's one thing to make threats, but now it is clear and the world knows that Trump does not make empty threats. It'll give you plenty of chances, but there's an end to the road. The fact that El Mencho, who thought he was invincible, was taken out by way of the Trump administration. As Darby said, it is a new day in Mexico. El Mencho had his hands all the way through the Mexican administration. Apparently he was very close with their head of the military. 

The fact that this operation could even take place is crazy and that they could pull it off. It's unbelievable. It's honestly, it's crazy. very hard to believe that this could have happened like this. But it's also impossible to think that we captured Maduro without any American getting injured either. But here's one important thing that I want to make clear. 

El Mencho, the name of the cartel was Cartel Jalisco New Generacion. El Mencho was the leader. We now, Breitbart has it confirmed, that instructors from our Navy SEALs went to Mexico with our own equipment and weapons and held some sort of training event, a seminar, whatever we call it, a seminar. But we had our Navy SEALs there helping the top level Mexican army team. And as soon as we met, we took all of their phones and all communication devices to prevent any leaks of information, which happened all the time. And again, this is why it was so crazy that this even happened, because how was communication, how did it exist between Trump and Scheinbaum without Scheinbaum's team who were in bed with El Mencho? 

Scheinbaum was too, but his team, her team, close to El Mencho, they had to not know about this. This had to be an incredibly small number of people who knew this was going down. And how does the head of the military not know that his own military was engaging in this action without tipping off? El Mencho. I hope one day we can know everything about how this went down, what this looked like, where we met, how secretive was this Navy SEAL involvement? Did we meet on an American military base? 

That's not very secretive, I don't think. Did we meet in some remote village somewhere? I would love to know exactly how El Mencho was taken. How do we know he was there? Apparently there was a woman involved, one of his mistresses or whatever met with him. We don't know if she was in on it or we just knew that She was going there, so we followed her and knew where she was and was able to take him out that way. 

A lot of questions. I hope the president celebrates this. I hope this has given a lot of attention to praise tonight. And even if it's not tonight that people still know about it and people know that Trump did this because shine bomb knew it was either our Navy SEALs do it and you have to deal with the political ramifications of that shine bomb or you guys do it yourself and we'll give you all the help you need to do it. We will send our Navy SEALs down there to assist you all, but either we're doing it or you're doing it and this is your chance. Wow, I can't wait to hear more about how that all went down. 

All right, that's the story. What's broken? Every episode we have a what's broken section about this. Well, Mexico and our relationship at the border between Mexico and America has been broken. Bill Malugin, who's wonderful over at Fox about the border. He said, this is a reminder that a vast majority of the millions who crossed the border illegally during the Biden administration were lining the pockets of cartels like Jalisco. 

paying thousands, sometimes tens of thousands of dollars per head to be smuggled into the US. Color -coded cartel wristbands littered major crossing areas as cartels organized their human cargo by indicating who had already paid them. It was a threat. plus year free for all with the cartels earning billions, easily attracting customers with the promise that the U .S. S. government would release them into the country if they paid the cartels to get them across. 

And that's exactly what the Biden administration did in the majority of cases with mass catch and release policies. And he posted pictures of armbands scattered across the desert, like it was like the exit of a concert, right? They're like those wristbands that you would get at the fair or a concert or something or a water park. And they're everywhere, different colors. I don't know if that means like different levels of payment or if it meant like what cartel is getting you across, but all these different colored wristbands from people who are coming across illegally and all of that represented more money going to these cartels, which would then smuggling drugs into America and kill Americans. It's so crazy. 

One suggestion I had for Trump tonight at the state of the union was to replay clips. I don't think he can put like a PowerPoint presentation up there, but at the very least quote Bill Clinton at the state of the union in 1995 or Hillary Clinton in 2008, all these Democrats who wanted to do exactly what Trump is doing right now with the border to hear Hillary Clinton say, we need to deport all illegal aliens who committed crimes gone. You're out of here. No second chances here in Bill Clinton, talk about all the consequences of illegal immigration, which we're still facing today. It would be an amazing play because I think, I think the president should quote Bill Clinton. And what he said about how we got to get rid of the aliens and we got to shut down the border. 

We got to hire more board agents, quote him, have the Republican stand up and applaud the Democrats. Stay seated because of their TDS and then reveal that that quote was from Bill Clinton. So what changed Democrats? Why are you not applauding for me now? You did back in 1995. You applauded Bill Clinton for the exact quote. 

I just read. Why are you not supporting me and the American people today? That'd be pretty good. But let's bring this to the Bible right now. I could quote Romans 13 four, but we're going to save that for the TV show. We're recording it tomorrow. 

I'm going to release it here this weekend. I could quote first Peter two 14. It describes governors that are sent by the King to punish those who do wrong. Praise those who do right. That's good, but a bit too easy. I want to share instead here, a story of divine justice to evil people. 

One story that stands out judges three eight. Therefore the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel. Oh, Not good. And he sold them into the hand of Kushan Rishathayim, king of Mesopotamia, Mesopotamia. And the children of Israel served Kushan Rishathayim eight years. So God gave the people of Israel what they wanted. 

They did not want to serve God. So he gave them over to this pagan king. That name that I can't pronounce means Ushan of double wickedness. So the Jews are under control of this pagan king for eight years before they cried out to the Lord. Isn't that interesting? I wonder what they were doing during those eight years. 

Did they like being under his control? Did they not care? Were they apathetic? Were they numb? Did they hate it? But they just never thought to ask God for deliverance. 

Verse nine, when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, that leads me to believe, unless I'm reading too much into this one, that they did not cry out for eight years. But when they finally did, the Lord raised up a deliverer for the children of Israel who delivered them. Othiel, the son of Canaaz, Caleb's younger brother. The spirit of the Lord came upon him and he judged Israel. He went out to war and the Lord delivered Kushan Rishathime, king of Mesopotamia, the bad guy, into his hands and his hand prevailed over the king. So the land had rest for 40 years. 

Then Athenael, the son of Canaan died. So I want to highlight a couple of things. First, the spirit of the Lord came upon him. Uh, that name Athenael, it means enabled or clothed. The idea is here with, with God, with the spirit, spirit of the Lord. So he won, God delivered the evil king over to the Israelites. 

Great. And they had 40 years of peace and then the good guy died. So what did the Jews do? The children of Israel again, did evil inside of the Lord. So what did God do? The Lord strengthened Eglon king of Moab against Israel because they had done evil in the side of the Lord. 

Then he gathered to himself, the people of Ammon and Amalek went and defeated Israel and took possession of the city of Palms. So the children of Israel served Eglon king of Moab 18 years. The cycle again goes on. But when the children of Israel cried out to the Lord, the Lord raised up a deliverer for them. Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left -handed man. Why does that matter? 

By him, the children of Israel sent tribute to Eglon, king of Moab. Now, Ehud made himself a dagger. It was a double edged and a cubit in length. Cubit is 18 inches or so, and fastened it under his clothes on his right thigh. So this is where the left handedness is important because you would normally reach for this with your right hand, but he was left handed, but it was on his right thigh. So he brought the tribute to the king of Moab. 

Now, Eglon was a very fat man. That's what it says here. It's not me saying it. That's what it says, the word of God right here. silence and all who attended him went out from him. And Ehud came to him. 

Now he was sitting upstairs in his cool private chamber. Then Ehud said, I have a message from God for you. So he arose from his seat. Then Ehud reached with his left hand, took the dagger from his right thigh and thrust it into his belly. Even the hilt went in after the blade and the fat closed over the blade for he did not draw the dagger out of his belly and his entrails came out. Then Ehud went through the porch and shut the doors of the upper room behind him and locked them. 

When he gone out, Eglon's servants came to look and to their surprise, the doors of the upper room were locked. So they said he's probably attending to his needs in the cool chamber. So they waited until they were embarrassed. And still he had not opened the doors of the upper room. Therefore they took the key and opened them. And there was their master fallen dead on the floor. 

I love the part. I love the line. I have a message from God for you. 

I have a message from God on behalf of the people who you are oppressing. 

Now. A couple of notes here. The Bible doesn't say that the spirit of the Lord came upon Ehud. The Bible doesn't say, it doesn't explicitly maybe as the last, the first story we shared there of killing this evil king, but it certainly doesn't rebuke it. But here's what is clear. Wicked rulers often have judgments even before they die. 

We'll all have a judgment after we die, of course, but I'm referring to the judgment of being killed. And we will all have judgment when we die. This is Charles Spurgeon making this story very relevant to you and me. Spurgeon said, God uses many messengers to speak to us, including death. Ehud said, I have a message from God for you. It was a dagger. 

found its way to Eglon, the king's heart, and he fell dead. So shall death deliver his message to you. I have a message from God for you. He, death will say, and before you shall have time to answer, you shall find that this was the message because I, the Lord will do this. Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Thus sayeth the Lord, cut it down. 

Why cumbereth it the ground? Set thy house in order for thou shalt die and not live. Oh, may you hear the other messengers of God before he sends his last, most potent one from which you cannot turn away. Spurgeon is talking about, he quoted Amos 4 .12 there and Isaiah 38 .1, prepare to meet your God, set your house in order. Like we have warnings from prophets here and Spurgeon says, there's going to be another last warning, but at that point it will be too late. You will not be able to ignore or escape. 

death. I'm not saying your death's going to come from the Navy SEALs attacking you in the middle of the night like you're on Men's Show, but it's coming for everyone. So let's get our eternity in order. I'll end on a lighter note. 

This is a comedian that I saw just the other day. 

Or is he gonna die? 

If you live... you ain't got nothing to worry about. But if you die, you got two things. 

Whether you going to heaven, whether you going to hell. 

You ain't got nothing to worry about. That's two things. 

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Sports are a part of culture. The left, in their march through the institutions, have tried to destroy the joy we get from sport. Team USA gave us a wonderful show and something to be proud of. It's also a taste of what's to come in heaven.

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 some perspective and peace. New headlines every day. But Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here. Let's get to the true story. 

Sorry I was gone at the end of last week. I've been a part of a men's Bible group since 2012 when I first moved to San Diego. And we've met pretty much every Wednesday until I moved away from San Diego. A bunch of us have moved since. The group still meets, the guys who We're still back there, but we all, wherever we are across the country, we all get together once a year, at least. So we spent the weekend in Arizona, catching up and studying the Bible. 

It was great. So that's where I was this last weekend. And I missed the hockey game and I was able to stay away from all social media. I was able to watch the game on the plane, but it was awesome. It's about as good as it gets here. If you missed it, or if you want to relive it, I made a little thing to get fired up. 

The guy who scored the goal is 24 years old. Right before the end of the regulation, he got slammed in the face with a stick, lost a bunch of teeth, kept playing. If that happened to someone in the NBA, they'd be out for the year. Keeps playing with no teeth. Then wins the overtime goal. First gold medal since 1980. 

Miracle on ice, which was the exact same day, 46 years ago, which also happened to be on George Washington's birthday. Poor Canucks never stood a chance. This game was really fun because it had a lot of really important themes to it. First it was just very American and just the grittiness of it, the grind, the Canadian players were probably more talented, the team was more talented, and they had, the expression was, the ice was tilted in their favor most of the time, playing on their toes, and we were playing on our heels a lot of the game, but we just never gave up. Just never give up, never give up, just grinding the entire time. 

And the two goals that we did score were so beautiful. And you could just, every time I see those goals, especially the first one, but I just see years and years and years of work put into this craft, and it was sublime to see the excellence of it, especially at that speed. So that was fun. Also, you had brothers, and I want to get back to this point in a minute, but let me play this clip here. There's two sets of brothers. The Hughes, Jack Hughes is the one who scored, and then you had the Kachuk brothers as well, and here they are at the end of the game. 

Okay guys, you told me you're watching Miracle, growing up, dreaming about this. You're living it right now. How does it feel? 

Hockey's our game. Hockey's the United States of America's game. It's the greatest country in the world. We have the best support ever. Hundreds of millions of people back home. So many people in St. Louis. 

Everyone in St. Louis. We could feel the support whether they're hockey fans or not. Everyone's watching. Everyone better be partying right now. Everyone better be wearing the red, white, and blue for as long as they can. It should be like a month mandate where the red, white and blue in the United States and celebrate us and the other Olympian gold medalists. 

Those two, those two brothers, their dad played on the Olympic hockey team 20 years ago. They were there at that Olympics 20 years ago. I was picturing them as kids. And now here they are. They want to go metal with their dad in the stands. I come on. 

And then the Hughes brothers, the one who scored the goal, there's a video of them when they were like 12 years old and they were asked, you know, one day, do you want to play on the same team? Or do you want to play against each other in the NHL? And the 12 -year -old Jack Hughes is like, nah, it'd be way better if we were on the same team because we love each other so much and he's such a good player, I'd rather we be on the same team. And here they are, they just won the gold medal together. This is.. one of the women hockey players. 

We also won the gold in that game, in an overtime goal against Canada too. Here's one of those players right here. 

What were you thinking when you were listening to the anthem, seeing the flag go up? 

I just, I think just taking pride in our country. I just, uh, it was an honor, uh, to win gold is what we came to do. And getting to sing the anthem just made it that much more sweeter. 

Great. 

Uh, and then she was asked this question. 

So much. Uh, I think, um, the Lord, the most for everything and all of you guys. Um, but yeah, you know, God is good and this is awesome. 

God is good. And this is awesome. I want to play one last video here. There is a woman on the women's hockey team who has two, excuse me, three brothers and her brothers get fired up for the games. They get all decked out, Team USA merch, and they recorded a voicemail message for their sister. And the images are all videos from when she was a kid learning how to skate for the first time and all these different times when the three brothers showed up to support their sister. 

Go girl, go. 

Get those feet under you. Go girls! 

Good girl! 

Hey Bugs! 

Hey Jess! 

What's up with your brothers? 

We've watched you on skates before you could even walk and listened to you talk about your dreams of becoming an Olympian since the first time you were asked. 

Now you're living it. 

You continue to impress us daily. Your ability to handle pressure, your ability to smile through it all, and your ability to love through it all. We are just so proud of you. 

Hey, stick with him! 

Continue to be you through all the externals. Continue to trust yourself through the toughest moments and the highest highs and continue to love and be because you are powerful. You deserve everything that's coming. The U . 

S. 

Women's Hockey team deserves everything that's coming to you. You've worked so hard, thousands of shots, all the hours in the weight room, all the early mornings and just everything you've sacrificed. We're sorry we have to be loud sometimes in our support. We just, we can't help ourselves. We can't wait to cheer you on as you continue to push for gold. Watching you get to live out your dream is a blessing. 

No matter the outcome of these games, it doesn't change who you are. You have three older brothers that now look up to you. You will always be our champion. 

Love you, bud. 

Love you, sis. Love you, sissy. 

You can do it. 

You don't even need the bucket. The video's on my Twitter, Slater Radio, if you wanna watch it. I mean, that's one of my prayers right there, to have four kids who love each other that deeply and support each other. That's wealth right there. How do you put a price on that? All right, let's get to the Bible. 

Sports are good. Does anyone listening now, and if you think this and you've made it this far, thank you for listening for so long, but there's a lot of people who are like, oh, who cares about sports? Who cares about hockey? Who cares about? Sports are a part of culture. We wanna win the culture. 

We need to take the culture back. We have to have sports. The left knows. that sports are important as they've marched through the institutions of our country. They were sure to try and have been successful in many ways to take over sports. This is why they had all these pride nights in the NHL. 

Probably like rainbow tape on the hockey sticks and nonsense like that. It was part of the march through the institutions. Colin Kaepernick. No one ever mentions with Colin Kaepernick that he was adopted when he was like six weeks old by two white parents, given everything in the world, including life. And then he turned around and betrayed them. And Conley Kaepernick himself is mixed race. 

His birth mom is white and dad is black, too. The whole thing is ridiculous. His example of his racist parents that raised him, problematic, is his mom, when he was younger, his mom wouldn't let him get cornrows because she said it was unprofessional. Very often, if you press a black person who says they've been discriminated against, the hair is the issue, their hair. So they'll apply for a job. agree to the terms of the job, which means you pay me in exchange for me presenting myself and working on behalf of your company. 

And then they don't present themselves according to rules and regulations. And they say they're discriminated against. And Colin Kaepernick did it on his poor mom. But Colin Kaepernick was a tool to divide people. And to do that in a thing that unites people is particularly insidious, especially because sports is one of the last things where merit matters. It's merit based. 

but they try to DEI as much of it as they possibly can. Anyway, I digress. Let's bring the Bible into this. This Bible is full of metaphors about sports and games and play. 1 Corinthians 9 .24. Do you not know that in a race, all the runners run, but only one receives the prize. 

So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self -control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, that gold medal. But we are, by the way, back in ancient Greece, when Paul was writing this, They got a wreath, like a crown, instead of a gold medal. But we do it for an imperishable thing. We do not run aimlessly. 

I do not box as one beating the air, but I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others, I myself should be disqualified. Hebrews 12, 1. Let us run with perseverance. The race marked out for us. 2 Timothy 4, 7. I fought the good fight. 

I finished the race. I've kept the faith. 2 Timothy 2, 5. An athlete's not crowned. unless he competes according to the rules. So lots of sports references in the Bible. 

Sports are also good because it's good to see joy. When the teams win, I'd say both teams won, men and women hockey team, throwing their helmets in the air, throwing their gloves and sticks and jumping into each other's arms. It's good. I don't know if there's like a Christian mentality, you know, be dour or all that stuff. No, it's good to have joy. Now, this is a secular joy and a thing that, you know, quote, unquote, doesn't matter, but it's a taste of the real joy to come. 

It's a partial, it's a little hint of the joy that we will experience when we're in heaven. A true joy that comes from being in union and abiding with God. One last point on play, and then I want to get back to the joy. Zechariah 8 .5. So this is a prophecy when the Jews came out of Persian rule, they're rebuilding Jerusalem, but it wasn't going well. So Zechariah is here to encourage them with a vision for the future. 

So this is Zechariah 8 .5. Thus says the Lord, I've returned to Zion and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called the faithful city in the mountain of the Lord of hosts, the holy mountain. Thus says the Lord of hosts, old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem. Each one with his staff in his hand because of great age, the streets of the city. 

Okay. 

So it's like a good future, Jerusalem, joyful, wonderful. The streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets. 

Isn't that cool? 

Playing in the streets, fun, joy, play when you, you were to drive around, you see kids maybe playing street hockey in the middle of the street. That's a biblical vision of joy and goodness. These are all just tastes, little hints of the greatest joy that there is, and that is joy of abiding in God and Jesus. John 15, Jesus says, I am the true vine and the Father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. 

And every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word I've spoken to you. Abide in me and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit. For apart from me, you can do nothing. 

If anyone does not abide in me, he's thrown away like a branch and withers. And the branches are gathered, thrown into the fire and burned. If you abide in me, and my words abide in you. Ask whatever you wish and it will be done for you. By this, my father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples. As the fathers loved me, so I loved you. 

Abide in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be full. " It is good to enjoy these little moments of joy. And also in the meantime, to be full of a true joy, which is one of the fruits of the spirit. Knowing also that when this is all over, you're going to heaven. 

And because of that, we should be jumping for joy. Like you just won the gold medal. Mike Slater . locals . com. Transcript commercial free on the website, Mike Slater .

James Talarico is running for Senate in Texas as a Democrat. He goes around quoting scripture and taking it so wildly out of context that he must know what he's doing. On The Late Show, he claimed gay marriage and abortion aren't in the Bible. Yikes. What does the Bible say?

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Early voting is going on right now in Texas for the Senate race. Very interesting on the Republican side. On the Democratic side, it's James Tellarico and Jasmine Crockett. Jasmine Crockett would be hilarious. I can root for her because she's the entertainment value will be off the charts. But James Tallarico is probably going to win it out. 

We've talked about him before, a couple of weeks ago. He claims he's a Presbyterian seminarian. And we talked about him because he was on Joe Rogan's podcast and he said that the Bible justifies abortion. Okay. Abortion is biblical because Gabriel asked Mary permission before she became pregnant with Jesus. And we read Luke and that's just not true at all. 

I can't, I usually like to be able to, I pride myself in being able to see the other side's arguments. Like, oh, like here's how you put that together. Like I get that. This one, I got nothing on this one. That's just straight made up. He is a blasphemer in a really sick way. 

I understand getting things wrong here and there, missing some nuance, maybe not getting the full context of this or the other, it's fine. But to justify wicked, sinful, evil things in the name of the Bible is demonic. He also said as a Christian that Christianity is just one of many faiths. He said this on a New York Times podcast. And it's like the word, it's like a different language and you can have a cup here and there's different words for the word cup in English and Spanish and French and German. and Somalian but it all leads to the same it all describes the same thing and and we all there's all these different religions Buddhism Hindu and they all they're all the same God and they lead to the same place like oh man what are you talking about that's awful how can anyone it speaks to how biblically illiterate unfortunately so many people are that This guy can go two seconds claiming to be a Christian or claiming to be a Presbyterian seminarian, whatever. 

So here's what happened the other day. Here's why we bring him up again. He was on the Colbert show and they recorded the interview as they always do with their interviews, but they didn't air it on TV. And Colbert said it was because CBS blocked airing the interview because of FCC equal time rules. Equal time, it applies to radio and TV, where if you interview a candidate, then you have to interview all the candidates. You have to give them equal time. 

Or don't interview anyone, but if you give some time to one, you gotta give equal time to another. I've never, in my radio days, I've never seen this really ever enforced. Actually, I've never seen it enforced in my life. But CBS was a little on the edge, because the primaries are going on. So they could've seen Jasmine Crockett's people coming out and complaining. So they didn't air it. 

But Colbert talked about it and talked about it as if, you know, oh, this got censored. So it ended up getting way more attention on YouTube anyway than it ever would have gotten if it did air. Like no one watches The Late Show with Colbert, so whatever. But he ended up getting way more attention with it. 

And that's fine because we then got to hear him say just blasphemous stuff. 

this. Well, for 50 years, the religious right, a political movement, that is the perfect description for it. They convinced a lot of our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage, two issues that aren't mentioned in the Bible, two issues that Jesus never talked about. Jesus in Matthew 25 tells us exactly how you and I, and every one of our fellow believers, how we're going to be judged and how we're going to be saved. 

By feeding the hungry, by healing the sick. 

So the Bible says we need more welfare for everyone, is what he then concludes. By welcoming the stranger. Nothing about going to church, nothing about voting Republican. It was all about how you treat other people. Don't, don't, I've said, I've said before, don't, tell me what you believe, show me how you treat other people, and I'll tell you what you believe. And I think in our faith, we've got to get back to those fundamentals. 

My granddad was a Baptist preacher in South Texas. And when I was little, he told me that Christianity is a simple religion, not an easy religion, he would always clarify, but a simple religion because Jesus gave us two commandments, love God and love neighbor. And there was no exception to that second commandment. 

Love thy neighbor regardless of race, or gender, or sexual orientation, or immigration status, or religious affiliation. And it's why I have fought so hard for the separation of church and state in the state capitol in Texas, because... Yikes. We talked about the separation of church and state in just our most recent episode. Reverend Ben Johnson said, does welcome the stranger apply to the stranger you personally created in your womb? 

No, just kill that stranger. I'll also add to love your neighbor means to tell them the truth. So what's broken here? Half truths, false preachers. This is the same guy who did a New York Times interview. And he said, they're talking about transgenderism. 

And he said, well, Paul said there's neither male nor female, which is pretty woke for the first century. Whoa, this is such a clear example of how this guy twists scripture. He's talking about Galatians 3, 27. For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek. There's neither slave nor free. 

There is no male or female for you are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise. He's not saying, obviously Paul's not saying that when you get saved, you I don't know, like a are able to turn into a man or a woman or forget even safer that you're able. There's no such thing as gender. That's not what Paul is saying. This is the same Paul who said that wives are to submit to their husbands. 

Okay, so Paul is saying here that when it comes to salvation, it doesn't matter who you are. Slave free, Jew, Greek, male, female doesn't matter. He's not saying that you can turn into something else or that gender doesn't exist. He's saying it doesn't matter when it comes to salvation. How wonderful is that news? But you see how twisted that is that he can get it. 

You can pull that off. how he can deceive people, what a liar, really twisting scripture in really, really evil ways. So on the point he was making, his opening argument that the Bible never even talks about homosexuality or what was it? gay marriage. Of course it does. Marriage is between one man and one woman. 

Genesis 2 24. Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and they shall become one flesh. Man, woman, end of story. But Jesus affirms it. Matthew 19 4. He answered, have you not read that he who created, this is Jesus talking, he who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife and the two shall become one flesh. 

So they're no longer two, but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate. " So yes, the Bible talks about marriage and what marriage is, defines it. The Bible defines marriage. On homosexuality, Leviticus 18, 22, you shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination. Oh, so that's Old Testament. Fine. New Testament, Romans 1, 26. For this reason, God gave them up to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature. And the men likewise gave up their natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another. men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error." 1 Corinthians 6, 9. Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality. 

" Oh, it doesn't even talk about homosexuality. Of course it does. And then abortion. I mean, like, what do we even say? Abortion is obviously murder. What else would it be? 

Healthcare. Human life begins at conception. There's no other objective time into the development of a human being when it's more human than it was a moment before it. Human life, therefore, must begin at conception. There's no other point in a human's life when you're like, oh, this is when it's actually human. Nope. 

You're human from the very beginning and all the way through to the end. We have different names to define the different levels of development, different stages of a life, embryo, fetus, newborn, toddler, teenager, a seasoned citizen, but you're a human being the whole time. So there's some Bible verses to arm you with the truth. to combat the lies of Telerico and many others. Listen, politically, I'm happy that this is the best Christian that the left could find, because that's what they're doing. Obviously, we got to win in Texas. 

How do we do it? Well, let's find a Christian. Well, we can't. There are no Christians who are running or Democrats. So we don't know what to do. Like, well, find any blasphemer. 

It doesn't matter. Just anyone who can maybe quote a scripture or two out of context and we'll take it. Hopefully, there are not many Christians left in the Democratic Party. So politically, it's fine. But bigger picture, culturally, it makes me sad that anyone could misinterpret the scriptures this badly and not be open to any criticism. Like if I ever misinterpret a scripture or don't provide the full context, I would expect anyone, you and anyone in my church or whoever to come to me and be like, oh, Sutter, you missed this point here. 

You missed on it. And I will come back the very next day and correct the record. He's unwilling to do that. Of course. That makes me sad. I don't know if he is misinterpreting this though. 

I'm certain he's not misinterpreting this. I think he knows what he's doing. 

So what makes me sad then is that there would be anyone who would fall for it, but not you. 

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