Will the media make this story another George Floyd? It depends on how much it helps Democrats. It will have an effect on the Wisconsin governor's primary coming up in 3 weeks. But more importantly, how should we react to this police shooting? This...JUSTIFIED police shooting.

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. We do this because there's new headlines every day, and that can get exhausting. It can cause anxiety, but Ecclesiastes says it's not the new under the sun. So thanks for being here for the true story, the story of the day today. Another black man murdered by police. 

Here's what happened. When I first heard about this story, an old friend of mine, I haven't talked to him in 25 years, but I'm still friends with him on Facebook. I saw a post they put, and It was a picture of a memorial and the caption said, one tased him, two others pinned him down. A fourth police officer fatally shot a black man in Madison, Wisconsin. So one tased, two pinned him down, and then another shot him dead. And you have this visual because there was a picture of the vigil, not of the shooting or the interaction itself. 

So you get this image of just like execution on the street. That was the first I heard of this. I said, Oh, I wonder what happened. So I looked it up. Someone called 9 -1 -1 because there was a suspicious looking person checking parked cars, peering through windows, trying to get into cars. So we had an anti -social, some anti -social, not even anti -social, anti -civilization behavior. 

So normal productive people in Madison, Wisconsin called 9 -1 -1. Police arrived as they're supposed to. They tried to detain him. He resisted. They tased him. Looks like it didn't work. 

Somehow, he then pulled out a knife and injured an officer. at which point another officer shot him three times. He attacked police officers in the middle of this tussle. He, I don't exactly know the injuries, so either cut or stabbed a police officer. Case closed. What are we even talking about? 

This will keep happening for one very simple reason. People don't want to go to jail. I've said this a billion times, I guess we'll say it a billion more. Until jail is Disney World, no one will want to go. Now he's been in jail already. He didn't want to go back. 

Did he not want to go back enough to not break into cars anymore? But what he really wanted to do is keep breaking in cars and not go to jail. So we have to decide if we want to allow that behavior. He had a criminal record of drug possession, theft, resisting, or obstructing an officer, the whole thing. So he didn't want to go back. That's what happened. 

So we have two stories here, two side stories. First, body cameras. Madison, Wisconsin police don't have body cameras. Now, body cameras are really interesting. Black Lives Matter activists, they don't want them anymore. They did want them. 

One of their demands during George Floyd and that whole riot, that whole whatever, one of their demands was we want body cameras on all police officers. Now they don't because all these videos were coming out where Black Lives Matter activists would say, oh, police shot an unarmed black man. And then the video comes out and the unarmed black man is running at the police officers full speed with a knife in their hand. There was one story in particular, I forget where it was, but a black man was murdered by police officers and they demanded answers, right? And how could police do such a thing? My baby would never, he's a great, my baby's amazing and he would never do something bad. 

And then the body camera, no, you know what this was? This was, ah, this was a, like a road rage incident. And these two guys got out of the car And the white guy who was an off -duty police officer murdered the black man. That's what happened. Then a dash camera footage came out and the black man pulled out a gun. That's when the police officer, the off -duty police officer shot back. 

So when the camera came out, the footage came out to the family's credit, their lawyer backed down, the family apologized and said they were shocked that their son would do such a thing. They never would have believed it and we're sorry. And he, and he, he was in the wrong and the whole thing was over again to the family's credit for doing that. But there are few who are as humble as that, even in the face of video evidence, which this shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, there is. Apparently there's three different videos from different angles. So anyway, but let me be clear. 

Black Lives Matter wanted body camera footage. Now they don't. Normal black people do want body camera footage. Black Lives Matter activists don't. Also progressive white women don't. They don't want it. 

They don't want body camera footage for the same reason that they don't want voter ID. And that's because they think black people don't know where the DMV is, or they're too stupid to understand what an ID is, or they can't afford to go get an ID. So progressive white women, they don't want body camera footage either, because that's their way of being nice to vulnerable oppressed black, their little black babies that they need to take care of. So you got normal black people, they want body camera footage, but Black Lives Matter activists and white women in Madison do not. So the body camera footage is a side story. Politically, there's another story here. 

I don't know how much of an influence this story is going to have nationwide. This may be the first you're hearing about this story. I don't know how much the media is going to run with it. They got to kind of test it for a little bit and see if this is a political win for the Democratic Party or not. Remember, the lamestream media, they're just an arm of the Democratic Party. So if they think this will help them in midterms, then this is going to be another George Floyd. 

If they don't think it will, then they'll abandon the story immediately. Locally, though, in Wisconsin, this will have some implications. So Democrats, their primaries in three weeks. Democrats are down to their current lieutenant governor, No, so sorry, it was their current lieutenant governor and their former lieutenant governor. The current lieutenant governor dropped out. So we got the former lieutenant governor, who's a black guy. 

Then you have the Milwaukee County executive, who's another black guy. He actually dropped or he suspended his race, but then the current governor endorsed him. So he got back in. Never heard of that happening before. So we got these Democrats in Wisconsin. It's a purple state. 

They can't seem to get their act together because the front runner is a communist. She's a state representative, Francesca Hong. She's a Mamdani -endorsed DSA communist. If you listen to this podcast, you know all about him. Abolish ICE, public grocery stores, public banks, defund the police, right? Like the whole thing. 

So full -on DSA, Democrats, Socialists of America, communists. But Manhattan is different than Wisconsin. Maybe. We'll see. I hope it is. Denver's not different than Manhattan. 

Denver nominated a communist. We'll see if the entire state of Wisconsin will. So is this story going to energize her base to get her across the finish line in their primary? I don't know. If she does win, you would think that'd be better for the Republican candidate, Tom Tiffany. But in my policies, it's a bad idea to play with fire. 

I don't want communists getting anywhere near the possibility of winning elected office. So three weeks. So you got body camera footage and the politics of this. We'll put those aside. Let's get to some biblical points here. First, thou shalt not steal. 

Second, you should obey police officers when they tell you to stop. We can go on with all these obvious points that you would think are obvious, but maybe they're not. There's a lot of people out there who think that police shouldn't exist at all. So third point, people want to talk about the overreaction of police officers. They killed a man and yeah, it's terrible. Remember these officers, I'm sure they're distraught about this all. 

They didn't want to go to work that day hoping to be a part of all this. But the police are there to secure law and order. And we can't live in a society where we just let people roam the streets stealing stuff from people's cars. We've got to stop that behavior. It's anti -civilization. But don't be tricked into thinking that they killed a man because he was stealing stuff from cars. 

It's not it. Because the activists are going to say that. They'll be like, oh, you shouldn't get the death penalty for stealing stuff. No, they shot him because he had a knife. And he already injured a police officer. And would have killed him. 

Maybe. There's nothing just. There's nothing righteous about living in chaos. So like, let's think of their progressive vision of government, like no police, right? So he just gets out a knife and stabs a social worker or what? And what are you talking about? 

Forget even the socialist utopia. Let's just, let's pretend that these police officers acted as these communists maybe would prefer them, or the activists would prefer them to act, be nice and kind or whatever. The guy pulls out a knife. So first you just want to let him go. Okay. So what's that? 

And then let's say you're like, no, you got to come with us, man. And he pulls out a knife. Just let him stab you in the face. Let him stab you in the heart. Austin Metcalf died with a knife, like two and a half inches long. Or again, maybe it's just a minor flesh wound. 

And then he runs away, ready to steal again tomorrow. And it's just chaos. What are we talking about? And then people don't go downtown. People don't go to businesses. The town suffers. 

And you end up in the ghetto like Chicago the other day where seven grocery stores are now closing down. Seven save -a -lots. Who are we going to let run the show here? My fourth point is there's a total disregard for human life. His family's distraught, you know, mom crying on TV. Police are criticized for having a disregard of human life, but what about the people around him? 

And not only his family, but because I understand people can be very mentally ill and family has to let the person go, right? But what about our institutions around us that let homeless and mentally ill people just roam the streets? I don't know much about Corey. Corey Ruiz is his name or Ruiz. Ruiz is the guy's name. I don't know what his deal is. I don't know if he's just straight up criminal or mentally ill, or he's a drug addict out of his mind. 

But either of these three require different interventions that we don't take, because we don't really value human life. If we did, we would help people like this, even if it's against their will. That has been the big concern for like 50 years now. Oh, we can't do anything against their will. Their will is out of their mind. They don't have a will to take the person against their will. 

All right. Well, their will is to steal money, to get things, to get money, to get high. That's their will. So yeah, we got to do stuff against their will. Getting help, getting them better is against their will at the moment, but we can't do it. Got to be nice. 

So the real disregard for human life. Again, you're going to hear that the police officers have a disregard for human life. That is wrong. The real disregard of human life. Let me flip it around. The real regard for human life should have been to focus on this person a long time ago. 

Let's go to the Bible. Admit something here that I don't like. I'm becoming callous. My parents, they grew up in Long Island and they worked in New York city. When I was growing up, they would tell me a story about this woman who had elephantitis. I want that for a name. 

I don't know what the new politically correct term for this disease is, but I'm sure it's not elephantitis. It's a severe swelling of their body parts. Like, I don't know. I don't know what swells like their tissues. I don't know. But like their legs are huge, enormous, and just disgusting covered with sores and all this stuff. 

It'd be like, it's like kind of like our modern day leprosy, like a biblical leprosy. And this woman, she would lay there on the subway platform. and everyone would step over them all day long. My parents told this story to me growing up a lot. I heard about this person often and I look back on it like, man, how terrible. How sad for that person, of course. 

but then for the rest of us who get calloused. We get calloused to this human suffering. We become hard -hearted. Now, hard -hearted in the Bible is more like stubborn, but I mean it more like the opposite of having a soft heart. And I don't like it. When a homeless person or addict like this gets shot by police officers, they're so far down a very bad road, and there are so many places along the way where things could have gone differently. 

but we don't really care for the oppressed when they cry out. We instead, progressives have come up with this policy to let them stay oppressed in the name of compassion. And then they spiral deeper and deeper. I think the first thing we can do, and they keep doing, is to pray for the people who have a tender heart for the homeless and the addicted. There's a lot of people in California I know who, well, let me do the negative first. I know for sure that there's people in California in particular who are in this for the money, believe it or not. 

There's a lot of money in the homeless industrial complex. But there's also a lot of great people I know who are doing it for the right reasons, and they're doing good work. They're saving lives and they're saving souls. The saving soul part's an essential part of it. We need to pray for those people because they're doing God's work. Jesus said the poor will always be with us, which is a really interesting sentence. 

Why? Now it's not to say, nah, you know, whatever. Don't think about them. Don't care about them because no matter what you do, they're going to be with us forever. They're going to be poor people. So whatever. 

That's not what Jesus means by that. Charles Spurgeon gave a wonderful sermon on this. It's called the duty of remembering the poor. And I really like the sermon a lot because it speaks to my callousness, which I don't like. So I make a couple of points here. First, why does God allow there to be poor people? 

He could make everyone rich. I was talking to the kids today about creativity and beauty, and God could have made, we were driving through this beautiful back country road with hills, and I said, God could have made the whole earth flat. Sorry, I was going to do a flat earth story here. That's not what I mean. He could have made the whole earth just bland, gray, desert, just blah, the whole planet. But he didn't. 

Look, kids he made this beautiful rolling hills with green and lush and it's just stunning and all these different variety did everything right god could have made everyone rich one reason that there are poor people is so that people can be grateful for the blessings they do have charles spurge said oh ye discontented ones so people who are whining you who are always murmuring at your households because all kinds of delicacies are not provided for you oh i just wish my life were better people whining it would do you good if you could sit down for a while to work house fair And sometimes eat a little less than that and fast a day or two to find your appetites. So quit your whining. You can eat like a lot of other people who don't have nearly what you have. So one reason why there's poor people is so that you can be grateful for what you have. Second reason is to get us to see that the real comforts of life aren't in the physical comforts of this world, but in the gospel, the good news and his promises for eternity. Spurgeon said, when we find some that have not where to lay their heads and yet can say, still will I trust in the Lord. 

When we see someone with nothing but bread and water who's still glorying Jesus? When we see them wondering where the scene shall end, seeing that every day new straits attend. Every day is horrible. Every day is difficult. And yet having faith in Christ, what an honor it reflects on the gospel. Check out this from Spurgeon. 

Grace is tested in the poverty of believers. This is no doubt one reason why God puts his people in poor circumstances. There, says the architect, this building is strong. Aye, sir, but it must be tested. Let the wind blow against it. There's a lighthouse out at sea. 

It's a calm night. I cannot tell whether the edifice is firm. The tempest must howl about it, and then I shall know whether it will stand. And so with religion, if it were not on many occasions surrounded with tempestuous waters, we should not know that the ship was strong. If the winds did not blow upon it, as they do on our poor, tired brethren, we should not know how firm and secure it is. " It's beautiful. 

Spurgeon's wonderful. So we've got to be grateful for what we have. Second, to get us to see that the real comforts of life are not in the physical comforts of the world, but of heaven and eternity. We all need to know that. 3 to be an inspiration to all of us. For those who are going through difficult times and can still trust the Lord, it's a beautiful thing. 

But I'll leave you with this one. It's what I really wanted to share. The Lord, Spurgeon says, has poor people in the midst of us for this reason, that he determines to give us opportunities of showing our love to him. Now, we show our Christ in love when we sing of him and when we pray to him, but if there were no poor people in the world, we should often say within ourselves, oh, how I wish I could one of Christ. I wish there were one of Christ's brethren that I could help. 

I should like to give Christ something. I should like to show my master that I loved him, not by words only, but by deeds too. And if all the poor saints were clean taken away and we were all well to do and had abundance, there would not, there'd be none to acquire any assistance. And I think we might begin to weep because there were no poor saints to help. So let us look upon it, not as a mere duty, but as a delight and a privilege. For if we were not able to give something of our substance to Christ, We should have to go down on our knees to ask him to give us some opportunity of showing our love to him. 

I say all this to remind us that there are good people doing good work to help those who are in need and want it. If you have the heart for that work, God bless you. You're a wonderful person. If you don't personally have that calling, pray about it and maybe give out of our abundance and out of our gratitude to local charities that help people who need it. And if people need help, but don't want it, that's a political thing. It's a political solution. 

We need to force them to take it. They need to go to prison. They need to go an addiction center. They need to be in a mental health hospital. If we had this attitude towards the poor, who will always be with us, we could then hopefully prevent situations like this person in Wisconsin from getting to this point. And more importantly, save souls in the process. 

Let's pray we don't grow even more calloused towards human life.

"Conservative" commentator Guy Benson got another motherless child from surrogacy. Many "conservatives" have congratulated him. Why? If we want to conserve anything worth conserving, we need to have the courage to speak the truth.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible, so we can walk away at the end of time together here with some peace and perspective. New headlines every day that Ecclesiastes says about the new born son. So thanks for being here today. Story of the day. Another baby with no mom. 

Really, it's a story about courage, though. Hopefully it all makes sense here at the end. Bit of a kid's warning for today's episode. We're going to be talking about a, well, uh imagine you know the the rainbow what the rainbow is really about well how is the world perverted it we're gonna be talking about that type of topic so if you don't want kids listening to it then a kid's warning here here's a story guy benson guy benson is a conservative political commentator i don't know him i've seen clips of him before seems like a nice guy new york post headline says fox news star guy benson welcomes baby girl fox news political anna's guy benson is a dad again And the conservative commentator's growing family is drawing congratulations from some of the biggest names in Republican media circles. This is the second baby from surrogacy. We just did a segment on surrogacy. 

It was Monday's episode. We've never done a segment on surrogacy. And here we've done two in the same week. But again, this one's not really about surrogacy. That's not going to be the theme we talk about. The theme we're going to talk about is courage, because the New York Post made a point to highlight the other conservatives. 

who are congratulating him. Same thing happened with Dave Rubin who had a kid through surrogacy. Only a few were brave enough to say wait a second, that's not good. Our friend Steve Dace, he wrote to this post from the New York Post, he wrote, adorable, where's mom? There's no mom. 

Katie Faust, she's again the leader on this issue. She said, Guy Benton made another motherless child. There's a high likelihood a lot of little lives were lost in his pursuit. Again, we see top conservatives celebrating. We all love babies. But the unqualified congratulations from people who would otherwise be the first to say that moms and dads matter? 

That has to stop. It contributes to a culture of family breakdown. It affirms the baby -making industry that commodifies children, and it diminishes the rights of the very child they're welcoming. Conservatives have to make a choice. Do we believe what we say? Do children have a right to life? 

Is marriage the building block of society? Are men and women different? Do children need both? Or would we rather secure the praise of our friends and progressive elites? by pretending what Guy Benson has done won't haunt his children for life. You know, people call maybe Guy and the people who have congratulated him, they may call him a conservative, but I'm curious what they're trying to conserve exactly. 

Listen, we all need to go through a process, the process of sanctification. It's worth a one minute rehash on this. So justification is when you are saved. That is, that is the moment. That is the moment when you are declared righteous before God. Justification, the deliverance of the penalty of your sins, all the sins that you've committed in the past. 

Thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross for my sin. Romans 5 18 Paul said therefore as one trespass that's Adam led to condemnation for all men so one act of righteousness Jesus on the cross leads to justification and life for all men." " So there's justification. Then there's sanctification. Sanctification is the continual process of you becoming more like Jesus, of becoming more righteous. 

It's everyday. It's an everyday battle of becoming more like Christ and beating the flesh, the world, and the devil all the time. Paul describes this in Romans 8 .29, for those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to become conformed to the image of his son. So it's a conforming process. Justification is a one -time act. Sanctification is a continual process until the end of the race. 

And I say that because every Christian is in the process of being sanctified and becoming more sensitive. to your sins. Maybe when you first become a Christian, you're like, oh, here's some big ones that I got to resolve here. And then the longer you become a Christian, those maybe are no longer a thorn in your side, but there's other things now, things you never imagined, things you never saw before. And that's a process that happens for the rest of your life. All the time, I'm noticing little things. 

And over periods of time, hopefully it becomes obvious that you're changing as a person, you're becoming more righteous. Now, newer Christians are going to do things that are still way off, and we need to help. We need to help newer Christians make better decisions, and we need to do it in love, of course, but we need to help. We can't just be like, well, they'll figure it out. Like, no, no, we need to help. Just like I'm grateful for all the people who have helped me who have said, Slater, you're off on that. 

You need to do better here. And I say that because, again, we're all going through processes of sanctification, but having a kid with your gay partner that that's that one's way off that's that one's not gonna cut it. Daniel Hayworth, he said, the reason people have a hard time defining conservatism is because they're afraid to say the obvious truth that's at its root, and that is we are conserving Christianity and the world it built. People don't want to say that, don't want to offend anyone, don't want to bring the Bible into it, don't want to bring Christianity into it. He said this fear leads to ceding ground over and over, but we need to embrace the fact and regain our courage. 

And that's what I want to talk about today. Our lack of courage to tell the truth. Conservatives congratulating, right? I guess you have three different options. You can congratulate, you can stay silent, but not enough people saying, oh, that's wrong. Why not? 

Well, we want to be nice, right? That's what we've always been. That's been like the biggest, the biggest form of righteousness is just being nice. And if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all. And that's not nice. So people don't say anything. 

And then it all continues, of course. So I was thinking of one story. There's, there's a story. countless, but one story of someone in the Bible telling the truth boldly. So I went to Mark six, Jesus is telling his disciples, the 12 to go out. Uh, and Jesus gave them authority over impure spirits. 

So they went out and they, and they preached that people should repent. They didn't, they didn't go out. That's the Bible, by the way, I just quoted the Bible verse 12. I didn't, they didn't go out and preach that, uh, be nice, do whatever you want. Congratulations on your sin. Like they didn't, they preached that people should repent. 

They drove out many demons. and anointed many sick people with oil and healed them. Now the king, Herod, they heard about this, but the people around the king were confused about who Jesus was. Some said this man is Elijah. Some said he was John the Baptist, which would be a shocking claim because something happened to John already. in the story. 

Herod ordered John the Baptist, before this happened, to be thrown into prison. Why? Because John kept telling Herod, you're doing great, don't change a thing. John kept telling Herod, congratulations on your new marriage. I love marriage, therefore congratulations on your marriage. Nope, that's not what happened. 

John, Herod, threw John in prison because John kept telling Herod that it is not lawful to marry your brother's wife. So Herodias, that is the woman, nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man. That's what the Bible says. But then her moment came. So the daughter of Herodias danced before Herod and the guests. 

Doesn't specifically say what type of dance, but it seems odd. And then he said, great dance. I'll give you anything you want up to half of my kingdom. So she went out to her mother and said, what should I wish for? And she said, ask for the head of John the Baptist. So she did. 

And because Herod, well, first of all, I made a bad decision to make that promise before you knew what you're going to say. Uh, also didn't have to say that I didn't have to agree to that one, but he did. He was in front of all the dinner guests. I felt pressured to. So the executioner went to the prison that John was in again, because John said, you're not allowed to marry this woman. cut off his head, put it on a platter, and gave it to the girl who gave it to her mother. 

This story to me, it's a confirming story that the Bible is true because it's not glamorous. It's not a glamorous end for John the Baptist. It's not a triumphant ending. If you were wanting to make this story up to gain followers or make yourself look good or your movement look good, you would have had a more triumphant ending than you get your head cut off, put on a platter because some girl asked for it. So there's that point on the story. But the more you think about it, it's a wonderful model because John never backed down from telling the truth. 

What was his penalty? Well, heaven. Spurgeon said, John did not mince matters. or leave the question alone. What was a king to him if that king trampled on the law of God? And what did he get? 

He only got heaven. So his head was cut off, but I'd rather go to heaven. I'd rather tell the truth. I'd rather get my head cut off if it means you receive your crown in heaven. Speak the truth. Conservatives need to speak the truth. 

If we're trying to conserve anything, if we want to save our country, we need to speak the truth. But more important than anything, we need to speak the truth about the Bible and God's word and help people. Help people in the process. First to be justified, but then sanctification as well. And to do that, you need to be able to say, that's wrong. Ephesians 4 .14 starts off with, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy, walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you've been called. 

And it later says so that we may no longer be children tossed to and fro by the waves carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness and deceitful schemes. No. Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into Him. who is the head into Christ. We need to speak truth. YouTube . 

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The State Departmetn issued a 100 page report about how Cuba has been the source of Communism in America. Communists have been around for a while in America, but there is one fundamental difference today. We break it down today and talk about the best way, maybe the only way, we can stop the rise of communism in America.

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. That's our goal. At the end of every episode we do here, there should be a sigh of peace. New headlines every day, which can cause anxiety. But Ecclesiastes says it's not the new under the sun. 

So thanks for being here to get the true story. The story of the day today. Cuban communist revolutionaries in America. All right, here's what's going on. Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, issued this report called Cuba, the Capital, 21st Century Communism. It's 100 pages longer, and it's all about Cuba and their role in spreading communism around the world, but particularly their influence here in America. 

So a couple of examples here, and then we'll tie this into DSA and then the Bible. ICAP is a word that they use often in this report. It's called the Instituto Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos. Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples. Fidel Castro founded it back in the 60s. The purpose of this is to reach out to international activist groups, many of them in America. 

One of them is called the National Network of Cuba. It's here in the United States, and they lobby Local state groups like school boards, labor unions, city councils, all these things. They lobbied them from a pro Cuba angle. I have a clip of the coach. I got a two longer clips. I want to play later. 

So I'm not going to play the clip here. Why don't I just tell you what the clip says? Her name is on on. Yes. On who shot. Oh, yeah. 

I read her bio. Her bio says she is an African woman marooned in the United States. Marooned. She's stuck here. She can't get out. Lady, it's super easy. 

to get out and she is organizing to defeat capitalism colonialism imperialism and patriarchy she's editor with hood communist and she's the co -chair of the national network on cuba and she's an organizer with the vencer venceremos brigade venceremos It means we shall overcome. We'll get to them coming up in a little bit. So I get this clip where she's talking about how she's living in the belly of the beast behind enemy lines. It's America. And her ultimate purpose of this clip here in this clip is she says, we got to persuade black men in America to not join the military because when black men take up arms for the imperialist state America, they end up fighting against their fellow blacks around the world in oppressed countries. Okay. 

I have tons of clips like that of people like that. And it's very easy to come to the conclusion, the conclusion that I've come to for many years, which is these people are silly. They're foolish. Who cares what they say? Are we really going to waste our time with what this woman talks about? Like whatever. 

They're totally worthless. Not going to spend our time on it. And I think in the past, that was maybe definitely sensible, if not accurate conclusion. They were just a bunch of third party losers. Now here's the big difference. These losers have taken over the Democratic Party from within. 

So these previously third, fourth, fifth party losers, they have now taken over the Democrats apparatus, their infrastructure, their fundraising, their credentials, their prestige, their power. And now they are winning. We talked a lot about this in our episodes, our last TV episode, which we re -aired over the weekend here, but they're winning. They're winning. Their power is growing. never before. 

I'll give you an example of this. In the report, they talk about this guy, Stokely Carmichael. In 1967, he gave a speech at the Organization of Latin American Solidarity called Black Power in the Third World, and he talks about how black people in America are internal colonies within the United States. And he actually gave a speech in Cuba. And he said, black communities in America are the victims of white imperialism and colonial exploitation. Thus, he says, black power means that we see ourselves as part of the third world. 

So black people in America should and do see themselves as the third world. And we see our struggle as closely related to liberation struggles around the world. He said there's only one place for black Americans in these struggles, and that is on the side of the third world. Now, this is 1967. The fruit of his rhetoric, was, you know, riots, resentment, spreading anger, and all this stuff with other people, right? And like messing up lives and all this. 

Certainly wasn't peace and unity, but he never got any political power. So the damage he could do was limited to only so far. He was a member of the Black Panthers and some other political parties, but it was always a third party. Then came the 1964 Democratic National Convention and they wouldn't recognize any of the parties that he was in support of like any of these other communist parties that had these weird names so he was appalled that the democrats wouldn't recognize him and and his these other groups that he supported so he rebelled and you know how he rebelled he created another party that didn't do anything no one like a third party it's never gonna work it's a two -party system that's what we have here so these people had a third party system it worked adopted by one of the main parties. So then they started another party and you're like, man, like that's not the communist today. 

I figured out and have been successful in taking over one of the two parties, Democratic Socialists of America leading the way, taking over the Democratic Party. Again, that's what we talked about in our last couple episodes over the weekend. These people are crazy. The co -chair of the New York City DSA was on Fox News the other day calling for getting rid of the U . S. Senate. 

This is a part of their platform. Abolish the Senate. So it's crazy. The same type of people, they'll say, oh, you know, you're not being very biblical. You're judging. You're not a good Christian. 

You're not doing what Jesus told you to do. And they themselves hate the Bible and aren't Christian. It's a similar deal here. These are the people who say, Oh, Trump's terrible. He's destroying the constitution. And then they have in their party platform, abolish the Senate, abolish the Supreme court, eliminate the constitution. 

What's broken. I want to play two clips here. First start off with Marco Rubio and then, uh, Stephen Miller. This is at an event called the resurgence of political terrorism. Both of these clips are tremendous. I hope this is these guys work shopping. 

Well, this was before this Cuba report was issued. Obviously, they knew what was in the report, so they're getting ready for the report. I hope this is them, though, getting ready for the midterm convention, which is going to be September. I think the chair of the RNC said September 9th and 10th, I think that's what he told us. So it's going to be like a month and a half or so. So I hope they're workshopping these ideas to create the contrast between what this administration is for and what the opposition is really all about. 

This right here is about as good as it gets. Here's Marco Rubio. This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. 

It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is. It may wear various different slogans and ideologies across place and time. They can call themselves anti -capitalist, or anti -imperialist, or communist, or anarchist, or Marxist, but the fundamental character is always the same. It's always the same. It is a poisonous resentment cloaked in the language of equality, and justice, liberation, an overwhelming need to tear down what greater men have built, to wreck what is beautiful and what is right, on behalf of people who are only filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world. 

Through violence and through terror, they once again seek to impose their ugliness on all of us. The old dogma was wrong. The old dogma was wrong. None of this is driven by idealism. It is not utopian. In fact, it is the opposite. 

One of the criticisms you sometimes hear of communism, for example, is that it sounds good in theory, but it never works in practice. That's actually not true. Communism does not sound good in theory. The world it envisions for all of us is small, flat, gray, leveled of all exception, drained of all that is good and noble in the human soul. The world it envisions is a world without courage. a world without creativity or ambition, a world without heroes or glory or great causes to strive towards, a world without miracles, without myths, without men who rise above the rest to do incredible and extraordinary things. 

And the world communism envisions is a world without God. For these architects of revolutionary violence, the towering achievement of our civilization, for them, it's an unbearable humiliation. A reminder of what they cannot do and a reminder of what they cannot be. So they choose instead to destroy. They attack pipelines. They attack railroads. 

They attack power grids and laboratories. The physical embodied symbols of power and invention and achievement. This is the nature of the terrorism we face today. They despise the West because the West is great. How good is that? poisonous resentment. 

That's what really fuels the rise of communism. This desire to tear down what greater men have built. People who are filled with ugliness and have nothing else to offer the world. We're going to get to that in just a second. Of course, mention of being godless. And when they see the greatness of what people have achieved, what God has done to our country, it's a reminder to them about what they cannot do and who they cannot be. 

So they choose instead to destroy. I mean, that's just amazing. As good as it gets. Again, how awesome would this be if this is what they talk about at the midterm convention. This is Stephen Miller might be even better. And the leftist justifies this violence to himself by saying that they alone are the arbiters of what is right or wrong, not the law, not history, not civilization, not 

public opinion, and certainly not God. The leftist assumes for himself judge, jury, executioner. But let's not pretend for a moment that these radical leftists, these terrorists, are operating from a place of sincere political conviction. Sure, there are plenty of useful idiots that they use who may believe these discredited ideologies. The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy, The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred. The leftist looks at a perfect family with the perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids that goes to church every Sunday and is filled with envy and hatred. 

a feeling of inadequacy and jealousy, and they covet, and they turn those emotions ultimately into a desire to subjugate, to oppress, and to inflict pain and suffering. It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations, you see any photograph of those who were assembled, to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one, looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism. Why is that? You look at two photographs and you see a normal American street, you see an Antifa protest. 

Why do the people that are violently demonstrating, why is there not one normal -looking person among them? Every one of them, through the course of their life and their decisions, has scarred their body and their appearance in many different ways to the point in which their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred. your instincts to all people and across all civilizations. You know what normal is. You know what beautiful is. You know what good is. 

You know that families are right. You know that children are precious and beautiful and must be protected. You know that the criminal and the junkie and the predator is a threat to normal, healthy living. This is so much deeper than than issues about taxation and regulation, although they're incredibly important. It's about normal, healthy, ordered living. Tremendous. 

Again, people motivated by hatred and envy and jealousy. They look at what is good, beautiful and true, and they themselves are filled with envy, hatred. This last week, we spent a lot of time talking about covetousness. They'll look at a family who goes to church and is living a normal life, and they're filled with an adequacy and covetousness. and they turn those desires into inflicting pain and suffering. His point about how these Antiva people, they're deformed, their outward appearance is deformed because their outward life has become this reflection of their heart. 

So throughout their life, they've made these decisions to scar their body and to have a disgusting appearance. They don't have to be like this, but their outward appearance has become a reflection of their inner heart. And he talks about what's normal. Normal is an interesting word. He doesn't mean normal as in common, because now more than ever, degeneracy is the norm. He's talking about normal as in good. 

Actually, the original definition of the word normal means square, like a carpenter would try to make a right angle. They call that normal. So square, right angle, proper, right. So he doesn't mean normal as in everyone's doing it. He means normal as in, oh, like, this is what's good and proper. I want to speak to this inner ugliness real quick. 

He, um, his comment is, reminded me of a poem from Kipling and I had to share it because it's about a story we shared just the other day too. This is all tying in from just the last couple weeks. Second Kings, the story of Gehazi. So here's the very short of it. So Naaman was this warrior who had leprosy. 

He went to Elisha to try to heal the leprosy. He did. And then Naaman offered him a gift as a thank you. Like, oh, I can't believe you did this here. I want to give you some money. And Elisha said, no, no, no, no, no. 

I refuse. He doesn't want any money. So Naaman goes back home. On his way back home, Elisha's servant, Gehazi, runs after him and says, oh, Naaman, Naaman, Naaman. Oh, you're not going to believe it. Elisha changed his mind. 

He does want the gift after all. So if you could just give it to me, I'll go. I'll give it back to Elisha. And Naaman's like, oh, yeah, sure. Of course. Here's the gift. 

So he gets back and Elisha says, hey, where'd you go? And then he lied to Elisha and Elisha gave him the punishment. He said, Naaman's leprosy will cling to you and to your descendants forever. Kipling was inspired by that story and he wrote this poem. He said, whence, so the image of Gehazi, so the timing's a little off with what Kipling does with this story, but it's still worth it. So it's, well, let me just start. 

He says, whence comest thou Gehazi? so reverent to behold, and scarlet, and furs, and chain of England's gold. " So someone's coming across Ghazi, and he's like, man, look at you. Look at you. You look unbelievable. You're dignified. 

Look at you. You got all the chain. You look amazing. What's going on? And Ghazi says, ah, from following after Naaman, to tell him all is well, whereby my zeal hath made me a judge in Israel. Well done. 

Well done, Ghazi. Stretch forth thy ready hand, thou barely scraped from judgment, take oath to judge the land." " So now this man is going to give Ghazi this advice, and he's taking oath now, right? But he's complimenting him. He's like, oh, man, you're unbelievable. 

This is great. Look at you. Unswayed by gift of money, or privy bribe, more base, of knowledge which is profit at any marketplace. You can't be bribed. You can't be bought off in any way. Search out and probe, Ghazi. 

as thou of all canst try the truthful, well -weighed answer that tells the blacker lie. But you're going to be a great judge. You're going to be shrewd. You're going to be wise. Nothing can corrupt you, Gehazi. This is great. 

So take order now, Gehazi, that no man talk aside in secret with his judges the while his case is tried. So again, you're not good. No one's going to trick you. No one's going to trick you. No one's going to talk to you. No one's going to deceive you. 

Lest he should show them reason to keep a matter hid and subtly lead the questions away from what he did. Again, you won't be corrupt, Gehazi, because you're so wonderful. Here's the turn. Thou mirror of uprightness. So it's not like a title, like, look at you, like you're this man of virtue. And the man who's looking at Ghazi is like, oh, what's going on? 

Thou mirror of uprightness, what ails thee at thy vows? So imagine Ghazi is about to take this vow to be the judge, right? Thou mirror of uprightness. Mr. Ghazi, what ails you at thy vows? What means the risen whiteness of the skin between thy brows? The boils. 

that shine and burrow, the sores that slough and bleed, the leprosy of Naaman on thee and all thy seed." " That's what Elisha told him would happen. Naaman's leprosy will cling to you and all your descendants forever. So in this story that Kipling is telling, a little bit different than the Bible timeline, but this is the moment where the leprosy is coming out. So he's taken this oath and he's being praised for being so honest and good. And the penalty of his greed and his sin is coming out at this moment in the poem. 

Stand up, stand up, Gehazi. Draw close thy robe and go. Gehazi, judge in Israel, a leper white as snow. Right? It's like, oh, unbelievable. Like, oh, we have the judge in Israel. 

Get out of here, man. Like you better cover up and run. We can't have a judge in Israel who's a leper as white as snow. So here's the moment when his inner sin was being manifested. on the outside of his body. Stephen Miller saying these communists have, they have essentially a leprosy in their heart, a covetousness in their heart, sins in their heart, and it shows with the deformity of their body. 

I thought of that poem when I saw that Miller clip. All right, let's go to the Bible here. It's a long episode today. I'll keep it quick here. I think there's three points I want to make here about defeating communists. You call it three levels. 

I don't know if it's quite three levels. It's like two and a half levels, maybe. On the surface, So how do we defeat communism? I think the surface level that we try for a long time is to explain why our economic system is better. Why capitalism is better than communism. It's not going to win hearts and minds. 

It's good. You need to do it. And we need to know the economic differences. But that's not going to... not going to, it's just not going to change enough. Maybe it'll change some minds, but it's not going to change hearts and hearts are the main issue here, which is the second deeper way to fight communism. 

Heart and minds are sinful and full of resentment, full of all the things that Marco and Steve Miller were talking about there. I don't think you can really change people's minds until we first change people's hearts. People have to be a Christian to get rid of the hatred in their heart and the resentment. And only then can they see the truth. other light or I should say in the light there are you start to like oh yeah no communism's horrible now don't get me wrong being a christian is the most important thing but I hope you get my point that after you become a christian and resentment no longer drives you it no longer corrupts you once all that is gone then the appeal of communism magically goes away as well now I don't know if this is a third layer that's probably not quite right this is like I think this is like an element of becoming a christian as well is most of these communists are outcasts from society. So at some point in their life, probably very early on, for whatever reason, they were pushed aside. 

Before I say that, let me make this economic point. Most of these communists today, they're adults, right? They can't cut it. They don't have what it takes to be successful in the capitalist system. Whether it's IQ or work ethic, reasons within their control or beyond their control, whatever it is, they can't cut it. So they don't like this economic system because it's not working for them. 

So of course they want a different one. But I think even before they become failures in the marketplace, I think a lot of these people are just weird and different. And they may not have friends in middle school. and they get pushed off into a different path of being even weirder and more of an outcast. And there's lots of different things that those people can end up doing in life. And one of them is to find solidarity, find acceptance with other similar outcasted people. 

And those outcasted people Some of them, a percentage, whatever, it's like, let's, let's, I don't know, you look at all the outcasts in America, let's say 5 % of the outcasts become communist. Like they attach their outcastness to, and like, again, all the other 95 maybe latch on to other things that are weird and not great either, but this 5 % or whatever it is, attach themselves to being communist. That's not good. So our goal as Christians should be to make sure that no one feels rejected from society because And I should say this starts young. And it's the classic tale. And we encourage our kids to look for opportunities to be this person, to make everyone feel welcome. 

Make people feel welcome in church. Make people feel welcome in a friend group. Make people feel welcome in a community. Make sure your kids bring in that kid who may be a little more awkward, a little more distant. Being outcasted and lonely can lead to many terrible things. One of them is being a communist activist when you grow up, an Antifa member, right? 

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