Progressives aren't "for" anything. They are against God's Word. This manifests in pretty wild ways, like the story of Lindy West. But lest we get too prideful, we need to realize the lessons of John 12.

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 of perspective. Because 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. A progressive woman is miserable. I probably could have thought that out a little more because that's not much of a headline. 

Newsflash. Progressive women are miserable. Progressive woman living by progressive moral standards not happy. It's like well. Yeah on the show this morning We talked about the word normal. I think the word normal today has this connotation of boring. 

Like oh, it's lame. Like normal and lame are the same thing. Or let's not be as negative, but something like it's what everyone does. Normal means it's the usual. It's not what it means. at least not originally. 

Webster's Dictionary 1828 . com is my favorite website. The original dictionary. The definition of normal is according to a square or rule perpendicular forming a right angle. Also according to a rule or principle. In other words, normal is good. 

An article here from the Wall Street Journal about a fat millennial feminist. Now hold on, I'm not calling her fat. That's her whole thing though. She wrote at Jezebel and the New York Times about people being fatphobic. She proclaims her fatness as part of her identity. She's like Winnie the Pooh. 

Short, fat, and proud of that. And apparently she wrote a memoir. She's in her 40s now, seems a little early to write a memoir, but the Wall Street Journal wrote about it. This person said Ms. West has done everything that the progressive political project told her to do. She refuses to try to lose weight, even though it's making her life worse, as she writes about in her memoir. She made her identity, everything about her, her activism, everything about her identity. 

It says she avoids spending time with her extended family because they might have quote, unknown politics. And it isn't that they actually disagree with her. It's that they, they just might. She married a non -binary person. All the while claiming, as many leftists do, that they're very happy. I should say, I'll give a little sneak peek of where I'm going with this. 

All the while claiming, as many sinners do, I'm very happy. She made claims that this is how everyone should live. And you conservatives with your ways and your normal ideas, your heteronormativity, just a bunch of broods. And she's also polyamorous. She's in a polyamorous relationship. So her husband has his girlfriend also living with him as well. 

Maybe a kid's warning. I should have maybe given one a minute ago. Sorry. Maybe a kid's warning for five minutes. She wrote about, let me just quote Wall Street Journal, she writes about retreating to the guest bedroom during frequent bouts of depression and being subjected to the sound of her husband and his girlfriend having, you know what, in an adjacent room. She reports that she wrote this memoir to provide financial support to her family, three able -bodied adults in their 40s who seem to spend most of their working week emotionally terrorizing each other. 

Okay, I could go on, but it's just a train wreck. So what do we learn from this woman's life? what i've learned politically is that this uh is that progressivism isn't for anything progressivism is only against it's against anything that a christian culture has created so christians believe in a monogamous marriage they are against it what are they for i don't anything but that and you'll ask them why are you pro these other things they're not they're just against what is normal we believe in gender norms they don't They don't. Not only they're against that, they're against genders existing at all, right? There's this, do you know the name Caster Semenya? You probably don't remember the name, but you may remember the picture, if you saw a picture of him. 

This is the South African woman who won two gold medals in the Olympics and three world championships, and is so obviously a man. And the Olympics just now said that men can't compete against women in the Olympics. You'll read headlines, it'll be like, Trans the Olympics rule that trans people can't compete in the Olympics. That's not true. Just that men have to compete against men. In these last Winter Olympics, there was a trans mogul skier who competed like Sweden or something. 

It's a he. It's a male that lives as a woman, but he competed against men. So no one cared. Got dead last as well. 

Oh, give me 20 minutes. 

I'll get him up in 20 minutes. Why do you want to get him up? Do you want to play with him? OK, I'm recording, though. So, yes, you just. No, it's fine. 

That was a great time. Just don't let - Why do you - No, why do you want to play with him so much? Something's going on. Something's afoot. Okay, alright. Just keep him out of here. 

I got 20 minutes until I'm done with this. Love you. Jamie's sleeping. In the other room, taking a nap. So he competed and - a man, he got dead last, but he was competing as men, right? 

If he competed against a woman he probably would have won. So there's an interview that this runner, I think he's from South Africa, again competing as a woman, and he said a real -life quote, my testicles don't make me any less of a woman. That's a real sentence. my testicles don't make me any less of a woman what now when he competed in the olympics in the women's 800 meter gold silver and bronze first second third place all went to a man all of them went to a man a man women like blonde long hair like blonde actual women got third fourth or fourth fifth and sixth totally totally hosed by three dudes who when they were wearing their running uniforms weren't even uh they were in like men's running uniforms they weren't even wearing like you know the women will run in like a bikini kind of thing they were wearing men's running uniforms and they still competed against the women and they got first to get there with that so they're they're against even the concept of gender even existing that's how contrary they are to what is true so that's the that's the political point i want to make is that progressives aren't for anything other than just like destruction or something but they're against Good, beautiful, and true. Let me quote from the Wall Street Journal, then we'll get to the Bible. As you hear Jamie in the background probably screaming any minute now as Jack woke him up, for some reason, something's afoot that he wanted to play with the baby, the three -year -old, in the middle of the day for some reason. 

We'll find out soon. The Wall Street Journal. In the 1960s, counter -culturalists popularized the idea of the man, a patriarchal authority figure against whom one should rebel. And when you start from the assumption that the man is always wrong, your political project produces all sorts of strange ideas. As in the case of Miss West. If the man.. 

that slimness is healthy and beautiful, well, then it's good to be fat. If he says that traditional gender roles are best, then it's good to be non -binary or transgender. I'll throw in here one more point. They are right that there are men who are terrible, like progressives will say that men are terrible. That's true. There are men who are terrible, but the left has chosen to ally themselves with the worst men that exist. 

Who supports abortion? Terrible, awful men. Abortion was first supported by men in the 60s who wanted to sleep around with as many women as possible and not get them pregnant. That's who support, or at least when they got pregnant, there was an out so they didn't have to deal with it. Those are the people who supported abortion, the men. Similarly, there are indeed certain men who are against monogamy in marriage, the worst kind of men. 

And this woman, Ms. West's husband, was able to use progressivism to justify sleeping around because he's half Nigerian. And he told her that monogamy is at its root a system of ownership. So she was so consumed by white guilt that she forced herself to allow him to go be with other women. Because if she said no, then it would be like she was a slave owner. So what's broken here? What's broken is people just can't submit to God. 

James 4, 7 says, submit yourselves, therefore, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. Or you can resist God. and run to the devil. who is just about inverting everything all the time in every way imaginable. And they call it progress. 

All right, fine. Progress from what? What are you progressing from? What are you running from? You're running from the good, the beautiful and the true. You're running from God's word. 

Let's go to the Bible. Just read this morning, John 12. It says, But although he had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in him. John says multiple times that Jesus did these things that people would see him and believe in him. that he was the son of God, but still some, no matter what he did, they did not believe that he was the son of God. Now here's the key. 

That's the key of this whole episode here. And this is what I need to hear lest I get prideful and think that I'm so much better than Miss West. I am indeed in a better situation than Miss West. There's no question about that, but that is only because of God's grace. The very next moment of John 12 says, but although he had done many signs before them, They did not believe him, that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled when he spoke, Lord, who has believed our report? And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? 

The point here is unbelief is the default. Total depravity is the default. And that's where I was, where you were, but because of God's grace, we believe. And it's only because of God's grace that any of us believe. And without that grace, I know I would be just as depraved. Just give me a little more. 

a little more, like my pre -Christian life just needed a little more time to spiral. 20 years. I'm probably the same age as this woman. So it's about 20. If I kept going down the spiral of my pre -Christian life, I'd be no better off than Ms. West. Different sins, whatever, but same denial. 

Just the same. So my point is, if someone does believe, it is because God revealed himself and the truth to us. And we need to be incredibly grateful for that, to say the least. John 12, therefore, they could not believe because Isaiah said again, he has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts. Less they should see with their eyes, less they should understand with their heart, hearts in turn, so that I should heal them. If you reject God, he'll harden your heart. 

I mean, John 3, 19 says, and this is the judgment. The light is coming to the world. And people loved the darkness rather than light because their works were evil. I praise God every single day that in my sinfulness, he gave me and you the light. And now we can see. I said something on the radio, something like. 

What progressivism has done to individuals, individual peoples, very sad. And what it's done to our society is tragic and infuriating. And we should have pity on the victims of progressivism. But we should also have a righteous anger at the people who spread progressivism like it's the gospel. And Ms. West has done that her entire life. They have destroyed lives. 

They've destroyed cultures. They're tearing down what is normal and what is good everywhere they turn. And that's where I stopped on the radio. I would stop there. But the more I think about it, I should keep going. And. 

I would be doing the exact same thing. if it weren't for God's grace in my life. I would be just as lost and just as blind and just as proactively evil as she is. So thank you God for repentance and salvation.

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How can college kids on spring break be so foolish? But the Bible speaks of spring-breakers, and gives us a warning if we don't change our ways.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day and we bring it to the Bible so we can walk away the next 10 minutes or so with some peace and perspective. There's new headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says there's nothing new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day, spring break, kind of. I'm going to call her the other day. I said, Slater, I can't believe that the governor of Virginia lied and said, that she was a moderate when she was running for governor, Spamburger. 

And now that she's elected, she's running. She's governing as far left as any governor in the country. I can't believe she would do that. What do we do? And I don't know what he was looking for politically. I said, well, she lied. 

And maybe I regret saying this. OK, maybe this isn't like we can think of this more artfully. Let's workshop this out. I said, and people are stupid. Now that's not, I don't, come on Slater, my kids would call me better than that or call me to something better. Let's say people are very uninformed or people don't care, which brings me to spring break. 

This aired on Fox news earlier in the week. I'm not going to play it here and play the video. It's like two minutes or so. I don't want to play it because there's girls in bikinis and it'll get a lot of views on our new YouTube channel, youtube . com slash at politics by faith. The algorithm will love it, but I don't understand bikinis. 

If you walked into a room, And a girl was wearing her underwear, you'd say, oh, sorry, shut the door and ah, but it's okay on a beach to wear even less than that, I don't understand. it i was in andrew clavin show the other day on the daily wire grateful to him for having me on and and this came up i said the inventor of the bikini it was like 1946 or so he couldn't find a woman who would model it for him they slapped him not wearing that so in order to get a model he needed to go to the brothel that's the only woman he could find was a stripper who would wear a bikini And even then it was like 20 years until any woman really wore them. It wasn't until the sixties when women were brainwashed enough to actually put one on. And now today you can go to the beach in San Diego and there's 12 year old girls wearing string bikinis, dancing and tick tock videos set up on the beach. It's crazy. It's nuts. 

So I'm not going to play, but I wrote down, I watched it and I wrote down, uh, the, the, the point, the comments. So this guy's interviewing people, young people, college students, and they're in college. So you shouldn't give them that much of a pass. Well, they're just young people. I mean, I don't know. They're in college. 

Like when did we decide? Like if they interviewed a bunch of people at the daycare or the preschool, I'd be like, well, you know, the preschoolers, there's a 20 year old adults on the beach. And it's all, they're all about getting drunk men and women by getting it with as many girls and guys as we can hook up with one guy every night. One girl said, one girl said 10, I've been here for 10 days. I've hooked up with 10 guys. And he said, well, what are their names? 

I don't know. 

Can you name one of them? She couldn't name one of them. Couldn't name. What's the most exciting thing you saw? I saw one girl blackout on the street. She said that was pretty exciting. 

Wildest thing you've ever done? One woman said, well, I got with somebody the first night I got down here. Ever asked what's the most important thing going on in America? They said, what bikini am I going to wear next? Getting a tan on the beach, stuff like that. And then, of course, they asked things about current events. 

And she said, well, you know, I heard about a war in Iraq. It's not the country. They don't know who Maduro is. Don't know anything about Venezuela. The Ayatollah. Who what? 

They don't even know what that is. Never heard that word in my life. Gross. So I just want to play that in reference to this gentleman who's like, oh, how could how could Spanberger lie? people fall for it well i mean those those people on the beach in florida those those are the voters in virginia and everywhere else across the country too and it's all types of demographics who don't know and don't care this happens to be young the young people of our nation naked on the beach who don't know and don't care but that's a good majority of our country don't know and don't care you are in the top two percent one percent most informed most engaged what are you doing here why are you listening to this podcast because you care enough Now, what's annoying, and we're not going to get to it here, we talked about it on the radio, is you get one vote and they get one vote. And the Democrats want to make it where everyone's automatically registered to vote, everyone gets a mail -in ballot, and they can just take that person's ballot and it counts as one vote as much as yours. 

And that's crazy, but we're not going to get into voting rights here. We played another video where they asked some basic questions on the beach. You know, who was the civil war between? And the girl's like, England versus France? What year was 9 -11? 2012, someone said? 

What country attacked Pearl Harbor? 

Spain? One guy said, so they said, well, how many senators every state? He said three. I said, okay, well, how many senators are there then? And he goes, well, that's 50 times three, 65. When, I don't even, that doesn't even, when did we free the slaves? 

1962? And then of course, you know, who performed at the halftime show? Bad Bunny. Who sings the song Espresso? Sabrina Carpenter. 

You know, what are all these things on TikTok? 

They know everything. 

Okay. What do we, what do we do with this? What's broken here? I'm going to play this clip here. This is the opening of a British, it's a British historian. His name's Kenneth Clark. 

And he did this 11 hour docuseries back in 1969 about the fall of ancient Rome and ancient Greece. And here is the beginning of it. If you're listening on the podcast, he's sitting by this river, right in front of an aqueduct. This aqueduct was probably built 2 ,000 years ago, still standing, still working, and it's beautiful. 

But it says a lot more about the Roman people than just, oh, that's a nice thing to build. What happened? Well, it took Gibbon nine volumes to describe the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, and I shall not embark on that. But Thinking about this almost incredible episode does tell one something about the nature of civilization. It shows that however complex and solid it seems, it's actually quite fragile. It can be destroyed. 

What are its enemies? First of all, fear. Fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague. Fears that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees, or even planning next year's crops. And fear of the supernatural. which means that you don't question anything or change anything. 

The late antique world was full of meaningless rituals, mystery religions, that destroyed self -confidence. And then, boredom, the feeling of hopelessness, which can overtake people with a high degree of material prosperity. There's a poem by a modern Greek called Cavafy, a poem in which he imagines the people's some late antique city waiting every day for the barbarians to come and sack it. And then, finally, the barbarians move off somewhere else, and the city is saved. But the people are disappointed. 

It would have been better than nothing. Of course, civilization requires a modicum of material prosperity, enough to provide a little leisure. But far more, it requires confidence. confidence in the society in which one lives, belief in its philosophy, belief in its laws, confidence in one's own mental powers. The way the stones of that bridge are laid is not only a triumph of technical skill, but it shows a vigorous belief in discipline and law, energy, vitality. All the great civilizations or civilizing epochs have had a weight of energy behind them. 

People sometimes think that civilization consists in fine sensibilities and good conversation and all that. While these can be among the agreeable results of civilization, but they are not what makes a civilization. And a society can have these amenities and yet be dead and rigid. 

So if one asks why the civilization of Greece and Rome collapsed, the real answer is that it was exhausted. All right, there's a ton here. First, I love that last part about the symphony. The symphony isn't what makes a people civilized. 

A symphony is the result of a civilization. 

Right? You have a civilization that believes in itself and is hopeful and is good. And from that comes a symphony and all and art and other wonderful things. Also, we played this on my radio show and we talked about President Trump and how President Trump is America's best cheerleader. That's why he always goes around the world and says, America's hot. He wants us to have confidence in ourselves and where we can go. 

and where we're going. But I want to focus on that last line here. He said that ancient Greece and Rome, they collapsed because they were in short exhausted. Same reason. I think it's one of the main reasons why people voted for Biden in the two elections ago, because the left in their derangement made people exhausted every day. TDS nonstop end of the world chaos. 

And people were just like, enough already. I can't take it anymore. Make it stop. Just vote, whatever, for the grandpa. I don't care. Like, could we just go back to normal? 

And people voted for Biden because it was normal, they thought. And he made our country more extreme and worse than ever. But I share that to encourage you to not get exhausted. If I could share a quick crusade story, the book's downstairs. Raymond Ibrahim's book, Defenders of the West. I just read about the first crusade and three years, three years. 

hiking across the continent, fighting battle after battle. There was an eight month siege of Antioch and they were dying. The Crusaders were dying. They're starving to death. And they finally won that battle. And then they went on to Jerusalem where they were intended to go. 

And they're out there for months doing this siege and there was no food. There was no food. They had no water. 

They were so thirsty that when a horse died, they would drink the horse blood. 

What is that? So finally a prayer was answered and some Italian ships showed up with siege equipment. So a siege tower, this huge tower, 60 feet tall, and you push it up on wheels and you push it up against the wall. And then this bridge falls down and you can climb over the bridge. And now you're inside on the other side of the walls, right? right? 

So the ship showed up and had the siege tower on it, but the crusader, the ship landed 40 miles away from Jerusalem. So they had to move the siege tower 40 miles, but It was in pieces. They had to move the pieces and then put it together. 40 miles. 40 miles! Two marathons. 

The beams were so heavy they would take 60 men to carry. These men already fought battles. They're already years away from home. They're starving. They're so desperate they're drinking horse blood. They don't have protein powder that they can scoop up every night to make sure they have their protein and calories for the day. 

They're starving to death. And they go on 40 mile hikes to carry the seizure equipment with 60 men carrying the beams. Like, what are you talking about? With no food and no water. And we were like, we sit here today like, well, we're so tired. The news. 

It's so tiring. I can't even like, oh man, toughen up. And I bet these ancients are way smarter than the people on the beaches in Florida too. 

Let's go to the Bible. 

Actually, before we go to the Bible. All right. So I have this book here. It's one of my favorite books. It's called Scripture, Emblems and Allegories. That's awesome. 

It's from 1859. Let me, and honestly, I'm not even kidding. Right before I started recording, it was just sitting here. I have a couple of books here. They're like resource books. They're like, um, like some hymn books and poetry books and stuff like this. 

Like quick little things you can just pick up if you have a minute. Um, and I just picked it. I was like, Oh, I bet there's something here relevant. I'm not even kidding. I promise you. It was just sitting right here. 

I was like, Oh, I wonder if I open it up and I'll like take a minute and like find something relevant. It's the first page I opened to. Okay. Let me show it to you. I got to put the mic down. I'm holding the mic. 

So let me put the mic down, show you the picture. 

Don't show up. Okay, there you go. Can I see the woman? like a little girl holding a snake. OK, that's the picture. Let me read and then we'll get to the Bible. 

This is a chapter about, oh, it's First Corinthians 14, verse 20. Be not children in understanding. The title is Simplicity. Deep in a meadow of rich verdure green, a simple child of beauteous form is seen, pleased with the serpent's fascinating charms. She fondly takes it in her circling arms. Nor of the brilliant snake thinks aught of fear, though death among its charms lies lurking there. 

All right, so she picks up a snake and she's not she's totally clueless about how dangerous it is. But when the cricket's harmless form appears, she's much affrighted and burst forth in tears. Although it's merry chirp, no dangers bring, nor in its homely shape ever wears a sting. It's not going to hurt you. Just so the youth deceived by beauty's form, nor knows that roses always bear a thorn. Choose then for mates alone the good and wise and learn the homely never to despise. 

And then it goes on and explains the picture. while she's frightened at homeliness, accompanied by innocence and song. She's scared of the grasshopper. This is an emblem of the young. and inexperienced. Now in this book, 1849 young was like seven. 

We're talking about 22 year olds. The term simple or simplicity has a twofold meaning in scripture. There are the simple whom quote the Lord preserveth and the simple who pass on and are punished. And the first instance, it signifies sincerity, innocence, and the second folly or want of understanding. It may therefore be applied to the young. and the inconsiderate of all ages, who, for want of knowledge and experience, act without considering the consequences of their actions. 

The youth knows not how to judge of objects that present themselves before him. Inexperienced, he knows not how to choose a right. He is in constant danger of putting evil for good and good for evil, bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. Hence, he needs the instruction of God's holy word to enable him to discern the things that are excellent, to prove all things and hold fast that which is good. Above all, he needs the enlightening influencing of the Holy Spirit to give him understanding and guide him into all truth. This want of understanding, moreover, displays itself in the wrong choice that is often made of companions. 

Think about everyone at spring break. While the homely person who may have much of wisdom and goodness is rejected, the accomplished villain is selected as a bosom friend. But we'd bring the word bosom back. No one ever used the word bosom anymore. The youth, deceived by his showery exterior and smooth tongue, unbosoms himself to him without reserve. The villain laughs at his simplicity, betrays his confidence and leads him into ruin, irreparable, irreparable. 

Hence, how necessary it is that the inexperienced youth should seek the counsel of the aged and the wise, and follow the godly admonitions of parents and guardians. This would save them many a false step and much misery. I'm sorry, let me add my joke in here. This would save the many a false step in STDs and much misery in the afterlife. Appearances are, we had in college, I forget what class it was, some lecture hall. The day before spring break, all he did was show pictures of STDs. 

And he said, have a great spring break, everybody. Appearances are deceitful. The ignis fatus means, what's ignis fatus means? Like the foolish fire. Looks like a friendly light, but it betrays the unwary traveler down to the secret chambers of death. Poisoned berries sometimes look like tempting grapes. 

Ice, though it may seem firm, oftentimes breaks in and plunges the rash youth into a watery grave. Wine, relevant here, when it giveth its color in the cup, at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like a snake. It was when Eve saw that the tree was pleasant to the eye that she took of the fruit thereof, by which act she lost Eden and brought death into our world and all of our woe. Last part here, if then an act seemed to be right, be sure it is so before you do it. If anything appears to be good, Be sure it is before you touch it. If any of your acquaintances seem to be virtuous, be sure that they are before you take them for friends. 

The simple pass on and are punished, but he that trusteth in the Lord shall be delivered. And then it ends with a little poem. Ye simple souls that stray far from the paths of peace, that lonely, unfrequented way to life and happiness. All right, so we have the path to peace. It's lonely and no one takes it. 

Why will ye folly love and throng the downward road and hate the wisdom from above? 

and mock the sons of God. 1859 scripture emblems and allegories. Great little book. All right, let's go to the Bible. Isaiah 513. Now that's the scripture I wanted to quote. 

but if I go a little earlier, if we start a little earlier, it's actually so on the nose. So the point of this, one of the origins of this podcast is like there'll be a news story. I forget what it was even, but it was like a news story years ago. There'd be a news story. And I was like, wow, that's like, I just read a story like this in the Bible. It's unbelievable. 

Like it's right there. The Bible's right there. And then that kept happening. And I was like, well, I wonder if everything's in the Bible. And sure enough, it's all there. This one is so on the nose. 

I didn't even mean to. I was looking for Isaiah 513. I didn't realize when I was looking for Isaiah 513 that Isaiah 5 like 9 is basically the spring break scripture. Woe to those who rise early in the morning that they may follow intoxicating drink. who continue until night till wine inflames them. Now that's Spring Break. 

Now, Spring Breakers aren't necessarily rising early in the morning. 

They're going to bed early in the morning. 

So it's not the time so much as the fact that as soon as they get up, it's about finding the intoxicating drink. And that's all they think about and all they're concerned about. Hey, what are you doing in Spring Break? Getting drunk! The harp and the strings, the tambourine and flute are wine. And wine are in their feasts. 

The clubs, I've been to some clubs. It's the worst. It's my absolute hell on earth. They didn't have harps and flutes. That wasn't the music of choice at these horrible places. If it were, I might've enjoyed it. 

The harp and the strings, the tambourine and flute and wine are in their feasts, but they do not regard the work of the Lord, nor consider the operation of his hands. The problem with this lifestyle or even this week, although people doing this is not just one week out of the year. This is what they do. This is the, this is college. This is what college is. It's a very expensive four year party at the rate. 

These people are going and maybe a five or six year party for hundreds of thousands of dollars. The problem with this lifestyle is God's not a part of it. God's not considered one of the girls in the video who was most graphic probably was wearing a cross necklace. She had a gold cross necklace, but God is not on her mind. Therefore, the scripture says, therefore, all right, so you're not considering the Lord. You're getting drunk. 

You're partying. What happens now? Therefore, my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge. God's people were taken over by neighboring kingdoms. They were cursed. That was awesome about the scriptures. 

It's in the perfect tense. 

It says, my people have gone into captivity, have gone. So it means it hasn't happened yet technically, but it's already done. Right? So it's, it's inevitable. It will happen because they've abandoned God. They're partying. 

They're not of God. They have no knowledge of God. And either do we, we don't have to be partying in Miami. to live a life that has no knowledge of God. There are temporary atheists all the time. We all the time say we know God and then we act like we don't. 

And just to prove that this scripture is not just for the spring breakers of thousands of years ago, the next line says, their honorable men are famished and their multitude dried up with thirst. So it's everyone, it doesn't matter. It could be the few leaders, the honorable men, or it could be the multitude, regular people, right? It doesn't matter. They're all unrighteous and God will not be mocked. Hosea 4 .6 says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. 

because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you. " Now, he's not talking about how many senators are there of knowledge, although that's a good thing to know as well. We're talking about the knowledge of God. Now, in universities, we have the entire education system, public education system, certainly we have the blind leading the blind. In many ways, I don't blame these kids. 

I do, of course, it's their lives. They need to take control of it, but they've been taught nothing more. They've been taught nothing better. They've graduated without having to know how many senators there are in America, but worse than that, they've grown up in a culture that expects nothing of them and a culture that doesn't focus on God either. If we can become a culture again, that has high expectations, high standards, and focuses and loves God. The prayer is that over time, for more people, these choices, to pick up that serpent, to hook up with 10 guys in 10 days, won't even be desirable in the first place. 

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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.