Some people are terrified of Trump being president. It's our job to prove them wrong by doing what's right and good. We also need to help people see how hysterical the media has made them. If you have any additions to our "Trump Fear Master List" please send a tweet to Slaterradio.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Thank you for being here. Today's show is fun on SiriusXM Patriot. Just very short of what we did, someone called in yesterday and said their son and daughter-in-law has TDS and he just wants some advice on how to help them. I happen to write a book on this called How to Change Someone's Mind.

It's $5. I think I get $1.22 or something every time you buy one. But someone called in with the advice of ask your family member, friend, co-worker to write out their fears. Literally write out what you're afraid of in a Trump presidency, what he will do. And then we had a teacher from Delaware call in and said, I actually did that with my students,

my high school students. And they wrote out, you know, Trump's going to ban all contraception or whatever. Actually got to add that one to the list. Anyway, so we did it on the radio today. I said, all right, call in. I don't think I wrote this one down. Yeah, right down. A band contraception. And, um,

people called in with their friends, family, coworkers, what they've heard about, uh, what they're scared about with Trump. And I mean, it's crazy. Like they're, someone called and said their gay stepson says that Trump's going to go after gay rights. I don't even know what that means. Trump is going to track menstrual cycles.

There's going to be more school shootings, more pregnancy deaths, more people dying from curable diseases, more white cops killing black people, Muslims and Latinos dying in deportation camps, the elimination of the constitution, no more voting, eliminate social security. My grown daughter believes she won't be able to access her bank account or open a new one without her husband's signature.

Dictator on day one. So the reason you write these out because it's just good for you to get it out of your head. But also we can come back, well on day two we can come back and be like, well he's not a dictator on day one, so that one's not true. But we can come back six months, a year, two years later, four years later and say, hey listen, you were made hysterical. Let's see if any of these things came true. Okay?

And then when none of them did, hopefully they realized that they were made hysterical by the media. And then scales can fall from the rise. So that was fun and important and I'm putting together this list

and I'll send it over to the guys at Breitbart and maybe they'll put it up on the website there and we can keep adding to their fears and we will prove them wrong. So today I wanna talk about Isaiah 49 15. Can a woman forget her nursing child and not have compassion on the son of her womb?

Surely they may forget. Hold on. A woman would forget to take care of her child? They may. But God says, Yet I will not forget you.

Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of my hands. The point here is as much as a new mom wants to take care of and love her newborn baby. God loves you more. God is saying that he has you inscribed on the palms of his hands. When I first read this you can think that it's like someone has God written on their hands. No, no, no. God has you on his. Two points here. This is a permanent remembrance. I say that the King James

Version, I think it speaks more to this permanence. It says, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands. I've graven you. So it speaks to a permanency and it speaks to an intimacy. You're carved on his hands. His loving, tender, caring hands. And the point of this section is that even when things look tough, God has not forgotten the Israelites and his plan for them has never changed. God keeps his promises and it's a foreshadowing I believe to Jesus and the nails that went through his

hands for you when after the resurrection he said look at my hands but one of my favorite aspects of this and this just drives it home even more, and I didn't pick up on it, of course Spurgeon did. Notice the scripture doesn't say, God doesn't say, I have engraved your name on my hand. And that'd be nice. Mike Slater, there it is right there.

No, it says, I have inscribed your person, your image, your case, your circumstances, your sins, your temptations, your weaknesses, your wants, your works. I have graven thee, everything about you, all that concerns you. I have put every bit of you right there in my hands. If that is true, and it is, can you ever again say that your God has forsaken you? How can you ever think that when it says here that He has engraved you, everything about you, all of you, the fullness of you, on His hands? We've got to stop worrying about on his hands.

We got to stop worrying about things.

I'll give you a political one, but you know, there's more of these in your life than this one. I think we made the point the other day that it is better that Trump be the president now than in 2020. In 2020, he didn't have the Democrats at the House and the Senate. And Mike Pence was the vice president, and there were a

bunch of like Mike Kellys in his administration. And now Trump will have the House and the Senate for Republican control, and JD Vance has been swapped out for Mike Pence, or Mike Pence has been swapped out in for JD,

and all the deep state guys are gone. It's a totally way, way better scenario now, actually. And you have better examples in your life of something that happened and it seemed terrible. Maybe it was terrible and you didn't know why. And years go by, decades can go by.

And you're like, oh, oh yeah, oh, okay. Like we need to never forget those moments because it helps us realize, oh yeah, he, I, I am engraved in his loving hands. We need to stop worrying about things. in His loving hands.

We need to stop worrying about things. That doesn't mean we'd stop caring. Doesn't mean we'd stop engaging. Just stop worrying. And we can say that with great confidence because the Scriptures say,

don't worry. Let all of this be another reminder that God is in control and loves you. I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Mike Slater dot locals dot com I hope you have a wonderful weekend. Mike Slater dot locals dot com transcript and no commercials on the website Mike Slater dot locals dot com

There is plenty to celebrate today and a lot to be excited about. As for Trump, will he be a Jehu or will God use him as a Josiah? Either way, we have our commission. 

Politics by Faith brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Here we go, our first episode since the election that Donald Trump won and Republicans took the Senate and most likely will now take the House. And to get even more excited about this, the 250th anniversary of America is coming up in two years now. I brought this up about a year or so ago.

I was like, we're coming up on the 250 and no one did. So I looked at the bicentennial and it was like a 10 year buildup of committees and figuring out what they were gonna do and they were gonna have one big party. They decided to have a bunch of little parties

across the country, smaller parties, but it was like a whole thing and they had a logo. And it was a 10 year process and we're two years away and no one's done anything. And sure enough, Donald Trump, the very first video he made after he won was about the party he's gonna throw

for our 250th anniversary. I just think about what party Kamala would have thrown. Right, if the left was in charge, it'd be like, like one big, like America is evil and awful, and we had slavery, like, like struggle session instead of what we're gonna do now.

But not only do we have 250th anniversary, the 2026 World Cup is in America, and the 2028 Olympics are in Los Angeles. Come on now. It's going to be a fun four years. It really is.

It's going to be a fun four years because the left is not only did we win but just the left was soundly rebuked and we can now get down to business. It's also better that Trump is the president now than in 2020 because if he won in 2020, then he would have had a Democrat house and a Democrat Senate. So nothing would have happened, just impeachment. He would have been impeached 142 times.

None of his appointments would have gotten through the Senate. Nothing would happen. And there was one Supreme Court fulfillment that Biden did. There's a chance, certainly Biden will, excuse me, Trump will do two now. Clarence Thomas and Alito. Sonia Sotomayor has some health issues so there may be three again. But even if Trump just appoints these next two, he will have appointed a majority of the Supreme

Court. That has only happened, see I wrote this down somewhere, that's only happened Lincoln and Taft and Trump. Incredible. So it's gonna be a fun next few years and and the way God works it's better to have Trump be present. Oh also Trump got rid of all this deep state guys that were in his cabinet right there's no more Mike Kelly's there anymore. Got rid of Pence and replaced him with JD Vance and there's way more of a future now for the MAGA movement moving forward than there would have been if Trump was the president in 2020.

So this is way better. And I hope you're feeling good about it. I got a wonderful text from my wife yesterday. I thought was really good. She said when the election results are coming in, she said, I'm so happy for him in our country. God is so good to us because Kamala is what we deserve. I think that's right. And I'm excited for the next four years because sure we won on Tuesday, but now we have to

win every day. We have to govern every day. We have to do what is right every day. And there's no excuses right now because the left has no control over anything. No excuses. We have to be great and we have to do well and we have to do good.

Proverbs 11 5 says, The righteousness of the blameless keeps his way straight, but the wicked falls by his own wickedness. And then verse 10, When it goes well with the righteous, the city rejoices, and when the wicked perish, there are shouts of gladness. I want to steal a point from Josh Howerton. He said,

We did not elect a perfect man. He said, We elected Jehu. His point is, we need to keep praying. It's not like we won. Yay, hooray, we're done. No, no, no, you got to keep praying always. We didn't elect a perfect man. He said, We elected a Jehu, a flawed leader who defeated a greater evil, not a Josiah, a righteous leader who led a national revival.

And that comes with its risks. So let's chat about that. So who's Jehu? The king of Israel before him was Ahab, and he was awful. That's not my assessment, that is God's. First Kings 1630 says that Ahab did more evil

in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. He married Jezebel, and they worshiped Baal, and just couldn't have been worse. So God chose Jehu to enact his judgment against Ahab and Ahab's family. And Jehu, among other things, he killed all the priests of Baal and destroyed their temple for Baal worship and restored the kingdom. And God was happy. Second Kings 10 says that the

Lord said to Jehu, because you have done well in carrying out what is right in my eyes, and have done to the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, your sons of the fourth generation shall sit on the throne of Israel." Pretty good. But Jehu did not destroy all the idols in Israel. He did not destroy the golden calves. The Bible says, but Jehu did not turn aside from the sins of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat,

which he made Israel to sin. That is the golden calves that were in Bethel and in Dan. So even though Baal worship was gone, other types of idolatry remained. And there's questions like, why not? Like, what's up, Jehu?

Why did you go all the way? There's one theory, and I don't know, but there's one theory that Baal was seen as a foreign god. So he's like, let's get rid of that, but the golden calves are seen as more of like a like a domestic god, created and installed by Israel, so he didn't get rid of those. We don't

exactly know why he didn't get rid of it, but God wasn't happy and he decreased the size and power of of Israel when he was king. I like this analysis. Through Jehu, we can learn that although it is true that God blesses and grants success to those who seek to obey him, which we must, God also can and will pull away his blessing from one who willfully chooses to live in sin. As Jesus says in Matthew 6 24, no one can serve two masters. Either you will hate one and love the other or you will be devoted to one and despise the other. We cannot serve God while continuing to

hold on to false gods. So the argument from Josh Howerton is that Trump could be more like Jehu, meaning way better than Ahab, and still do amazing things, but not fully what we need, as opposed to a Josiah. Josiah was the son and grandson of two wicked kings, began his reign at eight, and this is when they rediscovered the law of the Lord. 2 Kings 22. He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord and walked in all the way of David his father and he did not turn aside to the right or to the left. Josiah, he did it right. He rebuilt the temple and when

they found the book of the law he mourned and repented and led a national repentance and revival. Now who knows, I don't know what's going to happen in the next four years. Maybe Trump can do that too. God can do amazing things. But I'm okay with Trump leading the political effort and the rest. You know, we can do ourselves. I don't say we can do ourselves. God can work through us too. Not everything has to go through one man.

We should do a study on Josiah. God said, before him there was no king like him, who turned to the Lord with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his might, according to all the law of Moses, nor did any like him arise after him." So we need to keep praying for Trump, the people around him, goodness, just our government in general, this country.

We won an election, but we didn't save our country yet. You with me? We have a lot of stuff to do. But then the main priority, of course, we can't forget, is to save souls. That's our main job, make disciples,

to live godly lives, glorify God in all that we do, whether we're governing countries, or parents, kids, employees, whatever it is. Oh, I got a great email. This is perfect. I just got a wonderful email.

I got a ton of emails today. So where am I gonna find this? I could press pause and just come back momentarily.

Here it is. It's from Steven.

Always encouraged to hear your show, keep up the good work. Here I'm putting my 38 years of industry experience to use by training up godly computer scientists to go into the mission field of technology. Isn't that awesome?

He's a professor at a university. He's training up godly, not just computer scientists, to go get a job. He's training up godly computer scientists to go into a mission field that is technology. That is a perfect example, that's from Stephen,

of glorifying God in whatever we do. Wonderful. And there's ways to glorify God through political processes and it's gonna be fun and it's gonna be exciting and we are gonna make people's lives better. We had a phone call yesterday from somebody who's like,

hey, let's not over complicate what happened here. The Biden-Harris administration passed policies, mainly $6 trillion in new spending and open borders. They did those two things and it hurt people. I was gonna say made people's lives worse. That's true too, but it hurt people.

Their policies hurt people. We need to now enact policies that help people. We're going to make people's lives better. But we also can't lose sight of salvation. That's the ultimate goal. Political leaders come and go.

God is forever. We have to always focus on Him first and foremost. Praise Him and glorify Him. MikeSlater.Locals.com Transcript and no commercials. Transcript and no commercials. MikeSlater.Locals.com

If you waited to vote until election day, that's great. Plan for an all-day affair. Get in line and stay in line. Outlast the other side. This is it.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Global Group. We started this podcast a little over a year ago, and the whole point of it was there's a lot of anxiety in our political world. And every day or so I wanted to talk about how there's nothing new under the sun, and we can work through this anxiety so that we can think clearer and act smarter, wiser. That's the whole point of the podcast. And now here we are,

the day before the election. This is it, peak of anxiety, maybe? Let's talk for a second if Kamala wins. Hold on, Slater, that's not helping my anxiety. I happened to read this morning, Judges 6. The people of Israel, this is 6-1, the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the Lord. And the Lord gave them into the hand of Midian seven years. There will be lots of after-action reports if Kamala wins. How did she pull it off? What happened? Why?

But not enough people will be talking about the Lord's judgment against us is why Kamala wins. I don't think she'll win but if she does that will be why. You may be a Christian or no Christian who is not going to vote this year. I want to play this clip of Charlie Kirk on a college

campus. I don't understand how you can be Christian and still support Trump. I just see him he's he's a liar he cheats he supports dictators like Putin, Kim Jong-un. I mean, as a Christian, I think that...

Are you a Christian?

Yeah. I just think that as a Christian, a person should try to always do the right thing. Which one is closer to biblical principles, the Democrat platform or the Republican platform?

I think Democrats do a better job representing godly values.

Hold on.

Wait, wait, hold on. The Democrats do a better job representing godly values? Let me ask you, outside of their convention in Chicago, they had an abortion truck? Is that a godly value?

So neither side is perfect.

Hold on, hold on, I want to make sure. Joe Biden changed Easter to the Transgender Day of Awareness, did you know that? How is that a godly value? Yeah. Kamala Harris wants no restrictions on abortion in every state across the country. She believes that minors should be able to be medically mutilated. There are 320,000 kids that are missing in sex traffic in this country, borders are wide open, we have two wars.

How is any of that stuff godly values? You asked how we could support Trump, because you're actually not voting for Trump or Harris. You're voting for 5,000 people that will better fit your worldview.

The last point is the most important. People are so caught up on voting for Trump or Kamala. You're not really voting for either. Actually, you're technically not at all. You're voting for the electors of those people. But even when they go into office, you're voting for a worldview.

You're voting for a worldview that then puts in place a system that operates in DC. The system is what runs committee hearings and bills and the military and international negotiations, stuff like that. It's a worldview that puts in place a system. So if you're all, someone, or you know, is caught up with, oh, Trump is so mean. First of all, I want him to be mean to President Putin and Xi in Russia and China. I want someone who's going to be mean to them and protect America.

But you're voting for a worldview. And it's okay to vote against another worldview, too, that is evil. This argument's been an argument for a long time, the lesser of two evils. That's not an argument. Like, yeah, you vote for the lesser of two evils.

Like, I can't vote for the lesser of two evils. Why not? Like you would definitely vote for the lesser. I don't understand that. Like, why is that an argument to not vote? Vote for the lesser of two if there's two evils, and you have to pick one, you should pick the lesser of the two. Right? So that's just some last second thoughts as we go into the big

day tomorrow. Let's turn anxiety into excitement. Anxiety is never good. Be anxious for nothing. Keep repeating that over and over to yourself. Be anxious for nothing. Jesus has overcome the world and he can control the outcome of this election too.

But when you overcome the world, what does that mean? It means a lot of different things, but part of it is anxiety. John 14, 27 says, Peace I leave with you. My peace I give you. He wants you to have peace. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

And of course, Philippians 4, I recorded the other day, and peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Peace, peace, peace. Now, I don't want this to come across like I'm planning for a convoluted victory, but I do think it's worth preparing for the worst. Any time you get anxious in the next 24 hours, 48 hours, think, I'm not anxious, I'm excited, and then focus on Jesus and how he overcame the world and how everything is under his control.

And worst case scenario, if our country needs some judgment for turning away from God as profoundly as we have, and so be it. We can find peace in that as well. But it is the day before the election as I record this. We can still do our part.

I wanna play here our opening segment we did on the radio today, a little SiriusXM free of charge. My final call to action. People of course ask me who's gonna win. Like I know, I have no idea, I don't know.

Based on my gut, and based on data, like party registration, I think Trump wins by a lot I don't know I thought it was a name who's the guy in Alabama the Senate more Rob Moore what's the guy's name the guy wrote it on a horse or whatever I've been wrong a lot so I don't know my gut

whatever but there's people on the left they could be psyops they could just be just hoping and way off to I don't know they think Kamala's gonna crush it tomorrow so it all comes down to who shows up it all comes down to who shows up and that's why today right now opening segment I want to talk about the pilgrims I am grateful for the pilgrims Slater why on earth the day before election day are you going to waste time talking about the pilgrims? No, no, this is my final pitch. This is my

final pitch. If you voted early, awesome, great, well done. If you wanted to wait to vote tomorrow, because tomorrow's the big day and that's what you've always done and it's election day and that's great. Awesome. No excuses. That's fantastic. You want to vote on election day? There are no excuses.

You left it to the final day. It's all good. There is no Wednesday voting. There is no, well, I went to vote, but the line was way longer than I thought. So I didn't. But I really want Trump to win, so that's enough. Like, no, that's not a thing. Really wanting something means nothing. And do not for one second, I have zero patience, today or tomorrow, for anyone saying you're not gonna vote because you think they'll cheat.

That is such a loser attitude, it is not allowed. If you do not vote because you think they will cheat, you just guaranteed them victory, so thanks for nothing. So put that out of your head for two days. We'll cross that bridge when we get to it. If you waited to vote until tomorrow.

Again, I find your dedication to tradition admirable. Prepare for an eight-hour day. Prepare for an eight-hour day. Just what we've seen out of Bucks County, Pennsylvania and a bunch of swing states, and heck, even here in Tennessee, I voted early last Monday at three o'clock in the afternoon in a super red area and the line was over 30 minutes. I was like what? So like there's a huge turnout in

Franklin Tennessee. So prepare if you're if you're any anywhere but certainly if you're in any swing state prepare for hours and hours and hours of standing. Bring a chair, bring food, bring water, I'm not kidding, prepare for the worst. Prepare for a voting day like you've never seen before. Pretend it's a tailgate. You're not, it's not even voting day. But as my friend said about Neyland Stadium, I asked about the University of Tennessee Stadium and the seats. He's like, oh they're horribly uncomfortable bleachers and they pack

and it's really uncomfortable, but it's war. So he said, if you go to Neyland Stadium, it's war. You're not there for comfort, you're there for war. It's battle. And same thing when you vote.

It'll be like no other time you've ever voted.

I think, if I look back at all the times I've ever voted in my life, five minutes max. I don't think I've ever waited longer than five minutes. That will not be the case tomorrow. You cannot vote on your lunch break. You cannot take 15 minutes like I got a meeting at 1230 and this one should wrap up at 1145 but then it ends up wrapping up at 12 so you're

like I'll go real quick by the time I get there I'll have like 15 minutes. No, no, no, no, no, no, not a thing tomorrow.

This is voting.

And tomorrow is not a thing that you can knock out at the end of the day. You're like, okay, work ends at six. Can we get over there at 6 45 polls close at 7 30 or eight. I think I, I hate maybe because I don't know, but I can like get it. No, nope. There is no, I should be fine. That is not a thing this year.

Prepare for an eight hour day, an eight hour line and act accordingly. You with me? And I'm saying this because Bernie Moreno, I run for Senate in Ohio, he told us a week or so ago that 20% of Republicans who say they're going to vote on Election Day don't. 20% of Republicans who say they're going to vote on Election Day don't. And some of that's out of laziness or just whatever.

But there's also really good excuses too. There's plenty of good excuses. I want none of those excuses tomorrow. No excuses. Because I guarantee you, you want to know what's going to happen? You want my prediction?

If 20% of Republicans don't show up tomorrow, we lose. That is a fact. At this stage, it's just like sports radio. Who's going to win the big game tomorrow? Who's going to win the Super Bowl? Who's going to win the, you know, it's always like the, like, well, it's whoever shows up.

Like, that's it. So if your football team is playing this weekend and you're trying to figure out who's going to win, I guarantee you if the quarterback doesn't show up, you're going to lose. If 20% of Republicans don't show up, we're going to lose. All right, here's my final pitch.

I love the pilgrims.

I don't think they get nearly enough focus. I don't think they're nearly enough a part of our culture. I know we're coming up on Thanksgiving, so maybe like your kids will dress up in a funny hat with the buckle on it, whatever. But like the fact that our pilgrims have been

denigrated to just merely people with funny hats, we would be a totally different country. First of all, we'd be a totally different country if instead of pilgrims being Puritans from England by way of Holland, they were people from Saudi Arabia. Let's just think about that as an alternative history.

If our founding grandfathers were from China or Egypt or Spain, but they weren't. They were Christian Puritans from England and I thank God for that.

And also, if we focus more on the pilgrims,

and maybe we're more of an identity, more of a cultural marker today, we would be a different people. There's no question about that. If our kids really learned about the pilgrims in school, and if we really learned about what the people

on the Mayflower had to experience to come to America, and what they saw as a holy mission, if we had that same mentality today, we would be a different country. The academic left has downplayed the pilgrims and their search for religious freedom as a part of their mission to take God out of our founding and therefore God out of our

culture today. But it's the most important reason why they left England. James I, the king, was putting Puritans in prison, or worse. So they fled for a promised land. They truly viewed themselves as if it was Moses parting the Red Sea, crossing the Atlantic to start a new nation. And crossing this new nation was awful, and I promise you I'm going to bring it back to

the election in two minutes. It was awful. I cannot fathom the misery of it. They started on two ships, but one of them, the Speedwell, broke down, so they had to all stuff on one, the Mayflower. So you had two ships' worth of people on one ship.

cramped, damp, disgusting, storms knocking over the chamber pot where they all slept. Constant storms. Then they finally get there two months later. Two months! No Netflix! Two months?

What's the longest airplane ride you've ever been on? Infinitely more comfortable than what they were putting up with on the Mayflower. They finally get there, they're like, oh, yeah, look land. It's winter So they got to stay on the boat for five more months and that's when half of everyone died Frozen to death starve to death under the deck freezing five foot tall ceilings can't stand up nothing to do Nothing to do but sit there

against e sick Dying you ever been cold before Since you ever been cold? How cold? How cold? What's the coldest you've ever been? The kids the other day brought, we have a, our favorite blanket is on the couch downstairs, it's a great blanket, we got it at Costco like 10 years ago, it's a great blanket, and the kids brought it upstairs. I don't like

to think about it. It was a terrible like 10 minutes. Because the temperature was like two or three degrees colder than my liking and no blanket to get comfy in. Now imagine Die, you're so cold. And half the people around you are dying, a slow, miserable death of starvation and freezing. All of this, so that maybe you can make it

to when it warms up, and you can hop off the boat, and then go chop down trees so you can build a house. That's like insane, it's crazy.

They thought they were going to Virginia,

they ended up in Massachusetts, there's no food, these Indians are going to kill us, everyone's dying, we don't know how to farm this land, there's no animals to use these plows that we brought over, we brought over these plows so we could find a cow or horse, and there are none, so now we're going to have to plow the land by hand? Insane. Let me quote this from William Bradford, he was the leader of the guys on the Mayflower,

men and women being thus past the vast ocean and a sea of troubles before in their preparation they had now no friends to welcome them nor ends to entertain or refresh their weather-beaten bodies no houses or much less towns to repair to seek for sucker to like comfort and for the season it was winter and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

Dangerous to travel to known places, much more to search of unknown coasts. Besides, what could they see but a hideous and desolate wilderness, full of wild beasts and wild men. And what multitudes there might be of them they knew not." We don't know what's in there. So we're going to cultivate this little piece of land here and what's inside that forest? I don't know. But whatever it is wants to kill us. What could now sustain them but the Spirit

of God and His grace? I think about the pilgrims and the reason I bring up the pilgrims and the misery of everything they had to go through to get here to found this country is because all I ask you to do is stand in line and stay in line. One of the pastors of these pilgrims, John Robinson was his name, when they decided to make their journey, called for a day of fasting and humiliation, humbling yourself to God. And he preached from Ezra 821, and there, at the river, I proclaim to fast, that we

might humble ourselves before our God and seek of him a right way for us and for our children and for all our substance. Why is Ezra an important part? Quick background. The Jews were taken captive by Babylon and they were captive for something like 70 years and Ezra was able to convince the king to send the Jews back to Jerusalem to rebuild their temple and he let them. But Ezra didn't ask for any protection from the king on their travels back to Jerusalem because he told the king that God's favor was with them

and God would protect them. So that's kind of a bad look. If he's like, oh no, you have to let us go because God will protect us on the journey. Oh, by the way, can we also have a bunch of your military to protect us?

Like, that doesn't work. So Ezra was praying, proclaiming a fast, humbling ourselves, himself, before God to protect him and the children on their journey. And it's the same thing our pilgrims did. And as horrible as it was,

have you ever been on a boat for a long time? Like, I don't love boats. People are like, you wanna go on a boat, like on a lake? I'm like, eh, like how long? You know what I mean, like half a day? There's no, because you can't get out.

Like you're stuck. When you're on the boat, you're stuck. And I don't love boats. I did a half day fishing trip in San Diego once. It's like, mm, I mean, I threw up the whole time but what's long as you've been on but one guy got swept overboard on the Mayflower during a

storm so man how brutal that is but it didn't matter as the pastor said they knew they were pilgrims and looked not much on those things but lifted up their eyes to the heavens their dearest country and quieted their spirits I think of how miserable and horrible it was for the pilgrims, and all I ask for you to do is stand in line and vote." When they got on land, Bradford said of his fellow pilgrims, they fell upon their knees

and blessed the God of heaven, who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth. When you vote tomorrow, is there voting today? Is anyone voting today? I don't know. Every state's different, right?

I think today's more like a staging day for a lot of places. So when you vote tomorrow, you get your little sticker. Actually, don't do it before. As you're standing in line tomorrow, and it's on hour four, and you've never stood in line for more than seven minutes in your life and the longest you've ever stood in line is like Disney World but at least there was a roller coaster at the end of it and there's no there's no like fun

thing at the end of this while you're standing a line think of the pilgrims think of them landing on land for the first time on their knees praising God let's do the same let's praise God that we can live in a country where you can vote and where you did your part.

I'll end with a story from like a hundred years ago. His name was Samuel Elliot Morrison. He said the pilgrims, a simple people, inspired by an ardent faith in God, a dauntless courage in danger, a boundless resourcefulness in the face of difficulty. This is why I think we'd be a better people, we'd be a different people, a better people if we really, really actually taught the pilgrims.

And not just taught the pilgrims, like felt connected to the pilgrims. Like these were our people. These are our founding grandfathers. If we really, truly, deeply were connected to the pilgrims, we'd be a different people. A boundless resourcefulness in the face of difficulties. An impregnable fortitude and adversity.

Thus they have in some measure become the spiritual ancestors of all Americans. All I ask you to do is stand in line and vote. But no, it's going to take way longer to vote than it's ever taken you before. That's my call to action. That's my message. That's all I've been thinking about the last few days.

Channel the pilgrims. Channel the pilgrims. If they can do what they did, we can vote.