Somehow, Rand Paul published Tony Fauci's diary. The contents of the diary prove, of course, that he lied, but it also reveals a fact about human nature: people like to be exalted by men. But we all know what happens after Pride...

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Fauci's diary has been released. That's a very funny sentence. I don't know. I really don't know what that means. Like did Rand Paul find it under Fauci's bed? I don't know how this, I don't know how they found it. 

I don't know how it got released. But we'll try to talk to Rand tomorrow or the next day and we'll get to the bottom of like, what did he hand it over? Is that Gabe Hughes diary? Or was it like, wasn't there someone, what was the diary that had something to do with Hunter Biden? Or was it like, was it maybe like Joe's daughter or something that had a diary that she was in a halfway house and then she left. And then the person who came to the halfway house after found it underneath and tried to sell. 

There's some weird story like that. So did Fauci sell a house and the new owner found the diary and handed it over to the Rand? What happened there? All right, a couple of things that we learned from this diary. He lied a lot, all thinking he knew better. January 26th, 2020, Fauci wrote in his diary, dear diary, now we know the market was not the source, it was the amplifier. 

Again, this was January 2020, where the wet market was already taken off the table, even though we were told that's how it all started. Related to the lockdown, in many interviews, he said, I didn't recommend locking anything down. I have a diary entry here that says I spoke with Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York City, and convinced him based on what I was hearing. publicly in my conversation tonight, to close the New York City schools. I went on to tell him that we should close the bars and restaurants of New York City. He said that he would base this on my recommendation. 

I had a similar call with Anne O 'Leary of Gavin Newsom's office. Anne said that based on my TV appearances today and yesterday, the governor has decided to close the schools in California as well as the bars and restaurants. We'll throw this in here. When I left the White House and crossed Pennsylvania and 17th Street, several cars honked their horns and shouted, thank you out the window. We'll get back to that one later. So he's out here saying I had nothing to do with me. I didn't know. 

I didn't recommend shutting anything down. Meanwhile, he's saying, dear diary, today I shut down New York City and all of California. He was a hero. People thanking him for it. And so this clips out there of him saying, I mean, I didn't know. I didn't recommend we shut down the schools. 

And here he is writing in his diary. I recommended to everyone that we shut down the schools. This is a noteworthy one too. This is the day that Trump knew he was hoodwinked on the whole thing. This is April 23rd, 2020. Fauci wrote in his diary, after the presser, Deb Burks texted and then called me saying it was good that I was not there since after the press, the president called her into the Oval and started yelling at her saying, you and Fauci have destroyed the country and the economy. 

I should have never listened to you. You have completely destroyed us. He kept saying this over and over again and was yelling at her. I encouraged her that we are okay and at the end of the day, she and I will be loved by the people we care about. She was relieved and after wrote me a text sincerely thanking me. stolen from him in 2020. 

His presidency was stolen from him, but really it was stolen from him eight months earlier with COVID. Fauci told Larry Kudlow that the economy wouldn't crash, but he also wrote in his diary, the stock market dropped by 3000 points, the biggest percentage drop in history. XOXO, love me. He didn't write that last part. Bigger theme though of this diary release, again, weird sentence, is from 2019, end of 2019 to early 2020, how excited he was to be the center of attention. I got a hunch that this was true, but now we see it in his diary entries. 

May 21st, 2020, he wrote in his diary, big front page article about me appeared in the Washington Post, very flattering. The situation with my national and international fame is explosive and really unimaginable. It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked about person in the country and one of the most recognizable person in the world. Felt so good writing that. He wrote about in his diary, he wrote about a correspondence with Barbara Streisand and how Barbara Streisand wrote her a letter, wrote him a letter thanking him for his constant guidance, patience, and reassurance. He wrote in his diary that they kept in contact and they would speak over the phone and that Barbara Streisand reached out to Fauci directly for medical advice, including on whether or not she and her husband should get COVID -19 boosters. 

Now here's what's important about this part of the story. One aspect of human nature is how desperately people want to feel special. Now there's good versions of this, right? It's, it's, someone may say, I want to be admired by people. Jack was just playing the piano a second ago. I want to be admired by people as a great piano player. 

Okay. Now a better goal is to just be a great piano player or to play this Beethoven piece well, to have a goal that's not dependent on other people's perceptions of you. because you can't control other people's perceptions. So that's a silly goal. The goal should be what you are in charge of, and that is playing this piece well or not. So there's something weird about wanting to be special for something great that you do, like ambition. 

But I think what I'm trying to get at here is something more than wanting to feel special, more than wanting to be admired. It's this desire to feel like you're just the VIP. You are very, very important. I got a taste of this early on in my career. A dear friend of mine was running Glenn Beck's book tour. This would have been, I don't know what year, 2010, maybe? 

And I got to go on a few stops on Glenn Beck's book tour. And they gave me the t -shirt, like the official t -shirt, and they gave me a lanyard with a plastic pass on it. And I distinctly remember the feeling of all these people lined up like chumps waiting in line to talk to Glenn Beck, but I could go under the rope. I could go anywhere I wanted. I could go in the front of the line, more than the front of the line, but why? I didn't need a line. 

I could go behind the line, like I go behind the ropes. I could go where regular people weren't even allowed to go. Regular people had to stay behind the rope, wait in line all day. I, with my lanyard, I could go under the rope and behind the scene. I could walk around like I owned the place. And I'm sure I did. 

I was 23 years old. I felt very important. So imagine you're Tony Fauci. This time it would have been 79 years old from Brooklyn, okay? You're a nobody. No one knows you. 

You've never been interviewed. No big deal, you're just some scientist who, yeah, you achieved the top of your game at the what? The National Institute of whatever that no one cares about. You're still generally a nobody. But then all of a sudden, Barbara Streisand calls you? Fellow Brooklyn native, same age as you? 

Barbara Streisand calls you, asking for your advice? Just imagine that scene for Tony, for Tony Fauci. He's sitting on his couch and his wife says, Tony, Tony, you're not gonna believe who's on the phone. Barbara Streisand. Abs is on the phone for me, are you kidding me? Okay, okay, okay, okay. 

Hello, Ms. Streisand. Yes, how are you? Yes, wonderful. Just wonderful. Oh, thank you, Ms. Streisand. It's an honor. 

No, no problem at all. You can call me anytime you'd like, Ms. Streisand. Yes, a booster. Yes, a booster's a very good idea. Absolutely. You're welcome. 

No, no, no, it's, it's, It's a scary time for everybody. These are scary times, but we'll make it through together. Miss Streisand, together. If everyone does their part, of course. Now, it's no problem at all. Miss Streisand, you call me anytime you need me, Miss Streisand. 

Thank you. You too. Thank you. Barbra Streisand, he and his wife like jumping up. Barbra Streisand called me. Me, she called me. 

Oh, I hate COVID so much. That'll mess with someone's head. Mess with their heart too. I got a list here of all these movie stars. This is, he wrote in his diary, I did a zoom call with a whole host of movie stars and athletes organized by Kim Kardashian. Here's the list. 

And he went down Michael Buble, Ariana Grande, Kendall Jenner, Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Gwyneth Paltrow, James Corden, Dwayne Wade. Oh my goodness. Let's see, who else do I know here? Orlando Bloom, Chris Rock, Katy Perry, Eric Stonestreet, the gay guy from Modern Family. Oh my goodness. are listening to me. 

It's amazing. You're gonna start to think a lot about yourself. So let's go to the Bible. Let's talk about pride. Proverbs 16, 18. Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before the fall. 

Many examples of this. One that I think about is Daniel 4, starting verse 29. Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar was walking on the roof of his royal palace of Babylon and the king answered and said, is not this great Babylon? which I have built by my mighty power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty. While the words were still in the king's mouth, there fell a voice from heaven, O King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken. 

Kingdom has departed from you, and you shall be driven from among men, and your dwelling shall be with the beasts of the field, and you shall be made to eat grass like an ox, and seven periods of time shall pass over you until you know that the Most High rules the kingdom of men. and gives it to whom he will. " Verse 33 says, immediately the word was fulfilled against Nebuchadnezzar. He was driven from among men and ate grass like an ox and his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair grew as long as eagles feathers and his nails were like birds claws. Pride. God humbled him. Turned him into a beast. Verse 34, at the end of the days, I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven. At the end of the seven year period, lifted my eyes to heaven and my reason returned to me. And what did he do? I blessed the Most High. and praised and honored him who lives forever." Love that story. One of my favorite verses on this point, and I love this so much because the Bible is the opposite of the world. And there's a couple of these that are so beautiful. 

It makes that point very clear. 1 Peter 5, humble yourself, God will exalt you. James 4 .10, humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you. Luke 14 .11, for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Just sit on that one for a second. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. 

The way to not be prideful is to acknowledge that all good things come from God, that we are capable of nothing on our own. All gifts come from Him. If we think that we are capable of things on our own, we will be humbled. You're humble, and only then will God exalt you. I want to leave you with a final point from our preacher this weekend. He made the point that your purpose is almost never about you. 

It shouldn't be about you. Your purpose is to make disciples and glorify God. And if you're not doing that, whatever you are doing, it's not your purpose. You may be doing it, and it may be fun or whatever, but it's not your purpose. It's not the purpose God gave you. Your purpose is to make disciples and glorify God. 

Your purpose is not to exalt yourself, for sure. Joseph is a wonderful example of this. Joseph was betrayed by his brothers. It was his older brother Judah's idea to sell him into slavery instead of kill him. So they got sold into slavery years ago by, you know, the whole story. If you don't, you should get reading Genesis 37. 

It's an incredible story. 22 years after he was sold into slavery, he becomes the number two guy in Egypt and his brothers come back and there's this beautiful reunion. But check out this insight. Why did God do all this? What's the point of that story? Genesis 45, 7, Joseph's talking to his brothers, telling them that he's not mad at them. 

And Joseph said, God sent me before you to preserve life. He goes on, God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth and to keep alive for you many survivors. So it was not you who sent me here, but God. And if you read the whole story and you realize everything that Joseph went through, realize what an incredible sentence it is. But check out this insight. Not there yet. 

Here's the real part. Genesis 49, Jacob, the dad, doesn't bless Joseph. Jacob blesses Judah. Joseph wasn't point of the story. Joseph wasn't the reason. Joseph wasn't the promise. 

Joseph protected the promise. Matthew 1 starts off with the genealogy of Jesus, son of David, son of Abraham. Abraham was the father of Isaac. Isaac, the father of Jacob. Jacob, the father of Judah and his brothers. Jesus came from the line of Judah. 

That's why Jesus is called the Lion of Judah. Because in Genesis 49, Jacob blesses Judah, again, who Joseph protected, blesses him and talks about him as like a lion. I still have this idea that Joseph wasn't promised. He wasn't the main character. I don't understand. He was the main character of the story in the sense that he was the most talked about, but he wasn't the purpose of the story. 

Judah was, who ultimately, it was Jesus. So my point of this all is, if you exalt yourself as Fauci did, bad things will happen. The Bible says so. If you humble yourself, then God will use you to spread the good word and spread the gospel and to glorify him. And that is the best purpose in the world. youtube . 

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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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