Someone called in arguing Islam has nothing to do with the recent terrorist attack and said Allah and God are the same. They are not. One is the one true God, the other is a false god. If you don't acknowledge this, you're headed down a dangerous path.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. Happy Friday. I read Matthew 10 this morning. It says, And do not fear those who kill the body, but who cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. We spent a lot of time this morning, as we always do,

honestly, on my SiriusXM show, but I spent especially a good amount of time this morning on the show about the soul. I want to always be introducing that into the conversation, every political conversation, every cultural conversation that's happening in America.

Everyone else is talking about it, they're not talking about the soul aspect of it, and I think it's the most important aspect of anything. And I said the line that we are not a body with a soul. We're a soul with a body. Most people don't even think we have a soul.

Even those who think we do have a soul, they think it's a part of our body or our body is most important and the soul is a part of it. No, no. We are a soul, everlasting, who happens to have a body at this very moment. But the body dies, the soul lives on. So important to get that right.

We have everything backwards. Everything's backwards in our country, in our culture, in our world. It's a fallen, broken world. Everything's backwards, literally backwards. That's why the motto of my show, my thesis is, perhaps the opposite is true.

It very often is. I have to say perhaps in case something's not exactly the opposite of what is true. Some things are just a little bit off. But some things are straight up opposite. And that's one of them.

People think we're a body that has a soul, but no. And we're very, we spend so much time on our body And it's gonna be healthy, of course, but we've neglected the soul And if we could only see it if we could only see the soul It would be as darkened and black as a lifetime smokers alone But it is God who can destroy both body and soul in hell so you better fear him above all else.

Charles Spurgeon said that man can only wound our inferior part, the body, but they're not able to kill the soul. But if we disobey God, the Supreme Lord of life and death has power even to destroy both parts of our being by casting them both into the death and darkness of hell. We can't worry about anything that may come to our bodies. That's all fleeting, but the souls are eternal. That's where our priority needs to be. So I want to throw that out there. Someone called into the show, this is my main

point of the day, someone called into the show the other day, a gentleman who wanted to make the point that we shouldn't necessarily blame Islam for the terrorist who killed 15 people in New Orleans. Okay, I'll hear it out. I mean an ISIS flag. But okay, ISIS, Islam, perversion of a religion, blah, blah, blah. All the excuses you've heard for 20 years about, it's not really Islam. But he made the point that God and Allah are the same.

To which I said, no, they're not. And he said, yes, they are. And I said, okay, let's just move on so you can make your bigger point. But they're not. But anyway, go ahead. And I said, I'll address it more on the podcast. So here we are. There's two different types of atheists. One says, maybe I guess atheists wouldn't be the correct term. There's two different types of non-believers.

There's the ones who say there's no God. There's no God and there are no gods. And then there's another group that says, they're all the same God. These are the coexist people. This is a coexist person. They're all the same God. Can't we all get along? But Allah and the Christian God, Yahweh, are not the same. So first just a vocabulary lesson. Allah is the Arabic word that means God. And if you are a Christian or a Jew who speaks Arabic, you will say Allah referring to the Christian God. But if you're Muslim, the word Allah is also the proper name

of God. You with me? So an Arabic speaking Christian would say Allah, but they're referring to Yahweh, the one true actual God. But they'll say Allah. But if you're a Muslim speaking Arabic, you'll say Allah and you're referring to Allah. Like Allah, a God who's very different than Yahweh, the one true God. So you say, well, Seder, what do you mean they're not the same? Well, the biggest difference between the two religions, Christianity and Islam, when it comes to God, is the Trinity. In Christianity, it's God, the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit.

Each person of the Trinity is fully God in every way. God's Son, Jesus, is God. And for God so loved the world, that he gave us one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.

So whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of God's one and only Son. That's John 3.16. It's important to read not just on 316, but also 17 and 18. Muslims believe that Jesus is a prophet, but not the son of God.

Okay, we've got a big problem here, because Yahweh, in the Bible, says Jesus is my son with whom I'm well pleased. The Muslims worship a God that says Jesus is a prophet. Christians worship a God that says Jesus is my son and part of the Trinity. The same God can't be saying two completely different things. Now we can spend a lot of time doing a comparative

religion analysis on Christianity and Islam, and that would be a good use of time. But I just want to focus on this one aspect of this, this one specific question. Is Allah and Yahweh the same? No.

Why is it important to mark this difference. To root out cultural relativism, or in this case it would be like religious relativism, but we've lived through an era of cultural relativism and we see the fruit of that. And we've also lived through an era of religious relativism and we have to stop both of them. We see the cultural relativism everywhere. It's all multiculturalism is our strength.

Diversity is our strength. And we need more of all cultures and all cultures are wonderful except ours ours is terrible, but every other culture is great That's cultural relativism. We've had it for decades now and religious relativism same idea, right? All religions are wonderful They all teach everyone to be better people are our religion terrible in Christianity. They're hard found in our religion America That's a battle, but all the other religions are great

and If you go down this road They're all the same, there's no difference between, oh sure, we may be interpreted different ways, but there's no real distinction, and it's all good, it's all the same, whatever works for you, we all worship the same God, I don't know. One true God. Everything else is a false religion and wrong.

And if you don't believe me, well, Matthew 10, you can work it out in hell. Mike Slater, should we not be ending podcast episodes with, you can work it out in hell? I don't know, that's what it says. It says right here, just right here. Those, do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him.

If you don't, okay, work it out with him there, later. I wish you don't, though. I don't want you to figure out. I want you to be saved. Christians want everyone to be saved. 1 Timothy 2 says, this is good and pleases God our Savior,

who wants all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. Maybe that's a nicer way to end this episode. We should end it here. Mike Slater, dot locals, dot com. Transcript and commercial free. That's what you get on the website.

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Our freedom of religion doesn't need to be extended to "Satanists". Let's not be ridiculous. Also, the greatest news in the world is found right on the piano.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. I'm sorry, I'm supposed to start, hello, hello. I'm not going to make that a thing, I promise. It is the day before I go on vacation, and I have very high hopes for doing this podcast over the next two weeks, and it probably won't happen, just being honest. But I'll try.

If we don't meet again until Christmas, Merry Christmas. And I would like to present to you here what I like to do every year on the radio. By the way, someone sent me a note. I did a statement on the radio. It wasn't even that religious. It was about, let's see, I'll find this guy's note.

Here it is. When did Breitbart News become a religious program? Did I miss the announcement? I don't know, sorry man. That's the way it goes. But it wasn't even a religious segment.

I did a quick short little segment on how Satanism is not a religion. Every year around this time of year there's always some Satan display at some local courthouse or something around the country. And there was one in, I think, New Hampshire, Vermont, whatever. And someone knocked it over. And the people who put it up are always like, oh, we need Satanism

because freedom of religion. And don't be ridiculous. Satanism is not a religion. It's not, it's not a religion. Right?

If you're an originalist, you go back to the words that were written and what the words meant when they were written by the people who wrote them. And you go to the Webster's Dictionary 1828, go online Webster's Dictionary 1828.com. Religion is a belief in the being and perfections of God. And you go back earlier, Samuel Johnson's 1768 Dictionary of the English Language. Religion is virtue as founded upon reverence of God. And the Britannica Dictionary 1730. Religion is a general habit of reverence towards the divine nature, by which we are both enabled

and inclined to worship and serve God. Religion is God, not Satan. That freedom of religion we have, as written by the people who wrote it, our founding fathers, was not referring to Satanism, and does not need to be extended to Satanists. Let's not be ridiculous. Okay? That's my argument. Stop being ridiculous. And don't let ridiculous people trick you. Like, oh, you got me. Oh, I guess we have

to have the Satan display next to the negativity. Oh, darn it. Oh, freedom of religion got me. I guess we got to let the Satanists be here. No, you don't. Okay. Satanism is by definition of the people who wrote it, not a religion. No way did our founding fathers seek to protect Satanism. So stop letting them make a mockery of that freedom of religion and of course of Christianity. It's not on par. Knock it off.

Stop entertaining these people. Anyway, so the guy wrote me, he's like, when did Breitbart become a religious thing? It's like, listen man, you want to solve the problems of this world? That's what I'm here to do.

There's only one way to do it. So anyway, we ended the show with my segment that I've done the last couple years on Christmas, and that is that the best news in the world can be found on the piano. I want to thank Igniter Media for this story.

That it's right there on the piano. I don't know how to play the piano. My kids are doing piano. It's an incredible skill. I don't know how people do it. I can't help my kids anymore with it

because they use two hands.

Grace the other day asked me to help her.

I was like, Grace, I don't, I don't know how to use the left hand. I don't even know what that note is. It's up to you now. You're on your own. I can't do it.

And I see people play with two hands without music. Like these unbelievable people. It's like, what do you do? How does your brain do that so I can't do it but no matter how good or bad you are at the piano the greatest news in the world is found right there and you know it it's a scale and you

can play it so you just start on C and you play all the white keys until you get to the next C and just the white keys you don't do now you know I was like I don't know what to see it okay so there's two black keys and three black keys and two and three. So find two, two black keys and go down to the left. And there's your C. I know that. So go C to C and you have yourself the best news in the world. Pretty good. Anyway, hold on. I don't, I didn't hear it. What's how's that the best news okay sorry my fault you gotta play it backwards

sorry it's C to C down the scale my my here here here there you go greatest news in the world you didn't hear it you play the right notes, but you have to put in the pauses. Alright, Slater, I told you I can't play the piano. I don't know, you don't have to be Mozart to hear the good news or play the good news. You have to play the pauses. First second, fourth, sixth, seventh.

One two four six seven. Play the pauses. And then you'll hear it. Simple scale. Down, C to C. Play the pauses.

1, 2, 4, 6, 7. And you have just discovered the greatest news in the world. You can play it yourself. You can know it yourself. Dare I say you already know it.

It's written on your heart. Just have to accept it. So next time you see a piano somewhere give it a go. Start at C, go down to C, and pause. 1, 2, 4, 6, and 7. And you will then hear the greatest news in the world. Joy to the world! The Lord has come.

Merry Christmas.

Now I should end the segment here.

And I normally do. On the radio when we do it, we end it right there.

It's called a hard out. You go out hard, boom, right there on that powerful note. And it's very nice. But it's a Christian podcast. So I'll just throw one little thing in there. This is my most snobbish Christmas carol take? And that is a joy to the world is not a Christmas

carol? Because the gentleman who wrote it, Mr. Watt, Isaac Watts, excuse me, Watts, he was writing about Psalm 98. And Psalm 98 is about Jesus's second coming. It's not about the birth of Jesus, it's about his second coming. Psalm 98 says, He cometh to judge the earth with righteousness he shall judge the world and the people with equity. So it's about the second coming, not the birth. So I'm not saying don't sing joy to the world this Christmas. In fact, I'm saying we should sing it every day.

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How could the Republicans propose such a pathetic continuing resolution bill? Because we are half-hearted, so this is what we get. We are satisfied with striking the ground three times when we need to strike it six.

Hello, hello. Welcome to Politics by Faith, brought to you by the Patriot Gold Group. I don't know why I started out like that. I've never started out like that before, but I already pressed record, so I guess here we go. We did a segment on SiriusXM Patriot the other day about the need for conservatives to have a revolutionary mindset.

Bloodless, of course, need that be said, but we need a mindset of a revolution, and the American people do not have it. By the way, you will hear my kids in the background. They're up very close to the wall, they're playing. We need a revolutionary mindset.

We had a beat Kamala mindset. We had a support Trump mindset, but we don't have a revolutionary mindset. Many people still just watch Fox News and every four years vote for president mindset and think that that's sufficient and that that's their civic duty. By the way, you should stop watching Fox News.

But if I just watch Fox and vote for president, I'm good. No, not even close. Not even close to the mindset we need to have. Got an email from John. I said, Slater, I think you're—one last thing about revolution. My argument is we've had a hundred years of a progressive revolution.

Little bits at a time. We've had a hundred years of one. So to undo it, we need a full revolution return, not just little bits. So here's John. He said, I think you're onto something important with your talk about the level of revolution that Republicans need.

We conservatives are by nature opposed to revolution, but our current government is so far separated from the government that we ought to have, that a drastic revolutionary change is the only way to get where we need to be. They have pushed us left bit by bit for decades, and now we are a revolution away from the system that we had. Think of revolution as a distance, right?

We're one complete distance away. We're a unit of measurement away. How far? A mile? Nope. Ten miles?

Nope. We're a revolution. That's how far away we are from where we need to be. We need to get as much done as we can in the time that we have to accomplish it. If we try to do incremental changes to repair the damage, we're essentially just affecting the slow suffocating, or accepting the slow suffocating death of our country and our culture.

We have to expect a lot more. We have to be less timid I'm reminded of the interaction between Elisha and King Jewish in second Kings yes John yes and he said the Lord's arrow of victory the arrow of victory over Syria

this is Elisha for you shall fight the Syrians until you have made an end of them and the King said excuse me Elisha said to Jehoash, the king of Israel, strike the ground with them. And he struck three times and stopped.

Then the man of God, Elisha, was angry with him, and said, You should have struck five or six times. Then you would have struck down Syria until you made an end of it. But now you will strike down Syria only three times." John finished his email saying, "'We can't just come in and take the arrows and strike the ground three times.

We have to execute our work with enthusiasm, passion, and gusto. No more half-hearted attempts at reform. No more half-heartedness. We need zeal. Zeal for a full revolution's worth of change. Now, I obviously need to take this as an opportunity to tell more of that story in 2 Kings that

John quoted. So this was around the time with all these kings of Israel who were terrible, and Jewish abandoned God, worshipped the idols in Israel, and a priest stood up, Zechariah, and said, Thus says God, said this to the king, Why do you break the commandments of the Lord, so that you cannot prosper? Because you have forsaken the Lord, He will forsake you. Wow, the guy stood up boldly, stood up boldly to speak to the king, rebuke the king.

What was his reward for speaking the truth. By command of the king they stoned him in the court of the house of the Lord. They killed him. Now this is even more evil what the king did when you know that it was this priest Zachariah, it was his father who protected Josh for years when he was a baby. So the backstory of this, the king died and that king's grandmother tried to kill everyone in the royal family to secure her power. So Joash, J-O-A-S-H, so Joash was hidden in the temple for six years by Zachariah's dad.

And then Joash was later named king and it was Zachariah who told Joash to not abandon God and Joash had him killed for it. So that's who we're talking about here with this king. So in 2 Kings, Elisha is dying and Jewish is upset about it. And Elisha says to shoot this arrow out the window in faith. And if you do, you'll defeat the Syrians.

Then strike the ground with the arrows. And he struck the ground three times as we just read, but Elijah was upset that he didn't keep striking the ground. And maybe it wasn't so much that he didn't keep striking it as much as what he did strike was a half-hearted strike. You should have struck five or six times, then you would have struck Syria until you had destroyed it.

But now you will strike Syria only three times, and the king ended up losing battles with Syria. with Syria, won three of them, but lost ultimately, as was foretold, and then his own officials assassinated him. That is how King Jewish died. So let's quote from Charles Spurgeon.

I will relate this to our lives, if not just politics. Charles Spurgeon said, If he will take those arrows, and will shoot five or six times, their great enemy will be broken in pieces, if he will be dilatory, hesitant, and will only shoot three times, he will get only a measure of victory, and poor Israel will ultimately have to suffer again from this enemy, who has only been scotched, not killed.

You do not know, dear friends, what responsibility lies upon you. You are the father of a family. What blessings may come to your household, or may be missed by your children through your conduct. To your mother you think yourselves obscured, yet your children's future will depend upon your teaching or non-teaching. Great events depend upon little matters, as large vessels hang upon small nails. So that's the first point, little things.

Like, I'm just hitting the ground with the arrow. How can that—no, no, great events depend on little matters. Spurgeon said, there are some who, having great opportunities, shoot only three times when they ought to shoot five or six. One of these matters is in warfare with the evil within. Some, as soon as they begin their Christian life, fit an arrow to the string and shoot

down big sins, such as swearing, or drunkenness, or open uncleanness. When they shoot these three times they seem to think that the other enemies within them may be tolerated. My brother, thou shouldest have shot five or six times. There remains a bad temper within you that must be conquered. There remains an unforgiving nature that must be slain. There are no going to heaven with that evil thing alive. Keep striking within. Isn't that great? Love that idea. Oh, I got the big ones done.

Like, no, no, no. That enemy is still there. Second point, why did the king stop? He stopped because he didn't have enough zeal. Spurgeon says he was not wide awake. He was not thoroughly aroused.

He did not care for the glory of God. If he could beat the Syrians three times, that would be quite enough for him. He thought that they would have enough of it, too, and so he laid down his bow and arrows. And the result? When Joash was shot, had shot three times, he paused, and therefore the blessing paused. Three times he shot, and three times God gave him victory. Do you see what you are doing by pausing? You

are stopping the conduit pipe by which the river of blessing will flow to you. Do not do that! To impoverish yourself must certainly be a needless operation. You will suffer in consequence, as the king did. For after the three victories, the rival power came to the front again. You will suffer in many ways, if you cease to draw daily supplies of grace from God,

or cease to shoot the arrows against sin.

So don't stop. Keep going.

Keep shooting the arrows, and the blessings will continue to come. Now if you need to be inspired to not stop and to keep going, maybe it'll help knowing that the enemy will never pause. They will be at it, the enemy, with all their might, seeking to do mischief against the kingdom for our Lord Jesus Christ. And there is the same choice for you that the Scotch captain put to his men.

Lads, he said, you see the enemy there? If you don't kill them, they will kill you. If you do not overthrow the powers of evil, the powers of evil will overthrow you." Again, we need to have the zeal for what is right. We don't have enough of it. In the political realm, we are King Joash, half-hearted, idolatrous, forgetting our calling and purpose,

betraying those who came before us and who have given us so much. I'll leave with this, too. Early in the revolution, or before the revolution, there were a lot of efforts by the colonists to compromise with the king. You do a search for Olive Branch petition. You'll find a petition from the colonists on July 8, 1775.

And the men who wrote it, they're just tripping over themselves to the king. To the king's most excellent majesty, most gracious sovereign, we your majesty's faithful subjects of the colonies, and list them all. And on behalf of ourselves and the inhabitants of these colonies who have deputed us to represent them in general Congress, entreat your Majesty's gracious attention to this, our humble petition. And it goes on and on like that.

The king never read it. But it was saying, hey, let's, can we get along, please, blessed king. And John Adams signed it, and Samuel Adams, and Ben Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. It didn't work. Then it was time for revolution. Listen, this is from the Olive Branch petition.

We beg leave further to assure your majesty that notwithstanding the sufferings of your loyal colonists during the course of the present controversy, our breasts retain too tender a regard for the kingdom from which we derive our origin to request such a reconciliation as might in any manner be inconsistent with her dignity or her welfare, that your majesty may enjoy a long and prosperous reign, and that your descendants may govern your dominions with honour to themselves and happiness to their subjects, is our sincere and fervent

prayer. Signed, John Hancock." They tried, they begged, the King didn't care and it started a revolution. Dare I say we have tried to our Congress. They have ignored us. We can't put up with this mentality anymore. As Elon wrote, unless Doge ends the careers of deceitful pork barrel politicians, the waste and corruption will never stop.

Therefore, there's no choice but to do so. I wish there was another way, but there is not. That's what Elon Musk said. If you vote for this continuing resolution, then there will be a primary against you in two years. People say, we need term limits.

We have term limits. Your term is limited to two years and then you're up for re-election again. And if we had the zeal to keep fighting, then these people would never let their guard down and they would always vote on behalf of the people

who elected them. Know that. But this is a biblical podcast, so I will end on a personal point. I love what Spurgeon said about, yes, we need zeal for our country, but I'd rather have

the zeal for ourselves and the zeals for our sanctification and the zeal for fighting the sin that is within and around us at all times and never settle for good enough. Mike Slater dot locals dot com is the website. On the website, we have nothing other than this podcast with no commercials and a transcript. And we emailed to you a little bit before it comes out for everyone else. And we emailed to you a little bit before it comes out for everyone else. Mike Slater dot locals.com.