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Part II: Are Wildfires A Judgement From God?
January 10, 2025

Nahum 1:3 says, "The clouds are the dust of his feet”. That should either terrify you or comfort you. 

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. This is our part two in regards to the fires in Los Angeles. Someone called into my radio show the other day, and we should just go listen to the part one so we don't need to redo this whole thing. But a very quick jog in memory.

Someone says that these fires are a sign of judgment against the people of California by God. And that made me a bit uncomfortable at first. I was like, okay, let's see what the Bible says about this. And we went through a couple of different points in the last segment. I think the two most important points are, I don't know if that's what this is. I do know that the fall

doesn't just apply to people, but to the entire earth. I do know that natural disasters are a sign of the judgment that is to come. There's no question about that. We talked about fire and hell in the last episode. And I do know that natural disasters are an opportunity to repent. Every moment is an opportunity to repent, but this is a pretty visible one for a lot of people.

It should be.

Could the fires be a judgment from God? Sure, it could be. But we talked a bit yesterday about this fascinating part of our nature to know every little thing that God moves and why. It's like, listen, it's beyond us anyway. We know, whether there's a fire or not, that there's plenty of reasons that we are under

God's wrath. There's no question. Proverbs 1, because I called and you refused, so this is to the point that it could be a rebuke from God. Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hands and no one paid attention. You neglected all my counsel. You did not want my reproof.

I will even laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your dread comes. When your dread comes like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind. When distress and anguish come on you, then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me diligently. They will not find me, because they hated knowledge, did not choose the fear of the Lord.

They would not accept my counsel. They spurned all my reproof. So they will eat of the fruit of their own way and be satisfied with their own devices." That is the terror of being abandoned by God and turned over to your sinful choices. Not a good place to be. So that could be what happened to L.A. here, too.

There's quite a concerning, not concerning, haunting line in Hosea 417. Ephraim, which is Israel, is joined to idols. Leave him alone. Leave him alone. This is, you don't want God to leave you alone. This is in Matthew 15. Jesus talking about the Pharisees. He said, their blind leaders of the blind let them alone. That abandonment is

serious business. The contrast to that is Psalm 46. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea, like horrible things are, crazy things are happening, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,

though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. We will not fear. We will not fear. God is our refuge. Let me quote Spurgeon here. We did a little bit yesterday of a sermon he did on

Nahum one three that says the clouds are the dust to God's feet and the point of this is that God is much much bigger than us. So, big things does like the clouds are nothing but dust to God's feet. So, you should fear that uh if you're under judgment but you should be comforted by that if you love Jesus. Here's a little bit of his sermon. He said, uh the most

terrible things in nature are not terrible to the saints, thus. The clouds are the dust of his feet, of God's feet. Don't you see what I mean? There's nothing terrible now, because it is only the dust on my father's feet. Did you ever know a child who was afraid of the dust of his father's feet? No, if the child sees the dust of his father's feet in the distance, what does he do?

He rejoices, because it is his father, and runs to meet him. So the most awful things in nature, even the clouds, have lost all their terror to a child of God, because he knows that they are but the dust of his father's feet. He says we are not afraid, for we hear our father's voice. And what favored child ever quaked at his father's speech? We love to hear that voice, although it is deep, low, loud, yet we love its matchless melody, for it issues with the

depths of affection. Put me to sea, and let the ship be driven along, that wind is my father's breath. Let the clouds gather, they are the dust at my father's feet. Let the water-spouts appear from heaven, it is my father dipping his hand in the water. Fall down before his feet and worship him, for he has loved you by his grace. You know there are many fearful events

which may happen to us, but we are never afraid of them, if we're saints, because they are the dust of his feet. Deadly disease may ravage their fair city once again, and thousands may die, and the funeral procession may be constantly seen in our streets. Do we fear it?

No.

The pestilence is but one of our father's servants, and we are not afraid of it, although it walks in darkness. There may be no wheat. The flocks may be cut off from the herd and the stall. Nevertheless, famine and distress are our father's doing.

And what our father does, we will not view with alarm. There is a man there with a sword in his hand. He is the enemy, and I fear him. Yet my father has a sword, and I don't fear him. I rather love to see him have a sword, because I know he will only use it for my protection. Last part here.

But there is to come a sight more grand, more terrific, more sublime, and more disastrous than anything earth has yet witnessed. There is to come a fire before which Sodom's fire will pale to nothingness, and the inferno of continental sink into less than nothing in vanity. In a few more years, my friends, Scripture assures us this earth and all that is in it is to be burned up.

That deep molten mass which now lies at the bosom of our mother's earth is to burst up the solid matters to be melted down into one vast globe of fire. The wicked shrieking, wailing, and cursing will become a prey to those flames and will blaze upward from the earth, from the breast of earth. Comets will shoot their fires from heaven. All the lightnings will launch their bolts upon this poor earth and it will become a mass of fire." See how that fire is much bigger than the ones that we're seeing in LA right now? And Spurgeon says, but does the Christian fear it? No.

Scripture tells us we will be caught up together with the Lord in the air,

and we will forever be with the Lord.

Now, that's if you're a Christian. On the flip side, if you're a Christian,

it's very comforting. But if you're not, you should be very afraid of the dust of God's feet. The terrible fires and clouds, they're terrifying to you. Imagine how much more terrified you should be of God. You should not be at war with God. If the clouds are the dust of his feet, how foolish would it be for you to be his enemy? Instead, Psalm 46,

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. I'll conclude with this. We've talked about this many times and we will many more times. People say, you know, what kind of God would let terrible things like this happen? And that's never the right question. It's what kind of God would ever let anyone ever live and ever let anyone be saved. We all deserve to die, but instead God lets us live. Whenever there's a natural disaster like this or a tragedy of some kind, it's a reminder

that you don't know when you're going to die, but you will. You can't predict it and you can't plan it, but it's important to repent and be saved right now. And if you already did, and if you already are, we've got to be grateful for that every day and never fear the things of this world. Acts 11, 18, when they heard these things they fell silent,

and they glorified God, saying, Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life. We must repent and be saved. Second Peter 3 9 says, God is not willing that any should perish, but all should come to repentance. Here it is, embracing full faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Death will come, and we must repent and turn to Jesus before it does. And then we'll get to go to heaven forever. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcripts commercial free on the website Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

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Semen est sanguis Christianorum.
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Tertullian 160-230 AD, Apologeticum, 50
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V. Pretiósa in conspéctu Dómini.
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R. Mors Sanctórum eius.
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Seeped and Steeped in The Bible
Politics By Faith, October 3, 2025

Our founding fathers and grandfathers knew the Bible deeply in their minds and souls. How can you hear the words of George Washington and Patrick Henry's most famous speech and come to any other conclusion? 

The word of the day is seeped. Seeped. 

Good word, isn't it? To be seeped. The modern dictionary definition, Webster did not have this word in his original 1828 one, is to flow or leak a liquid slowly through porous material or small holes. The idea, though, concept is that something is so deeply permeated into the item. that it is now an integral part of it. Now in this interesting English situation here, where you have the words seep and steep, and they can both do with liquids, so it can get confusing. 

But when you're talking about a deep tradition of something, it's actually the word steep. So something is steeped in tradition, for instance. I like both concepts, right? I feel like the idea of seeping into, And the argument I want to make here is that the Bible, it seeped its way through all the aspects of our culture in America. But I also like the idea of our culture being steeped in the Bible. Let's go with steep for now. 

So I suppose the word of the day is steep, not seep. But this is the idea I want. Either way, this is the idea that I'm looking for. I'm reading this amazing book. I'm going to mention it many more times because I'm only like 25 % done. It's called Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers. 

And I want to read two sections here in particular. The first is about George Washington, and then I want to get to Patrick Henry. George Washington was steeped in the Bible. The Bible seeped into every aspect of his life. But again, we'll go with steep. Listen, so this is, this author went through all these different examples of George Washington using biblical references. 

I didn't even know many of these references originated in the Bible. That's how unsteeped I am and how little it has seeped into the culture that I grew up in and still live in today. So let me read from this. The language of the English Bible so permeated the vernacular that some speakers and writers may not always have been conscious of the fact that a popular phrase or image had biblical origins. In any case, Washington routinely incorporated into his working vocabulary familiar biblical language, such as forbidden fruit, Genesis 3, sweat of the brow, Genesis 3 .19. Fat of the land. 

Genesis 45 .18. George Washington used these words all the time. Stumbling blocks. Leviticus, Ezekiel, Romans, 1st Corinthians. Seven times seven years. Leviticus. 

Thorn in our side. Numbers, Judges, 2nd Corinthians. 

First fruit. 

Deuteronomy, Nehemiah. Sleep with my fathers. Deuteronomy, 2nd Samuel, 1st Kings. Neither sleep nor slumber. Psalm Isaiah. All the days of your life. 

Psalms 23, 27. Like sheep to the slaughter. Psalm 44, Acts 8, Romans 8. Engraved on every man's heart. Jeremiah 17, 31, Romans 2. Separating the wheat from the tares, Matthew 13. 

A millstone hung to your neck, Matthew 18, Mark 9, Luke 17. Wars and rumors of wars, Matthew 24, Mark 9, Luke 17. By the way, every time George Washington wrote about these things, he didn't have to say, good and faithful servant. As it says in Matthew 25, 21, the good and faithful, it just did, everyone knew what he was talking about. Take up my bed and walk, Mark 2, John 5. Widow's might, Mark 12, Luke 21. 

The scales are ready to turn. from the eyes, Act 9, and Throne of Grace, Hebrews 416. Those are maybe half the examples. George Washington was steeped in a biblical culture. I want to quote here Patrick Henry. One of his most famous speeches, one of the most important speeches in the buildup to the American Revolution, was a speech he gave on March 23rd, 1775 at a church in Richmond, Virginia. 

I've read this speech many times. I had no idea all the biblical allusions in it. I'll only cross check one here. But Patrick Henry talks about, the whole point of the speech is peace. There's no peace. That's Jeremiah 6, 14. 

They have healed the wound of my people lightly saying peace, peace when there is no peace. The whole point, I've read this speech a million times. Patrick Henry, that famous line, peace, peace when there is no peace. I didn't know that was Jeremiah 6. Let me quote this speech here. Mr. President, said Patrick Henry, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. 

We are apt to shut our eyes. Proverbs 16, 30, Isaiah 6, 10, 33, 15, 44, 18. Against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. That's actually from the Odyssey. Is this the part of wise men engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be the number of those who having eyes see not and having ears hear not? 

Jeremiah 5, Ezekiel 12, Psalm 115, 135, Isaiah 42. The things which so clearly concern their temporal salvation. For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost. Exodus 6 -9 Job 7, 11. Sorry, Sorry, I chuckle because it's everything. 

Every sentence of this speech is a biblical reference. I am willing to know the whole truth. John 8, 32. To know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided. Psalm 119. 

And that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past. And judging by the past, I wish to know that there had been in the content of the British ministry for the last 10 years to justify those hopes. with which gentlemen have been pleased to solace themselves and in this house. Is it not? Is it that insidious smile with which our petition had been lately received? 

Trust it not, sir. It will prove a snare to your feet. Jeremiah 18, 22. Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss. Matthew 26, Luke 22. In vain after these things, may we indulge the fond hope of peace and reconciliation. 

There's no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free, if we mean to preserve and violate these inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending, if we mean not baselessly to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged, and which we have pledged ourselves never to abandon until the glorious object of our contest shall be attained, we must fight. I repeat it, sir, we must fight. An appeal to arms and to God of hosts is all that has left us. Tell us, sir, that we are weak, unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? 

Will it be next week or next year? Sir, we are not weak if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. The millions of people armed in the holy cause of liberty And in such a country as that which we possess, Deuteronomy 3 .12, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us. Besides, sir, we shall not fight our battles alone. There is a just God, Isaiah 45 .21, who presides over the destinies of nations and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. 1 Samuel 8, 2 Chronicles 32. 

The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone. Ecclesiastes 9, 11. It is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery. 

Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston. The war is inevitable, and let it come. I repeat it, sir, let it come. It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace, peace, but there is no peace, Jeremiah 6, 14. 

The war has actually begun. The next gale that sweeps from the North will bring to our ears, Acts 7 20, the clash of resounding arms, our brethren already in the field. Why stand here idle? Matthew 26. What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? 

Is life so dear? Acts 20 24. Or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God. I know not what course others may take. But as for me, Genesis 17 4 and Joshua 24 15. 

But as for me, give me liberty or give me death. Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me death speech is just seeped with biblical references, because he himself was steeped in a Bible -based culture. This is my dream. This is what I want. More than anything, my prayer for our country is that we once again can put the Bible in the front as the foremost, most important text, document, and truth, and that the people of this country can steep in it. and it can permeate inside of us, inside of our bones and our mind and our souls, so that it becomes a part of our speech, part of our language again, every aspect of what we do and how we think. 

This is what created our country, the men who built this country and women. were steeped in the Bible. If we want to save our country, we should do the same. More importantly, if we want to save souls, we should do the same. The book again is called Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, Daniel Driesbach. I'm only 25 % of the way through. 

I would love for his sales to just skyrocket and have him be like, what in the world? 

What happened? 

What happened? Why did my book sales do? Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, Daniel Driesbach. It's got like a yellow cover with a red Bible on the front. Mike Slater dot locals . com is my website. 

Transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot locals .

 

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September 29, 2025
Keep Bad Bunny Out Of Your Home
Politics By Faith, September 29, 2025

Bad Bunny will be performing at the Super Bowl halftime show. He's one of the most-streamed artists in America. He's awful and nothing he creates should be allowed in your home or in your kids' brains.

Welcome to politics by faith thanks for being here just want to mention briefly here bad bunny just got news that bad bunny will be performing at the halftime of the super bowl it's noteworthy for a couple reasons first he said he would never perform in america again because of trump and ice he said honestly i can't risk the safety of my fans like that mainland america just doesn't feel necessary to me anymore he's from puerto rico so he says mainland america so he's concerned that ice would be at his concerts which i've never heard of ice ever doing but wouldn't be a bad idea but he's concerned ice is going to be there and round up all of his fans uh but then he said in this commercial i've been thinking about it these days and after talking with my team i think i'll do just one more date in the united states have you heard of bad bunny He is the third, what a ridiculous name by the way, Bad Bunny. He's the third most streamed artist last year behind Taylor Swift and The Weeknd. He was number two the year before that. And in the year 2020, 2021, 2022, he was the most streamed artist in the world. That's crazy. I've never heard a song of his. 

I don't think I have. And there's a lot of people on the internet who are acting like Bad Bunny is satanic. And of course he is. You're either of God or of Satan. John841. Jesus says, you are of your father the devil and your will is to do your father's desires. 

He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth because there's no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character for he is a liar and the father of lies. And first John 3 10 says, by this it is evident who are the children of God and who are the children of the devil. Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God. nor is the one who does not love his brother. You have to cut it all off. 

All of it. 

All the pop music. Be serious. Be serious. Your kids are desperate to be protected from this. Act like it is life or death. Your kid's souls are on the line. 

Why? Hand any of your child's soul over to these people who hate you. Your kids don't know better. You do. Keep them away from this. Give them something else good. 

because this stuff is so wicked. We are so numb, so numb to how off we are. I think this is the biggest, I don't know what else could be worse. I'm open to suggestions, but I think this is the biggest hurdle impediment for people repenting and getting saved is they don't think they're that bad. Like, oh, it's not, yeah, it's not that bad. No, it's really, you're really bad. 

You're in a really, really bad spot. This is all really bad. You're really bad. I'm really bad. We're all really horribly, awfully bad, like indescribably bad. Here's the problem. 

If you were walking down the sidewalk and I handed you a lifeguard buoy, flotation device, you know, like those long red foam things that lifeguards... If you're walking down the street and I handed you that, you would say, uh, okay, uh, I don't, I don't need this. I'm just, I was walking down the sidewalk. What's what's going on. But if you were drowning in the ocean and I threw one, you'd be pretty darn grateful. People are living their lives like they're just walking down the sidewalk. 

And then we throw Jesus at them and they're like, well, I don't, I don't need this. 

I'm fine. 

Everything's good. 

What people need to realize is they're drowning. They're drowning in the ocean. Then and only then will the good news mean anything. I think, this is my experience, is our culture doesn't do anything with the bad news. And if you don't highlight the bad news, if you don't understand the bad news, then the good news doesn't hit you as good. So what's the bad news? 

The bad news is all have sinned. All are sinners by our very nature. Romans 3 .23, there is no distinction for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God. All. Only by faith are you justified. Justified means as if you have not sinned. 

And grace means you get what you don't deserve. So mercy means you don't get what you deserve. Grace is, you get what you don't deserve. See the difference? So you don't deserve grace, but you get it. Unmerited favor for us all, sinners. 

You deserve hell because of your sins. But by God's grace, you get something you don't deserve. You get heaven. And you don't get God's wrath. Romans 5, verse 1. the opening line, it says, since we have been justified by faith, you have peace with God. 

It's just so interesting. Not peace of God. You don't have the peace of God. You know, people think of, oh, the peace of God. Oh, peace of mind. And that's true. 

That's a thing. Peace of God. That's great. That's not what this is. This is the peace. You get peace with God. 

With God. 

What do you mean? Because the day of wrath, if you're not saved, is not peaceful. All we hear about in our culture, if you ever hear anything about God, is how God is love. And that's totally true. But what is love? When people hear that, oh, God is love means I can do whatever I want. 

No, no, of course not. It's not loving to let your two -year -old run into the middle of the road just because he wants to. Of course not. No parent would do that. And our heavenly father doesn't want us to do that. The equivalent of that. 

It's not love to let people do whatever they want. So you have to define love, but also God is just. Psalm 711, God is a righteous judge and a God who feels indignation every day. That's a great word, indignation. So I went to the Noah Webster's dictionary, 1828. It's the best dictionary. 

It's the only dictionary you gotta go to. It's Webster's Dictionary, 1828 . com. And I looked up indignation. Anger or extreme anger. Mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. 

The anger of a superior. Extreme anger, particularly the wrath of God against sinful men for their ingratitude and rebellion. You know, Webster always went back and gave Bible verses whenever possible to every definition. And he cited 2 Kings 3 .27. Well, what in the world happened there? So here's what it says. 

Then he took his eldest son. This is the king. The king took his eldest son who was to reign in his place and offered him for a burnt offering on the wall. And there came great indignation against Israel. " So the king murdered his son to the false god Shemash, the false god of the Moabites. You can imagine God being pretty angry at that. 

But God wasn't just angry one time thousands of years ago. 

He feels indignation every day. 

At who? Us. Romans 118, for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. Everything in our culture is unrighteous. Nearly every single thing of it. You name it. 

One last bad news, then we'll get to the good news. This is Romans 5, 10. For if we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son. How much more that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life? You were an enemy of God. You were an enemy of God and Jesus Christ still saved you. 

What did he save you from? What did Jesus save you from? How about that too? So first people think they don't need saving, but then the question is, okay, fine, I do need saving, but from what? We don't make that clear. We don't make it clear that you need to be saved. 

Be like, Oh, I'm just walking down the sidewalk. I don't need a lifeguard buoy. What are you doing here? Okay. People don't know that they need saving. And then once they're like, you know what? 

I'm drowning here. I'm drowning. I need saving. It's like, Oh, really? You're just like sad or depressed or you're feeling away that nets. And that's great. 

Like Jesus. So that's a good, but you know, you need to really understand that you need saving, not from like bad times in your life. Although you do, we all do, but you really need saving from God's wrath. That's what you're being saved from. If you don't know that you're an enemy to God and therefore sentenced to eternal damnation to experience the wrath of God for all of eternity, then I don't know if the good news seems that good. 

What do you fear the most? People fear man. That's not man. 

You need to fear the most. 

Some people say it's Satan. 

I feel Satan. No, you don't. You don't need to fear Satan. God. The greatest enemy is God. Matthew 10, 28. 

Do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. Rather, fear him who can destroy both body and soul in hell. are not two sparrows sold for a penny, and not one of them will fall to the ground apart from your father. And even the hairs on your head are all numbered. Fear not, therefore, you are more valuable than many sparrows. So everyone who acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge before my father who's in heaven. 

But whoever denies me before men, I also will deny before my father who's in heaven. " You do not want Jesus to deny you before God, because God is the one who in his just and righteous judgment will send you to hell. Our modern culture today has made everyone think that God loves them no matter what. God loves you. God loves you no matter what. Let me quote John MacArthur. 

He says, the truth is this. God is our worst enemy, our ever present deadly danger, our eternal judge and executioner who will destroy both body and soul in hell. This is what is meant by the fear of God, right? What is the fear of God? The fear of God is the beginning of what? Beginning of wisdom. 

The fear of God. When people hear the fear of God, we've been told that it means awe. or reverence like an awe of god oh you have an awe of god and it does it can mean that too to have an on that's good you should have that but it also means fear. The fear of the Lord means fear. Proverbs 14 27, the fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, turning a man from the snares of death. 

What do they mean fear? What does fear mean? It means fear. So you better get right with them. And the way to get right is to have faith in Jesus. And once you do, you are justified and now you will have peace with God. 

I think All Christians should work on having a good 60 second or whatever amount of time, but like pretty quick description of the gospel. And there's a lot of different ways to do it, but however exactly you word it, whatever you're most comfortable with, it has to weave in there that we are sinners, profound sinners, and we can only be saved through Jesus. Jesus died for your sin, the just for the unjust. God imputes, so he places our sinfulness to Jesus. Christ dies, then is raised from the dead. But not only that, the righteousness. 

Christ is given to you. So Jesus takes your sins, you get his righteousness. We're not born better, we're born again. And all of those who come to Jesus, everyone who places their faith in Christ, will be saved and sanctified. So that you're not just saved from the penalty of sin, that'd be one thing, but one day our bodies will be glorified with Jesus and we'll live forever with him in heaven. You cannot inherit the kingdom of God. 

You cannot do it. Jesus did it for you. And because we're saved, now we can go do amazing works. Because you're saved. The works won't save you, but because you are saved, let's get to work. Martin Luther has a famous line, he said, God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does. 

Jesus already accomplished everything necessary for your salvation. You are set free for the need to justify yourself to God to go to heaven. It's done. No matter what you do. And out of gratitude for that reality, Fully recognizing what we deserved and where we were going with, like, the good news is now the greatest thing imaginable. And out of that gratitude, we can work to serve our neighbors. 

Knowing that, knowing the importance of this, the beauty of it, the severity of it, why would we allow any filth into our lives and into our homes and into our kids' hearts? Even if it's a part of the Super Bowl halftime show.  MikeSlater . Locals . com. Transcript commercial free on the website, MikeSlater .

 

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September 25, 2025
It Is Hard To Kick Against The Pricks
Politics By Faith, September 25, 2025

I've never heard this line before in the Bible, but in this time of revival, I pray that more people come to realize it's true.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I've got a couple of random things I want to share. First of all, I'm reading this book called Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers. Daniel Driesbach, D -R -E -I -S -B -A -C -H. I'm only on page 35, but it is awesome. 

I have so many things underlined here. It's ridiculous. Let me just quote this right here. This is all about how the Bible was used in schools and how it was the most important book in colonial America. It says here, some colonial laws even required households to possess a copy of the Bible. A Connecticut colonial law instructed the selectmen from time to time to make diligent inquiry of all households, how they are furnished with Bibles. 

And if upon such inquiry, any householder be found without one Bible at least, then the selectmen shall warn the said householder forthwith to procure one Bible at least for the use and benefit of their families respectively. Such laws were about promoting moral instruction and literacy among the youth, In addition to nurturing the spiritual improvement of citizens. Isn't that amazing? It was a law that you had to own a Bible in colonial America. And we're told that America is not a Christian country. The biggest, one of the biggest lies we've ever been told is that we are not a Christian nation. 

We're never one. And our founders weren't Christian and all this total absolute abject lie. We need to get back to our founding. We talked on the SiriusXM show today with Frank Turek, Dr. Frank Turek. He wrote a book that someone gave to me, a friend of mine gave to me about 14 years ago. It's called, I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist. 

And it was the most pivotal book that I ever read towards me becoming a Christian. There are tons of people, tons of influences, tons of other things, but book, this is the one. And Frank Turek also was Charlie Kirk's mentor. He was standing right next to Charlie when he was assassinated. We talked to him today and I'll get the audio and we can put it here in the podcast version as well. 

Just want to mention that. Two books to buy, Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist, and Reading the Bible with the Founding Fathers, Daniel Driesbach. All right, here's the other random thing I wanted to share today. Someone sent me this note, Dave. He said, hey Slater, truly appreciate the way you have navigated our political discourse with frequent references to the great thinkers, including the greatest thinker of all, Jesus Christ. I would like to humbly suggest a song that you could weave into your broadcast or podcast. 

Here we are, Dave. So people will further understand the gravity of the situation facing us, not just today, but in eternity. The song is by Johnny Cash, The Man Comes Around. It certainly helped wake me up years ago. Spread the word, Dave. I've never heard this song before. 

And unfortunately, we can't play it here. It's called Johnny Cash. The man comes around. You should listen to it. It's classic cash and has a line here that really struck me and stood out to me. And I got to listen to it a few more times to see what else stands out. 

But this one in particular, this song is about the second coming of Jesus. He was 70 years old when he recorded it. Here's the stanza. Here are the trumpets. Here are the pipers. One hundred million angels singing. 

Multitudes are marching to the big kettle drum. Voices calling, voices crying. Some are born and some are dying. It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come and the whirlwind is in the thorn tree. The virgins are all trimming their wicks. The whirlwind is in the thorn tree. 

Here's the line. It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks. That line stood out to me because I understood the other biblical references in that stanza, but where did he get that? hard for thee to kick against the pricks. So that one, I had to give that one a search. And sure enough, it's in the Bible. 

Here's the story. It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks. I like want to make a bumper sticker about this. I love this line. So it's an old Greek proverb. So here's the, you got an old, uh, ox goad, this long stick. 

It was this eight foot long stick with a metal point at the end. And you would poke the ox with it to guide them. And let's get going. And it would also have a flat end on it so that you could use it to push the dirt off the plow if needed. The ox goad is mentioned a couple of times in the Bible. First Judges 3 .31, Shamgar killed 600 Philistines using only an ox goad. 

So it could be a weapon too. Ecclesiastes 12 .11, the words of the wise are like goads and like nails firmly fixed are the collected sayings. So good things, like a nail firmly hit into what it needs to go. They are given by one shepherd, meaning the words of God pricks the heart of the sinner. Like the sharp end of the goad would prick the ox. And the good shepherd uses the word of God to prick our conscience and drive us to repentance and drive us to Jesus. 

It's what a good shepherd does. It's what all preachers should be doing as well. I will know that we are in a true revival when preachers start preaching on sin. and hell and how you are going there unless you get right with God today. Now some people don't like the ox goad. Frank Turk said today that one of the major reasons why people don't want to become Christian is because it means they'll have to change their life. 

And it was Milton in Paradise Lost. It's describing how Satan fell. It's a beautiful made up story, but it's a beautiful story, poem. And Satan said, it's better to reign in hell than it is to serve in heaven. People really believe that. They'd rather have their life be awful, but at least they're in charge of it. 

At least they're in control. At least I'm the boss of it. even though it's awful by every objective measurement imaginable. But at least I'm the one in charge, rather than be a slave to Jesus. Most people make that choice. So you got Jesus talking to Saul here. 

This is the third mention of goad, sort of. Doesn't use the word, but when an ox is pricked, he doesn't like it. So he'll often kick back at the goad. And this is the translation in the King James Version. Only the King James Version has this exact translation. So here it is. 

So Saul's on the road to Damascus. He's ready to go kill more Christians. Suddenly there shined around him a light from heaven. And he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he said, who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecuteth. 

It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Quoting Johnny Cash. No, no, the other way around, Johnny Cash. Quoting Jesus. Amazing line. It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 

What does that mean? If you're an ox and you're going the wrong way. and the farmer pokes you with the sharp end of an ox goat and you get mad and you kick him back, your foot only gets pierced even more and harder than before. You only suffer even more. If you reject God, you will only suffer even more now in this life and for eternity. Jesus told Paul, it is hard for you. 

to kick against the pricks, the sharp end of the goad. Knock it off. Stop your rebellion against God. Stop your rebellion against me. It is foolish for you. It is as foolish for you to do this as it is for an ox to kick the sharp end of the goad. 

Just let Jesus steer your life. He knows he is the way and he knows the right way. Solomon said stern discipline awaits him who leaves the path. It's Proverbs 15, 10. You're going to get the goad. Proverbs 13, 15 says the way of the unfaithful is hard. 

Jesus said it is hard for you, Paul, to kick against the pricks. 

So stop. 

Just surrender. Surrender. Stop making life so much harder for yourself. Again, Milton, in Paradise Lost, Satan said it's better to reign in hell than serve in heaven. No, no, no. It is way better to be a slave to Jesus. 

Because Jesus said, my yoke, you know what ox used to used to wear, you put two ox next to each other, you put a yoke, wood on top of them to keep them together. My yoke is easy. My burden is light. Stop. kicking against pricks. Slater Radio on Twitter and Instagram, mikeslater . 

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