JD Vance, The Gospel and The Soul

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Politics By Faith, February 21, 2025

February 21, 2025

JD Vance spoke at CPAC and articulated 5 profound truths that I've rarely, if ever, heard anyone say publically.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. I'm going to be honest. I just recorded this podcast and I'm editing it and I don't know where the music is. I don't know where the intro music is. I can't find it.

I can't find it anywhere on my computer. I've tried for 10 minutes and I'm going nuts. So we're doing no intro music on today's podcast. It's also my son's fifth birthday, so I'm done. I can't look anymore. So I'm leaving.

No intro music. Enjoy the show. No outro music either. So it's just going to end very abruptly. Apologies. I'll look forward to this weekend. I want to play this clip of JD Vance at CPAC yesterday. And I want to break down all the wonderful things. It's just two minutes, but there's a handful

of really deep and profound themes that I want to touch on. So this isn't quite the gospel message. I think I said that on the radio and I was mistaken a bit. It's not quite the gospel message. The gospel message has to include that you are a sinner who needs to be saved. All people have sinned and are separated from God and the penalty for sin is death. You need to be saved.

But good news, that's the bad news, you're a sinner. But the good news is that Jesus is the path to salvation. Believe in him, believe he's the son of God, make him Lord of your life. That's the good news. Then you get baptized. That's the gospel message.

J.D. didn't quite say that, but that's okay. I'm sure he would if he gave him the opportunity. This is the closest though I've ever heard a vice president or president ever talk. I've never heard Mike Pence talk about it. It is wonderful to have a vice president who has a Christian worldview. Now he's not gonna save us, he's not, right, JD's our Savior and the government's not going to be, it

never should be, but it still should be encouraging nonetheless. Here is what he said, I'll play the whole thing and then we'll break down the main points.

First is, I believe, like the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith, it's not just a set of good moral principles, though it is that. I think the fundamental tenet of our faith is that the Son of God became man, He died, and He raised Himself from the dead. That is the fundamental tenet of the Christian faith, and I think so much flows from that. I think one lesson that flows from that is that we shouldn't fear death.

Of course, death is a very bad thing, but there are much more terrible things than just losing one's life, and importantly, you could lose one's soul. And I think whether it's fighting for the unborn or fighting for peace and security for our citizens, I want us to be the kind of society where my kids can grow up to be virtuous young people can be good young Christians, of course, because that's what I'm Trying to raise them to be and that's what our public policy is trying to do Creating the space where moms and dads can raise their children in their faith to become good

Young people who believe the things that I do That is what I'm trying to create is the space for you Of course to raise your children as you see fit, but the space for me to raise my kids to be the kind of young people that I think they ought to be. And the other thing that I take from it, Mercedes,

is if you look at the long history of the Christian faith, we've been around for about 2,000 years now, give or take a few years, and there have been really dark times in the history of the Christian faith, there have been really good times

in the history of the Christian faith. And I just try to remind myself that we put our faith in God above. We put our faith in the grace of God and we try the best to do his will and we don't worry so much about whether we're going to have earthly rewards. We worry about whether we're doing right by God almighty

above. That's what I try to do and that's how I try to run my life in public.

So really nice, right? So let's break some of these truths down that he spoke of. First thing, the acknowledgement that Christianity is not about being nice. That's not the point. We've had this belief these last few decades of what's called moral therapeutic deism, where God is your cosmic butler and all you have to do is just be nice and a better person than that guy

over there and don't ever have any conviction about anything because then you're judging and you're not allowed to judge you can't stand for anything ever similar to the Rick Warren thing that we talked about the other day like be in the middle Jesus was in the middle he was in the cross it's in the middle so you need to be in the middle cuz you don't offend anyone ever and most Christians unfortunately fall into that category have been tricked to fall into

that category. And therefore, most people who aren't Christian have created this pseudo religion where God sort of exists and I'm going to be nice to, or nicer at least than most people, but God, yeah, whatever, he's around. I can call on him when I need something, like a butler, but as long as I'm better than that other guy, then my conscience can be clean and that's all good enough.

And JD rejects that. He's like, no, that's not what Christianity is about. And by the way, the church needs to do a better job of speaking out against that lie as well. Second thing JD said is we shouldn't fear death. That's amazing.

It's amazing to hear a vice president speak like that. Again, pastors should be speaking this stuff too. One of the greatest lessons, or most regrettable lessons I suppose, from COVID was how much people are terrified of death. You should not fear death if you're a Christian. It was so obvious that most people are not Christian.

And they just fear death more than anything. They were willing to give up anything in the whole world. They were willing to give their whole life so as to not die. Paul wrote in Philippians 1 23, for to me, to live is Christ, to die is gain, but if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit for my labor. Yet what I shall choose I cannot tell.

Do I want to live or die? I don't know what's better. I'm hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. I love that. It's far better for me to go and be with Jesus. Nevertheless, to remain in the flesh is more needful for you.

And being confident of this, I know that I shall remain and continue with you for all your progress and joy of faith." He's like, okay, I'm here for now. That's great. I need to be. That's where God wants me to be. But he's like, I'd way better, I'd way rather die. Because when you die, you're with God forever.

That's the, all is well, it is well with my soul. But Lord, tis for you, for your coming we wait, the sky, not the grave is our goal. And Lord haste the day, when the faith shall be sight. I love that. Haste the day when faith shall be sight.

Hurry up. The clouds be rolled back as a scroll. The trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend. A song in the night, O my soul. Charles Spurgeon said, When men fear death, it is a very weak and sickly condition. By the way, when Paul talked about his desire, he's saying, I'm hard-pressed between the

two. I have a desire to depart and be with Christ. That Greek word there has force to it. It's not like, oh, you know, I kind of, I want some ice cream. He is longing. longing, he so badly wants to be with Jesus.

And we're just the opposite in our culture today. We so badly don't ever want anything bad to happen ever in any way. So for JD Vance to talk about how we fear death too much, wonderful, he talked about the soul, are you kidding me? When I first went over to SiriusXM Patriot,

I did a lot of segments on the soul. And got a couple emails from people who were like, enough already. Mostly people would call in and say, Slater, I was really, like, I was in the enough already category,

but now I get it, now I see it. And it's like, oh, that's really encouraging, thank you. Thanks for sticking around. I don't know, maybe a lot of people turned off and never came around, I don't care. Because no one in culture ever talks about the

soul, ever, never comes up, no one ever mentions the soul, ever. To hear Vice President talk about it was great, but to have anyone talk about it in public is great. I'll never forget, I talked to one of the most famous psychologists in the whole world and I asked him a question about how something affects the soul. It was either we don't acknowledge or we don't study the soul. Psychology literally means study of the soul.

And here's one of the most famous psychologists in the world saying, Oh, no, no, that doesn't exist. Whoa. JD Vance in his Munich speech, next time I talk to him, or first time I talk to him,

next time, with J.D. and I, when we talk to him, if I ever talk to J.D., I'm gonna ask him about that line. He said, we are not cogs in an international machine, like interchangeable cogs,

and he also said, we're not educated animals. Who put that in there? But it's the same idea. We're not animals. We are people endowed by our creator with inalienable rights.

We are souls. There's a lot of people who maybe at best think that we are a body or a person who has a soul. Like maybe that's that's like something that some people will think. But we're not even that. We are a soul that has a body for now. Even that's just temporary. It's your soul that matters. And one of the effects and I would argue one of the reasons why the

left has removed the existence of the soul from all consciousness and all discussion in our culture is because it is the soul that loves. Your body doesn't love, your soul loves. It is the soul that recognizes beauty and virtue and goodness. So if the left or atheist, Satan, Marxist, whatever, I'll say Satan, wants to numb you. One great way to do that is to deaden your soul. If he wants to control you, if he can just numb your soul,

then that's the point. Like I love my wife, I don't love her foot. And it's not my foot that loves her, right, you know, it's soul, it's our souls. I love her soul. It's my soul that loves her soul.

So if they can remove this from our consciousness, you can see how easy it is to manipulate and control us in every way. If you, someone cuts off your arm, you're still a person. And if you went blind, you're still a person. It's losing your soul that matters more than anything. And this is why the Bible talks about this.

Matthew 16, 26 says, for what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? What shall a man give in return for his soul? Matthew 10, 28, do not fear those who kill the body. This verse is so good.

Do not fear those who kill the body, but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell. Proverbs 4, 23 says, keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flows the springs of life. The Hebrew word there for heart also can mean soul.

It is the spring of your life. And we have so neglected it in our culture. And we see the fruit of that everywhere. Meaning we don't see any fruit, but we see the problems. We see the dead branches of depression, anxiety, you name it.

All the social ills, which then can often lead to all these other problems, including addictions and everything else. All that comes from a deadened soul. So that, I think it's one of my jobs on the radio is to talk about the soul all the time, just to put it in the consciousness of life. And then we can start to tend to it.

And JD did the same. Fourth point of JD's, just a little two-minute snippet there, government's role in creating space where people can be free. That's not the end of my sentence though. Where people can be free to be virtuous and to be Christians. To create space where moms and dads can raise children. To be who they ought to be. This is a theme that I discovered about a year ago that freedom is not the end of the story

I always thought freedom was the point That the point of America is that you can live in freedom. That's not it Freedom is not the end of the story freedom is the beginning of the story It's freedom to live as you ought to live when we eliminate that concept then freedom just turns into Sin I have the freedom to sin or the freedom to do these things that are not good. And that's just a form of slavery.

That's not freedom at all. It's a different type of slavery. That may be government enslaving you, but if you're a slave to your sin, you're a slave, just the same or worse. So freedom is just creating space so that you can live as you ought. And our founding fathers knew this deeply.

And we've lost sight of it for a long time. And JD, here he is talking about it. Then he talked about putting God's will first. Are you kidding me? This is all in two minutes. Matthew 6, 33, But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness,

and all these things will be added to you. Do God's will, and everything will be provided. Luke 12, 31, Seek the kingdom of God above all else, and He will give you everything you need. Isn't that great? Someone called in on the radio show today, Jillian in New Hampshire. She said she went last night to her kids open house in public high school.

She said there were I think 16 transgender flags, like 13 pride flags, and two American flags she saw in her visit. It's like, what is going on here? And I asked her what she was going to do about it. And I just, I said, I hope you feel encouraged that you know the truth.

And then the music was playing, I was just going to break,

and I said, I also hope you're encouraged that you know you're in the majority. And then the segment ended. And I said, oh, darn it, I shouldn't have said that rewind quick but you can't there's no rewind so we came back and I said you know what I misspoke there I should have just stopped at you should be encouraged that

you know the truth that's it it doesn't matter if you're in the majority or not I guess it's nice to be but doesn't matter we had a family meeting the other day because Grace slammed a door.

Or no, excuse me.

Excuse me.

A door slammed.

Grace said, Jack did it.

Jack said, Grace did it.

Uh oh. Someone's not telling the truth. Someone's lying here. So we had a family meeting.

Grace finally admitted to it.

Then John came in and said that Jack did it. So it's like, oh, geez. Now I don't know what happened, but it wasn't about the door. I don't even care about the door. Who's lying. Someone's lying.

And we have to be able to trust in this family. So, pulled out Proverbs 12, 22. Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those who deal truthfully are his delight. You know the truth, and if you speak the truth, it is a delight to God. Isn't that wonderful?

We were talking about different scenarios

where lying can get you in trouble and is bad. First we're just doing practical things, practical stories about where lying is bad and then we made it to the more spiritual important part, but just some practical examples. And I said, you know, Jack,

sometimes there's gonna be times when you lie and it's gonna be really unpopular, but you have to tell the truth. And he said, when? Like, when would that be? I was like, oh, that's tough.

So on the spot, the best I could come up with was, you're playing dodgeball at school and you're the last one in on your team and the other guy throws the ball at you and it just skims your leg and that guy thinks he got you,

your team says no, he didn't, but you know you did get hit, what do you do? And you tell the truth, you got hit,

your team's gonna be upset at you,

but those who deal truthfully are his delight.

Whose delight, your teammates?

No, not at that moment. But his delight, God's delight. So there's a scenario where it's very unpopular and where you're not in the majority, right? It doesn't matter. The majority part doesn't matter. Those who deal truthfully are his delight.

Now, I honestly don't know where we are in our culture at this moment. It's tough for me to gauge exactly. But I do know, I don't know if we're in the majority or minority and I think we're still very much in the minority. We just happen to be winning at the moment, whatever that looks like.

We have a lot of work to do in this country. We have a lot to rebuild, a lot to reconstruct. And I'm thrilled about it. What a delight it is to live in this moment, to raise kids, to be in your community, and to live a life every day where we can live

and promote these truths that JD Vance was just speaking of, but we can all speak it and live it as well. MikeSlater.Locals.com. Slater Radio is my Twitter and my Instagram. MikeSlater.Locals.com is the website. We put this up first on the website and we have a transcript and no commercials.

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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.

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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.

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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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