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5 Years Later: Biggest Lesson From COVID
Politics By Faith, Mach 13, 2025
March 13, 2025

COVID started 5 years ago this week. We missed a major opportunity to preach the Gospel during this time, but it's never too late to learn the most important lesson from COVID.

Hey, welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. March 11th. So what was that? That was Tuesday. This last Tuesday was the five-year anniversary of COVID.

Why do I say March 11th? That's the day that Donald Trump had that address to the nation with the two weeks to flatten the curve stuff. It was on March 11th. I distinctly remember.

Do you remember?

Do you remember that whole time? Do you remember that period in general? So to honor, celebrate, recognize, to never forget the lessons from COVID-19, I prepared a segment that we're gonna do on tomorrow's show on SiriusXM

with 13 lessons from COVID. My 13 biggest COVID lessons. We're not gonna go over all of them here. It's going to take like an hour, but I can just run through them quick. First lesson, the power of TDS, Trump Derangement Syndrome. Number two, the lengths people will go to not admit they were wrong. It's quite astounding actually, but it's so wild. If you just do it, it'll feel so much better.

Just try it like one time, just admit you're wrong. It has this huge buildup, like no, it's going to be so painful, and then you just do it and you feel great. And then you can do it all the time and it feels way easier. The power of I'm just doing my job. Maybe no words have ever justified more evil than, well, I'm just doing my job.

Fourth lesson, no common sense ever allowed at all. Fifth lesson, and this is kind of a practical one, is lab leaks are very common. There's about one a day. We average about one in America, one lab leak, one every day or two. We have a lab leak across the country. The sixth lesson, I should probably reorder these for tomorrow's show, is political correctness

is of greater value than common sense. Political correctness is of greater value, was at least of greater value. Seventh lesson, people will hide information, hide it, rather than admit they're wrong. It's just this general lack of curiosity and lack of humility that people have. I should probably move that one over too. Lesson number eight, the elites hate you.

They think you're really stupid. Ninth lesson was the power of propaganda, whether it's Chinese or American variety. Number 10, the impulse of we have to do something. It's very strong. the bad thing. People get very comforted by doing something. Number 11 is a general questioning of government competence. This would be the

institutions that have lost their credibility. Good, they deserve to have it lost. Number 11 is the authoritarian impulse inside many people. Number 12, how fragile our culture is, especially work ethic. And just really all social relations standards that we have. It was really on a knife's edge and something shook it.

I'm gonna write that down, that's a good line. So I'm going to shook it. And a lot of people haven't recovered. COVID really broke a lot of people in a lot of ways. So those are the 12, but then I have a 13th. And this is the most important one.

And this is the one that I want to go into more detail here. And that is people are very scared of death. People are terrified of death and dying. Now we live in an atheist culture today. And this is what happens. It's one of the consequences of that.

Is that people believe this is all there is. It's just evolution anyway. We're just a bunch of chemicals. A bunch of random chemicals, and anyway, all right, so that's all that's we just randomly got here and we'll just die and that's the end of it and people are very scared of that. I just came across this from C.S. Lewis, this may be an aside but

I'll do it anyway. C.S. Lewis, this is from the case for Christianity, he said supposing there was no intelligence behind the universe, no creative mind, in that case nobody designed my brain for the purpose of thinking. It is merely that when the atoms inside my skull happen, for physical or chemical reasons, to arrange themselves in a certain way, this gives me as a by-product the sensation I call thought.

But if so, how can I trust my own thinking to be true? It's like upsetting a milk jug and hoping that the way it splashes itself will give you a map of London. But if I can't trust my own thinking, of course I can't trust the arguments leading to atheism and therefore I have no reason to be an atheist or anything else. Unless I believe in God, I cannot believe in thought. So I can never use thought to

disbelieve in God. Pretty good. But don't think about that. Just you're an atheist. We're all atheists now. There is no God and there is. I shared this story many times during COVID of Martin Luther. In 1527, there was a terrible plague in his city. And you know, these plagues back then, they killed like 50% of the town. The COVID deaths, it was like 0.2% of the population.

It wasn't like 0.2, it was 0.2% of our population. Imagine if COVID killed 50% of the population. And this plague was so deadly in Martin Luther's town in 1527, that church leadership was telling him to leave, get out of Dodge. And he wrote this letter to people. He said, you wish to know whether it's proper for a Christian to run away from a deadly plague. It's a very long letter, and there's a lot of nuance in it, but let me just quote this one line.

If it be God's will that evil come upon us and destroy us, none of our precautions will help us. Everybody must take this to heart. First of all, if he feels bound to remain where death rages in order to serve his neighbor, let him commend himself to God and say, Lord, I am in thy hands. Thou hast kept me here.

Thy will be done. I am thy lowly creature. Thou can kill me or preserve me in this pestilence in the same way as if I were in fire, water, drought, or any other danger. If a man is free, however, meaning he has no responsibilities, and he can escape, let him commend himself and say, Lord God, I am weak and fearful.

Therefore I am running away from evil, and am doing what I can to protect myself against it. I am nevertheless in thy hands in this danger, as in any other which might overtake me, I will be done. My flight alone will not succeed of itself because calamity and harm are everywhere. Moreover, the devil never sleeps.

He is a murderer from the beginning and tries everywhere to instigate murder and misfortune. I believe the church missed a massive opportunity during COVID to save a lot of souls. There's a lot of fear. People are willing to do anything

to avoid this molecule that might float and get me. And we could have alleviated a lot of fear by talking to people about the afterlife. Now, Christians, many Christians,

I think, missed this in themselves. Because a lot of this, because we live in it, well a lot of this because church doesn't really talk about important things, but many churches, but we've lost sight because we live in the atheist culture now that we're not just bodies. That's what the atheists think is we're just bodies with chemical reactions.

Some people even, like those who admit we're a soul, they still put the emphasis on the body. We're a body that happens to have a soul, but the truth is we are a soul that happens to have a body. Now if you think we're just a body, then you'll do whatever it takes to keep the body safe from harm, safe from breathing in bad air, safe from that COVID molecule, because it's all you have. But I think people learned, I hope people learned, that you can cling to something so tightly that you end up losing it.

And people cling so tightly to life, they lost the ability to live, or at least, in many cases, to live a life worth living. So people are terrified of death. And honestly, some people should be, because you're going somewhere.

But if you're a Christian, you shouldn't be terrified at all. And I wish five years ago, but now is also a good time. I wish people use this as an opportunity to get right with God, so that death is instead something you look forward to. 2 Corinthians 5, Paul said, Being always of good courage, always,

and knowing that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord, for we walk by faith, not by sight. We are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord." How great is that? The verb here is to be of good cheer, to be happy. We are of good courage. For we know that if the earthly tent which

our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. We're clinging to our tent. When we have this incredible house in heaven waiting for us. We've quoted Philippians 1 a couple times recently. Paul said, For me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. But if I live on in the flesh, this will mean fruit from my labor. Yet what I shall choose I cannot tell, for I am hard-pressed between the two.

Living or dying, I'm hard-pressed between the two. Having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better. Nevertheless, to remain in the flesh is more needful for you." I think it would be a valuable thing in the church to focus more on our yearning for heaven. The scripture I want to talk about today, though, is in the story, is in 2 Kings 7. Pretty amazing story here.

So you have Elisha and he says from the Lord that tomorrow at this time a bit of flour is going to be like nothing. It's going to be super cheap. And the king and all the people are like, what? You're talking about how can that possibly be? Because they were surrounded by the enemy.

There was a siege on the town and the city, and everyone was starving. There was no food. Let's jump to verse 3. Now, there are four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, because they couldn't go into the city because they had leprosy. And the one said, they said to one another,

Why are we sitting here until we die? If we say we will enter the city, the famine is in the city, and we shall die there. And if we sit here, we die also. It's like, what are we doing? What are we doing just sitting here? Let's pick something. I mean we sit here and die or we can go there and like give it a go.

So the leopards say now therefore come let us surrender to the army of the Syrians. Those are the people who are surrounding the city. Let's go then. If they keep us alive we shall live and if they kill us we shall only die. If we stay here we die. If we go there the worst that can happen is we die. So they got up and they went to the camp of the Syrians. And it says they went to the outskirts of the camp,

which means they went all the way to the other side. They went through the whole camp. And to their surprise, it says here, no one was there. They left. All the enemy left. And the people in the town didn't even know it. People in the city didn't know it. Why did they leave? For the Lord had caused the army of the Syrians

to hear the noise of chariots and the noise of horses, the noise of a great army. So they said to one another, look, the king of Israel has hired against us, the kings of the Hittites and the kings of the Egyptians to attack us. Like this is like such a huge army. It's not even Israel.

Therefore they arose and fled at twilight and left the camp intact, their tents, their horses and their donkeys, and they fled for their lives. That's all terrifying.

It was.

And when these lepers came to the outskirts of the camp, they went into one tent and ate and drank, and carried from it silver and gold and clothing, and went and hid them. Then they came back and entered another tent and carried some from there also, and they went and hid it. Then they said to one another, Hold on, we are not doing right. This day is a day of good news, and we remain silent.

If we wait until morning light, some punishment will come upon us. Now therefore, come, let us go and tell the king's household." So there's a couple wonderful lessons here. First of all, they got up and they went and they tried and it worked out for them. There was a ton of food there and they were able to eat and drink to their heart's desire. And then when they started to hide things for themselves, they're like, wait, no, this is wrong.

Let's go tell the king what happened. So they had a conscience about them to do the right thing, even in this time. And the story here is about once the symbolism is once you know the gospel, you gotta go tell people about it. Go tell people the good news. And this is what Charles Spurgeon did

with this scripture here. He said, if you're not a believer right now, if you're not a Christian, if you're not saved, you're like the leper on the outside, outskirts of the city, you will die. COVID, no COVID, whatever, you're going to die.

Nothing you can do about that. You will die. Spurgeon said, if you remain where you are, you will perish forever. If you go over to Jesus, you will only die on this earth. You will die here, but then you will go to heaven and live forever. Spurgeon says you will not perish if you trust him.

On the contrary, you will find treasure far richer than you can imagine. Spurgeon actually says you will find treasure far richer than those poor lepers found in the deserted camp of the Syrians. May the Holy Spirit give you the boldness to go to Jesus immediately, and you will not believe in vain.

I just wish there was this message that was preached more during COVID. Go to Jesus immediately, you will not believe in vain. Then when you are saved yourself, share the good news with others. Don't be shy. Tell the king's household first and join in fellowship with them. Then proclaim the good news everywhere.

May the Lord save you before the sun goes down tonight. I pray for a true Holy Spirit-led revival in our churches first. Wherever it happens, one element of that, I think, would be not fearing death. Like my favorite hymn, it is well with my soul and Lord haste the day hurry up when the faith shall be sight. The clouds be rolled back as a scroll, the trump shall resound and the Lord shall descend even so it is well with my soul. I think COVID exposed a lot of things in our world exposed that things are not well with our souls. Let's get that right and one element of that would be not fearing death. I

Would love to be more articulate on this topic if you have any Insights that you can share with me. I'd love to hear it My email Slater radio at gmail.com Send me a note on I'm not fearing death and then the proper Christian perspective on that I look forward to doing some more research on it as well. But if you have any insight that can send me in the right direction, I'd love that.

Slaterradio at gmail.com. Mikeslater.locals.com is my website. We have, we put these up a little bit earlier on that website. We have, we put these up a little bit earlier on that website. Commercial free and a transcript as well.

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Young women in the industry in general, you know what makes the whole thing tick and work and all. You can help people in such an incredible way. He says, Well, the money's good. So I asked him, I had to go. It was the end of the show. And I said, Greg, if you're interested. Send me an email. He did. He wrote me right away. And then I asked him back. I said, Greg, what are you making? What do you need to make in order for you to leave comfortably? He says, He makes just over 100000 a year. He's a plumber and he has a bachelor's degree. He's making pretty good money where he is. And Jesus said. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Greg is in a position to save souls he really can. He's the man to do it. Just need some help. If you're in the Detroit area and you can maybe help Greg out with a job or an opportunity, my personal email is slaterradiogmailcom Slaterradiogmailcom and if all of us.

The second reason I want to bring this up, if all of us can please pray for Greg in Michigan. And I pray that he makes a hard choice. That's not a hard choice. It's a monumental choice and acts on it. He says he's a Christian. So I pray the Holy Spirit speaks to him loudly and he can take these steps. And then I pray that he has zero regrets and instead feels this relief. I want Greg to, I would just love for there to be an opportunity. Someone listening now is like, oh, yeah, like I'll give Greg. I'll. Interview Greg, right? And then Greg's great. So we take on Greg, Greg leaves, and then he can help these girls. But the moment Leaves, I want him to feel this joy, this relief and this joy, like, Oh, I can finally, I'm doing what I know I should be doing."

And then I can go glorify God by spreading the word in a very dark place, a place that he used to spend a lot of time in. So if you could pray, again, you may be like, I'm in Alabama or whatever, I can't help Greg. " You can, if you can pray for Greg in Detroit, that would be amazing. And if you're in Detroit and you can help Greg, I got a lot of emails from people after that show, after that, who heard that. And they're like, oh man, it was moving for me and a lot of other people. We just need one person. One person to be in a position to help Greg do the right thing. It can be hard to do the right thing, but it is easier when people come alongside and help. My wife and I, to be personal here, my wife and I, when we were engaged We were living together. And we were going to this church.

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Reports are spreading that life aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lincoln is difficult and uncomfortable. How bad are things? There's not enough fresh milk. I'll tell you why the media is spreading this story and what the truth is.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. It's where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible, so we can all walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day, but Ecclesiastes says it's not the new under the sun. Thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day today. Hayden Panettiere has died at the age of 36. Hayden was a child actress. 

Her first TV show was Jim Henson's TGIF show in 1996, short -lived. It was called Aliens in the Family. She was seven. Did a lot of TV commercials as well. She was the voice of one of the characters in A Bug's Life. Her biggest childhood role was Remember the Titans as the precocious little girl. 

Her big break as an adult was Heroes, some TV show, and in Nashville. A lot of headlines said she was from the Scream franchise. I'm old enough to think that Courtney Cox is the face of the Scream franchise, but I guess there was some reboot. She was found dead at Judson Mill Lofts in Greenville, South Carolina. Authorities don't think there was any foul play, no sign of trauma that could have contributed to her death. TMZ says that in the 911 dispatch, there was something said about an overdose. 

But as I'm recording this now, we're not sure yet. I read this in USA Today. They said in the years leading up to her death, Panettiere had been candid about her health and struggles with substance abuse. The actress previously revealed that she struggled with alcohol and opioid addiction and sought treatment. And she also spoke openly about experiencing postpartum depression after welcoming her daughter Kayla in 2014. Her younger brother, also an actor, Jensen Panettiere, died in 2023 at the age of 28 from a heart condition. 

Her daughter is with her ex -fiancé, so lives with her dad in Europe. So I don't know what that situation is about. what's broken about this horrible story is it's a reminder that celebrities don't live a great life. I saw that she had a net worth of $15 million. I don't know what her actual net worth was, right, but a lot. And she was famous and glamorous, and she went to all the red carpets and the big special events, and people were like, ooh, Hayden's here. 

And I was like, she could afford anything in the world. She could go anywhere in the world. Anywhere she wanted right now, she could go and stay at the nicest place in the world, nicest hotel in New York City or wherever, and do whatever she wanted. And just wasn't happy. How are you doing? And if your excuse is, well, you know, I'm all right, but I don't have $15 million. 

If I had $15 million, then I'd be, I'd be real happy. If I were famous, then I would be, I'd be, then I'd be grateful. So obviously not the answer. Happiness can't be about your circumstances. If you're not happy now, then you won't be happy with the change of circumstance. You really won't. 

You won't. It depends where you find your happiness. And you can never go about thinking that your life would be, if you were a celebrity, then life would be good. Like it's not it. And most celebrities will admit it. It's just not a good life. 

I think one of the reasons it's not a good life is because you're never sure about your relationships. Are people there for the money? Are people there for the fame? People there for the perks? How loyal are your friends? And you can be rich and famous, big celebrity, but your 11 year old daughter lives in Europe with your ex. 

Like what good is all that money? Who cares? Who wants this money? And then it makes life seem even more shallow and meaningless. It's relationships that matter the most. Your relationship with Jesus, first and foremost, which is what we're going to get to. 

But then secondly, your relationships here on earth. And if those relationships are questionable at best or broken, then no matter what your relationships are here on earth, you need to have that relationship with Jesus. I was convicted this morning with a scripture that I've read a thousand times. Matthew 7, 21, Jesus is not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, we'll enter the kingdom of heaven. but the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven. " And his followers, they're like, what are you talking about? 

We prophesied in your name. We casted out demons. We did all these mighty works. We did stuff. What do you mean? Not everyone who says, Lord, Lord, we'll go to heaven. 

Like we're doing the stuff. Like if we went back and we saw this happening, we would say that these people who are questioning this, we would say they're Christians. And then Jesus said, and then I will declare to them, I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness. That line never stood out to me. All the times I've read this, that last part, you who practice lawlessness. 

The Greek word here for to know me is the intimate knowing of someone or an intimate relationship with someone. He's saying, you people, you're doing stuff, quote unquote in my name, but you don't know me. I don't know you. We don't have a relationship and you're practicing lawlessness actually. 1 John 2, 3 says, and by this, we know that they have come to know him. If we keep his commandments. Whoever says, I know him, but does not keep his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him. 

There's a keeping of the commandments. They're not practicing lawlessness. And Jesus ends the sermon on the Mount, Matthew 7, 24. Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And then it says, everyone who hears these words of mine and does not do them will be the foolish man who built his house on the sand. So there's, there's a, it's not just hearing the words, you got to go do them and not just do anything, but follow his commands. 

Now, of course, there's no working our way to Jesus, no working our way to heaven. These things, the doing stuff, it's the fruit that comes out of the intimate relationship with Jesus. It comes out of the knowing Jesus. And Jesus is the only person that brings peace. No matter what rough times, difficult times, mental health, addiction, whatever, come to me, all who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. So many people who need relationship, they need intimacy, and they need rest. 

All of that comes through Jesus. Jesus said, take my yoke upon you and learn from me. Learn from me. I am gentle and humble at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. How many people today need rest in their souls? For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Isn't that incredible? 

Find rest for your souls in Jesus. Nothing else will give it to you. Nothing else on this earth will make you content. We need that reminder because if we walk around disgruntled and discontent, There's a chance that Jesus says, I never knew you. You're not looking to me. You're not looking to me for your refuge. 

You're not looking to me for a relationship. Nothing else. Fame, money, celebrity, nothing else will fill that void. Nothing else will give you rest. That is all and only in Jesus. Don't miss these reminders. 

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Trump: "Who Are These Animals?" Destroying The WWII Memorial
Politics By Faith, August 17, 2026

In this country, there are people "of the Devil," and there are people "of Christ." We are called to build. The rest are dead set on destruction. Whether it's institutions, organizations, or statues and memorials, those of the Devil can't stop destroying everything that is good, beautiful, and true.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. This is where we take the news of the day, we bring it to the Bible, so we can walk away with peace and perspective. New headlines every day. They never stop. They keep coming. I'm going to bombard you. 

But Ecclesiastes says it's not the new under the sun. So thanks for being here to get the true story, the story of the day today. Vandalizing the World War II Memorial. So what happened here? The president tweeted out the other day, our beautiful World War II Memorial was just hit by spray painting vandals. There could be no greater insult to those Americans, American heroes who died in World War II. 

First, the reflecting pool. Now this, we are on their trail. Where do these animals come from? So someone wrote with spray paint on the World War II Memorial. They wrote clean hands, dirty money. I don't know what that means, but then they just made this big mess. 

all around. And then someone or someone else, I don't know that same person, I don't know, poured bubble soap in the fountains of the memorial. So it made this big foam bubble mess. The good news of this story is that the U . S. attorney for Washington, D . 

C. is also the DA for D . C. The weird quirk of how, like what Washington, D . C. even is. I mean, thank goodness that Jeanine Pirro is the D . 

A. of D . C. because she is able to arrest murderers and drug dealers. There's no other city in the country where the D . A. 

is going to be someone like Jeanine Pirro. D . C. is the only place. So she's in charge of this, and she already charged someone. Two felony charges, vandalism against property and destruction of Veterans Memorial. 

That's a specific charge. Melissa Ferris. Facing up to 10 years in prison, now in custody, of course, it's a degenerate. looking person as they almost always are. Her outside is a reflection of her heart, a heart that is consumed with destruction. And that's what I want to talk about here. 

That's what I want to talk about what's broken in this story. I cannot stress enough how dead set these people are on destruction. We don't, it's hard for us to understand this because you're not, you're not dead set on destruction. You're trying to build things. You're trying to make things better. These people are, they're different. 

They set on destruction at the risk of getting off topic. Let me, let me weave for just a second here. This is on my mind. Cause we've been talking a lot about this on the, on the radio show lately, the importance of a high trust society. And we've taken it for granted our whole life. We've lived in a high trust society and we didn't recognize it. 

And now we're losing it. And it's going to be gone fast. A basic example we can all understand is. You grew up in a world, in a country, in a culture where you walk into a store and it's all there. And then you take a thing off the shelf and you put it in a basket or a cart and then you go over there to the checkout person and you pay and then you walk out the door. Well enough people just stopped doing that. 

Like they would just steal stuff. So then the stores had to lock everything up. We all know about that example. It's mostly foreigners who do this. because they come from low -trust societies, or it's just degenerate people. Maybe they grew up here, but they're not American at their core because that's not our culture. 

But there's other examples of high -trust society that we're losing. McDonald's said they're getting rid of self -serve soda stations. Have you ever thought about that? Have you ever thought about the fact that you can buy one soda, and you just walk over there, or you just get a water. You could ask for a water, and you just go over there, and you grab a drink. And if you want another one, you gotta go back and pay, but that's okay because you can just fill it up yourself. 

Like that's a high trust society, but they're getting rid of that. Why are they doing it? McDonald's said they're getting rid of it because of quote, changing consumer habits. No, it's because disgusting people keep stealing soda. We talked about a story the other day on the radio of how people are not only attacking and robbing the mailman, mail carriers, Now gangs are infiltrating the post office to become mail carriers so they can systematically steal from you and I, from everyone. They can steal important documents, credit cards, whatever they want. 

So how about taking mail delivery for granted? I never thought twice about that one. I never thought that people would just steal the mail because we've always lived in a high trust society, but people now steal the mail. It's crazy. Someone called in the other day because I have an open call for anyone who ever has a high trust story. that they wanna celebrate. 

This guy called in and said they were in a convenience store in their town, and the person forgot their wallet, and the cashier person said, ah, don't worry about it, I owe you. Next time you're here, pay it off. And the guy was the second person in line, said, what? What was that? Oh, that's how it used to be. All these old -timey movies, the Wild West, where people put stuff on their tab. 

Tab? You have a tab? What do you mean you have a tab? If you ever, if you have an example of a high -trust society, thing, element, example, story, something in your town that's high trust. Please let me know. I love these stories so much. 

Let me know in the comments of our YouTube page, your high trust society example, whether it's something you had growing up or let's pray something you still have today. Just one that popped in my head is in my town I used to live in, we went back a couple of years ago for a vacation and just like a mile or so down the lake where we stayed, there was like a farm stand. Like a farm stand is a classic example, right? You put your money in the little Folgers cup, make your own change. This guy did that though, but for maple syrup. 

This guy had this little shed of maple syrup. There had to be like $10 ,000 worth of maple syrup. That's an expensive item. And it was all just, you know, grab it, whatever. Grab what you want and leave your money right there. Like, oh man. 

So please let me know in the comments your high trust society story. And I love to hear these stories because when, every time they happen, it, it tells people that this is how we do it, right? Like, so, so if you, if someone does a high trust society thing to you, you're more likely to then do another high trust society thing to someone else. And then it snowballs because people are like, oh, wow, we were doing that. We're, we're honest. Oh, that's awesome. 

I want to be honest like that too, to people and it snowballs for the better, but it could spiral down fast as well. It's one of the things we lose when the whole third world comes here because they view your trust as weakness. It's a weakness to be taken advantage of. The vice president had an anti -fraud round table like a week or so ago. And the second person in command there, someone at the treasury department, said these welfare programs were designed for a high trust society. And they worked without having to do a lot of paperwork and checking in on people and all the rest. 

When more foreigners come in than ever before and it's just game on. People taking advantage of this thinking, wow, these Americans are just a bunch of suckers. Can you believe it? They're just giving all this money away. I can't believe they're so stupid. Third worlders, they come here and they see our high trust as weakness. 

Can you believe people are just given free food away at the food pantry? They're just giving food away. It's like, yeah, that's not what that's for. Can you believe we just got to fill this form and we'll make millions of dollars a year with our fake daycare? It's free money. They just give it to you. 

They see our trust as weakness. Similarly, back at the end of my weave, I think this ties in here because these are people who walk around and they just see, they see weakness. And there's other people who walk around and they're dead set on destruction. It's in their heart. They see things that are good, beautiful, and true. and their wicked heart says, I have to destroy that. 

And it could be a thing like a statue or like a war memorial. It could be an organization like the Boy Scouts. It could be a company like Bud Light or Cracker Barrel. It could be an industry like Hollywood, or you can even think like Star Wars specifically. Like it's good, I'm gonna destroy it. That woke feminist woman who came in there, Kathleen Kennedy or whatever her name is, comes in and just destroys the whole thing. 

I saw a video the other day of the Vanderbilt Divinity School. It's hollowed out and woke trans in every way. It could be any other part of our culture, like professional sports. It could be an institution like marriage, whatever, whatever it is. I just list off a pretty broad range of things. The left, they're very good at knowing what the most important things are to take down. We talked a lot about last week. 

We're going to keep talking about it too. The left, about 50 years or so, their focus on taking down marriage. I know what I'm saying is true. it's in the Bible. Satan and his demons are destroyers. Check out this line in the Bible, Revelation 9 11. 

It says they have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, A -B -A -D -D -O -N, and in Greek he's called Apollon. The word Abaddon in Hebrew, it says that's what his name is. His name Abaddon in Hebrew, it means destruction. That's literally what the word means. This is the fallen angel who's in charge of this bottomless pit. 

His name is Destruction. Other translations of that Hebrew word are Ruin. I looked at the Blue Letter Bible and described it as the name of the angel prince of the infernal regions, the minister of death and the author of havoc on the earth. Also a destroying angel. The fallen angel, the demon's name is Destruction. I know I'm hitting on something I think is right on. 

Jesus calls Satan a murderer from the very beginning. A murderer destroys life. The devil is like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. Satan destroys. Demons destroy. That's their goal. 

John 10, Jesus says the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. This is what ungodly people do, their intent on destruction. We see what Satan is capable of in Job. Now Satan's permitted to do all this here, right? But we see what he's capable of when he strikes Job and how he strikes Job. He takes away Job's livelihood, kills his animals, his servants, kills all 10 of his children. 

They were eating together, having a wonderful time as a family. Satan then attacks Job's health and then Satan tries to turn Job against God. These are the strategies of Satan. They're all destruction. They're destroying health, life, relationships. So what Satan does, he destroys. 

And people today, they act in Satan's name. 1 John 3 .12 says, we should not be like Cain, who was of the evil one and murdered his brother. Cain was of the evil one. There's a lot of people who are, even today. We shouldn't be though. We are of Christ. 

There are some people who are of the evil one. We are of Christ. Christ. We are called to hire. We are called to godliness. We are called to righteousness. 

We are called to build. Whether it's building monuments to World War II veterans, to maintain their memory, or for building a family or a school, or you're serving your town, or you're doing amazing work at your job, we build. Colossians 3 .23 says, whatever you do, work heartily as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord, you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ. I will be fair though. The Bible does say that we destroy too. 

In general, we're builders, but there is one thing we destroy. 1 John 3 says, the reason the son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. Maybe we don't do that then. Jesus already did. Jesus destroyed the works of the devil. It's now our job to build. 

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