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The True Story of St. Patrick's Day
Politics By Faith, March 17, 2025
March 17, 2025

It took 37 years of my life before I learned the true story of Patrick. How can that be? How were the atheists able to paganize every one of our Holy Days? We must take these days back from the pagans.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being a happy St. Patrick's Day. A pet peeve of mine, it's much stronger than a pet peeve, whatever is stronger than a pet peeve, that's what this is, great lament. I should stop saying it's a pet peeve, it's not even close to a pet peeve, it's a lament of mine, is that all of the holidays in our country have been paganized and secularized.

The word holiday itself is holy day. And now all these Christian holidays are not anymore. And this is a big problem. And it's a great opportunity for us now, though, in this cultural moment that we're in, and it's certainly, certainly a moment. We are turning away.

A lot of people are turning away from what we've been fed the last few decades, but they're going to be turning and looking for something new.

And this is our opportunity to provide them with something that is good. And I think the argument that this is who we used to be, this is where our country came from, here's the holy days we used to celebrate and how we used to celebrate them. I think that's a pretty easy sell actually. I think it's very important to do. So that's why I'd like to keep making this point. Almost all of our holidays are, we're Christian. Halloween was All Hallows' Eve. To hollow means

to make holy, to set apart for holy or religious use, to consecrate as a sacred. It was the day before All Saints' Day, November 1st, where we celebrated the great Christian martyrs who came before us. And now it's a goofy, pagan, dress-up as a superhero day. Christmas, of course, the birth of Jesus Christ. And now it's Santa in presence.

Easter was the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It's the thing that the entire Christian faith hangs on. We are to be most pitied if this didn't actually happen. But now it's Easter bunny and eggs. Ridiculous. Thanksgiving. The same thing. Thanksgiving was a day where the Puritans prayed to God, thank you, God, for bringing us here safely to this new world. And

this second mass exodus from from tyranny, where we can live our Christian faith to the fullest. That's Thanksgiving. We were told the story back at Thanksgiving, but literally, thank you God for it raining so that our crops can grow. And in our founding, and all the way through Abraham Lincoln and beyond, Thanksgiving was a day of fasting. It was a day of not eating. It's a day of fasting and prayer. And today, it's a day of gluttony and football.

Isn't that amazing? Now if you're talking to anybody about this, some people may think that people like these holidays as it is. And you may have atheist friends who don't want these to be Christian holidays. Okay, here's a good starting point if I may. Put on your anthropologist hat, your sociologist hat.

Get this person, I don't mean this in a manipulative way, just for the sake of conversation, get someone to admit and acknowledge that it's different. These used to be Christian holidays that we celebrated in the United States of America. This is what we used to do. This is what they used to mean. This is why we used to celebrate them.

And now we do it in a very different way. You have to acknowledge that. Now you can, we're not going to put any value judgment on it yet. They can say, yeah, we used to do it that way, but it's better now. Okay.

That's an opinion.

I think it's way worse now, but we'll worry about the judgment in a second. First just acknowledge that that's how it used to be. And now we're doing something very different. That's a very important starting point. Now we can add judgment to it and why I think this is very lamentable. Before I make that argument let's tell the story of St. Patrick. What is St. Patrick's Day? St. Patrick's Day are you wearing green?

Okay so it's a day to wear green okay and it's a day to drink green beer and That's not what St. Patrick's Day is. I went nearly my entire life, it was really until two, maybe three years ago, when I first learned the story of Patrick, the guy. At best, if you asked me what St. Patrick did, I would say he drove the snakes out of Ireland. But that's not true. He didn't do that. There were no snakes in Ireland. There are no snakes in Ireland.

But there's no snake. He never did anything with snakes. There's no snake. And someone would be like, well, it's an allegory. No, we don't have time for allegory. Tell the story.

What did he actually do? Because the story is way better than any allegory. So here's the deal. St. Patrick, he wasn't Irish. He was born in England in the 400s. His dad was a deacon.

His grandfather was a priest, but he was an atheist. He was then abducted from his village and thrown on a slave ship up to Ireland. Ireland at this time was totally backwards, so was England, but Ireland was was even worse. Everything was very spread out, a lot of fighting, a lot of battles. There were no governments. There was no order. It was just total chaos. And they worshipped the pagan gods, the sun and the moon and wind and stuff like that. Their religious leaders were the

Druids. So his name, he wasn't Padre, his name was Mewin. So Mewin gets taken as a slave. This is a real story. Have you ever heard this? I've never heard this until years ago. Mawin was taken as a slave to this foreign pagan land and he was sold to this guy named Milchu and he was there for six years. Six years as a slave, mostly as a shepherd to his master's sheep and he wrote when he was there

and in his book, he said, uh it's his journal. He said, I prayed frequently during the day. More and more, the love of God increased and my sense of awe before God increased. Faith grew, and my spirit was moved, so that in one day I would pray up to one hundred times, and at night perhaps the same." One day he decided to escape.

He traveled two hundred miles to the coast. He found a ship ready to sail, and they said, no, we're not gonna let you on this ship. You're a slave. But he begged them, and they finally agreed, and ultimately he made it back home, back to England, and he found his mom and his dad again,

and dedicated his life to God, and right there became a priest. And then one night he had a dream, and in his dream he heard, holy boy, please return to us. We need you. And he decided to return to Ireland, to return to the place where he

was taken to be a slave, return to the people who enslaved him and preach the gospel. Think about that. It was a long time ago, so it's hard to get there and there's nothing to say that he couldn't be taken a slave again. And how are you even gonna do this? How are you going to preach Jesus to people worshipping the Sun God and the Moon God and the Druids? How are you ever going to do that? But he did and he spread Christianity throughout Ireland. He

changed his name to Patrick when he became a priest. So there you go, that's St. Patrick. Have you ever heard that before? I've never heard that, not until like two or three years ago. So do it, I mean, do this nicely. No one wants to know it all. So don't be like, hey, do you even know why you're wearing green? Or what do you even, like that. Be like, hey, do you know, do you even, have you ever heard the story of St. Patrick's

Day before? Like I've never heard it until I heard it on the radio today. Do that to someone and tell them the story. It's a very simple story. He was British, he was English, taken as a slave to this place called Ireland, escaped, and then the Holy Spirit told him to go back to Ireland and spread the gospel.

It's an incredible story.

It's an incredible story.

It's a wonderful thing to celebrate. That's why it's a holy day. That's the point of holidays. Here's something we should emulate. This is something that reminds us who we used to be and who we still should be.

And now we're like, here's my green socks. I have a couple quotes here from Mawin. He said, I am Patrick, a sinner, most unlearned, the least of all the faithful, and utterly worthless in the eyes of many. I so value the Christians who came before us who understand the true depth of their Because the more you understand how undeserving you are of salvation, the more grateful you

are for the Savior. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 15, For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. So did I before I was a Christian. This is what Jesus was talking about. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, and blessed are

those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Mourn what? Mourn their sin. We did a whole series a while ago, we should do it again, on Servant on the Mount and the Beatitudes. But here is Mawin Patrick, who understands this very deeply. I pray to God to give me perseverance

and to deign that I be a faithful witness to him to the end of my life for my God. He said, I know for certain that before I was humbled, I was like a stone lying in deep mire. And He that is mighty came and in His mercy raised me up, and indeed lifted me high up and placed me on top of the wall. And from there I ought to shout out in gratitude to the Lord for His great favors in this world and forever that the mind of man cannot measure."

This is a perfect one for the week that we spend a good amount of time talking about dying. And we talked about COVID, remember we talked about the five year anniversary of COVID and the big lessons from COVID. And my biggest lesson was that people are scared of death.

And here's what Patrick said about that. He said, for daily, I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. How about that? I expect to be murdered, but I fear nothing because of the promises of heaven.

For I have cast myself into the hands of Almighty God, who reigns everywhere." I am certain—this is why holidays matter—I am certain that if for the last fifty years St. Patrick's Day was more than a day to drink green beer, celebrate Patrick and to praise God like he did and to understand the state of our own sin and where we actually deserve to go versus what Jesus has done

to us instead and if we understand like Patrick did that I fear nothing because we cast ourselves into the hands of Almighty God who reigns everywhere I guarantee you of course we would be a totally different country right now for the better and specifically regarding COVID, we would have acted completely differently. We would have feared nothing because we trust God who reigns everywhere and at all times and under all things, which is what Martin Luther understood in that episode we shared

from a couple of days ago. I got this email. Let's see if I can pull it up here quickly. It's another situation where I could just pause the recording. We're not live, but someone sent me a note of Andrew Jackson. Here it is.

This is from Charles. Slater just finished listening to your podcast about COVID. Thank you, Charles. Stonewall Jackson, in general, how is it that you can keep so cool and appear so utterly insensible to danger, when such a storm of shell and bullets has rained about you when your hand was hit?" Here's what Stonewall Jackson said,

"'Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter what may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave." Stonewall was right about that. In Job, it says, a person's days are determined. You have decreased the number of his months and have set limits that

he cannot exceed. Give you two more quotes from Patrick. God watched over me before I knew him, and before I learned sense or even distinguished between good and evil, and he protected me and consoled me as a father would his son.

It's beautiful.

Final quote we'll share here today. I came to the people of Ireland to preach the gospel and to suffer insult from the unbelievers, bearing the reproach of my going abroad and many persecutions, even unto bonds, and to give my free birth to the benefit of others."

Wow.

And to give my free birth to the benefit of others. Amazing. Just yesterday in church, the preacher was talking about Philippians 2. Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Look each of you not, look not only to his own interest but also to the interest of others.

So treat others more significant than yourselves. And here's Patrick saying, to give my free birth for the benefit of others. Beautiful. So again, what if this is what we all knew St. Patrick's Day to be about? What a different country we'd be, what a different family we would have and a different mindset we would all have as well.

So let's get back to it. Let's not just lament what we've been missing, but let's take it back. Let's take this and all the holy days back. So my challenge to you is to talk to someone today about the story of Patrick. Tell them that he was born in the 400s, was taken as a slave to this backwards place called Ireland, escaped, went back to his mom and dad, became a Christian, and the Holy Spirit called him to go back to Ireland, the place that enslaved him, and spread the gospel. And he did exactly that. Let us all be as brave and trust in God as Patrick was. Let us all be as brave and trust in God as Patrick was. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on the website Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

 

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easy and entitlements and all this stuff, all these, this, this fake light seems so appealing and we've fallen for it for so long. Now people can't even imagine another way. We'll see how the one big beautiful bill does tonight. But my point is here, stay close to God so that we know when it is actually Satan masquerading as the angel of light and be aware of ideas and policies and philosophies that masquerade as truth as well. and be aware of ideas and policies and philosophies that masquerade as truth as well.

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Yo Daddy's Home
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And he turned and he got on the helicopter. He gets on the helicopter, helicopter goes over to the Netherlands for the big NATO conference and he's sitting next to the head of NATO and a reporter asks him, hey man, you dropped the F-bomb the other day, you know, tell me about that. Here's what Trump said. I mean, we may do papers on it,

Marco. Maybe we're going to do papers. I don't even know if you need them. They're not going to be fighting each other. They've had it. They've had a big fight, like two kids in a school yard. You know, they fight like hell. You can't stop them. Let them fight for about two, three minutes. Then it's easier to stop them.

And then daddy has to sometimes use strong language.

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Every once in a while, you have to use a certain word.

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Okay, so people took that, some people in the media spun that as the head of NATO called Trump daddy. Now, he clearly didn't. He wasn't like, hey, Trump daddy. Trump was using an analogy of parenting with two kids and then he working with the analogy said, oh, well, you know, then daddy comes home.

All right, here we have, I kind of call them daddy, okay? So then Trump was asked about that later.

It's from Sky News. Mark Ritter, the NATO chief, who is your friend, he called you daddy earlier. Do you regard your NATO allies as kind of children?

No, he likes me. I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and I'll hit him hard. Okay. Do you he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know. I'll come back and I'll hit him hard. Okay. He did. He did it very affectionate. He daddy, you're my daddy. Do

you have a God? You're okay. So Marco Rubio is in the background just busting up. Okay. So then the head of NATO was asked about calling him daddy.

Thank you. Deborah Haynes from Sky News. Same woman, same woman. She's obsessed with this. She's absolutely obsessed. Deborah Haynes from Sky News. Hello. The language that you have used when talking to Donald Trump has been notable because of its flattery. Today you called him daddy. You sent a text message.

Now, again, to be clear, he didn't. But you heard what happened.

To him that was gushing with praise. Is this the way that you feel you have to act when doing business with the US president through flattery and praise? Isn't it a bit demeaning and doesn't it make you look weak?

Ooh.

Okay. Let me pull up the text that she is referring to. So Trump the other day, screenshot it, a text that he, the head of NATO, said, Trump says, Mr. President, dear Donald, congratulations. And thank you for your decisive action in Iran. That was truly extraordinary and something no one else dared to do.

It makes us all safer. You're flying into another big success in the Hague this evening, the Netherlands. It was not easy, but we've got all of them signed on to 5%. We'll get to that in a minute. Don, you've driven us to a really, really important moment for American Europe and the world. You will choose something no American president in decades could get done. Europe is going to pay in a big way as they should, and it and see you at his majesty's dinner. I don't know, is that fawning? That flattery or like, hey, great job.

No, I don't think so. I think it's a bit of a question of taste, but I think he's a good friend. And when he is doing stuff, which is forcing us to, for example, when it comes to making more investments, would you ever think that this would be the result

of this summit if he would not have been elected president? Do you really think that seven or eight countries who said, yeah, somewhere in the 2030s we might meet the 2%? We've now all decided in the last four or five months to get to 2%. So doesn't he deserve some praise? And when it comes to Iran, the fact that he took this decisive action, very targeted, to make sure that Iran would not be able to get his hands on a nuclear capability. I think he deserves all the praise.

Okay. Now that leads up to this. Oh, should we talk about the 5%? Stop at the 5% quick. So when Trump's first term, he said, Hey, NATO countries, you all need to pay more. And the media said, oh, Trump's attacking NATO.

Well, no, he's not attacking NATO. He's saying he's saying countries need to spend more money, which strengthens NATO. Well, that was 2%. What Mark had a NATO is talking about is now the country's agreed to spend 5% of their GDP on defense. And that's what he's saying is that no one would have no country would have done that if it weren't for Trump. Trump strengthened NATO. Now, Spain is not playing along. So Trump said, I'm going to make them pay double tariffs.

He's like Spain. They think they're going to free ride through in NATO without paying more for defense. No, it's not going to happen. So you're just going to pay double tariffs to the United States. No more freeloading. That's what they're talking about there.

Now, here's what happened yesterday.

Saw this on Trump's Instagram.

After every trip he makes, they do like this hype reel video of him, you know, getting off Air Force One and all the things, right? Everywhere he goes, they put these out every week or so. And this is the one they put out yesterday.

♪ I just wanna get your attention.

You want to be all up in your head. I don't. It's kind of a weird song choice. I don't want to be my first choice. I don't some like weird kind of pop song thing, but okay, I will keep listening here. So the song is by Usher. It's called Daddy's Home.

And all the video is of him meeting with NATO leaders. Here's the NATO flag. Here's Pete Hagseth. Here's Marco Rubio. Here's Trump at the podium. So fit, just perfect. Every other president would have put their whole crisis team on this, send out press releases saying, Oh no, no, that's no we're gonna make our allies feel good no we're not daddy we're all equal members in a league of

nations Trump's team comes out and says I know you've been waiting for this loving all day. You know your daddy's home. Very good. Very good. Well done. Very funny. All right.

So what do we do with this? How do we turn this into a biblical segment? Well, God is your real daddy. No, I'm not going to, not going to do that. Not going to make that point. Abba means daddy.

I want to make a point about delight. This is fun. Right? Trump is having fun. You see him up there when he's having fun. It's fun to watch.

This whole administration is having fun. Hard work of course, but they're doing it all with a smile. The other day we did a segment on the origin of peace through strength. Where did that idea come from? It didn't come from Reagan. It came from the year 400. The other day we did a segment on the origin of peace through strength. Where did that idea come from? It didn't come from Reagan. It came from the year 400. There was a book called De Re Militaris written by Flavius Vigetius Renatus.

It's about Roman warfare and the line is, if you want peace then prepare for war. Then we did the origin of the line, speak softly but carry a big stick. That came from Teddy Roosevelt, 1901, Minnesota State Fair. It is a beautiful speech, highly recommend it. Just search for national duties, Teddy Roosevelt, 1901, and it'll pop up, it's a beautiful speech.

But where did the term happy warrior come from? It's another line that people associate with Reagan, right? The happy warrior, where did that come from? That came from a Wordsworth poem, William Wordsworth, that's gotta be the best name of a poet, right? He wrote a poem called Character of a Happy Warrior,

another beautiful read. But let me just go through, instead of making it poetic, I'll just give you a list here. A happy warrior has a generous spirit, noble ideals, an inner light, a sense of purpose, eager to learn, he has moral integrity,

turns adversity into advantage, can meet the worst that can befall the best and make it his own good. I would argue that's what Trump did with the whole daddy thing. Self-control, passionate, forgiving, resilient,

guided by reason, virtuous, honorable, faithful to duty, unselfish, courageous, serene in adversity, the line is, can meet the storm and keep his heart serene, loving, loyal, persevering, unwavering purpose. And who of course in world history has best exemplified all of these wonderful characteristics? That would be Jesus, every one of them.

For some reason right now, serene and adversity stands near the top of them all, but he is all of them. And we're called to show these as much as we possibly can as well. And when I think of the happy warrior, I want to put the emphasis on the happy part, but what does that mean? I like the word delight. And that reminds me of Psalm 37, four, delight yourself in the Lord. Have fun with these other things,

but delight yourself in the Lord. Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and feed on his faithfulness. Delight yourself also in the Lord and he shall give you the desires of your heart. I just want to focus on the delight yourself

in the Lord part. Charles Spurgeon, he said, Believers who know Christ understand that delight and faith are so blessedly united that the powers of hell cannot separate them. Those who love God with all their heart find that his ways are pleasant ways and all his paths are peace. Proverbs 317. Such joy, such abundant delight, such overflowing blessedness. The saints discover in their Lord, so much so that

far from serving him out of obligation, they would still follow him even if the whole world put down his name as evil. We don't fear God because of any compulsion. Our faith is no shackle, our profession, no slavery. We are not dragged to holiness or driven to duty. No, our devotion is pleasure. Our hope is happiness, our duty, delight.

Have fun, happy warrior. Whatever it is you do, do it with all the great virtues from that Wordsworth poem. And throughout it all, delight yourself in the Lord. Mike Slater dot locals dot com transcript and commercial free if you want to listen over there and commercial free if you want to listen over there on the website Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

 

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Politics By Faith, June 26, 2025

NYC might elect a Muslim, communist from Uganda as their next mayor. How is this possible? Because people want fast and free. We want something more.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. Been working on some thoughts here about the New York City mayor's race. Zohan Mamdani, 33-year-old Muslim communist from Uganda, who it's pretty likely will become the next mayor of New York City. Made a bunch of different arguments this morning, of course, how did this happen? I don't think it's immigrants, although that's

certainly part of it. You know, do you know what percentage of New York City is foreign born? It's 40%. So that's clearly part of it, but this is mostly homegrown. Uh, what got him across the finish line was progressive white women, rich, progressive white women. Mostly we'd talked about it for three hours today. So I can't do the whole thing. I'll just tell you what he stands for and what he's calling for. He's calling to end the NYPD, like totally defund the police, abolish prisons, abolish medical bills, abolish private health insurance,

ban all guns, legalized sex work, safe injection sites end cash bail, decriminalize drug possession, end all cooperation with ICE. He said taxation isn't theft, capitalism is. $65 million on transgender medical treatments, including on kids. I mean, it's like as crazy, crazy as you can get.

There's so much to be said here. I think my, well, I'll just make two quick points and then I'll get to the new stuff. This is the future of the Democratic Party. When the baby boomer generation passes on. The Clintons and Bloomberg

and all those establishment Democrats who have been around forever who endorsed Cuomo, they'll be gone and we will all this whole country will be left with Zohan dumb daddies, daddies all over the country. That's the future of the democratic party. It's the first point.

Second point. I don't want to cede any ground to communists in America. If, if we were talking about the capital of Uganda, electing a communist mayor, probably wouldn't talk about it, but it's New York city. This is in the United States of America. And I totally understand this desire to just let them, you know, they voted for these people, let them have it and they'll learn from their mistakes. But I don't agree with that anymore. We saw what happened when

we did that with college campuses. I thought that all the wackiness on college campuses would just stay in the bubble, but it doesn't stay in the bubble. Now all the craziness from the Ivy League schools is that every university and in K through 12 and med schools and law schools and teaching schools and every other institution across America doesn't just stay in the bubble and it won't just stay in New York, maybe start in New York, but it won't stay in New York. And I don't want to cede any ground

to communists. Let me move on to something new though. Nature does what's easiest. This is one of the reasons why evolution is so stupid. Because nature doesn't get better on its own. Nothing can't evolve up into an eye.

Right?

You can't have nothing and it just gets better because turning into an eye would be hard to do. And that's not how nature works. We were in the Grand Tetons a week or so ago. There's rivers everywhere. And they come from. We were in the Grand Tetons a week or so ago. There's rivers everywhere. And they come from the snow melt in the mountains.

And the rivers are fast. These are fast moving rivers and it just keeps coming. There's just an endless supply of water that's constantly rushing down the mountain. And you're in the river, these big huge rivers, you're like, where is this? This water just keeps coming and it goes all summer long, and the snow never melts away.

I mean, it's snow melt, so some is melting, but you look up in there, you're like, it's still there? And it's there all summer long. And we're on this, we're hiking around this lake. It's the most popular there's this huge waterfall. It's about a hundred feet tall. It's awesome.

And you're watching this waterfall and it comes, pours down, it's huge, pours down. And then it hits the side of this rock and it turns 90 degrees and it comes at you. It's so powerful. And at some point in the trip, it would just fascinated me and I'm living it

now that these rivers at one point in time, who forever ago first cut their way through the mountains, like the water's up top and it's got to get down and the water's gonna take the easiest path. And my point is once it makes its path, that's it. The path is set. It's not gonna change. Nothing naturally is going to move that waterfall to a new place or any of the rivers.

They're not going to change. There can be some erosion, of course, but it's not gonna be like, you know what's a better direction? Uphill and around the rivers. They're not going to change. There can be some erosion of course, but it's not going to be like, you know what's a better direction uphill and around the bend and that like that doesn't once the path is set, once it has its foothold, it's never going to give it up. And even if humans wanted to change, it would be a massive task for humans to come in and divert

that river to make a new waterfall or a different waterfall, even if we wanted to. My point is, this is why we can't let communists win elections anywhere. Because the devil gets a foothold. The river makes its groove. People keep voting certain ways. It's really hard, if not impossible, to change that path.

Nature does what's easiest, and so do people. This is why last week we talked about AI boyfriends and AI girlfriends, and I said that a majority of people will do this. If there's any kids listening now, you may want to hide their ears for a second. But a majority of people watch pornography pornography and it's the same principle it's selfish and easy once physical ones emotional but it's the same principle and

so it's communism it's easy the pitch is easy it is brilliant for Mamdani to call for free buses but he doesnani to call for free buses, but he doesn't just call for free buses or the elimination of bus fares. He doesn't call it, he calls it fast and free. Now it's not really free and someone's gotta pay for it.

Taxes, and of course it won't be fast. It's neither of those things, but the marketing is brilliant because it appeals to what people want. It appeals to people being selfish and easy, fast and free. This is what we want everything to be. We want everything to be fast and free.

And we have an entire political party and a massive cultural movement that provides people with all their heart's desires, whatever appeals to people's sinful nature. Fast and free, sometimes at a price. But, or at least a monetary price, there's always a real price, but we know that what's easy

is almost never what's best for the individual or what's best for society. Tonight for dinner, you know the easy thing is to just grab some ice cream from the freezer. That's the easy thing. But the better thing is to get some chicken and broccoli and cook it up and eat it. But that's harder.

We all know what the right thing is to do.

But the 99 cent tacos at Taco Bell, that's fast and pretty almost free. And it gets the job done. But does it? I mean, it'll satiate you in the moment, but long-term it destroys you. We all know that.

We know that the easy thing is rarely the right thing. Now we, unfortunately, as conservatives, we are members of a political party that advocate for hard things. We call upon people to engage in hard work and to strive. We call for virtue and accomplishing things.

The other party advocates for fast and free. Now I'd rather be on our team because our team when we accomplish what we stand for leads to greatness. But man, it's harder to win elections that way, isn't it? Here's the last analogy I wanna make

and then we'll get to the Bible. June 25th, 20, or excuse me, June 25th, 1929. President Herbert Hoover authorized the construction of the Hoover Dam. The Hoover Dam is a spectacular achievement, stunningly beautiful, stunningly beautiful in every way.

And it's full of art. The people who built this dam, who designed it and built it, they believed that they were building something that would last forever. I'd love one day, we can spend more time on this, but they built a celestial map on the site of the Hoover Dam

where, it's not ancient, where civilizations, thousands of years in the future from now, can read this map and figure out just by the stars, the positions of the stars and what's characterized on this map when this Hoover Dam was built.

Not using any words, but when the dam was built because they really believed that they were making this for something that would last forever, as forever as humans can build a thing, even without maintenance. I think they said it can last for a thousand years as humans can build a thing. Even without maintenance. I think they said it can last for a thousand years

without any maintenance on it even. Things spectacular, but it's beautiful too. It's built in this beautiful art deco theme. And it's an incredible engineering achievement that we're still celebrating today. We're still benefiting from today.

They finished it in five years, two years ahead of schedule. 21,000 people. It provides power today for 1.3 million homes. Water for Southern California, Arizona. So they built it fast, ahead of schedule, and it still works. People of California high-speed rail

can learn a lesson from here. But here's why I wanted to bring it up here. 100 people died making this thing. There's a big plaque at the Hoover Dam. And it says, they died. So there's this man, this art deco man

rising out of the water. And it says they died to make the desert bloom. The desert doesn't bloom on its own. It takes hard work to make it bloom. All good things. Now, of course, God does all of this, right?

God even, he made the concept of blooming and he made flowers and he made, right? So all this is God and God could do, of course, but our role on the earth is to participate in that creation and to create and make beautiful things too. And that can't be done without effort. The left promises fast and free, fast and free, everything fast and free, everything. It never works. Of course. Can't never can. Uh, like meaning the buses will never be like those won't work. It'll work when

it like getting elected. It'll work in that regard, but it'll never actually work in governance. But they promise fast and free, very appealing. We promise good, beautiful, and true. It's much more difficult, but obviously it's better. Satan's world is one of temptation. When people are selfish and want the easy way. I just this morning,

I kid you not just this morning, read Proverbs 28 and it says, better is the poor who walks in his integrity than one perverse in his ways, though he'd be rich. In his ways, like his own ways. Better to be poor and walk in his integrity than one perverse in his own ways, even though he be rich. This one stood out, again, this is Proverbs 28, 20. A faithful man will abound with blessings,

but he who hastens to be rich will not go unpunished. Hastens means quickly, but like you'll do anything to be rich will not go unpunished. Hastens means quickly, but you'll do anything to get rich. You'll cheat, you'll compromise, you'll do whatever it takes to get rich. I must be rich and nothing else matters. You will not go unpunished this life or the next, but the hasten, the fast, I want it now. Me, me, me now fast and free. Another one of Proverbs 28, a man with an evil eye hastens after riches and does not consider the poverty that

will come upon him. Fast and free. And just speaking to the how the good things the righteous is hard. It takes effort. It takes effort. 1st Corinthians 9. Do you not know, says Paul, do you not know that those who run in a race all run but one receives the prize run in such a way that you may obtain it. Go get it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown but we for an

imperishable crown. See all these people competing in like the Olympics, they do it for a silly medal or crown, right? But we do it for one that lasts forever. Therefore I run in this way, not with uncertainty. Thus I fight not as one who beats the air, like silliness, but I discipline my body and bring it into subjection.

Lest when I've preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. They had like these, this athletic competitions in Corinth. So he's using their language, but run in a way that you could win it, train for it, be disciplined, just like the great athletes are.

But here's what's interesting. When he says, I, where is it? I discipline my body. We don't translate that quite right. The actual Greek means to beat black and blue, to smite so as to cause bruises and livid spots like a boxer beats his body, to be disciplined by hardships. It means to give a black eye. That's what he's talking about, discipline.

Why? To bring the body into submission. Meaning to make the body my slave. So with the temptations in the world, we act like our souls are slaves of the body, that the body's in charge, right? Our emotions drive our actions, our desires, our impulses, our cravings, our lusts. So much

of politics today is about feelings. Well, I feel this, I feel like that, I feel for these people, I feel, I feel, right? I feel all the time. I'm gonna cry, that person's crying, oh we better do what they want, they're crying. It's all about the feels, what feels good. Because for most people, our body, the flesh, is the master over our soul. So we do whatever the body says. But Paul here says, no, flip that around,

bring your body into subjection. Now that doesn't mean work on your six pack, although that's good too, but work against your lusts. Like your body's not in charge of your soul. Your soul with the Holy Spirit needs to be in charge of your body, meaning all the temptations around us,

all the promises of fast and free. Politically, this is a very difficult thing to do. It's definitely the uphill battle, but I believe it is the good one. And spiritually, it's the most important thing.

And Jesus took the ultimate beating and punishment for all of our sins, not just physically on the cross, but all the sins of the whole world on him as well. Mike Slater dot locals.com transcript commercial free on the website, Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot locals.com transcript commercial free on the website, Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

 

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