The media is fear-mongering like I haven't seen since COVID. They want Trump to fail and they want these tariffs to fail so badly they don't care who they take down with it. But we don't need to fear. We need to be patient. And not how we define patience, but how the Bible defines it in Hebrews 12.

Hello, welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I got a note from Andrew today, this morning. My email is Slaterradio at gmail.com. Andrew said, Hey Slater, amazing work on Breitbart News Daily and your podcast. I got an idea for Politics by Faith, a biblical understanding of how God does not provide instant gratification.

Wonderful. It's a great topic. But where do I start Andrew? Andrew wrote more. He says some quick examples. 40 years roaming the desert in Exodus. Jesus on the apostles receiving the Holy Spirit. Jesus's lessons on patience. Luke 21 19, you will be hated by all for my name's sake but not a hair on your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain lives. Or Matthew 21 19, then they will deliver you to trip up to tribulation and put you to death and you'll be hated by all the nations for my name's sake and then many will fall

away and betray one another and hate one another. And many false prophets will arise and lead many astray. And because lawlessness will be increased, the love of many will grow cold. But the one who endures to the end will be saved."

Andrew ended his email with, "'Listen daily and enjoy every moment.' Thanks." Andrew, thank you for making today's podcast. Mike Slater dot locals.com transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot local nuts. I'll do a little more. It's a great start though. Andrew, I'm very grateful. Thank you for listening. There's a lot we can do there, Andrew. Um, I do want to talk about

instant gratification. Give me some more time, the scripture that first comes to mind when I think of patience, well, why are we talking about this? Let me, let me, let's get the news here first. Such a good Breitbart show today because we had so many amazing callers. There's a lot of fear with these tariffs. Gripped with fear. People are panicked. The Dow is plunging all these headlines from the media. Will the

tariffs work as expected? I don't know. I hope so. I think they will. But there's two things I'm certain of. Number one, the economy is more than the stock market. So if you invested money last April, you're still up 5%. So the stock market went down 4%. I'm like, all right, you're still up five. I was like brought out a little bit here.

But the economy is not the stock market. That's one single measure of the economy. And it's a bright and shiny one. And there's a very specific number down to the decibel and it goes up and down and it moves a lot and it's red or green.

And there's animals associated with it, polar bears. It's all very exciting, but that's only one little thing. What is not measured by that metric is what really matters. And that is the health of families and towns. That is what really matters, and that is the health of families and towns. That is what matters to me, because that is what makes a country, families and towns.

That I know for certain. Second thing I know for certain is that you need to give Trump's tariff plan more than one day. Whether it'll work or not in the end, I don't know, but I know it won't work in a day.

So I'll just before I start recording know, but I know it won't work in a day. So just before I started recording that Vietnam. So it's either going to be, well, I thought it would be Argentina would be the first country to negotiate with Trump and come and get rid of their tariffs, and then we get rid of ours on theirs. I thought we're going to be Argentina because of Malay and their relationship together.

And I thought they'd jump on it first first but it looks like Vietnam may win. Trump just said I just had a very productive call with To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam, who told me that Vietnam wants to cut their tariffs down to zero if they are able to make an agreement with the United States. I thanked him on behalf of our country and I said I look forward to a meeting in the near future. Bingo. There you go. So we'll see how quickly this happens, how Trump responds, right?

If Vietnam really goes to zero and we go to zero, how many other countries are gonna fall right in line? This is a massive change to the world order. Let me take a second to express this. This is not a bill that passed that deals with a little thing or an executive order

or tinkering around the edges. This is a huge world order change. We played a clip today of Scott Besson. This must've been a year ago. It was before he was in the administration. It was before he was the treasury secretary.

And he said, this is like massive. We have potential here to be a whole new world order like it was in right after World War II. Right after World War II, all the Western countries got together and said, hey guys, this is what we're going to do. And we've done that for 80 years.

Well, now it's time for a change. That's what we're dealing with here. There's a huge, massive change. You may think it's the wrong change. You may not like it. Of course, that's fine. Everyone can have an opinion on this, but it is enormous.

What's happening here. And it's going to take some time. It took us decades to get here. It's going to take more than a day to fix. The problem is we live in a consumerist instant gratification world, and we need more patience and we need patience for all things. Are we good on the

news? Everyone's freaking out. I should say the media wants you to freak out. And what I love so much about the calls today is everyone who called in was so calm, so measured, it's all good, ready for the fight, ready for the reset. And they had just the right perspective. It was so encouraging and so comforting. It was wonderful, wonderful phone calls. And so contrary to what the media is trying to stir

in our nation. It's a shame. You'd think they'd want to be rooting for us at this time, but clearly they're not. Okay, let's pivot to the Bible. The verse I think of when I think of patience is I think of Paul

finishing the race. Second Timothy four, seven, I fought the good fight. I finished the race. I've kept the faith. The people he was writing to, they knew of the Olympic Games and there were all these other big competitions.

So the metaphor made sense to them. As it makes sense to us too. He wrote the church in Corinth, he said, do you not know that in a race all the runners run but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. They do it to get a crown that will not last. But we do it to get a crown that will not last, but we do it to get a crown that will last forever. It's first Corinthians 9 24 and then Hebrews 12.

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and sin which clings so closely and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." Gosh, there's so much to talk about there. Let's run through it.

So first, Paul is running with us. It's let us run. He's not saying you run, he's saying at a sporting competition, cheering us on. Love that a friend of mine sent me this picture of. A guy who just had a walk off home run, and the camera would be from like left field. Looking towards home base.

And the guy with the home run is flying around third, and he's got his arms out like like like he's an airplane. He's a little kid, right? and the whole team is behind home plate surrounding home plate waiting for him to touch it and they're freaking out the fans are jumping up and down everyone's just loving it and the caption of the picture says you know a friend of mine collects pictures of

baseball players hitting walk-off home runs and rounding third because he said this is what he imagines it looks like when we get to heaven We have a cloud of witnesses Cheering us on Spurgeon said this is no hole-in-the-corner business. That was an old expression for things you do in private The running for the great prize no no angels and principalities and powers and hosts redeemed by blood have mustered to behold the glorious spectacle of men agonizing for holiness and putting forth their utmost strength to copy the Lord Jesus.

You that are men, now run for it. If there be any spiritual life and gracious strength in you, put it forth today. For patriarchs and prophets, saints, martyrs, and apostles look down from heaven upon you." So we're running together. There's a cloud of witnesses. I love the idea, number three, of laying aside every weight.

Can't win if you're weighed down. Track uniform today or bathing suits today, tight, skin tight, got to be aerodynamic, hydrodynamic, down to the millisecond. Put down the sin, put down the things that are holding you back. The things you love the most are the ones that are holding you back the most. Let those down.

All right, check out this line. Let us run with patience the race that is holding you back the most. Let those down. All right, check out this line. Let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Two points on that one. The race is set before you. Don't just run anywhere, there's a course. There's a 5K on Saturday.

I may do it with Jack. You can't just run whatever you want. You gotta run, you gotta turn left here, right? You gotta turn right run whatever you want. You got to run. You got to turn left here, right? You got to turn right. You go straight. You can't just run all over. Same with our life. You got to set the course.

There's a course in front of you. There's a race set before you. Well, how do I know where to go? Look to Jesus. It says it right there. Just look to Jesus. Of course, but here's the main word of the day. Run with patience. It says, let us run with patience,

the race that is set before us. That's interesting. The Greek word here for patience, it's not how maybe we interpret it. Where patience is you're just waiting, like you sit back and wait.

Like, hey kids, be patient. No, we're not boarding the plane yet. Got about another 30 minutes until they start boarding. Or are we there yet? Like, no, it's not that patience. The patience here means a steadfast endurance. It's a striving, it's a persistent effort, like an athlete.

They're not patient when training in the sense that they sit back and do nothing and wait for the competition to show up. They're actively dedicated. They're putting their whole life into it. So this is something we need to instill in our kids and ourselves, a patience for the

payoff of the hard work. Put the work in every day and the good things will come. That's true for our lives. It's true for working out. We use the workout analogy in the show today too, that this whole tariff restructuring of America, of the world. It's like working out. We're not healthy right now as a country.

And if you're not healthy and you start working out, you go on the treadmill, it hurts. You get sick. Your whole body's like, what is going on? You're sick to your stomach, your head hurts. Everything hurts, your whole body hurts.

It's not sore, it takes a while. Put the effort in, stay focused, stay patient and good things will come and I believe that's true with Trump's tariff plan. I believe the good things will come but the most important thing we need to focus our lives on, not even close, is's the only race that matters. And that's not getting your 401k to maximum capacity, but getting to heaven. This is the God-appointed race. Let's fix our eyes on Jesus, lay aside everything slowing us down, get encouraged by the cloud of witnesses, and not sit back and just wait, but have a steadfast endurance to that everlasting crowd.

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660,000 Trump voters from 2024 did not vote for the Trump endorsed candidate in the WI Supreme Court race. Why not? What is their excuse? How do we reach these people and convince them that they must vote and this battle is not over just because Trump is in the White House?

We don't usually record a podcast on Wednesdays because I record the TV show on Wednesday and my wife has some stuff on Wednesdays. I don't have time, but I just want to do a quick one here on the post-election analysis. We spent three hours on the radio today on Sirius XM. I thought it was really good, really helpful. The top line numbers are we lost Wisconsin, the Supreme Court race.

The conservative candidate got a million votes. Trump just a couple of months ago got 1.6 million. 600,000 people in Wisconsin who voted for Trump did not vote for this guy. They had plenty of time. There's not just yesterday, it's early voting, 600,000, 660,000 to be specific. If only a third of those people voted, then this guy would have won.

Now there's a lot of ramifications to the Supreme court nationally. The big deal is that the now progressive court is going to redraw the lines for congressional races and draw out of existence or not out of existence, but draw two Republican seats in such a way that they now have more of Madison and Milwaukee to try to make them Democrat seats as opposed to Republican seats, which is what they are right now.

And of course, that means that the House is going to have a harder time staying a Republican majority House. And now Republicans are going to have to fight really hard in those seats to maybe keep them or pick up two other seats that they otherwise wouldn't have had. So that's the national ramifications of this. So why would 600,000 people who voted for Trump

not vote in this election? What's up with that? We spent three hours talking about it. And came to some conclusions that I think are really important and good. And we're gonna talk more about it on the radio tomorrow.

Maybe I can come back and do another recap here. But this is what I wanna share today on this politics by faith. I wanna explore more tomorrow this idea of patriotism or a lack of patriotism or not complete definition of patriotism.

It's something I've been exploring here recently. If you asked me a couple months ago what patriotism was, the first thing that pops in my mind would be war. Something with our service members. And that's because I grew up during 9-11, Iraq war, right? So that was patriotism to me.

It's military. That's part of it. Military is certainly part of it. I'm not saying it's not. But that was all of it. And then recently I got thinking, well, hold on.

Patriotism also, it's got to be more than that. And I added this element of invention. Like SpaceX and what they're doing, that's patriotic. That's a love of country. That's amazing patriotic thing. And innovation should be an element of patriotism. Art should be an element of

patriotism. Art and beautiful music and architecture, these are all elements of patriotism as well. Another aspect of it needs to be voting and it's a Christian duty as well. This is what our founders believed. Noah Webster, brilliant man, Webster's Dictionary. He said, When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, which we do, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers just men

who will rule in the fear of God. That's in quotes. That's 2 Samuel 23. Remember, back in the day, our founding fathers did not need to cite Scripture. They just needed to quote Scripture, and everyone knew what they were talking about. He went on, "...the preservation of government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty. If the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government

will soon be corrupted." How many people didn't vote in Wisconsin, if you asked them why, they'd be like, ah, they're all corrupt. Why do you think? Because you and people like you have not discharged, have not exercised your duty properly. Because as Noah Webster said, if you neglect your duty, then unprincipled men will become in office. They're all

crooks. The government will soon be corrupted. Laws will be made, not for the public good, so much as for selfish or local purposes. Corruption or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws. The public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men, and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a Republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be

because the citizens neglect the divine commands and elect bad men to make and administer the laws. Let me give you two more quotes. John Adams says, The power of electing at stated periods each branch, it becomes necessary to every citizen then,

to be in some degree a statesman, and to examine and judge for himself of the tendency of political principles and measures. Let us examine then with a sober, a manly and a Christian spirit. Leave it one more.

Charles Finney, he was a pastor in the 1800s, part of the Great Awakening, Second Great Awakening. He said, The time has come that Christians must vote for honest men and take consistent ground in politics. Consistent ground. Once every four years? Consistent ground in politics,

or the Lord will curse them. Go back to the last few episodes if you missed them. The theme of the last few episodes has been, If you obey God, good things happen. If you disobey God bad things happen here's Charles Finney you better get involved in this or God will curse you Christians

have become exceedingly guilty in this matter still are today it's 1800 but the time has come when they must act differently Christians seem to act as if they thought God did not see what they do in politics but I tell you he does see it and he will bless or curse this nation according to the course they, Christians, take in politics. I will end here that apathy is a choice. Not voting is a choice.

Because you may not want to be involved in politics, but the enemy does. Apathy is not going to cut it. Much more on this tomorrow on SiriusXM and we'll come back to the podcast here as well. Mike Slater dot Locals dot com. This is a website, transcript, commercial free on the website. This is a website, transcript, commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot Locals dot com.

Three big races in FL and WI on April 1 that have major national implications. Is MAGA just a once every 4-year movement? Or can we get out the vote on a random Tuesday in April, too? 

Welcome to Politics Lifesaved, thank you for being here. We are on the eve, as I record this, of two big elections, well three actually. Two in Florida, one is to replace the congressional seat left by Matt Gaetz, the other is to replace the congressional seat left by Mike Waltz, who is now the National Security Advisor. Mike Waltz one is getting most of the attention because this is the seat that Trump won by 33 points. No, Trump won by 30, Mike Waltz won by 33.

And who knows what's going to happen tomorrow, but the media has characterized this as a close race. And every headline is about how the Republicans are worried. Well, the Democrats did outspend 10 to 1 for this race. I thought of it because we're talking to Randy Fiend and I told him this. It's like the Democrats have, they're playing risk and they're losing. They haven't been on

their front foot for since November. So this is like all they got left. So it's like they're playing a game of risk and all their armies are in one country and they're just going for broke in one place. I think we're going to put everything we can in the 6th congressional district of Florida. Now what's really interesting about this race, well I'll tell you one thing about Randy, there's been media reports that he hasn't taken this race seriously enough because it's such a safe seat,

has always been such a safe seat. And I don't listen to anything the lamestream ever says, but this one probably is right. I guess some Republicans met with him and said, hey get your act together here because you couldn't actually lose this thing.

Because, and I think that's probably right because a couple weeks ago we talked to him about something totally different, just something about they were doing in Florida, and he was just the guy to talk to, like he wrote the bill in Florida

that we were talking about. And it was near the end of the conversation. It just happened to come up and he's like, oh yeah, I'm actually running for that seat. I was like, oh, geez, son of a gun, wow. When is it?

He's like, oh, a couple weeks from now. He's like, oh, but don't worry, it's just a, yeah, Trump won it by 33 points or something. I was like, oh, okay, yeah, well, good luck with that. And that was the end of the conversation. We talked to him last week and he was voterandyfine.com,

voterandyfine.com, voterandyfine.com the whole time. So there's definitely some urgency now in his step, no question about that. The other big race, we got the Matt Gaetz one, I don't really know the scene in that one, that one's getting no attention.

We're actually talking to the Republican on that one tomorrow, but I haven't heard a peep about that. I don't know if the Democrats are trying to get that one too or maybe they're doing it more quietly. Don't know. The other big race tomorrow though is the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Now there's a ballot amendment in Wisconsin which require an ID to vote and there are a bunch of school board

races but the big one is the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The reason this is a big deal is not only all the criminal justice stuff of course but if the Democrat wins they have said that they will redraw the district lines, the congressional district lines, and draw out two of the Republicans that currently have two seats. One of them, they would redraw the lines to add more of Madison, and the other, they would redraw the lines, I think, to add more of Milwaukee, so that they're now Democrat seats instead of

Republican seats, the way they're written right now. Apparently, they did this the last time a progressive won, or when they originally took over control of the courts a couple years ago. I think it was 2021. And they did this, they redrew the state lines for the state house and the state senate to favor the Democrats. And they've said, they've said out loud, they're going to do this for the congressional seats

as well. So that alone right there could change the entire makeup of the house, just this one Supreme Court race, which is why Trump and Elon have spent so much time and money there. So tomorrow we'll see if people show up. My big point I've been making is that we cannot just be a once every four year people. And maybe it's even worse than that.

Maybe it's just a vote for Trump movement. That would be so lame. That'd be so pathetic. We can't just do that. It's going to be more than just, because Trump's not going to be on the ballot anymore. Or maybe one more time. But not right. Probably not. So if we're just a vote for Trump party, then that's it. That's the end of the party.

There's no more party, no more chances to vote for Trump. But MAGA has got to be something bigger than Trump. I think Trump wants MAGA to be bigger than he wants his legacy to move on beyond him. So it has to be bigger than Trump. And we have to be more than once every four year people. We have to be midterm voters.

We have to be primary voters. You wonder why there's such terrible candidates. Well, no one voted in the primary. And we have to be April 1st, 2025 voters as well. And if we're not, then we don't deserve to win. But we have big things happening, exciting things

happening. And people who are in the more desperate situation, which is what the Democrats are right now, they have a little more zeal to vote. And we think we could just sit back. We're still in a victory parade from from back November. Like, oh, it's unbelievable.

Every day there's something great happening. We just sit back and then it's gone. The opportunity to keep doing all these things is gone. And from a political standpoint, if Republicans lose the midterms, then it's just, that's it.

Like, there's just impeachments for the last two years of Trump's term. That's the end of it. So we need huge wins and we need Randy Fine to win by 30 points. He needs to win by 30 points. Here's the last point and then we'll move to the Bible.

There's, I keep getting this number, there's 30, I don't know if this is exactly right, but there's something around 30 Republican congressmen who are in districts that Kamala won. Don't quote me on the number. There's a bunch of moderate Republicans who are in blue districts or very close districts. And they're scared to vote for MAGA stuff because they think they're going to lose the next election if they do.

And I've been trying to make the argument, no, Trump is running on 80-20 issues. Everything he's doing is 80-20. Like voter ID to vote, that's an 80-20 issue. So don't be scared because the media or the Democrats are telling you that that's so controversial. It's not. 80-20, it's like men and women's sports, like a 90-10 issue. Trump only does 80-20 issues.

He was asked back in daylight savings time, whenever that was, a couple weeks ago, what he thinks we should do. And he said, listen, some people like it earlier, some people like it later. It's 50-50. I'm not going to get involved. He doesn't want 50-50 issues. He wants 80-20 issues. And that's all he's doing. And then moderate Republicans need to know that. These are 80-20 issues that he's fighting for. And you need to stand on the side of the 80 and don't be scared. But if Randy Fine only wins by six points in a plus 30

Republican district, that's gonna send a message to a lot of the moderates, moderate Republicans, uh-oh I can't go all in as mag as I want or as I thought or as we want. So this has to be a huge win. So if you know anyone in Florida and these two districts, make sure they go vote and certainly anyone in Wisconsin as well. Now, that being said, I've got a couple of scriptures to share here.

This is such an unsatisfying answer when we talk about how to win elections.

It's a big question.

How do we win elections? It takes money, a ton of money, so much money, ridiculous insane amounts of money. Takes knowing the right people, connections, good timing, got to hit it right. It oftentimes takes a strong person on the top of the ticket to get you over the finish line. There's a lot of reasons why you can lose an election.

So you know, what does it take? It takes a lot. But the thing that's said the least is it takes God. I know we talked about this a week or two ago, but more and more scriptures keep popping up about the consequences of disobeying God. For a nation.

First Chronicles nine. So all Israel was recorded by genealogies and indeed they were inscribed in the book of the kings of Israel. But Judah was carried away captive to Babylon because of their unfaithfulness." It's right there. It's clear. Well, why were they taken away by captive to Babylon?

Because the Babylonians had stronger military apparatuses? No. No. It's not what it says. Wow, it's because of the geopolitical tensions of the moment. No.

Why were they carried away captive? Because of their unfaithfulness. But what about the weather conditions during the battle?

No.

God could overcome anything if God if they remained faithful to God God would have protected them against anything doesn't matter how many empires would have come their way but because they remained unfaithful anyone would have taken them over we get so caught up in the intrigues of the country this country that country who's gonna win this battle that war, this election, that election. God's in control of all of it. We do our best, but God's in control of it all. Now the very next chapter is the

death of Saul. The first king of Israel started off with so much potential, but this is how it ended. The battle became fierce against Saul. It's 1 Chronicles 10. The archers hit him and he was wounded by the archers. Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, draw your sword and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised men come and abuse me. But his armor-bearer would not, for he was greatly afraid.

Therefore Saul took a sword and fell on it. And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his sword and died. So Saul and his three sons died, and all his house died together. Why? Why did that happen? Well, you see, Saul was... No.

There's no, you see. Read verse 13. So Saul died for his lack of political acumen at the given moment. He didn't have enough money. He didn't have enough... No, no. Saul died for his unfaithfulness.

Why was Judah taken over by Babylon? Unfaithfulness. Very next chapter. Why is Saul dead? His unfaithfulness, for which he committed against the Lord, because he did not keep the word of the Lord, and also because he consulted a medium

for guidance. But he did not inquire the Lord. Therefore he, God, killed him and turned the kingdom over to David, the son of Jesse.

Who killed Saul? Is Israel? Therefore he, capital H, therefore he killed him. Real quick on the consulting a medium. I saw a political commentator.

I don't know this person enough.

I don't want to call him out by name right now. But they were on some other show and she was talking about consulting a medium. I'm not that I think she's the word. I got that.

That's not it.

Stay away from that stuff. Leviticus 1931. I say I say that's not it meaning. This the conservative movement can't move in that direction. We can't be moving in that way. As conservatives as a conservative movement.

Leviticus 19.31 says, Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God. That's what Saul did. He consulted a medium for God. So what do we consult?

Instead, seek first the kingdom. Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." That's Matthew 6, right before that. Therefore do not worry, saying, what shall we eat? What shall we drink? What shall we wear? Who will win the next election? For after all these things the Gentiles seek, I added that election one, for your Heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But first, seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and

all these things shall be added to you. This of course doesn't mean do nothing. No one ever says such a thing. I don't know of anywhere in the Bible, correct me if I'm wrong, if it ever says to sit back and do nothing. But also know in the end, God will do whatever he wants. Look at the kingdoms he raised and the kingdoms he fell in just a single sentence.

We need to do what we can to win our elections. Whether they're on November 5th every four years, midterm elections, or a random Tuesday in April of an odd-numbered year. We've got to do everything we can to win every election we can. Every day. Every day.

Seek first, but we can do it. The website is MikeSlater.Locals.com. We put the transcript and this episode commercial free up on the website MikeSlater.Locals.com. We put the transcript and this episode commercial free up on the website MikeSlater.Locals.com. This episode commercial free up on the website Mike Slater dot locals dot com.