Have you ever seen a leader tell people the truth, even when they don't want to hear it? Have you ever seen a preacher do it? We need to support the people who choose the truth over popularity.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for taking the time to be here today. There have been so many spiritual themes in the news lately. I love it. It's awesome. A lot to choose from, a lot to talk about.

I just want to start here just because I feel like I got to get it off my chest. I don't believe in coincidences. We're reading this great, oh, let me pull it up here. It is a book to read with your kids. It's a Bible book, but it's a hundred years old, and it's just the perfect mix of right to the text, but difficult. It's not kiddy. It's not goofy and cartoony, and I can't find it here. Let me pause the recording and I'll be right back.

All right, I'm back. I forgot about this is a podcast, not live radio. It's called the Children's Story Bible by Catherine F. Voss, V-O-S. 30 bucks on Amazon. It's 800 pages long.

It's perfect, it's perfect. Stories are each perfect length, right to the text, not babyish, all ages. Our kids are, we read it to Johnny, he's five, we have a two year old, but we put him to bed first. So five to nine, they're all tracking, all following.

It's great. We're actually going through it the second time. We went through it a couple of years back. We're going through it again. It's so good. Anyway, Saturday night we read Exodus 1. Sunday morning, our preachers preach in Exodus 1. Come on.

The sermon was entitled, You Can't Have My Child. And it was about protecting our kids from the world. And it was excellent. And I have some themes from that that I'd like to share. We're not gonna do that one day though. We'll do that one later in the week because this is what I got to get off my chest. Tariffs and the week that was

and the week that is to come and tariff news and tariff talk. It's the one thing I'd like to say about this then we'll get to the spiritual point. I was talking to some friends this weekend that are conservative guys by their nature, but they're not like Trump trained. And I think they, well, I don't want to say these guys fell

for a talking point. I think they've come to the conclusion that it was chaos, that these tariffs have been chaos. And I have a video here, not going to waste a minute of your time, but it's a montage that someone made of every Democrat today saying the word chaos. It's chaos. It's chaos. It's chaos.

Oh, it's chaos. Chaos. Chaos. Chaos.

That's the word of the day.

The word of the week. Oh, it's chaos. No, it's not. I think a lot of people looking at last week, I think it was just madness, chaos by flying by the seat of their pants and all the rest was not. First, Trump's been talking about terrorists for 40 years. How many, how many campaign speeches the day did he get? Like six, every one he brought it up.

He talked about it at the first inaugural address in 2016. Second, Trump wrote a book about how he goes about negotiating and he always follows it to a tee. And then third, the chair of his council of economic advisors back in November wrote a 41 page essay called

A User's Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System. So I don't know what more you would need for you to conclude that it indeed actually is a plan. And there's an end goal and that is to turn the entire world against China. Not just have America decouple from China,

but the whole world decouple from China, all the way to Vietnam, their neighbors. I've talked to a couple of experts on this and their relationship, China and Vietnam. And as much, you know, we fought a war there and they fought a war against us, Vietnam.

They hate China even more. They fought many wars for thousands of years. So all those countries in the region, including India, are turning against China now. This is incredible news. This is what, well, this is the end. Well, you listen, you can disagree. You can disagree that it's incredible. There's actually, you can think this is a bad plan, but you can't argue that there's no plan. There indeed is a plan. There's a great clip of Scott Besant, our treasury secretary saying, listen everyone, we don't have to do this. Meaning it'd be a lot easier

if I just pumped trillions of dollars into the economy and the stock market would boom and everyone would say, I'm such a great, Scott Besant, what a great treasury secretary and Trump would be such a great president because the stock markets are,

but this would just keep us going down this road that eventually would collapse. And it'd probably be after I'm gone, so I wouldn't get any of the blame, but we're not gonna do that. We're gonna do what we need to do in order to save this country. Have you ever seen a president that actually does that? That actually does the difficult thing that's not politically easy?

Does the difficult leadership move? I've never seen that. And that's what Trump is doing right now, and it's wonderful to see. Trump even said, we have to take our medicine. That's what we're doing right now.

It's gonna be hard. And it's not just him too. We here in America, we have to do a lot of things too. We can't just sit back and be like, enjoy it like the master at work. And I guess we can for the international thing, but then we have to do our part here at home

and we need to change many different aspects of our culture in order for this to work. Trump's out there changing the world, great, but we in America, we got our work to do here at home. And this is what we talked about a lot on the show. We have way too much welfare dependency.

We have a terrible education system. We have a ton of people who can't read in this country. There's a lot of different measurements for illiteracy, but it's believed that 21% of US adults can't perform at a level one. So they're level one or below. This means the most basic, simple text they can read,

but could not read a news article, could not read a job application. Functionally illiterate. 54% of adults read below a sixth grade level. Newspapers aim to hit at a sixth to eighth grade reading level. So 54% of American adults can't read the newspaper. That's a problem. And we have a terrible work ethic. So these are major cultural changes that we need to lead in our country.

And that's not gonna be fixed with tariffs. We have a lot of work to do. Honestly, I think it needs a mass mobilization effort. Needs like, you know, like when you're fighting a war, there's like this big mass movement about the war. And like, that's what we need.

We need a war against sloth and against dependency and against ignorance in order to match the threats that we're facing. It requires a direct mobilization effort. I don't know if that comes from DC, not gonna wait for them. We got to do it ourselves, but a leader makes a difference.

And for the first time in my life, we have a leader as a president who's willing to tell people not what they want to hear, but what they need to hear. And that's my Bible pivot. This is, this needs to be true with your preacher as well. Your preacher should be telling you not necessarily what you want to hear, but what is true, no matter how hard it might be for people in the audience to hear. 2 Timothy 4, preach the word. We can end right there. Just stop. So preach the word. Be ready in season and

out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort all with long suffering and teaching. The word exhort, I looked it up Webster's 1828 original dictionary to incite by words or advice, to animate or urge by arguments to a good deed or to any laudable conduct or course of action. Exhort. Acts 27 22 says, I exhort you to be of good cheer. Paul goes on, for the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves

teachers, and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables, itching ears. Another Greek translation of this is, or translation of the Greek word is a tickle. So it tickles your ears, meaning it feels good. People seek out only what feels good, even if it's untrue, especially if it's not true.

That doesn't matter, truth doesn't matter. It's just what feels good. But even if it's bad for you, even if what they're saying is directly harmful to you and bad for you, people will still go for just what feels good, not what they need to hear. How about this one, Ezekiel 33 30.

So they come to you as people do. They sit before you as my people and they hear your words but they do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their hearts pursue their own gain. Indeed, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice and they can play their instrument, play well on an instrument. For they hear your words, but they do not do them.

And when this comes to pass, surely it will come that they will know that a prophet has been among them. And when this comes to pass, surely it will come, then they will know that a prophet has been among them. People don't want to hear the truth, but even if they do hear the truth, they may just like the music of the words or the nice sounding preacher and it's like fun to listen to guy, but does it change their life? Are people acting differently because they're hearing the Word of God? Here's the one I wanted to share. Micah, love this book.

Micah is rebuking Israel and it's ugly. Let's start with the first one. Micah 2, woe to those who devise iniquity and work out evil on their beds. So these are people who are just sitting there in bed, coming up with evil, wicked plots.

It's all they think about. And they can't wait to wake up in the morning so they can go out and be evil. Let's do this first though, this is the one I wanted to share. Micah 2.10, if a man should walk in a false spirit and speak a lie saying, "'I will prophesy to you of wine and drink,' even he would be the prattler of this people."

A prattler is an idle talker. But again, the idea here, someone telling you what you want to hear. So Israel is losing their connection to God and when you do that you end up catering, you worship yourself, you cater to your own desires. And then the false prophet comes along, or someone with a false spirit. And they come along to you who's not connected connected to God anymore, and they say, don't worry. Don't worry, everything's great.

I will prophesy to you wine and drink, good things and great times are coming. You got all your material comforts, you got all your sensual pleasures. Everything's wonderful, everything's great. Don't you worry, good times and good times only.

It would be like someone today prophesying, don't worry about America, putting it into political context. Don't worry, stock market will soar. Your housing prices will go up forever. We'll continue to be the reserve currency. America will dominate no matter what.

We'll only get wealthier and nothing bad will ever happen. And everyone says, oh, that's great. Let's change nothing for the better. This is, there's nothing good. It could be changed. Everything's great and wonderful in every way. We don't want to listen to those people, not politically, certainly not spiritually. If a people are corrupt and idolatrous, then the leaders of those people will mirror the decay.

And they'll say, oh yes, you're great. Things are great. Nothing needs to change. Keep going. It'll only get better if you change nothing at all. How many leaders, and then the people are like,

oh, you're amazing. How many leaders choose popularity over integrity? How many preachers choose popularity over integrity? Let's pray that God raises up leaders and preachers to tell the truth. Those people won't be popular when they do it. So we'll need all the more support from us. popular when they do it. So we'll need all the more support from us. MikeSlater.Locals.com. Transcript commercial free on the website Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

The Bible wrote about government corruption, from bureaucracy to downright wickedness. There's nothing new under the sun, but what does God command us to do with it?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. On our TV special the other day, it was about lawfare and Western governments, not just America. Talked about the European Union and Le Pen and France and free speech doesn't exist in England.

Police knocking on doors. We played a video of police knocking on someone's door because of a social media post in the middle of the night. You have to take down this social media post. We've played a video of it. It's insane. Do we need to take a minute to talk about lawfare against Trump or against Americans today or corruption in our government. Look what Doge is uncovering every day. And it ranges as a scale from downright wickedness all the way to ineptness.

And I don't know where everything lies on that scale somewhere, but we're going to get rid of all of it. That's the point. We're going to root all of it out. The other day, Doge reported that the irs.gov website, the login button is not in the upper right-hand corner

where it is on every other website. And we naturally go to the upper right-hand corner to log in. For some reason, they put it randomly in the middle of the page. You gotta scroll down and find it in the middle. So the Doge guys are like, that's weird, let's move it. And they went to the IRS engineer and the guy's like, oh, we can't, like the earliest we can get that done

is July 27th. It's like what, 103 days from now? 103 days? How can that be? So the Doge guys got it. How long do you think it took?

How long do you think it took the Doge guys to do it? Took 71 minutes. So that is the ratio of private sector to government. Now that's just an emptiness. There's nothing corrupt there, but I don't think I'd imagine that's just inept.

How many minutes is 103 days? That's the question. So the ratio of private sector to government is 71 to 150,000. 103 days is 150,000 minutes. So 71 minutes it takes the private sector, it takes the government 150,000.

Sounds about right. Let me do a little more math here. One to 2,000, there you go. So one to 2, 2000 ratio of efficiency. Amazing. I'm going to put that in the inept category. But then of course, there's the corruption. We saw that with all the NGOs getting tens of billions of dollars funneling the money

back around to themselves and to the politicians. It's all got to go. It's all got to go. I was asked, challenged by my producer the other day to prepare a segment on biblical examples of corruption, of corrupt rulers and corrupt leaders. And I said, Oh, that's the easiest task I've ever been given in my dire life. Let's do it. The first one that came to mind, uh, I don't know, maybe we go with the King of Judah who sacrificed his child in fire for Moloch.

I don't know, maybe that's not corrupt, maybe that's more on the wicked side. The Bible says King Ahab was the worst. First King 1630 says that he did more evil in the eyes of the Lord than any of those before him. There was never anyone like Ahab

who sold himself to do evil in the eyes of the Lord, urged on by Jezebel his wife. He behaved in the vilest manner by going after idols." So we have our massively wicked leaders. The Bible also speaks of bureaucracy and the wickedness and corruption of bureaucracy. Check this out, Ecclesiastes 5.8.

If you see the oppression of the poor and the violent perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter. Don't be surprised. Don't be shocked. You see oppression and perversions of justice and righteousness, what are you, are you surprised? Don't be shocked at that. For high official watches over high official and higher officials are over them.

It's bureaucracy because no one's ever accountable for anything. And it leads to oppression and don't be shocked when you see it. That's how common it's always been thousands of years ago. Proverbs 28 to says because of the transgression of a land of the people of a nation because of the transgression away from God many are its princes.

How about that?

That's not good. By the way, that's a curse. It's not good to have so many rulers and princes. That's bureaucracy. That's what they're speaking of. So because of your sin, because you're disobedient, now you have to have a giant bureaucracy. It's a curse.

Bible scholar Bruce Walke, about a hundred years ago, he said, as a result of the land's total break with the Lord, they need a large bureaucracy to keep an eye on one another. An Arabic curse once said, may God make your sheiks many. That's where we are right now. May God make your bureaucracy enormous. I curse you America. That's what Doge is trying to root out. But it goes on Proverbs 28, but by a man of understanding and knowledge, right will be prolonged.

Good, godly, wise leaders can be a blessing to a nation.

They can lead people to be free, but oh, that can be a problem too, because individual people can be corrupt as well. This is what we did focus on on the, on the TV special, uh, second Timothy three. He said, but know this,

that in the last days, perilous times will come.

And he goes on and he talks not about terrible things that will happen. He doesn't talk about famine or disease. He talks about men. He said for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers. How many of these things do you see in our culture today?

Without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty. Lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away. Lovers of themselves, it's amazing. That's the first one.

And that's where all the other ones come from, lovers of selves. And it's wild that our culture today is all about the self-help book. And the self-help book is all about you're amazing. You need to love yourself more.

And here's Paul saying, um, that like perilous times and like, what, what do you mean, Paul? Well, people would be lovers of themselves, but that's all we're being told to do is love ourselves more. But the rest of this list, lovers of money, blasphemers. I saw a picture the other day somewhere. I don't even know why of Kesha. She have a new album or something. Uh, Kesha, the pop star, she's dressed as a nun and scantily clad and you know, whatever.

Something blasphemous happening. Oh, so edgy. Without self-control. Wow, we can give countless examples of these. But Paul said that these ideas, these sins, they creep into households and they lead people from the truth. He said, men of

corrupt minds resist the truth. I love the end of Paul's message. He says, but you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of, knowing from whom you have learned them, and that from childhood you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given it by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction

in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work." That's who we need to be. That needs to be our goal to be someone who's thoroughly equipped for every good work. So here's Paul telling Timothy of dangerous times that are to come dangerous times, uncertain times, chaotic times, and how some people

are swept away by them, some people go into hiding, but that's not the right posture, the right posture is to stand strong, knowing that you're standing on the word of God and that he will protect you and you'll have everlasting life. Final thought here. Jesus saw plenty of corruption in his day, spoke against it. Mark 12.

Then he said to them in his teaching, beware of the scribes who desire to go around in long robes. They love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seat in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts, who devour widows' houses." So there they love themselves. That's what that first part's all about. They love themselves. And they devour widows' houses. They take advantage of widows. They take advantage of the most vulnerable people in the community for their money. Jesus hated

that. He condemned them specifically. How about Micah? Check out this condemnation and the why now hear this. You had to the house of Jacob rulers, the house of Israel who abhor justice, who pervert all equity, who build up Zion with bloodshed and Jerusalem with iniquity. How about this? Her heads judge for a bribe. Her priests teach for pay and her prophets divine for money. So we have here are leaders being bribed, priests demanding payment in order to teach

people's people, God's law and prophets wanting money for prophecy. It's all super corrupt. What did God say of it? Proverbs 29, four by justice, a King builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts, tears it down. So what do we do?

First note, nothing new under the sun. It's one of the main themes of this podcast is there's nothing new under the sun. It's amazing. When you read the Bible, it's all there. It's all the, everything, everything that goes on today is there in the Bible, it's all there. It's all, everything, everything that goes on today is there in the Bible.

Yesterday's segment was about consumerism. Well, how can consumerism be in the Bible? Where's that? Where's that in the Bible? I don't know, Luke 12, Jesus said, "'For one's life does not consist

"'in the abundance of possession.'" It's like, oh, like right there. It's all there. That's amazing. I love that. Take great peace from that. That's the main point of this podcast is to get peace.

There's nothing new under the sun. Second, no God is in charge. And specifically on this too, Daniel 2 21 says he controls, God controls the course of world events. Oh, like what?

He removes kings and sets up other kings. Oh okay great awesome. We should worship him then. We should get in line with him. Third point is have no part in this corruption. Ephesians 5 11 take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness instead expose them. And number four, follow God. Psalm 37 27, turn from evil and do good. And you will live in the land forever for the Lord loves justice and does not forsake

his saints. They are preserved forever. Corruption, lawfare, weaponized government, nothing new. Don't be surprised. God's in control. Have no part in it. Expose it. Follow God. You'll be blessed forever. MikeSlater.Locals.com. Transcript. No commercials. blessed forever. MikeSlater.Locals.com. Transcript. No commercials. On the website MikeSlater.Locals.com.

This trade "war" (it's not a war, that's propaganda) may seem chaotic and arbitrary and inconsistent, but it's not. There's a plan and a purpose. 

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. We've been talking on my SiriusXM show lately about these tariffs, of course, and how if we want to see through this change, we need two things. First a clear vision of how bad things were. Otherwise, what's the point of changing?

Why go through this trouble? And we have to have a clear vision for the hope of where we can end up. Otherwise, none of this is worth it. So I'm just going to go back to what I know. And yesterday we shared the story of the Israelites. They forgot how bad it was to be a slave in Egypt under Pharaoh.

They forgot that God was with them the whole time, protecting them, delivering them, parting the sea for them, with them every morning with manna at night, with fire guiding the way. Goodness.

And they didn't trust God to lead them into the promised land. They lost sight of how good it was going to be in the land of milk and honey. I think it's the same principle here, same outline. We can't forget that what we had in our economy wasn't working for the people in the country. And if we kept going down the road,

it was gonna lead us off a cliff. And we have to have a clear vision of what good can come from staying the course. By the way, someone sent me this song. It's by Keith Green. I don't know legally how much I can play someone's song on a radio here, but on a podcast, but

here's just a little bit of it.

Here we go.

Here we go. So you want to go back to Egypt Where it's warm and secure Are you sorry about the one-way ticket When you thought you were sure? You want to deliver the land you promised But now it's getting so hot I'm sorry you're out here in the desert Stead of your own backyard Eating leeks and onions by the night Ooh, I'd breath for dining out in style

Ooh, my life's on the skids Give me the pyramids

That is a catchy little tune right there. I'm not gonna lie, that is catchy. Now listen, you're gonna yell at me if you've been around the block for a while. I've never heard of Keith Green. I know, late on me. You've never.

The kids this weekend with the wife went to the play, The Sound of Music. I've never seen The Sound of Music. You've never, what, what? I can't even listen to you anymore. I can't, what Green, but trust me, I will be all in on Keith Green. Or someone sent me this song and it's called,

So You Wanna Go Back to Egypt? And I was like, I don't know what to expect. I didn't expect that. That was awesome. So thank you for sending that my way. We made this point that I just articulated

on the radio today and I played a clip of Oliver Anthony. Do you remember Oliver Anthony? He wrote and sang the song, Rich Men North of Richmond back in 2003. We had a high school dropout, broke, alcoholic guy living in a log cabin in the woods.

Made this song, recorded it, and broke through everything. I spoke to a lot of people. His real name's Chris Lunsford. Grandpa's name is Oliver Anthony. And he gave a speech at this big conference in England. I've never heard him give a speech,

he doesn't speak a lot at all anywhere. But he started off with Ecclesiastes 10, that's a good start. And then he said, he said, I don't know how many conversations I've had with people face to face, probably thousands at this point.

And I realized now that we don't have any clue to how many around us are really broken. How many are silently suffering and barely hanging on more often than not. They start the message with, hey, I'm a nobody, followed by horrors of addiction, mental illness,

financial and household struggles, oftentimes incredibly complicated stories that I suspect they may never have told anyone before. But they still have the hopes of a hopeful future and they don't want to give up no matter what. Then he told the story of the hurricanes back last year and it is native North Carolina. The amazing things he saw that people did when the government failed,

but regular people, the nobodies, stepped up. Here's how he ended his speech.

And while FEMA was hoarding donated generators and denying people on their applications, it was the nobodies of the world that were driving ATVs and Jeeps with chainsaws up mountain roads rescuing people. There was two guys we met that hot-wired a bulldozer from a quarry to cut a navigable path

through a washed-out road in two days that the state said would take months, allowing supplies to people who hadn't had contact with anyone in over a week. Volunteers were working 16 hours a day, taking supplies on everything from horses to helicopters.

It was humanity, there in front of my very eyes. And it was in that seven days in North Carolina that changed everything for me. It was people saving people. Even with lack of leadership, failed protocols, and overwhelming inefficiency from the state,

the nobodies took up the slack. And so I'm just here to remind you that we don't need our false idols. We should no longer rely on politicians who bow down to money to manage our city or our states. We need to find the real leaders everywhere and empower them. Western North Carolina was proof to me that there is an army of good people left in this world who want to do good things.

We just have to give them places to gather and give them the ability to act. And so I'll close with this. Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong, for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away. Trust in the Lord and do good. Dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.

Take delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. And so, I'll see you on April the 5th in Spruce Pine, North Carolina for the first official gathering. It is now my life's mission to revive rural America one town at a time.

It's called the Rural Revival Project. So thank you for listening.

I look forward to learning more about that, the Rural Revival Project. He started off with Ecclesiastes 10. I look forward to learning more about that, the rural revival project. He started off with Ecclesiastes 10. Let's talk about that today. He didn't say Ecclesiastes 10, which I appreciate. He didn't say, well, let me start with Ecclesiastes 10.

He just said words of Ecclesiastes 10. There is an evil I've seen under the sun, the sort of errors that arises from a ruler. Fools are put in many high positions while the rich occupy low ones. I've seen slaves on horseback while princes go on foot like slaves. Let's go back a little bit. Start from the beginning of Ecclesiastes 10. That's what he quoted. But let's go, verse one. Dead flies putrefy

the perfumer's ointment and cause it to give off a foul odor. So does a little folly to one respected for wisdom and honor. So you can have a reputation of being wise and honorable, but just a little folly, a little foolishness can ruin that reputation. But I want to talk about this word folly a bit. So it's the most, when I think of following is what do you think of when you think of folly? I think of like an innocent mistake or goofiness, like a luveness. You may, you know, you weren't thinking the Hebrew is more than just a mistake. It's intention is more of a wicked person, someone who's shamelessly

immoral, someone who actively goes against God's Word and God's wisdom. Psalm 14 1 says, the fool has said in his heart there is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works. That's a fool. That's more than just folly or silliness or something. The fool said there is no God. Now there's sometimes in the Bible when it does mean a little more of like someone who's mindless or not thinking clearly or something, but I err on the side of, oh, that means wickedness.

Another definition of that word fool is a vile or worthless fellow. All right, so keep going. A wise man's heart is at his right hand, the good one, but a fool's heart is at his left. And when a fool walks along the way, he lacks wisdom and he

shows everyone that he's a fool. Out here's Oliver Anthony's part. If the spirit of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your post.

Ooh, how about that?

Don't leave it. Do keep doing what is right. For conciliation pacifies great offenses. There's an evil I've seen under the sun as an error proceeding from the ruler, colon. So here's the error.

This is the evil. This is the error from the ruler. Folly is set in great dignity. Wickedness is set in great dignity. While the rich sit in a lowly place. I've seen servants on horses

while princes walk on the ground like servants. So a role reversal is what he's getting at there. So I love that first part. Don't leave your post, be faithful no matter what. And then it's important to know there's a colon here. So it says, as an heir proceeding from the ruler,

so here is the heir. Folly, wickedness is set in great dignity and the rich sit in a lowly place. So we have unqualified people at the top. Unqualified people have been put in positions of power and authority. Unqualified people, but the rich, or you can read here like a qualified person, like a meritocracy, right? The qualified person is down at the bottom, has no power to use their wisdom and virtue for good

Good governance matters Good governance matters in our country. We have a lot to unwind But in the meantime, it's not for us to worry

This is what the media and the left is doing with you right now They just want you to freak out all the time. They want you to think that everything's in chaos, but change doesn't necessarily mean chaos. The analogy I've been using, and I still think it's true, is when you Marie Kondo your closet. Remember that show, the Marie Kondo show? And she would take a closet,

and her method is you take everything out of the closet, and you put it all on the floor and you go thing one by one and you throw it away, give it away or put it back and you thank it. Thank you shirt for being such a great shirt and then you give it away. All right, does it spark joy? That was our, she was, does it spark joy?

And there's maybe a moment where it seems chaotic in the middle, but you gotta get through it and clearly at the end, it's way better. But it doesn't mean it's chaos, it's just a process. If maybe if you walk in on the middle of it, right? If someone else is Marie Kondo in their closet, you walk in, you're like, whoa, what is going on?

But that person as a method, there's something happening here. The Senator from Minnesota, Tina Smith, she was talking to the US trade rep about all this chaos and uncertainty. She said it's chaotic, arbitrary, and inconsistent. Oh, but it's not actually. It's not any of those things, but it will take time to get back to the system that does make sense and it's good for the most people. It'll take a minute to do it, but I think we'll get there. We have a lot to unwind, a lot to fix in our country. So in the meantime, let's take Solomon's advice.

Do not leave your post. And Psalm 37, this is one worth memorizing, fret not yourself because of evildoers. So there's Ecclesiastes talking about wicked people are put in positions of power and they're lifted up as people of great dignity and worth.

And it's, and the Bible says, don't you worry about that. Don't fret, not yourself because of evil doers. Be not envious of wrongdoers, even if they're in those positions, even if you're the prince who's walking the horse and the other person's riding the horse, don't be envious of them for they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord and do good.

Dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Do good. Delight yourself in the Lord. Oh, it's so good. So do trust in the Lord, do good. Delight yourself in the Lord.

He will give you the you just delight yourself in the Lord, all the unimportant things fade away. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial all the unimportant things fade away. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on my website Mike Slater dot locals dot com.