Trump signed an Executive Order ending the reign of Desperate Outcome theory. We've been talking about this for 11 years since Obama forced this on schools, but it will take time to unwind. In the meantime, perhaps understanding the Mixed Multitude in the Bible help us figure out what should replace this old system.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I have a news story and I think we can make a biblical connection to this in this one particular way. Let's talk about an executive order that Trump signed yesterday reinstating common sense school discipline policies. So Barack Obama instituted this idea called disparate outcome and

the claim was that if there is a school discipline policy that results in a disparate outcome of races, then the policy itself is racist. So the example we always use because I've been talking about this for 11 years is if there's a policy that says a student can't punch a teacher in the face and more black students punch their teachers in the face,

that policy is racist. See the problems with this. So this executive order ends that threat because the threat was that if you continue to have these policies where more black or Hispanic kids are punished, disciplined in any way,

any punishment all the way to expelled, if more black kids or Hispanic kids are expelled than white kids, then you risk losing your federal funding. So as Obama back in 2014, it's called one of his dear colleague letters from the Department of Justice,

excuse me, Department of, well, Department of Justice and Education Civil Rights Division. So that's gone now. Now this also has an implication in the workforce as well. Same idea, disparate outcome.

Any disparate outcome in any aspect of a business and there's threats of lawsuits. This is one of the reasons why all these businesses spend all this money on all this DEI training, all these DEI courses and training, because they're like, we're not racist.

So they can have a policy and there's a disparate impact to it. But if they have enough DEI training courses that they require everyone to do all the time, then they can prove in court, look, we're not actually racist. That's what that is. So hopefully now with that threat of disparate

outcome theory gone, we can stop with all the DEI stuff and businesses and we can also get back to real actual discipline in our schools. So talked about that today on the radio. It's a wonderful thing that Trump did. The survey from the American Federation of Teachers, 88% of teachers said poor student discipline and a lack of support for dealing with disruptive students is a very serious problem.

I can't even begin to describe the violence that occurs inside of so many of our schools. It's crazy, like insane, insane stuff. Just yesterday, this pops up on my Twitter all the time and I hate it, but one just popped up yesterday of a 15 or 16 year old fighting, and then the kid who was on the ground,

I don't know who started it, who knows the backstory, but the one who was on the ground gets up and takes out a knife and stabs the other guy a bunch of times, right in the hallway. And kids are like part of this all the time. It's crazy the insane amounts of violence that happens. And you can't discipline anyone. It's not allowed.

And you have those extreme examples, but then you also just have a general state of chaos. Kids wandering the hallways, busting in the classrooms, beating people up, leaving. No one's paying attention. Someone's on drugs.

It's just crazy what goes on and no one's allowed to discipline. It's awful. Now, a little sidebar, but I think it's related. We were talking about education a couple weeks ago and someone called in and said, our schools are too big.

And I think there's something really to that. We used to have one room school houses,, where the schools were not too big. They were very small, all grades, one teacher. A very decentralized system. And now we have a very centralized system. And the reason we talked about this a couple weeks ago is because Rand Paul had the idea

of having one teacher for 10 million students. You have the best chemistry teacher, and this chemistry teacher teaches all the chemistry students. You have the best chemistry teacher and this chemistry teacher teaches all the chemistry students. And I guess I don't even know how that would work. Like you have just like advisors in the school that, that what great papers help keep the kids in line. I don't know. I remember in school when they wheeled in the TV, it wasn't like time to pay attention now. We're really going to enjoy this. So that's just not going to work. Didn't we live through COVID and how learning on the computer,

it's not it. That's not the answer. So I don't think we need more centralization, which is the way we're moving. I think we've got to get back more to the one room schoolhouse idea where we were decentralized as much as possible. And part of that was smaller. In 1920, the average size of a public school was 80 kids. In 1940, the average size was 217. Today, the average high school is 800. Some high schools have three, four, 5,000 kids in it.

That's insane. And the reason we keep that, well, the reason the government likes that is because it's easier to control 100 large districts than it is 10,000 smaller schools, obviously. But I think one reason why we also go along with it

is because the bigger the school, the better the football team, the better the sports. Like, oh, we gotta keep it. 1% of schools educate 20% of our kids. So 20% of our kids are funneled through these massive, enormous factories that are spitting out a not good product when it comes to the education. Just education, knowledge, let alone cultivating virtue.

So we're talking about discipline this morning and we had some teachers call in one in particular who does this in California, they call it restorative justice. So instead of discipline, you have restorative justice. And this person was one of those people. And she talked about how awful these kids' home lives are and what's a school to do?

And I kind of agree with that. We're kind of left in a hopeless place. But then finally a gentleman called in who works at a school that is small and where discipline is the culture. And these are black kids, broken families, many of them kicked out of school. So this isn't the best of the best, the cream of the crop, or of course it's going to work

where parents are super involved. That's not what this school is. But it's a Christian school, it's the first thing. But then also discipline is the culture. Because we started talking about discipline, oh, you're not allowed to discipline kids,

and oh, what do you wanna beat them? Like not that long ago they paddled kids, but no, that's not what I'm talking about. about is a culture of discipline, a culture of expectations, a culture of standards. This is who we are. This is what we expect out of everyone. And you have to fall in line with this.

This is the culture we do here. A smaller school, it's easier to do that. A bigger school, I mean, the kids are going to set the culture, right? All right, let's pivot. So that's the news story. Hopefully we see a lot of fruit of that in our public schools, although our public schools

are still run by people who hate Trump and will probably still institute all these restorative justice programs and still not disciplined properly, even though the threat of the lawsuits are gone. The damage is already done.

It's gonna be hard to unwind. So let's turn to the Bible. We talked to a rabbi the other day on our TV special. We did a special on biblical leadership. And at the end, just cause we just read, my family and I, we just read Moses, Mount Sinai,

Israelites, golden calf, that whole scene. So I was like, I'm talking to a rabbi, I ask him about it. Because it's crazy. It's crazy to think that everything the Israelites went through, that they would build a calf, a cow, a golden cow and worship it.

This is the God that let us out of Egypt. What are you talking about? And after two seconds of being shocked by these people, I think, oh, I'm the same way. Just as sinful, just as absurdly comically blind as to what God has done for me and who he's calling me to be and what he's calling me to do.

And I just go on with my own life, worshiping my own cows all over the place. So I asked him about this and how this could have happened. And he brought up this term called the mixed multitude. And I've heard this word before, the mixed multi, I've heard these words, but I've never thought about it. I've never stopped and sat and pondered

and studied the mixed multitude. What is, who are the mixed multitude? So we're in Egypt. We had all these plagues. And we mentioned this the other day that most of them did not affect the Israelites at all.

So it's pitch black for everyone except the Israelites. That's crazy. All the animals died except for the Israelites animals. So after the 10th plague killing of the firstborn, here's Exodus 12. Pharaoh rose in the night, he all his servants and all the Egyptians and there was a great cry

in Egypt for there was not a house where there was not one dead. Horrific. Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said, rise go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel. Go serve the Lord as you have said. Also take your flocks and your herds as you have said and be gone. And bless me also." Threw a little, what's in it for me there too.

So then they got all the gold and the silver and all the clothes and everything from the Egyptians and they're out of here. Exodus 12, 37. Then the children of Israel journeyed from Ramseed to Sukkoth, about 600,000 men on foot beside the children. So they're thinking two million people. Could you imagine two million people

marching out of a city? What, like two million? Look up a population here. I don't know, the first city that came to mind was Boston. What's the population of Boston? Computer's super slow right now.

Everything's taking like five seconds. And the population of Boston is 650,000. All right, so we got, we're bigger than Boston. Maybe the Boston metro area. Let's see what the Boston metro area is. It's gotta be over 2 million, right?

5 million, all right. So that's Boston, Cambridge, Newton. So imagine like half of the whole Boston area or whatever city you want to be. Half of them all packing up, shipping out, hiking out of the city. Crazy scene, incredible scene, unimaginable scene. Now check this out.

A mixed multitude went up with them also and flocks and herds a great deal of livestock. Oh man, it's so easy just to skip right by that. A mixed multitude. Who are these people? The mixed multitude are non-Israelites.

So these could be people of other nations. Maybe some Egyptians. mercenaries, maybe the children of some Israelites and Egyptian parents, all different types of people, not Israelites. That's the point. Joining the Israelites, people who said, I'm out of here. And I don't know if it was, it probably wasn't.

I believe in God, I believe in their God. It was probably more, this place is crazy, I'm getting out of here, I can't take the frogs anymore. And who knows what's next? So we're going with these people. I don't care where they're going, I'm out of here. So what are we to think of these people? Let me quote John

MacArthur. He said, you'll find the expression mixed multitude three times in the King James Version of the Bible and each time it is a disparaging expression used to describe the backslidden, spiritually eclectic, morally compromised during the time of Israel's worst apostasies. For example, Numbers 11 verse 4, and the mixed multitude, multitude that were among them fell to lusting. So these people were a problem. Let me quote here Charles Spurgeon. It's

hard to quote Charles Spurgeon's sermons because I don't know when to stop. He says, and now beloved we must finish up in a very solemn manner by reminding you of the companions that came out of Egypt with the children of Israel. When the children of Israel came out of Egypt, there were certain persons in Egypt dissatisfied with the king, very likely culprits, condemned persons, debtors, bankrupts, and such like persons who were tired of their country and who, as is wittily said, of those who are transported left their country for their country's good. But

through these people, excuse me, but though these people went with the children of Israel, mark you, they were not of them. Hmm. They escaped, but the door was not opened to let them out. It was only open to let out the children of Israel. It is said that the mixed multitude fell a lusting. It was the mixed multitude that taught them to worship the golden calf. It was the mixed multitude that always led them astray." Interesting. The mixed multitude, they

were the ones who grumbled and said, let us go back because they weren't slaves like the Israelites were. And maybe for them it was better to go back to Egypt. And Spurgeon's point is similarly today, people don't understand the depth of what Jesus has done for them because they never understood the depth of sin that they were for them because they never understood the depth of sin that they were living in. So it doesn't mean anything to them that

they're the mixed multitude of today, the hanger-on-ers, the people who aren't really committed. Spurgeon said the Egyptians never had any real bondage and therefore they could not rejoice as the true Israelite did when they were set free from the yoke of Pharaoh. He said, O ye mixed multitude, you are the ruin of the churches. You set us a lusting. The pure Israelites blood is tainted by union with you. You sit as God's people

sit and yet you are not his people. You sit as God's people sit, and yet you are not his people. You hear as God's people hear, and yet you are in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity. You take the sacrament as sweetly as others, while you are eating and drinking damnation to yourself. You come to the church meeting, you sit in the private assembly of the saints, but even when you are there you are nothing but a wolf in sheep's clothing, entering the flock when you ought not to be there.

Wow. My dear hearers, do try yourselves to see whether you are real Israelites. Oh, could Christ say to you, behold, an Israelite indeed in whom there is no guile? Have you the blood on your doorpost? Have you eaten of Jesus? Do you live on him?

Do you have fellowship with him? Has God, the Holy Ghost, brought you out of Egypt? Or have you come out yourself? Have you found refuge in his dear cross and wounded side? If you have, rejoice, for Pharaoh himself cannot bring you back again. But if you have not,

I pray my master to dash your peace into atoms, fair and lovely as it may be. I beseech him to send the winds of conviction and the floods of his wrath, that your house may fall now rather than it should stand to your death." I love that idea. If you're not a preacher, church I used to go to that said this a lot, this idea that if you're not a Christian, I hope things go really badly for you. I hope you hit a rock bottom fast now before you die so you can turn to Jesus.

And this came up during our most recent special here that we've had churches for a long time that their number one goal is to increase in numbers no matter who they let in. And I've lost sight of the fact that the church is for the saints, the church is for the church. Like Sunday morning is for the church. James Orr, it's in the early 1900s, he said, "'Nominal adherents are no source of strength, but a great weakness to the church.

It may be the church's duty to bear with them, but she can never derive benefit from them. She may benefit them, and that hope should treat them tenderly, but they will never benefit her. Oh man, how much in these last just like a couple of years,

COVID and Black Lives Matter, all this trans stuff, whatever, has the church thought that if we just be more like the world, if we let more of the world in, then we can be more like it, and we'll be better.

No, no, no, no, no. You can benefit the world, but they will never benefit the church. They will they will be a drag upon her activity in proportion to their number. Will they exert a chilling and detrimental influence? They will stand in the way of good schemes. They will fall a lusting and provoke discontent.

The morale of a church can scarcely avoid being lowered by them. What then put them out? Not so we shall work in vain to separate tares and wheat. And we are forbidden to act on this principle, but let us do what we can to keep down their number. Interesting. I also found this analogy here of the remora type of fish, and it always hangs around the bottom of

a shark so you'll see a shark swimming around there'll be a couple of these these fish and then maybe a shark will get pulled out of the water and this this fish will just swim around the bottom of the of the ship just picking off whatever it can and the analogy is these hangers on resemble our social ones in the following particulars. They like traveling about. They do not care what they attach themselves to so long as it suits their

purpose for the time. They will not get along by their own exertions if they can find others to carry them. They are sharp in their own interests. It's very interesting, a new concept that the rabbi brought to my attention, the mixed multitude. We can bring it back around

to the political topic I mentioned. It doesn't take a lot of people to ruin it for the rest of us. It doesn't take a lot of people to ruin it for the rest of us. It doesn't take a lot of people in a school to really screw it all up. So how long must we accommodate

the people who are not playing along? Do we need a separate school system for these kids who just will not behave and will not participate and I know that sounds not nice Because we're supposed to accommodate the one But that one disruptive student destroys the education for the other 30 that are in the classroom And that's being kind that's not even referring to the violence and how much destruction is

caused, how much time is wasted for everyone else. And I don't want to accommodate the one anymore when we're letting down 30 more. I'm sure it's even worse than that. I don't know what that looks like practically. I have no solutions right here. Although I love the school that the gentleman brought up earlier. Again, with the culture of discipline and order,

that's obviously what we need, big picture, but we have to be careful of a mixed multitude that just destroys. Now, these are kids we're talking about, right? I'm not suggesting we throw these kids in prison and just be done with them forever. They're ruined. There's compassion and mercy and grace, of course, and it's all done out of love. Everything we have to do moving forward is love.

And I don't want these kids to end up in prison. That's the point. We're trying to avoid sending these kids into prison and continuing the cycle of poverty and impregnating women and more poverty and abuse and drugs and gangs. Like we want to stop all that. But what we're doing now isn't working for them and it's not working for the other kids

who want to learn either. Remember there's a study done a while back where they took a disruptive student and put them in a group of kids that were unified to see what would happen if the one bad apple spoils the bunch theory was true.

And then they also took some kids that were disruptive and they put like one good apple in there and it didn't work. It was, it was, it was, and the one, the good apple didn't work on the other kids and the one bad apple was able to tear down everything else.

Like that principle is true. A mixed multitude can cause a lot of trouble. Let's identify this, prioritize appropriately, and see how we can solve this major problem in our country. Mike Slater.locals.com is my website. Transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater. locals dot com is my website. Transcript commercial free on the website. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

MS-13 is a Satanic gang. We have leaders in America who want to keep these gang members in America. What does that make these leaders?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. I have nothing to say at the moment about the Pope passing away. If you are inclined, I recommend a sermon by John MacArthur called The Pope and His Papacy from May 1st, 2005. He has a collection of many quotes from church leaders over hundreds of years about the papacy. Instead of that today, let's go to the Bible.

Talk of the town still is about Kilmar and many other gang members. I missed 13 gang members and trended out of Venezuela. The Supreme court issued an emergency order not to deport anyone else under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. I want to talk about MS-13 for a minute. MS-13 is a satanic cult, call it a gang,

transnational organization, whatever you want to call them. But I want to focus on the satanic part. This is the president of El Salvador, Bukele, talking to Tucker like a year or so ago. They did an interview. And here is what Bukele said about MS-13 as soon as Tucker brought him up.

MS-13 is one of the major gangs.

And they are satanicals.

That's the first thing that comes to mind. brought him up. MS 13 is one of the major gangs and they are satanic also.

The first thing that comes to mind, the president of El Salvador, MS 13, MS 13 actually started in America, but El Salvadorians are Salvadorians. First

thing that he says, MS 13 is one of the major gangs and they are satanic also.

Oh, oh, my minor story, minor detail. And then he goes on, he tells a story of this guy who was in the gang and he goes on, he tells a story of this guy who was in the gang and he killed many, many people. And he's in jail, but he left the gang. And he left the gang because he went to some event at some house and they were killing a baby.

And he said, what are we doing here? Why are we killing this baby? And the people said the beast wanted a baby. So we were killing a baby for the beast. The White House released this weekend a list of some crimes that were committed by Trinidad and Tobago and MS-13 gang members here in America.

And if I may, and there's kids, if there's any kids listening now, now's not a turn away, probably the whole episode. But here's the list. Raped and strangled 20 year old autistic woman to death in Maryland, hijacked four people to death, excuse me, hacked four people to death with machetes in a park in Long Island,

kidnapped sexually tortured and shot a teenage girl in Texas after she insulted their demon God, killed and mutilated a 17 year old Virginia stabbing him 16 times, cutting off his hands, beheaded and cut out the heart of a man in DC as part of a satanic ritual, raped and murdered a 13-year-old girl in California, sex trafficked young girls, including one who was 12, raped an 11-year-old girl in Brooklyn

while her brother was in the room, sex trafficked a 13-year-old in Maryland and Virginia, 26 times with a baseball bat, and then pressured homeless New Yorkers to undergo unnecessary surgeries, such as spinal fusion, in order to bolster their own fraudulent lawsuits. That was a weird one. We talked about that on the radio a bit today. But the ones that really stood out there,

I mean, they're all horrific, but are the satanic parts, like the cutting out of a guy's heart and burying him in a Washington, D.C. park? That's something. So I was looking for that story. Sure enough, it's real.

And I came across this Washington Post story from 2017. The headline is you feel the devil is helping you. MS-13 satanic history. The gangs devil horns hand sign is known as La la gara a Spanish reference to Satan's claws Some ms-13 members have told investigators that they committed their crime at the behest of the beast The beast wanted a soul an ms-13 member nicknamed diabolical said after killing a 15 year old girl who?

Disrespected his satanic shrine prosecutors told a Houston courtroom earlier this year. MS-13 member told of his initiation into the gang, We went to a cemetery and we swore an oath by drinking each other's blood. We took a knife and cut our hands and then drained our blood into a cup to drink it.

MS-13 is one of the major gangs.

And they are satanic also.

Which in a weird way I'm grateful for because it helps everyone see that this is spiritual warfare as well. MS-13 helps it be a little bit more obvious for us but still people refuse to see it. To go to Kilmar, Abrego Garcia, the left is saying he wasn't even a gang member. Wasn't even a gang member at all? Why are you guys making a big deal? He's innocent. He's innocent of everything. This is David Hogg is this guy's name. It is amazing. I can't believe that the Democrats are allowing this

guy to go out there and do things, but he wants to be the head of the democratic party,

which is like amazing, which is politically. I hope he is. This was not an MS 13 gang member and you damn well know that. Oh, come on. He was not. Okay. So the only administration admitted this was wrong. America America we have due process.

Alright, so they're saying he's not even a 13, MS-13 gang member. So just a little fun story on that. Among other proofs that we don't need to go into here because I want to get to Micah. But he went, the senator from Maryland went to go visit him in El Salvador, right? And someone took a picture of him. They took a picture of Kilmar. And you can see on his hand a tattoo. Well, it's tons of tattoos, but tattoos on his knuckles. Now, I don't believe anything I see online.

I assumed it was Photoshopped. Surely, surely this isn't, surely he doesn't really have that tattoo on his knuckle. That's not real, right? Because that's the whole pitch still, early on and still from some on the left, but everyone early on is that he's a Maryland father. He never should have been deported at all.

Like that was the mistake that he was deported at all. And when reality, and we've talked about this before, but the court just said immigration court said, you just can't deport him to El Salvador. You could deport him anywhere else. Just not El Salvador. That was the mistake.

Not that he was. I just didn't. walking down the street who shouldn't be deported at all. He, uh, there's an impression that he's just like a guy with a bulls hat on. He's like a bulls fan that we just deported off the street. Like, no, no, no. He was subject to be deported anywhere except El Salvador. But always not even a member of the gang on the in this picture on his knuckles.

It says MS-13. There's a marijuana leaf for M, a smiley face for S, a cross for one, and then a skull for three. Craneo is Spanish for skull, letter C, third letter. MS-13. So I thought it was fake. Then the president held up a picture

of a zoomed in of his knuckles. I thought that was fake. Because I don't know, I can't't believe you don't want to believe anything I want to be skeptical of everything Trump tweeted out This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States Because it's such a fine and innocent person

They said he's not a member of MS 13 Even though he's got MS 13 tattooed on his knuckles and to highly respected courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc. I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job, make America great again. Now his wife, the same one who he beat up and she put a restraining order on, posted a picture of her and Kilmar. And the captain said, I miss you very much. I won't stop fighting, I promise.

And she's standing there, she's taking a selfie or a picture in the mirror, not a selfie, she's taking a picture into a mirror. And he's standing behind her and he's got his arms wrapped around her like a bunch of lovebirds. And you can see his knuckles in this picture that she posted.

Now I say you can see his knuckles, I really should say you could see his knuckles.

If it weren't for the giant heart emoji that she placed conveniently right over the knuckle of his left hand. It's the only emoji she has in the picture. And wouldn't you know it, gosh gollylly she put it right over his left hand weird Like she's trying to hide something She could put it anywhere. She could have put the script with no emoji She could have put it above their heads Could have put it next to each of them could have put it over her foot could have put it over a belly to represent

The child they have together, but no put it right over his left knuckle

Huh? Could have put it over a belly to represent the child they have together, but no, put it right over his left knuckle. Huh.

But no, not a member of MS13, we're told. Let's go to the Bible. Micah 3. And I said, here now, oh, heads of Israel, excuse me, heads of Jacob. Now this is important because now Micah has turned his attention to the leaders, not just all the people. It starts off Micah 1 verse 2, hear you peoples, all of you.

Then verse, or chapter three. Uh, and I said, hear you heads of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel. Is it not for you to know justice? Like, aren't you the ones in charge? You who hate good and love evil. Who stripped the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones, who also

eat the flesh of my people, flay their skin from them, break their bones, chop them into pieces like meat for the pot, like flesh in the cauldron." So this is the leaders of Israel and Judah, how terrible they are of leaders. It's as if they were cannibals feasting on the flesh of their people. That's how awful of leaders they are. In MS 13's case, they actually do those things. I could do a longer research on this one. I don't think anyone is taking that literally. In Micah 3, I don't think the heads of Jacob and Israel literally flaying the flesh from people

and eating it. It's a metaphor? I think that's a metaphor. I think that's the most scholarly analysis is a metaphor. MS-13 actually does that. Like satanic cannibalism. Here's Bruce Walkie. Since the grinding poverty of the poor was leading them to an early grave, the prophet,

in a sustained metaphor, depicts the magistrates responsible for creating these conditions as acting like cannibals. This grotesque figure aims to awaken the conscience of the reprobates. The next verse, God will ignore these leaders, then they will cry to the Lord but he will not hear them. He will even hide his face from them at that time because they have been evil in their deeds. We have people in America who do unspeakable things. There's people who

have different lines of work that come in contact with the absolute horrors of society every day. People work in hospitals. People work in the court system who deal with just the dregs of society. People who work in some of the most extreme mental health asylums. People who work with foster care, some of the hor extreme mental health asylums, people who work with

foster care, some of the horrors of that system. Law enforcement, a friend of mine used to work the child pornography, child sex abuse cases. Horrible things, horrible. Like the worst. I don't know how they do it. We, majority of us are spared from knowing that this even exists. Every day it exists, every single day. We don't interact with it, hopefully ever,

but we don't deal with it like, so we just don't see it. We don't know it exists all the time, but it's there. The story just came out of a stepmother in Connecticut who kept her 32 year old stepson locked away in a room in the house for 20 years since he was 12 years old. Never left that room. He was, he lit a fire.

So the fire department came and they rescued him. He's five,9", 68 pounds. 68 pounds. 32 years old. Now the biological mother has spoken out and said that she gave the child custody over to the dad.

I don't know where the dad is now, but somehow the kid ended up with a stepmother who locked him away for 20 years in a house that looked abandoned, all boarded up windows and everything. 32 year old, 32 years old, the firefighters who rescued him, there was a room inside of a room and the firefighters thought it was a child in the bed.

This is, this is the other day. There's, there's so much evil in the bed. This is just the other day. There's so much evil in our country. If you think too long about it, it'll just pains your heart too much. We can't deal with it. What we need to deal with this. What we don't need is to be importing more evil and wickedness from around the world.

This is low hanging fruit. Let's get rid of the gang members, the rapists, the horrific criminals, the satanists, the people who are doing orders at the behest of the beast. Low hanging fruit. But we've had leaders who have not done this. They've allowed more in.

And this has resulted in people dying and people hurt and lives destroyed, lives damaged, lives made worse. Now we have leaders today politically who are trying to do good things and other people are trying to stop them from doing these obvious good things. We have to pray to God to rid our nation and world of all this evil. There are political answers and this is also a spiritual fight. There are leaders who, as it says in Micah, detest justice and make crooked all that is straight.

We need to be people who love justice and want to make straight all that is crooked. I pray we don't get to the point that it says in verse four where we cry to the Lord, but he doesn't answer us, and he hides his face from us, because our deeds have been too evil. Mike Slater.locals.com, transcript commercial free on the website, transcript commercial free on the website, mikeslater.locals.com.

Shout out to all of the Creasters! I used to be one. That is someone who only goes to church on Christmas and Easter. And while the people you see on Sunday might kiss your butt and tell you how wonderful it is you're there, if I may tell you (and 20 year old me) a different message (what I wish someone told me).

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thank you for being here. Happy Easter. I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend. I've always wondered this and I've found a good answer to it. So I'll just come out with this little fact. You know, he resurrected, Jesus resurrected. That's what we should be thinking about all the time, but once a year we give an hour to it. But then other people come back from the dead in the Bible too. So I don't quite get that.

Well, check this out. There's several examples in the Bible of people being resuscitated before Jesus, such as the widow's son in the days of Elijah and Lazarus. Each of these was resuscitated from death, but none of them were resurrected. Each of them was raised in the same body they died in and raised from the dead to eventually die again. Interesting. Resurrection isn't just living again. It is living again in a new body based on our old body, perfectly

suited for life in eternity. Jesus was not the first one brought back from the dead but he was the first one resurrected. Those differences make sense to me. I just want to share that in case you've ever been wondering the same. We did a special the other day on the TV about Jesus's resurrection and the word Christer came up and I thought it'd be worth a minute to talk about this. The Christers. I was a Christer, went to church on Christmas and Easter,

my whole life growing up. And I look back at that, I'm not really sure why we did that, but I wanted to think, like as opposed to just not going at all, like, you know what I mean? Like why go Christmas Eve and on Easter Sunday?

I don't, just don't do any. What's the good of two out of 52? I don't understand, you know? But I was trying to think what I would tell myself 20 years ago, who only went to church on Christmas and Easter. What would I say to that person?

Me, what would I say to me? Now people have different motivations and you need to motivate people in different ways. Right now, by the way, I would tell that person you should go to church every Sunday. There's gonna be a lot of people at church on Sunday. You know a lot of people, a lot of Christians showing up. I would tell

them all you should go to church every Sunday. We tend to cater to the softer side of people these days. I think that's starting to end. I think people realize that they really just want to hear the truth. But we're still, we're getting out of this zone where it's all about, Oh, you know, I got to make sure the feeling is going to be, Oh, Oh, you know, it's like on the show today

we talked a lot about the self-esteem movement in America, where that came from. The everyone gets a trophy movement. That came from a California government task force. You're like, oh yeah, of course it did. That makes perfect sense. There was this California assemblyman

who was in the assembly from 1967 to 2004. It's all he ever did. He was a total lunatic wackadoo from Silicon Valley, San Jose. And he came up with this idea that the reason there's all these problems in society, teenage pregnancy and murder and crime and child abuse and spousal abuse, the reason all these things happen is because people don't feel good about themselves.

They don't feel good enough about themselves. When in reality, the problem is people feel way too good about themselves. But anyway, so we had to tell our kids and this report came out in 1990, the problem is people feel way too good about themselves. But anyway, so we had to tell our kids, and this report came out in 1990 called The State of Esteem, and it went to every county in California, and they all embraced it and put it into our schools. And then that turned into, well, everyone gets a good grade, right?

No more red pen when it comes to marking papers, and everyone has to be passed on to the next grade and everyone gets a trophy passed on to the next grade and everyone gets a trophy and all this other nonsense. So this really harmed us in dramatic ways. This isn't just like some sort of gimmicky little side point to make.

This is a big deal. This is where our work ethic comes from. If we wanna be the manufacturing capital of the world again, if we wanna be the strongest military, like we need work ethic. We need people who wanna strive for excellence.

We want people to be self-motivated, not just giving everyone trophies for showing up. Like this is a big problem. The beginning of the self-esteem movement, and it was 35 years ago, well, those kids are now all grown up and they've had kids

and we've been living through this for a couple decades. It's not good. We really have to get rid of this. It's a big problem. Actually, it sounds funny. Like, oh, we'll give everyone a trophy. What a funny segment. No, no, really big deal. We have to stop doing this. So it's also coming to our churches. It's very like, oh, yay, You showed up! I'm so proud of you, you look great in your pastel today. That's what we do now. Maybe that motivates someone, I guess. I would prefer a more direct approach.

I think many people would. So again, I'm just talking to me. I'm talking to me 20 years ago. Been a Christian for 10 years, 11, 12, something like that. So 20 years ago, me, I'd be like, hey man, you should show up on Sunday, next Sunday. Every Sunday, you should come every Sunday

because you should be a better leader of your family. I would say, hey man, you should show up on Sunday. You need to be more connected to your heritage, your roots as an American or Christian nation. This is important to who we are as a country. That's something that's an appeal, not the most important, but I'm just, I'm talking to me from 20 years ago.

I'd say, Hey Slater, you, Hey, Hey you, me, you should stand for something. You should be a man of conviction for once. Okay, maybe a little harsh, but just came across this from John Eldridge. I guess he has a new book out and he wrote this. He said, I don't remember the issue my friend and I were talking about. It had something to do with Christianity, but I remember my friend's response. He said, gosh, I'm not really sure. And I thought it a humble and gracious posture to take.

Only it's been five years now and he's still saying, I'm not really sure. He's landed in that place. And now I see what happened. He has chosen doubt, a posture, very attractive and honored in our day. Doubt is in. So doubt masquerading as humility has become a virtue. See the difference? Humility is a virtue. Doubt is not. But we think they're the same. I just don't know. Oh wow you're so humble. Doubt has become a virtue, a prerequisite for respect. People of strong conviction are suspect. Many

Christians I know have settled for a sort of laid-back doubt, believing it to be a genuine character decision. They think it's a virtue. Now, I appreciate the desire for humility and the fear of being dogmatic. I think those are good concerns, but friends, conviction is not the enemy. Pride is.

Arrogance is. But not conviction. I would say, so I would say to myself 20 years ago, like be a person of conviction. I would say, so I would say to myself 20 years ago, like be a person of conviction, believe in something, stand for something. And the Bible is a pretty good thing you should stand for. And I would say to myself, Hey man, you're choosing football and brunch and sleeping in. And you think those things are good, they're comfortable, they bring you pleasure or something.

But hell sure sucks forever. Excuse my language. But we don't talk about hell. I think a lot more people would show up to church if they thought hell was an option when they die. But if we and Satan get people to forget about hell and never think about

it, then it's a lot easier for people to make choices about the me and the now and the pleasure and the present. I think I'm making it one of my missions of this podcast. This is where our ratings go to zero. Our number of views go to zero to talk about hell because no one else ever does. No one, you never hear about it anywhere. Certainly not church. I think it's important to talk about it, know about it. John Edwards, he said, almost every natural man that hears of hell flatters himself that he shall escape it. Jonathan Edwards was one of the men who ushered in the Great Awakening in America in 1730 and he did it by talking about hell

and how you are hanging by a slender thread over the fire of hell right now. How do you feel when I say that? I don't want to listen to this at all. This is a major downer. Yeah that's the problem that's the problem we don't want to hear it but it's true and while you're here in this pew enjoying Easter brunch and Easter egg hunts and having fun because that's what we do we think about how we can make church more fun for everyone you're hanging by a thread

that can be cut in an instant where you going Jonathan Edwards he said there's nothing that keeps wicked men at any moment out of hell but the mere pleasure of God. The bow of God's wrath is bent and the arrow already made on the string and justice bends the arrow at your heart. Any church going to preach that on Sunday? Probably not.

So I'm just adding some balance. That's all. Just give me one more minute. I just want to add a little balance here right so we get a little bit of everything nice little assortment when he has a platter here one more quote from sinners in the hand of an angry God that's his most famous summer it's not nearly his best but it's his most famous this how he ended he

said therefore this is the end of the sermon therefore let everyone that is out of Christ now awake and fly from the wrath to come. The wrath of almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of this congregation. Let everyone fly out of Sodom. Haste and escape for your lives.

Look not behind you escape to the mountain lest you be consumed. Thanks so much for coming. Everybody Easter egg hunt begins in the back... He said unconverted men walk over the pit of hell on a rotten covering and there are innumerable places in this covering so weak that they will not bear their weight. Honestly that would have helped me come back to church next Sunday because of a couple

reasons first of all these people are not afraid of telling the truth and I'm interested Honestly, that would have helped me come back to church next Sunday because a couple of reasons. First of all, these people are not afraid of telling the truth and I'm interested in the truth, but also it knocks me out of talking about me and thinking about me all the time. All we ever do is we think about ourselves all the time, constantly. So to go back to the self-esteem movement and the everybody gets a trophy movement, actually, gosh, this ties in perfectly to yesterday's show about Ezekiel 27 and 28. The Prince of Tyre

thought he was God and so many people today do too. So this whole self-esteem movement was based off the fact that people need to think better things about themselves and if they just think good thoughts about themselves and they won't beat their wives and they won't use drugs and they won't abuse alcohol they won't do all these terrible, pathological things anymore.

We just need people to feel good about themselves. We're just gonna tell everyone, you're great, you're amazing, you're wonderful. And I would argue that people already feel too good about themselves. You're thinking, oh, people feel bad about themselves.

Well, maybe the argument is people are just thinking too much about themselves. Whether it's good or bad, we're thinking too much about us. Pride was the reason for Satan's fall, wasn't it? So you name it, arrogance, the things we see today, arrogance, selfishness, narcissism, you're the center of the universe, the world revolves around me, focusing on my pleasures, my comfort, what's best for me, unwilling to sacrifice.

All of this is pride. What's in it for me? Serve me. I'm entitled. Give me this. It's all pride.

It's everywhere.

We all have it.

And even if you don't love yourself enough, you're still obsessed with yourself. But that's not, you go to the bookstore and there's sections of self-help books, very few books on helping others. It's all about helping me. It's thinking about me all the time.

And then also the other problem with self-help is, you know, it's me, me, me,

me, me.

And then it's the idea that you can change yourself as opposed to it's all God. We need to focus on Him. Set your mind on things above and also, Hebrews 12, fix our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. C.S. Lewis said, if anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that you are proud and a biggish step too. At least nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you're not conceited it means you are very conceited

indeed. I remember a friend of mine it's very early in me becoming a Christian, I don't even know if I was at this point, but this is my mentality and he had it too of I'm good. Like I don't, God you're busy, you got a lot going on. I got it together, like I'm pretty capable, I'm good. If I need you, I'll call you, I'll you know, set up a flare or something, but you go worry about other people. I'm good.

How wildly arrogant is that? But I would hear that and be like, well, no, I'm not conceited. That's like my humility. Actually. It's like I'm not conceited at all. Like I'm being generous by saying, God, saying God go spend your time with other people who need help that's great that's great gosh I was just like that guy at the temple she's got thank God I'm not like that guy I'm alright if you think you're not conceited it means you're very conceited indeed first Peter 1 8 for you know that it was not with

perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect." Lamb, reference to the Passover as well. The point of today's rant is that if you are a Christer, if I may, you should go to church every Sunday. You should also be baptized and born again. Then you get to go to heaven for all of eternity and not hell.

We'll get back to politics on Monday. Hope you have a great Easter. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free. Transcript commercial free. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.