School Discipline Executive Order and the Mixed Multitude

MikeSlater

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Politics By Faith, April 24, 2025

April 24, 2025

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.

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I've been reading Ecclesiastes lately. If you watch my podcast, watch this show, you can see behind me is an old copy of a page from Ecclesiastes from the 1600s, pretty cool. We're gonna do a lot more of it moving forward here on the podcast, because I'm reading this book called Living Life Backward, and it's based on fully recognizing that we are going to die, and knowing that we should live our life differently. One of the consequences of throwing God out of our culture is that we try Our culture tries to ignore everything that comes with Christianity. And part of that is an afterlife. And part of the afterlife is dying well.

And part of this is, part of life is living with the inevitability of death in mind every single day. The more we live, the more we realize that life is vanity, as it says in Ecclesiastes. Life is a breath. It's fleeting. And that should reorient us towards God as the only lasting foundation, because nothing else in life does last. Now, this doesn't mean life is meaningless.

It doesn't mean life is worthless. But we need to stop thinking of life as something that can be won and instead think of life as a gift. And when you think about it that way, this causes us to live life wisely and freely and generously. A good resolution perhaps is to this year, not think of anything in life to be won, but think of life as a gift to be enjoyed. Now, what I really want to talk about in today's show, we'll do more with Ben Sasse's letter and Ecclesiastes another day. But Scott Adams wrote this goodbye letter, short, but it's about all the things he accomplished in his life.

It's on his Twitter page, Scott Adams says. You can read the whole thing and you can determine if you think his life accomplishments as he wrote them are impressive or noble or honorable. I'm curious what you think. But imagine or don't just imagine, you should. Write a letter as if you're at the end of your life and write the letter listing the things that you want to be known for, the things that you realize are most important. Then live life accordingly.

Make the letter come true. Does that make sense? This is way more than setting a goal. Write the goodbye letter from your deathbed. Here were my proudest accomplishments. And then as you live your life, the decision, are the decisions you're making, the choices you're making, are they going to lead to that letter becoming true?

For example, if your deathbed letter says, I was always there for my friends. Great. This point forward, make sure you're doing that. And every choice you make, make sure it leads to that final thing, the final letter of yours. being true. And if we do that, it's going to cause us to make some really big choices in life as we focus on the things that are actually really important.

Ecclesiastes does this for us. It causes us to live life backwards with death in mind because you will indeed die. Now in this letter of his, here's the, that was my lesser point. Here's my main point. In the beginning of the letter, he says this, many of my Christian friends have asked me to find Jesus before I go. I'm not a believer, but I have to admit the risk reward calculation for doing so looks attractive.

So here I go, I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, and I look forward to spending an eternity with him. The part about me not being a believer should be quickly resolved if I wake up in heaven. I won't need any more convincing than that. And I hope I'm still qualified for entry. That's it.

That's all about that. I shouldn't start off with such a cynical note. The part about him being a believer or not will also be quickly resolved if he wakes up in hell, not just in heaven. Is that enough? Does that get you into heaven? Waiting for the final day of your life to say, I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior.

as a pretty, like pretty explicitly there said it's a hedge against any alternative. Is that all you need to do? I mean, he talks about a risk reward calculation. I might as well give it a try. Like it's a magic genie potion or like say the magic words kind of thing. I don't know if it's enough.

God knows, but I can share some scripture. I think of Romans 10 verse nine. If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in all your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Next sentence. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. It's not just the mouth.

It's not just the words. If your heart believes or it is your heart that believes, it is your heart that believes. and then your mouth then confesses. Some people will live their life their way and wait till the very end. First, this assumes that you know when the end is. Don't wait.

It could happen in an instant. And also, if you're waiting to the end to hedge your bet that heaven is real, again, you're also hedging your bet that hell isn't, but just make your bet now. Hedge it now! And see what God can do in your life until you die.

Why wait?

Why are you waiting? Because you think you can outsmart God? You think you beat the system? You think you're so smart you found a loophole? You're not, Lord. You did not find a loophole.

I would also argue in 1 Corinthians 12 .3, therefore, I want you to understand that no one speaking in the spirit of God ever says Jesus is accursed, and no one can say Jesus is Lord except in the Holy Spirit. You can say the words, Jesus is Lord. I mean, you can say the words, but you can't truly mean it without the Holy Spirit. It is the inner work of the Holy Spirit that causes one to say Jesus is Lord. You can't fake it at the end. I'd be like, well, we'll see if it works.

And you only get one chance. This is your only chance, this one life. Like the rich man in hell in Luke 16 was pleading to come back to earth. Please, please go tell my family. No one's going to come back and say, Hey guys, here's the real story. Here's what you really have to do.

You have to do X, Y, and Z. The Bible's for real about this, this so much, a little bit of wiggle room over here. No, that's not how that works. We already know everything we need to know and the Bible says even if someone did come back from the dead, that wouldn't even convince us. We know what we need to know. Don't wait. Martin Lloyd -Jones said the sign of a true saving faith is a changed heart that hates sin and turns from it, that's repentance, and a life increasingly marked by obedience to Christ's commands and love for God and neighbor.

You can't show that on your deathbed. Now, a deathbed confession, I believe, could happen, but why wait? Why wait? Jesus himself said, not everyone who says to me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my father who is in heaven. One last scripture that comes out, comes to mind when it comes to end of life is Matthew 20. This is the parable of the wages.

It says here, sorry, this is the parable of the workers in the vineyard. For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into the vineyard. About nine in the morning, he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, you go work on my vineyard. I'll pay you whatever's right.

So they went, he went out about noon and about three in the afternoon, did the same thing. About five in the afternoon, he went out and found others still standing around. He said, why have you been standing here all day doing nothing? Because no one hired us. They answered. He said to them, You also go and work in my vineyard.

Then the evening came, and the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired, and going on to the first. The workers who were hired about five in the afternoon came and received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more, but each one of them also received a denarius. You can understand their outrage. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. Those who were hired last worked only one hour, they said.

And you've made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the work in the heat of the day? But he answered one of them, I am not being unfair to you, friend. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money?

Or are you envious because I am generous? So the last will be first, and the first will be last. So many amazing points in this. Uh, and the main point is that God's grace amazing, but a secondary point, uh, I think you read into this a little is, is when you're saved, right? And maybe someone who was saved when they were younger, praise God, looks at someone who was saved at the deathbed and they're like, well, wait a second. I had to live this whole life and they're grumbling.

Don't grumble. In fact, we should praise God that God can save anyone at any time. I'll end with Charles Spurgeon. He said, my last word to God's children is this. What does it matter after all, whether we're first or whether we're last. Do not do not let us dwell too much upon it for we all share the honor given to each.

When we are converted, we become members of Christ's living body. And as we grow in grace and get the true spirit that permeates that body, we shall say when any member of it is honored, this is honor for us. If any brother shall be greatly honored of God, I feel honored in his honor. If God shall bless you, brother, and make him 10 times more useful than you are, then you said that he is blessing you. Not only blessing him, but you, if my hand is something in it, my foot does not say, oh, I've not got it. No.

For if my hand has it, my foot has it. It belongs to the whole of the body. If someone becomes a believer, no matter what point in their life, praise God, we all benefit. But don't wait to the very end of life. Confess that Jesus is Lord now and jump for joy at God's grace and at the salvation of every sinner that you see saved along the way.

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January 09, 2026

Beware The Rabble

Politics By Faith, January 9, 2026

In Minneapolis, the ICE shooting of Renee Good is a Rorschach test. The Bible speaks of the “rabble” from the "mixed multitude" of Numbers, craving comfort and stirring grievance, to the mob in Acts 17 whose fury drives them to a different city to cause trouble. Let us learn to beware the "rabble" of the Old and New Testaments.

Welcome to Politics by Faith.

Thanks for being here.

Came across this quote, Richard Sibbes. He was an English Puritan, late 1500s. He was called the heavenly doctor, not because he was a doctor, medical doctor. He would heal souls. He would lighten people's injured souls with his preaching. Known for his line, the depths of our misery can never fall below the depths, his depths of mercy.

And there's more mercy in Christ than sin in us. But here's the quote I came across. The special work of our ministry is to lay open Christ, to hold up the tapestry and unfold the mysteries of Christ. Let us labor therefore to be always speaking somewhat about Christ or tending that way. When we speak of the law, let us drive us, let it drive us to Christ. When of moral duties, let them teach us to walk worthy of Christ.

Christ or something tending to Christ should be our theme and mark to aim at. Love that. Hope we do that. with this podcast here. I have some final thoughts on the Minneapolis shooting from the ICE agent the other day. Still a lot of questions that we don't have answers for.

I don't know if we ever will. Yesterday on the show, we talked about the kindergarten teacher complex, which I think is a major part of what would drive this woman to introduce herself into a law enforcement operation. We got some confirmation yesterday, confirmation on this fact to back up my kindergarten teacher complex idea, that she has three kids. She dropped one of them off at school. The father of that child is deceased from a couple years ago. She has two other kids, though, who are in the custody of their father.

I don't know the details, of course, but I know enough about family court. and the bias that the family court has towards the mom, even in the face of obvious problems with mom, the courts will side with the mom. So the bias is so strong that if you ever come across a situation where the courts side with the dad and give the custody of the children to dad, there are major problems in the mom's world. I think that confirms a lot of what we talked about yesterday, and I think that could be be an example or lead to some of the misplaced mothering and care that this woman had for the Somali migrants above all else. It's been interesting to watch everyone's reaction to this incident. It's a bit of a Rorschach test.

Everyone can see what they want in it. I suppose that's true with everything. I was going to say most things, but I think it's true with everything. No matter how obvious, people will deny the truth right in front of their faces. I don't know if I can find this clip fast enough. There's a funny video.

of a guy, he's actually a Washington state rep. Let's see if I can find it. Again, this is a podcast, I can just press pause. But it was, okay, here it is, this is great. So this guy, he's a state rep in Washington.

He was asked, well, here it is. I want you to give me one example of socialism you think working well somewhere.

A good example of socialism working well somewhere, this is a really, really cool question. I think of Cuba in particular, a very, very high literacy rate, number one. Number two, extremely strong commitment to public health. So that's one example that I can think of that would resonate with pretty much anybody in our state who cares about education or health care. Would you disagree with that?

People flee on makeshift rafts and die in the ocean to flee Cuba for the United States.

Yeah, and I think that that is something that absolutely we have to be sensitive to, but you asked me about institutions that are working really, really well.

I asked you about places socialism is working, and you chose a country that people will risk their lives to flee from to this country.

Okay, so instead of just saying, yeah, you're right, That was a bad example. Listen to how he spins this and tries to get out of it.

There was a revolution in Cuba. That is correct.

They still do it to this day. They show up on the beaches of Miami because they would rather be here and would risk their lives in shark infested water to flee the country that you just gave me an example of.

And if the situation were reversed, the injuries and the ailments that they sustain as a result of migrating to a place where they believe that they're going to be better off. I believe that they can be treated in a much better way than American health care facilities are currently able to treat people. So that's one example that I can think of, of, of, uh, socialism working very well in public health and in education.

Uh, so that's from the podcast, Brandy Cruz, KR USC. And she made that clip and the camera pans back to her and she wrote dies inside. But his spin is, I think, if a Cuban gets on a raft to come to America, he'll receive terrible healthcare treatment here. He said if the situation was reversed, if an American got on a raft and went to Cuba, then his healthcare would be amazing. So I think that's how he tried to get out of there. So that's just a little side example of how people will deny the truth, so obviously deny what is obvious.

Yesterday's show, the point of it was to talk about how to gain wisdom and discernment between good and evil. It's in the Bible. The only way to do it is to be saved, converted, and then in the word constantly. I have a bit of an addendum to that. Acts 17, we actually talked about Acts 17 the other day, but this one word keeps standing out to me.

So the background is Paul and Silas went to Thessalonica and Paul taught in the synagogue for three weeks saying that Jesus is the Christ. Let me pick up here. And some of them were persuaded and joined Paul and Silas, as did a great many of the devout Greeks, and not a few of the leading women, so a lot of them. But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the crowd. Now, when we talked about this earlier in the week, we focused on Jason. and how cool it would be to be Jason, right?

You got to mention in the Bible, pretty neat for him. But we talked a little bit about Jason and standing up for what's right, no matter what. He went to jail for helping Paul and Silas, but he didn't care. That was his top priority, nothing else. But I want to go back to this word rabble. I love when I'm reading the Bible and I come across a word that just like stands out like rabble.

I don't really use that word today. It's used in the Old Testament to describe the non -Israelites that left with the Israelites out of Egypt. You'll hear it called the mixed multitude, often sometimes translated as the rabble as well. These were the first to whine and complain and worship false gods. Numbers 11 -4, they yielded to intense craving. That was these people, the rabble.

They're the ones who encouraged everyone to build a golden calf, all that. And we've done a message on that before. Be careful of the mixed multitude. Similarly here, the term refers to a disorderly crowd, or a group of people who incite unrest or rebellion. among the people of God.

" Rabble -rousers would be how we use it today. Webster's original dictionary, Webster's 1828 . com, a tumultuous crowd of vulgar, noisy people. The mob, a confused, disorderly crowd. Now, I read the ESV a second ago. They use the word rabble.

The King James Version says this, but the Jews, which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort and gathered a company. Lewd fellas of a baser sort. The Greek here, the Greek word is wicked men from the marketplace. That's interesting, isn't it? From the marketplace. And if you look up the Greek word for of the marketplace, it's a negative connotation.

This is not like you're nice people at the farmer's market. This is not a good place. These are the hucksters. These are the petty traffickers. They're the idlers. They're idle.

causing problems because they have nothing to do. Vulgar is a word that's often used to describe this. They're not honest and decent people. They're lazy, fraudulent, loafers, bums, agitators, and most importantly here, people who would do anything for money. They'll do anything for money. So the Jews in this case would pay them to be their muscle, if you will, and cause trouble and manipulate people, intimidate people, cause disorder, disruption, the opposite of unity.

Division is what we're looking for. We need unity. We're looking for unity. But you have people that are causing division. Now if we go back to Acts 17, skip ahead a little bit. Verse 13, Paul and Silas, so Jason goes to jail.

Paul and Silas, like, we're out of here. They go to Berea, about 50 miles away. It's a two -day journey. Let's go to verse 13. But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that the word of God was proclaimed by Paul at Berea also, they came there too. agitating and stirring up the crowds.

Now, I don't know if it was the Jews who went to Thessalonica. I think that's what it says here. Or if it was more of the rabble. Either way, we can learn a lesson. Either. Well, let me say this first.

They so couldn't stand that Paul was preaching. It wasn't even enough that Paul stopped preaching in their town. They were full of so much envy, so much hatred, so much fury that they went on a two day journey to stir up people in the city next door. They had to stir up people there too. And either they took that journey themselves, Which is a long journey. Two days is a lot of time to cool off.

Two days is a lot of time to think about whether or not this is a good idea or not. But they did it. So either they did it themselves or they paid more of those people of the marketplace, those wiki people to do it. Either way, watch out for the rabble. Either people who are such believers that they can't accept the truth no matter what, no matter how clear it is in front of them, or trolls paid who will do anything for money. Rabble.

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January 08, 2026

Minnesota ICE Shooting, Guard Your Heart

Politics By Faith, January 8, 2026

What was happening in her heart and mind in the minutes before she hit an ICE agent with a car? Today we look at what influences our choices—and how, through Scripture, we can learn to guard our hearts and act in wisdom.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. Trying to think how we should approach today's podcast in regards to the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. Trying to think if I should do more of just a news presentation and then get to the Bible or how much hot take to give on this episode here. I'm going to lean a little more towards the hot take. I think we'll see how it goes.

I think the reason I'm actually waiting for the news part, it sounds backwards, but I need to see more of the video. I need to see not only the video of the woman in the car reversing and then driving forward while there's an ICE agent in front of her where the ICE agent then fires and kills her. I need to see more than that and the eight seconds before it when ICE agents get out of their car and tell her to get out of her car and then she reverses and goes for it. I need to see more than the eight seconds before that. I got a lot of questions. Why is she there?

Was this just her neighborhood and she heard stuff going on and she showed up or was she tipped off that something was going to happen? Did she get a call? hurry get here i don't i don't know where is she from where she live how far does she drive to get there why was she there what was her intention was she in the hour before was she following ice was she harassing ice before this was this not the first time she blocked ice from driving down the street maybe and i don't know i've heard anyone say this i don't know did she ram an ice car already at some other point maybe not but i just don't know i can't judge the situation just off of a few seconds Was there some other evidence that she had already used her car as a weapon? I think these are good and fair questions that I don't have answers for. I'd also like to know more about the ICE agent. Where did he come from?

What direction was he coming from? How long was he engaged in this specific scenario? Did he know anything else about this car, the person in the car? Did he see this person do erratic things already? Did that add to the data that he had in the moment where he decided to fire his weapon instead of something else? There's a totality of the situation that I don't have right now.

Hopefully we will soon. I do though, feel comfortable making some other conclusions. These are more of the hot takes because I'm just fascinated by the person who would put themselves in this situation, which is a very dangerous situation, interfering with a law enforcement operation. You have no business being a part of. What's going on here? And that's what I want to try to explain here in just a few minutes, and then we'll bring the Bible into it.

There's something that I've heard called the kindergarten teacher complex. Think of your stereotypical kindergarten teacher. sweet, wonderful, amazing, heart of gold woman who loves profoundly, deeply in her heart, loves her babies. Now imagine a woman who has that same mentality, but instead of five -year -olds being her babies in her kindergarten classroom, it's refugees. It's illegal aliens. This woman felt, I guess, so strongly about caring for the Somalis in her neighborhood that she felt the need to go to this ICE operation and get in their face.

Why?

Because in her mind with the kindergarten teacher complex, Somalis are helpless little babies who need her protection. She's the teacher and the Somalis are her students. who need love and care. They're cared for and they need protected. And the Ice Agents are mean bad guys who are coming into the classroom and want to cause harm to her babies. And she's going to launch her mama bear instinct upon them in all her fury.

Does that make sense? There's a lot of words for this. Toxic empathy is a good word for it. I've heard misplaced mothering, where you take a feminine mother's instinct, but when it's not placed on your own children, then it's placed on other things that don't make sense, that aren't wise. But maybe a misplaced mother instinct would be placed on not a baby who is a weak, but on a Somali immigrant or someone else who's oppressed in their worldview, and they have to protect it. That's why people are yelling, like, get away, get out of here, go, get out of my neighborhood, kindergarten teacher mentality.

Combine that with a mob mentality, this constant inputs from wherever, MSNBC, whatever's online, people who are on your team.

crazy.

kept LARPing, it's like, okay, but when you LARP as fighting Nazis and you roll into a law enforcement operation against real men with real guns, your LARPing will be met with real life real fast. I don't know what she was thinking in the car, obviously. Maybe she was driving away, right? The officer comes up and says, get the blank out of the car. And maybe that was her moment where she was like, oh, I'm in way over my head.

This got real, I gotta get out of here. And she was leaving and unfortunately there was an ICE agent in front of the car. Maybe she didn't even see the ICE agent. But there, I'm guessing, I'm totally making this up, but I'm guessing there was a moment when she, it hit her that it got real fast. And we've all had those moments as a kid. You're playing with your friends, you're playing war with your friends, maybe you're throwing mud balls at each other and you're having a grand time and then one of the mud balls has a rock in it and you throw it.

at a friend and it hits them in the head and now they're on the ground bleeding. In that instant it gets real and everyone stops playing. Every kid instantly knows it got real and we're gonna get in trouble and if it's your little brother the first thing you tell your little brother is don't tell mom and you wish you could take it all back because you're playing abruptly confronted real life and maybe that was this woman too where that instant she thought oh jeez I wish this I wish I didn't do this I wish it could all go away but that's not how it works. So we have kindergarten teacher complex mixed with this TDS -fueled online mob frenzy of fellow activists and freedom fighters, which can make you feel invincible, mixed with LARPing as a superhero against the Nazis, and it can all culminate in a situation that is not a good one to be in, where you end up driving your car towards an ICE agent. That's the situation, that's my hot take. Here's my Bible take.

And this message I want to share, I want to be very clear. This is not me saying all you liberals out there be more like me. That's that's not it. We all, myself included, need this message all the time. I love all the Bible verses, period. I could just stop my sentence right there.

I love all the Bible verses, but I love especially, I guess, the Bible verses around this concept of guarding your heart or keeping your heart. I think of the information diet that so many people have, an information diet that keeps people uninformed or misinformed and a lifetime of that can really mess with you. And it could be little things. I saw a video the other day of a guy who was asking his coworkers, he showed him a picture of Missouri and they asked his coworkers, what state is this? This is in America. What state is this?

And no one knew that it was Missouri. And everyone's laughing because they don't know. And you're like, well, that's not good. So like that's uninformed. But it's even beyond that. That's just like trivia.

What state is this? But it's beyond that would be people who lack wisdom to just like navigate life and more important than anything who don't understand, people who don't understand that the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom and that we need to be in the Bible every day to connect to that source of all wisdom. Otherwise, we're going to end up in places that are not good, that are not wise. So a couple of scriptures on this point, Philippians 4, 8, finally brothers, whatsoever things are true, honest, just, pure, lovely.

I mean, think about that.

Are the things that you input into your soul every day, are they true, honest, just, pure, and lovely? Think about these things, Paul says. Romans 12 .1, be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind that you may prove what is good and acceptable and the perfect will of God. If we have wisdom and we think about good, true, lovely, pure things, and our mind is renewed, then we can discern good from evil. This is Hebrews 5 .14. But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment, trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

To go back to Philippians 4, the way to be these things, true, honorable, just, pure, lovely, we've got to be more like Jesus, because he is all these things. This is sanctification, becoming more like Jesus. Proverbs 4 .23, watch over your heart with all diligence, for from it flows the springs of life. Pastor Stephen Cole made the point that the way to watch your heart, he gave it five ways, five ways to watch your heart. One, be converted. First and foremost, before you're converted, before you're saved, you have a depraved mind.

And once you're saved, you have the Holy Spirit. Number two, we have to clean out and block out all sources for sinful thoughts. Maybe it's a New Year's resolution episode two, where the challenge is to get rid of anything that you're watching, shows, movies, whatever, that aren't good enough for you. Do you know what I mean? They're not of a good enough standard that are worthy of your time. and are not good for your soul.

Get rid of them. Third advice, take in God's word from every source. I heard the line that you cannot be profoundly influenced by that which you do not know. So read the Bible, listen to podcasts, whatever it is, take in God's word as much as possible. Read from the greats, read all the old good stuff. There's plenty of old good stuff out there.

And then number five, similar to the one about inputs, music, listen to wholesome music, listen to good classical music, listen to the great hymns. And the more you do this, Your mind will be more focused. You'll be thinking about more things that are just and pure and true and lovely. You'll have a renewal of your mind. The more you read the word, you'll be able better to distinguish between good and evil. You'll be quicker to act on it when you see it.

I love this too. Ephesians 5, 25, sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word. " There's a cleansing that happens when you read the word, so that you might present the church to himself in splendor, without blemish. Isn't that amazing? We're going to wash ourselves with the word.

And the more you do, you'll have more wisdom, you'll have better discernment, you'll make better decisions. You'll care about the things that you should be caring about. You'll care about the things that matter the most, and you'll care about them in the right way. I'm grateful for that. This show right here is part of your information guide. Slater Radio on Twitter and Instagram.

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