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The Muslim, Communist Mayor of NYC
Politics By Faith, June 26, 2025
June 26, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Right?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We all know what the right thing is to do.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 

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 Have you seen the video of the CEO and HR Chief having an affair at the Coldplay concert? It's something to see sin, which they thought was in the darkness, exposed to the light so quickly. May this be a lesson for everyone: God is greater than a kiss cam.

Welcome to Politics by Faith, thank you for being here. Have you seen the video going around of what happened at the Coldplay concert? So someone was taking a video from somewhere in the stadium in Boston while the Kiss Cam was going around. Because it was a Kiss Cam. So the camera at the concert was going around and putting it on the big screen, people in

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some like tech startup company. That's the CEO and apparently that's the HR director. Apparently they were both married. I haven't heard anyone talk about the pain, as we laugh, but the pain that's being felt by their spouses.

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I want to acknowledge the moment that's been circulating online and the disappointment it's caused. What was supposed to be a night of music and joy. No, it was supposed to be a night of you cheating on your wife. Was turned into a deeply personal mistake. Nope. The mistake happened way, way, way before the concert playing

out on a very public stage. It's the kiss cams fault. I want to sincerely apologize to my wife, my family, and the team at the company works for you deserve better for me as a partner, a father, and a leader, this is not who I want to be or how I want to represent the company. Again, he's really conflating the company and his family as one.

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Private moment. It wasn't a private moment. You were literally in public with someone who's not your wife. It was definitely not a private moment. And without your consent, when you you buy those tickets there's fine print on the back of those tickets that says you can be on you can be photographed i respect artists and

entertainers but i hope we can all think more deeply about the impact of turning someone else's life into a spectacle doesn't no one the camera guy didn't know you were cheating on your wife he's like oh there's a happy couple. Let's all like, right. As a friend once sang, lights will guide you home and ignite your bones and I will try to fix you. He quoted Coldplay in the,

like the lamest lyrics ever too. All right, so that's pathetic. I wanna give a moment to their spouses and kids. I Don't care about these two people's embarrassment they deserve the shame But I also want to steal a point from Daryl Harrison He wrote notice how happy they are in their sin because it's like three seconds before they realize they're on the camera

Notice how happy they are in their sin all it's like three seconds before they realize they're on the camera. Notice how happy they are in their sin, all smiles and hugs until they realize their sin has been exposed. They knew inherently that they were wrong. No one needed to tell them their own conscience having already convicted them. Hence why they instinctively and immediately attempted to hide themselves in shame. He's quoting Romans 2 15 in the front end there. Romans 2 15 says, they show that the work of the law is written on their hearts while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even excuse them on that day. When according to

my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Jesus Christ, our conscience, it's written on our hearts. It's fascinating how we have a conscience and those two knew that what they were doing was wrong and sinful. Well, who are you to say they were saying, look how they reacted. They knew it was wrong.

We all do when it's exposed. I'll give an example from the other day, my shame. My patience is low with the kids. It was near the end of the day. And I spoke rudely, quickly, rudely to I think Jack and as soon as I did, you know, I was like, I don't know, Jack, it's inside somewhere, man.

You know, something like that. And as soon as I said it, I turned around and my neighbor was right next door, like three feet away from me, gardening at their house. Super embarrassing. And I should have acted like other people were watching, but that's not even it. I should have acted like God is always watching because he is, but we think we can hide.

Adam and Eve in the garden, of course, it's how ridiculous when they sinned and they first experienced shame, they hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees in the garden. You can't hide from God. Achan, a famous one, right? He took some plunder from a victory and then hid it in his tent thinking he could get away

with it. God sees everything. And God would have seen their adultery their affair even if there was no kiss scam. You see how belief in God can kind of keep people in line too? We've lost that in our culture. That's why this guy blames the kiss scam not himself. John 3 19 Jesus says and this is the judgment the light has come

into the world and people loved the darkness rather than the light because their works were evil. These people loved the darkness. They loved the darkness of inside that stadium, away from their family, away from their spouses and kids. They thought it was a dark place,

but then the light shone on them. For everyone who does wicked things hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his works should be exposed. This is all in the Bible. Luke 12, 2 says, nothing is covered up that will not be revealed or hidden that will not

be known. Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light and what you've whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops. What are you hiding? Stop trying to hide. It's exhausting.

And it doesn't work anyway. This one's maybe the most on the nose. This is Job 24. The murderer rises before his light. The eye of the adulterer also waits for the twilight, saying, no eye will see me.

Let's wait for the Coldilight saying no I will see me

let's wait for the Coldplay concert no one will see us there earlier in the chapter it says those there are those who rebel against the light who are not acquainted with its ways and do not stay in its paths. It's our job to not rebel against the light you can't win. Stay in its path. Don't write anything you wouldn't publish on Facebook for everyone to see. Don't do anything you wouldn't want your neighbors and friends to see that you wouldn't shout from the rooftops.

But more importantly, again, than other people and their shame, God is omniscient. No sin is hidden from him. I could end on that note, which is true, but I just want to add a note of good news too, although I think that's all good as well, but no sin is too great. That Jesus's death did not pay the price for it. Colossians 2 13 says, and you who were dead in your trespasses, God made alive together

with him. You were dead. Now you're made alive together with him. Having forgiven us all our trespasses by canceling the record of debt that stood against us with its legal demands. This he set aside, nailing it to the cross. The Greek word here for all means each, every, any, the whole, everything, all things.

Jesus has you covered. But you have to repent first and bring it all to the light. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. I could end with a Coldplay line right here, but that would be lame. Mike Slater dot locals dot com. Transcript commercial free on the website.

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Our Founders Knew The Truth
Politics By Faith, July 167, 2025

I came across a speech from a friend to our founding fathers. If we had a kernel of this truth and wisdom, we never would have gotten so lost. But, to be found, we just need to get back to this truth.

I'm from Politics by Faith, thanks for being here. I'll tell the story of why I'm sharing this today here. I love learning about our founding fathers. I love learning about our founding grandfathers. Because we have to be connected to who they were and why they built this country. We need to get that connection to our past back.

It'll help us with our lives today and making better decisions for our future. We need to have a connection to our heritage. So I bought this book called an American Anthology. It's a real thick book of poems. Books like a hundred years old. And I opened it up and I came across a section of poems written by Timothy Dwight.

I only know the name Timothy Dwight because a dorm building at Yale is named Timothy Dwight. There's some, there's like 10 dorm buildings or something. And I went four years at this place, and no one ever asked who any of these people were. The dorm building I was in, they call them residential colleges,

was Jonathan Edwards College. I wasn't a Christian then. I had no idea that Jonathan Edwards, who he was, I had no idea who he was. I had no idea he was the greatest theologian ever in American history.

No clue.

How pathetic. in American history? No clue. How pathetic. So Timothy Dwight, never even thought to question who this guy was. And I came across in this poetry book. So I looked him up. He was a poet. He was also the eighth president of Yale. He gave the valedictorian address on July 25th, 1776. The 25th of July, so a couple of weeks after we declared independence, quite a momentous time in our history. So I just want to go over the speech and if nothing else, if nothing else, and there are

other things, but if nothing else, it's encouraging and undeniable that we were a Christian country and we were founded as a Christian country. Stunningly obvious, perfectly obvious, and anyone who says otherwise just has not read any of our founding documents. So it starts off with this valedictorian address talking about how beautiful this country is, how blessed we are with natural

resources, the best climate in the world, the best soil. It's everything's so good. Things just grow on its own, plentiful and excellent in every way. He says, our plants and flowers for health and pleasure appear to have been scattered by the same benevolent hand, which called forth the luxuriance of Eden. And this is great. All these beautiful things he says are showered in profusion

on this, the favorite land of heaven. All these biblical references always put into our founding fathers and grandfathers writings. He goes on, he talks about how we have the best lakes, the best rivers for navigation and trade. This is actually a really big deal.

We overlooked this, how important our rivers are, navigable rivers. Thomas Sowell makes the argument that the reason why Africa is so backwards and always has been so backwards is they don't have any navigable rivers. So you can't travel far. You can't connect with people. You can't trade. And that's why there's so many languages in Africa because everyone remains so isolated because there's so many languages in Africa, because everyone remains so isolated because there's so much, so many waterfalls. So you can't go far until there's a big giant waterfall. So you can't travel very far, but we have navigable rivers in America. And then he goes

on after talking about the beauty, he talks about how our founding culture sets us up for success. He talks about Mexico and how they're under control of Spain. He said, if we may believe their own historians, they are, this country are peopled with as vicious, luxurious, mean-spirited and contemptible a race of beings as any that ever blackened the pages of infamy.

Generally descended from the refuse of mankind, situated in a hot, wealthy and plentiful country and educated from their infancy under the most shocking of all governments, the tyranny of servants invested with unlimited power and sent to make their own fortunes by squeezing their subjects." We've always been better than Mexico is what I get out of that. We also have great unity here. He said, I proceed then to observe that this

continent is inhabited by a people who have the same religion, the same manners, the same interests, the same language, and the same essential forms and principles of civil government. This is an event which since the building of Babel till the present time the Sun never saw. That a vast continent containing near 3,000 millions of acres of valuable land should be inhabited by a people in all respects one, isn't that amazing? In all respects one,

is indeed a novelty on earth. Differences in religion always produce persecutions of bloodshed. Differences of manners, as we are naturally and fondly attached to our own, cannot but occasion coldness, contempt, and ill will. Contending interests ever exist with disputes and end in war. Without sameness in language,

it could be impossible to preserve that easiness of communication, that facility and dispatch in the management of business, which the extensive concerns of a great empire indispensably require." Here he is in 1776 talking about how we are all

united, we share one culture, and because of that he says we will thrive like no other nation has in world history. But, but, but we're told and we've been told my entire life that multiculturalism was our strength. Here we have Timothy Dwight at the very beginning of our country just a couple weeks old. Since independence we declared independence. Saying our unity, our sameness is what makes us strong. And now we're told no it's Somalia that makes us strong. But here's the part of the speech that I wanted to share that

makes it relevant to politics by faith. He says allow me to proceed one step further from every deduction of reason as well as from innumerable declarations of inspired truth. We have the best foundation to believe that this continent will be the principal seat of that new, that peculiar kingdom, which shall be given to the saints of the most high. We're going to be a Christian nation. He said that kingdom was also to be the last, the greatest, the happiest of all dominions. To these characters, no other country where it's the least appearance of agreement.

No other country in the world has ever been closer to biblical truth than ours. He said, this is emphatically that uttermost part of the earth. Like we, we're that people whose songs and happiness so often inspired Isaiah with raptures. This with peculiar propriety is that wilderness which shall rejoice and blossom as a rose and to which shall be given the glory of Lebanon, the

excellency of Carmel and Sharon. Here shall a king reign in righteousness, whose kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and whose dominion shall not be destroyed." The king is Jesus, the King of kings. That's who he's talking about here. So the biblical reference here is Isaiah 35. Let me read the whole thing. Let me start at verse 1. The wilderness and the wasteland shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly and rejoice, even with

joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of Carmel and Sharon. They shall see the glory of the Lord, the excellency of our God. What's happening in Isaiah 34 and 35 is it's a contrast between divine judgment and chapters 34 are quite striking and then 35, what I just read there, is the restoration. So Isaiah 34 is God's judgment against the nations. Isaiah 35 is the restoration. And what Timothy Dwight is talking about is how America is, is with our

righteousness is closer to Isaiah 35 than any nation has ever been before. With a transformation of the land. That's what he starts off with. How beautiful and amazing our land is with the rejoicing of our people, with the holiness of our people and with the strength. And again, ultimately here, restoration for our actions ought all to be inspired and directed

by a comprehensive regard to the scene of glory which is hastening to a completion with a rapidity suited to its importance." He's saying the coming of Christ is near. Jesus is coming back and everything we do, he says, has to be inspired by that truth. All right, let me back it up here. I had a lot of different... God was working a lot of different ways to save me. A lot of different people and places and things happened.

One of them was moving to Tennessee and I met a lot of people there. And I was on the radio and I was learning a lot about America for really the first time. My first radio show. We did a lot with our founding fathers. And I kept reading what these really smart guys were writing about. And I was like, man they're writing a lot about the Bible. I need to know more about this thing. I didn't know more about the Bible. Our

founding fathers so deeply profoundly believed. I mean here's the president of Yale University in 1776 just a a couple weeks after we declared our independence, talking about the king of kings, referencing Isaiah 34 and 35 casually, and everyone in the audience knew exactly what he was talking about.

Talking about how everything we do has to be inspired by the truth that Jesus is coming back. Just think where we would be as a country today if we kept even even a remnant of this just the smallest little kernel of this in our country. I'll end with one more point. This is how he ends his valedictorian address. He talks about lawyers and doctors and different

professions and he ends with pastors. But I just want to charge all of us with this. When you remember that you live amongst the most free, enlightened, and virtuous people on earth, when you remember that your labors may contribute to the hastening of that glorious period when the nations shall be spiritually born in a day, with what seal? With what diligence? With what transport must you be inspired? What pains will you spare to clear yourselves from ridiculous and disagreeable

defects? And to accomplish yourselves in learning and eloquence? With what fervor will you check the career of iniquity, break the dreams of sloth. Stop being so lazy. Pour balm into the wounded spirit and increase the angelic raptures of piety. Be these your views, these your motives, this the scope of all your wishes. Proceed with alacrity to execute the exalted design. Alacrity if I remember is clarity.

Oh no, brisk, cheerful readiness. What a great word. What a great word. Where was this? Proceed with alacrity, with cheerfulness, to execute the exalted design.

Spare no labor, no prayer, to furnish yourselves with every human and every divine accomplishment. Leave nothing undone which ought to be done. Do nothing which ought to be done. Do nothing which ought to be omitted. Let the transitory vanities, the visionary enjoyments of time, fleet by you unnoticed. Don't mess, don't get distracted. Point all your

views to the elevated scenes of an immortal existence. Set your sights on things above and remember that this life is but the dawn of your being. Oh, it's just a little glimmer, just a little split second. Encounter troubles with magnanimity. Enjoy prosperity with moderation. Exert every faculty, employ every moment to advance the glory of your maker and the sum

of human happiness. With such citizens, with such clergy, with such a laity as is above described in prospect, we can scarce forbear to address the enraptured hymn of Isaiah to our country and sing, arise, shine, for thy light has come and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Nations shall come to thy light and kings to the brightness of thy

rising." That's Isaiah 60. That's how he ends it right there. That's his final word Isaiah 61. This is when light came out of the darkness and God tells us to arise and shine. There is no earthly light. All the light comes from God and all the glory goes to the Lord. And our founding fathers knew it. And if we want to save this country, then we got to know it too. And if we want to save this country, then we got to know it too.

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John MacArthur: Be Bold. Preach The Truth
Politics By Faith, July 15, 2025

Pastor John MacArthur passed away at the age of 86. There is much to learn from the life of John, but one biblical truth stands out.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here.

We're talking about heaven lately. I've been thinking a lot about heaven lately. It started with the Texas flooding last week. So I've just been thinking about it a lot. Heaven sounds awesome. Going to hell sounds terrible.

But going to heaven sounds amazing. Start off with that because John MacArthur, pastor of Grace Community Church in Los Angeles, passed away yesterday. He was 86. We, of course, everyone, you listening here, we can all have discrements on theology and a couple of issues here and there, but what I most admire about pastor MacArthur was his and there. But what I most admire about Pastor MacArthur

was his boldness. He never let the world get to him in his life or his preaching. He got up and spoke boldly and presented the gospel and dedicated his life to saving souls and speaking the truth, God's word.

Grace to you, which is like a ministry wrote, our hearts are heavy yet rejoicing as we share the news that our beloved pastor and teacher John MacArthur has entered into the presence of the savior. This evening, his faith became sight. He faithfully endured until his race was run. I mean, like that that's perfect. I love that. I love thinking of it that way, the biblical way. And then they said 2 Timothy 4, 1 through 8. I feel like we should read it. I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead,

and by his appearing in his kingdom, preach the word. Be ready in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, and exhort with complete patience and teaching. Remember we did a segment once on exhort. It's a funny word. Exhort means to encourage, to embolden, to cheer, to advise, to incite by words or advice, to animate or urge by arguments to a good deed or to a laudable conduct or course of action. Acts 27, 22 says, I exhort you to be of good cheer.

All right, back to second activity. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears, they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths. As for you, always be sober-minded, endure suffering, do the work of the evangelist,

fulfill your ministry. For I am ready, being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race. I've kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous judge will award on me reward to me on that day and not only to me but also to all who have loved his

appearing." How great is that paragraph? Also John MacArthur should be remembered as a preacher, a leader of a church who stood up for the church during COVID in Los Angeles of all places and refused to shut down, never shut down. If I remember the story correctly, people stayed away for like a week or two and then he never told anyone to stay away,

and people just kept showing up to the actual church building, and he never turned anyone away because you can't turn people away from church, and they got sued by the county, and then they won the lawsuit that the church did,

or they settled, I think they won, and the county had to pay their legal fees, which is a great example testimony of stand up for the truth. So many people were cowards throughout that time. And oh no, the county is coming.

MacArthur's like, whatever. God told me that we have to have church on Sunday. So we're having church on Sunday. That's the end of that question. Bigger picture outside of COVID too, there's also something about being in LA,

his church, the cultural center of America, usually for worse these days, but to have a church in the belly of the beast is important. It allowed him to go on Larry King Live. He was on a panel with a young Gavin Newsom decades ago, and just to speak the truth on national TV

and still never watered down anything. One sermon that stood out to me that I think is very relevant to today is he gave a sermon on the LA riots, May 3rd, 1992. And the reason I want to share this part of the sermon is because I was thinking of what I learned the most from John MacArthur. I mentioned speaking boldly. He opened my eyes to a lot of the problems with the

mega churches today about how it's all about fun and not the gospel. But if I had to pick one theological concept that I learned most from him, it is sin. So this sermon was about the LA riots in 92. He says, what I want to talk about today. So he talks about about the LA riots in 92. He says what I want to talk about today, so he talks about all these things that he could talk about. So in the midst of these riots in LA he's like oh we could talk about this, we could talk about poverty, we could talk about crime, we could talk about police, we

could talk about all these different things. But he says what I want to talk about today is the root of all these problems. And it's a very simple word with three letters called sin. And that's the perspective that I think is most needed for us. Perhaps the most devastating description of humanity is given in Romans chapter 3. And I want you to open your Bible to Romans 3 and I want to read you God's own description of man. There are people who continue to tell us that man is basically good. This

person who deep down inside is noble and honorable. And that of course is the absolute opposite of the truth. In Romans chapter three, verse 10, we read concerning man, a series of quotes out of the old Testament that Paul puts together here. They run like this, speaking of man and humanity in general, there is none righteous, not even one. I share this because this is the most important theological thing that I learned from John MacArthur.

There is none who understands. There is none who seeks for God. All have turned aside. Together they have become useless. There is none who does good. There's not even one.

Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they keep deceiving. Their poison of asps or snakes is under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their paths, and the path of peace have they not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes." I wish we could just lay that on the desk of every psychologist. That is the clearest, most

concise, and direct description of man given in the Bible. Man is corrupt. Man is depraved. His heart, said the Prophet Jeremiah, is deceitful and desperately wicked. Isaiah said that the best that he has is filthy rags. There's something deep within man that is so corrupt and so wicked and so wretchful, so evil, so brutal, so devastating that if left unchecked or if given an opportunity to express itself it will bring about devastation.

The problem in our city is not lack of jobs. The problem in our city is not lack of opportunity or lack of education. The problem in our city is not lack of opportunity or lack of education. The problem in our city is not too much possessions, materialism. These are only symptoms of a problem. The problem in our city is the problem of the wretchedness of the human heart. And nobody escapes that. It knows no race, it knows no color, it knows no location.

It is pervasive. Sin is the degenerative and damning power in the human stream that pollutes every man and every woman and every woman in every part of life. This is why it's so important, this is me talking now, this is why it is so important

that we reintroduce the Bible and biblical truth to the world and to our society and culture because things go wrong in our world today and everyone's frantically looking for answers. Why did this school shooting happen? Why did this terrible thing happen?

Why did that bad thing happen? What is this? What is the blah, blah, blah, blah, sin. They have no answers. No one has any answers. And then when they kind of come up with something,

they're like, let's pass a bill. It's like, no, you're missing it entirely. So I Henry David Thoreau said there are thousands hacking at the branches of evil to everyone who strikes the root. The Bible strikes the root. We look today at the problems in the world. Like, oh, it's caused by poverty or the school to prison pipeline,

or, you know, this policy. No, no, it's sin. Now there are two God ordained institutions to deal with the sin of the human heart. You have the family. The family is here to raise children properly. And then the government, which is there to protect people and punish crime.

And then the church exists to work as well on a social level, but the church is here to be a part of changing hearts, like the real problem. If the problem is the human heart, well, how do we fix the human heart? God told the story, you can drive all through LA, all different parts, rich parts,

the poorest parts, doesn't matter. And there's churches all over that have little or no impact in the community. And why do they have little or no impact in the community? Because they're not helping transform people's hearts. He said, my grief is for the lost people

who have no hope of changing their insides any more than the leopard can change its spots. And my grief is for the churches that have prostituted themselves away from a saving message to some other kind of social orientation that can't do anything in the long run. I wanted to share that point here because that for

me and people listen to John MacArthur for a while I went to his church and everyone's was church of course but I'm sure there's other he moved other people in other ways but for me that's the legacy of John MacArthur that early in my Christian walk he made it very clear, the Bible, what the Bible says about sin and depravity, the depth of depravity. How man is like snake venom, sores, oozing, pus and gangrene and dogs vomit and scum and filthiness of a boiling pot and the fallen man is a maggot that feeds

on filth and dead bodies and David said that he was a worm. It's all in there, but no one wants to make it clear because it's not nice. Who wants to hear that? I just said the word pus and vomit and menstrual cloth. I think I even skipped over that one because I didn't even like here I am talking about boldness and I didn't even want to mention Isaiah 322.

Jonathan Edwards says, they are they people are like a filthy worm that never feeds so sweetly as when feeding on a carcass, or never has its nature so suited as when crawling in the most abominable filth. Do you have a pretty clear picture on sin? No, we don't, we're not even close.

We're still not even close. These are just words. These are just words. We need to truly, deeply know how fallen we are. No modern ear wants to hear it. And even if you made it 11 minutes into this podcast,

I'm grateful you have. Even we don't want to fully accept it. And here I've been talking for 11 minutes and I don't even fully believe it to the way that it needs to be believed. But this is all good.

We need to hear this. Because if we don't hear it, I think this is one of the biggest lies of the devil. If we don't need this, if we don't hear it, and if we don't think we need to be saved, then we won't need a savior.

But if you know how deeply depraved you are, then you realize you need a savior. I'm lost. I need saving. I need a savior. I have a savior. Thank you, Jesus. My humble ode to John MacArthur. Be bold in preaching the truth. Mike Slater dot Locals dot com. Mike Slater dot Locals dot com.

 

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