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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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.

It's been one year since the president was shot in the head in Butler, Pennsylvania. What will it take to get people to believe that God is in control of everything?

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Yesterday was the one year anniversary of Donald Trump getting shot in the head in Butler, Pennsylvania. Incredible moment. I haven't seen this video in a couple months, but it's worth reliving.

A little bit old, that chart. That chart's a couple of months old. And if you want to really see something that's said, take a look at what happened. Move, move, move.

You ready? We're good. Shooters down. Are we good to move? We're clear. Let's move.

Let's move.

We're clear.

Let me get my shoes.

Let me get my shoes. I got you, sir. I got you, sir.

I got you, sir.

I got you, sir. Let me get my shoes.

Let me get my shoes.

Let me get my shoes.

Hold on, your head is in the body.

So we gotta move to the front.

Let me get my shoes.

Okay, my shoes down.

My shoes.

Watch out.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Says, wait, wait, wait. Puts his fist in the air, says, fight, fight, fight. Come on. What is that? I don't have any more insight than what I shared a year ago when this happened that in a moment like that, it's just your instinct, it's who you are.

It reveals who you are in moments like that. You can't rehearse it. It's just remarkable, the whole thing. And incredibly surreal. And you know, it turned his head at just the precise instant at just the precise angle,

otherwise that bullet was going right through his head at just the precise instant at just the precise angle. Otherwise that bullet was going right through his head. So my only conclusion, and I know this not politically, I know this because of the Bible is that God is in control of everything. And Trump has come to that conclusion too. This was him last year.

Honestly, it's a very, it changed. It changed something in me. I feel I feel even stronger. I believed in God, but I feel I feel much more strongly about it. Something happens.

So thank you.

This is him today at a White House prayer event.

Well, I believe that and I do. I believe it, that my life was saved by God to really make America great again. I really believe that. I think I have a son. He's a great shooter, like a championship shooter.

Don and Eric was a great shooter, both of them. But they said that at that distance with that gun, you didn't have a chance. And we turned the head at the right time, didn't we? We turned the head at the right time. So I don't know, some people say it was lucky and some people say something else. I say something else.

I think God helped us.

We told the story on Sirius XM this morning about George Washington. He was fighting in the French and Indian War. He was only 23 years old and he was shot four times. His life could have ended right there. George Washington was 23 and if he died then we wouldn't have known who it was. I say he was shot four times.

Four bullets went through his coat. He had two horses shot out from under him, but he was never hit. If he died there, we never would have known who he was. Maybe we never would have been a country. He wrote back home, and I believe this is true about Trump today. George Washington wrote, by the allful dispensations of providence.'"

I love the word dispensations here. Let's get an original Webster's 1828 definition. One of these moments when I only realize when I'm halfway through this that it's a podcast and I can press pause and just look it up and pretend like I knew it all along.

Webster's dictionary, 1828.com, it's a fantastic website. Here we go, dispensation. A dispensation is the dealing of God to his creatures, the distribution of good and evil, natural and moral in the divine government. So the acts of God.

By the all powerful dispensations of providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation. For I had four bullets through my coat and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt. Although death was leveling my companions on every side of me." And they were targeting George Washington as well. One of the, this was the French and Indian War, so one of the Indian chiefs later met George Washington. This was in 1755, so in 1770 George was back near where the battle was and this Indian chief traveled to go see him. And the story

goes, he said, I have traveled a long and weary path that I might see the young warrior of the great battle. I've come to pay homage to the man who is the particular favorite of heaven and who can never die in battle. On Trump's point about God saved us because we have stuff to do, we have a country to save.

It reminded me of this from Horace. Horace wrote in his Odes 3.3, he said, the just man resolute in his purpose is not shaken from his firm resolve by the frenzy of citizens demanding wrong, nor by the threatening face of a tyrant or an assassin, nor by the south wind, stormy leader of the restless Adriatic, nor by the mighty hand of thundering Jove. If the shattered world should collapse upon him, its ruins would strike him unafraid. So if you're a just person who's unwavering in their good purpose, firm in their good purpose, nothing will make you cave. Nothing should make you cave. No amount

of people yelling at you, not even the king himself or an assassin, nothing in nature, nothing. Even if the whole world collapses on you, if the whole world is in ruins around you, then the just man, firm in purpose will stand fearless along the ruins. Let's go to the Bible. Elijah. Gosh, I mean, how many stories can we give about God's providence in the Bible? I mean, like, but this one stands out because the kids next week are headed off to vacation Bible school.

It's a couple hours every night. And the study is Elijah. And I love the story of Elijah so much. I thought about, we thought seriously about naming our firstborn Elijah. Fun slight of fact. The name Elijah means Yahweh is my God.

So imagine living in a land where Baal is worshiped and your name is Yahweh is my God. So God says to Elijah, it's not gonna rain for a long time, do exactly what I say, go to this brook and a raven, an unclean animal will feed you.

And he did. And then years went by. It's one of my favorite insights about the Bible is that it takes years. This story is only a few paragraphs, but it's over years, years ago by three and a half, three and a half years. And the brook finally dried up. So don't overlook the fact that for three and a half years, Elijah stayed in this place and a

bird came and fed him, kept him alive. Then verse eight, then the word of the Lord came to him saying, arise, go to Zarephath, which belongs to Sidon and dwell there. He said, well, what? This is the land where Jezebel, most wicked woman ever was from. This is the land where Baal was deeply embedded in the culture. This was enemy

territory to the core. And God says, Hey, Elijah, go there. Why in the world? I've commanded a widow there to provide for you." So he goes and he sees this poor widow right where she was gonna be and then he makes his big ask and God provided with the flour and the oil just as he said he would. And it's a credible story, but what stands out here among other things is the timing of it all. And God was orchestrating everything

always. Never didn't have it under control. It's always under his control. He knew exactly where the widow would be and where Elijah would be and when they would meet up and all the miracles he would do he knew it all Elijah didn't know the widow the widow didn't know Elijah but God knows everything God was not surprised when Donald Trump got shot in the head God is all-seeing all-knowing nothing is, nothing is out of control. Matthew 10 29 says,

not one sparrow falls to the ground apart from your father's will. Isn't that amazing? That's true. It's in the Bible. Not one sparrow falls to the ground apart from your father's will. Yet it has been become popular, and I believe a majority of people in our country believe, that God has no control. If he exists at all, there is no God. And if there is, he doesn't care, doesn't know, and things are crazy. And it's like, forget God's sovereignty entirely. Romans 8, 28, we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. God works all things for his glory, for the good of those involved, even when we don't understand what's

happening, even when things are shocking to us. How comforting is that? That was the point of this podcast originally, was to decrease anxiety, a lot of anxiety when you watch the news. So I said, let's go to the Bible so we can lower it. And I just wanna make that point again, in the midst of all the chaos of the news

and everything that's going on, how comforting is it to know and to know deeply that God is in control of everything. Take that comfort and that truth with you in whatever you take in with you. Mike Slater dot locals dot com.

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