We now have video of another attack on law enforcement from Alex Pretti. His death could have been avoided if he had been arrested the first time. We've been told punishment is bad. Yet the Bible says, "Faithful are the wounds of a friend."

Welcome to Politics by Faith, thanks for being here. What a week it's been in Minnesota. Been thinking a lot about the lies that people believed in Minnesota this last week. And we've been told four stories in just the last two weeks. You had Rene Good, the elderly man let outside without a shirt on, the five -year -old who was arrested, and then this pretty guy who was just a guy getting donuts. None of it, none of those four stories turned out to be what we were first told. 

And so many people fell for it all right from the beginning. So many people led by emotion and not the truth, not facts, not having any discernment. Gullible Christians. We recorded the TV show episode yesterday, and we had a wonderful guest on who wrote a piece recently about the gullible Christian. And he went into beautiful detail. I'll save that for when we release that here on the podcast, probably tomorrow. 

But he spoke beautifully about how the Bible doesn't say anything about avoiding what's uncomfortable. Church discipline is uncomfortable. But of course you need to do it. Proverbs 21 15 justice is a joy to the righteous, but terror to evil doers means evil doers won't like it. It's a terror to them. So what are we just supposed to not have justice? 

And you may. So, so if you're the evil doer, you don't like the justice because that means you're going to go to jail. And we have more and more of a society that doesn't like giving justice. I mean, like, oh, I feel bad for that person. Let's not convict them. Let's let them out for the millionth time. 

Let's give them another chance. after he's already been arrested a hundred times. 

What is this? 

This is not how this is supposed to go. I thought of the scripture, Proverbs 27, 6, faithful are the wounds of a friend. I thought of this when I saw the video that was just released of Pretty, it's the guy who was killed by ICE or federal agents this last Saturday. And a new video came out of him 11 days prior and another altercation with law enforcement. He was getting in their face, screaming at them, just rage saying, assault me, assault me. 

Swear words spit in their direction. And as one of the ICE vehicles was driving away, he kicked it multiple times. And one of the kicks knocked the taillight out, which is a pretty good kick. And then the agents got out and they knocked him over and then they let him go. And as he was getting up, you could see the gun in his back pocket. We also found out a couple of days ago that he had another engagement with law enforcement where he broke a rib. 

I don't think this was that same engagement. So maybe it was, but so that means there could be three different engagements that this guy had with law enforcement, at least two of them with a gun. I don't think this is this, but there's a certain point where suicide by cop is on the table. I don't think that's what was going on here, but we're getting very close to that. And you're very far away from innocent guy leaving a donut shop who just got caught up in it. But that's what we're talking about. 

Renee Good. She was just dropped her kid off at school and she was just driving home and she made a wrong turn and got caught in traffic. No, no, no. But I thought if this was the first time that this guy was involved in law enforcement, if he was arrested that time, His life could have been saved, as is often the case. I saw an article in the Telegraph in England. The headline was, Freed Prisoners Commit Record Number of Violent Crimes. 

The Chief Inspector of Probation ordered his arrest. inspection as broken penal system fails to rehabilitate inmates. Somewhere along the line, we got this progressive idea that the only purpose of the penal system is to rehabilitate, and we just keep trying it. Like, well, he doesn't seem rehabilitated, but I don't know, let's just let him out anyway, see what happens. That's not the point of the penal system. The word penal is Latin, it means pain. 

means pain and punishment. So like the headline really should say the pain and punishment system is failing to rehabilitate. Well, yeah, that's not the point of it. It's the pain and punishment system. Back to the telegraph. Almost 900 serious crimes have been recorded in the last year as being committed by offenders under supervision of probation after being released from jail. 

Are you kidding me? It is the highest number since records began. Accounts for at least one murder and two rapes every week of the year. Every week, someone is murdered and two people are raped from a violent criminal who was released and on probation. And the article talks about this chief probation person who says, oh, we're just missing the warning signs. The warning sign was the first crime. 

One person, Jordan McSweeney, killed a 35 year old law graduate after being released from prison. This guy's had 28 previous convictions, 69 different offenses, and he was recorded as a medium risk. If that's a medium risk, What does it take to be a high risk? 28 convictions and you're a medium risk? Try to remember these numbers. This is in America. 

This is based off the state prison system in 2014. It's worse now, I'm sure. But in 2014, 75 % of people in state prison had five or more arrests. Five or more? How do you get to five? What is five strikes your out? 

What is that? 

5 % of people had 31 or more arrests. 

Come on. 

How do you get arrested 31 times? How can we allow someone to be arrested 31 times or more? New York times said that in 2022, a third of all the shoplifting arrests in New York city came from just 327 people. That 0 .004 % of the population was a third of all the shoplifting arrests. And these people have been arrested over 6 ,000 times. In Oakland, 400 people committed half of the city's homicides. 

That's 0 .1 % of the city, half of the homicides. Now, check out this fact. This is the most important point of all. They did a study of juveniles. They found that for every one police contact, and that doesn't even necessarily mean an arrest, for every one police contact, there were 25 crimes that that person committed, which never caught. Some juveniles had as many as 300 crimes for every police contact. 

Arresting criminals saves other victims, of course, and that's all you need. That's the only justification you need. And it can save the life of the person being arrested. Now, if it doesn't, that's fine. At least we kept them away from other people so they can't cause harm to them. They can't make their lives worse. 

But if it prevents this person from hurting themselves or putting themselves in further bad situations, puts their life perhaps on a redeemable track, then that's great. We don't need them to be out. You don't need to release them. If Alex Pretty was arrested the first time, probably wouldn't have been there the third time. He'd still be alive today. If someone talked to him, if someone told him the truth, faithful are the wounds of a friend. 

The true mark of a friend is that they will tell you the truth, even if it hurts. And the state can do that as well with punishment. Like, oh, you're not allowed to do that. You have to go to jail. That's the truth. And it can save their life. 

I've talked to people on the radio who were addicted and they got clean in jail. Faithful are the wounds of a friend. The kisses of an enemy are deceitful. The enemy tells you what you want to hear, even if they're lies. Faithful are the wounds of a friend. I read a great article, a sermon from Charles Spurgeon on this. 

Excuse my long quotation. Once I start with Spurgeon, where do you stop? He said, ah, brethren, when we were groaning under the chastening hand of Jesus, we thought him cruel. Do we think so ill of him now? So Jesus chastening you, he's rebuking you. It's cruel. 

Why are you being so cruel, Jesus? Oh, but do you think ill of him now? We conceived that he was wroth with us, means angry, and would be implacable, unable to be placated, unable to be not angry. How have our surmises proved to be utterly unfounded? The abundant benefit which we now reap from the deep plowing of our heart is enough of itself to reconcile us to the severity of the process. Precious is that wine which is pressed in the wine vat of conviction. 

Pure is that wine. gold which is dug from the mines of repentance. And bright are the pearls which are found in the caverns of deep distress. We might never have known such deep humility if He had not humbled us. We had never been so separated from fleshly trusting had He, not by His rod, revealed the corruption and disease of our heart. So great had we never been so separated from fleshly trusting. 

We find within us a strong and deep -seated attachment to the world and its sinful pleasures. Our heart is still prone to wander and our affections yet cleave to things below. Can we wonder then that it required a sharp knife to sever us at first from our lusts, which were then as dear to us as the members of our body? We loved these lusts. So foul the disease could only be healed by frequent drafts of bitter medicine. Let us detest the sin which rendered such rough dealing necessary. 

But let us adore the Savior who spared not the child for his crying. So great. So we wanted the sin. Jesus caught us away from it and we cried to keep it. It was like a part of our body. We loved it so much. 

We wanted to keep the sin and we kept crying like a baby who wants a toy. But Jesus did not stop doing what was good because he knew it was good. We didn't. Not at the time. Now we do. Hebrews 12, 6. 

For the Lord disciplines the one he loves and chastises every son whom he receives. Discipline, chastisement. Good. Good things. Hard things, but good things. And I'll end here with Spurgeon. 

We talked about how, you know, we don't like to be bothered with things. If someone came into your house and said, were sleeping at night and someone came into your house and shook you awake in the middle of the night, you'd be mad at them. But Spurgeon says, will the man who is asleep in a burning house murmur, complain at his deliverer for shaking him too roughly in his bed? Hey man, come on. Why are you bothering me? 

Uh, your house is on fire. 

Okay. 

Thank you very much. Would the traveler tottering on the brink of a precipice upbraid the friend who has startled him from his dream? and saved him from destruction. Would not the harshest words and the roughest usage be acknowledged most heartily as blows of love and warnings of affliction? Best of all, when we view these matters in the light of eternity, how little are these slight and momentary afflictions compared with the doom escaped or the bliss afterwards attained? Thank you to the hand that rescued us. 

Long afflicted, undismayed, in pleasure. Path secure, I strayed, and this false confidence that I'm living and everything's fine. I'm undismayed in my pleasure. Thou madest me feel thy chastening rod, and straight I turned unto my God. What thought has pierced my fainting heart? I blessed the hand that caused the smart. 

It taught my tears a while to flow, but saved me from eternal woe. Oh, hadst thou left me unchastised, thy precepts I had stifled. Thank you for correction, God. And we, led by sentimentality, led by emotions in the real world, shouldn't be thinking that punishment is bad. Punishment can be good. Punishment can save lives. 

Punishment can save souls. 

Faithful are the wounds of a friend. 

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We'll see if Governor Walz does the right thing and works with the Trump administration and ICE, but this was headed towards another George Floyd cultural moment. The emotional blackmailers were using "love" as their weapon once again.

Welcome to politics by faith. Thanks for being here and talk about what's been going on in Minnesota lately. Hopefully it all calms down now. And I think it will with the president's statements yesterday that he talked with the governor and with the mayor of Minneapolis. And that seems like they have agreed to work with ice and handing over the criminals of criminally aliens in Minneapolis. What are we, how, how was that thing that they already did? 

It's because they decided that Trump is the enemy and can never be supported in any way. They're the resistance, and they have to fight against Trump. If you want to get more cynical, it's to cover up for all the fraud and failure that's been occurring in their state. And if you want to get even more cynical, it's because all the illegal aliens are counted towards census apportionment, which means they're counted in the census. Still, if you're an illegal alien, you're counted in the census. And that counting goes towards congressional and electoral college apportionment. 

In Minnesota, in the last census, kept their house seat, one of their house seats by 26 people, 26, which means if there were 27 fewer Somalis in Minnesota, then they would have lost a congressional seat and they would have lost an electoral college vote. So there's that consideration from progressives as well as to why they were doing everything they could to not support Trump. Alas, perhaps Trump found a way to get walls and fray to fall in line. But what I want to talk about here is the last couple of weeks, It seems like this has all moved in the direction and gotten pretty close to the hysteria of Covid and even George Floyd. And it was crossing the line of pop culture where people, even outside of the political realm. So people on Instagram, like all the mommy accounts on Instagram and interior designing accounts and food accounts and comedy accounts, all these people were posting about ice and stopping ice. 

And of course they were using all their pseudo Christian empathy, language of loving others and human decency. And I support whatever political parties in favor of human rights and all this stuff. So I want to chat about that right now. I've also been hearing from more listeners about family and friends and co -workers being more vocal about how horrible ICE is and what's happening in Minnesota. And it doesn't matter how much you say, they're trying to deport child molesters and murderers. And they have, we could spend 20 minutes here going over all the monsters that they've detained in Minneapolis that were just living in the streets, like living in their neighbors. 

But it doesn't matter. We could talk about how That illegal alien abandoned his five -year -old son in the car. He ran away from his son. And now no one in the house would accept custody of the child. What's going on there? But it doesn't matter. 

Ben Shapiro is famous for saying, facts don't care about your feelings. But the truth is, feelings don't care about your facts. Most people, feelings is all that matters. And you can give as many facts as you want. It doesn't change anything. None of that matters to stiff -necked people. 

Someone called in today and said that we need to do a better job of discovering the facts of the fraud in Minneapolis and not just accusations and not just Nick Shirley trick -or -treating on Somali daycare to Somali daycare, but actually get the numbers that people can can see. And I love it. Like, let's do that. And I get the sentiment, but that's not going to matter. That's not going to move people to do what is obviously the right thing to do. During the 2024 election, American citizens got murdered by illegal aliens. 

And there were people who didn't care. Now, maybe enough people in the middle, quote unquote, middle did. Trump did win and people voted for deporting illegal aliens. So I remember there was a survey back in March of last year, and it was do you support deporting illegal aliens? And 32 % said, excuse me, 35 % said all of them. 51 % of people said some. 

Okay, well, let's break down the sum of those 51 % who said some. 97 % said criminals, criminally, you committed another crime. But 44 % of that 51%, so you're going to get all the people out of all the people that were asked, 35 % said deport all of them. 51 % said some of that 51%, 44 % said any illegal alien who's arrived in the last four years. So that means a majority of people wanted to deport all illegal aliens who have been here the last four years. And then we can even talk about those who have been here longer than that, but there is a mandate here and we cannot forget that. 

And it's right. And it's good. And I support it. We've been going hard on the facts on the radio, but I also mentioned this scripture on the radio today. So I want to do it here too, because a lot of people were calling in about people they love. One guy called in about a sister. 

One person called in about his mentor. He admires deeply, but his mentor has gone off the deep end. saying things like, well, like Tim Wall said, that the people... Minnesota are like Anne Frank hiding from the Nazis. Anne Frank was captured and killed in a concentration camp. That's not, that's not what's happening here. 

I was also talking to a friend of mine who used to be in a cult. And he said, he sees a lot of cult tactics going on everywhere. And he's very aware of this. And he's very careful not to get sucked into another cult. I also am aware. I'm very careful. 

to not go too far with different things, because I don't want to have egg on my face. The other day I told the story about, I wasn't even lying, I was making it seem like I knew what I was talking about, which is like a kind of a form of lying, I suppose. But I got egg on my face from that, and I learned a lot of lessons from that moment. I remember the story about the bull weevils, bull weevil fur trapper. You've heard the expression before, you know, if you always tell the truth, you don't have to keep your story straight or something like that. Similarly, if I pause and I think, and I wait, and I take some extra consideration for things, Man, that'll save a lot of heartache later. 

There used to be an instinct, or maybe there still is for people. I think, I think in my industry, there's a lot of instinct to be first. I don't have that anymore. And for a lot, there's an instinct to be wild and get attention. I don't, I don't have that either. I'd rather wait and then give context and insight when helpful. 

So let's turn to the Bible this morning. I happened to read Hebrews five and this line stood out to me for every high priest taken from among men is appointed for men in things pertaining to God. that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins. He can have compassion on those. The priest can have compassion. The high priest, he can have compassion on those who are ignorant and going astray. 

Why? Since he himself is also subject to weakness. So you have the high priest here, chosen among the people, making sacrifices for people's sins. This is before Jesus died on the cross. And this priest has to have compassion for people because he's also human. He's also weak. 

He's also a sinner. How do you change the mind of someone who has gone astray? I wrote a book about this many years ago called How to Change Someone's Mind. It's more of a pamphlet. It's $5 on Amazon. I think I make $1 .20 if you buy it. 

But the most important step for changing someone's mind is making sure that when you go into a conversation, you're willing to have your mind changed as well. I'm not saying you have to change your mind. I'm not saying you're wrong, but you have to be willing to have your mind changed. If you're not, then they're not, and you're never going to change their mind if that's what you want to do. If you want to win an argument, that's a different thing. But similarly here with these political topics going on today, we need to always be reassessing, always be willing To have your mind changed, always be willing to see where you're wrong, because the sooner you admit it, the easier it's going to be to get to the truth. 

And that has to be our ultimate goal. Paul said in Philippians 1 9, and this, I pray that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment, that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Christ Jesus to the glory of God and praise of God. On the TV show, we're recording it tomorrow. Michael Clary is going to be here. He's going to talk about how he just wrote this piece about how Christians need to stop falling for this weaponized empathy. You're not called to be gullible. 

You're called to love, but love with knowledge and discernment so that you can approve of what is excellent. Stick with the truth. Pursue excellence. To love more. Love who? Love what? 

Exactly. I think all the outrage from the left is misplaced love. Disordered love. Christian love is a thinking love. It's not a feeling. It's not a trick to love. 

It's not a manipulated love. It's not a gullible love. Clary said, without discernment, love gets twisted into a sentimental monstrosity. For the gullible and undiscerning, this kind of pseudo -love claims the moral high ground. It does have some rhetorical advantages, which is why so many people fall for it. It sounds biblical enough to convince undiscerning people that it might be right, but it's not. 

These are not arguments of fact or facts. They're ear -tickling slogans, nothing more. It is good to always be on the lookout to see where we might be wrong. Always be on the lookout to see and make sure that we're in the right. You have a lot of people out there who say, we need to love. Just love, love, love. 

And you're like, love what? Love how? Love who? Love in what way? 

Doesn't matter, just love. 

Love evil? Love sin? No, no, no. We're called to have a discerning love towards what is excellent. We are called to love rightly and to love well.  MikeSlater . Locals . com for the transcript and commercial free. MikeSlater .

It is a LIE that federal agents arrested a 5-year-old. The lamestream media knows it's a lie, but they keep telling it. It's time for a reminder that lying is a sin.

Welcome to Politics by Faith. Thanks for being here. I want to talk about the detaining, the arresting of a five -year -old in Minneapolis. Before we do that, though, I got an email the other day, obnoxious email, very snarky from someone. And we went over it, the contents on my SiriusXM radio show. But I bring it up here because he kept saying throughout this email, are you lying to improve your ratings? 

He just kept saying it over and over. It was like a central argument of his email is, are you just doing this for ratings? Are you lying to everybody for ratings? You want to increase your ratings. I cannot stress enough how little ratings have ever made a difference in my radio career. Other things motivate, sure. 

Ratings, nothing. Like a total zero. Never been a concern of mine at all. A quick background on this. My first job out of college and radio was in a small town, Jackson, Tennessee. It's a little town. 

I don't even know if they kept ratings. I don't even know if Arbitron did ratings. But I was the first radio show, the first morning show on the station. So there was nothing to compare to. There were no ratings. It never crossed my mind. 

And I was just starting. I was just trying to do a good job and never consider it. My next real job was in San Diego. And the station I worked for, there were two talk radio stations in town. And the one I worked for never had good ratings. We were always second to the big talk station in town. 

So we never talked about ratings, never, never matter. We were way down there, but we had a lot of sponsors. That was the key. That's how I stayed in business. We had a lot of really loyal sponsors for like over a decade and really loyal listeners who would support our sponsors. So it worked out even though our ratings were terrible. 

I think they were terrible. I don't really know. 

Um, 

We stayed on the air. God, I don't know how it happened. Thank you, God. Now I work for SiriusXM. There are no ratings. There are literally no ratings. 

Ratings don't even exist. Oh, and then this podcast that we're doing right now, I've never made a penny from it. So the idea that I do anything for ratings is just hilarious. I can't think of anything that has had less of an influence on how I do anything other than ratings. And there's so much proof of that. There's so many things we do on the air that are so obviously not for ratings. 

Like, who's ever been like, oh yeah, you know, that hour that Slater did on Alexander the Great. He really did that one for the ratings. That was a real ratings banger. No question, no question about it. That hour that Slater did on the importance of architecture, whoo -wee. That was, I got this book right here. 

It's called Eric Sloan, The Age of Barnes. This would be the second book on Eric Sloan that I bought about Barnes. that will surely, once I read it, like we'll definitely talk about it on the radio, like Barnes, all that Barnes talk. That's a big, big rating stuff for Slater. I know that's why he got real ratings grabber. So I don't do things for ratings. 

I also don't lie. I would never lie ever. I've pretended to know what I'm talking about. That happened once in Jackson, Tennessee. Once, because the time I did it, I don't exactly remember the story, but I was reading some story. It must've been about the bull weevil. 

and about how bull weevils are hurting crops. And I trap the bull weevils because they're eating all the crops. And I say, I say, man, like, what's that like? Like, what? Tell me more about trapping the bull. He's like, oh yeah, I trap them for their fur. 

And I, and I take their fur and I sell the first day. Where do you sell the first? Oh, I sell the fur down in Memphis. A lot of people in Memphis want to buy the bull weevil fur. And I talked to this guy for 10 minutes, this guy going on about how he's a bull weevil trapper for the fur, the bull weevil fur. And I look over and the phone's totally full. 

Bull weevil is a bug, little bug. And everyone's calling in to say, this guy totally got me. And the reason he got me, I remember talking to my boss at the time, Hoppin Harv, because I felt like ridiculous, obviously. But he said, no, it's good. This guy joking around with you. Like, it's funny. 

I was like, oh yeah, it is pretty funny. But he got me because he could tell that I was pretending to know what I was talking about. I don't know what I said. I must have said something that made it seem like I knew what a bull weaver was. It just triggered in his head like, oh, I'm going to get this Yankee. and good on them. 

I'll never forget it, but it really taught me a lesson. Don't ever pretend to know what you're talking about. So I don't. That's why on the radio, I think I don't listen to other radio shows, but I think I ask more questions than most other shows. Something happens. I was like, I don't, I don't know. 

I think this is what I've read. This is what I've heard. This is what I think. But if anyone's in, you know, we have any lawyers listening now, if we have any doctors listening now, if we anyone in this industry now call in, let me know, you know, and we have all these calls and people are great. So I never pretend one time I pretended to know what I was talking about. and that was quickly rebuked by the by the bull weevil trapper uh but i would never lie i don't bring it up here because the mainstream media the lamestream 

is lying and we can give a million examples and there's plenty of them. But this one of today is quite striking because they know the truth. We know they know the truth. This five -year -old boy in Minnesota, it started off with this five -year -old was detained. Ice detained a five -year -old and then they were rebuked with the truth, but they doubled down. And now they're saying that ice arrested a five -year -old, which is even worse. 

They didn't detain him, they didn't arrest him. Here's the story. ICE stopped the dad who was driving the car, illegal alien. The dad ran, abandoning his son in the car. Would you ever? The ICE agents, some went to go get the illegal alien. 

The other ICE agents protected the five -year -old who was just abandoned by dad. Two quick points here. How many illegal aliens were lost by the Biden administration children? Here's a Homeland Security number, 230 ,000. lost by the Biden administration. Whatever the number is, it's outrageous number of illegal alien or children who came across the border that were like, wow, we don't know what to do with them. 

Let's just give them to these people. And we don't know. We didn't vet the people. We don't know who we dropped them off with a horrible story. And the Democrats, lefties across America just totally turned a blind eye. We dropped them off to human traffickers. 

Surely dropped them off in horrific sex trade situations, just like a horrible, horrible, evil, wicked, depraved, the worst things you could possibly imagine. And Democrats totally turned a blind eye to that. Yet here's one five -year -old boy that was abandoned by his dad in the car in negative 20 -degree weather. And the left's like, laser focus on this one child. We also were told by the media that this five -year -old was used to bait family members, like, go knock on the door and get all the other illegals out so we can arrest them too. 

That was the vision that the left was trying to paint. DHS says, no, no, no, we were not trying to bait family members. We were trying to get family members in the house to help the child, but they refused. In the end, dad and son were reunited and they're now at a detention facility in San Antonio, we're told. I hope that people see through these lies now. No, I'm, I'm certain that law enforcement helped this child with as much love and care as all law enforcement helps the children of criminals. 

J . D. Vance, our vice president, was one of those kids once. He spoke of that when he was in Minneapolis yesterday. He said, one of my family members was arrested in front of me. But the left keep going with this lie. 

This is Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist. We look back at those old photos of the 60s and wonder how authorities could have behaved so savagely. Many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tries to drive away, arresting five -year -old schoolchildren on the street. or holding a man down and spraying chemicals into his face. Arresting a five -year -old? That's not what happened at all. 

They detained the dad, and they protected him. five -year -old so I'm stuck on the abandoning of the dad running away that's so screwed up so screwed up there was this movie by Will Ferrell and Julia Louise Dreyfus it was it's a horrible movie it's called downhill apparently it's a remake because I've seen the scene in question yeah force majeure some Swedish movie no maybe it's called tourist Both titles, yeah, Forest Majeure and Tourist is the original, and then they remade it with Will Ferrell and Julius Jarvis. I was on an airplane, and I watched it. It was one of the worst movies I've ever seen in my life, and I think about it all the time. So I really don't know what to do with this movie. But the very short of it is, it's a family, they got three boys maybe, and they're on this ski trip, and they're at the lodge or whatever, and an avalanche is coming down. 

And the avalanche is coming, and the dad, Will Ferrell, runs, runs away. leaves his family there. Now it turns out the avalanche missed or didn't turn out to anything. And he walks back over to his wife and kids who are there left for dead, left unprotected. And the whole rest of the movie is about how mom and the kids lose respect for dad. It's, it's a horror show. 

It's a horrible movie. And I can't think about it all the time. Actually, I'm going to talk more about it on my, on the radio show on, on Monday, I'll go back and find some clips and, and relive it. Uh, the idea that the dad would run is, okay, here's what I want to talk about today. Turn it to the Bible. You can't lie. 

Lying is bad. Lying is sinful. I know this is basic stuff here, but I don't ever hear anyone talk about how good it is. not to lie. I guess now that I think about it, anything I've ever heard about lying in my life has been like, well, little white lies are okay. That's it. 

No, no, don't lie. So maybe it's not so obvious. God says not to lie. Leviticus 19, 11, 12, you shall not steal. You shall not deal falsely. You shall not lie to one another. 

Hebrews 6, 18 says that God, it's impossible for God to lie. We therefore shouldn't either. Zechariah 8, 17, God says, love no false oath for all these things I hate. This is right after Zechariah 8, but this is after Zechariah 5, where he talks about a flying scroll that is a curse to everyone. God sends a curse that shall enter the house of the thief and the house of the one who swears falsely by my name, and it shall remain in the midst of his house and consume it with its timber and stones. The house of the liar will be cursed. 

It's all throughout Proverbs, of course. 16, 16, excuse me, 616 says, among the seven things the Lord hates are a lying tongue and a false witness who breathes out lies. The media, the people writing these stories, writing these headlines, writing the scripts, they know this is not what happened. They know a five -year -old was not arrested. They know it. You can disagree with arresting illegal aliens. 

Okay. Do not lie and say a five -year -old was arrested. You are a liar. That is sinful. God hates that. Proverbs 12, 22 says, lying lips are an abomination to the Lord. 

You don't want to be anywhere near abominations. Those who act faithfully are his delight. That's where you want to name. He said, Oh, this is just Old Testament stuff. Just bringing up some Old Testament. Jesus called Satan, the father of lies. 

John eight 44. You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth for there's no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language for he is a liar and the father of lies. Lying separates you from the truth. That's what, that's why Satan does it. 

He tells you lies. to separate you from what is true. Satan tells lies to keep you from God, to keep you from God's truth, to keep you from his word. And people in our sinful nature lie for all types of reasons and motivations and justifications, but it's all sinful. Just the same. Jesus, on the other hand, is the truth. 

John 14, 6, the way, the truth, the life. Stick with him. Be more like him. Never, ever tell a lie. And these people in the media need to be called out more, even more, as straight up, flat out liars. That is a lie. 

You are lying. But if you're unrepentant, I suppose they just don't care. But we know the truth will set you free. Slater Radio on Twitter and Instagram, mikeslater . locals . com. Transcript commercial free on the website mikeslater .