Father, in Jesus' name, what a privilege it is
to be before you today. And Lord, we get to do
this, not as a cliché, not as a title to a podcast,
but as a mantra for our lives. Lord, we do get
to do this, and we do it for your honor and for
our friends listening. Lord, bless them, encourage
them through all that is said, all that's spoken,
and questions that rise. So we thank you for
them, in Jesus' name. Amen. It's Wednesday, March
4th, 2026. We get to do this. This is episode
number 23. We get to do this. Yeah, that's right.
This is our midweek catch up everybody. At least
that's what we call it. You call it, we get to
do this, a podcast. You like those pickles, huh?
I am excited about these pickles. Louisiana dill
pickles. Yeah, these are from Jody. Sweet and
spicy. Dude, I'm telling you those are so good.
Great combination. Even the onions and the peppers,
you can eat all those. Oh yeah, yeah. I'm fired
up about it. How you doing, brother? I'm doing
actually really good. I feel so much better back
to life. Colors back, energy's back. You know
when you're really sick, you start to have these
weird thoughts like, will I ever feel good again?
You're really sick when you're feeling that.
That was happening. Even Annette jokingly said,
because I happen to have my 38 Special laying
out on my nightstand. Just in case. She said,
why don't you put that away? I said, what? So
I had my 38 special which is a very nice birthday
slash anniversary gift for somebody I really
appreciate and love and value. Actually is my
favorite gift ever. Really? Yeah, because I can
actually carry it with me. It actually fits in
my front pocket. Oh, yeah. No, you can fit it
in your pocket. It's great. I love it. So anyway,
I had it laying out on the nightstand because
I usually put it in a drawer, but I just had
it out happening. She said you might want to
put that up. I'm like, what? Just in case you
go psychotic in the middle of the night. No,
in case she does. She said she felt so bad. I
said, you're kidding, right? She goes, eh, sort
of, you know. But you know, when you get really
sick. Yeah. So our doctor, we went and saw our
Dr. Marcy. You know Dr. Marcy. Yes, of course.
Last week. And she said, oh, we all got off easy.
You only had it three weeks. She said, there
are people having this six and seven weeks, whatever
this is. She said, it could be rhinovirus gets
in. Part and mixed in with flu as in rhino as
in nose or in rhinoceros. I have no idea I just
shook my head like I knew what she's talking
about But what well what it is, it's when it
gets in your chest. Yeah That's where it gets
that your bronchial tube infected and that's
what we both had So that's why we we felt worse
the last half of it than we did the flu part
I remember you had this kind of like relapse
I'm good now, though. I'm back. It's funny you
say that because I had a thought. In fact, I
texted you this, just so you know, Pastor Jimmy
and I, we have a morning text. It's a check -in.
It's good. It's the first thing we do. And I
woke up the other day. I usually set my alarm
for 630. I woke up at 530. And I woke up from
a roaring tinnitus, also known as tinnitus, we're
not going to argue the point, in my left ear.
And I've had this for several months. Now you've
had it for years and years. But it wasn't painful,
but it was roaring. And so I'm just like, all
right, Lord Jesus, heal this. Let me go back
to sleep. And I actually did go back to sleep
and didn't even hear my alarm because that's
on the left side. barely heard it and like, okay,
something's wrong. And this roar was here. And
the first thing that went through my mind, just
to sort of hook into what you said, during COVID,
there were several people who got tinnitus so
bad, they ended up taking their life. I remember
hearing about that. And all I could think was,
Lord, let this not be like that. So now, lucky
enough, you put the hearing aids in. Yes, we're
back to hearing old men hearing aid talk. And
that really alleviates it right away. It's still
there, but at least you can hear. You're not
focused on it. And nobody knows exactly where
this comes from. You can go to audiologists.
You can go all over the world and say, we don't
really know. So I think you and I both share
the belief that it's something in your mind or
in your brain or brain issue. So it eventually
cleared up, but it took several hours. It's scary.
It is. Because it can be debilitating. I have
friends that have debilitating tinnitus. They
go to our church and they struggle. They were
hearing, not AIDS, they plugged their ears during
worship because loud noises can... you know,
make it worse. But I've done a lot of reading
and research. I'm sure you have too, because
when you do and now your whole feeds fill with
offers to fix your tinnitus with cream. My phone
is ringing like we got something for you. Home
remedies and eye ages and everything's a miracle
cure. It must be a big moneymaker. Have you found
anything that actually works? Well, what I did
notice is that it's definitely connected to my
TMJ, which is not a big deal. Just got busted
up playing football. TMJ. TMJ. It's jaws. It's
your jaw alignment. Oh, did you ever break that
as a kid? Probably. So when I, you know, being
a kid in the years, when we grew up, you broke
things and cut things and just kept going, rub
dirt in it and keep going. You'll be fine. Rock
fight. Oh, someone got a hole in their head.
Oh, it's the end of the rock fight. Oh man. Killjoy,
buzzkill. So I grew up that way. So I know playing
football. racing motorcycles, wrecks, all the
stuff I've been through, things happen. Things
get out of alignment. So TMJ, you can test it
by, if I jump my jaw out forward, it changes
the tone of the tinnitus. It literally changes
it. That's actually a good thing. Because what
it does, it narrows it down to what one of my
primary causes is, and it's this misalignment
of my jaw. Everything's off. You look pretty
handsome. I feel good. I'm all whacked. I don't
see your jaw in this line. I've had a lot of
injuries through the years, but typical kid stuff.
But I know how debilitating it can be because
mine is like a tone, but a very high pitched
tone. Oh, that's irritating. But it doesn't get
loud unless, now if I've had alcohol. Sometimes
it'll get louder. It does, and I've read about
that as well. But really, if I've been in a loud
environment, go to a concert or something and
forget earplugs, I wear earplugs at a full -on
concert, 112 decibels. As you should. I do. But
even that, just those loud environments can actually
cause it. trigger it to get louder. It's like
it's trying to compensate or something. And just
not to belabor the point, because people are
probably like, OK, get out of here. For me, it's
when it's really quiet. It's when it's really
quiet, then whoo. And for me, it's just like
a roaring sea. Wow. I will say this. The hearing
aids have almost minimalized it to where it's
already there. So I'm very happy about that.
So consider hearing aids for the men in your
family. It's very important because us guys will
keep trucking along. We'll talk about it. And
before you know it, we just stop communicating
because we can't hear anyway. I saw that in my
dad. And we start to withdraw. And it's very,
very dangerous. It is. So there's stuff going
on in the world, brother. I was just talking
to Pastor Brian about that. We had a great conversation
the first day back. He was supposed to be in
Israel right now with a group of 12 people, he
and his wife. On Friday, I got word and thanked
the Lord for intel. And that you have people
you can reach out to. I reached out to Sir Brian
of London who lives in Tel Aviv. Hey, how's it
going there? Man, gave me great counsel on that.
I really appreciate him doing that. And then
I also reached out to somebody who is a very
high ranking at Dias Air Force Base in Abilene,
Texas. Home of the B1s, the C137. Yeah, and so
that base is buzzing right now. They're even
flying b2s into that base So what's going so
there's movement? Yeah, this was all on Friday
morning What what cued me and I knew I knew the
whole team was gonna leave on Saturday morning
like fly out very early like you know 5 a .m.
6 a .m. Typical international hours And we had
to make a decision quick because people were
going to go drive down and stay the night before
they got on the plane in Austin or San Antonio.
So I was under a lot of pressure to make a decision
quick. So I reached out, found out the base was
buzzing, but I also got word. Sometimes people
can say things without saying things because
they're not supposed to say anything. That's
the best way to know what's going on. They can
say things like, If I was you, I would not go
to Israel right now. I can't tell you how to
invest, but here's what I do. Exactly. So I had
that. And then I reached out to a state representative
who had been meeting with some very important
people on Thursday who will remain unnamed. And
they had said to him and seven other guys that
are all legislators, it's a governor. And they
said to him, if you know anybody in Israel, tell
them to get out now. Don't hesitate. I got I
got the same. Are you in Israel right now? Get
out. Yeah. Yeah, so I was so thankful that I
had people to talk to that I trusted and that
were on the inside. They know what's really going
on. As a pastor, as the leader here, you know,
the thing you really didn't want to have happen
is you call it all off and then it's a big, you
know, it's like a wet fart. You're like, okay,
nothing happened. Because then you just feel
horrible. I know. But man, you made straight
up the right decision. Thank you, Lord. Boy,
but I tell you, I felt the weight of it. of that
decision, because these are 12 people who've
paid a lot of money to go to Israel on a big
tour. And man, we were in the blind, as apparently
Iran was, too. So I mean, it's supposed to happen
on Tuesday. It happened on Saturday. Boom, element
of surprise. Wow. So I want to talk about Iran,
but I want to kind of back into it from another
direction, because what immediately happens is
And particularly in Texas, the timelines get
flooded with Islam is taken over, be afraid,
this is a huge problem, be afraid, be afraid,
be afraid. And we've discussed this before. There
is a huge difference between Muslims and radical
Islam. Now, you can put whatever labels you want
on it, but there have not been 300 new mosques
built in Texas in the last two years. Let me
just - I keep hearing that. That's because it's
going around on social media. They show a map
and it shows there's about 300 mosques, period,
against 25 ,000 churches. And a mosque doesn't
necessarily mean that there's people who want
to kill you who are going there. True. Because
then you can say the thing for a temple. You
can say the same thing for a Buddhist temple.
I really want to be careful about. I want people
to think about this because I grew up with Muslims
in Europe. It was actually quite cool. When they
had Ramadan, they'd invite me over to have the
celebration, the food, the sugar stuff. I even
heard this morning, well, you know, there's 1500,
this is now all political, there's 1500 known
terrorists from Iran who are now in America.
We need to, and keep your head on a swivel when
our representatives are saying this. But we have
to be careful because you build up hatred out
of ignorance. And what's happened in Europe,
People say, well, you don't know what you're
talking about. Look at all the rapes and the
murders happening from Islam in Europe. I said,
no, these are undesirables from mainly countries
in Africa who were led in, and I say led in LEAD
by the United Nations, the Office of International
Migration. They specifically on purpose brought
them in, gave them no integration into these
countries, and you know, now they live in squalor.
Well, no, not even squalor because they get free
stuff from the government, but they live in no
-go zones in very nice ghettos, let's put it
that way, because they have their own community
and they're not integrated with these countries,
and they've brought their culture with them,
which is not exactly the same as radical Islam,
nor are the majority of Iranians, radical Islamists
or even Muslim believers at all. They are more
secular than you'd know. When the internet first
kicked off, the most spoken language on the internet
was Farsi. They're so connected. It's a very
young country. I know this is very liberating
for them, but we have to be careful to not let
politics take this and scare us into voting Republican,
because that's what they're doing. Vote for who
you want to vote for from your biblical worldview.
There you go. But not just because someone's
going to protect you from the evil Islam man
who's going to come and kill you. We have to
be careful of all kinds of dangers out there.
Right. I'm just very annoyed by it. And when
it's not this, then it switches over to military
age men from China. And so I went to vote yesterday.
Thank you very much, Matt Long, for giving me
a good guide. There you go. I used most of it,
not all, I used most of it. It's very handy to
have that. I used Rick Green's and I didn't do
everything he said, but I thought for myself.
It was really nice to have a guiding hand and
all that. And there's a couple of those out there.
And it was kind of funny because right there
in the propositions, it says the state of Texas
should Outlaw Sharia law. It was the last one.
It was the last one, wasn't it? I think it was
the last one. I hope I didn't miss one. Yeah,
I think it was. And I'm like, yeah, first of
all, what is Sharia law? It's not law. Anything
that people might believe is in Sharia law is
by definition illegal in the United States. So
this was a political Well, you know what propositions
are. It's a survey. Literally all it is is the
GOP survey. If you're on the GOP side, that's
all that is. It's saying, how would people vote
on these things if these were laws? It's a survey.
It's not a law. A proposition is not a law. But
it was just kind of offensive to me because it
has no context. And if you ask someone, what's
Sharia law? That's suppressing women. No, it's
not. It's like there's blood libel is included.
There's a whole bunch of things included in that,
which by definition have no basis in the American
system. Right. But because we call it, they don't
call it Sharia law anyway. We call it Sharia
law. It sounds like law. I need my lawmakers
to take care of it. So let's just calm down is
what I'm saying. Calm down. It's going to be
okay. Are there problems? Yes, of course. Yeah,
we need to be aware and wise. Yes. Not just informed,
but wise with what we do with the information.
We definitely need to be more informed. So I'm
not, you know, cause then people, you don't know
what you're talking about. It took 25 years for
Europe to get into the position they are, not
because of radical Islam, because of asylum seekers,
of which I have to say the Ukrainians are the
biggest problem, which is not a Muslim problem
at all. You know, it's a governmental free stuff.
Come here, take stuff before our own citizens
problem. We don't have that. So just beware and
be on watch for people trying to scare you. leads
me into Brother Reagan Green, who preached on
Sunday. Just give me your thoughts about this
because he was here because we were supposed
to be in Israel, right? Exactly. Yeah, I really
thought he did a good job. I thought he hit it
out of the park. This is a 27 28 year old young
man something like that. Yeah, and He his dad
is Rick Green who has started the Patriot Academy
what 20 something years ago long time Yeah, and
long term and so Reagan just has a real gift
and a real calling on his life as a teacher.
I see more as a teacher than a preacher. There's
a little bit of a nuance there. And I had the
idea, thinking we were going to be in Israel,
to let Reagan have a shot, let him be in the
pulpit. Like a guest podcast. Absolutely, yeah.
Hey, you get the microphone. And I trust him.
And he spoke for our men's meeting and did a
great job. The only way, it's like swimming,
the only way to get better at swimming is to
swim. Got to jump in. And so for these young
preachers, if we don't give them opportunities
to speak, they're not going to get any better.
We have to help them. This is a part of raising
up the next generation of world changers. So
as a pastor who's now, I've been in this 42 years,
I'm 64 years of age, I'm looking down the line
going, we need to raise up the next generation
of teachers, preachers, pastors. I'm looking
for those that have that mark on their life,
and Reagan's got that. I'm looking at him going,
you've got to do a podcast. I'm going to approach
you about it. You don't know it yet, but I'm
coming for you. His time may be crazy taxed because
they just had their second child. He leads what
they call the scholars, the students out of the
Patriot Academy. He's over that, doing all the
coordination. He can fit in a podcast. He can
fit one in. We need voices like his beyond the
pulpit as well. So I pulled a couple clips because
I really like what he did. This overarching theme
and I just pulled some short clips. So please
go to The Bridge website. You can watch in the
Godcaster. In fact, you can watch the YouTube
video. You can listen to it. It's well worth
it. Actually watch it because there's some some
visual stuff in there. And it was about great
awakening, great deception, great wrestling.
And I want to talk about it because it really
hit home for me in really the stuff we talk about
here on the podcast. So this is him starting
off about a great awakening amongst young people
that he's seeing in America. There's also a great
awakening happening right now. I can personally
attest to this. I'm seeing this in the life of
my scholars. I'm seeing this around the country.
There is a great awakening that is happening
right now. God's spirit is also on the move.
And we can be excited about that. Amen. Yes.
And what really classifies this great awakening
for me, what this means, what I'm seeing is that
people are starting to own their faith. Just
last week, you baptized three people. It's like
middle -aged men. They're starting to own their
faith. People who grew up in faith, in homes
that knew the Lord were Christian homes. That's
great, but I'm starting to see young people start
to really own their faith for their own. It can't
just be this thing that they were taught from
their parents. It can't just be this atmosphere
that they grew up in. It has to be something
that is truly yours. And I'm seeing that, and
it's beautiful. But a part of this awakening,
when people start owning their faith, what happens
is now they start genuinely asking real and serious
questions about that faith. This was so good.
That was great. And interested, just a side note,
I was talking to a big time Hollywood producer
the other day, not dropping a name, but he actually
has been listening to the No Agenda show for
years. And, you know, turns out he was the guy
that did House of Cards and, you know, huge movies.
And he hates Hollywood. He's moved out of Hollywood.
He has a ranch. And he called me about something
unrelated. And I said, brother, you know, have
you ever considered doing something for a Christian
audience? He says, oh man, this is so big, it's
so huge. And so, well, how come you haven't done
anything? Well, you know, blah, blah, blah. So
we're talking, and I said, you know, the audience
is here. He says, you know, it's interesting
you say that. My 13 -year -old daughter, she
attends a homeschooling class, I think, online.
For her birthday, her 13th birthday, she wanted
a Bible. And he said, it's not coming from me.
She goes to church with her friends. He said,
I look at this Bible. It's like it's got notes
and underlines and it looks kind of like a middle
school girl's diary, except it's not. I said,
this is what's happening. And he recognized that.
And then I told him he should probably option
the book, which is what you say in Hollywood.
He said, what book? Well, there's this book that
has like 66 books in it. It's a really good...
Anyway, but this is happening. And when it's
happening to the parents of people who really
are in, he's not in Hollywood anymore, but part
of that, unprovoked, if I can put it that way,
that is something amazing that's taking place.
And so Reagan identifies this and he simultaneously
identifies an angst and what he calls the great
deception. In the midst of a great awakening,
there is also an equal and opposite attempt at
a great deception. So while God's people, while
we're waking up to the spirit of the Lord moving
right now, Satan is going to try to capitalize
on this momentum to also deceive people and pull
people away. So listen, I'm convinced that when
history writes about our time right now, this
is the beginning stages of a third grade awakening.
I'm convinced of that. I think that is very true.
But while that is happening at the same time,
there's an attempt at a great deception. So church,
family, we need to be on guard for that. And
we need to arm ourselves for that. Gosh, I love
how our church sounds. I love the room. I heard
myself go, come on, come on, good. Good word.
I know, it was me. I'm all, I'm cheering him
on, you know? Of course. This is such a privilege
to raise up the next generation. Such a privilege
to... put fuel on the fire and let them burn,
you know, and they're going to make mistakes.
This is a thing when you talk about mentoring
and raising up the next. We got to give them
the freedom to fail, freedom to miss the mark,
but he didn't with this. He was spot on. So what
made me smile is you and I have talked about
young pastors using props, how you had a motorcycle
on stage, you were flying drones, you were hitting
golf balls and all kinds of stuff. And so he
brought two kids, young men from the Patriot
Academy to give us a visual representation of
the wrestling, which he now, and this is the
last clip, the great wrestling of the Great Awakening
and the Great Deception. And of course, as Christians,
we all know that the devil is always there waiting
to pounce. But the way, and so I cut out all
the wrestling bit because it's very visual. But
he said some things in here, and I hope that
there were multiple people in our church who
heard this and that it hit them, that it sunk
in. Because man, when I heard this, I almost
wanted to get up and say, you, you, you, you.
I think I know where you're going with this.
I heard the same thing. So while there is this
great deception that's trying to happen, there's
this feeling of a great wrestling. When you start
questioning things and you start wrestling, there
becomes this movement, there becomes a motion
and a game that we play with Satan. And Satan's
goal is to look for opportunities, windows into
your questioning, where he can trap you into
dangerous ideas and then sweep you over into
disbelief. And now Satan is dominating you. Family,
that's what is happening actually right now to
a lot of young people too. They are getting swept
up into deceit. They're getting swept up into
nefarious concepts Gnostic ideas sniff just nefarious
and Conspiratorial speculation about events and
things ding -ding as you start wrestling with
stuff You still bring a window of opportunity
to trap you to trap your mind, to trap your thoughts,
your emotions, and then sweep you into disbelief.
And again, it's not that hard for him. It's really
easy to get swept up into disbelief when you're
not rooted in a relationship with Christ. I love
that he said conspiratorial because that is what
you see everywhere right now. And what Satan
has done, the enemy has And part of that is,
a large part is thanks to COVID and, you know,
and lockdowns and all kinds of related measures
that were put upon us. People have, I think only
17 % of the United States population trust the
government. It's pretty much an all time low.
This happens all the time. Not that it was super
high 10 years ago, but, and so with the advent
of social media, This is the enemy's playground.
He's right there on your slave slab on the phone.
And I have an example which I brought because
this was just like, oh, wow, this is such a perfect
one. So we struck Iran. And I monitor all of
the, I try to monitor what's the narrative. What's
the narrative from the television? What's the
narrative from the president? What's the narrative
from the Democrat party, Republican party? What's
the narrative online? And the predominant narrative
online, including Tucker Carlson, which is just,
he's so disappointing to me, is this is Bibi
Netanyahu drawing America into the fight. Drawing
them in and of course the conspiracy then goes
on to say, well, that's because Every single
member of Congress has an AIPAC representative.
They're controlled by Israel and the Epstein
blackmail. You go down this road forever and
ever and ever. And so we heard the president
very clearly saying, help is on its way. We're
going to do this. We're going to do that. that
this is the moment for you to take your own destiny
into your own hands. And then our Secretary of
State Marco Rubio, who I hold in very high regard
for a number of reasons. I think especially after
the Charlie Kirk memorial service where he just
was preaching the gospel like I had no idea,
Marco. And he's a smart, smart man. He said something
that immediately was taken into the conspiracy
hole and I want to give a different take on what
happened here. States conducted this operation
with a fair clear goal in mind. I haven't got
a chance to see a lot of reporting. I don't understand
what the confusion is. Let me explain it to you
and I'll do it once again as clearly as possible.
Perhaps you'll report it that way. The United
States is conducting an operation to eliminate
the threat of Iran's short -range ballistic missiles
and the threat posed by their Navy, particularly
to naval assets. That is what it is focused on
doing right now, and it's doing quite successfully.
I'll leave it to the Pentagon and the Department
of War to discuss the tactics behind that and
the progress that's being made. That is the clear
objective of this mission. The second question...
Just hold that in mind. He's saying the clear
objective is to stop ballistic and missiles and
potential nuclear to protect our troops and our
Navy. He's not saying anything about regime change
or anything like that, which is already different
from what the president was saying. The president
was saying, help is on the way. We're here to
take care of you. We're going to help you take
destiny into your own hands. This is already
a change. That is the clear objective of this
mission. The second question that has been asked
is, why now? Well, there's two reasons why now.
The first is it was abundantly clear that if
Iran came under attack by anyone, the United
States or Israel or anyone, they were going to
respond and respond against the United States.
The orders had been delegated down to the field
commanders. It was automatic. And in fact, it
bared to be true. Because in fact, within an
hour of the initial attack on the leadership
compound, the missile forces in the south and
in the north for that matter had already been
activated to launch. In fact, those had already
been pre -positioned. The third is the assessment
that was made that if we stood and waited for
that attack to come first before we hit them,
we would suffer much higher casualties. And so
the president made the very wise decision. We
knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.
We knew that that would precipitate an attack
against American forces. And we knew that if
we didn't preemptively go after them before they
launched those attacks, we would suffer higher
casualties and perhaps even higher those killed.
And then we would all be here answering questions
about why we knew that and didn't. So this immediately
was taken as the Israelis were going with or
without us. And they drew us into this because
we knew that there would be an Israeli attack.
Yeah. So if I could see, and right. And for a
moment, I'll be honest with you, but I'm like,
what was I wrong about this? This, this is, I
had to really think about it and When you objectively
look at it, Israel going alone with or without
America is ludicrous because they don't have
any of the hardware that they need to continue
that. We had an entire double armada in place
for several weeks, so this was all set up. But
I realized once it got into the politics of it,
that typically if you start something aggressively
as the United States president, you need to immediately
within 48 hours, Congress has to get the to enact
the war powers resolution. And the war powers
resolution take has is for Congress to take control.
And the president then has 60 days to do what
he needs to do and then 30 days to unwind it.
But Congress can shut that down. Now, if we just
decide to declare war on somebody, that needs
a vote in Congress regardless. So I'm thinking,
what is going on? Why did Marco Rubio say that?
Because he's not stupid. He's not going to say
that to, you know, because he knows that this
is going to spark conspiracies, witness Tucker
Carlson. I won't even play him. It angers me
so much. What they did is they registered under
UN Charter Article 51. The political piece of
this action, was Israel struck first. Now, of
course, the plan, we had these plans. Israel,
you strike first. Then we are automatically in
defensive mode. So there is no war powers resolution.
The president is not hampered by Congress. And
he knows that there's too many Republicans both
in the House and the Senate that they would shut
this down. So what you're saying, this wasn't
planned overnight. I believe this is planned
before he even took office in January. And now
we get to the oil piece. So, there's no coincidence
that Venezuela came just a few weeks before this.
Who was the number one client of cheap sanctions
and therefore ghost oil from Venezuela? I'll
skip to the answer, China. 75 % of what they
still had, was going to China illegally sanctioned
by the entire world, not by the US, but by the
entire world. Because you're screwing with the
price of oil. It's a problem for everybody. Iran,
90 % of their oil through go ships, through sanctioned
illegal shipping, going to China. China was in
Iran with almost a half a trillion dollars of
support with massive missiles that could take
out any one of our aircraft carriers. This was
known and this was set up take into that. Just
I think three weeks ago, President Putin through
not himself, but through his cabinet, said that
they were seriously considering pricing their
oil in dollars again. Remember, they got kicked
off of the swift system by the Europeans, not
even by the US. And I have a feeling that. Notice
Russia is very quiet right now. They're not jumping
up and down. So all of this oil from Venezuela
and from Iran was all being paid for in anything
but the US dollar. I got to tell you, this has
always been American doctrine. If you don't want
the whole world to collapse when our currency
is no longer the reserve currency, You've got
to protect that. So there are things much bigger
at play here. Thank you to Israel for doing whatever
President Trump asked you to do, because that's
the fact. And they put themselves and their country
and their people at great risk and great harm.
We owe a dedication of gratitude for what they
have done. And I hope that people take it that
way. there's always going to be people who just
will mock this. And that, you know, so I've been,
people have been, without them even knowing it,
have been helping me with different scripture.
I've got to bring some scripture in. Proverbs
9, 7 to 9. This is what I've learned what I need
to be careful of anyone who rebukes a mocker
will get an insult in return That's when you
respond to the troll on social media sure anyone
who corrects the wicked will get hurt So don't
bother correcting mockers. They will only hate
you I can testify first hand but correct the
wise and they will love you instruct the wise
and they will be even wiser teach the righteous
and they will learn even more now there is there's
another proverb that says you must get rid of
the mockers i don't have it on on hand not quite
sure how to take these two in that context other
than blocking them but You know like rid rid
rid. How what is it? What is it brother? It's
um I didn't write it down It's like Proverbs
20 20 verse 22 10 yeah, but drive out a scoffer
right and strife will go out and quarreling and
abuse will cease. So how do you drive out a scoffer?
That was a question. The how -to? Yes, this was
a pastor moment, a question for my pastor. So
taking the previous problem into account, which
I love, and I understand that, how do you drive
out the scoffer? Well, it's amazing how silence
is powerful. Ah, there it is. When you're talking
about deals, you're talking about business, you're
talking about mastery and conversation, Silence
is powerful. You know this, when you were leading
a large corporation and you're in a conversation
that's got a lot of weight and gravity to it
and you go pause and then they try to fill in
all the blanks and they play all their cards.
So it's the same way with a mocker. If you don't
give them attention, they run out of, they don't
have anything, no energy. Right. So always, when
Annette and I, you know, through the years, being
a pastor, we take hits all the time. Of course.
And we've learned the hard way to, because the
first thing we all want to do is validate ourselves.
Validate our decision or validate just who we
are, character, especially if it's a character
slice. But at the end of the day, I've learned
if you'll just be quiet, it's amazing how this
stuff goes dormant real quick. Yeah. Mockers
enjoy the gameplay. They enjoy, especially on
social media, Lord. They're just sitting in mom's
basement on their computer waiting. So those
two really, excuse me, really do go hand in hand.
They absolutely do. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank
you. I could have figured that. The Scripture
even says that if you will be silent, you'll
be perceived as wise. Yes. But if not, you'll
be perceived as stupid. Boom. It's a great verse.
Boom. There it is. So that was really the message
I brought for today because when I heard Reagan
preach And I think he really could have quite
a future as a pastor. I mean, I don't know where
he wants to go, but I mean, and he's young. I
could call him pastor on the platform. And rightly
so. I said pastor. And he grand and looked at
me and then I went off mic and I said, now I
may be prophesying or prophesying. Time will
tell. That's what I said to him. Time will tell.
He has it. He does. And you can tell he's used
to talking to a younger audience, which I actually
kind of like. That's good for me. But he was
aware because he continued to speak to the older
audience saying, I'm trying to help you address
the next generation. And boy, that was a lot
of maturity there. He's trying to connect the
dots between the two generations so that there's
not this gap. And I love that he did that. So
I'm meeting with him next week. He wants me to...
deconstruct his message. He wants to talk about
it. He wants to learn and this is again a show
of wisdom when he's saying, come critique me.
I want to get better at what I'm doing. So we're
meeting next week for coffee. I won't have a
whole, whole lot to correct, to be honest. You
should teach him the drone trick and the motorcycle
trick. We'll get a good laugh out of some of
the stupid things I did. I love those stories.
That's my favorite. That's going to hurt people.
It's seriously gotten hurt. You and I consider
this particular podcast really to be for our
church and if it reaches beyond. It does. So
we're really happy. Yeah, absolutely. Thankful
for people who are listening in. But don't fall
into the trap that Israel controls us. You know,
this made me laugh so hard. The argument always
is, well, APAC, they have a lobbyist for every
single member of Congress and every single member
of the Senate. Thank you, Tucker. So I actually
looked some stuff up. So their budget is, just
grab this, their budget is, I think, $2 .9 million
or what they spend annually on APAC. what they
spend annually. And so I went and did some research
on other lobbying groups that also have a lobbyist
for every single member of Congress and the Senate.
Surprising. You know what the biggest one is?
With 10 times the amount of money, almost $26
million, National Association of Realtors. Wow.
Yes. They have the federal political coordinators
program. So really it's the realtors who are
running the nation. And number two, American
Medical Association. They are the ones who bring
you transgenderism. They're not all bad, obviously.
Right. Next on the list, American Bankers Association.
Wow. And these all outstrip the money that APAC
spends far and wide. And then my favorite, And
they are lobbying on behalf of us, the AARP,
because yes, the old people need lots of lobbying.
They represent the largest, most consistent voting
block, which is seniors, making their coverage
extremely effective. So the next time you think
that APAC controls Congress, go look at your
realtor, because there's something going on there
that I don't even know what they're happening.
Well, I didn't see that coming. Wow. The mandate
they had then was contact their assigned legislator
quarterly and respond to calls for action, ensuring
a local voice is always present, very influential.
Realtors are influential. You'll see a lot of
realtors in local politics too. This happens
frequently. clandestine network out in the open,
controlling our government. Look at your realtor
and get to know him. Take him out for coffee.
But you know what? They do have their finger
on the pulse of what's happening in the community
because they're on all kinds of boards and commissions
and groups. Especially here in Fredericksburg,
Wendy sits on several days and she knows what's
going on. Not Jewish. No, of course it's not.
So I've got this thought, put down your slave
slab and pick up your Bibles. There you go. There's
the thought. It's a long title, but who knows,
right? It's combining several of our things we've
said over the times. You've short, I really like,
although that's a good, I always like the...
Scripture before screens, man. That is short,
that is to the point, and that just makes so
much sense. And as long as we can remember to
do that, it's going to be really, really good.
A lot of changes here at the church, the new
life centers about to open. You've got an office.
I've got an actual office, not a studio anymore.
Although I love the studio. Studio is cool. But
it's cleaner, if you notice. We cleaned it all
up. Yes, and I'm about to bring in gear and make
it a little more full and get some stuff going
because we've got the young and the faithful
boys. We've got to get them set up and autonomous.
And I know Reagan Green, they have their own
studios, but I still wouldn't still wouldn't
mind having them up here from time to time. I
think it'd be great because I really feel that
that there's there's people in this community,
especially young people who will be great at
podcasting, doing, you know, communicating their
thoughts and ideas. I'm super excited about it.
So can I encourage just from kind of where we
just sort of pull this into? tie a bow on it.
And land it? Yeah, I can land the plane too.
I can do that. Please. Flaps are down. So nose
up. It's gumps. It's gear, gas, undercarriage,
manifold, prop, and the S is, I don't know, I
forget what safety is. There you go. Awesome.
Now that's good for me to know. You'll hear that
on Sunday probably. So yeah, as I think about
tie this all up. First of all, there's great
hope for tomorrow. Having somebody like Reagan
standing in your pulpit, I just felt like a dad.
No knock on Rick, he's the actual dad, but I
felt like a spiritual father watching a son grow
up. I said this to the Congress, I said, hearing
him speak and preach the way he did with the
maturity he did gives me great hope for the future.
It's so easy to go down the conspiratorial rabbit
holes and just people swim in that water and
you can't swim in a cesspool without stinking,
you know? There you go. And they mean well and
the good -hearted people, but I get stuff every
Sunday. Somebody will walk over to me kind of
a sidebar and go, well, you know. It's all about
to go down. Every week. Pastor, I hope you're
packing your piece. This is all about to go down.
I get this almost every week. And these are good
people. These aren't people that are nefarious
in any way. It's just they've been spending so
much time online. What's the line again? You
can't go swimming in a cesspool without stinking?
What was it again? That's it. I like that. I
just made it up. But yeah, I'm digging it. It's
true. My encouragement is, first of all, it only
takes 21 seconds to change your life. Learn the
Lord's Prayer. Matthew chapter 6. Check it out.
and start praying that prayer over your life.
If you're listening and you don't really know
where to start with prayer, let me just give
you a little help because you need to be praying
over the world situation, over what's going on.
And the Lord's Prayer gives us this simple, super
simple template. I'm going to look it up right
now in Matthew 6 in my Bible. Here it is. This
is Jesus and he says this, he says in verse 9
of Matthew chapter 6. So Matthew 6 verse 9 he
says, pray then like this. Luke says it, when
you pray say. So it's the same thing. Our Father
in Heaven. Now, I'm not going to do the King
James version. No, let's do that version because
that's the one I can do with you. Let's do that
one, please. Our Father, which art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will
be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us
this day our daily bread, and forgive us our
debts as we forgive our debtors. And lead us
not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
For thine is the kingdom and the power and the
glory forever. Amen. Amen. Thank you. I wanted
to say it that way. That's great. So use it as
a template. I mean, literally just, it's good
to have a roadmap. So if you're learning how
to pray or maybe you've been praying, but you're
looking for something fresh, go to Matthew six,
start in verse nine. You can read it, but then
that's 21 seconds of your time, but then use
it as a jumping off point and as a template for
other things. The first, it starts with praise.
Yes. Hallowed be thy name. Father just starts
off with praise. There's your praise section.
Then it goes into your kingdom come, your will
be done on earth as it is in heaven. That's the
stuff of life. But you're also calling heaven
down. Invoking is, I love that word. Invoking,
good one. We're invoking heaven to come to earth,
you know, when heaven invades earth kind of thing.
And then the next part is just provision, God's
providence. This is my favorite, give us this
day our daily bread, is guidance and provision
for the guidance you're giving us. Like, whatever
you guide me, I know you're going to give me
what I need to go there. And it actually reads
in the Greek, give us today our bread for tomorrow.
It's not even about just today, it's about the
future as well. And then forgive us our debts.
Now, when I pray my version of it, I say, Father,
forgive me for my offenses as I forgive those
who offended me. That's really more in our language.
And then the last part of that is, and lead us
not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
and the evil one. So, it's not just general evil.
It's actually deliverance from Satan. So, just
let that be a template. Maybe that'll help somebody
today who's trying to learn how to pray. For
me, for Thine is the kingdom, the power, and
the glory. That for me is just, He's in control.
It's all his. That's just reminding me. And just
so you know, that wasn't in the original manuscript
of the Bible. It's an add -on, but it's a good
add -on. It was added on in the first, second
century. It's in parentheses in my Bible. And
that's okay. It's all good. Man, it's still,
it's just a nice way to wrap it up. All right,
so guys, pray. Let's pray more. Well, there's
your instruction for the next week. We'll be
back next week. We get to do this. Thanks for
being here, everybody.