WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.439 Father, thank you for our time today. What a 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:05.919 privilege it is. We truly get to do this and 00:00:05.919 --> 00:00:09.000 we mean it. So Lord, I'm asking we consecrate 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.099 literally everything before you and I'm asking 00:00:11.099 --> 00:00:13.660 that you would touch and bless our conversation 00:00:13.660 --> 00:00:16.500 today. And Father, for our friends listening, 00:00:16.820 --> 00:00:20.620 I pray that this would in some way ignite conversations 00:00:20.620 --> 00:00:23.640 for them as well about their faith, about what's 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:26.059 going on in our culture, in our world, across 00:00:26.059 --> 00:00:28.839 the world, not just our nation, but across the 00:00:28.839 --> 00:00:32.320 world. I'm asking for healthy, life -giving, 00:00:32.320 --> 00:00:34.759 worldview conversations about all the things 00:00:34.759 --> 00:00:36.979 that are happening in our world today. We honor 00:00:36.979 --> 00:00:40.119 you with it in all things in Jesus' name. Amen. 00:01:05.060 --> 00:01:07.819 You got your jacket on. You're looking mighty 00:01:07.819 --> 00:01:10.340 slick. The only jacket I have in the building 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:13.780 is a suit jacket. I'm cold. I'm chilled. I'm 00:01:13.780 --> 00:01:15.700 actually warm because I came in. Of course, nothing 00:01:15.700 --> 00:01:17.620 was working. You were flying. Yeah, you were 00:01:17.620 --> 00:01:19.219 on the fly. It usually happens. Good morning. 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:20.739 I can bring that down a little more if you want. 00:01:20.859 --> 00:01:22.640 Well, not that you got your jacket on. Yeah, 00:01:22.659 --> 00:01:25.019 I'll bring it down. Do you have the remote? Don't 00:01:25.019 --> 00:01:26.079 worry about it. If you don't have the remote, 00:01:26.219 --> 00:01:28.379 no, no, don't worry about it. I'm used to sweating. 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:30.599 This is the podcast. Welcome to Our Living Room. 00:01:30.890 --> 00:01:33.409 Hey brother, good to see you again in person. 00:01:33.409 --> 00:01:38.150 It has been too long Two weeks. Yeah. Yeah, right 00:01:38.150 --> 00:01:41.870 at it two weeks and wow the last couple of days, 00:01:41.930 --> 00:01:45.430 of course, we were waiting in Amsterdam for Hopefully 00:01:45.430 --> 00:01:50.250 for our granddaughter to arrive We were praying 00:01:50.250 --> 00:01:53.769 our main prayer was God your timing, of course 00:01:53.769 --> 00:01:56.469 It'd be great if you give us a little favor and 00:01:56.469 --> 00:01:59.090 God's like, yeah I think I think you're okay. 00:01:59.150 --> 00:02:02.650 So the last few days were a little stressful 00:02:02.650 --> 00:02:04.370 just cause you know, like checking in with Christina 00:02:04.370 --> 00:02:07.090 and she's like, nah, cause there was some talk 00:02:07.090 --> 00:02:09.469 earlier that the baby may come early and you 00:02:09.469 --> 00:02:11.449 know, all things change and we're like, okay, 00:02:11.509 --> 00:02:13.189 whatever. We know we've been there, done that. 00:02:13.270 --> 00:02:15.370 Exactly. And these first babies like, you know, 00:02:15.469 --> 00:02:20.129 they tend to be late. So it's okay. Um, uh, but 00:02:20.129 --> 00:02:22.710 also I was just, you okay with the sound? I'm 00:02:22.710 --> 00:02:27.409 good. Yeah. I just felt disconnected from from 00:02:27.409 --> 00:02:32.090 home, from our family. You're a dog, your fur 00:02:32.090 --> 00:02:35.550 baby. Definitely, definitely the fur baby. We've 00:02:35.550 --> 00:02:40.189 been reunited all as well. Because we were in 00:02:40.189 --> 00:02:42.789 hotel rooms, it's just at a certain point, like, 00:02:42.969 --> 00:02:45.650 okay, I've had it. Now, even though hotels were 00:02:45.650 --> 00:02:48.729 great and we celebrated Tina's birthday, but 00:02:48.729 --> 00:02:51.810 really this past weekend was such a big weekend 00:02:51.810 --> 00:02:55.009 here at the church, at Bridge Church. And we 00:02:55.009 --> 00:02:58.669 knew we wouldn't be here for for all the special 00:02:58.669 --> 00:03:01.810 things that were happening. And so I was like, 00:03:01.810 --> 00:03:04.889 I felt a little disconnected from it. And so 00:03:04.889 --> 00:03:07.310 and I've been trying to catch up listening to 00:03:07.310 --> 00:03:10.289 the podcasts of the of the services. But you 00:03:10.289 --> 00:03:12.569 got to tell me what was happening here, because, 00:03:12.569 --> 00:03:15.590 you know, you were just like, I can't wait to 00:03:15.590 --> 00:03:17.530 do the show. There's stuff I got to tell you. 00:03:17.530 --> 00:03:19.150 I'm like, I know what that feels like. Yeah, 00:03:19.150 --> 00:03:23.330 I'm good. Go for it. Well, so a week ago, we 00:03:23.330 --> 00:03:26.280 had You know, on July 4th, we had Rick Green, 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:31.180 Patriot Academy, 250th, huge celebration, fireworks, 00:03:31.539 --> 00:03:33.819 I mean, everything you can imagine, dinner, all 00:03:33.819 --> 00:03:37.879 that. So it was a full marathon weekend. We follow 00:03:37.879 --> 00:03:40.780 that up with another full marathon weekend. Why 00:03:40.780 --> 00:03:45.240 not? Hey, we could have put the 250th off. Anyway, 00:03:46.039 --> 00:03:49.460 so we had, and we were so blessed to bring in 00:03:49.460 --> 00:03:53.699 the Caleb Global. Great ministry out of Nashville, 00:03:53.800 --> 00:03:57.400 Tennessee. The founder, we call him Papa Don. 00:03:57.580 --> 00:04:01.360 He's known that all over the world. Don Finto, 00:04:01.780 --> 00:04:06.599 Papa Don, he's 96 years old and he decided to 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:09.009 make the trip to Fredericksburg. He'd never been 00:04:09.009 --> 00:04:12.050 here before. He grew up in Texas. He was born 00:04:12.050 --> 00:04:14.250 right outside of La Mesa, Texas. We had a lot 00:04:14.250 --> 00:04:15.789 to talk about when we got here. We had a lot 00:04:15.789 --> 00:04:19.029 in common. But he had not been to Fredericksburg 00:04:19.029 --> 00:04:22.610 in years and so decades. So he came, his daughter 00:04:22.610 --> 00:04:25.089 came with him to kind of help him. He's 96, so 00:04:25.089 --> 00:04:28.829 it's helpful to have somebody. But he is amazing. 00:04:29.009 --> 00:04:30.730 I could not believe he's not. I tell him, I said, 00:04:30.750 --> 00:04:33.069 I want to be like you when I grow up. because 00:04:33.069 --> 00:04:37.189 I mean at 96 this man is sharp as a tack. So 00:04:37.189 --> 00:04:40.750 he was here and then the one who's really running 00:04:40.750 --> 00:04:42.910 the ministry now, he's the Papa, the founder. 00:04:43.389 --> 00:04:46.470 But basically the president, his name is Todd 00:04:46.470 --> 00:04:49.490 McDowell. Todd was with him. We had Todd about 00:04:49.490 --> 00:04:52.449 a little over a month ago. Did he speak on a 00:04:52.449 --> 00:04:54.110 Wednesday night? He did a Wednesday night and 00:04:54.110 --> 00:04:57.290 he was phenomenal. And what it was, it was eating 00:04:57.290 --> 00:05:00.050 the first Pringle off the top, off the stack. 00:05:00.250 --> 00:05:02.170 And you know what happens then? You can't stop. 00:05:02.370 --> 00:05:05.110 You're done. So that was it. We got a taste of 00:05:05.110 --> 00:05:07.949 what he was bringing in terms of what it means 00:05:07.949 --> 00:05:11.470 to appreciate and value our Christian heritage 00:05:11.470 --> 00:05:14.800 in Judaism. Israel and Jerusalem and to honor. 00:05:15.300 --> 00:05:17.579 You know, just down the 250th we honored our 00:05:17.579 --> 00:05:19.360 founding fathers of our country, right? Of course, 00:05:19.519 --> 00:05:22.620 yes. Celebrated all those amazing heroes. But 00:05:22.620 --> 00:05:24.959 there's also heroes around the Jewish faith and 00:05:24.959 --> 00:05:28.300 the Christian faith, which Judeo -Christian believes 00:05:28.300 --> 00:05:31.160 it was Judaism first and then Christianity came 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:34.040 in with Jesus. But we went back and we honored 00:05:34.040 --> 00:05:38.100 our founding fathers spiritually. Abraham, Isaac, 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:44.759 Jacob, Moses, the great founders of Judaism and 00:05:44.759 --> 00:05:51.279 establishing a one God. One God, not 500 of them. 00:05:52.060 --> 00:05:55.759 One God, capital G. We got to do that. We got 00:05:55.759 --> 00:05:58.980 to honor our founding fathers. for our nation, 00:05:59.139 --> 00:06:01.339 but we also got to honor our founding fathers 00:06:01.339 --> 00:06:04.699 for our faith the very next weekend. And Todd 00:06:04.699 --> 00:06:07.139 addressed that and did a wonderful job of connecting 00:06:07.139 --> 00:06:09.600 the dots for us. But really it was just this 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:13.220 idea of what it means to understand. Here's another 00:06:13.220 --> 00:06:15.040 beautiful thing. You would have really appreciated 00:06:15.040 --> 00:06:16.860 this if you hadn't heard it yet, but he talked 00:06:16.860 --> 00:06:20.120 a lot about Ishmael and how Ishmael was, you 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:23.759 know, he was Not the planned child, but yet he 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:26.860 still was the firstborn. And was going to receive 00:06:26.860 --> 00:06:28.980 a great nation. Would have received everything. 00:06:29.240 --> 00:06:31.420 And even though that got removed in the short 00:06:31.420 --> 00:06:34.540 term, but yet God did make promises to Ishmael 00:06:34.540 --> 00:06:37.079 that nations would come from him. Yes. And sure 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:41.480 enough, they have. Yeah. And so, he connected 00:06:41.480 --> 00:06:44.060 the dots for a lot of things. We unpacked it 00:06:44.060 --> 00:06:46.680 with our staff on Tuesday, our staff meeting, 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.100 and we buzzed for an hour. I mean, there was 00:06:49.100 --> 00:06:51.949 so much to talk about. But the short version 00:06:51.949 --> 00:06:55.129 is just that it gave me such an appreciation 00:06:55.129 --> 00:06:58.829 for our spiritual founding fathers, just like 00:06:58.829 --> 00:07:01.149 I have a great appreciation for our national 00:07:01.149 --> 00:07:04.689 founding fathers, and honor where honor is due. 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:08.040 man, they just brought it, and they brought it 00:07:08.040 --> 00:07:10.259 with such love. This was not a political rally. 00:07:10.379 --> 00:07:14.540 This is not Zionist shills. I mean, this is… 00:07:14.540 --> 00:07:16.379 It's none of that. Oh, I thought I missed the 00:07:16.379 --> 00:07:18.920 meeting. It's just, here's what the Bible says, 00:07:19.259 --> 00:07:21.660 here's why we bless Israel, because the Word 00:07:21.660 --> 00:07:24.279 of God says to, therefore God says to, and we 00:07:24.279 --> 00:07:26.819 just want to be in alignment. with God's heart. 00:07:27.259 --> 00:07:29.839 This is not political. This is not, you know, 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.259 MAGA. This is not, you know, dissing on woke 00:07:33.259 --> 00:07:36.000 left or whatever. It's just, we want to be biblical, 00:07:36.240 --> 00:07:39.240 period. And there's no debate around it. People 00:07:39.240 --> 00:07:40.899 can debate it all day long, but there's nothing 00:07:40.899 --> 00:07:44.939 to debate. God said, God established. And the 00:07:44.939 --> 00:07:48.680 least likely nation to do it with would be this 00:07:48.680 --> 00:07:53.160 weak, small nation that ended up being enslaved 00:07:53.160 --> 00:07:56.329 for a good part of its beginning. And to think 00:07:56.329 --> 00:07:59.269 that they would be any better now in terms of 00:07:59.269 --> 00:08:02.790 their very secular nation, high degree of homosexuality 00:08:02.790 --> 00:08:05.410 and LGBT, it's all there. Well, they've had all 00:08:05.410 --> 00:08:08.329 kinds of bad rulers and kings that were no good. 00:08:08.350 --> 00:08:11.389 Well, they did in Bible times, too, but God redeemed 00:08:11.389 --> 00:08:15.589 them. Here's the point. God chose to pour out 00:08:15.589 --> 00:08:18.769 His love on someone who wouldn't appreciate it. 00:08:18.949 --> 00:08:22.470 And we're no different. We are no different. 00:08:23.069 --> 00:08:26.810 Gosh, so I heard the first sermon, it's on the 00:08:26.810 --> 00:08:32.169 Godcaster, we make a podcast of it, and Intellectually 00:08:32.169 --> 00:08:33.970 already knew a lot of these things. He drew an 00:08:33.970 --> 00:08:37.889 analogy which I really loved, and the way he 00:08:37.889 --> 00:08:40.169 told it was a little too long to clip, but he 00:08:40.169 --> 00:08:43.870 was talking about how we're grafted into the 00:08:43.870 --> 00:08:48.860 vine, into the Jews. He called it the root stock. 00:08:48.860 --> 00:08:50.639 The root stock, yes. Because he compared it to 00:08:50.639 --> 00:08:53.279 vineyards here in Hill Country. So I know this 00:08:53.279 --> 00:08:56.480 story because David Maserano had told this story 00:08:56.480 --> 00:09:00.360 one time in a dinner. This is about the blight, 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:03.399 the epidemic that hit French vineyards in the 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:07.200 19th century. And what they found out, and this 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:12.379 I think is 1880, I believe, that the root stock, 00:09:12.980 --> 00:09:16.860 the wine vines from Denison, Texas, Hill Country, 00:09:17.440 --> 00:09:22.059 they had evolved to be able to protect themselves 00:09:22.059 --> 00:09:25.460 against this blight. And it has a really cool 00:09:25.460 --> 00:09:27.659 name. Yeah, it was an aphid. It was a little 00:09:27.659 --> 00:09:31.179 bug. Well, yes, aphid is the bug. And so the 00:09:31.179 --> 00:09:36.240 condition was Phyllizera epidemic. I just love 00:09:36.240 --> 00:09:39.720 doing pronouncing stuff I can't pronounce. So 00:09:39.720 --> 00:09:43.080 the the millions of Texas root stocks literally 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:45.899 were shipped across the Atlantic and the French 00:09:45.899 --> 00:09:48.720 winemakers grafted their traditional European 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:53.179 vine varieties onto these Texas roots and so 00:09:53.179 --> 00:09:58.460 I knew this story and And he made the analogy 00:09:58.460 --> 00:10:04.120 to how we have been grafted into the vine of 00:10:04.120 --> 00:10:08.100 of the Jews and of Israel and so the and which 00:10:08.100 --> 00:10:14.899 is I have friends in Israel and I'm trying to 00:10:14.899 --> 00:10:17.539 get my train of thought going here because part 00:10:17.539 --> 00:10:19.700 of it is we're supposed to love them so much 00:10:19.700 --> 00:10:21.519 that they get jealous and that they will become 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:25.000 believers, which is a tough one because I love 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.720 all my Jewish brothers so much. I love you too, 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:31.720 brother, but Jesus wasn't insurrectionist. So 00:10:31.720 --> 00:10:35.820 they're not really open to that. But then I was 00:10:35.820 --> 00:10:41.220 also thinking, do we honor our root stock? And 00:10:41.220 --> 00:10:44.399 I took this analogy to the root stock from the 00:10:44.399 --> 00:10:47.480 French vineyards and I researched if they still 00:10:47.480 --> 00:10:50.740 honor our root stock. Because I had really only 00:10:50.740 --> 00:10:53.100 heard it once from one person. This is the second 00:10:53.100 --> 00:10:54.779 time they're heard from Todd and I'd forgotten 00:10:54.779 --> 00:11:02.480 it. And the answer is yes. In 1992, Munson's 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:06.580 home where Dr. Munson delivered this root stock 00:11:06.580 --> 00:11:12.100 in Denison, Texas was honored as the place where 00:11:12.100 --> 00:11:17.139 the root stock came from. In 2002, the city of 00:11:17.139 --> 00:11:20.019 Cognac unveiled a permanent bronze statue of 00:11:20.019 --> 00:11:23.299 Munson in their central square to permanently 00:11:23.299 --> 00:11:26.320 honor the man who saved their cultural heritage. 00:11:26.700 --> 00:11:29.200 And I love that. And I think it's probably time 00:11:29.200 --> 00:11:30.960 again that France do something, you know, we're 00:11:30.960 --> 00:11:34.879 24 years on. But so it proves the analogy to 00:11:34.879 --> 00:11:40.139 be true. But I don't think we do a good job of 00:11:40.139 --> 00:11:42.759 it as believers. In fact, I think we've been 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:46.559 hiding a lot because of cultural pressure and 00:11:46.559 --> 00:11:51.759 because words like support and pray and bless, 00:11:52.059 --> 00:11:56.259 they're all so convoluted that that rolls into 00:11:56.259 --> 00:12:00.460 this giant, well, you're a Zionist. All these 00:12:00.460 --> 00:12:02.759 words that just get spread around, which is now 00:12:02.759 --> 00:12:05.639 so clear to me. By the way, that word was co 00:12:05.639 --> 00:12:08.159 -opted. Zionism is not a bad thing, but it's 00:12:08.159 --> 00:12:12.759 been co -opted and stolen. Palestinians was co 00:12:12.759 --> 00:12:16.419 -opted. That was a word the Romans used to basically 00:12:16.419 --> 00:12:18.600 make fun - Based out of Philistine. Yeah, to 00:12:18.600 --> 00:12:21.200 make fun of the Jews. Another name for the Philistine. 00:12:21.580 --> 00:12:24.019 Yes. So the whole thing has been so convoluted 00:12:24.019 --> 00:12:27.679 throughout the ages. And that's why I'm so sad 00:12:27.679 --> 00:12:31.080 that I wasn't there to really get a full download 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.019 of it. But when you go back to the word in Genesis, 00:12:35.809 --> 00:12:37.669 those who bless Israel will be blessed, those 00:12:37.669 --> 00:12:42.789 who don't, I will curse them. And Psalm 122 verse 00:12:42.789 --> 00:12:44.870 6, I can just spout that off the top of my head. 00:12:44.970 --> 00:12:46.289 I don't know why. Have I heard that a million 00:12:46.289 --> 00:12:49.590 times from somebody? We pray for the peace of 00:12:49.590 --> 00:12:52.710 Jerusalem. There's not a lot we have to do. It's 00:12:52.710 --> 00:12:55.009 not all, but, you know, and we have to be intentional 00:12:55.009 --> 00:12:59.929 with it, but it doesn't… bleed over into this 00:12:59.929 --> 00:13:03.029 whole cultural nonsense that has been taking 00:13:03.029 --> 00:13:06.009 place and I bring news from the front my brother 00:13:06.009 --> 00:13:10.309 I bring news something has Pivoted something 00:13:10.309 --> 00:13:13.429 has flipped come on. Yes. Okay now I'm excited 00:13:13.429 --> 00:13:16.649 something has changed just around this whole 00:13:16.649 --> 00:13:19.529 weekend everything is happening in the same week 00:13:19.529 --> 00:13:24.470 and and it all started with funny enough the 00:13:24.470 --> 00:13:27.909 preliminary hearings of Tyler Robinson, who was 00:13:27.909 --> 00:13:31.710 being accused of killing Charlie Kirk. Nice segue, 00:13:32.009 --> 00:13:35.909 by the way. That was brilliant. Keep going. Keep 00:13:35.909 --> 00:13:37.690 flowing. You're on the flow. You're on the flow. 00:13:38.070 --> 00:13:42.210 Don't spike the ball yet, man. But what happened 00:13:42.210 --> 00:13:45.529 is all this nonsense that we've been hearing 00:13:45.529 --> 00:13:48.450 for a year, which started with Israel killed 00:13:48.450 --> 00:13:51.710 Charlie Kirk, and it was because he didn't want 00:13:51.710 --> 00:13:55.269 to take money, and Yahoo, and all of this stuff. 00:13:55.639 --> 00:14:00.299 which just culminated into ultimately our president 00:14:00.299 --> 00:14:03.139 is completely remote controlled by Netanyahu 00:14:03.139 --> 00:14:07.159 and he's weak and does only what they say. This 00:14:07.159 --> 00:14:10.419 all of a sudden reaches crescendo. I've always 00:14:10.419 --> 00:14:14.480 said throughout my show business career, you 00:14:14.480 --> 00:14:18.480 have to be very careful of how you use or manipulate 00:14:18.480 --> 00:14:23.159 media. So if you manipulate media for your benefit, 00:14:23.440 --> 00:14:26.690 and I used to mean just newspapers or articles 00:14:26.690 --> 00:14:29.870 or television or radio. Now it's social media. 00:14:30.190 --> 00:14:32.970 It has a boomerang effect. So if you throw that 00:14:32.970 --> 00:14:36.450 boomerang and you use it, it always, always, 00:14:36.450 --> 00:14:39.649 always, always comes back and whacks you in the 00:14:39.649 --> 00:14:42.710 head and knocks you down. I've seen this in my 00:14:42.710 --> 00:14:46.889 own life time after time. I'm very careful with 00:14:46.889 --> 00:14:49.669 interviews because it just comes back at you. 00:14:49.690 --> 00:14:54.840 If you're using it or abusing it, So there was 00:14:54.840 --> 00:14:59.580 a lot of this going on. And I would say the one 00:14:59.580 --> 00:15:02.559 of the main progenitors was Candace Owens. Correct. 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:06.059 And she just came up with so many. Now there's 00:15:06.059 --> 00:15:07.480 another little piece I have to bring in here. 00:15:07.659 --> 00:15:11.779 The number one podcast category since, you know, 00:15:11.860 --> 00:15:15.110 for the past 15 years is true crime. And it's 00:15:15.110 --> 00:15:17.370 particularly women who listen to true crime. 00:15:17.590 --> 00:15:21.029 It is extremely popular. It started with serial, 00:15:21.169 --> 00:15:24.909 and that was an NPR production. And there's something 00:15:24.909 --> 00:15:30.789 about our cultural development watching crime 00:15:30.789 --> 00:15:34.629 shows, even your CSI stuff that you used to watch. 00:15:35.029 --> 00:15:37.590 There's something about tying it all up in a 00:15:37.590 --> 00:15:41.529 bow within 20, 27 minutes without the commercials. 00:15:42.429 --> 00:15:44.730 I have resolution and we've solved it and the 00:15:44.730 --> 00:15:47.250 bad guy goes to jail. And there's always these 00:15:47.250 --> 00:15:50.490 twists and turns. And so we are, we're almost 00:15:50.490 --> 00:15:54.649 conditioned to, to want to dive into conspiracies 00:15:54.649 --> 00:15:58.649 and find out what's behind it. I myself for years, 00:15:58.850 --> 00:16:01.210 I've just been looking at before it was popular. 00:16:01.470 --> 00:16:03.610 And that's why I call myself now a conspiracy 00:16:03.610 --> 00:16:06.610 therapist, because I, I, I know the dead ends 00:16:06.610 --> 00:16:09.009 and there, most of them are dead ends. So this, 00:16:09.090 --> 00:16:12.720 this got to a level. of exploding microphones 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:17.820 and Egyptian military planes. And with just a 00:16:17.820 --> 00:16:20.539 few hours of recording of the preliminary trial, 00:16:20.840 --> 00:16:24.299 forget what the prosecution is saying, this young 00:16:24.299 --> 00:16:26.799 man's defense is not saying, well, what about 00:16:26.799 --> 00:16:30.379 the Egyptian military plane? So the evidence 00:16:30.379 --> 00:16:34.200 is so overwhelming that it just cracked everything 00:16:34.200 --> 00:16:38.860 and the boomerang came back. And it came back 00:16:38.860 --> 00:16:43.769 so hard. that the number one progenitor of anti 00:16:43.769 --> 00:16:46.409 -Israel sentiment, I won't say anti -Jewish per 00:16:46.409 --> 00:16:48.830 se, I don't want to call anyone an anti -Semite, 00:16:49.450 --> 00:16:52.669 Nick Fuentes. You've seen him, you know who I'm 00:16:52.669 --> 00:16:57.210 talking about. And he did a piece two days ago, 00:16:57.549 --> 00:17:00.789 I brought a couple clips, relatively short, and 00:17:00.789 --> 00:17:04.890 he explains exactly what happened, exactly why 00:17:04.890 --> 00:17:08.670 it happened. And it comes down to what I think 00:17:08.670 --> 00:17:12.230 I categorized as audience capture, where your 00:17:12.230 --> 00:17:14.690 whole audience is saying, you've got to talk 00:17:14.690 --> 00:17:17.470 about this. What do you mean? It was an exploding 00:17:17.470 --> 00:17:20.130 microphone. The Jews are doing it. They did, 00:17:20.210 --> 00:17:23.430 you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And so 00:17:23.430 --> 00:17:26.990 I brought these three clips. The first one, I 00:17:26.990 --> 00:17:29.430 bleeped out one or two words just because we 00:17:29.430 --> 00:17:31.450 know what they are. It's not necessary to have 00:17:31.450 --> 00:17:35.069 those. The first clip, little hard to listen 00:17:35.069 --> 00:17:37.569 to, but stuff we haven't heard and we're all 00:17:37.569 --> 00:17:40.589 adults and I'm sure we can handle this. But it's 00:17:40.589 --> 00:17:43.069 important because it kind of sets up what happened 00:17:43.069 --> 00:17:45.990 and what changed in our culture. And as we get 00:17:45.990 --> 00:17:48.150 through it, you'll see that the tide has changed 00:17:48.150 --> 00:17:50.910 at this very moment with all these things happening. 00:17:51.130 --> 00:17:56.019 So it's really good. Makes you lose PayPal and 00:17:56.019 --> 00:17:59.259 lose access to the platforms and lose your job 00:17:59.259 --> 00:18:01.519 grifters are not going to criticize Israel because 00:18:01.519 --> 00:18:05.160 there's no money in it There's no easy money. 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.240 It's not an easy grift. So what were they doing? 00:18:08.279 --> 00:18:10.420 They were praising Israel. That was the easy 00:18:10.420 --> 00:18:13.539 grift You're looking for a black Republican to 00:18:13.539 --> 00:18:16.079 say blag's it Yo, you're looking for a black 00:18:16.079 --> 00:18:18.539 Republican. I'm a black Republican. Give me a 00:18:18.539 --> 00:18:20.759 million dollars a year. That was the grift. That 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:23.880 was, you could go to the black leadership summit 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:26.779 and say, black, don't vote Democrat. Here's your 00:18:26.779 --> 00:18:30.960 million dollars. Have a nice day. You could be 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:33.940 any black person, any brown person. I'm black 00:18:33.940 --> 00:18:37.420 and we ain't got to vote for no Democrats necessarily. 00:18:38.660 --> 00:18:40.160 Understandable. Here's your million dollars, 00:18:40.299 --> 00:18:44.859 sir. Have a great day. That was the grift. What 00:18:44.859 --> 00:18:50.240 changed in 2024 and 2025 is it became really 00:18:50.240 --> 00:18:53.920 in vogue and really popular for people to talk 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:56.579 about Jews in Israel in a negative way, also 00:18:56.579 --> 00:19:00.259 just to talk about conspiracies in general. Suddenly 00:19:00.259 --> 00:19:03.119 that became the grift and it attracted people 00:19:03.119 --> 00:19:05.519 that were looking for notoriety, people that 00:19:05.519 --> 00:19:08.839 were looking to build a social platform. It's 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:11.750 interesting that he's saying this. And I appreciate 00:19:11.750 --> 00:19:14.329 that he's saying it. I do too. Because I think 00:19:14.329 --> 00:19:17.410 he's probably more principled than I even considered. 00:19:17.890 --> 00:19:20.150 So now he explains the mechanism. Here's what 00:19:20.150 --> 00:19:24.609 I mean by this. If tweeting Israel critical sentiment 00:19:24.609 --> 00:19:29.650 gets them engagement and money, then like a mouse 00:19:29.650 --> 00:19:32.869 or a cat or any animal in one of these experiments, 00:19:33.089 --> 00:19:35.369 if they press a button and get a treat, if they 00:19:35.369 --> 00:19:37.470 press a button and get a treat, they're trained 00:19:37.470 --> 00:19:39.509 that this is what they're going to do every single 00:19:39.509 --> 00:19:43.470 day. So if I'm an influencer on Twitter, I want 00:19:43.470 --> 00:19:47.769 to grow my following. I want to make my ex revenue 00:19:47.769 --> 00:19:51.410 dollars How do I get my reward? How do I get 00:19:51.410 --> 00:19:54.230 my treat? I press the button every day every 00:19:54.230 --> 00:19:56.470 day I press the button and what's the button? 00:19:57.109 --> 00:20:00.650 Uh JFK said Hitler's spirit will rise from the 00:20:00.650 --> 00:20:07.930 grave Israel Jews did everything The liberty 00:20:07.930 --> 00:20:11.970 was intentional. Every day, press that button. 00:20:13.170 --> 00:20:16.069 And always escalating, always going in the same 00:20:16.069 --> 00:20:20.349 direction. Does it ever get refined? Is nuance 00:20:20.349 --> 00:20:23.990 introduced? Counterarguments entertained? Do 00:20:23.990 --> 00:20:27.009 we discuss the limitations, the limitations of 00:20:27.009 --> 00:20:31.140 this theory? No. Press the button. If we're not 00:20:31.140 --> 00:20:33.700 getting the same reward press the button harder 00:20:33.700 --> 00:20:36.960 press a button twice press a button 12 times 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:40.140 Slam the button so he's he's calling it out. 00:20:40.180 --> 00:20:43.200 I call this audience capture He's calling out 00:20:43.200 --> 00:20:45.720 exactly what happened and it's not all monetary. 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.859 It's also you know, it's ego like people are 00:20:48.859 --> 00:20:52.160 retweeting me I'm getting attention. I'm ratio. 00:20:52.160 --> 00:20:54.319 There's all these terms online. It's crazy last 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:57.420 clip here. We'll look at Jackson Hinkle Jackson 00:20:57.420 --> 00:20:59.500 Hinkle, I think gained like three million Twitter 00:20:59.500 --> 00:21:04.240 followers in nine months. What explains the explosion 00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:06.740 in engagement for people criticizing Israel? 00:21:07.859 --> 00:21:11.559 No one's gonna like to hear this. You're gonna 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:13.400 call me a grifter, you're gonna call me a shill, 00:21:13.420 --> 00:21:15.259 you're gonna say controlled opposition, switch 00:21:15.259 --> 00:21:18.259 sides, honest to God truth, this is the truth. 00:21:19.519 --> 00:21:22.299 Probably it was being driven from foreign countries 00:21:22.299 --> 00:21:27.259 in the left. That's just true. Why oh why all 00:21:27.259 --> 00:21:30.880 of a sudden? Did it become supercharged if you 00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:33.420 criticize Israel on Twitter boom hundred thousand 00:21:33.420 --> 00:21:36.640 likes you could literally tweet Israel hundred 00:21:36.640 --> 00:21:40.180 thousand likes Did everyone in America all of 00:21:40.180 --> 00:21:42.599 a sudden start hating Israel? Well, some people 00:21:42.599 --> 00:21:46.480 did But I think it was driven in part or maybe 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:50.359 a lot by the Muslim world, which is very engaged 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:53.890 online Because they were the ones at war with 00:21:53.890 --> 00:21:56.769 Israel because Palestine is their regional cause 00:21:56.769 --> 00:22:00.390 Palestine is their religious ethnic struggle 00:22:00.390 --> 00:22:03.789 So I think a lot like Jackson Hinkle how many 00:22:03.789 --> 00:22:05.769 of his three million followers that he gained 00:22:05.769 --> 00:22:08.009 in those nine months How many of them came from 00:22:08.009 --> 00:22:10.930 the United States of America? People knew what 00:22:10.930 --> 00:22:13.650 he was up to before all of a sudden you have 00:22:13.650 --> 00:22:16.049 this regional conflict between Israel and the 00:22:16.049 --> 00:22:18.740 Arab League effectively Or you could say the 00:22:18.740 --> 00:22:22.839 axis of resistance would be more precise Now 00:22:22.839 --> 00:22:25.640 all of a sudden anyone going after israel supercharged 00:22:25.640 --> 00:22:28.779 and we all know is being driven by these muslims 00:22:28.779 --> 00:22:30.640 We all know is being we all see it on twitter. 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:32.460 That's who's promoting it. That's who's doing 00:22:32.460 --> 00:22:36.380 it So I have respect for him for doing this uh 00:22:36.380 --> 00:22:39.779 because He he's exactly what he said. They're 00:22:39.779 --> 00:22:42.779 calling him out for that But it it's true. I 00:22:42.779 --> 00:22:45.980 mean this this I feel is true, but it has changed 00:22:45.980 --> 00:22:50.539 things dramatically online. And this pivot is 00:22:50.539 --> 00:22:55.819 taking place in rapid tempo. And I think it's 00:22:55.819 --> 00:22:58.539 fantastic to watch this happen. This is really 00:22:58.539 --> 00:23:02.980 cool to see this happen. And it's just like, 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:06.940 it was a spiritual war to begin with, and it 00:23:06.940 --> 00:23:09.660 just took the right things to line up for this 00:23:09.660 --> 00:23:13.099 to turn around, and it is turning around really 00:23:13.099 --> 00:23:15.880 quickly. Wow. I mean, it's to this point now 00:23:15.880 --> 00:23:19.859 where There was this whole, we've got to stop 00:23:19.859 --> 00:23:23.380 giving money to Israel, $3 .8 billion a year, 00:23:23.420 --> 00:23:26.339 which is military aid. Actually, I did the calculation 00:23:26.339 --> 00:23:29.880 that is literally, because people say, why are 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:34.279 you giving money to Israel? America first. Two 00:23:34.279 --> 00:23:37.079 weeks of SNAP benefits equals $3 .8 billion. 00:23:37.559 --> 00:23:41.500 Nine days of money that goes to things that don't 00:23:41.500 --> 00:23:44.359 deserve it in America, squandered, fraud, nine 00:23:44.359 --> 00:23:49.000 days. is $3 .8 billion. So if you look at all 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:51.299 the things that we put, where we put our money 00:23:51.299 --> 00:23:55.140 in context, we are definitely very much an America 00:23:55.140 --> 00:23:58.539 first spending country. We got a lot of problems. 00:23:59.539 --> 00:24:02.799 And so now Congress, there's several elements 00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:05.720 within Congress who want to really cut Israel 00:24:05.720 --> 00:24:10.140 out from everything, from the money, from military 00:24:10.140 --> 00:24:15.220 knowledge sharing, which is already being uh, 00:24:15.359 --> 00:24:18.259 being sold online as they're merging the IDF 00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:20.880 with our military. Okay. No, it's just not, that's 00:24:20.880 --> 00:24:25.059 not true. Um, now you see Democrats voting against 00:24:25.059 --> 00:24:28.119 Democrats to stop this nonsense. I could, I mean, 00:24:28.299 --> 00:24:30.680 it's all small in the details right now. You're 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:32.960 not reading a lot about it. The tidal wave is 00:24:32.960 --> 00:24:36.069 big. A big change is coming. Big change. big, 00:24:36.069 --> 00:24:40.089 beautiful tidal wave towards our president. And 00:24:40.089 --> 00:24:43.069 to get a biblical perspective on this, Galatians 00:24:43.069 --> 00:24:47.150 6 -7 says, do not be deceived. God is not mocked. 00:24:47.190 --> 00:24:50.609 For whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 00:24:51.490 --> 00:24:54.230 And this is the thing about online life. People 00:24:54.230 --> 00:24:56.890 don't realize that what they say, not only does 00:24:56.890 --> 00:25:01.900 it matter, it's forever. We know that in physics, 00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:05.519 your sound wave produced never stops. I mean, 00:25:05.579 --> 00:25:07.940 there's words still dribbling around this room 00:25:07.940 --> 00:25:13.400 from days ago. But in the digital world, once 00:25:13.400 --> 00:25:15.920 it's out there, I mean, you see people not getting 00:25:15.920 --> 00:25:18.720 jobs or getting fired from jobs because of what 00:25:18.720 --> 00:25:22.160 they felt so bold behind the keyboard. And they 00:25:22.160 --> 00:25:24.859 jumped on the bandwagon, started beating whatever 00:25:24.859 --> 00:25:27.970 it was they're beating, whatever drum. But our 00:25:27.970 --> 00:25:30.670 words matter. We will be held accountable for 00:25:30.670 --> 00:25:34.910 the words we say. And I love or I appreciate, 00:25:34.970 --> 00:25:37.089 it's probably a better word, I appreciate when 00:25:37.089 --> 00:25:39.809 we see it happen quickly. It doesn't always happen 00:25:39.809 --> 00:25:43.690 that way. No, it can take decades. Exactly. But 00:25:43.690 --> 00:25:46.609 to see this boomerang come around this quickly 00:25:46.609 --> 00:25:51.509 is telling, I'm telling you, I'm going to come 00:25:51.509 --> 00:25:54.549 from a biblical perspective every time and the 00:25:54.549 --> 00:25:58.119 Bible is clear and God is clear. that if we bless 00:25:58.119 --> 00:26:01.000 Israel, we will be blessed, but if we curse Israel, 00:26:01.579 --> 00:26:04.279 we will be cursed. And the word curse, there's 00:26:04.279 --> 00:26:06.279 several ways to break it down, but the one that 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:09.099 makes the most sense to me in terms of today's 00:26:09.099 --> 00:26:12.920 relevance, blessing means an empowerment to succeed. 00:26:13.559 --> 00:26:17.839 Cursing is an empowerment to fail. You set yourself 00:26:17.839 --> 00:26:21.900 up for failure. Yeah, when you when you go after 00:26:21.900 --> 00:26:24.099 them and we're watching that boomerang happen 00:26:24.099 --> 00:26:26.339 very quickly and and we don't even have to do 00:26:26.339 --> 00:26:29.160 anything No, you don't have to go out there and 00:26:29.160 --> 00:26:31.960 say don't to post anything. No, it's all I feel 00:26:31.960 --> 00:26:35.059 no need to do that. It's all good It's not necessary. 00:26:35.099 --> 00:26:38.019 It's the boomerang has come back all by itself. 00:26:38.019 --> 00:26:40.900 Just as it always does It's almost like it's 00:26:40.900 --> 00:26:44.400 almost like physics. It's a law of nature with 00:26:44.400 --> 00:26:46.720 with sound waves with energy waves. They just 00:26:46.720 --> 00:26:48.869 come back and it's turning everything around. 00:26:49.130 --> 00:26:50.390 It doesn't mean that there aren't problems in 00:26:50.390 --> 00:26:51.670 Israel. It doesn't mean there aren't problems 00:26:51.670 --> 00:26:53.829 here. There's problems everywhere. But that's 00:26:53.829 --> 00:26:58.150 never been the point. It's so much simpler. That's 00:26:58.150 --> 00:27:02.309 what gets me. It's like, please, people. It's 00:27:02.309 --> 00:27:04.710 just praying. That's it. Blessing and praying. 00:27:04.869 --> 00:27:06.670 You don't have to do anything else. If you can, 00:27:07.170 --> 00:27:09.509 you don't have to do anything else. The prophet 00:27:09.509 --> 00:27:13.670 Hosea was a righteous man, and God gave him an 00:27:13.670 --> 00:27:16.759 assignment, and it was harsh. He said, I want 00:27:16.759 --> 00:27:18.900 you to go marry this woman over here. She's a 00:27:18.900 --> 00:27:25.700 prostitute. Hosea was representative of God and 00:27:25.700 --> 00:27:29.460 his love. The prostitute was representative of 00:27:29.460 --> 00:27:33.279 the heart of Israel, the behavior of Israel, 00:27:33.460 --> 00:27:36.319 the character of Israel. And he told him to marry 00:27:36.319 --> 00:27:39.039 her. He marries her. They have children. She 00:27:39.039 --> 00:27:41.200 steps out on him. That's just an easy way of 00:27:41.200 --> 00:27:43.140 saying it. She begins to have other affairs. 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.279 What does God tell him to do? take her back, 00:27:46.460 --> 00:27:52.279 forgive her, over and over and over again. And 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:56.299 he continued to reach out to her with unrequited 00:27:56.299 --> 00:27:59.200 love. I mean, she would not love him back and 00:27:59.200 --> 00:28:01.759 she would continue to run away and sleep with 00:28:01.759 --> 00:28:05.039 others. And of course, the punchline in Hosea 00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:08.500 is Israel has played the harlot, love her anyway. 00:28:08.900 --> 00:28:13.049 This is God's heart. He chose that nation not 00:28:13.049 --> 00:28:15.329 because they're successful, not because they 00:28:15.329 --> 00:28:18.549 were big, and not because they honored him. He 00:28:18.549 --> 00:28:22.069 chose them to show this is how much he loves 00:28:22.069 --> 00:28:27.369 people. It's a picture of his unconditional love, 00:28:27.829 --> 00:28:30.970 agape, we read it out of the Greek, agape, this 00:28:30.970 --> 00:28:34.089 love that does not require a condition. The covenant 00:28:34.089 --> 00:28:36.690 that he cut with Abraham, it's called the Abrahamic 00:28:36.690 --> 00:28:40.660 covenant, Not the Abraham Accords. This is back 00:28:40.660 --> 00:28:43.839 in Genesis 15 and 17. It predates the Abraham 00:28:43.839 --> 00:28:47.619 Accords by a bit. He cut that, but he actually 00:28:47.619 --> 00:28:52.359 put Abraham to sleep when he cut the covenant. 00:28:52.500 --> 00:28:55.380 Usually when you cut a covenant, you state terms 00:28:55.380 --> 00:28:57.960 to one another, you agree on the terms, and then 00:28:57.960 --> 00:29:00.180 each of you walk through the animal that's been 00:29:00.180 --> 00:29:02.339 slain, and it's called the blood trail, and you 00:29:02.339 --> 00:29:05.640 go through, and that's you symbolically saying, 00:29:05.930 --> 00:29:08.250 If I do not uphold the terms of this covenant, 00:29:08.410 --> 00:29:11.349 maybe it be done unto me as it is to this animal. 00:29:12.069 --> 00:29:14.750 And when God made the covenant with Abraham, 00:29:14.809 --> 00:29:17.569 he put him to sleep. He had nothing to say or 00:29:17.569 --> 00:29:21.230 do about it. And he said, it will be a covenant 00:29:21.230 --> 00:29:25.009 forever. And in the Hebrew, that literally means 00:29:25.009 --> 00:29:28.119 forever. It's an everlasting covenant. In other 00:29:28.119 --> 00:29:30.559 words, some of the other covenants, the Mosaic 00:29:30.559 --> 00:29:33.460 covenant, the Aaronic covenant, the Davidic covenant, 00:29:33.559 --> 00:29:36.799 a lot of those were time periods. And they were 00:29:36.799 --> 00:29:40.140 dependent on both parties. But this was not. 00:29:40.259 --> 00:29:43.279 This was the one covenant that God made where 00:29:43.279 --> 00:29:47.039 Abraham, the person, the other party had no say 00:29:47.039 --> 00:29:50.039 in it. It also means there's no dependency on 00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:52.180 the other party. If the other party chooses not 00:29:52.180 --> 00:29:54.839 to uphold the terms of the covenant, God still 00:29:54.839 --> 00:29:57.240 will. This is some really good stuff you're saying 00:29:57.240 --> 00:30:00.640 here, because I'm just taking it all in. It's 00:30:00.640 --> 00:30:02.640 exactly how Jesus always, you know, Jesus didn't 00:30:02.640 --> 00:30:04.500 want to go hang out with winners and people who 00:30:04.500 --> 00:30:06.420 were doing great. He wanted to go with the broken 00:30:06.420 --> 00:30:10.500 people, with the losers. For people outside the 00:30:10.500 --> 00:30:15.819 faith, it must be so hard to understand this 00:30:15.819 --> 00:30:19.500 unconditional love for fellow man, unconditional 00:30:19.500 --> 00:30:23.440 love just like God has for Israel. But I think 00:30:23.440 --> 00:30:27.140 even for believers, it's difficult. It is. Logically, 00:30:27.319 --> 00:30:30.339 you think, to what end? How long do I have to 00:30:30.339 --> 00:30:33.500 do this? Will they ever listen? Maybe not? I 00:30:33.500 --> 00:30:36.339 mean, how do we approach that as believers? It 00:30:36.339 --> 00:30:38.680 means we have to be radically biblical. We have 00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:41.019 to make a decision upfront. Am I going to follow 00:30:41.019 --> 00:30:44.920 God's Word, God's promises, God's mandates, God's 00:30:44.920 --> 00:30:47.819 commands? Or am I going to try to fashion my 00:30:47.819 --> 00:30:53.200 own kind of Christianity, my own designer? like 00:30:53.200 --> 00:30:58.619 the back cover of Aqualung. In the beginning, 00:30:59.059 --> 00:31:02.099 man made God in his image. That's what it starts 00:31:02.099 --> 00:31:03.960 at. I remember reading that. I wasn't even a 00:31:03.960 --> 00:31:06.519 Christian. I went, that sounds blasphemous. I 00:31:06.519 --> 00:31:08.920 wasn't even a believer. I was like, I don't know 00:31:08.920 --> 00:31:13.200 if I'd go that far, but that statement of people 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:17.549 trying to make Christianity work for them. Where 00:31:17.549 --> 00:31:19.589 Christianity becomes the addendum it comes to 00:31:19.589 --> 00:31:22.549 the add -on not the primary driver of your life 00:31:22.549 --> 00:31:25.130 your faith life And so we have to make a decision 00:31:25.130 --> 00:31:28.029 who's gonna be on the throne of my life me or 00:31:28.029 --> 00:31:31.829 am I gonna put God there and no matter What it 00:31:31.829 --> 00:31:34.029 looks like to the culture around me in the time 00:31:34.029 --> 00:31:37.950 period in which I live I've already made my choice. 00:31:38.089 --> 00:31:40.789 I don't change my mind in the middle of the game 00:31:40.789 --> 00:31:44.430 To fit the culture and that's what we see a lot 00:31:44.430 --> 00:31:46.210 of because I think there are a lot of believers 00:31:46.460 --> 00:31:49.140 who haven't bought in. They haven't stepped over 00:31:49.140 --> 00:31:52.420 the line. They made an emotional decision. They 00:31:52.420 --> 00:31:54.420 heard a sermon, heard a good song, and it got 00:31:54.420 --> 00:31:57.539 their emotions moving. And in the moment, they 00:31:57.539 --> 00:32:00.480 meant it as far as their emotions, but it wasn't 00:32:00.480 --> 00:32:03.880 a rational decision. They made that, I will follow 00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:07.240 Jesus. I will obey God's word no matter what 00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:11.880 it costs me, no matter what it takes. Now let's 00:32:11.880 --> 00:32:15.569 talk about balance. as a believer. So, when we 00:32:15.569 --> 00:32:17.829 have these weekends and we have these conversations, 00:32:17.950 --> 00:32:21.130 these discussions, it can feel very much like, 00:32:21.250 --> 00:32:23.049 that's what I'm supposed to do as a Christian. 00:32:23.329 --> 00:32:25.809 I am supposed to be blessing Israel, praying 00:32:25.809 --> 00:32:30.069 for the peace of Jerusalem. But it's not, you 00:32:30.069 --> 00:32:31.769 know what I mean? It's like, it becomes the focus. 00:32:31.890 --> 00:32:33.190 Like, is that what I'm supposed to do? Is that 00:32:33.190 --> 00:32:35.190 what it's all about? Pastor Jimmy, help. It's 00:32:35.190 --> 00:32:37.750 not what it's all about. It's one spoke in the 00:32:37.750 --> 00:32:41.839 wheel. Yeah. You look at a motorcycle tire, it's 00:32:41.839 --> 00:32:44.099 got a lot of spokes in it. It's one spoke of 00:32:44.099 --> 00:32:47.779 many. And so I don't go now, sew my entire life 00:32:47.779 --> 00:32:51.019 into this. It's just a part of who I am as a 00:32:51.019 --> 00:32:54.660 follower of Jesus. We don't preach about Israel, 00:32:55.019 --> 00:32:58.660 but we pray for them every week. Is it an analog 00:32:58.660 --> 00:33:01.160 to how we are supposed to be towards our fellow 00:33:01.160 --> 00:33:05.440 man? Oh, absolutely. Again, the picture of Hosea. 00:33:05.640 --> 00:33:07.900 marrying a prostitute and loving her no matter 00:33:07.900 --> 00:33:11.240 what. It wasn't dependent on her, it was dependent 00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:14.579 on Hosea's love. Same way with God, same way 00:33:14.579 --> 00:33:17.359 with us. How many times do you forgive your brother 00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:19.880 who offends you, the scripture says? Seven times 00:33:19.880 --> 00:33:22.680 seven? No, seven times 77. I mean, he's like, 00:33:22.859 --> 00:33:25.619 he's given an infinite number because it's going 00:33:25.619 --> 00:33:27.940 to happen. But we already in culture don't do 00:33:27.940 --> 00:33:30.000 that. I know. That's wrong. We don't do that. 00:33:30.019 --> 00:33:33.059 We don't forgive. There are people still so mad 00:33:33.059 --> 00:33:35.799 with their actual brothers and sisters and family 00:33:35.799 --> 00:33:38.720 because of what happened with separations during 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:41.859 COVID, which I think is all a part of this, by 00:33:41.859 --> 00:33:44.700 the way. It all flows into this. No doubt. There's 00:33:44.700 --> 00:33:47.160 a strategy there. There was some demonic stuff 00:33:47.160 --> 00:33:50.759 going down. Man, there's a lot of healing to 00:33:50.759 --> 00:33:53.500 do. A lot of healing. When we pray the Lord's 00:33:53.500 --> 00:33:55.160 Prayer, which we do that every week as well. 00:33:55.220 --> 00:33:57.680 I'm very intentional with these things. The reason 00:33:57.680 --> 00:33:59.559 we do the Lord's Prayer is because in the Lord's 00:33:59.559 --> 00:34:02.980 Prayer, it says, forgive us our debts as we forgive 00:34:02.980 --> 00:34:05.500 our debtors. But really, I actually slipped up 00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:07.339 in one of the services, I think the first one, 00:34:07.460 --> 00:34:10.159 and I said, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive 00:34:10.159 --> 00:34:11.860 those, because that's how I learned it as a kid, 00:34:12.139 --> 00:34:16.480 so it comes up. But when I'm praying that prayer 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:20.719 for myself, I say, Father, forgive me my offenses 00:34:20.719 --> 00:34:24.139 as I forgive those who offend me. Now, who's 00:34:24.139 --> 00:34:28.679 it dependent on? me, as I forgive them. Then 00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:31.019 you will be forgiven. Exactly. It's conditional. 00:34:32.719 --> 00:34:36.199 We call it a covenant statement. And so it's 00:34:36.199 --> 00:34:40.480 covenantal in that I'm saying, only as I forgive 00:34:40.480 --> 00:34:43.059 will I be forgiven, but that's biblical too. 00:34:43.340 --> 00:34:45.780 So that's part of the prayer. So we do that. 00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:48.360 So we pray for the peace of Jerusalem, but I'm 00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:51.000 not going to go out and buy, you know, star of 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:52.940 David necklace to hang around my neck just to 00:34:52.940 --> 00:34:54.800 show everybody. That'd be pretty awesome if you 00:34:54.800 --> 00:34:56.840 had your shirt open and one of those little hairy 00:34:56.840 --> 00:34:58.440 chest. That would be pretty cool. Look like an 00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:04.139 Italian pastor. Hair, some bling, some Christian 00:35:04.139 --> 00:35:08.380 bling, the cross. That's the thing is people 00:35:08.380 --> 00:35:11.619 can get. swept up, just like anything. They get 00:35:11.619 --> 00:35:14.840 swept up into America, patriotism. They get swept 00:35:14.840 --> 00:35:19.420 up into now. I hated Israel. I went to a seminar 00:35:19.420 --> 00:35:22.519 now. I love Israel. And then they go nuts. We're 00:35:22.519 --> 00:35:25.820 always over -correcting the car. My dad used 00:35:25.820 --> 00:35:27.559 to teach me driving because everything was rear 00:35:27.559 --> 00:35:29.820 -wheel drive growing up. He'd teach me, he'd 00:35:29.820 --> 00:35:30.880 say, all right, I'm going to throw the car into 00:35:30.880 --> 00:35:33.739 a power slide. What do you do? Steer into it. 00:35:33.840 --> 00:35:36.679 You don't over -correct. That's how you roll 00:35:36.679 --> 00:35:39.380 a car, and that's how you roll a life, too. Well, 00:35:39.739 --> 00:35:44.860 I mean, yes, there's so much to think about and 00:35:44.860 --> 00:35:48.760 to learn from this. And I think that's kind of 00:35:48.760 --> 00:35:52.579 my takeaway is, you know, look at the analogies, 00:35:52.739 --> 00:35:55.699 look at what you're being shown, try, continuously 00:35:55.699 --> 00:35:59.739 try, and I fail, to apply this to my own life. 00:36:00.280 --> 00:36:02.460 Actually, I find online is a really great place 00:36:02.460 --> 00:36:06.280 to do it. When someone just says something really 00:36:06.280 --> 00:36:09.699 horrible, I don't respond. I just bless them 00:36:09.699 --> 00:36:13.619 right at that moment. It's difficult because 00:36:13.619 --> 00:36:17.500 if you fail at it, time and time and time again. 00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:25.139 There's a lot stacked against us in this world. 00:36:25.139 --> 00:36:27.199 There is a lot stacked against us. One of the 00:36:27.199 --> 00:36:30.219 things that you've helped me do, Adam, is not 00:36:30.219 --> 00:36:35.320 put the weight of public opinion in the online 00:36:35.320 --> 00:36:39.730 world. I mean, the representative population 00:36:39.730 --> 00:36:42.489 of the world that's sitting there pecking out 00:36:42.489 --> 00:36:44.730 negative comments towards you and dissing on 00:36:44.730 --> 00:36:49.809 you is so infinitesimal to the world. There's 00:36:49.809 --> 00:36:53.449 a good world with good people out there. And 00:36:53.449 --> 00:36:57.989 it's a much smaller population that's sitting 00:36:57.989 --> 00:37:00.489 online waiting to jump on your next statement. 00:37:01.170 --> 00:37:05.210 I'm over that. And much of this is dead internet? 00:37:05.910 --> 00:37:11.869 bots, bots programmed to talk back and to manipulate 00:37:11.869 --> 00:37:15.989 opinion. And that comes from governments, it 00:37:15.989 --> 00:37:18.530 comes from corporations, comes from stock traders. 00:37:19.010 --> 00:37:21.610 Somebody that has an agenda. You'd be amazed 00:37:21.610 --> 00:37:22.590 how much that's in there. I want to live with 00:37:22.590 --> 00:37:26.239 no agenda. Let me just say that. It's a great 00:37:26.239 --> 00:37:28.619 life. It's the international lifestyle. It's 00:37:28.619 --> 00:37:32.219 peaceful when you succeed at it. When you can 00:37:32.219 --> 00:37:35.320 step back and pause. I mean, I get crap all the 00:37:35.320 --> 00:37:37.840 time online and I just go, whatever. Oh, you 00:37:37.840 --> 00:37:39.659 just identified yourself. All right, I bless 00:37:39.659 --> 00:37:42.000 that. I pray for you by name now. Thanks for 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:44.619 giving me your name or your handle, whatever. 00:37:45.500 --> 00:37:49.380 We got so many great emails and feedback coming 00:37:49.380 --> 00:37:51.920 in. Now, we got a note from Holly. She's in France 00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:55.079 right now. Yeah, yeah, she's traveling, riding 00:37:55.079 --> 00:37:56.760 her bicycle all over the country. That's our 00:37:56.760 --> 00:37:59.579 Holly who sings here. Yes. And she's like, I 00:37:59.579 --> 00:38:02.420 already miss the church family. I love it. We 00:38:02.420 --> 00:38:05.300 miss her. We do. And as she said, I've only been 00:38:05.300 --> 00:38:07.119 gone for four days, already missing my church 00:38:07.119 --> 00:38:09.920 family. This episode, that was 40, I guess, was 00:38:09.920 --> 00:38:14.300 exactly what I needed. And I loved hearing this 00:38:14.300 --> 00:38:21.980 so much because this podcast to me is That's 00:38:21.980 --> 00:38:25.380 the impact, that's success. I've had so many 00:38:25.380 --> 00:38:27.199 projects in my life where it had to be numbers. 00:38:27.920 --> 00:38:30.039 What's the number? What's the download? What's 00:38:30.039 --> 00:38:32.179 the size? What's the rating? What's the this? 00:38:32.260 --> 00:38:34.960 What's the that? And even my devotional this 00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:37.699 morning, my goodness, I should have brought that 00:38:37.699 --> 00:38:40.960 with me. It was talking about this very thing, 00:38:41.400 --> 00:38:44.340 about how God is not impressed by big numbers, 00:38:44.360 --> 00:38:46.519 and He will not bless based upon the numbers. 00:38:46.599 --> 00:38:51.340 It's just not important. Man, once you get yourself 00:38:51.340 --> 00:38:54.460 through that, life changes so much. It's like, 00:38:54.500 --> 00:38:57.539 oh, I look at things quite differently now. I 00:38:57.539 --> 00:39:02.400 really do. It's so good. So good. Here's one 00:39:02.400 --> 00:39:05.219 that I think I mentioned to you the other day. 00:39:05.239 --> 00:39:09.880 We got a note from Aaron Newberry, and he's in 00:39:09.880 --> 00:39:14.360 Colorado. And he had heard us talking about Victor 00:39:14.360 --> 00:39:19.230 Marx. And he said, Marx is running for governor 00:39:19.230 --> 00:39:21.289 of Colorado. I think he actually won the primary. 00:39:21.429 --> 00:39:24.769 He's for the Republican Party. I'm a Christian, 00:39:25.150 --> 00:39:27.929 he says. I just have this leery feeling about 00:39:27.929 --> 00:39:30.610 him. I'm not sure what it is. I've been praying 00:39:30.610 --> 00:39:33.409 about it. Maybe it's just me and my paranoia, 00:39:33.690 --> 00:39:36.230 and he would love to know our thoughts about 00:39:36.230 --> 00:39:39.070 Victor Marx. So I'm going to toss that right 00:39:39.070 --> 00:39:40.889 into your court there, brother. And then you'll 00:39:40.889 --> 00:39:43.769 land on that. Well, I will. Because he had some 00:39:43.769 --> 00:39:46.190 great ministry in your direction as well. Yes. 00:39:46.369 --> 00:39:50.349 So yeah, Victor Marx is a solid, solid, strong 00:39:50.349 --> 00:39:54.329 conservative believer, follower of Jesus, committed 00:39:54.329 --> 00:39:57.230 to his family to the core, and his wife is a 00:39:57.230 --> 00:39:59.869 rock star. Yes. He's one of those that when he 00:39:59.869 --> 00:40:02.730 preaches, he looks over at her and bounces things 00:40:02.730 --> 00:40:06.150 off of her mid -message. He did that. So we hosted 00:40:06.150 --> 00:40:10.130 Victor Marks in our church. And I felt like I 00:40:10.130 --> 00:40:12.329 met a brother from another mother as we got to 00:40:12.329 --> 00:40:14.690 know each other. And we had a lot of conversations. 00:40:14.949 --> 00:40:18.070 We're close to the same age. So we had a lot 00:40:18.070 --> 00:40:19.889 of conversations about physical fitness because 00:40:19.889 --> 00:40:23.369 we're both trying to steward our bodies and go 00:40:23.369 --> 00:40:26.070 for the long game. But what I appreciated was 00:40:26.070 --> 00:40:29.210 his heart. His heart to protect the broken because 00:40:29.210 --> 00:40:32.849 his testimony, whoever wonders about Victor Marx 00:40:32.849 --> 00:40:35.510 should go back and look for his testimony online. 00:40:35.670 --> 00:40:37.289 It's going to be on YouTube. There's videos. 00:40:37.530 --> 00:40:40.480 There's a little documentary about it. and realize 00:40:40.480 --> 00:40:43.320 what this man came from, kind of like a JD Vance 00:40:43.320 --> 00:40:46.679 who was just very abused, very neglected as a 00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:49.900 child. Extremely abused, really. Yeah, raised 00:40:49.900 --> 00:40:53.639 in poverty and yet overcame that to become a 00:40:53.639 --> 00:40:55.920 world changer. Somebody's going to make a difference 00:40:55.920 --> 00:40:58.260 in the world and that's Victor Marx. That's his 00:40:58.260 --> 00:41:01.639 heart. His heart really is for protecting the 00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:06.869 innocent. Yes. Much of his later in life ministry 00:41:06.869 --> 00:41:10.710 has been directed towards rescuing children from 00:41:10.710 --> 00:41:14.349 trafficking, sex trafficking, slave trafficking, 00:41:15.090 --> 00:41:17.670 and they do that in some of the most dark and 00:41:17.670 --> 00:41:22.070 dangerous parts of the world. And so when he 00:41:22.070 --> 00:41:24.829 came here, and I'll just add my two cents here, 00:41:25.230 --> 00:41:26.909 and I've been trying to think about this question 00:41:26.909 --> 00:41:30.769 because I can see how he looks, how he may portray 00:41:30.769 --> 00:41:34.730 himself, how an Instagram post looks, words that 00:41:34.730 --> 00:41:37.510 he might use. He's certainly not refined necessarily 00:41:37.510 --> 00:41:41.750 in his speech. I can see how that can come across 00:41:41.750 --> 00:41:47.159 as, what was the term that he used here? That 00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:52.039 was an interesting term, leery feeling. That's 00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:54.179 a lot of that is just programming that's been 00:41:54.179 --> 00:41:56.599 hammered into us from media and entertainment. 00:41:58.099 --> 00:41:59.920 But if you look at his heart, and what happened 00:41:59.920 --> 00:42:02.880 to me with Victor is I'd never met him. He didn't 00:42:02.880 --> 00:42:05.800 know who I was. He had no idea of my background. 00:42:05.920 --> 00:42:08.119 He said, I need to speak with you. Did we talk 00:42:08.119 --> 00:42:09.860 about this on the show at some point? No, no, 00:42:09.860 --> 00:42:13.039 not this one. And he brought me down to Patriot 00:42:13.039 --> 00:42:16.980 Academy where he was staying. And he said, I 00:42:16.980 --> 00:42:19.820 need to talk to you. I need to, what is the term 00:42:19.820 --> 00:42:21.760 that I'm looking for? Is it like a deliverance? 00:42:22.019 --> 00:42:25.780 Yeah, yeah, it's freedom ministry, but it's something 00:42:25.780 --> 00:42:32.039 prayer. Retool. Yes, he says, I do this with 00:42:32.039 --> 00:42:35.139 special forces. I've done this with CEOs. I think 00:42:35.139 --> 00:42:36.960 he said a president or two. I'm going to do this 00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:39.280 to you because I don't know, but you need this. 00:42:40.000 --> 00:42:42.960 And he just went to town praying over me and 00:42:42.960 --> 00:42:49.019 helped me identify the actual evil that surrounds 00:42:49.019 --> 00:42:53.659 me, that is somehow connected, and this can be 00:42:53.659 --> 00:42:56.860 from childhood and years, but it's an actual 00:42:56.860 --> 00:42:59.079 kind of a physical thing that you can't see. 00:42:59.920 --> 00:43:04.239 And it was so powerful that at a certain point, 00:43:05.079 --> 00:43:08.739 as he's telling these entities to leave me... 00:43:09.119 --> 00:43:10.599 I don't want anyone to think that this is like 00:43:10.599 --> 00:43:12.699 crazy voodoo -woo -woo stuff. Your head didn't 00:43:12.699 --> 00:43:14.820 spin around. You didn't spit pea soup or anything, 00:43:14.900 --> 00:43:17.500 right? But the lights and the entire power in 00:43:17.500 --> 00:43:20.239 the Patriot Academy went out, which doesn't happen 00:43:20.239 --> 00:43:23.039 at the Patriot Academy. Yeah, right when we were 00:43:23.039 --> 00:43:25.260 praying. Right when he's in the middle of this 00:43:25.260 --> 00:43:28.039 prayer. And to this day, that retooling that 00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:30.320 he's done, I repeat it every single day on my 00:43:30.320 --> 00:43:32.449 prayer walk because— Excellent. It protects me. 00:43:33.469 --> 00:43:35.769 Like you may just say, not today, Satan. You 00:43:35.769 --> 00:43:37.949 have no power here. You have no authority over 00:43:37.949 --> 00:43:41.230 my family. You're weak. This has already been 00:43:41.230 --> 00:43:43.869 fought. And so I add to that, get out of my light, 00:43:44.050 --> 00:43:47.730 you Kujo. That's the name I gave it. And all 00:43:47.730 --> 00:43:49.869 you can do is kneel down at the throne of our 00:43:49.869 --> 00:43:52.409 Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, whose blood was 00:43:52.409 --> 00:43:54.489 shed on the cross for us. We're protected. We're 00:43:54.489 --> 00:43:56.909 covered. And this goes for my family, for my 00:43:56.909 --> 00:44:00.050 wife, for my dog, for my friends, for our daughters, 00:44:00.110 --> 00:44:02.400 and for my sister. and their families. And I 00:44:02.400 --> 00:44:06.400 got to tell you, it starts my day off good. And 00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:09.900 I feel powerful. So that's the Victor Marx that 00:44:09.900 --> 00:44:13.440 you and I know. And so we've been following his 00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:16.920 campaign. Certainly when you got a guy like this, 00:44:17.099 --> 00:44:18.780 a lot of people come out of the woodwork and 00:44:18.780 --> 00:44:21.380 try to discredit him and knock him down. That's 00:44:21.380 --> 00:44:24.900 so far that has not worked in Colorado. Definitely 00:44:24.900 --> 00:44:27.179 the state has changed throughout the year. So 00:44:27.179 --> 00:44:30.019 he's got quite a run ahead of him, but yeah, 00:44:30.340 --> 00:44:32.739 I endorse him. I would just say that. I really 00:44:32.739 --> 00:44:34.500 endorse what he stands for. And he's another 00:44:34.500 --> 00:44:38.099 man who's not a politician. That's part of the 00:44:38.099 --> 00:44:41.360 value. We've got people that are grassroots beginning 00:44:41.360 --> 00:44:45.239 to say, all right, Donald Trump wasn't a politician 00:44:45.239 --> 00:44:47.820 and he's holding the highest office in the land. 00:44:48.179 --> 00:44:50.920 So maybe I can make a difference. Funny how that's 00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:53.699 kind of where our... Founding fathers came from 00:44:53.699 --> 00:44:56.500 interesting and they were like 20 year old farmers 00:44:56.500 --> 00:45:00.920 farmers. Yeah, you know printer Iron smith, you 00:45:00.920 --> 00:45:03.699 know, you know exactly exactly normal regular 00:45:03.699 --> 00:45:08.320 people I just want to congratulate codename Pete 00:45:08.320 --> 00:45:10.940 Remember talked about Pete who was suffering 00:45:10.940 --> 00:45:14.119 for alcoholism. Yes, and I went back and forth 00:45:14.119 --> 00:45:16.519 with him and I wanted to share this because I'm 00:45:16.519 --> 00:45:20.219 so Proud of his bravery because he knew he had 00:45:20.219 --> 00:45:23.000 to go through a detox, and he was trying to white 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:26.300 -knuckle this stuff. I said, brother, I recommend 00:45:26.300 --> 00:45:29.000 AA because they have a faith -based program. 00:45:29.219 --> 00:45:31.900 I've seen it work. It's literally saved dear 00:45:31.900 --> 00:45:34.559 friends of mine. And he was very afraid to tell 00:45:34.559 --> 00:45:38.699 his wife about it. And I said, man, You got it. 00:45:38.699 --> 00:45:40.739 You got to talk to your wife. This is your partner 00:45:40.739 --> 00:45:43.840 if she's a proverb 31 wife She will be there 00:45:43.840 --> 00:45:46.059 for you and she will see it through with you 00:45:46.059 --> 00:45:49.420 and he did and and he's he's going into the program 00:45:49.420 --> 00:45:53.539 is doing the detox I said that probably takes 00:45:53.539 --> 00:45:56.500 more courage than the actual detox part, brother. 00:45:57.239 --> 00:46:00.099 So I was just so proud that he did that. And 00:46:00.099 --> 00:46:04.380 I look forward to hearing from him again as he 00:46:04.380 --> 00:46:08.219 goes through this journey. Wow. Can I share a 00:46:08.219 --> 00:46:11.219 good news moment from Rhett Rogers? Rhett Rogers, 00:46:11.900 --> 00:46:15.500 he's one of the Carnivore brothers. I'm connected 00:46:15.500 --> 00:46:17.119 to the Carnivore community. In fact, I'm doing 00:46:17.119 --> 00:46:20.909 a couple of... I want to hear about that. Talk 00:46:20.909 --> 00:46:22.289 about Rhett first. I want to hear about that. 00:46:22.349 --> 00:46:25.610 Rhett's fantastic. He's just become a dear brother 00:46:25.610 --> 00:46:27.610 to the Lord. The thing that was interesting is 00:46:27.610 --> 00:46:29.809 when I didn't actually step into this space, 00:46:30.030 --> 00:46:34.690 I got pulled into it. Turns out there's a ton 00:46:34.690 --> 00:46:36.650 of people that are in that world, the health 00:46:36.650 --> 00:46:38.860 and fitness world, that are Christians. They're 00:46:38.860 --> 00:46:41.039 just trying to steward their life, steward their 00:46:41.039 --> 00:46:43.579 body, you know, the physical side. So I met Rhett 00:46:43.579 --> 00:46:48.099 at several different meetups. MEAT meetups. Yeah, 00:46:48.400 --> 00:46:50.800 exactly. And so he wrote, he said, hello, Pastor 00:46:50.800 --> 00:46:52.739 Jimmy, this is Rhett Rogers. We met in Austin 00:46:52.739 --> 00:46:55.099 and Tennessee. Just had to message you today. 00:46:55.199 --> 00:46:57.260 I hope you don't mind. I was having a terrible 00:46:57.260 --> 00:46:59.420 day. One of those no good, very bad, terrible, 00:46:59.579 --> 00:47:02.280 I'm going to go eat worms kind of days. Eat worms. 00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:05.150 At least he's staying carnivore. I got in my 00:47:05.150 --> 00:47:07.690 car after work and I was angry. I couldn't get 00:47:07.690 --> 00:47:09.510 let go. So before I drove off, I said a quick 00:47:09.510 --> 00:47:11.769 prayer. Lord, I don't know why I'm so angry. 00:47:11.909 --> 00:47:13.929 I love you. Please take this from me. I started 00:47:13.929 --> 00:47:15.989 to drive and I remembered I missed your podcast 00:47:15.989 --> 00:47:19.010 from yesterday. This was last week. I had 51 00:47:19.010 --> 00:47:21.929 minutes on my commute and your episode was 51 00:47:21.929 --> 00:47:25.750 minutes. Exactly. I just felt a warm hug from 00:47:25.750 --> 00:47:27.969 this experience. Wanted to share with you. Absolutely 00:47:27.969 --> 00:47:30.619 love what you do and want you to know. You're 00:47:30.619 --> 00:47:33.440 encouraging and blessing people all the way in 00:47:33.440 --> 00:47:35.940 Washington state. I don't miss an episode though 00:47:35.940 --> 00:47:38.460 sometimes I'm late. In this case, the timing 00:47:38.460 --> 00:47:41.280 was perfect. God bless you, my friend. We get 00:47:41.280 --> 00:47:44.260 to do this and I thank you and Adam again for 00:47:44.260 --> 00:47:49.679 all you do. Sorry for the book. That's what it's 00:47:49.679 --> 00:47:52.219 about though is we want to help people. That 00:47:52.219 --> 00:47:55.639 is the bottom line. We're not selling something. 00:47:55.760 --> 00:47:58.760 This isn't MLM. We're not multi -level marketing 00:47:58.760 --> 00:48:02.079 anything. It's just we want to get good news 00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:05.659 into people's lives. In the world that's, the 00:48:05.659 --> 00:48:08.360 internet world that's got a lot of bad news. 00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:12.059 Yeah. I think we're a balance. I like to think 00:48:12.059 --> 00:48:14.519 of us as a balance to what else is out there. 00:48:14.820 --> 00:48:16.800 Yeah. Like a counterbalance. A counterbalance. 00:48:17.900 --> 00:48:20.099 I wrote something down. I don't know why I'm 00:48:20.099 --> 00:48:24.309 just going to bring it up here today. As I heard 00:48:24.309 --> 00:48:29.750 someone say, busy is a burden under Satan's yoke. 00:48:30.309 --> 00:48:36.829 The tyranny of the urgent as a counterfeit. Surrender 00:48:36.829 --> 00:48:39.969 brings you into the Lord's boot camp of belief. 00:48:40.889 --> 00:48:44.469 And I just wrote these things down. And for me, 00:48:44.530 --> 00:48:46.989 it's like every day I have to remind myself, 00:48:47.610 --> 00:48:49.469 like when you get to the angry, I want to eat 00:48:49.469 --> 00:48:54.920 worms part, I'm not in control. It's the best 00:48:54.920 --> 00:48:57.039 thing I've learned in the past, you know, almost 00:48:57.039 --> 00:49:00.500 four years. I'm not in control. And Lord, just 00:49:00.500 --> 00:49:02.440 help me. Man, Tina and I have gotten really good 00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:06.000 at this now. Like something happens and stop, 00:49:06.159 --> 00:49:08.860 pray. We're not in control. Lord, it's your control. 00:49:09.039 --> 00:49:11.920 That's usually after the initial spin -up. Because 00:49:11.920 --> 00:49:13.880 we all react to things. We're getting real good 00:49:13.880 --> 00:49:17.420 at that. Right. Like the time is shorter and 00:49:17.420 --> 00:49:20.400 shorter, right? Yes, compresses. And your recovery 00:49:20.400 --> 00:49:23.320 time is quicker. You can see it right away in 00:49:23.320 --> 00:49:26.920 our faces. Love that. Oh, wow. You're right. 00:49:27.159 --> 00:49:30.019 This is the enemy. Or let's look at this from 00:49:30.019 --> 00:49:34.219 this angle. Wow, it's so good. It's so good. 00:49:34.699 --> 00:49:36.360 It doesn't mean that crap doesn't happen because 00:49:36.360 --> 00:49:40.300 it does. But yeah, I think the recovery, I mean, 00:49:40.420 --> 00:49:44.150 that's so good when it's like. 15 seconds instead 00:49:44.150 --> 00:49:46.730 of 15 hours. Yeah, a day and a half. I was thinking 00:49:46.730 --> 00:49:49.769 a day and a half. Easily. That was our joke when 00:49:49.769 --> 00:49:51.070 Annette and I were young and married. We were 00:49:51.070 --> 00:49:54.969 like, okay, if she was that mad at me, we'd have 00:49:54.969 --> 00:49:56.510 the conversation, but it's still going to be 00:49:56.510 --> 00:49:59.269 a day and a half of coldness, you know? Cold 00:49:59.269 --> 00:50:01.349 atmosphere. And you just feel bad. It's like 00:50:01.349 --> 00:50:04.510 there's a pit in your stomach. Awkward conversations, 00:50:04.889 --> 00:50:06.889 you're tiptoeing. Pretending to be really nice 00:50:06.889 --> 00:50:10.219 to each other like, I know what's going on. But 00:50:10.219 --> 00:50:12.400 that's the beauty of building your life on a 00:50:12.400 --> 00:50:15.300 solid foundation of faith. And I brought this 00:50:15.300 --> 00:50:17.559 in here on purpose because this is my reminder. 00:50:18.320 --> 00:50:20.440 So what it is I've got sitting on the table in 00:50:20.440 --> 00:50:23.079 front of Adam and I is the National Monument 00:50:23.079 --> 00:50:25.420 to the Forefathers. I don't have the actual one. 00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:29.940 It's 81 feet high. This one's a foot maybe. It's 00:50:29.940 --> 00:50:32.079 over there in Massachusetts. We went to see it. 00:50:32.079 --> 00:50:34.659 But I've got a replica of it. And what I love 00:50:34.659 --> 00:50:36.679 about this, I keep it on my desk. I put it on 00:50:36.679 --> 00:50:38.639 my desk now. I used to have it over on a table. 00:50:39.280 --> 00:50:41.739 I want it in front of me all day long to remind 00:50:41.739 --> 00:50:45.920 me of this initial piece and that's faith. The 00:50:45.920 --> 00:50:48.340 top of that monument is a female and she's holding 00:50:48.340 --> 00:50:51.059 her finger up in the air and she's called faith 00:50:51.059 --> 00:50:53.480 and she's holding a Geneva Bible, one of the 00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:55.679 original Bibles that was brought over on the 00:50:55.679 --> 00:50:59.019 Mayflower actually. And then you've got the four 00:50:59.019 --> 00:51:02.659 foundations that support faith. One is liberty. 00:51:02.889 --> 00:51:06.969 the other one is morality, the other one is law, 00:51:07.510 --> 00:51:10.449 and the other one is education. And all of these 00:51:10.449 --> 00:51:13.670 work together to support and create a foundation 00:51:13.670 --> 00:51:17.030 that you can build a life on, but that we also 00:51:17.030 --> 00:51:19.070 built our nation on. A great country, that's 00:51:19.070 --> 00:51:21.250 right. And so to go forward, sometimes you need 00:51:21.250 --> 00:51:24.429 to look back. You need to remember your foundations. 00:51:24.949 --> 00:51:27.809 Remember your founding fathers and mothers. You 00:51:27.809 --> 00:51:31.250 know, both now, for me, not only nationally, 00:51:31.469 --> 00:51:36.090 but also spiritually. You touched down on the 00:51:36.090 --> 00:51:38.929 numbers. You got the whole runway to go. Perfect 00:51:38.929 --> 00:51:41.570 three -point landing, brother. All right, everybody. 00:51:41.690 --> 00:51:43.489 We'll be back next week, and we look forward 00:51:43.489 --> 00:51:46.269 to it because we get to do this. Have a great 00:51:46.269 --> 00:51:46.570 week.