Action4Canada - Finances - A Biblical Perspective With Tanya Gaw & Tanner Hnidey, Nov. 20, 2024

00:00:00.000 So as you mentioned lately, I've been talking then about pensions.

00:00:02.620 Now, in particular, I've been talking about the Canadian Pension Plan.

00:00:06.040 And part of what we're trying to do, this group that I speak with or town halls that

00:00:10.620 I go to, is expose just how government uses programs like the Canadian Pension Plan to,

00:00:17.320 wouldn't you know it, make people financially responsible on the government so that they

00:00:23.220 have to put all of their hope and faith in the government.

00:00:26.520 You think about how much you paid into that pension over your life.

00:00:30.000 Which is a lot of money or over your working life.

00:00:32.320 And you think about what you're receiving from that pension now.

00:00:36.060 Ask yourself the question, is it really that fair of a pension?

00:00:39.880 Is government really servicing you that well?

00:00:43.200 You know, when you think that the average rates of return for the individual pensioner on his

00:00:49.120 or her Canadian Pension Plan is about two and a half or three percent, and that's all, it

00:00:55.020 doesn't sound like a very good investment to me.

00:00:56.980 When you think about the fact that when you pass away, your pension is gone, it's not as

00:01:02.180 though your beneficiaries receive anything.

00:01:04.240 No, instead it's swallowed up by the government machine.

00:01:07.320 That doesn't sound like a very smart financial decision to me.

00:01:10.480 When you think about the difference in what you could have earned with, you know, private,

00:01:15.140 your own private investment over 40 years versus shoveling thousands of dollars every year

00:01:20.540 into the Canadian Pension Plan and come away with far less, that doesn't sound like a very

00:01:25.820 sustainable or proper financial plan to me.

00:01:29.240 And finally, when you think about how government manipulates the numbers, it's so egregious.

00:01:35.240 For example.

00:01:35.780 We are so pleased that Tanner Nadeh is joining us on tonight's Empower Hour.

00:01:46.060 Tanner graduated with a degree in economics, and he's the author of two books, True Christianity,

00:01:53.580 published in 2020, and Kingdom of Cain, Escape the Insanity of Progressivism, published in January

00:02:01.000 2024.

00:02:02.900 Tanner is a powerful and knowledgeable speaker who unapologetically and passionately defends

00:02:09.000 conservative values, common sense, and Christianity.

00:02:12.820 He's a frequent guest on numerous television shows and podcasts, and he also has his own website

00:02:18.520 and podcast.

00:02:20.100 Tonight, we're eagerly looking forward to Tanner's presentation on finances from a biblical perspective.

00:02:26.740 Will you all please help me welcome Tanner Nadeh.

00:02:30.020 Welcome, Tanner.

00:02:30.760 We're so pleased you can join us on the Empower Hour.

00:02:33.820 Hi.

00:02:34.480 Thank you so much for having me.

00:02:36.680 Super.

00:02:37.260 Thank you so much, Heather.

00:02:38.580 And welcome, Tanner.

00:02:39.840 I've been looking forward to this.

00:02:41.300 This is a really important topic to many Canadians who are just concerned about how to make ends

00:02:47.140 meet and keep food on the table and a roof over their heads.

00:02:50.820 And so I'm very interested in hearing your presentation tonight.

00:02:55.060 So thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to join us.

00:02:59.320 Oh, my pleasure.

00:03:00.420 My pleasure.

00:03:01.100 Thank you so much.

00:03:02.640 All right.

00:03:03.080 Well, what we'll do is we're just going to get straight at it.

00:03:05.480 I'm going to ask our viewers that if you have questions for Tanner, you need to join us,

00:03:10.960 register on the Zoom and join us in Zoom.

00:03:13.600 And because we have many people that are joining us live as well.

00:03:17.460 So you're welcome to ask, add them to the Q&A, and we'll cover hopefully most of those questions

00:03:23.440 or all of them at the end.

00:03:24.940 So over to you, Tanner.

00:03:26.280 Thank you.

00:03:27.580 Perfect.

00:03:28.120 Thank you so much.

00:03:28.980 Well, as I mentioned before, it's my pleasure to be with you all here tonight.

00:03:32.840 It's my pleasure to be presenting on this so critical a topic, especially as everyone knows,

00:03:39.100 our government is increasingly intent on, you know, destroying our finances.

00:03:43.960 But before I get going, just in case anyone doesn't know me, as mentioned, my name is Tanner

00:03:48.920 Nadei.

00:03:49.280 I graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Calgary a couple of years

00:03:54.420 ago now.

00:03:55.080 And since then, I've been traveling across Alberta talking about various economic issues

00:04:00.140 that are facing our nation, our provinces and our nation as a whole.

00:04:03.960 And I try to approach these issues from a biblical perspective, from the lens of Jesus Christ,

00:04:09.140 to better understand exactly how we're supposed to counter the attacks that our federal government

00:04:14.740 levies against all of us as often as they can.

00:04:18.500 So for tonight's topic, you know, this discussion on finances from a biblical perspective, I'm

00:04:24.620 actually going to look at it from an unorthodox perspective, especially as an economist.

00:04:29.340 What I mean to say is most economists would tell you if you want to be financially secure,

00:04:34.620 just make as much money as you can and don't spend more than you have.

00:04:38.080 And that's true.

00:04:38.740 I wish our government would understand it.

00:04:40.720 I wish they wouldn't spend so much money.

00:04:42.900 I wish they wouldn't spend more than what they receive every year.

00:04:46.680 But of course, they do so.

00:04:48.500 That is sound principle advice.

00:04:50.700 You know, just simply don't spend more than what you have.

00:04:52.840 Correct.

00:04:53.480 But we have a larger problem that we're trying to deal with.

00:04:56.060 And everyone knows it, right?

00:04:57.420 The larger problem that we're trying to deal with is that government is actively working

00:05:02.800 to control Canadian citizens using finances, using money, using goods and services, and so on.

00:05:10.320 Years ago, C.S. Lewis wrote a paper called Willing Slaves of the Welfare State.

00:05:15.760 If you haven't read it, I think you ought to.

00:05:17.460 It's a wonderful, brilliant paper, Willing Slaves of the Welfare State.

00:05:21.580 And in it, he describes the true power, the true nature of government and the way it controls

00:05:28.080 its citizens.

00:05:29.280 And I think it's very applicable today.

00:05:31.260 As a short summary, the paper is written as so.

00:05:34.760 Lewis says, you know, you look at all of these individuals in society.

00:05:37.920 Let's take us here in Canada.

00:05:39.400 You look at all of these people here in Canada.

00:05:41.780 And we might think that if government wanted to control us, right, they would send tanks

00:05:46.820 through the cities, and they would send soldiers through the cities, and they would lock down

00:05:51.660 the entire nation that has a certain meaning to all of us.

00:05:54.920 They would do all of these things that are Orwellian and dangerous.

00:05:58.140 And in some sense, they could do so.

00:06:00.080 But if they try to do that long enough, and if the people have enjoyed freedom for a strong

00:06:04.660 enough amount of time, it will lead to rebellion.

00:06:07.160 And so Lewis says there is a more effective way at controlling a nation.

00:06:12.200 And of course, the way he argues is the most effective way to control a nation is by using

00:06:17.400 finances, is by making Canadian citizens dependent on the federal government to meet their daily

00:06:24.580 bread.

00:06:25.340 You know, you look at when the government exercised the strongest amount of power over, you know,

00:06:29.980 during the lockdowns and the convoy.

00:06:31.500 You look at when people were most scared.

00:06:33.960 It was when government locked us out of our bank accounts.

00:06:36.660 That's when people, you know, were unbelievably scared, and rightfully so, have to pay their

00:06:42.600 bills, have to pay their mortgages, have to pay for this, that, and the other thing.

00:06:46.800 But they can't access their accounts where their money is.

00:06:49.940 Well, what are they supposed to do in their mind, except, of course, bow to government?

00:06:55.780 And so the, um, the, um, the premises of our, or the thesis of our talk for tonight is this.

00:07:02.720 Government controls individuals in society.

00:07:06.000 It controls Canadian citizens in large part by making us dependent on them for our goods 0.60

00:07:13.500 and services that we need.

00:07:14.720 Government controls Canadian citizens by making as many Canadian citizens as possible dependent 0.67

00:07:21.160 on the federal government.

00:07:22.600 That's true for housing.

00:07:23.920 That's true for food.

00:07:25.360 That's true for dental.

00:07:26.840 That's true for healthcare.

00:07:28.420 That's true for all of these necessary services that you and I need in order to survive.

00:07:34.300 Now, it used to be that it was just government, you know, that tried to, um, control citizens

00:07:39.680 or at least had this control.

00:07:41.060 But I'm noticing more and more, of course, that big business is exercising this control

00:07:45.760 as well.

00:07:46.740 You and I can see it.

00:07:47.640 Look at the, uh, food markets and look at how much junk is, like, you know, straight

00:07:51.980 garbage is put into our food by a few unbelievably powerful companies, right?

00:07:57.580 So not only do we have to worry about government controlling us through finances and through our

00:08:01.920 goods and services and the control of that, we have to worry about a few big businesses,

00:08:06.400 you know, like an oligarchy doing the same.

00:08:08.660 It's as though they and government work together and make no mistake, they do work together.

00:08:13.220 So how are we going to solve this problem?

00:08:15.300 If we have these powerful organizations trying to, and in many cases, very successfully controlling

00:08:21.680 individuals in the nation by controlling the goods and the services that flow into and

00:08:27.640 are consumed by that nation, be it money, food, health care, uh, you know, schooling and

00:08:34.440 so on and so on.

00:08:35.820 How are we supposed to combat that?

00:08:38.060 Well, the economist would say the way you combat it is by opening up the free market and

00:08:43.720 you allow as much competition into society as possible.

00:08:47.800 You know, if you have one supplier of natural gas in this cold climate, obviously that supplier

00:08:53.900 can charge whatever he wants for natural gas because we need it to live, right?

00:08:58.340 If wood isn't available, if propane isn't available, if oil isn't available, if in-floor

00:09:04.140 heat isn't available and, you know, and so on, um, the man who supplies us natural gas

00:09:09.440 can charge what he wishes.

00:09:10.780 Now that's bad enough.

00:09:12.160 But then when you add more suppliers into the market, you take away some of that power from

00:09:17.920 the natural gas man.

00:09:19.440 You say, actually, you can't charge what you want because if you do, if you try to charge,

00:09:23.900 these exorbitant rates for natural gas, we'll just go to the competitor down the street.

00:09:29.300 And so if properly separated, those suppliers of natural gas will engage in competition and

00:09:35.980 they will gradually, or the prices of natural gas, uh, natural gas gradually will be lowered.

00:09:42.320 That's a good thing.

00:09:43.280 And that's the way the market is supposed to work.

00:09:45.240 But in our society, the markets aren't really working like that, are they?

00:09:49.200 No, instead, again, you have massive businesses, massive corporations working together with

00:09:55.340 government to see that competition is totally snuffed out of the market, right?

00:10:00.200 They are working their hardest to see that a few companies control the bulk of the goods

00:10:06.380 and services that our society needs.

00:10:09.480 And that is what's happening, right?

00:10:10.600 It's becoming clearer and clearer.

00:10:12.960 Small business is being pushed out.

00:10:14.460 They can't handle the high taxes.

00:10:16.580 They can't handle the ridiculous restrictions put on them by the federal or even provincial

00:10:20.820 governments, for that matter.

00:10:22.220 They can't handle the unfair rules and regulations that are given to them compared to big business.

00:10:29.140 You know, Costco could stay open.

00:10:30.840 Small business couldn't over the last few years.

00:10:32.860 It's unbelievable.

00:10:34.040 And so that competition is being, you know, crushed.

00:10:37.320 And along with it, of course, our finances were becoming poorer and poorer.

00:10:41.120 And it's more and more difficult to make ends meet.

00:10:43.960 So even though theoretically the free market ought to work, and if the free market was

00:10:48.180 really working freely, it would work, we're not in that situation right now.

00:10:52.640 Government is a brutal hydra, the massive machine that crushes the market from all sides.

00:10:57.260 Well, OK, so then perhaps we could become self-sufficient.

00:11:00.880 That might be another argument.

00:11:02.280 And perhaps we could, you know, perhaps we could barter.

00:11:06.060 Now, in one sense, that is true, right?

00:11:07.820 I think it's good when societies are as self-sufficient as possible.

00:11:10.860 I think it's especially good in this modern age.

00:11:14.460 You know, if you have a group of people who want to get together and who want to work together

00:11:18.940 to build up a life with their families and live more simply than the high-tech evolutionaries

00:11:24.540 of our age, by all means, I think they ought to have all power to do so.

00:11:28.240 I think that's an excellent example for, you know, if the individual wants to follow, let

00:11:33.560 him follow.

00:11:34.120 But of course, there are other people who need goods and services that come from outside

00:11:40.360 of the community.

00:11:41.680 Let's take, for example, a community where there are 100 goods.

00:11:47.260 You know, you have a bunch of people and they make as many goods as they can.

00:11:51.180 They're good at it.

00:11:51.780 And they make 100 goods total.

00:11:53.180 Well, in order to barter effectively, in order to barter as efficiently as possible, you have

00:11:58.820 to know it's 100 times 100 minus 1.

00:12:04.420 So 100 times 99, whatever that is, you know, 990 or 9900 over 2, right?

00:12:10.300 So you have to know a lot of prices in that case.

00:12:13.140 I'm not saying it's bad, right?

00:12:14.720 But there are some people where that simply won't work.

00:12:17.920 That solution just won't work.

00:12:19.280 They have to work in the city or their children are in certain events or something where they

00:12:24.540 have to be near big centers or they just don't have time to, you know, make goods and services

00:12:30.400 to trade with others.

00:12:31.740 And so it's impossible for them to barter.

00:12:34.820 So that, although a solution, can't be the ultimate solution either.

00:12:39.080 Well, finally, we might say, let's just move, right?

00:12:41.380 If we have government that is trying to crush us from all angles, you know, and the free market

00:12:46.080 isn't so free and bartering works for some people and, you know, you have a small society

00:12:51.540 or a self-regulating society that works for some, you know, Hutterites, Amish and so on.

00:12:57.820 That's a good example of that.

00:12:59.460 What about others who can't work with that?

00:13:01.860 Well, we could move, right?

00:13:03.060 You could move down to the Caribbean or somewhere nice and sunny.

00:13:06.640 You know, you can move somewhere that's beautiful and hot where big government doesn't touch you.

00:13:10.760 But of course, the answer is, even if you do that, even if you move, government's coming for you.

00:13:17.240 And that's really true for all three things, right?

00:13:19.620 If you move to a hot and tropical paradise, government will follow you.

00:13:23.840 It might take a year.

00:13:25.120 It might take two years, but you can't hide.

00:13:27.660 Government is coming.

00:13:28.800 And that's true with the self-sufficient society too.

00:13:31.500 If we build up a self-sufficient society in Canada, well, you know, as good as that as that would be,

00:13:36.580 you know, if you had a group which stuck to true socially conservative values and so on,

00:13:41.900 I guarantee it, and we all know it, government would come to crush it, right?

00:13:45.500 They would work their hardest to move in as quickly as possible to quell that sort of rebellion.

00:13:51.820 And the same is true with the free market.

00:13:53.860 Governments come to crush it.

00:13:55.080 The point before us then is that there is nowhere, nowhere where we can hide. 0.99

00:14:00.440 Government is this invasive parasite. 0.97

00:14:03.060 It trespasses into our homes. 0.99

00:14:04.820 It leaves absolutely nobody alone.

00:14:08.280 And it works its absolute hardest, again, to make sure that you and I are totally dependent

00:14:13.700 on them for our daily bread.

00:14:15.880 Government's perfect scenario is one where you and I walk up to the front steps of the

00:14:21.420 House of Commons and get on our knees and say, you know, we say, oh, please, Prime Minister,

00:14:27.720 we need a loaf of bread.

00:14:29.180 Oh, please, Prime Minister, we need, you know, food to feed our children.

00:14:33.280 We'll do whatever you want, so long as you give us the necessities that we need in order

00:14:37.960 to survive.

00:14:38.980 We lose all our freedom in that instance, right?

00:14:41.140 We're not able to criticize government because we won't, or people don't, bite the hands that

00:14:45.820 feed them, right?

00:14:47.080 We lose all our ability to stick our necks out and say to the Prime Minister, what you're

00:14:51.100 doing is tyrannical.

00:14:52.320 What you're doing is unjust.

00:14:53.920 What you're doing is hideous and wrong.

00:14:55.700 Because there is a fear that if we do so, we're going to lose our ability to feed our

00:15:02.020 children, right?

00:15:02.660 It's coming from government already.

00:15:04.480 How much worse would it be for us if government didn't provide those things?

00:15:08.700 So anyways, you have this issue where government wants us dependent.

00:15:12.200 And we've tried all these solutions.

00:15:13.980 Ultimately, they don't work, right?

00:15:15.280 Even if you make your own cash, which is, you know, again, a good idea.

00:15:18.620 I think the cash in Canada right now is abysmal.

00:15:21.060 You know, the value is next to nothing, the nonsensical style of economics, if we want

00:15:27.240 to see the society flourish.

00:15:29.300 But even if we try and go to Walmart or something, or a small business shop or wherever, and buy

00:15:35.100 our groceries with gold, government says that's not legal tender.

00:15:38.540 You can't trade, which is nonsense.

00:15:40.320 Why are they telling me and telling you what we can or can't purchase things with?

00:15:45.040 That should be for the individual consumer and the supplier to decide.

00:15:48.940 It shouldn't be for government to decide.

00:15:50.300 But nevertheless, nevertheless, we have this issue.

00:15:53.560 What is the solution?

00:15:55.000 What's the ultimate solution?

00:15:56.600 How can we be sure that we don't rely on government?

00:16:00.860 How can we be sure that we don't depend on government to meet our daily bread?

00:16:05.660 And of course, as you know, the answer is we have to rely on someone else.

00:16:10.600 We have to rely on Jesus Christ.

00:16:12.840 If we want to ensure that government doesn't or isn't the ones that give us our daily bread,

00:16:18.740 we have to find it somewhere else.

00:16:20.480 And the answer is we find it from Jesus Christ.

00:16:22.500 That is the whole of the scripture.

00:16:24.820 It is the story of men and women being totally dependent on the Lord God Almighty for their

00:16:30.900 bread, for their housing, for their needs, for their want, or their necessities, for their

00:16:35.840 desires, for all of those things.

00:16:37.780 So that they are not beholden to Caesar, so that they are not beholden to a worldly power

00:16:42.960 to give them what they need.

00:16:45.080 Right?

00:16:45.380 The clearest example, of course, of that is in Matthew 22.

00:16:49.140 Of course, you know, the render to Caesar.

00:16:50.940 You have this question, you know, talking about tax.

00:16:54.240 And Jesus takes a coin and he says, whose face is on the coin?

00:16:57.660 And of course, the answer is, well, it's Caesar's face.

00:17:00.280 And so Jesus says, render to Caesar what is Caesar's and give to God's what is God's. 0.56

00:17:04.500 The same is true here in Canada, whose face is on the 20, right?

00:17:07.920 It's like whose face is on the 10, whose face is on the five. 0.56

00:17:11.100 It's not your face, not my face. 0.96

00:17:13.460 It's political leaders, right?

00:17:14.940 It's the queen.

00:17:16.080 It's, it's John A. Macdonald.

00:17:18.060 It's these old government members.

00:17:20.600 That's who's on or that's, yeah, that's who's on the, the bills in our country.

00:17:25.800 So render to Caesar's what is Caesar's and give to God's what is God's. 0.88

00:17:29.880 We'll say of our, of our cash and so on.

00:17:32.520 Government prints it.

00:17:33.440 It's worthless, but fine.

00:17:35.880 Let government, you know, let them do what they want. 0.94

00:17:38.060 It's foolish, but from government is not where we get our daily bread.

00:17:42.920 Instead, we're going to render to God's what is God's. 0.98

00:17:45.560 We are going to give to Almighty what is his.

00:17:47.820 And that, of course, is ourselves.

00:17:49.700 His image is on us.

00:17:51.440 That's whose image is in you and, and in me.

00:17:55.240 And so it is far from praying to Justin Trudeau to give to us what we need.

00:17:59.560 Far from saying to him, oh, thank you, dear Trudeau.

00:18:02.400 Without you, I don't know how I would afford anything.

00:18:05.280 Of course, that's nonsense.

00:18:07.020 I'm going to pray to Jesus Christ.

00:18:08.900 And we do so every morning.

00:18:10.240 We say, you know, we give a prayer for provision, knowing that we need him to meet our daily bread.

00:18:15.580 And it's when we rely on the Lord Jesus for our provision that we get to see these wonderful miracles take place in which we thought we wouldn't be provided for.

00:18:25.640 Suddenly, we are provided for.

00:18:27.120 Who knows how it might happen, but it will happen.

00:18:29.560 Christ is faithful and true.

00:18:31.440 He keeps his promises, right?

00:18:33.140 If you've never read the story of George Mueller, you have to.

00:18:37.860 Mueller lived in the same era as Spurgeon, you know, in England, and he ran these orphanages.

00:18:42.700 And his prayers and how his prayers were answered were so magnificent and marvelous, right?

00:18:48.360 They can hardly be uttered.

00:18:49.720 It's so incredible how, for example, one day Mueller has no idea how he's going to feed these hundreds of children in his orphanage.

00:18:56.880 But he sits down with the children at breakfast, and he thanks God for giving them their daily bread, even though they have no bread.

00:19:04.660 And wouldn't you know it, the moment that the prayer is uttered and finished, a man shows up at the door with milk, and a man shows up at the door with bread.

00:19:12.740 It's incredible to see how these prayers are answered.

00:19:15.020 And I am convinced that if we prayed more than we do, if we were more faithful to pray and to rely on the Lord Jesus and what we are right now,

00:19:22.180 if we weren't so fast to try and rely on ourselves and on our money, right, on hoping that the dollar is better tomorrow than what it is today,

00:19:31.020 we would live far less stressful lives, you know, than what we otherwise might live.

00:19:36.300 Now, all that to say, I'm not saying that we shouldn't fight for financial security and financial common sense.

00:19:42.800 Absolutely.

00:19:43.720 But there is a difference between you and I as Christians fighting for financial common sense and financial security and a non-Christian. 1.00

00:19:52.180 Fighting for financial common sense and financial security.

00:19:55.980 As for you and I, we fight for, no, let me be more accurate.

00:19:59.600 As for the non-Christian, the man who doesn't believe in Jesus, he fights for financial security because he has absolutely nothing left, right? 0.95

00:20:07.480 He needs his dollar to be good.

00:20:09.440 Because if it's not, he has no hope to buy food, to buy groceries, to pay for rent, to pay for gasoline, car payments, and so on.

00:20:16.960 What's he going to do?

00:20:18.280 Who is he going to rely on?

00:20:19.620 He has to put all his faith in himself, all his faith in that massive machine in Ottawa, printing the most exorbitant amounts of money every single day.

00:20:29.460 And if he loses that faith, he's got nothing left.

00:20:32.640 And so he fights for financial security in order to be saved.

00:20:37.580 You and I, however, as Christians, fight for financial security to, or no, not to, because we're saved.

00:20:45.280 That's accurate.

00:20:46.240 You and I fight for financial security and financial common sense precisely because we are already saved.

00:20:53.920 We know that our needs are met in Jesus Christ.

00:20:56.440 We know that our goods and services that we require are provided by the Lord.

00:21:00.740 And we work hard to do that, of course.

00:21:02.600 We work hard to provide for our families and do what we can.

00:21:06.060 But we know that at the end of the day, every good thing comes from the Lord.

00:21:09.660 There's no more perfect picture of that than, of course, Israel in the wilderness with manna.

00:21:14.000 Here you have all of this manna falling from heaven, literally miraculously.

00:21:17.740 Their needs are met day by day by day.

00:21:20.800 So, too, it's true with the Christian. 0.99

00:21:23.120 Thus, what's the answer to our problem?

00:21:25.580 How do we ensure that we don't rely on government to meet our daily bread and so become beholden to government as they want us to be beholden to them?

00:21:33.980 The answer is to put our faith in Jesus Christ and only Jesus Christ and no one but Jesus Christ.

00:21:41.360 It's by doing that that we free ourselves from the powers and the influence of government.

00:21:46.840 And so we're allowed to criticize them.

00:21:48.960 And so we're freed up to say what you're doing is wrong.

00:21:51.900 And so we're freed up to say even if you devalue the dollar as you are right now, we won't fear because we put our faith not in man, but in almighty God.

00:22:01.020 It's a fantastic piece in knowing that Christ provides for me.

00:22:04.900 It's a fantastic piece in knowing that no matter what Justin Trudeau tries to do, as malevolent as what he is doing right now, he cannot, he cannot take away from the Christian the provision of almighty God.

00:22:18.320 Now, of course, there are financial principles we ought to follow.

00:22:21.780 I am of firm conviction that we shouldn't spend more than we have.

00:22:25.140 That sounds simple, but when you think about it, it's profound in this society that's always encouraged to go into debt.

00:22:31.020 And to spend and spend and spend as much as you can and to buy the biggest home and to buy the nicest car and to buy the very best food.

00:22:38.960 It's like perhaps as tough as it might be, it's better to not spend absolutely every cent we have and to instead be, you know, be very careful with our finances.

00:22:49.500 Let's be frugal.

00:22:50.540 Do I want a gold standard instead of a fiat currency?

00:22:54.100 Oh, absolutely.

00:22:54.780 I do.

00:22:55.560 Right.

00:22:56.140 Manifestly.

00:22:56.600 Yes.

00:22:57.020 The difference is stunning when you look at the and when you look at the rationality behind the gold standard compared to a fiat currency.

00:23:05.900 But of course, government isn't going to go for that.

00:23:08.120 Not yet anyway, because they love the power that the fiat currency holds over them.

00:23:12.940 What about banks?

00:23:13.880 You know, is it better to put money in in, you know, metals and silver and gold and so on?

00:23:18.900 Now, I'm very careful to not provide financial advice, but but biblically, it talks a lot about proper investing techniques and, you know, having gold and silver.

00:23:29.440 And if you look at historical trends, gold is is clear that it seems to be, you know, a hedge, a sort of hedge anyway against inflation in the long run.

00:23:37.920 And so we have all of these little things that we can do.

00:23:42.280 Really, the principle is, you know, act as common sense as possible.

00:23:46.540 That's the simple principle of finances that we can do to try and mitigate the destruction that Trudeau's economics causes.

00:23:54.600 But when all is said and done, unless we put our faith in Jesus Christ, all of it is lost.

00:23:59.980 Even if we do well financially throughout our lives and we're financially secure at the end of it all, we can't take that money anywhere.

00:24:07.920 That money stays.

00:24:09.060 That's a good portion of the Ecclesiastes.

00:24:11.800 I had it written out.

00:24:12.680 I didn't read it.

00:24:13.320 But we, you know, the Ecclesiastes are clear.

00:24:15.720 Here is Solomon, who is literally a trillionaire, right?

00:24:18.260 The man, the king is a trillionaire.

00:24:19.820 And at the end of it, he says, all of it's like smoke, like vanity.

00:24:23.140 He says, so what?

00:24:24.220 What of it?

00:24:24.980 I put all I had all of this money.

00:24:27.220 And at the end of the day, I couldn't take it.

00:24:29.420 Right.

00:24:29.960 So faith in the Lord is what's first.

00:24:31.780 Faith in Jesus Christ is what's first.

00:24:33.420 And after that, a peace follows, which cannot be described so that no matter what Trudeau tries to do financially, we know that we're secure by the, you know, in the resurrected Lord.

00:24:45.180 So that's my presentation.

00:24:47.380 It's, you know, a bit more unorthodox.

00:24:49.480 But if you have any questions, I would be so excited to hear any and do my best to answer them.

00:24:55.000 Well, thank you so much, Tanner.

00:24:57.300 I was writing pages of little notes here and going, yes, I agree.

00:25:00.060 Yes, I agree.

00:25:01.480 Walking along.

00:25:02.520 But, you know, how would you respond to people, to our viewers right now who aren't believers and may be struggling and thinking, I don't understand the concept of faith solving my financial problems?

00:25:18.340 Is there a way that you could elaborate a little bit on that?

00:25:21.640 I think I could probably give an example as well.

00:25:25.320 I've told my viewers before I went through 20 years of really difficult times.

00:25:31.480 It was a real season as the Lord was honing me down and getting me to focus completely on Him.

00:25:37.360 Because growing up, I was a pleaser.

00:25:39.580 I wanted everybody around me to be happy.

00:25:42.140 I was always extremely responsible with my money when I was younger.

00:25:46.000 I have a twin brother and older sister, and they borrow money from me.

00:25:48.820 But it was more for the fact that, you know, I lived within my means.

00:25:53.220 I was stressed with debt.

00:25:55.780 And so I would save in order to purchase something and, you know, use those principles throughout my life.

00:26:01.900 But you are right when you're saying that what we have been inundated with, not only with COVID, is this military psychological threat towards, you know, our thinking.

00:26:15.960 I guess you could say psychological manipulation in it's all about you, right?

00:26:21.500 And you deserve to have this.

00:26:23.400 You deserve to have that.

00:26:25.060 And as my son and my daughter-in-law, they just had their first baby in February.

00:26:30.240 They're living in a little one-bedroom because of the cost of things.

00:26:33.200 And they've chosen that because it would cost double what they're paying to move to, you know, a two-bedroom.

00:26:40.300 And I think about my mom and dad when they had my brother and my sister and I, we were in the same room until we, I would think I was four and my sister was six, somewhere in there, before they built a house.

00:26:52.380 And so it wasn't uncommon for parents to hunker down and for kids to live in close, confined, you know, quarters with their siblings.

00:27:03.400 And we have become so used to some sort of extravagance that now that we're being hit with these hard times, a lot of people don't know the concept of living within their means.

00:27:15.580 They're battling it.

00:27:16.340 Well, I'll just put more on my credit card.

00:27:18.080 And if you could think about the 20 plus percent that you pay on a credit card and the interest and how they could just begin to manage those funds and bring it back under control.

00:27:29.940 I liked what you said, you know, about thinking about what you have in food.

00:27:34.620 You don't need that boat.

00:27:36.080 You can have, you know, a car that is reasonable, that fits you all, where you can go where you need to go.

00:27:42.400 But that's not, that's not what the media and the government have been selling us for a very long time.

00:27:48.760 Yes, that's exactly right.

00:27:50.560 You know, as to your first, as to the first question, that's a wonderful one.

00:27:53.760 You know, how is faith going to help my financial crisis?

00:27:57.040 Now we're careful to say, to be careful not to say, you know, that the gospel is a prosperity gospel.

00:28:02.600 It's not as though a man believes in Jesus and all of a sudden millions of dollars are going to rain down on him.

00:28:07.560 Right. If that were true, the disciples would have been billionaires and Paul wouldn't have been poor.

00:28:12.560 Jesus was poor, you know, so it's that, that style of thinking is, is nonsense.

00:28:17.420 No, what I meant to convey was, if you don't have Jesus Christ, you have to put your hope and faith in something else.

00:28:24.200 And, you know, very often that, that hope and faith comes in the form of money.

00:28:27.780 If I have a lot of money, people say, then I'll be secure.

00:28:31.000 This is not my assumption.

00:28:32.900 This is what the revelation writes.

00:28:34.300 Jesus is talking to the churches and he says, you say, the church, I am rich.

00:28:39.820 You know, I've, I've acquired great wealth and I do not need a thing.

00:28:43.100 That's what the scripture says in Revelation 3, 15 to 17.

00:28:46.800 And he says, but you don't realize that you're poor, you're pitiful, you're blind, you're naked, you're lost.

00:28:51.940 You don't have any hope at all.

00:28:53.580 Right. If we put our faith in money and, and only in money, then we have to hope day after day that,

00:29:00.740 you know, the markets don't crash.

00:29:02.320 We have to hope that government is kind of principled with money, which they're not right.

00:29:07.240 We have to hope that, you know, tomorrow I won't lose my job.

00:29:11.040 We have to put our hope in all of these variables and there's absolutely no assurance whatsoever at all.

00:29:17.980 So instead of doing that and having that stress, right?

00:29:21.360 Why not put our faith in Jesus Christ?

00:29:24.060 When we put our faith in Christ, we're no longer relying on the dollar to meet our daily bread.

00:29:28.640 We're no longer relying on the government to try and act principled to, you know, keep the dollar that's kind of strong.

00:29:35.240 We're no longer relying on the stock market and all of its corruption to keep the stocks high.

00:29:40.360 No, instead we're relying on Jesus, who's the same yesterday, today, and forever, right?

00:29:45.520 He doesn't change.

00:29:46.480 And when he promises to meet our needs, he will indeed meet our needs.

00:29:50.100 Now, I like what you said at the end as well, actually the whole thing.

00:29:53.860 That doesn't mean that Christ is going to give you the boat and the biggest house and, you know, the rich expensive caviar and the ribeye every single meal.

00:30:02.960 No, quite the contrary, you know, not necessarily the contrary, but that's never promised to the Christian. 0.76

00:30:08.900 Instead, right, it's Christ is going to provide for you.

00:30:11.880 And it might be manna or it might be something else, but he is going to provide.

00:30:16.160 He hasn't failed his people and he will not fail them.

00:30:20.080 So, in the case of your grandchild, you know, who's more free?

00:30:26.040 The man who puts all of his faith in money and lives in a great mansion or a family who puts their faith in Jesus Christ and maybe lives in a smaller home, right?

00:30:36.340 Who is more free, the man who is scared day after day that his stocks are going to fail and crash or the man who says, no matter what Trudeau tries to do, no matter what the market does, Christ is still going to provide for me.

00:30:48.420 It's certainly a testing walk.

00:30:50.260 It's certainly a difficult one that, you know, takes a lot of testing and trial and patience and hope and faith, but it is one that's superior.

00:30:59.920 And yes, as for living within your means, it's true.

00:31:02.680 We've been taught to be extravagant, low interest rates.

00:31:05.120 Now is the time to buy.

00:31:06.820 Now is the time to get a home.

00:31:08.380 Now is the time to give yourself a big upgrade.

00:31:10.580 You're right.

00:31:10.960 It's all about you.

00:31:11.860 It's all about you.

00:31:12.940 But when you have a family, you realize it's not all about you.

00:31:16.260 On the contrary, right?

00:31:17.420 Humility isn't thinking less of yourself.

00:31:19.640 It's thinking of yourself less.

00:31:21.900 And so it might be financially prudent to downsize, to have a smaller house or to not get the massive yacht or to not get the new diesel or to not do these things that the world tells you to have.

00:31:32.480 None of those goods provide salvation.

00:31:35.580 None of them provide hope.

00:31:36.940 Not at all.

00:31:37.660 Only Christ does. 0.94

00:31:38.840 And in him, life is so much sweeter than even what the richest man who doesn't have him can comprehend.

00:31:44.760 Absolutely.

00:31:46.540 Amen to that.

00:31:47.400 And, you know, what I learned through that time as well is I've said many times that Action for Canada is uncompromising to the Word of God.

00:31:55.000 Not to say that we're perfect.

00:31:56.540 Nobody on this earth.

00:31:57.500 The only one that was ever perfect that walked this earth was Jesus Christ himself.

00:32:00.860 But the Bible is there to give us instruction and teach us about morality and the right way to live.

00:32:10.340 And the reason that Canada, you know, is going down the tubes right now is because we turned our back on God.

00:32:17.700 And in our own personal lives, it's like there is, we can talk about, you know, it's not that money is the root of all evil.

00:32:26.440 It's the love of money that is the root of all evil.

00:32:29.740 And there is a love of money when people are even fearful to separate themselves with it to be obedient to the Word of God.

00:32:38.220 And it does say to tithe.

00:32:40.680 And I remember there would be sermons on tithing, which they recommend at, you know, 10% of your income.

00:32:48.860 And to be generous, but with a faithful heart, you know, not begrudging, but just in faith.

00:32:54.320 And so, people were barely making ends meet, and they decided to tithe 10% faithfully.

00:33:00.400 And they gave testimony of how God turned their situation around.

00:33:05.820 And it also says that God knows the desires of our heart.

00:33:09.900 And it comes in different forms.

00:33:12.040 Some people need the security of a home that's bought and paid for.

00:33:15.640 Others are okay to rent, but they're not good on being on their own.

00:33:19.860 And so, their desire of their heart is to have a faithful spouse.

00:33:24.080 And so, if we're faithful to God, He will meet the desires of our heart, knowing what those desires are more intricately than we do.

00:33:33.000 I hope that makes sense in what I'm saying.

00:33:35.320 But having the faith to tithe will bring you such an abundance from the Lord as well.

00:33:41.880 And I've experienced that throughout, you know, my life, of how miraculously God has provided for me, in spite of the hardships that I'd gone through that get me to where I was.

00:33:54.580 And He's always been so faithful.

00:33:57.160 And it's just absolutely been miraculous.

00:34:00.380 Precisely.

00:34:00.940 I so love that you started with clarifying that it's not money which is evil.

00:34:05.160 It's the love of money.

00:34:06.220 You're exactly right.

00:34:07.020 Because when you think about it, what is money, right?

00:34:09.220 All money is, is a physical representation of a man's valuable time, or at least as society deems it to be valuable, right?

00:34:18.760 Whether I work an hour at a labor job and earn $25.

00:34:24.000 So, whether I give up an hour of my life or have $25 in my hand, it's the same thing, right?

00:34:30.740 It's not the same, but it is the same.

00:34:33.900 And so, if you love money, it is practically identical to saying you love yourself, right?

00:34:39.420 You love, I love me.

00:34:40.860 I want to get as much money as possible because I want to be as valuable as possible.

00:34:45.120 I want society to think that I'm as valuable as possible.

00:34:48.680 And, of course, that leads to destruction and decay and despair, right?

00:34:52.760 There is no clearer teaching in the scripture, I think, than that.

00:34:56.240 Why is it so difficult for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven?

00:34:59.720 And the answer is because his entire life, he has learned that he can rely on himself.

00:35:05.100 Everything he wants, he acquires.

00:35:06.840 Everything he needs, he gets.

00:35:08.460 He has the money.

00:35:09.220 He has the power.

00:35:10.060 He has the privilege to do so.

00:35:12.080 He has the means by which he can meet all of his daily bread, all of his needs.

00:35:16.900 Whereas the poor man, who doesn't have that opportunity, has to rely on Jesus Christ.

00:35:22.520 That's why it's easier for him to enter the kingdom of heaven.

00:35:25.720 He hasn't had that luxury of having everything provided for him.

00:35:28.940 He hasn't had the luxury of having every need and desire and want met almost instantaneously because of the amount of wealth that he has.

00:35:37.300 No, he has no other option but to rely on Jesus.

00:35:41.060 And so when you talk about tithing and how important tithing is, it is a manifestation of a man's desire to see that he serves the Lord his God with everything he has.

00:35:51.900 I've read a lot of quotes, and I can't remember where this one's from.

00:35:55.040 It might be from Lewis.

00:35:55.980 I don't really remember, but it's a good one that says you almost wonder if it isn't ideal to be right on that precipice of, you know, a financial pinch when you tithe.

00:36:04.880 John Wesley, for example, I think it was Wesley.

00:36:07.660 Great preacher, right?

00:36:08.760 This stunningly, stunningly eloquent preacher and brilliant man and famous across America.

00:36:13.700 When he dies, he has pennies to his name, not because he was poor and not in that sense, but because he willingly gave everything he made away, right?

00:36:21.880 Now, I'm not saying everyone should do that.

00:36:23.580 I'm not saying a man should plunge his family into poverty.

00:36:26.000 Of course not.

00:36:26.680 What I am saying, however, is that all of our finances are, at the end of it, God's, right?

00:36:32.780 They're Jesus's.

00:36:33.640 It's like, who has given to God that he should repay them, right?

00:36:36.800 Everything that we do as Christians is for God, through God, and by God, that he might be glorified, including finances and tithing.

00:36:46.400 Right, yeah.

00:36:47.460 Yeah, and it may seem odd for some people who are hearing this for the first time, but I always say, you know what, just pray.

00:36:55.840 Ask God to give you, you know, even the smallest bit of faith, and we know that, you know, even for my kids right now, they're not going to be able to come up with $800,000 for a condo.

00:37:06.560 It's just not doable, and that's what we're not.

00:37:09.620 That's not what we're talking about, right?

00:37:11.560 And it's not wrong to own a home outright.

00:37:14.420 It's responsible.

00:37:15.360 If you're being responsible with your finances, no matter where you are, whether, you know, you're working to pay the rent and put groceries on the table, or you've got a home, it's to spend it responsibly, find those opportunities to be generous to those in need as well, to also be responsible, you know, to leave an inheritance for your children.

00:37:37.180 There's also sorts of biblical scripture, you know, that talks about all of these things.

00:37:42.740 And where was I going with that?

00:37:45.020 There was another question that I'll veer to that's a little bit off topic at this, but I just want people to know that it doesn't mean that, you know, God is going to bless you.

00:37:55.900 It's not a name and inclaim it.

00:37:57.360 Okay, if I do this, that, and the other thing, God is going to provide all of these needs.

00:38:02.620 It's like, no, the other thing to pray for in the midst of it is contentment and for God to give you a spirit of joy, because you can be living from paycheck to paycheck and be at peace.

00:38:16.780 You can be content because you know that you're going to be okay.

00:38:20.140 And especially in this society, you know, what we find a need is that we need to be helping our neighbors out as well and thinking about them and showing our love in that way as well.

00:38:30.440 Okay, so I'm going to veer in a little different direction right now.

00:38:33.740 I know that you've also spoken about pensions.

00:38:37.100 Yes.

00:38:37.320 Can you explain a little more to our viewers what your position is on that?

00:38:42.400 Absolutely.

00:38:43.140 So, you know, along with this talk goes the principle that we should be financially responsible, of course, you know, and I think that if we can, without compromising our morality, earn more money, then we ought to do so.

00:38:53.960 That's a good thing.

00:38:55.200 It allows us to, whether it be tithe more or whether it be use it for some other purpose in life or, you know, make the home nicer, whatever it might be.

00:39:03.600 I think if a man can do so, you know, he ought to do so.

00:39:07.220 So, as you mentioned lately, I've been talking then about pensions.

00:39:09.720 Now, in particular, I've been talking about the Canadian pension plan.

00:39:13.120 And part of what we're trying to do, this group that I speak with or town halls that I go to, is expose just how government uses programs like the Canadian pension plan to, wouldn't you know it, make people financially responsible on the government so that they have to put all of their hope and faith in the government.

00:39:33.060 It might not even be true that the government provides a service that is that excellent or provides that much money.

00:39:40.160 As long as they can convince the citizen that without them, without the government, they'd be broke and destitute, then people will follow them abundantly.

00:39:48.340 And that's what we find.

00:39:49.480 You know, when I talk about the Canadian pension plan, we'll say, for example, that, you know, it's a bloated piece of bureaucracy, which is true.

00:39:59.200 Then, well, people will stand up in response and they'll say, no, I need that pension to live.

00:40:03.440 If I don't have that pension, right?

00:40:04.980 If I don't have that Canadian pension every month, I'm going to go stone broke.

00:40:08.500 So then here's our reply.

00:40:10.360 You think about how much you paid into that pension over your life, which is a lot of money or over your working life.

00:40:16.120 And you think about what you're receiving from that pension now.

00:40:19.960 Ask yourself the question.

00:40:21.540 Is it really that fair of a pension?

00:40:23.880 Is government really servicing you that well?

00:40:26.800 You know, when you think that the average rates of return for the individual pensioner on his or her Canadian pension plan is about two and a half or three percent, and that's all, it doesn't sound like a very good investment to me.

00:40:41.140 When you think about the fact that when you pass away, your pension is gone.

00:40:45.640 It's not as though your beneficiaries receive anything.

00:40:48.260 No, instead, it's swallowed up by the government machine.

00:40:51.340 That doesn't sound like a very smart financial decision to me.

00:40:54.380 When you think about the difference in what you could have earned with, you know, your own private investment over 40 years versus shoveling thousands of dollars every year into the Canadian pension plan and come away with far less, that doesn't sound like a very sustainable or proper financial plan to me.

00:41:13.500 And finally, when you think about how government manipulates the numbers, it's so egregious.

00:41:19.160 For example, the federal government right now says that the Canadian pension plan has amassed a surplus of some 600 plus billion dollars.

00:41:28.140 They have a big pile, a 600 billion dollar pile worth of assets in their in their organization.

00:41:35.100 Fine.

00:41:35.540 So be it.

00:41:36.400 Let's just for the moment suppose that's true.

00:41:38.660 Whether or not it is is a different conversation.

00:41:40.440 But let's suppose that they've they've, you know, piled up this 600 billion dollar surplus.

00:41:45.600 The federal government takes that number and they add it to their budget, you know, to their yearly budget, and they add it to their budget, obviously on the asset side.

00:41:55.480 So they say we have a 600 plus billion dollar asset here.

00:41:59.320 Fantastic.

00:42:00.200 You know, wonderful.

00:42:01.040 It puts us in a pretty nice financial position.

00:42:03.060 But notice, government does not, as it puts that number on the asset side, add the correlating liability that comes with the 600 billion dollar asset.

00:42:16.580 What I mean to say is the CPP has built up that asset to be used to pay you and me when we retire down the line.

00:42:25.960 That's what that big pile is there for. 0.58

00:42:28.020 It cannot be used, at least officially, for general government business.

00:42:31.900 So then why wouldn't government put that in the budget?

00:42:35.260 Why wouldn't they say we have a 600 billion dollar asset?

00:42:38.360 Oh, but look, we also have a 600 billion dollar liability with the CPP because that big pile of money must be used for pensions and pensioners.

00:42:48.500 If they did that, however, their books would look so much worse than what they do right now.

00:42:53.240 Right.

00:42:53.480 The difference is astronomical.

00:42:55.640 So instead, government lies.

00:42:56.980 They mislead us and they say lots of money, lots of money without showing us the correlating liability.

00:43:03.160 It's very, very deceptive.

00:43:04.600 And I think it's I think it's so it's so wrong.

00:43:07.580 Right.

00:43:07.720 It's such a lie to the Canadian people. 0.99

00:43:09.660 And it keeps them in this state of thinking that unless government is here to save us, we're hooped.

00:43:14.940 We're broke.

00:43:15.700 We're poor.

00:43:16.400 We have no money and we're unable to feed ourselves.

00:43:18.980 It's not true.

00:43:19.960 It's a lie that's been fed to us by government.

00:43:23.100 Yeah.

00:43:23.620 And ongoing.

00:43:24.340 I know my uncle.

00:43:25.560 Oh, you can't imagine somebody that worked harder than my uncle.

00:43:28.860 He passed away this year.

00:43:30.320 He was like a father to me.

00:43:32.600 And I learned so much from him.

00:43:34.560 But he when he was younger, they went through the war.

00:43:38.780 He would go out in the fields and work so hard and labor so hard all day.

00:43:43.680 He was in a terrible motorcycle accident where he had one leg shorter than the other.

00:43:48.220 They had actually set him aside when he was a teenager because they later actually early 20s because they thought that he was just going to die.

00:43:57.100 And but he ended up living.

00:43:58.580 And so he brought that injury with him when he came to Canada and he never let anything slow him down.

00:44:05.920 So he ended up working for Safeway in the milk plant.

00:44:09.560 He put in every overtime hour that he could and he built up his pension.

00:44:14.700 And when it came time to retire, his pension was cut back and cut back and cut back.

00:44:20.720 And Safeway had turned it over to I want to say it was Loblaws, but I don't know if that's correct.

00:44:26.400 And I remember him and his friends being in this situation and they'd handed it over to the unions and the unions had mismanaged it.

00:44:34.980 But I 100 percent believe that fraud had taken place and the unions had taken a great deal of those funds.

00:44:42.180 And we I was trying to find a lawyer for these gentlemen and I just couldn't find one that would take it on.

00:44:47.380 He says the unions have so much money and they will fight this and there will be no pension left whatsoever.

00:44:53.120 So it's so corrupt.

00:44:55.020 And they were told it was in a secure pension.

00:44:58.360 There is no way there should have been any risk on this pension.

00:45:01.520 So what would you recommend that people who are paying into a pension right now, can they opt out of pensions?

00:45:08.400 Or is this something we should be working towards in getting legislation?

00:45:12.040 Because I think the same advice could go for I don't want to say advice because we don't give financial advice or we could consider the the role of RSPs and rifts.

00:45:23.160 Once I wish I'd known 30 years ago, I'd put money in RSPs for a while, but I'd taken them all out a long time ago.

00:45:30.040 Had I put them in silver and gold when I was in my early 20s and just hung on to it personally or in a safe or however you want to store that, I would have been in an incredibly good situation right now.

00:45:43.480 And right now, I have a relative, say, I'll give an example, $200,000 in RSPs to take that money out.

00:45:53.040 It's going to cost them nearly 50% in taxes, the government.

00:45:57.640 And that's not even with an inheritance tax, which Trudeau is trying to push right now.

00:46:02.420 So the goal would be get as much of your money out of your RSPs.

00:46:07.100 I mean, that's something to consider, but do the research on it.

00:46:10.620 We've got a page on our homepage for the for purchasing precious metals.

00:46:16.640 And I've mentioned it numerous times.

00:46:18.520 We've had Steve Merrill on a couple of times and there's videos at the top of the page, but it helps to educate you on your investments.

00:46:26.460 And then you can make at least a decision, a knowledgeable decision.

00:46:32.800 And so that's what I would really encourage you to do, because the longer you leave them, anything that's in paper and you can't touch, who knows where this is going with the government.

00:46:41.360 And when I saw what happened to my uncle's pension, I was just so angry about it.

00:46:46.480 And I'm so angry to see what's happening with the RSPs right now with this family member who is in the midst of trying to take this money out.

00:46:56.980 I mean, tax upon tax upon tax, it's absolutely criminal what the government is doing.

00:47:03.380 It is.

00:47:03.860 And, you know, you read Ecclesiastes 5 and Solomon says,

00:47:07.360 Don't be surprised when you see rich men and powerful men taking advantage of those with money.

00:47:12.460 He's like that or, you know, who are trying to save up and so on.

00:47:15.240 He says, that's nothing new.

00:47:16.680 That's that's happened before.

00:47:18.080 It's going to keep happening.

00:47:19.700 And so it is incumbent upon us.

00:47:21.340 I do believe that it is incumbent upon us to be as responsible as we can be with our finances.

00:47:27.960 It means being active in, you know, what are what are our investments doing?

00:47:32.320 What are you investing in?

00:47:33.780 Why are you investing in that?

00:47:35.220 And so on and so on, asking those sorts of questions with regards to the CPP.

00:47:39.940 Right.

00:47:40.160 We can't there's no opt out of that unless you're self-employed or there's a rule of self-employed or is it just self-employed?

00:47:49.840 There's maybe one more exemption.

00:47:51.880 I can't quite remember it, but for sure, if you're self-employed, you get to opt out of out of CPP.

00:47:58.440 But that's about it.

00:47:59.440 If you're employee, if you're an employee, you're paying into that pension.

00:48:02.940 And so then considering that we have to be active in looking at what the pension is investing

00:48:08.200 in and putting pressure on government or on the CPP IB, writing letters, as I know your group does, and equipping people with the information and the knowledge that they need in order to counter arguments made by that massive bureaucracy.

00:48:21.960 The principle is quite simple of, you know, being as financially, yeah, common sense, having as much financial common sense as possible, being active and involved in what our money is doing is a good thing.

00:48:35.280 We have to be careful to not let it control us, but we also have to be careful to not say, well, whatever happens, happens, I guess.

00:48:41.720 That's also foolish.

00:48:43.120 The best thing to do would be is for a man to read the Proverbs. 0.94

00:48:46.100 Let him read the Proverbs, all of them, you know, one through whatever it is, 31.

00:48:50.860 And let him see what pieces of advice, financial advice Solomon gives.

00:48:55.600 Because Solomon does give financial advice in the scriptures.

00:48:58.600 And even though they're general principles, they're good principles to follow.

00:49:02.760 For example, what does Solomon say in the Proverbs?

00:49:05.220 He who strikes hand or hands in a pledge is in danger, right?

00:49:09.800 But the one who refuses to do so is secure.

00:49:12.580 That's a principle.

00:49:13.840 And there are others just like it.

00:49:15.360 So read the scripture, have an earnest heart to see what God is teaching and commanding, and you can't go wrong.

00:49:23.520 Yeah, amen to that.

00:49:24.680 Yeah, that is just really good information, I think, that we've been able to discuss tonight, as well as in your verbal presentation that you've provided.

00:49:36.700 I was just seeing if there was any questions.

00:49:38.520 I know somebody's asked, have you read The Great Taking?

00:49:40.900 It's funny because I've got a video open on my other computer, and I've been meaning to watch it on somebody that has, it had to do with The Great Taking.

00:49:51.100 I think the individual that had written it.

00:49:52.740 Are you familiar with that at all?

00:49:54.020 No, I'm not.

00:49:55.760 You know, I'll trade the individual books.

00:49:58.720 There's a book on investing, well, kind of called The Richest Man in Babylon, and I know it's Babylon, but it's a very simple book to read that talks about simple principles for being wise with money.

00:50:11.180 And that really, that principle is don't lend to foolish people.

00:50:14.400 And I think that's a good principle to follow.

00:50:17.160 But The Great Taking, it's called.

00:50:19.040 Okay, I'll take a look into it.

00:50:20.100 Yeah, myself as well.

00:50:21.560 I've been, it's been on my list to dig a little more into that.

00:50:24.900 And yeah, so I'm just trying to think if there's anybody that has any further questions, please submit them.

00:50:32.620 And because we're going to be wrapping up the show very shortly.

00:50:35.700 Is there anything else, Tanner, that you feel that maybe was missed in your room?

00:50:43.840 Because I know you speak on this topic all of the time.

00:50:46.960 And what do you have to say, this is one thing.

00:50:50.540 I was speaking recently at a church, and I said, could somebody please tell me, and it was so hilarious, that this is a pastor that is teaching the Word of God that didn't shut down during the pandemic.

00:51:04.040 He is informing his congregation on the sexualization of our children, on, you know, our rights to the sovereignty and upholding God's laws in Canada, etc.

00:51:15.380 But I said, could somebody please tell me where it says in the Bible that churches are supposed to hand out a tax receipt, you know, when we tithe?

00:51:24.920 Because it's completely not scriptural.

00:51:28.020 And I know that Action for Canada has chosen not to get charitable status, because it would give the government too much oversight into what we're doing.

00:51:37.340 And we probably would have been shut down if it was based on that.

00:51:40.680 So come the end of the year, I'm looking at all of these other organizations who have given themselves over to the government and have charitable status.

00:51:48.360 And we're sitting there and we're not receiving the donations at the end of the year, because people want that tax receipt.

00:51:53.820 And so within love in my heart, I just want to challenge you on that.

00:51:57.700 That's not a godly principle.

00:51:59.640 And that when you tithe or when you give, do it thoughtfully of where the Lord directs you to do that without considering anything in return, because you will get blessed beyond what you could possibly imagine if you're obedient to the Lord.

00:52:14.280 And so I know the more I talk about this, pastors are really starting to, you know, consider this aspect, and that it was really something that the government did to control what the pastors and the churches say and do.

00:52:30.520 And we see that happening.

00:52:32.380 Absolutely.

00:52:33.140 It's just the whole principle of this little presentation.

00:52:36.000 If it gives government power over you, right, then you ought to not do it.

00:52:39.660 And if a man tithes to get a tax receipt, then the tithe won't be accepted by Almighty God.

00:52:45.080 It will be an offense to him, right?

00:52:46.820 You look at the story of the scripture, the widow who tithes a penny at the synagogue, she is not getting a tax receipt.

00:52:54.300 That's not why she's doing it. 0.86

00:52:56.120 And that's what makes it so pleasing to Almighty, right?

00:52:58.940 If you tithe to him, that you might be in a better financial position after than what you were before.

00:53:04.020 It isn't one that's accepted, right?

00:53:06.480 That's where the Pharisees got so, well, got everything wrong.

00:53:09.060 They were convinced about the outside.

00:53:10.960 How do I look doing it outside?

00:53:12.420 How much money am I giving that people can see?

00:53:14.420 That's not what God's concerned about.

00:53:16.040 He wants to know the heart.

00:53:17.360 What is the heart like?

00:53:18.380 Why are you tithing?

00:53:19.680 Are you tithing hoping to get rich?

00:53:21.660 Are you tithing hoping to get that tax receipt?

00:53:24.260 Are you tithing hoping to get some benefit from it, whatever it might be?

00:53:27.900 Then you're not tithing properly.

00:53:29.220 It has to be with a humble heart that says this money is God's.

00:53:32.700 It's always been God's.

00:53:34.060 And this is my pledge or my demonstration that I want to serve him in this particular way.

00:53:41.940 The time which I've used to work and earn money is really God's time.

00:53:46.800 He's given it to me.

00:53:47.860 And so I'm giving it back to him.

00:53:49.840 That's the purpose of tithing.

00:53:51.640 And it's a step of faith for some.

00:53:53.440 Take that step of faith.

00:53:54.440 You won't regret it.

00:53:55.660 Okay.

00:53:55.900 A couple of questions came in.

00:53:57.460 And Moira has asked, what is your take on TSFAs?

00:54:02.080 Oh, well, let me be careful.

00:54:04.900 I don't want to say they're good or bad just because lots of financial things like this

00:54:11.580 are tailored to the individual, you know.

00:54:13.720 And I have to be honest, you know, we have to be careful to not lump every single financial

00:54:19.520 planner and friend into a basket of they all want big government.

00:54:23.620 You know, no, that's true for a lot of them.

00:54:24.960 And a lot of planners, just like every other, you know, job and career and so on, do want 0.99

00:54:32.680 bigger government and can be very foolish. 0.80

00:54:35.280 But if we're diligent and careful to find those, in this case, financial planners or 0.96

00:54:41.780 analysts and so on that agree with our views and understand where we're coming from and

00:54:46.340 have a servant heart in this matter, I think they can be of much more value than I can be.

00:54:50.680 There are some instances where a TFSA will be, you know, good for a man.

00:54:56.200 There are other instances where a different form of financial maneuvering will be better

00:55:02.300 for him.

00:55:03.060 And so I don't want to say just I don't want to say they're good or bad.

00:55:05.920 I think that would be too vague an answer.

00:55:07.820 I think it's dependent on the individual.

00:55:09.980 And I understand that they're confusing.

00:55:11.400 And a lot of those things are RSPs and and on so on and so on are confusing.

00:55:16.220 And so I think then actually the task here of of the Christian to start is to, as I mentioned 0.67

00:55:23.000 before, be diligent with our money.

00:55:24.900 And by being diligent, I mean by scoping out financial planners or those who can help us

00:55:30.300 who really do have principles that are that are like minded and who really do see that

00:55:35.600 the federal government is trying to abolish our way of life and who really do see that

00:55:39.820 perhaps, you know, there is malevolent or there are malevolent things going on behind

00:55:44.920 with the money machine and so on.

00:55:46.580 And then they can aid us in our, you know, maneuvering.

00:55:49.660 I use an accountant, for example.

00:55:51.400 I'm very glad I do.

00:55:52.520 I don't understand all those tax codes.

00:55:54.380 It's unbelievably complicated.

00:55:56.500 And so I'm in full favor of finding someone or of individuals finding those help, you know,

00:56:03.760 that help that that is agreed with them on the on the same principles and going from

00:56:07.580 there.

00:56:07.940 It's a very good question, though.

00:56:09.840 OK, thank you.

00:56:11.340 And, you know, when we're talking about the spending of money as well, and I have certain

00:56:17.540 things that I did, I always said to my kids, you can only spend it once.

00:56:20.800 That's how I look at it.

00:56:21.620 So what are you going to spend it on?

00:56:23.000 I'm not somebody that goes and has my nails done and I cut my own hair.

00:56:28.060 I know that I would love to be able to go to mine is more a time issue than not being

00:56:31.920 able to afford to go have my hair done.

00:56:34.280 But, you know, those were things when I was saving for a house and when I was going through

00:56:38.080 those things, these were not luxuries that I afforded myself.

00:56:41.100 I figured out how to do them.

00:56:42.800 And even nowadays, you know, we've got marketplace.

00:56:45.700 You can buy the most amazing things if you've got a baby, children going up, you know, for

00:56:50.880 your home.

00:56:51.600 It's a wonderful way to reuse items and have nice things in your home.

00:56:57.960 Just because you have a lower income doesn't mean you need to be poor in the sense.

00:57:03.900 So if you are wise, if I wasn't doing all of this, that is actually one of the things

00:57:08.520 I would have loved to have created a business is helping people who had a lower income have

00:57:14.300 nice things in their home so that it would be their castle of another sense.

00:57:18.700 Right.

00:57:18.920 And having having a budget doing it, I would have loved to have done that.

00:57:22.640 So, OK, so it says somebody that Moira still asked also, how about trading accounts, trading

00:57:28.900 accounts?

00:57:29.640 Any advice on that?

00:57:30.380 Well, I think it's another it's almost the same answer, you know, like even with with

00:57:36.460 the trading itself and so on.

00:57:38.460 Just take a look at big trading first.

00:57:40.380 Government watches that.

00:57:41.460 Right.

00:57:41.580 Of course, they watch that.

00:57:43.140 But for a lot of individuals, you know, especially it seems younger individuals to their own personal

00:57:49.140 trading accounts seem to be doing very well.

00:57:51.080 It seems to not be so there just isn't a middleman, which is nice.

00:57:56.940 It is nice in that sense.

00:57:58.120 Right.

00:57:58.260 We like it when things are efficient and it seems to be far more efficient to let open

00:58:05.340 up a trading account on your own if you're able to do it and and go from there compared

00:58:09.460 to having 16 different analysts look at your accounts and then take a lot of money out

00:58:14.360 of them to pay for their services and so on.

00:58:17.300 So, again, it's you know, I feel like these answers are generalizations and I'm sorry about

00:58:21.380 that.

00:58:21.600 But I think it's wisest to say it really does depend on the individual.

00:58:25.660 That's what's tricky about finances.

00:58:27.300 You know, the command of Jesus to love the Lord your God applies to everyone.

00:58:30.760 No doubt about that.

00:58:31.760 That's that's clear and present.

00:58:33.400 But as for finances, your position is different than mine and your skill set is different than

00:58:38.300 mine.

00:58:38.600 And the time you have available is different than mine.

00:58:40.700 And so it leads to variables in the market and in your own home, which force you to make

00:58:45.940 these independent individual decisions, which is why I think it's so daunting for a lot

00:58:50.540 of people.

00:58:51.100 It's hard to say, what am I supposed to do when things are so confusing?

00:58:54.600 And it's not as though we can just look to everyone else and see what they're doing.

00:58:58.700 It doesn't quite work like that.

00:59:00.120 No.

00:59:00.640 Yes.

00:59:01.600 Yeah.

00:59:01.860 And then just to emphasize as well, I know there's some questions here asking for some

00:59:05.860 very specific answers, but we can't give you financial advice without knowing anybody's

00:59:12.000 situation.

00:59:13.120 So these are sort of vague answers, you know, maybe to help you go in a direction, but you

00:59:18.360 really need to either get in touch with a financial advisor, watch the videos that we've

00:59:23.780 provided on Action for Canada's page to help you make some decisions based on the fiat dollar.

00:59:31.400 That's cash is sort of collapsing here in Canada.

00:59:34.200 On my weekly news update, which is coming up next, the Scotiabank in Nova Scotia, I've

00:59:39.220 heard it in a couple of places.

00:59:41.380 It's not all of the Scotiabanks, but in some of their areas have stated that they're not

00:59:47.360 going to be dealing in cash anymore.

00:59:49.740 Literally, there will be no over-the-counter cash.

00:59:51.980 If you want it, you'll need to go to the bank machine or the bank at such and such address

00:59:55.900 down the road.

00:59:56.760 That's just trying it out.

00:59:58.200 That's the start.

00:59:58.980 So moving your money, you know, buying silver or gold, these are things you have to investigate

01:00:05.460 and explore.

01:00:07.480 The final question that I'll look at right now is, I don't know a whole lot about Bitcoin.

01:00:15.200 Do you happen to know about that, Tanner?

01:00:17.800 A little bit.

01:00:18.560 Yes, I do.

01:00:20.260 Do you want to add your two cents, so to speak, before we...

01:00:24.880 Yeah, you know, Bitcoin is just, it's a neat principle in which the currency is the ledger.

01:00:32.480 So, you know, when you work with financials, you make a ledger, right, of how your financials

01:00:37.780 are flowing in and out.

01:00:39.320 With Bitcoin, the currency is the ledger, which is very, it's a strange idea, but that's how

01:00:44.580 it works.

01:00:46.860 As for Bitcoin, I understand the desire towards it, just like a lot of other cryptocurrencies,

01:00:51.480 like, you know, Ethereum and so on.

01:00:53.860 We think crypto means electronic.

01:00:55.700 No, it means cryptography.

01:00:56.960 That's why it's called crypto is because it uses a mathematical tool called cryptography

01:01:02.680 to keep everything anonymous and flowing and so on.

01:01:06.640 But nevertheless, government can regulate Bitcoin.

01:01:10.800 It can regulate, if it wants to, it can regulate Ethereum.

01:01:13.600 It's just the same issue that we have with everything else, is if government wants to try

01:01:17.960 and regulate it and crack down on it, it will, it will, it will.

01:01:22.720 So a lot of men say, well, we don't like the dollar.

01:01:25.500 Fair enough.

01:01:26.740 Trust me, fair enough.

01:01:28.080 So let's put our money into Bitcoin.

01:01:29.600 And it's like, well, okay, you can do so, but there will come a day when government will

01:01:33.200 come for Bitcoin.

01:01:34.320 They will.

01:01:34.720 Or you can say, let's put it in Ethereum.

01:01:37.140 And maybe you put some there.

01:01:38.380 Fine.

01:01:38.620 So be it.

01:01:39.220 Sure.

01:01:39.540 You know, you want to try and escape the devaluing dollar.

01:01:42.420 I understand it.

01:01:43.320 One day government will come for Ethereum.

01:01:45.480 They're just, the principle is there is nowhere to hide.

01:01:48.420 And if we try and put our faith in money, we'll find that we have no faith and no hope

01:01:52.960 at all.

01:01:53.900 So, you know, with regards to investing, should a man put some money in Bitcoin?

01:01:58.020 Should he put some in Ethereum?

01:01:59.040 Well, again, we don't offer advice, but I certainly live by the principle of a man ought

01:02:04.260 to diversify his investments.

01:02:06.220 That seems to be a very clear financial principle that successful individuals follow, right?

01:02:11.940 Diversify.

01:02:12.480 Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

01:02:14.180 So maybe put some here, some there, some somewhere else, you know, that's up for an

01:02:18.480 individual to choose.

01:02:19.860 The idea of Bitcoin is interesting.

01:02:21.880 I don't think it's, you know, even the principle itself, I don't disagree with it, but government

01:02:28.220 can regulate it, government can regulate it and use it for nefarious purposes, just like

01:02:32.520 anything else.

01:02:33.600 I was thinking about how with the, in the United States, with the transition to a new

01:02:38.660 president, they are against the CBDCs.

01:02:42.400 I think senators have already voted that down in the process of saying that's not going to

01:02:46.980 happen in the United States.

01:02:48.980 I think Florida has already taken steps.

01:02:50.920 And with that, you know, they're going to look for whatever other electronic means there

01:02:56.680 is of taking people's finances.

01:02:59.440 I think that anything is, that is electronic or on the great web is not secure.

01:03:06.460 And I've always heard that if you can't touch it, you don't own it nearly.

01:03:11.000 And so that's where people go with gold or silver and investing in these types of things.

01:03:15.840 And as well, as you mentioned earlier in your presentation about trade, people have previously

01:03:21.220 said, you know what, buy alcohol, buy cigarettes.

01:03:23.980 These are things that you would be able to trade if it came to a point where there was

01:03:27.940 a major recession or you couldn't get into your bank accounts.

01:03:32.360 But, you know, if there's bank bail-ins, I keep mentioning it, the government has a bank

01:03:37.020 bail-in in the budget, which means it's not a bank bail-out.

01:03:40.000 They don't bail out the bank.

01:03:41.060 They bail-in to your accounts, to your investments, to your safety deposit box, and they can remove

01:03:49.500 all of your assets.

01:03:51.160 And they say that your insurance will cover it up to $100,000.

01:03:54.500 But if they do this to banks across, if this happens with banks across Canada, there isn't

01:03:58.580 enough with the, I'm sorry, I don't remember the acronym for the insurance that backs the

01:04:04.660 banks in order to pay everybody in Canada what the government would be taking out.

01:04:09.640 And so it's just a system.

01:04:11.740 It's not a scare tactic to tell you.

01:04:13.500 This is to educate you.

01:04:15.020 It's to advise you and to take steps to, as Tanner said, diversify.

01:04:20.360 Don't have all your eggs in one basket.

01:04:22.200 Have a little bit of money in the bank.

01:04:23.980 Have, you know, an investment somewhere.

01:04:26.740 I'm going to, I said that was the last question, but Lydia had really been pressing, I see here

01:04:31.740 in the chat.

01:04:32.760 Tanner, someone mentions gold coins that have a monetary value to avoid, example, gold coin

01:04:38.880 in Canada has EV $20 value.

01:04:43.180 Does that make sense to you?

01:04:44.140 To buy gold coins in the ounce without a monetary value?

01:04:50.280 Maybe, yeah.

01:04:51.440 I mean, I'm not against buying gold.

01:04:53.440 If that's what the, yeah, that's what the question is.

01:04:54.960 I have, I have no whatever's against buying gold.

01:04:57.040 What I, what I meant to convey was the government says I can't go to a store right now.

01:05:03.020 I can't go to home hardware here, or I can't go to a mom and pop store and pay for goods

01:05:07.940 and services with a gold coin that isn't minted by the, by the Bank of Canada, that they have

01:05:13.480 a rule about that.

01:05:14.440 I think that's nonsense.

01:05:15.780 And, you know, it's like, why can't I pay for something with the currency that I want

01:05:19.600 to use?

01:05:20.320 If I want to pay for my groceries with a thing of silver.

01:05:23.560 And if the supplier says, oh yeah, we'll take silver here for payment, you bet.

01:05:27.720 Why shouldn't I be allowed to do so?

01:05:29.520 And of course, government will give some reason about efficiency or some other nonsense.

01:05:33.600 It's just to keep us all on that fiat currency.

01:05:37.220 So someone mentions gold coins have a monetary value to avoid.

01:05:41.760 Gold coin, yeah, I don't know if that means that, you know, this, this is a gold coin worth

01:05:47.380 $20.

01:05:48.140 If it really is a gold coin, it's worth much more than $20.

01:05:50.700 Yeah, the principle is, you know, it's simple.

01:05:54.700 Yeah, yeah.

01:05:55.000 I've gold backs.

01:05:55.780 I've heard that money with gold in them.

01:05:58.300 I've heard that that is a principle.

01:05:59.900 They are, they're putting gold inside the bills to make them a gold bill.

01:06:04.580 You know, the problem with that is right now, it costs more money to make the back, the gold

01:06:08.280 back than what the gold back is worth.

01:06:09.960 And so they have to figure out that problem.

01:06:12.140 Yeah, it's just the principle stays the same, you know, be as wise as you can with your money.

01:06:17.340 And Canada's dollar is not worth very much.

01:06:21.300 I think that's important to remember.

01:06:22.660 It's scary.

01:06:22.960 I said last week, I had the report that you it's worth $1.76.

01:06:26.840 Like, that's what's on a dollar right now is Canadians have $1.76 on a dollar.

01:06:31.880 And so Lydia, just as well, if you want to go to our precious metals page at the top or

01:06:36.780 two videos from Steve, and he actually covers the question that you're asking in one of those

01:06:42.520 videos. So on that, Tanner, I just want to thank you so much. That was an interesting show tonight.

01:06:48.960 I think very informative and educational. I actually, we need to talk again, because I'm

01:06:54.100 already planning January. And I want to go into the new year helping people know how to save.

01:07:00.740 And so have some points on that. So maybe you could come back, and we could have another

01:07:05.560 conversation and help people start out the new year, right? It might be, it might include

01:07:10.020 cutting up your credit card, people.

01:07:13.360 Now, wouldn't that be something? Oh, yeah, we'll have to chat. You bet. That'd be so much fun.

01:07:17.680 Who knows where this is going to go? All right. Okay, thank you so much. God bless you.

01:07:23.420 Thanks a bunch. You too.

01:07:25.160 Awesome. All right. Well, thank you, everyone. I hope that tomorrow when we post this in Power Hour,

01:07:31.540 you're going to show it far and wide. We are being censored terribly. And I think this is really

01:07:36.960 critical information and that it's helpful to individuals who are struggling and in need of

01:07:41.280 some direction. All right. As I'd mentioned earlier on, Michelle Sterling will be our guest

01:07:45.820 next week. We call The Native Saga continues with this movie that was called Sugarcane. And as Michelle

01:07:53.320 called it, The Bitter Roots of Sugarcane. She's done a video. I will include it in the weekly email

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01:08:01.860 please make sure you do to receive our weekly news updates on Sunday nights and any actions that

01:08:09.220 we take nationwide. And a lot of times we didn't in this instance when we did the action on behalf

01:08:18.060 of Nova Scotians, but maybe we should have. We send them usually out nationwide because there's 1.00

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01:08:38.140 that you do that. And I know down in the States, Bridget Gabriel, like Action for Canada, is doing the

01:08:45.040 same thing in lobbying government and pushing back against senators. And that is where public awareness

01:08:50.400 is gained. And that is where elected officials hear the voice of the people. They understand in order to

01:08:56.060 get voted that they need to go with the majority. And that's why they're winning in these nations.

01:09:04.320 And we want Canada to be next. Okay, Matthew 6, 19 to 21. 0.59

01:09:10.040 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break

01:09:16.200 in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust do not destroy and

01:09:21.520 where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

01:09:27.280 And I love that verse on the Empower Hour tonight. We were talking about our investments and our money.

01:09:32.720 And I just thought that that verse was very appropriate. All right. Well, so thank you. I

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01:11:43.020 And help make a difference.

01:11:48.020 That's what I've got to say. Look at this crowd.

01:11:54.020 I'm going to thank God and God alone for the ground that I'm standing on.

01:12:04.020 I'm going to thank our founding fathers for giving their lives and sacrificing so much for our

01:12:17.020 freedom. And I'm calling on you today. Don't put them to shame. Don't waste what they did.

01:12:27.020 We have guaranteed rights in this country. We are putting chapters across the nation.

01:12:41.020 We are going to be in every town and every city. And we are going to build communities within

01:12:47.020 these communities of like-minded people who are actually going to care for one another again

01:12:52.020 and love on each other and give each other the help when they're down.

01:12:57.020 We are going to use the teams and the people that build within chapters to support our businesses.

01:13:04.020 The government's actions are completely 100% unlawful.

01:13:11.020 Judgment will again be found on justice and those with virtuous hearts will pursue it.

01:13:19.020 You have a virtuous heart if you are here today pursuing freedom and righteousness.

01:13:27.020 And then verse 23 comes along with a promise. God says He will turn the sins of evil people

01:13:36.020 back on them. He will destroy them for their sins. I take great comfort in that because I 0.51

01:13:46.020 serve a mighty living God who has allowed us to go through this season of discomfort because

01:13:55.020 we as a nation have turned our backs on Him. And we need to get right. So I am just going

01:14:03.020 to thank you so much. I'm going to say God bless you and God bless Canada.

01:14:09.020 Thank you so much.

01:14:39.020 Thank you so much.

01:15:09.020 Thank you.

Action4Canada - November 29, 2024

Finances - A Biblical Perspective With Tanya Gaw & Tanner Hnidey, Nov. 20, 2024

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