Action4Canada - Tanya Gaw and Alex Newman of Liberty Sentinel, MEN： PROTECTOR, PROVIDER, WARRIOR!

00:00:00.000 Building strong marriages is essential to having a strong family, and strong families are absolutely the key to having societies that thrive financially, spiritually, as far as these crazy government leaders that are coming in.

00:00:20.420 And this wouldn't happen in societies where families are strong based on good, strong principles and traditional values, biblical values.

00:00:29.140 Yeah, you're absolutely right.

00:00:31.240 And the enemy and the enemy's minions have recognized for a long time that families have to be undermined for the enemy to be able to make progress and advance.

00:00:40.600 And we've seen that so clearly.

00:00:41.500 I mean, Karl Marx articulated this in very plain terms, right?

00:00:45.240 Women should be collectively held and multiple partners and children should be raised by the state. 1.00

00:00:52.500 Why did Karl Marx, who I believe was actually a Satanist, and I know that sounds inflammatory, read the books, Marx and Satan, read some of his poetry.

00:00:59.340 I think you'll come to the same conclusion.

00:01:01.260 But, you know, if God ordained marriage, if God ordained family for our good, it makes sense that the enemy would wage constant war on it.

00:01:07.920 And that's exactly what we have seen.

00:01:09.680 All of the totalitarian regimes of the last hundred years have tried to undermine family.

00:01:14.680 First of all, it is the mechanism that God has chosen to use to disciple the next generation.

00:01:19.780 The gospel is propagated in that way.

00:01:22.220 You know, the children are brought up with the faith, with the understanding that their parents have instilled in them.

00:01:28.500 And so there's a concerted effort to destroy marriages and to destroy families.

00:01:32.860 You're absolutely right that a strong marriage is essential to a strong family.

00:01:36.240 A strong family is essential to a strong society.

00:01:39.620 And part of the reason our societies are in turmoil, the United States and Canada and across the West, is families are disintegrating because of a well-orchestrated plot of the enemy.

00:01:49.880 I'm so pleased that Alex is featured on the Empower Hour this evening.

00:01:59.040 Alex is a husband, father, educator, author, award-winning international journalist, and a sought-after speaker who desires to glorify God in everything he does.

00:02:10.580 In 2019, Alex and a coalition of Christian leaders formed Public School Exit, America's foremost ministry working to rescue children from the horrors of so-called government education, also known as indoctrination.

00:02:27.440 Their mission is to facilitate an exodus of children and families from government-controlled education.

00:02:33.660 Alex is a strong and motivating voice as he encourages men to be warriors and protectors of their families, their faith, and their freedom.

00:02:43.700 Because this interview is pre-taped, we will not be taking questions in the Q&A chat tonight, but I do invite you to sit back and get comfortable as we watch this illuminating presentation together.

00:02:55.800 Well, Alex, it's so good to have you back on the show.

00:03:04.240 This is your second time.

00:03:05.240 The last time you were here, we were talking about the great school exit in the United States and the program that you're involved in.

00:03:12.140 And today, we're going to talk about a really critical issue.

00:03:15.700 After decades of this campaign to emasculate men, we really, truly need to have this conversation

00:03:22.440 and understand the role of men as leaders within their family, within their work, the church, and their community.

00:03:28.760 As I say, after decades, I call it an elaborate and well-synchronized scheme to emasculate men and elevate women. 0.73

00:03:35.560 The pendulum, I believe, is finally beginning to swing back as men and women reassess their God-given roles

00:03:41.300 and celebrate being uniquely male and female.

00:03:45.040 And so we're going to have a really great conversation.

00:03:48.260 I think it's a necessary one and long overdue.

00:03:50.600 So welcome to the show and, yeah, over to you.

00:03:55.420 What an honor to be here, Tanya.

00:03:56.760 Thank you so much.

00:03:57.500 It's great to see you.

00:03:58.440 I can't tell you how much I appreciate the wonderful work you're doing.

00:04:01.420 I know things look like they're getting darker in Canada and across the United States,

00:04:05.760 but I'm just so happy that there are voices out there like yours speaking the truth boldly and without fear.

00:04:12.020 It's so necessary, and it's really an honor to be with you again, Tanya.

00:04:15.220 Thank you for having me.

00:04:16.580 Thank you, Alex.

00:04:17.300 And, you know, we're actually starting to have some breakthrough in Canada and in New Brunswick.

00:04:22.720 I'm not sure if you heard about it, but this last week things sort of exploded

00:04:26.340 because the Minister of Education had put a policy forward.

00:04:30.640 It was done several years ago, Policy 713.

00:04:33.400 And it actually is a first step from a province in defending children and families and parental rights.

00:04:42.240 And the policy will prohibit teachers from using children's pronouns without parental knowledge

00:04:50.520 or trying to change children's gender at school under the radar,

00:04:56.420 as they say, to keep children safe from, you know, these horrific abusive families that won't promote this craziness.

00:05:03.500 And then the other thing was to also ensure that males were not going into girls' change rooms and private spaces.

00:05:10.980 And there were a few other points as well, but this is massive.

00:05:14.220 The Prime Minister is speaking out against this, of course, because Trudeau is all things LGBTQ. 0.99

00:05:22.160 He's also announced this week the Rainbow Railroad, joining with the Rainbow Railroad

00:05:26.880 to bring all the homosexuals around the world into Canada to be safe. 1.00

00:05:31.860 And as well as unions and others are, you know, opposing what Premier Higgs

00:05:38.140 and the Education Minister Hogan have done here.

00:05:42.460 And so the LGBTQ radical activists are absolutely in a frenzy right now because they're comparing it to Florida.

00:05:51.460 They're saying that this is the beginning as in Florida.

00:05:54.620 Other provinces are watching what's going on.

00:05:57.260 And so I sent out a massive campaign yesterday for everybody across the nation.

00:06:03.020 We have a really large email list to provide all of the support possible for Premier Higgs and Bill Hogan.

00:06:09.960 And so we're really excited about that. This is really big.

00:06:12.960 Parents are coming out to school boards.

00:06:14.700 And we were several years behind you in the United States because, you know, Obama brought this in.

00:06:20.500 And when Trudeau got in, he started pushing it.

00:06:23.340 So I always kept saying, you know, it's only a matter of time before some civility and sanity

00:06:30.400 starts to come back into the political platform here, landscape in Canada.

00:06:35.020 So, yeah, it's very encouraging.

00:06:38.360 And, you know, these are small steps in the big scheme of things, but it shows movement in the right direction.

00:06:43.680 And, you know, the media, and I'm sure the same is true in Canada, is hyperventilating about this.

00:06:48.400 And, oh, this is an attack.

00:06:50.120 It's absolutely not.

00:06:51.160 And the thing is, the voters saw right through that.

00:06:54.020 Here in Florida, you know, speaking from our perspective here,

00:06:56.720 our governor passed that with the support of the legislature, these measures,

00:06:59.860 and they're hardly radical.

00:07:01.480 I mean, all they're saying is, you know, don't sexualize kids,

00:07:03.760 don't indoctrinate them with LGBT stuff before the third grade. 0.55

00:07:06.760 I mean, you know, that's a very common sense proposal.

00:07:09.020 I would say it doesn't go nearly far enough, but, again, step in the right direction.

00:07:12.120 And the media, you know, acted like Ron DeSantis, our governor, was literally Hitler.

00:07:16.600 I can't tell you how many times I heard that.

00:07:17.840 He's literally Hitler because he doesn't think we need to teach second graders that they can chop off private parts.

00:07:23.520 And the voters saw right through that.

00:07:25.340 He was reelected by a massive margin, 60 to 40.

00:07:28.140 You know, our state here in Florida historically has been what we call a swing state.

00:07:31.720 You know, you could go Democrat or Republican.

00:07:33.840 It's been kind of in between over the years.

00:07:36.380 But to have a margin like that, 60-40 in the last gubernatorial election,

00:07:41.060 shows you that the voters are really not buying into this.

00:07:44.260 Mainstream people don't think children need to be sexualized at taxpayer expense in public schools.

00:07:49.220 People don't think that their children need to be taught that they might have been born in the wrong body.

00:07:53.000 And this is true across the political spectrum.

00:07:54.580 You talk to a normal average Democrat,

00:07:56.540 they also don't want their children being deceived with these kinds of lies.

00:08:01.620 So despite the media hysteria, despite the comments of your prime minister and, of course, Joe Biden,

00:08:07.140 the reality is that voters do not support this kind of stuff.

00:08:09.880 And that's very encouraging to know that the population is not buying into the stuff that the corporations and the government is pushing.

00:08:15.460 Yeah, we're really excited about it.

00:08:18.120 We've had a massive campaign since a year ago, Stop SOGI 123,

00:08:22.460 the comprehensive sexuality education that comes from the UN.

00:08:26.360 It's known as the Win Sex Ed in Ontario.

00:08:29.540 And across the nation, we have over 100 chapters now.

00:08:32.260 And I'm really excited about it because in lockstep, we're working together and serving all of the school board trustees,

00:08:38.540 warning them that you're going down a bad path here.

00:08:40.840 And if you continue to support this, when this starts to unfold, you could be held personally liable.

00:08:45.620 And so in certain districts, I've had school boards that they've threatened legal action, you know,

00:08:53.120 against myself for speaking out on these issues.

00:08:55.600 They want to call it all hate towards the LGBTQ.

00:08:59.120 But in the United States, we know that adding gender expression and gender identity to the Human Rights Commission and stuff,

00:09:08.140 this does not give them a green light to railroad over everybody else's rights.

00:09:12.660 And it certainly doesn't give them the right to sexually exploit and harm children.

00:09:18.060 That's exactly right.

00:09:19.160 And, you know, if you look at who is being hateful here, I think it's very obvious who's being hateful.

00:09:24.300 Anybody can just look at this objectively and decide for themselves who's being hateful.

00:09:28.020 The people who are being hateful are the people who are using vile language, who are making threats.

00:09:33.700 In California, I don't know if you saw, but the state of California just filed a new bill

00:09:37.820 that would actually criminalize parents not affirming the gender confusion of their children

00:09:43.860 and, in fact, would break up a family.

00:09:46.220 It could be considered under the law child abuse for a parent not to affirm their confused child

00:09:53.280 if he or she believes that he might have been born in the wrong body or whatever.

00:09:56.420 And so I can't think of very many things that would be more hateful than ripping a child from his or her parents

00:10:04.140 under the guise of this ideology that really has done nothing but devastate enormous numbers of children.

00:10:11.560 In fact, even a lot of the European countries now, I'm actually headed to Scandinavia here in the next few days.

00:10:16.160 I spent many years over there.

00:10:17.360 Even a lot of the Scandinavian countries are now saying, look, we're going to stop, you know, surgically mutilating children.

00:10:23.000 There's not good outcomes here.

00:10:24.440 A lot of these kids go on to kill themselves.

00:10:26.680 You know, the only pseudo studies that have been produced purporting to show that this is a good thing

00:10:30.820 are done by a radical gender activist. 0.98

00:10:33.800 And so the hate is clearly coming off from one side.

00:10:37.020 And really, the Christian response, as far as I have seen, has been nothing but loving and caring.

00:10:42.640 And look, you know, God designed you this way.

00:10:44.860 You don't need to hate yourself.

00:10:46.220 You don't need to believe the lies that you're being told.

00:10:49.140 You know, God created you that way.

00:10:50.460 And so the hate is there, but it's certainly not coming from the people trying to protect children.

00:10:57.000 A hundred percent.

00:10:57.900 And, you know, I always say that God is the ultimate.

00:11:00.700 God is love.

00:11:01.820 And he calls on us to love our neighbors.

00:11:04.400 But sometimes loving our neighbors means that we're going to speak a truth that is tough for them to embrace.

00:11:10.260 And ultimately, in the end, they're going to see that this truth is right and in their best interest.

00:11:16.280 And I'm not sure if you are aware, but in December of 2021, Canada already passed a bill stating that if parents do not support their children in their gender dysphoria

00:11:28.160 and take them to a gender dysphoria clinic, they could spend five years in jail.

00:11:32.480 Therapists could spend three years in prison.

00:11:34.260 And it is so tyrannical.

00:11:37.100 And, you know, part of my platform is I'm always wanting people to know that our constitution, section 52.1 in short form, says that if any law, if any provision is in violation or contradicts our constitution, it's of no force or effect.

00:11:52.620 But that doesn't help parents who are in this position, because now Johnny's coming home and saying, I'm a girl.

00:11:58.620 And, you know, the teachers have already had four months of transitioning him outwardly at school and changing his pronouns.

00:12:05.280 And now mom is going to be expected and dad are going to be expected to bring their kids to a clinic that's going to support this insanity.

00:12:10.760 And so we're also promoting en masse that parents pull their children out of the school system, both public and private, and that they homeschool them.

00:12:22.640 And because you can do more in an hour and a half and two hours in the evening than your child learns, you know, in six days in, or sorry, six hours in the school system, six or seven hours.

00:12:32.860 And that's being proven.

00:12:34.780 One of the other things that we did when you're talking about hate is we have recently, about a month ago, launched a letter that was meant to, that, well, is calling on elected officials to ban non-government and special interest group flags.

00:12:50.560 Because we've got Supreme Court rulings that on a duty of state neutrality, our public spaces must be neutral, which means all of our schools within the systems must be neutral.

00:13:01.760 No LGBTQ stickers, no propaganda is permitted.

00:13:06.340 And as a result, you know, some of the school boards with the activists on them are calling this letter hate.

00:13:12.840 And you know what they're calling, what they're referring to is within the letter, I state who developed and who created the pride flag.

00:13:20.800 And Gilbert Baker said, that's what flags are for.

00:13:23.580 That's what proclaiming power, right, over our schools and our cities. 0.61

00:13:28.700 But the creator of the trans flag, I don't recall his name right now, was just a horrible individual. 0.97

00:13:34.620 And those behind WPATH are the ones that, for transgender health and are pushing for people to transgender. 0.94

00:13:42.500 Well, these are a bunch of very deviant individuals who believe and get off on castrating animals. 0.83

00:13:50.240 And so you can imagine what they feel about castrating children.

00:13:53.620 And so we want elected officials.

00:13:56.100 Do you really understand who it is and what you're supporting?

00:14:00.520 Yeah.

00:14:01.120 And those things are so important to emphasize, Tanya.

00:14:04.180 You know, the U.N. Secretary General some years ago came to San Francisco and celebrated LGBT so-called human rights and described as so-called homosexual marriage as a human right.

00:14:15.580 And this all happened in the context of Harvey Milk.

00:14:19.200 And Harvey Milk is, to this day, still celebrated by the LGBT movement as the man who kicked off this LGBT revolution.

00:14:25.980 He was celebrated by the Secretary General of the U.N., Ban Ki-moon.

00:14:30.340 Very, very huge figure in this movement. 0.98

00:14:32.860 And you don't have to do a lot of research to figure out that this is a man who was raping children. 0.54

00:14:37.360 Some of those children actually went on to kill themselves.

00:14:39.560 He was finding young, troubled boys who were having problems with drugs, who were, you know, run away from home, whatever, who were having problems. 0.98

00:14:45.860 And he was grooming them and exploiting them and then raping them. 0.97

00:14:49.420 This is the guy who kicked off what was described as the LGBT sexual revolution. 0.97

00:14:55.020 And so you really don't have to dig deep to find out that a lot of the characters in this are very nefarious.

00:14:59.940 You know, when you look at the transgender movement, you find there are vested financial interests. 1.00

00:15:04.000 There are companies, there are individuals that are making more money than you could possibly comprehend off of these surgical mutilations, off of these gender treatments, these puberty blockers and hormones.

00:15:17.520 There are very powerful financial interests here that are turning these children into lifelong customers.

00:15:22.460 Once they start on this route, they become lifelong customers.

00:15:25.700 They constantly need to come back for hormones and treatments and updates and making sure that the wounds have healed from the surgery.

00:15:31.860 And, of course, those wounds will never heal.

00:15:33.040 These are children who end up being sterilized.

00:15:36.380 And, you know, to go back to something you said a moment ago, too, about the efforts to criminalize parents, the efforts to criminalize those of us who speak out in love about what's happening here.

00:15:45.740 First of all, anybody who corrupts a child, the Bible tells us very clearly it would be better for those people to have a millstone hung around their neck and to be tossed to the bottom of the seat.

00:15:54.020 Now, that's not me saying that.

00:15:55.340 That's God saying that.

00:15:56.300 When you corrupt a child, when you harm the innocence of a child, that is such an enormous matter.

00:16:04.500 And I don't think a lot of these people are taking into consideration the long-term consequences of this because what they're doing to these children is monstrous.

00:16:12.460 And on the effort of criminalizing speech, on the effort of criminalizing not affirming these kinds of confusions, you know, we need to be very clear.

00:16:21.820 What they're trying to do is actually criminalize Christianity.

00:16:24.800 They are trying to criminalize the gospel because, you know, the gospel of salvation is very clear.

00:16:30.780 Jesus Christ died for your sins so that you could be redeemed, so that you could be made right by God.

00:16:36.300 And this is transformative.

00:16:37.820 When you accept the Lord Jesus Christ as the Lord of your life, when you accept the penalty that he paid in payment for your sins so that you could be made right with God, your life is transformed.

00:16:47.400 And that's not to suggest that you are going to be immediately sin-free.

00:16:50.480 That's not going to happen.

00:16:51.520 We know that.

00:16:52.520 But God transforms us.

00:16:54.640 And the scripture teaches this very clearly.

00:16:56.700 This has been taught for 2,000 years of church history.

00:16:58.940 If you go to 1 Corinthians chapter 6, you read about all these different things that all of us were involved in before we knew the Lord.

00:17:05.420 One of those is homosexuality. 0.96

00:17:07.760 And all of these types of behaviors that God defines as sinful, he can set us free from those.

00:17:13.260 And yet to lie to children and say, nope, that's who you are.

00:17:16.900 That's your identity.

00:17:18.120 Your sin is who you are.

00:17:20.780 That's wrong.

00:17:21.880 That's wicked.

00:17:22.580 And then to try to take it a step further and criminalize the preaching of the gospel, which is what is going on here.

00:17:28.940 They are trying to criminalize the preaching of the gospel.

00:17:31.940 It is an attack on the most basic fundamental rights.

00:17:34.620 And as Christians, we have no choice but to disobey these laws.

00:17:38.680 There is no choice.

00:17:40.420 In Acts chapter 5, verse 29, the apostles say it's better to obey God than men.

00:17:44.740 They're ordered, stop preaching in the name of Jesus.

00:17:47.120 And they can't because we are adopted children of the Most High.

00:17:52.860 We are servants of the King, and we must do what He says.

00:17:56.600 And so we are good citizens.

00:17:57.940 We always obey the law.

00:17:59.200 But when the law conflicts with what we are commanded to do by our master, by our King, by our Savior, there's no choice but to disobey that.

00:18:08.140 We must do that.

00:18:08.940 And I'm always reminded of Daniel chapter 3.

00:18:11.420 I mean, this has just been burning on my heart for years now, and it's becoming so obvious why.

00:18:16.740 You know, the Shadach, Mishach, and Abednego, the Hebrew boys who were in captivity in Babylon, they were ordered to bow down to this golden idol.

00:18:23.460 And that's the situation that we as Christians find ourselves in today.

00:18:26.280 We are being ordered to bow down to this golden idol.

00:18:29.180 You cannot preach the gospel.

00:18:30.340 You cannot tell someone that their lives can be transformed through the blood of Christ.

00:18:33.800 We're being told that we cannot do those things.

00:18:36.280 And we must say, sorry, King, we have no need to respond to you in this matter, but our God is able to save us from your fiery furnace, and He will save us from your fiery furnace.

00:18:47.800 But even if He doesn't, we are still not going to bow down to that golden idol.

00:18:52.880 And that's all there is to it.

00:18:54.240 We have no choice but to act here.

00:18:56.540 Amen.

00:18:57.200 Amen to that.

00:18:57.940 Yeah, when you said the first scripture about wrapping a millstone around your neck, that is the one school board.

00:19:02.820 I had used that phrase in an article I wrote, and they said that I was endorsing vandalism and hate and violence.

00:19:12.780 They used the word violence towards the school district for using that Bible verse.

00:19:18.200 All right.

00:19:18.720 So with all of this in mind, when I began this journey in 2015, it was women on the front line of this fight.

00:19:26.040 And I am just so absolutely over the moon to see all of the men finally starting to rise up and step out on the front line and, you know, begin their role as men to be the protector in this scenario and the warrior.

00:19:42.600 And so, Alex, let's address that.

00:19:45.880 Like, I really want our viewers to understand what is the traditional biblical role of men.

00:19:52.440 And I want to cover the areas of within community, within the family, you know, within the workplace and within the church.

00:19:59.120 Yeah, you know, the Bible speaks so clearly on these issues.

00:20:04.100 And as Christians, we always need to go back to the word.

00:20:06.920 And so God has created clear roles.

00:20:09.620 He's offered clear responsibilities, clear duties for every person.

00:20:14.240 And some of those apply to men and some of those apply to women.

00:20:17.540 And so there are the basics, right?

00:20:18.880 If you go to, for example, 1 Timothy chapter 5, you read that a man, a husband, a father who does not provide for the members of his own household, really for his family, is worse than an infidel and has denied the faith. 0.95

00:20:33.200 And so we have an obligation as fathers, as husbands, to provide for our family, to care for our family.

00:20:38.880 And that doesn't mean just financially.

00:20:41.280 That doesn't just mean they have food to eat, they have a bed to sleep.

00:20:44.220 And those things are important.

00:20:45.380 But it's much more significant than that.

00:20:47.280 It's about protection.

00:20:48.220 It's about discipling.

00:20:50.140 It's about caring for their spiritual needs.

00:20:52.440 And that applies to the whole family.

00:20:54.060 Now, this applies to mom and dad in different ways.

00:20:57.100 But, you know, the Bible teaches about fatherhood so much.

00:21:01.040 I encourage every Christian man, if you have children, you need to go read about what God says about fatherhood.

00:21:08.040 And there are a lot of reasons why it's so important.

00:21:10.860 And one of them is because, you know, there's a parallel there between our relationship with God the father in the way that we treat and love our children in terms of discipline, in terms of loving them, in terms of trying to get them to do the right thing.

00:21:24.920 And so when it comes to the home, you know, the Bible is very clear.

00:21:27.200 And this is a teaching that's not popular anymore, even, unfortunately, in a lot of Christian circles, that the husband is the head of his family and the head of his wife.

00:21:36.480 And, you know, that doesn't mean what the world wants you to think it means.

00:21:39.880 It doesn't mean that a father or a husband is supposed to be lording it over his wife and giving her commands and barking orders.

00:21:46.080 It's totally inappropriate.

00:21:47.520 And that's not what the Scripture teaches.

00:21:48.980 In fact, the Scriptures tell you what that means.

00:21:51.400 That means you are to serve your wife. 0.97

00:21:53.500 That means you're to love your wife like Christ loved the church.

00:21:57.020 In fact, that's what God says about marriage.

00:21:59.000 Marriage is a representation of the relationship between Christ and the church.

00:22:02.580 So Christ is the head and the church is the body.

00:22:05.960 And the body and the head work together.

00:22:08.300 And it's about service, right?

00:22:10.660 Christ loved the church so much that he died for her, the most gruesome and barbaric death.

00:22:16.760 And so, husbands, are you willing to do whatever is necessary for your wife?

00:22:22.220 And when it talks about, you know, loving your wife, it means, again, more than just satisfying her financial needs, making sure that she has a home to live in and food.

00:22:32.780 You know, are you in the Word with her?

00:22:35.380 Are you teaching her?

00:22:36.680 Are you praying with her?

00:22:37.940 Are you leading your own children, right?

00:22:40.520 And so when it comes to the raising and the discipling of children, this is an area where fathers and mothers are to work together.

00:22:47.240 Fathers, I believe, are to kind of set the course and to lead the way.

00:22:51.120 But this is a partnership between the husband and the wife in the discipling of children.

00:22:55.220 And there's so much in the Bible about how we are to do this.

00:22:59.580 You know, Ephesians 6, 4 very clearly is addressed to fathers.

00:23:02.960 And sometimes mothers are added in there. 1.00

00:23:04.540 I think it's applicable to both, but especially to fathers.

00:23:07.240 It says that you are not to provoke your children to anger, but you're supposed to raise them up in the fear and the discipline and the admonition of the Lord.

00:23:14.240 So it's a critical responsibility that we all have as fathers and as husbands is bringing our children up in the fear and the discipline and the admonition of the Lord.

00:23:23.080 Now, people talk about the Great Commission.

00:23:25.720 A lot of churches are scared to talk about any of the issues that are facing our culture.

00:23:30.000 And their standard reply is, well, Great Commission, we're just preaching the gospel.

00:23:33.680 And so we're not going to talk about those sensitive issues about gender.

00:23:36.360 We're not going to talk about the abortion issues.

00:23:38.280 We're not going to talk about, you know, God's design for family.

00:23:41.240 We're not going to talk about God's design for government.

00:23:43.140 That's political.

00:23:43.820 Whereas in reality, the Great Commission is so applicable to your home.

00:23:50.300 You know, I tell people, if you think you're going to make disciples of other nations and you're going to lose your own children, you're not going to disciple your own children.

00:23:56.520 You've totally missed the point, right?

00:23:59.500 Our first ministry as fathers and as mothers is to our own children, is to our own family.

00:24:05.420 And so if you're not making disciples in your own home, how are you going to make disciples overseas?

00:24:10.920 You know, you tell me, oh, we're funding a missionary to go to, you know, Canada or Zimbabwe or Haiti or Thailand.

00:24:17.100 Well, that's nice.

00:24:18.240 And we should be doing that as Christians.

00:24:19.840 We should be doing that as the church.

00:24:21.320 But don't tell me that when the church is losing 80 to 90 percent of its young people because they're being discipled by the world.

00:24:27.940 So, you know, fathers have an obligation to provide for their families, to love their families, to serve their families.

00:24:35.600 The term servant leadership is almost cliche, but I do think it's important to emphasize, you know, leadership in the Christian context is different than what the world thinks of as leadership.

00:24:45.940 You know, when the world thinks of leadership, they think of government policies and mandates, even authoritarian.

00:24:52.560 That's not what Christian leadership looks like.

00:24:54.820 And in fact, this is specifically addressed in the text of the scripture.

00:24:57.940 Right. Leadership in the Christian context is not like it is for the Gentiles. 0.99

00:25:01.540 It's not about lording it over others.

00:25:03.640 It's about serving others.

00:25:05.520 And so as husbands, as fathers, we need to be serving our families.

00:25:08.880 We need to be serving our wives. 0.99

00:25:10.180 We need to be serving our own children.

00:25:11.500 And we need to be carrying out those tasks that God has set before us, starting with the basics, providing financially and so on.

00:25:18.640 But much more importantly than that, having an eye on eternity and being in the word and teaching the truth about God from the scriptures.

00:25:27.940 Right. That's amazing.

00:25:29.480 Alex and I completely, 100% agree with you.

00:25:33.020 So many people with all the women's movements over the years, right?

00:25:37.160 A knee-jerk reaction is to be offended.

00:25:39.560 There's no man that's going to have authority over me.

00:25:41.900 But it's a blessing.

00:25:43.120 It is a gift and a blessing to women to be in a relationship where men understand what God meant in the design as leader of the family and to be a husband and to be that provider.

00:25:56.900 It is not to be a dictator within the home.

00:26:00.040 And if men are doing that, then they are not in tune with the Lord and they're lacking within their own life.

00:26:05.380 And that's where, you know, building their relationship with God has to be first and foremost.

00:26:11.160 So it's God first, then my wife and family, then my job.

00:26:15.260 And if you've got a good, healthy balance like that, you know, you're on the right track.

00:26:20.480 Recently, I was giving counsel to a couple who were really struggling, like to the point where they're very unhappy in each other's company.

00:26:29.640 And at different times, separately, I was having a conversation.

00:26:33.300 And when I was sitting down with the husband, he would say, well, I'm not going to leave her, you know, because, you know, divorce is against God's will.

00:26:39.940 And I said, that's not the reason to stay because that was the commitment he'd made at the altar.

00:26:45.640 I said, that's not what God is asking.

00:26:48.740 He's asking for far much more than that.

00:26:51.100 And you've touched on that right now, right?

00:26:53.400 You need to understand who your wife is.

00:26:56.520 And within relationships, the other thing to address is having healthy relationships.

00:27:02.440 And I was way back when they still had cassette tapes, but I had a recording of a church service on cassette tape, and I lent it to somebody.

00:27:09.960 And it was about Bruce and Wanda, who got married.

00:27:13.160 And then the story ended up being how they were actually bruised and wounded.

00:27:18.180 And then they had a child, and I always forget what they named the child, but it was bruised and wounded, you know,

00:27:22.480 because you will forward that on to your generations, those dysfunctions and those hurts within your own life from your own family experiences, possibly,

00:27:32.240 or, you know, some other experience of hurt or harm that has been caused to an individual.

00:27:37.120 And if you don't get the assistance that you need and heal and become whole, that is going to affect your relationship.

00:27:44.020 And it is definitely going to affect your children.

00:27:47.440 So it is about very positively working on yourself, and then also understand that your spouse has issues as well.

00:27:56.060 And if you chose to love them and get married, then you need to be willing to dig into those hard times as well and say,

00:28:02.240 how can I help in this situation?

00:28:04.040 How can we heal together?

00:28:05.260 Yeah, and, you know, this is an area where men really have been lacking in our culture because they haven't been taught properly.

00:28:14.300 You know, when God tells us to love our wives like Christ loved the church, I mean, obviously that's incomprehensible to our finite minds.

00:28:22.800 The love that Christ has for his church is beyond the scope of what we can imagine.

00:28:27.740 But just from what we know in the scriptures, we get a sense of how deep and how great that love is.

00:28:33.400 And, you know, I talk to a lot of men who say, well, you know, my wife doesn't submit to me, and so I don't feel obligated to love her.

00:28:41.180 Excuse me, I didn't see the asterisk in the scripture that said if your wife isn't behaving exactly how you think she needs to be behaving, 0.93

00:28:47.160 that suddenly you don't need to love her.

00:28:48.880 And I think part of it also is an improper understanding of love that, unfortunately, many Christians have picked up from the world. 0.81

00:28:55.640 There's this strange notion.

00:28:57.420 It's almost like, you know, the pagan idea that there's a little Cupid that's shooting you with an arrow and, well, I fell in love and it's uncontrollable.

00:29:04.360 There's nothing I can do about it.

00:29:05.640 Absolutely not.

00:29:06.340 That is not what God means by love.

00:29:08.220 This is not some bizarre, uncontrollable emotional force that we have no control over.

00:29:13.640 When God commands you to love your wife as Christ loved the church, that's an order.

00:29:18.120 This is not something that, you know, oh, I fell in love.

00:29:20.280 Oh, I fell out of love.

00:29:21.340 That's a choice that you make.

00:29:22.860 And to love your wife in that way means you need to be prioritizing her.

00:29:27.520 You need to be prioritizing her needs.

00:29:29.620 And all of this is independent of her behavior.

00:29:32.140 All of this is totally independent of whether she's doing what you think she needs to be doing.

00:29:36.880 And what I have found, and I've seen this in so many families, is that when husbands start doing what they've been called to do,

00:29:42.780 which is to love and serve their wives, to care more about them than they care about themselves, right?

00:29:48.300 Like, you know, your own body, right?

00:29:50.140 Like, well, I'm hungry, so you go eat, right?

00:29:51.920 That's how you need to be thinking, what does my wife need? 1.00

00:29:53.960 How can I anticipate her needs?

00:29:55.380 How can I serve her?

00:29:57.100 Because, you know, the Bible talks about you two are now one flesh, right?

00:30:01.680 And so you need to keep in mind that your duty is to love her and to serve her.

00:30:06.060 And the other pieces fall into place when husbands do what they're supposed to do.

00:30:10.020 But there are so few pastors and so few churches willing to teach this now because, as you pointed out, Tanya,

00:30:14.940 it goes contrary to what the culture teaches.

00:30:17.140 It goes contrary to the feminist narrative. 0.92

00:30:19.100 It's been portrayed now for several decades, at least in academia, as oppressive, that, you know,

00:30:24.660 the patriarchy is this horrible evil that's, you know, just being terrible to women.

00:30:29.800 And, you know, husbands, again, you have to love your wives.

00:30:33.520 And the other pieces will fall into place.

00:30:35.440 And that's when you really do become a team.

00:30:37.320 Now, on this side of eternity, you know, things are never going to be perfect.

00:30:40.320 We're still sinful.

00:30:41.140 We're still fallen.

00:30:42.280 You know, we're still going to be pursuing our own selfish ambitions and things like that.

00:30:45.600 But pray and ask the Lord to help you with that.

00:30:47.980 And what you'll find is he will.

00:30:49.900 And when you follow God, and this is not true just with family.

00:30:52.700 This is true with every other area.

00:30:54.260 But when you follow God's instructions, right, family is an institution that was ordained and created by God.

00:30:59.740 This was not a man-made idea that, hey, we should invent family.

00:31:02.360 This is an institution that God created.

00:31:04.740 And so when you want to understand how to operate something properly, how something works,

00:31:09.160 you go to the instruction manual created by the creator of that thing.

00:31:12.900 So God created and ordained marriage.

00:31:15.300 If we want to know how to make it work properly, you go to the instruction manual given to us by the creator of that institution.

00:31:22.280 And that is the scripture.

00:31:23.400 That is the Bible.

00:31:24.700 And you'll find everything that you need in there to be a good father, to be a good husband.

00:31:30.800 And really, beyond what's right, you know, all these parenting books by PhDs and psychologists,

00:31:35.580 and there may be little nuggets of wisdom in there.

00:31:38.260 But really, all that you genuinely need to be a good husband and a good father will be found in the scriptures.

00:31:44.560 Right.

00:31:44.960 And to love God first.

00:31:46.400 And that's one of the things, isn't it, is that we've entered a fast food world,

00:31:51.560 and it's all about pleasure and about me, me, me.

00:31:53.920 And as society is fed that through the media and through the news, it becomes overwhelming as to how do we teach people that every single marriage traditionally that made it to 50 or 60 or 70 years

00:32:08.940 was that they came across these critical moments in their marriage where both individuals said,

00:32:16.440 I've had enough.

00:32:18.040 I can't do this anymore, you know, thinking about divorce.

00:32:22.460 But instead, what they did is they pushed through and they worked on that situation and they healed.

00:32:29.140 That could have happened five years into their marriage and 10 years into their marriage.

00:32:33.000 But there isn't a marriage, I believe, that isn't going to experience that moment.

00:32:39.020 And again, when I was giving counsel to a couple and they were at this point, I said,

00:32:45.300 you could easily divorce, but you will find somebody else who will have issues and you again will come to this moment.

00:32:53.380 And you'll have to again make the decision, am I going to push through and work through it?

00:32:58.520 And thankfully, you know, this couple decided to push through.

00:33:02.700 And, you know, it's just been amazing to see their relationship grow in the maturity of it.

00:33:07.940 Right. And also, you know, on their on their true commitment when they were at the altar.

00:33:13.420 The other thing is that I find in marriage relationships is that men need respect.

00:33:21.060 Women need security. 1.00

00:33:22.400 And what happens in is if a man is either working too much or going out with his buddies, the wife starts to feel insecure in their relationship and her value.

00:33:33.080 And then she starts to make little shots at the husband, then the husband starts to feel disrespected.

00:33:40.800 And that as well can feed into, you know, a snowball of events that lead to a miserable situation as well.

00:33:48.540 So we need to understand men are not women. 0.97

00:33:53.020 You know, yes, they need to be compassionate.

00:33:57.160 And yes, they need to be able to work for through situations, but they're not going to feel things the same way that women do. 1.00

00:34:05.580 And so there's just so much about it, Alex, that, you know, building strong marriages is essential to having a strong family and strong families are absolutely the key to having societies that thrive financially, spiritually.

00:34:25.140 As far as, you know, these crazy government leaders that are coming in, this wouldn't happen in societies where families are strong based on good, strong principles and traditional values, biblical values.

00:34:40.240 Yeah, you're absolutely right.

00:34:42.340 And the enemy and the enemy's minions have recognized for a long time that families have to be undermined for the enemy to be able to make progress and advance.

00:34:51.620 And we've seen that so clearly. I mean, Karl Marx articulated this in very plain terms, right?

00:34:56.420 Women should be collectively held and multiple partners and children should be raised by the state. 1.00

00:35:03.540 Why did Karl Marx, who I believe was actually a Satanist, and I know that sounds inflammatory, read the books, Marx and Satan, read some of his poetry.

00:35:10.460 I think you'll come to the same conclusion.

00:35:12.340 But, you know, if God ordained marriage, if God ordained family for our good, it makes sense that the enemy would wage constant war on it.

00:35:19.020 And that's exactly what we have seen.

00:35:20.500 All of the totalitarian regimes of the last hundred years have tried to undermine family.

00:35:25.900 First of all, it is the mechanism that God has chosen to use to disciple the next generation.

00:35:30.880 The gospel is propagated in that way.

00:35:33.320 You know, the children are brought up with the faith, with the understanding that their parents have instilled in them.

00:35:39.880 And so there's a concerted effort to destroy marriages and to destroy families.

00:35:43.960 You're absolutely right that a strong marriage is essential to a strong family.

00:35:47.120 A strong family is essential to a strong society.

00:35:50.500 And part of the reason our societies are in turmoil, the United States and Canada and across the West, is families are disintegrating because of a well-orchestrated plot of the enemy.

00:36:01.500 And you said so many things there, Tanya.

00:36:03.040 I would love to address more of them.

00:36:04.700 For example, you know, the issue of husbands needing respect.

00:36:07.840 You're absolutely right.

00:36:08.560 And the scripture actually teaches that wives should respect their husbands. 0.84

00:36:12.360 And, you know, that doesn't mean just a blind, ridiculous respect.

00:36:17.420 And it doesn't mean unquestioning submission to ungodly order.

00:36:20.620 Just like I said earlier, we are commanded to defy illegitimate decrees from government if they're telling us we can't preach the gospel, if they're telling us we must participate in abortions.

00:36:29.920 So the same is true in a marriage. 0.77

00:36:31.560 If a husband tells his wife to do something that's unbiblical, that's evil, she has an obligation to say, no, my first allegiance is to God. 0.58

00:36:38.300 And therefore, no, I won't go earn money by prostituting myself.

00:36:41.400 No, I won't subject our children to, you know, pick your horror that have now become so prevalent in our culture.

00:36:48.420 So there are some lines there.

00:36:49.780 But it is important for wives to respect their husbands.

00:36:52.420 And the scriptures teach this.

00:36:55.120 So what I tell both husbands and wives is, you know, you do the part that God has assigned to you and watch the miraculous transformation that happens in your family.

00:37:05.060 So, you know, there are wives out there listening and say, well, my husband is ungodly.

00:37:08.680 Well, that's unfortunate.

00:37:09.900 And I'm sorry about that.

00:37:10.900 But God addresses that.

00:37:12.500 You know, you may not be able to change your husband on your own, but you do what you're called to do and watch how God works there.

00:37:18.660 Watch how your obedience to God's word will work in his life.

00:37:23.580 The Holy Spirit can use that to convict him and bring him to his senses.

00:37:27.620 You also, I think, hit on something really important.

00:37:29.940 There are so many men today, and I don't say this from a position of judgment, but there are so many men today who've just gotten so obsessed with things that are absolutely insignificant.

00:37:40.080 And, you know, without picking on any one category of things, you know, if you're spending 10 hours a week on sports and, you know, you're screaming at the TV and you're using all this energy on cheering for your sports team, you know, pray about that.

00:37:53.040 Is that what God would really have you doing during those 10 hours?

00:37:56.020 You know, if you're one of the guys who are into video games, and some of my own friends, you know, they play a lot of video games.

00:38:00.080 And I try my best to encourage them to find more productive uses of their time, like maybe worship together with your family, maybe be in prayer, maybe read the word, maybe go through, you know, devotional.

00:38:09.380 But if you're finding yourself playing all this time on video games and your wife is having to come in and say, honey, you know, dinner's ready.

00:38:14.420 Honey, can you help me with the dishes?

00:38:16.680 You know, that's probably become a problem.

00:38:18.920 And, you know, is that really a godly use of your time?

00:38:22.180 God's only given us a limited amount of hours on this earth.

00:38:24.800 Use them to do the things God has called you to do, including loving and serving your wife, including discipling your children.

00:38:32.180 And what you'll find as you devote more and more time to the things that God has called you to do, rather than the things that the world is interested in, like video games, like sports, you know, without picking on sports or video games.

00:38:41.940 It's just the two examples that come to mind.

00:38:44.320 You know, what you'll find is that your family will be transformed.

00:38:47.240 And as families are transformed, communities get transformed.

00:38:50.320 Government gets transformed.

00:38:51.740 Culture gets transformed.

00:38:52.860 So there are all these benefits to it as well.

00:38:55.780 And you notice people are unhappy.

00:38:57.800 You notice people are unfulfilled.

00:38:59.300 We all see this around us.

00:39:00.620 There's no question about it.

00:39:02.140 And I think a big part of the reason is their family is not operating in the manner that God has prescribed in his word.

00:39:08.740 So get into the word.

00:39:10.340 Read it.

00:39:11.200 You know, follow those.

00:39:12.120 But wives, even if your husband's not perfect and he's not going to be, respect him.

00:39:16.380 Right.

00:39:16.860 Husbands, even if your wife is not perfect and she's not going to be, honor her and love her and serve her.

00:39:22.080 And what you'll find is that the other partner in this union, in this team, if you will, that God has ordained, will start changing as well.

00:39:30.820 And amazing things will happen.

00:39:32.300 And, you know, children pick up on that, too.

00:39:34.120 When mom and dad are constantly fighting, you know, they don't have that sense of security that they need to really thrive.

00:39:39.640 And, again, if your marriage is a representation of the relationship between Christ and the church and you're constantly bickering and you're arguing and you're screaming at each other, you know, what does that show your children about the relationship between Christ and the church?

00:39:51.920 So we really need to try very hard on this.

00:39:54.800 And it really does begin in our own home.

00:39:56.660 I'm so glad we're talking about this today, Tanya, because a lot of people want to talk about the politics.

00:40:00.660 Very important.

00:40:01.580 And the culture.

00:40:02.260 It's very important.

00:40:03.560 But, you know, we can't determine what's happening in parliament.

00:40:06.120 We can't fix what's happening in Congress.

00:40:08.060 What we can do is work on our own family and a little sphere of influence that God has given us.

00:40:12.320 And as that gets transformed on the biblical model, that radiates outward.

00:40:17.120 And then you become a shining light in this dark culture and in this increasingly dark environment that we find ourselves in.

00:40:23.080 And people look at that and they say, wow, you know, what do they have?

00:40:26.980 And that's a powerful testimony as well.

00:40:29.400 You know, people look at your family and they say something's different about them.

00:40:32.820 You know, the children are well behaved and they're smart and they're not disrespectful.

00:40:35.960 And the husband and the wife, they seem to actually like each other.

00:40:38.880 And, you know, people look at that and then they want to know why.

00:40:41.760 And so then they're going to go and seek Christ.

00:40:44.360 So there's so many benefits from this.

00:40:46.340 And again, it's all laid out in his word.

00:40:48.900 I love it.

00:40:50.020 I love it.

00:40:50.700 Yeah, it's got to be initially.

00:40:52.400 That's where we start is on the focus on the family, as James Dobson so aptly put it.

00:40:57.440 And one of the things as well, I want to just highlight, of course, we are not advocating in any way that a woman in an abusive situation,

00:41:04.340 and we mean a serious abusive situation, should remain in that situation.

00:41:08.480 And God doesn't want you to either.

00:41:10.220 But you have to, you know, at the capacity of what we're talking about in being sacrificial in your relationship towards each other and towards your children.

00:41:20.040 And that is something, as I mentioned before, we become that fast food society.

00:41:25.180 It's all about me.

00:41:26.020 I'm not feeling, you know, happy in this situation for these various reasons.

00:41:30.800 But what are you contributing?

00:41:32.140 What are you doing to make the situation better?

00:41:35.000 And another really important topic I think that we should touch on is the pervasive sexual perversion within society as well.

00:41:44.080 And the pornography that is taking families down and tearing them apart, which is a major part of our opposition's plan.

00:41:54.900 And I've had John Euler on the show a couple of times, and he and I are working together on some things.

00:42:02.540 And of course, being a certified sex offender therapist, he understands the damage of pornography and that it breaks down a man.

00:42:15.420 And men are the ones that are the majority that deal with this.

00:42:18.460 And this is intentional.

00:42:19.540 This is the enemy getting a foothold into your life.

00:42:22.280 Because when you watch pornography, of course, shame comes in.

00:42:27.340 And then whether you're in a relationship and hiding this, that shame will cause you to respond and react in certain situations where your wife may say something and you're taking something very simply and you're inflating that within your own mind.

00:42:43.060 And that's the shame that is building up because it's, you know, it depletes you as a person.

00:42:50.080 And if that is given a foothold to grow, it will lead to other behaviors in your life that will break down your relationship and the intimacy between you and your wife, you and your children.

00:43:04.080 And so I think that this is something that needs to be addressed as well.

00:43:08.300 Yeah, I'm so glad you mentioned it, Tanya.

00:43:10.300 And this has, again, become ubiquitous in our culture.

00:43:12.940 Even in the church, which I think is the most tragic.

00:43:16.320 And a lot of pastors don't even want to address it because they know, you know, half the men, maybe more in the congregation are using pornography.

00:43:21.720 And so they feel awkward about mentioning it.

00:43:23.700 They're worried that somebody might get offended or leave.

00:43:25.860 But this is something that is devastating families.

00:43:28.420 It's something that is devastating churches.

00:43:30.120 And it's something that is devastating our society and our culture.

00:43:33.400 Now, Jesus was very clear.

00:43:34.660 You know, he set the bar way, way higher than, say, you know, the Old Testament and the Ten Commandments did, right?

00:43:40.260 God says if you look on a woman with lust, you have committed adultery with her in your heart.

00:43:45.720 And so every time you go to your computer and you're looking at that, Phil, you are committing adultery with that woman or those people who you're seeing on the screen in your heart.

00:43:55.500 Now, how do you think your marriage is going to be if you are constantly committing adultery, if you're constantly fantasizing about women who are not your wife, if you're constantly fantasizing about, you know, some of the stuff that's in pornography is just absolutely horrific.

00:44:11.160 Why would you want those images burned into your mind?

00:44:14.860 And I think a lot of men don't realize the devastating impact that it has.

00:44:18.880 And I've seen this even in, you know, men's groups.

00:44:21.860 It's like, oh, well, you know, that's not a big deal.

00:44:23.780 You know, I was traveling.

00:44:25.320 It's a huge deal.

00:44:26.760 It's an absolutely huge deal.

00:44:28.260 Again, go back to the standard that Jesus Christ said.

00:44:31.000 You are committing adultery every time you're going to look at that pornography.

00:44:36.200 That is going to absolutely darken your heart.

00:44:39.600 That is going to mess up your senses.

00:44:41.340 It's going to make it very difficult to have a true, fulfilling and loving relationship with your wife.

00:44:46.160 It's actually going to impact, you know, without getting too graphic, the sexual relationship with your wife.

00:44:51.480 And so this is something that you absolutely must cut out.

00:44:54.460 And, you know, I understand for a lot of men they've gotten what's called addicted, you know,

00:44:58.560 and the brain works in some ways similar to the way it is with drug addictions.

00:45:02.320 Your brain gets used to these little doses of chemicals when you're doing this.

00:45:06.180 But you must, I implore you, you must get that out of your life.

00:45:10.400 And, you know, wives, if your husband is struggling with this, that's something that you need to help them with.

00:45:14.740 But they need to get that out of your home.

00:45:17.460 And this is something that, as you pointed out, Tanya, this has an effect on your children, too.

00:45:21.300 This is something that devastates families.

00:45:23.880 And I think pastors need to do a better job of speaking out about this in church.

00:45:28.820 I think so, too, because men need to hear it.

00:45:31.840 They need to hear that, you know, this does lead to addiction.

00:45:35.260 And that if you could embrace, you love your precious children, but understand that when you step out and sin in this way,

00:45:42.980 God says it will affect the, you know, the generations to come.

00:45:47.640 And so you open the door to the enemy.

00:45:49.800 And how is that going to affect your children?

00:45:52.820 Are you willing to do that?

00:45:54.400 And I said earlier that men and women, we need to be sacrificial.

00:45:59.640 If you've made a decision, and even if you, you know, didn't make that decision intentionally, but you have a child,

00:46:06.380 you have a massive responsibility to do everything sacrificially to give that child the best chance at a healthy childhood.

00:46:15.840 Their innocence is fleeting.

00:46:17.240 And you could have something on your screen, you could have old school magazines in your home, whatever it is,

00:46:23.940 your child at four or five, whatever years old, however, they could be triggered by your activity.

00:46:31.220 It's already bad enough that it's everywhere in social media, that Hollywood has lost all grasp of, you know,

00:46:38.980 the, I don't know the right word right now, of purity within Hollywood. 0.55

00:46:45.280 And, you know, the garbage that they're pumping out that our kids have access to very, very quickly. 0.96

00:46:50.560 So you have to guard your home.

00:46:52.980 You have to take steps with your computers and your television, throw your television out.

00:46:57.100 It's really, you know, yeah, it's, it's not worth it having it in the home.

00:47:01.820 Disney is done and all the rest.

00:47:03.200 So what's it going to take for, you know, families to wake up and understand that this isn't about you.

00:47:09.500 And, you know, what makes you comfortable within the home?

00:47:12.520 It's about your kids and that has to be sacrificial.

00:47:16.400 Okay, so let's move on to men's role within their communities.

00:47:23.400 And what I mean by that, Alex, is, you know, we started the show off talking about what is happening within society right now.

00:47:31.480 And again, that is the trans agenda that is attacking our children, like husbands, fathers, uncles, grandfathers. 1.00

00:47:42.440 I'm talking to you right now.

00:47:44.080 They are absolutely attacking and assaulting our children in ways that I don't think throughout humanity has ever been done before.

00:47:53.000 And children are being sexualized. 0.51

00:47:57.340 They are being sexually abused within the school system. 0.99

00:48:00.140 They are being sexually exploited.

00:48:02.160 And I sometimes compare it to when parents are dropping their kids off at school.

00:48:07.060 And this is not just public school.

00:48:08.740 This is private school.

00:48:09.580 When you are dropping your children off at school, would you do that if you knew that they were going to class and they were going to play Russian roulette that day?

00:48:18.960 Okay, there's only one bullet, you know, limited chance that your child would get hit.

00:48:24.560 But are you willing to send your child into that atmosphere?

00:48:28.480 And this is what is happening.

00:48:30.000 You do not know if your son or daughter is the one that is going to be easily persuaded by the propaganda that is going on in the school saying you could be born in the wrong body.

00:48:43.420 When that happens in good Christian homes, parents are dealing with this and it is happening on mass to families, Christian, non-Christian, Muslim, whatever you want.

00:48:55.120 This is an attack against society.

00:48:58.140 It is sterilizing our children when kids go down that path.

00:49:00.940 It's causing confusion and it is turning children on their parents, not only on the issue of LGBTQ,

00:49:08.320 but also on the issue of climate change and this radical critical race theory.

00:49:15.280 Do you really, as a parent, feel good about putting your child in that environment?

00:49:21.000 What are you willing to do?

00:49:22.200 What can you do about it?

00:49:24.120 So can you address that, please?

00:49:26.940 Yeah, I'm happy to, Tonya.

00:49:28.180 And I know there will be people out there who are offended by this.

00:49:30.920 And I know there are people out there who do not want to hear this.

00:49:33.200 Frankly, I wish God had given me a different task, but he has laid on my heart.

00:49:38.460 It has been my task for years now to urge Christian families, Christian parents to withdraw their children from the public school system. 1.00

00:49:46.980 I believe that you can no longer, as a Christian, in good conscience, send your children to these institutions. 0.70

00:49:54.820 If you read the Bible, there are different spheres of authority for different institutions.

00:49:59.360 The family has certain spheres of authority.

00:50:02.400 The church has certain spheres of authority.

00:50:04.460 The civil government has certain spheres of authority.

00:50:07.040 The government was never intended by God to play a role in the education or the discipling of your children.

00:50:13.960 And a lot of people say, well, I'll just send my kids to a church school.

00:50:16.800 Well, I think the church has a supplemental role.

00:50:19.380 There are many functions for the church, and God describes these clearly.

00:50:22.980 One of those is equipping the saints.

00:50:24.280 But ultimately, the discipling of children is a family responsibility.

00:50:29.760 And so the father and the mother together should be doing what they can to disciple those children.

00:50:34.320 And I don't mean to suggest that you can't delegate some of those tasks, that you can't set up a co-op, that you can't hire a tutor, that grandma can't come over and teach a few classes, that you can't choose wisely a very good Christian school that you've thoroughly vetted, that you're supplementing with home lessons, home worship, things like this.

00:50:52.080 But that is a very serious responsibility that God has placed on us.

00:50:55.920 And so as fathers, the protection of our children needs to be one of our highest priorities.

00:51:00.820 The discipling of our children needs to be one of our highest priorities.

00:51:03.660 And right now, I love the analogy used of Russian roulette.

00:51:06.760 I actually say it's not just one bullet in the chamber.

00:51:08.520 It's five out of six, right?

00:51:10.440 And the data is absolutely clear at this point.

00:51:13.660 I serve on the advisory board for the Nehemiah Institute, and they've been studying worldview in churches, Christian schools, public schools for 40 years now.

00:51:20.140 They've got a worldview test, and what they have found is that over 80 percent of Christian children from Christian homes who spent 12 years in a government indoctrination center masquerading as a school are going to leave the faith, and they're going to leave the church.

00:51:33.040 That's like Russian roulette, but you've got four rounds in five chambers.

00:51:37.840 It is an absolutely deadly threat.

00:51:39.740 Another analogy I use is, you know, the building is on fire, right?

00:51:42.420 The public school building is on fire, and your children are inside.

00:51:45.740 How could you possibly think of, you know, lobbying the school board while your child is burning to death?

00:51:50.920 Now, lobbying the school board is important, and we should be doing those things, but while your child's in the burning building, your first and most urgent priority is to remove that child from the building.

00:51:59.600 Then you go lobby the school board.

00:52:01.420 Then you go run for your legislature, your provincial legislature, or wherever there's maybe some decision-making authority here, but you don't do it in the other order.

00:52:09.400 You don't say, well, I'm going to let my kid burn up, and I'm going to go run for office and hope that maybe 10 years down the line, maybe we can get some new policies.

00:52:15.160 That's absolutely crazy, and I don't think God would permit us to do that.

00:52:20.140 So I do believe parents must take this responsibility seriously.

00:52:23.320 They must withdraw their children. 0.51

00:52:25.680 You know, I know that's easier said than done.

00:52:27.520 You know, as a homeschool father of five, I know it's a sacrifice, right?

00:52:30.820 Typically, one parent is going to have to forego an income, or you're going to have to, you know, juggle the schedule.

00:52:36.400 So I'm not suggesting that it's easy by any means, but God will bless it.

00:52:40.140 Now, in terms of, you know, broader community responsibilities, you know, Christians are commanded to be salt and light.

00:52:46.800 Now, that doesn't mean send your untrained, undiscipled, unarmed child into a spiritual war before he or she has been properly discipled.

00:52:53.680 No more than I would suggest a parent send their 12-year-old to Iraq with an M16 before they've been properly trained, right?

00:52:58.940 It's simply crazy talk.

00:53:00.420 You don't send your child to be discipled by the enemy.

00:53:02.800 But as Christians, and especially as men, we are to be out there as salt and light in the community.

00:53:09.580 And the defense of children is one of the most obvious things that we have a responsibility to do.

00:53:14.720 In fact, if you're reading the Proverbs, if you're reading the Psalms, over and over again, God tells us that we have a responsibility, an obligation to speak up for the voiceless, to protect the innocent.

00:53:23.720 Now, in America and in Canada as well, we've been very blessed.

00:53:28.060 Historically speaking, not a lot of people have been born into self-governing nations where, you know, in our Constitution, for example, the very first words is, we the people.

00:53:36.320 So who is the government in the United States of America?

00:53:38.860 And I understand the same is generally true in Canada.

00:53:41.540 Well, that's us.

00:53:42.420 And so if we as Christians are not out there trying to shape these policies, we're not out there trying to steer government in the direction that God ordained government to be, then I think we are actually abdicating our responsibility.

00:53:56.420 If you read your scriptures, you'll find there is a lot of wisdom, there's a lot of advice, and there are many commands given to rulers, given to kings, given to those in authority.

00:54:06.020 Well, guess what?

00:54:07.020 If you live in America or you live in Canada, you're in authority, not just as a voter, right?

00:54:12.020 Voting once every couple of years or once every four years, that's not the end of your responsibility.

00:54:16.260 You need to be active in this process.

00:54:18.680 Now, that doesn't mean everybody listening to me needs to go run for office.

00:54:21.040 You don't need to go run for school board or provincial legislature or whatever, but you need to be involved here.

00:54:26.340 Now, and this is, again, something that churches don't teach on.

00:54:29.520 Let's start with the basics.

00:54:30.500 Why did God create government in the first place?

00:54:33.020 Well, it's because what we know from the scriptures about human nature, and, of course, you can discern this just from the creation, discern this from looking around.

00:54:41.040 Man's heart, especially prior to being redeemed by Christ, is desperately wicked. 0.53

00:54:45.200 We are sinful, wicked people, and if left to our own devices, we would be running around, stealing and killing and raping.

00:54:51.340 So that's why God ordained civil government, to restrain the progress of evil.

00:54:55.480 And he articulates this very clearly, for example, in Romans 13, and there are other places.

00:54:59.560 He tells us the purpose of government is to punish evil.

00:55:02.400 Now, there are some things that we can legislate on that I think are within human authority, but there are other things that are not within human authority.

00:55:09.480 God's already given us a very comprehensive definition of what is evil.

00:55:14.060 God says murder is evil.

00:55:16.260 Therefore, as our founding fathers put it in our founding documents, you have a right to life.

00:55:20.480 Why? Because murder is evil.

00:55:22.140 Government must punish evil.

00:55:23.420 Therefore, government must help you to protect your right to life.

00:55:26.240 Same thing with property.

00:55:27.280 God said thou shalt not steal.

00:55:29.120 Thievery is evil.

00:55:30.400 So, I mean, these are just very basic principles.

00:55:32.460 I apologize if I sound like I'm speaking to children, but these are unfortunate things that our churches are not teaching.

00:55:37.440 And so as Christians, not just men, but women as well, we have an obligation to go out and, first of all, proclaim the truth on these issues.

00:55:44.280 The government is not to teach your children, you know, LGBTism. 1.00

00:55:48.640 The government is not to, you know, raise your children for you.

00:55:52.120 The government is not to have pride parades.

00:55:55.040 The government is not to, you know, do all of these different functions that the government has taken.

00:55:59.540 Their first and primary responsibility is to punish evil.

00:56:03.380 And unfortunately, we now, thanks to, I think, largely the abdication of Christians from their responsibilities, we're now in a system, in a situation where government is actually promoting evil and punishing good. 0.99

00:56:13.560 I mean, they're arresting people who speak the truth.

00:56:15.640 So it's totally backwards.

00:56:17.120 And so as Christians, we have a responsibility to get out there and do these things.

00:56:21.220 If the world doesn't hear the truth from us, where are they going to hear it from, right?

00:56:25.780 You think the pagans are going to tell them?

00:56:27.420 You think the godless are going to tell them?

00:56:28.780 You think the god-haters are going to tell them?

00:56:30.180 What is the purpose of government?

00:56:31.160 No.

00:56:31.720 So we have an obligation. 0.97

00:56:33.060 This whole nonsense that Christians need to stay out of the government, that's wicked. 1.00

00:56:36.460 That's evil, especially in our context where we, the people, the voters, are supposed to be running things.

00:56:42.960 We must vote biblically.

00:56:44.320 We must be active.

00:56:45.640 And we must, at the most basic level, we must protect the most innocent, the children, the unborn, the elderly, right?

00:56:52.700 That now in Canada, increasingly, they're encouraging them to, you know, kill themselves with medical assistance.

00:56:57.260 I mean, this is grotesque. 0.68

00:56:58.240 This is an abomination.

00:56:59.100 And if Christians don't speak out, if Christians don't get involved, these evils will continue to spread like a cancer throughout our society until we end up, you know, and I don't want to sound like an alarmist, but until we end up like Nazi Germany or the Soviet Union or Communist China or Cambodia under Pol Pot. 0.95

00:57:15.940 These types of unbiblical policies lead inevitably. 0.98

00:57:19.200 They produce fruit inevitably that is wicked, that is death, that is gulags.

00:57:24.300 And, you know, as Christians, we should not tolerate that voluntarily.

00:57:28.580 We have an obligation to be involved here.

00:57:31.320 100%.

00:57:31.680 It's interesting, you know, because I had Maxime Bernier on the show last week, and I always do a weekly update letter that promotes not only whatever the topic is on, but supporting information.

00:57:45.540 And, you know, many people are like, oh, you know, you should stay out of politics.

00:57:50.100 Christians are supposed to stay out of politics. 1.00

00:57:51.780 But as you said, it's not biblical.

00:57:53.940 And by abdicating their role, who do you think is going to step in and lead?

00:57:57.780 Evil, evil people.

00:57:59.720 And, you know, we have witnessed that.

00:58:02.380 And I don't want to just say, you know, well, you know, people were busy raising their families and, you know, didn't see the evil that was prevailing behind the curtain.

00:58:10.500 Because we do have to take responsibility at some level to say, did you care about who you voted for on the day of election?

00:58:18.280 Did you look into who this person was?

00:58:20.520 And a campaign that Action for Canada has as part of many massive campaigns that we've got going on nationwide, but is to implement chapters into every single town and community across this country.

00:58:33.620 And I love showing the map because we have over 100 chapters.

00:58:39.140 We're vetting many more people.

00:58:41.040 But then within those communities, what our objective is, is to, you know, pull on the members in the communities to grow up to such a level that we can have a say in those elections, that we will win those elections.

00:58:55.040 But beyond that, we're also going into churches and we're asking them to be part of our community, to open their doors to Action for Canada so that we can have meetings within there with the community members, that homeschoolers would have a safe place with teachers to come and learn.

00:59:11.460 And even for churches to open up schools within, you know, their facilities.

00:59:17.160 And this is growing and it's catching on and it's amazing.

00:59:21.480 But when we abdicate that role, you know, we're going to experience exactly what we're facing today.

00:59:29.760 We have to care about the leaders.

00:59:32.180 We have to care.

00:59:33.400 Are they a person that truly, not just by lip service says, yes, you know what, I'm a Christian.

00:59:39.580 Is it modeled in their life?

00:59:42.600 Is there evidence of it?

00:59:44.280 Are they on the front line of this war with us?

00:59:47.060 And as Alex was saying, you know, for men to be involved in their communities, yes, it's important to be involved with your family.

00:59:54.180 It's number one.

00:59:55.140 But we do need you participating within the community.

00:59:59.260 We do need you caring about who is being elected into office at all levels of government, municipal, provincial and federal.

01:00:06.900 And I just love that.

01:00:08.940 It is absolutely essential, Alex.

01:00:12.380 And I appreciate you covering all of these topics with us.

01:00:17.280 Now, is there anything else?

01:00:18.620 I know that we're at the hour point here.

01:00:21.800 Is there anything else that you would like to encourage men in today as far as their role?

01:00:27.380 One thing that I have been considering in Canada, you know, that nations around the world are calling Justin Trudeau a dictator.

01:00:37.720 Like, it's really bad.

01:00:39.680 But what is also happening is through Action for Canada's resources, we're not just a organization reporting on the bad things that are happening.

01:00:50.420 We're calling on Canadians to assert their rights.

01:00:53.760 And in order to do that, they need to be knowledgeable and understand what those rights are.

01:00:58.400 So all of our resources apply the Constitution, the Charter, the Coronation Oath and the Criminal Code.

01:01:05.000 And within that, I always say knowledge is power.

01:01:08.220 And when you have it, you've got to use it and you've got to share it.

01:01:10.660 And so that is one of the ways that individuals can easily get involved in their communities is either decide to lead a chapter or attend, show up, go to the municipal meetings and make sure that you're having a voice, that you understand what's going on there.

01:01:28.840 Because there's frightening things.

01:01:30.340 If you go where we've talked a lot about school boards today, but as you know, Alex, there's the 15 minute cities in the smart cities.

01:01:37.560 But the policies that have already been implemented within cities and townships is frightening.

01:01:44.440 And the way to turn that around is to let your councils know these are in violations of all my rights.

01:01:49.940 This is an exercise in futility.

01:01:52.360 I will not be complying.

01:01:53.960 My family will not be complying.

01:01:55.620 And I will be on the front line of this.

01:01:57.180 What does a warrior spirit look like within a man in this elevated situation that we have today?

01:02:09.100 Well, I think you hit the nail on the head right there, Tanya.

01:02:11.340 And that is how we should be approaching all these things.

01:02:13.900 You know, we talked quite a bit about the responsibility within the family.

01:02:17.200 We talked some about the responsibility within the government.

01:02:19.520 And, you know, I would just maybe add to that responsibility within the church.

01:02:22.840 You know, read your Bible.

01:02:25.520 What does God say is the function of the church is to equip the saints.

01:02:29.280 Pastors are to preach the whole counsel of God.

01:02:32.820 And that means not just, you know, 52 different versions of John 3, 16 sermons, mostly taken out of context and misapplied.

01:02:39.920 That means we need to be teaching about all of these different areas.

01:02:42.880 I mean, have you been studying systematic theology?

01:02:44.900 What does God say about this and this and this?

01:02:46.840 Is your pastor preaching on government, on family, on education, on culture, on abortion?

01:02:52.200 These are all things that are clearly addressed in the word of God.

01:02:56.740 And so churches should be equipping the saints to be active, not just in their families, not just in the government, but also within the church.

01:03:02.800 Are we serving our communities, right?

01:03:05.280 One of the things that we as Christians should be doing is serving the poor, right?

01:03:08.980 A lot of the responsibilities that government has usurped from the church and from the individual Christian and from the family have been usurped because the churches haven't been fulfilling their responsibility.

01:03:19.060 And Christian families have not been fulfilling their responsibility. 1.00

01:03:21.340 So we need to get back to those understandings.

01:03:23.940 And Jesus Christ needs to be the Lord of every area of our life.

01:03:28.180 And that means not just, you know, one hour on Sunday.

01:03:30.820 That means the whole week.

01:03:32.640 That means our job.

01:03:33.540 That means our business.

01:03:34.520 That means our family.

01:03:35.580 That means the education of our children.

01:03:37.520 That means every single area needs to be in submission to what God has told us.

01:03:41.580 And as more and more of us start doing these things, as more and more of us are in the word and praying and joining with other Christians to impact the culture positively, to impact our families positively, and even the church, what we'll see is an incredible transformation.

01:03:57.140 And, folks, the time is urgent.

01:03:58.620 I mean, look at what is happening around you.

01:04:00.400 How much more of this are you going to take before you say, I'm not going to take this anymore.

01:04:04.820 I'm going to do what God has called me to do.

01:04:06.960 And the Great Commission, maybe we can end on this.

01:04:09.780 You know, oftentimes when you hear pastors say it, they say, go make disciples of all nations and baptize them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

01:04:15.960 And then they cut off the tail end there, which is teaching them to obey all the things that I have commanded you.

01:04:22.840 And so as Christians, we should be obedient, and we should be teaching other Christians to be obedient.

01:04:28.360 And to be obedient means to be obedient in all areas, in our responsibility to our family, husbands, responsibilities to your wives, wives, responsibilities to your husbands, parents, responsibilities to your children.

01:04:38.960 All of us, obviously, are responsibilities to our king, all of us in our responsibility as voters, as citizens to be active in the process, all of us as members of a local church, in our responsibility as members of that church.

01:04:52.220 So we've got all these responsibilities that God has given us.

01:04:54.940 We need to be taking those seriously.

01:04:56.740 Now, we are one body with many members, and so all of us don't have to do all of these things, right?

01:05:02.140 All of us need to be involved in the Great Commission and all these things, but every member of the body has a different function.

01:05:07.460 And the Scriptures talk about it, right?

01:05:08.860 What's the ear going to say to the eye, like, hey, you should be doing something different?

01:05:11.260 No, we all have a different role.

01:05:13.100 So pray about it.

01:05:14.260 Read your Bible.

01:05:15.020 Find out where does God want you in this battle, because we're in a spiritual war, and God has told us the weapons at our disposal.

01:05:21.520 Go read Ephesians chapter 6.

01:05:23.120 It's laid out so clearly.

01:05:24.660 Everything you need to know about this battle we find ourselves in is right there.

01:05:27.780 This is a war waged on us by powers and principalities, by the spiritual forces of wickedness and darkness in high places, in the celestial places.

01:05:37.880 And God tells us that our weapon here is the sword of the Spirit, which is, of course, the Word of God.

01:05:42.620 And all these things have answers to them, right?

01:05:44.180 When they say there's infinity genders, no. 0.97

01:05:46.220 Male and female.

01:05:46.960 God created them male and female, right? 0.70

01:05:48.620 All these different issues that are popping up, we've got the answers.

01:05:51.520 They're in God's Word.

01:05:52.520 The shield of faith.

01:05:53.540 That's how we're going to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one.

01:05:56.940 Now, remember, God is sovereign.

01:05:58.840 So the whole battle is not up to you, right?

01:06:01.080 And praise the Lord that the battle is not up to us.

01:06:03.380 God is already victorious.

01:06:04.440 We just need to do what he's called us to do.

01:06:07.000 And I hear a lot of people, well, he's coming back soon.

01:06:09.280 We're going to be raptured.

01:06:10.020 Okay, maybe he will.

01:06:11.060 Maybe he won't.

01:06:11.580 I don't know.

01:06:12.120 I don't know if he's coming back tomorrow or 10 years from now.

01:06:14.100 We'll leave that theological debate for another time.

01:06:16.280 But when he gets back, let him find us busy doing what he has called us to do as men, as husbands, as fathers, as wives, as women, as mothers, as members of a local congregation, as citizens in the countries that God has chosen to place us in.

01:06:29.320 We need to be doing what he's called us to do, and I hope that people will just be in prayer about this and read the Bible.

01:06:35.640 That's how God communicates with us.

01:06:37.500 All the answers you need are right there.

01:06:39.920 Right.

01:06:40.560 Amen to that, Alex.

01:06:42.340 I think we've pretty much covered it all, and I really appreciate you being on the show.

01:06:48.200 I hope that many people, you know, will embrace the words and the advice that you've given.

01:06:53.860 This really is, there is a tangible way to turn this country around, and 2 Chronicles even adds, because, you know, our nations have turned their back on God.

01:07:02.160 When they open the door to abortion, I mean, you have abortion legislation in America, but Canada doesn't have any.

01:07:09.660 You can abort a child up to full term, and it's deplorable. 0.73

01:07:14.100 It's disgusting.

01:07:14.740 We need a law, and so, you know, we need to be on the front line of fighting for all humanity.

01:07:21.020 But, you know, when we take a look at our involvement, and then without having an abortion legislation in Canada and opening up the sacrifice of our children to Baal, which is really what this is. 0.75

01:07:33.220 It's a very demonic force.

01:07:34.460 You then open up to same-sex marriages, which is outside of God's perfect plan, you know, for marriage. 1.00

01:07:42.220 Sexual deviance starts to come in, and it has no limit.

01:07:46.220 It will just keep pushing and pushing.

01:07:48.320 And now we have the sacrifice of children within our school systems to sexual deviance who are, you know, just have at a loss that they're so deeply integrated into the school system and pulling our children their way, and they're being lost to this.

01:08:08.560 So we do have a big work ahead of us, but 2 Chronicles says that if you take a look at all of these things that we've been involved in, that we've permitted, that we've sat back and been complicit to, God says,

01:08:22.500 If you humble yourself before Him, and you get down on your knees, and you confess these as sins, even your apathy towards them, or your fear in taking a stand and proclaiming the truth, that God says, when you get to that point, and He will come, and He will heal our land.

01:08:39.860 And so we are appealing to people, even as we speak today, and as you view this, if you have been complicit in apathy, you have just turned a blind eye, just go before the Lord and say,

01:08:51.800 You know what, God, I didn't realize it, you know, but I've had a part to play in this, and I'm making a choice today, that I am going to be speaking boldly the truth, and I am going to be exposing the evil, and I am praying that you would heal our land.

01:09:07.920 And I believe that God is faithful. This is a promise in the scriptures that God says, if we as a nation come to this point, that He will heal our land.

01:09:16.140 And I believe that through all of the work in these last few years, and with the corners that we're turning right now, God is actually beginning to do that, both in the United States, amazing, what is it, 26 states in the U.S. that are putting legislation in place against all the radical agendas, against our children, against transition, against the curriculums, against abortion.

01:09:37.760 And it's just been a beautiful thing to sit back and watch. It gives me hope. It gives Canadians hope. And now we're beginning that process as well. So anything in final that you would like to mention?

01:09:49.740 Yeah, be encouraged, folks. I know that it looks like we live in very dark times, and we do. We certainly do. Some of these things, as you pointed out, Tanya, are unprecedented in human history.

01:10:00.900 A society that is systematically castrating its children, a society that is murdered, in our case here in America, 63 million unborn babies. It is unspeakably wicked.

01:10:10.180 But be encouraged. Our God is sovereign. Our God is powerful beyond anything any of us can comprehend.

01:10:14.860 And I always tell people, read your Old Testaments. There's so much wisdom and so much insight in the Old Testament that I think we need for today.

01:10:23.820 You know, some of the stories that just give me so much encouragement of God's people resisting evil, of God's people standing up in defiance of evil decrees,

01:10:32.580 whether it be the Hebrew midwives in Exodus chapter 2 telling Pharaoh, basically, no, we're not going to kill the baby boys, regardless of what you say.

01:10:39.800 Whether that be Elijah standing up to Ahab and his wickedness, whether that be, you know, Daniel refusing to follow the law, not to pray to God. 0.83

01:10:50.760 He actually does it publicly. He opens up his window. And then you read the stories of God using just a small group like Gideon and the 300 to smash this massive Midianite army that had come against God's people. 0.83

01:11:01.020 Or you read in 2 Kings, there's a couple of fascinating stories there, you know, Elisha and his servant, not Elijah, Elisha, kind of the follower of Elijah.

01:11:09.620 They had been helping the king of Israel and the king of Syria is after him. He's going to chase him down.

01:11:15.220 He finally finds him and they've got Elisha and his servant surrounded.

01:11:18.560 And Elisha prays because the servant is freaking out like, oh, my goodness, we're surrounded.

01:11:22.360 So Elisha prays that God opened this man's eyes so you can see what's really going on.

01:11:27.040 And God is faithful and God responds. He opens the servant's eyes and he sees that the hills are just covered with angelic beings and chariots of fire.

01:11:34.080 It's not us who are surrounded. It's them. They should be quaking in their boots.

01:11:37.440 The evil is going to stop. I don't know when. I don't know what role each of us, little small part, each of us will play.

01:11:43.140 But God has got this under control. None of this is a surprise to him.

01:11:46.460 We just need to be faithful. We need to be encouraged. We need to do what he has called us to do.

01:11:50.760 And Tanya, I'm so grateful for what you are doing, for what Action for Canada is doing.

01:11:54.620 And, you know, there's so many wonderful Canadians up there.

01:11:57.420 I'm just endlessly grateful for what God is doing through you and through the other great Canadians that are standing on these front lines.

01:12:03.840 Keep it up. We know how this all ends. Right. The evil is going to be stopped.

01:12:08.260 Every knee is going to bow. So be encouraged. Do what we're supposed to. And God bless you all.

01:12:13.260 Yeah. Thank you so much. God is still on the throne and he's fully in control.

01:12:17.040 And he does allow evil to prevail for a time, but it's for our good.

01:12:20.880 So we get on our knees and start looking back to him and turn society around.

01:12:24.520 So, Alex, again, thank you, too, for all the incredible work that you're doing down in the U.S.

01:12:29.840 to bring awareness and to bring people back to good, godly living.

01:12:34.540 So God bless you. And we will have you on the show again.

01:12:38.280 Thank you so much, Tanya. God bless you, too.

01:12:40.340 Thank you.

01:12:40.880 Thank you.

01:12:40.920 Thank you.

01:12:40.960 Thank you.

01:12:42.960 Thank you.

01:12:44.960 Thank you.

01:12:46.960 Wow. Thank you so much, Tanya and Alex.

01:12:53.640 Even though Tanya is not here, that was such great information.

01:12:57.340 Number of years ago, when I was a young man, I knew that the Lord would be coming back someday, but I had a prayer and I prayed, Lord, if you would be so kind as just to allow me to get married someday before you come back, I would really like that.

01:13:10.820 And the Lord answered my prayer. I got married. And then I thought I would push it a little bit.

01:13:15.400 And I said, Lord, I would really like to be a dad someday, you know, before you come back.

01:13:19.840 And then we found out we couldn't have children. So I kind of accepted that.

01:13:24.700 But a couple of years later, the Lord blessed us with a daughter. And so that was a great thing. I was a dad. Responsibility. Wow. That was a big thing.

01:13:34.760 And then a couple of years later, the Lord blessed us with a son. And then two years later, he blessed us with another son.

01:13:42.080 And then four years later, he blessed us with another son. And then two years later, he blessed us with another son.

01:13:48.820 And then two years later, four years later, he blessed us with another son and then another son and then and then a daughter and then another daughter.

01:13:58.560 So if you're doing the math, I ended up with nine children. So now my prayer is, Lord, I've got all these children and the world's a mess.

01:14:05.080 You can come back anytime you want. But, you know, in spite of the fact the world is a mess, children really are a blessing from the Lord.

01:14:13.440 It's a great responsibility. And I'm blessed to have 11 grandchildren now.

01:14:17.960 Actually, one of my granddaughters turns 10 years old today.

01:14:21.540 And with everything that Alex Newman was talking about, the great responsibility that parents have today in raising our children, even though this world is so messed up, God gives us the tools that we need.

01:14:34.340 And I just want to take a moment before we close the show tonight. You know, some of you parents are here listening to this and you've got some prodigal children.

01:14:44.080 You know, you've done the part that God has told you to do. And somehow your children, they're just they've wandered off and they're living their own life.

01:14:52.840 And God makes a promise, you know, that if we raise up our children in the way they should go, that the day will come when they will turn.

01:15:00.780 And some of you listening may be those prodigal children. Maybe you're older now.

01:15:06.260 Maybe your parents have gone on. And everything that Alex has said tonight, maybe even some of the things that Tanya has said tonight, have really touched your heart.

01:15:15.280 And so I just pray that this webinar tonight, this Empower Hour will really have ministered to your heart and you'll realize you've got responsibilities.

01:15:24.840 And I want you to know that even though we fail, we have a gracious and loving God that forgives.

01:15:30.700 So let this time be a time of healing in your life, because we are we're here for a purpose.

01:15:37.220 God doesn't make mistakes. And you may have had a father in your life that was an absent father, an abusive father.

01:15:44.020 And but you have a heavenly father that loves you. And he sent his son to die on the cross for you.

01:15:49.320 So in closing tonight, I would just like to offer up a prayer.

01:15:53.120 And if you have a need in your heart and you need a savior, this is your opportunity tonight.

01:15:59.840 Just to turn to him in love and in faith.

01:16:03.220 And so I would just like to lead in a prayer.

01:16:06.440 And if that's you tonight, you'd say, dear God, I'm in need tonight.

01:16:10.760 My life is kind of lost. And I realize that I need a savior and I want to receive Jesus Christ by faith in my in my heart and in my life as my Lord and Savior.

01:16:22.340 And I accept Jesus Christ to be that savior.

01:16:26.720 And so please save me.

01:16:29.040 Cleanse me from all my sin.

01:16:31.580 And I want to be a child of God.

01:16:34.780 I receive Jesus Christ now as my Lord and Savior.

01:16:37.660 In Jesus name.

01:16:40.780 Now, you may not understand all of that entails or implies, but you realize that there's a need in your heart.

01:16:46.820 And we would like you to reach out to us at prayers at actionforcanada.ca.

01:16:52.900 And we would gladly respond to you and lead you on your your journey of faith.

01:16:58.100 And so we are so glad that you were part with us tonight.

01:17:01.100 And so we encourage you to join with us next week.

01:17:03.640 We have a very special guest, Majed El Shafi, who's been with us before and an incredible man who's wow.

01:17:12.500 You really have to be with us next week.

01:17:14.260 He will share some some incredible stories of what he's been doing all over the world.

01:17:19.440 And so please do join us next week.

01:17:22.240 Be sure to register in advance.

01:17:24.220 And so on behalf of all of our team here at Action for Canada, we want to thank you for being with us tonight.

01:17:29.640 Tonight, reverence for God gives a man deep strength.

01:17:33.680 His children have a place of refuge and security.

01:17:37.160 Taken from Proverbs chapter 14, verse 26.

01:17:40.460 So important.

01:17:41.200 So thank you for that.

01:17:43.000 And we certainly thank the Lord for his ministry and its reaction for Canada.

01:17:46.600 So thank you again for being with us.

01:17:48.320 God willing, we'll see you next week.

01:17:50.200 So God bless you and God bless Canada.

01:17:52.540 God bless you and God bless you and God bless you and God bless you and God bless you.

01:17:58.140 That's what I got to say.

01:18:02.100 Look at this crowd.

01:18:06.620 I'm going to thank God and God alone for the ground that I'm standing on.

01:18:13.720 I'm going to thank our founding fathers

01:18:20.380 For giving their lives

01:18:22.700 And sacrificing so much

01:18:25.160 For our freedom

01:18:26.220 And I'm calling on you today

01:18:31.860 Don't put them to shame

01:18:34.100 Don't waste what they did

01:18:36.580 We have guaranteed rights

01:18:39.280 In this country

01:18:40.400 We are putting chapters across the nation

01:18:50.080 We are going to be in every town

01:18:52.700 And every city

01:18:53.940 And we are going to build communities

01:18:56.640 Within these communities

01:18:57.800 Of like-minded people

01:18:59.220 Who are actually going to care for one another

01:19:01.640 Again and love on each other

01:19:03.100 And give each other the help when they're down

01:19:05.500 We are going to use

01:19:08.000 The teams and the people

01:19:09.820 That build within chapters

01:19:11.280 To support our businesses

01:19:13.000 The government's actions

01:19:15.580 Are completely 100% unlawful

01:19:19.700 Judgment will again be bound on justice

01:19:23.780 And those with virtuous hearts

01:19:26.840 Will pursue it

01:19:27.980 You have a virtuous heart

01:19:30.800 If you are here today

01:19:32.220 Pursuing freedom and righteousness

01:19:35.120 And then verse 23

01:19:38.140 Comes along with a promise

01:19:39.940 God says

01:19:41.900 He will turn the sins of evil people back on them

01:19:46.080 He will destroy them for their sins 0.72

01:19:50.580 I take great comfort in that 0.93

01:19:54.260 Because I serve a mighty living God

01:19:58.040 Who has allowed us

01:20:00.240 To go through this season of discomfort

01:20:03.580 Because we as a nation

01:20:05.380 Had turned our backs on him

01:20:07.580 And we need to get right

01:20:09.880 So I am just going to thank you so much

01:20:13.920 I'm going to say God bless you

01:20:16.480 And God bless Canada

01:20:18.280 I am just going to say God bless you

01:20:35.740 So I am just going to say God bless you

01:20:36.960 Thank you.

01:21:06.960 Thank you.

01:21:36.960 Thank you.

01:22:06.960 Thank you.

Action4Canada - June 22, 2023

Tanya Gaw and Alex Newman of Liberty Sentinel, MEN： PROTECTOR, PROVIDER, WARRIOR!

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