In this episode of The Empower Hour, host Tanya sits down with award-winning author, journalist, educator, and speaker, Alex Blumberg, to discuss the need for men to be leaders within their families, their faith, and their freedom.
00:00:00.000Building 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.
00:00:20.420And this wouldn't happen in societies where families are strong based on good, strong principles and traditional values, biblical values.
00:00:31.240And 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.
00:00:41.500I mean, Karl Marx articulated this in very plain terms, right?
00:00:45.240Women should be collectively held and multiple partners and children should be raised by the state.
00:00:52.500Why 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.
00:00:59.340I think you'll come to the same conclusion.
00:01:01.260But, 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.
00:01:22.220You know, the children are brought up with the faith, with the understanding that their parents have instilled in them.
00:01:28.500And so there's a concerted effort to destroy marriages and to destroy families.
00:01:32.860You're absolutely right that a strong marriage is essential to a strong family.
00:01:36.240A strong family is essential to a strong society.
00:01:39.620And 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.
00:01:49.880I'm so pleased that Alex is featured on the Empower Hour this evening.
00:01:59.040Alex is a husband, father, educator, author, award-winning international journalist, and a sought-after speaker who desires to glorify God in everything he does.
00:02:10.580In 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.
00:02:27.440Their mission is to facilitate an exodus of children and families from government-controlled education.
00:02:33.660Alex is a strong and motivating voice as he encourages men to be warriors and protectors of their families, their faith, and their freedom.
00:02:43.700Because 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.
00:02:55.800Well, Alex, it's so good to have you back on the show.
00:11:01.820And he calls on us to love our neighbors.
00:11:04.400But sometimes loving our neighbors means that we're going to speak a truth that is tough for them to embrace.
00:11:10.260And ultimately, in the end, they're going to see that this truth is right and in their best interest.
00:11:16.280And 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
00:11:28.160and take them to a gender dysphoria clinic, they could spend five years in jail.
00:11:32.480Therapists could spend three years in prison.
00:11:37.100And, 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.
00:11:52.620But that doesn't help parents who are in this position, because now Johnny's coming home and saying, I'm a girl.
00:11:58.620And, you know, the teachers have already had four months of transitioning him outwardly at school and changing his pronouns.
00:12:05.280And 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.
00:12:10.760And 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.
00:12:22.640And 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.
00:12:34.780One 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.
00:12:50.560Because 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.
00:13:01.760No LGBTQ stickers, no propaganda is permitted.
00:13:06.340And as a result, you know, some of the school boards with the activists on them are calling this letter hate.
00:13:12.840And 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.
00:13:20.800And Gilbert Baker said, that's what flags are for.
00:13:23.580That's what proclaiming power, right, over our schools and our cities.
00:13:28.700But the creator of the trans flag, I don't recall his name right now, was just a horrible individual.
00:13:34.620And those behind WPATH are the ones that, for transgender health and are pushing for people to transgender.
00:13:42.500Well, these are a bunch of very deviant individuals who believe and get off on castrating animals.
00:13:50.240And so you can imagine what they feel about castrating children.
00:14:01.120And those things are so important to emphasize, Tanya.
00:14:04.180You 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.
00:14:15.580And this all happened in the context of Harvey Milk.
00:14:19.200And Harvey Milk is, to this day, still celebrated by the LGBT movement as the man who kicked off this LGBT revolution.
00:14:25.980He was celebrated by the Secretary General of the U.N., Ban Ki-moon.
00:14:30.340Very, very huge figure in this movement.
00:14:32.860And you don't have to do a lot of research to figure out that this is a man who was raping children.
00:14:37.360Some of those children actually went on to kill themselves.
00:14:39.560He was finding young, troubled boys who were having problems with drugs, who were, you know, run away from home, whatever, who were having problems.
00:14:45.860And he was grooming them and exploiting them and then raping them.
00:14:49.420This is the guy who kicked off what was described as the LGBT sexual revolution.
00:14:55.020And so you really don't have to dig deep to find out that a lot of the characters in this are very nefarious.
00:14:59.940You know, when you look at the transgender movement, you find there are vested financial interests.
00:15:04.000There 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.
00:15:17.520There are very powerful financial interests here that are turning these children into lifelong customers.
00:15:22.460Once they start on this route, they become lifelong customers.
00:15:25.700They constantly need to come back for hormones and treatments and updates and making sure that the wounds have healed from the surgery.
00:15:31.860And, of course, those wounds will never heal.
00:15:33.040These are children who end up being sterilized.
00:15:36.380And, 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.
00:15:45.740First 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.
00:15:56.300When you corrupt a child, when you harm the innocence of a child, that is such an enormous matter.
00:16:04.500And 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.
00:16:12.460And 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.
00:16:21.820What they're trying to do is actually criminalize Christianity.
00:16:24.800They are trying to criminalize the gospel because, you know, the gospel of salvation is very clear.
00:16:30.780Jesus Christ died for your sins so that you could be redeemed, so that you could be made right by God.
00:16:37.820When 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.
00:16:47.400And that's not to suggest that you are going to be immediately sin-free.
00:17:59.200But 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.
00:18:08.940And I'm always reminded of Daniel chapter 3.
00:18:11.420I mean, this has just been burning on my heart for years now, and it's becoming so obvious why.
00:18:16.740You 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.
00:18:23.460And that's the situation that we as Christians find ourselves in today.
00:18:26.280We are being ordered to bow down to this golden idol.
00:18:30.340You cannot tell someone that their lives can be transformed through the blood of Christ.
00:18:33.800We're being told that we cannot do those things.
00:18:36.280And 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.
00:18:47.800But even if He doesn't, we are still not going to bow down to that golden idol.
00:19:18.720So with all of this in mind, when I began this journey in 2015, it was women on the front line of this fight.
00:19:26.040And 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.
00:20:18.880If 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.
00:20:33.200And so we have an obligation as fathers, as husbands, to provide for our family, to care for our family.
00:20:38.880And that doesn't mean just financially.
00:20:41.280That doesn't just mean they have food to eat, they have a bed to sleep.
00:20:54.060Now, this applies to mom and dad in different ways.
00:20:57.100But, you know, the Bible teaches about fatherhood so much.
00:21:01.040I encourage every Christian man, if you have children, you need to go read about what God says about fatherhood.
00:21:08.040And there are a lot of reasons why it's so important.
00:21:10.860And 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.
00:21:24.920And so when it comes to the home, you know, the Bible is very clear.
00:21:27.200And 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.
00:21:36.480And, you know, that doesn't mean what the world wants you to think it means.
00:21:39.880It 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.
00:22:10.660Christ loved the church so much that he died for her, the most gruesome and barbaric death.
00:22:16.760And so, husbands, are you willing to do whatever is necessary for your wife?
00:22:22.220And 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.
00:22:32.780You know, are you in the Word with her?
00:22:37.940Are you leading your own children, right?
00:22:40.520And so when it comes to the raising and the discipling of children, this is an area where fathers and mothers are to work together.
00:22:47.240Fathers, I believe, are to kind of set the course and to lead the way.
00:22:51.120But this is a partnership between the husband and the wife in the discipling of children.
00:22:55.220And there's so much in the Bible about how we are to do this.
00:22:59.580You know, Ephesians 6, 4 very clearly is addressed to fathers.
00:23:02.960And sometimes mothers are added in there.
00:23:04.540I think it's applicable to both, but especially to fathers.
00:23:07.240It 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.
00:23:14.240So 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.
00:23:23.080Now, people talk about the Great Commission.
00:23:25.720A lot of churches are scared to talk about any of the issues that are facing our culture.
00:23:30.000And their standard reply is, well, Great Commission, we're just preaching the gospel.
00:23:33.680And so we're not going to talk about those sensitive issues about gender.
00:23:36.360We're not going to talk about the abortion issues.
00:23:38.280We're not going to talk about, you know, God's design for family.
00:23:41.240We're not going to talk about God's design for government.
00:23:43.820Whereas in reality, the Great Commission is so applicable to your home.
00:23:50.300You 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.
00:23:56.520You've totally missed the point, right?
00:23:59.500Our first ministry as fathers and as mothers is to our own children, is to our own family.
00:24:05.420And so if you're not making disciples in your own home, how are you going to make disciples overseas?
00:24:10.920You know, you tell me, oh, we're funding a missionary to go to, you know, Canada or Zimbabwe or Haiti or Thailand.
00:24:18.240And we should be doing that as Christians.
00:24:19.840We should be doing that as the church.
00:24:21.320But 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.
00:24:27.940So, you know, fathers have an obligation to provide for their families, to love their families, to serve their families.
00:24:35.600The 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.
00:24:45.940You know, when the world thinks of leadership, they think of government policies and mandates, even authoritarian.
00:24:52.560That's not what Christian leadership looks like.
00:24:54.820And in fact, this is specifically addressed in the text of the scripture.
00:24:57.940Right. Leadership in the Christian context is not like it is for the Gentiles.
00:25:01.540It's not about lording it over others.
00:25:43.120It 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.
00:25:56.900It is not to be a dictator within the home.
00:26:00.040And if men are doing that, then they are not in tune with the Lord and they're lacking within their own life.
00:26:05.380And that's where, you know, building their relationship with God has to be first and foremost.
00:26:11.160So it's God first, then my wife and family, then my job.
00:26:15.260And if you've got a good, healthy balance like that, you know, you're on the right track.
00:26:20.480Recently, 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.
00:26:29.640And at different times, separately, I was having a conversation.
00:26:33.300And 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.
00:26:39.940And I said, that's not the reason to stay because that was the commitment he'd made at the altar.
00:26:45.640I said, that's not what God is asking.
00:26:48.740He's asking for far much more than that.
00:26:51.100And you've touched on that right now, right?
00:26:53.400You need to understand who your wife is.
00:26:56.520And within relationships, the other thing to address is having healthy relationships.
00:27:02.440And 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.
00:27:09.960And it was about Bruce and Wanda, who got married.
00:27:13.160And then the story ended up being how they were actually bruised and wounded.
00:27:18.180And then they had a child, and I always forget what they named the child, but it was bruised and wounded, you know,
00:27:22.480because you will forward that on to your generations, those dysfunctions and those hurts within your own life from your own family experiences, possibly,
00:27:32.240or, you know, some other experience of hurt or harm that has been caused to an individual.
00:27:37.120And if you don't get the assistance that you need and heal and become whole, that is going to affect your relationship.
00:27:44.020And it is definitely going to affect your children.
00:27:47.440So it is about very positively working on yourself, and then also understand that your spouse has issues as well.
00:27:56.060And 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,
00:28:05.260Yeah, and, you know, this is an area where men really have been lacking in our culture because they haven't been taught properly.
00:28:14.300You know, when God tells us to love our wives like Christ loved the church, I mean, obviously that's incomprehensible to our finite minds.
00:28:22.800The love that Christ has for his church is beyond the scope of what we can imagine.
00:28:27.740But just from what we know in the scriptures, we get a sense of how deep and how great that love is.
00:28:33.400And, 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.
00:28:41.180Excuse 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,
00:28:47.160that suddenly you don't need to love her.
00:28:48.880And I think part of it also is an improper understanding of love that, unfortunately, many Christians have picked up from the world.
00:28:57.420It'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.
00:31:46.400And that's one of the things, isn't it, is that we've entered a fast food world,
00:31:51.560and it's all about pleasure and about me, me, me.
00:31:53.920And 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
00:32:08.940was that they came across these critical moments in their marriage where both individuals said,
00:33:22.400And 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.
00:33:33.080And then she starts to make little shots at the husband, then the husband starts to feel disrespected.
00:33:40.800And that as well can feed into, you know, a snowball of events that lead to a miserable situation as well.
00:33:48.540So we need to understand men are not women.
00:33:53.020You know, yes, they need to be compassionate.
00:33:57.160And 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.
00:34:05.580And 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.
00:34:25.140As 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.
00:34:42.340And 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.
00:34:51.620And we've seen that so clearly. I mean, Karl Marx articulated this in very plain terms, right?
00:34:56.420Women should be collectively held and multiple partners and children should be raised by the state.
00:35:03.540Why 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.
00:35:10.460I think you'll come to the same conclusion.
00:35:12.340But, 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.
00:35:33.320You know, the children are brought up with the faith, with the understanding that their parents have instilled in them.
00:35:39.880And so there's a concerted effort to destroy marriages and to destroy families.
00:35:43.960You're absolutely right that a strong marriage is essential to a strong family.
00:35:47.120A strong family is essential to a strong society.
00:35:50.500And 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.
00:36:01.500And you said so many things there, Tanya.
00:36:08.560And the scripture actually teaches that wives should respect their husbands.
00:36:12.360And, you know, that doesn't mean just a blind, ridiculous respect.
00:36:17.420And it doesn't mean unquestioning submission to ungodly order.
00:36:20.620Just 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.
00:36:31.560If 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.
00:36:38.300And therefore, no, I won't go earn money by prostituting myself.
00:36:41.400No, I won't subject our children to, you know, pick your horror that have now become so prevalent in our culture.
00:36:55.120So 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.
00:37:05.060So, you know, there are wives out there listening and say, well, my husband is ungodly.
00:37:12.500You 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.
00:37:18.660Watch how your obedience to God's word will work in his life.
00:37:23.580The Holy Spirit can use that to convict him and bring him to his senses.
00:37:27.620You also, I think, hit on something really important.
00:37:29.940There 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.
00:37:40.080And, 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.
00:37:53.040Is that what God would really have you doing during those 10 hours?
00:37:56.020You 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.
00:38:00.080And 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.
00:38:09.380But 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.
00:38:14.420Honey, can you help me with the dishes?
00:38:16.680You know, that's probably become a problem.
00:38:18.920And, you know, is that really a godly use of your time?
00:38:22.180God's only given us a limited amount of hours on this earth.
00:38:24.800Use them to do the things God has called you to do, including loving and serving your wife, including discipling your children.
00:38:32.180And 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.
00:38:41.940It's just the two examples that come to mind.
00:38:44.320You know, what you'll find is that your family will be transformed.
00:38:47.240And as families are transformed, communities get transformed.
00:39:16.860Husbands, even if your wife is not perfect and she's not going to be, honor her and love her and serve her.
00:39:22.080And 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.
00:39:32.300And, you know, children pick up on that, too.
00:39:34.120When mom and dad are constantly fighting, you know, they don't have that sense of security that they need to really thrive.
00:39:39.640And, 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?
00:39:51.920So we really need to try very hard on this.
00:39:54.800And it really does begin in our own home.
00:39:56.660I'm so glad we're talking about this today, Tanya, because a lot of people want to talk about the politics.
00:41:10.220But 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.
00:41:20.040And that is something, as I mentioned before, we become that fast food society.
00:42:19.540This is the enemy getting a foothold into your life.
00:42:22.280Because when you watch pornography, of course, shame comes in.
00:42:27.340And 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.
00:42:43.060And that's the shame that is building up because it's, you know, it depletes you as a person.
00:42:50.080And 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.
00:43:04.080And so I think that this is something that needs to be addressed as well.
00:43:08.300Yeah, I'm so glad you mentioned it, Tanya.
00:43:10.300And this has, again, become ubiquitous in our culture.
00:43:12.940Even in the church, which I think is the most tragic.
00:43:16.320And 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.
00:43:21.720And so they feel awkward about mentioning it.
00:43:23.700They're worried that somebody might get offended or leave.
00:43:25.860But this is something that is devastating families.
00:43:28.420It's something that is devastating churches.
00:43:30.120And it's something that is devastating our society and our culture.
00:43:34.660You know, he set the bar way, way higher than, say, you know, the Old Testament and the Ten Commandments did, right?
00:43:40.260God says if you look on a woman with lust, you have committed adultery with her in your heart.
00:43:45.720And 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.
00:43:55.500Now, 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.
00:44:11.160Why would you want those images burned into your mind?
00:44:14.860And I think a lot of men don't realize the devastating impact that it has.
00:44:18.880And I've seen this even in, you know, men's groups.
00:44:21.860It's like, oh, well, you know, that's not a big deal.
00:48:09.580When 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?
00:48:18.960Okay, there's only one bullet, you know, limited chance that your child would get hit.
00:48:24.560But are you willing to send your child into that atmosphere?
00:48:30.000You 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.
00:48:43.420When 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.
00:50:24.280But ultimately, the discipling of children is a family responsibility.
00:50:29.760And so the father and the mother together should be doing what they can to disciple those children.
00:50:34.320And 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.
00:50:52.080But that is a very serious responsibility that God has placed on us.
00:50:55.920And so as fathers, the protection of our children needs to be one of our highest priorities.
00:51:00.820The discipling of our children needs to be one of our highest priorities.
00:51:03.660And right now, I love the analogy used of Russian roulette.
00:51:06.760I actually say it's not just one bullet in the chamber.
00:51:10.440And the data is absolutely clear at this point.
00:51:13.660I 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.
00:51:20.140They'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.
00:51:33.040That's like Russian roulette, but you've got four rounds in five chambers.
00:51:39.740Another analogy I use is, you know, the building is on fire, right?
00:51:42.420The public school building is on fire, and your children are inside.
00:51:45.740How could you possibly think of, you know, lobbying the school board while your child is burning to death?
00:51:50.920Now, 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.
00:52:01.420Then 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.
00:52:09.400You 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.
00:52:15.160That's absolutely crazy, and I don't think God would permit us to do that.
00:52:20.140So I do believe parents must take this responsibility seriously.
00:53:00.420You don't send your child to be discipled by the enemy.
00:53:02.800But as Christians, and especially as men, we are to be out there as salt and light in the community.
00:53:09.580And the defense of children is one of the most obvious things that we have a responsibility to do.
00:53:14.720In 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.
00:53:23.720Now, in America and in Canada as well, we've been very blessed.
00:53:28.060Historically 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.
00:53:36.320So who is the government in the United States of America?
00:53:38.860And I understand the same is generally true in Canada.
00:53:42.420And 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.
00:53:56.420If 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.
00:54:30.500Why did God create government in the first place?
00:54:33.020Well, 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.
00:54:41.040Man's heart, especially prior to being redeemed by Christ, is desperately wicked.
00:54:45.200We are sinful, wicked people, and if left to our own devices, we would be running around, stealing and killing and raping.
00:54:51.340So that's why God ordained civil government, to restrain the progress of evil.
00:54:55.480And he articulates this very clearly, for example, in Romans 13, and there are other places.
00:54:59.560He tells us the purpose of government is to punish evil.
00:55:02.400Now, 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.
00:55:09.480God's already given us a very comprehensive definition of what is evil.
00:55:30.400So, I mean, these are just very basic principles.
00:55:32.460I apologize if I sound like I'm speaking to children, but these are unfortunate things that our churches are not teaching.
00:55:37.440And 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.
00:55:44.280The government is not to teach your children, you know, LGBTism.
00:55:48.640The government is not to, you know, raise your children for you.
00:55:52.120The government is not to have pride parades.
00:55:55.040The government is not to, you know, do all of these different functions that the government has taken.
00:55:59.540Their first and primary responsibility is to punish evil.
00:56:03.380And 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.
00:56:13.560I mean, they're arresting people who speak the truth.
00:56:59.100And 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.
00:57:15.940These types of unbiblical policies lead inevitably.
00:57:19.200They produce fruit inevitably that is wicked, that is death, that is gulags.
00:57:24.300And, you know, as Christians, we should not tolerate that voluntarily.
00:57:28.580We have an obligation to be involved here.
00:57:31.680It'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.
00:57:45.540And, you know, many people are like, oh, you know, you should stay out of politics.
00:57:50.100Christians are supposed to stay out of politics.
00:57:59.720And, you know, we have witnessed that.
00:58:02.380And 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.
00:58:10.500Because we do have to take responsibility at some level to say, did you care about who you voted for on the day of election?
00:58:18.280Did you look into who this person was?
00:58:20.520And 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.
00:58:33.620And I love showing the map because we have over 100 chapters.
00:58:41.040But 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.
00:58:55.040But 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.
00:59:11.460And even for churches to open up schools within, you know, their facilities.
00:59:17.160And this is growing and it's catching on and it's amazing.
00:59:21.480But when we abdicate that role, you know, we're going to experience exactly what we're facing today.
01:00:39.680But 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.
01:00:50.420We're calling on Canadians to assert their rights.
01:00:53.760And in order to do that, they need to be knowledgeable and understand what those rights are.
01:00:58.400So all of our resources apply the Constitution, the Charter, the Coronation Oath and the Criminal Code.
01:01:05.000And within that, I always say knowledge is power.
01:01:08.220And when you have it, you've got to use it and you've got to share it.
01:01:10.660And 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.
01:02:25.520What does God say is the function of the church is to equip the saints.
01:02:29.280Pastors are to preach the whole counsel of God.
01:02:32.820And that means not just, you know, 52 different versions of John 3, 16 sermons, mostly taken out of context and misapplied.
01:02:39.920That means we need to be teaching about all of these different areas.
01:02:42.880I mean, have you been studying systematic theology?
01:02:44.900What does God say about this and this and this?
01:02:46.840Is your pastor preaching on government, on family, on education, on culture, on abortion?
01:02:52.200These are all things that are clearly addressed in the word of God.
01:02:56.740And 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.
01:03:02.800Are we serving our communities, right?
01:03:05.280One of the things that we as Christians should be doing is serving the poor, right?
01:03:08.980A 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.
01:03:19.060And Christian families have not been fulfilling their responsibility.
01:03:21.340So we need to get back to those understandings.
01:03:23.940And Jesus Christ needs to be the Lord of every area of our life.
01:03:28.180And that means not just, you know, one hour on Sunday.
01:03:35.580That means the education of our children.
01:03:37.520That means every single area needs to be in submission to what God has told us.
01:03:41.580And 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.
01:03:58.620I mean, look at what is happening around you.
01:04:00.400How much more of this are you going to take before you say, I'm not going to take this anymore.
01:04:04.820I'm going to do what God has called me to do.
01:04:06.960And the Great Commission, maybe we can end on this.
01:04:09.780You 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.
01:04:15.960And then they cut off the tail end there, which is teaching them to obey all the things that I have commanded you.
01:04:22.840And so as Christians, we should be obedient, and we should be teaching other Christians to be obedient.
01:04:28.360And 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.
01:04:38.960All 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.
01:04:52.220So we've got all these responsibilities that God has given us.
01:05:24.660Everything you need to know about this battle we find ourselves in is right there.
01:05:27.780This 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.
01:05:37.880And God tells us that our weapon here is the sword of the Spirit, which is, of course, the Word of God.
01:05:42.620And all these things have answers to them, right?
01:05:44.180When they say there's infinity genders, no.
01:06:12.120I don't know if he's coming back tomorrow or 10 years from now.
01:06:14.100We'll leave that theological debate for another time.
01:06:16.280But 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.
01:06:29.320We 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.
01:06:42.340I think we've pretty much covered it all, and I really appreciate you being on the show.
01:06:48.200I hope that many people, you know, will embrace the words and the advice that you've given.
01:06:53.860This 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.
01:07:02.160When they open the door to abortion, I mean, you have abortion legislation in America, but Canada doesn't have any.
01:07:09.660You can abort a child up to full term, and it's deplorable.
01:07:14.740We need a law, and so, you know, we need to be on the front line of fighting for all humanity.
01:07:21.020But, 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.
01:07:34.460You then open up to same-sex marriages, which is outside of God's perfect plan, you know, for marriage.
01:07:42.220Sexual deviance starts to come in, and it has no limit.
01:07:46.220It will just keep pushing and pushing.
01:07:48.320And 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.
01:08:08.560So 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,
01:08:22.500If 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.
01:08:39.860And 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,
01:08:51.800You 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.
01:09:07.920And 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.
01:09:16.140And 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.
01:09:37.760And 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?
01:09:49.740Yeah, 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.
01:10:00.900A 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.
01:10:10.180But be encouraged. Our God is sovereign. Our God is powerful beyond anything any of us can comprehend.
01:10:14.860And 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.
01:10:23.820You 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,
01:10:32.580whether 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.
01:10:39.800Whether 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.
01:10:50.760He 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.
01:11:01.020Or 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.
01:11:09.620They had been helping the king of Israel and the king of Syria is after him. He's going to chase him down.
01:11:15.220He finally finds him and they've got Elisha and his servant surrounded.
01:11:18.560And Elisha prays because the servant is freaking out like, oh, my goodness, we're surrounded.
01:11:22.360So Elisha prays that God opened this man's eyes so you can see what's really going on.
01:11:27.040And 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.
01:11:34.080It's not us who are surrounded. It's them. They should be quaking in their boots.
01:11:37.440The 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.
01:11:43.140But God has got this under control. None of this is a surprise to him.
01:11:46.460We just need to be faithful. We need to be encouraged. We need to do what he has called us to do.
01:11:50.760And Tanya, I'm so grateful for what you are doing, for what Action for Canada is doing.
01:11:54.620And, you know, there's so many wonderful Canadians up there.
01:11:57.420I'm just endlessly grateful for what God is doing through you and through the other great Canadians that are standing on these front lines.
01:12:03.840Keep it up. We know how this all ends. Right. The evil is going to be stopped.
01:12:08.260Every knee is going to bow. So be encouraged. Do what we're supposed to. And God bless you all.
01:12:13.260Yeah. Thank you so much. God is still on the throne and he's fully in control.
01:12:17.040And he does allow evil to prevail for a time, but it's for our good.
01:12:20.880So we get on our knees and start looking back to him and turn society around.
01:12:24.520So, Alex, again, thank you, too, for all the incredible work that you're doing down in the U.S.
01:12:29.840to bring awareness and to bring people back to good, godly living.
01:12:34.540So God bless you. And we will have you on the show again.
01:12:38.280Thank you so much, Tanya. God bless you, too.
01:12:46.960Wow. Thank you so much, Tanya and Alex.
01:12:53.640Even though Tanya is not here, that was such great information.
01:12:57.340Number 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.
01:13:10.820And the Lord answered my prayer. I got married. And then I thought I would push it a little bit.
01:13:15.400And I said, Lord, I would really like to be a dad someday, you know, before you come back.
01:13:19.840And then we found out we couldn't have children. So I kind of accepted that.
01:13:24.700But 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.
01:13:34.760And then a couple of years later, the Lord blessed us with a son. And then two years later, he blessed us with another son.
01:13:42.080And then four years later, he blessed us with another son. And then two years later, he blessed us with another son.
01:13:48.820And 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.
01:13:58.560So 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.
01:14:05.080You 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.
01:14:13.440It's a great responsibility. And I'm blessed to have 11 grandchildren now.
01:14:17.960Actually, one of my granddaughters turns 10 years old today.
01:14:21.540And 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.
01:14:34.340And 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.
01:14:44.080You 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.
01:14:52.840And 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.
01:15:00.780And some of you listening may be those prodigal children. Maybe you're older now.
01:15:06.260Maybe 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.
01:15:15.280And 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.
01:15:24.840And I want you to know that even though we fail, we have a gracious and loving God that forgives.
01:15:30.700So let this time be a time of healing in your life, because we are we're here for a purpose.
01:15:37.220God doesn't make mistakes. And you may have had a father in your life that was an absent father, an abusive father.
01:15:44.020And but you have a heavenly father that loves you. And he sent his son to die on the cross for you.
01:15:49.320So in closing tonight, I would just like to offer up a prayer.
01:15:53.120And if you have a need in your heart and you need a savior, this is your opportunity tonight.
01:15:59.840Just to turn to him in love and in faith.
01:16:03.220And so I would just like to lead in a prayer.
01:16:06.440And if that's you tonight, you'd say, dear God, I'm in need tonight.
01:16:10.760My 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.
01:16:22.340And I accept Jesus Christ to be that savior.