Ep 1262 ｜ SNAP： A Factual & Biblical Analysis
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1 hour and 6 minutes
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Summary
What is the right thing to do next? Do the next right thing in faith with excellence, and for the glory of God. It can feel overwhelming sometimes, not just when we look on social media or turn on the news, but when we feel like we don t know what to do the next next thing we are called to do.
Transcript
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What is really going on with SNAP benefits, and how should Christians think about the
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role of the government when it comes to providing for the poor?
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Also, Zoran Mamdani is possibly going to be the next mayor of New York City.
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Why does it matter to those of us not living in New York City?
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Also, I've got somewhat of a response to the controversy that has been manufactured over
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the past few days on Christian X about yours truly.
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This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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I hope everyone is having a wonderful week so far.
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I am recording this from a different location today, as you can see, so that's why it sounds
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We've got a lot to talk about on this News Monday.
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If you are new to Relatable, on Monday we talk about news, on Wednesday we talk about
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theology, and then on Fridays we have an interview, and the subjects of those can span quite the
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I usually start my Monday episodes with a word of encouragement, and that is a phrase that
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we have adopted and have repeated many, many times throughout Relatable history, and that
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is, do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
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Obviously, I did not come up with do the next right thing.
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A lot of people have said that and written that over the years, but we have added on do
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the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
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It feels overwhelming sometimes, not just in the world, not just when we look on social
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media or turn on the news, but just in life, whatever you're going through personally or
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spiritually, emotionally, in your family, at your job.
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But then also, all of the chaos that seems to be raging outside of our four walls on a
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Sometimes we just feel this burden of like, I don't know what to do.
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And when you're thinking in such a big picture way, and you're thinking in the terms of the
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But the truth is, all of us are only called to do one thing, and that is the next right
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thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
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I posted that this morning on Instagram, as I often do, and someone asked me, but what
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That is what we have been grappling with as humans for all of human history.
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But focus on that word next, the next right thing.
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Whatever it is, whatever small thing, whatever seemingly menial task that God has called you
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Do it as excellently as possible with the hardest work ethic, with the best quality, and do that
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So whatever you do next, reject doing it based on your own strength and your own talent, your
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Reject just meeting the bare minimum requirement.
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Go above and beyond to do the task that you are called to do.
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Do that to the utmost based on God's strength that he has given you.
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Remember, our bodies are living sacrifices to the Lord.
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And we have the Holy Spirit dwelling in us to give us the power to do that.
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Not only when things seem chaotic or the responsibilities just seem so much, but also when there are so
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many voices and so many opinions of you and of different things that might feel like they're
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And I'll just tell you, like, that bit of encouragement that I just gave you, it's just as much for me.
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And those of you who follow me on Instagram know that I posted this, that I really needed that encouragement.
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That I really don't, by the grace of God and just like the, it's to the credit of the strength
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and the edification of the people around me too.
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My friends, my family, people at my church, of course, my husband, my parents, love my children.
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All of that just really buoys me and really keeps me grounded in this crazy world.
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I get asked all the time, like, how do you talk about these things?
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How do you go into the lion's end and not just feel sad or down or anxious?
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And truly, because of all the things I just listed, I don't.
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Like, I feel very joyful and very hopeful, even as we're talking about very serious things.
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And of course, I feel all kinds of criticism have for years.
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But sometimes something gets through the armor.
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Like, I'm feeling the weight of discouragement.
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I will explain more of this situation and give a fuller and biblical response
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to the so-called controversy that has been waging about me over the past few days
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I think I actually shared the video of this part of my speech at Louisiana State University
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last Monday when I went through the five most controversial truths that Charlie Kirk preached
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And the first one was that feminism has failed women.
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I spent by far the longest amount of time in my speech on that.
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And then the second one that Charlie talked about a lot that I reiterated was that porn
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And there is a part of that speech which was clipped.
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And it was a great part of the speech to clip because I meant every word of it where I'm
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We need you to be present fathers and solid pastors.
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This was an appeal from a woman and also for women, too.
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But I'm in a room with primarily 19 and 20-year-old boys, okay?
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And I'm speaking as an older sister in Christ about something that is really important.
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That, yes, as I said, disproportionately affects men, but also affects women and children.
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And we hear from the feminists that we don't need men, that we don't need masculinity, that
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And, man, I have been talking for probably 10 years about the dangers of that line of reasoning
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You had a bunch of people who identify as Christians on the right who are always, always,
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always looking for me to say something publicly that they can pounce upon.
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And they were calling me a feminist because apparently I was, you know, they said finger
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I had people, people that I consider friends, people that I consider colleagues repeating this
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And, you know, all different kinds of just straight up lies, lies about me and my family, just such
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And these are people who identify as Christians who I noticed will only ever go after me for
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these things and not, for example, like Candace Owens.
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I'm not saying they should go after her for those things, but they really have their sights
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set on me and really will take every opportunity, even the Jubilee debate, like you saw the Jubilee
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debate to say, you know, this is why women shouldn't be in the public sphere for any reason whatsoever.
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And that kind of thing, when it comes from within your own camp, and it's just outright malicious
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and slanderous and deceitful and angry and bitter and covetous and resentful and all of
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those things, it's just, yeah, it weighs you down.
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Whenever I feel like I'm getting a firestorm of criticism, whether it's from the left or
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whether it's from this camp, who I don't think I could call conservative, and I wouldn't
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in general call Christian, but certainly they identify that way, the Lord is so kind to send
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me encouragement, whether it's a text from my friend Katie Faust, which is just so like,
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right, sorry, I could cry at the Lord's just like grace when he does this, like literally
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I was just, I was sitting and I was just thinking about how this is just discouraging.
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And yeah, yesterday at 7.37 a.m., and Katie Faust just randomly texts me, I'm praying for you
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in the midst of the online pile on, the online pylon that seems to be reignited whenever you do
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anything at all, praying especially that your confidence in the Lord and His calling is not
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And I said that came at exactly the right moment.
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And I just love how the Lord works through His people to build up the body of Christ and
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to remind us that His calling, that His will, that His word is what matters, that His approval
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I also got this sweet video, and I don't have permission to play it, and so I won't play
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it, but a couple at the Ark Encounter, they were at a conference there, and Ken Ham's assistant
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sent us this video of this couple who was there just really sweet saying, you know, I first
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heard the gospel and believed the gospel because I listened to Relatable.
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And these two people who said they used to be these progressive agnostics or atheists,
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they heard the gospel Unrelatable, they became Christians, they got married, they have a child,
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and of course, they love Ken Ham, and Ken Ham is the one who persuaded them against evolution.
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And I'm like, gosh, the Lord is so sweet to remind us of our purpose, that it's eternal,
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that God's eternal plan of redemption is going off without a hitch, that it is not dependent
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upon the opinions of people online who have no authority over me, whose perspective does
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And I just got another message from someone yesterday who said that they had been praying
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for so long, she and her mom, about their sister to come to Christ, but she was completely,
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completely against it, completely opposed to Christianity.
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And yet for the past two Sundays has decided to go to church because she, by the grace
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of God and the power of the Holy Spirit, started listening to Relatable.
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That's what matters, what the Lord is doing, not just through me, but through all of you.
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So I don't mean this to center on me, for you to feel bad about me, of course, or for me,
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Of course, I'm always asking for your prayers, just as I pray for you, but it's also encouragement
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You don't have to be an influencer to deal with this kind of criticism.
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I'm sure you have your own negative things that you go through or negative feedback that
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you get in your own life that might be unfounded.
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And I just want to remind you that if you live by the crowd, you will die by the crowd.
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Like, if you are bullied and carried by other people's compliments, you will be destroyed
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And so you can't allow people's compliments of you to be your strength or to be your sustenance
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And you cannot allow your detractors to be the people to get you down because that goes
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to show whom you are actually following and whom you are working for.
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That doesn't mean that you don't have feelings one way or another, and I think that's okay.
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But if you are doing the next right thing with excellence and faith and for the glory of God,
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And look, all of us, male and female, we are different.
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First of all, we are called to different things.
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We have different strengths, different weaknesses.
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There are different leadership roles within the church for men.
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And I've always been extremely clear on that, have never blurred those lines myself in theology
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All of us are called to do everything for the glory of God.
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All of us are called to be filled with the fruit of the spirit.
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All of us are called to put away all malice and bitterness and anger and rivalry and jealousy
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And I just, a lot of these people who are critics online happen to also be extremely crass,
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extremely slanderous, and extremely boastful, extremely arrogant.
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When you see someone who professes Christ, maybe they've even got some kind of like Christian
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phrase in their bio, but they're degrading towards people, women or anyone else, they're
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nasty in what they say, they're cutting, they're derisive and divisive.
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Instead of building up, they're constantly tearing down in the hopes that it'll make them
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I want you to go to Romans 1 and read about those who are depraved in body and in mind.
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We focus on homosexuality when it comes to this chapter.
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But this is someone who has been given over to sin.
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And it reminds me of a lot of the people that are, not everyone, but a lot of the people
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igniting this just kind of malicious chatter online.
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They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice.
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They're full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness.
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They are gossips, slanders, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil,
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disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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Though they know God's righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die,
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they not only do them, but give approval to those who practice them.
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Gosh, a lot of this crowd has a lot of praise for people like Nick Fuentes.
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And a lot of anger towards sisters in Christ who are preaching the gospel and saying true
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Reminds me a lot of Romans 1 and a lack of self-control.
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I'm very thankful to say and thankful to all of you that by the grace of God, there have
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been thousands and thousands of women in this audience whose minds have been changed about
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abortion, whose minds have been changed about the gospel, whose minds have been changed about
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hormonal birth control and IVF and surrogacy, the death penalty, crime, immigration, gender,
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I'm thankful for the fruit that God is responsible for.
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And as long as he calls me to this, I will continue to do it.
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And I just encourage you in the same way, continue to listen to the Lord, continue to follow the
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Let's get into what we're actually going to talk about today.
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That was kind of a longer monologue than I intended.
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And like I said, I'll get into some biblical detail on Wednesday.
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First, I want to talk about SNAP because I know that you are seeing a lot of stuff right
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I would say these are people who call themselves progressive Christians talking about how the
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Republican government is anti-Christian and how Republican Christians should stand
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up against the ending of SNAP benefits that supposedly Donald Trump is responsible for.
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So first, we're going to look at the facts, like what is SNAP?
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Why are people saying that people are going to starve?
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And then, of course, what is the biblical role of the government?
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Should Christians be standing up and saying, yes, this is unjust?
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Okay, so first, let's look at what's causing this.
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If you don't know about the Schumer shutdown, you need to go back and you need to listen to
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My dad explained the shutdown, what is actually going on, and who is actually responsible.
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The ongoing government shutdown has caused federal funding for the Supplemental Nutrition
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And that is going to run out, that did run out, on Saturday, November 1st, leaving about
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42 million low-income Americans without access to their monthly food benefits.
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That number alone is stunning and goes to show that there's a deeper problem.
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If we've got 42 million Americans that rely on the taxpayer for their food, we've got deeper
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirms that the $9.5 billion that's allocated for this
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month's SNAP benefits has been depleted due to the shutdown.
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While Senate Democrats could end the shutdown, and this is really important, the Democrats in
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the Senate could end the shutdown at any time by simply voting for the clean, continuing
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resolution, the CR, that Republicans proposed, they continue to try to blame Republicans for
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And this kind of thing always happens between Republicans and Democrats, depending on who
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But in a shocking twist, CNN's Jake Tapper has been calling out the Democrats for refusing
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to negotiate with the Republicans, and actually said this to Congresswoman Catherine Clark.
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Just as a point of fact, the way that we have always covered shutdowns is that the party that
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is not voting for the CR, the continuing resolution to fund the government, is the party that is
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blocking the government funding and is responsible for the shutdown.
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That's how we did it the last time in 2018, 2019.
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That's the time we did before that, during the Obama administration.
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I mean, it's your party that is refusing, in the Senate, that is refusing to vote for
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Okay, Democrats, you've lost Jake Tapper, at least on this.
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And if you've lost Jake Tapper on this, then you're in a bad spot.
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It's sad that being unbiased, like, it makes the news nowadays.
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There is about $5.25 billion in contingency funding reserved for SNAP in November, but
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it falls short of the $9 billion needed, according to Brooke Rollins.
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Again, like, oh my goodness, $9 billion of taxpayer funding a month is going towards SNAP.
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Secretary Rollins told reporters that Democrats are wrong about using the contingency fund,
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explaining it can only flow if underlying appropriations are approved and is meant for
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Rollins added that even if the fund could be used, it would not cover half of November's
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President Trump stated on social media that his administration lacks clear legal authority
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So basically, Democrats need to agree to negotiate, and they're not.
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I won't read the whole thing, but this was on October 31st.
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He said, our government lawyers don't think we have legal authority to pay SNAP with certain
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He said the Democrats should quit this charade where they hurt people for their own political
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If you use SNAP benefits, call this in a Democrat and tell them to reopen the government.
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And then he puts Chuck Schumer's office number on there.
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Well, there are a lot of problems with SNAP, and this can be debated.
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There are plenty of perspectives on both sides of this.
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Should we just unconditionally give taxpayer money to people who say they need it and have
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You should be able to buy almost whatever you want to, or should there be some limitations?
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And then, of course, there's probably some people who just don't believe that this is
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the role of the government at all, that this should just not be happening.
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In a CBS interview, a SNAP recipient named Erin Anis said that the government benefits allow her to live
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independently, even though she has family that would be willing to support her.
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Having those resources, what does it mean to you and for your life?
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I don't know what I would do except have to rely on my family and I don't want to do that
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There'll be a time when I'll probably have to live with one of my sons.
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Having these resources has allowed you to be independent.
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It's like people forget where this money comes from.
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You are completely dependent on the government.
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I mean, the government doesn't have its own money.
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And so you have people who are willing to sacrifice, who are trying to make ends meet,
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who are trying to provide for their families themselves, who are paying for this woman to
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live, quote unquote, independently, to buy her groceries, even though it sounds like she
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Our tax dollars are taken away from us in a compulsory way, like we have to.
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So the government is forcing the money that we earned out of our hands and is forcibly giving
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Some TikTok users have been threatening to steal from stores if they don't receive their
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I just got that text that the link is definitely cut the for November.
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Y'all better stay out of my way in these stores.
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I'm walking out with cars and I'm not paying for.
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There was another woman who said that she's actually making money off of the food stamps.
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She sells it for a little bit more money and so she said that she's making around $1,000
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to $2,000 a month off of this and I guarantee you that's not just one person, that this is
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According to a May 2024 Economic Policy Innovation Center report, food stamp enrollment surged from
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17.3 million individuals in 2001 to 42.1 million in 2023.
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So over the course of 22 years, that's more than doubled.
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Again, we've got a lot of really deep problems.
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48% of food stamp recipients stay on the rolls for 20 months or longer compared to less than 20%
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Not only are costs to taxpayers skyrocketing, but RFK pointed out in August that a large
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portion of the funds are going toward candy and sugary drinks.
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This is something that RFK has been talking about.
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He's the HHS secretary that the food stamps are actually fueling the diabetes epidemic.
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18%, he says, if federal SNAP benefits to poor families is spent on candy and sugary drinks.
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Now, you have people trying to frame this saying, you know, poor kids deserve to have cookies or
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The right way to frame this is should the taxpayer, say the middle-class taxpayer who is making
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just enough money to get by, should they be forced to pay for the food of someone that is not actually
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I think most of us would say, okay, I am willing to pay taxes to help the truly destitute family
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Like, well, I think all of us would say, yes, you know what government, you can handle that.
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Even though I think primarily this should be the church's responsibility.
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I think the church, I think Christians do a much better, more efficient and more trustworthy
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And I do think that's the church's primary job, but I think all of us would be okay.
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If you want to take a portion of my hard-earned dollars, my tax money, and you want to give
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it to those who are truly destitute for a temporary amount of time to get their essentials, I think
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But if you were telling me that you are, that I am forced to pay for the diabetes of a kid
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whose parents could be working or could be relying on family members, that's not just,
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And it not only aids in diabetes and health problems, but this just entire entitlement
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mentality that you deserve other people's money.
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Again, for things that are not even essential, but are actually detrimental.
00:30:56.140
So I agree with those who are saying that, no, your taxpayer dollars should not be funding
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What else is being done to improve this broken system?
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So there's fraud, there are people who want, who are on it, who don't really need it.
00:31:13.500
We're funding all kinds of non-essential food that is not only fueling this diabetes epidemic,
00:31:20.180
but also like these sugary foods and dyes and all of that, they have a negative impact
00:31:25.080
on people's behavior, on people's mental health.
00:31:30.420
People with ADHD generally have low impulse control.
00:31:34.600
Well, I would say that the nutrition epidemic that is happening and being funded by SNAP
00:31:39.420
probably has a direct impact also on the crime epidemic.
00:31:45.580
And a lot of times among the same demographic and we are all funding that, that's a problem.
00:31:52.000
So new SNAP rules went into effect on Saturday, even though benefits will not be issued through
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The one big, beautiful bill enacts these new restrictions expected to cut federal spending
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on SNAP by an estimated $186 billion over the next decade.
00:32:06.860
Adults without dependents must now prove they work at least 80 hours a month.
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And that's a low bar, y'all, are pursuing education or are in a training program to remain eligible
00:32:17.580
for SNAP benefits beyond a maximum of three months.
00:32:23.160
That is saying, I'm not just going to keep on incentivizing you not to work.
00:32:30.940
This is like Ronald Reagan era focus was ensuring that everyone had access to the dignity of work.
00:32:37.420
Everyone was incentivized to the dignity of work because human beings need work.
00:32:45.780
Like, you know, women who work in the home, that is still work.
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But we are all called to do something productive in one way or another.
00:32:54.700
When we don't, our bodies and our minds and our souls atrophy.
00:32:59.320
It is very important for the health and the wealth of the community and of a nation for
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its able-bodied, able-minded people to work in some kind of productive way.
00:33:11.780
When we don't have that, we have all kinds of problems.
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All adults younger than 65 years old must prove that they are working to continue receiving
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Young adults, veterans, and homeless people must now meet these work requirements to
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receive more than three months of SNAP benefits.
00:33:31.200
The changes impact illegal alien eligibility for SNAP.
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Affecting illegal immigrants, including non-citizen U.S. nationals.
00:33:38.640
Those without legal status, state agencies must review household circumstances during an immigrant
00:33:45.680
certification process for benefits and take appropriate action before notifying them of
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So I think these are very common sense restrictions.
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And they are protective of the U.S. taxpayer, which is the right thing to do.
00:34:11.600
I'm so excited to tell you guys about Operation Christmas Child by Samaritan's Purse.
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We've been doing Operation Christmas Child boxes for years, literally since I was little.
00:34:22.180
I think it was something that we would actually do in school.
00:34:24.700
We would create these little shoe boxes, and we'd put different things like unsharpened
00:34:29.160
pencils and socks and hair ties or little cars for the boys, toothbrushes, all kinds of
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And these boxes are taken to kids all over the world who are in poor areas, who don't get
00:34:45.500
They might not even know what Christmas is about.
00:34:50.320
Samaritan's Purse takes your shoe box that you filled to all of these kids throughout the
00:35:00.580
They're so excited just to get a box of necessities and a couple toys.
00:35:05.580
And you get to be a part of this by making a shoe box with your family.
00:35:09.340
It's a great way to teach your kids about generosity, too.
00:35:22.780
And when you do that, you'll see the kinds of things that you can put in the box.
00:35:27.660
You check the age group you want to send it to, boy or girl.
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And they will ensure that your box brings joy in the gospel of Jesus Christ to kids who
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And then Samaritan's Purse will come and pick them up and fly them across the globe.
00:36:04.680
Because you've got a lot of people quoting Jesus saying, you know, I was hungry and you
00:36:10.680
gave me something to eat, but only if I qualified.
00:36:13.840
Like I was sick and you healed me, but only if I had the proper insurance.
00:36:18.920
And they're completely misinterpreting and misapplying Jesus's words.
00:36:22.880
First of all, Jesus is not speaking to the government.
00:36:28.060
And the establishment of the early church, when we read in Acts 2, I believe, that Christians
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were giving to one another and making sure that everyone had what they needed.
00:36:39.060
This was voluntary, empowered by the Holy Spirit.
00:36:43.960
The government wasn't coming in and saying, hey, you have to give your resources to this
00:36:51.740
Because in Christianity, we do this cheerfully.
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We do this empowered by the love of Christ and the Holy Spirit.
00:36:59.320
In socialism, in this kind of wealth redistribution world that we currently live in, the government
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That has nothing to do with Christianity whatsoever.
00:37:11.840
Now, we can argue about how much the government should give, what the safety net should look like.
00:37:17.780
But my opinion is that it should be a safety net.
00:37:25.040
It is a safety net that will catch you before you fall into destitution.
00:37:29.260
And you are supposed to get out of it eventually, if at all possible.
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2 Thessalonians 3, 6 through 10 reminds us of this.
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Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
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For you yourselves know how you ought to imitate us, because we were not idle when we were with you, nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it.
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But with toil and labor, we worked night and day that we might not be a burden to any of you.
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For even when we were with you, we would give you this command.
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If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat.
00:38:12.280
There are people who are truly unable to work who might really need help.
00:38:15.700
Again, I think it's the church's responsibility to care for those people, but I don't think it's wrong for the government to have a role to play in that.
00:38:29.560
But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and worse than an unbeliever.
00:38:39.360
If you are not willing to help those within your sphere who would otherwise have to rely on the government, if you can, you are worse than an unbeliever.
00:38:49.060
That's how important taking care of each other and generosity is, not only in your own biological family, but also in the family of faith.
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Whoever oppresses a poor man insults his maker, but he who is generous to the needy honors him.
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We shouldn't be stealing from the poor, but we also shouldn't incentivize the poor to be lazy.
00:39:18.380
Individuals in the church is much better at that, actually, than the government is.
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Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands,
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so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
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A lot of times we see work as this necessary evil in our culture today,
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that work is not something that you should have to do,
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that it's something that you, unfortunately, because of capitalism, are obligated to do,
00:39:53.780
But that is not the biblical prescription that we see.
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And actually, we see that work precedes the fall.
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Before sin came into the world, Adam was given a responsibility to work the ground and to keep it,
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And so I believe that there will be work in heaven.
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And the curse actually came in the form of the potential fruitlessness of labor,
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that you might toil, you might try to cultivate the land, but it only gives you thorns.
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Work is something that we innately need, that all of us need.
00:40:32.860
And there's a whole other conversation to be had about retirement culture in the West,
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this idea that we are all owed basically paradise and rest from our labor before we actually die.
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We are always called to a form of productivity.
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And I think any government that disincentivizes that is really evil.
00:40:57.340
Like in the name of trying to help someone that you think is the victim,
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you actually end up hurting them and you ignore the second order effects,
00:41:05.560
which is an economic term for like the other consequence of making the choice that you are making.
00:41:13.220
And so you're forgetting about the person on the other side of the moral equation,
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You should care for the poor, but don't outsource your compassion to the government.
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All right, so tomorrow is election day, this New York City mayoral race that you've probably been hearing a lot about.
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So you've got Cuomo, who used to be Governor Cuomo, Andrew Cuomo, I almost said Chris Cuomo.
00:43:19.360
And he is projected to win, which is extremely disturbing because he is an out-and-out socialist.
00:43:27.020
I really thought that the whole socialism thing was dying off.
00:43:33.440
I just thought, I felt like we hadn't heard about it in a long time.
00:43:36.300
Turning Point's motto used to be, socialism sucks.
00:43:41.200
And, you know, I have Justin Haskins on all the time.
00:43:44.040
He has an organization that is against socialism, fighting against socialism.
00:43:48.780
And I just felt like for a period of time, it's not really something that we talked about because,
00:43:52.700
obviously, it wasn't super popular nationally with someone like Bernie Sanders.
00:44:03.640
And why should those of us who don't live in New York City care about this?
00:44:06.640
So he is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
00:44:16.120
And he unexpectedly won the Democratic primary and is now leaving in the polls for this mayoral
00:44:23.320
He is running against, as I said, Andrew Cuomo, who's running as an independent and then Republican
00:44:30.740
He was born in Uganda in 1991 to Indian parents.
00:44:39.360
Both of his parents are professors and are very well-off, very successful after immigrating
00:44:50.120
He worked as a foreclosure prevention and housing counselor before entering into politics and
00:44:56.380
has composed and produced rap music, which is very important.
00:45:03.500
Mom Donnie supports and wants to strengthen New York City's sanctuary laws to limit ICE actions.
00:45:10.120
He has actually pledged to provide taxpayer-expensed legal counsel to all detained illegal aliens
00:45:20.240
We know that sanctuary city policies have led to the murder of American citizens like Blake
00:45:28.180
And yet that does not matter to the modern-day Democrat.
00:45:32.540
Mom Donnie has received endorsements from Democratic figures like Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth
00:45:41.740
Okay, so here are some of his disturbing policies.
00:45:48.400
When we look at crime, this is, for example, from the New York Times.
00:45:52.020
His core plan is to create a $1.1 billion civilian-led Department of Community Safety that would
00:45:58.040
consolidate existing programs into public safety, victim assistance, community repair,
00:46:03.540
deploying mental health teams instead of police to 911 crisis calls involving homelessness,
00:46:17.120
They think that wickedness can be negotiated with.
00:46:21.140
And there may be some cases where, I don't know, maybe the police aren't necessary, where
00:46:26.260
you actually do need some kind of therapist, but that's rare.
00:46:29.400
We are talking about, in many cases, inebriated or high, very violent and strong men.
00:46:35.280
And if you've got me, five-five lady social worker walking out there being like, oh, can
00:46:42.800
you please stop sexually assaulting this woman?
00:46:49.900
You need to be able to take someone down using non-lethal or, if necessary, lethal force.
00:46:58.720
And, yes, of course, you have to be able to interact with a human being and have compassion
00:47:05.200
And so, sure, if you want to say that we need to better train our police officers to make
00:47:09.580
sure that they are not only lethal, but they can deal with these situations, I think police
00:47:18.000
But this just means that you don't understand the problem.
00:47:21.020
You don't understand that people aren't necessarily committing crimes because there's just like a
00:47:25.640
misunderstanding or because they need to be talked to.
00:47:29.000
They actually need some kind of force to restrain them from doing evil.
00:47:34.100
So this is all expensed by the taxpayer, of course, and this is going to just increase
00:47:45.360
There have been pilot programs like this in the past in New York City, and they have collapsed
00:47:51.800
You're relying on non-police staff, and eventually they don't want to do it.
00:47:59.300
They don't even have the personality to deal with this kind of evil.
00:48:13.700
The Police Benevolent Association insists the only fix is hiring more police officers and
00:48:20.460
I think I would listen to police officers when it comes to that.
00:48:25.380
He has been for it in the past, that abolition of, or defunding, rather, of the police.
00:48:34.580
He is trying to distance himself from that now.
00:48:38.160
But during his first campaign back in 2019, 2020, Mamdani signed on to the Socialist of
00:48:45.020
America's Agenda for Decarceration, which called for eliminating cash bail.
00:48:50.240
So if you're awaiting your trial, you're just going to be released back into the streets,
00:48:54.500
decriminalizing drug possession and prostitution, removing mandatory minimum sentences,
00:49:04.660
So no new jails, basically no way to deal with the violent crime, except for the social worker
00:49:10.500
lady going out there and saying, please stop doing bad things.
00:49:14.080
The agenda expressed full support for police and prison abolitionists, so not support for
00:49:20.740
police, but the abolition of police, Tiffany Caban, and aimed to dismantle what it called
00:49:25.680
a violent carceral system in favor of healing and community programs.
00:49:29.560
Despite this history, Mamdani refuses to disavow or reject any of these things.
00:49:37.840
So this is, again, taxpayer-funded grocery store.
00:49:43.140
He would redirect $140 million in corporate subsidies given to private grocers.
00:49:50.800
Grocery profit margins are already below 2%, so private discount chains already keep prices
00:49:56.580
low using complex supply chains, economies of scale that government stores can't match.
00:50:01.740
There was something that was tried like this in Kansas City.
00:50:13.460
So this is just not a problem that needs to be solved with tax hikes.
00:50:18.080
SNAP already supports 1.79 million New Yorkers, 20% of the population.
00:50:23.000
It is, and they do this far more cost-effectively than government supermarkets would.
00:50:29.380
He also believes in freezing the rent on all rent-stabilized apartments in New York City
00:50:36.960
But a front raise would make stabilized units even harder to get, pushing more people into
00:50:41.620
market-rate apartments and driving up prices for everyone else.
00:50:45.780
Landlords would have less money to maintain or repair buildings, leading to worse living conditions.
00:50:51.000
It discourages new housing construction, encourages owners to convert rentals into condos or co-ops,
00:51:00.660
When demand stays the same and supply goes down, prices go up.
00:51:05.320
It's just an untenable position or proposal to have.
00:51:09.480
But all people hear is, prices are going to go down.
00:51:18.120
And you know who was one of the biggest and most public supporters of Zoran Mamdani,
00:51:22.980
who was, of course, wildly pro-choice, wildly pro-transing kids.
00:51:28.840
Government-funded puberty blockers in transition for even minors.
00:51:35.820
Miss Rachel, the person who taught your kid how to overcome his speech impediment.
00:51:40.640
And I talked about Miss Rachel and the dangers of Miss Rachel and how she allowed this gender-fluid person to be front and center in her videos a couple years ago
00:51:52.800
Y'all, the fact that she is out and out supporting Zoran Mamdani means that her politics are radical.
00:52:02.480
I think that she is not just a victim, but a very prominent purveyor of toxic empathy.
00:52:08.960
Empathy that is not in submission to reality or biblical truth at all.
00:52:17.540
I just don't think she needs to be supported in any way.
00:52:21.540
Not saying that everything that she's ever done is wrong or is not helpful in some way.
00:52:25.620
Um, but that's really radical to support the socialist.
00:52:29.480
And she's out there saying that, oh, he's going to make it more affordable to live and to work without even thinking at all about whether or not the proposals are effective.
00:52:40.400
People so often, especially when it comes to Democrats, judge policies by their stated intentions rather than the outcomes of the policies.
00:52:49.660
Of course, he is Muslim, so he is very pro-Islam.
00:52:58.240
He campaigned with a notorious, uh, Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
00:53:08.080
We'll put up the picture from the New York Post who has been linked to other terrorist activity in the United States, including urging jihad on the Big Apple.
00:53:19.060
His anti-Western sentiment in general, right here, we have him, um, putting, he took a picture of his middle finger flicking off Christopher Columbus, the statue of Christopher Columbus.
00:53:34.600
You know, the person, one of the people that we all have to thank for living in this incredible, uh, free country where we have the right to speak and worship as we see fit.
00:53:46.360
But if Momdani wanted to live in a place that was not discovered by Christopher Columbus, he could go back to Nigeria.
00:53:54.240
But for some reason, he has decided to stay here to run for office, whereas if he were a religious minority in somewhere like his home country, he wouldn't even be allowed to do that.
00:54:05.860
Just the entitlement, the disgusting lack of gratitude that he has towards the incredible liberty and the privilege and the wealth and the power that he has been afforded here.
00:54:17.740
He has defended this term, globalized the intifada, um, he refers to it on this ex post here where he, uh, promotes this idea of globalizing the intifada.
00:54:31.920
It refers to a horrific wave of terror attacks that killed thousands of Jews, globalizing it.
00:54:41.080
Um, he said that it just means protesting Israeli occupation of Gaza.
00:54:46.340
Well, first of all, Israeli occupation of Gaza is in itself a radically leftist way to see Israel existing where it has existed since ancient times.
00:54:59.280
Um, he has done interviews where he, you know, talks about globalizing the intifada.
00:55:08.660
We're literally talking about supporting terrorism.
00:55:13.160
And quickly, for the people who care about the language and who feel really concerned by that phrase, why not just condemn it?
00:55:21.520
My concern is to start to walk down the line of language and making clear what language I believe is permissible or impermissible takes me into a place similar to that of the president who is looking to do those very kinds of things.
00:55:38.220
Putting people in jail for writing, putting people in jail for protesting, putting them in jail for protesting, ultimately, it's not language that I use.
00:55:43.780
It's language I understand there are concerns about.
00:55:45.900
And what I will do is showcase my vision for the city through my words and my actions.
00:55:55.600
Okay, so he is about to be the mayor of New York City.
00:56:00.020
9-11 happened 24 years ago where over 2,000 Americans were murdered by Muslim terrorists.
00:56:10.040
And here is the real, here's the real consequence, the real victim of that, he says, 12.
00:56:25.820
Who stopped taking the subway after September 11th because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
00:56:31.080
Okay, so this was October 22nd and he is talking about how one of the saddest parts, I guess the part that was really tragic for him was that his aunt was scared to wear her hijab because it represented, obviously, to a lot of Americans, the ideology that motivated a terrorist attack and the mass slaughter of their fellow citizens.
00:56:53.860
So, like, it's kind of, like, logical for people to have felt that way.
00:56:57.800
But the truth is America has bent over backwards to be tolerant and welcoming and accepting of Muslims and Muslim immigrants in the 24 years since America was attacked by these Muslim terrorists.
00:57:14.140
Like, we have accepted more Muslim immigrants from more terrorist hotbeds than we did for the hundreds of years leading up to 2001.
00:57:25.060
It's only increased and Muslim power in the United States has only become stronger since this terrorist attack.
00:57:32.320
So, I don't even want to hear any of this, not to mention it's a lie.
00:57:37.320
People found out that it actually is not, it's actually not his aunt, that it's, like, a distant cousin or it's, like, the, like, aunt of his cousin or something like that.
00:57:49.440
And people were, like, oh, you don't understand black and brown people.
00:58:00.640
You think that there aren't, like, family friends that we've called aunt and uncle?
00:58:06.000
But if you're going to go out there and you're going to try to manipulate Americans into saying, well, you shouldn't, you shouldn't be scared of this.
00:58:14.420
And the real tragedy here is that my aunt was scared to wear her hijab days after a Muslim terrorist attack.
00:58:21.040
Then, like, you should probably tell the truth.
00:58:24.760
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Okay, so what should we think about all of this?
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This is in relation to our snap conversation in Zorah Montani.
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For he is God's servant for your good, but if you do wrong, be afraid.
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Here we're hearing about the government, reading about the government.
01:00:02.300
For he is a servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer.
01:00:14.720
But the government, as instituted by God, is supposed to reward good and punish evil,
01:00:21.640
So what happens when you have a government authority who defines good and evil in the
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A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who breathes out lies will not escape.
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We need to understand that there will be judgment.
01:00:43.640
What we see over and over again throughout scripture, by the way, is that God really hates
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And that should be convicting for all of us, whether it's a little white lie, or whether
01:00:54.360
it's an exaggeration, or whether it's like a slight distortion of the truth for our own
01:01:00.420
Like we all need to be really, really careful of that.
01:01:04.320
A lot of people believe that ends justify the means, not to God, not to God.
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Bread gained by deceit is sweet to a man, but afterward, his mouth will be full of gravel.
01:01:19.040
This is like the fleeting appeal and ultimate ruin of promises that are built on falsehood.
01:01:24.740
We hear these promises of free buses, childcare, and groceries that are funded by unsustainable
01:01:39.560
And in their greed, they will exploit you with false words.
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Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.
01:01:47.500
And while this is talking about false teachers and leaders that say that they are preaching
01:01:53.400
the gospel, this principle is true of leadership.
01:01:57.320
When leaders use deceptive promises to exploit others, that will lead to condemnation and to
01:02:08.320
It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
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Again, God takes empty promises and deceit on both the personal level and the political
01:02:23.820
And so it matters, Republican, Democrat, Independent, what politicians say, the truth of what they
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All of that really, really matters, and we need to take that seriously.
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It's so easy to say, well, okay, this person is better than this person.
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These policies will end up better than these policies.
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I'm not saying that you have to vote for a perfect person.
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But that doesn't mean that we shouldn't hold our elected officials accountable and make
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sure that they are following through on the promises that they offer us.
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And this is going to be terrible for New York City if Mom Donnie wins.
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There are going to be more victims of poverty, more victims of crime.
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It's going to be much more difficult to live there, much more difficult to thrive there.
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It used to be one of the richest countries in the world.
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There's no food for them to eat anymore because of socialism.
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It's not because of Western invasion or colonialism.
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It is literally because of the choice of implementing socialist policies, always in the name of helping
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the least of these, always in the name of elevating the poor.
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The same thing happened in Zimbabwe, which used to be seen as the breadbasket of Africa.
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Now it's one of the poorest countries in Africa because of Robert Mugabe, who came in with a racially
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Marxist message and an economically Marxist message and said in the name of liberation and the name
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of helping those who are native here and going against the white people and going against the
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commercial farmers and against their exploitation, he would say, we are going to make sure that
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He confiscated the land from the white commercial farmers, gave it to people who were native, caused all
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It's never been able to get out from under the iron rule and legacy of Mugabe.
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Same thing in Venezuela and so many other places.
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I mean, the 20th century tells us a painful and bloody history of what socialism does over and
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I mean, it's literally the definition of insanity.
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And so, I mean, Christians, if we love our neighbor, we can't support socialism.
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There's just no way to do it unless you want to outsource your love of neighbor to the government,
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in which case you aren't really loving your neighbor.
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I had another segment, but I don't think we have time for it.
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Maybe we'll talk about it at some point about this left-wing podcaster who has gone viral
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We may finally talk about the mark of the beast and digital ID, but I do want to talk
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about women in the church and women's roles in general and what the Bible actually says.
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Because remember, at the end of the day, he is who matters.