Ep 1326 ｜ 'The View' Warns Moms, NBA Condemns Christianity & the Pope Misuses Isaiah 1
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The View freaked out when a conservative dared to say that more people should be having children. Also, Jaden Ivey, a professional basketball player, said that Pride Month is celebratingrighteousness. Oh my goodness, we ve got to dive into the response here! Also, surprise surprise, surprise, I have a disagreement with the Pope. We ve got this and so much more on today s episode of Relatable.
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The view absolutely freaked out when a conservative dared to say that more people should be having
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children. Their response was absolutely absurd. I can't wait to react to it. Also, Jaden Ivey,
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a professional basketball player, said that Pride Month is celebrating unrighteousness. He was let
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go from the team. Oh my goodness, we've got to dive into the response here. Also, surprise,
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surprise, I have a disagreement with the Pope. We've got this and so much more on today's episode
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of Relatable. Before we get into it, I do want to remind you, if you're a Christian woman,
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join us at Share the Arrows. If you go to sharethearrows.com, you'll get the details.
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sharethearrows.com. All right, let's get into today's episode.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday and happy Trans Day of Visibility yesterday for
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everyone who celebrates. Certainly we here, the Relatable family, we celebrate Trans Day of
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visibility. We want them to be so, so visible because they're not visible enough. Trans women
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are women. Trans rights are human rights. And you know what? You should just swim faster and you
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should just get used to peeing next to a trans person. OK, that's my stance on it. I know that
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might be shocking to you, but I've evolved a lot. I've learned a lot. And I just wanted to join in
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with the Democrats and say, yay, transgenderism and yay, trans day of visibility. April fools
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everyone. I know that you were probably tricked by that, but I was just joking. There's no such
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thing as transgenderism. There's no such thing as non-binary. There's no such thing as a trans
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child. It's not possible to change your gender. It's XX or XY. And in the very first chapter of
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the first book of the Bible, God tells us what's up in Genesis 127 that he made us male and female.
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I couldn't go very long telling you that joke because I'm just afraid that someone tuned in
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for the first time and I could have led them astray. But I had to do a little bit of something
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for April Fool's Day. All right, let's get into some serious stuff that is not actually
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a joke. We have so much to get to today. As we were planning this episode, y'all,
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I was like, I don't think that it is going to be possible for us to fit in everything that
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we want to talk about, but we are going to try our darndest. We filmed a segment with Wes Huff
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about the resurrection, about the historicity of the resurrection, and we don't have time to fit
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it in today's episode. So we are going to be playing it this weekend. So make sure you tune
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in for that. It's a 20 minute segment and it is absolutely awesome and encouraging. So let's go
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ahead, full steam ahead. Let's get into the news of the day. First, we are going to talk about our
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good, good friends at The View saying things, as always, that are extremely insightful.
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Well, they are reacting to this week the words of Isabel Brown. Isabel Brown, she's got a show
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on Daily Wire. She is conservative, Gen Z, and she spoke at CPAC saying that, hey, we need to
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have more children, which, yes, 100%, she is absolutely right. But the women at The View
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to be suggesting that people should have children
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And for a two-person household, a married household,
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you need over $400,000 for childcare, over $400,000.
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So she's advocating for people to be born into poverty,
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people not being able to feed those children people not being able to educate those children
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and people not being able to house those children at the same time when this government is cutting
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all of the services that would allow people to have families and big families that is just so
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over the top inaccurate and absurd i know so many people most of the people in my life who have
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children who do not make over four hundred thousand dollars a year and they feed their children they
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love their children. They live in a home with their children. Their children thrive. Now,
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that might mean that they're not taking vacations every other month, or that might mean that there
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are some luxuries that they have to cut out. Maybe the mom stays home so that they don't have to pay
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tens of thousands of dollars in child care. No one said that having children comes without
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sacrifices and comes without some form of what people may call inconvenience. But the idea that
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you have to be making almost half a million dollars a year to be able to just survive with
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children is absurd. It's not true today. It has never been true in all of history. Obviously,
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there have been people and cultures still are today who are a lot poorer than we are here in
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America, that we're a lot poorer than even our poorest people here in America who were able to
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raise their children and feed their children. That's not to say that poverty is wonderful or
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that it doesn't bring a lot of challenges or that there isn't a place for the government to help
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those who really need it for a period of time while they get back on their feet or a mother
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who has been abandoned by her husband. And now she is raising this child alone. I'm not saying
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there is never any place for welfare whatsoever. And the Trump administration is not cutting all
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forms of welfare, but it is possible absolutely for most women and for most couples to have
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children and to raise children today. So this idea that the economic plight is just too hard
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to have kids in America, the richest country in the history of the world today is just crazy.
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And Whitney Cummings also has something to say about this. And oh, my gosh, ridiculous. Stop 14.
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I gave our girl, Isabella, a little Google. She has a baby. She has a one year old. Of course,
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she thinks everyone should have a lot of kids. She has a one year old that sleeps all day. I
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also was like, I'm going to have a bunch more kids. Wait till your kid is up and walking and
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you spend most of your day trying to get its shoes on. You're probably going to rethink how many kids
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you have. So many things, Whitney Cummings. So many things. First of all, one-year-olds,
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do they sleep all day? I must be doing motherhood wrong because my one-year-olds were awake all day
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and they took a nap for a couple hours in the afternoon, but they were awake. Are you thinking
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about a one-month-old. A one-year-old is a toddler. A one-year-old is awake all day. A one-year-old
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very often is walking around. So I know that you have a child, Whitney Cummings, but did you just
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forget what it was like in the first couple of years of their life? Having a one-year-old is
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like one of the most challenging times because they're so mobile, they're so energetic, and yet
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they can't just sit there and be entertained by a book for very long. And so that's crazy. Also,
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So I guarantee Isabel and all of the people saying, hey, you should have more kids, absolutely
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are enduring some of the hardships of motherhood, looking forward to adding more children to
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Am I allowed to say, and they're six, four, and two, am I allowed to say that people should
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I'm not saying that people should have an infinite number of kids.
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I'm not saying that there are never any exceptions to that rule or that there are never any
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reasons why people may not be able to have kids or may choose to have kids. But those are
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exceptions. I would say most married couples today should choose to have children. And I will get
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into more on that in just a second. But first, I want to dispel this myth that they are putting
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out there that motherhood is so hard. It's so economically hard. It's so just impossible for
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most women. And that is why they are sacrificially, very sadly choosing not to have kids. That's not
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the case. The child-free by choice movement emphasizes convenience and luxury as the reasons
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So the child-free by choice movement has taken off. I even saw a video the other day on Instagram
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of a woman saying we are in the majority women between ages, I don't know, 18 and 45 choosing
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not to have kids or not having kids, I think is like 55% or maybe 60%. And so now they're in the
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majority and she felt very triumphant over that as if women have been liberated from something
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harmful. Here is an example of someone on TikTok talking about how quiet and nice her life is
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because she doesn't have kids. Stop one. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the right
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thing by not having kids. And then there's a day like today where all I did this morning was woke
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up, had coffee with my husband, very chill, very quiet, very easy morning, went and got a massage,
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came back, took a shower, took a nap. It's 340. I've been in these pajamas all day. I'm on my
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couch. No other plans. Listen to how quiet my house is. That's such a superficial and selfish
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reason not to have kids. You know, if you do have kids, you're still going to have maybe 25 to 30
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years of your life where it's quiet, where you don't have little feet running around. You don't
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have a lot of noise. You don't have obligations. You're not taking your kid on a walk or going to
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soccer games or doing school pickup because there's only about 18, maybe a little bit more
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years of their life, which goes by really fast that you're doing all of those things, maybe even
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less because once they start driving, they're a lot more independent. There are really only just
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a few short years of your kids' lives where you are go, go, go, and it's loud and chaotic all of
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the time. And then there's so much payoff of that relationship and that joy that kids bring. This is
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so short-sighted. That sounds like a day that I would spend in college. And that was really cool
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when I was 19, but eventually it gets old just living for yourself. Here's thought three.
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So I'm child-free by choice. And everyone always says like, what's your purpose? If you don't have
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kids, what's your purpose? My purpose is getting my nails done, going shopping, treating myself.
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look at this new bag i just got from goyard stunning um this new sweatsuit i got from aloe
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and being sober traveling i don't know taking naps have you ever taken a nap it's like the
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funnest thing ever it's so nice i enjoy naps a lot so don't say i don't have purpose just because
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i don't have kids how dare you these people are like children i actually thought she was going
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to say something more profound there and i would have actually said you know what your purpose as
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a woman does extend beyond having kids, 100%, because you are made in God's image and you are
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part of, if you're a Christian, God's eternal plan of redemption. He saved your soul. Your
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happiness and fulfillment and responsibilities, whether you're married or not, have kids or not,
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starts right now. And so your purpose and fulfillment in life is not tied to having
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children. But then she said, my purpose is getting my nails done. Something that's here today and
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gone tomorrow that doesn't care about you, that won't last, that has no positive impact on anyone
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besides yourself. And let me just give you a newsflash too. I get my nails done every two
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weeks. Okay? I get my nails done every two weeks. I get a pedicure every four weeks. Okay?
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This is possible. It is completely possible when you have kids. You can also travel with your kids
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sometimes, rarely, but sometimes my husband and I travel without my kids. If we can get the help
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of the in-laws and support from my parents to help with our kids during that time, we don't do that
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very much, but it's totally possible. You can also take a nap. I took a great nap just the other day
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for a couple hours. I have three young kids. It is possible to do some of the things that you are
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talking about, be sober, enjoy life, and have children. But when you only live for yourself
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and your number one goal is temporary things, like getting your nails done or making your life
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as easy as possible, then anyone, not only kids, but your marriage, your job, everything
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But when you see yourself as more than just a consumer, more than just someone who is
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supposed to get as much pleasure as possible, more than just a hedonist, but someone who
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is actually supposed to contribute, who is supposed to work, our soul is dignified by
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some kind of work, paid or not, when you see yourself as much bigger, bigger, bigger,
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than just you, then that changes your perspective of your priorities.
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We can make a last-minute dinner reservation without a babysitter.
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We can have choking hazards on our coffee table.
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we can have an alligator pit in a living room just to be clear we do not have an alligator pit
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in the room but we could you're also not having sex on the counter you're not fooling me you're
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not fooling me lady and by the way some of these things totally possible with kids all of this
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comes across as a cope like if you're confident in your decision you feel like god has called you
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to something different, then live that out. I really don't see moms on TikTok talking about
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like, oh my gosh, it's so much better having children. I'm so much better because I'm a mom.
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I have so much more in my life. Yes, people talk about how hard motherhood is, how great motherhood
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is, you know, how much they love their kids. But this kind of superiority complex really comes
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across as insecurity. Be happy with your life if you want to be happy with your life, but
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trying to compare your life to mine by making me seem miserable, when we're not miserable,
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like we're also really fulfilled and really joyful and really happy. It just, I don't know.
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It reads not super confident in my own choices. Okay, last example of this, top five.
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And having kids is not all that it's packed up to be. I have none. I don't miss it. I'm not a
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mother i'm not a granny and when they want to call me granny in an interview article i say call me
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which anything but do not call me granny it's by choice that i'm not a granny and i never will be
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thank you very much kids are not all that they're cracked up to be by the way i'm not a mom how
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would you know how would you know you don't know if having kids isn't all it's cracked up to be
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you don't have them and you don't have grandkids. Look, all of it, all of this is true that it is
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more convenient not to have kids. Okay. Like you have to sacrifice, give up less if you don't have
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kids or if you don't get married. It's true that committing to someone in a covenantal marriage
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and having children that you love with your entire being and that you want to sacrifice for,
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that it's hard, that there are going to be days that you get less sleep. There are going to be
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many days where you don't get to do everything that you want to do. You are going to be less
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free. You're going to have less time to do what you want to do. But the purpose of life is not
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just to live for yourself. And here's where I just want to encourage you out there. For those of you
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who are married, who have decided, hey, I'm going to put off kids until some arbitrary date. I'm
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going to put off having kids so that we can travel the world. I'm going to put off having kids so I
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can pursue my career. I'm going to put off having kids for XYZ reason. And maybe you've never really
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thought about the why behind deferring having children, but those are not good whys. Those are
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not biblical whys because it actually speaks to a wrong view of kids in motherhood. You are still
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viewing kids as a burden, kids as an impediment to your real goal, which is doing what you want to do
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and doing what makes you feel good, making your name bigger, whatever it is, and not seeing kids
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as they are repeatedly and exclusively described in scripture, which is as a blessing, something
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that the Lord gives you as a gift, arrows in your quiver. You are not seeing life as God meant it
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to be lived, which is yes, joy and fun and all of those good things, but also sacrifice like the
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friction and the difficulty of life is part of what makes you a better person. It's part of what
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makes you more compassionate. It's part of what makes you a better contributor to the world around
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you. God puts you on this earth to glorify him and to make the world around you better. One of the
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biggest and best contributions that you Christian couple can give to the world around you and give
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to the future even long after you're gone is a strong, brave, godly, wise child that becomes a
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strong, brave, godly, wise, bold, evangelistic, hardworking adult. That is what the world needs
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more of. And if Christians, Christians are the ones who are echoing this worldly mentality of
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having kids is too hard, and I'm just going to put it off for these arbitrary worldly reasons,
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we're in a lot of trouble. It's a dark world. We need more lights. We need more Christians
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raising up more kids for the glory of God. As I said, there may be some health exceptions. There
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may be some exceptions to having your own biological children as a married couple,
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and I acknowledge that, but most of us don't live within those exceptions.
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And so if you can have children, Christian couple, have children and maybe have one more
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okay you know i couldn't let today pass without talking about the pope the pope was in the news
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over the weekend and he had a message it seemed to specifically president trump and the united
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states just considering the timing some of the recent comments that he's made about the iran war
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and he made this statement which proved very controversial that a lot of protestants myself
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included, took issue with. But I also saw a lot of conservative Catholics saying,
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that just isn't right. Here it is, thought six.
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So he says, Jesus, King of Peace, he rejects war. No one can use Jesus to justify war. He
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He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying, even
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though you make many prayers, I will not listen.
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Actually, we cited that passage in Isaiah on Monday when we talked about this subject,
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You'll hear a lot of people say, yes, God answers all prayers, but that's not actually
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And so the Pope is right about that, that there is a category of people whose prayers God
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doesn't listen to, and he doesn't actually answer.
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Go back to Monday's episode, and you can get a full response to the wrong theology of the idea
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that God answers all prayers. I disagree with the idea that God will categorically reject the
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prayers of those who wage war because of the Bible, because the Bible paints a clear and
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opposite picture of that. So let me just read you the response that I put on X. And so first,
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I quoted what Pope Leo said. And then I said, Christians should strive for peace. Yes,
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we don't revel in death and destruction. And a Christian could make a sound argument against
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the particulars of many wars throughout history, including the war with Iran today. A Christian
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could also agree that God shouldn't be used to justify unjust wars. But to say that God is
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against war per se is flat out false. All throughout the Old Testament, God calls for
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war in defense of his people. Exodus 15.3 declares the Lord is a man of war. The Lord is his name.
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David constantly prayed to the Lord while battling his enemies.
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He says his cries to the Lord reached his ears and God answered him.
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God didn't just answer David by hiding him away, but by giving him lethal strength.
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And then I go on to say, because I can always hear this response that I get from a lot of
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Catholics who will just kind of dismiss the Old Testament altogether.
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It's always like, well, we don't believe in the death penalty, or we don't believe in
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X, Y, Z, because that's in the Old Testament, as if the Old Testament isn't inherent, and
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as if the Old Testament isn't authoritative, and as if the Old Testament doesn't also contain
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I said, if you discount these examples because they're in the Old Testament, the examples
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of David, for example, you don't understand Scripture or God.
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Therefore, everything God has ever done, Jesus has fully agreed with and participated in,
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and he does not change. Hebrews 13, 8, Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Mind you also that Jesus himself promises to come back as a warrior to wage war against evildoers.
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There are categories of people whose prayers God does not answer, the self-righteous,
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those who pray with selfish motives. People who wage war are not automatically in one of those
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categories. I'm so glad our founders did not believe this way. I love this retelling of the
00:24:51.740
story of the pacifist quaker who allegedly heard washington praying in the woods at valley forge
00:24:57.700
this is what the quaker said he was at prayer to the god of the armies beseeching to interpose
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with his divine aid as it was his crisis and the cause as it was his crisis and the cause of the
00:25:08.540
country of humanity and of the world sometimes force is necessary to defeat evil and advance
00:25:14.600
good i say when it comes to these matters pope leo has repeatedly proven that he is not
00:25:21.660
wise, because he has said things in the spirit of this many times. We could go through all of
00:25:27.560
the examples in the Old Testament when God, the Alpha, the Omega, the Creator, the Triune God,
00:25:33.860
God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, he heard the prayers and answered the prayers of those who prayed to him.
00:25:40.980
Gideon, in the book of Judges, God repeatedly tells Gideon to go to war against the Midianites.
00:25:45.760
And the Lord turned to Gideon and said, go in this mind of yours and save Israel from the hand
00:25:51.000
of Midian. Do I not send you? And of course, Gideon asks him, how am I supposed to do this?
00:25:57.880
God confirms his command to Gideon over and over again, giving him signs, telling him, yes,
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this is what I'm asking you to do. Joshua, who, by the way, like Jesus is named after Joshua,
00:26:09.720
this man of war. After the death of Moses, God commissions Joshua to lead the Israelites to the
00:26:15.780
promised land. God tells Joshua, now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all the people
00:26:20.980
into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel. Every place that the sole of
00:26:25.660
your foot will tread upon, I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. And so he goes on
00:26:31.380
telling him how he is going to give these people into his hand. Now, if God was categorically
00:26:36.740
against all violence and all killing, he could have simply just taken these people away, wiped
00:26:43.160
them away somehow and never urged his people to wage war. Let me make clear right here, just in
00:26:49.940
case you haven't heard me make this clear many times before, I am not saying that any of these
00:26:53.880
passages are directives for America today. I'm not saying America is God's chosen people. I'm
00:26:59.320
not saying that any of these passages are justification for the war with Iran. I am using
00:27:03.600
these passages to point out that when it comes to the principle, the rule that the Pope is putting
00:27:08.720
forth that it's unbiblical. The rest of the book of Joshua, of course, chronicles the Israelites
00:27:14.340
conquering the promised land and dividing the territory up among the tribes. Also, I think
00:27:20.940
it's important to note, as I said in my expost, that Jesus returns as a warrior. He is leading
00:27:25.700
heavenly armies to defeat the beast and the false prophet. John writes that in the book of Revelation.
00:27:32.920
it. Of course, we have other references too. Psalm 144.1, blessed be the Lord, my rock,
00:27:38.440
who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. David, earlier in this chapter,
00:27:43.740
he actually says, look, I cried out to the Lord. I asked the Lord for help and he helped me.
00:27:48.820
How did God help him? By making him lethal, by making him strong, by helping him commit violence
00:27:55.600
to protect himself. Romans 13.4, okay? New Testament now. We read, for he is God's,
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the government is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid. For he does not
00:28:08.080
bear the sword in vain. Bear the sword. That's a symbol of execution. For he, the government,
00:28:13.520
is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. That's why it's so
00:28:19.240
important to have a government that defines good and evil in accordance with how God defines it.
00:28:23.720
I see a lot of people, Catholics in particular, they get wrong one of the Ten Commandments. They
00:28:29.500
say thou shalt not kill. That's it. That's obvious. Obviously all killing is wrong. Obviously
00:28:36.320
not all killing is wrong. Or you're saying God is violating his own Ten Commandments by directing
00:28:41.800
his people over and over again to wage war, to kill, and also commanding the death penalty for
00:28:48.460
many broken laws in the Old Testament. So not all killing is wrong. Not all killing is against the
00:28:55.200
Ten Commandments. That's not what the Ten Commandments say. The commandment says thou
00:28:58.680
shall not murder. And there's a difference between killing and murder. Of course, you would agree
00:29:03.220
that self-defense killing is not the same thing as murder. Murder is the intentional killing of
00:29:09.160
an innocent, a legally innocent person that is not committing violence against you. And so not all
00:29:15.160
acts of war are murder. Not all killing is murder. Abortion is murder. Lots of other kinds of killing
00:29:21.200
or murder. The death penalty is also not murder. You can be against some of those things for
00:29:26.700
whatever reason, war, the death penalty, but they're not murder. And they're certainly not
00:29:31.060
in principle, um, in violation of the word of God. And, you know, you got a lot of people being
00:29:37.580
like, oh, you think, you know, better than the Pope. You, you think, you know, better than the
00:29:42.180
vicar of Christ. Well, first of all, I don't believe that the Pope is the vicar of Christ.
00:29:45.040
You think that you believe more than the successor of Peter. I don't believe that he succeeded Peter.
00:29:49.380
Okay. That's first of all, but yeah, I believe that anyone with the Holy spirit in the Bible
00:29:54.120
has the ability to disagree with any leader of the faith, Protestant or Catholic.
00:30:00.080
So, of course, and I saw a lot of my Catholic friends, by the way, disagree with the Pope on
00:30:04.940
this, which is possible. I know that there are Catholics out there that are like, yeah, this is
00:30:09.480
not, you know, ex-cathedra. We can disagree with the Pope. And I'm like, hmm, you got 94 more of
00:30:15.220
those disagreements? You want to post them on a door somewhere? Huh? I'm like, I think you're
00:30:19.740
starting to understand like where Protestantism comes from. Like we are protesting. Martin Luther
00:30:27.300
was protesting against some of the teachings of the Pope at that time. I agree with you. It's
00:30:33.640
possible to disagree with the Pope and any kind of argument from authority fallacy that like,
00:30:38.240
well, you can't disagree with the Pope because you're not the Pope and he can't be wrong because
00:30:42.720
he's the Pope. It's not going to work. It's not going to work on a Protestant. It's also not
00:30:48.080
going to work on any thinking Christian who understands logic and values reason and believes
00:30:53.520
that the word of God is inerrant and infallible. Like we can all read it and we can be able to say
00:30:59.820
that pastor is wrong. That Pope is wrong. That priest is wrong because they're fallible and the
00:31:05.960
word of God is not. Again, you can have your arguments against war, against the war in Iran,
00:31:12.120
But to say categorically that God rejects the prayers of all those who wage war, it's just not true.
00:31:19.020
That passage in Isaiah about those who shed blood and their prayers won't be answered, it's not about war.
00:31:26.060
It's about Israel disobeying God, oppressing the weak, oppressing people that they shouldn't have been oppressing,
00:31:34.820
disobeying God and committing idolatry and all of those things.
00:31:37.360
It was not about just war, which, by the way, is a theory put forth by Augustine.
00:31:44.600
There's a lot more that I could say about the Pope.
00:31:49.340
It's interesting, his timing and why he chose to say what he did.
00:31:54.000
I really want to talk about this segment where the Pope recently said that, you know, we
00:31:58.380
need to have communion with people of other faiths.
00:32:02.460
That is the work of Christ that I completely disagree with.
00:32:04.880
But we've got so much to get to that I'm going to put that to the side, and I will talk about that in a coming episode.
00:32:12.940
This pope gives us lots of content to go through.
00:32:21.800
We've got to be intellectually tougher than that.
00:32:23.480
If a Catholic disagrees with something I say as a Protestant, I don't see that as a personal attack.
00:32:27.580
And if you do, then I would encourage you to strengthen your theological and apologetics
00:32:33.820
knowledge, because you should be able to see that as a battle of theology and ideas that
00:32:38.240
you are equipped to engage in, not as a personal attack that you need to shrink away from or
00:32:47.460
I want to talk about, I just want to make sure that we note and encourage you to pray
00:32:51.620
for the Christian persecution that is happening in Nigeria.
00:32:56.900
This is happening in Nigeria's what's called the Middle Belt, where these attacks are taking
00:33:03.540
It is where the country's Muslim-majority North and Christian-majority South meet.
00:33:07.660
It has been the site of religiously motivated bloodshed for years.
00:33:11.380
And yet these Christians, impoverished, knowing that their lives are on the line, knowing
00:33:16.660
that they could be kidnapped, their kids could be murdered, they show up week after week,
00:33:24.460
Wow, that kind of boldness, that kind of courage should convict us here in the United States.
00:33:29.240
Some of us won't even stand up for the gospel if it means that someone's going to unfollow us
00:33:34.020
or that we're going to feel awkward at the grocery store or with the person next to us
00:33:39.460
on the plane, and these people are willing to lay down their lives for the gospel and to celebrate.
00:33:47.480
President Trump redesignated Nigeria, a country of particular concern,
00:33:50.940
saying, according to Reuters, that Christians are being targeted and authorities were failing to
00:33:55.400
protect them. That's absolutely true. You'll hear, and I think I even heard Tucker Carlson say this,
00:34:01.540
that it's actually a myth that Christians are the ones being targeted in Nigeria, or maybe it was a
00:34:06.500
guest on his show who said this, that it's both Muslims and Christians. It's not. Christians and
00:34:11.480
those who die at the hands of the radical Muslims there far outnumber the Muslims, and Christians
00:34:17.240
are kidnapped far more because they know that the Christian community will pay more, will pay a
00:34:23.420
higher ransom for Christians who are being kidnapped than the Muslims will, because of
00:34:28.740
course that's what the body of Christ does. And Christianity is associated with America and the
00:34:34.060
West, and we know that Muslims in Africa and in the Middle East, of course, hate the West as much
00:34:40.560
as they hate Christ and hate Christianity. And it's interesting how, which people will talk
00:34:46.020
about this kind of persecution and which ones don't, which ones will only talk about persecution
00:34:51.480
if Israel is somehow involved and not talk about the much, much, much, much, much bigger problem
00:34:56.840
of the Muslim persecution and the systemic killing of Christians, both in Africa and the
00:35:02.100
Middle East. So I just want to encourage you in your prayers every day to cover in prayer those
00:35:08.200
who are being persecuted everywhere. And you don't have to know every single detail of this
00:35:11.960
persecution in order to pray but this is who jesus is talking about in matthew 25 when he says
00:35:17.320
whatever you do for the least of these my brothers you do unto me he's not talking about the least of
00:35:21.720
these of the world he's talking about persecuted christians he's talking about these nigerians who
00:35:26.420
are being slaughtered we're guaranteed persecution but we are so beyond blessed in america to not
00:35:32.200
have the same kind of persecution as our brothers and sisters in christ are having around are
00:35:37.060
enduring around the world. So pray for them, see how you can encourage them. We've had a couple
00:35:42.320
people on that are evangelizing in Gaza, that evangelize in Nigeria. Go back, listen to those
00:35:47.880
conversations. We'll link them in the episode. You can see how you can get involved, how you can help
00:35:52.620
and how you can pray, how we can be sharing the gospel here to even help those abroad. So I just
00:35:58.400
wanted to make sure that we note that. I always want to highlight that and make sure that we're
00:36:01.760
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Alley. On Palm Sunday, Trump shared a letter to Truth Social from Pastor Franklin Graham. This
00:38:34.400
letter came in October, on October 15th, but Trump is just sharing it for the first time.
00:38:42.080
And I just, I love it so much. The reason why he wrote this is because, as we'll play in a second,
00:38:47.700
Trump had just gone viral for a clip that had been going around in which he seems to kind of
00:38:54.020
be joking, but kind of not about not getting into heaven. He's talked about wanting to get into
00:38:58.640
heaven and thinking maybe he's done right. But then he doesn't think that anything is going to
00:39:03.540
get him into heaven. And maybe he's trolling. Maybe he's being sarcastic. But I love that
00:39:07.620
Franklin Graham, with access to the president, took this seriously. So he writes this in the
00:39:12.780
letter. He says, maybe you responded to this interview in jest, but it is an important issue
00:39:18.860
to know for certain that your soul is secure and will spend eternity in the presence of God.
00:39:23.640
The only one who can save us from hell is Jesus Christ. You can't save yourself. I can't save
00:39:28.880
myself. Good works, prominence, success, none of these things get us to heaven. The only way to
00:39:34.940
heaven is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. God requires us to turn from our sin and by faith,
00:39:40.820
believe in our heart that Jesus came to earth, died on the cross for our sins, was buried,
00:39:46.220
and God raised him to life on the third day. If you accept that by faith and invite him to come
00:39:51.120
into your heart, you are heaven bound. I promise you. So I love this and people can quibble
00:39:57.940
on some of the like Baptist theology there in the wording, invite Jesus into your heart. But
00:40:04.880
the message is true that there's nothing that you can do to save yourself. There's nothing that you
00:40:10.760
can do to be good enough to get to God. We talk about that a lot, that that's the distinction
00:40:15.020
of Christianity. Every other religion tells you how to get to God. And Christianity says,
00:40:19.220
you can't, can't, you can't, you're actually dead in your sin. It's not even that just you're a
00:40:23.720
little bit dirty and you could clean yourself off, bring yourself to me, and then maybe I'll
00:40:27.780
accept you. It's actually you're dead in your sin. You have to be revived. You have to be given life,
00:40:33.120
which is what Jesus does by grace through faith. It's just so incredible. And like I was thinking
00:40:38.500
this morning because I lost something this morning. It's somewhere in my house and I can't
00:40:43.980
find it. And it's just this nagging feeling of, I really want to find that thing. I really want
00:40:50.040
to find that item. And it's almost like this just underlying buzzing anxiety until you find it. And
00:40:56.360
it's the best feeling ever when you find something that you've been looking for, especially something
00:41:00.820
that's really valuable. And of course, we read in scripture, Jesus says that the angels rejoice
00:41:05.560
when a sinner turns to Christ, when a sinner turns to God, when a sinner repents,
00:41:11.080
and that the kingdom of God or like God seeking out the lost is like a shepherd going to find
00:41:17.860
the lost sheep or it's like finding a lost coin. And I just love that description of losing
00:41:23.320
something and finding it because we can all relate to the relief of that. But this is going
00:41:28.960
to be a feather in the cap of predestination. I'm just inserting some like theological thought here.
00:41:35.560
that you only feel the weight and the anxiety and the sadness about losing something that was
00:41:43.340
already yours, like something that you already know, that you already love, that you can already
00:41:48.620
see and envision, a thing that is already precious to you. That's really the only way to lose
00:41:54.660
something. And that's really the only reason that we feel relief and joy when it's found.
00:42:00.240
Like the shepherd didn't go out and hunt a new sheep. This sheep was a part of his flock and
00:42:05.180
he went out and rescued it and brought it back. And I think that's a perfect depiction of what
00:42:10.720
the gospel is and what actually happens when we are saved, that it is God who is seeking us and
00:42:16.860
finding us. The shepherd doesn't go to the sheep and say, hey, you want to come along? No, the sheep
00:42:22.540
has already proven that it's stupid, that it's fallen into a ditch and it can't get out. It
00:42:26.740
actually can do nothing to save itself. It has to be the shepherd picking up the sheep, putting the
00:42:31.020
over its shoulders, taking it back to the flock and making sure that it stays in line. And that,
00:42:38.180
of course, is the gospel for us, that Trump, there's nothing that you can do. There's nothing
00:42:43.240
that you can do. You can't reach up to God. He's reaching down to you by grace through faith. You
00:42:48.140
can be saved. Good for Franklin Graham. Like this is a good friend. It's a good friend. This is what
00:42:53.560
a good friend does. A lot of us are just concerned about being cool, about not offending someone,
00:42:59.020
especially someone like Trump. I mean, he's got a lot of access to the president. It would have
00:43:02.740
been easy for him to just kind of say, you know, he was just kidding. He was just trolling us. I
00:43:08.000
don't want to seem too serious. I don't want to take things too seriously and then look stupid.
00:43:12.700
But he was like, you know what? I'm going to take this opportunity to make sure he knows. I know for
00:43:16.640
a fact that Trump has been told the gospel multiple times. Phil Robertson, there are other people in
00:43:21.780
his life who are solid. And so that really just goes to show it's not just a matter of hearing.
00:43:26.380
not just a matter of head knowledge. It's got to go into your heart. It's got to be a matter of
00:43:30.780
faith that God gives you. And obviously this letter meant something to Trump because six
00:43:36.460
months later, he's posting it on Truth Social on Palm Sunday. And so Trump took it seriously.
00:43:42.020
I don't know how that has translated into the faith that he has in his heart, but he took it
00:43:48.080
seriously. It actually meant something to him. And I think that we've seen multiple times over
00:43:53.120
the years that he doesn't fully understand what gets you into heaven and what makes you right
00:44:01.080
with God. And so we just need to pray that God would continually show up and God would continually
00:44:07.920
reveal himself to Trump and that Trump would fully believe, just like we pray for all of our leaders.
00:44:14.620
All right. I want to get into another story of Christian boldness and someone going out on a
00:44:22.200
limb and doing the right thing, even when it was difficult. And that is Jaden Ivey. We weren't
00:44:28.720
going to talk about this today, but this was one of these stories that popped up last night. And I
00:44:32.780
was like, okay, I have to talk about this. This is so in line with the things that we discuss.
00:44:38.460
So I don't really follow any sports really, but when they intersect with our lane, I think it's
00:44:44.860
important to talk about. So on Monday, March 30th, 24 year old Chicago Bulls guard Jaden Ivey
00:44:49.800
released a video condemning the NBA for celebrating Pride Month. Here it is.
00:44:55.520
They proclaim Pride Month and the NBA. They proclaim it. They show it to the world.
00:45:05.920
They say, come join us for Pride, for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness.
00:45:14.940
true no lie spoken shouldn't surprise you that within hours the bulls waved ivy after he made
00:45:23.200
the statement saying his video was detrimental to the team okay can i call on the audience and
00:45:27.420
we can keep rolling what does nate do you follow basketball do you know what waved means what does
00:45:33.360
waved mean okay so not necessarily like fully dismissed but maybe yeah chief related bro what
00:45:44.520
does waved mean okay so it is like you're you're not on the bench you're gone okay so he's come
00:45:53.660
he's gone from the Chicago Bulls um for saying this and they said it was detrimental to the team
00:46:01.720
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He could get picked up by other teams, but he is totally off the Chicago Bulls.
00:47:32.060
So Jaden Ivey responded to them saying, this is detrimental to our team by saying, they're
00:47:37.180
lying, saying that my conduct is detrimental to the team.
00:47:48.860
This comes after the statement that he made, all of this, where he said, I am not the same
00:48:02.520
I'm alive in Christ no matter what the basketball setting is.
00:48:05.940
And he's right that people are calling him psycho for this, okay?
00:48:12.180
He ended up deleting his post after a ton of backlash.
00:48:15.400
But he said, Seth Davis says, Jaden Ivey is 24 years old, which is the time when many
00:48:21.720
If that is what is happening, I truly hope he gets the help he needs.
00:48:26.640
this is in response to that short clip that we played you of him saying you know they celebrate
00:48:33.160
pride they celebrate unrighteousness so this is first corinthians one the world sees the gospel
00:48:38.880
of christ the message of the bible as foolishness makes sense to us because we're spiritual because
00:48:45.520
we have the holy spirit it doesn't make sense to the world it literally looks like insanity
00:48:48.900
remember they called jesus insane too they called the early the early followers of christ insane
00:48:54.260
they called them drunkards um also the chicago uh sun times this is uh according to this is
00:49:03.220
according to the chicago sun times chicago bulls player josh giddy says obviously the whole thing
00:49:08.520
is kind of unfortunate in a way i hope he gets the help he needs whatever he's going through
00:49:14.180
or not going through i do really hope that he gets help it's not going to be with the bulls
00:49:20.000
anymore, but wherever it is, I hope he gets it. And then you had a number of Christian athletes
00:49:24.900
who took to social media, thankfully, in support of Ivy's courage. You had New England Patriots
00:49:31.460
running back, Travion Henderson. He responded by quoting Matthew 510, blessed are those who
00:49:37.220
are persecuted for righteousness's sake, which is exactly what's going on here, by the way.
00:49:41.340
He is being persecuted for the sake of righteousness. Also, Patriots coach Mike
00:49:46.400
of Rabel responded to Travion Henderson in support of Ivy. I love Travion. He cares deeply
00:49:51.380
about his faith. I want them to be able to express what they believe, but I also want to make sure
00:49:56.160
they're educated. We want to be exclusive. Boo! Boo! I don't even know you. Boo! That was a dumb
00:50:03.540
statement. So you want them to be genuine about their faith. You want them to be outspoken,
00:50:08.980
but not if we don't promote homosexuality and transgenderism. Sorry, not going to happen. It's
00:50:14.700
kind of like in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible. And by the way,
00:50:18.340
we actually love the people around us because we love the people who identify in this way.
00:50:23.080
We want to speak God's truth to them because God knows better. God made them. God loves them,
00:50:28.380
mind, body, and soul. And God wants what's best for them. And we don't believe that we're nicer
00:50:32.480
than God as all these people do. They believe that they're nicer and we're compassionate and
00:50:36.320
we're loving than God. I don't believe that. Like you think that we're arrogant for the beliefs
00:50:40.940
that we have, no, we are humble enough to realize that we don't know what's best. God knows what's
00:50:46.640
best. And so the most loving thing we can do is agree with God. That is exactly what Jaden Ivey
00:50:51.100
is doing. He's just agreeing with God. It's God and his authority that y'all take issue with, okay?
00:50:56.320
Not Jaden Ivey. You've got several other players from different leagues who are supporting them.
00:51:03.680
And so praise God for that. People are quoting different passages of the Bible when it comes to
00:51:09.320
persecution. I also just want to point out that there are several NFL players who have not only
00:51:16.500
said degenerate things. I mean, think about like LeBron James, for example, but who have done
00:51:22.700
degenerate things. I mean, been found guilty of domestic violence, who have paid for abortions
00:51:27.800
for their baby mamas, who are just degenerate, lawless people. But all of that is fine. But
00:51:35.740
basic Christian doctrine is beyond the pale. Of course, we got Emmanuel Akko weighing in.
00:51:42.260
Emmanuel, Emmanuel Akko, he manages to be like he in the name of trying to be nuanced and trying to
00:51:49.400
be different. He always just says the wrong thing when it comes to abortion, when it comes to
00:51:53.980
justice. And we've actually gotten into it before. And of course, he's throwing Jaden Ivey under the
00:51:59.380
bus. Some of the things that he said in his message were true. I didn't tell my team I wanted
00:52:03.280
to play this clip. It's just coming to mind, which is why I'm not playing it. So you can go
00:52:06.560
find it on your own, where he says, you know, your talent makes room for you. If you're super
00:52:11.440
talented, then you can kind of say what you want to say. Maybe that's true. I don't really know
00:52:14.820
that much about this player and his success. But then he goes on to the Christian aspect of it.
00:52:19.740
And, you know, he preaches about how, you know, he should have said it differently or he shouldn't
00:52:24.380
have said it at all. Boo. Boo. Again, you're not nicer than God. If God's word says it,
00:52:29.800
the nicest thing that we can do is agree with it and repeat it, speaking the truth in love,
00:52:34.520
gently, persuasively, yes, but without compromise, okay? Maybe you are just a little bit convicted
00:52:41.420
about the compromises that you've made to be friends with the world. I don't know. Just
00:52:46.580
something to consider. So share the arrows with Jaden Ivey. I don't even, you know, I don't have
00:52:51.640
any connection to him. A lot of times we're sharing the arrows. I have some kind of way to
00:52:55.720
communicate with the person. Probably not possible, but you can pray for him. You can send him a
00:53:00.200
message. He might check his Instagram messages and just say, great job praying for you, standing with
00:53:05.960
you. Because this is going to be difficult. This is no small thing to lose your job and to possibly
00:53:11.300
lose your job in the industry that you love forever by saying something that is blatantly true,
00:53:17.260
that is blatantly good, that is actually loving. Okay. So stand with, share the arrows with Jaden
00:53:25.100
ivy all right um let's talk about one more thing good news actually really really good news but
00:53:31.640
it's within the umbrella of lgbtq before we get to our last segment i just saw this before we started
00:53:38.620
filming um the supreme court strikes down colorado's ban on so-called conversion therapy okay
00:53:48.420
so the supreme court struck down a ban that colorado had on so-called conversion therapy so
00:53:54.180
On March 31st, SCOTUS struck down this decision.
00:53:59.200
And to explain what this law is, Colorado's 2019 law prohibited licensed mental health
00:54:05.680
providers from engaging in conversion therapy with minors to find his efforts to change
00:54:10.480
a person's sexual orientation or gender identity and made it subject to professional discipline.
00:54:16.900
The case centered on a Christian counselor who argued that the state unfairly restricted
00:54:20.600
what she could say to clients seeking faith-based guidance.
00:54:23.360
The court ruled 8-1. That's incredible. It was only Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson who was the
00:54:30.880
dissent there. But 8-1 decision that the law violates First Amendment free speech protections.
00:54:36.180
Of course, that is the state saying you can't say your sincerely held beliefs or we will punish you.
00:54:41.320
They did Colorado. So crazy. They did the same thing to the masterpiece cake baker, Jack Phillips,
00:54:50.600
that we've talked about a lot before and we shared the arrows with him at the time, but they said,
00:54:55.380
no, you have to bake the cake. You have to bake the cake celebrating transgenderism or you have
00:55:00.000
to bake the cake celebrating gay marriage. And he said, no, that goes against my faith. I mean,
00:55:04.520
Colorado, talk about fascism, talk about a totalitarian regime, talk about having kings.
00:55:12.160
These Democrat states are so tyrannical. It's insane. The tyranny that the liberals are talking
00:55:19.700
about when it comes to Republicans or Republicans being like, yeah, I think, you know, you shouldn't
00:55:24.780
murder your baby. Maybe. The tyranny by progressives is you will say the pronouns, you will bake the
00:55:32.220
cake, you will not say your sincerely held beliefs, you will not acknowledge biological reality to a
00:55:38.860
child who is confused about their gender. Okay, that is dystopian trash. Okay, that is actually
00:55:46.560
tyrannical. So all the accusations of tyranny from the left, it's just projection, okay? It is
00:55:52.560
projection because they are guilty of far worse as a whole. Justice Neil Gorsuch in this decision
00:55:58.880
writes for the majority that the law censors speech based on viewpoint. The First Amendment,
00:56:03.540
he wrote, stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this
00:56:08.300
country. Praise God. In a solo dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote states should be free
00:56:13.560
to regulate health care, even if that means incidental restrictions on speech. She said
00:56:19.700
the decision opens a dangerous can of worms that threatens to impair a state's ability to regulate
00:56:24.120
the provision of medical care in any respects. Typical progressives just says a bunch of word
00:56:28.000
salad that doesn't actually have any constitutional substance to it. But what this means is that
00:56:32.920
Christian counselors, Christian mental health professionals are allowed to say what is true,
00:56:39.300
not only say what they believe biblically, which they should have a right to do,
00:56:42.460
but also say what is true biologically. They were being punished by acknowledging and affirming
00:56:48.080
biological reality. And people, including minors, should be free to have access to biblical
00:56:54.620
counselors, counselors who will tell them the truth. Like it's difficult for Colorado and
00:56:59.780
progressives to understand, but not everyone who is attracted to the same sex, not everyone who is
00:57:04.540
confused about their gender wants to feel that way. Some of them need help. Some of them want
00:57:10.140
someone who is like-minded to talk to to help them through what is sin, what the Christian faith
00:57:15.180
calls sin. What is actual quote-unquote conversion therapy is the psychiatrist who tells the young
00:57:22.240
autistic schizophrenic woman who is coming from an abusive household that, yeah, those feelings
00:57:29.320
of distress that you feel about your body, it's because you're the opposite gender. That is
00:57:34.880
conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is when you tell a young boy, yeah, sure, you're actually
00:57:39.740
you, girl, let's get you on those hormones. I'll sign the waiver for you. I'll sign the form
00:57:46.260
telling the endocrinologist and telling the surgeon that you're good to go. That is actually
00:57:50.760
harmful, real conversion therapy that absolutely should be banned because it's a lie. Like there
00:57:56.920
are restrictions on what mental health providers can do, but there should never be a restriction
00:58:02.500
on saying what is true, right? But of course, again, this is the same kind of thing that we
00:58:09.940
talked about in the Jaden Ivey story. When you exchange evil for good, when wisdom looks like
00:58:16.140
foolishness, it's really like a heart issue. It's a refusal to submit to God's authority issue,
00:58:21.620
as every one of these problems really comes down to. While Democrats are realizing that they're a
00:58:29.240
bit radical to most of the country. I mean, even though the official Democrats account
00:58:33.780
just posted, as we said in the beginning, you know, yay, Trans Visibility Day. And so they're
00:58:39.540
still running on this idea that men should be in little girls' restrooms and, you know, play on
00:58:44.720
girls' soccer teams and all of that. But they've realized they've got to appeal to Christians.
00:58:48.960
They've got to appeal to the suburban woman. They've got to appeal to white people in this
00:58:54.020
country. As much as they hate white evangelicals, they see, okay, this is a huge voting block.
00:58:59.640
Many of them don't vote. They're ripe for the taking. Some of them don't like Trump. And so
00:59:04.460
how are we going to win them? And they have come up with a strategy and it actually might work.
00:59:10.980
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You know, I saw something the other day that I never thought about before. It was just like a
01:01:02.500
funny video on Instagram. And it was like, how do you think Trump feels knowing that he has
01:01:08.780
never had to run against a man or something like that it was funnier how it was phrased but it is
01:01:15.140
funny that the two people that trump has ever run against uh for the for the presidency have been
01:01:22.080
women and why did they think going against someone who is so macho like president trump who a lot of
01:01:28.800
people really like why it would be successful to run a mom like hillary clinton against him or
01:01:34.420
someone who is maniacal like Kamala Harris against him it's just not it's not almost like
01:01:38.460
not even a fair race honestly so now apparently this is according to Axios Democrats are going
01:01:45.080
to run a straight white Christian male candidate in 2028 uh Michelle Obama has added insight to
01:01:53.260
this saying they're not ready for us girls not 12. That's why I'm like don't even look at me
01:01:58.720
about running because you all are lying. You're not ready for a woman. You are not. So don't
01:02:04.860
waste my time. Okay. So I asked my team, let's put in who we think is going to be the candidate.
01:02:13.500
So white, straight, male, Christian, which they've done with the VP candidate. Um, what,
01:02:21.060
I don't even remember his name. What is the name of the guy who ran with Kamala Harris? Tim Walls,
01:02:26.640
right? Tim Walls. Now, white, male, Christian, straight. At least two of those are questionable.
01:02:35.760
And I will let you guess which ones they are. Can we put up, let's put up the tweet by the
01:02:41.380
Republicans the other day when Tim Walls tweeted, no kings. I'm not even going to say anything about
01:02:47.640
this. I'm just going to let y'all watch it if you're on YouTube. Okay, moving on. Okay, here
01:02:53.220
is the tally. Um, we've got three votes on team relatable for Gavin Newsom for the straight white
01:02:59.540
male Christian. I'm trying to remember all of the descriptors that are going to run. Remember
01:03:05.840
Gavin Newsom fancies himself a Catholic. Okay. He fancies himself a Catholic, but back in the day,
01:03:12.440
he was arguing with John, John MacArthur on CNN about why gay marriage is great. Okay. So he's
01:03:18.380
kind of been a lost cause for a long time. We've got two votes for James Tallarico. Again, two of
01:03:24.280
these descriptions, very questionable about these people, okay? I'll just let you read between the
01:03:29.740
lines. We've got one for Pete Buttigieg. If you know, you know. If you know, you know. Now, some
01:03:37.400
people are saying, I know, I hear you out there, Pete Buttigieg is gay. And so he doesn't qualify
01:03:43.700
is straight. There's a conspiracy out there right along with the moon landing and dinosaurs not
01:03:49.860
being real that Pete Buttigieg is actually straight, that he is pretending to be gay for
01:03:54.380
identity politics. I didn't say that. And whoever said that and whoever voted for Pete Buttigieg,
01:03:59.320
that is very offensive. Very offensive. I would never. Okay. And then we have, this was my serious
01:04:06.180
one. And this is Andy Beshear. I think Andy Beshear is a contender because he's Southern,
01:04:11.840
white male Democrat. He was just on The View talking about his so-called faith, which he
01:04:17.100
believes that his faith encourages him to be pro-trans kids. We've got honorable mention.
01:04:23.200
We've got Richard Levine, Rachel Levine, whatever. It suits your fancy there. Also,
01:04:33.180
a possibility, a possibility. This person was in charge of our health during COVID. Exciting times,
01:04:40.440
exciting times all right those are our predictions can you put your predictions please in the
01:04:46.700
comments or you can message me is there some dark horse that we don't even know yet who they are
01:04:54.240
grooming to take the place I'm telling you for real like it's not going to be James Tallarico
01:04:58.560
I'm not sure to be rude but he's too fruity like he's he doesn't count like I think someone like
01:05:03.880
Beto was maybe like a better more masculine choice but James Tallarico is also just too
01:05:10.360
kooky with his beliefs. Gavin Newsom, he's got a villain aura that's probably not going to happen.
01:05:15.840
Pete Buttigieg, I actually think he's manlier than James Tallarico, so maybe that'll work.
01:05:21.200
I think it's probably going to be someone like Andy Beshear and honestly, probably smart.
01:05:26.300
Republicans do this really dumb thing sometimes where they're like, oh, I know how we're going
01:05:29.880
to win over the moderates. We're going to have like a non-binary astronaut, immigrant, I don't
01:05:39.320
know. And we're going to try to run them and we're going to be able to get some victim points and get
01:05:44.080
some moderates. And then the Democrats are like, I'm going to run this straight white Christian
01:05:48.860
guy. And of course the Democrat ends up winning. Come on guys, just get someone normal. Just get
01:05:55.320
someone normal. And Democrats have figured that out and Republicans should as well. All right.
01:06:03.100
We got through all of it and I wanted to do this in under an hour, but it was just impossible,
01:06:08.780
We'll be back here on Friday with an awesome interview