Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey

00:00:00.000 If Satan is the prince of the power of the air right now, if he is now at work in the sons and

00:00:06.340 the daughters of disobedience, among whom we all once walked, okay, and we're children of wrath,

00:00:12.680 is this just what it looks like to be a child of wrath? There's maybe a spectrum of that,

00:00:18.080 doesn't always look like this, or is this true demonic possession?

00:00:30.000 Demon possession and the glorification of blood and gore and pain, sickness, darkness, sadness,

00:00:38.900 that's not necessarily new, but it does seem to be more and more out front. And if we're not

00:00:45.240 careful, we can get really desensitized to this and we can forget that spiritual warfare is

00:00:50.380 something that is waging every single day. And it's not every day that we have an example of

00:00:56.840 that in our faces that is circulating on social media that gives us the opportunity as Christians,

00:01:02.520 as people who understand what is really going on beneath the surface, behind the headlines,

00:01:08.640 and that is that war between the prince of the power of the air and Jesus. We know the victory.

00:01:16.280 We know the outcome of all of this, yet we also have to understand how this is still unfolding

00:01:22.780 today and offer people not only clarity and courage in the midst of this very dark reality,

00:01:29.400 but also we can offer them hope. We can offer them a picture of what the future actually looks

00:01:35.540 like. So as we talk about Perez Hilton, as we talk about Ariana Grande, that is what we are

00:01:41.800 going to get into today. And then what does the Bible say about what demonic possession actually

00:01:46.300 looks like? It's also a term that is thrown around a lot that people say, oh, that's demonic or that's

00:01:52.600 satanic, or that's dark, that's evil. But what does that actually look like in scripture? As

00:01:58.480 always, the Bible is going to be our guide in all of that. All right. Before we get into that,

00:02:04.620 let me remind you of the best news ever. And keep this in mind as we are talking about every single

00:02:09.700 thing that we're talking about today, that God's eternal plan of redemption is going off without a

00:02:14.000 hitch. There's nothing that goes on that's too disturbing or too dark for the Lord to overcome.

00:02:19.880 Like there is nothing that happens that could inhibit his plan.

00:02:23.040 There's nothing that goes on that he's like, I didn't see that coming.

00:02:26.020 Or wow, that trend is way darker than I could have ever imagined.

00:02:30.080 How am I going to pull people out of the pit?

00:02:32.420 Oh, this, this nation is too far gone for me to do my work, for me to seek and save

00:02:37.300 the lost.

00:02:37.740 That's not how it works because God is all powerful.

00:02:41.840 He is all good.

00:02:43.020 Job 42, two reminds us that nothing can thwart his will, no power, no government.

00:02:49.700 no politician, no celebrity, no trend, no billionaire, nothing can thwart God's will.

00:02:56.360 He is going to rescue all of his sheep. The sheep know his voice and are going to follow him. And we

00:03:02.880 can trust that beyond the headlines, beyond what we talk about on Relatable, that God is doing his

00:03:08.260 work faithfully through the mostly unseen and unsung faithfulness of believers. And so no matter

00:03:14.740 what is going on in your life, no matter what is going on in the world, we can trust that,

00:03:20.140 that he is moving forward completely unhindered and that his day of victory, of total victory,

00:03:26.740 where we are rescued once and for all, and we live in perfect peace with him forever and ever,

00:03:31.920 it's coming. It is. God's not just standing back and saying, wow, I wish I could do something

00:03:37.060 about this. Psalm 37 reminds us that like his wrath is kindling. He's got an answer for,

00:03:43.020 he's got a response to. He's got vengeance for his people. He's got a response to those who have

00:03:49.260 been waging evil forever. That's why Psalm 37 opens with, don't worry about those who do evil.

00:03:56.260 Don't fret over those who are doing the bad things. All of those evil people that you see,

00:04:02.220 and they seem to be succeeding, don't worry about them. Don't waste your time fretting over them

00:04:06.960 because God's going to take care of it. Psalm 37, Psalm 27, Psalm 25, Psalm 2. Those are really my

00:04:15.040 go-to encouragement passages. So maybe you might need to pause this episode in some parts and go

00:04:20.320 and read those passages. Maybe after this, you need to look at some of those chapters that I

00:04:25.380 just read to you. Ephesians 6 would be another one that is extremely pertinent because we're

00:04:30.100 going to talk about some dark stuff today. And we have to from a biblical perspective,

00:04:34.060 because these are real people made in the image of God who are affected, um, by, by all of this.

00:04:39.480 So let's talk about this story that was circulating last week of Perez Hilton. He had a TikTok live

00:04:45.400 that went viral because of the bloody mess that he was creating on his own body. Okay. So that's

00:04:52.080 what Perez Hilton looks like. We are not going to play the video. We are not going to put screenshots

00:04:55.660 up of the video. I think the Lord that I have not come across that on my timeline. I am purposely

00:05:01.400 trying to avoid that. I didn't search for it. The descriptions that I saw of this TikTok live

00:05:07.280 were extremely just disturbing, just even reading the words of what was going on. But I will not be

00:05:13.980 subjecting you to those images. He seemed to have a mental health crisis on TikTok live where he was

00:05:20.700 literally flaying his body, was naked, and then authorities came and took him away. And a lot of

00:05:28.800 people are wondering, okay, was he possessed by a demon? Does this have to do with his, um,

00:05:35.720 spiritual journey that he apparently has been on a few months ago? He professed to, um, become a

00:05:42.420 Christian after a health scare that landed him in the hospital. But the, the truth is, is that we

00:05:49.480 don't, um, we don't really know until we dig into this, because there are a few parts of his story

00:05:54.420 that I think are pertinent to answering the question, was he demon possessed during this?

00:05:58.660 So let's back up a little bit. If you don't know who Perez Hilton is, honestly, I wasn't really

00:06:03.300 familiar with him either. That's his, just his stage name. He's been a celebrity blogger for

00:06:08.940 a really long time. He got famous in the mid two thousands. He had a blog covering celebrity

00:06:13.800 gossip, entertainment news. Um, he really has said some of the most vile things and spread some of

00:06:22.260 the most vile rumors about people. He doesn't have a great reputation, but sometimes he said

00:06:27.680 had some juicy gossip over the years that people, uh, have been interested in. So he's really made

00:06:33.280 a name for himself. Um, and so that's why people were also super interested when he became a

00:06:39.580 Christian a couple months ago or said he became a Christian a couple months ago. Not only has he

00:06:44.360 built his empire and his wealth off of gossip and in many cases, malicious slander of people, 0.98

00:06:50.700 but he's also openly gay. Um, he procured three children and has lived this very flamboyant 0.99

00:06:57.760 secular life for a long time. I got a lot of people when he put out his video saying, yeah, 0.61

00:07:03.060 I became a Christian a couple of months ago being like, Oh my goodness, you need to cover this. You

00:07:07.160 need to have Perez Hilton on, you need to play this video. And I just said, no, because I am

00:07:13.740 always going to be a little bit wary of celebrating the testimony of new converts. Not that I can't be

00:07:21.780 excited, just like I was excited about Kanye West and what he was doing. But I think a lot of that

00:07:28.380 sanctification that is done post-conversion needs to be done privately. And it's just kind of like

00:07:33.960 a wait and see approach that I have. I felt the same way about Knees of Powers. He was probably

00:07:38.720 the most requested guest that I got. And there was just some piece, there was just some discernment

00:07:45.120 that now I see as the Holy spirit that was inside me. That was like, this person's not ready for

00:07:50.020 that. You don't need to contribute to this person gaining a platform from his apparent testimony,

00:07:54.400 which it doesn't seem was actually true. And that's always how I kind of felt about Perez

00:07:59.480 Hilton. Like, let's just wait and see. We need to see the fruit of repentance. We need to see

00:08:03.220 the fruit of the Holy spirit there. And then that becomes an interesting testimony. So people have

00:08:09.800 been watching him lately as he's been talking about his faith. He went on this broadcast on

00:08:14.500 TikTok for 15 to 20 minutes. And then after he was just committing this awful violence against

00:08:19.920 himself, saying very erratic things, um, nine one one in his area in Miami received multiple calls

00:08:26.920 reporting a possible suicide attempt, um, that came to his residence about 11 PM just to show

00:08:33.060 what kind of mindset he was in. Hilton said on his broadcast, I hope the cops shoot me to death. 0.99

00:08:37.660 I'm going to tell them I'm going to hurt them. Emergency responders transported Hilton to a 0.99

00:08:43.160 local hospital. He was hospitalized forcibly. And then in the days that have followed, Hilton's

00:08:50.560 family released updates saying that he was receiving medical care, asking for privacy,

00:08:55.200 that he was able to communicate. The first people I thought about in this was his children. I knew

00:09:02.420 that he had children, but they're teenagers. And then they also have a young son, um, who is eight

00:09:09.260 years old and, you know, people are reporting they're safe. They're fine. Okay. They might

00:09:14.360 be physically safe in this moment, but if that is your home, like if that is your father, I don't

00:09:20.380 know if he's the biological father or not, but just imagine like, if that is what he is broadcasting

00:09:26.620 publicly, what kind of instability and just disturbing darkness has infiltrated that home

00:09:34.680 and these little kids' lives for so long. And so just pray for them. Pray. I'm not going to

00:09:40.940 list all their names on this podcast, but you should pray for them. Pray for their safety.

00:09:45.420 Pray that they would know Jesus. Pray that this would become a part of their testimony. Pray that

00:09:50.360 God would fill their lives with godly people who know him, who preach the gospel to them,

00:09:55.920 who bring them to church. And so they can have that foundation of Christ and they can know that

00:10:00.860 they do have a father who will never betray them, who is trustworthy, who is there for them.

00:10:06.740 That's really who my heart goes out to in a big way right now. So let's answer this question or

00:10:13.420 try to explore the question at least of whether or not this particular moment is an example of

00:10:20.300 demonic possession. And how should, how should we think about that as Christians? And also how do

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00:13:13.500 so back in april perez hilton said that he had begun reading the bible from start to finish he

00:13:24.140 had a near-death experience he was in the hospital for 21 days he had sepsis all different kinds of

00:13:30.080 conditions. We don't know exactly, um, what led to that, but it seemed also like he had some

00:13:35.940 instability during that time. Now, like I said, I'm not someone who's followed Perez Hilton. So

00:13:40.520 maybe that's just how he talks, but certainly in those first videos, after his hospitalization,

00:13:44.840 I was like, this is not someone who seems well excited about this journey. This is amazing. He

00:13:51.020 has lived a life of darkness for a long time. We want him to be free and absolutely anyone can be

00:13:56.360 free in Christ. Whether they are mentally unstable or not, no matter what their background is, no

00:14:00.800 matter the sins that anyone has committed, they can be free in Christ. That's the gospel. That's

00:14:05.500 grace. And so we should be excited about that even while saying, okay, let's like kind of wait

00:14:10.700 and see how this shakes out. So here is where his journey kind of started, at least publicly of him

00:14:17.080 saying, wow, God has forgiven me. So one God presented himself to me in the hospital and then

00:14:25.740 healed me did something that I could only describe as a miracle. I had been calling out to God for

00:14:32.080 years, opening my heart and inviting him. And now I no longer need to have faith. I don't need to

00:14:40.180 hope to believe. I know that God is real and that God loves me.

00:14:48.720 Okay. So obviously there are some things there that we wouldn't agree with the wording of,

00:14:53.660 like you don't have to have faith. You don't have to have hope. I think he was trying to say he

00:14:57.860 doesn't have to be unsure anymore. Of course we do believe in faith. We do believe in hope. You

00:15:02.880 are saved by faith. You are saved by grace through faith and hope is the assurance or we have faith

00:15:09.280 is the assurance of things hoped for. So we do have faith. We do have hope as Christians, but

00:15:14.540 you can kind of see what he was trying to communicate all the way back in April. He had

00:15:19.500 claimed at different times, God had forgiven him. And so maybe there was some understanding of guilt

00:15:24.660 there. He said he grew up Catholic. You know, he went through all of the different steps of

00:15:29.340 Catholicism. He went to Jesuit school. He was never a believer, he said, until now. Now, he also,

00:15:37.720 during this time, because he is publicizing this journey, and of course, when you're publicizing

00:15:43.700 something like this, rather than keeping it kind of sacred and private for a while, and I'm not

00:15:49.060 just talking about going and sharing your testimony. That's one thing, but really kind of

00:15:53.080 working things out publicly and externally, you're going to get a lot of feedback. You're going to get

00:15:58.460 a lot of people probably saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, but what about the LGBTQ community and all of that?

00:16:05.160 And he started sharing some observations that he had about homosexuality in the Bible. And here's

00:16:11.240 kind of the conclusion that he came to a couple months ago, Sot3. After God saved me in many ways,

00:16:20.300 I'm still gay, very gay, proudly gay. And I know that God loves me. And I know that God loves me

00:16:31.500 as a father and God loves my children. So you can keep asking the same questions. I know what the

00:16:39.100 Bible says. I've said it repeatedly. I don't believe in everything that the Bible says.

00:16:45.360 I believe in what I know. Okay. So obviously, again, as Christians, we know that it's not

00:16:52.720 enough to know that he goes on to say, I believe in what I know. I know God is real. Okay. Satan

00:16:58.780 knows that God is real. The demons know that God is real. They know that Jesus is God. They know

00:17:03.660 Jesus's authority, the simple knowledge of knowing that God is real, that he generally saves, that he

00:17:08.820 generally loves is not the faith that leads to salvation. Now, again, we want to be gentle and

00:17:15.320 gracious with people who have just claimed to become Christians because a lot of us started

00:17:20.380 out with beliefs that are, we look back down and we're like, oh my gosh, that was a complete

00:17:24.280 misunderstanding of the gospel or of the Bible, even though I was really, uh, I was really trying,

00:17:29.340 but obviously he doesn't really understand based on what he's saying of sin and repentance and

00:17:34.420 the Bible's authority and what salvation actually looks like. He's made multiple videos over the

00:17:42.820 past few months. God told me to do this. God told me to move here. Five weeks ago, he posted a video

00:17:49.820 stating he had fallen off the wagon confessing he hadn't read his Bible or gone to church in a week

00:17:54.180 saying he'd been in a bit of a spiral. So we already see indications in some of his videos

00:17:59.860 of a bit of a mental health spiral.

00:18:02.060 He also said that he had been struggling financially.

00:18:05.020 He posted a video on Instagram a few weeks ago

00:18:08.420 selling Christian-themed merch,

00:18:12.180 he said, to cover his hospital bills.

00:18:14.580 And so we'll just look at some of those T-shirts.

00:18:17.300 You've got a depiction of what's supposed to be Jesus.

00:18:21.080 You've got a depiction of what's supposed to be

00:18:22.920 the Virgin Mary.

00:18:24.440 And this aesthetic is very popular right now.

00:18:26.860 it's more of like a Catholic iconography. Um, yeah, we've got a mug on their chair mugs and

00:18:34.440 he's just trying to apparently make some money in order to cover his hospital bills. And so

00:18:40.920 he very quickly turned his professed Christianity into a brand, into something that he can monetize

00:18:49.200 into kind of his platform as an influencer, which to me, like some doing that right away,

00:18:55.440 even while not being able to fully articulate the gospel, even while really struggling,

00:19:00.720 that in itself is a red flag because it's not substantive from what we see.

00:19:06.620 It seems to be extremely superficial and already there is like the money changing of,

00:19:12.400 look at this very superficial depiction of Jesus, give me money so I can accomplish X, Y, Z.

00:19:19.620 That already is making me want to take a step back and say,

00:19:23.420 I'm not really sure that what is going on here is authentic. Like we need to take a pause,

00:19:29.820 but some people are pointing out. And I think it is still a valid point and a valid question to ask

00:19:36.360 that. Okay. Even if he wasn't there yet, even if he didn't fully understand the gospel,

00:19:40.860 even if there were some theological errors, was he genuinely on a journey of discovery?

00:19:46.320 And was he trying to see, okay, what is true? Who is this Jesus person? And that is actually

00:19:53.840 why he ended up in what seems like this very violent and demonic spiral. Is that a satanic

00:20:00.860 effort at stopping him at curtailing his journey? Is that Satan clawing away at him and trying to

00:20:10.360 distract him as much as possible, trying to inhibit an actual testimony, trying to tempt him

00:20:16.520 away from actual repentance and real revelation that comes through, um, the word of God, or was

00:20:24.100 it never a real conversion in the first place? And he's been struggling with this kind of demonic

00:20:30.200 power in darkness for a very long time. And we are just kind of seeing the manifestation of that.

00:20:37.960 Kevin Sorbo, for example, says demonic possession is real. Pray for Perez Hilton. Samuel Say says

00:20:44.660 the Perez Hilton videos are horrific. That level of self-inflicted violence looks demonic. I think

00:20:50.760 he recently professed faith in Christ. Pray for his healing. Pray for his soul. How in the world

00:20:56.660 did TikTok allow the live stream to go on for so seemingly long? That's a good question. We've got

00:21:02.560 several other people on X saying, this is what, this is what demonic possession actually looks

00:21:09.680 like. Okay. Is it really demonic possession or is it simply someone who is weighed down by sin?

00:21:17.540 Like how do we actually know when someone is being possessed by a demon versus when someone

00:21:23.300 is just lost? Because I do think they can look very similar. Ephesians two described Satan as

00:21:29.100 the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience,

00:21:35.120 now at work in the sons of disobedience, among whom we all once walked according to the passions

00:21:40.500 of our flesh and were by nature children of wrath like the rest of mankind. But God, but God,

00:21:48.320 being rich in mercy because of the great love with which he loved us, made us alive together

00:21:51.400 with Christ by grace you have been saved through faith. It's a beautiful passage. I love Ephesians

00:21:56.380 too. And the reason I have it memorized is because I think it is the just best outline of what the

00:22:02.640 gospel is and shows us all of our sins. So if Satan is the prince of the power of the air right

00:22:08.480 now, if he is now at work in the sons and the daughters of disobedience, among whom we all

00:22:15.040 once walked, okay, and we're children of wrath, is this just what it looks like to be a child of

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00:23:47.380 So when we look at demonic possession, actual demons occupying the body of someone in scripture,

00:23:56.180 we do see that self-harm is a hallmark of demonic possession. I don't think that this means that it

00:24:02.340 is always demonic possession, but it seems that when a demon is possessing someone, there is

00:24:07.820 violence done to their bodies. In the book of Mark, a father brought his son to Jesus for

00:24:13.600 deliverance from a demon that repeatedly tried to harm the boy, Mark 9, 21 through 22. And Jesus

00:24:19.960 asked his father, how long has this been happening to him? I just love that question from Jesus

00:24:24.800 because he knows, but like any good doctor, any good healer, like he is asking for a context.

00:24:30.760 And he said, from childhood, the father said, and it has often cast him into fire and water to

00:24:37.360 destroy him. Can you imagine the anxiety of this father and mother? But if you can do anything,

00:24:41.940 have compassion on us and help us. Jesus heals him. Similarly, in Mark 5, the man Jesus, uh,

00:24:50.480 the man Jesus delivered from many demons was known for harming himself. Mark 5, two through five.

00:24:55.580 And when Jesus had stepped out of the boat, immediately there met him out of the tombs,

00:25:00.480 a man with an unclean spirit. He lived among the tombs and no one could bind him anymore.

00:25:04.860 And even with a chain for he had been bound with shackles and chains, but he wrenched the chains

00:25:11.080 apart and he broke the shackles in pieces. No one had the strength to subdue him night and day

00:25:16.400 among the tombs and on the mountains. He was always crying out and cutting himself with stones.

00:25:24.320 Now, again, not all thoughts of wanting to die are necessarily demonic. So for example,

00:25:32.900 Elijah prayed that he would die. First Kings 19, he was so depressed and he was so distraught that

00:25:40.520 he asked that he might die. He says, it is enough now, O Lord, take away my life for I am no better

00:25:46.480 than my father's. Job cursed the day of his birth, Job 3, 3 through 4. Let the day perish on which I

00:25:53.120 was born in the night that said a man is conceived. So not even just birth, he doesn't even want to

00:25:57.720 be conceived. Let that day be darkness. Make God above not seek it, nor light shine upon it. Jonah

00:26:03.900 asked God to take his life. Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for it is better for

00:26:09.260 me to die than to live. Now, I do want to say, even though these people were not demonically

00:26:15.040 possessed because we don't see any other indication in their lives and in their ministry

00:26:19.340 that they were actually possessed by a demon, these are not prescriptive passages. These are

00:26:24.380 not passages saying, it's okay to say this. It's okay to think this. It's okay to pray this.

00:26:29.060 This is descriptive. We know that Job going where he went mentally when he just later,

00:26:35.460 not in Job 3, but started to question like, okay, like what really is going on here, God?

00:26:41.300 God answers him out of the whirlwind. God doesn't say, yeah, I get it. I get why you wouldn't trust

00:26:46.800 me. I get why you would say all of this. God is like, were you there when I brought forth

00:26:51.840 the animals in the earth, when I told the ocean to only go so far? You weren't, so you can take

00:26:56.920 a seat. And Jonah obviously is not a great example of like, at least in parts of his ministry,

00:27:05.460 of how we should respond to God. So I'm not saying that these passages are good,

00:27:09.780 but it's not necessarily an indication of demonic possession. So we do need to differentiate between

00:27:15.040 the two. So we don't know, we don't know for sure. Now I would say based on these two,

00:27:23.360 these two examples of like what it looks like to want to die and what demonic possession actually

00:27:28.760 looks like, the Perez Hilton live stream looks more like demonic possession. It reminded me

00:27:34.560 as soon as I saw the description of it, it reminded me of the man walking among the tombs

00:27:39.060 who was cutting himself with the stones every day, who was possessed by legion. So multiple

00:27:45.020 demons that Jesus cast out into the pigs who then ran off of the cliff. And so do I think that this

00:27:51.240 is demonic influence? 100%. I don't have any doubt about that. Do I know that he's possessed by a

00:27:56.800 demon? Not necessarily. Yeah, we just don't know. Because also there is the aspect of living in a

00:28:04.100 fallen world, there's the aspect of just having a true mental breakdown. Now there's always

00:28:10.060 something spiritual with that. I believe, I don't think that you can ever separate the mind from the

00:28:15.840 soul or the brain from the soul, but there are actual mental problems that people have that I

00:28:23.260 don't think are always, um, a result of demonic influence themselves. In a 2013 interview, Perez

00:28:32.060 described severe depression, uh, in his career that included daily suicidal thoughts. I'd be

00:28:38.480 interested to know like what SSRIs, uh, was he on because those SSRIs can actually make these

00:28:44.860 thoughts worse. In 2014, he talked about his depression in 2019. He talked about being in a

00:28:51.360 very dark place in 2022, 2024. He shared his experiences with anxiety attacks, uh, periods of

00:28:58.900 being really depressed for a while. Again, I think we have talked so much about psychological

00:29:04.080 issues and like where psychiatry and psychology just get it wrong, stop short, completely pervert

00:29:09.840 the truth and how medications can actually make it worse. And you do have to ask yourself, okay,

00:29:15.620 does this person actually have something that is a sickness in their mind or is this simply the

00:29:20.420 result from running away from God, seeking fame and stardom and slandering other people? I mean,

00:29:27.500 that's a dark place to live. That's a dark place to be. I mean, there's like if a prostitute came

00:29:33.920 to you and was like, I'm super depressed. I've been making my money from OnlyFans for the past

00:29:39.600 10 years. I'm really depressed. You would not say to that person, oh, something's probably wrong

00:29:43.260 with your brain. You would say, stop being a prostitute. It's because you're selling your 1.00

00:29:46.980 body online. It's because you're living in sin and because you're degrading yourself for money

00:29:52.260 that doesn't feel good. You were made for something better than that. You were made for

00:29:56.560 something bigger than that. You are a person that has innate dignity, not because of what you've

00:30:00.820 done, not because of how much money you make, but because you are a person made in God's image.

00:30:05.600 So anytime we live in a place that's out of whack, whether that is through your sexuality,

00:30:10.580 your sexual behavior, whether that is by continually sinning and profiting off of that

00:30:16.080 sin, like the book of Proverbs has a lot to say about the person who spreads gossip and slander

00:30:20.580 and then makes money off of that. You are constantly living your life in a way that is

00:30:26.840 totally perpendicular to what God says is healthy and good and right and true, and is going to bring

00:30:32.860 you fulfillment and peace and satisfaction. Of course, you're going to be depressed and anxious.

00:30:37.980 So is this a mental health problem? I don't know. I think that actual mental health can

00:30:43.560 really exist in a fallen world. There can be sicknesses that manifest themselves

00:30:48.200 mentally, but we also need to look at all of the circumstances in our lives. Like what is making

00:30:55.140 you sad? What is making you discontent? That might not be a serotonin problem. It might be a sin

00:31:01.860 problem. It might be just a circumstance of life is really hard right now problem that actually

00:31:07.800 can't be fixed by medication. That's what Dr. Roger McFillan, we've had him on a couple of times.

00:31:12.860 that's really his point. It's not just to demonize SSRIs. He's also like, okay, very rarely do we get

00:31:20.580 people willing to take a step back and say, why am I so sad every day? Is there actually a good

00:31:25.080 reason why I might be sad? Do I have really hard things going on? Do I have this thing that is

00:31:30.040 just disjointed in my life that's making me not feel good? That's not going to be solved by just

00:31:35.620 numbing your emotional response through more and more medication. So I don't know. I don't know if

00:31:41.120 that's what's going on with Perez Hilton. But when you see someone that's living a life of blatant

00:31:46.340 sin for years and years and years, and they say they're depressed, you're like, well, yeah, of

00:31:49.500 course anyone would be. This is the danger of kind of like persisting, persisting in sin,

00:31:56.800 especially persisting in sin after you have professed the Christian faith and are making 0.51

00:32:01.380 money off of the Christian faith. Scripture has repeated, has, uh, has repeated serious warnings

00:32:08.220 about those who claim to have accepted Christ as their savior, but persist in this kind of

00:32:13.300 unrepentant sin. All of us are going to sin. All of us are going to struggle until eternity.

00:32:19.340 However, that unrepentant attitude of stubbornness of, ah, this is my identity. This is how I'm

00:32:27.040 going to live. I know what the Bible says. I don't care. I am my own authority. The Holy Spirit's

00:32:32.320 not going to allow you to continue in that if he lives in you. Romans 6, 1 through 2 says,

00:32:39.220 what shall we say then? Are we to continue to sin that grace may abound? By no means. How can we

00:32:45.340 die to sin, still live in it? I think we forget what the death of Jesus actually accomplishes

00:32:52.340 for us by grace through faith. You die to your sin. Your former self is crucified with Christ.

00:32:58.580 It is no longer you who live. You are a new creation. He's not just making us better. He's

00:33:03.660 not just making us happier. He has given you a new heart with new desires and a new self.

00:33:10.020 And so how you live and think and what you want is totally different. We saw that in the testimony

00:33:15.260 that we had on Friday with the person who de-transitioned after 30 years and just how

00:33:21.140 God gave him a new heart and a new perspective. If you haven't watched that, go back and watch

00:33:25.340 it or listen to it. It's just incredible what God does. Hebrews 10, 26 through 27. For if we go on

00:33:30.960 sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice

00:33:35.960 for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries.

00:33:43.940 And then last one, 1 John 3, 6 through 9. No one who abides in him keeps on sinning. No one

00:33:49.020 who keeps on sinning has either seen him or known him. Little children, let no one deceive you.

00:33:54.280 whoever practices righteousness is righteous as he is righteous. Whoever makes a practice of sinning

00:33:59.680 is of the devil for the devil has been sitting from the beginning. The reason the son of God

00:34:04.260 appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. Praise God. No one born of God makes a practice

00:34:09.120 of sinning for God's seed abides in him and he cannot keep sinning because he has been born of

00:34:16.580 God. We've got a little bit more, um, about demonic possession. And then also, um, Ariana Grande,

00:34:24.100 uh, just to conclude the Perez Hilton side of things, we're going to pray for him. I can't say

00:34:29.560 for sure what is spiritually going on there. I think that we can say in confidence, the Holy

00:34:34.880 Spirit is not living inside him. He doesn't have the fruit of the spirit. And we want that for him

00:34:40.320 again, pray for his children, pray for his family, but pray for true spiritual relief that can only

00:34:46.380 come through the gospel and the power of Christ because God is the miracle worker. He is the

00:34:50.400 healer, but he cannot give you healing and happiness outside of himself. Can't serve two

00:34:55.200 masters. And when we try to serve two masters, we are going to feel mentally and spiritually disturbed

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00:36:26.080 and i do just want to say this because it's relevant to press hilton but it's always the

00:36:36.000 question that we get can a christian be demon possessors the fact that he's going through all

00:36:39.880 of this an indication that he is not a christian the theologian rc sproul wrote this in the bible

00:36:45.540 we see demons possessing people and oppressing people causing bodily harm property damage all

00:36:50.280 kinds of things the christian is always faced with this question can i be demon possessed

00:36:55.100 I don't believe so, R.C. Sproul says.

00:36:56.980 I believe that people can be demon-possessed, but I don't think that is possible for the

00:37:00.540 Christian because God, the Holy Spirit, resides in the regenerate person.

00:37:04.360 And the scriptures tell us where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty, 2 Corinthians

00:37:08.260 3, 17.

00:37:09.480 So no demon can hold us hostage to the power of Satan.

00:37:12.740 Demons can oppress us.

00:37:13.900 They can harass us.

00:37:14.760 They can tempt us.

00:37:15.560 They can attack us and so on.

00:37:17.140 But thanks be to God, he who is in us is greater than he who is in the world, 1 John 4, 4.

00:37:22.080 1 John 4, 4 is the passage that I was thinking of. And then I also go back to when I am thinking

00:37:28.940 not just of specific instances like this, but you really do see the power of Satan working

00:37:34.280 through so many people, even people who seem to be in their right mind, people with large

00:37:40.640 platforms, people who have a lot of influence. And it's not that they look crazy like this. 0.89

00:37:47.600 it's almost actually scarier. It's not that they're flaying their body on a camera,

00:37:52.060 but they're looking straight at the camera and telling you a lie. They're looking straight at

00:37:56.020 the camera and slandering someone. They're looking straight at the camera and accusing

00:37:59.680 someone of something without evidence. And that's really more how Satan works because remember,

00:38:05.980 Satan is cunning. He was the most clever of all of the animals in the garden. Satan even disguises

00:38:11.400 himself as an angel of light. So we see something like this and we clearly see, okay, Satan is at

00:38:16.800 work somewhere. We don't know exactly how it's like, what it is, what level of power he has over

00:38:22.220 this person. Um, but I think it's, he's less hard to spot when the person that's talking

00:38:30.140 seems safe and is completely compelling. And so if you have the Holy spirit inside you,

00:38:36.580 you have to be like the brand and you have to test what's being said on every single podcast

00:38:41.480 that you listen to this one included every single book that you read, every single person

00:38:45.360 that you watch, compare that to the word of God. And anyone who doesn't want you to do that,

00:38:50.540 anyone who's like, oh no, just listen to me, definitely don't go to the Bible and kind of,

00:38:56.240 you know, minimize something like that. That's not someone that you should be listening to.

00:38:59.980 The people that you can trust are like, test me, like test what I have to say. And if it's not true,

00:39:05.100 don't listen to me. Don't believe me. Compare what I say, what anyone says to scripture and

00:39:11.000 go to the Holy Spirit and ask for discernment and truth. Because satanic work doesn't always

00:39:18.600 look like a Perez Hilton breakdown. Sometimes it's millions and millions of views and millions

00:39:25.040 of followers by someone who seems extremely compelling. There is a psychological danger

00:39:32.340 in professing to follow Christ while knowingly rejecting his moral commands.

00:39:40.440 Proverbs 3, 1 through 2 talks about this. Peace will be added to you if you let your heart keep

00:39:47.720 his commandments. And so that's also something for us to be aware of. If we are celebrating

00:39:55.520 what God calls evil, if we are entertained by what God calls evil, if we ourselves are doing

00:40:00.520 things that God calls evil while professing to follow him, there's going to be a lack of peace

00:40:05.560 and a level of instability in our own lives. Unfortunately, we do see these big displays

00:40:13.520 of violence and what seems to me like demonic activity all throughout Hollywood. Um, and there

00:40:20.540 is, I think a way that God can actually use something as grotesque, grotesque as all of this

00:40:26.680 to point people to himself. You might remember the interview that I did that just you guys loved

00:40:33.160 so much. And it was an interview with the co-founder of Wikipedia who said that the evil

00:40:38.580 that he saw in Hollywood actually is what made him first ask the question, okay, if objective

00:40:44.000 evil exists, if I just know as someone who is an atheist instinctively that this is wrong,

00:40:48.820 then that logically leads me to the realization that, okay, there must be an objective good.

00:40:55.120 if they're obvious bad guys, then who are the good guys and who gets to decide? And where does

00:41:00.700 that goodness and truth actually come from? And that led him on this journey of reading the Bible

00:41:05.180 and becoming a Christian, praise God. So don't get discouraged by all of this. God can even use

00:41:10.220 this kind of thing to seek and save the lost. Even someone like Ariana Grande,

00:41:15.880 in her recent music video, she released this music video for her new song,

00:41:19.900 Petal. She portrays a performer named Pepper who was repeatedly rejected by the executives.

00:41:24.400 she auditions in front of. There are, um, you see a silhouette of her hacking the panel of

00:41:30.480 executives with a chainsaw, the actual act of the murders. We're not going to play that even though

00:41:35.740 it's just a silhouette, it's just too graphic to show. Um, we can show this voiceover right here

00:41:41.820 that it's just like directly after. Okay. And we're not even going to play that for very long.

00:41:46.820 Like she commits that murder. She opens this fortune cookie. It's like bloom wherever you're

00:41:51.580 planted and she's covered head to toe in blood, the blood of the people that she just murdered.

00:41:58.860 The other performers are, um, who are auditioning in this music video, they're cheering for her.

00:42:06.000 Um, and so people are pointing out just how disturbing this is and how dark this is that

00:42:12.400 the, you know, the point I think is that we're going to stick it to these executives who have

00:42:17.640 told us all of these bad things about our bodies and ourselves. You can see that throughout the

00:42:21.560 music video. They're writing down things about like how she should look and how she should

00:42:25.340 perform and all of this. And as people are also talking about, okay, this is very gory. This is

00:42:32.080 very dark, especially for someone who used to be like this light and bright pop star. Not that she

00:42:38.900 was wholesome by any means because she wasn't, but this seems to be a big change. And gosh,

00:42:43.780 we see this a lot. We even saw this like with Taylor Swift going from how she used to be the

00:42:49.420 sweet, innocent country star to then, you know, doing witchcraft rituals and satanic messaging

00:42:55.920 in some of her concerts, Billie Eilish, uh, the same way, even someone like Chapel Rhone.

00:43:02.020 Like you think of all these people as, oh, they've always been dark. They've always been edgy. That's

00:43:06.360 actually not true. They become darker and edgier and more violent and more disturbed in their

00:43:12.880 artistry as time goes on. That seems to also be true of someone like Ariana Grande. People are

00:43:19.000 not only pointing that out, they're looking at a picture like this, and this is full screen 36,

00:43:23.240 even her fans are saying, and I don't know why X feeds me this commentary. I don't really

00:43:27.680 like comment on things like this very often, but saying, okay, her, this weight thing has

00:43:34.000 gone too far. Her skinniness has gone too far. Obviously this is something that she is trying

00:43:39.460 to highlight here. She is skin and bones. Okay. She has lost a lot of weight and I am not saying 0.99

00:43:45.880 that to be mean. She is a beautiful, talented person, but you can see all of her ribs. You can

00:43:51.060 see her clavicles. You can see the ribs in her chest. And you can see this is a telltale sign.

00:43:56.920 Like if I can say just from an amateur perspective, this is a telltale sign of anorexia. You are

00:44:03.960 anorexic, you are bulimic, or you have fatal cancer. And I'm not saying that in a lighthearted 0.99

00:44:10.440 way at all, there is something going on here. Is it something spiritual? I don't know. It seems to

00:44:18.180 me like it has to be. It seems to me like, obviously, actually, I can't say unequivocally

00:44:23.920 that it is something spiritual. What level of spiritual disturbance? I don't know. You can see

00:44:31.220 this picture from a few years ago of what she looked like in 2018. And you can see a lot of

00:44:37.440 pictures of what she looked like over the years. Beautiful. I've always thought that she was so

00:44:41.520 cute and, um, she's very petite. There's never been a time that I can think of an Ariana Grande's

00:44:48.200 career where she has been overweight, but as she, um, as she got into wicked and she was doing that 1.00

00:44:57.200 press tour, that's when people started talking about, okay, this woman is just too thin to me. 1.00

00:45:03.480 when you have this skeletal figure covered in blood, you see the wedding of these two things. 1.00

00:45:09.840 She's glorifying them. She has not talked at all about, Hey, I'm sick. Hey, I've got something

00:45:14.880 going on. Hey, I'm on medication that is making me lose weight. In fact, she's kind of doubled

00:45:19.660 down and talked about she's so much healthier now than she used to be. Yes. I do think that 0.98

00:45:24.800 there is something very dark going on mentally and spiritually here. I just, I just do. I don't

00:45:31.380 know exactly what it is. I don't know what goes on behind the scenes in Hollywood. I think some

00:45:37.140 very scary exchanges probably happen. But again, we don't even need to know all of that to know

00:45:43.680 that this is just the nature of sin. It takes you from one thing to the other. It's also the nature

00:45:48.960 of addiction. It's the nature of mental spiritual illness in which you see something in the mirror

00:45:54.160 that is just not real, but she looks like she is on the verge of death. She actually talks publicly

00:46:00.020 about leaving Christianity after being raised Catholic. So both her and Perez Hilton raised

00:46:05.360 Catholic. Many such cases left Christianity. She said in 2014, she was disappointed with the

00:46:11.920 church's stance on homosexuality. Her older brother, Frankie, again, many such cases came

00:46:17.280 out as gay. And the two of them started looking into Kabbalah. Is that the emphasis on the right

00:46:23.360 syllable there, a form of Jewish mysticism instead. Um, now whether or not she is still

00:46:30.520 practicing that, I don't know. It does seem to me like she's in some sort of mystic world.

00:46:36.520 She has had a lot of long relationships. Um, she has been engaged multiple times.

00:46:44.160 She also was dating her wicked co-star, Ethan Slater. Slater was married with a child when he

00:46:52.100 began dating Ariana Grande. So she was a home wrecker in that sense, obviously knew that he

00:46:57.960 was married with a child. And there were even comments on his wife's Instagram from her when

00:47:04.540 she was pretending to be her friend and then started dating him. So I think it's safe to say

00:47:10.460 she leads a really awful broken life. Like, and it is kind of crazy what we consider acceptable

00:47:18.040 just as the world and what we consider controversial and non-controversial.

00:47:22.520 She should be a very controversial figure, but instead her posts still get millions of likes.

00:47:28.800 People still praise her as being beautiful and wonderful. I'm like, no, this girl is on the

00:47:32.460 brink of death, fantasizing and glorifying murder. The last thing our culture needs right now. 0.63

00:47:38.200 And she's a homewrecker. And yeah, I do think all of this is a result of her saying,

00:47:43.200 no, I'm going to look into mysticism instead of Christianity. Remember this, John 10, 10,

00:47:50.360 the thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. Okay. So whenever we see the glorification 0.72

00:47:56.100 of stealing, the glorification of killing, the glorification of destruction, we can say whether

00:48:01.720 or not we know it's demonic possession, that's the thief. That's the accuser. That's the adversary.

00:48:07.540 that's the enemy. That person wants to destroy me. I refuse to be entertained by that. I refuse

00:48:14.820 to support that. I refuse to call that glamorous and holy and good because Christ died for that.

00:48:20.580 Christ died to defeat the thief that comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I want to be on the

00:48:25.200 right side. Jesus says, I came that they might have life and have it abundantly. So that's the

00:48:31.020 juxtaposition there. Thief came to steal, kill, and destroy. Jesus comes that you might have life 0.99

00:48:36.060 and have it abundantly? How clear can it get? What sounds better to you? What sounds better?

00:48:42.180 Matthew 11, 28 through 30, come to me all who labor and are heavy laden. I will give you rest

00:48:48.940 and you will find rest for your souls for my yoke is easy and my burden is light. That's what

00:48:52.960 everyone's looking for. You're looking for respite from your stress, from your anxiety.

00:48:58.100 You're not going to find it in all of the places that you are looking, but it can be found in

00:49:01.940 Christ. We have so many questions and so many problems. And Jesus and his ministry says over

00:49:07.500 and over again, yeah, that thing that you're looking for, it's me. You can find it right here.

00:49:12.440 2 Timothy 1, 7, for God gave us not a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of self-control.

00:49:18.580 I also think about the passage in Ephesians. It's not in my notes, but it's just coming to my mind

00:49:24.440 that the sons of darkness, actually, now that I'm saying it, I want to make sure that I get it

00:49:31.800 right. And so I'm going to try to look it up. I think it's in Ephesians 5, starting in verse 6.

00:49:42.360 Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things, the wrath of God comes

00:49:46.760 upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore, do not become partners with them. For at one time you

00:49:50.900 were darkness, now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light, for the fruit of light is

00:49:55.440 found in all that is good and right and true. And try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.

00:50:00.740 Remember in Ephesians two, we talked about children of wrath that we all once were walking

00:50:06.900 among under the influence of the prince of the power of the air. Now in Ephesians five,

00:50:12.340 he's saying, walk as children of light. Oh, you don't know what that is? Good, right? True. Do

00:50:16.680 that. Live that. Try to discern what God likes. Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness,

00:50:22.620 but instead expose them. So that's what we're trying to do today. For it is shameful to speak

00:50:27.340 of the things that they do in secret. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes

00:50:32.480 visible for anything that becomes visible is light. And then he goes on to talk about like

00:50:38.080 what this looks like. Don't get drunk, be filled with the spirit. You should be singing psalms,

00:50:43.360 hymns, spiritual songs, make melody to the Lord with your heart. And then he goes into how this

00:50:49.160 plays out in relationships between husbands and wives and between fathers and children and all

00:50:53.440 of that. Read the book of Ephesians. If you have not already, it is very obvious. There is a

00:50:58.620 spiritual war that is going on. It's getting more and more blatant, but remember what I said. It's

00:51:03.120 not always bloody. It's not always gory, but when it is, it's a good opportunity to point the

00:51:08.320 unbeliever to that's not good, right? You see so obviously that that's not good. You don't want 0.99

00:51:13.560 that. You don't want your life to go that direction. If we can agree that that's bad,

00:51:18.400 let me tell you about the good news. There's bad news and there's good news. The bad news of the

00:51:22.280 gospel always pre-seize the good news, the bad news being that you're a sinner in need of a

00:51:28.940 savior. All right. Now we're going to get into a couple more things. Let me tell you about our

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00:52:28.800 don't have time to get into like the fullness of the story that I was going to talk about,

00:52:32.320 but I talked about this for a second on Instagram. And some of you were like surprised that I had

00:52:38.980 even known that something like this was happening. You did not know that I knew what the toast was.

00:52:44.160 Of course I do. Am I not a millennial woman? Was I not born in 1992? Do I not have an Instagram?

00:52:51.760 Of course I know what the toast is. And sometimes I even try to listen to the toast. I'm like,

00:52:57.360 is there anything pop culture wise that I need to know? And then I'm listening and I'm like,

00:53:02.520 what is Summer House? What's a Vanderpump? I have no clue. I don't know what this is. I don't know

00:53:10.100 where you watch these things. I don't know how many people watch them. I don't know who these

00:53:15.880 people are in real life. Like there's nothing about this that I know. Um, but I appreciate

00:53:22.740 the toast because I think we all understand that they're kind of like low key conservative.

00:53:28.260 Like, I don't think they're conservative like me. They're not Christians, but I think especially

00:53:34.460 after, it seems to me, just my guess, like after October 7th and after that whole craziness and

00:53:41.920 you've got like the election in 2024, I would probably guess they voted for Trump. Plus their

00:53:48.000 mom is like a big anti-Islam activist. They don't really talk about that. But I just think that

00:53:54.420 they're like, they're definitely not progressive. Like I don't think that they believe in like men

00:54:00.780 and women's sports. I've even heard Claudia say things that I just like agree with and appreciate

00:54:05.780 in a very brash way. When she's talking about divorce, she's like, just grow up, like just

00:54:11.480 stay together. Come on. And you just don't see that that much in like pop culture, that attitude.

00:54:16.520 So I like them. I like them. And I loved that Jackie, the co-host, she just had a conversation

00:54:24.120 with Usha Vance because Usha Vance has this thing where she has someone come on and read a kid's

00:54:30.000 book and Jackie has a new kids book out and they got together and Jackie read the book and there

00:54:38.800 were all kinds, there was like all kinds of backlash in the comments about this. People

00:54:43.780 saying they're not going to listen to the toast anymore. And it's like, if you did not understand

00:54:48.220 where the toast was politically, then like you, you haven't been paying attention. So here they

00:54:54.160 are very sweet. Thought six. Today's special reader is a mom and an author, and she has a

00:54:59.020 podcast just like this, but for grownups. Welcome to the host of The Toast, Jackie Oshry.

00:55:05.280 Hi. I'm so excited. So thank you for bringing this story. I'd love to hear it.

00:55:09.800 I would love to read it. This is The Camper and the Counselor.

00:55:15.100 Cute. Haven't read the book. Don't know if I can recommend the book. I'm sure it's cute though.

00:55:20.060 And I just say good for you. Okay. Good for you for doing something that you knew was going to

00:55:24.380 be controversial that you knew some toasters would not like, and you did it anyway. You did it

00:55:29.660 because it's a great opportunity. Of course, it's a great opportunity to sell your book. And also

00:55:33.840 probably the controversy will help with some sales and like who cares about the haters anyway,

00:55:39.120 but I just appreciate people. I really don't like, I don't like cowards. I just really don't like 0.66

00:55:45.440 people like Caitlin Clark, who are not willing to stand up for women and girls sports or people

00:55:49.940 just who aren't willing to say something that's true, aren't willing to do anything controversial

00:55:53.920 because, oh, this person might like talk bad about me. I don't like cowards. Okay. So it's not like 0.86

00:55:59.460 this person is going to like win a Nobel peace prize for this, but she did something that she

00:56:04.580 knew was going to get hate and she's proud of it. And she doesn't apologize. I hate when people

00:56:08.760 apologize for people or for things that they shouldn't be sorry for. So she's, I just know

00:56:14.360 she's not going to apologize. She's not going to back down. So good for that. Okay. Like that,

00:56:18.520 hate this hate nara smith on call her daddy okay like the toast that collab between her and the vp

00:56:28.020 or the slotus anyway hate the collab of call her daddy and nara smith okay this is someone who i

00:56:35.940 think is doing the opposite of what jackie was doing she's saying okay and we'll put up a picture

00:56:41.100 of nara smith if you don't know who this is i didn't follow nara smith i'm probably gonna say

00:56:45.940 something in just a second that might make some of you mad I didn't follow Nora Smith but I will

00:56:50.820 show you who she is she gained a large following from these kind of videos here's everything I

00:56:57.140 prepped to make my week just a little bit easier I start by making my rooibos granola by combining

00:57:03.060 all of my dry ingredients in a bowl separately with my egg white and add coconut sugar maple

00:57:09.280 syrup, rooibos along some other spices. Okay. I don't have anything like against this person.

00:57:17.140 Like I said, I didn't, I didn't follow her. Um, but this, and she's so beautiful, so beautiful.

00:57:23.320 Okay. I understand why people follow her and her creations look incredible, super impressive.

00:57:27.880 So that is awesome. I think like, if that is the kind of content that you'd like to watch,

00:57:31.720 I think that's great. I could see how that's peaceful. It makes me feel the opposite. It

00:57:35.540 stresses me out. Like her, like, I don't know. I just, it's not for me. Okay. And so I wasn't

00:57:42.860 someone that followed her closely, but I did, you know, I appreciate that there are some people who

00:57:48.180 are like, oh, making is great. Cooking is great. Taking care of your family is great. I am for

00:57:54.240 that message. So when someone then goes on a podcast that is so opposed to the values that

00:58:01.940 most of your followers have, and you kind of trash the category that people have put you in,

00:58:07.740 which I have my own problem with trad wife influencer trend, as we have talked about many

00:58:11.420 times from a Christian perspective, a Christian perspective, the completion of biblical and trad

00:58:16.420 is not something that I am for. But for her to be like, no, I'm a boss, babe. And how dare you 0.88

00:58:22.940 categorize me as this? This is the trend in the category that has made you what you are,

00:58:28.100 nara smith and for you to go on this degrading sex podcast and trash that i don't like it top five 0.99

00:58:34.380 people started to compare you to trad wife yeah and people were kind of used me as the poster 0.96

00:58:39.620 child for the trad wife movement which was very bizarre to me i don't prioritize being a homemaker

00:58:44.780 i'm a working mom like i am out in la i travel a lot i sure do i love cooking because it's my

00:58:52.460 passion and because i kind of have to do it given my autoimmune absolutely but that's a passion of

00:58:58.060 mine it's a hobby it's not something that i need to be doing primary caregiver for my kids no my

00:59:02.940 husband and i split it 50 50 like when he works i watch them when i work he watches them and now

00:59:08.780 given everything that's been going on we also have help my mom's out we have someone that helps us 0.99

00:59:13.660 with the kids because it's just not doable for me to do it all i don't think a trad wife would be 1.00

00:59:17.860 cooking in like scaparelli you know or a moschino look straight off the runway like i don't think 0.50

00:59:25.120 that's what a trad wife would do i just think that this is gaslighting i think that she knew

00:59:32.160 very well exactly the trend that she was capitalizing on and now that we have books

00:59:38.840 like yesteryear saying that this is problematic she's like no no what that was never me that was

00:59:44.160 never me it was it was maybe you didn't mean for it to be or maybe you now don't want it to be but

00:59:49.860 that, that is like, that, that is what you were doing. And that is what you were, um, playing

00:59:56.260 upon. This is her first viral video, 2023. We'll do a voiceover is voiceover three. Um,

01:00:03.460 and just to kind of show you, she dresses up in these very fancy clothes and makes these things

01:00:09.620 from scratch. And like, I think part of it is maybe supposed to be funny because sometimes

01:00:13.240 they're like ridiculous things or things like that no one ever makes from scratch. Again,

01:00:17.480 I do think it's totally impressive, but I just immediately was like, really of all pod, I think

01:00:25.860 it's the combination for me of call her daddy and what she said. It's not just that she was like,

01:00:31.440 oh no, I've like never considered myself that. Um, that's okay. Whatever it is that you went

01:00:38.860 on the sex podcast, the most disgusting and degrading sex podcast that exists that seems 0.99

01:00:45.400 to be opposed to so much of what you represent online. And I just think it was a way to kind of 0.97

01:00:53.180 like spit on her audience. I don't like it. Um, someone says, I thought that this was a good

01:00:59.660 comment. Why do we not get this voice in this attitude in her videos? Exactly. Because she's 1.00

01:01:07.640 talking like this and the ASMR voice, which I literally loathe. I, that's part of why I can't

01:01:14.180 follow things like this. I don't want people to whisper to me. I don't want it. I want you to

01:01:18.820 speak. I want, I want to be able to hear you. I, it creeps me out. I feel like you're trying to

01:01:24.980 like come up behind me and like sneak on me. You're made from scratch blueberry muffins. I

01:01:30.280 don't want it. I don't want it. Um, and so I think it's just a weird juxtaposition for people. And

01:01:36.660 she had so many people, especially Christians like rooting for her. Um, when she talks about

01:01:42.980 the diagnosis of her child with cancer, which still 100% pray for her. That is awful. No one

01:01:48.800 is taking that away. And like the seriousness of that and needing to pray for that 100%.

01:01:52.800 I think people just felt a little bit taken aback and surprised. So that's just a collab I didn't

01:01:57.900 like. You can hate all you want on that opinion. I didn't like it. Okay. Let's do a voicemail or two

01:02:06.620 and then we'll get out of here and we'll be back here on Wednesday. Let me tell you about our last

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01:03:14.200 and it's about first time obedience and whether or not that's a realistic expectation. Let's play

01:03:21.240 that. Hi, Allie. I was wondering what your thoughts were on, um, first time obedience, um,

01:03:28.440 obey right away, all the way with a happy heart. It's something my husband and I disagree on

01:03:33.440 somewhat. I think my fear is that I've seen it abused and taken way too far. And so it's kind

01:03:39.600 of hard to want to implement that with my kids to the fullest extent of that ideology

01:03:46.340 slash mantra. So I was wondering what your take was on it, if you agreed somewhat,

01:03:52.480 if you agree completely, or if you even completely disagreed. Okay. Thank you so much. Bye.

01:04:02.460 This is somewhat of a debate online. You see people say, yes, 100%, we should be encouraging

01:04:08.400 this in our kids. And then you see the other side that's pushing back and they're like, no,

01:04:11.640 that's impossible. It's not even developmentally possible for a three-year-old to be able to obey

01:04:16.340 right away because they're processing things. It's not always disobedience. And look, I do think

01:04:22.420 that you intuitively understand your child, a child who is say super concentrated on their

01:04:29.220 magnet tiles. You know that they are building that with every single care and fiber of their being

01:04:35.380 and so much of their focus. And you tell them, Hey, you need to go get your shoes on because

01:04:38.760 you're leaving. They don't even act like they hear you. They're so focused on this. Okay. In that

01:04:44.680 moment for me, I'm thinking about one of my children, all of my children are different.

01:04:48.500 all children are different, I would know in that particular case, it's not disobedience.

01:04:53.500 She is not hearing me and saying, I don't want to listen to mommy. I don't want to obey.

01:04:57.760 She might not have even heard me in that moment because I know how much she cares about that

01:05:02.660 castle that she is making with her magnets. So that is up to me to figure out, okay,

01:05:07.480 how can I communicate in a way that is effective that she can hear me? So I am giving her the

01:05:13.080 opportunity to hear and obey. Once I've done that, whatever it is, whether it's, Hey, you warned her

01:05:19.400 locked eyes with her two minutes before and said, Hey, we've got to go in two minutes in two minutes.

01:05:25.300 You're going to hear me talk to you. And I'm going to tell you that it's time to be done

01:05:29.000 with building the castle. And I'm going to go get your shoes on. And that's your opportunity to obey

01:05:33.220 whatever it is, or whether it's getting down at her eyesight and saying, Hey, I know that you're

01:05:39.140 working on this right now. We're going to have time to do this later right now. I need you to go

01:05:43.520 get your, uh, get your shoes on. Yes, ma'am. Whatever it is. I think ensuring effective 0.65

01:05:49.720 communication first. And I think in the beginning that might take a while that might take extra

01:05:54.280 communication that might take extra warnings that might take like figuring out the strategies that

01:05:59.160 work, ensuring effective communication and actual hearing, um, from your child. And then from there,

01:06:08.260 that is where the immediate obedience comes in. I say yes, unequivocally, the goal should be

01:06:13.380 right away, all the way with a happy heart. I don't think that there should be any discussion

01:06:18.860 or debate about whether or not that is the goal for children, whether or not you decide to instill

01:06:26.000 a consequence right away for when a child doesn't do that before you've even taught them, before

01:06:31.180 you've even looked at strategies for how to communicate to them. I mean, that's up to you.

01:06:36.340 I think in every parenting decision, you need to assess yourself first. Are you communicating

01:06:41.880 effectively? Do you have self-control? Are you planning your day wisely? Or are you in a flurry

01:06:54.200 because you're in a hurry and because you haven't planned well and you're like, get up, get up,

01:06:58.880 get up, get up, stop. You need to go put your shoes on. And then you start yelling at them

01:07:02.300 because they didn't do it right away when you haven't even given them five seconds to realize

01:07:05.840 what's going on. That's not a child obedience problem. That's a parent problem. That's a lack

01:07:10.840 of parent discipline problem. And I don't think your child should have to pay the consequence for

01:07:14.560 that. So effective communication, come up with strategies to make sure they can hear you pay

01:07:19.820 attention to you from their obedience is what matters. And yes, it should be right away with

01:07:25.800 a happy heart. And the reason for that is not some just like just control. It is so that in

01:07:32.920 those situations where obedience is dire, obedience is extremely necessary. Your child

01:07:38.340 knows to trust you and to do it. Okay. Because when you're telling your child, Hey, you need

01:07:43.760 to get out of the road. Hey, don't go chase that ball. The last thing you want them to do is to

01:07:50.020 learn that they don't have to listen to you the first time that they can keep going. They can

01:07:54.340 wait 10 seconds. They can wait until you count to 10. They can turn around and be like, wait,

01:07:58.760 why? Why are we getting in the car? Why are we doing that? Mommy, I don't want to. No,

01:08:03.860 they have to learn from a very early age that what mom and dad says goes. And when you hear it,

01:08:09.560 when it registers to you, you need to do it. And yeah, of course, when that doesn't happen,

01:08:14.540 just like with any other form of disobedience, there have to be ramifications for that. I mean,

01:08:19.920 Hebrews talks about like God disciplines us because he loves us. And the discipline is to

01:08:24.840 work out things in our heart. That doesn't have to be harsh. It doesn't have to be mean.

01:08:29.500 It shouldn't involve yelling. It doesn't have to be out of control. We are called to have a spirit

01:08:34.640 of self-control, even in parenting and how we disciple and discipline our kids. So yeah, that's

01:08:40.340 my kind of multifaceted answer for that and the precursor that I would put before that immediate

01:08:46.120 obedience. But yes, I do believe that is the Christian parents' goal. All right, that's all

01:08:51.580 we got time for today. We will be back here on Wednesday.

01:08:54.840 We'll see you next time.

Ep 1382 ｜ Perez Hilton Livestream： Is This a Real Demonic Possession？

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