Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 355 ｜ Five Things to Do Amid Oncoming Opposition ｜ Guest： Glenn Beck

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.

00:00:10.900 Happy Wednesday.

00:00:12.780 Hope everyone has had a great week so far.

00:00:14.900 It is Inauguration Day, you guys, and we are going to talk about some of that today.

00:00:20.740 First, I'm going to have an interview with Glenn Beck.

00:00:24.400 Those of you who know Glenn Beck, have listened to Glenn Beck, know that he is an expert at

00:00:31.540 getting us to understand the gravity of our current situation and giving us insight into

00:00:39.740 what we can expect in the days and the years to come.

00:00:42.820 A lot of you guys have a lot of concern right now.

00:00:45.360 You're feeling this almost indescribable fear of hostility towards either people who voted

00:00:54.700 for Trump or conservatives or especially conservative Christians, and you're worried about the days

00:00:59.820 to come.

00:01:00.680 Glenn Beck is going to tell us, in his opinion, how much he thinks that we should be worried

00:01:06.520 and some of the concerns that we may be facing in the future, especially in regards to the

00:01:12.420 policies that are coming down the pipeline.

00:01:14.240 But we are not going to end the episode there because a question that I get from a lot of

00:01:20.680 you guys is, okay, but what do we do?

00:01:22.920 Can you give us some advice?

00:01:24.760 Can you uplift us?

00:01:25.860 Give us some encouragement and positivity.

00:01:28.440 And we do that, obviously, at the end of almost every episode.

00:01:32.120 But today, I'm going to spend even more dedicated time to doing that.

00:01:35.240 I'm going to give us five tangible, practical tips that are based in God's Word that I think

00:01:41.540 that Christians can be doing is we feel kind of an onslaught of cultural resistance to biblical

00:01:49.180 values and to biblical stances.

00:01:52.060 And so I'm going to give us five tips that I really think that you guys are going to find

00:01:57.020 useful and helpful.

00:01:58.100 I hope there are a lot of other tips that I could give as well, but they are based in

00:02:03.380 scripture.

00:02:04.220 And I really hope that you guys are able to take them to heart and that you finish this

00:02:08.600 episode feeling good in your trust in the Lord and in his promises being renewed by the

00:02:17.020 power of the Holy Spirit.

00:02:17.720 And then I think if we have time, we're going to do like a fun little segment based on some

00:02:22.020 of the the coverage that we've already seen of the inauguration and what it tells us about

00:02:28.440 the kind of media reporting that we can look forward to over the next few years.

00:02:34.340 OK, let's first talk to Glenn back.

00:02:37.600 So without further ado, here he is.

00:02:44.380 Glenn, thank you so much for joining us.

00:02:46.620 You've been talking a lot about what we can expect from the of the Biden presidency.

00:02:51.540 There are a lot of people who are very nervous right now.

00:02:54.560 They've got a lot of anxiety, especially Christian conservatives, just feeling like there's going

00:03:00.020 to be an onslaught of hostility, either legislatively or just culturally.

00:03:05.640 Are those fears well-founded, you think?

00:03:08.680 I want to be really careful.

00:03:11.360 Yeah, because we are.

00:03:13.640 You know, I've been talking about these things for almost 20 years, and it's because

00:03:20.940 I believe they were revealed to me about 20 years ago, and I saw what's coming.

00:03:32.020 But I saw it.

00:03:33.040 I didn't realize this until about, I don't know, eight years into it, that I saw it as a flat

00:03:39.200 wall.

00:03:39.600 You know, there's no time with God.

00:03:43.060 And so I saw all of these events, all of them happening.

00:03:47.000 So I don't know how they happen, when they happen, et cetera, et cetera.

00:03:51.640 But I am really convinced that this is the beginning of it.

00:03:57.060 The last few years have started it.

00:04:01.580 And it gets much worse from here before it gets better.

00:04:07.340 But we are looking at what I think people have said for thousands of years, and they

00:04:20.000 always say it in really bad times, but maybe this time it is.

00:04:24.460 I think we're entering biblical times now.

00:04:27.120 Yeah, and you're talking about loss of freedoms, you're talking about real persecution.

00:04:32.580 I saw Pastor Andrew Brunson, who, you know, was persecuted in Turkey, saying, Americans better

00:04:38.340 be ready for what's coming.

00:04:40.320 Yeah.

00:04:40.560 Um, I don't think, I don't think anybody really understands.

00:04:45.620 Um, I have a friend whose, um, parents escaped from communist China during Mao.

00:04:53.200 Um, they're much older now, but they remember it really clearly.

00:04:57.480 And, uh, they are just beside themselves.

00:05:01.400 They're like, this, this, this is, this is the beginning.

00:05:04.160 This is how it started.

00:05:05.340 Mm-hmm.

00:05:05.860 Um, and, uh, anybody who's lived in the Eastern Bloc kind of knows that.

00:05:11.280 My fear has been that if we don't reconnect to God, uh, we don't make it.

00:05:20.260 Um, and, uh, cause it, it's going to be really tough and we have to decide now, are we on

00:05:30.180 God's side?

00:05:31.400 Uh, and I have this, I'm going to say horrible feeling, but it's not, you know, I always know

00:05:41.300 when things are from God cause it's usually what I don't want to do.

00:05:44.400 You know what I mean?

00:05:45.560 Whenever, whenever you feel like you should do this, you should do that.

00:05:50.020 When it's like, no, it's usually God.

00:05:53.580 Um, and I, I have that feeling that it is imperative that we do not strike back, that we are to, um,

00:06:08.580 disengage.

00:06:09.160 We can protect ourselves.

00:06:10.740 You know, somebody comes in and does something, you can protect yourself, but we are

00:06:14.360 not to forward, advance anything.

00:06:19.780 Um, cause I, I, I think we're going to see the hand of God if we're really, truly righteous.

00:06:27.780 I think that a lot of people are looking at some of the legislation, some of the policies

00:06:32.380 coming down the pipeline, like the Equality Act, like just the, the, the cultural push

00:06:38.740 against free speech, the censorship that we have seen, intersectionality, critical race

00:06:43.340 theory, infiltrating, curriculum, training in the military, all the stuff that is created

00:06:48.620 to divide and to atomize, not to bring together and unite.

00:06:52.960 And they just want to know, you know, what to do about it.

00:06:56.340 You talk about not, um, kind of pushing back.

00:07:00.720 Do you mean that parents shouldn't stand up against this stuff in school?

00:07:05.040 Or are you just talking about an actual, yeah, I'm talking about an actual force.

00:07:09.600 I'm talking about gunplay.

00:07:11.240 I'm talking about it's civil war time.

00:07:14.480 Um, uh, we are in, you're talking about not, not, not engaging in that.

00:07:20.200 And considering in that.

00:07:20.920 Yeah, I agree.

00:07:22.320 But standing up, absolutely imperative.

00:07:25.940 Every child should be, uh, or every parent of a child should be at their school board

00:07:32.360 meetings, knowing exactly what's going on.

00:07:35.120 And if that material is in your school, you stand up together and work to get it out.

00:07:41.380 And if not get your children out, it, it is, it is, um, crucial.

00:07:47.720 You know, I have, I had dinner with a friend who, uh, said, I couldn't take it anymore.

00:07:53.100 I've just stopped listening.

00:07:54.400 I've stopped, you know, watching TV and listening to podcasts, except things that, you know,

00:07:59.280 really feed me.

00:08:00.160 And I said, and he's real spiritual.

00:08:01.740 I said, mistake, um, you, you need the things that fill you.

00:08:07.080 I mean, on the way in, I'm either listening to scriptures or I'm listening to sacred music

00:08:12.820 just to calm me and to keep me centered.

00:08:16.400 Cause I've got to get into the cesspool every day.

00:08:19.620 Um, and you have to do that.

00:08:22.120 You have to center yourself, but you cannot disengage.

00:08:26.560 It's going to happen at a breathtaking pace.

00:08:30.760 I tell people that the kind of progressivism that we're seeing today, it works when most

00:08:37.840 of the populace is either apathetic or ignorant or both.

00:08:42.120 And that's exactly what they want you to do is to disengage.

00:08:44.560 And I think that was part of the, the weariness of the Trump years that even people who liked

00:08:49.880 Donald Trump at the end of it, after all the, the media craziness and the impeachments and

00:08:55.500 all of that, we're just like, I'm just tired.

00:08:57.720 Like, I'm just tired of Trump.

00:08:59.320 I'm tired of the drama.

00:09:00.380 I'm tired of politics.

00:09:01.860 I just want this to be over.

00:09:03.560 Even if it means Biden winning and they want you to keep feeling that way.

00:09:08.460 They want you to keep thinking, well, at least it's just normal now.

00:09:11.440 At least I don't have to pay attention to the news anymore.

00:09:14.220 If you don't pay attention, things are not going to get better.

00:09:17.520 No, you know, I, I talk to really smart people and they, they're not, because I have eight

00:09:24.940 producers who all they do is just look for the stories and I have people all over the

00:09:30.400 country that do that for me as well.

00:09:32.760 So I see, you know, what eight or 10 people are, are thinking about and seeing, and I get

00:09:40.060 the different perspectives, et cetera, et cetera.

00:09:42.480 So I see a lot more than the average person, but you can do that.

00:09:49.800 You don't need that much volume, but you can do that and stop looking at the conspiracy stuff.

00:09:58.400 Look at the stuff that is absolutely verifiable, easy.

00:10:03.120 All you have to do is look this week who is being confirmed in the cabinet.

00:10:08.340 You will get an idea of where we're headed just by the cabinet that he's putting around him.

00:10:15.860 You know, look at what Janet Yellen said yesterday in her testimony and, and what she

00:10:21.740 said when she was a first appointed, that this is going to be an equitable treasury and we have

00:10:27.480 to look for, um, uh, race equity and also, um, environmental equity.

00:10:34.280 Can you talk about what that really means?

00:10:36.340 Cause people hear equity and they think, great, that means fair, but it's not really what that

00:10:40.240 means.

00:10:40.780 No, that means, um, that means that, uh, for instance, this comes from BlackRock.

00:10:47.740 Um, Biden has put in as his economic advisor, his secondary economic advisor, Kamala's economic

00:10:54.560 advisor, and Janet Yellen's right-hand man, uh, at the treasury department, people who are the

00:11:01.020 heads, the CEOs, the presidents of BlackRock, BlackRock controls about, uh, $7 trillion themselves

00:11:09.720 of investment money, but they're used by the fed, the, the European central bank, um, as

00:11:18.240 their, as their system.

00:11:21.740 Okay.

00:11:22.160 So money is flowing through BlackRock at about half of all of the money on earth is flowing

00:11:29.700 through that.

00:11:30.080 It's like $25 trillion.

00:11:32.760 That's a lot of control and a lot of money.

00:11:35.740 Yeah.

00:11:35.980 BlackRock just instituted a new policy that said, if your, um, if your company, uh, profits

00:11:43.640 are, um, uh, 25% come from the use or the sales of any, uh, fossil.

00:11:52.160 Fuel, you will be shut down unless you have a, um, unless you have a plan for what you're

00:12:02.420 going to do for climate change.

00:12:04.420 Okay.

00:12:05.060 So that's $21 billion going or trillion dollars going through this system privately.

00:12:13.980 So you're going to start to see things of public private partnerships that are going to start

00:12:22.000 insisting that you do certain things.

00:12:25.020 Otherwise you're not going to be in compliance, not with the government, but with the banking

00:12:29.980 system or with whomever.

00:12:31.900 Isn't that what fascism is?

00:12:32.820 Isn't it Mussolini who said that fascism is actually corporatism because it's the wedding

00:12:37.840 of government and corporate power.

00:12:39.240 Yes, it is.

00:12:40.440 If you're anti-fascist, you're on the wrong side.

00:12:43.740 Right.

00:12:44.100 Right.

00:12:44.520 And these are the people who say that they are anti-fascist and that's why they're against

00:12:48.880 Donald Trump and conservatives because they're anti-fascist.

00:12:51.700 Correct.

00:12:52.000 And yet they cheer for Amazon when they de-platform Parler, Google, Apple, doing all of those things.

00:12:57.900 They're very much for the wedding of corporate and government power to achieve their means.

00:13:02.080 Look at the stock market.

00:13:02.980 Last week when the capital was under attack, one of the things about America we've always

00:13:08.940 done so well is because we have stable laws and a stable culture.

00:13:14.000 Okay.

00:13:15.000 The stock market should go down when there is an attack on the capital.

00:13:21.040 Remember, we shut the stock market down for a week after 9-11 because it was so unstable.

00:13:27.520 The stock market went up, up.

00:13:31.080 They came out today, Credit Suisse came out today and said that the profits of giant corporations

00:13:38.640 is going to be really good in the next 12 months.

00:13:42.280 Of course it is.

00:13:43.500 Right.

00:13:43.860 Because that's part of the system.

00:13:46.720 It's the little guy that is going to get really hurt.

00:13:50.700 And by the spending that is coming from Washington, if you've played by the rules, if you've saved

00:13:58.960 your money, the value of your money is going to go down dramatically.

00:14:04.660 So you could call it inflation, but it's really the deflation of the dollar that is going to

00:14:12.220 come rapidly and make a big impact in people's lives.

00:14:15.160 What's the purpose?

00:14:16.400 What's the purpose of all of this?

00:14:17.500 What's the goal?

00:14:21.060 I believe if you go to the World Economic Forum and you go to Agenda 2030 from the UN,

00:14:31.460 you will see all of these policies are there.

00:14:35.440 And it's to reset the globe into really a global partnership to get rid of all of these old 1.00

00:14:47.100 systems that no longer work and cooperate in a almost a government corporate run global

00:14:57.680 style government.

00:14:59.100 We'll still be the United States, but we're going to be a part of this, what the World

00:15:04.720 Economic Forum calls the Great Reset.

00:15:06.920 Yeah.

00:15:07.300 And it is, it's China.

00:15:10.480 Right.

00:15:10.680 It is truly China. 0.97

00:15:11.900 But it doesn't really, you know, we fear communism and rightly so, but it doesn't really sound

00:15:16.540 as much like communism as it does fascism.

00:15:18.960 Or is there just not very much daylight between the two things to where it looks like either?

00:15:22.760 I mean, communism is still what's happening in China, but I think it is fascism.

00:15:27.760 I mean, it's the communists have the party where a fascist usually is a leader.

00:15:32.820 Yeah.

00:15:33.220 You know what I mean?

00:15:33.840 But, you know, President Xi just made himself leader for life.

00:15:39.160 So what's the difference?

00:15:40.580 What's the difference?

00:15:41.300 Um, uh, but it is a public private partnership.

00:15:44.880 It is exactly Nazi Germany and you like this in Nazis, you can keep your company, you can 0.98

00:15:52.220 do whatever you want, but you have to do these things.

00:15:56.520 Yeah.

00:15:57.580 Yeah.

00:15:58.960 Have Republicans also played into this?

00:16:02.060 Have they helped facilitate this as well?

00:16:04.340 It's not just the Democrats fault, is it?

00:16:07.240 Oh yeah.

00:16:07.500 No, not at all.

00:16:08.580 The, the Republicans are at best useless.

00:16:12.460 Yeah.

00:16:12.740 Um, they haven't been standing up for constitutional principles.

00:16:15.840 They haven't stood up for cutbacks of spending, common sense.

00:16:21.120 I mean, Donald Trump, uh, the reason why people are so upset is because leader after leader,

00:16:27.380 after leader, election, after election, after election, we, we keep getting the same guy

00:16:31.620 with the same policies, you know?

00:16:33.560 And Donald Trump is the first one that says, no, I'm not going to do that.

00:16:37.960 Yeah.

00:16:38.200 And he didn't on so many things.

00:16:40.980 And even though you might've been tired or you, you were embarrassed by the way, you know,

00:16:46.400 some of the things he said or did, whatever, he was the only guy that was standing up for

00:16:51.620 you.

00:16:52.160 He was the only guy that you elected and said, I'll do these things.

00:16:56.600 And they're hard.

00:16:57.600 I didn't think, I didn't think Ted Cruz would actually move the, the embassy to Jerusalem.

00:17:02.780 They've been saying they're going to do that every politician since 1948.

00:17:07.080 Right.

00:17:08.180 He did it.

00:17:09.200 Yeah.

00:17:09.780 Um, and I, I think that's why people are so upset.

00:17:13.420 And where is that leader who is more acceptable, um, but listens to the people, knows, can hear

00:17:24.840 the people on what they, what they want.

00:17:27.700 Um, and we'll take the bullets.

00:17:30.540 I mean, that guy just bullet after bullet, after bullet, after bullet.

00:17:36.000 You said things are going to get worse before they get better.

00:17:39.460 I guess my fear is that there isn't a better, what you're describing is a conglomeration of

00:17:45.240 power that I don't see how I, or even millions of us, just common people can effectively ever

00:17:53.660 break up or push back against.

00:17:55.320 So what, what does better look like and how do you think that comes about, whether it's

00:18:00.740 in 10 years or a hundred?

00:18:03.460 So I'm guessing the people, um, in ancient times, uh, that had been made into bricks.

00:18:18.520 Um, you know, whenever the Bible talks about stones and bricks, people are stones.

00:18:26.720 They're all different.

00:18:28.620 Tyrants make everybody into bricks.

00:18:30.740 You're all the same.

00:18:31.860 You're interchangeable.

00:18:33.160 I got a million of them.

00:18:35.100 That one's broken.

00:18:36.080 Toss it out.

00:18:36.940 Okay.

00:18:37.860 God makes stones and it's harder to build stuff with stones because everything is different.

00:18:43.860 Um, so the tower of Babel, how are you going to stop that? 0.94

00:18:50.400 Those people were bricks.

00:18:52.400 You know, if you know the oral tradition, um, of that story, it's not an angry God that comes

00:18:59.080 down.

00:18:59.640 It's the compassionate side of God that comes down and is talking about the leadership and

00:19:06.300 saying, if they can do this, they will do anything.

00:19:08.740 Um, and especially we haven't seen anything from tech yet.

00:19:18.420 We, we, you haven't, you haven't seen anything, both good and bad.

00:19:24.040 Most people don't know.

00:19:25.900 We now have, what is it?

00:19:28.920 Uh, the third largest cause of blindness, uh, which is the cornea.

00:19:36.580 Uh, you need cornea replacement because it just fogs over and you can't see third largest

00:19:41.980 cause of blindness in the world.

00:19:44.360 Um, has just been cured, just been cured.

00:19:48.260 Wow.

00:19:48.580 Uh, it was cured in Israel and it's from high tech.

00:19:51.220 So the stuff that is great is coming, but also the oppression is coming.

00:19:57.820 And in the Tower of Babel, he confused our language and, uh, we couldn't speak to each

00:20:05.720 other.

00:20:06.600 And perhaps that comes, uh, in the, in a different form, seeing that we're ones and zeros and we

00:20:16.000 can't communicate like we could before.

00:20:18.760 I don't know, but it's God time.

00:20:24.460 Yeah.

00:20:24.980 It's God time.

00:20:25.660 And now's not the time to detach from family, to detach from community, to detach from your

00:20:33.000 church.

00:20:33.680 I've gotten a lot of messages from people saying, I just feel this pull towards, towards being

00:20:39.200 more grounded or something bigger than me.

00:20:41.500 All of this chaos that's going on in the world just gives me a desire for an anchor.

00:20:46.420 I'm like, that's not just superstition.

00:20:48.780 That is something that you need to listen to.

00:20:51.140 I mean, that is God himself calling you to himself and saying, look, the world is crazy.

00:20:57.600 You want steadfastness?

00:20:58.820 You want assurance?

00:20:59.700 You want to stay grounded in truth?

00:21:01.540 You need to come to me.

00:21:02.980 And that's what I encourage people.

00:21:04.720 I will tell you, uh, I could blame a lot of this on the media, on us, on education.

00:21:15.260 I put a lot of the blame on where we're at on the pulpits.

00:21:20.880 They have been silent for way too long.

00:21:24.140 They have stayed out of politics.

00:21:26.740 And I'm not talking about who to vote for.

00:21:29.700 I'm talking about principles to vote for.

00:21:33.340 And if they don't wake up, uh, the people are lost because they are looking for truth.

00:21:42.980 They're starving for truth.

00:21:45.760 And, um, we have, we have got to get back.

00:21:49.640 I don't think it's a coincidence that the left has made sure that we can't go to church.

00:21:55.520 Yeah.

00:21:56.020 You know, we can go to a riot, but we can't go to church or we can't sing in church.

00:22:00.880 30 days makes a habit.

00:22:03.380 How hard is it going to be to get people to go back after almost a year of not going to church?

00:22:11.420 It, I believe it was intentionally done to disrupt our families and disrupt our faith. 1.00

00:22:19.380 Mm-hmm.

00:22:20.220 Mm-hmm.

00:22:20.740 I mean, there's been a lot of work done on how totalitarian thrives in situations and nations in which people feel isolated.

00:22:28.280 They're not getting their principles, their values, their belonging, their purpose from anything higher than themselves.

00:22:32.840 So they look to the state.

00:22:34.300 It's what happened in Khmer Rouge. 0.55

00:22:35.480 It's what's happened everywhere.

00:22:37.340 It's what's happening now.

00:22:38.260 Right.

00:22:38.480 It's what's happening now.

00:22:39.780 Right.

00:22:40.000 And, you know, Billy Graham told me once we were talking and I said, where's the Billy Graham of this generation?

00:22:50.300 Where is the Abraham Lincoln?

00:22:52.620 Where's the George Washington?

00:22:54.440 And he gave me great hope and he said, it's not going to happen that way this time.

00:22:59.300 He said, this time what's coming is so big.

00:23:03.460 He said, there's not going to be one person.

00:23:10.380 It's going to be millions of people all over the earth that feel something and are instructed to do something.

00:23:20.140 And they're like, they'll have the argument that won't work.

00:23:23.800 That's not going to solve anything.

00:23:25.160 How is that?

00:23:26.120 I'm supposed to just do this.

00:23:28.820 Well, I need somebody else that has, you know, whatever.

00:23:31.580 And he said, if they obey that voice and they step out into the darkness and wait, pretty soon they'll hear somebody else in the darkness next to them.

00:23:45.240 And they'll say, who's that?

00:23:48.200 I don't know.

00:23:48.800 I'm just here because I was told to stand here and I've got this piece.

00:23:52.600 And all of a sudden the lights will come on and all of these pieces will snap together.

00:23:57.580 And he said, that way the world will know it's not man, it's God that fixed this.

00:24:05.320 Right.

00:24:05.740 That's why I tell people, even in these scary times, especially if you're a Christian couple, if you are married, have kids.

00:24:13.940 I know a lot of people don't want to have kids right now.

00:24:16.940 Well, it's not going to be us in our deathbeds that are fighting this fight.

00:24:21.420 It's going to be our kids and our grandkids.

00:24:23.440 And you need to ensure that there are kids who have been discipled by their parents, who have been instilled with right values by their parents, who can take up this cause by the time that they can.

00:24:34.720 I really love the picture you gave.

00:24:36.540 Everybody thinks that.

00:24:38.060 Everybody thinks that time's a trouble.

00:24:40.140 I don't want to have kids.

00:24:41.200 You have to have kids.

00:24:42.900 And as somebody who didn't want kids, then wanted one, then maybe two, and now have four, I regret all of the years I held back and didn't have kids.

00:24:57.720 There is nothing, there's nothing as you get to turn my age, nothing that means anything more than your kids and your grandkids.

00:25:06.760 Yeah, absolutely.

00:25:07.600 Well, thank you so much, Glenn.

00:25:08.560 Thank you for the work that you do and for the influence and legacy that you've created.

00:25:12.140 A lot of people empowered and emboldened just because of your voice.

00:25:15.600 So thank you for that.

00:25:16.580 Thank you for that.

00:25:17.780 I'm going to take the bike and ride away.

00:25:19.280 Okay, that's fine.

00:25:20.160 All right.

00:25:30.860 All right, guys.

00:25:31.740 Hope that you enjoyed that conversation with Glenn Beck.

00:25:35.060 Now I'm going to bring us back up and I am going to give us as Christians five tips that I think that we can apply every day of our lives that I believe humbly are supported by Scripture and can work to encourage our hearts and really equip us to actually do something.

00:25:53.740 Again, that's a question I get so often.

00:25:55.500 What do we do?

00:25:56.160 What do we do?

00:25:56.720 How do we move forward?

00:25:58.060 How do I feel like I am obeying the Lord in the midst of all of this?

00:26:02.720 There are so many questions about how we faithfully engage with culture and with policies that we may disagree with.

00:26:09.160 And like I said at the top of this episode, there are a lot of other tips and a lot of other practical advice that I could give you.

00:26:15.960 Not because, you know, I've lived this, you know, long life and have all the experience of wisdom in the world, but because I talk to people who have a lot of experience and I read people who have so much wisdom.

00:26:30.140 And I think God's word also gives us a lot of insight into this, a lot of timeless insight.

00:26:35.480 So here are my five tips.

00:26:37.600 Number one, decide ahead of time that you are going to follow Christ, whatever the cost.

00:26:43.620 There's a lot of talk right now about oncoming persecution.

00:26:49.560 And whenever non-Christians or I would say even people who identify as progressive Christians hear about conservative Christians talk about persecution, you roll your eyes and you say, that's not happening.

00:27:00.980 You're in a position of privilege and power in the United States.

00:27:03.580 You don't have to worry about persecution.

00:27:05.560 You're just being held accountable.

00:27:07.120 Well, we talked about that term held accountable on yesterday's podcast, and we studied the use of the term and what it actually means biblically and the words that we should actually be using as Christians if we want to rebuke and encourage one another as believers.

00:27:22.180 But if you talk about persecution as a Christian in America, you will get a lot of eye rolls.

00:27:26.440 And I think it's important for Christians in America to be really honest that, okay, Christians throughout the world, people of a variety of faiths throughout the world have received very serious persecution that we here in America have not received.

00:27:40.440 We have had the luxury, the blessing, the privilege, if you want to call it, of living in a predominantly Christian culture, if you could even call it completely Christian, maybe more deistic, is the right descriptor for American culture over the past couple hundred years. 0.77

00:27:59.520 So that's absolutely true.

00:28:00.900 We have not faced the kind of persecution that most of the church has faced for most of the church's history.

00:28:07.480 And we need to be able to keep that perspective.

00:28:10.840 That doesn't mean, though, that there hasn't been any persecution at all.

00:28:14.740 There is a spectrum of persecution.

00:28:17.060 Business owners who are targeted by people who say, okay, I know this is a Christian business owner, a Christian florist, for example, and they're not going to want to provide their services for my gay wedding.

00:28:32.800 I'm going to particularly seek services from this Christian florist, and I'm going to try to force them to provide their services at my wedding, even though their religious beliefs contradict our ceremony and our union as two men or two women. 1.00

00:28:52.380 And then that Christian florist having to hire a lawyer and pay thousands and thousands of dollars and take her case to court just to be able to say that, hey, I should be free to conduct my business in a way that aligns with my values.

00:29:07.840 That is a form of persecution.

00:29:09.680 It's not the same as imprisonment.

00:29:11.480 No, of course not.

00:29:12.620 It's not the same as torture or being martyred or being taken away from your family because of your faith.

00:29:19.160 And we should never pretend that it is.

00:29:20.960 We understand that.

00:29:22.360 But any kind of restriction of being able to live freely, as long as you are not actually breaking any laws or actually physically harming someone, is a sort of restriction on your religious liberty that does count as a form of persecution.

00:29:43.360 So it's important for both sides of that debate to keep some perspective.

00:29:47.960 But a lot of Christians also feel like, OK, there's actually going to be a lot more intense persecution that comes to America for Christians.

00:29:57.580 And we will see about that.

00:29:58.860 I mean, there certainly is a wave of hostility towards Christians, lumping in Christians with, you know, every hostile actor that we see in the country trying to claim that Christian theology, that evangelical or conservative theology is harmful.

00:30:13.760 It's a threat and needs to be silenced in the name of public safety.

00:30:17.860 I mean, we already see the writing on the wall.

00:30:20.820 And so a lot of Christians do fear that kind of pushback in that kind of opposition.

00:30:25.180 And I believe rightly so.

00:30:27.020 So this first tip that I'm giving speaks to that.

00:30:30.220 It speaks to that concern, which I think is a legitimate concern.

00:30:34.080 Decide ahead of time that you are going to follow Christ, whatever the cost.

00:30:39.900 Luke 14, 27 through 28.

00:30:42.040 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 0.88

00:30:46.400 For which of you desiring to build a tower does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it.

00:30:54.180 So Jesus said, look, before you become my disciple, know that this isn't going to be easy.

00:30:59.440 Know that this isn't going to be convenient.

00:31:01.040 It's not meant to be comfortable.

00:31:02.300 It's not meant to be secure.

00:31:03.640 It's not meant to be safe.

00:31:04.720 He is talking about taking up a method of crucifixion in order to follow him.

00:31:11.920 And he says, before you follow me, understand the cost that this is going to, or the payment that this is going to cost you.

00:31:21.240 It's going to be a lot.

00:31:22.780 And so before you become my disciple, figure out if you are ready to take up your cross and follow me.

00:31:30.680 Charles Spurgeon preached a lot about the fear that Christians may have of suffering and death.

00:31:37.380 There is a fear, as we just talked about, of silencing, of oppression, of hostility, of suffering.

00:31:46.740 Charles Spurgeon spoke to this often in his sermons.

00:31:49.940 He says, the antidote to the fear of death is to die daily.

00:31:54.820 And what he means by that is 1 Corinthians 15 31.

00:31:57.760 This is speaking of dying to ourselves, taking up the cross, as Jesus tells us to do, to lay down our old self, which Ephesians 4 22 says is corrupt through deceitful desires, to put away our sins, our selfishness, our self-interest, our vain ambition, our absolute addiction to comfort and convenience, our wants.

00:32:25.760 Everything the world tells us to prioritize and to cling to, and instead say to God, what Jesus

00:32:32.320 said to him, not my will, but your will be done.

00:32:36.100 Charles Spurgeon says this in a sermon in 1874, quote, the man who practices dying every day,

00:32:43.460 the man who has, as it were, a daily rehearsal of it will not be afraid of the reality when

00:32:48.100 it comes.

00:32:48.600 So die daily brothers and sisters in this fashion, get into the habit of so doing.

00:32:53.900 The next piece of advice I have, I have to give you is this hold very loosely to everything

00:32:59.580 on earth.

00:33:00.520 We ought to live in this world like lodgers at an inn.

00:33:03.200 You believer are only at an inn. 0.98

00:33:05.900 So do not fret about the little inconveniences here for you are to be off in the morning and

00:33:11.020 you may depend upon it that your father's carriage will be at the door at the right time.

00:33:15.340 So have everything packed up and ready for your departure.

00:33:18.840 Do not go buying a lot of lumber here for you cannot carry it with you.

00:33:22.380 Have very little and have it all ready.

00:33:24.880 And a very good thing is to send as much as you can on before you.

00:33:29.200 So die daily.

00:33:31.360 Be resolved now to take up your cross and follow Christ while it is safe to do so.

00:33:37.580 Let's go ahead and cast away our idols, our worldly cares, our pet sins that the Bible 1.00

00:33:42.860 says so easily entangle our addiction to serving ourselves.

00:33:46.700 Let's go ahead and let those things go because we can't take them with us and instead dedicate

00:33:52.600 ourselves fully to doing all and only that Jesus asks us to do.

00:33:58.460 That's number one.

00:33:59.560 That is committing ahead of time to following Christ no matter the cost.

00:34:04.520 Tip number two, refuse to accept or tell lies.

00:34:08.280 As you guys know, I have talked to Roger on this podcast who wrote the book, Live Not

00:34:13.320 By Lies.

00:34:14.600 And he talks about a Soviet dissident.

00:34:16.540 And that was this Soviet dissident's advice to people is to live not by lies.

00:34:21.540 That was the commitment he made when he was suffering real persecution and real oppression

00:34:26.300 and the real threat of imprisonment and torture and death when he was living in the early days

00:34:33.500 of the Soviet Union and his commitment to himself, to other Christians was to live not by lies,

00:34:42.420 not to accept lies and not to tell lies, not to believe lies, not to propagate lies.

00:34:49.880 Colossians 3, 8 through 10 says,

00:34:51.540 But now you must put them all away, anger, wrath, malice, slander, and obscene talk from your mouth.

00:34:58.880 Do not lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices

00:35:02.440 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its

00:35:06.260 creator.

00:35:07.540 Ephesians 5, 8 through 10.

00:35:09.340 For at one time you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.

00:35:12.600 Walk as children of light, for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right

00:35:17.540 and true.

00:35:18.500 And try to discern what is pleasing to the Lord.

00:35:21.360 John 14, 6.

00:35:22.380 Jesus said to him,

00:35:23.240 I am the way and the truth and the life.

00:35:26.000 No one comes to the Father except through me.

00:35:28.400 Titus 1, 1 through 2.

00:35:29.700 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's

00:35:34.240 elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness in hope of eternal life,

00:35:38.800 which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began.

00:35:43.460 So what does this mean practically?

00:35:45.720 Well, first, when it comes to our walk with Christ, we align our lives and our beliefs as

00:35:53.880 exactly as possible to the word of God.

00:35:57.440 If you want to know why we believe the Bible, why we believe that scripture is inerrant,

00:36:01.420 why it actually isn't just a collection of writings by men, but it's inspired by the

00:36:05.020 Holy Spirit, why we do believe it is the word of God.

00:36:08.320 I will link a talk by Vodhi Bauckham, which has been very helpful for a lot of people that

00:36:13.460 I encourage you to watch and to listen to.

00:36:16.080 It also means that we trust God and his word to be sufficient for life in godliness.

00:36:21.680 The Holy Spirit, the wisdom that he has revealed to us in his word is sufficient for life and

00:36:28.180 for godliness.

00:36:29.780 This also means in other ways.

00:36:31.660 Well, actually, let me add on one more thing to what that means in our Christian life.

00:36:36.320 It also means that there's no more time for bad theology.

00:36:40.220 There's no more time to go to a church that is not preaching the gospel that we see revealed

00:36:45.260 to us in scripture.

00:36:46.060 There is not time to go to a church that is not boldly proclaiming the inerrant word of

00:36:52.080 God.

00:36:52.580 There's not enough time for that anymore, okay?

00:36:54.920 It's urgent for us to be under sound teaching and sound doctrine.

00:37:01.580 In other ways, what it means to not live by lies.

00:37:05.140 Do not immediately believe headlines.

00:37:07.660 Do not automatically buy into mainstream narratives.

00:37:10.260 Do not just accept that which confirms your biases.

00:37:13.360 That includes when you listen to me.

00:37:15.200 I tell you guys often, please fact check me.

00:37:18.960 Don't let me be the only source that you are listening to because we all have biases.

00:37:23.500 We all have blind spots and I'm constantly asking God to reveal my blind spots to me.

00:37:28.000 Show me where my partisanship has blinded me to biblical truth or blinded me to objective

00:37:33.080 reality.

00:37:34.160 Show me where I'm wrong.

00:37:35.220 I don't want to spend my life being wrong and lead other people in the wrong direction.

00:37:39.680 And unfortunately, none of us are carriers of infallible truth unless we are just speaking

00:37:44.260 plainly the word of God, which is infallible.

00:37:47.200 But even then, we are fallible vessels.

00:37:50.620 And be very wary of people who claim to be infallible vessels, who claim to be the objective

00:37:58.180 source of all facts, who say that they don't share their opinions, they don't have any biases,

00:38:04.340 that they're only telling you the truth, that they are either the arbiter or the completely

00:38:09.860 unbiased source of truth.

00:38:11.740 We all have biases.

00:38:13.960 It is better for us to own them, to say where we're coming from.

00:38:17.620 You guys know I'm a conservative Christian and that's where I'm coming from.

00:38:21.640 That doesn't mean that I am going to throw out truth that doesn't agree with me.

00:38:25.940 But you guys know what perspective I'm coming from.

00:38:28.880 And that's why I encourage you to have a range of voices and perspectives in your life.

00:38:35.080 But anyone who is telling you not to listen to anyone else, that they are the sole source

00:38:39.880 that you should be listening to.

00:38:41.800 Any infallible human that says that, you need to be very wary of them.

00:38:46.000 People ask me also what news I read.

00:38:48.180 I read a variety.

00:38:49.080 I read the New York Times.

00:38:50.080 I read the Washington Post.

00:38:51.280 I read Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Blaze.

00:38:53.900 I read multiple sources for the same story.

00:38:56.040 If it is a court case or if it's a piece of legislation, you can always read those.

00:39:02.220 You can always read the original text online.

00:39:05.240 They're public.

00:39:06.400 I need to personally do a better job of keeping up with local news.

00:39:09.520 I'm so focused on national news because that's what I try to analyze and deliver to you guys.

00:39:15.220 But I need to do a better job of focusing on what's happening around me.

00:39:20.300 That can be done online.

00:39:21.280 It can also be done in your local newspaper.

00:39:24.040 It can also be done by just knowing your community.

00:39:27.360 That is something that I need to focus more on.

00:39:30.060 Usually, I'm a little bit too broad and too national in my focus of what's going on.

00:39:37.160 The reality is most of the policies that really affect our lives are happening on a local and

00:39:42.420 state level.

00:39:43.040 And so I am with you.

00:39:44.900 If you are someone who feels that you need to get better at that, I need to get better at

00:39:48.740 that too.

00:39:49.220 So living not by lies also means we don't automatically believe politicians, Democrat or

00:39:56.040 Republican, scrutinize everything they say, ask questions about their policy proposals and

00:40:01.560 promises.

00:40:02.620 Why?

00:40:03.300 How?

00:40:04.020 How much?

00:40:05.140 What will the consequences of this be?

00:40:06.720 What are the pros and cons?

00:40:08.120 Has there been other legislation?

00:40:09.980 Have there been other proposals like this?

00:40:12.280 Have they worked?

00:40:13.120 Were there any detrimental effects of it?

00:40:17.440 And why are we reiterating it?

00:40:19.180 These all need to be asked whenever we hear a politician talk, whenever we see them open

00:40:25.380 their mouths.

00:40:27.080 It also means rejecting any worldly ideologies that try to wedge themselves into our theology

00:40:34.260 and worldview, like critical theory and intersectionality.

00:40:38.120 And we have explained and talked about so many times on this podcast very thoroughly what

00:40:43.420 these things are.

00:40:44.200 So I won't even get to that right now, but I will link the past episodes where we talk

00:40:48.820 about these things thoroughly in the description.

00:40:50.700 So you guys can listen to them if you haven't already.

00:40:53.560 These are bad trees that bear bad fruit and they are in their entirety incongruent with biblical 1.00

00:41:00.420 Christianity.

00:41:01.400 So that means that we reject the lie that everyone who is white is an oppressor and everyone who is

00:41:07.720 not white is oppressed.

00:41:08.820 That means that we reject this idea of collective repentance for ancestral sin.

00:41:14.120 That means we reject any vehicle of so-called reconciliation that is not the gospel.

00:41:19.680 That means we reject worldly notions of justice in exchange for biblical ones. 0.88

00:41:23.440 That doesn't mean that we don't seek justice.

00:41:25.120 That doesn't mean that we don't actually repent of our sins and seek unity under biblical

00:41:30.060 truth, because of course we do.

00:41:31.540 But we don't replace the biblical means and the biblical vehicles for unity with worldly

00:41:37.700 means and worldly vehicles.

00:41:40.860 That means also that we reject when we talked about rejecting bad theology, we reject this

00:41:47.340 idea that America is a modern day Israel and that all the promises in the Bible are actually

00:41:55.040 not about the universal church, but are actually about the United States, that the country that

00:41:59.700 was prophesied about in the Old Testament is America.

00:42:04.360 That is also a false teaching that we need to reject in its entirety.

00:42:09.960 That is typically associated with people on the right.

00:42:12.860 Some people call that Christian nationalism.

00:42:14.900 We will talk about that very thoroughly again soon.

00:42:18.820 But that idea is also false.

00:42:20.940 Whether you're talking about the prosperity gospel or progressive Christianity, all of these

00:42:25.340 things give you a new gospel that is incongruent with the gospel that is given to us in scripture.

00:42:33.060 So we reject those lies in favor of what God tells us is good and right and true.

00:42:38.780 Living not by lies also means rejecting the lies in how we speak.

00:42:44.720 For example, Christians will not bear false witness by calling a man a woman or a woman or a man

00:42:50.980 are using the words that are associated with the opposite sex.

00:42:54.280 That is a lie.

00:42:55.620 That is to intentionally rebel against God's design, which in Genesis 1 he calls very good.

00:43:01.860 If we cannot affirm Genesis 1 as Christians, we are kidding ourselves if we think we will 0.99

00:43:07.200 continue to affirm the rest of scripture.

00:43:09.540 If we can't even accept general revelation, which is truth revealed to everyone through nature,

00:43:15.240 as male and female biology is, we're kidding ourselves if we think we will continue to believe

00:43:19.520 a special revelation, which is that which is revealed to us in scripture and through Jesus

00:43:23.780 Christ.

00:43:24.660 If you want to know more about the gender topic specifically, I will also link to episode 355

00:43:32.240 of the biblical telos of gender.

00:43:34.320 Also read Love Thy Body by Nancy Piercy.

00:43:37.460 This also means we are still in point number two, tip number two.

00:43:41.800 It also means rejecting the little lies that we tell ourselves every day.

00:43:46.700 I do this.

00:43:47.700 We all do this.

00:43:48.400 Oh, I didn't have time to read my Bible today.

00:43:50.780 I really needed that extra 30 minutes of sleep.

00:43:53.420 Oh, I didn't need to share the gospel with that person, even though I felt that I should,

00:43:58.320 but it was fine that I just smiled at them and it was nice to them.

00:44:01.540 Saying that we're on our way to something when we're really not.

00:44:04.760 Making excuses that aren't grounded in reality.

00:44:07.520 Exaggerating something for attention or for effect that isn't really true.

00:44:11.940 We need to resist telling those little lies every day.

00:44:15.320 If we want to stay grounded and truth, it's the only thing that's going to keep us sane

00:44:19.980 in this postmodern world that can't tell you when life begins, can't tell you what truth

00:44:24.460 is, can't tell you what right and wrong is, can't tell you what male and female is. 0.78

00:44:27.820 The only way that we are going to stay grounded and stay sane is a dogged insistence upon,

00:44:35.100 a dogged pursuit of that which is absolutely true.

00:44:39.940 Big lies, little lies.

00:44:42.740 We have to do with the power of the Holy Spirit, everything we can to reject them completely.

00:44:48.700 Tip number three, speak up about that which is true.

00:44:51.960 So to your family, to your church, to your friends, if it's bad curriculum, if it's false

00:44:57.400 theology, if it's bad ideas, anything which is not true that you hear, say something.

00:45:02.820 Say something kindly.

00:45:04.080 Say something humbly.

00:45:05.500 Be curious about what the other person is saying.

00:45:08.360 A lot of times people ask me, how do I talk to my friend who is posting this that I know

00:45:11.860 isn't true?

00:45:12.440 How do I talk to my professor?

00:45:14.020 How do I talk to my teacher?

00:45:15.140 How do I talk to my kids teacher of the school board or my pastor, the elders at my church,

00:45:20.040 because I think they're preaching or teaching or talking about something which isn't true.

00:45:24.340 What do I do?

00:45:25.340 What do I say to this argument?

00:45:26.980 I get that a lot.

00:45:28.060 And I always, my first tip is always to start by asking questions rather than only giving opposition.

00:45:35.200 There's a time for opposition, but they're, uh, first you ask questions.

00:45:41.340 You try to get on the same page with someone by having them define their terms.

00:45:46.840 So if someone is talking about racial justice, ask them what they mean by racial justice.

00:45:51.520 Maybe you agree on it.

00:45:52.400 Maybe you don't.

00:45:53.020 If someone says social justice, ask them what you mean by social justice.

00:45:56.560 If they say oppression, liberation, um, love, hate, all of these things, ask them specifically

00:46:02.360 what they mean by that, weigh their definition against factual reality or against the word

00:46:07.760 of God or both, and see if you can try to get on the same page about what words mean before

00:46:12.920 you move forward in a conversation.

00:46:14.140 If you can't, that means you're operating on two different planes.

00:46:17.440 And that is when you start to, unfortunately, you have to kind of quibble with words.

00:46:22.160 That's when you start to push back on their perspective in general.

00:46:24.800 And what perspective is leading them to perhaps have false definitions of terms.

00:46:30.580 It also means, uh, being, uh, being aware yourself.

00:46:34.080 So I have a list of resources that I recommend, um, on my website,

00:46:39.440 allybethstucky.com slash blog slash, uh, recommended dash resources.

00:46:45.240 I'll link it, uh, in the, in the description, but it also means knowing what you're talking

00:46:51.420 about.

00:46:51.660 So if you are talking to your pastor or your friend or whatever about, um, something that

00:46:58.420 you disagree on, make sure that you have resources and facts to back yourself up, uh, approach

00:47:03.660 it in a humble and a godly and a kind and a curious way.

00:47:07.360 Ask them if they are willing to read or listen to some of the resources and perspectives that

00:47:12.160 you have and tell them that you are also willing to do the same.

00:47:16.720 Now, what I want us to remember that as you speak up about that, which is true and all

00:47:20.760 the spheres big and small in which God has placed you, um, your goal is not agreement

00:47:27.060 with that person.

00:47:28.360 Okay.

00:47:28.620 Your goal is obedience to the Lord.

00:47:30.780 And if that means kindly, gently, humbly speaking the truth in love about that, which

00:47:36.820 you know is biblically true, that which you know is scientifically true, historically true,

00:47:40.780 whatever it is in whatever sphere you're in, um, your goal is obedience, not agreement.

00:47:45.800 So your responsibility at the end of that conversation or whatever it is, is not to compromise, is

00:47:51.640 not to give in, to not to give any validation to their points if they did not give you any

00:47:56.260 valid points.

00:47:57.220 Now, if they change your mind on something, if you figured out that you were actually wrong

00:48:01.660 on an issue, then you admit that and you say, thank you so much.

00:48:04.980 I didn't realize that.

00:48:05.940 You've really opened my eyes, whatever.

00:48:07.500 In all things, humility, but also all things confidence in the Lord and confidence in truth.

00:48:12.540 You do not have to compromise in order to be a peacemaker.

00:48:16.080 That's really important.

00:48:17.040 I think for us to understand, uh, Martin Luther said truth at all costs, peace, if possible,

00:48:22.900 um, we do everything we can to pursue peace.

00:48:26.100 As far as it depends on you, the Bible says that does not mean compromising on that, which

00:48:31.360 you know is true, which the Bible tells us is true, which history, which facts, which

00:48:36.300 data tell us, uh, is true.

00:48:39.460 Number four, engage in immediate obedience.

00:48:43.060 So a lot of people ask me, well, what do I do?

00:48:45.740 I see a lot of problems in our culture and I don't know how to stand up to it.

00:48:49.380 Well, God might call you to do something mighty in public one day.

00:48:53.140 You might be speaking before Congress about an issue.

00:48:56.800 You might start a podcast.

00:48:57.940 You might give a speech.

00:48:59.080 You might speak to your school board.

00:49:00.800 You might be speaking in front of state legislators.

00:49:03.000 You might have, you know, some kind of biblical, godly confrontation with the pastor or the

00:49:10.300 leadership in your church about something false that's being taught, or it might just

00:49:15.140 mean, and while it always does mean, um, and it may be in addition to those things though,

00:49:21.520 uh, immediate obedience with what is right in front of us.

00:49:25.420 So that will mean doing our work as employees, uh, with joy and with integrity, with grit,

00:49:34.100 doing our homework, doing our projects, taking tests with joy, integrity, gratitude, and grit,

00:49:40.520 changing diapers, cleaning dishes, uh, mopping floors, uh, loving our kids, loving our husbands,

00:49:48.080 helping those around us, doing all of those things with honesty, with joy, with integrity.

00:49:54.720 And, uh, with a commitment to hard work, those, you know, I just love those people.

00:50:00.920 If you, you go to the grocery store, the cashier is joyful and glad to be there and glad to,

00:50:08.560 uh, be talking to you and doing their job or whether it's a lawyer that loves their job

00:50:16.740 and is grateful for the opportunity to be able to do what she does, uh, whatever it is.

00:50:21.620 I love people, no matter their station in life, who joyfully work, who have good attitudes when

00:50:29.460 they work, no matter how, uh, nitty gritty or unglamorous what they're doing might seem

00:50:35.160 to the world.

00:50:36.180 If you have an endeavor, uh, that you are working hard in, that you can do honestly,

00:50:41.280 and that is benefiting the people around you, that can be done to the glory of God, whether

00:50:46.140 you're getting paid for it or whether you're doing it in the home, whether it's volunteer

00:50:49.420 work, all of that can be done to the glory of God.

00:50:52.400 Colossians 3, 17, and whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the

00:50:57.780 Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God, the father through him.

00:51:00.960 God is always calling us to be obedient and what is right in front of us in our homes, in

00:51:06.480 these close circles in our life.

00:51:07.560 He might bring us to bigger spheres of influence in order to make change or to, you know, stand

00:51:12.860 up for truth.

00:51:14.100 But every day, every second, he is calling us to be obedient with what is right in front

00:51:19.560 of us.

00:51:19.840 And so when you feel like you're doing, you're not doing enough, forget about that.

00:51:24.020 If you are being obedient with what's right in front of you, whether it's changing a diaper

00:51:27.880 or whether it's making a huge decision for your entire company, uh, that is enough.

00:51:33.040 Romans 16, 25 through 27, now to him who is able to strengthen you, according to my gospel

00:51:38.640 and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was

00:51:42.340 kept secret for long ages, but has been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been

00:51:47.400 made known to all nations, according to the command of the eternal God to bring about the

00:51:51.360 obedience of faith to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ.

00:51:57.660 Amen.

00:51:58.100 Then last tip, number five, this is what Glenn and I talked about, have kids or influence

00:52:04.340 the next generation.

00:52:05.840 I should say, and, or influence the next generation.

00:52:08.680 A lot of you understandably are concerned about having kids.

00:52:12.240 You're like, this world is so messed up.

00:52:13.820 I don't want to have kids right now.

00:52:15.180 This is a terrible time to have kids.

00:52:16.860 I'm not going to have kids.

00:52:17.580 The Bible doesn't really give us that option.

00:52:20.040 The church, Christians, people in general have gone through really, really hard times throughout

00:52:24.820 history.

00:52:25.800 And the only time we see in the Bible is, I think it's, I think it's chapter 25 of Matthew

00:52:31.500 when Jesus is talking about the, the, uh, he's talking about the hard times to come.

00:52:37.400 Woe to those who are pregnant or nursing, uh, during this time. 1.00

00:52:41.720 Um, other than that, the Bible doesn't really give us permission, uh, to not, if we can, if

00:52:48.280 we are physically able, um, as Christian married people to have children, Psalm 127, um, he

00:52:55.440 doesn't give us permission to not have children.

00:52:57.120 If we are in those contexts, Psalm 127, three through five, behold, children are a heritage

00:53:02.400 from the Lord, the fruit of the womb, a reward like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the

00:53:07.580 children of one's youth.

00:53:08.540 Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them.

00:53:10.800 He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

00:53:15.660 If we, uh, think that America is about to go through hard times, if we are afraid of

00:53:21.540 the threat of our Liberty, if we're afraid of Christian persecution and this last 10 years,

00:53:27.260 a hundred years, whatever it is, who's going to be pushing back against the darkness when

00:53:32.200 we're a 90 years old on, on our deathbed.

00:53:34.500 It's not going to be us.

00:53:35.820 If there are not Christian children and grandchildren and great grandchildren that are carrying the 1.00

00:53:42.180 torch of the gospel who are pushing back against darkness in a gospel and loving, uh, and Christ

00:53:49.560 like way, it's, it can't just be us forever.

00:53:52.260 We can't be the last generation with that responsibility.

00:53:55.180 Like our responsibility is to equip our children with the love of the Lord, with the fear of

00:54:00.720 the Lord that leads to wisdom, that leads to boldness, to train them up in the way they

00:54:05.620 should go, as the Bible says, to love them with the love of Christ, to show them how to love other

00:54:11.620 people with the love of Christ and to be firm in the truth, to live, not by lies, to be obedient

00:54:16.340 with what's right in front of them.

00:54:17.980 It can't just end with us.

00:54:19.240 It can't stop with us.

00:54:21.640 Um, and you might not be in a position to have kids either.

00:54:24.460 You cannot have children.

00:54:26.420 You are unable to, you're not married.

00:54:29.600 And so that's not the situation that you're in.

00:54:31.420 God doesn't call everyone to that.

00:54:32.520 And we need to be really honest.

00:54:33.960 That's not the precipice of the, uh, that's not the, the peak of Christian life.

00:54:38.860 The peak of Christian life is not getting married and having kids. 0.99

00:54:41.460 These are blessings.

00:54:43.060 Uh, but the apostle Paul even talks about how singleness is a gift because you can dedicate

00:54:47.520 your entire time to ministry.

00:54:49.940 And so if you are not in a position to have kids, you are not, uh, missing out.

00:54:54.700 If that is not what God has called you to, you can still disciple and influence the next

00:55:00.900 generation without having kids of your own.

00:55:04.060 And I think that, um, if you are a Christ follower and he has equipped you to be able

00:55:09.320 to influence the next generation, you should seek opportunities to do that because there

00:55:13.980 are a lot of people, there are a lot of kids, a lot of teens out there who don't have parents

00:55:18.520 who are discipling them, who don't have parents who are leaving them in the truth.

00:55:21.340 And maybe God is going to use you to be a Christ-like influence on a child's life, on a teenager's

00:55:28.480 life, to disciple them and to spur them on to love in good works.

00:55:32.480 So those are my five tips.

00:55:34.180 Number one, decide ahead of time, decide right now that you are going to follow Christ.

00:55:40.780 Number two, refuse to accept or to tell lies.

00:55:44.800 Number three, speak up about that, which is true.

00:55:48.260 Number four, engage in immediate obedience.

00:55:51.800 And number five, have kids and or influence the next generation with, with that, which

00:55:59.560 is true.

00:56:00.400 All right.

00:56:00.980 That's all we have for today.

00:56:02.860 Thank you guys so much for listening.

00:56:06.260 Uh, tomorrow I'm going to be talking to representative Dan Crenshaw.

00:56:10.100 We'll be talking about inauguration and what we can expect and, um, a bunch of issues that

00:56:15.200 you guys would like insight into from him.

00:56:19.320 So looking forward to that conversation.

00:56:20.820 I will see you guys then.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 20, 2021

Ep 355 ｜ Five Things to Do Amid Oncoming Opposition ｜ Guest： Glenn Beck

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