Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - October 04, 2018


Ep 43 ｜ God's Sovereignty


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32 minutes

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192.49127

Word Count

6,197

Sentence Count

385

Misogynist Sentences

6

Hate Speech Sentences

12


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Hey guys, what's up? Welcome to Relatable. It's Ali, your host. This is a podcast by CRTV. You
00:00:07.160 can subscribe to CRTV.com slash Ali to watch this. So, okay, we have been talking non-stop
00:00:13.600 about Kavanaugh, and I do kind of want to take just a little break, just take a step back,
00:00:19.060 talk about something much bigger, much more transcendent, because I don't know about you
00:00:23.900 guys, but I've gotten super caught up in all of this. Like, I think that's part of why I'm sick,
00:00:30.680 because I'm so distraught over all of this. I've told you guys who follow me on Instagram just how
00:00:36.500 worked up I've been about it, how anxious I've been, how I've just had this kind of pit in my
00:00:41.280 stomach, and I felt ill, like sick to my stomach over all of this, just seeing this man's life
00:00:48.300 ruined by unsubstantiated claims. On Tuesday, I played you the testimonies of both Ford and Kavanaugh
00:00:55.120 and how believable they were, but then we went through why only Kavanaugh, with the evidence
00:01:00.220 that we have right now, is credible. Now, as you guys know, oh, by the way, I'm going to give you
00:01:05.940 a little bit of an update, as you can see on Kavanaugh, and then we're going to take a step back
00:01:09.980 and talk about something a little bit bigger, but I do want to give you an update of what I have right
00:01:14.160 now. So there's an FBI investigation that's going on, but it doesn't seem to be going in the way the
00:01:20.480 Democrats want it to go. Senator Feinstein, you know, who started this whole thing, put out a
00:01:25.540 statement this week saying, oh, the findings of the FBI should not be made public. It's too sensitive of
00:01:30.800 information. That is left speak for, oh, this isn't going the way that we wanted it to go, so I don't
00:01:38.900 want this to be publicized. That's hilarious. I hope to God that they are publicized so we can know
00:01:46.400 the truth, because at the end of the day, while I have my opinions, while I can look at the
00:01:51.120 corroboration, where I can look at the evidence at hand and say, okay, all of the evidence of truth
00:01:56.700 is pointing in Kavanaugh's direction. At the end of the day, I was not there. You were not there in 1982.
00:02:01.700 We do not know. We don't know the entire truth. So if we're going to have this FBI investigation,
00:02:08.900 which of course I've always thought, I've always thought it's just a delay tactic by the Democrats,
00:02:14.400 but if we're going to have it, we need to know, the public needs to know what they found for better
00:02:19.740 or for worse. If they find, if all of the arrows turn the other direction and point towards Ford's
00:02:25.320 direction and says, you know what, this actually did happen, then I will have the responsibility to
00:02:31.640 change my opinion. Ultimately, this isn't about partisanship as much as right now I want Kavanaugh
00:02:38.540 confirmed. If it comes out that he truly perjured himself, that he truly did this thing and he lied
00:02:46.180 about it, then of course I'm going to say, you know, he's disqualified from sitting on the Supreme
00:02:51.520 Court and we all should. We should all pledge allegiance to the truth rather than pledge allegiance
00:02:56.960 to one political party. And I'm ready and willing to do that. But as yet, all of the
00:03:01.540 corroboration, all of the substantiation, all of the validity is in Kavanaugh's court. And we
00:03:07.040 absolutely, the public absolutely has a right to see the findings of the FBI, whether it's good for
00:03:15.340 Kavanaugh or whether it's bad for Kavanaugh. So I don't want to hear any of this from Senator
00:03:19.400 Feinstein that this is too sensitive of information. I guarantee you if the findings implicate Kavanaugh,
00:03:24.680 we are going to see every single dirty detail. Now, if they don't implicate Kavanaugh, I wouldn't
00:03:30.120 be surprised if we only see just a select few details or maybe we won't see it at all. That's
00:03:36.960 just kind of how it goes. And if you've noticed the narrative and how it is being pushed and who
00:03:42.500 it is being pushed by over the past few days about Kavanaugh, you see just how desperate they are to
00:03:48.700 paint him as this belligerent drunk who cannot be trusted and who is unfit to sit on the Supreme
00:03:54.480 Court. Part of why they are doing that is because they want to make it seem like he got so drunk on
00:03:59.460 a regular basis that there's no way that we could trust whether or not he remembers actually
00:04:04.460 assaulting Christine Ford. And also to say that he lied under oath because he did say
00:04:10.060 he's never gotten drunk to the point of passing out. He's never gotten drunk to the point of blacking
00:04:17.620 out. He's never gotten drunk to the point of misremembering things. And there are people coming
00:04:21.760 out saying, well, actually he drank a lot, but it's going to be very difficult to prove that he
00:04:26.480 didn't actually black out and that he indeed or that he did black out and that he did lie
00:04:32.140 about that blacking out because it's so subjective. How can someone else say that someone blacked out?
00:04:37.120 That'd be very hard to do. But that's the narrative that they're trying to push. One, that he was so
00:04:42.240 drunk that he probably did assault her and just doesn't remember. Or two, that he lied about it and that he
00:04:47.420 got drunk all the time and that he didn't remember anything. He did say under oath that he drank too
00:04:53.580 much. But like I said, he did say that he never drank to the point of passing out. And so that's
00:04:59.420 what the FBI is trying to figure out right now. But the narrative that is being pushed on social media
00:05:05.480 and by the media is, see, he's just this belligerent drunk. There's this story that is
00:05:12.320 headlining across everything, um, about him throwing ice in 1985. So I think that would have
00:05:19.620 been when he was in college, he threw ice at a bar fight and that shows how he's just a horrible
00:05:24.500 person. Um, it's just, it's hilarious, really ice ice. And you're going to say that that means that
00:05:31.200 he's some bad guy. Also, this whole argument is very disingenuous. Um, saying because some people are
00:05:37.960 saying because he used to be belligerent and because he used to be a drunk, well, that makes
00:05:42.560 him unfit because character matters. Well, we have the past 30 years of his record to show that he is
00:05:51.860 the right temperament, that he is one of the most qualified judges to ever be nominated to the Supreme
00:05:58.260 Court. He has sat on the second highest court in the land for years. He has been doing this for
00:06:03.640 decades and people on both sides of the aisle say that he is impartial, say that he is kind, that he
00:06:10.340 is fair, that he is a good, smart, thoughtful judge, both sides of the aisle, by the way. Um, but we're
00:06:18.020 going to say, Oh, let's just forget all of that. Let's look back 35 years and say, Oh no, he's unfit.
00:06:24.400 How many of us would be unfit if we were judged unfit for anything? If we were judged by what we did in
00:06:29.940 high school, I would never get a job again. Just be, I mean, I didn't drink in high school, but I
00:06:34.360 was just stupid. Like I'm sure I said stupid stuff in high school and college that could implicate me
00:06:40.320 for anything. Now we all do, um, because we're idiots. So like I said, if he lied about all of this
00:06:47.680 stuff, that's one thing I do think that that's disqualifying. And if he had a pattern of sexual
00:06:51.660 assault, I think that that is disqualifying. But as of now, we don't have that evidence. And yet the
00:06:57.340 media and social media, Twitter included, um, is pushing a narrative and helping push a narrative
00:07:03.980 to change public opinion. So you will call your Senator and have your Senator vote. No. Um,
00:07:08.600 I hope Republicans are seeing through that. I hope conservatives are seeing through that.
00:07:12.720 I hope you see that this is a giant smear campaign against him. They do not care. They don't care
00:07:19.020 about ruining his life. Um, the media is really working overtime, but Mitch McConnell, he's the majority
00:07:25.300 whip, um, in the Senate, he says that they are going to vote that, um, they are, you know,
00:07:31.720 the Democrats are moving their goal posts, which they absolutely are, but their real goal hasn't
00:07:36.900 changed, which is to leave this seat open until 2020. So I just wanted to update you on that. And
00:07:43.120 oh, by the way, if you have not seen the interview, the NBC interview with Julie Swetnick, who is Michael
00:07:48.540 Avenatti's client, who says that she witnessed Brett Kavanaugh gang raping, you should absolutely watch
00:07:54.440 it. I think that helps change the tide for Brett Kavanaugh in Brett Kavanaugh's favor because she
00:07:59.700 was so clearly lying. It was so obvious. Um, there's a, there's a clip of it up on media. I,
00:08:06.480 um, her body language awful. She couldn't remember what she said in her sworn testimony. And she
00:08:12.740 actually contradicted her sworn testimony, which is against the law. So I think she needs to be
00:08:17.540 punished for that. It needs, we need to figure out who's actually telling the truth. She said in her
00:08:22.420 sworn testimony, um, that she saw Brett Kavanaugh actually a part of this gang raping group and she
00:08:29.460 saw him spike punch. And then in the NBC interview, she said that she doesn't really know that, that he
00:08:34.720 might've just been by the people doing that, but he definitely was close to it. So which one is it?
00:08:40.220 Plus she couldn't even remember when she decided to come out about this. She also has other things
00:08:45.080 against her, like a falsely accusing men in the past. I think that she is a psychopath.
00:08:51.220 Every woman knows a Julie Swetnick. If you watch this interview, you're like, oh yeah,
00:08:55.760 I've known a Julie Swetnick before. I mean, this is someone who is clearly untrustworthy,
00:09:00.360 clearly shifty. Um, so that really has helped. Thank you so much, Michael Avenatti for helping
00:09:07.100 Kavanaugh get confirmed. I really appreciate that. Okay. I know I said that I was going to take a step
00:09:11.800 back from all of this and we are, we are, I just wanted to keep you updated because like I've said
00:09:16.260 before, this is the most politically significant moment in our lives. For those of us who were,
00:09:22.480 especially for those of us who were born after 1991, when Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill happened,
00:09:27.340 um, everyone that I've talked to a political and political has been just totally wrapped up in this,
00:09:33.940 uh, in this whole thing. It's just, it's a fascinating moment in political history. If you haven't
00:09:39.740 paid attention yet, I encourage you to go back a few episodes, follow along on what I've been
00:09:44.120 talking about, uh, with the, with the whole process and watch the testimonies for yourself.
00:09:50.340 Uh, read the evidence, read Rachel Mitchell's, uh, assessment of Ford's testimony, read it all,
00:09:56.020 um, and decide for yourself. Don't let me tell you, decide for yourself. I'm very confident that
00:10:00.340 the evidence is in Kavanaugh's decision or, uh, in Kavanaugh's direction. Just had to take a little
00:10:06.380 bit to think about it. Okay. Okay. So now that we're done with Kavanaugh for today, I want,
00:10:13.660 I just want to remind all of you what I've had to remind myself, even though it sounds so ridiculous
00:10:20.300 because it's just politics. Why are we so involved in it? Why are we so caught up in it? Why are we so
00:10:25.560 obsessed? Why do we let it kind of control our minds? But I've been guilty of allowing that to
00:10:30.400 happen. Even though this whole Kavanaugh thing is so significant, it's not worth, it's not worth
00:10:36.740 overtaking my mind and overtaking my life. It's not me worth actually getting sick over. Like
00:10:42.580 it's one thing to worry about it. It's one thing to be interested in it and to, you know,
00:10:47.700 pay attention to it. It's another thing to be so focused on it that I lose focus on the things that
00:10:53.240 are more important. And that is what I've allowed myself to do over the past week or so. And it's not
00:10:59.000 good because, you know, it affects your mental health. It affects your relationships. It affects
00:11:05.940 your relationship with God, most importantly. And so I just want to encourage you who are listening
00:11:11.780 to this, whom I have, I have probably been guilty of working you up over the past week. And maybe some
00:11:18.060 of that's good. Maybe you need to care a little bit more and not be apathetic, but I do not want to
00:11:23.040 be responsible for your anxiety. I do not want you to finish my podcast and be like, wow, every time
00:11:28.960 I finish Allie's podcast, I am just so angry or something. And I don't think that that's the
00:11:34.060 case, but in the past few podcasts, maybe so. I just want to remind you as someone who is
00:11:39.480 responsible for informing some of you and educating some of you on what's going on, the more transcendent
00:11:45.360 reality and the more important reality is that God is in control. And something that I have to remind
00:11:51.220 myself is that he's not just in control in the sense that he comes in after the fact to clean
00:11:57.140 everything up. Like God is not an ambulance. God is not a janitor. He doesn't come in to fix the mess
00:12:04.540 or to clean up the chaos. He's not here to solve problems. He ordained all of it. He is in control
00:12:12.980 of all of it. Like God, this is Miriam Jordan, who is one of my favorite Christian authors and
00:12:18.380 Christian teachers. She said something once, or maybe she wrote it in one of her books. She said,
00:12:23.640 God is not taking Maalox over your situation. He is not stressed out over your situation. He's not
00:12:29.920 anxious. He's not saying, Ooh, how is this going to turn out for Brett Kavanaugh? Or how is this
00:12:34.640 going to turn out for Allie Stuckier for any of you? He's in control of it. He ordained it. He knew
00:12:40.480 about all of this before any of it came to be. And not one single part of this changes his ultimate
00:12:46.660 plan and his sovereign will. There is absolutely nothing, nothing, not a single thing,
00:12:52.440 not a single headline written, not a single word said, not a single action done that is outside of
00:12:58.580 God's sovereign will. Now that does not mean that he causes sin. That doesn't mean that he delights
00:13:04.880 in chaos. We know that God is a God of peace and the Bible says that God tempts no one. I'm not saying
00:13:10.100 that God is happy about depravity that happens and deceit that happens. He's certainly not. But he is
00:13:17.640 still sovereign over all of it. Nothing happens outside of his absolute control. Nothing is
00:13:23.720 outside of his sovereign will. Like I said, he knew all of this was going to happen and he knows the
00:13:30.660 truth about the situation. He knows how this is going to end up. He knows who is going to be on
00:13:35.600 the Supreme Court for the next however many years America is around. And he is bigger than that. He's
00:13:42.040 transcendent through all of that. And he is our focus. He's our steadiness and he's our peace.
00:13:46.940 Even when we feel like everything is constantly changing, when there's nothing that we can trust,
00:13:52.000 when we don't know what the next second holds, we know that Jesus Christ is the same yesterday,
00:13:56.960 today, tomorrow, and for the rest of eternity. And we can trust in that. And when we redirect our
00:14:02.840 focus on that, on the steadfastness and the steadiness of God, we get that peace that passes all
00:14:08.820 understanding. Not because we know what's going to happen. Not because we're reminded that life is
00:14:14.320 going to be easy and things are going to work into our favor. We don't know that. We have no idea how
00:14:19.080 any of this stuff is going to work out or how things in our lives are going to work out. But we do know
00:14:23.660 that God is good, that God is in control. And the number one goal of God is for his own glory,
00:14:28.840 that in good and in bad, God is aiming to glorify himself and his glory, the Bible says,
00:14:35.300 is our good. When Romans 8, 28 says that all things work together for the good of those who
00:14:40.580 love him, it doesn't mean that things are going to be easy. It doesn't mean that things are going to
00:14:45.300 break down how we want them to break down. It means that God is going to glorify himself
00:14:50.140 and his glory is always going to be our ultimate good, even if it hurts in the moment, even if it's
00:14:55.320 confusing. And that is, that's our hope. That's our peace. I love Psalm 27. I have read Psalm 27.
00:15:04.220 I think it was maybe my junior or senior year in college that Psalm 27 just kind of became one of
00:15:12.060 my go-to Psalms that I would read and that I would go to. And that just gives me a lot of solace.
00:15:18.820 Most of you probably know the first verse in Psalm 27. The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom
00:15:24.120 shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? The rest of it talks
00:15:28.940 about when your enemies surround you, when your enemies come against you, when people try to tear down
00:15:33.740 your name, when people try to tear down your life, when they bring accusations against you,
00:15:38.860 they want to see your destruction, how God is your stronghold. God is your refuge. God is your
00:15:44.180 ever-present help in time of need. And the Bible and this chapter just reiterates over and over again,
00:15:49.680 how determined God is, um, not only for his own glory, but also the protection of his people,
00:15:55.140 which looks different in every way. Maybe we see that protection in, um, in a physical,
00:16:01.320 tangible way. Maybe it's protection of our spirituality and our relationship with him,
00:16:05.980 or maybe we don't understand things until this next life. Um, but God is faithful in protecting
00:16:12.720 his people, uh, from their enemies, both in this life and in the next life. So both in the physical
00:16:18.680 sense and in the eternal sense, um, that might not mean that we win in the ways that we think that
00:16:25.660 we need to. It doesn't mean that we're going to win every physical battle or political battle on earth,
00:16:30.440 but it does mean that, like I said, God is in control and ultimately he is victorious over all
00:16:35.980 of this. He's sovereign over us in times of battle and in times of peace. Uh, one of,
00:16:41.480 whoa, just dropped my microphone. Sorry. Uh, one of my other favorite verses is Jeremiah 32, 17
00:16:47.820 that says nothing is too hard for God. I love that verse because, um, I, it's just so total. It's just
00:16:57.520 so all encompassing. It just reminds us that nothing, nothing is outside of his grasp and
00:17:04.340 nothing is outside of his power. I think that's very hard for us to understand that even in the
00:17:09.280 impossible that God works. Um, and the greatest depiction of that, in my opinion, in the Bible
00:17:16.180 is the story of Joseph in Genesis. So Genesis is my favorite book of the Bible by far. I love it.
00:17:23.660 I'm weird. I'm a weird Christian. And then I like the old Testament better than the new Testament.
00:17:28.740 Is it blasphemous to say that? I don't know. I'm not trying to, I'm not maybe better. Isn't the right
00:17:34.360 word. I find it more interesting and easier to read because I love stories. And I just, I love
00:17:41.000 learning the character of God through the stories of people. And we get that more in the old Testament
00:17:46.500 than we do in the new Testament and Genesis from how he created the world, how he relates to human
00:17:52.080 beings and then how he created Israel and how he related to the fathers of Israel. Fascinating.
00:17:58.780 You just see the dynamic character of God and just how not to the plug the own, my own title of my
00:18:05.380 podcast, but how relatable God really is. And it just helps make Jesus a lot more sense too. I said
00:18:13.200 that grammatically. So, but a specific story, the story of Joseph in Genesis just shows us the sovereignty
00:18:19.680 of God. And while I'm telling you this, reminding you of the story of Joseph, Joseph, I'm not making
00:18:25.640 an eisegetical comparison to Kavanaugh. Like I'm not saying that Kavanaugh is Joseph. I'm not saying
00:18:30.720 that we're Joseph. I'm just trying to show how the story of Joseph shows that God is in control and
00:18:37.700 encourage you in that sense that even when chaos happens, whether it's politically, professionally,
00:18:41.680 personally, whatever it is in your life, uh, that God brings good things out of seemingly chaotic
00:18:48.420 things out of seemingly bad things. So for those of you who don't know, or just those of you who need
00:18:53.800 a refresher, because I might be the only person out there who's weird and likes to read Genesis. So
00:18:59.280 Joseph favorite son of Jacob, who is also known as Israel, uh, Joseph kind of seemed like this
00:19:06.560 annoying little kid, like precocious braggadocious. He had this dream that his brothers were all going
00:19:13.980 to bow down to him. So what does he do? He goes to his brothers and he tells him like, Hey, I had a
00:19:19.820 dream that you guys bowed down to me. Well, they didn't like that very much, obviously, because that's
00:19:24.460 a really annoying thing. Why would you, why would you tell your brothers that? Um, but he does, of course,
00:19:28.480 he also had the coat of many colors his brothers didn't have. So his brothers had reason to be
00:19:33.220 envious of him. Joseph tells him this dream and his brothers decide, Hey, you know, it'd be a really
00:19:38.880 good idea if we put Joseph in this pit. So let's take him out into the middle of nowhere and put
00:19:44.320 him in this pit. So they do that. I'm sure they rough them up, whatever they put them in this pit
00:19:49.300 and then they decide, actually, you know what? We are going to sell him to the Ishmaelites. They're
00:19:55.120 on their way to Egypt. There was a caravan of Ishmaelites going to Egypt. So, Hey, why don't we
00:20:00.220 sell our youngest brother, uh, into slavery? That sounds like a really good idea. And then
00:20:04.520 we can profit off of it. And then we'll tell our dad that he was eaten by a wild animal. That
00:20:08.420 sounds great. So again, young people, mine's just not fully developed yet. So they sold Joseph into
00:20:14.940 slavery and Joseph goes to Egypt. And as it turns out, Joseph gained favor with everyone who was
00:20:21.780 anyone in Egypt. Um, it says the Bible says that the Lord was with him. Everything that he did
00:20:27.380 succeeded. He climbed up the ladder. He became an overseer. He had all of this authority over
00:20:32.740 Egypt. Um, and then of course comes the story of Potiphar's wife. And I could get into Potiphar's
00:20:38.720 wife and false accusations and things like that and compare it to Kavanaugh, but I won't because
00:20:42.720 that takes away from the point I'm trying to make. So he was falsely accused by Potiphar's wife. Um,
00:20:47.760 he was thrown into jail for this false accusation, but even when he was thrown into jail, the Lord was
00:20:52.680 with him, the Bible says, and he ended up being over all of the prisoners that were in jail. He ended
00:20:57.800 up interpreting dreams. He got out of jail. He had this relationship with Pharaoh. Um, and then he
00:21:03.720 ended up being ruler over all of Egypt. So after getting thrown into a pit, sold into slavery, falsely
00:21:11.460 accused, thrown into jail, he ends up being ruler over all of Egypt because of the Lord's sovereignty
00:21:16.500 because of the Lord's favor. And then what happens then? Well, there was a famine in Canaan where he was
00:21:22.260 run. There was a famine in all of the land and the brothers had to come to Egypt, uh, to get food,
00:21:27.620 to get to provision, to get provision. So they talked to Joseph. Joseph, of course, reveals himself
00:21:32.160 to them eventually. Um, long story short, Joseph, as the leader of Egypt is able to sustain not only
00:21:39.640 his family, but all of Israel, all of the chosen people. They end up, um, habitating, uh, Ganesh. I think
00:21:46.360 it was, I think the place that they ended up relocating, um, and they were completely provided
00:21:52.260 for because of Joseph's leadership. And there's just so much in the story that we could talk about
00:21:57.620 Joseph's forgiveness and all of that. But the point that I'm trying to drive home is that let's,
00:22:04.240 let's back up. When Joseph was thrown into the pit, the caravan of the Ishmaelites going to Egypt
00:22:10.880 was already on its way. So it's not like God just decided after Joseph was thrown into the pit
00:22:18.580 that, uh, Hey, I need to figure out something here for him to be taken care of. The Ishmaelites were
00:22:24.180 already on their way to Egypt before Joseph was thrown into the pit, before Joseph was thrown into
00:22:30.540 slavery. That shows that God was in control of the situation before it even started, that he knew
00:22:36.500 about it and that he had already provided a way for Joseph to fulfill the role that God wanted him
00:22:41.780 to fulfill. And what did that do? That ended up glorifying God because it sustained Israel,
00:22:46.280 his chosen people. That is what God does. God does not wait around for things to happen and then come
00:22:52.160 in and say, what the heck are we going to do here? He ordains all of it. There are ways of provision
00:22:58.620 that God has ordained long before our chaos happens, long before our problems happen. And they are,
00:23:05.360 uh, perfectly ordained to give him glory. Again, they might not look like what we want them to
00:23:10.560 look like. I'm not saying that every bad things that happen thing that happens in our lives is
00:23:15.160 going to end up with us becoming the prince or princess of Egypt. That's not what I'm saying,
00:23:20.280 but I am saying that we can trust in God's providence. We can trust in his provision.
00:23:24.860 We can trust in his faithfulness. We can trust that he was taking care of this situation
00:23:29.080 before we even knew there was a situation. Um, that's not just true in the Kavanaugh thing.
00:23:33.940 That's true in a much larger sense that in everything that happens, if we feel like,
00:23:39.820 uh, you know, America is being run into the ground, that it's being overtaken by socialists,
00:23:44.320 that, you know, our society is going to hell in a handbasket. There's a million different
00:23:49.480 genders. People don't care about morality anymore. That is all true. But God saw this coming.
00:23:55.140 He knew about it. And that's why you and I are here. That's why we are here to speak truth.
00:24:00.260 That's why we are here to share the gospel. That's why we're here to love each other and to love those
00:24:05.460 who are outside of the body of Christ. We are that provision for the world. Um,
00:24:11.980 so I want you to remember that. Remember your actual role in this world and your actual
00:24:16.420 responsibility in all of this. It's not to add to the chaos. It's to cut through the chaos with truth,
00:24:22.360 speaking the truth and love and loving your neighbor as yourself. That might mean within politics,
00:24:27.040 outside of politics. It might be mean that you're not involved in politics at all. It doesn't matter
00:24:31.520 what your station is in life. That is our ultimate role. That is our ultimate goal. And the reminder
00:24:37.340 for you individually as well, um, that God is in control no matter what happens. And we can have
00:24:43.580 peace knowing that, um, there's no reason for me to get so obsessed and so sick over something that
00:24:49.540 is happening on this earth when I know that he's in control. And in the end, he is going to rule over
00:24:55.060 everything. And, uh, light is going to be shed on darkness and truth is going to be known that
00:25:00.360 nothing will remain hidden. Uh, there's no reason for me to be so sick over this. There's no reason
00:25:06.420 for me to be obsessed over it. And there's no reason for you to either. Um, Christians should
00:25:10.840 never despair ever. We should never feel like all hope is lost. We should never be so angry to the
00:25:16.580 point of just throwing our hands in the air and saying we give up or everything is doomed. Um,
00:25:23.180 it's never doomed. It's never doomed. God also knew that we would be living in this time. Um,
00:25:30.480 and that we, that we would have the responsibility of carrying everything forward that needs to be
00:25:35.800 carried forward. So that is that I just wanted to give you that reminder. Let not your heart be
00:25:42.960 troubled. There is nothing that is happening that God didn't already know about and that he's not in
00:25:47.420 control of. Uh, so now I'm going to answer just a couple of your questions that you guys sent me on
00:25:52.980 Instagram and then we'll be done. Uh, so someone asked me someone currently, or who is someone
00:25:59.520 currently in the political realm that I admire? Um, I am like many, many Republicans and young
00:26:04.600 conservatives who love Nikki, loves Nikki Haley. Um, I think she does an excellent job of staying above
00:26:09.440 the fray of doing her job well, of being strong, of not backing down. I mean, she had that amazingly
00:26:15.040 iconic picture. I think at the end of 2017, when she was raising her hand to speak, um,
00:26:21.120 she truly is keeping America first and keeping our allies, our allies and our enemies, our enemies.
00:26:26.500 She has a strong stance, um, on American exceptionalism. And I appreciate that. If there
00:26:32.900 is one thing that I think is going badly in our country, not with president Trump, but just in
00:26:38.360 culture in general, it's, um, believing that America is not the greatest country in the world
00:26:42.820 and taking for granted the privileges that we have and not being thankful for the unique
00:26:47.520 liberty that we have. And I think that she's doing a great job of protecting that and perpetuating
00:26:51.700 those principles. Um, another person that I really like is Mike Lee. I think that he's very even
00:26:56.780 handed. He's very even keeled. Um, he just does a good job of representing conservative values. He's
00:27:03.340 obviously very smart, um, constitutional conservative. He was also, he's also on the Senate judiciary
00:27:09.360 committee. And even though he doesn't have like a ton of viral moments, um, what he says is very
00:27:15.620 thoughtful and it's very true. He says basically the same thing as, you know, someone like what
00:27:21.620 Trey Gowdy would say, or like Lindsey Graham's awesome monologue, but he says it in a much cooler
00:27:25.660 way that might not get as much attention, but it should get just as much appreciation. Mike Lee
00:27:30.260 is a very good representation of conservatism. And I appreciate him and everything he stands
00:27:36.520 for. He is very unwavering on his belief in the constitution. Um, the second question,
00:27:42.440 someone asked me about specifically what I believe about women in the church and what the Bible has
00:27:46.880 to say about women teaching in the church. Uh, this person said that they had never heard that before
00:27:51.700 that women weren't supposed to be teaching in the pulpit. So she asked me very, uh, respectfully to
00:27:57.460 explain that. So there are two references that we typically go to when we are talking about women
00:28:04.460 not being able to be in positions of leadership over men in the church. So first Timothy 2, 12 says
00:28:10.180 that women should not exercise authority over men. So how we've interpreted that is that, uh, she
00:28:15.240 should not be teaching over men. She should not be in any way exercising authority, um, over a man.
00:28:21.480 So this means that she can teach and lead women and children. Obviously boys is fine before they are
00:28:28.200 adults. Um, but not, uh, not an adult male. That's how the Bible has it set up that within the church,
00:28:36.160 women should not exercise authority over a man. And then there's also first Corinthians, uh, 1434
00:28:42.200 that women should be, should keep silent in the churches for they are not permitted to speak,
00:28:47.260 but should be in submission. Uh, now listen, I understand that is a difficult verse to stomach.
00:28:54.920 Like it's difficult for me to stomach. I'll be honest with you. I mean, obviously I'm an outspoken
00:28:59.380 female. I've never liked the word submit. Like every time I read it in the Bible, I have to stop
00:29:04.880 myself from rolling my eyes. I don't like, I don't like that word. Like I feel like if I'm going to
00:29:10.360 obey someone, it's because I choose to not because I'm submitting. If that makes any sense. I don't know.
00:29:14.880 Maybe it's my inner feminist fighting through just kidding. So I understand the difficulty with that
00:29:20.720 word and the difficulty with that verse that women should be kept silent. So how we have interpreted
00:29:26.480 that within the context of the verse and trying to take it as literally as possible while still
00:29:32.840 understanding the true meaning, um, is that this means women a inside the church and be in the context
00:29:40.260 of teaching. So we do not interpret this as applying to women, not being able to sing or women not being
00:29:47.160 able to, you know, give an announcement in church, but we do interpret this to mean that women should
00:29:52.160 not be from the pulpit teaching men. Um, and that's, that's so anyone that tells you otherwise is just
00:30:02.640 simply being unbiblical. There is absolutely no reference in the Bible to women in the context of
00:30:08.200 church and teaching, exercising authority over men. There are not female elders. There are not female
00:30:13.820 leaders within the church. Uh, there weren't any female apostles. Now let me say that that doesn't
00:30:20.620 mean that women are worse than men or that women or that God views women as having a smaller capacity
00:30:27.380 than men to teach. I think that God sees women just in just as dignified of a way as he does men.
00:30:35.500 We know that, that we are of equal worth. We are of equal value. The problem that we have is seeing
00:30:40.640 positions of teaching and positions of authority in the church as somehow superior or better to the
00:30:46.960 roles that women can take. That's simply not true. That is, um, that, that is our own bias. That is our
00:30:54.800 own opinion coming through that we think that, uh, positions of leadership are somehow better or superior
00:31:00.520 or mean that you're more important. God never says that positions of authority and positions of
00:31:05.280 teaching in the church are more important than the roles that women play, the roles of support,
00:31:10.340 the roles of teaching women and children. Um, the Bible never says that we are worse off because
00:31:16.620 of that, or we should be degraded because of that, that, that it's our own societal bias coming
00:31:22.060 through. So equal worth, equal dignity of women inside the church, different roles. That's true
00:31:27.340 within marriage as well as we read in Ephesians five. So that's my explanation of that. I hope that
00:31:32.220 made sense. If you do have any questions about it, of course you can email me,
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00:31:52.700 already said that, but if you have anything else that you want to say, you can DM me on Instagram.
00:31:57.300 I read those often, but I can't always respond to every single one because I get a lot of messages,
00:32:03.100 but I still appreciate them anyway. So feel free to send them my way. Thanks so much for listening,
00:32:07.700 you guys. I hope that you have a wonderful weekend and I will see you next week.