Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 486 ｜ EMERGENCY EPISODE： They've Pushed Too Far. Resist.

00:00:00.000 Hey, guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Friday. All right. Needed to do an emergency episode

00:00:16.060 today to talk about Joe Biden's speech from yesterday afternoon, the mandates he announced

00:00:21.720 and what we should do about it. As you guys know, tomorrow is the 20th anniversary of 9-11.

00:00:29.300 If you haven't listened to yesterday's episode, I highly recommend you do that. I talked to

00:00:35.040 state senator from Texas, Brian Birdwell, who suffered very serious injuries from the attack

00:00:43.180 on the Pentagon on 9-11. And he has such a gripping, such a compelling story, but also such a hopeful

00:00:49.560 story. And on a day when I'm sure you don't feel very hopeful about the state of the country and

00:00:56.020 the future of our nation, that is a great episode to listen to. Get ready to maybe get a little

00:01:02.120 emotional, but also be comforted and be encouraged by what I believe this nation still is. Now,

00:01:11.860 in this particular episode, it's not the same emotion that I am going to evoke here. And

00:01:21.660 that's because the emotion that I'm feeling right now, as we say in the South, is riled up. Also,

00:01:28.760 I just had my coffee. And so I am going to be maybe even more passionate than usual because

00:01:35.860 I'm very angry about what I heard from the president yesterday. And what I'm hoping from this episode and

00:01:42.280 what I'm praying comes from this is that the scales will fall from some people's eyes in that

00:01:48.420 they see that all of this is not for their well-being. None of this is really, truly about

00:01:54.800 health and safety. It is about politics at best and total and complete control and destruction of

00:02:01.000 political enemies at worst. And truly, I wish I were exaggerating. And why is this all happening

00:02:09.640 right now? Why is he making the announcements that he is, which I'm going to play some of in just a

00:02:15.200 second? It's a distraction. 20 years after 9-11, he knows that people are focused on Afghanistan.

00:02:21.420 That was a disaster. It was a disaster of leadership. It was a crisis that was manufactured by

00:02:28.660 incompetence. And by worse than that, I think malintent, he wants to distract from the fact that

00:02:36.820 there are Americans that we have abandoned in Afghanistan. And so he is turning our sights here

00:02:42.700 and he is declaring a different enemy than the Taliban. And that enemy that he wants you to know

00:02:47.860 is more dangerous than ISIS-K and more dangerous than any foreign terrorist regime. That enemy is

00:02:55.500 your fellow American who has not gotten vaccinated. So yesterday, about five Eastern time, President

00:03:02.520 Biden delivered a speech outlining his plan to combat COVID. Now, mind you, he promised to have a plan

00:03:08.640 to defeat COVID before he became president. That was one of his campaign pitches. And now,

00:03:13.440 over eight months later, we are just now hearing that plan. And that plan includes division. It

00:03:18.960 includes resentment. It includes coercion. Yesterday's speech was by far the most hate-mongering,

00:03:25.940 fear-mongering, truly terrifying speech that I've ever heard from a U.S. president. Nothing Trump ever

00:03:32.060 said, nothing Obama ever said came close to what we heard yesterday in the way of authoritarianism.

00:03:37.400 So let me play you a few clips from that speech.

00:03:41.520 We can and we will turn the tide on COVID-19. It'll take a lot of hard work. It's going to take some

00:03:49.920 time. Many of us are frustrated with the nearly 80 million Americans who are still not vaccinated,

00:03:57.320 even though the vaccine is safe, effective, and free. You might be confused about what is true

00:04:05.720 and what is false about COVID-19. We read about and hear about and we see the stories of hospitalized

00:04:12.380 people, people on their deathbeds, among the unvaccinated over the past few weeks.

00:04:19.860 This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. What makes it incredibly more frustrating 1.00

00:04:26.420 is that we have the tools to combat COVID-19, and a distinct minority of Americans,

00:04:33.300 supported by a distinct minority of elected officials, are keeping us from turning the

00:04:37.620 corner. This is not about freedom or personal choice. It's about protecting yourself and those

00:04:44.940 around you. We've been patient, but our patience is wearing thin, and your refusal has cost all of us.

00:04:52.880 These governors won't help us beat the pandemic. I'll use my power as president to get them out of

00:04:58.820 the way. The Transportation Safety Administration, the TSA, will double the fines on travelers that

00:05:06.020 refuse to mask. If you break the rules, be prepared to pay. We've had record job creation for a new

00:05:15.020 administration. Economic growth unmatched in 40 years. We cannot let unvaccinated do this progress. 1.00

00:05:26.440 Undo it. Communities of color are disproportionately impacted by this virus. And as we continue to battle

00:05:33.420 COVID-19, we will ensure that equity continues to be at the center of our response. Get vaccinated.

00:05:40.920 That whisper, it just kills me. Surely, there's no one in his administration that has told him

00:05:50.000 to do that. He does that. Every speech, it seems. There's no one in his administration that's like,

00:05:55.460 hey, Joe, you know that little whisper thing you do? You know when you're giving a speech and you

00:06:00.440 lean into the mic and you narrow your little beady eyes and you whisper at people and you look straight

00:06:06.100 into the camera, yeah, that's super effective. You should probably keep doing that. It's like,

00:06:12.140 it's like that thing that you're like very old, decrepit, kind of creepy uncle does. And you go to

00:06:19.080 your parents and you're like, you know, like, why does Uncle Joe do this? Like, why does he lean in

00:06:24.100 and whisper? And your parents are like, you know, honey, I don't, I don't know. We've tried to talk to

00:06:27.960 him about it. That's just at this stage. That's just kind of what he does. And we all just are

00:06:32.720 expected to, to accept that. I'm not accepting it. I think it's really weird. And again, I think

00:06:40.180 it's just a sign that unfortunately, the president of the United States, the supposed leader of the

00:06:45.120 free world, our commander in chief is on the decline and has been for a very long time. In some

00:06:51.440 ways, while I don't really feel bad for him at this point, I feel bad that his family put him in this

00:06:56.580 position. But I can't say I feel bad for him because he is willingly now a deliberate vessel

00:07:04.200 for division and for hate. And you'll notice a few things about what he said. You'll notice

00:07:10.320 how often he pits the vaccinated against the unvaccinated. This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated,

00:07:16.980 the unvaccinated or a threat to the vaccinated. We hear the unvaccinated or taking up hospital space. 0.89

00:07:22.960 And if you go on Twitter, you'll see that this kind of animosity, truly just animalistic animosity

00:07:29.000 is normal among the media and activist class on the left. And maybe the left in general, I can't speak

00:07:34.540 for every single person on the left, and I'm sure it doesn't describe every person on the left. But

00:07:38.960 certainly we see this kind of attitude on Twitter over and over again. I see the suggestion from

00:07:43.580 liberal blue checkmarks that unvaccinated people should not get ICU beds, that they shouldn't get 1.00

00:07:49.760 medical care, that they should just be left to die. I think Jimmy Kimmel actually said that the

00:07:54.380 other day and his crowd, you know, roared with laughter and clapped. And none of this, of course,

00:08:00.800 makes any logical sense. Because as I and many others have asked, how are the unvaccinated 0.86

00:08:08.020 threatening the vaccinated if the vaccine works to lessen the symptoms and the likelihood of death,

00:08:12.920 but those with the vaccine can still get and spread the virus? No one has been able to answer that for

00:08:18.140 me. Here's what the Evening Standard reported at the end of August, quote, researchers from the

00:08:23.240 University of Oxford found the viral load reduction can be wiped out by the Delta variant, which is now

00:08:30.720 dominant in the UK. While evidence demonstrates the vaccine significantly reduced hospitalizations and

00:08:36.540 deaths, scientists now believe those infected by the Delta variant can still harbor similar levels

00:08:42.520 of virus to those who are unvaccinated. Okay, so apparently you carry the same viral load, which means

00:08:51.240 if you get what's called a breakthrough infection after being vaccinated, you are just as likely to

00:08:56.780 pass it on to someone else as an unvaccinated infected person. Now, maybe you would say you're less

00:09:04.700 likely to get the infection in the first place if you have the vaccine. And yes, that's what the CDC says.

00:09:10.780 And certainly that is how the vaccine is supposed to work. But I think it's worth looking at a few things

00:09:16.500 here. So according to Johns Hopkins University data, the COVID case rate is three times higher than it was

00:09:22.760 last Labor Day in the United States. So three times higher than it was last year, despite having more than half

00:09:28.720 the country fully vaccinated. We didn't have a vaccine this time last year. And with a vaccine that the CDC

00:09:34.740 says is very effective against the Delta variant, how does that make sense? Let's look at Cornell

00:09:40.800 University, where 95% of the campus faculty and staff are fully vaccinated. The college fixed reports,

00:09:47.460 quote, Cornell University has more than five times the amount of confirmed positive cases during its

00:09:52.760 first week of this academic year than it did during its first week of the 2020 to 2021 academic year,

00:09:59.920 according to the Cornell COVID dashboard. By the numbers, during the first week of school that

00:10:05.420 ran from August 27th to September 2nd of this academic year, Cornell reported 322 positive COVID-19

00:10:12.640 cases. In comparison, during the first week of school last year, which ran from September 3rd

00:10:17.600 through September 9th of 2020, Cornell reported 59 positive COVID-19 cases. Now, maybe you could say

00:10:26.400 that there are multiple factors coming into play. Maybe last year there, you know, some people were

00:10:31.720 staying inside more. And so that's why there were fewer cases. But truly, if 95% of the campus is

00:10:38.460 fully vaccinated, how can it be that the virus is spreading this much? We saw something similar at

00:10:44.800 Duke University this year, where 29 medical students and seven members of the women's field hockey team got

00:10:50.160 infected and all of them were vaccinated as Duke requires. This is even as Duke has a very

00:10:56.400 strict indoor mask mandate as well. Singapore has the second highest vaccination rate in the world.

00:11:02.860 According to the New York Times, 79% of the population is fully vaccinated. And according to Bloomberg News,

00:11:08.960 they're seeing case numbers higher than what they saw at the height of the pandemic last year when no

00:11:13.940 one was vaccinated. OK, and then if you look at the CDC's website at a map of the United States that

00:11:21.420 shows vaccination rates and case rates by county. And I'll put this up, I'll put up the picture on

00:11:27.360 YouTube. I'll include a link to this page in the description of this episode so you can go

00:11:31.960 explore this for yourself. You'll see on this picture that there's a lot of dark red and a lot

00:11:37.940 of purple. And what the dark red and the purple represent on this map are counties that have high

00:11:44.000 vaccination rates and high case rates. What you don't see is a lot of teal or aqua counties. Teal

00:11:51.420 represents the counties that have high vaccination rates and low case numbers. In fact, in all of the

00:11:57.580 U.S. that reports their numbers, which is everywhere except for Texas, Hawaii, and a couple other counties

00:12:03.420 elsewhere for some reason, you find fewer than 10 of those teal slash aqua counties. You see far more

00:12:10.380 counties with high vaccination rates and high case numbers than you do counties with high vaccination

00:12:15.240 rates and low case numbers. Now, you do see low vaccination rates and high case numbers, too,

00:12:22.840 represented by the bright red that you see on the map if you're watching. And you see a lot of counties

00:12:27.940 who have mid-level vaccination rates with mid-level case rates. That probably actually makes up the

00:12:34.200 majority of the country. Maine, in particular, is an interesting example. It's an example of a state

00:12:42.100 with a high case rate and also a high vaccination rate. In Maine, the third most vaccinated state in

00:12:47.760 the country, with 64 percent of its population fully vaccinated, it's suffering through the largest

00:12:53.840 surge in New England, with more cases per day than they've seen in months. According to Bangor Daily

00:13:00.540 News, quote, a record 74 COVID-19 patients were in intensive care units across Maine on Thursday as

00:13:07.500 virus cases continue to surge across the state, testing hospital resources. 38 patients also required

00:13:14.260 ventilators, surpassing the record set in mid-January, while overall COVID-19 hospitals surged to 193,

00:13:21.200 the highest single-day total since the winter. The record number of critical COVID-19 patients comes as

00:13:26.600 cases have continued to climb in Maine, which is now seeing the highest case rate of any New England

00:13:31.320 state. Another 620 cases were reported Thursday. Now, it goes on to say, the vast majority of

00:13:38.240 hospitalized COVID-19 patients continue to be unvaccinated. At Northern Light Health, Maine's

00:13:43.900 second-largest hospital system, 35 out of 42 hospitalized patients with COVID-19 had not had any vaccine doses as

00:13:51.440 of Wednesday. All but one of the hospital system's 21 critical care patients were unvaccinated, as were 10

00:13:57.600 out of 11 patients on ventilators. So what do I think this story and the other stories that I listed

00:14:03.260 tell us? I think that the data is pretty good that vaccines reduce the risk of serious illness and death.

00:14:11.220 Non-political medical professional friends that I have spoken to tell me this is true and what they are

00:14:16.100 seeing in hospitals right now, that the majority of people in the hospital in intensive care with

00:14:21.620 COVID are unvaccinated. There are people who are vaccinated who get serious illness and die. But

00:14:28.520 for the most part, the people who do get seriously ill, which is still very rare, are unvaccinated. I

00:14:34.120 think that that is true. Here's what I don't think that we can say based on the data that we have. I don't

00:14:39.420 think that the data indicates that the vaccines are mitigating the spread all that much, if at all.

00:14:45.180 I don't think it's preventing many people from getting the virus and then spreading the virus,

00:14:49.800 which means all of this means that the most you could argue against unvaccinated people is that

00:14:55.340 they're coming down with most of the serious cases and thus taking up hospital resources by

00:15:00.600 not getting the vaccine and putting themselves at risk unnecessarily and therefore are taking up beds

00:15:06.260 that need to be used by people with other illnesses. Okay, that argument makes logical sense to me.

00:15:12.500 If you want to use that line of reasoning to try to get people to take the vaccine, that's fine. The

00:15:18.820 line of reasoning that really says this is for your own health and this is for the sake of hospital

00:15:23.100 resources. But still, my response to that would be, number one, lots of people do lots of things

00:15:30.300 that they shouldn't do that land them in the hospital taking up resources and we don't punish those

00:15:35.580 people by not caring for them. People eat themselves into obesity. People drink themselves into alcohol

00:15:40.940 poisoning. People ride motorcycles. People don't wear seatbelts. People smoke. People bed tan. Should

00:15:46.680 these people not get health care? I've heard people say to that, well, that's different because

00:15:51.200 those aren't spreadable diseases. Well, so? That's not the point, is it? That's not the point of the

00:15:58.820 argument. The point that you are making if you're saying that unvaccinated people shouldn't get

00:16:03.020 health care, the point that you're making is that they're being irresponsible. And that's why they

00:16:07.420 don't deserve health care because they made a decision that landed them in the hospital.

00:16:11.560 And I'm saying, OK, well, if that's your point, then people who ride their motorcycle without a

00:16:18.000 helmet or get into a gang fight are also making bad choices that are forcing them to go to the

00:16:24.860 hospital and take up resources. And yet we provide them with health care because that's what health care

00:16:30.100 workers do. You absolute sociopaths. Really? I mean, I'm really glad that you guys didn't have 0.99

00:16:37.800 Twitter during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, by the way. I guess you'd be making the same argument.

00:16:43.480 And also, like, you're the same people who want to run our health care. No, thank you. No,

00:16:49.520 thank you. The number two response that I would say to to that line of argumentation,

00:16:55.940 the rate of COVID-associated hospitalization for people under the age of 50 is still extremely low.

00:17:02.800 It's really low, honestly, across the board. You have a way better chance of not going to the

00:17:07.420 hospital than going to the hospital. It's still rare to go to the hospital with COVID. I know people

00:17:12.420 who have gone to the hospital with COVID. I'm not saying that it doesn't happen. I know people who

00:17:17.040 have parents who have died from it. So I certainly understand that it can really affect people and it

00:17:22.600 can very seriously impact people. But looking at the numbers as we have to do, if we want to be able

00:17:28.260 to think and act rationally, people under the age of 50 still only have a 0.005% chance, according to

00:17:36.040 the CDC, of being hospitalized. For people under the age of 18, the hospitalization rate is about

00:17:42.120 0.001% to 0.002%. For older Americans, the chances are higher. And of course, when the older you get,

00:17:49.940 the higher the chance is, especially over the age of 85, whether you're vaccinated or not.

00:17:55.100 But it's still very low for most people. Also, as of last year, nearly 90% of all hospitalized COVID

00:18:02.260 patients had one or more underlying conditions. Again, this is according to the CDC. We have to just

00:18:08.900 take them at their word, even though I think we have plenty of reasons not to. It's the reporting that

00:18:13.620 we've got. So you've got a far lower than 1% chance of being hospitalized with COVID, for the

00:18:20.800 most part, depending on your age. I probably don't have a whole lot of 85-year-olds listening to the

00:18:24.720 podcast, but thank you if you're here. You have a far, far less than 1% chance of dying from COVID,

00:18:32.400 especially if you don't have any kind of underlying condition, vaccinated or not, even with the Delta

00:18:39.000 variant, even with the fear-mongering, even with the propaganda. What we are seeing, at least on the

00:18:45.020 pediatric front, and we've talked about this before, is a surge in RSV among kids that's putting

00:18:49.620 them in the hospital. This was actually reported by Time Magazine a few weeks ago. RSV is much more

00:18:55.160 dangerous for babies than COVID is. Babies can die from RSV, even though that is rare. But I have

00:19:02.600 friends. I know plenty of people whose babies have had to go to the hospital, at least for

00:19:08.320 breathing treatments this summer for RSV. And by the way, babies have been getting serious cases and

00:19:15.840 dying from RSV for a very long time. And I'm wondering why there hasn't been a rush for a vaccine

00:19:22.600 until the last few months. Just kind of strange. But some of these pediatric patients are also testing

00:19:29.880 positive for COVID and are being recorded as COVID cases because all patients are being tested for

00:19:35.880 the virus. Kids are not, from everything that we know, they are not at serious risk for COVID. That

00:19:42.040 doesn't mean that the kids that have died with COVID, again, with COVID is the CDC's language, so not

00:19:48.340 of COVID. Of course, their lives matter. Of course, that matters. But they're not at serious risk for

00:19:57.120 serious illness from COVID. They just aren't. A reminder from data put together by the Financial

00:20:04.420 Times that we've shared before that the unvaccinated person under the age of 18 is far less likely to die

00:20:10.520 from COVID than the fully vaccinated 40-year-old. And what are those chances? 0.0002%. 0.0002%. That is the

00:20:22.880 chance of a person under 18 dying from COVID. Guys, you take a bigger chance driving with your kid

00:20:30.180 every day in the backseat than you do in exposing them to COVID. There's no reason statistically for

00:20:37.800 kids to wear masks. We've gone through many times. The data on that. We'll link my post on that in this

00:20:43.220 description. We've gone through it in episodes multiple times. There is no reason for kids to be

00:20:51.120 taking really any measures whatsoever when they're in school besides just washing their hands. There's

00:20:56.000 no reason at all for us to be talking about giving kids the vaccine anytime soon. So this fear-mongering

00:21:02.020 about the virus, this pitting one side against the other, this cry to get vaccinated for the sake of

00:21:07.940 the children and to get your 12-year-old vaccinated, that's something that Joe Biden said, encouraging

00:21:13.100 people to get their teenagers and their 12-year-old vaccinated. When a new study has just found out that

00:21:20.420 boys ages 12 to 15 have a 3.7 to 6.1 times higher chance of an adverse cardiac event than their

00:21:30.240 chance of being hospitalized with COVID. So you are hearing that you have to take this particular

00:21:37.920 calculation and you have to get your 12-year-old son vaccinated even though he is at higher risk of an

00:21:45.520 adverse cardiac event because of the vaccine than he is getting a serious case of COVID that would

00:21:50.220 put him in the hospital. That doesn't make any sense. Like this push for children as young as two

00:21:56.200 years old to wear masks in the United States, even though no other country is doing that, even though

00:22:00.400 the WHO recommends against it, there is no data at all to back it up. Plenty of common sense that tells

00:22:06.740 us it's stupid and even data telling us that it's dumb. None of that is about your health. It can't be. 0.99

00:22:12.440 It's not about safety. And you'll notice that the American Academy of Pediatrics and the CDC don't

00:22:18.660 actually provide you with any evidence with any hard numbers or data backing up the idea that

00:22:25.680 little tiny kids need to be wearing masks. We also know none of this is about the science because

00:22:32.080 where's the talk of natural immunity in all of this? There was a preprint study out of Israel

00:22:38.360 that found that you get longer lasting and stronger immunity from previous infection than you do the

00:22:44.280 vaccine, which makes sense. That's true of many illnesses. And of course, there have been people

00:22:51.180 trying to refute that and saying it's not true, but clearly it is. And just anecdotally, of the people

00:22:58.220 I know who have had COVID, they only had that one infection. And even though they have been exposed

00:23:06.120 several times since then, they haven't gotten it again. But I know at least three people just off

00:23:10.920 the top of my head who were fully vaccinated and then got COVID. They had mild cases. Maybe they would

00:23:16.520 have had mild cases anyway, but they did get that so-called breakthrough infection. We know that

00:23:22.340 antibodies protect you probably for a long time, as well as, if not significantly better than the

00:23:30.280 vaccine. So why can't the people who have had COVID but haven't been vaccinated go about their

00:23:37.100 business? I mean, I think everyone should be able to go about their business. But if we're trying to

00:23:41.000 find some kind of logical and scientific consistency here, like why shouldn't they be treated the same way

00:23:46.700 as vaccinated people? And why can't that number, the number of people who have not been vaccinated,

00:23:53.080 but who have had COVID and have the antibodies, be added to the number of vaccinated people to let

00:23:59.060 us know if we have achieved any kind of so-called herd immunity? Because look, we're not going to get

00:24:05.680 to zero cases ever. That's just not how these kinds of viruses work. Countries like Australia and Japan

00:24:12.200 have had to abandon that goal. They wanted to get to, you know, zero COVID cases. It's just not,

00:24:18.360 it's not going to happen. It's not going to happen right now. Probably not going to happen anytime soon

00:24:23.100 in the same way that we still get the flu every year. It mutates and it mutates among vaccinated

00:24:31.180 people too, because it finds more, it becomes more resistant to vaccines. Unfortunately, that's just what

00:24:37.980 happens. And so again, this idea that the unvaccinated are what are causing, that they're

00:24:43.900 the ones causing the virus to mutate and get stronger. That again, just doesn't make any scientific

00:24:48.360 sense. And for a virus with an over 99% survival rate for most people, 99.99% survival rate. Like

00:24:58.000 if you are given a 99.99% chance of surviving, say you're diagnosed with an illness, diagnosed with

00:25:06.340 cancer, that's pretty much a hundred percent. And again, I'm not saying that no one dies from COVID,

00:25:11.460 but if you are hearing, hey, like your chance of surviving this particular thing, or your chance of

00:25:16.560 this thing going well is 99.99%, the vast majority of people are going to take that risk. And with a

00:25:25.560 survival rate that is this high for COVID, like we're going to have to all accept that risk at some

00:25:31.320 point to move on. If you don't want to accept that risk, then you can get your 12 booster shots,

00:25:35.680 go for it. Like maybe you should, maybe you should get your 12 booster shots and maybe you should wear

00:25:41.240 three masks and maybe you should do that for you and the people around you. That's, that's fine. I

00:25:47.480 don't have anything against all of that, but like at some point we've got to accept that not every

00:25:54.720 single person will or can get the vaccine and you got to be okay with it. And, and guys, again,

00:26:01.340 if the vaccine works to prevent serious illness and death, and if you can still get and spread the

00:26:09.100 virus as a vaccinated person, then you have no reason to say that the unvaccinated are a threat.

00:26:15.940 It makes no sense. I tried to get someone who told me I was wrong in asking that question,

00:26:21.180 who she said that I just don't understand how vaccines and, and herd immunity work. So I asked

00:26:26.800 her nicely to explain this to me. She, uh, messaged me. She said that she had a medical background.

00:26:33.000 Um, and you know, she's a super nice person and I'm sure that she means well and is super smart,

00:26:37.340 but in our conversation, I was actually like ready. I've been ready for someone to answer this

00:26:42.300 question for me. And all you ever get when you ask this question is, well, you just don't understand

00:26:46.640 how vaccines work. Okay. I'm, I am willing to accept that. Explain it to me then explain it to me.

00:26:52.500 I'm not pretending to be a medical professional, but this person who says she is a medical professional,

00:26:57.280 she never actually addressed what I said. She said something about hospital capacity.

00:27:02.940 Okay. Again, you can make that argument. I understand the logic there. I think the data

00:27:08.620 backs that up. Maybe. I don't, I don't know though. I mean, I, I do believe that unvaccinated 0.98

00:27:14.760 people are more likely to get serious illness and die from the virus. The idea though, that all the

00:27:21.560 hospitals are at capacity and that they're bursting at the seams. I do have some questions about that

00:27:27.740 because I also know many healthcare workers have been laid off for the past, over the past year.

00:27:32.720 I also know many healthcare workers have quit. I also know that hospitals always operate at capacity

00:27:38.060 because that's how hospital administrators make sure they're making money. And plus we've been hearing

00:27:43.160 for the past year that all hospitals are bursting at the seams and sometimes that hasn't turned out

00:27:47.480 to be true. And so I do have some skepticism. I do have some skepticism about that. But again,

00:27:56.440 if that's the only argument that you want to make that look, unvaccinated people are putting an unfair 1.00

00:28:02.000 burden on the healthcare system. All right. But the idea that the vaccinated are threatened by the

00:28:08.820 unvaccinated, knowing everything that I've just explained, that's not sane. That's not sane.

00:28:15.980 If you believe that. I mean, you people have truly lost it. Fox News reports that the largest

00:28:20.720 teachers union, the National Education Association, you guys know how I feel about teachers unions,

00:28:25.520 and now published emails threatened the White House and the CDC, intimidating them into recommending

00:28:31.760 universal masking in schools. Oh my gosh. If I ever were in charge of this operation,

00:28:39.820 this whole, this whole operation, this country, teachers unions, day one, gone. They're truly a

00:28:47.300 scourge on society. They don't care about your kids. They don't. And I honestly, I don't think

00:28:52.900 they really care about teachers either. I think that they care about power. I think that they care

00:28:56.860 about bureaucracy. And the fact that the CDC, who is supposed to be a scientific institution in the

00:29:02.200 White House, who is supposed to, you know, be a scientific White House and trusting the science is

00:29:06.800 listening to a political entity. This shows, again, it's about politics. The NEA is a political

00:29:12.980 left-wing entity. That means these policies are at best fearful reflexes, not based on science.

00:29:20.680 And at worst, they're being purposely used for control and division. And the longer this goes on,

00:29:27.580 guys, the harder it is to deny that it's the latter. Australia beating peaceful protesters,

00:29:35.800 building, quote, well camps, well camps, more like Orwellian camps, like truly, I mean, that is some

00:29:43.780 like ministry of peace, ministry of love type stuff. Well camps to forcibly quarantine people

00:29:52.560 away from their families who get infected, forcing Australians in at least one state in Australia to

00:29:58.140 download an app that tells the government where they are at all times. And then we have Biden here

00:30:03.540 unconstitutionally forcing companies to force their employees to get vaccinated. It's authoritarian.

00:30:09.220 And look, I'm not saying that it is the same level of authoritarianism as people are enduring in North

00:30:15.480 Korea and China. I am not unfortunate. Unfortunately, we've got some people on the left who truly think

00:30:21.940 that, for example, Texas trying to ban abortions after six weeks is the exact same as the Taliban. 0.98

00:30:26.460 I'm not making some kind of stupid point like that, that here in America, we live in the same kind of 0.99

00:30:33.500 dictatorship as the people in Afghanistan. I am actually saying, but things, actions, policies can 0.94

00:30:41.860 be authoritarian in nature. The same people who cried about Trump being authoritarian, even though

00:30:49.260 no policy that he ever proposed or implemented came anywhere close to what Biden is doing and flagrantly

00:30:55.480 and unabashedly ignoring the Constitution. They have nothing to say about this because most people on the

00:31:00.420 left, I've learned, like authoritarianism when it comes to things that they like. And they just see it as,

00:31:06.860 well, this is for the best, so it's OK. So they call everything they don't like, like abortion restrictions,

00:31:11.620 fascism and authoritarianism, without a single thought to what those words actually mean. And what they what they

00:31:17.420 really mean is that they just don't like those things. But they don't care when Biden ignores the

00:31:21.620 Constitution and, for example, enforces an eviction moratorium or when he ignores the Constitution and

00:31:27.860 and dictates what companies can do because they like it. They like it. And so that's not

00:31:33.860 authoritarianism, apparently. And then on abortion, we have Kamala Harris, the most pro-abortion senator 0.99

00:31:39.680 when she was in the Senate. She even voted against a bill proposed to protect babies who survive abortion.

00:31:45.880 So babies outside the womb, she said, nope, no, thanks. Don't have any interest in protecting those 1.00

00:31:50.700 babies. She recently said in a clip over and over again, this myth that a woman has a right to an 1.00

00:31:57.960 abortion because it's her body, blah, blah, blah. So when it comes to a procedure that literally and

00:32:02.600 directly and deliberately kills a defenseless human being, it's a constitutional right and bodily

00:32:07.820 autonomy and my body, my choice. But when it comes to a mask and a vaccine without which

00:32:12.920 someone only may get an illness and may pass it on to someone who may get a serious case

00:32:20.080 and may die from it, that's not included in bodily autonomy. And then we have Biden's Department

00:32:27.060 of Justice now announcing that they are suing Texas over their abortion law. I mean, talk about

00:32:32.440 authoritarianism again. Like, do you trust people who are so rabidly pro-abortion, so rabidly anti-freedom

00:32:40.380 when they say that they're doing what they're doing for your health? You want to talk about

00:32:45.320 vaccine hesitancy and why some people are hesitant? Let's talk about distrust in our

00:32:51.120 institutions, the media and a political party, along with big tech and big business who have used this

00:32:57.600 virus and mitigation measures relentlessly as political tools against Trump and Republicans

00:33:02.600 who totally depart from science when it comes to public health measures, even while flouting the

00:33:07.400 rules themselves, who hold up this leader in Dr. Fauci, who very likely lied about his indirect

00:33:12.920 involvement with data function research that may have led to the spread of COVID globally.

00:33:20.460 They censored talk of the Wuhan lab origins in the beginning of this whole thing, took down people's

00:33:26.640 Twitter accounts, kicked them off YouTube. They censor and demonize on-the-ground doctors talking about

00:33:32.740 treatments, in particular treatment that has been used on millions of people for years and reduce it

00:33:38.840 to an award-winning drug to horse paste. They talk about the other half of the country as if they're

00:33:46.820 not people and talk about taking their health care away. They suggest mandates and passports that make 0.74

00:33:52.760 it impossible for some people to engage with polite society without making a particular health care

00:33:59.320 decision that they don't want or don't need to make. And by the way, this all disproportionately

00:34:05.040 affects one Black Americans. Black Americans have the largest population of unvaccinated. Among Black

00:34:15.380 Americans, I think it's only not even 30 percent of Black Americans have been vaccinated, which that's 0.97

00:34:21.720 fine. Like they're making their own decisions. They have had everyone, no matter your background,

00:34:26.220 no matter your race, has had every opportunity to get the vaccine at this point. So clearly there is

00:34:30.920 probably some hesitancy there. So when we're talking about blocking out people from society and

00:34:36.760 refusing health care and making people get fired because they're not choosing to get the vaccine,

00:34:42.360 you're talking about disproportionately affecting Black Americans. And so this is also how we know that

00:34:48.820 they're not serious when they talk about systemic racism, when they talk about disparities being proof of

00:34:53.860 discrimination and anti-racism and equity. You heard Biden talk about equity. He had to sprinkle in some

00:35:02.180 critical race theory there. They're not serious about they're not serious about that, obviously. I mean,

00:35:07.440 that's who they're demonizing and dehumanizing when they're talking about all of this. It's not

00:35:11.700 it's not mostly white Americans. And so again, we don't have to take them seriously when it comes to that. 0.70

00:35:20.580 And also, we don't take them seriously when it comes to them decrying racism and systemic racism

00:35:25.720 anyway, because they don't have anything to say when their political opponents are treated in a

00:35:31.080 racist way. When Larry Elder gets a woman in a monkey mask throwing an egg at him, and no one wants to

00:35:38.720 cover it, and you don't have any statements from Al Sharpton or Ibram X. Kendi or any of your favorite

00:35:45.100 social justice evangelicals, none of them are coming out and saying, see, this is proof that

00:35:49.820 systemic racism is still alive and well. Yeah, we see you. We see your silence. We see that you only

00:35:56.480 speak up when it's a half-baked narrative about a white cop and a black suspect, and you use that to

00:36:03.240 try to push a political narrative. We see you. It's all about politics and power. It's not about social

00:36:07.920 and so-called racial justice. Yeah, we get it. So you want to know why people are hesitant in listening to

00:36:14.160 our institutions when maybe there's a little bit of distrust. Like, again, when you've got big

00:36:20.380 government and big tech and big business and big pharma and big media in each other's pockets,

00:36:26.760 silencing legitimate voices, belittling questions, doing nothing to try to gain people's trust and doing

00:36:34.640 a lot to lose people's trust. I mean, it's your fault. It's your fault, those of you who are in those

00:36:40.280 institutions and have parroted the contradictory propaganda from those institutions. You are the

00:36:45.460 ones who have sown vaccine hesitancy. If you are on the left and you honestly think at this point

00:36:52.560 that the authoritarian threat is coming from the right, I just got to say the call is coming from

00:36:58.480 inside the house, my friend. Now is the time. Take the red pill. Open up your eyes. See what's really

00:37:05.680 going on. And get ready, by the way. It pains me to say that I don't think what's coming is going to

00:37:14.380 be good. Like, I think that people are getting pushed too far because the right is eventually

00:37:20.420 going to take back power. Of course, we'll see what crisis Democrats manufacture next year. That's 1.00

00:37:26.260 definitely coming a year from now, right before the midterms. Mark my words. They'll create something

00:37:31.180 to make sure enough people are scared into voting for them and that everyone's forgotten what a

00:37:35.760 disaster Afghanistan was. But I hope you'll remember because this new right that is coming up 1.00

00:37:43.820 and running for office really isn't like the neoconservatives of years past. The feckless

00:37:50.800 do-nothings who complain about precedents. They are watching this new group of conservatives that are

00:37:58.920 running for office. I truly think that they are watching how the left wields power

00:38:02.880 relentlessly and unapologetically while dehumanizing millions of Americans who don't make the choices

00:38:09.700 that they want them to make, gaslighting half the country into thinking that somehow, despite leftists

00:38:13.920 dominating every single national and global institution, that they, the 80 million Americans,

00:38:20.040 are the real authoritarian threats. And they're realizing this new batch of conservatives. I think

00:38:27.740 they're realizing that they don't need to be afraid to use the power of the government to accomplish

00:38:32.780 their goals in the same way that the left does so unabashedly. Leftists, you're pushing people too

00:38:39.600 far. You are. I hate to see it. I love this country. I want unity. I want peace. I want us to go along to

00:38:48.800 get along. I want us to, you know, be where we were patriotically 20 years ago. That's not where we are.

00:38:57.660 And when you have a president who is purposely stoking the flames, in a way, truly, I know that

00:39:04.000 if you're on the left, you're going to laugh at this, truly in a way that Trump never did. Like,

00:39:08.880 you can say that Trump was crass. You can say that you didn't like his rhetoric. That's fine. I didn't like

00:39:14.740 all his rhetoric. I didn't like his tweets. I could definitely see how a lot of those things

00:39:18.340 were divisive, but purposely dehumanizing and demonizing millions and millions of Americans,

00:39:26.500 mostly really because of their politics, but saying it's somehow because of public health and the

00:39:32.120 vaccine. You're just, you're pushing people too far. People don't like to be bullied. They don't like

00:39:39.000 to feel like they're being coerced. And actually, I think the coercion shows a lot more distrust

00:39:43.220 in the vaccine and creates a lot more vaccine hesitancy than anything else.

00:39:47.220 There are probably people who were considering, who were about to get the vaccine. And then they

00:39:51.600 heard that speech and they're like, yeah, right. Because honestly, the creepier you guys get about

00:39:57.400 it, the more coercive you get about it, the more there are going to be people who dig their heels in.

00:40:02.520 So for all of you sane people that exist out there, you are always asking me, what do we do?

00:40:09.100 Those of you who actually oppose this government overreach, because that's what it is.

00:40:14.360 Well, I think it's time to peacefully resist. I am not talking about resisting by not getting

00:40:23.620 the vaccine. Honestly, that's irrelevant. Do that if you want to or don't. What I'm saying is it is

00:40:28.840 time for you, if you own a company that has a hundred or more employees to do whatever you can

00:40:34.540 to loudly resist and say, no, even if a hundred percent of your employees are vaccinated, even

00:40:40.920 if you are a vaccinated person, you need to be standing up and saying, no, this is too far.

00:40:46.840 This is too authoritarianism. We're not living in this kind of country. I'm not, I choose not

00:40:51.700 to demonize and dehumanize people who make a different healthcare choice than me.

00:40:55.540 It's time for corporations to sue. It's big corporations, which I have my doubts, but that

00:41:01.560 would really change things. If the major corporation stood up and said, no, we're not going to do this.

00:41:06.160 It's time for employees to band together with other like-minded employees, again, vaccinated or not,

00:41:11.400 to approach your bosses and say, no, this is unscientific. This is unethical. We oppose this.

00:41:17.280 Now, there are several states that are already saying that they are going to defy this, that

00:41:25.440 their attorneys general are pushing back against that. So you've got pretty much all of the

00:41:32.960 Republican states, not all of them, but a lot of the Republican states like Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas,

00:41:38.980 Florida, all of the South. And then you've also got like Montana and Wyoming, North and South Dakota.

00:41:44.120 There's several that I didn't list who are going to be pushing back against this and who are going to

00:41:50.220 do their best to ensure that their companies and individuals have freedom. So it is time to push

00:41:57.340 back using every lawful and civil means that you possibly can, because in this country, I know

00:42:03.680 people are going to bring up Romans 13, that apparently we're just supposed to lie down and

00:42:07.160 be doormats, but that is not the Christian tradition. It's not. If you believe John Knox, 0.92

00:42:12.100 that resistance to tyranny is obedience to God, the great Scottish reformer, that it is simply not true

00:42:18.640 that Romans 13 means that we conform to all authoritarian measures. Again, like look back,

00:42:26.340 read the Gulag Archipelago, even just a little bit, even just a few pages of it, and you will see what

00:42:31.980 happens when Christians wade into complacency in the name of just, I don't know, abiding by Romans 13. 0.85

00:42:41.440 Here's the deal. In this country, our government is of the people for the people by the people.

00:42:46.640 The people in charge, our representatives, our elected officials work for us. They are in

00:42:52.600 subservience to the law of the land, which is the constitution. Their powers are bound by the

00:42:57.800 constitution. And when they act outside of those bounds, it is they who are disobeying our nation's

00:43:03.200 authority, not us, who are trying to abide by and preserve the constitution. Lex rex means law.

00:43:11.640 The law is king. That has been a part of the Christian tradition and understanding of how

00:43:16.780 governments should work for a long time, that we are not ruled under a monarch, but actually,

00:43:22.760 even the people in charge, our elected officials, our public servants, are actually bound by the law

00:43:29.520 of the land. And that, that is what we are supposed to abide by. And so those who are actually

00:43:36.640 violating Romans 13 are those who are trying to violate the constitution, those of us who are

00:43:42.900 trying to abide by the constitution and are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, executive branch, you don't,

00:43:49.360 you don't have the power, federal government, you don't have the power to tell states what to do in

00:43:53.360 this way. You don't have the power to tell companies what to do in this way. We are actually trying to

00:43:59.980 obey the authority in the land, which is the constitution. And so I simply do not think that

00:44:07.340 Romans 13, which also says that the people in power are supposed to be servants of God. I do not

00:44:13.340 think that means that we just have to accept tyranny. Again, you can look at the 20th century and see what

00:44:19.340 happens when Christians become complacent about this kind of stuff. I think that you have to wake up at 0.97

00:44:28.700 some point. And maybe this isn't the time for you. Maybe you're not waking up yet. Maybe you still

00:44:33.260 have, you think that the intentions of this administration and the people in charge are

00:44:38.120 good. Maybe you truly think it's for public health. I think that you should probably just

00:44:41.920 spend some time asking like, what will be too far? What will be too far? So when they start to say,

00:44:47.760 hey, you got to get your kids under 12 vaccinated, and they don't tell you what the possible risks are,

00:44:54.180 and we don't look at the numbers, I guarantee you the teachers unions will be pushing hard for

00:44:58.540 that, no matter what the side effects of the vaccine may be for kids. And they threaten you

00:45:03.560 with the power of the state. And they say, for example, the Department of Education somehow coerces

00:45:09.540 all of the public school districts, or tries to coerce the public school districts to require

00:45:14.920 COVID vaccination for all kids as young as kindergarten or as young as preschool. And they say,

00:45:23.820 okay, if you don't abide by this, there will be some sort of punishment, either for the school

00:45:30.220 district, and maybe even in some more liberal states, maybe there will be individual punishment. 0.93

00:45:34.900 If they start taking, I'm not saying that this is going to happen. I'm not saying that this is going

00:45:38.760 to come down the pipeline. I'm just saying, you need to think about how far is too far. If they say,

00:45:44.760 okay, if you don't get your two year old vaccinated, CPS is going to show up at your house,

00:45:49.320 again, in a liberal state, that wouldn't happen probably in a Republican state. Will that be too

00:45:55.380 far? Will you see then that maybe this isn't all about loving your neighbor? Will you see then that

00:46:00.840 maybe this isn't really about public health? I don't know. Just consider that. Just consider how

00:46:06.660 far will be too far for you before you realize, oh, hey, maybe I shouldn't just trust the state

00:46:14.500 with our well-being. Maybe rights matter. Maybe freedom does actually matter.

00:46:22.040 And look, I understand. I was naive about all of this in the beginning. I was one of those people

00:46:27.340 who was saying, oh my gosh, if you don't stay inside, then you're not loving your neighbor back

00:46:31.960 when we thought that this had like a 20% death rate. I said some things that now looking back make

00:46:38.320 me cringe. It took me a little bit to realize, okay, yes, it's still a real virus. And yes,

00:46:44.060 the threat is real, but so is the threat of tyranny. And so is illogical public policy that is being used

00:46:51.640 to control people and wreck the economy. And I've got to have some balance here. So if you're still one

00:46:57.840 of those people, I've been there. I understand. Okay. I am a germaphobe. I am a hypochondriac. I don't

00:47:03.500 want to get sick. I don't want anyone that I love to get seriously ill. And so I totally understand

00:47:10.140 that fear, but you have to understand there are other risks in life. There are other risks in life.

00:47:15.780 We have come a long way from Patrick Henry's give me liberty or give me death and a long way,

00:47:22.560 not in a good way, unfortunately. I do want to, I'm going to end with a couple of things. I'm going to

00:47:29.920 end with some encouragement, but I'm also going to speak to one thing about the mark of the beast.

00:47:35.500 We've talked about before how I don't believe in my reading of scripture that the mark of the beast

00:47:39.740 is the vaccine, obviously, and I don't believe it's the vaccine passport. Now, I am a post-trib

00:47:48.340 pre-millennial, so that means that I believe that Christians who are alive in the Great Tribulation 1.00

00:47:53.320 will live through the Great Tribulation. I think Jesus will come back after the Great Tribulation. 0.69

00:47:59.920 But I believe things are going, it's like the worst eschatology, the saddest eschatology that

00:48:05.320 you can have, because I believe things are getting worse and worse. And I also believe that Christians 1.00

00:48:09.340 are not going to be raptured before the Tribulation. Now, I feel like I function as a post-mill

00:48:18.340 person. And if you don't know what I mean, that's totally fine. I will link, I've done three episodes

00:48:24.340 on this. I've done three episodes on eschatology, on what the end times kind of look like. And so

00:48:28.860 I will link those three past episodes in the description, and you can listen to that.

00:48:34.540 But so mark of the beast, I don't think either of those things are the mark of the beast. But

00:48:39.540 what this whole thing has shown me is how easy it will be to get people to take the mark of the beast.

00:48:46.500 So this will be a mark that you have to have that will show your allegiance to the Antichrist.

00:48:51.000 You can't take the mark of the beast and also be a Christian, as far as my understanding of 1.00

00:48:56.900 Scripture goes, and you will need this mark to buy or to sell. That's what Revelation tells us.

00:49:03.180 And what I'm seeing is that it's going to be so easy to manipulate people into getting this. I guess

00:49:11.780 I always just imagined that it would be so obvious that we would be able to see, oh, see, that's the

00:49:16.820 mark. I'm not taking that. And we would just be able to kind of stand off to the side and, I don't

00:49:21.700 know, do our thing. But now I'm realizing there will be people who are professing Christians who 0.80

00:49:27.500 will be used as a mouthpiece for the mark of the beast, and that we are going to be told that taking

00:49:32.400 the mark is just loving your neighbor. And if you don't take the mark, you're a threat to public

00:49:35.780 health, and you're a threat to safety, and that you are going to be demonized and dehumanized as

00:49:41.100 other, trying to push to the margin of societies, and your health care is going to be threatened,

00:49:45.800 your family is going to be threatened, and it's going to seem a heck of a whole lot easier

00:49:50.580 if you just take the mark. And you might even start to question, well, am I a threat to public

00:49:55.840 health? Am I a threat to society if I don't take this mark? Again, I'm not saying that either of

00:50:00.280 these things are the mark of the beast. I don't think that they are. I'm just saying that this is

00:50:04.540 a good lesson for all of us for when that day comes, if it comes in our lifetimes, that we can

00:50:11.680 remember. We can think back, and maybe we should be asking. Maybe we should be asking the Lord

00:50:16.480 to help us remember this, and maybe this is actually a blessing. Maybe we are actually,

00:50:24.120 He is giving us something to be thankful for that we are seeing, oh, so this is how it's going to go

00:50:29.280 down. There's going to be articles, and there's going to be videos from our favorite Christian

00:50:34.620 writers and pastors talking about how taking the mark is actually just loving our neighbor, how it's

00:50:41.160 actually the righteous thing to do, how we actually don't love God and don't love Christ if we are not

00:50:46.320 taking the mark of the beast. So that's something to keep in mind. I will say the people today who

00:50:51.120 are saying that getting the vaccine or wearing three masks or whatever it is is loving your neighbor.

00:50:57.540 So Jesus says that the most important commands are to love God and love your neighbor. Those are the

00:51:02.480 marks of a Christian, and love doesn't just mean feel-good vibes. Love doesn't just mean having

00:51:09.380 affection towards your neighbor. It actually doesn't mean that at all. It means seeking their

00:51:13.620 best interest according to what God says is their best interest. It means speaking the truth in love.

00:51:18.900 It means trying to share the gospel with them, trying to meet their actual needs. It doesn't just mean

00:51:24.200 endless acceptance and affirmation because that's not what we see in Scripture. But the people who are

00:51:31.220 saying basically then that in order to really be a Christian, in order to fulfill the greatest

00:51:36.500 commandments that Jesus tells us we have to follow in order to be his disciples, you have to get the

00:51:41.340 vaccine, when Scripture is very clear that stewardship of our bodies as a dwelling place for the Holy Spirit,

00:51:48.820 as 1 Corinthians says, is our responsibility, they are just like the Pharisees. They are putting

00:51:58.420 burdens on people to try to tell them that this is how you have to be holy. This is how you have to

00:52:04.740 follow Christ. You have to take these particular public health measures, even if you've had

00:52:09.580 COVID before, even if you have done the calculations and you don't think it makes sense to you, even if

00:52:15.760 you have some kind of underlying condition that makes getting the vaccine unsafe, you have Christians 1.00

00:52:20.360 professing Christians saying that in order to truly be a Christian and follow Christ, you have to do that.

00:52:25.080 You're a Pharisee. That's exactly, exactly what the Pharisees did. They raised the standard of

00:52:31.340 righteousness and holiness to an impossible place. And the people who were trying to follow those

00:52:39.320 standards to meet the higher and higher standards could never reach them. They were demoralized.

00:52:43.800 They were oppressed by these outward standards of righteousness that actually had nothing to do

00:52:50.020 with a heart that really loved God. And that's what Jesus said when he came along. He said,

00:52:54.820 you are whitewashed tombs. You are a brood of vipers. You are hypocrites. You look good on the 1.00

00:53:00.940 outside, but inside you are decaying. You are doing all of these public demonstrations of supposed

00:53:06.300 righteousness, but your hearts are far from God. Jesus came to fulfill the law and to say,

00:53:11.640 no, true sin starts on the inside. True righteousness starts on the inside. It starts with faith. And so,

00:53:19.240 um, you're a Pharisee. You are, it's, it's very, uh, brood of vipers energy. It's very like whitewashed

00:53:25.800 tomb vibes. The people who are saying that in order to be a true Christian, you have to take

00:53:31.200 the vaccine chapter and verse chapter and verse, my friend. All right. Uh, let me give you some

00:53:38.300 comfort. Okay. Let me give you some comfort. Yesterday I spoke to a bunch of pregnancy center, 1.00

00:53:42.600 um, directors, and they've got, uh, a lot of work that they are handling right now as they have,

00:53:48.000 um, just maybe an unprecedented number of women coming in, in crisis who are trying to figure out 0.98

00:53:55.280 what to do. They have an unwanted pregnancy. They have a surprise pregnancy and they need help.

00:53:59.780 Pregnancy directors, people who volunteer at pregnancy centers, truly just like a selfless,

00:54:06.160 selfless, uh, ambassadors for Christ, the most loving and selfless and sacrificial people in the

00:54:12.100 world. You need to look up your local pro-life pregnancy center and you need to donate and you need to,

00:54:17.160 um, you need to volunteer by the way, but I was talking to them just about the moment that we're

00:54:22.220 in, um, and how being on the front lines of compassion and serving the least of these and

00:54:28.620 sharing the gospel and providing hope for people. Like that is why God placed us here when and where

00:54:34.740 he did. I know that a lot of you are scared right now. I know a lot of you are scared for your kids.

00:54:39.100 I know a lot of you are scared for the future. You don't like where this country is headed and you

00:54:43.640 don't know how you're going to be able to hang on and you're, you're worried. You're anxious.

00:54:48.200 I understand. But when Jesus tells us in Matthew 6, in Matthew 10, that we're not to be anxious,

00:54:54.160 that God takes care of us, that not a hair, uh, from our heads is going to fall apart from the

00:55:00.840 knowledge and will of the father, that not a sparrow can fall from the sky apart from the will of the

00:55:04.700 father, that we are going to have all of our needs met, that all we have to do is seek first his

00:55:10.180 kingdom and his righteousness. And all of these things are going to be added unto us. When he

00:55:13.620 tells us those things, uh, he knew everything that was going to happen. He knew everything that

00:55:19.120 we were going to endure. When he decided, um, that I was going to be born on February 18th,

00:55:24.400 1992, when he decided that you were going to be born whenever you were born, he knew exactly what

00:55:29.820 you would endure. He knew exactly what your kids would have to endure. He knew exactly what was coming.

00:55:34.240 He's sovereign over all of it. And he did not place you when and where he did by mistake.

00:55:39.260 He didn't make your kids born when and where he did by mistake. It's not serendipitous. It's not

00:55:45.840 coincidental. It's not accidental. He is sovereign over all of it. He is in control of all of it. He

00:55:51.980 doesn't come in and clean up the mess after. He doesn't, um, look down and say, how did you guys

00:55:57.420 get yourself into this mess? Or I didn't see that coming. He is not shocked. He is not surprised.

00:56:02.120 Nothing takes God off his throne. He is totally and completely in charge. And he's not just waiting

00:56:07.300 around to see what's going to happen. But Psalm 37 says that one day evildoers will be no more,

00:56:13.420 that we shouldn't fret, that we shouldn't be worried that he is going to take care of it.

00:56:16.860 We know that he is going to trample the enemy and all of his enemies under his feet, that one day he

00:56:24.080 is going to rule finally, totally, completely in perfect peace and perfect righteousness. And all we

00:56:30.300 have to do until then is trust and obey. We have to speak the truth in love. We have to be bold and

00:56:37.320 standing for what is good and what is right and what is true. Politics doesn't become our idol. It

00:56:43.540 doesn't get us down. It doesn't steal our joy. It doesn't depress or oppress us. Yes, we stay in the

00:56:49.920 know in what's going on. Yes, we use every peaceful means possible, um, for the sake of not just ourselves,

00:56:56.300 but also our children and our neighbors to try to preserve personal liberty. I actually do think

00:57:00.800 that is a way, a way to be loving to our neighbors. Um, and we have to trust that he is totally and

00:57:11.940 completely in charge. And that's what gives us our joy. And like, let's be a little motivated. Like

00:57:16.720 let's have a little fire inside of us to share the gospel, um, knowing that he is coming back. I don't

00:57:22.780 know if it's soon. I don't know if it's in a thousand years, but knowing that all we have to

00:57:27.580 do today, as Elizabeth Elliott said, the thing that gives her peace or gave her peace when she

00:57:32.240 woke up every day was all you have to do today is the will of God. Everything that is before you,

00:57:38.400 you do in obedience and you do in joy and you do in courage. We need courage and clarity right now.

00:57:44.060 Now is not a time for waffling. Now is not a time for cowardice. Now is a time if you're a pastor,

00:57:48.980 if you're a professor, if you are just a person, uh, now is the time for clarity and courage.

00:57:55.600 Know what you believe, know why you believe it, be willing to say it and come what may.

00:58:00.840 You were made for this. You were made for this time. Your kids were made for this time. I'm excited

00:58:05.280 about it. I hate what's happening in a lot of ways, but I believe that God was providential,

00:58:10.620 that he was very specific when he put us when and where he did. It's not an accident. That means

00:58:17.480 that we were made for this time, for this day, for a specific reason, and in all things to glorify

00:58:22.940 him. Let me read you a little bit, uh, from the Heidelberg Catechism to finish up. What is your

00:58:28.800 only comfort in life and in death? By the way, we should be catechizing ourselves and our children,

00:58:34.660 making them memorize this stuff too. What is your only comfort in life and in death? That I am not my own,

00:58:40.180 but I belong body and soul in life and in death to my faithful savior, Jesus Christ. He has fully

00:58:47.620 paid for all my sins with his precious blood and has set me free from the tyranny of the devil.

00:58:53.620 He also watches over me in such a way that not a hair can fall from my head without the will of

00:58:58.380 my father in heaven. In fact, all things must work together for my salvation because I belong to him.

00:59:05.120 Christ, by his Holy Spirit, assures me of eternal life and makes me wholeheartedly willing and ready

00:59:12.360 from now on to live for him. Yes and amen. That is our only comfort in life and in death. So all we have

00:59:20.860 to do is trust and obey. He's got us. He's got it. I don't know how this all turns out, but I do know

00:59:28.080 that God is ruling in perfect justice and righteousness, and I can trust him completely.

00:59:33.080 All right. That's all I've got time for today. We'll be back here on Monday. I hope that you

00:59:40.260 have a meaningful time with your family, honoring the lives that were lost, the sacrifices that were

00:59:44.960 made on 9-11 20 years ago, that you take the time to remind your kids of what happened and why freedom

00:59:51.000 matters so much and is always one generation away from extinction. All right. See you guys back here next week.

Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 10, 2021

Ep 486 ｜ EMERGENCY EPISODE： They've Pushed Too Far. Resist.

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