Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - January 16, 2023


Ep 739 ｜ Beth Moore, Childhood Obesity Pills & the Gas Stove Ban


Episode Stats

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50 minutes

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170.14647

Word Count

8,573

Sentence Count

564

Misogynist Sentences

25

Hate Speech Sentences

20


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Beth Moore critiques the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards.
00:00:05.340 I've got a response to that.
00:00:06.960 Childhood obesity apparently, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics,
00:00:11.260 demands surgery and pills, huh?
00:00:13.820 The Democrats gaslight about gas stoves, and the owner of Miss Universe is a man.
00:00:19.960 This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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00:00:30.000 Hey guys, happy Monday, and welcome to Relatable.
00:00:40.840 Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
00:00:42.760 So y'all thought for a minute there that I was done with Good Ranchers,
00:00:48.000 because last week I didn't have the what we call a micro mention at the beginning of the podcast for Good Ranchers,
00:00:55.260 and I didn't read any Good Ranchers ads, and I got some concerned messages from y'all.
00:01:00.000 Saying, are you done with Good Ranchers?
00:01:02.000 Did you have some kind of falling out?
00:01:03.940 Is there some kind of drama behind this?
00:01:06.220 And it didn't really help that I was so awkward at the top of the show without the micro mention.
00:01:11.760 The micro mention for me saying, you know, the bit about Good Ranchers at the top of the show,
00:01:18.320 it was kind of like a cushion in between what we call the cold open and then the rest of the show.
00:01:23.580 And then without that, I didn't know what to say.
00:01:25.560 And so it might have seemed like there was some like weird thing going on there.
00:01:29.560 There was nothing weird at all.
00:01:30.800 There was nothing weird.
00:01:31.560 There's been no falling out.
00:01:33.200 Absolutely love Good Ranchers so much.
00:01:36.040 Cook with them still almost every single night.
00:01:39.760 They just, their advertising didn't start until this week.
00:01:42.900 And so we're back.
00:01:43.840 You will not stop hearing about how amazing Good Ranchers meat is there.
00:01:49.900 So I just wanted to clear that up.
00:01:51.460 There is no bad blood and there's no tension there.
00:01:57.460 No drama to speak of.
00:01:59.400 All right.
00:01:59.800 There's a lot of dramatic things going on in the world.
00:02:02.120 Before we get into it, just want to remind you a little Monday reminder that sometimes
00:02:06.280 I'd like to give you guys is that the only thing that you have to do today, as Elizabeth
00:02:10.480 Elliott used to say, is the will of God.
00:02:14.340 The only thing that you have to do today, Christian, is the will of God.
00:02:18.480 That is it.
00:02:19.900 And so your anxieties can kind of clear, recognizing that that's the only real responsibility that
00:02:26.240 you have before you today.
00:02:27.880 And while that may seem overwhelming, the thing that I like to add to that is that if
00:02:33.420 you don't know what the will of God is for this day, you simply do the next right thing
00:02:38.880 with joy, excellence, and for the glory of God.
00:02:42.920 So that's cleaning the dishes.
00:02:45.140 That's answering an email.
00:02:47.160 That's changing diapers.
00:02:48.220 Maybe that's going on a walk.
00:02:50.480 Whatever is the next right thing, that is what you do enjoy with excellence and for
00:02:54.560 the glory of God.
00:02:55.500 And through the power of the Holy Spirit and the wisdom of his word, we do that.
00:02:59.220 And yesterday I was reading Psalm 97.
00:03:01.480 And I also think it kind of enlightens us as to what our mentality should be and what our
00:03:06.500 responsibility is day to day as Christians.
00:03:08.940 And it's to do this and trust in this.
00:03:12.100 And this is Psalm 97, 10 through 12.
00:03:15.160 Oh, you who love the Lord, hate evil.
00:03:17.800 That's a command.
00:03:18.660 So, oh, you who love the Lord, hate evil.
00:03:21.440 I do think that there's a lot of people who claim to be Christians who just don't hate
00:03:25.160 evil enough.
00:03:26.280 They actually hate more people who call out evil or are constantly obsessed with critiquing
00:03:32.680 people who are calling out evil far more than they are obsessed with hating evil themselves.
00:03:37.620 But Psalm 97, 10 says,
00:03:39.340 Oh, you who love the Lord, hate evil.
00:03:41.780 He, the Lord, preserves the lives of his saints.
00:03:44.740 He delivers them from the hand of the wicked.
00:03:48.380 Light is sown for the righteous and joy for the upright in heart.
00:03:52.480 Rejoice in the Lord.
00:03:53.960 Oh, you righteous and give thanks to his holy name.
00:03:58.700 One day forevermore, there will be deliverance from wickedness.
00:04:02.580 There will be no more sin, no more sorrow, no more injustice, no more politics, no more
00:04:07.420 division, partisanship, but there will only be perfect peace.
00:04:11.920 And that is our hope.
00:04:13.120 And that is what we look forward to.
00:04:14.480 And that is actually what powers us to live with joy and with peace and with calm today.
00:04:19.100 And may that all be true of our hearts and minds and lives.
00:04:22.880 All right, let's get into the craziness of this world because that's what we do.
00:04:26.620 We got to bring some clarity to the chaos.
00:04:29.220 Let's first talk about this crazy story that I saw on Twitter last week that a lot of people
00:04:34.660 were talking about.
00:04:35.480 So this was a while ago.
00:04:36.380 We just didn't have time to get to it last week.
00:04:38.080 We had so many things to talk about.
00:04:39.480 Go back and listen to last week's episodes if you haven't already.
00:04:42.120 But I just could not let another episode go without discussing this.
00:04:46.960 And that is this headline from NBC News that I saw circulating on Twitter.
00:04:51.060 New guidelines for treating childhood obesity include medications and surgery for first time.
00:04:59.020 This is the American Academy of Pediatrics, who we already know has been very misguided
00:05:04.060 when it comes to COVID policy.
00:05:06.260 For example, pushing mandatory masking for kids in schools, even though there is no data
00:05:12.280 whatsoever proving that mandatory masking actually lowers mortality for COVID or stops the spread
00:05:19.660 of COVID in these schools.
00:05:21.280 We talked about that many times as these studies were coming out, claiming by the CDC and the AAP
00:05:28.600 that masks were saving lives of kids and that we should be mandating these masks.
00:05:33.660 We dissected those studies.
00:05:35.260 We looked at the journalism of people like David Zwick, who showed, who proved, who demonstrated
00:05:41.260 that these studies did not prove that masking in schools was helping.
00:05:45.760 We will link some of those past episodes if you have not listened to them.
00:05:49.580 So we know they've been misguided.
00:05:51.120 They support the gender craziness for kids.
00:05:53.760 And so just like almost every other institution in the United States, which is supposed to
00:05:58.500 be neutral and driven by actual science, it's been captured by ideology and captured by money.
00:06:05.200 And I think really that's what's going on here with the whole obesity thing.
00:06:08.420 So this is what NBC News says.
00:06:10.440 The guidance comes as childhood obesity rates have continued to rise over the past decade and a
00:06:14.860 half, increasing from 17 percent to 20 percent, according to data from the Centers for Disease
00:06:20.640 Control and Prevention, the CDC.
00:06:22.720 Since the 1980s, obesity rates have tripled in children and quadrupled in adolescents.
00:06:27.560 The new guidelines from the AAP emphasize that obesity is a complex and chronic condition
00:06:33.240 without a simple fix.
00:06:34.980 Intensive behavioral and lifestyle changes should be the first line approach, agree.
00:06:39.000 But the AAP also includes recommendations for anti-obesity medications and surgery for the
00:06:45.600 first time.
00:06:46.320 These novel recommendations are in response to a windfall of research and drug approvals
00:06:50.440 in the past few years.
00:06:52.780 I mean, this just doesn't surprise me at all that another so-called scientific institution
00:06:58.640 is pushing drugs that are going to make these pharmaceutical companies and a lot of these
00:07:03.460 institutions a lot of money.
00:07:05.780 We see this constantly, things that don't actually need to be treated with drugs or things that
00:07:11.740 aren't actually adequately treated with drugs.
00:07:14.560 We are told by these institutions and entities that they must be treated with drugs.
00:07:19.780 And in a lot of cases, not in all cases, but in a lot of cases, money is the driver behind
00:07:26.100 that.
00:07:26.900 I mean, we understand what causes in a lot of cases.
00:07:30.160 I'm not saying in all cases, but in a lot of cases, probably, I would say upwards of
00:07:35.640 90 plus percent of these cases of childhood obesity, it's due to a sedentary lifestyle and
00:07:42.880 it's due to bad food choices.
00:07:45.440 Maybe not by the kid, but by the parent.
00:07:47.720 And also because of what is in our food.
00:07:50.400 So even if a parent thinks that they are making good choices for their kids, unfortunately,
00:07:55.620 we can't get away from things like seed oils and the different kinds of ingredients in
00:08:00.260 our food that are actually not good for us, that are actually killing us in a lot of ways,
00:08:05.980 that are messing up our endocrine system and our metabolism.
00:08:09.440 And that's what's happening to a lot of kids.
00:08:11.300 And then you add COVID on top of that.
00:08:13.500 And we know from the data that obesity was exacerbated in kids during the time of COVID
00:08:18.440 because we were told that the healthiest thing that you could do was sit inside by yourself.
00:08:23.140 And we saw in different parts of the country and especially places like Canada that recreation
00:08:29.540 centers or recreation places and communities and neighborhoods that have, for example, basketball
00:08:35.160 goals were actually barred.
00:08:36.660 They were chained.
00:08:37.480 Basketball goals were taken down in some cases.
00:08:40.020 You saw the like soccer goals in some of these parks completely chained up so that you couldn't
00:08:46.500 play soccer.
00:08:47.500 And we are now surprised that they're saying, oh, this is such a big problem that we need to
00:08:51.620 be pushing more drugs and surgery for these little kids.
00:08:55.540 Again, are we even thinking about the long-term consequences of this?
00:08:59.860 I mean, I'm glad they're saying the first line approach should be lifestyle changes.
00:09:05.280 But it seems like that is eventually going to go by the wayside.
00:09:09.080 We're going to hear eventually that exercise and eating healthy is just kind of a conspiracy
00:09:14.120 theory.
00:09:15.100 It's just part of fat phobia.
00:09:16.460 And that really there's nothing that people can possibly do to try to lose weight and get
00:09:22.080 healthier.
00:09:22.700 That has nothing to do with choices that these kids or parents are making and everything to
00:09:27.100 do with just some, I don't know, genetic thing, something inside them that can only
00:09:33.660 be fixed with a gastric bypass when they're 11 years old.
00:09:38.620 It's really sad.
00:09:39.800 For children ages 12 and up, one of the major changes in the recommendations is the inclusion
00:09:43.980 of anti-obesity drugs and weight loss surgery alongside lifestyle changes.
00:09:47.700 The guidelines say that pediatricians should offer weight loss drugs for children age 12
00:09:51.620 and up with obesity.
00:09:53.420 The guidelines also recommend that teens age 13 and up with severe obesity consider discussing
00:09:58.720 weight loss surgery, which evidence has shown can be a safe and effective, we've heard
00:10:03.220 that phrase, safe and effective treatment with lasting results.
00:10:06.460 Yeah, I am sure a gastric bypass surgery on someone of any age could probably be effective
00:10:12.600 in that it requires them to eat less food, but is that the best thing that they can do?
00:10:20.020 I mean, is that even safe in a growing body that is not even close to done developing yet?
00:10:25.520 I mean, I'm just speaking as a mom here.
00:10:27.480 I understand that I'm not a scientist.
00:10:29.360 I'm not a doctor.
00:10:30.280 But I've learned over the past couple of years that really average people with common sense
00:10:36.260 sometimes come to smarter conclusions than the people with all of the credentials behind
00:10:41.160 their name.
00:10:43.040 So the guidelines emphasize this kind of approach to obesity treatment, but emphasize also that
00:10:51.000 you should not just consider physical habits, such a diet activity, but also social inequities
00:10:57.080 that he or she faces, mental health environment.
00:11:01.300 I think what's going to be interesting in this, and this is something that you see across
00:11:05.120 the board with these kinds of suggestions, the people that are going to be targeted most
00:11:09.580 by this, especially those who are told by doctors, you're fat because of social inequities
00:11:14.140 or whatever, it's going to be poor people.
00:11:16.800 Like it's going to probably be middle income and poor people who are convinced by their doctors,
00:11:21.560 yeah, you just need this surgery or you just need this medication in order to lose weight.
00:11:29.020 It's kind of like what we saw with the school closures, that parents who had the resources
00:11:34.880 and access to different kind of modes of education, they sent their kids to pods or they homeschooled
00:11:43.360 because they were able to do that.
00:11:45.220 But then you've got the kind of middle income and lower income kids who really had no other
00:11:50.260 option, you just have to listen to the experts, you have to just kind of be dictated by the
00:11:55.440 whims of the teachers unions.
00:11:57.440 I think that's going to be kind of what happens here.
00:12:00.100 You don't have the resources to do your own research or to even question the so-called
00:12:04.640 experts at all.
00:12:06.320 And you're told that, you know, you're fat not because of any choices that you're making,
00:12:10.960 but because of some kind of social injustice in your life or because of racism or whatever.
00:12:16.060 And so you're going to be kind of, they're going to be kind of the guinea pigs when it
00:12:21.300 comes to this.
00:12:21.960 They're going to be kind of the experiment because people with resources and people with
00:12:27.780 money and with access to personal trainers and to chefs and things like that, they're
00:12:32.400 not going to be sending their 11 year old to get a gastric bypass.
00:12:37.120 This is also just the danger of credentialism, listening to people just because they have letters
00:12:42.140 behind their name without employing any wisdom at all.
00:12:47.220 DeSantis, Governor DeSantis of Florida, he has been a long warrior against the corruption
00:12:54.500 that is our medical industrial complex.
00:12:58.300 He has pushed back against Fauci and the mandatory vaccines and all of that in a way that most
00:13:02.840 governors simply haven't.
00:13:04.740 And he responded.
00:13:05.920 He responded to this.
00:13:07.080 DeSantis eviscerates new health guidelines for childhood obesity, recommending drugs
00:13:12.860 and surgery.
00:13:13.940 And so here's what he had to say about that.
00:13:15.880 Now, I think you have so much where they say, OK, what can we make money off of first?
00:13:19.940 And then they start to go.
00:13:21.380 So now you have this thing where they're saying, well, you know, these kids that are overweight
00:13:25.480 should be given pump full of drugs and given surgeries for being overweight.
00:13:30.200 And that is just to me, like, I think that that's them just trying to monetize this issue.
00:13:35.440 You know, fact of the matter is, kids years ago were more active than they are now.
00:13:40.260 They had better diets than they have now.
00:13:42.500 So why don't we focus on those things rather than trying to pump them with pharmaceuticals?
00:13:50.040 OK, I mean, he's obviously correct, and I'm glad that he is speaking up about this.
00:13:54.200 You can tell that he has a personal perspective on these things as a dad that a lot of us can
00:13:58.840 relate to.
00:13:59.720 And the fact is, this is a problem.
00:14:01.500 As he mentions there, The Washington Post reported on this in 2021.
00:14:05.440 That this became an even bigger problem during COVID.
00:14:07.980 For the average five-year-old, about 40 pounds.
00:14:10.840 That's a 12.5% weight gain.
00:14:12.800 For the average 11-year-old, about 82 pounds.
00:14:15.020 That's a 6% weight gain.
00:14:17.180 According to the study before the pandemic, about 36% of 5 to 11-year-olds were considered
00:14:20.620 overweight or obese.
00:14:21.800 And that increased to 45.7%.
00:14:25.140 So this study, which was Kaiser Permanente in Southern California, they noted that there
00:14:33.800 is regular summer weight gain among kids.
00:14:35.820 But of course, when you extend that to a year, a year and a half, two years, kids are going
00:14:39.720 to gain a lot more weight, and it's going to be hard for them to get it off.
00:14:42.260 Again, this is the consequence of the stupid decisions that were made in the name of health
00:14:49.660 when it came to COVID.
00:14:51.440 Anyone with common sense, you didn't have to go to medical school, could see how shutting
00:14:56.500 kids out of these kinds of activities was going to be devastating for their physical and
00:15:01.920 mental health.
00:15:02.700 Especially when you're talking about being up against a sickness that 99.99% of kids
00:15:10.280 would survive.
00:15:11.340 Most of them wouldn't go to the hospital.
00:15:13.320 Most of them wouldn't have any kind of serious bout of COVID at all.
00:15:16.860 Some did.
00:15:17.640 The vast majority didn't.
00:15:19.120 A lot of them, I would say it's very comparable to kids who come down with a really bad flu and
00:15:24.940 have to go to the hospital when it comes to COVID.
00:15:27.560 We absolutely shut down their lives for the sake of a virus that was of us.
00:15:32.700 Almost no threat to them whatsoever and the consequences on their learning, on their social
00:15:39.920 and emotional maturation, on their physical health could very well be lifelong.
00:15:46.360 And who is going to be held accountable for that, by the way?
00:15:50.040 Like, who is going to be punished for that?
00:15:52.900 Like, who is going to be paying for those decisions that were made at the expense of the
00:15:59.120 group of people in this country who do not have a voice, children?
00:16:03.380 What do we always say?
00:16:04.220 Children are always laid on the altar of progressivism.
00:16:09.140 Children are always the subjects of progressive social experiments, whether it comes to COVID
00:16:14.000 policy, whether it comes to the gender madness, whether it comes to abortion, whether it comes
00:16:21.640 to the redefinition of the family.
00:16:24.400 They are always the ones placed on the altar of progressive policy first.
00:16:29.060 And that's what we see here.
00:16:30.660 And then what do they do?
00:16:32.760 They create this big problem or they exacerbate this problem.
00:16:35.880 And then they come in and they say, this solution, so-called, which happens to make us a lot of
00:16:41.900 money, is going to solve this problem that we made worse.
00:16:46.000 It seems to always happen like that.
00:16:47.940 Isn't that really interesting?
00:16:50.340 All right.
00:16:50.960 Let's move on to the next story.
00:16:52.740 Before we do, let's just remember, let's try to feed our kids as healthy as we can.
00:16:58.340 Now, I am someone who is like a mom of toddlers.
00:17:00.820 And so I understand that's really difficult.
00:17:02.260 Sometimes they only want chicken nuggets and mac and cheese.
00:17:04.700 But let's send them outside as much as we can.
00:17:07.560 And let's give them the proper balance and the exercise that they need.
00:17:11.980 And we don't have to worry about these doctors pushing surgery and drugs on our preteen.
00:17:19.060 So let's just all commit in the year 2023 to try to avoid this madness by just making
00:17:24.800 common sense and better decisions for ourselves and for our family.
00:17:38.360 Okay, so let's talk about Miss Universe.
00:17:42.420 Miss Universe.
00:17:44.240 M-I-S-S Universe.
00:17:46.420 So you might be thinking, just because of the first word in that phrase, that this is
00:17:52.180 a competition for women, correct?
00:17:55.460 You would be wrong, however.
00:17:57.160 Just like a lot of spaces and a lot of places, a lot of teams today are no longer exclusive
00:18:02.840 to women.
00:18:03.440 Men still have their exclusive spaces and have their exclusive teams.
00:18:07.220 But women, for some reason, are the ones who have to make the compromises and the sacrifices
00:18:12.460 of our safety and privacy because there are men who wear lipstick and skirts who say that
00:18:17.880 they now have the right to enter our teams in places and spaces, even intimate and vulnerable
00:18:23.600 spaces like women's prisons and domestic abuse shelters and bathrooms and locker rooms.
00:18:29.800 Isn't that interesting?
00:18:30.520 And now men have decided that they are going to take over Miss Universe.
00:18:37.020 But the owner seems to be a little bit confused, as you're about to see in a second, because
00:18:42.000 he says that the organization is run by women.
00:18:47.320 Let's see what he's got to say.
00:18:49.160 Miss Universe organization.
00:18:51.060 From now on, it's going to be ran by women, owned by a trans woman for all women.
00:19:10.460 For all women really around the world to celebrate the power of feminism.
00:19:16.480 All right.
00:19:17.880 So this would have been a really funny comedy bit.
00:19:22.420 This would have been a really funny sketch in a parallel universe in which we still had
00:19:27.060 our sanity.
00:19:28.360 You know, I've been thinking about how like a classic comedy bit is men dressing up as
00:19:34.420 women.
00:19:35.060 Right.
00:19:35.500 And it has been for a very long time, probably for thousands and thousands of years in theater
00:19:40.160 men dressing up as women.
00:19:42.440 Even, you know, something like white chicks.
00:19:44.580 It's funny because they are black men dressing up as women.
00:19:48.660 And it's ridiculous, not only because they don't actually look white, but because they
00:19:52.000 don't look like women.
00:19:53.120 Men dressed up as women.
00:19:54.560 It's funny because it's ridiculous.
00:19:56.560 Women dressed up as men isn't quite as funny because it doesn't look quite as ridiculous.
00:20:00.500 But men dressed up as women has always been a comedy sketch.
00:20:03.460 It's always been funny.
00:20:04.900 And so not only are we being told to deny reality, we are also being told to deny humor.
00:20:10.760 Like we're not supposed to snicker at the fact that this person has a deep voice and has
00:20:17.280 movements that look exactly like a male and is saying that Miss Universe is now going to
00:20:22.720 be run by women, even as he is a man.
00:20:25.460 Like we're not supposed to laugh at that.
00:20:27.580 Apparently it's cruel and it's mean to laugh at that.
00:20:29.900 So not only are you begging me, are you demanding that I deny reality?
00:20:34.420 You are also telling me that I must deny humor, which has been humorous for literally thousands
00:20:40.520 of years.
00:20:41.620 Men dressed up as women are is it's ridiculous and it's absurd and it's funny and it's ironic
00:20:47.100 and it's supposed to be part of satire.
00:20:49.700 But this we are told is absolutely dead serious.
00:20:53.800 And that's why culture is dying.
00:20:56.300 That's why humor is dying.
00:20:58.100 Because everything that is funny, we are told that we must take literally and sincerely
00:21:03.500 and earnestly and empathetically and we're not allowed to make fun of it or we're called
00:21:10.680 bigots or whatever until you kind of graduate to the phase that I have graduated to and that
00:21:15.240 a lot of you have to where you just don't care what they call you anymore.
00:21:19.560 Um, so this person is announcing proudly, proudly that Miss Universe is run by women, but of
00:21:28.320 course he is not, he is not actually, um, a woman.
00:21:33.120 Um, let's look at some of these, also these weird costumes out of, uh, Miss Universe.
00:21:39.480 I'm not someone who follows pageants.
00:21:41.160 I've got some friends who have followed pageants who have been in pageants for a long time.
00:21:45.240 It's very like impressive, all the work that has to go into all of this.
00:21:48.840 So I don't want to like, I don't want to denigrate, I don't want to denigrate, you know, the work
00:21:54.060 that some of these women put into this, but I mean, some of this stuff is just absolutely
00:21:58.240 absurd what they're wearing.
00:21:59.440 I'm very confused about it.
00:22:00.660 So, so let's look at some of these costumes of these people who are, um, who are walking,
00:22:08.020 walking out representing their country.
00:22:10.180 So here's, here's the first one.
00:22:13.440 Um, and who is this?
00:22:15.100 This is Miss Netherlands.
00:22:16.960 Miss Netherlands.
00:22:17.740 And do there, are their costumes supposed to be representative of their country in some
00:22:21.840 way?
00:22:22.280 Yeah.
00:22:22.500 So some of them are just like emblematic of their country.
00:22:26.260 Some of them are like, have to do with something, something special about their country.
00:22:30.560 And some are more outrageous than others.
00:22:32.600 Is this supposed to be a Stroopwafel?
00:22:34.120 Yeah.
00:22:34.640 She's, so she's a Stroopwafel.
00:22:36.420 And then she has tea and another Stroopwafel on her hat.
00:22:40.100 Oh, I can't, I did not see that.
00:22:42.680 And what is on her, um, uh, leotard up, up top?
00:22:47.860 What is the blue?
00:22:49.740 I don't know.
00:22:50.660 I think just decoration maybe.
00:22:52.300 Just decoration.
00:22:53.240 All right.
00:22:54.440 Yeah.
00:22:54.880 We're trying to zoom in there.
00:22:56.260 Not really sure.
00:22:57.600 Okay.
00:22:58.180 Interesting.
00:22:58.640 Are they supposed to kind of be absurd costumes?
00:23:00.820 Like funny?
00:23:01.780 No, I think they're supposed to just wow you.
00:23:06.220 Oh, okay.
00:23:07.240 Interesting.
00:23:08.140 All right.
00:23:08.960 Next one.
00:23:10.940 No, what's that?
00:23:12.880 Is that Egypt?
00:23:13.900 This is Miss Trinidad and Tobago.
00:23:16.680 Okay.
00:23:17.020 So I don't see this person's face at all.
00:23:19.500 She's, she's about halfway down.
00:23:22.220 I can't.
00:23:23.280 Oh, I see it.
00:23:24.480 I see it.
00:23:25.420 Okay.
00:23:26.060 So this is like a very tall, like golden statue thing.
00:23:31.080 I guess I don't know enough about Trinidad, uh, Trinidad to know how this is representative
00:23:36.600 of that country.
00:23:38.280 Yeah.
00:23:38.700 I couldn't tell you, but it looks like a bunch of party city streamers.
00:23:43.320 Interesting.
00:23:44.800 Um, I don't really know what's going on with the face of the golden apparatus.
00:23:48.720 Okay.
00:23:49.480 I mean, she's really pretty.
00:23:50.920 Oh my gosh.
00:23:51.360 You can't see her at all.
00:23:53.480 I feel like it is supposed to be like, okay, there we go.
00:23:57.440 Zoomed in.
00:23:58.040 Oh my gosh.
00:23:58.580 Very, very, very scary.
00:24:01.740 Okay.
00:24:02.980 Got it.
00:24:03.720 Okay.
00:24:03.920 Moving on.
00:24:05.840 Um, and this is Miss Seychelles.
00:24:09.260 Miss Seychelles.
00:24:10.160 I hate to admit, I have no idea what that is or where that is.
00:24:14.300 It's an island.
00:24:15.380 Okay.
00:24:16.380 And I guess this is maybe their bird.
00:24:19.000 Okay.
00:24:19.660 I mean, I kind of appreciate this a little bit more.
00:24:22.460 It's not as ridiculous.
00:24:24.060 Can we zoom into her head?
00:24:26.120 Okay.
00:24:26.880 So she is supposed to be some kind of bird, right?
00:24:31.080 Yeah.
00:24:32.140 Um, okay.
00:24:34.020 Interesting.
00:24:34.820 Is that her hair or is that a wig?
00:24:36.640 Is that part of the eagle head?
00:24:38.180 I think, I think that's part of the eagle head.
00:24:42.260 Okay.
00:24:42.880 I am impressed that they can, uh, walk in these heels and these costumes.
00:24:46.800 Okay.
00:24:46.960 Next one.
00:24:48.240 Okay.
00:24:48.740 This next one.
00:24:49.940 Mm-hmm.
00:24:50.360 You could only capture the brilliance through video.
00:24:54.380 Okay.
00:24:55.000 I'm ready.
00:25:00.740 What?
00:25:03.100 USA!
00:25:05.840 Oh my gosh.
00:25:06.780 When Americans stepped on the moon in 1969, it was one small step for man.
00:25:12.360 Really?
00:25:13.500 That's, that's our latest accomplishment?
00:25:15.740 Our latest accomplishment is that we landed on the moon in 1969.
00:25:22.340 The, if y'all aren't watching this, she's got like, well, she's got like stars and everything.
00:25:28.440 First of all, she can't walk.
00:25:30.080 And so that should have just been, the costume designer should have been like, okay, that's
00:25:34.540 not going to be good.
00:25:36.260 And she's got like a huge moon behind her.
00:25:41.120 I think it could have been fine maybe without the moon.
00:25:44.080 I mean, it just looks ugly.
00:25:46.060 Why is everything today so ugly?
00:25:48.500 Wow.
00:25:49.580 I just can't believe that they chose of all of our accomplishments as a country that we
00:25:54.060 walked on the moon in 1969.
00:25:55.960 And maybe the jury is still out on that, as we have discussed on this podcast.
00:26:02.040 I mean, of all, of all things, it's really ugly, USA.
00:26:05.780 Really, really ugly.
00:26:06.880 I'm so sorry to say.
00:26:08.680 All right.
00:26:09.540 Um, we've got a couple more videos.
00:26:11.500 Let's look at, let's look at Miss Bahamas, and then we'll end with Miss Ukraine.
00:26:17.160 The Bahamas.
00:26:19.240 In 1973, the islands of Bahamas gained independence.
00:26:24.340 Okay.
00:26:25.300 Just a fun fact about Bahamas.
00:26:27.140 Good to know.
00:26:28.460 Um, honestly, better than Americas.
00:26:30.640 Let's look at Miss Ukraine.
00:26:31.640 L-O-L.
00:26:46.100 L-O-L.
00:26:47.440 That music was added, by the way.
00:26:49.560 That was not in the pageant.
00:26:51.160 Oh, okay.
00:26:52.260 So I guess she's supposed to look like some, like, fierce angel warrior, some guard, a guardian
00:26:57.100 of democracy or something like that.
00:26:59.440 Guardian of freedom.
00:27:00.200 Yep.
00:27:00.760 Yep.
00:27:01.240 And there are also overlays now of Zelensky's face over top of hers that are pretty funny
00:27:07.040 on Twitter.
00:27:07.920 Oh, that is funny.
00:27:09.060 Look out for those.
00:27:10.040 The kleptocracy of Ukraine, all of a sudden, the guardian of democracy.
00:27:14.340 Isn't that funny how it works?
00:27:16.140 Once again, it's just interesting how things come to prominence and just happen to make a
00:27:24.220 very elite group of people a lot of money in our country.
00:27:27.360 Um, all right.
00:27:29.100 So that's Myth Universe.
00:27:30.540 That's the state of pageantry these days.
00:27:32.320 I guess it's no longer about beauty and it's more just about being able to shock you.
00:27:37.340 And isn't that true of a lot of things in our modern age today?
00:27:41.640 Okay, let's talk about gas stoves.
00:27:54.060 So there is a war on gas stoves.
00:27:56.720 Um, the Biden administration is actually considering, according to National Review, banning gas
00:28:04.940 stoves over health concerns.
00:28:07.580 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to open public comment on the dangers
00:28:12.120 of gas stoves sometime this winter.
00:28:14.160 The commission could set standards on emissions from the gas stoves or even look to ban the
00:28:19.540 manufacture or import of the appliances.
00:28:23.080 Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. told Bloomberg News.
00:28:26.860 The stoves, which are used in about 40% of homes in the U.S., I honestly would have thought
00:28:31.240 it was more than that.
00:28:32.280 I know that they're used in all or at least most restaurants to emit pollutants, including
00:28:38.380 nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and fine particulate matter at levels deemed unsafe
00:28:44.180 by the EPA and the World Health Organization.
00:28:47.000 Senator Cory Booker and Representative Don Beyer wrote a letter to the agency last month urging
00:28:51.860 the commission to address the issue and calling the harmful emissions a cumulative burden on
00:28:57.120 Black, Latino, and low-income houses.
00:28:59.560 It's always got to be something like that.
00:29:01.660 It's always got to be something like that.
00:29:03.240 Again, addressing non-problems.
00:29:06.640 Addressing non-problems.
00:29:08.100 You know who is going to be hit the hardest by any kind of gas ban if they try to remove
00:29:14.920 our ability to access gas?
00:29:18.380 It's going to be these poorer communities.
00:29:21.760 I mean, we're talking about billions and billions of people dying if they're not able to heat
00:29:26.200 their homes and to heat their food the way that we have been doing for hundreds of years
00:29:31.440 at this point.
00:29:33.080 However, the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers argues that cooking produces harmful
00:29:37.580 emissions regardless of the kind of stove used.
00:29:41.320 Ventilation is really where this discussion should be rather than banning one particular
00:29:44.860 type of technology.
00:29:46.100 A vice president at the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers said, according to
00:29:51.960 National Review, the American Gas Association similarly argued against the ban.
00:29:57.400 Well, you know, of course they would.
00:29:59.800 I'm not saying this is an objective source, but they said the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
00:30:04.040 Commission and EPA do not present gas ranges as a significant contributor to adverse air
00:30:08.660 quality or health hazard in their technical or public information literature guidance or
00:30:12.800 requirements.
00:30:13.620 So even though that they might not be an objective source, that is something that is objectively true.
00:30:19.380 So then a couple of days later, National Review reported that Consumer Safety Commission walked
00:30:23.900 back gas stove threat amid backlash.
00:30:27.000 Well, isn't that funny also how that happened?
00:30:29.360 So there's backlash to something and then they they walk it back.
00:30:33.300 OK, well, if it's really this crazy pollutant that is causing childhood asthma and is having a
00:30:39.840 disproportionate effect on black and Latino communities, then why does it matter what backlash is had
00:30:46.480 is experienced over the past several days?
00:30:49.340 There's been a lot of attention paid to gas stove emissions into the Consumer Product Safety
00:30:52.880 Commission.
00:30:54.000 To be clear, I am not looking to ban gas stoves and the CPSC has no proceeding to do so.
00:31:01.120 This is the chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
00:31:04.280 Well, that's good.
00:31:05.020 The paper went on to parallel the childhood asthma burden produced by gas stoves being equivalent to
00:31:10.300 secondhand smoke exposure.
00:31:12.220 The asthma study that has triggered the latest uproar was funded by RMI, an environmental group
00:31:17.780 with the radical goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 percent within the next
00:31:23.140 seven years.
00:31:24.160 Its lead author is part of the group's carbon free buildings initiative.
00:31:28.120 All right.
00:31:28.520 So the study that people are pointing to saying this causes childhood cancer is actually funded
00:31:33.080 by a radical environmental group who is anti gas.
00:31:36.320 And it just turns out not to really stack up with the rest of the data.
00:31:42.000 Like if you look at the states with the highest gas stove usage and the highest asthma, they're
00:31:48.480 not the same states.
00:31:49.460 I saw that posted by Emily Oster, who is a Brown University professor.
00:31:54.220 The news coincided with New York Governor Kathy Hochul's State of the State address Tuesday,
00:31:58.420 which called for completely eliminating gas heating and appliances and new construction projects
00:32:02.600 by 2030.
00:32:03.920 That is something that New York started last year.
00:32:07.680 It's also important to note that any of the articles or any of the studies that are used
00:32:12.000 to support the banning of gas stoves are funded by the Rocky Mountain Institute, which is a
00:32:17.820 non-profit think tank that is vehemently against any carbon usage for energy and fanatically
00:32:22.440 supportive of so-called green energy.
00:32:25.200 So the money behind people demonizing gas stoves is coming from these radical left-wing environmentalist
00:32:32.800 groups who believe that we are going to be able to get all of our energy from solar and
00:32:38.480 wind, which is just not feasible.
00:32:40.960 Who wants to get rid of fossil fuels?
00:32:43.700 Again, you are talking about the deaths of millions and millions of people if that kind
00:32:48.220 of goal is ever actually reached, which is not really something that they care about because
00:32:53.620 these are the same people that are constantly talking about their Malthusian dread of overpopulation.
00:33:01.980 So people are kind of they're going back and forth about this and they're just talking about the
00:33:08.080 ridiculousness of, again, trying to create some kind of totalitarian solution to something that is not
00:33:17.720 really a big problem.
00:33:19.460 I mean, how are you going to how would you even get 40 percent of people to stop using their gas stoves?
00:33:26.360 So Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who also uses a gas stove, by the way, there have been pictures floating
00:33:34.460 around. I don't know if we have one of those pictures of AOC using her gas stove.
00:33:39.060 If so, we can pull it up.
00:33:40.900 There are several Democrats who use gas stoves.
00:33:43.200 We've got AOC.
00:33:43.900 She posted something on Instagram a while ago.
00:33:46.600 She's using a gas stove.
00:33:48.060 Elizabeth Warren right there with her little latticed pie using gas stoves.
00:33:52.460 You've got Kamala Harris, who is she?
00:33:55.380 Totally forgot she's our vice president, using her gas stove.
00:33:58.380 And then we've got the good Dr. Jill Biden using her gas stove.
00:34:03.620 Gas stoves for thee or for me, but not for thee.
00:34:07.240 But AOC is now saying that no gas stoves are actually harmful.
00:34:11.560 Here's a little clip of her trying to justify potentially banning gas stoves.
00:34:16.420 I do think it's funny that like absolute utter Republican meltdown where they're like,
00:34:21.020 you can take my gas stove or my cold, dead hands or how dare you talk about gas stoves?
00:34:28.160 You have a gas stove.
00:34:30.000 First of all, first of all, I rent, period.
00:34:32.640 Second of all, though, it doesn't even matter because by that logic, these are the same people who would have said we should have never gotten rid of leaded gasoline just because someone may have driven a gasoline car.
00:34:47.720 Science evolves and gives us new knowledge with time.
00:34:51.000 OK, that's an interesting attempt at a justification.
00:34:57.280 She did tweet that.
00:34:58.620 Did you know the ongoing exposure to NO2 from gas stoves is linked to reduced cognitive performance?
00:35:02.960 Well, AOC uses gas stoves.
00:35:06.920 So I don't know.
00:35:08.320 Maybe maybe there is actually something to that.
00:35:12.220 It's so funny how and I saw this on MSNBC, too, how the left says that they're going to ban something.
00:35:19.460 They're going to do something.
00:35:20.580 They all of a sudden make something that was previously completely nonpartisan, very political and divisive.
00:35:25.800 And then when conservatives react to their divisiveness, we are called divisive.
00:35:31.080 Like we are making a big deal of something.
00:35:33.260 No one was politicizing gas stoves before Democrats started talking about it.
00:35:38.360 Like no one was saying, don't ban my gas stove or don't take my gas stove until Democrats started talking about it.
00:35:46.640 I mean, this is, again, already happening in New York and new construction.
00:35:50.100 We've got Democrats in the Senate trying to propose some kind of ban on gas stoves.
00:35:54.940 And so they are the ones politicizing it.
00:35:56.720 They're the ones making a big deal of something that previously was not a big deal.
00:36:00.400 And yet when we react to it, they're saying, why are you making such a big deal of this?
00:36:04.340 It's gaslighting.
00:36:06.120 I feel like there's probably a pun in there.
00:36:09.040 Gaslighting, gas stoves.
00:36:10.660 It's all part of the Democrat playbook.
00:36:12.440 It's simply it's simply what they do.
00:36:16.280 Well, you're not going to be able to take my gas stove.
00:36:19.460 I cooked with my gas stove at one point this weekend with three burners on at the same time.
00:36:24.280 I was waiting for the dreaded knock at the door by the FBI.
00:36:27.460 It never came.
00:36:28.360 Thankfully, I even posted about it on social media thinking, surely this is going to do me in.
00:36:33.420 And they're just going to arrest me.
00:36:34.960 It hasn't happened yet.
00:36:36.040 But the things we joke about today are the things that become reality tomorrow.
00:36:40.500 So I better be careful with my words.
00:36:43.320 All right.
00:36:43.780 The last thing that I want to talk about is this story that I only saw this morning about
00:36:49.000 Beth Moore talking about a Jonathan Edwards sermon.
00:36:52.080 Sinners in the hand of an angry God.
00:36:56.500 So really, the most important thing to think about, though, when it comes to death is where
00:37:13.460 you will go after you die.
00:37:15.120 And what eternity looks like eternity is a very long time.
00:37:21.440 And Jonathan Edwards delivered a sermon.
00:37:24.680 And it was in 1741, a sermon preached at Enfield, July 8, 1741.
00:37:31.520 And it has become a famous or perhaps to some people, an infamous sermon about our mortality
00:37:38.840 and about our fate as sinners without the saving work of Christ.
00:37:46.320 And it is, to say the least, extremely harsh.
00:37:50.900 This is what you would call fire and brimstone.
00:37:52.960 And this is probably where you even get the phrase fire and brimstone, because he was a
00:37:57.980 fire and brimstone preacher.
00:38:00.880 And he said a lot of things that are true in this sermon and a lot of things that are
00:38:06.260 probably some Christians would not necessarily align with when it comes to how he phrases things.
00:38:17.220 Nevertheless, I do think this kind of harshness is necessary when it comes to showing people
00:38:23.820 just how dire our situation is and just how real the reality of hell is.
00:38:31.200 And so that's why this sermon has lasted through the ages.
00:38:35.680 And Beth Moore responded to it, tweeting that she doesn't agree with it, that she doesn't
00:38:43.020 agree with the pictures that he paints.
00:38:44.920 She doesn't agree with the words that Jonathan Edwards chooses.
00:38:50.480 So she tweeted this.
00:38:52.060 For the life of me, I don't get the appeal of Jonathan Edwards to many.
00:38:55.400 After my Bible reading this morning, I read a bit out of an old book I'd pulled off my
00:38:59.780 shelf, a compilation of many of the great sermons of the past.
00:39:02.760 I flipped open to a page where I'd handwritten the words, but I have Jesus.
00:39:06.740 I'd underline the word Jesus.
00:39:08.700 She goes on and she quotes Jonathan Edwards, the God that holds you over the pit of hell.
00:39:13.540 Much as one holds a spider or some loathsome insect over the fire abhors you and is dreadfully
00:39:19.440 provoked, you are 10,000 times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful, venomous
00:39:24.940 serpent is in ours.
00:39:28.860 I think she meant to say.
00:39:30.720 She said, I get that Edwards is talking to those who do not look to Christ for salvation,
00:39:35.940 but I'm just saying I was so broken and self-loathing and ensnared in my sins.
00:39:39.320 Such preaching would have made me feel like dying, like running away, not running toward
00:39:42.960 God.
00:39:43.480 I would have wondered how he could go straight to loving someone like a son after he abhorred
00:39:47.500 them like a spider.
00:39:48.580 This thought process breaks down, of course, because I'm certainly not God.
00:39:51.680 And to be candid, I tend to like spiders.
00:39:54.000 Okay.
00:39:55.300 So she just talks about how basically this is counterproductive.
00:39:58.700 This is not the kind of message that we should be preaching to people and that it's far too harsh.
00:40:02.720 So before I respond to, um, before I respond to what she has to say here, I do just want
00:40:10.440 to read you some of the sermon so you know what she's talking about.
00:40:13.860 He says this, your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead and to tend downwards
00:40:18.000 with great weight and pressure towards hell.
00:40:20.140 And if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and swiftly descend into and plunge into
00:40:25.520 a bottomless gulf and your healthy constitution and your own care and prudence and all your
00:40:30.080 righteousness would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell than
00:40:34.780 a spider's web would have to stop a falling rock.
00:40:38.000 Were it not for the sovereign pleasure of God, the earth would not bear you one moment
00:40:41.560 for you are a burden to it.
00:40:43.120 The creation groans with you.
00:40:44.660 The creature is made subject to the bondage of your corruption, not willingly.
00:40:48.860 The sun does not willingly shine upon you to give you light to serve sin and Satan.
00:40:53.520 The earth does not willingly yield her increase to satisfy your lust, nor is it willingly
00:40:58.100 a stage for your wickedness to be acted upon.
00:41:00.300 The air does not willingly serve you for breath to maintain the flame of life in your vitals
00:41:04.220 while you spend your life in the service of God's enemies.
00:41:07.080 God's creatures are good and were made for men to serve God with and do not willingly subserve
00:41:12.300 to any other purpose and groan when they are abused to purposes so directly contrary to
00:41:16.920 their nature and end.
00:41:18.580 And the world would spew you out were it not for the sovereign hand of him who has subjected
00:41:22.880 it in hope.
00:41:24.680 There are the black clouds of God's wrath now hanging directly over your heads, full of dreadful
00:41:29.040 storm and big with thunder.
00:41:30.760 And were it not for the restraining hand of God, it would immediately burst forth upon
00:41:34.380 you.
00:41:35.000 All of that is true.
00:41:36.900 Creation is groaning for the redemption of God.
00:41:41.980 And I like what he says about how creation is groaning because of man's sin.
00:41:47.320 Romans 8.22,
00:41:48.120 For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth
00:41:52.900 until now awaiting God's redemption and restoration.
00:41:58.580 Jonathan Edwards says,
00:41:59.560 You have offended him infinitely, God infinitely more than ever a stubborn rebel did his prince.
00:42:04.420 And yet it is nothing but his hand that holds you from falling into the fire every moment.
00:42:09.460 It is to be ascribed to nothing else that you did not go to hell the last night, that you
00:42:14.500 were suffered to awake again in this world after you closed your eyes to sleep.
00:42:19.280 And there is no other reason to be given why you have not dropped into hell since you arose
00:42:23.940 this morning.
00:42:24.440 But that God's hand has held you up.
00:42:27.260 And so he is talking about God's grace and his mercy and his patience, allowing people
00:42:32.240 who are rebels against him, who are dead in his sin, to keep on sinning, to keep on rebelling,
00:42:37.620 to keep on living with the hope that they will one day be called to repentance, that by grace
00:42:46.020 through faith, they will become alive in Christ.
00:42:50.340 That is why his patience exists, not just for individuals, but for creatures as a whole,
00:42:57.000 for humankind as a whole.
00:43:00.400 O sinner, consider the fearful danger you are in.
00:43:02.980 It is a great furnace of wrath, a wide and bottomless pit full of the fire of wrath that
00:43:07.060 you are held over in the hand of that God whose wrath is provoked and incensed as much against
00:43:11.740 you as against many of the damned in hell.
00:43:14.720 You hang by a slender thread with the flames of divine wrath flashing about it.
00:43:20.520 And then he goes on to talk about the hope of grace and the hope of redemption that can
00:43:25.420 save people from this wrath.
00:43:27.240 And now you have an extraordinary opportunity.
00:43:29.500 Jonathan Edwards says, a day wherein Christ has thrown the door of mercy wide open and
00:43:33.900 stands in calling and crying with a loud voice to poor sinners, a day wherein many are flocking
00:43:38.380 to him and pressing into the kingdom of God.
00:43:40.540 Many are daily coming from the east, west, north and south.
00:43:43.500 Many that were very lately in the same miserable condition that you are in are now in a happy
00:43:48.300 state with their hearts filled with love to him who has loved them and washed them of
00:43:52.780 their sins in his own blood and rejoicing in hope of the glory of God.
00:43:57.260 How awful is it to be left behind at such a day to see so many others feasting while you
00:44:03.560 are pining and perishing.
00:44:06.660 And then he ends this way.
00:44:07.860 Therefore, let everyone that is out of Christ now awake and fly from the wrath to come.
00:44:12.920 The wrath of Almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over a great part of this congregation.
00:44:18.820 Let everyone fly out of Sodom.
00:44:21.360 Haste and escape for your lives.
00:44:23.340 Look not behind you.
00:44:24.500 Escape to the mountain lest you be consumed.
00:44:27.420 So, yes, is his language, is his rhetoric a little bit harsher than some pastors use today?
00:44:34.340 Is it not what we are used to?
00:44:37.000 Sure.
00:44:37.820 But is it true?
00:44:39.600 Is it true that God abhors sin and that he actually does abhor sinners?
00:44:46.100 I know that this is a subject of controversy and debate.
00:44:51.560 But we understand that God hates sin so much that he cannot be in the presence of it and
00:45:01.180 that he demands holiness so much that he actually hates those who are perpetuating sin.
00:45:07.580 Psalm 5, 4 through 5.
00:45:08.860 You are not a God who delights in wickedness.
00:45:10.620 Evil may not dwell with you.
00:45:12.500 The boastful shall not stand before your eyes.
00:45:15.320 You hate all evil doers.
00:45:19.120 But we also know that God offers redemption, that God offers restoration, that God offers
00:45:26.840 healing, that he offers complete and total newness for those who by grace through faith
00:45:35.560 become alive in Christ and are saved by him.
00:45:41.300 So we understand that fate, that the fate of those who are rebelling now is not necessarily
00:45:48.020 hell, but the preaching of truth and the preaching of the danger of eternal wrath is actually
00:45:55.260 necessary for us to show people the state of their heart and what could be their fate any
00:46:04.040 second should death come upon them.
00:46:06.980 And I think that's uncomfortable to us today because we think that the gospel is Jesus loves
00:46:12.560 you.
00:46:12.780 The gospel is not Jesus loves you.
00:46:15.760 The gospel is that God hates sin so much, but because he is so good and so loving, he
00:46:22.060 has made a way for sinners to be made holy and reconciled to him through Christ.
00:46:28.800 That is the gospel.
00:46:30.640 But there is no gospel without showing how much God abhors sin.
00:46:34.960 And that the gospel changes someone from a state of being an enemy of God, which is what
00:46:42.060 scripture says, to being a friend and son and daughter of God.
00:46:45.800 So while Beth Moore may not understand why people like Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Edwards
00:46:50.100 played a huge role in the Great Awakening during the time of the Enlightenment in the 18th
00:46:58.140 century, and I don't agree with a lot of the things that he said.
00:47:02.600 He defended some forms of slavery.
00:47:05.200 He defended he was an advocate for infant baptism, which is not something that I believe in.
00:47:13.880 He was his theology and his writings played a huge role in thousands and thousands of people
00:47:20.060 coming to Christ.
00:47:22.020 And I think that today we are so soft with our language.
00:47:26.260 We are so scared to offend people.
00:47:28.180 We are so scared to talk about sin and hell.
00:47:30.480 We are so scared to talk about the wrath of God that we almost don't even show people why
00:47:35.060 the gospel is necessary.
00:47:37.040 Like if all you tell someone is that God loves you and he's there for you, well, then why do
00:47:43.080 they have to come to know Christ?
00:47:44.680 Why do they have to become Christians?
00:47:47.200 Like, why do they have to change anything?
00:47:50.380 Why do they have to repent?
00:47:52.820 If the gospel is really that God loves you the way that you are, how is that good news,
00:47:58.980 by the way?
00:47:59.740 The world also loves you the way that you are.
00:48:03.260 And that doesn't really offer anything different than what the secular world is offering you.
00:48:09.380 It doesn't offer any kind of satisfaction or fulfillment or hope that you're really looking
00:48:13.180 for.
00:48:13.960 1 Corinthians 6.11 says,
00:48:15.260 And such were some of you, but you are washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the
00:48:19.320 name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the spirit of our God.
00:48:22.540 Somehow, in a way that I think is mysterious to us, God hates sinners, but also loves the
00:48:29.120 world so much that John 3.16, as John 3.16 says, that he gave Jesus to die on the cross
00:48:35.380 for a sin.
00:48:35.860 So he loves the world so much, even as he hates sinners, which means that he is providing a
00:48:41.200 way for sinners for all of us, because all of us at one point were dead in our sin, to
00:48:47.340 be reconciled to him, to become friends with him.
00:48:50.420 We were once enemies of God and we have become his friends through Christ.
00:48:56.440 That's really good news.
00:48:58.160 Romans 5.10 says,
00:48:59.320 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more now
00:49:03.120 that we are reconciled, shall we be saved by his life.
00:49:08.020 The Psalms are full of God's wrath towards the wicked, his hatred for the wicked, his promise
00:49:14.140 to demolish the wicked.
00:49:16.060 And I think some of us like to think that we are not a part of that.
00:49:19.680 And if we are without Christ, though, we are, we are subject to God's wrath.
00:49:24.160 And so I think that Beth Moore understands why Jonathan Edwards is appealing to a lot
00:49:29.480 of people.
00:49:30.020 That doesn't mean that you have to like all of his choice of words, but I think it's important
00:49:33.900 for people to know how imminent the threat of hell is and how God's wrath is real.
00:49:39.360 I mean, all of this self-love gibberish that we are telling to people, how many souls is it
00:49:44.040 actually saving?
00:49:44.920 Or is it just making people more comfortable in their sin?
00:49:47.960 What's our role as an evangelist, as a Christian?
00:49:50.200 Is it to make people comfortable in their sin or is it to make people uncomfortable in their
00:49:53.320 sin and show them a much better way that the love of God is so vast and so big and so strong
00:49:59.620 that he has actually provided an undeserving people, a way of redemption?
00:50:04.260 I say that that's really good news.
00:50:06.400 And if God accomplished preaching that gospel through Jonathan Edwards, then I say yes and
00:50:12.780 amen to that.
00:50:13.740 All right.
00:50:14.060 That's all we've got time for today.
00:50:15.380 We will see you back here tomorrow.
00:50:16.460 We will see you back here tomorrow.