Ep 913 ｜ Target Gayifies Christmas
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It's Thanksgiving week, which means it's time to talk about all the things we're thankful for! Today we're talking about the joys of getting sick, and how thankful we are that our kids aren't getting sick too!
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Target has not learned its lesson when it comes to pride-themed products.
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Now they're LGBTQ-ifying their Christmas line as well.
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And they've also just made a very interesting new hire when it comes to their pride division.
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Also, Cosmo is promoting abortion as a satanic ritual.
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Yes. So we are going to talk about all that in a little bit more today.
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But we'll start with something a little bit lighthearted and, of course, end with something hopeful because that's how we do.
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But I wanted to tell you before we get into all of that about some new merch.
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New merch that we've got. We've got these new mugs that are now available.
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I'm so excited about them. They're super high quality.
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Like, they're just a great weight and a great size.
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And as you can see on the front, it says Razor Respectful Ruckus. How cute is that?
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And then on the back, it says Relatable with Alliebeth Stuckey.
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And also, they're made in the USA. How amazing is that?
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And then we've got another one that maybe is a little bit more related, bro-friendly.
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And it says, Do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God.
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We've got a deal going on right now. We've got a deal going on.
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If you go to AllieMerch.com, you can use Allie25 for 25% off.
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So Related Bros out there, your wife, she wants some Relatable merch for Christmas.
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She wants some sweatshirts, some t-shirts, some mugs.
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So make sure that she is decked out as you deck the halls this Christmas with Relatable gear.
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This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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And I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
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So here's my announcement that I make or something that I tell you every few weeks is that I have a cold again.
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Look, if you are a mom of toddlers, you understand.
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You understand there's always like a low-grade something going on.
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And my mom's going to listen to this and she's going to be mad at me.
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She's always telling me that I need to take more vitamin C.
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I feel like I take supplements out the wazoo, though.
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But here's what I was just talking about to my assistant, which I think that this is really cool.
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So maybe there's a good reason why I keep getting sick.
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So I apologize to the males in the room and also the Relatable's listening.
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But I was thinking about the fact that my two older ones, you know, they've always got something going on, like, you know, intermittent cough or something like that.
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And yet the baby, our newborn, who is almost three months old at this point, she has had no symptoms, no sickness, nothing whatsoever, which I just praise God for.
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And sometimes I wonder how in the world has she not gotten anything at this point?
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She's got two sisters who love her so much, who are always in her face, coughing in her face accidentally and things like that.
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I think that actually I know that I am supplying her because I am getting sick.
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My baby is not getting sick, but I am getting sick from the germs that are being passed around in our family.
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I am giving the antibodies by breastfeeding to my child.
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And so I kind of feel like, OK, if someone's got to get sick here, I would rather it be me.
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And if getting sick means giving her my antibodies so that she stays healthy, then I'll take it.
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There is a redemptive purpose for me getting a cold every few weeks.
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It is keeping my newborn healthy, or at least that's what I'm going to tell myself.
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I probably do need to get more serious about taking care of my immune system.
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But I say all that to say, if I sound more nasally than usual, that is why I have yet again the beginnings of a cold.
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Before we get into everything that we're going to talk about today, I just want to bring in Brie, producer Brie, to hear a little bit about her Thanksgiving.
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And it was really low-key, which is, to me, the best kind of Thanksgiving, I feel like.
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But I figured I would use, like, just butter this time.
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The key, this is a tip for everyone who's never made, like, biscuits or pie crust, is to make sure the butter is, like, ice cold.
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You have to freeze it beforehand and make sure it's cold when it goes in the oven.
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My dad and I used to make biscuits growing up with, like, Bisquick.
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So people in the South, a lot of people in the South call them cat heads.
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Because when you put them in the oven and they rise and you look in, they look like cat heads.
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But then I get this kind of reaction sometimes when I tell people.
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And pumpkin pie, which I was telling my mom, every single year I get a piece of pumpkin pie.
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And I start eating and I'm like, I don't like pumpkin pie.
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Now, I would never eat it outside of Thanksgiving.
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But I feel like, I don't know, maybe I'm alone in this, but fruit pies aren't typical for Thanksgiving.
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So you said you had cherry pie and then what was the other one?
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But the grocery store said that it was award-winning.
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Now, I don't know if that was an internal award that they gave to each other.
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Like, I would try to make a pie like last year or whenever it was.
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We switch off between my in-laws and my family.
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And so, the last time I was with my family, I made pecan pie and pumpkin pie.
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And then my aunt makes something called Chocolate Delight.
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But it's like this homemade graham cracker pretzel crust.
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And then, like, a layer of chocolate, a layer of some kind of Cool Whip mixture.
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The thing that I do what you just described about pumpkin pie about is dressing or stuffing.
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I don't even really like the meat all that much.
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I know for some of you out there, some of you perfectionists who have to be the hostess
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I think you're a wonderful additions to the world and to the body of Christ and probably
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I am not like that, but I know that the holidays can be stressful for you types of people.
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So, just remember to rest in the Lord that your value doesn't come from what you put on
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the table or the creations that you make in the oven or how good of a hostess you are.
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Okay, so, tis the season of buying gifts and I know it can be very tempting to just walk
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into your local Target to get simple gifts and not just that, but to get good smelling
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First of all, you should give up your candles because they're bad for you and I'm not all
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about living the non-toxic life because there are just some things, as I said on Instagram
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the other day, that I will not give up like my magic eraser, which has formaldehyde in
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it, but there are some things that over time I have given up and one of those is scented
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I love scented candles so much, but they're really bad for your lungs and they're bad for
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They're just not, they're not good, but if you're not giving that up, that's fine.
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What I'm trying to say is go somewhere other than Target to get these things, to get your
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stocking stuffers, to get your decor, because remember, it's just a few months ago back in
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June when we were talking about all of the absolutely atrocious products that they had
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on display and the artists that they were platforming to design these products were literally
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So very disturbing, chest binders, packing underwear, made for adolescents, all right?
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So the most grotesque and demonic movement of our age, which is the mutilation of people's
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bodies to try to feed into the delusion that they can be the opposite sex, not just adults,
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I know they've got McGee and Me or like whatever the line is.
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But they also are platforming and promoting really, really destructive and deadly in a spiritual
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When you look at where gender ideology leads, they're promoting some of the most destructive
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And I personally just want to stay away from it.
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So I'm going to get into what they're doing now because they haven't really taken a break.
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But I do just want to say as a caveat to that, because I don't want to put so much pressure
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on us to say, OK, we can never, ever buy from any store that ever does anything that we disagree
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Now, I do think that that is the movement that we that's the direction that we should
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I do think that living lives that are fully integrated, so lives of integrity, where like
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the money that we are spending is supporting the causes that like we believe in rather than
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I think that is the direction that we need to go.
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But myself included, we are not all always there.
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So I'm not saying that you are a terrible person if you're not boycotting all of the things
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that I'm boycotting or that if you don't give up every single secular progressive like
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store or service in your life that you aren't like a real warrior or whatever, whatever it
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is. I think just kind of like the non-toxic life, we have to do what we can.
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And for some people, it's giving up scented candles.
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And for some people, it's, you know, giving up toxic face wash.
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So I think the same is true when it comes to picking and choosing the kinds of stores that
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Um, I, there's still a few stores that I have hung on to that I know don't align with my
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values that I try to buy from less, but that I still use.
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And it's not just because they don't align with my values and they're contributing towards
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But also I was just spending too much money there.
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Like it was too easy for me to just stop in and say, Oh, I just need a couple of things
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and then spend way more money than I needed getting stuff.
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That's pretty low quality for too high a price and filling my home with junk.
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And so there was really just no win for me continuing to support Target.
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So I'm just saying you have to prayerfully and wisely decide what that is for you.
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Now, some of you really do boycott everything and every store and every movie and every show
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I think that we should all be moving toward that direction one day as much as we feasibly
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But let's talk about what Target is still doing because it wasn't just Pride Month.
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They have decided that they are going to do this thing and promote this stuff all year
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They apparently didn't learn anything after what happened in the summer.
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There was so much backlash about what they were promoting and what they were selling that
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But they have decided, you know what, we are going to continue down this road.
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This is according to Daily Wire, a senior LGBTQIA plus segmentation strategist and Pride
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So according to Daily Wire, despite a second straight negative sales report following its
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Pride backlash earlier this year, Target appeared to double down on its radical commitment to
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Target reportedly selected a man named Eric Thompson.
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We'll put up his picture and his LinkedIn description as its senior LGBTQIA plus.
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So you see like his cover photo if you're watching this on YouTube.
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It's got the like Pride flag, which I've always thought is so weird when it includes like the
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black and brown as if that's like a sexual or gender identity.
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You'll see this communist raised fist when it comes to BLM, when it comes to all kinds
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So that is what he has while working for one of the biggest corporations in America that
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is basically owned by companies like BlackRock and Vanguard.
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This person fancies himself a resistor of the mainstream and opposing, you know, I don't
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And he's got his communist fist while he is, of course, part of this form of corporatism.
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So let's read a little bit a little bit more about him.
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So libs of TikTok flagged a post by Thompson, who goes by Gay Cruella on Instagram.
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OK, the Daily Wire reported that Thompson wrote time to whip out the glitter.
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Time to whip out the glitter and hellfire flamethrowers.
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It's so funny how just like the Satan worship is just so blatant nowadays and rip that old
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Let's flip that script and rewrite that narrative this time for all guests, all humans and all
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So he's been working for Target since June of 2014.
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And then his more recent role became active in November 2023.
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And so he is in charge, of course, of making sure that Target is that Target is going in
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the direction of promoting Pride even more than they were before.
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And we see this on display in the Christmas items that they have the Christmas items, because
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We have to make December a form of Pride Month, too.
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Okay, so some of these incredible Pride Christmas items.
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Well, I guess this isn't really Christmas, but this is winter.
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So love is love with a little rainbow heart in the middle.
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And then this is just there's so many things to say about this that I don't think I'm going
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There are just so many things that so many things.
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So if you are just listening to this, little nutcracker man has a like rainbow flag hat on
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And then I guess his whole get up is a different part of the pride flag.
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So this is obviously very important as you celebrate Christmas and the birth of our savior
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But of course, like the flag itself is very aesthetically garish.
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Now, this is based Santa because he just has the regular rainbow flag.
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He doesn't have the new pride flag, which has the black and the brown and the trans.
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And so now we've gotten to the point to where just the regular rainbow flag is considered
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I was thinking like it's $12 like the other things.
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His suspenders also have a rainbow flag on them, obviously.
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Even though it seems like it's made of actual metal and not just plastic.
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Again, that's got the pride metal snowflake Christmas tree ornament from Wondershop.
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Someone should do some research into Wondershop.
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It's because I feel like Wondershop also made some of their pride gear in June.
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Um, with black, brown, purple, blue, and blue, and green, and yellow.
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See, the whole thing about like the pride movement is making us deny what we know to be true.
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Like, obviously, when it comes to men trying to be women and women trying to be men, we have to deny biological reality and pretend that what someone feels about themselves or declare about themselves is reality and trumps physical truth and biological truth.
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You also have to deny humor because for all of time, men dressing up as women was seen as funny.
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Like, everyone would just laugh out loud when the fat man with the beard came out wearing a dress on stage that was obviously a humorous, a comedic trope.
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We have to take it very seriously and say, oh, no, no, no, Rachel Levine's beautiful.
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We also we have to say that someone like Dylan Mulvaney is just a beautiful girl, just like anyone else.
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Someone who says that Dylan Mulvaney or Rachel Levine or Will, Leah Thomas, that any of these people are just like gorgeous, beautiful girls.
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You should say to the woman who says that, oh, yeah, you look like them.
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It's actually in the shoulders and the jaw that she looks amazingly similar to Leah Thomas.
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If they're offended by it, then you should wonder why.
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But we have to deny beauty even in the pride flag.
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Like we're supposed to look at this wrapping paper and say, wow, this is so beautiful.
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Well, no one would ever put these colors together, except that we have to accept it as aesthetically pleasing because it apparently represents pride.
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And just a reminder, pride goes before the fall, as the Bible tells us.
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But also that love is love, as we see on many of these products, is a completely nonsensical statement, just as nonsensical as saying trans women are women.
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It's circular because people who say trans women are women can't actually define what a woman is.
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So what does it mean that a trans woman is a woman if you don't even know what a woman is?
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Of course, that is the question that Matt Walsh popularized through his documentary.
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Because if love is love, then it really is anything that you want it to be.
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It, of course, could mean, and we've seen the slippery slope go in this direction.
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And, of course, we who believe in the God of the universe knows that God, we know that God is love.
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And 1 Corinthians 13 lays out exactly what love is.
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Love cannot be something that the God who is love and who created love, who is the source of love, calls an abomination, a perversion, and sin.
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That is one of the privileges, of course, of being a Christian is that we get wisdom from the Holy Spirit, but also access to God's Word,
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which answers all the crazy, controversial, cultural war questions that we have today.
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So just a reminder to re-up your resistance to Target and to do everything that you can to not support them.
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I think that this is also a particularly important boycott for my audience because most of you, not all of you,
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And so Target is like your place and they should be catering to you.
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That's what they're trying to do through Magnolia and McGee, whatever.
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And you just need to send them the message that, no, you don't own us anymore.
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If you want to try to go get the progressive urbanites, the communist college students, then have fun with that.
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But we're not going to support you anymore because Target really has been buoyed, has been carried by like conservative, Christian, suburban women for decades.
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And now they're saying, well, you don't matter.
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We're going to double down on the things that you did not like in the summer.
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I think it would be really powerful if this particular demographic of just all conservative Christian women said, sorry, Target, you can do that if you want to.
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Speaking of things that I don't want to be a part of, speaking of very grotesque things that we need to make sure that we know about and just are able to absolutely repudiate.
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I saw a post by Cosmopolitan, you know, that awful, awful magazine that has been awful for a very long time on Instagram.
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And they featured a new New Mexico abortion clinic run by the Satanic Temple called Samuel Alito's mom's satanic abortion clinic.
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It was a picture of a woman looking into like a shard of glass or a mirror looking at herself.
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And it said, so how does a satanic abortion ceremony even work?
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Patients of all faiths are welcome at Samuel Alito's mom's satanic abortion clinic in New Mexico.
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Along with medical counsel, TST, the satanic temple, offers free ceremonial support to everyone.
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Abortion ceremonies are totally optional and customizable.
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And actually, a lot of the comments, even from people who said that they're pro-choice, they're completely against it.
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This is just giving more fodder to the pro-life movement, which it does, because it just reveals that abortion is exactly what we've always said it is.
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That it's not this neutral choice that someone should be able to make.
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It's not just something where you can say, well, I personally would never do that, but I want them to have the freedom to do that.
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Why is this the one type of murder that you think should be a right?
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Why is this the one type of murder that you think should be legal?
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Would you say that about other forms of murder that you personally wouldn't murder, but you think it should be legal for other people to murder because they're in a desperate circumstance?
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It just shows that you don't really regard babies in the womb as what God regards them as, which is human beings with dignity made in the image of God.
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And pro-lifers have been saying for a very long time that it is satanic, that it is the opposite, the demonic opposite.
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I think that he was the first person who said this that I thought was really interesting.
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It is the foil to the Eucharist where Jesus says, this is my body.
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You must sacrifice your body, your blood, baby, for me.
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And like I said just a couple of minutes ago, it's incredible how this demonic activity and
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And we have mocked the existence of spiritual warfare.
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We have mocked the existence of heaven and hell and demons and Satan and God and angels for
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so long as a society that now it's just out there and most people don't even bat an eye.
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And some people are actually cheering this kind of thing on.
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Okay, so according to Cosmo, this New Mexico-based telehealth practice, so that's what it is.
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It's an abortion clinic that offers a telehealth service that gives abortion pills, that sells
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abortion pills to patients within state lines for around $91 up until the 11th week of pregnancy.
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So this pill is taken, it's typically two parts, two different pills that starve and poison the baby
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And so in this case, you're still giving birth.
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But you are deciding that the first act of motherhood that you are going to engage in is to
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And I just don't want anyone to delude themselves into thinking that this is just a clump of
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I mean, that's an illogical, unscientific statement anyway.
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This is just a human being at the earliest point of development.
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And we don't measure someone's worth or their right to life based on how they look or how big
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they are or what they can bring to the table or how productive they are.
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Obviously, those aren't the measures that we give someone outside the womb.
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So why would we apply that to babies inside the womb?
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But also, a baby at 11 weeks, I've had an 11-week sonogram.
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Obviously, the baby is really small, but it's got arms and legs and fingers and toes.
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I remember being stunned by this when I had my 11-and-a-half-week sonogram with my first baby.
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So even though that baby has been a human being since the point of conception, don't delude
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yourselves into thinking that this is just a tiny glob that's going to be expelled from
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This looks like a child and just needs the time and the nourishment to grow.
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And obviously, the abortion pill robs them of that ability.
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I know that it's billed as women's rights and women's liberation.
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But just like all forms of left-wing liberation, it actually is very damaging for the people that
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Um, because this can be a very dangerous process.
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Many times you actually need a sonogram to confirm what week of pregnancy you are.
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Not every woman keeps close track of their periods or even, unfortunately, keeps track
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That's obviously very dangerous for the child who is going to die.
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And even if it is within that first trimester and the first 11 weeks, there are things that
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And you're just what left to cope with this in the bathroom.
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And you don't get the medical attention right away that you need.
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The article claims that because of this distinction being categorized as a religious institution
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rather than an abortion clinic, patients who don't have to be satanists themselves are
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And so that's how they continue to, I guess, make this service available.
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According to the article, the Satanic Temple chose New Mexico because it has about 3,300 members in the state, which is also considered an abortion rights stronghold.
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So just really disgusting stuff promoted by the magazine Cosmo, who, of course, they are part of the reason for people's so-called need for abortion,
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because they have been pushing promiscuity and so-called sexual liberation their entire existence.
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So Cosmo also on their on their Instagram, they actually give you a give you a tutorial for how to do this, for how to make taking the abortion pill some kind of religious ritual.
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And it's very, very disturbing, like the slides that they show on on Instagram, they're dark red with white writing, and then they have an upside down cross, an upside down cross.
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So it's just I mean, it's just out there and I won't even go through it because it's also dark and really just really disturbing.
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But it actually so I didn't even realize this when I said what I did earlier about the Eucharist.
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But one of the slides says this by my body, my blood, by my will, it is done.
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That's what Cosmo is saying that women should say to themselves while they are having an abortion, while they are taking this abortion pill to kill their child.
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Let me repeat that by my body, my blood, by my will, it is done.
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Obviously, that is a distortion of what Jesus says in the garden as he is, again, about to sacrifice his blood for us.
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He says, not my will, Father, but your will be done.
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And then, of course, he goes to the cross to spill his blood on our behalf.
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This is the God of self saying, by my will, let this be done.
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You, child, sacrifice your blood in service to me.
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This is not just happening in New Mexico, but abortion witchcraft.
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And here is someone on TikTok, a video with lots of views, sharing this.
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I am a witch who has had abortions and has used them as rituals.
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And it's birthing magic and death magic simultaneously.
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If you are a womb body who has made the decision to have an abortion, keep in mind that there is death and there is life.
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Second thing you want to keep in mind is that there is going to be an ending.
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You're calling ending to that cycle of growth within you physically.
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Something that's been growing in your life that no longer serves you, that you don't want.
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So I just wish that those who call themselves Christian pro-choicers would at least be as honest as the pro-abortion witches.
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That she is at least acknowledging that it's a life.
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Because the people who try to reconcile somehow Christianity and the satanic ritual, which abortion always is, by the way, whether you acknowledge it or not.
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Whereas those who try to reconcile Christianity and abortion say that it's a potential life.
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And yes, if you have had an abortion, there is grace, even for murder.
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You are not too sinful for God to bring you in by his grace and make you new and to wipe your slate clean.
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So I just want to make sure that you know that.
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But that doesn't mean we have to downplay the reality of what abortion is.
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So that's why I also always hate when I hear, oh, pro-lifers need to compromise.
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Just give them a little bit of satanic murder ritual of babies.
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Do you think you can compromise with something like this?
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Do you think you need to give any concessions to this side, this satanic side?
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Does that make any sense, any moral sense anyway?
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Maybe it makes some pragmatic sense if all you care about is winning elections.
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And so it's just a reminder that this is like Ephesians 6 is true, that this is way beyond
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There's a spiritual battle that is going on underneath, above and within all that we see.
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Abortion is not just one of those, oh, divisive issues that Christians should really just
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And maybe our problem may be the reason why abortion is a losing issue, as some people say
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when it comes to elections, is because we've compromised too much.
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Because the other side sees it as something that is profoundly spiritual, something that is
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so necessary, and we kind of just see it as this, I don't know, this issue, rather than
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something that is an existential threat to humanity.
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But thankfully, as we know, and we'll talk about a little bit, a little bit more at the
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And he will avenge the blood of every baby murdered in or outside of the womb.
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He will avenge the blood of the innocent, and one day he will come back, and it won't
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It won't be as a lamb, but it will be as an avenger.
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It will be as a warrior riding in on the white horse with the sword coming out of his mouth
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That is the Jesus that's coming back, and he cares about abortion.
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He cares about all of the wrong that's going on in the world.
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And whenever you hear, why does God let wrong happen, it's very tempting to wallow in that
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That his eternal plan of redemption and salvation and victory is always going off every moment
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And he will take care of evil once and for all.
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We can have joy in that, and we can move forward doing the next right thing in light of that,
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knowing that victory is sure and that evil will not have the last word.
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One more thing, speaking of evil, that I just want to mention at the end of this,
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as we are talking about the victory that we have in the Lord, there is this awful story
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coming out of Arizona, a man named Hans Schmidt.
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He's the outreach director at Victory Chapel First Phoenix Church, and he was preaching
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And on Wednesday, November 15th, around 6.15 p.m., he was shot in the head.
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He was shot in the head while he was preaching on a sidewalk.
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He is a father of two little girls, I think I saw, and married just a few years ago.
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And as far as I know, he is in critical condition still.
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The statements that I've seen from his wife, it seems like she has all the confidence that
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you can have in the Lord, that the Lord's will is going to be done, and that he is going
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to be glorified, and that he is somehow going to bring good out of what Satan meant for evil.
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Pray that the doctors would have wisdom, that they would have care.
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And by the way, the criminal that shot him is still at large.
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And the last I read, I think, was this morning.
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Although God is going to bring ultimate justice once and for all, in the end, he still demands
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Read Romans 13 and what he expects of earthly governments to be vessels of vengeance for
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This person needs to be brought to justice swiftly and charged with attempted murder.
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And I don't expect very much from our government or from the media when it comes to covering
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Anything that goes against the narrative that white, so-called cisgender, straight, Christian,
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evangelical Republicans are the source of all oppression.
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We are always seen as the side of the oppressor.
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We're not going to get a shout out by the president or the media or anything like that.
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No one will talk about Christian persecution, even though Christians are the most persecuted
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I do still think this should be a bigger story than it is, and at least among the church,
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Let's do what we can to rally around them and just pray.
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Because the prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working, as the book of
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We'll put the link in the description of this episode.
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And the great news is that to live is Christ and to die is gain.
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We want him to have many more years with his daughters and with his wife.
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We want him to continue to be able to preach the gospel.
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He will get to be where he has always longed to be, where he hoped other people would end
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up, too, when they turn from their sin to Christ.
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So continue to pray for the Schmitz, for his wife, for his kids, and for him as well.
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I know we had to talk about some really dark stuff today.
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That's why I wanted to kind of start out lighthearted, but just also remind you of the
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But I think especially parents, as we look at the innocence and the vulnerability of our
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kids and think about the world that they're going to grow up in, just to be anxious and
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to be sad and to be scared and to just say, I don't want to go outside.
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Now, I think some of that is OK, because we don't have the capacity to carry on all of the
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worries and the troubles in the world because we don't have the capacity to do something
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It's, you know, the compassion fatigue is real and you do kind of have to just focus
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But we also can't pretend that the things outside our window are not happening.
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Remember, all of these things matter because people matter.
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And while I don't think we should be obsessed with the news, we can't be obsessed with politics.
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We can't put our hope and our trust in politics and winning the culture war and all of
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We have to do what we can in obedience to make the city, make the community, make the
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home, the place that we live in better than when we got there.
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I do think that that is our responsibility and caring about politics and caring about these
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things going on in the world are a part of that.
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They're not everything, but they're a part of that.
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Most of the time, it's doing the mundane things.
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Most of the time, it's doing the things that don't seem like they matter.
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Doing the things in private, doing the things that people never see, the changing the diapers,
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the washing the dishes, the making the lunches, the sending the emails, the studying for the
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test, the whatever it is, the conversations, the little things in life that seem like maybe
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they're not a big deal, but when done in obedience, have the power to glorify God and
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But sometimes we're called to do public things.
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Sometimes we're called to do big outside of our home acts of faith.
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And we just have to ensure that in everything we are trusting in the Lord and everything
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that we do, we are doing it for his glory and he's using it all.
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He's using it all to create for us a glory that far outweighs any trial and any evil that
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So let us just keep that in mind as we bring courage and clarity to every sphere and space
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The time is past for confusion and cowardice and all these things that we talked about
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The church has always been a refuge of clarity and courage for the lost, and we should continue
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That's all we've got for today, and we will be back here tomorrow.