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00:01:55.000Yeah, I mean, boy, I mean, this country, first and foremost, was founded after the First Great Awakening in our country when activist pastors were rising up against widespread debauchery, drunkenness, and moral disorder.
00:02:08.000And out of the first great awakening of Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards.
00:02:12.000And if you want to just read a very, let's just say, strongly worded sermon, read Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God by Jonathan Edwards, and you might reconsider some life decisions you've been doing.
00:02:22.000Definitely more Old Testament-centric than New Testament-centric wrath of God.
00:02:27.000But no, out of the Great Awakening, all of a sudden, the kind of the religious underpinning of our country was reawakened, which this started, you know, very about 130 years before that as separate religious colonies.
00:02:41.000And the question started to be posed, especially in 1763 as the French Indian War ended.
00:02:57.000They had Greek democracy, but that ended within a couple of generations after Alexander the Great and just turned into a bunch of city-states.
00:03:04.000But the idea of like, where do rights come from and self-governance and being able to create a government that first and foremost recognizes rights come from God, not from the government, was just so incredibly transformational.
00:03:15.000And John Locke did a lot of that work for us.
00:03:19.000Why should Christians care about anything outside of the church?
00:03:22.000And not every Christian holds this view.
00:03:24.000And this is my view, is that I do not believe in compartmentalized Christianity.
00:03:29.000I believe in comprehensive Christianity.
00:03:31.000I believe who you marry, how you act, where you shop.
00:03:35.000And yes, whether or not you're involved in politics should all be a reflection of the most important thing in your life, which is your relationship with Jesus Christ.
00:03:42.000And I don't think there should be anything that should be untouched by the gospel.
00:04:00.000So here we come, and it is a common sort of position.
00:04:03.000I know as you speak at churches, as you say with the leadership there, that you deal with this sort of pushback of, I can't believe that they're bringing politics to the, you've defiled the pulpit because you're going to talk about something other than 12 verses, you know, tonight.
00:04:19.000And so what place does politics have within the context of the church or vice versa?
00:04:25.000I mean, this is something that you go, well, taboo.
00:04:28.000Let me just state the obvious, which is the question every person should ask, especially anyone over the age of 40 or recent mothers out there and fathers is, am I leaving a better country or a better place for my kids than I had?
00:04:40.000And that should just be a very simple question, right?
00:04:42.000And if the answer is no, then what are you doing about it to fix it?
00:04:45.000Or if the answer is you don't care, then I mean, come on, you might be giving something that might have almost assured suffering or difficulty for the loved ones that you have that are younger.
00:04:55.000And so, and if some people say, well, it doesn't matter at all whatsoever.
00:05:09.000Like your governor in Tennessee is different than the governor in California.
00:05:13.000Calvary Chapel, Thousand Oaks right now, Rob McCoy, my pastor, is under criminal prosecution after criminal prosecution because he's doing exactly what you get to enjoy right now.
00:05:24.000Go to California and go try to go to church service right now.
00:05:27.000You'll be in criminal defiance of what's happening right now because they say it's not safe.
00:05:30.000Meanwhile, they keep abortion factories open, weed dispensaries open, home improvement stores open, liquor stores open.
00:05:36.000You can march in the streets, no masks, no social distancing if you have a sign that agrees with the Los Angeles mayors on certain, you know, certain issues.
00:05:43.000So yeah, I mean, I mean, if you don't think it matters, I mean, come on.
00:05:46.000I mean, what more evidence do we need right now?
00:05:48.000Because, for example, in Calvary, Calvary Chapel is the perfect place to be talking about this.
00:05:52.000And so Calvary Chapel started in California, you know, the Calvary Chapel Crusades by Chuck Smith.
00:05:57.000There are 350 Calvary Chapels south of Van Nuys in California, 350.
00:06:02.000There's more Calvary Chapels than Dunkin' Donuts in California.
00:06:18.000California has aborted more babies than the entire population of Canada.
00:06:22.000They're the authors of no-fault divorce, transgender bathrooms.
00:06:25.000They're leading the nation in poverty, homelessness, divorce, discord, social unrest, inequality, you name it.
00:06:31.000And so as the church exploded, did the country or the culture around them improve?
00:06:36.000And now when all it comes to a head, the church wants to reopen.
00:06:38.000John MacArthur, Jack Kibbs, and Pastor Rob McCoy are all under criminal prosecution right now because they're doing what you're enjoying right now.
00:06:57.000So for Christians, better dive right into this political discussion right now because it is impacting the body in this country right now.
00:07:03.000Pastors in your Calvary Chapel community right now, in California, from Pastor James Cadiz to Pastor Jack Hibbs to Pastor Rob McCoy, three Calvary Chapel pastors right now are dealing with criminal prosecutions, court hearings, and judges because they're doing what all of you take for granted right now.
00:07:19.000I'm not saying you take for granted, but I'm sure someone in this room didn't probably recognize how unique it is just in this state to be able to enjoy what you're doing right now, where your amazing pastor had the boldness to reopen the church.
00:07:29.000Other Calvary chapels joined, and they're met with that kind of backlash.
00:07:38.000You vote for, hopefully, leaders that want you to live quiet and peaceable lives.
00:07:42.000And in California, they are now decriminalizing pedophilia, SB 145, where now all of a sudden pedophiles no longer have to register in the sex registry database.
00:07:51.000So in California, you could be living next to a pedophile, and they don't have to do that any longer.
00:08:36.000And I also think that we have a moral obligation as believers and as Christ followers to, of course, first and foremost, spread the gospel.
00:08:57.000Just as we look at this next election, you look at, I think the reality is, it should be an unmistakable reality, but seemingly still a little foggy, as to just on whose chest is the bullseye as it relates to a conflict, a struggle between right, wrong, life, death, darkness, light, truth, and error.
00:09:20.000So you start off by saying there is a certain liberty that we're enjoying here right now tonight than somewhere else in another political environment.
00:09:29.000In our country, guys, this is not Korean.
00:09:39.000You know what Pastor Rob McCoy would give to be able to have the local government that you guys have right now?
00:09:44.000He would give jail time, literally, because that's what he's facing.
00:09:48.000And so for Christians and believers out there who just think you can just cash it in, your brothers in Calvary Chapel church could go to jail because of bad politics.
00:09:57.000And so let me just build this out even further.
00:10:01.000How do we get to a point where cannabis dispensaries are valued more than churches, where casinos are valued more than churches, where abortion is deemed essential, but the body of Christ does not, and salvation has somehow been put to be debatable?
00:10:13.000Well, the Calvary Chapel is actually the perfect example of this because Calvary Chapel has a heavy emphasis on an eschatological belief that Jesus Christ will return.
00:10:57.000We're just going to focus on kind of this myopic view.
00:11:00.000And now you're starting to all of a sudden see the consequences of this, where people that were secular, atheistic, and hedonistic in nature, they cared much more about the public square than those of us that had truth, those that actually were ambassadors of light and the word of God.
00:11:13.000And that never should have happened, to be perfectly honest with you.
00:11:16.000It never should have happened that those people that are the ambassadors of darkness are contending more in the public square than those of us that are the ambassadors of light.
00:11:57.000But I guess I make the intergenerational argument, right?
00:12:00.000I'm 26, so I can look at this kind of from a younger and an older perspective, right?
00:12:06.000So I look at it where I want to start a family, and just 10 years ago, I was a teenager, right?
00:12:10.000And I could tell you right now, there's a mess being handed to young people where we are really kind of for the first time in our country's history, handing over a country that will be less free, less prosperous, and further from a moral center.
00:12:24.000And so that should take every person that has been reborn in Jesus Christ should pause of concern and say, what are we doing about that?
00:12:33.000And then some people say, this is one of my favorite things.
00:12:35.000I'm just kind of playing devil's advocate throughout all this, so we can kind of dismiss it so we can get into the meat of it.
00:12:40.000Where people say, well, it doesn't matter what I do doesn't actually make a difference.
00:12:44.000I'll say, that's an unchristian view because everything you do matters to God.
00:12:48.000Everything you do, to how you act, to what you say, to who you marry.
00:12:51.000If you all of a sudden believe that God gives you a hall pass for certain actions, then kind of tell me where the parameters of God's providence don't shine down.
00:14:15.000There's more slaves on the planet now than there were when slavery existed legally in America.
00:14:20.000We have legal sex slaves coming across the southern border every day.
00:14:22.000And some of them, through Hartfield Jackson International Airport, the number one hub of sex trafficking in the North American continent, so that women that are innocent are being, and I'm going to use more PG terms.
00:14:33.000You guys know exactly what I mean by that.
00:14:36.000And it's not even worthy of saying, but what are you doing to contend to try to fix that, right?
00:14:41.000So I think the reawakening is so important, right?
00:14:45.000And so I will not stand idly by when some of these things that are so incredibly urgent to a moral society, and even more than that, has the world become a better place because of America?
00:14:59.000America's made mistakes, but America is not a mistake.
00:15:02.000America set the standard for Western society, which is one that respects speech, respects the rights of the innocent, respects the rights of minorities, allows family formation to succeed and thrive.
00:15:12.000America not only was the first in flight, the first to the moon, brain surgery, open heart surgery, the absolute expansion of life expectancy.
00:15:20.000However, not only, all those things are absolutely true, but it's America that gives $500 billion away to charity every single year.
00:15:26.000When there's a natural disaster, flood, hurricane, or earthquake, they don't say, let's call the Belgians.
00:15:32.000South Korea exists because 32,000 Americans went and died, what they call the forgotten war in the Korean Peninsula, and we pushed back the evil Chinese Communist Party forces, North Korea.
00:15:41.000Now, 100 million people live free in South Korea.
00:16:10.000There's a reason why there's 36 million people trying to come right in the seat that you're in right now.
00:16:15.000There's a reason why 3 million legal black immigrants came to this country since 1980.
00:16:21.000Because despite challenges and difficulties and legitimate prejudices that existed, it's still the best place for people of any skin color, any language, and any culture to be able to exist in this country.
00:16:29.000And what ends up happening is that valid critiques quickly turn into pathological resistance, which then translates into hatred.
00:16:35.000So all of a sudden, what turned into valid critiques, of which I share many in this country, all of a sudden, next thing I know, five years later, the very same people that were offering valid critiques about the country were all of a sudden saying this place is awful.
00:16:46.000Five years ago, you were just critiquing.
00:16:48.000Now you're trying to debase and disintegrate.
00:16:50.000And that is a no-go zone for me, because if you do not have appreciation for gratitude for this beautiful gift that we have been given, which is this country, which was divinely inspired, by the way, and God was mentioned four times in the Declaration of Independence, four times.
00:17:04.000Laws and nature and laws of nature and nature is God.
00:17:06.000We had four great awakenings in this country.
00:17:10.000The third borderline almost allowed us to almost saved us from total disintegration.
00:17:15.000And the fourth that all of you are most familiar with, the Billy Graham great awakening of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, which led so many people to Christ, which was an international awakening, which made that one so unique.
00:17:25.000And so look, the failure to acknowledge, understand, appreciate, and defend this gift, I am afraid, will be one of the most regrettable suicides ever of a country to exist.
00:17:39.000Because never before have so many people had it so good that wanted to stop.
00:18:53.000I'm like, have you waited 10 minutes in a Dunkin' Donuts or Starbucks line and you're willing to do that?
00:18:57.000You're not allowed to just go and mark a couple boxes that better reflect your worldview and say everyone running is every single person running is a sinner.
00:19:06.000The person running from dog catcher to city council to state rep to senate to the president, like 100% sinners, 100% depraved, 100% need Jesus.
00:19:18.000Not all of them reflect the biblical worldview, though.
00:19:34.000You should be because it's kind of confusing out there.
00:19:36.000It's why I do two podcasts today, one on Saturday, one on Sunday, and it seemed to be a national radio show.
00:19:40.000I try to make clarity out of the clouds, right?
00:19:42.000I try to have some people make sense of all the incoming.
00:19:46.000And I don't do a perfect job, but we do a pretty good job, right?
00:19:49.000And so I guess the argument, the only argument you could be to have to not vote is you really have no care whatsoever about what happens next.
00:20:00.000And so if you're here, you're probably not a nihilist.
00:20:20.000I'm not going to say you're wrong or condemn you or all those sorts of things.
00:20:23.000But if you're feeling a little uncomfortable and like, I don't like it, that's just evidence that we got to talk about these things more, right?
00:20:28.000That you have to have more of these dialogues and more of these discourses, right?
00:20:31.000And if there's only one issue for a Christian that you should vote on, and this is the one that I just think is just so obvious, is just like, when does life begin?
00:20:42.000And there's so much, I mean, I believe that if you cannot agree that life begins at a specific moment of the fertilization of the egg, and that maybe there's something wrong with 61 million abortions since Roe versus Wade, then I just, you right?
00:21:00.000And I just say, look, what do you do for those that can't defend themselves?
00:21:05.000And that's kind of the whole Christian doctrine, right?
00:21:07.000Which is that we're supposed to stand up for the innocent.
00:21:09.000And I get a lot of the other issues can be messy.
00:21:11.000I'm going to try to make sense of some of those issues because they take nuance and they take data.
00:21:14.000This one I don't think is actually that complicated.
00:21:21.000I think the church has to do a much better job of adoption, much better job of counseling people that made that decision, and a much better job of not making women that have made that decision the enemy at all because I believe they were deceived by people that knew a lot better.
00:21:38.000However, I think it's an awful thing that 61 million souls never got the chance to experience birthdays, breathe this beautiful air that we have.
00:21:49.000And I think that we should do something about that.
00:21:51.000In fact, I think we as Christians now have an opportunity to do something like that.
00:21:55.000And whether you came tonight, you're like, I didn't really want to hear about this tonight.
00:22:00.000And Amy Coney Barrett is now nominated to Supreme Court.
00:22:05.000So for the first time in anyone's lifetime in this room, there is no one old enough that can say you had an opportunity to do something about the end and termination of innocent life in this country.
00:22:22.000It's a sovereign being that will never be created again, where there's a unique form of deoxorbonucleic acid that is created at that moment that still science can't explain, but the Bible can, where we are made in his image.
00:22:34.000I knew you before you were in the womb.
00:22:36.000That that is made for a specific purpose and reason.
00:22:40.000And we as believers have a moral obligation to do everything we can to protect those that cannot protect themselves.
00:22:53.000Real quick on that point, what you just described is what is getting a little bit confused today, the difference between biblical justice, like the real defense of the defenseless, and social justice.
00:23:07.000Social justice sounds great in the same way that BLM sounds great, in the same way that women's rights sounds great.
00:23:17.000And just for me to even touch on any of those automatically, you know, these days puts me in a position of like, well, you don't champion women's rights.
00:23:25.000You don't like, you're against black lives.
00:23:29.000So you look on it and go, what you just described would be the Micah 6.8.
00:23:40.000We have a unique opportunity right now as the church in this particular issue of abortion.
00:23:46.000But what about, so you got this social justice and justice, which are really, really murky in the minds of a lot of church people and church leaders.
00:23:59.000And first of all, just on the women's rights thing, half of all abortions statistically were women.
00:24:02.000So 30 million women are not on this earth because of what we did with Roe versus Wade.
00:24:06.000So let's just be honest that if you're for women's rights, then, well, 30 million women aren't living because of Roe versus Wade.
00:24:12.000So I don't understand how you could be on the side of women with that.
00:24:15.000Secondly, just kind of building out that kind of idea of justice and what we do about it.
00:24:22.000Look, justice is supposed to be blind, and that's what, at least earthly justice, and that's the idea of Lady Liberty having a cloth over her eyes, where the idea of justice is supposed to be deliberative with the idea of cross-examination of witnesses, with the idea that you must have done something, that you must have done something worthy of being cross-examined and possibly, you know, being held accountable for that.
00:24:53.000So let me just be very clear that when you start to pick and choose these different types of justice, none of that is supported at all by the gospel.
00:25:00.000Now, let me be very clear, though, that we are all called individually to go forth into the world and to feed the hungry and to take care of the sick and to nurture the disadvantaged.
00:25:14.000And I think we sometimes conflate an individual mandate to go do that and a governmental and civic one.
00:25:20.000In fact, I would go further and say some of the well-intentioned public policy programs that have been passed over the last 65 years have hurt the very people that were designed it was actually trying to help.
00:25:33.000I mean, let's just go back to the issue of abortion.
00:25:36.000The black birth rate stagnated as soon as Roe versus Wade was passed.
00:25:42.000Blacks are about 14% of the population in our country, and they still were back when Roe versus Wade was passed.
00:25:49.000In New York City, if you see a black woman on the subway, it's a higher likelihood she's heading for the abortion clinic than for the delivery room.
00:25:55.000The black abortion rate is higher than the black birth rate.
00:26:20.000She wanted to have population control against black and brown communities.
00:26:24.000So I grow fatigued with this argument that somehow you're perfectly okay with $500 million of our taxpayer dollars going to Planned Parenthood every single year.
00:26:31.000Meanwhile, the black birth rate remains stagnant.
00:26:34.000The black fatherlessness rate is at 77%.
00:26:37.000So I guess the question is: what do we do to try to help people?
00:27:14.00077% of black children in this country will be raised without a stable father in the home.
00:27:20.000That means gang membership will increase, crime rates will increase, prison recidivism will increase, literacy rates will go down, and that cycle that all of us understand and know will only explode.
00:27:44.000So, the question is, what do we do to help people?
00:27:46.000Well, I truly believe the best way to help people, and this is a biblical principle, is empowerment, education, is being able to give people the idea that you're actually a lot tougher than you think, that you can actually endure a lot more suffering than you might have convinced yourself of.
00:28:04.000That with the proper empowerment, the proper values, the proper character, that you can achieve a lot on this earth.
00:28:13.000It's going to take a lot of difficulty.
00:28:15.000You're going to encounter a lot of opposition.
00:28:18.000But I also actually don't think that continually getting another $20 trillion in stuff, which is what we did since the 1960s, is going to make anyone richer.
00:29:17.000Well, it's going to take, I'll handle this side.
00:29:20.000For young fathers out there, if you impregnate a woman and you abandon it, you're a coward.
00:29:24.000You take responsibility for your life and you don't all of a sudden abandon the woman that has a child and you act as if that's okay because they'll get government benefits.
00:29:33.000Young men need to learn to take responsibility for their actions in this country.
00:29:36.000They need to be able to control themselves.
00:29:38.000We need to teach our children self-control, not self-esteem.
00:29:41.000We need to be much more clear with young men that.
00:29:48.000And so, look, the idea of social justice, I think, actually has kind of a tenderheartedness in the approach.
00:29:55.000I think some people want some good in the world, see some good in the world.
00:29:58.000First of all, you embody exactly what want to see happen in the world.
00:30:04.000I laugh because I deal with this a lot on college campuses, and this is just a stereotype that's absolutely true.
00:30:09.000Where these guys that are completely disheveled, they haven't showered in a couple weeks, they're coming up and telling me that everything's wrong in the world.
00:30:14.000First of all, first of all, it is a biblical concept.
00:30:20.000It starts with the self, then family, then church, community, state, federal, nation, right?
00:30:45.000And it's resulting in many unintended consequences.
00:30:48.000And I'm happy to build that out even further.
00:30:50.000But basically, it's, are we trying, do we have a school system?
00:30:54.000Do we have a culture that tries to create young people that are more likely to be able to endure suffering and become tougher people or more likely to point out the injustices and be better at complaining?
00:31:08.000So are we creating better complainers or tougher people?
00:31:12.000The answer should always be tougher people because life is a really suffering-filled place.
00:32:21.000And especially with young people that are kind of living in this very misleading kind of pool of just, you're just keep on doing whatever substances you want.
00:32:32.000Just keep staring at the screen and kind of, you know, keep your digital pacifier right next to you.
00:32:37.000And somehow you're going to find happiness, which is what I call smartphones digital pacifiers, by the way.
00:33:50.000So because I want to talk about some of the issues that should matter to us.
00:33:54.000Then I'd like to talk about your particular perspective on what it is that we've actually seen.
00:34:00.000And I'd like to talk about what it is that we've seen with this current president, the difference between intention, intention, like this is I'd like, versus an actual, you've got intention versus actually, there's a track record now that we can take a look at and go, well, what could we expect as we go forward?
00:34:26.000So look, and just I'm going to give you all trigger warning, you know, like just permission to be provocative if you're offended, like, oh, you're awful kid and just whatever.
00:34:50.000You might think he's the worst thing in the world.
00:34:52.000I've had the opportunity to know him over the last four years, and I do publicly support him.
00:34:56.000I'm going to give you 10 things, though, that every Christian should know about President Trump and what he's done that reflect the biblical worldview, and many of which you might not know.
00:35:03.000So we'll start with number one, most pro-life president in American history, right?
00:35:07.000First president, first president to speak at the March for Life, slash Planned Parenthood funding, recented the Mexico City policy, which is no more international funding of abortion, has been outspoken about life beginning at conception, has also appointed Gorsuch Kavanaugh.
00:35:24.000We'll get to that in a little bit in a second, and also Amy Coney Barrett.
00:35:27.000Most pro-life president in American history.
00:35:30.000Every Bible-believing Christian should care about the state of Israel.
00:35:35.000President Trump has just signed one of the most unbelievable, miraculous peace deals in the history of geopolitics between Israel and the UAE.
00:35:43.000Now, you might hate him, but you got to love this deal.
00:35:46.000You might not like his style, but you better love this deal because he has brought the Emiratis and the Arab world to the table and they've signed a peace deal with God's chosen people, which we are told in the word of God is the Jews, the state of Israel, moved the embassy to Jerusalem, recognized Golan Heights, kept the Palestinian Authority in check, rescinded the Iran deal.
00:36:03.000And finally, for the first time in a couple decades, we now have the most peaceful atmosphere between the state of Israel and the Arab world, which was told to be impossible.
00:36:12.000That's something worthy of applauding.
00:36:41.000Many of these people will defend life, and they do defend the right for religious liberty and for Christians to assemble.
00:36:47.000Also, Gorsuch Kavanaugh and a third, the trifecta Amy Coney Barrett, that will contest for first principles and, yes, the fight for life.
00:36:54.000Fourth thing, we believe in second chances, right?
00:36:56.000That's part of the whole idea of redemption.
00:36:59.000President Donald Trump signed the most historic and transformative prison reform in our country's history called the First Step Act.
00:37:05.000A lot of people don't know this happened, but it wasn't the Democrats, it wasn't Barack Obama.
00:37:09.000He signed the First Step Act a year and a half ago saying people that have these very long life sentences, not life sentence, but multi-decade sentences, and they've proven good behavior, good credit system.
00:37:20.000They've earned the goodwill of the prison guards.
00:37:23.000And it's obvious that they are ready for re-entry.
00:37:27.0001,800 prisoners that were never given a second chance at life have been successfully re-entered into society using the First Step Act under President Trump, many of whom are black and brown people in our country.
00:38:07.000We all believe that terminal diseases is one of the hardest things for us to be able to reconcile as believers.
00:38:13.000A lot of things that we just struggle with, right?
00:38:15.000And like, how could a child be given a tumor that is just not able to be treated?
00:38:20.000For years, the pharmaceutical companies were trying to get Washington, D.C. to be able to pass something called the Right to Try Act, where people that have terminal diseases, they've been given a death certificate, are able to try drugs that would be deemed more risky.
00:38:35.000What's a better patient to try it on than an actual human being?
00:38:38.000Before President Trump, someone was not able to use these drugs.
00:38:41.000He got everyone in a room together, got rid of the liability measure, and people, real-life stories that I have met, have had their lives saved due to the Right to Try Act passed under President Trump, pretty extraordinary, unbelievable.
00:38:54.000Number seven, the Tax Reform Act, the biggest middle-class tax cut in American history, which included an expansion of the working mothers' tax cut and, yes, paid family leave.
00:39:04.000I think that we as conservatives and Christians, I don't know if you're conservative, we as Christians should make it easier to have children in our country.
00:39:12.000It wasn't Obama, it wasn't the Democrats.
00:39:14.000It was President Trump that signed paid family leave for eight weeks so that you can borrow or take from your Social Security money, which is a very fiscally sound way to do it, and say, I want to be able to have children.
00:39:26.000I want to be able to be with my children for a couple months, paid family leave.
00:39:29.000A lot of people don't even know this exists.
00:39:34.000Number eight, probably one of the least appreciated things that happens on the landscape, but President Trump has reasserted American sovereignty.
00:39:42.000For decades, we have eroded America's role in the world, kowtowing to internationalist organizations such as NATO, such as the United Nations, such as the World Trade Organization, and basically eroding America's role in the world.
00:39:56.000Retreating from those and reasserting first principles and the Constitution has resulted in a lot of these sinister and secular internationalist and globalist forces being confounded that all of a sudden America makes choices for America.
00:40:12.000Number nine, prior to the shutdown, we experienced the greatest economy in world history.
00:40:31.000That all of a sudden that they didn't have to look for governments for their next paycheck, but they had a paycheck or for some form of government or financial assistance.
00:40:38.000And the fifth and the tenth thing I should say, 10 things that Christians should care about is, of course, he has gone out of his way to surround himself with people of faith.
00:40:46.000He's unapologetic to speak at churches.
00:40:48.000He serves with an outspoken man of faith, Mike Pence.
00:40:51.000He has people pray over him every single day.
00:40:54.000I equate him in a lot of different ways.
00:40:55.000I understand this can be confusing for people.
00:40:58.000How can a three-times married, twice-divorced playboy from New York, some sign says things, you're like, ah, I don't like that.
00:41:04.000Be the most pro-life president, surround himself with people of faith, stand with Israel.
00:41:54.000And eventually God came to him in the later form of his life, and he earned a part in the hall of faith that we all know in Hebrews.
00:42:04.000So this idea that like he's a bad guy, I don't like him.
00:42:06.000So they said, what is he contending for?
00:42:08.000He's contending for the rights of the unborn, for Israel.
00:42:11.000He's contending against child sex trafficking, which would be a nice 11th on that list, doing more to end the scourge of child sex trafficking in our country than any other president in our history.
00:42:21.000$100 million just got reallocated to ending child sex trafficking in our southern border.
00:42:25.000So look, I get it as Christians, it might be a very blunt thing, and I'm not trying to turn this into a political rally, but understand, those are 11 very clear differences right there.
00:42:35.000And I don't act, I'm not saying that puzzle piece should fit perfectly, but does it fit better?
00:42:40.000Does that align better with your worldview, with what you want to see that happens right in the world?
00:43:26.000And I saw this repeated time and time again.
00:43:28.000I saw, this is a man who lived his entire life where he believed every person out there possesses one piece of wisdom that he needs to know.
00:43:42.000But this is a guy that I've seen personally firsthand that has learned more from carpenters, electricians, and welders than the ruling class in this country that has gotten so, so much, so wrong for the last couple of decades.
00:43:55.000I think he gets so misportrayed in our media.
00:43:59.000And this is a man that has just been persecuted and assailed and is now obviously going through a health trial that none of us would have possibly expected.
00:44:09.000And I'm also able to say that this man has done more for the priority list of evangelicals or for Christians, more so than any other president in my lifetime.
00:46:55.000In a socialist type example where you say, we're going to take the weapons, we're going to nationalize the health care, we're going to administer all educational decisions.
00:47:02.000Well, all of a sudden, of course, that power is going to be abused.
00:47:04.000It's one of the most obvious things for those of us that know how human beings are hardwired.
00:48:26.000It's sinful, evil, and that there is a particular role that only the church can play because we happen to be those that are actually filled with one greater than that evil.
00:50:41.000And so I guess the question is, if you're born new in Christ and you are a Bible-believing Christian, when will you speak out against some of the moral decay you see around you?
00:51:28.000You know in your heart of heart that no matter what kind of small reasoning you might have been giving, you know that this is actually the moment.
00:51:37.000And what's so troubling, if you guys want to see how dark human beings can go when good people do nothing, read the Gulag Archipelago.
00:51:46.000Every young person in America should read the Gulag Archipelago.
00:51:51.000It is one of the most horrifying indictments of humanity.
00:51:56.000You know, we kind of have this feel-good Christianity movement in the country where like everyone's actually a good person deep down.
00:52:12.000And I am traveling the country, speaking at churches from Maine to Signal Hill, California, all across the country saying, this is that moment where, as Alexander Solshenitsyn said in the Gulag Archipelago, the pastors in the Soviet Union said, it's okay if they put those, you know, 10% of people away.
00:52:40.000Only 42 million people were murdered and killed.
00:52:42.000And so look, it really is a question of what does the church ecclesia, the gathering of believers, what do you do when you see something wrong?
00:52:59.000And I'm traveling the country, we're speaking, we're persuading, we're communicating, we're doing all the, I'm trying to get people to dive deeper.
00:53:18.000So if there's something that confuses you, you live in the greatest time in human history to learn, yet so few people choose to do it.
00:53:26.000You have a supercomputer in your right-hand pocket with every answer to some sort of like philosophical question you could even make sure your sources are good, but there's plenty of good ones out there.
00:53:36.000But also you could every make sure it's rooted in biblical wisdom.
00:53:41.000But if you're like, you know, I don't really know kind of, you know, if it, maybe I don't believe freedom of speech should matter.
00:53:47.000Like, okay, then I can recommend five things that you can go look at.
00:53:51.000Every Christian needs to heighten their sense of knowledge about the world around them.
00:53:56.000Because sometimes churches are steeped in biblical literacy, but they are vacated in any sort of philosophical understanding of what we're contesting against, of civil government.
00:54:07.000And you guys are doing this with your civics class, which is awesome.
00:54:10.000And Christians should be unafraid to be kind of masters in understanding of all these sorts of different pieces and how they, because it can be very confusing.
00:55:12.000Challenge deceitfulness when you see it, right?
00:55:15.000Do it with love and do it with compassion.
00:55:17.000But nevertheless, find the people that might be misinformed and lead them to the ultimate source of, remember, liberty is not man's idea, it's God's idea.
00:55:25.000And the final, final thing I'll say is this, is take the education of your children very seriously.
00:55:32.000Because right now they are the primary target of deceitfulness and of darkness.
00:55:38.000Educate the children in the ways of truth.
00:55:40.000And I'll tell you, I'm dedicating my life to this.
00:55:43.000I'm visiting churches across the country and campuses.
00:55:45.000What a beautiful opportunity we have, everybody.