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00:04:28.000So really, a lot of people had strong health.
00:04:29.000And I wanted to read some of them because I thought it's important to really drive this point home, especially when it resonates with our audience.
00:04:35.000Deborah points out, I have a friend in Canada who has lupus or had lupus and could not get proper care.
00:04:42.000So instead, they just offered her MAID.
00:05:00.000And you want to know what really freaks me out the most about this is how fast in one generation you can just switch to what was radical but is now normal.
00:05:08.000And I was talking to my family about, you know, growing up, their generation would see movies where you could talk on the phone to your watch.
00:05:14.000And they're like, and that happened in like 2013 with the Apple Watch.
00:05:18.000But then now it's like way early on, the concept of a third trimester abortion was radical.
00:05:26.000Now, and the concept of, you know, a medically assisted suicide was radical.
00:06:27.000And one more: Aaron points out: they should know that 1 Corinthians, do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in you?
00:07:32.000We need the gospel preached by men who have been impacted and changed by the gospel.
00:07:40.000And so, about seven or eight years ago, I went to Barnes and Noble's to gain some understanding on what books were impacting kids.
00:07:48.000And 70% of the books that I saw that was postured in the front of the store were about the occult world or pagan worship, which told me that people want to delve into mysticism.
00:08:02.000They want to know that there's something out there that's supernatural.
00:08:07.000There are some false gods, but there's a real God that supersedes over the earth.
00:08:12.000And now, more than ever, we need to have an emphasis in the Christian church on the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
00:08:20.000People need to have an encounter with God.
00:08:22.000And when you have an encounter with God, no one can shake what you have seen and what you know.
00:08:29.000In addition, pastors must engage the culture.
00:08:33.000We can't leave it up to social media and TikTok to educate the church on what's right, what's true, and what's just.
00:08:41.000Many pastors today won't touch issues of transgenderism, abortion, the school system issues of whether some states want school choice or not, or not.
00:08:53.000They won't touch it because they are afraid to tick off their more liberal members.
00:08:58.000And so I say it this way: that weak pulpits create weak Christians.
00:10:28.000And for those under 16, direct messages are turned off.
00:10:31.000Only their friends can comment on their videos.
00:10:34.000And that kind of approach matters because feeling confident and comfortable about these platforms your teenagers are on shouldn't mean digging through a bunch of menus and trying to set everything up yourself and worrying that you got it wrong.
00:10:45.000TikTok is taking a proactive approach.
00:10:48.000Their protections are built in from the moment those teenagers join so that safety and peace of mind for parents is there right from the start.
00:10:56.000All of this is to say, when safety comes first, discovery and creativity can follow without fear.
00:11:02.000Learn more by going to tick tock.com/slash guardiansguide.
00:11:35.000But she had called in and asked about how do we deal with an issue within our county, essentially that they were trying to hit us with an additional tax and we had a unique idea for it.
00:11:47.000You guys actually gave her a really cool quote.
00:11:49.000You played a quote from Erica about having a velvet spine of steel and withstanding people.
00:11:57.000But so, anyway, so they want to raise our taxes here, right?
00:12:00.000So we dug into the budget, and what we found was kind of alarming.
00:12:05.000So, over the course of about a 10-year period, we actually found in our little Florida county about $180 million that nobody can really account for for why they collected at nine.
00:12:17.000I'm an accountant, I have 11 spreadsheets all over this.
00:12:22.000And I mean, it's actually legit, and not to get too nerdy on you, but basically, our property taxes grew by about 161% over the last 10 years, but population only went up by about 35%.
00:12:37.000So, like last year, they collected what would have been the equivalent of an extra like $47 million than they should have if they would have used the 2015 baseline.
00:13:38.000Actually, you know, Randy Fine's going to be, I guess, just confirmed to speak at our event in DC that Anna Polina Luna is running.
00:13:47.000Well, so, big picture, I think, getting at the heart of it is there is, I think, the flawed assumption that government actually cares about stopping waste.
00:13:58.000They often are the beneficiaries of higher waste.
00:14:00.000That can often translate to having more personnel under them, just higher salaries for themselves, higher benefits for themselves.
00:14:07.000And more to the point, if you're in the government, there's not much of a penalty for having a lot of waste.
00:14:12.000It's not your money, it's somebody else's money.
00:14:15.000So, the people you do unfortunately have to get whipped up about it are the people who actually pay the taxes because they're the ones who are harmed by this.
00:14:23.000And this is one of the big existential problems in America: as you tilt to where the number of people meaningfully paying taxes is less than half the population, you get to a point where there are arguably not enough people who have a stake in anything being run effectively, being run efficiently.
00:14:40.000So I think you have a good idea with trying to create websites, create more local awareness of the scale of the problem.
00:14:48.000But in the end, something that has to happen is you basically have to make sure that this is something people will turn out and vote for in local races to change.
00:15:06.000I'm going to be honest with you, my dream would be, and again, I don't expect you to do it on the spot, but you guys and TPUSA action, I mean, not money, not people, just an endorsement of, you know what, you guys are doing good work and we're behind you.
00:15:20.000That would mean the world, if you guys saw it and was legitimate.
00:15:42.000Also, we just had Byron Donalds on the show.
00:15:44.000If he was aware of this, I'm sure he'd be very interested.
00:15:47.000But to Blake's point, getting popular support, groundswell support in your local community and showing up at the city council meetings demanding accountability as opposed to raising taxes.
00:17:55.000But the problem with Caesar is Caesar wants too much, right?
00:17:58.000Caesar wants to continue to take from us.
00:18:01.000When you look at the Old Testament, you see the Hebrew boys who were thrown into a fiery furnace because they resisted what the king wanted.
00:18:11.000You see Daniel thrown in the lion's den because he resisted what the king wanted.
00:18:17.000Because he resisted what Goliath was saying about the people of God.
00:18:22.000And so there lies a point, all right, where if the laws are unjust, i.e. we are being forced to do things that are against our biblical worldview, we shouldn't succumb to those laws.
00:18:56.000You know, fines, and they were pilloried and bludgeoned because of their belief system, but yet instead they kept their churches open.
00:19:04.000What we're seeing right now is that the churches that resisted during the pandemic, those churches are thriving.
00:19:09.000And the churches that closed down, many of them are still shuttered.
00:19:13.000And so, yes, there is a point where we have to disagree and disobey the laws of the land if they go against scripture and what God has called us to do.
00:19:24.000We should do that dutifully, but we should also do it winsomely, not with the intent to create disorder or chaos, but we cannot support laws that go against our biblical worldview.
00:19:38.000Yeah, which is why I brought up the example from Acts, right?
00:19:46.000We have to go against the authority of the land.
00:19:49.000I would also add that specifically here in America, and Charlie used to talk about this all the time, that honoring those in authority is different in our country.
00:19:58.000And I was at dinner at the Cedras last night, and they were like shocked.
00:20:09.000But having free speech, having the Second Amendment, having all these things, the authority in our country is the people.
00:20:15.000And so when you're called to honor those in authority, when there's unjust rules, specifically the example of COVID-19, when they're shuttering the doors, but strip clubs were allowed to be open.
00:20:26.000When they're forcing pastors not to have counseling sessions with their congregants, but marijuana dispensaries were open.
00:20:34.000And so you have to ask yourself, you know, here in America, we the people are the authority.
00:20:39.000But then even greater than that, you guys talked about, you know, in Matthew, where Christ talks about rendering unto Caesar what is Caesar's.
00:21:32.000Well, and this is the Declaration of Independence.
00:21:34.000We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:22:16.000Acts chapter 4, verse 29 says, And now, Lord, behold their threatenings and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word.
00:22:25.000Verse 31 says, And when they had prayed, the place was shaken.
00:22:28.000They were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they spake the word of God with boldness.
00:22:33.000That word boldness in the Greek gives you the word parhesia, which means the unreservedness of utterance.
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00:24:14.000It's still 10 o'clock over here, but my question: Mikey, you mentioned earlier the normalization of these crazy things like transing the kids and you know, nonsense like that.
00:24:26.000And one of the things that we've unfortunately seen normalized is violence against conservatives and Christians, whether that's as far as trying to assassinate the president or, you know, unfortunately successfully assassinating Charlie Kirk, down to you know, just people getting assaulted.
00:24:42.000Like I was assaulted during the first Trump administration when I was in school.
00:24:46.000There was a video going around Twitter a couple weeks ago of this big kid just sucker punching this kid who had a support ice sign.
00:24:55.000And so, with that, how do we effectively fight that culture of violence is okay against conservatives while maintaining our biblical values?
00:25:08.000Yeah, it's like it, yeah, it's like when, for example, you brought up the COVID example.
00:25:15.000When the government tells you not to do something and you know that it's a God-given right to do the opposite, you stand in boldness to do it, whether or not you will be attacked or whether or not you go to jail.
00:25:26.000And it's because you are fighting for something bigger, something greater than yourself, specifically when it comes to the values of truth that we hold.
00:25:35.000And so, if the left is threatening violence against you, you know that you have a duty to stand up for that truth, to stand up for your values, regardless of if you're going to be attacked or not.
00:25:47.000And unfortunately, the trajectory of the left, especially when it comes to violence here in America, is they're becoming increasingly successful, not just in them assassinating our people, but also when it comes to the assassins, possibly in the case of Luigi Mangioni, the left mobilizing to make him this like hero.
00:26:11.000So every time there's a hearing at the courthouse, there's a bunch of leftist protesters that want to see Luigi Mangioni walk free for killing a man in cold blood, for assassinating a man for no other reason than he did not like the healthcare system that he was in charge of.
00:26:27.000And it's very dark because this can succeed.
00:26:29.000It has succeeded in the past where movements that love violence and embrace violence and promote it have successfully gotten killers get away with things.
00:26:39.000They've gotten them very lenient sentences.
00:26:41.000You can see this, if you want an ominous example, this happened regularly in Russia before they had the Bolshevik Revolution.
00:26:48.000Constant culture of assassinations and people who would get off quite lightly in many cases for involvement in those.
00:26:57.000Well, I would say politically, a very important step in areas where we have power, for example, in red states right now, and for that matter in the federal government, you need to take a position of maximum hostility to politically driven violence.
00:27:11.000And that can involve, obviously, prosecuting everyone you can, but also you have to lay down the law a bit.
00:27:18.000If your organization is clearly engineering riots, we're going to say, like, yeah, we should probably change RICO and make sure RICO is capable of prosecuting organizations like that.
00:27:33.000And so, for example, if you have these riots that happen on a campus to try to shut down a turning point speaker, as happened to Charlie many times, you have to actually say, this is a much bigger deal than we've acted like it is in the past.
00:27:46.000This is an attempt to destroy freedom of speech and to violently intimidate someone against doing something.
00:27:51.000Bam, you were trying to strip someone of their civil rights.
00:27:53.000We're going to throw you in prison for a decade.
00:27:58.000I was just going to say, call it out where you see it, too.
00:27:59.000Like, President Trump did such a great job at the State of the Union when literally the Democrats are not standing up for Irina Zarutska, violently murdered.
00:28:10.000They didn't stand up when he said, we got to stand up against political violence either.
00:28:41.000And so as we contemplate all of these questions, these deep, troubling, profound questions, ask yourself, do you just believe in God or do you fear him?
00:29:27.000And that ultimately is the only thing that's going to give enough people enough courage to face it.
00:29:33.000Consider the climate of where the early church was after the killing, the open killing of Jesus.
00:29:43.000John, I believe it's 20, verse 19 says, Then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst and said unto them, peace be unto you.
00:29:57.000This is after Jesus was killed, and the disciples are now in the upper room.
00:30:02.000They're hiding out, afraid, terrified for their lives.
00:30:05.000We don't want to go beyond these walls because they may kill us as well, because we just watched them kill our Savior.
00:30:12.000Charlie believed that to live is Christ, but to die is gain.
00:30:18.000There's a mentality that's required to do kingdom work.
00:30:23.000You know, most people don't really know what that place looks like spiritually and mentally, but you have to become desensitized to the threats.
00:30:34.000The threats are intended to quiet you, to stymon you, to keep you from speaking up.
00:30:41.000The threats are supposed to cause you to neuter your voice, censor yourself, self-censorship, right?
00:32:00.000But I just told you earlier that boldness means freedom of speech.
00:32:03.000We have to get back to that secure place of biblical boldness where we speak knowing that the threat is coming because it may come, but we cannot die an hour or a second or a minute before God wills it to be.
00:33:08.000For those of you who have not read that sermon, today, go read that sermon.
00:33:12.000And that is what the gospel used to speak.
00:33:14.000Did you know during that sermon, literally during that sermon, there would be people bawling their eyes out out of fear of God that they would have to pull them out of the congregation because they're a distraction from the sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
00:33:29.000Today, when congregants are leaving the church during a sermon, it's because they were offended.
00:36:49.000Well, actually, I want to, before I get to my question, I'm going to piggyback off what you guys just finished.
00:36:53.000Have you paid attention to what's going on in Baldwin'sville, New York with the high school and a teacher who tried to help the students start a TPUSA team?
00:37:00.000Yeah, we're very well aware of it, and we can't really comment on it yet because it's legal maneuvering happening.
00:37:07.000Yeah, so, all right, so my question is this: so, we had the State of the Union.
00:37:10.000We see all the Republicans on their side of the room stand up for everything, clap for all the good stuff that we all like.
00:37:18.000But what is what Republicans and the GOP like not working together when they go back to their separate houses and not trying to pass the things that we, the people, want that we put them in charge of, like, you know, Save Act for one.
00:37:32.000And why do GOP members, not just at federal level, but at every level, seem to have this infighting with each other?
00:37:49.000Charlie wouldn't need to do his life's work if it was that easy.
00:37:53.000So, I mean, I will give you an example: the SAVE Act.
00:37:55.000I've been talking with a bunch of different senators about this, and right now, you know, they're all publicly saying they want this done.
00:38:03.000The problem is, is there's parliamentary tactics that are involved, different schools of thought about how to address the parliamentary tactics.
00:38:10.000You also have to ask the question: you know, can you get 250?
00:38:14.000Right now, it looks like we're at 49 because Tillis is out, and Lisa Murkowski is out, and Mitch McConnell's out.
00:38:21.000So fundamentally, at some sort of lower threshold level, you're talking about a hardwiring of the conservative mind.
00:38:29.000We're just like a rowdy bunch, and we're more independent thinkers.
00:40:31.000You know, I will tell you on the special interest, on the special interest thing, so I went to this Capitol Hill club for the first time, and I went with Andy Ogles.
00:40:41.000The team there, they wanted me to see it kind of as like a show you where the sausage is made really.
00:40:47.000And it's this club where all these Republicans, this is where the Republicans hang out.
00:40:51.000You got to pay all this money to be a member.
00:40:53.000And then you go there and you have these like kind of like whatever dinner.