Coach Tuberville joins the program. We also talk about National Voter Registration Day and Pastor Alan Jackson, as well, about why Christians need to fight this election cycle. Subscribe to our podcast and become a member today!
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00:01:29.000Coach, I want to begin our conversation here by setting the table with Cut2 here, which is a reporter asking why Donald Trump did not have more security at his golf course.
00:02:40.000I have a problem with, after the first assassination, there should have been military, Navy SEALs, state troopers, everybody should have been around there.
00:02:50.000They're going to kill the former president if they don't wake up.
00:02:54.000And, uh, again, we sent a letter today, uh, Roger Marshall and I, Senator from Kansas to the acting, uh, Secret Service and asking, you know, answer some questions, funding all that, but it's too late to get Secret Service.
00:03:06.000You can't train these people in three years.
00:03:08.000And we, we, we protect 33 different people in this country with Secret Service.
00:03:13.000So we're out of people, uh, to protect president Trump.
00:03:18.000And, uh, obviously it's probably going to have to either be military, I would say, because they understand the situation.
00:03:24.000Yeah, so here's what I'm failing to understand is that this is simply and solely a question of the will.
00:03:30.000So, for example, if President Trump visits Afghanistan, which he did, it's not just Secret Service.
00:03:35.000There are diplomatically trained detail for the State Department and for the Department of Defense that know how to protect ambassadors, that know how to protect people of interest, five-star generals.
00:03:46.000So the Secret Service is not the only agency in the federal government that is trained in personal protection.
00:03:53.000And by the way, I don't buy this idea that a $5 billion agency doesn't have enough people.
00:03:58.000You can reallocate people away from Jimmy Carter.
00:04:01.000The lack of creativity here is infuriating.
00:04:05.000But Senator, I guess what I'm getting at, some of your colleagues seem fired up about this, but in D.C., they just kind of shrug their shoulders and they are saying, well, I guess assassinations are the new normal.
00:04:16.000Well, President Trump is not liked by a lot of people up here, including some Republicans.
00:04:21.000You know, most of them have got on board since he won the nomination.
00:04:24.000But let me say this, Charlie, and you know this.
00:04:28.000He works 14, 17, 18 hours a day, sleeps very little.
00:04:33.000He's going to take the next 48 days where he's going to bounce around the country, speak to every group he possibly can, stick his hand out.
00:04:40.000I mean, he's going to be in harm's way.
00:04:43.000And while the Democrats, you know, they work six, eight hours and either go to the beach or watch television.
00:04:49.000This guy has a work ethic that nobody can believe and the energy.
00:04:53.000So he's going to need people to leapfrog in front of him.
00:04:57.000If he goes to Pittsburgh in the morning, he goes to Seattle at night.
00:05:03.000He needs help, and you can't do it with a handful of Secret Service agents.
00:05:07.000You have to have a plan, and there's no plan up here in Washington, D.C.
00:05:11.000on anything, so we couldn't expect it any different with the Secret Service.
00:05:15.000So, Coach, is there a push to at least get this, a bill voted on?
00:05:19.000Or have the Democrats at least have to say they support or don't support it?
00:05:23.000I mean, make the Democrats go on the record and state that they oppose enhancing Donald Trump's Secret Service protection.
00:06:31.000Well, and again, so just in the Marine Corps, there are thousands of people in the Marine Corps that are used as supplemental security for at-risk embassies across the world.
00:08:04.000Again, you don't want to point the blame at anybody other than the people that have the opportunity to give him help, whether it's military or Secret Service.
00:08:13.000Can you just detail again the letter that you guys sent and what you think is an immediate correction here and what we can expect?
00:08:20.000Well, just asking, hey, do you need more funding?
00:08:24.000You know, what kind of personnel do you have that's available?
00:08:27.000You know, some type of investigation report on the previous.
00:08:32.000They hadn't had time to do the report on this last one, but the previous one in Pennsylvania.
00:08:37.000You know, Josh Hawley's done a good job of trying to run that down, but you can't get anything from these Democrats because, again, you go back to it, all these agencies are controlled by the deep state, and so they don't want to leak anything out.
00:08:50.000I saw where Merrick Garland came out today and said, hey, we're all in.
00:09:27.000No, no, you know, but again, most of the Democrats in the house voted it down.
00:09:32.000Who would be against a bill that says, Hey, you cannot vote unless you're a lawful citizen, United States of America.
00:09:39.000Here's why we need to need to pass it, Charlie, because this is going to be an election on both sides.
00:09:45.000Say the president Trump wins, they're going to complain about something and they could very well hit the streets riding, you know, uh, saying, Hey, this was a, This was a fake election.
00:09:56.000You know, it wasn't handled correctly and vice versa if the Republicans lose.
00:10:00.000So we've got to cover our bases here and let people know we're at least trying to make this a fair election everywhere I go.
00:10:07.000I've been all over the country in the last three or four months.
00:10:09.000Everybody, they don't ask about immigration or anything to do with prices or gas.
00:10:16.000Coach, is this going to be a fair election?
00:10:20.000And Chuck Schumer could make it fair, but I heard some of the senators on the left go, hey, you know, it's already unlawful for an illegal vote.
00:10:28.000It's also unlawful to rob a bank, but they still do it.
00:10:32.000And so we need to make sure this is a straight up fair election and people understand that.
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00:12:40.000It means engaging with your community, engaging with the people Your neighbors, folks that you go swimming with, I don't know, host a barbecue, host a pool party, go for a walk, start having these conversations.
00:12:53.000And there's a really easy process that we've made up at TP Action that includes getting a MAGA hat.
00:12:59.000It makes it really simple, Charlie, right?
00:14:59.000The men in this country, the Democrats want you to believe this is a election based on gender and race and religion, and they want that divide.
00:16:38.000And you have a personal story you'll tell tonight, it's in some capacity I know, and young moms in particular might not love Trump's style, they might not like Trump's approach, but they can all of a sudden say, my kid will not have a chronic disease, my kid will eat healthier, my kid won't be poisoned by these major food corporations, which I think is a huge opening for us to, yes, you're right, to make America great again.
00:17:02.000One last time, Caitlin, if someone's in the audience says, ah, registering voters is too hard, give them a pep talk.
00:17:28.000We had last month saving babies with preborn by providing ultrasounds.
00:17:32.000And we're doing again this year what we did last year.
00:17:34.000We're going to stand for life because remaining silent in the face of the most radically pro-death administration is not an option.
00:17:39.000As Sir Edmund Burke said, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing, and we're not going to do nothing.
00:17:45.000Your gift to preborn will give a girl the truth about what's happening in her body so that she can make the right choice.
00:19:08.000Well, to be completely honest, I think we've betrayed our biblical worldview.
00:19:13.000But because we still stand in a church building with a theological setting, we don't want to really acknowledge that.
00:19:19.000So we hide behind this veil that we can't be engaged while we're actually, and I say we, while there's actually a lot of covert operations for ungodliness, liberal, progressive, whatever word you want.
00:19:29.000They've been teaching this garbage in seminaries for decades.
00:19:33.000And you write about this in your book, Jesus, His Followers, and Politics.
00:19:37.000Tell us about the book, and how do we change the Christian's hesitancy to engage?
00:19:44.000Well, the book really came out of a series I did with the congregation.
00:19:47.000I've done 20 pastors' conferences across different cities in the last 18 months.
00:19:53.000And in city after city, when I would talk to pastors about being involved with current events and culture, not so much just politics, but what's happening in our culture and being a voice, it's been about a 50-50 response.
00:20:04.00050 would be positive and 50 would be angry.
00:20:08.000So I went back to message this to the church and say, we can't sit on the sidelines.
00:20:15.000You know, the Bible says we're to overcome evil with good, and we have been adopting for a few decades now the practice of overlooking evil.
00:20:22.000We've got to engage in the conflict and use our voices and our resources and our spheres of influence, or we're going to lose our freedom and liberty, and it'll be at our doorstep.
00:21:19.000Is it the congregation problem because they're not demanding what they should demand from the church?
00:21:24.000And if you could pinpoint an event or an author or a speaker, a group, an organization that really took this detour, what would you pinpoint where things started to go wrong?
00:22:26.000Jesus said, you know, don't follow a blind guide, you'll fall into a hole.
00:22:31.000And how long are we going to have to sit in churches following blind guides before we realize it's not getting the outcome we need?
00:22:37.000I totally agree with that, and I think that's really well put.
00:22:40.000We've been speaking out about this for quite some time, and if I were to have my hypothesis, if you will, Willow Creek said that the church should embrace business models, big boards, governing structures, and that was probably well intended.
00:22:55.000But for some churches, it enabled a bureaucracy of risk aversion and growth to the world, not speaking the word.
00:23:05.000Would you agree that that trend was troubling for some?
00:23:08.000Yeah, I think that whole seeker-driven mentality... Which Heibel's was the... He was kind of the spokesperson for that, yeah.
00:23:18.000Introduce some things that have not been helpful.
00:23:20.000You know, we became more aware of building bridges with the ungodly than we were talking about to the people of faith what it means to be the people of faith.
00:23:27.000And we've lost any sense of excellence in the context of serving the Lord.
00:23:32.000You know, we think we get our card for heaven and then we can live like the devil.
00:23:37.000And I'm convinced hell's going to be filled with a lot of people that have those cards.
00:23:42.000And we're going to have to change who we are.
00:23:43.000We'll be judged by the impact we have on the world we live in.
00:23:47.000Not by the fact that we walked the aisle of a church and recited the sinner's prayer.
00:23:51.000And I think the church, we have allowed things like the definition of marriage to become a political discussion.
00:23:58.000Human sexuality, moral and immoral, that's not a political discussion, that's biblical.
00:24:03.000Family values, a nuclear family, biological sex, those are not political issues, those are biblical issues.
00:24:12.000And the church has lost its voice, and in that cowardice, we have created this vacuum for an authoritarian state.
00:24:18.000Throughout history, when the church fails, darkness prevails.
00:24:22.000When the Christian Roman Empire fell, The dark ages emerged.
00:24:26.000The failure of the Church brought tremendous suffering.
00:24:30.000When the Church failed in Europe, we saw not only a world war, but a holocaust.
00:24:35.000Well, we're standing on a precipice now, at a pivot point.
00:24:37.000The question is, will the church step up and hold up these biblical ideas?
00:24:41.000Are we going to hide behind this false veil of politics and we can't use our voices?
00:24:46.000And suffering will incur, not only in our nation, but around the world because of the failure of this nation.
00:24:50.000Yeah, and again, the planet really hinges on America.
00:24:53.000We are the swinging door of whether or not we will see unspeakable horror and tyranny unleashed, or if we can quell that and elevate righteousness to the glory of God.
00:25:03.000Go do a before and after picture in Afghanistan, when we were there and then after we withdrew.
00:25:08.000Just see what happened when our influence was completely withdrawn, what's happened to the young girls, the young women.
00:25:14.000They won't report it because they don't want anybody to know, but it's not hard to see it.
00:25:18.000And do a before and after picture of the Korean Peninsula, North Korea versus South Korea.
00:25:23.000One's an open-air concentration camp, the other is one of the more Christian countries in Asia, actually.
00:25:28.000And so it's so clear to us that we should act, then what would you say to a pastor that says, okay, Pastor Jackson, I'm on board.
00:25:35.000What is doing this look like in practice?
00:25:38.000Well, I think when you lead your congregation in all the various places, you have to find a way to engage current culture.
00:25:45.000Whatever fits in the format where you live.
00:25:47.000I don't think you can understand Scripture apart from the world we live in.
00:25:52.000If you've got formal theological training, you spend extensive time learning first century culture, so you can understand the world in which the New Testament emerged.
00:26:00.000Or 10th century BCE culture, so you can understand the culture from which the Old Testament Hebrew Bible emerged.
00:26:07.000Well, none of that makes sense unless we can take those principles and put them into play in the 21st century.
00:26:12.000So every pastor has to—what's happening in your community?
00:26:14.000Our community's having trouble getting pornography out of the schools.
00:26:48.000If the issue matters enough, you only need one issue.
00:26:50.000If you know a candidate beats their spouse with a stick, you're not going to vote for them.
00:26:55.000Stop hiding behind the hypocrisy and have the courage to own our biblical worldview and lead the people that are in our sphere of influence that way.
00:27:02.000The book is Jesus, His Followers, and Politics.
00:27:07.000There are some churches that are very political, but they believe that Kamala Harris is the better option, and they're very outspoken, almost in revolutionary ways.
00:27:19.000Now, they're not a majority of churches, we want to be fair, but they're a growing minority.
00:27:24.000I would say 10-15%, where they say, we must love all the immigrants, we must open the borders, who are we to judge homosexuals?
00:27:32.000How should we deal with such churches?
00:27:35.000Well, I think the New Testament is a construct that we have to pull forward.
00:27:48.000And, you know, the fact that they have theological architecture or they hold worship services doesn't really make them a biblically centered church.
00:27:56.000And in a season of great deception, once upon a time we watched the evening news and we thought they told us the truth.
00:28:01.000Once upon a time, you could drive into a church and imagine it would be Orthodox Christian in their worldview.
00:28:07.000And if they're advocating for ungodly principles, I quite candidly don't care what the sign says or whether they have ecclesiastical language.
00:28:16.000Yeah, and it all needs to point towards the gospel.
00:28:20.000And again, this is an oversimplification, but if your message is—and Ray Comfort writes about this in his book extensively—if your message is that Jesus will make your immediate life better no matter what, that's not the gospel.
00:28:35.000You need to first say you're broken and in need of redemption, and Jesus is on a rescue mission to save you.
00:28:40.000Add to that, serving God is difficult.
00:28:44.000Serving Jesus is not like going to Disneyland or Six Flags.
00:28:47.000There are times He'll ask you to do difficult things.
00:28:55.000In reality, every generation has to choose for themselves.
00:28:59.000Christianity is not something we may inherit the benefits of a godly generation, but every generation, or the curses of an ungodly, but every generation has to choose for themselves.
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00:33:10.000I really don't care, but everything you're saying I agree with.
00:33:12.000And it's at odds with some people's theology who I like who are too next-world focused, in the sense where—and again, we should be next-world focused.
00:33:20.000But it could get too much where they say, this world doesn't matter, you don't have duties, just be ready to be zapped up.
00:33:25.000And you see that can be a little bit of a...
00:33:37.000You could have done it when they're bombing London.
00:33:38.000You could have said it's the end of the world.
00:33:40.000If you lived in Rwanda when a million people were murdered in 90 days, it would have been easy to say it's the end of the world.
00:33:46.000I don't know that it's the end of the world, but I can tell you this, if the church doesn't engage, it's the end of an empire.
00:33:51.000We better find our place and stand in it with the determination of a generation that won't yield.
00:33:56.000And the escape, again, I'm not on the planning committee for Jesus' return, I'm on the welcoming committee, so I don't get involved in that.
00:34:05.000So I have no idea, pre-trib, post-trib, pan-trib, it's all going to pan out, it drives them nuts when I say that.
00:34:09.000But I'm very much on what does God want from me.
00:34:13.000And I learned this from a religious Jew, Dennis Prager, who's also on Salem.
00:34:49.000It tells us there is a God, that He can be known, and that if we choose to, we can participate in His eternal kingdom, which is the most amazing invitation that will ever be put before a human being.
00:34:58.000But we don't do it on a menu or a smorgasbord.
00:35:14.000And it's time to stop raging against God's poor job performance and decide we're going to participate with what He's doing in the earth, because He's doing something.
00:35:35.000And I think we're watching that again.
00:35:37.000It's why I'm happy to stand next to you and cheer and add momentum, because I believe God's moving in the midst of all the things you're doing.
00:36:27.000And so now we have this binary choice, and it's really, it's as distinctive a choice as any time in my lifetime, and that's quite a while.
00:36:34.000And so, you sort through the platforms of those two parties if you can find one for Kamala, and then you choose which most represents a biblical worldview for you.