00:00:01.000Today I wanted to air a speech that I have given in Rockland, California, where reporters couldn't possibly believe that I spoke to 1,400 people in person, no social distancing, no masks.
00:00:43.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:52.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:03:32.000Yeah, it's a question I struggle with.
00:03:35.000I said this in the first service, and I'll say it again.
00:03:37.000The kind of grace side of my interpretation of this, I'm kind of, I'm running low on grace for some of these pastors that still haven't opened up their church.
00:03:48.000You know, when I started speaking, and Shannon Grove has heard me give this speech, you know, in June and July, I said, maybe you guys should open your church now.
00:04:01.000We know how people need the physical assembly.
00:04:05.000We need that suicides are up, mental health, depression, spousal abuse.
00:04:10.000We know the cost of our reaction to the virus, the lockdowns.
00:04:13.000And yet, in this moment of crisis, the American Christian church, large in part, and there's exceptions: Rob McCoy, Jack Hibbs, James Cadiz, Juergen.
00:04:21.000There's some great pastors here in California, but they're definitely the exception, not the rule.
00:04:26.000And the rule is an incredible epidemic of cowardice in the American church.
00:04:48.000And that's kind of the way that American Christianity has always framed their profit motive.
00:04:52.000What's really interesting is that if they actually opened their church, they would actually have more baptisms and bigger budgets and be able to buy more buildings, which is the great irony of the whole thing.
00:05:01.000Is that a lot of these pastors say, well, I'm afraid of what my congregation will say.
00:05:07.000And it's just, they're supposed to be the leaders in this moment, right?
00:05:10.000They're supposed to be the shepherds, and they're not.
00:05:12.000And so I asked this question: if a pastor hasn't opened their church, why are you a pastor?
00:05:54.000It's so different than the European model, which is where you completely surrender to civil servants and bureaucrats and politicians.
00:06:03.000And as soon as we just turn our back on American liberty, which is what we're doing in our country, and the American church will not actually communicate where liberty comes from, because liberty is not man's idea, it's God's idea, then we're in a very troubling moment in America.
00:06:18.000And the American church has missed the greatest evangelistic opportunity in the history of our country the last six months.
00:06:25.000And the American church, first of all, they were very quick, many of them, to speak out in favor of BLM Incorporated, critical race theory, and poorly crafted political positions.
00:06:39.000Yet they wouldn't dare challenge Gavin Newsom.
00:06:42.000Whereas today, a judge in San Diego has said strip clubs are essential, but church is not.
00:06:48.000They say abortion factories can remain open.
00:06:50.000They say that marijuana dispensaries can remain open.
00:06:52.000They say that you can go to home improvement stores.
00:06:55.000And yet, the assembly of believers is something that they deem non-essential.
00:07:01.000Is that when you have millions of people in the state of California that are gathering around an agreed concept that Gavin Newsom is not the most important authority in our life, that bothers them.
00:07:15.000And so the unstated principle of American Christianity always has been that we have a vertical relationship with power that is beyond even the earthly governmental structure, that it's a God-first governing structure, right?
00:07:31.000And so this bothers the central planners and this bothers the leftists so much because it puts barriers and limits on their power by definition.
00:07:41.000So Gavin Newsom becomes incredibly less important the more you go to church.
00:07:47.000So, when you go to church and you're celebrating Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, you're appreciating the inerrancy of scripture, and you're worshiping a loving God, Gavin Newsom just kind of becomes a little bit of just kind of a speed bump on the road to your life, right?
00:08:06.000And so, and I'm singling out Gavin Newsom intentionally because we're obviously in California, and he's just the typical ruling class politician.
00:08:19.000Goes to the French laundry, no mask, no social distancing.
00:08:24.000Wiley, you are not allowed to have Thanksgiving.
00:08:26.000It's just the perfect picture of the kind of country they want to create, which is rules and orders that you have to live by, but the rulers actually don't have to.
00:08:34.000But what the American church doesn't understand, and part of it's because of really, how do I say this correctly?
00:08:43.000Seminaries that have been teaching bad politics and bad theology, youth pastors that have been believing and infiltrating a lot of these churches and teaching young people bad theology and bad politics, and then senior pastors that have no courage of their convictions to actually communicate to their church, what are we supposed to do in politics?
00:09:02.000Should Christians be involved in politics?
00:09:03.000And if so, how do we encounter with this?
00:09:05.000And so, now this testing moment came for the American church in 2020.
00:09:09.000And you passed it, and you guys passed it, and Rob McCoy passed it, and Jack Hibbs passed it, and so many, but 99% of American churches failed miserably.
00:09:17.000Where not only did they not open the church, not only did they not communicate the truth of what's really happening here, they did something even worse.
00:09:25.000The only political statements a lot of these churches did was to pander to the most malevolent political forces in the country, where it's around racial politics and insurrectionist forces and looting is essential and all this total nonsense that we saw in the last six or seven months of our country.
00:09:41.000And so, if Christians founded this country by being activists in the pulpit, this country was founded by activist pastors in the first great awakening, which preceded the founding of our country.
00:09:54.000We don't talk about this enough, but it was Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards that were talking about how human beings need to take responsibility for their life and that King George is not the ultimate authority.
00:10:08.000And so, and that's all of a sudden when people started to think that way, they started to dive deeper into, well, if all of a sudden we get our rights from a loving and good God, all of a sudden there's a natural law that is not within what the British Empire tells us, then why exactly do we have to listen to King George with all authority?
00:10:28.000Because just because he has the divine right of kings, which is an unbiblical concept.
00:10:32.000And then the American founding ensued.
00:10:36.000It's the exact opposite is now happening.
00:10:38.000So the Christians that started this country and kept it alive in the first, second, third, and fourth great awakening, there's at least four great awakenings.
00:10:44.000Some people say there's been five or six.
00:10:47.000Now all of a sudden we're seeing the opposite, which is the great silencing of the American church.
00:10:52.000And instead of actually stepping up, instead of actually leaning in, opening their doors, and where we could have saw an awakening that would make Billy Graham's revival look like, you know, a little blip on the radar, we have now decided and surrendered and agreed that we are not essential.
00:11:09.000That, and again, I say this generally, you guys being the exception, but just be honest, and you guys know this, you're in the 1% of 1% of churches, right?
00:11:16.00099% of all churches across the country are not doing this.
00:11:19.000They have no courage to their convictions, and they're not being courageous in this moment.
00:11:24.000Well, then the country will then decay.
00:11:26.000That's the honest truth, is that the guiding principles and the behavior that starts a civilization and maintains it, when it fails to maintain, then it will absolutely disintegrate.
00:11:37.000And don't be surprised all of a sudden when the church is cowardly and then you see increases in suicide, depression, alcoholism, spousal abuse, businesses, all of a sudden, the moral order that kept this entire experiment going, when they stop speaking and stop assembling, of course you're going to see the country start to go into chaos, which is exactly what we're seeing.
00:11:57.000The biblical worldview of the church is that he's going to build his church and the gates of hell will not prevail.
00:12:03.000It means we're aggressive in our approach.
00:12:16.000That we're under God, not under government.
00:12:22.000So the government kind of kicked down the doors of the church in March and April and stepped right inside the church and say, hey, we're going to give you the dictates because of this thing called COVID.
00:12:35.000So we want to talk a little bit about COVID, right?
00:12:37.000And because it's re-emerging, you even said in first service that, you know, we thought maybe they'd go away after the election.
00:12:45.000No, it's just getting more, you know, prevalent as far as the fear piece of it.
00:12:59.000But there is a political agenda behind it.
00:13:02.000Can we talk a little bit about COVID and where you see it going?
00:13:05.000Yeah, I'll do it in a tighter way than earlier because we spent like 30 minutes on it earlier.
00:13:10.000But look, of course it's a real virus, and it was probably manufactured in a laboratory in China.
00:13:17.000It was either intentionally or unintentionally released, but it was definitely covered up by the Chinese communist government and definitely spread with intentionality across the planet.
00:13:57.000I mean, words really have significance.
00:13:59.000And one of the great disservices that we've done to young people is we act as if words don't have weight.
00:14:04.000So when we talk about the state of the country, we have to be very clear about what the virus has done and what our reaction to the virus has done.
00:14:11.000Those are two completely different things.
00:14:14.000And so the virus is one frame to look from.
00:14:19.000And there's a lot more complexity to the data.
00:14:22.000For example, some people are dying with and then from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:14:26.000Those are two completely different things.
00:14:28.000Some people have other pre-existing health conditions.
00:14:31.000And this was, you know, this triggered responses to it, right?
00:14:35.000The other part is this, which is what was our reaction to it?
00:14:40.000So our reaction to a very real virus and a very real threat was probably doing the worst thing we could have possibly done.
00:14:47.000Instead of heroically stepping up and protecting people that were at risk, we put infected people into nursing homes and then we shut down the schools, which was the worst thing we could have possibly done.
00:14:58.000Instead, we should have told young people, your schools are not closing, your proms are not getting canceled, your homecomings are not getting canceled, and you have summer sports, and some of you might get infected.
00:15:08.000However, you have a much higher chance, if you're a young person, of dying from an accidental firework discharge than from the Chinese coronavirus.
00:15:43.000And so then people say, well, they might go see their grandparents.
00:15:48.000Well, then that's a completely different argument.
00:15:52.000And having young people be able to go to school amongst themselves or have social clubs or sports is different than young people visiting nursing homes.
00:15:59.000Like that, that's not the same argument that we're making.
00:16:02.000And what we've seen is an almost beyond alarming, shocking, stunning, and chilling escalation in teenage suicide, social isolation, antidepressant medication.
00:16:13.000And we are going to have decades of untangling the problems that we did.
00:16:27.000But then 90% of the problems that we are now going to have to sort out for the next couple decades is self-inflicted because it was fear-based, anti-scientific.
00:16:36.000They say we have to trust the science.
00:17:20.000That's a completely different argument, right?
00:17:22.000And so, and I mean that with all seriousness: that if you have a certain condition and you do have data to reflect it, wearing a certain thing or taking a certain thing or not going to a certain thing, then we shouldn't get in a position where we shame people or do that.
00:17:38.000But at the same time, it's not compassionate.
00:17:40.000At the same time, don't use an authoritarian, totalitarian position to say that every single human being must do what I think is correct.
00:17:48.000And I see, even though, because there's really conflicting and in fact, different studies that have come out about this.
00:17:55.000And so here's where the church really needs to step up right now.
00:17:58.000And every single church should have its doors fully opened and trust their congregation to make the choices that you guys are all experiencing right now.
00:18:08.000That if you're okay with gathering inside and worshiping our God, then you should be able to have that right to do that.
00:18:14.000This has been the greatest violation of religious liberty in American history.
00:18:21.000So it's interesting to me, you know, God's ways are not our ways.
00:18:28.000But, you know, I'm not saying that God was in charge of this at all.
00:18:32.000But in a country, China, that silences the church, they sent a virus to America where we're supposed to have liberty, but it silenced the church.
00:18:43.000There's a spiritual correlation between the two.
00:18:47.000And there's a political agenda attached to silencing the church.
00:18:54.000In fact, I've been criticized by my peers, pastors, even saying I'm just preaching to a base of people, calling us cowards, because I believe everything's political now.
00:19:08.000So when you come inside the church, we cannot divorce ourselves and the people separate for separation of church and state and all that stuff.
00:19:16.000But I don't believe that we're in that hour right now.
00:19:18.000I believe that we're not in a peacetime moment.
00:20:02.000Take out every example of God's chosen people influencing secular government.
00:20:06.000All throughout the Old Testament, God's chosen people were called to influence secular government for his purpose.
00:20:12.000Also, every single pastor needs to go get a pair of scissors and take out the great commission that everyone likes to reference, but very few people actually understand.
00:20:23.000On this rock, build my, we say church.
00:20:27.000You said a term that actually better describes it.
00:20:29.000Ecclesia is the term that is used in the Koigne Greek.
00:20:33.000And now, for those of you that attend church with great regularity, you'll be able to really dive deep into this kind of deeper theological point here, which is so incredibly consequential.
00:20:45.000So, in the writing of the New Testament, written mostly in Greek, almost all in Greek, and Jesus spoke Aramaic, when William Tyndale translated the Bible back to the original manuscripts.
00:20:56.000William Tyndale, who was killed and burned for this translation, by the way, because the Bible was almost all in Latin all across Europe.
00:21:08.000Well, the good Scottish people only spoke English.
00:21:11.000English was the peasants' language, everybody.
00:21:13.000English was the barrier because the only way they could get the word of God was from a priest who understood Latin, who then translated it for them.
00:21:24.000So, William Tyndale is like, I'm going to cut out the middleman.
00:21:26.000I'm actually going to go on the most ambitious and illegal Bible translating project in history.
00:21:33.000He ended up getting his life for that.
00:21:34.000And that was right before the King James translation came out, right in the early 1600s.
00:21:39.000But one of the most significant breakthroughs, and again, I mean, no offense to any Catholics here because this is a fundamental disagreement that we have with the Catholic Church, which is what is the church?
00:22:56.000To called us to be actually caring for the welfare of our nation.
00:22:59.000And any pastor that doesn't get involved in politics, explain to me in Jeremiah where it says, pray for the welfare of which the nation you are in.
00:23:06.000How are you supposed to reconcile that?
00:23:08.000And their explanation is that politics divides.
00:23:13.000And I say, well, again, you're going to need to take out that pair of scissors again and cut out the part where Jesus said, the word of God came here not to unite, but to divide, to take father against son and sibling against sibling.
00:23:27.000But this kind of hippie Jesus that we teach sometimes, where it's like Jesus was nothing but for the birds and the feather, like, and the, and the flowers.
00:23:37.000Like, there were plenty of harsh teachings that Jesus talked about hard truth for a few in a time of crisis.
00:23:50.000And what I think has happened, which has been an unfortunate sequence of events for Christianity in one sense and fortunate in the other, is that Christianity has kind of become the predominant culture in our country.
00:24:04.000And so institutional Christianity or Christian Inc., as I call it, which is some of the megachurches in this area, they're like, if I start all of a sudden talking about political stuff or civic government, I might have 10% people walk out.
00:24:37.000I coined the term invisible handcuff, where these pastors all of a sudden work from a political correct framework where they're like, I can't comment on elections.
00:24:50.000But then all of a sudden they're like, well, I'm afraid I'm going to offend people on this.
00:24:53.000First of all, the Bible says very clearly what type of government that we should have.
00:24:57.000The Bible says very clearly how we're supposed to interact on everything.
00:25:00.000And what I find to be so flummoxing is a lot of these churches, they'll tell you how you should marry, how you should parent, how you should save your money, how you should work, how you should communicate, how you should travel, how you should eat.
00:25:12.000I saw a biblical series a week before the election, one pastor was like, the biblical diet.
00:25:37.000And it's also rooted in this idea that there's no clarity for the times.
00:25:42.000That's what other pastors, well, it's kind of messy, right?
00:25:45.000Where they say, you know, both parties are bad and there's really not, you know, a better option.
00:25:49.000Okay, so first of all, better and perfect are two completely different things, okay?
00:25:54.000I'm not saying that there's a perfect option, but yeah, I would say that the party in California that passed SB 145, right, Shannon, which decriminalizes pedophilia in this state into law.
00:26:05.000And by the way, your local churches here that didn't speak out against SB 145, they'll be judged by their creator for not saying anything about pedophilia.
00:26:17.000And I just want to, just so you guys know, and most people in the state don't know, in the midst of a pandemic, all the problems, Gavin Newsom goes out of his way to pander to the pedophile lobby, passes SB 145 that decriminalizes pedophilia in this state.
00:27:28.000And so I think there's this myth and this lie that sometimes conservatives have, which is what I do doesn't matter.
00:27:37.000And man, if Mike Garcia pulls this off, 50 votes or 20, if he does, I could say that every single person that did something in that district absolutely mattered.
00:27:46.000I mean, so, first of all, we're already seeing increments of very tight races that are being decided by 20 votes or 30 votes and all that.
00:27:54.000But also, I'm a big believer that everything that you do must be a reflection as if your personal action can actually make a macro difference.
00:28:04.000And as soon as you lose that belief, then your entire civilization will crumble.
00:28:10.000And it's a great, we call the greatest generation the greatest generation for a reason.
00:28:15.000They were, of course, the most heroic generation.
00:28:17.000They served in war, but all of them had this belief, which is a biblical belief, which is why they believed it, is that my singular commitment to the war effort, whether it be on an assembly line or as a medic or storming the beach of Normandy or fighting an Ibojimi, Iwo Jima, my singular commitment through death or through sacrifice or through it's actually going to make a broader difference.
00:28:41.000And that's a really poetic and beautiful thing that we've lost.
00:28:46.000We've lost it, where most people actually think what they do makes no difference whatsoever.
00:28:53.000And that's exactly why we're in the state that we're in.
00:28:56.000It doesn't matter if I get drunk the night before, someone else is going to cut up the slack.
00:29:00.000It's this widespread irresponsibility that has set in.
00:29:03.000So what does that have to do with the church and with politics?
00:29:06.000Is that in this church right here is every single one of you needs to take responsibility for the type of country that you want to live in and also the type of civic engagement.
00:29:18.000And so I say commonly that churches have prison ministries, marriage ministries, youth ministries, financial counseling ministries, music ministries, sports ministries, but almost no churches have any sort of political ministry.
00:29:32.000So think about, and some pastors completely disagree at this, and I would love a chance to interface with them because they're just wrong.
00:29:39.000And I think I can make them, and I think I can make them see why.
00:29:43.000But what do you think causes most of the confusion in families today?
00:29:51.000So the one thing that is going to be the unspoken or spoken piece of conflict is the one thing that your church will not tell you how to think about.
00:30:04.000But here's the point: the church needs to offer clarity in confusing times.
00:30:10.000And when you have married couples, when you have 15 and 16-year-olds in your youth ministry, go to youth ministries, and they say, hey, when I go on TikTok or when I go on Instagram, all I see is BLM stuff.
00:30:21.000What are we supposed to think about that?
00:30:23.000And when the youth minister says, oh, we don't get into that, first of all, the young person will then lose respect for the point of authority from that youth minister.
00:30:32.000Secondly, they'll be less likely to join the church in the future because there are no longer a sense of clarity or information.
00:30:38.000And third, they're going to believe whatever they're told because the church doesn't take a stance on that.
00:30:43.000And so if the church doesn't take a stance on politics, then what do you take a stance on?
00:30:49.000The entire country, whether we like it or not, whether you signed up for it or not, has an incredibly heavy amount of consequences based on political beliefs that you have and how you exercise them.
00:30:58.000So in California, this gathering is deemed illegal by Gavin Newsom.
00:31:01.000In Tennessee, that's not the case, right?
00:31:04.000Post-birth abortion, transgenderism, SB 145, all of it.
00:31:08.000And so the church needs to get way more involved in politics, not less.
00:31:13.000And we need to do it through a biblical lens, always referencing scripture as the main driving force, understanding history.
00:31:20.000All of you as Christians Have a higher degree of responsibility for how you're going to interface.
00:31:29.000And I say this to all of our students at Turning Point USA: is that never is it permissible for anyone to engage in ad hominin attacks or slights against a person of a different political opinion or to get more heated or just get angry.
00:31:44.000They might get very angry, but you shouldn't and you shouldn't insult them.
00:31:47.000Instead, you should look at them not as an obstacle but as an opportunity.
00:31:51.000And I mean, if every single person did that this Thursday, it'd be an amazing thing.
00:31:55.000And so the church, I think, churches across the country need to hire civic pastors that can counsel the church individually on questions that they might have around politics.
00:32:08.000So, for example, people in this church, I'm just guessing you guys have someone that does marital counseling here, right?
00:34:16.000But all of a sudden, I started asking questions very publicly, one of the few public people in the conservative movement that have actually decided to kind of call nonsense on exactly what has been told here.
00:34:26.000And this idea that there's no widespread voter fraud is just, it's one of the most sloppy programmed lies that is ever being told.
00:34:34.000This idea that when you have 170 million people participate in something as taking over a $4 trillion government for four years that will control the entire geopolitical trajectory of the planet, that all of a sudden everyone's going to stop cheating.
00:34:54.000Like people do lots of different cutting of corners.
00:34:56.000But when it comes to voting, all of a sudden, everyone acts perfectly, right?
00:35:01.000As if there's no organized crime units that won't try to actually influence an election.
00:35:05.000And look, there's a multi-trillion dollar money laundering industry in this country.
00:35:09.000There's child sex trafficking industries in this country.
00:35:11.000I mean, this idea that there are not criminals that would try to influence our election is so contrary to logic and reason.
00:35:19.000And there's so many different ways to do it.
00:35:20.000For example, here's just a great example, okay?
00:35:23.000In Georgia, in 2016, there were 240,000 absentee mail ballots that were sent out, okay, in 2016.
00:35:29.000There were 1.3 million that were sent out in Georgia this election, okay?
00:35:33.000So, and again, all I do is I ask questions, and I also point to data.
00:35:38.000So, what assurances has the Georgia Secretary of State given us that they were prepared for a tenfold increase in mail and ballots to check for fraud and signature requests this close because they were not anticipating it a year ago because of the pandemic?
00:36:43.000But we know, and it's been covered in the New York Times in the year past.
00:36:46.000They used to actually be really interested in this because they were afraid Republicans were going to do this.
00:36:50.000It's called ballot laundering or granny farming.
00:36:52.000And it's where you register a lot of developmentally disabled people at nursing homes through people that have a high incentive structure to try to get extra ballots and then submit them and you drop them off in these drop boxes anonymously wearing a mask so you can't tell who's dropping them off.
00:37:07.000And then they get cleaned into the system.
00:37:09.000And you might say, well, there's not enough to do that.
00:37:17.000So in the 60s and 70s, when drugs really started to become prevalent in our country, the people that were against the money laundering investigations were like, money laundering's on the edges.
00:37:27.000As soon as we started to investigate it, we realized it was like a $3 trillion a year industry in our country.
00:37:32.000Cleaning dollar bills through laundromats and restaurants and cash-run industries.
00:37:36.000Until we started to look into it, we realized how complex this was, right?
00:37:39.000And we already have the whistleblowers in Wisconsin that say that all of her developmentally disabled patients were forced to vote for Joe Biden.
00:37:47.000We have the Nevada Native Project where they were literally handing out gas cards for ballots and they posted it on Facebook, which is a violation of federal law.
00:37:55.000And this doesn't even get into the voting tabulation problems and the lack of oversight and Dominion voting systems and Hammer and scorecard and all that sort of stuff.
00:38:06.000Whether we're right or not, and I know we're on to something, the question is how much and only an investigation can tell us, is that about 60 million people think this was a fraudulent election.
00:38:17.000That's actually a really, really bad thing for our country.
00:38:20.000Now, back in 2000, I know we're running out of time, but back in 2016, when the Democrats thought that that election was stolen by Russians, which was absolutely untrue, what did we do?
00:38:31.000We said, that's a bad thing for our country.
00:38:36.000So we appointed Mueller, and we looked into it, and they ended up having this roaming prosecutory authority that indicted all of Trump's friends.
00:38:45.000But the final conclusion was, no, Russia actually didn't impact the outcome of the election.
00:38:51.000Because being the bigger and better people, we were like, it's not a healthy thing for 40 million people to think that the Kremlin influenced this election.
00:38:58.000Because we actually had this romantic idea of America that the Democrats actually wants what's best for America.
00:39:04.000And now all of a sudden, you have 60 million people that think that this thing was fraudulent and stolen.
00:39:10.000And instead of answering our questions, of which I have about 5,000 of them, we have stacks of papers.
00:40:04.000Like there's a sequence of unpredictable events that could unfold, none of which are good.
00:40:10.000And so those of us that actually believe in reason and data and evidence, we would love an answer as to why there was a 1,774% increase for 90-plus-year-olds registering to vote in Pennsylvania six months before a pandemic, mostly in August, while the pandemic was raging in Pennsylvania.
00:40:31.000And the Bureau and the DOJ is nowhere to be found.
00:40:35.000And there's this massive institutional distrust that is growing where people are saying, not only do I not trust the system, now I don't trust my government.
00:40:45.000I don't trust the colleges I send my kids to.
00:40:47.000I don't trust the products I buy from these companies.
00:40:50.000I don't trust the pharmaceutical or vaccinations that they want to push upon our public.
00:40:55.000And so what ends up happening is you're going to have 60 or 70 million people in the country that basically are just saying to anyone that has any sort of power, I don't trust you or anything that you stand for.
00:41:08.000And just play that out in your mind where it goes.
00:42:11.000A liberal podcaster said something so interesting the other day that I was listening to, and he said, There are zero institutions that I trust.
00:42:32.000It's an opportunity to build institutions using biblical ideas to build new things.
00:42:38.000And so since the entire, you know, it's kind of a barren wasteland of colleges that are going to burst, of churches that no longer stand for anything, of media institutions that are crumbling that we thought we could once trust that all of a sudden are completely backwards and wacko.
00:42:53.000So now we have to enter a phase of we're not even going to care about what happens to those other institutions.
00:43:15.000But there's this, and I want you to think very carefully if you've done this.
00:43:18.000And if you have, you should really pray about it, which is there's this irresistible pattern that happens on the internet that anyone that has any form of success, there must now be a perpetual ridicule industry that goes after them.
00:43:33.000Anyone, a podcaster, an artist, a musician, a pastor, that all of a sudden starts to break through and have any form of success, there needs to be a greater volume of people to tear that down.
00:43:45.000What are we doing to actually support the good guys right now?
00:44:02.000How about some of the truth tellers right now?
00:44:04.000Here's the point is that if we actually rise up and build something new and support the good guys and defend right now, the way that the current trajectory is is the current power institutions are crumbling and they're crumbling really, really quick.
00:44:17.000This is the greatest opportunity for Bible-believing Christians to lean in and to build new.
00:44:23.000And with that, I think America's best days are ahead.
00:44:32.000Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
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