00:00:47.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:00:54.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:29.000I like to kind of block off some periods of time in the schedule to kind of just see what the Lord has in store.
00:01:36.000And many of you in the hallway were stopping me, and some of you were at CNP, the Council for National Policy meeting back in Florida, where a friend of mine, James Lindsay, and I spoke about the need of distinctions and what is CRT and what is this trans thing.
00:01:52.000Now, so as you know, this is a pastor's summit.
00:01:56.000And, you know, some people that, let's just say, are more critical than they are.
00:02:30.000Did every one of you that flew here demand that the pilots that were flying you were of your faith?
00:02:36.000When you go for brain surgery, when you want to go get an MRI, do you want to?
00:02:41.000Sometimes there are some people that have some wisdom to share about something really important.
00:02:47.000And not only is he respectful, he says that without the church, you know, this woke stuff is going to take over everything.
00:02:53.000He has a PhD in mathematics, actually not too far from here, University of Tennessee.
00:02:58.000He has dedicated his entire life and his ridiculous intellect to reading every one of their books and understanding what drives this force.
00:04:17.000So, James, it's an honor to have you here.
00:04:19.000You know, we received the petition of hundreds of people demanding that we cancel you as a speaker, which I said they don't know who they're dealing with if they actually think I care about that.
00:05:01.000But I think that we are, and I think that we all know that Charlie was very prescient in naming his organization Turning Point, because we are facing a crossroads for America, but also for the American church.
00:05:17.000And I was talking with Charlie, we did a podcast yesterday, and I pointed out to him that we kind of have this hundred-year-long arc that I think is very important for people to understand.
00:05:27.000So, in the 1920s, a Marxist by the name of Antonio Gramsci laid out the plan for how we're going to infiltrate the cultural institutions and take them over from within.
00:05:37.000This got called the Long March to the Institutions Later.
00:05:40.000Mao Zedong employed something similar, or maybe the same thing in China, and it worked.
00:05:46.000But what he said was that we have to infiltrate the institutions, particularly, he named five of family, religion, education, media, and law.
00:05:54.000And you heard religions right there in the middle.
00:05:58.000So, now we fast forward to 2016, which is pretty close to the 2020s.
00:06:03.000So, about a century later, we have Klaus Schwab, the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, saying that, of course, he wants to transform the world to some new economy of sharing and caring is the most recent quote, whatever that's supposed to mean, communism.
00:06:17.000And he said that values, what drives a lot of what he does, especially the work of the World Economic Forum, has faith in its crosshairs, says the reason is because values cannot be justified by the intellect alone that requires faith, which means they have a deliberate program, and the Marxists have had a deliberate program, to infiltrate the churches, especially the American churches, because they know that they can't take over the United States of America from within unless they take over the cultural institution of the church,
00:06:45.000which means they have to transform the church to something that it should not be, never was, and never will be if pastors stand up and understand the.
00:06:52.000Are you saying, James, that there are secular socialists actively funding efforts to take over the American church?
00:06:58.000They've been actively funding these efforts for a very long time.
00:07:03.000I mean, there are documents even from the 1950s where they hauled before the House Committee on Non-American Activities.
00:07:11.000People started to testify, and they started to talk about how the communists at the time, this was the 1950s, they were not that successful in infiltrating the American church, or at least not the Protestant one at that time.
00:07:22.000And they said that they made these things called sucker lists.
00:07:25.000And they laughed because they said that pastors can sometimes be the biggest suckers of them all, especially liberal pastors.
00:07:31.000And they can transform the church from within.
00:07:33.000So there's been a deliberate strategy, a deliberate enemy trying to take over this church.
00:07:38.000Now, you mentioned my book, Marxification of Education, for example.
00:07:41.000And so this is by a guy named Paolo Ferreri.
00:07:43.000Paulo Ferrari, I talked about at the summit last year.
00:07:46.000Paulo Ferrari, you'd think it's all about education because his books are things like the politics of education, the pedagogy, that means the theory of teaching, the pedagogy of the oppressed.
00:07:56.000These are the kinds of things that he wrote, but his books actually contain entire chapters about the church and about how the church has to be transformed into what he calls the prophetic church, which is described as being prophetic in the sense that it builds the kingdom of God here on earth in solidarity with the oppressed.
00:08:14.000So in other words, the Christian message, the church itself, has to be transformed, and they've had a deliberate program that they've been running for decades to do that.
00:08:22.000And, you know, part of the issue, James, that has surprised so many people, I'm sure, in this room is the church was not prepared for the kind of mandatory woke pressure that happened in the summer of 2020, right?
00:08:35.000Where you must now be demanding diversity.
00:08:38.000I know so many of you in this room, you've been confronted by congregants or board members, and they say, why is it that you don't have people on stage that look like me?
00:08:47.000Or why is it that you don't have more diversity?
00:08:50.000How many of you have probably heard this once or twice or three?
00:09:00.000And so my work over the past maybe four to five years has been trying to get to the bottom of what Marxism really is about.
00:09:09.000And Marxism ultimately, in my opinion, and we talked about this some, we can chat about this if you want.
00:09:14.000I actually think it was a updating and replacement of the old Gnostic heresies.
00:09:21.000So the idea is that there's this secret knowledge, and that if we gain this secret knowledge, mankind can save himself from himself, more or less.
00:09:28.000We can elevate ourselves to the status we shall be as gods.
00:09:45.000So in the first and second centuries, there were a number of heretical Christians who set up a bunch of heretical interpretations of Christianity and the gospel and the Bible.
00:09:59.000At the very bottom, what Gnosticism believes, and this will actually be a great segue to Marxism, believe it or not, because I think it's continuous.
00:10:08.000But what they actually believe at the bottom is that when we read Genesis and we read about the Creator, that what the Creator actually is, is a different character entirely.
00:10:34.000And so it's the demiurge is the word that they use for this.
00:10:36.000But the demiurge is actually in the Gnostic faith, an evil demon that's sent to imprison man and at first in Eden.
00:10:44.000And then after the snake comes, the serpent comes and tells Eve the truth about the world, imprisons him in the world to suffer all the iniquities.
00:10:54.000And so if you can gain this secret knowledge of the imprisonment of man, then you can set yourself free.
00:10:59.000Now, fast forward to from the first and second century.
00:11:04.000So these are characters like the Sethian cult, the Manichian cult.
00:11:09.000Some people have heard of these things, some people haven't.
00:11:10.000Valentinian cult is the most famous of them that was put down by Irenaeus.
00:11:14.000These are things that some people have heard of.
00:11:16.000We fast forward, though, to say around 1800.
00:11:21.000And what we have is some people, some German theologians that are working there in the Swabian region of Germany, of southern Germany.
00:11:28.000And they have encountered these ideas because they picked up kind of a person of cool running through elite circles in Europe for a couple hundred years.
00:11:38.000A new age movement took place in the end of the Middle Ages in Europe.
00:11:41.000A lot of people don't recognize this, but it was literally their New Age movement.
00:11:46.000But they're hip enlightenment times modernists, and they're looking at the world through a modern, not a pre-modern lens.
00:11:54.000So, they're no longer thinking, wow, well, the spirit that's actually animating the world is somehow this transcendental thing.
00:12:02.000And they place it instead in social science.
00:12:04.000It's the social spirit, the zeitgeist, or the spirit of the times, or the Weltgeist, the spirit of the world in the original German.
00:12:11.000And so, what happens is they start to work out this whole Gnostic concept.
00:12:16.000But now, instead of the Holy Spirit being the Holy Spirit, it's the spirit of all the people moving the world around in trajectory through history.
00:12:22.000And we have to transform history to what it was intended to be by God, the kingdom of God on earth.
00:12:28.000And so, it turns out that they recreated the entire Gnostic thing, but stuck it in what we would now call sociology and economics.
00:12:35.000Karl Marx comes along, and this is where it gets really important.
00:12:38.000He says, Actually, do you know who has this power that's like the demiurge that imprisons the world and oppresses all the people to keep them from being like gods?
00:12:47.000Well, the gods are the bourgeois class, and they imprison the proletariat, and you get the entire recreation of the Gnostic heresy.
00:12:56.000But now, with social science and economics being the tool, so now that we've slowed down and caught people up, what happens is with Marxism, isn't he great, by the way?
00:13:06.000I mean, so Christians can recognize immediately then that this is satanic very clearly, right?
00:13:16.000It is the serpent was telling the truth, okay?
00:13:21.000And so, what we're dealing with with Marxism is Marx said, Well, what has to happen, just like the Gnostics of old, is they have to awaken to a secret consciousness.
00:13:29.000He called this socialism, a secret consciousness of how the world works.
00:14:06.000But for Marx, the reason that factories and farms and employment and all of these things mattered was because he believed economic conditions determine the character of man.
00:14:16.000So, what he's actually saying is we need to seize the means by which man creates himself.
00:14:20.000And he's explicit on this in his writings in 1844.
00:14:24.000It's about how man creates himself, absent God, absent any other form of creation, and the mechanism is economics.
00:14:36.000Well, that didn't work in the West because, as the communists writing in the middle of the 20th century, said, capitalism delivers the goods.
00:14:45.000In other words, economic conditions don't work as a lever, an Archimedean lever, as they phrase it, to move the West into communism.
00:15:11.000And so, they said, Well, you can use race, you can use sexual status, you can use sex and gender, you can use health and ability status, you can use all of these personal identity politics ideas, and we can leverage it that way.
00:15:25.000So, instead now of saying that the world and man is created through economic conditions, they say that racism is systemic and it's upheld by an ideology of white supremacy that pervades everything.
00:15:36.000And it's the necessity of a racial proletariat, the people of color, to seize the means of cultural production and rise up and overthrow to take over the production of man.
00:16:01.000So, what you faced in 2020 was Marxists who had reappropriated this old Gnostic idea into economics and reappropriated it into race.
00:16:08.000And then they put you on the spot, not knowing what you were facing, and said, Don't you think this church should be a little more diverse?
00:16:16.000Because they dressed it up in nice seductive language, you know, like a capital D deceiver might do.
00:16:24.000And then if you said, Well, I don't know, maybe it's a capital A accuser that shows up next and says, Well, you're a racist, and you know what you're dealing with if you stop and think about it.
00:16:34.000But there's this huge historical precedent.
00:16:39.000And James and I have really harmonized on this Genesis 1 through 11 theme, which I encourage all of you to really take time with your congregations and do a deep study on it.
00:16:51.000Because in order for the Marxists to succeed, they must obliterate the truths of Genesis 1 through 11.
00:16:59.000And all the Bible, I believe, is breathed from God.
00:17:02.000It's all inerrant, but Genesis 1 through 11 is the ballgame the Marxists find objectionable.
00:17:09.000They do not believe that the universe had a beginning with a purpose.
00:17:12.000They think it's a series of accidents.
00:17:13.000They don't believe Genesis 1:26 and 127 that human beings are made in the image of the divine.
00:17:18.000And they certainly, James, do not believe in the distinctions that are set up in the first 11 books of Genesis.
00:17:26.000The distinction between God and man, the distinction between man and nature.
00:17:32.000Now, when James is talking about hermeticism or Gnosticism, the best example of this that will probably connect some dots for you is the heretical gospel of Thomas, where Jesus is everywhere.
00:17:46.000He's in the stones, he's in the river, he is in nature.
00:17:51.000Now, one of the themes of Genesis 1 through 11 is an unapologetic argument that God is above nature and he created nature.
00:18:01.000That God is not within nature, it is different than every other river civilization belief of the Mesopotamians or the Egyptians.
00:18:10.000They believed that the old gods, actually, you worship the sun, you worship the river, you worship the hills, you worship the mountains.
00:18:16.000The Torah, the first five books of the Bible, the books of Moses, especially the first 11, the verse 11 chapters of Genesis, are saying, no, no, no, no, God spoke it into existence.
00:18:28.000There is a hierarchy, and that in fact, actually, we're even above nature.
00:18:33.000And the distinctions that are set up between the holy and the profane, between good and evil, between man and woman, these distinctions actually keep us free.
00:18:44.000Distinctions are what is necessary for a civil society to flourish.
00:18:50.000And James, you have a lot to say about this because distinctions is actually precisely what the Marxists desire to obliterate.
00:18:59.000Well, they have to obliterate distinctions because the truth is in distinctions.
00:19:11.000It's simply true, that I'm not this chair or whatever else, that I also can't change my sex through any magical alchemical process, as the target Satanist guy recently put on Instagram.
00:19:23.000If you didn't know that, he put this graphic designer that's at the middle of all this target nonsense, evil, not nonsense, all this target evil.
00:19:33.000The graphic designer that's in the middle of it has on his Instagram a skeleton with a bubbling cauldron and all the cute pink and blue and cute colors.
00:21:40.000The public and the private, state and family.
00:21:44.000What they need to destroy is every single distinction so that everything becomes a kind of a homogenous mix that's almost homogenous because they get to sit on top of it, direct where it goes, because, of course, they're the Gnostics.
00:21:59.000They're the enlightened elect that know where history is supposed to go so that we can build the kingdom here to complete history.
00:22:06.000And so they've got to get rid of this distinction between the state and the family so that you can't bring your values to your children.
00:22:16.000You can't bring the loving bond that's unique between parent and child to your children.
00:22:22.000And it's going to be replaced by their favorite thing in the entire universe, the amorphous blob that we call the institution, which at its largest in society is the state, which Hegel, who preceded Marx, said is the divine as it manifests on earth.
00:22:40.000God as he exists on earth for this view is the state.
00:22:44.000Now, James, you looking at this from an outsider, would you say clearly this is a theological debate that is occurring without most people and most pastors even realizing it?
00:23:00.000It is a debate that's logos versus pathos.
00:23:04.000It's a debate that's pathos is emotion.
00:23:08.000Pathological is the derivative of that word, by the way.
00:23:12.000It's a debate of truth versus objective truth versus subjectivity, where subjectivity gets to rule.
00:23:18.000Now, these woke kids, by the way, think that their subjectivity, my lived experience, right?
00:23:23.000That's their subjective interpretation of after the Marxists told them what their subjective interpretation is of what they've experienced in their lives.
00:23:29.000That's what makes it lived experiences that are just regular experience, is that it's had interpretation added to it.
00:23:37.000I know they're probably, well, some of them might be hate watching this, but let me clue them in.
00:23:42.000Their subjective experience, according to what Mao said, is there are different things you do in different phases of the revolution.
00:23:48.000Once these people take power, true power, their subjective interpretation doesn't matter anymore.
00:23:54.000So this is a theological debate about objective truth versus, this is the deepest theological debate about objective truth versus subjectivity.
00:24:01.000Because the people in charge are using the woke right now and their subjective feelings.
00:24:06.000And then because it's subjective, once they get what they want, they can change what the subjective truths are that matter tomorrow.
00:24:12.000And then if they don't like those, they can change them next week.
00:24:15.000And if they don't like those, they can change them again.
00:24:17.000And this is exactly what history has taught us when these people take over.
00:24:20.000This is a theological debate, though, that also goes back, just like I mentioned, the first century and second century Gnostics.
00:24:27.000This is the theological debate that the very heart, this is the very simplest thing, is, can man be God?
00:27:16.000He said in his critique of Hegel's philosophy of the right, which he wrote at the end of 1843, he wrote that the critique of everything begins with the critique of religion.
00:27:27.000All true critique begins with the critique of religion.
00:28:22.000Alinsky touched on this a little bit in Saulinsky's Rules for Radicals.
00:28:25.000It's a little incomplete, but I think if you want to know the tactics that they're going to use against you, both on the macro and the micro, just read Saul Linsky's Rules for Radicals, of which the dedication to the book is dedicated to Lucifer.
00:28:41.000Hillary Clinton wrote her senior thesis.
00:29:00.000This is what they do every single day.
00:29:03.000And again, it's not a complete list, not exhaustive, but part of deconstructionism, part of Herbert Marcuse, Michelle Foucault, Jacques Derrida, these 1950s, 1960s radicals that infected the baby boomer generation and really changed the ideological and philosophical trajectory of the West, is they believe whatever must exist, what, James, must be relentlessly criticized until you reduce it down to nothing, right?
00:29:27.000They do that with the family, do that with marriage, they do that with virtue.
00:29:30.000And their targets right now, this is why we're doing what we're doing.
00:29:34.000I don't think Christians know how much money, funding, energy, and ferocity is coming towards the church.
00:29:43.000You know, we have a great church, 700 people, 800 people, 2,000 people.
00:29:46.000You know, okay, be careful because that youth pastor that you might hire that might have went to Calvin College might be a wokey ready as a parasite to come take over your church.
00:31:09.000If you want to understand their strategies and how they try to provoke you, what their principles are, a principle, for example, is your target's reaction is your real action.
00:31:17.000In other words, they're trying to provoke you all the time.
00:31:20.000Another principle, if we go back, whether it's Marcuse that does it in 1972, whether it's Gramsci that does it, whether you see it in Beautiful Trouble, the idea is that you're actually supposed to, and this is what you're asking me about, the infiltration of, you say, the parasite.
00:31:33.000And so in 2000, it's too bad we're not in Arizona for this.
00:31:36.000I love when we're actually in Phoenix for this.
00:31:38.000In 2014, there was a paper written, 16 maybe, there's a paper written at Arizona State University, which is why I love to do it in Phoenix, that's titled Women's Studies as a Virus.
00:31:52.000And they explain that their strategy is actually modeled ideally off of the concept of a virus.
00:31:58.000And what they say is that you imagine that you have, they, for whatever reason, pick a male student, but you have a student learning women's studies as elective courses in colleges and universities.
00:32:08.000And they give the example: maybe he's majoring in biology.
00:32:12.000And they say that the virus is the ideal metaphor.
00:32:15.000The examples of viruses that they compare themselves to in the favorable are AIDS because it suppresses the immune system, Ebola, and SARS.
00:32:27.000They said also that viruses that cause cancer represent, and this is the word of the year, isn't it?
00:32:33.000And what they say is, you take that student and you get him to take a few women's studies classes so he gets the ideology in him.
00:32:40.000And then when he graduates with his degree in biology and he goes off to a graduate student department or he graduates and he goes off to a lab, he brings that and infects the new cell, whether it's a new academic department, whether it's a laboratory, whether it's a workplace.
00:32:56.000This is not something the church is magically immune to.
00:33:01.000If there is no discernment, they understand perfectly well that if they were to say, bring critical race theory and intersectionality, maybe even elements of queer theory into the seminaries and train up pastors and youth pastors in these ideologies while they get their otherwise maybe sound theological teaching,
00:33:22.000that they're going to be able to go get hired by churches and act as viral carriers, as disease vectors, to bring the ideology into your church, into your community around your church.
00:33:33.000And this is so explicitly their strategy that not only have they written it down over many books, over many years, over an entire century, but they actually wrote a paper and said the best way to think of ourselves is as a virus that infects institutions.
00:33:47.000You know what they said about conservatives in that paper?
00:33:50.000Conservatism, they said, is like the immune system.
00:33:54.000So that's why it's so important that we, and they said, and this is their words, that's why it's so important they said that we suppress it.
00:34:01.000Because most of the time, the disease might infect the host, and if the immune system doesn't work, then the host will die.
00:34:08.000But in this case, they don't explain how by magic, one might, hermetic magic, alchemy, transition is alchemy.
00:35:46.000Do you really know what they believe on this stuff?
00:35:48.000Do you really know what they believe on critical theory?
00:35:51.000Are they going to be a group text message to all the other younger people and the singles ministry saying, oh, yeah, that's Pastor Steve up there?
00:35:59.000He's just doing his thing again as they're subterraneanly because they're trying to do this like a virus to deconstruct, to challenge.
00:36:06.000And you might say, oh, I got it under control.
00:36:08.000I could list you 30 pastors that lost their positions in the last year because they thought they had their church under control.
00:36:16.000And a board schism or a youth pastor, worship director, and they said, oh, no, but we got to grow.
00:36:24.000I have more fear for those of you that are growing right now because you're going to have to be expanding and they will infiltrate because they have taken over what?
00:37:29.000You are something that they know that they have to put energy and effort into.
00:37:32.000Either to get your church to get subverted from within, what do they always do?
00:37:36.000They either transform it to one of theirs or they destroy it.
00:37:39.000So it's either going to be that or they're going to get somebody, they're going to work you guys up into some kind of a reactionary moment to do something stupid.
00:37:47.000And the next thing you know, you got the IRS saying that you're a hotbed of domestic extremism or you got the DOJ saying you're a hotbed of domestic extremism, barking down your neck.
00:37:55.000And then that's not going to stick to just you.
00:37:58.000It's going to be Christianity at large is going to have that stuck on them as well.
00:38:01.000So you've got to be extraordinarily vigilant.
00:38:42.000You know he's going to be a problem if you do.
00:38:44.000Turns out, PS, if you want to figure out how to get rid of these people, saddle them with responsibility and hold them accountable to it, and they all leave.
00:38:54.000You want more diversity in this place?
00:39:30.000And my challenge for some of you, if you're here and you're attending and this might frighten you, what James is saying, like, wow, that's a threat.
00:39:38.000And if you're not yet speaking out on this stuff, then it's going to take you by surprise.
00:39:43.000And people say, well, I never knew where we stood on these issues because it's going to come and it's not going to end.
00:40:32.000But you have an interesting theory that, and this is our last point that we'll do some questions, that they actually want a drag Floyd situation.
00:41:33.000Because the powers that be, and I don't think it's necessarily the guy on the ground in a dress and a wig or whatever, the powers that be would love nothing better than a reactionary moment where somebody loses it, lays hands on or a fist on or worse, a drag queen in this country.
00:41:50.000And all of a sudden, you guys saw in 2020 what happens when they find the perfect sympathetic story with the enemy that they've ginned up.
00:41:59.000In this case, it will be conservative Christians or conservatism across the board.
00:42:03.000You can guarantee that if they can find a sympathetic story with a martyr at the center of it, with the big scary boogeyman that they've worked up as the monster that caused it, that we're going to have another summer of, I think the word is love, but that's how they use the word love.
00:43:57.000The left's current regime, the secularists, they thrive on misrepresented viral moments that the media then, like the subway situation, the woman with the bike in New York City, Covington Kids with Nicholas Sandman, Kyle Rittenhouse, Floyd.
00:44:13.000Realize you're living through a mass operation mockingbird intel agency creation to manipulate your emotions, the pathos against your logos to get you to do something out of fear, not of rationality or truth.
00:44:28.000How many of these viral moments do we have to see that are then configured, edited, add sound with before we realize that they're playing with us to try to change the society?
00:44:40.000So be ready for that in the next month.
00:44:41.000Okay, let's just say that's what I'm saying.
00:44:44.000You guys all know that you're not going to go attack an abortion clinic to stop abortion.
00:44:48.000You're going to stand outside of it and pray.
00:44:50.000Why can't the protest, if there's going to be a protest at all for these, and maybe it's held at your church and not on site where something stupid could happen or a provocateur or an embedded Fed or something could pull a false flag.
00:45:02.000There will be a ray-ups at this drag stuff, everybody.
00:46:57.000Yeah, they have a number of tactics and strategies and tools that they use.
00:47:01.000One of them is this kind of provocation.
00:47:03.000They actually call it mid-level violence.
00:47:06.000They want to get you to either do nothing, which you cannot do, or to overreact, which you also cannot do because they'll use it against you because their real action is your reaction.
00:47:16.000And then if you react, Darvo is an acronym.
00:47:19.000This actually comes from abuser psychology.
00:47:22.000Like, how would you, if you had a domestic abuser, say a psychotic husband is abusing his wife and the wife says, you're abusing me, he goes into what's called Darvo.
00:48:09.000If you walk out and either completely indifferent, like it's not happening, or you just keep your head down and pray, or you pray in those small vigil or whatever.
00:48:19.000These things are very, very powerful, not passive actions.
00:48:22.000I don't know what the right word is for this.
00:48:24.000Passive resistance actions that make them look foolish.
00:48:28.000You always want to reveal the fact that they, in fact, are the fool and that you, in fact, are not the fool.
00:48:34.000And if you're based in the Lord, then that shouldn't be that hard because you have truth on your side.
00:49:54.000And I also wanted to say I'm part of an organization called Louisiana Family Forum.
00:49:58.000And so what we do in Louisiana, we bring a bunch of pastors to the Capitol.
00:50:01.000We kind of show them the process of how bills are made, how they're voted on.
00:50:05.000We introduce people to your legislators, your senators, your representatives on the local districts.
00:50:10.000And I think it's a big deal because when we talk about Christians and pastors stepping into the gap, we tend to think about it on a federal, national, big-time level.
00:51:41.000Let's turn around and let's read the Constitution a little bit at the end and just see.
00:51:46.000Maybe you separate the two, whatever you do.
00:51:48.000These are things that you can do to start getting that civic engagement and to get that level of information up so that you can, when you join these groups or found these groups, you can start showing up and showing up informed and showing up useful because the legislative process, all these civic processes are slow and horrible and messy on purpose so that we don't lose control of our republic.
00:52:08.000And so you've got to stay on the ball.
00:52:45.000But the second thing is every one of you that are leading your congregations, you have to incorporate some sort of a civic ministry or a go-to item on weeknights, once a month, once a quarter, where you are presenting these ideas and you are challenging your congregation to stay locally involved.
00:53:01.000It is not the most important thing your church will do, but it is very important, okay?
00:53:07.000You need to be clear about the hierarchy, but it is very, very important.
00:53:11.000Jesus is number one, and then you could decide where this comes down on the list, but to say that there is no place for it is incorrect theologically and I think spiritually.
00:54:24.000They never should have said that because now all of a sudden we're like, oh, now there's blood in the water.
00:54:27.000Now we realize that we can go after you.
00:54:30.000And I'll be honest, what's different, and it is some, two things are different.
00:54:34.000I think that the attitude, the spirit, the ethos, and the vigor of decent ordinary people is we are just so fed up and we're finally willing to draw a line.
00:54:44.000I did not, it is a legitimate attitudinal shift that I did not see five years ago that I now see amongst a lot of people.
00:54:53.000And the second part of this that I think is really important is that it involves children.
00:54:58.000And it just, there's a much more tribal reaction when it involves children, which I fully support, by the way, where if you're going to, and James can riff on this for a second, I think he should.
00:55:11.000It is a strategy with precision to go after the grooming of children.
00:55:17.000This is a movement of perverts who want to initiate your children away from a family bond into sexual encounters before they realize what's happening.
00:55:26.000James, am I being hyperbolic when I say that?
00:56:01.000We are not going to be able to successfully boycott every company, by the way.
00:56:05.000And you're going to find out that the vast majority of companies are participating in this.
00:56:08.000That makes the game something different.
00:56:10.000And they are starting to see that we're in a different place.
00:56:12.000We're not just more willing to draw the line that we actually know what's going on.
00:56:16.000Two years ago, if I sat in front of you, maybe one year ago, and I said the letters ESG, I got 20 minutes of explaining to you.
00:56:21.000And right now I say it, and most of you know, oh, this is some kind of weird scoring thing that these big entities and the globalists are using to mess around in the country.
00:56:30.000Well, what it is is it's a social credit system that's working a cartel on our corporations, which means we see this very clearly and how it works.
00:56:36.000The Bud Light protest or boycott actually exposed how it works, which means there's every reason in the world to start talking to your lawmakers and start talking to your attorneys general to start putting the pressure, get these executives.
00:56:51.000We are actually moving up the chain to be able to break the system that they are using.
00:56:56.000Our corporations, some of them, I want to bring you a perspective shift.
00:56:59.000You think that your corporation betrayed you?
00:57:01.000I want you to imagine that you got a 15-year-old son and you live in a neighborhood in 1984 or something like this in New York City, and it's run by a heroin dealer, and the dealer knocks on your door and says, your boy is going to go sell this for me.
00:57:14.000That's the position most of these corporations are in.
00:57:17.000They are held hostage to a cartel logic.
00:57:20.000We want to release, to free up, I don't want to use the word liberate, American productivity and growth again.
00:57:28.000So if we put pressure on Anheuser-Busch and Anheuser-Busch happens to lose its little score, all of a sudden, it's corporate equality index score and its ESG rating.
00:57:37.000All of a sudden, Senator Cruz can haul them in front of the Senate like he wants to and start asking pointed questions that reveal the whole scam.
00:57:43.000So we are in a different knowledge position, not just a different cultural attitude, which means that we can act not just reaction, but with smart strategic action that might end this thing.
00:57:53.000And it's a very different place to be.
00:58:28.000I'm a school board trustee at McKinney ISD in the state of Texas.
00:58:34.000The only constitutionalist on the board.
00:58:37.000We now have, after this last election, 340 constitutionalists in the state of Texas that are serving on school boards and trying to take those boards over.
00:58:47.000So your staff member asked me to announce this.
00:58:50.000We just in the last 30 hours passed the chaplain's bill in the state of Texas.
00:58:54.000It is going and committed by the governor to be signed.
00:58:58.000We will have chaplains in every elementary school, middle school, and high school in the state of Texas.
00:59:12.000As well as HB 900 that Prevent all sexually explicit material from coming into the school has been approved and is going to the governor's desk.
00:59:24.000And then SB 15 was passed that restricts the NCAA from allowing transgender athletes to compete against their counterparts and refuses to allow state schools to give scholarships to transgender athletes.
00:59:45.000So my question is, being a chaplain and we have so many pastors here, this is so encouraging because we're, you know, just last night I'm sitting down at dinner.
00:59:55.000I'm getting strategies of people that are being successful out there in impacting their community.
01:00:00.000Is there something that we can all do together to put together a training for pastors on, hey, you need to have a legislative committee.
01:00:24.000And that's what we want to try to offer you.
01:00:26.000And we won't have time to go through all of it, but the buffet line will only increase with really amazing options throughout the afternoon.
01:00:40.000Yeah, I want to end on that note of encouragement.
01:00:42.000Listen to all these things that are getting passed, but even more importantly than all the successes legislatively, 340 constitutionalists are now on boards in the state of Texas.
01:00:52.000Everybody got discouraged after the red wave allegedly didn't materialize in the election last year.
01:00:58.000But if you stop and think about it and you stop and look and you look at where it matters at these local, these grassroots level elections, there was a gigantic red wave.
01:01:07.000There was a gigantic wave to try to take this country back to the hands of good people that are under your pastorage or whatever it happens to be, if it's at your church, that are stepping up and getting civically active again.
01:01:20.000So this is an incredible opportunity not to get discouraged, to feel very encouraged, and to step into the role of how are you at your church going to nourish the next guy who's going to step up into one of these roles?
01:01:31.000How are you going to make sure that when he takes this role, this is something Charlie and I have talked about a lot, that what you do with civil power as a Christian is that you serve.
01:01:39.000And you know what the order of the serving is, but that you're going to keep that servant mentality clear.
01:01:44.000This is a role that every pastor can be doing to make sure that you're raising up the generation of grassroots leaders that are going to work their way up and going to be the state leaders.
01:01:51.000They're going to work their way up and get into the federal apparatus.
01:01:53.000And we're going to long march our way right back to a glorious nation.
01:01:59.000James, I just want to say I think I speak for everybody here.
01:02:02.000You're very special and you blessed us this morning.