Jensen Franklin joins us live from our Faith Forward event in Gainesville, Georgia where we discuss the Russia-Ukrainian peace deal and much more. President Trump did the right thing and called Vladmir Putin on the phone.
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00:01:34.000It's a topic that has really been weighing on me, which is the Mohammedism that is growing in the West.
00:01:41.000I don't think Christians and conservatives, I don't think that we are really prepared to confront the rise of cultural Islam, which is the rise of political Islam.
00:01:50.000Way too much attention, by the way, goes towards the radical Islamist groups.
00:04:11.000A Russian government official said, quote, under the leadership of President Putin and President Trump, the world has become a much safer place today.
00:04:21.000While Trump and Putin were on the call, President Zelensky's chief of staff, my goodness, I'm telling you, if there's one reason why this war won't end, it's Zelensky.
00:04:29.000I'm telling you, this guy is getting in the way of it.
00:04:34.000Anyway, he said, while Trump and Putin were on the call, President Zelensky's chief of staff stated that Ukraine's supposed red lines for peace, saying that Ukraine won't accept a neutral status, won't reduce their armed forces, and won't recognize any Russian gains in Ukraine.
00:04:51.000But if a good peace deal is on the table, Ukraine rejects it, and then the consequences are on them.
00:04:55.000Yeah, for the record, I lost patience with Zelensky a long time ago, but then I try to renew my patience, of which that reserve gets depleted every time I look at him again.
00:05:06.000So the situation is ongoing between Zelensky and Putin and Trump.
00:05:12.000Understand, President Trump is here as the magnanimous statesman.
00:05:17.000If he gets this done, it is Nobel Peace Prize territory, and I'm not just saying this hyperbolically.
00:05:22.000If he gets this deal done, and of course Crimea should be on the table.
00:05:25.000Absolutely Crimea should be on the table.
00:05:28.000It was given symbolically by Nikita Khrushchev.
00:06:45.000We saw a pressure campaign, in fact, a creation of a pressure cooker.
00:06:50.000Of armaments and the slow-motion sleepwalking, the barreling towards a potential hot nuclear war.
00:07:00.000And if I may just speak candidly, I actually feel better tonight about the future of the world, that our countries are talking, that our countries have actually some sort of channel.
00:07:14.000We have learned that there was no diplomatic backchannel.
00:07:19.000Between Russia and the United States, Biden cut everything off, which is just so unbelievably stupid.
00:08:03.000And insofar that you have this triangulation, the new axis being created, Iran with the Persians, the Chinese Communist Party, and potentially the Russians, you got a big problem.
00:08:15.000Why would we hand over an element of the axis?
00:08:19.000And then you got the cartels, which then operate as proxies of all of them to be able to then infect and poison our youth and invade our nation.
00:08:29.000Remember, Russia was not a primary ally of the United States going into World War II.
00:08:34.000It was only because of Hitler's megalomania that eventually Russia and Germany got at odds with one another.
00:08:42.000and eventually we found ourselves allied with The Soviet Union.
00:08:47.000Which, by the way, was the right thing for us to do.
00:12:01.000A crisis of opportunity that I feel like when we saw a change in the administration and direction of our nation, that we're not to kick back and sit back and relax now, especially the body of Christ.
00:13:04.000Who can answer off the cuff the crazy things that people throw at you?
00:13:12.000And your answers were like, Lightning, you know, I think it was Mark Twain said the difference between a word and the right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
00:13:27.000And you seem to have lightning when you address a social issue because this Bible, you go back to the basics.
00:14:10.000Pastors in particular, being tasked with their congregations, have to decide how they are going to equip their body and their flock.
00:14:22.000And some of the pastors that are coming here to this conference are currently not speaking out on the issues.
00:14:28.000Yeah, and that's why this conference is so important.
00:14:32.000They're good men, good people, good leaders.
00:14:36.000Sometimes you need encouragement from others.
00:14:40.000I even thought about, you know, why did I ever get involved in this side of things?
00:14:46.000And I was thinking about this the other day, actually, and I thought one after another of leaders in the generation of my generation, the faith leaders stood up.
00:14:58.000It didn't matter what denomination they were in.
00:15:02.000It didn't matter whether they were agreeing on every doctrine or every side thing, their flavor or whatever.
00:15:13.000There were the basic roots of Jesus was born of a virgin.
00:15:52.000When you can bring together 1,600 pastors from different backgrounds, and you know, it's always this thing of you stay in your camp, and I'll stay in my camp, and you're this denomination, or you're this, and we believe this about that, and when you don't, we got to, at some point, the people being beheaded in Syria, they don't care if you're Baptist or if you're Calvinist.
00:16:19.000They don't care if they're pre-trib or post-trib.
00:16:20.000All they know is their brothers in Christ are standing there holding hands, about to be beheaded, and it's because they believe in Jesus Christ, the only way, the truth, and the life.
00:16:31.000So why can we not get together and be equipped from some of the greatest speakers in the world?
00:16:38.000And I don't necessarily agree with everything.
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00:18:03.000Pastor, I'm going to read here some breaking news, and I want to kind of tie it into some biblical principles, because blessed are the peacemakers, as it says.
00:18:11.000President Trump had a call with Vladimir Putin.
00:18:13.000I'm going to read the entire press release here live on air.
00:19:05.000And both sides are needlessly going to war.
00:19:08.000This conflict never should have started, the White House writes, and should have been ended long ago with sincere and good faith peace efforts.
00:19:16.000The leaders agreed that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation.
00:19:28.000Of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, which of course is right near Crimea.
00:19:38.000These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East.
00:19:42.000So essentially, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, wherever.
00:19:45.000The leaders spoke broadly more about the Middle East as a region of potential cooperation to prevent future conflicts.
00:19:51.000They further discussed the need to stop proliferation of strategic weapons and will engage with others to ensure the broadest possible application.
00:20:00.000The two leaders shared the view that Iran should never be in a position to destroy Israel.
00:22:11.000And I have never, breaking news right here, I have never heard the president of Russia say that Iran should be stopped from having nuclear weapons.
00:22:28.000The fact that he's smart enough to broker where he is.
00:22:33.000in one major war and then grab one of those players that has massive influence over Iran and say You're going to work with me to bring peace to the Middle East.
00:23:38.000They built a church in Hebron, as you might know, like a Russian Orthodox church.
00:23:41.000And I would say neutral is probably the best way.
00:23:44.000But it hopefully could invite a broader sentiment that America is here for peace while also standing by our allies such as Israel in the region.
00:24:11.000Even John 4, Jesus said, salvation is of the Jews.
00:24:17.000Meaning that without that Jewish connection, we would not have the tribe of Judah that produced the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
00:24:28.000How can we, Paul, the Apostle Paul said, how can the branch say, I don't need the roots anymore?
00:24:34.000The roots of our Bible, the roots of our faith is the Hebrew faith and the land of Israel and the people of Israel.
00:24:43.000We are not just called to love the land of Israel, the holy land, the land of miracles, the land where Jerusalem and Calvary and all of that.
00:24:52.000But we're called to love the Jewish people, and we love the Palestinians.
00:24:57.000We love people everywhere, but we also know that there must be sovereignty of their land in Israel, and that's why we stand with them.
00:26:34.000The thing that amazed me is when they came out and they were afraid of how they would be received, they had never been in a Christian church.
00:26:44.000And the crowd stood to their feet and they were cheering and then we prayed.
00:26:50.000They were moved to tears and they found out that Christianity is not what they thought it was, that we really honor them and love them and care about them.
00:27:01.000And that is the witness we must be to the world.
00:27:05.000What do you have to say for Christians that I don't even want to say are anti-Israel, but either have never been to Israel, they don't quite understand the significance of it.
00:27:48.000For me, Charlie, I've done it, I've probably been 30 plus times now taking thousands of people over there.
00:27:57.000And every time I go, There's some spot somewhere that we go to that it all hits me again, and it makes it so powerful and so fresh.
00:28:11.000Every person, I'm on a rampage about this, so one of the things we're doing is we're setting aside large amounts of money, and we're going to start a thing where we have a big youth conference down the road, and we have 12,000 teenagers.
00:28:29.000And they come to the conference the last week of June.
00:28:32.000And I want to connect that conference to Israel because when I see the protest, when I see the craziness on the university, we've got to stand up to that.
00:28:42.000And so the answer is that you hit it right on the head.
00:28:45.000If we can get young people just to go to Israel.
00:28:50.000So we're going to start a trip for young people to go to Israel and let them have fun and let them ride jet skis on the Sea of Galilee and let them canoe down the Jordan or whatever.
00:29:05.000And have a great time, but at the same time have those moments.
00:29:09.000That change everything and solidify your faith.
00:29:12.000Instead of going to spring break and getting messed up for the rest of your life, why don't you go to Israel and solidify what you have been taught and professors can't change your mind when you go to college.
00:30:43.000Yeah, it would have been the 19th of January.
00:30:46.000And we sent out a tweet basically saying, listen, one of two things will happen with the JFK file release.
00:30:53.000Option A is that we're going to learn that the government was involved in...
00:30:59.000The assassination of JFK. Or number two, we're going to learn that the government overclassifies everything and there's a bunch of people with job justification titles and we shouldn't have classified these documents in the first place.
00:31:13.000I can almost guarantee you that there will not be documents that show that the government killed JFK. However, I still believe the government was involved in the assassination of JFK. So, we will...
00:32:04.000Governor Gavin Newsom podcast with Charlie Kirk founder reveals an irrefutable truth.
00:32:08.000Conservatives are winning the youth messaging war.
00:32:11.000Though the LA Times called their exchange full-on cringe, Kirk's journey from card table and a debate me sign to political influence offers critical insights into Gen Z's rightward shift.
00:32:22.000Despite growing backlash to Trump's economic policies and blah blah blah blah.
00:33:18.000Defenders of institutional expertise, supporting public health authorities, election officials, intelligence agencies, and academic consensus.
00:33:26.000The contemporary media ecosystem advantages those willing to engage in long-form unscripted conversations without concern for policy precision.
00:33:35.000Prioritize emotional resonance over factual accuracy.
00:33:39.000All right, we're done reading this guy's piece.
00:33:41.000The point being is that they are acknowledging that we have made a significant impact.
00:33:51.000The battle for Gen Z isn't just about winning the next election.
00:33:54.000It's about shaping America's political future for decades to come.
00:33:57.000Kirk's influence demonstrates that the party that best addresses young Americans' anxieties about their economic and social prospects could well secure a generational advantage.
00:34:24.000And despite all the condescension, he's a liberal talking about things in the article, he is acknowledging that we understand exactly how to communicate to this generation.