The Glenn Beck Program - Best of the Program ｜ Guests： Gov. Greg Abbott & Max Lucado ｜ 9⧸12⧸23

00:00:00.000 governor greg abbott is uh with us now from the great state of texas i have to tell you governor

00:00:19.100 bussing people from new york city uh i loved it from the get-go but i didn't think it would do

00:00:25.660 much other than like a stunt kind of like it ended up with uh uh governor de santis in florida with

00:00:33.140 with martha's vineyard it felt good for a day but didn't change anything this is the biggest game

00:00:38.860 changing border policy i have ever seen in almost 50 years of broadcast thank you

00:00:46.180 well of course uh and it's not just what's going on with mayor adams in new york

00:00:53.200 uh look at laurie lightfoot in chicago look at what's going on uh with karen bass out in

00:01:00.360 los angeles listen they're all reacting the same thing or the same way they are all sanctuary cities

00:01:07.380 they've all told the world you know we want your tired your poor your your illegal immigrants and 1.00

00:01:14.020 we want them here we're going to provide food and lodging for them and then when they actually have

00:01:19.320 to live up to these uh liberal promises they made they collapse like a cheap tent let me tell you

00:01:26.300 something there's no way that the mayor of new york would be able to last a week in the state of texas

00:01:32.960 dealing with what we have to deal with uh it's shameful uh the way they act is crazy the kinds of

00:01:39.360 things they say uh but it is time for america to have to share this burden uh that texas has had to

00:01:46.920 deal with how many do we have here in texas now i mean i know he can't handle the 10 000 from texas

00:01:53.380 there are towns in texas that are getting at least 10 000 you know a day or a week how many are actually

00:02:00.280 here in texas well first i'll tell you that the the catalyst for this busing operation actually

00:02:07.340 wasn't to uh try to put burdens on new york it was actually to try to help out those small

00:02:12.000 communities on the border right the del ricos the eagle passes uh the communities that the border

00:02:17.540 patrol were dropping these illegal immigrants off and we said there's no way uh they were going to 1.00

00:02:24.080 be able to deal with this and so we began to put them on buses initially going to washington dc and

00:02:29.660 eventually new york etc uh but my point is that these illegal immigrants do not stay in texas very long 0.96

00:02:38.460 at all a day uh maybe two days uh and then they are put on buses and bussed out to other areas

00:02:45.820 across the country that's what texas is doing in addition to what texas is doing uh in far greater

00:02:54.000 numbers the biden administration is doing the exact same thing so my point glenn is that they're

00:03:00.460 actually not staying in texas very long at all so the biden administration how many are being shipped

00:03:07.620 out from this just one border state to go elsewhere i can give you uh percentages i don't have the

00:03:16.840 precise number the percentages would would be you know in the 90 range 95 range oh my gosh

00:03:25.740 uh there's not very many that are staying in texas uh and and that is what is leading to the

00:03:32.760 extraordinary volume uh that new york is dealing with that massachusetts is dealing with it illinois

00:03:38.960 and chicago are dealing with it california is dealing with it etc so the biden administration

00:03:45.420 last week said that they were considering uh making sure that if you cross into texas you have to stay

00:03:52.240 in texas if they did that is i mean it feels like they're specifically the federal government is

00:03:58.200 specifically targeting texas is that payback for what you and paxton have put them through in the

00:04:04.740 supreme court is that to change us blue is it to break our backs financially what what why this

00:04:11.340 seeming vendetta against texas part of it glenn does seem to be payback uh and it's not just because of

00:04:18.940 the busing operations it's because what texas has done uh we have taken over operational control of the

00:04:26.400 border and actually uh repelled or pushed back into mexico people who were trying to cross illegally

00:04:32.900 uh we have been on federal land where we built uh these concertina razor wire barriers it was the

00:04:39.780 the national guard that did it uh they build the barriers and the net the national guard guards it

00:04:45.060 and they force illegal immigrants to go back to mexico this is the only time in american history 0.55

00:04:51.760 when anything like that has happened and then of course you probably know about the uh the buoys

00:04:57.920 water and the marine barrier and and the biden administration considers uh all of that uh to be

00:05:04.860 evil when all texas is really doing uh is protecting our own border so my point in telling you that is yes

00:05:11.600 the the biden administration has a vendetta against the state of texas but let me uh put it this way

00:05:18.840 uh the the the the president is right in thinking uh that these migrants uh have to stay somewhere as 1.00

00:05:27.280 opposed to going all across the country he just got the location wrong they shouldn't be staying in

00:05:32.200 texas they should remain in mexico remember it was when president trump put the remain in mexico policy

00:05:41.120 into effect that is what led to the immediate drop in the number of people coming across the border

00:05:46.640 and under president trump we had the lowest illegal immigration in 40 years and now under biden's

00:05:54.600 open border policies we have the highest illegal immigration ever and but let me add one last thing

00:06:01.400 glenn and that is this concept of trying to you know uh have illegal immigrants remain in texas or

00:06:08.960 remain in california whatever the case may be that was tried before decades ago and it was rejected

00:06:15.780 uh by the courts at the time uh this is a losing legal proposition for biden and we'll just hand him

00:06:22.840 another loss if he tries this crazy game so the buoys what is the status on that and if they start doing

00:06:32.160 some of these things what is texas going to do to remain a sovereign state several things first with

00:06:41.660 regard to the buoys uh as you and your audience may have heard uh it went to well first i need to tell

00:06:49.640 you this the the buoys were a concept that were first developed by the border patrol itself and we got

00:06:55.680 the idea from them and we checked it out we found it to be effective and so we deployed it uh and as the

00:07:02.320 border patrol itself put put out there's nobody getting across it the great thing about the buoys is

00:07:08.220 it allows us to build a border wall or border barrier at one-tenth the cost of the border wall

00:07:15.180 that texas is actually putting up and so it is a very effective tool uh secondly with regard to

00:07:21.420 the biden's attempt to force us to remove uh the buoy barriers uh that we we lost in the trial court which

00:07:30.800 we knew we were going to do uh but we in less than 24 hours got a stay of that lower court ruling

00:07:38.020 by the federal court of appeals and as we are chit-chatting right now the buoys are exactly where

00:07:44.920 they have been ever since we put them back up uh and uh we hope and believe that we will prevail

00:07:51.420 in the federal court of appeals uh there are multiple legal reasons why what the biden administration

00:07:56.940 is contending is absolutely wrong so we will continue to do that but let me add this because

00:08:02.580 you said what are we going to do uh we we are as we are speaking right now there is more border wall

00:08:09.600 going up which is the same border wall that uh trump was putting up but but better than that

00:08:15.980 the the d tool that proved to be the most effective is having the national guard on the border

00:08:23.120 building these uh concertina razor wire border walls that prevents illegal immigrants from getting 1.00

00:08:30.100 across and we repel them when we return them back to mexico that has proven extraordinarily effective

00:08:38.260 and the only time in american history that i'm aware of uh where a state has actually repelled people

00:08:45.620 who are trying to enter the country illegally and sent them back to the country they came from

00:08:49.920 why do you i mean you must have spent a lot of time trying to figure out what why would the

00:08:58.580 administration do this it clearly is not good for america it's not good for the states not good for

00:09:05.120 the cities we don't know who's coming in where all people are coming from all over the world including

00:09:11.580 countries that have no love for america have you come up with a reason on why you think they're doing this

00:09:19.300 why biden is doing this so one thing you mentioned about that some of the people coming across the

00:09:25.580 border who have no love for america so we apprehend chinese and and russians and uh people from hostile

00:09:32.020 nations all the time and in fact glenn uh under joe biden there is a record number of people coming

00:09:39.120 across the border who are on the terrorist watch list correct and those are the ones that we apprehended

00:09:43.620 they pay more to try to evade uh being caught why is biden doing this first when he campaigned for

00:09:52.320 president that he said that he was going to have open border policies and i think americans really

00:09:59.340 just didn't listen to him uh maybe didn't know what he was talking about uh and now they're seeing

00:10:04.780 the reality this this is the acacia cortez game plan and so here's what you and i don't know

00:10:11.780 and that is who is running the white house uh is it acacia cortez leftists uh is it somebody else

00:10:20.260 uh it seems like uh biden may not really know what he's doing uh but if he does uh it's the most

00:10:28.140 unpatriotic act any president has ever taken in the history of the united states of america so we've got

00:10:35.340 several tasks ahead of us one is well texas texas is using more than 10 billion dollars of our own

00:10:45.140 state funds to secure the border and we will continue to do so as we work our way through

00:10:50.440 this presidential election and we have to put a president in place who's going to have as job one

00:10:56.140 uh to uphold their oath fulfill the constitutional mandate that they secure the border and maintain

00:11:03.760 national security so that we don't lose our country and so i think biden's days are numbered

00:11:11.600 and in those waning days texas will continue to step up and deploy every tool that we can possibly use

00:11:21.460 that are unprecedented in nature to make sure we're going to be holding back and staunching the flow

00:11:27.140 of illegal immigrants into the country i'm very concerned about this next election are we 0.98

00:11:32.600 safe is the vote safe here have we done anything to strengthen the security of the vote absolutely

00:11:38.960 yeah in in texas uh for two separate sessions or two successive sessions legislative sessions uh we

00:11:47.140 have passed uh the strongest uh election integrity laws in the united states of america as a reminder

00:11:53.760 before i was governor i was the attorney general and i filed legal action after legal action uh cracking

00:12:00.080 down on voter fraud and putting people behind bars for it and we continue to send that message

00:12:04.980 separate from that however uh with regard to the election process itself uh we have put reforms in

00:12:12.400 a place to make sure we have security and let's go back to what happened just this past election

00:12:16.520 this this past election uh for your audience those who don't know we have 254 counties in the state of

00:12:24.040 texas and all let's say 253 of the 254 were able to get their votes counted uh on election night the way

00:12:32.740 they were supposed to the only one that was unable to do so even in days uh was harris county harris county

00:12:40.120 is where houston texas is and so this past session uh we passed about 10 laws uh that cracked out on the

00:12:47.820 way that the city of houston and harris county uh were not following the law as we had prescribed

00:12:54.840 with regard to fair and accurate elections uh making sure that the election process in harris county

00:13:01.220 was going to be even more secure governor i know you have to run thank you so much really appreciate

00:13:07.400 it um thank you for bussing those people in again you have completely changed the narrative it is the

00:13:13.800 only thing i have seen in my entire broadcasting career that has changed this narrative it's a

00:13:19.600 different game today because of you thank you thank you glenn take care bye-bye you have a great

00:13:24.140 gabbett great state of texas this is the best of the glenn beck program and we really want to thank

00:13:30.000 you for listening i'm going to talk to you a little bit about what's happening in texas but i'm talking

00:13:34.840 to you about this because if it's happening in texas god only knows what's happening in your state

00:13:41.860 um i wanted to bring somebody on who really watches this for a living his name is brandon waltons

00:13:48.880 he does the texas scorecard um and every day he does you know headlines uh of what's going on and

00:13:57.520 he watches this every weekday at five youtube x and podcast platforms uh there is an impeachment going

00:14:04.300 on of probably the strongest uh attorney general in the nation the one here in texas ken paxton he's

00:14:15.100 been on this show several times i know ken um but i don't have a horse in this race if he's guilty of

00:14:22.200 a crime he should be punished but it is really beginning to look and i stayed off this story

00:14:29.380 until the testimony was out and i have to tell you something is very wrong in texas and texans

00:14:36.960 better pay attention to this brandon welcome thank you so much for having me glenn so

00:14:44.800 overall can you quickly just say you know what this is supposedly about and then let's talk about the

00:14:54.000 actual witnesses yeah so how did we get here essentially three years ago you had this group

00:15:00.700 of employees at the office of the attorney general who accused ken paxton of wrongdoing of of abusing his

00:15:08.700 office to help a friend essentially uh and they went to the fbi they reported him um and and that sort

00:15:16.560 of set into motion what we now have uh three years later this this impeachment process which many of

00:15:22.380 those impeachment charges are based off of uh back in may uh over memorial day weekend while a lot of

00:15:28.540 people were maybe uh grilling out or at the lake or whatever the house met on a saturday uh they voted

00:15:35.320 to impeach ken paxton based on testimony uh that wasn't sworn testimony ken paxton wasn't made aware

00:15:42.220 of of their investigation until it came out 48 hours before the vote and the house members themselves

00:15:49.680 weren't able to look at the actual testimony they had to rely on on the word of the house's

00:15:54.240 investigators and so and and and ken ken if i'm not mistaken was not allowed to respond

00:15:59.700 in right in his own defense right and so you had a lot of these sort of things that that made people

00:16:06.560 look at this and say hmm this is odd well just like dc uh you know the house does the impeachment

00:16:12.520 goes over to the senate to determine whether or not they convict which would actually remove him

00:16:17.640 from office and so for the last few months there's been a lot of talk from those who have been pushing

00:16:21.980 this impeachment saying oh just wait until you see this testimony wait till you see the evidence

00:16:27.200 uh you know you're going to be blown away by what we have and yet you know this trial started last week

00:16:33.140 and so far and we're more than halfway through this the testimony has really really been weak

00:16:40.460 well i say a little beyond week um there's no evidence of a crime i mean this is the let me just

00:16:50.000 read something this was the third whistleblower um the concern uh began when paxton advocated for

00:16:59.060 the ag's office to open investigation into nate paul that is his friend and donor alleged mistreatment

00:17:06.380 by the fbi and texas dps during a raid paul's contention was that the feds did him dirty by

00:17:12.760 illegally altering the search warrants after the fact to expand their scope just to get him his

00:17:19.320 technical experts theorized that there was altered metadata in the digital versions that proved the

00:17:25.240 documents had been changed maxwell quickly developed the opinion that's a whistleblower the opinion

00:17:32.060 that nate paul was a criminal that we should not be associated with accordingly he had dragged his

00:17:37.720 feet and ultimately refused to open a formal investigation into the alleged fbi and dps misconduct

00:17:44.220 paxton convinced of the idea that the fbi was untrustworthy well that's far-fetched he eventually

00:17:52.960 hired outside counsel to help explore and adjudicate paul's claims an act that would eventually become the

00:18:00.400 primary catalyst for the whistleblower complaints now did anything come of that outside in investigation

00:18:08.760 uh no and and and the thing is is that when you see these people testify i mean uh numerous of these

00:18:18.220 former employees of of the office of the attorney general has talked about how insane literally that's

00:18:23.560 what one of the these people said it would be insane to investigate the fbi that essentially they they

00:18:28.600 trust them wholeheartedly uh that that there would be nothing i mean literally one of them was asked

00:18:33.360 is there anything that maybe happened over the last two three four years that might change your trust in

00:18:38.040 the fbi uh they said no of course that's that's at odds with texas voters i mean republican primary

00:18:44.180 voters we have a poll from after the the mar-a-lago raid that shows that 73 percent of texas republican

00:18:50.800 primary voters have a negative uh opinion of the fbi what a shock so i'm reading this and my first

00:19:01.740 thought was and and i dismissed it out of hand i don't even know why it came to me but i'm i'm reading

00:19:08.820 all of the testimony and i'm thinking to myself this is george bush this is this is the george bush wing

00:19:16.940 of the party that is that trusts the fbi is denying that there's a problem in america the problem is

00:19:24.560 the republican voters all of that crap and then i continue to read on and it looks like the

00:19:30.940 whistleblowers do have a relationship with george p bush is there anything to this that this is a

00:19:38.580 bush ambush you know there's been a couple moments during the testimony of the past

00:19:46.780 week where where the bush family has has been invoked and it looks like perhaps they they were

00:19:52.260 somehow involved in this one of those being that uh when the whistleblowers went to the fbi and

00:19:58.120 reported paxton by the way without even asking him or talking to him beforehand and then they also said

00:20:03.860 they had no evidence when they went but but when they were preparing to go the fbi on that same day

00:20:08.720 george p bush was reactivating his law license george p bush would eventually uh challenge ken

00:20:15.060 paxton in the republican primary last year he lost two to one in the runoff um and then you also have

00:20:20.860 a case where johnny sutton who is a a bush lawyer somebody who was a u.s attorney under bush has been

00:20:26.060 very close with the bush family uh he has been representing some of these whistleblowers for the

00:20:31.140 last three years and hasn't sent them a bill hasn't been paid has essentially been representing them

00:20:36.680 pro bono and so that's just another piece of this puzzle that people are looking at and saying

00:20:41.480 it looks like uh someone else some outside force is involved here i uh honestly the people who

00:20:52.220 brought this impeachment the way they brought it uh should be impeached themselves i i don't you know

00:21:00.440 the one thing i do hear about uh paxton is he's just a freight train and he's not good at playing the

00:21:07.640 game and you know making friends and influencing people whatever well neither was john adams and

00:21:13.080 i'm not comparing him to john adams i'm just saying temperament wise john adams was not a popular guy

00:21:18.400 but you do not bend the rules to get rid of somebody if he is if he's a criminal if he did something

00:21:28.660 criminal then i am for his impeachment but if this is just because he hasn't made the right friends or

00:21:37.400 a bush wants him out or whatever it is the people involved in this because it's been so shady the

00:21:44.760 way they did this i think they should be impeached and certainly there's been a lot of anger especially

00:21:52.020 among republican voters you know it's one thing when we see what's happening with the president where

00:21:57.220 you see democrats going after using the criminal justice system using these impeachments to go after

00:22:02.100 it's another when you're in texas and you have democrats and establishment republicans going along

00:22:08.220 with it it's really bad really really bad anything to the the thought that this happened the week

00:22:14.700 that paxton said you know hey what why is uh why is our speaker of the house giving you know chairmanship

00:22:23.800 to the democrats we don't need friends like this and then it was later that week that the impeachment

00:22:29.960 thing happened is was there any connection well i think absolutely there's there's been a divide look

00:22:35.700 speaker dade phelan who's the establishment guy that that runs the house who puts democrats in power

00:22:41.360 um he has been at odds with not only ken paxton but the conservative grassroots who have repeatedly

00:22:47.360 elected paxton and so certainly uh there's no coincidence there uh there's certainly been been a lot

00:22:53.660 of bad blood between the establishment and ken paxton it just shows why they've worked so hard

00:22:58.620 to try to uh essentially overturn the election and get him out of office and quickly what do your

00:23:04.800 sources tell you how's this going to fare how's this going to turn out yeah so they so they need

00:23:10.540 two-thirds in order to permanently remove him from office that vote is expected to take place

00:23:15.040 maybe friday saturday later this week um you know it's a little tough you have to kind of do napkin

00:23:21.300 math because these senators are under gag orders but i would say that especially after uh people 1.00

00:23:26.440 testifying that they essentially had no evidence which is what we repeatedly saw last week i'm

00:23:31.480 hearing a lot of the senators are are getting very very frustrated that house members put them in this

00:23:36.660 position where they have to sit through this and i think that uh i think that ultimately uh that's

00:23:41.640 something they're going to be considering whenever they make their decision but you'll get all the

00:23:44.620 democrats so how many republicans do you need uh i think you need uh uh 10 10 if i recall

00:23:52.180 10 weasels yeah all right i i hope not thank you so much for reporting uh on this and and bringing

00:24:00.440 us the story i appreciate it absolutely thank you you bet brandon waltons uh he is texas scorecard you

00:24:07.360 can find texas scorecard uh wherever you get to your um your podcast and youtube and x every day at

00:24:14.300 five o'clock and just one quick thing because you in case you missed the show yesterday it sort of rolls

00:24:19.760 off the tongue to say oh well this was brought without any evidence that are those are the words

00:24:25.680 of the people who brought the accusations yeah we have no evidence they said they were asked

00:24:30.440 specifically did you have any evidence when you brought this case and the guy said no the most

00:24:35.820 credible said it's just my feeling right like we thought he had some illegal activity so he brought

00:24:42.720 it to their attention did you have any evidence no let me give you let me give you something else and

00:24:48.560 it ties to this you know the guy who was pushed by his uh um pushed to go into a uh a school board

00:24:57.060 meeting in virginia because he felt he wasn't being listened to his daughter had been raped the school

00:25:04.240 board lied to him and then they charged him and he was going to to jail he was pardoned now by the

00:25:12.340 governor of virginia i want you to listen to what he says so we're chatting off camera

00:25:18.060 uh governor yunkin had offered a pardon uh for you before you you said no thank you i don't want

00:25:24.660 that why well to be clear it was only a month ago um it wasn't months ago but because i didn't want

00:25:32.280 to uh drop my appeal and accept responsibility for the charges i was convicted of in the lower court

00:25:38.340 that was unacceptable to me i really wanted to win this straight up on my own merit in court

00:25:44.500 but unfortunately you know as things have played out and you know i had a it our justice system

00:25:53.420 across this land is unfortunately politicized and weaponized to the hilt and that should scare every

00:25:59.560 american so you believe there's no way that you could have won in court i think i might have been

00:26:04.480 able to win in court with a judge if it would have been the right judge but no i think in a jury i think

00:26:11.160 it would have been a hung jury um at best as he said that should frighten all americans this is why

00:26:22.140 you must care about all of these cases that your friends are not paying attention to it will come to

00:26:29.820 your door the best of the glenn beck program max my friend how are you i'm great i'm great so good to

00:26:36.020 see oh my goodness what a treat to see you are you doing okay i'm doing great sounds like you've had

00:26:40.560 a wild week yeah yeah and it's only tuesday so um give a short version here of of what happened to

00:26:49.800 you that yeah no one knew well i um it was a great time and my life is great now yeah but boy i mean it

00:26:56.980 was a tough time yeah and uh everything was uh you know there's a reason the word dead is in deadline

00:27:02.900 it leaves you every time i turned around i had another deadline to meet and i wasn't doing a

00:27:09.160 great job managing our growing church and uh staff was having a tough stretch of it and i became even

00:27:16.020 resentful of our own staff leave me alone yeah i've got important things to do it was i was not the the

00:27:22.180 best version of me and then and then i got diagnosed with atrial fibrillation which means your heart rate

00:27:28.100 is moving real fast and the doctor wanted to put me on medicine told me to slow down i couldn't slow

00:27:33.800 down because i was so important to the world i mean what would god do if he didn't have me every week

00:27:39.440 it was pathetic um before i before i became a follower of christ i was a real heavy drinker

00:27:46.080 and uh i thought well i'll i'll just go you know have a beer and uh and uh take the edge off that's the

00:27:55.120 phrase yeah well that was just one day that became two days that became two or three weeks and that

00:28:00.460 became a couple of months and i got into this habit glenn of it kind of escaping the office at the end

00:28:06.460 of the day sure and and going uh sitting in a in a parking lot in a convenience store with one of

00:28:12.920 those supersized beers and and and guzzling it down and uh that is if you're in the parking lot

00:28:21.420 guzzling beers it is a sign there may be a problem something wrong i like beer i still think

00:28:27.260 beer is fine yeah what i was doing that was wrong is i wasn't doing what i told people to do for

00:28:33.020 decades and that is when you're under stress pray find friends somebody will help you there's healthy

00:28:39.700 ways to deal with stress i was not dealing with it in healthy fashion and um one day and this is

00:28:47.140 gonna sound a little super spiritual forgive me but i i think god talked to me and i think god said

00:28:53.380 are you doing okay and my thought was i'm gonna make i'm handling it i was max was in charge of max

00:28:59.160 and the confrontation came um well you're not doing very well not doing very well and that's about all

00:29:06.360 it took and i came undone i had a good cry session right there and uh we have elders in our church

00:29:14.500 a group of of leaders of men who oversee the church and so at the very next meeting i went to

00:29:20.320 them told them exactly what was happening they were awesome they came up with ways to restructure

00:29:27.540 uh the work demands i shared it with the church i told everybody in the church about it they were

00:29:32.900 awesome that created a lot of conversations about other people not managing stress well and it was a

00:29:39.440 good uh a good come to jesus moment for this guy who had been preaching about jesus for a long time

00:29:45.000 so why share this story now you have a new book out about jacob thank you yeah so you tie them i love

00:29:52.480 jacob i love jacob and there's some wonderful stories about jacob jacob is the imperfect man who was a part of

00:29:59.840 god's perfect plan so tell if people don't know who jacob is super super quick synopsis he's the grandson

00:30:05.920 of abraham he's the one who was the second born he was the second born twin he wanted to be firstborn

00:30:13.160 and there was a prophecy that he would be over his elder brother esau but he took matters into his

00:30:20.500 own hands he swindled his brother he lied to his father his mother said you better get out of here 0.83

00:30:25.560 esau's gonna kill you so he goes into hiding he goes up to mesopotamia that's where he meets his

00:30:31.180 match a man by the name of laban who's ever bit as much of a sneak as jacob was and marries the wrong

00:30:38.220 woman he thinks he's marrying rachel ends up marrying her sister which is an amazing story

00:30:42.780 spend seven years working for laban for one wife spend seven years working for the other finally has

00:30:48.960 six years on his own to amass his uh wherewithal to go back home and on the way home he's at a creek

00:30:57.760 called jabbok jabbok and across the creek is the area where esau lives he's not seen this brother in

00:31:06.140 20 years this brother he cheated and that night he spends the night we're not told why alone on the

00:31:13.160 river jabbok and that's when god comes to him god came to me in a convenience store parking lot god

00:31:19.480 came to jake jacob right there and they wrestled they wrestled they wrestled all night it's a picture

00:31:24.740 of all of us who wrestle with god you know and he actually thought he had brought god uh that he was

00:31:31.080 going to pin god right and god with one touch all the time one touch this located his hip and there's

00:31:36.960 a little hebrew idiomatic expression that suggests not only was his hip out of place his manhood was

00:31:43.500 affected so i mean everything about jacob was done he was brought to his knees he limped for the rest of

00:31:49.200 his life but that's when god changed his name changed it from jacob to israel a name we still use

00:31:56.300 today many interpretations of what israel means i love the one god fights and so the old jacob jacob fought

00:32:06.100 for himself the old max max fought for himself the new jacob god is fighting for me and the last 20 years

00:32:14.620 i think i've been living out of that realization that god fights for us so there is uh wow a profound

00:32:23.620 lack of faith uh right now and this next generation only about 18 percent of them are churchgoers

00:32:31.780 uh it was 51 in world war ii wow uh the last generation uh i think was 35 and in one generation

00:32:42.580 it's down to 18 um because i think they don't um church and stuff it's just not i don't know you

00:32:53.600 know i think churches think it has to be slicker and more packaged and everything else to appeal to

00:32:58.900 those people with short attention spans but i think there's times that churches don't give

00:33:03.860 real answers to real life everybody's struggling right now and and are especially our youth they

00:33:12.860 are struggling with self-esteem yeah going through i i think some of the things you know not exactly

00:33:20.600 like jacob but you know i why am i even here if i'm not the firstborn if i'm i mean i want to be

00:33:27.020 somebody special and i'm not so i guess i have no worth where do you begin with um where when people

00:33:39.900 are down and they're just like i don't really have any purpose i don't have worth it the statistics are

00:33:48.020 staggering aren't they glenn they are uh read one the other day that in 2022 an average of 135 people a

00:33:55.140 day orchestrated their own death 135 people it's the largest killer now over heart disease my goodness

00:34:03.740 worst it's been since world war ii so uh why or you know what what what what is going on

00:34:13.000 and it's a complex answer to me the answer has something to do with the fact that people

00:34:20.940 have have bought into the idea that the whole world is just what we see is just us it's it's the

00:34:29.580 secularization of society uh part of the blame for that is the church there's been church scandals that

00:34:36.940 have caused people to not trust the church part of the blame for that is uh just the media that

00:34:43.640 part of the blame to that is that we've chosen to uh disallow our schools from even talking about

00:34:49.300 matters of faith regardless of what faith orientation a person has so i think all of us could share in

00:34:56.000 some of the blame there i think bottom line people are not being kids are not being given an answer

00:35:03.460 to the question what am i here for what's my purpose in life and is their life beyond this life

00:35:10.740 and once the church really begins uh to to empower people with that great story of hope

00:35:17.960 that we're here for just an instant to make a decision about the next life and that we're loved

00:35:23.220 by god who refuses to give up on us i think that will infuse hope into people's lives so people say why

00:35:29.800 am i here what is my purpose i felt um i felt a prompting if you will um from god when i was

00:35:38.900 probably eight and i thought i knew what i was to do and it was to do radio and um i misunderstood that

00:35:48.200 um until i was about 30 and an alcoholic and everything else and and threw that away i went

00:35:54.940 that was i don't even know if that really even happened you know how you you think um and so i just

00:36:00.580 stopped doing that and that's when i found my purpose my purpose wasn't to do radio what my life's

00:36:08.260 purpose was how do people who haven't haven't heard or don't know how to find what their life's purpose

00:36:17.260 is how do you find that

00:36:20.520 i i urge people uh pray pray and the response i get back often is well i don't believe in god

00:36:32.700 and i say that's fine pray anyway yeah what's what you got to lose if you don't believe in god

00:36:39.240 then doesn't hurt to try and i believe that there's a god who believes in people who don't believe in him

00:36:46.060 and and that our faith uh that his commitment to us is not contingent upon our commitment to him

00:36:53.160 uh there it's called unconditional love and it's hard for people to grasp

00:36:58.260 the bible word for it is grace is grace and it's hard for people because there's nothing like it in

00:37:05.400 the world everything else is i'll do this you do that but there is and anybody who's had a second

00:37:11.700 child or more there you go i was convinced that i could not love a child more than i loved my firstborn

00:37:18.520 and the moment my second child came out i'm like oh my gosh i love her so much

00:37:23.600 it's crazy you do anything you do anything for them and so and so what happens if a person

00:37:29.560 finally comes to believe that there is a god who created this whole world and he's on my side

00:37:37.240 he's not against me he's not ticked off at me he's pulling for me he's rooting for me and he's got a

00:37:45.080 plans for me beyond this life that's what it took for me glenn and it's that simple it's a matter of

00:37:53.560 faith so i George people should just talk to him

00:37:55.900 so so i urge people say just talk to him

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00:37:57.440 Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na

The Glenn Beck Program - September 12, 2023

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