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00:00:56.600For many centuries, there was one book that was read more frequently than any other save
00:01:10.380the Bible in Scotland. That work, of course, was a poem called The Wallace, which was a long,
00:01:16.260romantic, biographical poem attributed to a man with the moniker of Blind Harry.
00:01:21.700The poem commemorates the life of William Wallace, who was born around 1270 AD and died in 1305.
00:01:28.740Wallace was one of Scotland's greatest national heroes and helped lead a successful military resistance against the English king, Edward I.
00:01:37.640Blind Harry's poem portrays Wallace as the ideal man or hero in the Scottish mind, courageous, patriotic, chivalrous, and deeply devout.
00:01:46.580It was this poem and retelling of the life of Wallace that inspired screenwriter Randall Wallace to write his script for the movie Braveheart, which released in 1995 and featured actor Mel Gibson as William Wallace.
00:02:00.260The movie performed exceptionally well and is a man favorite even decades later.
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00:02:16.580They fought like Scotsmen and won their freedom.
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00:23:01.800That's what kids need as well, is virtuous fathers and husbands and folks that aren't going to self-censor and muzzle themselves in the public square, but will speak the truth plainly and boldly in love.
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00:30:08.840You're absolutely going to be swept away. And so we must have the truth is the very first battleground, I suppose. And then from there, I want to be in the political battle. I want to be able to advance the kingdom of God in those areas so that we can have a society that allows Christianity to flourish.
00:30:40.980Of like, I've got this body of death, the flesh waging war.
00:30:45.740Typically, people aren't destroyed by their external enemies.
00:30:48.860They're destroyed by their internal enemy.
00:30:51.740They're destroyed by their own appetites, their own desires, their own folly.
00:30:56.460And so I also recognize I am constantly carrying with me a harbinger of death.
00:31:01.980And that is myself. That is the man of flesh. There's also physical enemies out there, people who absolutely want to physically kill you. And that's true all the more. And so whether that's domestic terrorists or terrorists abroad, lovers of people should stand ready and say, not on my watch.
00:31:25.360Yeah, it's so easy to miss that foundational, we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, we wrestle against powers and principalities in the heavenly places.
00:31:36.520It explains so much of the world that we see today, once you understand that.
00:31:41.120I think we've seen, we've talked about it a lot on another podcast we do called Haunted Cosmos, that people are abandoning materialism as a worldview and the idea that there's only stuff and nothing spiritual.
00:31:55.480There's, you know, no God, no angels, no demons.
00:31:58.400And one of the reasons is just the explanatory power of that worldview is so poor.
00:32:02.640When you start looking at what real people are doing, you say, how could a person do something like that?
00:32:08.700How could something like the transgender movement take deep root in a society where people are physically mutilating themselves in service of craven sexual appetites?
00:32:19.780And even this idea that we're going to do that to children as a society, and we're going to say, let's give a cocktail of hormone blockers to a 12-year-old and, you know, give them a massive elective surgery to remove working parts of their body.
00:33:13.440And so, yeah, we have different arguments to justify the depravity, but the end result always ends up being the same of demons love to destroy us.
00:33:26.900They love to take what's true and honorable and flip it upside down.
00:33:31.140And they love to convince people that what is good and righteous is actually twisted and evil.
00:33:37.120Yeah, and I think with that, John, part of the problem, and I've heard you speak about this, I think on the conservative Christian side, a lot of times we're known as sort of the silent majority.
00:33:47.500And so knowing that all this spiritual warfare is going on, knowing that there's things that we need to speak truth to, I wonder if you would just walk me through why it's important for Christians to go on offense with the truth, not simply to retreat and, you know, let these demons run through the culture, but say like, no, we're actually going to bring the truth and we're going to go speak directly to that in the public sphere.
00:43:58.480We have fused together in an incredible way that I don't really know where I end.1.00
00:44:03.380And she starts, uh, of, uh, I adore that woman.
00:44:07.240She's by far the most powerful person in the world in my life, uh, with huge amounts of
00:44:13.540influence, though she's not the leader. I'm the leader. She's my helper. She's my second self,
00:44:19.080so to speak. And we work together as a missional team. And my wins are her wins and her wins are
00:44:25.340my wins. And so it's a really beautiful and fulfilling thing. It's scary for a gal to submit
00:44:33.240to it, but it's not scary to submit to a man that loves you and wants well for you. If you just0.73
00:44:39.820tried it. The complementarian worldview works extremely well in what my wife discovered because
00:44:46.440she really was that strong and independent gal who's out making it on her own. And she's a task
00:44:52.700master over a whole myriad of different things. And she's kicking tail. We had some real struggles0.99
00:44:57.960because we aspired to build a biblical marriage. And we didn't have any real good examples of what
00:45:02.920that looked like. And so we had to kind of construct that over time. And it was a scary
00:45:07.020and very difficult first couple years. And in year three, we kind of hit a stride
00:45:11.120and had some breakthroughs. But she had to choose to submit to me and I had to learn what
00:45:16.480sacrificial leadership looked like. I've been given the mantle of authority primarily
00:45:22.080to serve. The call of my leadership is make her life easier than your own. You've been given
00:45:31.080strength because you're meant to carry a heavier burden than your wife. Her life should be easier
00:45:36.760than yours, of I'm going to carry all my stuff and then I'm going to carry some of her stuff too.
00:45:41.440Not because I have to, but because I want to. And so the lie of feminism makes this not an1.00
00:45:51.260absurdity. It makes it something that gals would scoff at, recoil at, not realizing that if they1.00
00:45:56.620leaned into it, they could find a happily ever after. They're actually built for what I'm saying.
00:46:02.640They're just terrified of it and they've been poisoned against it.
00:46:05.000Yeah. And it is. We tell and encourage the women at Refuge Church, encourage my wife all the time, my daughters. It is a serious thing to say to a man, your name is going to become my name. The Proverbs talk about the value of a good name. And that's what I want my sons to think.
00:46:24.360be the kind of man that it would be such a gift to be able to give your name to a woman,
00:46:30.040but understand that for her, this, the fear is real. She's hitching her wagon to yours. She's
00:46:36.620saying, where you go, I'll go. She's saying, I'll submit to you. I'm going to respect you. I'm going
00:46:42.100to believe that you're going to continue to be a respectable man all the days of your life,
00:46:47.020that you're going to do me good. Like that's a very, very serious thing, weighty thing that you
00:46:51.060are asking of a woman or that you are looking for in a woman. And I think sometimes we can
00:46:57.660underestimate in both directions what the actual difficulty is for the other. Like, you know,
00:47:04.720Paul's always speaking into weakness in Ephesians 5. Husbands, love your wives. Why does he say
00:47:08.500that? Well, because husbands often are tempted to love themselves. Wives, see that you respect
00:47:13.340your husbands. Why is he saying that? Well, because wives often are going to have a real
00:47:17.840difficulty and struggle and respecting her husband. But if each one is thinking it's better to be a1.00
00:47:25.620good husband and have a good wife, and it's better to be a good wife than have a good husband. If
00:47:29.860each of them are thinking that, and that's just William Gouge, domestic, Puritan, this 400 year
00:47:34.220old stuff. Like if each person's doing that, then the glory is hard to describe to someone that
00:47:41.100hasn't experienced it. You said like, you don't know where you began and she, it's, there's this
00:47:47.580greater than the sum of its parts thing that not only like when you, it creates immortal souls,
00:47:53.900like that's how powerful it is. It creates immortal image bearers of God who are going to
00:47:58.640live forever in glory or in shame and judgment. Like that's how powerful a thing marriage is.
00:48:05.340so when you have something like feminism come in and attack the roots of that you're not attacking1.00
00:48:12.900something peripheral to society or human life or everything that makes human life satisfying
00:48:19.100joyful fruitful um it's you're attacking something foundational um i think this is why people we we
00:48:26.560need to understand that when when you say i'm at war with feminism you're not saying i'm at war
00:48:33.800with women you're actually saying i'm at war for women and men and society and my neighbor and you
00:48:41.780know and for the glory yes actually because we we love them we love we we love our neighbors and we
00:48:47.560want good you know love seeks the highest earthly and heavenly good of its object that's that's what
00:48:52.100we're trying it gives itself to do that and so yeah it's really good people can hear when you get
00:48:57.680when you ended up when you societally when you're in a place where you have to fight where like you
00:49:02.780said, if passivity is not a fruit of the spirit, it's not a Christian virtue. If you go the passive
00:49:07.820route, you're cooked, your family's cooked, your generations are cooked, society's cooked, it's all
00:49:12.280cooked. You're going to lose. But when you get into that position and then godly men rise up
00:49:17.960and they do fight, people can immediately mistake it for hatred, for, well, tumult, you just want
00:49:25.880to go out and cause a bunch of problems for everybody. And you're like, no, I actually love
00:49:30.740you. I want you good for you. I don't want you to be the 40 year old woman full of regret, never had
00:49:37.440children. Um, I don't want that for, and there's going to be a wave of, of both men and women in
00:49:44.000this situation. It's going to be terrifying. I think the church is going to need to be equipped
00:49:48.040to minister to people in that situation and give them hope and love them in the name of Christ,
00:49:54.260welcome them into the family of God. You can still have a family in the family of Christ,
00:49:58.720but it's going to be difficult. Yeah. Yeah, no, I think that's true. Uh, John,
00:50:02.900one of the things I want to ask you related to that, um, you guys have talked a lot about this.
00:50:07.240We were talking offline just that, uh, in, in my experience, a lot of the people in the gun
00:50:12.320industry, uh, kind of found your content years ago. And I was like, wow, this is really cool.
00:50:17.480Obviously knows how to handle himself at the range and with firearms is really informative.
00:50:23.100And then I remember watching a video of yours with your wife on Christian homeschooling.
00:50:27.780And I was thinking, this is one of the most coherent, like well put arguments for homeschooling that I've heard. And it's not from somebody whom I expected at that time to be talking about that. So I guess just for you, just give me the rundown, like why homeschooling?
00:50:44.840I think this is tied to wanting to see your worldview shaped in your offspring, not wanting to see them indoctrinated by the left, sending them to a place where the left is going to indoctrinate them or their teacher is pushing LGBT, whatever.
00:50:59.360It's been a big thing for your household.
00:51:06.240So warrior poet, that's a pretty broad category.
00:51:09.200A lot of people would like to just pigeonhole me in the warrior stuff and they say, hey, stick to gun videos.
00:51:14.640And I'm like, poet. I mean, no, no, I've never just stuck to gun videos. Just it's a buffet, bro. Eat what you like. Here's what I'm serving up. You don't have to click on a homeschool video, but I'm going to talk about it because we're your poet.
00:51:29.300But I would rather convert somebody to homeschooling than I would.
00:51:35.040Let me say I'd rather convert someone to homeschooling than to firearms.
00:51:40.860And that's very surprising for some people.
00:51:43.200I'm like, wait, you're you're more passionate about homeschooling than guns.
00:51:46.640Absolutely. Guns are a means to an end.
00:51:49.540I want to be able to protect people because I really love people.
00:51:53.240But the subject there, the focus there, the direct object there, it's the people.
00:51:57.840I love people and guns are a means to be able to protect people of like, no, I use a gun to protect
00:52:06.040my son, but I love my son more than the gun. It's just a means to an end. And so I believe
00:52:12.860homeschooling is, should be our kind of default setting. It has been for the entirety of human
00:52:19.720civilization that children would learn life skills and be initiated into masculinity or
00:52:25.180femininity by their parents. Now, also under the shadow of the steeple in the church, we can bring
00:52:30.600families together, share resources. And now we have kind of a co-op of sorts that's all done
00:52:38.440through the church. And so the church has always been educating our youth. And then we come together
00:52:43.440in different families, and maybe we have our own co-op. But the idea of a government school system,
00:52:48.700a public education, that's really the new kid on the block for all of human history.
00:52:54.200and it is failing massively yet because that's what we know and what our parents knew it becomes
00:53:00.480really a default setting and it shouldn't be our real default setting should be parents teach the
00:53:05.520kids and it's not so difficult we don't need to drag out all the experts like it's just too
00:53:12.660difficult to teach kids what you know as a man right now whoever's listening as a man you're
00:53:18.700using all the stuff you need as a man teach them that it's like but i don't know algebra too i'm
00:53:24.100like, yeah, you were never going to use algebra two. It's just a colossal waste of time. Most of
00:53:30.420the time now everyone runs to the outlier of like, well, I met somebody who knew a person who died
00:53:36.460once, uh, who used algebra two once. And I'm like, well, great. Okay. Well then there's the outlier
00:53:42.280for the rest of humanity. We're not actually using calculus. Never, never. And so the,
00:53:48.420The difficulty is I just call I call bull crap on most of the government school system, not just in the time wasting that's happening, not just in the horrible depravity that's being circulated amongst peers, not just in that we're removing generational knowledge shares from older kids and younger kids and parents as well.
00:54:11.140And instead, they're with a teacher who's got the, you know, bull nose ring and pink hair and unique pronouns and wants to talk to our kids about sexuality when they're six years old of like all this is so upside down twisted.
00:54:24.080And yet, folks, when I mention of like, hey, maybe we should educate our own kids, you know, like I could just if they were just around you, they'd learn all the stuff, you know, and they could take over what you're doing one day or join in.
00:54:40.080And so it's not such an incredible fight. And homeschooling is so much easier than people think. It's really inspire a love of learning and protect it. Don't let the love of learning die. Help them love books and then put the right titles under their nose.
00:54:57.120And if you just did that, you can go ahead and take a few victory laps around your house.