BONUS - Practicing Everyday Obedient Defiance
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Summary
In this episode, I talk about the trucker convoys and the bravery of the truckers in standing up to tyrants. I don't consider this a sermon, and the reason I'm saying that is because you're going to hear a lot of opinion here, and it may be opinion you disagree with strongly, but I'm trying to apply the words of scripture.
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But I don't consider this a sermon, and the reason I'm saying that is because
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and it may be opinion you disagree with strongly,
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but I'm trying to apply the words of scripture so I'm doing my best here I just want to make
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sure there's a distinction I don't want to bind consciences where it's not appropriate right and
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I recognize that some some of the things I might say potentially will I don't want to say trigger
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you because that's kind of an insult but like you might disapprove instantly but I don't intend to
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issue commands. I just, what I want to do today is I want to encourage people to think through
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something, and we'll talk about this in a minute, but just from a slightly different perspective
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than you might be used to. But that being said, I am going to read the words of God.
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We're going to start with scripture. This comes from Romans 12,
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and as you know, Romans 12, it comes right before Romans 13.
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Which means the direct context is talking about how Christians relate to government, right?
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Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show hospitality.
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Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.
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repay no one evil for evil but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all
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if possible so far as it depends on you live peaceably with all beloved never avenge yourself
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but leave it to the wrath of God for it is written vengeance is mine I will repay says the Lord
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to the contrary if your enemy is hungry feed him if he is thirsty give him something to drink
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For by doing so, you will heap burning coals on his head.
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Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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So, again, I know you might find this hard to believe,
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but over the years, some people have called my opinions controversial at times.
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I've had a hard time accepting this, but I intend to earn the reputation today.
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So we live in perilous times. I don't think that anyone in this audience would question that.
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We came to a conference about defying tyrants, and so the reason you did that is because it's
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apparent that tyrants are on the move, and they've been moving at lightning speed over the past
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couple of years. I can't count how many times I've said to people, my brother, my wife,
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if you would have told me two years ago that this would have happened, just fill in the blank with
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a hundred different things. I would have told you you were crazy. And then the thing happens.
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But these things have not happened without some measure of defiance. In fact, there have been
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numerous protests and pushbacks to the power grabs that we have seen. And the most recent one
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was the trucker convoy. Well, the most recent one I want to talk about is the trucker convoy in
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Ottawa. Now, this event was widely promoted amongst conservative circles. The mainstream
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media promoted it. I'm a member of gab.com, which I really enjoy. It was everywhere on gab.com. Memes
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over the wall, all over the place. Even the brothers at CrossPolitik and Fight Laugh Feast
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Network, which I'm a podcaster on, they were supportive of the trucker convoy. And I've seen
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tons of memes where it's all about the patriotism and the bravery of the truckers who had joined
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the convoy. And they were brave, so I'm not going to disagree with that. But if you watch my content,
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then you know that I've been kind of lukewarm about the trucker convoy. And I recognize this
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puts me at odds with most people, the people that I respect most in the world. But I cannot help but
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feel uneasy about the whole thing. And it's not about the goals, right? Like, I supported the
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goal. I wanted it to succeed. In fact, I would tell people, man, I hope I'm wrong about this
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convoy. I hope, you know, I hope it works. But to be honest, I just didn't understand the tactics.
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I didn't get it. And I didn't get why so many people were supporting it, and I didn't understand
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how it was supposed to accomplish the goals that they said they wanted to accomplish.
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now I'm going to be honest because you know that's what I want to do here and hopefully all
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the time but I actually I'm not really that lukewarm about it like I think that the trucker
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convo idea was extremely questionable now I hesitate to say some of the things I'm about
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to say because I don't want to throw cold water over pushback right we need all the help we can
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get right now but I think and again let me make this clear I am opposed to vaccine mandates I'm
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opposed to mask mandates. Any kind of idea from the COVID tyranny, I am opposed to it, you know,
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100%. So I want it to stop. I want freedom to rule the day. I just don't think that this idea was
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a good idea. And I think we ought to think these things through and be smarter than this in the
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future. Let's just think, what I was hoping to do was to show you a video of some of the things I
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want to talk about today, because there was tons of videos, and I found these videos on all kinds
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of platforms, TikTok, YouTube, you know, all of the cool kids, what are they using now? I think
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it's TikTok, right? I don't know. I'm like almost boomer, so I don't get that stuff.
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So anyway, I want to think through the trucker thing in objective terms, like what were they
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actually doing, right? I'm not asking what it was supposed to mean or what they were trying to
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accomplish. Like, I'm all good with that. What I'm asking is what was actually objectively going on
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in Ottawa. Now, before I get to this next section, let me sidestep some criticism because I've
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actually talked about this before. And what I get is, you know, AD, your big problem is you listen
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to too much mainstream media. It's a mainstream media. They were putting a negative spin on the
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protests, and it wasn't really like that. Now, let me just sidestep that. I didn't watch any
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mainstream media about this. I didn't watch any. I didn't read anything about it. I don't have time
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to read. I read. I didn't watch any videos. I don't watch any news reports. What I saw was all
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from pro-trucker sources, and it was not mainstream sources. It was like independent
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journalists, people that just went to Ottawa and walked around with a video camera. So that's what
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I saw. And so what that means is that there would be no reason for these people to negatively spin
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this. They were supporting this. And what I want to do as I go through what was happening in Ottawa,
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I want you to consider what I just read from Romans 12. And I'm going to make you do it because
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I'm going to read it. All right, so think this through and then think, is this how a Christian
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ought to behave in the face of a tyrannical government? Let love be genuine, abhor what is
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evil, hold fast to what is good, outdo one another in showing honor. One thing I saw a lot of in the
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videos were a lot of vulgarities. I saw many profanities uttered by the crowds. And I'm not
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just talking about the obvious false flag stuff that the government attempted to do, like the
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Nazi flag. That was a Fed. We all understand what was happening there. That was a Fed trying to make
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the crowd look racist. That's not what I'm talking about. What I am talking about, though, are the
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stuff that was clearly real, like F. Trudeau stuff, right? Let's go Brandon, that kind of
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stuff. That stuff was real, and let's just be honest, reviling against a government, even if
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it's a horrible government, I don't think that's what Romans 12 had in mind. Because here's what
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God's word says, bless those who persecute you. Bless and do not curse them. Now, again, I've heard
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the objections. You know, Ada, you're overgeneralizing. The whole protest wasn't like that.
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That was just part of it. The protest was mostly peaceful, which is a weird turn of phrase for a
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conservative. But it's true, though. I have to give that objection some credence. It wasn't all like
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that, right? There were some normal protests going on. There was some preaching going on,
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and I'm not going to stand against preaching, obviously. But even in the best case scenario,
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let's think through the tactics as well. Like, I'm trying to be objective. I'm not trying to
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think about what it means, but what is actually happening, right? So the trucks, they go to the
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center of Ottawa, or wherever they were, and they decide, you know, we're going to sit in this
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part of the city, we're just going to sit there, and we're going to honk our horns.
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And at first, this is what I heard. Again, I was corrected about this, because I said at first they
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were honking all through the night, right? And I was corrected. And so I'll give you the correction.
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They started honking all through the night. And then there was a ordinance that a, that I guess
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a judge said, you know, a court order, you can't honk at night. And, you know, they were considerate.
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They said, okay, we'll only honk all day. Thank you. But I just, I just kept thinking about this.
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Like I'm, I'm the target audience of this protest. Like I'm for, I'm against all the same things
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they're against, I just kept thinking, like, what if it was my town that they were doing this in?
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Like, I've got kids, and they've got to take their naps. Like, this is, I'm the target audience,
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and I would be upset that they were there. So again, how do we square this with believers,
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right? Here's what the scripture says. They're honking. Live in harmony with one another,
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the scripture says. Do not be haughty. And again, keep in mind, guys, this is from the section that's
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telling you how to deal with tyrannical governments. Do not be haughty, associate with
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the lowly, never be wise in your own sight, repay no one evil for evil, but give thought
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to do what is honorable in the sight of all. If possible, so far as it depends on you,
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live peaceably with all. Don't only think about the tactics though, but think about the optics too,
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like, there was some strange stuff going on in Ottawa. I'll never forget the first video I saw
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from Ottawa. This was one of the early nights. And there was this guy just walking around. He
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must have had a GoPro and he was live. And I messaged Joel because I wanted you to see this
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video. This was a TikTok video. And it was ridiculous. It was like, it's a dance party.
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And so there was coolers full of Molson's Canadian or whatever they drink up there.
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and they're dancing it's like and it's not like it's like baby got back like there's no message
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to the song and push it you know like push it real good like that's what they were dancing to
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and I saw people hitting like empty diesel cans like this and it's just it was weird I used to go
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to parties like that and they were lame back then and they're lame now I heard one comedian
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is this the form that our protests should take?
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And again, contrast that with the words of God.
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For by doing so, you will heap burning coals on his head.
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Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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Even the strategy, I just didn't make sense to me.
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But some of the guys I heard early was the idea was to disrupt the supply chains.
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And then they would force the government's hand so they had to cave.
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Because if they didn't cave, people would start to wonder, you know, why don't I have food?
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But that was an early, you know, thing I had read.
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Because even if it did work, right, which some people think it did.
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But even if it did, you're kind of forcing the wrong people to suffer, right?
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The tyrants are going to have access to their military stuff.
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But the idea is the tyrants don't want the people to suffer, so they'll, you know, you can twist their arms and things like that.
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But I just don't see the strategy being Christian.
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heap burning coals on the heads of our enemies?
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is make sure that we think through the way that we fight tyranny. Because if we get it wrong,
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something like this could easily backfire. I think the people that, imagine if it lasted a long time,
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right? Because it lasted a decent amount of time. But imagine if it lasted to the point where the
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supply chain really was disrupted, right? Like, who are the people going to be mad at? I mean,
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ideally, they'd be mad at the tyrants, right? But the tyrants own the media and the narrative.
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and so when they control the media and they control the story who do you think the people
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that watch that media are going to be mad at and the other thing is most people aren't self-reliant
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they're they're they're they're totally reliant on these supply chains so people are going to
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suffer and you know what honestly when people are wondering where the next meal is going to come
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from they're going to support whoever gets the stuff flowing again so I think that the strategy
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was doomed from the start, like you can't defeat tyranny by providing the tyrant with a case study
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on why they need more power to provide a consistent supply of goods. I think the trucker convoy could
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have handed the tyrant a gift-wrapped winning narrative, and it did it with obnoxious honking
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and dance parties that eventually that was going to look really tone-deaf in the middle of a
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major city, too. And also, while some of the people in the convoy are calling for Trudeau
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to be imprisoned, they're calling for his head, like, I'm not saying the truckers deserve what
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happened to them, but what I'm saying is, what do they expect to happen to them? You think Trudeau
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was just going to sit back and let it happen? It reminded me so much of the fake insurrection
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on the 6th, right? This one seemed more avoidable than that one, though, because that one people
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were just got swept up in the moment, right? I think the trucker convoy could have gone way worse
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than it did, and I'm glad it didn't. There were people that were beaten by the cops though, so
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don't hear me downplaying that. That one lady was trampled by the horse. Tons of people, even if you
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just donated to the convoy, you got your assets frozen, and you didn't know if it was going to
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ever get unfrozen. They eventually did, but I've heard that the people that had their assets frozen
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I don't think that they're marking these accounts
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Like there's probably gonna be credit things associated.
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like I think that it could have gone way worse than it did.
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Like Trudeau could have gone more tyrannical than he did.
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and so again I just tactically the trucker convoy I'm supportive of the mission right
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tactically I think it's extremely questionable I think of the words of God from Peter
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where it says what credit is it when you sin you're beaten for it you endure like some of
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the stuff that they were doing was sinful in my opinion and so they got beaten for it it's like
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go, that's not doing you any good. Again, the word of the Lord, do not repay evil for evil,
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reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless. For to this you were called that you
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may obtain a blessing. Now, you might disagree with me about everything I just said, and that's
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okay. I'm totally okay with that. We can still be friends. I hope. But I really just want to
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encourage you to think through the trucker protest and really run it through Romans 12.
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Does God talk about dealing with governments in the ways that they dealt with governments, right?
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Honking your horn, being a nuisance, throwing a rave, trying to twist the government's arm into granting your requests.
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And so I think in perilous times, you need to think through your moves a little bit more carefully than you do when everything's just fine, right?
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And so what I want to encourage you is to all think on that today.
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Do not be distracted by the flashy kinds of media attention-grabbing protests,
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the kinds that are romanticized in movies and in memes.
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Don't be fooled by the approved defiance spectacles that get a lot of attention.
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I put January 6th in that category. I put Black Lives Matter in that category, although for very
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different reasons. Occupy Wall Street, like these are the things that get a whole lot of attention
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from the media. Don't be distracted by those. On the contrary, I submit that you should focus
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most of your attention and your energy and your money on everyday defiance, obedient defiance.
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obeying God in everyday ways will automatically put you against tyrants it'll automatically have
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you define tyranny even without even trying very hard and it will do so in a much longer lasting
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multi-generational way that it's going to be more like leaven going through the whole lump of dough
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what I'm not saying is don't attend rallies like if you if you like that kind of stuff and you
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think it's effective, I'm not telling you it isn't, and I'm not telling you not to go.
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If the trucker dance party sounds appealing, then knock yourself out. Same thing with January 6th.
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You know, a lot of people that I know went to that thing. You know, if you want to go,
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that's fine. Black Lives Matter, don't go to that, unless you're going to preach there.
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But I can't make a rule where God has not made a rule. God has not said, don't attend a protest,
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right? What I do want you to do is to be careful when you're at these things, because it's so easy
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to get swept up in the moment, and things then they turn to debauchery or revolution. And like,
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look, I recognize that the dance party, you know, whatever, that was only one aspect of the protest,
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you know. And the January 6th thing, right? Like, not everybody went into the Capitol,
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but I don't think that hardly anybody that went into the Capitol went to D.C. planning to go to
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the Capitol. They got swept up in the moment and they had, let's just face it, like there were some
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feds out there encouraging it. I think that the feds are all over this kind of stuff, trying to
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create an event. And so it's easy to get swept up in the moment. So if you do go, just be careful
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that you don't cross the line. Just to reinforce that this is not a sermon, this is not a Bible
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up here. This is a book by R.G. Rushduni. It's a great book. It's about the law of God. It's
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called The Institutes of Biblical Law. And I reference this whenever I don't understand the
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law, right? It's very good. Not everything he says is true, but it's a good book. And there's
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a section here where he's talking about how self-defense, even violent self-defense, is
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legitimate for a Christian. He's saying that's okay. And I want you to hear what he instantly
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says right after this, because he talks to this issue so well. He says, in an evil world, God
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requires men, God requires men to stand in terms of his word and law. At this point, many will cite
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Matthew 5, 39, resist not evil. The point made by Christ in this passage has reference to a
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resistance to an alien power which governs the land and that can compel a man by force draft
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to serve, you know, the Roman imperial forces for a mile, you know, go with them a mile or more.
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He says, in such a case, resistance is futile and wrong.
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Cooperation, going the second mile, is more productive of good.
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Christ's words were thus a warning against revolutionary resistance.
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His warning was repeated by St. Paul in Romans 13 with the warning that resistance to the
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duly constituted authority is resistance to the ordinance of God. At the same time, we must note
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that Peter and other apostles, when they were forbidden to preach, they said we ought to obey
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God rather than men. There is no discrepancy between these positions. Respect for duly
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constituted authorities is required both as a religious duty and as a practical policy. The
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world, listen to this part, the world is not bettered by disobedience and anarchy. Evil men
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cannot produce a good society. The key to our social renewal is individual regeneration.
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So I think what Rushduni has in mind here are the kinds of events like January 6th, right?
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That's not appropriate for a Christian to go into the Capitol and try to do whatever they were doing,
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whatever they were trying to do. Who even knows? Self-defense is good, but ordinary defiance,
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the kind where they say you can't preach, but you preach anyway because God said so,
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that's the kind that a Christian ought to be engaged in. It'll be longer lasting,
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and it'll be like leaven going through the whole lump of dough.
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So here's what I'm telling you, and I believe this with all my heart, that the flashy kind
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of protest, like the quick flash in the pan, the ones that the media likes, I don't think that's
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where lasting change comes from, especially when it's the kind of protest that tends towards
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inappropriate, ungodly revolution. I think that lasting change is change that is desirable for a
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godly order. Where that comes from is everyday obedience. And I think this is clearly taught in
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scripture when you think about it. Like, the story of Jonah, you know, Jonah goes to Nineveh, he says,
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you know, God's going to destroy, you know, your city, and then they, you know, they repent, and
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they sackcloth and ashes, and then God doesn't do it, right? He doesn't destroy Nineveh. Unbelievable,
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they repented somehow, and God stops the disaster. But did it last? No, it didn't last. Eventually,
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the great city of Nineveh went back to its old ways, and they were destroyed. The repentance
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didn't last, even though the text says that their grief over their sin, it was real.
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It was temporary, the change that was made. And this wasn't even like the Ottawa thing, right?
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Because the Ottawa thing, they were playing hip-hop music, honking their horns like madmen,
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being a nuisance. The people in Nineveh actually repented. They were actually grieving in sack
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sackcloth and ashes. They were fasting in repentance, and it still didn't last.
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And I think the reason why it didn't last is because God was not in it. They weren't thinking
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about God when they repented. They were thinking about their own skins. Psalm 127 says,
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Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over
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the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go to rest
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late. If God is not with you, then the effort that you make won't amount to much. So again,
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I ask you, the threats to Trudeau, the honking, the dancing, the vulgarity, all of that stuff,
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was God building that house? I want to fight tyranny just like everybody does, and I want to
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do it, though, according to God's ordinances, obedience to God, because I do believe that
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obedience to God requires defying tyrants. And so here's the thing. Sometimes people get caught
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up in this false dichotomy, right? Because now I've come against the trucker convoy, like,
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why do you hate truckers, AD? So what are you saying? We should do nothing? And I think that
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I've been called a disinformation agent at this point.
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And the evidence for this is that I want people to do nothing
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And I think this kind of false choice thinking, it's everywhere.
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I'm guilty of it, just like everybody's guilty of it at times.
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Because it's like, okay, so I'm not supporting the trucker convoy,
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And the thing is like, well, I want to do something.
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And what it does is it distracts you from the things that, you know, you really should be focusing on.
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So what I want to do is I want to suggest three basic strategies that we can all do that will yield results, in my opinion.
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And I think that these are way better options than the protests, the media protests.
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even if you still want to go to a protest, right,
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is far preferable to the flashy kind of defiance.
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ordinary disobedience is far more preferable the showy disobedience and it's just as patriotic and
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it's just as it's more impactful rather in the long term and I'm talking about basic stuff right
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I'll give you a small example do you remember when President Biden got elected and like the
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next week he came out with his like 20 point plan of how to defeat COVID and everybody knew he was
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going to come out with this federal mask mandate. And, you know, conservative media was all over it.
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They were freaking out. People were like, I can't believe the tyranny and all of this kind of stuff.
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And I remember laughing about it. I was like, what's he going to do, arrest me walking down
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the street? Like, come on. You're not wearing a mask, sir. Go to the federal prison. Like,
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I knew I wasn't going to comply with it. And then, like, it came out, then the actual mandate came
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out. And then I laughed a lot. Like I'm talking IRL LOLing. Because the federal mask mandate,
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the big bad, you know, tyranny was just for federal buildings or, you know, also federal
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employees. I feel bad for federal employees, but like, it was just federal building. I was like,
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it reminded me like, we think these guys are like uber powerful, but like, he's like,
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here's my big bad mandate. If you come to my house, you have to wear a mask.
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But I knew I wasn't going to comply with that either.
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And I knew I wasn't going to wear a mask, right?
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The workers there were nicer to me than they've ever been.
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And he asked me, like, what my book was about.
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Because, you know, I always ship books from the post office.
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and that's it that's the end of the story nothing happened the feds weren't called you know i was
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telling one person one time i went to walmart and uh the woman the woman says hey would you like a
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master i was like no thank you or no she said she said uh do you have a master i was like no not
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today and i just kept walking and uh i heard her get on the uh the radio we got another one
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But I think, and this is just everyday stuff, right?
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I mean, that's the worst thing you could do, fine me.
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I don't know, you know, I'll pay the fine, that'll be it.
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But I think this has more of an impact than we think, right?
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But I don't know about you, but like, I always hear about people, you know,
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lamenting how we've lost the sense of community and stuff
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because of social media and video games and dancing.
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I've built a lot of community in the past two years
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with other non-mask, sometimes just a nod,
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But I think it has an impact. Have you ever had the experience where you walk into a store without a mask and someone wearing a mask pulls it down and they see you? It happens all the time. I'm telling you, this has an impact on people. This is everyday stuff.
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but i don't want to trivialize this too because i wear i risk nothing by wearing a mask not wearing
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a mask in public but you know some people had to potentially get fired from their jobs
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right what happens if you are a federal employee and biden has his you know he has his authority
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there then you got a choice to make right and i submit to you that if you want to fight tyranny
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One way to do it is just to say no, let them fire you, and figure out your life.
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This is preferable because it's genuine, right?
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I'm secretly wearing it at work, but I'll come to the dance party.
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Let love be genuine is what the scripture I read says.
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everyday defiance looks like keeping your church open
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even when the government tells you it's too dangerous
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but we're going to sing anyway that's everyday defiance that that is so impactful to people
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i have a i have a story where i was i'm a presbyterian but i go to a baptist church
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because there's really no presbyterian churches around except for one that when we visited
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they said well don't sing because it's too dangerous and said you'll hum the songs to yourself
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i'll never go back to that church i mean it that had an impact on me the way singing loudly would
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have an impact on somebody else. Contribute to the needs of the saints and seek to show
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hospitality. That's something from what I just read, right? Everyday defiance is inviting people
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to your house for dinner or to a barbecue, because we're in Texas, or to game night or whatever.
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Even when the government tells, you know, you might want to think of canceling Thanksgiving.
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Everyday defiance is like, no, I'm just going to, you know, contribute to the needs of the saints
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My wife and I, we invited someone over our house
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and she was like, I know, I just haven't been anywhere
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even if the government demands you to quarantine
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choosing to obey God rather than men, because God told you to. I don't know about you, but every one
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of those things that I just read, including the stupid mask thing at Walmart, is a million times
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better than a million Let's Go Brandon chants at the NASCAR race. Let's Go Brandon chants at the
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NASCAR race don't amount to anything compared to just going to visit an elderly person when they're
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sick, even though the government tells you not to. We've got to think these things through very
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carefully. I believe the government wants you to protest in the flashy way. I think they love that.
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I think they, that's why they draw media attention to it. They control the media, right?
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They, you know, if they didn't like that stuff, they would just, it would disappear quicker than
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a story on Hunter Biden's laptop. Or the fact that he's on the board of a Ukrainian gas company.
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That's how fast it would disappear if they didn't want to draw attention to it.
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Because I think what they like to do is like the, you know, the commie stuff, like, you
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know, the Black Lives Matter protests, they like that because they like chaos, right?
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I think they like these two for a different reason, because I think they try to draw attention
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to it and then crush it easily, like they did in Canada.
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I mean, it's like, why were there horses when there's just, like, little old ladies?
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So they love that kind of stuff because I think they think it leads them to have more power anyway.
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See, everyday defiance is far superior in almost every conceivable way.
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But one way is that you don't get into their media news because that's their playground.
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Another good example of this is Pastor Coates in Canada, right?
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Like, he's arrested for having worship service.
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He went about his business because he answers to God.
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They arrested him, and he took responsibility for his own protest into his own hands.
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He didn't go trying to hold anyone hostage or anything.
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if we had legions of people doing exactly what he did.
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because so many of the other Canadians were cowards.
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this is an example worth following in my opinion it's everyday obedient defiance
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obedient to god defiant to tyrants but that's just the beginning my second strategy
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my second strategy is self-reliance so we've got the first strategy everyday defiance
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I remember I was actually on Pastor Joel's podcast
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where's Pastor Joel, I was on his great podcast
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because Pastor Joel is a much better speaker than me
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so he wants to define his terms, I just let it ride
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operate and control things outside of their jurisdiction. Like they're not staying in their
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lane, right? So if Biden came and he said, you know, you really got to discipline your kids this
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way, that would be tyranny. But if I do it, you know, if I discipline my kids the way I need to
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do it, it's not tyranny because that's my role. So they're not staying in their lane. So it's
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tyranny for the government to do the vaccine mandates or, you know, the mask mandates or
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whatever, because the government doesn't have that jurisdiction, not over your work,
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not over personal health care, quite frankly, not even over the economy. That's not their realm.
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But that does not mean nobody has jurisdiction over these things. Somebody does. And that's
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somebody's you. You see, the government has this huge bureaucracy, right? So like every area of
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your life is micromanaged by this array of agencies and departments. And this is like the form tyranny
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typically takes, right? It's like, I hate to break it to you, but like, there are a lot of people here
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worried about socialism coming to America, it's already here. It's already here. But it was slow
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rolled, so you'd accept it. So like what happens is the agency that was started to keep you well
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fed and healthy, the FDA, they're now using it to ban treatments that might heal you because it
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doesn't align with the goal of the tyrants. The same banking systems that were introduced, I mean
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The Federal Reserve was introduced to keep employment high and prices stable.
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That's not necessarily historically accurate, but that's what they say their goal is now.
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Now, that same agency, their whole mission seems to be eroding your life savings.
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Also, freezing the bank accounts with people that they don't like.
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The same department that's supposed to improve educational quality, so no child's left behind,
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is now, by law, forcing schools to teach children the joys of sodomy, cross-dressing, and why white
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people are evil. This is what happens when you relinquish your responsibility to the government
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and let them take responsibility for it instead. They always become corrupted. They always become
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a beast. And so we protest, but this is the problem with our protests so many times.
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our protests simply seek to either tear down the system or revile against the system the same
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system that so many of us rely on so you can scream let's go brandon all you want but if
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brandon eventually decides to go full dictator on you how are you going to survive your bank account
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being frozen or worse like what if brandon doesn't cave how are you going to survive the shutdown of
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supply chain that you yourself initiated. Some people have said that many countries are just a
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few meals away from total chaos. And that's true for too many of us. So we can't just have chaos,
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right? We can't just revile the systems that we depend on. We need to replace that system.
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Because if we revile against the systems we depend on, we're essentially cutting off the
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branch that we're standing on. So we must take responsibility back for what God gave us
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so that whatever Brandon decides to do, I think that means Biden. I'm not sure.
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Whatever President Biden decides to do, he does what he has to do, but we'll do what we have to
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do. So here's a few examples. And it doesn't end here. Number one, rule yourself. Rule yourself.
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Your sinful passions and desires that are at war within you, you must put them to death. If you
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watch porn, just stop. How can you rule a household if you can't rule yourself? How much sense does it
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make to protest the depravity of porn or Hollywood or whatever if you're a customer?
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Let your denial of your fleshly desires be your protest. Don't consent to it. If you are in debt
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because of your covetousness, get out of debt. Make it a protest. Don't consent to the debt-based
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financial... How much sense does it make to rail against the Federal Reserve, they have a debt-based
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money, if you're in debt? How much sense does it make to wring your hands about the national debt,
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the libs keep adding to it, if you keep adding to your own debt? Don't be a debtor. Be a creditor.
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The Bible says the borrower is slave to the lender.
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That's not something that's potentially true.
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I saw someone online that, and he was being snarky, right?
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Like, he was against the trucker convoy too, but he was like really against his wacko.
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But he said, how about instead of giving money to the trucker convoy, we call it MasterCard
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These are basic things, and I think they'll have a huge impact.
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Even if things were good, they'd have a huge impact on your family.
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Like, if he wants something or needs something, instead of becoming a slave, going into debt,
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he just saved up until he had enough money to buy it.
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Or he controlled his passions, you know, I don't need it right now.
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instead of just reviling, oh, you know, I can't believe all the debt I have.
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Because this is the thing, and I'm not against protesting the school board, right?
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Like, my kids are homeschooled, but I also don't want other people's kids to learn about sodomy.
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my kids are homeschooled but i also don't want other kids to learn that white people are the
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devil so so okay so so take those opportunities where where they are you know you can you can
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you can try to affect change of the school board right but i know but but but one thing needs to
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be certain be self-reliant for your own kids right because like you might not change the school
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board's mind about that they might say oh you know cross-dressing is good they'll make sure
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they don't have your kids, though, right? Make sure they don't have your kids. My kids won't
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be in those systems regardless of what they do with them. So we can change them, but don't rely
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on them. Here's another protest that I think is growing in popularity, and I'll only be brief
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here, but as much as you can, grow your own food, right? Become your own warehouse. Get utility out
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of what you own. Make your own property productive. Let it be a protest. It's a lot, think about this,
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like it's a lot harder to be manipulated by these beasts when you're fully stocked at home, right?
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It's like, you know, get the vax or you can't come to my grocery store. Like that's a lot less
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tempting when you got chickens at home. You know, you got to approve of sodomy or you can't work
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here. That's a joke. When you have the ability to get utility out of your own property, earn your
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own money. You know, bow the knee to Lord Trudeau or you can't access your bank account.
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That's a laugh riot when you store your wealth primarily outside of the banking system.
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There are some ways that I do this and other ways I don't, but you know, like you can figure it out
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is my point. Let that be a protest, right? And the thing is, these are not easy things. I don't
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want to say they're easy. They're simple, but this is going to make your life harder, right? It's
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going to be a little more difficult, but that's okay. Let it be a protest. People kept telling
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me about the trucker combo, you know, freedom is not free. And I agree with that. Freedom is not
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free, but take it into your own hands. Freedom is not free. So take the time to make your own life
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a little bit more difficult, but a little more safe. Let this be your protest. Don't rely on
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the systems that you're protesting, especially if you want to make it last. I think this is the
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fundamental problem of so many protests these days. Like, if you actually got what you want,
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sometimes, and I think there's a lot about the BLM stuff and the Occupy Wall Street stuff,
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like, if you actually got what you want and overturned capitalism, your life would be ruined
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almost overnight. They're cutting off the branch that they're standing. Let the libs do that.
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We don't have to do that. Don't put yourself in a position that makes the tyrant's temptations
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tempting to you. That's a recipe for humiliation and failure. And by the way, I think this is a
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biblical principle. Man, I'm going long. Sorry, guys. I keep going. Listen to what Paul says,
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right? He's talking to the brothers. He says, look, do this more and more. Aspire to live
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quietly and mind your own affairs. Work with your own hands as we instructed you. And he says,
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be dependent on no one. He's basically saying, mind your own business, work with your own hands,
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don't rely on anybody. Let that be a protest. But no man is an island, so no man can do this
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himself. So my third strategy, ready? We've got everyday defiance, self-reliance, and community
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Consider the psalm I read early, the one that says
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But the continuation of that psalm, listen to this.
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a warrior are the children of one's youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them. I don't
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think this is an accident, what God's talking about here. How does God build his house?
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He builds it by building families. Let this be a protest. Have kids as you are able.
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Teach them to fear the Lord. Disciple them to obey everything Christ commands. And when you do this
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enough times and when enough families do this, this is how you accomplish a godly revolution.
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It's not flashy, especially, you know, three o'clock in the morning,
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they wake up, and it's like, it won't get you on CNN.
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Let your large, well-adjusted, healthy, God-fearing, self-reliant family
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Seriously, if you want to tangle with militarized police officers
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in Ottawa and have a dance party, that's okay. But I suggest have a dance party with your toddlers
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instead. Let that be your protest. If you want to go into Pelosi's office and like throw her stuff
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around and, you know, go live. That was one guy baked Alaska went live from her office. The maniac.
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Let the other people do that. You teach your son how to build a shed or to go fishing or to go
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hunting or to grow food. Let it be a protest. In turn, teach your sons to love and grow his extended
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family. And what that means is his own family, yes, but also his local community, especially
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the church, right? Our church is to start planning right now. We need to see the trouble coming and
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adapt. That's almost a Bible verse. It says the righteous man sees trouble coming and hides
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himself. Let it be a protest, right? They're going to tempt you with all kinds of conveniences that
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we don't think of as conveniences. We think of them as necessities, but they're conveniences.
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It's already begun. Banking, food, jobs, all of these are currently being tied to obeying the
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tyrants and their schemes, right? Climate schemes, sexual perversions, all of it. In the future,
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if you don't go along with this, you're going to have trouble banking. You're going to have
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trouble getting loans. You're going to have trouble with food and travel and employment if you don't
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go with the program. This is already happening. I know guys that can't get on a plane right now.
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They're not terrorists. They just say the wrong thing about sodomy. We need to be prepared for it
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by cultivating local supply chains, local food, local economies. Let it be a protest. Build things.
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I'm going to talk about Gab real quick. You guys might not like Gab. I like it. It's a social media
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site. And guess what? Social media, you don't have the right to use social media, right? There are
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some people that are trying to force Twitter to not ban people. I think it's a terrible idea.
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I think it's like the trucker thing. It's like a flashy thing. You know, it's cool to have your
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favorite politician be like, I'm going to create this task force. We're going to study committee
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and we're going to force Twitter to allow you to say stuff. It's like, it sounds good. It's flashy,
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but even if it's a victory, I don't think that's a victory. I think that's tyranny.
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instead of that build your own social media gab.com is not better than twitter
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but you could say whatever you want there except for porn threats and other kinds of degeneracy
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but you see the thing is it doesn't have to be as good as twitter but it's a place that that's
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ours and they don't control you don't have to get with the program in order to use it right
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and we should do this with everything not just with social media but with banking and with
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everything. Don't stop planning in your local church until you have a plan in place for every
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contingency. Because chances are, you've got people in your church already that can do everything you
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need them to do. You've got plumbers, you've got contractors, you've got farmers, you've got coders,
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whatever it is. Start today. Start networking, planning for the time when you might not have
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access to these conveniences. Make it a protest. Because here's the thing. You want to be able to
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laugh at their temptations. That's a great place to be in, right? Like when they tell you, look,
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you can't come to our, you want to laugh at them. You can't go to your grocery store. I got organic
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beef over here. You can come to my grocery store if you want. Right now you can go to the grocery
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store. Be grateful for that because there might be a time where you have to sell your soul to go
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to the grocery store. How are you going to feed yourself if you're banned from the store? So plan
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now. You know, right now, someone comes to the door, threatens you, you can call the cops. Be
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grateful for the cops. But there could come a time that your social credit score is not high
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enough, the cops aren't going to come. So how would you protect yourself then, right? Plan now
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so you're not scrambling at the moment. Do the same thing for money and banking. Do the same
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thing for work. Do the same thing for everything you need because that's the kind of protest we
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need. That's the kind of protest that'll last. And the reason it'll last is because it's applying
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love through building instead of applying fear through destruction and reviling.
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I want to, I know I'm out of time, but I'm going to read the scripture again because I want you
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to think about what I've said and recognize that, look, this is God's word for dealing with tyrants
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and governments. And there's no footnote that says, well, unless the commies are coming,
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Because if the commies are coming, then do whatever you want.
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Contribute to the needs of the saints and show hospitality.
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Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly.
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but give thought to do what is honorable in the sight of all.
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vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord. To the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him.
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If he is thirsty, give him something to drink, for by doing so you will heat burning coals on his
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head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. Practice ordinary obedience.
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Ordinary love is your protest. Let it be your defiance. Everyday things. Don't consent to evil.
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defy tyrants all day, every day, but do it according to God's commands.
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It won't get you media attention, or it might not.
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Sometimes it even does, if that's what you desire.
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But it might not, but it's the right thing to do.
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You might not get memes made about you, but that's probably a good thing.
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I just want to reiterate, it is so tempting to pour all your time and all your energy
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into trying to control things you can't possibly control,
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in ordinary defiance, the things you can control.
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I believe fully that this will lead to the victory
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