Trump's State of the Union address to Congress, the Russia-Ukrainian war, and our vital need to stay out of Ukraine. This episode is brought to you by Right Response Ministries, the Armored Republic and Reese Fund, as well as our patrons and faithful donors.
00:06:46.780uh the second assassination attempt which just even saying that second more than one second
00:06:54.240assassination attempt on donald trump during the campaign uh was performed by a rabid pro-ukrainian
00:07:01.460guy who who tried to enlist in the ukrainian and tried to get other people to enlist was trying to
00:07:06.520say let's go let's fight so why is he trying to kill trump whatever you know i was gonna say
00:07:10.760everyone hates trump but that's not actually true uh turns out he's one of the more popular
00:07:14.620presidents of my lifetime currently in the polls. His approval rating right now is the highest it's
00:07:18.340ever been for him. Yeah. And his, and their approval rating from the congressional address
00:07:22.980that just took place last night was through the roof. I mean, it was like 70 something percent
00:07:28.420that said, yeah, this is, this is pretty good. We like this. And, you know, do I think that there
00:07:34.000were manufactured votes, you know, in the 2020 election when, you know, 80 trillion billion
00:07:38.800gazillion people came out to vote for Joe Biden, people from the grave, people who've never even
00:07:43.140existed. Yeah, I think that the votes were fluffed up. But let's be honest for a second. As much as
00:07:48.580we want to give credence to the fact that that election was, if not stolen, certainly rigged.
00:07:53.880I think we can say that with all sincerity. Time Magazine said that. Yeah, as much as the 2020
00:07:58.640election was rigged in Biden's favor, let's just be honest. There were still a ton of people who
00:08:05.420voted for Biden who have changed their mind and praise God. So it's not just like, oh, look,
00:08:10.200this just shows how everything was inflated and artificially manipulated. And what the people
00:08:14.780really thought was they really loved Trump all along. No, they did not love Trump all along.
00:08:19.200They are now changing their tune because they're coming to terms and realizing, praise God, by his1.00
00:08:23.520grace, we welcome it with open arms, but they're realizing that they were idiots. And that is1.00
00:08:28.500important. Everybody who, I'm just going to say this, I'll get a little bit of flack, but everybody
00:08:32.320who is changing their tune, welcome. Absolutely. We welcome you with open arms and go ahead and
00:08:38.160find yourself a nice, warm, comfortable spot on the bench. We need your vote. We do not need your
00:08:44.960voice. If you voted for Joe Biden in 2020, you are unfit to lead this movement. You don't know
00:08:51.920what time it is. You have barely any discernment at all. We're glad that you saw the error of your
00:08:56.960ways. We're glad you've repented and that you've changed. But no, you do not get to,
00:09:02.620you can come along and ride in the car, preferably in the trunk, but at least in the back seat,
00:09:07.020but you certainly don't get to drive. You absolutely ruined the country for four years.
00:09:13.100You endangered the lives of children. You are responsible for 13 service members losing their
00:09:19.900lives in Afghanistan. You are a liability. By God's grace, you are not so much of a liability0.66
00:09:26.440that with the blatant evidence painted right in front of your face for four years from 2020 through
00:09:32.7802024, you're not so much of a liability that you couldn't see the writing on the wall that was so
00:09:38.040evident to eventually change your mind and vote for Trump four years later. And we're grateful for
00:09:43.280that. But by the sheer virtue of voting for Joe Biden in 2020, we knew all the facts back then.
00:09:50.700We knew all the facts back then. Nothing has changed. It's like all the people who were
00:09:54.500wearing three masks and got 17 boosters and then said, well, we didn't know. Now the data has come
00:10:00.020out. Who could have known? Who could have known? I don't know. Maybe just the tens of thousands of
00:10:06.020people who were saying it all along. It's one thing to get fooled for a few weeks. A lot of us,
00:10:11.040including myself, for the first few weeks, our church didn't meet because we didn't have a place
00:10:16.000to meet. We were renting a public school. The school kicked us out. We were in California where
00:10:20.540there were some of the strictest COVID policies. And so for four weeks, we were not able to meet
00:10:26.680as a church and we were trying to figure things out but i'm talking about guys who were who were
00:10:30.820locking down their churches and and triple masking and 17 boosters not for for four weeks but for 18
00:10:37.940months double services right and now i want to say well we were hoodwinked and we were lied to no
00:10:43.500no there's a confirmation bias that at some point you must admit it comes into play no you were you
00:10:48.940were believing what was being said not because it was proven not because it was compelling but
00:10:54.100because you are an mpc you are an mpc non-player character and the chip that was saying she's so
00:11:02.340brat six months ago and you were sharing the tiktok videos has simply been replaced by the
00:11:07.620popular sentiment and now you're saying you know you're doing the trump dance and if you're an mpc0.75
00:11:12.640who went from she's so brat on tiktok to now you know doing a trump dance on x we're glad you're
00:11:19.060here. You do not get to drive. Find a seat on the bench. We're glad you're here, but you are not
00:11:26.280qualified to have an ounce of influence. And one of my greatest prayers for our president, Donald
00:11:31.720J. Trump, is that through this second term that he would not make some of the most significant
00:11:36.600mistakes that he made in his first term, which is trusting the wrong people. Here's the thing,
00:11:43.040he is so not literally hitler despite what the legacy media tries to tell you um i actually think
00:11:49.400one of the greatest weaknesses of trump is not that he's totalitarian not that he's too extreme
00:11:53.340not that he's too harsh but i think he's a big softy and i think i see that actually as one of
00:11:57.900his greatest weaknesses trump is actually too forgiving in my opinion yeah he's actually too
00:12:03.020quick to take someone who literally hated him six months ago and say okay well they said something
00:12:08.400nice about me on social media you know in the last 15 minutes and so i'm going to welcome them in
00:12:12.480I think the guy is too soft. I think he's too kind. I think he's too forgiving. Those are great virtues and great qualities as an individual private citizen, as a private Christian, but not necessarily the best things as a president. But at the same time, I think God in his providence, by there being two assassination attempts, by the fact that lawfare and trying to imprison him as a political opposition to Joe Biden, through all the legal lawfare, through the assassination attempts.
00:12:39.540imprisoning his allies, anyone who even aligned with him.
00:12:42.220Throughout all of that, he's still a little bit too forgiving in my personal opinion,
00:12:45.920but I think he has wised up a bit. So what we're going to do is I'm going to hand it to Wes. We're
00:12:50.840going to look at some key points from last night's formal congressional address, which was fantastic.
00:12:57.220It was beautiful. We're going to look at some key points and we're going to try to do what we always
00:13:01.320do here with Right Response Ministries is not just give you the news because there's plenty of
00:13:06.000sources that you could go to for that, not the legacy media, but you can find different independent
00:13:10.300journalists that are conservative that, you know, have platforms on X and all these things. And it's
00:13:14.940wonderful. And I'm grateful for that. I get a lot of my news through those avenues. So we're not
00:13:20.140just going to give you the news because there's other people who can give it to you faster.
00:13:23.980What we're going to do is what we always seek to do, which is to highlight a few key moments to
00:13:28.960give you some news, but then to do our best to draw out some of the practical implications and
00:13:34.540provide some of the practical applications. What does this mean? Here's some key moments from last
00:13:39.760night's congressional address. And here's what we think it means for Christians. This is how we
00:13:46.160should then live. This is how we can act accordingly. If this, then what? And that's the question that
00:13:52.600we seek to answer on this channel. So that's what we're going to do in our first segment. Then we'll
00:13:57.000go to our first commercial break. And when we come back, we're going to deal with what happened
00:14:01.660right at the beginning of the weekend that we haven't had time to get to yet, which is on0.95
00:14:05.400Friday, I believe it was Zelensky was thrown out on his butt by J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. And0.97
00:14:12.020it was glorious. And we're going to talk about why that's a good thing, why the Russia-Ukrainian
00:14:17.800war is an absolute travesty, over a million dead. It must stop. And it's going to stop
00:14:24.060by Zelensky making the concessions. He's not winning. He's not going to win. The only way
00:14:30.000you win this war is by dragging all the West into it. We've been there. You want to talk about0.67
00:14:35.320never again principles? Hashtag never again. Okay, here's the never again that we actually
00:14:42.060should put into practice. The never again principle that should be applied is never again
00:14:48.480will we have a Western civil war. We've had enough civil wars. America had a civil war 160 years ago.
00:14:56.10080 years after that, we had a Western American European civil war. And now you want to do World
00:15:02.320War III and have a Western civil war again, where we go to war with a Christian nation,0.87
00:15:07.580I might add, namely Russia. Zelensky is persecuting and destroying churches, Christian churches in0.81
00:15:16.500Ukraine. I understand that everyone wants to think that Putin is a thug. And for the record,0.85
00:15:21.980I'm not a Putin fan. I don't think he's a great guy. I also don't think that Zelensky is a great
00:15:28.100guy. And there are very clear, specific, and I would argue justifiable, valid reasons why Putin,
00:15:35.220who was the aggressor, chose to aggress back in 2022. That when you continue to welcome0.52
00:15:43.040European countries into NATO, which is the USA, welcome them into NATO and allow for them to have
00:15:49.700nuclear power and set up military bases and they're on the border of russia and it directly
00:15:54.820goes against some of the agreements that were put in in the 1990s and the early 2000s um then you
00:16:02.340you are threatening russia if russia set up military bases with nuclear power on our border
00:16:08.380in canada and in mexico we would go to war in 15 minutes and we'd be justified to do so and we'd
00:16:15.280justified to do so so i am i'm sorry ukraine i'm thinking about the bay of pigs i mean we were
00:16:21.740we took that very seriously yeah yes yep so we're sorry we know that there are good men and women
00:16:27.660in ukraine there are wonderful christian brothers and sisters in ukraine but there are 85 christian
00:16:33.460nation there are also wonderful christians in russia and what we want to see is peace we want
00:16:39.980to see peace and here's the deal it's like well but if we didn't fight this war it's like it's
00:16:43.700like that little interview that happened you know with uh tucker carlson and who was the guy who was
00:16:48.300like oh i'm free you know uh i know that i'm free pierce morgan pierce morgan i know that well how
00:16:53.940do you what do you mean you're free they're arresting people for memes in your country in
00:16:58.360great britain you know like for conservative means what do you mean free is that why i'm free because
00:17:03.140we're speaking english right now instead of german well i'll tell you what for the million people who
00:17:07.320are dead and for all their loved ones that they're remembered by i bet you they would rather speak
00:17:12.580russian that probably wouldn't have even been the case but had it been worst case probably already
00:17:16.680were especially in the eastern region many of them were native russians but they would rather speak
00:17:20.760russian and have their loved ones back from the grave so peace has to happen and what it means
00:17:27.640is concessions for ukraine uh we are not doing this again you want to talk about never again
00:17:33.100here's your never again moment right you got what's his name kier the prime minister kier
00:17:38.700starmer right he literally thinks that this is his churchill moment uh yeah i think it is too
00:17:44.400that is not the brag it's the anakin meme oh i think it is too yeah i think it is too churchill0.64
00:17:49.900made a mistake and you're you are currently making the same mistake peace right well hitler
00:17:55.120was bent on global domination he didn't just want you know historic german lands and peoples in
00:17:59.960poland he wanted to rule the entire world well that's the same right do we not notice the
00:18:05.340similarity. It's the same story 80 years later, 160 years before Civil War in America. 80 years
00:18:13.200after that, history works, notices in 80-year cycles. It seems to be a theme as far as we're
00:18:18.580noticing. Here's something I've noticed. 160 years ago, right? Civil War in America, 80 years later,
00:18:24.000World War II, 80 years later now, and we have the potential of World War III, and it looks exactly0.78
00:18:30.400like world war ii well this person is a tyrant totalitarian dictator hitler putin he he doesn't
00:18:37.100just want historic you know uh russian lands in ukraine with native people you know like he0.83
00:18:42.240doesn't just want the historic german lands and you know in poland he's bent on world domination
00:18:47.220and and every single country in western europe must unite against him which would do what which0.95
00:18:53.820that would force russia's hand they would immediately gain allyship from china right
00:18:59.340if you come to if if if kier does this prime minister in great britain if he does this and
00:19:05.040any other nation start to follow suit with a domino effect france or whatever it might be
00:19:09.400then you are going to see china rally to russia's aid aid and then you have you have access and
00:19:17.100ally powers all over again our sons and because we are wicked egalitarian post-modernist it will
00:19:23.920not just be our sons. It will also be the enlistment of our daughters, conscription of
00:19:28.980daughters who will go out and bleed for another war for boomers who are trying to LARP as Winston0.90
00:19:37.020Churchill. We're done with that. Never again. So we will get to that. I know I already kind of went0.93
00:19:42.180there, but we will get to that and address some more details. But first, some key moments,
00:19:47.000highlight moments of the congressional address last night with Donald J. Trump and some of the
00:19:52.180practical applications for Christians. Wes, let's go. All right. We're going to jump right into
00:19:56.900clips. If you didn't watch it, which you should have, it was good. It was also two hours long.
00:20:01.540But if you didn't watch it, here's three really great just moments from it. One of them,
00:20:06.340it's a little bit of a black pill because of the implications. The other two, though,
00:20:09.140I think are great. And so, Nate, we'll roll clip one. This is my fifth such speech to Congress.
00:20:16.680And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely
00:20:22.040nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud nothing I can do
00:20:29.440so Democrats sitting before me for just this one night why not join us in celebrating so many
00:20:37.880incredible wins for America for the good of our nation let's work together and let's truly make
00:24:32.800And if the nation and if the conservative right-wing movement is indeed returning to some sense of natural normalcy, they will not be able to continue to exist.
00:24:44.080Which I know, Wes, you said is a black pill because they're entrenched, but maybe there's a red pill in there as well.
00:24:50.520Maybe there's a white pill in there as well that the chicken running around is going to have to fall over eventually.
00:24:56.760Yeah, I think we'll probably, I mean, it's not my preference, but I think we'll probably continue with the two-party system for the foreseeable future.
00:25:05.380But those two parties will be radically changed.
00:25:07.940I think what we'll actually see is the Republican Party, you know, as we've, you know, previously known it in recent decades, kind of this neo-Republican, neocon, you know, party and MAGA.
00:25:20.620And the neocon, it'll be like you're, it's not going to be AOC.
00:25:25.760That's, you know, they're going to just, you know, shriek and wail into the void, you know, for eternity and achieve utter irrelevance.
00:25:35.000But what I think it will be is it'll be a bunch of people who were previously Republicans in a neocon era, your Bushes, your Liz Cheney's, your, you know, these kinds of individuals who all say, well, the Republican Party left me, you know what I mean?
00:25:49.320So kind of similar to, you know, your Bill Maher's and stuff like, well, you know, the leftist, you know, they went so far left that it made me a Republican.
00:25:57.480you'll see that in a reverse fashion um and and so they'll end up changing teams and be the new
00:26:04.360democrats and the new democrats will basically be the old republicans and then the new party will
00:26:08.980be actually to the right of what republicans have been over the last 30 years right and that'll be
00:26:14.240and that'll be really great and i think that will you know they'll fight it out over the next couple
00:26:18.660decades and my hope and prayers uh the neocons that are now the new democrats that they'll lose
00:26:23.940and then it'll be maga and an emerging party they'll actually be to the right of maga boom
00:26:28.360that's where we come in right and it'll be just this unadulterated full-fledged christian
00:26:35.040nationalism that is just just so much fascism you just can't even stand it you just you know
00:26:41.040just absolutely unbelievable so and people are commenting on that like wait a second like wait
00:26:46.020we're still talking about women's sports is a good thing and and look well you said jogging
00:26:50.240you weren't talking about women's sports uh so that's the next clip where he talks about actually
00:26:54.520getting out so but someone mentioned that like wait so we're conservatives if we won and it's
00:26:58.920like we want women's sports just without men it's like well that's not a very conservative position
00:27:02.940believe me we have a long way to go but this is the if it was going to if there's going to be a
00:27:09.420change this is what the start of it would look like it would look like momentum it would look
00:27:13.600like guys holding real positions of power only a few of them at first only a few guys thomas
00:27:18.360Massey without AIPAC handlers. Only a few
00:29:49.640Stories of American citizens who were jailed for years on end that he finally brought home?
00:29:53.600You tell those stories, and you'll actually get a people that share some level of a cohesive vision and values instead of, I don't even remember.
00:30:02.300i think i watched joe biden's state of the union address you know it's probably things like so and
00:30:07.340so lived 20 years as a woman and then discovered the real calling but really though like those are
00:30:11.760the stories yeah that others will tell and what you tell instead of that is not facts and statistics
00:30:16.660and studies say right good stories not whether but which not whether but which there will be stories
00:30:22.740society and culture is shaped by stories always has been throughout all of human history it's
00:30:27.760not whether, but which. Will they be good stories or bad stories? Which stories will we tell?
00:30:32.520Defiant Baptist, he says this, we win with stories. We win with culture. You don't win
00:30:38.280with tax cuts. It has been said that facts don't care about your feelings. It is equally true that
00:30:45.680people's feelings don't care about facts. It's like, well, I showed him this chart and Lord
00:30:50.940knows we appreciate a good chart, save the president's life. We've got one coming later
00:30:54.720We've got charts in pretty much every episode that we do.
00:38:14.760yeah he opened his eyes and he said hmm grown men crushing the skulls of high school girls
00:38:21.200in volleyball in boxing right beating them by five hours in different track races well that0.99
00:38:28.240doesn't make sense that's stupid literally like he doesn't he's not using some type of chart like1.00
00:38:34.000like trump doesn't have time to read just at a gut level he looks at and says no no that's stupid1.00
00:38:39.260two genders well yeah of course duh that's what god made and uh and his ability to just do that0.99
00:38:44.420surpasses all the the theory nerds all the guys in the the university like well you know tactically
00:38:50.760actually there's different syndromes which is awesome yeah yeah i love it yeah it is there's
00:38:56.660a return right now um in the west uh and i say the west not because the west in this case has
00:39:03.100been superior but because the rest of the world didn't need to return because they never left
00:39:07.040but the west is returning to nature um those things which can be um ascertained and and
00:39:13.400concluded simply by nature and and this is a biblical principle the apostle paul you know
00:39:18.460where he says does not nature teach you that x y z and so there are certain things i mean it's
00:39:25.500god's world right we don't live in something that's arbitrary or capricious we don't live
00:39:29.660in a world that was you know made at random um out of stardust we live in a world that was designed
00:39:35.260and created by an orderly creator. And so, because God made the worlds, the world operates by God's
00:39:41.580laws. And so, there is a natural law that can be ascertained by natural man. It will not be
00:39:46.760ascertained perfectly because in our sin, left to our own devices, apart from redeeming grace
00:39:52.480and salvation, becoming a new creature in Christ Jesus, which can only happen by a miracle of God,
00:39:57.420the miracle of salvation, man will still come to wrong conclusions. But there are still not all
00:40:02.620wrong conclusions. There are many right conclusions that a natural man can come to
00:40:07.900simply by studying and observing nature itself. And at this point, that puts,
00:40:15.600sadly, to our shame, that puts many non-Christians, many unbelievers in our country,0.95
00:40:22.880squarely to the right of many professing Christians, because they're not necessarily0.71
00:40:28.420returning to Christ, but they are returning to nature. And the West, because of secular humanism
00:40:35.520and all these different things, has abandoned, not only abandoned our Christian heritage,
00:40:40.620abandoning Christ, apostatizing in a spiritual sense, but we have also abandoned nature. By
00:40:46.320leaving Christ, we've left nature itself. We've thought that we could somehow transcend nature,
00:40:51.760that we could be above and beyond nature, from the Industrial Revolution to the tech boom,
00:40:56.340to all these different innovations we thought that we were somehow greater than nature itself
00:41:00.520that we could we didn't have to worship god because we could somehow achieve a god-like
00:41:05.600status for ourselves and um and yet the piper has come and he demands to be paid and many are
00:41:13.520are turning back to nature and then in that journey of reverting back to nature also finding
00:41:18.960the god of nature the triune god the christian god and returning to the christian faith as well
00:41:25.280But many who have allegedly held to the Christian faith all along in word only and not in deed are still somehow trying to prop up a manufactured, artificial, unnatural way of living that does not find root in the scripture.
00:41:45.460It does not find its root in human history.
00:41:48.200It's a house of cards, and it is quickly tumbling down.
00:42:33.240it's time to stop this madness it's time to halt the killing
00:42:39.660it's time to end this senseless war if you want to end wars you have to talk to both sides
00:42:46.500amen true anything to add before we hit our first commercial break we're gonna obviously hit on
00:42:53.380all of this but definitely wanted to share what trump himself said last night yeah i those are
00:42:58.120definitely some of the key highlights and i'm encouraged uh to see that uh we all you know
00:43:03.020we've said all along and i think this is just unquestionably uh true but uh i don't think that
00:43:08.520this war would have happened in the first place um if trump had never left office um
00:43:13.540and putin and and others on the global stage saw those four years as a window of weakness
00:43:19.900america has been and still is perhaps to a lesser degree but i think that we're recuperating as
00:43:28.080quickly as possible but we have been a superpower and we have in many ways served as the global
00:43:33.140police and much of that i think has actually been at the cost of america first i don't know if
00:43:40.720I'm not an isolationist in the strictest sense. But I do think that America has her hands in
00:43:47.640far too many cookie jars and needs to prioritize our own people. But the point is that we have been
00:43:54.820a force for peace on the global stage. And four years of Biden was a window of weakness. And
00:44:01.600much of the world's leaders took advantage of that weakness. But the king has returned.
00:44:08.040and with his return uh comes peace through strength not peace through uh concessions
00:44:15.920and weakness but peace through strength and uh so trump you know returning to the global stage
00:44:21.940and saying enough is enough uh we're going to sort this out i think that that's um a very
00:44:26.820very positive development and uh this yeah the my biggest regret in all this is uh it just
00:44:33.660It should have never happened in the first place. And if it did happen because Putin felt threatened and he felt like he needed to, he needed to, you know, his initial aggression that it had to be done in order to send a message because the West had gotten way too big for its britches and putting, you know, all these border nations on Russia's border into NATO and giving them military bases and all these different powers that are in immediate and close proximity, you know, geographical threat to Russia.
00:45:02.640If Putin had to have his initial aggression, I still think that even with that, peace could have been quickly achieved.
00:45:12.300From the little bit of study that I've done, it seems as though within like seven to 10 days, there was already an attempt at peace after the initial invasion and aggression by Putin.0.56
00:45:27.380And Zelensky was the one who walked away from that.
00:45:31.120Potentially at the urging of the United States.
00:45:33.260At the urging of the United States, that the United States, namely the Biden administration, urged Zelensky not to take any peace deals, not to offer any concessions with Putin and the promise that, you know, that we'll give you billions and billions of dollars.
00:45:49.040And sadly, they came through with that promise.
00:45:51.360And we gave, what is it, 300 or 150 billion dollars to a foreign country.
00:45:59.040Meanwhile, our own borders were all, you know, barely even existent, fentanyl flooding into the country, foreign military aged men, full-fledged invasion.
00:46:13.800What's her name? Riley Aiken, is that?
00:46:20.280Sadly, brutally murdered by someone who didn't belong in the country to begin with.
00:46:24.760um yeah so things are are finally getting back on track um and i i i just i don't know i mean
00:46:32.600it's fairly obvious but i just think it's worth pointing out you know when trump says hey i got
00:46:36.900a call from zelensky he said this also i'm hearing from putin uh that he's willing to negotiate peace
00:46:42.680uh if we think that this is a coincidence then um then i you know i've got some oceanfront property
00:46:48.980in kansas i would like to sell to you uh no it's not a coincidence it's um it's because trump is
00:46:55.140back that's the only reason it's because trump is back the things that are happening now are not
00:46:59.180happening by coincidence uh they're uh they're happening now and they could have happened all
00:47:03.920along but the democrats didn't do it why are people not flooding would i like to see deportations
00:47:08.800multiplied by exponential numbers yes let's give it some time have a little patience but yes we
00:47:14.260need to get deportations ramped up massively but in terms of who's coming in we've actually we've
00:47:20.020actually stopped the bleeding um immediately at our borders and we didn't do it with some new you
00:47:26.080know something passed by congress or some new law uh the existing laws on the books were sufficient
00:47:32.220in order to do the job if you wanted to right that the um the purpose of an institution is what
00:47:40.920it does. It's what it does. And the Democrats, for four years, they could have stopped the
00:47:47.160invasion at our southern border. They chose not to. Their hands were not tied behind their back
00:47:52.820because of some kind of legislation. The laws that were currently on the books were more than
00:47:57.940sufficient. The reason that Republicans held up the law that the Democrats were proposing towards
00:48:03.780the end of Biden's administration was because that law was actually more lenient in how many
00:48:10.900people it allowed across the border than the law that was currently on the books. That's why the
00:48:15.980Republicans and the Democrats use that through their propaganda to say, well, we wanted to stop
00:48:20.880the influx of foreigners coming across the border. But look, the Republicans, they say they want the
00:48:28.040border to be defended, and yet they won't even sign this. But yeah, they won't sign the bill
00:48:32.280because the current law that you already have is actually more restrictive it's actually better and
00:48:37.440you're not doing anything with that they wanted a new bill that basically uh would require them to
00:48:42.720to bear like to shave off you know like 10 percent of of the immigration um whereas what they should
00:48:50.440have been doing was shaving off 90 percent 90 plus uh with the pre-existing laws and so um all this
00:48:57.540From immigration to fentanyl to crime on the streets to the Russia-Ukrainian war, all of these things, what we're finding out just in the first few weeks of Trump's presidency is that all of these things were preventable.0.99
00:49:15.680It's not, you know, never chalk up to malice what could be explained by stupidity.0.99
00:55:10.520Yeah, illegitimate and a sin, and by your presence. Here's the other thing that a lot of Christians don't understand about weddings, because we've taken a lot of the old ancient proverbial wisdom and beauty and symbolism out of modern wedding ceremonies.0.98
00:55:28.200but historically um what what a wedding signified the reason why it wasn't just done out you know
00:55:34.260in in the woods by yourselves or if it was it was a very unusual time period like saint valentine
00:55:39.300when when marriages were made illegal you know by the king and so you were having to get married
00:55:43.420in secret or like a william wallace kind of situation you know braveheart um but throughout
00:55:48.200most of history unless it was some kind of extenuating circumstances weddings always had
00:55:52.340guests and the guests are not merely guests but they serve as witnesses and that's a very
00:55:57.740intentional term right there. Witnesses, and there's usually a part, at least traditionally
00:56:02.760there was, especially within the Christian tradition, where there's a section in the
00:56:07.300wedding ceremony, in the liturgy, where the minister who's performing the wedding, he would
00:56:13.120say, do all you here witnessing promise, do you give your vow, your word to do all within your
00:56:19.300power by the grace of God within you to uphold these two persons in holy matrimony? So I always
00:56:25.260say that when i'm officiating weddings for members in our church i'll go to the groom first right so
00:56:30.140the man's going to lead and then the bride the wife is going to respond and so i'll first go to
00:56:35.300him uh with the vows do you you know promise you know in sickness and in health for richer or for
00:56:39.920poor you know and he says i do or i will and then to her the bride now do you take this man to be
00:56:45.780and i will and then and then thirdly i don't just stop there there's a third um there's a third
00:56:51.460character in the scene right so it's it's groom it's bride and now it's congregation witnesses
00:56:58.620and then i say to all you witnessing these vows do you too do you also vow to do all within your
00:57:05.080power to uphold these two people in holy matrimony please respond by saying we do or we will and the
00:57:12.220congregation those who are present the wedding say we will so they're they're not just spectating
00:57:16.840That's my point. By virtue of attending a wedding, you are not merely a guest and you are not merely spectating, but you are participating as a witness.
00:57:26.380You are actually giving your consent. And that's in the positive, as I just stated.
00:57:31.280If not in that, then surely you've probably been privy to an example where that same principle is conveyed in the negative.
00:57:38.980What do I mean by that? A portion of the wedding liturgy where the one officiating would say, if anyone objects to these two being joined in holy matrimony, speak now or forever hold your peace.
00:57:51.160Well, if you're sitting there in a gay wedding, and for those who are listening only, I'm putting the biggest quotation marks on gay wedding.
00:58:01.560But a gay wedding, if you are sitting there and they say, speak now or forever hold your peace and you don't speak out, then by virtue of your silence is giving your consent.0.99
00:58:16.140You're saying, I am giving, I am bearing witness and giving my consent, my affirmation to this wedding.0.52
00:58:24.440So, by your mere attendance, you're not just spectating, but you are participating in giving your consent.0.97
00:58:32.260And so, then the question is, can you consent to a gay wedding?0.90
00:58:35.580Can you consent to a heterosexual wedding with two Christians or, and I'll add, this isn't the question, but I'll add for that matter, or two non-Christians?
00:58:44.840Because marriage is not given exclusively to the church.0.52
00:58:53.340if two atheists get married right of the opposite sex of adult age with consent is that is that a
00:59:00.540legitimate marriage yes it is a legitimate marriage the only illegitimate marriage is when
00:59:05.660two people the same sex are getting married or a believer to an unbeliever unequally yoked so if
00:59:12.900both of them still say that's legitimate marriage wouldn't you yes but that's one that you should
00:59:17.920if you're present i think you should object okay yeah i think you should object because that the
00:59:22.000believing individual, whether it be the bride or the groom, is about to, it's not just that they
00:59:28.160have sinned, right, being promiscuous leading up to the marriage, but they are about to sin.
00:59:33.400They're about to sin. And so, you are giving your consent to sin. Because 1 Corinthians,
00:59:40.040I believe it's chapter 7, specifically says, do not marry an unbeliever. And so, you would literally1.00
00:59:45.540by your presence without objecting, right, they say, speak now or forever hold your peace. If
00:59:50.000If you're holding your peace, then you're actually giving your affirmation as a Christian before God for that man, if he's a Christian, to sin by marrying an unbelieving woman or by that woman, the bride, if she's a Christian, to sin by marrying an unbelieving man.0.51
01:00:06.440So, you could not be present because your mere presence without verbally, out loud, publicly objecting, your mere presence is not mere spectating, but it is participating.0.62
01:00:18.820it is giving consent and you cannot give your consent to a same-sex wedding you also cannot
01:00:23.460give your consent to a wedding between a christian and an unbeliever but you can give your consent
01:00:27.820to a heterosexual wedding between two christians even if they have previously sinned or two non-christians
01:00:35.420if they have previously uh sinned that's still a legitimate wedding yeah could you be a groomsman
01:00:40.340kevin asks not to open this up we got to get to ukraine but just kevin who asked the same guy
01:00:44.180call it that super chat could you be a groomsman in that wedding no that's that's everything i
01:00:48.140just said and now you're just making it it's even worse no in the the married couple who's
01:00:54.500been sleeping together oh but but they both profess to be christians and they're heterosexual
01:00:58.680it's a man they are unrepentant i would say yes yes okay yeah especially and all i would say
01:01:03.420pastorally is i would just counsel you kevin i would just say um go and talk is it his brother
01:01:07.500it's his brother i go and talk to your brother beforehand and say hey look you profess to be a
01:01:11.360christian do you agree that being um do you agree that being sexually immoral with this woman before
01:01:17.660marriage um that that's a sin right and i bet he'll say yeah i probably shouldn't have done that
01:01:23.560and say okay um do you and and so you don't have to publicly say on your wedding day or anything
01:01:28.640like your private sins should be privately confessed public sins should be publicly
01:01:32.760confessed so unless every single person at the wedding has prior knowledge that the two of you
01:01:37.040have you know i think he said they're living together that's the top everybody does have
01:01:40.900knowledge okay everybody knows um well then you know what uh he should at least confess to you
01:01:45.680kevin as his brother you you go and lovingly confront him and he should at least be able
01:01:50.360to say to you yeah i profess to be a christian and therefore by virtue of being a christian i
01:01:54.200believe the bible the bible plainly says that this is a sin and i was wrong to do that but i
01:01:59.240want to make it right by by marrying this woman and making vows to her uh then that should be
01:02:04.280able to assuage your conscience and if it's publicly known it sounds like it is because
01:02:07.640they've been cohabitating and everybody has knowledge um then i would maybe go one step
01:02:13.260further i wouldn't necessarily make this a condition for being a groomsman but i would
01:02:17.040just doing your christian duty and your brotherly duty on top of that i would go one step further
01:02:21.540and say um this is publicly known by everybody by virtue of you cohabitating with this woman
01:02:26.120and i would encourage you um that if you are a christian who loves the lord jesus christ and
01:02:31.180believes that the Bible is his infallible word, and the Bible clearly forbids what you've been
01:02:35.540doing by cohabitating before marriage with this woman, I would encourage you, for all those who
01:02:40.280are aware of your cohabitating situation, I would encourage you to, you know, not that it has to be
01:02:47.740done out loud on your wedding day, not that it has to be done in the next 15 seconds, but I would
01:02:53.080encourage you to take time over the next whatever. It could be weeks, it could even be months, but
01:02:57.360to make the rounds eventually as you have time to do it and uh and to bring that up in conversation
01:03:04.380with each person who had prior knowledge who knew that you were cohabitating say hey by the way you
01:03:10.220i know that you knew that we were cohabitating before marriage and i just want to say part of
01:03:14.240the reason i married this this girl is because i love her and because i believe that um i need to
01:03:19.100follow jesus and it was the right thing to do and cohabitating was the wrong thing to do and i i'm
01:03:23.740sorry for that so you know you could you could challenge a situation with that but it is
01:03:29.320distinctly different yeah from a gay it's not it's not a double because people and i don't know if
01:03:35.160kevin ran into this but liberal christians will throw that scenario at bible believing christians0.93
01:03:40.740and say well you have a double standard you're being hypocritical no it's not one of course with
01:03:45.240nature one does not yeah that's right all right so ukraine back to it i'm going to read this quote
01:03:50.900this is from the telegraph because i want to set the stage for where we are in the russia ukrainian
01:03:55.340war february 2nd 22nd 2022 the war kicked off and so we just hit the three-year mark so in november
01:04:01.8802024 joe biden is still in office he's on the way out the telegraph wrote this ukraine's front line
01:04:08.700is crumbling against russian advances one of kiev's generals has admitted he blamed ukrainian
01:04:13.740weakness along the front lines on a shortage of ammunition problems with military recruitment
01:04:18.080and poor leadership, and also said that Mr. Zelensky's victory plan was too heavily focused
01:04:23.200on pleading with Western allies for more support. He goes on, this plan lacks any points addressing
01:04:28.860Ukraine or our needs, Joe Marchenko said. Mr. Zelensky has presented his plan to Joe Biden
01:04:33.720and various European leaders, but is largely dismissed as a wish list for more Western
01:04:39.220weapons rather than a master plan to defeat the Kremlin. Again, that's from The Telegraph,
01:04:44.180november 2024 as it stands right now ukraine is going to lose this war right we're not we're not
01:04:50.440really taking a side on this this is just an objective fact and the only thing that's going
01:04:54.860to stop that is going to be the interjection of massive amounts of western capital ukraine is
01:05:01.720smaller they have a smaller gdp they have a smaller military russia is bigger russia is more advanced
01:05:07.480russia is tenacious they're going to probably win this war right reddit hardest hit um so
01:05:13.840So on that backdrop, let's show clip four of Zelensky, J.D. Vance duking it out in the White House.
01:05:43.840I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people,
01:05:51.800you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President.
01:05:54.620Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military?
01:05:58.640And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America
01:06:03.640and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
01:06:07.960A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning.
01:06:10.600First of all, during the war, everybody has problems.
01:06:14.760Even you, but you have nice ocean, and don't feel now.
01:07:10.120And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country, that's back to you, far more than a lot of people said they should have.
01:07:20.080Have you said thank you once this entire meeting?
01:07:22.760No, in this entire meeting, have you said thank you?
01:07:25.340You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October.
01:07:29.460Offer some words of appreciation for the United States of America and the president who's trying to save your country.
01:07:36.500Please, you think that if you will speak very loudly about the war, you can...
01:07:42.700He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly.
01:30:00.100And he basically promised over the weekend, we'll see what the exact details are.
01:30:03.900But he promised the biggest commitment yet to arms and to armor and also potentially the planes and troops to enforce a type of peace treaty.
01:30:12.860So if there was a temporary ceasefire, he was essentially saying if there was a peace fire and we could make it happen, we'd put our planes and our troops there to make sure it wasn't broken as a deterrent, which would be the closest step yet to bringing Europe into the conflict.
01:30:28.700i looked and pulled some of some of these statistics so you think about britain and
01:30:33.140you're like well i'm sure you know that military is full of i mean england is very diverse so i'm
01:30:37.620sure it's full of muhammad and patel oh no it's 88 percent anglo so so you have keir starmer who
01:30:45.380he himself is not jewish but his wife is and they've committed in their home she said we are
01:30:49.940raising our children jewish you have zelensky who is jewish this is not hidden this is not obscure
01:30:55.720this is a well-known fact he said i want to make ukraine into the new israel right so you have the
01:31:00.640jewish prime minister and at least uh adherence of england of ukraine jewish religiously jewish
01:35:48.480Libs and Dems want to support Ukraine.
01:35:51.400It's their proxy in the post-working census in the East because they see Russia as nationalist or fascist.
01:35:57.300they're the lone bulwark of anti-liberalism in the east that's exactly what it is it's just
01:36:01.920marping world war ii all over again yep yep uh conor stubal i'll hit this one in uh 1999 thank
01:36:09.460you very much conor and also for the the other one that we mentioned that we read already yeah
01:36:13.860conor says thank you for the podcast what are your thoughts on the supreme court ruling against
01:36:18.300trump and making money flow to usaid okay i did a little research into this this afternoon
01:36:23.620When I say little, I mean a little bit.
01:36:26.940My understanding, and I could be wrong about this, is that while I still disagree with the decision, the decision was to side with the lower court that had told Trump, President Trump, that $2 billion that had already been promised for completed work to contractors in other countries.
01:36:49.160So theoretically, there was $2 billion worth of work that had been completed, and they
01:36:55.540basically had sent invoices to USAID to be paid for this work that we had already approved.
01:37:02.520And what the Supreme Court said was that $2 billion that is covering work that was already
01:37:09.540done, and who knows what kind of work.
01:37:11.740My take is that that kind of work is not actually work to build hospitals.
01:37:15.760It's to mostly go to fund gay parades and things like that.
01:37:19.160But the decision specifically, as I understand it, was that those $2 billion, which has already been promised and already been invoiced, do need to go ahead and be paid.
01:37:29.340Now, whether we like it or not, that's not quite the same.
01:37:48.120I'd rather we cut it all, but it seems like it was not the headline of Supreme Court blocks Trump's efforts to cut all USAID.
01:37:57.360And the dissent, they basically said it wasn't so much we disagree with this contract being paid out.
01:38:02.520They said the precedent of the lower court ruling that this must be applied means that the judicial branch is basically giving directives to the executive branch, which is a very dangerous precedent to dissent.
01:38:12.880Because then an unelected judge in Hawaii, I don't know, at 11 p.m. at night could block Trump's Muslim ban.
01:38:18.120which didn't happen it did like that that's the the precedent that the dissent the four
01:38:23.840more conservative judges against amy coney barrett and roberts and roberts of course um as well as
01:38:30.980the uh the three liberal judges that was their dissent against the majority which again included
01:38:35.940justice roberts and justice amy coney barrett and to be fair they kicked it back down and said you
01:38:42.380guys figure this out like it's trump's team is still going to battle this in the lower court
01:38:47.060it's not a finalized decision all right jeff halfley super no whoa whoa whoa whoa just a quick
01:38:53.320one right there okay all right go ahead look at that look at that question you skipped all right
01:38:56.720the watch zealot asked wesley what's your squat max uh about 350 so for for one rep um a couple
01:39:04.060months ago i did a 225 for 20 that was killer that's impressive all right so yep 350 jeff
01:39:10.400halfley he uh gave us five dollars super chat he says are we ready for a conversation about how
01:39:15.520a woman with adopted Haitian kids might not be the best fit for a civil magistrate who
01:39:20.780prioritizes America first. That's very familiar. I think that's my tweet from earlier today.1.00
01:39:29.760He copied and pasted it. Great question, Jeff. Great question, Joel. Yeah, I don't know. I think
01:39:37.640that there's a lot of people who are ready for that. They just don't happen to be evangelical
01:39:44.200women um they're not ready for it but that's okay because they don't have to be ready for it they
01:39:48.280can um because honestly they don't need to be having that conversation but uh there are0.62
01:39:52.800conversations that my wife's not ready for and it works out just fine because she doesn't have
01:39:57.700to have it i go and have those conversations with men and then i come home and i roll around on the
01:40:02.220floor with my little kids and kiss my wife and play a board game with her and have a glass of0.73
01:40:07.200wine and she's living her best life now so uh that's the world uh women don't have to be ready
01:40:11.980for those conversations um and women won't be the ones making the changes it will be men that
01:40:16.620lead the conversation and say hey that's true people with these types of allegiances just won't
01:40:20.080be fit to right but that's why i tweeted out and jeff is just you know copying and pasting and
01:40:24.840putting it here but um i give you money for it yeah here's your tweet and i'd like to pay you
01:40:30.240for it incredible i appreciate it that's incredible yeah jeff that was that was very kind um but yeah
01:40:34.720it's it shouldn't that my point in tweeting that out was to say yeah it should not be shocking it's
01:40:39.460It's like, well, but she's one of the conservative Supreme Court justices.
01:41:17.160And women, they're made to be nurturing, to be trusting, to be loving, to be encouraging,
01:41:23.220to be believing and hoping, and all these things, incredible, incredible things.
01:41:28.400And those are all virtuous, and they are strengths, not weaknesses, not liabilities,
01:41:34.640strengths when in the proper place, namely the home.
01:41:38.740So her instinct, Amy Coney Barrett, her instinct to look to the downtrodden and the hurting and to welcome them in, even to the point of adoption.
01:41:51.420She has seven children, two of them are adopted Haitians, adopting them and saying, I will be a mother to you.