A Response To The Shooting of Donald Trump

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Looking at our world from a theological
perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast,

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making Theology Central. Good evening everyone. It is Sunday, July the

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fourteenth, twenty twenty four It is
currently six forty eight pm Central Time,

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and I am coming to you live
from the Theology Central studio located right here

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in Abilene, Texas. You may
have noticed kind of a slight pause before

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I started the introduction. That's because
I almost just started with saying, Wow,

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what a crazy twenty four hours.
It has been crazy. That's the

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way I was going to start,
but I thought, you know what,

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I'll just go ahead and welcome every
Wednesday, good evening to everyone, and

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just remind you it's July the fourteenth. I know, in the last twenty

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four hours, it feels like maybe
it's been it's been a month already,

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but it's only been twenty four hours. And it's been twenty four hours or

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about twenty four hours since the assassination
attempt against President Trump, or against the

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former President Trump, obviously the presidential
candidate Donald Trump, and it has been

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well, it's been crazy to watch
and to try to process everything. Now

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I'm referring to it as assassination attempt. I know there are others sing maybe

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we don't really know the motivations yet, so should we call that. But

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if someone takes a gun and shoots
at a presidential candidate or a former president,

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I'm going to refer to that as
assassination attempt. If it doesn't meet

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the technical qualifications for that, I'll
be more than happy to correct it at

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a later time. But it is
a very it's been it's been crazy.

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It's been just I don't really even
have words, and I've been trying to

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process it. Last night, I
did a live broadcast just kind of thinking

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about it in real time. I
know it probably wasn't one that a broadcast

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that made everyone happy, but I
have been just I mentioned it, you

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know, in my sermon this morning, I kind of mentioned the shooting,

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just just maybe briefly. It wasn't
a major focus on what we were talking

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about, but I thought it served
to kind of connect with some of the

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things we are talking about. I
spent two hours this morning while teaching on

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Psalm eighty three. As many of
you know, we have been working.

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We've been We've spent hours working on
Saw eighty three. I think we made

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some pretty decent I think we made
some I think we made some decent progress.

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I think I think we accomplished a
little bit. I hope it was

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beneficial, but really, since I
well, even off and on throughout the

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night, a couple of times I
woke up multiple times and I would either

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check a podcast feed or I would
check I even checked my sermon's audio,

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my sermon Audio two point zero app
feed, and I kept looking to see

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if anything else popped up that would
people talking about the situation right now.

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Obviously, there were a lot of
political podcasts that immediately started talking about it,

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right because that's what they do.
So they were looking at it from

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a political perspective, whether they were
conservative or whether they were liberal, or

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you know, some news Obviously podcasts
looking at it more from just a news

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angle, whether they leaned left or
right, and may impact the way they

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perceived it. I did see just
some general reactions to the shooting online,

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and some of those were quite disturbing
and frustrating. So I just I was

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kind of getting a general idea how
people were reacting to the shooting of Donald

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Trump or I still think it's fair
to refer to it as the assassination attempt

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against Donald Trump, So I just
you know, and then with church,

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though, I kind of I didn't
want to make that too much of a

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focus, right, I mean,
obviously when people walk into the building,

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there there were you know, there
was talk of it obviously, but I

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just kind of just put, you
know, like, let's get to SAW

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eighty three and let's work, and
that's what we did. There wasn't a

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lot of discussion after church necessarily about
that, so you know, I didn't

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get a lot of reactions and regards
to it. But I have been curious

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throughout the day, but I haven't
had the opportunity. I really wanted to

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monitor the sermon's two point oh app
live webcast feed throughout the day to see

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how many churches or ministries broadcasters were
speaking of the shooting, How were they

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what were they stating about it,
What did they say about it? Did

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they offer any concerns or thoughts about
where this is had? Like what?

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I really kind of wanted to get
more of a Christian response, but I

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did not have the opportunity to even
look, well this I'm gonna give you

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the exact time at two thirty pm
Central time, two thirty pm Central Time,

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I received an email with this for
the subject line, You're ready fight

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fight, Fight, And I'm like, okay, all right, I have

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a feeling I know what this is
about, right because after Donald Trump was

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shot and he got up, he's
got a clinched fist raised and he's like,

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fight, fight, fight, all
right. So obviously it's going to

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be kind of a rallying cry for
many, right, especially many on the

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conservative side. Fight fight fight.
Now, you you can have your own

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opinion on how that should be handled
or viewed. So I was like,

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okay, well, who is this
email from? And I noticed that the

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email was from gab. Gab.
Now you may not know what gab is.

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It's like a social media platform that's
all about free speech. It was,

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you know, especially when there was
all kinds of you know, many

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in the conservative world was very upset
with Facebook and Twitter at the time that

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they were shadow banning them or blocking
or taking away their free speech. There

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was a lot of these platforms that
kind of arose out of kind of a

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protest against many of these big social
media platforms. Obviously, we know of

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truth social we know of gab.
There was Parlor. I think it was

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called parlor, there's telegraph, there's
all these other platforms where people can gather

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who are somewhat like minded. Right
now, there's good and bad about that,

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right, I guess you can feel
like, well, at least my

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viewpoint is not going to be censored
or silenced or or shadow banned or kept

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from other people seeing it. But
then it also creates these kind of you

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know, echo chambers. I know
some people don't like that phrase, but

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basically you are only hanging out with
like minded people. So then obviously just

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that just leads to confirmation bias.
Right, you put forth an idea,

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Well, everyone already there agrees with
your idea, so then they say oh

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great, awesome, awesome, and
then they say something, well, you

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already agree with them. So everyone
just goes around going you're right, you're

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right, you're right, and there's
very little dissenting voices. In any dissenting

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voices get shouted down and basically told
to go away quickly. Right, But

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I've tried to monitor them. I
have watched and kept up with what's going

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on in truth social I've tried to
kind of just see how things are going

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there. And at one time I
had gab on my I think my iPad

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and I would monitor it and just
kind of keep an idea what's going on.

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And you know, and what you
see is I think I'm describing it

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in a real, very fair way. It's like there's not very much room

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for dissenting voices. It's they just
want their voices and they want all anyone

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else. And if you post anything
kind of contray to it, they'll tell

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you to go away. Immediately,
you're gonna be called names, you're gonna

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be called a liberal, and they're
gonna tell you to go away. And

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it's like, so you don't want
any dissenting voices. I thought you were

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all about the freedom of speech.
You should want as many dissenting voices there

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as possible, because dissenting voices you're
confronted with different ideas. But they didn't

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really want that. But as truth
Social as obviously the whole selling point of

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truth Social is it's Donald Trump's platform. It's all about Donald Trump. And

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if you look on there, it's
just filled with you know, posters and

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memes all about Donald Trump. Basically, you know, is the savior who's

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come to fix all the world's problems
and GAB is again very conservative and and

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maybe even well, well you could
you could judge what's there on your own,

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okay. But the one thing about
GAB is my understanding is that I

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don't know exactly who maybe the CEO, maybe the chief executive officer of GAB.

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I think maybe him, because I
think the email comes from him.

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As far as I can tell,
he professes Christianity, some allegiance to Christianity,

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I would refer to it in many
cases promoting a very Christian nationalism.

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But he professes Christianity. So when
I saw Fight Fight Fight and saw that

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it was from GAB, and then
I read these first the first part of

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this email. While we may feel
anger and frustration in the wake of tonight's

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tragic event, it is crucial that
we respond with wisdom and grace. And

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I was like, Okay, now, most likely this is going to provide

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at least something that claims to be
aligned with Christianity, some form of a

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Christian response. And I've been kind
of looking because I kind of want to

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see how Christians are going to respond
to the shooting of Donald Trump. Or

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again, we could we could argue
the assassination attempt of Donald Trump. All

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right, however you would like to
classify and im and I'm being very I'm

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questioning the way I classify it because
I just want to be accurate. I

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just, I just I don't want
to be like the one hand, you

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don't want to use hyperbolic language,
but at the same time you want to

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you don't want to downplay it.
Right again, if someone takes a gun

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and trying to shoot a presidential candidate, former president, I think that meets

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the criteria of an assassination attempt.
And I think some have classified that,

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and I think there's some who've pushed
back on that. I do agree that

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we have to wait and get the
full motivation of the shooter. The shooter

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has been identified, and there's already
back and forth about how to interpret certain

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things about the shooter and and I'm
not going to get into any of that

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speculation at this time. But what
I want to know is as Christians,

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how should we respond? And I
tried to put forth a little bit of

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that late last night, right,
and it was still very just. I

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was more just, I just felt
a sense of dread where things may be

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headed. And so let me just
let me just make sure because people will

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misunderstand my approach here. Whatever the
world does, I'm never that interested or

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really bothered and not very and I
don't obsess over and I'm not consumed with

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what the world is doing. From
my theology, the world who rejects Christianity

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don't claim to be Christians, reject
the authority of the Bible. I don't

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have any expectation except for them to
pursue a non Christian life, right,

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a non Christian life with non Christian
ideology, non Christian perspectives, non Christian

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morality. That's the life they're going
to pursue. I'm not shocked by it.

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And you know what, I don't
want to change their morality. What

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I want is for Christianity to present
Christ to them and call them to repentance

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and faith in Christ. Not to
change their morality, but to be brought

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to faith in Christ, and then
allow their faith in Christ to begin to

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change what they how they think about
morality, well, how they think about

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right and wrong. And then they
can struggle with trying to live according to

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scripture, even though we know no
one can ultimately do that. We will

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all fall short. But you get
the idea. We want them to put

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their faith in Christ and have the
righteousness of Christ imputed to their account,

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so that they can stand before God
perfect even though in practice that they are

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not. So that's I'm not those
Christians who want to change the culture by

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making everyone act like a Christian.
You want to change the culture, you

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give them Christ. You offer them
Christ as they come to faith in Christ.

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Then you disciple them, then you
call them to obedience. There's no

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point in trying to force the world
to act like Christians. I just I

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don't get that mindset within the Christian
world. From that perspective, I don't

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really care what the world is doing. And you know, they can worship

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politics, they can worship politicians,
they can worship their ideology, they can

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fight, yell, scream, they
can do whatever. What I'm always concerned

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with from a theological perspective is where's
the church going? What is the church

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doing? How is the church responding? And you know, I've been yelling

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and screaming about the political hijacking of
American Christianity. It seems like I've been

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yelling about it for ten fifteen years. I've been bothered and bothered and bothered

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by it. So now we have
obviously something that's going to have great political

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fervor now as a response about how
we respond to the shooting of Donald Trump,

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how how there's going to be a
lot of political ideology and political fervor

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involved in the response. So I
want to know what the church is doing.

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How did the church respond today?
What did they say? How did

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they respond? Was it biblical?
Was it Christian? Did they would?

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Would they have responded the exact same
way if there was an assassination attempt or

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if Joe Biden was shot? Would
they respond with the same grace and wisdom

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and mercy and compassion that I think
that's a valid question. Would they I'm

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not saying they wouldn't. I'm not
saying they would. I'm just putting it

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forth as a question. But I
want to know where the church is going.

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So this email at least gives me
something that claims to be associated with

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Christianity, at least claims it all
right, I will as I see other

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Christian responses, then obviously we will
talk about them on this podcast. And

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as you're listening to to random sermons
on the sermon's two point oh app if

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you'll just keep hitting the new tab
and choosing random ones in the new tab.

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Well, then you'll get a fight. You're gonna hear this coming week

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all the sermons that were preached this
Sunday, and so you'll that we're preached

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today, and then maybe you'll hear
how much the shoot comes into play in

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the sermons, how much they influence. They may they may not. You

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can tell me what you discover.
But so here is at least one.

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So let's read this and see where
it goes. All right, we begin

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with the sentence I've already read.
Now, underneath the subject line fight,

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Fight, Fight, there's a picture
of Donald Trump. All the Secret Service

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agents are surrounding him. He's he's
got his fist raised and right above him

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as an American flag. I mean, it looks like it looks like an

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awesome photograph from at least like a
from just a visual standpoint. Obviously,

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he's bleeding, so it's not so
awesome from that perspective because someone has shot

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him and his you know, he
got his ear got hit. So all

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right, so obviously that image is
going to be you know, used.

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I think there's already T shirts with
the image on it, and I think

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there's already t shirts that say fight, Fight Fight. So this is already

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going to be used to to make
things and and it's going to become routling

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crime. Whatever you think about the
merchandise that's sold for it, whatever you

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think about that, it's going to
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So how does GAB the CEO,
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While we may feel anger and frustration
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it is crucial that we respond with
wisdom and grace. As the CEO

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of GAB, I urge all users
to refrain from posting any threats of violence

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or even remotely hinting at it.
GAB disavows all threats of violence and has

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zero tolerance for them on our platform. Please do not post anything foolish on

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gab or elsewhere or anywhere else online. Our enemies are watching closely. Do

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not post any threats. If you
see people posting threats, please use the

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report button to let our mod team. No. I haven't been on gab

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forever. I don't even know if
I know my sign in anymore. But

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if I was on there, it
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lot of that going on. I
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Again, sometimes all it is is
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like it's sometimes I look like there's
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But you may have a different experience
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Hey, stop with the violence,
stop with the calls for violence.

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Let's let's stop that. So here's
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must not give our enemies any reason
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Now immediately though, I caught that
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this is a very common language.
It's used in the pulpit, it's used

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in politics that those who disagree with
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those who have different ideologies, they
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must not give our enemies any reason
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That is speaking about people. So
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light of the shooting of Donald Trump, and light of just seeing that the

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world is going in a different direction
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people reject the authority of the Bible, don't care about the authority of the

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Bible that may have had very influence, very little influence of the Bible upon

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their lives. Do you see those
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gets into the mindset of many Christians. Do you see homosexuals as your enemy?

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Do you see transgender as your enemy? Do you see people who hold

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to a liberal political ideology as your
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you see people who make music that
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my experience within Christianity, that's used
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the enemy, They're the enemy.
Is it the people that's the enemy or

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is it their ideology that we are
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blood? Or is it against principalities
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high places? Is it against spiritual? Is our enemy spiritual? Or is

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it physical? I'm not so.
I don't like necessarily referencing people as my

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enemy. I may disagree with your
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belief system is an enemy to the
truth of God's word, But I don't

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know if I'm going to label the
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enemy, they would have to be
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do I see the physical person,
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We could have a debate there,
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forth. That's the first thing that
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Now, remember, even if you
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if you identify them as your enemy, Jesus is very articulate. And how

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we are to respond to our enemies. We are to love our enemy.

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We are to turn the other cheek. We are to resist, not evil.

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Now, as soon as I say
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they're gonna make nine hundred excuses to
lower that moral standard. You know why

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we want to lower the moral standard
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We are in a perpetual sin.
We never love our enemy. We rarely

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turn the other cheek. We rarely, we constantly try to fight back instead

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of resist not evil. It puts
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saith the Lord. Don't do good
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them drink. Do not be overcome
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We're supposed to be loving, compassionate, caring, sacrificial like that's the

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way we are to treat our enemies. See, this is not from a

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Christian perspective, we don't respond the
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don't respond the way the world would
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people who are conservative from a political
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this article or in this email.
Instead, let us fight back with our

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words, our votes, and our
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let me fix this instead of Instead, let us fight back with our words,

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our prayer, are fasting, our
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good to our enemies. I don't
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I don't know what our unwavering commitment
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to fight back, Fight back with
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back with love to your enemy,
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Fight back back with an unwavering commitment
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scripture, not voting, not freedom, not justice. Our commitment is to

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the Word of God. So at
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well, maybe I'm not going to
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be going to be going the Christian
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is going to come up in this. So I kept reading very next line.

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We must be why is this serpents
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Bible says, And there it is. So Now I know this is going

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to approach it from a Christian perspective, and I agree we are to be

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as wise as a serpent and harmless
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and harmless as a dove. But
that does not change that our response should

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be spiritual love our enemy, do
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prayer, to fasting, to evangelism, could have an unwavering commitment to the

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Word of God. Let this tragic
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and faith in the face of adversity
is our greatest weapon against those who seek

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to destroy us. Now, please
note those who seek to destroy us.

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It's using that language that we have
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Now, do they want to destroy
you? Or do they may want to

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destroy Christianity? Sometimes as Christians we
almost have a persecution complex, and anytime

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anyone does anything we don't like,
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Now, in this particular case,
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but I don't. I think we
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one one situation and then extrapolate from
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we're starting to possibly use very exaggerated
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But remember, even if people want
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be love, turn the other cheek, do good, do over do not

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be overcome by evil, but overcome
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Romans. So all of that's from
scripture, all of it. I everything

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I'm referencing a scripture, scripture,
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they go with this. We pray
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the healing of our nation. Now
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Right are we not to do that? As we mourn this devastating attack

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and loss, Let us also stand
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freedoms and the values that unite us. Again, I would say, what

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we need to be dedicated to to
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the true doctrine, true theology,
a truly spiritual mindset. Now, the

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next part is where the reason I'm
doing this broadcast, this person goes on

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to write the following, and I
quote after tonight's events, I have come

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to the realization that I no longer
want any association whatsoever with any liberals none.

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Okay? Is that the Christian response
is the Christian response those people are

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against us. I want no association
with them none. I'm not gonna have

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anything. But I thought the whole
point was we're to be friend, a

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friend of sinners, a friend to
sinners. We are to demonstrate love and

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compassion that if the liberals are so
anti everything we are about, instead of

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fighting with them and arguing with them, we just demonstrate what living out faith

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looks like, being open and honest
and humble, and let them see what

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it looks like to try to live
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You know what we are to do
to them? Love them, do

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good unto them. This is saying
that this person wants to no longer have

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any association with them. Now,
maybe they're just expressing their emotion, and

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maybe later on they will change their
tune. Because I definitely can understand having

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some strong emotions that may not necessarily
be right. We've all been there.

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Let's see what they happen. They
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I've come to the realization I no
longer want any association whatsoever with any liberals.

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None, not in the community,
not at church, not anywhere.

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You don't want any You don't want
to associate with any liberals, even at

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your church. You don't want liberals
visiting, You don't want liberals there.

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Like, so, what do you
want liberals not to have any what?

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You're just going to isolate yourself from
any liberals. You don't want any association

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with them, not in the community, not at church. You just don't

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want anything to do with them.
Like that. I that does not sound

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like a Christian mindset at all.
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for this decision are rooted in the
belief that being around these people poses a

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threat to our sanity, our safety, and families. So, now,

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as a Christian, being around people
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impact your safety, and your family. So if there's a threat to your

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safety, do you just abandon them
and say, well, sorry, you

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can all burn in hell. We're
gonna go isolate ourselves and we don't want

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any association with you. And so
do we just preach at them. You

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realize that there's a difference of preaching
at someone and sharing with them. Are

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preaching at versus preaching too preaching at
It's almost like, hey, you stand

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over there, you and I.
I don't want any association with you.

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You just listen to me. You're
a center. You're gonna go to hell.

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You need to get right. Another
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then preaching to sharing with first and
foremost. The article continues, the constant

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bombardment of liberal ideologies and beliefs has
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Now, this is what blows my
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a source of mental and emotional exhaustion. Why liberal ideologies don't create any mental

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or emotional exhaustion To me, I
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What causes me mental and emotional exhaustion
is listening to the church and listening

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to the things going on inside the
church. What causes me mental and emotional

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exhaustion, it's my own sin and
my own failure and my own lack of

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spirituality that can cause my my my
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deep questions about God and his how
he works and how he doesn't work,

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and what he does and when he
doesn't do that can cause not The liberals

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don't cause me anything if it's liberals
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Okay, so it doesn't even doesn't
even it doesn't even get me fired up?

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What I you know what I expect
from a loss to act like a

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loss. I don't expect someone who's
not a Christian to think, act,

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or even desire anything Christian. Why
would I? The never ending debates,

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the constant need to defend our values, and the relentless pressure to conform to

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their worldview has taken a toll on
our mental well being. Now it's taken

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a toll on your mental well being
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Why am I going to do?
Like? Why am I going to debate

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a liberal like? That? Is
the when Christians do this stuff like on

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social media. I just want to
look at the Christians and go, you

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people are ridiculous, not the lost
people, the Christians? Why okay,

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So let me get this right.
You're going to argue with them about matters

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pertaining to morality, to ultimate truth, to right and wrong. But kiss

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what, they reject your authority,
So why are you going to argue with

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him? You have two different sources
of authority. There's no purpose in arguing

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with someone who rejects the authority in
which you're basing your argument on. You're

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basing your argument on, well,
the Bible says, God says, they

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reject that, So then what's the
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need to do then is demonstrate love, compassion, mercy to them, and

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then as opportunity arise, you begin
to share to them the truth of God's

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word, the truth that they're a
God who sent his son Jesus Christ.

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And as they come to faith,
then you say, now, here's what

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the Word of God says about this
and about this, and about this and

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about this, and then you challenge
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the same source of authority. Why
are you involved in never ending debates and

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constant need to defend your values?
Why are you going to defend Why is

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there to defend your values? You
can just say, look, if I'm

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dealing with a lost person, there's
no need to defend my values. Look,

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here's the thing your values come from. Well, your own morality,

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like what you think is right and
wrong. My values arise from what I

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believe God is saying is right and
wrong. Therefore our values are never going

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to be in agreement. I don't
need to defend that. I'm just going

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to have to say, wait,
our values are coming from two different perspectives.

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There's no point in arguing with each
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anywhere. Why do Christians get all
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these culture wars. It's not the
liberal's fault. It's your own fault for

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engaging in culture war, which you're
just you're arguing over something that you're never

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going to get anywhere because you have
different sources of authority. These people are

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insane, so now we're going to
attack these people and associating with them will

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allow this madness to infect us.
So they are insane, not us.

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Not see to see how this is
the us against them mentality that we got

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to keep ourselves from falling into this. It's not us against them if we

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are engaged in a spiritual war,
not these people. We may be in

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a war against their ideology, but
we're going to fight the ideology by not

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arguing ideology bye, by demonstrating the
source of authority, which is God's word,

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and their insanity is going to infect
you. If you are a Christian,

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you're infected with something far worse than
liberal ideology. It's called a sinful

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nature, and it's already in you. You were born with it. You

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want to talk about the insanity of
the liberal world, look at the insanity

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and the American church. Look at
the chaos inside the American church. Forget

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the liberal world. Look, look, just do some research. You don't

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need me do some research. How
many children have been sexually molested inside churches

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in the United States of America since
let's say nineteen seventy. Look at the

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number of children molested. How many
church splits have there been, fighting,

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arguing all the things going the church. There's just as much insanity in us

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as it is in anybody else.
We just may have a different quote unquote

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ideology, but we're just as insane
as far as our own own wickedness and

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depravity. The safety of our families
and communities is at risk when we associate

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with liberals. See you don't associate
with them. See this is not the

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response we should have to the trump
shooting, the assassination attempt against the former

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president against the presidential candidate Donald Trump. The liberal narrative often promotes a sense

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of victimhood, division, and chaos. Now here's the thing. The liberal

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narrative often promotes a sense of victimhood. This sounds your perspective, sounds like

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victimhood. You're such a victim that
you can't even associate with liberals because it

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leads to mental and emotional exhaustion.
That sounds like victimhood. But the liberal

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narrative promotes a sense of victimhood,
division and chaos, which leads to violent

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protest, property destruction, and even
physical harm to those who dare to oppose

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their views. As we witness tonight, okay, and January the sixth was

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division, chaos, violent property destruction, and physical harm to some of the

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officers. And and that physical harm
happened to one of the protesters who was

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shot. So I can't this happen
on both sides. We must prioritize the

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safety and well being of our loved
ones by distancing ourselves from those who subscribe

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to such destructive ideologies. Get and
stay far away from these people. This

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is a frightening response to the shooting, I told I, see, this

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is why I was so depressed and
worried last night. That the Christian response,

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Oh, and here we go.
So the response is, hey,

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someone attempted to assassinate the former president
Donald Trump, the presidential candidate Donald Trump.

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Someone attempted to do that. And
so now that's it. Nothing to

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do with liberals. Get away from
these people. These people are enemies.

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Have nothing to do with them.
That is, there is nothing biblical about

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that. There's nothing biblical at all. And some people say, well,

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the Bible says, come out from
among them and be ye separate, separate

447
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from who who is that being separate
from? To go find the passage and

448
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you tell me, is that separating
from ungodly the world? Or is that

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separating from believers professing believers who are
having serious issues? Because to separate from

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the world, we would have to
leave the world entirely. If you're gonna

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say, I'm not gonna have any
more association with liberals, what are you

452
00:37:53.840 --> 00:37:57.960
going to do? You're gonna quit
your job? What are you going to

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do? You're just going You're gonna, I don't know, go bill the

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monastery somewhere. We're supposed to be
of the world, will be very much

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supposed to be in it. We're
supposed to be salt. We're supposed to

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be light. We're supposed to be
loving our enemy. We're supposed to be

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doing good to them that would use
us and persecute us. We should be

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blessing them. We should be giving
our enemy food and drink. We should

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not be overcome by evil, but
we should overcome evil with good. This

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is literally the biblical way of handling
this. But this says, get away,

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get and stay away from these people. Moreover, the liberal agenda often

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seeking to undermine the very fabric of
our society by attacking traditional values and institutions.

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Their relentless pursuit of progressive policies and
agendas has eroded the sanctity of the

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family, the importance of religion,
and the value of hard work and personal

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responsibility. Now I get so tired
of people saying they have destroyed the sanctity

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of the family. Look at the
church. Stop blaming the world. Look

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at the church. The church,
we'll just say, been around for two

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thousand years. How is the church
doing? And divorce and remarriage, how

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is the church doing? How is
the church doing. How is the church

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doing when supposedly the importance of religion? How is the church doing? Come

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on? Tell me how many churches
have had to cancel services because enough people

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won't show up. How many churches
have to close down because people won't show

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up or people won't support it financially. How many Christian ministries can't last because

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people won't support it. It's not
the world's job to support those institutions.

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It's Christians. But do Christians put
their money where their mouth is? Do

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they support with their time, with
their talent, with their treasure. By

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00:39:59.159 --> 00:40:02.719
distancing our self from the liberals,
we can protect our families from the corrosive

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influence of these toxic ideologies and preserve
the values that have made our community strong

479
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and resilient. By removing yourself from
removing yourself from liberals is not going to

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protect it from those toxic ideologies.
Those toxic ideologies arise inside of your kids.

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See, the problem isn't the thing
outside of your kids, it's the

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thing inside of your kids. It's
called a depraved nature. The problem isn't

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what's outside of your church, It's
all the people inside of your church.

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The problem isn't the things outside of
your church. The problem is the thing

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inside your pastor, which is a
sinful nature. We always want to make

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it us against them. It's us
against us, it's the real problem.

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Finally, it's essential to recognize that
liberals are not interested in genuine dialogue or

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understanding. They are content to dismiss
opposing viewpoints as hate speech or bigotry without

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engaging in any meaningful conversation. Have
you dealt with Christians? Have you dealt

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with conservative Christians? They won't engage
in meaningful dialogue because immediately they'll just refer

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to you as a liberal, a
heretic, or ungodly or whatever. All

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sides do this. This is the
problem, and your solution is don't have

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anything to do with them anymore.
Let me tell me in a minute,

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I do a broadcast that people don't
like. They don't have meaningful dialogue.

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They attack me, they call me
names. It's just ridiculous. Okay.

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This lack of intellectual honesty and open
mindedness makes it impossible to build bridges and

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00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:58.519
find common ground. Yeah, there's
intellectual honesty and open mindedness within the world

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of Christianity, and it's better to
walk away from these fruitless exchanges and focus

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our energies, our nuturing relationships with
like minded individuals who share our values and

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beliefs. Can you believe what this
is saying? Hey, anyone who differs

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with you, just no more and
no relationship with them, pull away.

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Only find like minded people. Only
find the people you agree with and they

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agree with you, and then you'll
feel like you're great, and they'll feel

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like they're great, and there will
be nothing to ever challenge you. And

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guess what, you can just tell
the rest of the world to just jump

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off a cliff because we don't stink
and care about them. They're stinking liberals.

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00:42:43.559 --> 00:42:45.679
They can go to hell because we
don't care about them in any way,

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shape or form. That's the Christian
mindset now because of what happened twenty

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four hours ago, that's the response. Hey President Trump was shot. Hey,

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that's it all. Can conservative Christians
stop get rid of don't have any

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more relationships anymore in contact, no
more engagement with liberals. So you know,

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if you want create a gab account, go on there as a liberal,

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putting forth liberal ideas and see how
quickly I guess you get. I

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don't know, they don't want to
have anything to do with you. Do

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00:43:22.920 --> 00:43:29.199
you get removed from the GAB platform
Now if they allow liberals on there,

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well then you're the CEO. Just
make it now, it's a liberal free

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zone. If you post anything liberal, you'll be removed from the platform.

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Get then that I'll keep all of
the open minded. Remember liberals are the

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closed minded one. This will keep
all of the very open minded conservatives.

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They can be so open minded that
they can only hear the exact same viewpoint

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00:43:52.360 --> 00:43:57.000
they already hold to. That's why
they many of them ran off to these

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00:43:57.039 --> 00:44:01.559
little you know, echo chambers instead
of engaging in the public square. All

523
00:44:01.639 --> 00:44:07.840
right, but okay, thesion.
The decision to sever all ties with liberals

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is a necessary step to protect our
sanity, safety, and families. By

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distancing ourselves from those who promote chaos, division, and the erosion of traditional

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00:44:15.519 --> 00:44:21.360
values, we can create a safe
and nurturing environment where our beliefs and values

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can thrive. Let us stand firm
in our conviction and surround ourselves with those

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who share our vision for a better
future. Yeah, because if we get

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rid of all those bad liberals,
everything will be good inside the church.

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Right, If we could just get
rid of all the liberals. There'll be

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no sin, There'll be no division, there'll be no divorce, there'll be

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no adultery, there'll be no pornography, there'll be no lust. Everything's good.

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00:44:50.719 --> 00:44:53.400
There'll be no premarital sex. They'll
be everything will be perfect, and

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00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:59.599
we'll have we'll have heaven on earth. Well, every time that has ever

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been a tempted, it leads to
hell on earth. Because the enemy is

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inside of you and me. It's
called our sinful nature. And these tumultuous

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00:45:15.400 --> 00:45:20.000
times, it is important, it
is more important than ever to remember President

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Trump's inspiring words from tonight as he
got up off the ground. Fight,

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Fight, Fight, as we can
continue to battle for the soul of our

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nation, our culture, and our
people. How are you going to fight

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for the soul of our nation,
culture, and people if you just told

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00:45:37.480 --> 00:45:42.440
everyone to stop all involvement with liberals. So what you want to do is,

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00:45:42.480 --> 00:45:45.119
hey, we all come together and
then we'll vote policies that will tell

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00:45:45.159 --> 00:45:50.239
the liberals how to act. That's
your solution. See, that is not

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00:45:50.559 --> 00:45:57.639
biblical Christianity, not even close.
The forces that seek to undermine our values,

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00:45:57.679 --> 00:46:00.519
traditions, and way of life are
relentless, but so to us our

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00:46:00.559 --> 00:46:04.960
determination to preserve and protect all that
we hold dear. May God have mercy

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00:46:05.039 --> 00:46:07.400
on us. Then it gives the
name of the CEO and he signs it

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Christ is King. Christ is King, And everything you suggested there had nothing

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00:46:14.519 --> 00:46:21.000
to do with the Christ of the
Bible. It's a Christ that you're utilizing

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00:46:21.199 --> 00:46:27.199
for your own political agenda, which
is one of isolationism and separating yourself,

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00:46:27.239 --> 00:46:31.599
and not one of evangelism or loving
your enemy, serving your enemy, doing

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00:46:31.599 --> 00:46:37.159
good unto your enemy, but simply
removing yourself from them, and only building

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00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:40.800
up a little community of like minded
people so that you don't have to get

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00:46:40.840 --> 00:46:45.559
in touch with anyone who possibly could
challenge your little point of view. That

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is not the lesson we should take
from the shooting and the assassination attempt against

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Donald Trump. That cannot be the
Christian response. That just cannot be.

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Now, my concern was the last
night, where is this going to go?

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Now? Again? The CEO from
GAB, I don't think he has

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much influence in the Christian world.
I don't. Maybe I'm wrong, I

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just don't think he does. I
don't think the GAB platform has much influence

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in the Christian world. I could
be wrong. You can determine that on

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your own. But what we want
to look for is this. I want

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to make sure I make this very
clear because some people will accuse me of

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something I'm not doing. I'm not
saying that we take this response from the

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gab CEO and then extrapolate that and
say this is how the American Church is

567
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responding. No, this is how
a voice within the American Church is responding.

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What we need to look for is
how these ideas show up in the

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American Church as we move forward.
It's July. We've got a lot of

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time, at least relatively speaking.
In some ways, it's a short amount

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of time, but it's going to
feel like a long time between now and

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the election and then whatever happens after
the election. I think it's going to

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get ugly. I'm hoping him wrong. I'm hoping this brings unity, but

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I'm not so sure. I think
this may bring more division, more distrust,

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more hatred, more anger, and
it's only going to get uglier now

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as the world lights the fires and
burns everything to the ground. The church

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00:48:36.559 --> 00:48:43.119
should stand outside of that and say
we're not going to play in your reindeer

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00:48:43.159 --> 00:48:49.400
games. We are here, and
our mindset is this is not our home.

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We're passing through. We're aliens,
we're strangers here, we're pilgrims here.

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We don't We are in it,
but we're not of it. Our

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job is to call you to turn
your attention and focus to something better,

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00:49:05.599 --> 00:49:09.000
which is not this earthly kingdom,
but the spiritual kingdom, the heavenly kingdom.

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To eternity, to God, to
sin, to righteousness, to imputed

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00:49:15.800 --> 00:49:20.840
righteousness, to repentance. That is
what we're going to call people to,

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not to a political party, not
to a political agenda, and not we

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00:49:24.840 --> 00:49:29.320
should not have and I know I'm
going to take off Christians. You got

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00:49:29.360 --> 00:49:34.159
to stop this idea that we have
to impose traditional values on those who don't

588
00:49:34.199 --> 00:49:40.360
want them. If you want traditional
values, live them, don't force them,

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00:49:40.960 --> 00:49:45.880
live them out, get people in
your church to live them out,

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00:49:46.880 --> 00:49:52.079
teach them. But if you're going
to try to teach traditional values to the

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world, you're getting it all backwards. You don't teach traditional values to the

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world. You teach them of a
God who is holy. We have fallen

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short. We cannot keep his law, but Christ kept the law for us

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by putting our faith in him.
He pays for our failure, and his

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perfect righteousness is imputed to our account. You bring them the Gospel once they

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become saved, then you call them
to obey what God has laid out,

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even though it will be imperfect.
If you want traditional values, you first

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live them, and then you call
people to the Gospel, not to traditional

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values, and then you call them
once they become Christians, to pursue traditional

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values. You do not force traditional
values to people who do not have the

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gospel. Why do we want to
impose traditional values on the unregenerate. I

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00:50:42.679 --> 00:50:51.960
do not understand that. That's ridiculous. If you want traditional values, worry

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about you, worry about your church, worry about Christianity, not the world.

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This response to what happened is not
a response to attack people separate from

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people. The response should be this
world is messed up? How do we

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00:51:23.119 --> 00:51:28.480
respond spiritually? What is a spiritual
response? What is a godly response?

607
00:51:28.679 --> 00:51:31.840
What is a response where we do
not lean to our own understanding? What

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does that look like? And it's
not going to look like it makes any

609
00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:38.960
common sense because we're not going to
be relying on common sense. We're going

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00:51:39.039 --> 00:51:45.920
to be trying to rely on biblical
sense, which is not always makes sense

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from a human perspective, because God's
ways are not our ways. His thoughts

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00:51:49.840 --> 00:51:58.679
are not our thoughts. So what
are you seeing? What are you hearing?

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What are your Christian friends saying?
What are your Christian family saying?

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What did people at church say?
What did people in Sunday School say?

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Today? I'd love what are you
hearing? What are you hearing? As

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we go through we enter into a
new week, as we maybe keep up

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with what's going on in the sermon's
two point oh app this week, you

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can just kind of for the sermon's
two point oh app challenge right now.

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I don't have any specific thing for
you to focus on, whatever you're listening

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to, whatever you're doing, just
how you know, keep an eye out

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and ear out for where this,
how people are directing, how ministries are

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directing people. After this horrible,
horrible situation, I'll be monitoring as you

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hear or see things, send it
to me at newsif at yahoo dot com,

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and we'll just see where this all
leads. I'm not going to make

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any ominous predictions because I could be
very wrong, and right now it's too

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early to tell. But it's a
horrible looking situation, and I just my

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feelings are it's not good. I'm
hoping I am wrong. But please,

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just as we pray for you,
pray for Donald Trump, and pray for

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all the political leaders. Just remember
someone who was attending that rally. They

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died and other people are in the
hospital with critical injuries, so obviously pray

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for those people as well. And
the family family of the person who attended

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a political rally is now dead.
All right, you can well, I've

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already given the email address. Thank
you for listening. Everyone, have a

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wonderful Sunday evening. If I have
said anything incorrect in this episode, I

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apologize. I was trying to be
very careful with Do I refer to it

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as an assassination attempt? Do?
I like a lot of times a former

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president will refer to them as president
Donald Trump just still maintaining the as an

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honorary title because they were president.
The reason I try, I sometimes stumble

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over exactly what phrase to use,
and you've probably heard me do a little

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bit of that the beginning is because
I'm you know, I'm so tired of

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all of the you know, President
Trump really won and he's actually the president

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and and Biden is not actually in
charge of all the I mean, just

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go to some Trump rallies and listen
to people crazy stuff. I just want

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to make it very clear. Trump
lost the election. He is not the

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president. He is the former president. He is a presidential candidate. I

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don't want to get used language that
would support that, so I try to

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be very careful. Even though I
think it's it's okay. It's an honorary

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way to say President Donald Trump as
meaning he was the former president. So

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that title, I think is still
is honorary. But I just don't want

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to use that to give any impression
that I am supporting the idea that the

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election was stolen. The election Trump
lost, and every court attempt to try

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to find otherwise has failed. There's
not been any evidence. And obviously Fox

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News and other people who made some
of these claims have already been sued by

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Dominions. The dominion software program for
you know, you know well started off

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with billions of dollars. They paid
what one hundred and fifty million dollars for

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defamation. Other people are being sued
because you make these claims and then you

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can't back up the claim in court, right, so then what do you

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do. Well, you know,
if someone's got the evidence, don't email

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me, go prove it. Go
prove that the election was stolen. I

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don't know why people are still going
with that. Every attempt you've failed,

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so you know, the president Trump
lost the end. So that's why I'm

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very careful about the phrase I use. The assassination term is I just try

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to be careful because we don't yet
know the motivation. But I think it's

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fair to say it meets at least
I think the general definition of an assassination

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attempt. I think it does.
But at the same time, I'm trying

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to be I don't want to be
hyperbolic, and I'm trying to be very

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careful and precise in my language.
So if I stumbled over any of that,

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it's because I just I don't want
to be seen as in any way

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buying into the conspiracy theory that the
election was stolen. Trump lost. Okay,

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now we'll see what happens in this
election. My feelings are Trump is

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going to win, and probably in
a landslide numerous reasons. So that may

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be great for the country, may
be bad for the country. I don't

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really care too much about that.
Oh, I have my own selfish reasons,

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right, whichever president will do better
and support veterans and veteran rights and

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veterans benefits and those of us are
one hundred percent disabled, if they increase

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our disability pay or my military retirement
pay, that benefits me. So I've

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got selfish reasons for that, right. Obviously, anything that can help the

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economy, Yeah, I mean,
obviously I have selfish reasons in it.

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But I'm saying ultimately, I don't
care about that. What I am interested

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in whether Trump wins or whether Trump
loses. How does it all play out

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for the church in some ways because
of the political hijacking of many conservative churches.

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I've stated that in some ways,
I think from a philological and spiritual

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perspective, the best thing to happen
to the church that every Republican is voted

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out of office and the church has
no place to turn but God. Now,

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whenever I say that, people lose
their ever living minds. But I

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just think the Church is so prostituted
itself to political power because we want to

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accomplish things through political power and force
that we've lost. We are losing our

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spiritual minds. So but you can
you can art. Well, just look

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at that article. None of that
sounded Christian, but yet it was signed

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christ as King. I don't know
what christ that is because everything you suggested

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there was not anything Christian. So
right, you can email me news if

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at yahoo dot com, news if
at yahoo dot com. Everyone, have

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a wonderful Sunday evening. And look, I don't know what this week is

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going to look like. I think
we have the public. The Republican Convention

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starts Monday. It's going to be
a probably a crazy week of politics.

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I'm going to try to maintain a
spiritual balance here and see if we can

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keep our focus where it needs to
be. But you know, at the

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same time, we'll see if what
we need to address as the week moves

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forward. All right, thanks for
listening. God bless