March 27, 2025

Truth Beyond the Dialectic

Truth Beyond the Dialectic

Our world today and what to do about it.

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Our world today and what to do about it.

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast, making Theology Central. Good morning everyone.

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It is Thursday, March the twenty seventh, twenty twenty five.

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It is currently ten twenty nine am Central Time, and

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I'm coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. Conflicted, confused, frustrated, discouraged, depressed, irritated,

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thinking about giving up. You ever have any of those feelings,

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You ever find yourself maybe having multiple of those emotions.

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Maybe you are in that situation right now, maybe you

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were just in it, maybe you're going to go into it.

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But I think there's a lot of times that people

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find themselves in their lives feeling frustrated, confused, not knowing

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what to do, depressed, discourage, want to give up. It

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could be about your job, it could be about a

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number of things. And if I'm honest with you, a

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lot of times I feel those emotions in regards to

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what to do for this podcast. I really do. Sometimes

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I'm like, man, you know, I know we constantly talk

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about hermeneutical issues and hermeneutical errors that are happening within Christianity,

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but is that all you ever want to do? And

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then there's a lot of times I'm well, I need

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to do something you know, more devotional, more spiritual for

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my own good. But then I'm like, well, I've spent

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so much time trying to deal with all the hermonutical issues.

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I don't even know if I know how to deal

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with doing something in a more devotional way anymore because

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of trying to correct all of the wrong done with

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devotional type approaches to scripture. So then you're just like

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and then sometimes you just feel like it's it's never ending.

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I mean, the things we've done with Isaiah forty through

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fifty five, I mean, is that ever going to end?

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And every sermon I listen to, it's just one sermon

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after another sermon after another sermon. You're like, what is happening?

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Does anyone know how to handle Isaiah forty through fifty

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five even remotely correctly? Then the Acts twenty seven thing,

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I mean, if you've been paying any attention to the podcast,

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you know, and sometimes it just feels like how much

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more can I say? What more can I do? It

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doesn't even matter. And then while you're sitting there worrying

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about all the hermeneutical issues within the church. Of course,

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then you've got all kinds of other things going on

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within Christianity. It's just maddening, and it's like, how much

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time do you spend on this? And what do you

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spend on that? And sometimes I just sit here, I'm like,

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I just don't know what to do. I'm irritated, I'm frustrated,

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I'm discouraged, I'm depressed. I'm thinking about giving up. And

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then not only are you considering the church, Christianity, hermoneutics,

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everything going on in the church. Then of course you

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look at you know, you have your own spiritual life.

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I don't know about you, but your own spiritual life.

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You know, am I doing this? Do this? Struggle with this?

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You've got your own things to deal with. I'm no

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different than you. I say it all the time. I'm

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just a center with a microphone. And then you look

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around at the world and you're like, what and the

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name of bubblegum is going on? The world seems absolutely

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spinning out of control. You don't want to be hyperbolic,

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you don't want to you don't want to make something

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more than it is. But just sometimes you look around,

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you like what is going on, and then you have

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to kind of figure out, well, what's going on in

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the world constantly influences the church. Because the world is

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so divided, everything becomes a political fight, and then the

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church has become political. So then you go back, well,

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now am I dealing with all the hermeneutical issues in

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the church? Do I deal with the political issues in

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the church? How the church has been politically hijacked? How

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the church has been politically co opted and been basically

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taken over by a specific political movement and a political party.

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Do I spend time trying to correct that? How much

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time do I spend trying to fight the political hijacking

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of the church? Because the minute you push back on

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it people from that particular political way of thinking, then

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we'll get mad at you. But I mean, no matter

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what you do, when it becomes a thilological podcast, if

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you care about anything, you're almost always gonna find your enemies.

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But it's like, do I do I fight that? And

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then you look at what's going on in the world,

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and you're like, there's just seems to be a million problems.

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What do I do? What do I do? I don't

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even know anymore? Do I even turn on the microphone?

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Do I even want to turn on the microphone? Does

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it even matter? Is it all just an exercise and futility.

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There's a lot of you know, a lot of sound

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and fury with no real meaning. I mean, what do

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I do? Does it accomplish anything? Does it change anything?

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What am I attempting to do here? What do I

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really want to accomplish? And sometimes you just left sitting

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here in front of the microphone, or at least I am.

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I'm sting, I'm left sitting here in front of the Microphoneone.

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What do I do? What do I do? I got

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a Bible here? Do I try to do something there?

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I got a million sermons to listen to. Do I

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try to review one of those?

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Do it?

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What do I do? What do I do? Wait? Wait?

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I you know, if I open up, if I open

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up some news sites? Man, I got this. I mean,

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what in the world was our government doing by you know,

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talking on a chat app about you know, attack plans?

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Like what in the world is going on? Well? You see,

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if I'm a Trump supporter, I say it, it doesn't matter,

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it means nothing. If I'm not a Trump supporter, I

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say it means, you know, the end of the world.

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I say, oh, we got tariffs going to happen. You know,

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I got tariffs that's going to be placed on cars

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not made in the United States. We got oh, we've

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just got this going on, this going on. I mean,

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I'm just I got all these news articles here. What

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do I do? What do I do? What do I do?

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Do I talk about it? Well, if I talk about it,

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then you end up in this never ending battle between

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left and right? What do I do? And I'm just

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trying to give you a sense of just my own,

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my own existential crisis, my own just trying to figure

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it all out. So sometimes I turn on the microphone,

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I'm like, well, I think that was beneficial. Maybe I

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will get feedback. Maybe I won't get feedback, Maybe I'll

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get told if someone's not going to listen to me anymore,

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they're not going to support me anymore. Who knows. You

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never know what you're going to get, but I know this,

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there's always something that probably needs to be done. Now.

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The reason I'm bringing all of this up is because

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not only was I sitting here today kind of just

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going through this kind of crisis, like what do I do.

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What do I do? How to soar the lord newspaper?

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Right here? An article here on Hebrews chapter twelve, verse

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one about I'll read it. Wherefore, seeing we are also

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compassed about with a great cloud of witness, let us

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lay aside every weight, All right, lay aside every weight.

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Then this article proceeded to well, take the word weight

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and just well, the weight of this, the weight of this,

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the weight of that. But it seemed to almost forget

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a Hebrews twelve one is written in a historical context.

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What was possibly the weight being referenced in Hebrews twelve

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to one based on the historical on textual context. So

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then I'm like, well, do I do our recording and

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try to correct that. Well, that's getting right back into

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hermeneutical issues. Ah, I don't know. But at the same time,

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some of these things are points are actually good if

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I separate it from Hebrews twelve, I don't know, do

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I do it devotional? And I'm just sitting here like

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I don't know. And in the meantime, you know, like

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I said, I know everything going on in the world.

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I mean, do we talk about that whole craziness with

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the governmental officials on a chat app talking you know,

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attack plans, and they, you know, didn't realize I someone

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messed up and invited a reporter there who watches the

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whole thing, and then all the different sides everyone's taking

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on that. Do I even discuss it? Does it even matter?

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Like what as far as my podcast is concerned, it

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obviously matters, But how will the church handle it? And

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then I could go look on you know, Christian websites,

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see what they're talking about. You just sometimes you just

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feel lost. Well, in the midst of all of that,

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at nine four a m. Central Time, nine to twenty

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four am Central time, I received an email from a long, long, long, long,

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long time listener. They've been listening to me forever, off

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and on. I think sometimes they listen to me. Sometimes

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they get met at me, don't listen to me. I

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don't know, but they contact me sometimes. I think a

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lot of people have that kind of like, well, I

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listened to you, then I didn't listen to you. I

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think there's a little bit of that. I'm not saying

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that's the case here. I do more joking around here,

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but nine am so I'm going to read some of

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this email, probably not going to read every single word,

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but I'll at least try to get the basic idea,

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and we're going to talk about it because it does

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present a kind of a request, presents kind of a challenge,

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kind of presents me my own struggles. Are you ready

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to hear this? So many emailed me and said, I

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hope you're well this morning. That's very thoughtful, says I

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was thinking about something. I've been listening to your podcast

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about Trump and Gaza and plan on listening to the

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Zelensky one next. I know that your pot cast is

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focusing on theology, but I've always appreciated your take on

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current events. I think you have a unique perspective because

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you really try to try to be balanced, but you

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also really strive to be truthful and true to God's word.

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It's really hard to find things that are balanced. Well.

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I do appreciate that someone says I have a unique perspective,

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because I typically think I do have a unique perspective.

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I really do believe that if you go back to

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anything I've ever done on current events or even things

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from a philological perspective, I typically kind of go all right,

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here's how the majority of Christianity looks at this. This

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is how the majority of Christianity looks at this cultural issue,

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this news situation, this current event, or this is how

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Christians are handling scripture. I tend to have a unique

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perspective that which typically that's a nice way of saying,

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I usually find myself going against everyone. I find myself

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usually in the minority of the minority of the minority

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of the minority, and it typically gets me in trouble.

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That's why I was kicked off Christian radio because I

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ticked off too many people and the Christian radio station

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didn't want to deal with it, so they're like, you've

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got to go. I was literally my program was on

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the air when I was kicked off the air, So

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I know how I get myself in a lot of trouble.

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A unique perspective is good to have, but a unique

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perspective typically means you just make everyone mad, and which

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I do. I make the reform people mad, I make

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the non reform people mad. I make the dispensational people mad.

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The Covenant told people mad. I make everyone mad because

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I typically don't subscribe to going along with your team.

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I don't want to be a member of your team.

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I don't want to be a member of your I

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don't care. It's like I've tried to say it over

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and over. Something that greatly impacted me as a kid

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is the abbling reporter news used to have a quote

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right at the very top, with or without a fence,

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to a friend or foe, we tell of the world

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exactly as it goes, with or without offense to friend

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or foe. We tell of the world exactly as it goes.

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I remember reading that very very little because I was

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I love to read, so I was reading at a

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very very very very young age, and I would read

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the newspaper and I remember seeing that quote, like I

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think I had to ask someone what it meant. I

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may have, but once I got it explained to me,

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I was like, this is this is That's my life.

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I don't care about who I offend. I don't care

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if it's a friend or a foe. I don't care.

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to group think. I don't care about peer pressure. I

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don't care about people liking me or disliking me. I'm

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going to always go a specific direction that I want

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to go. All right, So I've always kind of. You

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can call it anti conformity, you can call it rebellious,

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you can call it whatever you want. I just like

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to fight. I don't actually like to fight. I don't

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actually like the conflict, but I do have. But this

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has all led to me having a unique perspective. So

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I do believe I have a unique perspective. I do that.

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I do believe that. Do I try to be balanced?

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I think I try to be balanced. I do try

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to be truthful. That's one thing I do care about. Right. Look,

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I know I'm a sinner with a microphone. I know

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I'm ungodly, I know I'm a failure in a million

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different ways. But I've always felt the very least we

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can do with Christians, the very least we can do

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when it comes to whatever topic is. We can strive

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for facts, to be truthful, to be accurate. Because look,

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there's a million things in the Bible that I will

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never come anywhere close to accomplishing because we can't keep

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God's law, we will always fall short. Not to get

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into a thilological discussion, but we can go back and

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listen to my series on law and gospel. But I mean,

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we have a basic simple rule here, put away lying.

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This is Ephesians four to twenty five. Put away lying.

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members one of another. Do not bear false witness. Speak

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the truth, do not bear false witness. Those are basic concepts, right.

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God hates lying lips, So we need to strive for

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truth and facts. Not truth in facts that agree with

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our team or disagree with our team, just truth in facts.

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Christianity handles church history. Right. Everybody runs back to the

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early Church to find a quote and say say they

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agreed with us, and you completely misrepresent the totality of

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everything that church father said. I can't stand with Christians

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do that. They don't care about finding the truth of

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what the early Church thought. They just want the early

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Church to be utilized as a tool to promote their

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current theological beliefs. And it's like, it's just not a

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fair way to do church history. So I do strive

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to be I do strive to be truthful and true

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to God's word. I mean, I do my very best

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to be true to God's word. I mean, I don't

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know if any of us ever truly are, but I

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try now. It says it's really hard to find things

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that are balanced. There is such a dialectic between left

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and right and between every other group that's out there.

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That's a very good observation. There is this never ending dialectic,

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this never ending division, this never ending debate between left

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and right. Especially in twenty twenty five, everything is framed

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as leftists, woke, liberal, conservative, maga. You know it's republican democrat.

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pick a team. You have to pick a team, and

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then you see everything in life, no matter what happens,

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you see it through either a liberal, woke, progressive, whatever

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terms you want to use from that, you're on that team,

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or you have to look through things through the lens

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of the maga republican conservative team, and you've got to

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pick and choose. You've got to pick a team, and

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then facts are only seen through the lens of that team.

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So it's just bizarre, like you're like, no, this happened. Well,

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if you're a Republican, you're gonna look at it this way.

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You're gonna say it's no big deal. You're going to

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need to excuse it, you're going to justify it. A

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liberal will say no, this is horrible. And it goes

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both ways. It's just everything is used, everything is spoken

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of via your political ideology. It's ridiculous. And the same

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thing happens within Christianity. You know, if it's if it's

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something happens with someone on your team, you typically defend it,

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justify it. But if it's someone on the other team,

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you condemn. Everything is divided, everything is broken into ideological groups.

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It's just it's maddening. But it's the way it actually occurs.

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So there is a dialectic between left and right and

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between every other group that's out there, and you're either

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and this is back to the email, and you're either

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in one group or another. As someone who is swimming

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upstream to try and find a way out of the dialectics.

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Even sometimes I have an immediate thought to some of

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the things you say, like, oh, that sounds like a leftist.

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Of people do that to me a lot, But then

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I immediately think, no, you can't think like that. It's

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not about left or right. It's about truth. But it's

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so hard. Now I'm very grateful and can greatly. First

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I appreciate them saying that that. Sometimes they may immediately

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accuse me of being a leftist and like, well, it's

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not about left or right. It's not I say that

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over anything. I say. It's not about being left, it's

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not about being right. It's about truth. It's about pursuing

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a correct way of understanding. And most importantly from this podcast,

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I don't care about left or right. I care about

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looking at it from a philological perspective. I don't care

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if my theological perspective sounds leftist. I don't care. I

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have no allegiance to any political party Democrat or Republican, liberal, conservative, maga, non.

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I don't care about your political teams. I don't care

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to play anybody's political reindeer games. I think politics is

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the very thing that has corrupted American Christianity to the

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point that it's almost I don't even know if it's

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Christianity anymore. But yes, my perspective will sound very much

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leftists because most of the church has been so hijacked

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by a maga republican mindset, and so you have to

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talk like that or you're immediately viewed as a leftist.

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So I appreciate their struggle, and I appreciate them saying

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that greatly. I'm very grateful for this email. I'm very

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grateful for them saying that. But I do understand the

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struggle because if you think a certain way, the minute

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you hear something contrary to the way you think, if

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you're going to immediately probably place it in a category. Well,

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if it's not like this, then it has to be

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that if and if people do that to me theologically, right,

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I'll say something, you're an antiinnomian. What No, I'm not

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an antiinnomian. You're this, You're you're this. Everybody wants to

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label me in a philological box they want to put.

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How about we just pursue truth. How about we just

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pursue what the tech says. But everything's got to be labeled.

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Everything's gonna be identified, and then you determine, Oh I'm

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against that team. Oh no, you're on my team. Well

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you think I'm on your team for five seconds. Trust me.

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Sooner or later you're gonna be thinking we're taking your

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jersey back because you're not on our team anymore. You

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know we're gonna beat you. You're gonna have to. You know,

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you don't just walk away from this gang. Get you

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get taken out by being beaten down? Are you going

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to be beaten out of this gang? Basically that's the

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way it works. So but I do it. But I

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do love the fact that they say. I immediately think, no,

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you can't think like that. It's not about left or right.

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It's about the truth. But it's so hard. I agree. Look,

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it's hard even for me, it's hard for everyone. We

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all find ourselves in this kind of never ending trap.

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And then they go on to say, there's such a

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pulling from every group in our society. You are either

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with us or you are against us. What do you?

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What do you? What do you identify as so we

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can put you in the right category. That's true, that

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society says that what do you identify as? So we

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can put you in the right category. Anyway, I humbly

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request that maybe you could do some more frequent current

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events stuff. That's good. I mean, that's a good request.

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It says people are so confused out there, And you're right.

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You said something in the Trump Cause of video about

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things moving fast. Yes they are. I think I have

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a permanent case of whiplash. But this is a suggestion

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for you to think about now. I greatly appreciate them

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sharing their own struggle. I appreciate them trying to understand

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what I'm trying to do. I do appreciate that, and

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I do understand that. I look, I'm the worst person

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in many cases to you if you want to listen

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to something that you're going to agree with. I like

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I almost have to warn anytime I do a broadcast

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it doesn't matter what to do. Hey, you're not going

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to agree with me, because I almost know that no

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matter what I say, I tend to make someone mad

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because I just when you turn on this broadcast, you

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don't know what you're going to get.

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You may get something that sounds conservative, you get something

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that sounds liberal, you may get something that sounds dispensational,

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you may get something that sounds covenantal Who knows what

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you're going to get. Because I'm trying to pursue truth.

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I don't care about any team zero. I'm not on

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your team. And I know that drives people crazy. They

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want to identify it, they want to categorize me, they

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want to put me in a box. But I wish

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we could find ways to get to the truth now.

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What do I do? What do I do? What do

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I do? What do I do? I don't know what

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to do here? I don't know. I don't know. So

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I started thinking about this. Now. What's interesting is I've

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been having this debate with myself off and on for

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a long time. All Right, So here's my conflict. Here's

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my conflict. I'm just gonna work, work, just gonna talk

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through this, and then you're free to share your thoughts

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doing any kind of podcast about current events, about world events,

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like about the just say for today, I mean, the

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big story for the last what twenty four to forty

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eight hours has been the entire governmental officials in a

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group chat laying out details for an attack plan. I

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know they don't want to call it a war plan.

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Is it classified? Is it not classified? Is it highly

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sensitive material? I mean I could talk about my own

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time in the United States military with a top secret clearance,

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the different things I did with a very important information,

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top secret information or sensitive information, how we communicated. I

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could get into my own personal experiences, but I mean,

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we could talk about it. How did the reporter get

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invited in? Do we attack the reporter? Because that seems

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to be one of the things that Trump administration wants

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to do. He's a piece of trash, he's dirt. Okay, Well,

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the point is he's got your actual text messages. We

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didn't say this. Well here there's more text messages, and

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it's here's you did say that. Okay, So we could

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get into all of that, right, So how do we

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cover it?

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Now?

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If you try to cover it finding truth, you're going

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to take off somebody. You're going to take off the

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MAGA supporters, you're going to take off probably you're going

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to take off the Democrats. You're going to take off someone.

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Because if what we need is truth, right, But then

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how much time do you spend on it? Right? Because

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it's a developing story, right if you go from how

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it was first reported, and then the reporter, then they

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attacked the reporter, so that basically the reporter is like, oh,

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you want to attack me, Well, here's the rest of them. Okay.

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So so that story was changing, So that would mean

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you do a broadcast, but then you got to do

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another broadcast, and then you have to do another, So

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that means covering that one story probably would have turned

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into ten broadcasts, maybe fifteen, maybe twenty and then you've

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got to try to deal with You're going to get

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strong reactions against you. So then you try to answer that,

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I mean, that's just one story. We I mean, I

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could go in to a number of issues. All everything

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happening in the government right now. Everything the Trump administration

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is doing just insanity. The tariffs we can get into.

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I'm gonna put on a tariff. Well, I'm not gonna

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hold off on a tariff. I'm gonna put on a tear.

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I'm gonna add I'm not gonna put on a tariff.

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Now I'm gonna put on another. Well, I'm not gonna

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put on a tariff. The never ending insanity going on

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with the Republicans and Conservatives turning against Ukraine and supporting

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Russia all of a sudden. To be conservative, and I

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guess to be a conservative Christian you have to be

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pro Russia. What world is this? What when did this happen? Okay,

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on and on and on and on and on and see,

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just saying some of those things, I'm already ticking off

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some people. So to try to talk about that, man,

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can you just do that once a week? I don't know.

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Can how often? See you didn't you just it no

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longer becomes theology central, becomes current events central. But at

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the same time I can understand the need to try

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to provide balance. Now, my main concern has been the

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00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:10.960
churches being so corrupted by all of this that, to me,

461
00:26:11.839 --> 00:26:17.079
the most dangerous thing is for Christians to not only

462
00:26:17.119 --> 00:26:18.319
be corrupted.

463
00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:22.279
By it, but to be consumed by it, right, because

464
00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:24.480
you can become consumed by it and the next thing

465
00:26:24.519 --> 00:26:26.640
you know, you're just like, oh, this news article and

466
00:26:26.680 --> 00:26:28.680
this news article, and then this is happening, and this

467
00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:29.200
is happening.

468
00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:31.039
Okay, and this is going on and this I mean,

469
00:26:31.160 --> 00:26:33.319
like I said, I mean just look here. I'm just

470
00:26:33.359 --> 00:26:39.960
gonna go to I'm just gonna pull this up really quick. Okay,

471
00:26:39.960 --> 00:26:49.960
hang on, Okay, Yeah, I mean we've got RFK junior plans,

472
00:26:50.200 --> 00:26:55.680
ten thousand job cuts and major restructuring of the Health Department.

473
00:26:55.920 --> 00:26:58.839
I mean, that's a major thing. Republicans out of the loop.

474
00:26:58.839 --> 00:27:05.440
As Musk takes to Social Security administration, that's pretty serious.

475
00:27:06.079 --> 00:27:10.400
Global leaders raising in polls as a battle Trump, Okay,

476
00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:14.359
I mean, more Americans than ever are dipping into retirement

477
00:27:14.400 --> 00:27:20.160
funds prematurely. That's talking about how the possible impact on

478
00:27:20.240 --> 00:27:24.200
the economy and what's going on now? Trump is claiming

479
00:27:24.240 --> 00:27:27.319
twenty five percent on all cars not made in the US,

480
00:27:27.839 --> 00:27:32.480
Tesla one of only winners. Well that's in that interesting

481
00:27:32.519 --> 00:27:36.279
that Tesla would win because Who'm okay, we can get

482
00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:39.400
into all of that. I have a list of all

483
00:27:39.440 --> 00:27:43.480
the tariffs Trump has enacted, threatened, and then canceled. Florida

484
00:27:43.519 --> 00:27:46.279
has to roll back child labor laws to fill jobs

485
00:27:46.359 --> 00:27:50.839
left by undocumented migrants. Immigrants, fourteen year olds can now

486
00:27:50.920 --> 00:27:53.279
work overnight shifts. What in the world is going on

487
00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:55.559
with the child labor laws in Florida. Well, hey, we

488
00:27:55.640 --> 00:27:58.039
don't have enough immigrants to do these jobs, so let's

489
00:27:58.079 --> 00:28:00.359
get young kids who can do these jobs. Was as

490
00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:02.519
young as the age of fourteen, and guess what, we

491
00:28:02.559 --> 00:28:05.279
can pay them a lot less. So yeah, I mean

492
00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:08.079
that kind of crazy craziness. I mean, I'm just going on.

493
00:28:08.160 --> 00:28:10.559
I could just look here, one story after another story

494
00:28:10.559 --> 00:28:15.000
after another story. What once you get, oh, and then

495
00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:22.319
well another, There's so many stories I could just spend. Literally,

496
00:28:22.880 --> 00:28:25.039
it would be never ending, so it would stop being

497
00:28:25.079 --> 00:28:29.000
theology central and it becomes current events central. Well, to me,

498
00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:32.480
it's not so much taking those stories apart it's how

499
00:28:32.559 --> 00:28:37.920
these stories are impacted, how they impact Christianity. For example,

500
00:28:37.960 --> 00:28:41.079
I think I have here, Oh, for example, the SBC

501
00:28:41.279 --> 00:28:46.759
Southern Baptist Convention. They have spent nearly thirteen million dollars

502
00:28:47.160 --> 00:28:52.400
on expenses related to sex abuse investigations. Thirteen million dollars

503
00:28:52.400 --> 00:28:54.880
by the Southern Baptist Convention. Oh, there's a lot. We

504
00:28:54.960 --> 00:28:57.519
could talk about that, right, we could talk about that.

505
00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:00.079
So you've got church news, you got what's going on

506
00:29:00.160 --> 00:29:02.319
in the world. You got things going on in the

507
00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:06.880
world that seems to be impacting Christianity. See here, Where

508
00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:11.519
do I did I save the story? I don't know

509
00:29:11.559 --> 00:29:15.960
if I did. Let me see here, let me look here.

510
00:29:16.039 --> 00:29:23.319
I've got a number of stories here. Oh yeah, here's

511
00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:26.799
the story. We've completely lost the plot on Andrew Tate

512
00:29:27.319 --> 00:29:30.759
talking about how Christian men and Christian young men are

513
00:29:31.119 --> 00:29:34.400
fascinated by Andrew Tate. Well, what in the world is

514
00:29:34.480 --> 00:29:37.119
that all about? Right? I mean, the man's been accused

515
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:40.799
of all kinds of sexual crimes and then so the church,

516
00:29:40.839 --> 00:29:44.160
so many Christians or Conservatives defend him, and I guess

517
00:29:44.200 --> 00:29:47.000
what just happens? I got the new story right here?

518
00:29:47.200 --> 00:29:50.559
Tate accused of choking a woman two weeks after the

519
00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:53.839
Trump administration helped him return to the USA. All right,

520
00:29:53.960 --> 00:29:55.880
so then we can get into a discussion about that.

521
00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.319
It's just there's so much so do we just deal

522
00:29:59.319 --> 00:30:00.880
with the current of am do we deal with the

523
00:30:00.880 --> 00:30:03.559
current event and how it relates to Christianity? And you

524
00:30:03.680 --> 00:30:07.240
just see, it becomes this all consuming thing. But I

525
00:30:07.279 --> 00:30:12.240
started thinking about, like, how would I possibly address this?

526
00:30:13.440 --> 00:30:16.039
How would I possibly address this? So I started thinking,

527
00:30:16.319 --> 00:30:20.480
and what's interesting here is I've gone back and forth

528
00:30:20.519 --> 00:30:22.319
on this a numerous times. In fact, I was going

529
00:30:22.359 --> 00:30:26.680
to create a podcast or a podcast series, something along

530
00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:31.160
the idea of not left, not right, you know, news

531
00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:34.240
that's not coming from a left perspective or a right perspective.

532
00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:36.200
But then that would be a news podcast and it

533
00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:40.640
would be dedicated to news maybe from a thiological perspective.

534
00:30:40.720 --> 00:30:43.359
But you see, then that becomes almost like a twenty

535
00:30:43.400 --> 00:30:46.720
four to seven type thing. So then I started thinking, well,

536
00:30:46.759 --> 00:30:52.680
maybe maybe we refer to this as truth beyond the dialectic,

537
00:30:53.279 --> 00:30:57.079
because the emailer used the term dialectic, and I thought, well,

538
00:30:57.119 --> 00:31:00.799
maybe I could do something like maybe my intro could

539
00:31:00.839 --> 00:31:04.480
be like in a world where everything is pulled left

540
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:09.640
or right, where every headline demands your allegiance and every

541
00:31:09.720 --> 00:31:13.200
issue tries to put you in a category. Sometimes we

542
00:31:13.440 --> 00:31:18.599
just need a place to stop, breathe and think biblically.

543
00:31:19.440 --> 00:31:22.440
This is truth beyond the dialectic, a space where we

544
00:31:22.519 --> 00:31:25.920
step outside the noise, outside the tribes, and look at

545
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:29.039
the world through the lens of scripture, not slogans. We're

546
00:31:29.079 --> 00:31:31.359
not here to tell you what's side to join. We're

547
00:31:31.359 --> 00:31:36.720
here to ask the harder question, what's true. The headlines

548
00:31:36.720 --> 00:31:41.160
are loud, the pressure is real, but truth hasn't changed,

549
00:31:41.480 --> 00:31:44.599
and that's where we begin. I could do that could

550
00:31:44.599 --> 00:31:47.759
be my introduction. I even thought about how to do

551
00:31:47.799 --> 00:31:51.319
an introduction about that. That sounds good, But see, do

552
00:31:51.400 --> 00:31:55.039
you note what we're going after? What's true? Will you

553
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:57.680
know what that requires?

554
00:31:57.240 --> 00:31:57.279
That?

555
00:31:57.799 --> 00:32:01.799
Take every news story and then try to figure out, Okay,

556
00:32:01.799 --> 00:32:04.559
here's what the left is saying, here's what the right

557
00:32:04.599 --> 00:32:06.960
is saying, and then try to figure out the truth

558
00:32:09.680 --> 00:32:14.039
that that's going to require like a lot of work.

559
00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:16.759
Sometimes it's pretty obvious, but a lot of times it

560
00:32:16.880 --> 00:32:23.720
requires a lot of work. So I could do something

561
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:28.519
like this. Well, then I kind of broke it down

562
00:32:28.559 --> 00:32:30.960
to more like a script form, but I'm not going

563
00:32:31.039 --> 00:32:33.000
to repeat it because it's basically the same thing, just

564
00:32:33.039 --> 00:32:38.880
done in a kind of a different format. I think

565
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:41.400
if we kind of look at really what's going on

566
00:32:41.480 --> 00:32:44.559
in the world, I think we have this endless left

567
00:32:44.640 --> 00:32:49.559
versus right conflict. But I think it's just it. That's

568
00:32:49.680 --> 00:32:52.119
just what we see on the on the surface, this

569
00:32:52.599 --> 00:32:56.519
never ending left versus right conflict. I think it's just

570
00:32:56.519 --> 00:32:59.599
what we see on the surface. I think it's the symptom.

571
00:32:59.839 --> 00:33:05.000
I don't think it's the disease. The real crisis runs deeper.

572
00:33:05.279 --> 00:33:07.680
I think the real crisis we're facing in the world

573
00:33:07.720 --> 00:33:10.559
and we're facing in the church, runs much deeper. So

574
00:33:10.680 --> 00:33:12.720
how do I address this? Here's what I think is

575
00:33:12.759 --> 00:33:15.279
going on. Number One, I think people are finding their

576
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:19.039
identity in political tribes rather than in Christ And that's

577
00:33:19.079 --> 00:33:22.839
a major spiritual problem. It's not just a social one.

578
00:33:22.920 --> 00:33:26.119
When someone's deepest sense of self is tied to a party,

579
00:33:26.400 --> 00:33:30.400
an ideology, or a cultural label, then that becomes their

580
00:33:30.440 --> 00:33:34.960
functional God. It shapes their ethics, it shapes their emotions,

581
00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:39.960
it shapes their all their loyalties. Ultimately, it shapes their theology. See,

582
00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:43.079
I think this left right fight getting pulled one way

583
00:33:43.200 --> 00:33:46.000
or the other. That's just the symptom. The real problem

584
00:33:46.039 --> 00:33:51.240
is that people are finding their identity and a political tribe.

585
00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:55.799
They're left, they're right, they're woke, they're anti woke, they're maga,

586
00:33:55.960 --> 00:34:01.240
they're anti maga. That's everywhere everyone finds their identity. I'm conservative,

587
00:34:01.279 --> 00:34:04.599
I'm this, I'm that, And it comes into the church,

588
00:34:05.079 --> 00:34:07.480
where our identity is supposed to be in Christ. It's

589
00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:12.199
become all of these other things. So it's a spiritual problem.

590
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:14.480
It's not a social win. And let me state it again.

591
00:34:14.519 --> 00:34:17.880
When someone's deepest sense of self is tied to a party,

592
00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:21.519
or to an ideology, or to a cultural label, that

593
00:34:21.599 --> 00:34:25.400
becomes their functional god. They may still mention God, they

594
00:34:25.440 --> 00:34:28.480
still mention the Christian God, but the Christian God simply

595
00:34:28.480 --> 00:34:32.360
becomes a utility, a tool in order to support their

596
00:34:32.400 --> 00:34:38.840
political ideology. It begins to shape your ethics, it shapes

597
00:34:38.880 --> 00:34:42.320
your emotions, it shapes your loyalties, and it ultimately destroys

598
00:34:42.920 --> 00:34:47.440
forgets shaping your theology. It destroys it, it leads your

599
00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:52.000
theology and shambles. So I think that's the real first problem.

600
00:34:52.039 --> 00:34:55.679
The second first, second problem, it's truth has become optional

601
00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:59.079
or weaponized. We now live in a time where truth

602
00:34:59.159 --> 00:35:03.639
is not just ignore, it is actively bent, blurred, or

603
00:35:03.719 --> 00:35:08.280
buried under layers of misinformation and many circles. Even in

604
00:35:08.360 --> 00:35:11.880
the church, truth is valued only when it's useful for

605
00:35:12.039 --> 00:35:15.960
your side. The commandment not to bear false witness doesn't

606
00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:19.960
stop it lying. It includes twisting facts, repeating rumors are

607
00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:24.639
staying silent when truth is needed. Most truth has been weaponized,

608
00:35:26.280 --> 00:35:28.800
and you, and and and everyone will say no, I

609
00:35:28.880 --> 00:35:31.400
don't want misinformation. I have the truth. And then you

610
00:35:31.519 --> 00:35:34.119
listen to them talking like you're just giving misinformation from

611
00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:36.960
the other side. You don't like this misinformation, but you're

612
00:35:36.960 --> 00:35:41.920
giving your own misinformation. Truth is simply a word used

613
00:35:41.960 --> 00:35:45.239
to spread your own misinformation. And if you and if you,

614
00:35:45.480 --> 00:35:48.159
and guess what, if you hear truth from the other side,

615
00:35:48.239 --> 00:35:51.639
you just call it fake news. So truth is labeled

616
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:55.599
as fake news. But truth is also labeled to identify

617
00:35:55.800 --> 00:36:04.559
and to classify your own misinformation. So where are the

618
00:36:04.559 --> 00:36:07.239
real problems in this world? People are finding identity in

619
00:36:07.320 --> 00:36:11.480
politics rather than in Christ. Truth has become optional or weaponized,

620
00:36:11.719 --> 00:36:17.119
and false accusations and slander are normalized, even spiritualized. We've

621
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:19.559
reached a point where people can slander others in the

622
00:36:19.639 --> 00:36:22.519
name of God, as if the end justifies the means.

623
00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:26.840
That's a terrifying development because it makes sin seem righteous.

624
00:36:26.960 --> 00:36:30.760
And when the Church baptizes political hostility, it loses its

625
00:36:30.800 --> 00:36:38.159
moral credibility in its prophetic voice. We have to see

626
00:36:38.159 --> 00:36:40.880
what's going on in our world with us with a

627
00:36:41.159 --> 00:36:45.199
sobering accuracy. We have to get there. It's not about

628
00:36:45.199 --> 00:36:47.320
being caught in the left or right. It's about being

629
00:36:47.320 --> 00:36:51.159
caught in a much deeper lie that power, identity, and

630
00:36:51.280 --> 00:36:54.320
belonging can be found outside of Christ, and that truth

631
00:36:54.360 --> 00:37:01.719
is just another tool in the fight. So how do

632
00:37:01.840 --> 00:37:04.199
I address this? How do I How do I fight it?

633
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:06.280
How do I combat it? Do I want to sign

634
00:37:06.360 --> 00:37:11.039
up for basically enlist in the army and dedicate twenty

635
00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:14.480
four to seven to it. Well, in some cases it

636
00:37:14.519 --> 00:37:17.159
needs to be done. We got to fight these things.

637
00:37:21.079 --> 00:37:22.960
I think again, I still think the issue is the

638
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:26.039
church has been so corrupted by all of this. Well,

639
00:37:26.159 --> 00:37:29.599
if I turned the podcast into just dealing with all

640
00:37:29.639 --> 00:37:32.960
of these facts, then we're not addressing what's going on

641
00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:36.239
in the church, because then guess what happens. Okay, I

642
00:37:36.360 --> 00:37:38.920
go with what the Trump administration did with this group.

643
00:37:39.840 --> 00:37:42.519
I'm just keep mentioning this because it's been the dominant

644
00:37:42.519 --> 00:37:47.119
news story with this crazy group chat where they invited

645
00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:49.280
a reporter in and they ended up, you know, basically

646
00:37:49.400 --> 00:37:52.760
letting out you know, attack plans okay before the attack

647
00:37:52.800 --> 00:37:58.440
took place. Ridiculous, crazy, I'm mishandling of sensitive information, all

648
00:37:58.480 --> 00:38:02.119
the other problems with this, all the different things about

649
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:05.800
what was taking place. I could sit there and fight this,

650
00:38:05.840 --> 00:38:08.519
well guess what I would do a broadcast. Then Trump's

651
00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:11.079
supporters would come at me saying this is not true.

652
00:38:11.119 --> 00:38:12.480
So then I got to go look at all of

653
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:15.199
their claims. Then I have to come and respond to well,

654
00:38:15.239 --> 00:38:17.519
this is the claims being made, but this is not true,

655
00:38:17.599 --> 00:38:19.159
or this is true and this is not true, and

656
00:38:19.199 --> 00:38:22.119
it's just I mean, you could spend forever because no

657
00:38:22.159 --> 00:38:25.440
matter what the story is, whatever I say, this side's

658
00:38:25.480 --> 00:38:27.960
going to argue against it. This side's going to argue

659
00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:31.519
against it, and then I have to then try to prove.

660
00:38:31.679 --> 00:38:33.760
But then again, any information I give to try to

661
00:38:33.800 --> 00:38:35.960
prove this side wrong, they're going to say that's false news,

662
00:38:35.960 --> 00:38:38.639
that's fraudulent news. I don't know. I will not listen

663
00:38:38.639 --> 00:38:40.760
to that source. Yeah, because the only source you'll listen

664
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:43.119
to is the source that already agrees with your side.

665
00:38:43.199 --> 00:38:45.079
And so then it becomes like, how do we view

666
00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:49.519
primary sources secondary sources? Like it's a never ending It's

667
00:38:49.559 --> 00:38:52.440
like just jumping off a cliff into the bottomless pit.

668
00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:54.840
You're never going to hit the bottom and it's never

669
00:38:54.920 --> 00:38:56.880
going to end. And I don't think it's ever going

670
00:38:56.880 --> 00:39:07.280
to fix anything. So do I create some kind of

671
00:39:07.320 --> 00:39:13.239
like a plan or strategy? Do I say something like

672
00:39:13.840 --> 00:39:17.159
I reject the lie that truth belongs to a political side.

673
00:39:17.320 --> 00:39:20.840
Is that revolutionary to even say I reject I reject

674
00:39:20.840 --> 00:39:23.480
the lie that truth belongs to a political side. No

675
00:39:23.599 --> 00:39:26.320
one political side has the market or the corner on

676
00:39:26.400 --> 00:39:31.079
the truth. I refuse to find my identity and parties,

677
00:39:31.360 --> 00:39:36.079
ideologies are cultural movements. I will not be labeled by

678
00:39:36.199 --> 00:39:39.119
man when we I'm supposed to be focused on being

679
00:39:39.199 --> 00:39:44.920
named by God. And a world where misinformation spreads like wildfire,

680
00:39:45.159 --> 00:39:48.440
where slander is strategy, and where bearing false witness is

681
00:39:48.480 --> 00:39:51.519
a daily ritual, I want to choose a better way.

682
00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:58.119
I don't believe. I believe truth is not subjective. I

683
00:39:58.159 --> 00:40:00.639
believe it is not flexible. I believe it is not

684
00:40:00.760 --> 00:40:04.480
owned by the left or the right. Truth is fixed,

685
00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:07.440
Truth is eternal. Truth is supposed to be rooted in

686
00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:12.039
God's word and revealed in Christ. I believe that lies,

687
00:40:12.239 --> 00:40:16.360
when spoken by the right side, are still lies. I

688
00:40:16.360 --> 00:40:19.559
believe that half truths are full betrayals of the truth.

689
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:25.360
I believe silence in the face of deception is complicity.

690
00:40:26.320 --> 00:40:29.360
I will not speak to win arguments, but I would

691
00:40:29.440 --> 00:40:31.559
like to speak to try to bear witness to the

692
00:40:31.599 --> 00:40:37.599
truth in this space. I would like to think biblically

693
00:40:37.800 --> 00:40:42.239
before I ever think politically. I don't want to be

694
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:46.599
provoked into categories. I would like to try to test

695
00:40:46.639 --> 00:40:49.280
every spirit. I would like to test every claim. I

696
00:40:49.280 --> 00:40:52.239
would like to and I would like to, you know,

697
00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:56.000
be committed to the Word of God more than anything else.

698
00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:03.960
I don't want to be left. I don't want to

699
00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:06.000
be right. I would like to be on the side

700
00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:11.599
of truth. I would like to cut through the partisan

701
00:41:11.679 --> 00:41:15.960
noise with some kind of clarity rooted in scripture. I

702
00:41:15.960 --> 00:41:20.280
would like to challenge the false identities people form around

703
00:41:20.119 --> 00:41:25.239
ideological or ideologies and political movements. I would like to

704
00:41:25.320 --> 00:41:28.719
challenge those false identities. I would like to expose lies,

705
00:41:29.079 --> 00:41:33.719
expose half truths. I would like to expose misinformation, regardless

706
00:41:33.719 --> 00:41:35.519
of from where it comes from, if it comes from

707
00:41:35.559 --> 00:41:38.000
the pulpit, if it comes from Christian radio, if it

708
00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:43.199
comes from a sermon, if it comes from a political party.

709
00:41:44.039 --> 00:41:47.239
I'd like to call Christians back to the standard of truth.

710
00:41:49.119 --> 00:41:52.320
I would like to encourage discernment and a world that

711
00:41:52.400 --> 00:41:59.199
demands allegiance over understanding. I don't want to be politically safe.

712
00:41:59.239 --> 00:42:02.400
I would like to be feverishly faithful. Those are some

713
00:42:02.440 --> 00:42:04.519
things I would like to do. Those are some thoughts

714
00:42:04.559 --> 00:42:07.000
I've had. But again, how do I do this? How

715
00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:09.960
do where's the balance? I have no idea where the

716
00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:16.960
balance is. I don't even know what to do. And

717
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:19.320
I do feel bad that people are out there tossed

718
00:42:19.440 --> 00:42:21.599
this way and toss that way, and you don't know

719
00:42:21.599 --> 00:42:23.960
what to listen to. Look, I've had my own frustrations

720
00:42:24.000 --> 00:42:27.639
listening to sermons. I'm like, what, and well, five seconds

721
00:42:27.679 --> 00:42:32.199
not true, not true, not accurate, fraudile in information, misinformation.

722
00:42:32.360 --> 00:42:34.400
I mean, how many times have we handed sermons to

723
00:42:34.480 --> 00:42:37.559
artificial intelligence? I could spend I can spend my life

724
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:40.440
just going I cut myself off there? How many times

725
00:42:40.440 --> 00:42:43.440
have we handed sermons over to artificial intelligence to be

726
00:42:43.599 --> 00:42:46.880
shown all the flaws, all the errors, all the wrong

727
00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:50.320
information inside sermons. We've done that all throughout most of

728
00:42:50.360 --> 00:42:54.320
this year. Well, I could spend my life just trying

729
00:42:54.360 --> 00:42:59.679
to correct all the logical fallacies, hermoneutical errors, and factual

730
00:42:59.760 --> 00:43:05.079
air in sermons. That's before we even get to the world.

731
00:43:05.719 --> 00:43:08.159
We can't even get truth. We can't even speak the

732
00:43:08.159 --> 00:43:10.599
truth in our sermons. I mean, how many times have

733
00:43:10.679 --> 00:43:14.280
we demonstrated that? So then do I then say, Well,

734
00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:16.760
I'm gonna leave sermons today and go focus on what's

735
00:43:16.760 --> 00:43:18.920
going on in the world. Sometimes it does have to

736
00:43:18.960 --> 00:43:25.159
be addressed. I struggled with this once Trump won the election.

737
00:43:25.239 --> 00:43:27.199
I'm like, what do I do? How much of this

738
00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:30.400
do I address? Because if I say anything negative about Trump,

739
00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:35.880
anything anything negative about the Trump administration at all, well,

740
00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:39.000
conservative Christians will turn on this podcast and five point

741
00:43:39.039 --> 00:43:42.199
two seconds I'll lose half of my audience, who are

742
00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:49.199
probably Trumps supporters. I could. I mean, most of my

743
00:43:49.360 --> 00:43:51.920
church are probably is probably made up of Trump supporters

744
00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:57.280
and Trump voters. But you can't criticize him. It's like

745
00:43:57.320 --> 00:44:06.199
a cult. You criticize him, You're like criticizing God. Now,

746
00:44:06.320 --> 00:44:09.159
if I criticize the left, well, then the people on

747
00:44:09.199 --> 00:44:10.960
the right will be like, yeah, if I can't go

748
00:44:11.079 --> 00:44:14.440
after those woke liberals, we don't need them. They're the evil.

749
00:44:14.559 --> 00:44:18.400
They're destroying our country. And most of the time, very

750
00:44:18.440 --> 00:44:21.199
liberal people, most of the time, very quote unquote woke,

751
00:44:21.480 --> 00:44:24.480
very liberal people most of the time are not probably

752
00:44:24.519 --> 00:44:26.639
listening to a theology podcast, So I'm not going to

753
00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:29.320
really offend them because they're not probably listening. So then

754
00:44:29.679 --> 00:44:32.840
do I go after the woke ideology, You're just preaching

755
00:44:32.880 --> 00:44:35.480
to the choir because the conservative people listening to you

756
00:44:35.599 --> 00:44:39.119
already think the woke people are bad. So to me,

757
00:44:39.519 --> 00:44:41.239
what you need to do is go after the things

758
00:44:41.239 --> 00:44:44.400
that are that are more focused on people on the

759
00:44:44.480 --> 00:44:48.119
right and conservatives. Well, then that take that and then

760
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:50.000
you lose all the people. Well, if you deal with

761
00:44:50.039 --> 00:44:52.679
current events, would you. I don't know what to do.

762
00:44:53.840 --> 00:44:59.119
I started by talking about being conflicted, confused, discouraged, depressed.

763
00:45:00.079 --> 00:45:03.480
I don't know what to do. I really don't. I

764
00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:13.239
I'm sometimes just like, oh, I'm looking at I'm just

765
00:45:13.239 --> 00:45:18.400
getting all kinds of new podcast updates, which deals with

766
00:45:18.519 --> 00:45:24.119
news items right, deals with crazy stuff. In the news. Okay, Hanna,

767
00:45:24.199 --> 00:45:30.199
let me look here. Yeah, I'm sometimes it's just like

768
00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:40.519
you just don't know. Yeah, I'm just I'm just looking

769
00:45:40.559 --> 00:45:43.039
here at all the latest news stories, and sometimes you

770
00:45:43.119 --> 00:45:46.320
just don't even know you know what to do here.

771
00:45:47.400 --> 00:45:54.960
Trump is to sign more executive orders today. So yeah,

772
00:45:54.960 --> 00:45:59.159
I mean, and I understand that nobody is asking and

773
00:45:59.239 --> 00:46:01.320
I understand theer is not asking me to do that

774
00:46:01.400 --> 00:46:05.039
twenty four to seven. I know that I'm aware of that. No,

775
00:46:05.199 --> 00:46:06.960
I don't think anybody wants me to do it twenty

776
00:46:06.960 --> 00:46:09.840
four seven. This key is when do you do it?

777
00:46:09.920 --> 00:46:12.920
When do you not? When do you when do you

778
00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:15.719
step in? And when do you not? How much do

779
00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:18.000
you cover? How much do you not? Here's what I

780
00:46:18.039 --> 00:46:20.840
will say. Do I create a podcast? I mean, we

781
00:46:20.880 --> 00:46:26.639
got news commentary as a podcast series? We do. We

782
00:46:26.679 --> 00:46:30.519
could change the we could change the name of that maybe,

783
00:46:30.840 --> 00:46:33.079
or we could leave it as news commentary. Maybe we

784
00:46:33.119 --> 00:46:37.039
can update artwork. I don't know, and still try to

785
00:46:37.119 --> 00:46:40.360
find times to engage in covering what's going on. But

786
00:46:40.480 --> 00:46:42.719
within reason, right, you don't want to turn I don't

787
00:46:42.719 --> 00:46:44.440
want to turn this into a twenty four to seven

788
00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:47.519
news podcast. I don't want that I'd lose my mind

789
00:46:47.639 --> 00:46:52.039
and I've got I'd I'd be I'd be committed, you know,

790
00:46:52.119 --> 00:46:54.280
I'd be in a you know, a straight jacket. It'd

791
00:46:54.320 --> 00:46:59.079
be the end, right, because that's just ugh, I mean,

792
00:46:59.119 --> 00:47:01.840
it's it's on one hand, you can find a little

793
00:47:01.840 --> 00:47:04.519
bit of adrenaline trying to pursue and trying to find

794
00:47:04.559 --> 00:47:06.760
and like, all right, guys, we're back. All right, we

795
00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:09.039
looked into this. All right, guys, we're back. We broke

796
00:47:09.079 --> 00:47:11.880
in it. But then all of a sudden you become consumed.

797
00:47:11.960 --> 00:47:14.159
And then one hour turns into two hours, and three

798
00:47:14.199 --> 00:47:17.239
hours turns into five hours, five hours turned into eight hours,

799
00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:19.480
and then at one o'clock in the morning, I'm like, guys,

800
00:47:19.519 --> 00:47:23.199
we just got new information. Because whenever you deal with news,

801
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:26.920
it's developing, it's changing, it's more to it, more to it.

802
00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:30.599
And then if you talk about it once, are you

803
00:47:30.639 --> 00:47:33.760
going to talk about the updates to it? Because I'm

804
00:47:33.760 --> 00:47:37.639
telling you that story's going to change thirty seven times again.

805
00:47:37.800 --> 00:47:41.320
Just take the whole situation with the Trump administration. In

806
00:47:41.360 --> 00:47:46.519
this chat group, you had the initial story, you had

807
00:47:46.559 --> 00:47:50.320
all the claims the Trump administration made then, and then

808
00:47:50.360 --> 00:47:53.039
all their attacks upon the reporter, and then the reporter

809
00:47:53.159 --> 00:47:55.199
was like, well, here's more of the chats, but then

810
00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:58.119
disproved everything the Trump administration had already said and made

811
00:47:58.119 --> 00:48:01.480
them out to be liars. So like, how many different

812
00:48:01.639 --> 00:48:04.440
times just that one story, I would still be reporting

813
00:48:04.480 --> 00:48:11.119
on it today. I mean, you got what this side

814
00:48:11.199 --> 00:48:15.920
is saying. You see that it's so difficult at the

815
00:48:16.000 --> 00:48:20.239
same time, while I'm doing all of that, right, while

816
00:48:20.239 --> 00:48:22.400
I'm doing all of that, hang on, let me go here.

817
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:27.039
I got the Sacred Diary. It's a famous book. I

818
00:48:27.079 --> 00:48:30.960
have that open. I won't go into everything about the

819
00:48:31.039 --> 00:48:36.719
Sacred Diary, but yeah, it's a famous book. All right.

820
00:48:37.599 --> 00:48:43.199
In the meantime, I could go right here and well,

821
00:48:43.239 --> 00:48:46.400
what do we have? Well, we have to here some

822
00:48:46.440 --> 00:48:50.000
of the newest sermons up five three and sixty four

823
00:48:50.079 --> 00:48:53.280
new sermons have been added to the sermon audio app

824
00:48:53.559 --> 00:48:56.199
and the website in the last week. The most The

825
00:48:56.239 --> 00:48:59.599
newest one is David's Humiliation First Samuel twenty one through

826
00:48:59.599 --> 00:49:03.639
twenty three read I could be interesting to hear what

827
00:49:04.000 --> 00:49:08.280
is Presbyterianism? That could be interesting? A shield of faith

828
00:49:08.840 --> 00:49:12.760
the day that it all changed Psalm one nineteen one

829
00:49:12.800 --> 00:49:17.199
o five through one twelve, a guiding light. Did Jesus

830
00:49:17.320 --> 00:49:21.039
lie the biblical case for the eternal security I'm assuming

831
00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:25.480
of the believer the days of Noah. Oh I bet

832
00:49:25.519 --> 00:49:27.519
you if they connect that to oh I bet you,

833
00:49:27.519 --> 00:49:30.480
we could have some time with that war and peace.

834
00:49:31.800 --> 00:49:35.840
The Why of prayer a concluding petition for prayer in life,

835
00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:40.039
righteousness and justice, repentance in a believer's life. Oh I

836
00:49:40.079 --> 00:49:43.039
bet you. That could turn into an entire series. Woe

837
00:49:43.119 --> 00:49:49.079
is me if I preach not? We have Romans Part

838
00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:52.199
five and Part six, The Great White Throne Set Apart

839
00:49:52.199 --> 00:49:55.559
in the World, Romans Part four, Romans Part three, Physical

840
00:49:55.559 --> 00:50:00.239
and Spiritual Sayings, Romans Part two, Romans Part two, Learning

841
00:50:00.320 --> 00:50:03.199
to Pray Roman's Part one. Are you eternally saved? Bear

842
00:50:03.239 --> 00:50:05.719
one another's burdens? You have chosen me. I could just

843
00:50:05.760 --> 00:50:08.519
spend you know, I could do five hours a day

844
00:50:08.679 --> 00:50:11.320
just going through sermons and what is people preaching and

845
00:50:11.360 --> 00:50:13.679
what's being said and how is the text being handled?

846
00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:17.360
And then that typically then leads into well, let's do

847
00:50:17.440 --> 00:50:19.519
our own series. That's what is going on with the

848
00:50:19.519 --> 00:50:22.400
Acts twenty seven situation and the storms of life. That's

849
00:50:22.440 --> 00:50:29.440
what's going on with Isaiah forty through fifty five, But

850
00:50:29.519 --> 00:50:31.639
at the same time, sometimes you got to address what's

851
00:50:31.679 --> 00:50:34.280
going on in the world to give people some kind

852
00:50:34.360 --> 00:50:44.960
of balance. I'm often conflicted about what to do. I

853
00:50:45.280 --> 00:50:52.920
am very conflicted, and then and then I just have

854
00:50:53.000 --> 00:51:02.599
to be kind of honest as well. Sometimes I'm conflicted because, well,

855
00:51:02.639 --> 00:51:05.760
what am I really accomplishing? Right? What am I really doing?

856
00:51:05.840 --> 00:51:09.199
What am I really even accomplishing? And then second, I

857
00:51:09.320 --> 00:51:11.880
know this is going to sound very fleshly, this is

858
00:51:11.880 --> 00:51:16.280
going to sound very very worldly, It's gonna sound very ungodly.

859
00:51:16.519 --> 00:51:19.320
But I'm just going to be brutally honest with you.

860
00:51:19.400 --> 00:51:22.920
Right if you go look at all the podcast out there, right,

861
00:51:23.280 --> 00:51:25.639
I mean I I was listening to a podcast just

862
00:51:25.800 --> 00:51:29.079
the other night where he was dealing with a He

863
00:51:29.199 --> 00:51:32.400
was looking at a clip of a Protestant pastor talking

864
00:51:32.400 --> 00:51:35.639
to a Catholic man in the park. Right. Well, this

865
00:51:36.320 --> 00:51:38.599
man was, you know, going after the Protestant pastor and

866
00:51:38.639 --> 00:51:42.079
some of the ridiculous things he said, obviously not understanding Catholicism.

867
00:51:42.760 --> 00:51:45.559
And I'm like, okay, but right at the beginning of

868
00:51:45.599 --> 00:51:48.360
the video, He's like, now, ladies and gentlemen, please continue

869
00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:51.960
to support me because this is now my full time job,

870
00:51:52.400 --> 00:51:56.239
and he now dedicated himself to just doing YouTube videos

871
00:51:56.280 --> 00:52:00.599
to make a living. Well, I my pod cast, I

872
00:52:00.679 --> 00:52:03.920
don't make a living doing this nowhere close all right.

873
00:52:04.239 --> 00:52:08.840
We get enough support to basically pay for just broadcasting

874
00:52:09.000 --> 00:52:12.800
basically maybe a little bit more, but that goes, of

875
00:52:12.840 --> 00:52:16.199
course directly to the church currently. But it's like, well,

876
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:21.039
so do how much you know, I know it's gonna

877
00:52:21.039 --> 00:52:23.280
sound fleshly, how much do you do when you're not

878
00:52:23.320 --> 00:52:28.079
getting paid? Right? Since the church has kind of basically

879
00:52:28.119 --> 00:52:30.119
come to an end, The church has basically come to

880
00:52:30.119 --> 00:52:32.360
an end. Right. There was a time all of my

881
00:52:32.840 --> 00:52:37.280
internet ministry was seen as trying to bring people to

882
00:52:37.320 --> 00:52:39.599
the church. It was a part of the church ministry.

883
00:52:39.840 --> 00:52:42.400
Since the church concept is kind of basically over for

884
00:52:42.480 --> 00:52:48.199
me now I'm just basically a podcaster. Well then what

885
00:52:48.199 --> 00:52:51.719
do you do? What do you do? Do you turn

886
00:52:51.760 --> 00:52:54.079
it into a full time job that you're not getting

887
00:52:54.079 --> 00:52:58.239
paid for, barely making enough, barely getting enough in to

888
00:52:58.360 --> 00:53:03.639
just pay for what you're doing, just to cover the cost. Now,

889
00:53:03.760 --> 00:53:05.159
at the same time, you don't want people to have

890
00:53:05.199 --> 00:53:08.840
to pay anything, right, So I definitely would never put

891
00:53:08.880 --> 00:53:11.239
anything behind a paywall. So obviously would never do that,

892
00:53:11.280 --> 00:53:12.679
and even if I did that, I don't even think

893
00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:15.760
it would matter. But yeah, so then you have to

894
00:53:15.800 --> 00:53:21.119
just look at how much it's very difficult. There's a

895
00:53:21.239 --> 00:53:25.239
million things out there to cover. And you can tell

896
00:53:25.239 --> 00:53:28.039
that I've already put together kind of a way to

897
00:53:28.159 --> 00:53:33.119
approach it, right, I've already put together kind of a name.

898
00:53:33.199 --> 00:53:36.800
I've already put together kind of my intro. You've already

899
00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:38.920
heard my intro. You kind of already heard kind of

900
00:53:39.000 --> 00:53:42.159
like my You could call it my manifesto or my

901
00:53:44.639 --> 00:53:46.360
you know my what do you what do you want

902
00:53:46.400 --> 00:53:50.719
to call it? My mission statement? I'm not going to

903
00:53:50.800 --> 00:53:53.280
call it truth beyond the dialectic. I could do that.

904
00:53:53.480 --> 00:53:56.000
I've already got the name in my mind, you know,

905
00:53:56.079 --> 00:53:58.280
not left, not right. I mean, I've give it. I

906
00:53:58.400 --> 00:54:01.719
broke that all down right. Remember how in a world

907
00:54:01.800 --> 00:54:04.559
where everything is pulled left or right, where every headline

908
00:54:04.559 --> 00:54:07.480
demands your allegiance and every issue tries to put you

909
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:11.280
in a category, sometimes we just need a place to stop,

910
00:54:11.360 --> 00:54:14.559
breathe and think biblically. This is truth beyond the dialectic,

911
00:54:14.719 --> 00:54:17.239
a space where we step outside the noise, outside the

912
00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:19.599
tribes and look at the world through the lens of scripture,

913
00:54:19.760 --> 00:54:22.519
not slogans. We're not here to tell you what's side

914
00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:25.920
to join. We're here to ask the harder question, what's true.

915
00:54:26.239 --> 00:54:29.239
The headlines are loud, the pressure is real, but truth

916
00:54:29.280 --> 00:54:32.440
hasn't changed. And that's where we began. I mean, that's

917
00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:35.280
basically my intro if I wanted to create a said

918
00:54:35.320 --> 00:54:38.079
podcast like that. But then because even if I just

919
00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:43.360
do a segment, a truth beyond the dialectic segment, make

920
00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:49.800
it its own series. In some cases, I'm like, yeah,

921
00:54:49.840 --> 00:54:52.039
I know, we need to deal with it. On the

922
00:54:52.079 --> 00:55:03.239
other I'm like, I don't know what to do. So

923
00:55:03.239 --> 00:55:06.800
what do you think is most needed today? Like if

924
00:55:07.480 --> 00:55:10.679
you were to just try to process what is most

925
00:55:10.760 --> 00:55:18.760
needed today? What is most needed challenging the church? And

926
00:55:18.800 --> 00:55:26.320
it's very questionable hermeneutical approach to scripture, challenging this devotional

927
00:55:26.400 --> 00:55:32.239
mindset that destroys scripture of its historical meaning, its historical context,

928
00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:38.840
and it's actual meaning. Do we need to focus on

929
00:55:38.960 --> 00:55:42.199
challenging the church and stop being so politically hijacked. And

930
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the way we do that is by trying to get

931
00:55:43.800 --> 00:55:46.880
the focus on something other than the politics. Do we

932
00:55:46.920 --> 00:55:50.400
address the craziness going on in the world where truth

933
00:55:50.480 --> 00:55:54.159
is laying in the street bleeding out, and we got

934
00:55:54.199 --> 00:55:56.119
to somehow try to go back and say no, no, no,

935
00:55:56.199 --> 00:55:58.280
this is true, this is true, this is false, this

936
00:55:58.320 --> 00:56:07.360
is false, this is false. We need that. Or do

937
00:56:07.400 --> 00:56:10.039
I just say, you know what, the world's on fire.

938
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:12.639
The world's burning and I don't have enough water to

939
00:56:12.679 --> 00:56:15.079
try to put it out. I'm just gonna try to

940
00:56:15.079 --> 00:56:17.760
focus on my own spiritual life and try to survive.

941
00:56:18.960 --> 00:56:24.719
Now that sounds very selfish. Do I say, yeah, this

942
00:56:24.880 --> 00:56:27.760
is needed, but it's a huge job. And then do

943
00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:30.760
I do very fleshly and selfish and say, but guys,

944
00:56:32.960 --> 00:56:35.880
that's a full time job that I'm not getting paid for.

945
00:56:38.599 --> 00:56:40.440
Or do I say, who cares if I'm getting paid

946
00:56:40.440 --> 00:56:45.440
for it? Who cares? Just dig in, give up my

947
00:56:45.679 --> 00:56:47.519
entire life to try to fight it. But what am

948
00:56:47.559 --> 00:56:49.760
I really going to be fighting? What I'm going to

949
00:56:49.840 --> 00:56:53.000
be fighting? To me? All I'll be doing is I mean,

950
00:56:53.039 --> 00:56:55.440
you just look at all the popular podcasts. They have

951
00:56:55.559 --> 00:57:01.119
to take a side. All the popular podcasts take sides.

952
00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:04.519
You're either over here in the conservative side or you

953
00:57:04.559 --> 00:57:07.320
over here in the liberal side. Where's the podcast that

954
00:57:07.440 --> 00:57:10.880
is in the middle. You're gonna get shot from both sides.

955
00:57:13.559 --> 00:57:17.440
Nobody wants truth, nobody wants ballance. Oh I want to

956
00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:21.360
say no, what obviously the emailer does, and I greatly appreciate.

957
00:57:21.440 --> 00:57:24.360
Maybe there's more people out there that do so maybe

958
00:57:24.400 --> 00:57:27.199
there is Maybe that's the direction to go. But then

959
00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:32.119
do I abandon the philological? Now? How do you merge

960
00:57:32.119 --> 00:57:36.679
the philological with it? Because both are needed, right, we

961
00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:38.639
got to go after the lies to truth, try to

962
00:57:38.639 --> 00:57:41.400
find balance, try to find reason, try to find logic,

963
00:57:41.639 --> 00:57:44.880
try to find thoughtfulness. At the same time, we can't

964
00:57:44.920 --> 00:57:49.920
just throw out the philological. So you need a mixture

965
00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:52.280
of both. That means well, then you get to being

966
00:57:52.320 --> 00:57:54.880
produced to philological content, but you got to also be

967
00:57:55.480 --> 00:57:58.760
It is very I know, I just cut myself off again.

968
00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:03.679
You also got to reduce the other content. And there's

969
00:58:03.719 --> 00:58:05.239
got to be a way to balance it out. There's

970
00:58:05.239 --> 00:58:07.079
got to be a better approach. I haven't figured it

971
00:58:07.079 --> 00:58:15.840
out yet. Now I spent almost an hour talking about this,

972
00:58:16.800 --> 00:58:19.480
and I'm you know where I'm at. I'm right at

973
00:58:19.480 --> 00:58:30.360
where I was at the beginning, conflicted, confused, discouraged, frustrated, irritated, depressed, despondent.

974
00:58:31.800 --> 00:58:35.480
I don't just keep throwing in words, want to give up,

975
00:58:35.920 --> 00:58:40.280
don't know, have no clue? Stuck. Now, some days I

976
00:58:40.320 --> 00:58:43.360
have some clarity. I'm like, all right, I'm ready to go.

977
00:58:43.559 --> 00:58:46.559
I'm motivated. I'm like, we're gonna do this. And then

978
00:58:46.559 --> 00:58:48.719
sometimes after a couple of hours, You're like, you know what,

979
00:58:48.760 --> 00:58:57.559
I don't even think anybody out there cares? What do

980
00:58:57.559 --> 00:59:02.719
you think is needed? If you were sitting down, you

981
00:59:02.800 --> 00:59:06.159
got a pencil and a notebook, You're like, what is

982
00:59:06.239 --> 00:59:10.079
needed right now? What is most needed inside the church?

983
00:59:10.280 --> 00:59:14.280
What is most needed for Christians? Right now? What is needed?

984
00:59:15.400 --> 00:59:19.280
Is there really a need that rises to the top

985
00:59:19.320 --> 00:59:21.239
of every other need? What do you think the need

986
00:59:21.280 --> 00:59:26.119
is right now? I don't know if I know. I

987
00:59:26.159 --> 00:59:28.039
do know, Well, I'll put it this way. I do know.

988
00:59:28.159 --> 00:59:29.880
I mean, I talked about what I thought the real

989
00:59:29.920 --> 00:59:32.679
issues were, right. I talked about what I thought the

990
00:59:32.719 --> 00:59:37.239
real issues are. I'll repeat them really quick, right because

991
00:59:37.280 --> 00:59:39.840
I think number one, people are finding identity and political

992
00:59:39.920 --> 00:59:41.960
tribes rather than in Christ. We've got to fight that

993
00:59:42.199 --> 00:59:47.199
truth has become optional or weaponized, and that false accusations

994
00:59:47.280 --> 00:59:51.440
and slanders are normalized, even spiritualized But to me, it's

995
00:59:51.480 --> 00:59:55.800
not about going back trying to fix or fact check everything.

996
00:59:56.280 --> 00:59:59.840
It's about trying to get Christians to stop doing it.

997
01:00:00.639 --> 01:00:07.960
Care about truths, find the truth, stop bearing false witness,

998
01:00:09.400 --> 01:00:16.840
stop slandering, stop dehumanizing. Is that more of a trying

999
01:00:16.840 --> 01:00:18.920
to get Christians to act like Christians, at least in

1000
01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:27.320
these areas. Can you imagine trying to fact check the

1001
01:00:27.360 --> 01:00:39.199
world today? Can you imagine? I mean it would be insane.

1002
01:00:40.400 --> 01:00:44.360
All right, well, I'll stop right there now. My ear

1003
01:00:44.519 --> 01:00:47.159
just started ringing like so loud. I don't know what

1004
01:00:47.320 --> 01:00:50.679
just happened. It is the devil talking about me? Is

1005
01:00:50.719 --> 01:00:52.880
that that old saying if your ear starts ringing, is

1006
01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:54.840
because the devil's talking about you? Is that the way

1007
01:00:54.880 --> 01:00:57.679
it goes? So my ears just started ringing so loud?

1008
01:00:58.559 --> 01:00:59.239
The devil talking?

1009
01:00:59.280 --> 01:00:59.440
Is that?

1010
01:00:59.559 --> 01:01:02.159
Is that? What's or is it the listeners right now

1011
01:01:02.199 --> 01:01:04.920
talking about me going This guy's a complete and utter idiot,

1012
01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:08.519
He's a moron. Maybe this whole episode has been complete trash.

1013
01:01:08.679 --> 01:01:16.920
Probably do we need to create a podcast series entitled

1014
01:01:16.920 --> 01:01:24.440
Truth Beyond the Dialectic? Cool name? I've got cool ideas

1015
01:01:26.559 --> 01:01:31.159
ideas are great? The execution, the pulling those ideas off

1016
01:01:31.239 --> 01:01:34.519
is something far different. I don't know what the answer is.

1017
01:01:34.639 --> 01:01:36.880
I don't have any answers, and I'm going to end

1018
01:01:36.920 --> 01:01:39.280
you with having no answers. But I'd love to hear

1019
01:01:39.320 --> 01:01:42.159
from you, so if you have any ideas, let me know.

1020
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Thanks for listening everyone, have a great day. God bless