J.D. Vance (13:42)

So when you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out in hell. Call their employer. We don't believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility. And there was no civility in the celebration of political assassination.

Ali Alexander (13:56)

So what I said yesterday, it's what a lot of people have been saying, that there are consequences for celebrating someone's assassination. It's not cancel culture. It's not your political opinion. No, you've got a character problem. Like you're probably possessed by a demon. And if you're possessed by a demon, I don't want you to be a pediatric nurse. Call me crazy. I like. I don't want you to be a therapist. I don't want you working at the old folks home. I don't want you to be a kindergarten teacher. I don't want you to be a professor shaping the minds of future leaders and voters. No, thank you. No, thank you. It's a character problem. It's a liability for everyone involved. So, yes, you should be calling the employer of people who are out and out celebrating or excusing Charlie Kirk's assassination. There has to be social ostracization for those people. As Stephen Miller said yesterday, we will not live in fear, but you will live in exile. That is what the justice system is for. When people are actually committing crimes, I'm not talking about punishing people legally for their speech, but when people are actually committing crimes, these cells of violence and radicalization that we're seeing across the country, our justice system is supposed to go after those. And when it comes to people who are celebrating this assassination, there are social consequences for that. Overton window is shifting, baby. And if you didn't want that to happen, shouldn't have killed the nicest guy on the right. All right, he's got more to say. Here's top five.

J.D. Vance (15:28)

St. Paul tells us in the book of Ephesians to put on the full armor of God. Let all of us put on that armor and commit ourselves to that cause for which Charlie Gave his life to rebuild a United States of America and to do it by telling the truth.

Ali Alexander (15:49)

Yep. Speaking the truth in love. Don't partner with darkness, but instead expose it. That's what the book of Ephesians tells us to do. There's so much wisdom in the book of Ephesians. My friend and I, I feel like I've probably told you this before, but I can't remember. My friend and I, when we were in college, we decided to memorize the whole book of Ephesians, which I don't think there's another book that I've memorized in full. I've memorized lots of bits and pieces of the Bible over time, but we decided to memorize and recite to each other, just for fun, the entire book of Ephesians. And y', all, I am so thankful that I did that. I really encourage you to challenge yourself in that way because you have heard me do it. You've heard me just tell you Ephesians 2. And I keep going and going because, like, 13 years ago, my friend and I decided to memorize it and recite it. And it really does hide the Word in your heart. Heart. And you're just reminded of the Gospel all the time. You're reminded of these verses all of the time because you have it locked away in your head. So, wow, what a gift it is to hide God's Word in your heart. And how amazing it is that it is living and active, that every time something happens, it bubbles up. And God is so good that he has given us his will in His Word so that we don't have to wonder what he thinks or wonder what to do next. But this ancient text that is always applicable to us in every single moment is ministering to our hearts when we read Scripture and when we memorize Scripture. And you know what? Because I forgot this, I want to tell you on that note something really amazing. Crossway and I are partnering together to give away 500 of the concise ESV study Bibles. So it's. It's really amazing that they are willing to do this. We reached out to them and we said, what can we do? We want people to be reading the Bible. We don't want them to have to pay for it. So all you have to do is click the link in this description. We'll put it at the top of the description, whether you're listening or you're watching, and it will be totally for free. Uh, you don't have to pay for shipping. You don't have to Pay anything. If you want to read the Bible, then get this study Bible and start in the Book of John. We would love for you to get one of these Bibles and to dig into it. Maybe you could even start in the book of Ephesians, since I was just talking about that. But it's so important to know and understand truth right now. Um, there's this other clip from JD Vance where he basically recites the Nicene Creed, and the Nicene Creed in general is what unites kind of Catholics and Protestants that generally we agree on the principles here. So I thought that this was really good. I mean, this is so much of the gospel that is being publicized in Charlie's name to millions of people. So praise God for that.

J.D. Vance (18:36)

Sat 6 Now, the most important truth Charlie told is this, that long ago, a man begotten, not made, came down from heaven and by the Holy Spirit was incarnate of the Virgin Mary and became man for our sake. He was crucified under Pontius Pilate and suffered death and was buried and rose again on the third day. Charlie believed, as I do, that all the truth he told flowed from that fundamental principle.

Ali Alexander (19:12)

Yes, and amen. So I just thought that was a beautiful tribute. I thought that it balanced strength and faith and hope and peace really well. Again, a muscular peace, not a doormat piece. And that is what we need right now. We need peace through strength, not just externally, but internally as well. As I've said before, when, you know, before Charlie, like we all thought on the right, we were bringing words, we were bringing beliefs, but they were bringing weapons and they were bringing bullets. And this is a very different battle than the one that we thought. And we still want peace. We still want civility. We don't want a civil war here. But again, in order to do that, we have to root out evil. Now, on Monday, we talked about all of the revival, the awakening that we are seeing across the country. These so many people who have reached out to me personally, people that I've known in life, also just followers and fans sending me messages saying, I'm going to church. I'm reading my Bible, I'm praying. I dreamed about Charlie. This shook me. I was talking to my makeup artist this morning, and she was so deeply affected by Charlie's death. And of course, she didn't. She didn't know him personally. But it is comforting to me when I talk to so many people who feel because Charlie was murdered, that they lost something. And it's sad, of course, but the reason that it is assuring is because I know that this has changed everything. It's changed everything. Ultimately, I think in a way that God will bring glory to himself self and that will lead to change that will be good for the country. Now, would I have chosen, would anyone have chosen for it to go this way? No, absolutely not. I, I hate that Charlie was an impetus for anything. I wish that there could have been a revival and reawakening without this. And I do think that that had already kind of been started. But again, God is in the business of redemption. He is in the business of making beauty out of ashes and thwarting Satan's schemes. And when Satan thinks he's winning, when he thinks that he's taken someone out of the fight, God does something good. God does something incredible by bringing glory to himself. I've got more on that in a second. Let me pause tell you about our next sponsor and that is Constitution Wealth. Constitution wealth is a business that you need to be working with when it comes to your money. You need to know who is handling it. Like you need to know where you're investing. You want to invest in movements and in businesses and causes that actually align with your values. And so the people doing the investing should be aligning with your values. That's what you'll find at Constitution wealth. 2nd Corinthians 6:14 says, don't be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wicked wickedness have in common? If you want to be yoked together with causes that align with your biblical values, call my friends at Constitution Wealth. I trust this team because they understand what true financial stewardship means more closely. It means more closely aligning your investments with God's word. So go to constitutionwealth.com ally for a free consultation. That's constitutionwealth.com ally. Constitution wealth is a registered investment advisor. You should review Constitution Wealth's disclosures@constitutionwealth.com to understand their services and fees. All investing involves risk, including the risk of loss. This is a paid endorsement. My opinions are my own. I just want to play you this clip of Forest Frank. A lot of people are saying that they lost followers, they lost friends. They had to block people because they said something about Charlie Kirk and you know, Forest, as I've talked about, we did a segment Charlie and I did on Fox and Friends on the rise in Christian music. And I said that there is genuinely good music now that is glorifying God. And I talked about going to a Forest Frank concert and Charlie had talked about Forest Frank before. And so Forest just did this kind of like a dedication video to Charlie. Didn't make a political statement or anything like that. And I guess he got backlash. Well, after he got backlash, this is what Forest had to say.

Forest Frank (23:38)

30,000 people unfollowed me because I posted about Charlie Kirk, and I said that Jesus Christ is Lord good. I don't want you to follow me. I don't want you to track my music. I don't want you to come to my shows. I don't want you to do any of that. If you don't do this one thing, and that is follow Jesus Christ, the King of all kings, the Lord of all lords, the one who is the one who is to come. He's coming back real soon. So if you have not gotten your heart right with him and dropped down on your knees and repented to him, today is the day. The hour is at hand. I don't know if you can feel it, too. There's a heaviness. Something shifted, and I don't care. I don't care anymore. I just want you to know that Jesus Christ is here and he loves you, okay?

Ali Alexander (24:20)

Like, that's just. I just want y' all to know out there, especially y', all, who just maybe aren't plugged into our side of things. That's the vibe, okay? Like, that's the shift. That's what's happening. And the fact that he said that he repents for not being bolder in his platform, someone that I think very unapologetically shares the gospel, but maybe he feels like he's been reticent to see say some things that are true for fear of backlash. Like, that is really big, and I just appreciate that so much. Elisa Childers. She's going to be speaking at Share the Arrows. She's an apologist. She's amazing. She posted on X a confession that a few years ago, she was asked to speak at a conference with Charlie, but she believed some of the progressive lies about Charlie, that he was divisive or alt right or whatever it was. And she said no. And you know what she did? She did the only thing that we can ever do when we mess up, when we make a mistake, when we believe things that aren't true. She apologized and she said this was to her shame and that she was wrong about Charlie and that she watched all this footage of Charlie and realized that he was a minister of the gospel, that he wanted people to be saved. And so people are waking up, and I'm not just talking about non Christians waking up. I am talking about Christians, I am talking about Christians who have been shaken because of this. They've been shaken out of their stupor, they've been shaken out of their cowardice. And I feel like I have been even more reinvigorated. I mean at first my reaction of course was fear and anxiety and there is a part of that because I'm human. But gosh, this has so firmly established the importance of bold truth tellers. And this has awakened, I think this just spirit of courage. And courage is a contagion. And when it hits one person, that torch is passed to the next and the next. And I've been thinking about this quote that I heard from my friend Seth Gruber. He has an organization, a pro life organization called the White Rose Resistance. And he got it's this name from the White Rose Resistance of Christians in Germany who fought against the Nazis at the time. And Hans and Sophie Scholl were these young 22 and 24 year old brother and sister pair who were advocates against the Nazis. And they were beheaded for their advocacy for fighting against Nazism and fighting on behalf of their fellow image bearers of God in Germany. They were beheaded in 1943 at the age of 22. Sophie Scholler wrote a letter to her mother explaining what the real problem is. She said that the real problem weren't the evildoers, but the cowards. She wrote the real damage is done by those millions who just want to survive. The honest men who just want to be left in peace. Those who don't want their little lives disturbed by anything bigger than themselves. Those with no sides and no causes. Those who won't take measure of their own strength for fear of antagonizing their own weakness. Those who don't like to make waves or enemies. Those for whom freedom, honor, truth and principles are only literature. If you don't make any noise, the boogeyman won't find you. But it's all an illusion because they die too. Those people who roll up their spirits into tiny little balls so as to be safe. Safe from what? Life is always on the edge of death. Narrow streets lead to the same place as wide avenues. And a little candle burns itself out just like a flaming torch does. Sophie's bravery, her death helped fan the flame of Nazi opposition throughout the world. And I just want to remind you Christian that your heritage is not one of cowardice. It is not one of ambiguity. Your heritage is one of courage. It's one of boldness, it's one of bravery. I think a lot of people can look out at the chaos of our world and say it's never been worse than this. Things are accelerating, they're getting darker than they've ever been before. And it's harder to share the gospel than ever. It's harder to live like a Christian than ever. And you just can't overcome this fear. Let me remind you that Christians used to be fed to lions. Let me remind you that Christians used to be beheaded and their heads placed on top of stakes and lit on fire to light a country. Let me remind you that Christians have been tortured, that they've been butchered, that they have been betrayed, that they have been bruised and battered for their faith. Let me remind you of the fate of our Lord, who was full of grace and truth, who only shared truth, who healed the sick, who helped the poor, who touched the untouchable. He was the kindest and most loving individual that ever lived, that ever walked the earth, and yet he was crucified. And I also want to go to Acts 7 and 8. I've been thinking a lot over the past few days about Stephen. Stephen, who is described as being full of grace and power. Acts 6, 8, 15. Stephen, full of grace and power, was doing great wonders and signs among the people. Then some of those who belonged to the synagogue of the Freedmen, as it was called, and others paraphrasing that part, rose up and disputed with Stephen. But they could not withstand the wisdom of and the Spirit with which he was speaking. Then they secretly instigated men who said, we have not heard him speak blasphemous words. We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and God, which of course was not true. And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes, and they came upon him and seized him and brought him before the council. And they set up false witnesses who said, this man never ceases to speak words against this holy place in the law. For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and will change the customs that Moses delivered to us. And gazing at him, all who sat in the council saw that his face was like the face of an angel. And then Stephen took this opportunity to share the gospel. He laid it all out. He said, this is what the prophet said. This is the road through the Old Testament from the very beginning until our Messiah, this Jesus arrived and you rejected him. Verses 51 through 53. You stiff necked people, uncircumcised in heart and ears. You always resist the Holy Spirit, your fathers did, so do you. Which of the prophets did your fathers not persecute? And they killed those who announced beforehand the coming of the righteous one, whom you have now betrayed and murdered you, who received the law as delivered by angels and did not keep it so, Stephen, out of love for these people, out of a love for God, out of the desire for these people to know truth and accept Jesus as the Messiah, he hurt their feelings. So they falsely accused him. They called him a blasphemer. Maybe in our day they would have called him a bigot. And what happened to him, this person, Stephen, who had a face like an angel, who was so peaceful, so calm and full of grace and power. Wouldn't all of us want to be described that way as full of grace and power? He was stoned to death. They were so angry that they executed him. Jesus, full of grace and truth. Again, what a description. Was crucified. Over and over again we see that no matter how kind Christians are, no matter how nice we are, no matter how perfect our tone is, no matter how much we plead with people, there will be people. Because they don't understand the truth, because they don't know the truth, because they are depraved in mind, who will want to kill us. That is the pattern for Christianity. So anyone out there who would like to say, while Charlie was killed because of how he spoke, because he was divisive, because of his politics, no. Charlie was killed because he was a forth telling prophet and because the prophet in so many different eras has been murdered, has been executed. I'm not claiming that he was a foretelling prophet that he could see the future, but a forth telling prophet, through the power of the Holy Spirit, he was able to give such prescient and precise language to describe the evil spirit of the age and to call people to repentance. And because of that he made people very angry. And that is why I believe he was killed. And that is the history of Christianity. But the history of Christianity doesn't stop with someone being killed. The history of Christianity starts with not Jesus's crucifixion, but his resurrection. And because of that we see the manifestation of the resurrection throughout the past 2,000 years of Christian history that went Christians are killed, Christians are multiplied, Christians tell the truth, Christians are killed, and then Christians are multiplied. That's the pattern. That's the pattern that we are seeing right now. We are living through the same cycle that Christians have lived through for years. And what a blessed privilege that we get to be vessels of courage, of sharing that same gospel and making sure that God's purpose of multiplication happens. Wow, what a terrifying age. But what a privileged moment that we get to live in. Let us not fail. Let us not falter. Let us not shrink back. Let us not cower in fear. Let us meet this moment with the fullness of strength, of the power of the Holy Spirit that God has placed in all of us, that God has placed in every single believer for the past 2000 years. Years. From Nero to Newsom, Jesus reigns. From Herod to Harris. The Holy Spirit is alive and well in the lives of believers. All right, I've got more encouragement for us in just a second. Let me go ahead and pause, tell you about our next sponsor. It's Crowd Health. 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For your first three months, if you use my code ally@joincrowd health.com that's joincrowdhealth.com code ALI. Crowd health is not insurance. Opt out. Take your power back. This is how we win. Join CrowdHealth.com I just want to remind you that God's eternal plan of redemption is going off without a hitch. Again, he's not surprised. He's not taken aback. He's not thrown off. He's not looking down and wondering what is going to happen next. When it seems like God is doing one thing. He's actually doing a million things. And through the unseen and unsung daily mundane work of believers, he is accomplishing his purposes. And let us remember that, that what God sets out to do, he does. The will he wants to accomplish, he accomplishes. Christ will win. Christ will claim what is his. He will bring the entirety of his flock to himself. He will make all things new. He will set all things right. One day through Christ we win. One day through Christ, we inherit the earth. One day, this dark night will be over, and we will wake up in a new heaven and a new earth where there's no more sin and there's no more sadness and there's no more sorrow and there's no more murder or assassination or abortion or depravity or injustice or oppression. Everything will be made perfect because Jesus wins. Jesus wins. That is our hope. That is what we cling to. One day we will stand shoulder to shoulder with Charlie, with the Christians who have gone before us, with all of these giants of the faith that we've lost this year. Gosh, John MacArthur and. And James Dobson and Phil Robertson. And we will stand with the butchered and the betrayed and the bruised and the battered for their faith. And we will sing in unison for all of eternity. Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty who was and is and is to come. Now we are in the lion's den, but then we will be with the lion of Judah. That's our hope. We're not there yet. Jesus is not back. God has not chosen yet to take you or I home. And so we have work to do. We have truth to tell. We have good to do to our neighbor. We have evil to restrain. We have to stand up for the most vulnerable, even when it's hard, even when they threaten us. I was reading Hebrews 11, actually, right before I went on Fox and Friends on Sunday to talk about this revival of faith that we're seeing in the wake of Charlie's assassination. I was sitting there waiting and reading Hebrews 11 on my phone. It just reminded me so much of the moment that we're in. And it reminded me in a lot of ways of Charlie's ministry. We're talking about faith, and maybe you're new to Christianity, maybe you're new to the Bible, and you just don't even know what is it. What is. What is faith? What is meant by that. Hebrews 11 is a really good place to start because it defines it. I love the Bible so much for so many reasons, but one of the reasons I love it is because it defines things for us. And defining our terms is so important. Here's Hebrews 11:1 3. Now, faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen for by it, the people of old received their commendation. By faith, we understand that the Universe was created by the word of God so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. Oh, my gosh. I just want to read that again. Like, there's so much there that we could unpack now. Faith is the assurance of things hoped for. Okay? The down payment, the guarantee of the things that we are hoping for. The conviction, the knowledge, the firm belief of things that we cannot see. For by it, the people of old received their commendation. Okay, this is really important. You can cross text this with. Cross reference this with Romans 9. You see that it has always been by faith, even in the Old Testament, by faith in Christ, even in the Messiah, that people have been saved by faith. We understand that the universe was created by the word of God. Okay. So that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. Wow. You could even cross reference this with Colossians 1. You could also cross text, cross reference this with First Corinthians 1 that God shames the wisdom of the wise. There's so much here. There's so much here. And I love the Bible so much. And if you just ordered a your Bible for the first time, you are in for so much fun. Verses 8 through 10. This is just amazing. When we read what it looks like to have faith and how the heroes of old applied faith to their lives by faith. Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out to a place that he was to receive as an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith, he went to live in the land of promise, as in a foreign land, living in tents with Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise. For he was looking forward to the city that has foundations, whose designer and builder is God. So his eyes, his heart, his vision was set on things that were not yet seen by faith. Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises was in the act of offering up his only son, of whom it was said, through Isaac, shall your offspring be named. So Abraham had this son, Isaac, in his very old age, which was crazy anyway. And God had told him, look up at the stars. This is going to be your offspring one day. And Abraham was like, well, I'm really old. My wife is really old. I don't have any kids. How is this going to happen? We learned that he is going to have this offspring through Isaac. And then God is like, yeah, you're going to sacrifice Isaac, you're going to kill Isaac And Abraham, because he trusts God so much, he goes forth. It says that Abraham Considered that God was able even to raise Isaac from the dead if he wanted to, from which, figuratively speaking, he did receive him back. And of course, God provided another way. He provided a sacrifice. He provided the ram in the thicket. And there's so much there, too. We even read in verses 24 through 27 that by faith, Moses considered the reproach of Christ. Okay, Moses, this is before Jesus, but he considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward. By faith, he left Egypt, not being afraid of the anger of the king, for he endured as seen him, who is invisible. By faith, the people crossed the Red Sea as on dry land, but the Egyptians, when they attempted to do the same, were drowned. By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days. And then, I think this is so powerful too. It was like I was reading Hebrews 11 for the first time, verses 32 through 38. And what more shall I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel, and the prophets who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice through faith. Wow. Obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the power of the fire, escaped the edge of the sword, were made strong out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. Women received back their dead by resurrection. Some were tortured, refusing to accept release so that they might rise again to a better life. Others suffered mocking and flogging and even change and imprisonment. They were stoned. They were sawn in two. They were killed with the sword. They went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, afflicted, mistreated, of whom the world was not worthy, wandering about in deserts and mountains and dens and caves of the earth. Wow. That is our heritage. Christians by faith. Christians accomplished amazing things. And by faith, they endured suffering and death and persecution and martyrdom. By faith in whom? And Jesus Christ, who defeated death. And because of that, we have faith. We have hope, not only in the cleansing of our sins, but that we will enjoy a resurrection, that we will live again, that we will live forever with Christ. That is our motivation. That is why we are fearless. It's not primarily because of what happened with Charlie that might have invigorated something. It's because of the Gospel. It's because of the hope that we have in Jesus. I've got more on this in just a second. Let me go ahead and tell you about our next sponsor. It's Concerned Women for America. A lot of People are asking, how do you get involved? There's a lot of ways to get involved. Concerned Women for America, though they've been there for decades, they've been fighting on behalf of your children's education, your freedom, the values that you and I hold dear, the sanctity of human life, the family. 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Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself so that you may not grow weary or faint hearted. How amazing is that? That we get to look to the courage, the strength, the fortitude of Jesus and we get to look forward to a better home, a better way, a better place where there will be peace. There will be no more need to take up our cross and to deny ourselves. But right now, our courage and our boldness, our self denial, our strong peacemaking is a testimony to a chaotic world. Our clarity is a testimony to a confused world. I love the people that I've seen who have said the people pleasing has left my body. I love the people who have said, oh yeah, I'm, I'm gonna go to college campuses now. I'm gonna evangelize even harder now. And oh no, I'm not canceling my speaking engagements. I'm gonna go out there and share the truth. I love what the Holy Spirit is doing in people. And Lord, please let this be momentous, let this have a snowball effect. And Lord, bring us to you and ensure that our motivation is not out of an unrighteous sense of vengeance, but that our motivation is truly holy, that is truly righteous, that is truly a desire to see you glorified. Another prayer That I have in the midst of this is for discernment for all of us. I didn't know whether I was going to even talk about this at all. I'm not really going to get into it. But there's a lot of theories right now. There's a lot of conspiracies. Not all the questions that people are asking are wrong. I'm not saying that again, I'm not saying that we should just accept whatever the government tells us and that's fine, move on. I'm not saying that. But there's a lot of theories. And I don't know that it is healthy or productive for you, Christian, to go down every rabbit hole. I just don't. I don't think it's healthy for your heart and for your spirit. I don't know if it's productive. I don't know if it's honoring. To Charlie and his wife and his children. Here's what I would say. Here's. Here's a good question, okay? When people are throwing out, what about this? What about that? Think about this. I know this. Who knows this? Ask yourself, where's your evidence? Where's your evidence? For the people who are just asking questions out there, back it up. Give us some proof. Give us some concrete evidence of the things that you're saying. I see a lot of people calling for transparency who also claim that they know more than the people in charge tell us. Please, let's not play games. Like, if you've got the truth, if you've got evidence of something that is going on, a true conspiracy, true collusion, then the world needs to know. Let's not play games, okay? So I want you, Christian, to ask yourself, where's the evidence? Where's the truth? Okay? And a rabbit hole is not a helpful place to go asking questions that follow a logical line of reasoning and taking it to people that can actually influence those in charge who are seeking justice. I think that is healthy. But getting all worked up in every single theory that is out there without someone offering in return some substantive evidence for their questions and accusations, that's going to be a no from me. And I'm not going to be the place that y' all are going to be able to go to explore all those theories. There are some other people out there, probably people that can do it in a healthy way. And you can watch them, you can listen to them. Them. I'm not here to tell you what to do in that. I'm just saying I'm not going to be that person. Okay? As truth is revealed, which I pray to God that it is, as justice is sought, and I pray to God that it is and that justice is satisfied, that I will reveal the facts that I know. But I feel a responsibility to you guys to not take you down every trail, because I'm not here to cause anxiety. I am here to infuse courage into your life and clarity into your life. I have not been perfect on that, by the way, my entire history. Like, there have been times where I look back and I'm like, ugh. I. I probably just induced anxiety there. That wasn't helpful. That wasn't productive. And I pray for grace to cover me and to help me and give me wisdom. But be careful. Just be careful out there, okay? Have discernment. I. I'm not saying that you should only listen to me, Please, no seek truth. But there's a difference in truth seeking and anxiety inducing conspiracy theories. Ask for evidence. All right, I want to end on the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. And again, if you're dusting off your Bible or you're buying that Bible, then you can read Daniel 3. It's pretty incredible. Just the courage that we see there, the courage that we see throughout scripture. That's really a pattern that we see. We see these like failing, finite, fallible people who just mess up over and over again who just like completely reject what God just told them. But the people who are held up as our examples are not perfect people. They're faithful people, they're obedient people. They're courageous people who just trusted that God was going to do what he said that he was going to do. And we see that in Daniel 3. Let me go ahead and tell you our last sponsor for the day and then we'll get into that. And this is Preborn. Preborn is such a special sponsor because they save lives. They serve moms and dads who are in need. They say they serve pregnant moms in crisis and they save the babies inside their womb by providing pregnancy centers with the tools they need need to serve these women to ensure that they can get an ultrasound for free, that they get prenatal vitamins, they get all the care and the true choices, life affirming choices that they need to make sure that they are protecting the child inside their womb. You can partner with them and you can help supply and resource all of these pregnancy centers that are saving lives by going to preborn.comalli you can donate now. Donate $28. That is the cost of a life saving ultrasound. But whatever you can donate, maybe it's $2.80, maybe it's $28,000. Whatever your best and most faithful gift is, donate that today. Go to preborn.comallie, make your donation. That's preborn.comallie. you know, I just got this in and by the time this is coming out, this will be old news, but I just got the headline from CNBC that said that the prosecutor in Charlie Kirk's case will seek the death penalty. And we already covered the death penalty earlier in this episode. It's right. It is just. The only unjust thing about the death penalty in this country, at least in principle, is that it is delayed for years and years and years. Even after due process, even after we have DNA evidence that someone committed a murder. It's, you know, we wait so long to execute the person and then also it just seems so arbitrary. We just don't consistently apply it. And that is the cruel part of it. It's not the execution, because executing someone by lethal injection, you're actually giving them so much more, more mercy and more comfort than they gave the victims of their murder. And so it's actually a great mercy. It's not only a mercy to the heinous murderer, but it is also a great mercy to society when you take out people inflicting that kind of violence and evil. But I just want to remind you of a couple things. But Daniel 3, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego answered the king when the king said, you got to bow down to me. Look at this awesome golden statue of myself. You got to bow down to this idol. They said, oh, Nebuchadnezzar, we have no need to answer you in this matter. If this be so, our God whom we serve, is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace. And he will deliver us out of your hand, O king. Because Nebuchadnezzar had said, hey, if you don't bow down to me, you're going in this furnace. I'm gonna kill you. And they said, well, even if you do, if God wants to, he can deliver us from that. It reminds me of what we just read in Hebrews 11, that Abraham knew that even if he sacrificed Isaac as God told him to do that, he even believed that God could raise him from the dead. So it was actually faith in the resurrection, even in the Old Testament. That was the saving faith in verse 18 of Daniel 3. But if not, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego say, be it Known to you, O King, that we will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up. So again, they had faith and not what they saw. They had faith not in some material resource that God had promised them or even faith that God was going to save them physically. They said, even if not, we're not going to bow down to you. We will not serve your gods or worship the golden image that you have set up so against idolatry. They were so in love with God, they were, that they said, you can burn us up, up, we do not care. We trust in God. So Nebuchadnezzar threw them in the fiery furnace. He ordered his people to turn it up seven times hotter than what it typically was. But when Nebuchadnezzar and his people looked into the furnace, they saw not just three people, but four. Then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished and rose up. In haste, he declared to his counselors, did we not cast three men bound into the fire? They answered and said to the king, true, o King, verse 25. He answered and said, But I see four men unbound walking in the midst of the fire. And they are not hurt. And the appearance of the fourth is like a son of the gods. So we see there God with him. We see the presence of God there saving them. And they had faith that he would. That they walked into the fiery furnace. And they would have rather done that than bow down to an idol and disobey God. It's the same thing with Daniel. When Daniel was ordered not to pray to God, he opened the windows and he prayed to God. And he was thrown into a den of lions. And what did God do? He shut the mouth of the lions. And because of their faith, because of their boldness, God was able to spread faith of him and knowledge of his power throughout the land. And we are not guaranteed that we will be saved from every physical malady or physical threat here on earth. Obviously, God chose not to spare Charlie crucial from his assassination. But we know again that God uses our faith, that he uses our boldness, he uses our obedience for his glory and our good. And I'll end just asking you. I know I've asked this a couple times in the past few weeks and sometimes I even just feel bad asking this. But I. I know that you guys love to do it and will do it. But in addition to praying so much for so many people that need prayer, Charlie's family especially, I just that over the next few days, if you'll think of me and my family and pray for us. There's several things that are coming up that I need strength for. As you can tell, I'm under the weather. I have not gotten good sleep at all. I've barely gotten sleep over the past two weeks for a variety of reasons. And I got a lot coming up that I need energy for, that I need strength for, that I need clarity and sound and a sound mind for. And I need the Holy Spirit to help me. I need protection and I need strength not just for me, but also for chief relative, bro. For a family. And so I just ask that you could offer that the prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working. That's James 5. And I trust that and believe that. And I'm just thankful for you guys and how you share the arrows with me and I share the arrows with you, too. And so just thank you for being here and committing to praying for all of us. All right, that's all we've got time for today. We will be back on Friday with a super, super encouraging conversation with Maddie Pruitt. I see you guys back here then.