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Ep 1326 | 'The View' Warns Moms, NBA Condemns Christianity & the Pope Misuses Isaiah 1
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The View absolutely freaked out. When a conservative dared to say that more people should be having children, their response was absolutely absurd. I can't wait to react to it. Also, Jaden Ivy, a professional basketball player, said that Pride Month is celebrating unrighteousness. He was let go from the team. Oh, my goodness. We've got to dive into the response here. Also, surprise, surprise, I have a disagreement with the Pope. We've got this and so much more on today's episode of Relatable. Before we get into it, I do want to remind you, if you're a Christian woman, join us at Share the Arrows. If you go to share the arrows.com you'll get the details. And tomorrow, guys, tomorrow we will be releasing our speaker lineup. It is insane. So share the arrows.com you'll get all the details. It's October 10th, Dallas, Texas. It is going to be amazing. Share the arrows.com also. All right, let's get into today's episode. Hey, guys. Welcome to Relatable Happy Wednesday and Happy Trans Day of Visibility Yesterday. For everyone who celebrates, certainly we here, the Relatable family, we celebrate Trans Day of Visibility. We want them to be so, so visible because they're not visible enough. Trans women are women. Trans rights are human rights. And you know what? You should just swim faster and you should just get used to peeing next to a trans person. Okay? That's my stance on it. I know that might be shocking to you, but I've evolved a lot. I've learned a lot. And I just wanted to join in with the Democrats and say, yay transgenderism and yay Trans day visibility. April Fools, everyone. I know that you were probably tricked by that, but I was just joking. There's no such thing as transgenderism. There's no such thing as non binary. There's no such thing as a trans child. It's not possible to change your gender. It's XX or X, Y. And in the very first chapter of the first book of the Bible, God tells us what's up in Genesis 1:27, that he made us male and female. I couldn't go very long telling you that joke because I'm just afraid that someone tuned in for the first time and I could have led them astray, but I had to do a little bit of something for April Fool's Day. All right, let's get into some serious stuff that is not actually a joke. We have so much to get to today. As we were planning this episode, y', all, I was like, I don't think that we it is going to be possible for us to fit in everything that we want to talk about, but we are going to try our darndest. We filmed a segment with Wes Huff about the resurrection, about the historicity of the resurrection. And we we don't have time to fit it in today's episode. So we are going to be playing it this weekend. So make sure you tune in for that. It's a 20 minute segment and it is absolutely awesome and encouraging. So let's go ahead. Full steam ahead. Let's get into the news of the day. First, we are going to talk about our good, good friends at the View saying things as always that are extremely insightful. Well, they are reacting to this week the words of Isabelle Brown, Isabel Brown, she's got a show on Daily Wire. She is conservative, Gen Z and she spoke at CP saying that hey, we need to have more children. Which yes, 100% she is absolutely right. But the women at the View did not like what she had to say. Here's SOT 13 and I think it's just really reckless, reckless to be suggesting that people should have children when you now know in this country there's this affordability crisis. And for a two person household, a married household, you need over $400,000 for childcare. Over $400,000. Most people don't make over $400,000. So she's advocating for people to be born into poverty. People not being able to feed those children, people not being able to educate those children and people not being able to house those children. At the same time, when this government is cutting all of the services that would allow people to have families and big family life, that is just so over the top, inaccurate and absurd. I know so many people, most of the people in my life who have children who do not make over 400,000 doll and they feed their children, they love their children, they live in a home with their children, their children thrive. Now that might mean that they're not taking vacations every other month or that might mean that there are some luxuries that they have to cut out. Maybe the mom stays home so that they don't have to pay tens of thousands of dollars in childcare. No one said that having children comes without sacrifices and comes without some form of what people may call inconvenience. But the idea that you have to be making almost half a million dollars a year to be able to just surv children is absurd. It's not true today. It has never been true in all of history. Obviously there have been people and cultures still are today who are a lot poor than we are here in America, that were a lot poorer than even our poorest people here in America who were able to raise their children and feed their children. That's not to say that poverty is wonderful or that it doesn't bring a lot of challenges, or that there isn't a place for the government to help those who really need it for a period of time while they get back on their feet, or a mother who has been abandoned by her husband and now she is raising this child alone. I'm not saying there is never any place for welfare whatsoever. And the Trump administration is not cutting all forms of welfare. But it is possible, absolutely, for most women and for most couples to have children and to raise children today. So this idea that the economic plight is just too hard to have kids in America, the richest country in the history of the world today, is just crazy. And Whitney Cummings also has something to say about this and. Oh, my gosh. Ridiculous. Stop. 14. I gave our girl Isabel a little Google. She has a baby. She has a one year old. Of course, she thinks everyone should have a lot of kids. She has a one year old that sleeps all day. I also was like, I'm gonna have a bunch more kids. Wait till your kid is up and walking and you spend most of your day trying to get its shoes on. Yeah, you're probably gonna rethink how many kids you have. So many things, Whitney Cummings. So many things. First of all, one year olds, do they sleep all day? I must be doing motherhood wrong because, see, my one year olds were awake all day and they took a nap for a couple hours in the afternoon, but they were awake. Are you thinking about a one month old? A one year old is a toddler. A one year old is awake all day. A one year old very often is walking around. So I know that you have a child, Whitney Cummings, but are you. Did you just forget what it was like in the first couple of years of their life? Having a one year old is like one of the most challenging times because they're so mobile, they're so energetic, and yet they can't just sit there and be entertained by a book for very long. And so that's crazy. Also, I guarantee Isabel and all of the people saying, hey, you should have more kids. Absolutely. Are enduring some of the hardships of motherhood, looking forward to adding more children to their family. Me also, I have three kids. Am I allowed to say they're six, four and two? Am I allowed to say that people should have more kids. I'm not saying that people should have an infinite number of kids. I'm not saying that there are never any exceptions to that rule or that there are never any reasons why people may not be able to have kids or may choose to have kids. But those are exceptions. I would say most married couples today should choose to have children. And I will get into more on that in just a second. But first I want to dispel this myth that they are putting out there that motherhood is so hard, it's so economically hard, it's so just impossible for most women. And that is why they are sacrificially, very sadly choosing not to have kids. That's not the case. The child free by choice movement emphasizes convenience and luxury as the reasons not to have kids. And I'll play you some of those examples in just a second. Let me pause first tell you about our first sponsor for the day and that is Adele Natural Cosmetics. Y'. All. I'm so thankful for Adele. I use their products every day, whether it's their moisturizing cleanser, moisturizing spray or their moisturizing serum serum. I use all of this. I love that all of their products come with a bible verse on them. That's because Adele, Arlene and her family who started Adele, they're unapologetically Christian, unapologetically pro life. That's not a value that they hide. 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And she felt very triumphant over that, as if women have been liberated from something harmful. Here is an example of someone on Tik Tok talking about how quiet and nice her life is because she doesn't have kids. Sought one. Sometimes I wonder if I'm doing the right thing by not having kids. And then there's a day like today where all I did this morning was woke up, had coffee with my husband, very chill, very quiet, very easy morning, went and got a massage, came back, took a shower, took a nap. It's 3:40. I've been in these pajamas all day. I am on my couch, no other plans. Listen to how quiet my house is. That's such a superficial and selfish reason not to have kids. You know, if you do have kids, you're still going to have maybe 25 to 30, 30 years of your life where it's quiet, where you don't have little feet running around, you don't have a lot of noise, you don't have obligations. You're not, you know, taking your kid on a walk or going to soccer games or doing school pickup. Because there's only about 18, maybe a little bit more years of their life which goes by really fast that you're doing all of those things, maybe even less because once they start driving they're a lot more independent. They're really only just a few short years of your kids lives where you are go, go, go. And it's loud and chaotic all. And then there's so much payoff of that relationship and that joy that kids bring. This is so shortsighted. That sounds like a day that I would spend in college and that was really cool when I was 19. But eventually it gets old. Just living for yourself. Here's thought three. So I'm child free by choice. And everyone always says like what's your purpose if you don't have kids? What's your purpose? My purpose is getting my nails done, going shopping, treating myself. Look at this new bag I just got from Goyard. Stunning. This new sweatsuit I got from Aloe. And being sober, traveling, I don't know, taking naps. Have you ever taken a nap? It's like the funnest thing ever. It's so nice. I enjoy naps a lot. So don't say I don't have purpose just because I don't have kids. How dare you. These people are like children. I actually thought she was going to say something more profound there. And I would have actually said, you know what? Your purpose as a woman does extend beyond having kids 100% because you are made in God's image and you are part of if you're a Christian, God's eternal plan of redemption, he saved your soul. Your happiness and fulfillment and responsibilities, whether you're married or not, have kids or not, starts right now. And so your purpose and fulfillment in life is not tied to having children. But then she said, my purpose is getting my nails done. Something that's here today and gone tomorrow, that doesn't care about you, that won't last, that has no positive impact on any. Anyone besides yourself. And let me just give you a news flash too. I get my nails done every two weeks, okay? I get my nails done every two weeks. I get a pedicure every four weeks, okay? This is possible. It is completely possible. When you have kids, you can also travel with your kids sometimes. Rarely, but sometimes my husband and I travel without my kids. If we can get the help of the. In laws and, and support from my parents to help with our kids during that time. We don't do that very much, but it's total possible. You can also take a nap. I took a great nap just the other day for a couple hours. I have three young kids. It is possible to do some of the things that you are talking about. Be sober, enjoy life and have children. But when you only live for yourself and your number one goal is temporary things like getting your nails done or making your life as easy as possible, then anyone, not only kids, but your marriage, your job, everything is going to seem like an inconvenience. But when you see yourself as more than just a consumer, more than just someone who is supposed to get as much pleasure as possible, more than just a hedonist, but someone who is actually supposed to contribute, who is supposed to work. Our soul is dignified by some kind of work, paid or not. When you see yourself as much bigger than just you, then that changes your perspective of your priorities. Okay, let's see. Satu. We're not moms. We can make a last minute dinner reservation without a babysitter. We're not moms. We can sleep until noon. We're not moms. We can have choking hazards on our coffee table. We're not moms. We can have sex on the counter. We're not moms. We can cuss out loud. We're not moms. We can have an alligator pit in a living room. Just to be clear, we do not have an alligator pit in the living room. But we could. You're also not having sex on the counter. You're not fooling me. You're not fooling me, lady. And by the way, some of these things totally possible with kids. All of this comes across as a cope. Like, if you're confident in your decision, you feel like God has called you to something different, then live that out. I really don't see moms on TikTok talking about like, oh my gosh, it's so much better having children. I'm so much better because I'm a mom. I have so much more in my life. Yes, people talk about how hard motherhood is, how great motherhood is, you know, how much they love their kids. But this kind of superiority complex really comes across as insecurity. Be happy with your life if you want to be happy with your life. But trying to compare your life to mine by making me seem miserable when we're not miserable, like, we're also really fulfilled and really joyful and really happy. It just, I don't know, it. It reads, not super confident in my own choices. Okay, last example of this top five. And having kids is not all that it's cracked up to be. I have none. I don't miss it. I'm not a mother, I'm not a granny. And when they want to call me granny in an, in an interview article, I say call me witch, anything, but do not call me granny. It's by choice that I not a granny, and I never will be, thank you very much. Kids are not all that they're cracked up to be. By the way, I'm not a mom. How would you know? How would you know? You don't know if having kids isn't all it's cracked up to be. You don't have them and you don't have grandkids. Look, all of it, all of this is true that it is more convenient not to have kids, okay? Like, you have to sacrifice, give up less if you don't have kids or if you don't get married. It's true that committing to someone in a covenantal marriage and having children that you love with your entire being and that you want to sacrifice for that, it's hard that there are going to be days that you get less sleep. There are going to be many days where you don't get to do everything that you want to do. You are going to be less free. You're going to have less time to do what you want to do. But the purpose of life is not just to live for yourself. And here's where I just want to encourage you out there. For those of you who are married who have decided, hey, I'm going to put off kids until some arbitrary date. I'm going to put off having kids so that we can travel the world. I'm going to put off having kids so I can pursue my career. I'm going to put off having kids for XYZ reason. And maybe you've never really thought about the why behind deferring having children, but those are not good whys. Those are not biblical whys, because it actually speaks to a wrong view of kids in motherhood. You are still viewing kids as a burden, kids as an impediment to your real goal, which is doing what you want to do and doing what makes you feel good, making your name bigger, whatever it is, and not seeing kids as they are repeatedly and exclusively described in Scripture, which is as a blessing, something that the Lord gives you as a gift, arrows in your quiver. You are not seeing life as God meant it to be lived, which is, yes, joy and fun and all of those good things, but also sacrifice, like the friction and the difficulty of life is part of what makes you a better person. It's part of what makes you more compassionate. It's part of what makes you a better contributor to the world around you. God puts you on this earth to glorify him and to make the world around you better. One of the biggest and best contributions that you Christian couple can give to the world around you and give to the future, even long after you're gone, is a strong, brave, godly, wise child that becomes a strong, brave, godly, wise, bold, evangelistic, hard working adult. That is what the world needs more of. And if Christians, Christians are the ones who are echoing this worldly mentality of having kids is too hard. And I'm just gonna put it off for these arbitrary worldly reasons. We're in a lot of trouble. It's a dark world. We need more lights. We need more Christians raising up more kids for the glory of God. As I said, there may be some health exceptions, there may be some exceptions to having your own biological children as a married couple, and I acknowledge that. But most of us don't live within those exceptions. Most of us are the rule. And so if you can have children, Christian couple, have children and maybe have one more too. All right, let's get into our next subject. 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The Pope was in the news over the weekend and he had a message, it seemed to specifically President Trump and the United States. Just considering the timing. Some of the recent comments that he's made about the Iran war. And he made this statement, which proved very controversial, that a lot of Protestants, myself included, took issue with. But I also saw a lot of conservative Catholics saying, that just isn't right. Here it is. Colta la pragera di qui fala guerra. So he says, Jesus, king of peace, he rejects war. No one can use Jesus to justify war. He does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war, but rejects them, saying, even though you make many prayers, I will not listen, your hands are full of blood. Actually, we cited that passage in Isaiah on Monday when we talked about this subject. Does God answer all prayers? You'll hear a lot of People say, yes, God answers all prayers, but that's not actually true. And so the Pope is right about that, that there is a category, category of people whose prayers God doesn't listen to and he doesn't actually answer. Go back to Monday's episode and you can get a full response to the wrong theology of the idea that God answers all prayers. I disagree with the idea that God will categorically reject the prayers of those who wage war because of the Bible, because the Bible paints a clear and opposite picture of that. So let me just read you the response that I put on X. And so first I quoted what Pope Leo said and then I said, Christians should strive for peace. Yes, we don't revel in the death, in death and destruction. And a Christian could make a sound argument against the particulars of many wars throughout history, including the war with Iran today. A Christian could also agree that God shouldn't be used to justify unjust wars. But to say that God is against war per se is flat out false. All throughout the Old Testament, God calls for war in defense of his people. Exodus 15:3 declares, the Lord is a man of war. The Lord is his name. David constantly prayed to the Lord while battling his enemies. He says his cries to the Lord reached his ears and God answered him. God didn't just answer David by hiding him away, but by giving him lethal strength. He trains my hands for war. And then I go on to say, because I can always, I can always know, like hear this response that I get from a lot of Catholics who will just kind of dismiss the Old Testament altogether. Not all Catholics, but many do. It's always like, well, we don't believe in the death penalty or we don't believe in X, Y, Z because that's in the Old Testament. As if the Old Testament isn't inerrant and as if the Old Testament isn't authoritative. And as if the Old Testament doesn't also contain Jesus on every single page. So this was the rest of what I said. I said if you discount these examples because they're in the Old Testament. The examples of David, for example, you don't understand Scripture or God. Jesus is God. Therefore everything God has ever done, Jesus has fully agreed with and participated in and he does not change. Hebrews 13:8. Jesus Christ is the same. Same yesterday, today and forever. Mind you also that Jesus himself promises to come back as a warrior to wage war against evildoers. There are categories of people whose prayers God does not answer. The self righteous, those who pray with selfish motives, people who Wage war are not automatically in one of those categories. I'm so glad our founders did not believe this way. I love this retelling of the story of the pacifist Quaker who allegedly heard Washington praying in the woods at Valley Forge. This is what the Quaker said. He was at prayer to the God of the armies, beseeching to interpose with his divine aid, as it was his crisis and the cause as it was his crisis and the cause of the country, of humanity and of the world. Sometimes force is necessary to defeat evil and advance good. I say, when it comes to these matters, Pope Leo has repeatedly proven that he is not wise because he has said things in the spirit of this many times. We could go through all of the examples in the Old Testament when God the Alpha, the Omega, the Creator, the triune God, God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, he heard the prayers and answered the prayers of those who prayed to him. Gideon. In the Book of Judges, God repeatedly tells Gideon to go to war against the Midianites. And the Lord turned to Gideon and said, go in this mind of yours and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Do I not send you? And of course, Gideon asks him, how am I supposed to do this? God confirms his command to Gideon over and over again, giving him signs, telling him, yes, this is what I'm asking you to do, Joshua, who, by the way, like Jesus, is named after Joshua, this man of war. After the death of Moses, God commissions Joshua to lead the Israelites to the promised land. God tells Joshua, now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all the people into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel, every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses. And so he goes on telling him how he is going to give these people into his hand. Now, if God was categorically against all violence and all killing, he could have simply just taken these people away, wiped them away somehow, and never urged his people to wage war. Let me make clear right here, just in case you haven't heard me make this clear many times before, I am not saying that any of these passages are directives for America today. I'm not saying America is God's chosen people. I'm not saying that any of these passages are justification for the war with Iran. I am using these passages to point out that when it comes to the principle, the rule that the Pope is putting forth, that. But it's unbiblical. The rest of the Book of Joshua, of course, Chronicles, the Israelites conquering the promised land and dividing the territory up among the tribes. Also, I think it's important to note, as I said in my ex post, that Jesus returns as a warrior. He is leading heavenly armies to defeat the beast. And the false prophet John writes that in the book of Revelation. Of course, we have other references to Psalm 144. 1. Blessed be the Lord, my rock, who trains my hands for war and my fingers for battle. Battle. David, earlier in this chapter, he actually says, look, I cried out to the Lord, I asked the Lord for help and he helped me. How did God help him? By making him lethal, by making him strong. By helping him commit violence to protect Himself. Romans 13:4. Okay, New Testament. Now we read. For he is God's. The government is God's servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid. For he does not bear the sword in vain. Bear the sword, that's a symbol of execution. For he, the government, is the servant of God, an avenger who carries out God's wrath on the wrongdoer. That's why it's so important to have a government that defines good and evil in accordance with how God defines it. I see a lot of people, Catholics in particular, they get wrong. One of the Ten Commandments. They say, thou shalt not kill. That's odd. That's. That's it. It. That's obvious. Obviously all killing is wrong. Obviously not all killing is wrong. Or you're saying God is violating his own Ten Commandments by directing his people over and over again to wage war to kill and also commanding the death penalty for many broken laws in the Old Testament. So not all killing is wrong. Not all killing is against the Ten Commandments. That's not what the Ten Commandments say. The Commandment says thou shalt not not murder. And there's a difference between killing and murder. Of course you would agree that self defense killing is not the same thing as murder. Murder is the intentional killing of an innocent, a legally innocent person that is not committing violence against you. And so not all acts of war are murder. Not all killing is murder. Abortion is murder, lots of other kinds of killing or murder. The death penalty is also not murder. You can be against some of those things for whatever reason, war, the death penalty, but they're not murder. And they're certainly not in principle in violation of the word of God. And you know, you got a lot of people being like, oh, you think you know better than the Pope? You, you think you know better than the Vicar of Christ? Well, first of all, I don't believe that the Pope is a vicar of Christ. You think that you believe more than the successor of Peter? I don't believe that he succeeded Peter. Okay, that's first of all. But, yeah, I believe that anyone with the Holy Spirit in the Bible has the ability to disagree with any leader of the faith, Protestant or Catholic. So, of course. And I saw a lot of my Catholic friends, by the way, disagree with the Pope on this, which is possible. I know that there are Catholics out there that are like, yeah, this is not, you know, ex cathedra, we can disagree with the Pope. And I'm like, you got 94 more of those disagreements. You ought to post him on a door somewhere, huh? I'm like, I think you're starting to understand, like, where Protestant, Protestantism comes from. Like, we are protesting. Martin Luther was protesting against some of the teachings of the Pope at that time. I agree with you. It's possible to disagree with the Pope and any kind of argument from authority fallacy that, like, well, you can't disagree with the Pope because you're not the Pope, and he can't be wrong because he's the Pope. It's not going to work. It's not going to work on a Protestant. It's also not going to work on any thinking Christian who understands logic and values reason and believes that the word of God is inerrant and infallible. Like, we can all read it and we can be able to say that pastor is wrong, that Pope is wrong, that priest is wrong, because they're fallible and the word of God is not. Again, you can have your arguments against war against the war in Iran, but to say categorically that God rejects the prayers of all those who wage war, it's just not true. And that passage in Isaiah about those who shed blood and their prayers won't be answered, it's not about war. Go read the chapter. It's about Israel disobeying God, oppressing the weak, oppressing people that they shouldn't have been oppressing, disobeying God and committing idolatry and all of those things. It was not about just war, which, by the way, is a theory put forth by Augustine. There's a lot more that I could say about the Pope. There's a lot more. It's interesting, his timing and why he chose to say what he did. I really want to talk about this segment where the Pope recently said that, you know, we need to have communion with people of other faiths. We need fellowship. That is the work of Christ that I completely disagree with. But we've got so much to get to that I'm going to put that to the side, and I will talk about that in. In a cup in a coming episode. This Pope gives us lots of. Lots of content to go through. And by the way, this is not an attack. It's not an attack on the Pope. It's not an attack on Catholicism. We gotta be intellectually tougher than that. If a Catholic disagrees with something I say, as a Protestant, I don't see that as a personal attack. And if you do, then I would encourage you to strengthen your theological and apologetic knowledge, because you should be able to see that as a battle of theology and ideas that you are equipped to engage in, not as a. Not as a personal attack that you need to shrink away from or get, like, outraged about. So just one thing I want to say. All right, I want to talk about. I just want to make sure that we note and encourage you to pray for the Christian persecution that is happening in Nigeria. This is happening in Nigeria's what's called the Middle Belt, where these attacks are taking place a lot. It is where the country's Muslim majority north and Christian majority South meet. It has been the site of religiously motivated bloodshed for years. And yet these Christians, impoverished, knowing that their lives are on the line, knowing that they could be kidnapped, their kids could be murdered, they show up week after week, day after day, to worship their Savior. Wow. That kind of boldness, that kind of courage should convict us here in the United States. Some of us won't even stand up for the gospel if it means that someone's going to unfollow us or that we're going to feel awkward at the grocery store or with the person next to us on the plane. And these people are willing to lay down their lives for the gospel. And to celebrate. President Trump redesignated Nigeria a country of particular concern, saying, according to Reuters, that Christians are being targeted and authorities were failing to protect them. That's absolutely true. You'll hear, and I think I even heard Tucker Carlson say this, that it's actually a myth that Christians are the ones being targeted in Nigeria. Or maybe it was a guest on his show who said this, that it's both Muslims and Christians. It's not Christians. And those who die at the hands of the radical Muslims there far outnumber the Muslims. And Christians are kidnapped far more because they know that the Christian community will pay more, will pay a higher ransom for Christians who are being kidnapped than the Muslims. Will, because of course, that's what the body of Christ does. And Christianity is associated with America and the West. And we know that Muslims in Africa and in the Middle east, of course hate the west as much as they hate Christ and hate Christianity. And it's interesting how which people will talk about this kind of persecution and which ones don't, which ones will only talk about persecution if Israel is somehow involved and not talk about the much, much, much, much, much of the Muslim persecution and the systemic killing of Christians both in Africa and the Middle East. So I just want to encourage you in your prayers every day to cover in prayer those who are being persecuted everywhere. And you don't have to know every single detail of this persecution in order to pray. But this is who Jesus is talking about in Matthew 25 when he says, whatever you do for the least of these my brothers, you do unto me. He's not talking about the least of these of the world. He's talking about persecuted Christians. He's talking about these Nigerians who are being slaughtered. We're guaranteed persecution, but we are so beyond blessed in America to not have the same kind of persecution as our brothers and sisters in Christ are having around or enduring around the world. So pray for them, see how you can encourage them. We've had a couple people on that are evangelizing in Gaza, that evangelize in Nigeria. Go back, listen to those conversations. We'll link them in the episode. You can see how you can get involved, how you can help and how you can pray, how we can be sharing the gospel here to even help those abroad. So I just wanted to make sure that we note that. I always want to highlight that and make sure that we're praying for those brothers and sisters. All right, we've got some good news in the Christian world. I loved this letter from Franklin Grant that was just recently shared by Trump. Let me pause. Let me tell you about our next sponsor for the day and that is Good Rancher. So grilling season is almost here, y'. All. Also in the middle of grilling season, We've got the Fourth of July, which is also America's 250th birthday. There is no better time. There is no better way to support America and American farmers, which are part of the backbone of the American economy, than by buying your meat from Good Ranchers. 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But Trump is just sharing it for the first time. And I just, I love it so much. He the reason why he wrote this is because as we'll play in a second, Trump had just gone viral for a a clip that had been going around in which he seems to kind of be joking but kind of not about not getting into heaven. He's talked about wanting to get into heaven and thinking maybe he's done right. But then he doesn't think that anything is going to get him into heaven. And maybe he's trolling, maybe he's being sarcastic. But I love that Franklin Graham with access to the president took this seriously. So he writes this in the letter. He says maybe you Responded to this interview in jest. But it is an. It is an important issue to know for certain that your soul is secure and will spend eternity in the presence of God. The only one who can save us from hell is Jesus Christ. You can't save yourself, I can't save myself. Good works, prominence, success, none of these things get us to heaven. The only way to heaven is through the shed blood of Jesus Christ. God requires us to turn from our sin and by faith believe in our heart that Jesus came to earth, died on the cross for our sins, was buried, and God raised him to life on the third day. If you accept that by faith and invite him to come into your heart, you are heaven bound, I promise you. So I love this. And people can quibble on some of the like Baptist theology there and the wording invite Jesus into your heart. But the message is true that there's nothing that you can do to save yourself. There's nothing that you can do to be good enough to get to God. We talk about that a lot, that that's the distinction of Christianity. Every other religion tells you how to get to God and Christianity says you can't, can't, can't, you can't. You're actually dead in your sin. It's not even that, just you're a little bit dirty and you could clean yourself off, bring yourself to me and then maybe I'll accept you. It's actually your dead in your sin. You have to be revived, you have to be given life, which is what Jesus does by grace, through faith. It's just so incredible. And like I was thinking this morning, because I lost something this morning somewhere in my house and I can't find it. And it's just this nagging feeling of, of I really want to find that thing, I really want to find that item. And it's this almost like this just underlying buzzing anxiety until you find it. And it's the best feeling ever when you find something that you've been looking for, especially something that's really valuable. And of course we read in Scripture, Jesus says that the angels rejoice when a sinner turns to Christ, when a sinner turns to God, when a sinner repents. And that the kingdom of God or like God seeking out the lost is like a shepherd going to find the lost sheep or it's like finding a lost coin. And I just love that description of losing something and finding it because we can all relate to the relief of that. But this is going to be a feather in the cap of Predestination. I'm just inserting some, like, theological thought here that you only feel the weight and the anxiety and the sadness about losing something that was already yours, like something that you already know, that you already love, that you can already see and envision a thing that is already precious to you. That's really the only way to lose something. And that's really the only reason that we feel relief and joy when it's found. Like, the shepherd didn't go out and hunt a new sheep. This sheep was a part of his flock, and he went out and rescued it and brought it back. And I think that's a perfect depiction of what the gospel is and, like, what actually happens when we are saved, that it is God who is seeking us and finding us. Like, the shepherd doesn't go to the sheep and say, hey, you want to come along? No, the sheep has already proven that it's stupid, that it's fallen into a ditch and it can't get out. It actually can do nothing to save itself. It has to be the shepherd picking up the sheep, putting the sheep over its shoulders, taking it back to the flock and making sure that it's. It stays in line. And that, of course, is the gospel for us. That Trump, there's nothing that you can do. There's nothing that you can do. You can't reach up to God. He's reaching down to you. By grace, through faith, you can be saved. Good. For Franklin Graham, like, this is a good friend. It's a good friend. This is what a good friend does. A lot of us are just concerned about being cool, about not offending someone, especially someone like Trump. I mean, he's got a lot of access to the President. It would have been easy for him, him to just kind of say, you know, he was just kidding. He was just trolling us. I don't want to seem too serious. I don't want to take things too seriously and then look stupid. But he was like, you know what? I'm going to take this opportunity to make sure he knows. I know for a fact that Trump has been told the gospel multiple times. Phil Robertson. There are other people in his life who are solid. And so that really just goes to show it's not just a matter of hearing. It's not just a matter of head knowledge. It's got to go into your heart. It's got to be a matter of faith, faith that God gives you. And obviously this letter meant something to Trump because six months later, he's posting it on Truth Social on Palm Sunday. And so Trump took it seriously. I don't know how that has translated into the faith that he has in his heart, but he took it seriously. It actually meant something to him. And I think that we've seen multiple times over the years that he, he doesn't fully understand, like what gets you into heaven and what makes you right with God. And so we just need to pray that God would continually show up and God would continually reveal himself to Trump and that Trump would fully believe, just like we pray for all of our leaders. All right, I want to get into another story of Christian boldness and someone going out on a limb and doing the right thing, even when it was difficult. And that is Jaden Ivy. We weren't going to talk about this today, but this was one of these stories that popped up last night and I was like, okay, I have to talk about this. This is so in line with the things that we discuss. So I don't really follow any sports really, but when they intersect with Arlane, I think it's important to talk about. So on Monday, March 30, 24 year old Chicago Bulls guard Jaden Ivey released a video condemning the NBA for celebrating Pride Month. Here it is. They proclaim Pride Month and the NBA, they proclaim it. They, they show it to the world. They say, come, come, come join us for pride, for Pride Month to celebrate unrighteousness. True, no lie spoken. Shouldn't surprise you that within hours the Bulls waved Ivy after he saying his video was detrimental to the team. Okay, can I call in the audience and we can keep rolling. What does Nate, do you follow basketball? Do you know what waved means? What does waved mean? Okay, so not necessarily like fully dismissed, but maybe, yeah. Chief relay to bro. What does waved mean? Okay, so it is like, like you're, you're not on the bench, you're gone. Okay, so he's come, he's gone from the Chicago Bulls for saying this and they said it was detrimental to the team. Well, Jaden Ivy has a response to that. We'll get into it in just a second. Let me pause, tell you about our next sponsor first. That's Alliance Defending Freedom. All right. As we celebrate Resurrection Days, we celebrate Easter. We prepare to celebrate Christ's victory over death. 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I'm alive in Christ, no matter what the basketball setting is. And he's right that people are calling him psycho for this. Okay, so there's a sports writer named Seth Davis. He ended up deleting his post after a ton of backlash. But he said, Seth Davis says jaden Ivy is 24 years old, which is the time when many serious mental illnesses on set. If that is what is happening, I truly hope he gets the help he needs. I pray for his health and peace of mind. This is in response to that short clip that we played you of him saying, you know, they celebrate pride, they celebrate unrighteousness. So this is First Corinthians 1. The world sees the gospel of Christ, the message of the Bible as foolishness. Makes sense to us because we're spiritual, because we have the Holy Spirit. It doesn't make sense to the world. It literally looks like insanity. Remember, they called Jesus insane, too. They called the early. The early followers of Christ insane. They called them drunkards. Also, the Chicago Sun Times. This is according to. This is according to the Chicago Sun Times. Chicago Bulls player Josh Giddey says, obviously the whole thing is kind of unfortunate in a way. I hope he gets the help he needs. Whatever he's going through or not going through, I do really hope that he gets help. It's not going to be with the Bulls anymore, but wherever it is, I hope he gets it. And then you had a number of Christian athletes who took to social media, thankfully, in support of Ivy's courage. You had New England Patriots running back back Travion Henderson. He responded by quoting Matthew 5:10. Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness's sake, which is exactly what's going on here, by the way. He is being persecuted for the sake of righteousness. Also, Patriots coach Mike Vrabel responded to Travion Henderson support of Ivy. I love Travion. He cares deeply about his faith. I want them to be able to express what they believe, but I also want to make sure they're educated. We want to be exclusive. Boom. Boo. I don't even know you. Boo. That was a dumb statement. So you want them to be genuine about their faith. You want them to be outspoken, but not if we don't promote homosexuality and transgenderism. Sorry, not going to happen. It's kind of like in the first chapter of the first, first book of the Bible. And by the way, we actually love the people around us because we love the people who identify in this way. We want to speak God's truth to them. Them, because God knows better. God made them. God loves them, mind, body and soul. And God wants what's best for them. And we don't believe that we're nicer than God as all these people do. They believe that they're nicer and more compassionate and more loving than God. I don't believe that. Like, you think that we're arrogant for the beliefs that we have. No, we are humble enough to realize that we don't know what's best. God knows what's best. And so the most loving thing we can do is agree with God. That is exactly what Jaden Ivy is doing. He's just agreeing with God. God. It's God and his authority that y' all take issue with. Okay? Not Jaden Ivy. You've got several other players from different leagues who are supporting them. And so praise, praise God for that. People are quoting different passages of the Bible when it comes to persecution. I also just want to point out that there are several NFL players who have not only said degenerate things. I mean, I mean, think about, like, LeBron James, for example, but who have done degenerate things. I mean, been found guilty of domestic violence, who have paid for abortions for their baby mamas who are just degenerate, lawless people. But all of that is fine. But basic Christian doctrine is beyond the pale. Of course. You got Emmanuel Akko weighing in. Emmanuel, Emmanuel Ako. He manages to be like he. In the name of trying to be nuanced and trying to be different, it. He always just says the wrong thing when it comes to abortion, when it comes to justice. And we've actually gotten into it before. And of course, he's throwing Jaden Ivy under the bus. Some of the things that he said in his message were true. I didn't tell my team I wanted to play this clip. It's just coming to mind, which is why I'm not playing it. So you can go find out on your own. Where he says, you know, your talent makes room for you. If you're super talented, then you can kind of say what you want to say. Maybe that's true. I don't really know that much about this player and his success. But then he goes on to the Christian aspect of it and, you know, he preaches about how, you know, he should have said it differently or he shouldn't have said it at all. Boo. Boo. Again, you're not nicer than God if God's word says it. The nicest thing that we can do is agree with it and repeat it. Speaking the truth in love, gently, persuasively. Yes, but without compromise. Okay, maybe you are just a little bit convicted about the compromises that you've made to be friends with the world. World. I don't know. Just something to consider. So share the arrows with Jaden Ivy. I don't even. I don't, you know, I don't have any connection to him. A lot of times we're sharing the arrows. I have some kind of way to communicate with the person. Probably not possible, but you can pray for him. You can send him a message. He might check his Instagram messages and just say, great job. Praying for you, standing with you because this is going to be difficult. This is no small thing to lose your job. Job and to possibly lose your job in the industry that you love forever by saying something that is blatantly True. That is blatantly good. That is actually loving. Okay, so stand with. Share the arrows with Jaden Ivy. All right, let's talk about one more thing. Good news, actually, really, really good news, but it's within the umbrella of lgbtq. Before we get to our last segment, I just saw this before we started filming. The Supreme Court strikes down Colorado's ban on so called conversion therapy. Okay, so the Supreme Court struck down a ban that Colorado had on so called conversion therapy. So on March 31, SCOTUS struck down this decision. That's according to the Washington Post. And to explain what this law is, Colorado's 2019 law prohibited licensed mental health providers from engaging in conversion therapy with minors, defined as efforts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity, and made it subject to professional discipline. The case centered on a Christian counselor who argued that the state unfairly restricted what she could say to clients seeking faith based guidance. The court ruled 8:1. That's incredible. It was only Justice Katanji Brown Jackson who was the dissent there, but eight one decision that the law violated First Amendment free speech protections. Of course, that is the state saying, you can't say your sincerely held beliefs or we will punish you. They did Colorado so crazy. They did the same thing to the masterpiece cake baker Jack Phillips that we've talked about a lot before. And we shared the arrows with him at the time. But they said, no, you have to bake the cake. You have to bake the cake celebrating transgenderism or you have to bake the cake. Cake celebrating gay marriage. And he said, no, that goes against my faith. I mean, Colorado, talk about fascism, talk about a totalitarian regime, talk about having kings. These Democrat states are so tyrannical, it's insane. The tyranny that the liberals are talking about when it comes to Republicans or Republicans being like, yeah, I think, you know, you shouldn't murder your baby. Maybe the tyranny by progressives is. You will say the pronouns. You will bake the cake. You will not say your sincerely held beliefs. You will not acknowledge biological reality to a child who is confused about their gender. Okay, that is dystopian trash. Okay? That is actually tyrannical. So all the accusations of tyranny from the left, it's just projection, okay? It is projection because they are guilty of far worse as a whole. Justice Neil Gorsuch in this decision, writes for the majority that the law censors speech based on viewpoint. The First Amendment, he wrote, stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country. Praise God. In a solo dissent, Justice Katanji Brown Jackson wrote states should be free to regulate health care even if that means incidental restrictions on speech. She said the decision opens a dangerous can of worms that threatens to impair state's ability to regulate the provision of medical care in any respect respects. Typical progressives just says a bunch of word salad that doesn't actually have any constitutional substance to it. But what this means is that Christian counselors, Christian mental health professionals are allowed to say what is true. Not only say what they believe biblically, which they should have a right to do, but also say what is true biologically. They were being punished by acknowledging and affirming biological reality. And people, including minors, should be free to have have access to biblical counselors, counselors who will tell them the truth. Like it's difficult for Colorado and progressives to understand. But not everyone who is attracted to the same sex, not everyone who is confused about their gender wants to feel that way. Some of them need help. Some of them want someone who is like minded to talk to, to help them through what is sin, what the Christian faith calls sin. What is actual quote, unquote. Conversion therapy is the psychiatrist who tells the young autistic schizophrenic woman who is coming from an abusive household that, yeah, those feelings of distress that you feel about your body, it's because you're the opposite gender. That is conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is when you tell a young boy, yeah, sure, you're actually a girl, let's get you on those hormones. I'll sign the waiver for you. I'll, I'll sign the form telling the endocrinologist and telling the surgeon that you're good to go, that is actually harmful. Real conversion therapy, that absolutely should be banned because it's a lie. Like there are restrictions on what mental health providers can do, but there should never be a restriction on saying what is true. Right. But of course, again, this is the same kind of thing that we talked about in the Jaden Ivy story. When you exchange evil for good, when wisdom looks like foolishness, it's really like a heart issue. It's a refusal to submit to God's authority issue. As every one of these problems really comes down to. While Democrats are realizing that they're a bit radical to most of the country, I mean, even though the official Democrats account just posted, as we said in the beginning, you know, yay, trans visibility day. And so they're still running on this idea that men should be in little girls restrooms and play on girls soccer teams and all of that. But they've realized they've got to appeal to Christians, they've got to appeal to the suburban woman, they've got to appeal to white people in this country as much as they hate white evangelicals. They see, okay, this is a huge voting bloc. Many of them don't vote. They're ripe for the taking. Some of them don't like Trump. And so how are we going to win them? And they have come up with a strategy and it actually might work. Okay, that'll be our last segment we'll get to in just a second. 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Like, how do you think Trump feels knowing that he has never had to run against a man or something like that. It was funnier how it was phrased. But it is funny that the two people that Trump has ever run against for the. For the presidency have been women. And why did they think going against someone who is so macho, like President Trump, who a lot of people really like, why it would be successful to run a mom like Hillary Clinton against him or someone who is maniacal, like Kamala Harris against him, it's just not. It's not almost like not even a fair race, honestly. So now, apparently this is according to Axios. Democrats are going to run a straight, white, Christian male candidate in 2028. Michelle Obama has added insight to this, saying, they're not ready for us girls at 12. That's why I'm like, don't even look at me about running, because you all are lying. You're not ready for a woman. You are not. So don't waste my time. Okay? So I asked my team, let's put in who we think is going to be the candidate. So white, straight, male, Christian, which they've done with the VP candidate. What? I don't even remember his name. What is the name of the guy who ran with Kamala Harris? Tim Walls. Right, Tim Walls. Now, white, male, Christian, straight. At least two of those are questionable, and I will let you guess which ones they are. Can we put up. Let's put up the tweet by the Republicans the other day when Tim Walls tweeted, no, Kings, I'm not even going to say anything about this. I'm just gonna let y' all watch it if you. If you're on YouTube. Okay, moving on. Okay, here is the tally. We've got three votes on team relatable for Gavin Newsom for the straight, white, male, Christian. I'm trying to remember all of the descriptors that are going to run. Remember, Gavin Newsom fancies himself a Catholic. Okay, he fancies himself a Catholic. But back in the day, he was arguing with John, John MacArthur on CNN about why gay marriage is great. Okay, so he's kind of been on lost cause for a long time. We've got two votes for James Talarico. Again, two of these descriptions, very questionable about these people. Okay, I'll just let you read between the lines. We've got one for Pete Buttigieg. If you know, you know, if you know, you know now some people are saying, I know, I hear you out there. People to judge escape. And so he doesn't qualify as straight. There's a conspiracy out there right along with the moon landing. And dinosaur is not being real. That Pete Buttigieg is actually straight, that he is pretending to be gay for identity politics. I didn't say that. And whoever said that and whoever voted for Pete Buttigieg, that is very offensive. Very offensive. I would never. Okay, and then we have. This was my serious one. And this is Andy Beshear. I think Andy Beshear is a contender because he's Southern white male, Democrat. He was just on the View talking about his so called faith, which he believes that his faith encourages him to be pro trans kids. We've got honorable mention, we've got Richard Levine, Rachel Levine, whatever. It suits your fancy. There also a possibility. A possibility. This person was in charge of our health during COVID Exciting times. Exciting times. All right, those are our predictions. Can you put your predictions please, in the comments or you can message me. Is there some dark horse that we don't even know yet who they are grooming to take the place? I'm telling you for real, like, it's not going to be James Talarico. I'm not trying to be rude, but he's too fruity. Like he's, he doesn't count. Like, I think someone like Beto was maybe like a better, more masculine choice race. But James Talarico is also just too kooky with his beliefs. Gavin Newsom, he's got a villain aura. That's probably not going to happen. Pete Buddha, judge. I actually think he's manlier than James Talarico, so maybe that'll work. I think it's probably going to be someone like Andy Beshear. And honestly, probably smart Republicans do this really dumb thing sometimes where they're like, oh, I know how we're going to win over the moderates. We're going to have like non binary astronaut. I don't. Immigrant. I don't know. And we're going to try to run them and we're going to be able to get some victim points and get some moderates. And then the Democrats are like, I'm going to run this straight white Christian guy. And of course the Democrat ends up winning. Come on, guys, just get someone normal. Just get someone normal. And Democrats have figured that out and Republicans should as well. All right, we got through all of it and I wanted to do this in under an hour, but it was just impossible. But hopefully you enjoyed this. We'll be back here on Friday with an awesome interview. Then that bonus segment with Wes on Saturday, and we will see you guys then. Sa.