WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.271 --> 00:00:00.971 That's it. 2 00:00:01.872 --> 00:00:02.712 The elections. 3 00:00:04.113 --> 00:00:05.253 Registering to vote. 4 00:00:06.393 --> 00:00:06.834 Voting. 5 00:00:07.714 --> 00:00:12.156 Taking the time to find out about the initiatives and the propositions and the candidates. 6 00:00:12.376 --> 00:00:12.796 That's it. 7 00:00:13.256 --> 00:00:13.816 I quit. 8 00:00:14.357 --> 00:00:15.777 I give up. 9 00:00:16.057 --> 00:00:17.958 It's not of God's interest. 10 00:00:18.538 --> 00:00:21.959 There's no reason why we should be involved. 11 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:23.940 Tucker Carlson's correct. 12 00:00:24.661 --> 00:00:27.762 Candace Owens turned out to be a prophet. 13 00:00:29.040 --> 00:00:31.762 And it's all over. 14 00:00:33.103 --> 00:00:36.946 That's the kind of stuff I'm hearing from people. 15 00:00:37.206 --> 00:00:40.488 And it may be the way that you feel. 16 00:00:41.649 --> 00:00:42.069 I don't know. 17 00:00:42.429 --> 00:00:53.277 But I do know this, that all of us are exposed and subject to what is reality and what is non-reality. 18 00:00:54.037 --> 00:00:54.958 And let's remember this. 19 00:00:55.970 --> 00:01:03.252 Reality is oftentimes much less dramatic than non-reality. 20 00:01:03.653 --> 00:01:13.516 Non-reality is most often overly hyped, overly enthusiastic, overly depressing. 21 00:01:14.688 --> 00:01:21.492 Because it is rooted and grounded in this thing that we have as humans, and that is our emotions. 22 00:01:22.473 --> 00:01:26.655 And emotions play tricks on us versus reality. 23 00:01:26.695 --> 00:01:32.359 We must always bring our emotions under the preview of reality. 24 00:01:32.519 --> 00:01:35.561 And where do we as believers get our reality? 25 00:01:37.018 --> 00:01:55.584 How do we function when we bury our six-year-old child or the husband or wife walks out or we lose that job that we just wound up buying that new house and banking on having this career and the career of that, what do we do? 26 00:01:56.344 --> 00:01:56.944 What happens? 27 00:01:57.104 --> 00:02:00.105 Or an election doesn't go the way that you want it to go. 28 00:02:00.265 --> 00:02:00.826 What do you do? 29 00:02:00.966 --> 00:02:02.446 Oh my goodness, wait a minute. 30 00:02:03.166 --> 00:02:04.467 The reality is this. 31 00:02:05.168 --> 00:02:07.729 that God knows exactly what he's doing. 32 00:02:09.250 --> 00:02:14.933 And yet, listen, God's will is done not sometimes. 33 00:02:16.374 --> 00:02:19.815 God's will is not done most of the time. 34 00:02:21.576 --> 00:02:23.557 God's will is done all the time. 35 00:02:24.718 --> 00:02:33.062 And as believers, this is where you and I must divorce ourselves from the non-reality of things and understand this, that 36 00:02:34.575 --> 00:02:36.336 The Lord is enthroned in heaven above. 37 00:02:37.557 --> 00:02:41.619 The Lord looks down upon the children of men and he sees all their ways. 38 00:02:42.860 --> 00:02:45.601 The scripture says there's nothing hidden from his eyes. 39 00:02:47.202 --> 00:02:55.247 That we will all stand before God and give an account, which implies that he knows not only everything that we do, but everything that we think. 40 00:02:55.807 --> 00:02:56.788 He knows our motives. 41 00:02:58.289 --> 00:03:02.371 And so that's the reality that answers the non-reality. 42 00:03:03.300 --> 00:03:05.882 Because people are thinking, well, that's it. 43 00:03:06.342 --> 00:03:08.724 I'm even going to take a break from being a Christian. 44 00:03:09.324 --> 00:03:10.105 Are you kidding me? 45 00:03:10.385 --> 00:03:12.987 First of all, no Christian can think like that. 46 00:03:13.007 --> 00:03:14.928 Okay? 47 00:03:15.148 --> 00:03:18.471 We don't have the privilege to think that way, nor the freedom. 48 00:03:19.371 --> 00:03:20.432 We are God's people. 49 00:03:20.752 --> 00:03:23.814 You might be tempted with that thought, but how quick does it take? 50 00:03:24.375 --> 00:03:28.297 How quick does it take the Holy Spirit to say, uh-uh-uh? 51 00:03:29.938 --> 00:03:30.939 What are you doing thinking like that? 52 00:03:31.059 --> 00:03:31.540 Repent now? 53 00:03:31.560 --> 00:03:31.780 Repent now? 54 00:03:32.986 --> 00:03:33.607 of that thought. 55 00:03:34.187 --> 00:03:37.029 I'm telling you, in my life, it's nanoseconds. 56 00:03:37.750 --> 00:03:38.891 I'm sure it's true in your life. 57 00:03:39.832 --> 00:03:51.762 Listen, believer, the truth of the matter is this, that in all of life's situations, what you and I feel like is the worst thing that could have ever happened. 58 00:03:53.363 --> 00:03:56.686 How do we reconcile that God has always known everything? 59 00:03:56.726 --> 00:03:59.969 He doesn't learn anything, He cannot learn, He's aware of all. 60 00:04:01.353 --> 00:04:03.335 So where's the disconnect? 61 00:04:04.175 --> 00:04:08.719 The disconnect comes with you and with me not walking in faith. 62 00:04:11.081 --> 00:04:12.102 So think about this for a moment. 63 00:04:12.142 --> 00:04:18.667 There's a movement of or a flavor of those who call themselves believers. 64 00:04:18.727 --> 00:04:21.530 I say that a little cautiously. 65 00:04:21.890 --> 00:04:30.077 I'm sure there's believers that are caught up into this mess I'm about to speak of, but I'm sure there's a lot of non-believers that are messed up in it. 66 00:04:31.373 --> 00:04:34.195 And that is, well, God wants me rich. 67 00:04:34.996 --> 00:04:36.817 God wants me driving a Ferrari. 68 00:04:37.118 --> 00:04:40.300 God wants me living at the beach in a mansion. 69 00:04:40.740 --> 00:04:43.402 God wants me to have a private jet. 70 00:04:43.503 --> 00:04:46.845 God wants me to never whatever. 71 00:04:47.145 --> 00:04:47.546 You got it? 72 00:04:48.690 --> 00:04:49.011 Really? 73 00:04:49.311 --> 00:04:51.074 That's what God's Word says? 74 00:04:51.495 --> 00:04:51.775 You know? 75 00:04:52.116 --> 00:04:52.516 Claim it? 76 00:04:52.817 --> 00:04:53.197 What's the... 77 00:04:53.438 --> 00:04:56.783 I put the word-faith movement type of thing. 78 00:04:57.725 --> 00:05:01.952 I just reduced it down to blab it and grab it theology. 79 00:05:02.673 --> 00:05:03.294 Well, listen. 80 00:05:04.570 --> 00:05:12.316 If that's true, then God becomes our servant and we become the puppeteer of the puppet who is God. 81 00:05:12.436 --> 00:05:13.777 God, you must do what I want. 82 00:05:14.277 --> 00:05:15.918 God, you must do what I desire. 83 00:05:16.418 --> 00:05:19.781 God, my will be done and you're the one that's going to carry it out. 84 00:05:20.201 --> 00:05:21.202 Okay, that's insane. 85 00:05:21.862 --> 00:05:28.387 And it might, I'm sure, probably is, I think it is satanic doctrine. 86 00:05:28.407 --> 00:05:28.527 Okay. 87 00:05:29.932 --> 00:05:42.884 And so is it when we begin to entertain thoughts that cause us to say things like, or think things like, did God really say that this would go on in life? 88 00:05:43.024 --> 00:05:45.587 Or did God really promise that he would be with me? 89 00:05:46.508 --> 00:05:47.749 Or because I'm not feeling it. 90 00:05:49.468 --> 00:06:02.177 Friends, your feelings are going to rob you every single time because feelings, though, listen, God, imagine when God created Adam and Eve, they were perfect and they had perfect feelings. 91 00:06:03.278 --> 00:06:06.300 But since the fall, you and I have imperfect feelings. 92 00:06:06.841 --> 00:06:11.104 The whole thing's been jumbled up and short-circuited. 93 00:06:11.524 --> 00:06:14.847 The wiring has been short-circuited and we live in a fallen world. 94 00:06:15.816 --> 00:06:34.128 And only the Bible, only the Word of God, when you read it, can get you back in connection and bring all of your emotions and thoughts and fears and anxieties, no matter what the issue might be, back into not only the reality of God's Word, but I'll tell you right now. 95 00:06:36.269 --> 00:06:43.674 On this day, recording this with you right now, just hours ago, 96 00:06:45.151 --> 00:06:53.079 I woke up, and you know when you're kind of awake and kind of not, that weird zone of waking up in the morning? 97 00:06:54.380 --> 00:07:07.033 And my mind was, this is the first morning waking up after the elections in the U.S. that didn't go the way I wanted them to go. 98 00:07:08.139 --> 00:07:11.041 But the thought was in my mind like, oh, that was a dream, right? 99 00:07:11.442 --> 00:07:13.283 That was a bad dream, right? 100 00:07:13.904 --> 00:07:15.585 And so then I realized that I'm awake. 101 00:07:15.845 --> 00:07:17.647 Hey, that's no bad dream. 102 00:07:17.967 --> 00:07:19.028 It's just bad. 103 00:07:19.628 --> 00:07:20.369 That was my thought. 104 00:07:21.049 --> 00:07:26.894 And then in a nanosecond of time, I sensed the Lord say what he always says. 105 00:07:28.435 --> 00:07:30.437 You need my word now. 106 00:07:30.997 --> 00:07:31.538 Stat. 107 00:07:32.258 --> 00:07:33.639 Bible, stat. 108 00:07:33.659 --> 00:07:33.780 Stat. 109 00:07:34.501 --> 00:07:36.025 Jack, go do it. 110 00:07:36.346 --> 00:07:37.850 Now, I'm old enough to have to do this. 111 00:07:38.011 --> 00:07:39.455 I went and got a cup of coffee. 112 00:07:40.458 --> 00:07:56.410 So I'd make sure I'm really awake, sat down, opened up my Bible, and I read 20 different verses or passages of Scripture that totally began to change my mind, attitude, my spirit, and how I see things. 113 00:07:56.750 --> 00:07:57.651 What happened? 114 00:07:58.051 --> 00:08:00.453 It's like going to a chiropractor. 115 00:08:00.493 --> 00:08:02.495 Now, not everybody's fans of chiropractors. 116 00:08:02.635 --> 00:08:06.598 I've had nothing but great experiences with chiropractors for 40 years. 117 00:08:07.398 --> 00:08:22.902 What happens when something's out and you're hurting and you go and you get, you know, they kind of massage your neck and your shoulder and then he kind of loosens things up and then quark and then it's like, oh, instant relief. 118 00:08:23.302 --> 00:08:25.803 And you're sitting, you're able to sit up straight. 119 00:08:26.503 --> 00:08:32.585 It's the only doctor I'm aware of where you go in feeling bad and you walk out immediately feeling different, except Dr. Jesus. 120 00:08:33.330 --> 00:08:42.817 You can go in to see Dr. Jesus, look at a visit in the Bible in your living room or in the backyard. 121 00:08:44.398 --> 00:08:47.520 And you get an adjustment from Dr. Jesus in the word. 122 00:08:48.741 --> 00:08:49.921 And there's a transformation. 123 00:08:50.242 --> 00:08:51.002 You can't buy that. 124 00:08:51.282 --> 00:08:53.644 Folks, listen, I could not have taken a pill. 125 00:08:54.344 --> 00:08:57.787 Pfizer, Merck, none of them make a pill. 126 00:08:58.917 --> 00:09:04.081 that I could have popped, that could have caused biblical truth to be enlightened in my mind. 127 00:09:05.662 --> 00:09:13.667 But I opened the Bible, everything got snapped back into alignment, and the elections are God's business. 128 00:09:14.148 --> 00:09:15.128 I know what I'm supposed to do. 129 00:09:15.629 --> 00:09:18.891 I'm supposed to keep doing what I'm supposed to be doing. 130 00:09:20.112 --> 00:09:22.313 I don't have the permission from God to quit. 131 00:09:23.294 --> 00:09:24.475 I am not allowed to give up. 132 00:09:25.642 --> 00:09:26.542 I'm his servant. 133 00:09:27.123 --> 00:09:28.223 He's my master. 134 00:09:29.123 --> 00:09:30.103 I am the follower. 135 00:09:30.504 --> 00:09:31.424 He is the Lord. 136 00:09:32.184 --> 00:09:33.385 He's got the answers. 137 00:09:34.165 --> 00:09:36.065 I only feel like I have the answers. 138 00:09:37.646 --> 00:09:53.031 So what we're gonna do right now with the remaining time that we have left is I'm gonna throw a switch here in a moment and we're gonna jump on over and meet up with my battle buddy, my spiritual battle buddy and friend, Tony Perkins. 139 00:09:53.875 --> 00:09:55.056 So let's dive into that. 140 00:09:55.497 --> 00:10:01.644 So, Tony, this is the real reason why I wanted you and I to talk in this post-election moment. 141 00:10:02.825 --> 00:10:04.326 Let's just talk candidly. 142 00:10:04.366 --> 00:10:10.213 I mean, most of our audience, both your platform, my platform, are believers, and— 143 00:10:12.045 --> 00:10:13.345 What is your takeaway? 144 00:10:13.385 --> 00:10:17.206 I know that's been the big question by everybody asking everybody, what's the takeaway? 145 00:10:17.246 --> 00:10:20.047 But Tony, let's be a little bit candid. 146 00:10:20.127 --> 00:10:22.768 Let's get into the cathartic part of this as believers. 147 00:10:24.508 --> 00:10:25.309 What are you thinking? 148 00:10:25.369 --> 00:10:26.549 What are you discerning? 149 00:10:26.569 --> 00:10:28.169 I'm not even going to ask you what you're feeling. 150 00:10:28.850 --> 00:10:29.830 What are you discerning? 151 00:10:31.488 --> 00:10:33.009 Yeah, don't ask me what I'm feeling. 152 00:10:33.029 --> 00:10:34.470 Feelings don't matter at this point. 153 00:10:34.590 --> 00:10:35.051 That's right. 154 00:10:35.611 --> 00:10:37.452 You know, it's a good question. 155 00:10:37.573 --> 00:10:42.996 It's one that we should be thoughtful about and meditating about. 156 00:10:43.076 --> 00:10:51.502 I went to bed late last night and then got up early, was in prayer, praying, thinking, reading the Scripture. 157 00:10:52.763 --> 00:11:01.557 And one thing I don't want to hear, and I don't like this, it's one of those pet peeves I have, is that when people say this and this happened, but God's in control. 158 00:11:01.878 --> 00:11:04.462 Well, you know, God was in control of Sodom and Gomorrah. 159 00:11:04.502 --> 00:11:05.063 That's right. 160 00:11:05.203 --> 00:11:07.527 It was the choices that people made. 161 00:11:08.027 --> 00:11:10.869 that led to the activity in Sodom and Gomorrah. 162 00:11:10.889 --> 00:11:13.191 So the question here is not God is in control. 163 00:11:13.211 --> 00:11:13.992 He's always in control. 164 00:11:14.012 --> 00:11:16.033 He's the creator and the sustainer of all that is. 165 00:11:16.574 --> 00:11:23.619 The issue is, are we in alignment with God so that the blessing of God and the protection of God can be upon our nation? 166 00:11:23.999 --> 00:11:26.201 I think the answer to that is resoundingly no. 167 00:11:27.782 --> 00:11:28.923 I'm just going to be very frank. 168 00:11:29.543 --> 00:11:30.103 I don't think it is. 169 00:11:30.123 --> 00:11:31.824 I don't think our nation is where it needs to be. 170 00:11:31.844 --> 00:11:35.385 I think what we saw last night is a couple of things. 171 00:11:35.405 --> 00:11:38.527 So there's many, many things that I'm processing as I go through this. 172 00:11:38.547 --> 00:11:40.167 But I'll just start with one. 173 00:11:41.668 --> 00:11:44.109 So I was a part of the platform committee two years ago. 174 00:11:44.169 --> 00:11:51.852 You know that I had a fight with the campaign, with the Trump campaign, over stripping out the life issues, stripping out the definition of marriage. 175 00:11:52.692 --> 00:11:56.354 Basically, everything we stand for was taken out of the party platform. 176 00:11:57.447 --> 00:12:01.130 Now, I've lost policy debates before. 177 00:12:01.150 --> 00:12:03.131 I've been involved in this process for 30 years. 178 00:12:03.791 --> 00:12:04.812 But that wasn't the issue. 179 00:12:04.832 --> 00:12:06.033 The issue was how it was done. 180 00:12:06.073 --> 00:12:07.354 It was basically railroaded. 181 00:12:07.794 --> 00:12:12.998 Now, that happened at the same time the president was – there was an attempt to assassinate him when he was a candidate. 182 00:12:13.018 --> 00:12:15.360 So that conversation kind of stopped. 183 00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:22.124 But I've raised it from time to time when we look at the fact that abortion rates in this country are up 21 percent since the overturn of Roe. 184 00:12:22.144 --> 00:12:22.605 That's right. 185 00:12:23.405 --> 00:12:24.265 How is that happening? 186 00:12:24.465 --> 00:12:36.268 It's happening because we have a policy by the Trump FDA that has remained in place, was started by Biden, but it still remains in place, that allows every mailbox in America to be turned into a delivery system for an abortion. 187 00:12:36.428 --> 00:12:36.889 That's right. 188 00:12:36.949 --> 00:12:39.469 So, you know, I've raised those issues. 189 00:12:39.549 --> 00:12:41.490 And I tell you, one of the first things I— 190 00:12:42.760 --> 00:12:55.671 since this morning is that the american people were very frustrated with not necessarily all the policies but the way in which this administration has gone about implementing those policies and and let me explain 191 00:12:56.797 --> 00:12:57.858 Let me use a biblical reference. 192 00:12:58.839 --> 00:12:59.619 Solomon's son. 193 00:12:59.999 --> 00:13:02.962 You remember when he became king, Rehoboam? 194 00:13:03.242 --> 00:13:03.402 Yep. 195 00:13:03.862 --> 00:13:04.102 Wow. 196 00:13:05.183 --> 00:13:06.904 Remember the advisors that came to him? 197 00:13:07.065 --> 00:13:14.770 You know, he talked to the old guys and said, you know, if you just listen to the people, if you listen to the people, they'll serve you forever. 198 00:13:16.492 --> 00:13:22.136 What was it that Solomon prayed for when he asked for a heart of wisdom? 199 00:13:22.496 --> 00:13:25.598 You know what the Hebrew word there means, just a listening heart. 200 00:13:25.758 --> 00:13:26.219 Yes, yes. 201 00:13:28.693 --> 00:13:32.956 There is, and so I'm mixing a lot of stuff here, but I'm trying to get very quickly to the point. 202 00:13:33.496 --> 00:13:35.818 When I was in the anti-terrorist business, there's one thing. 203 00:13:35.838 --> 00:13:37.819 I went through this one course, terrorist analysis. 204 00:13:37.859 --> 00:13:43.262 And I remember one thing that was presented in that course, and I remember because I've actually incorporated it into my own teaching. 205 00:13:43.302 --> 00:13:51.388 It's the theory of change where the superstructure has to be in alignment with the substructure. 206 00:13:52.408 --> 00:13:55.831 And if it gets too far out of whack, it creates revolt, revolution. 207 00:13:57.035 --> 00:13:58.435 or it creates this friction. 208 00:13:59.136 --> 00:14:07.898 And the issue is the president pursued a lot of good policies, but he did not bring people along. 209 00:14:08.278 --> 00:14:14.760 I mean, you heard this even recently when people are saying, you know, the gas prices, you know, and the president, I don't care about the gas prices. 210 00:14:15.320 --> 00:14:16.240 Well, a lot of people do. 211 00:14:16.900 --> 00:14:17.340 That's right. 212 00:14:18.261 --> 00:14:23.042 I feel like what I saw as I looked at the election results is what I've, 213 00:14:23.722 --> 00:14:31.070 My team and I felt after we went through that party platform process two years ago where we were railroaded. 214 00:14:31.230 --> 00:14:33.292 It wasn't – the process was ignored. 215 00:14:33.693 --> 00:14:36.296 The laws, the rules were ignored. 216 00:14:36.836 --> 00:14:43.524 And I think many people are frustrated with what they've seen, not that they disagree with all the policies, but it's just how it's gone about. 217 00:14:43.564 --> 00:14:44.284 The president – 218 00:14:44.965 --> 00:14:52.912 Like Rehoboam didn't listen to the people and didn't bring the people along with the policy initiatives that he wanted. 219 00:14:52.952 --> 00:14:59.518 And so I think what it's I don't think it's a change in our country that we've become a leftist leaning country. 220 00:14:59.938 --> 00:15:09.807 I just think it was a result of frustration that a lot of conservatives didn't vote and a lot of liberals turned out in large numbers to vote. 221 00:15:10.058 --> 00:15:11.218 Yeah, yeah, absolutely. 222 00:15:11.638 --> 00:15:25.862 I told you this before, but way back in 2016 when Trump was first elected, in California, we've never had any effect whatsoever of Trump being president over California. 223 00:15:26.002 --> 00:15:27.603 I mean, we've been suffering under the... 224 00:15:28.363 --> 00:15:42.290 the yoke of this Newsom government in California to where even when there were some victories on the national scale, California would just wholesale reject those victories. 225 00:15:42.350 --> 00:15:44.551 And I'm citing, number one, the Hobby Lobby. 226 00:15:44.571 --> 00:15:45.432 Remember that? 227 00:15:45.472 --> 00:15:49.354 The Hobby Lobby victory regarding abortion and all of that. 228 00:15:49.394 --> 00:15:50.514 California blew that off. 229 00:15:50.614 --> 00:15:57.538 California, our attorney general determined that the Supreme Court was unconstitutional in their decision making. 230 00:15:58.158 --> 00:16:05.842 So for us, we've never had the influences of a Trump, the upside of a Trump's administration here. 231 00:16:06.383 --> 00:16:17.489 So maybe Californians are feeling less pain than the rest of the nation because, again, we've never had any resemblance of that kind of victory. 232 00:16:17.729 --> 00:16:18.450 That said... 233 00:16:19.904 --> 00:16:25.487 Tony, just biblically speaking as believers, I love what you said a moment ago. 234 00:16:25.507 --> 00:16:31.169 And let's kind of talk about that some more because people need to get this into their heart right now as believers. 235 00:16:31.850 --> 00:16:32.870 Well, I prayed. 236 00:16:32.930 --> 00:16:34.091 I went door to door. 237 00:16:34.111 --> 00:16:35.311 I served. 238 00:16:35.331 --> 00:16:38.593 This is my first campaign I was ever involved in and we lost. 239 00:16:38.713 --> 00:16:40.374 Why ever get involved again? 240 00:16:40.394 --> 00:16:42.955 I thought God's will was going to be done. 241 00:16:43.175 --> 00:16:44.216 Wait a minute. 242 00:16:45.048 --> 00:16:46.368 This is God's will. 243 00:16:46.448 --> 00:16:49.929 God doesn't need us to pull off his will. 244 00:16:50.250 --> 00:16:53.150 He's invited us to be involved in what he's doing. 245 00:16:53.911 --> 00:16:55.791 But God's will will be done. 246 00:16:56.331 --> 00:17:00.953 But he, what you said earlier, the Lord brings us along in this. 247 00:17:00.973 --> 00:17:03.213 He invites us to be in the battle. 248 00:17:03.753 --> 00:17:07.675 And clearly, many believers were not engaged in the battle. 249 00:17:07.715 --> 00:17:08.535 But that said, 250 00:17:11.012 --> 00:17:13.115 heaven right now is not wringing its hands. 251 00:17:13.255 --> 00:17:17.981 God is not wiping his brow and sweating it out as to how this is going to go. 252 00:17:18.521 --> 00:17:25.990 He knew before time ever began that at such a moment as this, this would be that result of, 253 00:17:26.771 --> 00:17:28.732 God's will has been done. 254 00:17:28.912 --> 00:17:38.414 The question that we should be asking ourselves rather than complaining or feeling, what, sorry for ourselves, is what is God saying to us right now? 255 00:17:38.494 --> 00:17:50.097 Because prophetically speaking, I'm not going to, I won't give you a name on camera right now, but somebody texted me early this morning and said, what do you make of all this? 256 00:17:51.261 --> 00:17:52.422 It was a believer, by the way. 257 00:17:52.863 --> 00:17:55.305 And so I text back and I said, well, you know what? 258 00:17:55.866 --> 00:18:08.738 It makes a lot of sense to me prophetically that if we are on the brink of an Ezekiel 38 battle, and if we are really believing in the last days, Jesus said there'd be days like this. 259 00:18:09.299 --> 00:18:13.723 We understand Bible prophecy to reveal that America is not... 260 00:18:14.524 --> 00:18:18.247 seen in Bible prophecy, but this is the sobering observation. 261 00:18:18.647 --> 00:18:25.553 The Ezekiel 38 battle described in Ezekiel chapter 38 mentions Iran, Persia. 262 00:18:26.634 --> 00:18:30.817 And right now, we have been, Tony, you've got this better than I do. 263 00:18:30.897 --> 00:18:33.740 We've been at war with Persia, with Iran for how long? 264 00:18:34.520 --> 00:18:36.962 And it's not over yet. 265 00:18:37.362 --> 00:18:43.847 And yet two times at least, two times Israel was on the brink of settling that situation. 266 00:18:44.108 --> 00:18:46.209 And we stopped them from advancing. 267 00:18:46.890 --> 00:18:49.091 And here we are, Tony, and it pains me to say this. 268 00:18:49.452 --> 00:18:52.254 The United States has not won a war since 1945. 269 00:18:52.274 --> 00:18:52.434 Right. 270 00:18:54.867 --> 00:18:55.568 And it's so true. 271 00:18:56.809 --> 00:19:09.479 In fact, the vice president earlier today giving four reasons why he felt that the Republicans lost the election, one of them was the Iran war and number four on the list was our relationship with Israel. 272 00:19:11.120 --> 00:19:17.407 So I don't think we lost – the Republicans lost the election because of the Iran war. 273 00:19:17.827 --> 00:19:24.894 I think it was how they've executed or not executed the war with Iran because it goes back to what you just said. 274 00:19:25.455 --> 00:19:30.640 And I know the difference because I've worked alongside the Israelis back when I was in the anti-terrorist business. 275 00:19:30.660 --> 00:19:31.000 That's right. 276 00:19:32.001 --> 00:19:35.785 We in the West, we work to contain our enemy. 277 00:19:36.186 --> 00:19:37.347 They work to eliminate them. 278 00:19:37.487 --> 00:19:38.328 Yes. 279 00:19:38.668 --> 00:19:40.390 There's a big difference between the two. 280 00:19:40.450 --> 00:19:42.752 And so when you contain your enemy, you never really win. 281 00:19:43.693 --> 00:19:45.975 And that's what we're doing in Iran. 282 00:19:45.995 --> 00:19:49.559 We're off again, on again, off again, on again, off again, on again. 283 00:19:49.919 --> 00:19:55.505 I think if the American people, you just would have went ahead and eliminated the threat, taking care of their nuclear threat. 284 00:19:56.085 --> 00:19:56.785 And moved on. 285 00:19:57.186 --> 00:19:58.946 I think the American people would have been fine. 286 00:19:58.986 --> 00:20:05.789 But this vacillating back and forth is what has drawn this out, and it's frustrated the American people. 287 00:20:06.210 --> 00:20:06.530 Yeah. 288 00:20:07.190 --> 00:20:13.513 Well, Tony, so what are your words to those who are right now feeling— 289 00:20:14.865 --> 00:20:17.407 They're feeling, let me underline the word feeling. 290 00:20:17.467 --> 00:20:20.570 They're feeling like God didn't come through for them. 291 00:20:20.710 --> 00:20:24.713 They're feeling like, why ever get involved again? 292 00:20:24.733 --> 00:20:35.963 I mean, I understand the feeling of that, but I also understand that that's very warped and it's a very ill way of thinking when you put it up against the reality of Scripture. 293 00:20:36.003 --> 00:20:37.184 Tony, what would you say to that person? 294 00:20:37.967 --> 00:20:45.929 Well, Jack, I don't know if it's coming through on the screen, but, you know, not as pronounced as you, but I've got some white hair in here, okay? 295 00:20:46.249 --> 00:20:52.731 I've got some, you know, it's— Well, Tony, luckily for you, my eyes are so failing now at my age. 296 00:20:52.791 --> 00:20:53.751 You look beautiful. 297 00:20:53.771 --> 00:20:54.371 You look like you're 19. 298 00:20:54.411 --> 00:20:57.012 Okay, well, maybe you can see the receding hairline. 299 00:20:57.032 --> 00:20:59.812 You know, what do you call a line of rabbits walking backwards? 300 00:20:59.872 --> 00:21:00.773 A receding hairline. 301 00:21:01.113 --> 00:21:01.333 So— 302 00:21:02.373 --> 00:21:05.596 The point is I've been around a while, OK? 303 00:21:06.276 --> 00:21:12.221 In fact, I was sharing this as we were covering the election last night with my co-host. 304 00:21:12.241 --> 00:21:24.151 I remember the first election night live coverage I did as a reporter back in 1992 when George Bush was defeated for a second term by Bill Clinton. 305 00:21:24.971 --> 00:21:32.913 And I remember my father, who's now with the Lord, he called afterwards, he said, boy, you sure can't hide your feelings. 306 00:21:32.973 --> 00:21:36.334 It was all over your face, the disappointment that you had in that election. 307 00:21:37.314 --> 00:21:44.456 And so God does not structure his kingdom based upon election cycles, okay? 308 00:21:44.476 --> 00:21:49.197 God's timeline is not based upon the election cycles of America. 309 00:21:49.257 --> 00:21:52.358 He's not even, I mean, doesn't even factor in. 310 00:21:53.810 --> 00:21:57.633 God is looking from eternity to eternity. 311 00:21:58.494 --> 00:22:02.017 Our perspective, number one, needs to be eternal, okay? 312 00:22:02.797 --> 00:22:06.300 We should view all of this stuff in the light of eternity. 313 00:22:06.620 --> 00:22:17.028 Our engagement in the political process is, yes, it's in a temporal activity, but our goal is to have results into eternity. 314 00:22:17.048 --> 00:22:17.189 Amen. 315 00:22:17.209 --> 00:22:17.549 Amen. 316 00:22:18.910 --> 00:22:21.191 That's why Jesus said lay up treasure in heaven. 317 00:22:21.211 --> 00:22:21.291 Yes. 318 00:22:21.391 --> 00:22:21.911 All right? 319 00:22:22.272 --> 00:22:29.435 It's not like you've got some kind of bank account that you're able to send money to heaven like you can Venmo heaven with money. 320 00:22:29.816 --> 00:22:34.999 It is what we're doing here that has residual into heaven. 321 00:22:36.079 --> 00:22:42.200 David, when David said, Lord, he prayed, let me live because I can't praise you in the grave. 322 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:45.381 Well, we know that they're going to be around the throne of God in heaven praising him. 323 00:22:45.401 --> 00:22:48.502 So it wasn't a matter of being able to worship God. 324 00:22:48.522 --> 00:22:49.722 We're going to do that in heaven. 325 00:22:50.082 --> 00:22:52.582 It was the issue of affecting eternity. 326 00:22:52.862 --> 00:22:54.383 We can only do that in this life. 327 00:22:54.803 --> 00:22:58.284 And we do that by how we engage faithfully before God. 328 00:22:58.964 --> 00:23:01.464 And so first off, we have to have that eternal perspective. 329 00:23:01.484 --> 00:23:05.185 What we need to do is evaluate all that we're doing in light of eternity. 330 00:23:05.785 --> 00:23:13.772 And then secondly, we need to get away from evaluating success based upon election cycle. 331 00:23:14.052 --> 00:23:17.495 We need to be thinking biblically when it talks about generational. 332 00:23:17.936 --> 00:23:25.743 What are we doing generationally to impact our country, our community, our church, our family? 333 00:23:25.843 --> 00:23:31.048 And when we do that, when we start having that longer perspective on things— 334 00:23:31.728 --> 00:23:38.033 We are sustained in the moments in which we have setbacks like we saw in this election. 335 00:23:38.453 --> 00:23:40.135 It doesn't turn our world upside down. 336 00:23:40.295 --> 00:23:41.616 Is it a speed bump? 337 00:23:41.816 --> 00:23:43.017 Is it problematic? 338 00:23:43.077 --> 00:23:43.818 Yes, it is. 339 00:23:44.338 --> 00:23:46.320 But we view it in light of eternity. 340 00:23:46.660 --> 00:23:50.223 We view it in light of the generational impact that we're seeking to have. 341 00:23:50.803 --> 00:23:55.845 Well, you know, what you just said reminded me of there's a book out there. 342 00:23:55.865 --> 00:23:59.206 I haven't finished it, but I've read parts of it. 343 00:23:59.326 --> 00:24:02.987 And that is a book titled The 100 Year Marathon. 344 00:24:03.727 --> 00:24:05.588 It's OK. Are you familiar with that? 345 00:24:05.668 --> 00:24:08.429 It's regarding China's world view. 346 00:24:08.889 --> 00:24:09.169 OK. 347 00:24:09.449 --> 00:24:15.251 So you know, and the audience needs to know that they look at China looks at 100 year increments 348 00:24:16.298 --> 00:24:24.046 So for them, their sight is set on what to them would be the eternal perspective, 100 years for them. 349 00:24:24.566 --> 00:24:29.030 You know, there's another group of people that do the exact same thing, and that is the Islamicists. 350 00:24:29.931 --> 00:24:33.315 They look at generational goals and... 351 00:24:34.283 --> 00:24:47.846 Years ago, Bob McEwen, Congressman Bob McEwen said that Republicans fight until, Democrats fight until they win and Republicans fight until they lose. 352 00:24:48.486 --> 00:24:52.107 But back away from that, regarding our Christianity, think about this for a moment. 353 00:24:53.468 --> 00:25:03.130 I think, Tony, because of a lack of Bible teaching, we've got Christians in the West living in the moment for the moment with a very, very short 354 00:25:04.332 --> 00:25:06.455 Range view of eternity. 355 00:25:07.337 --> 00:25:09.900 They can't see very far because they're caught up in the moment. 356 00:25:10.381 --> 00:25:11.763 So they're not planning ahead. 357 00:25:12.364 --> 00:25:14.708 They almost live like an election cycle. 358 00:25:14.748 --> 00:25:19.415 They almost live on some sort of seasonal cycle as believers. 359 00:25:20.512 --> 00:25:23.355 Yeah, I mean, we've been thinking how we do business. 360 00:25:23.415 --> 00:25:26.197 I mean, business operates on quarterly returns. 361 00:25:26.397 --> 00:25:27.298 Quarterly returns. 362 00:25:28.359 --> 00:25:29.780 It's not long-term. 363 00:25:30.241 --> 00:25:33.904 I mean, they will sell the future to get a quick return now. 364 00:25:34.845 --> 00:25:42.492 So the question is, how do you live for Jesus in a microwave world where everything is instant, but we need to focus on the eternal? 365 00:25:42.952 --> 00:25:45.895 It goes back to what you just said a moment ago about Bible teaching. 366 00:25:46.515 --> 00:25:55.742 And believers need to be in the Word of God, abiding in that Word, because if you're not in the Word of God, you can't live out the Word of God. 367 00:25:55.783 --> 00:26:01.187 We can't speak prophetically to a culture, a word that we don't know ourselves and are not living. 368 00:26:01.653 --> 00:26:02.573 Wow, I love it. 369 00:26:02.593 --> 00:26:03.714 You know what? 370 00:26:04.034 --> 00:26:07.235 Before you and I went on the air, I just said, let's just be transparent. 371 00:26:07.275 --> 00:26:08.855 Let's just pretend nobody's watching. 372 00:26:09.715 --> 00:26:15.317 Listen, this morning, I'm assuming I woke up feeling like a lot of people. 373 00:26:15.417 --> 00:26:18.198 I woke up this morning feeling like last night was a dream. 374 00:26:18.878 --> 00:26:19.878 And then what did I do? 375 00:26:20.959 --> 00:26:26.980 I got a cup of coffee to make sure that I could be able to take in what I was about to do, which was read my Bible. 376 00:26:27.401 --> 00:26:28.421 And what did I do, Tony? 377 00:26:28.901 --> 00:26:30.542 I wound up reading, I marked them down. 378 00:26:30.562 --> 00:26:32.642 In fact, I'm going to use them tonight in service. 379 00:26:32.862 --> 00:26:39.824 I wrote down 20 scriptures from Deuteronomy to Revelation. 380 00:26:43.164 --> 00:26:49.027 And all of them are about strengthening yourself in the Lord, trusting in the Lord, looking to the Lord. 381 00:26:49.367 --> 00:26:52.228 When these times come, look to his throne. 382 00:26:52.828 --> 00:26:53.749 And what happened? 383 00:26:54.229 --> 00:26:55.209 It wasn't the coffee. 384 00:26:55.269 --> 00:26:57.350 There's no coffee that's strong enough to do this. 385 00:26:58.371 --> 00:27:04.153 I began to feel better in the sense that God has got this. 386 00:27:04.433 --> 00:27:07.114 In fact, then the thought came to me, wait a minute. 387 00:27:07.835 --> 00:27:11.436 It's not that he got it, like he just grabbed the situation. 388 00:27:11.636 --> 00:27:12.557 He's always had it. 389 00:27:13.588 --> 00:27:21.132 And now, hours after the election, I'm focused back on the Lord's business. 390 00:27:21.653 --> 00:27:23.534 We walk in the light of eternity. 391 00:27:23.814 --> 00:27:25.415 We put these things that are behind us. 392 00:27:25.435 --> 00:27:26.175 We learn from them. 393 00:27:26.195 --> 00:27:26.876 We press on. 394 00:27:27.236 --> 00:27:28.817 We keep fighting for our freedoms. 395 00:27:28.837 --> 00:27:29.737 This is America. 396 00:27:30.518 --> 00:27:32.139 And we hold the ground. 397 00:27:32.159 --> 00:27:33.620 We occupy till he comes. 398 00:27:34.240 --> 00:27:42.505 But look, I'm delighted that my citizenship is more precious to me now in heaven than it's ever been regarding here on earth. 399 00:27:43.385 --> 00:27:58.122 With that viewpoint of viewing things in light of eternity and God's Word, and especially when we're in God's Word, like right now in our Stand on the Word journey through the Bible, we're in the Kings, reading through the Kings, and I mean, it's a rollercoaster ride. 400 00:27:58.323 --> 00:27:58.763 Yeah. 401 00:27:59.584 --> 00:28:01.466 You know, it's up and down, it's up and down. 402 00:28:02.668 --> 00:28:03.428 Look... 403 00:28:04.930 --> 00:28:05.851 live in a fallen world. 404 00:28:06.131 --> 00:28:07.673 These things are going to happen. 405 00:28:07.713 --> 00:28:08.694 It's going to be disappointing. 406 00:28:08.714 --> 00:28:09.695 It's going to be discouraging. 407 00:28:09.715 --> 00:28:17.122 But we have to choose, as Paul said, be filled with the Spirit rather than wine, which is dissipation. 408 00:28:17.542 --> 00:28:20.345 So we have to choose what you just said you did this morning. 409 00:28:20.545 --> 00:28:22.587 Get up, get a cup of coffee, get in the Word of God. 410 00:28:22.687 --> 00:28:23.408 I actually got up. 411 00:28:24.249 --> 00:28:25.290 I keep a hymnal. 412 00:28:26.972 --> 00:28:28.453 in my room in DC. 413 00:28:28.753 --> 00:28:33.418 And so I pulled the hymnal out and I was singing, Mighty Fortress is our God. 414 00:28:33.898 --> 00:28:34.699 Wow. 415 00:28:35.360 --> 00:28:37.342 Because that is our fortress. 416 00:28:37.362 --> 00:28:38.322 That is our strength. 417 00:28:38.363 --> 00:28:39.424 That is our hope. 418 00:28:39.744 --> 00:28:40.565 Oh, that's so good. 419 00:28:40.585 --> 00:28:43.608 I had a time of prayer, time of reading the Word, 420 00:28:44.568 --> 00:28:52.850 And then I talked to our mutual friend, the speaker, and check in with him to see how he was doing. 421 00:28:52.910 --> 00:28:55.291 And he was doing well, too. 422 00:28:55.311 --> 00:28:57.491 I mean, he put it all on the field. 423 00:28:57.511 --> 00:28:58.151 He worked hard. 424 00:28:58.191 --> 00:28:58.771 Yes, he did. 425 00:28:58.791 --> 00:28:59.692 I commended him. 426 00:28:59.972 --> 00:29:00.612 Proud of him. 427 00:29:00.652 --> 00:29:01.412 I was of him. 428 00:29:03.052 --> 00:29:11.214 But when we do our part, okay, when we do our part, we can lay it down before the Lord and say, 429 00:29:14.195 --> 00:29:19.577 And we're just trusting you with the outcome and what you want to do. 430 00:29:20.317 --> 00:29:27.559 Jack, when I ran for the U.S. Senate back in 2002, I knew the Lord called me to run, and I ran. 431 00:29:27.999 --> 00:29:31.260 And I gave it everything I had, but I didn't win. 432 00:29:31.960 --> 00:29:34.321 Only political race I've ever lost. 433 00:29:35.101 --> 00:29:38.082 And I was so discouraged because I knew the Lord called me, and I thought, well— 434 00:29:39.106 --> 00:29:39.967 Why didn't I win? 435 00:29:39.987 --> 00:29:41.428 Right. 436 00:29:41.488 --> 00:29:42.369 And I remember this. 437 00:29:42.429 --> 00:29:49.054 I was saying, Lord, if you would have just shown up, if I would have just had a little bit more money, I could have won this race. 438 00:29:49.854 --> 00:29:51.576 And I went away, as I often do. 439 00:29:51.596 --> 00:29:57.180 I went away, and I just went away for like three days just to pray and to fast and just to hear the Lord. 440 00:29:57.640 --> 00:30:00.322 And I'll never forget, as I was praying... 441 00:30:01.295 --> 00:30:09.658 Holy Spirit led me to the passage where Jesus responded to Mary and Martha's call because Lazarus had died. 442 00:30:09.899 --> 00:30:10.199 Wow. 443 00:30:11.259 --> 00:30:17.962 And I remember reading where, you know, it was, I can't remember if Mary or Martha approached him first and said, if you would have just been here. 444 00:30:18.262 --> 00:30:18.762 Exactly. 445 00:30:19.602 --> 00:30:20.423 He wouldn't have died. 446 00:30:21.629 --> 00:30:24.011 And I thought, wow, that's just what I said. 447 00:30:24.631 --> 00:30:26.732 If you would have been here, I would have won. 448 00:30:28.294 --> 00:30:37.700 And then we go on to see that what they were looking for was a healing, but God had a resurrection prepared. 449 00:30:38.380 --> 00:30:39.061 Oh, man. 450 00:30:39.081 --> 00:30:47.527 So oftentimes what we see is a failure that we didn't get what we thought we needed or wanted because God didn't show up. 451 00:30:48.393 --> 00:30:50.954 is actually God has something bigger in store. 452 00:30:51.434 --> 00:31:03.719 And six months after that, I was approached by Dr. Dobson, the Family Research Council, to come to work to the Family Research Council, which wouldn't have happened had I not ran for the United States Senate. 453 00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:06.980 And to be honest, you won't say this, but I'll say it. 454 00:31:08.140 --> 00:31:12.302 That work by God in you and through you... 455 00:31:13.084 --> 00:31:28.217 resulted and continues to be resulting in you having a greater effect in this temporal world and in the world to come, far beyond what you would have had as a senator, far beyond. 456 00:31:28.978 --> 00:31:31.360 And so God obviously knew better. 457 00:31:31.600 --> 00:31:40.048 I just wanted people to be encouraged that as believers, and I love how you put that, it's like, God, if you would have been here, 458 00:31:42.069 --> 00:31:50.881 He's not only here, but we know theologically that His will was done in this election. 459 00:31:51.281 --> 00:31:58.992 I believe it is incumbent upon us to ask Him, Lord, what is it that you would have me to do in light of what you're doing? 460 00:32:01.104 --> 00:32:02.425 regarding this outcome. 461 00:32:03.126 --> 00:32:23.042 And I think, Tony, at the basic, the minimum would be, well, make sure you are rooted and grounded in your salvation in Christ Jesus, that you are getting your opinions and talking points and actions from the Word of God, 462 00:32:24.383 --> 00:32:30.649 that you, frankly, I think God is saying to the American Christian is grow up. 463 00:32:31.189 --> 00:32:33.111 And he's not saying it like in a mean way. 464 00:32:33.411 --> 00:32:41.038 He's saying, let's grow up and move on to more eternal things than this temporalness. 465 00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:46.165 Here's one thing I know, Jack, that the Lord does not want us to be anxious. 466 00:32:46.806 --> 00:32:50.731 He does not want us to be—and that's not saying that there's things that catch us off guard. 467 00:32:50.751 --> 00:32:52.994 I mean, I get things that get me upset. 468 00:32:53.354 --> 00:32:55.537 Yeah, the Rams do it to me every week. 469 00:32:55.717 --> 00:32:56.118 Yeah. 470 00:32:57.180 --> 00:32:58.442 It's temporal, okay? 471 00:32:59.283 --> 00:33:05.793 Because Jesus said when he was praying for his disciples, he said, you know, look, there's some bad times coming. 472 00:33:06.113 --> 00:33:06.334 Yeah. 473 00:33:06.634 --> 00:33:10.700 But I've told you this so that you'll have peace. 474 00:33:11.101 --> 00:33:11.361 Yeah. 475 00:33:12.463 --> 00:33:24.160 Even in the storms of life, the tumultuous times that unfold in the end times, which I believe that we are in or rapidly moving toward, that we'll have peace. 476 00:33:24.520 --> 00:33:26.023 And, of course, in Philippians. 477 00:33:27.064 --> 00:33:31.286 That we're to be anxious for nothing but by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving. 478 00:33:31.306 --> 00:33:32.806 With thanksgiving, yes. 479 00:33:32.886 --> 00:33:33.306 That's right. 480 00:33:33.747 --> 00:33:40.809 That means thankful even for the trials and the difficulties that we face because God is perfecting us through those. 481 00:33:40.849 --> 00:33:44.831 He's refining us and preparing us for his service. 482 00:33:44.871 --> 00:33:47.692 And what greater... What greater... 483 00:33:48.092 --> 00:33:52.153 What experience can we have in this life than to be used by God? 484 00:33:52.793 --> 00:33:58.035 I'm one of those, you know, when I was in high school and I played football, I was, you know, I could not stand to be on the bench. 485 00:33:58.335 --> 00:34:00.576 And I'm always asking God, put me in the game, God. 486 00:34:00.616 --> 00:34:01.876 Put me in the game. 487 00:34:01.916 --> 00:34:03.717 Don't lead me on the sidelines. 488 00:34:03.737 --> 00:34:04.577 Let me go both ways. 489 00:34:04.737 --> 00:34:06.258 I will play defense and offense. 490 00:34:06.278 --> 00:34:07.318 Put me in the game, God. 491 00:34:07.758 --> 00:34:15.621 And what a joy, what a joy to be a part of what God is doing, especially, especially at this moment. 492 00:34:15.801 --> 00:34:16.701 I believe like you do. 493 00:34:17.646 --> 00:34:27.729 that we are in those final days, and that this is probably one of the most significant times on the timeline of human history which God has entrusted to us. 494 00:34:28.549 --> 00:34:47.275 And I don't want to miss the opportunity to serve Him, to advance His kingdom, to bring glory to His name as Jesus brought glory and honor to the Father by being obedient to Him, even to the point that it looked like He had failed in His mission, but in that He succeeded in opening heaven for all of us. 495 00:34:47.495 --> 00:34:48.195 So good. 496 00:34:48.915 --> 00:34:52.016 I'm going to ask you this question, but I think you might have answered it. 497 00:34:52.136 --> 00:34:57.137 But let me just go out there with the closing moments that we have. 498 00:34:57.157 --> 00:34:58.517 I want to be sensitive of your time. 499 00:34:59.957 --> 00:35:09.919 Tony, answer the person, the Christian who is saying, I'm just, the world's too dark. 500 00:35:10.559 --> 00:35:11.799 It's just too hard. 501 00:35:13.379 --> 00:35:14.100 It's too tough. 502 00:35:14.820 --> 00:35:15.780 I'm just going to 503 00:35:17.787 --> 00:35:18.868 go sit on that bench. 504 00:35:19.168 --> 00:35:20.888 I'm just going to just wait it out. 505 00:35:22.849 --> 00:35:27.611 They're feeling, there's the word feeling again, they're feeling like why risk it all? 506 00:35:27.931 --> 00:35:28.631 What's the deal? 507 00:35:29.031 --> 00:35:31.372 I look like a fool, you know, whatever. 508 00:35:32.613 --> 00:35:43.377 What would you say to the person right now that's getting kind of swallowed up with some discouragement and that whispering voice is saying to them, yeah, you know what, you ought to just kind of 509 00:35:44.268 --> 00:35:46.193 Never go out on the limb again like that. 510 00:35:46.233 --> 00:35:47.256 Don't speak up. 511 00:35:48.038 --> 00:35:50.604 Don't get out on the front line. 512 00:35:50.644 --> 00:35:51.987 Look where it got you. 513 00:35:52.828 --> 00:35:53.108 Yeah. 514 00:35:53.529 --> 00:35:55.170 Well, they're listening to the wrong voices. 515 00:35:55.410 --> 00:36:04.199 I mean, I think of David when he went back to Ziglag and everything had been carried away and his men were ready to stone him. 516 00:36:04.219 --> 00:36:09.744 I mean, I can't think of a lower point, your wife, your kids, everything's gone. 517 00:36:09.764 --> 00:36:11.685 And what does it say he did? 518 00:36:11.726 --> 00:36:13.988 He strengthened himself in the Lord. 519 00:36:14.008 --> 00:36:14.128 Yeah. 520 00:36:15.484 --> 00:36:22.392 I can't give someone the words that would encourage them, depending on where they are, but I know somebody who can. 521 00:36:23.333 --> 00:36:28.039 And his name is Jesus Christ, and he operates through his word and through his Holy Spirit. 522 00:36:28.099 --> 00:36:32.145 And so I would encourage you, in those moments of discouragement... 523 00:36:32.585 --> 00:36:34.826 Number one, I would put on some praise music. 524 00:36:35.186 --> 00:36:38.248 I listen to praise music because I want to be... 525 00:36:38.268 --> 00:36:40.809 The Lord inhabits the praise of those people. 526 00:36:41.309 --> 00:36:46.291 And Jehoshaphat, as he went out to war, he had the singers praising God. 527 00:36:46.732 --> 00:36:53.955 And then open the Word of God and spend some time in the Word of God and allow the Word of God, which is a living... 528 00:36:54.924 --> 00:36:57.107 Word to speak to you where you are. 529 00:36:57.328 --> 00:37:10.226 I guarantee you, guarantee you, that if you will be in the Word of God, the Word will speak to where you are, what you need, when you need it, to encourage you and strengthen you in your walk with the Lord. 530 00:37:10.246 --> 00:37:10.527 Of course... 531 00:37:10.947 --> 00:37:15.110 If you don't know the Lord, you've got to know him because he only speaks to his children. 532 00:37:15.631 --> 00:37:21.575 And so I would encourage you, if you've ever made Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, that you need to do that because the world's going to get darker. 533 00:37:21.795 --> 00:37:23.456 It's going to get more difficult. 534 00:37:23.756 --> 00:37:25.578 It's going to become more challenging. 535 00:37:26.718 --> 00:37:41.685 But I can assure you, because God's Word says so, that if you will trust the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior and walk with Him in obedience, you are going to walk in peace and joy even in the midst of that story. 536 00:37:42.525 --> 00:37:43.265 Tony, so good. 537 00:37:43.465 --> 00:37:44.326 Last final word. 538 00:37:44.386 --> 00:37:47.367 I want to just lay this out there, and let's see what happens. 539 00:37:48.248 --> 00:37:53.370 Could it be, Tony, like it was during COVID, this is a test. 540 00:37:54.585 --> 00:38:03.010 This election, let's say, not so much political from God's perspective, but it was a shaking of who's a Christian and who's not a Christian. 541 00:38:03.030 --> 00:38:09.494 Because let's be honest, James Tallarico is not the example of what a Christian is. 542 00:38:10.294 --> 00:38:16.317 But the shaking has caused people to choose where they're going to plant their flag, so to speak. 543 00:38:16.858 --> 00:38:18.539 Could it be like COVID did? 544 00:38:18.839 --> 00:38:20.540 Could it be like BLM did? 545 00:38:21.200 --> 00:38:25.383 Could it be that the shaking right now in this issue with Islam advancing? 546 00:38:25.463 --> 00:38:32.307 Somebody told me last night something like 60 Muslims were running for offices in the nation. 547 00:38:33.247 --> 00:38:34.667 collectively in all 50 states. 548 00:38:34.727 --> 00:38:37.708 That said, Islam is advancing. 549 00:38:38.588 --> 00:38:40.309 That makes this whole thing spiritual. 550 00:38:40.349 --> 00:38:41.229 It's always spiritual. 551 00:38:41.809 --> 00:39:00.833 But that said, I would not be surprised, Tony, if what's going on right now that we have been caught up thinking that it's election issue is actually yet another event of God shaking the nation and what is called the church to reveal what truly is 552 00:39:02.305 --> 00:39:04.747 the church and who really are Christ followers. 553 00:39:05.568 --> 00:39:07.910 And I think in short order, I'm not a prophet. 554 00:39:08.050 --> 00:39:16.316 I'm just thinking out loud here that I would not be surprised, Tony, if in a month or two or three, we look back and see, wow, there you go. 555 00:39:16.856 --> 00:39:17.477 There's another. 556 00:39:17.797 --> 00:39:18.858 Israel was a test. 557 00:39:19.058 --> 00:39:20.099 COVID was a test. 558 00:39:20.239 --> 00:39:21.980 BLM was a test to the church. 559 00:39:22.621 --> 00:39:26.544 And that election was a test to the church. 560 00:39:26.964 --> 00:39:27.825 I wouldn't be surprised. 561 00:39:27.845 --> 00:39:27.965 Yeah. 562 00:39:29.793 --> 00:39:47.433 I think it could be like an Isaiah 6 moment where our focus had been on this reform message, hoping the king of the Golden Age, Uzziah, was going to be the vehicle through which this change that we so desired was going to come. 563 00:39:48.354 --> 00:39:49.275 And with his death... 564 00:39:49.875 --> 00:39:54.317 That's when Isaiah encountered the Lord high and lifted up. 565 00:39:54.677 --> 00:39:57.398 The government of governments, the ruler of rulers. 566 00:39:57.918 --> 00:40:01.100 And not to say that we don't need to be involved in the government of man. 567 00:40:01.280 --> 00:40:01.480 Right. 568 00:40:01.560 --> 00:40:09.683 But our hope and focus needs to be in the government of God, which is eternal and which encompasses even the temporal reign of man. 569 00:40:09.703 --> 00:40:09.803 Wow. 570 00:40:10.463 --> 00:40:11.084 So good. 571 00:40:11.784 --> 00:40:12.164 So good. 572 00:40:12.224 --> 00:40:13.124 Tony, thank you, brother. 573 00:40:13.164 --> 00:40:14.505 Thanks for giving us the time. 574 00:40:14.525 --> 00:40:15.625 I know you've got a busy day. 575 00:40:16.006 --> 00:40:16.646 I love you, brother. 576 00:40:17.446 --> 00:40:18.146 Thank you, brother. 577 00:40:18.487 --> 00:40:19.207 Stay in the battle.