WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.780 Well, everybody, we've got a very special program coming your way right now, 2 00:00:03.780 --> 00:00:05.400 hard-hitting to the point direct. 3 00:00:05.880 --> 00:00:10.480 I have Josiah O'Neill with us today, running for Congress 49th District. 4 00:00:10.940 --> 00:00:14.780 And you need to sit up and take a listen to what he has to say for a lot of reasons. 5 00:00:15.180 --> 00:00:19.300 But one of them is he's a U.S. Army combat veteran medic. 6 00:00:19.300 --> 00:00:27.860 If I remember right, he has served in the diplomatic security high threat services to our key officials. 7 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:34.660 I know that he provided security for a friend of mine by the name of Secretary Mike Pompeo. 8 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:40.860 He's now active law enforcement protecting here us in Southern California. 9 00:00:41.120 --> 00:00:41.960 He's a brother. 10 00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:45.060 He has got an awesome voice and a mean worship leader. 11 00:00:45.260 --> 00:00:50.260 And he needs your vote and your love as he's running for office. 12 00:00:50.260 --> 00:00:54.760 Because when I look at this guy, I don't see somebody who's running for office. 13 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:00.760 That should be an office, but I see somebody who I can trust my life with and I have. 14 00:01:01.020 --> 00:01:01.560 And I do. 15 00:01:01.760 --> 00:01:08.860 Don't forget that you can always subscribe to the Jack Kibs podcast by hitting subscribe wherever you listen to your podcast. 16 00:01:09.360 --> 00:01:12.360 So just your pods, turn up the volume and get ready. 17 00:01:12.760 --> 00:01:13.360 That's roll. 18 00:01:14.360 --> 00:01:18.360 Real life. 19 00:01:19.360 --> 00:01:28.360 Real life presents the Jack Kibs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. 20 00:01:30.860 --> 00:01:36.860 You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to Jack Kibs.com slash podcast. 21 00:01:37.360 --> 00:01:46.360 Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. 22 00:01:46.560 --> 00:01:52.560 To us, that's like saying amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. 23 00:01:53.160 --> 00:01:56.160 Now, open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you. 24 00:01:58.360 --> 00:02:01.660 Josiah, thanks for being here and what we need to do. 25 00:02:01.660 --> 00:02:02.960 Listen, I'm a voter. 26 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:04.660 You're running for office. 27 00:02:05.060 --> 00:02:06.860 You got to give me some hope here, man. 28 00:02:06.860 --> 00:02:07.860 I'm in California. 29 00:02:07.860 --> 00:02:09.060 I'm not going anywhere. 30 00:02:09.060 --> 00:02:10.360 I know a lot of people have. 31 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:11.160 I'm not leaving. 32 00:02:12.060 --> 00:02:13.060 I'm waiting for heaven. 33 00:02:13.660 --> 00:02:19.560 In the meantime, I'm going to fight and in this beautiful cesspool called California, but you got to throw me something. 34 00:02:19.860 --> 00:02:21.060 Why should somebody? 35 00:02:21.160 --> 00:02:22.460 Why should somebody vote? 36 00:02:22.460 --> 00:02:24.060 Why should somebody get in the fight? 37 00:02:24.060 --> 00:02:25.260 Why are you in the fight? 38 00:02:26.060 --> 00:02:27.060 Well, thanks for having me. 39 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:27.860 Yeah, you bet. 40 00:02:28.860 --> 00:02:35.360 Yeah, so I guess the ray of hope would be that we know how to fix the problems. 41 00:02:35.860 --> 00:02:37.360 We know exactly what we need to do. 42 00:02:38.460 --> 00:02:44.360 The question is, will people exercise their civic right and go and vote? 43 00:02:46.060 --> 00:02:56.260 Before we get into any of the deeper issues, let's just clarify that we could solve a lot of the problems we have by people showing up to vote. 44 00:02:56.260 --> 00:03:01.460 We still have now to date astronomical numbers of people who do not vote. 45 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:03.260 We see that in the primaries. 46 00:03:03.260 --> 00:03:11.160 In fact, it's worth mentioning that most people think it's the most voter turnout is during the presidential election because there's this concept. 47 00:03:11.160 --> 00:03:13.060 You know, they're looking for a messianic figure. 48 00:03:13.060 --> 00:03:13.660 That's right. 49 00:03:13.660 --> 00:03:16.560 The president could save us and it's just not true. 50 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:18.160 And the left knows that. 51 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:25.660 They know the value of the grassroots movement of your school boards and your county supervisors and your judges and your district attorneys. 52 00:03:26.160 --> 00:03:37.360 In fact, they've put a lot of money and effort into taking those positions and just recently in my in my campaign looking at that voter data was shocking for me. 53 00:03:38.360 --> 00:03:49.060 I can speak directly to I'm running in California's 49th district where there's almost 800,000 people and close to only 10% of people actually vote in the primaries. 54 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:54.560 And of those people, that's usually the establishments pick right. 55 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.260 So most people don't even see the candidates who are running. 56 00:03:58.560 --> 00:03:59.560 That's ridiculous. 57 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.960 So yeah, so yeah, and we know exactly what's wrong and we know how to fix it. 58 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.760 But people first of all have to put people there who who can fix the problem. 59 00:04:08.760 --> 00:04:11.460 You can't solve a problem if you don't understand it. 60 00:04:11.960 --> 00:04:14.560 And that's a big issue for us in politics. 61 00:04:15.060 --> 00:04:17.060 Well, they also think about you being a candidate. 62 00:04:17.060 --> 00:04:23.260 What people may not realize is that you're you are remarkably equipped for this. 63 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:27.260 And you have fought and served for liberty and freedom. 64 00:04:27.760 --> 00:04:29.360 You know what the Constitution's about. 65 00:04:29.360 --> 00:04:30.360 You defended it. 66 00:04:31.260 --> 00:04:37.360 And today, like you're saying, there's this apathy that is permeating our age. 67 00:04:37.760 --> 00:04:40.860 You mentioned 800,000 plus voters in the 49th. 68 00:04:41.460 --> 00:04:47.960 But isn't the truth this that if the Christians cared enough about their culture, 69 00:04:48.160 --> 00:04:52.060 their schools where they live, what that, you know, in the 49th, 70 00:04:52.360 --> 00:04:56.360 that if the Christians went out and voted, you'd you'd win hands down. 71 00:04:56.560 --> 00:04:57.360 You're a brother. 72 00:04:57.360 --> 00:04:58.560 You love the word of God. 73 00:04:58.560 --> 00:04:59.260 You love the Bible. 74 00:04:59.260 --> 00:05:00.260 You love America. 75 00:05:01.260 --> 00:05:04.860 You're the entire package and people who say, well, you know what? 76 00:05:04.860 --> 00:05:07.960 There's nobody that fits my biblical worldview or you know what? 77 00:05:07.960 --> 00:05:09.260 It's all this way or that way. 78 00:05:09.460 --> 00:05:14.460 There are Christians who either hide behind that or create a their own padded 79 00:05:14.960 --> 00:05:17.960 a room of excuses to just be lazy that day. 80 00:05:18.560 --> 00:05:23.960 And what I love about who you are is that you're you are challenging the person 81 00:05:23.960 --> 00:05:25.460 that is bearing their talent. 82 00:05:25.460 --> 00:05:29.160 I believe God in this republic has given us the responsibility to vote. 83 00:05:29.960 --> 00:05:32.760 And the Lord has brought you forward. 84 00:05:32.960 --> 00:05:36.460 I mean, I'd like to see everybody in the 49th vote for you. 85 00:05:36.560 --> 00:05:39.760 But I would certainly hope to expect that every Christian 86 00:05:40.760 --> 00:05:41.860 would get out and vote for you. 87 00:05:41.960 --> 00:05:42.460 Yeah. 88 00:05:42.960 --> 00:05:45.460 It's it's it's and I think it's worth noting. 89 00:05:46.460 --> 00:05:51.660 Why your stance on politics is so valuable for such a time as this. 90 00:05:52.360 --> 00:05:54.660 In fact, you know, earlier we were talking about 91 00:05:56.560 --> 00:05:59.360 Jim Garlo, Pastor Jim Garlo wrote a book over us. 92 00:05:59.360 --> 00:06:00.260 I actually have it right here. 93 00:06:00.460 --> 00:06:00.960 Great. 94 00:06:01.260 --> 00:06:03.360 Biblical answers to today's tough issues. 95 00:06:03.360 --> 00:06:06.160 And I noticed just just in the very beginning that he's talking about 96 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:10.660 some polling that he did through a different study and Pew research also confirmed 97 00:06:11.260 --> 00:06:15.860 that recently Christians want to be more involved in politics. 98 00:06:16.060 --> 00:06:20.160 And it was surprising to see that the reason they weren't was not because 99 00:06:20.460 --> 00:06:22.060 lack of desire or because they didn't care. 100 00:06:22.060 --> 00:06:24.660 It was they didn't know what to say. 101 00:06:24.960 --> 00:06:26.460 They didn't know how to counter the issues. 102 00:06:26.460 --> 00:06:32.260 And so I turn back to the pastors and say, why don't you why don't they know 103 00:06:32.660 --> 00:06:34.360 what what are you teaching them, right? 104 00:06:34.660 --> 00:06:37.860 They're not equipped to deal with relevant issues of the day. 105 00:06:38.260 --> 00:06:41.460 And I also learned something else that's very interesting and I would put this out there 106 00:06:41.460 --> 00:06:42.360 in case people don't know. 107 00:06:42.560 --> 00:06:46.760 I still get people coming up to me saying, well, you know, the church is a 501 C3 108 00:06:46.760 --> 00:06:48.160 and you shouldn't be involved in this and that. 109 00:06:48.160 --> 00:06:51.260 That is absolute garbage like that, like that would matter to them. 110 00:06:51.360 --> 00:06:53.160 They would just find something else to hide. 111 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:53.660 Of course. 112 00:06:54.460 --> 00:06:57.760 And I didn't know that, you know, Lyndon B. Johnson, 113 00:06:57.760 --> 00:06:58.160 that's right. 114 00:06:58.160 --> 00:07:02.660 Who got that amendment in there in 52 really had an issue with two individuals. 115 00:07:02.660 --> 00:07:06.660 One was a media mogul and the other guy was an oil guy and they had used 116 00:07:06.660 --> 00:07:10.260 their 501 C3 organizations to put a lot of money against his race. 117 00:07:10.260 --> 00:07:11.260 And he was mad about it. 118 00:07:11.260 --> 00:07:15.660 So he fits this amendment in there and it's actually coincidentally 119 00:07:15.660 --> 00:07:19.060 affected the churches and according to some of the guys that helped him 120 00:07:19.260 --> 00:07:22.060 put that amendment together, the church wasn't the target. 121 00:07:22.760 --> 00:07:27.160 Now there's actually 29 different categories of 501 C3s. 122 00:07:27.160 --> 00:07:27.660 That's right. 123 00:07:28.260 --> 00:07:33.760 But only three of them are barred from engaging in politics according to the 124 00:07:33.760 --> 00:07:36.760 Johnson amendment and one of those three happens to be the church. 125 00:07:38.460 --> 00:07:41.260 That's of course, and you know this and I'm talking to the wider audience, 126 00:07:41.260 --> 00:07:45.860 but we give them the permission to bar our banners, which is this. 127 00:07:45.960 --> 00:07:49.460 The Johnson amendment is absolutely unconstitutional. 128 00:07:49.960 --> 00:07:52.060 It's a pure violation of the first amendment. 129 00:07:52.260 --> 00:07:57.460 There are organizations that we work with ADF and others that are challenging 130 00:07:57.460 --> 00:07:58.360 that all the time. 131 00:07:58.360 --> 00:08:03.060 We send politically incorrect sermons to the IRS and the Department of Justice 132 00:08:03.360 --> 00:08:04.860 to provoke a lawsuit. 133 00:08:04.860 --> 00:08:10.060 This has been going on for decades, but they won't pick it up because it 134 00:08:10.060 --> 00:08:11.460 would go straight to the Supreme Court. 135 00:08:11.460 --> 00:08:13.060 It's a clear violation of the Supreme Court. 136 00:08:13.060 --> 00:08:15.260 We're exactly we're trying to get to the Supreme Court. 137 00:08:15.260 --> 00:08:19.560 So we can get the Johnson destroyed because it can't hold an ounce of water. 138 00:08:20.060 --> 00:08:25.060 But here's the part that I'm concerned about is pastors. 139 00:08:26.060 --> 00:08:31.860 I they should be able to say this is the gospel teach a Biblically based 140 00:08:31.860 --> 00:08:38.160 message lead 50 150 people to Christ every week and at the same time have 141 00:08:38.160 --> 00:08:43.760 voter registration in their church and encourage people to know what the issues 142 00:08:43.760 --> 00:08:46.060 are and what candidates are pro life. 143 00:08:46.060 --> 00:08:47.560 You know, people think it's against the law. 144 00:08:47.560 --> 00:08:48.360 You can't do that. 145 00:08:48.960 --> 00:08:55.860 Inform your congregation of what candidates are are pro border strength pro 146 00:08:55.860 --> 00:08:59.960 life pro constitution pro second amendment pro first amendment. 147 00:09:00.560 --> 00:09:01.360 You can do that. 148 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:07.160 You can do that legally and in a lot of other things and I'm hoping. 149 00:09:07.160 --> 00:09:10.460 I mean, I'm hoping that that pastors are waking up. 150 00:09:10.460 --> 00:09:13.460 I got to tell you associate a press call today and they wanted an interview 151 00:09:13.460 --> 00:09:16.660 and we went through it and that's the first thing she brought up is 152 00:09:16.660 --> 00:09:20.160 pastor rumor has it that you don't obey the Johnson amendment and I said 153 00:09:20.160 --> 00:09:23.060 absolutely not we're trying to take it to the court. 154 00:09:23.060 --> 00:09:23.660 Yeah, exactly. 155 00:09:23.660 --> 00:09:24.360 That's awesome. 156 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:28.560 And she was a Hindu and after the interview, she said, that's amazing. 157 00:09:28.560 --> 00:09:29.460 That's fantastic. 158 00:09:29.460 --> 00:09:30.360 Thanks for doing that. 159 00:09:30.360 --> 00:09:33.760 And for people who, you know, maybe listening and don't understand the first 160 00:09:33.760 --> 00:09:37.560 amendment explicitly says the government will not tell the pulp. 161 00:09:37.560 --> 00:09:39.160 It's what to do that. 162 00:09:39.160 --> 00:09:43.060 That is what guarantees that the government doesn't establish a state religion 163 00:09:43.060 --> 00:09:44.360 and force everybody to follow it. 164 00:09:44.360 --> 00:09:44.860 Yep. 165 00:09:44.860 --> 00:09:46.860 In fact, that was such a valuable concept. 166 00:09:46.860 --> 00:09:47.860 Right. 167 00:09:47.860 --> 00:09:48.860 Exactly. 168 00:09:48.860 --> 00:09:51.860 That even those who were deist in their own words still rode their horses 169 00:09:51.860 --> 00:09:55.360 up Pennsylvania Avenue and went to church at the Capitol building because 170 00:09:55.360 --> 00:09:58.760 they understood the value of that Christian Judeo perspective. 171 00:09:58.760 --> 00:10:01.960 As I've mentioned before, Winston Churchill said it was inexorable 172 00:10:01.960 --> 00:10:05.260 from Western civilization as the access powers grew in Europe. 173 00:10:05.260 --> 00:10:09.060 He realized the only thing that's going to stop this secular humanist murder 174 00:10:09.060 --> 00:10:12.760 is the Christian Judeo values that make Western civilization. 175 00:10:12.960 --> 00:10:16.760 And that gives us a unique perspective when it comes to issues 176 00:10:16.760 --> 00:10:19.160 because our worldview is correct. 177 00:10:19.160 --> 00:10:22.360 And that's where the left goes a skew. 178 00:10:22.360 --> 00:10:25.960 If your worldview is not correct, you don't have a thing called discernment. 179 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.760 You can't properly divide between right and wrong. 180 00:10:29.760 --> 00:10:31.160 And now they're open about this. 181 00:10:31.160 --> 00:10:33.960 They openly say there's no such thing as right and wrong. 182 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:34.960 That's right. 183 00:10:34.960 --> 00:10:35.960 They encourage mental illness. 184 00:10:35.960 --> 00:10:40.460 They encourage the abuse emotionally and physically of our children. 185 00:10:40.460 --> 00:10:46.860 And so nothing that results from a skewed worldview is trustworthy. 186 00:10:46.860 --> 00:10:50.060 This is why good intentions aside. 187 00:10:50.060 --> 00:10:51.360 They don't solve problems. 188 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:52.560 Look at California. 189 00:10:52.560 --> 00:10:53.460 Perfect example. 190 00:10:53.460 --> 00:10:57.060 These these these the laws that we pass soft on crime laws, 191 00:10:57.060 --> 00:10:58.660 the lack of security on the border. 192 00:10:58.660 --> 00:11:00.860 These are common sense issues. 193 00:11:00.860 --> 00:11:05.560 It's it's you know, it doesn't take a genius to look at some of these 194 00:11:05.560 --> 00:11:08.360 situations and say that doesn't make any sense, right? 195 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:12.560 Now the left's perspective and their ideology is skewed from the get go. 196 00:11:12.560 --> 00:11:13.960 The worldview is wrong, right? 197 00:11:13.960 --> 00:11:17.160 They went when you when you abandoned the concept of accountability 198 00:11:17.160 --> 00:11:18.560 because we're created. 199 00:11:18.560 --> 00:11:23.260 And you go to the socialist Marxist perspective of the greater good 200 00:11:23.260 --> 00:11:25.960 and that the state should be the deity, et cetera. 201 00:11:25.960 --> 00:11:28.360 Then you almost have to have chaos. 202 00:11:28.360 --> 00:11:29.160 Now here's what's ironic. 203 00:11:29.160 --> 00:11:29.660 It's right. 204 00:11:29.660 --> 00:11:31.160 We were talking about this earlier, right? 205 00:11:31.160 --> 00:11:35.960 Isn't it ironic that the same individuals causing the problems 206 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:39.160 then get to present themselves as the solution? 207 00:11:39.160 --> 00:11:41.160 Listen, you know, that's an ancient tactic. 208 00:11:41.160 --> 00:11:42.660 Absolutely it is. 209 00:11:42.660 --> 00:11:43.360 Absolutely. 210 00:11:43.360 --> 00:11:46.960 In fact, it's Antonio Gramsci, it's Marxist at their finest. 211 00:11:46.960 --> 00:11:51.560 Even before that, it was and it is a tactic of advancing Islam. 212 00:11:51.560 --> 00:11:56.360 It's actually an Islamic doctrine that you go into a community or region 213 00:11:56.360 --> 00:12:00.560 that you are wanting to take over and that you create a problem. 214 00:12:00.560 --> 00:12:04.760 And then you go to the present or existing authorities and offer them the 215 00:12:04.760 --> 00:12:07.160 solution and that's how you get in. 216 00:12:07.160 --> 00:12:10.160 And you get in, by the way, in quick order. 217 00:12:10.160 --> 00:12:12.460 And so that is a tactic and they're doing it. 218 00:12:12.460 --> 00:12:14.560 What's amazing to me is we need to do this. 219 00:12:14.560 --> 00:12:15.260 We need to do that. 220 00:12:15.260 --> 00:12:18.960 We need to pay $7 a gallon for gas for the greater good. 221 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:23.760 And you correctly said that the leftist progressive, 222 00:12:23.760 --> 00:12:28.760 they don't they can't make a difference between good and evil. 223 00:12:28.760 --> 00:12:33.860 But their verbiage is you all need to suffer for the better good. 224 00:12:33.860 --> 00:12:38.760 The good of it all, which their definition is the good of it all 225 00:12:38.760 --> 00:12:42.060 is for the exaltation of our team. 226 00:12:42.060 --> 00:12:43.560 Not your team, our team. 227 00:12:43.560 --> 00:12:47.560 Not us, it's we here, not you there. 228 00:12:47.560 --> 00:12:53.860 And California, California is such a quintessential example of what's wrong 229 00:12:53.860 --> 00:12:58.560 and how to govern wrongly that we just saw the other day on Breitbart 230 00:12:58.560 --> 00:12:59.760 think headline news. 231 00:12:59.760 --> 00:13:04.160 It was Kamala Harris and Gavin Newsom holding up their hands together 232 00:13:04.160 --> 00:13:07.760 and Gavin Newsom's quote was, I have no doubt that Kamala Harris will be 233 00:13:07.760 --> 00:13:09.260 the next president of the States. 234 00:13:09.260 --> 00:13:10.260 What does that mean? 235 00:13:10.260 --> 00:13:14.160 Read between the lines Kamala Harris will be the next president of the States 236 00:13:14.160 --> 00:13:16.360 and Gavin Newsom is the vice president. 237 00:13:16.360 --> 00:13:19.360 Those are two people from California, from the Bay Area. 238 00:13:19.360 --> 00:13:22.960 What more of a warning do you need to have that we're heading in the wrong 239 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:26.160 direction, but we can change that if people vote. 240 00:13:26.160 --> 00:13:30.560 We got to register to vote and they got to get out and vote. 241 00:13:30.560 --> 00:13:33.960 But listen, so everything's wrong in California. 242 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:38.160 Tell somebody why they should still practice voting. 243 00:13:38.160 --> 00:13:40.160 Well, it's like what I said, right? 244 00:13:40.160 --> 00:13:44.760 We properly identified the problem, so now we know how to solve it, right? 245 00:13:44.760 --> 00:13:48.560 We know what's behind the transient solution because our worldview is correct. 246 00:13:48.560 --> 00:13:50.860 We know that accountability is necessary. 247 00:13:50.860 --> 00:13:54.760 We know that it's not so much the fact that people don't have physical houses 248 00:13:54.760 --> 00:13:58.960 as much as it is 50% drug addiction and 50% mental illness. 249 00:13:58.960 --> 00:13:59.960 That's right. 250 00:13:59.960 --> 00:14:03.960 We know that we need to make the conservative ship process easier so that we can 251 00:14:03.960 --> 00:14:05.460 actually help people. 252 00:14:05.460 --> 00:14:09.060 We're essentially reversing all the purposeful damage the left has done to 253 00:14:09.060 --> 00:14:13.460 California to breed dependency because as the four, you know, our founder 254 00:14:13.460 --> 00:14:17.460 said, dependence breeds subservience. 255 00:14:17.460 --> 00:14:19.160 And so that's what they're playing out right now. 256 00:14:19.160 --> 00:14:21.560 And because we know that, we can stop it. 257 00:14:21.560 --> 00:14:23.060 We can make a difference. 258 00:14:23.060 --> 00:14:27.860 And a minimum, we can educate and use the platform to inform people 259 00:14:27.860 --> 00:14:30.860 because an informed people are a dangerous people. 260 00:14:30.860 --> 00:14:32.860 And the left doesn't want people in full. 261 00:14:32.860 --> 00:14:35.360 They want to keep them down and subservient. 262 00:14:35.360 --> 00:14:39.660 And California is a perfect example of that where California destroys us with 263 00:14:39.660 --> 00:14:43.660 taxes and overburdened us with like things like the gas tax and then turns 264 00:14:43.660 --> 00:14:46.660 around and says, this is why you need to vote for us because the gas is high. 265 00:14:46.660 --> 00:14:47.660 Exactly. 266 00:14:47.660 --> 00:14:49.660 I mean, if that's not just the dumbest thing I've ever heard. 267 00:14:49.760 --> 00:14:54.960 It's very, if he stepped back 250 years ago, it's England and colonies all 268 00:14:54.960 --> 00:14:55.960 over again. 269 00:14:55.960 --> 00:14:56.960 Absolutely. 270 00:14:56.960 --> 00:15:01.360 Just like Gavin Newsom declaring he has a $97 billion surplus was the most 271 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:06.160 offensive thing that I've heard recently because he he proclaimed it as if 272 00:15:06.160 --> 00:15:08.160 it was some kind of point of pride. 273 00:15:08.160 --> 00:15:09.160 Right. 274 00:15:09.160 --> 00:15:13.360 And all I heard was you stole $97 billion by overtaxing people without 275 00:15:13.360 --> 00:15:14.360 representation. 276 00:15:14.360 --> 00:15:17.160 And our roads are still messed up. 277 00:15:17.160 --> 00:15:18.160 He didn't spend it. 278 00:15:18.160 --> 00:15:21.960 Crime is through the roof, through the rent and all overdoses are out of control. 279 00:15:21.960 --> 00:15:23.460 Human trafficking is out of control. 280 00:15:23.460 --> 00:15:24.460 The roads aren't fixed. 281 00:15:24.460 --> 00:15:28.460 I mean, the people are fleeing California by the thousands moving to places like 282 00:15:28.460 --> 00:15:33.460 middle Tennessee to to to chase the American dream that's no longer possible in California. 283 00:15:33.460 --> 00:15:34.460 Right. 284 00:15:34.460 --> 00:15:36.460 But he wants to talk about how much money he's taken. 285 00:15:36.460 --> 00:15:37.460 Right. 286 00:15:37.460 --> 00:15:38.460 It's not his money. 287 00:15:38.460 --> 00:15:39.460 It's our money. 288 00:15:39.460 --> 00:15:43.960 What's going to have to happen for the unthinkable for some people is even the 289 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:48.920 preyable act that California could actually come back. 290 00:15:48.920 --> 00:15:50.560 What is it going to take? 291 00:15:50.560 --> 00:15:52.160 What what's going to happen? 292 00:15:52.160 --> 00:15:54.200 The churches have to wake up. 293 00:15:54.200 --> 00:15:56.720 Bottom line. 294 00:15:56.720 --> 00:15:58.960 The numbers are pretty bad. 295 00:15:58.960 --> 00:16:02.200 It's roughly 50% of professing Christians never even registered about. 296 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:03.200 Yeah. 297 00:16:03.200 --> 00:16:04.200 Pathetic. 298 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:05.200 But they're bearing their talent by the way. 299 00:16:05.200 --> 00:16:06.200 Yes. 300 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:07.680 That's exactly what Jesus warned about. 301 00:16:07.680 --> 00:16:10.720 Don't bury your light or your talent under a basket. 302 00:16:10.720 --> 00:16:11.720 That's exactly what they're doing. 303 00:16:11.720 --> 00:16:12.720 Yes. 304 00:16:12.720 --> 00:16:13.720 Absolutely. 305 00:16:13.720 --> 00:16:18.160 I mean, primary purveyors of Western civilization, it was the church. 306 00:16:18.160 --> 00:16:19.160 And the left knows that. 307 00:16:19.160 --> 00:16:21.780 That's why they try to silence them down, right? 308 00:16:21.780 --> 00:16:28.280 So if the church is alone, would start preaching truth and and and tell their people that it's 309 00:16:28.280 --> 00:16:30.920 not enough to just believe in Jesus, but you have to live it. 310 00:16:30.920 --> 00:16:33.720 You have to be doers of the word, not heroes, only. 311 00:16:33.720 --> 00:16:38.400 If that alone would change, we would see massive revival in this state. 312 00:16:38.400 --> 00:16:41.720 Because like it or not, we have the power. 313 00:16:41.720 --> 00:16:46.080 You know what completely obliterates the establishment and all the politicians and all the millions 314 00:16:46.080 --> 00:16:49.240 of dollars in the world, the citizen showing up to vote. 315 00:16:49.240 --> 00:16:51.120 It doesn't matter how much money they spend. 316 00:16:51.120 --> 00:16:54.640 That's even true if they're going to embark upon cheating. 317 00:16:54.640 --> 00:16:59.840 If there's an overwhelming show of people, the people can actually thwart cheating by 318 00:16:59.840 --> 00:17:01.520 just sheer numbers. 319 00:17:01.520 --> 00:17:02.520 Of course. 320 00:17:02.520 --> 00:17:04.040 And it's a there's a windfall effect, right? 321 00:17:04.040 --> 00:17:05.040 That's right. 322 00:17:05.040 --> 00:17:10.720 So the the the the people that we allow to get into office then cause us harm. 323 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:12.760 So you know, there's a there's a lot of work that we do. 324 00:17:12.760 --> 00:17:19.040 And it's important calling represented your elected officials and and trying to voice our 325 00:17:19.040 --> 00:17:21.160 concern over these assembly bills. 326 00:17:21.160 --> 00:17:26.200 But we need to we need to kind of take a step back and say, if we stop these people from 327 00:17:26.200 --> 00:17:31.080 getting elected in the first place, there wouldn't be so much suffering to protest. 328 00:17:31.080 --> 00:17:34.960 And that's a question I've had as in even in my candidacy as I look at again, not to 329 00:17:34.960 --> 00:17:38.040 be to dead horse, but as I look at the amount of people that show up to vote. 330 00:17:38.040 --> 00:17:42.600 Look at I see all the complaining on Facebook and Instagram and how outraged people are on 331 00:17:42.600 --> 00:17:43.600 rumble. 332 00:17:43.600 --> 00:17:45.880 And I thought, well, I hope to see you at the polls. 333 00:17:45.880 --> 00:17:46.880 Exactly. 334 00:17:46.880 --> 00:17:50.000 Because how about we turn that rage into civic duty? 335 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:51.760 How about we get them out there and vote? 336 00:17:51.760 --> 00:17:58.320 I don't want to conjure up or give anybody an excuse to use the word conspiracy. 337 00:17:58.320 --> 00:18:01.240 But I'm an I'm old enough to be your dad. 338 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:06.440 When I went to school, re civics was required of us. 339 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:09.160 We had to learn it. 340 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:16.840 And it was ingrained within the Orange County, California school system that we would someday 341 00:18:16.840 --> 00:18:17.840 vote. 342 00:18:17.840 --> 00:18:19.960 We're going to vote someday. 343 00:18:19.960 --> 00:18:24.080 And I remember and I haven't missed a vote since when I was 18, I voted for the first 344 00:18:24.080 --> 00:18:25.080 time. 345 00:18:25.080 --> 00:18:26.160 I've been voting ever since. 346 00:18:26.160 --> 00:18:27.640 It was expected. 347 00:18:27.640 --> 00:18:29.960 It was the world we grew up in. 348 00:18:29.960 --> 00:18:30.960 And isn't interesting. 349 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:35.160 I think there's a correlation to the fact that today, you stop a kid today and asking 350 00:18:35.160 --> 00:18:36.160 them about civics. 351 00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:37.880 They don't even know what the word means. 352 00:18:37.880 --> 00:18:44.800 They know all about Maryland Monroe's bikini size, but they cannot tell you the three branches 353 00:18:44.800 --> 00:18:46.360 of the federal government. 354 00:18:46.360 --> 00:18:50.080 They cannot tell you how a bill gets to the floor. 355 00:18:50.080 --> 00:18:54.000 They don't even know who their governor is, let alone the president. 356 00:18:54.000 --> 00:19:02.080 It's something that almost makes you think, is this been a long plot, a long game? 357 00:19:02.080 --> 00:19:06.960 Because how can we wake up to be so dumb and yet we are? 358 00:19:06.960 --> 00:19:11.320 But to answer your question about those who would get up and vote and get engaged and 359 00:19:11.320 --> 00:19:17.480 get going, granted, I'm playing my string on my guitar from my end. 360 00:19:17.480 --> 00:19:23.040 I believe the answer to the challenge is not only people getting out to vote and not 361 00:19:23.040 --> 00:19:24.040 only the church. 362 00:19:24.040 --> 00:19:28.040 I believe it's the pastor being biblical. 363 00:19:28.040 --> 00:19:33.740 And when I say biblical, every person I read about, every prophet, every situation of 364 00:19:33.740 --> 00:19:38.840 the book of Acts, everything that they're telling me is something that is relevant, happening 365 00:19:38.840 --> 00:19:40.680 to them in the moment. 366 00:19:40.680 --> 00:19:47.960 And they'll address emperors, they're addressing governors, they're addressing leaders from 367 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:51.200 Pontius Pilate to Nero. 368 00:19:51.200 --> 00:19:55.480 And the scriptures don't run away from what we call politics. 369 00:19:55.480 --> 00:20:02.280 The scriptures answers what I would like to put as the spin of politics. 370 00:20:02.280 --> 00:20:11.160 I have a belief that God has given us the institution of marriage, of the church, and 371 00:20:11.160 --> 00:20:12.160 government. 372 00:20:12.160 --> 00:20:15.160 Yeah, but what about politics? 373 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:16.960 Politics is what man does to government. 374 00:20:16.960 --> 00:20:17.880 How does that happen? 375 00:20:17.880 --> 00:20:21.800 They allow them to politicize government. 376 00:20:21.800 --> 00:20:29.760 And what we're talking about is us taking back our God-given mandate to be stewards of 377 00:20:29.760 --> 00:20:32.400 this constitutional form of government. 378 00:20:32.400 --> 00:20:36.440 That's a really good point, because what the left would often want you to believe is a 379 00:20:36.440 --> 00:20:39.920 political issue is not, it's a moral issue. 380 00:20:39.920 --> 00:20:46.600 And so they've taken what used to be within the purview of the church, all throughout society, 381 00:20:46.600 --> 00:20:53.000 and turned it into politics, when really laws like Prop 47, which we chew to death all 382 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:58.760 the time, not holding criminals accountable for stealing, those are moral issues. 383 00:20:58.760 --> 00:21:04.800 And the church should stand up for what's right, not for being dismissed by politicians 384 00:21:04.800 --> 00:21:07.160 who've convinced them to be ineffectual. 385 00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:11.060 And it's a great point about the branches of government, because yes, we do have the 386 00:21:11.060 --> 00:21:13.400 judicial, the executive, and the legislative. 387 00:21:13.480 --> 00:21:19.160 But we also have often less talked about and powerful component, which is the voting process. 388 00:21:19.160 --> 00:21:23.640 And even though we wouldn't consider it a branch, it is certainly a method by which the 389 00:21:23.640 --> 00:21:26.360 citizens hold people accountable. 390 00:21:26.360 --> 00:21:31.680 Because look, all of these laws that we complain about, they come from people who were elected. 391 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:36.280 So these elected officials make really big decisions like when we go to war and how 392 00:21:36.280 --> 00:21:41.680 much money they take out of your pocket and how we respond to national emergencies. 393 00:21:41.680 --> 00:21:44.000 And that power is in the voter's hand. 394 00:21:44.000 --> 00:21:45.080 I love that. 395 00:21:45.080 --> 00:21:48.440 So I love that. 396 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:54.920 The three branches really answer to the trunk, which is we the people. 397 00:21:54.920 --> 00:21:55.920 Yep. 398 00:21:55.920 --> 00:21:56.920 That's well said. 399 00:21:56.920 --> 00:21:57.920 Good job. 400 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:02.280 Because it's often heard, and you hear this all the time, people say we're the government 401 00:22:02.280 --> 00:22:03.720 for the people by the people. 402 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:10.120 But what that actually means is what makes us different than an oligarchy or the kings 403 00:22:10.120 --> 00:22:18.040 and queens of England, what makes us different is that here we are the government, we govern 404 00:22:18.040 --> 00:22:19.280 ourselves. 405 00:22:19.280 --> 00:22:23.280 So we let people go to DC to oversee some things. 406 00:22:23.280 --> 00:22:27.080 And if they mess up, we hold them accountable and they're done. 407 00:22:27.080 --> 00:22:32.800 So this is clearly a deeper, and there's a spiritual side to that, where the enemy came 408 00:22:32.800 --> 00:22:39.760 in and convinced the church to come to be completely ineffectual in their society. 409 00:22:39.760 --> 00:22:44.680 And where now you have the church looking to the social sciences for answers instead of 410 00:22:44.680 --> 00:22:51.040 the word of God, exactly the pastor should be the clarion watchman that's informing his 411 00:22:51.040 --> 00:22:55.560 church regarding biblical application to the issues that the people are dealing with 412 00:22:55.560 --> 00:22:56.560 every day. 413 00:22:56.560 --> 00:22:57.560 Yeah, absolutely. 414 00:22:57.560 --> 00:23:01.200 I mean, seriously, I mean, even even this taxes, the tax deal, I mean, we don't usually 415 00:23:01.200 --> 00:23:02.200 talk about it. 416 00:23:02.200 --> 00:23:03.200 We just pay them. 417 00:23:03.200 --> 00:23:08.480 But now here in California, it's getting so obscene that it's actually like our good friend 418 00:23:08.480 --> 00:23:14.040 Bob McEwan tells us that there's only two people who could rob you, a guy with a gun or 419 00:23:14.040 --> 00:23:15.760 the government. 420 00:23:15.760 --> 00:23:21.320 And in California, the guy that has a gun, he doesn't even have the wherewithal to rob you 421 00:23:21.320 --> 00:23:22.320 anymore. 422 00:23:22.320 --> 00:23:24.520 He can't afford the gas to get to you to rob you. 423 00:23:24.520 --> 00:23:26.920 I mean, it's unbelievably nuts. 424 00:23:26.920 --> 00:23:28.720 It's absolutely ridiculous. 425 00:23:28.720 --> 00:23:35.480 And it is a long game and conservatives need to learn that this takes time and dedication. 426 00:23:35.480 --> 00:23:37.840 The left's been at this for a long time, right? 427 00:23:37.840 --> 00:23:43.880 I mean, Clean Scouson wrote The Naked Communists, which outlined 45 points. 428 00:23:43.880 --> 00:23:48.040 The Communists were trying to achieve against Western civilization. 429 00:23:48.040 --> 00:23:51.680 And if you were to skip forward to today, because I don't remember the exact year that he 430 00:23:51.680 --> 00:23:55.480 wrote that it was late 40s, 50s when he wrote that book, The Naked Communists. 431 00:23:55.480 --> 00:24:00.320 But if you skip forward to today, you'll see that they've accomplished virtually every 432 00:24:00.320 --> 00:24:06.120 single point that was aimed at attacking the foundations of the United States, right? 433 00:24:06.120 --> 00:24:11.440 Even Stalin knew that America was based on faith, on patriotism and family. 434 00:24:11.440 --> 00:24:16.320 And he said, if you can take down those three, America will fall within itself. 435 00:24:16.320 --> 00:24:22.280 And so what's wild is that the Democrats have essentially completely adopted that platform. 436 00:24:22.280 --> 00:24:27.440 All of their issues center around degrading in order to cause that dependency, which then 437 00:24:27.440 --> 00:24:28.920 leads to subservience, right? 438 00:24:28.920 --> 00:24:32.320 So let's not empower people in inner cities. 439 00:24:32.320 --> 00:24:38.640 Let's not take our problem neighborhoods and teach them how to work, teach them accountability. 440 00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:39.640 Let's educate them. 441 00:24:39.640 --> 00:24:43.600 No, no, no, no, let's keep them dependent on the government, the left says. 442 00:24:43.600 --> 00:24:49.320 And so that we can depend on them for votes and we increase in power. 443 00:24:49.320 --> 00:24:57.200 And the church is a wall to that because we do not believe that we are ultimately accountable 444 00:24:57.200 --> 00:24:58.200 to the state. 445 00:24:58.200 --> 00:24:59.200 That's right. 446 00:24:59.200 --> 00:25:00.200 We're accountable to God. 447 00:25:00.200 --> 00:25:01.440 And the founders believe this too. 448 00:25:01.440 --> 00:25:02.440 That's right. 449 00:25:02.440 --> 00:25:05.080 That's why we have inalienable rights, which they believe came and were endowed upon us 450 00:25:05.080 --> 00:25:07.360 by a creator, not the government. 451 00:25:07.360 --> 00:25:08.800 They don't give us our rights. 452 00:25:08.800 --> 00:25:10.120 They protect them. 453 00:25:10.120 --> 00:25:11.120 Yep. 454 00:25:11.120 --> 00:25:15.480 So we are in a very, very dangerous place in our country right now. 455 00:25:15.480 --> 00:25:20.760 Because increasingly, as you mentioned, you learn civics growing up, I would challenge 456 00:25:20.760 --> 00:25:25.960 anyone to go out on the street and ask anyone, let's just pick a number, 35 and younger. 457 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:31.200 If they understand civics or voting, I would wager that most people in that age category 458 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:34.800 would say we don't vote or I don't care about politics. 459 00:25:34.800 --> 00:25:40.960 They're so wrapped up in whatever the current distraction is, social media or doing whatever 460 00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:45.600 they're doing, that we've completely lost that and the only group that benefits that 461 00:25:45.600 --> 00:25:48.040 are individuals seeking to control people. 462 00:25:48.040 --> 00:25:49.040 That's right. 463 00:25:49.040 --> 00:25:50.040 That's right. 464 00:25:50.040 --> 00:25:51.040 Very dangerous. 465 00:25:51.040 --> 00:25:52.040 Yeah. 466 00:25:52.040 --> 00:25:56.520 You know, man, I, when the wall came down in Russia and Soviet Union and we were almost 467 00:25:56.520 --> 00:26:03.720 immediately there and we saw a culture that was aimless, walking about completely stoned 468 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:05.600 out on vodka. 469 00:26:05.600 --> 00:26:07.920 The Russians had lost all hope. 470 00:26:07.920 --> 00:26:16.040 People were selling literally shirts and jackets off their back for food money, right? 471 00:26:16.040 --> 00:26:19.200 The whole system ripped out their heart and spirit. 472 00:26:19.200 --> 00:26:25.680 And you look around today and we see that we may not be in a Soviet Union, what the progressive 473 00:26:25.680 --> 00:26:32.080 is trying to do is to get us to some revised version of that where when we say we'll take 474 00:26:32.080 --> 00:26:33.840 care of you. 475 00:26:33.840 --> 00:26:38.280 And that's a dangerous thing because once you start leaning on something, it takes, 476 00:26:38.280 --> 00:26:42.920 it takes energy to counter back to stand up straight and get your balance back. 477 00:26:42.920 --> 00:26:47.200 It becomes much more comfortable to just keep leaning until you atrophy. 478 00:26:47.200 --> 00:26:51.160 That's what people don't realize is when you let the government hand you money. 479 00:26:51.160 --> 00:26:55.120 I mean, I don't know if you're aware of this, but so many churches I hear about it all 480 00:26:55.120 --> 00:27:00.000 the time across from people reporting into us from around the nation. 481 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:07.120 How many churches took in COVID money, right? 482 00:27:07.120 --> 00:27:12.800 And what's really bizarre is that some of those churches took millions of dollars and 483 00:27:12.800 --> 00:27:15.720 most of them didn't even recover or reopen as a church. 484 00:27:15.720 --> 00:27:19.120 I the day of reckoning for that's going to be interesting. 485 00:27:19.120 --> 00:27:22.720 But what are you saying believe in God but lean on the government? 486 00:27:22.720 --> 00:27:28.480 No, but I'm saying is that the government, me, Josiah, we're all going to have to answer 487 00:27:28.520 --> 00:27:30.280 to God in the end. 488 00:27:30.280 --> 00:27:35.360 And I mentioned that AP interviewer today, the reason why she interviewed me today is 489 00:27:35.360 --> 00:27:45.480 she wanted to get my input on what is being called the danger of Christian nationalism. 490 00:27:45.480 --> 00:27:47.920 And I said, can you explain it to me? 491 00:27:47.920 --> 00:27:48.920 I knew about it. 492 00:27:48.920 --> 00:27:53.040 I knew the creator's definition of it, which I completely disagree with. 493 00:27:53.040 --> 00:27:56.920 But she had a hard time defining it because she wasn't sure about the definition of it. 494 00:27:56.920 --> 00:27:58.280 And it comes down to this. 495 00:27:58.280 --> 00:28:05.280 If you're a Christian, if you're white, and if you love America, you're a nationalist 496 00:28:05.280 --> 00:28:06.600 and you're dangerous. 497 00:28:06.600 --> 00:28:13.040 I found that fascinating because in Germany, if you use the term nationalist, I don't like 498 00:28:13.040 --> 00:28:19.920 the word nationalist, it conjures up Adolf Hitler, it conjures up that type of picture. 499 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:21.600 And I told her, she goes, does that upset you? 500 00:28:21.600 --> 00:28:25.200 And I said, not at all because it tells me something. 501 00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:29.280 It tells me that there's enough good people that I think are starting to wake up and 502 00:28:29.280 --> 00:28:34.680 it may be seen in these primary elections that started to concern the radical of the 503 00:28:34.680 --> 00:28:41.040 left leaning group, the progressives, that they're having to talk this narrative to shame 504 00:28:41.040 --> 00:28:45.680 us to stay home, that if we're a Christian, we should be ashamed of being a Christian. 505 00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:50.440 If we love America, if we have a flag in our house, we should be ashamed of that. 506 00:28:50.440 --> 00:28:51.920 And you should not get involved. 507 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:52.920 You just stay home. 508 00:28:53.160 --> 00:28:57.560 And I told her, I said, listen, as long as I'm paying taxes, I'm going to go vote. 509 00:28:57.560 --> 00:29:02.000 And Christians have the exact same voice that anybody else has. 510 00:29:02.000 --> 00:29:06.760 The sad thing is the Christian has surrendered their voice. 511 00:29:06.760 --> 00:29:11.320 No one has silenced the Christian and beat them down in this nation yet. 512 00:29:11.320 --> 00:29:12.400 They don't have to. 513 00:29:12.400 --> 00:29:15.480 The most Christians have become silent. 514 00:29:15.480 --> 00:29:22.600 So listen, with our time remaining, tell people why people in this 49th district, 515 00:29:22.600 --> 00:29:27.480 which by the way, I need you to define it again somewhere from around what the Laguna 516 00:29:27.480 --> 00:29:32.040 or Corona del Mar region, St. Clemente region of Southern California. 517 00:29:32.040 --> 00:29:33.040 Yeah. 518 00:29:33.040 --> 00:29:37.320 The 49th is South Orange County, a part of North County San Diego all the way down to 519 00:29:37.320 --> 00:29:38.320 Del Mar Fairground. 520 00:29:38.320 --> 00:29:42.600 So northernmost would be Dana Point and every city below that all the way down through 521 00:29:42.600 --> 00:29:43.600 Camp Pendleton. 522 00:29:43.600 --> 00:29:45.400 Currently held by a Democrat. 523 00:29:45.400 --> 00:29:47.400 Currently held by Michael. 524 00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:49.000 How is that possible? 525 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:50.000 Yeah. 526 00:29:50.000 --> 00:29:51.000 How? 527 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.160 San Diego and Orange County were read for years. 528 00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:55.760 Yeah, I live there, grew up, listen, so what's the deal? 529 00:29:55.760 --> 00:29:58.680 Listen, why are you a shoe in? 530 00:29:58.680 --> 00:30:01.960 Because that's heavily military. 531 00:30:01.960 --> 00:30:05.480 It's heavily red, white and blue. 532 00:30:05.480 --> 00:30:10.000 Why are, how did, how did, what's his name? 533 00:30:10.000 --> 00:30:11.000 Levin? 534 00:30:11.000 --> 00:30:12.000 Yeah. 535 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:13.880 How did he get into office in the first place? 536 00:30:13.880 --> 00:30:15.920 Well, I think there's, there's two parts to that. 537 00:30:15.920 --> 00:30:18.320 One we've, we've already addressed significantly. 538 00:30:18.320 --> 00:30:19.600 That's the lack of people voting. 539 00:30:19.600 --> 00:30:26.960 The other part is that the establishment on the Republican side, I believe, refuses 540 00:30:26.960 --> 00:30:28.800 to engage in the culture war. 541 00:30:28.800 --> 00:30:29.800 I'm glad you just said that. 542 00:30:29.800 --> 00:30:35.400 And every aspect of the culture war, that's our morals, our families, even issues like 543 00:30:35.400 --> 00:30:40.080 the Second Amendment, which they're timid in addressing. 544 00:30:40.080 --> 00:30:45.960 And that's such a failure because the left, while convincing, everyone else to be quiet. 545 00:30:45.960 --> 00:30:49.600 And if you disagree with them, you're somehow a hateful bigot. 546 00:30:49.600 --> 00:30:54.360 They have waged the culture war 100% for years. 547 00:30:54.360 --> 00:31:02.200 And so just as we noted in studies that Jim, Jim Garlo highlights, there is a lack of 548 00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:06.240 equipping, there's a lack of knowledge, people don't know how to give any answer. 549 00:31:06.240 --> 00:31:09.880 And so they're, they're attacked by the world with a, with a message. 550 00:31:09.880 --> 00:31:14.000 And Christians don't know how to give an appropriate biblical response. 551 00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:17.400 Because they're not in the word, and they're not being taught by their pastors. 552 00:31:17.400 --> 00:31:19.280 How to appropriately give an answer. 553 00:31:19.280 --> 00:31:22.080 How about we, we are barrens, that's right. 554 00:31:22.080 --> 00:31:28.000 And we study to show ourselves approved and we, we, we, we look through everything carefully. 555 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:31.440 That, that whole concept in church is gone for the most part. 556 00:31:31.440 --> 00:31:35.320 And we're paying the price for it culturally because the left, unlike that, you've got 557 00:31:35.320 --> 00:31:36.320 to give it to them. 558 00:31:36.320 --> 00:31:37.800 They're fully dedicated to their ideology. 559 00:31:37.800 --> 00:31:38.800 Well, it's their guy. 560 00:31:38.800 --> 00:31:39.800 It's their guy. 561 00:31:39.800 --> 00:31:40.800 It's their religion. 562 00:31:40.800 --> 00:31:41.960 Absolutely. 563 00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:46.440 And so you have this sort of sweeping sentiment where there's a timidity, there's a, there's 564 00:31:46.440 --> 00:31:48.000 a, there's a, I don't know how to give an answer. 565 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:49.240 So I'm just going to go along with it. 566 00:31:49.240 --> 00:31:52.280 But, but on a ray of hope to end, here's what I think. 567 00:31:52.280 --> 00:31:56.200 I think there'll be large turnouts of first time voters this year. 568 00:31:56.200 --> 00:32:01.160 I think that people were very upset with the tyrannicalness of COVID here in California 569 00:32:01.160 --> 00:32:02.640 in the last two years. 570 00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:08.200 I think that now the generation, I just mentioned that previously has not been engaged. 571 00:32:08.200 --> 00:32:12.040 If you have young kids in school, you, all of a sudden, started paying attention. 572 00:32:12.040 --> 00:32:14.000 We were mad about decisions. 573 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:17.600 All of a sudden, now politics matters, right, because it affects me personally. 574 00:32:17.600 --> 00:32:22.120 People putting $200 of gas into their pickup trucks are mad, all of a sudden. 575 00:32:22.120 --> 00:32:25.320 So I'm hoping that that encourages two. 576 00:32:25.320 --> 00:32:31.480 We have demographics that are pulling away like Latinos and Hispanics, the largest growing 577 00:32:31.480 --> 00:32:34.200 conservative demographic in the country. 578 00:32:34.200 --> 00:32:36.160 They're leaving by the thousands. 579 00:32:36.160 --> 00:32:39.040 And they are traditionally strong family. 580 00:32:39.040 --> 00:32:40.040 Absolutely. 581 00:32:40.040 --> 00:32:41.040 Absolutely. 582 00:32:41.040 --> 00:32:42.040 Absolutely. 583 00:32:42.040 --> 00:32:46.920 So I think that this is, you have to look at it in the long-term strategy, because the 584 00:32:46.920 --> 00:32:48.040 left does. 585 00:32:48.040 --> 00:32:53.120 We have to wake up and get engaged in the years going forward, right? 586 00:32:53.120 --> 00:32:58.160 Election cycles will come and go, but we have to get out there and show people you don't 587 00:32:58.160 --> 00:33:02.000 have to acquiesce the left. 588 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.080 People are looking for leadership and inspiration. 589 00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:06.040 And frankly, it shouldn't come from a politician. 590 00:33:06.040 --> 00:33:07.680 It should come from the pulpits. 591 00:33:07.680 --> 00:33:08.680 As we point people back. 592 00:33:08.680 --> 00:33:11.280 I mean, Isaiah said the government is upon his shoulders. 593 00:33:11.280 --> 00:33:15.760 So the Bible doesn't hide from the fact that the church is to be engaged in civic duty. 594 00:33:15.760 --> 00:33:17.160 We are. 595 00:33:17.160 --> 00:33:19.840 Government belongs to God, as you've pointed out many times. 596 00:33:19.840 --> 00:33:22.400 So why are we not mimicking that? 597 00:33:22.400 --> 00:33:24.080 And hopefully this is catching on. 598 00:33:24.080 --> 00:33:30.280 I mean, I've seen some tremendous grassroots movements pop up in recent years. 599 00:33:30.280 --> 00:33:35.440 But it's a hard fight, and people need to realize that apathy's not going to cut it. 600 00:33:35.440 --> 00:33:40.440 You wouldn't believe, you know, whatever you would, the type of attacks and, you know, 601 00:33:40.440 --> 00:33:45.680 comments that we get for just daring to stand up for what you believe in. 602 00:33:45.680 --> 00:33:49.520 There's a violent rhetoric against truth. 603 00:33:49.520 --> 00:33:52.520 And Christians have to be the light bearers of truth. 604 00:33:52.520 --> 00:33:55.160 If we don't preserve truth, no one else will. 605 00:33:55.160 --> 00:33:56.560 And that has to get into politics. 606 00:33:56.560 --> 00:33:57.840 Man, you know, think about it. 607 00:33:57.840 --> 00:33:58.840 What's the deal? 608 00:33:58.840 --> 00:34:04.600 If I get nervous, if time goes by and I have not been criticized or attacked for some truth, 609 00:34:04.600 --> 00:34:06.440 I said, that should be a cue. 610 00:34:06.440 --> 00:34:08.080 I get nervous. 611 00:34:08.080 --> 00:34:16.600 If I am not in trouble for having said something that is right, if I say something like God 612 00:34:16.600 --> 00:34:21.960 requires us to preserve the life of the unborn. 613 00:34:21.960 --> 00:34:27.920 And I'm telling you, when people get upset at that, I know I'm right over the target. 614 00:34:28.920 --> 00:34:34.080 Listen, with the time remaining, what can people do? 615 00:34:34.080 --> 00:34:36.920 And they don't have to be in the 49th to support you. 616 00:34:36.920 --> 00:34:37.920 No. 617 00:34:37.920 --> 00:34:38.920 No. 618 00:34:38.920 --> 00:34:43.680 Now, for all of your typical answers, obviously we need support, we need financial support. 619 00:34:43.680 --> 00:34:49.200 You have to have actual money to run a campaign, especially in Southern California. 620 00:34:49.200 --> 00:34:51.480 There needs to be actions behind the words. 621 00:34:51.480 --> 00:34:53.160 So we do need donations and support. 622 00:34:53.160 --> 00:34:57.680 And if you agree with what we're saying and you like this, get behind your candidate. 623 00:34:57.680 --> 00:35:00.320 So don't go for endorsements necessarily. 624 00:35:00.320 --> 00:35:05.920 You find a candidate and I'm talking wherever you live, wherever you are, you find a candidate 625 00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:10.680 that's standing up for America's first values and biblical principles and send that person 626 00:35:10.680 --> 00:35:11.680 your money. 627 00:35:11.680 --> 00:35:18.560 Not the party, one, two, share, share the information because all the money that we raise 628 00:35:18.560 --> 00:35:23.960 in campaigns is primarily for getting your name and your face out there so people know 629 00:35:23.960 --> 00:35:24.960 who you are. 630 00:35:24.960 --> 00:35:25.960 That's right. 631 00:35:25.960 --> 00:35:31.400 You can cheat the system by using these platforms like social media and online stuff. 632 00:35:31.400 --> 00:35:32.400 You're talking to people. 633 00:35:32.400 --> 00:35:33.400 Share it. 634 00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:34.400 Share it. 635 00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:35.400 Thousands of times. 636 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:39.840 Get the word out there, you know, if you like something, then tell people about it. 637 00:35:39.840 --> 00:35:44.680 Go back to that community root perspective, which is your friends and your family. 638 00:35:44.680 --> 00:35:48.640 We want them engaged and encourage people to talk about the two things the left does 639 00:35:48.640 --> 00:35:50.880 it want us to talk about, religion and politics. 640 00:35:50.880 --> 00:35:51.880 That's right. 641 00:35:51.880 --> 00:35:53.160 It's the two things we should be talking about the most. 642 00:35:53.160 --> 00:35:57.840 It's the two things we deal with every day of our lives, literally every day. 643 00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:00.080 And the enemy would say, don't talk about it. 644 00:36:00.080 --> 00:36:04.360 And I would like to say before, I'm not going anywhere. 645 00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:07.480 Winner lose this primary right now. 646 00:36:07.480 --> 00:36:09.680 These are issues that need attention. 647 00:36:09.680 --> 00:36:15.040 And I believe the Lord is raising people up to be a voice and to get engaged and to fight 648 00:36:15.040 --> 00:36:16.040 back. 649 00:36:16.040 --> 00:36:20.480 And unless someone does, then really we have no right to complain. 650 00:36:20.480 --> 00:36:26.200 So I know that, you know, elections come and go and some people may be disappointed if 651 00:36:26.200 --> 00:36:28.480 you don't win or you lose, you know what? 652 00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:32.440 It doesn't matter because when the Lord calls us to get engaged and do something, his plans 653 00:36:32.440 --> 00:36:33.480 are higher than ours. 654 00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:39.640 So we don't, we're going to take the fight to this state here in California. 655 00:36:39.640 --> 00:36:42.520 And we're going to disturb the peace because we're not done. 656 00:36:42.520 --> 00:36:43.520 We're just getting started. 657 00:36:43.520 --> 00:36:45.280 We're called to obey him. 658 00:36:45.280 --> 00:36:51.160 And I'd like to sweeten the pot this way for those who are outside the 49th district. 659 00:36:51.160 --> 00:36:58.760 Why should they throw love your way is because if you're elected to the United States Congress, 660 00:36:58.760 --> 00:37:05.320 then that's one less stronghold taken from the Democrat Party, which is crashing our nation 661 00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:06.320 as I speak. 662 00:37:06.320 --> 00:37:07.320 Absolutely. 663 00:37:07.320 --> 00:37:14.440 Can you imagine that your election, Josiah, could dethrone Nancy Pelosi? 664 00:37:14.440 --> 00:37:18.840 There could be a shift and she loses her place of power. 665 00:37:18.840 --> 00:37:26.680 That's why people who are in and out of the 49th should help you win 100% 100%. 666 00:37:26.680 --> 00:37:28.720 Each congressional seat is a vote. 667 00:37:28.720 --> 00:37:32.000 Each congressional seat is a vote absolutely. 668 00:37:32.000 --> 00:37:35.600 So what do what do people do if they want to help you out? 669 00:37:35.600 --> 00:37:40.920 Well, if you want to learn more about who I am as a candidate, you can go to the website, 670 00:37:40.920 --> 00:37:45.360 which is O'Neil for Congress.com, O'Neil for Congress.com. 671 00:37:45.360 --> 00:37:50.200 And I also encourage if you're on the socials platforms, because that's just such an easy 672 00:37:50.200 --> 00:37:53.120 way to share information all the time. 673 00:37:53.120 --> 00:37:58.560 So Instagram, O'Neil for Congress, Facebook, O'Neil for Congress, I'm on truth social 674 00:37:58.560 --> 00:37:59.560 as well. 675 00:37:59.560 --> 00:38:00.920 We have interviews on Rumble. 676 00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:02.280 We have a YouTube channel. 677 00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:05.640 I mean, at this point, I think it's during the campaign, we put enough out there. 678 00:38:05.640 --> 00:38:10.000 If you just Google Josiah O'Neil, you'll see our thing somehow. 679 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.200 That's all of that content is free, and it's shareable. 680 00:38:14.200 --> 00:38:16.920 So find events that we've done. 681 00:38:16.920 --> 00:38:21.480 We did a great event here, faith and action, which understanding was shared astronomically 682 00:38:21.480 --> 00:38:27.280 across the country, share it, and there's more of that to come. 683 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:32.120 Because the more that I've learned as a first time candidate, I've learned a tremendous 684 00:38:32.120 --> 00:38:34.480 amount peaking behind that curtain. 685 00:38:34.480 --> 00:38:41.320 And I'm about to blow it all up, because we, people need to know what's really happening 686 00:38:41.320 --> 00:38:43.480 in their political process. 687 00:38:43.480 --> 00:38:46.480 And we're going to take it public. 688 00:38:46.480 --> 00:38:54.840 And I love you for it, and it is, you said something and closing that is so true. 689 00:38:54.840 --> 00:38:59.000 We are to show up as believers, we're to be good stewards over the opportunities that 690 00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:03.320 God has given us, we're to obey Him. 691 00:39:03.320 --> 00:39:05.640 And we leave the outcome to Him. 692 00:39:05.640 --> 00:39:08.240 But yeah. 693 00:39:08.240 --> 00:39:12.320 I want to read something just in closing, because I just want people to realize how far we've 694 00:39:12.320 --> 00:39:14.320 come. 695 00:39:14.320 --> 00:39:21.480 The Supreme Court made a decision, the Supreme Court, the angle in 1962, to remove prayer 696 00:39:21.480 --> 00:39:23.920 from public schools. 697 00:39:23.920 --> 00:39:28.880 But I want people to hear what the New York School Board's prayer was. 698 00:39:28.880 --> 00:39:32.000 This is what kids said every morning in class. 699 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:36.600 This short, New York, in New York, public schools. 700 00:39:36.600 --> 00:39:41.080 This was the prayer that was so offensive they had to rip it out and away from our children. 701 00:39:41.080 --> 00:39:48.200 This is what it said, Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon thee, and we beg thy blessing 702 00:39:48.200 --> 00:39:55.200 upon us, our parents, our teachers, and our country. 703 00:39:56.200 --> 00:40:04.000 Imagine if that's the messaging in public schools versus what we have now, the moral 704 00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:11.680 depravity, the insanity, the mental illness we encourage, we are destroying our children. 705 00:40:11.680 --> 00:40:19.200 Since the eviction of God via the removal of that, the data is nothing but disastrous. 706 00:40:19.200 --> 00:40:24.640 There's no good that has come out of the removal of that. 707 00:40:24.640 --> 00:40:25.640 No good. 708 00:40:25.640 --> 00:40:27.400 It's all bad. 709 00:40:27.400 --> 00:40:32.200 And we pointed out you don't have to be a Christian to benefit from God's love. 710 00:40:32.200 --> 00:40:37.240 When a nation is blessed, the rain falls on everybody. 711 00:40:37.240 --> 00:40:38.480 The founders knew this. 712 00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:41.200 This is why we established freedom of religion. 713 00:40:41.200 --> 00:40:44.320 They acknowledged, yes, you should be able to do as you please. 714 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:51.280 But there's a big difference between tolerance and condoning, tolerance and endorsement. 715 00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:57.760 It's impossible to separate the idea that our founders said, based on the Bible, the Christian 716 00:40:57.760 --> 00:41:01.080 Bible, we will build this nation. 717 00:41:01.080 --> 00:41:02.080 They said it. 718 00:41:02.080 --> 00:41:03.080 They said it so many times. 719 00:41:03.080 --> 00:41:08.560 Adam said that if the Bible were to be picked up by any nation on earth and apply it, 720 00:41:08.560 --> 00:41:11.160 it would become a great nation. 721 00:41:11.160 --> 00:41:16.280 And they were so secure in their Christianity and the few deists that were there. 722 00:41:16.280 --> 00:41:24.480 They were so secure in their belief that number one, all of them, all 56 agreed to assemble 723 00:41:24.480 --> 00:41:32.400 for prayer, all of them gathered at Benjamin Franklin's initial request, mind you. 724 00:41:32.400 --> 00:41:39.200 And the fact that they acknowledged God, they made the first amendment, the first amendment 725 00:41:39.200 --> 00:41:41.400 and the second, the second for a big reason. 726 00:41:41.400 --> 00:41:46.240 They considered those two amendments in accordance with natural law that man will speak 727 00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:49.600 his mind, you can't make a law to shut them up. 728 00:41:49.600 --> 00:41:53.920 And the second amendment is man will always protect himself when pushed. 729 00:41:53.920 --> 00:41:54.920 That's right. 730 00:41:54.920 --> 00:41:57.160 And that's a fact. 731 00:41:57.160 --> 00:42:02.960 They recognize that and here's what's brilliant is that they established what is referred 732 00:42:02.960 --> 00:42:09.320 to as a secular nation, meaning that we are not a Baptist nation. 733 00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:12.760 We're not a, we're not a Catholic nation. 734 00:42:12.760 --> 00:42:16.920 Our founding fathers were so secure in their relationship with God that they created 735 00:42:16.920 --> 00:42:23.560 a government and rights that even if you were an atheist, you had the exact same rights 736 00:42:23.560 --> 00:42:29.640 as the congregationalist or the end of aptest, or the Presbyterian. 737 00:42:29.640 --> 00:42:30.640 It's genius. 738 00:42:30.640 --> 00:42:33.480 It never happened before in the history of man. 739 00:42:33.480 --> 00:42:37.840 And people want to beat up our founding fathers and or say that they were not believers. 740 00:42:37.840 --> 00:42:42.680 The greatness of this nation was they were so secure in their faith that they invented 741 00:42:42.680 --> 00:42:46.800 a great nation knowing not everybody's going to be a believer. 742 00:42:46.800 --> 00:42:48.800 We're cool with that. 743 00:42:48.800 --> 00:42:54.200 But we want to make sure that every believer and non-believer has the exact same rights. 744 00:42:54.200 --> 00:42:55.480 That came from heaven. 745 00:42:55.480 --> 00:42:58.520 Think about that thinking is absolutely spectacular. 746 00:42:58.520 --> 00:42:59.520 Absolutely. 747 00:42:59.520 --> 00:43:03.040 That's why there's a, there was a tree in the Garden of Eden, right? 748 00:43:03.040 --> 00:43:05.440 You put choice there in the very beginning. 749 00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:08.280 It's absolutely correct. 750 00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:14.960 And I hope and think that more and more people are waking up to the fact. 751 00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:19.000 Just that point alone, and to those who may listen who are not Christians or don't care 752 00:43:19.000 --> 00:43:26.440 to or have never been to church, I hope that they're realizing that a Christian Judeo-America 753 00:43:26.440 --> 00:43:35.000 is better than a Marxist totalitarian regime and that the two are inseparable. 754 00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:39.280 Are we so arrogant to think that we know better than those in the past who have already 755 00:43:39.280 --> 00:43:40.280 learned this? 756 00:43:40.280 --> 00:43:41.280 Apparently we do. 757 00:43:41.280 --> 00:43:42.280 Right. 758 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:43.280 I think we are some people too. 759 00:43:43.280 --> 00:43:49.520 So I don't know if people know this either, but a vacancy is always filled. 760 00:43:49.520 --> 00:43:53.720 The vacuum is always replaced, right? 761 00:43:53.720 --> 00:43:57.840 So let's give them what they want, hypothetically, and I know we're going over time here now, 762 00:43:57.840 --> 00:44:03.720 but hypothetically, everybody who thinks we're the big, mean, bad white guys and 763 00:44:04.720 --> 00:44:05.720 this world. 764 00:44:05.720 --> 00:44:07.720 And we ought to go and away. 765 00:44:09.720 --> 00:44:10.720 So okay, we'll go away. 766 00:44:10.720 --> 00:44:12.720 Let's just all leave. 767 00:44:12.720 --> 00:44:17.720 So the Judeo-Christian worldview people up and leave. 768 00:44:17.720 --> 00:44:18.720 What are you going to replace it with? 769 00:44:18.720 --> 00:44:20.720 What's going to fill the void? 770 00:44:20.720 --> 00:44:22.720 I'll tell you what's going to fill the void. 771 00:44:22.720 --> 00:44:29.720 It's what filled the void in many countries in the world where Christianity was either driven 772 00:44:29.720 --> 00:44:35.720 away or conquered, and that's Islam. 773 00:44:35.720 --> 00:44:37.720 Think about it. 774 00:44:37.720 --> 00:44:42.720 Islam is right now replacing Christianity in Europe. 775 00:44:42.720 --> 00:44:46.720 The great churches and cathedrals of Yesteryear's Christianity in Europe. 776 00:44:46.720 --> 00:44:49.720 Many of them are mosque now. 777 00:44:49.720 --> 00:44:54.720 And there is no Judeo-Christian jurisprudence in Islam. 778 00:44:55.720 --> 00:45:02.720 There is no Judeo-Christian freedom and rights in Islam like they are present in Christianity. 779 00:45:02.720 --> 00:45:04.720 So be careful. 780 00:45:04.720 --> 00:45:07.720 The very thing that you curse and hate. 781 00:45:07.720 --> 00:45:11.720 It's probably because you don't understand it. 782 00:45:11.720 --> 00:45:14.720 But we're not even asking you to be a believer. 783 00:45:14.720 --> 00:45:16.720 Like you said, it's choice. 784 00:45:16.720 --> 00:45:18.720 But the world knows. 785 00:45:18.720 --> 00:45:19.720 It's funny. 786 00:45:19.720 --> 00:45:21.720 People outside look, you grew up in a foreign country. 787 00:45:21.720 --> 00:45:26.720 Growing up that America was the best hope on the planet. 788 00:45:26.720 --> 00:45:29.720 And we're close to losing all that. 789 00:45:29.720 --> 00:45:31.720 I hope that's not the case. 790 00:45:31.720 --> 00:45:33.720 Look, I'm old and I'm going to see Jesus soon. 791 00:45:33.720 --> 00:45:35.720 But I got grandkids, man. 792 00:45:35.720 --> 00:45:38.720 And I'm fighting for it's right because I got grandkids. 793 00:45:38.720 --> 00:45:43.720 Oh, that's a good point because I think the final straw, though there were many things that led me to run for Congress, 794 00:45:43.720 --> 00:45:46.720 the final straw was looking at my children. 795 00:45:46.720 --> 00:45:51.720 And what's happening in the world and saying, this is where we draw the line. 796 00:45:51.720 --> 00:45:54.720 I do want to mention something real close here. 797 00:45:54.720 --> 00:45:56.720 I know we're finishing. 798 00:45:56.720 --> 00:45:59.720 There was a man named Polycarp. 799 00:45:59.720 --> 00:46:03.720 And I think more Christians need to be acquainted with him. 800 00:46:03.720 --> 00:46:11.720 Here's a guy who historians working out the chronology estimate that he was probably in the church in Smirna. 801 00:46:11.720 --> 00:46:18.720 Around the time when Revelation addresses that letter to Smirna, that Polycarp probably heard that message being read. 802 00:46:18.720 --> 00:46:23.720 And where they said, many of you will be imprisoned or you'll be persecuted for your faith. 803 00:46:23.720 --> 00:46:25.720 I don't know if Polycarp thought about that at the time. 804 00:46:25.720 --> 00:46:27.720 But skip forward to 152 AD. 805 00:46:27.720 --> 00:46:35.720 And Christians are being forced to make sacrifices to Caesar the Roman Emperor upon pain of death or imprisonment. 806 00:46:35.720 --> 00:46:41.720 Polycarp, according to church history, is now the bishop of the church of Smirna. 807 00:46:41.720 --> 00:46:43.720 He's the pastor, the overseer. 808 00:46:43.720 --> 00:46:44.720 And he refuses. 809 00:46:44.720 --> 00:46:45.720 That's right. 810 00:46:45.720 --> 00:46:46.720 And he goes into hiding. 811 00:46:46.720 --> 00:46:50.720 That's how much he believed in what we're talking about. 812 00:46:50.720 --> 00:46:52.720 He goes into hiding, but the Romans find him. 813 00:46:52.720 --> 00:46:53.720 They bring him out. 814 00:46:53.720 --> 00:46:54.720 He's 86 years old. 815 00:46:54.720 --> 00:46:55.720 I love this. 816 00:46:55.720 --> 00:46:57.720 And they bring him before the tribunal. 817 00:46:57.720 --> 00:46:58.720 Fox's book of martyrs has this. 818 00:46:58.720 --> 00:46:59.720 Yes. 819 00:46:59.720 --> 00:47:00.720 Yes. 820 00:47:00.720 --> 00:47:02.720 And if you have a red foxes, at least have a copy in your house. 821 00:47:02.720 --> 00:47:04.720 They bring him before the tribunal. 822 00:47:04.720 --> 00:47:08.720 And they beg him to consider his age and let it go. 823 00:47:08.720 --> 00:47:09.720 Renounce. 824 00:47:09.720 --> 00:47:10.720 Revile Christ. 825 00:47:10.720 --> 00:47:11.720 Come on, old man. 826 00:47:11.720 --> 00:47:12.720 Just then out. 827 00:47:12.720 --> 00:47:13.720 Just let it go. 828 00:47:13.720 --> 00:47:14.720 And they threaten him with animals. 829 00:47:14.720 --> 00:47:15.720 Right. 830 00:47:15.720 --> 00:47:16.720 And he said, I bid them come. 831 00:47:16.720 --> 00:47:18.720 Bring the animals then. 832 00:47:18.720 --> 00:47:23.720 And the emperor was so mad that they said, we're going to burn you to death, right? 833 00:47:23.720 --> 00:47:27.720 And Polycarp said, you don't need to time me up because I'm going to stand right there. 834 00:47:27.720 --> 00:47:28.720 I'm going to run in. 835 00:47:28.720 --> 00:47:33.720 And of course, if you don't know the end of the story, Polycarp was killed. 836 00:47:33.720 --> 00:47:34.720 He's martyred. 837 00:47:34.720 --> 00:47:37.720 Actually, the flames, because the wind was blowing, are blowing the flames away from him. 838 00:47:37.720 --> 00:47:39.720 And it was taking him more time to die. 839 00:47:39.720 --> 00:47:43.720 And a Roman soldier actually stepped forward and ran him through with his sword. 840 00:47:43.720 --> 00:47:45.720 Now, I'm listening to that. 841 00:47:45.720 --> 00:47:47.720 I listened to it teaching the other day. 842 00:47:47.720 --> 00:47:49.720 We're talking about Polycarp. 843 00:47:49.720 --> 00:47:57.720 And I'm comparing that to a church who closed their doors because some guy named Newsom told him they couldn't worship anymore. 844 00:47:57.720 --> 00:48:05.720 And what, what a shame I felt for the condition of the church where we have a free society still as of now. 845 00:48:05.720 --> 00:48:09.720 And the ability to stand up and fight back and stand for truth. 846 00:48:09.720 --> 00:48:16.720 And we have guys like Polycarp who literally went to their death and were burned alive in refusal to deny Christ. 847 00:48:16.720 --> 00:48:18.720 Come on, California. 848 00:48:18.720 --> 00:48:19.720 Right. 849 00:48:19.720 --> 00:48:22.720 Because the pulpits have allowed us to become nuts. 850 00:48:23.720 --> 00:48:26.720 The pulpits have allowed us to become leo descent. 851 00:48:26.720 --> 00:48:27.720 Yeah. 852 00:48:27.720 --> 00:48:29.720 We are leo descent. 853 00:48:29.720 --> 00:48:33.720 Josiah O'Neill, California's 49th district. 854 00:48:33.720 --> 00:48:35.720 You got to win. 855 00:48:35.720 --> 00:48:36.720 We love you. 856 00:48:36.720 --> 00:48:38.720 You're what's right for California. 857 00:48:38.720 --> 00:48:40.720 You're what's right for this nation. 858 00:48:40.720 --> 00:48:49.720 And I want to thank you for your years, nearly 20 years now, 20 years of service to our liberties and freedoms here in this country. 859 00:48:49.720 --> 00:48:51.720 I consider it an honor to know you. 860 00:48:51.720 --> 00:48:52.720 I love you. 861 00:48:52.720 --> 00:48:53.720 You already know all this. 862 00:48:53.720 --> 00:48:55.720 So, I bless you. 863 00:48:55.720 --> 00:48:56.720 Thanks for having me. 864 00:48:56.720 --> 00:48:57.720 I appreciate it. 865 00:49:01.720 --> 00:49:07.720 This Jack Hibbs podcast as well as 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