Share-a-thon Day 2. Proverbs 2:1-7. Wisdom is more valuable than riches.

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24. 1:57The White House is interesting. We got the announcement from the White House today about hmm. We're gonna press pause
25. 2:04on
26. 2:04terrorist for all
27. 2:06of the tariff nations except for
28. 2:10Jaina
29. 2:11Jaina
30. 2:13Came from China. What can I say it came from?
31. 2:16China
32. 2:18Which had an?
33. 2:20Amplification of tariffs there we get into that in a moment, but we've but before we do that we have to turn
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41. 3:00The first human institution that got established
42. 3:02was the family.
43. 3:03Before you get to modern iterations of civil government,
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51. 3:26If we wanna see things change in America,
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56. 3:40than what goes on in the White House.
57. 3:42You know, sometimes we have some folks, frankly, who work extra shifts because they're hiding
58. 3:46from their homes.
59. 3:47Well, we don't want you to have to hide from your homes.
60. 3:49And if there are adjustments that need to be made, we want to boldly, confidently and
61. 3:53courageously make those adjustments.
62. 3:57It takes integrity and humility to change course when we know changing course is in order.
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64. 4:12players right there at a fr.net. There's a site available for you there. It's share
65. 4:18thama. We still are going to turn to the word of God. Proverbs chapter two is where
66. 4:22I'd like to direct your attention today. Proverbs chapter two versus one through seven.
67. 4:27It's amazing what's provided here. Wisdom is personified in this text. This particular
68. 4:34portion of scripture. It takes on the persona of a father conveying to his son instruction.
69. 4:42And this is what the Word of God says. Proverbs chapter 2 verse 1, it says this, my son, if
70. 4:47you receive my words and treasure up my commandments with you, making your ear attentive to wisdom
71. 4:55and inclining your heart to understanding. Yes, if you call out for insight and raise your
72. 5:01voice for understanding. If you seek it like silver and search for it as for hidden treasure,
73. 5:08then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God.
74. 5:14For the Lord gives wisdom from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. He stores up
75. 5:20up, sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity. Oh,
76. 5:32God, thank you so much for your holy word. The simple truth is brothers and sisters that
77. 5:37wisdom should be cherished and pursued at a higher clip than riches. Now, I know that
78. 5:46makes no sense to those who may not understand the Lord's word, who may not understand this.
79. 5:51But one of the major benefits of having God's word is that you have the counsel of
80. 5:56Omniscience the omniscient one all knowing one
81. 6:00Who's available to us and notice the admonition in the text if you receive my words?
82. 6:07Guess what's being presented there that the possibility exists that wisdom is available yet. It is not received
83. 6:14Wisdom is available yet. It is not pursued wisdom is available, but it is rejected
84. 6:22But this wisdom is available.
85. 6:25Then the text goes on to say, not only receive my words, but to treasure up my
86. 6:31commandments, whose commandments, the commandments of wisdom, whose words, the
87. 6:35words of wisdom, where are the words of wisdom found in God's holy word?
88. 6:42If you not only receive my words, but treasure, place appropriate value, appropriate
89. 6:48estimation on this wisdom. Then verse two, amplifies the proper positioning and
90. 6:55approach to wisdom, making your ear attentive. Notice it is the opportunity
91. 7:01and the availability of the sun and a responsive posture to make his ear
92. 7:06attentive to wisdom. Having been exposed to it, having been introduced to it, we
93. 7:11then incline our ears, make our ears attentive to wisdom. Verse three, if you
94. 7:18call out for insight. You see this, this crescendo, this intensification of commitment and investment
95. 7:23on the part of the sun. It goes from receipt, receiving words to treasuring commandments, to making
96. 7:29ones irretentive, to inclining your heart to understanding. And now it's calling out for insight.
97. 7:35I need it, Lord. I want it, Lord. That ramping up is appropriate when you recognize the outsized
98. 7:42value for wisdom. Raise your voice for understanding if you seek it like silver is what verse four says.
99. 7:49If you seek it like silver, one of the major benefits of being in Christ is that Christ
100. 7:56transforms our minds. Romans 12, 1 and 2 to the believer, the Lord said through the Apostle Paul,
101. 8:02do not be conformed to this world. Be transformed by what the renewing of your mind. One of the major
102. 8:08benefits of having a renewed mind is that you have a new newly established valuation system,
103. 8:16newly established value system, things that you used to find valuable, things that you used to
104. 8:21be used as worthy of your time investment, things that you used to be used to be used to be used
105. 8:24to be the same way. I was talking to a person not too long ago and they said, yeah, you know,
106. 8:30when I was young, you know, I placed a lot of value on riding the nicest cars and having the
107. 8:35the nicest clothes and having the nicest accessories and having these things.
108. 8:39And now that I'm more mature and more wise, I realize that not only do I have a
109. 8:43different value system, but I recognize those things weren't as valuable as I
110. 8:48thought they were.
111. 8:49Here I am now.
112. 8:50This person was in their 50s.
113. 8:52Here I am now in my 50s, looking at myself in my 20s and 30s and shaking my head.
114. 8:58Recognizing that, oh, if I had only had open eyes, then how much better off would I be?
115. 9:03guys, as it is, that is an example of what I'm talking about, having the proper valuation
116. 9:08for wisdom. The text goes on. If you not only seek you like silver, but if you search for
117. 9:14it like hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord. Then you will find the
118. 9:23knowledge of God. Verse 6, for the Lord gives wisdom. Who is the source of wisdom? The Lord
119. 9:30is the source of wisdom.
120. 9:32One of the major reasons why we're doing this,
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129. 10:00I don't care what the ACLU says,
130. 10:03I don't care what the Biden administration says,
131. 10:04there's no such thing as 153 different so-called genders.
132. 10:09I don't care what, you know, that Wicked Marxist
133. 10:13organization run by pagan spiritists,
134. 10:16there's Black Lives Matter, all lives matter.
135. 10:19There's no such thing as multiple races of human beings.
136. 10:23And if you really believe Black Lives Matter,
137. 10:25do you think they matter in the womb?
138. 10:27Does it matter?
139. 10:28When you have babies that are being slaughtered
140. 10:29on the streets of American inner cities,
141. 10:33oh, before I can express whether or not I care,
142. 10:35I need to know who did the slaughtering.
143. 10:36That's partiality.
144. 10:38The Bible goes as sin.
145. 10:39You care nothing about the loss of human life.
146. 10:42All you care about is if whether or not
147. 10:44you can gin up public fermentation
148. 10:46based on the skin color of the participants.
149. 10:49That's evil.
150. 10:50That's not just wrong.
151. 10:52That's not just a difference of opinion.
152. 10:53That is evil.
153. 10:56It's your compassion.
154. 10:57You wait to determine whether or not you have compassion
155. 11:00for a fellow image bearer of God,
156. 11:02because you need to know what's the skin color
157. 11:04of the person involved.
158. 11:06Guys, that's evil.
159. 11:07And so having a place where we can convey first,
160. 11:10having digested the wisdom of God,
161. 11:12then having the willingness to convey that publicly,
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164. 11:22getting back to the text, verse six,
165. 11:23for the Lord gives wisdom from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
166. 11:29If you ever had any questions, as I'm talking about, get wisdom, incline your
167. 11:33ear to understanding, treasure up the commandments of wisdom, receive the words
168. 11:37of wisdom, it is available to us in God's Holy Word.
169. 11:41It is an indictment upon us if we have Bibles, but they're dust collectors.
170. 11:45It's an indictment upon us if our Bibles are nothing but, but accessories on
171. 11:50in tables. The wisdom of God is available to us, hence the very first verse, my son, if you receive
172. 11:57wisdom. It's not an automatic. Incontrated popular practice, wisdom is not the product of
173. 12:04years spent on the Lord's earth. No wisdom grows and develops by a combination of years spent on
174. 12:10the Lord's earth and submission to the authority and the applicability of His Word. For the Lord
175. 12:18gives wisdom from his mouth, come knowledge and understanding. He stores up sound wisdom
176. 12:23for the upright. He's a shield to those who walk in integrity. That is one of the major benefits
177. 12:31of being a laser guy that he's seeking for sure of wisdom that God himself is a shield to those
178. 12:38who walk in integrity. That means we won't face difficulties in his life. We will, but we're able
179. 12:41would do so with the shield, you know, the shield doesn't, doesn't keep Azariah, Hananiah,
180. 12:47and Mishaiah from Fire Refurnis, but they're in the Fire Refurnis. They went in bound, but
181. 12:51guess what? They're in there walking around and I thought we put three in there. But now
182. 12:56we see four in the fourth one. Looks like the son of God. Guys, that is what is available
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248. 17:18net. Now today, one of the major things that happened, the announcement came earlier in
249. 17:23the day first, President Trump posted it on Truth Social, and then the press secretary of
250. 17:29Caroline Levitt gave a statement, and then the news just ran like wildfire all across the
251. 17:34country. It led to a major surge on Wall Street. Frankly, the morning started off well on Wall
252. 17:40Street, actually, which is so, so interesting to see. President Trump announced among things
253. 17:47that there are over 75 nations that have called that are seeking negotiations concerning the
254. 17:54terrorists. But there's one outlier. Y'all want to guess what it is? China China in light
255. 18:02of the things that are transpiring President Trump announced a 90 day which he called a
256. 18:06pause on social media, but it's not effectively a pause across the board as a reduction of all
257. 18:12of tears to 10% for all the donations he said who did not retaliate against his tariff announcements,
258. 18:19but it includes an increased tariff against China to 125% on all goods that would be shipped
259. 18:29to this country from China. Many Americans don't realize almost half of China's exports
260. 18:34are sent right here to the United States of America.
261. 18:37I got to have more cowbell almost half. You know, at close to the 40% of the country,
262. 18:42about 39.7% or so are sent here.
263. 18:46And you probably can imagine China exports a whole lot more to us than we export to them.
264. 18:53In fact, we export almost nothing to China.
265. 18:57They export almost everything to us in the process of stealing American companies intellectual
266. 19:03property, stealing their, the good services, our companies put manufacturing facilities
267. 19:08in China or in Vietnam or in Bangladesh or somewhere else.
268. 19:11what it's trying to do, go and steal the intellectual product, create these low paying
269. 19:15manufacturing jobs in China, and they literally make American knockoff products, sell them
270. 19:21domestically to their own citizens.
271. 19:24And they also export some of them.
272. 19:26And they even just announced recently, yeah, we're going to continue to do it.
273. 19:29They put it as policy and published it that will continue to steal your products.
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276. 19:48of unvarnished truth in our culture. 87616-2396 is the number to call, or you can give securely
277. 19:57online by going to aFR.net. I want to play for you now and show you for those who are watching
278. 20:03the program, a clip of press secretary, no, not the press secretary, but you have a commentator
279. 20:12discussing the tariff pause and the ramped up tariff against China. Listen to and watch
280. 20:18clip number one go.
281. 20:20Yeah, Tom, it's an extraordinary bit of governing by social media posts less than a day after
282. 20:25these tariffs global in nature went into effect on trading partners around the world. The president
283. 20:30says he is pausing or substantially reducing most of them a 90 day pause.
284. 20:35His language is unclear, but it suggests that for most countries, the 75 or so who've
285. 20:39either reached out to him or not retaliated against the United States since his tariff
286. 20:44order will see their tariffs either pause for 90 days or reduce to that 10% flat rate for
287. 20:49that time.
288. 20:50In the same post, he says that he is substantially raising the tariff rate on goods from China
289. 20:55to 125%.
290. 20:56So you heard it there, folks, and I told you guys I wasn't going to come out swinging against
291. 21:03President Trump on the whole tear thing.
292. 21:05I have not have not been a fan of terrorists, but I have said, and I will continue to say
293. 21:11in the last 50 years, there's been one president and frankly one head of state.
294. 21:15There's not been a head of state in the world that has been willing to take on China until
295. 21:19President Donald John Trump expresses willingness to take on China.
296. 21:24Now the way he rolled it out, I wouldn't have done it that way.
297. 21:27There's some things I would have done first.
298. 21:28I told you yesterday about deregulation and establishing
299. 21:32permanency concerning our taxation,
300. 21:35tax rate cuts in our country.
301. 21:37But nevertheless, the president is done what he's done.
302. 21:41Right?
303. 21:42And we've now reached a point to where I believe
304. 21:46the ultimate objective is in crystal clear focus,
305. 21:50an objective that every American kid can get on board with,
306. 21:53that the target all along was China,
307. 21:57that we cannot continue to have them ripping off American companies intellectual property.
308. 22:01We cannot have them continuing shipping their cheaply made products into our country, hollowing
309. 22:07out our manufacturing sector.
310. 22:11China has been robbing the world, enriching itself, and consuming anything largely from
311. 22:18any other nation.
312. 22:19China is not an importing nation.
313. 22:22You have others saying that the China terrorists should go all the way up to 400 percent because
314. 22:26they are ripping the world off and enriching themselves while in the same process building,
315. 22:31you know, this atheist antichrist, communist army, you know, this is what they're doing.
316. 22:37And so now that is in crystal clear focus. This is of the every American regardless of
317. 22:41political persuasion can get behind the same country that launched the Wuhan flu on the
318. 22:47world, the same country that is raking nations over the colds, companies over the colds. That
319. 22:53is one of the primary contributors to the creation
320. 22:57of what we now know as the American Rust Belt,
321. 22:59it is appropriate to train our focus on China.
322. 23:03For years, China has already declared they are at war with us.
323. 23:07The United States of America, they have sought to de-establish us
324. 23:13as the pre-imminant superpower in the world.
325. 23:16They want our smart, they've been saying this for years.
326. 23:19I told you before, let's not learn from the block.
327. 23:21You can say you ain't in a fight,
328. 23:22but if somebody is punching you in the face,
329. 23:24You're in a fight whether you wanna be or not.
330. 23:27And that's what's been happening.
331. 23:28On every front except kinetic warfare.
332. 23:34Nobody wants kinetic warfare,
333. 23:36but China's been at war with us for quite some time.
334. 23:38And what kind of foolish nation would we be
335. 23:42to continue a lower nation that is at war with us
336. 23:44according to their own declarations
337. 23:46to continue to enrich themselves at our expense?
338. 23:49That's like me saying, hey Bobby,
339. 23:50you know by the way I hate your guts.
340. 23:53And I wanna take over your home,
341. 23:54but you keep paying me money to do so.
342. 23:57What kind of fooling sense is that?
343. 23:58Now y'all know I love Bobby, y'all.
344. 24:00You know, an example of a serious crisis to go to waste.
345. 24:05That's funny, Bobby.
346. 24:06That's funny.
347. 24:07So it is crystal clear, pause on tariffs
348. 24:10for every other nation.
349. 24:13Over 75 nations have expressed their willingness
350. 24:15to come to the negotiating table.
351. 24:17President Trump said he is a rewarding nation
352. 24:19who didn't try to retaliate against us.
353. 24:21I don't know how accurate that is
354. 24:22because other nations did express their retaliatory intent.
355. 24:25However, they enjoy a pause on Terrace as well.
356. 24:29But I think the main focus was China all along
357. 24:31and it should have been.
358. 24:33And for the first time in over half century,
359. 24:36we have an American president
360. 24:37that's willing to take China on.
361. 24:38Nobody wants kinetic warfare,
362. 24:40but we cannot continue to allow China to steal
363. 24:43from us, steal our country blind
364. 24:46and then flood our nation with their cheaply made goods.
365. 24:49I said before, I said it yesterday,
366. 24:51when I was a child, I would go to the store and my dad,
367. 24:54I'd pick up something from Walmart or somewhere
368. 24:56My dad would say, hey, what was that made?
369. 25:00You know, that is, this is gonna be,
370. 25:01I put that back, that's junk.
371. 25:03We don't buy it unless it says made in America.
372. 25:05Now my children don't know anything
373. 25:07about finding items that are made in America.
374. 25:10And I'll add this in, the largest contributing factor
375. 25:13to that has been Wall Street, one of the largest.
376. 25:17But notice, and I've said to these guys
377. 25:19that said this to you guys yesterday,
378. 25:21what the stock market wants is stability.
379. 25:23You know, no matter, look, just tell me
380. 25:25how you're calling the game, ref.
381. 25:26Is it gonna be, you're gonna call it tight?
382. 25:28You know, you're gonna call it, follow me.
383. 25:30If my shoes get untied, just call it both ways.
384. 25:33Or if you're gonna let us play like the 1990s bad boy
385. 25:36Pistons, I just need it to be consistent.
386. 25:39And so now you have a bit of consistency announced
387. 25:42and look what happened in the stock market.
388. 25:44Realize immediately.
389. 25:46Guys, that's what's going on.
390. 25:47And here's the other thing, and then I'm gonna get back
391. 25:50to discussing Sharethon and some listening testimonies.
392. 25:54China is dependent upon exports.
393. 25:58America is not.
394. 25:59It may be a little difficulty temporarily, but we are equipped to endure far longer than
395. 26:07China's equipped to endure.
396. 26:09And Xi Jinping can only be the communist dictator he wants to be if his people are employed.
397. 26:15But if the United States of America ain't buying those cheaply made Chinese goods, guess
398. 26:19what's going to happen to those people?
399. 26:22I'm just telling you that's just the truth.
400. 26:25Not to even mention, do I need to mention that there are over 3,000 companies in America
401. 26:29that are that are that have ownership from the Communist Party in China?
402. 26:32Did I mention that?
403. 26:33Do I need to mention the quantity of Chinese interested entities that are purchasing land right next to our American military bases?
404. 26:41Do I need to mention all of that?
405. 26:44How foolish would we be to continue a lot of these things to happen?
406. 26:48I'm grateful for President Trump has taken them on.
407. 26:50And so now we have clear.
408. 26:52We have clarity as what's going on with tree.
409. 26:55Everybody else pause on the tariffs 10%.
410. 26:59We still want y'all to make it right, boss, but we're talking 75 plus countries.
411. 27:03We're talking but you read China. Nah, nah, it's time for you to be isolated. You can't sit at the
412. 27:10table no more. You can't sit at the table anymore because you are lying and thieving nation.
413. 27:18And I don't mean that as a pejorative. I mean that based on what they have done. 8776162396
414. 27:26is the number to call 8776162396. We are in the throes of Sheraton. This is day two of our spring
415. 27:352025, Sherathon. Let's take a moment and listen to a testimony from a fellow AFR listener. Go.
416. 27:43My name is Michael and I got arrested in 1985 and I got out in 2006. For many years,
417. 27:54I had lived a wildlife and after I got arrested, I got saved and I got into my Bible and just
418. 28:00started listening to Christian Radio and TV and American Family Radio and it has blessed me,
419. 28:08strengthened me and was there for me through the hard times. It is something that God has used
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422. 28:29Wow. Oh man. What a testimony. 877-616-239-6 is a number to call. One of the things that
423. 28:38you guys may not know about me, but for a long time in New Orleans, I did prison ministry
424. 28:44with the elder in our church in Orleans who was over the prison ministry. And one of the
425. 28:48things that's a frequently spoken term in prison ministry is called jailhouse religion.
426. 28:54That is when a person during their time of incarceration, they express a conversion to
427. 28:59Christianity, but if and when they're released, they leave their Christianity in the jail when
428. 29:05they exit the jail, you know, or the prison.
429. 29:07Now, you just heard a testimony for a brother.
430. 29:09This brother said he got arrested in 1984.
431. 29:11What'd he say?
432. 29:13Eighty-five?
433. 29:14Nineteen eighty-five.
434. 29:15And he's calling now in the twenty-first century to talk about having given his life to
435. 29:20the Lord after his arrest and how he's continuing to endeavor to serve the Lord now and how AFR
436. 29:27has been a tool that God has used to aid him
437. 29:29in continuing to walk the straight, narrow path.
438. 29:32Those kinds of testimonies, oh man.
439. 29:36Those kinds of testimonies, warm my heart.
440. 29:40Those kind of testimonies warm my heart.
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442. 29:46you are contributing to allowing those kind of testimonies
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444. 29:50How often, like I said, with the recidivism rate
445. 29:52that we have in our nation, people who get jailhouse religion,
446. 29:55but don't have sustaining capacity,
447. 29:57but you just heard a testimony of a brother
448. 29:59of his own volition, who would call him publicly declared,
449. 30:02not only as he continued to walk on the straight and narrow,
450. 30:05but God has used American Family Radio as a tool to aid him
451. 30:09in that commitment.
452. 30:10I mean, that is, I mean, I'm sorry, that's worth every penny.
453. 30:14You know, that's worth every penny.
454. 30:16You know, when I made the adjustment
455. 30:17and I made some sacrifices to join
456. 30:20the American Family Association,
457. 30:22but those kind of testimonies are worth it.
458. 30:25877-616-2396 is the number to call,
459. 30:30or you can give securely online at aFR.net,
460. 30:33aFR.net.
461. 30:35One of the things that I'm so grateful to God
462. 30:38to have been a part of is the documentary film
463. 30:41that American Family Studios produced,
464. 30:43in his image, Delighting in God's Design,
465. 30:47to where you have a biblical, frankly,
466. 30:49in a biblical apologetic documentary
467. 30:52for the sanctity of the Amago dei, you know,
468. 30:56where we tackle head on,
469. 30:59but much to the disdain of others
470. 31:01in a compassionate, loving manner,
471. 31:04we tackle this issue of sexuality and identity,
472. 31:08and communicate it from a first, a biblical foundation,
473. 31:12anchoring what is presented in the film
474. 31:14in the Word of God.
475. 31:15Secondarily from a scientific foundation,
476. 31:17when you have people talk about, you know, bottom surgery,
477. 31:20what is that?
478. 31:21You know, what is a phalaeoplasty?
479. 31:23You know, what is a vaginal plastic?
480. 31:25What are these things?
481. 31:26We delve into that and then we have personal testimony
482. 31:29of people who have been directly involved
483. 31:31in these types of lifestyles.
484. 31:33Like our sister, Laura Perry, who was,
485. 31:35lived as a transgender man for nine years,
486. 31:37but then the Lord saved her.
487. 31:39And by God's grace, even after the film,
488. 31:41now I have been able to meet her husband.
489. 31:43Glory to God, it's amazing.
490. 31:46You know, our brother, a Walt Heyer,
491. 31:49who has a ministry sex change regret,
492. 31:51who lived for years as a woman,
493. 31:53but the Lord saved him,
494. 31:54put him back on the right course, you know?
495. 31:58It's a powerful, powerful tool,
496. 32:00and it's one of the things that the Lord moved us to create,
497. 32:03to aid the church in tackling this issue.
498. 32:06You know, where you can go to inhisimage.movie,
499. 32:08free of charge and watch the documentary,
500. 32:10share that with others who may be struggling in this area,
501. 32:14those who may have questions,
502. 32:15how do you minister in this area?
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513. 32:49You know, one of the things that's been exposed in this conversation about trade wars and tariffs
514. 32:54and all these other things is that regressives have revealed their utter ignorance.
515. 33:01You know, I don't know if y'all saw that clip I might play it for you tomorrow of Jasmine
516. 33:05Crockett from the Congress, the representative from from Texas saying nobody's trying to
517. 33:10farm.
518. 33:11I'm just like, um, when does she think how food comes from?
519. 33:15You know, there's a whole part of America, Jasmine.
520. 33:17That's not in Houston, Texas, by the way, sweetheart.
521. 33:20You know, there's a whole segment of our society
522. 33:24that feed our nation through farming.
523. 33:27You know, and then you have Chris Matthews from MSDNC
524. 33:34who asked this question.
525. 33:37If we were in a tariff war with China,
526. 33:40I mean, and with Canada, oh geez, Canada,
527. 33:43don't you realize Canada makes all of our lumber?
528. 33:46And if Canada's not making our two-by-fours,
529. 33:49where will we get our two-by-fours?
530. 33:51I was like, um, Chris, um, we got trees in America, bro.
531. 33:59Got y'all think I'm joking, but I am not joking.
532. 34:01I'll play that for you when we come back.
533. 34:04You are listening to AFR day two of the spring 2025
534. 34:07shareathon eight, seven, seven, six, one, six, two, three, nine, six is the number
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537. 34:21In honor of Brother Don and Linda Wildman, it's Founders Day on AFR.
538. 34:29I remember a time when I was in my late 20s and I just graduated college and starting my
539. 34:35family and beginning to work at AFA and had several questions that I wanted to know about
540. 34:40Christianity, about some theological truths, things that may have been controversial in
541. 34:47church history and certain questions that I know that have been debated over years and
542. 34:52years, but I wanted to be a black and white guy. I wanted to know, hey, what are the answer?
543. 34:56And so I called up Papa and I said, hey, you have an opportunity or some time this week,
544. 35:02and I could come over and ask you some questions. And he said, absolutely. And so that weekend
545. 35:06I went over there and he gave me several of his books that he got from seminary and other
546. 35:11things like that that were very beneficial for me and him. And so he gave me some of those
547. 35:15things. And then I remember going, pulling out my notebook and going, okay, here are some
548. 35:19questions that I got and I went down the first one, the second one, the third one.
549. 35:23As I got toward the end, I was looking at him like, don't you have some answers to these?
550. 35:27And then I realized when he let me, he said, well go ahead, finish them all.
551. 35:30And I finished them and then he asked me the question.
552. 35:32He said, well let me ask you a question.
553. 35:35What difference does those things make?
554. 35:37And it almost seemed in the moment that it was sarcastic, but it wasn't.
555. 35:41I know my pop-up, he was trying to make a point and he was challenging me to think through
556. 35:46the significance and importance of them and understanding whether this was a close hand
557. 35:50issue or this was something that was open handed for the purpose of the way I would approach
558. 35:55it. So from that point on it's inspired me to ask the same question. Of course he was
559. 36:00up for discussion, debate and things that were edifying but his point was is that if it doesn't
560. 36:06matter on the other side in heaven what difference does it make here if it becomes divisive.
561. 36:13And so that's been very helpful for me.
562. 36:15Brother Don has been standing in the gap for families,
563. 36:18and Linda has been standing behind him
564. 36:20since the inception of this ministry more than 40 years ago.
565. 36:23We praise the Lord for our Founders' Obedient Service,
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574. 37:01It's Founders Day on American Family Radio.
575. 37:04Welcome back to Cherathon 2025. Day 2 of Cherathon, Hamilton Corner Edition.
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584. 37:59That is a fr.net before going to the break.
585. 38:02I mentioned that MS D&C's Chris Matthew
586. 38:07was having a hard time whapping his would of wane
587. 38:09on the notion that,
588. 38:13hey, bro, we don't have to continuously depend
589. 38:17on all these other nations for things
590. 38:18that we use on a daily basis.
591. 38:20What a novel idea to start to make some of the things
592. 38:23that we need right here in our own country.
593. 38:25in particular, he took issue with the fact that don't you realize how much lumber we get from
594. 38:29Canada? If we continue to have trade difficulties with Canada, where or where we get our wood?
595. 38:36I'm telling you guys, I am not making this up. Listen to and watch clip number two.
596. 38:41Clip number two. Go.
597. 38:43But there's others thing. I watched on the evening news last night, one of the other networks,
598. 38:46and I watched the issue of lumber. Now, you see, we get so much of our lumber, our two
599. 38:52by force from Canada.
600. 38:54What's where we get it from?
601. 38:55Canada, we get our newsprint from up there for newspapers.
602. 38:58The fact is we get it.
603. 38:59What are we going to do?
604. 39:00Have more lumber made in the United States now?
605. 39:02What is our plan now?
606. 39:03Oh, we're not going to import wood.
607. 39:05So we're going to make more wood.
608. 39:06We're going to create more wood.
609. 39:07Is that it?
610. 39:08I don't think we are in a position to simply replicate the imports coming into this country
611. 39:14with our own products.
612. 39:15They can't always be done.
613. 39:16And I think if a wood's example of that, wood, are we going to make more wood in this
614. 39:21country because of our trade deal. I don't think so.
615. 39:24Cole, you stupid.
616. 39:27Chris Matthew.
617. 39:33What are we going to do? We got a lumber from Canada.
618. 39:40We got a lumber from Canada. Is anybody going to ask Chris where does Canada get his lumber
619. 39:46from? Canada gets his lumber from trees, Chris. I don't know if you've been outside in a
620. 39:54And this is man, I'm telling you, you should not underestimate this, you know, this, uh,
621. 40:01Metropolitan living bias, you know, it always makes me laugh.
622. 40:06The number of people want to, you know, sometimes I visit these other nations.
623. 40:08I'm always glad I have my password returned to America, but a visit he does a place and
624. 40:12they talk about things like overcrowding overpopulation.
625. 40:16I was like, that's, that lets me know you haven't driven anywhere between the coast in a very
626. 40:20long time.
627. 40:22bless our nation with a lot of space.
628. 40:25A lot of space.
629. 40:27Guess what else the Lord is blessed our nation with, Chris?
630. 40:30You come real close, Chris.
631. 40:33Guess what we have a whole lot of in America?
632. 40:36Trees.
633. 40:38Trees, Chris.
634. 40:39Lumber is produced from trees.
635. 40:42We have a whole lot of trees, Chris.
636. 40:48It amazes me how ignorant these regressives are.
637. 40:53And I don't mean it ignorance as an insult. I mean it as an assessment of their objective disposition
638. 40:59Jasmine Crockett saying nobody's trying to farm while we have farms all over America
639. 41:04Chris Matthews is incredulous at the notion. What are we gonna do produce our own lumber?
640. 41:10And I'm not saying we have the I we have the identical amounts
641. 41:14I haven't studied the lumber industry in particular, but I know we got a whole lot of trees
642. 41:17I think we are right think we are right on that front
643. 41:23I had the privilege of being at the beginning of this year, you know visiting our friends
644. 41:29Jay Saint John and Heidi Saint John in the Pacific Northwest.
645. 41:33Guess what I saw a whole lot of?
646. 41:34Y'all seen this with me?
647. 41:38I saw a whole lot of trees.
648. 41:42Now here's one of the things that was so amazing and learn while being there.
649. 41:47Do you realize how much the trees in the Pacific Northwest are subjected to federal regulations
650. 41:54that prevent people who own their own land
651. 41:57with their own trees on their own land
652. 42:00get their prohibited from logging their own land.
653. 42:04Chris, do you wanna have a conversation
654. 42:06about how many landowners in America
655. 42:08are unable to harvest their own lumber
656. 42:11because the federal government's regulations
657. 42:13prohibit them from doing so?
658. 42:15Chris, do you wanna have the conversation
659. 42:17about how much these regulations impact our ability
660. 42:23Impact.
661. 42:24Our ability to have the lumber industry to be robust in America.
662. 42:29Do you wanna have that conversation?
663. 42:30Or are you simply content to be on television?
664. 42:33Talking about...
665. 42:34I was, I was...
666. 42:37Look, this is the extent of his exhaustive research.
667. 42:41I was watching the news last night.
668. 42:42I knew we're talking about lumber.
669. 42:44Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
670. 42:48and do you realize how much of our lumber
671. 42:52What do we get from Canada?
672. 42:53Chris, we have trees in America, man.
673. 42:57What a novel idea if America produced lumber in America
674. 43:02for our two-by-fours?
675. 43:05And then he made, we got our newspaper print from Canada.
676. 43:09Chris, I don't know how many people you know
677. 43:11that's the Norwegian physical newspaper.
678. 43:14I know we have some.
679. 43:188, 7, 7, 6, 1, 6, 2, 3, 9, 6 is the number to call.
680. 43:21I mean, you can't make this stuff up.
681. 43:23The cold-use stupid is so accurate.
682. 43:25This man is growing, you know, waxing apoplectic over the lumber markets.
683. 43:31We're not in a field with trees.
684. 43:33Field with trees.
685. 43:37That produce lumber.
686. 43:38877-616-2396 is the number to call 877-616-2396 is the number to call we have about nine
687. 43:49and a half minutes remaining with today's program, day two of Cherathon.
688. 43:55We will continue tomorrow.
689. 43:56That will be the third and final day for the spring 2025
690. 44:00share, Thon, for American family radio.
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694. 44:17Eight, seven, seven, six, one, six, two, three, nine,
695. 44:20six is the number to call when I was on in the earlier hour
696. 44:23at 4 p.m. with Bishop E.W. Jackson and Pastor Bird Harper,
697. 44:27one half of the Exploring the Word duo,
698. 44:30we had a listener testimony of a woman explaining
699. 44:34that she is not the most technologically savvy,
700. 44:36but she often finds herself, finds herself
701. 44:39in conversation with her friends and family members
702. 44:41and loved ones, and she would share information
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707. 44:52If I could tell you how many times I have heard that exact same testimony, I could spend
708. 44:59the next three hours just giving you testimony after testimony of the testimony of that exact
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710. 45:04877-616-239-6 is the number to call or you can give securely online at aFR.net.
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712. 45:13I want to take us to one of our listener testimonies now to just hear how the very ministry we're
713. 45:20talking about these this radio network these microphones continues to impact
714. 45:24people who are listening just as you are. Go.
715. 45:28I've been listening to AFR for more than a dozen years. There is no comparison as to the quality of the broadcasting on AFR.
716. 45:39I've been through some really tough things these past 10 years and AFR has
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720. 46:02Your weekend lineup is really great. I am really impressed because you don't slack off on the
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723. 46:18And I know I'm older than their audience,
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725. 46:23I thank you, AFR, for being a light in the darkness
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730. 46:35God bless you all.
731. 46:43Well, that testimony is humbling and it's sobering
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736. 47:05I'm always amazed at my travels.
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739. 47:15I'm at home.
740. 47:17that it never fails as I travel.
741. 47:19I'm able to hear from people who talk about
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746. 47:37We're in day two of the Sharethon.
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752. 47:56Well, the Trump administration issued a public policy
753. 48:02concerning what reporters it will
754. 48:04and will not respond to.
755. 48:07And it's interesting that Press Secretary Caroline Levitt
756. 48:10has announced that the President Trump's White House
757. 48:13has decided to ignore all emails, request for comment,
758. 48:17request for information from reporters
759. 48:19who include preferred pronouns as part of their email signatures.
760. 48:23Hahaha.
761. 48:26That's right.
762. 48:28The Trump administration has said that if you include preferred
763. 48:31pronouns in your email signatures,
764. 48:33you can forget getting a response.
765. 48:36As a matter of policy, Christine Levin said,
766. 48:38we do not respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios.
767. 48:43So that is something that they also include
768. 48:45in their refusal to respond to.
769. 48:48You put them in your bios without responding.
770. 48:50You put them in your signatures, we're not responding.
771. 48:53And they explained why, for example, Katie Miller,
772. 48:56senior advisor for the Department of Government Efficiency,
773. 49:00who let the doge out, woof, woof, woof.
774. 49:02Katie Miller said, quote,
775. 49:07as a matter of policy, I don't respond to people
776. 49:09who use pronouns in their signatures,
777. 49:11as it shows they ignore scientific reality
778. 49:14and therefore ignore facts. Members of the Trump administration throughout have said the
779. 49:19very same thing. Linda McMahon, the energy that started education secretary has stated
780. 49:25the same thing. Caroline Levitt expounded on the Trump administration's policy decision
781. 49:32to refuse to respond to reporters with pronouns in their bios or in their signatures by saying,
782. 49:38quote, any reporter who chooses to put their preferred pronouns in their bio clearly does
783. 49:44not care about biological reality or truth and therefore cannot be trusted to write an honest
784. 49:51story."
785. 49:52In quote, he pulls out his his monocle and I'm searching and the report finds no lies detected.
786. 50:02How can you trust a reporter who communicates to you upon their affirmative presentation?
787. 50:09That reality is irrelevant to them. It's irrelevant to them. You cannot trust you to
788. 50:16write an honest story because you disregard facts as a matter of personal preference.
789. 50:21You are telling me on the front and hey you know I don't mind lies but please give me the
790. 50:28facts I can report accurately upon your administration.
791. 50:31I call that a sound policy decision.
792. 50:34877-616-2396 is the number to call 877-616-2396 is the number to call or you can give securely
793. 50:46online by going to a fr dot net. That is a fr dot net. There are a few minutes left in
794. 50:54today's share, Thon. We will continue by God's grace tomorrow with the third and final day
795. 51:03for share Thon. I have no problem whatsoever with the Trump administration making it its
796. 51:10policy to refuse to respond to reporters with the pronouns in their bios. It's just so hilarious
797. 51:24to me. And it's an accurate decision. 877-616-2396 is the number to call 877-616-2396 or you
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