Rep. Crockett Files to Run for US Senate from Texas | A Perspective on National Difficulties

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20. 0:59at this very moment, many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your
21. 1:04part-time jobs where you generate an income to your full-time jobs where you cultivate
22. 1:10an outcome.
23. 1:11And as you do so, I want to remind you to make that transition with intentionality, recognizing
24. 1:21the primacy that God places on family and welcoming that reality to inform your engagement, understanding.
25. 1:32And I say this regularly because it's just simply important to restate that what goes
26. 1:37on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House.
27. 1:41Simply put, it's because you and I are directly responsible and accountable for what happens
28. 1:48within our immediate jurisdiction, within our immediate vicinity.
29. 1:52We will not out politic, out vote, even though some interesting news out of Texas today,
30. 2:03vote deficiencies that abound in our homes and the spirit of the age works over time to get us to be
31. 2:12engaged everywhere except in our homes. We play by placing importance and significance on everything
32. 2:19to the detriment of what transpires in our home even causing us to look kind of
33. 2:25down on what happens in a lie.
34. 2:30That's not important, that's not important,
35. 2:32which the truth is what happens in our homes
36. 2:36is of outsized importance.
37. 2:40So as you're making your transition,
38. 2:43let's be about our father's business, man.
39. 2:45Let's take care of what happens at home.
40. 2:48And I've just been praying a lot about the family
41. 2:56and the local church, the family and the local church
42. 2:59within our technological age, there's been kind of this
43. 3:05Balkanization of our society, you know,
44. 3:07we've kind of, in some sectors, have misconstrued
45. 3:11digital engagement with interpersonal interactions
46. 3:14when they're just simply not the same thing.
47. 3:16And there's been a diminished significance,
48. 3:18a diminished I would say understanding
49. 3:22of the significance of the local church.
50. 3:25But we have to remember what God said about his church.
51. 3:29and the role that God said that the local church is to play
52. 3:33in his, and the execution of his agenda,
53. 3:37and the local church is comprised of families.
54. 3:40Certainly there are people,
55. 3:42and we thank God for the gift of vocational singleness.
56. 3:48There are people who God has called to that,
57. 3:52and as I often stated, it's accompanied by the gift
58. 3:54of celibacy, but that is not the position
59. 3:59that the majority of society will enjoy.
60. 4:02And it's not to diminish it.
61. 4:04We need every gift that God gives to his body.
62. 4:07And we need to have as of the most strident priority
63. 4:13is a willingness to follow the Lord and obey him.
64. 4:20And as we seek to do so,
65. 4:22as I stated just a few moments ago,
66. 4:23for the most of us, it's going to include
67. 4:26our participation in family life.
68. 4:29So as you're making your transition,
69. 4:31I pray that you do so with clarity of heart and singleness of purpose, meaning that your
70. 4:38purpose is not diluted and that you don't seek to offer your family is just the leftovers of
71. 4:44a day well spent, but that you have an intentional investment in your home.
72. 4:48And Father, so listening to me, listen, it is our responsibility to lead our families as
73. 4:55servant leaders and one of the most prominent capacities in which we are called to lead
74. 5:01is to lead us priests in our homes, prophets in our homes declaring God's word and setting
75. 5:09the temperatures for our family, for our families spiritually and everything else in
76. 5:15our home will flow from having that Christ-centered anchor as the central feature of
77. 5:21our family's lives.
78. 5:22All right, to the word of God we go.
79. 5:25We're going to go to take the book of Matthew, Matthew chapter 1 verse 17.
80. 5:30And for the sake of time, I'm going to read just verse 17.
81. 5:33But I think it's important to explain a bit of the context of this where you have Matthew
82. 5:42one of the four Gospels.
83. 5:45Matthew, Mark, and Luke identified as the synoptic gospel.
84. 5:49Gospels derived from the Greek word,
85. 5:51synod meaning with one view, with one eye.
86. 5:53Then you have the Gospel of John.
87. 5:55Each of the Gospels are included.
88. 5:57And the Gospel writers, as care about the Spirit of God,
89. 5:59are articulating the Gospel with a particular vantage point.
90. 6:04For example, John is focused primarily
91. 6:07on conveying the divinity of Messiah,
92. 6:10explaining that he's not merely a man,
93. 6:13but that he is God in the flesh.
94. 6:15And as John 23rd, once says expressly,
95. 6:17recorded these things so that you might believe.
96. 6:22Luke, Dr. Luke the physician refers to in the first four verses of chapter 1.
97. 6:27He explains having investigated the gospels that were recorded prior to his.
98. 6:32He wrote intentionally to create an orderly or a chronological account of the gospels
99. 6:38having investigated, is what he said.
100. 6:42instigated what has been included in the other gospels and so he explains clearly his purpose is to provide a
101. 6:50timeline a more or more concise
102. 6:53And I'm not concise a more precise timeline of the events recorded there
103. 6:58Mark focuses on Jesus as a suffering servant in highlights his acts and his deeds in that fashion and in
104. 7:06Matthew focuses on conveying the reality of Yeshua Jesus as Messiah
105. 7:10specifically though to a Jewish audience. It's one of the gospel recordings that is an effective tool,
106. 7:19as an apologetics tool frankly, for a biblically literate Jewish person to convey that there's no need
107. 7:28to wait for Messiah because he has come. Matthew writes from that vantage point, but it is also
108. 7:35important to note that the Lord by his divine grace and providence allows the
109. 7:42gospels to be recorded of the incarnate Messiah's coming, his sinless life, his
110. 7:49substitutionary and sacrificial death on the cross and his resurrection, but Matthew
111. 7:55writes with a particular note and a particular view that punctuates the
112. 8:01reality that this is the ending of the silent intertestamental period, the centuries between
113. 8:09the conclusion of the Lord sending His prophets to His people, to the Hebrew people, and they
114. 8:15are being silenced.
115. 8:17They are being silenced.
116. 8:19And even the fact that Matthew's gospel bears a name, Matthew, the reality is that Matthew
117. 8:26is the Greek name given to the Jewish tax collector,
118. 8:30whose Hebrew name is Levi.
119. 8:32And he's referred to as both as Levi and as Matthew
120. 8:36in the New Testament,
121. 8:38but it is the Jewish tax collector, Levi,
122. 8:44who was employed by the Roman government.
123. 8:47And so in the coin a Greek speaking environment
124. 8:51of the Romans as the successors, if you will,
125. 8:54to the Grecian Empire and Alexander the Great,
126. 8:56The Greek name Levi, I'm sorry, the Greek name Matthew is attached to the gospel.
127. 9:02Even that in of itself is a declaration that Messiah has come through the Jewish people,
128. 9:08and from the Jewish people, but he has come as Savior for all.
129. 9:13And that is actually articulated because when you get to Levi's gospel, Matthew's gospel,
130. 9:19He doesn't begin with the incarnation account. He actually begins with a genealogy, which is unique
131. 9:28for all kinds of reasons, the way that Matthew goes about doing so. But I want to point out one
132. 9:34particular point because as he goes through these genealogies and he even mentions that the genealogy
133. 9:40includes Jews and Gentiles and not only Gentiles, Gentiles with scandalous stories like the Canaanite
134. 9:48Prostitute Rahab and stories like the Moabitez, the descendant of the incestuous relationship
135. 9:58that produce Ammon and Moab and how God in his divine glory graphs in the Moabitez into the lineage
136. 10:08of Messiah, then it concludes with verse 17 in Matthew chapter 1.
137. 10:12Oh man, this stirs my heart.
138. 10:16Thank you Lord.
139. 10:19So all the generations from Abraham to David
140. 10:24are 14 generations.
141. 10:26And from David to the deportation to Babylon, 14 generations.
142. 10:30And from the deportation to Babylon to the Messiah,
143. 10:3414 generations.
144. 10:36This is what is included at the conclusion
145. 10:40of the genealogy that Matthew records.
146. 10:43And the Lord does this with this, you know, 16 verses of genealogical record, not for the
147. 10:52purpose of exhausting the reader, but to provide as a sovereign declaration, you know, that
148. 11:01as the boots of the Roman soldiers are dragging the ground of the Promised Land, the Lord
149. 11:15He leads Matthew to record his recordation of the gospel with this genealogy, to show yes
150. 11:25that Messiah certainly fulfills the messianic criteria of being a son of David, but he's not
151. 11:29merely or not only a son of David, he's also a son of Abraham.
152. 11:37And you have Abraham who received the, was a beneficiary of the Abrahamic covenant, through
153. 11:44where the Lord said through you,
154. 11:47and remember that Abraham, who was Abraham initially,
155. 11:50was not a Hebrew, though he's the progenitor of the Hebrew people.
156. 11:53He was a Chaldean, and even the term Hebrew
157. 11:58was derived from the way that Canaanites described Abraham
158. 12:02when he arrived in the Promised Land,
159. 12:03because they said he was from there, from over there,
160. 12:06not native to this area, but he's from over there,
161. 12:09and that is how this all unfolds.
162. 12:13But the Lord promised to Abraham that through you all the families of the world,
163. 12:19all peoples of the earth will be blessed.
164. 12:22And to David, to be the defendant, to be the defendant, to be the defendant,
165. 12:27to be the covenant when the Lord says that you will have a descendant who will sit on a throne
166. 12:32and in his kingdom shall have no end.
167. 12:37God traces Messiah's lineage through here to announce the end of the silent intertestiveness
168. 12:45mental period by making the sovereign declaration that I am God, who does not forget I am God,
169. 12:55who keeps my promises, that the Lord offers this genealogy through Matthew as a sovereign
170. 13:03pronouncement to say, though over the centuries you could have become listful and, you know,
171. 13:09Where is this Lord who has said that we were to?
172. 13:13Where is he?
173. 13:14Where is he?
174. 13:15It's a way to the Lord frames the setup for the entire gospel recording by saying,
175. 13:21I am God who does not forget that he weaves this amazing tapestry through kings and villains
176. 13:33and prostitutes and adulterers and Jews and Gentiles and say,
177. 13:38and say, hey, that the Savior is for all.
178. 13:43And He allows us to see this tapestry of people.
179. 13:46And if you were thinking about laying out
180. 13:49your familial heritage, the kind of people
181. 13:52you would put on the mantelpiece,
182. 13:53my sister Miki said it that way.
183. 13:55These aren't the people you would bring out
184. 13:57to want to airbrush for the world to see,
185. 13:59but He shows us all of this to convey to us.
186. 14:03He is God who does not forget.
187. 14:07And it also makes room for us to be able to recognize.
188. 14:09My side is not ashamed for the world to know that this is a context in which he is incarnate,
189. 14:19which is how we can so clearly and convictively say, and he's not ashamed to have me to be a
190. 14:25part of his family either.
191. 14:29It's one of the things that is heartening for me to consider, that we serve a God who does
192. 14:35not forget. And he is God who keeps his promises. If you think about it, that is truly what the
193. 14:46Christmas story is all about. In fact, that is what the Gospel is about. Praise be to God
194. 14:53that he does not forget and he keeps his promises.
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243. 18:09radio.
244. 18:10Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
245. 18:14So as I alluded to a little bit of news out of the state of Texas, this is funny.
246. 18:24So apparently, representative Jasmine Crockett.
247. 18:33She in the last minute, at the very end of the qualifying or the paperwork filing deadline,
248. 18:39she is now filed paperwork necessary to run for the US Senate.
249. 18:56The US Senate in the state of Texas.
250. 19:04He is running for the seat that is currently held by John Cornyn, Senator John Cornyn,
251. 19:11on the Republican side.
252. 19:13The Attorney General Ken Paxton is challenging John Cornyn for that U.S. Senate seat.
253. 19:20But on a Democrat side, the Democrat field already included Senate candidate Colin Allred,
254. 19:27who ran unsuccessfully against Senator Ted Cruz in 2024.
255. 19:32Illinois, the former football player in NFL, who was supposedly a rising star in Democrat
256. 19:39circles, was in a Democrat field.
257. 19:42You also had state representative, make sure he's a representative or not a state senator,
258. 19:46certainly it's a state legislator.
259. 19:49Yes, state represent, Texas state representative James Tallarico was also a Democrat candidate.
260. 19:55You may remember he is the Democrat who was on Joe Rogan show who said he was a pastor
261. 20:02and tried to make a biblical case for same-sex marriage and abortion,
262. 20:06to which we had a little bit to say about if you remember that program,
263. 20:09because James Tallarico was, he was smooth with it, but he was lying.
264. 20:14Some oftentimes you have liars who are smooth,
265. 20:19but he was flat, a flat, flat out lying on the Lord,
266. 20:22and lying on the scripture frankly. And that's what I mean when I say lying on the Lord.
267. 20:26Well James Tallarico was already in the race, but as Jasmine Crockett
268. 20:31filed her paperwork to run for the U.S. Senate,
269. 20:36Colin Ored quit.
270. 20:39Guys, I'm not kidding.
271. 20:40Colin Ored said,
272. 20:42all right then, I'm gonna holla at you all later.
273. 20:46Apparently not wanting to compete against Jasmine Crockett.
274. 20:51That's, that's, that's, that's,
275. 20:53how else am I supposed to interpret that Bobby?
276. 20:56You know, now, if Jasmine Crockett is in fact,
277. 21:01In fact, I mean, he's not if she's filed a paperwork, she is running for the US Senate
278. 21:07and say what you want, but she's apparently a rising star at a Democrat party.
279. 21:14You know, it is going to be interesting to see how this all plays out.
280. 21:24And it's interesting for a host of reasons I was, I was talking to colleague this morning
281. 21:30about this, that we are firmly entrenched in the era where you frankly can't run for
282. 21:39office as a Democrat candidate unless you are an outright supporter of transgenderism.
283. 21:48You basically have to be an advocate for open borders.
284. 21:55You have to like the whole the old ordeal.
285. 21:59Remember the blue dog Democrats?
286. 22:00I was thinking about this earlier.
287. 22:03Remember when Obamacare was not even going to be passed if you remember, and it was not
288. 22:07until, excuse me, Barack Obama came up with this like sham of an executive order and saying
289. 22:14that Obamacare wouldn't be used to pay for abortions and he got the support of a Democrat
290. 22:25Congress member who was holding out.
291. 22:26If you all remember this, the Democrat Congress member said, I'm not supporting this.
292. 22:31This is clearly going to use taxpayer money to play for abortions.
293. 22:37And then Obama got this dude to flip and then the Democrat party immediately primary that
294. 22:45guy, if you remember, like there, there, there is, you cannot be a candidate for office in
295. 22:53the Democrat party without supporting abortion.
296. 22:58And you know, I know that's the clinical sanitized term we try to use, but frankly it's murdering
297. 23:04children.
298. 23:05And you can't run for office.
299. 23:09I'm not talking about the voting base,
300. 23:11but the candidates for office.
301. 23:16This is how far we've gone.
302. 23:19And on the Republican side, I'm a bit concerned
303. 23:21because let me just say this, having utter insanity,
304. 23:28basically you cannot run for office as Democrat
305. 23:30unless you are an AOC type.
306. 23:34Now you can run in the effort to kind of try to moderate
307. 23:39for those who are in more purple
308. 23:40districts and things of that nature, but you can't get the nomination unless you have shown
309. 23:45your commitment to these types of ridiculous ideas. Extreme, not only ridiculous, extreme
310. 23:51and evil, frankly, evil ideas. And then on the Republican side, I'm concerned because we need
311. 24:04to be honest that the 2024 elections in total, it wasn't as if the nation was supporting the
312. 24:11Republican Party largely was supporting President Trump.
313. 24:17But many have explained how President Trump is, you know, he's not ideological, you know,
314. 24:24and then I've heard that term turn around all the time.
315. 24:27But the issue that I have is that there are some who just view politics as kind of, you
316. 24:34know, brass knuckle skull, doggery to a degree that what wins and they think the way to win
317. 24:38then is to be non-ideological.
318. 24:41ideological and I'm like, well, I think that's the wrong message you're getting because you
319. 24:45have to be able to contextualize that the Democrat party has pushed our nation so far
320. 24:50to where you literally had, you know, she or she never be president of the remix talking
321. 24:54about, yeah, by the way, we're going to use federal tax dollars to pay for trans, transsexual
322. 25:01surgeries for prisoners.
323. 25:03Like, like, really?
324. 25:09That's, that's, that's what you're told to do.
325. 25:10And they're like, well, yeah, what a good idea.
326. 25:12Yeah, you know, and what it really was in many ways
327. 25:16was a recoiling against the utter insanity
328. 25:20that the Democrats advocated for combined
329. 25:22with the most overt display of kind of the two-tiered justice
330. 25:27system and all of those kinds of things.
331. 25:31But the question that I have for the Republican Party largely
332. 25:34is whether or not the post-Trump era
333. 25:37will maintain any type of anchor to truth, not just some type of pragmatic transactional
334. 25:52disposition, but truth. So that's concerned I have there, but getting back to Jasmine Crockett,
335. 26:05what is the calculus that would cause Colin Allred to just quit? Is he afraid that he can't compete
336. 26:12with Jasmine Crockett.
337. 26:15And I can already see what is going to happen,
338. 26:20that they're going to kind of try to pit James Tallarico's
339. 26:28presentation style to contrast that with Jasmine Crockett's.
340. 26:34But they both advocate for crazy.
341. 26:37And this, as the call has a post on the, he said,
342. 26:41let's not forget that neither the donkey nor the elephants
343. 26:44wanted Trump to ever be president.
344. 26:46it. Mm hmm. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you're not lying there. So it's just interesting to
345. 26:58me the where we are and you would think you remember that the Republicans had the, you
346. 27:06know, the postmortem what did it call it autopsy report, you know, other laptops report. And
347. 27:11you have the shield should never be president the remix debacle that transpired for the
348. 27:15Democrat party and then they go, you know what? And we're gonna follow that up with
349. 27:19with a little bit of Jasmine Crockett for the US Senate.
350. 27:22And Colin already goes, sure, Jasmine, let's pay the way for you.
351. 27:29That is rich.
352. 27:33All right, so I just share that as a news item.
353. 27:38Additionally, man, I've been just just prayerfully thinking
354. 27:42and contemplating a host of things.
355. 27:48I'm going to take some time off starting next week,
356. 27:52spend with my family and just get geared up ready for 2026 Lord willing.
357. 28:01But I've been just thinking about several different things and one of the
358. 28:06things that I've gone back to.
359. 28:11Some of the problems like affordability is a popular discussed term and
360. 28:16kind of divergence between men and women generally and younger men and women in
361. 28:24terms of perspectives and engagements and this this poll came back to my mind
362. 28:34that this the poll is important to point out that the poll was conducted
363. 28:39between August 13th and September 1st of 2025. The sample included 2,970 adults age
364. 28:47age 18 through 29 in the survey.
365. 28:51So it's important to take that into consideration.
366. 28:54All right, so the poll was taken largely before,
367. 28:58when I'm sorry, it was earlier this year in 2025,
368. 29:02I mean, it's taken after the presidential election of 2024.
369. 29:06But the portion of the poll that I'm interested in discussing,
370. 29:09and some of you might have heard about this,
371. 29:11is that the poll ultimately began to break down
372. 29:15results among respondents for a particular entry.
373. 29:18And this question that was asked was,
374. 29:20which of the following is important
375. 29:23to your personal definition of success?
376. 29:26All right?
377. 29:27And in the poll, there are 13 different items.
378. 29:32The respondents were asked to rank the items
379. 29:36to pick the three choices that were top
380. 29:39and then rank all the rest of the choices.
381. 29:42And the poll divided the respondents
382. 29:45in groups of as follows females who voted for she
383. 29:49or she should never be present at the remix.
384. 29:51Males who voted for she or she'll never the remix.
385. 29:56Females who voted for President Trump
386. 29:58and males who voted for President Trump
387. 30:01and just remarkably just to kind of highlight
388. 30:07this divergence, females who voted for the cackling disaster
389. 30:12Cackling disaster did not mention being married or having children to numbers 11 and 12 on
390. 30:22their list in terms of the items that these this concept is important to their personal
391. 30:30definition of success.
392. 30:33The females who voted for the Cackling disaster listed being married and having children as
393. 30:38numbers 11 and 12 respectively.
394. 30:42The males who voted for Trump listed having children as the number one marker, a personal
395. 30:53success.
396. 30:54Now, think about that.
397. 30:57The males who listed having children as the number one marker, you want to talk about a
398. 31:04divergence and there's lots of information, lots of conversation has been had about that
399. 31:11diverges, but I also want to highlight that amongst the females who voted for President Trump,
400. 31:18They didn't mention having children until number six.
401. 31:22So the top three for the females who voted for President Trump was achieving financial independence,
402. 31:27having a job or career you find for filling and owning your own home.
403. 31:31Those were the top three for the females that voted for President Trump.
404. 31:36This coincides with data that is indicated that young men are returning to faith in more
405. 31:44particularly reengaging and attending corporate gatherings for worship, Christian church services,
406. 31:51higher than any other demographic and young women are going in the opposite direction.
407. 31:56You have that divergence and then you have, I'm going to just mention this is some of the statistical
408. 32:04data points. For example, in 1955, the median home buyer was in his or her late 20s. That was
409. 32:14was the median age in 1955. In 2025, the median age for the home buyer is 56 years old, 56.
410. 32:30That is a seismic shift, a seismic shift, generationally. In the 1950s, a minimum wage
411. 32:43worker needed roughly seven years of pay to purchase a modest home with a mortgage. In
412. 32:51In 2025, it's around 27 years.
413. 32:55Now, I'm pointing it out, I don't know
414. 32:57affordability is a lot of the conversation,
415. 33:01but the reason why I wanted to present these data points
416. 33:04is to give an empirical foundation, if you will,
417. 33:09for the conversation that we're having.
418. 33:10I mentioned before, in the 1950s,
419. 33:13you said something like family values,
420. 33:15it would mean something entirely different
421. 33:17than it means today when the majority of Gen Z
422. 33:23comes from homes where their parents are not married.
423. 33:26So the concept of family values
424. 33:28means something entirely differently.
425. 33:34Today, didn't it before?
426. 33:36And now here's why I'm presenting all of this.
427. 33:40I don't believe for a moment
428. 33:45that what we are experiencing is just a product of,
429. 33:47oh, coincidence.
430. 33:49Because you think about young people facing kind of this
431. 33:52trifecta of student debt and consumer debt.
432. 33:56Notice I didn't say anything about the mortgage where you have some type of you know value being increased over time consumer debt and medical debt
433. 34:03And you have all of these things combining as well as
434. 34:08You know the cultural discipleship phenomenon is transpiring
435. 34:12Generationally I mean as a parent of young children
436. 34:15I see it all the time try finding a cartoon today where you don't have at best if you have a male character involved
437. 34:21He is either epiminized or neutered like he's the bubbling idiot the butt of the jokes and it is always you know
438. 34:29She right I am woman hit me roar kind of things always a heroes and all these are kind of things
439. 34:33These things over time have an impact and so when you have
440. 34:38the
441. 34:39combination of like globalist seeking profits on Wall Street teaming up with K Street lobbyists the
442. 34:45exporting of our manufacturing sector, the the hollowing out of the core of
443. 34:50middle America. Guys, it hadn't been a coincidence. It's the product of intentional
444. 34:54cataclysm. Today's issues, they actually put out an official warning of watch for
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446. 35:09iguanas, they kind of freeze up, they go numb, and they fall out of the trees.
447. 35:15Well, Ray has been disconnected, so it may have been a fallen iguana.
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457. 35:59Christmas distraction.
458. 36:01This is David Wheaton, host of the Christian World View.
459. 36:04It's remarkable to observe just how little all the hubbub leading to Christmas
460. 36:09Christmas reflects the reason for the season. Blow up Santa's adorn yards,
461. 36:14ubiquitous ads entice purchasing endless things, and background music and stores
462. 36:19croons about frosty and jingle bells. The truth is the God of this world has
463. 36:25successfully distracted society from focusing on the Christ of Christmas.
464. 36:29Don't be drawn in Christian. Brother, focus on the main thing. God has sent his
465. 36:34only be gotten son into the world so that we might live through him.
466. 36:39Here are most recent programs with Grant Castleberry, pastor and author of Manger in Danger, A Christmas
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469. 36:52Listen to The Christian World View with David Wheaton, Saturday mornings at 8th Central, on
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485. 37:58Zero.
486. 37:59If we lose this cultural war, we're going to have a hedonistic humanistic society.
487. 38:06Discover the story of the culture warrior Don Wildman and how he went head to head with Hollywood,
488. 38:12playboy, the homosexual agenda, and the Disney Empire.
489. 38:16The movement Don started paved the way for Christians to boldly stand for truth and
490. 38:21righteousness in a hostile culture.
491. 38:49You combine that with the intentional, what I said, previous segment with the intentional
492. 38:55infiltration of the education system in America by regressive guys this is an
493. 39:02uncontrovertible fact you had people that there there's a straight line from
494. 39:11the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in the in the 1919 to Georgia Lukacs to the
495. 39:20Frankfurt School to Herbert Marquise to the the the the sexual revolution in America
496. 39:24guys, this is not literally, this is not my opinion.
497. 39:27This is all demonstrable fact to infiltrate the system
498. 39:31to turn our nation amongst other things
499. 39:35into a socialist and Marxist nation
500. 39:41and to be hostile to Christianity.
501. 39:45And when you have things like the the cloud work
502. 39:48Piven article, weight of the poor,
503. 39:51how you have people who if you know,
504. 39:53heard the adage, you can't beat them, join them. If you can't beat them, subvert them into
505. 39:58pain so that they welcome a Marxist takeover. Guys, that's literally what we're experiencing
506. 40:07in our own nation. And this, this, this, for example, this cataclysm, like with affordability
507. 40:14and housing and all of these things. And I'm not saying that every individual who participated
508. 40:19in it did so with this insidious effort.
509. 40:22But there are people who literally had
510. 40:26insidious objectives in mind when they did particular things.
511. 40:31And my point here is not to cause everyone
512. 40:36to become, you know, slews and you're looking
513. 40:39for the latest conspiracy under every rock.
514. 40:42But to recognize, man, that the trajectory to take
515. 40:48A nation that was a successful and thriving, materially as Venezuela, into what it's become
516. 40:55now.
517. 40:56God, it was a product of intentionality and happened in a short time.
518. 41:01It's been documented, many regressives lament the reality of this dispersion, a separation
519. 41:06of power in America because it makes it harder to overthrow our nation simply because the
520. 41:11power sources are so historically so disparate.
521. 41:15But what's happened over time that you see it coalescing, more and more and more and more,
522. 41:21you know?
523. 41:22And so a lot of the conversations that we're having today, like the affordability thing,
524. 41:29it's a real, real issue.
525. 41:31It's a very, very real issue.
526. 41:34And because we have, and I'm grateful for this audience because we have such a broad cross-section
527. 41:40of people, I don't want us, I don't want us to be put in silos.
528. 41:44I mean, there's a reason why Charlie Kirk was beginning to resonate with so many younger
529. 41:48people.
530. 41:50And there are lots of older people who were re-honestly.
531. 41:52They had no clue that turning point USA was as large and successful as it was.
532. 41:58And it's simply to indicate, you know, the kind of disconnect that has transpired.
533. 42:03And even that in and of itself is intentional, you know, to have, you know, segmented society
534. 42:10to where there is an age bearer to interaction society.
535. 42:14That's not a biblical concept.
536. 42:18It's a product of a Marxist framework in society
537. 42:23to wanna try to bulkenize society based on age demographics.
538. 42:27But, biblically, it was always an intergenerational linkage.
539. 42:34So, my point in illustrating this is,
540. 42:37I'm sorry, or expressing this,
541. 42:39is to share that we did not arrive
542. 42:46to where we are today overnight.
543. 42:52We did not and we should not seek nor look for a quick fix to what we're facing.
544. 43:03This kind of sound bite, snapchat, 15 second society is not conducive to the type of adjustments
545. 43:11that we need to make.
546. 43:13The course change that needs to occur in our society must be broader in scope.
547. 43:20This is why I was saying in the presidential primary for the election, one of the advantages
548. 43:25that President Trump had that he could articulate that I am the only candidate in this race that
549. 43:32could set the course for the type of research and constitution, constitutionalism and originalism
550. 43:39that is necessary to persist, hopefully for the next 12 years, not just a four year deal
551. 43:50for the next 12 years and to have that type of vision and to work in that manner.
552. 43:58I am greatly concerned that some of the things that are happening like President Trump saying,
553. 44:05well, I came up with Magga, so I get to define it.
554. 44:07Well, just be honest, Ronald Reagan said, make America great again.
555. 44:12Reagan said that in the 80s.
556. 44:14All right.
557. 44:15All right.
558. 44:16And then America first, much of now, I understand we've had in many instances, there's a very
559. 44:21narrow Republican majority of the house.
560. 44:23We do not have a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate, but much of, and I am a supporter
561. 44:30of President Trump, I think he has done an amazing job thus far as president, but many
562. 44:36of his most prominent victories have been on the international front.
563. 44:41It's kind of hard to reconcile international successes with an America-first agenda for
564. 44:51in a manner that is comprehensible to the American people domestically.
565. 44:57Which is why I said that he had to hit the ground running, that you have to be able to
566. 45:02rack up some domestic wins.
567. 45:03You have to make moves to deliver on your platform and the agenda items so that you give the American
568. 45:09people en masse a reason to say, oh, no, we need to have this course correction that President
569. 45:15Trump was presenting.
570. 45:16This is why I said, you know, it's embarrassing.
571. 45:19frankly, it's embarrassing.
572. 45:21Well, you have things like the filibuster,
573. 45:22and every time it's been adjusted,
574. 45:24every time changes have been made,
575. 45:25it's always been done by Democrats.
576. 45:27The Democrats have ropedoped,
577. 45:28you know, the Republican Party over and over and over again.
578. 45:32That you have a 53-47 majority,
579. 45:34you can adjust the filibuster rules, not abolish it.
580. 45:37You can adjust the filibuster rules
581. 45:39to facilitate your domestic agendas being executed.
582. 45:45And listen, I don't say this to be cynical
583. 45:47when you get finished on the way out.
584. 45:49Y'all can put it back.
585. 45:51because it doesn't take anything other than a majority vote in the Senate, which you have
586. 45:55here to the Republicans.
587. 45:57You can say we're in extraordinary times that the American people in an unprecedented fashion
588. 46:07put me back in the White House and gave the American people Republican majorities in both
589. 46:11houses as slim as they may be to deliver on this agenda.
590. 46:18And I'm grateful one of the major reasons why I believe President Trump was elected was
591. 46:21because of his position as a disruptor, which is vitally necessary.
592. 46:25disruption is not an enduring strategy for governance is what I'm saying.
593. 46:30So with all of this, I would add into the conversation something I'm saying quite consistently because
594. 46:41you know as Benjamin Franklin the off repeated phrase whatever you wrought, oh Benjamin a
595. 46:45republic if you can keep it, the governing structure is just that a structure.
596. 46:50But in order for the structure to have its maximum efficacy, it requires a particular people
597. 46:56that are conducive to the structure.
598. 46:58If we have a structure for liberty and freedom, but we have an increasingly and enduring wicked
599. 47:03populace, guess what's going to happen to the nation and guess what's going to happen to
600. 47:07the structure, which brings us full circle.
601. 47:12You know, here's a perfect example.
602. 47:15And I'm using this example.
603. 47:20It's not a pattern of back.
604. 47:22I've heard so many people lament, you know, they don't teach economics in school.
605. 47:26Okay.
606. 47:27Who is ultimately responsible for our children?
607. 47:29We the parents.
608. 47:31Why aren't the parents teaching economics?
609. 47:35You see, arising the numbers of young people
610. 47:38who support socialism.
611. 47:40In many ways, it's not they support socialism.
612. 47:42When you get into the details of what socialism is,
613. 47:44you have lots of people that say,
614. 47:45and we don't want that.
615. 47:47But they are responding to the reality of,
616. 47:48well, you know, in 1955, working minimum wage,
617. 47:53takes seven years, you can own a home without a mortgage.
618. 47:592025, it takes 27 years of pay.
619. 48:05Did I shit, that's that?
620. 48:07In the 1950s, I shared that one, 1950s,
621. 48:11seven years to buy a modest song with a mortgage.
622. 48:15Make a minimum wage, 2025, 27 years.
623. 48:22Median age for home purchases?
624. 48:25Late 20s in 1955.
625. 48:27Today is 56, 56.
626. 48:33You have all kinds of things.
627. 48:35Like I said, consumer debt.
628. 48:37We have people who are not necessarily financially literate.
629. 48:42Yes, we can point to the system, but who's ultimately responsible?
630. 48:49I am ultimately responsible for what my children have the capacity for.
631. 48:57If I know there are certain things they are not learning, whose responsibility is it to
632. 49:01teach them?
633. 49:04This is why I've been saying, and people talk about it, yes, I'm on a board at HSLDA, I am
634. 49:09an advocate more than the schooling type for disciple making.
635. 49:18reality of being a disciple of Jesus Christ is that the entirety of what it means to be
636. 49:25a person, a Christ follower is submitted to the Lordship of Christ.
637. 49:31One of the things that people don't even realize is when we talk about this, we've got
638. 49:35the final exam coming from the economics class I teach to homeschoolers.
639. 49:38Do you even realize that the word economics come from the Greek term, Oikonomos?
640. 49:43You know what the Greek word Oikonomos means?
641. 49:45Stewart.
642. 49:47Stewart.
643. 49:49the core of what we know to be economics is derived from a biblical idea.
644. 49:59It's stewardship, it's resource stewardship, but we have the erosion of the family.
645. 50:11And I've explained that that is not a casual phenomenon like Herbert Mark Hughes in his
646. 50:19He literally saw the family unit with a father and mother who are married to one another and
647. 50:25an intact family and bearing children as an immediate impediment to society upheaval.
648. 50:33So he literally sought the titillation of society through sexuality as a weapon of destruction
649. 50:44and to make the populace more ripe for dismantling.
650. 50:50guys, that's just the truth.
651. 50:56That's just the truth.
652. 51:00So we might, and I say we, people in our society,
653. 51:04recoil as they might, bristle as they may.
654. 51:07There's no way.
655. 51:09There's no way for us to course,
656. 51:12and that's right, Horace Mann too.
657. 51:14I've shared the quote.
658. 51:15He literally said, we view parents who bring their children to our schools,
659. 51:18the father of the American, the modern government educational system.
660. 51:22We view them as having given hostages to our cause.
661. 51:25hostages, hostages.
662. 51:31So you have this conflation of events.
663. 51:36Most of them are ideas as the Lord told us in Galatians 2.
664. 51:43I'm writing to say no one take you captive.
665. 51:45Take this captive by what?
666. 51:48Hollow and deceptive philosophy.
667. 51:49It's based on human tradition,
668. 51:51rather than on Christ.
669. 51:54Can't be that big a deal, eh?
670. 51:59Bernie Sanders had an interview not too long ago
671. 52:01with Joe Rogan, diagnosing all of these things,
672. 52:04economic and all of the things,
673. 52:05But the thing is Bernie Sanders' solution is then to turn to socialism, which is exactly
674. 52:12what Francis Fox Piven and Cloward postulated in the way to the poor.
675. 52:19Let's cause a crushing of the existing system so that the people will clamor for socialism.
676. 52:25I'm explaining all of this and saying this to echo what I was saying all last week.
677. 52:40When we reject or neglect God's word, we do so to our own peril, to our own peril.
678. 52:49If we want to change course, that course change, it has to come with repentance.
679. 52:56That's the only way forward, man.
680. 53:01Otherwise, we're going to trim around the periphery.
681. 53:04We're going to trim around the periphery.
682. 53:07You have by and large a godless Democrat party.
683. 53:10You got people pining for a godless Republicanism.
684. 53:17And guess what the end of it ends in.
685. 53:21The end of it is a normalization and a perpetuation of godlessness.
686. 53:29But the principles that formed and shaped this nation were derived from somewhere, which is
687. 53:38why there must be an anchor in truth.
688. 53:43Because without that, we'll simply float along to another version of normalized godlessness.
689. 53:52In the end, melody you named it the end of it, the perpetuation and the normalization of
690. 53:56godlessness is death.
691. 54:00By having an accurate understanding of what's transpiring, it enables us to engage appropriately
692. 54:05to change course.
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