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Guest Host, Bishop Jackson, talks about MLK Day and the ICE shooting in Minneapolis

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0:34Well, I am back with you again this evening,
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1:01Well, look, I didn't expect to be with you, but I am happy to be with you again tonight.
1:08As I said yesterday, I've had a new grandson born.
1:11In fact, today is my birthday, folks.
1:13And I'm not one of those people who tells you it's my birthday because I'm fishing.
1:17Okay.
1:18Have you met those people who want to tell you it's their birthday to make sure maybe you
1:23send them a little gift?
1:24Maybe you don't don't forget.
1:27That's my birthday.
1:28I'm not doing that.
1:29I'm pointing it out. I didn't expect to be on today anyway, but I'm pointing it out because
1:34Today was the first day. I actually saw by grandson in person
1:39So what a birthday gift
1:41best birthday ever the opportunity to see him and he's but and what a what a handsome young man
1:48Yes, you know a friend to mind said to me well, he obviously
1:54God is looks from you because you've lost them all
1:59And your wife still has all of hers.
2:04So, you know, but, but look folks, it's, it is a joy.
2:09You know, the Bible says a good man
2:12leaves an inheritance to his children
2:15and his children's children.
2:17And that means for two generations
2:19that man leaves an inheritance.
2:21I really believe that the Bible's talking primarily there,
2:23not about finances, although there's nothing wrong.
2:26Obviously, relieving a financial heritage to your children,
2:29which I hope is a heritage not necessarily a vast wealth,
2:34but a heritage of good stewardship and a heritage
2:37of not burying one's family in debt and that kind of thing.
2:43But I think more importantly,
2:45it's frankly talking about a spiritual heritage,
2:47a heritage of faith in God,
2:49a heritage of service to God and service to God's people
2:53and to mankind, a heritage of honor and of integrity
2:57in a decency to me.
2:59Those are the things that really matter in life.
3:02And that's the heritage that you really want to leave,
3:05your children and your children's children.
3:07And my prayer is that I will leave exactly
3:10that kind of heritage of my children
3:12and to my children's children.
3:15I want to also say,
3:17if something I should have said last night,
3:18but praise God, I've got the opportunity to say it again today.
3:21I'm gonna tie this into what we're gonna talk about today.
3:24You know, the 19th, of course,
3:25the day we celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday.
3:28His birthday is actually on the 15th.
3:30I was born two days before,
3:32he's born on the 15th,
3:33I was born the 13th,
3:34because he's obviously much, much older than I am.
3:38But that being said,
3:40because I was a kid when Martin Luther King
3:42was in his late 20s and doing his ministry.
3:47But what I'm gonna say is,
3:50first of all, my church
3:53in cooperation and cooperation with Stan
3:57has been holding a Martin Luther King leadership breakfast
4:00every year for the past 26 years.
4:03Coming up on Monday will be the 26, 26 years of it.
4:06We have several hundred people show up on that day
4:10and we hosted in Chesapeake, Virginia.
4:13It's for the entire region.
4:16And here's what though, why I'm bringing this up.
4:18Well, two practical reasons for all of my Virginia listeners,
4:22If you'd like to be a part of that you can go to the website the call dot org the call dot org tickets are still available
4:28But we do have to give a final count within a couple of days. So if you're interested in coming
4:33Come right on because this is really folks and and I don't say this
4:40egotistically at all I
4:42Really believe this and if I'm wrong, I'd love to have somebody prove me wrong. I
4:48Believe that we are probably the only
4:50only Martin Luther King celebration in America that honors,
4:56in addition to others of course,
4:58but honors police officers, sheriffs,
5:02the fire department, all of our first responders we honor
5:07because I made a commitment to God frankly back in 2001
5:13after 911 that never again would I wait
5:19until some terrible tragedy
5:20that falls on law enforcement and first responders
5:23to then say, well, you know they were great people,
5:26they were courageous, they served us well.
5:28I am not going to wait until that happens.
5:31From this point on, every year we're going to honor
5:34these first responders and acknowledge
5:36the terribly dangerous and difficult job
5:38that they do for all of us.
5:40And we've been doing it ever since.
5:41So coming up on 26 years, we didn't do it the first year
5:44because frankly, I didn't think of it,
5:46but after 9-1-1 I realized, no, I'm not waiting again
5:49until there's another catastrophe.
5:52So we've been doing it for 25 years
5:53and this will in fact coming up,
5:56this will be the 25th year.
5:58So we honor someone from the police department,
6:00someone from the sheriff's department,
6:01someone from the fire department.
6:03We also honor business people and the people in education
6:07and we give two scholarships to students and so forth.
6:10I conceived this and my wife and I founded it
6:15as a means of trying to bring people together
6:18across racial and cultural lines and to celebrate the true spirit of Dr. King's movement, which was not a movement of black power and black supremacy supremacy and and pay back and all the stuff that unfortunately is now is now associated with whatever vestiges is the civil rights movement are left and there, there's not really much of it left.
6:42It was really all about bringing the country together.
6:47As I've often said, when Dr. King made the most famous speech,
6:51perhaps one of the most famous speeches certainly
6:54in the history of the country,
6:55but the most famous speech of the civil rights movement,
6:58he stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
7:01He did not call for the overthrow or destruction
7:06of our country as so many on the left do now.
7:09He did not claim that America was illegitimately found it
7:13reformed.
7:14He said, when the founders wrote the Declaration of Independence,
7:19they were writing a promissory note to which every American
7:24would fall heir.
7:26And that is absolutely true.
7:28Man, it still resonates in my heart.
7:30It is absolutely true.
7:34And he said, we've come to Washington to be said,
7:37They wrote a check and we've come to Washington
7:39to cash that check.
7:41He didn't say the check is illegitimate.
7:43He didn't say throughout the Declaration of Independence,
7:46Constitution,
8:00that sentiment rings in my heart.
8:04Every time I think about it,
8:05which is one of the reasons why I'm so grateful to God
8:07that I was born in America and not something else.
8:10Now, let me just throw this in
8:13because I realized there are forces out there
8:15and people out there who really want to discredit Dr. King.
8:20And I'll say about Dr. King, same thing I say
8:22about Donald Trump, same thing I say about our founding father,
8:25same thing I say about anybody who I really believe
8:27God is used to do tremendous things.
8:30None of them has been perfect.
8:34And if you want to find reasons to criticize,
8:36you can find them.
8:38But to me, you've got to ask the question,
8:41did God use this person to accomplish something great
8:44for our country?
8:45And if the answer is yes, I'll focus on that.
8:49And I'll leave the rest in the hands of God.
8:52And acknowledging, of course,
8:55of course you can find things to criticize.
8:56And people wanna tear down the statues of the founding fathers
9:00and they were slave owners and all this.
9:02And they wanna denigrate Dr. King
9:05because we know that Dr. King did not live
9:08what we would call a sexually morally upright life.
9:12You know, anybody can deny that, you know,
9:15that they bring the same kinds of accusations
9:17against Donald Trump and they brought the same kinds
9:20of accusations, they bring the same kinds of accusations
9:23against Thomas Jefferson and so on.
9:26The only person who's ever walked the face of the earth
9:30who made no mistakes, who did nothing
9:33that could be criticized, legitimately criticized,
9:36is Jesus Christ.
9:38That's it. He's the only one.
9:41And if you don't understand that,
9:44or you don't sort of accept that,
9:47there's nobody worthy of being honored.
9:50There's nobody worthy of having their accomplishments
9:54acknowledged, not a single person, not you, not me, nobody.
9:59So that's the approach I take to this.
10:03And it is a rational understanding of what's
10:10that, oh yeah, if you want to find reasons to criticize, they're there. There's no question
10:16about it. They're there. I choose to focus on the way in which God used these people that
10:23I've just talked about and many others to bless our country. I mean, you could say the
10:28same thing about Ben Franklin. A lot of rumors about Ben Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, a lot
10:34of stuff about him. But again, the question is, did God use, listen, if God could only use people who
10:42never sinned, who never made mistakes, who never did anything wrong, he would use anybody.
10:49There would be nobody left to use. Okay. So that's the way I approach it. But I am
10:57gratified by what we've been able to do, because we brought people together and audited people on
11:02on the basis of their merit and their service
11:05rather than the basis of their skin color.
11:07Wow, what a revolutionary idea.
11:12Let me also add this, that if you want to get tickets
11:19to come and celebrate these leaders of our community
11:24this year while we're honoring people
11:26like a pastor named Todd Wollstone
11:28who has been working closely with Christians United for Israel
11:33and support defense of Israel.
11:35And we're honoring business people
11:37who have done tremendous things to contribute
11:39to the community.
11:40And again, we're honoring these first responders.
11:43And many of these people, in fact, most of them
11:45are unsung heroes.
11:46They're people who others just haven't paid much attention to.
11:50But in the meantime, they've just been laboring behind the scenes
11:53to try to improve the quality of life for the people around them.
11:57And we are just blessed to be able to honor them.
12:00we give them the Martin Luther King Leadership Award
12:03and the two students, two outstanding students
12:06that we use scholarship money to.
12:08So to help them get started.
12:10And again, if you'd like to come or just like to contribute,
12:14go to the call.org at the call.org.
12:18And you can click on the Martin Luther King Leadership
12:20breakfast so you can just donate there
12:21and designate it as an MLK donation.
12:25The proceeds go for scholarships
12:27and to support the Maximum Potential Christian Academy,
12:30which is the school my wife and I founded
12:33about five years ago to serve the children of our community,
12:38many of whom will never have an opportunity
12:40to go to a private school,
12:42and now really getting a first rate education
12:45for frankly a fraction of what they would normally pay
12:49for such an education.
12:51My wife has two master's degrees,
12:53one in education, one in library science,
12:57And she is an outstanding teacher.
12:59She taught in the public schools to our frustration
13:01for over 20 years, but now she's teaching
13:03in a Christian school.
13:05Now, since I brought up Dr. King,
13:07let me follow on with this.
13:11The stuff that we're seeing in the streets of Minneapolis
13:13and that is now beginning to happen
13:16in some cities across the country,
13:18again, I hope it will not spread,
13:19but we're beginning to see it.
13:22This is an outgrowth of the civil rights movement.
13:25You say, well, wait a minute, you did civil rights movement?
13:27You just said good things, but I certainly did.
13:30And I think there are some very good things about it.
13:33But I think that it's also been exploited and perverted
13:37and used in absolutely horrific ways.
13:41The civil rights movement was never meant
13:43to justify homosexuality.
13:45It was never meant to justify killing unborn babies.
13:48It was never meant to justify gender confusion.
13:52It was never meant to justify anti-Semitism.
13:54It was never meant to justify
13:56this hatred and venom against ICE agents doing their constitutional and legal duty to secure
14:05our border, to arrest and detain and deport people who are not here legally.
14:13So we need to distinguish between the illustrious vision of the civil rights movement and the
14:21horrible things that have been done in its name.
14:23we come back, we're gonna talk a little bit more about that.
14:26Back in a moment, this is Bishop E.W. Jackson
14:29in for Abraham Hamilton III.
15:01A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:05It's like all of creation was screaming, God is good.
15:09His goodness just flows from everything he created.
15:13But when the devil came to the garden, tempted Adam and Eve,
15:17his approach was, is God really good?
15:20And sadly, they kind of went along with his deception.
15:24They fell into sin.
15:26But the reality is God's creation is good
15:29and God is totally good.
15:31And so he can be totally trusted.
15:32So our worship and praise is acknowledging that he's good,
15:35even when we don't fully recognize or see what he's doing.
15:39On the other hand, complaining is God, you're messing up.
15:43I'm not sure if you really are good in this situation.
15:45So I think clearly it's important.
15:47And complaining is never a good thing.
15:49It really is a way to curse something.
15:52Praise and worship, even though we may not fully understand
15:55what all is going on, it's so productive.
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17:14When you think about it,
17:16Dr. King's most famous comment is he longed for the day
17:22when his children would not be judged by the color of their skin
17:26but by the content of their character.
17:28That was, that's really the by word, if you will, of the civil rights movement.
17:34The people who consider themselves as the civil rights movement have completely flipped that on its head.
17:39And they'll say basically that the color of your skin is the only thing that's important.
17:44It is everything. It is all that matters.
17:47It should determine what opportunities you have, how you get treated, what doors are open, what schools you can go to, what jobs you can have.
17:55And the fact of the matter is, if your skin happens to reflect the European ancestry, essentially,
18:04and you happen to be male as well, then you should be denied almost any opportunity.
18:09You should be pushed aside for anybody who happens to have darker skin and have their
18:16ancestors hailed from some part of the world other than Europe.
18:19I mean, this is a complete perversion of what the civil rights movement was about.
18:24And some of the people who claim the mantle of the civil rights movement, remember,
18:28it's more Churchill work for the University of Colorado.
18:32After the attack on the World Trade Centers, this man on the World Trade Center,
18:37this man in the toppling of those towers, this man actually likened the victims
18:42of that vicious, horrific terrorist attack
18:47to little Adolf Eichmann's and claim that they were,
18:50the equivalent, because these are as financial centers,
18:55that these financial centers house,
18:57the equivalent of little Adolf Eichmann's,
19:01who in a set, essentially, deserved what they got.
19:06Now the backlash was so fierce that he started to crawfish
19:11and, you know, back off and try to figure out how to, as I say, walk back the comment,
19:19but you can't walk it back.
19:21He couldn't walk it back because he had made himself crystal clear.
19:26He had said that the World Trade Center was a legitimate target because it was a symbol
19:33of a destructive system of the command and control infrastructure.
19:39It was part of America's imperialist system.
19:43I mean, he was crystal clear on what he meant, but he considered himself to be a child of
19:49the civil rights movement.
19:50Well, really?
19:51The civil rights movement justified the mass motor of innocent people who were simply going
19:59to work.
20:00Are you kidding?
20:03But look, we'd be fools to deny that communism and socialism and Marxism and fascism infiltrated
20:12The civil rights movement perverted it,
20:15and it's turned it into what it now claims to be now,
20:18which is, as far as I'm concerned,
20:21it's an abomination.
20:24And one of the most dangerous things
20:27that's ever happened to our country,
20:28because the civil rights movement began
20:31trying to address a real problem with real victims.
20:36What we have now is a thing that creates victims
20:40that are not victims, turns them into victims,
20:43labels them victims, and then creates villains
20:49from those who are not villains.
20:51People who are simply trying to enforce the law,
20:54simply trying to do things in a fair way,
20:56simply trying to uphold the principles of meritocracy.
21:00These are now the villains.
21:01These are the monsters.
21:02These are the people, you know, people like ICE agents,
21:06people like the president of the United States,
21:10Donald Trump, people like me, that we're the bad people,
21:16because we would dare suggest that America's
21:20a wonderful country built upon eternal principles,
21:24in my view, and a nation in which anybody who is willing
21:29to put their hand to the plow, anybody who is willing
21:33to work, willing to discipline themselves, can live
21:38and thrive in this nation, anybody,
21:41Regardless of the color of this skin.
21:44Oh Bishop Jackson, we see what you are.
21:47Yeah, I know exactly what I mean.
21:48I'm an American.
21:50I'm a patriot.
21:51I'm a Christian.
21:52I'm grateful to God every day of my life for this country
21:55and the opportunity it provides not only to me,
21:57but to my children, to my grandchildren
22:00and to all who will come after me
22:02unless we let these marks just rip it apart.
22:07And so I say we have to create victims.
22:09Did you hear mom Donnie?
22:10He's all upset because an aide of his was arrested.
22:13We said, he had no right to arrest him.
22:16This guy's working for the New York City.
22:19He's been here illegally since 2017.
22:25He's been here illegally since 2017.
22:28He overstayed his visa.
22:29Well, he didn't cross.
22:30He didn't cross illegally.
22:31It doesn't matter if you are if you are allowed to visit, you're given the privilege
22:35of visiting this country on whatever basis, when that privilege runs out, the decent,
22:41the honorable, the lawful thing to do is to leave voluntarily. And when you intentionally
22:48flout that and stay, you are no better than the person who has crossed the border legally.
22:54You've just come over in a slicker way. But as far as I'm concerned, your intentions are
23:00absolutely no different, which is to flout the system, to violate the law, to take advantage
23:08in whatever way you can of what America has to offer without going through the proper process
23:15of entering our country and having permission to be here. See what I mean? So we got a new class
23:22of victims now. You're here illegally? Oh, you're a victim. Oh, man, how did you suddenly become a
23:29victim? See, that's a perversion of the civil rights movement because I grew up north of the
23:37Mason Dixon line, born north of Mason Dixon line.
23:40I never lived in the south doing the segregation error.
23:43And thank God for it.
23:45And I know people who did have different set of experiences.
23:48Clarence Thomas experienced that.
23:50But look at what Clarence Thomas has done with his life.
23:53You don't see him whining and growl, I'm a victim.
23:57He got on with his life.
23:58The man sits on the United States Supreme Court
24:00in my view is really the intellectual leader
24:02of the conservatives on the Supreme Court.
24:07This is what America allows you to do.
24:09This is what America provides.
24:10This is the opportunity, it affords.
24:14But there are people who hate it
24:16because they've got their own vision
24:17of what they want this country to be.
24:19And it has nothing to do with meritocracy.
24:22It has nothing to do with individual liberty.
24:24It has to do with a totalitarian, tyrannical,
24:27Marxist imposition upon everybody
24:31and everything to control them
24:33so that they can basically sit a stride,
24:37dystopian, cut nation, because that's exactly what it would be if we allowed them to have their way.
24:46So the beat goes on with these accusations against Trump. Now, let me point out one other
24:51thing. By the way, I want to take your calls, of course, as always. And we're going to start taking
24:56calls in the next segment, the numbers 888-589-8840, that's 888-589-8840. Do you find it rather ironic
25:07like, that the people who live here and somehow claim the moral superiority of the country's
25:18elites and they know what's best and the rest of us, we fly over people, we podunks, we idiots,
25:25we, you know, we people cling to our Bibles and our guns, you know, you name it, whatever
25:32or canard they come up with whatever slander they come up with against us.
25:37You find it interesting that the people of Taiwan, the people of Iran,
25:44some of the people incarcerated in China right now when they have an opportunity.
25:50The people who live under these totalitarian regimes, these communist regimes,
25:54when they have an opportunity to be heard to express themselves,
25:58where do they look for inspiration?
26:03the United States of America.
26:07What flags do they tend to wave
26:10when they have an opportunity to symbolize
26:13their hunger for freedom, the American flag?
26:19How is it you get idiots in our country
26:22who wanna wave Mexican flags
26:25when the oppressed world,
26:27the world that's truly oppressed,
26:29these people are truly victims.
26:33They're reciting the declaration of independence.
26:39They're sometimes quoting sections of the Pledge of Allegiance,
26:45and they're pointing to Donald Trump
26:48as a potential liberator.
26:55Folks, it is difficult to explain the incongruity there
27:01without coming back to something I say over and over and over again.
27:06This is cult-like thinking.
27:10These people are not thinking like normal human beings.
27:13They are thinking like somebody who has been brainwashed,
27:17mesmerized, hypnotized into the irrationality of a cult
27:22that is living and leading others to live
27:25in denial of reality.
27:31You know, one of the things that I want to do,
27:34and I'm praying, please pray for me,
27:36that I'll have the resources eventually to do it,
27:38is to go out and start doing some man on the street interviews
27:41in these inner city areas and start asking people,
27:44you know, how they feel about our country and asking them.
27:47And I'm not just talking about a racial thing,
27:49I'm not gonna anybody, anybody who is in a position where
27:53you could say maybe they're in poverty
27:55or maybe they're on welfare or maybe they're living
27:58in, you know, an unsafe neighborhood or whatever.
28:03You know, there are people like that of all backgrounds.
28:07To be able to ask them, you know,
28:10how they feel about this country?
28:12Because I wanna hear these people who say,
28:14You know, America's an unjust place,
28:16and America's horrible, and America's terrible.
28:18And, you know, not everybody obviously feels that way,
28:20but those who do, I wanna talk to them and then ask, okay,
28:23well, if you feel that way, where would you like to live?
28:32Because I don't think that these people have really, again,
28:36thought through the context in which America exists.
28:41America exists in the context of Russia,
28:45in the context of China, in the context of Cuba,
28:48in the context of how many communist totalitarian drug
28:55zard and cartel controlled nations in South America,
29:04how many brutal dictatorships in Africa,
29:08how many Muslim controlled Xi'erun nations in Asia.
29:17you look at the UN and asked the quite well, okay, all right, you're entitled to that opinion,
29:25where would you like to live? I mean, all these people who are attacking ICE agents,
29:33I would love for them to say where they think they could go and enter into the country illegally
29:40and think that this nation would have them gladly violate their laws for entry and treat them like
29:48Like citizens, let them vote, let them give them welfare, give them, give them health care,
29:54buy their groceries, put them up in apartments, put them on airplanes or fly to whatever designated
30:00city they choose.
30:02I'd like to know where they think that nation exists.
30:06And you know what?
30:08There's not a nation on earth because even the worst on earth are not that suicidal.
30:15And Ilhan Omar had the nerve to say that America has become one of the worst countries in the
30:23world.
30:24Oh, Somalia clearly is not, but America is.
30:26Then go back to Somalia or to whatever country you think is the nation that shows what a terrible
30:35place America is in contrast.
30:37Well, guess what?
30:38You won't find it because it doesn't exist.
30:44And folks, I am serious about this.
30:47If we are going to pass on to my grandson and my granddaughter
30:51and your grandchildren and great grandchildren,
30:55if Jesus carries, we're going to pass on a nation
30:59in which like many of you and like me,
31:03I told my story and had people walk up to me and say,
31:05Bishop Jackson, I was in foster care too.
31:09And these are people whose their skin color
31:11may be different from mine, it doesn't matter.
31:13and say, you know, I had to live under an abusive situation
31:17for many, many years.
31:18It took me a long time to get over it.
31:20And here's some guy now presiding
31:22over a multi-million dollar business.
31:25This is America, folks.
31:27This is what's possible here.
31:30It's where you can actually look into the eyes
31:34of your progeny and say to them,
31:38you can do pretty much anything,
31:42your capability and hard work
31:44will allow you to do in this country.
31:48You can follow it wherever it will take you.
31:52And you can do so holding whatever opinion you want
31:55about whatever matter you want.
31:57Nobody will stand in your way,
31:58as long as you aren't hurting other people,
32:00as long as you aren't trying to exploit other people.
32:02You're not breaking the law.
32:04You can go as high as life will allow you.
32:14So that I'm not an anomaly.
32:18I mean, people commend me.
32:20and they're sometimes fascinated by my background,
32:24but folks, the fact that I was born into a broken home
32:27and raised in foster care, I'm not unusual.
32:32What is unusual perhaps is that I happen to be one
32:35among far too many, a black folks in America
32:39who are willing to say, I am so grateful to God
32:42for my country because a person like me
32:46has been allowed to do the things that I can do
32:49because my country believes in individual liberty.
32:56I guess if anything makes me unusual,
32:57it's not my experience as my background,
33:00it's the ability and the willingness to acknowledge
33:03with gratitude the opportunities that this nation affords me.
33:10And you got people running around in the streets
33:12wanting to kill our ICE agents
33:14because they're doing their lawfully sworn duty.
33:20Folks, this is Bishop E.W. Jackson.
33:22and then for Abraham Hamilton.
33:23Third, I'm gonna take your calls and we get back.
33:25The number's 888-589-8840.
33:29Back in just a moment.
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35:00Leftism and Islamism.
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35:06Minnesota, again, became a national flashpoint
35:09after it was exposed that Somali Muslim immigrants
35:12have defrauded taxpayers of an estimated $9 billion
35:16through fake businesses.
35:18This was enabled by leftist politicians in the city and state
35:22who may be benefiting from the theft.
35:24The lesson here is that leftists and Islamists
35:27partner to undermine our nation financially and spiritually.
35:32Christian should oppose this assault,
35:34following the biblical command to be on the alert,
35:37stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong,
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36:16The numbers 888-588-98840, that's 888-589-8840.
36:21589-8840. I'm taking your calls about any subject, probably related to what we've been
36:28talking about here, but maybe you want to raise something that I haven't mentioned, that you
36:33think is important to raise. I want to give you that opportunity as well.
36:37Let me just say a couple of questions and I'm saying a couple of things and I'm going to
36:41come right to your questions and comments. This woman Wanda Sykes was a comedian. She is saying
36:48over the death of Nicole Goode, we need to have an insurrection. We need to overthrow what she calls
36:55this rogue government. Now, clearly the woman knows absolutely nothing. What exactly is this
37:05rogue government doing again, yesterday, if you were with me, I cited the statutes that do not simply
37:15allow for the arrest, detaining, and deportation of people who are here without proper authorization,
37:23it mandates it. The law requires that those people be apprehended, arrested, detained, and deported.
37:35So how is the government going rogue doing what the law requires? Well, clearly it's not.
37:43But that's what they're of course going to say.
37:49And the only thing you can do is just pray for these people
37:55and continue to work hard.
37:56The other thing I wanna mention before I come to the lines
37:58is this, folks, we got a big election coming up.
38:04And look, AFR doesn't endorse,
38:09my organization doesn't endorse, we're non-profit 501c3s.
38:13But thank God for the First Amendment right
38:15that we have to say how we as Christians ought
38:20to be thinking about this.
38:21Number one, we need to be praying very, very hard
38:23because you can rest assured that all of the propaganda
38:27machinery of the left is going to be turned against us
38:32to try to convince people that the real danger
38:35to our country is Donald Trump
38:36and the real danger to our country is conservatives
38:39or Republicans and that we've got to somehow
38:42purge the government of them.
38:44And historically speaking, sadly, the American people have tended to rubber band the situation.
38:51And when they've got one party that controls the White House, they tend to give the control of the House, at least, to the other party, at least one chamber of the legislation to the other party.
39:02We really can't afford that. If you see what's going on right now, we really cannot afford that.
39:08We have got to maintain an agenda that keeps moving our country in the direction of restoring
39:14our Judeo-Christian values and principles and ideals and making sure that they are upheld
39:21along enough, we hope, to become entrenched enough that they simply can't be uprooted
39:27again.
39:28I would hope, folks, that my vision is that we so discredit these Marxist, socialist, atheist,
39:37The most secularist ideas that they are cast on the dung heap of history and are children
39:44and grandchildren.
39:45I've been mentioning before, look back and say, you mean to tell me people actually believed
39:49that a guy could become a girl, a girl could become a guy?
39:53And so I says, yeah, they believed it.
39:55But the American people didn't, by and large, rejected it.
40:00And that nonsense is put, we put an end to that.
40:02You mean that there was a time when people actually believed it, there was something to
40:06be celebrated and killing an unborn baby. Yeah, there were people who believed that.
40:10But the American people rejected it and finally persuaded our fellow citizens that that was
40:15wrong. And so we've long since left that behind and so on and so forth. That is our prayer.
40:22It's not a prayer for violence. It's not a prayer for vengeance. It's not a prayer
40:26to do harm to people. It's a prayer to see the hearts of the American people so persuaded
40:32to follow the righteousness of God that we cast off the wickedness of the devil and never
40:38return to it again, at least not as a nation and not as the ideal or central tenets of our
40:48culture.
40:49Okay, 888-588-8400, let's come to Tim.
40:54I believe that's Tim in Arkansas.
40:58Tim, welcome.
40:59Yes, it is. I'm glad to hear that you're standing up for the first responders. I really liked that. I was a first responder for a long time. They made me a medic first and cut their insurance right in half being a medic on staff.
41:14And then they decided that they did that. They sent me down to Texas A&M from the incident commander training and that saved my little more on insurance, but didn't save them quite as much.
41:24But it's such a blessing that you're standing up for the
41:28The first responders. These are the one. Thank you for your service to you. They need you're welcome
41:34And I say keep standing up for him. Hey, man. I will Tim. I will thank you
41:41folks and Tim is
41:44Look, what can I say?
41:47Every American with their head on straight in the heart straight that's more important because you get the heart right the head gets right
41:54Or to have a profound appreciation.
41:58Folks, I don't know whether you all watch body cam.
42:02I, it's one of my favorite programs.
42:03I don't get to watch it very much, but I do occasionally
42:06and I tell you folks watching what these officers
42:11go through will just bring you to tears.
42:14The stuff that they have to contend with
42:17and people are denigrating them and calling them racist
42:20and saying they're an occupying force and the Gestapo
42:24I mean, this stuff is ridiculous.
42:27I mean, these people are to be hailed every day
42:31for the valiant service that they perform
42:33for the American people, every single one of them.
42:37It shouldn't take a 911 to remind us of that,
42:39but since it's happened, we don't have any more excuses.
42:43Thank you for the call, Tim.
42:44Let's go to Alex.
42:47I believe that's in Arizona.
42:48Do I have that right, Alex?
42:50Hey, brother, how you doing, brother?
42:52Hi, I'm blessed.
42:53Alex, how are you?
42:54Hey, thank you brother for everything and I always blessed to keep you on your family brother. Thank you
43:01And I just want to say I would I've been posing the question for the last how so how many years man?
43:06How can they equate a man having a husband and a woman having a wife with the civil rights movement because the civil rights movement was never based on sin
43:16That's playing and that is simple. It's just playing and simple the civil rights base was not based upon sin
43:23And this is what they when you ask them this question didn't even have an answer you know, and I always say about the
43:32the
43:34federal agent the ice agent
43:36I always ask God to keep them blessed and keep him keep them wrapped in his boog them under their
43:42Protection always to because I tell everybody if you know someone coming to home you would you let him in your house?
43:47If you know someone coming to home and kill you would you let them into your house?
43:51And this is the question I've been posing for the last almost 30 years if you know people coming in the country to kill you are
43:57Homming you how can you keep letting them come into the country?
44:01This is just insanity and you know what Bishop window country in the nation throw away God
44:06This is what happened in Sanity sets in the land and brother
44:09I just want to thank you and make God always keep you and y'all and everyone of your family members everybody
44:15God, thank you so much, brother.
44:17Thank you, brother.
44:18Thank you so much, man.
44:20Well and eloquently said, Frank,
44:23and look, what if somebody said,
44:25well, wait a minute, don't get upset
44:26because of the 100 people who are going to come into your house,
44:31don't worry, only about 10 of them are gonna be murderers.
44:35So, you know, the 90 of them are gonna be good people.
44:38They just happen to come into your house illegally,
44:39but other than that, they're really nice.
44:41I mean, yeah, you're right.
44:43It's insane.
44:44It's insane.
44:45Thank you for the call, Frank.
44:46Let's go to the Metris in Texas.
44:51The Metris, welcome.
44:53Hey, how you doing, Bishop?
44:55Again, just thank you for your service.
44:57I never forget that you're a Marine.
44:59Although-
45:00Thank you, Bob.
45:01I got my first coin from a Marine veteran,
45:06a Vietnam veteran,
45:07and I didn't even know what to do when I got that coin.
45:11Wow.
45:11But let me say this.
45:12I think the understanding needs to be made
45:16is the connection that needs to be made is we can't make a law to change hearts. Only God
45:22can change a heart. Amen. And I am a true and believer of that, not only that, but I'm also
45:29a perfect example of that. I've called a few times. I did 25 years in federal prison and
45:36my heart was changed. I didn't want to be a criminal anymore. I didn't want to commit
45:40crimes anymore. I didn't want to do anything that was not just against man's law, but God's
45:45law. I mean, it's just horrible for even the Christian to think that they can change
45:53someone when only God can change a man's heart. I'm going to leave it at that Bishop.
45:58Hey, man, man, Demetris, thank you so much for the call. Folks, you all are really, you
46:03all are touching my heart tonight with these comments because you are so right, Demetris,
46:08and to hear that testimony is very, very powerful, brother. Look, I'll tell you all the quick
46:13story I've never told on the air before but I'll tell you now I got saved in December of 1976 about
46:20three days before I got saved I had a terrible temper terrible mouth I stopped at a gas station to buy
46:27two dollars worth of gas and I was half broke anyway but I was in law school you know poor student
46:32had a little Volkswagen car and the guy gave me four dollars worth of gas and as I was about to pull
46:38off, I gave him the $2 that I ordered. And he said to me, you
46:42asked for $4 worth of gas. I said, I did not ask for $4 worth
46:46of gas. I asked for two. And he tried to argue with me a
46:48little bit. And I asked, look, I asked for two, that's it. I
46:54went to pull off. And when I went to pull off, he smacked the
46:56back of my car. And when he did, I stopped and got out. And it
47:01was on. And right across the street. Yeah, I hate to admit it,
47:07folks, but I hit him and hit him hard. And right across the street,
47:11there were police. They flashed their lights and pull right across the street
47:15and jumped out of the car and said, what's going on? He was on the ground at that
47:19point. And I put my hands up because at that point, now I'm scared. Oh my goodness.
47:23What have I done? And the cops said, what's going on? He got up and he says to them,
47:27Hey, look, it's my fault. I hit his car. And then when he got out, I ranted him.
47:32And it was true. He did. He did come at me.
47:35And they said, is it over?
47:38And both of us said, yeah, yeah, office is over.
47:41Three days later, I get emotional talking about this.
47:44Three days later, I went back to that guy
47:46and apologized to him.
47:48I mean, think I want to fight somebody over $2,
47:52but that was the devil.
47:53But I was so close to being saved, but hadn't gotten there.
47:56But by the time I went back,
47:59what Demetrius has said is so true.
48:02I had no desire in my heart to hurt anybody anymore,
48:05to fight anybody anymore,
48:07to want to do harm to people anymore.
48:11Just God does change the heart and you are so right.
48:15That's what is needed in America.
48:17And that's what we have to keep fighting for remembering.
48:20We're trying to change the hearts of people.
48:22Not that we don't get to defend ourselves.
48:24I believe we have a responsibility to do that,
48:27but our hearts are not set on violence or harming people.
48:30hearts are set on seeing people's hearts change so that they want to do the will of God rather
48:36than doing their own will.
48:38Okay, I'm down to a short time, but let's get to, I think that's Luan in Indiana.
48:45Luan, welcome.
48:46Thank you.
48:47Thank you.
48:48I just wanted to call in, I don't always listen to this late, but I heard your voice and I really,
48:56really miss you program.
48:58I loved it.
48:59Thank you.
49:00just wanted to say I'm so glad I turned it on tonight to listen to you because I love everything you stand for and
49:08I just
49:08at all
49:10Thank you. Thank you so much, luain. God bless you. Let's go to alan
49:15in louisiana alan welcome
49:17Hey, my brother. How are you doing? God bless you. Um bless you
49:22I am he who I am he who's holding up your arm
49:25As you continue to plow through and to fight with for right, I just want to encourage you
49:34again and again and over and over again.
49:38We're in a time now where we need all hands on deck and to recognize that there is an urgency
49:48for those who have been called out of darkness and into God's marvelous light to actually
49:55believe God for courage and to begin to walk in that courage to do one thing to point people to Christ
50:01Because it's darkness Bible says even the last days there's darkness covers the earth, but gross darkness to people
50:09And so what we're seeing is we see people get we've seen them act out in the darkness
50:17Those who are carrying the light of the gospel of truth we are shining brighter, but it's gonna take courage and bonus
50:23Thank you so much for the call, Alan. Folks, I don't know how much time we've got, but it's not much. I'm going to try to get you in for a quick comment. Susan in Oklahoma. Susan, welcome.
50:36Hello, brother, Bissip. It's so wonderful to hear you talk. I really enjoy hearing your thoughts. And I just want to say as a country, I hope we can be a voice for the voiceless, because that is where our future lives and
50:53God bless you for everything you do.
50:56And thank you.
50:58Thank you, dear.
50:59Thank you.
50:59Thank all of you so very much.
51:01Listen, you all have given me a great birthday gift.
51:04The opportunity to talk to you an unexpected pleasure.
51:08Look, stand up, step up, speak up, refuse to back up
51:11because we cannot be defeated if we will not quit
51:14because we are on God's side.
51:40The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast
51:42may not necessarily reflect those
51:44of the American Family Association or American Family Radio.

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