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Order at first cup.com use the promo code DA got to say thank you again we continue I just looked um we are in the top 500 still on amazon.com with this little children’s book I got cool thing yesterday went into uh my favorite city in Iowa pel Christian uh and uh they had

Me at the elementary school there read the book to about uh 40 I’d say 30 40 kindergarteners you know um it was a really cool experience I’ve never done that before and I kept wanting to read elf’s book in my mind I kept I kept wanting to say every time I turned the

Page I kept wanting to say and then I went through the candy cane Forest okay I had to put my focus back on my own book uh but uh they were a great audience um they uh they thanked us with way too much of a bounty from the best

Bakery in America yma Bakery there in Pella Iowa is it’s up there with the best bakeries in America now you saw I brought the bounty in this morning I tasted the bount and I don’t have much of a sweet tooth but that blueberry muffin was money I and I right as I

Right as you were about to bite and I said now the first time you take a bite you’re going to look at me and say is this for real and before I could as I was just saying it you like your first bite and you looked at me and with the

Look like is this real yeah it’s Iowa brother I mean yma is yaras is legit all right so way too many carbs uh I had did get a piece but brought the rest in so that I would not uh gorge on that as I’m trying to lose about 40 lbs this year

I’m down about 14 so 26 more to go you could tell by the way oh can you oh well thank you I appreciate that yesterday yesterday I wore a shirt that was way too big for me I realized after I got on the air photo of you with Autumn yeah

Yeah yeah yeah so we’re we’re it’s getting it’s amazing you know if you you know um you know you forget this when you after you lose the first 100 pounds how it went and you wait 10 years to try to lose the last 40 and you’re like huh

You mean if I eat less I’ll lose weight weird you know but you got get yourself in that uh in that mindset and so I’m in that Minds after turning 50 I’m in that mindset now all right so we’re working on that so thank you guys for the kind

Words I appreciate it uh but uh had a great time reading uh why Easter to these kids yesterday um we have done actually two I’ve done two pieces of external marketing for this book um uh Todd starn had me on his show well fill

In for Todd star and had me on his show and I was supposed to be on for 15 minutes but our over ran long on Friday so I only got on for 5 uh and then uh one of our listeners here was sweet enough to invite me on her podcast and I

Mean I have no idea how big of an audience she is I just thought it was very sweet that she asked and I had free time so I’m like yeah okay I’d be happy to do it that’s it that’s absolutely it I mean there’s been no other external

Marketing for this book at all I mean this has just been you guys here in this audience and uh just very very thankful and I hope the message uh resonates it’s I think it’s the I said to one of the little kids yesterday who correctly uh Rose his hand and correctly answered

What Easter is and I told him now you go home tonight and you tell your parents I already know the most important thing to know in the universe I don’t need I’m good I’m good I’ve I’m already getting into grandparent mode Stoke and provoke the little kids then send them home to their

Parents but did you do Deborah yes so some little kid went home last night went full Kindergarten Cop okay um teacher said I already know everything right you know so shout out to you if you’re that parent there in Pella Iowa I got you uh so that was a

Ton of fun leave us a review at Amazon if you like the book and a lot of you have we have been getting a ton of email or a ton of reviews here in the last uh few days so thank you for all of those you can get your copy at amazon.com why

Easter Jesus died for us so we can live forever I think there might even still be a couple of signed copies left I’ve not gotten an update on this that’s why I haven’t mentioned it cuz I don’t want to send you guys there and then they’re

Out but just in case I I don’t you know maybe there’s still some signed y Easter is where you can go to get autographed copies if you want there including customized autographs as well at signy easter.com also and this is going to come up of course in the Montage a reminder we had

Todd uh it’s benman right from the center for immigration studies he’s in this episode it’s the third episode of our series on basically Texas versus the feds I’m I’m sure this is going to be featured in Aaron’s Montage here in a moment um I I am at the stage we’ll get into

This after the I’m just blackpilled on the whole issue after what’s gone by gone down the last 24 hours just totally blackpilled and this this episode by the way um set the stage for that there is a moment in this episode when you find out that the Biden Administration did

Actually act to have Mexico turn one one particular wave of of illegal migrants away and then because I mean the obvious logical conclusion of that is why don’t they do this with every wave then you know what I’m saying or at least can we do at least can how

About how much for for for two waves you know can we gamble here can we get maybe half the waves okay um but if you want to watch this special Blaze original.com is where you can go use the code border crisis to get $30 off your Blaze TV subscription code border crisis Blaze

Original.com that’s Blaze original.com all right and with that here is aon’s aforementioned rundown of what happened while we were away what happened while we were away brought to you by breaking news a secular judge thinks the government is God I’m talking about Kaji Brown Jackson a US Supreme Court justice

During arguments over an injunction placed on the federal government by a lower court in the Missouri V Biden lawsuit that disallows government officials from using their contact at social media companies to suppress American speech the Biden Administration appealed that lower Court’s injunction which is why it was in front of the

Supreme Court yesterday anyway here’s kataji Brown Jackson on the First Amendment biggest concern is that your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government in significant ways in the most important time periods um I mean what would what would you have the government do I’ve heard you say a couple times that the

Government can post its own speech but in my hypothetical um you know kids this is not safe don’t do it um is not to get it done and so I guess some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of

This country and you seem to be suggesting that that Duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring uh platforms to take down harmful information so can you help me cuz I’m really I’m I’m really worried about that um because you’ve got the First Amendment operating

Um in an environment of threatening circumstances from the government’s perspective and you’re saying that the government can’t interact with the source of those problems other news also at the Supreme Court they ruled yesterday and indefinitely blocked Texas from enforcing an immigration law that would allow State officials to arrest

And detain people they suspect of entering the country illegally the so-call administrative stay will remain in place while the court considers emergency appeals from the Biden Administration and other who want the justices to block enforcement of the law while their legal challenges play out way past time for Texas and other states

To band together and defy these courts case in point a federal judge has ruled that illegals can possess Firearms US District Court Judge Sharon Coleman of the northern district of Illinois referenced lower court rulings in dismissing firearm possession charges against herberto carbal Flores who was illegally or unlawfully in the United

States when he possessed a handgun in the little village neighborhood of Chicago on June 1st back in 201 20 the father of murdered Georgia nursing student leak Riley spoke to the Today Show yesterday do you think a difference in Immigration policy would have made a difference for Laken we have no idea if

That would have changed anything but he’s here illegally that he might not have been here had we had secure borders checking in on Yeezy are you in that space where you’re confortable enough to say this is where I am right now I’m still a man of God Jesus still is King

But this is vultures right now this is where I am it is but I you know I I have my issues with Jesus there’s a lot of stuff I went through that I prayed and I didn’t see Jesus show up so how did you not socalled disappear like cuz that’s a

Hell of a fight cuz you know cuz I’m God and anyone to disagree I’m the god of me a newly resurfaced video from 20122 of one Barack Obama speaking at Stanford is is going viral this morning talking about the co Jabs and yet despite the fact that we’ve now essentially clinically tested the

Vaccine on billions of people worldwide and finally meet a real man this is Kansas City Chief’s kicker Harrison buter speaking with EWTN I do you want to ask there is a debate in this country over the best way to curb gun violence after being so close to it yeah any

Thoughts yeah um you know I had to do a lot of of thinking about the what took place at the parade I know gun violence was a big discussion but at the end of the day this is degenerate violence and it should not be occurring I think we

Need strong fathers in the home I think we men that are we need men that are leading that are setting good examples that are teaching the young men in our society that violence is not the way to handle our disputes it’s very unfortunate what happened unfortunately many many children were injured um

Beautiful young lady was killed over someone getting offended and turning to violence to hand that dispute it’s so sad I don’t think guns are the issue I think we need fathers in the home that are being great examples for our youth what do you think are some specific

Challenges men face today that could be keeping them from their potential I think part of the fall from from the first sin of Adam and Eve is men want to be like women and women want to be like men you see a lot of times where women

Want to be leading the the the marriage and they want to be the head of the household and the man you know it’s the the Homer Simpson sit on the couch drink beer and just watch TV and just let everything go on on around me and I’m

Not really at the at the center of what’s even going on in my household so you know I’m very passionate about encouraging men to to be courageous to not be afraid to be the leader it’s something that we struggle with I think a lot of times to to go outside of our

Comfort zone and to say you know what God has called me to be a leader and to lead by example I’m going to lead my household and I’m going to lead um outside the world when I’m evangelizing so that’s something that I’m very passionate about I think more men need

To not care about what the world say says about them they need to have strong men that support them with iron sharpening iron and they need to be encouraged that that God was Jesus Christ was Radical and he said a lot of things that weren’t liked and he wasn’t

Loved but at the end of the day he stood for truth and I think men cannot be afraid and cannot waver and they need to stand for truth and that’s what happened while we were away Ain thank you for including that at the end I think that

Was necessary to see and just for me personally I think that was a good note to end that Montage on because we’re going to talk about maybe the most important issue in the country right now and I have gotten completely blackpilled on it so it’s important to see there are

Still 7,000 men in Israel who have not taken the need to bail yet there is the the fight is there are people fighting it just may not be in the places that we’re accustomed to or that we are uh privy to um or that are the traditional

Venues for doing so and that’s another reason why I think right now I want to talk about our friends over at pre-born because this is another place where your relationship with us here on the Blaze and a lot of times it feels like man they’re not they’re either not going to count my

Vote or my vot’s not going to count if you know what I’m saying right I mean at this point I’m voting for orange cones and speed bumps I’m not even doing this out of any sense of hope I I really just want things to be slowed down enough

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I want to I want to share with you guys just why I’m just blackpilled over the last 24 hours on the immigration issue we have unquestionably our second best Supreme Court Justice issuing an extended injunction against Texas Samuel Alo and I’m not saying it never happens it’s just very rare for the

Court to stop something from being enforced and then come back and say yeah actually it’s a great idea like think think back to the Dos decision the first sign that they were at least going to over they were at least going to hold uphold the 15 week

Ban now I I think if you go back and listen to our shows at the time I don’t know that any of us thought they were going to use this as an impetus to overturn roie Wade completely um but the first sign that they were at least going to uphold that

15we ban is they allowed it to be enforced and others like it to go into place I’m not saying it never happens but in general if there if your odds are low when they put an injunction against some thing that they’re then going to come back and say after reconsidering

All clear not saying it never happens right like are there people who have before taken their last paycheck gone to Vegas B it all on seven b it all on black in order to get out of debt and it landed has that ever happened like once or twice sure sure should you

Really is that are those really the odds you should be playing with your with your income with your productivity no okay so I mean it can happen but I just has happened I’m sure but that that’s that’s that’s not a path to Victory typically that’s not something to count on and

I one of the things I struggle with a lot in this job and always have is I don’t want to mislead you there’s bearing false witness is not necessarily the same as lying most of the time it is but when Rahab said she didn’t know where those Jews were to the

Canaanites was she telling the truth no no when Cory tboom told the Nazis she didn’t know where those Jews were was she telling the truth no no the hierarchy of truth right because the the value of Life comes before before and in the in the hierarchy of values correct so most of

The time the vast majority of the time overwhelming amount like maybe over 80 maybe 90% of the time would lying be the definition of bearing false witness yeah but it’s not 100% there’s many forms um one of the ways that I have struggled with it in this job is that there can

Absolutely be a tension between what will draw traffic and what will draw listeners and attract eyeballs and what is actually true and that tension really for me is because I can’t sit here and say my prime directive is a is a Biblical worldview and then feed you a bunch of

Nonsense low-lying fruit that that Fe fills my belly and and and lines my pockets but in the end didn’t it’s full of Sound and Fury signifying nothing we didn’t accomplish anything and so this is the challenge and I’m not a victim I signed up for this that I

Agreed to this I mean if you sign up to be a cop in Chicago you agree to get shot at on a regular basis right yeah yeah that’s you know you’re not a victim you signed up for it that’s the job I mean what’s the line in the mission

Impossible job when Angela Basset Mission Impossible movie when Angela Basset says to Alec Baldwin or she Alec Baldwin says to Angela Basset well if they would have done what you said they all would have died and she says yeah I know that’s the job I that’s the job for

Me this job that’s not the same for a bunch of other people in this industry who are good folks and have other Prime directives guiding them but for me if a if the advancement of a Biblical worldview is my prime directive there is going to consistently be tensioned

Between how do I broadcast while remaining on a narrow road and we have to navigate that all the time and and so there are certainly moments where there are things we don’t discuss that either are coming from a dishonest place or in the in the in the case of the whole

Blood bath thing they’re just empty calories they’re not bad it’s not a it’s not dishonest I mean the Doritos you got at vendol land tastes good right okay yeah but but ultimately you know those are empty calories they don’t satiate they don’t satisfy and that’s so you know they’re

Here today gone to gone tomorrow we would much rather serve you steak than sheits and this immigration issue should be man a Porter House wagu beef like someone got on a horse okay and and and in a trolley or a no I got on a steamship from Japan all

Right with the with the wagu at wagu and dropped it off level of 100% right off the grill red meat this issue should be right we’re only talking about the sovereignty of our country the the importing of how many criminal elements the handing over of our border to drug traffickers and human

Traffickers the importing of your Replacements our Replacements these are significant I mean I short short of a depression or a or an army dropping either a bomb or a a brigade on our soil can there be anything more immediately existential to a country than its own sovereignty I don’t think so one would

Think I mean it’s certainly on the list with those other two two things I just mentioned right yes and you know why those other two things are there when a country drops a bomb on you or Brigade on you they’re attacking what your na your sovereignty when your economy is

Destabilized to the point that the people can no longer be supported what that also is an attack against your sovereignty as a people and we sat here on this show a couple of weeks ago telling you what important moment this was with what the governor of Texas is

Is bound to do and has to do against the we did this show was just a few weeks ago sure right and now it’s just like we’ve all moved on oh well Court said we couldn’t do it it’s not that important just keep raping and killing people and letting the Democrats bring

More voters in and hope that’s not your sub Suburban boy that overdoses on fentanyl next week hope that’s not your suburban daughter that you turn on the internet to get your jolly you’re like oh wait that’s my kid they kidnapped and human trafficked hope that’s not you anyway

Did you see what uh did you see what Joe Joe Scarboro said yesterday I mean doesn’t that just seem like what’s going on right now yes and I I I got to tell you I I emotionally don’t know how to handle it I’m I’m just completely

Blackpilled if this is not just a stop every everything else we’re doing literally literally everything else we’re doing stop it everything stops this time four years ago we stopped everything for a scam how about 15 days to flatten the Border 30 days to slow The Invasion can

We try that this is an alpha an Omega Point you’re making I I just but but we’re just going to go on we are we’re going to go on yakity Yaks with the back and forth for my engagement farming with Joe Scarboro and whatever stupid crap he said we’ll just

Go on and do that that by the way that yesterday the Supreme Court also told that Indiana Family who had their kid taken away from him uh no soup for you we don’t have time for you we don’t we got we got time to tell Texas no but

We’ve got nothing for you so uh good luck with your kid man appreciate it peace out it feels to me like to discuss like anything else at this moment I’m lying to you I’m bearing false witness I am I I’m I mean I’m I’m deceiving you it’s it

Doesn’t it that’s that’s what it seems like to me like this should be a stop everything this can’t happen Texas governor’s like well you know we’ll arrest people for Criminal Trespass and do what with them are you going to deport them by the way um the first word

Of illegal alien is what illegal which means they’re all guilty of a crime yeah you don’t wait for them to commit a crime they’re all guilty they committed a crime already they’re all guilty but in a way I can’t blame his limp wristed response I mean how many

People other than the usual suspects the Daniel Horwitz is and a few others are out there right now demanding Greg Abbott do something in defiance of the Court how many people in our business are doing that the trucker Convoy you see it in the blaze original went down

To the Border hey bros Drive North to Austin go to Austin instead go where the decisions are actually being made go blockade Austin I know the photo op is at the border I get that but the battle is in Austin go there head up North about 8 hours to Austin go

There that’s where the battle’s at I I just I mean why don’t we just go ahead let’s just prepare a national Tombstone at Arlington and we can we can inscribe on it the Supreme C Court told us we had to just sit here and do nothing and take it you know sorry

Kids nine on people told us that we just had to let ourselves be invaded by drug mules human traffickers murderers Liars thieves rapists and and people that even if they’re not any of those things will make sure that your wages per capita are the lowest they can

Possibly be in a market economy by driving them down and there’s but there’s nothing we can do our hands are tied you know I mean um you know bundle up the Haitian cannibals are coming I mean there’s nothing we can do and there’s like no critical mass

There’s like no outr would I’m i’ I’ve begun it’s clear the critical mass isn’t coming I just it’s just very clear it’s not and maybe it always had to be like this but the amount of suffering that we’re going to have to endure to do anything about this stuff substantively

Man I don’t want to live through or contemplate I just want to go snuggle with Autumn and watch NCA basketball because here’s the thing it doesn’t like Daniel says all the time it doesn’t have to be like this we don’t have to have we don’t have to force

God’s hand to the point that we literally have to be on the brink of total collapse before we’ll do something but by golly that’s just who we are as a species sons of Adam and daughters of Eve just playing out Genesis 3 over and over again that’s what Harrison bucker

Was talking about on that clip just playing that out over and over again Epoch after Epoch Millennia after Millennia era after era that’s the eras tour right there that’s the eras tour we just play out Genesis 3 over and over again doesn’t matter time custom language people were just those

Archetypes over and over and over again and so I feel like to discuss this in some way Chuckle Hut is I’m I’m bearing false witness to you this isn’t real we’re not real we and and much of this much of much of the business here the relationship that that the content

Provider and the consumer has not real we just want talking points to feed you and that’s all you want to be fed look at the polls look at the Red Wave that’s all you want and that’s all we want to give and that’s all we ever get so

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Blaze TV subscribers at blazetv.com go there to become a subscriber today or that’s also if you’re already a subscriber well you’ll be able to watch it later today at blazetv.com days all right so gentlemen I was ketching uh and we ran out of time in the last segment we’ve actually got a

Few minutes here I want to I want to get you guys’s reaction to what we are told is the existential a issue of this moment and I agree that it is but it’s just like oh well okay well I guess we’re all just going to fund this we’re

Going to you know F we’re not going to ask Republicans to stop funding this at the federal level we’re not going to ask a republican Governor to uh you know govern according to the the the elected sovereignty on behalf of the people who voted for him as opposed to be the

Steward of nine unelected justices and we’re just going to let the invasion go on and uh I guess we’ll crack back at Keith Oberman and Joe Scarboro today uh for uh for uh mamry glands and Giggles we’re just going to do that instead Aaron I’ll let you go first your

Thoughts man I I agree with your assessment that there is basically no movement but I mean we we are privy to some of the trends in in terms of publishing in rightwing and I’m not going to get into that specifically not great right now even despite though uh

Why Easter success but overall not not great and that is indicative of a populace of people who are or have been checked out or tapped out in my estimation and so while I agree with your assessment I I’m asking to to what end do we shout from the rooftops to what

End the fact of the matter is is that there are a lot of people like me who feel stuck what is the solution what what do we do to which the response is well that’s why Joe Biden can’t stay in office and by all means I don’t want him

To stay in office but you’re asking me to find the solution in a man who deported 33% fewer actually more than 33% fewer illegals than Barack Obama did that’s a fact across every metric that’s that’s the solution there a person with a worse track track record of deportations than Barack Obama that’s your

Solution the reason why we’re in this position is that there are too many Homer Simpsons Allah Chiefs kicker Harrison buter there are too many Homer Simpsons who are eagerly counting down the minutes and seconds until two meaningless playin games tonight at the beginning of the NCAA tournament there

Are more people like that then know who lak Riley is yep and know what happened to her and why it happened yep that’s why we’re in this position correct so I’m back at a position of being stuck because on the one hand the solution we’re being told has a worst record at

Deportations than Barack Obama and on the other hand there are few people who actually give a runny turd about the problem to begin with so I feel like we’re tilting at wind windmills here that’s not fun that’s not a it’s not a uplifting and encouraging with a

Message of Hope message but that’s just the reality as I see it tell me I’m wrong you’re not wrong and and there’s going to be people that hear this and they’re going to say what you guys don’t think Trump would do a better job than

Biden I’ll just speak for myself I I I think he’d do a a lot better job despite all the issues and criticisms I have but what I at given times but what I hear you say Aaron is this idea that that’s all we’re going to do that’s really what

We’re that’s all we’re going to do we’re just going to we’re just going to vote that’s all we’re going to do vote harder we’re just going to vote harder for the people that didn’t secure it the first time they had the chance that’s all we’re and we’re going to do nothing else

The governors aren’t going to do anything state legislators aren’t going to do anything we’re not going to do anything we’re not going to do anything else we’re just going to we’re just going to do what we’ve done for a generation make a bunch of Executives at Fox News M who hate our guts

Mind-numbingly Rich for the for the for uh because we’re we’re grateful that they pushed the Overton window to the left at a much slower rate than the crazies on and the lunatic asy on M MSNBC and CNN do we’re going to do that and we’re going to vote Republican even

Harder while being convinced the entire time that our votes won’t count that’s basically that’s the battle plan right that’s the plan yes and get informed about prostate issues from Caitlyn Jenner yes that’s our plan I’m totally fine voting for Trump again I’ve said that from the beginning

Of this entire process even while I was back in his primary opponent but this idea that that’s all we’re going to do is just sit around and hope that they hope that the that that either he can win or they’ll let the guy win who didn’t secure the border the first time

Well Stevie I know that I cover this for a living I know all these details but he didn’t get this done that’s one of the reasons why we’re here do I think there’s a much better chance you’ll get something done than who whoever the hell is running the Country Now by a

Million but that can’t be our only plan just to sit by here and passively vote and not ask our Governors to do anything not ask our legislators to do anything they had a p a gubernatorial Primary in Texas in 2022 Todd I had dinner last year with Don

Huffines one of his primary opponents ‘s a very successful Texas Texan his wife’s probably listening right now in fact he could self-fund a camp a campaign and did one of the other Challengers was the guy that used to be a member of Congress Alan West and the former head of the Texas Republican

Party these aren’t nobody’s that just jumped off a Reddit form that’s my point these aren’t nobody’s just jumped off a Reddit for him and uh Abbot’s not good enough some I’m going to primary him these are people with Name ID and or the ability to to sell fund to be relevant

Do you remember what percentage of the vote Greg Abbott got in that primier against those guys shockingly high it was over 70% and Trump endorsed them the problem with having everything be about Trump which is what we do is that you’re asking a very material let’s say person person to

Do to bat 100% no one’s going to do that no one is you’re asking you’re asking way too much out of him and so when he endorses a good person we get him elected in a primary when he doesn’t we can’t like we can’t do like anything independent of him at

All you want to hear something that’s going to make you really upset why not this is from Florida’s voice news they’ve got the Florida primary today and local elections I believe with many local elections being held the tour situation has worsened for State Democrats as election day voting

Continues here are the splits for turnouts Palm Beach 59.5% Republican 29% Democrat wa wait wait in Palm Beach Broward 75% Republican 18% Democrat pelis 76% Republican 14% Democrat Orange County Orange County 79% Republican 15% Democrat don’t you talk about Iowa evangelicals like that for people that maybe don’t know and aren’t old enough

If you’re Millennial a gen Z listener um Palm Beach county is where the infamous Florida recount began because some little old lady retirees went on CNN and said they tried to vote for Al Gore and the machines told them they voted for papuc Canan instead that is literally that’s

Literally the whole origin of the story and it began in Palm Beach County Florida Broward County Florida is the place where they made the term hanging chad famous where a lot of the video that you saw from back in the day where people are like looking at ballots is it

Punched all the way in it filled out okay was going on in Broward County Florida aarin can you just one more time just those two counties what was the primary turnout I lost the Tweet here but let me find it again and and this is the election day turnout election day

Turnout in just those two counties do you have it just those two Palm Beach and Broward Palm Beach 59% R 59 a half% r to 29% D Broward 75% R to 18% D that’s beyond a shellacking I mean Republicans always beat Democrats on game day well most

Places but that’s not by 30 points in Palm Beach County they don’t brother I can promise you that okay I I this is why it’s so frustrating it doesn’t have to be like this it did not it didn’t have to be like this right now it didn’t but you got to you

Know ride the horse that you have you simply cannot allow everything to be about whether Trump stays on message today who is the last person to talk to him whether he whether he even has time to focus on your issues while they’re trying to steal his family fortune in New York

Okay you just can’t you’re not that’s not a successful path and so we’re going to fund the very federal government Todd that’s leaving the Border wide open and oh by the way gave us the Jack Smith probe that’s trying to so so we claim that that Jack Smith is being uniquely used to

Persecute Donald Trump right those are our talking points right right M and then we also claim that there’s an invasion at our Southern border right yeah okay um the body that controls the allocation of funds that goes to either one of those two Endeavors granted it’s the slimmest

Majorities but who has it house and supposedly those are our people right supposedly and and where is there any critical mass today as we continue to still go back and forth about blood bath is there any critical mass today demanding Mike Johnson do his damn job and keep his oath of office Thomas

Massie says absolutely not no nothing no no critical mass at all no critical mass to anything as I sit here and see a see a poll where Trump was up by four points last month the general election poll and now he’s down by two and so we’re just

Going to let the whole thing you know what this is I’m going to go back to what I said before Todd this is the culture War equivalent what we are doing with Trump is the culture War equivalent of I’m taking my last check going right to Vegas betting it all on black betting

It all on seven and then we’ll just sit back and see if it pays off there’s like 230 days or something until the election what are we going to do the next 230 days look at the polls look at the Red Wave okay well what am I going to do when I’m

Not looking look at the pulls harder look at the Red Wave more okay then watch your Futures End I don’t know what else to tell you then hope it works out yeah well when you’re not talking to Citizens most of the time and that’s that’s the fundamental problem whether we’re talking about the

Border or anything else what happened with uh katangi Jackson and her notion of the First Amendment how it’s kind of getting in this way of whole government what we do but the reason why it’s persuasive is because we’re not citizens citizens would not hear that be like Over My Dead

Body but if you’re not citizens you just want to be comfortable and it goes to that Alpha and Omega point I said that Steve made it’s not that people aren’t a don’t aren’t willing to allow drastic measures not at all it’s about which drastic measures allow them to be a

Comfortable the most comfortable in their lives can I Netflix and chill will I have to say something mean about a hold on I just got another email about Romans 13 I’m kidding go finish your point I’m sorry yeah so she when she says you know it’s one

Thing you have a private house and it’s been found that there’s a bomb in your house and she her whole argument what the government has to act if you’re saying some if you’re saying lying that there isn’t a bomb in the house that’s a problem if we can agree

There is a bomb in the house then do we act do we destroy private property so that more private property that but that’s not the argument that we’re having actually we we let them destroy the house we wait until election day so we can vote out the people destroying

The house and then of course the whole time believing that they rigged the election and we can’t wi it that’s our current plan the ring is the key here’s what she wants you to not have the opportunity to do you’re the government you’re saying there’s a bomb in the house everybody no

There’s not we’re not agreeing there’s a bomb she doesn’t want you to be even disagree and here’s why because if if that premise is broken and this is the really important Point whenever they see fit to say there’s a bomb they will even if there isn’t or vice

Versa even if there really is a bomb they’ll say no there isn’t if it suits their interest if it suits their comfort so we can’t the don’t want you to ever agree on actual reality they want to define the terms of reality govern that’s why she’s fighting so hard for

This that’s why she resents anybody who’s not within her sphere her click her power why it’s Why without any sense of Shame when she was asked what can you define a woman and she said no she resents that she would even have to what

If I don’t want to what if it does not give me power to be cornered like that so she won’t do it she told you right with that question how she’s going to be about everything else and since you’re not a citizen right and left she’s going to win no matter how

Dumb the things she say says are I if you’re laughing you you you’re really laughing at yourself I just want to clarify that the data from Florida that I read a few minutes ago and I thought I said this but maybe in I didn’t there are certain counties that are holding local

Elections today that’s what I was referring to not the presidential primary which is only GOP there are certain certain counties that are holding local elections well this actually makes that that that data even more impactful actually now you’re telling me that um we’re seeing in M Municipal elections in

Florida red waves that it’s not just so look what happened look what happened what the whole thing doesn’t rely on Rona santis he did his job all right and then the rising tide lifts all boates so tomorrow if it turns out Ron steps on a rake tomorrow turns out Ron de santis

Face plants and did something stupid immoral in his life and is totally discredited is there a system that will last in Florida Beyond him and his first and last name in the presence of Ronda santis they’re called citizens yeah that’s called leadership and an inspired Citizenry All right back here with our two here on Blaze TV radio and podcast let us know what you think about what we think via the steves.com inbox you can take advantage of that access it by emailing us Steve steve.com that’s deac CE you can like us on Facebook mewe and gab

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Items prepared for you guys today to discuss Todd and Aaron whether these things represent America’s increasingly Sprint increasing Sprint to uh idolatry as a people or this is just you know everyday stuff and you know within everyday stuff people have disagreements that’s the natural order of things

Nothing to get all worked up about Fair yep let’s start with something that I have to tell you this doesn’t happen often but I totally did not see this coming all right so an account I follow on X or Twitter retro news now pointed out hey this is the anniversary of when General

Mills first introduced Hamburger Helper in 1971 now I have used the phrase white trash delicacy on this and every platform I’m a part of how many times you guys heard me talk about that a lot we’re talking about Shamrock Shakes right I mean that’s a that’s a that’s a

Compliment all right and I am the Ugly American I don’t want to move to places where there aren’t you know at least any form of a chance of pizza delivery guy can’t reach you or get robbed I mean these are these are all tropes that I have discussed on various platforms and

Formats a million times right and in many ways in a clearly self-deprecating notion like you’re I am the joke with a gleam in the eye and a tongue in the cheek correct I posted this yesterday I came in did the show and I I was like wow there’s a lot

Of people like worked up about this but then we had to do the show I then had to go read to you know a few dozen kindergarteners in Pella Iowa which I greatly enjoyed as I talked about the top of the show I get home and I get home so I can

Post our shows and some other things to get PR for to Today’s Show and my feeds my my mentions on Twitter are blown up hundreds hundreds upon hundreds of comments and posts about this that this was elitist and I’m like um I grew up on government cheese

With a teenage mom who got carded every time she tried to buy cigarettes when she took me roller skating I mean what what are we doing here what what is this so is this a misunderstanding and here’s why I’m asking about about idolatry or not this is again where the French

Revolution and the bulvik revolution are really two sides of the same coin the bulvik are like only a group of Elites special people can make decisions for everybody else and decide who divies up the money and and who gets the guns and it’s funny at the end of the at the

End of Animal Farm the pigs always decide that they’re the ones that get both right and everybody else you’re at our Mercy the French Revolution is power to the people are the people basically good no no no they’re not and so I I am seeing strains and I’m of the opposite

Of the bulvik revolution is the French Revolution where now now where we’ve gone from if you disagree with me a racist that’s the bulvik revolution right you’re you’re if you the the French Revolution is if you disagree with me or offend me you’re an elitist and so that’s why I’m asking is

This idolatry or not or is it just maybe our show’s grown and there’s a lot of people that don’t know who I am and they didn’t know the context of this and it’s a misunderstand this reminds me do you remember on Christmas day uh just this

Past year you kicked off a holy war by doing something you do every single year in or around Christmas which is Tweeting or live tweeting It’s a Wonderful Life do you remember this and you you kicked off a holy war by live tweeting the quote can you give me a good reason not

To call on Mary and people thought that you had turned George Bailey has asked that by his mama this one is slightly different because of the responses that I that I I’m white trash and I and I and I’m not sad about it I’m white trash and

I wear it on my sleeve I mean obviously people don’t listen to the show that see this but I think I think there’s another element of this as well um you didn’t you have a large segment of your following on X maybe or a significant amount of your

Following uh that saw you not support Donald Trump during the primary so they’re trying to maybe justify uh so I’m automatically an elitist I didn’t I didn’t support the billionaire who had to vote for because he was so rich that he couldn’t be bought off and that’s

What made me the elitist I supported the kidy gr whose dad was an electrition this is that’s what in Ohio yeah okay so idolatry then just not quite what I thought it was just a different strain of it is what you think yeah all right Todd what do you think yeah we finally

Got to the point there at the end it’s also increasingly a heightened level of idolatry because not just elitism but like so this is this is off color this is mean well again I I I I would venture that the vast majority of people complaining are in fact Trump voters your

Guy no problem being off color no problem being mean mhm like all the time so made a brand out of it actually I don’t wrote it all the way to the White House this is where you really you can’t dude dude dude dude ate taco bowls from Taco Bell on Cinco de

Mayo with a sombrero on okay so I don’t just I don’t believe suddenly damn funny by the way but come on you guys if if you’re if you’re a trump voter and you’re now on the fainting couch with this get out of here yeah I’m just going

To tell you right now put this marker down what’s the day today March 20th 19th put this marker down right now here on as we get close to the first day of spring I’m not signing up for because I’m working class I’m automatically holy and righteous anymore than I’m signing

Up for because I’m wealthy with seven master’s degrees I’m smarter and better than others not signing up for that either one they’re both idolatries I’m going to push back on them both there are just there there now there might be per capita more rich people in Hell than

Poor it is easier for a you know a camel to pass through an eye of a needle after all right okay but the idea that you can uh you can you can uh well I’m with the pores I I worked n i I worked an hourly

Wage Jesus so I my sins are atone no no no there’s plenty of room in hell for you too so nope not joining your uh I’m I’m not you’re not different than the globalists you’re on the same team you guys just believe and you have a you’re coming from a different direction

Because of my human culture sub subculture group I am better than others or or deserving of something that others are not no no you’re not I don’t even take Christian businesses on the show and promote them if their product sucks I won’t do it you’re ow nothing nothing

You’re not owed even the that’s why it’s called Grace who was who who was it who was it when Jesus walked out of the Tomb stood there at the tomb as the stone was rolled away and said you know what thank you God it was a about time you

Delivered I had that one coming I was starting to lose starting to lose hope who who was it that had that kind of claim anybody not not a soul you owe nothing and you’ll enjoy it nothing so take everything good you have whether you’re smart stupid rich or poor fat or

Skinny white black or pansexual vegan take every good thing you have and praise God for it because you deserve none of them none everything good is from the grace of God nothing more nothing less well I work for this who gave you the hands who gave you the brain who gave you the

Skills who gave you the the knowledge do you come up with that on your own you’re nothing squat I mean there are it’s undeniably true in my mind there are vast sads of people let’s just look at the Rust Belt alone over the past generation and a half who have been victimized and

Forgotten look at the people of East Palestine that’s one one one example of that that being said they are victims yes does that victim status make them better no no that’s the language of the Communist left the intersectionality totem pole is how we got to this moment

In our nation’s history the solution is not retribution the solution is not a different typee of internation intersectionality totem pole the solution is getting back to meritocracy and back to any of the number of things that we were promised we would get back to multiple times by basically every GOP candidate at every

Level in my lifetime what’s the difference between robis feere and Stalin one spoke French the other Russian and one had more time that’s it no other difference how was the church under Robos spere Todd flourishing no how is the church under Stalin flourishing no no bunch of people that

Didn’t belong in prison under Roeser yeah how about under Stalin yeah sure no difference no difference between your vote in fact vuli is the message often of the marxists we’re the workers party you’re not any different if that’s where you’re coming from and I’ll push back on you

Both I’m not joining either of your Cults not happening all right let’s get to my P one more thing can go ahead Steve you seem to say everything and everyone is in a cult except for your little circle what do you say to those people cuz I

Get that in my mentions a lot well that may be true the question I may say that the question is is it true ultimately every movement that isn’t ultimately predicated on the word of God is a cult every single one because even if it doesn’t intend to be when it starts if

It doesn’t have that Plum line it’ll eventually become about group think will it not will it eventually become about some individual in their agency and their mission or a small group of individuals and oligarchy there’s it’s un it’s unavoidable because of of the condition of human nature so either it

Will have as the word of God as its Plum line and measure of accountability or it is or eventually will become a cult period unavoidable because everything we touch eventually deteriorates minus the word and spirit of God because we’re Sinners we can’t help ourselves good is that a good answer yep

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Now like okay this is going to be a bigger service for most churches what are some of the things that you have to get your you know ducks in a row as it were in respect to Easter um for us the most important thing on Easter is

Inviting people to church uh Easter and Christmas are the only two Sundays of the year that are actually wrapped around a particular passage in the Bible right a lot of most of our other Sundays are whatever the pastor wants to preach on you know any particular thing or

Whatever but but Easter and Christmas are both around particular events and so this particular biblical event of Easter is tied directly to our mission um and so that’s so important to us and so when I think about how I’m going to talk about Easter I’m thinking about talking

To people far from God um so because that’s the thing that matters most to us and so uh so just to like give you just like a teeny bit of a glimpse I’m talking all the way from people who have been in our church for years and I want

Them to invite people to church all the way to people who’ have never heard of our church before and trying to get them them to come to church right people who are unchurched you might say and so how do I talk to those two people are really

Different um but I’m putting a lot of my focus energy time resources toward what I would call the cold audience as people far from God and so I’m not going to say the word Calvary I’m not going to say the word Resurrection I’m not going to

Say the blood of Jesus right um I’m not going to say any of these words that make someone feel like an outsider this is really important um uh a an important guiding principle for how we develop language is um anyone can be a part of our church it might not be for everyone

Everyone might not like it but anyone can come um you don’t have to understand what we’re you know any fancy language there’s not any prerequisite to be able to come here and so so when we’re thinking about such a like steeped in Tradition holiday like Easter and how we

Talk to someone who’s not steeped in that tradition and how we get them to connect to it and come to it that’s really important to that is the digital content director for uh Elevation Church and also uh that clip courtesy of uh protesta on Twitter who also furnished the clip that we’re

Going to use in overtime today they’re a great follow if you don’t know who Elevation Church is one of the biggest churches in the country pretty decent chance if you’re in an Evangelical mega church at least one of the songs You Sang last Sunday is from them St fdick I think that’s the

Pastor’s name there I think that’s who that guy is okay so this is this is kind of the you know your current version of a of a church that feeds and inspires lots of the the programming you see at others as as a Saddleback as a Willow

Creek has done in the past all right so I saw this guys and my question was how did those first century Jewish Christians under constant assault from both non- Messianic Jews and their families who wanted to shun them for believing Yeshua was Messiah and then the Roman government who was out trying

To kill them all the time how did they because when I read like their correspondence letters these Epistles they wrote to each other and encouraged each other what to do and what to say to spread the message didn’t it basic don’t those letters like include every single term she says they

Don’t want to use so can you explain to me how did these Messianic Jews in the first century under constant assault on both internally uh within their own religion and externally from the Roman government how are they able to spread the message without This brilliant messaging consultation from the digital

Ctor at Elevation Church is that idolatry or not taught so just to be clear this church you talk about it isn’t um Joel ostein it may be generally speaking I think it’s maybe I think it I think it’s I think it it would it would claim it’s not that but there would

Certainly be some similarities I think based on based on what I have seen I at the very least this is too smart by half and I think that gets to your point Steve I I can’t be absolutely sure about this without know Ming about the church

And these other than the fact that both of them did you speed up the tape on those two speaking at all no see the fact that they speak that rapid fire that it might be sped up I don’t know that was a tell to me but my goodness I

I I’m not I’m going to say not I’m going to give them an Easter Christmas benefit of the doubt but I wouldn’t be shocked in the least if it knowing more about the people in particular and the church in particular if it is I think it’s

Just it’s at the very least it’s it’s just trying to be too clever about something that I don’t think the Lord ultimately gives you an example I mean he you know he sits down with people in circumstances that obious viously make the church leaders of the time very very

Uncomfortable and they ask questions about that this has seem weird and Jesus talks about the the how he goes about talking to people while the bridegroom is with you versus when he’s gone I just it this it’s as likely that this goes down a silly Road as it goes down

Anything substantive I guess is what I’m saying I’m not just going to put the idol hammer down on it though okay what about you Aon oh I am do you avoid those words in church services as well I mean we’re not even talking about she didn’t even mention

Sin okay I mean we can maybe talk about you know have having a dispensation for the turn or burn messages when you’re really going to be the most exposed to your community my question is what the hell the hell what the hell is the point yeah of your Easter and Christmas

Services if there’s no substance there Resurrection blood of Jesus what was the other term that she used that they don’t want to talk about Calvary yeah what is the purpose those are she just said these holidays Easter Christmas are birthed directly out of scripture passages she’s marketing she’s not

Evangelizing she Jesus doesn’t need marketing either the holy spirit is or it is not these people marketing is not the Holy Spirit he gets us it never has been I said a few uh months ago maybe just a couple of months ago on the show The only degrees that they’re handing out at

The University of hell is marketing degrees because Satan is a hell of a marketer he’s a hell of a deceiver that’s what the other side does Jesus doesn’t need marketing the holy spirit is the power that moves people’s hearts amen great segue to talk about Tommy John because this underwear spot

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American they put out this tweet yesterday Scientific American a study of more than 100 birthing parents showed that pregnancy and birth caused changes in brain circuits that may be involved in empathy and bonding with the child Aaron is this tweet idolatry or not yes because it’s even more so uh

Based on the community note that this story had that you couldn’t see there the community note says that yes Scientific American uh reported on this study using this term but the study itself does actually uses the term woman mother they edited it they edited it so yes it absolutely is idolatry that’s an

Easy one of course it is yes yeah but it still requires I think to be pointed out because this is one of the leading scientific journals in the United States of America they edited that woke language in when we talk about captured institutions that’s what we’re talking about even even when they’re discussing

Actual scientific data they can’t to Define what happens to a woman and the only thing a woman the the thing the most uniquely thing a woman can do and it’s not good enough this you know you while while we’re getting emails about Romans 13 and how passive am I still

Allowed to be Spirit of the age man is relent the spirit of the age has gone like full door knock and Baptist man okay I mean full door knock and Baptist the spirit of the age does not care man you got a playing game to watch though

Tonight so you’re busy all right next this tweet from Lee the great Lee stroble in my view eight this he’s quoting from the Pew research which you know I’ve said before one of the few private polling firms on cultural trends that I think actually do good

Work look at this trend line going back 2002 so we’re halfway into a generation over 20 years 8 out of 10 Americans saying religion losing its influence fluence in public life 8 out of 10 in 2002 that number was 52% so in 20 years that number has gone

Up about 30 points Todd idolatry or not well is that happening because of idolatry yes yeah you get to answer that yeah yes that I mean that’s simple math I mean there’s a lot of particulars involved but at the end the day we’ve fashioned something to worship other

Than God so there you have it yeah it’s interesting that uh a majority I yeah a majority of people have a positive view of religion but a vast majority of people 8 and 10 think that it’s waning in its influence so that is the result of

Idolatry for sure good enough to have a positive review of religion if it if Sound and Fury signifying nothing if you don’t act on it what who cares if you have a positive view of religion what does it even mean that’s religion broadly speaking then I say well there

Is a right religion oh hold on a second it’s meaningless I don’t care about your stupid emotion on this act fruit so I’m going to call an audible and skip the last one because I think that there’s a couple of points on this one that I think we need to make after I

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More like elevation Church’s digital director than Jonathan Edwards you see what I’m saying like like if the three of us were called by Pew and asked what’s your current view uh positive or negative on religion’s impact on American life we all three might answer negative yeah now our now our

Differences may be our reasons might be different in more nuanced than why a lot of other people are but what percentage of those are people answering no because they because that’s what they want to see and they’re excited to see that and then how meaning they’re Godless and

Then how many people are doing so because they’re like um what what what in the Sam Hill is this right okay and if this is what it is we’re probably better off without it thoughts well that’s why it’s so important and that’s what I was railing on that what

50 57% still say they have a positive view of religion overall yeah yeah yeah actually you know but that’s the that’s actually the key right there yeah in our culture if the church was functioning just on a if it just started functioning as it should be

On a dime that number should be like 15% yeah see see what I mean if it was confrontational yes people would have a negative so the numbers would be inverted the amount of people that saw it as a positive influ influence would be higher but the amount of people who

Had a personal opinion there’d be more conviction is that what you’re saying m no maybe I I would say if people had a positive view of religion would be lower if the church were more confrontational but it’s not confrontational so it’s a little fuzzy Teddy Teddy Bear over in

The corner but you would collectively see it its influence in the culture would be better so that that number may be higher okay what do you think of that Todd well I’m obviously I’m I’m I’m more on aon’s uh wavelength I I I think I find that 57% considering that what we’re dealing

With this culture deeply depressing uh I don’t believe religion is a bad thing I believe Christians who talk about I don’t believe in organized religion I I would think are lazy if not stupid most of the time when they say that they are I agree um uh but organized religion is absolutely failing

Right now because of cowardice we should not have that high number right there I mean how many people in this audience if they’re in a spiritual fight for their marriage their Community their culture their kids I think that the first place they ought to go is to the local church that they belong

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To watch a couple of weeks ago with my small group in fact and we were all uh very impacted by it and discussed it quite a bit amongst ourselves it’s called letter to the American church and The Man Behind both the documentary and the book joins us now Eric Maxis it is

Good to have you on the show Eric welcome to the blaze brother how are you great to be with you you’re a voice for truth it’s a joy uh to know you’re out there my friend well same here to you I appreciate it as always so the the

Genesis of this of of why you decided to tell this story you get into it at the beginning kind of the preamble to the documentary setting the stage the parallel between Germany in the 1930s and the church and and what we see today so so let’s start there with those

Parallels as someone who wrote what a lot of people consider to be maybe the definitive work on dedri bonhof so this era is right in your wheelhouse what are the things that you’re concerned that we following along the same line of thought with Eric well if somebody asks what is the

Story of Bon Hofer ultimately about it’s not just a biography in other words what is the story about why do we care about Dietrich bonhoff and it’s in a nutshell he was someone who knew as the evil of the Nazis was Rising he knew that God was calling the church to stand against

The evil and so he was like a prophetic voice uh to the church to say hey church this is your job this is not someone else’s job it’s not Romans 13 we’re going to bow to the government there is evil and God is calling us to speak

Against it to be a voice against it to work against it to stand against it to risk Our Lives against it and many in the church at that time said no no no no no we just want to do Church we’re we’re more theologically focused we don’t want

To be political we don’t want to be controversial and bar Huffer was trying to say excuse me that’s not biblical that is religious nonsense that is fear that is theological confusion God calls his church to stand against evil and the German church was unable mostly not all

But mostly to see that they needed to unite and to stand boldly and strongly even if it meant looking political because they were facing the evil of the Nazis they failed to do that and the result as We Know was a nightmare you you hardly can think of

Nightmares like it in history with Millions murdered and you know that’s where it ended up that is where the American church is today early on when the Nazis didn’t see what was coming if they had known what was ahead many more would have spoken up they would have

Risked their lives but they said you know it’s not our job we’re going to see how it goes there are many in the American church today who are effectively saying you know what we don’t think we need to be the ones let those hotheads you know fight or risk uh

Losing their job or risk this or that we’re just going to do church and when it’s struck me that the parallels were so dramatic that exactly the excuses given by the German Christians Christian leaders in the early 30s are the same excuses being given by innumerable Christian leaders today I thought this

This can’t be happening but it is happening and the more I looked at it the more obvious it struck me and so I I I really I I don’t say this lightly Steve I I I believe God called me to write this book there was this fire I’ve

Never felt anything like it I’ve never written a book like it that’s just aimed at Christians not at everybody strictly to those who say I’m a Christian to say the parallels are horrifying and we are asleep precisely as the German church was asleep so the point of the book and

The point of the new documentary is can we wake up enough Christians before it is too late that is the charge I believe that that God is putting in front of his church today I mentioned this during lockdowns a few years ago uh Eric I I watched a a

Series on Netflix that was about 10 years old uh that was primarily about the Nazis rise to power it was done by the BBC and what and and the series opens up with a look at what Germany was like at the turn of the 20th century uh you see

Very early versions of Motion Pictures and it it it looks like you know something out a Jules Vern futuristic novel they they are well advanced in terms of public transportation it’s a it’s a it’s kind of a benevolent autocracy under the Kaiser uh it’s the wealthiest Nation on Earth it has the

Largest wealthiest middle class working class on Earth uh it has the most powerful military on Earth and it really is at the turn of the 20th century it really is the greatest nation in the world at that point in time and and the and within 40 years of when they showed

This video which was from about 1905 1906 within 40 years that exact same culture would plunge the world into not one but two uh or two of the worst the worst wars in human history uh where the death tolls were Beyond catastrophic in both cases the first one just kind of

Your traditional you know uh powerful Elites fighting over you know who’s going to be the most powerful and then the second one just you know frankly a demonic descent into the mouth of Madness under the Nazis but the point I got watching this in just one generation

When a culture lets go of the Rope it goes fast when I watched your documentary I I sense that you’re concerned that we are letting go of the rope and when that happens it goes fast we let go of the Rope that’s why it’s going so fast the last three years have

Been a level of Madness accelerating like none of us in our lifetimes we’ve never ever seen anything like it I mean we always knew things are bad things are trending in the wrong direction and then suddenly it just speeds up we have sheer lunacy happening uh in America I mean

You don’t need to be a Christian to see it that’s the the horror is many Christians are blind many people who aren’t Christians they see what’s going on they see their kids are being sexualized that they’re they’re having uh insane ideas shoved down their throats that they’re more than two Sexes

Who decided that five minutes ago who decided that men could suddenly become women that men could become that women could become men and that by the way if you dissent if you think that’s not a good idea if you think that’s preposterous you can’t talk about it um

This is madness the idea of an open border the idea of defund the police the idea of of anywhere you look you see Madness the government uh overreach I mean the idea that the FBI is breaking down the doors of people that I know friends of mine arresting them taking

Them you just say this is demonic this is America you would think a hundred years in the future maybe it’s happening now and to me the horror is that many in the church are still saying you know what we don’t want to be political we just want to do evangelism we just want

To do our nice churches and you think are you kidding that’s what the German churches said and look how God judged them look what he did in that Nation it is it’s an unbelievable thing uh we are I to the only good news is Romans 8:28 these these horrible things God is using

Them I believe to wake up those who can still be waken up in other words that if things are this bad there are people every day looking around thinking wait a minute wait a minute I I I I didn’t realize I better speak up I better do something I better vote how many

Christians didn’t vote uh in the last election or in the previous election and you think we have turned our nation over to crazy people to demonic forces and it’s it’s anywhere you look this is not one issue or two issues it’s it’s a host of issues we see globalism trying to

Crush our national sovereignty trying to impose some kind of like World Health Organization order on Americans and you have many uh most in the Democratic party and a number in the Republican party just saying you know fine that’s fine with us it’s the job of the church

To stand up uh and I wrote the the book for the church and the the documentary wasn’t my idea to make a film but some people saw me speaking about it they said this needs to be filmed they have made as you’ve seen a really tremendous film it’s not just a documentary it’s

Just well done but it’s designed to motivate people to making them understand this is the biblical case for taking action for getting political if necessary because sometimes it is necessary and we have the freedom in this nation to express ourselves and to express God’s will uh in the public

Sphere so it’s a real um it couldn’t be more urgent the time could not be more short uh we’re going to lose everything if the church doesn’t rise up probably within this year it’s not we don’t have a five-year plan this is one of those things where uh we we’re

In a war and I say it’s the third existential crisis in our history the first is the revolution second is the is the Civil War this is the third existential crisis we can lose this nation and if the world loses America Lincoln called us the last best hope of

Earth there’s no you know America waiting in the wings to take our place China and globalism and enslavement uh to an order that is not uh you know by any means going to be friendly to Christians amen where can people since you brought up the movie again where can

They watch out I make sure we get that out there how can they see the documentary it’s it’s just the title letterto theamerican church.com anybody who goes to letterto theamerican church.com can see the film there they can buy the book they can buy a DVD if

They prefer to get a DVD uh and and if you go to letter to theamerican church.com you can see a list of free screenings because I feel so strongly about this message that we are making this free 100% free to any church that wants to do a screening uh at your

Church we are offering this free to churches and my question is if you’re going to a church that is asleep that is not interested in this stuff my question is why are you interested in going to that church because the hour is this late so we’re just saying it’s free to

Any church that wants to do it letter to the American church.com letter to theamerican church.com is where you want to go to see that movie right now and it’s also where your church can sign up to do a screening of the film and I would recommend it having seen it and you know

Right before we got about five minutes here right before we brought you on we played a clip from the digital director at Elevation Church one of the most influential Evangelical churches in America right now in Charlotte North Carolina and she was talking about their plans for Easter coming up they’re not

Going to use terms like uh uh the blood Calvary Resurrection uh because those will just drive people basically just well well that it it’s the embodiment and the epitome of everything you and I were just discussing I know this is a good segue too because I know to another book

I know you just released religionless Christianity God’s answer to evil uh that is available right now if you want to go and get that book but this is you know it’s it’s taken different forms over the years it used to be from the saddle backs and the will Willow Creeks

You know then it was the bethl and the Hill songs now it’s the elevations this idea that that God requires marketing not vessels all right not willing vessels but but a human touch that that you know that that God’s cake can’t be relevant unless humans have the the frosting that’ll make people the

Spoonful of Sugar that’ll help the medicine to go down and and we’re so obsessed with this uh that we’ve literally lost while trying to be relevant we’ve lost almost all relevance we have in this culture whatsoever well look I I’m I’m here to tell you that the only places that invite all the

Churches that invite me to speak they are the ones uh that didn’t shut down during covid that have been heroic uh suing Governor Nome or standing up bravely uh in other ways understanding that they need to speak about stuff and if people say oh you’re a Christian nationalist oh you’re being political

All you care about power they have the wisdom to say excuse me shut up we care about human beings and to keep silent in the face of evil you call it what you want we’re advocating for God’s values because the Lord commands us to love our neighbors this is how we love our

Neighbors by talking about uh the vaccine by talking about voter fraud by talking about transgender by talking about everything that is of concern to human beings those churches are growing so the churches that are trying to be relevant by avoiding all of this stuff and by trying to do Church they are

Drying up they’re becoming increasingly desperate it’s pathetic look it’s like Jesus cursed the Fig Tree did not bear fruit he cursed it these churches have been cursed and I say to anybody if you’re going to a church like that for the sake of your soul get out of that

Church find a church that is being brave uh I was just in Denver the church there’s actually called Brave Church all around the country there churches like this they’re being heroic they’re not afraid to talk about all these different things letter to the American church is the first book religionless Christianity

Is the sequel which will be out in a couple of weeks but it’s the message of are we speaking the truth boldly without religious frery without nonsense without we’re being clear because human beings in this world where evil is rising many people who are not Christians they’re suddenly interested in if you’re talking

About what concerns me and my kids if if you actually care about that you’re not just doing nice Church you’re not just having Happy church you actually care about the struggle we’re going through you’re being a voice you’re giving us guidance those churches are blowing up grow going like crazy I mentioned Brave

Church in Denver but all the churches that have invited me that are doing big screenings of this they all have the same story our numbers have tripled since the covid shutdown because we didn’t shut down so people are leaving the the pseudo relevant churches uh like you mentioned Elevate elevation whatever

All those churches are becoming increasingly desperate doing more marketing and more nonsense people who are actually looking for truth are going to these other churches and it’s very dramatic shift in America so that Steve gives me hope for this nation great stuff Eric good to see you congratulations on the film and another

Book as well it’s good to have you on the program brother we’ll do it again all right take care God bless you thank you yep same to you all as we close it out gentlemen thoughts on the conversation we just had with Eric mat taxis well it was perfectly providential

That with his book and how it dovet tales with uh the um the other church that we mentioned in the uh previous segment like I was trying to be generous in a certain level of benefit of the doubt in my analysis there but at the end of the day once they’re sat down

It’s the solid food or nothing you might there might be some slight of hand to get them in the door but if you don’t bring the real deal once they’re sitting down uh there’s very harsh treatment for you in scriptures for what’s coming down the road for you yeah and on a positive

Note just anecdotally I I can confirm what Eric was just talking about about the churches that are courageous are the ones that are growing and that’s true of of my church during covid uh it was a little bit different situation in Iowa with with our governor but there were

Some churches that were cautious beyond the time when the governor said hey uh you know uh you can meet in P in person again we have brought in a ton of new people that were just disaffected from those types of of it was it was really

Was a great sifting at least amongst the church in my view so that is a positive development the consolidation of True Believers into True Churches that is a positive development you guys remember I went and spoke at a Calvary Chapel Church in Chattanooga back in 22 I think

It was and uh great Community great people really enjoyed it and their story was that uh after coming out of Co they were like hey man this is burned we got to step up and so they start doing the stuff that Maxis was just talking about church just empties

Out three times more people actually start coming in and people drive in from all over the state of Tennessee now to go to this church because of exactly aing what you just said yeah they lost a lot of their original membership but they tripled in membership with people

To take their place cuz they were addressing things that mattered to people Romans 8:28

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