Standing Firm in Faith (10/09/2024)

Alright.

How's everybody doing?

Awesome. So far so good?

Let's take a

few minutes

before

we get going. I haven't done this,

lately.

To,

anything

on your mind, your heart? Any questions? Any

theological things? Any,

we'll even talk

world stuff. I have a question for you.

Anybody but Aiden? This is just good.

When do you think you're going to make

a Wednesday night service of going through,

the the the

with propositions.

About initiatives. Yeah. What have you. So I

mentioned I mentioned this just a little bit

Sunday. I think,

if you have one specifically you'd like to

ask about, I can talk about it. But

I've got them on my website and, the

way that I,

the way that I would, politically lean on

them. And so you you can go there

and see. I don't really give a lot

of explanation. There's, like, 2 of them that

I explain a little bit.

But,

but if you have one that is that

is concerning to you or you want more

information or maybe you've been to the website

and you say, why did you vote this

way?

I can

I can do that for you?

Well,

the thing is sometimes a lot of those

opposition, they're so Bowden issues? They're well, they're

they're they're worded in such a way they're

all attractive. And you think, wait a minute,

there's a hidden agenda behind each of them.

Yeah. Most of them are bad. Therefore,

I I was hoping to that you would

be able to go through them ever so

quickly and let us know how you're going

to vote

even if, explanation is just,

ever so brief. I I don't know, but

it would be great if you could do

that so we could take notes.

I can give you

I'll give you some of the, I think,

the bigger ones.

Let me, let me start with the obvious

one.

Number 79, that is

to,

codify

abortion into the constitution

to our state constitution.

Right now, abortion is a statute in Colorado.

And and

and oh, by the way, even though,

Kamala Harris said in the debate with Trump

that

that there are no states that abortion is

legal up to the day of birth or

even after, she said that doesn't exist, blah

blah blah, and all these people have been

saying that.

She lied. She knows this because she helped

pass this,

in California.

And, in Colorado,

our abortion laws go up

to the day of the day,

of birth,

but then it is,

intentionally

innocuous after that

That and there's other states that have very

similar language.

That if a baby is born,

the,

the

doctors

slash mother

I mean, the mother has to be involved

in the decision, but,

well, she is the decision. But they can

say whether or not they think that this

baby is

viable, and the viable is not the medical

term of viable.

It it, it's that's also ambiguous, and they

can leave the baby there

on the table and let it, die.

That is the way that Colorado law can

be. It's not specifically stated that way, but

it is written in such a way that

that can happen.

And then people are saying, yeah, but nobody

does that.

That is already happening. There are there are

documented cases that you can go and find

where people are allowing these babies to die.

It's obviously not a lot, that are documented

because they're keeping this quiet,

but, there's already documents. So if there's documented

some,

there's a lot more out there that that's

happening. And

there are a handful of states, and Colorado

is the leading

one, that,

up until the day of birth, you can

you can kill the baby

and then,

even potentially afterwards.

So no one's 79? No one's 79. Because

what happens is so I've run 2 pro

life bills

the last 2 years.

2 each year.

And,

if this if 79 passes, what happens is

for me to run a pro life bill,

now I will be trying to I have

to word it in such a way that

I am changing the constitution

because it will be codified in the constitution.

This is not just a statute anymore.

And, and the it's,

I so

as a legislature

as a legislator,

our legislature

cannot change the constitution.

Okay?

So the only thing that I could do

would be able to bring something forward to

the legislature

that

that, presents this as a ballot initiative

to go. And then it then it has

to be,

ballot initiative change the constitution. So so the

threshold just becomes much, much more difficult.

It it almost nullifies I mean, I'll still

do it, but it almost nullifies

any kind of pro life anything after that

because your constitution

says you can't change it. So even if

even if somehow

I could

supernaturally,

miraculously, by the hand of God, get it

all the way through in onto the floor,

We cannot vote something in

as a statute that goes against the constitution.

I mean, the Democrats can. They do it

all the time. We are not allowed to

because we're Republicans

and because

some of us actually go by the law.

So

so 79 is real bad.

The,

the ranked choice voting, does any anybody

does everybody know what ranked choice voting means?

That's you.

Ranked.

As in 1, 2, 3, 4, you rank

them.

So this is a very bad idea. We

need to not we need to vote against

that. What ranked choice voting does is it

takes,

whoever is running for whatever office. And and

it's actually only the this is the silly

stupid little part that nobody's paying attention to.

It's only for the high higher state offices,

so it doesn't affect all the other stuff.

So you're gonna have all kinds of different

you're gonna have some ballots, some parts of

the ballot that are gonna be voting that

are the the way that it used to

be. And then as you go higher up

the ballot, it's gonna be ranked choice voting.

You talk about confusion. That's already a problem.

It will not be able to be done

properly.

Any states

all the states that have tried ranked choice

voting before have all come back and said

it was the stupidest thing we've ever done,

and they've done away with it. K? But

Colorado,

we're smarter than everybody else, and so we're

gonna do this. And what it does is

it takes,

it takes let's say that

that

that,

the the 4 of us. So Daniel, Cara,

and,

me and, Didi, we're gonna run for whatever

office. Okay?

And we're we're

let's say the 3 of them are Democrats,

and I'm a Republican. Because

so

let's call it like I see it. So

so those 3 are the Democrats. I'm the

Republican.

Alright. In in fact, let's throw Allen as

an independent.

Okay?

So 3 Democrats and independent Republican.

And they've and you vote

it depends on how it's set up.

I think it would be the top 5

in our state, but let's let's for numbers,

let's say it's the top 3. Okay?

So you vote, and you have to number.

On your ballot,

you have to number 1, 2, 3.

K. Well, let's use 5 because that's the

way it's gonna be. 1, 2, 3, 4,

5.

You're you're ranking

all of the people.

Doesn't matter what party. Doesn't matter what party

you are. Doesn't matter what party they are.

You're just saying,

1, 2, 3, 4, 5.

Then they take all of these ballots that

are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and they

see who has the most at the different

numbers

going down the line. And then they take

all of that,

and they rank

all of the ballots. Now if on your

ballot, you only put,

1, 2, 3, 4 because you just don't

like Al. K. 1, 2, 3, 4.

Your ballot gets kicked out.

It does not get counted.

In almost every place that ranked choice voting

was tried,

more than 2 thirds of all ballots

were every single time were discarded

because they didn't

understand or go by the rules, which, by

the way, is the intention of the people

that wanna do ranked choice voting.

Because the more confusion,

the more the the kind of the insider

mentality works. Right? Now, let's say 1 and

2

are Daniel and Kara.

1, 2, 3, Daniel, Kara and Dede. Okay?

They're the Democrats.

That means

the people that get to the actual

election

are all Democrats,

no Republicans

because of the ranking.

And so what happens is you can completely

throw out

any,

any grassroots person, any person that is that

is

a strong conservative or whatever, or what'll happen

is is they'll all get to the the

Democrats do this well. The Republicans are horrible

at working together.

K?

So the Democrats all say, well, we'll just

flood the the ballots with all the Democrat

names. 123. 123. 1, 2, 3. That means

no matter how many votes

the Republican or the Independent get, they cannot

get into that top of the ranking. It's

not gonna be possible.

And so this is this is the that's

a simplistic understanding, but that's the concept. And

and the big deal is most of the

ballots will be discarded.

Because if you don't fill all 5 spaces

out with a name, then you don't then

your ballot doesn't count.

Doesn't matter.

If you like one person and you just

wanna vote for the 1, your ballot's not

gonna count. Doesn't matter. Yeah. It's also

really even more complicated than that. There's multiple

rounds of it. Yes. And so and it's

almost impossible to audit.

It's it's like you you can't come back

later and audit these.

Now,

as I understand it, there's It'll actually be

against the rules to come back and audit

it later. It'll be written in there that

you cannot come back later. Ours is doing

that. Okay. I didn't get that one. I

was under also understanding that that some of

the states that have done this, and I

don't know about ours, I'm asking.

Some of the states that have done this,

they're also changing how to get on the

ballot,

require,

adding requirements like signatures, the things that require

money Yeah. That

that that that mean only candidates that have

big money backing will actually make it ever

to the ballots anyway. Is ours do that?

Because some of them did that. Another another

step in the process is this is an

attack against,

our basic caucus system and our assembly and

caucus. Okay?

So so, basically, if we go to ranked

choice voting and and then you have,

it's it's it's pay to play in my

opinion. You have to have a certain amount

of signatures to get onto your petitioning onto

the ballot.

Guys like me, grassroots guys will never be

on the ballot again.

It'll it'll be impossible for guys like me

to get on the ballot. Because to get

enough signatures, you're you one person can't do

that. You get 5, 10 volunteers. You cannot

get enough signatures to get onto a ballot.

So what these people do is they pay

companies

to get the signatures for them.

Right now, for El Paso County, this is

happening regularly. Almost all of your Republicans on

the ballots all across actually,

almost all Republicans

at

legislator senate

all across the state of Colorado, almost all

of them have petitioned on.

It cost about $25,000

to petition on. I don't have $25,000.

I will never you know you know how

much money

I had in the bank when I actually

won,

the caucus, which means I was gonna be

the only Republican on the primary 2 years

ago? That's how much money I had in

the bank.

$2. 0. Because I didn't have a bank

account yet. So

$1,

brother.

So here's the thing. I could I would

never have been able to get on the

ballot.

I never will be able to get on

the ballot. They go to this, I I

can't run again.

I can't afford to get on the ballot.

It this is designed

for wealthy insiders

that have,

backing,

and conservative

grassroots conservatives don't have backing.

Advance Colorado is never gonna give me a

penny. They're supposedly,

conservatives.

They're supposedly Republicans.

The problem is is I believe,

that abortion is a sin.

Abortion is morally wrong and should never happen.

So Advance Colorado, a Republican organization run by

the Koch brothers, will never give me a

penny.

They are also now they say they're pro

life, but they're not. They also say they're

strongly for the second amendment. They are not

for the second amendment. They will never give

me a penny.

They they gave

3 different Republicans,

2 years ago,

$250,000

a piece

from for races that that are running somewhere

around 10 to $15,000

budgets.

That's what it a that's what a a

legislate,

legislator

campaign should cost. Let's say up to 20,000

if you're one of the big spenders.

They gave,

a representative in Castle Rock $250,000.

That's called dark money

because you can't you know how you know

the most somebody can give me?

$450.

Unless I can get it through a pack,

which hides all the givers,

and it's called dark money, and that's

should be illegal,

but they the Democrats changed the rules on

this last year, voted in a law that

says, instead of 4.50 per cycle, so in

other words, $900

a person, I can only get $450

a person totally,

during a campaign year. Because they wanted to

make sure it was grassroots. The people that

were running the bill were getting 2, 3,

$400,000

by dark money to run the bill, so

that I can only get $450

a person.

And I mentioned this. Not as nice as

I'm saying it here.

Because why? It's corrupt. They're liars. The whole

thing. So, guys, ranked choice voting is an

attack. In fact, ranked choice voting, if somehow

this went across the United States,

it would tear down our republic. We would

not have a republic anymore.

It it can't exist under a ranked choice

voting mentality.

You don't have representatives anymore. You can call

me a representative a representative, but we are

not representing

when under ranked choice voting mentality.

You're not voting in representatives.

You're voting in, wealthy people that are insiders

that are getting paid to do the job,

which a lot of them are anyway.

But then there are some people like me

that are not corrupt. They're not taking PAC

money. If Advance Colorado came to me tomorrow

and said, we wanna give you $200,000.

I would say, no.

I'm not taking in fact, I have done

this,

many different times where people try to send

me money and or endorse me, and I

say, nope. You don't endorse me.

I'm not gonna take your endorsement. Well, we

wanna give you you're not giving me money.

You're not gonna endorse me because why?

I am not that.

This is how the system is rigged, and

ranked choice voting,

it it it makes it even more corrupt

than it already is.

Another big one is 80.

80 is the one that is it is

this one is the one that is the

strongest bipartisan. It is being,

promoted by, well, Advanced Colorado, being promoted by

almost all of the Republicans.

You know, interestingly, another representative sent me a

a, email yesterday or text yesterday. It was

Ken de Graf, and he said, hey. The,

Colorado Chamber of Commerce just came out with

their,

endorsement list. They had endorsed all the Republicans

except 4 of us.

Guess which 4?

The conservative 4. Stephanie, Brandy, Ken, myself.

Which if they would have endorsed me, I'd

have been like, did I answer something wrong?

What where what happened?

But,

but,

all the Republicans,

except the 4 of us, are backing,

out of initiative 80, amendment 80.

And, basically, it is saying that we're gonna

make sure that

that children have school choice.

K?

That's not the right way to say it,

is it, Carolyn? That's

Well, no. And you're not backing.

No. No. I'm not backing, but I'm saying

that's what the amendment says.

Basically, it's children will have school choice. A

right to school choice. A right to school

choice. There's a A right to equality education.

That's what that's what Yeah.

Yeah. Which which is a smokescreen because they're

they're not planning on them going to charter

schools and things like that. That's not the

goal of this. It supposedly is, but it's

not. But here's the thing.

When did we start letting kids decide

their own education and direction?

They get to start with their own gender.

That okay. Valid. Valid.

Touche.

So

but but here's the thing is you you

don't you don't you don't let a 9

year old,

have the right

to a quality education? You say, well, of

course, we do. We love kids. No. That

takes away parental rights to decide

that the,

help best education for their children. Mark?

Thanks. Well, it is same thing is happening

with statutes that you guys are passing. They're

giving

children rights like the foster care

system. The children have rights. Anytime you see

rights being give given explicitly to children, it's

in opposition to parental rights. Yep. And it's

a way to erode it. And, you know,

if what happens is that you pass the

these things go into the state constitution

or

or in the in the statute and then

it's up to the court to decide

what these things mean. Like,

it explicitly says in the statute well, say

say in the statute that a child has

a right to a quality education. Well, what

does that mean? Who decides that? And who

decides that?

It's not defined. So the courts are gonna

define it. What's a quality education?

And then you have a a system of

oppositional rights where the the parent

the parents have the right to direct

the education of the child, but child has

the choice to an edge to a quality

education.

So what's gonna happen, and these people should

see this a 100 miles away, there's already

LGBT

charter schools in other states.

I can't imagine it won't be long before

they're here in the state.

So when a 12 year old girl and

her cohort

wants to go to this charter school

and the parents say, no. You're not.

Well, then what will happen is the courts

will say,

wait a

second. You know, this right to direct the

the education of the child

is contingent on the on the parent

operating in the best interest of the child.

And they're gonna say this this is not

in the best interest of the child. They're

exhibiting

animus towards LGBT,

and they've lost their right to direct it.

The education of the child. Because they're actually

coming against

the state except the definition of quality.

If the state says

that this school teaching this whatever

ideology

is quality,

then the school that teaches against it, like

a charter school or something that is a

Christian charter school, they're not providing quality education

because they're not giving what the state defines

as what quality is. And what'll happen long

term, that's the short term, is the way

Marx describing this. The long term is all

children will go to to these

state controlled

environments, which were already there at some level,

but the state controlled environments

that says that is quality. And if and

if your and if you as the parent

don't send your child there, you're abusing your

child.

This is child abuse and then social services

has another layer to be able to step

in on these kind of things. Barry? What's

the percentage of, Colorado

in homeschools?

Carolyn?

Well, that's part of the goal. The goal

is to tear down,

homeschool. And the governor really made a big

deal about how he's for charter schools, charter

schools. First, he's a liar.

Hopefully, reporters are listening. I said the governor

is a liar.

And and then the next thing is is

he wants eventually to have charter schools, but

he wants to design what the charter schools

look like, which is what Mark is talking

about that other states are doing. So he's

in favor of charter schools when he gets

to define them from the socialist agenda.

What's that? He started to charter schools.

He he's he's got his hands in this

already. He does not like Christian charter schools,

and he's made that very clear. He wants

his kind.

And he wants to shut down all the

others. And the teachers' unions are

are already on paper signed and confessed that

they are a Marxist organization.

There's a lot of research you can do

on that very quickly,

that they have signed stuff that says that

they do not believe in capitalism, that that

is a an agreed an egregious attack against

children, all this kind of stuff.

And, and so the the next step of

this is the public schools are gonna

just become a worse version of what they

are. The good thing right now is

the,

parents are pulling their kids out of public

schools at an astonishing

rate,

which is good.

We need to continue that trend.

These kind of bills, though, will make it,

very difficult to do that.

You have to go to the

quality education

schools.

I think those are the big ones.

I was asked about the, police funding one.

I'm actually in favor of the police funding

one. The question that I always get with

that is, isn't that pretty corrupt, and won't

most of the dollars,

go to corrupt police organizations?

Yes. They will.

I know that.

But there will be funding that will go

to some good police

departments.

There will be funding that will go to

some legitimate

situations. Some of this really is gonna be

heavily pushed into,

police academy, building police academy, so those kind

of things.

But

here's the thing is I I'm not defund

the police. I I know that our police

departments are becoming more corrupt all the time.

I get that. But not all of them.

This is Denver and and Boulder and stuff

like that. We we know that there's some

of that going on in Colorado Springs. But

guys, we we're one of the areas where

we have a a good police department.

Overall, there's there's problems.

But overall,

the way that you fix that is you

vote in the right mayor.

And they begin to,

they begin to reform that and fix that.

It takes time, but they begin to do

that. When we vote in a mayor like

we have presently, you're gonna have corrupt everything.

Okay?

Daniel?

The amendment g, does that one

just defend,

expand the definition of who a disabled veteran

is with the property tax?

No. So there so this already exist,

at some level.

You as a veteran get a property tax

break.

It it it doesn't

broad broad is not a bad term. What

it does we saw 2 bills come up

in in,

in a session this last year. 1 1

the year before, but 2 big ones that

came up this last time where the what

they're trying to do. So so the bigger

issues that you have let me let me

broaden out past property tax. The bigger issues

you have within the veterans,

the whole veterans culture

is when you get out into rural places,

you don't have the veterans do not have

the,

access to to,

all the same things that you have in

one of the veteran meccas of the United

States, Colorado Springs. Okay?

You can literally get down,

to past Pueblo,

and veterans have to drive 2 or 3

hours sometimes. And we've we've sat and listened

to stories of them having to drive 5,

6 hours just to get some veteran assistant.

Well, that means they're not really being served,

which is part of the deal.

What they tried to do is they tried

to broaden the definition

out

to include

special this was specifically a bill this last

year.

Special

veterans,

priority toward,

LGBT

veterans.

Specifically

transgender veterans.

Extra,

assistance. So if you like, you know, you

got a $100 and everybody there's a 100

people and they're all getting a dollar. What

happens now is all of the veterans that

are not transgender

are gonna get a nickel, a nickel, a

nickel, and then these these transgender people are

gonna get $20 each.

That's the concept. It's not the numbers, but

that's the concept.

So they've been trying to work on this

whole veterans thing for a while trying to

do that. And then also, they tried to,

had a bill that was put up this

last

session. And the lady that put it up

voted against it because

so

it was her bill, but she felt like

that we weren't including transgenders enough. Because what

she was doing is saying that first priority

should be to women.

Women veterans.

Here's the thing with me.

So

that's that came up. That came up in

the conversation, because we had already discussed the

bill of transgender

veterans.

Right? They get a they get the first

cut of the pie.

So so the the the problem with this

is,

there's there's

I think women veterans

have the same

priority

as male veterans.

Right?

When you start classifying,

they're they're no longer veterans. They're veterans of

this class, veterans of this class, veterans of

this class kind of thing. It's the whole

concept.

This is this is a probably a weird

way to answer, but this is my thing

this is my heart on this. This is

my thinking.

When you look across America, you you should

say Americans.

When you put something in front of that,

you're changing

the whole concept of America. So in other

words, African American.

That that's not a that's not a real

thing for almost all of the black community.

They they didn't move here from Africa.

They're Americans.

In fact, my father-in-law used to say this

all the time. He lived in Africa longer

than he lived in America. He said, does

that make me an African American?

Well,

we we got these weird definitions. Okay? So

anytime you say,

that this type of veteran should get

more access

or should have extra benefits just because of

some classification, you've already messed the whole system

up. It's not it's not

nothing is designed to work that way. K?

The idea of affirmative action in veteran thing

is stupid. Affirmative action is stupid to begin

with,

when we start in doing this. And now

now when it comes to this specific bill,

it's not that broad, but I believe what

they're doing is they're trying to lay the

foundation.

Because we already saw that 2 years in

a row where they're they're trying to change

all the rules for veterans. They say we're

trying to get more access, but you can

give more access without trying to classify who

gets first shot at it kind of thinking.

And so Is it tax breaks? So are

you saying you vote for it or not

vote?

I I believe in tax breaks.

And I believe that veterans I have do

what?

See, there's the other part of the problem.

I believe in tax breaks. When you say,

okay. This group gets a specific

tax break over another group, I struggle with

that. Now

I I don't struggle as much with veterans

because I understand the the concept

of what pay is and how that looks.

But here's the thing. Why can't we just

give everybody a tax break?

Why do we have to to to do

this? Now if I say this about veterans,

well, then I don't like veterans. That's not

what it is. I think that everybody should

get a tax break.

What what we do, this is this is

how people this is how government buys votes.

You raise the taxes to this, and then

you say, what is a big demographic that

we could get votes that we don't have

votes for now? The democrats say, well we

don't usually get the military vote. Let's give

them an extra tax break, and they'll vote

for democrats.

That's that's literally what this is.

Okay?

With that said,

I don't mind veterans getting a tax break.

And

and along that same lines, whatever happened to

Taber in this whole

property taxing that you guys got called back

in the special session for? Is it already

gone?

So

so we got called back in a special

session. It it came out to somewhere around

$85,

for the average,

Colorado

and,

$85

property tax break

a year.

That's awesome.

A year.

K?

But here's here's what here so Democrats hate

Tabor. They say this all the time. They

said this to us many times, and now

I'd say that we're gonna tear down Tabor.

Tabor is the only thing that has kept

Colorado from literally just sinking, just sinking ship.

Tabor is the only thing. Doug Bruce was

a genius when he put this together.

Still is a genius. But

so

here's one of the ways that they've been

going they go around it with 4 or

5 different things, and I've argued all of

these in on the floor. But one of

the ways is they make special districts.

So in other words, a special district is

not,

is not,

they're exempt from Tabor.

So the so the concept of Tabor, taxpayer

bill of rights, Tabor. The concept of Tabor

is before anybody,

me, Democrats, Republicans, before we can raise taxes,

it has to come to the vote of

the people.

We cannot raise taxes by ourselves.

California, they can raise taxes whenever they want.

The legislature can.

We can't do that in Colorado

because Doug Bruce saw this coming 22 years

ago.

So we have to bring it to the

vote of the people. So here's the way

you get around it. You have

tolls on roads.

It's not a tax. It's a toll.

You

so

so you have tolls on roads. You have

extra fees. I don't know if you've gotten

your driver's license lately.

You have extra fees. Those are fees. Those

are not taxes.

They're fees.

Yeah. Because what now are they? They're taxes.

Toll is a tax. Fees are taxes. But

this is how we verbally get around Taber.

Then you have special districts like,

school districts, fire districts, water districts, all these

other things. They're not susceptible to taxes because

Taber,

taxes, yes. But Tabor, because we call it

something else. They're they're a special district. They're

a special municipality.

So we got all these groups that are

exempt from this. So then they lower property

tax, quote unquote for the people, But then

they backfill all of these districts because if

if you're gonna pay less taxes, that means

your school district gets less money. Your fire

district gets less money. Your, water district gets

less money. Now,

on on paper, they get less money. But

you understand how government

budgets work?

K.

Everybody

gets more money than they did last year.

Fire department gets this much money. If they

lower taxes, they get this this is what

they got last year. This is what they

get in this year. But when you lower

taxes, this is what they get now.

They still get a 60% increase or something.

That's a big number. But an increase

but it because it wasn't 62%,

they say that they're getting a tax cut.

That is a lie.

That is a lie.

That and everybody does. They do it the

federal level, they do it state level. Every

one of these groups get more money each

year than they got the year before, but

they don't just they just don't get as,

as much as they were gonna get. So

they call it a So then we come

along as the state, and we say, well

then let's backfill that. Let's give them that

extra money that they weren't gonna give.

Be given.

They're already getting all of this extra money.

And you say this to the there was,

the fireman came up and and

talked to us in special session.

And I went at them. And there was

even some Democrats that went at them and

said, why should you have extra money when

everybody else doesn't? I'm like

because democrat even said it.

The guys, they get they get 100 and

100 of 1000 more money all the time

constantly. Schools schools never get less money.

They get more money. They just may not

get as much more money if you get

a property tax decrease.

They still and here's the thing. They're still

not when they get the more money, they

don't give it to the teachers.

The teachers don't get all these raises. They

add extra administrators at 3 times what the

teachers make. Did you realize in the last

10 years, 72%

of all,

increases in public education went to adding

administrators?

Not to teachers.

The the the the balance has become there's

a movie that's called,

Whose Kids Are They? You should watch that

movie. Whose Kids Are They? It was put

it was

made by

Deborah Flora. She she,

ran for

senate 2 years ago, and I think she

was running for something this last time too.

But

her and her husband made the movie, documentary.

Very solid. You when you finish that, you'll

just you're you'll be floored

at how corrupt all of the school stuff

is.

How completely corrupt it is. Well, they get

extra money.

They're not gonna give it to teachers.

Why don't we go back to having like

30 teachers and one principal instead of having

15 teachers

and 38 administrators.

Why don't we go back to that and

give teachers the money? Because they don't care

about education. That's not the point. It's never

been the point.

So

that's,

my rant on that. Would you like me

to rant about anything else?

Yes, ma'am.

So

when you're talking about going Hold the microphone

up to you. I I don't like We

have to because they have to hear you

online. Okay.

So going on about

dropping down to 1 principal and 30 teachers,

doesn't that shorten the building as is? Because

given that if you're gonna drop down to

1 main principal

I came from a school that had 3

principals.

We had 3 different principals given on how

many students were coming into that town, coming

in through different high schools, what is that

going to do for those buildings? If they

drop down to 1 being able to control

almost 400 students,

what power will they have there

to keep anything in order?

Adding you could have 50 principals. They have

no power. They're they have no discipline they

cannot discipline.

They have no,

any kind of,

disciplinary power power over the children, and they

don't actually have the power over the teachers

either. That's a teacher union lie. K?

Back in the day when I was in

school, my dad was a principal.

He didn't even have an assistant principal. This

was a decent sized school. Didn't even have

an assistant principal. He was it. And he

ran a school of 100 and 100 of

students by himself. Because why? The teachers

were paid,

decently back in those days, comparatively, I'm saying.

And they could discipline.

When you don't discipline, it doesn't matter how

many principals, how many teachers, how many have

anything. You are never gonna be in control

of that school. That thing is out of

control.

The more teachers you have that are that

are paid decent to do their job, the

more they're going to invest. Right now, we

see you can see videos online constantly. When

a fight erupts in a classroom, a teacher

will walk out Because they can't do anything,

and they're in danger. And the ones that

don't walk out get beat up by the

students.

That that we're not paying these teachers enough.

You don't need a bunch of extra administrators.

What does the extra administrator do? Walk around

the halls? They're not actually doing they can't

discipline the kids. They're not allowed to do

that. So what are they doing? Administrative

paperwork, all that kind of stuff. Things that

teachers used to do back in the day.

If I may ask, what do you mean

by disciplining?

Spanking kids, making them actually stay after school,

failing them when they don't know how to

read at 10th grade, things like that.

Our schools are are completely broken with this.

We we'll never go back to spanking students.

I I understand that.

But we don't have any other way of

discipline. We graduate you realize that most of

the kids that graduate cannot read above a

3rd grade level

now in public in fact, here's a big

one. Do you guys remember when the Department

of Education or the,

Education Administration was started in the United States?

What president started that?

Carter.

We were ranked what in the world educationally?

We were number 1 in the world.

America provided the best education in the world.

We started this national

Marxist

controlled

thought process

education

union.

And now where are we ranked?

In the in the high forties. 47, 48

right now across the world.

Well, I'm glad we did that.

At the same time Yeah. If I was

president, I would do away with that day

1. That is a Marxist organization.

Well, here's the thing that we that we

did with that. Is when that started, the

union started doing all this and that's where

you started seeing major major philosophical

changes in what education was.

K? Now it's easy to look from that

time until now, and see how vast and

drastic these changes became to the point where

we're not actually educating kids anymore. We're not

we're not,

there is no such thing as, as,

critical thinking. And and even all of the

common more common core math and all the

stupidity that we've added into schools, this is

all part of this this Marxist mentality.

But you couldn't see it systematically.

It seemed it seemed ambiguous.

But when you look now,

we we are failing children.

Now, what what they've actually started doing is

now there's a lot of universities

that will not use the SAT or the

ACT anymore

for, entrance,

requirements.

Why?

It's too hard. They can't pass it.

But we still need all of the diversity

within the universities.

And so we are This is what Harvard

was doing when they were when they were

stopping,

Asians

from coming into Harvard.

There were too many Asians in Harvard.

What?

Maybe

they had the best scores. Maybe they had

the best test. Maybe they were

more driven

than all of the other groups. But Harvard

started discriminating against Asians because it didn't look

good in pictures.

Now we don't even do entrance examinations

the same way.

Because why? Guys, these are things This is

when I get up and say stuff about

how the average 40 year old and above

has no idea

how much the country has changed. That this

is the thing. We just assume all the

stuff is still the same. When you when

you hear like Harvard and Stanford and all

this, you assume

that that is the way that that those

Ivy League schools are always what they used

to be.

They're not.

These are indoctrination

camps like you would not believe.

They don't educate them. They don't do this

stuff anymore.

This is where we have so much change.

And it starts it starts in the public

schools in, you know,

kindergarten to 12

with this.

I can't hear I didn't hear what you

said.

That's the point. You you bring them in

and tell them, you deserve

to be there. But, oh, by the way,

you'll never pass this test. You would not

have the qualifications

to be here. So what we're gonna do

is we're gonna run this down. Then the

answer to why you're so unsatisfied and give

you a Harvard education, no one will hire

you. No one will hire you just because

they're discriminating against you. Yep. And so but

it's easy to just radicalize people. And this

is what the this is what the Muslims

have been doing from day 1. Yeah. So

really it's it's okay

to go into this place and break these

people and shoot them and cut their heads

off because you've been radicalized.

The whole world's against you. Yeah. This is

one of the things. Thomas Sowell, has a

whole book about this. If you if you

guys do not know who Thomas Sowell is,

you need to figure out who this guy

is.

He's in his nineties now, and you need

to start reading his books.

The man is one of the the the

best thinkers that has ever lived in America.

And he talks about this. He says

that we're doing a disservice to people

when we let people

into

these,

elite schools. Now he said this back when

the schools were still educating.

K.

Now they're disindoctrinating.

But he says we do a disservice when

we lower the standard so that somebody can

get into the school because of skin color

or because of something else.

He said because the problem is is they

cannot achieve

at that level.

Doesn't matter

who they are, what color they are, whatever.

If they can't achieve at the level, don't

let them in. It does a disservice to

them, and it does a disservice to the

school. And then what happens is the businesses,

the corporations,

begin to not trust that school anymore.

Alright? Is there

Yeah. Yeah. Any in California will hire none

of those IT companies will hire from Stanford.

That's that has become so, I just read

JD Vance's book.

I I don't necessarily recommend it, but,

it it was I'd either way. But,

but he talks about this. That used to

be if you were a lawyer coming out

of Stanford, you could pick your job.

Doesn't exist anymore. Why? Because the school's not

what it used to be.

It's not the same that it used to

be.

The it is better for this student let's

say that the student is a low a

average student.

You let them into a school that is

a high a average student, and they will

always be behind. They can't perform. They can't

do the stuff.

So

they're they're killing themselves trying to get there.

They can't get there. It would be better

if they went to a an Ohio state

or a Michigan or something like that that

I'm not saying there were schools,

but their their overall understanding

is more of the low a or the

high b.

You you won't.

Where you can be in the top half,

your whole rest of your career will be

better.

Yes.

You'll learn you'll learn more instead of just

trying to make sure you make the next

grade you're actually learning.

All these different things. And and Thomas Dole

Thomas Dole has done study after study after

study on this. But when he says something

like that, he's called a racist.

Oh, by the way, he's black.

But he's called a racist for this.

One of the people I read his biography

too is, Clarence Thomas. He says the same

thing. He said, we've got to make sure

that we that we help people succeed,

not just get into a school so that

the picture

of the graduating class has a lot of

different color in it. A lot of different,

mentalities behind it. It doesn't matter. If they're

all Asians, Harvard, okay.

They got in.

It's stupid what we're doing with this kind

of stuff.

Yes. This is by the way, this is

how when Carter started the,

the NEA, this is this is the concept

of how it started. It was started with

the communist, but I would say more Marxist,

principles that guide this.

And and it's written this I I would

I'm being reminded of this documentary a lot.

Go watch the documentary whose children are they?

It'll it'll floor you.

Right. Democratic world Right. Have control.

Yeah.

That that's the concept is it's the the

and that's what the, World Economic Forum is

doing, guys. They're trying to take over the

whole world. They're not trying to hurt America.

Trying to take over the whole world. America

is just their biggest obstacle.

Somebody else? Yes.

Okay.

Alright.

Let's let's talk about the Lord.

Yeah.

That's they let's bring Jesus back to the

school. We don't have to worry about any

of this. But you can't have this this

communism, Marxism cannot have a god

because,

the system is the god.

You cannot have

you know, this is something that gets lost

on people sometimes.

Jesus says that he did not come to

bring peace.

Right? You guys know that he Jesus said

that. Right?

We think

that Jesus came to bring peace on earth.

Goodwill to all men.

Right?

He came to bring peace in our spirit.

He came to bring freedom in our spirit.

That's why I don't think that that the

sermon that I preached about this a few

months ago, I don't think Jesus is as

concerned about freedom of religion as we are.

The reason Jesus gets concerned about freedom of

religion is so that we can,

witness.

So that we can propagate it. But that

happens in very controlled countries too. In fact,

Chinese Christians and North Korean Christians and and,

Iranian Christians

witness a lot better than American Christians do.

They just do.

Fastest growing church in the world right now

is where?

Iran. Iran.

Yep. Alright.

So

Jesus came to bring

peace in our spirit.

Freedom in our spirit. Well, you can't have

that in communism.

When you're free in your spirit, it's amazing

how your conversations change.

It's amazing how your world view changes.

Everything changes. And all of a sudden, the

government's not your god. And

communism can't have that. Marxism cannot have that.

Socialism can't even have that.

Right? You understand socialism will always end up

a communism.

Always.

Okay. Alright. Psalms 51.

Somebody give me a little bit of background.

Where why did David write Psalms 51?

He was a murderer. Yeah. Not just a

murderer. What else was he? An adulterer.

An adulterer?

And not only did he murder this has

always been the thing for me.

And I think some of this is I

don't know if this is because I'm a

guy. I don't know if girls see this

the same.

Maybe because I was in the military. I

don't know.

But not only did David murder

Bathsheba's husband, but Bathsheba's husband

was one of his 30,

one of his elite

military men.

It would be the equivalent

of,

of a navy seal unit and the commander

killing one of his

elite

seal soldiers

because he slept with the guy's wife.

Come on, David.

How

how horrible do you have to be?

How horrible do you have to be?

Well, he's the king. King can do anything

he wants.

I know and I love it when he's

confronted by Nathan later.

And and I and before he wrote this,

he's confronted by Nathan, I believe.

And,

and he tells the story and and they

and then Nathan says, it was you, David.

You did this.

And he said, you could have anything you

wanted,

and you had to go take,

the sheep from the, the guy that only

had 1 sheep.

You get up all the sheep in the

world, but you had to take the sheep

from the guy. That's my I'm paraphrasing.

You had to take the sheep from that

guy.

Man,

the good thing about David,

when God says,

you're a man after my own heart.

That this is

this is why.

David was a scoundrel. He was. I love

David. I think he's one of the most

amazing guys in scripture, but he is also

one of the worst guys in scripture.

Probably

I would love to see David in battle

because that's when he was David.

I would love to see David in the

30 in battle.

I would like to see,

David's,

warrior that fought

the fought the,

lion on a snowy slope,

in a snowy pit.

Man,

would you like to have seen that? Yeah.

David was an amazing guy, but man, he

was a scoundrel. But here's the thing.

Is he

he was a very tender hearted toward God

and he repented.

He repented of stuff. If there's anything,

I think the number one thing that should

always stand out to us in the story

of David is no matter what you've done,

no matter what you've done,

the Lord will forgive you if you just

repent.

And I've had so many conversations with people

over the years. Well, you don't know how

bad I've been or you don't know the

things I'm done I've done.

And I don't wanna know.

But god

knows, and he will forgive you.

Why would god send his son to die

on the cross

if he's not going to forgive us?

Wouldn't it be better to send Fred

to die on the cross?

You say, who's Fred? It's irrelevant.

The reason Jesus dies on the cross

is because he wants to forgive us. David

says, have mercy on me, oh god,

because of your unfailing love. Not because David

deserves mercy,

but because of your unfailing love.

The reason the lord forgives you is because

he loves you, not because you've done something

to earn it.

The reason he forgives you is because you've

done something that needs it,

Not because you've earned something or done something.

Because of your great compassion, god, blot out

the stain of my sins.

Wash me clean from my guilt.

Purify me from my sin.

I I I think you hear me say

this regularly.

That I think that one of the things

as a Christian that has to be one

of our main

guiding

things in our life constantly

is repentance.

A repentant heart.

And I and I've said that in different

settings. First time this happened to me, I

wasn't expecting. I said this something similar to

that. I was going to Denver Seminary at

the time and

and, and there's

there's a lot of,

one saved always saved Calvinist there. And,

the fact that I would say that you

need to repent regularly or you should have

a heart of repentance,

oh, they they took umbrage with that. Deep

umbrage.

We don't need to be repenting.

What do I need to repent of? Sin?

I think that's what you need to repent

of. Sin? The Lord's already forgiven me of

my sin.

That that you haven't repented of? Scripture doesn't

say that.

Scripture says that he forgives you when you

repent.

He didn't just forgive you because he wants

to forgive you. If he's gonna do that,

we should believe in universalism.

Everybody's forgiven. Doesn't matter.

You repent.

This is why it says confess your faults

one to another.

Why would he say that if you're already

forgiven? It doesn't matter.

Right?

For I recognize my rebellion, it haunts me

day and night. One of the things that

I think isn't that comes along with the

repentant

spirit and attitude

is that you recognize who you are.

You recognize your frailty. You recognize the the

potential you have for this one. Paul says,

I'm the chiefest of sinners. I've literally sat

and listened to people say, well, he didn't

mean that. He wasn't really a sinner.

Well, then that means you just made him

also a liar,

which is worse.

Right?

Carrie, did you just wanna hold the microphone

or were you gonna say Yeah. I did

just wanna hold it so no one else

can talk.

As you're as we're, you know, reading this

and everything,

I can't help but think about the story

you shared this morning

on the Joshua Nation stuff about the guy

that was doing the 3 day thing and

talked to the teenage girl.

But that and what you said hit me

really hard, and it was right before I

walked into work.

But you said

he the guy said something like or can

you just share that story first? I don't

want I'm gonna completely chop it up. Yeah.

So I was at a breakfast with,

3 guys,

2 really old guys,

and,

one younger guy.

So Moments of a story. Well, one of

them is in the room. So,

but but he he was talking about this

story. He was at a conference. I'll try

to make it quick, get the main details.

But he's at this conference. He was speaking

at this conference. He comes across this young

girl that had grown up in an atheist

household,

but her parents let her come to this

conference.

And, and he he had presented

Christ in his

message.

And,

he didn't know this girl, but he had

interacted with her. We're just walking down the

hall.

And so she'd been raised in an atheist

mentality for I think I think she's 14,

15 years old.

And,

so she'd been indoctrinated with atheism for that

long.

In the 3 days of the con by

the time they left the conference, he had

a time to talk to her for a

little bit, talk to her about Jesus,

prayed with her, but didn't know exactly how

it turned out.

He got word later from one of the

his people that

that the girl had gone to an another

lady afterwards

and and said that she had given her

heart to Jesus.

That's a great story. Right? Amazing story. But

what what got me is when he said,

you know, it took how many years? 15

years

of indoctrinating

her day after day after day for this

atheist mentality.

He said, but it took the Holy Spirit

3 days to break that down and she

got saved.

As we gotta keep that in our minds,

we gotta that's basically am I right about

the stupidity? Yeah. That's that's the story. Well,

I was asking the other old guy that

was behind you.

Oh. But just as Todd, I was looking

at Todd.

Just as we're reading this, like, it's making

me think of that that we, I believe,

need to be in that constant

mentality,

you know, of allowing Christ to

renew us. You know? Because like you were

talking about this morning,

that

American Christians are just so comfortable

with where we're at, you know, and,

but now I really like that story. And

then with what you said about the 3

days, like that hit me,

pretty hard. And as we're reading this, it

just reminded me of of that. You know,

we kinda have this thinking, and I've even

kind of given,

allude alluded to this a different time. But,

you know, that we gotta just keep working

on somebody, keep working on somebody, keep working

on somebody, and someday they get saved.

I've also seen it happen instantaneously

with somebody that has

no has no history.

Because you have to remember the Holy Spirit

is the guy in charge of everything. He's

the power of the universe.

K. If you wanna put some kind of

equating to it, God is the judge. Jesus

is the word

and also the lamb.

And the Holy Spirit is the power.

When Jesus, the logos,

speaks creation into existence,

the holy spirit is the one who makes

it happen. He's the power

of the universe.

Right? When Elijah calls fire down from heaven,

the holy spirit is the one who brings

the fire down. He's the power of the

universe.

If if the power of the universe can

keep the planets going around the sun and

all you say, oh, no. That's the laws

of physics. Okay. Who made those?

Right?

If the holy spirit can keep the whole

solar system running, don't you think he can

dig into your neighbor's spirit and soul if

you'll just say something?

If you just if you just step out

there,

do this, say this,

pray for him.

Holy spirit, man, he he'll get on that

horse and ride that thing.

All you gotta do is just what you

can.

And the holy spirit can change somebody instantly

overnight.

Overnight.

I I I know I've told this

story here, but I think it's been a

while. But,

when I was a youth pastor,

I needed my lawnmower fixed.

And, so a guy in the church said,

go down to this guy. This is in

East Texas. And when he said go down

to this guy,

he didn't give me an ad. That that's

that's East Texas talk for there's gonna be

a little shed, and there's gonna be a

guy sitting out in front of that shed,

and he will fix your lawnmower. That's what

that meant. K? But I knew that. I

grew up there. So so I go down

to this little shed and and this I

walk in, got my lawnmower, and I'm walking

in. And and there he's sitting there, and

there's, like, 5 or 6 other guys. And

this was the hangout for all these guys.

That's it's like, that happens. Okay? When you

see that on movies, that really happens. And

so

I walk in, and as I'm walking in,

this guy

just starts cussing at me.

I don't know him. I've never met him.

I don't know anything about him. But he's

screaming at me and yelling and cussing at

things I didn't even know. Things about my

family I didn't know. All kinds of stuff

that he's saying.

And and I'm just standing there like,

did I do something?

And one of the old,

guys, homeless people I don't know who he

was. Just sitting there chewing tobacco, drinking, you

know.

And, he said, don't worry. That's just who

he is.

I don't know even know what that means.

That's just did I do something? I still

don't know. So he said, well, come on.

Bring that thing in here. You're just gonna

stand there and blah blah blah blah blah.

You know? I'm like, you know, I'm I'm

almost in tears. I don't know what to

do.

K? And this guy is

91,

92, I think it was.

And,

well no. He would have been, like, 89

at this point.

And so I I go in there and

he's asking about this, and I said, well,

so and so told me to come down

or you'd fix my lawnmower.

And then he just starts cussing so and

so. That was at our he's a guy

in our church.

And

but the whole time he's, like, looking at

my lawnmower doing all this kind of stuff.

And and he said, where'd you meet that?

So and so and so. And I said,

well, he goes to my church. I'm the

youth pastor of the church. Oh, man. I

shouldn't have said that.

It got really bad then.

So I I leave.

Come back a couple days later, he's got

my lawnmower fixed. I walk up soon as

I walk up, he starts cussing me

and cussing the church.

Because he knows he remembers that.

This guy is vile.

So

this gets in me.

Challenge accepted.

Right?

Alright.

Bring it, old man. We're doing this.

So I just start every time he says

something, I just start talking to him about

Jesus and preaching at him.

He's being as rude as any person has

ever been to me in my life.

And so I just take it back to

him. And he'd say something. I said, you

know, you need to shut your mouth. God

doesn't like that.

Looks at me and then he starts off

again. And I said, no.

First, don't talk don't use my god's name

when you're making those kind of statements. My

god is holy and he's just and you're

not any of these things. And I'm just

going at him. I'm tearing him up just

as much. And all these old dudes sitting

over there are loving this.

They're hollering,

you know, that kind of thing. And I

just go at this guy.

And,

take my lawnmower, leave,

and I'm thinking,

what else do I need fixed?

I didn't have anything else to get fixed,

so I just went back to his shop.

I just showed

up. He starts screaming and cussing me again.

He says, what do you need fixed this

time? I said, I don't need anything fixed.

You need fixed. And I just go at

him again.

Guys,

I never thought

this would happen.

A month later,

4 or 5 weeks, something like that later,

he shows up at church.

Came in, sat at the back, just sat

there.

You know, the whole time.

When our pastor gave the altar call for

salvation,

he got saved.

He died 6 months later.

But in that 6 months, he completely transformed.

I

I I wasn't expecting that.

And I'm not saying I'm I get the

credit for that. I I I somehow somehow

obviously, I'm involved,

but it could have been that other guy

that he was cussing that recommended him. I

mean, I I don't know. I'm not trying

to figure that out. Here's what I know.

The holy spirit can change anybody in an

instant.

This dude had 90 years of being that.

In the last 6 months of his life,

he was a good Christian.

And people said they never heard him cuss

again.

Never. The old man got bored with him.

Yeah. It was why be here if he's

not gonna go out? Alright.

I recognize my rebellion.

It haunts me day and night.

Guys, recognize recognize. I'm gonna I'm gonna talk

a little bit about this Sunday.

But recognize who you are. Own up to

who you are. One of the biggest problems

we're ever gonna have in our life is

us.

You're you're you're you are your biggest enemy.

Satan just uses you,

but you're your biggest problem.

Because nobody else can make you do something,

you're doing it because you're choosing at some

level.

Recognize that. When you when you know you

have an issue with something, get before god

and ask him to work on it.

Repent and ask him to work on it.

I I've given you different examples over the

years, but the biggest one for me

back in the day was my anger.

I I had such a major problem with

anger.

Such a problem. And I and I and

every now and then it rears its head.

Right?

But for the most part, I had that

thing whooped.

I spent hours and hours and hours and

hours praying and pleading with God and asking,

going through scripture. How do you deal with

anger? How do you deal with this kind

of stuff?

Talk to people. I've had mentors and counselors,

and I've had my wife.

She's really helped me a lot over the

years with that.

She has a vested interest. And so

the all all these different things. And every

now and then, I tell you I tell

you when it hit me again,

it's standing in the well in the capital.

But in my defense a little bit,

a lot of it is actually righteous indignation.

And so I I kinda let it I

kinda let it take its

course sometimes

in ways that I wouldn't do in the

church.

I figured they don't come to church.

They're getting both barrels.

Look at this. This is important. This is

important.

Against you, who's who's David talking about?

God.

Against you

and you alone have I sinned.

I struggled with that for years years years.

Because I

thought, if if I do something against Daniel,

I've sinned against Daniel. David sinned against Uriah,

didn't he?

How can you how can you just negate

that?

But what

what David is saying is a spiritual truth

that transcends our understanding sometimes.

When you sin,

you can't sin against a person

because they're not god. They are not a

holy

god.

When we sin,

we're sinning against the person that made the

rules.

If I do something wrong to to Daniel,

I've I've wronged Daniel. But I can't sin

against him because he didn't make the rules.

He's not the holy judge. I'm not gonna

stand before him someday.

I sinned against God. But you say, well

that's kinda

getting out of it. It's the opposite.

If I sin against Daniel, it's only between

Daniel and I.

I can take care You know when that

stops? When Daniel dies or I die?

But if I sin against God, it doesn't

matter when I die.

I'm gonna stand before him for that.

Daniel will never be my judge,

but God is always my judge.

And that's what David understood. And and here's

the amazing thing about it. David understood this

before the concept of the cross.

That's that's big. That's powerful in my opinion.

He says, against you and you alone have

I sinned. I have done what is evil

in your sight.

You will be pro proved right in what

you say. And your judgment against me is

just.

And basically, he's just saying, God, I want

you to forgive me. But you're the judge.

You're the judge.

Now be careful with that after the cross.

Because if you assume that maybe Jesus won't

forgive you, now you're going against the word.

K? That's important.

That's an important,

differentiation

after cross before cross.

Right?

Don't ever don't ever let Satan tell you

that Jesus will not forgive you.

That's a lie that goes against scripture.

K?

For I was born a sinner. Yes, from

the very moment my mother conceived me. You

desire honesty from the womb. I, the the

best I can tell, I don't think womb

is the right,

translation here. I think it means from in

the inside of you, not from the inside

of your mother.

K? It doesn't seem to fit the rest,

and that's not really how the Hebrew says.

I don't think it's bad that it says

womb, but I think we miss the bigger

point. And I don't think that's what the

Hebrew was the Hebrew says. But you desire

honesty from my inner parts, teaching me wisdom

even there in in here,

not in the womb.

Okay? That's just that. Alright. We're gonna start

with verse 7

next week.

And we're gonna go down through it.

Alright?

So here's the obvious question of the evening,

but it seems to be a little stronger

for us tonight.

How how are we gonna pray about this?

Let me let me not use the word

we. Because that kinda gives us a little

bit of a

a transference potential.

Right?

How are you gonna pray about this? Wisdom.

I think wisdom is very appropriate because everything

you said Start over, Aidan, so they can

hear you at home. I think wisdom.

Because everything you said earlier about the political

thing affects us in the here and now.

And,

I could understand the right to say indignation

when you have to go to the capital.

I get that. And I think a lot

of whiz mess to go into that. And

looking at what you just shared on the

second half of the set of the service

was very, very spiritual.

What you said about the womb and it

means interbeing

and about finding out about I don't sin

against this person. I sin against god, the

ultimate judge. When we have responsibility

to our brothers and sisters, but it's against

God. And David understood that. I never realized

that before.

That's important. So I think the discernment and

wisdom Yeah. In this message.