Glenn's Take, Then 5 Things Christians Can Do Amid Oncoming Opposition | Guest: Glenn Beck | Ep 355

[Music] hey guys welcome to relatable happy wednesday hope everyone has had a great week so far it is inauguration day you guys and we are going to talk about some of that today uh first i'm gonna have an interview with glenn back those of you who know glenn beck have listened to glenn beck know that he is an expert at getting us to understand the gravity of our current situation and um giving us insight into what we can expect in the days and the years to come a lot of you guys have a lot of concern right now like you're feeling this almost um indescribable fear of hostility towards either people who voted for trump or conservatives or especially conservative christians and you're worried about the days to come glenn back is going to tell us in his opinion how much he thinks that we should be worried and some of the concerns that we may be facing in the future especially in regards to the policies that are coming down the pipeline but we are not going to end the episode there because a question that i get from a lot of you guys is okay but what do we do like can you give us some advice can you uplift us give us some encouragement and positivity and i you know we do that obviously at the end of almost every episode but today i'm going to spend even more dedicated time to doing that i'm going to give us five tangible practical tips that are based in god's word that i think that christians can be doing is we feel kind of an onslaught of cultural resistance to biblical values and to biblical stances and so i'm gonna give us five tips that i really think that you guys are going to find useful and helpful i hope there are a lot of other tips that i could give as well um but they are based in scripture and i really hope uh that you guys are able to take them to heart and that you finish this episode um feeling good in in your uh trust in the lord and in his promises uh being renewed by the power of the holy spirit and then i think if we have time we're gonna do like a fun little segment based on some of the the coverage that we've already seen of the inauguration and what it tells us about the kind of media reporting that we can look forward to over the next few years okay let's first talk to glenn back so without further ado here he is [Music] glenn thank you so much for joining us um you've been talking a lot about what we can expect from the bright of the biden presidency there are a lot of people who are very nervous right now they've got a lot of anxiety especially christian conservatives just feeling like there's going to be an onslaught of hostility either legislatively or just culturally uh are those fears well founded you think i want to be really careful yeah um because we are you know i've been talking about these things for almost 20 years and it's because i believe uh they were revealed to me about 20 years ago and i saw what's coming but i saw it i didn't realize this until about i don't know eight years into it that it i saw it as a flat wall you know there's no there's no time with god and so i saw all of these events all of them happening so i i don't know how they happen when they happen et cetera et cetera but i am i'm really convinced that this is the beginning of it this this the last few years have been begun have started it and uh it gets much worse from here before it gets better but it it's um we are looking at what i think um people have said for thousands of years and they always say it in really bad times but maybe this time it is i think we're we're entering biblical times now yeah and you're talking about loss of freedoms are you talking about real persecution i saw pastor andrew brunson who you know was persecuted in in turkey saying americans better be ready for what's coming yeah um i don't think i don't think anybody really understands um i have a friend whose uh parents escaped from communist china right during mao um they're much older now but they remember it really clearly and uh they are just beside themselves they're like this this is this is the beginning this is how it started i think that a lot of people are looking at some of the legislation some of the policies coming down the pipeline like the equality act like just the the the cultural push against free speech the censorship that we have seen intersectionality critical race theory infiltrating curriculum training in the military all the stuff that is created to divide and to atomize not to bring together and unite and they just want to know you know what to do about it you talk about not um kind of pushing back do you mean that parents shouldn't stand up again no no no no no no no are you talking about every parent of a child should be at their school board meetings knowing exactly what's going on and if that material is in your school you stand up together and work to get it out and if not get your children out it is it is it is um crucial you know i have i had dinner with a friend who uh said i couldn't take it anymore i've just stopped listening i've stopped you know watching tv and listening to podcasts except things that you know really feed me and i said and he's real spiritual i said mistake um you need the things that fill you i mean on the way in i'm either listening to scriptures or i'm listening to sacred music just to calm me and to keep me centered because i've got to get into the cesspool every day right um and you have to do that you have to center yourself but you cannot disengage it's going to happen at a breathtaking pace i tell people that the kind of progressivism that we're seeing today it works when most of the populace is either apathetic or ignorant or both and that's exactly what they want you to do is to disengage and i think that was part of the the weariness of the trump years that even people who like donald trump at the end of it after all the the media craziness and the impeachments and all of that we're just like i'm just tired like i'm just tired of trump i'm tired of the drama i'm tired of politics i just want this to be over even if it means biden winning and they want you to keep feeling that way they want you to keep thinking well at least it's just normal now at least i don't have to pay attention to the news anymore if you don't pay attention things are not going to get better no you know i talk to really smart people and they they're not because i have eight producers who all they do is just look for these stories and i have people all over the country that do that for me as well so i see you know what eight or ten people are are thinking about and seeing and i get the different perspectives etc etc so i see a lot more than the average person but you can do that you don't need that much volume but you can do that and stop looking at the conspiracy stuff look at the stuff that is absolutely verifiable easy all you have to do is look this week who is being confirmed in the cabinet you will get an idea of where we're headed just by the cabinet that he's putting around him you know look at what janet yellen said yesterday in her testimony and and what she said when she was a first appointed that this is going to be an equitable treasury and we have to look for um race equity and also um environmental equity can you talk about what that really means because people hear equity and they think great that means fair no but it's not really what that means no that means um that means that for instance this comes from blackrock biden has put in as his economic advisor his secondary economic advisor kamala's economic advisor and janet yellen's right-hand man uh at the treasury department people who are the heads the ceos the presidents of blackrock blackrock controls about uh seven trillion dollars themselves of investment money but they're used by the fed the the european central bank um as their as their system okay so money is flowing through blackrock at about half of all of the money on earth is flowing through this like 25 trillion dollars that's a lot of control and a lot of money yeah blackrock just instituted a new policy that said if your um if your company uh profits are um uh 25 come from the use or the sales of any uh fossil fuel you will be shut down unless you have a um unless you have a plan for what you're going to do for climate change okay so that's 21 billion dollars right going or trillion dollars going through this system privately so you're gonna start to see things of public-private partnerships that are going to start insisting that you do certain things otherwise you're not going to be in compliance not with the government but with the banking system or with without what fascism is is it mussolini who said that fascism is actually corporatism because it's the wedding of government and corporate power yes it is if you're an anti-fascist right you're on the wrong side right right and these are the people who say that they are anti-fascist and that's why they're against donald trump and conservatives because they're anti-fascist correct and yet they cheer for amazon when they do platform parlor google apple doing all of those things they're very much for the wedding of corporate and government power look at the stock market last week when the capital was under attack one of the things about america we've always done so well is because we have stable laws and a stable culture okay the stock market should go down when there's an attack on the capital remember we shut the stock market down for a week after 9 11 because it was so unstable the stock market went up up they came out today credit suisse came out today and said that um the profits of giant corporations is going to be really good in the next 12 months of course it is right because that's part of the system it's the little guy that is going to get really hurt and by the spending that is coming from washington if you've played by the rules if you've saved your money the value of your money is going to go down dramatically so you could call it inflation but it's really the the deflation of the dollar that is is going to come rapidly and make a big impact in people's lives what's the purpose what's the purpose of all this what's the goal um i believe um if if you go to the world economic forum yeah and you go to agenda 2030 from the u.n yeah you will see all of these policies are there yeah and it's to uh reset the the globe into really uh a a global partnership to get rid of all of these old systems that no longer work and cooperate in a almost a government corporate run global style government we'll still be the united states but we're going to be a part of this what the world economic forum calls the great reset yeah and it is it's china it's truly china but it doesn't really you know we fear communism and rightly so but it doesn't really sound as much like communism as it does fascism or is there just not very much daylight between the two things to where it no i think i mean communism is still what's happening in china but right i think it is fascism i mean it's um the communists have the party where a fascist usually as a leader yeah you know what i mean but uh you know president uh gee just made himself leader for life so what's the what's the difference what's the difference um uh it but it is a public-private partnership it is exactly nazi germany and you and like this and nazis you can keep your company you can do whatever you want but you have to do these things yeah yeah have republicans also played into this have they helped facilitate this as well it's not just the democrats fault is it oh yeah no not at all the the republicans are at best useless yeah um they haven't been standing up for constitutional principles they haven't stood up for cutbacks of spending common sense i mean donald trump the reason why people are so upset is because leader after leader after leader election after election after election week we keep getting the same guy with the same policies yeah you know and donald trump is the first one that says no i'm not going to do that yeah and he didn't on so many things and even though you might have been tired or you you were embarrassed by the way you know some of the things he said or did whatever he was the only guy that was standing up for you he was the only guy that you elected and said i'll do these things and they're hard i didn't think i didn't think ted cruz would actually move the the embassy to jerusalem they've been saying they're going to do that every politician since 1948 right he did it yeah um and i i think that's why people are so upset and where is that leader who is more acceptable um but listens to the people knows can hear the people on what they what they want um and we'll take the bullets i mean that guy just bullet after bullet after bullet after bullet you said things are going to get worse before they get better i guess my fear is that there isn't a better what you're describing is a conglomeration of power that i don't see how i or even millions of us just common people can effectively ever break up or push back against so what what does better look like in how do you think that comes about whether it's in 10 years or 100 so i'm guessing the people um in ancient times uh that had been made into bricks um you know whenever the bible talks about stones and bricks people are stones they're all different tyrants make everybody into bricks you're all the same you're interchangeable i got a million of them that one's broken toss it out okay god makes stones and it's harder to build stuff with stones because everything is different um so the tower of babel how are you going to stop that those people were bricks you know if you know the oral tradition um of that story it's not an angry god that comes down it's the compassionate side of god that comes down and is talking about the leadership and saying if they can do this they will do anything we're in that position again um and especially we haven't seen anything from tech yet we you haven't you haven't seen anything both good and bad most people don't know we now have what is it uh the third largest cause of blindness uh which is the cornea you need cornea replacement because it just fogs over and you can't see third largest cause of blindness in the world um has just been cured just been cured wow it was cured in israel and it's from high tech so the stuff that is great is coming but also the oppression is coming and in the tower of babel he confused our language and uh we couldn't speak to each other and perhaps that comes uh in the in a different form seeing that we're ones and zeros and we can't communicate like we could before i i don't know but it's god time yeah it's god time and now is not the time to detach from family to detach from community to detach from your church i've gotten a lot of messages from people saying i just feel this pull towards towards being more grounded or something bigger than me all of this chaos that's going on in the world just gives me a desire for an anchor and like that's not just superstition that that is something that you need to listen to yeah i mean that is god himself calling you to himself and saying look the world is crazy you want steadfastness you want assurance you want to stay grounded in truth you need to come to me and that's what i encourage people i will tell you i could blame a lot of this on the media on us on education yeah i put a lot of the blame on where we're at on the pulpits they have been silent for way too long they have stayed out of politics and i'm not talking about who to vote for i'm talking about principles to vote for yeah and if they don't wake up uh the people are lost because they are looking for truth they're starving for truth right and um we have we have got to get back i don't think it's a coincidence that the left has made sure that we can't go to church yeah you know we can go to a riot but we can't go to church we can't sing in church 30 days makes a habit how hard is it going to be to get people to go back after almost a year of not going to church it i believe it was intentionally done to disrupt our families and disrupt our faith i mean there's been a lot of work done on how totalitarian thrives in situations and nations in which people feel isolated they're not giving their principles their values their belonging their purpose from anything higher than themselves so they look to the state so what happened in kamar rouge it's what's happened everywhere that's what's happening now right that's what's happening now right and you know billy graham told me um once we were we were talking and and i said where's the billy graham of this generation where is the abraham lincoln where's the george washington and he gave me great hope and he said um it's not gonna happen that way this time he said this time what's coming is so big he said uh there's not going to be one person it's going to be millions of people all over the earth that feel something and are instructed to do something and they're like they'll have the argument that won't work that's not going to solve anything how's that i i'm supposed to just do this well i need somebody else that has you know whatever and he said if they obey that voice and they step out into the darkness and wait pretty soon they'll hear somebody else in the darkness next to them and they'll say who's that i don't know i'm just here because i was told to stand here and i've got this piece and all of a sudden the lights will come on and all of these pieces will snap together and he said that way the world will know right it's not man it's god that fixed this right that's why i tell people even in these scary times if especially if you are a if you're a christian couple if you are married have kids i know a lot of people don't want to have kids right now well it's not going to be us in our death beds that are fighting this fight it's going to be our kids and our grandkids and you need to ensure that there are kids who have been discipled by their parents who have been instilled with right values by their parents who can take up this cause by the time that they can everybody everybody thinks that everybody thinks at times of trouble i don't want to have kids you have to have kids and as somebody who didn't want kids uh then wanted one then maybe two and now have four i regret all of the years i held back and didn't have kids there is nothing there's nothing as you get to turn my age nothing that means anything more than your kids and your grandkids yeah absolutely well thank you so much glenn thank you for the work that you do and for the influence and legacy that you've created a lot of people empowered and emboldened just because of your voice so thank you for that thank you for that i'm going to take the bike in right away okay that's fine all right [Music] okay guys before i get into the rest of the episode 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episode there are a lot of other tips and a lot of other practical advice that i could give you not because you know i've lived this uh you know long life and have all the experience of wisdom in the world um but because i talk to people who have a lot of experience and i read people who have so much wisdom and i think god's word also gives us a lot of insight into into this a lot of timeless insight so here are my five tips number one decide ahead of time that you are going to follow christ whatever the cost there's a lot of talk right now about um oncoming persecution and whenever non-christians or i would say even people who identify as progressive christians hear about conservative christians talk about persecution you roll your eyes and you say that's not happening you're in a position of privilege and power in the united states you don't have to worry about persecution you're just being held accountable well we talked about uh that term held accountable on yesterday's podcast and we studied the use of the term and what it actually means biblically and the words that we should actually be using as christians if we want to rebuke and encourage one another as uh believers but uh if you talk about persecution as a christian in america you will get a lot of eye rolls and i think it's important for christians in america to be really honest that okay christians throughout the world people of a variety of faiths throughout the world have received very serious persecution that we here in america have not received we have had the luxury the blessing the privilege if you want to call it of living in a predominantly christian culture if uh if you could even call it completely christian maybe more deistic uh is the is the right descriptor for american culture over the past couple hundred years so that's absolutely true we have not faced the kind of persecution that most of the church has faced for most of the church's history and we need to be able to keep that perspective that doesn't mean though that there hasn't been any persecution at all there is a spectrum of persecution business owners who are targeted by uh by people who say okay i know this is a christian business owner a christian florist for example and they're not going to want to provide their services for my gay wedding i'm going to particularly seek services from this christian florist and i'm going to try to force them to provide their services at my wedding even though their religious beliefs contradict uh our ceremony and our union as two men or two women and then that christian florist having to hire a lawyer and pay thousands and thousands of dollars and take her case to court just to be able to say that hey i should be free to conduct my business in a way that aligns with my values that is a form of persecution it's not the same as imprisonment no of course not it's not the same as uh torture or being martyred or being taken away from your family because of your faith and we should never pretend that it is we understand that but any kind of restriction of being able to live freely as long as you are not actually breaking any laws or actually physically harming someone um is a sort of restriction on your religious liberty that does count as a form of persecution so it's important for both sides of that debate to keep some perspective but a lot of christians also feel like okay there's actually going to be a lot more intense persecution that comes to america for christians and we will see about that i mean there certainly is a wave of hostility towards christians lumping in christians with um you know every hostile actor that we see in the country trying to claim that christian theology that evangelical or conservative theology is harmful it's a threat and needs to be silenced in the name of public safety i mean we already see the writing on the wall and so a lot of christians do fear that kind of pushback in that kind of opposition and i believe rightly so so this first tip that i'm giving speaks to that it speaks to that concern which i think is a legitimate concern decide ahead of time that you are going to follow christ whatever the cost luke 14 27-28 whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple for which of you desiring to build a tower does not first sit down and count the cost whether he has enough to complete it so jesus said look before you become my disciple know that this isn't going to be easy know that this isn't going to be convenient it's not meant to be comfortable it's not meant to be secure it's not meant to be safe he is talking about taking up a method of crucifixion in order to follow him and he says before you follow me understand the cost that this is going to or the payment that this is going to cost you it's going to be a lot and so before you become my disciple figure out if you are ready to take up your cross and follow me charles spurgeon preached a lot about the fear that christians may have of suffering and death um there is a fear as we just talked about of silencing of oppression of hostility of suffering charles spurgeon spoke to this often in his sermons he says the antidote to the fear of death is to die daily and what he means by that is first corinthians 15 31 i protest brothers by my pride in you which i have in christ jesus our lord i die every day this is speaking of dying to ourselves taking up the cross as jesus tells us to do to lay down our old self which ephesians 4 22 says is corrupt through deceitful desires to put away our sins our selfishness our self-interest our vain ambition our absolute addiction to comfort and convenience our wants everything the world tells us to prioritize and to cling to and instead say to god what jesus said to him not my will but your will be done charles spurgeon says this in a sermon in 1874 quote the man who practices dying every day the man who has as it were a daily rehearsal of it will not be afraid of the reality when it comes so die daily brothers and sisters in this fashion get into the habit of so doing the next piece of advice i have i have to give you is this hold very loosely to everything on earth we ought to live in this world like lodgers at an inn you a believer are only at and in so do not fret about the little inconveniences here for you are to be off in the morning and you may depend upon it that your father's carriage will be at the door at the right time so have everything packed up and ready for your departure do not go buying a lot of lumber here for you cannot carry it with you have very little and have it already and a very good thing is to send as much as you can on before you so die daily be resolved now to take up your cross and follow christ while it is safe to do so let's go ahead and cast away our idols our worldly cares our pet sins that the bible says so easily entangle our addiction to serving ourselves let's go ahead and let those things go because we can't take them with us and instead dedicate ourselves fully to doing all and only that jesus asks us to do that's number one that is committing ahead of time to following christ no matter the cost tip number two refuse to accept or tell lies you guys know i have talked to rodrigo on this podcast who wrote the book live not by lies and he talks about a soviet dissident and that was this soviet dissident's advice to people is to live not by lies that was the commitment he made when he was suffering real persecution and real oppression and the real threat of imprisonment and torture and death when he was living uh in the early days of the soviet union and his commitment to himself to uh other christians was to live not by lies uh not to accept lies and not to tell lies not to believe lies not to propagate lies colossians 3 8-10 says but now you must put them all away anger wrath malice slander and obscene talk from your mouth do not lie to one another seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator ephesians 5 8-10 for at one time you were darkness but now you are light in the lord walk as children of light for the fruit of light is found in all that is good and right and true and try to discern what is pleasing to the lord john 14 6 jesus said to him i am the way and the truth and the life no one comes to the father except through me titus 1 1-2 paul a servant of god and an apostle of jesus christ for the sake of the faith of god's elect and their knowledge of the truth which accords with godliness in hope of eternal life which god who never lies promised before the ages began so what does this mean practically well first when it comes to uh when it comes to our walk with christ we align our lives and our beliefs as exactly as possible to the word of god if you want to know why we believe the bible why we believe that scripture is inerrant why it actually isn't just a collection of writings by men but is inspired by the holy spirit why we do believe it is the word of god i will link a talk by vody bakum which has been very helpful for a lot of people that i encourage you to watch and to listen to um it also means that we trust god and his word to be sufficient for life in godliness the holy spirit the wisdom that he has revealed to us in his word is sufficient for life and for godliness um this also means in other ways well actually let me add on one more thing to what that means in our christian life um it also means that there's there's no more time for bad theology there's no more time to go to a church that is not preaching the gospel that we see revealed to us in scripture there is not time to go to a church that is not boldly proclaiming the inerrant word of god there's not enough time for that anymore okay it's urgent for us to be under sound teaching in sound doctrine um in other ways what it means to not live by lies do not immediately believe headlines do not automatically buy into mainstream narratives do not just accept that which confirms your biases that includes when you listen to me i tell you guys often please fact check me don't let me be the only source that you are listening to because we all have biases we all have blind spots and i'm constantly asking god to reveal my blind spots to me show me where my partisanship has blinded me to biblical truth or blinded me to objective reality show me where i'm wrong i don't want to spend my life being wrong and lead other people in the wrong direction and unfortunately none of us are carriers of infallible truth unless we are just speaking plainly the word uh of god which is infallible but even then we are fallible vessels and be very wary of people who claim to be infallible vessels who claim to be the objective source of all facts who don't share their opi who say that they don't share their opinions they don't have any biases that they're only telling you the truth that they are either the arbiter or the completely unbiased source of truth we all have biases it is better for us to own them to say where we're coming from you guys know i'm a conservative christian and that's where i'm coming from that doesn't mean that i am going to throw out truth that doesn't agree with me um but you guys know what perspective i'm coming from and that's why i encourage you to have a range of voices and perspectives in your life but anyone who is telling you not to listen to anyone else that they are the sole source that you should be listening to uh any fallible human that says that you need to be very wary of them people ask me also what news i read i read a variety i read the new york times i read the washington post i read wall street journal national review the blaze i read multiple sources for the same story if it is a court case or if it's a piece of legislation you can always read those um you can always read the original text online they are public i need to personally do a better job of keeping up with local news i'm so focused on national news because that's what i try to analyze and deliver to you guys um but i need to do a better job of focusing on what's happening around me that can be done online it can also be done uh in your local newspaper it can also be done uh by just knowing your community that is something that i need to focus more on usually i'm a little bit too broad and too national in my focus of what's going on the reality is most of the policies that really affect our lives are happening on a local and state level and so i am with you if you are someone who feels that you need to get better at that i need to get better at that too so living up by lies also means uh we don't automatically believe politicians democrat or republican i scrutinize everything they say ask questions about their policy proposals and promises why how how much what will the consequences of this be what are the pros and cons has there been other legislation have there been other proposals like this have they worked uh what were the were there any detrimental effects of it and why are we reiterating it these all need to be asked whenever we hear a politician talk whenever we see them open their mouths uh it also means rejecting any worldly ideologies that try to wedge themselves into our theology and worldview like critical theory and intersectionality and we have explained and talked about so many times on this podcast very thoroughly what these things are so i won't even get to that right now but i will link uh the past episodes where we talk about these things thoroughly in the description so you guys can listen to them if you haven't already these are bad trees that bear bad fruit and they are in their entirety incongruent with biblical christianity so that means that we reject the lie that everyone who is white is an oppressor and everyone who is not white is oppressed that means that we reject this idea of collective repentance for ancestral sin that means we reject any vehicle of so-called reconciliation that is not the gospel that means we reject worldly notions of justice in exchange for biblical ones that doesn't mean that we don't seek justice that it means that doesn't mean that we don't actually repent of our sins and seek unity under biblical truth because of course we do but we don't replace the biblical means in the biblical vehicles for unity with worldly means and worldly vehicles that means also uh that we reject we talked about rejecting bad theology uh we reject this idea that america is a modern-day israel and that all the promises in the bible are actually not about the universal church but are actually about the united states that the country that was prophesied about in the old testament is uh is america that is also a false teaching that we need to reject in its entirety that is typically associated with people on the right some people call that christian nationalism we will talk about that very thoroughly again soon but that idea is also false whether you're talking about the prosperity gospel or progressive christianity all of these things give you a new gospel that is incongruent with the gospel that is given to us uh in scripture so we reject those lies in favor of what god tells us is good and right and true living up by lies also means rejecting uh rejecting the lies and how we speak for example christians will not bear false witness by calling a man a woman or a woman or a man or using the words that are associated with the opposite sex that is a lie that is to intentionally rebel against god's design which in genesis 1 he calls very good uh if we cannot affirm genesis 1 is christians we are kidding ourselves if we think we will continue to affirm the rest of scripture if we can't even accept general revelation which is truth revealed to everyone through nature as male and female biology is we're kidding ourselves if we think we will continue to believe special revelation which is that which is revealed to us in scripture and through jesus christ if you want to know more about the gender topic specifically i will also link to episode 355 of the biblical telos of gender also read love thy body by nancy piercy this also means we are still in point number two tip number two it also means rejecting the little lies that we tell ourselves every day uh i do this we all do this oh i didn't have time to read my bible today i really needed that extra 30 minutes of sleep oh i i didn't need to share the gospel with that person even though i i felt that i should but it was fine that i just smiled at them and was it was nice to them saying that we're on our way to something when we're really not making excuses that aren't grounded in reality exaggerating something for a tensioner for a fact that isn't really true we need to resist telling those little lies every day if we want to stay grounded in truth it's the only thing that's going to keep us sane in this post-modern world that can't tell you when life begins can't tell you what truth is can't tell you what right and wrong is can't tell you what male and female is the only way that we are going to stay grounded and stay sane is a dogged insistence upon a dogged pursuit of that which is absolutely true big lies little lies we have to do with the power of the holy spirit everything we can to reject them completely tip number three speak up about that which is true so to your family to your church to your friends if it's bad curriculum if it's false theology if it's bad ideas anything which is not true that you hear say something say something kindly say something humbly be curious about what the other person is saying a lot of times people ask me how do i talk to my friend who is posting this that i know isn't true how do i talk to my professor how do i talk to my teacher how do i talk to my kids teacher of the school board or my pastor the elders at my church because i think they're preaching or teaching or talking about something which isn't true what do i do what do i say to this argument i get that a lot and i always my first tip is always to start by asking questions rather than only giving opposition there's a time for opposition but they're uh first you ask questions you try to get on the same page with someone by having them define their terms so if someone is talking about racial justice ask them what they mean by racial justice maybe you agree on it maybe you don't if someone says social justice ask them what you mean by social justice if they say oppression liberation love hate all of these things ask them specifically what they mean by that wave their definition against factual reality or against the word of god or both and see if you can try to get on the same page about what words mean before you move forward in a conversation if you can't that means you're operating on two different planes and that is when you start to unfortunately you have to kind of quibble with words that's when you start to push back on their perspective in general and what perspective is leading them to perhaps have false definitions of terms it also means uh being uh being aware yourself so i have a list of resources that i recommend um on my website alibethstucky.com blog slash uh recommended dash resources i'll link it uh in the in the description but it also means knowing what you're talking about so if you are talking to your pastor or your friend or whatever about something that you disagree on make sure that you have resources and facts to back yourself up approach it in a humble and ungodly and a kind and a curious way ask them if they are willing to read or listen to some of the resources and perspectives that you have and tell them that you are also willing to do the same now what i want us to remember that as you speak up about that which is true and all the spheres big and small in which god has placed you um your goal is not agreement with that person okay your goal is obedience to the lord and if that means kindly gently humbly speaking the truth in love about that which you know is biblically true that which you know is scientifically true historically true whatever it is and whatever sphere you're in um your goal is obedience not agreement so your responsibility at the end of that conversation or whatever it is is not to compromise is not to give in to not to give any validation to their points if they did not give you any valid points now if they change your mind on something if you figured out that you were actually wrong on an issue then you admit that and you say thank you so much i didn't realize that you've really opened my eyes whatever in all things humility but also all things confidence in the lord and the con confidence and truth you do not have to compromise in order to be a peacemaker that's really important i think for us to understand uh martin luther said truth at all costs peace if possible um we do everything we can to pursue peace as far as it depends on you the bible says that does not mean compromising on that which you know is true which the bible tells us is true which history which facts which data tell us uh is true number four engage in immediate obedience so a lot of people ask me what do i do i see a lot of problems in our culture and i don't know how to stand up to it well god might call you to do something mighty in public one day you might be speaking before congress about an issue you might start a podcast you might give a speech you might speak to your school board you might be speaking in front of state legislators you might have you know some kind of biblical godly confrontation with uh the pastor or the leadership in your church about something false that's being taught or it might just mean and well it always does mean um and it may be in addition to those things though uh immediate obedience with what is right in front of us so that will mean doing our work as employees with joy with integrity with grit doing our homework doing our projects taking tests with joy integrity gratitude and grit changing diapers cleaning dishes mopping floors uh loving our kids loving our husbands helping those around us doing all of those things with honesty with joy with integrity and uh with a commitment to hard work those you know i just love those people if you you go to the grocery store the cashier is joyful and glad to be there and glad to uh be talking to you and doing their job or whether it's a lawyer that loves their job and is grateful for the opportunity to be able to do what she does uh whatever it is i love people no matter their station in life who joyfully work who have good attitudes when they work no matter how nitty gritty or unglamorous what they're doing might seem to the world if you have an endeavor that you are working hard in that you can do honestly and that is benefiting the people around you that can be done to the glory of god whether you're getting paid for it or whether you're doing it in the home whether it's volunteer work all of that can be done to the glory of god colossians 3 17 and whatever you do in word or deed do everything in the name of the lord jesus giving thanks to god the father through him god is always calling us to be obedient and what is right in front of us in our homes in these close circles in our life he might bring us to bigger spheres of influence in order to make changes you know stand up for truth but every day every second he is calling us to be obedient with what is right in front of us and so when you feel like you're doing and you're not doing enough forget about that if you are being obedient with what's right in front of you whether it's changing a diaper or whether it's making a huge decision for your entire company uh that is enough roman 16 25-27 now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of jesus christ according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages but has been disclosed and through the prophetic writings has been made known to all nations according to the command of the eternal god to bring about the obedience of faith to the only wise god be glory forever more through jesus christ amen last tip number five this is what glenn and i talked about have kids or influence the next generation i should say and or influence the next generation a lot of you understandably are concerned about having kids you're like this world is so messed up i don't want to have kids right now this is a terrible time to have kids i'm not going to have kids the bible doesn't really give us that option the church christians people in general have gone through really really hard times throughout history and the only time we see in the bible is i think it's i think it's chapter 25 of matthew when jesus is talking about the the uh he's talking about the hard times to come woe to those who are pregnant or nursing uh during this time um other than that the bible doesn't really give us permission uh to not if we can if we are physically able um as christian married people to have children psalm 127 um he doesn't give us permission to not have children if we are in those contexts psalm 127 3-5 behold children are a heritage from the lord the fruit of the womb a reward like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one's youth blessed is the man who fills his quiver with him he shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate if we uh think that america is about to go through hard times if we're afraid of the threat of our liberty if we're afraid of christian persecution and this last 10 years a years whatever it is who's going to be pushing back against the darkness when we're 90 years old on on our deathbed it's not going to be us if there are not christian children and grandchildren and great grandchildren that are carrying the torch of the gospel who are pushing back against darkness in a gospel and loving uh and christ-like way it can't just be us forever we can't be the last generation with that responsibility like our responsibility is to equip our children with the love of the lord with the fear of the lord that leads to wisdom that leads to boldness to train them up in the way they should go as the bible says to love them with the love of christ to show them how to love other people with the love of christ and to be firm in the truth to live not by lies to be obedient with what's right in front of them it can't just end with us it can't stop with us um and you might not be in a position to have kids either you cannot have children you are unable to you're not married and so that's not the situation that you're in god doesn't call everyone to that and we need to be really honest that's not the precipice of the uh that's not the the peak of christian life the peak of christian life is not getting married and having kids these are blessings uh but the apostle paul even talks about how singleness is a gift because you can dedicate your entire time to ministry and so if you are not in a position to have kids you are not missing out if that is not what god has called you to you can still disciple and influence the next generation without having kids of your own and i think that um if you are a christ follower and he has equipped you to be able to influence the next generation you should seek opportunities to do that because there are a lot of people there are a lot of kids a lot of teens out there who don't have parents who are discipling them who don't have parents who are leading them in the truth and maybe god is going to use you to be a christ-like influence on a child's life on a teenager's life to disciple them and to spur them on to love in good works so those are my five tips number one decide ahead of time decide right now that you are going to follow christ number two refuse to accept or to tell lies number three speak up about that which is true number four engage in immediate obedience and number five have kids uh and or influence the next generation with with that which is true all right that's all we have for today thank you guys so much for listening uh tomorrow i'm gonna be talking to representative dan crenshaw we'll be talking about inauguration what we can expect and um a bunch of issues that you guys would like insight into from him so looking forward to that conversation i will see you guys then you

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