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They're like from the 70s.
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Other than your... Yes,
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Watch.
They're going to be so
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These people are young that
are watching us.
And today's Bible verse is John,
or verses is John.
First of all,
I didn't say that the audience was old.
I just said your references
are from the 70s,
that people nowadays don't
do needlepoint.
I didn't say only old people
do needlepoint.
I said people nowadays don't
do needlepoint.
Maybe some people do.
And then you said, if they do,
they're super old.
That's what I heard you say.
He's lying.
I did not.
In your Bibles, go to John 3,
30 through 31.
John 3, 33.
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Matthew.
That's from yesterday's show
or the other day's show.
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You can go to John and check that out.
But also for our show,
you're going to want to go to Matthew 26,
36 through 42 and be prepared for that.
All right.
So now we're reading from A.W.
Tozer for the Christian leader.
It's April 1st.
Did you do an April Fool's today?
You guys tried to pull an
April Fool's on me.
I'm so annoyed that you
caught on so quickly.
Come on.
No,
but what gave it away was that I wasn't
the one that called.
Yeah.
They were with you.
So my, my daughter, one of my daughters,
uh, texted me, uh,
Eddie was out with two of
our daughters out shopping.
Yes.
And then one of them texted me and said,
dad, dad,
in all caps with exclamation points, um,
czar and I've been arrested
for shoplifting and, and,
and since Heidi is not my mom.
She can't get me out of custody.
Something along those lines.
And I just,
I looked at it like this and I
looked at her and I go, look it.
Ray's trying to claim that
she got arrested for
shoplifting at Sephora.
And now if I were to call
you and been like, okay, we got,
we got trouble here.
Yeah.
Would you have believed it?
I would have been more likely to go.
Okay.
But I already had done my
April 1st joke on Facebook and Instagram.
so um I was well aware of
what day it was oh so uh
yeah it didn't work but she
really tried then she
called with a worried voice
and what do I hear in the
background had you laughing
so it didn't work too well
no have you guys like april
fool's jokes uh I love them
I've been doing them for
years he loves them yeah
not a big fan not a big fan
The worst part I hated is
when the kids would mess up
the salt shakers and put
salt in the sugar.
Oh, yeah.
The sugar and salt and all
that other weird stuff.
Or screw the lid off so it was barely on.
I hate those jokes.
Especially nowadays when a
meal costs you $45.
Right.
You don't want to pour a whole.
And our oven is so hard to get heated.
Yes.
All right.
Let's get to the devotional here.
So April 1st,
the title is The First Lesson to Learn.
Matthew 26, 41 is the reference that says,
Watch and pray that ye
enter not into temptation.
The spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak.
Almost anything associated
with the ministry may be
learned with an average
amount of intelligent applications.
It is not hard to preach or
manage church affairs or
pay a social call.
Weddings and funerals may be
conducted smoothly with a
little help from Emily Post
and the minister's manual.
Sermon making can be learned
easily as shoemaking, introduction,
conclusion, and all.
And so with the whole work
of the ministry as it is
carried on in the average church day.
But prayer, that is another matter.
There Mrs. Post is helpless,
and the minister's manual
can offer no assistance.
There the lonely man of God
must wrestle it out alone,
sometimes in fastings and tears,
in weariness untold.
There every man must be an original,
for true prayer cannot be imitated,
nor can it be learned from someone else.
Lord,
I don't want to just learn about the
importance of prayer.
I pray that your spirit might change me,
that I might become more
and more genuinely a man of prayer.
Amen.
You know what I really like
about this past group of sermons, I mean,
lessons that he's teaching is to really,
he's really trying to
impress upon us the
importance of not taking oration,
being an orator, as impressive.
So in other words,
he's saying anybody can
string together words, right?
and include a couple of
Bible verses and just be a great speaker.
Don't be impressed by that.
Don't be impressed either by
his ability to do that
his ability to fill a room
because he does that,
or how many people continue
to attend as a result of
him being a good orator.
And he gives us these signs
of all these other things
we need to look for, a good character,
how he conducts his life.
In this one, is he a man of prayer,
holiness?
It's really such a timeless message.
Right?
That we shouldn't be so
easily fooled by fancy
words and even spiritual words.
I mean,
it's really an important point that
it's not difficult for
somebody to copy the words
from the Bible and say it powerfully.
That doesn't mean that
you're spirit-filled.
That just means you can read well.
Right?
So...
It reminds me so much of
Pastor Francis Chan's
message from the other day
that you shared with me
about where he used to be.
Yes.
And where he hopes he is now.
And that meaning that in the past,
he was all about entertainment.
And how funny was my joke?
Did I have as many laughs as
the previous pastor?
Especially if he's like in an event.
Yeah.
How many comments?
And yeah.
and and now he wants to just
share the word and um and
make sure that he's doing
honor to god and that he
reads the bible uh he
talked about uh I forget
what pastor he was talking
about that he learned from
but it was about are you
reading the word are you so
busy telling your stories
and trying to make people
laugh sermon is so long and
trying to get your church
filled because you're so entertaining
But are you when the people
that are in there,
are you telling them about
Jesus Christ and how
powerful and reading the
messages and reading the word?
Yeah, the gospel.
So it really reminded me of that.
It always seems timely that
we see things that
correlate with what we're
reading in these devotionals.
The the power of reading the Bible.
has really helped me.
And so if I can go to
something I've talked about a lot lately,
and that is reading the Bible every day,
which I never did before.
I was a heathen.
I was a heathen Christian
where I was walking around
the church and going and
listening to the messages
and thinking I was saved.
But now the power reading
the Bible has helped me be
more engaged as a Christian man.
And what I mean by that is today,
Uh, I walked into the gym and as I, uh,
was closing my locker,
I closed my locker and
there was a guy on the
other side of the door and he goes, oh,
you're a believer.
I go, yes, of course I am.
I got my Jesus has risen.
I got my cross, you know, all my stuff,
your trinkets, my trinkets.
And again, I just want to explain to you,
I wear these to remind me
that I need these things.
That's how bad that's how
much I'm into my flesh.
and into my into my my old
man continues I fight him
off I fight him off with
the cross everybody thinks
I'm trying to you know what
is it a virtue signal or
trying to do something I
know I have to see this in
the mirror when I look at
it I have to when I'm heads
down I got to see it waving
to remind me dude you're a
christian stop thinking
that don't say that you
know in your mind about
that other person so the
man that I've never seen before
Yeah, exactly.
He goes, you're a believer.
I said, yeah.
He goes, how was your Resurrection Sunday?
He goes, fantastic.
And how about you?
Where do you go to church?
And he says, I go to church here.
And I say, I go to church there.
We have this whole conversation.
And there's this more of like,
I feel more worthy than I did before.
I know this happens to be better in prayer,
but that also is part of it,
feeling more comfortable in prayer.
Absolutely.
We sit and get on the show
before the show starts and
we elbow each other,
like whose turn it is to
pray before the show.
And then at meals, we pray.
But it's almost like I feel
like it's an honor to be
able to pray now.
Amen.
Where before it used to be a worry.
Does that make sense?
Absolutely makes sense.
Anytime somebody said, hey, can you pray?
I would worry.
Like, oh, no.
Am I going to sound stupid?
Do I know those right little
pithy phrases that people say?
Which I can't think of them right now.
All the Christianese.
Yeah, all the Christianese.
You know what they are.
And I can never come up with any of them.
So I just say what comes to my heart.
But it used to be so my heart would pound.
but now it's like it's an
honor like oh yes I'm
grateful that I have this
opportunity to speak to god
that's now and so it feels
so much better so in that
moment where this man said
you're a believer it was
like yes uh yes you must be
too because you recognize
it so quickly the door
closing you're a believer
like it was that fast like
he must have seen me walk
around somewhere else
because it was so quickly
like he couldn't wait to
say so you're a believer like yeah
yes okay yeah yeah I this
morning sometimes I go to
the gym in my street
clothes and sometimes I go
in my workout clothes today
I went in my workout
clothes so I did he didn't
get this no just making
sure because I think it's
kind of awkward if people
talk start a conversation
when you have no clothes on
You know, it's so funny that you say that.
Because there's this little
corner you have to go
around to get to the shower.
And I take a shower at the gym.
And you don't wrap yourself
in a towel as you're
walking over to the shower?
No, why bother?
Because it's only like five feet.
But the cleaning lady is a woman.
The cleaning lady is a woman
that's in there.
But men don't talk to each
other when they're not in there.
I do not shower at the gym
for these reasons.
I think it's funny is that
we don't talk to each other
when we're in that condition.
We just walk past each other.
Thank God.
And like, look at the, like, look at the,
like, look at the.
With your nanny.
You walk around.
Oh my God.
I'm sorry, folks.
This is TMI,
but I just find it such a strange habit.
In Jesus's time, you hear in the Bible,
they're walking around with
no clothes on.
Like they used to go to those Roman baths.
Yeah.
Christians did that where they were all.
Yeah.
I don't know.
so now he made me forget
where I was oh it's just
the comfort level yeah of
of um of being honored I'm
just honored to be in the
presence of the holy spirit
that he's dwells inside me
like I just feel so happy
and giddy today with uh
with everything um and it
was just really good I
think I think that that's
what that maybe the pastor sometimes
are just not anointed or something,
because we've seen this.
Wait, what?
What are we talking about?
When we go back to the pastors,
what AW is talking about is
that it's all about, you know,
I'm just going to read a
book on how to give speeches,
and then what I'll do is
I'll plug some religious
references in there,
and then people will give me money,
and I'll grow the church.
That seems kind of like what they did,
some of them.
Following a business model.
Sorry, I mean, that was a really long,
I spent a lot of time on the mic.
You go ahead.
say hello to our friends
okay good hello we have
kelly on today we have kate
hello there iris she loves
restore she's a little
annoyed with the box yes
the switch over to the box
it may come back the pill
the bottle may come back
yeah she doesn't know with
the bubble pack but yeah uh
hi jan um and yes the
bubble pack and kate has no
comment about the needlepoint
We'll leave that one alone.
Jan said,
did you see the rocket launch at 7.30?
I saw it, but not at 7.30.
Somebody had filmed it,
one of my friends here that
live in Nova Linda, and I got to see it.
A heathen Christian, Corinne,
I think gets a giggle out of that.
And Kelly,
it's always nice to meet other
Christians when we're out.
Yes.
I used to be kind of afraid.
A little nervous.
I thought they were going to
ask me questions.
And it's not just that.
It's shame.
That's the conviction.
That's good.
That's the conviction of the
Holy Spirit being like,
you're not living right.
And now this guy is going to be like, hey,
I heard you speaking at that breakfast.
And you're like, oh, man.
It's shame.
You could put a dagger right
where you are correct though.
Because now you're like,
I'm not guilty of any of that anymore.
The old man was.
I hate it when the kids put
blame on somebody else.
That just drives me crazy.
You too.
You call them and somebody goes, well, no,
I'm talking to you.
But this is kind of like,
that was the old man.
Don't be...
Don't be calling me out.
I'm a new creation.
But when you live right also,
you're just kind of,
you just have so much more
confidence in your walk
with the Lord that it makes
you that much happier to share.
And that's why they call us
to holiness and righteousness,
to right living.
So that when you're called on,
it doesn't matter if you
haven't memorized half the Bible,
you have a witness.
Your witness speaks for itself.
Yeah.
how you conduct your life, you know?
So good.
So true.
Okay.
What is, uh, what does Matt have to say?
So here we're in the, um,
this passage of scripture
is from the garden of Gethsemane where,
um, the Lord Jesus goes up with, uh,
his two disciples.
And so, uh, then the verse 36 starts with,
then Jesus came with them
to a place called Gethsemane.
and said to the disciples,
sit here while I go and pray over there.
And he took with him Peter
and the two sons of Zebedee,
and he began to be
sorrowful and deeply distressed.
Then he said to them,
my soul is exceedingly sorrowful,
even to death.
Stay here and watch with me.
He went a little farther and
fell on his face and prayed, saying, oh,
my father, if it is possible,
let this cup pass from me.
Nevertheless, not as I will,
but as you will.
Then he came to the
disciples and found them
sleeping and said to Peter, What?
Could you not keep watch with me one hour?
Watch and pray lest you
enter into temptation.
The spirit indeed is willing,
but the flesh is weak.
Again,
a second time he went away and
prayed and said, Oh, my father,
if this cup cannot pass
from me unless I drink it,
your will be done.
Amen.
beautiful passage of
scripture about just how
weak the flesh can be
because here were his most
loving disciples and he
wanted them to stay awake.
He wanted them to be
vigilant and they couldn't, right?
We're just,
even in the most perilous of times,
left to our own devices, we fall short.
You know,
they should have known better
than to lay down.
You tell me that every night.
Yes.
You'll lay my head on the
pillow when we're watching a movie.
And you'll say, don't do that.
You're going to fall asleep.
And lo and behold.
And I lay my head down anyway.
Head on the pillow means sleep.
And then you say,
could you not just stay awake?
And I said, I tried.
I wish it was that important.
Yeah.
But when I sit up, you know,
sit up in the bed watching TV,
then I stay awake.
So they should have just sat up.
Yeah.
Stood there.
The moment they lay down and
put their head on the log.
It was over.
They should have known they
were going to fall asleep.
Right.
Sorry.
Zara's texting me.
What?
Yes.
What?
I guess it's pretty
straightforward what the lesson is.
But do you think there is
anything else that we need
to know or learn from or
take away from that little passage?
I'm going to go over there and pray.
I'm going to take the two
Zebedees with me.
You guys.
Stay awake.
Do you think there's anything else?
Oh, there's tons.
But of course, with my brain fog right now,
so much of it has left my brain.
But anybody listening have
some of the interpretations
in the commentary that
you've heard about these verses.
Please comment and remind us.
But they were...
Cause it was,
it just entered my head when
we were reading it earlier and I, yeah.
And I just totally,
it just totally left my brain,
but there are, um,
subtle references in here
about what the Lord was
telling them about the, um,
the frailty of, of our flesh, uh,
when not empowered by the spirit,
but also that, um,
this in particular where he says, um,
watch and pray lest you
enter into temptation.
So if we,
if we were to take that sentence
by itself, you say to yourself that this,
the Lord's admonishing them
that if you are not vigilant and praying,
you can fall into temptation.
And I think that that lesson, um,
is for all of us in any circumstance,
that if we're not prayerful people,
which I think is why it's in this passage,
it's in this devotional, is that
if we're not vigilant and stay prayerful,
we could fall into certain temptations.
And actually,
it's interesting because in
the daily devotional Bible
version that I am in,
that is a common theme.
We're in Luke and we're in
Numbers about the
importance of faithfulness.
And so faithfulness to the
Lord and the commands that
he was giving to the
Israelites and how
important faithfulness was
For them,
because were they not to be faithful,
they also will fall into temptation.
So if you don't follow my laws,
if you are not faithful to
the commands I've given you
and the jobs and
responsibilities I've given to you,
then you will fall for temptations.
Temptations of all kinds.
And temptations are not just, ah, okay,
so we're in Proverbs.
And it's the Proverbs about
the young man going by the woman's,
Proverbs 7,
where he goes by the woman's house.
Then it came out a woman to
meet him dressed like a
prostitute and with crafty intent.
She took hold of him and kissed him.
And with a brazen face, she said,
today I fulfilled my vows
and I have food for my
fellowship offering at home.
I came out to meet you and look,
I found you.
And so what God is
admonishing is that he went down.
He was going down the street
near her corner,
walking along in the
direction of her house at
twilight as the day was
fading and as the dark
night was setting in.
So what the Lord's also
admonishing is don't walk by it.
You shouldn't be on that corner.
yes and that's such um also
timeless advice for all of
us um is to just stay far
away I also think about the
things that we see have
been happening today we
often talk about the
schools but I i always say
that you know parents were
asleep and so what's
happening in the schools is
because we fell asleep we
felt we we were supposed to be on guard
Absolutely.
Protecting our own kids,
not just accepting that
other people would do the right thing.
Right.
Especially Christians.
Yes.
Same thing in our government.
We just kept thinking, well, you know,
they're just.
They're just boisterous
about things and the next
president will take care of
it and it won't be that big of a deal.
And the next thing you know,
it just gets worse and it
becomes a snowball effect
of stuff because we fall
asleep and don't pay
attention and aren't vigilant.
Vigilant.
Same thing in churches.
Yeah, absolutely.
Vigilant.
Kelly says,
she believes he didn't want to feel alone,
that too.
Yeah,
and such a testament to his humanity
as a difficult time as he
was interacting with the father,
demonstrating his humanity.
Oh, father, take this cup from me,
but I will be done.
Also, by demonstrating that humanity,
he demonstrates to us that
we can demonstrate that
humanity to God too.
And just be able to say to God, Lord,
you're walking me through
something that feels like hell.
And nonetheless,
I'm going to walk through it.
Because I know that you're with me.
But being able to be honest
about how difficult it is.
No matter what.
And hi, Lisa.
Good to see you too.
So depending on how much
more you have on the devotion,
I wanted to pivot to a couple of things.
I want to pivot to a couple of things.
Oh my gosh, I love it when you pivot.
Do you?
I feel like I'm... Can I
take a sharp right turn?
Yes, go ahead.
Okay.
So professionally, you know,
my... So officially,
like my specialty was open
source intelligence.
So basically trying to
understand what was
radicalizing terrorists, trends,
global trends, local trends,
but so much of it was based
on being able to process
lots of information and
draw conclusions from it.
Right.
So as a Christian now,
I still feel that that
skill comes up constantly,
especially as I was writing
for the Christian post and
now working on the book.
And, um,
And I want to share this
experience with you guys because I want,
I think it's so important
to always demonstrate the humility of,
especially for believers,
people that the Lord puts
people in your life,
especially in the family of God,
for a reason.
And not to dismiss things
that they say out of hand
just because you don't
understand them or you
don't agree with them,
but to have the humility to
take it in and be like, you know what,
I'm going to file that one
away for a time that that
may be a little bit more relevant to me.
So a friend of mine who's
been a seasoned saint much longer than me,
it was a new friend, said to me, Hedy,
I want you to be careful
being lumped in with the
Christian nationalists.
Now, mind you,
that was the most bizarre comment,
honestly, that I'd ever heard.
I was like, first of all, I'm brown.
So I don't know how I'm
going to be thought of as a Klansman.
I mean,
it was really so far out of my
thought process that I just
didn't understand it.
But I know...
I know she's in the family of God.
I know she has wisdom.
And so I, I literally,
I took it and I just filed it away.
And I was just, you know,
I'm just going to file this
away because I believe that
the Lord sends messages to
all kinds of people for all
kinds of reasons.
And then.
oh my goodness,
this has been a theme constantly now,
right?
Our pastor's going through
it because he's being
accused of being a Christian nationalist.
And now this whole fight
between Ben Shapiro and
portions of the right, and which is,
which...
is um coming up against the
what they're lumping
together seems to be alex
jones tucker carlson
candace owens which they're
saying is lumped on another
section of the right like
the fractioning of the
conservative movement and
I'm thinking to myself uh
first of all,
no wonder God doesn't want us
to be part of political
parties because our Christianity,
our allegiance to the Lord
doesn't fit in any of these boxes.
Because when I listen to
them and their commentary on both,
like the two sides,
we actually don't fall into
either one because the
Candace Tucker side,
even though they're
Christians and believers
and they're in our family,
their rationale of
The isolationism and we
never go to war and we
don't help and we have to
be America first and we
think of America only is not biblical.
You know,
we have to lay our life down for
the brother.
So it's just that whole
concept and not supporting
Israel is absolutely not biblical.
And then you go to the other side,
which is crazy.
Yes.
I mean,
I don't even know how to describe it.
But our party,
the whole conservative
movement is splintering.
And
if you take it in light of,
I know a lot of you
watching are students of
pastor Jack Hibbs.
If you listen to it in light
of all the things that pastor Jack said,
like he went on on Saturdays,
like we're the world's
falling apart and our
country is under wrath and
we're all going to die.
Um, it was, it was really quite dramatic,
but I,
I see why he feels that way because, uh,
I will bless those who bless you.
I will curse those who curse you,
as the Lord said about Israel.
And if America, the last straw, I think,
is for it to lift its hand off of Israel.
If America stops supporting Israel,
I think spiritually we'd be
in a lot of trouble.
And it looks like,
and it's something I never
in a million years,
if I had to predict the
conservative movement going
this direction, I couldn't predict it.
But this is historically what happens.
This is a precursor to the
persecution of Jews.
It's happened throughout the centuries.
is that people start to get
angry at a certain
perspective that they
associate to the Jewish community.
And then they start to say,
we want nothing to do with that.
And so there's this rising
sentiment that the
brutality against the
Palestinians is unjustified,
that we can't give a blank
check to Israel,
all of these things that
were historically
not a position that the
United States has taken,
but is now associated with
a nationalist movement and
thereby a Christian
nationalist movement
because she claims Christ,
we claim Christ, and people are like,
uh-oh, you Christians, crazy.
You know what I mean?
See,
all those things they ever said about
us that we're all hidden clansmen,
we've all got a hood in the closet,
is suddenly coming out.
this is this is what they're
claiming that's not this is
well I mean it it's pretty
bad you listen to people
that you I mean you listen
to some commenters and it's
pretty bad maybe I'm not
listening to the same ones
yeah no no you have to
listen to what you have to
listen to the the side that
is coming out and and the
only way you you really can get
you get that perspective, I guess,
for your algorithm to come
up is to keep searching for Candace.
Because when you keep
searching for Candace,
then you keep seeing the
people that are supporting her.
Yes.
And when you listen to the
people that are supporting her,
it's starting to sound very anti-Semitic.
And then the more that sounds that way,
then there's Ben Shapiro
and David Rubin who are
fighting the other direction.
Yeah.
And then these two sides are
becoming progressively more polarized,
and it's not pretty.
That's my two cents.
Where's Charlie Kirk falling?
I haven't listened to
Charlie Kirk in a long time.
I have not either.
So I suspect he's very –
Because he's kind of part of the – Yes.
That group.
I suspect he's very – he's conflicted.
I may have thought.
Because he's very close to Candace.
And very close to Jack Hibbs.
Yes.
So I'd be curious.
Oh, Kate's saying she couldn't agree more.
That's awesome.
Yay.
I don't know.
So as a counterterrorism expert,
watching this is disturbing.
It really is because I think
it is not helpful to Israel,
who we owe an allegiance to
because God told us to.
That's part of God's
promises to his people.
We are grafted into his chosen people.
Now, the fact that
they are not all Messianic Jews,
that they have not all
accepted the Messiah is not our business.
God will rectify that in his
new Jerusalem.
That's his, that reckoning that he has,
that will take place is in God's timing,
and he's guaranteed that to happen,
but he doesn't break his
promises to his chosen people.
If he breaks his promises to them,
he breaks them to us.
That makes a good point here.
I'll bring it up in a second, but
you know, COVID during that election,
the 2020 election was the
thing that it was the, yes, the thing.
There's another word I'm
looking for that they were
able to use to take over an
election to say people, hey,
you can't leave.
You need to mail in your
ballots that you have to.
We're going to make these
boxes that you have to deliver them to.
And some of the cameras work.
Some of the cameras didn't
work and all this.
So they cause as much chaos as possible.
so that they so that things
could happen in the social
medias were banning uh
republicans from speaking a
whole bunch of stuff um and
then catalyst catalyst
thank you I didn't say it
iris did oh catalyst thank
you iris thank you um this
year is what um kelly's
talking about here is that
election year is not a good
time for the party to be so
fractured fractured and um
That the way you fractured
is kind of like what's
happening in our school districts.
It's the same thing is that
you have these voices of
the progressive movement in
the progressive movement
far left that just throw it there.
They're just throwing
attacks like a virus.
Like in the school district,
they're saying a bunch of
teachers are being hundreds
of teachers are being fired
in our school district.
Okay, wait.
This is not that.
They're causing confusion.
No, our party is confusing itself.
We have nobody to blame.
Literally,
NBC is not covering this fight at all.
They're like,
let them rip each other apart.
We don't need to do anything.
But it comes from Democrats that are Jews,
Democrats that are liberals.
Ben Shapiro is far left.
No.
But it's there.
They are bringing in the
fight about Israel and the Palestinians.
And that's kind of that all
is being brought out.
And they're saying,
go or go protest in the streets.
Why is Candace listening to
the far left's version of
the Palestinian struggle?
You tell me that.
Why would she be listening to that?
I don't know, but she is.
Right.
All part of the greater
confusion of things.
you can if you cause this
much chaos you will get
republicans that buy into
it I i put a post up today
I said I don't understand
any uh christian who would
vote democrat it's never
made any sense to me but
that's my point is that how
are you willing to listen
to that how do you have you
read your bible exactly and
then you turn around and
you say christ is king but
please don't bring jesus
into your mess that you
don't understand the bible
Yeah,
but you had Christians that followed BLM.
You had Christians that followed.
But she's not just that kind of Christian.
But somehow they got to her.
She probably doesn't even realize it.
You got some people who they
see something and they go, you know what?
I actually kind of agree with that.
And then they just reel them in.
The devil.
It's not necessarily just people.
It's the evils of the
progressive movement.
The devil is in the progressive movement.
Yes, but.
The devil is the lead progressive.
I know,
but you cannot blame stupidity on
the part of some
conservatives on the progressives.
I won't do it.
They have to have personal culpability.
Absolutely.
Christians that vote Democrat are stupid.
But I'm not talking about them.
I'm talking about far right.
The space that is getting
fractured is the far right.
This is not people near the edge.
This is not people near the middle.
All right.
I have to think of a better argument.
It's called not reading your Bible.
It's true.
But it's all in the devil.
The devil's in the details.
I made that up.
Candace believes Israel's an occupier.
I know.
Like, hello, read your freaking Bible.
I don't understand.
Charlie Kirk knows the history.
He knows.
He should be talking to her.
But that's what I'm saying.
I don't know what he's saying to her.
Oh, look at Alicia reading.
Oh, okay.
Alicia reading.
Hi, Jan French.
My apologies for coming into your comment.
I don't comment,
but the ringing in my ear won't stop.
When I saw your comment and
went through your page,
I had to pass the message
of our ancestors as they
wanted you to have this
message from your picture.
I see you are a loving
person who had always been
backwards to help anyone,
be it friends or family,
but you feel like you're
running in circles four
steps forward and five steps back.
Okay.
I have no idea what that is.
Sorry, Jan.
It looked like it was going somewhere.
Yeah.
Kate said, I forget who said, no Jew,
no you.
You can't be a believer and
not stand with the Jews.
Amen.
Jesus was Jewish folks.
Yeah.
It's just, and,
and what really blows my
mind is people that come to
the defense of Candace Owen said,
say what stupid Christians
believe that an Israel
created by the Rothschilds
dynasty is the Israel of God.
And it just blows my mind
that they can't parcel out
political people from the
reestablishment of the
state that God predicted 3,000 years ago.
So when God prophesied that
this nation will be created in a day,
He didn't say there was
going to be a righteous
person standing on top of it.
In fact,
he says that they'll be corrupt
until he brings them back.
And you know what I mean?
Until he sets it all right,
they'll be departing from
his word constantly.
But people are just,
so it goes back to replacement theology.
It goes back to the core of
the struggle inside the church,
not understanding God's word.
And the great falling away
and all of those other
things that the great teachers,
the modern day teachers,
the Bible warning us about
is unfolding before our eyes.
So it happens when you don't
teach the Bible in church.
It's what happens when you
don't teach the Bible in church.
A.W.
is so right.
Yes.
A decade ago.
Not a decade.
A hundred years ago.
Whatever that was.
It wasn't like 1920s.
Kathy says, yes,
it goes back to replacement theology.
That's a conspiracy theory, Karen.
Or Kathy.
Sorry.
I just called her a Karen.
You're not a Karen, Kathy.
She's one of the Ks.
The four Ks, not the three.
Yes.
I wonder what this Alicia reading is.
Let me know.
What was that all about?
What kind of nonsense is that?
That's a lot to type.
And Jan says, what a mess.
Oh, look at this.
Also BLM, Andy,
and they are blown in the wind now.
They need division in their
political toolbox.
Absolutely.
love your truth passion
eddie thank you kate you
know you don't have to live
with it look who's talking
I hear about your school
board shenanigans 24 7
Every day there's something new.
Yeah.
Well, you're really passionate about that.
I'm passionate about God's word.
I'm passionate about the
reputation of Christians in this country.
And actually,
if any of you are my Facebook friends,
I found somebody from my
past has found me on Facebook.
And I'm actually really
excited to get a chance to talk to him.
Yeah, I saw that.
I saw that dude.
Did you?
He wears his hat like this.
This is how he wears his hat.
You know what I love about
you and how God has shaped
you over the years that I've known you?
over the years you've known
me okay yes is that he's
really softened your funny
bone yes for sure oh my
gosh it was either that or
die I don't think I we
would have lost two minutes
if I didn't develop a funny
bone is it is it is so good
life is so good no I said a
joke that in three years
ago I you might have ran out that door
Like, oh, there she goes again.
I must have said something.
I mean, there's things that I would say.
I mean,
it's so in me to have a smart-ass remark.
Yes.
It's just part of who I am.
But you got so much better.
Yeah, I've gotten better.
But every so often, one will slip out.
It just falls out.
And...
It was like, there was times I'd say,
I have no idea why you're
mad at me right now.
That makes no sense.
And I really,
you thought that I thought
that I knew what I did.
I had no idea what I did.
But then you started telling me about,
you know,
when you say that to your kids
or something like that, you know,
they don't like that.
I go, yes, they do.
They laugh.
And then I go, no,
that hurts my feelings when you say that.
I go,
why didn't you ever tell me that hurt
your feelings?
I thought it was being funny.
at everybody else's expense.
Leandra,
who is the president of the school board,
her and I were doing an
interview the other day and
we just had a chuckles that, you know,
people just don't
understand our sense of humor.
Right.
Because it is really bad.
I mean,
if you know how cops talk to each other,
you would like, oh, my gosh,
that is that was horrible.
You say that to one another.
Right.
Like for months,
they just called me the Mexican.
They would just go, hey, Mexican,
go stop that car.
Hey, Mexican, are you on?
Were you literally the only Mexican?
No,
but it was because I didn't look Mexican,
but I had a Mexican last
name and I didn't speak Spanish.
It was funny they called me
the Mexican because it was
a Mexican last name or a
Spanish last name.
They just thought it was
hilarious to call me the Mexican.
And then later it became the
Nut Licker because of me having a dog.
Yeah, that was my other name.
After Mexican was Nut Licker.
Because my dogs, you know what dogs do.
And so that's the reference to a dog.
I can't believe you just said that.
On the air, memorialized forever.
Excuse him.
He's a work in progress.
It was a sergeant.
And Kate thinks, oh, my gosh, it's bad.
Did you hear what he just said?
That's what dogs do.
The dogs, they lay there,
and that's what they do.
Okay.
It's an art,
learning to live with someone
who has a sense of humor
like Andy and my husband.
And you know who else, Iris?
Jan.
Jan's husband also has a sense of humor.
The gift of gab, Andy.
Yes, that's a gift.
Is that a gift from God, the gift of gab?
I don't know.
Lisa says we are grafted
into the same branch as the
Jewish people.
We are obligated to be
lovers of his chosen people.
Amen.
Honestly, Lisa,
you have to read the Bible to know that,
you know,
or you have to be part of a
church that teaches the proper Bible.
And it's so worrisome that
there are so many prominent
people in our community
that are ignorant.
And it's very detrimental to
our movement as a whole.
It makes us look bad.
And Jan says, yeah, see,
so true about Jim.
He reminds me of Andy.
He has the same sense of humor.
Gab as in gabble.
Gabble.
As in babble?
Babble and gabble.
Is it like gabble, gabble, gabble?
Irish malarkey.
Yes.
I got a little Irish in me too.
Why didn't they call me the leprechaun?
Why did they have to call me the Mexican?
I have as much Irish in me
as I have Mexican.
Right?
To be the short little guy
they call the leprechaun.
gosh.
I'm so offended.
I don't know how to get rid
of that visual now of you
as the leprechaun.
Oh my goodness.
On my birthday in my office every year,
this is before you knew me,
I always wear a kilt on my birthday.
Yeah, I need to bring that kilt back.
And then you'll really see
the leprechaun in me.
Oh my goodness.
I didn't...
I didn't want to bring it up
because it was just such nonsense.
And that is the thing about
the trans visual day or
whatever they call it again.
Trans, transgender visibility day.
Visibility day.
You know,
there's like a hundred and
something days dedicated in
the calendar to gays.
You know that?
Like it's game month.
The one day that belongs to
us they had to ruin.
That's the point.
We were just talking about this today.
Two days.
We get two days.
Here comes this day and they said,
when are we going to have
trans... It's bad enough
they put buddies.
It's bad enough that we have
the buddies and the eggs
that have nothing to do
with resurrection.
But now they have to add the
trannies to it.
Now we have tranny bunnies.
But...
That is, again,
just a sign of the
confusion that they enjoy.
You know,
there's a part of me that I wish
we wouldn't talk about it.
I wish we wouldn't have said
anything about it and just ignored it.
They really got... I think
it's important for
Christians to know they did that.
See, there's a,
I go back and forth in this all day long,
but in my head, because it's like,
we go back to the dog
training reference dogs, funny enough,
like children, um,
No matter what kind of
attention is negative or
positive attention,
they just want attention.
Right.
And so if it's negative attention,
they don't care.
They got your attention and
you spent time yelling at
them like kids and it's perfectly fine.
And they go,
they wag their tails just the same.
They just can't tell that, you know,
that it's negative attention necessarily.
Um, I,
that's how I feel that these
progressives like, oh,
look at how much they're
talking about us.
Hmm.
You know, um, Easter, you know,
every conversation involves us.
there's that negative
attention that they're
definitely don't want every
conversation to be about
them yeah but it's just
like every church was
talking about it every
newspaper every uh steve
bannon uh dan bongino to
everybody was talking about
it um and so there's that
like oh man if there's a way but
If there's going to be a way
of getting some of the fence walkers,
Christians,
that may have been the thing that did it.
I hope so too.
But that's the only thing I
want to say about it.
It was just such... Now they
were pretending apparently
that we didn't know.
We didn't realize that we
fell on the same day.
Diplods.
Sorry.
Is that a bad word?
Diplod?
I don't even know what that means.
golly gee that's right up
there with golly gee I
wonder if anybody else says
that maybe I did make that
up I don't even know
anymore oh interesting did
you know the definition of
gift of gab is the ability
to speak easily and
confidently in a way that
makes people want to listen
and believe you I think you
have that I have a little
bit of that too but I think
you do too yes yeah absolutely
Sometimes if you just want
to have the answer to a question,
you just say it proudly as
if you actually know what
you're talking about.
When me and Andy occasionally,
Blue Moon would argue about something,
he does that to me.
I look at him and I was like,
you may have been able to
get away with that before
with some of the stupid
women you've been with.
But you're not getting away
with that with me.
And he's like,
I don't know what you're talking about.
He uses his dog trainer
voice with some strong words.
I was like,
I don't know what that was you just did,
but it's not going to work with me.
And you would see him kind of be like, hmm,
okay.
It would set you back on
your heels a little.
Yeah, go ahead a bit.
Everybody until now believed
everything I said.
Exactly.
I love you.
How dare you?
Oh, my gosh.
All right.
Anything else?
We didn't get any prayer requests today.
I think we need to land this plane.
We need to land this plane.
It's getting late.
I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful Easter.
We had a great Easter.
We had our kids.
The food,
the oven cooked the food this
time because it hasn't the
past three holidays.
It was Easter egg hunt.
We had an Easter egg hunt.
Andy's brilliant Easter egg hunt.
We had our friend Jason visiting,
watching our Easter egg hunt.
He was very impressed with
your mad dad skills.
It was just awesome.
The golden eggs.
Yeah, the golden eggs fight.
The kids like beating each
other up to make it to the golden eggs.
And it's so funny because I
listened to a couple of
other parents and saw a
couple of Facebook posts.
And apparently that was the
vibe this year.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Everybody had hid the eggs
better than they usually do.
They're doing it for their teenagers.
And their teenagers are like
beating each other up to get to the eggs.
Really?
Yes.
Where have they been?
We've been doing this for years.
Right.
We're just catching up to us.
But, yeah, what a day it was.
So, yeah, Friday, good Friday.
We're at Calvary Chapel East Anaheim.
Gorgeous.
An amazing message of worship.
It was mostly worship.
Yes.
And a great message.
And then the nailing of our
notes onto the cross.
I thought that was fantastic.
I suddenly got nervous that
they're going to read them all.
Do you think they're going
to read them all?
Because I was hoping the
point was they wouldn't read them.
Because my name's kind of distinctive.
They said they're going to burn them.
Okay.
But you may get a call from Becky,
the pastor's wife,
saying... That was a little risque,
your little note you put on there.
Oh, she knows.
What did you put?
Now I gots to know.
I saw you writing away.
It's a little tiny piece of paper,
and you were using both sides.
I did not.
Oh, my God.
Just one side.
I've never seen somebody
write so much on a little
tiny piece of paper.
That was nailed to the cross.
It was like,
what do you want to nail to the cross?
It was great.
Kate had Lambros and Pavlova
and lots of Easter eggs.
That's awesome.
Oh,
Jan has a brain MRI scan with contrast.
Oh, praying for that, Jan.
All right.
Absolutely.
All right, let's do it.
Dear Lord,
thank you for your grace upon our lives.
Thank you for the sacrifice
of your one and only
begotten son to make us in
right standing with you
that we may become children of God.
It is the most precious gift
we ever will have that we
never deserved and did not earn.
And we ask that you send
that same amount of grace and love to
to those of our family
members who do not yet know
you or who are far from you, Lord.
We are just hoping and
praying and believing in
your promises that they
would come to saving faith as well.
We also lift up Jan to you
that this MRI she has of
her brain is clear and
shows and demonstrates to
her once again that she is well,
that she is whole, that she is restored,
Lord.
So we're asking for your divine grace
um hand in the results of
that scan and we ask for
well-being and restoration
for all of our friends that
are suffering from
illnesses or difficulties
lord whether it be
financial emotional
familial um mend broken
hearts lord as only you
know how uh heal those that are lonely um
and comfort them in their times of need,
Lord.
And we ask for peace in Israel, Lord.
We ask for the fighting to stop.
We ask for them, most of all, both sides,
Lord,
to come to saving faith in your son.
That is really the only way
that peace can be had, Lord,
and that we await your
son's return where justice
will be restored.
We love you.
We honor you with all that
we have and all that we do.
It's in the mighty name of
Jesus that we ask all things.
Amen.
All right, my friends.
Everybody's praying for Jan.
Lisa says,
never call a woman Karen unless
that's her actual name.
Sorry about that.
So true.
That's a delayed reaction on Lisa's part.
It might not have been.
Sometimes it takes a while
to get through for some reason.
All right, my friends.
We love you guys.
God bless.
Bye.