WEBVTT - Hour 1: Keeping Our Eyes Open 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:02.800 Hi friend, thank you so much for downloading this podcast 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:06.920 and I truly hope you hear something that edifies encourage, equips, enlightens, 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.520 and then gets you out there in the marketplace of ideas. 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:11.440 But before you go, I want to tell you about 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:14.680 this month's truth tool. It's called Have You Ever Wondered? 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:17.720 And I absolutely love this topic because if you're like me, 0:00:17.720 --> 0:00:19.600 going out into the night sky and looking up and 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.439 seeing a million stars, don't you just stop and think 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.560 about God? 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Hi, friends. 0:02:22.070 --> 0:02:24.670 Welcome to In the Market with Janet Parshall. A very 0:02:24.710 --> 0:02:27.390 happy Friday to you. And if you're counting these things, 0:02:27.389 --> 0:02:31.190 today is the official first day of summer, and it 0:02:31.190 --> 0:02:34.030 is the longest day of the year. Hey, look, if 0:02:34.030 --> 0:02:35.870 it's got to be long day, it should be a Friday, right? 0:02:35.870 --> 0:02:37.710 Because we're about to go to a weekend, so I 0:02:37.710 --> 0:02:40.510 think that's great. We have so much news to talk about. 0:02:40.510 --> 0:02:43.510 And when I do say we, I'm not interpreting Queen Victoria, 0:02:43.510 --> 0:02:47.510 who always spoke in plural pronouns before pronouns were a thing. 0:02:47.550 --> 0:02:50.109 I'm saying it because Craig Partial is with me as 0:02:50.110 --> 0:02:53.030 he is on Fridays, and today is particularly important because 0:02:53.030 --> 0:02:56.070 he brings not a width and depth and broad knowledge 0:02:56.070 --> 0:03:00.010 of the United States Constitution and American jurisprudence. But I 0:03:00.050 --> 0:03:03.210 would say that his knowledge of the word, that precious 0:03:03.210 --> 0:03:07.170 word that changes everything. Well, his knowledge is much greater 0:03:07.169 --> 0:03:09.090 in that area as well. So he's just the perfect 0:03:09.090 --> 0:03:11.530 person to have on these Friday conversations. Because what we 0:03:11.530 --> 0:03:13.210 do is this we take a look at what they're 0:03:13.210 --> 0:03:15.850 selling in the marketplace. A lot of this stuff really 0:03:15.850 --> 0:03:18.770 good truth with a capital T, a boatload of stuff 0:03:18.770 --> 0:03:23.370 that's shabby goods. Okay. Makeup. Makeup. Makeup ideas. Fake ideas. 0:03:23.370 --> 0:03:27.169 Counterfeit ideas. Vain and hollow philosophies. Don't you love that? 0:03:27.370 --> 0:03:29.010 Love the language of the word that comes. I wish 0:03:29.010 --> 0:03:30.810 I'd come up with that myself. I didn't, but I 0:03:30.850 --> 0:03:32.970 borrowed it from a better place. Comes right out of 0:03:32.970 --> 0:03:34.690 the book of Colossians. And so we take a look 0:03:34.690 --> 0:03:37.170 at some of those vain and hollow philosophies. Why? Because 0:03:37.170 --> 0:03:39.730 we're growing up. We're going to get some spiritual heft 0:03:39.730 --> 0:03:42.010 on our bones. We're going to get off that diet 0:03:42.050 --> 0:03:44.210 of milk, moved to a diet of meat. Know what 0:03:44.210 --> 0:03:46.530 we believe, why we believe it, and then better contend 0:03:46.530 --> 0:03:48.970 for the faith. Can I get an amen? Thank you. 0:03:49.210 --> 0:03:50.890 And if you look at the headlines around us, I 0:03:50.890 --> 0:03:53.850 think the time for mature saints willing to suit up 0:03:53.850 --> 0:03:56.180 and get up and get out and influence and occupy 0:03:56.180 --> 0:03:59.340 until he comes is now. Now more than ever before. 0:03:59.340 --> 0:04:02.140 So put your seatbelts on. Keep your hand inside the 0:04:02.140 --> 0:04:04.660 ride at all times, because we are going to go 0:04:04.660 --> 0:04:07.260 round robin on a whole bunch of topics, including a big, 0:04:07.260 --> 0:04:09.820 I mean biggie that came down from the United States 0:04:09.820 --> 0:04:12.380 Supreme Court earlier this week in a case entitled The 0:04:12.380 --> 0:04:15.220 United States versus Skrmetti. I turn now to my great 0:04:15.220 --> 0:04:17.860 friends at CBN news. They put together a great package 0:04:17.860 --> 0:04:19.660 that serves as a summary. Have a listen. 0:04:19.860 --> 0:04:25.020 In A63 decision, conservative justices ruled in favor of Tennessee's 0:04:25.020 --> 0:04:30.099 ban on health care workers providing transgender procedures to minors, 0:04:30.100 --> 0:04:33.979 such as hormone injections and puberty blockers, in an effort 0:04:33.980 --> 0:04:38.380 to change a teenager's sex. Those who wanted the Tennessee 0:04:38.420 --> 0:04:42.820 law struck down argued it violated the constitutional right to 0:04:42.860 --> 0:04:48.219 equal protection by discriminating against transgender people in denying them 0:04:48.220 --> 0:04:51.980 certain medical care. But Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for 0:04:51.980 --> 0:04:55.640 the majority, said it does not violate the equal protection 0:04:55.640 --> 0:05:00.520 guarantee of the 14th Amendment. However, in her dissent, Justice 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:07.000 Sonia Sotomayor said the ruling authorizes untold harm to transgender children. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:08.960 The Supreme Court looked at the Science. 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.520 Alliance defending Freedom helped Tennessee's defense. 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.400 They did point to the studies coming out of England 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:17.760 and even some things here in the United States showing 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.800 the harm that these drugs and surgeries do. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:25.839 The ruling reinforces similar bans on transgender procedures in 26 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.000 other states. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:30.320 This means that the two dozen states that have put 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:33.000 in these kind of bans are safe now from any 0:05:33.000 --> 0:05:37.240 kind of challenges. So when it comes to minors, this 0:05:37.240 --> 0:05:38.279 issue is settled. 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:41.800 The high court's ruling signals a significant setback to the 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:46.400 transgender movement, and comes as the Trump administration seeks to 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:51.200 ban transgender people from female sports and the military, while 0:05:51.380 --> 0:05:56.339 defining the sexes as only male and female. Lorie Johnson, 0:05:56.339 --> 0:05:57.500 CBN news. 0:05:58.020 --> 0:06:00.180 Like I said, it's a biggie. Now I've got some 0:06:00.180 --> 0:06:01.979 more I want to fold into this. I want you 0:06:01.980 --> 0:06:03.979 to hear some of the things that were said from 0:06:03.980 --> 0:06:06.339 the High Court. And then I want you to hear 0:06:06.339 --> 0:06:09.500 a confused parent who's been taken captive by vain and 0:06:09.500 --> 0:06:12.180 hollow philosophies predicated on this world, rather than on the 0:06:12.180 --> 0:06:14.620 Word of God. But Craig. Okay. There were so many 0:06:14.620 --> 0:06:16.700 things in that CBN package that I want to pull 0:06:16.700 --> 0:06:19.300 out to let our friends understand why we're celebrating this 0:06:19.300 --> 0:06:21.779 decision from the High Court. First of all, thank you God. 0:06:21.779 --> 0:06:24.500 It was six three. I'd love A90. But there were 0:06:24.500 --> 0:06:28.660 three female justices who were in the minority and said no, 0:06:28.660 --> 0:06:31.700 they made up the three, which is very interesting. But 0:06:31.700 --> 0:06:34.900 also what we heard was that 26 states have been 0:06:34.900 --> 0:06:36.740 dealing with this. So when people hear a case that 0:06:36.740 --> 0:06:39.020 comes out of Tennessee, one of the first questions they 0:06:39.020 --> 0:06:41.420 have is, okay, well, does the ruling just affect the 0:06:41.420 --> 0:06:43.140 people who live in the state of Tennessee? 0:06:43.180 --> 0:06:46.380 No, this is national. It's national in the sense that 0:06:46.380 --> 0:06:50.710 if a state passes a an An identical or similar. 0:06:50.710 --> 0:06:56.350 And by the way, those other states used very similar language, 0:06:56.390 --> 0:07:00.510 similar provisions in their statutes than Tennessee did. So that's 0:07:00.510 --> 0:07:05.550 why it was a big win, in my humble opinion, 0:07:05.550 --> 0:07:12.310 for rational legislation dealing with this burgeoning movement to subject 0:07:12.310 --> 0:07:16.470 children to these mutilating procedures and also hormone therapies that 0:07:16.470 --> 0:07:20.150 can cause permanent damage. Um, what the Supreme Court said 0:07:20.150 --> 0:07:24.790 was very important. First of all, they they approached it, uh, 0:07:24.790 --> 0:07:29.470 from a preliminary, uh, aspect of how high a hurdle 0:07:29.710 --> 0:07:33.230 are we going to set for states that want to legislate? 0:07:33.230 --> 0:07:36.670 And that's an important issue. Uh, I would I enjoyed 0:07:36.670 --> 0:07:39.270 my time as a member of the high school track team, 0:07:39.270 --> 0:07:42.070 and I remember and I didn't run hurdles, but there 0:07:42.070 --> 0:07:45.310 were high hurdles and low hurdles. Uh, and low hurdles 0:07:45.310 --> 0:07:48.970 mean you can get over faster left less, uh, energy, 0:07:48.970 --> 0:07:53.490 less of a requirement to jump over a higher amount 0:07:53.490 --> 0:07:58.370 than a high hurdle. So the original question was, was 0:07:58.370 --> 0:08:01.410 this a high hurdle or a low hurdle bar that 0:08:01.410 --> 0:08:04.170 we're going to set for states that want to regulate? Now, 0:08:04.530 --> 0:08:07.410 the other side, represented by the United States government at 0:08:07.410 --> 0:08:11.730 the time, under the Biden administration, they accepted this case 0:08:11.730 --> 0:08:15.810 that originally was some plaintiffs, some parents and children. Um, 0:08:16.130 --> 0:08:19.610 but the United States, uh, was asked to intervene. They did, 0:08:19.650 --> 0:08:23.250 and they took over the case and argued it vehemently that, 0:08:23.250 --> 0:08:25.770 in fact, there ought to be a high bar, uh, 0:08:25.770 --> 0:08:28.890 that any legislation should cross. And by the way, they argued, 0:08:28.890 --> 0:08:30.650 and it can't get over that high bar. Now, the 0:08:30.650 --> 0:08:32.610 Supreme Court said a low bar. And here's the reason 0:08:32.610 --> 0:08:37.170 why a low bar works for almost all state legislation 0:08:37.170 --> 0:08:41.730 of any kind, unless it's discriminatory in the sense that 0:08:41.730 --> 0:08:45.290 it violates fundamental rights. We'll talk about that in a 0:08:45.290 --> 0:08:47.260 couple of minutes. What a fundamental right is. But there 0:08:47.260 --> 0:08:50.579 are only a handful of fundamental constitutional rights. And if 0:08:50.620 --> 0:08:53.740 you impair those, well, then you better have a high 0:08:53.740 --> 0:08:58.420 bar to justify your legislation. The other aspect is that 0:08:58.620 --> 0:09:06.940 if a law impacts negatively on protected classes of individuals 0:09:06.940 --> 0:09:11.860 like race or religion, national origin and so forth, then 0:09:11.900 --> 0:09:15.540 it has to meet a high bar. But the court said, no, 0:09:15.780 --> 0:09:18.660 it doesn't deal with those categories. Let's use the low 0:09:18.660 --> 0:09:21.540 bar and analyze it under that kind of scrutiny. 0:09:21.580 --> 0:09:23.340 Okay. And there's more that I know you want to 0:09:23.340 --> 0:09:26.540 talk about. Again, this is a very significant case. And 0:09:26.540 --> 0:09:28.860 once again, one has to hope and pray that maybe 0:09:28.860 --> 0:09:31.620 this is the pendulum of the culture rectifying itself from 0:09:31.620 --> 0:09:35.660 this bizarre blind. And I do mean spiritually blind adherence 0:09:35.660 --> 0:09:38.939 to the ideology of transgenderism. Back to common sense. We're 0:09:38.940 --> 0:09:41.140 going to give you more on the USV Skrmetti case 0:09:41.140 --> 0:09:44.059 that got handed down six three this week. Everybody within 0:09:44.059 --> 0:09:45.280 the sound of my voice. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:45.960 Were all. 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.480 Under the umbrella of this protection. Now. Back after. 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:48.840 This. 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.440 God uses so much in the world around us to 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.000 point to him. Our sense of wonder is really about 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.920 knowing him. That's why I've chosen. Have you ever wondered, 0:10:08.920 --> 0:10:11.000 as this month's Truth Tool? This book is for all 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.160 who have looked up at a million stars in the 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:16.200 night sky and just wondered. As for your copy of 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:17.920 have you ever wondered when you give a gift of 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:21.440 any amount to in the market, call eight 7758. That's 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:25.480 eight 7758 or go to in the market with Janet Parshall. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.400 This is in the market with Janet Parshall. Craig Parshall 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:32.200 is with me as he is on Friday. And we 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.079 take a look at some of the stories making headlines. 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:35.839 But we got a pair of glasses on. It's the 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:38.600 lens of Scripture, and we're taking a look at the 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:42.000 world around us, starting with this. Thank you Lord. Majorly 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:46.180 important decision handed down mid-week this week, 6 to 3 U.S. 0:10:46.220 --> 0:10:49.900 versus Skrmetti. And it said that the Tennessee law doesn't 0:10:49.900 --> 0:10:54.020 violate the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause. It was the 0:10:54.020 --> 0:10:58.660 Tennessee Attorney General, Jonathan Skrmetti, hence the name that defended 0:10:58.660 --> 0:11:01.540 the law before the High Court in December, saying it 0:11:01.540 --> 0:11:04.820 was a matter of, quote, protecting kids from the consequences 0:11:04.820 --> 0:11:09.020 of decisions they cannot fully understand. Now, even if you 0:11:09.020 --> 0:11:11.100 have just a passing interest in what the courts do, 0:11:11.100 --> 0:11:13.340 you have to understand that the 14th amendment has kind 0:11:13.340 --> 0:11:17.260 of become a dumping site for a lot of cases, 0:11:17.260 --> 0:11:20.820 because some people don't understand what the 14th amendment means. 0:11:20.820 --> 0:11:24.140 Some judges think it's elastic. Some judges think that if 0:11:24.140 --> 0:11:26.579 they really can't get clarity, they'll just pull everything out 0:11:26.580 --> 0:11:28.300 of the, quote, equal protection. Let me give you a 0:11:28.300 --> 0:11:31.660 classic example of this. So one of the dissenting judges, 0:11:31.660 --> 0:11:35.059 and as I noted before, all three were women Kagan, 0:11:35.059 --> 0:11:40.100 Sotomayor and Justice Jackson. When oral arguments were taking place, 0:11:40.260 --> 0:11:42.790 she made a very interesting and I'll give you a hint. 0:11:42.790 --> 0:11:47.550 Very flawed comparison of sex changes for kids as being 0:11:47.550 --> 0:11:51.310 the equivalent of banning interracial marriages. Have a listen. 0:11:51.350 --> 0:11:55.429 The question was whether it was discriminatory because it applied 0:11:55.429 --> 0:11:59.630 to both races, and it wasn't necessarily invidious or whatever. But, 0:11:59.670 --> 0:12:02.350 you know, as I read the statute here, the excuse me, 0:12:02.350 --> 0:12:05.190 the case here, um, you know, the court starts off 0:12:05.190 --> 0:12:07.630 by saying that Virginia is now one of 16 states 0:12:07.630 --> 0:12:11.750 which prohibit and punish marriages on the basis of racial classifications. 0:12:11.750 --> 0:12:14.150 And when you look at the structure of that law, 0:12:14.190 --> 0:12:16.750 it looks in terms of, you know, you can't do 0:12:16.750 --> 0:12:20.390 something that is inconsistent with your own characteristics. It's sort 0:12:20.390 --> 0:12:22.950 of the same thing. So it's interesting to me that 0:12:22.950 --> 0:12:25.070 we now have this different argument, and I wonder whether 0:12:25.070 --> 0:12:28.750 Virginia could have gotten away with what they did here 0:12:28.910 --> 0:12:33.470 by just making a classification argument the way that Tennessee 0:12:33.470 --> 0:12:34.510 is in this case. 0:12:35.429 --> 0:12:38.309 Now she's referring to the famous loving case that came 0:12:38.309 --> 0:12:40.110 out of the state of Virginia that dealt with the 0:12:40.210 --> 0:12:42.850 idea about a black man or, excuse me, a white 0:12:42.850 --> 0:12:45.170 man and a black woman being married. And whether or 0:12:45.170 --> 0:12:49.250 not that was prejudicial and wrong under the Equal Protection 0:12:49.250 --> 0:12:51.810 clause of the 14th Amendment. But it also, if you 0:12:51.809 --> 0:12:53.689 picked up on what she was just saying, goes back 0:12:53.690 --> 0:12:55.490 to what Craig was saying in our first segment together, 0:12:55.490 --> 0:12:59.090 which is this idea of kind of groups and protected categories. So, 0:12:59.610 --> 0:13:02.250 you know, it's apples and skyscrapers here, Craig. Again, this 0:13:02.250 --> 0:13:03.730 is why I say it's kind of a dumping site 0:13:03.770 --> 0:13:05.890 now with the 14th amendment, because that's all you have 0:13:05.890 --> 0:13:08.089 to say. Say it's not equal protection. Wait a minute. 0:13:08.250 --> 0:13:11.930 What Tennessee was arguing was you have to protect kids 0:13:11.929 --> 0:13:14.209 who can't make decisions for themselves. I don't know what 0:13:14.210 --> 0:13:16.770 that has to do with interracial marriage. So take that apart. 0:13:16.770 --> 0:13:20.689 For us. There's no relationship whatsoever between loving versus Virginia 0:13:21.090 --> 0:13:25.530 and this case. Uh, in skrmetti, the state of Tennessee 0:13:25.530 --> 0:13:30.050 was saying, look, uh, the at best, the evidence is 0:13:30.050 --> 0:13:35.410 hotly debated and, and very divisive of, of two different 0:13:35.410 --> 0:13:39.670 groups saying whether or not, uh, this gender affirming care, 0:13:39.710 --> 0:13:43.910 so-called is in fact child abuse and doesn't work and 0:13:43.950 --> 0:13:47.550 is regretted by the child later on. Um, and the 0:13:47.550 --> 0:13:50.869 science is lacking in it. So there's the big contest 0:13:50.870 --> 0:13:54.550 on this, um, as to whether or not a child 0:13:54.550 --> 0:13:57.030 really ought to be subjected to this as a form 0:13:57.030 --> 0:13:58.790 of child abuse. And by the way, states have a 0:13:58.790 --> 0:14:01.829 constitutional right, because whatever rights are not granted by the 0:14:01.830 --> 0:14:05.270 federal government, by the Constitution, to the federal government, are 0:14:05.270 --> 0:14:07.310 reserved to the states and to the people. So the 0:14:07.309 --> 0:14:11.310 states have what we call police power. Um, child welfare 0:14:11.309 --> 0:14:16.910 is a is a penultimate, uh, area of a state's 0:14:16.910 --> 0:14:22.430 interest to protect. So, uh, the evidence simply didn't support it. 0:14:22.430 --> 0:14:27.150 But two adults, first of all, marrying each other with 0:14:27.150 --> 0:14:32.270 different races. What possible correlation that could have to a 0:14:32.270 --> 0:14:38.080 minor being subjected to a controversial and sometimes irreversible treatment 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:43.200 based on a mental condition of the child, not a 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:48.360 consultant consenting adult, but something that a child, a minor 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:53.560 says is in their mindset about how they feel about 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.800 their gender. Not only is one that is loving versus 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:01.680 Virginia an objective test? Are they adults? Are they a 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:06.400 different races? They should have equal protection. Isn't it adult? No, 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:10.440 it's a child. Uh, are we talking about, uh, an 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:15.880 adult decision about marriage or that kind of an institutional decision? No, 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.960 we're talking about medical care that's hotly divided in terms 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:23.000 of the camps and potentially harmful and based on an 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.200 emotional problem. Uh, gender dysphoria. 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:26.760 Yeah. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.520 Well, let me. I was talking about vein and hollow philosophies. 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.720 I want you to hear a dad who, in fact, 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:35.000 he's an Illinois dad, and he claims that his child 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.260 was two and a half years old. When they knew. 0:15:37.660 --> 0:15:41.060 When this child knew. I think he was a boy. 0:15:41.140 --> 0:15:43.420 Defined defining himself as a girl now. But either way, 0:15:43.420 --> 0:15:45.980 the point is this particular child at two and a half, 0:15:45.980 --> 0:15:47.820 two and a half. Now think if you've had children, 0:15:47.820 --> 0:15:49.780 remember where your child was at two and a half. 0:15:49.780 --> 0:15:50.700 Listen to this, dad. 0:15:50.900 --> 0:15:53.900 Most trans kids know that they're trans between the ages 0:15:53.900 --> 0:15:57.860 of three and seven. My daughter knew around two and 0:15:57.860 --> 0:16:01.940 a half. She knew. I didn't. I often tell my 0:16:01.940 --> 0:16:04.620 kids that I'm not smarter than you. I just know 0:16:04.620 --> 0:16:07.740 different things and the things that our kids know that 0:16:07.740 --> 0:16:09.860 we don't. Those are the things that make all the 0:16:09.860 --> 0:16:12.300 difference and the ones we should really listen to. My 0:16:12.300 --> 0:16:16.260 child is not mentally ill. To begin gender affirming care, 0:16:16.260 --> 0:16:18.780 she had to speak to more health care professionals than 0:16:18.820 --> 0:16:20.900 probably anyone in this room ever has. 0:16:22.380 --> 0:16:24.980 Well, no, dad, you do know more things than your child. 0:16:24.980 --> 0:16:28.180 That's why you're the dad. That's why your son is 0:16:28.180 --> 0:16:31.180 your son. And so I think it's important we understand that. But, see, 0:16:31.180 --> 0:16:33.740 this is an example of what it means biblically to 0:16:33.740 --> 0:16:36.430 be caught by vain and hollow philosophies. No. Two and 0:16:36.430 --> 0:16:39.190 a half child, Craig, are kids at two and a half. 0:16:39.230 --> 0:16:41.390 I'm not sure. Well, I can tell you definitively they 0:16:41.390 --> 0:16:44.510 didn't know their alphabet. They couldn't read. They didn't know 0:16:44.550 --> 0:16:47.950 the colors shapes we were working on. But to say 0:16:47.950 --> 0:16:50.230 I'm trapped in the wrong body, I would have thought 0:16:50.230 --> 0:16:52.390 that an alien had moved into our house at that point, 0:16:52.390 --> 0:16:55.230 because it was beyond the realm of understanding of an 0:16:55.470 --> 0:16:57.190 average two and a half year old. So when these 0:16:57.190 --> 0:16:59.150 parents and it's so many, because a lot of them 0:16:59.150 --> 0:17:01.150 were standing outside the steps of the Supreme Court on 0:17:01.150 --> 0:17:03.550 the day the decision was handed down, and there were 0:17:03.550 --> 0:17:05.909 parents of and my heart breaks for these parents, by 0:17:05.910 --> 0:17:07.670 the way, who were saying, my child knew. One woman 0:17:07.670 --> 0:17:10.510 said from birth, really? Did your child talk at birth? 0:17:10.510 --> 0:17:13.790 Because I think there's a bigger problem there. So we've got, again, 0:17:13.790 --> 0:17:17.630 these parents who are downstream of this deadly I'm going 0:17:17.670 --> 0:17:22.070 to be bold, demonic ideology and they are taken captive. 0:17:22.070 --> 0:17:25.270 And the sadder part is, while they're taking captive, their 0:17:25.270 --> 0:17:29.310 children become irreparably damaged from people who understand that there's 0:17:29.310 --> 0:17:31.910 a lot of money to be made. And an ideology 0:17:31.910 --> 0:17:35.170 like this, which has, by the way, at its roots course. 0:17:35.570 --> 0:17:38.729 A lot of ties into Marxist-leninism. If you begin to 0:17:38.730 --> 0:17:40.570 see all of this, it's the children who become the 0:17:40.570 --> 0:17:44.250 pawns in this very ugly game of cultural clash. More 0:17:44.250 --> 0:18:00.170 right after this. We're going to spend just a couple 0:18:00.170 --> 0:18:03.930 more minutes on this significant decision, handed down six three 0:18:03.930 --> 0:18:06.129 by the United States Supreme Court this week, the United 0:18:06.130 --> 0:18:09.450 States versus Skrmetti. You have to understand that this is 0:18:09.490 --> 0:18:11.810 a case that came out of the state of Tennessee 0:18:11.810 --> 0:18:14.770 based on a law there. And as a result of 0:18:14.770 --> 0:18:19.490 this decision, it extends also to 26 similar bills passed 0:18:19.490 --> 0:18:21.970 in other states. Now, just put your thinking cap on 0:18:21.970 --> 0:18:24.290 for a minute. If the decision had gone the other way, 0:18:24.490 --> 0:18:27.530 that would have meant in those 26 states plus Tennessee, 0:18:27.730 --> 0:18:29.570 all of those bills would have been wiped out. And 0:18:29.570 --> 0:18:31.750 that just sounds like a lot of legal jargon. Black 0:18:31.750 --> 0:18:33.990 ink on white paper, high falutin stuff at the court. 0:18:33.990 --> 0:18:36.750 But you need to translate that into the lives of children. 0:18:36.750 --> 0:18:41.310 Children who would have been irreparably damaged mentally, emotionally, spiritually, 0:18:41.310 --> 0:18:45.270 physically as a result of this wicked, wicked ideology. This 0:18:45.270 --> 0:18:48.590 is a spiritually. It's a rebellion against God. God doesn't 0:18:48.590 --> 0:18:50.670 make mistakes. He doesn't put you in the wrong body. 0:18:50.869 --> 0:18:53.830 It is, for whatever reason, a part of this whole 0:18:53.869 --> 0:18:56.030 rebellion that we're going through as a culture right now. 0:18:56.030 --> 0:18:59.110 We're in our hubris and arrogance. We're having a Nimrod 0:18:59.150 --> 0:19:02.270 kind of moment where we're raising our fists figuratively toward 0:19:02.270 --> 0:19:05.070 God and telling him he's wrong. I mean, you know, 0:19:05.109 --> 0:19:07.310 be careful. You know, God is not mocked. But the 0:19:07.310 --> 0:19:09.670 bottom line is there are broken people who are being 0:19:09.670 --> 0:19:11.590 manipulated in the midst of all of this. So here's 0:19:11.590 --> 0:19:14.110 what Chief Justice John Roberts said. He wrote the majority 0:19:14.109 --> 0:19:16.870 opinion and he said this case carries with it the 0:19:16.869 --> 0:19:22.390 weight of fierce scientific and policy debates about the safety, safety, 0:19:22.430 --> 0:19:26.350 efficacy and propriety of medical treatments in an evolving field. 0:19:26.350 --> 0:19:29.520 Our role is only to ensure that it does not 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.879 violate the equal protection guarantee of the 14th Amendment, having 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:35.960 concluded it does not. We now leave questions regarding its 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:41.040 policy to the people, their elected representatives and the democratic process. So, 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:43.680 and they acknowledge the fact that they weren't doctors, they 0:19:43.680 --> 0:19:46.680 just looked at whether or not legally, this fell under 0:19:46.680 --> 0:19:49.560 the canopy of protection of the 14th amendment. And they decided, no, 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:53.040 it does not. Justice Thomas ended his concurrence in Skrmetti 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:56.240 with a final salvo. Experts, we should point out, are 0:19:56.240 --> 0:19:59.000 not always correct. Remember, a lot of the information that 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.760 the support of this ideology comes from a group called warpath. 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.919 It's made up of transgenders. So it's like the fox 0:20:05.920 --> 0:20:08.840 guarding the chicken house. They've already reached their conclusion before they, quote, 0:20:08.840 --> 0:20:11.600 put out their research, which is scant, not peer reviewed, 0:20:11.600 --> 0:20:15.120 sloppily done, but it's a juggernaut of ideology. And so 0:20:15.119 --> 0:20:18.240 it becomes an easy sort of third source site when 0:20:18.240 --> 0:20:20.640 you're promoting this kind of stuff as a defense for 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.720 this wicked ideology. And I have to tell you that 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:27.240 parents live and breathe gender ideology, who live and breathe 0:20:27.240 --> 0:20:30.580 this business know it better than anybody else, and they 0:20:30.580 --> 0:20:32.939 understand what's going on in their child's life. Which is 0:20:32.940 --> 0:20:35.420 why when you get states like California who draw a 0:20:35.460 --> 0:20:38.820 wedge between mom and dad and the school, it's just 0:20:38.820 --> 0:20:41.220 it's evil, very evil. So here's what he said. The 0:20:41.220 --> 0:20:44.100 court today reserves to the people their elected representatives and 0:20:44.100 --> 0:20:47.900 the democratic process, paralleling Roberts's language, the power to decide 0:20:47.900 --> 0:20:51.420 how to best to address, how best to address an 0:20:51.420 --> 0:20:56.100 area of medical uncertainty and extraordinary importance. That's sovereign prerogative, 0:20:56.140 --> 0:21:00.899 does not bow to major medical organizations. Experts and elites 0:21:00.900 --> 0:21:03.340 have been wrong before, and they may prove to be 0:21:03.340 --> 0:21:05.580 wrong again. And then he has a bunch of legal 0:21:05.580 --> 0:21:07.980 sightings to support that. It's a brilliant point by Thomas, 0:21:07.980 --> 0:21:10.860 in other words. In fact, it was interesting. We were 0:21:10.859 --> 0:21:14.580 talking in the Covid age. One of the things that 0:21:14.580 --> 0:21:15.659 came out of that, and I think it was my 0:21:15.660 --> 0:21:17.979 conversation with Rod Dreher, who said, one of the outcomes 0:21:17.980 --> 0:21:19.860 of that is what we've got now, the cult of 0:21:19.859 --> 0:21:23.740 the experts. So somebody mostly self-appointed, calls himself an expert. 0:21:23.740 --> 0:21:25.540 And then we don't question, we don't push back, because 0:21:25.540 --> 0:21:28.270 after all, you're an expert. Well, I got news for you, 0:21:28.310 --> 0:21:31.670 mom and dad. You're an expert. You were not elected 0:21:31.670 --> 0:21:35.030 to the position of mother and father. You were divinely appointed. 0:21:35.230 --> 0:21:37.750 And if you've got God's guiding light in his word 0:21:37.750 --> 0:21:39.590 in front of you, and your child comes home and says, 0:21:39.590 --> 0:21:41.949 I think I'm in the wrong body. It's time to 0:21:41.950 --> 0:21:44.870 get on your knees and have some very long conversations 0:21:44.869 --> 0:21:47.670 with the child, with each other, most importantly with the Lord. 0:21:47.670 --> 0:21:50.310 And to find a good Christian counselor to figure out 0:21:50.310 --> 0:21:53.550 why that delusion has take up residency in the heart 0:21:53.550 --> 0:21:56.230 and mind of their child. So that's the parent part 0:21:56.230 --> 0:21:58.109 of this. But again, the legal part of this is 0:21:58.109 --> 0:22:00.710 I'm so glad that what the justices didn't do is 0:22:00.710 --> 0:22:01.470 play doctor. 0:22:02.109 --> 0:22:05.270 Yeah. This battle of the experts, I can tell you, 0:22:05.310 --> 0:22:08.109 you know, after spending most of my career as a 0:22:08.109 --> 0:22:10.950 trial lawyer, you get in front of a jury and 0:22:10.950 --> 0:22:13.629 you have an expert witness. If the evidence calls or 0:22:13.630 --> 0:22:15.950 the facts, you know, require that you have an expert 0:22:15.950 --> 0:22:18.190 witness and the other side has their own expert, and 0:22:18.190 --> 0:22:21.510 the jury has to decide, as a matter of fact, 0:22:22.230 --> 0:22:27.770 which expert is more reliable. Which conclusion fits the facts 0:22:27.770 --> 0:22:31.050 in the case? But the Supreme Court role here is 0:22:31.050 --> 0:22:36.410 not to decide disputes between experts. Instead, the legislature for 0:22:36.410 --> 0:22:40.850 Tennessee had that right under the Constitution to make that decision. 0:22:40.850 --> 0:22:43.730 They were the jury in effect, because they were elected 0:22:43.730 --> 0:22:46.370 by the people of the state of Tennessee to make 0:22:46.369 --> 0:22:49.490 those kind of policy judgments. So the Supreme Court's role, 0:22:49.850 --> 0:22:54.290 by and large, is not to distinguish fact expert versus 0:22:54.290 --> 0:22:57.530 fact expert. Who's got more credentials? It's to say, what 0:22:57.530 --> 0:23:01.010 does the law say? And the law says unless you 0:23:01.010 --> 0:23:04.450 can show these narrow categories where the Equal Protection clause 0:23:04.450 --> 0:23:10.409 has been violated, suspect classification. No. Having a a mental 0:23:10.410 --> 0:23:15.169 intention that you're in the wrong body is nowhere in 0:23:15.170 --> 0:23:18.609 any of the jurisprudence of the Supreme Court. In fact, 0:23:18.650 --> 0:23:23.590 they're one of the cases, the Claiborne Case that was 0:23:23.590 --> 0:23:25.629 cited in the brief I filed. And a lot of 0:23:25.630 --> 0:23:31.350 other lawyers, uh, said that a mental condition doesn't qualify 0:23:31.550 --> 0:23:34.830 as an equal protection suspect classification. So take that off 0:23:34.830 --> 0:23:38.790 the list. Were they targeting trans people? No. What they 0:23:38.790 --> 0:23:41.350 were doing is saying, look, it is our job to 0:23:41.390 --> 0:23:45.230 protect children. Now, by the way, the primary job for 0:23:45.230 --> 0:23:48.830 protecting children belongs to the family, belongs to the parent. 0:23:48.830 --> 0:23:52.550 But the state steps in when when there's evidence of 0:23:52.550 --> 0:23:55.270 neglect or abuse of a child, then the state has 0:23:55.270 --> 0:23:59.350 what's called parens patriae authority. That is to say, we're 0:23:59.390 --> 0:24:01.629 the substitute parent. If the parents can't do it or 0:24:01.630 --> 0:24:04.629 the family refuses to do it, or they're, you know, 0:24:05.150 --> 0:24:10.869 tricked into this fantasy of this delusion about transgender ideology 0:24:10.869 --> 0:24:13.270 for some 13 or 14 year old, then the state's 0:24:13.310 --> 0:24:16.190 going to step in and stop this harm from happening. 0:24:16.190 --> 0:24:17.630 And that's what they did here in Tennessee. 0:24:17.630 --> 0:24:20.869 So to all those moms and dads who understood after 0:24:20.869 --> 0:24:23.000 a long day that going to a school board meeting 0:24:23.000 --> 0:24:24.879 was not their favorite thing to do, but did it 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:27.480 because you were looking well to the ways of your household. 0:24:27.800 --> 0:24:30.560 Good for you. You are the unsung heroes of the 0:24:30.560 --> 0:24:33.399 culture today because you are doing just that. You're fighting 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:35.560 for your families. And the words of Nehemiah, when you 0:24:35.560 --> 0:24:38.919 hear the sound of that trumpet, you fight for your families. 0:24:38.920 --> 0:24:41.159 That's what you've been doing in this six three decision 0:24:41.160 --> 0:24:43.479 this week. Is the pat on your back for the 0:24:43.480 --> 0:24:45.960 good work that you've done for staying the course and 0:24:45.960 --> 0:24:49.600 sometimes swimming upstream with the culture, but you listen to 0:24:49.640 --> 0:24:52.640 that sweeter, stiller, more powerful voice. Good for you. Back 0:24:52.640 --> 0:25:01.200 after this. Are you the sort of person who likes 0:25:01.200 --> 0:25:04.080 to have the inside scoop? Who wants to be informed? 0:25:04.080 --> 0:25:06.200 When you become a partial partner, you're not only keeping 0:25:06.200 --> 0:25:08.879 this program on the air every weekday, you'll also receive 0:25:08.880 --> 0:25:12.119 exclusive benefits like personal emails from me. I'll help you 0:25:12.119 --> 0:25:15.040 learn how to look at the headlines with a biblical perspective. 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:19.760 Become a partial partner today by calling eight 7758 or 0:25:20.060 --> 0:25:23.580 go online to. In the market with Janet Parshall. Oh. 0:25:25.740 --> 0:25:29.700 So there's an old argument and it could say twisted argument, 0:25:29.700 --> 0:25:31.580 by the way, that says that somehow that faith and 0:25:31.580 --> 0:25:33.620 reason are at war with one another, or put in 0:25:33.660 --> 0:25:37.540 more common parlance, that science and religion are at odds 0:25:37.540 --> 0:25:39.540 that you either are a person of faith or you 0:25:39.540 --> 0:25:41.980 are a person of reason, but the two are mutually exclusive, 0:25:41.980 --> 0:25:45.100 I would say. AU contraire. In fact, the history of 0:25:45.100 --> 0:25:47.260 science in the world tells us some of the greatest 0:25:47.260 --> 0:25:49.820 scientists in the world were those who very much believed 0:25:49.820 --> 0:25:53.620 that God was there, putting things in order, offering form 0:25:53.619 --> 0:25:56.380 and substance and reason. What I want to give you 0:25:56.380 --> 0:25:58.859 a more recent bit of evidence. If I were pleading 0:25:58.859 --> 0:26:01.460 my case that there is no conflict there. I want 0:26:01.500 --> 0:26:04.219 to introduce you to a man by the name of, 0:26:04.260 --> 0:26:07.540 and I'm going to quote it now Jung Hoon Kim. 0:26:07.900 --> 0:26:10.780 He is from South Korea, and he happens to have 0:26:10.780 --> 0:26:15.100 the world's highest IQ. That has been confirmed by a 0:26:15.100 --> 0:26:18.140 group that does this. He's the official world record holder. 0:26:18.270 --> 0:26:23.710 His IQ is two 276. Now, most people think they're 0:26:23.710 --> 0:26:29.710 doing good if they're around 119, 110, 115, 276. He 0:26:29.710 --> 0:26:34.070 is the founder of Neuro Story, and he is a 0:26:34.070 --> 0:26:37.830 person who has just made a profound announcement on his 0:26:37.869 --> 0:26:41.590 X platform, and I am quoting it as the world's 0:26:41.590 --> 0:26:46.190 highest IQ holder. I trust that Christianity offers the clearest 0:26:46.190 --> 0:26:50.590 way to understand and experience God. Through the teachings of Jesus, 0:26:50.590 --> 0:26:53.510 we can find the most complete and true knowledge of 0:26:53.510 --> 0:26:57.350 God who is love and salvation. Now I want you 0:26:57.350 --> 0:26:59.670 to hear because the Bible says, out of the overflow 0:26:59.670 --> 0:27:02.909 of the heart, the mouth speaks. Here is Jung Hoon 0:27:02.910 --> 0:27:07.709 Kim talking about quantum physics and how God used that 0:27:07.710 --> 0:27:09.950 in his life to bring him to the foot of 0:27:09.950 --> 0:27:10.909 the cross. Listen. 0:27:11.190 --> 0:27:14.870 In this video I would like to share my idea, 0:27:15.550 --> 0:27:22.370 my thoughts thought about afterlife. I think our consciousness continues 0:27:22.369 --> 0:27:29.570 beyond death. Definitely. Our consciousness is not just brain activity, 0:27:30.570 --> 0:27:36.730 but it is something deeper. I think you believe this. 0:27:37.369 --> 0:27:44.930 Science says that when the brain stops, then our consciousness disappears. 0:27:45.690 --> 0:27:51.530 You believe this now. But quantum physics says that information 0:27:51.530 --> 0:28:00.410 never disappears. Never. It only changes in forms. If our 0:28:00.410 --> 0:28:08.250 consciousness is quantum information, it may continue after the body 0:28:08.250 --> 0:28:15.830 is gone. For example, like computer data Are stored in 0:28:15.830 --> 0:28:21.990 the cloud. Our consciousness may not be trapped in the brain. 0:28:24.550 --> 0:28:30.470 Quantum entanglement suggests that our consciousness is part of a 0:28:30.510 --> 0:28:39.990 bigger system. Beyond the physical world. Some scientists and philosophers 0:28:40.190 --> 0:28:46.790 believe that our world may be a simulation created by 0:28:46.830 --> 0:28:54.230 a higher dimension of being, which I believe. If this 0:28:54.470 --> 0:29:01.550 is true, then the death is not the end, but 0:29:01.550 --> 0:29:07.990 a shift to another reality. Just like a video game 0:29:07.990 --> 0:29:17.680 character disappears, but the player still exists. Our consciousness may 0:29:17.720 --> 0:29:26.760 continue in a higher dimension like this. Many people with 0:29:27.480 --> 0:29:35.120 near death experience says they saw their bodies from above 0:29:35.480 --> 0:29:42.640 or felt warm light and the peace they felt. They 0:29:42.640 --> 0:29:49.160 say they felt warm light and peace. These experiences seem 0:29:49.160 --> 0:29:56.080 like moving from one system to another. I think so. 0:29:56.560 --> 0:30:02.360 If reality is part of something bigger, then death is 0:30:02.360 --> 0:30:09.440 not the end. But it is a transition shift to 0:30:09.480 --> 0:30:16.780 another reality. Science is growing now and we are learning 0:30:16.780 --> 0:30:23.380 more about consciousness and reality. Our death is not destruction, 0:30:23.820 --> 0:30:30.300 but change and shift. Humanity will keep searching for the 0:30:30.300 --> 0:30:34.780 truth about what comes after, after life. 0:30:38.020 --> 0:30:40.900 Mm. Well, I have to tell you, something's happening in 0:30:40.900 --> 0:30:44.060 the scientific community. Because this harkens back to a conversation 0:30:44.060 --> 0:30:47.420 I had June 3rd with Doctor Michael Egnor, who is 0:30:47.420 --> 0:30:50.420 a neuroscientist, and he wrote the book The Immortal Mind 0:30:50.700 --> 0:30:54.260 A Neurosurgeon's case for the existence of the soul. And 0:30:54.260 --> 0:30:58.420 what I find so interesting is that not unlike Mr. Kim, 0:30:58.980 --> 0:31:01.540 this man, this neuroscientist, and you can go back to 0:31:01.580 --> 0:31:04.060 wherever you find podcasts and download that episode again. It 0:31:04.060 --> 0:31:08.580 was on June 3rd. Doctor Michael ignore Egnor. He studied 0:31:08.580 --> 0:31:11.310 the brain. He's fascinated by the brain. And it is 0:31:11.310 --> 0:31:15.190 very much these near-death experiences that have captured his attention. 0:31:15.190 --> 0:31:18.110 So here is Mr. Kim, who's into quantum physics, by 0:31:18.110 --> 0:31:20.470 the way, who he realizes that when you have these 0:31:20.470 --> 0:31:22.950 near-death experiences and people are saying what they're saying, you 0:31:22.950 --> 0:31:25.390 can dismiss some of them. You can't dismiss all of them. 0:31:25.670 --> 0:31:27.710 Lee Strobel writes about this in his new book, The 0:31:27.710 --> 0:31:32.470 Case for the supernatural. And I find it interesting because 0:31:32.470 --> 0:31:34.990 it really harkens to the heart of God. It makes 0:31:34.990 --> 0:31:37.190 me actually get a lump in my throat when he 0:31:37.190 --> 0:31:40.190 makes the declaration that he's not willing that any should perish. 0:31:40.310 --> 0:31:44.390 I think God and his creativity and his absolutely unconditional 0:31:44.390 --> 0:31:48.230 love is using every means at his disposal, and he 0:31:48.230 --> 0:31:51.470 has every means at his disposal to draw people to him. 0:31:51.470 --> 0:31:53.630 So he pierces the mind of a of a man 0:31:53.630 --> 0:31:56.190 who's into quantum physics to talk about the fact that 0:31:56.510 --> 0:31:59.270 memory doesn't go away, it's stored, there's a shift, there's 0:31:59.310 --> 0:32:02.910 a new life. And like I said on his X site, uh, Mr. 0:32:02.910 --> 0:32:06.270 Kim said point blank. He said through the teachings of Jesus, 0:32:06.270 --> 0:32:08.630 we can find the most complete and true knowledge of 0:32:08.730 --> 0:32:11.010 God who is love and salvation. By the way, let 0:32:11.010 --> 0:32:13.650 the record reflect that Mr. Kim lives in South Korea, 0:32:13.650 --> 0:32:16.890 which is the largest evangelical church on planet Earth. So 0:32:16.890 --> 0:32:19.610 who knows if someone's been sharing the good news with him. 0:32:19.610 --> 0:32:21.650 But then you take Doctor Michael Egnor, who comes to 0:32:21.650 --> 0:32:24.770 faith in Christ as well and sees the magnificence of 0:32:24.770 --> 0:32:26.810 the brain and all of these things that these people 0:32:26.810 --> 0:32:29.170 are saying, and it makes you stop and say, wait, wait. 0:32:29.410 --> 0:32:31.770 There has to be something more. Well, I don't think 0:32:31.770 --> 0:32:33.530 there's a person within the sound of my voice who 0:32:33.530 --> 0:32:36.250 doesn't know at their core that there is something more. 0:32:36.290 --> 0:32:39.090 How do I know that? Because God has placed eternity 0:32:39.090 --> 0:32:42.890 in our hearts. He designed us for another country. We 0:32:42.890 --> 0:32:46.250 long for something else, something more than this. But I 0:32:46.250 --> 0:32:48.610 love it when God brings people like this forward on 0:32:48.610 --> 0:32:52.010 an international stage and says, I'm into quantum physics, no 0:32:52.010 --> 0:32:53.930 one can argue with his credentials. They're through the roof. 0:32:53.970 --> 0:32:57.890 The largest IQ on planet Earth 276. And guess what? 0:32:58.250 --> 0:33:02.250 I found the answer in Jesus. That's pretty spectacular. 0:33:02.290 --> 0:33:05.370 Yeah, I'm so glad you brought this issue up and 0:33:05.890 --> 0:33:10.270 had a chance to listen from the words of this 0:33:11.510 --> 0:33:17.510 intellectual giant, because it really brings into focus a debate 0:33:17.510 --> 0:33:20.790 that's been around for hundreds of years, ever since the 0:33:20.830 --> 0:33:26.990 so-called Enlightenment in Europe, the the collision, supposedly, that exist 0:33:26.990 --> 0:33:32.830 between faith and reason. But faith properly understood and articulated 0:33:32.830 --> 0:33:39.110 just a few minutes ago in this clip, faith, appropriately 0:33:39.110 --> 0:33:45.030 and properly understood, does not collide with or clash with 0:33:45.030 --> 0:33:48.190 the exercise of reason. And if you read the Bible 0:33:48.470 --> 0:33:51.430 and you accept what God has to tell us there, 0:33:52.270 --> 0:33:55.830 it becomes very clear. I'm glad you mentioned the heart, 0:33:56.190 --> 0:34:01.430 because ultimately the decision for or against Christ as Savior 0:34:01.430 --> 0:34:06.040 and Redeemer and a relationship of God that flows from 0:34:06.040 --> 0:34:09.839 that decision is a matter of the heart. But is 0:34:09.840 --> 0:34:15.000 the mind at odds with it? Not necessarily. In fact, 0:34:15.160 --> 0:34:18.239 if the Apostle Paul, perhaps one of the most brilliant 0:34:18.239 --> 0:34:23.439 men who ever walked the earth himself, had to deal 0:34:23.440 --> 0:34:28.359 with this issue and, uh, second and, uh, second Corinthians 0:34:28.760 --> 0:34:32.000 chapter three, verse three, he talks about the Spirit of 0:34:32.000 --> 0:34:37.040 God working in us, us meaning those who have made 0:34:37.040 --> 0:34:41.480 that faith decision in Jesus Christ and have received literally 0:34:41.520 --> 0:34:47.160 and actually and and metaphysically, the Spirit of God. Uh, 0:34:47.880 --> 0:34:53.040 God now writes on our hearts not like tablets of stone. 0:34:53.200 --> 0:34:57.160 And clearly, Paul was referring to the Old Testament law 0:34:57.760 --> 0:35:00.680 and the Ten Commandments, which were never abolished, by the way, 0:35:00.680 --> 0:35:06.100 by Jesus. They were fulfilled by Jesus. Um, but on 0:35:06.140 --> 0:35:10.220 tablets of our heart. In other words, the heart decision 0:35:10.219 --> 0:35:15.620 is the ultimate decision maker. But the mind can either 0:35:15.660 --> 0:35:19.540 be used as a barrier to block us from faith, 0:35:19.940 --> 0:35:25.060 or something that opens up the avenue to faith. Um, uh, 0:35:25.060 --> 0:35:29.420 second Timothy 215 and in fact, I looked it up 0:35:29.460 --> 0:35:32.299 to find out what the original Greek was, uh, because 0:35:32.739 --> 0:35:35.780 most of us know this verse. Study to show yourself 0:35:35.780 --> 0:35:39.900 approved unto God. A workman that needeth not be ashamed, 0:35:40.060 --> 0:35:44.339 rightly dividing the word of truth. Meaning, when you go 0:35:44.340 --> 0:35:49.180 to Scripture, you don't leave logic and intelligence to the side. 0:35:49.460 --> 0:35:51.980 You use it as a guide, and you do so 0:35:52.140 --> 0:35:55.420 under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit leading you. And 0:35:55.420 --> 0:35:59.500 I looked at the word uh, where it says rightly dividing, 0:35:59.500 --> 0:36:03.120 and the word literally means cutting in a straight line. 0:36:03.440 --> 0:36:06.759 It's like a carpenter who cuts in a straight line 0:36:06.760 --> 0:36:09.359 rather than a crooked line. So you treat the Word 0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:14.719 of God with your full attention, your full intelligence and logic, 0:36:15.160 --> 0:36:18.480 guided by the Holy Spirit, and then using the Bible 0:36:18.480 --> 0:36:21.200 itself as the best commentary on what the Bible has 0:36:21.200 --> 0:36:24.879 to say, and revealing to you who Jesus was and 0:36:24.880 --> 0:36:27.280 find fulfillment in your walk with him. 0:36:28.120 --> 0:36:30.000 Well, it's certainly going to start a lot of chatter, 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:32.840 I think, within the scientific community and if nothing else, 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:35.399 behind closed doors, I think a lot of skeptics and 0:36:35.400 --> 0:36:38.640 cynics and self-proclaimed atheists, although I don't think anyone is 0:36:38.640 --> 0:36:41.240 truly an atheist, is going to have to say, well, 0:36:41.680 --> 0:36:46.800 it's Pascal's Wager. I mean, if if Mr. Kim is right, well, 0:36:47.000 --> 0:36:49.680 then I've lost everything. If he's wrong, I've lost nothing 0:36:49.680 --> 0:36:57.239 back after this. So I want to linger a little 0:36:57.239 --> 0:36:59.960 bit with this story because I think it's hugely significant. 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:04.290 A man alleged to have the highest IQ in the world, 276. 0:37:04.610 --> 0:37:07.250 A gentleman who lives in South Korea. A man who's 0:37:07.250 --> 0:37:11.050 involved in quantum physics has now made the declaration that 0:37:11.090 --> 0:37:14.250 Jesus is the one for whom you can know God, 0:37:14.250 --> 0:37:17.169 and that it was through his teachings. He writes on 0:37:17.170 --> 0:37:19.810 X we found we can find the most complete and 0:37:19.810 --> 0:37:24.170 true knowledge of God, who is love and salvation. Now remember, 0:37:24.170 --> 0:37:27.130 this gentleman is into quantum physics. So let me quote 0:37:27.170 --> 0:37:29.450 a man who is deemed to be the father of 0:37:29.450 --> 0:37:33.450 quantum physics, a gentleman by the name of Werner Heisenberg. 0:37:33.450 --> 0:37:36.330 And he said this. The first gulp from the glass 0:37:36.330 --> 0:37:39.569 of a natural of natural sciences will make you an atheist. 0:37:39.730 --> 0:37:42.730 But at the bottom of the glass God is waiting 0:37:42.730 --> 0:37:45.609 for you. That a great sentence. But then I was 0:37:45.610 --> 0:37:48.090 thinking also, and kudos to the Babylon Bee for having 0:37:48.090 --> 0:37:50.410 picked up on this immediately, because they point out that 0:37:50.410 --> 0:37:52.810 the apostle Paul, who was a brilliant man. You and 0:37:52.810 --> 0:37:55.330 I are watching a fabulous series on Angel studio right 0:37:55.330 --> 0:37:58.370 now called Testament, and it's a modern retelling of the 0:37:58.370 --> 0:38:01.750 book of acts and it's sets. It's an all British cast, 0:38:01.750 --> 0:38:05.070 and it is absolutely riveting to see this modern retelling 0:38:05.230 --> 0:38:06.750 of the book of acts. But there's quite a bit 0:38:06.750 --> 0:38:09.430 of time at the beginning about Paul being tutored by Gamaliel, 0:38:09.469 --> 0:38:12.069 who was this brilliant rabbi. And Paul, of course, is 0:38:12.070 --> 0:38:15.069 his favorite student, and he's brilliant. So Paul had all 0:38:15.070 --> 0:38:17.430 the cred. Okay, he was Jewish, he was Roman, he 0:38:17.430 --> 0:38:20.029 was a scholar, and he was a terrorist. And that's 0:38:20.030 --> 0:38:21.910 about to change. Later in the book of acts, if 0:38:21.910 --> 0:38:24.190 you want to know what happens, read the book. It's terrific. 0:38:24.190 --> 0:38:25.989 But he also said this. He said the message of 0:38:25.989 --> 0:38:28.950 the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but 0:38:28.950 --> 0:38:30.830 to those who are being saved, it is the power 0:38:30.830 --> 0:38:33.230 of God. For it is written, I will destroy the 0:38:33.230 --> 0:38:36.830 wisdom of the wise, the intelligence of the intelligent, I 0:38:36.870 --> 0:38:39.630 will frustrate. So what God is saying, it's wonderful that 0:38:39.630 --> 0:38:42.990 he's blessed with the IQ of 276. But God didn't 0:38:42.989 --> 0:38:45.710 make it so complex that only people were into quantum physics, 0:38:45.710 --> 0:38:48.270 would understand the message of the cross. And then Babylon 0:38:48.350 --> 0:38:49.870 Bee did this. And then I want you to react, Craig. 0:38:49.870 --> 0:38:55.110 They quoted Napoleon Bonaparte, Alexander Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself 0:38:55.110 --> 0:38:58.560 have founded great empires as only the narcissist Napoleon could 0:38:58.560 --> 0:39:02.240 put it. But upon what did these creations of our 0:39:02.239 --> 0:39:07.960 genius depend upon force? Jesus alone founded his empire upon love. 0:39:08.200 --> 0:39:10.480 And to this very day, millions would die for him. 0:39:10.480 --> 0:39:13.319 I think I understand something of human nature. And I 0:39:13.320 --> 0:39:16.719 tell you, all these were men, and I am a man, 0:39:16.719 --> 0:39:20.920 but none else is like him. Jesus Christ was more 0:39:21.160 --> 0:39:24.840 than a man. Even Napoleon Bonaparte had to answer the question, 0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:25.920 who is this Jesus? 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:28.720 Yea, and the men who were marching into war for him. 0:39:29.000 --> 0:39:31.560 And by the way, at the very end, things got 0:39:31.600 --> 0:39:35.240 bad for him. Um, a lot of those men were 0:39:35.239 --> 0:39:39.640 enlisted and they were required to obey. Not out of 0:39:39.640 --> 0:39:44.520 love for Bonaparte, the Emperor. Uh, although some may have 0:39:44.520 --> 0:39:47.320 been fanatical enough to do that, but a great number 0:39:47.320 --> 0:39:53.520 of them were simply doing their required obedience. Jesus has 0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:58.100 followers who have Realized the love he has for us. 0:39:58.100 --> 0:40:01.140 Such a love that put him as the Son of 0:40:01.140 --> 0:40:07.100 God on a cross, to be tortured and killed for 0:40:07.100 --> 0:40:12.380 our sins because our death could not achieve that. No 0:40:12.380 --> 0:40:17.180 human death, no purely human blood, would ever have redeemed 0:40:17.180 --> 0:40:22.060 any of us. So Bonaparte recognizes it. Great men of 0:40:22.060 --> 0:40:26.419 science and women of science have recognized the distinctive and 0:40:26.420 --> 0:40:33.220 this whole issue of science versus faith science within its 0:40:34.100 --> 0:40:38.100 appropriate province, which is the empirical, which, in other words, 0:40:38.100 --> 0:40:41.980 it studies that which can be studied empirically in terms 0:40:41.980 --> 0:40:47.740 of physical experimentation and observation. But it doesn't mean that 0:40:47.739 --> 0:40:51.580 science has the answers to all of reality, because if 0:40:51.580 --> 0:40:56.480 there is a spiritual reality, science is unable to determine 0:40:56.680 --> 0:40:59.880 because its province doesn't include the spiritual. And more and 0:40:59.880 --> 0:41:03.440 more of these scientists are coming out to say science, 0:41:03.440 --> 0:41:08.360 properly understood, should stay in its lane. The spiritual. There's 0:41:08.400 --> 0:41:12.480 a reality out there that science cannot perfectly explain because 0:41:12.480 --> 0:41:14.440 science never was meant to. 0:41:15.719 --> 0:41:18.200 Well, the wonderful thing about this is it reminds us 0:41:18.200 --> 0:41:20.480 that whether you are someone who's into quantum physics with 0:41:20.480 --> 0:41:24.760 an IQ of 276, or whether you're the lowliest person 0:41:24.760 --> 0:41:26.880 in the factory sweeping the floors at night when the 0:41:26.920 --> 0:41:29.600 workers have gone home, every single one of us is 0:41:29.600 --> 0:41:31.799 going to have to face Jesus one day, whether you 0:41:31.800 --> 0:41:34.280 believe in him or not. So while you have the chance, 0:41:34.280 --> 0:41:37.240 you have this great opportunity to answer the question, Who 0:41:37.239 --> 0:41:40.640 is Jesus? Because how you answer that question is going 0:41:40.640 --> 0:41:42.480 to have an impact, not just how you live here 0:41:42.480 --> 0:41:44.319 on Earth, how you will see things. And I've said 0:41:44.320 --> 0:41:47.000 it before, and only those of us who have had 0:41:47.000 --> 0:41:49.359 an encounter with Jesus and believe he is exactly who 0:41:49.360 --> 0:41:52.279 he said he is. Understand when I say it's like 0:41:52.280 --> 0:41:54.529 going from watching a movie in black and white to 0:41:54.570 --> 0:41:58.250 seeing everything in Technicolor. I would imagine that's particularly pronounced 0:41:58.250 --> 0:42:01.850 for a science who studies form and order and relationships 0:42:01.850 --> 0:42:05.250 and science and angles and quantum physics and black holes 0:42:05.250 --> 0:42:08.890 and all of those majestic things. Suddenly, now the idea 0:42:08.890 --> 0:42:11.610 of randomness gets cast out of the window. It's too perfect. 0:42:11.610 --> 0:42:14.930 It works too well. It isn't just a nothingness. It 0:42:14.930 --> 0:42:17.810 can't just be randomness. There has to be a divine 0:42:17.810 --> 0:42:20.609 intelligence behind all of this that put it together. I 0:42:20.610 --> 0:42:22.690 think it's why the scriptures tell us that even the 0:42:22.690 --> 0:42:25.730 rocks cry out and the heavens declare his glory. God 0:42:25.730 --> 0:42:28.009 means it when he says he doesn't want anybody to 0:42:28.010 --> 0:42:31.450 be eternally separated from him. And he made the answer 0:42:31.450 --> 0:42:34.650 to that passion his Son Jesus Christ, who made a 0:42:34.650 --> 0:42:36.770 way of escape when every single one of us was 0:42:36.770 --> 0:42:40.370 condemned to die because of our sin. All have sinned 0:42:40.370 --> 0:42:42.049 and come short of the glory of God. There's not 0:42:42.090 --> 0:42:44.850 one righteous, no not one. And so this chasm between 0:42:44.850 --> 0:42:48.010 God and man wasn't bridged by quantum physics. It wasn't 0:42:48.010 --> 0:42:52.149 bridged by intellectual thinking or great ideas. political writings by 0:42:52.150 --> 0:42:55.350 Napoleon Bonaparte and other men who created, quote, great empires. 0:42:55.469 --> 0:42:58.469 It was bridged by the son of a carpenter who 0:42:58.469 --> 0:43:00.910 was the Son of God, who came and paid the 0:43:00.910 --> 0:43:03.830 penalty for our sins, and in so doing closed that 0:43:03.830 --> 0:43:06.870 chasm between God and man. So, Craig, for someone who 0:43:06.870 --> 0:43:09.350 is stepping into the weekend as we have this first 0:43:09.350 --> 0:43:10.950 day of summer, and may it be a good and 0:43:10.950 --> 0:43:13.870 glorious summer for us all. Something to think about as 0:43:13.870 --> 0:43:16.589 we turn the page and start a new season. What 0:43:16.590 --> 0:43:17.990 would you encourage people to do? 0:43:18.430 --> 0:43:21.790 Think about the people in that first century who followed him, 0:43:21.790 --> 0:43:25.150 and their lives were changed and they changed the world. 0:43:25.670 --> 0:43:31.310 They were relatively uneducated fishermen, common laborers. And then there 0:43:31.310 --> 0:43:33.830 was the Apostle Paul, one of the most brilliant men 0:43:33.870 --> 0:43:36.230 that ever lived. But all of them had one thing 0:43:36.230 --> 0:43:41.710 in common they encountered the living Christ by faith. And 0:43:41.710 --> 0:43:45.110 as a result of that, their lives and eternities were changed. 0:43:45.110 --> 0:43:47.750 And ours can be, too. And if you haven't made 0:43:47.750 --> 0:43:51.600 that decision, you're still on the fence. Go to his Gospels. 0:43:51.640 --> 0:43:55.200 See what Jesus really said. See what happened to his 0:43:55.200 --> 0:43:57.879 disciples in real life and in the book of acts, 0:43:57.880 --> 0:44:02.440 how their, uh, their timidity was erased when the Holy Spirit, 0:44:02.440 --> 0:44:06.839 through their faith, changed their destiny and changed, really, the 0:44:06.840 --> 0:44:07.920 future of the world. 0:44:08.120 --> 0:44:10.520 Amen and amen. Kind of hearkens back to our truth 0:44:10.520 --> 0:44:12.920 tool this month. Have you ever wondered why God creates 0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:15.759 that sense of awe? I would imagine that Mr. Kim 0:44:15.760 --> 0:44:18.960 had a sense of awe, sending quantum physics and realizing 0:44:18.960 --> 0:44:21.920 that there was a transition, a shift. There was something more. 0:44:22.239 --> 0:44:24.160 And I encourage you to read this book to realize 0:44:24.160 --> 0:44:26.600 that God put awe and wonder in our hearts, not 0:44:26.600 --> 0:44:29.240 by design, but by divine appointment. 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