WEBVTT - Hour 2: One Day Closer 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? And are you not in a moment of 0:00:24.560 --> 0:00:27.960 awe and wonder or looking out over the vast expanse 0:00:27.960 --> 0:00:30.600 of an ocean and you start thinking, what is man, 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:32.800 that thou art mindful of him? And it makes you 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.240 wonder about the magnificence of God? I think that sense 0:00:36.240 --> 0:00:39.480 of wonder was put there on purpose, and this wonderful 0:00:39.479 --> 0:00:42.720 book includes a composite of multiple authors who have written 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.879 from their perspective as a scientist, or a historian, or 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:49.160 a mathematician or an artist, on why they all have 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.599 this sense of awe through the work that they do. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:54.120 In other words, the heavens declare the glory. And as 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.440 it tells us in Romans, we are really without excuse 0:00:56.440 --> 0:01:00.150 because his handiwork is everywhere. And this book invites you 0:01:00.150 --> 0:01:03.550 to walk through the chapters written by people who all 0:01:03.550 --> 0:01:06.270 have a sense of awe and wonder when it comes 0:01:06.270 --> 0:01:09.110 to God through their various disciplines in life. It's an 0:01:09.110 --> 0:01:11.430 amazing book and it's yours. For a gift of any amount, 0:01:11.430 --> 0:01:16.270 just call 877 Janet 58. That's 877 Janet 58. Ask 0:01:16.270 --> 0:01:19.150 for a copy of Have You Ever Wondered? And we'll 0:01:19.150 --> 0:01:20.390 send it right off to you as my way of 0:01:20.390 --> 0:01:22.950 saying thank you, because we are listener supported radio. Or 0:01:22.950 --> 0:01:25.350 you can go online to in the market with Janet Parshall. 0:01:26.550 --> 0:01:29.389 When you're also on the website, consider becoming a partial partner. 0:01:29.390 --> 0:01:31.630 Those are people who give every single month at a 0:01:31.630 --> 0:01:34.110 level of their own choosing. You always get the truth tool, 0:01:34.150 --> 0:01:36.270 but in addition to that, you get a weekly newsletter 0:01:36.270 --> 0:01:39.069 that includes my writing and an audio piece just for 0:01:39.069 --> 0:01:43.190 my partial partners. So 877 Janet 58 or the website 0:01:43.190 --> 0:01:46.830 in the market with Janet parshall.org consider becoming a partial 0:01:46.830 --> 0:01:49.790 partner or asking for this month's truth tool. Have you 0:01:49.790 --> 0:01:53.070 ever wondered? And now please enjoy the broadcast. 0:01:57.030 --> 0:01:59.860 Welcome to In the Market with Janet Parshall. Today's program 0:01:59.860 --> 0:02:02.260 is where Janet and her husband, Craig, take some of 0:02:02.260 --> 0:02:05.380 the stories making headlines this week and offer their insight 0:02:05.380 --> 0:02:08.299 and analysis. Before they get started, let's take a quick 0:02:08.300 --> 0:02:10.460 look back at some of the highlights from the week. 0:02:16.180 --> 0:02:20.180 When some new idea comes in to challenge those reigning paradigms, 0:02:20.180 --> 0:02:23.180 it's often treated with some contempt. And this is exactly 0:02:23.180 --> 0:02:26.700 what is going on with intelligent design and Darwinian evolution 0:02:26.980 --> 0:02:29.860 right now. Neo-darwinian evolution, for better or for worse, is 0:02:29.860 --> 0:02:34.100 the reigning paradigm within biology for how life arose and 0:02:34.380 --> 0:02:37.940 and diversified to all the forms we see today. Intelligent 0:02:37.940 --> 0:02:40.860 design is coming and saying, actually, there are other scientific 0:02:40.860 --> 0:02:43.820 ways to look at this question that are not mechanistic, 0:02:43.820 --> 0:02:47.460 that are not naturalistic. We can actually use our understanding 0:02:47.460 --> 0:02:49.740 of what intelligent agents can to do, can do to 0:02:49.780 --> 0:02:53.540 better understand how we can explain the complexity of biology. 0:02:54.060 --> 0:02:57.130 Satan knows the Bible very well, and when he looks 0:02:57.130 --> 0:02:59.650 at the entire Council of God, he's not omniscient, but 0:02:59.650 --> 0:03:02.410 he knows his Bible. He knows that at some point 0:03:02.410 --> 0:03:06.450 in the future, the the Jewish people are going to 0:03:07.530 --> 0:03:10.250 go through with a bunch of people through the tribulation. 0:03:10.370 --> 0:03:12.970 Some will survive, some will not. Those who survive will 0:03:12.970 --> 0:03:16.850 call on Yeshua, will say, Baruch Hashem Adonai. Blessed is 0:03:16.850 --> 0:03:18.530 he who comes in the name of the Lord, and 0:03:18.530 --> 0:03:21.330 that will usher in the second coming of the Messiah. 0:03:21.410 --> 0:03:24.489 When that happens, Satan is out of a job and 0:03:24.490 --> 0:03:26.329 he does not like his retirement plan. 0:03:26.770 --> 0:03:30.010 What do you call it when you say to a 0:03:30.010 --> 0:03:34.090 mother you can kill your baby one hour before they 0:03:34.130 --> 0:03:36.570 are born, but if you kill them an hour after 0:03:36.570 --> 0:03:40.610 they are born, you'll be prosecuted. And the answer, of course, 0:03:40.650 --> 0:03:45.250 is that this bill was it is not. It's not 0:03:45.250 --> 0:03:49.450 even about abortion. It's about infanticide. And one of the things, 0:03:49.490 --> 0:03:51.730 and you and I have talked about this before, I've 0:03:51.730 --> 0:03:54.650 been saying this for years as the West turns away 0:03:54.650 --> 0:03:58.360 from Christianity, particularly in the United Kingdom. We are not 0:03:58.360 --> 0:04:02.040 progressing to a secular nirvana. We are regressing to a 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.280 Greco-Roman pagan view of the world. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:09.000 The New Testament like a beautiful rainbow, beginning with the 0:04:09.000 --> 0:04:12.280 first coming and ending with the second coming of Jesus. 0:04:12.320 --> 0:04:15.320 And so even when you look at the whole Bible, 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:20.520 Genesis and Revelation are just perfectly corresponding bookends. You know, 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:24.040 from creation to new creation and from the garden to 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.720 the new Jerusalem. And so I commend to people, both 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:32.120 biblical theology and looking at, at the Bible more synthetically, 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:36.360 you know, how the different parts all fit perfectly within 0:04:36.360 --> 0:04:39.440 the whole library of the 66 books of Scripture. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.640 To hear the full interviews from any of those guests, 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.919 go to In the Market with Janet Parshall and click 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.920 on Past programs. Here are some other stories making headlines 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:50.480 this week. 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.270 European Union leaders are to be presented with a choice 0:04:54.270 --> 0:04:57.270 by the European Commission. Get a quick trade deal with 0:04:57.270 --> 0:05:00.549 the US at the cost of Washington getting better terms, 0:05:00.750 --> 0:05:03.590 or escalate the fight in the hope of something better 0:05:03.630 --> 0:05:04.470 in Nairobi. 0:05:04.510 --> 0:05:07.350 Some are making money out of protests that shook the 0:05:07.350 --> 0:05:11.630 Kenyan capital on Wednesday. Others are counting the cost after 0:05:11.630 --> 0:05:15.350 confrontations between police and protesters turned chaotic. 0:05:15.390 --> 0:05:19.030 US Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr's newly appointed panel of 0:05:19.029 --> 0:05:21.950 vaccine advisers met for the first time on Wednesday. 0:05:21.990 --> 0:05:25.390 Shell has denied reports it's in talks with BP regarding 0:05:25.390 --> 0:05:29.390 a takeover. The Wall Street Journal said Wednesday that negotiations 0:05:29.390 --> 0:05:32.750 were at an early stage, but shell said no talks 0:05:32.750 --> 0:05:33.950 were taking place. 0:05:35.550 --> 0:05:37.630 Janet and Craig have lots to share and they'll put 0:05:37.630 --> 0:05:40.190 the first story on the table when we return. To 0:05:40.190 --> 0:05:42.789 get more information or to download the podcast of any 0:05:42.790 --> 0:05:45.790 of the interviews, go to. In the market with Janet Parshall. 0:05:57.220 --> 0:06:00.219 The questions that matter most often come while watching a sunset, 0:06:00.220 --> 0:06:02.940 or listening to music, or looking into the night sky. 0:06:03.140 --> 0:06:05.460 That's why I've chosen. Have you ever wondered, as this 0:06:05.460 --> 0:06:08.420 month's truth tool? God draws us to himself through a 0:06:08.420 --> 0:06:10.539 sense of awe and wonder, and this book will help 0:06:10.540 --> 0:06:12.820 you discover how. 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Very important, dealing with some pretty big issues, 0:06:43.740 --> 0:06:45.900 not the least of which is a reaffirmation of parents 0:06:45.900 --> 0:06:48.420 rights and the free exercise clause of the First Amendment. 0:06:48.420 --> 0:06:51.330 Thank you Lord, what a great decision. So you didn't 0:06:51.330 --> 0:06:52.570 miss it, because all you have to do is go 0:06:52.570 --> 0:06:55.050 where you find your favorite podcast and download in the 0:06:55.050 --> 0:06:57.810 market with Janet Parshall, and you will have heard everything 0:06:57.810 --> 0:06:59.650 we talked about the first hour. Glad you're with us 0:06:59.650 --> 0:07:02.130 this hour, by the way. I looked at my calendar 0:07:02.130 --> 0:07:03.770 and I can't believe it. I blinked, I put my 0:07:03.770 --> 0:07:06.050 Christmas decorations away and now it's time to put up 0:07:06.050 --> 0:07:07.930 the American flag, because the 4th of July is right 0:07:07.930 --> 0:07:11.010 around the corner. 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I don't know about you, but my little 0:08:49.230 --> 0:08:51.270 Mickey Mouse mind can't take all of that in. And 0:08:51.270 --> 0:08:54.830 I am filled with awe and wondered. Our God is 0:08:54.830 --> 0:08:57.710 an or some God. In fact, the word or should 0:08:57.710 --> 0:08:59.950 really only be used about God rather than boy, wasn't 0:08:59.950 --> 0:09:04.589 that ball game awesome? No. Awe is reserved to God himself, 0:09:04.590 --> 0:09:07.470 and he puts that sense of awe and wonder in us, 0:09:07.470 --> 0:09:11.150 not by accident, so that we might hunger for something bigger, 0:09:11.150 --> 0:09:14.990 something greater, someone bigger and greater than us. And that's 0:09:14.990 --> 0:09:17.590 the great and glorious King himself. I love this book. 0:09:17.590 --> 0:09:19.990 It'll stir your heart. It'll make you say, wait a minute. 0:09:20.150 --> 0:09:22.470 Why am I always happy when there's a happy ending 0:09:22.510 --> 0:09:24.949 to a story? And why do I think that this 0:09:24.950 --> 0:09:26.910 isn't going to satisfy me? And why do I still 0:09:26.910 --> 0:09:28.709 have a hunger after I try that? But I'm still 0:09:28.710 --> 0:09:31.270 wanting something more. All of that and more gets addressed 0:09:31.270 --> 0:09:33.670 in the book. Have you ever wondered? So goes away. 0:09:33.710 --> 0:09:37.030 Midnight Monday 877 Janet 58 or online at In the 0:09:37.030 --> 0:09:40.310 Market with Janet Parshall. We're going to start out by 0:09:40.309 --> 0:09:42.190 giving you an update on two cases that we talked 0:09:42.190 --> 0:09:44.230 about before that I think are important. And I think 0:09:44.230 --> 0:09:46.470 we owe you the duty of giving you an update 0:09:46.580 --> 0:09:48.860 When some of these cases happen, there's a camp called 0:09:48.860 --> 0:09:52.780 I'd Rather Have. Jesus. Uh, and it's. I can't even 0:09:52.780 --> 0:09:55.060 say the name, but they the letters stand for. I'd 0:09:55.059 --> 0:09:57.820 rather have Jesus. It's a Christian camp. It's in Bailey, Colorado. 0:09:57.860 --> 0:10:00.140 My Colorado friends will know what camp I'm referring to. 0:10:00.620 --> 0:10:02.740 They were told that they would have to let children 0:10:02.780 --> 0:10:07.260 be indoctrinated by the trans cult. Whenever facilities were going 0:10:07.260 --> 0:10:10.660 to be used by people. The boy went to this 0:10:10.660 --> 0:10:12.179 Christian camp and he said, you know what? I'm a 0:10:12.179 --> 0:10:13.579 girl and he's going to show up and he's going 0:10:13.620 --> 0:10:16.780 to use the other bathroom. The camp said, no, no, 0:10:17.100 --> 0:10:19.380 that's going to be a problem. We we just don't 0:10:19.380 --> 0:10:21.179 think that's going to work for us. And so we 0:10:21.179 --> 0:10:25.020 have some big concerns. Well, they asked for an exemption 0:10:25.300 --> 0:10:28.059 being a religious camp after all. And Colorado, guess what? 0:10:28.100 --> 0:10:31.579 Because boy are they aggressive there. We're praying for you. Colorado. Uh, 0:10:31.580 --> 0:10:36.060 they refused to give in and said, no, we're not 0:10:36.059 --> 0:10:38.660 going to give this protection to this Christian camp by 0:10:38.660 --> 0:10:41.140 any stretch of the imagination. Well, then along comes a 0:10:41.140 --> 0:10:44.820 little group called Alliance Defending Freedom. And they said, okay, well, 0:10:44.970 --> 0:10:47.210 I'll meet you at Eurasia and we're going to see 0:10:47.210 --> 0:10:49.890 what we can do. So rather than having this go 0:10:49.890 --> 0:10:54.210 all the way through, they made an exception. Thank you, Lord, 0:10:54.250 --> 0:10:57.410 to allow the camp to continue freely practicing their religious 0:10:57.410 --> 0:11:02.450 free their beliefs that 99.99999% of all human beings throughout 0:11:02.450 --> 0:11:04.569 the world would agree with Craig. Why is this such 0:11:04.570 --> 0:11:05.329 a victory? 0:11:05.330 --> 0:11:08.490 Well, it's a victory number one, considering the state of Colorado. 0:11:08.850 --> 0:11:12.370 It has been. And we got close friends. We love 0:11:12.370 --> 0:11:17.010 the people of Colorado, but the power structures, the political 0:11:17.010 --> 0:11:22.250 power structures in Colorado are a hot mess. Uh, they 0:11:22.610 --> 0:11:27.490 seem to enjoy. And they certainly have become experts in 0:11:27.770 --> 0:11:32.530 targeting Christians of faith who have sincerely held beliefs about 0:11:32.809 --> 0:11:37.170 not participating. As the Apostle Paul says in the very 0:11:37.170 --> 0:11:40.690 evil that they don't agree with. But Colorado says, oh, 0:11:40.730 --> 0:11:43.870 you will, or we'll be. You'll be fine. You'll be 0:11:43.870 --> 0:11:49.350 sent to an education camp, basically. Um, and you'll lose 0:11:49.350 --> 0:11:52.590 a lot of your civil liberties that other people have 0:11:52.630 --> 0:11:56.270 that are first class citizens. You'll be a second class citizen. 0:11:56.270 --> 0:11:59.870 So Colorado has been in a troubled state for some time. 0:11:59.870 --> 0:12:02.910 I hope that this is the beginning of a turnaround, 0:12:02.910 --> 0:12:05.470 where they're saying they're waking up to the fact that 0:12:05.470 --> 0:12:08.230 they are on the wrong side, not not only of history, 0:12:08.230 --> 0:12:09.230 but of the law. 0:12:09.550 --> 0:12:11.470 And they did more than back up. By the way, 0:12:11.470 --> 0:12:14.790 the state is clarifying in a memo on its website 0:12:14.790 --> 0:12:19.630 and in administrative guides that churches, synagogues, mosques or any 0:12:19.630 --> 0:12:23.590 other place that is principally used for religious purposes are 0:12:23.590 --> 0:12:26.110 exempt from the requirements. Now, I'm going to say, given 0:12:26.110 --> 0:12:28.150 the hostility, and this is the state that gave us 0:12:28.190 --> 0:12:32.310 Jack Phillips masterpiece cake. Right. And I think creative 310 0:12:32.350 --> 0:12:34.590 is also from Colorado, too, if I remember. Right. So 0:12:34.910 --> 0:12:36.750 when you look at what they do when it comes 0:12:36.750 --> 0:12:39.950 to religious liberty in Colorado, it's a chilling effect. So 0:12:39.950 --> 0:12:42.500 this was good for this camp. I think I may 0:12:42.500 --> 0:12:45.620 have figured out how to pronounce it. I'd rather. I'd 0:12:45.620 --> 0:12:50.540 rather I'd rather have. Jesus, I a r a h 0:12:50.580 --> 0:12:54.780 a j e a rad day. That's it. You think so? Yeah. Okay. 0:12:54.820 --> 0:12:57.020 All right. Now, I may have that dead wrong, but anyway, 0:12:57.059 --> 0:12:59.179 the bottom line. I'm happy for the camp. So, do 0:12:59.179 --> 0:13:01.820 you remember another case that we talked about to this 0:13:01.820 --> 0:13:05.980 one was Washington State. Washington state, by the way, was 0:13:05.980 --> 0:13:11.500 going to have legislation called SB 5375. It was scheduled 0:13:11.500 --> 0:13:14.940 to take effect on July 27th. Oh, that happens to 0:13:14.940 --> 0:13:18.420 be today. Unlawfully targets. This is what some are saying. 0:13:18.420 --> 0:13:21.420 And this is a complaint that has just been filed 0:13:21.420 --> 0:13:23.459 by the Department of Justice. This is the update. This 0:13:23.460 --> 0:13:27.500 is why we're telling you, the complaint argues that this legislation, quote, 0:13:27.540 --> 0:13:32.500 unlawfully targets clergy and specifically Catholic priests by requiring mandatory 0:13:32.500 --> 0:13:36.780 reporting of abuse for clergy without exempting the professional. That confessional, 0:13:36.780 --> 0:13:40.020 by the way, which is supposed to be confidential, uh, 0:13:40.059 --> 0:13:43.970 in fact, the lawsuit reads the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation, 0:13:43.970 --> 0:13:46.450 also known as confession, is one of the seven holy 0:13:46.450 --> 0:13:48.770 sacraments of the Catholic Church. It is a sacred rite 0:13:48.770 --> 0:13:50.850 with roots that can be traced back to the origins 0:13:50.850 --> 0:13:55.170 of Catholicism. The seal of confidentiality is therefore the lifeblood 0:13:55.170 --> 0:13:58.810 of confession. Without that, the free exercise of the Catholic religion, i.e. 0:13:58.850 --> 0:14:01.490 the apostolic duties performed by the Catholic priests to the 0:14:01.490 --> 0:14:05.530 benefit of Catholic parishioners, cannot take place. And so I 0:14:05.570 --> 0:14:08.490 find it fascinating. And boy, do I admire this woman, 0:14:08.490 --> 0:14:12.570 the assistant ag, Harmeet Dhillon. Uh, she is in charge 0:14:12.570 --> 0:14:15.730 of DOJ Civil Rights division. And God bless her, she 0:14:15.929 --> 0:14:19.370 while she is not, um, a professing Christian, she is 0:14:19.370 --> 0:14:23.730 one who understands the invaluable nature of religious liberty. So 0:14:23.930 --> 0:14:25.930 good for them. And by the way, while this hones 0:14:25.930 --> 0:14:30.170 in specifically on Catholics, there is that that private confidentiality 0:14:30.210 --> 0:14:33.010 it would spill way beyond the confessional booth in its application, 0:14:33.010 --> 0:14:34.330 I'm sure. So give me your take on this. 0:14:34.370 --> 0:14:38.610 Well, this is a season of the return to reason 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:44.160 And reasoned approach to the Constitution and to the long 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:47.720 history of the law in the United States and much 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:52.040 of the English common law that we inherited in the colonies, 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:56.000 and then, when we became a constitutional republic, was imported 0:14:56.000 --> 0:15:00.760 into our understanding in the 1700s and into the 18th 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:04.760 and 19th century. Um, and it has stood the test 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:11.640 of time until very recently. Now, the confidentiality, uh, afforded 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:16.360 it has been known by various names. The, the, um, 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:23.240 the parishioner, uh, penitent, uh, clergy exception. Uh, it's also 0:15:23.240 --> 0:15:28.640 been just simply the clergy confidentiality. Confidentiality exception. And by 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:33.520 the way, the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, uh, have adopted, uh, 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:39.310 those kinds of confidentiality requirements. And the states have historically 0:15:39.310 --> 0:15:44.150 had them for two centuries. Now, suddenly some of the 0:15:44.310 --> 0:15:48.590 more progressive, quote unquote states like the state of Washington 0:15:48.590 --> 0:15:51.390 has decided, no, we're going to change the history of 0:15:51.390 --> 0:15:53.910 the law on this issue. And by the way, it's 0:15:53.910 --> 0:15:57.430 not just the Catholic Church. Uh, if a pastor of 0:15:57.430 --> 0:16:01.550 a Protestant church has a member come in or even 0:16:01.590 --> 0:16:04.550 a member of the public come in and say, I 0:16:04.590 --> 0:16:08.990 need some spiritual counsel, but I need your I need 0:16:08.990 --> 0:16:14.270 this to be confidential. Well, very often the the best 0:16:14.270 --> 0:16:18.510 work that takes place in terms of a spiritual breakthrough 0:16:18.550 --> 0:16:22.230 with a person who is burdened like that is the 0:16:22.230 --> 0:16:25.910 protection of confidentiality. And by the way, confidentiality has been 0:16:25.910 --> 0:16:31.430 extended to other important decision making processes. I'll give you 0:16:31.430 --> 0:16:37.460 as an example, jury deliberations are absolutely sacred and confidential. 0:16:37.740 --> 0:16:41.140 No one can force them to say what happened in 0:16:41.140 --> 0:16:44.420 the jury room, unless the jury themselves want to break 0:16:44.420 --> 0:16:49.380 that silence. That's confidential. You're voting when you vote. No 0:16:49.380 --> 0:16:51.220 one can put a gun to your head and say 0:16:51.220 --> 0:16:54.220 you're going to tell me who you voted for. That's illegal. 0:16:54.300 --> 0:16:57.700 That has been protected for anonymity and for the anonymity 0:16:57.700 --> 0:17:01.940 of your vote. So confidentiality here has a long history. Janet. 0:17:01.940 --> 0:17:05.140 And I'm shocked that the state of Washington would say 0:17:05.140 --> 0:17:08.139 we're going to obliterate all those hundreds of years. 0:17:08.180 --> 0:17:10.899 And the next time somebody shouts separation of church and state, 0:17:10.900 --> 0:17:14.780 just smile graciously. Because this is another example. Again, that really, 0:17:14.780 --> 0:17:17.260 while it's not in the Constitution, it becomes a cudgel 0:17:17.580 --> 0:17:20.100 for states like Washington who think they have the right 0:17:20.100 --> 0:17:24.940 to intrude in the church, the very thing that Jefferson 0:17:24.940 --> 0:17:27.740 warned against and promised he would protect when he wrote 0:17:27.740 --> 0:17:31.940 to the Danbury Baptist Society. The government stays out of 0:17:31.980 --> 0:17:35.010 the church. Period. End of statement. So I am very 0:17:35.090 --> 0:17:37.970 happy to see DOJ put some shoe leather into this, 0:17:37.970 --> 0:17:39.770 and we wish them all the best in their lawsuit 0:17:39.770 --> 0:17:42.050 against Washington State. We're going to take a break. Come 0:17:42.050 --> 0:17:43.610 right back. Now you've got an update because we had 0:17:43.650 --> 0:17:45.410 talked about both of those in the past. I want 0:17:45.410 --> 0:17:56.929 you to be current on this back after this. I 0:17:56.930 --> 0:17:59.250 love good news stories. Sometimes we have to dig a 0:17:59.250 --> 0:18:00.810 little bit harder to find those, but we got a 0:18:00.810 --> 0:18:03.370 bunch today. First we started, like I said last hour, 0:18:03.410 --> 0:18:06.570 talking about some really excellent decisions coming down from the 0:18:06.570 --> 0:18:09.010 United States Supreme Court. That's a good news story. Then 0:18:09.010 --> 0:18:10.729 we talk about the fact that the Christian camp in 0:18:10.730 --> 0:18:13.409 Colorado is protected. That's a good news story. Then we 0:18:13.410 --> 0:18:15.169 talk about the fact that the DOJ is going to 0:18:15.170 --> 0:18:20.450 go over this unconscionable intrusion into the ecclesiastical practices of 0:18:20.450 --> 0:18:23.689 a church and violate the privacy between a priest and 0:18:23.690 --> 0:18:26.930 a parishioner, and it will spill beyond Catholicism. By the way, 0:18:26.930 --> 0:18:29.770 the same vulnerability could take place in the pastor's study. 0:18:29.970 --> 0:18:32.129 That's good that DOJ wants to go after that. And 0:18:32.130 --> 0:18:34.720 here's another good story. And I was telling Craig boy, 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:37.160 I'll tell you, you'll talk about these cases of exploitation 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.120 until the cows come home. You'll do documentaries, ABC we'll spend, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.120 you know, Dateline and 2020 and all this other stuff. 0:18:44.119 --> 0:18:49.720 But when there's victory, when there's absolutely liberty and justice 0:18:49.760 --> 0:18:52.920 gets meted out, how come it's so quiet? Well, we're 0:18:52.920 --> 0:18:54.399 not going to be quiet. We're going to herald this 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:59.000 from the rooftops. It was called Operation Dragon Eye. Officials 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:02.960 are calling it the most successful child recovery effort in 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:06.040 the United States. I'm sorry. Did you. Did you not 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:07.359 get this in the news? Good. Well, let me tell 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:14.920 you then. Operation dragonfly, a rescued 66 zero critically missing children. 0:19:14.920 --> 0:19:17.480 What if your baby was one of those 60 and 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:20.880 they were in Florida's Tampa Bay region? It was led 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:24.560 by U.S. marshals, and it involved over 20 agencies. It 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.880 was a two week operation. Only the Lord knows how 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:29.720 difficult this must have been. And it reflects a powerful 0:19:29.720 --> 0:19:33.429 example of justice, compassion and government working in unity to 0:19:33.470 --> 0:19:37.949 protect the vulnerable. These kids were ages 9 to 17. 0:19:37.990 --> 0:19:42.270 They were identified as high risk, mainly endangered by abuse, 0:19:42.470 --> 0:19:46.629 trafficking and exploitation. So the Florida Attorney General and U.S. 0:19:46.630 --> 0:19:52.109 Marshal William Berger confirmed eight arrests, including suspected traffickers and 0:19:52.109 --> 0:19:56.469 child predators. The suspects face serious charges ranging from human 0:19:56.470 --> 0:20:04.110 trafficking to drug offenses, with bonds as high as $250 million. 0:20:04.270 --> 0:20:07.070 Under the leadership of Governor Ron DeSantis, the Florida Department 0:20:07.070 --> 0:20:09.670 of Children and Families played a vital role, ensuring that 0:20:09.670 --> 0:20:14.230 each child received immediate physical and psychological care, and authorities 0:20:14.230 --> 0:20:17.070 hope this rescue is a turning point for the young 0:20:17.070 --> 0:20:20.550 lives involved. So there it is, shouted from the rooftops. 0:20:20.550 --> 0:20:23.790 Rent an airplane. Fly it through the sky. 60 precious 0:20:23.790 --> 0:20:28.350 children rescued from the claws of this demonic activity. I 0:20:28.390 --> 0:20:31.700 think that's huge. And again deemed to be the largest 0:20:31.740 --> 0:20:35.060 rescue of children being trafficked in the country. This is 0:20:35.060 --> 0:20:35.780 a huge story. 0:20:36.940 --> 0:20:41.980 There are those who, um, try to minimize the reality 0:20:41.980 --> 0:20:47.020 of the risk to children and youth in this country. Um, well, 0:20:47.060 --> 0:20:50.940 you know, statistically, you know, what are the odds? But 0:20:50.980 --> 0:20:56.140 one child is too many to be human trafficked. One child, uh, who, 0:20:56.460 --> 0:21:00.100 for whatever reason, finds his or her way on the 0:21:00.100 --> 0:21:04.700 street and without a home is so vulnerable to predators. 0:21:04.700 --> 0:21:06.940 And by the way, uh, a number of those who 0:21:06.940 --> 0:21:11.260 had been arrested and charged with these crimes were known 0:21:11.300 --> 0:21:15.820 sex offenders. So the the future of these children was 0:21:15.820 --> 0:21:22.460 very dire. And I just praised these Florida law enforcement agents, uh, 0:21:22.500 --> 0:21:26.340 and I, I wasn't sure from reading the background whether 0:21:26.340 --> 0:21:29.020 the feds were involved as well. But there there are 0:21:29.130 --> 0:21:31.770 a number of years ago there was a, I think 0:21:31.810 --> 0:21:36.609 close to 80, um, children had been rescued, um, down 0:21:36.609 --> 0:21:39.850 in Georgia. But it took, I think, close to a 0:21:39.850 --> 0:21:44.129 year of tracking and surveillance to be able to determine 0:21:44.130 --> 0:21:47.050 this and then find them and rescue them. So this 0:21:47.050 --> 0:21:50.010 is happening not in a third world country, but in 0:21:50.010 --> 0:21:53.010 the United States of America. And if you don't think 0:21:53.010 --> 0:21:57.090 that this is a problem in your neighborhood, unfortunately, think again. 0:21:57.290 --> 0:22:00.010 Wow. All right. That's good news story. Now let me 0:22:00.010 --> 0:22:02.489 talk about AI because hey, it's Friday. We love to 0:22:02.490 --> 0:22:05.370 talk about AI. Goldman Sachs said this week it's going 0:22:05.410 --> 0:22:08.330 to roll out an artificial intelligence tool that could be 0:22:08.330 --> 0:22:12.129 used to take over tasks traditionally done by junior bankers. 0:22:12.130 --> 0:22:14.290 What did Craig and I what have we said over 0:22:14.290 --> 0:22:17.250 and over and over again? You know, I it's more 0:22:17.250 --> 0:22:20.090 than just making a pretty cartoon on your computer top. 0:22:20.290 --> 0:22:23.210 It's going to end up taking away people's jobs. I 0:22:23.250 --> 0:22:25.570 care about my fellow man. I care about their ability 0:22:25.570 --> 0:22:28.440 to put bread on their table. I believe in human flourishing. 0:22:28.600 --> 0:22:31.679 I think it's a biblical mandate. And guess what? Now 0:22:31.680 --> 0:22:34.280 we've got the rise of the machines. And so, of course, 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:37.280 this is fueling ongoing fears that technology is going to 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:41.120 soon eliminate entry level jobs. So I will be used 0:22:41.119 --> 0:22:44.280 to generate efficiency plans in the Wall Street giant's investment 0:22:44.280 --> 0:22:48.800 banking and wealth management divisions by helping employees with everyday tasks. 0:22:48.840 --> 0:22:52.760 According to an internal memo that was circulated and eventually 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:55.720 got out to the press. Mhm. Uh, in fact, it's 0:22:55.720 --> 0:23:00.639 interesting because Goldman Sachs, their CIO, uh, said this today 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:03.600 marks an important moment in our AI journey as we 0:23:03.640 --> 0:23:09.680 are excited to announce the firmware launch of the AI assistant. 0:23:10.040 --> 0:23:13.760 We're giving them names now the first generative AI powered 0:23:13.800 --> 0:23:17.840 tool to reach this scale. So apparently the David Solomon 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:20.439 led financial powerhouse had previously rolled out the tech to 0:23:20.480 --> 0:23:26.470 about 10,000 of its estimated 46,500 global employees. I'm. I 0:23:26.510 --> 0:23:28.270 got to tell you, I'm. You know, they're all about 0:23:28.270 --> 0:23:30.070 the bottom line. That's why they're bankers. That's why they're 0:23:30.109 --> 0:23:32.629 Goldman Sachs. I get it. But it breaks my heart 0:23:32.630 --> 0:23:35.550 because somebody's going to lose a job because of a machine. I, 0:23:35.590 --> 0:23:37.950 I don't call that progress. I that makes this kind 0:23:37.950 --> 0:23:39.270 of a story. Makes me unhappy. 0:23:39.430 --> 0:23:43.629 You know, I read this story, um, and I immediately thought, 0:23:44.430 --> 0:23:47.790 and this is going to show, you know, my proclivity 0:23:47.830 --> 0:23:51.070 for certain movies that you and I enjoy. But I 0:23:51.070 --> 0:23:55.230 immediately went back to the 1957 movie called Desk Set 0:23:55.230 --> 0:23:59.270 between Katharine Hepburn. She was a information librarian who had 0:23:59.270 --> 0:24:02.950 answered all wide variety of questions that were called in 0:24:02.950 --> 0:24:05.389 to her, and she'd do it from her own notes 0:24:05.390 --> 0:24:08.470 and her own knowledge. And then there was Spencer Tracy, 0:24:08.510 --> 0:24:11.429 who was the computer expert who would come in and 0:24:11.430 --> 0:24:16.109 he was going to replace Katharine Hepburn with a computer. Uh, 0:24:16.109 --> 0:24:18.469 if you're tired of hearing these I stories about how 0:24:18.470 --> 0:24:22.190 they're going to replace us, I'd advise you watch desk set. 0:24:22.190 --> 0:24:25.060 It's a great comedy. But also there's a lesson there 0:24:25.340 --> 0:24:28.420 that computers are not ready, nor will they ever be 0:24:28.420 --> 0:24:29.940 ready to replace humans. 0:24:29.980 --> 0:24:31.860 Yeah. And again, I don't know what the answer is 0:24:31.859 --> 0:24:34.859 to this because somebody builds them. The guy who builds 0:24:34.859 --> 0:24:37.540 the machine, the gal that builds the machine, they're making money. 0:24:37.540 --> 0:24:39.540 The people who buy the machines are buying the machines 0:24:39.540 --> 0:24:41.419 because it's going to cost them less money. And they 0:24:41.420 --> 0:24:44.139 don't have to pay employee taxes or benefits to a machine. 0:24:44.260 --> 0:24:46.540 I get it, but in the meantime, this is what 0:24:46.540 --> 0:24:49.620 happens when you take God out of your worldview. You 0:24:49.619 --> 0:24:52.340 don't see his image in your fellow man. Back after this. 0:24:59.140 --> 0:25:01.500 We live in complicated times and in the market. We're 0:25:01.500 --> 0:25:05.180 helping you interpret complex cultural issues through the lens of Scripture. 0:25:05.220 --> 0:25:07.420 Our team of partial partners is growing. And to say 0:25:07.420 --> 0:25:10.620 thank you, they receive exclusive information from me. In fact, 0:25:10.619 --> 0:25:13.260 I talk to you directly from my personal computer to 0:25:13.300 --> 0:25:15.980 yours by email. Become a partial partner today and you'll 0:25:15.980 --> 0:25:20.660 receive these exclusive benefits. Call eight 7758 or go online 0:25:20.660 --> 0:25:26.330 to in the market with Janet parshall.org. Org. One of 0:25:26.330 --> 0:25:27.889 the things Craig and I would like to do on 0:25:27.890 --> 0:25:31.169 Fridays is really and truly help us learn to discern. 0:25:31.170 --> 0:25:33.490 We talk about the Bereans a lot on this program. 0:25:33.490 --> 0:25:38.090 So these people tested the writings of Paul. They didn't 0:25:38.090 --> 0:25:41.169 swallow anything hook, line and sinker. And neither should we, 0:25:41.369 --> 0:25:44.530 particularly when it comes to the careful handling of the 0:25:44.530 --> 0:25:47.570 word of life holding fast to that which is good, 0:25:47.570 --> 0:25:52.609 not adding to or subtracting from, but absolutely teaching line 0:25:52.609 --> 0:25:55.570 upon line, precept upon precept, and not trying to bend 0:25:55.570 --> 0:25:57.610 and twist whatever you read in Scripture to fit some 0:25:57.609 --> 0:26:01.210 current cultural or political ideology that the person who's doing 0:26:01.210 --> 0:26:04.689 the teaching might have. When that happens, you are hearing 0:26:04.690 --> 0:26:07.210 a wolf, and it shouldn't come as any kind of 0:26:07.250 --> 0:26:09.970 a surprise. We need to recognize that sound, don't we? 0:26:10.010 --> 0:26:13.530 Matthew 715 says, beware of false prophets who come to 0:26:13.530 --> 0:26:16.090 you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. And 0:26:16.090 --> 0:26:18.770 that's just one of multiple verses that the Bible talks 0:26:18.770 --> 0:26:22.040 about with those who are going to come among us, 0:26:22.040 --> 0:26:24.880 and they're going to have all kinds of false teaching. 0:26:24.880 --> 0:26:27.640 It is imperative that you and I learn to discern 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:30.320 either what we're hearing from the pulpit comes into alignment 0:26:30.320 --> 0:26:34.920 with God's straight truth or gray in between. So you 0:26:34.920 --> 0:26:37.200 read the word, and through the power and the inspiration 0:26:37.200 --> 0:26:39.800 of the Holy Spirit, that's your Geiger counter. That's your 0:26:39.800 --> 0:26:42.479 straight stick. That's your metric. Wait, wait, wait, what I 0:26:42.480 --> 0:26:45.120 just heard from the pulpit doesn't say that in the Bible, 0:26:45.320 --> 0:26:47.520 but that that doesn't come into alignment with. I just 0:26:47.560 --> 0:26:50.200 read from the word of God. And so Craig and 0:26:50.200 --> 0:26:53.720 I will oftentimes play what we call wolf audio. That's 0:26:53.720 --> 0:26:56.000 what the two of us call it, because these are wolves. 0:26:56.200 --> 0:26:59.400 And I'm not interested in naming the name of the pastor, 0:26:59.760 --> 0:27:01.639 tell you if that's a male or a female. And 0:27:01.640 --> 0:27:04.239 I'm never going to name the denomination because we, you know, 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:05.719 we kind of root for the home team. And then 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:08.359 you get so bound up in a particular denomination, you're 0:27:08.359 --> 0:27:11.639 not hearing the utterances. So it's out of the overflow 0:27:11.640 --> 0:27:13.720 of the mouth, out of the overflow of the heart. 0:27:13.720 --> 0:27:16.760 The mouth speaks. It is listening to what someone says 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:20.000 that becomes imperative. So I want you to listen to 0:27:20.040 --> 0:27:23.950 this person who's going to tell the story of the demoniac, 0:27:23.990 --> 0:27:29.750 the Gerasene demoniac. This is an absolutely fascinating story in Scripture. And, well, 0:27:29.790 --> 0:27:32.669 just put on your thinking cap, listen with the ears 0:27:32.670 --> 0:27:35.990 on your heart and listen to what this person standing 0:27:35.990 --> 0:27:39.310 at the pulpit in front of a gay flag draped 0:27:39.310 --> 0:27:43.110 over the pulpit and draped over the altar and draped 0:27:43.109 --> 0:27:47.030 around the person's speaking's neck. Just listen. 0:27:47.670 --> 0:27:50.110 Loving this half life, he's he's alive. But then he's 0:27:50.150 --> 0:27:53.869 he's living among the tombs. He's socially buried. And his 0:27:53.869 --> 0:27:58.110 community describes him as dangerous. This is someone who would 0:27:58.150 --> 0:28:01.510 have been so separated from belonging and community. He would 0:28:01.550 --> 0:28:05.670 have been completely labeled as beyond help. But Jesus isn't 0:28:05.670 --> 0:28:12.270 afraid of him. Jesus opens with a question what is 0:28:12.270 --> 0:28:16.510 your name? Another thing that should perk our ears up 0:28:17.470 --> 0:28:20.220 in Scripture, just like in our day to day lives, right? 0:28:20.260 --> 0:28:24.219 Our names really matter. So when this man says Legion, 0:28:25.100 --> 0:28:29.460 for we are many, that means something. And that's where 0:28:29.460 --> 0:28:33.620 it gets explicitly political. Because Legion isn't just a word 0:28:33.619 --> 0:28:35.219 for a lot. It's not just like he whipped out 0:28:35.220 --> 0:28:37.379 a thesaurus and thought, what's a fun word? Legion is 0:28:37.380 --> 0:28:40.980 something really specific. It's a military word. And in this 0:28:41.100 --> 0:28:43.300 moment in time in history, it's a Roman word for 0:28:43.300 --> 0:28:46.620 a division of soldiers. The language that the man is 0:28:46.620 --> 0:28:50.820 using to name himself is the language of empire. He 0:28:50.820 --> 0:28:54.580 doesn't say I'm hurting or I'm broken or I'm alone. 0:28:55.780 --> 0:29:01.100 He says I am occupied. I am legion. The demons 0:29:01.100 --> 0:29:02.980 that have been tormenting this man are not just personal. 0:29:02.980 --> 0:29:06.420 They're political. They reflect the systems of domination that he 0:29:06.420 --> 0:29:11.620 lives under. And however we engage these stories of demons, 0:29:11.620 --> 0:29:14.540 whether we understand them as literal beings or we understand 0:29:14.540 --> 0:29:16.340 them as the language that the people had at the 0:29:16.340 --> 0:29:20.290 time to describe other afflictions. The gospel here is really clear. 0:29:20.810 --> 0:29:24.090 By using the name Legion. This man has been so colonized, 0:29:24.090 --> 0:29:27.050 so criminalized, so degraded, that he can only name himself 0:29:27.050 --> 0:29:33.930 by what is hurting him. That's what Empire does. It 0:29:33.930 --> 0:29:40.810 gives people labels instead of names. Undocumented. Unstable. Criminal threat. 0:29:40.850 --> 0:29:47.330 Other Empire teaches people to call themselves Legion. So what 0:29:47.330 --> 0:29:51.010 do we do with this today? With all the stuff 0:29:51.010 --> 0:29:52.890 happening in the world, in the world that I talked 0:29:52.890 --> 0:29:56.810 about at the beginning of our sermon, we do what 0:29:56.810 --> 0:30:00.690 Jesus did. It's not so hard, but it's so radical. 0:30:02.010 --> 0:30:05.650 We ask each other, what is your name? Not the 0:30:05.650 --> 0:30:08.370 name on your birth certificate or your email handle, or 0:30:08.370 --> 0:30:10.810 your real ID that you had to get but your 0:30:10.810 --> 0:30:13.330 real name, what the spirit calls you, the name that 0:30:13.330 --> 0:30:16.960 you claim when the chains fall off and no one 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:18.000 puts them back on. 0:30:20.280 --> 0:30:22.800 Oy vey. Where do you start? With something. You know, 0:30:22.800 --> 0:30:25.200 when all else fails, just read the instructions so you 0:30:25.200 --> 0:30:28.400 can go to Luke chapter eight, verses 26 through 39. 0:30:28.560 --> 0:30:31.760 It is a fabulous story. So because she makes such 0:30:31.760 --> 0:30:35.360 a point of the person's name, let's talk about it. 0:30:35.360 --> 0:30:38.920 So she rightfully talks about the name that it was legion, 0:30:38.920 --> 0:30:41.440 meaning many. So if you look at a Roman legion, 0:30:41.440 --> 0:30:43.719 that was a whole lot of soldiers. Okay. So I 0:30:43.720 --> 0:30:47.320 don't think it's by happenstance that he's called Legion because 0:30:47.320 --> 0:30:49.600 the answer is right there to be found in Scripture. 0:30:49.600 --> 0:30:54.760 When Jesus says, what is your name? The demoniac answers, Legion, 0:30:54.760 --> 0:30:58.840 for many demons have entered us. In other words, it 0:30:58.840 --> 0:31:02.080 wasn't just one which would be awful enough. He's got 0:31:02.080 --> 0:31:04.920 multiple demons that have taken up residence on him, a 0:31:04.920 --> 0:31:09.320 legion of demons. And they, the Bible says, begged him 0:31:09.320 --> 0:31:13.800 Jesus not to command them, the demons to depart into 0:31:13.800 --> 0:31:16.070 the abyss. And this is where the large herds of 0:31:16.070 --> 0:31:19.750 swine shows up. And what happens? They get cast into 0:31:19.750 --> 0:31:22.030 the swine. The demons. Do the demons come out of 0:31:22.030 --> 0:31:24.150 the man? They enter the swine. The herd rushed down 0:31:24.150 --> 0:31:26.830 the steep bank into the lake and was drowned. And 0:31:26.830 --> 0:31:28.470 there's so much more to the story. And the man, 0:31:28.470 --> 0:31:31.350 of course, rejoices once the demons are gone. No, she 0:31:31.350 --> 0:31:33.750 had to take a sharp turn into politics. I'm sorry. 0:31:33.790 --> 0:31:37.510 Were they voting for Nero? Were they voting for the Epicureans? 0:31:37.510 --> 0:31:39.510 Were they voting for the Stoics? Were they voting for 0:31:39.510 --> 0:31:42.150 the Pharisees? Were they voting for the. Where does voting 0:31:42.150 --> 0:31:45.070 and politics come into this? This is a man who's 0:31:45.150 --> 0:31:49.990 occupied by demons, and Jesus rescues him and sets us free. 0:31:49.990 --> 0:31:54.190 The demons, she said, are political. I'm pretty sure they 0:31:54.190 --> 0:31:56.430 were not political at all, but hey, that's just me. 0:31:56.430 --> 0:31:57.350 Your take. Craig. 0:31:57.910 --> 0:32:04.630 Um, well, it's difficult to to try to decide where 0:32:04.670 --> 0:32:09.390 to start with, um, all of the errors that this 0:32:09.390 --> 0:32:15.420 cleric wearing a clerics collar in this church are committed. 0:32:15.420 --> 0:32:19.380 But let me give you the overview. When I heard 0:32:19.380 --> 0:32:22.020 this and read it, I thought, this is a perfect 0:32:22.020 --> 0:32:25.300 example of the danger of what C.S. Lewis said was 0:32:25.300 --> 0:32:31.740 the error of of naturalism. In other words, that every issue, 0:32:32.100 --> 0:32:35.660 even if it looks like it's a spiritual or transcendent 0:32:35.660 --> 0:32:41.420 or supernatural episode, for instance, some of Jesus's miracles, clearly 0:32:41.420 --> 0:32:48.420 supernatural in nature. But the natural person goes, no, I'm 0:32:48.460 --> 0:32:52.500 going to interpret this as a simple, natural act. How 0:32:52.500 --> 0:32:56.900 can I explain it in natural terms and demythologize the 0:32:56.900 --> 0:33:03.180 existence of any spiritual or transcendent spiritual aspect to this? 0:33:03.420 --> 0:33:07.380 So it couldn't have been a legion of demons in 0:33:07.380 --> 0:33:11.260 this individual, this man. It had to be a political 0:33:11.450 --> 0:33:15.890 statement of a poor, tortured soul who was being oppressed 0:33:15.890 --> 0:33:21.810 because the Roman Empire was in charge of his neighborhood. Um, no. No. 0:33:21.810 --> 0:33:23.850 As a matter of fact, the story goes on. And 0:33:23.890 --> 0:33:29.610 she this particular female cleric didn't expand on that. The 0:33:29.610 --> 0:33:33.850 story goes on to say that Jesus exorcised the demons 0:33:34.410 --> 0:33:40.010 and the demons, begged him not to, uh, begged him 0:33:40.010 --> 0:33:46.090 to send them into the swine because of what frankly, 0:33:46.090 --> 0:33:51.290 Jesus talked about in Matthew chapter 12. You see, the 0:33:51.410 --> 0:33:56.370 the demonic world exists, the spiritual world exists. And as 0:33:56.370 --> 0:34:01.050 Jesus explained in Matthew chapter 12, when someone is occupied 0:34:01.050 --> 0:34:07.010 by a demon and is exercised spiritually, that demon is 0:34:07.330 --> 0:34:10.589 ends up in a what Jesus described as a dry, 0:34:10.630 --> 0:34:14.910 waterless places seeking rest and finding none. It's a place 0:34:14.910 --> 0:34:18.989 of torment and so therefore they have to reoccupy a human. 0:34:19.390 --> 0:34:22.190 Jesus is not going to allow that sends them into 0:34:22.190 --> 0:34:25.350 the swine instead that go over the hill. That was 0:34:25.350 --> 0:34:31.190 an entirely supernatural reality, showing the supernatural power of the 0:34:31.190 --> 0:34:35.150 Son of God, not some political statement about the Roman Empire. 0:34:35.190 --> 0:34:37.150 I think the part that breaks my heart the most. 0:34:37.150 --> 0:34:40.149 And again, I man looks on the outward appearance. God 0:34:40.150 --> 0:34:41.830 looks on the heart. We read in first Samuel. So 0:34:41.830 --> 0:34:44.630 I can't tell you what's in this particular person's heart, 0:34:44.870 --> 0:34:47.589 but I can tell you what I think she's missing, 0:34:47.830 --> 0:34:51.029 and that's Jesus. Because if you read this, there's no 0:34:51.030 --> 0:34:53.790 sense of politics. There isn't any sense of the empire. 0:34:53.790 --> 0:34:57.550 The empire doesn't give people names. It gives them labels. Well, 0:34:57.550 --> 0:35:00.350 here's what happens at the end of this. Precious. Honestly, 0:35:00.350 --> 0:35:02.310 this is a story that puts a lump in your throat. 0:35:02.510 --> 0:35:04.549 So the man from whom the demons had gone, the 0:35:04.550 --> 0:35:08.150 Bible tells us, begged that he might be with him, Jesus. 0:35:08.150 --> 0:35:11.779 But Jesus sent him away, saying, return to your home 0:35:11.780 --> 0:35:15.100 and declare, how much God has done for you. And he, 0:35:15.100 --> 0:35:20.340 the person who formerly had legions of demons inside him. 0:35:20.500 --> 0:35:24.339 And he went away, proclaiming throughout the whole city how 0:35:24.340 --> 0:35:27.020 much Jesus had done for him. So he goes from 0:35:27.020 --> 0:35:31.420 being a demoniac to an evangelist. And this poor person 0:35:31.420 --> 0:35:34.380 who is wearing the colored robes of the gay pride 0:35:34.380 --> 0:35:37.540 flag on her podium, on her body, and on the 0:35:37.540 --> 0:35:42.380 altar behind her, is so focused on trying to superimpose 0:35:42.420 --> 0:35:47.300 sloppy political thinking into the story that she missed Jesus. 0:35:47.540 --> 0:35:49.819 That Jesus was able to take a man who was 0:35:49.820 --> 0:35:53.820 in excruciating pain and somehow had been occupied by all 0:35:53.820 --> 0:35:57.419 these demons, and now he's so treasured what Jesus did 0:35:57.420 --> 0:35:59.580 for him. He wanted to follow Jesus the rest of 0:35:59.580 --> 0:36:02.380 his life. And Jesus says, no, just tell people how 0:36:02.380 --> 0:36:05.620 much God loves you and what Jesus has done for you. 0:36:05.620 --> 0:36:07.930 So I have to tell you, Craig, It breaks my 0:36:07.930 --> 0:36:11.450 heart because not only is it a torturous misinterpretation of scripture, 0:36:11.450 --> 0:36:14.090 you want the fancy word for it, it's eisegesis. She 0:36:14.130 --> 0:36:17.330 put there what wasn't there, as opposed to exegesis, where 0:36:17.330 --> 0:36:20.609 she pulled out of the scripture exactly what the scriptures taught, 0:36:20.610 --> 0:36:24.210 and in the process she missed Jesus. Oh Lord, please 0:36:24.210 --> 0:36:28.770 help us to never miss Jesus, particularly in your words 0:36:28.770 --> 0:37:00.250 back after this. So did you ever stop and think 0:37:00.250 --> 0:37:02.529 about the power of a name? I mean, how many 0:37:02.530 --> 0:37:04.690 times do we read in the scriptures where somebody actually 0:37:04.690 --> 0:37:08.960 has their name changed, right? And it's usually very significant. 0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:13.200 Abram becomes Abraham, Sarai becomes Sarah. Um, we just look 0:37:13.239 --> 0:37:15.759 at who gets called Israel in the Bible, right? I mean, 0:37:15.760 --> 0:37:19.440 these names are so tremendously important. And when you have 0:37:19.440 --> 0:37:21.040 a child, I don't know about you, but in the 0:37:21.040 --> 0:37:23.160 partial household, boy, did we do a lot of praying 0:37:23.160 --> 0:37:25.239 before we named our children because we thought this is 0:37:25.239 --> 0:37:26.880 going to be something they carry with them for the 0:37:26.880 --> 0:37:30.200 rest of their life. So after much prayer, it was 0:37:30.200 --> 0:37:32.760 decided that when we had children, we would name them 0:37:32.760 --> 0:37:34.960 after people in the Bible so that we would always 0:37:34.960 --> 0:37:37.560 have an open door to talk about the attributes the, 0:37:37.760 --> 0:37:40.520 the good and the bad, because most of the humans 0:37:40.520 --> 0:37:42.440 in Scripture have just that. They have good and they 0:37:42.440 --> 0:37:44.719 have bad things that we can learn from. But we 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:48.399 wanted to give them a paradigm of a person in 0:37:48.400 --> 0:37:50.719 history that we could turn back to and say, this 0:37:50.719 --> 0:37:52.680 was what they did right. Here's where their challenges were, 0:37:52.680 --> 0:37:55.560 and that would become an open door. So hence Sarah, Rebekah, 0:37:55.600 --> 0:37:59.640 Samuel and Joseph. And, uh, we for our house, it 0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:01.120 was the right thing to do and we felt very 0:38:01.160 --> 0:38:03.560 happy about it. But I gotta tell you, there's a 0:38:03.560 --> 0:38:05.830 precious baby coming into the world. That's going to have 0:38:05.830 --> 0:38:09.910 a challenge, because this baby is going to have an 0:38:09.910 --> 0:38:12.230 interesting name. In fact, they put out a baby shower 0:38:12.230 --> 0:38:15.590 announcement that says, join us to celebrate the upcoming arrival 0:38:15.590 --> 0:38:20.190 of our little bundle of joy. The baby's name is Chernobyl. 0:38:20.510 --> 0:38:25.710 Hope you can't make this up. Chernobyl hope. And apparently 0:38:25.710 --> 0:38:28.109 that showed up in the baby shower invitation. It was 0:38:28.110 --> 0:38:33.069 posted online under the title I'm Speechless. And Greg, there 0:38:33.070 --> 0:38:35.430 are a lot of clever people out there because there 0:38:35.430 --> 0:38:38.950 were people who commented. Someone said, I'm sure everyone at 0:38:38.950 --> 0:38:45.669 the celebration will be radiant. Another person said, speak for yourself. 0:38:45.989 --> 0:38:47.710 If I were a guest at the shower and heard 0:38:47.710 --> 0:38:53.149 that name, I'd have a total meltdown. This one? Are 0:38:53.150 --> 0:38:56.709 all friends invited or is this just for the nuclear family? 0:38:58.989 --> 0:39:02.710 Of course, this is referring to the absolutely horrible incident 0:39:02.710 --> 0:39:05.700 that took place at the Chernobyl Nuclear Center in the 0:39:05.700 --> 0:39:08.180 former Soviet Union. It's just a terrible story. And then 0:39:08.180 --> 0:39:10.779 other people said, well, after this they can they can 0:39:10.780 --> 0:39:15.100 have Auschwitz, joy, Hiroshima love and Columbine kindness. This one said. 0:39:15.100 --> 0:39:18.820 Introducing new triplets. Nine over 11 peace Boston Marathon sunshine 0:39:18.820 --> 0:39:23.740 and Sandy hook radiance. So it's just amazing that people 0:39:23.739 --> 0:39:25.700 would put that kind of a name on for the 0:39:25.700 --> 0:39:27.739 rest of their life. Craig, your thoughts? 0:39:28.540 --> 0:39:35.859 You know, I tried to find, um, some positivity in 0:39:35.860 --> 0:39:41.339 this and I thought, did this dear woman who was 0:39:41.340 --> 0:39:47.220 proposing this name, was she, uh, kind of stumbling on 0:39:47.219 --> 0:39:52.500 trying to find an optimistic view for the future. In 0:39:52.500 --> 0:39:57.020 other words, may we never have another Chernobyl or. And, 0:39:57.219 --> 0:39:59.540 you know, that's where the hope part comes in. 0:40:00.100 --> 0:40:02.290 Um, why would you burden a child with. 0:40:02.330 --> 0:40:07.810 Exactly. In other words, think about the ramifications for your 0:40:07.810 --> 0:40:12.210 child living with that. Uh, would you call, you know, 0:40:12.250 --> 0:40:15.049 would they start adopting a nickname so they wouldn't have 0:40:15.050 --> 0:40:18.450 to be burdened? Uh, hi, I'm czerny, you know, I'm 0:40:18.450 --> 0:40:25.810 not Chernobyl. I'm. I'm Czerny. Um, on my journey. So, uh, but, 0:40:25.850 --> 0:40:31.570 you know, on the on the serious side of this, uh, names, uh, 0:40:31.610 --> 0:40:36.610 carry with it blessings or curses. Um, and you just 0:40:36.969 --> 0:40:40.250 beautifully laid out some of our thinking just in our family. 0:40:40.250 --> 0:40:42.610 And we know other families do this, too. A lot 0:40:42.610 --> 0:40:46.450 of thought about the name that's going to be given 0:40:46.450 --> 0:40:50.609 to a child very often thinking about names from your, uh, 0:40:50.610 --> 0:40:53.569 extended family or to carry on the legacy of the 0:40:53.570 --> 0:40:57.690 name of a grandfather or grandmother, uh, as a middle name, uh, 0:40:57.690 --> 0:40:59.890 and to be able to create kind of a link 0:40:59.930 --> 0:41:03.040 and an appreciation for the family that has come before 0:41:03.239 --> 0:41:08.680 and the attributes that they brought. So important names are significant. Um, 0:41:09.400 --> 0:41:11.799 so I'll pray for this person that they still have 0:41:11.800 --> 0:41:12.640 time to change. 0:41:12.920 --> 0:41:15.839 Hopefully that poor child. Wow. So at this point, I 0:41:15.840 --> 0:41:17.719 want to bring in a little common sense, because often 0:41:17.719 --> 0:41:20.480 what we talk about on Fridays really is just so 0:41:20.920 --> 0:41:24.640 lacking in common sense, whether it's this trans issue or 0:41:24.680 --> 0:41:26.360 some of the cases that we've talked about that the 0:41:26.360 --> 0:41:28.640 Supreme Court had to take up, or even the craziness 0:41:28.920 --> 0:41:33.200 of naming a child after a horrific human disaster. I 0:41:33.200 --> 0:41:35.120 think at this point, I want to call in your 0:41:35.120 --> 0:41:38.799 honor as my expert witness one, Andy Griffin. So you're 0:41:38.800 --> 0:41:40.960 going to hear a little craziness. And then here's the 0:41:41.000 --> 0:41:44.839 sagely wisdom that probably now you'd only see in black 0:41:44.840 --> 0:41:46.879 and white. And if you're lucky, you might find it 0:41:46.880 --> 0:41:50.200 somewhere written, but it's probably going to be shouted down 0:41:50.200 --> 0:41:55.320 by woke inclusivity language. And then again, there's this common sense. 0:41:55.320 --> 0:41:57.120 So you decide. Have a listen. 0:41:58.040 --> 0:42:01.910 When our children tell us who they are. It is 0:42:01.910 --> 0:42:06.510 our job as grown ups to listen and to believe them. 0:42:06.830 --> 0:42:09.310 Now, I'm afraid it don't work that way. You can't 0:42:09.310 --> 0:42:12.069 let a youngin decide for himself. He'll grab it. The 0:42:12.110 --> 0:42:15.310 first flashy thing with shiny ribbons on it. Then when 0:42:15.310 --> 0:42:17.510 he finds out there's a hook in it, it's too late. 0:42:18.510 --> 0:42:21.029 The wrong ideas come packaged with so much glitter, it's 0:42:21.030 --> 0:42:23.230 hard to convince them that other things might be better 0:42:23.230 --> 0:42:26.589 in the long run. And all a parent can do 0:42:26.590 --> 0:42:31.710 is say, wait, trust me and try to keep temptation away. 0:42:33.070 --> 0:42:36.750 Package with so much glitter. I mean that that's. I 0:42:36.790 --> 0:42:39.750 love the simplicity of that. But it really is profound 0:42:40.430 --> 0:42:43.110 because when you think of someone coming as a prince 0:42:43.110 --> 0:42:47.630 of light, right? And how deceptive he was and shiny objects, 0:42:47.670 --> 0:42:49.870 I mean, there's nothing new under the sun. And yet 0:42:49.870 --> 0:42:51.710 he just said it in plain talk. And what I 0:42:51.710 --> 0:42:54.910 liked was and he said it as a reminder for 0:42:54.910 --> 0:42:57.820 us never to be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. No, 0:42:57.820 --> 0:42:59.580 I'm afraid it just don't work that way. 0:43:02.780 --> 0:43:08.620 I that advice beware of latching yourself to every shiny 0:43:08.620 --> 0:43:13.060 new thing rather than that. Say, well, what are the 0:43:13.100 --> 0:43:16.780 ancient truths that have stood the test of time from 0:43:16.780 --> 0:43:21.259 time immemorial? And you'll find those, by the way, in 0:43:21.260 --> 0:43:25.340 the covers of Genesis to Revelation. Walk in the word. 0:43:25.660 --> 0:43:28.219 Keep it as the guide for your life. Those are 0:43:28.219 --> 0:43:32.860 the ancient divine truths that are going to make sure 0:43:32.860 --> 0:43:36.380 you don't fall for the shiny new thing. You will 0:43:36.420 --> 0:43:41.379 hand handle, uh, life with the things that really matter 0:43:41.380 --> 0:43:44.220 and the things that are true, rather than the things 0:43:44.219 --> 0:43:46.900 that grab your attention and then melt away. 0:43:46.940 --> 0:43:49.420 Yeah, well, that's the joy of truth, isn't it? Is 0:43:49.420 --> 0:43:52.500 that it's eternal? It's the same yesterday, today and forever. 0:43:52.500 --> 0:43:56.250 It's knowable. It's objective. It applies to all people in 0:43:56.250 --> 0:43:59.410 all times and all places, and sometimes it isn't shiny. 0:43:59.770 --> 0:44:03.049 And oftentimes it's not new, but it still is the 0:44:03.050 --> 0:44:07.570 best thing that's out there. So seek truth. No truth. 0:44:07.570 --> 0:44:11.290 Follow the one whose name is truth. And I hope 0:44:11.290 --> 0:44:12.930 you have a great weekend. Thank you so much for 0:44:12.930 --> 0:44:15.569 joining us in these conversations there again, designed to have 0:44:15.570 --> 0:44:17.450 you take the Word of God and apply it to 0:44:17.450 --> 0:44:21.050 every single aspect of the world around you. God didn't 0:44:21.050 --> 0:44:23.730 make us stumble in the dark. He said, hear, my 0:44:23.730 --> 0:44:25.890 word is a lamp unto your feet and a light 0:44:25.890 --> 0:44:28.489 unto your path. Here I'm going away. And if I 0:44:28.489 --> 0:44:30.370 don't go away, you're not going to have the benefit 0:44:30.370 --> 0:44:33.810 of the comforter, the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit. 0:44:33.810 --> 0:44:36.450 He hasn't left us. He hasn't left us on our 0:44:36.450 --> 0:44:38.529 own by any stretch of the imagination. I don't know 0:44:38.530 --> 0:44:41.450 about you, but in a world turned upside down and 0:44:41.489 --> 0:44:44.690 on Fridays we point to all the upside down craziness 0:44:44.730 --> 0:44:48.450 in the stranger things out there. Just cling to Jesus. 0:44:48.450 --> 0:44:50.850 He is the same yesterday, today and forever. We'll see 0:44:50.850 --> 0:44:51.890 you next time, friends.