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Welcome to In the Market with Janet partial. 45 00:02:08,570 --> 00:02:11,370 S1: Very happy Friday to you Craig. Partial is with me 46 00:02:11,370 --> 00:02:13,290 S1: as he is on Fridays because we do things a 47 00:02:13,290 --> 00:02:16,210 S1: little bit different here. We put on the lens of scripture, 48 00:02:16,250 --> 00:02:17,610 S1: take a look at what's going on in the world 49 00:02:17,610 --> 00:02:21,090 S1: around us from a biblical perspective, and learn to discern. 50 00:02:21,090 --> 00:02:23,730 S1: We're going to be Bereans, people of noble character. As 51 00:02:23,730 --> 00:02:25,530 S1: it says in the book of acts. We're going to 52 00:02:25,570 --> 00:02:28,210 S1: test all things. So just because it's out there in 53 00:02:28,210 --> 00:02:30,970 S1: the marketplace doesn't mean it's good and right and true 54 00:02:30,970 --> 00:02:33,649 S1: or biblical. And so this is a kind of applied 55 00:02:33,650 --> 00:02:36,410 S1: Christianity exercise on Fridays where we look at some of 56 00:02:36,410 --> 00:02:38,690 S1: the stories, and then we square it off with the 57 00:02:38,690 --> 00:02:40,609 S1: straight stick of truth. And what God said, by the way, 58 00:02:40,610 --> 00:02:42,810 S1: we do this for two hours every day, two hours 59 00:02:42,810 --> 00:02:45,130 S1: on Friday as well. If you did not get a 60 00:02:45,130 --> 00:02:47,329 S1: chance to hear our conversation in the first hour where 61 00:02:47,330 --> 00:02:51,370 S1: we talked about an unbelievable training session behind closed doors 62 00:02:51,650 --> 00:02:54,450 S1: at a Washington suburbs school board that taught the school 63 00:02:54,450 --> 00:02:57,450 S1: board members how to deal with terrorists, I'm not talking 64 00:02:57,450 --> 00:03:00,489 S1: about ISIS. I'm not talking about al Qaeda. I'm talking 65 00:03:00,490 --> 00:03:03,530 S1: about moms and dads. I kid you not. They literally 66 00:03:03,530 --> 00:03:06,250 S1: brought in a group of actors and had them train 67 00:03:06,250 --> 00:03:08,650 S1: for these terrorists who show up for school board meetings. 68 00:03:08,650 --> 00:03:10,650 S1: It was repulsive, and we had a few comments to 69 00:03:10,690 --> 00:03:13,210 S1: share on that. We also gave you an update from 70 00:03:13,210 --> 00:03:15,850 S1: an eyewitness on the assault on the city's church in 71 00:03:15,850 --> 00:03:18,450 S1: Saint Paul, Minnesota, as well as an update on who 72 00:03:18,490 --> 00:03:21,410 S1: the people are that have been arrested and whether or 73 00:03:21,410 --> 00:03:23,489 S1: not there is a shield in the First Amendment for 74 00:03:23,490 --> 00:03:25,610 S1: journalists to go in and disrupt a church service. We 75 00:03:25,610 --> 00:03:29,169 S1: also give you an update on Don lemon and somebody going, no, no, 76 00:03:29,169 --> 00:03:31,250 S1: he wasn't just a participant. He had a thing or 77 00:03:31,250 --> 00:03:33,130 S1: two to say about that. So all of that is 78 00:03:33,130 --> 00:03:35,890 S1: now in a podcast. So if you missed it, just 79 00:03:35,890 --> 00:03:37,770 S1: go to In the Market with Janet Parshall. That's the 80 00:03:37,770 --> 00:03:39,690 S1: name of the podcast. Go to wherever you find your 81 00:03:39,690 --> 00:03:43,130 S1: favorite podcast, Spotify, Apple, wherever download it. You can listen 82 00:03:43,130 --> 00:03:45,450 S1: to our comments for last hour. Now we start all 83 00:03:45,450 --> 00:03:47,650 S1: over again, so take your etch-a-sketch shake it. We also 84 00:03:47,650 --> 00:03:49,410 S1: had a thing or two to say about the Super Bowl. 85 00:03:49,450 --> 00:03:51,570 S1: Take your etch-a-sketch shake it. You got a clean screen? 86 00:03:51,570 --> 00:03:53,730 S1: Did I just date myself? Probably. But those of you 87 00:03:53,770 --> 00:03:55,420 S1: who are as old as I am, you know exactly 88 00:03:55,420 --> 00:03:57,460 S1: what I'm talking about. I want to talk about a 89 00:03:57,460 --> 00:04:00,140 S1: Senate Judiciary Committee hearing that was held this week on Tuesday. 90 00:04:00,140 --> 00:04:02,820 S1: So there's this big merger planned. As you all know, 91 00:04:02,820 --> 00:04:10,540 S1: Netflix has a $72 billion deal to acquire, um, Warner Brothers. 92 00:04:10,540 --> 00:04:12,740 S1: And they want to make sure that they grow this 93 00:04:12,740 --> 00:04:16,100 S1: thing exponentially. It's going to include audiences from HBO Max 94 00:04:16,100 --> 00:04:21,020 S1: and DC Studios, and, uh, it's Warner Bros. Discovery. It's 95 00:04:21,020 --> 00:04:23,420 S1: just this monster amalgamation. I happen to be in that 96 00:04:23,420 --> 00:04:26,420 S1: crowd that's shouting antitrust, antitrust. And I'm not alone. A 97 00:04:26,460 --> 00:04:29,460 S1: lot of people are saying, no, that's almost a non-compete 98 00:04:29,460 --> 00:04:32,020 S1: when you're that big. But what happened during the course 99 00:04:32,020 --> 00:04:34,180 S1: of the hearing on Capitol Hill is it opened the 100 00:04:34,180 --> 00:04:38,140 S1: door of opportunity to talk about content on Netflix. Little 101 00:04:38,140 --> 00:04:40,060 S1: thing I don't know about you, but I've got a 102 00:04:40,060 --> 00:04:42,300 S1: myriad of streaming platforms. And I'll tell you what, when 103 00:04:42,300 --> 00:04:45,100 S1: Netflix comes on, if it's a Netflix original, I generally 104 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:47,700 S1: have to rearrange the furniture because it's all slid to 105 00:04:47,740 --> 00:04:49,979 S1: the left, and I'm not the only person who feels 106 00:04:49,980 --> 00:04:52,460 S1: that way. Now. We've got objective studies out there that 107 00:04:52,460 --> 00:04:55,659 S1: talk about the push, the agenda that's out there. Well, 108 00:04:55,660 --> 00:04:58,099 S1: you couldn't go to Washington. So we're bringing Washington to you. 109 00:04:58,100 --> 00:04:59,740 S1: And I want you to hear some of the diatribe 110 00:04:59,779 --> 00:05:03,500 S1: back and forth between the Netflix CEO and a couple 111 00:05:03,540 --> 00:05:06,180 S1: of members of the Senate Judiciary Committee who really were 112 00:05:06,180 --> 00:05:10,219 S1: concerned about the content as well as this antitrust issue. 113 00:05:10,220 --> 00:05:11,660 S1: By the way, that was one of the things they 114 00:05:11,660 --> 00:05:14,140 S1: wanted to talk about, because you give all that power, 115 00:05:14,180 --> 00:05:17,340 S1: you know, power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. So when 116 00:05:17,339 --> 00:05:20,900 S1: you're promulgating a particular perspective, a singular perspective, you don't 117 00:05:20,900 --> 00:05:23,860 S1: have a balanced perspective, particularly when you want to buy 118 00:05:23,860 --> 00:05:27,580 S1: it and increase it by $72 billion. Fellow by the 119 00:05:27,580 --> 00:05:29,980 S1: name of Eric Schmidt hails from the great state of Missouri. 120 00:05:30,020 --> 00:05:32,460 S1: He's one of the individuals who serves on that Senate 121 00:05:32,460 --> 00:05:36,020 S1: Judiciary Committee. And he has this to say to the 122 00:05:36,020 --> 00:05:37,380 S1: CEO of Netflix. 123 00:05:37,820 --> 00:05:43,100 S7: Netflix content is synonymous for the modern phenomenon of race, swapping, 124 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:46,740 S7: both historical and real and fictional characters. Just a few examples. 125 00:05:46,740 --> 00:05:51,460 S7: Netflix made Black Vikings Netflix changed Cleopatra from Macedonian to black. 126 00:05:51,620 --> 00:05:56,150 S7: Achilles change from Greek to black. Netflix overtly sexualizes children 127 00:05:56,150 --> 00:06:00,430 S7: in its cuties film related to pre-teen girls. You mentioned 128 00:06:00,430 --> 00:06:04,229 S7: earlier that you can you can block for titles. I'm 129 00:06:04,230 --> 00:06:08,870 S7: not sure blocking the word cuties would shield kids from 130 00:06:09,390 --> 00:06:12,390 S7: the oversexualized content in cuties, so I'm not sure that's 131 00:06:12,390 --> 00:06:16,430 S7: sufficient enough. Netflix continues to push sexual and gender theory 132 00:06:16,430 --> 00:06:18,510 S7: on kids, and maybe this is what was being referred 133 00:06:18,510 --> 00:06:25,790 S7: to earlier. 41% of G-rated kid approved series contain LGBTQIA+ content. 134 00:06:26,630 --> 00:06:29,750 S1: Wow. That's stunning. And again, that's a report we think 135 00:06:29,750 --> 00:06:33,150 S1: Concerned Women for America for putting that report out. But 41% 136 00:06:33,150 --> 00:06:38,109 S1: of G rated not X, not r g rated series. 41% 137 00:06:38,110 --> 00:06:42,030 S1: of TV rated seven years uh, has a now a 138 00:06:42,070 --> 00:06:45,430 S1: LGBTQ plus content. Uh, Craig, I've got more audio from. 139 00:06:45,710 --> 00:06:46,950 S1: I want to do a little bit of what Josh 140 00:06:46,990 --> 00:06:49,469 S1: Ali had to say as well. You could split this 141 00:06:49,470 --> 00:06:51,110 S1: right down the middle. I know you and you could 142 00:06:51,110 --> 00:06:53,190 S1: do it. Uh, dancing on the head of a pin 143 00:06:53,230 --> 00:06:55,190 S1: the whole time you're doing it. Let me just push 144 00:06:55,190 --> 00:06:57,110 S1: to the side the antitrust question for a minute. Let 145 00:06:57,110 --> 00:06:59,950 S1: me just talk about content. But they're really kind of interconnected, 146 00:06:59,950 --> 00:07:02,349 S1: aren't they? Because if antitrust is the creation of a 147 00:07:02,350 --> 00:07:06,030 S1: of a monopoly, you're monopolizing a particular worldview. If half 148 00:07:06,029 --> 00:07:08,070 S1: your content is pushing this for kiddies. 149 00:07:08,390 --> 00:07:10,830 S8: Yeah. Uh, as a matter of fact, the Supreme Court 150 00:07:10,870 --> 00:07:13,550 S8: had spent a lot of decades, uh, since they said this, 151 00:07:13,550 --> 00:07:17,150 S8: but it's never been reversed by, uh, more current Supreme 152 00:07:17,150 --> 00:07:21,030 S8: Court justices. Supreme court at one point said that a 153 00:07:21,030 --> 00:07:24,750 S8: private monopoly, a private media monopoly, and certainly Netflix is 154 00:07:24,750 --> 00:07:27,630 S8: a form of media. It's entertainment media, um, that has 155 00:07:27,630 --> 00:07:32,270 S8: a monopoly, has the power to, uh, wreak havoc and 156 00:07:32,270 --> 00:07:36,550 S8: create harm in terms of either censorship or a simply 157 00:07:36,590 --> 00:07:41,950 S8: biased view of everything, uh, in as much damage as 158 00:07:41,990 --> 00:07:45,430 S8: if the federal government were the one actually doing it. 159 00:07:45,750 --> 00:07:49,840 S8: So monopolies are have the power like the federal government 160 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:53,480 S8: to be able to sway, to be able to censor. And, uh, 161 00:07:53,480 --> 00:07:56,080 S8: in the same way, there ought to be regulations, and 162 00:07:56,120 --> 00:07:58,760 S8: antitrust is one of them to be able to rectify that. 163 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:02,040 S8: So that's why they're talking about bias. Look, you can, 164 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:04,600 S8: you know, you can follow the the type of network 165 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:07,280 S8: that you want on television. And that's not illegal. And 166 00:08:07,280 --> 00:08:09,720 S8: they shouldn't be controlled in terms of content. But once 167 00:08:09,720 --> 00:08:14,200 S8: you become a market dominant giant like Netflix, a couple 168 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,640 S8: of years ago, Netflix was basically eating up the world 169 00:08:17,640 --> 00:08:21,440 S8: in terms of, um, its its power base, in terms 170 00:08:21,440 --> 00:08:26,200 S8: of its influence. And it's, it's, uh, size on Wall Street. Um, 171 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:30,840 S8: everybody was afraid of Netflix. That may be changing now, but, uh, 172 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:34,360 S8: they're close enough to a market dominant monopoly where those 173 00:08:34,360 --> 00:08:36,760 S8: are appropriate questions. If you're going to have that kind 174 00:08:36,760 --> 00:08:40,640 S8: of power, then are you being a neutral arbiter of 175 00:08:40,640 --> 00:08:44,080 S8: various opinions, or are you really using it for a 176 00:08:44,080 --> 00:08:48,400 S8: political platform, in which case we need a bigger, wider 177 00:08:48,400 --> 00:08:49,480 S8: investigation of you. 178 00:08:49,520 --> 00:08:53,000 S1: Well, competition is a good thing. And when when you 179 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:55,400 S1: put together this conglomerate. Now remember they want to have 180 00:08:55,400 --> 00:08:56,960 S1: they're going to have HBO Max. They were going to 181 00:08:56,960 --> 00:08:59,360 S1: have discovery. They're going to have Warner Brothers, all of 182 00:08:59,360 --> 00:09:03,120 S1: the archival films on that Disney as well, all under 183 00:09:03,120 --> 00:09:07,319 S1: one roof pushing it looks to be one particular worldview. 184 00:09:07,320 --> 00:09:09,480 S1: And so there is I don't think you can. So 185 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:11,880 S1: I tried to split the issues. In fact, you can't. 186 00:09:11,960 --> 00:09:13,960 S1: Part of the problem with the antitrust is not only 187 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:16,520 S1: do you monopolize it. So from a free market perspective, 188 00:09:16,559 --> 00:09:20,640 S1: you're eliminating competition, but from the marketplace of ideas, you're 189 00:09:20,640 --> 00:09:21,840 S1: eliminating competition. 190 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:25,960 S8: This isn't refrigerators or designer clothes. This is ideas and communication. 191 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:27,520 S1: I got more from that hearing. I'll share it with 192 00:09:27,520 --> 00:09:45,320 S1: you right after this. How does our view of God 193 00:09:45,320 --> 00:09:48,490 S1: get distorted? Do you struggle with feeling close to God? Well, 194 00:09:48,490 --> 00:09:50,890 S1: that's why I've chosen secure how to have a healthy 195 00:09:50,890 --> 00:09:53,890 S1: attachment to God. As this month's truth tool, discover how 196 00:09:53,890 --> 00:09:56,490 S1: to counter the lies about the truth of God's character. 197 00:09:56,730 --> 00:09:58,890 S1: Ask for your copy of secure. When you give a 198 00:09:58,929 --> 00:10:02,970 S1: gift of any amount to in the market, call eight 7758. 199 00:10:02,970 --> 00:10:06,890 S1: That's eight 7758 or go to in the market with 200 00:10:06,890 --> 00:10:07,730 S1: Janet Parshall. 201 00:10:11,370 --> 00:10:15,930 S7: On June 20th, 2020, on its X page, Netflix posted 202 00:10:15,929 --> 00:10:21,690 S7: a video titled quote to my white friends guilt, shame, embarrassment, 203 00:10:21,970 --> 00:10:24,730 S7: end quote and saying, quote, we need to do everything 204 00:10:24,730 --> 00:10:28,250 S7: in our power to amplify that message. Um, do you 205 00:10:28,250 --> 00:10:29,210 S7: stand by that statement? 206 00:10:29,770 --> 00:10:31,770 S9: I have no recall of that statement at all. 207 00:10:31,809 --> 00:10:33,089 S7: Okay, I just read it to you. Do you have 208 00:10:33,130 --> 00:10:34,490 S7: an opinion about it? 209 00:10:34,530 --> 00:10:36,530 S9: I don't have any idea what context it's in or anything. 210 00:10:36,730 --> 00:10:38,850 S7: Okay. In the wake of in the wake of the 211 00:10:38,850 --> 00:10:43,130 S7: George Floyd riots on June 20th, Netflix posted on its 212 00:10:43,130 --> 00:10:46,689 S7: page to my white friends. Guilt. Shame. Embarrassment. What does 213 00:10:46,690 --> 00:10:47,209 S7: that mean? 214 00:10:47,250 --> 00:10:49,970 S9: I think that is an uncharacteristic post that I deeply 215 00:10:49,970 --> 00:10:51,010 S9: regret if that got posted. 216 00:10:51,290 --> 00:10:55,449 S7: Okay, well it did. Um, Netflix also said on May 30th, 217 00:10:55,530 --> 00:11:02,010 S7: to be silent is to be complicit. Um, I don't okay. 218 00:11:02,050 --> 00:11:04,370 S7: I'm just reading you some things that Netflix posted at 219 00:11:04,370 --> 00:11:09,050 S7: the time. Um, so you you don't stand by that 220 00:11:09,050 --> 00:11:09,850 S7: statement then? 221 00:11:10,650 --> 00:11:13,330 S9: As I said, sir, we have no political agenda. Posting 222 00:11:13,330 --> 00:11:14,810 S9: something like that would be quite political. 223 00:11:14,850 --> 00:11:16,850 S7: But I would agree, I would agree. 224 00:11:17,170 --> 00:11:19,050 S9: And I would say we would hope that that wouldn't 225 00:11:19,050 --> 00:11:19,650 S9: happen again. 226 00:11:19,650 --> 00:11:22,650 S7: Okay. Netflix also said on June 10th, 2020 that to 227 00:11:22,650 --> 00:11:26,050 S7: implement the BLM the Black Lives Matter agenda, Netflix understood, quote, 228 00:11:26,090 --> 00:11:30,530 S7: that our commitment to true systemic change will take time. Um, 229 00:11:30,850 --> 00:11:33,130 S7: do you still think that takes time? Are you still 230 00:11:33,170 --> 00:11:35,089 S7: actively engaged in this effort? 231 00:11:35,130 --> 00:11:37,730 S9: Again, sir, we're not engaged in political efforts like that. 232 00:11:37,770 --> 00:11:42,010 S7: Okay. Any longer and you're not. You were, but you're 233 00:11:42,010 --> 00:11:42,570 S7: not now. 234 00:11:42,970 --> 00:11:46,290 S9: I'm again. I'm. I can't think of a period of time. 235 00:11:46,570 --> 00:11:48,050 S9: I think of the time you're talking about. Was it 236 00:11:48,050 --> 00:11:49,650 S9: quite a volatile time for many companies? 237 00:11:49,650 --> 00:11:51,090 S7: I think a lot of people said things they regret 238 00:11:51,090 --> 00:11:52,890 S7: then I'm just trying to figure out if they actually 239 00:11:52,890 --> 00:11:53,690 S7: regret it or not. 240 00:11:54,330 --> 00:11:57,410 S1: Mm. That's Eric Schmidt. He was a senator sitting on 241 00:11:57,410 --> 00:11:59,810 S1: that Senate Judiciary Committee. And that hearing they had Tuesday 242 00:11:59,809 --> 00:12:02,890 S1: of this week with the Netflix CEO, he's got a 243 00:12:02,890 --> 00:12:06,050 S1: little money in his pocket, $72 billion. They want to 244 00:12:06,050 --> 00:12:09,569 S1: buy Warner Brothers discovery. They want that to encompass HBO 245 00:12:09,610 --> 00:12:12,770 S1: Max and Disney. And I think the point that Eric 246 00:12:12,770 --> 00:12:15,610 S1: Schmidt was trying to make is you just you're not 247 00:12:15,610 --> 00:12:17,970 S1: just a monopoly in terms of business. You're a monopoly 248 00:12:17,970 --> 00:12:21,330 S1: in terms of ideas. And you've got what is very typical. 249 00:12:21,330 --> 00:12:23,490 S1: I've seen this for decades in Washington from somebody who 250 00:12:23,530 --> 00:12:25,690 S1: kind of weaves and bobs. We'll see that kind of 251 00:12:25,690 --> 00:12:27,810 S1: action at the Super Bowl. You know, you kind of weave, 252 00:12:27,850 --> 00:12:29,810 S1: you play the game on the balls of your feet. Right? 253 00:12:29,809 --> 00:12:31,610 S1: That's exactly what he was doing. I don't remember I 254 00:12:31,610 --> 00:12:34,329 S1: don't know I don't know, I don't remember. Well, Josh 255 00:12:34,330 --> 00:12:37,050 S1: Hawley is another senator who said in that committee and 256 00:12:37,050 --> 00:12:41,050 S1: he he plays pretty good football politically himself. Listen to 257 00:12:41,090 --> 00:12:42,020 S1: this interchange. 258 00:12:42,300 --> 00:12:46,059 S10: Why is it that so much of Netflix content for 259 00:12:46,059 --> 00:12:53,140 S10: children promotes a transgender ideology? Almost half of your content 260 00:12:53,140 --> 00:12:55,020 S10: for I'm talking about minor children now. I'm not talking 261 00:12:55,020 --> 00:13:00,300 S10: about teenagers. Minor children promotes a transgender ideology agenda. I 262 00:13:00,300 --> 00:13:03,660 S10: was just looking at the data here from your very 263 00:13:03,660 --> 00:13:07,420 S10: serious various series. And what concerns me is just two 264 00:13:07,420 --> 00:13:11,700 S10: days ago, a jury in New York awarded a former 265 00:13:11,700 --> 00:13:16,939 S10: Transitioner $2 million because she said that her psychologist and 266 00:13:16,940 --> 00:13:21,380 S10: others pressured her into they pushed on her an ideology 267 00:13:21,380 --> 00:13:23,900 S10: that proved to be extremely detrimental. I'm sure you know 268 00:13:23,900 --> 00:13:26,939 S10: that in the UK, the National Health Service in the 269 00:13:26,940 --> 00:13:29,860 S10: UK has said that they're not going to perform transgender 270 00:13:29,860 --> 00:13:34,300 S10: surgeries or any longer so-called gender affirming care for minors, 271 00:13:34,500 --> 00:13:38,500 S10: including in counseling, because it is so incredibly detrimental. Our 272 00:13:38,500 --> 00:13:41,780 S10: own HHS has come forward with similar findings this past year. 273 00:13:41,780 --> 00:13:44,020 S10: Yet if you turn on Netflix, you'll find that an 274 00:13:44,020 --> 00:13:46,459 S10: enormous amount. I say this as a parent with three 275 00:13:46,460 --> 00:13:51,300 S10: young children, an enormous amount of your children's programming has 276 00:13:51,300 --> 00:13:55,220 S10: this ideology and agenda in it. Is this an advocacy 277 00:13:55,220 --> 00:13:58,140 S10: position for Netflix, or are you is this a is 278 00:13:58,140 --> 00:14:00,740 S10: this an ideological commitment you have? I mean, why is this. 279 00:14:01,780 --> 00:14:04,660 S9: Netflix has no political agenda of any kind. I would 280 00:14:04,660 --> 00:14:05,020 S9: tell you that. 281 00:14:05,059 --> 00:14:07,740 S10: Well, then why is your children's program so full of 282 00:14:07,740 --> 00:14:14,740 S10: this highly sexualized, highly controversial, highly controversial agenda? I don't 283 00:14:14,740 --> 00:14:16,860 S10: I don't I don't understand it. It seems strange to me. 284 00:14:17,140 --> 00:14:20,380 S9: I'm respectfully sir. It's because it's inaccurate. We have millions 285 00:14:20,380 --> 00:14:21,980 S9: of hours of children's programming. 286 00:14:22,420 --> 00:14:24,620 S10: I you're saying it's not there? You don't. You don't 287 00:14:24,620 --> 00:14:28,580 S10: have trans. You don't feature trans characters, trans storylines, trans themes. 288 00:14:28,740 --> 00:14:30,340 S10: I'm saying it's not in your programming. 289 00:14:30,380 --> 00:14:32,740 S9: I'm saying we feature a wide variety of stories and 290 00:14:32,740 --> 00:14:35,500 S9: programs to meet a wide variety of people's tastes. 291 00:14:35,540 --> 00:14:37,300 S10: Why is almost half of it? Why does almost half 292 00:14:37,300 --> 00:14:42,150 S10: of your children's program feature. This highly controversial, highly sexualized 293 00:14:42,150 --> 00:14:45,270 S10: material that just seems strange to me. It can't possibly 294 00:14:45,270 --> 00:14:49,110 S10: be a reflection of the population center. 295 00:14:49,270 --> 00:14:50,950 S9: I don't have any idea where that number would come 296 00:14:50,950 --> 00:14:52,710 S9: from or what that would be. I don't believe that's 297 00:14:52,710 --> 00:14:56,070 S9: been your personal experience, but I don't I can't speak 298 00:14:56,070 --> 00:14:56,430 S9: to that. 299 00:14:56,470 --> 00:14:57,590 S10: What do you mean you don't think it's been my 300 00:14:57,590 --> 00:14:59,630 S10: personal experience? You don't think that I monitor what my 301 00:14:59,630 --> 00:15:01,590 S10: children watch? Here's what I tell you. What my personal 302 00:15:01,590 --> 00:15:04,350 S10: experience is since you bring it up. My personal experience 303 00:15:04,390 --> 00:15:06,750 S10: is that my three children, I can't let them watch 304 00:15:06,750 --> 00:15:08,750 S10: anything they want on Netflix. I can't let them watch 305 00:15:08,750 --> 00:15:11,430 S10: anything on Netflix unless I preview it, because I don't 306 00:15:11,430 --> 00:15:13,990 S10: have confidence in what's on your platform. I don't know 307 00:15:13,990 --> 00:15:15,430 S10: what they're going to encounter. And I tell you what, 308 00:15:15,430 --> 00:15:18,310 S10: I don't want my kids being pushed an agenda about 309 00:15:18,310 --> 00:15:21,550 S10: their sexuality or gender identity when I have not had 310 00:15:21,550 --> 00:15:24,750 S10: the opportunity first to discuss it with them and to 311 00:15:24,790 --> 00:15:27,830 S10: form them in that. And I frankly, on behalf of 312 00:15:27,830 --> 00:15:31,310 S10: parents around the country, it offends me that Netflix is 313 00:15:31,310 --> 00:15:34,830 S10: pushing this content at parents in what seems to be 314 00:15:34,830 --> 00:15:41,270 S10: a very coordinated thought through planned out agenda in a 315 00:15:41,270 --> 00:15:44,869 S10: way that, frankly, I think undermines parents, certainly undermines me 316 00:15:44,910 --> 00:15:47,310 S10: and my wife. We have to watch every show beforehand 317 00:15:47,310 --> 00:15:49,630 S10: before we can let our kids watch it. Now, I 318 00:15:49,630 --> 00:15:51,710 S10: don't know. That seems pretty concerning to me. I know 319 00:15:51,710 --> 00:15:53,270 S10: you make a gob of money on it, and maybe 320 00:15:53,270 --> 00:15:56,230 S10: that's the answer, but it just seems to me that 321 00:15:56,230 --> 00:15:58,150 S10: it's a disservice to the parents of this country. 322 00:15:58,990 --> 00:16:01,590 S1: Mm. Well, he wasn't going to let that slide. By 323 00:16:01,590 --> 00:16:04,310 S1: the way, if you aren't familiar with the content, let 324 00:16:04,310 --> 00:16:07,030 S1: me just give you a quick crash course. Uh, there's 325 00:16:07,030 --> 00:16:09,190 S1: a reboot of the Magic school bus. The Magic school 326 00:16:09,190 --> 00:16:14,110 S1: bus rises again. It introduces Liz, a trans coded chameleon, 327 00:16:14,350 --> 00:16:17,990 S1: and Mrs. Franklin, Angela's wife. And then Strawberry shortcake used 328 00:16:17,990 --> 00:16:21,630 S1: to love Strawberry shortcake. Now it's Berry in the Big City, 329 00:16:21,630 --> 00:16:26,790 S1: which introduces banoffee, a transgender character, and Raisin Cain, who's non-binary. 330 00:16:27,030 --> 00:16:29,430 S1: And then they rebooted a lot of other shows and 331 00:16:29,430 --> 00:16:34,150 S1: infused this ideology of LGBTQ. So in addition to The 332 00:16:34,150 --> 00:16:37,200 S1: Magic School Bus, they've now thrown in these characters in 333 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:40,520 S1: the Power Rangers, The Baby-Sitters club, She-Ra, and The Fairly 334 00:16:40,520 --> 00:16:44,680 S1: OddParents among some of them. So, Craig, you know, his 335 00:16:44,680 --> 00:16:47,440 S1: justification is we just have a wide variety of programs. 336 00:16:47,480 --> 00:16:49,120 S1: I'm going to get you to respond to this, if 337 00:16:49,120 --> 00:16:51,080 S1: you don't mind. On the other, on the other side 338 00:16:51,080 --> 00:16:52,280 S1: of the break, because I don't want you to have 339 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:55,520 S1: to rush. So this isn't this is an important transcendent issue. 340 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,560 S1: We have the choice. The one thing we're thinking when 341 00:16:57,560 --> 00:16:59,840 S1: Senator Hawley was speaking was you don't have to review 342 00:16:59,840 --> 00:17:02,320 S1: those programs. You just don't have that streaming platform. Pick 343 00:17:02,320 --> 00:17:05,280 S1: another one. We love Angel Studios. We love wonder. There's 344 00:17:05,320 --> 00:17:07,919 S1: a lot of wonderful, faith based things out there. You 345 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:09,359 S1: don't have to get those if you don't want to, 346 00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:11,840 S1: but come back and give me just your sense and 347 00:17:11,840 --> 00:17:14,720 S1: then legally where you think this will go, because this 348 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:16,959 S1: was just the first shot across the bow. This is 349 00:17:16,960 --> 00:17:19,880 S1: not the last. More coming your way on this edition 350 00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:37,520 S1: of In the Market with Janet Parshall. Well, we just 351 00:17:37,520 --> 00:17:39,040 S1: took you to Washington. And by the way, Craig and 352 00:17:39,040 --> 00:17:41,120 S1: I were just saying during the break, the sad thing 353 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:43,080 S1: about the press is, and the thing that makes me 354 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:46,160 S1: so grateful as to where this microphone is located, is 355 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,560 S1: that there was so much focus on a government shutdown 356 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:51,120 S1: this week and the constant conversation about Ice. And then, 357 00:17:51,119 --> 00:17:54,000 S1: of course, this heartbreaking story and this one should take preeminence. 358 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,200 S1: Is Nancy Guthrie missing? And we need to be praying, 359 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,160 S1: by the way, a good place to stop and insert this. 360 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:02,040 S1: We need to be praying for Nancy and her family, 361 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:05,520 S1: for Savannah, for her brother and her sister. They released 362 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,680 S1: a videotape talking right to the abductors, saying, we're ready 363 00:18:09,680 --> 00:18:12,080 S1: to talk. If there is any validity to the ransom 364 00:18:12,080 --> 00:18:15,200 S1: note that is alleged to be out there. Um, there. 365 00:18:15,240 --> 00:18:17,760 S1: It's it's it would be enough to drive you crazy 366 00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,080 S1: if it was your mom that had been taken and abducted. 367 00:18:20,080 --> 00:18:23,320 S1: Because there are no particulars. There's this veiled threat. There's 368 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:26,840 S1: no person to contact. There's some vague reference to deadlines 369 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:29,359 S1: that have come and gone. Uh, they're asking for proof 370 00:18:29,359 --> 00:18:32,520 S1: of life. They haven't gotten any yet. And then there's 371 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,449 S1: every day we get this excruciatingly small details that tell 372 00:18:35,490 --> 00:18:37,530 S1: us how awful this case is, including now the fact 373 00:18:37,530 --> 00:18:42,730 S1: that a a doorbell camera was removed and deactivated. So 374 00:18:42,970 --> 00:18:45,330 S1: it's just it's got to be a nightmare. And as 375 00:18:45,330 --> 00:18:47,770 S1: fast as time moves for us, you can imagine the 376 00:18:47,770 --> 00:18:51,209 S1: excruciatingly slow way in which time moves for Savannah Guthrie 377 00:18:51,210 --> 00:18:53,530 S1: right now and her siblings. So please pray for them. 378 00:18:53,530 --> 00:18:55,969 S1: She's asked point blank for prayers. She's a woman of 379 00:18:55,970 --> 00:18:59,210 S1: deep faith, and she's asked very much that we keep 380 00:18:59,210 --> 00:19:02,410 S1: the family up in prayer. Uh, and then she said, 381 00:19:02,410 --> 00:19:04,250 S1: just pray for my mom that they'll be able to 382 00:19:04,290 --> 00:19:07,410 S1: put their arms around her again. So do that, would you, please? 383 00:19:07,410 --> 00:19:08,969 S1: But in the midst of all of that, there have 384 00:19:08,970 --> 00:19:11,690 S1: been some pretty significant hearings. There was one that will 385 00:19:11,690 --> 00:19:14,090 S1: play for you a few days down the road, a 386 00:19:14,090 --> 00:19:17,290 S1: piece on EU censorship and how that's working its way 387 00:19:17,290 --> 00:19:20,689 S1: to the United States, and what the EU's censorship plans 388 00:19:20,690 --> 00:19:24,450 S1: and processes are doing about impacting free speech here in America. 389 00:19:24,450 --> 00:19:26,050 S1: It's a wake up call. Free speech is paramount to 390 00:19:26,050 --> 00:19:28,250 S1: us as believers. It gives me the chance to say, okay, 391 00:19:28,290 --> 00:19:30,330 S1: wait for it. He is the way, the truth and 392 00:19:30,330 --> 00:19:32,130 S1: the life. And no man comes to the father, but 393 00:19:32,130 --> 00:19:33,770 S1: by him don't have to give equal time to any 394 00:19:33,770 --> 00:19:35,730 S1: other worldview. And I don't have to worry about the 395 00:19:35,730 --> 00:19:37,810 S1: hobnail boots of government coming in and pulling the plug 396 00:19:37,810 --> 00:19:40,090 S1: on the microphone. Thank you, Lord, for the ability to 397 00:19:40,130 --> 00:19:42,850 S1: have free speech. If you don't like it because of 398 00:19:42,850 --> 00:19:45,970 S1: the myriad of platforms, you can change the channel. That 399 00:19:45,970 --> 00:19:47,889 S1: changing the channel takes me right back to what we 400 00:19:47,890 --> 00:19:51,450 S1: were talking about. So in addition to that censorship hearing, 401 00:19:51,450 --> 00:19:55,170 S1: which was huge, there was this one where the Netflix CEO, 402 00:19:55,930 --> 00:19:58,250 S1: excuse me, was grilled, obviously on the cusp of the 403 00:19:58,250 --> 00:20:01,850 S1: $72 billion deal. And you heard a couple of senators 404 00:20:01,850 --> 00:20:04,610 S1: say that they were very concerned about the content. Craig. 405 00:20:05,770 --> 00:20:11,889 S8: Um, look, let's assume that there are 20, um, uh, 406 00:20:12,810 --> 00:20:17,130 S8: streaming platforms that people can, uh, hook into on their 407 00:20:17,130 --> 00:20:20,090 S8: television set, let's say 20. And they all had roughly 408 00:20:20,090 --> 00:20:23,409 S8: about 5%. It never works out quite that cleanly in 409 00:20:23,410 --> 00:20:26,770 S8: a competitive market. But let's say it's a highly competitive market, uh, 410 00:20:26,770 --> 00:20:32,459 S8: 20 streaming platforms. And they provide entertainment, sports, opinion, news 411 00:20:32,460 --> 00:20:35,300 S8: and so forth. And they all have about 5%. That 412 00:20:35,300 --> 00:20:38,459 S8: amounts to 100% of the streaming. Uh, now, if that 413 00:20:38,460 --> 00:20:41,540 S8: were the case, there would be a diversity. There would 414 00:20:41,540 --> 00:20:46,980 S8: not be monopolies. But in this case, Netflix combined with 415 00:20:47,020 --> 00:20:49,580 S8: Amazon Prime. And I'll get to that in a minute. 416 00:20:49,580 --> 00:20:53,740 S8: Between the two of them, they control almost 50% of 417 00:20:53,740 --> 00:20:57,419 S8: all streaming. The other 50% is spread over a number 418 00:20:57,420 --> 00:21:01,940 S8: of very small streaming platforms, really not competitive. So the 419 00:21:01,980 --> 00:21:08,859 S8: so the two giants that really capitalize on streaming are 420 00:21:09,260 --> 00:21:13,900 S8: Amazon Prime and Netflix, Netflix values. We've just heard documented 421 00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:17,340 S8: evidence of where it goes. But I will tell you, 422 00:21:17,340 --> 00:21:21,100 S8: it's cold comfort that they have, quote, competition from the 423 00:21:21,100 --> 00:21:25,300 S8: other big one, Amazon Prime. Because Amazon I know quite 424 00:21:25,300 --> 00:21:29,500 S8: well and Amazon's values are are very close to the 425 00:21:29,500 --> 00:21:35,980 S8: Netflix values that skew to that one demographic, one political, 426 00:21:35,980 --> 00:21:41,340 S8: one social engineering idea of radical theory. That's where both 427 00:21:41,340 --> 00:21:45,380 S8: of the giants are, and there's really very little competition 428 00:21:45,380 --> 00:21:47,740 S8: beyond that. Now there's some great ones, like Angel, as 429 00:21:47,740 --> 00:21:51,060 S8: you've said before, and I'm glad we have options. But 430 00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:54,020 S8: antitrust comes into play when you have either a monopoly 431 00:21:54,020 --> 00:21:56,460 S8: or in this case, a duopoly. That is to say, 432 00:21:56,500 --> 00:22:00,980 S8: two giants are really controlling the landscape for entertainment news 433 00:22:00,980 --> 00:22:05,380 S8: and information on streaming platforms. Once you do that, you 434 00:22:05,380 --> 00:22:08,820 S8: are then giving the American people at large only one 435 00:22:08,820 --> 00:22:11,580 S8: view of reality. I would say distortion, and I would 436 00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:15,300 S8: say delusion in many cases on those issues. But that's 437 00:22:15,300 --> 00:22:17,219 S8: the problem. And when you have that problem, you have 438 00:22:17,220 --> 00:22:21,140 S8: an antitrust problem, and then you have an ideology problem 439 00:22:21,140 --> 00:22:24,820 S8: for American citizenry, for people to get their information, forget 440 00:22:24,859 --> 00:22:27,190 S8: for them to get their entertainment. By the way, as 441 00:22:27,190 --> 00:22:32,830 S8: you heard, Janet, the entertainment. Entertainment is actually closeted ideology 442 00:22:32,830 --> 00:22:36,629 S8: and political. It's not just entertainment. I looked up the 443 00:22:36,630 --> 00:22:40,270 S8: definition of entertainment, by the way, and it says enjoyment. 444 00:22:40,470 --> 00:22:44,070 S8: It doesn't say politicalization, but that's what's happening. 445 00:22:44,510 --> 00:22:47,389 S1: Wow. So let me go to the question. It was 446 00:22:47,390 --> 00:22:49,310 S1: one of the questions at hand, at least at that hearing. 447 00:22:49,310 --> 00:22:52,870 S1: And that is the concerns of antitrust. Antitrust, put in 448 00:22:52,869 --> 00:22:56,590 S1: common parlance, simply means you've taken all the bubble gum 449 00:22:56,590 --> 00:23:00,030 S1: balls and you put them in one giant bubble gum ball. 450 00:23:00,030 --> 00:23:02,550 S1: And in the process, the smaller bubble gum balls don't 451 00:23:02,550 --> 00:23:03,629 S1: have a chance to be chosen. 452 00:23:03,670 --> 00:23:07,390 S8: Right? It's what it is is a defiance of free 453 00:23:07,430 --> 00:23:10,070 S8: market enterprise. And by the way, I'm a great free 454 00:23:10,109 --> 00:23:14,590 S8: market supporter. My dad was a great businessman. Uh, and I, 455 00:23:15,109 --> 00:23:17,750 S8: I really I taught the lessons, I was taught the 456 00:23:17,750 --> 00:23:20,790 S8: lessons of the benefits of free enterprise. So I, I 457 00:23:20,950 --> 00:23:26,750 S8: really believe in the capitalist system with certain restraints and 458 00:23:26,790 --> 00:23:30,869 S8: antitrust has been around since. In America, antitrust laws against 459 00:23:30,869 --> 00:23:35,630 S8: monopolies have been around since the late 1800s. So this 460 00:23:35,630 --> 00:23:39,070 S8: is not a new idea. This is not a socialist idea. 461 00:23:39,070 --> 00:23:42,550 S8: This is putting constraints on competition, on on those that 462 00:23:42,550 --> 00:23:47,990 S8: would destroy competition. Why? Well, the the nature of mankind 463 00:23:48,109 --> 00:23:50,669 S8: is that if I can have more, I'm going to 464 00:23:50,710 --> 00:23:54,350 S8: grab more. And if it's not for the public good, well, 465 00:23:54,550 --> 00:23:56,790 S8: at least it's good for the profit line. So to 466 00:23:57,230 --> 00:24:00,510 S8: prevent that, we have antitrust. And this may be one 467 00:24:00,510 --> 00:24:05,230 S8: of those situations where those values will be relative. Uh, 468 00:24:05,430 --> 00:24:08,190 S8: important because of the antitrust problem. 469 00:24:08,230 --> 00:24:10,189 S1: I got 15 seconds. Is this going to end up 470 00:24:10,190 --> 00:24:10,910 S1: in a lawsuit? 471 00:24:11,510 --> 00:24:15,710 S8: Not right now, because the metrics on market dominance are 472 00:24:15,710 --> 00:24:19,030 S8: not quite high enough to prove monopoly, but they could 473 00:24:19,030 --> 00:24:19,630 S8: get there. 474 00:24:19,950 --> 00:24:22,150 S1: So in other words, hang on to your ticket stubs. 475 00:24:22,190 --> 00:24:23,909 S1: This is not over yet. All right. We're going to 476 00:24:23,910 --> 00:24:25,830 S1: take a break and come right back. This is in 477 00:24:25,869 --> 00:24:28,190 S1: the market with Janet Parshall. Craig partial is with me. 478 00:24:28,190 --> 00:24:30,630 S1: And we have more to learn to discern about right 479 00:24:30,630 --> 00:24:54,590 S1: after this. As a Christian, how do you digest the 480 00:24:54,590 --> 00:24:56,830 S1: cultural issues of our day and in the market? We 481 00:24:56,830 --> 00:24:59,790 S1: believe that understanding happens when we bring biblical truth to 482 00:24:59,830 --> 00:25:02,230 S1: expose the darkness in our world. That's what we do 483 00:25:02,230 --> 00:25:04,109 S1: every day and in the market. May I ask you 484 00:25:04,109 --> 00:25:06,350 S1: to join us? When you become a partial partner, your 485 00:25:06,350 --> 00:25:09,950 S1: monthly gift ensures this daily program continues. Become a partial 486 00:25:09,950 --> 00:25:12,909 S1: partner today by calling 877 Janet 58 or go to 487 00:25:12,950 --> 00:25:18,590 S1: in the market with Janet Parshall. Earlier this hour I 488 00:25:18,630 --> 00:25:20,830 S1: referenced our call to be a Bereans. I say that 489 00:25:20,830 --> 00:25:23,840 S1: frequently on this program. These were people who were the 490 00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:26,320 S1: Bible calls people of noble character. How would you like 491 00:25:26,320 --> 00:25:28,680 S1: to be remembered for all time in Scripture as people 492 00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:31,440 S1: of noble character? That's pretty impressive. So what made them 493 00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,840 S1: so noble? It's because they were discerning people who were 494 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,400 S1: seeking truth. And so they tested all things. And again, 495 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,800 S1: I remember reading this passage in acts and just sort 496 00:25:39,800 --> 00:25:42,760 S1: of superimposing in my ignorance on this, the idea that 497 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,640 S1: they were kind of checking out, uh, who the intellectuals 498 00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,639 S1: of the day were, or who the Pharisees or the 499 00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:52,360 S1: Sadducees were, or who the pagans were that were espousing 500 00:25:52,359 --> 00:25:54,520 S1: doctrine that was other than what they knew to be 501 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:57,920 S1: biblical truth. They were fact checking. Paul. Okay. So that 502 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,879 S1: they were fact checking. Paul. It means just because somebody 503 00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:06,679 S1: gives them the name of pastor or priest or rabbi, 504 00:26:06,840 --> 00:26:09,520 S1: you have to check all things. The bottom line is 505 00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,199 S1: you use the straight stick of truth. You take the 506 00:26:13,200 --> 00:26:15,000 S1: Word of God, you measure it in whatever comes out 507 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,560 S1: of someone's mouth. You use that as the metric to say, wait, 508 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,000 S1: this does align or it doesn't align. And if it 509 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:22,560 S1: doesn't align, you shake the dust off your sandals, you 510 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,680 S1: move on, and you understand that the indwelling person of 511 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:28,280 S1: the Holy Spirit had a great conversation with Mike Nappa 512 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,240 S1: yesterday about what the Holy Spirit does in our lives. 513 00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,439 S1: We have to let the Holy Spirit do the work 514 00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:38,080 S1: of educating, comforting, teaching, hitting that Geiger counter, that internal 515 00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,560 S1: Geiger counter that says this is not right. Check the word. 516 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:42,840 S1: Go back. Check it out again. So one of the 517 00:26:42,840 --> 00:26:44,879 S1: things we want to do on this broadcast is we 518 00:26:44,880 --> 00:26:49,280 S1: want to expose, expose ideas that are not biblical and 519 00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,560 S1: to help you learn to discern. When you hear this, 520 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:53,760 S1: you go, well, that's not really what Scripture says. Or 521 00:26:53,760 --> 00:26:56,600 S1: somebody has superimposed if you want the 50 cent word 522 00:26:56,600 --> 00:26:59,200 S1: for that, it's eisegesis when you take it and you 523 00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:02,680 S1: put it into the scripture, something that's not there. Exegesis 524 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,840 S1: means you let the Scripture give you the plain truth 525 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:08,280 S1: of what's found there, for your edification and for your good. Right? 526 00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,920 S1: Scripture is written for our benefit. The Bible tells us so. 527 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,119 S1: We oftentimes talk about people who are wolves in sheep's clothing. 528 00:27:16,160 --> 00:27:17,879 S1: And we'll get to that point. Yep. And that's what 529 00:27:17,880 --> 00:27:20,770 S1: we want you to do, is to recognize that sound. 530 00:27:20,770 --> 00:27:23,850 S1: Sometimes it's a person who calls himself a pastor, and 531 00:27:23,850 --> 00:27:26,649 S1: they put on the robes, the skull, the stoles around 532 00:27:26,650 --> 00:27:28,290 S1: their neck. They stand in front of an altar. They 533 00:27:28,290 --> 00:27:30,650 S1: stand in front of a pulpit and you think, okay, 534 00:27:30,890 --> 00:27:34,810 S1: that's that environment. But sometimes they can be other people 535 00:27:34,810 --> 00:27:37,490 S1: in the culture. I'll give you a classic example. So 536 00:27:37,490 --> 00:27:40,090 S1: there's a fella in Texas who would like to be 537 00:27:40,090 --> 00:27:43,650 S1: a sitting member of the United States Senate. And, um, 538 00:27:44,050 --> 00:27:49,010 S1: his name is James Del Talarico. Uh, he is an 539 00:27:49,010 --> 00:27:53,610 S1: American politician. He is a former school teacher. He's from Texas. 540 00:27:53,770 --> 00:27:57,490 S1: He got his master's in education from Harvard University. He's 541 00:27:57,490 --> 00:28:01,170 S1: a very smart individual, and he's also pursuing a master's 542 00:28:01,170 --> 00:28:05,970 S1: of divinity degree at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary. So he 543 00:28:05,970 --> 00:28:09,250 S1: showed up on an interview, uh, and recently, he's doing 544 00:28:09,250 --> 00:28:11,409 S1: a lot of them, naturally, because they're heading toward a 545 00:28:11,410 --> 00:28:15,609 S1: Texas Democratic primary. And he had some interesting things to say, 546 00:28:15,609 --> 00:28:19,250 S1: not about the budget, not about immigration Policy. He was 547 00:28:19,250 --> 00:28:23,449 S1: speaking about theology. And I want you to listen, and 548 00:28:23,450 --> 00:28:25,490 S1: then we'll discern whether or not what he said comes 549 00:28:25,490 --> 00:28:28,250 S1: into alignment with biblical truth or does not. Have a listen. 550 00:28:28,530 --> 00:28:30,930 S11: But I say all this in terms in context of abortion, 551 00:28:30,930 --> 00:28:37,730 S11: because before God comes over Mary and and we have 552 00:28:37,730 --> 00:28:44,250 S11: the incarnation, God asks for Mary's consent, which is remarkable. 553 00:28:44,290 --> 00:28:46,930 S11: I mean, go back and read this in, in, in Luke. 554 00:28:47,530 --> 00:28:52,370 S11: I mean, the angel comes down and asks Mary if 555 00:28:52,370 --> 00:28:54,970 S11: this is something she wants to do, and she says, 556 00:28:54,970 --> 00:28:56,970 S11: if it is God's will, let it be done. Let 557 00:28:56,970 --> 00:28:59,690 S11: it be. Let it happen. So to me, that is 558 00:28:59,690 --> 00:29:03,530 S11: an affirmation in one of our most central stories that 559 00:29:03,690 --> 00:29:06,930 S11: creation has to be done with consent. You cannot force 560 00:29:06,930 --> 00:29:09,050 S11: someone to create. Creation is one of the most sacred 561 00:29:09,050 --> 00:29:13,290 S11: acts that that that we engage in as human beings. 562 00:29:13,450 --> 00:29:15,210 S11: But that has to be done with consent. It has 563 00:29:15,210 --> 00:29:18,620 S11: to be done with freedom. And and to me, that 564 00:29:18,620 --> 00:29:22,220 S11: is absolutely consistent with the ministry and life and death 565 00:29:22,220 --> 00:29:24,900 S11: of Jesus. And so that's why I that's how I 566 00:29:24,940 --> 00:29:27,020 S11: come down on that side of the issue. 567 00:29:28,500 --> 00:29:30,580 S1: So do you understand where he was going with this? 568 00:29:30,580 --> 00:29:33,140 S1: So he tortuously and we'll break that apart in a bit, 569 00:29:33,180 --> 00:29:37,340 S1: saying that creation requires consent. So what he is saying 570 00:29:37,340 --> 00:29:38,860 S1: and he said it at the beginning, he might not 571 00:29:38,860 --> 00:29:41,020 S1: have missed that just at the very beginning of his conversation. 572 00:29:41,020 --> 00:29:44,060 S1: If he contextualizes this in abortion. This is a man 573 00:29:44,060 --> 00:29:46,660 S1: who believes in reproductive rights, that you don't have to 574 00:29:46,660 --> 00:29:48,780 S1: have a baby. You have to give you you have 575 00:29:48,780 --> 00:29:53,020 S1: the liberty to give your consent to have a baby. Well, 576 00:29:53,260 --> 00:29:55,940 S1: first blush, I go back to Brother Paul. You might 577 00:29:55,940 --> 00:29:57,900 S1: have the liberty to make that choice, but is it 578 00:29:57,900 --> 00:30:00,100 S1: profitable if it's going to take the life of another 579 00:30:00,100 --> 00:30:02,540 S1: human being? I think the answer to that is clearly no. 580 00:30:02,820 --> 00:30:05,660 S1: But again, you have to start with this presupposition that 581 00:30:05,660 --> 00:30:09,020 S1: Mary is asked if this is something she wants to do. 582 00:30:09,220 --> 00:30:12,780 S1: And again, he says to me, this is the candidate speaking. 583 00:30:12,980 --> 00:30:16,580 S1: This is an affirmation in one of our central stories. So, Craig, 584 00:30:16,740 --> 00:30:18,700 S1: what's wrong or right about his thinking? 585 00:30:19,620 --> 00:30:23,300 S8: You know, people need to go to the source. Uh, 586 00:30:23,380 --> 00:30:29,140 S8: the speaker, uh, this member of, um, the legislature who 587 00:30:29,140 --> 00:30:33,340 S8: has a religious background didn't bother to share where in 588 00:30:33,340 --> 00:30:35,900 S8: Luke he was talking. But let's assume that he was 589 00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:39,060 S8: talking about Luke chapter one, which is where it appears. 590 00:30:39,820 --> 00:30:43,580 S8: And it's very clear that there was never any conversation 591 00:30:43,900 --> 00:30:48,100 S8: between the angel that we're told in Luke was Gabriel 592 00:30:48,860 --> 00:30:53,140 S8: and Mary, the one who is described by the angel 593 00:30:53,140 --> 00:30:56,140 S8: as quote, O favored one, the Lord is with you. 594 00:30:56,860 --> 00:31:03,260 S8: There's never an indication of the request or the the 595 00:31:03,300 --> 00:31:07,420 S8: indication that he's the angel is asking her opinion on 596 00:31:07,420 --> 00:31:11,180 S8: whether she wants to grant approval to this plan. 597 00:31:11,300 --> 00:31:11,820 S1: Can I read. 598 00:31:11,820 --> 00:31:14,190 S8: It? Yes. Can I read it? Because. Please, Please. 599 00:31:14,310 --> 00:31:16,550 S1: This is again. This is a good basic lesson in 600 00:31:16,550 --> 00:31:19,590 S1: how to study your Bible. So eisegesis is you're superimposing 601 00:31:19,630 --> 00:31:22,830 S1: onto the text something that's not there. Exegesis is it's 602 00:31:22,830 --> 00:31:25,110 S1: the plain truth of what's being said in Scripture. So 603 00:31:25,110 --> 00:31:28,470 S1: you can read this in Luke chapter one. And, uh, 604 00:31:28,870 --> 00:31:32,750 S1: the angel appears before Mary, and the angel says to her, greetings, 605 00:31:32,750 --> 00:31:34,989 S1: you who are highly favored, the Lord is with you. 606 00:31:35,030 --> 00:31:37,630 S1: Mary was greatly troubled in his words and wondered what 607 00:31:37,630 --> 00:31:40,150 S1: kind of greeting this might be. But the angel said 608 00:31:40,150 --> 00:31:43,950 S1: to her, do not be afraid, Mary. You have found 609 00:31:43,950 --> 00:31:47,430 S1: favor with God. You will be with child and give 610 00:31:47,470 --> 00:31:49,990 S1: birth to a son, and you are to give him 611 00:31:49,990 --> 00:31:52,710 S1: the name of Jesus. He will be great and will 612 00:31:52,710 --> 00:31:54,990 S1: be called the son of the Most High. The Lord 613 00:31:54,990 --> 00:31:57,590 S1: God will give him the throne of his father David, 614 00:31:57,590 --> 00:31:59,830 S1: and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. 615 00:31:59,830 --> 00:32:03,150 S1: His kingdom will never end. He doesn't say, is this 616 00:32:03,150 --> 00:32:05,790 S1: okay with you? Do you accept? Will you step into 617 00:32:05,790 --> 00:32:08,270 S1: this plan? The first words out of her mouth are 618 00:32:08,310 --> 00:32:10,709 S1: a very practical one. How will this be since I 619 00:32:10,750 --> 00:32:13,110 S1: am a virgin? And then he explains the process by 620 00:32:13,110 --> 00:32:15,630 S1: which this is going to have. And it's just black 621 00:32:15,630 --> 00:32:19,710 S1: ink on white paper. Pretty straightforward. There is no dialogue about. Yes. 622 00:32:19,710 --> 00:32:21,790 S1: Give me a minute to think about this. I choose 623 00:32:21,790 --> 00:32:25,950 S1: to do it. It is a proactive word. You will 624 00:32:26,070 --> 00:32:28,390 S1: be with child. It's already been decided. 625 00:32:28,430 --> 00:32:32,350 S8: Yeah. The only question didn't come from the angel Gabriel. 626 00:32:32,550 --> 00:32:36,190 S8: Would you like to become pregnant? You have the choice. 627 00:32:36,270 --> 00:32:39,670 S8: You know, we believe in choice here in the heavenly realm. 628 00:32:39,710 --> 00:32:42,950 S8: And there was none of that. The only question was 629 00:32:42,950 --> 00:32:46,390 S8: raised by Mary. And it was a very innocent and 630 00:32:46,390 --> 00:32:50,270 S8: and really a kind of a righteous response, because she 631 00:32:50,270 --> 00:32:55,710 S8: was favored by God, because she loved him. Loved the 632 00:32:55,950 --> 00:33:00,870 S8: the the laws of God, the she she understood right 633 00:33:00,870 --> 00:33:05,430 S8: from wrong, and the propriety of following the Lord. And 634 00:33:05,430 --> 00:33:07,870 S8: so she the only question came from her, how will 635 00:33:07,910 --> 00:33:12,840 S8: this be, since I am a virgin, right? A natural question. 636 00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:18,040 S8: Any woman who's a virgin, when told you're going to 637 00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:22,120 S8: become pregnant would have to ask, particularly from an angel. Exactly. 638 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:25,000 S8: And the answer was very explicit. 639 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:26,280 S1: Clear. And after the. 640 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,800 S8: Holy Spirit will come on, come upon you. The power 641 00:33:28,800 --> 00:33:31,520 S8: of the Most High will overshadow you. Therefore the child 642 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:34,880 S8: will be born and will be called holy, the Son 643 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:39,520 S8: of God. So that was answered and her response was 644 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:43,360 S8: not okay, give me time to think. No. It was 645 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,520 S8: I am the servant of the Lord. Let it be 646 00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:51,120 S8: to me according to your word. In other words, whatever 647 00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:55,240 S8: God has in mind, I'm with him, I want it, 648 00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:57,680 S8: whatever it is he wants me to play in this, 649 00:33:57,680 --> 00:33:59,800 S8: the part he wants me to play in this great 650 00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:04,920 S8: design of bringing his son to earth. I'm honored and 651 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:05,720 S8: I'll be part of it. 652 00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,319 S1: You know, it's interesting, this particular passage, Craig, we've played 653 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:11,400 S1: Wolf Audio before. This is our nomenclature for this because 654 00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,799 S1: these are math. This is the reference in Matthew where 655 00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,480 S1: Jesus says, be careful of those who parade themselves. I'm 656 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:21,600 S1: paraphrasing this verse now parade themselves as shepherds, but they're 657 00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:25,000 S1: ravenous wolves in sheep's clothing. And so this is why 658 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:26,959 S1: we have to be careful. Because what the wolves do, 659 00:34:27,000 --> 00:34:29,480 S1: they destroy the sheep. And so this is an example 660 00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,520 S1: of destruction. And we have had multiple bits of wolf 661 00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:36,040 S1: audio where they've gone back to this idea. And Torturously 662 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:39,080 S1: tried to say, this is an example where you see 663 00:34:39,120 --> 00:34:42,720 S1: an advocacy for reproductive choice, because Mary had to choose. 664 00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:46,600 S1: She goes from the one question, the one question she asked, 665 00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,200 S1: as you pointed out, Craig, is how is this going 666 00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,480 S1: to be physiologically, she doesn't understand this. The angel not 667 00:34:51,480 --> 00:34:53,759 S1: only explains what's going to happen to her, but also says, hey, 668 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:56,359 S1: your aged cousin Elizabeth, she's going to have a baby too. 669 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,120 S1: So it's an unbelievable announcement. It isn't just her, it's 670 00:34:59,120 --> 00:35:01,400 S1: what's going to happen to Elizabeth, who's already pregnant at 671 00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:04,000 S1: this time. Surprise! You're the first to know. And the 672 00:35:04,000 --> 00:35:05,719 S1: next words out of her mouth is you just pointed 673 00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,759 S1: out from scripture, Craig. I asked the one question and 674 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:11,359 S1: then the explanation, and then the next response from Mary 675 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,719 S1: is not a question. It's submission. It's obedience. May it 676 00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:16,160 S1: be I am your servant. 677 00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:20,280 S8: Yeah. It's what it's it's even more evidence this this 678 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:26,080 S8: this story. And, you know, this legislator missed this point completely. 679 00:35:26,719 --> 00:35:31,399 S8: And so do those who are heretical in their thinking 680 00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:34,279 S8: and in their preaching about this, trying to make it a, a, 681 00:35:34,600 --> 00:35:41,799 S8: a choice for abortion issue, somehow delusional application. But one 682 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:46,440 S8: more proof of how accurate and real life scripture is, 683 00:35:46,440 --> 00:35:50,239 S8: particularly the Gospels. In other words, she didn't explain. I 684 00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:51,920 S8: don't know how it's going to be done, but it's 685 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,279 S8: going to be perfect. She gave the honest response of 686 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:59,000 S8: a virgin young lady, how am I going to get pregnant? 687 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:03,520 S8: I'm a virgin. Just like the disciples didn't believe Jesus 688 00:36:03,520 --> 00:36:06,370 S8: resurrected some of them until he actually showed them him 689 00:36:06,370 --> 00:36:11,250 S8: proof because these stories are not stories. This is a 690 00:36:11,250 --> 00:36:16,850 S8: narrative based on real people doing real things and God intervening. 691 00:36:17,290 --> 00:36:20,569 S1: So this is a problem of his politics intersecting with 692 00:36:20,570 --> 00:36:24,049 S1: his theology. Remember, he's not only desirous of being a 693 00:36:24,050 --> 00:36:26,569 S1: sitting member of the United States Senate, but he is 694 00:36:26,570 --> 00:36:29,210 S1: currently a student at a seminary. If this is how 695 00:36:29,210 --> 00:36:32,210 S1: he studies scripture, he's in trouble. Politics are not right 696 00:36:32,250 --> 00:36:36,090 S1: on this one because we should be pro-life. And his theology, 697 00:36:36,130 --> 00:36:38,770 S1: I'd say a little tortuous at this point. Back after this. 698 00:36:59,650 --> 00:37:02,689 S1: So continuing in this vein of us being good Bereans, 699 00:37:02,690 --> 00:37:05,930 S1: I want you to listen to some more of the 700 00:37:05,930 --> 00:37:09,530 S1: audio that I would call Wolf Audio. And again, and yes, 701 00:37:09,530 --> 00:37:12,009 S1: that's the sound we want you to recognize. Now, wouldn't 702 00:37:12,010 --> 00:37:14,009 S1: it be easy if every time something that came out 703 00:37:14,050 --> 00:37:17,890 S1: of a wolf, a heretical wolf, they howled and you'd go, ah, 704 00:37:17,890 --> 00:37:19,770 S1: that's not in alignment with the Word of God? Well, 705 00:37:19,770 --> 00:37:21,850 S1: we have something better than that. We have the indwelling 706 00:37:21,850 --> 00:37:24,090 S1: power of the person of the Holy Spirit who helps 707 00:37:24,090 --> 00:37:26,770 S1: us to discern. And we have God's Word. So Jesus 708 00:37:26,770 --> 00:37:29,250 S1: says in Matthew seven, beware of false prophets who come 709 00:37:29,250 --> 00:37:32,489 S1: to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 710 00:37:32,690 --> 00:37:35,490 S1: So every person who stands in front of a podium 711 00:37:35,489 --> 00:37:37,969 S1: at the front of a church and opens their mouth 712 00:37:37,969 --> 00:37:41,489 S1: to speak it. Test all things. If the Bereans could 713 00:37:41,489 --> 00:37:44,850 S1: do it to Paul. Take everything I'm saying. Everything, Craig. 714 00:37:44,890 --> 00:37:47,410 S1: Saying everything you hear. Don't take our word for it. 715 00:37:47,450 --> 00:37:51,050 S1: Take the word of God. Okay? That is paramount. Otherwise 716 00:37:51,050 --> 00:37:54,610 S1: you will be Colossians taken captive. This is a war 717 00:37:54,610 --> 00:37:58,130 S1: for your soul and your mind captive by vain and 718 00:37:58,130 --> 00:38:01,410 S1: hollow philosophies. And wolves talk about a lot of vain 719 00:38:01,410 --> 00:38:03,980 S1: and hollow philosophy. So I'm not going to say this 720 00:38:03,980 --> 00:38:07,180 S1: person's denomination, because we tend to get very clubby about 721 00:38:07,180 --> 00:38:10,500 S1: what denomination we belong to. In the end, there's not 722 00:38:10,500 --> 00:38:12,819 S1: going to be a division of denominations in glory. We're 723 00:38:12,820 --> 00:38:15,660 S1: going to stand on level ground in humility before the 724 00:38:15,660 --> 00:38:18,379 S1: king of all creation. So I don't want to talk 725 00:38:18,380 --> 00:38:20,859 S1: about the denomination, because we tend to get kind of 726 00:38:20,900 --> 00:38:23,859 S1: loyal or disloyal if we've been abused by that denomination. 727 00:38:23,860 --> 00:38:26,060 S1: So it becomes immaterial. I'm not even saying the person's 728 00:38:26,060 --> 00:38:28,620 S1: name because the Bible says out of the overflow of 729 00:38:28,620 --> 00:38:30,779 S1: the heart, the mouth speaks. It's imperative you hear what 730 00:38:30,780 --> 00:38:33,940 S1: the person says, not what their name is. So I 731 00:38:33,940 --> 00:38:36,300 S1: will tell you that I think you're going to hear 732 00:38:36,300 --> 00:38:41,100 S1: in short, notice what this particular person's beliefs are, particularly 733 00:38:41,100 --> 00:38:44,860 S1: as this individual tries to rewrite the Beatitudes. Listen. 734 00:38:45,340 --> 00:38:50,899 S12: If Jesus were here today, he would be a clinic escort, 735 00:38:51,180 --> 00:38:56,100 S12: distracting women from the hatred of the protesters, or an 736 00:38:56,140 --> 00:39:01,820 S12: abortion doula, holding women's hands and offering support and love 737 00:39:01,980 --> 00:39:05,899 S12: as they end their pregnancies, and I expect he would 738 00:39:05,900 --> 00:39:10,379 S12: have a stern word for self-righteous legislators who use abortion 739 00:39:10,380 --> 00:39:13,259 S12: as a political issue, rather than showing compassion for the 740 00:39:13,260 --> 00:39:20,580 S12: people seeking abortions. Today, on this Rose Sunday, I wanted 741 00:39:20,580 --> 00:39:24,500 S12: to share some of the stories we have collected because 742 00:39:24,500 --> 00:39:31,299 S12: these are the sacred stories of women's lives. If Jesus 743 00:39:31,300 --> 00:39:35,700 S12: were giving his sermon today, he might also have said, 744 00:39:36,700 --> 00:39:41,620 S12: blessed are those who end pregnancies, for they will be 745 00:39:41,620 --> 00:39:48,339 S12: known for their loving kindness. I have been pregnant four times. 746 00:39:48,660 --> 00:39:52,779 S12: I have had two abortions and I have two amazing children. 747 00:39:53,340 --> 00:39:58,180 S12: Each of my reproductive decisions to have children and not 748 00:39:58,180 --> 00:40:03,629 S12: to have children were sacred decisions because they reflect the 749 00:40:03,630 --> 00:40:08,230 S12: moral responsibility of reproductive power. That is part of our 750 00:40:08,230 --> 00:40:14,870 S12: inheritance as human creatures. Each of you has a reproductive story. 751 00:40:15,469 --> 00:40:18,550 S12: And given that one quarter of American women will have 752 00:40:18,550 --> 00:40:21,830 S12: an abortion by the age of 45, I imagine some 753 00:40:21,830 --> 00:40:29,549 S12: of your reproductive journeys also include abortion. Blessed are those 754 00:40:29,750 --> 00:40:34,310 S12: who end pregnancies, for they will be known for their 755 00:40:34,310 --> 00:40:42,150 S12: loving kindness. Reimagining our theological understanding of abortion is essential 756 00:40:42,430 --> 00:40:45,790 S12: to addressing the violence that is being done to people 757 00:40:45,790 --> 00:40:50,430 S12: across the country in the name of Christianity, in the 758 00:40:50,430 --> 00:40:56,110 S12: face of the rampant reproductive injustice in our society. What 759 00:40:56,510 --> 00:41:02,150 S12: does God require of us. Amen. 760 00:41:03,230 --> 00:41:06,589 S1: Wow. She has also said, and I'm quoting her now. 761 00:41:06,630 --> 00:41:09,310 S1: Use of the Bible in the abortion debate often focuses 762 00:41:09,310 --> 00:41:12,550 S1: on quoting individual verses out of context to prove something 763 00:41:12,550 --> 00:41:14,989 S1: about the value of prenatal life. But there are no 764 00:41:14,989 --> 00:41:17,710 S1: direct teachings about abortion in the Bible, and not all 765 00:41:17,710 --> 00:41:20,670 S1: Christians engage with Scripture in this way, nor is it 766 00:41:20,710 --> 00:41:24,670 S1: how all think about what shapes and defines Christian values. Um, 767 00:41:24,750 --> 00:41:27,910 S1: you know, it's interesting. I asked Mike yesterday about what 768 00:41:27,910 --> 00:41:30,989 S1: did Jesus mean when he talks about blaspheming the Holy Spirit? 769 00:41:31,150 --> 00:41:34,790 S1: When you talk about Jesus praising death on demand, when 770 00:41:34,790 --> 00:41:37,430 S1: you talk about Jesus being a clinic escort that from 771 00:41:37,430 --> 00:41:40,549 S1: my mind, and it's just my $0.02 that comes perilously 772 00:41:40,550 --> 00:41:43,629 S1: close to blasphemy. It's just stunning to me. And the 773 00:41:43,630 --> 00:41:46,910 S1: idea that she doesn't think that the scriptures speak directly 774 00:41:46,910 --> 00:41:49,750 S1: about abortion. The reason it doesn't is because from Genesis 775 00:41:49,750 --> 00:41:53,750 S1: to Revelation, he is a God valuing, God creating, uh, 776 00:41:54,350 --> 00:41:57,959 S1: giver of life, a creator of life. Um, it is 777 00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:02,120 S1: an abomination to the point where he, the Word of God, 778 00:42:02,120 --> 00:42:04,839 S1: just starts with the idea that we're not fearfully and 779 00:42:04,840 --> 00:42:06,920 S1: wonderfully made. If you do a deep dive on this 780 00:42:06,960 --> 00:42:10,080 S1: in Scripture, and I have you understand that he knows 781 00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:14,040 S1: us before we're even conceived, the Scripture tells us so 782 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,160 S1: for the believer, when we're asked, when does life begin? 783 00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,279 S1: It doesn't begin at conception. It begins in the heart 784 00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,200 S1: and mind of God. And so for her to say 785 00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:22,320 S1: it doesn't deal with it directly, if it's that precious 786 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,040 S1: and that dear to the creator himself, that it's there 787 00:42:25,040 --> 00:42:28,719 S1: before we're even conceived, then the idea of abortion is 788 00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:32,800 S1: such an abomination. It isn't even addressed. But there's and 789 00:42:32,880 --> 00:42:34,480 S1: I always say that people who say that about the 790 00:42:34,480 --> 00:42:36,200 S1: Bible are people who have not read the Bible, because 791 00:42:36,200 --> 00:42:38,040 S1: there's no way you can read the word and walk 792 00:42:38,040 --> 00:42:40,640 S1: away thinking that God supports the idea of killing a 793 00:42:40,640 --> 00:42:41,200 S1: preborn child. 794 00:42:41,239 --> 00:42:43,080 S8: If you took all the verses in the Old Testament 795 00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:46,040 S8: that talk about the sanctity of the womb, the sanctity 796 00:42:46,040 --> 00:42:50,400 S8: of pre-born life as God created, if you cut all 797 00:42:50,400 --> 00:42:52,719 S8: of those out, you'd have a number of holes in 798 00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,759 S8: your Old Testament Bible. Now, why did I say it's 799 00:42:55,920 --> 00:43:00,320 S8: important about what the Old Testament said? Because Jesus affirmed 800 00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:07,200 S8: the Old Testament repeatedly. He repeatedly recited what the Old 801 00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,600 S8: Testament had to say. God's mind in the Old Testament 802 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,640 S8: didn't change with the coming of Christ in the New Testament. 803 00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:20,440 S8: And so Jesus continually affirmed that therefore Jesus opposes abortion 804 00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:25,320 S8: because he supports what God's plan is for pregnancy and 805 00:43:25,320 --> 00:43:30,360 S8: the creation of life. God creating the his image in 806 00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,960 S8: that unborn preborn child the sanctity of life. You can 807 00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,040 S8: go to the book of Exodus, and you find the 808 00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:41,280 S8: midwives being praised and honored by God for not doing 809 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:43,799 S8: the equivalent of a late term abortion. We could go 810 00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:47,560 S8: into Psalms, but the point is, she cites no scripture 811 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:51,840 S8: because she cannot. The beginning and end of this conversation, Janet, 812 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:55,169 S8: is what God's Word clearly says about the issue of 813 00:43:55,170 --> 00:43:58,210 S8: life and life in the womb and life as God 814 00:43:58,250 --> 00:43:59,250 S8: designed it. 815 00:43:59,250 --> 00:44:01,689 S1: I think the other part too, is, you know, on 816 00:44:01,690 --> 00:44:04,210 S1: any given Sunday morning in churches all across America, one 817 00:44:04,210 --> 00:44:06,650 S1: out of four women sitting in the pews is post-abortive. 818 00:44:07,050 --> 00:44:09,410 S1: How many of them would think that their action of 819 00:44:09,410 --> 00:44:12,210 S1: aborting their child was an act of loving kindness? They're 820 00:44:12,210 --> 00:44:15,529 S1: in pain. They're grieving. For many women, they think that 821 00:44:15,530 --> 00:44:17,890 S1: the abortion is beyond the pale of Calvary and they 822 00:44:17,890 --> 00:44:20,210 S1: can never be forgiven. The enemy loves to tell him that. 823 00:44:20,489 --> 00:44:23,530 S1: So the reality is that we need to have compassion 824 00:44:23,530 --> 00:44:26,130 S1: for those who have made this choice, and that compassion 825 00:44:26,130 --> 00:44:28,969 S1: comes out of telling them the truth in love. Nobody 826 00:44:28,969 --> 00:44:31,410 S1: thinks it's an act of loving kindness when you take 827 00:44:31,410 --> 00:44:34,209 S1: the life of another human being, and that is just 828 00:44:34,210 --> 00:44:36,250 S1: another lie that comes out of the pit of hell 829 00:44:36,250 --> 00:44:40,410 S1: surrounding this entire issue of abortion. So there you go. 830 00:44:40,650 --> 00:44:43,009 S1: Learn to be a Berean. Test all things. I have 831 00:44:43,010 --> 00:44:45,290 S1: a great weekend and go out there and influence and 832 00:44:45,330 --> 00:44:47,650 S1: occupy until he comes. We'll see you next time on 833 00:44:47,650 --> 00:44:49,250 S1: In the Market with Janet Parshall.