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Well, hey everyone, this is Heidi St.

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is mailbox Monday and I'm going to spend

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a little bit of time addressing some of

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the issues in the news and answering listener

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questions. And we're going to just pause and

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reflect a little bit on the idiocy of

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the Biden administration considering locking down

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the country again in the name of a

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www.firmlyplantedfamily.org. I

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want to jump into your questions today. The

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first one came from a listener who said

1:40

that they were longtime members of

1:43

a denomination that is becoming

1:45

more and more apostate and are planning to

1:47

leave. Could you please discuss the best way to

1:49

go about leaving a church that you love, fill

1:51

with people that you love and a pastor

1:53

that you love, but you cannot

1:56

stay any longer. Well,

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The fact that you're saying that

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this denomination is becoming. More and

2:03

more apostate. Tells me that you've been

2:05

watching for quite some time as

2:07

many of these denominations him at

2:09

all the say it out loud,

2:12

the Methodist a nomination, the Lutheran

2:14

denomination, the Episcopal denomination, many of

2:16

the yeah the Presbyterians are struggling

2:18

with issues related sooth scriptural authority

2:20

and Dave in factor needed at

2:22

their parishioners into woke ideologies. we

2:24

watch you know there's a at

2:26

church I think I told you

2:28

guys just write down the street

2:30

from me that has a giant

2:33

transgender. Flag up in the French and

2:35

the front grass as really a shame

2:37

because his out on a mainstream people

2:39

drive by it all the time and

2:41

it says everyone is welcome here. Well.

2:43

That should be the message of every church. Every

2:46

one is welcome here, specially

2:48

the Gospel of Believe in.

2:51

Christ. Honoring Truth

2:53

Tallinn. Churches And

2:56

it's. It's. It's

2:58

a sad day and I just

3:00

I interviewed my friend Pastor Jack

3:02

the other day and I think

3:04

at that interview set to air

3:06

here pretty soon. but Jack and

3:08

I were talking about what is

3:10

happening in our churches and it

3:12

requires an enormous amount of discernment

3:15

on the part of the believer

3:17

right now to be able to

3:19

see oh hey, this is wrong

3:21

and. We. And we either

3:23

need to address it as a church. And

3:26

correct the wrong teaching. Or.

3:28

We need not to go to that church

3:30

anymore And it sounds to me like you

3:32

are in a church that is one of

3:34

the denominations that I just mentioned. I'd almost

3:36

guarantee it and you know that this is

3:38

where the church is headed and see you

3:40

can no longer stay. And I think that's

3:42

the message that you said when you talk

3:44

to the people that he that go to

3:46

that church you're doing exactly the right thing.

3:49

By asking how can you address

3:51

these issues in love so that

3:53

the people who are at the

3:56

who are still there? hopefully when

3:58

you leave. At. you burning

4:00

your bridges so that their

4:02

hearts are still open to hearing the gentle

4:05

nudge of the Holy Spirit that says

4:08

that his people should worship him in

4:10

spirit and in truth. And

4:12

we need to be committed as

4:14

Christians to sharing the truth. It

4:17

matters. And what we've seen now

4:19

happen for decades and generations even

4:22

is that we are willing to

4:24

sacrifice truth on the altar of

4:27

a misguided mercy. When we

4:29

don't speak the truth in love

4:31

then the truth becomes a weapon

4:33

and when we don't speak with

4:35

love then the truth can't

4:37

be heard. And so you have to

4:39

be you have to

4:41

be walking in the spirit,

4:44

asking the Lord to help you as you as you

4:46

talk to these to these men

4:49

and women and just say hey we

4:51

love you guys but what you're teaching

4:53

is not in accordance with sound doctrine.

4:55

And Paul warned Timothy about this. He

4:58

said Timothy a time is coming when

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people will no longer listen to sound

5:02

teaching but they will go they

5:04

will gravitate toward whatever their itching ears want

5:06

to hear. Well what do we want to

5:08

hear in the culture right now? We want

5:10

to hear that the sin of homosexuality does

5:12

not grieve God. We want to hear that

5:15

that we should be worshiping the environment. We want

5:17

to hear that God doesn't love

5:19

Israel. I keep hearing you know

5:21

more and more here at the

5:24

show people who

5:26

are writing in and asking

5:28

questions about replacement theology and

5:31

I'm seeing it sort of take root even in even

5:33

in the Christian circles more and

5:35

more and like I said before I'm not

5:37

gonna lose a friend over it but we

5:39

need to do a better job of reading

5:41

our Bible. Stop blaming Scofield you know for

5:44

for the belief that there's gonna be a

5:46

rapture and just read your Bible. I'm pretty

5:48

sure we can make a pretty solid case

5:50

for it but again that's not an issue

5:52

of eternal security that's

5:54

not a gospel issue so many of

5:57

the issues that these woke churches are

5:59

leaning into to our gospel issues and

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we have to be able to come

6:03

at them from a position of truth.

6:05

And so I would just encourage you, if you're

6:08

going to go to your pastor, do it in love. As

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a pastor's wife for a long, long time,

6:12

I can tell you some of the most

6:14

hurtful things that ever happened to us were

6:17

the result of people who left

6:21

our churches badly. So

6:24

what you don't want to do is throw a fit. What you don't

6:26

want to do is put a big, huge Facebook

6:28

social media post about how you hate the church or

6:30

how the church has gone woke. You don't need to do any of

6:32

those things. You can go to the

6:34

pastor and say, we love you guys. We've

6:36

tried everything we know so that we

6:39

could stay here and not have to

6:41

go to another church, but we just

6:43

cannot sit under teaching that is not

6:45

sound doctrinally. And that is

6:47

the reason. And I think you let them know, hey,

6:50

we love you guys and we want to be a

6:52

part of your life, but we are not going to

6:54

be a part of this church anymore. And

6:56

they're painful decisions to make. And

6:58

these are extraordinary times in which we live.

7:01

But you must be sitting under a pastor

7:04

who is going to give you good

7:06

teaching. My friend Pastor Jack wrote

7:08

a book and I, like I said, I just had

7:10

him on the show and it's called

7:12

Living in the Days of Deception, How to Discern

7:14

Truth from the Culturist Lies. And this is absolutely

7:17

necessary in the church. And he talks about that

7:19

in his book. I hope you guys will pick

7:21

it up. I'll link back to it in the

7:23

show notes today. But I don't think this

7:25

is going to get easier. I think

7:27

that the church is being purified

7:29

right now. I think we're starting to

7:31

see, and frankly, I welcome it because

7:33

now at least we know. We

7:36

know what side of a theological

7:38

discussion are our brothers and sisters

7:40

in Christ on and can

7:43

we trust

7:46

what they say from the pulpit? And more often

7:48

than not, I think the answer is no. And

7:52

so we need to know God's word. The

7:54

time for lazy disciples, lazy followers

7:56

of Jesus is absolutely over. You

7:58

guys need to be. in your

8:00

Bibles, open up your Bible every

8:03

day of your life. The

8:05

Bible says that it's like living water for

8:07

your soul. You wouldn't go for days without

8:10

water, and yet we go for days as

8:12

Christians without ever opening

8:14

our Bibles. And like I said to

8:17

you guys in Dallas a

8:19

few days ago, it's not

8:21

your pastor's job to suit you up for war.

8:23

It's your job. You should be in the

8:26

word. You can't pass on what you don't

8:28

possess. And so we need to be in

8:30

the word of the word, filled

8:32

with the Spirit, filled with the word.

8:34

As I've heard said so many times

8:36

recently, we want to be ingesting the

8:38

word of God every day so that

8:40

when we need to make a decision,

8:42

the word of God flows from us

8:45

because we know it and we

8:47

can defend it. And so you're on my heart

8:49

and I'm going to be praying for you as you make

8:51

this decision, but God will honor it. And

8:53

so leave well. You

8:56

leave well by loving well, and

8:58

then ask the Lord where to show you where to go next.

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Next question comes from Abigail. She said,

10:09

Heidi, I'm wondering if you have resources

10:11

on how to explain non-binary to kids,

10:14

specifically why it goes against scripture and

10:16

why we aren't going to call cousins

10:18

they, them, and how to remain loving

10:21

and respectful despite pronouns. Well, I don't

10:23

think you need a book other

10:25

than the Bible to

10:28

explain non-binary to kids. So binary

10:30

meaning two, right? You have two options

10:32

and we've heard from the left in this

10:34

country and the woke sexual ideologues that they're

10:36

tired of this binary of male and female,

10:39

except for God's not tired of it because

10:41

this is how God made us. We are

10:43

made male and female. This is true in

10:46

the animal kingdom as well. And

10:48

we are called to be ambassadors

10:51

for the truth. And so you can

10:53

read scripture to your children for

10:56

this reason, a man should

10:58

leave his father and his mother and be united

11:00

to his wife and the two should become one

11:02

flesh. We are created in the image of God,

11:05

male and female. And

11:07

we are also called to be ambassadors

11:09

of the Lord, right? The apostle Paul

11:11

said that it's almost as if God

11:13

were making his appeal through you. Well,

11:15

if you can't tell the truth, if

11:17

you are hijacked by the culture of

11:20

political correctness and the pronoun idiocy and

11:22

all those things, well, your kids aren't

11:24

going to be able to stand up

11:26

either. So it has to start with you.

11:28

I for one, refuse, I

11:30

will not play. I will not play the

11:32

game. I'm not going to use incorrect pronouns.

11:34

I'm not going to ask. I'm not going

11:36

to fall under somebody's threat to, to

11:39

use an orthodoxy that is absolutely absurd.

11:41

And I'm not going to change the

11:44

syntax of the English language to, to

11:48

assuage the mental

11:50

illness of another human being. I

11:53

just will not do it. And you guys

11:55

have heard me say before on the show, you know,

11:57

when, when you see public figures get up there and

11:59

start saying that they don't

12:01

believe in male and female anymore, I just think

12:03

they're lying. We can see with

12:06

our eyes, right? Our eyes bear witness to the

12:08

fact that there is such a thing as male

12:10

and female. So I think the way that we

12:12

teach our children is that we as Christians, we

12:15

do not live by lies. We

12:17

live by the truth of the word of God. God's

12:19

word says in Genesis that he made us male and

12:21

female in his image. Therefore this

12:23

is a spiritual attack. It's an attack against

12:25

creator God. It's an attack against what God

12:27

said is good and what

12:30

he has created for human flourishing.

12:33

I was talking to a woman the other day

12:35

who was saying that she has some friends that

12:37

are questioning whether or

12:39

not male and female is a real thing

12:41

anymore. And I mean here in the Pacific

12:43

Northwest, I was just in Costco the other

12:45

day and some grown man went to the

12:47

store, beard, high heels. I

12:50

mean what's happened is we've just opened

12:52

Pandora's box and now we watch

12:54

these people put their mental illness

12:56

on full display and the culture

12:58

just goes, huh, that's good. Good

13:00

for you. You saw your authentic true self. Here's

13:02

a man who's literally being tortured in his

13:05

mind, but no one's going to help him. And

13:07

that's the same thing that's true with Bruce Jenner.

13:09

No one's helping him. No one's loving him. So

13:11

they're letting him live in this delusion that he's

13:13

a woman trapped in

13:15

the body of a man and that's

13:17

not love. And Christians are called to

13:20

love each other, to love one another.

13:22

So I would just encourage you, just

13:24

like I did to the previous question,

13:26

that the Bible says that

13:28

they'll know that we are Christians by

13:31

our love. And we want to be

13:33

loving, but we also will not sacrifice truth on

13:36

the altar of mercy. And so

13:38

we've got to tell the truth. And actually,

13:40

you know, I would even say it's not

13:42

merciful even when we engage in

13:44

lies like this and we just determine, oh, it

13:46

doesn't matter and you can have your truth and

13:48

I can have my truth, but we know that

13:51

that's actually not true. And so

13:53

I believe that most of the people

13:55

in the woke ideologies that are pushing

13:57

this gender insanity are targeting children. Children

14:00

are literally being brainwashed and they don't know

14:03

that there's two sexes. This

14:08

word even, gender, is just a made up thing.

14:10

It makes me so angry, you guys. I just

14:13

want to encourage you, love

14:15

your kids by telling them the truth. Let

14:17

them see that you're walking in the truth. Let them see

14:19

that you don't live by lies, that you live by truth.

14:22

Our truth should be marked with compassion. The truth

14:24

should be marked with love. God

14:26

is a God of love. He is

14:28

also a God of justice and a God of mercy. He

14:32

created us in his image and that needs to be

14:34

the message. I just encourage

14:36

you guys, don't play the pronoun game. Just

14:39

don't do it because you're engaging in a lie

14:41

and you're fostering what is hurting

14:43

our kids and hurting the culture.

14:46

I for one am over it. I don't

14:48

know if you guys are following the headlines,

14:50

but I've

14:53

been kind of wondering for a while,

14:55

what's going to be the new emergency

14:57

that the Democrats throw at us to

15:00

mess up the 2024 elections? What

15:03

could possibly happen? Matt Walsh wrote

15:06

an article that came out a couple of days ago

15:08

in The Daily Wire.

15:10

The title of Matt Walsh's article is

15:12

this. The government is gearing up to

15:14

declare a climate emergency which will wipe

15:17

out what's left of

15:19

our freedoms. He goes on to

15:21

make a case that for several years now,

15:23

it's been clear that the Biden administration has

15:25

been thinking about officially declaring a climate emergency.

15:27

We hear this all the time, beginning

15:30

on the day that he took

15:32

office, several politicians have floated this

15:34

possibility. If you don't believe me,

15:37

just keep checking the news. I mean, in 2021, so January

15:39

29th, 2021, the news reported that President Biden shouldn't declare

15:46

climate change a national emergency. The National

15:48

Emergency Act is not the right tool

15:50

to save the planet, but he's been

15:52

advocating for this since he took charge

15:54

of the government, by the way, I

15:56

still believe one

15:59

of probably He might be the worst president

16:01

we've ever had in the history of the United States.

16:03

I mean, who knows how

16:05

much worse it's going to get. But

16:07

the Democrats' leader in the Senate, Chuck

16:09

Schumer, recently called on Biden to make

16:11

the declaration of a climate emergency within

16:14

a week of his inauguration. Ever since

16:16

then, there have been articles and deep

16:18

dives on various outlets, including Politico and

16:20

the New York Times, suggesting that it

16:22

would be a really good idea to

16:24

essentially go to war, as Matt Walsh

16:27

put it, with the weather. And

16:31

as his term is winding

16:33

down, Joe Biden has resisted

16:35

the hardcore demands to issue

16:38

a state of emergency. And instead, Biden

16:40

says that he's, quote, practically declared a

16:42

climate emergency, which really just means, oh,

16:44

yeah, I like the idea. And

16:47

if the time is right, boy, I'll

16:49

do it. But this is

16:51

the thing, you guys. There is

16:53

not a climate emergency. And everybody who's

16:55

pushing this hysteria understands this full well,

16:57

but they will never stop pretending that

17:00

this is an urgent crisis, because the moment they

17:02

do, they will lose some measure of control over

17:04

our lives. This is why you keep hearing people

17:07

talking about how they want to take away your

17:09

gas stoves and everybody should

17:11

be driving an electric vehicle and

17:13

all the stupidity behind the

17:17

climate crisis emergency. If there was

17:19

a climate crisis, a

17:21

pending emergency, then the

17:23

Democrats know that if they can declare

17:25

the crisis, they're going to have to

17:27

do everything they can to address it

17:29

as aggressively as possible. So if a

17:32

ship is threatened with sinking, you do

17:34

everything possible right now to prevent it

17:36

from taking on more water. And

17:38

that's exactly what I think the Democrats are

17:40

going to try to do. The Biden administration,

17:43

of course, flirting with this idea. And

17:45

it's telling us that the White House sees an

17:47

emergency climate declaration as a potential

17:51

nuclear option to deploy when they get really

17:53

desperate. And guess what, you guys? They're

17:55

desperate. They're getting really desperate. If

17:58

you're watching the judges continuing to... treat

18:00

Donald Trump with contempt in

18:03

further eroding the trust

18:05

of the American people and our system of justice,

18:07

which was supposed to be blind, but obviously it

18:10

isn't. And the truth of the

18:12

matter is we have got a major

18:16

problem on our hands right now,

18:18

at least the way that

18:20

the Democrats see it, in that there's

18:22

a very real possibility that Donald Trump

18:25

could win the election. And they just

18:27

can't have that. And so

18:29

what are they doing? They're talking about issuing

18:31

a national emergency. And of course, if they

18:33

did that, then we're talking about lockdowns. We're

18:36

talking about how you drive your cars. We're probably

18:38

talking about the price of gasoline. It

18:40

could send the nation into an absolute

18:42

crisis. And so we need

18:45

to be praying about this. We need to

18:47

be watching at it. But emergency powers, and

18:49

I want us to just sort of remember

18:51

this. They

18:54

did this in COVID for sure. And

18:57

what they've done is they've cheapened the emergency

18:59

powers that have been given to

19:01

the executive branch of our government. And

19:04

the emergency powers are really there

19:07

for actual emergency, terrorist attacks, natural

19:09

disasters, earthquakes. In

19:11

my neck of the woods, it would be

19:13

a volcano or something

19:16

like that. They're not

19:18

intended to address problems

19:20

that are ongoing, such

19:22

as the so-called climate emergency, which by the

19:24

way is a hoax. Climate change is a

19:26

hoax. I was just listening to a guy

19:29

who I disagree with on several things, but

19:31

boy, he's a genius when it comes to

19:34

climate change. He comes at it from the

19:36

position of an evolutionist. But

19:38

I listened on Jordan Peterson's podcast the

19:41

other day to this gentleman who used

19:43

to be one of the founding members

19:45

of Greenpeace. So obviously very committed environmentalist

19:48

talking about how this

19:50

junk science, the pseudoscience of

19:52

climate change is hurting

19:54

even the efforts of Greenpeace and the

19:56

efforts to keep the oceans clean. It's

19:58

kind of amazing. And so

20:00

these emergency powers, if the Biden

20:03

administration puts them into

20:05

practice, I hope that every person

20:07

that's listening to this show, and I hope you

20:09

guys pass this on to your friends and your

20:11

relatives, don't play the

20:13

game. Don't play the game.

20:15

If they ever ask, if they ever mandate

20:17

an experimental vaccine, I think there's going to

20:19

be an uproar in this country, like the

20:22

likes of which we have never seen. I

20:24

would hate to see what happens if they

20:26

try to bring back that stupid mask that

20:28

they mandated in the dumb stickers that they

20:30

put on the floor telling everybody to stand

20:32

six feet apart. We have lived through one

20:34

of the most obscene, absurd, ridiculous, stupid periods

20:37

of time in the history of the United

20:39

States. And we're continuing to live through it

20:41

because just like they are pushing climate change,

20:43

they're also pushing gender ideology that would tell

20:45

you that a man can go in and

20:47

have his private parts taken off and suddenly

20:49

become a woman. But

20:52

you don't have a woman. You just

20:54

have a castrated, impotent man. That's

20:56

all you have. And when

20:58

we say otherwise, we're being

21:01

both intellectually dishonest and incredibly

21:03

damaging to the culture. And

21:05

we have to hold our government to

21:08

account to say, no, you don't use

21:10

the emergency powers unless you need them.

21:13

And if lawmakers have had ample

21:15

time to consider a problem and

21:17

they haven't chosen to authorize a

21:19

certain solution for it, a.k.a. the

21:21

so-called climate, quote unquote, emergency, then

21:25

declaring a national emergency to

21:27

bypass the Congress is a blatant

21:29

misuse of power. This is

21:31

why I get so frustrated with all the executive

21:34

orders that come out, even the ones that I

21:36

appreciate. It's like, man, you guys, the Congress is

21:38

actually there for a reason. But

21:40

reason, speaking of reason,

21:43

is lost in our country right now. And

21:45

when we ignore the Congress, when

21:47

we ignore how things are supposed to

21:49

run, we do so at our peril.

21:52

We absolutely do so at our

21:54

peril. I hope that you will

21:56

do your homework on

21:58

the climate crisis. in the United

22:00

States, the so-called climate crisis, because I'm telling you what,

22:03

I do think it's going to heat up. And

22:05

the weakening

22:08

of Western culture and Western

22:10

civilization by trying to eliminate

22:12

oil, to eliminate natural

22:15

gases, energy sources, the

22:17

scientific basis for

22:19

so-called net zero is based more on

22:22

general agreement than it is on hard

22:24

data. It's based on propaganda. It's not

22:26

based on data. And anyone who is

22:28

seriously studying this issue would be honest

22:31

enough to tell you that. And

22:34

I'm increasingly

22:36

stunned by the posturing that's

22:43

happening on the left right now. And you can

22:45

almost see the wheels are turning. Well, maybe, maybe,

22:48

maybe if we declare a climate crisis, a climate

22:50

so-called emergency, then they'll get back

22:53

some modicum of the

22:55

control that they so desperately want to

22:57

have over the everyday lives of

23:01

ordinary Americans like you and I.

23:05

This is interesting too. And I just, I read this

23:07

recently, and I want to find out what the date

23:09

is on it. About seven months

23:11

ago, Bill Gates actually said

23:13

that there wasn't a climate emergency. And

23:15

a lot of people were saying, Oh,

23:17

man, I mean, he stunned the audience

23:20

by saying that the climate crisis

23:22

narrative is a hoax. And

23:25

this all comes from the New York

23:28

Times Climate Forward Summit, where Bill Gates

23:30

was a featured speaker. And while he

23:32

was being interviewed, he dropped this bombshell

23:34

saying he doesn't think there's an urgent

23:37

climate crisis and went on to say,

23:39

quote, no temperate country is going to

23:41

become inhabitable. And so

23:43

he basically just said the quiet

23:46

part out loud. But for some

23:48

reason, we still let this, this

23:50

climate crisis clowns into

23:53

positions of authority in our government. And

23:55

they're trying to do everything from pushing

23:57

electric vehicles to making sure that that

24:00

you can't have a propane stove in

24:02

your house. What a ridiculous season that

24:05

we are living through right now. But I'm gonna encourage you,

24:07

do your homework because this

24:09

idea of a climate crisis is absolutely

24:11

a hoax. I don't listen to these

24:14

people. I stopped a long time ago

24:16

and the whole idea of electric vehicles,

24:19

by the way, are

24:21

absolutely ridiculous. Absolutely

24:23

ridiculous that the Biden

24:26

administration would tell us that electric

24:28

vehicles are the so-called cure to

24:31

the so-called climate emergency.

24:33

And I read an awesome article and I'll

24:35

link back to it in the show notes

24:37

today, talking about the range, why

24:40

the electric vehicles are not the cure for

24:42

any kind of manufactured crisis.

24:45

And he says, specifically point out the problem, not

24:47

the range. If you wanna argue with these people,

24:49

don't point out the range. Like we

24:51

actually got a rental car by

24:53

accident. We got an electric vehicle rental car

24:56

by accident when we were on Arizona or

24:58

something. I hated that thing. I

25:01

mean, we had to stop and find on the

25:03

map places that we could charge the car. And

25:05

if it wasn't one of the new charging stations,

25:07

then you're stuck in that place for an hour

25:09

and a half while your car tries to

25:11

charge. And where are they getting electricity? Where's

25:15

that coming from? It's so ridiculous. It's

25:17

absolutely ridiculous. The thing that gives

25:19

the lie to the

25:22

idea that we must all drive an

25:24

electric vehicle because of a supposed looming

25:26

crisis is the fact that electric vehicles

25:28

are excessive. None of them are

25:30

designed to minimize the use of electrical energy or

25:33

resources. And I want you guys to think on

25:35

that for just a second. If there's a crisis

25:37

pending, an emergency, then

25:40

we should be doing everything we can

25:42

to prevent what is supposed to

25:45

be coming. And they're saying, well, this is

25:47

what electric vehicles will do. And this is

25:49

why we're pushing them out on the market.

25:51

But every single one of them is overweight

25:53

and overpowered. They all brag about how they

25:55

accelerate. And that quickness is, what does that

25:57

do? It's consumptive, right? So it's

25:59

more. more energy that's needed. So

26:01

whether you're burning gas or electricity, it

26:03

burns faster when you use it to

26:06

get several pounds of a vehicle moving

26:08

quickly. And it's a

26:10

lie that electrical vehicles are

26:12

going to help. The

26:15

whole thing is so disingenuous. And I hear

26:17

about this all the time. There

26:19

are efficient hybrid cars, you know, I would say

26:23

Prius, but what does a Prius do? It uses

26:25

less energy. And this whole thing

26:27

is, you know, rather than conserve and

26:29

minimize, we're just using the same amount of

26:31

energy, but just in a different way. And

26:34

so I hope that we can start talking about

26:36

this. I hope we start talking about it in

26:38

the Christian community, and maybe turn off the news

26:40

and start using common sense. Because the moment that

26:43

the Biden administration declares that

26:45

we're going to go into lockdown

26:47

to save the planet, an emergency

26:49

declaration to save the planet, I

26:51

think you're going to have full

26:53

blown, blown rebellion in the

26:55

United States. And in fact, I hope that we

26:58

do because it's just it's so ridiculous. In other

27:00

news, another trans boy

27:02

has beaten yet another girl in

27:06

Indiana. And

27:08

PJ media talked about it this way,

27:10

they said the ability of transgender quote

27:13

unquote, women, in other words, men, to

27:16

continually demonstrate how much they hate actual

27:18

women and girls never ceases to amaze

27:20

me, especially when there are kids involved.

27:23

Real news Central Indiana described how

27:25

the kid grabbed the unnamed victim's

27:27

ponytail through her to the ground

27:29

and commenced with a beating. The

27:32

accomplished recording the video air dropped it to everyone

27:35

else in the school, but the poor girl who

27:37

was attacked is being harassed and

27:39

bullied. Now she went back to school the

27:41

next day, the paper reported, but it's been

27:43

hard on her just to make the situation

27:45

worse. The attacker was allegedly the same boy

27:47

who forced Lebanon middle school to acknowledge that

27:49

allowing boys into girls locker rooms is a

27:52

bad idea. Crazy.

27:54

Nice going Lebanon middle school you guys

27:56

are you guys are you're killing

27:58

it. So Grayson Backage,

28:01

I think that's how you say his name, Backage,

28:04

not sure. But

28:07

Grayson wrote this article, and he

28:10

also wrote an article a couple weeks ago

28:12

about another loony, his name's

28:14

Kyle Calvert, a self-described trans non-binary man.

28:16

How can you be... You

28:20

can't make this stuff up. Trans, I'm trans

28:22

non-binary, you know, I fly and I swim.

28:27

This guy successfully tried to

28:29

nail bomb the Alabama state

28:32

capitol and supposedly had issues with

28:34

violent impulses. And the same day, Matt

28:36

Margolis touched briefly upon what's been happening

28:38

at the Planet Fitness facilities. I mean,

28:41

oh my goodness, you guys, Planet Fitness

28:43

is on its head right now because

28:46

they're allowing biological males into

28:49

the locker rooms with women. It's insane.

28:51

It's completely insane. There's

28:55

so much perverted stuff happening in the culture

28:57

right now. I mean, we are living in

28:59

unprecedented times. And it goes back to what

29:01

we were saying at the beginning of the

29:03

show today, that if we don't stand for

29:05

truth, and

29:07

I believe this with all my heart, truth

29:09

is a hill worth dying on. Truth

29:12

is a hill worth dying on. You're

29:14

watching students protesting

29:17

in favor of Hamas. I'm pretty

29:19

sure that back in October, we all

29:21

watched as paragliders for the terrorist organization

29:23

that is Hamas dropped

29:26

men, armed men, into

29:29

the middle of peaceful Israelis

29:32

and began systematically killing

29:36

and raping and

29:38

torturing innocent people. And

29:41

what do we have happening at our universities here

29:43

in the United States? We've got students that are

29:46

pro-Palestine and they are chanting in support

29:48

of this wickedness and this evil. That

29:50

is the day in which we live.

29:53

I saw a video of a young woman who was interviewed

29:56

at Columbia University and they asked her, why

29:58

are you praying? protesting here

30:01

against Israel. And

30:03

she looked at her friend and was like, why are

30:05

we here? They didn't even know. The level of

30:07

groupthink and stupidity that's fallen over this country

30:09

is astonishing right now. And the only way

30:11

that you address it is by standing up

30:13

for truth wherever you are. So when you

30:15

have an opportunity, tell the truth. And the first

30:18

place that you have an opportunity to speak truth

30:20

is to your children. We

30:22

need to speak truth in our churches. And then we

30:24

need to go out of the four

30:26

walls of our churches, out of the four walls of

30:28

our homes and begin to speak the truth in the

30:30

culture again. God calls us to

30:32

be men and women who speak the

30:34

truth. The Bible says that you'll

30:36

know the truth and the truth will set you free. And

30:38

as long as we live by lies, right?

30:42

What they did to us in COVID was

30:44

a lie. It was perpetuated by a lie.

30:46

It lived and breathed on a lie. The

30:48

fear that descended over this nation like a

30:50

cold wet blanket during the Rona was based

30:52

on a lie. Fear is

30:54

a cousin of deceit. And

30:57

when you have to push people

30:59

in to control them and

31:02

you do it through fear and you do it through lies,

31:04

then you can see why we're not called to give into

31:07

that spirit of fear. God didn't give

31:09

you a spirit of fear, power, love and a sound mind. So

31:11

how do you know if you're living in

31:13

fear? Well, the main way to know is

31:16

that you lose your power, you lose your love and

31:18

you lose your soundness of mind. And

31:20

we need it now more than ever.

31:22

So I just wanna encourage you guys be

31:25

in your Bibles every day. If you haven't joined me

31:27

yet over at The Faith That Speaks community, I hope

31:29

that you'll do that. And also I really hope that

31:31

you will take advantage of an

31:34

opportunity that I have to

31:36

engage with my audience to

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31:44

and more concerned. I just met a mom the other day whose

31:47

12 year old daughter had been watching

31:49

something online on their

31:51

family, streaming videos. I

31:54

don't know if it was Netflix on it where she saw it, but

31:57

she started questioning her gender. And

31:59

at the age of 12, 12 for

32:01

goodness sake. I mean, when I was 12 years old, I

32:03

was, you know, we were still playing stickball for goodness sake.

32:06

And these kids are questioning their gender and the stuff

32:08

that's being pushed at them through,

32:10

you know, shows that we see movies,

32:12

things that stream on the internet is

32:15

absolutely disgusting. It's hurting our children. You

32:17

guys can enjoy watching

32:20

things on television without the foul language,

32:22

without the sexual content, without the, you

32:24

know, the naked rear ends in

32:26

your face every time you turn around without the

32:29

violence, without the profanity by checking

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32:33

I hope you guys will do it. And

32:35

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33:08

I don't want to see any naked Hinees.

33:10

I don't want to hear the Lord's name

33:13

in vain. I don't want to see sexual

33:15

content. And in fact,

33:17

I heard the other day that Yellowstone is

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the most downloaded show on VidAngel,

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33:25

like, I mean, how much of Yellowstone was left

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after VidAngel after they, you know, picked

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33:51

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33:54

your mind too. And instead of being indoctrinated

33:56

by the world, we

33:58

can stand out as men and women. women who believe

34:00

God's word and live it out in the

34:02

culture. We love you guys. Thank you so

34:05

much for listening today. This is Heidi St. John

34:07

and I will see you right back here again at

34:09

the intersection of the West Bank.