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Mean Tweets Church Edition
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Logan and Brendan review mean tweets about church and Christians
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Introduction and Banter
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recordinging
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Hello and welcome to From Dublin to Cleveland. I'm Logan Howard. i am joined by the famous one and only Brendan Thomas Merritt. How are you today, Brendan? I'm great.
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Always great. You know, just struggling with my my famous celebrity. It's a hard life sitting around on ah golden couch eating grapes. Doing nothing with your life.
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Oh, come now, come now. You're doing more with your life than people even know. um So I am wearing, as yeah everybody probably already noticed, quite a ah provocative hat.
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um Not something that I normally do. um But... It is kind of fun ah to be productative provocative sometimes. um So all of you who hate ah that I'm wearing this hat, I do want to say that we've already done a podcast about some of the this guy specifically and what the great things he's done.
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And so I recommend you go back and watch that because I've seen that not as many people watch that episode. And I think I know why, but do it anyway. So
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I'm being controversial by wearing this hat in a non, well, technically, it might
Theme Introduction: Mean Tweets on Christianity
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get political. Yeah, it's going to get political today because we are doing Mean Tweets Christianity Edition.
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So it's nasty things that people have said about church, Christians, ah Christian people. It's going to be a lot of fun. Brenton has come up with a huge list.
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I contributed three things to the list, you know, being so helpful. Very important contribution. But let's be honest, if there's anyone who can understand the perfect level of vitriol that should be shared on this podcast, it is Brendan Thomas Merritt.
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It's not me. I am not a vitriol person. I'm not a a angsty guy. i am pretty chill. And so if there's anybody who could share it, it's Brendan. So Brendan, would you ah lead us on our way through this awesome list?
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ah And of course, while he's setting up his list, you can find us or send us an email about why we shouldn't have shared or done a podcast like this.
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You can send us an email at fromdoublintocleveland at gmail.com. You can also personally send an email. ah Well, not an email, but send a message to Brendan. At Facebook, Brendan Thomas Merritt. You look it up, you can send him an email. So then he'll have a mean tweet.
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Or Instagram. even better he Or Instagram as well. He wants your mean tweets. Please send them. We will have an episode on all your mean tweets. If you send us tweets or you send nasty things about us, we will share them.
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Just be prepared. We're mean. and you know Now they're not going to send it. After me saying that, they're not going to send it now. And that's, I mean, they've already not sent anything. I'm just trying to do something for them to send me something.
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It's important for his validation and sense of accomplishment, guys. Don't leave him hanging. It is. It is. it it will it brings me joy. And if I don't have joy in my life, I become very sad.
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And then I'll become angsty like these people. So with that segue, Brendan. and he At least these people and there's only one person it could possibly be.
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I relish my bitterness.
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The pain. Yes.
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and It's here. Alright, God, the glasses have just come on. You know, this is going to get serious and it's going to hit the fan. Buckle up. Buckle up. Buckle up.
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Alright, so i have been scouring...
Debate on Megachurch Pastors
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the deepest, darkest corners of the internet this day. As Logan admitted, he has not been scouring. He literally put three together two minutes before logged on.
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but But looking for mean tweets aimed at Christians, and I have to say, credit where credit's due. Sometimes you just have to give the force of evil ah pat on the head and say, well done. Thanks.
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Thanks. You got me there. and All right, here's one. Most... ah And by the way, Logan and I are not saying that we agree or disagree with any of these. we I just think that they're funny.
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Yes. Good megachurch pastors are moral cowards. If they're ambivalent with politics, Logan had warned you people, in an election where one on the side loudly champions killing babies sexually mutilating children, they're not pastors.
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They're businessmen. I say ouch, and I say 100% agree. Well done, Joel Berry. Well said. Joel Berry just roasted these poor guys.
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He did. Oh my goodness, that just really jumped out right there, didn't it? 100%. Now look, the Bible's very clear.
Distrust in Religious Men
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Hate evil, resist evil, and expose evil.
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And if you're not doing that, get out the pulpit and hand someone off the microphone. yeah Yep. Mr. Berry was pretty dead on with that one. Big time.
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Alright, then we come to port Kiwi Palestine Watermelon. and so me one per That's a very interesting name there.
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um We all need to pray for this chick. She's obviously been through some stuff. Men who randomly turned religious should not be trusted. They, percent 100, did some horrific stuff they're trying to make up for. It's not why we need the Lord's forgiveness, though. They definitely do. Percent 100.
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I'm not an English teacher, but that's I'm a math teacher, and that's wrong. I think I prefer it. I like the imaginative thing she's putting on the language. Should be 100%, not percent 100%.
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Because maybe what she's trying to say is there is a percentage out of 100 that they've done horrific things. And that is that just loses all the power of your tweet. All right? So you gotta if you're going to tweet something, you've got do it right. And if you don't do it right, edit it and make it right. All right? That's that's what we're learning here.
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i think she's so offended that she's not thinking half as deeply as you think she is. Yeah. Cookies and cream. Why is redemption in trying to change the bad are such a controversial take?
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Kiwi. I think that's Palestine. Watermelon. Turning to God for forgiveness is not taking an ability or trying to change. You know what?
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Kiwi. Kiwi. Kiwi. kiwi kiwi
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I don't think she is as much in isolation ah some people might instinctively think she is. I remember in secondary school, I went to a school of the Catholic ethos.
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I remember in second and the second year, religion class. And the topic of, what's it, the Catholics believe, absolution came up. um You know, you've done something naughty, so you need to pray but your Hail Marys and your take out your rosary beads and all this crack.
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um And I was like, no, I mean, we have the Lord's forgiveness. You know, so we don't have to do any this. Not that the Bible would ever suggest bringing to dead people.
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Yeah. um And the teacher was like, but do you not believe that and if you do something wrong, you should be punished? And I honestly don't remember what my answer was. i think maybe I said something like, no, God forgave us. Or maybe that's just me thinking too kindly kind leave myself.
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and But I remember in my head thinking, you know what? We do. Forgiveness shouldn't be that that simple. And that ex exposed exposed and in me not understanding that the grace of God is a gift.
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yeah And it's a gift that we're invited to accept, reject, or accept and return it to sender retroactively. um But actually what I think she's Kiwi, Palestine, watermelon,
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is kind of um but but and getting at here is free forgiveness sounds too easy. She just wants someone to bleed. and And I think she's been very hurt in life.
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Yeah, it sounds too good to be true. And let's just be thankful we don't live and in the world that she's proposing that we live in. Because... God would have taken us out ah like on sight if we had a God that was that way.
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That is the truth, isn't it? Mm-hmm. Okay, Scott is... Oh, boy. He's not a happy camper.
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Christians put Trump into office. Amen. He did. Because mainstream American Christianity is racist, greedy, and nationalistic. Things Christ was
Pandemic Priorities and Civil Liberties
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vehemently against. I love that...
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and American Democrats think that Americans are the only people in the world who are against legal immigration. It's like... but
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No, Scotty, it's kind of all all all around the world, but okay. So don't ever call me an evangelical. I wasn't going to based on the above four lines.
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In fact, don't even call me a Christian unless you know what I mean by that. I love that he gets to define what being a Christian is rather than Jesus.
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All right, listen, he's poking the bear of Americans. Respond to Scott here.
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so Are you a racist, homophobic... transphobic, bigoted, anti-black, greedy, nationalistic pig, Logan. So they i think I think where he he misses, right?
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i think the big miss here is, are there people that are Christians who are racist? Yes, I have met them. Okay. They at least claim to be Christians, right?
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Have I met Christians that are greedy? Yes. I have seen Christians eat tons of food at potlucks. I have seen, I mean, I know he's talking about money, but, uh,
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oh i just mean that the issue by not addressing the issue I have seen Christians Osteen. Yeah, definitely. He's out there to make money. He just hates this guy.
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ah you know you see joel ollstein yeah definitely out there to make money jesus hitler guy
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And nationalistic, right? There are some extremists who are like, Trump is our God. um There are people who basically worship Trump, that Trump is the second coming of Jesus himself.
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um So he's mistaking these crazy people who are technically out there who probably post on social media and, you know, Uh, he's mistaking those for everyone as Christians.
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So I think just like we sometimes put Democrats into a box and say they're all lunatics and fruit loops. Uh, sometimes it's not all of them.
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Okay. It might be a majority, but it's not all of them. So has some minor points in some truth, but also, um but Also, just, okay, ah we're not going to call you evangelical, all right?
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um We're going to call you Scott Dickerson and... Derrickson. Oh, it's Derrickson. I first read Dickinson as well, and i was like... and got a few letters in there before the d in the ck you're right you're right you're right it's one of those things your brain just reads between it's the same with brendan thomas merriman you know it's just that was the blank and you keep going because you don't know what you're saying anyway moving on to the next one moving on the next one i think you were very gracious to scott there actually
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ah This is so funny. Logan and i literally had this conversation 45 minutes ago. We're thinking about getting married, not to each other, obviously to women, and just having an abundance of children. Because all of our enemies out there are either sodomites or you know cutting limbs off children or aborting their kids.
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um So we can, this is our opportunity outnumber them. Think about this, Jared Jones says, if I had seven or eight kids and the atheist secularist had two, not only do I have a four to one advantage, but then one of my kids concerts, one of his, and now it's nine to one. so and I don't know if he's using...
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Lying correctly or just there's one on sentences are too long. You're the English. yeah as i You're the math teacher. You could probably sentence better than I could. Then. All of us when my glasses back on.
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baptize them all. And it's 36 to 34 net. I don't know what that means, but I think that's what you and I were talking about.
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All right. So he's saying that 32 is like nine times four ah is that's not 32. How is he getting that number?
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Like that doesn't make any sense now. um Oh, eight, eight times, eight times four is 32. And then his kid has two kids. But why is his kid converting one of his own kids? Aren't all of his kids supposed to be like accepting Christ as with this math?
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Unless they're converting the kids of the atheism. don't know. Is he counting himself in this number? I feel like 36 is too low. I feel like it's too low of a number. um I feel like he was on to something at the start.
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he He was on to something at the start. I think if the if the thing had ended about, um let's just say, not only do i have a four to one advantage, if it stopped right there, I think we would have been okay.
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But then we get into this little chaos of concerts, which is just the absolute wrong word there. That has got to be converts. Again, Oh, that's what it was.
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Edit your tweets, folks. Edit your tweets. If you're going to post something scathing, make sure you edit. I know you're mad. I know you're angry. I know you want to get your your heart's desire out there. Just edit it if you make a mistake. Look, I make mistakes.
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I make mistakes. We all make mistakes. Except Brendan and Jesus. Because I'm always right and I'm never wrong. Exactly. you think I told Logan the day we became friends? Do you agree to these conclusions? If Brendan had posted this, he would have meant concerts.
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he might have you might Everyone might have thought he meant converts, but he would have meant concerts, all right? I was thinking, and why are the atheist children going to a Christian concert? and that's That's when I just got confused until the time. You lose it, yeah. lose the law when you don't spell correctly.
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that's that I think his math sort of works, but at the same time, it doesn't because i have met a lot of pastors. I've met a lot of Christians who their kids grow up in church. And if you're not a good parent and you're not teaching them the gospel and you're not actually living the gospel, most of your kids just go, don't need it. And they walk away from the Lord.
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So I like in a closed bubble, it works. In a real world solution, probably not 36 to 2. It's probably more like 24 to 8 or something like that.
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And in next week's episode, Logan will be naming and shaming those pastors.
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Yep. I won't be here next episode. I never believed him, never gave him the the platform that he wants that he knew he deserved. he like And your child is rebuking Jesus. and And your child is smoking posh.
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and and And your child is not high in Holy Spirit. He's high in crack cocaine. It's all coming, folks. Logan's tell all.
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All right. Sprinkle of Jesus. Y'all, I just, I used to hate at this. And I just, after a while, said, Welcome to the South. And beat them, join them.
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Y'all better stop disliking people what you heard and be grateful that God doesn't dislike you for what he knows. man and God wanted to blackmail us.
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oo Oh, he he he he could drop some trick bombs. Shot through the heart. Yeah. that That gets you right there, right? When you're so worried about what people think and are you going, I wonder if they they don't like me because, you know, I heard that they said this and, you know, God knows everything that we're doing. So there's some things that we say, do think that we would not want anyone knowing.
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Indeed. and Indeed. Ricky Gervais. Oh, no. Not Ricky Gervais. Praying. oh that's how it's pronounced.
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That's good to know.
Humorous Take on Christian Life
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Praying is hilarious.
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Surely he knows what you want already. I just want to hear you say it. and That's better. I'll think about it. and Okay. He wants a relationship with us, Ricky.
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He wants us to go boldly before that throw-in-a-bree-san ask. It's not about begging. Boy, if it was about begging, that's that would be a warped sense of prayer. No, it's it's about building that relationship and having a conversation. that's That's what it's about. God does know. He knows what we want already, but ah he does want to hear us talk to him and he does want to speak to us. So he's come comedical look on praying, but not anywhere near the truth.
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I think you could convert, Ricky.
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Ooh, this is controversial. It's Beth Moore. Oh, no. I get, listen, not someone I know a heck of a lot about, but, oh, she put her foot in that this in this one. let me see. oh either There are two parts. Okay.
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um This is from August 10th, 2021. Yeesh. You can probably guess what this is about. Fun time to be alive. Wasn't it, though?
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It was pretty wild. Living history. Mm-hmm. Oh, they'll be talking about this for decades to come. Centuries even. For all our Jesus talk, where on the ever-loving earth... I love when people say ever-loving and we all just know it's like the Christian F word.
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It's just... I would never think of using that an asd no ever loving earth as earth is our Jesus walk. If you are not a Christian, I'm not talking to you.
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if you are... Jesus wasn't playing when he called us to a whole different ethic from the world. We're not loudmouth boasters. We're servants.
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We serve. Now you might ask Beth. What has got your panties in twist? This is what she's talking about. Stare in the face what some of you are saying.
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My rights are more important than your life. Sorry, not sorry. if you're not going to get vaccinated for the love of God, put on a mask in public places with vulnerable people.
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Go ahead and um follow me. I don't care. Follow Jesus. And there was a second part where she said, do I still have it? Maybe not.
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Nope, maybe I deleted it by accident. That's okay. ah came Yeah, but that's enough of her. I'll have respond to this one. um The others are a lot lighter, but this chick just needs her balloon popped.
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So some a lot of things to unpack here, right? For all of our Jesus talk, right? um
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do we do Do we talk about Jesus and enough? Does anyone use the phrase Jesus talk? I don't I have never heard it before. That is a brand new term to me.
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All right. Jesus walk. Also a brand new term. We talk walking with Jesus. We talk about talking about Jesus. Jesus dash talk. OK. New phrases to me. Maybe it's in her book.
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OK. If you are not a Christian, I'm not talking to you. OK. If we're talking about Jesus, literally the sentence before, and we're talking about how Jesus walked, all right, Jesus talked to a lot of people who are not Christians.
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Newsflash. ah And so you say... think what she means here, if I may, is basically the if you're not a Christian, but you're unvaccinated, you're fine.
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If you're not a Christian and you know wear a mask, you're fine. But she's basically saying, I'm on the warpath. I'm gunning for a lot of people today, but I'm specifically coming after the body of Christ.
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So she's basically saying, unsaved people, you're not on my line of fire today. I know what I really intentionally emphasize that just for the crack, but she's saying that she's not gunning for the unsaved people. She's not going after unchristian people. Okay, okay.
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Yeah. all right that clearly and when that's the gods I thought she was just hating on people who are not Christians. That's what I thought was happening. It said, but if you are a Christian, Jesus wasn't playing when he called us to a whole different ethic from the world.
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We are not loud mouth boasters. We are servants. We serve. By wearing a mask and being vaccinated because Joe Biden told you to. Okay.
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And then this bottom part, you're going to, you might have to correct me or if I'm wrong, but my reading of the bottom part is that this is what people are saying to her, not what she's saying, but maybe I'm wrong. Maybe I'm missing it. Cause it's stare in the face. What some of you are saying again, poor English.
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um As a English as a second language teacher, you would get after your students for what she just said. But yeah, but Am I wrong? Is that what she's saying?
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Is she saying what people are saying? Yeah, so she's complaining about Christians who said my rights, sorry, obviously no Christian actually said this, but there are Christians, of course, who said, and we stand by it.
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The government was coming after every civil liberty we had. They were coming after our freedom. They had wanted a global lockdown for years. They wanted climate change to be the reason.
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no one cared. We only lived our holidays far too much. So the government said, okay, COVID will be our excuse lock people down, travel their freedom. And we all said, listen, we have God-given rights to travel, to life, to make independent medical choices.
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And we're not going to be dictated to by governments who literally murder children, cut the penises off the little baby boys that they don't successfully kill the first time, and then want to pull the plug on the adults who were naughty enough to live the fullness of
Perception of Christian Persecution
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their years.
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And she's basically saying, if you're a Christian who thinks that your rights are important... this tirade is is for you. Ah, see. I see now. So, um what this is this is a fault of text-based ah sharing, right?
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Sometimes you get mixed ah understanding of what it is when you... I wouldn't buy one of her books based on the grammar exemplified in these tweets. Oh, no, no, no, obviously not. um She's a false teacher anyway, so there. Logan's just calling somebody out for a false teacher. Boom.
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What's that look? yeah My rights are more important than your life.
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ah Have you ever said that, Logan? Was that will you ran around marching in the streets of Cleveland, Ohio in 2021? Is that what you were shouting at the top of your lungs? No.
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So one of the fallacies in... that i I've taught in school is this fallacy of whenever you're arguing with somebody, you make their argument like absolute trash and you just assume it to be something really stupid.
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um That's what she's doing here. She's basically saying, oh, here's all these people who say you shouldn't get matt and ah shouldn't get mask or shouldn't get vaccinated and it's OK to not wear a mask. And she's making their argument.
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this big, a really tiny. Um, and yeah, so that's what she's trying to do. Um, it's not really working. She's just trying to generalize a bunch of people's comments and you know what, uh, sorry, not sorry, Beth Moore, you're a false teacher and don't read one of her books.
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And if you disagree with me, uh, send me an email from doubled to Cleveland, gmail.com. Come at me, bro. but fifty Okay, Ken Ham from Answers in Genesis. I know you met one of the guys last year at camp, didn't you? There's an urgent need for every Christian to do something to bring the last generation back to the word of God.
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so this guy that's um this guy, Ian William Pant, has just dedicated his life to...
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Watching the world burn. They're responding to Ken Ham and Anson Genesis. And i'm gonna I assume he's not saved. But he's got the lingo down.
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That's all I'll say. but see yeah his um His parents must have been saved or his grandma. One of the two. Probably. Too late. I say we just watched The Lost Generation.
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Watch them away. If only someone had a
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Oh my. I mean, it is, it that this is to me, even if, even if he's, a if this is just um like him being joking or being silly, this is pretty great.
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it is Serious or non-serious. This is great. yeah um Ken Ham, good point. Yes, we do need very urgent need. And then this guy to just nah, just quit on him.
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Finish him off.
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And I'm pretty sure he's one of the last generation. He's like, flush us all the way. There are, unfortunately, people in this world who do do think that's true. So that is that's a sad thing, but it is kind of funny.
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that's fun Okay, this is basically every... think we've all heard this. Every Christian is sat under this. yeah When you get tired of reading the Bible, pray.
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When you get tired of praying... Read the Bible. When you get tired of reading the Bible, pray. And that's when you realize it's a vicious circle.
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Read the Bible and pray until you're dead. Yeah, yeah, there is. That actually is our life, yeah. It is. I mean, he's not wrong. um Again, ah don not sure what English teacher taught him, but they're probably either rolling over in their grave if they're dead, boy or just like going to war. this Because Deboible?
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That's my favorite. Deboible. They gotta read Deboible. Yeah. let
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Oh my goodness. Oh, it's good. Heaven is for real, as is White Jesus.
Revisiting Jesus' Appearance
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White Jesus, the blonde hair the flawlessly white robe, and the sports sandals.
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Yeah. let's Let's be honest. I'm going to be honest right now. that all of my growing up, we used to have these felt boards. Maybe some of you know what they are. Maybe if you don't, some of you don't.
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They're just felt boards where you'd put up little characters and you would tell the Bible story. Well, we had one of these and ah yeah, Jesus was always white. you know Any kind of coloring page, Jesus was white.
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Even when it wasn't a coloring page, it was just a, oh, look at this cool thing. You can do these events. Jesus was white. So it has only been till probably when I was like in high school that I went, hmm, Jesus probably wasn't white because he lived over in in Israel. And, you know, there's probably a ah higher chance that he was way darker than we think he was.
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So ah it's funny about the white Jesus part. um i i yeah I do hope he knows that heaven is for real. So hopefully somebody can get a hold of build of dreams and lead them to Christ.
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Amen. Ooh, isn't this the truth? We love Jesus, but we but we learned a lot from Satan.
00:31:15
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Kyrie Hunter is not wrong.
00:31:20
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Yeah, he's not wrong because he's right. we We do love Jesus, but think a lot of times we like to dabble a little bit more with Satan than we probably do like with Jesus because Satan, no he'll let us get away and do whatever we want.
00:31:36
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Jesus is a little bit more, hey, he goes through come with me. Do what I do. So you're telling me, Jesus, I have to turn the other cheek and let him slap me again? Yes, that's what I'm telling you.
00:31:51
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Satan lets me slap him back. Hey, remember, we only have four cheeks. And now if the fourth one has been spanked, it's free game, right? The whole hell breaks loose. <unk> And just as a disclaimer notice, because again, I'm always aware that at some point when I run for office, these clips are all going to be taken and used against me.
00:32:18
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When Logan says we, he's not referring the two of us. We're doing the the leftist thing of we as a society. Okay. okay
00:32:29
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I like this one at Pastor Mark. Common myth singles believe. As soon as I get married, life will be much better. satton He's back again.
00:32:41
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theyton didn't show up until after after we were married. Is he wrong, though? Is he wrong? He's not wrong, because um instead of Satan attacking one person, now he has two people he can get a hold of.
00:32:59
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It's not just one to ruin the family, now he's got two. And so... ah Our old and nemesis and our problem is is written right there in Genesis three of the woman wants to take over the man's responsibility and the man's job is just sucks because he's plowing and the weeds don't work and the computers sometimes don't work.
00:33:25
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The Internet doesn't work. ah all the things you need to make your life easy and well don't work and easy for Satan to mess with all of those things.
00:33:38
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You just began like, you know, venting about your personal like there was something spiritual in there and then it was like I hate this and I hate this and I've got this frustration I'm not speaking from real life experience or anything it's not like just the beginning of this podcast got cut out three times had to restart it three times it's not like that happened at all folks that never happens never happens my internet connection is blessed by God excuse me
00:34:11
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They got progressively more blessed as ah the evening wore on. but but The sky I'm facing was blue when we began this and it was black for the time his Wi-Fi began working properly.
00:34:23
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yes All right, let's go for some more lightning round.
00:34:32
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Pastors love to say this sermon will be short today. I say that a lot. That's like when your grandma says she'll just over in for five minutes both end and starvation
00:34:48
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Blog at the end sells it all. Yeah, sells it all. Both end in starvation. I say, pastors, keep going. Don't be short. Just keep going. Just be honest.
00:34:59
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Just don't say, I'll be short. Just keep going. Keep preaching until somebody either kicks you off the stage, tomatoes are thrown, or you pray and close the message.
00:35:12
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That's it. That's it. But look, by eternity standards... sharon isn't every sermon just like a blip in time. Yeah, it is After a football game between Kansas and Nebraska.
00:35:29
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Well, it's clear that the dumb church from Kansas failed today, said someone from Nebraska. Someone wasn't praying hard enough. Yeah, you can say that for a lot of football games for sure.
00:35:44
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ah You guys are going to get the close up of the audience member praying with her rosary beads or holding their crucifix and that. Yeah. I'm going to two my Hail Mary.
00:35:55
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Every pastor says they don't care about the numbers. Ben spends Monday morning Googling average church attendance 2025. Yeah, we say we don't care about the numbers, folks. We care about it. And, well, that's right after Googling how many people, so checking their YouTube numbers and how many people watch them online.
00:36:17
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ah they They probably have, they add that number then to how many people attended and go... It's not so bad. We look pretty average, don't we Please come to church.
00:36:28
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Please come to church. But you you have to give this information to the shareholders at the end of the year. You know, we reach this many people in person. this many people can't work with services. We give out this many free Bibles.
00:36:41
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This many people got saved. This many people but joined us online. Yep. I'm going to ask one if God ever calls or if and when God calls me to be a pastor, I'm going to hire someone else to take care of the numbers.
00:36:56
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I'm not ever going to know what the numbers are. Don't know. Just know the people in front of me. It's not important. That's the same guy who always refers how many people watch each episode of our podcast and how you receive so few zero emails.
00:37:13
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like Oh, that's just an act. That's not real life. it's only It only matters when you're you're on the church payroll. Bastards be like, it's not about me.
00:37:27
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It's about Jesus. and's its and
00:37:37
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and lap their face on every billboard and then go on the radio oh man um there this is great so I don't have an actual story of ah of a pastor or or that in our area but there's this guy who's like a real estate guy who just posts his modern family just posts his picture all over the place and he's like this bald middle-aged dude but he looks like he's like staring through your soul and so you're just sitting there at the stoplight and there's this poster with him going buy my houses
00:38:16
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they sell them for 5,000 euros or less yes if only they cost that much if only I asked my pastor how long the sermon would be He said, what is time in eternity?
00:38:34
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That's not theology. but's That's a hostage situation.
00:38:40
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It's true. Yeah, unfortunately, yeah, very true. There is some people who are not, they don't have the gift of ah being entertaining while they preach and quickly turns into hostage situation after about 15 minutes.
00:38:58
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So... My teachings like on a Sunday are like infamously
00:39:06
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without an end. um we We start about 11am and I think last week people left like 4pm. But it was amazing that we were talking about like the one world government might take over the world in our time.
00:39:21
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Okay, this one's red, sticking with the theme of Logan's hat. The damage is done to the church has been great. I believe it's incumbent upon Christians to show that hashtag kindness and hashtag compassion of Christ, not the rudeness, nastiness of Trump and mega world.
00:39:42
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People at the moment on Sundays, I'm teaching First Samuel. We're going to introduce David this Sunday. Next week, we'll be David and Goliath. If you look at David, he is the second most talked to person in the whole Bible after Jesus.
00:39:58
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Look at how many Philistines he killed and just chopped the foreskins off them and put the foreskins in a sack. Look how many people he killed because they were his enemies.
00:40:10
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He wanted to build a temple to God and was told, no, you are a man of War war is God is sent him on. You look at the greatest heroes in the Bible. they look at Look at even a Samuel, for instance.
00:40:24
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And when politicians would not deal with evil, it fell down to the prophet to hang few Agag, king of the Amorites, to pieces.
00:40:37
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There is such a thing as dangerous Christianity. There is such a thing as hating evil, speaking against evil.
Christian Duty to Speak Truth
00:40:44
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Um... Hating evil, resisting it, and exposing it is the job of a Christian.
00:40:51
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Maybe that's not the dialogue that you're immersed in on a local congregational level, but it's all biblical.
00:41:04
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yeah i think you like Yeah, I mean, stay for the Bible verse at the end, because that's Jesus' turn to go after people who were...
00:41:14
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So, yeah, and that's just a ah peek into the future. So stick around. more More that coming.
00:41:25
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Also, I'm pretty sure the whole Psalms would have been like disappeared and gotten rid of had ah had anyone found what David was saying about David is praying for me to die. That's so rude and nasty.
00:41:41
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and but
00:41:44
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Like in Psalm 9, says, like, you know, I'm going to kill you and the birds and eat you. And David's like, they threatened to eat me. And now they have been killed and devoured. and like canceled.
00:41:56
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Listen, the same sometimes annoys me actually Christians tell other Christians not to speak against evil, but to sit down and shut up. And if you offend someone, they're going hell. It's your fault.
00:42:09
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Well, here's the thing. Two kinds of people can speak into the atmosphere. You can speak the word of God or we can all shut up and let those who are speaking abortion is compassion in the atmosphere.
00:42:23
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Transgender children exist and their body parts should be mutilated so that they look the same way they feel.
00:42:34
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um or we see illegal immigration on the rise, but violent crime on the rise. um murder on the rise and just shouldn't say anything. No.
00:42:46
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No. Christians, it's our job to expose the darkness. Yeah, truth is the truth, even if it's said in sometimes an unkind way. That's right. Look at the Bible. God doesn't always speak things in a way that's kind by human understanding. He calls a spade a spade.
00:43:05
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Yep. And he does not apologize for it. Pastors say they're shepherds of the flock. Bro, you can't even keep the youth group from microwaving crayons in the church kitchen.
00:43:19
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I want to know what church this is ah because I kind of want to see what microwaving a crayon would do. just very Just personal curiosity. okay ah the know the youtube yeah
00:43:34
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and I don't want to do it. I just want to see it done. Yeah. yeah Safety of my own home. Exactly. yeah watch someone else suffer the consequences. Yeah, but let's be honest. Pastors do not take care of the youth. The youth just do their own thing.
00:43:50
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That's really what happens. Even the youth pastor. Eh.
00:43:57
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Oh, it's all coming out.
00:44:03
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And besides, pi there he's like I'm not going to elaborate. but Besides, aren't pastors supposed to like they're shepherds of the flock, right? But that doesn't mean that they can protect everyone from doing something dumb.
00:44:14
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you know okay They just can't. So, you know, pastors are not perfect. They are not. ah um they're not God on earth and able to fix everybody and stop people from putting crayons in the church kitchen.
00:44:28
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And usually they have to, ah they they do more of the having to fix and take care of and help people after somebody does something dumb, like putting microwaves in the crayons, then because people don't listen to them anyway, really, when you get to counseling, they don't listen to what you're supposed to say. And then they come back next week and say,
00:44:48
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But this terrible thing happened to me. Yeah, it's because you didn't listen to the thing I told you that you should have not done that you decided to do anyway. Oh, wow. That just really flipped like justice for pastors. Wow.
00:45:03
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It's important. Show the pastor some love. It's true. It's true. They're not there to protect you from your own stupidity. Nope. Not if you've committed to doing it. ah Case in point.
00:45:15
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Christians say, told me to do this now. Funny. seems to tell everyone the exact same thing they already wanted to do. That is funny. That is curious.
00:45:28
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It is funny. It is funny. Yeah. He's something of a genie, this God of ours. Oh, yeah. I mean, he just God just puts a stamp rubber stamp of approval on everything we do. you know Oh, I want to you know date this girl, and she's going to be my world. and Then I'm going to date this girl, and she's going to be my world. Bro, you've had like nine girls as your world.
00:45:51
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You're getting the whole solar system over here? That's right. That's right. Listen, guys, God wants you to follow after a girl who is as saved as a Microsoft Word document.
00:46:04
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Okay. The other nine chikatitas? Let them go. Let them go. Why do Christians clap off beats in worship? If David danced before the Lord like that, Goliath would have died of cringe. i do not feel ashamed very often, but one thing I do hate is when I'm in corporate worship,
00:46:26
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And other people seem to have found the rhythm. and I know that I'm the one who's out with my clap. Or I know that I'm actually clapping at the correct time.
00:46:38
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Maybe I'm looking at the drummer and I've got the beat. But other people around me are clapping at the wrong time. And then I feel this competition, this need to start clapping when they're clapping so I don't look like the other one I get this i get this one I do.
00:46:57
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Yeah, I get it too. I think I'm i'm pretty good at clapping off beat. It's a secret talent of mine. You're about to snap. I don't. Oh, yeah, we do.
00:47:08
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Clap. Yeah. Sometimes when we feel like it. We're feeling a little mood. Oh, no. Pastor, we we had ah a youth group came in earlier this year and they they taught us a whole song and dance in the middle of Sunday service.
00:47:23
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that was It was wild. It was a great time. It was wild. um No, no. Congoling. Yeah, but I kind of have an issue with the second line, and I'm probably overthinking this, but why why is David killing Goliath with cringe? Because David didn't dance in front of Goliath.
00:47:42
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David danced in front of McCall, or Mike, ah what, yeah, McCall is her name, but his wife, and she got mad about it, so maybe she didn't like his dancing.
00:47:52
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You know, maybe his his dancing wasn't good. Well, it's bad enough that she looked at a window sneered at him and then was cursed with infertility that I don't think any feminists would appreciate if we said that she sneered at him and then she fell from the window Jezebel style and got crushed.
00:48:14
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So I think that's why we've got a bit of anachronistic tiny whiny wibbly wobbly thing going on. I see. Couldn't hurt the feminists. I get it. man i get it. Yeah.
00:48:25
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Yeah. We need to have women this show more often. We're getting little bit too casual with our misogyny. Yeah, we do. We need more etrogengen estrogen in this show.
00:48:37
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Christian's always asked, have you accepted Jesus into your heart? Bro, I'm just trying to accept lactose.
00:48:49
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Not a problem I have. Stick it out with your hands. Oh, this is this is too close to home. there was So one of the things that I struggle with is eating cheese or lactose things um like ice cream. On your head.
00:49:06
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ah or you know, mac and cheese where they put in excessive amounts of cheese, right? So I would have these like gut issues. And so I thought, you know, if I just take lactate pills, right, that'll just make it all better.
00:49:20
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You know, that'll just like release all the pressure that's inside of me. No, I am not allergic to lactose. Lactose is not the thing I'm allergic to. So when I took the lactate pills, it just became this like,
00:49:33
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huge pain of gas inside of me. I've never felt so much gas inside of me that I could not get out. It was like trapped and I was very worried I was gonna like explode ah the intestines inside of me.
00:49:47
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So ah needless to say, i don't take antas or ah lactate anymore and ah I just avoid ah things that will mess with my stomach.
00:49:58
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But Yeah. Fun story. If you reached out to me back then, I would have told you that you do not have lactose intolerance. I don't believe anybody does. I believe it's an illness that people created to make other people stop buying cheese and instead spend their money on their remedy for lactose intolerance.
00:50:20
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You might be 100% correct on that. Yep. i don't know. Way too many people all of a sudden were like, you know, oh my goodness, I can't drink milk at the very same time that the powers that be in the world started coming against the farmers.
00:50:35
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Well, it was also the very same time the powers that be were ah having farmers put in stuff that they shouldn't be putting into cows and, yeah. i Yep.
00:50:47
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And ah into the grass and the food that the cows would eat. So, yep. Yep. Yep. What does it feel like to have gas in your body so much that you feel you're going explode? I wanted to. Have a fuzzy feeling or you just felt like... Death. Oh, wow. Yikes.
00:51:07
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I was requesting death. Good you didn't live in Canada or they probably would have obliged you. Yeah, they would have. I hear hear you. The deadline.
00:51:20
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It was death, yeah. but of messceti That's more of a chainsaw reaction. That's okay.
00:51:29
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Alright. Your church and or social media may be growing. But that doesn't mean you're biblically signed. It may just mean you accidentally figured out a marketing niche instead of achieving gospel growth.
00:51:44
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I don't think this was made by an unbeliever. I think it's made a spicy Christian. Probably one who's against megachurches because they have more congregants than they themselves have.
00:51:57
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But I think that this... Yeah. It sounds like something a a Christian mind would think of. Could be a self-attack. Yeah, you're probably right. Yeah. Yeah.
00:52:08
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I don't have much to add on that one. That one is... I think it's a self a self-sabotaging attack. Spicy Christian. that Spicy Christian. Every Christian says, I hate drama.
00:52:24
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that's That's why they meet weekly three to 66 book family feud and leather bindings.
00:52:36
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Well, yeah. Is it wrong? They're not wrong. that's That's the problem. They're not wrong. Yeah. I mean, we all need drama in our life. we you know here's Here's what really needs to happen, right? Christian should stop saying, I hate drama. You should just embrace that you love drama.
00:52:52
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Just embrace it. i'll Just say drama's good. It's good for the soul. It's good for it. you know Brendan had a story today of some shows that you were watching that just brought the drama to his life. you know I've had shows that you get addicted to and you watch and you just get connected and you're like, drama.
00:53:10
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Drink it in. Even if it's if it's faked drama, it's just so good. Drama's so good. We need drama in our life. Yes. Absolutely.
00:53:24
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Christians complain. my favorite. Oh, okay. my favorite okay yeah yeah
00:53:39
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okay Oh, gosh. I'm going to take a drink. I can do this. I'm 31. can read three lines with, like, cackling like a Halloween witch.
00:53:52
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Christians complain about Hollywood being sinful. Meanwhile, half their testimonies start with, I was at a party, drunk, naked and stabbing a goatee.
00:54:05
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Stabbing a goat part, just that just makes it, that just makes the whole thing. Because it's the most random thing.
00:54:14
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like Again, isn't wrong. It's not, it's not. And yeah, I think we we try to crap all over, or poop all over Hollywood because we think it's so sinful, but think we forget ah pot, kettle, black,
00:54:34
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That's it. Absolutely.
00:54:38
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I asked my Christian co-worker what denomination he is. He said non-denominational. Translation, we argue we're the same stuff, just with a cooler logo.
00:54:51
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i would have said just with a cooler head, but yeah, same thing. Yeah, pretty much. Non-denominational, they just think they're cooler than everybody else. Exactly. Too cool to even pick a denomination.
00:55:05
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ah Christians say they're persecuted because Starbucks cups don't have snowflakes on them. Bro, Paul got stoned. You got decaf.
00:55:18
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I think decaf is persecution. I'm not even a coffee drinker, and I still wouldn't recommend decaf. I mean, Decaf's pretty terrible, but um yeah.
00:55:29
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Starbucks is pretty terrible. Starbucks is too. The amount of things that we count as persecution is like not even close to what Paul had. Like Paul just goes on a whole tirade about all the things that he had happened to him.
00:55:42
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And we're over here like, oh no, somebody's changed their logo and it's become more liberal. I can't go to the same restaurant I'd normally go to on Sundays.
00:55:55
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Whoop-de-doo! Go to another restaurant. It's America. Right. so And why would you want to give money to Starbucks anyway, considering they you give so many millions to murdering the unborn and hacking off bits and pieces of kitties?
00:56:12
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um No Christians should ever go near Starbucks. And that is something I- e that is a hill I'm willing to die on. Well, if you turn a blind eye long enough, you'll do anything.
00:56:25
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That is the truth. In fact, sometimes Christians tell me they've been to Starbucks and then when they realize that they're talking to me, they start getting really embarrassed and then their voice goes lower and lower and lower and lower.
00:56:36
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And I'm like, you should be ashamed. Yeah. Every time a Christian says, I'll pray for you. I hear, I'm not going to help you. and we preary friend My imaginary friend's name is Jesus People and he is the savior and the Lord of all.
00:56:58
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But the line is with you. If I was unsaved, that's and the kind of thing that I would probably commit with. Yeah, more more often than not, you should say, ah can I pray for you now?
00:57:11
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That's probably a better way to say it. yeah Just do it. You just play right there and you prove that you do care about them. That's right. That's good. Yes, ah on that's my advice.
00:57:25
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Yeah, that's good advice.
00:57:29
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Just give me a second. and Oh, he's looking for something. Do you want me to just read the next one? Yes, can. All right. So the next one says, why are Christian movies all the same?
00:57:42
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Someone doubts, prays once, then wins a football game. The real play miracle is making it to the credits.
00:57:50
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Oh my goodness. This is just like the most roasted thing I've ever seen. Christians are, yeah, I mean, the Christian movies are bad. they They're just not good.
00:58:03
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um I don't, There's some few that might be decently to watch, but most of the time, yeah, there's just this whole continued repetition of doubting and then praying and then, yeah, winning a football game.
00:58:22
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And if you make it to the end of it without falling asleep, it's a miracle. So I get it. ah get it I 100% get why they don't like Christian movies.
00:58:37
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So.
00:58:39
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All right. Well, Brandon has completely disappeared. I'm sure he will return soon, but. Oh, he's here. oh you're still here. Okay. ah Daddy long legs jumped through my window. So I just spent the last minute trying to kill it.
00:58:52
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It is dead. Capitated every limb broken. Good. ahead Congratulations on your victory.
00:59:03
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There you go. All gone. um What is your favorite Christian movie? Um... Or at least one. one
00:59:15
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Hmm. For me, obviously, the Passion of the Christ is an absolute nutter classic. It is a good one, yeah. Let's say if we go with this kind of trope. I love Fireproof.
00:59:26
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Oh, yeah, Fireproof's very good. Um... i I weirdly like some of the left behind. i know people think they're terrible, but I think they're fun. That's allowed.
00:59:37
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That's allowed. I loved the story growing up, so that's part of why. Yeah, might as well.
00:59:44
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Christians say Hollywood is... Hollywood's made the list twice. Christians say Hollywood is demonic, like but their testimonies have deleted scenes from The Exorcist.
00:59:57
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Yeah. Not as funny as the goat one, though. Not as funny as the goat one, but that one's actually properly true. It is. but yeah Yeah. Now you go into some deliverance stories, and that is spot on.
01:00:09
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It is. Yeah, there's a lot of demonic influence in this world. Yeah, it's only getting stronger at this moment in time. Every Christian claims they came from nothing.
01:00:23
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No, mate. You came from youth group lock-ins and free pizza. Calm down. but but Basin, you're not as hard done by as you think you are. Yeah.
01:00:34
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Yeah. that is It's true. That is me. I came from youth group lock-ins and free pizza. So, here I am. Hear me roar. you I am Reptar. Hear me roar.
01:00:47
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I love when Christians say, God save me from drugs. No, Karen, the police raid saves you. It's not just got the credits. ah hey doesn't any different tools and technique you know You know, that happens a lot in life, right? People say, God saved me from drugs. No, God sent the police to take you out so that you stopped doing drugs. Because you were going to do drugs the rest of your life if God didn't say that.
01:01:15
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Oh boy. Don't despise the Lord's deci plan he discipline. He disciplines the ones he loves. Yeah. Christians say the Lord works in mysterious ways. Translation.
01:01:26
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dear. Oh, dear.
01:01:31
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and they
01:01:37
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thank and like ah you dan she but You read this one. Okay. Christians say, Lord works in mysterious ways. Translation, I made a stupid decision and I need to blame someone else for it.
01:01:54
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ah oh it's It's a thing we say, but I mean, do we really mean what we mean when we say it? Not always.
01:02:05
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and don't think that means what you think it means. It certainly doesn't. Christians claim they don't follow the world, but somehow every pastor looks like a knockoff Ryan Reynolds from Sheen.
01:02:20
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Yeah. They do often look the same. They do. They have a, they just, just have a look. You look the same. Sorry about that. they They get the same boots, same skinny jeans, same shirt, same man bun. is' all very curious.
01:02:38
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Church kids are like, I was such a rebel in high school. Bro, you drank half a Smirnoff ice at prom, and you cry when your mother forbade you and your seven homeskill siblings from watching Harry Potter.
01:02:54
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Yeah. This kind of itsy-bitsy, in a way, describes you. Yay? Nay? Um... I didn't drink a Smirnoff ice. I'm literally honing in the word homeschooled.
01:03:09
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Uh, yeah, i I can see why you'd say that, but, um, no, I wouldn't say that I was a rebel. I would, I wouldn't use this brace, but I have heard homeschoolers say that. And you're just like, dude, you just put on black clothes.
01:03:24
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That makes you a rebel. I guess you're a demonic rebel now. I don't know. It starts with the first black hoodie, you know? all does, you know, it does. mayor
01:03:37
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Christians love posting. Only God can judge me. I'll be honest. I think it's unsafe people who actually post only God can judge me. And this is... That's true.
01:03:48
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I'm done here right now. And God's probably nodding.
01:03:54
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Yeah. Well, here's my thinking, right? the The wording we use for judging, and it says when you know God is the judge, it's really that means he's the condemner.
Judging vs. Condemning in Faith
01:04:06
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He's the one who condemns us. And so I think a lot of times we see the word judge and we just go, oh that means you can't you know think critically about me or you can't just like have an opinion on what I think. No.
01:04:18
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It means that I can't condemn you. I'm not sending you to hell. And if my thinking or my attitude towards you is that you, I think you are going to hell or going to be in hell. That's wrong. um Condemning is wrong and just writing people off and they're never going to make a ah turnaround.
01:04:36
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Judging. we do need to judge and test people's fruits. So you have to, what is the nuanced term of judging? I think is important in figuring out this kind of issue.
01:04:47
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That's good, yeah. So judge everything but condemning people is different. Well, testing the spirits, right? The Bible talks about testing the spirits, so you got to do it. Yeah, because the enemy comes as an angel vice.
01:05:00
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Got to do nuance. That is our list of mean tweets aimed at Christians for today. Personally, I thought some of them were very, very funny, obviously. No, they were great.
Jesus on Twitter: Speculation
01:05:11
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They they they they they were awesome.
01:05:13
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um So yeah, guys, let us know what you thought. Were there any of those you just thought were absolutely lit? Were there any of you thought were offensive and we should have judged onto condemnation?
01:05:25
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Some of the tweeters or Xers or whatever the Twitter now called X people call themselves. um Have you encountered any? And what was your response to them? Send them on to us at fromdoblind to Cleveland at gmail.com.
01:05:41
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But, you know, as much as we've had some fun reading those ones, um Jesus actually... would have been the absolute Twitter king if that Twitter had existed back for in his day.
01:05:57
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and The Bible is just so amazingly full of the most beautiful, wonderful insults. And Jesus is the word of God, and he's wordsmith, and no one roasts better than he does.
01:06:12
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So, Broski, going to give this... Over to you, Matthew 23, 27, 28. but seven twenty eight Yeah. So if you read the the book of Matthew 23 or the chapter of Matthew 23, it is just like full of Jesus just going after and going at the Pharisees. So even just our two verses here, this is just like the towards the end part of him just...
01:06:34
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boom roasted, the whole chapter is him just going after him and saying, woe to you. And whoe as in ah you're in trouble. um So here's what he's saying here. Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites, like whitewashed pooms, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of bones of the dead and everything that is unclean.
01:07:01
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In the same way, on the outside, you appear righteous, but on the inside, you're full of hypocrisy and wickedness. So this verse specifically, if you thought that Jesus was just another nice guy who only said nice things about all the people he came into contact was just lovely and this and that.
01:07:21
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um Yeah. No, sometimes he called it for like it was. And he spoke the truth in the only way that would get through to them And sometimes it's a little harsh. This is not the words of a ah just a good guy. This is the words of either the savior of the world or a madman, because nobody would speak to the Pharisees like this.
01:07:47
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Not one person would do that other than either God himself or a crazy person. So here he is just calling them like it your outside looks really good. Look at you. You got yourself together. You got a smile on your face. It's so pretty.
01:08:05
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But on the inside, you're nasty. You're evil. You don't even believe the words that you're speaking that are coming out of your mouth. You got all that spiritual gas that Logan had and felt he's going explode.
01:08:16
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yeah Yes. Yeah. Yeah, so Jesus just goes right at it. what is What's your takeaway, Brendan? What did what you see from this? Yeah, you know what? you Sometimes you have to call it spade a spade a And with the Pharisees especially, they pretended to have a relationship with God.
01:08:38
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And their mission was to stop the entire nation of Israel from having one. Their mission was to pretend that they were so amazing that They were so enlightened.
01:08:51
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They were so holy. They were so woke, some might say, that no one else could be. Think of our good friend, Kiwi, Palestine, watermelon.
01:09:07
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Yeah. and who Who doesn't believe in forgiveness because she wants the world to bleed because obviously someone's hurt her. The Pharisees were the same. almost called them the Philistines. Is there a difference? Not really.
01:09:24
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um They wanted people to feel distant from God, not good enough, and inconsequential before him, unloved by him, unwanted by him. And your right standing in society was dependent squarely them favoring you, which we don't see very many examples of in the Bible of them favoring anybody but themselves.
01:09:51
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um But you can fool yourself. You can lie to yourself so many times you believe the lie. You can lie to other people so potently, so repetitively.
01:10:07
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so loudly, so boisterously that they believe you, but you cannot lie and deceive Jesus. He reads the heart. Think of when he's in the room, he was probably there to teach and to heal, and no sick people could get in because the house was full of Pharisees from all across the ancient world.
01:10:28
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And in the end, four men had to drop a paraplegic through down the roof, just so one sick person could get in for Jesus to heal.
01:10:43
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And we're told that as Jesus was looking at all this happening and commending the faith of the four men, not not four friends, not brothers, not covenant relatives, just four men, four random men.
01:10:57
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It says he knew what the Pharisees were thinking. Jesus can read your thoughts. Yikes. yeah and And this case, he looked at the woke, the ones who are holy in their own eyes, the ones who were pure in their own eyes.
01:11:18
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The ones who were anti all the right stuff, pro the right stuff and anti other stuff. So am amazing amazingly, and that they were cleansed of all their sins based mystique, based on perception, based on their own persuasion.
01:11:37
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But Jesus saw the deadness on the inside. And I'm not saying that Christians, we have to go around being angry all the time. Jesus was not angry all the time. He got angry and he returned to his peace.
01:11:49
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He fought, returned to his peace. He called things out and he returned to his peace. um Going around stomping and shouting all the time, you will experience such a chemical imbalance.
01:12:00
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You'll spend half your life sick in bed and you will live for a fewer years than God has intended. But there are times to pick up your sword and fight and then return to your peace.
01:12:14
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To call out nonsense and come back to your peace. Even like what we did today, you know some of those were genuinely funny. Some of them were anti-Christian. Some were very anti-Antonogenesis, Ken Ham.
01:12:25
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um But you know you don't always have to blow a gasket every time but someone says something wrong. Sometimes the best response you can have is just laugh it off. remember at work once years ago um Someone said something about God or the Bible that was just... It was rude, but it was witty.
01:12:46
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And I admit, I did chuckle. And he he was bit like taken aback, actually, because i what he wasn't even talking to me, he was talking to someone else, but I was nearby. and he said, Brendan, that's what I like so much about you.
01:12:59
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He said, you're so confident in your faith and your God that I can sit here taking the mick of your God. Well, he said a bit more vulgarly, but we'll we'll we'll go with that expression, take in the mic.
01:13:12
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And you don't lose your cool, you don't lose your head, you don't lose your shirt. um It's very telling and about the sincerity of your fate.
01:13:23
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So guys, my advice for you is, yeah when there is an issue that needs dealing with, jump right say what needs saying, do what needs doing, and return to your peace.
01:13:36
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But also just know that humor is a great weapon as well. Your joy is a weapon. Your joy is your strength. And we have strength as a weapon to fight with.
01:13:49
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And it disarms the enemy. And humor is a wonderful way of engaging certain truths with believers and unbelievers in a way where maybe things of norm would be too confrontational for them.
01:14:04
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But humor has a wonderful way of the front door of their heart is is locked and bolted, not be able to find the back door.
01:14:15
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Yeah. Indeed. Indeed.
Closing Prayer and Reflections
01:14:18
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All right, let's pray. And then we'll finish our podcast with our shout outs and send you all on your way. So Jesus, thank you day, Lord. i'm thankful for Brendan. I'm thankful for his time.
01:14:28
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Thank you for all those who are listening. Lord, we just pray for us to ah continue to seek out the truth, to share ah where we need to. And sometimes we have to share in sometimes an aggressive way ah to get that truth across. And Lord, sometimes we can say it in a funny way that also gets it across. So, Lord, I just pray you help us to be wise. Help us to know um the things we need to say and when we need to say them to the people who need to hear it.
01:14:54
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um Help us to be wise and help us to follow you. Help us to remember that you're not just... um Some guy or some person who said some good things so long ago, um but that you sent your son to die on the cross for us, that your son is God himself um and that Jesus came to die for us and that we can have new life in him.
01:15:16
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Help us to, again, ah share this and share the gospel with as much of as much people as we can and that you would change their hearts. Lord, we don't do the changing. You do. So help us to serve you and to be as good of servants as we can um and to not take it always so seriously as we sometimes do.
01:15:35
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Give us good rest of today. In Jesus' name. Amen. All right. So time for our shout outs. I'll go first unless you've got yours ready to go. I do have mine ready to go, but if you feel passionate about going first, you may.
01:15:48
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All right. So my shout out is first graders. All right. Everybody needs some first graders in your life. they They will bring joy and wonder back to your life. So if you're having a bad day or you're having a rough day, you just have to give ah first grader a maze and they're just like, what? Like,
01:16:09
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What do we do? well How do we get there? How do we solve this? And then if it doesn't work the way that they think it's going to work, then they're like, what's going on? And then, oh, I've solved it. It's so amazing. It's the greatest thing ever. It's just a maze, guys. It's just a maze.
01:16:24
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and But the maze isn't amazing. A maze is amazing. And then you give them a math worksheet and they start to solve it and they're like, I'm done. And they just have this like cocky little attitude that they've just accomplished everything in the world that has ever been needed done.
01:16:39
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And you're like, dude, it's like a worksheet for first graders. So I could do this in 10 seconds. And they're like... no, this is the greatest thing ever. and they're just They're just great. you know First graders are great. They're wonderful.
01:16:51
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ah they also They also have this funny way of seeing life where if, you know as a teacher, I give them their their tasks and their jobs to do. And then we also teach, we go through the lesson of what we're learning. And currently we're learning number bonds, how to add basically.
01:17:09
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And it's funny when you let them play teacher, they become mean evil teachers. That's what's hilarious. They're just like strict. They're like, we're going to cut your hair off and we're going to like throw you in prison. And oh, don't you dare raise your hand because you're just you just can't do that. And you're just like, what is this?
01:17:31
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Why are you wanting to now be evil? Like if you if I did that to you, you guys would be like, How is so mean. But they're just like, no, it's fine. Listen said to me. Sit down. Do this. Stand up. They just they love authority. It goes right to their heads, um even when it's just pretend.
01:17:52
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What age are first graders? So um first graders are five, six, somewhere in there, six years old. um I think I think six, the one one of them just turned six. So, yeah.
01:18:07
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Wow, it shows you what they think of you. It does, yeah. Yeah, no one is all African-American, okay didn no you're all africanamerican but that's okay.
01:18:22
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Yeah, they they tell me, oh, Mr. Howard, you're the fun teacher. We just we just think it's fun to talk. and And I go, you do not want to see the mean Mr. Howard come out because you guys are cruising for Mr. Mean to come out. And he he does not come out. And they're like, oh, maybe we don't want to do this. Well, at some point, me and Mr. Howard is going to come out and they are they're not going to like it. But, hey, can't have fun all the time, guys. That's it.
01:18:50
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That's it. Alright, what is your shout out for the week?
Listener Engagement and Farewells
01:18:54
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My shout out for the week is to the mean tweeter who started all this today, Joel Berry.
01:19:01
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Most mega church pastors are moral cowards. If they're ambivalent about politics, I can speak English if they're ambivalent about politics. In an election where one side loudly champions killing babies and sexually mutilating children, they're not pastors, they're businessmen.
01:19:18
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I agree with that wholeheartedly, and I've been saying that for years. And my second shout, if I may, as a shout to God's kids to pray for a Kiwi-Palestine watermelon, because she is she's been through stuff.
01:19:33
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I'm reading between the lines. Yeah. She's been through stuff. She's seen some things, experienced some stuff. Yeah. yeah She had the problem with men. and I think this podcast and our audience have just enough testosterone and faith between us to pray her over that salvation line.
01:19:54
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Indeed. Indeed. All right. Well, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for your time. ah And we try not to make these go hours and hours long, but somehow... Yeah, your aim is like a 15-minute show.
01:20:07
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They just do. We aim for such a short show, and all of a sudden, we just start talking, and it just gets out of hand. This is probably being an hour and 20 minutes. So thank you for putting up with us. Thank you for watching. We'll try to do better of making it less than an hour next time. All right? Anyway.
01:20:23
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Have a wonderful week. We'll see you all next week. Bye, friends. Well, and that's Akari Jeff.