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It is my pleasure as always to be here. I want to kind of
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opportunity to kind of share with our church this past Sunday at service, and
just want to share with you some of the things that we discussed there because
I think that they're very appropriate with the larger picture of what we talk about
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over the weekend has kind of reminded me of that, if I can say
it that way. So, but there are other things that I was asked
about, and one of the more interesting questions I was asked, one of
the more interesting questions I was asked was They were all interesting, but this
one that I was asked is this And this came from someone at the church.
Over the course of this series. The pastor had been preaching. The
question was is there ever a time to go against the authority of the government.
That's the question. And so I want to frame this. I want
to frame this a little bit here. I want to reframe it. I
understand the core of this question, but let me frame it this way,
and I think it becomes easier, easier to answer. You know, when
the Founders, when the Founders created this country, the Founders acknowledge some truths
that our rights come from God, not from not from man, and not
from government. We're created in the image of God. He gives us our
rights. Liberty means that we are free to live as God intended. And
they also said that we're not subjects. Excuse me, yeah, we're not
subjects, we're citizens. We don't get our rights from government. Government can't
tell us what to do. Instead, we power, We empower, I
should say, the government, we give them the our consent to govern us.
And the Constitution is basically the rule book on that. Here's what you
can do, executive branch of the government. Here's what you can do,
legislative brands, judicial judicial brands. These are your responsibilities. This is what
the people have basically delegated to you. Too many people have that backwards.
Too many people think, well, I can only do what the government allows,
and that's a scary proposition. It's actually one hundred and eighty degrees out
of whack. We tell the government what to do. And that idea was
revolutionary. Again, we've dealing back when this country was founded. This idea
of the divine right of kings to the throne, they got it. You
know that this next person was divinely appointed to rule a nation. And so
forth, our founders did away with all of that. Our founders did all
away with all that. They established America as a constitutional republic. By republic,
that means that we don't have a pure democracy, a direct democracy.
Instead, we vote for representatives, who then, of course are supposed to
represent us and we of course have the right and I I dare say,
the obligation to hold these folks accountable by constitutional It means that we've written these
rules into place, and we've also taken the time. The founders took the
time to enumerate some and I mean some, not all, some of the
rights that people say we want to retain. And that is written in the
Bill of Rights, the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution that Madison
included. So there you go. That's kind of the framework of what we
have. And so what does it mean. Well, it means in the
strictest of senses, my friends, we don't have rulers. We do not
have rulers. And that's an important thing. Now, I will say this.
I will say this at the risk of some people are not liking it,
But I would say, Biblically speaking, the Bible says, as much
it is as it is possible, live at peace with everyone. We should
be as much as it is possible, we must be respectful of people in
authority. Doesn't mean we can't question them. Ultimately, Again, they work
for the American people based upon the consent of the governed. So we don't
really submit to people. We submit to the rule of law, to the
rule of law, and so that is ultimately what we are supposed to do.
Now, what does that mean then? If there is a law that
is written that is directly and clearly in violation of our rights, that is
directly outside of the authority given the government via the Constitution, or what if
it's something that is directly antithetical to the Bible. For those who are Christians,
what is our obligation to that? I would say, our obligation,
my friends, is to not follow that particular law. So this is basically,
in essence, what the Founders were going through. The Founders were going
through prior to writing the Declaration of Independence and declaring their independence from the throne
of England and saying we're no longer part of it. In fact, they
list twenty seven grievances in the declaration when you did this, you did that.
You didn't listen to us. Here, you put undoe burden upon the
people there, you took away our freedoms here, you quartered soldiers there,
and all these sorts of things, stamp acte act, all these things.
You would not listen to us. Taxation without representation, I mean, all
these sorts of things you'll find that say, we tried, we tried to
communicate, we tried to work with you, you didn't. It's become necessary
that we dissolved these bonds and that we are now a free and independent nation.
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Answering this question, So should we ever go against the quote unquote authority
of the government. Well again, if these laws that are written, if
these laws that are written go against our liberties, the liberties that are captured
in the Constitution, if they go against for the believer, if they go
directly against scripture, if it is a clear attempt by the government to exercise
authority well outsigned the outside the bonds or the bounds I should say, given
to it by the US Constitution, then we, my friends, can can
fight these these those would be un just laws. And for those of you
who are Christians, you'll remember the story of Shadrack, Meshack, and Abenigo,
right, the three young men who refused a law. They refused a
law to bow down to the golden image of King Nebekinezzar. And by the
way, it's a perfect depiction of how these of how these rulers begin to
think and act. The human nature when you have absolute power is to do
absolutely more and more insane things, to the point to where they made an
image of gold and required people bow down to it. How stupid could this
possibly have been? Shadrack, Mishak and Abenigo refused to bow down. They
were given basically an ultimatum. If you don't bow down, we're gonna throw
you into this. We're gonna take your lives by basically burning you alive.
And these were young men, and they said, no, we're not going
to do it. In fact, what they told the king was, O
King, I'm paraphrasing here. Our God is able to save us from your
fiery furnace. But even if he doesn't, these words will preach, by
the way, even if he doesn't. I love this. They didn't know,
They didn't know the outcome. They had not read the rest of the
book, the Book of Daniel, where the story is told. They hadn't
seen how this thing played out. And they said, we're not going to
do it because it is it is in direct opposition to what God instructs us
to do. It is in direct opposition of the way that we're supposed to
live, of the freedom that we have. You could say, to not
bow down to worship the God that we choose not to worship your silly little
image. And so they threw them in the fiery furnace. They were saved.
They were saved by God. In fact, there's a this is an
old testament. What do you wanna say reference to Jesus even stepping into that
furnace to save them? So that is I would say, our duty and
responsibility. And we have friends, we have a government that is so ridiculously
out of control. I mean it has blown past the bounds of the constitution
for for a long long time. I'm talking decades. The Founders would not
remotely recognize what's going on here. I'm not just talking about technological advances and
societal changes. I'm talking about what government is doing. They would say,
your government does what? Why is it over here? How much is it
costing you do? How much is your debt? Right? I mean this
is massive, massive deviations from what the Founders put in place. So the
question really to me is not so much do we have? Is there ever
time to go against the quote unquote authority of the government. I would say,
yes that we do. I think the real question is what happens,
what should we do when the government goes against the authority of the people,
because again, we are the ones who have the authority, and I think
that we have an obligation to resist. At its core, government has forced
my friends. In fact, Thomas Paine wrote Thomas pain wrote back one of
the Founders, that government, even in its best state, is but a
necessary evil. In its worst state, it's an intolerable one. James Madison
wrote in Federalist Paper fifty one that if men were angels, no government would
be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls
on government would be necessary, and that justice. In another part of Federalist
fifty one, justice is the end of government. It is the end of
civil society, meaning that that is what the pursuit of government should be.
Is justice is Jama talking about, you know, all of the things that
we've tried to tie to justice today. I mean true legitimate justice, right,
protecting life, making sure that there's law and order. This is the
end. This is the role. The purpose of government is to make sure
that evil doesn't run amok in a society there that there are consequences for infringing
upon the lives and liberty of individuals, and that's the role of government.
But now they make it. They make it about the what the levels of
the sea in one hundred years, or they make it about I mean,
just take your pick. Their tentacles are in everything. They're in everything,
whether or not, whether or not somebody who plays in the w n b
A makes the same amount as someone who who plays in the NBA. I
mean, this is quite a crazy, again, deviation from what the founders
had intended. So that's one of the other things that we kind of talked
about. I mentioned that the Declaration of Independence listed twenty seven grievances that the
founders had against the King of England, and they tried with all their might
to find a remedy. They tried with all their might to find a remedy,
and they ultimately did not. They did not. I'm reminded of Romans
twelve eighteen. Here, if possible, it says, so far as it
depends on you be at peace with all people. There's a time, my
friends, when it doesn't depend upon you, when there's nothing else that you
can do. If someone decides to put the heavy boot of tyranny upon our
throats, and we've tried to communicate, we approach our government with the redress
petition, our government with the redress of grievances. If they ignore it,
if they are totalitarian, then we now are suddenly in a position where we're
going to have to We're going to have to do something about it, hopefully
just by the election at the election box, voting people in that will respect
liberty and the role of government and so forth. But if there's an individual
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my friends. So, I mean going through some of these things that we
were talking about. A pastor and I at our church this past weekend and
got into I mean a lot of different things. We've went through a couple
of the questions, the things that we were speaking about. One of the
things he asked me, and I told him was the hardest question that he
asked, is where can I find credible information about the issues and candidates and
so forth. And the reality is I had to tell him, I don't
know. I mean, that's just the truth that now. There are places
that I've learned, I learned to trust, but I'm far from wanting to
go on record and saying this is a reliable source, this is a reliable
source. Of course, you know that journalism is largely dead. Everybody wants
to be an editorialist, an opinion leader. True journalism the art of presenting
different sides of an issue, of an argument, and so forth, and
then not interjecting your opinion, remaining as unbiased as possible. That is a
lost art form. And there's some there's some journalists out there, true journalists,
but there are fewer and fewer that make their way into the position of
well being a journalist, especially for some of the mainstream media outlets that they
don't even try in most cases, and so it's hard to say where to
find where to find reliable sources. Of course, you could turn into tune
into this program, but the reality is, I don't know some of the
things that I mean, I don't have an idea sometimes as to whether we
it's being reported as true or not. That's why I think it's more important
for you for me to think through the issue. Whatever the issue is.
I mean, it can be anything, the role of government, taxation,
abortion, take your pick. Develop your position, think through what makes sense,
what makes sense from the constitution perspective, what makes sense just as you
think about the totality of the issue, and then you come to you develop
your viewpoint, your position, and then and then instead of just chasing any
narrative that comes up at the moment by the media, you measure what you
see, what you see these politicians doing about the issue, not what they're
saying, not what they're campaigning on, not what they're trying to raise money
off of, but what they actually are doing. And by the way,
it's a great opportunity to make sure that you don't that none of us fall
into the trap of saying, well, they voted against the I Love Puppies
Act. Well, my friends, sometimes and actually in most cases, the
I Love Puppies Act has absolutely nothing to do with puppies. It might be
something a federally funded puppy program for people that also includes lots of additional well
taxes and other things, probably money for Ukraine and so forth. So that
becomes, you know, context matters, and having a full understanding of the
issue matters, And so we shouldn't just trust these jokers and clowns for obvious
for obvious reasons, I would say, be skeptical, be a free thinker,
be mature, be wise. Again, the sign of being an adult
is to entertain a thought without having to accept it. So talked about a
couple of those things. The other questions I was asked here was what do
we do? Like you fast forward to November sixth, which just day the
day after the election, What do we do? How do I respond if
my candidate loses or if my canaidate wins. And I first say, if
your candidate loses, I would say, not to imitate some of the things
we've seen in previous years, which include things like screaming at the universe,
having to cancel class because you're unable to attend, calling in sick to work,
requesting service dogs. That's right, that happened, Needing adult coloring books
or adult plato to cope with the election results or those sorts of things,
and if your candidate wins. I would also not advise what someone did to
me, which again it didn't bother me, but I had an individual call
me and say, haha, Todd, Kamala is going to be present vice
which I don't know why that was the point. I don't know. Again,
it's obvious that people were not excited about Biden. First black woman is
going to be vice president, which that's great, assuming that person has the
qualifications, which of course we obviously do not have. We do know,
I should say, we do know that Kamala has zero qualifications other than possibly
that cackle. But anyway, it's it is don't do those things right.
We shouldn't gloat if we win, and we shouldn't think that the world is
over if we lose. There are serious consequences from this election. I'm not
disputing that for a moment, But what I am saying is win or lose.
The battle I think is the same. I think is the same I
would say, we have to fight for liberty, We have to fight for
the Constitution and for truth. We have to understand that this is not going
anywhere. This is going to be here for the rest of our lives.
You've heard me say that many times on this program. This is not going
away. This is not going anywhere, Reagan says. Reagan said, liberty
is always just one generation away from extinction, and we do not pass it
along to our children in the bloodstream. We have to We have to pass
it on by making sure that they understand it and that they are prepared to
defend it and then pass it on to the next generation. And so that
is not going away. So we're going to have to persuade, We're going
to have to engage. We got lots of work to do. In fact,
there's a lot of work that's going to kick off on November six,
they're shortly thereabouts. Not just not just dealing with the election results, but
hey, maybe it's time to start looking at ways that we can have more
of a voice, more of an impact in the Republican Party. Maybe we
can get some more concerns privative candidates, people who believe in the Constitution by
the way that reminds me. Just side note, it's in the snack of
stuff today. Tucker Carlson was on with Joe Rogan i think last week,
and he said a lot of people in Congress and this is not surprising to
me. In fact, I've mentioned the same thing to Oz here, but
he says, a lot of people in Congress are terrified. Are terrified because
the deep state. Could you know, if you oppose them, if you
oppose them in any way that they decide needs to be punished, you know,
they can do something like and he used the example of put kitty porn
on your on your computer and suddenly you're immediately guilty. They dropped it on
there. There's you know, they they can move on. You're the one
that has to deal with it, and that is not something anybody wants to
have to deal with. So we got a mess here that's not gonna that's
not gonna be cleaned up from this election. I think that steps can be
made to clean some of that stuff up, but we've got we have generations,
my friends, of work to be done. And even if we clean
it all up and get it back to where it needs to be, we
still have to be about the work of making sure that we pass it on
to the next the next generation. So let's see what else do I want
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a little bit about some of the maybe questions or feedback I'd gotten after what
I shared yesterday or this weekend that at our church, got a lot of
feedback, a lot of things that you know, maybe some of you are
thinking, or maybe some people that you know are thinking. I'll just kind
of share some of that in our final segment of this hour, which we'll
do here after the break which is quickly approaching us, my friends. So
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Todd Huff back here in just a minute. Welcome back to my friends.
So just a little bit about a little bit of the feedback that I got,
just because I think it might be some of these things that come up,
might be things that you have heard that you are maybe dealing with or
whatever. One individual came up to me told me he was I would I
would say, from what I could ascertain, he's a moderate conservative. He
said he cannot vote for either candidate. It's not voting for Biden or for
Trump. You've heard me address this on here before. I don't particularly understand
that this because one of those two is going to be our president. One
of those two is going to be the president. My my vote, I'm
not. It's I'm not if I choose not to vote or not to participate
and not to accept the reality that Trump or Biden one will be president.
I am not suddenly like not part of the problem or anything. I still
have to deal with the same problem. I need to decide which president's ideas
and policies are better for the nation, better for liberty, more in line
with the Constitution, better for the economy, all those things, better for
better for what, international relations, foreign policy, what have you. And
I think the one, I know the choice is absolutely stark and obvious.
Trump's policies are much much much better. You know, a lot of what
I got yesterday, A lot of what I got yesterday was, you know,
I mean, some some encouraging, encouraging talk. We one individual,
you know, commented that this, you know, a lot of what we
talk about is really just just the approach. How much further we would advance
in this discourse if we just if we just took the time and effort to
do it. I mean, this is not it's not complicated stuff. It
might be difficult to execute because you know, it's not always easy to maintain
our cool and all that sort of stuff. But my friends, I mean,
we're hanging This nation is hanging on by a metaphorical thread here, hanging
on by a thread. And I think that if it's as bad as I
think that it is, and I'm certain, very certain that it is then
I have no choice but to be involved and to be engaged in this overall
process of trying to persuade. And it's the alternative to maybe being uncomfortable or
being intense situations is so much worse. You know, sometimes I feel like
we collectively as a nation are living in some sort of denial. It's not
the choice really isn't. Well, you know, I can have discomfort here
or you know, live at peace. The question is do I want to
have some momentary discomfort now that is relatively minor, or do I want massive
life altering changes to come because of oppression? And who knows what else.
There's stories in the Stack of Stuff today if you want to go check it
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One of them is about Bank America allegedly potentially d banking. Christians think
about that. I mean, what if we get to the point and we're
we're on that path, my friends, if you're unable to are unable to
bank because of your political affiliation, your your religious affiliation, seems like a
pretty big problem, right And to some it's down the road, it's it's
it's it's not it doesn't seem real. But we're marching quickly down this path.
And we can either take relatively i don't know, small small steps collectively
to try to write this ship, or we can just sit collectively on our
hands doing nothing and deal with massive pain and deal with massive persecution unlike we've
ever dealt with remotely in this country. So very real problems that exist out
there today, and some of these things are minor inconveniences to engage in today.
It's a little bit of discomfort, it's a little bit of being pushed
out of my comfort zone or having to have a tough conversation dealing Compare that
with living in a nation that's not free, living in a nation that openly
persecutes people of whatever group that you think will be persecuted next. But you
know you have an idea of who the government's targeting right now. In fact,
I tell my wife, hey, you know we're right in the middle
of that. We're self employed, we home to school, we have a
political talk radio show. We're conservative, we're Christian. I mean, this
is I like to say. If it's gonna get Harry here, I want
to be I don't want to be the guy that suffers in prison for years.
I want to be the one that they make the example of for the
rest of the group. I want to go quickly. Now I'm saying that
hyperbolically, but at the same time, there's truth there in my friends.
It doesn't take long to see that governments have done these incredibly terrible things throughout
history. So got to go. Thanks for listening, SDG