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[00:02:09] your time hey welcome to educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover thanks

[00:02:15] for being here my website is educate for life dot o RG and if you would like a list of the five best arguments for the

[00:02:21] existence of God please email me at info at educate for life dot o-r-g I love to

[00:02:28] have helped you out and give you some resources that you can share with your friends I wanted to start off by reading

[00:02:33] an article this is from The Daily wire by Joseph curl I thought it was really appropriate you know we’ve been we’ve been talking about kavanah and the whole

[00:02:40] thing that’s going on we’ve also been talking about hey was our country founded on Christian principles we’re

[00:02:45] dealing with all this stuff that’s happening right now and and there’s a lot of biblical input into what we’re

[00:02:52] dealing with and I think it’s really important that we look through these issues using a biblical lens and I

[00:02:57] wanted to start off by reading this this is an accusation from Juanita Broderick

[00:03:03] she’s accusing the Democrats that have been going after kavanah and his past

[00:03:09] from 36 years ago and so forth of a double standard and if you remember who

[00:03:15] won Nita Broderick is she’s the one that accused Bill Clinton of of actually raping her and this is what she says she

[00:03:24] says this is the biggest double standard I’ve ever seen and Joseph Karl writes

[00:03:29] about this he says Broderick addressed the media outside the Senate building where Cavanaugh’s Judiciary Committee hearing was set to take place

[00:03:36] she said the accusation accusations from mrs. Ford who claims Kavanaugh sexually

[00:03:41] sawed her in 1982 at a high-school party is no comparison to what happened to her and then she goes on to talk about what

[00:03:49] happened between her and Bill Clinton and she says I have 20 times the evidence that Ford has against kavanah

[00:03:55] and yet nothing happened she said she was totally ignored when she broke came forward with this she had told more than

[00:04:02] 20 different women she wanted to testify all kinds of stuff that she had against Clinton Clinton that he actually

[00:04:08] physically did what he did and she says

[00:04:13] here it’s not that I’ve decided that Ford has no evidence it’s just that she

[00:04:19] hasn’t presented and she says you know this is a horrible double standard and so I wanted to bring

[00:04:26] this up because this is used frequently in discussions that a person is not able

[00:04:31] to run for office because of either something that has been alleged or something that has actually happened so

[00:04:39] you know when I was when we were looking at Trump and the election process him

[00:04:44] being voted I had a lot of Christians actually say that on principle they couldn’t vote for Trump because he had

[00:04:51] so many moral failings that it wasn’t appropriate to vote for them and so for him so on principle he didn’t vote now

[00:04:58] that turns in many people think there was somewhere around 40 million Christians that did not vote in the

[00:05:06] election because they felt that that Trump had moral failings and therefore they couldn’t vote for him and so I have

[00:05:13] some questions about that is it better to have a person who has a lot of moral

[00:05:19] failings but directs the country in the right direction or is it better to have a person who doesn’t how have a lot of

[00:05:25] known moral failings but steers the country in the wrong direction and this really applies also not just to

[00:05:31] political issues but it applies in the church as well so when we look at the situation in the church what’s happening

[00:05:38] in our culture today is that a lot of the I guess moral failings the sins that

[00:05:44] used to happen behind closed doors that that weren’t discovered because of the

[00:05:49] internet and because of social media it’s a lot harder to hide your activity

[00:05:54] and because the computers are now recording everything that happens everywhere you go every word you say you

[00:06:01] can easily slip up in what you say and and show some of your your your

[00:06:07] stereotypes or your prejudices and these can come out and people have faced the consequences for that they say a word

[00:06:13] that they didn’t intend to say but it’s their true feelings and so what ends up happening is what’s happening is people

[00:06:19] are becoming known for who they actually are and you know it I would I wouldn’t

[00:06:27] say that people weren’t the way they always were but I would say that what’s happening is involuntarily we are

[00:06:34] becoming a society that’s very transparent the culture is becoming much more transparent simply because you can

[00:06:40] no longer hide anymore and what might have been done in secrecy is now on being brought to the surface

[00:06:46] and so the question I guess is how do you deal with that as a pastor who’s running a church as a volunteer in a

[00:06:53] church as a Christian in culture how do you respond to these leaders that they

[00:06:59] they go to run for political office and all of a sudden their entire life story is brought up I mean there is no way

[00:07:05] that you know in the past if you had a Supreme Court potential justice who’s

[00:07:11] running who wants to be confirmed to the US Supreme Court you couldn’t have done what they’re doing to Cavanaugh today to

[00:07:19] be able to find all his his classmates to be able to find the ones reference the parties and to do it is so rapidly

[00:07:25] to find these people so rapidly this is only made possible because of the internet because of the resources that

[00:07:31] are now now available through technology and so what’s happening is is for a lot

[00:07:36] of Christians this there’s thrown them into confusion because they’re thinking of themselves well you know what is it

[00:07:42] right that’s somebody now I don’t believe that kavanah actually did what what Ford is saying it doesn’t seem to

[00:07:49] me that the evidence is very persuasive but let’s say that did happen and it was

[00:07:54] 36 years ago he was 17 she was 15 and the question then becomes does that

[00:08:00] disqualify him for confirmation now I know the gut reaction the immediate reaction the emotional reaction is

[00:08:06] immediately yes he’s disqualified he had a mortal failing it’s significant enough and he is disqualified you know

[00:08:12] Ben Carson came out and said look it here’s the deal the kind of just

[00:08:19] gauntlet that Cavanaugh has had to go through is going to discourage other Christians and other good people from

[00:08:26] running for office so so Cavanaugh you know his his his life has been

[00:08:33] essentially destroyed if he’s not confirmed to the Supreme Court justice he said he made a statement I love

[00:08:39] coaching my kids sports teams I’ll never be able to coach again I’ll never be able to you know be around a woman with

[00:08:47] having this prejudice against me and so it’s really affecting him all these allegations even if they’re not true

[00:08:54] it’s affecting him and so it’s gonna affect his ability to volunteer in church or to be an elder in church or

[00:09:00] whatever it might be and so the question is is should that be the case I think we

[00:09:06] have to think long and hard about biblically what is the Bible advocate

[00:09:13] for moral failings and how does that influence our life what happens from

[00:09:18] here on out if a person has had a moral failing how does it influence their role in the church how does it influence

[00:09:24] their role in politics are they all of a sudden disqualified from being able to give an opinion on a subject in which

[00:09:30] they’ve had a moral failing this is a very significant issue because Ben Carson said look at and many people have

[00:09:36] said this if this is gonna be the the criteria by which we determine whether somebody can get involved in politics or

[00:09:44] whatever then you’re gonna have all these good people backing out and backing down now interestingly it’s a

[00:09:49] double standard those are typically on the Left do not have a problem with a

[00:09:55] person having moral failings and advancing them into political positions

[00:10:00] by and large that’s not nearly as strong of a situation so we have the other side

[00:10:07] as conservatives we have the other side holding us to a standard that’s far

[00:10:12] higher than the standard that’s held to them and so what you end up with a lot of people that don’t feel like hey I can run for political office because I’ve

[00:10:19] made mistakes I’ve had failings and so let’s talk about this biblically we’re

[00:10:26] coming up on a break not too far here but before we get too far in I wanted to let you know about October 13th it’s the

[00:10:33] 10th annual Veritas International University national apologetics conference it’s going to be held at

[00:10:38] Calvary chapel’s South Bay which is up in gardenia California 1 9 3 0 0 Vermont

[00:10:45] Avenue you can check this out by just going to the Veritas web website Veritas International University and you

[00:10:51] can register for free it’s going to be a great opportunity to really get equipped to be able to defend the Christian faith

[00:10:58] here’s some amazing speakers Brad doc is from the Pacific Justice Institute is gonna be there as well as Stephen

[00:11:04] Collins he’s a world-famous archaeologist who is credited with finding Sodom and Gomorrha uncovering

[00:11:12] the the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah Stephen Meyer from the Discovery Institute he’s one of the leaders of the

[00:11:18] intelligent design movement and then also Phil Phil Fernandez who is a pretty

[00:11:24] well known apologist defender of the the Word of God as well as myself I’m going to be speaking up there I’ll be speaking

[00:11:29] on the scientific foresight of the Bible meant there’s many references to scientific to science in the Bible that

[00:11:37] were known in the Bible far before modern science actually discovered them and that’s what I’m gonna be talking at

[00:11:44] that conference so I hope you can make it it’s 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. on October 13th and we are just about here on a

[00:11:51] quick quick break please stay with us we’re gonna be talking about what the Bible has to say about this double

[00:11:57] standard where you have somebody that wants to run for office they have a moral failing are they automatically

[00:12:02] disqualified what happens then so stay with us we’ll be right back [Music]

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[00:13:10] of team home loans a branch of synergy one lending I just want to take this opportunity to thank Kevin Kahn over for

[00:13:16] the profound impact he’s had on mine and my wife’s spiritual life as well as being an incredible teacher while our

[00:13:22] kids were his students his knowledge and passion have taught us all how important it is to be defenders of our faith it’s

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[00:13:34] be defenders of your faith through Kevin’s radio show and through his educate for life teachings thank you

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[00:13:45] [Applause] thanks for listening today this is

[00:13:50] educate for life I’m your host Kevin Conover and if you’re streaming we’re streaming all over the place is our first time we have been able to stream

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[00:14:32] share our broadcast with others and right now what we’re talking about is kavanah and the kind of a double

[00:14:38] standard biblically we want to look at this from a biblical perspective and I wanted to share some scripture that is

[00:14:45] relevant to this situation if we look at James chapter 2 verse 13 it says this

[00:14:52] speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom for judgment without mercy will be shown

[00:14:59] to anyone who has not been merciful mercy triumphs over judgment the fact of

[00:15:04] the matter is is that we all need mercy we all need to be forgiven our sins some

[00:15:10] people’s sins are more offensive more blatant and more damaging than others but the fact of the matter is is that in

[00:15:16] the sight of God the Bible says that our righteousness is as filthy rags so what you end up with is it doesn’t matter

[00:15:22] whether you’re Billy Graham or whether you’re the person on the third yard of a

[00:15:27] state prison guilty of murder the fact of the matter is is that we all need mercy and in

[00:15:33] God’s eyes the most righteous person doesn’t even matter if you’re Mother Teresa that righteousness is as filthy

[00:15:39] rags compared to the standard of God and you know Billy Graham said something really interesting he said he said if

[00:15:46] you knew what I’d done you wouldn’t be listening to me but if I knew what you done I wouldn’t be preaching to you and

[00:15:53] that’s well said in my opinion because the fact of the matter is is we got to

[00:15:59] get over this idea of more perfection is that the standard is that

[00:16:05] what God is looking for from a follower of Christ is mortal perfection is that the highest goal I don’t think it is I

[00:16:12] think God’s highest goal his highest standard is a relationship a love relationship with a person because that

[00:16:18] love relationship is what actually affects change Christ said something

[00:16:24] very interesting he said he who is forgiven much loves much he who is forgiven little loves little and the

[00:16:32] emphasis here was on the love the fact that somebody who recognizes how

[00:16:39] wretched they are right Amazing Grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me that recognizes how wretched

[00:16:46] they are falls more in love with God and is so grateful for what he’s done and what does that love do that love

[00:16:53] translates into a life of loving others of mercy towards others of grace towards

[00:16:58] others of reaching out towards others and so so now that doesn’t mean you need to go out and commit a whole bunch of

[00:17:04] sins so that you can love God more that that’s not the goal either the point is is what we want to do is recognize our

[00:17:13] great need for Christ so that we fall more in love with God so that we can then love others more effectively and in

[00:17:20] order to and when that happens what happens is we begin to recognize that other people need to be shown grace and

[00:17:27] need to have that mercy also I want to read to you the parable of the unmerciful servant again I’m coming back

[00:17:32] to this because of kavanah and the fact of how much he’s been attacked and also Trump honestly because I voted for Trump

[00:17:39] and a lot of people said you can’t vote for Trump based on principle look at all

[00:17:45] the moral failings of this guy I mean they’re all over the place how can you possibly vote for him but the reality is

[00:17:51] is that it doesn’t matter who runs for office they’re a sinner some of their sins are known somewhere unknown some

[00:17:57] are greater sent some have done a lot more since some have done lists lessons but the fact of the matter is is here’s

[00:18:03] my question which is more important to have somebody who is in a position of

[00:18:10] leadership who recognizes the truth of God’s Word who recognizes the

[00:18:15] actions that need to be taken and then commits to doing them even though they

[00:18:21] have moral failings or the person who has no moral failings or no known moral

[00:18:26] failings but doesn’t get get going there’s no there’s no fruit coming from

[00:18:33] the life they live right we have a lot of people that sit in church pews who

[00:18:39] are very very moral or look they look very very moral but the problem is is

[00:18:44] that there’s no fruit coming from their life the way they live we don’t see it

[00:18:51] being produced and therefore which is better which is is it to be somebody who

[00:18:57] has nothing being produced in the life for Christ and no no moral failings or

[00:19:04] somebody who has moral failings but is out there in love with Christ and is moving forward in their life and now

[00:19:11] obviously I’m not saying it’s good to have moral failings but what I am saying is is that a person is not automatically

[00:19:20] disqualified simply because they’ve had moral failings from serving in a government position or from serving

[00:19:27] potentially in certain areas of a church and and so forth of course there are standards that we have the Bible says

[00:19:34] that an elder must be a beyond reproach right his life has got to be a

[00:19:40] reflection of God morally he’s got to be doing those things but listen to this parable in Matthew chapter 18 verse 21

[00:19:47] it says this then Peter said to Jesus and asked Lord how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins

[00:19:53] against me up to seven times and jesus answered I tell you not seven times but seventy-seven times therefore the

[00:20:00] kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants as he began the settlement a

[00:20:06] man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him since he was not able to pay the master ordered that he

[00:20:13] and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repeat repay the debt at this the servant fell on his

[00:20:19] knees before him be patient with me he begged and I will pay back everything the servants master took pity on him

[00:20:26] cancelled the debt and let him go Rob that’s incredible 10,000 bags of gold that is a gigantic

[00:20:32] debt right but when that servant went out he found one of his fellow servants

[00:20:37] who owed him a hundred silver coins he grabbed him and began to choke him pay back what you owe me he demanded his

[00:20:44] fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him be patient with me and I will pay it back but he refused instead he

[00:20:49] went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt when the other servants saw what had happened

[00:20:54] they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened then the master called the servant in you wicked servant he said I

[00:21:01] cancelled all that debt of yours because you begged me to shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I

[00:21:06] had on you in anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured until he should pay back all he owed

[00:21:13] this is how my Heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart that is a powerful story and I think for

[00:21:22] us it’s a guiding principle to a large degree on how we treat those around us and within the church who have moral

[00:21:28] failings this does not mean that you know we put a Scarlet Letter on their

[00:21:33] forehead and from here on out they are you know condemned to a life of the

[00:21:41] background and never being able to serve in the church or never being able to be

[00:21:46] free from that burden that’s not how Christ was and so another great example

[00:21:52] is the example that Christ set with with Peter Peter did one of the worst things

[00:21:59] you could possibly do which is he denied Christ three times and we look at that situation and Christ knew it was going

[00:22:07] to happen he said after you have been you’ve been through this after you’ve been a sifted Satan has asked to sift you like wheat

[00:22:15] you know you’re gonna come back and you’re gonna you’re gonna serve me and we see that that reconnection between

[00:22:21] Christ and Peter when they meet for the first time after Christ’s resurrection and Christ says feed my sheep feed my

[00:22:30] sheep feed my sheep he wasn’t kicked out of the church he wasn’t treated like a pariah he was told

[00:22:38] feed my sheep if you love me feed my sheep and that’s Peter that is

[00:22:43] literally the guy who sees Asst said I will build my church on the words that

[00:22:48] you spoke that Jesus Christ is the Messiah and so that example set to us by

[00:22:55] Christ and the what happened to Peter there again is another reminder to us that we’re all sinners some people’s

[00:23:02] sins are more apparent they’re more out there and the fact of the matter is is that you know with technology today it’s

[00:23:09] becoming even more people are becoming more aware you know in the past we looked good

[00:23:14] but now what’s happening is we’re looking we’re we’re losing the veneer of perfection and it’s becoming abundantly

[00:23:21] clear that people are not perfect and that that we all fall to sin without the

[00:23:28] proper safety guards in place and so this is important to remember when we’re looking at those in positions of power

[00:23:35] and leadership that we don’t just X them off our list because hey that person

[00:23:40] didn’t live up to my standards of what it means to be that perfect role model especially in our culture today okay

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[00:27:06] North County I am speaking at the national apologetics conference this is

[00:27:11] put on by Veritas International University Joe Holden dr. Joe Holden he’s instrumental in putting this on and

[00:27:17] it’s going to be fantastic it’s a free event 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. they’re expecting over 500 people there

[00:27:24] and it’ll be great Brad daucus is gonna be there Stephen Collins Stephen Meyer

[00:27:29] very very famous Stephen mired as the head of the Discovery Institute they’re an intelligent design think-tank do

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[00:28:04] want to go in there register right away and get them there’s all kinds of content there you can use we talked about creation evolution talk about

[00:28:11] world religions talk about how we know the Bible is actually God’s Word and then we talk about social and cultural

[00:28:17] issues which is what we’re talking about today on the radio that and and what we’re talking about today specifically I

[00:28:24] reference in course 400 which is blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord right that’s a propositional claim

[00:28:30] blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord what does that mean it means that the Bible says that if Yahweh is your

[00:28:36] God if your nation embraces Yahweh that that nation will be blessed okay that’s

[00:28:41] a that’s a truth claim made in the Bible it also says that righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any

[00:28:47] people now again that’s a propositional claim what does it mean it means righteousness as defined by Yahweh in

[00:28:54] the Bible brings a nation up but sin as defined by Yahweh brings a nation down

[00:29:01] and interestingly enough most of our founding fathers actually held this position also this is supreme the very

[00:29:08] first Supreme Court Justice John Jay he was a very very dedicated Christian this is what he said he said Providence and

[00:29:15] at that time Providence meant God Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers and it is the

[00:29:21] duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their

[00:29:29] rulers that statement is pretty profound because it says that as Christians it is our obligation to vote for those who

[00:29:38] espouse Jesus Christ who have made him their Lord and Savior and those who who

[00:29:45] promote Christian values and virtues now interestingly enough the question is is

[00:29:50] does a person have to be a perfect Christian to get my vote now I know there’s a lot of people out there who

[00:29:56] say absolutely not we’re all imperfect and they all understand that but there’s also a lot

[00:30:01] of people out there who deliberately do not vote because they believe that to

[00:30:08] vote for the lesser of two evils is still to vote for evil now this is a difficult situation because you know a

[00:30:15] Billy Graham also I’m quoting him here twice now but he said you’re so heavenly minded you’re

[00:30:22] no earthly good and we have to be careful of this we’re not in heaven yet

[00:30:27] so by just default we’re always going to be voting for the lesser of two evils when we’re involved in voting and voting

[00:30:35] is here’s right around the corner you know the fact of the matter is is that we

[00:30:41] have the potential to overturn Roe vs. Wade because of the fact that

[00:30:47] Cavanaugh may get confirmed to the Supreme Court now of course those who are pro-abortion and don’t want to see

[00:30:54] Roe versus Wade overturned they’re trying to prevent Cavanaugh from being confirmed they’re trying to prevent the

[00:31:01] confirmation of a judge until after the election in November because we only have an advantage in the Senate it’s 51

[00:31:08] to 49 we are barely uh we’re holding on by the skin of our teeth as far as

[00:31:13] that’s concerned so if if Cavanaugh does not get confirmed next week right today

[00:31:19] the committee sent him to the Senate and there are I believe two Republican

[00:31:26] senators who are saying they may not vote to confirm Cavanaugh which means if

[00:31:32] Cavanaugh doesn’t get confirmed then there will be no confirmation until after the election and if in the

[00:31:39] election we don’t still hold the Senate let’s say we lose the majority in the Senate then we will not be able to

[00:31:46] confirm a constructive judge who would who is opposed to Roe vs. Wade and so

[00:31:53] your vote matters and if you’re so heavenly minded that you’re no earthly

[00:31:58] good and on principle you decide I don’t want to vote because none of the people here are perfect people then by your

[00:32:07] abstaining from voting you are actually allowing evil to take place and I’ll say

[00:32:12] I’ll hear people say that’s not my fault I did the right thing by not voting I stood by my principles but but by your

[00:32:20] lack of action you’ve actually allowed evil to persist a greater evil to persist and so I would encourage you if

[00:32:27] you’re on the fence about this the Bible says in James he who knows the good he

[00:32:32] ought to do and doesn’t do it sins we have sins of commission and sins of omission a sin of comission is I’ve

[00:32:37] violated some principle moral value of God’s a sin of omission is I didn’t do

[00:32:43] what God asked me to do I didn’t get out there and make a difference I wasn’t salt and light you know deal moody said

[00:32:49] something very profound right a woman came up to him and said hey I don’t like the way you witness I don’t like the way

[00:32:55] you share the gospel and I am I I have this happen every once in a while I if you’ve listened to this

[00:33:01] radio program for any amount of time you know that I love I love Ray Comfort and Ray Comfort he just talks to people and

[00:33:09] basically says look how many lies have you told how many have you ever stolen anything have you ever blaspheme have

[00:33:14] you ever looked at somebody with lust and for a lot of people it’s very you

[00:33:20] know seems very rude you know kind of like why are you asking people about their sins that’s so rude but the fact

[00:33:27] of the matter is is that when you ask people these questions and they confront the reality of the situation

[00:33:33] it makes the gospel very clear because now you recognize your need for a savior

[00:33:38] and so I’ve had a few people say to me oh I do not like the way a Ray Comfort shares the gospel or they’ve said it to

[00:33:44] me I don’t like the way you share the gospel I don’t I’m uncomfortable with that I don’t like that deal moody you know he was similar he said this he said

[00:33:51] this woman came up to him and said look I don’t like the way you share the gospel and he said well do you ever go

[00:33:58] out and share the gospel she said no and he said well I like the way I share the gospel better than the way you don’t share the gospel and so you know for me

[00:34:06] I mean that’s abundantly clear we we cannot I like the way I vote better than

[00:34:11] the way you don’t vote right I like the way I vote for the person for the lesser of two evils better than the way you

[00:34:17] vote for nobody and let the greater evil persist and win and I think that’s

[00:34:24] something we all have to deal with and we live in a fallen world where you have imperfect people and it is the duty of

[00:34:31] our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers but do they have to be perfect Christians no

[00:34:38] they don’t and so when you’re going out to vote in this upcoming election and you’re looking at your different choices

[00:34:43] and you see somebody that has mistakes in their past or or their their mistakes are being broadcast over the Internet

[00:34:49] and you’re seeing their moral failings the Bible is abundantly clear mercy will

[00:34:55] be shown to those who show mercy and with the same way you judge you will be

[00:35:00] judged by my father that’s what Jesus Christ said so we we are all sinners we all lack what we’re

[00:35:08] looking for are people whose heart is in the right place you know a significant question is can can somebody

[00:35:17] who’s addicted to drugs somebody who you let’s say somebody who uses drugs be

[00:35:22] against the legalization of drugs well the obvious answer is yes of course they

[00:35:28] can can can somebody who’s had an abortion be opposed to abortions and

[00:35:35] speak out on the issue yes of course they can can somebody who struggles with

[00:35:41] pornography speak out against pornography well of course they can and

[00:35:47] this is on and on and on a lot of times we are shamed or guilted into silence

[00:35:54] and this is the devil’s trick by the way the devil wants to shame and guilt

[00:35:59] Christians into silence he doesn’t want them running for office he want he doesn’t want them speaking out on issues

[00:36:04] he doesn’t want them volunteering in church he doesn’t want them doing anything and so what he does is he

[00:36:10] shames people to death to where they become inactive and ineffective right he does not want anybody to to volunteer in

[00:36:19] church he wants them so to condemn themselves so much that they don’t even

[00:36:24] feel they’re worthy to step into the church doors but this is this is the devil’s strategy not God’s all we have

[00:36:32] to do again is look at the story of the prodigal son and the father who loved that prodigal son there was never a

[00:36:37] point in that child’s life in that boy’s life where his father wouldn’t have hugged him there was never that it never

[00:36:44] came to that point his father was always going to love him and we’re coming up on a break we have one more segment left

[00:36:50] I’m gonna get a little bit more into what what needs to happen in our country

[00:36:56] for it to continue to turn back to God and also some of the things that that

[00:37:01] the founding fathers said about their relationship with God I’m gonna talk about this because there’s a there’s a

[00:37:07] common attack against the founding fathers that they held that they owned slaves and therefore they’re not worth

[00:37:16] listening to and how they set up the Constitution and Declaration is a problem because of that so we’re gonna

[00:37:22] talk about that well views screams [Music]

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[00:39:04] [Music] thanks for listening today this is educate for life I’m your host Kevin

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[00:39:40] all kinds of amazing guests I’ve had an incredible guests on the show that really talk about a lot of the issues

[00:39:47] that are relevant to how do I approach issues from a biblical perspective or how do I defend my Christian faith

[00:39:53] that’s what our websites all about educate for life org it’s meant to be a resource for you to be able to learn how

[00:39:59] to defend your faith I’ve found that the more I know the more answers I have to the questions people have the easier it

[00:40:05] is for me to speak up about issues right and they say that that public speaking is one of the greatest fears for most

[00:40:11] people right up there with the fear of death about 25% of Americans fear

[00:40:18] speaking in front of people as much as death and so how do you diminish that

[00:40:23] fear well one of the ways you diminish the fear is by knowing your topic so the more you are comfortable with the topic

[00:40:29] the more you’re able to talk about it without being afraid and so common sense would it would then draw the conclusion

[00:40:37] that if I know a lot about God’s Word about the issues like evolution and

[00:40:42] creation or about the issue of homosexuality and how to respond to these issues among my peers my

[00:40:49] co-workers my neighbors then I my fear of inviting somebody to church or sharing the gospel goes down down down

[00:40:55] and that’s certainly what I found over time as I’ve learned more about the Word of God and I’m able to defend it

[00:41:01] very easily I am very comfortable with having a conversation impromptu you know

[00:41:06] at a coffee shop or wherever I’m at when somebody asked me a question it’s easy

[00:41:12] for me to have a discussion with them about it so please go to my website educate for life org I’d love for you to check it out and see all the great

[00:41:18] resource that are there for you okay I wanted to pick up on the issue you know a while

[00:41:24] back I was talking to an atheist about the founding of the country and and

[00:41:29] whether a cross should remain on public property or not and this particular atheist said to me that the founding

[00:41:36] fathers owned slaves therefore their view of quote the

[00:41:41] separation of church and state and so forth was irrelevant because of what they said and again you’ll hear this

[00:41:49] attack frequently from typically those on the Left who will say something like

[00:41:55] you did this or you did that and therefore your opinion is irrelevant to

[00:42:00] this discussion now this is a logical fallacy in arguing it’s an emotional attack and what it’s

[00:42:08] called it’s called poisoning the well and this is the definition it’s a type

[00:42:13] of informal logical fallacy where irrelevant adverse information about a target is preemptively presented to an

[00:42:21] audience with the intention of discrediting or ridiculing something that the target person is about to say

[00:42:27] so a great example is Thomas Jefferson many people don’t know this Thomas

[00:42:32] Jefferson was an abolitionist he wanted slavery to end he was very very very

[00:42:37] much into ending slavery but he also had slaves in Virginia he had slaves and so

[00:42:44] a person looks at this and goes what in the world you’re a hypocrite how can you

[00:42:49] have slaves and say you’re against slavery but again the question comes up

[00:42:55] could Thomas Jefferson present valid facts about the issue of slavery that

[00:43:02] are valid and still have slaves well yeah he could now you might say well

[00:43:09] yeah but he shouldn’t and that’s certainly true he shouldn’t now there

[00:43:15] are particular issues in his situation where people say well this is why he had slaves because if he had let his slaves

[00:43:20] go they would have gone being gone right back into slavery picked up or he

[00:43:26] himself could have been brought under pressure because he had he let his slaves go and you weren’t

[00:43:32] allowed to let your slaves go and so different people will say that’s not justified it doesn’t matter but the real

[00:43:38] question is is is he’s still able to give his opinion about the issue of slavery even though he has slaves and

[00:43:45] the answer as hard as it might be to hear is yes a person’s opinion is not

[00:43:51] immediately invalid simply because they have a moral failing even if it pertains to that issue

[00:43:57] that’s called poisoning the well the person’s opinion or their ideas or or

[00:44:03] their thoughts on an issue are not validated or invalidated by who they are

[00:44:09] or what they’ve done the merits of the idea have to stand on their own and so you may have somebody who says something

[00:44:16] very intelligent but you really don’t like them they’re just an annoying person or they just really rub you the

[00:44:22] wrong way and you think to yourself well boy I can’t stand that person but but the fact

[00:44:28] of the matter is is when it comes to weighing an argument or something somebody has said whether you like them

[00:44:35] or not whether you think they’re a good person or not is not immediately irrelevant it’s what they what their

[00:44:43] idea is does it have merit or does it not and so this is why even though

[00:44:49] Thomas Jefferson had slaves right he wrote the the he had was highly

[00:44:54] influential in the Declaration of Independence right and so he says that all men are created equal right we have

[00:45:01] unalienable rights and then you look at that you go but he had slaves how can he make that statement does that mean that

[00:45:06] we were not created to brought by God or that his opinion that we’re all created equal is automatically invalid no that means

[00:45:13] he had a moral failing that means he didn’t he didn’t his values right didn’t

[00:45:19] match up with the way he was living but the fact of the matter is is that this is the case almost all the time well for

[00:45:28] a lot of the time so if you’re a Christian you know what the Bible says and your standards are extremely high

[00:45:34] but do you always measure up to those standards absolutely not does that mean that your standards are invalid no of course not which is

[00:45:42] better to be a person who has very high standards but doesn’t always meet those standards or to be a person who has very

[00:45:48] low standards who always meets those standards hi so this is the situation that we’re seeing right now on the left

[00:45:55] in a lot of ways when you look at something like Juanita Broderick who says look it I came forward and I told

[00:46:02] everybody that Bill Clinton raped me I had all the evidence in the world I had

[00:46:08] tons of evidence he was an attorney general and and yet here he still was

[00:46:16] got to become the president even though it was well known what he had done what an incredible double standard and

[00:46:22] so they we look at Kavanagh here incredibly unsubstantiated claims against him 36 years ago when he was 17

[00:46:30] in the the girl was 15 and if you look at all I believe it’s now over 65 women have come forward and testified about

[00:46:36] what how well they have been treated by kavanah and yet we’re still dealing with

[00:46:43] this people saying he doesn’t deserve to be confirmed by the US Supreme Court by

[00:46:49] the Senate because 36 years ago we have an unsubstantiated claim that that he

[00:46:56] sexually tried to sexually abuse somebody that he sexually abused somebody this is an incredible double

[00:47:02] standard regardless of whether you whether you feel that it’s true or not

[00:47:07] the fact of the matter is is that what’s happening is that people that are

[00:47:13] liberal not all and I’m not I’m not trying to stereotype here but there’s a lot of people on the left and on the

[00:47:18] liberal side that they don’t really care about what kavanah did what they care about is that he doesn’t get confirmed

[00:47:24] because if he does get confirmed there’s a strong potential that Roe versus Wade

[00:47:30] will be overturned and that’s the real issue here and so we need to think very

[00:47:36] clearly about these things the Bible says that we’re to be as clever as serpents as gentle as doves and I

[00:47:42] believe that in this particular situation that’s what we’re dealing with you know and I teach Christian high

[00:47:47] school students I teach 12th graders and right now we’re talking about the issue of human trafficking and we’re going

[00:47:53] back to the issue of slavery with William Wilberforce and if you look

[00:47:59] at his fight against against slavery it was him against about 300 members of

[00:48:05] parliament who all were motivated by their desire to make money they were moded motivated by their financial gain

[00:48:12] he was motivated by his love for God his love for Christ to abolish slavery because he believed that all men were

[00:48:18] created equal and he lived a pretty good life that guy was a pretty morally upright person but they slandered him

[00:48:24] all over the place people said that he had gotten a woman pregnant a slave woman pregnant people slandered the

[00:48:32] people around him saying there were spies they were revolutionary spies for the Americans it was they called him

[00:48:38] seditious they called William Wilberforce seditious that he was trying to provoke a revolution and this was see

[00:48:47] the devil doesn’t fight fair as Christians we’re trying to live by moral principles but we knew we need to be

[00:48:53] very very clever and be praying a lot about God how can we how can we go out

[00:49:02] and fight for righteousness maintain the high moral standards and also give grace

[00:49:08] and forgiveness to those people that are on our side who haven’t lived perfect lives we don’t want to be shooting each

[00:49:15] other you know you hear this all the time I hear Christians say this all the time Christian leaders say the people

[00:49:22] that hurt me the most weren’t the people outside the church it was the people inside the church what a horrible

[00:49:28] horrible situation to have friendly fire within the church and with those who love God who know what’s true let’s be

[00:49:35] focused on in this election getting people in office who maybe aren’t

[00:49:41] perfect because it’s abundantly clear that none of us are but maybe are perfect but know what perfect is and are

[00:49:48] trying their best to advance the values of the Bible and of God and of Jesus

[00:49:53] Christ so I hope that’s encouraging to you make sure you get involved in our

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