Trump, Cartels, Ejecting Illegals, & Christianity

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Are you going to bark all day, little doggie, or are you going to bite?

Delusional is okay in your world view. I'm an animal. You don't chastise chickens for being delusional. You don't chastise pigs for being delusional. So you calling me delusional using your world view is perfectly okay.

It doesn't really hurt.

What? What?

Desperate times call for faithful men and not for careful men. The careful men come later and write the biographies of the faithful men, lauding them for their courage.

Go into all the world and make disciples. Not go into the world and make buddies. Not to make brosives. Right. Don't go into the world and make homies. Right. Disciples.

I got a bit of a jiggle, Nick.

That's a joke, pastor.

When we have the real message of truth, we cannot let somebody say they're speaking truth when they're not.

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It's coming soon. Be in prayer for that. So big week this week. Yes, it's been epic, actually. What a week. Who to thunk it? All kinds of great things and also things, of course, we're going to talk about that are, you know, it may feel great, but maybe not so great.

It's been an exciting week and we are thankful for this little window of mercy we have in our nation. So much crazy stuff has happened. So before we get into today, we're going to talk about Trump. We're going to talk about the inauguration.

We're going to talk about some of the executive orders. We're going to talk about cartels being called terrorists now, all kinds of stuff. Before we do want to update everybody who's part of this ministry with us and let you guys know what's going on.

Abolition of Abortion and the Equal Protection Bills

Important conversation. This session, as the year begins here, this session across the country, we have bills of abolition and equal protection happening across the country. I'm going to bring you guys into this conversation if you're new to it.

Through the duration of Roe v. Wade, the pro-life establishment, the pro-life industry, the pro-life machine was not working towards the abolition of abortion. It's because they have a different confession of faith, a different creed that they follow.

They are not fundamentally Christian in their commitments and they're not consistent. And so they have been playing around the edges of, quote unquote, ending abortion with no intention ultimately to abolish it.

If you want more detail on this, I encourage you guys to find the little mini documentary we did here right on Apologia Studios. It's called The Fatal Flaw. It's about 25 minutes long. It'll bring you into the whole conversation as to why the pro-life establishment is not working to end abortion.

But through the duration of Roe v. Wade, they were playing around the edges, not working for abolition, not ultimately trying to abolish abortion. And in the last decade, because the church has risen up and faced this thing down, we started getting courageous legislators.

They were putting in bills of actual equal protection for all human beings from the moment of fertilization, equal justice for all. It started happening, and now we are in an awesome, awesome season. Of course, Roe v. Wade is out of the way.

Abortion is not abolished in any state in our nation. We have a ways to go, and I want to encourage everyone to know that right now we have bills of abolition happening across the country. A couple of them already filed.

Our good friend, Lovem, he is just an amazing man of God, very consistent. Dusty Devers in Oklahoma just dropped the bill of equal protection in the state of Oklahoma. We have a bill dropped in the state of Indiana.

There's a bill dropped in South Carolina, a bill dropped in North Dakota. And are we doing, is it House and Senate, or is it?

In North Dakota?

Yeah.

Just House, I believe.

Just House. OK, so we got one in the House in North Dakota. Texas is supposed to be dropping, I think, next week. Ohio, Ohio, big fight happening, Ohio. Good things happening, Ohio. I'm going to be providing updates on my X account and Facebook account as to where you can participate, how you can get involved in all of these.

I'll give you more details for End Abortion Now support, how you guys can be involved.

You can actually follow Jeff on X now.

Yes, exactly. I set up an X account specifically for the issue of abolishing abortion and being able to communicate there more freely because it's getting suppressed on YouTube. And Facebook. And so that's where you get information as things are ongoing.

But Ohio, for those of you guys that are in Ohio or you're in Kentucky and you want to be a part of what's happening to help there or surrounding states. I am partnering up with Michael Foster, Pastor Michael Foster, Pastor Michael Clary, and we are having an all hands on deck meeting.

We've done some meetings already with pastors and leaders in Ohio. We've got a bill dropping very, very soon in Ohio. And so we're doing an all hands on deck meeting. This is an open invitation. So the other ones were closed off to pastors and leaders.

This is an open invitation. Pastors, leaders, Christians from all over Ohio. Come meet with me and Pastor Michael Foster, Pastor Michael Clary in Ohio. That is going to be on February the 4th. That's Tuesday, I believe.

Tuesday, February 4th. It is 530 p .m. at East River Church. That's Pastor Foster's church in Batavia, Ohio. From what I understand, it's about half an hour away from Cincinnati. That's where I'm going to kind of be based while I'm there that week.

And so February the 4th, 530 p .m., Batavia, Ohio, East River Church. Come and meet with us. Come and spend some time with us. We're going to fill you in on all the details. We're going to try to get everyone together as to what's going on in Ohio.

So please join us there. If you've got friends and other Christians you know in Ohio, let them know about the event and let them know to show up. We're very excited to be partnering together with Pastor Foster and Pastor Clary in Ohio.

And of course, all the other pastors that have already participated with us and are on the same team as us. Iowa is coming soon.

Yeah, I just got word. They're just waiting for the bill to come back with some tweaks.

Excellent.

Iowa's coming soon. Georgia, our bill of equal protection in Georgia is dropping very soon. We have so much great, great support in the state of Georgia. The guys at G3, Josh Bice, Virgil Walker, all those dudes, great men.

And Georgia Right to Life is on our side and a part of the team. Great pastors, great leaders in Georgia. It is phenomenal what God has accomplished there in a short period of time. And so that's coming very soon as well.

Be in prayer that we get a hearing and be in prayer this thing gets to the floor so we can establish justice for the pre-born.

I'd say North Dakota already has a hearing date, February 6th, 9 a .m. I believe that's central time that we have a committee hearing. The nice thing about North Dakota is it has to have a committee hearing and a floor vote as well.

So we will we're planning on being out there having a rally whenever it goes to the floor. So stand by.

So we are going to be in all these states. We're going to try to get meetings and rallies either before the hearing, depending on like if it's necessary for us to do that at the hearing, but certainly before it goes to the floor.

And so we're going to be very busy and we're going to need your help and support. So we encourage you not to look at this and view this as an onlooker and say, well, that's great. I'm just going to sort of stand by and pray and hope it all goes well.

I want to encourage you all to join together with us, partner with us in this. This is not our thing. We're just Christians. We're just a local church. Working together with the Christians across the country, pastors and Christian organizations across the country.

This is the work of the church. It doesn't belong to us. We are just participating and fellow workers with you. And so really want to ask you for your help. We need your help. So if we're coming to your state for a bill that's in your state, just remember something.

It's not our state. We're in Arizona. It's your state. And so we would love for you to participate with us in this and to help us to fight for justice for the pre-born.

The expectation is 20 states, more or less. That is nearly half the states in our country.

That's right.

That's incredible to me.

Yeah. It's an amazing moment we're in, everybody. It's an amazing moment. So be in prayer. And if you could, please, please, please pray, of course, for the work of End Abortion Now. If you are not yet signed up with your church to go save lives at the abortion mills, go to endabortionnow .com, sign up to get the free training and all the free resources.

We don't want anything from your church. We just want to bless your church and help you guys to save lives. But if you can, if you can, please go to endabortionnow .com to give financially. As you can probably imagine, it is quite expensive to pull off this many states.

Some organizations operate in a single state. They have a singular focus and they have a budget of millions upon millions upon millions of dollars.

Way more than ours in one state.

We have a budget of what was ours for this year? $1 .5 million. And we're trying to support other organizations with bills of abolition. And we have our own that we've been able to get in. And it's just it's a lot of work.

And we just we do need your financial help. And so please give at endabortionnow .com to help us to meet our budget, as we always say, so we can end this injustice and this tyranny and never ask for another penny again.

We're not trying to start a business here, organization. We'd like to be able to end this thing, walk away and get on to the next thing. And so that's what we're doing. So exciting week. Look, all of us obviously were on pins and needles when when the election was taking place between Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump.

All of us, I think, recognized just how important this next election was. And everybody always says, right, like this is the most consequential. What election is that not said? This is the most consequential election of our lifetime.

Every single time.

Every single time they say it. But I feel like this time there was a lot to it. There was a lot to that. And that's just because of how rapidly the government descended into so much evil and tyranny on a number of levels.

I mean, on a number of levels. But you know, one of the things is just really encouraging to me as we get into some of these clips here is, you know, it was it was private platforms that really again ran this election and won this election.

It was like that in 2016. And that's why Google and Facebook and YouTube and all these platforms got together after that election in 2016 between Hillary and Donald Trump. And they said, how did this happen?

How did legacy media get it so wrong? They were for sure that Clinton was going to win this thing. And as they dissected the problem, they realized that it was these private platforms that ran the election.

That's who everyone was really listening to. They weren't listening to legacy media and all that stuff. And so then they killed those guys. You know, they immediately killed Alex Jones and a number of people.

But this time it was the same way. It was really the same way. People got their information from their trusted sources and they listened to them. I mean, I mean, amazing to think that Joe Rogan was so consequential in the last election.

Huge.

I mean, just the views of his interview with President Donald Trump. And it's in Vance in 24 hours.

And Sean Ryan, too.

Yeah. In 24 hours, the views on Donald Trump and Joe Rogan were tens of millions over against like legacy media stuff, even on the debates, even on the presidential debates. It just squashed it. And so people are just getting their information from other sources.

But, you know, it's just incredible to me even thinking about like Elon Musk's role in the last election, Joe Rogan's role in the last election, Tucker Carlson's role in the last election. It was just a really, really amazing time.

And I think an encouraging thing to see that, you know, private citizens can have a massive impact, a massive impact on your own startup. You know, the power of the technology that we have now today and to have a platform to.

Speak to issues.

It's been awesome. But I mean, obviously, we're all of us were in pins and needles because things were looking real bad. And, you know, a great example of that. And then I'll pass it on to you guys here.

A great example of that to me is just in what we're seeing with President Trump now pardoning some of our friends, you know, the people who have stood outside of abortion clinics, rescuers and the rescuers, people who were sentenced to jail, prison sentences.

And, you know, Beverly, we had Beverly on our program years ago. And she's all over the news right now because she's getting pardoned. She was sentenced to what? Three years?

Bevelyn.

Bevelyn. Bevelyn. Sorry, my bad. Bevelyn. She was sentenced to three years, I believe. And she's getting released. But but how did that take place? Because of how consequential this election was, is because you had the Biden regime so wicked, the Justice Department so wicked, the FBI so wicked.

He was he was deploying these military agencies against private citizens for these sorts of things. And the punishment was severe.

Lila Rose just announced that Trump has just pardoned 23 pro-life activists. Not sure if that's everyone.

All right.

Consequential election.

So he's signing more executive orders right now and I'm missing it.

And we're going to get into the whole executive order thing in just a moment here. But I'm look, I'm thankful and I know like, you know, we're still dealing with people like attacking us because we didn't tell anybody to vote for Trump.

We just we just said, you can't.

I intentionally did not.

Yeah, you can't. Our position was. We're not into the Trump, Trump idolatry and Trump worship and all the rest of Messiah, you know, complex kind of stuff. But what we're saying was, yes, Trump is extremely compromising the issue of abortion and inconsistent completely.

But if you're to force on other Christians the idea that because he's inconsistent in that area, you can't vote for him. My point was he's inconsistent in a lot of areas of the law of God. And so if you were to say if he was an abolitionist, I'm going to vote for him because he's an abolitionist.

I'd say, what about all the other problems he has with the law of God and the injustices, the things that he doesn't want to condemn? And so that's all we were saying. And we're saying, vote with your conscience and do it.

Do what you do to the glory of God. All we're saying is that we're grateful ultimately for this window of mercy. That's that's my main thing right now is I'm really thankful. And this point, this is what I was trying to get at.

Don't waste it. The consequence of all of this activity, these private platforms pushing back against all the crazy, disgusting LGBT, transgender, gay mirage filth and forcing everybody to accept it or get shut down, shadow banned and all the rest of that crap that has happened over the last couple of years.

I mean, we had to like we were skating on thin ice. We were skating on thin ice the last four years. I mean, we'd have to we have to like change like the descriptions we put in our things. We have to like, you know, I had to do a sermon on on when I was talking about the vaccines.

I had to I had to not use the word vaccine in my sermon and called him Joe's cookies because we're skating on thin ice because they'll shut you down, shadow ban you, cancel you. And now you have Mark Zuckerberg on Joe Rogan and he's he's praising masculinity.

And he's he's already in the last couple of weeks since the Joe Rogan episode killed a bunch of DEI stuff and transgender stuff. What did he take out of the bathroom? Tampons. He took tampons out of the men's bathrooms.

It's just awesome.

OK, it's whether or not he really believes it, whatever. That's at least he did it because, look, it's a sign that, you know, pressure does.

Yield. If you fight back, it produces fruit. Right. Yeah. And look, if I'm with you, like, do I think he really believes it? I'm not sure. I'm not convinced totally. But, you know, it'd be great if he does.

But on the other hand, even if he doesn't believe it completely, he realizes the pressure and he has to respond to the pressure of the public. Right. And I like that. Yeah. And I like that. So, you know, I pray for his salvation and I hope the heart changes is genuine.

He needs Christ ultimately. But we're in a good place. I feel like I feel like for the next four years, we're going to be able to say a lot more, a lot more prayerful. And I mean, even on Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg saying we're going to open up free speech on Facebook again is like that's a big deal.

Because, guys, you know, we used to be able to put up a video of an abortion in 2015, 16. It'd get a hundred thousand views like smooth sailing like that in 24 hours. You could put a video of us outside the abortion mill and it would go nuts.

Bananas. It impacted a lot of people. They got to see it. And that's what actually helped in abortion. Now people are going, oh, you can save lives at the abortion mill because they saw the content we were putting out.

And this is why I started an ex account. We were putting out content, content, anything related to, quote, pro-life or abolition. And what do we have on YouTube?

We have like almost 600, almost 600 ,000 subscribers.

And we'd put up anything related to abortion content. We had like 15 people watching live. So we're being suppressed or being shadow banned. You can't talk. And especially Facebook for the last four years, Isaac and I would talk.

It's like not even worth putting it up on Facebook because it's going to be seen by 20 people if we mention anything to do with abortion. So am I grateful for this moment? I think it's delicious. I think it's delicious.

It's a delicious moment. And I can't wait because it means that we're going to be able to reach more people now. They're not going to be able to shadow ban, shut down our stuff like they were doing. So I'm thankful.

I think time will tell, too, like what the if they lift off the clamps, too. And if the water continues to flow in the stream. But I think to your point about the, you know, the private podcast and all that stuff, man, it was just so instrumental.

I think in a soundbite culture, people are hungry for substance. And those platforms provide that long form conversations, people unable to manipulate the media to make themselves look better than what they are or make them look like they have more substance than they do.

Just not possible to hide on those platforms. And, you know, Trump doing those interviews going on, man, I you have to imagine that that pulled him over the finish line in somehow. I mean, it helped. It helped him get there.

And I think people looked at that and they said, this guy's willing to be grilled for three hours straight and and to have answers and to talk about his plan. And the other side, not so much.

Yeah. Well, I think people are finally getting tired of just the the fakeness, you know, of legacy media and the blatant, you know, lies and propaganda like people are just tired of it. Well, I think on both sides of the aisle, even on the left, I think you saw that this last cycle.

What was it like? CNN and MSNBC, like all of those. They were just tanking like no one cared what they were saying.

That was the other point is like the the stupidity, like the the extreme fringe, like trans stuff and all that, all that ideology that hasn't quite seeped into the cultural consciousness yet, like abortion and those types of things have like it was pushed so hard on people and that to the point where you even have like the old school Democrats being like, I don't know about that.

Like that's a little far, you know, and and when they're coming out and saying that's a bit extreme, that's a bit fanatic. You know that the leftists have kind of they got real greedy. They got real power hungry, overconfident, and they overplayed their hand.

And people saw that. And as the saying goes, stupidity doesn't work. But they doubled down on their insanity. And I think that even brought a lot of what they would call common sense laden people out of the woodwork to see, OK, we have the room to switch sides here, politically speaking, and go for something that we believe is going to create a nation in which we all can thrive.

And so that created enough of a window, so to speak, where you have enough people pulling in the same direction to get him over the finish line.

Yeah. If you have if you have your regime creates an environment that makes even your followers suffer, eventually your followers are going to start looking the other direction and going, the grass is definitely greener over there.

It actually is greener. And I'm going to have lower costs. I'm going to have more money. I'm going to be able to secure borders. I'm going to provide for my loved ones. And as much as I may be attached to this ideology over here, practically speaking, I'm going to live better over here.

Especially if you're a young man asking these questions. That's right. Like what environment is going to allow me to do that? Yeah, that's. I mean, it's probably a no brainer for most ordinary people.

Yeah, absolutely. So, man, there's just so much to talk about. You're seeing cool things like, you know, obviously you have to talk about the external revenue service and even conversations I saw this morning going around like breaking news, like the conversations are happening now about abolishing the IRS.

And I'm just like, I'll tell you what, please, God, I'll tell you what, please,.

God, I'll tell you what, I'm begging.

Yeah, I'll tell you what, if that happens, man, it may be kind of the golden age of.

America to celebrate. Oh, boy.

We'll have a special episode just for that one.

And we're celebrating.

Oh, man. So, OK.

All right. Here we go.

You guys are all you're all in this with us. We're going to play through clips, have some fun together, everybody. So this I wanted to start with this one. President Trump attends the National Prayer Service at the National Cathedral.

This was the day of the inauguration. Boy, that man was busy that day. Oh, my goodness. I'll tell you what, man, maybe we all need to switch to a diet of McDonald's and Diet Cokes or something because something magical and his step.

This is the one where you had like Garth Brooks performing Imagine. Yeah. And like and then they sing Amazing Grace. Yeah. And then it's like the two antithetical songs. Yeah. Like, oh, no, no, no.

Sorry. That was Carter.

That was the Carter's. The Carter's funeral. Yeah. Yeah. That was Carter's funeral.

I remember. Totally weird.

And do you guys see the bizarre? Do you guys see the Billy Ray Cyrus performance at the night of the inauguration? Oh, did he do the achy, breaky? I'm sitting there and I'm watching it. I'm going, am I the only one seeing this?

Like, is he something's really I'm going to leave it that something is something was not right. And it was all I'm going to say is go watch the Billy Ray Cyrus performance from the inauguration. It's just like something is something doesn't look healthy here.

And that's all I'll say about that. But anyway, so it was a wild day. He did like three balls that night and presidential balls. And then he had the different places he appeared and talked throughout the day and signed executive orders.

Man, the man, how old is he? He's like in the 70s, 75. He's got some energy. Boy, he's got some energy.

All right. Here we go.

Unity is to pray for on occasions of great celebrity. It's a lot harder to realize when we're dealing with real differences in our private lives and in the public arena. But without unity, we're building our nation's house on sand.

With a commitment to unity that incorporates diversity and transcends disagreement and with the solid foundations of dignity, honesty and humility that such unity requires, we can do our part and in our time to realize the ideals of the dream of America.

Let me make one final plea, Mr.

President.

So this this, by the way, I did not see this.

This view advances facial expression.

Well, I heard about it, but I didn't see it.

The benefit of watching it this way is to see their faces the entire time. That's good. But I would I would encourage you to go check out the one where it shows the the.

Lady pastor, that's the nice thing you were going to say, let's be honest, it's.

Going to say a dyke, let's be honest, let's be honest. Well, you a you should not have a woman pastor. That's a violation of scriptural standards. And this is Exhibit A as to why you should not have a lady pastor.

And of course, not one like this. You know, just go watch the video. The woman, of course, is just a charlatan and a false teacher, obviously. But we get to at least watch all our faces here. So listen to what she says.

Like if you had the opportunity as a faithful Christian to stand in front of the president and the vice president at an important day like this, like what would your message be? Oh, man, it's a big deal.

It's a big deal.

And who invited her anyway?

That's what I want. I want to know how this snuck in, is my question. Like who planned the schedule and got this woman? And let's be honest, it was a lesbian. Let's be honest. It wasn't a good Muslim dude, too.

I heard there was all kinds of everything.

It's very ecumenical.

All the things.

But I mean, if you were a faithful Christian, you had the opportunity to stand before President Trump and Vice President Pence. I wanted to say Pence.

Vance, there you go.

They do sound similar.

Yeah, Vance. What would your message be? It would have to be very, very focused upon the authority of God's word, the authority of Jesus Christ to be about the gospel. It wouldn't be this mush. And here we go.

We get to watch their faces.

So. Look at their faces.

I mean, the creases in Vance's forehead.

Look at that face.

Look at that face. It's the perfect place to stop.

That would be my face.

Yeah, like just such dissatisfaction. No, you did not. Like that's just shame on you. Shame, shame, shame on you.

Do you have his tweet? I'll pull it up.

Pull it up. Yeah, read the tweet.

I got to finish.

Oh, did he tweet about this?

Oh, I saw the tweet before I saw.

What was even said, man, I mean, just using the pulpit to make a politically driven statement like this, that is.

To say gay, lesbian and transgender children are scared. They're scared right now. Scared, scared. Like, are people threatening their lives?

Like, don't worry, it's going to be better for them overall than certainly anything that you all would have done.

Exactly. Yeah, exactly.

You're welcome.

You're the one ruining their lives with this nonsense. OK, so let's keep going.

Some who fear for their lives. And the people, the people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they.

Look at him. It's very serious.

Look at him and his wife. I can't believe this is happening.

Vance did a full on eye roll, too.

This is nonsense. This is nonsense. Honey, can we stand up? Should I leave?

Yeah.

Should I get up?

Should I walk out of here?

I mean, you got to, I mean, Trump's doing a pretty good job of controlling his facial expressions here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Vance is having a little harder time keeping it together. That's what I would be doing. I mean, I don't know, is it appropriate for the president to walk out of the service at that time?

That would be a statement.

It would be a huge statement. He should have done it. All right, here we go.

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