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This is Peter Rosenberg. Eight six six thirty four Truth. Eight six six three four eight. Seventy-eight, eighty-four.

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Well, guess what?

Next Tuesday is a big day in our country. My vote won't make a difference. Why bother? You ever heard that? My vote won't make a difference.

Why bother? Because we still can. I keep thinking about my ancestors, my family. We did a study on it. Reaches back to we went back as far as to the 1500s, in what is now Germany, and eventually members of that family left everything familiar with them, and traveled to America.

I cannot quote their exact conversation, but I imagine at some point around the table in their home. They reached a point where someone said, "Rumusen nicht soliben." I think that's my best German right there. We don't have to live this way. Taxes and control and oppression had made staying there unbearable, and they had little say in the system that was governing their lives.

So they crossed an ocean, and they accepted. The dangers of a frontier, for the opportunity to work, no, no, sure thing. It was just the opportunity to work and to build and to keep the fruits of their labor. They actually joined as this group of people. I think they were called Palantine, and the townsfolk recruited these Germans to live between them and.

The warring Native Americans to kind of serve as a buffer, so that they could help protect the townsfolk. These were these were hardy people, stout people, and they they expected hardship. They wanted a chance. I can't imagine looking those people in the eye and say, you know what? I have a voice in choosing who has authority over my liberty, safety, and money.

I just decided not to use it. It doesn't matter. What's my vote going to matter? None of these guys are any good, so I decided not to vote. Can I can't imagine look at them in the eye and say this to them, because they didn't have any say so for what was happening to them in Germany.

And you just heard at the beginning the the the hour there, Stu Epperson talking about what's going on in France. We have a say so now, and I understand the temptation with election fatigue. We get disgusted. We tune it out, or we decide that you know our one vote won't matter. I am only one voice.

I cannot control an election's outcome, but I am responsible for using the voice that I have, and I talked about this last week. We have a stewardship responsibility, and part of that stewardship responsibility not only is voting, but examining the ballot. You know, government. As instituted, must protect life and property. That is the core function of government, and this includes, you know, the infrastructure, the national security, and the fair commerce.

And and officials they need clear responsibilities. They need limits on their power clearly. And consequences when they abuse it.

Now we're seeing this in the headlines every day, of these legislators and elected officials, so forth, who are abusing power, who have got to where they are through fraud and deceit. But let me start with the term public servant. How many public servants use or abuse both words? They serve all right. We're seeing that every day.

They serve themselves, and when the public asks questions, suddenly plain English becomes a foreign language.

Now, just in the last several months, just in the last few months, look at what we've seen. These glaring examples: Anthony Fauci, he invoked the Fifth Amendment more than one hundred times, and then. As of this week, whether or not she was related to her former husband, Representative Ilhan Omar, and that's really not even her real name. It turns out, at least that's what it appears to be. According to a federal filing, her name is Ilhan Nurside Elme.

So I don't even know what her name is. But she responded, "You know, were you related to your former husband? Not to my knowledge. Not to my knowledge." It's like you know Luke Skywalker kissing Leia, you know. Not to my knowledge, you know.

I mean, it's come on, what kind of answer is that? One wouldn't answer; the other dodged.

Now, before we defend these people, or if you like them, that's fine. Would you accept this from somebody that you opposed? Public scrutiny comes with public service. We challenge those who dodge it, including those who are even on our own side. There's nothing I despise more than seeing an interview where the guy's asked a question, he won't answer the question, and then the the friendly interviewer doesn't press.

I've seen it happen from Sean Hannity with Trump. To you know, MS now with whoever, you know it is it it happens on both sides, and I don't like it. Just answer the question.

Now, Trump, in all candid, he may be the first. President in our lifetime who is so public that he doesn't even really need a press secretary, and I think sometimes we all wish he would use one more. But that—that's another conversation for another time. But here is four questions that help me when I look at the ballot, when I look at a candidate, and I am asking you to consider these things before you vote, or maybe you already have voted, but just listen. Maybe you could share this with someone else.

Four things, four easy things, okay? And if we run out of run up against the the the break, I'll I'll continue in the next section. But here's the first one. Ask this: Have they built anything? A business, a farm, a household?

What what have they carried responsibility for? What have they actually done? Have they ever met a payroll? When when when when Fridays come, employees need their checks, and and a speech about good intentions not going to cover that check. Experience alone doesn't qualify someone.

I I understand that, but I want evidence that they understand work responsibility and consequences. Have they built something? I look at, for example, AOC, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. Has she built anything? She done anything, Bernie Sanders?

And I just go down the list. Both sides, have they built something? Have they done something? Have they created something? Maybe look.

Maybe they raised four children. That's fine. That's great.

Somebody who's raised four children, they have a lot to offer this country. Maybe you know. They they started their own business and it was just them or maybe they're successful at at whatever it is. But I want to know: Do they understand work? I got to ask you: What has Bernie Sanders ever done?

I'm not just picking on Bernie, but I mean he's he's such a glaring example. What has he done? You know, these are the things we need to ask of all of our candidates. What have you accomplished in your life? That's question number one.

Have they built anything? Here's a here's another question. When you're looking at your ballot, would they return my wallet intact without expecting anything in return? Would they do that? Would you trust this person that you're going to vote for with your property?

Would you let them borrow your car? Would you let them help your family in an emergency? Would you let them watch their kid, watch your kids? Does their conduct support their promises? I mean, play it all out.

Look at them. I mean, Ashley sleeps because you're you're giving them your vote. You're giving them your vote now. If neither candidate inspires confidence, and then then compare their records, and ask this one: Which one would require less oversight? That's a good place to start.

We got two more things that I use to evaluate. We're going to talk about this when we come back because it's Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberg. Eight six six thirty four Truth. We'll be right back.

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Eight six six thirty four, truth. If you want to be a part of the program, I have heard studies have shown that if people who called themselves Christians would get out and vote, our country would be a much different country. But too many of them sit on the sidelines. I heard president of this network, Stu Epperson, at the top of the hour talking about forty percent set it out. That's I I don't even understand that.

If we have the ability to, why are we not doing this? We can vote, and in the last block, I talked about my ancestors coming over here, and from Germany, they left everything to come over here in the early seventeen hundreds, and they settled first in what is now Pennsylvania type area, and and In New York, I guess that's up in that area, but they was on the frontier, a bit, and it was um, it was a tough life for them. But they liked it better than what they had, because they were oppressed by a system that kept taking and taking and controlling what they could accomplish. And I just can't imagine looking these people in the eye and saying, Hey, you know, I could have voted, but I didn't, because you know, I I did I didn't care, I didn't think it would matter. And we have a say so.

And so, when you look at the ballot, I have four questions that I look at for me, and I thought maybe this would help you. Have they built anything? We talked about this in the last block. Have they built anything? Have they met a payroll?

Have they built anything? Okay, that that's that's number one. A company, a family, something. Have they built anything that shows that they understand? Work, responsibility, and consequences.

Okay, number two, would they return my wallet intact without expecting something to return? Would you trust these people with your property? Would you loan them their car? Your car? Would you let them watch your kids?

Think about elected officials. How many of these people would you let watch your children? From from the president's office all the way down to the dog catcher's office, how many of you would you do it? And and if neither candidate inspires confidence, compare their records. I mean, who who's going to require the less the least amount of oversight or less oversight?

Not the least amount, but less oversight, because you know. That that sometimes we don't have good choices, and then here's two more, two more questions. Do they help people get on their feet?

Okay. Do they help people get on their feet?

Are they helping people become independent or dependent?

Okay, and you have to think about that for a minute. And by the way, if you want to weigh in with your criteria, I'd love to hear it. What What do you look for when you're you're going through the ballot? Eight six six thirty four truth, eight six six three four eight seventy eight eighty four. A Center for Immigration Studies analysis of twenty fourteen through twenty twenty three survey data estimated that eighty one percent of Somali immigrant households in Minnesota receive cash assistance, food stamps, or Medicaid.

Now, for those of you living in Minnesota, what have the elected officials done to help those families become self-supporting? Eighty-one percent of them are on some type of federal aid or federal assistance. What have the elected officials done in Minnesota to help those people become? More independent. It's okay to be on some type of assistance.

We're a compassionate country. We want to help people, but are we helping them become independent or dependent? Is that even the goal for some of these people to become self-supporting? I mean, you got to ask yourself. You kind of wonder sometimes: Is that the goal?

Do we want these people to really become more independent?

Some of the way some of our elected officials act, I don't know that that's even their goal. But we need to ask that.

Well, I'm going to ask it. I don't know if we do, but it would seem like it would be in the best interest of our country. I'm not real comfortable telling other people what they need to do. I'm just telling you what I do. People who can't provide for themselves because of age or disability or sickness—I mean, they they need help.

But unable and unwilling are different things. Can we agree on that? Compassion requires us to examine what happens to the people that we claim to help.

Okay, we're compassion a nation, but we're going to examine this. Stewardship requires us to examine those who claim to help them with our money. Should I say that again? Stewardship requires us to examine those who claim to help them with our money. Okay, that's so.

Those are three things that I ask, and I've got one more big one. I'll do that, but I want to take a call real quick. Jamal in Winston Salem. Jamal, I am thrilled. To hear from you, you inspired me several months ago, and I have referenced you over and over and over.

I love what you're doing. Thank you for taking the time to call in today.

Well, Mr. Rosenberg, thank you for the compliments. I don't think I'm owed them. I'm a bottom. I heard them, and I was a surprise.

And also gave me motivation to keep going.

So thank you for the compliments, and thank you for what you're doing. You're an inspiration to me, so it's a little recip recip recipication going on here. You're very gracious. What's on your heart and mind today? Yes, I know we're up against against the clock, so I'll try to be quick.

If we have to, I'll hold you. I'll hold you through the through the break if I can, because I loved what you said last time, and you got some wisdom.

So you just say what's on your heart and mind. We'll worry about the clock. How about that? Very gracious again. All right.

Unfortunately, I had an interaction with somebody on Facebook, and they referenced me as somebody that was evil because I follow the the MAGA movement, and this is not really about any kind of idolatry or blindly following. I follow. The MAGA movement, Republicans, are not supporting Donald Trump, but my support does not mean that I idolize him, or nor the party, nor MAGA. I follow them because of their platform, because of their policies, and also, as you mentioned, because of their productivity and how their policies are productive, how they base also in reality through students networking. I was able to interview Dr.

Frank Turick as a guest. He has a book I call "The War Reality." Did you enjoy that? Thank God! Oh, thoroughly enjoyed that. I'm trying to get him back, Doctor, if you're listening.

I'm trying to get you back on. And I and I told him, I said, "Thank God that you wrote a book. I think that was Holy Spirit coming into you, the white book, the book 'War Reality,' because." When we have the facts and science on our side as Christians, then I think the next step for the opposition is to have a war on reality because they cannot fight us on science, cannot fight us on practicality, logic, nor productivity.

So now we have to change reality to how we want to be. Because again, they cannot fight us on reality. By the way, hold on a second, Jamal, are you on a headset or some type of? Amplified something. I'm on a speakerphone.

Oh, did that buddy change that? Yeah, it's it's it's a little bit muddy. If you could take it off a speakerphone, that'd be real helpful.

Okay, all right. Is that is that better? I think that's a little better. Thank you. That there's that voice we love.

All right, thank you.

So, going back to that evil statement. It doesn't really matter if you're productive, if you have the right policies. If I deem you as evil, I'm not going to back you at all. Period, and that's unfortunately what we are running into with. President Trump and and policies and all that.

And this is not really about Republican or Democrat. It's about who is giving you the best outcome, who's giving you the best policies. But again, if I deem you as evil, I'm not going to follow you. You know, regardless, and that goes for anybody. If you deem anybody as evil, you're not going to follow.

Once you brand somebody as evil, then you have every justification to do some of the things that we're seeing being done to people. For example, they said Charlie Kirk was evil, and you see what happens. Don't go away, Jamal. Can you hang on through the break? Yes, sir.

All right, we'll be right back. This is Peter Roseberger. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberg.

Glad to be with you. Eight six six three four Truth. Eight six six three four eight. Seventy-eight, eighty-four.

If you want to be a part of the program, I'm talking about things that I four questions that I asked myself. I haven't gotten to the fourth yet about a ballot and why it's important for us as Christians to vote, particularly as Christians to vote. Jamal is on the phone from Winston Salem and talking about how he's been labeled as evil because he happened to support Trump. In the Republican platform and so forth, and and I can't help but say this, Shabond. See what you think about this.

When somebody calls Trump evil, or me evil, or you evil, whatever, I always, how about we just ask evil by what standard? What standard? If you're using God's standard, well then let's identify what he's done that violates God's law, and remember that the same law judges the rest of us. Calling someone else evil doesn't make me righteous, and I can't help but notice that the term evil, good, and evil, are theological terms. We're real free with that in our society, particularly in a secular society that doesn't really want to be connected to God, and yet we will use terms that only, only exist in the theological realm.

If there is a God, well, as the atheist said, there's no God.

Well, then, how is there good and evil? And so you see, you see how there is an inconsistency. But they labeled you as evil. What have you done with that information, Jamal?

Well, that is a very good backdrop, Mister Rosenberg. Jamal, we've talked before. You got to start calling me Peter. We don't stand on ceremony here, Jamal. Yes, sir.

Well, I mess up and call you Mister Rosenberg. I apologize.

So I'll you can call you can call me the right Reverend Doctor Rosenberg if that makes you feel. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. I'll work on people right now. But yeah, you had a very interesting backdrop.

About who can call people evil, and that's a theological term. That is very true. And throughout history, when one wants to do something to another race or another group of people, they label them by calling them evil, or they are the problem, or they are less than human. And if you can get away with giving that person a label, then it gives anybody any kind of reason or justification to do something to that said group. And as has been said before, there's nothing new under the sun.

We're doing that now today.

So if I don't like you, even if you may be productive, if you're not a nice guy, or if you come against my stance, you're up for my standards, you're up for my platform and my beliefs. Then a good way for me to get rid of you, or for To have you non-valid, not a non-player, I'm going to call you evil.

So to answer your question a little bit more quickly or a little bit more efficiently, what I do with that, I always go back to the Lord. I always go back to the book, and it's kind of like when Jesus called the Pontius Pilate, and Well, not not Pontius Pilate.

Sorry, when Jesus talked to the apostles, why do you call me good? Who is good? There's no one good but the Father that lets me say, okay.

Well, the only label, the only standard that we should follow, sorry, the only labeling and the only standard that we should follow is the Jesus standard. That's the only standard that's been consistent throughout history and will continue to be the most productive.

So, if you want to. Call somebody evil. What is your standard? The standard of who was good and evil is the standard that Jesus set for us. Yeah, I think that's a that's a great question to to respond back with.

Evil by what standard? What standard are you using for evil? What standard are you using for good? If they're using their own sensibilities, well, then they've already lost the argument because who are they to determine good and evil? And and we have to have a higher standard, and that standard, of course, is the Word of God and His Scripture.

And and and so I I I think we've been very free, like you said. We want to devalue people so that we can eliminate them. The more we devalue them, that it makes us justified in eliminating them. I mean, Nero picked on the Christians; they were the scapegoat for a lot of his stuff during the first century, and you see what he did for that. And labeled the the early Christians, the early church this way, and you could go through history is replete with these things.

You just mentioned these things, everything from slavery in this country to the Jews and the Holocaust. I mean, we just go the Khmer Rouge. We we go through all of it, and mankind. I love how people today think that somehow we're becoming better people. And we're we're evolving as as a species, as the human race.

And I'm like, I don't see it. We're still doing the same sins we've been doing all this time. We just do them more efficiently now. That's the only thing that's improving is our ability to sin more. And if we really want to talk about evil, there's plenty of evil to talk about in this world.

That's right. But but for you to label your political opponent evil, by what standard? And when you start asking those kind of qualifying questions with people, it backs them off of this shrill, shrieking banshee type behavior that we're seeing in our culture, where we're just screaming at each other. Let's just ask better questions, and and you'll find that that you can, all of a sudden, that the argument just falls apart. But right now, we're we're still with hysterics.

And and also here's something to remember: when you see somebody's acting hysterical and they're just screaming and all this kind of things, like you you've encountered Jamal, remember this: if it's hysterical, it's historical. They didn't just get here overnight. They've been doing this for so. There's a thing. There's a story that led up to this.

If it's hysterical, if you see somebody acting hysterical, it's historical. There's there's a story. That got him here.

So, you just happened to be in in the line of fire, and and that's a that's an unfortunate thing. And I am sorry for what you had. Last thoughts, Jamal?

Well, yes, that that is unfortunate, but I kind of thank them in a way because they brought me back to Jesus, brought me back to His Word. It got me kind of out of the political mind, and Stu also said the same thing.

So, great minds think alike. Are we going to get historical? Are we going to get? Are we going to get hysterical? Are we going to get historical?

He said it kind of in a different frame, but all of this ties in. That's why I like apologetic. Are you saying that my mind is like Stu's mind? I'm not sure that's a. Jamal, I thought we were.

I thought we were friends, Jamal. I mean, now that's a that's a lousy thing to say to Stu or me. I'm not sure which one gets the bit. No, I'm just kidding. I meant that in the best of terms, Peter.

Well, God bless you for your lack of judgment, there, Jamal. I'll I'll try to get better.

So so so to wrap up. Apologetics, and not just apologetics, because apologetics explains a lot of things out here. But the Bible, Jesus, really explains everything on a total, complete level.

So, my final thoughts on this: if somebody says something that you don't like from any kind of stripe, any kind of background. Take it back to Jesus and what He said about it. That's one of the reasons why I left the Democratic Party. Became unaffiliated for a while because I said, "Well, who's going to, who who's got the the best platform?" And I'm I don't mean to pick sides here, but we did have the Democratic Party remove God from their platform. Republicans still have God in their platform, and only reason why we're great in this country, only reason why people flock here and master this country, because we have God written in our laws, and that's one of the reasons why we have lasted so long.

Not because of our politics, because we follow God, and it says in the Bible, "Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord's, or whose Lord is God." So I will leave you all with that. Thank you very much, Peter. Thank you, Jamal. Keep me posted on on all that's going on with you, and I appreciate the work you're doing, and and the thoughtful consideration you're having. Look, we got we got problems in both parties.

There's just no question. And that's why we as Christians have have got to make our voices heard, and help provide leadership in this thing to turn the people's eyes back to the Lord. That's that's ultimately our call. It's not to elect Republicans. It's not to elect Democrats.

It's to better point people to the Savior. Ultimately, and if we have an active group who is determined to squelch that and to keep us from doing that, then we have a responsibility to stand up and vote against that.

Okay, that be it's just that simple, and and so I want to go back to our. By the way, if you want to weigh in, eight six six thirty four truth eight six six three four eight seventy eight eighty four. I'm talking about the questions I ask on when I make a decision on a on a ballot. Have they built anything? That's the number one we talked about in the first and second block.

Would they return my my wallet? Basically, would I trust them with my property? And do they help people get on their feet, or do they create more dependence? Is that what we're looking for? Are we looking for people who can help others become higher functioning members of society, where they're able to?

Grow and and achieve all the things that this country does offer, the freedom to produce. And then the last one is because this is what government is really set up to do. Government has two two main purposes: protect life and protect property. And will they protect life and property?

Now that is the that's the crux of all of this. Is that elected official? Promising you or showing any kind of record that they will protect life and property, and for me, that begins with the unborn.

Now we talk. We want to talk about evil. As Jamal was mentioned, that they're free to call people evil, but what a level of evil that is just unimaginable is what has happened in the womb for lo these many years in our country. What sixty million plus babies have been aborted, and there are people out there celebrating this. We want to talk about evil.

What does God say about that? By whose standard? God's standard is pretty high on this, and that is something we need to consider when we're voting. And then. Medical gender interventions for children.

I can't believe we're even having this discussion, but this is where we've come to. Are we protecting children? Is this candidate you're going to vote for? Are they are they committed to protecting children from this craziness that wants to go in there and and medically transition them to what they think may be a different gender, and surgically mutilate these kids? Or chemically do this.

It it it also means enforcing consequences against those who harm people or take what belongs to others. And and we need to examine the record on border security, bail, sanctuary policies. Who was protected? Who paid the price? We'll talk about that more when we come back.

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Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberg. Glad to be with you. Eight six six thirty four Truth. Eight six six three four eight seventy eight eighty four.

We're talking about four things that I ask about the candidate on the ballot.

Okay, four things. And it this stemmed from my German ancestors that came over here back in the early 1700s, and they left everything because it was so oppressive where they lived. the The local town kept it. There was no way they could get out of it. They were stuck at the station they had in life.

There was no opportunity to grow. The taxes, the the oppression, the the the social Stigmas and everything else kept them down, and so they left everything and came to this place called America, on the chance that they could have a better life and enjoy the fruit of their labor. And so, how can I look them in the eye and say I'm not going to vote because I don't? My vote doesn't matter, or just you know whatever. Nobody's good.

There's not any good candidates. I can't. I couldn't look them in the eye and say this. I have a responsibility. I have four things that I look at when I evaluate the ballot.

Have they built anything? Can I trust them with my property? Would they return my wallet intact without expecting anything? Without their handout? Do they help people get on their feet?

In other words, are they are they helping people become independent or dependent? More dependence, more independence. What do you think? And then the last one is: Will they protect life and property? Because that is the ultimate.

Responsibility of government of any kind of civil government, and they have to answer to God for this. By the way, every every ruler will answer to God for the authority they have. Everyone, without exception, this is what Scripture says.

Okay, and for me, protecting life and property for everything I see in Scripture starts with the unborn. The most vulnerable among us: sixty million abortions in this country. You think God winks at that? You think God just turns away from that? You think God doesn't know this?

And we have a responsibility as Christians to stand up and have our voice heard on this issue, and never ever relent on it until this is wiped off of our national map. And hopefully worldwide, I don't know that we'll be successful at that, but we have a responsibility to stand. And we have to answer for the freedoms we have to stand against that. And protecting medical gender interventions for children, and then enforcing consequence against those who do these things, and those who take what belongs to others. And we we need to examine the record of that candidate on border security, on bail, cashless bail, sanctuary policies.

Real people are getting hurt because of these policies. Who was protected? Who paid the price? And what did the official do when something went wrong? Apply the standards regardless of race, religion, wealth, connections, or party.

Those are the core. Functions of government protect life and property. That's what the government exists to do. And if they abuse it, and we have the ability to stand up and hold them accountable, and vote them out of office, and we don't, then that's on us. Compare what both candidates have promised with what they have actually done, and then invite a neighbor to do the same.

You don't have to get into a shouting match with it. You don't have to get into a big squabble. Just invite them to examine it with those same kind of questions. The people on the ballot are applying for a job. If you're a business owner or a manager, would you hire this person to work for you?

Would you hire this person as a consultant for your company? Would you want them on staff at your company? As a manager, they came in there and say, "Look, we're going to put you in charge of this many people and this particular product. Would you want this person there to do it? Do you think they would do a good job?" And then vote accordingly.

You know, my ancestors came here because they had so little voice in the decisions that were governing their lives, and they took enormous risk for an opportunity that their descendants now enjoy. You know I can't promise that I will always choose wisely. In fact, I can promise that I haven't, and I will still fail in this area. But I will vote because I still can, and so can you.

So I'm asking you to get out and vote. Make sure you do, and vote your conscience. Vote the one who closely resembles where you hold the highest regard. And if that's scripture, then hold them by that standard. And if you don't, well, that's that's whatever you're where you are.

I can't tell people how to vote. I'm just asking you to vote, and I would implore you to please use the biblical standard of what you're looking for. And let me tell you what that is. I told this audience at the beginning of October to use a proverb a day for the month of October. There's 31 days.

Today is the 28th, so here is Proverbs 28.

Okay, this is God's MBA. The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as lions. When a land transgresses, transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue. Pray that we get men of understanding and knowledge, men and women of understanding and knowledge. A poor man who oppresses the poor is a beating rain that leaves no food.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them. Law and order. Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the Lord understand it completely. Better is a poor man who walks in integrity. Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity than a rich man who is crooked in his ways.

The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father. Whoever multiplies his wealth by interest and profit gathers it for him who is generous to the poor. If one turns away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer is an abomination. These people who say they pray to God and yet they've turned away from hearing the law—that prayer is an abomination, according to scriptures, right there in the text, Proverbs twenty-eight nine. Whoever misleads the upright into an evil way will fall into his own pit, but the blameless will have a godly inheritance.

A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out. When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise. People hide themselves. Whoever conceals his transgressions will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy. Blessed is the one who fears the Lord always.

But whoever hardens his heart will fall into calamity, like a roaring lion or a charging bear. Is a wicked ruler over a poor people. A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor. But he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days. He who hates unjust gain, in other words, people who make profit unjustly, illegally.

If one who is burdened, if one is burdened with the blood of another, he will be a fugitive until death. Let no one help him. And then here's. Proverbs twenty eight eighteen. Whoever walks in integrity will be delivered, but he who is crooked in his ways will suddenly fall.

We've seen this in a lot of our elected leaders. Whoever works his land will have plenty of bread. Do they know how to work? That's one of the ballot things that I look at. But he who follows worthless pursuits will have plenty of poverty.

A faithful man will abound with blessings, but whoever hastens to be rich will not go unpunished. To show partiality is not good, but for a piece of bread a man will do wrong. A stingy man hastens after wealth and does not know that poverty will come upon him. Whoever rebukes a man will afterward find more favor than he who flatters with his tongue. Whoever robs his father or his mother and says there is no transgression, is a companion to a man who destroys.

A greedy man stirs up strife, but the one who trusts in the Lord will be enriched. Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered. Whoever gives to the poor will not want, but he who hides his eyes will get many a curse. And look at this last verse, Proverbs twenty-eight twenty-eight: When the wicked rise, people hide themselves. But when they perish, when the wicked perish, the righteous increase.

This is the word of God. There it is in black and white, and we can unpack. There's a lot of things talking about the rich and poor, and it's not necessarily excoriating people just for having wealth. It's how they pursue that wealth and what they do with it. God is looking at all these things, and none of this will escape His judgment on this.

We have a responsibility in this country, as free people, to stand up and promote this. Are you doing it? Have you done it? Will you encourage others to do the same? This is—we'll find out next week where the Christians are in this country.

We'll find out what the Christians have stated that they value, and if they don't show up, those who call themselves believers. We have no one to blame but ourselves for the direction of this country. No matter what party you like or don't like, we have a responsibility as Christians to be salt and light. And so I'm asking you to do that. All right, and if you want to see.

What I talked about today, I'm going to put it out on my Substack a little later on this weekend. Caregiver. Substack. Com, Caregiver. Substack.

Com. You can download the app, and I put it out, put out stuff out there every day. It's free. It goes behind in the archive. You have to have a paywall, but I put out stuff every day that's free for two weeks, I think.

And so I'd encourage you to take a look at it and see, and and take advantage of these things. And also. Starting this weekend on Sunday, November is National Caregiver Awareness Month, and I would encourage you also to listen to this program. Hope for the caregiver that I have on this network every Saturday afternoon, and help family caregivers who are struggling. The holidays are difficult time.

I've been a caregiver for forty years. I understand how difficult the journey is, and I can help. Because I'm going to share with you things that I've learned from the very Word of God, things that are indeed to me true.