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Sometimes when it feels like everything is falling apart, you can cry or you can laugh. But having a biblical perspective, that's how you're going to win in the end.
There is this darkness coming across the country where people seem to have lost their minds. You get into this funk where you open up the news app and you're reading what the Democrats are saying and you're like, I can't believe someone's saying that. They are literally saying 2 plus 2 equals 17. And they're going to just stick to that no matter what. And it's like we know that it's not 17. We're not that stupid. And so as we're processing all of this, it even affects your lunch.
We have a health kick going on. We try to have whole foods. We try to have organic foods. We try to eat real stuff along with proteins, meats, and stuff. We're not anti-bread. We like pasta and bread. It's not gobs of it - moderation. Because we are living this busy active lifestyle and we're sad sometimes, sometimes we decide that we don't want to cook and so frozen pizzas are allowed once every month maybe every two weeks if we're going to cheat.
We were in a box store somewhere and they had like Gordon Ramsay's shepherd's pie frozen foods. We bought the shepherd's pie from Ramsay. Wasn't bad. I liked it. And then we bought a couple things from Guy Fieri, which was called Flavor Town. Emilee sent me a picture because you were on your own for lunch today and you just decided you didn't feel like cooking.
Apparently Guy Fieri doesn't know Flavor Town. He hasn't been to Flavor Town with this thing. You texted me a picture, a sad picture, and you said, "This is the worst, most gross lunch I've had since elementary school." It was tater tots with meat in it with cheese sauce. I looked at his mug on the side of that box that was now soggy from melting after being in the freezer. I just shook my head and with cheer and glee, I threw that box away. Guys, flavor town didn't really land. Don't buy it.
The point is that if you're sad and you're letting all this bad news and you just watch people around us losing their minds, keep in mind the Bible says in the end days that people are going to believe the lie. The lie is not what we're currently seeing, but we're seeing the precursor to it. We're seeing the forerunner to it - the lawlessness, the inability to recognize the facts on the ground. It's just time to go back to biblical principles and those of us with new life in Christ, we need to fight back against the darkness and the sadness with joy and with laughter.
The Spirit Breaking Through
One of the things we've been talking about was AI and how AI is coming. I did a message a couple weeks ago that I'm getting a lot of feedback on it. What I like about the message the most is that at 60 years old, I've given up on trying to be the orator guy, trying to be the guy who really communicates well. All I want is for the spirit to break through and use the messages the way that the spirit can.
I mean, my favorite sermon in all of the Bible is Jonah. He showed up and went "repent or die." And not a lot of time prepping for that message. Not a lot of exegesis going into that bad boy. Just repent or die. Those are your choices. And they repented. And so that is the spirit of God impacting the hearts. And that's what I like to see.
It's called Caleb's Bold Claim from Joshua 14. We talk about AI and the threat of AI. We talk about some other stuff in there, but it's really about finding the proper ambition in serving Jesus. And there's so many times when we get it skewed where we want acknowledgement for being this great creative voice or we want money. Oh, we want to get paid, and none of that lines up with the apostles. None of that lines up with being a true sold-out believer for Jesus Christ. There's so much better than that than those weak things that fade that don't mean squat.
Beyond Performance Christianity
When I was candidating for churches asking God where to go, one church told me I was a finalist. They loved everything about the Bible idiots thing. They loved the background that we had and the conference speaking and they thought that I was really someone who God could use, but they did not want it to be at their congregation because they, and I quote now, "we don't want our Sunday mornings to turn into a comedy show."
I can guarantee his Sunday morning has never been a comedy show, but I do totally agree. It's not a performance. And that's the problem that a lot of pastors had, and I had this problem when I was younger, is that you have a certain level of communication that you owe the audience if they're going to sit and give you their time. You owe not to get up there and just be sloppy and just whatever. So, you have to have a certain level, and I hate to use the word, but it's the one that fits here, professionalism. You have to have a certain level of professionalism, but reverence is a good word. You cannot take that so far that that becomes your game.
I want to do a thing about props. Pastors are using props. They're using umbrellas. And the big one lately is backpacks. Everybody's walking up with a backpack talking about how you pack up your life and it's all a show. And it's like - if you need to go to church to have a show, you might want to examine yourself. The Bible says examine yourself to see if you're in the faith.
I used to be part of that and I do still to this day see the blessing of using good illustrations of using creative presentations. Totally is good every now and then. But the reality is - well I want to say this is the best way because it's what I've chosen to do. When you plant yourself and you are fully prepared, you've exegeted the text, you're going to proclaim the word of God and you're going to trust that the word of God is going to be the unleashed tiger on the soul. You can plant in one spot and just deliver what you've prepared. And being really prepared is kind of my mantra and that's what I owe my congregation. That's what these people deserve. That's the least amount I can give them is a well-thought-out thing.
I think when you have a teacher or preacher who gets up and they are very acutely aware of the weight of the words of God, I think that translates to the audience as well. And pretty soon those words stand on their own. There's nothing wrong with using a prop for an illustration like on occasion. There's nothing wrong with that in and of itself, but when you don't understand the heaviness of the reality that God is speaking to you through this, that this is actually his word, that's when you need to bring in all this other stuff. And it's like, well, then you kind of lose the weightiness of God speaking to people.
When God Grabs You by the Shoulders
When you ask somebody when you're studying the word of God, when you're reading the word of God, "what's that like for you?" And when - "Oh, I'm just so encouraged and I just feel the light of love every time I read it." I'm like, "Wow, I wish I could. I mean, I don't get to that point right away." What happens to me when I study God's word is I feel like God is spanking me. And then God literally grabs me by the shoulders, looks me in the eye, and tells me what's what. And by this time, I'm crying. So now he's wiping my tears, and he's telling me that he's got this. And then he kicks me in the butt and tells me, "Go get him, Tiger."
And so when I deal with that all week long, there's no more room for performance guy, right? Not that I don't tell jokes here and there, not that I don't want - I mean, everybody wants to be liked, but I would rather people like me for telling them the truth and strengthening them in their walk than that I'm their funny comedian, former morning show guy who made church fun on Sunday. And there's a difference there.
It comes down to spiritual maturity. And so this is something that I really feel is why we are in the situation we're in. And that is people love to live offended so they can avoid accountability. If they can remain the victims all their lives, they can avoid the challenge of maturity. And that goes hand-in-hand with a lot of things from snowflakes to woke culture to all the different things that we have led ourselves into, where we don't want to just take responsibility. And at the end of the day, at the core of what Christianity, authentic Christianity really is, is you're taking accountability. I'm a sinner who can't save myself. I need a savior to come and give me the free gift of salvation offered through Jesus Christ. That's the most loving thing anybody's ever done to me. So, when they say, "God is love," they're talking about God offering you a way of salvation.
The other thing about being a pastor or a guest speaker or a preacher or a radio person doing behind the microphone stuff and communicating is that I don't want to get there on judgment day. I don't know what's going to happen when the rapture takes us to the judgment seat of Christ. We're going to be judged, right? And we're not judged for heaven or hell, but we're judged for our rewards, right? And so when someone's standing there in front of Jesus and I'm standing there off to the side, one of two things is going to happen. They're going to - Jesus is going to look at these folks and then he's going to point at me and he's going to say, "He told you why didn't you listen?" Or he's going to look at me and say, "You knew. Why didn't you tell them?" And it's like, okay, this is serious stuff. I always say if life and death is on the line, and it is, I think that as a pastor, we owe them telling them the truth, even if it's going to hurt their feelings. And we owe them to be prepared and to come with clean hands and clean heart. And that doesn't mean you're dancing around the stage with a backpack trying to put on a show or tiptoeing around with an umbrella. See, we're all under God's grace. It's just like, come on.
When we do open God's word, we have devotions every day and sometimes more than once a day and oftentimes there is kind of a sense of, oh, it's so good to be in God's word again and you kind of feel like the burdens of the day just wash away and it feels really good. Other times you open up God's word and you're reading it and all a sudden you realize, oh, uh-oh, God's talking to me here. And there is a sense of oh no, and then you keep reading and keep reading and it's exactly what you said, Chris, where you feel convicted of things. Something that was just not even in your thought all of a sudden came crystal clear to you because God's bringing it to your attention. We have a problem here. And you keep reading and he's like, "But I love you."
His child and you have that new life in Christ, the love of God is overwhelming. The full spectrum of emotion comes through when you're reading those words. When you're in God's word, when you're in prayer with God and you realize what he's done for you and you realize that you're literally looking at the cross and you see the power of the resurrection through the power of the sacrifice on the cross.
And then you turn on your TV and you see a commercial like "he gets us." It's offensive. It's offensive. And I don't want to remain in that offensive state. Just like the meme I showed that I did not write this, but people love to live offended so they can avoid accountability. And then if they remain the victims all their lives, they can avoid the challenge of maturity.
The Mirror of 2 Timothy 3
I've got something I want to show you and it's a scripture verse. Let me just read it and then I'm going to tell you what I think. "But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power. Avoid such people as these." That's 2 Timothy 3:1-5.
Now, right away you think of like the demon Democrats or you think of the lost person at your job or you think of whatever. You look at the culture and you're like, "That's them." I kind of thought about myself in verse four there, though. I think it was verse four's loving pleasures rather than God. And sometimes I'm like, "Yeah, you know what? I get way too focused on what's going to make me comfortable."
When I read those verses, I always think to myself, used to be me, used to be me, me, me me. And then there's this gratitude of everything that's on there that I am no longer is not because I did anything great. It's because the love of Jesus entered me. I have a new life. I have a new perspective. Not my will but your will, Lord. And so these things are me. Many of them have faded away and some still remain. And so I did the joke about reckless and conceited, knowing you were talking about lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. Why? Because we like comfort. And why? Because guess what? Comfort's better than uncomfort. Being comfortable is better than being uncomfortable. That's reality. I prefer it myself.
And so that's why we have to look at the power of God. But when people are just living this out and they're claiming Christ, but they have no change in their life. They've just added Jesus on to what they've got going on. That last line there is tough for folks. "Avoid such people as these." Cuz we want to be inclusive. We want to be welcoming. We want to share the love of God. And yet there's a reality that there's a sifting. There's a separating that's going on. And so we want to be on the right side of that. And that comes from surrendering yourself day after day, being in God's word, and letting God's word speak to you. And sometimes that's sad. And then it becomes joy when you realize you're going to escape.
The Chicago Nightmare
Reading through that verse, too, just reminds me of just the news over the weekend, just the violence that escalated particularly in Chicago and it was just crazy. Labor Day weekend - they have shootings every weekend but Labor Day was it a little higher or something? They have over - let's see what I got some stats here. They have at least 60 people were either killed or wounded by gun violence in the city. Eight fatalities. Some people have reported that has now become 11 since then. But there were 37 individual shooting events. This is just gun violence. That's it. And it's just like off the chain.
Now, what's weird is when you look at these elected officials and you read their responses, it's like you said, Chris, when you have that biblical perspective, it can be sad. It can be like what is going on? The governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker, a Democrat, he was - I saw him in an interview where he's walking along the shoreline in Chicago and he's just talking about how violence is a part of life in the big metro areas and that's kind of the way it is. We all acknowledge that and realize that - like what are you saying? I mean, if you called the fire department because your house was on fire and they told you, "Well, you know, houses burn. That sometimes happens." That's insane, isn't it?
I can handle the statement because I've spent so much time in metro areas most of my life. He's got a little bit of a point. 11 deaths in a weekend, but he doesn't follow it up with, but we're doing all we can to eliminate it. We're doing all we can to curb it. No, they don't do anything. I'm not even sure they're not encouraging it.
I think they don't think that that bothers them. And it gets back to what you were saying before about that staying in victimhood because keeping people in victimhood keeps you having power over them. But when people become self-sufficient and healthy and thoughtful and not dependent on government, well, all of a sudden they're thinking for themselves. And that's a scary thing. We saw that in the Bible when Jesus was walking the earth. He became a threat to those in power. And it wasn't because he was threatening them, it was really because he was loving them, but they wanted to stay in that hierarchy.
The Bible talks about in the end days there'll be a great falling away and that in - I think it's 2 Corinthians 5, could be four, I don't know the reference - that they'll believe the lie. Well, it all starts with being a culture of lawlessness. And in a culture of lawlessness, you just don't care.
And people say, "Well, Chris, as a pastor, you should be politically neutral." And it's like, I'm not politically neutral anymore because the Democrats have become the party of death. And there's too many friends of mine who many of them have left the Democratic Party. God bless them. But I'm not going to stay silent and try to be Switzerland anymore. I'm not talking about - there's many Republicans that are part of the uni party. So, it's not about Republican or Democrat. It's just that the Democrat platform has now gone so off the rails that they are in fact the party of death and the party of lawlessness.
That's what makes - JB Pritzker - the mayor of Chicago - he blamed the gun violence on red states that are trafficking guns into his city. It's always somebody else, isn't it? Again, right? And not having to have accountability. All about accountability. All the victims every time they're a victim about anything. Exactly. We're victim of Trump. Big old bad Donny's coming to get us.
That's like saying that I'm overweight because I have spoons. Way too many spoons in my house. And people keep bringing spoons from outside and that's why I'm overweight. But here's the thing. You get rid of the spoons, you still got forks. You get rid of the forks, you still got two hands. It all gets back to you. That is the reality of it. And so it's just ridiculous that - and you give up the victim mentality and you realize that you're fat because you eat like a fat fatty fatter.
Look at London. London just surpassed the murder rate of New York City. And guess what? In London, you don't get to own a gun. And so it's not the red state's problem that you have people in your own state that are committing these crimes. And he says, "We don't have a crime problem. We have a gun problem." What? They have a religion of peace problem in there. And I mean, most of the European nations now have been overtaken by Muslims. And it's just not public yet. But the UK is completely Muslim controlled. Their prime minister is a puppet. And it's not much different in Paris. And that's why they are trying to make Palestinian state out of thin air, which Israelis are not going to allow. And it's because they have to tow the line.
The Unholy Alliance
Here's a question and that might go hand-in-hand with the Chicago violence that makes no sense and a governor who's beyond tone-deaf to the actual problems. Again, how does somebody like this get elected and then how do they get reelected after acting like this? It's just like Gavin Newsom to me is the lizard king. He's the worst of them all. And yet he's thinking about running for president and he's got a lot of backing to do so. How is that even possible after what California's done the last couple years? I don't get it.
But the reality is that when you have this kind of deception, it comes from darkness. So, how can a Democratic party - well, let's not call them Democrats, let's call them leftists. How can an extreme lefty have a brotherhood link arms with a Muslim terrorist because they have completely different narratives. I mean, if you go into a terrorist Muslim country right now, whether that's Syria, whether that's Hezbollah, Hamas, whatever, Iran, and you say the rainbow cult mantra, and all of these other things that the left love, they'll throw you off the buildings. And everything that the Muslims believe about how a theocracy is the right way to go and women have to stay in their place and homosexuals deserve to be killed. How can they be unified together in their one - that is a good question.
It all comes down to darkness and lawlessness. Culture of death on one side, culture of death on the other side. And their hatred is unified towards the free Western Christian and Jewish culture. That's what they're unified against. And it's insane to watch.
The secret ingredient is what I talked about before. There's got to be a certain level of total irrationality. It doesn't make sense. And I know a lot of people look at this when tragedies happen, particularly like the shooting in Minneapolis, which was devastating. Again, people want an answer for that. There isn't an answer for that. There's no rationale behind that. It's complete demonic, irrational, makes no sense.
The Real Solution They Don't Want
The reason is that we're not looking for solutions. We don't get down on our knees and say, "Lord, I need you to open my eyes and open my ears to some of these things." And when you are thoroughly saved, when you have admitted you're a sinner and you accept Jesus as substitute on the cross, he took your place, you're given new life. That's why you go be baptized. And after you've repented and baptized and have the new life, you go down in the water with Christ in his death and you come out of the water symbolizing his resurrection as a public proclamation of the new life that you now have. And nothing else matters.
We don't want that. We don't want to have that kind of solution because we want to hear what we want to hear. In fact, if you go to 2 Timothy 4:3, it says, "For the time will come when they will not tolerate sound doctrine, but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance with their own desires."
And in the Christian space, the people who call themselves Christians, it's a bunch of weak-wristed, I call them false teachers who are basically saying, "Jesus is your buddy. He gets you. Bring him alongside with what you got going on. You don't have to change. Everything is fluid. Your truth doesn't have to be my truth. Come to church on Sunday. We're going to put on a show."
And so that's where we have the falling away inside the Christian community. So that's why having a remnant church, having strong biblical preaching people and teaching people and people who love Jesus so much that they are going to not tolerate this, but instead they're going to speak the truth in love. That's what the Bible verse actually means. Not "let me just speak the truth to you in love. You suck in your sucky suckness and I can't stand" - "let me speak the truth to you in love. I don't even think you're a Christian."
The Weaponization of "Love"
When we were the Chris and Emilee show at the heyday for about two or three years we would average between 30 and 50 emails a day. This is before Facebook. Facebook Messenger all that didn't exist. It was emails is how you communicated or you called them and talk to them on the phone. And so we'd get 30 to 50 emails a day and many of them were I would consider fan mail and others were, hey, when are you going to give away the tickets to this or when can I win this book from Charles Stanley or whatever.
And then there would be two or three every day that were, "let me just speak the truth to you in love. You guys are so awful. You're terrible. Emilee's laugh. How's she even on the air? I'm writing the head of the broadcast company to see if you guys can be fired." And it's just like that was daily. So you get 20 that say, "Hey, we love you. You bring light into our morning." And you have two or three that say, "You're awful." And they would use that Bible verse and other Bible verses to justify just ripping you apart.
I talked one time, I said, "Hey, I was doing 65 and a 55 and I realized I had to slow down a little bit." And this guy just calls up and rips me for promoting breaking the law. You kind of admitted to everyone, you tend to have a little bit of a heavy foot and I think you did like "I'm not proud of it. It's like I'm working on it." So, it was part of a story. It was just a sidebar of a story. Somebody really took a - "and I knew you weren't a Christian. You're a lawbreaker."
Good News About Free Speech
You want some really good news? I think a lot of people don't realize this, but back in 2017, Trump signed an executive order that really limited the Johnson Amendment. What's the Johnson Amendment? The Johnson Amendment took place, I think, in '54. Then Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson signed a law into effect and it went through the IRS that if you were a 501c3, you could not talk about politicians. You couldn't endorse them or you couldn't criticize them. You could not be on a 501c3 or in a church and get up in the pulpit and endorse a congregation and tell your people they needed to vote for X candidate.
It didn't even necessarily have to be a church because there's a lot of other organizations that are 501c3s, but for whatever reason, he targeted 501c3s, which most churches are. And so, he really silenced the church in not being able to talk about those things.
They went from, again, the actual Johnson Declaration talks about flat out endorsing a candidate and telling the people to vote for a candidate, not talking about politics. It had nothing to do with talking about issues. What pastors did over the years was, "hey, we want you to vote your conscience and we want you to vote your beliefs and so look at the issues and make heads or tails of it." And they could not come out and say the stuff that - and they would take it so far that the separation of church and state became the separation of church and any policy talk from the pulpit and the fear of offending somebody instead of saying, "Hey, we're for life as life-giving Christians been given new life." Those types of things. So, the authentic biblical Christian church has been pro-life for years and we've danced around this topic. But now we don't have to dance anymore.
What a lot of people did too, leftist liberals, they would set up rather than a 501c3, they would set up a 501c4. If based on like what your focus is, if your focus is educating and teaching the Bible and very gospel focused, you fall under a 501c3. You can have a charitable organization or a social-minded organization that can go under a 501c4 and they are not restricted. That's why you have people like Reverend Al Sharpton. Who's he out there marching with? And you've got Hillary Clinton standing in pulpit telling people that she's going to raise the minimum wage and she's going to do all these things if she's elected or whatever. And it's like, wait, wait, how do you get away with that? Well, because their focus is not the gospel of Jesus Christ. Their focus is not biblical. Their focus is social justice. Their focus is welfare and that type of thing. And so that's how they get away with it.
There's been people that have come out and said that if you go to a church that's not about social justice, you leave that church cuz any Christian would always be about social justice. "Jesus was a social justice warrior." No, he wasn't. Not really. No. He ate with sinners. And then he told them to repent.
The bottom line is a church that is for the Lord Jesus Christ, that is soundly saved, that's going to hear the trumpet and hear him call us up and snatch us up and could happen any day now. That church is about recognizing yourself as a sinner and finding forgiveness in a substitutionary death of Jesus Christ and victory over the death, hell, and the grave through the resurrection. And then you have a new life. And the evidence of the Holy Spirit in you is not signs and wonders, no matter what you want to call them. It is a changed life. And that changed life, you will have patience. You will have peace. You will have an understanding for people. You won't call Democrats demon-rats right off the bat, you'll work your way up to that. Hey, it actually changes culture. Imagine that.
I want to make this clear. There's a big difference between a liberal and a leftist. And there are many liberals. I used to be one. My family used to be liberals and we believed in the union. We believed in the teamsters and some other stuff. And some of the rights to arts and free speech and stuff that liberals and conservatives could kind of agree on, right? And so, oh, we're just slightly different, but we both work towards the common good. Then there's leftists, and they have taken over the Democratic party. It's been hijacked. And the leftists are a culture of death, and they are a culture of lawlessness. And if you claim to be a Christian, could really evaluate first your faith and then what's actually going on. And two and a half million people have left the Democratic party.
Trump signed an executive order. This was in his first term back in 2017 that basically directed the executive branch of government to cease any punishment for any 501c3s. Still, as far as I can tell, I looked and looked and looked and as far as I can tell, that was not revoked. But that in part is why we're even like broadcasting right now. You know why we dare to say the things that we do dare because we're really - it's not that it really changed that much. It's just that we have more of a sense of we can speak - we can just speak our mind. We can just speak our mind and we don't have to worry about this stupid - free speech is a big thing. And well, so is hate speech. It's a big thing.
Johnson just - he didn't solve any problem. He just caused more problems is what he did because nobody really knows what that means. The lines are so fine and how you cross them and can be interpreted differently by different people. I mean it's just stupid. And why though of all the entities to say you can't do that, why 501c3? Well, because they want to silence the Christians and the Jews. Right. So, it's not necessarily conservative. No, it's Christianity. Mostly.
The Reality of Free Speech
You got people that talk about free speech and hate speech. You cannot go into a theater and yell "fire!" You should go to jail. Certain things you cannot say. There is - you have the right to come to me and say, which has been said, "you're a young earth creationist. You believe in this messiah who was killed on an execution instrument. Your brain falls out of your head. You have no credibility. You're an embarrassment. You're an embarrassment to education." Okay, that's fine. And I'm going to say that you embrace lawlessness and you're the culture of death and you really don't understand free speech. You want to limit everybody's speech. Guess what? The Democrats and the Muslims both want to limit what you can say. You can't say certain things. And it's weird how the evil just seems to churn along. We can both say those things to each other, right? And about each other. That's called free speech. That's called having an opinion. That's called following what you want to believe. But at the end of the day, you want to try to season your speech with salt. And you want it to be something that can be loving and understanding.
Proclaiming Truth with a Soft Heart
I was talking to a person who had called the church and wanted to know about our church. I don't know if this person has not visited yet so hopefully they do. It was one of those calls where, hey, you called the church, I'm the pastor. Can I tell you a little bit about it? And so they wanted to know how we handle the rainbow cult and how do we handle the rainbow flag wavers and the alphabet cult and all that. And I just said this. I said, "This is my approach." I said, "The biggest problem I have with them is that they're dishonest at their core because they're going to reject the Bible. We can't just pound the Bible in their face and say this is what it believes, even though we're going to stand on the truth of scripture. It's dishonest to the core."
And this lady said, "Well, why do you say that?" I said because there's tens of thousands of testimonies of people who have come out of that lifestyle. Their testimony is that the chains were broken. Their testimony is that they were set free from something. That's not my testimony. It was not a good culture. It was very bad. Those people that were set free, their words, not mine, by the love of Jesus Christ, when they recognized they were sinners and that they needed salvation, they come out of that lifestyle. How come they don't get a seat at the table, right? How come they don't get a say? Because it's dishonest to its core. And that resonated with her, I think. She understood that where we were coming from.
And that's where I think Christians - I'm part of this problem. We don't want to try to relate to the other side. We just want to level with them and tell them what the truth is. And so I call that proclaiming and not debating. But in that proclamation, we can still have a soft heart for our fellow human being. We can still reach out in a way that's palatable. And sometimes you got to bottom line it for some people. But other times you want to try to season your speech with a little bit of salt, with a little bit of love, with a little bit of caring. But on the same token, you can tip the boat too far that way where you're just enabling and leaving people be wicked.
Being led by the Holy Spirit, it's a very important thing because we are called to righteousness, yet we live in a fallen, broken, very wicked, sinful world. But God can lead us through that. And when you're exactly right, Chris, where when you talk about having that biblical perspective, that's when we win. That's when we're able to walk through the circumstances of life holding on to our integrity and the righteousness that Christ has clothed us with. That's the call.
Final Thoughts
All I want to do is just pastor the church that God has assigned me to. And it's Jesus's church that I'm pastoring. That's all I really want to do in that world. I'm not going to bury my talents in the dirt or whatever you want to call it. So, I'm going to keep sharing the gospel any way we can.
We used to have a brand called Bible Idiots. And we had some very wise consultants from Nashville encourage us to change out of that to the no apology brand. And that's Emilee's show here. Mine I flipped to Salvaged by God because I was plucked off the salvage pile. That is my teaching ministry. And every time God does something with that, it's incredibly exciting. And it's exciting in a kingdom kind of exciting way. We've already had our moment in the sun as far as broadcasters and movie makers and all that stuff, then none of that matters anymore.
But when I get more than three or four people reaching out to me about a certain message, I'm going to try to promote it. Not because I spoke it, not because I wrote it and God helped me assemble it. I'm going to do that because it might help you. And so go to Salvaged by God, wherever you get podcast content, YouTube, Rumble. It's Caleb's Bold Claim. And like I say, I'm getting a lot of feedback on that one. You guys might want to check it out. You may want to find this to be something of a message that if you've heard it already, review it again. And if not, share with your friends or check it out for the very first time. And again, that's why we're doing Fresh Road Media is because we just want to be obedient with the time we got left. And the trumpet's coming.
Oh, I hope we hear the trumpet of God today. Would that be nice? But hanging on to that biblical perspective. That's what we want to encourage you to do today because that is what's going to get us through. Get into God's word and know it for yourself, read it for yourself, study it for yourself.