Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - Ep 181 | Kanye Knows Jesus Is King

Episode Date: October 30, 2019

It's 2019, Donald Trump is the president of the United States, and Kanye West has released a gospel album. What a time to be alive. Today I discuss Kanye's newfound faith, his album “Jesus Is King,” and the reaction to all of it. Is this the real deal or not? And either way, how should Christians respond? I also give you an update and new analysis about the tragic James Younger case. Today's Sponsors:  Kabbage created a simple, modern way for businesses to access up to $250,000 of credit. Kabbage is offering $100 credit on your first loan statement when you use code ALLIE at https://Kabbage.com Circle is the easiest way to manage your family’s online time across ALL their connected devices inside and outside your home. Listeners get $30 off a Circle Home Plus when you use code ALLIE at  https://meetcircle.com/allie

Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie, you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself. On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort.

We ask the hard questions and follow the answers wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Hey, guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. I hope you guys have had a great week so far. Guys, Kanye Hecking West, I can't believe, I cannot believe this whole firestorm, and I mean, firestorm in a good way that has happened over the past few years. days regarding Kanye West. Like, we're talking gold digger person. We're talking married to Kim Kardashian. We're talking about the guy who just a few months ago, or maybe it was a year ago, came out with this song talking about, like, I can't even say actually what the song was about.

It was really catchy. Everyone was talking about it, and so I listened to it. And, but I can't even talk about what the song was about because it was that inappropriate. And now he's coming out, or he has come out with a gospel album called Jesus is King that people have been talking about. So I don't want to get all into that yet because we are going to talk about that album. What I think about it, what my favorite song is, the media reaction to it. We're going to talk about some of the interviews that he's done. Is this a real deal? Should Christians care?

What should we think about all of this? So we are going to get into that. We're also going to talk about the, quote, terrorist in chief that was killed in a military operation, of course, under the authority of our commander-in-chief President Trump and what the media had to say about that. We might talk about some other news stories as well. I'm going to give you an update on James Younger, the little boy out of Texas who has caught in the custody battle

between his mom and his dad, his mom who wanted to transition him into a girl named Luna. The dad said, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is a seven-year-old who identifies as a boy, according to the dad. We're going to talk about the, the latest news on that. Hey, this is Steve Day. If you're listening to Allie,

you already understand that the biggest issues facing our country aren't just political. They're moral, spiritual, and rooted in what we believe is true about God, humanity, and reality itself.

On the Steve Day show, we take the news of the day and tested against first principles, faith, truth, and objective reality. We don't just chase narratives and we don't offer false comfort. We ask the hard questions and follow the answers

wherever they leave, even when it's unpopular. This is a show for people who want honesty over hype and clarity over chaos. If you're looking for commentary grounded in conviction and unwilling to lie to you about where we are or where we're headed, you can watch this D-Day Show right here on Blaze TV or listen wherever you get podcasts. I hope you'll join us. Okay, guys, let's talk about Kanye West. You have been asking me to address this for the past few days. I kind of wish that I had been able to do it on Monday, but we had to talk about the decline of Christianity, which is imminent and all of the implications of that, which is also kind of a big deal. But second big deal that's going on right now is that Kanye West has actually delivered a gospel album. And I'm just going to let you guys know.

I've been watching through, well, I used to watch. I don't follow them really anymore. But I used to see snippets on Instagram from Kim Kardashian of their Sunday services when they had, it seemed like a thousand people dressed in all white singing gospel songs. It sounded amazing. But guys, I'm just going to let you know, I was always discovered. of that. It's easy and probably wise to be skeptical, at least initially, of celebrity Christianity, because we see so much new age ideology and off-based theology coming from Hollywood because their

beliefs in general just typically are not correct about anything spiritually or morally. So I was skeptical about this. I was like, surely this is not a theologically sound gathering. Surely the gospel isn't really pretty surely they don't talk about sin and salvation and Jesus and all of that it's probably just this kind of like feel good new agey type thing so I'll let you know I was skeptical about this and then I started to hear mumblings that Kanye West has become a believer that he has really been saved now I have friends who have been fans of Kanye West for a long time who have been saying for years Kanye West is a Christian he's a Christian he's a Christian he's a Christian but Kanye West himself has come out and said I thought that I was a Christian he said Life of Pablo I think that was one of his

previous albums in the past few years. He said he thought that was a gospel album and it had an inappropriate picture of a woman on it. And he's the one who was saying he thought he was saved then, but he's really saved now. And he does everything for God. He has been asked in an interview, are you a Christian artist now? He says, I'm a Christian everything now. The things that are coming out of his mouth, Kanye West's mouth, sounds like no one knows his heart. I don't know as hard. I certainly haven't spent time with him. The things that are coming out of Kanye West's mouth now, same guy who has become famous for worshipping himself and idolizing himself, sound like a regenerated man, sound like someone who has been swayed by the Holy Spirit, who has become a new creation,

and who is starting a life of self-denial rather than self-glorification and self-promotion, the thing that he has been known for for so long. That's what it sounds like. I mean, this guy is publicly talking about the damage that porn has had on his soul, his addiction to porn, how it started when he was just five years old when he saw a playboy magazine that his dad that his dad had left out how that has just enslaved his mind for his entire life how he is now freed from that he talked publicly or he talks on keeping up with the Kardashians to Kim. I saw an article on this telling her that yes what you wear is hot but hot for who talks about how what she wears obviously she's known for flaunting her body what she wears actually hurts his

soul and he has a problem with that. He has a problem. He has said with their daughter, who I think is six years old, wearing makeup. He apparently, reportedly asked his team who worked on this album to stop having premarital sex and to pray and to fast while they were working on the album. I mean, that's pretty crazy. That's pretty crazy. If you know anything about Kanye West, if you know anything about his lyrics, the songs that he has sung, the words that he has wrapped, you know that this is different. And sure, we can sit back and be cynical and skeptical and say, is this real, is this valid? I mean, this is the same guy that has wrapped things that I would never let my child here. He has only ever cared about himself. He is some people, I've even

heard people say this, which I think is completely insensitive and disrespectful and wrong, but some people have even said, oh, well, he's bipolar. He's crazy. He has a mental problem so this is it real as if God can't save people who have some sort of mental deficit. He certainly saves people that have moral deficits. Those are the only kind of people he saves because we all have moral deficits. And we all have our bad habits and hangups. And we are all dead and sin apart from Christ. And in Christ alone, we are made alive in him by grace through faith so that no one could boast. This is what the gift of eternal life is. And it seems like just as an outsider looking in, someone who doesn't know him personally and hasn't seen his walk firsthand, it seems like,

it seems like he has been made alive. He has been raised from death to life, that he has received this gift of salvation about which no one can boast because it is given to us in the graciousness of God. That's an amazing transformation, if so. And so we can sit back and be skeptical all we want to, we can question it because of who he was or who he is or because he's a celebrity, because he's rich, because he's married to Kim Kardashian. But I think that it is far more freeing, far more glorifying for us to celebrate the fact that no matter what, whether or not this is real, which I happen to personally think it is, but whether or not this is real, that the name of Jesus is being glorified, just those three words, the name, the name

of the album, Jesus's kink, have been Googled millions of times. His album is number one on Spotify. All of the songs on the album are in the top charts of Spotify. People are listening to the name of Christ being proclaimed and God is being glorified through that. I don't care if it's through Kanye West or through pastor. The name of God is being glorified. God can use anyone in right now what we cannot deny whether or not we know Kanye's

what we cannot deny is that the gospel is being preached probably to people who have either never heard it, never understood it, and never expected to hear it from someone they admire like Kanye West. My favorite song on the album, of course, of course, it happens to be the only song with a cuss word in it. But my favorite song on the album is God is, and I am going to read you some of those lyrics, because I happen to think that they are very powerful. Everything that I felt, praise the Lord. I could sing this because I know the tune. I've listened to this so many times, but I'm going to spare you. I'm going to spare you that. It says, everything that I felt, praise the Lord, worship Christ with the best of your portions. I know I won't

forget all he's done. He's the strength in this race that I run. Every time I look up, I see God's faithfulness and it shows just how much he is miraculous. I can't keep it to myself. I can't sit here and be still. Everybody I will tell till the whole world is healed. King of kings, Lord of Lords. All the things he has in store from the rich to the poor. All are welcome through the door. I feel like a beat poet right now. You won't ever be the same when you call on Jesus' name. Listen to the words I'm saying.

Jesus saved me now I'm saying. And I know, I know God is the force that picked me up. I know Christ is the fountain that filled my cup. I know God is alive. He has opened my vision, given me a revelation. This ain't about a blank religion. Jesus brought a revolution. All the captives are forgiven.

Time to break down all the prisons. Every man, every woman. there's freedom from addiction. Jesus, you have my soul, Sunday service on a roll, all my idols, let him go, all the demons, let him know, this is a mission, not a show, this is my eternal soul. And he goes on for a little bit more. He says, that's what God is. I just think those lyrics are so powerful and indicative of a changed heart. That is what the Holy Spirit does. He changes our affections. And when we love something, we want to talk about it, we want to sing about it. He says, apparently, that he's going on tour very quickly. He wants to share the gospel. He says, that's what happens when you become saved.

When Jesus Christ takes hold of your life, when he becomes your Lord, your master, your savior, when you realize what he did for you, things change. Everything changes. So when we hear him talking about the damage of pornography or premarital sex or immodesty or wanting to take care of and protect his daughters, his children, wanting to be a Christian everything and have Christ to find what he does when he expresses the desire to share the gospel, that is an indication of a regenerated, a renewed, a new heart, a new creation. And it's amazing to see, and I praise God for this.

I praise God for this. And no, we don't know. We don't know what's going to happen. We don't know how this story will play out. I feel a lot for him because he is in the public eye. He is going to have the influence of every single false teacher that wants to ride on his coattails and wants their name to be attached to his. He is going to be pulled in every direction of false gospel. He is going to be pulled by those who preach the prosperity gospel.

He is going to be pulled by people who preach. the social justice gospel. He is going to be pulled by the people who preach the self-love gospel that God just wants you to be happy. And I'm sure that right now, Kanye's theology isn't perfect. In fact, I know that it's not. I've heard some interviews to where it kind of seems like this prayers go up, blessings come down just a little bit. But we can give him grace in that. He's a baby Christian. He's just learning theology. I can tell you some of the things that I thought to be Theologically true. Actually, I can't remember them right now, but I know that there are things that I thought to be theologically true when I was first becoming a believer and learning about the Lord that I look back. And I'm like,

how could I possibly have thought that? I mean, when I was first coming into the faith, I read Blueleg Jazz, I read The Shack. I read Rob Bell, who came out as a universalist years later. I read all of these books that back then basically was saying, yeah, Christianity is one part of world religiosity that can be good and can be helpful, but God doesn't really care about what we do. I mean, I was consuming all of those popular books at the time that probably landed to a really bad theological framework. And I think, hopefully, by the grace of God, it's turned out, okay, and I'm still learning. We're learning our entire lives as we're sanctified, and we grow up in a knowledge of the truth. And that's what I hope for Kanye West. I have it on very. very good authority that the people who are disciplining him, the people who are pastoring him, the church that he is a part of that is actually apparently a part of Master's Seminary, which is John McArthur Seminary, as you know, I believe John McArthur to be extremely solid. Apparently, those are the people that are helping shape him and pushing him towards the Lord. And that's good. That's a good thing. He is under reformed theology. And I know for different people that can mean

different things, but he is being preached the gospel. He is being told the true gospel. That doesn't mean that he understands everything as it is right now, but he is being preached by people who know the word. And my prayer for him is someone who is in the public eye and will be pulled in every direction. My prayer for him is that God keeps him, that he has discernment, that he has wisdom, that he keeps his eyes locked on Christ and on the cross, and that he is not pulled in the directions of false teaching that he is not made to feel guilty by the world, that he is not coerced or bullied by the people who don't agree with him or saying that he's a bigot now or that he's crazy for actually believing in the Bible. Because the kind of faith that apparently from what we see

that Kanye is emulating, the world does not like. Doesn't like it. Hates it. Why? Because the world, the mainstream culture, the secular world, is only okay with Christians as long as they don't actually believe it. They're okay with the Christians who say, oh yeah, Jesus, love, great, tolerance, cool. Oh, yeah, charity, but not personal charity. The government should redistribute wealth. That's compassion, open borders, yada, yada, yada. That's the kind of so-called Christianity. I put in air quotes, if you are not watching this, that the world accepts. But actual Christianity, the only Christianity that exists, biblical Christianity that says that you were dead and your sin apart from Christ and destined for hell. And the only way to be reconciled to holy perfect God is through

belief in Jesus Christ. Then you get to spend eternity with Him and you get joy everlasting. And you are able to be steadfast through your trials here on earth. That Christianity that demands of us through the power of the Holy Spirit, holiness and separation from the world, in righteousness and sanctification and the belief in an absolute truth from the creator of the universe, that Christianity, again, the only Christianity that actually exists, biblical Christianity, the world hates. The world hates because we're not down with moral relativism. We're going to say something is wrong and something is right based on what the Bible tells us. The world doesn't like that. Why? Because the world worships the God of self. And the God of self, the only thing that matters is that

you have control of your life and you get to be yourself. You get to do you and determine your own truth and do what feels good to you. So the world doesn't like it when someone comes in and says, actually there's a God who created the world and he has a purpose for how things are supposed to go. He has an order and he, by his grace, sent his son to die for us that we should be reconciled to him and have the opportunity, the privilege, the joy to be able to spend forever with him and to give him glory here on earth and forevermore as Christians. The world doesn't like that. So Connie is going to be bullied, no doubt.

And I just pray. I just pray that the Lord keeps and protects him. And by the way, I do want to note, I do want to note this, that we should be praying this for all new Christians. The only reason why we're talking about this, more than we talk about someone who is not in the media and whose name is not known, who hasn't sold millions of albums, who has just become a Christian, is simply because it's being covered, because it is also a dramatic transformation. and it is a public evidence. It is very compelling evidence of what the Holy Spirit can do. Can take someone who seems very unlikely, who we never would have guessed would come to Christ and produce a gospel album, who has apparently done so.

So that is why we are talking about this. But of course, according to God and in the angels of heaven who rejoice when a sinner comes to repentance, by the way. that's what Jesus says in the Gospels. They're not rejoicing any more for Kanye West than they are for any other sinner who repents and comes to Christ. He is not special to God or special in heaven because he is famous here on earth. No, that's not true at all. God views us as dead in our sin, aka enemies of him.

That's what the Bible says. We have enmity. It's a really hard word kind of to say. enmity with God. If we are not in Christ, we are dead in our sin, or we are alive in Christ and friends with God. Those are the two categories of every single human on earth. And that is the dichotomy through which we have to view the world. And the world certainly doesn't like that dichotomy because it seems bigoted and judgmental. So like I said, I've listened to some of his interviews, I've read the articles, all the things that he's been talking about. Here is a less

theological statement and a more political statement that he made in an interview with Big Boy TV. We brainwashed out here, bro. Come on, man. This is a free man talking. Democrats had his voting Democrats with food stamps for years, bro. What's you talking about? Guns in the 80s? Taking the fathers at the home? Plan B, lowering our votes. making us abort our children, God shouldn't that kill. As I've said many times, at least nine times out of 10, at least nine times out of 10, maybe like 9.8, 9.9. Okay, probably almost 10 out of 10.

When someone's theological views change for the better, their political views tend to change for the conservative, toward the conservative end. When you come to know God, you start to love the things that God loves and you start to hate the things that God hates. That doesn't mean necessarily that you agree on every single Republican talking point. I'm certainly not saying that or that you love every Republican politician. Absolutely not. There's corruption on both sides. But when people come to Christ, which it seems like this has been a journey that's been happening for him for a while, you tend to see the insanity of leftism, which is we've talked about so many times

diametrically opposed to any form of biblical Christianity that you can name. You cannot be a left, or you cannot be a Christian and be accepted by leftism. That's what I need to start saying. And so for Kanye to say that he sees that they have been brainwashed and that they're aborting their children, yeah, that's because God hates abortion. And if God has truly given Kanye a new hearts, then Kanye is going to start hating abortion too. And if you don't hate abortion, well, you've got some theological deficits that you might need to catch up on by reading the Bible and praying for a conviction of the heart. You start to see the godlessness when you come to Christ. You start to see the godlessness and the tyranny of authorities outside of God's realm,

which happened to be the government who tries itself to be God. When the government tries to usurp God, chaos ensues, confusion ensues, tyranny ensues, and suffering. ensues. And so that's so often why when people become Christians, they start to see the damage, the damaging effects of leftism. And I'm not saying that Kanye West is like a bona fide conservative or that we should look to him as like some conservative hero or that he should help shape our political views. I'm not saying that. I just think it's interesting that on a few issues, as Kanye has come to Christ, he has probably changed. I have no doubt that at one point he was pro-choice. I've no doubt about that. He actually talks about that in an interview how he used to

be politically one way and it's kind of changed. It's just interesting, interesting example number 700 million thousand bajillion of when someone becomes a Christian, their political views tend to change as well. It just doesn't happen to be towards communism. Like I've said many times, we don't know Kanye's heart. We can't really judge what's going on in there. We can discern the fruit right now. The fruit looks good. And what I hope for him, and I meant to say this earlier,

and I kind of got off track, what I hope for him, what I wish that he would do because I heard that he's going on tour, what I wish that he would do is out of the public eye. That's what I want. That's just my personal opinion. I understand that we want him to kind of be someone who is championing these values.

and championing the gospel and Christianity, and that's awesome. Like I, if that is God's will, God is going to use him and that's going to be wonderful to see. I just worry about any baby Christian who is out there and who is influenced by so many people who are against him and who might, I don't know, who might even be opposed to his own family's beliefs. It doesn't seem to me, I don't, I don't know for sure, but it doesn't seem to me like Kim shares this same regime. generation and shares this same faith. It doesn't seem like that at all. Some people are saying, oh, yeah, yeah, she just got baptized in her home country. That, I'm, that's not, that's not a proclamation of belief in the gospel. It's just not. We don't know. We don't know. I hope that for her.

I literally pray that for her. People with so much influence, it would be awesome if Christ won all of the Kardashians' hearts. But that to say, Kanye, has a battle ahead of them. If he sees the world in modesty and sex and all of that differently than Kim does, the Kardashians who also support Planned Parenthood publicly, that's going to be an issue. I just hope this is totally just my subjective opinion. So take that for what it's worth. I just hope and wish that he would step out of the limelight, step out of the public eye, I don't know, maybe even not go on tour and just be at home, go to church, be. in your community, study God's word, pray, serve your family, be with your wife, talk to her

about her faith, help shape her heart, lead your family spiritually, really get a grounding in the word because I just, I fear. And I know that God keeps people that he is going to keep, he protects the people that he's going to protect, but I just kind of want, I don't know, I just want him to be protected and I want him to be insulated from all of the people who are going to try to pull him down because I care so much more about his faith, his salvation, his sanctification, his regeneration than him going on tour and us all getting this what we believe is a gift that we are entitled to of Kanye West Christian album. So that's my take on that. I do want to share with you a verse that reminds me of all of this as we go back and forth between Christians saying,

oh, we should, we shouldn't celebrate this. It's still, there's still pagan people that are producing this album and this is Kanye West. He said X, Y, Z two years ago. Here's Philippians 118. What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed and in that I rejoice. No, we shouldn't idolize him. No, we're not looking to him as our pastor or to be our theological teacher. He is a baby Christian. We should be praying for him. And we should hope that he and all of his family come close to the Lord and are protected and we should rejoice at the fact that no matter what, no matter what, the gospel is being proclaimed and that is something that we can absolutely celebrate. Okay, that is, that's all my Kanye take, I think.

I've had a lot of thoughts about this. I've been like pretty fired up about it. My husband and I have been talking about it a ton. We actually brought it up in Sunday school the other day because another couple hadn't even heard that this story happened, which just reminds me sometimes that so many people are not living in our social media media bubble that you and I are so familiar with. It's a little bit comforting, actually, even though sometimes my mind is blown by the things that people don't know we're going on. I'm like, you know what? There's a lot that goes on. There's a lot that goes on in people's lives besides what's going on on TV and on podcasts and things like that. And that's a good thing. I never shame people.

or want to make people feel embarrassed for not knowing something that's going on in Hollywood, especially, but also the news are in Capitol Hill. Now, issues that actually affect your life, of course, you should know about. It's important that we're educated. But if you don't know every single thing that's going on with the impeachment inquiry or impeachment talks of impeachment or everything that's going on with the 2020 election, or everything that's going on with Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, I do not shame you one bit. You've got a lot going on. You've got things that affect your life way more. than this. So that's also why I'm here. But it's comforting to know that people have higher priorities than that and we too can have higher priorities than these things. Okay, speaking of priorities,

this is very important. I want to get to this and then I think we'll get to the all Baghdadi thing because that's short, but I want to get to this. I have like a pretty good set of commentary that I want to give on this particular subject. And so we'll probably end with the terrorist who was killed. So I want to give you an update on the Texas case involving James Younger whose mom sought full custody so she could transition him. And as we said, into a girl without his father's consent, this has been going on for a long time. I've actually first heard about it last year. Someone in our Sunday school knew this family or knew the dad's side and asked us to pray for this. And so we've literally, before this was even in the news, I couldn't believe that this was happening. We've been praying for

this for a long time. This is a Texas case, as I've said, involving seven-year-old James Younger caught in the custody battle between his divorced parents. You'll remember that the boy's mother insists that he identifies as a girl, goes by the name of Luna, even though the father and friends of the family and even the gender affirming counselor, the mother has taken James to say that he really only identifies as a girl and goes by the name of Luna when his mother is with him, when his mother takes him to the counselor or when his mother has him at home. In every other instance, with his dad, with his friends. He dresses like a boy. He talks like a boy. He says he's a boy. You should go to the

Facebook page, Save James, and look at some of the posts on there from a mother of James and his twin brother Jude's best friends and talk about, it talks about and shows just what a boy he is. Just a normal seven-year-old boy who's probably confused because he's been abused by his mother. So what happened in this, we were afraid that the mother was going to get sole custody and be able to go forward with hormone therapy and puberty blockers, which he was planning to do before he actually reached the age of eight. So within the next year, that is also known as chemical castration. Thankfully, the judge actually ruled to give the parents joint custody. So his father will have equal say in whether or not they pursue hormone therapy. This is good. I have a feeling

this battle is not over. This mother doesn't seem at all mentally stable. So it breaks my heart that this boy has to at all be in the hands of his mother. He, is going to look back more than likely and hate his mother. That is probably what's going to happen because he is going to be in a few years, if this goes on so mentally disturbed and so confused and feeling like he was treated like a piece of property by his mother who has this weird sick fantasy of having a seven-year-old daughter named Luna, even though she has a boy. He will be so disturbed by all of that that he might be irrevocably harmed.

Now, my prayer, my earnest prayer is that that is not the case and that God saves him. God has grace on his life. God gives mercy to him, draws him close to him, helps him see truth, helps him to discern good from evil at a young age. I feel for James Younger. I feel for him. There was this interesting article in the federalist titled, Why It's Probably Not a Coincidence that the mother transing her seven-year-old son isn't biologically related because this is not his biological mother. They actually paid for an egg donor who is a stranger. The article is really intriguing. It goes through unbiased statistics from Princeton, for example, about the health and well-being of kids who live with their biological parents versus those who live with step parents, foster parents

and adoptive parents, kids who live with both their biological parents, that would be a mom and a dad, by the way, even if the home is not perfect, they are statistically and in general better off, better cared for, better adjusted than those who are not. This could be why, this article argues, why the mother is more willing to send her child into the arms of a doctor who has no interest in this child's future well-being whatsoever who is willing to harm this child physically and irreparably for the rest of his life. Now, let me just say, let me give a cat. you out to this, this is not in any way, shape, or form a knock on adoptive parents or foster parents or step parents, most of whom I know have saved a child from a situation in which

they were neglected, in which they were abandoned, abused, mistreated, etc. Certainly. A child having some form of stability, some form of a family who loves them is better than them having none at all or being a victim of or property of the state. Adoption is a beautiful thing. It is reflective of the gospel as God adopted us to be his sons and daughters through Christ. It is a beautiful thing. And parents who adopt should be thanked, they should be praised, they should be honored. But that does not change the simple fact that studies show that the ideal situation, the ideal situation for children, is to be raised by their biological parents, even when their home life may not be perfect. There is an innate instinct. for us parents to care for that, which came for us. God made us that way. And again, that doesn't mean that God can't allow us to love our adoptive and step and foster children. Of course, of course, we love them so much. But God made the nuclear biological family for a reason, for a purpose. There are instincts inside all of us to fight for our own, to protect our own.

So this article argues that that could be part of the reason why the psychologically seemingly unstable mother is less willing to protect her child from something that is going to be so traumatic and physically harmful for him for the rest of his life. And this is one thing. I know we talk about this a lot, but I just think about this so often. This is one of the many things I don't understand about those who say that they are Christians and also say that they are on the left or Christians who are pro-LGBQ. Do you think that God made us arbitrarily? Like, do you think that it didn't matter how God created our bodies. Do you think that God created the family on accident? Do you think God lacked a reason to make our bodies as he did? Do you think it's just a coincidence or purposeless that God in the

beginning made us male and female? And he said, a man will leave his father and mother, and the two shall become one flesh to hold fast to his wife. And the two shall become one flesh. And will from then, Lord willing be able to be fruitful and multiply? Do you really think that that didn't matter? That that had no lasting implications, that that had no real purpose that God just did that coincidentally or by accident? Do you really think that the family unit God created at the beginning of time and reiterated throughout the Old and New Testament and has proven throughout history to be good for children and consequently good for adults and consequently good for society was just a happenstance?

And do you think that maybe, possibly, just consider this, that rearranging the traditional family that God ordained specifically in his word and has helped create healthy communities and nations for millennia is going to have a negative effect on society? Isn't that maybe a possibility that we should consider

before rearranging the entire family and redefining sexuality and gender? The episode that I did while back title biblical marriage goes into why biblically marriage is meant to be between one man and one woman why theologically that is true it is not just some obscure verse in the old testament marriage how god created it is reflective of christ in the church as we read in ephesians five therefore it is there is a spiritual uh gospel significance to marriage and far be it from us human beings to mess with that um god's definition of marriage is rooted in creation we say this a

a lot, rooted in creation, reiterated in the New Testament, represented in the picture of Christ in the church, which is reflective of the gospel. That means it is not accidental. It is purposeful. There is an eternal significance to it. It is not arbitrary. And neither is gender, which, whether you want to believe it or not, is the same as sex. I know. God made it this way, which means when we wander outside of his balance, this is true. about everything, we are choosing self-worship, and self-worship always ends in chaos and confusion and pain and suffering. Why? Because if we are all our own gods, then who is to say what's right and wrong, good and bad? That ends in an anarchy, which is exactly where we are headed.

This is where godlessness leads. You abandon a transcendent moral law giver. You no longer have a transcendent moral law. And what you're left with is your own subjective feeling to determine morality, which is how we get to a place to where someone is able to, quote, decide their gender, because feelings rule. This is how the God of self operates. This is why Christians have no business being on the side of the argument regarding James Younger that says, well, he doesn't want to become a girl, and that makes it wrong. No, that's not what makes it wrong. Yes, that might make it especially cruel, but that's not what makes it wrong. It doesn't matter if the seven-year-old said every day that he wants to be a girl. it would still be wrong to give him hormone therapy and puberty blockers. That's still abuse.

Why? It's not just because 85 to 99% of voice who experience feelings of gender dysphoria before puberty actually grow out of it by the time they're teenagers, although that matters. It's important to note. It's because he is a boy. It's because he's a boy. And he will always be a boy no matter what, no matter what he says, no matter what he feels, no matter what his mom says, no matter what his mom calls him, no matter how his mom dresses him, no matter what operations or procedures or therapy he goes through, he will always be a boy. His DNA is a boy. That is reality, that is science. And therefore, socially or medically transitioning him into something he is not, whether he believes he wants this or not, is wrong. It is abused. It will not heal him. It will

hurt him. It's that simple. This would be like not just telling your child that Santa Claus is real and insisting that it's real, that Santa Claus is real, but also telling your child to leave home and to go to the North Pole to look for him. It'll be fine. You should definitely do that. Just go out, hitchhike, walk, do whatever you have to do, go as far north as you possibly can until you find Santa Claus. You would be a bad parent if you let that child pursue their dream.

And it is even worse, it is even worse when it comes to something that is actually happening like giving in to transgenderism at such a young age, really at any age, but especially when you are controlling your child and pushing your child to something that he is not and will never be. This is insanity. I am trying to be optimistic when I say that hopefully science will make this gender nonsense impossible, that one day we will see what horrific damage these childhood transitions are and we will realize what absolute idiots we were in 2000. there are talks in the medical world, guys, of womb transplants, womb transplants, so that biological men who want to be women and who identify as women can have children. Look it up. You can look it up,

say womb transplant for transgenderism. There is absolutely no thought in the so-called advancement. It's really not advancements. It's regression. There is no thought whatsoever to how this will affect the child. There's no thought whatsoever to how this might affect their well-being or even their health or even if they're able to survive inside a male body that has a womb that's not theirs. This is godlessness. This is the result of godlessness. When you don't believe people are made in the image of God and therefore independently and equally valuable, you treat those who are weaker than you as dispensable pieces of property as science experiments or social experiments. That is what the left, that is how the left views children as social experiments,

useful for the purposes of leftism, from transgenderism to abortion to the indoctrination of the LGBTQ doctrines at school, there is no regard for the mental or emotional well-being of the children they are seen as useful, period. And that speaks to the reality. By the way, that progressivism has no end destination. It doesn't have a place to where it says, okay, this is it. This is where we want to go, except for the obliteration of everything that has ever made anything work or anything good. Is this what you want? Is this the future that you want moms? Like I've said many times, the time has come and gone for Christians not to care about what's going on in politics because it affects you.

It affects your kids. It affects your kids' schools. Do you really want to be on a side or be apathetic about a side that views your kids as property? This is true in a lot of different conversations surrounding our kids, what they can be taught, the kind of people that can be hired in their school. Again, go back and listen to the episode on the video. The Equality Act, I think is episode 115, if I remember correctly. And you can learn about the legislation that Democrats are trying to push that are going to, that's going to affect your family and your kids.

Okay, I think that's all I have time for. I've got it a really long time. I did want to talk about the fact that a terrorist al-Baghdadi was killed, which is awesome. By the way, we should be thinking our military, we should be thinking our commander and chief President Trump, whether you like him or not, this is a good thing. And yet the media couldn't celebrate it. They could not celebrate it.

Post said that he should be remembered as an austere religious scholar who died. What? What? These people hate Trump so much that they've actually come in the past few years to hate America. They hate America and they are okay. They would rather a terrorist survive than think Trump for something. I mean, this is a rapist. This is a terrorist. This is a murderer. This is the embodiment of evil. This is the very thing that anyone, no matter what background you come from, should be able to look at and say, evil, that guy needs to die. And yet, Trump's Arrangement Syndrome is real. So that's just a little recap on that.

Okay, we'll be back here on Friday. We are going to talk about what happened in Ireland, and I think it's actually Northern Ireland, what happened with legislation surrounding abortion and surrounding same-sex marriage there and why that matters for us here. I'm really excited about that interview. So I will see you guys then. Hey, this is Steve Day.

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